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Unfortunately, there is no shortage of genocide. Also, him being descended from survivors of a genocide and fully recognizing he is a member of a minority that is or even just could be genocided may be sufficient.

Someone already suggested making him Mexican, but Palestinian could also work, though the optics of those could be really bad.

Don't worry, the Democrats won't even try very hard to disrupt the functions of government, let alone seriously go after the President.

I do hope they remake 4&5 and finally bring them over. They're much more interesting than the Marth games, and Shadows of Valentia finally proved IntSys could do it right.
After that, I hope they remake 7&6, in that order, so you can import clear data from the latter to modify the kids, because that actually makes sense in that context. And also that they make 6 good.

#StrongerTogether
Also that Donald Trump was bad and unfit for office(true).
But she never really articulated a definitive positive vision for a Hillary Clinton presidency, whereas Trump, at minimum, grasped that people were broadly unhappy with how things were.

Yeah, PC is better. Console is terminally behind in terms of build(and DLCs), apparently because Sony requires a game to be feature-stable for months prior to release, so they had to "freeze" the console version in the past, more or less. The one thing you can be certain of in regards to Paradox is continued support though.

Ving_Rhames posted...

Videogames generally have shitty to mediocre stock stories period, FE is no outlier.

Yeah, there are a handful of Fire Emblem games with really good plots and some that are okay, but most of them are dumb.

Some of them do. From the ones I've played, Blazing Sword(i.e. Fire Emblem for the GBA) has the best, IMO. It's very well-layered and has some complexity without losing sight of the stakes.
Not all of them are good though: in fact, Fates is downright horrible, and Shadows of Valentia aggressively idiot-boxes Celica. And Radiant Dawn idiot-boxes....everyone.

Kircheis posted...

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Kircheis posted...

Genealogy of the Holy War has one of my favorite video game stories of all time. It really does depend on the game tbh.

This. Some are trash, like Fates. Well, imo.

On some level I kinda blame New Mystery of the Emblem for how Fates turned out, specifically with regards to how basically every character idolizes the Avatar. Couldn't even get to New Mystery's title screen without it kissing Kris's ass. If I was an FE3 fan I probably would've been infuriated tbh.

Yeah, that was really grating in that, but somehow Fates was worst, because Corinne's characterization was all over the place(you might suggest that the My Unit in NMotE didn't have a character, and you would be right. That was somehow better, if only a little).
Why, it's almost like Fates was written by several different writing teams! Oh hey, what do you know, it was

treewojima posted...

eston posted...

He knows that there are cameras at these rallies right

Fake Video

Yeah, he's gas-lighting. Also he may genuinely not be all that aware of what's going on around him.

The difference is that we're lucky to have Rep. Ilhan Omar.

Alright, I'll give some quick points.

1)Leave VIR on
VIR is pretty helpful in terms of explaining what you should be doing, though by no means comprehensive.

2)Play a standard empire
By which I mean: no hive mind, machine empire, fanatical purifiers, etc. etc. They play fairly differently.

3)Explore vigorously!
Leaders are expensive early, but you're going to want to put out at least two additional science vessels for surveying purposes, so build the ships and hire up scientists as you can afford them. Meticulous scientists are especially good for surveying.

4)Take it slow
Remember: you can pause at any time! So you don't have to rush into anything.

5)Habitability and You
The game will force-spawn 2 planets of your species ideal biome, each within two jumps of your homeworld. However, other worlds may not be so inviting. Low habitability is very bad: these planets will be substantially less productive, grow slower, and unsuitable pops will have much higher upkeep. Don't rush to settle marginal worlds(unless they're really valuable): the tech tree will offer some improvements, and getting your hands on other species(via peaceful immigration or conquest) or robots can change everything.
If you want a rule-of-thumb...anything under 60% hab will be a substantial investment.

6)Tech
Unlike many similar games, you can't win by teching. There are powerful techs that represent a jump up, sure, but you're unlikely to develop a substantial lead quickly(without a specifically-geared set-up and a good start). Tech will help you, but it's no substitute for ships, stations, systems, and alloys.

7)Administrative Cap
You'll go over it. That's fine: the benefits of expansion outweigh the benefits of staying under. It exists to help smaller empires compete, but bigger is better. You can increase your cap with tech.

8)Expansion is First
It's the best opening tradition tree. It's not an ideal state of affairs, but it's true. The next best is Supremacy, but Prosperity and Domination are really good too. Discovery kind of sucks though.

That was pretty epic. Too bad I'll never see it.

Meh, they can do whatever they like.

Oh, we're still going on about Mayor Pete? Have some food for that...

https://www.propublica.org/article/the-country-that-exiled-mckinsey
Propublica did some excellent research on McKinsey and Co's activities in Mongolia. For those who don't know, Mayor Pete interned there and, IIRC, said it helped him get out in the "real world". I wonder what lessons he took from this?

But maybe it's mean to dig into his past and attack him by association. Here's another thing...

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/18/buttigieg-hires-former-goldman-sachs-executive-as-policy-director.html
I'm sure a former Goldman Sachs and Google executive will craft policy with the interests of the average person in mind.

shockthemonkey posted...

Antifar posted...

I should have noted: congratulations to Michael Bennet on winning the Eric Swalwell dropout sweepstakes

I wanted Mike Gravel so much

Me too.
But Biden being on-stage with all of the non-white candidates, feebly trying to get revenge on Kamala Harris will be a sad and pleasing spectacle.

Trump has demonstrated he is unremittingly horrible, both as a person and a president, and I could never vote for such a person.

Biden is trash who clearly doesn't understand how working feverishly with segregationists to kill busing was bad, and that's just one of dozens of terrible and/or stupid things he's done over his career.

Kamala Harris is a ruthless, cynical sociopath who has historically been highly amenable to moneyed interests and cruel to the poor. In other words, she's of the exact same stock as the people who have dominated our national politics for at least the past 40 years.

Pete Buttigieg has assiduously worked out his entire career in a spreadsheet. The whole world is a spreadsheet to Mayor Pete, and the presidency, and the American people are merely values in its numberless rows and columns. Everything is a statistic, there is no life or warmth to be found. Plus, you know, he suckles at the teat of the aristocratic donor class.

I won't bother to comment on the various no-hopers.

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Shablagoo posted...

Its smear. You can criticize Israel, the nation, without being anti-semitic. Israel =/= Jewish people of the world. I dont know how this isnt obvious to everyone on Earth, but here we are.

What about when she accused her Jewish coworkers of dual-loyalty?

That seems a little bit more than just 'criticizing Israel.'

As does her referring of Hamas, an organization that has called for the extermination of all Jews around the world, as a 'nonviolent protest group.'

I have not seen this, links?

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theatlantic.com/amp/article/584314/

Linking to an opinion piece is hardly credible.

Written by Rahm Emmanuel, no less, a career-long shill for AIPAC.
Rep. Ilhan Omar's remarks were critical of lobbying, the point being that she was contending that current American policy towards Israel is manufactured by pro-Israel lobbying groups like AIPAC, and not a reflection of the popular will. She further complained that her colleagues were hostile to any criticism of America's policy on Israel, complaining she felt she was expected to swear an oath of loyalty to Israel in addition to America.

Just take a shower so you cant tell that youre crying.

Anonymous Democrats concerned Trump making unpopular racist remarks about popular young leftists takes spotlight away from their efforts to work with racist president.
There!

Antifar posted...

I was also insulting the Clinton campaign.

You're doing good work.

UnfairRepresent posted...

Antifar posted...

UnfairRepresent posted...

What are you supposed to do if you have republican values? Go "Well I can't support the Republican party because Bill and Tim and Donald are racist so instead I'll vote entirely against what I feel are the interests for my nation."

You're welcome to not vote. That is the preferable option to voting for the senile racist groper.

That's what made Trump Win

7 million dems who voted Obama didn't bother voting in 2016.

And that's despite population growth.

You have to vote for what you feel is the lesser of two evils otherwise the bigger evil wins. Your Russel Brand logic is harmful.

Its a little much to absolve the Democrats of blame here, particularly given the likely course of 2018 in the Hillaryverse.
I mean, she was the second least popular presidential candidate in American history and ran a worse campaign than the least popular presidential candidate in history.

Doom_Art posted...

MakoReizei posted...

"Trump is gonna round up minorities"

i mean thats just a fact at this point tbh

Yeah, that's pretty much the end point of his rhetoric. God damn us all if it ever gets that bad.

Whoever wins, we all win.

CreekCo posted...

Its clearly in Genesis

People ignore what they want to

It's literally just one or two lines, off-hand. Like how Genesis mentions Enoch* being special off-handedly but providing no details. Compare that with the amount of time Genesis spends with the creation of the world, or the flood or Jacob.

*Enoch, of course, was Noah's grandfather. He was so righteous and otherwise good God had angels bring him up to Heaven, taught him all about how Heaven and the world work, sent him back down to his people for 30 days to relate this, then lifted him back up to Heaven and transfigured him into the angel Metatron.

I'm actually reading an encyclopedia of Apocrypha right now, and just read three different versions of the Book of Enoch.

Biden is really lighting the world on fire with Obamacare....1.2? 2.0 would be too ambitious.

It depends a lot on who the Democrats nominate. Biden and Buttigieg would probably lose, and Harris is basically employing a lot of the old Clinton types, so that's not great either(Harris herself is horrible and cynical, but she's at least got some charisma and can speak well).

Yeah, some of the apocryphal books go into some more detail about that, specifically the books of Enoch and Jubilees. The leader of these Grigori was Samjeza/Shamyeza/Samyaza(spelling gets weird going from Hebrew to English, it seems).
In fact, it's clear that the SMT and Persona teams read them at some point, given that they seem to like using Mastema and the Merkabah(Chariot of God). And..(SMT IV: Apocalypse spoilers) Samyaza is Hallalejuah's dad, as a nod to his reason for falling

That poor woman. I hope she gets the help she needs.
And that her husband gets some time to cool off. And a jail cell to do it in.

Everyone should be accommodated to a reasonable extent. Furthermore, a library should be available to everyone*, stocked full of books on every subject and at least one copy of all relevant holy texts. Prison needs to be less about punishment and more about reflection and rehabilitation. Malcolm X, for example, spent basically his whole time in prison reading everything he could get his hands on.
*Unless they behave poorly, including destruction of books.

The last one I saw was Casino Royale, and apparently I have missed nothing.
It's a great idea to open up the casting, but she's not James Bond, she just got his 007 codename because Craig Bond retired and will inevitably end up sleeping with him. It would have been progressive in the '80s.

billcom6 posted...

Telling brown people to "go back where they came from."

HOW DARE PEOPLE SAY HE IS RACIST!!!!!!!!!!!!

A reminder that Anderson Cooper was outraged when AOC confidently stated that Trump was a racist. Like, literally, his response was, "How can you say that?"
And he's supposed to be one of the good ones! The media is so obsessed with appearing unbiased that they sacrifice the truth. Like, CNN's headline about this refers to "Trump's racially-charged remark". They just can't bring themselves to call Trump a racist, in spite of the mountain of evidence forming a black hole and swallowing reality right in front of them. It would be biased!

I found a guy's wallet on the bus once when I was in college.
I messaged him on Facebook(it was only for college kids then) and arranged to give it back to him.

Popcorn_Fairy posted...

Trubbish and Garbodor are great.

I've always loved Garbodor's expression. It's like it's wondering why it exists. Meta(in a perfect world, humanity would manage trash and pollution well enough that Trubbish, Garbodor, Grimer, and Muk wouldn't exist!)
And now that I've brought up Grimer and Muk, I feel the need to give a shout-out to Alolan Grimer and Muk. Excellent designs, great twist, and they made a previously useless pokemon relevant.

SuperShake666 posted...

I like it, just because I enjoy the way Supports enhance the story. It makes sense to me for love to bloom on the battlefield.

The children thing is shit though if there's no justification for them. Awakening worked because of time travel shenanigans. Fates makes no fucking sense and is goddamn stupid.

There's a real neat tragic vibe to your army's kids coming back in time from a doomed future in order to prevent it.
Pocket dimensions that you shove a baby in and get an adult out of in a few months or whatever starts off dumb and gets exponentially worse the more you think about it.

It's become more and more disturbing to me that the Supreme Court halting a lawfully-required recount and awarding the presidency to the guy who lost the popular vote and probably the electoral college went by with barely a blip.
Oh, I forgot to mention that the recount was initially stopped by the winner's brother and his crony.

hollow_shrine posted...

BLAKUboy posted...

One has an actual chance of winning the nomination. The other is Bernie Sanders.

Plenty of time for polls to change. And after 2016 we ought to be done with hot takes about electability.

Both casings campaigns have great enthusiasm behind them, and I want to believe they will fully support the candidate who actually gets the Democratic nomination.

It's worth noting that Sanders and Warren are supposedly close and still talk regularly.
Also the rumor is that Warren hates Biden's guts, so I mean, she's definitely got that right, if true. I do think they would work together, regardless of which ends up President. I don't think either makes sense as a VP though.

Questionmarktarius posted...

What was going on in the Clinton era that caused the downward trend?

Sustained economic growth? From, like, 1992-99, the economy grew consistently. Then the dot-com bubble burst around 2000 or so(IIRC). It appears to spike again in 2008 and doesn't start trending downward again until 2011 or so. I would expect it would be lower now, but the long-term trend is clear.

legendary_zell posted...

tennisdude818 posted...

The war on poverty started in the mid 60s.

I know that's the conclusion that you and the Heritage foundation are reaching, but that's not proof that the increase was caused by the welfare state. Other major societal shifts that affect poverty and the rate of single motherhood that accelerated during the time on that graph include women's liberation, decreasing unionization, the drug war, mass incarceration, loss of manufacturing jobs, and many others. I think you think that graph says a lot more than it actually does.

I think the lack of good sex education and education about/access to contraceptives cannot be understated, as well as a sustained assault on abortion rights and a largely successful effort to reduce access to abortions cannot have helped either.

Not really. They're similar in terms of domestic policy(though Bernie tends to be a bit to her left), but Bernie seems considerably to her left on foreign policy.
Philosophically, they're very different. Warren believes firmly in capitalism and that the current state of affairs is essentially an aberration. Sanders believes this is the natural outcome of capitalism. He's also much more hated by wealthy political donors.
Edit: And, IIRC, Warren has said she would take PAC money in the general.

GameGodOfAll posted...

Venture Bros isn't canceled is it? Just on indefinite hiatus until the next season 3 years from now as always?

The gap between 6 and 7 was actually relatively short: the last episode of Season 6(Red Means Stop) aired on March 20th, 2016, and the first episode of Season 7(The Venture Bros. and the Curse of the Haunted Problem) aired Aug. 5, 2018, a gap of just 2 years and 5 months. So, short for them.(And Season 7 was possibly the best season of the show).
That means we'll see Season 8 in 2020 or perhaps early 2021, assuming no issues occur.
Reading the book about the making of Venture Bros., I was floored by how permissive and outright understanding Adult Swim's brass comes off, given their well-earned reputation to the contrary(Season 4 is split in two because Jackson Publick had a nervous breakdown and begged them to let him drop everything mid-production).

Nate underrating Sanders makes me feel a bit better about his chances. His numbers are great, but his analysis...not so much.

Reminder that they endorsed Fmr. Rep. Michael Capuano when his opponent was a black woman who is now a member of the CBC(Rep. Ayanna Pressley).
In fact, their membership has increased thanks to the Justice Democrats. They're just using race as a wedge to protect the establishment(that they are a part of) by conjuring the stereotype of leftists as exclusively white.
If they're so popular, then all they have to do is run on their records, and they'll win easily.

CruelBuffalo posted...

Lol laughing at AOCs race card being called and raised by the Congressional Black Caucus.

AOC wants to play stupid games she can win stupid prizes

They know their place, so they dont offend Pelosis sensibilities.
AOC and the progressives are willing to call her and the moderates out for funding concentration camps, and she cant stand that.

BLAKUboy posted...

jumi posted...

Warren = Bernie's platform + actual real plans to get it done

Pretty much everyone but Biden and the jokes like Yang and Marianne have taken his positions and are talking actual policy while Bernie's still yammering on about "The top 10% of the 1%" or whatever to sidestep committing to a plan to actually accomplish everything he's talking about.
Warren definitely wins for the sheer breadth of her policy though.

Yeah, but they're all posturing, with the exception of Warren. None of them would actually implement this policy, because they're all in the thrall of the Democratic donor class, which hates Sanders and everything he stands for.
The idea that Bernie is without policy is ridiculous though: he's put together bills, with actual Congressional co-sponsors and has spent the past 3 years using his platform to boost workers struggling for higher pay and otherwise highlighting economic injustice in a way no one else has.
Also his student loan and college plans are way better than Warren's(he also took a break from that to lead a bi-partisan effort to end American support for Saudi Arabia's brutal invasion of Yemen). His policy proposals tend to be more aggressive and comprehensive as well(compare their student loan and college plans).
Lastly, there's little evidence Warren is much better on foreign policy than a replacement-level Democrat. Bernie is a bona-fide dove.

Balrog0 posted...

harris is one of the democrats that would make me stay at home most likely

biden too

honestly it doesnt matter who I vote for though

I don't think I could vote for them or Buttigieg, personally. Like, out of people who matter. I would definitely vote for Sanders or Warren, and probably for Castro, but I would only be really excited about Bernie.

Balrog0 posted...

as far as the whole pelosi thing goes, I honestly feel 'the squad' is to blame for supporting her initially. They let themselves be placated really easily and now are surprised that it didnt win them anything. that's my take, at least

They're just four members of the House Progressive Caucus. Here's what the co-chair had to say about it...
https://twitter.com/repmarkpocan/status/1144324911583780864
Chairwoman Pramila Jayapal is also active in crafting leftist legislation, such as Medicare For All, Bernie's College Loan Forgiveness Plan, etc.
At the time, I don't think they had the power to put their own candidate through(needless to say, the center-right would never support such a candidate) and calculated Pelosi was better than some center-right figure like Tim Ryan. It certainly seems like Pelosi isn't as "better" as they hoped.

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Questionmarktarius posted...

ElatedVenusaur posted...

Pretty sure Nancy Pelosi is literally the "This is Fine" dog.
It's why she gets so angry at Reps. AOC, Pressley, Omar, and Tlaib and some of the other progressives: they keep insisting everything's on fire and begging her to stop, drop, and roll and use her fire extinguisher.

Well... a bunch of democrats going off the deep end could flip the house again, costing Pelosi the Speaker position again.

I think Pelosi's doing a good enough job of potentially costing her her own seat. The longer she just sits on her ass the more she risks Primarying herself.

lul

Pelosi might not win another vote for Speaker of the House, but she'll be in her congressional seat until the day she decides to retire. There will never be a serious primary challenger, ever.

This. Nancy Pelosi is a multimillionaire perpetually flush with campaign cash who represents this district: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California%27s_12th_congressional_district
It's plurality white with a median income of $111,000(which is more than twice the national average, from what I can tell). Nancy Pelosi is exactly the kind of representative they want.

Questionmarktarius posted...

ElatedVenusaur posted...

Pretty sure Nancy Pelosi is literally the "This is Fine" dog.
It's why she gets so angry at Reps. AOC, Pressley, Omar, and Tlaib and some of the other progressives: they keep insisting everything's on fire and begging her to stop, drop, and roll and use her fire extinguisher.

Well... a bunch of democrats going off the deep end could flip the house again, costing Pelosi the Speaker position again.

Yet they're not the ones who're holding up her agenda or attempted to depose her.
Because if she wants to get deposed, she's did a great job in alienating everyone even vaguely left of center by ramming through the Senate Border Funding bill with mostly Republican votes a few weeks ago. They had to go on recess, you see.

Pretty sure Nancy Pelosi is literally the "This is Fine" dog.
It's why she gets so angry at Reps. AOC, Pressley, Omar, and Tlaib and some of the other progressives: they keep insisting everything's on fire and begging her to stop, drop, and roll and use her fire extinguisher.

Antifar posted...

https://twitter.com/AmyMcGrathKY/status/1149098724678918146

Going great!

Is she, perhaps...Joe Biden?
Nah, Biden would never apologize.

Doom_Art posted...

If Chuck goes down the Democratic governor of NY appoints another Democrat to the seat AND Chuck Schumer is no longer the Democratic leader in the senate

Be still my beating heart

*monkey's paw spasms violently*
"Joe Manchin named Senate Minority Leader, reports NYT."