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Jose posted:Don't bother learning to parry and just dodge a lot. It's how I beat them all This is true in Dark Souls, but less true in Bloodborne and Sekiro, where a failed parry is still quite useful. In Bloodborne, it means you've still shot them in the face, and in Sekiro, it means you've still blocked their attack.
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Jose posted:Sekiro is different since they were trying something else but it's true for bloodborne. Unless you know the game and build to just do good damage with a gun A blunderbuss can do pretty respectable damage at parrying range even without too much skill investment. It also does decent stagger, so even if you haven't got an opening for a visceral attack, you've often at least bought yourself time to dodge away.
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ThomasPaine posted:Don't do this to me I turn 30 next week and I am not looking forward to it Are you doing a Skill/Bloodtinge build, then? If that's the case, the Chikage might give you the grunt you need to break through Paarl's defences. Alternatively, just shoot him lots in the head. That works. Or take a Chikage/Evelyn loadout in and do both.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Labour are asking me to go out and canvass for Sadiq Khan and I really don't know if I can be arsed. He's just such a loving cypher, I can barely be bothered to take enough time out of my day to go put a cross in a box for him, let alone have to persuade hundreds of red people that he's not actually implementing Sharia knife crime. As ever, though, the other guy is a psycho who really shouldn't be in charge of the country's capital.
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Jan 3, 2020 14:07
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RLB said her piece on the Solemaini assassination. https://twitter.com/rlong_bailey/status/1213081036462182401?s=21
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RottenK posted:https://twitter.com/billoislove/status/1213177323131953153 Ayup. https://twitter.com/solhugheswriter/status/1213043859510505473?s=21
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Jan 5, 2020 16:03
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baka kaba posted:devil's advocate time - is there any proof that Iran is necessarily stepping up its weapons program (which would be understandable tbh) and not just going ahead with building the modern nuclear power infrastructure they've been denied? Like isn't 4.5% purity fairly standard for modern reactors, and still not really even close to where you can start cascading it into the 95% purity you need for weapons? The fact that they're under imminent threat of US invasion should be proof enough. Nukes are the only way they can get out of the hole Trump has put them in.
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Jan 5, 2020 21:22
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Interesting thread: That thread seems to be a mix of actual facts from more reliable sources (like what the Iraqi PM said) and utterly nonsensical bullshit (like ISIS expressing solidarity with Iran). Not sure why this particular Twitter rando warrants listening to.
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Jan 6, 2020 02:07
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:I posted it for the info on the Iraqi PM comments (didn't see any comments about ISIS). - Ed: just double checked I don't see any comments relating to ISIS! People have mentioned before that twitter doesn't show all the comments to everyone! Ah, I see, they deleted that tweet and broke the thread. Here's the cut-off fragment afterwards. https://twitter.com/dnnworldnews/status/1213979049938292737?s=21
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Undead Hippo posted:What's the issue with Lewis? He's talked a very left wing game, but also was part of a very select group that nominated Corbyn, served in his first cabinet, and didn't take part in the chicken coup. His big rebellion against the leadership was on the EU Article 50 vote- not anything to do with the socialist project. I think the bigger problem is how Labour women who know him talk about him. Gives off major, major sex pest vibes.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:I mean given the former you have to assume he's a deep-cover Tory. Or a Trot. Not necessarily the same thing, despite what the RCP would have you believe.
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I think Starmer's real problem is that he doesn't have enough of an ideology to lead a movement. The Soleimani assassination was a good example of this - he was caught completely off-guard by something new and unexpected that wasn't in the established Labour playbook, and defaulted to milquetoast centrism. We're facing a chaotic decade where bad actors will be loving with us harder and harder, and only someone with an actual worldview will be able to keep the movement running through all the weird, horrible poo poo we'll be facing.
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Jan 6, 2020 19:53
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RLB's officially in with a good article, and Lavery swallowed his pride, dropped out, and endorsed her. Seems like the best-case scenario right there, and makes the leadership vote really easy.
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Jan 7, 2020 00:32
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https://twitter.com/jenanmoussa/status/1214733683678162944?s=21 Iran not being subtle here. Big, flashy strike, bit of property damage, few-to-no casualties, and Soleimani is buried.
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Jippa posted:But it was a "genuine" attempt as in he was going "undercover" for the right reasons? Right? - That was my question. His username was ‘Jones’, and everyone knew who he was. He wasn’t a spy, he was a fuckin’ ambassador.
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Ratjaculation posted:whats going on with SA, can someone summarise? D&D mod Party Plane Jones was active on Nazi discords as ‘Jones’ (yes, everyone there knew who he was, even the fash aren’t that stupid). Passed on the odd nugget of information to the rest of the moderation team when a permabanned Nazi re-regged, and claimed to them that he was lurking undercover on these discords as an intelligence asset while severely downplaying the degree to which he was active and participating in racist poo poo. This all came out in bits and pieces, and the mod team initially assumed that a Nazi from one of the discords was outing one of their informants to stir poo poo (this was partly but not entirely true), so they reacted with a wave of big probations and locked and gassed threads. When the full truth came out, of course, everyone was very embarrassed, and PPJ permabanned himself - but not before also pernsbanning one of the Nazis who’d revealed how deep his involvement went.
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Jose posted:only KM and jeffrey knew he was in those discords Apparently, Lightning Knight said he was the one who told KM, and she only knew second-hand. Or something like that.
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Oh dear me posted:I am troubled by all these people (Abbott, McDonnell, etc) endorsing RLB and Richard Burgon. Doesn't Burgon come across as rather dense? What don't they like about Angela Rayner? Really wish they'd dish the dirt, or we're voting in the dark. Rayner is running on a joint ticket as RLB’s deputy. RLB nominations are good.
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By naval logic, every gunship should have a couple of gunboats hanging off it. Typical privileged royals playing on easy mode.
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Yeah, Whedon's work isn't something you can really go back to once you get where he's coming from with his female characters. Way too much weird and uncomfortable there.
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Jan 11, 2020 01:35
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OwlFancier posted:One thing I like about tarantino is that you learn he's a foot guy, then you see a picture of him, or vice versa, and you get a momentary feeling like you've tapped into some universal knowledge. It might be that his face is optimistically attempting to creep downwards from his skull.
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Jan 11, 2020 01:41
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Android Blues posted:Who do people like for the leadership (out of who's actually running)? RLB is a perfectly decent, safe option who seems to get what Labour needs to do (rebuild itself into a resilient, ground-up insurgent party that can mitigate the damage from a permanently hostile media through parallel political structures). Nandy is Blue Labour, and appeared on-stage with Rod Fuckin' Liddle in a 2016 event for them. Avoid, avoid, avoid.
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Are there any really bad Deputy Leaders on the list who we should be worried about coming close to Rayner if the left-wing vote gets split? Because if not, pushing Butler sounds like a perfectly fine idea.
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Guavanaut posted:Leader: Starmer isn't active red-brown, so that makes him a step up from Nandy.
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RottenK posted:https://twitter.com/britainelects/status/1217520335479824384 Yeah, polls moving in the right direction. Hopefully, she can broaden that gap.
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Speaking of job stuff, anyone know any online coding courses that are reputable enough to put on a CV? I'm job-hunting, and people want some knowledge of HTML and CSS, but learning them in a classroom is an absolute pain.
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Jan 16, 2020 03:40
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https://twitter.com/rlong_bailey/status/1217948213405196289?s=21 An obvious pickup for RLB, but still an important one. Also gives some context to her latest column about the importance of expanding British democracy.
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oxford_town posted:he led the CPS and was director of public prosecutions for 5 years, which - IIRC - is more of an established 'leadership' role than any of the other candidates have had. You're talking about electoral appeal as if pure electoralism is a useful or even viable approach for Labour as things stand. The fundamental problem we saw is a loss of faith that parties and governments can help people, coupled with the press making it clear that their goals are nakedly partisan. 'Which candidate looks electable' is the wrong question. The main objective should be to help people outside government and convince them that elections can be useful in the first place.
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Starmer already had one incident in which he was required to make a snap leadership decision (the Soleimani assassination), and flubbed it. RLB handled it significantly better.
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lol, whoops https://twitter.com/markdistef/status/1218226089572605953?s=21 Lewis Goodall of the BBC also did an interestingly positive thread on RLB's launch event: https://twitter.com/lewis_goodall/status/1218249774236827648?s=21
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KOGAHAZAN!! posted:It’s not the official name of anything. Unless something’s changed recently. It’s a term (generally pejorative) to describe a particular tendency. Inversion of the more common “red tory”, I think. Blue Labour as an organisation has been around since 2010. Chuka Umunna used to be a member, and they were probably behind Ed Miliband's 'Controls on Immigration' mug. As for Nandy, she appeared at a Blue Labour event in 2016 with Rod Liddle (recently deleted from their website, but the Internet remembers), and reckons we should do to Scotland what Spain did to Catalonia. https://twitter.com/stephenpaton134/status/1217558374092623874?s=21
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ThomasPaine posted:Oh look the woke libs are out for Bernie now because he (quite rightly) draws a link between deprivation and susceptibility to fascism Eh, deprivation isn't strongly correlated with fascism. Their base tends to be middle-class voters who feel their comfortable lives are under threat from a rising underclass. Trump didn't actually pick up a statistically greater number of low-income voters than Romney, but did get a small surge of middle-income voters, while Hillary got a broadly similar number of votes to Obama, with a large drop in low-income voters being compensated for by a roughly equal surge of middle-income voters. Similarly, Johnson's base correlated much more strongly with age than income - he picked up a lot of voters in deprived areas, but that doesn't mean the voters themselves were deprived.
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Julio Cruz posted:while undoubtedly a lot of people who voted for Trump/Johnson are fash or fash-adjacent, it's pretty clearly wrong to say that all of them are Not true - activating non-voters is usually more effective, particularly with polarisation as severe as we're presently experiencing. Both got about 42% of the vote with about 67% turnout. Plenty of other fish in the sea, and left-wing parties tend to do better with higher turnout (one small evidence-point for that was that 2017 had significantly higher turnout than 2019). ThomasPaine posted:My bad, alienation is probably a better word than deprivation (though they often go hand in hand). Additionally, someone promising something is always going to have an advantage over someone promising nothing, even if that's less due to their winning and more their opponent losing by failing to inspire any enthusiasm at all. The problem was that their economic anxiety was not often that rational (as in, their incomes weren't as threatened as they thought they were), and was strongly correlated with racial anxiety. Trump exploited middle-class racism more than working-class alienation and deprivation.
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Azza Bamboo posted:What's this thread's knowledge on Emily Thornberry? I'm watching the hustings now and her performance thus far is the kind of aggression I've been waiting to see, but I wonder if there's some factual basis to dismiss her which I have missed? Poorly-concealed drinking problem. Not great for a job that takes as much of a toll on your health as this one.
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Dear lord, look at the dates on these: https://twitter.com/ego_ok4/status/1218685987452325888?s=21
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Seriously, though, this isn't the first time we've seen a poorly-concealed narcissist in Labour. Jess is just another Chuka.
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For anyone who wasn't sure, because we do live in hellworld, his timeline makes it pretty clear that this is sarcasm.
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https://twitter.com/owenjones84/status/1219567288355115010?s=21 Phillexit?
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