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Hey now--narcissism and excessive pride is the work of Slaaneshi degenerates. Don't you go blaming this mess on Tzeentch. ON TOPIC: I think right wing media is more of an echo chamber that circle-jerks the guys who are already in bed with Trump than a persuasive outlet. Like the guys tuning into Limbaugh and Hannity are the guys already of a mind that liberals are cancer, everything bad about Trump is liberal propaganda, and the fact that there's so many negative stories about him is proof he's making America great again because "the liberals" wouldn't be making up so many bad stories about the guy if he wasn't threatening their evil liberal plans to take away your jobs and raise your taxes and give the country over to immigrants and welfare babies. They just tune in to hear their views regurgitated back to them by someone whose supposed to be so smart and insightful and in-the-know that they get paid millions of dollars for their political commentary. Its a form of mental masturbation. But they're not convincing people not already in their camp to cross-over.

The 35% still supporting Trump at this point are the single-issue voters who think [insert Republican nightmare-fuel here] is the single biggest threat to the country, and will ignore everything else about the man to support Him so long as he crudely and bombastically speaks to their fears on the issue in ways that other politicians are not quite cynical or shameless enough to speak. Immigration and the boogeyman of "globalism" is still the big hook, by the look of it. We'll see what happens if he actually tries to force a government shutdown to fund that wall Mexico was supposed to "pay" for.

Your Tharja-wife is sorely disappointed if you don't.

...thats overstating it a bit... Hector and Oswin come into their own pretty damn early.

Lucius is adorable and did the "effeminate man" thing better than that piss poor excuse of a boy Forrest.

Wary Fighter really wasn't enough of a buff for you? That skill is nuts.

50% of the only correct answer (Kinky. Hot AND Kinky.) There's lots of pretty girls in Awakening. If Tharja is your favorite, you probably have a BDSM fetish.

Well between Oswin, Gatrie, and Effie there's been no shortage of good armor knights over the years. Design your roster and your maps in such a way that you actually need them on the frontline holding choke points and shielding squishier units, and they're great. The Wary Fighter skill was also a pretty huge step in the right direction for making them the best at what they do. (i.e. Damage Sponging)

The first name that came to mind was of course George R.R. Martin. I concur, however, with the views expressed in this thread that George R.R. Martin would be creatively stifled if you made him write a story in such a way as to avoid a hard (M) rating. The gritty realistic feel to Martin’s writing comes from the fact that it doesn’t shy away from the overt sexuality of his characters or the brutality of medieval warfare and politics. Nor does it romanticize and extol traits of nobility, selflessness and heroism as fantasy writers so often do; nobility, selflessness, and heroism are FLAWS that get stupid characters killed. That’s his style, and it is not suitable for a mainline Fire Emblem game. Upon further consideration—an author who I thing would do a really good job of it is Guy Haley. Guy Haley is the writer who just put out the new “Dark Imperium” novel for Warhammer 40k—which has struggled to put out good lore recently—and its quality. His narrative style is that perfect blend of character-driven story, personal conflict, political scheming, fantasy, and grandiose battles between empire spanning-armies. I feel like it would translate really well into Fire Emblem. It would be a darker, more cynical fire emblem. But it would still be Fire Emblem.

It would be a conceptual challenge—that’s for sure. The enormous cast of characters spread over several, loosely-related worlds could be embraced fully through the unified narrative of some kind of Outrealm Order. …just spit-balling out ideas here… You have your “main character” in the form of a young tactician training to become a Grandmaster of the Order at—letsssss sayyyyyyy—Castle Apotheosis. That’s the glue that binds everything together. And there’s something big brewing at Castle Apotheosis + within The Order that’s eventually going to tie everything together in some big climatic battle. His/her training has him adventuring from world-to-world in episodes and archs, and becoming in some way involved in their struggles + fighting with or against their iconic heroes and villains. …so there you’ve got the island-hopping motif of One Piece. (except the “islands” are the worlds of fire emblem) …the there’s this ancient and secret society on another plane of existence that no one knows about and its warriors are on a completely different level—they watch over our world but we never see them motif of Bleach …the child-in-training-to-achieve-dreams-of-greatness [start] building up to the all out war against-the “real enemy”[finish] of Naruto. Like—you’ve definitely got all the ingredients there to make a quality shonen battle anime. But they would need writers. Real writers. Tellius-quality writers. In a video game bad writing can hide behind fun gameplay. There’s nothing to hide behind in an Anime; the full experience is watching the story as written unfold. If the writing is bad, you have a bad Anime. ...You need history and world-building. ...You need politics and palace intrigue. ...You need multi-faceted characters that don’t just talk in tropes. If they do it and they do it poorly. …if the attention-to-detail on story arcs and character interactions leans more in the direction of Fates and Heroes then Tellius and Echoes. …If tropes and fanservice become a substitute for plot and dialogue …If it turns into a harem anime of every female in the series trying to go butts-to-nuts with the main character. That’s going to leave a bad taste in a lot of people’s mouths and damage the franchise. I’d like to see it and see it done well. I’m not sure I trust the people who would be in charge of the project to do it well. And that’s a problem.

We think it may be some kind of polycystic ovary disease. Maybe. So basically what happened when we went to the doctor is they told us if we're under 30 years old, we have to be trying for at least a year before our insurance carrier will even remotely begin to consider tests and treatments for fertility problems as a covered medical service. And its thousands upon thousands of dollars to pursue the services out-of-pocket, if insurance isn't going to cover them. So we have it on record that we started trying this April. That takes us out to April 2018 before we can really do anything different then what we're doing now in terms of talking to doctors and trying to get more information. So in the meantime all there is to do is keep trying, and investigate things we can be doing on our own end to try and make it happen. Might have to give those ovulation strips a try.

We're both 28 years old. Her cycle is very irregular and trying to track it is a crap-shoot; it never follows the calendar. Some months it just skips altogether. We've been trying a throw everything at the wall and see what sticks strategy of just going for it every few days. I only wear loose-fitting boxer shorts, and I've tried taking herbs and supplements that are supposed to up sperm count. The big challenge is we have no idea what her good days are.

None yet. Been trying to have one since April and no luck which is...a bit alarming. Any advise on how to up the odds?

Anankos. In addition to the reasons raised by others here--i.e. arch-villain of the worst-written game in the series and poorly written to the point of plot nullification--this also has to be one of the most visually confused misfires of a creature-and-concept design I have seen not just in Fire Emblem, but in any game. First Dragon. It's a human face set in stone that breaks open to reveal--a faceless dragon with a ball of eyes in its mouth. And it's true form is tjust the ball of eyes. Like Grima wasn't a spectacularly-deep villain, but at least the visual profile read Fel Dragon--Bringer of Despair and Destroyer of Worlds. Anankos is the poorly-written big bad of a game with shit writing all-around and suffers the most from the shit writing, because it's all building up to him and what he's doing. Then on top of that, he's goofy-looking.

...you know it probably would have been simpler if I had just posted the chart. Too many words. Here's a concise visual aid:

…so Imagine for a moment that the political spectrum is a coordinate plane… The X-Axis, of course, represents the spectrum from Left to Right. The Y-Axis represents the spectrum from authoritarianism (UP) to libertarianism (DOWN). The political orientations of most persons—graphed out on this plane—will be broadly distributed across the X-Axis, representing a broad range of political opinions from Left to Right. But will display comparatively low variation from a value of zero (0) along the Y-Axis. Indicating that most mainstream political orientations—no matter how far left or how right—are neither extremely authoritarian nor extremely libertarian in nature, but somewhere in the middle. This is your standard spectrum of opposition between Left wing politics and Right wing politics. …now we start moving further up and down on the Y-Axis. This brings us to parties that—wherever their views may fall on the left/right spectrum—cannot be part of the mainstream dichotomy of left/right politics because they are so extremely authoritarian or libertarian as to be irredeemably off-putting to persons on all sides. i.e. even if you have someone all the way on the far-right who believes that abortion is murder. And you can have a left/right disagreement on whether or not that's true. Everyone is generally going to be in agreement that women who have abortions should not be executed by firing squad. That would be an extreme authoritarian position, and anyone who holds it would be generally dismissed as a lunatic extremist. This brings us to what has been labled the “alt-right” and the “alt-left.” Now I happen to despise both these terms. Because they are tame euphemisms for terms already in existence and that don’t need to be replaced; they serve only to put a positive spin on extremist political affiliations looking to rebrand themselves, after decades of being dismissed as lunatics under their preexisting labels. Like we have a pre-existing name for extreme right-wing authoritarianism--It’s called fascism. “Alt right” is literally just a euphemism that some fascists made up because nobody likes being called a fascist. ...Then Hillary turned it into a pejorative during the 2016 campaign... ...Then the Right copied her and started throwing around the term "alt left" to describe the extreme left-wing libertarians on the opposite end of the spectrum from extreme right-wing authoritarians (we have a name for those too--they're called anarchists.) This is completely unnecessary. Call an anarchist an anarchist and a fascist a fascist.

If you equate Nazism, the KKK, and neo-confederates to shit like Antifa, Occupy Wall Street, and ISO. Then yes—you are apologizing for an ideology that is inherently murderous. Because you are equalizing said ideology to things that aren’t even in the same moral universe.

As a general rule--no. With a caveat. Aversion to private, extralegal violence as an answer to hate groups presupposes the adequacy and attention of lawful channels of protection against them. Where a uniformed officer of the law will immediately use lethal force within seconds of arriving in a park where a 12 year old black boy is playing with a toy gun, and the law will deem his actions justified and appropriate in the reasonable interests of law enforcement. But an entire department will standby and watch columns of armed skinheads terrorize a community for hours, with not-so-much as a stand down order. And where the leader of the country cannot morally distinguish between the White Supremacists and the opponents of White Supremacy, but from the podium of high office declares an equivalency between the two. Then I cannot say punching Nazis should be legal. But I won't say that it is without excuse, or without grounding in reasonable fear whether everything will be OK if you just follow the law and leave it to the police and to the Justice Department to do their job. Like—if I’m a municipal court judge. And I’m sitting on the bench hearing a simple assault case. And if the Defendant tells me “Judge. That man is a Nazi. He was marching with Nazis. So I punched him.” I’m not dropping charges. But I’m weighing that as a mitigating factor, and giving the Defendant the lightest possible sentence I’m allowed to give him.

My babies. The orange one is Beezel (aka "The Beebz"). He's 4 years old--his favorite thing is laser pointers. The grey one is Luna (aka "Lulu Poo"). She's 2 years old--Her favorite thing is cardboard boxes. ^My wife painted Luna and I painted Bee. My wife is the talented one. I can't paint.

We're putting our thoughts in meme form now? Okay:

As a fellow Hebrew, I second that. Also absolutely hilarious that he bristles at this and reads into this that you're making some derogatory statement immediately after he's just finished telling us how much he hates the overuse of crying "racism!" ...like...thats exactly the problem... People get over-sensitive about stupid things. And are then morally numb when we're talking about Nazis. Like--for real, Comrade? You're looking at someone to dump out on for Jew-hating. And you can't bring yourself to call out the guys with torches and Seig Heils, but you're gonna bitch out Raven??? ...come on dude...

I'm very happy we live in a society where outing a racist as a racist turns said racist into a social outcast. That's a sign of progress. Here's the problem, as I see it. Its the-boy-who-cried-wolf scenario. If you overuse the charge of racism in situations that do not call for it, you are blunting the impact of the charge. You are turning it into something expected. Unremarkable. A casual insult for things you don't like to be generally disregarded as hyperbole and sensationalism. And then you can't properly ostracize a bone-fide, swastika waving racist as a "racist." Because the word has lost all meaning. You call a White Supremacist a racist and the White Supremacist says something to the effect of: There you intolerant libtards go again--trying to lable everyone on the right a "racist." I'm not a racist. I'm proud to be White. There ain't nothing racist about being proud to be White. Its only in the moral ambiguity created by overuse of the charge as a blanket accusation against--say; everyone who doesn't share your views on immigration or criminal justice reform--that a White Nationalist can say that with any fucking semblance of a receptive audience. But that seems to be where we're at right now. Good god man. We're in trouble as a country if we're at a place where we can't uniformly identify Nazis, KKK, and Confederates as deservedly rebuked piece-of-shit racists; separate-and-distinguishable from their opposition as such.

There is such a thing as a "double-negative." In both mathematics and language arts--it is a very basic concept. Intolerance of intolerance is not intolerance. I don't understand why this is hard.

Don't even go down that road. You ever wonder what you would have done during slavery, segregation, or the Holocaust? This is it. You're doing it right now. There is no justification or excuse for White Supremacy. You see it--you condemn it. Period.

...Its pretty much everyone except Trump, the paid spokesmen who would Defend Trump if he took a dump on their desk, and the Nazis and Klansmen themselves saying it. He's drawing universal condemnation from all sides. (FOX News could not get a single elected Republican on television to defend the president's remarks. And not for lack of trying.) Trump's White House aids put out a statement immediately after the Press Conference essentially saying: "This is all him. We didn't sign off on any this." His own generals at the Joint Chiefs of Staff are condemning him. Republicans in Congress are condemning him. His entire economic advisory board of private CEOs has now disbanded in protest, and is condemning him. Now why for Trump in particular this is such a damning indication of where his true heart lays--because lets be honest here--this is not a man who is known for pulling punches or showing a restrained hand or playing the "...well lets not be unfair...there's two sides here..." game. When he is genuinely bothered by something, he will immediately and in the most crude and visceral manner go-for-throat. And we've seen this time and again with everything from his attacks on journalists to judges to political rivals. We saw it at that disgusting press conference he gave, where the second he's taken to task by reporters he goes after them and starts in with these, zealous, gut-level, reflexive attacks on "fake news." That's the instinctive swiftness and unequivocal surety you use to fucking condemn Nazis. The New York Times. CNN. The Washington Post. POLITICO. John McCain. Susan Collins. Rosie O'Donnell. New York Federal District Court. Arnold Schwarzenegger. Joe Scarborough. Angela Merkel. NATO. The Government of Mexico. Meghan Kelly. The State of New Hampshire. Sadiq Khan. The Federal Bureau of Investigation. Mika Brzenzinski. These are things Trump has an easier time going after then fucking Nazis.