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I guarantee you you'd get someone to pay you for that if you tried to shill it. Maybe write a book, it might do well among alternative medicine circles.

Quote from: scriver on February 23, 2020, 09:36:47 am

Is anyone on here politically activated this year? I remember we used to have a guy in New York's election machine, they made for an interesting perspective.

That was Maximum Spin, if I recall correctly. I also know we have someone who's fairly active in Georgia Republican circles.

it definitely wasn't, unless they changed their name to it at some point. Iirc, and as near as I can get the search feature to cooperate, I'm fairly sure it was Misko. They haven't been active since like last September, tho'. Hope they're alight...

What's the worst non-people mammal?

What's our metric for judging worst, here? 'Cause like, the worst at being a mammal would probably be all the extinct ones, followed by the platypus.

I mean... most of the wizardry series seems held in high regard by people who don't get a reflexive murderous impulse when dealing with that sort of first person dungeon crawler style game? Quick gander suggests folks think either doing 1-5 or 6-8 (probably the latter if you want to fiddle with a more recent UI) first is a good idea, if you're looking to dive into the series. Translation wise I'm not sure what hasn't been translated... looks like everything numbered before 6 definitely has at a minimum.

Reviews and whatnot suggest lost souls has... issues, though. It's indeed supposed to largely be in the same style as the earliest gams, at least. Maybe go with 6 or 7, dip into 8 to see which style you like better?

I mean, the actual difference is it's a lot more feasible to metaphorically or literally strangle a politician on this side of the Atlantic. Heart matters less than accountability, and the latter's a lot easier without hundreds or thousands of miles of ocean between you and them.

I still don't understand why foreign influence is regarded as such an intolerable threat.

Disinformation is the real danger, and it should be equally concerning whether it comes from without or within.

I mean, among other things, if they break laws in the process we don't have the same sort of jurisdiction to kick them for it. Similarly there's fairly unique pressures involved that don't exist in regards to domestic influences (see fucking ukraine for a recent example), or at least involve different issues or means of preventing or punishing misbehavior.

Beyond that there's issues of transparency and whatnot that we value for goddamn good reason. Shit could probably keep going in that direction. Domestic issues probably are more important, but that doesn't mean foreign nationals (and literal intelligence agencies) running disinformation campaigns and related horseshit is somehow unimportant because of it.

Much of the rest of it just standard non-locals-can-fuck-off-from-our-local-decision-making stuff you see every time some jackass from out of town tries to run for office or whatev', just expanded in scope. Probably xenophobia adjacent, but it's not entirely coming from there. You legitimately want to reduce the influence of fucks that aren't directly involved and may have reason to actively undermine your group's (town, nation, commune, whatever) general wellbeing. There's a similar sentiment in wanting out of town megacorps to screw off when they're trying to predate on your home town or whatev'.

He was certainly on fire in one sense, sure

that is like the worst possible choice of words when referencing a young boy's vibrating buggy maybe