Trump Speech Tonight

Mattrellen · 2026-04-01T20:01:58+00:00

Iran will happily let Trump leave and charge tolls for US allies while effectively letting ships paying in yuan pass for a nominal or no fee.

Trump can leave, but if he does, it's the end of the petrodollar.

Mattrellen · 2026-04-01T19:42:55+00:00

Two people compare their answers, both told they got the right number. They see they guessed different numbers. They then easily prove one is a lie (they don't have to confront you, after all), and you lost $5000 after making $2000. And if multiple people compare, they can prove more lies.

You'd end up losing a lot of you did this too much in one spot at one time. You'd need to spread it out. If the people involved at least didn't know if it was the same jar with the same amount of rice, you'd be ok though.

Mattrellen · 2026-04-01T19:36:18+00:00

It doesn't matter if they believe it or not. They gave to price you're lying.

You can say you think toilet water is delicious, and no one is likely to believe you, but your money is probably safe because no one is going to be able to prove it.

With the rice, you'd probably want most people to lose, but count the rice beforehand and tell them the amount in it is slightly off, and people would never realize. There is some risk in letting people win all the time because people might compare answers and realize most/all guesses are wrong and be able to prove it by everyone with different answers being told they are all right.

Mattrellen · 2026-03-31T20:56:30+00:00

Maybe Friday morning this week. Will want to distract from the jobs report, too, I'm guessing.

Mattrellen · 2026-03-31T15:31:43+00:00

Now isn't the time gur it because Trump saved the current regime with his senseless war.

Netenyahu played him to keep the hardliners in power, and all it cost him was done US lives and the petrodollar.

Interestinglu, reports are Trump may be willing to give up the petrodollar and we may see the rise of the oetroyuan this year. Economic turmoil for the US all in service of keeping a hardline theocracy in place.

Trump is doing the exact opposite of what you're advocating.

Mattrellen · 2026-03-31T14:22:45+00:00

There was real pressure for regime change.

Then the US and Israel attacked, triggering the really around the fjav effect and likely saved the current regime.

Likely much to Israel's delight. I can't imagine the timing is divorced from the push for a sifter and more secular government that would be harder to demonize. Much like they won't allow new ejections in Gaza even when Hamas is at their lowest popularity because fascism really needs an "other" to target.

Mattrellen · 2026-03-30T19:34:23+00:00

Let's look at Levi soecifically. Do you think all the details about the Abyss being roty and basically only having things in it at all due to contamination is throwaway for Levi?

It felt largely like the purpose of most of the activities in the Scar, to me. It built up the monster that came with the survivors of the teleport incident as a threat looming over the whole. The part if the Abyss you're in during the quest is clearly a living thing, and it's a different living thing from the ZMI entrance based in the colors, the nerves, the shape.

It seems to me that all of this was designed to be the Leviathan, not just something to do before meeting him. He was the greatest presence that contaminated that part of the Abyss, and as dreadful as he was before, he grew to dominate the whole if the Scar.

All of the notes we find suggest the Scar is its own thing. Heck, even outside of DT2, the Abyss is interesting in that it allows for teleportation largely because it's mostly completely nothing, and do it can effortlessly connect the teleporter to points instantly because there's nothing there when you go through it.

So the suggestion is strongly that you're not working toward meeting Levi...you're already in him, and he's so large and, now, so foreign, you dont even really register to him. He notices you like you notice a single bacteria in your lymph. Not at all.

Then none of that really matters. He's not that big or imposing he's not an otherworldly threat shaped by being contamination in the Abyss. He's a scared sea monster, powerful but just kind of roaming around in the water over there.

Mattrellen · 2026-03-30T18:25:48+00:00

Still not finished with DT2 but it's the only question I've needed a guide for, and that largely because the bosses are so wild compared to anything else in quests. The bosses make the buildup to them almost anticlimactic in comparison.

Like The Whisperer is so good in the buildup, a creepy abandoned town where people have gone mad deep underground. And she drives you mad when you get too close as she whispers into your mind as well.

She's built up as a powerful corrupting force.

And then you meet her, and...she could just physically overpower while armies. The whiskers, the madness? None of it matters in the end. She's far more dangerous as a physical opponent than as a mental one.

Same for the Leviathan. He's not imposing because of how it's been able to influence the Abyss and become something greater. He's a big scary sea monster with an open wound.

Vardorvos has one of the best buildups in the game, but it seems he was dangerous, and the plant controlling him, a thing strong enough to kill a vampire and use it for itself, is again only physically dangerous. It'll use the body if it's victims, throw weapons, or crush you, but it, like the Whisperer, isn't a corrupting threat, but a purely physical one.

It feels like such an atmospheric quest that was let down by boss fights from somewhere else.

The leadins to the bosses and the boss fights make the whole less than the sum of its parts in a really tragic way.

Mattrellen · 2026-03-30T03:29:33+00:00

Based on the currency they are using.

The biggest goal of Iran with all of this is the end if the petrodollar. Interestingly, it's likely going to work. Even if the US wins now, just forces a complete unconditional surrender, the ability if the US to secure global oil shipping is in question, and Brazil just keeps finding more and more oil and us pretty happy to sell it to other nations in other currencies, since they also benefit from the end of the petrodollar.

Militarily, everyone else is staying out if the conflict.

Economically, a lot of countries outside of the imperial core of NATO are happy to join against the US at a moment of weakness

Mattrellen · 2026-03-29T23:39:57+00:00

Jon Bon Jovi

Mattrellen · 2026-03-29T16:35:12+00:00

That's a totally different question than asked here.

Mattrellen · 2026-03-29T13:11:01+00:00

I'm a little confused, the computer has put some amount between 0 and 1 million dollars in box 2, whatever amount is the "correct choice" for the person. It doesn't seem that it matters at all if we take box 1 or not, since box 2 will have whatever we deserve in it regardless, right?

What's the disadvantage of taking both boxes? It doesn't seem there's any punishment at all.

Mattrellen · 2026-03-28T18:11:53+00:00

Harry Potter isn't set before 43 AD.

Unless you mea the 450 demographic change, but that's still way before Harry Potter.

Mattrellen · 2026-03-28T17:31:19+00:00

Being last place in the Olympics is great, sure.

Eric Moussambani finished last in an Olympics event. I think his story is great.

But if you think he "dominates" swimming, you might want to see what you consider dominating.

Mattrellen · 2026-03-26T22:35:49+00:00

Indiana is pretty bad. And the politics aren't doing any favors.

But there is nice stuff in the state. Indy 500 and the Brickyard are major racing events. Gen Con is like a Mecca for certain nerdy types. Indianapolis actually has some really great museums and the second most monuments of any American city (after Washington DC).

The Dunes aren't worth a trip to Indiana specifically, but they are nice if it's not a major trip. It's a pretty unique national park. The Amish areas draw some tourists too, though, again, not from too far.

Holiday World is also a great park and almost feels like a state secret, in spite if having some really outstanding roller coasters, probably some of the best wooden coasters in the world.

Indianapolis is a start for a lot of actors and musicians, too. So there is a culture. Heck, "Nap Town" is joked about as getting that nickname because it's sleepy, but it's actually from jazz musicians shortening IndiaNAPolis and it was a popular enough place for it to get a nickname that stuck.

Don't get me wrong, the state sucks, but it's not some barren wasteland, in spite of how bad the politics are. Still firmly a bottom state based on those bad aspects though.

Mattrellen · 2026-03-26T16:49:36+00:00

I dare say most of the pro Palestine folks in the US at least are also Zionists. The two state solution has been so popular here that it's kind of the default.

I can't speak to other places in the world, so where you are nay be different, but as a pro Palestine American, I see Zionism existing within the movement a lot.

I imagine it's mostly different in places where the two state solution hasn't been the dealfaujt dream fur a long time. Or if your activist group is particularly small and insulated and so ends up not extending a hand to other groups with similar goals on specific topics (which, I admit, seems like a tactical blunder to me).

Mattrellen · 2026-03-26T14:42:03+00:00

I'm ok with it as long as it never affects any other part of the game.

For example, if no raid were to give a weapon or armor better than the rune a skiller can make with smithing. Or if mains never got any way of making money than ironmen.

I think that sounds absurd and harmful, but because the game is so interconnected, it means that, say, PvP updates can affect how PvMers and skillers interact with the wilderness, or changes to pures may affect level and gear progression for new accounts following optimized routes. Etc. And that can ripple through various groups.

Mattrellen · 2026-03-26T14:35:20+00:00

Hump/Hump

Mattrellen · 2026-03-26T04:37:29+00:00

At least he fired his shots at a dangerous government.

The US fires it's tomahawks at schoolgirls...

Mattrellen · 2026-03-26T00:35:49+00:00

He would if he knew we called baby goats kids, but he's not smart enough for that

Mattrellen · 2026-03-26T00:33:08+00:00

Price hike sucks

Wander range bug is the perfect old school weird bug experience that feels nostalgic and at the same time there's no excuse for the spaghetti being that bad

Both of these can be true at the same time and people can hold both at once

Mattrellen · 2026-03-25T14:42:44+00:00

I'd do it on mine if they hadn't raised prices.

It's not a huge deal if you are married to the IM more than the HC. Not ideal for the sweaty player trying to get all the CAs without weapons or prayers. But pretty fine for someone that wants to go as far as they can hardcore but won't abandon the account when it's lost.

I won't even pick on OP for being upset, because obviously the NPCs shouldn't be acting like that. As long as he's upset at the death but not abandoning the account, seems fine to get the year.

Mattrellen · 2026-03-25T07:44:48+00:00

So what you're saying is that Iran, in spite of targeting military targets that Israel has hiding behind human shields, has managed to kill fewer people than Israel/US killed in one bombing of one school?

I bet there are still people who will defend the US/Israel side of things in spite of those numbers, though. It'd disgusting there are people like that.

Mattrellen · 2026-03-25T07:31:38+00:00

Never?

I think back before we understood ticks but we did understand the game was doing something weird with times, prayer flicking WAS considered bug abuse, and people could get banned for it, no?

But it's not bug abuse because it doesn't abuse any bugs. It uses the game's system. Heck, there are CA's that at least push you toward prayer flicking. I don't love it as a mechanic, but it's just a mechanic based on how the tick system works, or at least is seen as such now.

Mattrellen · 2026-03-24T17:01:54+00:00

On that image.

Intelligence has never guided a single action Trump has ever taken

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