I am pleased to see you recommend VtM and MtA rather than their terrible remakes.

Actually, at the point where L-5 becomes ubiquitous there is little reason to not ban manual driving. At that point there is no real reason for a person to drive a car themselves aside from that they simply enjoy it, which is a poor argument when countered by how much inherent risk to the travelling public that that…

It’s not just the Teachers’ Pension that is on the chopping block; that is just the one that has the most traction in the public eye. They are looking to cut pensions for all public workers, with the exception of the state police. As someone pointed out below, the main takeaway from this is fuck Bevin.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias

Translation: I don’t know anything about this at all but here are my biases and baseless assumptions because I have a fetish I can’t see past.

Actually, most traffic is caused by the huge inefficiencies inherent in such a system that isn’t centrally coordinated; while drivers are certainly a factor a huge component of it is simply the way the math works out. Also, I would point out that everyone is bad at driving; people that are actually good at it are so…

This largely arises because people tend to have this bizarre expectation of perfection from the automation of tasks that they themselves are terrible at. The RAND Corporation had an excellent study published late in 2017 demonstrating that more lives would be lost in the long run if AVs are delayed in implementation…

I have about $25,000 in my 401k and did about 23% YTD.

This is probably the case; the NDAs Trump uses are actually unenforceable because they are far too broad in scope.

I would suspect that she is suing for publicity in preparation for a book/show tour. We’ve seen the NDAs that Trump has people sign over the years and they are far too broad in scope to be enforceable. I’m sure whatever lawyer is advising her has made her aware of this, although I could see simply going to suit so…

Good points.

She really seems confused by whatever that thing in the sky that she keeps looking up at.

Sure; if there is something you think is off about it, you should probably point that out as it is likely simply miscommunication. I don’t see anything particularly startling about it, as far as it goes.

It is treated as a defacto career, not an actual one, which is where I think is a large source of problems originate from. Certainly, it is a degree but it doesn’t seem to be the primary path into high office; the predominant path appears to be law degrees and lawyers by profession. Certainly there are careers in the…

I’m tempted to, as a country, get away from this citizen-farmer-politician idea we’ve had around since 1776. I think we should start treating politics as a career, partially because it de facto is now and partially because the complexity of modern politics necessitates lengthy experience; the pay should scale up…

You can hear it in all of the rhetoric that those type of homophobes have concerning sexuality; most of them will warn you about the ‘dangerous temptations’ of the ‘homosexual lifestyle’, which is just bizarre. If you are heterosexual, you don’t really find anything tempting about gay sex and vice versa; external to…

This is... bizarre. You make mention of thinking that regular roads build up like this but that simply isn’t the case; resurfacing efforts will typically begin with milling off the surface layer and follow up with replacing it. Simply piling up asphalt over and over would result in an engineering nightmare; the fact…

Ideally, after you’ve gone through upgrading the hamlet decently, you can somewhat stop treating your characters as meat to throw in the grinder for the pursuit of cash and focus on building a team. Or, more accurately, building a couple of teams. You always have to keep in mind that the RNG can strike at any moment…

CaptMonkey is largely right about how to approach the game. I would also recommend reading guides to get a better understanding of the mechanics. I just plateaued for months where I was maintaining the town but I couldn’t really advance because I constantly had several things on fire.

There are a variety of mods to dial back the difficulty by varying degrees; it seems like a popular mod to make, for some reason. I would recommend ratcheting down the difficulty incrementally until you find a balance between challenging and not-frustrating.