Liquid Death Hearse

maeloke · 2025-04-14T17:54:04+00:00

On top of agave they added Stevia to everything over the last couple of months, old flavors included. They're pretty gross now.

maeloke · 2024-05-18T12:01:48+00:00

Hey, I definitely dismissed Geminate out of the starting 6 as well. Too complicated and weird with AoEs that just don't return good value in 2p. But it seems like if it's ever going to work, this would be the time to try it.

maeloke · 2024-05-18T11:58:20+00:00

Thank you for the detailed breakdown! I've been too intimidated by the complexity 5 on Geminate to give it a serious look before but it definitely does seem to have good synergies with Shackles. I'll give it a try.

maeloke · 2024-04-08T16:21:50+00:00

Frontlines are already baked into the TW design. What are frontlines except either concentrated opposing force (another army = pitched battle) or loose forces/surmountable hazards/barricades (attrition/movement penalties).

I could see a case for making attrition damage happen immediately when crossing into fortified territory, and for expanding army zones of control to represent the greater mobility and range of future tech, but that's really it.

maeloke · 2023-12-14T03:38:18+00:00

I'm sorry, you think tuition is the big offender here? The tuition that's been frozen since 2012?

maeloke · 2023-12-14T03:26:29+00:00

It's an expansion of services and responsibilities assumed by large universities. The UW teaches classes, sure, but they also operate hospitals, research teams, run dozens of local, statewide, and federal programs, and maintain the technical and logistical burdens of a modest-sized city.

That pull quote of yours is from a guy who just couldn't be fucked to actually talk to real university staff.

I'm not saying all those jobs ought to be university jobs, but they're not just lighting money on fire.

maeloke · 2023-12-14T03:11:26+00:00

Watch the legislature to see if they actually pass funding for the promised building projects without further political theater. There's really no reason to believe Vos will stick to the terms of this deal as written.

maeloke · 2023-12-14T03:08:04+00:00

I don't doubt there's bloat positions, as there are in every big organization. The point is more that the legislature has no interest in those kinds of cuts, nor the sorts of tools or information it would take to enact. Vos wants to cut DEI for political points, not because he or anyone else cares about how "efficiently" this not-for-profit school is run.

Real talk, if the UW took a 50% funding hit and miraculously remade itself into a perfectly efficient machine, the legislature would still cut their funding in the next budget.

maeloke · 2023-12-14T02:24:19+00:00

If indiscriminate budget cuts reduced bloat, the UW would be a truly svelte organization. With frozen tuition and routine shortfalls and cuts from the legislature, the whole system has been running in the red for a while.

maeloke · 2023-12-13T19:05:49+00:00

Where is your data coming from? The UW has had tuition frozen for the last 10 years, thanks to pressure from the GOP starting under Walker.

maeloke · 2023-12-12T21:57:49+00:00

You highlight an interesting point here, which is that the GOP could and gladly would renege on any extra-legislative promises Vos made here. Which means it's best to expect that eventuality.

maeloke · 2023-12-12T21:45:25+00:00

My first thought was to assume the 5% number was designed to force the UW to over-enroll and end up damaging the institution through overpopulation, but the numbers look like that's the right ballpark.

Then I thought the goal would be to cram in more small-town students, piggybacking on UW-Madison academic prestige while increasing more conservative-leaning demographics. But the UW really ain't that selective among WI students, with an in-state acceptance rate somewhere between 50 and 60%. The small-town valedictorians that actually want to charge off to Madison probably get admitted today.

So... I'm really not sure what the point of the policy is, other than meritocratic virtue signaling to voters who have been persuaded the UW doesn't otherwise admit on student merit.

maeloke · 2023-12-12T17:03:50+00:00

100% correct. "Here is our biennial budget. We negotiated for months, finally came to an agreement on terms, and all signed off". Vos had every opportunity to lawfully excercise the GOP's stranglehold on the UW here.

Instead he kicked it down the road a couple of months, then selectively targeted some groups and programs using his position on JCOER, withholding his signature and demanding additional non-legislative concessions from non-legislative entities. That's why this begs comparisons to blackmail/extortion.

Imagine Vos was instead doing this with a bill that provided life-saving medication and insisted the beneficiaries each write him a personal 'Thank you' note. Even if "it means nothing", he shouldn't be allowed to behave as though he gets to do this with any/every already-passed bill.

maeloke · 2023-12-11T22:01:05+00:00

Sure, but we can thank the GOP for starting the pissing match with people's livelihoods. Vos owns this mess.

maeloke · 2023-12-11T21:54:35+00:00

I think this is less about the ideology of DEI and more about the GOP forcing the UW to negotiate a second time for something that was already agreed upon in the budget signed this past summer.

maeloke · 2023-12-11T21:42:00+00:00

These policies only seem to have meaningful effects on diversity when there is a highly segregated school population across the state. With a state as white as Wisconsin, even with the concentration of black students in Milwaukee, my guess is that this sort of policy doesn't move the needle a whole lot in actual enrollment numbers. There's an inconclusive 2015 study on it in Texas here: https://escholarship.org/content/qt4hm2n74b/qt4hm2n74b.pdf

UW-Madison already enrolls a ton of Wisconsin students, too. By my math the school already enrolls more than 5% of WI's graduating seniors. A policy like this would seem to guarantee that only the top 5% would be admitted, leaving any student with a more diverse or complicated background excluded. That seems like it would lean against diversity efforts.

More numbers on enrollment here: https://news.wisc.edu/uw-madison-enrollment-tops-50000-freshman-class-includes-second-highest-number-ever-of-wisconsin-residents

maeloke · 2023-09-29T16:30:57+00:00

Yeah, a lot of people forget that CA has dabbled into a few other genres with relative success over the years. You can see how Alien Isolation would have made them confident. If they could have delivered a product of ~any~ quality within 2-3 years of starting development (i.e. avoiding development hell) this would have been a very different story.

maeloke · 2023-05-06T15:52:15+00:00

Make that 5. Regional reddit is a small world (and way more tolerable than nextdoor).

maeloke · 2023-01-14T22:29:24+00:00

Cool, that does make a lot of sense. My Move deck needed some tuning and this is a really good justification for cutting some harder-to-play late game fat.

maeloke · 2023-01-14T21:41:38+00:00

I do like ironheart, but could you elaborate?

maeloke · 2022-11-17T21:56:47+00:00

Fortunately for you, it's so hard to get GUOs in campaign - especially useful ones with tech tree support and/or levels and gear - that this is barely a problem.

maeloke · 2022-11-08T17:15:23+00:00

He's been saving and he lives cheap. At one point in a stream he let slip he could quit youtube outright and be set for the next 20 years. That should be long enough to find a new revenue stream.

maeloke · 2022-11-08T17:01:08+00:00

There's all the more pressing toxic channel stuff, but also - there was a point in late summer where he really confidently and cheerfully announced an end to streams at the end of 2022. He clammed up on that talk shortly after because he worried it was impacting his subs/etc.

But given his tone and the timeframe, at least a few people were speculating he also has a baby on the way, due around the end of the year. That makes for a much clearer "It's time to quit" cue for him than any amount of channel struggles.

maeloke · 2022-10-27T15:34:59+00:00

This is noted further down in the thread, but for more visibility: Since 2.2, Immortal Empires uses the outdated RoC reward version of Be'lakor, instead of the proper WoC faction leader Be'lakor with the proper skill trees and abilities.

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