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| Topic | New Stellaris patch and DLC launches in 5 hours! Sectors are finally fixed!!! |
| ElatedVenusaur 06/04/19 4:36:53 PM #7 | Im in Oregon until Friday, so no checking it out for me yet. They buffed habitats, ring worlds, Dyson spheres, and matter compressors as well. |
| Topic | NY Democrats will likely put off pot legalization for another year |
| ElatedVenusaur 06/04/19 4:28:21 PM #30 | Antifar posted... s0nicfan posted...but if your job is to represent the entire state, and the vast majority of the state is red, Plus, the state hasnt had a Republican Governor since 2006 or a Republican Senator since 1998. The last Republican President to carry the state was freaking Reagan! |
| Topic | NY Democrats will likely put off pot legalization for another year |
| ElatedVenusaur 06/04/19 4:20:11 PM #26 | The NY state Democratic Party is also very much controlled by corrupt (and largely unelected) cadre of donors and political insiders designed to reward loyalty rather than to achieve political goals. So, like most state parties, but with a longer and grimier legacy. |
| Topic | Besides your own state, what other 3 state license plates do you most often see? |
| ElatedVenusaur 06/04/19 3:09:40 AM #16 | New York Massachusetts Huh. Im drawing a blank on a third. You would think it was Rhode Island, but you would be very wrong. There arent people there. |
| Topic | Started Fire Emblem 8, and people aren't kidding about this game being easy. |
| ElatedVenusaur 06/04/19 3:03:10 AM #49 | Delirious_Beard posted... god i miss the aesthetic of GBA fire emblem so much Yeah, the sprites are animated so well. Even the basic attacks. But the crits? Dear God they are great. Like, the way shaman glow ominously while a pentagram blinks briefly into existence. The pleasingly meaty way cavaliers and paladins drive their lances into enemies. The casual way a swordmaster glides into three or how a hero chucks his shield skyward and slams his weapon down into the enemy. Lyn splitting in four, Hectors Armads being so heavy it casually cleaves the floor. The goddamned spin-cycle of DOOM Theyre so memorable and full of character. |
| Topic | Hourly reminder that Zeus is a terrible god. |
| ElatedVenusaur 06/03/19 5:24:46 PM #37 | Tyranthraxus posted... PiOverlord posted...I don't really know much about Norse Mythology, but I imagine the gods do wild things there as well. It wasnt random: the Gods wanted to build a nice new wall around Asgard, and some random traveler offered to do it in a season if they promised him the sun, the moon, and Freyas hand in marriage. The Gods were going to reject the ridiculous offer, but Loki convinced them otherwise, because of course some random dude couldnt build a giant wall in a single season, but the Gods could just get some of it done for free. They agreed to Lokis logic and also not to interfere in any way. Fast forward four months and the wall is a day away from completion because the traveler was actually a giant with a supernaturally strong stallion, so Loki volunteers to mess up the giants work in a plausibly-deniable way so he doesnt get his skin flayed off by his angry fellows. So he turns into a mare and leads the stallion away and the traveler fails to complete the work and gets angry, but then Thor, who was out murdering giants this whole time comes home and murders the giant, so Loki probably didnt even have to do anything. |
| Topic | Hourly reminder that Zeus is a terrible god. |
| ElatedVenusaur 06/03/19 3:42:28 AM #13 | pegusus123456 posted... HunkDude posted...kratos actually seemed good compared to lost of Greek gods I mean, in Demeters defense, any one would get super depressed about their daughter getting kidnapped. And, in Hades defense, you would get lonely too if your family locked you in the basement with nothing but shades and a vicious three-headed dog for company. Even Charon probably doesnt visit, and hes right next door, the jerk! |
| Topic | Why are there so many democrat nominees lol |
| ElatedVenusaur 05/30/19 11:25:01 PM #10 | Only, like, a half-dozen of them stand a chance(Biden, Sanders, Warren, Harris, Buttigieg, and, welp, I think thats all of the high-pollers). |
| Topic | Started Fire Emblem 8, and people aren't kidding about this game being easy. |
| ElatedVenusaur 05/30/19 11:18:36 PM #7 | The difficulty gets better on Hard later on, but the average character in FE8 is better, and the worst characters aren't half-bad. Plus, even Eirika, the worse of the two lords, crushes Roy... Our boy Roy: 80/40/50/40/60/25/30 Restoration Queen Eirika: 70/40/60/60/60/30/30 Worse HP growth, equal or better at everything else(including a crucial +20%! in speed), *and* gets a reasonable promotion time! And yes, it's hilarious that Eirika has a better defense growth than Roy, even if it's only 5%. |
| Topic | The US is no longer the world's most competitive economy |
| ElatedVenusaur 05/30/19 5:15:33 PM #12 | Irony posted... How'd you escape purgatory? See yourself back in sir. In this case, he's not wrong. I'm sorry. |
| Topic | Are you a Rick or a Morty? |
| ElatedVenusaur 05/30/19 2:43:33 PM #5 | Aw geez, I don't know about this. |
| Topic | Liberals who learn about white privilege are less sympathetic to poor whites. |
| ElatedVenusaur 05/30/19 2:34:30 PM #50 | Probably because they don't realize how much being poor screws you over. I mean, being white helps, particularly in terms of landing jobs and avoiding incarceration, but that's not nearly enough to escape poverty. |
| Topic | Stellaris 2.3 and Ancient Relics patch notes |
| ElatedVenusaur 05/30/19 11:22:22 AM #1 | https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/stellaris-dev-diary-150-2-3-wolfe-patch-notes.1183870/ Major note: they've completely reworked sectors, allowing you to designate a "sector capital" that hoovers up surrounding worlds to make a sector, rather than it just...happening. Other things... The expansion features archaeological projects, two new pre-cursors, minor artifacts that can expended for a one-time boost(what those boosts are rely on your ethics), and relic worlds, which are stuffed with artifacts and relics. The patch introduces relics, which can be acquired via a number of ways. For example, the Contingency Core, Prethoryn Queen, the Great Khan's throne, and the Galatron are now all relics which may be activated for special benefits(IIRC, the Queen will generate a small Prethoryn fleet for you). Lastly, Habitats and Ringworlds got a buff. |
| Topic | Sweden's richest municipality is in financial trouble. |
| ElatedVenusaur 05/30/19 10:18:15 AM #18 | Yeah, English looks askance at compounds of more than two words, but I know German too will smash together as many words as you want it to. |
| Topic | thanks to ancestry, I discovered that I'm related to Oliver Cromwell |
| ElatedVenusaur 05/30/19 12:32:56 AM #4 | My great-grandmother was Roald Amundsen's second cousin. Allegedly. |
| Topic | Louisiana governor to sign 'heartbeat' ban, latest move to curb U.S. abortion |
| ElatedVenusaur 05/30/19 12:31:54 AM #3 | Can't believe a Democratic governor is signing one of these things. |
| Topic | Holy shit, Biden just won't quit. |
| ElatedVenusaur 05/29/19 11:39:26 PM #77 | Well, now we know why he does so few public events. |
| Topic | Anyone else like burning incense? |
| ElatedVenusaur 05/29/19 11:36:01 PM #1 | I bought some sticks(frankincense&myrrh) yesterday and burned one, and it smells really good! Now I might get an actual holder. That's, um, pretentious, maybe? |
| Topic | Most recent book you've read? |
| ElatedVenusaur 05/29/19 11:02:51 PM #13 | "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By In America" by Barbara Ehrenreich was the last thing I finished, and the first thing I read after my school year fast. Currently reading "Candide" by Voltaire before my trip and have to figure out what I'm going to bring with me to read. |
| Topic | Sen. Bernie Sanders announces plan to expand employee ownership |
| ElatedVenusaur 05/29/19 10:26:05 AM #22 | Balrog0 posted... SK8T3R215 posted...Are they being paid "dividends" of stock or are the shares being liquidated then paid out Yeah, it's just an idea rather than a concrete proposal. |
| Topic | Sen. Bernie Sanders announces plan to expand employee ownership |
| ElatedVenusaur 05/29/19 10:03:48 AM #7 | EternalDivide posted... Employers are crooked and always looking to screw their people over sure. I don't think anyone would disagree with that. So, how do you suggest empowering workers and giving them their fair share? |
| Topic | Religion is continuing to DIE OUT. Millennials are especially rejecting it. |
| ElatedVenusaur 05/29/19 10:01:21 AM #3 | It's vastly better than embracing some garbage like prosperity gospel evangelicalism, but then there are plenty of atheists who believe in similar things. |
| Topic | Lmao people deadass don't wash their legs? |
| ElatedVenusaur 05/29/19 1:04:58 AM #51 | I wash thoroughly and apparently smell good, at least when not soaked in sweat. |
| Topic | Sen. Bernie Sanders announces plan to expand employee ownership |
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| Topic | Should cops be allowed to take steroids? |
| ElatedVenusaur 05/29/19 12:43:24 AM #11 | Hairistotle posted... No, they're already twitchy and bloodthirsty enough imo |
| Topic | America is the highly successful spin-off of Britain |
| ElatedVenusaur 05/29/19 12:25:32 AM #3 | We took over the old imperial business with aplomb. |
| Topic | Sargons Guide To Winning Elections |
| ElatedVenusaur 05/29/19 12:24:32 AM #20 | knutjob posted... BalanceLost posted...I did not look at the video but the new Brexit Party, led by former UKIP leader Nigel Farage, took most of their lost votes though. So UKIP kinda lost to their original leader. When Nigel Farage thinks you're an irredeemably racist clown, you've pretty much hit rock-bottom. |
| Topic | CNN Breaking News: McConnell confirms to be a piece of shit |
| ElatedVenusaur 05/28/19 8:32:10 PM #18 | Antifar posted... Weird, I was expecting him to have principles. Well, Joe Biden says he does, and you can't fool Uncle Joe! |
| Topic | How many hours do you work per week? |
| ElatedVenusaur 05/28/19 12:08:55 PM #17 | I work 20-30 hours a week nowadays(mostly at the lower end of that scale), because I'm going back to school. |
| Topic | What was your most often used team in Super Mario RPG? |
| ElatedVenusaur 05/27/19 7:02:51 PM #8 | Kid me desperately wanted to use Bowser, because I was awestruck by the sheer novelty of Mario and Bowser working together, but I was pretty bad at the game and wound up leaning on Peach. Even kid me realized she and Geno were pretty busted. |
| Topic | people who literally think the Nazis were socialist |
| ElatedVenusaur 05/27/19 6:28:02 PM #32 | treewojima posted... also, the Nazis were fervently anti-communist, which makes the comparison even more hilarious because socialism directly influenced Marx and his theory of communism Yeah, they literally burned the Reichstag so they had a pretext to throw the actual communists into the first camps. Then they threw the social democrats into the camps, just to be sure. Then everyone else that opposed them. I mean, the Nazis were literally invited into government by conservative monarchists who were doing everything in their power to undermine German democracy(one historian, I forget his name, coined an especially poetic descriptor for President Paul von Hindenburg: "the gravedigger of democracy" or something like that). Their aim was to use them as a cudgel against the communists and then tossing them aside/absorbing the less extreme elements, but they were the ones who got tossed aside/absorbed. |
| Topic | Politics are cancer |
| ElatedVenusaur 05/27/19 6:00:54 PM #9 | Ignorance is bliss, but it's also compliance. And helplessness. |
| Topic | how do you feel about people who deny the holocaust? |
| ElatedVenusaur 05/27/19 1:02:33 PM #69 | nemu posted... I can never really understand the logic of it. Like, only a nazi sympathizer should want to deny it, but then they should also praise it for happening in that case. It's because they realize it would look bad to normal people to admit they think it was a good thing, so their public-facing belief is that it's either exaggerated or made-up. This allows them to more easily recruit others who have the same feeling while easing them into the real belief. The idea that the Nazis were meaningfully socialists(i.e. leftist) is also a deflection of a similar intent: essentially, it allows them to pretend their chosen ideology is blameless and pure by blaming everything bad on "the left". |
| Topic | What's the best Final Fantasy for newcomers? |
| ElatedVenusaur 05/27/19 11:26:11 AM #28 | http://fourjobfiesta.com/ It is nearly the time for the playing of FFV. |
| Topic | Is college is a good idea for me? Need direction :( |
| ElatedVenusaur 05/24/19 11:44:56 PM #6 | Flockaveli posted... Apply for financial aid and see how far that takes you. Additionally, consider starting off at a community college. They're (relatively) cheap, and doing well will make you a more attractive applicant in the eyes of 4-year universities. |
| Topic | Just finished Jordan Peele's Us. Wow. Wtf *spoilers*. Your theories? |
| ElatedVenusaur 05/24/19 4:55:44 PM #14 | Lupita Nyong'o was incredible. The movie itself was good, but she put it on her back and carried it over the top. |
| Topic | Idea: a tiered minimum wage system for different age groups |
| ElatedVenusaur 05/24/19 4:28:41 PM #9 | That's horribly ageist. billcom6 posted... Employers would just stop hiring older people. Also that. The last thing we need is to give Boomers an actual reason to feel aggrieved. |
| Topic | Pretty much all the Soviet Secretary Generals were bad except Gorbochov (sp?). |
| ElatedVenusaur 05/24/19 4:23:06 PM #3 | It's my understanding that there was significant recognition of the need for reforms as early as the late '70s, but the hardliners were able to stave it off and a lot of the older reformists like Andropov died practically as soon as they won power, and the lack of continuity made it difficult to get things rolling until (the relatively young) Gorbachev took the reins, by which time the SU was bursting at the seams. I really need to get some books about the Soviet Union and Russia in the '80s and '90s. Sounds like it was a horrible mess. |
| Topic | I think I'm pretty close to beating Chrono Trigger (spoilers) |
| ElatedVenusaur 05/24/19 3:40:23 PM #3 | ocelot51 posted... Do all the sidequests though Yeah. You not only get a bunch of cool stuff, but some really neat story bits as well. |
| Topic | Enjoying the sexism mocking of Theresa May crying |
| ElatedVenusaur 05/24/19 3:39:03 PM #20 | Yeah, no, I can't feel the slightest shred of sympathy for Theresa May, sorry. Particularly since all she seems to be crying over is her own horrible misfortune in no longer getting to be a world leader anymore. |
| Topic | Playing Fire Emblem 6 and this game is exhausting. |
| ElatedVenusaur 05/24/19 3:36:23 PM #31 | legendarylemur posted... FE6 is infamous for having an extremely brutal early game and then gets hilariously easy later. It doesn't help the game spews garbage units at you like a high-pressure fire hose. A depressing amount of the characters the game gives you are no-hopers who seemingly exist solely to steal experience from the units with actual growth potential. |
| Topic | brits, are you ready for boris johnson to become our next PM? |
| ElatedVenusaur 05/24/19 10:09:43 AM #14 | spudger posted... wasnt boris already your PM? It may be difficult to tell, as they are all idiots, but my understanding is that Boris is a genuine Trump-level idiot. |
| Topic | Theresa May is leaving office in about a month. Well, well, well. |
| ElatedVenusaur 05/24/19 9:49:49 AM #23 | May is garbage and should've resigned a long time ago. Even controlling for the fact that Brexit was going to be a train wreck at best, she showed a total lack of awareness, political acumen, or ability to negotiate with, well, anyone. She actively worsened the situation, and survived as long as she did only because her enemies could not agree on the means to remove her sooner. |
| Topic | Evidence of secret ocean inside Pluto makes extraterrestrial life more plausible |
| ElatedVenusaur 05/24/19 9:27:33 AM #4 | Man, Europa must be so annoyed that Pluto is trying to muscle in on its gimmick. |
| Topic | I saw a video on YT months ago titled 'JK Rowling is an AWFUL person' and the... |
| ElatedVenusaur 05/24/19 9:00:04 AM #6 | Well, she is a Blairite. That's a pretty significant mark against anyone. |
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