Anouleth
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Well,who would you prefer managed them? Private citizens surely can't be trusted to do so.
You say that, but I think that civilian oversight of police and military is a good thing. Part of the reason why the US police force is so out of control is due to a lack of civilian oversight, since police unions have deliberately worked to tie the hands of oversight committees and limit their power to investigate misconduct.
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I wasn't saying they do, I was saying it is hypocritical of them to assume that there is no moral or financial obligation to the government while still expecting to be protected from murderers by the police. If they do not expect this, then they could in fact be called anarchists.
I think libertarians are fine with paying taxes that go towards police and judicial functions. The thing is that the majority of taxes aren't spent on these things and are instead spent on welfare in all it's many forms, and that even the police and military arms of government can still be mismanaged by government.
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That is IMO one of the two reasons laws are made. Either they are made because they are needed for society or because of the reason you stated. Civilization is basically people coming together collectively and agreeing that they would all rather not risk being murdered than have the right to murder. The main problem with Objectivism and to a lesser extent Libertarianism is that it fails to realize this. You also can't guarantee absolute economic freedom without hurting the governments ability to enforce the laws that even Ayn Rand would agree should exist. And anyone who thinks if you can't afford a bodyguard you should be defenseless should test that theory on themselves.
Objectivists and Libertarians do not believe this. They are not anarchists.
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Actually randomized bases within a certain degree of variety could be interesting. Though I'm sure LTCs would find someway to get good ones.
Supposedly, Fates Lunatic mode "pre-rolls" all level ups at the start of the game, making it impossible to reset for better level ups. If the game says that Kamui's seventeenth level will be HP/MAG/SKL/LUK, that's all it will ever be (unless you reclass or whatever).
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Firstly the buffs to trainees, while well-meaning, are kind of pissing in the wind when you also buff enemy stats. Ross was already in danger of getting doubled early, and now he does get doubled. Amelia's +1 speed is not going to make a difference when by the time you get her, enemies have gotten between 2 and 3 extra speed from their increased speed growths.
Enemy stats have probably been buffed too much, and too blindly. Sacred Stones has never had a problem with human class scaling, as well it shouldn't since it literally uses identical growth/base data to FE7. The problem is mainly with monsters and their lower bases, vulnerability to S Rank weapons, and overuse of weighty Steel weaponry.
I feel like while nerfing everyone else good, you forgot to nerf Cormag.
No addressing the really terrible weapon rank dickings that some classes get? I speak, naturally, of E Swords for Falcos, E Bows for Warriors, E staves for Druid and Summoner, and E weapon ranks for Knight->General.
Other than that, looks good.
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According to the Supreme Court circa 1905, it means the right to work 60 hours a week in a bakery.
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I wrote a comment about this on the Fire Emblem subreddit, if you care to read (it's fairly long).
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I've used it in Radiant Dawn, since I love Seraph Knights, especially Tanith who is perhaps the coolest looking unit in all of Tellius.
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I'm not sure why you think that reducing weapon durability would matter that much. It would just make things more frustrating for the average player who plays "properly" (by engaging in lots of combat) and make no difference at all for experienced players who try to avoid combat anyway because it's a massive waste of time. Removing scrolls is a really bad idea because critical rate is so high in this game... if it weren't for scrolls, your units would be constantly getting crit by everything.
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1001 times, Advance Wars. A series with so much unfulfilled potential and so much progress being made and left to be made (AW4 was such a refinement over it's predecessors, it's like comparing FE6 to FE5), only to be scrapped.
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I think Berwick Saga addresses some of these, because it's not really an LTC friendly game or a game easily breakable by LTC. Sound tactics are what get you through it, not extremely powerful characters with high growths, especially due to limited funds, limited character deployment, pretty decent character balance, randomness, and growth bracketing. It's a pretty good middle ground.
I may also just be saying that because Berwick Saga appears to have many more different possibilities than FE games on top of being a game that the majority of the community just isn't familiar with.People LTC Thracia 776, even though it has many of those qualities. Dondon LTCs even with the constraint of playing with no growths, so I really question this assertion that you need lots of strong characters with high growths to get low turn counts. In fact, low growths make LTCing more appealing, because generally low turn count strategies achieve those low turn counts by skipping as much combat as possible. Not only is the loss of exp less punishing (because your units have bad growths anyway), but if your units are weak, you also can't really afford to engage in too much combat.
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The biggest misconception about FE5 is the fact that people think, for some stupid fucking reason, that Leaf is a terrible Lord. Leaf is fucking broken when you already know what he can do
I'm guessing that a lot of people miss that you're supposed to give him the HP and SPD Rings so he can smash face in Manster chapters.
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- Growth rates increased to something resembling decent.
I don't agree; if anything, GBA FE growths need to be nerfed. They're a little on the high side, with the result being that the game gets too easy later on.
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I think a lot of the people who find FE5 hard and claim it's unfair (or whatever) are people who aren't really interested in tactics and just want their army to crush through the opposing forces with minimal thought required. Perhaps that sort of strategy doesn't work as well in FE5 than in other games. So maybe FE5 is difficult in the sense that it punishes the player for having no idea what they're doing. I'd say FE5 is difficult in the sense that the game requires more thought to figure out optimal tactics for each chapter than other FE games. Because of the wide variety of missions and numerous game mechanics in FE5, there's many options to cover. You might not restart at all in a blind FE5 playthrough and restart several times in (for example) a blind FE13 lunatic+ playthrough, but I don't FE13 lunatic+ to be very tactically challenging; optimal solutions are relatively simple to discern.
If you really want to have a conversation about FE5, you should probably not start by giving backhanded insults to anyone who doesn't agree that FE5 is the Greatest Fire Emblem Ever.
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Lyre, probably. Astrid/Fiona/Meg provide useful skills for others to use.
[Obligatory Awakening SpotPass characters.]
Other than that, Gareth and Nasir abruptly showing up at the end of Radiant Dawn stands out, especially since they're both useless in the subsequent final levels.
Gareth and Nasir are both very useful due to Blood Tide and White Pool.
What are some units that you think are unnecessary? For an example, I think Vaida should've just been a boss, it really makes no since to have her playable.
Vaida is an amazing prepromote and probably my favorite character in the whole of FE7.
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"Free speech" generally refers to the fact that they cannot be jailed or persecuted by the government for saying/doing this. That means that any company or business can restrict/censor them in their domain and be well within their right to do so. Regardless, all of that goes out the window when they suffer a violent attack - as provocative, tasteless and shit as their content seems to be, they shouldn't have to fear for their lives in order to spew it.
That's not what it means at all. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights from 1949 lays it out quite clearly:
Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.
It doesn't specify government interference. If someone threatens to shoot you for expressing a belief or an opinion, you are no less constrained if it is a private citizen than if it is a police officer.
People are mixing up Free Speech and the First Amendment. It's true that all the First Amendment says is that the government can't enact laws that restrict freedom of worship or freedom of speech, in the same way that the Third Amendment says that soldiers can't be quartered in private homes and has nothing to say about random people barging into your house. That's because the Constitution's purpose is explicitly to restrict government activity and not anything else. But the Constitution is not a sufficient requirement for freedom of speech; freedom of speech can be damaged if private organizations and corporations try to suppress speech they don't like. While it's true that usually the most odious attacks on free speech come from government, they can also come from private entities.
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It's 1 RN like every game before it though. Not really that different persay.
Also move growths, movement stars, enemies with gratuitous amounts of authority stars, heal staves that can miss, large amounts of status staves and hit rate capped at 99%.
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They all look good, but I find myself thrown by a lot of the headgear, such as Knight and Berzerker (from the Nohr) and Great Merchant and Holy Bowman (from Hoshido). I really like the quilted armor used by Mercenaries, as well as the silly puffy sleeves on Cavalier and Rod Knights and those fluffy Bowman belts.
Dark Mages are still ridiculous. I swear they must spend four hours every morning just on waxing.
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Out of curiosity, does anyone know if skill and weapon names are going to be updated to match their equivalents in localized FEs, such as Reblow -> Physic, Prayer -> Miracle, and so forth?
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Given the reaction to Micaiah, I somehow doubt we'll ever see such a Lord again.
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Does Skill need a buff in the first place? Historically, units with good skill have always been perfectly fine (think Haar, Rutger, or Palla) and not in need of a buff, and units with low Skill have often suffered for it (think Fiona, Wade or Dart) and don't really deserve a nerf. Skill feels bad and it feels like it doesn't have a big impact, but that's because it affects probabilities which are always hard to evaluate properly.
Secondly, I'm not convinced that all stats need to be balanced against each other so that one point of each is exactly equivalent to a point of anything else.
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Yes, but you did not say whether you thought that the UK's intervention on behalf of Poland was justified, or America's intervention on behalf of the UK and Russia by sending them military supplies.Appeasement, if I'm not mistaken? They had had enough of Hitler's bullshit, to put it bluntly. Also, did I not imply that when I said that the United States had "clearly" sided with the Allies?
I'm not asking you to interpret the economic conditions or political conditions of 1939 UK, which would be irrelevant irrelevant, I'm asking you whether specifically, you think the declaration of war by the United Kingdom in 1939 against Germany in response to the invasion of Poland was justified. And, if you agree that this was justified, that means you think it is okay to go to war in response to one country invading another without provocation.My insight on another nation's politics is laughable at best, my friend. I don't know any country's political, social, or economic situations well enough to attempt to convey to you motivations or justifications for any actions it has done or may possibly do in the future. Generally, I think nations should keep to themselves.
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Vulneraries and Elixirs wouldn't be infinite use anyway. Even in other RPGs with unbreakable weapons like FFTA, you still have limited uses of healing items. And even if they were infinite use, they wouldn't render staff users obsolete: after all, healing items in FE10 were practically infinite, but staff users were still useful.
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I'm not talking about the United States in this case, I'm talking about the United Kingdom declaring war on Germany in 1939 in response to the German invasion of Poland. In addition, the United States intervened heavily in World War II even before Japan and Germany declared war (see my first post in this thread).TL;DR: You know, instead of writing down my opinions in 1000 words, it's much easier to state that Esau basically got it. For me, it's a case-by-case basis with a few things that I keep in mind when making my opinions.
i feel like you forgot the united states was bombed during world war II. prior to that, we were still not really an isolated nation, we were clearly on the side of the allies, but our military intervention was certainly justified once we were bombed. i pretty much hold an isolationist opinion, or at least a passive-until-they're-aggressive standing on a lot of world issues. meaning, unless we, the american people, are harmed, i don't think the united states has a right to dive head-first into the problems of other nations. also, the jewish people were kinda being treated worse than ants at the time, so yeah. that also plays a role in my opinion.
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Fire Emblem so they can go make more Advance Wars instead.