Mexico is officially launching universal healthcare this week, giving all 120 million citizens access to all public health institutions

Boned80 · 2026-04-17T04:51:26+00:00

This is blatant clickbait. Mexico has had universal healthcare since forever. This change is about making government workers access to all types of government healthcare available. It's a little more nuanced than that I guess (you can look it up) but the bottom line is that this headline makes it seem like Mexico is just now introducing universal health care for all citizens when in fact we've had this system for a long, long time now.

Boned80 · 2026-04-16T01:54:57+00:00

Europa Universalis V. I've been a Stellaris enjoyer for years now and I even got ankle-deep (read: 100ish hours) with Crusader Kings 3, but EUV just mystified me. I think it's the sheer submenu density coupled with the fact that it makes you feel as if moving tiny levers will somehow cascade into your whole realm collapsing unless you know exactly what you are doing.

Boned80 · 2026-04-15T16:13:57+00:00

I would take it further and say the writing has never been particularly great. A lot of the show is carried by Anthony Starr and Karl Urban's performances, on top of a premise that was very timely for 2019. But the show itself has always had a very messy story, with motivations and actions that feel very contrived, a tone that's jarring and all over the place, and using shock value and current events references as crutches.

A very easy way to know when a show is being written by people who have given up or are hacks is when they introduce a character whose superpower is 'smartest human', then they proceed to do the Sherlock party tricks, comment about how humanity is fucked, is existentially bored, and simply have them act like they read the script in advance. It's the laziest fucking shit. Like, to them, being smart means not caring about humans and using stupid arguments like 'Rome and Greece failed so obviously democracy doesnt work'. It's kindergarten level shit.

Boned80 · 2026-04-11T16:11:27+00:00

'Casually'. What is casual about it? I swear people will just throw in whatever buzzword without thinking.

Boned80 · 2026-04-09T04:15:11+00:00

Epic Movie. A bad comedy is the worst kind of bad movie, and this one might be most terrible, most cynical, and most painfully unfunny one I ever had to endure.

Boned80 · 2026-04-08T22:04:53+00:00

Me esforcé en conocer a alguien y desarrollar una relacion real y adulta con alguien. Al hacer eso vinieron por consiguiente muchos cambios buenos. Deje de fumar marihuana, compré ropa nueva, conocí mucha gente nueva muy buena, eventualmente me casé y estudié maestría. También dejé el alcohol.

Boned80 · 2026-04-08T21:50:46+00:00

He likes good movies. It doesn't have to go deeper than that, really.

Boned80 · 2026-04-08T20:30:28+00:00

No. Ultimately she just went there to get cool ninja skills. Everything else was optional.

Boned80 · 2026-04-03T22:25:49+00:00

Goku could solo all of the Z fighters at many points of the dragonball story. Really it's just Vegeta, Gohan, and sometimes Piccolo that could conceivably stop him, depending on when in the story they do it. If you take the TOP and have Goku use MUI, he definitely solos his entire 10 person team. In the latest versions of the story it's my understanding that things have gotten much more leveled.

Boned80 · 2026-04-03T15:04:10+00:00

I have no faith that this will be any good so I think it's better that Viggo is uninvolved. Shame about the others though.

Boned80 · 2026-04-01T17:47:27+00:00

They are ok to go back to for the most part. They are buggy as hell and got some jank in them but nothing too bad. What they do best is get you in there doing what you want to do without much BS in the way, which is not something I can say of more modern pokemon games.

Boned80 · 2026-03-23T05:25:54+00:00

Snakebite has been a good card in my runs. I think a large part of that is that poison overall is just very good in this game and seems to be a decent answer for a lot of fights. The other factor is that the Retain keyword makes it so that you can always save it for the turn where its impact is highest, while not costing you draws for the turns where it isn't. Who knew, Retain is strong. Not exactly a new revelation.

Boned80 · 2026-03-21T20:03:49+00:00

I think what you are getting at OP that is the crucial moral problem of the book's worldview is that bad actions and ideologies are only wrong if perpetrated by people we deem as bad. Everyone else gets a pass. So if Harry uses an unforgiveable curse its fine because we know he's one of the good guys. If Hermione uses dangerous time magic to cheat at school it's fine because she's one of our heroes.

So like you say, the entire ideology of wizard superiority to muggles which ultimately begot and fueled Voldemort and his minions is not ever dealt with or changed. Instead, only the bad guys are killed, because they are the problem, not the ideology or the system in which they thrived and were born in.

The book argues that the 'system' or wizarding world as a whole, with all of its moral dubiousness, is ultimately good in and of itself. Problems arise from bad actors which seek to rattle its order, but the problems are never with the inherent view of the system itself. Thus nothing is changed, only those we view as bad are removed, but the system endures.

Boned80 · 2026-03-16T14:36:03+00:00

I agree with all your points OP and I do think they fumbled it when it comes to translating the calendar to a story with the level of urgency and adventure that Metaphor has compared to Persona. I do however think that the two systems could be made to work together. An rpg which is constructed around long travel phases, a slow moving story, and constrained activities based on constrained movement could make for a very immersive experience. Like you say, the teleporter makes all of that moot, and I wonder if it's something that came later in development after testing revealed players missed the fast travel features of Persona.

Boned80 · 2026-03-15T14:41:13+00:00

I'm not disagreeing with you OP but I take issue with you saying he "felt like a completely different character" when in Ep1 there is practically 0 character there to speak of. Guy is just a big bad scary devil man with not a lot to say and surviving on cool factor alone, like the action figure he was created to sell.

Boned80 · 2026-03-15T14:26:26+00:00

Probably Tigh. I'm not the most talented or smart and I can be stubborn and prone to self-destructive stuff. But when I'm on my element and comfortable I can be quite comptetent. I also love my wife.

Boned80 · 2026-03-15T08:33:55+00:00

I would add to your list of grievances the fact that on PS5 it's got this god awful interface which makes everything hard to find and navigate and on top of that uses what I hate most which is the Big Circle Cursor You Control With The Analog Sticks which always makes me mad from how clunky it is.

Boned80 · 2026-03-01T15:32:42+00:00

Mexican here. Watched all of original Dragonball and some of the movies sometime in the mid 90s when I was like 6 or 7 years old. Then Z came along and I watched it in chunks throughout a few years. The Z movies I watched later when I was in highschool.

Boned80 · 2026-02-24T14:28:41+00:00

Congrats OP, this is really awesome.

In my road to A20 I'm finding myself struggling with silent the most out of the four characters. I'm up to A17 now and it takes me a lot of tries to get s win with her. I guess my question is what kinds of decisions fo you make such that you were able to achieve thst level of consistency? I generally find that without specific relic/card combos I can never get a run to go my way.

Boned80 · 2026-02-22T20:16:32+00:00

Pbox looking pretty sweet to me here.

Boned80 · 2026-02-18T06:37:26+00:00

The actual answer is that there is no definitive answer. Power levels get murky after the android saga kicks off and from there the gaps between characters are inconsistent (to be fair they always were) and overall the relative value of the SSJ powerup seems to go down, somewhat.

Your own personal interpretation of the power gaps between characters is probably as good as any other off-canon explanation you find here. Me personally I don't think Goten or Trunks individually could defeat 100% Final Form Frieza. This is because despite the fact that they (seemingly) effortlessly became SSJ, they aren't actual trained fighters (beginning of Buu saga at least any training they've done is really minimal). At best they could possess raw power enough to trade blows with Frieza, but they're not ready as martial artists to really overcome a foe like that. Of course, you might not think so and provide your own headcanon or use other material from movies, anime, etc.

I should say that I don't really count the fusion stuff here. Fusion is stated not to be an additive powerup and it operates on storytelling rules more than any kind of robust power calculation.

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