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From a practical point of view, that probably sounds like a good idea. I played the hell out of Incursion, and while there was a ton of neat things going on with it on the alignment front, it was a constant source of bugs, odd behavior, and general nuisance. If you're going to do it particularly well or dynamic (and not regularly infuriate your playerbase) you're going to be adding a metric ton of complexity and coding interactions for relatively little gain. If you can go with a more simple system and save your efforts for other interesting, less finicky, AI et al interactions, it's probably a good idea.

... or in other words, if you're thinking about it leave some design space for future implementation and mess with it after you're done with basically everything else, lest you spend the remainder of your development cycle(s) constantly beating your head against the alignment wall to get it to function decently

Quote from: Frumple on April 20, 2019, 11:48:14 pm

[snip]...either in bed with them or played like rubes

Don't you mean played like rubles?

This is America, is nyet rubles here.

Though it did occur to me, @SG, that if you swapped state actors to israel, while there'd be a lot more eggshell walking due to the issues involved with not tripping over enough dog whistles to wake up every canine in a fifty mile radius, you'd probably have about as much (or more, given the anti-semitism angle some fucks in this country would salivate over) shit flipping.

This isn't a matter of just influence -- we have official routes for that sort of thing, after all, and while people get concerned it's usually relatively low key -- but rather how it was peddled. I don't think it would matter who it was if another state pulled the shit Russia has over the last few years, people would be pretty pissed if it came to light. This shit wasn't just influence, there's been no small amount of outright criminal behavior going on related to it.

But if the Russia interference is from all the way from 2014, it wouldn't look good on him and just makes me think all politicians are just the same.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/19/opinions/mueller-report-obama-jennings/index.html

Please pay attention to who wrote that pile of bullshit.

Also consider who has been noted as one of the driving forces behind Obama's relatively hands off reaction to potential interference (I.e. goddamn Mitch McConnell). You shouldn't have much trouble connecting dots vis a vis how much weight you should give a jag-off op-ed. All politicians aren't even goddamn remotely the same and it's bloody close to far-right propaganda to claim that they are at this point. It's a premise that downplays hard just what level of colossal shitpile our right-wing politicians have become.

I hate the republican party as much as anyone... but it's really hard for me to be on board with the passion the left has invested in the russian meddling controversy.

It's probably worth noting that actual left-ways politicians haven't been investing much passion into russia's meddling with our elections. Not happy about it, but it's not some kind of consuming focus. The two driving forces behind the reason the issue's getting signal boosted so hard is the fourth estate shitting the bed again and discussion getting stuck on it because the media keeps blabbering about it (well, that and like every other day it coming out the GOP was either in bed with them or played like rubes). Interference in general isn't a good thing, but folks probably aren't as tied up in it as you'd think.

I'd say it doesn't really make things that much harder, but the time shift straight up kills people -- there's apparently a measurable jump in deaths when DST changes happen -- so I'unno how accurate that is. It's pretty shit tbh, and there's some push to just knock that crap off. It's not really the calculations per se, though, it's all the disruption involved with suddenly having to shift your sleep cycle et al by a hour. Not good for you, your driving habits, much of anything at this point really.

In any case, personal wtf -- it's been a while since I've had ate something that was legit heavily salted, more than chips or jerky or instant noodles or whatever. Grandpa had someone bring him some ribs today, and at least part of those things were motherfucking salty. Used to be I could mostly tolerate that but apparently going kinda' easy on the nacl over the last handful of years has changed that. Stuff was actually kinda' nasty, and has left a lingering after taste that's just bleeeh. Still hasn't gone away despite a cup of delicious apple juice and a mostly un-salted potato. Getting up to try a peppermint after this post.

I forget if the anime has the porn monkey (orangutan or something, think it was on a ship?), but it has the cyborg nazi, right? I've only read the manga so I can't really say how the bizarre progression goes. It definitely gets weirder as it goes along, though, and the general premise is fairly absurd regardless. Good stuff, really. Reason it's spoken of so readily when folks as asking for intro-to-anime suggestions.

Quote from: smjjames on April 18, 2019, 10:42:33 am

Yeah, seemed like if anything in the Russian interference stuff was redacted, it'd be due to classified stuff rather than 'harm to ongoing matter' which usually means some other investigation that is ongoing.

Yeah, especially considering all the Russian organizations involved were charged with crimes and chose not to show up to defend themselves.  Like... what ongoing matter could there be besides Mueller and congress?  The FBI, NSA and CIA already seem to have reached their conclusions.

Meuller's still working with the counterintelligence investigation, as far as I'm aware, and there's like a pile of other shit he farmed out to other organizations and whatnot. Mueller's (apparently pretty heavily limited, from what I'm picking up from chatter) criminal investigation has always only been part of the picture.

Also damn but that obstruction stuff. Seems to boil down to "he's guilty as fuck but we don't want to deal with the political shitshow, let congress handle it." Throw in that incompetence is possibly the only thing that prevented some criminal conspiracy charges and it's definitely showing that barr has been spinning like a circus clown on meth since he started talking about the report.

Obama strikes killed hundreds of children in those strike, by the by. I'm sure Trump is more careful and honest about the brown kids he accidentally murders. He's good like that.

Didn't strikes like notably accelerate in terms of use since the shitgibbon got in office?

I don’t think Carson ever said anything about destroying the HUD department. Moving it in another direction, sure, but not destructively. At the very least, he hasn’t been embroiled in constant scandals and missteps like Betsy DeVos has.

Carson's been fairly quiet news wise, but I could swear I'm forgetting a handful of cases of shitbaggery that had his finger prints on it that's fell out from HUD since he was appointed. Perry's been relatively inoffensive as trump appointees go, but iirc there's some GOP nonsense on his front, too. Just not as actively hostile since his bits where he went, "well shit, this stuff's actually kinda' important"

... honestly, your list is going to be shorter if you look for things actually worth a damn his administration has done. Most of what they've been doing(/trying to get done) is either baseline GOP stuff (which is to say fuck the country and the majority of its citizenship, in practice) or bigot pleasing campaign promises. _{Also no, appointing judges that are going to cheerfully assault civil and worker protections don't count.}