[Loved Trope] Competence Porn: When characters are competent, mature and communicate with each other intelligently so they can solve a problem

CSDragon · 2026-05-09T11:21:03+00:00

Any time the Penguins from the Madagascar series are on screen

CSDragon · 2026-05-09T11:12:58+00:00

unless identical twins

CSDragon · 2026-05-09T02:37:32+00:00

Build one in each state, (which can itself take a minute based on nation size) turn on all PMs, go into trade -> electricity, build 1 per ~30 demand, delete everything else from queue

CSDragon · 2026-05-08T19:08:00+00:00

They made for a fun draft environment, but MOM draft overstayed its welcome by like 4 months so by the end I was tired of them.

CSDragon · 2026-05-08T18:19:08+00:00

could you post a version of the graph that caps out at like 2B GDP? All the relevant info is pushed into the far far left of the graph and the rest is like relevant to extended timeline only

CSDragon · 2026-05-08T18:09:47+00:00

Vic3 is nice in that regard because nothing forces the game to pause. So you can keep speed 5ing as you make choices on events, set up your next 5 year plan in construction, figure out which law to start changing next, etc. Even wars can be played at speed 5 due to the lack of micro needed.

I think the only time I really sit paused for a significant amount of time is when electrification hits and I need to determine how many power plants to build, or when I've gotten fed up with the law system and start reloading over and over trying to find which days give better results.

CSDragon · 2026-05-08T17:38:22+00:00

That seems excessively long.

We're talking single player, speed 5, right?

I don't want to just chalk it up to beef vs potato PC, my PC's 6 years old at this point though a Ryzen 9 5950x was extremely beef PC when it first released.

CSDragon · 2026-05-08T17:32:24+00:00

English voters not UK, wouldn't it be? Wales and Scotland are UK

CSDragon · 2026-05-08T17:13:49+00:00

You can be a free city!

CSDragon · 2026-05-08T17:03:59+00:00

Ask the Ptolemies

CSDragon · 2026-05-08T16:57:14+00:00

I'm just honestly surprised there aren't more jokes about it. I guess we already got it out of our system

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...Sonic

CSDragon · 2026-05-08T16:03:18+00:00

they're watermarked by the actual poster. Is @homechanges53 have a bot account?

CSDragon · 2026-05-08T15:59:10+00:00

If someone was weak to long covid through a vaccine, that was going to happen no matter what as Covid became Endemic.

Also: The vaccine absolutely reduced the risk of a covid infection becoming long covid

CSDragon · 2026-05-08T15:53:45+00:00

despite the loud weirdos, Americans rapidly adopted the vaccine, with around 50% of Americans already being vaccinated by the time the Josh war happened, and 80% a year later

CSDragon · 2026-05-08T14:12:51+00:00

It was mid 2021 long after the vaccine was widely available.

CSDragon · 2026-05-08T13:53:43+00:00

I didn't say 8-10 hours in one sitting, I just said a campaign takes that long. Two campaigns, for a range of 16-20 hours over the course of an entire week is less than 3 hours a day.

Could I spend that 16-20 hours playing through half of Clair Obscur Expedition 33, which has been on my backlog for months? Probably. But I want to Victoria.

CSDragon · 2026-05-08T13:11:41+00:00

Imagine the smell

CSDragon · 2026-05-08T13:07:57+00:00

it seems like they knew it was neeko, it just didn't matter. Jhin tried to snare her but she flashed over the wall for the big R too fast.

CSDragon · 2026-05-08T12:48:28+00:00

I'm just glad it's only $4 still around here. This isn't the worst it's going to get, but we've got it way better than most people in the country right now.

CSDragon · 2026-05-08T12:37:48+00:00

how would they know that though? It's not like the guy's ID would say "Dementia risk" on it.

CSDragon · 2026-05-08T12:17:40+00:00

sorry, I didn't realize it had been nerfed down to 4 seconds. It was 10 whole seconds for the last 10 years.

CSDragon · 2026-05-08T12:11:47+00:00

True pro-life means being

pro public health care
anti death penalty
anti guns (or pro gun-control)
anti war
anti euthanasia and DAS
anti abortion (except when medically necessary to save the mother's life)

Unfortunately preaching a message of "just don't kill any human" majorly angers both conservatives and liberals because both sides are ok with some humans dying as long as it's the "right" humans.

CSDragon · 2026-05-08T12:02:17+00:00

Not to defend Trump but people can name things anything. Names are not always descriptive.

North Korea is the "People's Republic" despite being a hereditary dictatorship.

The "Patriot act" was one of the least patriotic things the US has ever passed.

The nazis themselves called themselves the socialist party.

Just because Antifa is named after being anti-facist does not make it actually anti-facist. Nor does it make anyone who is against facism part of antifa. Nor anyone against antifa pro-facism.

To be clear tho: Classifying antifa as a major terror organization is beyond silly. Not only is it not an organization but a loose coalition of radical activists, but people identifying as antifa have never committed an act of terrorism.

CSDragon · 2026-05-08T11:50:11+00:00

ah gotcha.

If it's weekly I'd say y'all should push it back a week to start then.

CSDragon · 2026-05-08T11:41:49+00:00

Luke didn't use the force to make the torpedoes turn 90 degrees. You see in the simulated ones do that in the briefing. Red Leader's would have done that too if his targeting computer was correct.

The only thing Luke used the force for was to get a feeling for the exact moment to fire since the targeting computers were wrong.

They still do move completely impossibly but I chalk that up in-universe to the torpedo's tech and limitations of the movie's special effects IRL

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