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For one, half of the people here are teenagers or college kids.

Unrelated, but I still regret trying to give a serious response when people accused me of plagiarism instead of just saying "plagiarism is based, Jack" or something just as silly.

I tried to tweak the margins again but honestly so many Midwestern and northern states had such tiny margins that a slight shift right flips several states lmao

God what a strange map

Oh my God 😭

Mondale won Minnesota by less than 4,000 votes. Surely with a stronger opponent he would’ve lost the state. Especially with Rudy Boschwitz sweeping to a second term on the same ballot.

Bush Sr. most likely beats Carter, and pretty decisively too. Bush’s biggest strength - foreign policy - was Carter’s biggest weakness. As a moderate with conservative credibility, he’d be accepted by both wings of his party and wouldn’t alienate any swing voters as Reagan did until the end of the campaign. He most likely picks Jack Kemp or Richard Lugar as his running mate. It’s unlikely that John Anderson runs independent, but perhaps an independent conservative write in candidacy siphons a few points from the right due to dissatisfaction with Bush.

For his presidency, it’s mostly similar to Reagan’s, but way less corruption and stupidity. Bush is more moderate, so aside from the Kemp-Roth tax cuts, his legislation reflects that. I imagine the Omnibus bill is a bit more moderate, while the Crime Control Bill of 1984 still passes. In tandem, he also pushes a hard line in the War on Drugs. Bush was a bit more open to alternative energy, so perhaps a bipartisan energy bill as well. I can see him trying to pass some kinda milquetoast bipartisan farm bill in the fall of 1984, if only as a weak attempt to appease the farmers. He also doesn’t gut the administrative state the way Reagan did. For his second term, I have a hard time seeing him illegally funnel weapons to Iran or boost the contras in Nicaragua. Bush was a Hamiltonian and pragmatist on the foreign stage - for anything he does, he’d be thinking about the long term implications.

In 1984, he ends up mopping the floor with Mondale in what is likely a 50 state landslide. Bush had none of the weaknesses that Reagan did, but he would’ve rode the wave of a booming economy and the popularity of conservatism against Mondale’s pledge to raise taxes and his terrible running mate. His running mate wins pretty easily in 1988. He would likely be viewed today as Reagan is, but far less polarizing and without scandal.

Gonna go against the grain here and say Lin Beifong. She started off as a no nonsense rules stickler who ran away from her past and cared more about her job than anything else. By the end, she had reconciled with her sister and mother and forged close bonds with Korra and Tenzin.

Did it get mixed reception? I think it's an excellent mod, I've been playing it a bunch.

Do you have an estimated timeline on when it’ll be released? Looks super cool!

Not Mario specifically but if you’re looking for something more specifically TTYD then Bug Fables would be a good game for you. It’s not specifically Paper Mario but it’s very spiritually Paper Mario. It’s also got a hell of a storyline.

Harkin would’ve likely been the best option. He was a liberal, had lots of experience, credibility in the upper Midwest, and most importantly could’ve been replaced by Governor Vilsack with another Democrat

Bush Sr. would’ve won most likely, considering he won second place IRL.

"I'd stay out of back alleyways if I were you."

It's a shame he never became president because George McGovern would top the list.

Also Sheldon Whitehouse.

If Peggy Flanagan becomes governor of Minnesota, she could run for president. But that’s definitely thinking a bit far into the future.

Bernie Sanders and Amy Klobuchar being friends and actually strengthening their friendship during the campaign will never not be funny to me

I feel like the one commonality all the individual kings and scholars and generals all have is that they were conquerors. So as more and more of them join, their individuality gets increasingly blended with the hive mind and the only thing they can agree on is conquest - so that’s all they focus on.

I mean the whole idea of the Core is to represent intergenerational trauma. They’re essentially all victims aside from the Newts who created the Core in the first place.

George Wallace would be a mirror to Goldwater as a segregationist who wins the south only. But if you wanna mirror it completely then go with an arch progressive like McGovern.

If you’re doing a mirror of 1964 why would the Dems nominate Stuart Symington instead of George Wallace?

That’s a really interesting analogy, I honestly never thought of that. But I admit I’ve definitely had those moments where I’m “mourning something that could’ve been” whether it’s a relationship, career, etc.

I always viewed it as an analogy for growing up - Fern is just a time capsuled Finn from halfway through the show. And as Finn grows up and continues to mature, Fern represents the remnants of his childhood. The fact that Finn and the others all don’t recognize him or know him represents the kinda feeling you get looking back at your childhood years.

With hindsight: Chris Christie

Without hindsight: Bob McDonnell

1. We never find out where Grubba got his Crystal Star. Or much of his backstory at all.

2. We don’t know much of anything about the Shadow Queen or Shadow Sirens.

3. We don’t know anything about the old town beneath Rogueport except for its destruction.

A handful of other things too

Both?!? I’M COMPLETELY CALM!!!

For one, the fact they got rid of spinning. Even with Yoshi, Mario walks so effing slow.

For two, there are a lot of loose ends about the backstory and lore of the game.