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Ah. Yeah, the considerations change when you're meaning "early morning snack" when you say breakfast :V

Kinda' figure that 300k figure is using a different heuristic, though. Not actually sure, because I'm going to go out on a limb that the methodology of the report that came to that conclusion probably isn't in a language I can understand, and it's too bloody early to go and check and/or hit it with google translate, but it seems like fair guess on the face of it, eheh.

My version was political prisoners.  Was reading about a certain religion that's persecuted in China and it just casually dropped that the government has been accused of killing practitioners for their organs.  Googled it and CNN seems to agree with a similar version of things.

Fresh organs, cheap and fast! Ring one gong for liver, two gong for kidney, three gong for tiger dong!

... playing game. Javelin, some roguelike-ish thing that's attempting stuff like party based gameplay and city building and whatnot. Some neat stuff. WTF comes from the start, though. Your initial choice is just of race. Buncha' choices, standard fantasy fair, orcs, drow, elves, gnomes, etc., etc. And one thing that stands out. Not just in not being humanoid nor nominally sapient nor capable of talking under normal circumstances. But also being what is, as near as I can tell after a few goes, pretty much the hands-down absolute best starting choice, head and shoulders above anything else on the list. >Double the HP of the other races, two +3 attacks (about the best something else can manage is orcs with a single +3), generally capable of moving at least 2-3 spaces more than everything else. The only downside-ish is that they don't have a ranged attack, which... isn't really that big of a deal.

And so my newly optimized starting party now consists of Ponyup, Saytheeneigh, Haystack, and Cud. Four war ponies, somehow having gained control over a town*, now adventuring together. Because any one of them could probably kick the collective ass of any non-pony-included starting team I could construct.

... game, I kinda' like what you're trying to do. But. You may have some balance issues. Just one or two or fifty or so.

*I guess they had a nero and then the newly appointed consuls ate him, after which the town's population decided to roll with it instead of arguing with the small herd of man eating equines?

I found this trailer today and started being hyped about this. But then suddenly I took a closer look and realized freaking Shoji Kawamori was one of the people shown playing the demo and am now speechless in the best way.

No spiderbot that transforms into a ball, 0/10, will not play.

... more seriously, it does almost look like metal warriors meets smash brothers. I can dig it, even though that lack of spinning spiderbot (or some sort of equivalent) is unfortunate.

Assdholes may just be the most terrifying of canine species. What lead to them breeding out of dholes, the world may never know, nor wish to know.

... have a link to a transcript? I'm not even sure which one you're talking about.

Also, hell. I think I forgot. Wasn't trump supposed to put out an economic policy before the end of last month? Something along those lines? Did that ever happen?

Not going to cover it all, but this:

Argument 2. Even some pay is better than none.
And I don't think that needs a formal proof.

Is often very, very untrue. Some pay is better than none so long as the pay isn't less than what it costs the worker to obtain it. It's not exactly unknown for a job to actually be a net loss for someone, just based on travel costs, time investment involved, potential medical issues, etc. People still take those jobs, exactly because they've been fed the lie that any pay is better than no pay, without exception or other consideration.

Actual businesses know this really damn well, by the way -- there's usually an acute awareness that getting some profit in one area can mean losing out on a significant amount of profit in others, or that selling one product, despite it covering the production costs per unit or whathaveyou, will actually cost them money on the net. There was actually something like that in relation to a pharmacy chain here in the US recently-ish -- they cut selling tobacco products, despite the line itself comfortably making money, because it was costing them more sales in other areas of their business than it was producing profits in its own. No money in one area was better than some. For individual employees, the work et al is also just one area of their life, and can cost them more (either in an immediate sense, in terms of travel costs et al, or in a long term sense, in terms of medical damage or lost wages relative to better paying positions the work prevents them from seeking and suchlike) in other areas than it pays in its own.

Minimum wage is used, in part, to stop employers who would seek out those people desperate or shortsighted enough to lose money to work for them. Part of the intent behind it is to make sure that isn't bloody possible, for all that stateside it definitely doesn't actually manage it.

H... heimer also only has one ability reliant on his turrets. Even if he can't set up well, he's still got two other pretty alright abilities (decently long range nuke, ranged aoe stun) and 'is ult's effects on 'em. Least when I've played heimer there wasn't even really much in the way of problems of being able to help out the team fairly substantially even if I was just wandering into/down the lane sans turrets... dude can still function as a fairly non-negligible standard mage. And that was before or after the rework.