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Well, kinda going with my prediction, it would be vital for every state to be prepared. When Florida didn't have their crap together twelve years ago, it was an ordeal. Sure, mainly because of the Electoral College and Popular Vote struggle, but it was greatly exacerbated by how terribly managed the voting polls were at the time.

If you're going to dedicate a whole debate to foreign policy then you need to recognise that how foreigners perceive you is pretty important in how foreign policy goes. Bush for example could not have been a Dove even if he'd wanted too, the other foreign powers would have seen him as another Bush and immediately taken a Hawkish footing with him. Point being that while you shouldn't necessarily elect a guy just because the rest of the world likes him, you should probably take notice when most of the population of the planet are so strongly for / against something. Sure, but on what grounds? Actual policy or perception? On what criteria is each individual nation showing their preferred candidate? It's not so cut and dry, and truth be told it's not as though there aren't any nations that "get along," but actually have some disdain. Which country leaders was it earlier this year where they were getting along, but when the meeting was over and the microphone was still on, one of them started talk trash about the other when that person left the room? The way I see it, most foreign nations don't want another American Republican president when Obama can still have a second term. Why? Cause Bush was just that bad. EDIT: My prediction for this election now? We're going to have technical difficulties and won't know the next president the day of. We're takin' this circa 2000!

Look, there's a preview of Season 5 from Cartoon Network, so "spoilers" in case you want to come in fresh, but it's also pretty intense. Serious, Simon spoilers, Lich spoilers, and "alternate" Finn may not be alternate dimension Finn.

I previously said that if you don't already have The Walking Dead, you could wait for the boxset... But a PC Download off Amazon for $14.99 is too good to pass up!

So I figured out why Casshern Sins was confusing me... I was watching the last few episodes of the series. This previous Saturday was 23 of a 24 episode series. I was suspecting it was coming to a close given that Casshern declared he wasn't going to fight anymore. Kinda spoiled the ending for myself now, but the series has been pretty average. Oh, and if any of you guys find yourselves watching Toonami, Samurai 7 isn't half-bad. I watched it on Netflix a year ago, and while the dubbing is half n' half, along with an unusual setting for a re-imagined take on Seven Samurai, it's entertaining.

Toonami is getting me back into the swing on anime. Casshern Sins and Eureka 7 The former... I seriously can not follow it because I didn't watch the first few episodes. Even so, it's painfully melodramatic and has a slow pace. I'm still watching it, just not able to really bare with it. Eureka 7 has always been that show where I want to really like it, and I have friends that do, but that male lead kills me. He annoys me and I want him to have the balls to be capable of being a character I can root for.

The only thing that bothered me was that it got a little old how... Then again, it's building on her character and her eventual reveal of past events. Just, it made the twist feel less of a shock when you have a character going on in their doubt. EDIT: About Norman Reedus (Daryl), the guy is constantly being stopped to take pictures with someone. He's one of the show's favorite characters and I've seen many photos of him with fans. Ever since Season 3 started, I've only seen a few fan pics with Chandler Riggs (Carl) and one group photo with Irone Singleton (T-Dog). Even then, on that T-Dog photo that was on Reddit, the submitter had to tell his friend Irone was famous for the photo.

Ditto to Cyber's logic. And it's not just the title that's sensational. You get right into the center and we're reading... The result: Years from now, 225 million devices will almost certainly be seen as the point at which the console business peaked. Gamers are going elsewhere for their fix. The console’s time at the top of the heap is drawing to an end, and these machines won’t survive without radical change. or this beauty Consoles used to do everything best, but those strengths are now being wiped away. Unlike PC games, which may require finicky custom settings, consoles “just work,” fans have long pointed out. Well, so does the iPad. Consoles are cheaper than PCs? Not when you factor in the growing disparity in game prices. Consoles have all the good content? Well, if you want Nintendo- or Sony-exclusive games, you’ll need to buy their hardware. But for many gamers, Angry Birds is becoming more attractive than Mario. I could also pull out another paragraph or two, but the point lies that I'm reading some big claims as if I were to have discovered Nostradamus's lost prophecies of the gaming industry. Except that we're comparing apples to oranges. I mean, as I was reading through to the end, I felt like we were reading the old discussions on the rise of mobile gaming, but the counterpoint to the whole debate was how different they were that neither one truly posed a threat as devices. On business strategy, yes, but we can't begin to proclaim failure when all these devices serve different and distinct purposes. To simply focus on game consoles, they do have to evolve, but please yell it into my face (your screen) that I'm wrong when I say game consoles do evolve. Look at each generation of consoles and compare their place in the consumer's household. A Nintendo 64 was simply a game playing machine. It was part of an era where multiplayer became a staple of gaming rather than a feature. Look to the PlayStation 2 and you have yourself one of the first DVD players, or the Xbox offering LAN support. Now consoles have become gaming computers with services and other features that were almost fantasy a decade before. Of course, there are still threats. Alienware wasn't the first to do this, but the X51 line was a step toward bringing PCs into the console territory. No matter how much you want to prove to someone they can build a gaming PC, there's an appeal to having something "ready-to-go." Well, there was that, but also the ability to upgrade the X51 so it could stay modern, something a console has never done before. When I came to the realization that my PS3 was essentially dead, the technician and I were talking about modern consoles. He wished that Sony and Microsoft would allow the consumer to upgrade the internal components, but obviously there are some "limitations" to what said companies want us to do. All I had to do is change the memory, but it was a unique and obsolete, thus I would have had to change the whole motherboard. Maybe it will take a kick in the pants for consoles to open up, but at the same time it's like what Totalbiscuit said back in one of his Mailbags (or whatever). Consoles have their place, and they're well defined as those AAA home gaming devices. I'm sure if he was asked about this particular topic, he would reaffirm the position of consoles, but like we've discussed years ago in the past how mobiles (and now tablets) can only go so far to being "dedicated" gaming devices. Just, do we really see a time down the line where a sales associate is going to recommend an iPad over a 3DS or PS Vita for handheld gaming? EDIT: And I will say, though I'm not the biggest PC gamer, the fact that the 360 was first released in my junior year of high school and now I'm about to graduate college, I just no longer see the appeal is owning such an ancient piece of hardware. Still, while people may not be crazy about it, it's still a "gaming machine." It's the same logic as to why the PS2 was a success for 10 years. It played games, and sometimes people just want to play a game.

In case someone didn't like "Adventure Time" on Facebook, this was the latest "sneak peek" that was rewarded after thousands of Likes. I had a suspicion on the "The Lich" image they gave us, but for this one I think all I can surmise is that the alternate Finn has run into our regular Finn.

On the whole "what other countries think" matter, I don't think it should matter. Even with how globalized politics has become, where particular national leaders can essentially become world leaders, it's still a troubling concept. That Country A is about to elect a leader, so Countries Q-Z favor Candidate 1 over Candidate 2. I mean, is it not suppose to be the self-interest of the nation rather than the self-interest of foreign world powers? Would you want America in your politics? Whichever candidate I favor for, say South Korea, isn't going to have a direct affect on me. All I could say is that Candidate B doesn't seem like such a dick and maybe he/she should be in power, whatever his/her policies are to the citizens. EDIT: TL;DR Considering how little voters tend to know about politics aside from picking a president (and a few bills), I don't think picking a leader thousands of miles away would fair better.

Man, I don't know what happened, but it's like everyone rediscovered this video. I happened to watch it again last night while going through my Favorites.

I swear, that's what I've been suspecting this whole time today. Just a bunch of multiverse Finn and Jakes fighting off the Lich trying to reach Prismo. Then again, wouldn't other Lich Kings exist? Hope he doesn't call for backup!

People have been mentioning that dialogue from Jake, and I do think there are some elements to it that foreshadow future events. You know, just as a "What do we have planned; let's add some of that to Jake's advice."

Father-Daughter relationships are my favorite. Big Daddy and Little Sister, Simon and Marceline, and this game's Lee and Clementine.

I really enjoy the Iron Man movies, though there's always mixed opinions on the second film. Still, Robert Downey Jr. is one of my favorite actors and I honestly don't know who else you could get to be Tony Stark after his performances as the character.

Another little bit, though I don't think this is a secret as this was the Lich's intention for the entire episode. I'm glad someone out there knew Elvish and saw this too.

Within the first minute there was a hint as to the twist for this week's episode. It only lasted a frame, and really once Finn went on his quest, it all too wreaked.

Oh, well, I wanted to tell people that I was going to jail as a convicted murderer, but I was focused on the "mystery" that after solving it the game progressed into the next chapter, a.k.a. the bandits. It doesn't really change a whole lot because Kenny didn't seem to mind near the end when I aksed him, but I wanted to let others know anyway. Everything else I was fine with, especially when it came to Lily. Instantly I knew her fate.

I would have Episode 4, but you know about my PS3 situation. When I do get my new PS3, I'm going to play the last segment of Episode 2 again, make a decision "correction" for Episode 3, and then get on to Episode 4. There's also going to be that boxset once the whole thing is complete, so if anyone hasn't gotten around to this series, I would (personally) wait for that.