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General Discussion / Re: The friendly and polite EU-related terrible jokes thread
« on: April 04, 2019, 07:27:46 am »
You're going to do that regardless, though. Nearly the same amount wanted nothing to do with it at the time of the referendum, and that number has only grown. There is no "don't piss off literally millions of people" option.

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General Discussion / Re: AmeriPol thread
« on: April 03, 2019, 09:57:03 pm »
Last I noticed no one's really noticed or cares all that much, to be completely honest :-\

The most I've seen is official support for... whoever that other guy is... and that's about it. We did cut off aid for some other folks in that general direction recently, though! Or trump tried or somethin', I'unno. South/Central America issues kinda' fundamentally just don't see air time in the US. Passing mention tends to be about it. I wouldn't put hope in hoping for US intervention, really. Especially not constructive intervention.

As for being able to locate it on a map... no. You'd be lucky if someone up here can accurately point to brazil, nevermind something smaller that isn't mexico.

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General Discussion / Re: AmeriPol thread
« on: April 03, 2019, 08:54:40 pm »
Just about bloody anything can be used as grounds for impeachment, mind. The limtus test there is "whatever pisses off congress enough to do it."

... also we still don't have a fucking clue what the mueller (criminal, since his counterintelligence work is ongoing) probe turned up (though it damn well didn't turn up nothing, as per its three dozen+ indictments and already mutiple guilties). About all we've seen of it is barr's report and even barr's started walking that back as bullshit.

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General Discussion / Re: AmeriPol thread
« on: April 03, 2019, 08:48:37 pm »
If it's not actually part of their presidential duties it's fairly free game, iirc, as a base. Though that might be more civil than criminal, memory's a little fuzzy at the mo'. Most of the rest of it boils down to "we haven't had a president stupid enough to piss off someone enough to force the country to provide an answer". So far, no president has fucked things up hard enough folks weren't willing to wait until they were out of office, and as far as I can recall none fucked bridges until they caught fire to the point folks were going to throw the book at them after rather than pardon or whatever. DoJ holds impeachment is the only recourse, iirc, but... again, no one's really tried. The question's pretty open.

Odds are pretty good we're going to have answers to some of those legal questions in the near future, assuming trump doesn't just keep over dead at some point. Maybe even then, I'unno

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General Discussion / Re: AmeriPol thread
« on: April 03, 2019, 07:43:40 pm »
Congressional subpoena is really goddamn broad, and to a large extent just kinda' bypasses other clearance issues. As I understand it, clearance may vary from person to person, but a congresscritter doing congresscrittorial duties has what amounts to de facto clearance for anything a congressional subpoena can put in front of them. Anything, regardless as to if the person would have clearance under other circumstances. And a congressional subpoena can put just about sodding anything in front of them.

Or to put it another way, the extent it'd work out for the executive to hide shit that isn't seriously, seriously, beyond-just-getting-a-president-impeached seriously major is roughly shit fuck all. It wouldn't, and Congress would laugh at them and then maybe set their attempt on fire and piss on the ashes. It's one of those checksy balancey things, or something that arose from them over the years.

E: It's one of those reasons we really should be more careful about who we're putting in congress seats, honestly. Congresscritters may have been pissing around doing jack all a lot for the last while but they actually have quite a goddamn lot of power if they choose to excercise it. If.

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General Discussion / Re: AmeriPol thread
« on: April 03, 2019, 06:23:59 pm »
Yeah, the audit means roughly fuckall, and congressional subpoena and whatnot is... powerful. If the house says gimme' , your pretty much only option is to pony yer shit up as requested. Shouldn't have pissed off the house, folks.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: April 03, 2019, 05:52:07 pm »
So, uh. Do they have a name or somethin'? Though I guess it'd be something other people call them. Still.

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Other Games / Re: Slay the Spire - Deck-building to Death or Glory
« on: April 03, 2019, 05:06:49 pm »
I want to say some mod or another adds an enemy with the effect? There's definitely a few that adds cards that strip block from you voluntarily. Construct (I think... the triangle-y one) has a stupidly powerful build based off it, if it hasn't changed -- stacking huge amounts of block and then popping it with a card that burns it all to inflict a multiple of your value on all enemies.

E: Ah, the infinite spire mod has one, I think! Sorta'. Its second or third cycle super boss has a phase where it resets basically everything (except your health and played powers, of course), that will strip any existing block in the process. It's a pretty nasty fight, really.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: April 03, 2019, 04:29:46 pm »
That's the US, though. That clip seems to have came from australia.

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Other Games / Re: Slay the Spire - Deck-building to Death or Glory
« on: April 03, 2019, 01:00:23 pm »
Eh, those guys show up like first act and nowhere else, barring the last few fights. You need some offense (even if it's just body slam or that posion power or something), but if you go hard defense you can mitigate most things in the game once you start rolling, and generally more reliably than an offense build.

You do tend to need to hybridize to some degree, though, sure. There's not actually many hard counters in the game (I've outscaled gobbo nobs with dex before, on second+ pass infinite runs, heh), but there's enough that are really hard to faceroll over you do yourself a favor if you're giving yourself an out if something is a bad match for your deck.

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General Discussion / Re: AmeriPol thread
« on: April 03, 2019, 09:54:08 am »
I mean. It might be. Putting the dagger in in some circumstances tends to end up expanding to other circumstances and precluding the honest or thoughtful bit. Eternal problem with recruiting folks that know how to knife fight is that you're recruiting people willing to stab someone, drastically increasingly the likelihood hood they, y'know. Do.

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Other Games / Re: Odd Realm
« on: April 03, 2019, 09:08:02 am »
It's pretty alright, but at the mo' fairly content sparse. Unless you just want to support the dev, I'd probably say hold off for now. Maybe untill the other races come in? Things would likely be nicely fleshed out at that point.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: April 03, 2019, 05:48:36 am »
Quite possibly until they die, leaving the manga unfinished for the rest of ever.

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General Discussion / Re: The friendly and polite EU-related terrible jokes thread
« on: April 02, 2019, 06:15:00 pm »
I've recommend something like that before, amusingly enough, though I forget if it were here or elsewhere, and I'm pretty sure it was in relation to US Congress, but still. A straightforward solution to all this bullshit. They put parliament into session, and then no one gets to leave, or sleep, until an accord is reached and actionable agreement met.

Within a week or two you'd either have a path forward or a real good excuse to hold an election or somethin' to fill recently vacated seats, preferably with people more intent on getting something done before they get done in.

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General Discussion / Re: AmeriPol thread
« on: April 02, 2019, 04:45:10 pm »
Fair dues, it'd probably be good for a chuckle of one sort or another.

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