The Bridge

badp

04:00

eurusd is climbing fast

but we'll only really see it once the race is called

and then it doesn't seem to be a brexit grade event anyway?

Fluttershy

I quit smoking four years ago. This is the worst I've ever wanted to start up again.

badp

Look at it go

GodEmperorDune

@Fluttershy a bunch of more states legalized weed

murgatroid99

Oh good, Clinton won California. I can pretend I helped

Fluttershy

@GodEmperorDune I don't live in any of those.

GodEmperorDune

04:03

@Fluttershy :(

Wipqozn

Well things certainly look closer now. At least I have some false hope.

Sterno

Clinton was always going to win California

Fluttershy

@murgatroid99 I thought you lived in Pennsylvania. O_o Or somewhere around there.

Wipqozn

@Sterno Yeah I know. They're normally blue, right?

Fluttershy

@Wipqozn Pretty much always.

murgatroid99

04:05

@Fluttershy I went to college there, but I graduated a couple of years ago and moved to California

Sterno

@Wipqozn Very

Wipqozn

Still false hope best hope

Fluttershy

@murgatroid99 Where the hell have I been?

Sterno

I mean, it was kind of like the joke earlier that if Trump wins New York he automatically wins the presidency. Same thing in California

murgatroid99

538 had California at 99.9% probability of voting Clinton for basically the entire election

Wipqozn

04:06

@Sterno gotcha

Dragonrage

giphy.com/gifs/trump-donald-hillary-26BRxjQXtmOyU8rcI

Tim Stone

PHOENIX (AP) — Sheriff Joe Arpaio loses bid for seventh term after facing criminal charge 2 weeks before Election Day .

Tweeted by NickRiccardi on November 9, 2016 at 4:07 AM

Well, at least there's that

Dragonrage

Someone should onebox that for me. #imusingmobilechat

Tim Stone

Of course I'm sure President Trump will give him a job in his administration, so

Wipqozn

Clinton just won another state

GodEmperorDune

04:09

@TimStone some good news

Sterno

I just realized the worst part

@Wipqozn gets to make fun of me AND @fredley. He loses nothing here

@Wipqozn 538 has Trump at 62% to win now

Private Pansy

@Sterno Because of North Carolina

GodEmperorDune

voter suppression handed north carolina to trump

Wipqozn

@Sterno I'm going to be as insufferable as possible.

GodEmperorDune

goddammit

Wipqozn

04:11

@GodEmperorDune actually?

SaintWacko

@Wipqozn yeah

GodEmperorDune

@Wipqozn theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/11/…

@Wipqozn thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/11/07/…

@Wipqozn slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2016/11/07/…

@Wipqozn nytimes.com/2016/09/08/opinion/…

Yuuki

murgatroid99

@Yuuki That's terrible

Sterno

Guys, don't worry.

We'll get to go through this all again in 4 years when he runs for a 2nd term

Wipqozn

04:16

@GodEmperorDune that's fucked up

GodEmperorDune

@Sterno goddammit

@Wipqozn yes, it is

Wipqozn

Trump draws ever closed to victory

GodEmperorDune

we had a law to prevent this kind of stuff, but the supreme court got pissed that the formula and struck it down

Yuuki

GodEmperorDune

and of course congress didn't put through a minor change to fix it

the worst thing of all is that it shows that the republican party has been rewarded for dragging their feet and not doing their job the last several years

badp

04:19

Fluttershy

@GodEmperorDune Well yeah, they'd have to have actually done something this term for that.

Instead, they got to sit on their ineffective asses, drawing a paycheck.

GodEmperorDune

supreme court appointments, judicial appointments, debt ceiling

badp

So the thing is

Trump is a tool

GodEmperorDune

and the democrats never fight back as hard

badp

Who's going to be using that tool

That is the thing

GodEmperorDune

04:20

they get all wishy washy on shit and let the republicans have their way

badp

That's what I guess I'm asking

Dragonrage

How many confirmed electoral votes do each candidate have?

Fluttershy

197/216 Trump.

Sterno

So, when Trump won the primary, I said Republicans must really suck for that to be their frontrunner.

Now that he's beating Hillary, holy shit Democrats, get your shit together too

GodEmperorDune

@Sterno its these independents

Yuuki

04:23

Well, at least we have either a world war or Russian overlords to look forward to.

user15026

...

GodEmperorDune

independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/…

murgatroid99

@Yuuki I think there are other possible outcomes of being run by a nationalist demagogue who appears to be winning by blaming economic problems on a minority

Sterno

Reminder: It's probably not "lol racism" driving the majority of Trump's supporters

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Private Pansy

The Daily Show - Envisioning President Trump's First Term

►

badp

04:31

@Yuuki what's the difference?

GnomeSlice

@Sterno this

Private Pansy

> Trump wins Florida. Our model now gives him a 77 percent chance of winning the election.

Well. That's it then.

GnomeSlice

I told you sooooooo

Fluttershy

@GnomeSlice Please, continue to remind us how you knew our country was going to shit.

Memor-X

I think Australia will be more sympathetic to Americans fleeing a Trump America by boat

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GnomeSlice

04:39

it will be fine

Fluttershy

It really helps those of us who are forced to live here feel better.

GnomeSlice

I'm pretty sure it won't be as bad as everybody seems to be convinced it will

he probably just won't do anything of any importance at all for 4 years

everybody in congress who actually has political experience will just manipulate him

because I'm sure he has no idea what he's doing

Memor-X

@GnomeSlice not even the wall? i wanted to see a modern day Great Wall of China

GnomeSlice

Yeah there's no way that's gonna happen

On the plus side, Melania is gonna be the first First Lady to have posed nude for a magazine

how American is that

Fluttershy

@GnomeSlice I don't think you realize just how potentially regressive a government run by the Republican party can actually be...

badp

04:40

Gloating doesn't help but let's not sink into despair at maximum velocity

GnomeSlice

eh

Fluttershy

Especially one that will likely be putting 3 new Supreme Court justices in place.

GnomeSlice

not the end of the world

Fluttershy

And you say a lot of them.

GnomeSlice

@Fluttershy thanks

Yuuki

04:42

Well, let's all cool off a bit and maybe head to bed.

user15026

Okay. I get that this is a very high anxiety night for people but attacking/provoking each other is not awesome.

user15026

I don't care what side you are on. Don't do it.

badp

Can you believe it? My mobile literally blue screened while I was going for handing over the second flag

Yuuki

On the bright side, infamous Sheriff Arpaio lost reelection.

badp

I guess my mobile too has a liberal bias

I mean it wasn't literal since it just restarted without giving me blue pixels but

you get the idea, it literally blue screened, it didn't literally-blue screened

In other news Trillion is now on Steam. It sounded awesome in concept but the execution appears to be heavily flawed, would recommend a skip or at least a watch on youtube

Thoth is kinda okay if you want a hard as nails dual stick shooter with short frustrating levels

Personally I'm not in love with the four-levels-at-a-time concept but the design is solid

Yuuki

04:52

Four levels at a time? What?

badp

You start at level 64

You beat a level, go to level 63

and so on

but you only save progress every 4 levels

Yuuki

Ah.

badp

so if you die in level 61 you have to go back to 64

It's really fun when you die a lot in level 30 and you hardly have a chance to practice 29, let alone 28

But hey that's the kinda thing they were going for I suppose and they did execute on it

The aesthetics are faux atari, too

Atari meets abstract meets spaaaaaaaaaace

If you want a pick me up and you haven't played it yet go play Undertale

If you did play it go watch a let's play, it's still an amazing heart warmer

arda

Holy shit

I wake up

badp

The one on game grumps is okay

@arda lucky you

arda

04:55

I check results. Trump is ahead by 30 electroral votes

Yuuki

Not a real fan of Let's Plays myself.

arda

Im dissapointed bridge

badp

Trump won

arda

DISSAPOINTED

badp

in other news

but yes spirits have already run high and we're currently trying to diffuse them @arda

murgatroid99

04:56

@arda eh, the race to the top isn't exactly the best thing to look at. That depends more on the order in which states are called than anything else

user15026

@Yuuki I want to like them but I don't.

badp

Just pretend 4chan is reading, hungering for your tears, and you just aren't gonna give them any

arda

@Unionhawk he doesn't nuke you, though. You get to stay in great us

badp

@arda it doesn't matter who nukes whom

Unionhawk

@badp you're right

arda

04:57

@murgatroid99 when do you think it will be final?

badp

That's why US and Russia didn't nuke anyone so far. I mean, other than Japan

Unionhawk

Thursday

badp

@arda it's already pretty much final

welcome to today

At least you slept

murgatroid99

I mean, yes, Trump is winning. But the projections of the remaining states are just as important as the counts from the called states

arda

@badp yeah ikno but well I ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Yuuki

04:59

@Ash Let's Plays just feel like a race to the bottom of the "quirkiness" barrel.

arda

All those polls

All those predictions

badp

Data

538 advised us to exercise great caution

Yuuki

I wonder when he'll be in the new Star Trek continuity.

badp

Who, 538?

murgatroid99

A lot of states were very close and correlated, so small events caused large changes in electoral college counts

badp

05:01

Nate Silver has a lot of gloating ahead of him

Yuuki

@badp No, Data.

badp

His site was the only one that gave Trump more than double digit chances

@Yuuki oh

Probably in the pile of discarded characters

Sterno

Everyone needs this right now

Data & Picard | Pogo

►

badp

Right next to Captain Janeway

Janaway

murgatroid99

Well, my sister is probably moving to the UK

user15026

05:02

@Yuuki yes. I just want to watch a thing, I don't need your quirky commentary

badp

Johnway?

@murgatroid99 why not the Netherlands? It's the least bonkers anglophone country ATM

arda

What makes me really sad is not that trump is winning, but it is the fact that %40+ of USA voted for him, for his xenophobic ideas. Sure, hrc can still win, but it really doesn't change that sad fact

badp

If she earns well she will even get tax cuts for the first 8 years

You get shit weather and food, but you do too in the UK so…

murgatroid99

@badp She already wanted to go to grad school there, either way

arda

Meh I'm off

badp

05:04

also — very little uncertainty around the EU

dexit ATM is just a dream in some nutjobs' head

Amsterdam is going through its own gerentrification process tho

Coronus

Hi guys!

badp

That might get unpleasant eventually

@Coronus hi

Yuuki

Well, look at it this way: either Trump surprises us and does good things or Republicans controlling the House and the Senate face a major backlash in 2020. I doubt anything will change in 2018 because no one voted midterm.

Coronus

@badp How's it going?

user15026

@Coronus waves

Coronus

05:06

@Ash :D

Yuuki

Or, I 'unno, "rigged system" makes another comeback. Have no clue how the justification for that would work considering Trump would be he incumbent and therefore "system".

arda

Success.jpg

badp

@Yuuki yes. Trump won on the pained low income lower future rural areas. As a super extreme right candidate, helping them out is going to be an interesting proposition

How will trump satisfy the needs of his army of white high school dude bros?

Non-college white men 72% 23% T+49
Non-college white women 62 34 T+28
College white men 54 39 T+15
College white women 45 51 C+6

+49

Germany's dial code

COINCIDENCE??

We will hear more about this from our numerology expert @KevinvanderVelden

Fluttershy

Sorry about that, everyone.

Lazers 2.0

0

Q: Ark survival evolved, offline update

I mostly play Ark on single player mode and I have a very slow internet connection on the system that Ark is installed on. so I was wondering if I could download the update files from somewhere Where I have a good internet connection and then apply the updates to the game.

ark-survival-evolved

badp

05:14

@Fluttershy it's okay

You get it and that's what matters

RedRiderX

The Canadian Immigration site is down

7

badp

lol

Private Pansy

SaintWacko

@Yuuki You forgot the third option: Some foreign dignitary says something mean about Trump, and he reacts with his usual grace and starts a war

Fluttershy

@PrivatePansy I wish I had that many drinks in me right now...

badp

05:17

Did Clinton concede yet?

Yuuki

Now, the question becomes whether the Republican-controlled House and Senate will rein Trump in or will they get in line in fear of the demagoguery.

arda

Just to make today worse: I changed my picture

Yuuki

The former just means 4 more years of the same obstructionism, although oddly enough within one party.

The latter is more... interesting.

RedRiderX

For my American friends: cic.gc.ca/english

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badp

@Yuuki as I said Trump is a tool and the real question is who's going to be using it

Coronus

05:21

@RedRiderX Dang. Does Canada have a referral service?

badp

Like I think Berlusconi had a strong plan going into presidency and then enacted changes that helped his empire

Coronus

@Fluttershy I'm watching the results, and working on #3...

arda

Welp

Coronus

Or is it 5?

badp

I consider trump to be barely sentient

so you have that question to answer

Yuuki

05:22

With such a strong conservative, can't think of a word other than "mandate", we'll definitely see either a lot of stagnation or backsliding on social issues.

badp

@arda I want to star that but it doesn't sound like the right thing to do

Yuuki

Not sure about the economic forecast though, that's an absolute toss-up.

arda

I'll just hope stuff gets better

Kaz Wolfe

PA within 2000 for you guys.

Kaz

Morning guys

Kaz Wolfe

05:23

If Trump wins PA, he's the next President (likely). If not, we don't know, but Hillary has a really nice blockade in then.

arda

I personally am ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Yuuki

Yeah, Trump's plans have bad economics written all over them, but we know how much stock to put into what Trump says.

arda

Im having a breakdown from other side of Atlantic or whatever

Kaz Wolfe

dem flags, @arda

arda

OK bye I guess

See yall in 30

user15026

05:26

I understand the sentiment but I don't think that image was necessary

Fluttershy

@Ash Slack has me on DnD again. :( But I messaged you there.

Kaz Wolfe

@Fluttershy You can disable DND. Just run the literal /dnd command.

user15026

@Fluttershy It likely has me on DND too, because I didn't see it

Kaz Wolfe

And you should change your DND time settings so it doesn't automatically throw you. (Preferences > Notifications > Do Not Disturb)

arda

@Ash I kinda agree tbh

user15026

05:29

@KazWolfe Oh, excellent. I shall do that :)

Kaz Wolfe

@Ash np. i've been using slack forever so i've learned these tricks :D

user15026

@KazWolfe I have too but in a very limited capacity to talk to like three people :P

Kaz Wolfe

well, that's why /dnd exists :P

user15026

@KazWolfe I didn't know that was a command :)

Kaz Wolfe

Or that little bell by the corner

murgatroid99

05:33

The S&P 500 futures have stopped falling only because they have fallen as far as they are allowed to fall in a single day

Kaz Wolfe

badp

You know what I really hate about the Netherlands

It's 6:30, I'm at the entrance, and locked out

I didn't sleep let me do my eight hours for god's sake

user15026

@KazWolfe Nice! I am learning things!

Kaz Wolfe

@Ash glad i can help :)

note though, that you can still send messages to people in DND mode though.

so you need to keep that in mind. hopefully people will be nice and only use it in real emergencies though

like if the production server crashed again.

user15026

Nice!

Yuuki

05:39

@murgatroid99 Keep in mind that this doesn't necessarily mean Trump will cause a recession. I mean, he probably still would, especially if he follows his planned fiscal policies, but falling stock is more a reflection of uncertainty.

Kaz Wolfe

(if people abuse this feature, yell at them very loudly and in the general chat)

Yuuki

And no one knows what a Trump presidency means.

murgatroid99

@Yuuki Oh, I know. I just think it's interesting, and worth noting, that stock markets are plummeting in response to Trump's chances increasing

Kaz

@Yuuki Pretty much that.

Yuuki

> You must defeat your twelve year old self in a game of their choosing. What is it and how do you beat them?

Kaz

05:41

@murgatroid99 The markets hate things they don't see coming.

murgatroid99

@Yuuki I was going to answer "SSBM, using Marth", but someone already posted that answer

Yuuki

I don't think I played a lot of competitive-ish games when I was 12.

Private Pansy

> The death penalty continues its quiet but successful Election Day.

badp

@Yuuki I dunno, for Brexit things aren't looking rosey

I don't wish a dead cat bounce on you but I wouldn't rule it out either

Coronus

I hate America Season 240. The plot just went into the toilet.

Yuuki

05:43

Well, at least Kim Ogg won a commanding 54%-45% victory over Devon Anderson in the Da race.

GodEmperorDune

@Yuuki the recession was already coming, trump is just going to bungle the recovery

Yuuki

@badp That's because the U.K. is still quibbling over what Brexit means.

They've been in limbo land for about 5 months now. And the markets hate limbo.

user15026

@Yuuki 12 year old me? I dunno. I suspect Mario Kart or Mario Party but I don't know if that was out then or not

Coronus

Wait, doesn't Brexit mean.... leave the EU?

Yuuki

@Coronus They still haven't left yet and there's no announcement as to when they'll decide to do it.

I think I heard some rumors about March next year, but who knows?

badp

05:46

@Coronus yes

Coronus

@badp Thank you.

Yuuki

538 projects that Clinton will win the popular vote by a margin of 1%.

Coronus

@Yuuki 538?

Yuuki

I guess this is the 2000 election again?

@Coronus Statistics site.

They got real famous for predicting all 50 states and D.C. in the last election.

Kaz

@Yuuki The (current) position of the government is to officially trigger it by March 2017. The High court just ruled that they have to pass a law to do it though, and whilst the popular vote went to Brexit, the majority of MPs do not support it.

Yuuki

05:50

Gore won the popular vote in 2000 by roughly 500,000 but lost the Electoral College.

Kaz

And it's an open question whether MPs will vote for Brexit or not.

Yuuki

Looks like it's going to be a repeat.

@Kaz If they don't, it will look very undemocratic considering the people voted for Brexit.

Kaz Wolfe

@Yuuki Why did I get pinged too?

Trent Hawkins

@Yuuki either: Mario Kart 64 - with a superior knowledge of shortcuts and glitches (though, admittedly a little rusty on some of them). Or pokemon red/blue - 12 year old me had terrible team composition (though, he also had a lol 200+ snorlax)

Kaz

@Yuuki Quite. It's a big source of tension at the moment.

Yuuki

05:53

The most face-saving option is to either hold a second referendum (for serious this time, guys) or move from the EU to the EEA.

Kaz

@Yuuki Oh, what, they didn't like the first referendum result so just hold another one until people give the right answer? That just looks even more undemocratic.

spugsley

anyone else vomiting and shaking having anxiety attacks? Just me?

I mean literally, never making light of anxiety attacks here

Kaz

@spugsley I don't know enough to be scared. Huge uncertainty, but I don't yet know how thing are going to turn out (I mean mid-long term).

Yuuki

@Kaz Still looks better than getting a referendum to Brexit and then saying no.

arda

@spugsley I look fine outside but my brain is exactly like that

user15026

05:57

hugs for everyone and soft blankets and kittens and other nice things

Yuuki

@Kaz Given the Republican majorities in House and Senate, I can at least say social issues will stagnate or backslide. Conservatives seem to be all of one mind in that regard. Anything else is a toss-up as you said.

arda

I'm hardly resisting bad ideas tbh

Kaz Wolfe

@Ash Can I get hot chocolate?

spugsley

I'm so scared. As a woman, as a queer person. And I'm scared for everyone else who has it even worse than I do because even as those things, I am upper middle class and white. I'm just so fucking scared.

user15026

@arda you've got this. You're okay. I promise.

user15026

05:58

@KazWolfe with or without marshmallows?

Kaz Wolfe

@Ash With, please. Thanks! <3

user15026

@spugsley hugs I can't make it better. But know we are all standing with you as best we can. You are not alone in the dark.

Kaz

@Yuuki Really depends what the real Donald Trump will say and do. Historically, he's been far more of a liberal than a republican.

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