Listen, All this takes a lot of gettin' use to, And you do get used to it... after a while
There's three things I'll always miss though One, not havin' to watch my step all the time Two... Ah... forget about two And three... I miss the songs
Folks from Caelondia knew how to carry a tune Sure, we've got some songs on the old gramophone But tryin' to imagine what they sounded like Playin' to a room full of fine people Unwindin' at the Sole Regret right after a hard day's work Those were the days
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
The question is...why would they lead us down this corridor if the other end was barricaded?
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
I could hardly see him, walking about in the night shadows dressed only in black. In fact, if not for the pink bag he'd been holding, I might not have seen him at all...and I'd be telling a very different story.
As it was, though, I just barely caught a glimpse of pink in my headlights, giving me just enough time to slam on my brakes--though not before coming close enough to startle the poor man into slipping on the wet pavement, sending his bag flying.
"Sorry!" I called out the window.
The man didn't make eye contact, instead looking down as he hastily gathered up his belongings. "Did you think those big blinking lights were just for show?"
"Well, honestly...I didn't expect someone at the elementary school crosswalk at 1 in the morning in July," I said.
"Nobody ever does."
Immediately I sensed something was wrong. If this sort of near-miss was a regular occurrence for this guy, why was he walking around in dark clothing late at night?
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
basically my mo now is to go out for a drive and come up with some weird little thing to write from lily's point of view when i get back
though i haven't even established why lily was driving around at 1 am
Tbh, I would actually love to see Bix Dugan in a Magic Core Set. With a little bit of editing so the rules text isn't completely bonkers. I mean, I've gotten better at writing rules text, but I'm still not hella good, and not being hella good means errata, and no one likes errata.
The entire experience of playing as The USA in Vicky 2 is just "do you like The Civil War? Because you're about to get Civil War'd. Hard."
is there an "assassinate McClellan" option
there's very little "person" to the politics in Vicky 2. I think that's one of the reasons I'm having a hard time getting into it. How can I even get into character if I don't know who my head of state is?
Currently what I'm trying to do is rush the Civil War event as soon as possible (there are practical reasons for this. Namely, the later the event fires the stronger the Confederacy has the potential to be). So I'm thinking like a strongly polarizing candidate became president in the most recent in-universe elections. I am not sure whom, though.
Oh, and she ran on a universal suffrage and free love platform during Reconstruction and was married something like four times. So yeah. Woodhull/Douglass 1872 for a better America!
So I was playing Wind Waker and got an unstoppable urge to come up with my own video game monsters (drawing on the idea that they can all be defeated two ways, with risks and rewards and stuff) and now I feel unfulfilled because I can't program.
I really wish I wasn't so split on what I want to do with my life because I love the camaraderie of acting and the feeling of it in general but I also desperately want to create.
Crossposting with my personal thoughts thread, because I'm a dork.
Put up an actual socialist or something. Like some kind of crazy radical that just happens to have a lot of fans. There were plenty of those in the nineteenth century.
for reference the Democrats still have a pretty darn good stranglehold on the nation. About 75% of all voters are Democrats, about 23% are Whigs, and about 2% are registered as "Southern Democrats".
one of Vicky's strengths is this in-depth population (or Pop!) breakdown.
Put up an actual socialist or something. Like some kind of crazy radical that just happens to have a lot of fans. There were plenty of those in the nineteenth century.
I can't do that. I don't have any direct control over the ruling party in a Democratic government (and no, you can't just change it, unfortunately). Election Season just rolls around and elections happen (which entails a bunch of pop-up events) that allow me to indirectly influence the results in small ways.
OK. Infuriating do-nothing it is. Anyone worse than Pierce?
That's not really how it works, which is what I'm getting at.
Election's already over and has been won. My actions (that is, those of the player) are indicative of a candidate who is either deliberately pushing the nation towards civil war or is simply so bad at his job that he's doing so accidentally. IRL it's the former, but the latter is a more plausible explanation in-universe.
Furthermore, like I said, one of Vicky 2's weaknesses is that it does not name any heads of state (or ministers, or anything like that. Contrast EU4 and ESPECIALLY CK2, which take place in earlier time periods), so I have to determine who this hypothetical "worse for the country than what we actually did get" candidate is for myself.
what we know about the current president of the United States in this timeline is thus:
He was either popular or middle-of-the-road enough to garner the Democratic nomination. Not an easy feat, since "Democrat" in the current political landscape is an entire political spectrum that basically encompasses everyone who's not violently pro- or anti-slavery (those stances are covered by the Southern Democrats and Whigs respectively).
He's pro-union enough to actively stamp out both abolitionist and pro-slavery forces
He has a favorable attitude toward Mexico and other American states, and has actively worked to grow the friendship between the US and various South American countries. Perhaps surprising his electors by doing this.
I like to think that that picture was taken after the Civil War.
In this timeline, Cass is very much responsible for a lot of the bloodshed the inevitable confederate secession will have caused. He just kind of looks sick of everything in that picture, and that is a very appropriate way for a man in his situation to feel.
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Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
All this takes a lot of gettin' use to,
And you do get used to it... after a while
There's three things I'll always miss though
One, not havin' to watch my step all the time
Two... Ah... forget about two
And three... I miss the songs
Folks from Caelondia knew how to carry a tune
Sure, we've got some songs on the old gramophone
But tryin' to imagine what they sounded like
Playin' to a room full of fine people
Unwindin' at the Sole Regret right after a hard day's work
Those were the days
I thought well that is great, that person loves Batman
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
A.K.A.
McClellan wut r u doing
McClellan
stahp
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
I suppose I could simply like, make someone up. Doesn't usually stop me.
an extreme do-nothing like James Buchanan is actually more what I had in mind.
one of Vicky's strengths is this in-depth population (or Pop!) breakdown. I can't do that. I don't have any direct control over the ruling party in a Democratic government (and no, you can't just change it, unfortunately). Election Season just rolls around and elections happen (which entails a bunch of pop-up events) that allow me to indirectly influence the results in small ways.
Election's already over and has been won. My actions (that is, those of the player) are indicative of a candidate who is either deliberately pushing the nation towards civil war or is simply so bad at his job that he's doing so accidentally. IRL it's the former, but the latter is a more plausible explanation in-universe.
Furthermore, like I said, one of Vicky 2's weaknesses is that it does not name any heads of state (or ministers, or anything like that. Contrast EU4 and ESPECIALLY CK2, which take place in earlier time periods), so I have to determine who this hypothetical "worse for the country than what we actually did get" candidate is for myself.
what we know about the current president of the United States in this timeline is thus:
Article is mum on his stance toward Mexico, but nothing ever lines up 100% in these things.
Lewis Cass, 9th President of The United States.
In this timeline, Cass is very much responsible for a lot of the bloodshed the inevitable confederate secession will have caused. He just kind of looks sick of everything in that picture, and that is a very appropriate way for a man in his situation to feel.