ultimafan

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by ultimafan 3y ago
I'm glad it worked for you but I'd be hesitant to recommend it to people with substance abuse issues. It's also anecdotal on my end but when kratom first started taking off and getting big I knew more than one person who swit
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by ultimafan 3y ago
I watched the first season and don't think I'll be watching the next ones. The decision to move a great deal of the plot/characters out of China was disappointing and I'm not really sure what their rationale for that was
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by ultimafan 3y ago
That sounds terrifying, I'm sorry you (and they) had to go through that. I definitely think there is too much downplaying of the harmful effects hallucinogens can have in drug culture nowadays, and people are too quick to recommend the
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by ultimafan 3y ago
You're not alone, and really the one thing I will give WOTC credit for amidst all the bad they've done is bringing back the 1e/2e books as POD reprints, it felt great to buy brand new hardcover copies so I could shelve my ori
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by ultimafan 3y ago
Agreed, one of those books you wish you could forget completely and read all over again blind for the first time.
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by ultimafan 3y ago
Dying Earth and the Book of the New Sun would be the big two I'd recommend, though their settings are very similar they're very different in tone. Book of the New Sun would be better if you want a more serious read about that kind
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by ultimafan 3y ago
This, I also feel like pop culture has forgotten overtime just how much inspiration (and in many cases ripping it out of the source material 1:1) early D&D took from science fiction / fantasy mashup classics like Jack Vance's
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by ultimafan 3y ago
>What the Kremlin says and what is actually means and does are so fundamentally divorced that it would be endearing that you think you can take them at their word if it wasn't so painful because even the slightest bit of study on th
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by ultimafan 3y ago
>the west was on the right side of history by working with new democracies and has been successful in ensuring peace and prosperity through cooperation with their new partners Very true, doesn't take more than a glance to see how mu
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by ultimafan 3y ago
I think it's not a hot take in the slightest to say that NATO and Russia consider each other enemies. I certainly don't think anyone would be calling them friends, or close allies. They clash often politically and their goals rare
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by ultimafan 3y ago
When you know your enemies have plans that are openly at ends with yours, when the heads of their alliance say this will come to pass, when their political elites campaign on the promise that they will push this cause along, when your rival
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by ultimafan 3y ago
>Devil's advocates tend to glance over the fact that these red lines were respected at the time and Ukraine nor Georgia were offered any closer integration with the EU and NATO. But that's not really true and omits some crucial
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by ultimafan 3y ago
>I just find it incredible that there are people who actually believe that helping a country in their own defense could actually be an act of hostility. It's really such a nonsensical position. To play devil's advocate and look
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by ultimafan 3y ago
Crime exists everywhere on different scales. The genie is out of the bottle so to speak in the US, so gun control on a scale that brings America in line with other countries while also keeping citizen's rights and safety intact is imho
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by ultimafan 3y ago
That's fair. I've never been in such a situation, and hope that I never will. When my family faced a break in we were thankfully not home at the time, did not have much of value that could have been or was lost either. But I would
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by ultimafan 3y ago
Too much of a hypothetical to give a real answer to that, imho. I do not think it is immoral to protect your savings or property if someone has gone to the lengths of violating your safety by breaking in to your home. If you know and recogn
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by ultimafan 3y ago
I don't know the context in which you mean that, so maybe I am misunderstanding you. But in my eyes someone who has chosen to commit theft on your property is already showing enough of a blatant disregard for social norms and the safet
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by ultimafan 3y ago
Yes, sorry I should have been more clear about that in my initial post. I would not condone someone going out and explicitly seeking violence after the fact.
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by ultimafan 3y ago
>Very few people are actually in a situation where some burglar is in a position to ruin them to destitution. We aren't subsistence peasants, for whom the theft of a farm animal could have been the difference between life and starva
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by ultimafan 3y ago
Wage theft is abhorrent but does not have the implication of violence behind it, so I would say no, take it to the law and go work somewhere else. It's a far cry from knowing a stranger has broken into your house and violated one of th
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by ultimafan 3y ago
>Well, I mostly agree although I think lethal force is often not in the 'within reason' clause of my stance. For sure, there definitely are situations in which case it would be absurd to try to justify as within reason. But I w
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by ultimafan 3y ago
Agreed, and at the risk of saying something inflammatory, it really grinds my gears when I hear people argue against lethal defense of property with comments along the lines of, "Is your X really worth more than someone's life?&qu
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by ultimafan 3y ago
UO Outlands (by far the most active current UO free shard) hovers around 2500-3000 characters online nightly (1500-1800 unique IPs).
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by ultimafan 4y ago
UO Outlands is probably the biggest/healthiest free shard out there right now, peak hours hover around 3,000 characters online.