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Current car I bought almost 10 years ago cost ~$23k, so maybe around there. I'd spend a lot more if the resale value is high enough. Since it's a car, that's unlikely to happen.

It's synonymous with hate, con artists, and prosperity gospel. Current church leadership does nothing about it. At the moment, it is a force of harm rather than good.

I'd rather have a gun owner sign on my house but not actually own one. Get the benefit of deterrence without the risk.

I picked the merchant/Partitio first, since I figured that having the merchant early would let me scale up money quickly throughout the game, and I recall the job being quite strong in the original.

I beat the game the other day, and I view Octopath 2 as simply a better version than 1 in most ways. It looks much better, stories are on average better, and there is a good bit of polishing and quality of life updates, such as being able to have multiple people use the same subjob, as well as the existence of ex skills.

I do have a few nitpicks, though - If you are sprinting (increases encounter rate) + fighting at night, the encounter rate is a bit high. Random encounters are also not very balanced - Eventually, you can beat all random encounters within the first turn, before any enemy can act. The gameplay ends up coming from story encounters and boss fights, which are paced pretty well if you do not explore overleveled areas.

Most of the jobs are pretty fun, though some are a bit niche now. Every character is strong, really only gated by how much babysitting/setup they require.

Immunity to paying taxes might save me more throughout my life, but a good $700k bump now will easily be able to speed up my investments now. Money at a younger age is more valuable. There's also a good chance the $700k will save me more by utilizing tax codes and investing wisely.

It sounds like a person, but still not as good as actual voice actors. This can be abused, which is bad. Optimally, it would help provide voices to background NPCs that wouldn't get voiced lines anyways.

Even so, people whose voice data get trained by AI should be compensated in some way.

America's health care is also trash. For the same price, you can probably find some professionals in the country that would do good work, even if it isn't as good on average.

It's not about less or more for me. Right now, it has a ton more potential for harm instead of benefit. We need to iron out some of those cases first.

Octopath Traveler II. We'll see how that goes.
Before that, Chained Echoes. Great game.

If we're not talking about games, the Oura Ring. Seems good so far for tracking sleep.

Rats and hawks.

Rats have so many numbers it's ridiculous. It's a no brainer. 500-1000 would've been a tougher call.
After, it depends on how close they are to you initially and surrounding terrain/buildings.

The hunter is the smartest and would kill you the easiest, so choosing them or something that can defend you against them (meat shield) like Gorillas and bears. Hawks might be the only one that can reasonably take care of the hunter, though.

Might as well.

Both should be able to have some patience. The customer could be angry for a good reason, but the employee is (usually) just doing their job.

Saying these things prevents the stock from dropping as much, at least in his mind. Ok, I guess.

Eventually, you'll memorize all of the potential encounters. You want to strategize your cards for the elites and boss in that act, while keeping future encounters in mind on later ones. Burst is great for most of the game, but then you want to have some cards that scale your power quickly (slow scaling is bad).

Adding a card tends to devalue the rest of the cards in the deck in favor of itself. If you already have some great cards, be careful with adding new ones that are worse than cards you already have. If you don't, you may need more cards to fill some niche. Moderately big decks are still good, but it depends on the value new cards add for you.

That's really it.

Spending a ton of money on these things is still strange to me. Going on a legit vacation is much more memorable.

Classes need to adapt around it, using design-centric approaches and be more open to the usage of tools.

If they need you to memorize something, they can use word problems.

They're boomer lite. I do admit that many of them are quite smart, though.

I'm fine with it once I'm in the situation, but I tend to avoid them for whatever reason. I think I don't like travelling to places and would rather just stay home.

Trying to find a new place so I would host instead of travel myself.

To a certain extent. Certain evil people look ghoulish, like their faces were twisted by greed. But yeah, generally not good since there's plenty of evil, good looking people.

Some parts of Houston are great, sure.

Houston's not really conservative

Brain rot from TV and talk radio. Not diversifying their sources of information enough. Also, taking advantage of people who are "apolitical."

It's how they were taught, along with the political takeover from the last 100 years.

It's also another layer of hierarchical thinking / capitalism where, instead of explaining the cause of people's problems, dance around them and then point to faith to endure the pain.

In the Bible, many characters are judged for their actions, so that indirectly leads people to judge others for their perceived actions, despite them not having the authority to do so under their own religion.

If we lived in a systemically more just society, religion probably would've followed suit.

They need money badly, but at the same time, here's a bunch of new features for a redesigned site.

Please make it make sense.

Ottermode

Do what you enjoy, I doubt he would have anything against that.

I do recommend hearing more of his speeches beyond I Have a Dream. Accurately remembering his ideals is incredibly beneficial.

They're not going to capture the magic from gamergate any time soon.

Is the show even that left outside of just the main characters' skin colors?

No, but I do wonder why Asian representation in movies is so low.

Cool if it's doing well and if it's a good show. I thought that it wasn't performing well, though?

I'm not really sure what she's even done so far..

Can I summon the food from anywhere at any time, or do I need to find a Taco Bell?
Can I use regional menu items?

Still most likely a no, only with a few more perks would I say yes.

Police sent this out frame 1, so they must believe they're in the right here (or have enough to exonerate themselves)

The defenders I see in various areas leads me to believe that they do have enough to not get as much backlash, sadly.

Ask your friend what they mean. I'm black and not a fan of the black excellence myth, which is just repackaged bootstrap rhetoric.

How's capitalism helping any of us right now? Even now, there's a bunch of layoffs going on.

It's really difficult to get promoted at a company just by being skilled. You need to switch jobs every few years to optimize your path. We feel more like mercenaries rather than actually being a part of society properly. We all just work for a wage that has demonstrably worse buying power than in the past.

We also hear more about the situations in other countries, broadening our awareness.

Rowling is already super rich. Whether people buy the product or not will not affect her. Shaming others for buying a game of a fantasy series they like isn't going to help either.

They can direct discourse and conversation about Rowling being a TERF to inform people, but not shame them (unless there was obvious trans-hate stuff in the actual game of course)

Soup is an incredibly broad term. You can put anything you like in soup if you don't like how it tastes. Very strange

Does he have the same personality as the original?

Warming up to the guy a little more now, but I'll need to see more to bridge the gap in ideology.

I did like how he brought up "normalcy over negativity" when they predictably started to boo after "maturity over maralago"

A bit of mayo is ok, like a very thin spread. When I order out, they put so much on that it's disgusting.

Mustard for me. It overpowers everything a bit too much. I'd rather add my own spicy sauces than mustard.

You get items to decrease the gauge. It may also be a sign that you didn't diversify the skills in your team.

The times I get annoyed by overdrive are when there are certain fights where the enemy pushes the gauge too far by themselves.

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libertarian Independent who never wants Republicans or Libertarians to be in power.

and by this time next year, i expect to be an actual Democrat.

in literally 25 years. that seems insane, in hindsight.

Perhaps you are more of a libertarian socialist, which is at odds with people who typically label themselves as libertarian?

I was raised somewhat centrist - In a religious African American household. The parts that were left-wing were due to necessity from being a minority, so it was overall right wing.

When I was young, I was so baffled how Bush Jr. won the presidency when he sounded like an idiot. Then we had to go through forever wars, and it seemed like there was much more outward lunacy (racism towards brown people) that I never noticed in the 90s. Then he won again in 2004.

I was still stubbornly apolitical (ugh) all the way until covid, though I did vote for Democrats once I could. There were a few other factors:

-My partner convinced me that being pro-choice was the correct path
-I became further disgusted by the institution of the church, and the fact that church leadership never calls out the numerous cases of corruption and misconduct.
-Increasing levels of class consciousness as I see so many of my friends struggle.

Charter schools are public schools (even though they function like private schools for whatever reason), so this doesn't make any sense.

It really is a classic-style RPG, almost indistinguishable from the classics sometimes, outside of the indie art.

I'm nearing the end-game, but going tot tackle the superboss first. The gameplay is also a bit jank like the classics, with a few funny bugs as well.

It's evil in a capitalist society, since artists' livelihoods are greatly affected by the introduction of these AIs. Their datasets can be derived by a ton of artists without their consent.

Ideally, AI would be an immensely useful tool to reduce the mundane parts of the work and assist artists with creating greater amounts of high quality work. It would also be able to help people who are not artists create some basic art for their own needs. However, right now, it's essentially just stealing.

Yeah, it's a scam along with how the stock market fundamentally works.

If investments as a whole worked more directly in the creation of a product or service such as Kickstarter (but of course, not exactly like it), it would be much better.

However, we need to feed our money into 401ks and watch it rollercoaster up and down during every boom-bust cycle.