eafirstlast.bsky.social
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I mean the shitty archmage hated you, but the fascist skelelady liked you.
But Kai is on the side of not randomly murdering peasants for the archwizard lady, and he is the correct choice.
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Heavy weapons are actually good, I tried leveling all the melee weapons evenly and my crafted axe absolutely demolish faster then my longsword
Albeit I can't nail the crafting minigame well enough to tier 4 a dueling longsword, which is a bummer
One handed swords also get a bunch of bespoke perks
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Honestly, I like the more phrentic combat of avowed over KCD2.
Like KCD2 has one way to approach combat. You can willingly make it HARDER on yourself if you want, but it's a pretty linear path to the best was to play.
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I strongly disagree with out worlds being better though. outer worlds fell flat as a satire, being both not as funny as they think and not as willing to be biting as they should.
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That is a true weakness of the start of the game that luckily doesn't last the tutorial, you can quickly never pick up a sword again, but they don't let you start with any skills at all
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I mean, to me, this is the HEART of late antiquity, and not the late roman period.
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Although the rough equivilent of the setting PoE is in, spear and shields are not the most common way to fight
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This is literally the great leap forward shit that killed millions of people in china.
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Depending how long term the fascists behind trump are thinking, this could be the point. Destroy the scholars and you can tell up and coming officers any lies you want about military history. Getting control of the military is every fascist's dream
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You dropped a fire squid game video not that long ago
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There's a scene where henry proposes using a wagon as a shooting platform and zizka goes "jesse, what the fuck are you talking about"
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I think it's a safe bet for them. The only possible punishments they garner is if there is a literal counter coup. Democrats winning electorally will never ever punish them, because they pay the democrats just as much as they pay republicans. And in the end, that will be what decides who is punished
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They would not have changed the election, so they made the right choice. This scolding only matters if they were the deciding vote that gave trump his victory.
But they were not. Racism and sexism behind america's centrist demographics gave trump his victory.
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yeah turns out I am too trash at this kind of game to play it. I haven't won a single fight in hours. Not super fun for me.
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It was something they through in the marketing stupidly (on brand for cyberpunk I guess), but in the game itself you are bombarded by the crass and hollow nature of in game advertising that reinforces the cyberpunk theme. The ad is still there, but in its proper context.
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XD I doubt I can choose for him to be trans though. For more blank slates I tend to play female characters for obvious reasons. If I'm playing a dude I want them to have an interesting personality and not be a vehicle that I simply cannot project myself into.
Ah well, still gonna give it a whirl
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Electoralism isn't the only thing you can do. Legit mutual aid groups will be needed more than ever as marginalized people are dispossessed and targeted. You can provide money, food, shelter to people that are struggling, provided you have such, and take advantage of what others have if you need to
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Anyone who refused to vote for harris because of genocide made not just a moral choice, but a good one since their votes never mattered. Trump demolished Harris, and the handful of votes she lost, which I am certain you couldn't tell me how much, would not have changed anything.
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I mean on a personal level I find Henry kind of a boring person. Is he a more interesting character this go around?
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We are in a very tense period where we're on the knife's edge of "Shitty admin that's still democratic" and "Active takeover of fascists of government". And frankly I dunno which way things are gonna fall.
Is musk just gonna drain the treasury? Who knows? But he could.
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It did not. The people who made a moral decision to oppose American support for genocide did not decide the election. Maybe the establishment shoulda engaged with those concerns instead of burying them and refusing all discussion on it?
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Every leftist I know, including myself, voted for her.
It was not the left that cost Kamela the election. Almost everyone politically engaged went for her. But she failed to inspire seldom voters and of course she failed to flip the center right who were never going to vote for her.
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trump won because America will never vote for a black woman. I mean it's a shock we managed to vote for a black man twice, but Obama is a once in a generation charismatic speaker.
It isn't the left that got you trump. America is simply full of bigots.
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does feel like some citiques were taken to heart from the first one.
I'll probably even give this one a go despite knowing my wrists aren't gonna take it
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Hope you can afford to take a bit off to relax and see to your mental health
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It almost looks like they squished your head to be longer and narrower
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Now I have to disagree with this!
:D
I do have some debate brain in me XD.
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You should be preparing for what happens if federal elections are made unfree. Community organization, not electoralism, is the best bet. Eventually the far right IS going to end democracy. There is no wandering back from the wasteland on this one, you gotta be preparing what to do next.
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I was so right wing in my highschool years that I listened to fucking Michael Savage and Glenn Beck. I was on the inside of the far right movement, and I am glad I got the fuck out. The move from centrist lib to leftist was a lot more gradual as my faith in liberal politicians was eroded by failure.
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I turned 18 right before first obama term and voted mccain, but Republicans got so incredibly racist during that it made me self reflect my political allegiances and leave to right wing sphere. It was still a matter of years before I became a full leftist. Trump 1 awfulness gave that push
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I wish this was true but, like, we got trump 2.
I think voters will rapidly turn on the marginalized because the democrats struggle to fix things when they get power. And at this point we are on a time limit (if time hasn't run out) before a fascist ends free elections
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Really thought you guys stayed on twitter
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hating trans people is bipartisan on the british isles these days.
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On the other hand, if you are trying to create a mass movement, the less barriers to entry the better. The harder it is, the less people are going to be willing to help, and things like this NEED critical mass.
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The issue is that there aren't a whole lot of ways to organize that aren't trivially subpeonaed if the state wants it to be
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Protests can work as long as trump doesn't have everyone shot.
And burning state property is legitimate protest against something as extreme as literally ending birthright citizenship
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I think it is fun to note that Scipio Amelianus also was doing his own share of flaunting of Roman tradition to secure commands and his own power, but he also wasn't a huge fan of robbing the Socii of their land.
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I was always struck about how a key part of his land reform was stealing land from roman allied states. That's pretty pure xenophobia.
My undergrad professor was willing to problematize the gracchi for me 15 years ago.
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I think you are pretty wrong here. America would not be a poorer society if we, say, had universal healthcare and curbed the incredible price for poor results of our current for profit system
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I am there too.
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I could swear you can't copyright mechanics
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It's just a shitty admin, but India has had fascists in charge for a decade and they haven't ended democracy yet.
That's the real end of modern consensus, a fascist ending of democracy, which is very VERY possible, and very worth worrying about, but not guaranteed as of yet.
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They haven't taken over yet, and we can hope they don't. They won the election, but they have to dismantle elections entirely to take over
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Dr Deveraux, you keep speaking on China, but I am not entirely sure you KNOW that much about china, other then the shibboleth of the rival, the enemy of all that is good and free.
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Our system without the electoral college and the president is just a popular vote.
Also grow the size of the house to be more representative so every election isn't "a tough year for democrats". Also, you know, Puerto Rico and DC statehood
Lots of legitimate proposals, none will happen
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It's one of the coolest parts of the book too. The whole battle of pelannor is amazing in the books
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I mean it also opens you up way more easily to valid criticisms for all those people who are, in fact, major losers in the system we have.
It's better then the past, but that means little to the millions living paycheck to paycheck, most of them suffering under discrimination.
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As long as it comes with no obligation to teach the history Olive garden wants you to teach.
That would be my main worry, corporate sponsored history comes with corporate required curriculum. And if that became true, I'd rather no history than deliberately wrong history
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But I'd argue fossil fuel companies kinda did
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I mean I think the main reason they are hated is that they actually regularly refuse to pay out anyways and you have to harass them to get them to do so.