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Honestly I really don't like that in most open world games, mostly cause enemy levels tend to make it feel like I'm just as powerful at lvl 1 as at lvl 40. Bethesda games post Morrowind are particularly bad about this IMO, not to say you can't have leveled shit just don't do it to all the enemies, do it like NV where some enemies are leveled but most are flat preset levels.

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Nah it was also pretty miserable in Fallout 4, though in that particular case it was moreso due to issues of bullet sponges rather than damage dealt. But Fallout 4 is also probably the worst of the 3D games IMO, especially when it comes to enemy health.

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'It embarrasses me to be involved': Inside the National Guard D.C. deployment

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Just to add to your point on how selfish or otherwise internally focused emotions can break people away from reactionary ideologies. I was pushed to the left starting in highschool because I came to the conclusion that Musk was an irredeemable fuckweasle circa 2015 and similarly Trump sets off too many of my "No bad" instincts that in 2016 I started to drift away from the reactionary ideology I was raised on. Note it took till about 2019 for everything to solidify into the proto version of my current ideology but still.

Though to call my internal systems of morality and ethics an ideology is rather generous given the fact its basically me being a feral asshole proposing to kill/maim/torture politicians and billionaires until ideally I run out of piss rags to commit crimes against humanity on. As ive said in the past, I am not better than my ancestors and given how they were bandits and slavers that's saying s lot. But hey at least I want to kill people who mostly deserve it.

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Like I tend to, but I'm also one of those guys who broadly sticks to one or two authors and weird imported books on top of that. You try finding Youjo Senki and Metro 2033 at a bookstore or even library in my region, because I've fucken tried.

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Supreme Court sides with Trump administration on mail voting restrictions ahead of midterms

States need to start spinning up their own postal services either together or individually to avoid shit like this and to circumnavigate any other fuckery, IE Trump attacking mailed medicine because of trans folks or something equally vindictively stupid. Pretty hard for the feds to fuck with something entirely controlled by the states with no federal oversight, bonus points in that you could probably build it better and choke out the postal service if they continue to act horrid.

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While that may be true it shouldn't stop us from constructing redundant systems where possible. Best case scenario it's used for state thing only internal documents, mail out things, literal food stamps if needed better to have it and not need it than need it and not have it. Also worst case scenario you revoke the business licenses of those listed, because fuckem.

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Technically economics is a subset of sociology and thusly is a science. But the people your probably referring to probably wouldn't consider a backyard blacksmith to be under goods manufacturing either so ditto. This is just a reminder that economics isn't just dumbasses who think that the only thing that matters is line go up, but the actual science side of it are generally in secondary fields or quietly working for the government or certain consultants.

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Thanks I knew there have been multiple names for that city due to Soviet fuckery and whatnot but wasn't sure. Like I knew it was originally Polish, then it was absorbed by the Soviets when they shoved everyone westward, and now it's Ukrainian but I wasn't quite sure.

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So just running a double check due to my historical map game infected brain, is Lvov the same as the historical Liviv? I know that different regions have different names depending on language, culture, and region or is this just a case of two places having really similar/ the same name for reasons, IE Ontario Canada vs Ontario California.

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U.S. imposes 50% tariffs on $20 billion worth of Canadian products. Canada will impose retaliatory tariffs

I've said it elsewhere and I'll say it here once again, Canada and probably Mexico need to see about putting a total embargo on US goods, services, and flights. Hold them until Trump is dead or out of power, if it collapses the US economy and maybe the feds as well who cares. I'm saying this as a Californian who's local economy is held up by the transportation of goods along the 10 and 15.