Literally most oldschool JRPGs.

Oh, the enemy chose their insanely OP attack, 3 times in a row?

Try again.

Maybe they won’t this time.

I think this is how you end up with the Hungarian Kwisatz-Haderach.

For reference, in case anyone wants to see what we’re talking about more directly:

https://cascadiabioregion.org/nine-regions-of-cascadia

(I picked this one because I am a blatant Seattle Supremacist /s)

So yeah, you’d have to overlay this kind of a map with say, county level political maps for the US, apologies to Canadians, I do not know what the Canadian approximate equivalent of a county is.

But yeah, then look at rivers, origin points, watersheds, dams, other critical infrastructure, etc, to see how this could possibly shake out.

The Greater Idaho idea was originally to essentially carve off as many counties in eastern WA and OR, basically east of the Cascades, and… move them into Idaho:

https://moveoregonsborder.org/the-maps/

I … guess they gave up on trying to take Spokane.

But uh yeah so basically everywhere between the Cascades, down to Medford, down further to Redding… would potentially be a war zone.

Like, I5 south of Portland would be a critical artery and thus a warzone, probably same with I90.

Personally, if this happens, I’m counting it as yet another thing Deus Ex ended up predicting.

There’s a conversation you can have with an ex NSF soldier, who tells you about how his squad got wiped out at ‘Squalnomie’, by other troops with thermoptic camo.

Squalnomie -> Snoqualmie, as in Snoqualmie Pass, I would assume.

Dems currently control only 18 State Legislatures.

Best case scenario… (imo):

Dems gain Arizona, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Nevada, New Hampshire, Georgia, North Carolina, Texas, Florida, Virgina.

So thats 27.

So… you’d then have to get 5 Rep State Legislatures on board with this.

Which might (?) be possible, there’s still a fair deal of ‘National Divorce’ sentiment on the right generally.

… and then, all hell would break loose.

I mean, basically same?

There was a kind of… cresting wave effect, where it was getting more popular, and some really good stuff was coming out… and then yeah, it became super popular, and the overall quality of any random show just tanked, with the occasional bright spot of course still showing up.

I’m baffled that this is apparently a controversial opinion, this has happened in basically every format of art ever.

Except that therapy actually is expensive, and a whole lot of therapists actually suck at what they’re ostensibly there to do.

Then, try finding a good therapist who actually is neurodivergent, its nearly impossible.

A neurotypical fundamentally isn’t capable of actually fully empathizing with a neurodivergent… their brains are literally wired differently.

You being this dismissive of genuine, deep seated pain… that literally is the problem, people who act like you.

Why would anyone listen to the advice of someone who doesn’t actually give a fuck about their mental health, about their CPTSD, caused by people like you?

The… whole problem is that at the most basic level, people repress and internally stew on their feelings, when broader society does not allow them to express them without mocking them.

Your entire post here is ‘I am better than you and you are pathetic, I sympathize with you though’.

Do you have no self-awareness?

… therapy is a good thing, if you can find it, if you access it, if its done by a person who actually knows what they’re doing and can actually relate to you without the sociopathic ‘emotions off/HR mode enabled’ mask that many therapists use.

We could just have a space where people could just say whats really on their minds, you know, publically.

Or we can have people like you show up when they do that, tell them they suck, and tell them they need to pay money an expert.

No you don’t get it.

Halal, most literally, means basically ‘approved’.

In this context, its essentially ‘Family Friendly’.

Inshallah basically means ‘Godwilling’, genuine, earnest hope that the family is reunited.

I wonder if anything is going on anywhere in the Muslim world where a story about a family being able to reunite would be a resonant and uplifting story.

Again, there’s nothing inherently forbidden about … non Muslims existing, and not particularly following all the rules that apply to Muslims… in the view of the vast majority of Muslims.

Most of the people in this thread are being bigotted by way of presumably ignorance.

And I’m a kafir, a dhimmi, an Atheist, who just likes to learn about different cultures and religions.

Yeah, thats a great example of where you run into the differences between ‘Cascadia’ as a bioregion, defined primarily by watershed networks, snd ‘Cascadia’ as a maybe possible legal/political entity, based on current existing borders.

IIRC, the bioregion Cascadia basically only extends down to bits of Northern California… but the political reality doesn’t match well with this at all.

Perhaps state delegates could all send couriers to Goodsprings for a conference, to hash out the details, lol.

Cascadia vs Greater California vs … New Zion/Deseret?

The immediate problem would be that Idaho, eastern OR and eastern WA are very very seriously trying to do the whole Greater Idaho thing, and are basically chalk full of armed white supremacist theocrat bigots.

So… yeah.

I guess the ‘good’ news is that western WA has JBLM and a lot of Navy bases, and maybe enough of them would align with Cascadia … ?

The bad news is the Holy State of Greater Idaho would probably be able to dash and seize Hanford, and then be able to make dirty nuclear bombs.

But anyway…

Throw in Hawaii and then Cascadia and Japan and SK can form a trading bloc, and theoretically be able to back that up with maybe a little bit of the formerly US Navy?

Total spitballing here.

Alaska sure would be completely fucked.

Airline fuel is pretty expensive these days… for some reason… Didn’t BC/Yukon already basically say ‘fuck you’ to US truckers going between Alaksa and the 48, or I am not remembering that right?

Do you want Cascadia?

Because this is how you get Cascadia.

Literally 0 chance that BC would join a MAGA controlled USA.

… Non-zero chance that it would join WA OR and CA, should an actual dual civil war kick off.

Shhh!

Don’t say this too loud or someone will make a hoi4 mod out of this.

… Are the fish Muslim?

As part of their acting like humans?

Also, generally speaking, fish are halal to eat.

So there’s no reason for a non muslim fish to either literally not be halal, as food, nor abide by muslim dress code, as a ‘person’, who does not appear to be muslim.

The widely varying different standards of Islamic Dress Codes != Halal.

To conflate the two would be like asking if a Yarmulke is Kosher. Its … nonsensical.

… Dory is a fish.

Why would a fish need to follow instructions given to humans?

Double post but:

To prove both our points further, I just had to do a custom Lutris install and configuration to get the old Bungie game ‘Oni’ actually working.

tl:dr - Modern, current (9/10) Proton can’t handle .NET 2.0 properly, apparently, when I have a 64 bit system and its only made for 32 bit… and/or the engine that Bungie used for this is apparently … essentially custom… theres nothing quite like it, according to the Oni2 people/website of people who’ve been reverse engineering it for like 20 years now and still haven’t totally figured it out.

I had to jump down to the wine 8 custom lutris version, basically.

extremely odd.

True!

And technically, there many many variants of Proton, some bleeding edge, some more stable, some highly specified to work with particular games.

Theres also uh, soda, used by Bottles… which is… kind of a hybrid between standard WINE and Proton…

And then if we get into all the specific possible dependency packages, other more specific sort of modules… it gets very complicated very fast.

I saw a random youtuber actually figure this out.

Get banned from Prirate Software’s chat speed run, Any%.

He made an account, joined, and just politely asked what Thor thought of the recent SKG EU Parliament hearings.

Total Elapsed Time to Ban: Approximately 9 seconds.

Thor then muttered about not wanting to hear anything from any SKG assholes.

Dude is a literally terminal stage narcissist.

Some people actually have principles, actually stand on business… apparently this is quite a rarity these days.

“HEY LISTEN”

inhales

Poooooooo-lonium and Tantalum and Tritium

and Oxygen and Eisteinium and… Sulfur.

coughs

Well that verse doesn’t flow so well.

ahem

Poooolonium and Tantalum and Tritium

and… Osmium.

Damnit.