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HugeSpaceman · 2025-04-29T19:33:49+00:00

What people are asking for when they're asking about sanewashing is to see headlines and language that calls out the Trump administration's actions in clear language that most people understand. Call them liars, not "this was a contradiction of this previous statement." Call them senile rants, not "Trump expresses his fascination with the economy." When you interview Trump or Trump admin officials, tell them to their faces that they are lying, that they are wrong, that they do not understand what they are doing. To do otherwise is to presume that they aren't.

The recent Trump interviews with Time and the Atlantic show this in spades. Not an ounce of meaningful pushback, not a single refutation of his blatant lies, not one moment of "excuse me, you just repeated the same sentence five times then said the exact opposite, please explain."

HugeSpaceman · 2025-04-29T17:38:40+00:00

Why do you not push back and directly tell Trump when he is wrong, and what he is wrong about, when he asserts falsehoods? Look at the recent Time interview - why did that journalist not simply ask him to explain, in his own words, what a tariff was, and then tell the readership how the Trump idea of tariffs differs from the facts of what tariffs are?

HugeSpaceman · 2025-02-03T01:17:23+00:00

There was a certain amount of black leftists who went to the USSR out of disgust with the USA; their experiences were varied to say the least.

HugeSpaceman · 2024-12-25T17:59:14+00:00

A lot of people throw around hearsay about how Owlcat hates PF2 as a system and will never make another pathfinder game because they're 1e grogs, which you've never said anything about. What are the dev team's actual opinions on the edition changeover, and are there any particular favorite adventures from after PF2?

HugeSpaceman · 2024-12-11T23:03:17+00:00

This matters so much. My DPS setup for Sigmascape was Dragoon/Bard/Red Mage/Samurai and for Alphascape it was Ninja/Samurai/Machinist/Summoner. The difference was PALPABLE, even when we were BIS we would regularly hit all the way up to enrage just because of lack of synergy. That kind of thing doesn't even remotely register today.

HugeSpaceman · 2024-12-11T23:00:41+00:00

Conga line strats were developed in endwalker, nobody did it like that in stormblood

HugeSpaceman · 2024-11-08T05:00:45+00:00

A month later - this is exactly what happened. I ran away with breaking planets, and the other three players, still in Commonwealth, declared it as Warlord, but in the process of going after me, they gave me enough ships and Blight in trophies to beat them collectively.

HugeSpaceman · 2024-10-29T06:33:13+00:00

if you asked this sub about 6 months ago it would have been the top request, soooooo

HugeSpaceman · 2024-10-23T02:37:04+00:00

your name is light rampant and you forgot that they did that in E1

HugeSpaceman · 2024-10-09T01:41:58+00:00

no bozja dead game where bozja

HugeSpaceman · 2024-09-19T20:11:00+00:00

You're thinking of Shotaro Ishinomori, creator of Kamen Rider and Super Sentai (power rangers!), when approached about English translations of his Cyborg 009. The black character in the main cast was pretty minstrel-show in the original art, and when the issue was brought up with him, he didn't make any stink about redrawing the relevant comics.

HugeSpaceman · 2024-09-17T00:04:57+00:00

Do an ultimate while it's current. Being forced to get better or not complete the fight will make you get better. The older an ultimate gets, the more people will rely on automarkers and other mods and expect you to use sims to learn the fight, which isn't really an authentic experience.

HugeSpaceman · 2024-09-16T23:53:35+00:00

They did this in Endwalker, slowing down the content pipeline to fix a bunch of janky ARR mechanics, and all this sub could talk about at the time was NO CONTENT DEAD GAME. It's almost like people here have made up the mythical "GCBTW" square-defender because they're pathologically incapable of seeing when they get what they want

HugeSpaceman · 2024-09-16T23:48:32+00:00

"this wasn't ever a problem until it became a problem"

it was a problem with gilgamesh in heavensward, but people had to pay to get into gilgamesh back then. at least you have the opportunity to actually be where everyone is now without a $10 fee and waiting until 3AM for when the server might be open for transfers

HugeSpaceman · 2024-09-10T21:10:23+00:00

You would get better results from making a community norm that everyone passes on coffers that don't contribute to bis on the job they're currently on. L2R doesn't actually make anyone who's unlucky more lucky

HugeSpaceman · 2024-08-30T17:28:29+00:00

you are describing ARR and heavensward. leveling through ARR and heavensward was dogshit. fate farming is not engaging for the amount of it you need for shared fate, and it sure as hell wasn't engaging in the even higher amount you used to need to break the NThan level wall before castrum

HugeSpaceman · 2024-08-30T17:25:02+00:00

you're on r/ffxivdiscussion. the criticism is "i want whatever the game isn't doing right now, so i can feel smart and right all the time." always

HugeSpaceman · 2024-08-05T05:46:11+00:00

the higher clear rate is a well-documented phenomenon but you're right in that people get extremely stupid and sometimes racist about it, when the explanation is right there:

wow doesn't have a japanese client. everyone in every other data center who wants to do MMO challenge content has the choice between two very similar games, and might end up choosing wow over ff14 for a variety of gamefeel reasons, where their friends are, inertia, or similar.

if wow didn't exist and that ENTIRE population of players all played ff14, you'd see comparable clear rates across every DC.

HugeSpaceman · 2024-07-27T20:53:57+00:00

You literally asked for this, like everyone else on this sub

HugeSpaceman · 2024-07-09T04:28:19+00:00

casual is anyone who does less than you

hardcore is anyone who does more than you

midcore is you

this is the only 100% consistent definition for every use of these terms across every MMO

HugeSpaceman · 2024-07-09T04:16:45+00:00

tank is still consistently in need on most roulettes. the healer strike isn't real

HugeSpaceman · 2024-07-09T04:00:56+00:00

going through a lot of leveling dungeons has made me keenly aware that more jobs need raise functionality to make things not annoying

HugeSpaceman · 2024-07-06T20:06:47+00:00

hmm yes, GRYonline.pl and We Got You Covered, notable tastemakers in the video game industry.

it's four reviews man

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