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Eh. Social media isn't necessary.

I use mostly Facebook and dabble with Google+, mostly just to stay in touch with people who I don't see very often that I'm close friends with that moved to other states. Also to help organize groups for various gaming activities. Aaaand that's about it. I pretty much try to stay out of the drama of it all.

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I don't know. Maybe Arkham Knight, if only because I pre-ordered the other Arkham games and played the hell out of them. I have yet to buy Arkham Knight or even consider buying it after a lot of the stuff I've heard about it.

If you want to limit to games that I've played...probably a tie between MGSV and Bloodborne, with MGSV maybe edging out because of the two, it's the only one I haven't beaten yet.

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"Hot garbage" and after something doesn't work, saying "Weird!"

i.e "Okay yeah. Ginger beer nacho cheese float. That gonna be way better, right? No, not better? Weird!"

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If your plan is to light everything on fire or light him on fire or something else involving fire, then you probably are over reacting.

Otherwise, yeah...you should probably just talk to him about it.

Or you could light something on fire.

Also, consider writing the Bombcast to see what their input is.

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@bananasfoster said:
@mikemcn said:

Why do they talk about mass-shooters for a month after every incident? It's about views.

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@golguin said:

If Trump is running on any kind of platform it's that he wants to get rid of and/or change the 14th Amendment so that the children of undocumented immigrants are no longer granted citizenship if they are born here. For anyone following the news you'll know that Trump is specifically targeting Mexico and Mexican immigrants with his comments regarding the 14th Amendment.

People are free to believe and support whoever they like, but my question is why news organizations continue to treat this as normal policy proposals from a presidential candidate and not hate speech?

This is a comment that many people from south america say, and it makes absolutely no sense.

Hate speech targets someone for who they ARE. Something is not hate speech when it targets what someone DOES.

You, and many people who hold your argument, are making the illogical connection that because someone disagrees with a person's actions, they must disagree or harbor "hate" for who that person is. Again, that makes absolutely no sense.

Illegal immigrants, ("undocumented immigrants") are those who choose to cross over the border without going through the proper channels. That's it. Full stop. There is no more information that is required to discuss the issue. The COLOR of those people is entirely irrelevant. The plight of those people is entirely irrelevant.

Why is it not relevant? Because COMMON SENSE says that a country needs to manage itself in regard to it's population. That is a HUGE issue. It's not trivial. There isn't "enough America for everybody". There CAN be, but it takes planning and regulation. Illegal immigrants don't CARE about America. They don't care about there being enough for everybody. They only care about, and this is not unique to them, themselves.

I live in Texas. I see the problems of illegal border crossing first hand, all the time. This isn't a purely philosophical debate. It is a reality for many, many, many Americans.

Bullshit. That's the classic defense of a racist system. The reason they come in illegally is because white assholes in the US won't let them come in otherwise. People who think the great state of texas will turn a nasty shade of tan and fry up just because too many mexicans come in at once. That's absurd and wrong.

If they were white men in cowboy hats crossing over no one would give a shit and you know it. If a senator wanted a bill put in place that said "Let's raise the quota on Canadians who can come in" no one would be upset about it. Allow more green cards for spanish speakers from the south? Well let's raise an entire presidential candidate around preventing that.

The COLOR and RACE is all that matters. This is a country of immigrants but also a country of people hating those immigrants because 90% of them weren't lilly white English WASPs. The irish were hated on for decades and people said they drank too much and caused crime and all sorts of problems for coming into this country, legally or otherwise. And now they're generally accepted, it's Spanish-speaker's turn to be put through the racist american wringer.

Fine, there is an issue of immigration, you're totally right. IT'S TOO FUCKING HARD TO GET INTO THIS COUNTRY. Young south and central american immigrants are the only thing that will inject life into the US, they have work ethic, enthusiasm and pride in becoming American, what they don't have is white skin.

We need them more than they need us I'd say. To say that Americans are grown-up enough to ignore race in an argument about immigration is to completely ignore your history.

Read what you are writing. Again, you are conflating the idea that race and illegal actions have something to do with one another. THEY. DO. NOT.

You cannot have an intelligent conversation on the idea of illegal immigration if you continue to make the argument that people dislike illegal immigrants coming into he united states because they don't like brown people. That is the same as a child saying their teacher gave them detention because "she hates me" as opposed to because they kicked a girl in the back of the head. It's childish, it's illogical and it's immature

You asked a question in your original post. This is the answer: The reason why nobody considers discussion of illegal immigration to be hate speech is because it's not. It simply isn't. If you can't wrap your head around it, you need to do more reading and understanding of the issues. It is not everyone else who needs to see the situation the way YOU see it.

My dude, you cannot discuss something this far reaching in a god damn vacuum, of course race comes into this. When old white republicans screech on about "gettin' rid of them illegals' it sure as hell wasn't aimed at my white New Zealand wife who over stayed her visa to go through the process in a legal grey area.

The current process is shit. It takes too long, takes too much money and is way over complicated. We are two fairly intelligent English speaking people, and even for us it burned us out quite a bit. Because some of the language is so vague and lawyer-ey most non-English speakers need to use (very sleazy) lawyers or other document prepping services and this ads $$$$ to the already pretty damn expensive process. We submitted dozens of forms over a period of about 10 months (and this is the short path because we were already married) and every time we submitted a form it was $500-$2500 a form. Thankfully I am a fairly well payed American citizen, where the hell does an immigrant coming from a relatively poor country come up with that much money?

Something absolutely needs to be done but we should start looking to improve the process so more can come through proper channels instead of not changing a thing and building a stupid wall that won't change a god damned thing.

Good attorneys, the ones that care, generally do it pro bono, so the money comes out of their pocket. There are some people who can afford it on their own and choose to go through the process on their own. However, for every good law firm, there are just as many scummy attorneys who half ass the paperwork so they can milk money out of their clients.

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@jsnyder82 said:
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People talk about going through the "proper channels" to come here legally as if it's as simple as a trip to the DMV. It's a long, long process that can take years.

My wife did it. I know people who have spent thousands and took years to do it. What's your point.

Uh...it shouldn't take years? My point was pretty obvious.

Maybe not years, but it shouldn't be easy either; especially since we as tax paying American citizens will need to shoulder the financial burden.

Would it make you feel better if I told you that the Immigration Department is self sufficient and that when there is a Government Shutdown, they keep working?

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#7  Edited By Vashyron

Well, immigration has always been a weirdly hot button issue in this country, considering it is founded by immigrants who themselves are largely intolerant of people who are trying to immigrate here for the same reasons.

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#8  Edited By Vashyron

@milkman: Well, you (in the general sense) wouldn't be just rounding up Mexicans, since they aren't the only ones who come to this country and have brown skin. It would be basically Mexicans, Central Americans, and South Americans. Basically, everyone south of the US who are trying to get away from the gangs and drug lords that would very much love to kill them because they won't join gangs, pay extortion, or are gay/transexual (among other reasons).

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Doesn't something like this happen with every major release? There are always people who get games earlier than they are supposed to while others wait patiently until it is actually released. Not really something new as I understand it and as someone who hasn't really ever gotten game early, yeah...it kinda sucks and there should be repercussions for it, but it hasn't happened before, so there is no reason to expect it to happen now.

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