The Gaming Den

No, you are a fucking idiot. Hillary won the Nevada convention because she had more eligible delegates at the convention . Sanders supporters got pissed off and rioted because they had more delegates total but like 1% of them were ineligible because they didn't file their paperwork on time and like ...

Once they rebel in someone's territory, they'll try to convince robots in other people's territories to join in even if those empires don't have the synths tech. The sub-revolts aren't quite as spectacular but are still pretty nasty. Anyways, it sounds like you've probably fallen drastically behind ...

No rules got changed This video shows the chair of the Nevada convention passing a motion to change the rules. I guess maybe you're arguing that the rules were temporary and therefore no rules were permanently changed, but that's extremely misleading and we both know you're happy to lie for Jesus H...

I've checked the files; when you get the trigger event and have full citizenship there's a 95% chance you get that event and a 5% chance they revolt instead.

So the AI uprising is a Galactic Crisis. Trigger condition: someone must have researched Synthetics. It and the tech leading up to it are highlighted in red on the tech tree to warn you this might end very badly. Whenever anyone researches it, it starts an invisible timer that eventually sends a tri...

Well, the loan experts want to give you a loan that you will make minimum payments on forever, and their risk target is a bit different from yours; they want to maximize expected value, which means that they'd rather give people big loans they have a small chance of defaulting on than small loans th...

The key of the banking crisis was something called Collateralized Debt Obligations. Essentially, they let banks bundle together ownership of mortgages or parts therof or parts of CDOs and sell them. The bank gets money and transfers risk to the buyer, and since it's a composite of a bunch of mortgag...

Because if the bank fails, then all those people whose money got aggregated by the bank lose their money. That is to say, the people who didn't do anything dangerous with their money at all and merely put it in the fucking bank like they are supposed to lose their fucking savings because too many i...

Note that the FDIC fund can't and isn't even intended to cover everyone actually pulling out all their money from a whole bunch of banks at once. The point of the fund is to be able to cover enough withdrawals that people won't feel urgently pressured to pull out all their money before it vanishes a...

The assorted cultists and horrors routinely use magic/magic-like stuff. The Deep Ones have sorcerous fish manipulation and dream magic.

There indeed is nothing fundamentally stopping the government from doing bailouts by nationalizing companies and seizing whatever portion of their assets the government feels like. Though it's generally considered bad to arrest or fine people for things that weren't illegal when they did those things.

My other major grievence with Stellaris is that the federation system and diplomacy in general feels rather half-baked. If you've got the right tech and are in an alliance with 4+ members, you can propose forming a federation and get it approved by unanimous vote. Federation members have full access...

The government could just have tossed arbitrary amounts of money to keep Bear Sterns afloat. But they didn't, and a whole bunch of basically unrelated companies lost a ton of money as a result, plus it going under was the official signal that it was time to panic because lots of other major companie...

Yeah, the UI is a bit shit. What mostly bugs me is a distinct lack of detailed information on other empires. The power comparisons in the diplomacy screen are so vague as to be basically useless and don't take industrial capacity into account at all. The tech comparison seems to be based on number o...

Fallen empires are absolutely not to be fucked with lightly. If their FTL type is Jumpdrive and their government is Stagnant Ascendency, they're a Fallen Empire and they get enormous doom fleets with top-tier armor, shields, and energy weapons. If you declare war on them and lose or white peace, a c...

It's not SWAT, it's at least a platoon of special forces with a helicopter gunship. It seemed pretty clear they did have enough firepower to have a serious chance of killing Bucky. Not necessarily a guarantee, but decent odds.

I'd really say Vision is the only one who is actually exempt from military force, and only because he can turn ethereal. Even discounting various forms of exotic crap like any salvaged Tesserect-based weapons, they're generally susceptible to massed anti-tank weaponry. That's not ideal against human...

The Avengers probably do break anti-vigilante laws when they go to storm hidden doom fortresses. But that's only mildly relavent to the argument because they could just be given legal authority to do that on their own initiative and the real question is whether they should be allowed to do that. Sin...

Well, an independent paramilitary organization is not focused on advancing the interests of a specific and potentially hostile foreign nation, so there is less concern that they're an instrument of American foreign policy given that they actually don't take orders from the US. So any country that tr...

The Avengers are not American agents. They had formerly been under the control of the international SHIELD organization and the World Security Council but are independent at the start of the film. The primary anti-regulation argument is basically that they've been doing all right and adding more adm...

Has the FBI announced anything? I'm pretty sure that the fact that they haven't actually filed charges does mean they think there's nothing to see, but I don't recall hearing any official announcement to that effect.

I saw it at an advance screening in the US. Also, could someone explain why exactly Hollywood movies are coming out in Europe before they come out in the US? I'm pretty sure there isn't a good reason why they can't come out in English everywhere simultaneously these days, but it particularly baffles...

The pro-regulation side does have the entirely valid point that being a solution to world-threatening disasters does not entail a blank check to do whatever the fuck they feel like in the process, or a blank check to do whatever when it comes to non-world-threatening incidents. But the flashpoints t...

[quote="Schleiermacher] Just to put the cherry on the shit sundae, is there any chance he might actually win ? I mean I'm hoping and expecting that she'll wipe the floor with him but I was also hoping and expecting that he'd be stopped cold without ever getting close to the nomination, so... an...

Llorowyn/Shadowmoor had a pretty sweet big reveal, IMO.