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Bulgogi Hoagie posted:maybe it has a gentle setting, kinda like a washing machine for all her fire and brimstone rhetoric, all of miriam's punishment spheres are permanently set to 'remedial bible study' mode
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Nov 10, 2017 19:48
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:What did the outside world ever do to China anyway? creating the foreign and evil ideology of marxism
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Nov 10, 2017 20:02
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Bulgogi Hoagie posted:it’s weird that the punishment sphere isn’t an atrocity if you think about it Probably because it's the UN Charter that defines what's an atrocity, and the Punishment Spheres hadn't been invented yet when said charter was written, and so they're not included. I guess this is also why directing swarms of psychic horror worms that eat peoples' brains against civilian settlements isn't an atrocity.
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Nov 10, 2017 20:11
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but the description says that part of it involves strapping on a nerve stapler maybe the frosted showerdoor glass keeps it from being an atrocity
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Nov 10, 2017 20:17
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Rhukatah posted:Finished a game as Miriam. Planet turned into a race between my armies and implacably rising seas to claim the remaining few isolated Spartan bases. The last remnants of humanity live in a demented mashup of Waterworld and A Handmaid's Tale. launch solar shades bro
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Nov 10, 2017 20:44
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Tias posted:What, exactly, does the nerve stapling procedure entail? I never read the lore I think it's literally they directly input pain electrons into your nerves so you are in unimaginable agony but no actual physical harm is inflicted so your drone can go right back to work after your week of being stapled
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Nov 10, 2017 20:46
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Fallen Hamprince posted:like the brainwashing scene from 'a clockwork orange' but with dem thread posts it's your posts
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Nov 10, 2017 20:50
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:but the description says that part of it involves strapping on a nerve stapler Might be that what makes nerve stapling an atrocity when you use it to stop drone riots is that you're applying it en masse.
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Nov 10, 2017 21:05
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From the Alpha Centauri GURPS: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/what-is-nerve-stapling.277461/#post-6911830 quote:Nerve Stapler (TLS(P)): A Nerve Staplers allow psychotechnicians to directly manipulate your nervous system in order to elicit desired sensations in a subject. What's really terrifying about the nerve stapler isn't that it can inflict pain, but that it saps the subject completely of all free will by manipulating their senses.
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Nov 10, 2017 21:25
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Typo posted:launch solar shades bro I tried but Morgan, Yang and Santiago kept voting no. I do not regret my use of planet busters to cleanse the Morganite sodom.
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Nov 10, 2017 21:27
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That's a big reason why the Nautilus Pirates are such a bullshit faction. Every game is bound to have global warming, and the pirates get +1 minerals on all ocean shelf tiles.
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Nov 10, 2017 21:31
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I can understand China being hard to immigrate to, given that they are the most populous country on the planet. If anyone can say "gently caress off we're full" it's them. This will probably have to change though, thanks to the one child policy loving with the gender ratio. Also, North America is pretty unique wrt immigration. I don't think one can assimilate into Western Europe. For example, I as a Hispanic American, could never be a Swede, my Sweden-born children probably wouldn't be either, the same can't be said of America, I'm proof of that, imo. This cultural assimilation came at the cost of possibly the most complete colonialism (read genocide) of a continent. So I don't think it's fair to hold other countries to North America's standard. Pener Kropoopkin posted:I maintain nonetheless that yin-yang dualism can be overcome. With sufficient enlightenment we can give substance to any distinction: mind without body, north without south, pleasure without pain. Remember, enlightenment is a function of willpower, not of physical strength. Yang was a poster
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Nov 10, 2017 22:14
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Brits largely don't give a poo poo if you've been here years outside of a vocal minority like America.
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Nov 10, 2017 22:20
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If I made a career as a scientist in China would citizenship be possible? They have this Thousand Talents and other programs Im looking into.
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Nov 10, 2017 22:34
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Why does Chinese citizenship even matter?
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Nov 10, 2017 23:08
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Rhukatah posted:I tried but Morgan, Yang and Santiago kept voting no. pressure domes?
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Nov 10, 2017 23:27
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Typo posted:pressure domes? MY bases were fine with the ever onrushing tide- Santiago and Yang's not so much.
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Nov 10, 2017 23:29
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I once declared war on the University by putting a bunch of terraforming units around their capital and dropping it into the ocean. Spies reported all their cities switched to Pressure Domes next turn.
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Nov 10, 2017 23:30
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you can offset the effects of global warming by terraforming up tiles in altitude, but terraforming up can destroy landmark bonuses like the monsoon jungle.
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Nov 10, 2017 23:31
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Rhukatah posted:MY bases were fine with the ever onrushing tide- Santiago and Yang's not so much. so it's ok right? I mean they did vote for their own bases to be sank
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Nov 10, 2017 23:34
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i also heard that if you transform land to have high enough attitude it literally changes rainfall patterns around the map confirm/deny
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Nov 10, 2017 23:35
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Typo posted:i also heard that if you transform land to have high enough attitude it literally changes rainfall patterns around the map yeah the game models rain shadows not super accurately, but it's there
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Nov 10, 2017 23:36
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Typo posted:i also heard that if you transform land to have high enough attitude it literally changes rainfall patterns around the map This is true.
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Nov 10, 2017 23:37
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holy poo poo
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Nov 10, 2017 23:37
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I think they assume that the prevailing winds always move from the west to the east (or the other way around), so the windward side of a ridge recieves more rainfall than the leeward one. You can use this to conduct economic warfare against your opponents by raising ridges to mess with their farms, though it's not exactly a super efficient method.
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Nov 10, 2017 23:52
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yeah it's west to east. it's an easy way to nutrify barren areas you're using as solar farms like the uranium flats.
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Nov 10, 2017 23:57
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Typo posted:so it's ok right? its pretty accurate imo
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Nov 10, 2017 23:59
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rudatron posted:even if the US had been subject to a large scale invasion by mexico, that still wouldn't justify prejudice against mexicans it's almost like the two countries in question have wildly different histories
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Nov 11, 2017 00:02
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"wow incredible, your standards and expectations change based on the material realities in two different places? hypocrisy much?"
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Nov 11, 2017 00:03
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chinese people don't hate japanese people from what I've seen: they really hate japan as a country though if you are filipino or viet or some asian with darker skin then yeah you are basically subhuman in china
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Nov 11, 2017 00:04
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pener is that smax patch compatible with vanilla smac? i have both versions on gog, and id prefer to play wo the new factions/wonders
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Nov 11, 2017 00:07
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Typo posted:china is literally running the equivalent of palestine in xinjiang where they flooded the province with ethnic chinese settlers until the uyghur are a minority in their own homeland why should anyone take what you have to say seriously when you can't even get basic facts right 
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Nov 11, 2017 00:07
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Cerebral Bore posted:I think they assume that the prevailing winds always move from the west to the east (or the other way around), so the windward side of a ridge recieves more rainfall than the leeward one yeah In reality it should vary with latitude but that'd be more opaque and less fun I just dropped forests and boreholes everywhere
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Nov 11, 2017 00:20
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i always imagined nerve stapling as like a trepanning or something that makes drones dumb and passive
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Nov 11, 2017 00:25
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Calibanibal posted:i always imagined nerve stapling as like a trepanning or something that makes drones dumb and passive "don't sign ur posts" --Anonymous, Datalinks
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Nov 11, 2017 00:26
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StashAugustine posted:pener is that smax patch compatible with vanilla smac? i have both versions on gog, and id prefer to play wo the new factions/wonders if you check the zip file yitzi's 3.5 comes in there may be a regular Terran.exe in there, but afaik all the updates to 3.5 are for the Terranx.exe. you can play a crossfire game with just the original factions, but the new techs and wonders are in play.
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Nov 11, 2017 00:42
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R. Guyovich posted:"wow incredible, your standards and expectations change based on the material realities in two different places? hypocrisy much?" So what are the specific material realities under which racism is good? R. Guyovich posted:why should anyone take what you have to say seriously when you can't even get basic facts right Minority means less than 50%
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Nov 11, 2017 00:47
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Baloogan posted:"don't sign ur posts" "Turn on your monitor" --Prokhor Zakharov Accompanies the Secret Project "The Neural Amplifier"
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Nov 11, 2017 00:48
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Jeb! Repetition posted:So what are the specific material realities under which racism is ok? don't conflate racism and xenophobia.
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Nov 11, 2017 00:56
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:don't conflate racism and xenophobia. don't pretend Chinese people aren't insanely racist against Filipino, Vietnamese, Indians etc.
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Nov 11, 2017 01:02
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