Mantergeistmann
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Mantergeistmann
2d ago
I'd recommend giving Heroes of Might and Magci 3 a try. It ticks the co-op and strategy boxes, and if you like it, there's a decent modern sequel shaping up.
Mantergeistmann
2d ago
It's also one of the best scenes in Bill the Galactic Hero.
Mantergeistmann
6d ago
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.
Mantergeistmann
12d ago
Start a think tank
I'm in. What're we calling it?
Mantergeistmann
16d 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
18d 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
18d 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
18d 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
20d ago
Yes. That's the point I was trying to get across. I believe we are in full agreement.
Mantergeistmann
21d 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
21d 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
21d ago
"Palestinians brutally murdered by occupying military forces!... but it's not the IDF doing it, so does anyone really care?"
Mantergeistmann
27d ago
My mom still has a painted Harris/Walz rock (?) in her back garden.
My stepmother named a beloved houseplant "Kamala".
Mantergeistmann
1mo 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.
Mantergeistmann
1mo ago
As a civilian my impression of the military is that it is made up of mostly literal cuckolds, 4’10” fat latinas and idiots that had absolutely zero job prospects outside of what amounts to a government make-work program. They would certainly do well to start combatting that perception because I doubt I’m alone
Out of curiosity (I feel like that phrase requires a disclaimer that I do not mean it in any way sarcastically), do you distinguish between officers and enlisted? Or non-commissioned officers and grunts? Or different branches of the service?
Mantergeistmann
1mo ago
It depends on if the parking lot is considered to be on the facility's property - I know some federal facilities are like that (the parking lot is "federal property", and then there's another "controlled area" beyond that). For schools, a lot of gun laws are I believe based on the distance from the school, if not based on "yes the parking lot and green fields are school property". If I'm correct about the distance thing, I'm sure there's a case out there where someone couldn't (or was legally found that they could) have a gun or something in their own home due to being within that limit.
Mantergeistmann
1mo ago
So it's not even "this meeting could have been an email," it's "this meeting could have been a corporate announcement of our new Our Values Sharepoint page?"
I was expecting something dumb, but that's just... wow.
Mantergeistmann
1mo ago
That's... remarkably similar to what I was taught; same time period. And I moved around the country and went to both public and private schools, so it wasn't just localized.
Mantergeistmann
1mo ago
The USA is summoning the Elector Counts... er, generals. Which is to say, all flag officers (exempting those on staffs) are being called to Quantico next week. Why? Nobody knows! Probably not a coup or assassination, though. My crackpot theory is that it's related to Trump's recent rhetoric on Ukraine taking the fight to Russia, but it's a very crackpot theory. I don't anticipate the US entering that conflict within the next week.
Mantergeistmann
1mo ago
Thank you! I couldn't remember if it was ACX, or Zvi's.
Mantergeistmann
1mo ago
A bit late, but https://newsletter.pessimistsarchive.org/p/the-war-on-lab-grown-ice is the link for anyone interested.
Mantergeistmann
1mo ago
The irony is that if I recall, that comic was originally done as a condemnation of GamerGate, arguing that the peaceful contingent was aligned with the harassers and trolls out there.
Mantergeistmann
1mo ago
It's weird that I just read in a link roundup the controversy over man-made ice for beverages back from the early 1900s....
Mantergeistmann
1mo ago
a teacher's union lawyer actually shot up the lobby of his local channel's offices.
That link doesn’t seem to be related to your text? It's about a fellow who claimed to be doing security for the stadium being detained, unless I missed something.
Yes, please!
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