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hydroacetylene
15hr ago
I'd love to meet some Arklatex rednecks, though!
Travel to Tyler or Texarkana and talk about deer hunting or bass fishing in the diners. Maybe outskirts of Tulsa or Little Rock.
Hadad
15hr ago
I've heard nigger come from my mother's lips a few times over the years, when she was very upset with some criminal banditry, but I got the impression she thinks it's a word she shouldn't say. That's the sort of racism I'm used to from normie Republicans -- they feel guilty over it when it comes out, but it comes out when it's justified. Wouldn't call all blacks niggers, but might call a specific shitty black person a nigger.
I'd love to meet some Arklatex rednecks, though! I appreciate a people that don't bite their tongues for no good reason.
MaiqTheTrue
Renrijra Krin
15hr ago
I think the trope exists because most fantasy is based on D&D over anything to do with medieval times. It gets particularly irritating when the characters in the story act like modern people with modern concerns and attitudes rather than anything that someone living in the actual Middle Ages would have believed.
Some things I think were beneficial and should be brought back. Communitarianism, connection to friends and neighbors, belief in God. In a lot of ways I think that lifestyle is much more appealing as it gave everyone a place and a purpose with mutual support and respect.
Capital_Room
rather dementor-like
15hr ago
Serfs these were not, but no one in this forum could be said as being of "serf stock,"
I'd say I'm pretty close, though — particularly compared to most people here. Functionally-illiterate high school dropout handyman father, stay-at-home mother, grew up in low-population-density Alaska (including time in a community so rural, it lacks electricity, and has a community well for water).
FistfullOfCrows
15hr ago
months and months doing exhaustive trials
Ah yes, the trials where they hand picked the population to be tested by specifically excluding mothers and other groups most likely to confirm side effects, the same trials which stink to high heaven where they just went, welp some of the time has passed time to fold the control group into the main group and pretend everything is fine. These same MFers which to this very day are trying to keep the heart damage side effects frequency unkown to the general public.
Capital_Room
rather dementor-like
15hr ago
what are they supposed to do? Every institution they're supposed to trust has lied outrageously. Are they supposed to double down and believe the NYT and MSNBC even harder?
I've seen multiple people, via two different arguments, answer this with "yes, you have to keep believing them." Either because it's your duty to keep society functioning, or (less often) because the "truth-telling institutions" are definitionally incapable of lying.
LiberalRetvrn
15hr ago
Believing that magic isn't real isn't a delusion, it's a logical conclusion based on evidence. Religious people admit that faith is their sole justification for believing that magic is real, which is delusional.
No_one
15hr ago
Even if you're in the unlucky 1-2% that gets significant side effects, they usually wear off in weeks or months from cessation.
Papers on that say something completely different.
1.4% (167 men) developed persistent erectile dysfunction lasting a median of 1348 days.
hydroacetylene
15hr ago
This is probably a cultural difference- Arklatex rednecks are comfortable using the word nigger, assuming it isn't just a generic term for black but rather for those who warrant it due to bad behavior(this can be very, very broad, to the point of encompassing normal in black tribe actions which are simply seen as tasteless, like listening to rap music or having sagging pants). The idea that a non-white race can be another strike against an individual, but not enough to condemn a person by itself, is just in the groundwater.
Capital_Room
rather dementor-like
15hr ago
I remember when movies had a trope- I'm not defined by my work, I do x from 9-5, but all day long I'm a dad- one who happens to do x to pay the bills. The idea of an identity to be proud of, genuine pride in our differences and diversity, was singing its swan song. It's now dead. How many of the world's problems are actually downstream of that? I'm reminded of the several AAQC's about why South Koreans aren't having kids(my answer is pretty simple- it's not fun. Rednecks have kids because they look forwards to going to t-ball games. South Koreans don't because they don't look forwards to twelve hour study sessions).
I'd say this is clearly Max Weber's "Protestant work ethic," and it's triumph is, to a great extent, thanks to Blue Tribe cultural dominance (and, in turn, the Puritan and Quaker roots of the Blue Tribe).
Plenty of people misunderstand what Weber meant (probably because they haven't read him), but, IIRC, he never actually argued that Protestantism caused the "work ethic," merely that they were correlated (and, indeed, looking at history, the causation was more the other way around, with the parts of Early Modern Europe that developed the work ethic being much more likely to go Protestant in the Reformation). Further, it's not just about hard work; Weber made an explicit comparison to monasticism.
To understand the work ethic, look at the etymologies and historical usage of the words "profession" and "vocation." The former especially was originally religious in context. The idea is that, in the pre-work ethic Medieval view, secular work is the curse of Adam — you do it because "he who does not work shall not eat." In contrast, there is the religious calling ("vocation"), whereby one is called by God to make a "profession" of faith in the form of holy vows, becoming a priest, a monk, a nun, etc.
Weber argued that the "work ethic" emerged when Europeans began removing that idea of a "calling" from the monastic context, and bringing it into the secular world; whereby, one could be "called" to serve God by being a farmer, a craftsman, or whatever. Bringing the same sense of mission, and thus identity, to whatever career you have.
And this is deeply embedded in American culture. Practically the first question someone asks upon being introduced to someone else is "what do you do?" — meaning, of course, "what is your job?"
(As a NEET, I'm particularly sensitive to this one. Further, neither of my parents are big on the Protestant work ethic. My Dad never had "a career," only jobs; and my mom (a very lapsed German Catholic) had no problem marrying out of high school and becoming a homemaker, only going to work after my youngest brother graduated high school. I was raised with the understanding that "work" is just whatever horrible, shitty drudgery you do to put a roof over your head and food on the table, and should absolutely not be expected to provide any kind of "meaning" or "purpose" — or even enjoyment. "Work to live, not live to work," and such. And yes, I agree we could do with far less of the work ethic.)
LiberalRetvrn
15hr ago
Both of those sound about equally irrational.
No_one
15hr ago
...you didn't hear there's some new molecule that apparently revives dormant hair roots and in tests, bald men grew their hair back?
It's nothing hormonal and doesn't have the dire risk profile of finasteride etc.
No_one
15hr ago
Living on the top floor of an apartment building I've come to appreciate heat waves intimately. The building is well insulated and barely needs heating if it's >10°C, but the roof volume is not ventilated at all, so during heat waves, that whole part of the building accumulates heat and temperature in my apartment gets to slightly above shade temperature and barely dips during the night.
I am now wondering if 2 months of slightly uncomfortable temperatures (27-29°C) and, on average, one week of really uncomfortable (32-38°C) are worth installing AC.
Or how much difference ventilating the building roof thoroughly could do. A single 100W fan would exchange all the air in the attic twice in an hour. That should be vastly cheaper than AC and depending on how much it'd cut the need for AC, neighbors might even help with funding that.
Hadad
15hr ago
The sentiment is one I see a lot of, even if not the specific word 'chink'. Open slurs are very much a hallmark of the edgy, online right, in my experience. Normie Republicans like my own (grand)parents think slurs are rude, but they're comfortable with the ideas they encompass -- the kung-flu is absolutely the fake and gay China virus pushed by the elites to cull the population, but you don't call it the chink virus.
newcomputerwhodis
15hr ago
10-2 has excellent combat. If only I liked the story enough to push it higher... probably lands somewhere in high-mid. 7-remake was pretty fun at first, but eventually I got really frustrated with the way ATB fills for the active vs passive characters and the need to constantly ping-pong control around. Felt like I could never get a groove going on anybody. And then of course the plot gradually revealed that it's
Hadad
15hr ago
No, I don't need another moderator opinion, you're fine. What are the odds they'd side with me after bickering with you, even if I was right?
Do what you will, and I'll do the same. If that means a ban, well, it's just a forum.
Yeah, skin deep writing. Pretty much. The concepts are fine, but the quests and the unit lore is just .. ugh. Just not to my taste. Almost tempted to rewrite that stuff to be less cringe. Starsector has relatively decent writing that doesn't feel insulting, but that's probably because the game devs are clearly SF readers.
Couple more annoying things: I feel like planes should have fuel / require bases like in SMACX and I just plain dislike titans. Logistically they're just kind of dumb and conceptually don't make that much sense either. And what is even the point where e.g. Praetorians kill various titans without much issue and are air-mobile?
Wonder how hard modding it is.
If roads were cheaper/could be built automatically and supplies were not automatically delivered but depended on accessibility and supply depots/convoys, the game would get a fair amount of depth.
If you could make formations out of units and move them at once, that'd be very good too.
Also, it's nice that each unit has a specific weapon because swapping out those weapons for others same way heroes swap out items would make it much more interesting. I don't get why weapon selection isn't already in the game. Endless Legend had unit builds and it added some depth to the combat..
Nothing revolutionary at all, but it works well enough.
Tbh the combat is a fair bit deeper than in ordinary 4x games, or at least could be with some more options.
Amadan
Enjoying my short-lived victory
15hr ago
Ya know, I really don't want to go back and forth forever, but I am just going to say, you're wrong here. You are wrong to tell people to knock it off (that's the mods' job, if you think someone is acting out, report the post) and I am "upset" with you because in my judgment, you're the one in the wrong each time and you need to have the last word, which means you pour unnecessary flames on. I understand you don't see it that way. If you want to ask another mod to weigh in, go for it. But seriously, don't keep getting into these spats with people and taking the attitude you are taking because even if you are convinced you are posting with great righteousness and truth, that is not in fact how it looks from the outside.
Tiber727
15hr ago
The hypocrisy is not thinking that spending on X is frivolous. The hypocrisy is the later lack of concern shown over the number going up after previously claiming that the priority is to not make the number go up.
hydroacetylene
15hr ago
There is a point I'm making with it- lots of people saw the virus reaction as pure overblown neuroticism to take away our freedom and make us into a communist country. These people calling it the 'chink virus' with 'panic mongering gay morning america propaganda' are far more representative of the median virus skeptic than motteizeans.
I remember my dad using those words to describe the narrative which, in his telling, was evidence against the nineteenth amendment due to its effect on women in march or april of 2020. This did not get much disagreement in the room- whether pro-Trump or anti-Trump(and there are anti-Trump Arklatex rednecks, or at least were), rich or poor, young or old. The view that people who actually gave a shit about a new and exciting form of the common cold(and that the deaths were mostly at the very least miscoded) because it was from China were a prime example of how stupid people voting is a prime danger to free people everywhere is what I had in mind. Perhaps my experiences and dialectical forms are unfamiliar to the motte.
Hadad
15hr ago
Alas, then there'll probably be a third time where someone acts out, I tell them to knock it off, and you get conspicuously upset with me instead of them.
Amadan
Enjoying my short-lived victory
16hr ago
I accept the backhanded compliment, but this is how I have been modding for years, so this is probably as good as it gets.
hydroacetylene
16hr ago
Actual working class people I know all loved and were very excited by Trump, albeit usually not in a high IQ way. 'He said no taxes on tips/overtime!'. Nearly all the undecided voters I described in my post a while back pulled the lever for him over, mostly, those two policies.
lmao, just apply to your local (3 hours away) IBEW program that accepts 5 people once a year heavily based on diversity quotas and/or legacy connections.
People on the internet are always saying 'dude just learn a trade bro' as if it's some kind of guaranteed career path for anyone willing to work hard. If these industries want young people to choose trades as a career, they're certainly doing a terrible job of communicating that. I went to a trades job fair recently, it was about 200 guys exactly like me packed into a room with about 6 company booths, none of which were actually hiring. It seems about as likely as scoring on tinder.
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