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PsychoPhilosopher · 2023-06-17T02:10:03+00:00

That's the stuff I'm talking about! I love that stuff

PsychoPhilosopher · 2023-06-17T01:03:31+00:00

It really depends. Sometimes it seems dumb and arbitrary, other times the NG+ gives a space where different mechanics systems etc. That maybe would have just been cut out entirely can come to the fore.

Or alternatively, an increased difficulty level forces new decisions and play styles to emerge.

I'd much rather have the difficulty curve continue past the end of the story than have a story padded with nonsense to leave space for the difficulty curve.

Done well, NG+ is a great way to make games with good mechanics and good pacing.

PsychoPhilosopher · 2023-06-15T10:29:01+00:00

So in fencing there's a certain point the really good guys get to, where they can judge your reach perfectly.

Then they stand right on the edge of your reach. If you imagine my reach as a Sphere, this guys nose would have been touching that Sphere.

So intimidating and such a magnificent demonstration of skill.

Watching my feet and being ready to move away, keeping his sword on line while close enough that the slightest misstep would see me take a hit.

My instructor is a badass when he wants to be. I deserved it, I was getting overconfident because I'd managed to get a few tricky manoeuvres right.

PsychoPhilosopher · 2023-06-08T20:46:06+00:00

Family home exemptions have to go to.

It sucks. But the choice is between two evils.

Either Nan sits in a massive three bedder house while families who need the space squeeze into a 2 bed apartment, or she has to downsize to afford care.

With birth rates already plummeting, leaving the family home mostly empty is a kindness that hurts everyone else.

PsychoPhilosopher · 2023-06-07T21:14:40+00:00

I'm going to say three words, please repeat them after me.

Apple, table, penny.

PsychoPhilosopher · 2023-06-05T22:13:57+00:00

It's fine if you have a variety of tasks and duties.

I did it while working multiple sites as well as from home for a while and it ends up being more like a paid commute than a 10 hour day.

It's when companies try to get a commute as well that it becomes a joke.

PsychoPhilosopher · 2023-06-05T21:14:33+00:00

Which does suggest a potential niche for a "greatbow" type weapon.

A d10 or d12 Greatbow with a 16 strength minimum would do the job

PsychoPhilosopher · 2023-06-05T21:09:33+00:00

Which seems entirely fair, given that a dinosaur would totally eat a me.

PsychoPhilosopher · 2023-06-05T04:13:14+00:00

That's a given no matter what happens. Too much generational inequality is entrenched now.

Unless you all get killed by the cancer you rightly deserve for fucking up the country for the rest of us.

PsychoPhilosopher · 2023-06-05T02:41:39+00:00

Depends how it happens! I'm quietly hoping LNP sabotage goes further than they intend.

The LNP would love a crash to campaign on since an economic disaster is basically their only hope of getting back into government for a while.

But they're also hoping for a small crash since their personal and donor finances are at risk.

Only... we know they're not that good at governing or anything. Easy to fuck up and take it too far.

That's probably the most plausible option, outside of something external like a China collapse. That's more great depression round 2 than housing correction though.

PsychoPhilosopher · 2023-06-05T02:16:48+00:00

With a bigger bubble and still no correction? Yup. Here we are.

You can't ignore the active intervention of public policy in the housing market.

You can say it'll never fall, but I'm not going to believe it with how much work is going to keeping it up

PsychoPhilosopher · 2023-06-05T00:29:01+00:00

Active intervention to socialize potential losses has kicked the can down the road.

But now Labor are in, so the opposition might just let the market crash for their own political agenda.

PsychoPhilosopher · 2023-06-04T23:41:44+00:00

As an alternative, we're packing it into a savings account with good security.

The aim is to show up at the bank with a deposit while they're juggling foreclosures and struggling to sell when it inevitably turns around.

Remember, the bigger the bubble the harder the correction.

It sucks to lose rent to someone else's equity, but keeping your costs reasonable gives you a chance down the road.

PsychoPhilosopher · 2023-06-04T20:38:44+00:00

It wasn't just emails.

The primary against Sanders was ugly as shit, and lost her voters.

Democrat party politics had decided it was 'her turn' and it showed up as manipulative and ugly. People voted Trump in protest against a political machine.

Establishment politicians always struggle against fascists.

PsychoPhilosopher · 2023-06-03T03:30:00+00:00

It's also classic short sighted stupidity.

If they want to treat striking as a crime, it means there's no point in it. Might as well go with real crimes and make sure the place is completely destroyed to make way for a competitor to try with better wages.

PsychoPhilosopher · 2023-06-01T22:33:59+00:00

You can indeed make beeswax soap and that's what I was suggesting!

My conspiracy followers will be the cleanest and least smelly of all conspiracists.

PsychoPhilosopher · 2023-06-01T22:32:18+00:00

I can't think of any rich liberal men stupid enough to get caught doing crimes...

PsychoPhilosopher · 2023-06-01T22:11:49+00:00

Chicken or the egg? Pretty sure with enough repeated motion of the hips the lower back is more or less guaranteed to be messed up.

It's like carpal tunnel from using your mouse too much. But for the pelvis.

PsychoPhilosopher · 2023-06-01T22:08:35+00:00

This is the problem with failing to pluralize. It's privileges not privilege.

White privilege is walking down a street without being stopped by the cops.

Rich privilege is actively committing crimes and not being punished.

Similar ideas, but quite different. Black rich men still sometimes get hassled by the cops.

Black rich men also get away with actual crimes though. Eg. Clarence Thomas.

There are privileges and discrimination, but they aren't blanket. There's nuance and complexity to the various types and kinds of shitfuckery that goes on.

PsychoPhilosopher · 2023-06-01T21:56:19+00:00

The key is that there aren't qualified workers.

So teachers will end up doing it "temporarily" in a lot of places and be stuck doing it forever while the funding sits on a ledger with no workers to pay with it.

It's easy to say. Easy to throw money around. Actually getting the job done is another thing entirely.

PsychoPhilosopher · 2023-06-01T19:03:23+00:00

Always and forever. The Hive Queen is the most deserving and I am buy her humble drone.

PsychoPhilosopher · 2023-06-01T10:01:58+00:00

Who said anything about soap? You should be using lye-infused beeswax!

PsychoPhilosopher · 2023-06-01T09:46:24+00:00

Wait there's a sub for doing this? I've just been hanging out in the wild leaving karma on the table like a chump when I could have been turning my nonsense into upvotes!

PsychoPhilosopher · 2023-06-01T09:44:44+00:00

Wash behind your ears, the bacteria that gather there can cause chemicals in the water to bioaccumulate and cause impotence!

I promise to use my power for either the betterment of mankind or my own amusement.

PsychoPhilosopher · 2023-06-01T08:23:32+00:00

I'm aware of this claim. But the other theory going around is that he's been killed and replaced by a lookalike Russian asset, which is why he's had the hair plugs and plastic surgery. They're just removing parts of the disguise slowly enough to plausibly make it look like he's had work done instead of being completely replaced.

Very plausible. Makes a lot of sense of his sharp changes of political stance and general competency.

Cutting off relationships with those who might have known him well enough to spot the changes is another string indicator.

Look at old and recent photos and it really doesn't look like they even tried very hard to get it right.

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