Pet peeves: The return (Part 5)

It is, however, a western which forgives many flaws

Yeehaw(thstone)

Wait, they announced the Hearthstone expansion ahead of Blizzcon? That’s unusual.

Like the Wild West theme, though!

Agreed.

Even if she’s doing it to troll (which I’m not saying she is, just in general for people), malicious compliance should always be the go-to.

If you say in your profile you’re she/her, I’mma respect the hell out of your pronouns until you change your profile to say otherwise.

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Huh.

Elise Starseeker before joining the League of Explorers… as a priest minion?

Wasn’t she supposed to be a druid trainer in Darnassus before she joined the League? At least that’s the lore behind her hero portrait.

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There was a merchandise leak on their store yesterday which had the title and key art on it, so they may have decided to just reveal it now?

Seems unlikely, but a definite possibility.

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This post also coming from a non-binary person BTW.

Apparently there’s quite a few weird time-related weird things happening, such as the expac being centered around Azerite and League of Explorers… coming before Azerite became a thing.

Anyway, apparently they’ll show an actual cinematic on Blizzcon, so probably that’s why.

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Trying actively to sleep is how to fail at sleep.

That said, have a bg3 sensible chuckle.

https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd.it%2Fshadowheart-and-laezel-trying-to-get-along-v0-lluxtd8z5omb1.png%3Fauto%3Dwebp%26s%3Dc43437bf1cea00c030ce7e3587122a1ca9069bc0

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Trying to do the Halloween event on World of Warships Legends (i.e. console version)

Got through Easy and Normal mode no problems.
Sadly, Hard requires having PuGs with spare braincells, i.e. apparently impossible. And the event didn’t make clearl 1) you have to upgrade the event captains instead of them just being at a standard baseline, 2) you don’t actually GET any resources to upgrade on modes you’ve already completed. It’s literally one and done. So if, say, you upgraded one of the three Type captains up to quite high, then realise it would help to level the others a bit more too, guess what? You can’t. Tough luck. De Nada.

And good luck finding randoms that have two braincells to bounce together and realise how to coordinate abilities and picking off the most problematic enemies :expressionless:

Well isn’t hearthstone the warcraft’s setting’s pop culture view of itself, turning known history into an exaggerated consumer friendly version of itself?

You can’t stand in the fire puddle in the new headless horse man fight and survive in the long term
this is very difficult for the randoms

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Cold IRL->play in VR->Stand in fire in game to get warm.

No one can argue with this logic.

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We just got sent an absolute banger of a sovereign citizen ‘affidavit’ at work. 64 pages, one page of which cheered the recent end of the ‘satanic Roman empire’ and that all taxes are terrorism.

It’s dated 2015 so I assume this is one that’s been floating around the sovcit movement for a while, but it’s utterly unhinged. What a grand and intoxicating innocence it must be to live in that world.

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… okay
but I won’t save you from your decision to burn to death because it’s 10°

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I’m not saying it’s right, but I am saying that I get it

Gives me the same vibes as when Jesse Cox said that working lamps in games are run by actual electricity.

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Wanna see someone raiding in VR.
Ideally with motion controls.
If someone’s beaten elden ring with their goldfish then I’m sure someone’s done it.

I mean…I guess, yeah.

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Sounds like the episode of Recess where Guss stays cold using a memory and news paper clipping.

Reminds me of this joke post by Scott Alexander:

Make Sovereign Citizens Real

As President, I would encourage Congress to pass sweeping legislation rewriting the US tax code to have bizarre loopholes based on the difference between “legal” and “actual” people, with special reference to World War I and the beginning of income taxes in the 1910s. These would include, but not be limited to:

  • Legal documents that use someone’s names in ALL CAPS will refer to something subtly different than ones that use names in lowercase.
  • Any court where there is a yellow fringe around the flag will be officially an Admiralty Court, whose rulings will only count insofar as their judges can link them to strained ship-related metaphors.
  • Any black person who claims to be a citizen of Morocco (in some sense) will be bound by the rights and obligations listed in the US’ 1786 treaty with Morocco instead of normal citizenship laws. If the US’ 1786 treaty with Morocco contains no clauses related to rights or obligations (which I am told is true) then I will renegotiate it to contain those clauses.
  • Accounts will be created in the name of every US citizen containing $630,000, which they can access only through extremely complicated legal-financial schemes.

I will direct the executive branch to release confusing and contradictory documentation about all these things, hinting at their existence without acknowledging them outright or giving a clear guide to their use.

Why? Because there are many existing tax loopholes and legal quirks, and nobody forms conspiracy theories or terrorist groups or right-wing militias around them. The feeling that they have secret information and are getting away with something fuels the modern sovereign citizen movement, who have been characterized as “dangerous”, “hurtful”, and “extremist”.

Once sovereign citizenship is made real, it will lose its appeal. Federal agencies will ensure that the procedures are so arcane that basically nobody ever succeeds at pulling them off, and will publish clear statistics (eg “only 0.001% of people who applied for a tax exemption based on their sovereign citizenship status get one”) which will further detract from its appeal. The few people who continue to be interested will get their knowledge from the IRS website rather than far-right forums, denying extremist groups a key method of recruitment and organization.

Probably a few people will pass through the web of bizarre demands and successfully become exempt from paying taxes. These people will have distinguished themselves by excellence in sticking to finicky rules even when lots of people are telling them it’s stupid to worry about it, and they will immediately be hired as inspectors to root out police corruption.

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Dont tell me its that movement that doesnt pay taxes and tries to ignore the law (mostly traffic related and tax related laws to my knowledge)