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Why is it so hard to give defender an advantage in games like Heroes of Might & Magic...

It's not, but it's usually avoided to keep gameplay from becoming a slog. Defenders having a significant advantage in games is usually something that causes fairly significant design/playability issues -- you can see examples in the occasional RTS or somethin' that has abnormally strong towers or whatev'. Tends to make for fairly unpleasant multiplayer and boring (to most) singleplayer. As a game designer, you usually want your player (and usually your player wants) to be active instead of reactive -- having defensive methods be weaker than offensive ones (usually by making them static/slow and/or expensive -- HoMM et al just makes them weaker numerically) is one of the go-to ways of pulling that off.

I feel like there must be a something you're not telling us behind that, Neo and I'm not sure I want to know, really.

Whole thing just seems odd, way you've said things.

Near as neo's told us, his sister just seems to think that the only reason a male would want a stuffed animal would be to fornicate with it. Not really neo specifically, just... any of them. Cultural insanity, probably,* or some really odd experiences in 'is family's life.

Personally, I don't want to know why she immediately jumps to that conclusion, either. It wouldn't be my first guess, heh.

*I mean, hell, I still remember a jerry springer episode where some random dude unzipped and humped a stuffed bear on public television. The narrative is out there. It's stupid, and silly, but it's there.

... I'm not sure about wrong, but you both sound incredibly young from the information in that post.

And the answer to your question is in that stuffed animal thread, gig, I do believe. "Hidden in the trash" is another phrase for "thrown away", and neo apparently likes the thing and doesn't want to see it junked.

Personally, I'd rather say that once the owner puts the thing in the actual garbage, that's them ceding all claim to it and they no longer get input on what happens to it >_>

Eh? That's pretty explicitly untrue. Class size and whatnot has a fairly significant effect, from everything I've noticed. It's certainly not nothing. Also not even remotely everything, obvs, but it's a factor.

Also a decent measure of funding per student, if something's not going horribly wrong. Which also isn't a 1:1 match with education capability, but it's usually a better metric than most.

*grumbles vaguely* Problem with the milk example is that wages aren't a one-way street. The only variable involved isn't the price of the metaphorical milk. If setting the minimum price on milk subsequently caused everyone involved to be able to afford $1.25* milk, purchases would almost certainly increase. Certainly for stuff like that, demand isn't really going to change that much -- milk prices have something like freaking doubled in my lifetime, from what I recall**, and consumption damn sure hasn't halved. You could -- and do -- have demand shifts into other resources, but that's generally not (even remotely) a net economic loss. Money spent on water is still money spent, and whatever the price difference is between the water and milk gets spent on other things (like hey, maybe healthcare or education or personal business investments or housing or, y'know, stuff like that).

Work isn't really a resource that functions like a perishable item, though. Very different dynamics going on with it.

*Incidentally, that's hella' cheaper than actual milk is selling here in the states, but that's neither here nor there.
**Though that recall could definitely be spotty considering how volatile milk prices are on a monthly/seasonal basis. Also don't ask me about inflation adjustments, it's 3 in the morning and I haven't slept since yesterday.
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Last I checked, pegging the minimum wage in the states to inflation (i.e. it would skyrocket) would almost certainly not cause a significant GDP drop -- there would be a little instability (followed almost certainly by a notable increase, as demand shifts upward and in to less marginal items), and maybe the jackasses on top would have to stop raking it in quite so hard (on a per-worker basis, anyway), but the economy can frankly afford to double or better the minimum wage. Might not be able to double or better everything else, but shit, most of the everything else is already managing a living wage so m'personally less than concerned about that.

Sounds like it'd be a nice thing, to me. Min-wage folks might actually be able to live, and invest themselves in to doing something besides min-wage stuff, without breaking themselves in half in the process.

In other news, I think it's a webtoon/manwha, but can I just say Fantasy World Survival is pretty damn excellent? It's a fairly down to earth semi-dystopian fantasy, with plenty of action and whatnot. It also stars mokepon's dimensionally displaced protagonist as a main character :V

Size of the demographic, eyeballing it. Would be about representative of religious demographics in the states, from what I recall of latest numbers. Checking the links in the post backs that up -- representative of size of the group relative to the national demographics.

Which seems to present a counter-intuitive lesson: Improve the economic standing of black communities and you potentially create more Republican voters.

Not so much counter-intuitive as blatantly obvious. If you enfranchise the more or less most disenfranchised portion of the voting population, of course you're going to have more republican voters. You're going to have more voters period...

Guess you could mean relatively more, compared to the whole mass that comes in? It'll be a helluva' different political landscape when that actually happens, though. Not sure how effective extrapolations on the current condition would be.