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To be fair, it probably wouldn't hurt you that much. It'd only really nail the non-formorian nations terribly badly, and I don't think you lot actually have much to worry about from them :V

Actually, that mostly extends to all the notably negative globals. It's a sad world to be tiny ;_;

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Starcraft 2 is fuuuuuuun. Reinstalled the game, got Heart of the Swarm expansion for 50% off, $10, been playing zerg campaign all day.
Don't forget it does have some pretty interesting custom games, even if blizz's handling of 'em did some damage to the creation scene. Might want to give 'em a gander, heh.

... though you don't have to pay to play those, nowadays, iirc.

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Yeah, apparently there's mechanisms and whatnot for dealing with the situation, maybe? Still, it's more than a little silly, especially considering it's being done to cover up what's probably corruption.

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General Discussion / Re: Sheb's European Megathread: Remove Feta!
« on: September 18, 2015, 04:11:36 pm »
The places it isn't yet, sure.

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Yeah, for what it's worth, I'd pretty definitely agree that one would fit.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: September 18, 2015, 02:51:18 pm »
... you mean that wasn't a captain caveman reference?

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... y'know, I wasn't sure whether to put this in the WTF, police abuse, or this thread, but I guess this'un is somewhere in between the other two, so...

Texas Attorney General sues himself on behalf of the texas department of public safety, in order to hide (likely pretty damning) information about the (probably grossly overstated) activities of said department. He is currently slated to be both the defendant and the prosecutor.

I... don't think I can really add anything else to make that either less or more farcical. It's kinda' at the perfect equilibrium point of absurdity.

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It'd help.

And maybe, sheb. Again, though, it kinda' feels like it doesn't quite fit, t'me. Just as Hitler and co' are too wide scale, too impersonal, imo, your average serial killer -- even the ones that managed to keep killing for years -- are too narrow, too personal. They're more like particularly unstable mooks, though some would almost certainly fit. You want something in between, a mix of personal touch and expansive sphere of influence.

E: It's not really a narrow field, though -- there's a lot of people or organizations in recent history that match comicbook supervillains in scale of action and direct influence, it's just that they tend to be more background characters to history and media. Not big enough to get major mention in the former (despite doing plenty of damage), not sensational enough to get much attention from the latter (despite many committing some pretty impressive atrocities).

With exceptions. Capone, ferex, would be an obvious example of a relatively recent one, that slots right in with Kingpin types (or arguably the other way around, ha) but is well known.

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Eehhh... they're more evil despot than supervillain, imo. There's overlap, obviously, but supervillains are usually more... personal, I guess? They only tend to have armies when they're extradimensional/extraterrestrial invaders, or made robot/clone/etc. forces.* You'd want more cartel leaders, corrupt businesspeople, that sort of thing. Plenty to choose from, it's just kinda' hard to find names some days, not the least because it's often groups of individuals doing the damage rather than any one person taking the bulk of the blame. I mean, you look at stuff a handful of years back like the tobacco (or lead, or a fair number of other) industry stonewalling/obfuscating information that lead to the deaths of thousands, racking up kill counts and immoral actions that would make the Joker blush, and you have trouble pointing to any particular individual as the primary cause.

Or guys like this, or any number of other "asymmetrical warfare" specialists that've operated throughout the world. Plenty of PMC owners, stuff like that, would probably fit the label pretty well, if you're looking for the modern picture of a supervillain.

*And your exceptions tend to be folks like Dr. Doom, who, despite leading a military force, largely operates either solo or leading small force type of stuff.

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General Discussion / Re: I like anime, do you like anime?
« on: September 18, 2015, 12:08:19 pm »
Gate wasn't as good as I hoped. While I won't spoil any details, here's a picture of the most powerful warrior of the world beyond the Gate:
Spoiler: Rory Mercury (click to show/hide)
It was a fun series but it was sort of all over the shop too.
Now go read the manga :V

Mostly so someone that's seen both can tell me how much the anime cuts out, heh.

... actually, probably don't. We've had this discussion before.

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The best (?) part is the halfarsed backpedal that came from one of his staffers, I think.

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General Discussion / Re: I like anime, do you like anime?
« on: September 18, 2015, 09:08:21 am »
Dunno what happens in the anime, but it's not entirely sessile in the LN. Think I stopped around the point they were getting ready/starting to
Spoiler: Spoiler, maybe? (click to show/hide)
Not because it was exactly bad or anything -- I've actually still got it open in some tab or another -- just got distracted by other things.

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Would be closer to what PG exactly said, I guess. PG's words were "genocide by inaction", so... ask 'im.

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Pretty sure they're just trying to expand faster :P

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I guess? That doesn't even follow from ability, though... nor does anyone actually use the word. Sheb changed it anyway, so whatev'.

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