I don't think any shutdown fight is going to produce material wins for the party that initiates the shutdown because it never does. Best case scenario is republicans nuke the filibuster and democrats get to complain about it.

I am worried he'll ride the HL3 release to a strong midterm performance

Could also be the Valve Index successor. We'll know soon enough I guess.

Yeah my local ABC has a bunch of FCC waivers that let them skip a bunch of mandatory broadcast upgrades and you need a pretty serious antenna to pick it up, but I think that's a Philly exclusive issue and it's fine in most media markets.

Hunt just put out an internal that had Paxton leading the field by like 20 pts. Texas has a real shot at being the 51st seat if he gets the nom

I also think piracy is fine for teens honestly, if you're an adult with a job you should pay for stuff, but I don't really get worked up about broke people pirating. Everyone should broadly simmer down