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Can’t get better than the original N64 version of the game.

Oh hey, get off my lawn.

Saliva is good at breaking down blood.

This also happened.

A non-binding opinion from a European Court of Justice advocate general that the UK can unilaterally decide to stay in the EU, should it come to that. Unlikely given the UK government have said that's not going to happen, and the EU don't want it to happen, but another option for when the deal is inevitably voted down next week.

However, Jezza's crew have also said that if the vote goes against the government, they're going to seek a vote of no confidence in the government. This would give the UK government fourteen days to win back the confidence of parliament or call a general election, assuming they don't win it (lol)

Not sure how quickly a GE can be sorted out, the last one took place six weeks after it was announced. That wouldn't be great given it puts us at the start of February and ~30 days 'til the deadline.

shit's gettin' real guys

Quote from: RickRollYou2 on November 30, 2018, 08:30:07 pm

United all of Ireland in ONE generation, as Duke of Mumu--next stop, Britannia!


CKII

Isn’t that a somewhat easy thing to do? I mean, there’s a reason the Dukes of Ireland are recommended as a beginner start and/or are used for the tutorial. At least for the earliest standard date available without DLC.

Tutorial is actually set in... Leon, I think? Northern Spain. At least the last time I played it, which was a good few years ago.

But yeah, Ireland is referred to as beginner’s island, ‘cause it’s an easy enough place to learn the game. Marry your nearest rivals, get non-aggression pacts and alliances, steamroll everyone else, betray your allies, etc.

I don’t think it’s as dumb as assuming someone celebrates Christmas as opposed to any number of other types of religious holidays or general merrymaking common at this time of year.

Got a double whammy here.

1) Can't survive as a Zoroastrian under the Caliph without resorting to cheats thanks to constant title revocation.

2) Used cheats to survive, later the game decided that a certain thing, no idea what mind, would cause the game to crash. Repeatedly. And I can't get around it, whatever it is.

Convert to Sunni and secretly adopt Zoroastrianism. Eat the Caliphate from the inside like an alien and horrifically burst through its chest at dinner. You could also, assuming you have the latest DLC, antagonize the highest liege in your realm until you become rivals and murder them in combat until children inherit, eventually resulting in a decadence revolt. That’s dicey though.

Fakeedit: assuming I’m thinking of the same game. Pretty sure though.

Michael Avennati said he’d run.

Seems unlikely given his recent domestic violence arrest, but hey, Trump got elected on the back of rampant misogyny and racism. Who knows, maybe it’s what the electorate want?

Quote from: hector13 on November 28, 2018, 10:52:02 pm

Quote from: bloop_bleep on November 28, 2018, 08:11:17 pm

To me farming and killing non-self-aware animals is completely ethical, given that they aren't even aware of their own pain. Most farmed animals aren't even aware that they're in captivity, so they're completely indifferent to whether they live their lives "free" or on a farm.

Could you... uh... maybe expand on this a bit? With, like, science or something? ‘cause I’m pretty sure animals are aware of their pain. Mammals, certainly, which I think is what you’re referring to.

Cows, sheep, etc. are not self-aware. They do not have conscious minds. Their pain is simply the level of a certain molecule in their brain; it is not, on top of that, a conscious feeling like in humans, because again, they do not have conscious minds.

What do you mean by “conscious mind”?

Could you define “pain” for me, also. From this you seem to consider it as an emotional response, rather than physical.

If so, how do you know the animal, on an emotional level, does not experience pain? I mean we know a human has emotions. “I am happy” “I am sad” “I am filled with apoplectic rage”. How would one measure emotions, or the lack thereof, in animals?