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A nun encouraging pre-marital kissing?! Wait till the Vatican hears about this... I'm also curious what percentage of voters have played a mainline Fire Emblem game, and if they have, which ones in particular they have played. We need a voter census doc for this game. Hell, lets go to 1981 and get Carter to win.

If only Bernie got a pity win in 2016, you know what I'm saying? Well now I'm curious on how many people voted total. Are there numbers for that?

Like democracy in real life, the actually interesting niches get split between voters while the most generic candidates get the most total votes.

Generally she's not that complicated. Relatively to other major female Fire Emblem characters she is very complicated.

Sacred Stones and Three Houses. The two games where women go to have unnecessary discourse about them.

I did a thing. It's just Biden again but red

You put on the Emblem of America and it just summons Joe Biden as a ghostly figure to your side.

I conclude then that it is both a fetish and bad writing. Not just in a "This is misogynist" way but also "This is fucking repetitive at this point"

' What do I do with this guy anyways. Sorry, I cut you off. That was incredibly easy. I sent Alec down to grab the wingblade thing for nothing. This scenario feels very familiar. Is it a fetish or does Kaga just not know how to write interesting conflicts for individual missions, because that's the vibe I'm getting from all of this damseling. Noishe I have good news. Uh oh. Some might say it's because I haven't played all of the games. I would say it's because I am abysmal at remembering names in general.

I reloaded several turns, but there was not a save I had where in I could do a move that would keep everyone alive, someone had to die. Well there might have been one but after 37 retries I couldn't be bothered at that point.

Listen it was either him or someone else, it was a trolley problem situation.

So somehow I got into the habit of pressing the wrong hotkey for screenshots and ended up losing all the images I was going to have things to say on. But really all that matters is that Noise has been written as an acceptable loss and Agustria unfortunately still has a couple hundred years to go before the nation state eclipses the monarchy in idea so Eldigan remains fiercely loyal to the king but still wants to reason with him but instead was executed by that same king for being too much of a centrist.

I have no idea who these people are or what this drama is about but in other news, several lawmakers in my state of Oregon are trying to back peddle drug decriminalization laws.

FE4 is very cozy to play compared to most Fire Emblem games I feel. I don't know, I like managing a bigger army in this context and planning out routes on a big map. "Oh he's trying to retake the capital? Fucking finally, we can use that as an excuse to annex the entire place then." A female captain of a pirate band? That's spicy even for modern Fire Emblem. Not that I expect this game to be particularly interesting with it... Pfft! I'm just imagining a very polite boyish voice going "Please kindly fuck off" I mean considering on average this gal can deal more damage to the average foe than most of our team I feel like all we need to do is give her a horse and have Arden take care of Seliph or something.

Even if I don't play it immediately, once I play it I wanna be like Y'know? Besides, it'd be nice to play alongside everyone else here considering I've been late to all the other games.

May's my new deadline then.

I forgot to mention this earlier but I love the full caps "COMMUNISM!!" at the end of the title just in case it wasn't already clear. Also side note, is that flag not just the Roman Republic SPQR symbol but with a hammer and sickle? Soviet Union fans ain't exactly beating the imperialist allegations with this one.

I don't know, I've been in the lower class my whole life and I haven't had a chance to move up a level. Oh wait you mean like unit reclassing--

Her hair is not as curly but I could see that. I already tend to wear my hair like that anyways with it tied behind and resting over my shoulder with a few strands left dangling at the sides of my face. As for the X mark, a quick trip to the rural ranches where all the paranoid gun owners live should do just the trick.

To be fair I don't look like her in a features sense, more in that she has olive skin like I do (Most of the year anyway) which is rare in these games. For an FE character that's the closest in features to me... Relatively speaking this is like what I look like during the winter, I even have that same hat and coat. In fact I apparently look like her so much that when my mother saw some fan art of her she assumed it was an anime self-portrait of myself.

Hold on, let me look through all 800 Fire Emblem characters to remind myself of the ones I liked... Uhhhh... Knows the pains of colonial trauma Hot The Mikoto restoration One of the very few mature female characters who actually looks mature and battle worn Mikoto's wife Looks like me That's probably why I gravitated towards her so much because I can't even remember a line she says in that game I have never played this game But he's hot She is a spectre haunting the world She has a world to win Hresgvelgist-Hannemanism

A republic certainly has a bigger safety net typically. Bad president? 4 years to vote em' out and the lasting effects being much easier to work out in the long run. Bad monarch? The span of a lifetime or more and the effects lasting for several more after the fact, again, Russia. But regardless, in any democracy there must be an opportunity to shift at large the general mindset of The People™ There is the political revolution where we change how power is distributed and there is the social revolution where we change how power is perceived. By laying it fully within the hands of the state and trusting that he leader shall do everything we wish to do without a second thought, we have given up our autonomy, our willingness to understand. Thrown away our material view of the world and all its people in favor of demagogues who merely say what our egos' wish to hear. There is no strongman who will lead us to glory, no messiah to come save us, no rapture or revolution to fix everything. It is up to us, The People™, to figure out the issues within society collectively as they are. If the The People™ vote in a dictator then that is emblematic of the perceptions of power within our society, something that a dictator would not be able to change. Ah shit I didn't vote. I don't even play Heroes, I just like voting for things.

They flirted with the concept of modernization in Three Houses a tiny bit. Rhea banning the printing press and something about a mysterious black flammable liquid are referenced in the subtext. And Edelgard's meritocratic approach to government possibly implying the formation of a middle class of sorts in Fodlan. Also missiles. And there are quite a lot of people who don't vote at all, finding in their individuality that either nothing happens in politics that affects them directly or that their single vote doesn't amount to anything. In general many folks in the US feel distant from their politics, mostly young folks who haven't seen that change in politics leading to a change in daily life like many older folks have, which is why it's mostly the older generation who are voting as they understand best what skin is in the game and how much things can really change with time because of past decisions. Generally a president and a hereditary monarch ideally should be held accountable by The People™ And sometimes I look in the past and wonder if the failures of democracy were more of a case of there not being enough democracy from The People™ All men are created equal? Well according to early voting laws in the United States, what they meant was that only white literate men of particularly wealthy status could vote. If you were a peasant, a slave, a laborer, or an Indian life either was unchanged for you or got actively worse. Imagine how different US history would've been had they gone with direct universal suffrage right from the beginning. Imagine if the fantasies of the "White man's republic" was nipped in the bud right from the start. And though theoretically in law all people over 18 can vote, there are certain groups who just so happen to be in a position where it is especially difficult for them to do so. And what's more, the assumption that the president may be the only democratically elected official. Local elections and state elections are the backbone of the federal ones and the idea that the president may have supreme authority as an individual is a problem onto itself. This country is not run by one guy but instead by several thousand elected politicians, the vast majority of which are local, the president himself, while powerful, is not limitless, especially when it comes to domestic affairs. And I think it fits the model of democracy to think of it in that way. Not as great men being the kings of nations but as a large collectives picking and choosing the state managers and legislators. What needs to be understood here is that things have to get dramatically bad to actually get a people to overthrow them, and a reason to prefer republics is that a voter can replace a legislative official, or sometimes be the official themselves, without having to be driven to starvation in order to do so. With history, it's not evil kings that are disposed, it's incompetent ones. Kings that had the power to crush any rebellion yet failed to do so, kings that were naive and petty rather than ruthless and cunning. The Russian Revolution was the result of over 50 years of agitation against the Tsardom, a person's entire lifetime for that period, and yet it was only when a truly unsuited Tsar like Nicky came into power that the system was actually overthrown. Only when most people were practically starving, including the army did change manage to come. It is one thing to get mad at the king, it is another thing entirely to get a vast majority of the country to pick up arms against the king. Spain's been through this song and dance like 5 times, you get it.

What is a president if not the selected leader of majority populace vote imposing individuality upon a collective movement. Who is Trump if not just one of many rich republicans enriched by their equally reactionary voting base. What is democracy if not a reflection on the societal issues between the non-monolithic people within our country. A Fire Emblem game taking place during an Industrial and political revolution would be so fucking rad. The amount of ideas they could get from there like traditionalism versus modernism, liberalism versus conservatism, republicanism, a rise of fierce nationality, colonialism, class consciousness, automation, environmentalism, materialism, and so many rebellions. It would be so damn cool to see. They don't even need to get precisely political with it and be vague and somewhat glorifying like they already are with monarchs. Of course I would like an exploration of politics in a way that would make sense in that world but I understand the desire to keep things relatively fun and not take itself too seriously. It could be like Korra in that sense. The true North American union.

There is something truly funny about this guy being the big boss of this chapter, in a map where all of the castle bosses took huge chunks out of my military's health, only to be decapitated instantly by Ayra with an armor slayer before he even had the chance to counter attack. I too wish I could do certain things more than once. Like voting. Also with the way these instructions are phrased I suppose I might as well ask now, is there a system in this game that determines one's lover or is it just predetermine. Is it like the GBA games where they just have to stand next to each other for several weeks of in game time. All this is telling me is that the characters in FE who can double are on army supplied meth. What is a king but just another lord with a particularly big army that the other lords around him must pay taxes to. Because you are, now pay your taxes to the biggest army.