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Fiat justitia ruat caelum
21hr ago
Yeah, the art is busy. And shiny. When I first read it I mostly just looked at the dialogue bubbles, which was worth it on its own. Then once I caught up to the present, I took the time to look through the new comic pages as they were released, one at a time, and started picking up on the visual gags.
I wouldn't say it's my favorite art style, but I started to parse it better after exposure, then went back and reread it. It almost conflicts with the story. If you try to soak in the art, the story slows to a crawl (which is fine on a re-read, less fine for a suspenseful visual novel like this is.)
GoofyGoose
21hr ago
Treasuries are a liability of the government, not an asset.
What am I missing?
self_made_human
śāśvataṃ jīva athavā yudhyamāno mṛtyuṃ āpnuhi
22hr ago
That's a pretty accurate guess! Of course, the fact that they had free and very decent housing, that made the wages go much further. I almost get the impression that several commodities and amenities have shifted greatly in relative pricing. Property was cheap, food expensive. A doctor they knew was said to spend an incredible amount of money on food, and we're talking groceries, not dining out. I couldn't spend a thousand pounds on normal food at a Tesco today if I tried.
Throwaway05
22hr ago
I mean it seems to be clearly multifactorial and a perfect storm situation - lock everyone up with a lot of fear and guilt, have this roiling social justice/woke thing that's been fermenting increasingly unquietly for years, and have a lot of money and power and propaganda trying to aim itself at Trump and anything that seems Trump related. Boom.
A number of non-conspiracy conspiracy theories over the years have commented on this like foreign funding trying to divide America and Democrat aligned sources trying to create division to make Trump bad.
CertainlyWorse
No one is coming. It's just you.
22hr ago
I'm waiting for them to add some sort of endgame. Its like 0.9 and been in EA for years.
TeknOShEeP
22hr ago
Conversely, NY, CA, WA, etc... could be significantly more gerrymandered.
Uh, without some blatantly illegal actions, none of those three could be really any more gerrymandered than they already are. NY was a 57-43 D-R split last election, and yet splits seats 19-7 (76-24%), CA was a 60-40 split and yet seats are split 43-9 (82-18%), and WA was 57-43 splitting seats 8-2.
Conversely Texas was 58-40 with independents, and split seats 25-13 (66-34%).
The problem (and dirty secret) of the DNC in this whole dust up is they have no juice left to squeeze. Their biggest safe states are already gerrymandered as hell, and even friendly courts only bend so far. Gavin Newsome won't do shit because if he pushes harder he might get his already incredibly advantageous map thrown out for one that might more proportionately represent the voters.
To his credit though- he's not as cringe as the Connecticut democratic party and governor who are taking the high road on social media about how they are "avoiding partisan warfare". This conveniently glossed over the fact thst they have already achieved what is proportionally the most gerrymandered state in Amwrican history- the 42% of GOP voters gets exactly zero congress critters, a flawless victory.
Amadan
Enjoying my short-lived victory
22hr ago
I also read the entire Wrinkle in Time series as a kid. Great books (and while not explicitly Christian, very Christian-influenced).
zeke5123a
22hr ago
Sometimes jokes can’t be explained without ruining the joke and therefore are “low effort” but jokes should be the exception
zeke5123a
22hr ago
The first one was a pure reshoot of ANH. The second misconstrued “subverting expectations” with writing a movie. The final one was writing by a precursor of AI.
JTarrou
1d ago
Did I say skilled manufacturing labor? Or was that what you had an argument ready for, and you figured my post was as good a place as any?
magic9mushroom
If you're going to downvote me, and nobody's already voiced your objection, please reply and tell me
1d ago
Oh. I never heard about that (whereas I vaguely recall watching the first anime, probably while I was preschool-aged).
Southkraut
The rain fell gentlier.
1d ago
Still waiting for the character creator.
TowardsPanna
1d ago
I put down Elden Ring last week. Will hopefully continue on it soon, despite my poor record of picking games back up again. I have a pretty solid character in that game. Level 82.
I'm playing some Civilization V right now. I've put custom names on my empire/ruler, etc. Makes it a bit more personal. :3 Immortal difficulty is difficult when not using one of the most OP civs. But I'm in good shape in my current game. I was the first to reach my chosen ideology and I've attained control of most city states worth allying with.
RandomRanger
Just build nuclear plants!
1d ago
If the plan was 'escape to not-Hoth and hole up in a fortress against much stronger space and ground opponents' then it may as well not exist. I don't recall any reference to cloaked ships either.
Dean
Flairless
1d ago
How can you write such list and omit The two strong women in western action movie canon: Ellen Ripley and Sarah Connor? Zero girlbossing, 100% believable authority, Significant Relationship Stuff, all while exhibiting classic female traits. I’ve never heard a single guy say anything bad about either character.
Ageism!
Or rather- I wanted to pull from relatively recent characters, while Ripley and Connor were much older (as in, pre-2000s) characters who might be filed under a 'well, writing was better back in the day.' Newer characters with still-younger audiences make a stronger point on current audience-reception dynamics.
Soteriologian
1d ago
Modern economic theory is founded on the premise of the rational actor. My economic theory is founded on the premise of the retarded actor.
magic9mushroom
If you're going to downvote me, and nobody's already voiced your objection, please reply and tell me
1d ago
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Unpleasant and offputting to some extent = "picked no suitor, which is by definition not the correct suitor".
I think my limit on "significantly loses attractiveness due to weight" is about BMI 35 or so (100kg/220lb at 168cm/5'6''), which is significantly into the "obese" range.
Heroes who suck at their jobs don't get traction from boys. Heroes who have emotional angst get traction from girls even if they suck at their jobs.
Famously, several properties were sustained by women deep into fanfic before it was even a thing. Gundam, Sherlock Holmes and Star Trek are examples where rabid female fanbases saw deep meaning where authors probably didn"t intend it and interest was sustained as a result. It wasn't a girlboss doing girlboss things that made girls interested, it was angsty shit. If girls wanted to see girlboss badasses they'd watch Star Wars and demand to play as Luke while the little brother is Leia being rescued.
Girl protaganists aren't associated with badassery because for the most part girls aren't badasses in real life. Mom may crush it at her rock climbing gym but she still needs dad to lift the heavy rock in the garden. By practical reality observable feats are skewed male, and thats just biology in action. Slam dunks by six foot plus dudes look awesome, positioning for shots at the backline looks lame. Female combat sports are awesome, much more so than male, but thats within the constrained environment. The world we actually live in simply requires physical reality to dominate and thats just what historically we end up sering most of.
I think a bigger problem is that social justice made certain categories verboten to criticize and thus they survive the writers room far longer than they should have. The Acolyte should have been smothered in infancy when the witch chant was proposed, but because the lead was a black woman championed by a queer person no one stood up to say shit this is lame we gotta rework it. By historical analysis most creative works, even ones with straight white dudes, suck. Its just that a mild tilting on the scales can make the sea of suck force bad ideas survive much longer.
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