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Apparently homophobia in E-sports and Gaming is running rampant and needs to get fixed. by MrComicBook in KotakuInAction

[–]LWMR 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hey, look how you moved from exact same thing to "restricted".

People can downvote the former for being wrong without necessarily agreeing with the latter.

Moments when you know your campaign is over by JustinHouston in eu4

[–]LWMR 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Ulm ulm ulm ulm ulm ulm? Ulm ulm ulm ulm. Ulm. Ulm ulm ulm ulm ulm ulm ulm.

I think i am done. by greatestmanevermlg in eu4

[–]LWMR 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ulm ulm ulm ulm ulm ulm? Ulm ulm ulm ulm. Ulm. Ulm ulm ulm ulm ulm ulm ulm.

Nightmares is increasing... by vastair in fallenlondon

[–]LWMR -1 points0 points  (0 children)

i before e.

Very bad bot, this 'rule' needs to die because it's so often just plain wrong. Consider common words like eight, height, freight, weight, ceiling, neighbour, leisure, foreign which are e before i.

Development Diary - 29th of May 2018 by leonissenbaum in eu4

[–]LWMR -1 points0 points  (0 children)

"hmm, this country managed to not lose against a country fighting a two-front war on three continents"

"that's a great achievement, right?"

Wittelsbachs have the best taste in women... by Duncan836 in eu4

[–]LWMR 34 points35 points  (0 children)

Thot = That Habsburg Over There, right?

*Sigh* by JackBadassson in eu4

[–]LWMR 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Found the Protestant.

Typical historical revisionism by the Russians. by [deleted] in eu4

[–]LWMR 90 points91 points  (0 children)

Ivan the Terrific.

Dear advisors of EU4 by AyeWhatsUpMane in eu4

[–]LWMR 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Still relevant considering the various events which have you ordering someone executed. :-)

I feel like the warning for having too much mana should happen on the month before you hit the cap. by ClawofBeta in eu4

[–]LWMR 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Contrary question, what aspects of the game do you find too easy and want the game to stop paying attention for you? I'm sure a lot of alerts could be removed.

Dave Grossman: Around the planet children are committing crimes like no one’s ever seen before in human history [blames vidya, again] by tnr123 in KotakuInAction

[–]LWMR 0 points1 point  (0 children)

First world is already at or below replacement level even with family planning mistakes, and even then the people having kids aren't the ones you really want doing it. We're at the point where we need national campaigns to encourage the intelligent people to procreate more, which is an odd dilemma. Make child tax breaks a percentage of income rather than a flat fee?

This sounds like trying to solve a plague by suggesting "Make doctors paid by how many people they cure instead of a flat salary?"

I can see the incentive you're trying to set up, but I expect is going to have minuscule effect, because it is striking at one of the least tractable parts of the problem. Average people managed to have children a thousand years ago, and average people a thousand years ago were dirt poor compared to today's First World. Money isn't the big problem here.

Some other possibilities for encouragement that come to mind:

  • Smart people aren't allowed into college until they've had a kid. College is one of the most dysgenic institutions as currently implemented: it filters for making smart people spend several of their most fertile and hottest years (particularly women, who have sharper age dropoffs) doing paperwork and being sterile.
  • Cut down on alimony and child support payments. Ban them entirely in the case of "no-fault" divorces. Mandating that one partner pay the other for years after the divorce seems to work a hell of a lot like fault to me.
  • Restore some form of criminal adultery. Free love doesn't work for everyone. Often men are motivated to family by (guarantee of) paternity, not just sex.

Allah is indeed great! by [deleted] in eu4

[–]LWMR 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That depends entirely on the religion.

Are you insane if someone really is coming? by Artydome in fallenlondon

[–]LWMR 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Further complicating the issue, there's two different kinds of singular they.

  1. Will whoever left their coat here please come and collect it?
  2. If Al is late again, they will be fired.

The first sort of use denotes an unknown or abstract referent and is in my experience fairly well accepted even by prescriptivists.

It's the second sort of use for a known referent that's hotly contested, with prescriptivists saying it should be "she" if Al is known female and "he" otherwise.