Tim Walz Played Crazy Taxi (With AOC).

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Tim stop! I already voted for you, I can't vote any harder!!!

Do Jet Grind Radio next and I'll steal the election for you!

I know it's jet set radio future, but...UNDERSTAND, UNDERSTAND, THE CONCEPT OF LOVE

I'm happy that game didn't die with the dreamcast and got ported elsewhere

I would take a VP that streams himself playing games for 4 years. It would be far better than whatever Vance's plans are.

Vance will be Dick Cheney, but domestically.

Even Dick Cheney is afraid of what these two will do.

That's gotta mean something...

"Fascism is imperialism applied at home."

A ruthless neocon war criminal like Cheney, in a time honored tradition going back to the Romans themselves who viewed the Republic as something for Rome and not its territory, is upset that the inevitable termination of the path of liberalism will be applied to American citizens instead of brown people living on top of the resources he wants.

If anyone knows what you can get away with in office, it’s Dick Cheney.

No, Cheney was a top-notch strategist. Evil, but smart. Vance is just an opportunist with no morals.

I disagree. The only difference in the openly corrupt opportunism between Cheney and Vance is that Cheney owned a construction and oil company.

Maybe I didn't communicate well. I agree they're both openly corrupt opportunists. The difference is that Cheney is also a good strategist.

If Cheney wasn't evil and corrupt, he could have made a really positive impact on the country. Vance doesn't have any useful qualities that I can see, unless you value shamelessness.

What makes you think Vance is a bad strategist and Cheney a good one? Cheney's strategies were unmitigated disasters if you view them as having a goal beyond personal enrichment.

If nothing else the fact that he has to come out in opposition to his own party a decade after his vice presidency proves he made major miscalculations on domestic and party politics.

Vance might be a creepy fascist weirdo but he didn't fall out of the coconut tree as it were, he's part of a political network and directly tied to MAGA strategy. I don't know how personally responsible he is for any of it but dismissing him as completely irrelevant to strategy seems a mistake. Even if he just repeats the strategies of others he's still made himself a part of the process.

I'd even argue that Vance is more of a strategist than Trump is himself, if only because he's provedly literate. He has direct connections to the kingmakers of the modern American fascist/technocrat movement and presumably wasn't just chosen for servility.

Tl;Dr the existence of Vance as a relevant figure in MAGA proves Cheney was bad at strategy, and if it was only about personal enrichment Cheney wouldn't have bothered to say anything.

Tl;Dr;Dr: Was Cheney actually good at strategy, or did people just say he was because they thought Bush was an idiot?

Cheney wanted to start a war in the middle east for personal enrichment, and he made that happen. That's a huge deal, especially given he was just VP. Yes, terrible for the country, but really quite an accomplishment. I have seen no evidence that Vance has skills beyond just saying what he thinks people want to hear (regardless of accuracy).

I see what you mean, but I think you're sleeping on how much Vance's personal influence has expanded by becoming a national name and counting some chickens before they hatch. I, for one, don't count him out yet as the potential legal successor to an obese old man with cognitive decline and I don't have enough remaining faith in America to consider making that play a bad one.

Here's hoping I'm wrong, and their side will have lost votes by saying the quiet points out loud, not gained them.

I still think we're taking past each other. I'm not saying he won't become president or whatever. There are other people who have done that without personally being great strategists or especially bright. I think Cheney was a lot smarter than the president he served under. Vance might be smarter than Trump, but I don't think that's saying much.

Vance would streams himself on a couch.

Vance would stream casting couch, except in his streams the couch would do the "casting".

Does that mean the couch-on-Vance action would happen... on another couch ?

“I don’t remember exactly how that story went,” Walz explained of the discrepancies in the narrative, before worrying playfully, “I probably should: The Republicans will, like, accuse me of never having a Dreamcast or something, you know how they are.”

Someone told me they imagine me as Tim Walz the other day, and now I see it too.

I've never seen you and Tim Walz in the same place. So the jury is still out.

So what your saying is there's a chance for Presidents Playing Minecraft to actually happen

Why was this down voted? I want to see that happen, it would be hilarious.

He should be going on car talk podcasts and such.

Car Talk stopped making new episodes 12 years ago.

I’m not a car person but I’m betting there are other popular car podcasts. And in Michigan.

Speaking of which, does anyone know the best way to play Crazy Taxi on PC at 4K? The official PC port is so bad and so outdated that it's completely unplayable.

Emulators with upscaling are almost always the best way to do this. Bonus points if they support dumping textures so you can shovel them through an upscaling algorithm and build an HD texture pack.