aliceblossom

There is a better way! Ranked choice voting means no more voting for the lesser of two evils. Look into fo yourselves and others - vote to change the voting systems near you!

In these cases being granted citizenship for another country means gaining "dual citizenship", I.E. he's a citizen of both countries and thus still eligible for presidency in Argentina.

I got to play the closed beta. I really wanted the game to be good, but it had one major issue and one design choice that ruined it for me.

1. When you die during a mission you lose your entire mech. This is brutal but I don't dislike it for that reason. To me, interest in mech games comes from customizing the mech and building up this cool unique thing over time. In this game, your mech is so ephemeral that it's impossible to actually grow attached to it. In addition, the customization is fairly shallow, because otherwise losing your entire mech would be that much worse and putting it back together would be that much more tedious.

In addition, I think the above design decision is partly fueled by their monetization scheme. Manufacturing parts in time locked and guess what - you can pay to accelerate/bypass it.

2. The network quality was trash. In a game with such brutal consequences for death, it's unacceptable. One time I stood on an elevator, realized I didn't want to go up it and immediately hopped of. A couple seconds later, I rubber-banded back onto the rising elevator, but the position immediately forced me to slip off where I then fell to my death, losing everything.

Other than that, I had only minor complaints, like the menus.

All that being said, the actual feel of the mechs and gameplay was really solid. So if you don't mind the above, you might enjoy it.

My man! Kindred spirits.

Top left panel has me feeling a certain kind of way. Hats off to the artist.

I know someone who moved to the USA recently and learned English as a second language as an air and I had to explain this to them when they started playing Baldur's Gate 3.

Western Fantasy is nearly entirely based on Dark Age and Medieval Europe, and for English speakers (in particular English speaking Americans) that usually means it's based on England/UK in particular because it's the country that speaks English.

So, a huge majority of fantasy characters have an English accent because it's the accent associated with the only place in the world that spoke English during the vague target time fantasy is set in or based on.

Of course English sounded very different at that time in England, but the tie between them is so strong and has continued for so long it's now the tradition/expectation.

Like, as an exercise, consider if you were to watch a classical Western-fantasy-type show like Game of Thrones or a Lord of the Rings series. If everyone had modern American accents (general, Southern, etc) wouldn't you immediately notice and find it odd and out of place?

PS: the person in question was really quite great at English but had to install a mod to add subtitles in their native language because they struggled greatly with non-American accents.

I've often that about that if I could design a house, I'd have a room just like this. Like there would be a section of the house that was tower like and the only way to get to the room at the top would be to take an exterior balcony-like-staircase from the second floor to the room in question - the sole room on the "third floor".

There's just something about a room like that that makes it fell so isolated, peaceful and serene. And the exterior access makes it feel like a little adventure getting there. Like if the weather were bad you might opt not to go there because it would mean gearing up to make the trip.

Phonograph commits the same sin as every other player in that swipe changes tabs and is therefore a total waste of a premium gesture.

I went into the offline mobile music player rabbit hole recently too. I tried like a dozen and personally I think none of them are sufficient, including Symphony.

The most important functionality for me is queuing e.g. how it works and how easy it is to use and it's just a horrible experience for virtually every player. So disappointing 😣

"Might be cool"

Neuters negative campaigning, increases political competition, no more lesser of two evils I.e. third parties can win, reduced disenfranchisement reducing influence of extremist and fascist organizations, the list goes on. People actually being able to express their will through the government is the solution to every problem.

And I hate to say it but your support for PSL means nothing, literally zero without something like RCV. So again, if you care about your party, you have to work for RCV or some other improved voting system, or you'll smugly do nothing for the rest of your political career. It sucks, but it's reality until we change it.

You're way better of spending your time and effort getting ranked choice voting implemented. Then this candidate you support would actually have a chance of getting elected. And with the increased power over our government, stopping the next genocide in it's tracks would be trivial.

It's a million times more effective to protest by getting ranked choice voting as our voting system so we can end the duopoly and actually have control over our government when we really need it, like to stop genocides.