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I mean... withholdings aren't a loan? It's a weird way to look at them, especially given the duration (at most a year, getting progressively shorter as the tax year progresses) and amount most folks deal with (the median US personal income in 2021 was <53k USD for full time workers according to the BLS, all workers somewhere below that -- the taxes on that are no more than 22%, or 11-12k, and only a fraction of that is ultimately incorrectly withheld). It's taxes taken straight from your income, generally held by your employer and sent from them to the gov't... not really a loan anymore than money being held a few days by the bank after a large deposit is.

Our tax system's just fucked up, so stuff like your deductions aren't kind of casually factored in, in the way even a bloody spreadsheet can manage, though, and so there's weirdness that accumulates over the course of a year leading to the refund and/or extra owed. That's not a loan so much as a deliberate fuckup :V

Sure? Communicating something is often remarkably more difficult than just figuring it out.

Trivial example would be something like personal perspective, which you can try to describe but are probably going to fail, sometimes pretty hard depending on individual condition or audience.

Other easy example is just in regards to communication barriers; something like describing color to a congenitally blind person is a common go to on that front (and ninja'd right as i was going to post, lol).

Personally, I'm entirely aware of how I personally see stuff due to visual snow, but it's really damn hard to get that perspective across to someone that hasn't experienced it. Also due to that, I don't really understand on a visceral level the concept of stillness -- my personal experience has never had anything really sit still. Shit's always moving due to the persistent hallucination. I sorta' get it it intellectually, but it's not a lived experience. Explaining that perspective in a way that really engenders comprehension in folks that haven't dealt with something like the snow is really damn hard for me, too.

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After you beat Rhadan, go back to Redmane and go to the keep where the door out to the lift is. You'll find the announcer sitting in a chair. Talk to him and he'll be like "Cool, thanks for killing Rhadan, I'm going to get the fuck out of here." Fast travel back to Redmane, and now all the doors are open and the castle is populated with enemies, and a boss fight. That boss fight gives you the Ruins Greatsword, which is a Colossal Sword and second cousin to the Dragonslayer Greataxe from DS3. The weapon art is insane. It's like the Dragonslayer Great Axe weapon art, except after the explosion it shoots a massive trail of destruction forward. The fully charged heavy also creates an AoE explosion around you. Crazy weapon, tempted to make a build around it.

That sounds more like the "hey let's remove some content so we can sell it as DLC later" practice.

I can't recall that being something fromsoft has done before, though? Nor does it sound like their style of operation in general.

My guess would be they got cut loose on/after release due to some kind of persistent bug they couldn't iron out for the content in question before release. Might get reactivated later on as the game gets more stable post-release.

Because the kind of people that chose that kind of life aren't some kind of agency-less unfortunate sons who only does crime because they have no other options

Eh, quite a lot of the folks batman ends up beating unconscious are literally drugged or mind controlled; chemical enforcement among mooks is a notable thing for like half his major villain roster (Ivy, Joker, Scarecrow, probably more I'm forgetting). Fair few are pretty explicitly coerced into it, too, iirc. Gotham's a shithole and a half, a lot of the people running enforcement for the gangs or supervillains don't actually want to be doing it. They still get spiked headfirst into concrete

E: Bit belated note, but like... the writers of Batman over the years have occasionally gone out of their way to hit the exact note that what Bats is doing isn't necessarily a good thing, that he's not just (depending on the writer, sometimes not even mostly) breaking irredeemable criminals over his knee, and so on. How heavy handed it is varies, and there's plenty of bits of media that whitewash or ignore that side of things, but it's been a part of the franchise for pretty much all my life, far as I can recall. He's one of the more complicated/conflicted characters in comic books, really, even if you stay away from the really wild incarnations of the critter like the one murdered most of the justice league and went on a multidimensional conquest.

I've seen at least one that does!

I, uh. Don't remember which one it was. But somewhere in there, I'm pretty sure I saw one. Not two, though.

Also the backlog added of computer games would actually be much smaller than 900 -- a good chunk of the bundle is pen and paper rulesets, graphic packs, music, and so on. Often still pretty neat stuff, but not something that would slot into a steam library backlog, heh.

Someone tell me when they start the deforestation% category. I want to see how fast someone can knock down a forest in this game

Pretty sure that's the exact opposite of controversial? That's explicitly canon to the setting, or something close to it.