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General Discussion / Re: AmeriPol thread
« on: February 17, 2021, 03:57:13 pm »
Well... in (mostly) unrelated news, Limbaugh has apparently kicked the bucket. One of the primary drivers of right-wing radicalization and the continued moral debasement of conservatism in the US over the last few decades appears to have been took out by cancer.

Be interesting to see the effect on talk radio, I guess...

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I mean... if you're at the point you're deliberately infecting people with a plague, you'll probably take what you can get :V

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General Discussion / Re: AmeriPol thread
« on: February 16, 2021, 05:53:58 pm »
I can definitely see the whole cancel thing (I hesitate to call it culture, exactly, because its overall impact and extent has largely been pretty damn anemic from everything I've seen) being an extension of issues with the US (in)justice system, sure. It largely exists specifically due to failures of the latter to deal with certain sorts of bad behavior, after all...

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« on: February 16, 2021, 02:19:51 pm »
Here's hoping the surgeon is actually right! Good news if so, surgery sucks.

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Other Games / Re: Amazing Cultivation Simulator
« on: February 16, 2021, 08:01:03 am »
Huh.... All the manga versions I've read had the MCs be generally decent. Maybe the artists took some creative liberties?
From what I've seen of manga/manwha adaptations, that tends to be what happens, yeah. Mix of that, the particularly odious ones just not getting adapted, and the medium leaving out (unfortunate) details just due to the nature of the format.

It's not as though we're all that great in ACS either though-- we have skills that brainwash people, suck the life out of them, and treat pretty much everybody as disposable tools.
And yeah, ACS is quite true to common punch magic fantasy tropes, so... you can be a pretty horrible person. Nature of the presentation abstracts exactly what's going on more than writing does, though, and there's more freedom to not be a genocidal asshole if you don't want to be instead of just being along for the murder/etc. ride.

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General Discussion / Re: AmeriPol thread
« on: February 16, 2021, 07:49:59 am »
How does a place that includes Texas only have a few hours of energy reserves? I thought that was their thing.
By it being only Texas, from what I understand. Unlike more or less every other state on the mainland, Tex's power grid is apparently more or less entirely separated from any other state, so when shit went down they were just flat on their own.

Add in a history of notable mismanagement of their power grid (remember: Texas has been largely GOP controlled for forever now, and good governance just isn't their shtick, especially when it comes to infrastructure) and a situation involving significant power demands (heating due to an unusually intense winter storm in a state largely not equipped to deal with it) and, well.

They were not prepared for a significant disruption in the grid, and now the state's population is paying in lives -- half dozen dead last I saw a count, probably more since then :-\

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General Discussion / Re: AmeriPol thread
« on: February 15, 2021, 11:38:35 pm »
So hey, texas seems to be substantially without power and people are freezing to death? Something about dumbshit anti-federal power infrastructure meaning insufficient redundancy in the face of basically historic weather conditions leading to massive california-style power outages for a woefully unprepared population, from what I'm picking up? Sounds pretty damn rough.

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That. Nothing involved there really resembles the movies, anyway? There's not some kind of canon validity thing going on here.

Ruddy thing's probably actually an empire at war mod or somethin' :P

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: February 15, 2021, 10:16:09 pm »
So you're saying you just need a 19 or higher on the d20.

Pretty sure folks here have played enough X-Com or Fire Emblem to know how reliable a 90% chance to hit isn't :V

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Other Games / Re: Amazing Cultivation Simulator
« on: February 15, 2021, 10:12:09 pm »
Eh... the caveat I'd put on going out and reading wuxia/xianxia is that, well. A lot of the major/main characters in those things are just colossally terrible people.

It's not a genre you want to wade into without being aware you're going to run into wildly unethical MCs and secondary characters -- mass murder/genocide and torture, rape and various sorts of mind control or slavery, murderously rampant theft, the list just kinda'... goes. There's a lot of interesting ideas (that, obviously enough, are particularly relevant to ACS), but as a genre there's a lot of literary sewage (even relative to general fiction) to swim through and some commonly repeating themes that are pretty damn nasty.

So, like. Tread careful if you're going to tread, and don't hesitate to just drop something like it's a poisoned cow patty and move on. One unabashedly good thing about punch magic fantasy stuff is there's oodles -- millions upon millions of words -- of the junk out there these days, even if they're not a major print genre outside their home countries. If you run into something unpleasant just go find something else.

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Other Games / Re: Valheim - Survivaling the norse way!
« on: February 15, 2021, 06:08:18 pm »
I've seen, like... one vid, and the immediate impression was 'norse themed Ark' (which just instantly dropped a caber on any interest I may have had it in; Ark style gameplay really doesn't seem to do it for me). Is that being uncharitable, or...?

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: February 15, 2021, 06:04:07 pm »
Big (for us, anyway) paperback order starting to get processed today. Between romantic suspense and paranormal romance eating into the mystery and sci-fi/fantasy stuff, it's been like 50% romance novels by quantity so far (theoretically, it was supposed to be closer to 1/3rd).

So much smut. So much. Smut for literal days. Literally wall to wall bodice rippers (if we used the smaller wall, anyway).

Like, I knew it (popular romance fiction) was like this, but occasionally it really impacts, y'know? You encounter something that really emphasizes, yes, romance fiction really is just nigh unrelenting smut. This being one of the best selling genres really hammers it in that fanfiction isn't actually out of line with popular tastes when it comes to thirstiness.

...

... in other wtfry, what exactly is it with dukes and regency fiction/smut? Because they seem to be without any doubt the most prolific title dropped nobility for historical romance, seemingly by like a long shot, and I'm just wondering. Why? Is it just because its similarity with a different four letter D word or is there something else going on there?

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General Discussion / Re: AmeriPol thread
« on: February 15, 2021, 01:31:10 am »
Nazis also engaged in censorship, so their ideas couldn't be challenged in debate. Republicans aren't the ones doing that. They end up in the occasional echo chamber, but they don't deplatform others.
Horseshit they don't. Rightwing platforms are banhappy as hell, and the GOP and American conservatives in general are the major sources of censorship stateside, and have been since at least the bloody Cold War. Everything they blame others of doing on that front, they're doing as hard or harder.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you absolutely terrified today
« on: February 14, 2021, 12:20:16 am »
Dumbo octopi are remarkably adorable, tho'. But yeah, actually going there, naaah.

No clue how I'd handle a sub, though... I'm fairly phobic of boats, specifically, due to childhood trauma, so getting to one at all would be a problem, but I'd probably be pretty okay if I could get past that hurdle? Dunno.

Caves have a similar "the surroundings may collapse and kill you" vibe but I've mostly hella' liked caves. The fairly open ones, anyway.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: February 13, 2021, 08:24:59 am »
Why exactly did you show me this, and what the hell is it an advert for?
It's an advert for weight loss/"digestion health" supplements, checking into the company mentioned. Name dropping steven masley, whoever the hell that is (some kind of health show/book person, can't easily tell if they're an overt quack or not, though I tend to idly assume they're some variety of it if they're running TV shows and shilling food health books and junk).

If you're doing any sort of searching for food or health or anything related to it, it's probably what led to the particular advert. Good luck getting it out of your browsing :V

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