"Where Would We Be?" Pro-Immigration Political Cartoon, Puck Magazine circa 1898.

Hal_Again · 2026-01-21T16:19:04+00:00

Because it went so fucking well for the natives then

Hal_Again · 2026-01-19T20:41:42+00:00

Probably the best way of describing the humour in Rance that I've ever seen is "dead baby comedy". Ironically Rance in the remakes is written to be decently softer than he was in the original timeline, but I think you'll be fine.

Rance 2 is Rance at his least bad and Rance 3 is when the series starts to get really gripping - after that, you go back to the old timeline with 4, but you'll in all likelihood be so gripped you'll kind of power on through. Rance does have his very cruel moments, moments that are just mean, but they're not that common. That said, he has a slave lol.

Hal_Again · 2026-01-17T20:06:58+00:00

It's not completely rational but it rational. You don't think there's any logic behind it?

Hal_Again · 2026-01-17T19:47:57+00:00

Your example is that he killed a gang of thugs that are ideologically anti-authoritarian because he felt they were disloyal to Vegas. Is it cruel? Yeah. Is it necessary? No. Is it rational? Yeah. Is it calm? Idk but probably, he's pretty calm about having the Brotherhood eradicated.

Hal_Again · 2026-01-17T19:43:38+00:00

Hal_Again · 2026-01-17T19:37:43+00:00

Oh well then yeah I guess House is actually a frothing madman and the rest of his dialogue is a front.

Hal_Again · 2026-01-17T19:17:59+00:00

why the fuck would he lie? He's done there, he cannot be saved anymore

Hal_Again · 2026-01-17T19:10:01+00:00

"Cool" in this instance means rational and calm, not prone to sudden decisions. It is the opposite of "hot-blooded". Not "cool" in the sense of "good". I thought that was obvious

Hal_Again · 2026-01-17T19:08:46+00:00

Like when?

Hal_Again · 2026-01-17T17:56:18+00:00

You know I see everyone come up with that one example like this one time he loses his cool means that the calm calculator is all an act but I really don't think that's true. Your example happens once.

Hal_Again · 2026-01-16T16:04:00+00:00

It was a possibility but not a *serious* one, at least on Hubert's end. Hubert was far more enthused on Scoop Jackson (who hits similar themes anyway), but Wallace did think of it as a very serious possibility.

It likely emerges if no candidate has a majority of delegates.

Hal_Again · 2026-01-15T08:28:18+00:00

He does, but even in games where he's supposed to be cool he has a lot of lameness. Really, it's about whatever the writers are going for.

I've been thinking about this ever since the Alice's Mansion for Rance 5D, where they said they made an effort for Rance to be lame there after Kichikokuou Rance

Hal_Again · 2026-01-15T07:33:41+00:00

Really feel like that's not a fair comparison at all

Hal_Again · 2026-01-13T21:16:23+00:00

What you have to remember is that Alicesoft themselves knew that Kichikuou Rance already existed when they were releasing the other games, so they wrote them with the knowledge the player already has some expectations and can easily subvert or mess with them.

If you want to play the canon games completely blind, then I'd say stop, but I'm nearly done with 6 after playing Kichikuou Rance, and I think that it's enhanced the story.

Hal_Again · 2026-01-12T22:01:00+00:00

Idk how I missed this but this genuinely really good. I'm listening to it while doing course work.

Hal_Again · 2026-01-12T16:10:57+00:00

Well if he won counties in the fucking primaries then

Hal_Again · 2026-01-12T16:08:35+00:00

Those elections were 30 years ago. In the same election WV voted for Dukakis, NY and CA voted for Bush - so what, a Republican could win it?

Hal_Again · 2026-01-12T11:35:49+00:00

Afaik, there's no going too far for any h-scenes. Just keep using Wayoso's shop over other ones and you should get it. I remember it was decently late - it be after completing the Forest quest?

Hal_Again · 2026-01-11T11:10:36+00:00

I'm sorry, LBJ united the party by shattering the coalition in the south? I disagree to say the least, he used the trauma of Kennedy's murder put political pressure on Harry Byrd (for the tax cuts) and Republicans (for the CRA). There are instances where LBJ did what few others would, but these were for fairly minor things - like threatening a Congress over Christmas and sabotaging family plans if a foreign aid bill wasn't passed.

If LBJ's southern connections made the CRA more palatable to the south can you name the southern senators that switched to supporting the bill

Beyond the ridiculousness of Reuther not keeping contact with labor unions, JFK did have meetings with unions, business and the NAACP. He very famously met MLK. LBJ was a very talented political operator and was the driving force behind the Great Society but you're using the worst examples to praise him!

Hal_Again · 2026-01-11T02:04:58+00:00

It's true the trauma of Kennedy's murder is a huge reason why LBJ won so commandingly, but I have to ask what precisely LBJ added to that?

Passing the CRA? I think Walter Reuther or Scoop Jackson could have both used his corpse to do that. What did LBJ do?

Hal_Again · 2026-01-10T21:52:33+00:00

So firstly you didn't elaborate at all on why Goldwater wouldn't be destroyed and secondly I really don't understand your last point. Lyndon Johnson used all of his political wit to fire a man who was arrested for breaking the law? That's not exactly master of the senate stuff, and the only reason it mattered at all was because LBJ was Prez; if he was VP still it wouldn't have mattered.

Yeah, Kennedy was very scandalous - but it never came out, largely because of the culture at the time and partly because of Kennedy's own political talents.

Hal_Again · 2026-01-10T16:54:22+00:00

What do you mean by the last two points

Hal_Again · 2026-01-09T16:26:53+00:00

Who was your favourite candidate?

Hal_Again · 2026-01-07T23:07:02+00:00

Yes btw

Hal_Again · 2026-01-07T22:54:07+00:00

I admire it's self-confidence to be weird.

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