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Post by jaedrik on Dec 5, 2015 18:13:10 GMT -5
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Post by jaedrik on Dec 2, 2015 21:31:49 GMT -5
The most plausible narrative:
Legal threats. PMDT or part of them 'in the know' are lying / bound by contract or fear not to tell the truth. AND OR PMDT decision makers sought advice from lawyers about upcoming Lyn / Knuckles reveal, further updates, or the project in general. Doesn't matter which one. Like most humans, they fear for their livelihoods. In one sense this creates careerists who do messed up stuff for security, on the other hand it keeps people from doing really boneheaded stuff. It's not necessarily a bad thing, but it can be. In that fear the decision makers, rightly or wrongly, eventually saw the only recourse for their personal security to be disbandment and an end to development.
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Post by jaedrik on Dec 2, 2015 20:20:13 GMT -5
I mean, in their position I wouldn't be surprised if the SJWs had zero influence. There was a Jimquisition on this recently; it's likely that all of this is being done in a more subtle effort to drum up consumer-based marketing. When everyone learns about this controversy Techmo will eventually chime in and put up the game for retail without having to spend a dime on advertising. I'd be okay with this. :D
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Post by jaedrik on Dec 2, 2015 19:43:12 GMT -5
gosh darn golly gee whiz disappointed that there won't be further official releases of Project M. I was greatly looking forward to playing with the leaked characters and getting a version with further bug fixes. Guess my version 3.6 is what I'll be playing from here on out unless other community members pick-up where PMDT left off. I'm hopeful that the community will pick it up. Hopefully Wiiztec or the right people play a major hand in it because I'm from the "3.02 gameplay was more fun" camp that likes ultra cheese and broken characters. Oh by the way, "someone" has leaked the most recent PM dev builds THAT CONTAIN KNUCKLES AND LYN LIKE 90% COMPLETED (except balancing tweaks) on 4chan etc. You can find it easily by going to that Wiiztec reddit thread or that subforum in general that I linked to earlier.
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Post by jaedrik on Dec 2, 2015 13:30:03 GMT -5
So samurai died project m... project m is kill... May project m RIP in piece... Jawol. The PMDT keep saying that there's nothing to do with a C&D or legal threat or anything like that. Most everyone else in the community is skeptical because 'they could be legally obligated to not talk about it'. I'm guessing if that was the case that it's because Nintendo could get them on grounds of hurting their sales, since I think the backlash would be of decent size. Here's the other plausible theory going around that got deleted near instantly from r/ssbpm : i.imgur.com/Vjt9i1A.jpgEdit: Hylian on the above imgur link: "I'm not really sure why this rumor is spreading considering zero people that work at wavedash games(I know both of them) have ever worked on PM or been a part of the PMDT. I don't even think they've played PM. WD games has nothing to do with PM at all lol. There is no reason to slander that company when they have nothing to do with PM at all. Edit: Feel free to quote this post on reddit or wherever, my postbit should be credentials enough." Warchamp also made this confusing comment: "The lack of specific detail is the trade off for being honest." Moreover, the PMDT has always sucked hard at PR and transparency and all that jazz. Foxtrot. They were just showing off new Art Tuesday assets too, so we know they were working on them up until very, very recently, probably even the day of. Here's the site with the farewell notice, all downloads taken down but there are plenty of mirrors all over the internet, and the attourney's site they link to. projectmgame.com/ryanmorrisonlaw.com/Anyways, I'll keep playing 3.6 with my cousin twice every week when I go over there after college. We'll have fun for years to come, no doubt. This sacrifice will not be in vain. Edit 2: some closure www.reddit.com/r/NewPMDT/comments/3v5710/wiiztec_former_pmdt_ama/Thanks based Wiiztec. You can see former PMDT members in that thread mad as heck at Wiiztec saying they 'hate him' etc. for leaking the stuff now that it's all over. That's childish IMO.
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Music
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Post by jaedrik on Dec 1, 2015 23:45:28 GMT -5
Pennies From Heaven
Louis Prima :D
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Post by jaedrik on Nov 25, 2015 11:13:12 GMT -5
Trump will remove illegal chinese cartoons like evogelion and filthy weebs from our contry vote Trump
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Post by jaedrik on Nov 15, 2015 13:39:38 GMT -5
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Post by jaedrik on Oct 31, 2015 8:44:49 GMT -5
Again, it's been a while, but there's some e x c i t i n g stuff coming down the pipeline. Right now, LMGs got a long overdue balance adjustment, but the most exciting stuff has to do with a Victory Points system to lock contintents, based on assorted objectives like linking to the other two warpgates via territory, capturing all stations of a certain variety, most of which have gotten buffs to their effects like TRIPLE turret heat pools. Another big meta change that's coming is the ANT and resources on the map! We're gonna be able to build our own bases with this bad boy eventually probably.
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Post by jaedrik on Oct 15, 2015 22:12:37 GMT -5
Thank you for being that bro, bro. Wish it was coming out on PC.
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Post by jaedrik on Oct 15, 2015 22:07:55 GMT -5
Also dis mises.org/blog/donalds-remarks-bubble-and-fed-are-money"Well at least one of the candidates vying for the Republican or Democratic presidential nomination appears to have a reasonable grasp of current economic reality and the complicity of the Federal Reserve in exacerbating an impending financial disaster. In an interview with The Hill, Donald Trump blasted the 2010 Dodd-Frank Wall Street reform law as a 'disaster.' Trump noted that despite Dodd-Frank 'we’re in a bubble right now anyway.' He pointed to social media companies that have issued IPOs worth 'billions' but 'haven’t even made 10 cents.' Trump also showed insight into the political machinations of the Fed, accusing Fed Chairwoman Janet Yellen of resisting an increase in interest rates to protect the incumbent administration from leaving office during a recession. In Trump's words: 'She’s keeping the economy going, barely. The reason they’re keeping the interest rate down is Obama doesn’t want to have a recession-slash-depression during his administration.' Such a plain-spoken indictment of the Fed from a politician is always welcome, regardless of its source." hohohoho Still don't like Trump tho. Also hey look Mises Media just posted a relevant video to the above discussions if you're interested. Edit: dang, it talks about the 'less government worse care' stuff. It's true in a sense.
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Post by jaedrik on Oct 15, 2015 21:58:12 GMT -5
No need when I can look at these bad sources to refute them. For starters, all of jaedrik's sources are speculation and opinion based pieces instead of actual data. I'm going to start in weird order, but I would like to tackle the piece on pharmaceuticals and regulations on them. As Aristotle and Aquinas taught, every study has its proper method. One cannot apply the deductive logic used to arrive at undeniable truths in metaphysics to the physical sciences which require an inductive method. Likewise, economics is a deductive and psychological science. The article in question: mises.org/library/pharmaceutical-prices-patents-and-fda "Sachs is being somewhat disingenuous in representing the production cost of Sofosbuvir as $100, and the markup as 800 times costs (as he did in an August 7 tweet. There are substantial fixed costs involved in R&D, trials and FDA approval, and the like. Any company incurring those costs expects to recover them by charging an above-marginal cost, and if trade secrets or other features of the market allow them to do so, they will." In this particular, whether he's right or wrong is tertiary and does not undermine the main points of the article as his mess-up here in no way disproves anything else. The principle behind the example is sound, they merely don't apply to Sofosbuvir. x800 of production cost is just a number which is irrelevant to the true nature of our discussion: namely, why the thing costs so much. Either way, including R&D and other costs or not (which I don't know Gilead inherited the debt or anything else), they'd still be in massive excess. Terrell is right in this particular. The free market drives down costs and raises quality of service. Bad drug companies would be punished according to the mandates of the market economically, and by civil law on damages against particular people. Anyone that puts some thought on the subject knows that removing patents would lead to a mad rush by the competition to get in on the lucrative profits available, thus increasing the supply and driving down costs. The best solution is to abolish the patent system. Who are you to say your arbitrary "reasonable time limit" and "reasonable prices" are inherently morally superior to the free market's non-arbitrarily decided time limits and prices? There are infinitely more problems with government granted monopoly and price controls as a whole than the purported injustices of the market process. Aspirin makers are naturally incentivized to inform, takers are naturally incentivized to know. People will make stupid decisions regardless, and I'd argue that the same people who will not do what they OUGHT and take preventative steps like you mentioned won't be affected by this. In fact, in their attempts to rationalize their stupidity, they will likely already know the facts about aspirin and use the drug in such a manner. Then there are the people who actually need to know this stuff to save them. Thanks.
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Post by jaedrik on Oct 14, 2015 9:19:55 GMT -5
G od da mn it, Jaedrik, I went to Georgetown University and had many friends who studied economics and in the business school, and I swear to god if you can't start citing sources better than exclusively the Ludwig von Mises institute I will find someone I know who knows more about this than you do and I will bring them on here to prove you wrong. I understand that citing one source over and over can get annoying, but, just because I cite the biggest institution which has a vested ideological interest in the advancement of liberty and the free market doesn't mean they're wrong. I wouldn't scoff if you cited Charles Dawkins or Thomas Piketty, The Heritage Foundation, or the New York Times 20 times in a row, really, I wouldn't. Judge not on the who or what, those are not meritorious avenues of inquiry. Judge on the merit of content. What you're suggesting is diversification for its own sake. No, like all things it ought to serve a purpose. If a random 4 year old from Portugal made an elegant proof of anything, I'd cite him. I don't care about credentials in that sense. Besides, why care about the institution they're writing under? I'd be more concerned about the individuals who wrote the darn things themselves. Now, where I could cite mises.org endlessly for their credentials, I'll just get the same information from different sources. Does that make the information more true? No. These are the people that wrote all the stuff I cited earlier. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_DiLorenzosites.wofford.edu/terrelltd/www.ryanmcmaken.com/p/about-this-blog.htmlmises.org/profile/anton-batey alright I couldn't find this guy elsewhere, you got me I guess. No surprise he's the least credentialed of all these men. My favorite one: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_WoodsAnd the man himself: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_von_MisesBy all means, bring one of them on. I'm not smart, but being beaten into the ground should help me improve on a few things.
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Post by jaedrik on Oct 13, 2015 22:11:50 GMT -5
Oh I totally agree most Democrats are garbage, but then that's why I support Bernie so. At least we share extremism kinda.
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Post by jaedrik on Oct 13, 2015 22:02:38 GMT -5
And yet that summary is still better than what the Republican debates were. I really can't tell the difference when what we have to choose between is going to war with a 36% top bracket tax rate and going to war sooner with a 34.6% top bracket tax rate. Neocons = democrats pretty much.
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Post by jaedrik on Oct 13, 2015 21:58:50 GMT -5
Literally taking a "State and Local Government" course in a community college.
These stories are super interesting, coming straight from a man in the system himself. Who knew Illinois politics ARE SO FULL OF DEALS AND TAKING BAD VOTES IN EXCHANGE FOR THINGS AND RUNNING THE POLITICAL MACHINE THANKS MADIGAN AND BLAGOJEVICH AND OHHHH BOYO WHAT'S GOING TO BE DONE ABOUT THE BUDGET. Literally everything I've encountered in this class has confirmed the principle of my beliefs about political life, and believe me I'm trying hard to disprove myself. I'd honestly like to be wrong. "Obviously you're not trying hard enough because you haven't changed your views to the correct positions yet-" YOU SURE ARE A TRUSTED COMPANION.
Well. I shouldn't act like these attempts at biting remarks are going to change anything. Or that jab at the immobility of our views. You guys should just open your minds, man.
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Movies
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Post by jaedrik on Oct 13, 2015 21:51:10 GMT -5
"Pentagon Wars" is a 'dark comedy' movie about the development of the Bradley Fighting Vehicle. The Military-Industrial-Congressional-Complex at its finest. Also I found this: www.dote.osd.mil/Also the F-35 Lightning is hot garbage.
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Post by jaedrik on Oct 13, 2015 19:29:24 GMT -5
Jaedrik, your idea of privatization fails to account for the existence of corruption within private industries as well as the fact that private organizations' motive of exponentially increasing profit leads to screwed up priorities in and of itself whereas a government entity's motivation is to simply keep the organization afloat. I hope we mean the same thing by corruption, but I'll agree entirely on that, anyone can be corrupt. There can't be a paradise on this earth precisely because of that. No system is perfect, not even close, but the free market is a system which more often than government ensures moral normalcy is upheld, therefore it should permeate all sectors of economy and life. Oddly, I'm going to claim the side of being the realist here, in contrast to your seeming utopian idealism. Your ideas of the incentives behind government and the market are lacking. First, you assert but don't bother to prove: pursuit of profit inherently leads to foxtrotting up morally by having bad priorities. Okay, but that makes it sound like you're pre-defining profit-seeking as immoral, and that sounds circular. Do you care to explain explicitly how profit seeking inherently leads to said poor priorities? Or perhaps the incentives surrounding profit which are inherently perverse? Secondly, your ideas of the government's incentives (you only site one possible) are hilariously naive. I don't mean to insult you, but such a vast inconsistency needs to be pointed out as plainly as possible. You assume the profit-seeking motive simply goes out the window when dealing with government structures and officials. Are the people who run the government above all the trappings of private men? No, that's stupid, they can be just as corrupt for the same reasons. In the case of a republic, the politicians have incentive to get elected, or re-elected. Acknowledging that the majority of people can be morally in the wrong on a number of issues necessitates that some politicians, in seeking to further their career, will pander to them. Grant, further, no matter how stringent the overwatch, no matter how strict the structural accountability, any number of individuals or institutions could, uh, persuade or incentivize their elected officials through various means, not to mention the fact that politicians have incentive to reduce the overwatch so they can further themselves and you can see why we don't have a better system. Furthermore, what about the desire for power? Why can't a politician or the political class or the establishment have aspirations for ever-increasing power? This is just the profit motive in another light. I shouldn't have to go over the corruption that permeates through every other form of government. If private people aren't immune, then neither are public people. If anything, the inherently compulsory nature of the modern Hobbesian state leads to messing up morally, and that's not pre-definition or circular logic, that's merely the result of their incentive structure given that humans are corruptible. They have no universal failure mechanism, sure particular instances might but they are rare, they have no accountability save that self-imposed, and most would like to remain unaccountable according to their incentives to increase in power, and they have every incentive to build up a culture of worship around themselves to perpetuate the myth of their moral supremacy as guardians of the people. The free market, on the other hand, owing to its non-compulsory and free-exchange nature, has a universal and unavoidable failure mechanism with direct accountability to the people in society: loss, for whatever reason. Who is this everyone? I won't question your statistics, their methodologies, their interests etc., then, but there's still many grounds for objection. The great cost of health insurance in America is precisely because of government intervention, rather than in spite of it. Here's a 2009 daily talking about it: mises.org/library/health-insurance-market-not-freeIt's impossible for central, socialized agents to economically calculate, as Mises proved in that Economic Calculation in the Socialist Commonwealth pdf I linked in the thread earlier. www.mises.org/library/economic-calculation-socialist-commonwealthtl;dr - In the absence of private ownership of the means of production, the free-market process of pricing said capital is also absent. Necessarily, this means there is no way to calculate rationally and thus no way to tell which method for allocating resources or techniques or use of capital is more efficient. That being said, that government negotiator is a pseudo-private negotiator in a pseudo-private system of health care. These articles explain well why pharmaceuticals are so expensive, turns out because of government again. I'll give you a tl;dr. mises.org/library/pharmaceutical-prices-patents-and-fdamises.org/blog/yet-another-way-government-drives-pharmaceutical-pricesThe first one basically says they're high because of companies lobbying the FDA (along with their numerous ridiculous regulation) and patents providing monopolies. The second provides a recent, specific example of the FDA's meddling. This video provides a good example of a free-market solution succeeding in spite of Now, before you object to the links provided, I acknowledge it's not metaphysically impossible that health care could be more expensive under the free market, however given the incentive structure of said free market prices would most, most likely go down. The scenarios which it would most likely go up in is if there was some calamity or disaster in which people prioritize things differently (for example, guns or food) or the supply of said care goes way down. Another course is to say that they very well might bring down the price in that area, but, by definition, if it goes against the free market's price then those companies must offload the increased costs elsewhere or suffer loss. The example doesn't agree with the claim. Competition isn't some nebulous world-wide thing. No, it's regional, and has velocity, unlike what the neoclassical perfect competition model claims. You really think that people having less options in a given region will drive down prices? That's the very antithesis of increased competition. Lastly, here's an article which explodes the "public utilities" myth, and the myth that investment-intensive industries (like telecommunications) are too difficult for the free market to introduce competition into. Also, the myth of a 'natural monopoly' by demonstrating that they're alien to a free market and caused by the government in every historical circumstance (not saying they're metaphysically impossible, again, but there we have the theory of contestable markets to protect the free market besides historical precedent). mises.org/library/myth-natural-monopoly
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Post by jaedrik on Oct 11, 2015 14:35:24 GMT -5
dunsparceflinch, when I jokingly suggested the term "shoot and run", that was in reference strictly to gun crimes. It was not readily clear what I meant and I apologize for that. When a gun is used in crime, the media loves to use the term "assault rifle" I've never heard of a reckless bicyclist hit somebody and then hear on the news that police confiscated an "assault bicycle". I understand why individuals don't like government intervention in the form of social programs; there's a lot of abuse of these programs that make it on the news. Not even democrats like to admit this corruption exists. I've seen those videos of fit, healthy 20 year old's doing push-ups in front of government assistance buildings looking to get their "Obama bucks". The process isn't perfect. These programs are important, however to those that actually do have actual disabilities and financial difficulties. Fraud is against the law. The government and the people that enable this behavior, should take fraud more seriously than they currently do, because that's just extra unwarranted burden on the taxpayers. Abuse of the political process is real. www.newsmax.com/Finance/StreetTalk/Fortune-tax-corporate-GE/2015/04/14/id/638367/www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/10/11/us/politics/2016-presidential-election-super-pac-donors.htmlMost corporate interests do not match the interests of the everyday people. Civil society runs social programs far better than the welfare state, though, because they have accountability through failure mechanisms. Social security is a prime example: fraternal societies of pre-FDIC were a mutual-aid system that had next to zero corruption, and cared for people with a sensitivity and personality that is bereft in any bureaucratic establishment. You can find all sorts of stuff on them in sociological journals / books. Sadly, one can't compete with "free." But, hey, we completely agree on abuse of the political process! Living in Illinois, where professional politics is our culture, I'm faced with it 24/7. There's almost no correlation between popular opinion and policy like there is between the elites / people with money's opinion and policy that gets passed. Our diagnoses for what to do about abuse probably differ. I'm gonna say that, no matter how much accountability programs you set up in a bureaucratic fashion, there's ALWAYS a way for interest groups to slip incentives to politicians, no matter what. Limiting campaign donations will only make the incumbent more powerful, and doesn't stop under-the-table deals. Furthermore, there are lobbyists on both sides, so neither of them want to shoot themselves in the foot financially or professionally. The political class, because of these things and so many others, is naturally incentivized to increase its member's power. The only way to get rid of this stuff entirely is to abolish the monopoly of force (the modern Hobbesian state etc.) and become a stateless society.
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Post by jaedrik on Oct 11, 2015 11:22:47 GMT -5
www.ontheissues.org/senate/bernie_sanders.htmOn his official website, as far as I could see, he did not have a clarified stance on gun control. His voting record on guns is interesting since he comes from Vermont that likes their right to bear arms. www.nationalreview.com/corner/381136/vermont-safe-and-happy-and-armed-teeth-charles-c-w-cookeSo what you have is a progressive on economic issues, and a centrist on gun ownership. I can live with that. The most important issues, and this is why I support Bernie Sanders, is the need to reinstate important laws like Glass Steagall, and getting the corruption out of politics. I'm a regular visitor of nbcnews and there's been a media blackout of any headlines about him for a month. Gee, I wonder why. The term assault rile is dishonest spin perpetuated by the media anyway. All weapons receive this definition regardless of the weapon's capability. It's also the only item that when used to commit crime, the word assault is attached to it, as if that's the only thing anyone can do with a gun. When a pedestrian is hit by a bicycle or a car and they take off, we call it a hit and run. Why not call it a shoot and run? Would be a more literal accurate description for most shootings in America. Bernie Sanders is a gun grabbing socialist. America loves its socialist programs, no need to be ashamed. There's every need to be ashamed when the supposedly libertarian party of the authoritarian vs libertarian ideology line supports socialist programs like Medicaid, the FDIC... Gosh dang Neocons. The position should be "get government hands out of civil society," IMO. The way "progressive" is used in modern political discourse insinuates a lot of untrue things. That aside, one should look to the merits of the policies / ideologies themselves rather than the label associated with them. We seem to agree on this point, since you talk about the dishonest spin because of the negative connotations of the word "assault." But, I agree, Sanders is getting the media blackout (too strong a word?) because the Democratic party leadership is upset he's doing so good. After all, they didn't ordain him from on high, and he overthrows maybe like one or two of their key positions. Same with Trump, he's self-made and doesn't hold all the positions the Republican party leadership wants, and it drives them crazy, but I don't really watch cable news so I don't know the proportion of his coverage.
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Post by jaedrik on Oct 7, 2015 12:00:00 GMT -5
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Post by jaedrik on Oct 6, 2015 0:25:17 GMT -5
canada.isidewith.com/results/1385941272Gave a few unique answers where none of them fit, gave a few answers that didn't exactly perfectly rhetorically fit for me so I could have a party rating. Lots of "your barely similar answer: ..." looks like I'm too E X T R E M E for most parties. Thanks, Beav, this site is entertaining. :D Hoh buh gaw the USA presidental one has so many more loaded / unsuitable questions / answers than the Canadian one tho Probably because there are more questions to answer? www.isidewith.com/elections/2016-presidential/1386045248
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Post by jaedrik on Oct 5, 2015 11:13:25 GMT -5
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Music
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Post by jaedrik on Oct 4, 2015 0:43:00 GMT -5
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Post by jaedrik on Sept 19, 2015 11:40:03 GMT -5
TTK equivalence does not balance make. Higher RoF weapons have an inherent qualitative advantage all else being equal.
And what Pach said. And Mousey.
Longer TTK does not necessarily more skill inject to a game.
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Post by jaedrik on Sept 13, 2015 21:07:55 GMT -5
Listened to this audio essay/book the other night while playing NC in Planetside.
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Post by jaedrik on Aug 26, 2015 9:49:32 GMT -5
They did it. Those monsters finally did it. Yo, the heck is that music, though?
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Post by jaedrik on Aug 16, 2015 22:52:41 GMT -5
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Music
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Post by jaedrik on Aug 15, 2015 23:24:01 GMT -5
How delightful. :D
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Post by jaedrik on Aug 15, 2015 17:31:31 GMT -5
... It's one of the areas that others of my political bent typically get wrong because of the nuclear bogeyman.... Politicians like portraying their special interests in a good light to get political favors by subsidizing otherwise nonviable goods and services.
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