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Eh, that worked, too. Just search for the exact amount of requisition and make sure your value type is set to double. Works just fine on my end, anyway.

E: Also, two UI things learned: You can hold down shift to buy equipment in batches of five, and you can hold down the mouse to continuously buy. Sincerely wish there was a simple "buy X amount", but that definitely takes a lot of the pain out of it.

E2: Incidentally, someone remind me: Is there some kind of list somewhere detailing what the various bits of equipment do? What's the difference between corvus and aquila armor, ferex?

Cheat Engine came up with it on the second search. Set value to double, search for the exact amount, wait a turn, search again. Bam. One of my chapters now has 520k req.

E: Well, had. Now has around a dozen battle barges and a junkload of lesser ships on the way, and much less req.

Though yeah, out of curiosity, which AV are they pushing?

Quote from: InsanityIncarnate on September 03, 2014, 08:03:09 pm

It's not like we're ever going to use AI for anything else.

I will consider it to be a massive racial ethical success if at no point in the future do we use AI for sexbots. All the other issues aside, that'd make us a galactic laughingstock.

You and I both know that success is already doomed to failure. It'll probably be illegal, and the vast majority of sexbots will be expert systems instead of actual AI, but we both know our species is going to make at least a handful of full AI pleasurebottos. Probably not anything widespread, but it'll happen.

So what you're saying is that we should take the mini-apex predators that don't kill us only because they're too small, and turn them into cyborgs with monomolecular claws and real laser eyes?

Of course. Then we can give the chickens jetpacks and integrated flamethrowers (in their mouth, of course. Firebreathing chickens.) and watch the world burn.

Silly LSP, you can't call something "corn-flavored" if it already has real corn in it.

Sure you can? It'd just have to taste like corn. Well. Maybe not even then. It's a fuzzy thing, advertising, and they have special words for what most people call "Lying out your ass" that somehow makes blatant deception not false advertisement.

Also, isn't erdnuss... peanuts? Technically you wouldn't need any actual peanut in the corn chip, just peanut flavoring. Which they have that via peanut butter and whatnot. Not sure the exact ratio, but I heavily doubt there is one. Just... some. Enough you can taste it. Or enough you can claim it as part of your ingredient list and say it's peanut flavored, even if it really isn't.

Least that's more or less how it seems to go in the states. Consult someone who actually knows advertising law for your specific area, LSP. It varies from region to region.

Yeah, replace "furry" with something bugnuts about religion (or whatever, really) and it'd be pretty believable.

It is power you have though, if you don't live in a city a gun makes all the difference. If you live in a shit city a gun makes even more difference.

Can you point to this actually happening? I can't personally recall a situation, especially in recent times and in a modern country, where having a gun made any substantial difference at all when it comes to effecting societal change. Closest is maybe that rancher a bit back, but most of the other stuff I can recall just ended up with the gun toter dead or behind bars. Shit, the largest movement I can recall that might fit the criteria I'm interpreting you as talking about would probably be the IRA. Which. Yeah.

If you're talking a more personal level, last I checked pulling a gun in response to most cases of criminal violence is one of the faster ways to get yourself killed, by the numbers. Doesn't have a very good track record insofar as self-defense goes. Actually getting a straight answer regarding that is incredibly difficult, though.

Right, because the only options are everyone commits war crimes or you just let the government do what they want because doing something will turn you into the taliban or convince everyone that living under an authoritarian shithole is fun.

Do remember LW, a non-negliable amount of those cells you're talking about are people who would happily jump at the chance to turn into the taliban. In a case like what you're describing, unless there was some serious ideological shifts in the militia movement and whatnot, you would very specifically be having a very much non-negligible amount of people using the event as an excuse to commit atrocities. So no, that's not the only options, but in the event of a massive multi-cell insurrection, like what you're talking about, you're going to have many of those cells giving incredibly bad PR.

Also forgive me if I'm wrong, but don't most gun owners come from the same demographics and political alignments in America?

Depends on what you mean by "most". Have some numbers, from three different years. Big thing I'm noticing (beyond the numbers kinda' looking sketchy in a lot of ways and swerving all over the place, anyway ) is that there isn't a majority leaning anything. Closest thing to it is a gender disparity between ownership and maybe region (but even with region, at most half is in southern states, with the rest being elsewhere -- and only one of them has that much in the south, with the other two having the midwest leading) -- even the political leaning disparity breaks down if you include independents. There's not really a substantial majority of any demographic, insofar as gun ownership in the states goes (unless you start buggering with the numbers, like that third one does re: "leaning" towards a particular party). You can say stuff like "whites own more guns than any particular group of non-whites", but whites would still be an overall minority by most of those statistics if you added all the non-white groups together... most of it's like that. Does trend a bit toward the conservative side of things, but not enough I'd be saying there's a genuinely substantial demographic/ideological lock on gun ownership in the states. Y'gotta' remember that the states love their guns, and even a lot of the people who are calling for tighter control are gun owners.