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UshiromiyaEva posted...

Spoken like someone who didn't make it their goal to get all 3 gatherers to cap in under a week <_<;

yeah I am not insane you're right!

And yeah obviously if you're just going to be capped on level then burn them, but if you're gonna be leveling crafters at the same time then don't.

Oh also the Namazu tribe is a SHITLOAD of exp, same for Quiqirn at 70+.

I dunno, I just don't bother with gathering leves at all when there are so many less grindy and braindead sources of massive exp if you just put up with a little time gating.

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GANON1025 posted...

So whats the best way to level gatherers after getting to 60?

Don't waste leves on gatherers. Just do collectible turn-ins to Rowena. You will zoom up levels and get some yellow scrips too.

Oh and unlock custom deliveries if you haven't already. I think the first one is in Idyllshire.

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Golf definitely has a perception issue but also it only really starts at the hobby level. And all sports get expensive that way. No one is going to say football, baseball, soccer, etc. are "elitist" because you can always pick up a ball and play, but if you start to compete in local leagues or whatever you're gonna be shelling out a lot of cash for equipment and gear. The closest golf has to "casual" play is like...putting and driving ranges and I don't think that's what people are going to consider as "golf."

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I do think they were a little too generous towards the dad considering he is pretty much consistently 100% in the wrong but it didn't really take me out of it. My fiance loved the movie and said the dad felt almost too real so I can see how it would strike a bad chord with some people.

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Xeybozn posted...

Without the death penalty, wouldn't all the innocent people we execute just end up spending their whole life in prison anyway? In a lot of these cases (including this one), the police are sitting on exculpatory evidence the whole time; there's no way they'd let that stuff get out while the "criminal" is still alive. On top of that, people won't work anywhere near as hard to prove innocence in non-death penalty cases.

The idea that without the death penalty, defense attorneys won't work as hard (and really most of this post) is just an indictment of our entire legal system

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UshiromiyaEva posted...

the Bard didn't move for 30 seconds and then exclaimed that he was hitting his bowl real quick and then proceeded to ask the Viera WHM if she was single.

duty finder is trash everywhere dude

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Aether is the tryhard data center so you'll probably have a better time of it!

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Holy shit that HUD gives me anxiety

Controller users please save this man

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Snake5555555555 posted...

Soundtrack was the best part.

Oh yeah shoutouts to the soundtrack for sure, the licensed music selection is top notch. They could have just filled it out with tons of generic synthwave and it would have been fine but they got a bunch of cool artists on board that fit perfectly.


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red13n posted...

Biden has been mostly public "We're going to attempt to compromise with Republicans" and then actual legislating has appropriately ignored their existence.

So people are getting all up in arms over political gamesmanship at this point.

Not really? They have one more budget reconciliation bill they can pass this year and no plan for what to do after, so it's fair to point out they're full of shit. Everyone knows it won't work so who is this gamesmanship even for? Is Manchin buying it?

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Yeah, at least the rhetoric is all like that. If you watched the speech Biden have to Congress is was a lot of sweeping policy proposals and calling Congress to come together to act on them with no real suggestion on how to actually accomplish them.

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Samurai7 posted...

I played cyberpunk on pc at launch and didn't have issues. I know consoles weren't as lucky, but I think the game would've been fairly highly praised had it worked correctly

I dunno, it's more than just the technical issues. I'm going through it now on PC (and still having technical issues despite patches and having a decent build! ) and it's mostly just...fine? I'm enjoying it, but there is not much I'd point to being truly exceptional. Some of the gameplay mechanics are particularly half-baked, although serviceable, and that isn't due to any bugs or glitches. Then again, "fine" for a AAA game often translates to an 8/10 consensus score so maybe you have a point!

That said even though I like the game I don't see any reason to buy it now when they're still updating it UNLESS like me you've got nothing better to do and are curious about the game as-is.

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Mistaking nuance for hypocrisy is a common pastime with conservatives

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the good news is that once all the celebrities leave we can let the homeless reclaim their houses

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You can also generally get one weekly from Wonderous Tails though I can't remember if they are a 9-stamp or 1-line reward.

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masterplum posted...

This is just not true and masks the real issue. Private prisons are tiny. Public prisons are often just as bad.

That's right, we should abolish all prisons

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Yeah jail and just harassing the homeless enough that they leave the city are the only logical outcomes I can think of. So I can only assume that's the intent!

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I dont rush through games but I find myself very easily dropping stuff I don't want to play or abandoning side content.

Some games I love and don't beat just because I hit something that skews the time/benefit analysis to me, like Sekiro I got to the end and hit a wall on the last two bosses and had to put the game down. Others like BotW, SMO, and the Yakuza series really deleted my completionist urges because there is SO MUCH side content I might have enjoyed once but just don't want to bother with anymore.

I do get the sense of mild anxiety and obligation to finish some games but I don't usually try to rush them if I'm still enjoying them, and if I'm not then I end up dropping the game.

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UshiromiyaEva posted...

It looks like it's 8 vs 10 dungeons at max for each, but 2 of the level 70 dungeons are hard modes.

I would assume there wouldn't be any dungeons in 5.55?

Nah. There should not be any new DF content in 5.55. We're getting the new Save the Queen area and can probably expect a MSQ solo duty and that's it.

The devs have slowly shifted away from dungeon content. Stormblood had more because they were experimenting with a 2-1-2-1 pattern for adding new ones to free up dev time which ended up resulting in one per patch in Shadowbringers. Honestly, it's hard to blame them - dungeons are pretty formulaic and quickly become roulette filler so it gets harder to justify resources (and they've said doing "hard modes" doesn't really save them much hassle compared to brand new ones). And I do kinda like how the ShB dungeons feel more like big setpieces.

I would like to see more mechanical variety in dungeons but we aren't going to get that by having the devs churn out more normal modes, and I dont know if theyre interested in doing "EX" dungeons or more 8-mans or whatever.

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xp1337 posted...

San Antonio had a proposition to weaken the local police unions and it lost 49-51.

I am actually fairly impressed this one was so close. We are not too far off from making progress there.

Of course the Lubbock one is awful but that's basically in the panhandle (reddest part of the state) so zero expectations there. Also not a new concept, though I think it's the biggest one so far. I think other "sanctuary cities for the unborn" are already being challenged.

The Austin one though is just despicable and it wasn't nearly as close - 57/43. Even the most "liberal" of cities hate the homeless and there's no end in sight to that. The solution is literally to just build more cheap housing and shelters but there's no money in it and NIMBYs hate it so it'll never happen. In Dallas it's really bad. There is SO MUCH undeveloped or abandoned land here and the only development plan seems to be to turn the entire city into hip bar districts. Meanwhile the city keeps getting into high-profile altercations by sending cops to break up homeless camps (read: steal/break their shit and push them somewhere else). Conservatives here love to yell "DON'T CALIFORNIA MY TEXAS" and then desperately recreate the San Fransisco housing market on purpose, and the liberals are more than happy to go along with that part.

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gathering jobs

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I mean the stuff you can buy with Revelation now is going to be just how like poetic gear was for leveling, where it's able to carry you through most of the story.

Like yeah the MSQ is going to hand you gear but you're not going to fill out EVERY slot all the time that way, dump tons of gil on vendor trash, or stick around to grind out dungeon gear every two levels so having a strong baseline is absolutely worth it.

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BK_Sheikah00 posted...

I did e8s for the first time yesterday. Made it to icelit after an hour. What a wonderful fight. Now I can see how LR would be a nightmare on PF, but with friends it was so much fun. So much better than e4 and e12. And of course, the best song in the game.

Well with gear and people who know what they're doing well enough that you get 90% of the way through the fight in an hour of course LR isn't that bad lol. The problem with LR isn't just party finder randos, it's that LR is literally the only hard mechanic for the first 6 minutes so any small mistakes on it feel incredibly bad. Even in a static it's just a pain to have to go through every time when you're trying to prog the second phase of a very long fight.

It's more of an issue with how badly paced that fight is, honestly. Phase 2 is very good but there's so much bad filler before then.

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Grimlyn posted...

i'm only now realizing The West Wing is an old show

I've heard references to it but only in recent years <_<

Legit never heard of it until the 2019-20 primary season and now people really like bringing it up

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Very glad I'm in the young half of millennials and missed The West Wing. Sounds like I really dodged a bullet.

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Man that was great. It's a pretty typical family movie in a lot of ways but the execution is just on another level. And the animation is some good shit.

DEREGULATE TAPIOCA

UshiromiyaEva posted...

It's difficult to convey just HOW TIGHT the scripting of the jokes and humor in general are here. Everything pays off, no matter how minute.

Yeah this is my major takeaway. They take really obvious concepts like "haha boomer dad doesn't understand computers" and just kind of...hammer at that joke until it is as sharp as it can possibly be. The energy it has is genuinely inpressive.

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UshiromiyaEva posted...

Is it actually from the Spiderverse team or is that just marketing? If it is that seems like an easy in to help recommend it.

Kind of but not really? It's by the same studio and Miller and Lord are producing, but the main writers and directors are people from Gravity Falls, and the animation director from Spider-Verse is absent (he actually is working on a movie called Master for a different studio).

Also Alex Hirsch was a creative consultant, so the real in is just yelling about Gravity Falls very loudly, as I am doing now.

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ZenOfThunder posted...

Invincible the comic is very very good up until around issue 90ish where it kind of falls apart and never recovers, I blame the Walking Dead show for taking up a lot of Kirkman's time and energy

There's a particularly bad bit I can point to as the exact moment the comics jumps the shark, and there's another hugely questionable decision not too long after, but apart from that I thought it was...fine? The series gets irrevocably weird and never lives up to the first half, but considering all the weirdness I thought it wrapped up well enough, all things considered.

Still, that's easily enough material for 3-4 seasons at or above this level. They could even end it there if they wanted to. Though, I kind of wonder if this series goes on for a while, if Kirkman will start making any substantial changes. I think at the very least they're gonna have to flesh some things out a lot more.

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No but I also hear very good things and have been looking forward to it for a while. Apparently some of the writers and creatives from Gravity Falls were involved. Probably gonna check it out tonight.

It looks super cool if only for not adhering to the typical bland as hell Disney/Dreamworks/etc. popular GC animation style

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Hey, the superhero expy is a time-honored tradition! Nothing wrong with that at all. We get so many great stories and characters from comic writers shamelessly ripping each other off and Invincible is basically pushing the entire concept to the logical extreme. It's great.

These last two episodes were absolutely spectacular, holy hell. I actually think the 7th episode had the better action and hype but the finale was so over-the-top. I literally said "jesus christ, kirkman" aloud at the subaway scene. Just brutal.

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StealThisSheen posted...

So, just to be clear, you don't have an issue with the concept of menthol cigarettes, which is to make smoking easier so people are more likely to get addicted young instead of stopping early because of a negative experience?

That's how the tobacco companies use them in a predatory way but no I don't have a problem with flavored cigarettes existing beyond that.

I mean, do you feel the same way about like Smirnoff Ice and Mike's Hard Lemonade and the hard seltzer trend? We flavor alcohol all the time to reduce the hard taste and I'm sure a lot of young people get into drinking through that. It's just less addictive.

But if you have a problem with the actual addictive element why not target that instead of the flavoring?

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xp1337 posted...

I think some of the undercurrents Tony threw back at them like suggesting this was some "Oh, so you think black people can't help themselves and need the government to do so" on their part was uncalled for as well.

Tony is projecting criticisms of the administration's explanation (which I'm skeptical of and should know better) onto others (who don't know) but I actually do think it's a criticism worth pointing out and thinking about. Cause that's how Biden is justifying it and again I'm skeptical it'll even help at all.

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StealThisSheen posted...

So for people that are against a complete cigarette ban (Tony, I know this isn't you, don't worry), do you just oppose any government oversight/regulation whatsoever? Like, if your stance is "Let people do whatever the fuck they want" about cigarettes, then it seems inconsistent to want them to do pretty much anything else, like ban guns, enact environmental regulations, provide healthcare, and so on.

No, that's a preposterous strawman. I just don't think the societal ills of tobacco are worth punishing users and small-time sales over and we should judge laws accordingly.

The tobacco companies are a different question. But tobacco products themselves? The concept of menthol cigarettes? I've got no issue. So imo if you want to fight exploitative tobacco company practices you should want something much more targeted

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xp1337 posted...

I assume those in favor of this policy see it as a way of chipping away to get to the ultimate goal of banning cigarettes entirely

Fair enough, I can see that. But I both think this is a bad goal and bad way to go about it. As fuming pointed out, if you want to regulate tobacco companies go for it but there are more effective ways to go about it.

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Without looking I'm going to guess because they made Amber black and Will more obviously gay

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xp1337 posted...

Again, not really trying to insert myself too deeply into this, but isn't another disproportionately affected demographic of this proposed ban young adults? If that suggests it's an attractive entry point to smoking, then removing it could have that effect.

But all cigarettes are already illegal for young adults! The even raised the legal age to 21. And uh...if 21 year olds want to buy menthols they can go ahead. So does this actually do anything?

Looking up stats about the vaping bans, vape use with minors increased after the 2016 ban but fell in 2020 after the other restrictions. But I dunno if that's a good enough data point. So the data on that isn't clear and even without it I'm just opposed on principle to curbing most drug use by criminalizing it.

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kevwaffles posted...

You are massively underestimating the totality of the criminalization of alcohol at the time if you think this is anywhere close to being Prohibition.

No? Similar in structure, not scale.

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Leafeon13N posted...

Does Tony somehow not realize that minorities can still buy cigarettes like everyone else here?

ok so it doesn't actually disproportionately help Black people then?

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kevwaffles posted...

Banning sales is not the same as criminalizing possession. At all.

Banning sales creates contraband, contraband creates a black market. It's not gonna be the cigarette companies taking the criminal penalties here! Tony's comparison to prohibition is pretty accurate.

In fact I don't see how this hurts the tobacco industry much at all. They apparently will still be able to be sold for two years (aka, unload their stock and not lose any money). So this is just a quick fix (that is not really even a fix for anything) instead of doing anything substantial.

So to recap, if you are celebrating because "fuck cigarette companies" they're not being hurt. If you're celebrating because of public health concerns...I mean you could just ban public smoking for the same effect. And I'm skeptical that it will substantially reduce the amount of addicts though I could be wrong. Not sure how the vaping ban went. I just don't see any reason to praise this decision and I think the concern it's going to do more harm than good is reasonable.

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Good thing you weren't around for Stormblood where RDM's aoe was literally "spam scatter until you have moulinet mana"! Definitely not the job of choice if you want engaging AOE.

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Did they separate the extreme trials out? Part of the issue with Mentor Roulette is that included those and you could get thrown into random extremes. Because, you know, new players queue for them.

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Save yourself and leave it locked. I promise you that only suffering lies within.

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Yeah I do not expect for a second that they give the rest of the game the same level of detail they did Midgar. Besides possibly the Gold Saucer, there's no other areas I can think of that desperately need fleshing out the same way.

KH4 I'm not even sure we're going to get. I think there's honestly a good chance they drop the numbering, first of all, but also since they wrapped up an "arc" I'm not really sure if the new normal for the series is going to resemble the old mainline vs hopping around different styles like the spinoffs after 2 did. It's really up to Nomura's whims.

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Espeon posted...

Republicans are susceptible to right-wing talk radio, FOX News, conspiracy theories, etc. There really isnt a Democratic equivalent to any of that.

Democratic voters are also susceptible to propaganda, but the Democrats are really bad at producing it.

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As a result, the GOP has to do a lot less work campaigning (especially since regular wins give them the chance to further unbalance the board via state legislatures and the courts)

You have a point about the structural problems but I also don't think the GOP is doing less work campaigning. I think they are legitimately better at it.

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Inviso posted...

The initial comment that led to me making my post was that the GOP succeeds because they never worry about backlash. My response is that the GOP never worry about backlash because their voters will reward them no matter what they do, by virtue of being not-Democrats. If GOP voters punished their politicians for being fucking terrible at their jobs, perhaps the GOP wouldn't be in a position where they can maintain as much power as they do, consistently, by ignoring any potential backlash to their decisions. It's a fundamental difference in the make-up of the two parties' electorates, and you're right, I don't think Tony and I will ever see eye-to-eye on that fact.

Yeah but the REASON GOP voters stick together this way is that because the GOP has spent enormous time and money doing outreach and building political machinery and importantly having messages that WORK. Democrats do not have anything remotely on that level. Voter tendencies did not materialize out of nowhere and they are not immutable, you always act like there is nothing to be done about it.

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Leafeon13N posted...

The hell are you talking about?

I never said dont pressure those in power here.

I meant for getting past Manchin since you seem to imply trying to push him around won't work but I might be applying your specific stance on him and the checks too broadly. My bad.

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Inviso you're always arguing that Democrats need more electoral victories but manage to go on this weird tangent where it's only the fault of progressives that the normal dems lose. You consistently ascribe more power to the voters than the political party that has all the power and resources and fails at political strategy. You're never going to get anywhere arguing with Tony as long as you believe that because it is a fundamental disagreement.

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Red, what is your actual theory of change right now if you don't believe in pressuring those in power?

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2 more days to get the chicken outfit. I almost forgot to do it myself!

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Between that, how the US is treating migrants, and whatever the hell India is doing in Kashmir, we are at the point where world powers can just quietly do a little genocide as a treat and it fucking sucks

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