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Quote from: Greiger on December 06, 2017, 03:49:31 pm

Just going to throw in my obligatory 'two party system is killing the United States' thing here as my 2 copper plated zinc disk response to the current debate.

Sure. What voting system do you want to push to replace FPTP with? Because the two-party system is a direct consequence of first-past-the-post voting.

I'm a fan of the alternative vote myself from everything I've learned about other voting systems.  Or, and I'm probably being overly idealistic here, but since almost nobody seems really happy with democrats or republicans, all the people who wouldn't be satisfied with either one could simply grow a pair and vote 3rd party. Since we seem to have the party line voters outnumbered at least 5 to 1.

If trump wasn't the ONLY republican option on the ballot that didn't require a write in, and Sanders was even ON the ballot because only two choices are allowed in our two party biased system, I don't think we'd have orange slice in office right now.  Trump is in office because the choice was Trump OR Clinton.  The way it's set up currently they don't want people to even know you can choose anyone else.   How many of those big republicans were famously against trump during his campaign but still voted for him because the only alternative was a democrat?

Just going to throw in my obligatory 'two party system is killing the United States' thing here as my 2 copper plated zinc disk response to the current debate.

Found a unique weapon and liked it so much I didn't have any other weapons on my bar.   I was exploring the bottom of an ocean planet looking for a fishman city.  Thanks to either being an argonian with frakin races installed or an epp, I didn't have to worry about air so I was just kinda holding left while watching tv and occasionally jumping.

I didn't know hostile fish were even a thing.  But I hear the damage noise and switch to my weapon to fight the hostile sushi, and discover there is a distinct disadvantage to a flamethrower as a sole weapon.  I died while  hastily trying to find another weapon in my inventory.

Modded Starbound

We're having flooding in my area. Some dipshit tried to drive his Maserati through floodwaters. More dollars than sense. How dumb do people have to be? Everyone in the state received a text message from the State Emergency Service, with the hilarious number of 0444 444 444 saying there would be major flooding, and that CARS CAN FLOAT IN 15CM OF WATER, DO NOT DRIVE THROUGH FLOODWATERS, DO NOT PLAY IN FLOOD WATERS.

People are fuckwits.

Back immediately after the last hurricane I overheard some moron in the store talking about how he's going to go looking around in some of the flooded areas.  And said that his truck won't get stuck if he drives through the water fast enough that he'll drift to the other side of any deep spots.  Ignoring everything wrong with that logic, it astounds me that he didn't realise that the wake from cars driving through flood zones even at low speeds causes waves that greatly increases the amount of water damage homeowners have to recover from.   Some asshole driving as fast as he can manage makes huge waves.  The water damage does not end at the height the flood waters stopped, the water damage ends at the height all the assholes driving through waves stopped.

Wish whatever neighborhood he was checking out got his ass on camera and was able to sue him for additional damage if he actually did blast through full tilt.

I like the disengage mechanic so far.  I assume that they are not going to be sitting there doing a timeout and are going to be actually disengaging, attempting to get out of range of any enemy weapons as quickly as possible.  I'm pretty sure there is a modded in computer upgrade that does that, the ship simply tries to physically disengage changing it's AI to evasive, it simply attempts to move out of range of enemy ships and maintain that distance while hopefully other ships in the fleet fight.

You don't need a new fleet for that, just the same as you can have ships that are set to bombard from range and ships that swarm in the same fleet.  When the ships hit 50% and decide to bug out they simply change their AI engage distance to some reasonably high number, and the ship will just turn around and attempt to physically get away, it can still get shot while backing off, and depending on the range of your enemy's weapons, may not be able to escape. It's as simple as just changing the ship's AI mid combat which I think mods can already do.  If all ships remaining in combat are all in disengage AI it simply triggers emergency warp for you.  Do I know paradox is going to do it that way? No.  But it seems reasonable, and seemingly not beyond even current modding capability.

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Upping fire speed against larger groups, seems a little silly.  Maybe as a admiral trait it could work with the explanation they gave, but it does not make sense baseline, sure there may be more targets to shoot at, but there would be more targets in a bigger more even engagement as well, yet there is no benefit there.  An argument could be made for friendly fire, but then why is there no fire rate increase for the start of the battle when everybody is still in formation and firing anywhere vaguely straight ahead is going to hit an enemy?  The fire rate would make for 1 or 2 extra hits, that are likely just going to hit shields, or be cleared with autorepair traits or tech, which seems entirely too easy to get.

You'd better simulate this with a chance of a missed shot hitting another member of large enemy fleets than a fire rate increase.  Same almost nonexistent handicap advantage, better explanation.  Or hell just make all missed shots when in combat have a chance of hitting any ship within a cone around the the target.  Larger fleets will still be disadvantaged, since they have more ships and a better chance of being in that cone, and it gives a point to swarm AI because you can make fast evasive ships charge the enemy formation in hopes of making them hit eachother as they try to hit the evasive little fleas.

We have a temporary assistant manager at the store.  Our store is typically lax on coupon rules and stuff like that, with a 'if the system accepts it, we accept it' mentality, and we have a number of loyal repeat customers because of that.  The temp manager, despite that she is only going to be here a total of 2 weeks, wants to change that.  And is on a one woman crusade to do so.

3 days ago I was ringing one of those regulars up, using multiple cupons.  They were duplicate coupons, but the system accepts multiple, they were not photocopies, and they were below the cutoff limit, which this customer admittedly knows exactly where that cutoff is. Essentially this customer knows all or our rules we follow at that location. The temp manager sees me ringing them up and demands I stop, tells the customer to her face that she's no better than a shoplifter (with a long line so plenty to hear it), and then after the line is made more manageable(which took some time since the whole order had to be voided one item at a time), calls me in to the office and immediately gives me a first-and-final warning writeup for assisting in theft of product.

Today I find out that that writeup was tossed out, and that she acted out of line.  However I still have 3 new 'not satisfied' linked to that event on my cashier survey results complaining about it.  2 of them sympathize with me in the comments, but only the 'not satisfied' actually matters.  WTF how is it right an outburst by a manager, a temporary one at that, ends up counting against MY numbers?

Hell, I don't have any kids, but that sure looks like a relatively cheap thing to go with my fake security system sign on the window.  Even a burglar who is pretty confident the sign is fake may think twice if he sees what looks like real security system cameras and motion sensors on the ceiling when scouting the place.


My WTF: Tried to sign up at healthcare.gov again and yet again they didn't think I existed.  This time I did get someone on the phone who was able to force it through for me (not sure if I should consider that a good or bad thing that they can do that over the phone with no physical documentation), but wtf healthcare.gov.  It's not like I'm off the grid.  I have a driver's license, I pay taxes every year, I am a native citizen, I don't move around a lot, I just don't have credit because I don't like owing money.  Yet you can't prove I am a real person?