Stefferi
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Stefferi
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4mo ago
You can go either way. KoDP is a bit more complex gaming-mechanics-wise (which could be a minus or a plus in your opinion, the mechanics are not super complex either way) and the story is a bit richer and longer.
Stefferi
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4mo ago
Just pasting directly what I put elsewhere:
Haven't checked if all of these are on sale, but:
- Six Ages (revamp of the classic tribal RPG/strategy simulation King of Dragon Pass - if you haven't played KoDP, what are you even doing?)
- The Banner Saga (kind of resembles KoDP but more focus on battles)
- Frostpunk (post-apocalyptic city simulation)
- The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante (dark fantasy choose-your-own-adventure)
- Pentiment (medieval adventure/detective)
- Return of Obra Dinn (dark time-detective style puzzle)
- Roadwarden (dark fantasy RPG)
- Griftlands (Slay the Spire style scifi deckbuilder with fun mechanisms)
All single-player, note. Might also add in Balatro, since others had already recommended it multiple times in the discussion I commented on.
Stefferi
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4mo ago
This is pretty interesting and speaks to how even the big party leaders in both parties weren't sure if RFK would be a helpful spoiler or not for them.
Both parties presumably have a shared cartel interest in maintaining a duopoly. They're effective enough in it that people just take it for granted, so it doesn't really come off as a joint mutual operation.
Stefferi
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4mo ago
The #KHive hashtag is still gettin recent results, at least.
Stefferi
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4mo ago
They probably have a literal groupchat and are able to peek at how the chat is feeling and adjust own opinion in real time.
Stefferi
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4mo ago
I don't think there's probably any sort of a fifth-dimensional chess element. They thought that Joe is demented but not that demented, so they can beat the expectations and get a bit of a boost in the midst of middling-to-flagging polls before the conventions and Trump sentencing (not that Trump sentencing is probably going to affect anything, at least). Instead, they didn't beat the expectations, and all the talking heads simultaneously realized they're going to have to react accordingly or lose all credibility.
Stefferi
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4mo ago
A friend of mine nixed his foreskin at age 23 and said there was no real difference once he recovered from surgery.
I believe the common complaint is that your glans becomes less sensitive due to chafing in time, so presumably you wouldn't feel the difference right away.
Contrast that with the experience of my mother, who spent 30 years as an outpatient surgery nurse and said the number of guys who come in for surgery do to recurring problems (usually UTIs), is enough for her to put the anti-circumcision crowd on the same level as anti-vaxxers.
You're obviously going to get a lopsided picture if your job only brings you to contact with special cases.
There's been dozens of articles in the Finnish medias about the recent trend of young men coming to religion and gen-Z young men being more likely to say they believe in Christian God than Millennials (note that we're still not talking about majority numbers in these age classes). This is balanced generally by young women continuing to stream out to more inchoate forms of spirituality, but it's still a clear trend. A number of previously new-atheist or irreligious right-of-center influencers have also recently found their way (back) to religion or are signalling the potential to do the same, though it's unclear to what degree this is following the trend of their most potential fans and to what degree genuine.
Stefferi
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4mo ago
Nah, there are women who hunt and fish, but one might guess that since it's still a male-coded hobby, women who participate will have an easier time finding a guy without needing Tinder than the ones who don't.
Stefferi
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4mo ago
OTOH it also goes to show what the conspiracy theorists get wrong about it all: furries don't do all this weird stuff to create control networks for nefarious global guidance projects etc. but because it's fun and gets their rocks off.
Stefferi
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4mo ago
The flag in question represents the bear culture among gay men, which prizes fatness as a sexual feature. Presumably, the widespread adoption of Ozempic would mean less bears, which is not the preference of the maker of this meme.
Stefferi
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4mo ago
Yes, I meant more like that it's a part of a longer development and not (at least completely) a U-turn.
Stefferi
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4mo ago
If I remember correctly, Brianna Wu has a long history of on-and-off feuding with people to the left of her.
Stefferi
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4mo ago
When it comes to "retarded" and its new acceptability it's the fallout of a longstanding, largely understated cultural intra-progressive civil war on whether anti-ableism is an equally comparable framework to racism or sexism inside progressive circles.
This affects many different themes, from the said word to the whole "antiwork" thing (with unemployed lifestyles justified by invisible mental issues) to continuing Covid masking (usually justified as "solidarity to disabled comrades") to many other things that might seem seemingly unconnected unless one's familiar with the ableism debates. More radical types often have fully adopted the idea of ableism being a societal crisis requiring urgent response and cancellations, less radical ones might have not challenged it directly but at least feel free to scoff at the effects and make fun of them.
A likely turning point was the "end of Covid" in early 2022. After that most everyone dropped masking and caring about Covid, but the minority that continues to do so has still sometimes insisted on masking at progressive events and claimed that it's literal genocide against the disabled if this doesn't happen, etc. This seems to have created eventually enough friction (since most people really, really just don't want to mask any more) that it has affected the ableism debate in general, even though it's hard to prove since it's usually not framed this way.
Unlike those, whether you take or remove shoes inside of your home reflects longstanding country-to-country cultural patterns, though. In Finland, you take off your shoes if you venture further than the shoe rack expect for a come-and-go visit and that's that. Nobody would imagine comparing it to facemasks or whatever. (Wouldn't the shoe, as an object, be more equivalent to the mask anyway?)
Stefferi
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4mo ago
I dunno, seems more subdued online as well. Orgs that had a pride logo for an entire month now do it for a week, if that.
Stefferi
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4mo ago
Ehh, again, I don't think this featured in The Scar, at least prominently. I don't remember that much about Iron Council, but in PSS this particular aspect came off as rather written for shock value.
Stefferi
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4mo ago
In my hometown, which is by no means a conservative place, there was Pride stuff out and about for a week, it was really visible for the day of the march, (the Pride week here was already at the start of June), and after that it's only the same individual restaurants and bars that always have rainbow flags on window that have them. Much more understated than in, say, 2019.
Stefferi
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4mo ago
"Why do so many guys have fishing/hunting stuff in their Tinder profile pics" is a perennial complaint/debate in Finnish social medias, but I haven't seen it explicitly connected to politics, just "no woman is going to be impressed by this stuff, why don't guys put a bit of an effort in their profile pics instead of just using whatever is at hand?" and like. (After all, many guys don't take pics of themselves on the reg - pics taken to demonstrate a nice catch or something may indeed be the most recent ones of them available!) The common retort is that it's good if the profile pic shifts out the woman who can't appreciate a man's hobby.
Stefferi
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4mo ago
Macron admin has pushed through a ton of reforms that the French left hates and its officials have regularly accused the left "Islamo-leftism" and what have you.
Stefferi
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4mo ago
It's not all that complicated, it was an expection permitted by Constantinople to allow the Finnish church to survive in the immediate volatile post-independence atmosphere and, as is the case with expections that have been in force for 100 years, has basically ossified to become a part of the local tradition. There was an initiative to "return" the Finnish Orthodox Church to the usual New Calendar Pascha schedule in the last general church assembly but it didn't go anywhere yet, we'll see if this changes if (as is probable) the hegumen of New Valaam monastery, who made the initiative, becomes a bishop at some point.
Stefferi
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4mo ago
The left, as defined in the French system, has not, in fact, had a particular amount of power in France for the recent years.
Stefferi
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4mo ago
I've read all of the Bas-Lag trilogy, and tbh I think that Perdido Street Station was one that hit you with the head with the politics the most. The Scar is comparatively apolitical.
Stefferi
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5mo ago
If I'm at a concert for a familiar band that I like, in an Orthodox church (preferably my home church), a protest whose goals I can completely share etc. I can get into it a lot and, indeed, become "one with the crowd", but if it's even a bit unfamiliar to me or not to my liking, I'm cold.
I don't know much anything about Klobuchar, but I wonder if there exist any politicians, regardless of the smarts level, who hasn't committed at least one gaffe like that that can be conveniently brought up to go "Wotta idiot!" by the opponents.
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