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Ninja'd by arx, heh. Yeah, that's the program. Adjusts screen dim/tint based mostly on time of day -- adaptive brightness control, basically, if less reactive than what its was talking about. Personal experience says it's really ruddy good at doing what it does -- the occasional headaches I'd get from looking at a computer screen for too long have basically disappeared since I started using the thing, despite usage patterns not really changing.

E: And I'd long since set the system's hardware brightness to as low as it could go to no avail, heh. Sometimes what the hardware designer thought was dim enough is not dim enough.

I still can't really get over the giant wheels or the beam rotors, m'self. Pretty sure it was the jovians with particularly oddball machines? For one of the earlier series, anyway. One of those further-out-in-the-solar-system factions, anyway.

Zaku are still best MS design.

*fistbump* SIEG ZEON!

Heh. I'm not sure I'd call 08th underrated considering it's one of the gundam series I see most commonly suggested to newcomers

'Bout everyone seems to agree it's pretty awesome. Which is good and rightful, 'cause it's pretty awesome.

I actually will mention SEED, but only in the sense that despite everything it's somehow managed to produce some of the better gundam fanfiction. That's more or less its one redeeming feature. Apparently it's just terrible enough people like to play in the playground while still being so terrible almost no one actually likes the show :V

Seems like half the time it's just to kill off flay, but... I can dig that >_>

Now... destiny. Destiny. That one may actually be entirely without redeeming features. I haven't even noticed many fics that bother trying to kill off its characters, ha.

Didn't need to, but cheers none the less.

'Course, my question would be if that being true would actually help explain anything that happened in Reco

If there's anything I'd want to see, it's the EU folks advocating for trying help and/or process folks instead of trying to spike the death toll involved with the whole mess. Ramping up the violence and suffering involved isn't going to help anyone, but especially not the folks trying to live through all this. Is why I get salty about propositions that boil down to "Let's start killing people and getting innocents caught in the crossfire, that'll help!"

And hell, if you need to ship folks over to the US or canada or whatever the hell, go for it. I'd support it. Probably not a goddamn chance of getting the xenophobic jackanapes running the government to agree to it, but I'd vote yes if it came to a vote.

Already working with Jihadis, can't get worse.

Some are. I guess trying to make that "all" would help somehow...?

Wait, so intercepting them and putting them on solid ground is more dangerous? Letting them embark on the dangerous journey is safer than not?

Give the smugglers direct and even stronger incentive to screw things up before solid ground is reached or while that intercepting is occurring, yeah, that makes things more dangerous. And hey, yeah, someone desperate enough to embark on that dangerous journey probably has something worse waiting back home.

I don't see where torture comes in.

You directly want to see suffering increased across the board for the non-smugglers involved in the process. Instead of just killing 'em, you want them to hurt more, first. Not many other words than torture for suffering for the sake of suffering.

I didn't exactly give the order to arm Jihadis in Syria, I thought that was a stupid idea and the dressed up moderates weren't exactly desecrating graves out of their desire to express moderation. I was against it, and would rather see my country not suffer because Obama wanted to rek syria.

We agree on that much, at least, by and large. Bit too late, though. Now's just the fixing. Do you really want america to keep trying to fix things on their lonesome? Still, I'd rather not see my country suffer -- like it has been, to an irritating degree -- because the rest of the world won't get off their arse and help out more. States could use the help! It ain't been doing to well the last decade or so.

Because of aforementioned policing slavery went from being endemic to nearly every civilization to confined to desert wastelands where no one really treads.

Modern slavery is a 150 billion dollar industry with significant presence in first world countries. Confined to desert wastelands it is not even remotely. Slavery hasn't exactly stopped being endemic. Less endemic, probably. Less overt in most countries, definitely. But the shit's still very much there.

And the adventures were primarily caused by good ol' european imperialism. We're all in this together, chum.