Nah, one overseas rotation where you stay on base and don’t spend almost any money and you can buy whatever car you want when you get back. Besides, an O-3 will make about 80-100k between base pay and BAH.

I’m not disagreeing with any of that, I was explaining where the attitude came from.

The reason for Poland’s attitude towards Nazi atrocities in WW2 is because many Poles were also killed in the concentration camps, or otherwise as slave laborers in Germany, and that shared suffering was used by governments since as a means of identity. Saying many Poles were not victims but collaborators and helped…

But that doesn’t change the point that it’s a change going to a bad system. If you have to make many specific exceptions to your system in order for it to be functional, then it’s a bad system.

I think the best comparison is to Stephen King: both are prolific writers who put out good quality work that is mainstream in their genre to a dedicated fanbase.

“Reading level” is also a useless measurement of quality: the complexity of language in a written work does not correlate to the level of ideas brought up. Modernists such as Eliot, for example, use largely simple words to communicate obscure allusions and complex ideas. I have also read enough research papers that…

I’ve played this game through a few resets, and it’s worth specifically mentioning the music, because it is excellent. 

I felt the same way about CoH 2, but went back a few months ago and played the Ardennes campaign, which was a good (and less buggy) version of what the Italian campaign seems to be. 

The characters in the game all have a deep loneliness that the protagonist fixes by giving them a community and a purpose. Ryuji is just more emotionally open than most of the other characters and therefore admits it, but every one of the characters in your party have no positive adult figure emotionally/physically…

It’s not quite that reductionist; the logic is “paying workers more provides them a higher material standard of living, and leads to less radicalism and unrest”, which is pretty common sense to me.

Politically in Vic 3, the industrialists and trade unions/rural folk *don’t* get along and have diametrically opposed…

What you’re saying about lack of simulation to the establishment’s anti-socialist tendencies isn’t true, though.

“jailing, exiling or killing political firebrands, heavy subsidized propaganda, education and media deployed against the idea” - This is represented by suppressing a political group, most commonly trade…

Because you spend real money, get more powerful, and win over other humans. You might think that it’s not as enjoyable to win after spending money, but humans will justify to themselves that they won because of their superior ability, not due to an unfair environment (there have been multiple studies about this; the…

This is a tangent to the story but is a pet peeve of mine: the reason developing countries have low vaccination rates is not because the West isn’t giving them vaccine doses. The West delivered hundreds of millions of vaccine doses. The problem is that many developing countries lack the medical infrastructure to…

I agree. The genophage was the lesser evil. The alternatives were either constant destructive wars with krogan warlords who wanted to make a name for themselves or killing off the krogan entirely. The krogan were super-soldiers who lived for a millennium, did not get sick, and reproduced really quickly. Uplifting them…

I see a lot of parallels between the mid-19th century and today in terms of people moving around a lot, arriving at a new place, and trying to make social/romantic connections however they could when the default (local community and church) was not an option.

I think this is great research and it goes with one of the…

It’s not a late 90s isometric, real-time-with-pause RPG, sure. It’s Divinity: Original Sin 2 in a D&D universe with 5th Edition rules that are implemented about as well as in any previous game. But don’t let the name keep you from a game that should be pretty good when it releases!

Step 1 to having an affair is that you stop giving a fuck about your current relationship.

They had different skin colors but not facial structure or hair like you see in the picture at the top of the page.

The original faces didn’t have facial animations for the most part, but the ones in the current retail version do; guessing that’s where the hard part would come from.

Either way, it’s a positive change…

I’m not sure what you expect. Do you want someone taking out a firearm and start shooting in a dark, crowded theater?

Active shooters are after one thing once they open fire: body count. They are extremely likely to either kill themselves or get shot by police so self-preservation isn’t an issue. Charging unarmed at a…

He did, though. The author said something “never” happens and that’s a strong claim to make...because you need only one example to prove the statement wrong.