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AAF players made ~70k/yr. I mean, at least in theory, they probably didn't actually see nearly that much. But even the AAF, which bears some of the hallmarks of having been a scam, tried to pay its players more.

https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1187836827551653888
CE's favorite Congressional Representative chimed in as well.

Ugh. That game was the very definition of mediocre, and it took far too long for Emil to not suck(and even the he wasn't great).

FL81 posted...

LukeFalk posted...

This is why I never use a GPS. It keeps telling me to turn left or right but those are brainwashing words and I want to stay in control of myself

there is only one direction

straight ahead

Damn right. A real man forges his own path, and doesn't let silly things like roads or nature get in his way.

Good for her.

Yeah, no one's entitled to some one else's body.

s0nicfan posted...

So her plan seems to be fail to get elected and then use her newfound reputation to score a job as a political correspondent for a major news network?

It's easier and potentially more lucrative than being a Congressional representative, and she can stop pretending to be something she's not.

Good.

Antifar posted...

A lot of liberals have been too quick to conspiracize in the aftermath of 2016. A simpler explanation for Gabbard is that she's just sort of an opportunist looking for any opportunity to raise her profile. As a rep from Hawaii, that's tough to do in conventional ways.

So she spotted a chance to be known as the anti-DNC Dem in the 2016 primaries after the Sanders campaign emerged, then contemplated being the Democrat in the Trump administration, and now is just trying to do the anti-DNC thing again.

Yeah, I think the simplest explanation for Tulsi Gabbard is that she's a mediocre-to-poor politician whose ambition outstrips her abilities. She got took a lucky risk once and has stuck with it doggedly. From the sounds of it, she's probably going to lose her Congressional seat to a primary challenge too.

Meds don't tend to be all that effective in isolation. They treat the symptoms, but they can't get to the cause. You should mention the anxiety to your doctor.

Doom_Art posted...

Rorschach was homophobic, sexist, absolutist, fervently anti-communist, and authoritarian.

He himself wasn't a white supremacist but I can totally see white supremacists looking at him and thinking "Hey this guy is awesome"

Yeah, easily. The problem is a lot of people struggle to realize things like that and lash out.

I don't have HBO, so I won't be watching the show. The movie was thoroughly meh because it tried to be the graphic novel. In a sense, it was more reproduction than adaptation, but certain things work well in certain forms of media and not so well in others.

Depends on "when". If middle school, the answer is "very frequently". If high school, the answer is "rarely".

That's clever: hollow tube pasta that's straw-like is already a thing that exists.

It's a shame, as pumpkin is good eating. Flesh and seeds alike are tasty.

Well, it could have happened to anyone, really. I, for one, am ready for the end of human history and hope this sinister space life which will inevitably consume us all does better.

Sir Will posted...

Panthera posted...

Sure, it leads to small parts of the population having disproportionate amounts of power

Which is kind of important. Yes, some smaller Atlantic provinces and the territories are overrepresented, but it's not TOO disproportional. Not like the horrible US senate set up.

Yeah, you definitely shouldn't want to be more like the US. People stopped basing their governments off ours over a century ago for a reason.

That's not to say Canada's system can't be improved: it undoubtedly can, but the goal should be representing people, not arbitrary land mass.

Tulsi sucks, but accusing her of being a Russian agent is McCarthyist and obscures discussion of her real flaws and failings.
Also it's gross.

Anteaterking posted...

I just started CKII for the first time last night after hearing the announcement. The tutorial sucks.

1066. Play in Ireland. My memory is foggy, but the best one is the Count of Dublin, since he's the eldest son of the elderly Count of Leinster? just south of him, so you'll wind up with an additional county in short order. Ireland is very fractured in 1066(and Scotland and England won't bother you for a while, probably a long while), so even with just two counties, you'll be one of the bigger fish and can work on getting a handle on things. It takes time.

action52 posted...

ElatedVenusaur posted...

Jill Stein won 1.07% of the vote. Imagine thinking she matters.

Even in the swing states where she lost by less than 1%?

You mean the ones Hillary barely bothered to campaign in?
Its utterly ridiculous to blame Jill Stein for Trump when Hillary Clinton and her campaign were focusing on running up the score in states like Georgia and Arizona rather than understanding that their hold on Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, Florida, and Pennsylvania was slipping. You know, like their people on the ground repeatedly warned, warnings which were echoed by Bill Clinton, but they ignored that because they knew better. Except they didnt, because they were and are idiots.

Jill Stein won 1.07% of the vote. Imagine thinking she matters.

Jill Stein is completely inconsequential either way though.

Tulsi Gabbard is garbage who loves Indian PM Narendra Modi and Syrian dictator/butcher Bashar al-Assad, is a no-hope Democratic presidential candidate, and was accused of being a Russian asset by noted garbage-woman and loser Hillary Clinton. We live in a dumb universe, go watch clips of Bernies rally instead.

booboy posted...

Is the deal done, or is the process of coming up with a proposal to pitch to the EU done?

Neither? Boris Johnson doesnt have the authority to make a deal without Parliaments approval, and the Letwin amendment they just passed is confusing and may or may not block them from voting on BoJos deal(subject to Speaker Bercows ruling, it seems).
Worth remembering the opposition passed on toppling the Tories because the Lib Dems wouldnt agree to Corbyn becoming Prime Minister even if just to enact a pre-agreed script.

JE19426 posted...

TheDreadedWave posted...

And it doesn't bother you that they withheld a key game component behind a paywall for 3 years?

I think it was stupid of them to do so. The fact they didn't leave it permanently leads me to believe it was out of incompetence, than of scumishness.

I agree: stuff like development and estates didn't belong as expansion-locked features, and leaving them that way for so long prevented them from iterating on those features in interesting ways sooner.
Stellaris is actually pretty good about that though, so I do think they're learning.

Broseph_Stalin posted...

DEKMStephens posted...

Why is paradox scum I haven't been paying attention

You straight-up don't need anything that isn't labeled an expansion, unless unit models and advisor art are important to you.

As far as the expansions are concerned, the Immersion Packs aren't very compelling(Golden Century is the only that's maybe okay). You definitely want Art of War, Common Sense, and Mandate of Heaven. Dharma is also really good. No need to bother with Conquest of Paradise or El Dorado unless you really like playing colonizers. Cradle of Civilization is good for the Middle East, Res Publica is nice if you care about the Dutch. You can and should straight-up ignore Mare Nostrum.

Also, it must be stated that you still get all the patches regardless of what expansions you have.

1's game-play is really clunky, but it's got a great story and establishes the setting exceptionally well.

2's game-play is great and the story and setting are still great, even if not quite as good as 1's. I was amped and ready to play more when the ending sequences played.

3's gameplay is also great, but it has the weakest plotting of the 3. With that said, it's still great story-wise, until the ending, but it does 2 especially a disservice by essentially sidelining all the squadmates from 2 and dumpstering most of Cerberus' development and also idiot-boxing them.
Still well worth playing and enjoyable even though the ending is a major let-down.

thronedfire2 posted...

UnholyMudcrab posted...

ASithLord7 posted...

ElatedVenusaur posted...

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2019/10/19/crusader-kings-3-is-happening-heres-ten-things-we-know-so-far/
Apparently they're adding RPG elements and more robust genetics.

Huh, probably gonna piss off some assholes for something as simple as removing deus vult but good on them

Edit: yikes, thread about this on the CK subreddit is full of seething racist assholes

It's really disappointing how many of those types Paradox games tend to attract

Not many games let you build a white Christian ethnostate if you want

Yeah, historically-grounded games are basically always going to attract nationalists and racists of all stripes, but Paradox deserves credit for actively policing them and going out of its way to avoid indulging their tropes.

It sounds like CK3 is aiming at making characters the center of your experience. As some one who bought CK2 at launch, I can say that that's something that CK2 wasn't well-equipped to do: they kind of had that insight after-the-fact and built it in. It feels like the right direction to go in and they can build the game around that from the get-go. I can't really afford to be buying games at launch anymore, but I think it's a certainity that CK3 will, sooner or later, leave its predecessor in the dust.

As far as what else came out of PDXcon: they announced a Lithoids species pack and a Federations expansion for Stellaris. Apparently, lithoids will actually play differently from organics. And diplomacy is definitely the weakest aspect of Stellaris currently, so it's nice to see them finally overhauling it.
Apparently, the Lithoids are dropping this Thursday alongside a patch.

I test drove a Mazda 3 and loved it. It was a bit outside my (very limited) price-range though. It was such a nippy little car.
I have 2009 Hyundai Accent currently(it only had ~27,000 on it when I bought it a few years ago) and it's fine, but it's not half as nippy as that Mazda 3. It's also made me appreciate having a small car: I can park just about anywhere and once did a three-point turn in a small garage.

shockthemonkey posted...

Sure would be nice if someone could ever discuss issues that men face without using it as an excuse for shitting on women and feminists.

Yeah. Ironically, it's the very feminists CEmen often rail against who engage with the (real) problems facing men in our society. My boys, we've got to step up our game.

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2019/10/19/crusader-kings-3-is-happening-heres-ten-things-we-know-so-far/
Apparently they're adding RPG elements and more robust genetics.

I love that their chosen trailer is some dude murdering a baby. They understand their game.
In any case, it will be interesting to see how they manage this. EU4 was pretty much EU3+ on release(in the good sense) but it will be much harder to top CK2. Im skeptical.

The one time I heard women talk about, they were unanimous that it was a favor for their partner, not something they themselves enjoyed.
So, I say, return the favor.

Venezuela isn't the worst nation to have a seat on the Human Rights Council.
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2018/jun/08/the-unspeakable-truth-about-slavery-in-mauritania
But yes, the council has long been a sick joke. Human rights aren't exactly a major concern in anyone's foreign policy.

Good. This should be a damned slam-dunk. If only we didnt have an economic system which prioritized profits over human rights...

I did that once, and I'm not going to lie: I really liked the smooth feel. But I'm really hairy, so it's an ordeal to shave them and I haven't bothered since.

Garbage fighting trash, you love to see it.

To the Bills? No, I actually think we're pretty set at QB for now: Josh Allen is dumb, but also cool and trending in the right direction, and Matt Barkley is a good, cost-effective back-up.
There are; however, a lot of teams Kaep could play for. He rates out as an above-average QB and could probably get, say, the Bucs competing for a wild card(just LOL if you're going to try and tell me he's worse than Jameis Winston). He could start for the Dolphins, but they're obviously not interested in winning. He could definitely have played much better than Luke Falk even without knowing Adam Gase's system. He could probably do better than Mariota or Tannyhill. He's way better than Trubisky or Chase Daniels. I don't know that there's a back-up better than he is, but Kaep shouldn't have to take a cheap deal. If Russ Wilson or Lamar Jackson got hurt tomorrow, I guarantee Kaep would be better than either of their back-ups. He's better than Devlin Hodges and Mason Rudolph(though the latter holds the potential promise of being a long-term successor to Big Ben). He would be a better option than Matt Moore if Patrick Mahomes needs to rest his ankle.
In summary:
metallica846 posted...

Blackballed as f***.

Axiom posted...

The way they handle DLC is so disgusting. I was lucky and got the CK 2 humble bundle recently. Fuck ever paying even half-price for it

It's better with subsequent titles(EU4, HoI4, and Stellaris) because they actually lock a lot less content behind the DLCs(like, 75+% of the content in those games is in the free patches). CK2 needs DLC to play any non-Christian, non-feudal character *and* to unlock earlier start-dates, and that isn't good.

Welcome to hell, Mega Man! No wonder Mega Man snaps and almost murders Wily.
But seriously, I needed 4 full sub-tanks to get through this fight. The timing on dodging Wily's attacks is insanely tight. Oh, and the capsule is weak to Wild Coil, so, umm, good luck making THAT work.


Hey, this is technically a boss theme. Speaking of odd time signatures, this one's in 4/4. Ah, but the alarm sound is in 3/4. The dissonance helps make the track much more nerve-wracking than its seemingly-slow pace lets on.


Time for you to face death itself! Matador is the first fiend you'll fight, and he's an infamous road-block boss, but the real BS fiend is Trumpeter. Trumpeter goddamned sucks, and you can't even avoid fighting him(if you're up-to-date on your fiends, at least, and why wouldn't you be?)

For what it's worth, they *will* be announcing the next Stellaris expansion at Paradox Con Saturday. EU4's next expansion isn't yet named, but the outlines of it is already known(it's Europe-focused, with special attention paid to the HRE. There have been regular dev diaries on their forums for months now). CK2, regardless of whether or not CK3 is coming soon, is towards or at the end of its life. And they already promised they wouldn't do any expansions for Imperator until they're done with a lengthy patch schedule(I think they're more than half-way through it now and the game is *supposedly* going in the right direction). Oh, and they already announced Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 has been delayed until Q3 2020(from Q1 2020).
So (secret project) and the Stellaris DLC are the big things we'll be learning about soon. Be sure to play plenty of CK2!

solosnake posted...

We are thrilled to announce that to celebrate PDXCON Crusader Kings II is Free to Play! Here is your chance to get your hands on our cult medieval grand strategy game:

Also its weird the way they word it, not sure if this is free to play forever now or just for the event.

I hope its forever, i always thought a free base game is the best model going forward for paradox with how many dlcs they make

I've got to agree, that they should make the base games free or at least much cheaper at some point after release, but they're a proper corporation now so it's unlikely it would ever happen.

solosnake posted...

I would rather see vicky 3. They literally just finished up ck2, im not ready to start over again.

I would be too, but they already shot down Vicky 3. My own suspicion is that it's too soon for CK3 and that they're going to announce something different.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/203770/Crusader_Kings_II/
The base game, for now, at least. Everything else is -50% off for Paradox Con, but honestly -50% off isn't the best discount you can get on this stuff. The latest(last?) expansion, Holy Fury, is included.
If you ever wanted to give this a go, now's your chance. There's been some speculation that Paradox may announce Crusader Kings 3 soon.

The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914

MrToothHasYou posted...

So according to Politico, Bernie got the call from AOC telling him she was going to endorse while he was in the hospital from his heart attack.

https://www.politico.com/news/2019/10/16/bernie-sanders-aoc-endorsement-2020-election-048586

It seems to have been the catalyst for both AOC and Ilhan Omar, though the latter in particular already planned on endorsing Bernie. AOC was inspired to get involved in politics by Bernie's 2016 campaign.


Rep. Omar has already cut an official endorsement video for Bernie. She also cites Bernie's 2016 campaign as an inspiration.