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Shoblongoo

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  1. [High Investment Unit] = Unit that immediately upon joining your party will underperform other units available at the time, which you could be using in the alternative. And will require you to warp your gameplay around feeding them the resources they need to perform better, before they can perform at or above the level of a low investment unit. Whether or not high investment units are "good" depends on whether or not you're playing a game where your low-investment units eventually drop-off. And having high investment units able to outperform them is necessary to meet the difficulty spike of buffed up enemies in the mid to late game. Or whether your low investment units never drop off and can comfortably handle endgame mobs without higher performing high investment units that have been fully invested in. __ FE8 is the classic example of a game where high investment units are dogshit, because your low investment units never drop-off and the marginally better units you get from fully investing in an Amelia or an Ewan is never necessary to address a problem you could be throwing Seth or Saleh at. Conquest is the classic example of a game where high investment units are good. Because the endgame goes hard. You can't just count on Camilla putting in the same work on Chapter 20 that she puts in on Chapter 11 to carry the team. And building up high-investment units that will eventually outperform your low investment units when they're fully invested in pays off when she doesn't.
  2. Its a distinction without a difference tbh--the patchwork form and function of state level regulation whereby the efforts of the states that have it are fustrated by the efforts of the states that don't remains the same. i.e. You can for example have strict gun control laws here in New Jersey. And it just doesn't matter at all when you have the I-95 corridor running through the State. And every Red State along the way that doesn't control whose running around with burst rifles and hollow tips can send a U-Haul full of w/e across the Commadore Barry. It only works if there's centralized enforcement.
  3. Human history makes a lot more sense when you remember how many of the major decisions were historically made by 19 year olds who drank wine for breakfast.
  4. TLDR--its culturally ingrained in the body politic of the American voter through 100s of years of law and tradition that they have a fundamental right to own and operate firearms. That that right is part of America's national identity + founding doctrines. And that changing the law to adopt the gun control systems of more modernized, better governed, and less violent countries would be a violation of a fundamental right + a tyrannical misuse of government power. There's also massive propaganda campaigns and disinformation funded by gun manufacturers and special interest groups frequently putting out publications about how gun control laws don't actually work. Don't reduce shooting deaths or increase public safety. And make law-abiding citizens less safe, because "yada, yada, yada--when you make guns illegal than only criminals have guns." Which has unfortunately been quite effective at influencing voter opinion on the issue. "If you elect him, he's going to take your guns away" is an attack line you will often hear candidates for public office using against their opponents in American elections. __ In short, for gun control to happen in Ameria, there needs to be a generational change in the way the American public thinks about the issue and the mandate we give to the lawmakers we elect to office. I think American thinking on the issue on-the-whole has liberalized a bit in recent decades and there is more receptiveness among more people to realizing we shouldn't be the only developed nation that routinely has school shootings and armed gang warfare in the streets. The 2nd amendment says what it says--but men of the 18th century weren't right about everything in perpetuity. The country as a whole just isn't there yet.
  5. 3H still feels like it has so many unexplored plot threads and side stories that the developers just never got around to fleshing out, because their ambition outstripped their ability to produce a finished game. Sooooooo....head canon-time... __ HEAD CANON: The fuckery Rhea did with baby Byleth was more successful then her previous failed attempts to resurrect Sothis. ...but she still didn't get it 100% right... And Sothis only coming back in child form + coming back without her memories was a result of Rhea once again failing to perform a full and complete restoration.
  6. A little bit late to the party here, but what I've found is. Priority #1: Get the one's with big avoid bonuses on the main enemy phase weapon of units that make good dodge tanks. Tomes and Daggers are ideal for the 1-2 range on their counterattacks; a fast mage or thief with a basic weapon that carries no speed penalty and a +avoid engrave can inherit +avoid skills. sit on defensive terrain. Pull aggro. And put damage on everything that attacks into them + never die. (I did this with Yunaka and she quickly became the best unit on my team) __ Priority #2 Anything that reduces avoid or adds weight as a penalty to offset its bonus goes on weapons that you want to give to slow, tanky units that aren't relying on doubling or dodging to do their job. And just appreciate having harder hitting, more accurate attacks. These will typically be whatever weapons you plan on giving to your armor knights. ___ Priority #3 Weapons that have very high might but bad accuracy are good candidates for engraves that increase accuracy but reduce might. (i.e. I put Lyn's engrave on the Tomahawk. And its turns it into a much more functional throwing axe that doesn't weigh you down or miss all the time, but still packs a ton of power at 1-2 range)
  7. I am shocked--shocked--that a coalition of the absolute worst people and most malignant egos in society formerly being held together by an authoritarian strongman has now in his absence devolved into petty, self-destructive infighting. ... Okay. I'm not that shocked.
  8. I heard it was due to a problem with the captcha login
  9. ...huh... Its almost like finding common cause in tonguing Trump's ass for 7 years was the only thing stopping the bible-thumpers and the ammosexuals and the Tea Party cosplayers + the vulture capitalists and the crypto bros and the country club Republicans from remembering that they actually hate each other.
  10. No. Republicans are just bad enough that voters looked at what they were offering in the alternative and said: "absolutely not." ___ Addendum: The biggest flex of the midterms was clearly the Florida GOP. Not gonna toot Ron Desantis's horn too hard, because the last time a Florida GOP Governor was being hailed as the presumed republican anti-Trump + national frontrunner in a GOP presidential primary they were pushing Jeb. But the GOP controls Florida. It use to be a swing state. Its Red now. Gotta go into future elections planning accordingly.
  11. Soooooo--you were presented with a hospital form asking you which race you identify most strongly as, if biracial. Thought the question was racist against biracial people who don't identify more strongly with one race. Felt disheartened, excluded, and 'outlawed.' And as a result of same you as a biracial person now more closely identify with MAGAs, Nazis, and White Supremacists who--literally believe that Loving v. Virginia was a mistake. Race-mixing is degeneracy. And laws banning race-mixing are good laws + biracial people shouldn't even exist. __ That's your thought process. Really???
  12. Let me be very, very, very clear: Joining the US military means you will be duty-bound under the law to invade and kill and die for your government, if ordered to do so. Have no right whatsoever to speak up about it or question your orders. And can be arrested + jailed if you bail. If its absolutely your last resort for food in your belly and a roof over your head and its either that or prison--go for it. But holy shit if you're gainfully employed and your only complaint now is that you don't find your civilian job fulfilling--no. Don't do it.
  13. She was a dogmatic conservative on every issue whose only transgression against the party-line was that she wouldn't treat personal loyalty to Donald Trump as a core value of being a Republican. And would call him out on lies and disinformation + hold him accountable for crimes and frauds, rather than acting like every word that came out of his mouth was pure undiluted greatness and anyone with a bad thing to say about him was part of a conspiracy to destroy America. __ I think it can be said without exaggeration that her ouster as a representative that no longer has a place in the GOP marks the transition of the GOP from a ideologically conservative party to an outright autocratic one.
  14. Confirms my Head-Canon that Fire Emblem takes place in the Warhammer 40k setting. All the worlds of Fire Emblem are just lost feudal worlds of humanity that were never rediscovered during the Great Crusade, or worlds words that would later be discovered during the Great Crusade still isolated with medieval levels of technology and social structure during the Age of Strife. (except that the Agarthans are holdovers from the Dark Age of Technology that still have computers and nukes and automatons) The Outrealm Gates are Warp Portals. Fucking with the Outrealms is Fucking with The Warp. The Degeneration of the Dragons is Chaos Corruption. Dragons are an ancient reptilian xenos race formerly affiliated with The Eldar. 'Dragonstones' are Eldar Spirit Stones that allow Dragons to take Eldar-like forms + undergo the Eldar cycle of reincarnation. And the Dragons started having problems with 'degeneration' right around the time that The Eldar started getting real fucky + having problems with Slaanesh. __ "Boundless Chaos" i.e. The Primordial Truth. (Praise the Dark Pantheon and the Gods of Chaos Undivided)
  15. Maybe one day in the distant, distant future we enter a Star Trek like eutopia of fully automated luxury space communism--an age of perfect rationalism where humankind has evolved beyond the social ills of religious superstition, profit-motive, and inequality between the races and sexes. ...but until that day... Yes. Its a perpetual grind to make as much progress as we can with each generation, and push back against the regressive forces that want to see the progress undone. With solemn appreciation that no matter how far we come: we're always just one generation of indolence and neglect away from backsliding into the worst practices of our history. ...Loyalists and Patriots were the 2 party bipoles of American politics until the Loyalists became a defunct political identity no longer representative of the cleave in the electorate... Then the Patriots split into federalists and antifederalists. ...Federalists and antifederalists were the 2 party bipoles of American politics until the antifederalists became a defunct political identity no longer representative of the cleave in the electorate... Then the federalists split into federalists and democratic republicans. ...Federalists and democratic republicans were the 2 party bipoles of American politics until the federalists became a defunct political identity no longer representative of the cleave in the electorate... Then the democratic republicans split into Republicans and Democrats. __ I would love to see a day when democrats achieve ultimate victory and republican values fade away. (which i agree is incredibly unlikely to happen any time in the near future) ...but if does... I don't think it would be undesirable or that the result would be a One Party State. What would happen next is that the Democratic Party would split along ideological lines to represent the new political bipoles of a post-Republican America. And a new 2-Party system would emerge from that schism. i.e. classic democrats on the right as the new conservative party vs. progressives and democratic socialists on the left as the new liberal party. And that would become the new political landscape. (a man can dream)
  16. An oppositional 2 party system based around the bipolar political positions of conservatives who think the biggest problem facing society is that too much is changing + Old Ways are threatened and liberals who think the biggest problem facing society is that not enough is changing + Old Ways are getting in the way is the default operational setting of a democratic state. Its just the way people orientate when tasked with electing representatives and putting public issues to a vote. The way you bring about big change in such a system isn't by adding more parties (which are really just further subdivisions and more factionalization. Its by taking the political infrastructure one of the preexisting parties. Getting your people in there. And co-opting it. You want big progressive change in America??? You don't get there by taking Democrat vs. Republican elections and voting 3rd Party leftist candidates. You get there by getting the next generation of leftists--i.e. the AOC and the Rashida Talib candidates--elected as Democrats. Waiting in the wings as the next-in-line to take power + set the party platform when the generation of Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer finally sets off into the sunset. ...And if you don't believe it... Observe the transformation of the Republicans from the Party of Bush Sr. and John McCain and Mitt Romney, where guys like Rick Santorum and Mike Huckabee were considered a bridge-too-far into the kooky stuff to be prominent voices of the party and sidelined to save-face whenever talk of issues like abortion or immigration came up. To the party of Margorie Taylor Green and Matt Gaetz and Lauren Boebert. They didn't move the dial by going: "Well the Republican Party isn't what we want it to be. We need a party that better represents us to compete with the Republicans. Lets start a Christian Nationalist Party and run Against The Republicans." ...they ran as Republicans, got elected as Republicans, and moved the Republican Party to the right to make it the party that they wanted it to be. __ Thats the template for progressive reformers, on how to function in a 2 party system where neither party is where we want it to be. Control and Move the closer party. Don't split the left-of-center vote because the Democrats aren't leftist enough and make Republicans stronger for it. Run as democrats. Get elected as democrats. And move the party left.
  17. Allegedly he stole Nuclear Secrets from The White House. Whats the lawful penalty for that again??? Asking for Ethel and Julius Rosenberg.
  18. Kansas is prettyyyyyy deep red. If we're putting up those kinda numbers there; thats a good harbinger for races like Michigan and Pennsylvania
  19. Imagine fucking up so badly that you turn Kansas blue in an off-year primary, with a 1st term Democrat in the White House at 38% approval.
  20. Path forward looking a little bit clearer today. Yesterday Kansas (a state not exactly known as a left-wing bastion) got 900,000+ voters to the polls in an off-year midterm primary. (i.e. closer to the turnout of presidential elections than to what Kansas usually sees in midterms) They did it by putting a measure on the ballot for voters to decide whether or no abortion should be a protected constitutional right in the Kansas State Constitution. And it wasn't even close--Democrats crushed it. __ Thats the way. Get that measure on November's general election ballot in every state. Thats how Democrats turn out their midterm vote, keep The House, and take The Senate. (relying on Democrats to campaign smartly--what could possibly go wrong???[/s])
  21. Obligatory reminder that Fundie Christians don't believe life is supposed to be good or that we should be trying to improve society. They think Satan is Prince of 'The World.' Getting into Heaven is the only thing that matters. And that life on Earth is just supposed to be a crucible of suffering and evil temptations to see who's worthy of getting there. ___ Healthcare. Political Economy. Civil Rights. Science and the Arts. Every measure of living standards will go down and every metric of social progress will move backwards if they keep getting more power.
  22. I love that they're not even trying to hide it anymore Greene: GOP Should Be Party of 'Christian Nationalism' (mediaite.com)
  23. "Tome" being a single weapon rank that all tomes use, no individual spell lists, and no magic weapon triangle??? ...ehhhhhhhhhhhhh... ___ How hard would it for them to have been like: "Miriel is a Fire Mage. Ricken is a Wind Mage. Those are two different things."
  24. My initial reaction when I first played the game was: "Fire Emblem has Come of Age." ...Pair Ups, S-Supports and Marriages, Gen 2 Units, The Overworld Map, The Self-Insert Avatar, The Outrealms and the Homages to the Older Games, the Skill Customization and Forging and Reclassing mechanics... Coming out of the GBA and Wii era; it all felt like such a breath of fresh air. And this wonderful mix of new ideas the fandom had wanted to see for a long time + bringing back all the old favorites in a single package. ___ In full 10 year retrospect; the game has not aged well. The map design is objectively atrocious, the higher difficulty settings are completely unbalanced, and the magic system is the shallowest and least interesting its been since FE1. The game definitely has serious flaws that hurt its replayability, and make it a chore to go back and revisit. But it was a game for its moment. And for what it was; it holds up.
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