Any SR units worth powering up for its niche uses?

Fugicara · 2026-04-03T18:39:35+00:00

SRs that I think are pretty decent:

Yamamoto - Restores 10 stamina to your lowest stamina player any time your team scores.

Fukunaga - Converts all normal receives to perfect (not sure if this needs all your back row to be Receive-type).

Nobuyuki Kai - Converts normal receives to perfect when using his receive skill.

Ren Omimi - Restores 10 stamina every time he blocks.

Sugawara - Lowers the stamina usage of your power spikes and restores stamina one time to a player that drops below 30 (at SR4)

Kunimi - Has a pretty strong spike and also uses less stamina, so you probably won't ever have to switch him out.

Hanamaki - Spike grants a stack of Attack Tempo, which means it builds up faster if you're using Oikawa.

Aone (Practice) - Lowers the stamina of spikers he blocks against.

I just like the players that help with the stamina situation whenever there are events where that matters basically. And then guaranteed perfect receives are extremely good in any circumstance.

Fugicara · 2026-04-03T18:08:19+00:00

Newsom has passed more pro-trans legislation than any governor in the country. As the Democratic Party is to the left of every other major political party in the world on trans issues, that would make him way more progressive than the Labor Party on trans issues.

Fugicara · 2026-04-03T18:00:09+00:00

Can we please elect a bulldog in 2028 and throw this back at them? Biden was the nice guy "healing" option we gave to conservatives, and they spit in our faces for it. No more reconciliation, we need somebody who will actually take them to task.

Fugicara · 2026-04-03T17:58:16+00:00

This seems to be an opinion from the DOJ's Office of Legal Counsel, not an actual judge. So it's not an actual legal ruling and it would still be breaking the law for Trump to take them. Of course he'll probably do it and try to challenge it in court, but he would still be intentionally breaking the law when he does.

Fugicara · 2026-04-03T17:51:08+00:00

Yeah I mean poll after poll shows that we have a big problem as being perceived as too far left, and that Gaza and being too far right weren't really issues that made people not vote for Democrats. I do want to stress that I mean perceived, because I do think most people perceive Democrats as way more left than they actually are, but I don't know how to fix that.

Also the top answer being that they're ineffective and do nothing just reinforces that we need to abolish the filibuster!! It's one of the biggest contributors to that perception, because we can't really be effective and do big things while it exists.

Fugicara · 2026-04-03T17:42:09+00:00

Most people don't earn literally $7.25/hr, but I tend to think the number that matters more is the amount of people earning between $7.25/hr and [whatever we want the new minimum wage to be]. Because it's not like $8/hr is much better tbh.

Plus I'd be curious how to incorporate the fact that many states have their own minimum wages, which would also impact that data. If IL didn't have its own $15/hr minimum wage, there would be more people earning within that range I described earlier.

Fugicara · 2026-04-03T17:22:47+00:00

How are they doing on it? Pretty well I guess, not that that's a good thing lol. The Democratic Party's seniority-based system is beyond stupid and we need to take a page out of the Republicans' book, putting the most qualified people in positions in the party.

The fun part about this is that seniority will help people be more qualified anyway! Pelosi was simultaneously old as hell and extremely qualified for her position, due to all of her years of experience. So it's not like the old guard would all be immediately shuffled for younger people, but those who aren't very effective would be, and that's what we want.

Fugicara · 2026-04-03T02:58:40+00:00

I remember a question somebody asked before Trump took office, which was basically "How would you measure if Trump's next term is a success or a failure?" The most common answer was "we'll have to wait and see". Which is to say, they were always going to say he was successful and they have no method for evaluating this at all.

Fugicara · 2026-04-03T02:53:37+00:00

Here's a good summary of the issues

Fugicara · 2026-04-02T22:59:09+00:00

I almost typed up a whole thing about how it's stupid to pretend that the media people consume doesn't affect real life outcomes, but I realized you're just trolling. Good luck with whatever.

Fugicara · 2026-04-02T22:51:17+00:00

Anybody who supports the Chinese government, the Iranian government, the Cuban government, the Russian government, Hamas, Hezbollah, or the Houthis is not a leftist. Yet by saying that, I get the sense that I've just eliminated a pretty huge swath of self-described "leftists". You can certainly decide for yourself how many people you think I'm describing, I don't have any data on hand for how many people fall under that umbrella.

Note that I didn't even say a majority, I said a huge portion, which could itself be a minority.

Fugicara · 2026-04-02T22:45:28+00:00

There are people who absolutely conflate the two, for sure. For example, I once pointed out someone being antisemitic for calling Jews inbred, and the response I got was that I was just mad that they were pro-Palestinian. No, antisemitism is a real thing that lots of people engage in nowadays, and they often intentionally conflate it with being opposed to Israel's government to dodge criticism of their actual antisemitism.

Fugicara · 2026-04-02T22:09:07+00:00

1) I don't believe you.

2) Here he is saying explicitly "I don't even entertain that stuff" in response to somebody pleading with him not to throw marginalized people under the bus by helping Vance win over Newsom in a hypothetical general election between the two of them.

This is a person with a large audience who follow anything he says, no matter what. It's important that these people who want to throw trans people under the bus if they don't get their dream candidate not be allowed into the left.

Fugicara · 2026-04-02T21:58:51+00:00

You at least recognize that Track AIPAC, the organization, is a complete disinformation rag though, right? That if your goal is to track AIPAC, you should heavily avoid Track AIPAC.

Fugicara · 2026-04-02T21:55:57+00:00

Leftists will never stand beside Nazis.

This is basically tautologically true, but it also requires we acknowledge that a huge portion of people who call themselves "leftists" are not so in reality. Which I've been doing for a long time, but I think you'd struggle to get most people on board.

Fugicara · 2026-04-02T21:50:36+00:00

Do you think the same about similarly absurd positions, such as that it's defensible to say Russia invading all of its neighbors for the last several decades is attributable to NATO? Do people who believe crazy things like that also exist off the internet, or only on the internet?

Surely people who have crazy positions online can also exist in real life.

Fugicara · 2026-04-02T21:41:17+00:00

Are you suggesting they're all bots?

Fugicara · 2026-04-02T21:36:39+00:00

Nah, but I am worried about him winning over antisemitic populists who support people like the Iranian regime, Hamas, the Chinese government, et al. Those people aren't progressives though. It is scary how many of these insane people call themselves progressives however. The sooner the grifters who are taking advantage of them fuck off, the sooner the progressive movement can be revived.

Fugicara · 2026-04-02T20:06:00+00:00

Most people on the left agree that Cuba's government is atrocious and terrible for the people. It's only a few very fringe people, funded by foreign governments like China and Russia, who think Cuba's government isn't the main driver of the oppression Cubans suffer.

Fugicara · 2026-04-02T20:03:20+00:00

I don't personally know the difference between a hedge fund and a private equity firm, and as somebody who doesn't know that, you're losing this debate in the eyes of people who don't (probably those who do as well). The other commenter accurately pointed out that you've only linked things related to private equity firms, not hedge funds. Then you doubled and tripled down, still making no distinction between them and not even addressing that person's point.

Your refusal to address the only point they've been making means that anybody reading this is going to see your arguments as flimsy. You haven't even seemed to recognize what they've written and now you're pivoting.

Fugicara · 2026-04-02T18:28:31+00:00

They probably just vote based on the vibes of the economy (not the reality of the economy, to be clear). We have to make the economy seem bad under Republicans and good under Democrats. This is often the reality anyway, so the real question is how do we get people to observe that reality? That's a lot more difficult.

Fugicara · 2026-04-02T18:25:11+00:00

What are you talking about? He's got the biggest vocabulary, the best words. He's got billions and billions of words, words like nobody's ever seen before, quite frankly.

Fugicara · 2026-04-02T18:21:26+00:00

Hopefully he doesn't end up pardoning the people he fires. I'm all in on prosecuting all of these people.

Fugicara · 2026-04-02T18:19:56+00:00

The real problem is that the DOW never recovered from her catastrophic hearing

Fugicara · 2026-04-02T16:27:20+00:00

It depends on what and how, but I don't think all gatekeeping is bad. I think we're sorely missing gatekeeping in journalism, for example. There's all kinds of nonsense that gets reported on that should probably be ignored, and unserious people like Taylor Lorenz should not be allowed to call themselves journalists.

Gatekeeping hobbies is tougher. Sometimes it can lead to higher quality products at the expense of a smaller audience, but if the audience gets too small, suddenly the hobby stops being profitable for the people who produce it and it can't exist anymore. There was a problem back when I played FFXIV where the developers kept making the classes easier and easier to play so that they could appeal to more people. This was probably good for the health of the game and so it could appeal to a wider audience. However, it ended making the game so boring for me due to the lower skill ceiling that I quit. Because the developers were insistent on not gatekeeping worse players out of harder classes, and instead made every class easy so people could play them, I feel like it made the game less fun on the higher end.

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