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8 hours ago, Blackstarskywalker said:
A meritocracy system does not have to leave the weakest behind. In fact she never says that she will not protect the weak. She will protect the weak, but she also believes that the weak will become strong if they are provided with the necessary tools for their development as an individual.
Luckily she has ideas closer to liberalism. I would already be the first anti-Edelgard if she had ideas closer to socialism / communism.
It’s ok for people to be weak. Some people are going to be physically or mentally weak no matter how much help they have. Weak people still have as much to contribute to society as strong people. Many of the best people I know are ‘weak’ by society’s standards.
I reject the idea that weak people need protecting, too. Weak people don’t need to pandered to. I would consider myself weak. I certainly couldn’t join an army. I’d hate to be considered inferior merely because I couldn’t fight.
There’s a world of difference between socialist and communist. I’m absolutely a socialist and having come to the US from a *slightly* more socialist country (nationalized healthcare, etc.) - I miss it. So yeah, Edelgard isn’t what I would consider terribly left.
Re. Narcissism, I was careful not to call her a narcissist. I don’t think she’s a narcissist, and all leaders do have to have narcissistic traits to a degree anyway in order to lead. But I do find some of her dialogue to be very similar to dialogue a narcissist would use, too similar to ignore.
6 hours ago, Darkmoon6789 said:You should still recognize that just because Edelgard reminds you of someone who wronged you in yhe past, it doesn't mean she is anything like that person.
I have encountered a person who hates Edelgard because she reminds them of their ex gaslighted them in the past. But the truth is that Edelgard never gaslighted Byleth. Edelgard is not the person who wronged you. Is it really fair to judge her based on something she has never done?
Ultimately she’s a fictional character, and I, the player, am not Byleth. And I wouldn’t claim that Edelgard gaslit Byleth.
Someone doesn’t have to have wronged you for you to dislike them. Personalities clash; not everyone is going to get along. And that’s why I’m not going to be persuaded to like Edelgard.
If someone really strongly reminds me of another person in multiple ways I’m going to assume that they’re somewhat like that person. Maybe if she actually existed and I could learn more about her I might grow to like her, but as she’s fictional all we have to go on is what we get in the game.
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On 5/12/2020 at 4:18 AM, FrostyFireMage said:
People who brand Edelgard as a liberal or any political leaning outside of a meritocracy confuse me, she's not aiming for a communist/socialist government or anything like that.
She’s also pretty authoritative. I know Fodlan’s politics can’t really be compared to modern politics (plus I find the world is not that fully-fleshed out, with a fair few contradictions), but yeah, meritocracies generally don’t jive with left-wing politics.
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One thing I haven’t seen mentioned yet: I personally dislike Edelgard because I find her pattern of speech and turns of phrase narcissistic. I actually find her self-centered in that she believes she knows best and has the answer for everyone. Being willing to sacrifice others’ lives for your own goals (even if you’re also prepared to lay down your own life) is not something I admire. And as someone who’s had to deal with narcissistic abuse in their life I actually find Edelgard very, very hard to listen to. I’ve come across a few other people with similar backgrounds to me who dislike her for the same reason.
I also disagree with meritocracy on a fundamental level and don’t believe they work - and the ending of CF doesn’t help in this respect because all of Edelgard’s close friends end up being in positions of power (and yes, I agree it would have improved a lot to see Dorothea or another commoner placed in a position of power). And some people are weak - physically or mentally or weak in terms of influence - and that’s okay! They still deserve as much of a chance at life as anyone else.
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Well, as a Rachel, I am more than happy to welcome you as another Rachel! (I mean, I already knew that was your name, but it’s extra special when someone chooses that name for themselves!)
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Apparently I am Dimitri and I also matched with Dimitri in the boyfriend quiz
Makes sense, Dimitri could use some self-care
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Felix, in Azure Moon:
SpoilerHe’s usually in the training grounds, but the month after his father dies he spends mournfully in his room. The next month after that he’s up on the third floor where his father used to hang out.
Also Azure Moon spoiler:
SpoilerAfter the timeskip, Dimitri’s closest friends take turns to keep watch over him in the cathedral until he changes after Rodrigue’s death.
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17 minutes ago, ZanaLyrander said:
Wait, I was almost certain someone said that the Tragedy of Duscur was nine years ago... maybe I’m misremembering.
SpoilerIt’s nine years ago in Act 2, by which time Dimitri is 22. 🙂 That might be what you remember?
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5 hours ago, ZanaLyrander said:
Currently going through my Blue Lions run, and while I still have a lot of Part 2 to go, I have some feedback on the parts I’ve already experienced.
First of all, Part 1 for the Blue Lions is great. A lot of the events and characters of Part 1 are far more meaningful for the Blue Lions than the other two houses, and it feels like Part 1 was mostly tailored with the Blue Lions in mind. This is good, because Blue Lions Part 2, at least the first four or so chapters, has been shit. Dedue being absent for so long is annoying enough, especially since they barely even dwell on his offscreen ‘death’, and hardly anyone even seems to care.
But Dimitri... I’m just gonna come right out and say it, I fully understand why he behaves the way he does, the guy has been through hell, he’s basically had untreated PTSD since he was 9. But that doesn’t make him any less of an insufferable, angsty, edgy brat. He treats his friends like garbage, his motivation doesn’t even make logical sense (Dimitri, Edelgard was like 8 years old when your family was murdered, why would you think she is somehow the mastermind behind the assassination?) and he’s frankly a boring, unlikeable character. I’m sure he improves and stabilized as the story progresses, but that doesn’t excuse his behavior, and I’m unlikely to forget him saying to my face that he’s just going to use me and my friends to achieve his revenge even if it kills us. This guy is a remorseless piece of shit so far, and it’s gonna take a lot to forgive him.
Every time he opens his mouth, I want to tell him “shut up, the adults are talking.”
It’s a minor nitpick but:
SpoilerDimitri and Edelgard were actually 13 when the tragedy of Duscur occurred, so it’s not completely outside the realms of impossibility that Dimitri would believe Edelgard might have something to do with it.
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I’ve nearly completed all four routes (almost finished Church) and for me it’s:
1. Blue Lions
2. Golden Deer
3. Church
4. Black Eagles
On 8/22/2019 at 10:21 AM, Roc said:My problem is that staying by her side basically requires Byleth to be stupid in a way that is uncomfortably reminiscent of Corrin in Fates. Even if Byleth weighs her transgressions against her ideals and ultimately decides to follow her, I feel that a lot of the things in which she is at least partially complicit - Flayn's abduction, Remire's destruction, Jeralt's death - should have been addressed with her, and they weren't.
This is why Black Eagles is in last place for me. I was hoping for more nuance from the plot and for Edelgard to surprise me with some good reasoning, but I actually feel Edelgard is more sympathetic/understandable in Blue Lions and that Black Eagles made her seem more villainous than I was expecting.
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I’m a documented immigrant.
Immigrants, documented or undocumented, do not qualify for most kinds of benefits, period. Medicare and social security are unavailable for documented immigrants until the immigrant has either been present in the US for 40 quarters (so 10 years) or has worked the equivalent of 40 quarters. Additionally most documented immigrants have minimum income requirements placed upon their immigration status (exceptions are asylum seekers and, I believe, lottery card winners). Not sure what the requirements are these days but in 2008 I had to prove I had access to income of at least $37,500/year in order to immigrate.
So, simply, benefits aren’t going to immigrants.
I did qualify for unemployment and FMLA but that was because I had paid directly into those programs through work. I’ve also been paying social security and Medicare taxes since I immigrated but I cannot take advantage of those.
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I also played Blue Lions first, then I did Edelgard’s route and finally I’m currently on the Golden Deer.
Blue Lions:
SpoilerI love this route. I actually kind of like that it’s hyper focused on the characters and that the background stuff becomes irrelevant; it’ll make the Golden Deer playthrough more refreshing.
Dimitri is a fantastic character and Byleth/Dimitri is my OTP.
Black Eagles: Edelgard:
SpoilerWhat was disappointing was that you don’t really learn much new information. Most of it I had already gleaned from my Lions playthrough.
I wasn’t on board with invading the Kingdom or Alliance and didn’t find Edelgard too sympathetic.
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3 hours ago, Anathaco said:
The story so far is a lot darker than a normal FE game would be this early. I had Ashe finish off Lonato because I figured that it was too early for the game to get too dark, obviously we were just going to force him to surrender. Nope. Ashe killed his own father (adopted, but still). After that, the dialogue that occurs between Ashe, Dimitri and Byleth afterward took on a whole new meaning, and I actually had to put the game down and take a minute.
Oh hey, thanks! I wanted to know what would happen if you did this (I had the same thoughts as you) but I chickened out. It was still rough, though!
I’ll echo what many have been saying:
- the monastery and world-building
- the likable cast
- better-fleshed out characters that aren’t one-note caricatures
- a lot of decently written female characters, I can’t remember the last time I played a game where I actually enjoyed the female characters
- the voice acting is decent all-around so far!
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Dedue, Annette and Mercedes have all been stars so far; however, Felix has had some amazing stat growths and critical hit rates. Just need him to level up a little more!
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Woohoo! Congratulations Shoblongoo! Lily is beautiful!
(I found giving birth to a bigger baby easier, myself. I think gravity helps! It was worse with my 7 lb 3 oz kid than with my 9 lb 3 oz kid).
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This is what I have heard so far (from anyone else not able to watch, like me):
- Trump paying someone to bid on a portrait of himself (Trump), he then reimbursed himself with funds from his charity and the portrait stayed with him. (With handwritten notes from Trump detailing these plans?)
- Receipts showing clearly that Trump paid Stormy Daniels hush money.
- Trump asked Cohen to lie to Congress and elsewhere numerous times (with a lot of witness proof).
- Trump lying about the value of his properties to pay lower taxes.
- Trump inflating his assets to secure loans. Specifically he claimed his net worth doubled between 2012 and 2013 because he added a value for his personal brand of $4 billion.
- Cohen says there is other illegal activity the House isn’t aware of that SDNY is investigating.
A lot of this we already knew.
Republicans present in general: ignoring any and all actual evidence and focusing on smearing Cohen’s character (not that they can do much else).
A couple of Democrats appear to have found their spines, that’s good, and about time!
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My father-in-law is an alcoholic (now 13 years teetotal); his father drank himself to death, as a result my husband is wary of alcohol and drinks very rarely as he recognizes that alcohol addiction is rampant in his family. From his perspective, alcohol is dangerous. Most of the people he knows who drink are alcoholics. Yet he also recognizes that millions of people drink alcohol without becoming addicted and without it ever affecting their health.
It’s the same for weed; as Shoblongoo says, many millions of people smoke weed, probably far more than you can imagine. Yet weed by itself is far, far less dangerous than alcohol - you’re not going to die from weed poisoning. So if anything, comparing weed to alcohol does a disservice to weed.
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Been a while since I posted here but I’ve been following the Mueller investigation closely and there’s a lot of interesting developments from the past few weeks. The memo on Manefort was scorching.
On a note relevant to the past few posts, since I last frequented here I’ve gone from working for Bay Area tech start-ups to a weed company in Washington State and it’s certainly changed my opinions on weed, as well as proving why legalization is the way forward. At the very least the latter is run with far more integrity and honesty than any of the tech companies I worked for, as well as actually contributing a significant amount in taxes. The customer demographics are startling, too; a considerable percentage of customers are either seniors or veterans.
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1 hour ago, Silver-Haired Maiden said:
I will say this, I find reason to doubt that America alone has this problem (Remember that people used to say that serial killers were only American and not anywhere else)
This is because serial killers can remain ‘hidden’ if their killings aren’t ever connected by law enforcement or a nosy reporter.
But how would you disguise mass shootings in other countries? Are you really proposing that whole countries are hiding mass shootings happening within their boundaries from the rest of the world?
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What a rollercoaster the past few days have been.
To start on a positive note: Great to see the number of women, especially Native American women, elected to Congress.
16 hours ago, DarthR0xas said:But Gillum losing really surprised me. I saw next to no support for DeSantes, and literally one of his ads, which was on Election Day. Sure, he was a bit of an extremist (If I remember correctly), but I thought he had a good shot.
Funny choice of words, to call Gillum an ‘extremist’ when DeSantis is the one rubbing shoulders with Proud Boys and who used racially-charged language against Gillum in his campaign.
In addition to the deceased brothel owner, three Republicans indicted on felony charges also won their races.
Nancy Pelosi and other Democrats talking of compromise are going to help sink the party; they’ll be steamrollered by Trump, just as he’s promising.
The whole Jim Acosta situation is pretty revolting. Not surprising, but still revolting. The sheer brazenness of the White House/Fox etc. in calling his actions assault when Christine Ford is still being harassed is just... ugh.
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Other countries have similarly high levels of mental ill health in their populations, yet don’t see the mass shootings that the US does.
There are also millions of people in the US with mental illnesses who would never dream of shooting anything and the immediate jump to blaming mental illness only further stigmatizes those people and makes it harder to seek help.
The only regular correlation with mass shootings is a history of domestic violence.
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It’s going to end in disaster and I don’t know how we can prevent it.
It’s a good time to remind people that undocumented immigrants pay billions in taxes a year. We gain far more than they cost us.
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25 minutes ago, Jotari said:
What happened to the shooter? All cursory info I can find just talks about Trump's visit.
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It’s such a terrible tragedy.
It’s important to distinguish it as an anti-Semitic crime because it was specifically an attack against Jewish people, not religiosity in general. It was an attack wrapped up in white supremacy.
Four armed police responded very swiftly by all accounts (a report I saw originally said they were already on scene, but it appears that was wrong); not sure if armed security could’ve done any better, to be honest.
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4 hours ago, Hylian Air Force said:
Please be respectful. Even Trump wants to fry this guy, and that's saying something. It may be true, but this isn't the time to do something like this.
You haven’t posted in this topic in weeks. The country has bomb threats and 11 Jewish people murdered and numerous other acts of violence committed after a president has made dozens of speeches that refuse to outright condemn the violence - he even not-so-subtly victim-blamed in the speech after the bomber was arrested (as well as turning the attention back on himself!) - and that’s the time you decide to march in to tell left-leaning posters here to ‘be respectful’. Exactly what respect has been earned? Your comment epitomizes the very problem with Republicans right now.
And I’m generalizing and saying ‘Republicans’ because I’ve been reading a lot of comments over the past few days on news articles and the like and I have not seen a single, outright condemnation of the violence from a Republican. I have seen hundreds of comments implying that it’s all a conspiracy or that it is somehow deserved and so yes, this is a party-wide problem right now.
It’s mind boggling how millions of people are reacting to this.
1 hour ago, Phoenix Wright said:this is absolutely insane.
It really is. I’ve actually been shaking with disbelief at how people can absorb all of this information and still think they have a moral high ground.
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I’ve had at least two people very close to me who suspected they were drugged; one of those incidents I witnessed and I agree that she was drugged. Luckily in both situations they had actual decent men (a boyfriend in one situation and a Good Samaritan in the other) take care of them.
I wanted to add that rape/sexual assault is exceedingly common and if you don’t think it is then you’re probably just not told about it. Women tend to tell other women (and male victims often tell nobody). Women often tell in women-only groups and nearly every one prefaces their story with ‘my husband/partner/parents don’t know.’ I’m literally the only woman I know who hasn’t experienced rape or (bad) sexual assault myself and either my sisters, friends and acquaintances are all liars or it is actually that common and women just don’t feel safe telling most men.
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Actually, they haven’t been silent. They’ve been bolstering police and have instigated the looting in some cases.
There’s an infuriating video of armed guys hanging out with the police after curfew, when just earlier unarmed protestors had been gassed.
It’s absolutely insane (but sadly believable) that we’re seeing so much overwhelming and overt police brutality - of course this has always gone on, but now people have mobile phones and can record live and it hasn’t stopped the police at all.
And I’ll happily argue for you, Lord Raven, once I’m finished with work.