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Quote from: MetalSlimeHunt on November 28, 2018, 05:42:47 pm

Don't worry, we can make his successor Pelosi's. Sound good? Good.

His successor (the person who beat him in a primary) was Ocasio-Cortez. Sure, once they have a couple of years of experience under their belt.

Couple of years? A decade might be better.

And uh, possibly the present.  1147

Referring to the mindwipe part? I guess the world-remaking affects them in a way that doesn't affect the gods, or maybe it affects the gods in the same way (see Odin) and they are able to handle it better than the Outsiders can.

Quote from: SaberToothTiger on November 25, 2018, 09:11:30 pm

Fook ye, finally a new european war

I don't like how the last Crimean wars have been handled nor do I like the prospect of another. Be a bit fair though if NATO confiscated Russian ships going through Bosphorous, Channel e.t.c., only fair to be consistent

This one? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimean_War  Yes, I know you meant the Russian annexation, just being intentionally obtuse as a friendly troll and you said wars, so...

It would be nice if NATO actually took charge, but they’d probably be like, ‘Ukraine’s not a member, so, not our jurdicision’

Quote from: smjjames on November 25, 2018, 07:20:41 pm

An of course, during the Cold War, the left got suppressed to an extent due to the ideological conflict. Now that the pressure is off, a new generation that didn’t experience that suppression fame of age and are basically filling in that void which would otherwise be filled.

Speaking of Cold War, I’ve seen articles saying that a new Cold War with China could be starting, but it seems more like the old competition between Great Powers than anything resembling the Cold War of the 20th which was purely ideological.

Yes, the Chinese are still ruled by a communist party, but nobody is going around screaming about the dangers of communism and how we need to combat it. The fact that they are communist appears completely irrelevant to this one.

Chinese economy is looking to be on shaky ground; the current US-Chinese trade war isn't helping matters. Of course, tanking the Chinese economy also screws over a lot of Chinese foreign investment into various industries across the Pacific, from housing (Canada, Australia) to tech (US).

Also notice how that market "correction" turned out to be an actual downturn? Sure, that isn't indicative of much, but given the specific sector of relevance (tech) that had the downturn, that indicates to me a hesitation on part of Chinese investors looking to spend money abroad. Maybe not recession-imminent, but a slowdown seems pretty sure, and that slowdown will likely be driven by China (with Trump's tariffs only accelerating matters). Given how much money it currently throws around (Belt and Road Initiative) and how Xi Jinpeng's power is built entirely around the crux of a strong Chinese economy, a slowdown could quite likely turn into a freefall.

A "Cold War" with China requires that China can maintain its current position for a prolonged period of time. That is by no means a given.

Plus, the Cold War is simply the only Great Power style competition beteeen powers that is still in living memory, so, it gets used as comparison as we don’t really have anything else in living memory to compare to.

Besides, saying Cold War II just sounds cooler than ‘Great Power competition’.

It never really occurred to me, but SimAnt was a lot like this.

You controlled a singular ant in a nest, whether it be a worker, soldier, breeder, or the queen, and marched around looking for food. The other ants tended to gather around you, but not necessarily. Population growth was automatic, being some function of food and time, and you could switch which ant you were controlling at will.

As far as my memory goes, this game also pioneered the persistent campaign map-- while your immediate goal was to take control of a few yards of, er, yard by pushing out opposing ant forces (cheese way: just shift production to max soldiers, take control of one, and rush the opposing queen over and over), there was also a map of the entire yard, along with which ants owned each block, and the ultimate goal of driving the humans out of the house sitting in the middle of your territory, so you're not only switching between individual units, but also entirely different maps. You could lose territory you've won even when not in direct control, and also gain dominance in maps you haven't touched at all.

Tangential: I used to play 2v2 co-op games of AoE2 where the map basically had a huge split down the middle... all the nodes were on one side, and we played with shared resources. The idea was that one person controlled the economic half, and your partner managed the military side. Since you were playing with shared resources, it also meant you had to balance the population cap and exactly what was being harvested based on your partner's needs... or waging villager-on-villager war. ...Admittedly, it mostly turned into a scrambled mess once one side had an insurmountable lead, pushing the economic manager to build a military and wipe that side of the map.

It also had this weird laser shooting spider which would appear after a certain point (no idea what the specific trigger was, having a huge nest maybe) and just proceed to zap everything. It wasn’t unkillsble though, just difficult as you have to zerg rush it. I think it only appeared in  single area and sandbox games though. Found the thing to be really annoying because it effectively game-overed the area. Wasn’t as much of a problem in sandbox, but still equally annoying.

An of course, during the Cold War, the left got suppressed to an extent due to the ideological conflict. Now that the pressure is off, a new generation that didn’t experience that suppression fame of age and are basically filling in that void which would otherwise be filled.

Speaking of Cold War, I’ve seen articles saying that a new Cold War with China could be starting, but it seems more like the old competition between Great Powers than anything resembling the Cold War of the 20th which was purely ideological.

Yes, the Chinese are still ruled by a communist party, but nobody is going around screaming about the dangers of communism and how we need to combat it. The fact that they are communist appears completely irrelevant to this one.

Quote from: Rolan7 on November 25, 2018, 02:02:05 pm

Quote Snip for president

Rolan, Bernie ain't a socialist. Seriously. In countries where a left exists instead of "right" and "right on steroids", he'd be labelled as... a right-winger.

Yep, sometimes we (as in Americans) forget that the American political center is right shifted (or should I say, red-shifted, heh) from where the center is in some places around the world and our progressives would actually be considered somewhat moderate. Not even sure what a heavy left winger in Europe would look like for us since the Republicans already make the more progressive politicians look extreme. Other than maybe ‘COMMUNISM!COMMUNISM!COMMUNISM!’ 

Eh? None of them look so frail as if they’d drop dead at the slightest breeze, jokes made at Hillary’s expense aside.

With the speculative field looking possibly TWICE the size of the Republican field was in 2016 (and various fandoms have already started coming out), there’s a very good chance that the Democrats will run into the same issues the Republicans had with the field refusing to narrow down quickly and slicing up 60-70% of the pie thinly between candidates with one getting roughly a quarter total.