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  1. 21 minutes ago, mclumber1 said:

    Maybe you can help out, but how debatable is it that the quality of life, economic output, and personal freedoms in West Germany far outpaced East Germany? And the same is true to this day on the Korean peninsula.  

    Only thing I would add is that South Korea was absolutely a dictatorship for the first few decades of its existence.  Since liberalization and democratization, South Korea has leapfrogged its communist brother in every measurable way. 

     

    :First off his post reads like an except "Baby's First History Book" authored by someone who loves Ayn Rand. Secondly, "full government" vs. "half government" is one of the stupidest things I've ever read. And lastly, it's not like Germany and Korea are in petri dishes somewhere, free to flourish or not based on their own merits and circumstances.  It's not like they were part of the Cold War or something, no.

     

    Also this.

     

    1 minute ago, Chris- said:

    I know a white boy from South Africa didn't just talk about bad guys building walls...

     

     

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  2. On 3/25/2024 at 10:45 AM, Greatoneshere said:

     

    I land about where you do - the show isn't very good but whenever it tries to actually be like Halo (namely in the action sequences and the set, costume, and production designs) it's actually quite good. It's very unfortunate the show introduces the Flood wrong, has mystic mumbo jumbo, no Avery Johnson, the UNSC is "bad", etc. I feel like viewers deserve to get a season 3 after all the fucking about the show has been doing as an adaptation. And yes the human touch point has been a problem for two seasons now.

     

    I'm not intimately familiar with Halo lore, but wasn't the SPARTAN program initially developed to counter human insurgents then the timing of the Covenant threat just kinda happened to work out?

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  3. 47 minutes ago, CitizenVectron said:

     

    At this point in American capitalism (I hate to call it "late stage capitalism" because I don't think it's ever really been that different) I don't think institutional reforms are really that possible. Shareholders and private equity firms (when they control the capital) are hell-bent on extracting as much value in the short term, and if boards want to make that harder (by acting more ethically and slowing profits down for safety, etc) then the boards will just be sacked in favour of ones willing to extract more money.

     

    I think this is part of it, but I suspect that a larger contributor is the lack of meaningful consequences for when said extraction goes badly or just straight up fails. Why WOULDN'T you go all in on a shitty hand if you're largely playing with house money and your personal financial security is guaranteed regardless of outcome? I don't gamble often but if someone gave me some cash and compelled me to do so, I'd absolutely bet differently than if it was my own money on the table.

     

    If there were few meaningful consequences paid by people who punish fucked the housing market or poisoned the earth with something like eh VW scandal... why should we expect the people controlling the money to do anything but bet recklessly? The potential benefits are enormous, the downside for them is negligible.

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  4. This is a bummer mainly because I feel that Wyll and Karlach, Wyll in particular, have threads that are finished but feel slapdash compared to the rest of the origin characters. 
     

    Wyll is a character to whom a lot of things happen and considering his family ties, should have had much more interesting things happen to and around him. Without spoilers here, I covered some of this earlier in the thread. One of his big consequences can simply… be undone? In a way that doesn’t make sense and isn’t particularly acknowledged. I dunno that DLC could fix this, but he feels a bit undercooked. 
     

    Karlach isn’t the same, it’s just that the stuff about her isn’t really all that interesting and her endings have the potential to be just kinda… there. There’s an obvious potential for where DLC for her could go and it’s a shame we won’t get that. 
     

    But good on Larian for securing the bag, realizing that Hasbro blows, and getting the fuck out of dodge. 

  5. 10 minutes ago, legend said:

    I think the policy change is a good one done for the absolute worst possible reason and that makes me think it will be selectively enforced for the chuds.

     

    Elon is a man who thinks posting publicly available flight information is the same as posting assassination coordinates and that DEI initiatives lower the exam, testing, and hiring standards for people who aren't white men. He's a fucking moron. Of course this will be selectively enforced for the chuds.

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