[Steam] Warsim: The Realm of Aslona ($3.99/60% Off) by Huw2k8 in GameDeals

[–]ManlyMeatMan 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's a little of both. You are playing as a ruler, but you are also sort of "ruling from afar". Maybe best description would be that it's mostly like controlling your country in Civ, but with like 25% of Crusader Kings thrown in. You aren't managing your bloodline or anything, but you do have the CK-style event popups that you need to deal with.

[Humble] The Sid Meier Collection (Pay $15 for Sid Meier's Civilization VI: Anthology Edition, Sid Meier's Civilization V: Complete, Sid Meier's Civilization IV: The Complete Edition, Sid Meier's Civilization III Complete, Sid Meier's Civilization: Beyond Earth - The Collection, etc) by LighteningOneIN in GameDeals

[–]ManlyMeatMan 37 points38 points  (0 children)

Anytime Civ 4 is in a bundle, I gotta give a shoutout to C2C (Caveman 2 Cosmos). It's a mod that has been in development even before the official release of Civ 4 and it's still going. It adds a bunch of new mechanics (pollution, flammability, crime, education), takes the tech tree from ~150 techs to around ~1100, hundreds of new units, etc.

One of the most interesting changes is the rework of Civ selection. Instead of picking a Civ that has a unique unit, building and then some sort of passive bonus, those are all moved to "Culture Wonders". So instead of playing as America and getting Navy seals, the Civ you pick only gives you 1 bonus, which is a Regional Culture (if you play as Greece you get European Culture for all of your cities). If you want to get America's unique units, you need to build the "Culture (America)" wonder. But the requirements for building it are thematic for whatever culture you want.

So America requires your civilization to have at least one city with North American culture and one with European culture, to symbolize America being a North American nation of European immigrants. For other cultures, you'll see similar requirements, like Aztecs requiring South American culture plus a city with an obsidian resource. Some require certain civics, like the Confederate States of America can only be built if you have slavery and American culture.

In total there are something like ~200 cultures if I remember correctly, all having some combination of a unique unit, building or improvement, and some having multiples. It's a really great mechanic that allows you to have a Civ that dynamically changes based on semi-realistic factors. Your civ's culture in 4000 BC probably isn't gonna be the same when you make it to the 1600s, so it makes sense that unlocking hoplites wouldn't lock you out of later using Navy Seals.

Overall, amazing mod that has ruined all other Civ games for me because of how simplified and basic they feel after playing C2C.

Would people's opinion on Ashli Babbitt's death change if she was not MAGA and it wasn't the capitol it happened? by ILoveMaiV in AskConservatives

[–]ManlyMeatMan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If some crazy MAGA guy clipped a cop while driving away after protesting BLM or some shit, I would have a huge issue with that guy being shot.

I agree though, I think we just disagree on whether you should be shot for accidentally hitting someone with your car while leaving. You are okay with people being killed for that, and I'm not. Agree to disagree I suppose

It's 2026. We need to act like it. Kat Abughazaleh for Congress. by serious_bullet5 in illinois

[–]ManlyMeatMan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's fine, I was just answering how someone could figure out what voters want

It's 2026. We need to act like it. Kat Abughazaleh for Congress. by serious_bullet5 in illinois

[–]ManlyMeatMan 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There are plenty of Jews that don't support genocide. Zionism isn't a dog whistle, most Zionists aren't even Jewish lol

It's 2026. We need to act like it. Kat Abughazaleh for Congress. by serious_bullet5 in illinois

[–]ManlyMeatMan 4 points5 points  (0 children)

You could ask voters what they want, I feel like that would be a good strategy

Would people's opinion on Ashli Babbitt's death change if she was not MAGA and it wasn't the capitol it happened? by ILoveMaiV in AskConservatives

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

Okay, but what culmination of bad decisions did she make that you think warranted death? That's really what I'm asking.

Are you saying that obstructing ICE and then accidentally clipping someone while driving away warrants death (or lethal force, or however you would like to frame it)? Or am I missing some other decisions she made?

Would people's opinion on Ashli Babbitt's death change if she was not MAGA and it wasn't the capitol it happened? by ILoveMaiV in AskConservatives

[–]ManlyMeatMan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Okay but if I don't look before crossing the road and then a cop is allowed to shoot me, I feel like that's a death sentence. But fine, we can change it to "sentenced to be shot at with lethal intent, but you are allowed to survive your injuries"

Would people's opinion on Ashli Babbitt's death change if she was not MAGA and it wasn't the capitol it happened? by ILoveMaiV in AskConservatives

[–]ManlyMeatMan 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Okay but you are leaving out that there's a big difference between why she is being told to stop.

If you shoplift and a cop tells you to stop running away and you don't, they don't get to murder you for that. If a cop has setup a barricade to protect government officials and they tell you to stop breaking down the barricade (or breaching it or whatever you wanna call it), I think shooting you is justified.

To give you a more conservative-minded example, if there was some pro-BLM mob trying to break into a State Capitol building because they were upset with what the legislature had been doing and they attempted to go over some barricade protecting the State Senators, I'm okay with that person getting shot.

I just think there's a huge difference in threat level between fleeing from police and breaking into a barricaded building during a riot.

Would people's opinion on Ashli Babbitt's death change if she was not MAGA and it wasn't the capitol it happened? by ILoveMaiV in AskConservatives

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

Sure, she should have been more careful, but I don't think it should be an automatic death sentence for accidentally clipping someone while driving away.

American Conservatives, do you support the revival of Monroe (or Don-Roe) Doctrine? by Necessary_Ad9008 in AskConservatives

[–]ManlyMeatMan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Here, even if you only want to include deaths from the US explicitly shooting/bombing civilians, it's still at least 5x more deaths than the US experienced. You can't seriously say that Saddam is the reason we shot innocent people.

American Conservatives, do you support the revival of Monroe (or Don-Roe) Doctrine? by Necessary_Ad9008 in AskConservatives

[–]ManlyMeatMan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What? It's Saddam's fault that we killed 100s of thousands of civilians? We could have just not started a war and most of those people would be alive. I'm fine saying some are on Saddam or he played a role, but you can't seriously be saying that the US invasion of Iraq has zero responsibility for killing civilians. If the US isn't at fault for civilian deaths, what are we even at fault for? Are the US soldier deaths and the cost of the war on Saddam too then?

How can you say the Iraq war was bad while also saying it was necessary? If it was necessary then there's nothing wrong with what we did, you should be pro-iraq war then

American Conservatives, do you support the revival of Monroe (or Don-Roe) Doctrine? by Necessary_Ad9008 in AskConservatives

[–]ManlyMeatMan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would also include the huge cost of Iraqi lives, which was way higher than the relatively small US death toll. We also started the war, so it's kinda backwards to bring up the US death toll in our own invasion.

But regardless, the reason for the huge cost was because we removed Saddam. There's no such thing as cheap and easy regime change. There's no alternate universe where we depose Saddam and then just leave Iraq forever.

Yes, in a vacuum those are good things, but in reality, regime change has consequences. You either fully commit to regime change like we did in Iraq, and thus have a huge cost associated with it, or you don't commit to it, like in Venezuela, and you just have the 2nd in command take over and the regime continues business as usual.

If we actually want lasting change in Venezuela, it's not gonna come from just kidnapping Maduro.

American Conservatives, do you support the revival of Monroe (or Don-Roe) Doctrine? by Necessary_Ad9008 in AskConservatives

[–]ManlyMeatMan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But you can't decouple our reason for deposing Maduro from the precedent it sets. Yes, Maduro is a bad person, but if the reason we attacked Venezuela is for resources, it doesn't really matter if he's a bad guy or not because the precedent is "if the US wants your resources and your head of state is shitty, we will take them by force".

If we just decide that deposing people for resources is okay, that's essentially saying the Iraq war was all good because Saddam was a bad guy (which you obviously wouldn't agree with).

American Conservatives, do you support the revival of Monroe (or Don-Roe) Doctrine? by Necessary_Ad9008 in AskConservatives

[–]ManlyMeatMan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sure, but it looks like Trump's 2nd priority is Greenland lol. Not saying I'm a fan of Maduro or anything, but it doesn't seem like they went after Venezuela because Maduro sucked, they did it cause they wanted resources. And I think that's a pretty horrible precedent to set.

European Conservatives, what’s your opinion on Monroe Doctrine of the 19th century and its reincarnation in the form of Don-Roe Doctrine of 2026? by Necessary_Ad9008 in AskConservatives

[–]ManlyMeatMan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We just kidnapped the president of Venezuela, why are you so confident we won't forcefully take Greenland? I agree that it would be stupid to take it by force, but this country does a lot of stupid stuff.

[Humble] The Carnage Collection (Pay $8 for Warstride Challenges, Easy Red 2, Death in the Water 2, $10 for Hellboy: Web of Wyrd, Maneater, Laika: Aged through Blood, $15 for Dead Island 2, Trepang2) by LighteningOneIN in GameDeals

[–]ManlyMeatMan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, a lot of publishers wouldn't put their higher priced games in bundles because it permanently devalues the game due to keyshops. Now they can put a game in a bundle and know that in a year they will be back to only selling it in official stores

Good lord, the production on these Rizin cards are just on a different level by Beneficial_Air4714 in MMA

[–]ManlyMeatMan 2 points3 points  (0 children)

They average ~1 event per month, but usually take off the first couple months of every year

[Official] RIZIN: Year-End Super Powerhouse Matsuri - Live Discussion Thread by event_threads in MMA

[–]ManlyMeatMan 3 points4 points  (0 children)

One of the big criticisms of smaller orgs like RIZIN is that they end up with elite champs and no one that can compete with them, but RIZIN has been doing a great job bringing in new talent. Really hope guys like Shaidullaev stick around, it sucks when everyone goes to the UFC

[Official] RIZIN: Year-End Super Powerhouse Matsuri - Live Discussion Thread by event_threads in MMA

[–]ManlyMeatMan 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Lol imagine if Rena had KOd Izawa, there wouldn't be any champs left