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Piroko 19 points ago +26 / -7

Nope. There's been no sentence so there's no release date to shorten.

Trust me on this, I know from family experience. Declared mentally unfit to stand trial is quite frankly the worst hell in the first world. It doesn't end. Ever.


"Better to shoot 'em now and get it over with." -Scotty, Star Trek VI

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Piroko 33 points ago +38 / -5

Found incompetent to stand trial.

That doesn't mean what you think it means.

It means she's been declared a ward of the state. That's life. Slightly better than prison, but not by much. There's no statute of limitations on crimes that end in "not competent". You go a mental facility until you either die or recover enough to stand trial.

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Piroko 10 points ago +10 / -0

Because almost everything in Star Wars is an epic opera scaled caricature. It's not a setting that people sat down and really thought about very much.

"Kid, it's not that kind of movie. If they notice your hair we're all in big trouble."

-Mark Hamill mimicking Harrison Ford

Tanaka's setting is a generalization, but only in the sense that it's the Napoleonic Wars in space. Once you understand that, you start to see parallels everywhere and you realize all he's really done is taken history, rearranged a few things, replaced some names and added spaceships.

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Piroko 3 points ago +3 / -0

What was that thing about hats?

"Oh, uh, people aren't wearing enough."

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Piroko 10 points ago +10 / -0

"Can I just ask with reference to your second point, when you say souls don't develop because people become distracted... has anyone noticed that building there before?"

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Piroko 1 point ago +1 / -0

Anti-authoritarianism is a stance held by deontologists.

Progressives are, to a one, consequentialists. They don't see authoritarianism as bad inof itself.

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Piroko 26 points ago +26 / -0

24-34 current players.

In a game with 16 playable characters.

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Piroko 7 points ago +7 / -0

MINIONS!!!!!!

FOR YOUR TWO WEEKS OF UPTIME, THE TWENTY ONE FART GUN SALUTE!

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Piroko 8 points ago +9 / -1

Burning crusade fan

Probably still grinding honor hold rep for that tabard, aren't you.

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Piroko 3 points ago +5 / -2

WoW only had three good expansions.

  • Lich King
  • Pandaria
  • Legion

And of them, Pandaria is the most suspect.

Cataclysm... was a special case. It was a not-good expansion that had to happen to fix problems with vanilla. Problems that have been left unresolved in Burning Crusade.

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Piroko 9 points ago +9 / -0

I have the novels.

The translation is fine. Having seen all the versions of the material I can confirm the translator didn't take any perceptible liberties.

I will say that it IS translated Japanese. If you're expecting Rand or Heinlein, don't. It's 8th grade reading level, not college reading level.

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Piroko 5 points ago +5 / -0

The takeaway I get from that is that they listened too much to the people screeching that Civ 6 was "Big'n'Tall or Lose" edition.

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Piroko 8 points ago +8 / -0

For when you're such a poor hipster that you can't afford to buy new at the poor hipster store and have to choose between buying used from the poor hipster store, or admit that you are just actually poor and buy new from AtHome.

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Piroko 1 point ago +1 / -0

Mmmmhmmm.

If they were serious about needing more capacity, they'd push to expand the Welland and St Lawrence. But the coastal builders lobby against it because they don't want the lake builders to be able to compete for larger ships. Canada has indicated they're willing to do it if the money is right.

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Piroko 6 points ago +6 / -0

a dozen Spearhead-class

This is not the crisis people think it is.

two expeditionary sea bases

I still don't understand why they felt the need to build six of these in the first place (eight if you count Montford and Glen).

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Piroko 16 points ago +16 / -0

It's almost always a smart character using their brain to outwit everyone else in the room while showing off to a love interest.

Sherlock

Holmes's only love interest is an afternoon at the opium den, he hates women. If you read the books the guy is 100% aspie savant. He has two operating modes... pursuit, and coked off his ass.

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Piroko 7 points ago +7 / -0

You didn't get the joke.

Opus was the penguin main character of a comic strip in the 1980's called Bloom County. A staunch moderate liberal in a Reaganite world; basically a proto-metrosexual.

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Piroko 18 points ago +24 / -6

Justice should be metered out individually

Read your Schopenhauer. Your conception of justice is revenge, which is as indefensible as it is ineffectual.

Justice is deterrence, and while it's desirable that it should be administered to those who transgressed, strictly speaking it's only necessary that they be popularly perceived as having transgressed.

In other words, nothing stops witchcraft like a good old witch hunt.

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