Southkraut
Vibe of vibes, saith the Preacher, vibe of vibes; all is vibe.
"Behind our efforts, let there be found our efforts."
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Southkraut
Vibe of vibes, saith the Preacher, vibe of vibes; all is vibe.
1mo ago
Consider German villagers (and sometimes town-dwellers) trying to block everything from pork farms to wind power plants to power cables to roads to mosques to railway lines and stations getting built. They're not always wrong to do so, but NIMBY as a phenomenon clearly does exist here.
Southkraut
Vibe of vibes, saith the Preacher, vibe of vibes; all is vibe.
1mo ago
Even assuming that it's 100% viewpoint-neutral, and even in a hypothetical scenario in which there isn't a raging culture war being wages - how would you even classify people? How do you measure viewpoint diversity? How do you quantify conservative-ness or liberal-ness? What even is the spectrum on which to measure viewpoints, and what is the target value for balance?
Southkraut
Vibe of vibes, saith the Preacher, vibe of vibes; all is vibe.
1mo ago
To any reasonable observer who's not already part of the in-group and selectively blind to conflict theory when it suits him, this is obviously DEI for conservatives.
Southkraut
Vibe of vibes, saith the Preacher, vibe of vibes; all is vibe.
1mo ago
How did the phone return to its owner, in the end?
Southkraut
Vibe of vibes, saith the Preacher, vibe of vibes; all is vibe.
1mo ago
If that's true, then it was utterly beneath notice.
Southkraut
Vibe of vibes, saith the Preacher, vibe of vibes; all is vibe.
1mo ago
Did we fight? What did we win?
Trace went to do his own thing, it briefly blossomed and then wilted. Did we cause that? I don't see it. Did we gain anything by its demise? I doubt it.
I hope other euros will chime in. I only know half of it and I'll probably forget to mention most of that half, too.
- If you think mass immigration by latin americans is bad, then please imagine that they are in fact all africans and muslims and consider whether that's any better.
- We're behind the curve on trans-whatever, matching you on national self-hatred, but far ahead in terms of green economic self-destruction.
- You have homelessness? Please, we solved that. Just sacrifice one productive member of society, have him work for nothing but keeping one addled fuck fed, clothed and housed. We hate hard workers and love our unproductive parasites.
- Speaking of redistribution, I hope you like paying around 50% of your income in taxes.
- And all that talk of loicences? They're for real. Assume that everything is illegal and you are allowed to do nothing.
- You guys are fat. We are...slightly less fat. But old. So old. Our inverted demographic pyramids are monuments to behold.
- Whenever you complain about tariffs, zoning, indoctrination in public schools, or buerocratic overregulation, just multiply it by a factor between two and ten (depending on where exactly you want to go) to get a rough idea of how European countries run themselves.
In between HW3 and Shipbreaker, we have two Blackbird Interactive games as answers here. A gold mine of cringe. Wonder what they'll do next.
Southkraut
Vibe of vibes, saith the Preacher, vibe of vibes; all is vibe.
1mo ago
Southkraut
Vibe of vibes, saith the Preacher, vibe of vibes; all is vibe.
1mo ago
As mentioned very recently, Homeworld 3.
It's a space game no wait it's a woke manifesto no wait it's one writer's crusade to normalize foot and giantess fetishes no wait it's a gooddamn cash crop and nobody cares what's inside because everyone bought it for the name only.
It's playable, by all means, but the gameplay is so bitch basic it might as well not be there and the writing is so damn bad it's bad just bad.
Not sure if that fits your criteria, but man, do I hate HW3.
Southkraut
Vibe of vibes, saith the Preacher, vibe of vibes; all is vibe.
1mo ago
Deserts of Kharak? Yeah. They got the aesthetics down pat, but the gameplay was uninspired and the story was outright trash.
And then came Homeworld 3. Oh man. Oh man. I didn't think it possible, but that was easily the worst game I ever saw.
There's a a pretty substantial gulf between modern fencing and HEMA. Weapons, linearity, weird shit like right-of-way...
Even if you want the historical thing, it needs to be practical. Without tournaments you're not getting much feedback on what works and what doesn't, but if you try to turn tournaments into realistic simulations then most people won't show up for them, as @Skibboleth explained.
There's a range of compromises possible that are neither olympic fencing nor realism-maxxing by duelling each other to death. There are trade-offs. And most people, for good reason, decide to optimize for actually being able to perpetuate the sport rather than have it become impossible to organize or completely redundant.
Southkraut
Vibe of vibes, saith the Preacher, vibe of vibes; all is vibe.
1mo ago
Without evidence, this sounds like so much tin foil.
Just saying. I'm not one to assume that any given justice system is impartial.
Southkraut
Vibe of vibes, saith the Preacher, vibe of vibes; all is vibe.
1mo ago
That's the motte, where the bailey is that any individual instance of deportation is inhumane for one reason or another and the burden of proof is on the society that would like to deport the immigrants and that this proof is so onerously difficult to provide that deportations become so much more difficult relative to illegal immigrations that a positive net inflow of illegal immigrants is absolutely guaranteed.
Southkraut
Vibe of vibes, saith the Preacher, vibe of vibes; all is vibe.
1mo ago
Moderately common. Shoulder injuries most often happen when repetitively drilling particular strikes, when grappling, or during exotic warm-up exercises.
A friend of mine permanently ruined his shoulder and had to quit martial arts, another was out for a year and never really made it back in. Shoulder injuries can be career-enders in HEMA. But many others bust their shoulders and reucperate just fine, and most never have any shoulder trouble at all.
Southkraut
Vibe of vibes, saith the Preacher, vibe of vibes; all is vibe.
1mo ago
Probably? I'm guessing most people who own armor would prefer to put it on display somehow.
We're really outside my area of expertise with this, though. It's always been far out of my price range.
Southkraut
Vibe of vibes, saith the Preacher, vibe of vibes; all is vibe.
1mo ago
fat is not the only way an input can be stored
What other ways are there?
Some of my best friends get carried away when fighting and keep breaking their steel swords! It's normal.
But yeah, RE: Fingers, arms - they do take a beating. I've stopped seeing Doctors about broken fingers. Thumbs usually.
Southkraut
Vibe of vibes, saith the Preacher, vibe of vibes; all is vibe.
1mo ago
Most people I know who got into HEMA did so when they were students. And even affluent people I know who do HEMA and could afford a plate harness largely just don't because it's a huge hassle, still expensive, and saddles you with a big pile of steel parts you need to maintain.
That said, it's not unheard of. I know a few who got one, or are in the process of getting one.
Southkraut
Vibe of vibes, saith the Preacher, vibe of vibes; all is vibe.
1mo ago
Either that that they're unskilled hooligans with too much money and no appreciation of technique or brain cells, or, secretly, that it looks kinda fun and they wish they could afford a full suit of plate armor.
Southkraut
Vibe of vibes, saith the Preacher, vibe of vibes; all is vibe.
1mo ago
In Brigador, there are three categories of vehicle:
- Mech: Anything with legs.
- Tank: Anything with wheels.
- Agrav: Anything that flies.
And indeed the heaviest can be found in the tank category, where you find mobile fortresses and entire artillery batteries crammed into single vehicles the size of city blocks, armed with various very large weapons including GAU-30s and naval artillery. It's perhaps not quite battleships on treads, but let's call it frigates and we're in the right ballpark.
Southkraut
Vibe of vibes, saith the Preacher, vibe of vibes; all is vibe.
1mo ago
I'd say they pass the ideological turing test. Don't take everything they write as a manifesto of their own beliefs.
Unless you actually found a manifesto and that was in there.
Southkraut
Vibe of vibes, saith the Preacher, vibe of vibes; all is vibe.
1mo ago
Is this Friday Fun?
Southkraut
Vibe of vibes, saith the Preacher, vibe of vibes; all is vibe.
1mo ago
seize Peter when available
I'm not sure whether it's worse that they want to seize our Peter, or that Peter isn't even available at all times.
FWIW, the real estate prices are indeed too damn high. Rents, too.
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