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MathWizard
Good things are good
1d ago
If it's well-designed then a good run that gets cut short only due to scaling should yield a huge amount of meta-currency and reward you with faster progression. There's nothing that kills a roguelite for me faster than winning on literally the first try because of some combination of luck and the game being too easy on the base difficulty.
I think the main problem is that Roguelites are appealing to two different demographics simultaneously. There are the hardcore gamers who want to challenge their wits and skills and slam their heads into a wall over and over again until they get it: people who play Souls games and lots of multiplayer PvP and brutally unforgiving games, and Roguelites are often good at that. And then there are more RPG-leaning gamers like me who want to grind out levels and currency and overcome challenges through a combination of skill and tenacity, with the ability to fungibly trade one for the other. Skill should be rewarded, but skill and progress should both grow concurrently until the sum combination is enough, so that I can take risks without failures being a literally pointless waste of time with nothing to show for it. And also have an endlessly increasing difficulty so that through progress and rewards I can eventually tackle and overcome higher and higher challenges that used to be literally impossible from the beginning of the game. If the hardest challenge of your game can be beaten in 1 hour by a player of sufficient skill level, then once you reach that skill level the game has no replay value. But if you never reach that skill level then you can never clear the game no matter how hard you try. In my opinion. I understand that lots of people have different preferences than me. But this is the weird sort of interplay, where roguelites are (trying or accidentally? not sure) appealing to both types of players at the same time under the same label. So a lot of roguelites throw some token but short and unimportant meta-progression in there and just scale it so the hardcore players can quickly unlock everything and then balance the game under that assumption, which partially satisfies but partially annoys both types of players.
Crowstep
1d ago
Not exactly. The idea of 'parents distributing citizenship' is an odd way to frame it. States issue citizenship. I reject the idea that any non-citizen is entitled to citizenship at all. In my ideal world, children could only inherit citizenship from their parents and nobody could have dual citizenship.
Whether you frame it as states rewarding criminals by giving their children citizenship, or as states rewarding the children of criminals (thereby incentivising crime) is immaterial. The key issue is that we have a thing we want to reduce (illegal immigration) and instead of disincentivising it, states provide massive incentives for it.
Corvos
1d ago
Some specifics would be nice. At the moment it sounds like every other complaint made by parents when their children don’t have much ability.
Corvos
1d ago
Teaching involves a lot of grunt work that teachers don’t necessarily enjoy doing - testing vocabulary etc. It also means being able to identify when a concept in the child’s head is subtly twisted and swooping in to correct it. I imagine flashcard software does the former and the ‘guides’ the latter.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
1d ago
I could answer that question with an epithet but it would be bad form to do so. I assume he's a sock puppet of someone banned several times before.
this interesting chart,
Huh, it's kind of funny seeing "US two or more races" way up there. I wouldn't rule out there being some difference in IQ-mediating genes between races because it would be extremely weird if there was net zero selection effects on intelligence everywhere, but I don't believe any current measure of estimating racial IQ differences is even close to accurate because nutrition + education + early childhood stability are known, massive confounds. That being said, overperformance of multiracial students would be consistent with heterozygote advantage. Someone on the motte once suggested breeding brahmins and Ashkenazi's to see what would happen and I have to admit that it would be the funniest possible twist if actually mass immigration was because some secret society of benevolent galaxy-brained racists decided to take the idea of eugenicizing their way to peak human performance seriously, instead of constraining themselves to nazi dog show fanatic inbreeding retardation.
GBRK
1d ago
And that without skin in the game of some form
The children belongs, from birth, to the united states of america. They cannot renounce their citizenship without paying an exit tax. That is skin in the game. The phrase " entitling the child to benefits that might well be unavailable in the home country" is logically incoherent on its face because america is the child's home country. The child doesn't get any extra special bonus benefit for illegally immigrating-- the child is just an american citizen, and always has been, and gets no more or less liberty or responsibility than any other american citizenship.
And therefore creating benefits for the baby by necessity creates benefits for tge family that created the baby.
No. Not, "by necessity." As a practical measure. There's a difference. From the moment the child is born on American soil the USA arrogates the right to seize the child from their parents, put it in protective custody, and kick its parents out of the country. The USA doesn't usually do that because it rarely makes sense to force taxpayers to raise the child instead of its parent, but the right to do so exists, is sometimes applied, and is uncontroversially constitutional. (There are laws that limit how often the government does this in practice, but the very fact that they are laws, rather than amendments, is the proof in the pudding). Parents are not their children, and children are not their parents. Whether the parent has any right to be in the country has no bearing on whether the child has a right to be in the country-- the child's citizenship belongs to them and them alone. Abrogating someone's rights based on the behavior of their relatives is simply not compatible with an individualist, democratic state.
CERTAINLY_NOT_A_ROBOT
1d ago
Do you really expect anyone to 'return' to a country which they've never set foot in and whose language they do not speak?
TitaniumButterfly
1d ago
Whatever you think of porn on an individual level, it has ruinous effects on society.
Don't disagree but I'm curious as to how you'd make that case.
SubstantialFrivolity
I'm not even supposed to be here today
1d ago
The best part about being a grown-up is that any time you want can be a field trip to the taqueria!
SubstantialFrivolity
I'm not even supposed to be here today
1d ago
That's pretty cool, I never realized!
GBRK
1d ago
I'm aware of that-- pending confirmation that I actually understood Crowstep's position and we weren't just talking past each other, I planned to argue that assigning people special hereditary rights is fundamentally incompatible with democratic civilization and the notion that "all men are created equal".
phailyoor
1d ago
NFP is scientifically proven tech. It's even Planned Parenthood tm approved. You can have as much raw seggs as you want during the infertile days without any significant chance of pregnancy. For people ok with using a rubber for the other half of the times, it's actually a quite ideal method.
Gaashk
1d ago
I suppose a "good regulatory environment" is one where the nuns can teach for cheap, the children can bring their own lunches, and any children who don't do well under those circumstances can go to public school instead at much higher cost to the state. If there are still enough nuns.
Lewis2
1d ago
Only if the schools were subsidized by the parish. If a school had to stand on its own two feet, $3,000 per head wouldn’t be sufficient to cover the costs of teachers’ salaries, staff salaries (janitor, cook, librarian, secretary, etc.), benefits, utilities, maintenance, insurance, books, supplies, equipment, furniture, and so on. You could probably get by with $3,000 a head if you were running some sort of homeschool co-op with no facility costs.
Seconding @thrownaway24e89172's response below. I see this kind of disclaimer for HBD-based arguments all the time (e.g. "there are no inferior or superior races, but...") even though the conclusion they dismiss is usually an obvious extrapolation from the forwarded premises. You might justify the "unequal but equal" mindset by pointing to the special role of women in childbearing, but nevertheless men are still universally regarded as the primary sex, with woman defined in relation to him; Eve was made of Adam, after all. I hate that it's the case and wish it weren't so, but women are definitely seen as intrinsically lesser (in the "great chain of being" sense) compared to men.
With that said, what's your justification for the equal worth/dignity of the sexes despite their unequal ability?
mrvanillasky
Indo Aryan Thot Leader
1d ago
And it simply doesn't have the number of fights to absorb all of the combat sports.
I would never want that, people crossing over is ok in limited amounts, if everyone who did dutch kickboxing came over then dutch kickboxing would die out. Though MMA can be far bigger if the ali act was enforced here.
The best part of its model is that it leeches off other, more entrenched sports' scouting and training practices. What it should do is try to attract more athletes who want to cross over (like UFC fighters do with boxing) but the UFC is now in the WWE position and has no reason to innovate.
It did this for a while but the scouting thing is not the same. MMA does not have scouts, people just count on fighters sending their records and videos over to gyms and promotions. Actual scouting and ali act would fix the sport totally if you can remove weight cutting.
The UFC is like the WWE and both lose relevance daily despite better fighters in the UFCs case, all because of greedy businessmen who deserve decades behind bars for the damage they willingly caused. The UFC has class action lawsuits and I want it to lose all of them. They are both anti innovation because they dont want outliers. Their goal is to swindle networks into getting a deal.
anti_dan
1d ago
In the area I grew up in the Catholic schools at still at 8k per head, and this is a state with heavy regulation of even those. If you had a good regulatory environment I suspect you could get very competent schooling at around the 2-3k per head number.
anti_dan
1d ago
The entire point of school is to trick people into perceiving that you have learned something.
anti_dan
1d ago
Uh, no you couldn't. The kids would spend all their time in one, maybe two, sections and not get a balanced education. That's at best; worst case is they never progress because they get distracted by, say, Terry Pratchett books.
Absurd statement.
Young enough and the problem is the kids ruin the books and end up soiling themselves.
Older they do fine.
Even older they just have sex in the library.
2D3D
1d ago
Eh, asian blove fanfics also have a hanger on female protag who is juggling the affections of the male love interests simultaneously. Its "NOW KISH" spammed 10k times to get the girls motor firing before she gets her own back blown out.
Also, talking to a preteen girl? Can't lead a horse to water. Better the smiles and polite smalltalk rather than the nonstop passive aggressive war she's having with her mother. When puberty fully kicks in I might not even have that. Values can be communicated by proximate osmosis and source trustworthiness but kids trusting their peers over their parents for relatively inconsequential shit is hardwired into human social development. The communities of crazies are naturally repelling to themselves and those witch covens only perpetuate because their own parents never provided the safe space for acceptance and affirmation for the few times the girls did their nonverbal communication of issues. I have to be more than a dingbat doofus dad unfortunately but honestly I don't mind it that much. I survived a dramatic reading of My Immortal and a powerpoint party about head ratios to background scaling, I can survive a teenage girl geeking out about genderbent Arcane yaoi.
anti_dan
1d ago
"Education" can't be disrupted by modern tech because learning is only kind of adjacent to it. The thing called education is mostly signaling + childcare. The ACX OP even basically admits he is paying for segregation.
My bad, that's what I meant to ask but got their names mixed up.
But why was that necessary? Shouldn't there have been an option to do the thing he tried to do? That is, have his case proceed but, because the accident occurred prior to the bankruptcy, anything that exceed the insurance value can retroactively be voided by the bankruptcy? Or is that not possible because it would make him a creditor and the bankruptcy has to figure out how to pay those out?
Wouldn't it make more sense to put a hold on the bankruptcy proceedings and handle the lawsuit first?
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