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Perhaps. He also said he did well on tests. I would imagine that, much like children being sent to the center for kids who can't read good is a failing of schooling, there is a failing somewhere (though I wouldn't know exactly where), if someone finishes their studies without having acquired a good work ethic. The pitfall may well be precisely that someone can graduate at all without having acquired a tool that is much more important for life in general than the ability to solve for x or the knowledge of how many acres there are in a thingamajig. Yes, I'm fully aware that it's wholly unrealistic to expect a system that challenges each pupil's particular weak spots, but that doesn't mean people won't slip through the cracks with the current one. Also, I love how the emote is called "getlost".

Hmm, not buying it. The gravitational constant expressed in Planck units (1) is "reality". The nuclear family is, perhaps, and at most, an evolutionarily stable strategy. Meaning, subject to change as (socioeconomic) conditions change, and it is no longer inherently disadvantageous to adopt other approaches. Society will be destroyed only when people are destroyed. We are gregarious beings. Change does not imply destruction in absolute terms, even if the process is sometimes destructive. Here's the thing: men and men have simply different interests at heart. Male nurses, ever heard of them? And the "winner takes all" explanation wrt human mating is... incredibly simplistic. You mean only the CEOs and MVPs are getting some? If it's so simple, why don't you just find uglier friends?

So, if being all about "saving women" makes one a White Knight, what does wanting to "save western civilization" make you? A Teutonic Knight? A Knight Templar? #importantquestions

I guess she could use a remedial course in English.

Love the typo. Aside, what's with the bass fixation. They even recycled the reaper horn?

It had an early bird ($25), but it was just 900 units and it was gone within a few hours. The projected release date is kinda off-putting, as well. $900k for a 3-year dev cycle sounds... overly optimistic. Still, I'm bummed that it seems to have stalled before it even took off.

Yeah. Meanwhile the much more interesting Apocalypse Now RPG KS is at just about 80k. Bah. I backed PoE, but found it so underwhelming that didn't finish it and never came back. Gonna pass on this one. Best of luck to Obs, ofc.

Cool, can you do Bolivia now please. For some reason potted rants about the evils of socialism never address Bolivia and I'm wondering why. I wait, with 'bated breath. Technically "he" could, since it's straight from the CIA World Factbook. https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/ve.html https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/bo.html I thought it was Harvard or bust. Is CIA an accredited academic institution now?

I think Volourn does in fact enjoy the butthurt, though.

"Yo Obama, I'm really happy for you, and Imma let you finish, but Trump attracted the biggest crowd of all time. OF ALL TIME!"

It's Kaiserreich. I hadn't played it before, and I'm starting to understand why it's so highly rated. It has way more events than vanilla and the outcomes are more variable. In three games, I had three different outcomes for Russia by '41 for instance: social democratic under the Tsar, steamrolling Germany; Nazi superpower facing off against commie France, and a continuation of the Russian Civil War with the Soviets controlling the European part. I'm loving it. Ah, I've been meaning to check that out - I play with The New World Order 2, which does a pretty good job of simulating the cold war. If Soviet Russia and America wins of course. Yes! I tried NWO2 a while ago, but I found the HOI2 engine not very well suited for handling the Cold War era with all the insurgencies, smaller scale conflicts and increasingly economic nature of the struggle, despite the amount of work the mod makers put into it, which is why for instance the Israel scenarios in vanilla are so boring. It was also very buggy back then. I tried to download it again recently, but the links were down :/ Man, I was crushed that East vs West was canned. A Clausewitz Engine Cold War grand strategy game? takemymoney.jpeg

You give them awkward man-hugs to creep them out and make them leave the country and never talk about that situation ever again. How did you know? But actually I hanged them. You get +2 IC in two provinces in exchange for like 10% dissent, so it's a no brainer really. It's Kaiserreich. I hadn't played it before, and I'm starting to understand why it's so highly rated. It has way more events than vanilla and the outcomes are more variable. In three games, I had three different outcomes for Russia by '41 for instance: social democratic under the Tsar, steamrolling Germany; Nazi superpower facing off against commie France, and a continuation of the Russian Civil War with the Soviets controlling the European part. I'm loving it. They just wouldn't pay for the wall...

It was just another sunny day in the freest country in the world, when suddenly! God is with us: Libruls and cucks fall before the might of real red-blooded Germans Italians Americans: #MAGA

So the US authorized itself, therefore it was legal. In other words, "might makes right". Can't really argue with that. Great philosophy while you're top dog, not so great when you cease to be.

I like the way they do it in CK2.

FTFY

No, you didn't comment on it, which is precisely what rubbed me the wrong way: "once the shooting starts no questions whose side I'm on right or wrong". Those were your words. I might have misunderstood what you meant there, but it sounds like you'd take "our boys'" side regardless of what they did, because they wear the same uniform you did. That's not patriotism. As for the bangers, being part of an armed service in a combat zone does not *in theory* afford you impunity to commit illegal acts, even though it usually does in practice. The big question is if the Iraq war was illegal to begin with. If it was illegal, what is the moral difference between your average jarhead and a common thug? Again, no conscription. Frankly, I'm surprised that you think that following proper procedure would have yielded any results, especially considering your wider stance on Congressional dereliction of duty, executive overreach, etc. So Manning should have followed the rules knowing that it would have amounted to nothing? Even considering that the leaks were open and public, what has been done about them? The only person to go to jail over the whole affair was Manning. Honestly, what do you think the outcome would have been if some commission had been tasked with "reviewing" the claims made by some nobody analyst with serious issues? I'll have faith in the rules and the system when the people who actually put the lives of servicemen and intelligence assets at risk are made to face the music. Fat chance that Dubya, Rummy and Cheney will be indicted though, so I guess I'll keep rooting for "lawbreakers".

Yeah. You do know that kind of reasoning was thrown out by the US in, er, the Nuremberg Trials, right? Following orders is not a valid defense to justify supporting illegal wars or wartime acts, let alone some twisted interpretation of "patriotism". And by the way, unlike in the US, there was conscription in Germany. Dat victor's justice doe I guess, following the same logic, that you'd be on the side of All-American gangbangers mugging and killing foreign tourists, "once the shooting starts". Provided they proudly wear the US flag on their shoulder, ofc.

Why are you annoyed? Does (s)he get tax breaks that you don't for having a court recognize him as a woman or something? Only affects him*, really, which is why your King of England analogy doesn't hold water. That being said, if you can get the British Parliament to recognize you as the King of England, I'll be happy to address you as befitting your station. Let's imagine for a second that tomorrow gene therapy allows these people to have their chromosomal endowment rearranged. Would you still be uncomfortable referring to him a she? *to be fair, it affects everyone, because the whole pronoun thing is a total cluster****

That guy's butthurt spat with Bill Ayers and his lame bomb jokes were equal parts fun and sad. Trying to get under someone's skin using something that happened over 40 years ago? Better not remind him that the US lost in Vietnam, I guess. Haha, what a tool.

Particulars notwithstanding, "presidential" pardons are an anachronism that is difficult to justify today. Good for Manning, but I think the government more than made its point already.

Obligatory: I'm "that guy" whose favorite Trek show is actually Enterprise. Come at me bros

Czechoslovakia, oh cmon man What? I said you people are beautiful. edit: WTF? DDR merged with BRD?

Beautiful landscapes? The Alps come to mind. Centering your visit around them has the advantage of allowing you to visit a bunch of countries without traveling too far, one of which I'd say is a must if you're not planning to come back any time soon (Italy). Beautiful buildings? I personally loved Prague. Cologne too. Italy has a ton of ruins all over which you should see (Pompeii!) which are technically "buildings" too. Venice is rather unique. And expensive as all hell. Never been to Antwerp myself but family members loved it. Beautiful people? Don't go south beyond the Jutland Peninsula. Czechoslovakia is perhaps the exception to this. Also relevant to English: rule of thumb, the further you go down south, the less/worse people speak it. UK recently seceded from Yurop so you won't have to bother. Another classic tourist destination used to be Crimea, but... Russians. I know literally nothing about Hungary. It's a country, right?

How is that different from the rest of the forum? This is the (mostly) romance-free section of the board.