Henroid
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I can't think if this deserves its own thread or if it's worth posting here because it is a campaign issue (for Democrats at least). It's about the minimum wage increase and why particular arguments against it are a load of shit. Keep in mind, "a load of shit" is the tone and rhetoric of the article's writing, but people are allowed to be frustrated at dumb shit. More importantly to note on that however is that the article is full of citations to back it up.
http://kitchenette.jezebel.com/heres-how-every-argument-against-a-minimum-wage-hike-is-1728874042
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Oh and here it is, Clinton's spoken words on video about "I don't know where [sanders] was." She even names him in the 1993 video clip, fuck me.
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Hillary Clinton must have said something in the last 24 hours about "where was Bernie Sanders when I was fighting for healthcare reform in the 1990s?" because the internet is flooded with this stuff right now:
Spoilers: Sanders was right there with her literally.
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What a twist it would be if Rubio announced his support for Sanders.
Oh shit I was just arriving to link to this video. That is a defeated man. I actually feel really badly for Rubio. I know he has a soul now. Which means that some way, some how, the things we disagree on can be met with the act of convincing him to change his mind or outright educate him.
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It's not supposition anymore. Trump and his followers are trying to usher in the next era of fascism that could damage the world for decades.
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So did anyone hear about the Donald Trump rally that protesters managed to have shut down just by their size and presence?
Oh.
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That's not how voting works!
That's right. First, there's the popular vote for the options we have. Then, a group of people chosen by the options will make the actual votes. That will narrow down the options, and the process repeats.
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I was under the impression this was an election thread.
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Edit - Going to tack on that 88% of Congress is going through election this year as well. So y'know. To anyone who says Sanders won't be able to get anything done without Congress' approval or help... uh. Just vote for the appropriate people. A solution. Imagine that.
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I linked before about the Clintons destroying welfare in the country, and here's an example of how it is rippling out to today. SNAP benefits are about to be taken away from a lot of poor people. Starvation is about to hit America somehow.
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Hillary has always supported whatever positions are convenient or popular at the time. Sometimes that means she ends up on the right side and sometimes the wrong side, but I can't seem to get a handle on at what point her agenda dictates her actions. She's basically the Mitt Romney of the Democratic party, mainly in that her positions are a watered down version of the more extreme candidates and has survived on this idea that somehow she is more electable.
I really, really must stress that her support is usually verbal only. I'm sure people will find the outlier or two where she actually did more than just say something for an election's sake.
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As opposed to my off topic last post, this is a Facebook link / video embed so I dunno how it'll work out for people clicking it. But it's about the $15 an hour thing, a guy giving his testimony on where he's been, how he's served the country, and where he's at.
This is the kind of person I fight most for. It's the kind of person Sanders fights for.
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Also, to nitpick, I very strongly dislike the euphemism "boots on the ground." It's an easy way to dehumanize soldiers and minimize the sacrifices that are made in the name of a nation.
By the way, related to this, yesterday Republicans were attacking a representative in Illinois for not standing up for our troops.
Except that one, she was a veteran herself.
Also she's a double-amputee, having lost her legs.
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A registered lobbyist is a registered lobbyist. Their job is to speak politically, often using their money. It doesn't matter what their point of view is, and whether you agree with it or not. Taking money from a lobbyist is taking money from a lobbyist. If your stance is "don't take money from lobbyists," your campaign's imperative should be clear. But to Sanders, it isn't. $3,200 is a tiny amount of money, to be sure. It's a tiny amount of money to have, and it would be a tiny amount of money to not have. So why does he have it?
To be clear, I support Bernie Sanders. I just think he should be taken to task for the peculiarities in his campaign.
This is the most nit-picky thing to nitpick if you're trying to be critical of Sanders or fair to other campaigners.
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The Sanders campaign, unlike Obama's, accepts money from registered lobbyists. While their contributions account for a very small portion of his campaign funding, they do exist.
It's peculiar that someone who's calling for the DNC to reinstate a ban on contributions from lobbyists accepts contributions from lobbyists for his own campaign.
$3,200 in total from the registered lobbyists according to that article. That's not what lobbyists or corporate interests give when they're buying a politician. When people talk about taking money from lobbyists, they're talking about stuff like Clinton taking the $30,000-some from the NRA guy alone.
There's a difference between someone giving money as an individual, and then someone who manages the funds for a lobby group giving that group's money. Please.
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Part of my point though is that whatever she supporters, Sanders has supported. For longer. And has actually worked toward it. And he doesn't come with the baggage of a shady career nor take money from lobbyists.
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She was against gay marriage until 2013, which was when that whole thing came around in the country anyway.
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A friend of mine and I were talking earlier this week and she said, "How did we grow up in the 90s thinking the Clintons were the most awesome thing to happen to our country?" and then went on to lay out everything about DOMA and such that I already listed. And it's true. Up until this election cycle, I always said Bill Clinton was a great president and my one citation was the surplus he left the country with. But when you take a closer look... holy shit that guy was Republican. And his wife was thumping the drum or even driving him to do things he did. So now I'm left with Obama being the only president I actually like in my lifetime so far (though this time I can cite the things I like and measure them against things I don't like).
That kind of perception by the way is part of why Clinton has support. It's why I make such an effort on social media and wherever else I can that doesn't ban politics discussion to bring up how terrible Clinton actually is and how she actually stands against what people desire from their government. She has a career of doing it. I hate to deliver such a low blow here, but when people of the LGBT community declare they support Clinton, I fucking die inside because they are literally supporting someone who wants to hold them back and has a career of holding them back.
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More things RE: Clinton.
- in 2008 she said that racism wasn't a problem for Obama but sexism was for her. lolwtf
- Clinton was an advocate of healthcare reform until she started taking money from the opposite lobby.
- This week it was disclosed that Clinton is now taking money from the NRA. Every politician who takes money from the NRA responds to gun violence with lame messaging about how guns aren't the problem.
- The Clinton-backed regime in Honduras is assassinating people speaking their mind about that regime or things that need helping in their country. Foreign-policy experience, right?
- Clinton created a team in the state department to promote fracking in other countries. FUCKING FRACKING.
- When a pair of black women crashed an early Bernie Sanders campaign speech, he stepped back and let them have the mic. When a black woman paid the $500 fee to confront Clinton about her 1996 quote about bringing black people to heel, Clinton kicked her out while also not addressing her previous shitty quote.
- Read this and learn why Clinton doesn't actually give a shit about people in poverty.
- Bill Clinton violated election rules by campaigning for his wife at polling stations, but he and her will likely get away with it because they're like a mob family that can get away with anything.
- In 2008 Obama convinced the DNC to put a ban on campaign fundraising from lobbyists, arguing it wouldn't serve the needs of the common American people. Last month, the DNC lifted the ban and the money started pouring in for Clinton. BTW I have just as many problems with the DNC as Clinton this election cycle with how underhanded they've been handling this election because an Independent wanting to run on their ticket is more popular than their bullshit-artist.
- Clinton supporters claim Clinton does more to help black people. Meanwhile there's plenty of photos and evidence of Bernie marching and being arrested with civil rights protesters, and he's stood with them since. But hey why pay attention to things like history and facts?
- The CEO of Twitter had a hashtag suppressed on the site, "#WhichHillary," which was being used to bring up her inconsistencies and back peddling and lies. He is a financial supporter of hers btw.
More to come, I want to play some games and have other things to do aside from go back over all this stuff from the last half year. And twenty years.
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I am a supporter of Sanders, but he is wildly behind, no matter how you squint at the delegates.
Fortunately, Trump as the nominee for the Republican party is just about their own worst nightmare. That's exactly the reason they're starting to jockey and line up to try and split the convention. Not only does he not represent the Republican base interests, he's lined up to get absolutely annihilated in a general election.
No he isn't. Before yesterday's caucusing, the delegate count was 476 for Sanders and 676 for Clinton (this doesn't include superdelegates). Meanwhile, there are 4051 delegates left to figure out from 31 states. The South is more or less done caucusing, and the more liberal places are what's left - which is where Bernie's core popularity resides. And it should be noted that Sanders is gaining momentum and voters while Clinton is losing momentum and voters. (Edit - by the way Sanders won yesterday's caucusing so the gap has closed up)
I'm sick of the fibbing about Sanders and how "far behind" he is. Clinton hasn't won this by a long shot. Remember, Clinton won Super Tuesday in 2008 but lost to Obama in the long run.
As for Clinton... I have a lot of negative things to say about her. She is literally a Republican in Democrat clothing. She and her husband are responsible for a lot of non-liberal policies, like The Defense of Marriage Act, Don't Ask Don't Tell, outsourcing America's workforce to other countries, banning gay people from donating blood, and other things. The fact that people can stand up and say, "Yes, I want the first woman president despite all of that" is super selfish. It's shallow, meaningless symbolism people are voting for. I mean for fuck's sake, this is a woman that said young black people need to be "brought to heel," who wants to deport children, who takes money from the corrupt assholes that have been slamming our economy into the ground... but let's ignore everything she does on the job and her whole career because we can arbitrarily have our first woman president.
While people did vote for Obama because they wanted the first black president, by and large Obama was favored because of the issues he was going to address during his presidency. He talked about doing the job. Meanwhile, Clinton slammed Obama and even went on to suggest that he would be assassinated. Fast forward to now, eight years later, and she acts like Obama is her best friend despite the way she treated him. She really pissed me off a couple months ago when she suggested that Sanders was "disloyal" to Obama by voting against some Obama-driven things. That's not what our government is about. We're allowed to have disagreements. She thinks of the presidency as a crown to win and she's treating this whole thing, when she speaks to the public, like a highschool prettiest princess contest. Then she'll bar the press from covering her private speeches and meetings with Wall Street. Speeches she gets paid an inordinate amount of money for.
Clinton has also been treating this campaign like it's still the 1990s. Like that lame ass pandering is okay to do, or not realizing the internet exists to fact check her or perpetuate her fuck-ups. My personal favorite, which also actually personally offended me as a half-Mexican, was when she said she's like my Mexican grandmother. Fuck you Clinton, no you are not, not in any way. And when she was asked to elaborate on it at a town hall her answer was that she once watched over a bunch of Mexican children. What the actual fuck?
As far as policies go, anything that Clinton manages to speak about in a liberal manner Sanders does better with - both in his consistency on the issues and his plans for them. But hey, why vote for how someone is going to perform on the job when we can arbitrarily have our first woman president, who will actually regress the country and put a lot of people out? Y'know who I'd vote for instead? Elizabeth Warren. Policy-wise she's like Sanders, and hey, she's not a corrupt fuck like Clinton is. She'd make a great president. Or vice president. Sanders-Warren would be an awesome ticket.
This is only a fraction of what I have to say about Clinton and how she's a terrible person and politician. I really am ashamed of how many people still buy into her lying bullshit because none of her actual motivations or career actions are hard to find. She talks the talk at election time, but her actions speak for themselves. She's not going to do shit to help people in poverty, or racial-based injustice, and frankly I doubt she actually gives a damn about helping women because hey, she's got hers so fuck everyone else.
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I'm trying to figure out what happens when you get the glittering boulder removed (the purple glitter rock by the mine entrance, in the river). It's one of the community center milestones. If it turns out it does something crazy like making crab traps more worthwhile I'm gonna scream.
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The rod is an illusion. What actually makes fishing easier is experience - both the mechanic and just you the player having time spent with it. It reminds me of the fishing in Breath of Fire 3 a lot, though the major difference is you can't manually manipulate the bar you need to keep over the fish icon. The fishing in BoF3 was boss as fuck, my favorite fishing mini-game ever. This game easily takes second place.
But yeah. As you gain levels in the fishing skill, the bar you use during the mini-game to reel in the fish gets larger. Attaching bait is a big plus I would promote because the frequency of hits grows by a large margin. Using tackle is meant to be a difficulty slider. If you have a good handle on things you don't really need it. Unless you're using the treasure hunting tackle.
By the way, for all the skills in the game, at level 5 you pick a branching path to specialize on, and at level 10 choose a final specialization based on that previous choice. So for the farming skill you can pick between more valuable crops or more valuable animal goods at level 5. At level 10 for the crops option you can choose faster growing crops or more money return on artisan goods (wine and such). The level 10 animal goods choice is befriending coop animals faster (chickens, ducks, etc) or befriending barn animals faster (cows, sheep, etc) (befriending being important to making animals happy; more happiness means more product / better product).
I bring this up because I want to steer people away from one of the level 5 fishing options. The one that makes crab traps have a reduced cost to build. Crab traps are the most useless thing in this game and I'm mad at myself for picking it. Better to get the 25% fish sale price increase, and from there choose to make it 50% or have more treasures found. Crab traps usually trap garbage, but even when they catch things they're meant to the monetary return isn't worth a damn.
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I was actually more optimistic about Lionhead after Molyneux left because while I think he's interesting with great ideas, he so often promises more than he can deliver. I was hoping that some more tempered realism might make their games better.
Frankly I think Molyneux leaving is why Microsoft is shutting the studio down. I'm not sure how clear their track record is with this, but I think they're playing to the rock band frontman type of thing. Like if you don't have an Axel Rose, is it really Guns & Roses. Which is the wrong kind of thinking - it's been mentioned before on the Idle Thumbs Podcast that the video game industry is bad at nurturing new talent and this screams to me of that problem.
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So I have dumped an insane amount of time into this game already despite having only gotten it on Wednesday or Thursday.
I adore this game. Unlike the SNES Harvest Moon, there's no time restraint on whatever goal you can achieve (and whether or not that "finishes" the game I have yet to see). The result is that you can play it at your own pace. As a result, the game also doesn't require you to adopt all forms of money making to make progress for the most part. As your character earns ranks in each of the skills, you eventually get to make some pretty defining choices. Like in the "Farming" skill you ultimately choose if you want to be better at growing crops or raising animals. Sticking to one or the other exclusively are pretty lucrative options (though crops, if you play video games hard mechanically, will super-outdo animal raising).
I agree with the OP about gift-giving limitations. I played Harvest Moon: Friends of Mineral Town and oh my god, to see any sort of progress in making friends with people you had to dump so much time and effort (even to the extent of having an inefficient farm). I do wish there were better cues on who would like what gifts though. One thing I noticed is that marriage candidates are labeled as being single regardless of your character's gender, so I'm wondering how sexuality works out in the game. I hope it's open-ended because why not having it work that way?
The combat is sadly a required aspect of this game. Luckily it's as shallow as I was hoping - swing weapon at things a few times until they die. Some screenshots of the game made it look like it was an action RPG with lightning magic and such and I was prepared to avoid spending money to play it. But anyway, yeah, combat is necessary because in the mine you have to protect yourself while you just roam around for minerals and other valuables.
One of the main projects in the game you work on is the town Community Center. In a nutshell it's a fixed set of gathering quests to unlock functions or areas of the game. There's two ways to handle it. The first way, which lends to the rural-living aspect, is to gather "bundles" of items. It's stuff like having one of each of the main crops from spring, then summer, etc. Or bundles of the things you can forage in each season. The other option, which I call the "sell-out" option, is to help the Wal-Mart-like entity buy the community center and turn it into a warehouse. From there, rather than gather stuff, you just buy the unlocks with raw cash.
As far as villagers go, the game pretty much has one of every fictional character archetype possible. As an example, among the teenagers there's the emo kid who stays in the basement 'til night time and he smokes away from his parents, and there's also the kid who skateboards and I think plays rock music.
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All I'm gonna say is if a robot stitched my eye back together after whatever accident would make that necessary, that robot is gonna be my new best friend. We're gonna hang out and play video games and shit.