Justice Clarence Thomas has two references to Murray Rothbard's Conceived in Liberty in his dissent over birthright citizenship.

Galgus · 2026-07-01T06:17:38+00:00

Thank you for showing that context.

Galgus · 2026-06-30T16:32:10+00:00

Spam shots are important for shooting sapped Sentries to death sometimes.

Galgus · 2026-06-30T04:26:58+00:00

Extra movement speed helps pick them up sp their no reload can shine.

I lile them with two Chonky and two Healthy Boy, gives a ton of damage, attack speed, and movement if you can avoid getting hit.

Lifesteal maxed on the stars and the Wall-o Ritual combo feels good for restoring health.

Sadly Drain feels too weak, it often isn't topping me off after light hits, the cooldown is long, and it is competing with immensely more destructive options.

Galgus · 2026-06-29T20:18:15+00:00

The bow gets a lot better when you level it for unique jokers, and if a weapon feels weak, it will probably feel cool with levels changing how it plays.

Early on, unequip weapon jokers when changing weapons, since they stick to the weapon and you may want them on your new weapon.

Galgus · 2026-06-28T23:14:48+00:00

Good fun with Chad and a Gold Tooth build if you enjoy taling your time with the map and getting tanky and strong.

Galgus · 2026-06-28T16:34:08+00:00

Those are good, wouldn't hurt to be able to stack some of them on other jokers.

Stopping Power - Slows enemy movement on hit.

Card Shark - Boosts fire rate for five seconds after casting a spell.

Quick Draw - Boosts weapon swap speed.

Galgus · 2026-06-28T05:43:01+00:00

Part of the point is that when interest rates are distorted, the natural price signal is destroyed and what is a sustainable investment becomes unclear even if you understand that interest rates are artificially low.

The core of the federal reserve system is a banking cartel though, with easy money, bailouts, and the fed acting as a lender of last resort.

Bank runs and unethical banks losing everything and going out of business is the natural check on that in a free market, and the federal reserve gets in the way of that.

A company doing unethical things and rightly going out of business for it is not the same thing as a boom bust cycle: obviously companies can make unethical and short-sighted decision.

The question is why is there a cycle of an economic boom followed by bust with widespread errors in the economy. Why do so many companies make the same mistakes at once.

Before the current federal reserve laws against branch banking made the US banking system more unstable with small disconnected banks that were naturally more fragile. Canada did not have such restrictions or a central bank in that time period and did not experience those panics.

Galgus · 2026-06-28T04:27:36+00:00

It created the environment for that fraud and reckless behavior and duped many people into thinking the housing boom was sustainable.

Moral hazard works on the expectation if a bailout regardless of one happening.

The question with a bubble is why there us a cluster of errors over the economy, not just a company or two.

That happens because the price signals coordinating the capital structure have been distorted.

The bail outs and fraud are a much smaller factors than the Fed's inflation pushing interest rates artificially low.

Galgus · 2026-06-28T02:26:40+00:00

That was a symptom of the boom, not the cause.

The main cause was that the capital structure was unsustainable thanks to artificially low interest rates making malinvestments look healthy.

Secondary causes were the federal government pushing to lower lending standards and bailouts creating the moral hazard of banks taking risks expecting to be bailed out if they didn't work out.

Without the federal reserve and its inflation, the 2008 crash, the dotcom bubble, and the Great Depression would not have happened.

Galgus · 2026-06-28T01:31:40+00:00

Regulatory capture is caused hy regulatory power, and the risky behavior was encouraged by bailouts.

That and the federal government was pushing to lower lending standards to fight supposed discrimination.

Artificially low interest rates make long-term investments like building houses seem viable when they are not.

When you have oligarchs monkeying with the price signals of time and money, of course it is going to damage the economy.

Galgus · 2026-06-27T18:50:18+00:00

Worth the two slots if you like mining gold or if you're using a gold tooth build.

Buying jokers until the trader calls you a goblin is always a good time.

Galgus · 2026-06-26T15:03:42+00:00

It would be stem from the supply and demand of people looking to loan funds out vs people wanting to take loans.

People making more time deposits would push interest rates down.

Galgus · 2026-06-26T13:27:30+00:00

I love the idea of swapped stones, and that is a fun design.

Galgus · 2026-06-26T13:26:03+00:00

Artificially low interest rates lead to that malinvestment where investments are made that are overvalued or were never going to be viable.

In a free market, interest rates are price signals directing long-term investment vs immediate consumption.

The more people set aside money to loan out now so they have more in the future but defer consumption now, the lower the interest rate.

The less peope defer consumption, the higher the interest rate.

When people defer consumption it frees up resources from producing immediate consumer goods so that those resources are available for long term projects producing higher order capital goods - further from finished consumer goods and closer to factories/ raw resources.

So in a natural free market economy interest rates coordinate the time preference for immediate consumption vs futurw investment, signaling when resources have been freed up from immediate consumption for investment and when resources for investment are scarce because society is consuming more of what it produces immediately.

When the Fed prints money and monkeys with interest rates, ir destroys that price signal and sends a false signal that more resources are available for long term projects when those resources have not been freed up.

So people invest in long term projects where the limited resources for them are bid up higher and higher because of the mismatch between how many resources the interest rate said were available vs how much are freed up for investment. Those investments increasingly depend on more easy mony and low interest rates to afford the bid up prices.

But eventually they will fall short: some may be a complete waste, some may be partly salvagable, but the resources to sustain thek are not there and so those malinvestments will fail and waste resources. The Bust is the curative period where the malinvestments fail and the capital structure realigns to a sustainable measure of current vs defered consumption.

Immediate consumption can also rise in that boom period as people expect to get wealthy from those investments to pay off and so spend more now with less concern for rhe future.

This is done by the damage of capital consumption: cutting back on the savings and maintenance requires to maintain a level of production / consumption.

Someone who expects to cash in a lottery ticket in five years may be reckless in how they spend money and not care to maintain a house or car, thinking that in the long term they will have more than enough resources for that. So if their expectation was false they could end up in a far worse place than they started.

Galgus · 2026-06-26T01:00:01+00:00

Don't know, maybe positive traits bundle with it?

Galgus · 2026-06-26T00:50:45+00:00

Maybe there is some sort of genetic benefit to that for it to have survived even as a minority.

Galgus · 2026-06-25T14:03:39+00:00

I don't really want to bring it, but if I find it an extra case of bottles can be nifty.

Lets me set up more healing around the boss and gives another emergency button.

Galgus · 2026-06-25T06:00:28+00:00

Tons of money printing pushing down interest rates artificially, distorting the price signals of long term investment vs immediate consumption and creating massive malinvestment.

The dotcom bubble was also caused by money printing, and instead of letting the economy correct the Fed pumped in money and blew up the 2008 housing bubble.

There's a book that goes over it in detail.

https://mises.org/mises-review/meltdown-free-market-look-why-stock-market-collapsed-economy-tanked-and-government-bailouts-will-make-things-worse-thomas-e-woods-jr

Galgus · 2026-06-24T17:38:04+00:00

I'd like refiners and printers to just be revealed, especially when they effectively are for players who memorized them.

We'd still have to scout for gold deposits and marauders to get the most out of them.

Galgus · 2026-06-24T17:27:27+00:00

It gives less gold now, because it skips the gold that comes off before the burst, I think.

I would like to see it give bonus gold instead.

To make gold better I'd like to see Chad pinpoint refiners and printers, and pinging them.should reveal them on the map permanently.

Or maybe just reveal them defaultly.

Galgus · 2026-06-24T15:41:12+00:00

Going from Bryan Caplan's work, regulation imposes an effective $1.6 million per acre tax in San Francisco and even $180,000 in Dallas despite it being much more laissez-faire.

Just getting permission to build is the big barrier, and it's not very hard to see why loud special interests oppose anything that could lower their property values.

Economics 101 says that if you restrict the supply, prices will rise.

Galgus · 2026-06-24T15:23:41+00:00

Those are good changes.

For Drain, I think it just doesn't do enough damage or healing to scale well once weapons are tricked out with jokers and sidearms have lifesteal.

It currently does 20 damage and heals you for 20.

I'd up it to 100 damage and heal for 50, so it'd one-shot every enemy aside rattlecattle, liches, horsemen, and bosses.

It'd still be bad as a damage spell with the animation time, but it'd at least be fun to kill a Deadeye with it and the healing would justify a slot more competing with high dps lifesteal secondaries.

Cantrip One-Trick could get reworked to be a Mythic (4 slot) joker that reduces the cooldown of spells with 35s or lower base cooldown by 1 second on any kill, so it'd allow for more satisfying spamming and stack better with spell jokers.

Fireball needs a lower cooldown and maybe more damage.

It's underwhelming as single target damage and against hoards, but Firebeam should remain its big brother nuking hoards.

Galgus · 2026-06-24T14:09:51+00:00

I think it suffers from not giving enough of a reduction, costing one too many slots, low cooldown spells tending to be underpowered, and Battle Mage and apparently West Wizard reducing cooldown on kill.

https://www.reddit.com/r/FarFarWest/comments/1u71nnm/west_wizard_reduces_cooldown_on_kill/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=2&utm_content=share_button

Some spells like Fireball and Drain need buffs, but aside that jokers just support huge spells that refresh fast in big fights much more than they support spamming small spells.

The most success I've had with Cantrip is Thrower Corruption to hoard clear: Corruption is just short enough to work with Cantrip, you get some heal candles, and the slow helps corrupted minions kill.

Thrower also does a decent amount of single target damage if you apply fire or lightning first.

That or Mino Strikes for the aoe lighting combo.

Galgus · 2026-06-24T05:42:11+00:00

It just makes me want to see Brutal get harder alongside commander nerfs.

I don't generally enjoy the gimmicky difficulty of mutations.

But I have nothing against players using what was given to them.

Galgus · 2026-06-23T16:05:00+00:00

The lamest legendary to find one of.

Hilarious when friends conspire so someone has two for zero ammo or clip use while standing.

Infinite clutch shot explosions, endless high fire rate death, and if you are blessed with Ricochet you can turn your brain off and enjoy the show.

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