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| Topic | Save My Favorite Final Fantasy Characters XIX Finals: Cloud vs. Laguna [smfffc] |
| Lopen 12/18/17 9:11:51 PM #210 | Laguna 3 --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
| Topic | Politics Containment Topic 155: The Democratic Senator from Alabama |
| Lopen 12/18/17 9:04:58 PM #437 | Yeah The big reason I really want the ACA killed outright is because I think it's just a bad idea. It beats literally nothing but trying to equate Healthcare and Health Insurance just feels like an exercise in futility to me. Insurance having deductibles kinda breaks the system right off for effectively treating poor people, who are the people who need standardized health care the most, because the people who are really having a financially rough time are going to put off health care until it reaches a critical point because they can't afford it even with "insurance" because of the deductible. And they have less money to spend on things they need because of this. So on average their quality of life is going to be way lower. Medicaid and Medicare were closer to the right idea there. I guess they were not economically feasible, or didn't cover enough people or whatever, but for the few people they worked for they actually worked and they did it without causing undue burden to people. I mean, there are problems there too in that you don't want to make people eager to go to the doctor either, so there should probably be some limit to the amount of outright free treatment you get as well-- like my friend's mom was covered my medicaid in the 90s and she would go to the doctor all the time for the most stupid stuff. I guarantee you that people like her are a big part of the reason medicaid and medicare are not economically viable. But I do think they were closer to the right idea. I mean even the people who like the ACA and are the primary beneficiaries I don't think are fully satisfied with it-- never mind the people who are just getting screwed over by it. --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
| Topic | Final Fantasy Record Keeper Topic 34: Ultimate Renewal |
| Lopen 12/18/17 8:42:12 PM #423 | Rikku already uses it. I give Tidus Apocalypse. I mean I guess if I ever used Wakka or needed everyone in the back row it could be good but I'm not sure it's worth. --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
| Topic | Politics Containment Topic 155: The Democratic Senator from Alabama |
| Lopen 12/18/17 8:41:00 PM #432 | Medicaid definitely used to be a lot better for the lowest class having lived through it getting gutted. Of course there was also a better welfare and stuff too so yeah really poor people had it a lot better back then-- not this is by any stretch a fault of the ACA. Most of the gutting happened in the Clinton administration IIRC. Medicare I can't really speak for, but I do know at some point during Obama's presidency my mom was only able to go to a local "clinic" when she used to have options, and said "clinic" is garbage for actually treating your ailments and prefers to just throw pills at you without properly diagnosing you-- basically only the cheapest options were covered by medicare and the cheapest options aren't actual good healthcare. Keep in mind I'm speaking about the very lowest class, who I think were the only ones covered by medicaid in the 90s. I can't speak for like, lower middle class health care, but yeah I'm pretty sure my mom would've probably died from blood poisoning if this is how health care was when I was a kid. --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
| Topic | Final Fantasy Record Keeper Topic 34: Ultimate Renewal |
| Lopen 12/18/17 8:31:12 PM #421 | I just 100 gem'd Tidus's USB Blitzball. It feels really weird to be disappointed by this-- Blitzball+ is cool but yeah. --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
| Topic | Politics Containment Topic 155: The Democratic Senator from Alabama |
| Lopen 12/18/17 8:28:06 PM #429 | pxlated posted... I'm not certain but i dont think the aca has anything to do with Medicare getting gutted. Please prove me wrong. I'm not sure either-- I do know I would take the state of medicare/medicaid in the 90s over the ACA though, which I mean, if you want a better option than the ACA there's one right there. --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
| Topic | Politics Containment Topic 155: The Democratic Senator from Alabama |
| Lopen 12/18/17 7:55:05 PM #422 | My mom doesn't get penalized nor does she get health insurance. Her expenses haven't gone up as she's still "covered" by medicare but her quality of care has gone down because what medicare covers went down. It's more friends who are getting battered by expenses than my mom. My mom just hates it because medicare/medicaid were gutted at some point. --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
| Topic | Politics Containment Topic 155: The Democratic Senator from Alabama |
| Lopen 12/18/17 7:48:29 PM #418 | Well I'm not saying mine is the standard either I just know that there are a lot of income windows where someone simply can't afford $150 or $240 a month, but it's still less than 8% of their income. Particularly if you have a lot of debts. --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
| Topic | Politics Containment Topic 155: The Democratic Senator from Alabama |
| Lopen 12/18/17 7:39:58 PM #415 | Well there are a few things there. 1. I don't know exactly how health insurance pricing works, but your 240 estimate is not standard. I personally am taking the penalty to avoid paying about I dunno, about 150 a month. It probably varies a lot depending on where you live-- I imagine it hurts poor rural people a lot more because the cost of health insurance relative to the cost of living is proportionately much higher, but also minimum wages are lower because of the lower costs of living, so yeah there ends up being a lot less wiggle room. Like growing up my mom would have loved 17000 a year. Hell she still would. Even with what support I can provide she doesn't have that. 2. A lot of poor people do mismanage their money a great deal. Go figure! 3. The exemption isn't super easy for people to know about. That's not technically a problem with the plan but yeah. --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
| Topic | Politics Containment Topic 155: The Democratic Senator from Alabama |
| Lopen 12/18/17 7:27:57 PM #412 | pxlated posted... If the most affordable plan was more than 8.13 percent than your income, you don't get fined The big problem with this exemption actually mattering is when the most affordable plan is below that threshold but still functionally worthless to you and putting you at a point where you're below quality of living thresholds. Like if you've got 5% of your income as breathing room every month because you're basically living paycheck to paycheck, which is a reality for many low income people, you get screwed over hard. --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
| Topic | Politics Containment Topic 155: The Democratic Senator from Alabama |
| Lopen 12/18/17 7:23:01 PM #409 | I can't really speak for the exact reasons why, but as someone who has lived having a parent who has been low income all my life, I know my mom's quality of care is the lowest it's ever been, and it costs me and her combined the most it ever has. Medicaid and Medicare don't really seem to be as good as they used to be for the poorest people-- what proportion of that is a direct result of the ACA or not I don't know but I'm just saying yeah I've lived through the progression of health care and it's at its lowest point currently-- give me back the health care programs we had in the 90s and the 00s over health care as health insurance (they are not the same thing!) The ACA just hasn't really been good for poor people beyond statistics imo. There are some sob stories out there that are easier to market, but on the whole it's been a tremendous negative for pretty much every low income person I know. And while I'm not particularly low income myself anymore I do know my fair share cause that's what I grew up with. --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
| Topic | Politics Containment Topic 155: The Democratic Senator from Alabama |
| Lopen 12/18/17 6:59:02 PM #401 | StealThisSheen posted... Somebody you hit shouldn't be screwed just because you don't have insurance IMO auto insurance should all be insuring yourself, and fully optional, and if you don't want to be screwed by getting hit by someone else you should insure yourself. With the exception of people with accidents they caused on their record, dwi on their record, etc etc. Maybe force people with less than X years of driving experience on record to get it too. Basically if you're a risk, you should be forced to get liability, but otherwise you should be able to just not get anything. Also keep in mind a lot of accidents are avoidable by either party, even if you're not technically at fault-- my grandpa used to always say "in a car accident it's always the other guy" and it's kinda true in a lot of ways. --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
| Topic | Fire Emblem Heroes Discussion Topic Part 12: Book 2 |
| Lopen 12/18/17 6:51:20 PM #379 | In my experience you get "a connection error has occurred" if you play for more than a few hours on an emulator (think I tried it on Memu and Nox) and you have to do rather annoying steps with the file explorer and redownloads to fix it. And it'll happen pretty regularly, so the game isn't really playable on emulators. Maybe different emulators are more forgiving though. This has happened to both me and HGR, though, so it's not necessarily a fluke. On the plus side because it doesn't happen immediately it is in fact good for rerolling! --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
| Topic | Politics Containment Topic 155: The Democratic Senator from Alabama |
| Lopen 12/18/17 6:47:10 PM #398 | Not necessarily. It's difficult to measure the exact impact of people being gouged by having to pay insurance they can't afford-- not easily placed into cute factoids to make people outraged, but I wouldn't be surprised if the negative effects on those people outweigh the positive effects on those 13 million people. This isn't even necessarily limited to healthy people either-- keep in mind that with the bare minimum health insurance many poor people are going to need to take because it's all they can afford even with the so called affordable care, your coverage is basically worthless because the deductible is high enough that you're only being protected from disasters, basically. So you're basically paying for "health care" that can't really improve your quality of living since you can't afford to actually use your health insurance. Like yeah, if you have an emergency you're better off, but you're also more prone to emergencies because you're sacrificing things like proper food, heating, etc because you need to budget for health insurance. --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
| Topic | Would you rather go back to being 6 y/o with your knowledge or get $10 MILLION? |
| Lopen 12/18/17 6:38:43 PM #48 | If there was a way to trickle information to you at select points this would be a lot more obvious Just having the knowledge at 6 years old though that almost seems like a trap. --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
| Topic | Politics Containment Topic 155: The Democratic Senator from Alabama |
| Lopen 12/18/17 6:33:54 PM #394 | pxlated posted... It's worth noting that people that truly cant afford it don't get penalized for not having insurance. I don't know what the limit is but if you don't make a certain amount you don't incur the tax penalty This limit is undertuned btw. I know plenty of people who realistically can't afford it, but are still above the limit. It's a good idea but yeah in practice it doesn't work --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
| Topic | Save My Favorite Final Fantasy Characters XIX Finals: Cloud vs. Laguna [smfffc] |
| Lopen 12/18/17 6:31:58 PM #125 | Laguna 2 --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
| Topic | Politics Containment Topic 155: The Democratic Senator from Alabama |
| Lopen 12/18/17 6:28:10 PM #391 | Real answer is auto insurance shouldn't be required either --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
| Topic | Final Fantasy Record Keeper Topic 34: Ultimate Renewal |
| Lopen 12/18/17 6:25:17 PM #416 | Looks like I'll take in what the christmasfest banners are if they happen, draw or not based on that. Probably won't do more than one or two 11 draws either way though. --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
| Topic | Official (tentatively) Definitely Not a SMFFFC XIX Top Five Discusion topic |
| Lopen 12/18/17 5:02:44 PM #136 | So if anyone wants to take Lightning's lone claim to fame Minwu should be the instrument of her destruction Let's do it, guys --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
| Topic | Save My Favorite Final Fantasy Characters XIX Finals: Cloud vs. Laguna [smfffc] |
| Lopen 12/18/17 4:59:04 PM #53 | Laguna --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
| Topic | Save My Favorite Final Fantasy Characters XIX: Day 98 (RULE CHANGE!) [smfffc] |
| Lopen 12/18/17 3:28:20 PM #220 | Eddv posted... To Lopen, this is a hell of a lot more than I thought we would accomplish to the point where I dont mind it wasnt Leon anymore. Hopefully we can get together on another project next year. I don't think I really did all that much. Despite him being the guy I pushed for initially moreso than you I'm a pretty bad ally for these things all things told. Don't like to bother with trading till they REALLY hit a wall, and am pretty inconsistent with making rounds early (RIP Mephilia :( ). That being said I can't be upset with 3rd place and I will admit that actually caving with trades probably pushed him a few spots up so that's nice. Sadly I think this is probably his peak, but 3rd place is a better peak than most characters can get so I'm relatively happy with it-- and at least the two in the finals are actual good characters. But maybe we can prove the theory of my lack of contributions wrong and get Leon in next time !! --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
| Topic | Save My Favorite Final Fantasy Characters XIX: Day 98 (RULE CHANGE!) [smfffc] |
| Lopen 12/18/17 3:05:32 PM #150 | Boring Tactically poor for anyone who doesn't like Cloud and Laguna roughly equally too! --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
| Topic | Fate/Grand Order Topic 7: Santa Alter is Super Early |
| Lopen 12/18/17 2:59:23 PM #289 | KommunistKoala posted... can't wait to get the new mystic codes if only as an excuse to stop leveling this bad one Seriously I'm not sure why I'm even leveling the bad one as it's never going to be used but hey we're close to 8 now. --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
| Topic | Save My Favorite Final Fantasy Characters XIX: Day 98 (RULE CHANGE!) [smfffc] |
| Lopen 12/18/17 2:52:04 PM #111 | Now I'm just taking to myself here but if Minwu were to by some miracle become safe before Cloud I would save Laguna --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
| Topic | Final Fantasy Record Keeper Topic 34: Ultimate Renewal |
| Lopen 12/18/17 2:46:33 PM #414 | Are there any good buffers aside from OK, Tyro, and Ramza? Zack has an ATK+50% buff I noticed, but I feel like most of the options aren't much better on damage than Sazh is. --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
| Topic | 1006-verse: The women glow and the men plunder [TEW] [mod] [crossover] [wrassle] |
| Lopen 12/18/17 2:03:21 PM #160 | Oh okay. I'll try and hammer things out ASAP. --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
| Topic | Save My Favorite Final Fantasy Characters XIX: Day 98 (RULE CHANGE!) [smfffc] |
| Lopen 12/18/17 2:02:26 PM #32 | Minwu --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
| Topic | 1006-verse: The women glow and the men plunder [TEW] [mod] [crossover] [wrassle] |
| Lopen 12/18/17 1:55:57 PM #158 | Be sure to @ me when I should be taking my turn. Eaed said "I could go" but I thought it was CPU's turn still, right? --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
| Topic | Final Fantasy Record Keeper Topic 34: Ultimate Renewal |
| Lopen 12/18/17 1:54:51 PM #412 | I would like to sub 30, but I value playing this game my way over efficiently-- I mean I have a bit of flexibility. I use Tyro in the Crystal Tower floors, but there are certain characters I don't want to be staples of my team. Frankly Gordon, who I'm using as my buffer right now, is very borderline in this regard and Sazh would be an excellent improvement over him. I also think Sazh has a skillset that seems completely competent at dropping buffs, looking at what he can do. I'm thinking if I can't get Ramza stuff and I don't want to use Tyro or Onion Knight he's probably the best option in the game. Need to refresh on those anniversary banners though --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
| Topic | Name a User and I'll Give My Honest, Unfiltered Opinion About Them |
| Lopen 12/18/17 1:50:16 PM #156 | scarletspeed7 posted... I've seen this username, but I couldn't for the life of me think of one single unique thing this user has said or done that would warrant me committing anything about this user to memory. Fitting response even for people who know him tbqh --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
| Topic | WWF (1983-)1985 Topic 5: When it comes crashin' down and it hurts inside [TEW] |
| Lopen 12/18/17 1:29:42 PM #16 | Anyway I want, to the surprise of no one who knows me and looked at the roster page, La Parka to get a title in 1985. --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
| Topic | WWF (1983-)1985 Topic 5: When it comes crashin' down and it hurts inside [TEW] |
| Lopen 12/18/17 1:24:40 PM #14 | Wow good job Eadie Should I post the choice for my prize in here or should I PM that in addition to the vote --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
| Topic | Fire Emblem Heroes Discussion Topic Part 12: Book 2 |
| Lopen 12/18/17 12:54:32 PM #372 | I'd rather have Vantage + Quick Riposte than Vengeful Fighter in a lot of situations I think I mean I'm not saying Vengeful Fighter isn't dumb as hell just that it might not be quite as dumb as two B skills. --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
| Topic | Fire Emblem Heroes Discussion Topic Part 12: Book 2 |
| Lopen 12/18/17 12:47:36 PM #370 | Armads is good enough that I think Hector is still kinda competitive. Freeing up the B Slot with a free Quick Riposte is a pretty big deal, even if Chrom has like +60 stat points. --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
| Topic | Final Fantasy Record Keeper Topic 34: Ultimate Renewal |
| Lopen 12/18/17 12:31:10 PM #410 | Well it's more that I could draw for Sazh and then Lightning stuff could be decent consolation prizes. Also I don't really want to use Onion Knight. He's basically Tyro tier. I'll have to look at upcoming Sazh banners. --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
| Topic | Games that were average or bad that you think the world of? |
| Lopen 12/18/17 2:28:29 AM #24 | SaGa Fronter was awesome and was definitely one of my most FAQed things here --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
| Topic | Fire Emblem Heroes Discussion Topic Part 12: Book 2 |
| Lopen 12/18/17 2:23:39 AM #337 | Well wasted like 60 orbs on this. Got a Julia plus an Alm, so I guess that's okay Well Alm was +Spd/-Atk and I didn't really want him, and I already had Julia, so maybe it's not really okay Whatever! I actually do like Julia. This one is -HP/+RES, the other one was -ATK/+HP. I guess this one is kinda better but I'm not a huge fan of either. I will +1 her though. --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
| Topic | Fire Emblem Heroes Discussion Topic Part 12: Book 2 |
| Lopen 12/18/17 12:06:29 AM #334 | I wish Chrom wasn't being blocked by Lissa. Chrom and Robin would both be tempting to draw for otherwise. --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
| Topic | Final Fantasy Record Keeper Topic 34: Ultimate Renewal |
| Lopen 12/18/17 12:04:22 AM #408 | 100 gemmed Sazh's Chocobo Chick SSB Half tempted to give Sazh an 11 draw or two here to make him usable because I don't have any source of Shout other than Ward's thing and Sazh actually has a lot of good toys on this banner Are the Lightning relics here good? I have her USB-- seems like the Burst and the Legend Materia for her would be strong too. --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
| Topic | Best Dead or Alive girl? |
| Lopen 12/17/17 10:42:00 PM #29 | What's wrong with Ayane though --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
| Topic | King of Mercenaries Rumble Topic 6: Endgame |
| Lopen 12/17/17 10:40:19 PM #250 | I'm okay with changing refund amounts though Like Kanzaris could get 6 back and I could get 1 back or whatever. Or no one could get anything back. I think redoing the bids is completely unnecessary and a net negative though. --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
| Topic | King of Mercenaries Rumble Topic 6: Endgame |
| Lopen 12/17/17 10:26:39 PM #248 | I think redoing bids taints the thing the most for the record. I'm willing to pay 1 GP I didn't think I'd need to pay to just not redo bids. --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
| Topic | King of Mercenaries Rumble Topic 6: Endgame |
| Lopen 12/17/17 2:39:16 AM #242 | I don't really care either way myself, but the only thing said in topic that I saw was on post 210 when I asked about it Tom Bombadil posted... I was thinking full refund on losing bids but I'm open to arguments to the contrary --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
| Topic | Name a User and I'll Give My Honest, Unfiltered Opinion About Them |
| Lopen 12/17/17 2:16:20 AM #115 | It's Rusev Day dude give me a break. --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
| Topic | Name a User and I'll Give My Honest, Unfiltered Opinion About Them |
| Lopen 12/16/17 9:56:22 PM #75 | Tom Bombadil --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
| Topic | ^King of the Mountain^ - Save My Bounty Hunter - Day 25 |
| Lopen 12/16/17 9:49:02 PM #65 | Bishop Jam Kuradoberi --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
| Topic | Save My Favorite Final Fantasy Characters XIX: Day 97 (RULE CHANGE!) [smfffc] |
| Lopen 12/16/17 7:25:13 PM #223 | Yeah for me it's a really high tier final 3 Minwu is my boy and Cloud and Laguna are both good, if not ones I'm particularly enthused about. --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
| Topic | Save My Favorite Final Fantasy Characters XIX: Day 97 (RULE CHANGE!) [smfffc] |
| Lopen 12/16/17 7:17:59 PM #221 | All seriousness though wish it could have been Minwu/Vanille finals but that was never gonna happen unfortunately Minwu may be able to survive next round as a pawn --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
| Topic | Save My Favorite Final Fantasy Characters XIX: Day 97 (RULE CHANGE!) [smfffc] |
| Lopen 12/16/17 7:15:14 PM #213 | Pretty sure most years all characters I'm enthusiastic about supporting are gone by like the top 8 --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
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