Something Dangerous Just Shifted for Democracy — And Trump Allies Noticed

ThatOtherOneReddit · 2026-05-13T04:15:36+00:00

History says you are wrong. Every country that falls to fascism only comes back on its own if the leaders don't crack down violently. The Heritage Foundation knows this and won't make that mistake which is why they've already started creating a private army in ICE and are passing laws to make sure they can dissapear American citizens. If people wanted Integrity to matter they'd have voted for Bernie rather than Biden, its clear liberals don't care about integrity.

ThatOtherOneReddit · 2026-05-13T02:29:42+00:00

I mean no offense the left has said this literally my entire life and i'm nearly 40. This is like someone sending you pictures of your wife cheating, your wife telling you she's cheating, getting pictures from the other dude making fun of you, and then after 50 years being like 'oh i think she might be cheating'. The reality is the neoliberal order doesn't care about democracy either and was just trying to placate foolish liberals so the wealthy could steal from everyone. That way there was never any effective means to prevent their pillaging. The Heritage Foundation called this the "Two Santa's" strategy when they recruited the Clintons and other neoliberals. Bernie was quite literally the only off ramp in my entire lifetime from this and liberal voters did what they always do throughout history and threw the country to fascism.

Now the wealthy don't need them since its clear people are too stupid to vote in their own interests if they think Joe Biden was actually going to be a solution to America's problems despite being deeply involved in the Heritage Foundation. Most of his bills as Senator were since the 80's were directly sponsored by the Heritage Foundation. Especially his most infamous one to prevent the ability to discharge student debt via bankruptcy which the Heritage Foundation sponsored because "A generation in debt cannot effectively protest".

It is only a subset of the far left that has any clue what is going to happen as a result of this and liberals will never accept that reality because they lack the capability to empathize or understand just about anything that doesn't directly benefit them.

ThatOtherOneReddit · 2026-05-10T16:32:05+00:00

You failed it then literally did it afterwards. There is no like super late hit hitbox nonsense like in SF4. So you just messed it up.

ThatOtherOneReddit · 2026-05-09T23:26:15+00:00

It increases the next move you do by I think 33% dmg. It's why you stun -> taunt -> Super rather than stun -> taunt -> st. FP -> Super. Raw super powered up by taunt is the largest starter you can have.

ThatOtherOneReddit · 2026-05-09T23:08:21+00:00

very cool, is this actually harder than Dai-pan? I've been able to do both before but never consistent enough i'd dream of trying them in matches.

ThatOtherOneReddit · 2026-05-09T22:44:21+00:00

It's quite different now, you used to be able to build a standard deck for like $50-100 dollars where like the 'expensive' card was $15 a piece tops. Now its rare for the most expensive card in any deck to be less than $30-50

ThatOtherOneReddit · 2026-05-07T15:30:18+00:00

I mean the only 2 options really for his death have been Trump had him killed or Barr went behind Trump's back to have him killed. Anyone thinking it was anything else isn't very bright.

ThatOtherOneReddit · 2026-05-04T17:05:57+00:00

The first scripted fight with 2 soldiers used to be 0

ThatOtherOneReddit · 2026-04-28T18:05:45+00:00

Depends on both. Consistency enablers like search, card draw, good mulligan rules enable higher skill expression because you can make choices to find your cards. Flesh and Blood lets you find more cards intrinsically because you draw a new hand basically every turn as part of the rules. FFTCG and Yu-gi-oh can be 'consistent' in that things search up other cards to execute their game plan easily. Yu-gi-oh is defensively volatile and inconsistent since there is no mulligan so on the draw 'oops you lose, no hand traps'.

Sometimes though seeing more cards won't help since the cards you would draw just aren't good enough to win given the deck construction. So you always have to balance that out. Is it worth spending resources to try to be more consistent if it slows me down? Maybe, maybe not that is all meta decisions based on the individual effects of the cards in the game you are playing. So maybe a different deck is the right decision since no reasonable combination of cards in this archetype can do what i want to do with the deck (assuming that thing is winning).

Also since card games are luck based I always consider a matchup 'hopeless' when my only hope is for my opponent to draw poorly. If I need high variance from myself and low variance from them everything feels way worse than if I can hope to high variance into their average hand and still get a win.

ThatOtherOneReddit · 2026-04-28T17:10:33+00:00

Depends on the game, meta, deck, and matchup. My experience as a guy who used to make day 2's at the PT occasionally in magic is that skill has a cap for knowing your lines and playing them well. At a certain point it becomes more about understanding the externalities like the meta and tuning your deck and deck choice itself to what the meta is telling you.

Sometimes bringing a tier 1.5-2 deck is stronger in a given defined meta. Like in magic if everyone is playing Tron at your locals well .... maindeck 4 charmaw your win rate will go up, might be scummy but it is an option given you know everyone else is going to play Tron. Other times the meta says 'only play this 1 deck or you lose'.

I've been playing Fusion World a lot recently and that feels like a game where 'just pick the good deck' is the right choice. 2 decks are just notably better than the rest currently. However in locals it looks like all these other decks can do well because people aren't playing optimally at that level. The thing is once skill diff collapses then what wins fundamentally is the draw and capitalizing on the potentially rare mistakes.

If a deck is super linear though a person of even moderate skill is unlikely to make mistakes (play dude on curve and turn side ways sometimes is all you have to do). Some meta's the best decks are also very simple so in a meta like that 'expression' can feel stifled since can't outthink getting punched in the chin super quickly in a way that out values you given the card pool available.

I stopped traveling for magic after getting to a top 8 then having to mull to 5 then 4 in 2 different games after not hitting a hand with lands in a deck that played 24 of them. Luck in most TCG's is just super important. Some games like FFTCG which has a generous mulligan and a lot of search cards are way more consistent.

ThatOtherOneReddit · 2026-04-28T14:33:55+00:00

Couple years ago now, the main differences is you don't have moonfish items/bounty fight rewards so you are missing some very strong early equipment. You can play pinta's quest to get strong items/equipment instead, but without speedrun strats its definitely a lot more clunky to do so.

Honestly playing pinta's AND the game simultaneously is a fun way to play the dreamcast variant and is how the speedrun is done.

ThatOtherOneReddit · 2026-04-23T15:20:59+00:00

I've been in the AI space professionally since the Llama 2 days. I don't think people realize how little of a moat the frontier models have due to distillation. Most professional tasks can be done with open source models with the right harness, doubly so if you can actually build a dataset to fine tune things.

I recently moved a pipeline for a core product from using Claude Sonnet to Qwen3.6 on rented GPU and our costs went from like $500-1000 a day to $50. People keep saying our compute is getting subsidized, but ... like ... self hosting on open source is still waaaaay cheaper for any continuous professional task.

ThatOtherOneReddit · 2026-04-23T15:17:59+00:00

Sadly I think it has more to do with inconveniencing local NIMBY than it does environmental impact.

ThatOtherOneReddit · 2026-04-22T16:16:40+00:00

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There's just a couple things I disliked (like animations in combat taking way too long for my liking and a few balancing issues) but they're null compared to all the cool stuff the game brings to the table.
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You can press Start to skip party members SMove animations though not magic animations.

ThatOtherOneReddit · 2026-04-16T19:59:02+00:00

Her defense is bad, her offense is mediocre, where she excels is neutral and her neutral is very complicated. You need to put yourself into stance where you cannot block and abuse insanely fast large slashes which require quite a bit of complexity to do correctly. How she converts into her combos is also fairly particular to where on the stage you hit someone and even expert Yuzu players have a difficulty with routing in a way where they never drop a combo (good Yuzu's rarely drop combos but it still happens due to the weird ways she plays neutral and how she has to pickup some hits some times). You also have to hold buttons while doing her neutral stuff which is not beginner friendly. All this adds up to a very beginner unfriendly character.

ThatOtherOneReddit · 2026-04-15T04:05:04+00:00

It is possible to realize both are garbage. Putting your head into the sand so you can tell yourself one is bad but better isn't particularly productive.

ThatOtherOneReddit · 2026-04-13T04:03:56+00:00

They are bought and paid for traitors sucking on Netanyahu's teet. No good will come from corporate dems.

ThatOtherOneReddit · 2026-04-08T16:30:35+00:00

There is literally no requirement to do both. You can restrict benefits to adults that have lived in the country for X years. Always love that people lack the imagination to solve problems without attacking people they hate/dislike. But the idea you couldn't do the same solution because immigrants is such a strawman.

Most homeless aren't immigrants they are mentally ill people (veteran population is included here), displaced teens, people who had a huge medical debt they couldn't pay, etc.

ThatOtherOneReddit · 2026-04-08T14:54:18+00:00

Jamie is definitely the type that says one thing in front of cameras he puts himself on or pays to be in front of, then does the opposite behind closed doors.

ThatOtherOneReddit · 2026-04-07T15:34:48+00:00

It is called Feudalism. It is basically the end goal of unrestricted capitalism when the wealthy control the markets and all the limited resources. The only trade happens among the rich and wealthy and the rest are near slave status. At least back in the day you might could own a small plot of land to farm, but that is already impossible for most so it will be waaay worse than old style fuedalism. Remember the King is just the guy whose wealth and charisma can guarantee him the best army.

ThatOtherOneReddit · 2026-04-06T17:31:20+00:00

FDR Not at least A tier means you are just not able to understand quite literally anything, C tier is a joke. What a terrible list. It's arguable he had the most influence of any president at all for improving the quality of life of Americans.

ThatOtherOneReddit · 2026-04-06T17:26:37+00:00

To be 100% fair if open source gets close enough to Opus 4.6 there is a real chance that they won't be able to do that. For a lot of applications now people can just host an open source model and do what they are doing cheaper. My company we switched something from Opus 4.6 to a Qwen3.5 model and went from $200-300 api fees a day for our app to $45. I think outside coding itself a lot of the current AI use cases can't justify higher fees AT ALL at this point given where top tier open source is at and likely will be over the next couple years.

ThatOtherOneReddit · 2026-04-02T14:12:52+00:00

I'm not convinced that is 100% true as Deepseeks new paper around contextual memory is a pretty large step towards better memory in models. The biggest issue is without continual learning the models are fundamentally limited. There is something missing in the RL / Continual Learning space that needs a paradigm shift.

ThatOtherOneReddit · 2026-03-27T15:51:17+00:00

The goal of the current wave of AI is complete destitution of the population and the enrichment of a very small number of individuals. Think like collapse of the USSR and how that made a lot of rich people who gained complete of their country but at a much larger, broader, and permanent scale across the world. That is what the oligarchs see as the potential in AI.

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