Mantergeistmann
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Mantergeistmann
8d ago
Start a think tank
I'm in. What're we calling it?
Mantergeistmann
12d ago
I do prefer the nebulous comfort of the BurdensomeCount brand name over the half-priced generic alternative that contains the exact same ingredients, I kust admit!
Mantergeistmann
13d ago
Most people I know who liked Clair Obscur also were big fans of Metaphor: ReFantazio (AKA fantasy-Persona-with-adults-and-HieronymousBosch). I've played the latter but not the former, so I can only recommend it on its own merits.
I'm currently trying out the Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era demo via Steam's NextFest. My initial impressions are that it feels like someone made a modern version of Heroes III, which is of course the best game in the series and one of the greatest of all time. The biggest flaw so far: it seems like it isn't designed for hot seat (at least in the battles), which... I get it. It's the Year of Our Lord 2025. Hot seat isn't a thing anymore. But it's the principle of the thing, dammit!
Mantergeistmann
14d ago
The arguments I've seen are "he says they're good with money, which is stereotyping", and "he's encouraging people to hate them, both by generic bigotry and by doing things like recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, which made a lot of people angry and therefore more likely to attack Jews."
The first one seems more than plausible (Trump, a bog-standard bigot who agrees with stereotypes? Say it ain't so!), even if it's a bit milquetoast; the second is... IMO one hell of a reach.
Mantergeistmann
14d ago
If can israel deny a genocide with 4k video proof
That looks like the lead-in to a statement you'd see from someone pro-Palestinian on Reddit, which does not usually line up directly with the far right (who I believe want everyone in the Levant to lose).
Mantergeistmann
16d ago
Yes. That's the point I was trying to get across. I believe we are in full agreement.
Mantergeistmann
17d ago
You can hardly ask the Israelis to stop fighting and wait for the Palestinians to catch up in the kill count.
I feel like the definition of the term "proportionality" as a military/conflict term was one of the major casualties of this war, but I also don't think it matters. If Israel were to have shut down the Iron Dome, so more of its own civilians were being killed, those misusing the term proportionality wouldn't have changed to "well, now it's not genocide/war crimes because the Israeli deaths are closer in count to the Palestinian deaths", it would be "good, that's what they deserve for attacking Gaza." At least, among the die-hards, rather than the normie supporters who hear about a bad thing on social media and take their views/marching orders from it. They'd just go along with whatever the newest talking point was instead.
I feel like it might be a tad uncharitable to have said that, but I've never seen anyone change their mind when confronted with the text or context of the various laws and regulations that cover waging ethical and legal warfare.
Mantergeistmann
17d ago
If a domestic abuse victim moves out because they finally found a safe place to stay instead, it feels weird to say "well, they didn't leave because of the abuse".
Mantergeistmann
17d ago
"Palestinians brutally murdered by occupying military forces!... but it's not the IDF doing it, so does anyone really care?"
Mantergeistmann
22d ago
My mom still has a painted Harris/Walz rock (?) in her back garden.
My stepmother named a beloved houseplant "Kamala".
Mantergeistmann
27d ago
I've been really tempted to get a GameSir for my laptop. I hear the back bumpers are surprisingly intuitive, and have a coworker who swears by them.
The videos I've seen of the drug strikes haven't been on narco-subs, but have been on go-fasts. Assuming SecDef hasn't been completely lying about the location of the strikes in the video... there are very, very few other reasons to be in that part of the open ocean in a go-fast without a motheryacht nearby.*
And if you've got the money for a yacht and auxiliary go-fast... well, maybe you are a drug smuggler, but you're sure as hell not the one personally smuggling them.
*Granted, kinetic strikes on the whole boat is a step up from the previous interdiction methods, which are a) USCG boarding team, or b) USCG sniper in a helicopter with an anti-materiel rifle, and my understanding is that in the latter case, the smugglers will sometimes try to interpose themselves between the chopper and the engines in the (usually true) hope that the Coast Guard will hesitate to kill someone just to stop a smuggler.
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