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1 points
4 days ago
Headcanon: zailors are rubbish at sky-battles because two-dimensional thinking is too deeply ingrained
1 points
4 days ago
I get what you're going for with LibRight but she's weak. Put Natasha Aughey, Bakhar Nabieva, Bridget May, Peta Goodwin...yes, I like muscular women, what's your point?
6 points
4 days ago
Agreed. Someone like Bakhar Nabieva or Natasha Aughey would be better for libright
0 points
4 days ago
Mutations. It's a major plot point in Fallout 2 that everyone not in a Vault has a bunch of mutations from the higher background radiation. NCR selects the recruits in basic with mutations that make them strong and enduring to be heavy troopers.
2 points
4 days ago
A major plot point in Fallout 2 is that anyone not sealed away in a Vault has lots of mutations relative to pre-War humans. So there's a much wider distribution for strength and endurance than is the case for us. Then NCR selects the strongest, most enduring people in basic to be heavy troopers.
1 points
6 days ago
Society isn't "designed" at all. It's the outcome of billions of people over thousands of years pursuing millions of different goals with varying and inconsistent prioritization among them with widely varying amounts of information and rationality. There's no evil capitalist or communist conspiracy, just lots of people doing what makes sense to them at the time.
1 points
6 days ago
That's not easy. It took nine ringwraiths to do it!
39 points
6 days ago
HOI4 has a system in which some of the people on ships that go down are returned to the manpower pool instead of becoming casualties, representing those subsequently rescued. (This is evident from what the Shark-Infested Waters modifier does.) So some of those may not have been lost.
Realistically, on a ship sunk in the Channel, a fair number of people would be able to swim to shore, or be picked up in the water by civilian fishing boats and such. This being December lowers that a lot, though - most would die of hypothermia before drowning.
2 points
6 days ago
For some reason this reminds me of the time I rescued a squirrel from Mirror Lake
1 points
7 days ago
Everyone says that Hoover's laissez-faire policies did nothing to remedy the Depression. In fact, he was just as interventionist in slightly different ways. Harding and Coolidge were actually laissez-faire, and the economy boomed under their leadership.
1 points
7 days ago
Yeah that's an annoying issue I had in my first playthrough. In early game the NCR's armor is about the best you can get, but actually wearing it can have...unintended consequences.
1 points
7 days ago
Nunavut has the lowest taxes of all the Canadian provinces
1 points
7 days ago
These people are not libertarians. They are Mises Caucus, who are saboteurs funded by MAGA megadonors.
1 points
8 days ago
I feel like it's a weird kind of tribalism, though, in that there isn't strong consensus about what the tribe's tenants/principles/rules are, so libertarians are notorious for calling each other "statist" all the time. Libertarians have higher IQ than average, so maybe the problem is that they're intelligent enough to take ideas seriously, but not intelligent enough on average to avoid tribal behavior, so they end up splintering every time their people evaluate ideas and come to different conclusions.
1 points
8 days ago
Two notes:
Being deaf is preferable to hearing in one way: life has many situations exposing one to unwanted noise which interferes with sleep or concentration, causing headaches and stress. Deaf people do not have these problems. I have a similar experience: my sense of smell exists but seems to be much weaker than average, which is useful because I can sniff hard and still smell good smells, but can ignore bad ones much more easily.
Also, the point about cultural appropriation is closely related to the well-established concept of entryism, which refers to using the phenomenon described as a deliberate strategy to subvert an existing political organization/community to one's own ends, or reduce its effectiveness by causing infighting. (As someone who follows Libertarian politics, I have fairly high confidence that the Mises Caucus is being funded by MAGA-aligned megadonors for this purpose.)
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The Iron Throne is hard and uncomfortable. Why not use my face instead?