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I'll ask one simple question: Why in the world does land matter more than the people in terms of voting power?

I think it's more the idea that smaller states have more specific niches in the country than bigger states. Usually agriculture, which is a pretty delicate issue, so them being able to speak up probably helps them. The main issue is when "helping them" also means "hurting everyone else", which tends to happen a lot when republicans are in power. Republicans also tend to hurt these people, too, so idk.

We have basically one sentence to go on, so I'm just inferring. If Imran is saying that Nintendo is re-purposing planned 3DS remakes for the Switch, it gives me the impression that the plans for these games was already laid out. I'm not saying I think the graphics won't be up to snuff, but I do get the impression that the scale(In both gameplay and scope of the maps or storytelling presentatoin) would be less if the plans were for a much older, weaker system than the Switch. Of course the plans could change with the jump to a new system, but I'm just going off the idea that these remakes were already being built for the 3DS. The art stills are one thing, but all throughout the Jugdral games, there are a lot of scenes the do play-out on the overworld map. That's mostly what I mean. Scenes like the Barbeque at Belhalla, or the scenes of major armies moving together in scenes. They felt a bit more organic than smash cuts to art stills, which generally managed to capture smaller, more personal moments better. In the GBA games, it's largely characters moving to talk to one another in these scenes. If a big army moves in a scene, the leader will appear on the map, then maybe reinforcements of maybe 2 or 3 other enemies will show up. If it's the start of the map, all of the enemies will move from off screen after the leader shows up. Obviously both could use a presentation bump, since scenes could get more cinematic flair in the Jugdral games(Like CG scenes), or the game could just be overall grander in scope in Elibe(Like extra map details/scenes), but I just feel like the latter would be truer to a big console game, and I think Jugdral needs it the most to stay true to the originals. You can still be true to Elibe on weaker hardware, since the games were always designed to be scaled back for handheld, while I think that's much less true to Jugdral, which were the biggest games until Radiant Dawn.

Is the country's elections being decided by huge states like New York, California and Texas(Why do people always leave out Texas when they make this comment? It has more electoral power than New York does. Florida also has the same amount of electoral votes as New York.) REALLY any worse than the country being decided by Pennsylvania, Florida, Ohio and Iowa? As it stands, if you're not in a swing state, your vote pretty much already doesn't matter. I live in a state that's been solidly blue since before Reagan. Trump managed actually managed to really electrify the republican base in my state, a blue state that Hillary ignored like many in the midwest, a blue state that went for Bernie over her, and Trump still lost my state. And due to how the Electoral College is handled, it means he lost ALL of those votes that he actually managed to sway here. The Electoral College doesn't magically mean the minority voters get a bigger voice, it just gives certain states way more power than they probably deserve. And yes, it sucks that smaller states wouldn't have as big of a voice, but that's what state legislature is for. The White House is supposed to be the representative of the people of the US. I don't see why "More people in the country want this person to be president, so now they're president" is somehow worse than "Less people wanted this person to be president, so now they're the president". Yes, state legislature doesn't always accurately represent their state, but letting the smaller population choose who gets to be president now means that the PotUS no longer represents the majority of Americans. Case in point: Trump dismantling so many environmental regulations, cutting funding to people working towards researching alternative energy, and deciding to fucking pander to coal miners, an industry that has been dying due to lack of demand. Guess what happened? The demand for coal didn't suddenly increase. We just got Trump cutting growing industry that more Americans are aware of and support.

If it was a 3DS remake, I'd want it to be Binding/Blazing. As much as I want Jugdral remakes, I really think those deserve the presentation bump of being built from the ground up for a home console and not starting as handheld titles.

The crazy thing is that Fates and Awakening had crazy long legs. If FETH follows, which it probably will as a flagship Nintendo game on the Switch, it will probably rack up a few million more.

I think you had to have gotten the shield from Rodrigue's chapter earlier.

If you're talking booze, drink tons of water and sleep it off. Definitely don't drink more sugar. Usually some hot food and a cold shower is good for more immediate effects.

FE4 - I'd like to see a snippit of the Isaach campaign with Byron. There's a lot you could cover with this part of the story. Isaach has a very complicated history, and a ton of it happens right before FE4 starts, so it's a period rife for expansion. Alternatively, Eldigan, Quan and Sigurd being pals in the academy for a few short chapters would be a good way to establish all of their characters and the rest of the cast who also studied there. FE5 - Sacking of Leinster. Or show Raydrik being an actual character and maybe a decent person back when he was comrades with Leif's grandfather. You could go either way with this one. Raydrik betraying everyone and being an instrument of Leinster's downfall seems more likely, given that it's an actual event that happens and not something hypothetical like him loyally serving Leif's granpda. FE6 - This one kind of feels unnecessary, since FE7 kind of serves as one big prologue. FE7 - Also kind of drawing a blank here. I think a DIIIIISTANT flashback showing the Legends and Nergal during the Scouring could work. It might be a bit on the nose with the lead up to Nergal being Nils and Ninian's father if he spends a bunch of the flashback fawning over his dragon wife, or freaking out that she's missing. But it could be a very neat flashback to set the stage for everything that happens in FE6 and 7.

The most likely, and most stupid answer is that Bolton himself resigned over the whole Taliban thing, and that Trump noticed that Bolton was unpopular enough that he could score brownie points by making the resignation effective immediately and firing him. Trump trying to make Bolton's firing about himself is too on-brand for me to think anything else happened.

It is, as it has always been, utterly pathetic. It's one thing to bitch and moan about a character being in the game that you don't like. I'd do the same for Tracer or Sora or Minecraft Steve. It's something else entirely to take time out of your day to make your dislike known by downvoting and review bombing everything possible related to the thing you don't like and threatening people.

No, the toxic attitude here is to see people who are struggling, saying "... eh, fuck 'em." and doing nothing. People need to learn to do things on their own, but people also need to know that helpless situations aren't as helpless as they seem. It feeds into the dog-eat-dog mentality that got us into this mess where the rich just take everything, and it is very hard for truly disenfranchised people to come to terms with when they're left to do everything alone. The only way to dig your way out of your hole is to bury everyone else. Back to the rest of the post, your post outlines an ideal that's very close to socialism, even if you're not aware. At least from a SocDem approach. A system where the power is in the hands of the workers and not a small handful at the top, and a system where money just doesn't funnel to the top people, who(And let's be real here) likely aren't working as hard as the people at the bottom. It's the idea unions are based on. Obviously what you're saying is not socialism on its own, since you still seem opposed to extensive government social programs, but it's one of the major components of a foundation-based market system where workers have corporate power... though saying we should elect blue-collar people who know these issues firsthand and should be able to fix them without insane amounts of lobbying money swaying them would probably lead to some very extensive social programs, too.

Being able to see things like enemy torches might be a simple change. You would be able to see where some enemies are, but not what kind of units they are.

Yeah, fair enough. I was thinking since

I can't believe I'm doing this, but

Nergal. Once a good dad, but as a dad we know, is definitely a bad dad. Is he a basically a husk of a man that has been hollowed out by dark magic? Yes. Did he hunt down his own kids and cause the death of one of his own children, then laugh about it to the man she loved? Also yes. Even the baddest of bad dads in FE don't actually succeed in getting one of their children killed.

I'm about 6-7 Files in, and I wouldn't say it's amazing, but it's pretty good. It suffers from the usual problems Platinum games have. A big one being that the enemy design isn't fantastic and they don't necessarily require a ton of experimentation or exploration of the combat system. But I might just be spoiled from DMCV this year, which gave me almost everything I wanted from an action game like AC.

Something that can be said about... *checks notes* ... almost every Fire Emblem?

Favorites: I'll be obvious and say Blazing, Tellius and FETH. Least favorite: Awakening. Fates is probably the obvious answer for most people here, but even considering characters like Azuma and Peri, I still don't think I can put the Fates cast below Awakening's. Even Conquest at least gives us Nyx and Forrest, and a handful of other characters I enjoy enough to ignore the blight that is Peri. There's just... nothing to the Awakening cast. Severa's alright, I guess, but other than that, I either feel absolutely nothing to absolute contempt for Awakening's cast.

EDIT: Misread. For most people I know who support her, she's basically Bernie with clearer and broader policies. She's my #2 after Bernie, but even I can acknowledge she's better than Bernie at addressing a handful of issues at a time. Bernie seems to pick one talking point for a month, and then beat it into the ground before moving onto the next one.

Nah. 30-40 is the sweet spot for FE casts.

I think on Classic, the Turnwheel should be 3 uses max. There needs to be a hardcap to prevent regular cheesing and lazy play. Additionally, I don't think there always needs to be a plot excuse. Just rename it "Tactician's Premonition" or something. I think most people would be able to accept it as just a gameplay mechanic.

Take solace in knowing that bees are dying off at a rapid pace and will be gone before long and therefore so will we

Agreed. It seems like that'll be the way IS explains any references between games that otherwise can't really take place in the same world.

Indeed, both use Outrealms, but the baby dimensions are the Deeprealms. Apparently those are less like portals to other worlds like the Outrealms, and more like little pocket dimensions where time is accelerated.