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Cake day: 2023年6月9日

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  • This is one of the most glaring problems with tariffs. Companies raise their prices and the tariff becomes basically a tax on the people. But within that is hidden the fact that gigantic companies can often hold off on raising prices because they have the money to deal with it in the short term and the massive markets to pull in discounted prices from suppliers. The result is humongous businesses like Walmart keep their prices low through the tariffs while your mom and pop shop down the street has no choice but to raise prices or go out of business cause they don’t have the kind of margins bigger companies do. They raise their prices, everyone flocks to huge businesses like Walmart who kept their prices lower, then mom and pop close up shop cause they aren’t selling anything at the higher prices. Then Walmart can do whatever they want cause they just tagged tariffs into the ring and murdered the competition. Tariffs have their place but they largely suck ass in a multitude of ways.






  • At what point tho do we just step back and realize that reality tends to lean left? Honestly. Like are people that think murder is bad just following the doctrine of some political ideology or did everybody just kind of agree that murder is bad naturally? This whole thing where any educational institution is a brainwashing machine and all cities where intellectuals tend to congregate are brainwashing centers and any organization that tends tends to think certain things is automatically a cultish radical political regime… It’s exhausting.

    At some point you just have to acknowledge that people start learning stuff and realizing pretty much on their own that stuff is generally bad and other stuff is generally good. I’m so sick of this hiding behind “well there’s just no way little Timmy could ever have come up with this idea that all people should be treated with respect and love on his own. He’s clearly been the victim of hardcore brainwashing effort.”





  • I used to live in a town that did something very similar to this. It sorta worked but mostly did not. But as another commenter pointed out you need more than just homes. Obviously they help a ton but a lot of people need more help than just a roof over their head. Financially, medically, mentally, employment… It’s a bigger, more complicated problem.

    But it goes without saying that this is a step in the right direction and absolutely better than collectively shrugging our shoulders and walking away.



  • I kinda agree. I think the much bigger story would be the fact that he’s threatening a singular company with a specific tariff of they don’t do what he likes. I don’t even think that’s legal, especially without congressional approval tho I could be wrong. In any case if we start going down the road of picking and choosing which specific companies get to have tariffs or not we are going to fly so fast down the slippery slope of corruption my ass will break the sound barrier



  • Lmao I love this take. Must be a skill issue. I don’t have a problem with the parry window or the difficulty parrying. It’s fine. The issue I have is that there is absolutely no strategy in the game so far besides, parry/dodge and counter attack. No skills matter at all, no proccing, no synergy, no need to even think about elemental weaknesses. Everything just comes down to whether or not you can parry/dodge.

    Again, this may change as I’m only a few hours in but it is surprising (imo) in a game like this to see none of that matter really at all.


  • Im pretty early into the game so my opinion might change but I simply cannot believe how important dodging and parrying is to the outcome of pretty much any battle. I cannot survive any battle without dodging or parrying pretty much every single attack. Id say I get one-shot by like 75% of enemies I face and can survive at most 3 hits from everything else. I literally never have used Gustaves overcharge at full charge because I haven’t had a fight last long enough to fill it up. I either parry and counter attack to win. Or can’t time it right and die instantly. There’s virtually no in between so far.

    Again, this might change later and maybe the difficulty is the problem (I’m trying it on expert) but I’m genuinely surprised at how vital it is to dodge and parry so far. Every fight just comes down to whether or not I can dodge every attack. Still liking the game and all but dang, kinda rough gameplay.




  • Idk I feel like it can totally be both. I’d say I’m pretty introverted but definitely don’t have social anxiety. I can handle talking to people fine enough, I just really dislike it and would rather not unless they’re friends or family. That being said, I’d 1000% prefer to not see strangers in my own home if I can avoid it by just chilling in my room or something.