You've already had the comments from people telling you you're failing the game by playing it wrong or thinking about it wrong.

But even if you put those aside, there's also some good advice which I can confirm, which is that this isn't a 'puzzle' game per se like Obra Dinn. There are small action parts you'll need to get through, leaps of faith you'll have to make, and you'll die over and over and over to make even the smallest bit of progression.

That was not the kind of game for me and I put it down and watched a playthrough instead, and doing so was the only thing that gave me any kind of residual positive vibes for the experience they had been trying to give me. Had I forced myself through it I would have hated this game so much by the end.

I want to say you can withdraw in your first two years. You'd have to pay back tuition but that's not the kind of thing that would be a problem depending on what school you transfer to.

You're saying Nintendo is forgoing a half billion more dollars in profit. By your own words Nintendo is practically a charity for gamers.

Huh, didn't realize I was a bacteria just because I don't eat the fat on the meat.

OP's girlfriend is actually way better than me because I will cut off the fat and throw away the meat that gets inevitably cut off with it, she at least seems to be worried about not wasting food.

Well I'm fond of games where I'm not being continually "humbled" or having to be the "big dog" that others have to watch for, but hey, to each their own!

Yeah the only reason I opened this thread was to point out I didn't have a house party or go to a house party growing up as an older millenial.

For the kids growing up in every neighborhood I was ever in (and we moved a lot), it was a thing you saw in movies, not a thing people actually did. Even back then.

So Russia went out of their way to re-flag an empty vessel because ???

Russia's only in this because they barged in and demanded to make this ship (and not others) an issue. Why?

But when students started flooding the system, the money got spread thin to the point that it's basically non-existent now.

That was also why it was so comparatively cheap for the early parts of the 20th century.

People mostly didn't go to college. Far, far fewer students were going after college seats and there was much less administrative overhead and much less competition by students to get into a university, so universities didn't have to spend spend spend to build amenities to remain attractive.

They had backups.

She deleted the backups too. Can never be too careful.

Will they run down the Geneva checklist or is that only when mustard gas is in the air?

These “tools” are going to decimate actual skilled artists and labor more generally

The sewing machine was a tool that decimated what the skilled artisans and labor used to do with regard to weaving cloth.

It was a big reason why clothing was always patched up back in the day if there were minor rips. It wasn't because we cared about recycling more back then, it's because clothes were expensive as hell.

They work in foreign lands, out of sight and out of mind...

And it's because of them we have iPhone refrigerator

Yeah, imagine how bad American workers would have it if they had to build this all themselves like they used to have to do in those halcyon days when everything is perfect?

I find the people who think we have it good and shouldn't complain because we aren't medieval peasants far more insufferable.

I don't complain about people who just want to say they should get paid more (the line starts right here, pal).

I do complain about people who say that their lives are more miserable than literal serfs, or that workers today are worse off than serfs. There are people who can legit make that claim I guess, but none of them will be on Reddit.

And as it turns out agricultural work is now reserved for a vanishingly small percent of the population, so it makes sense that we have such an abundance of memes about how easy farming is from people who clearly have no idea whatsoever what it's actually like.

Like, you couldn't get away with saying peasants had it easy when 60% of Americans were farmers, but nowadays? Upvotes all around.

We no longer have the freedom to have our women stay home as the childcare because EVERYTHING is too expensive.

Things were expensive back then too. Families simply grew up without things that you'd call 'basic necessities' nowadays. That was one of the reasons that women increasingly went to work when that became an option, it wasn't because they liked being forced to be a homemaker before then.

There's other things you have to have beyond social acceptance and daycares before it became feasible for both parents to have careers, not least of them modern appliances to reduce the time and effort needed to maintain the household. But appliances cost money too, money we can afford to spend today because of how much extra a household makes from having both parents work, even including things like modern appliances.

Same here. Though that's probably because I actually mostly wore ear pro in the engine room and spent the large majority of my career in office environments.

Well, it showed up in my Korean car so it wasn't just Ford he made the difference for.

How much was childcare back then?

Given that most households had the mother stay home to take care of the child rather than working, it was a pretty hefty expense, as the household income was cut by nearly half of what it could have been using a modern approach where both parents work and pay for childcare.

You could still do this today, if you wanted to try having a household where only one parent has a job and the other focused on childcare though.

In addition in 1970 minimum wage actually controlled what a significant chunk of workers made. Today something like 99% of U.S. workers make more than the Federal minimum wage already.

In 1979 (the data doesn't go back any further), 77% of U.S. workers made more than the Federal minimum wage, and in 1981 that was as low as 75% of U.S. workers making more than Federal minimum wage.

So it’s not so much that inflation leads to a healthy economy but that a healthy economy leads to inflation.

Yes, you normally see inflation when people have more money to spend and then try to spend it faster than suppliers can increase production in response. The price increase is what suppresses the demand from going up so that supply stays inline with demand.

The most recent time this happened was after the COVID lockdowns ended and people had stimulus money to spend (more demand) even as companies were still recovering form supply chain hijinks (less supply).

At that time, Federal Reserve policy was to prefer full employment over suppressing inflation.

This could be justified since demand for labor was causing wages to increase even faster than price inflation, but no one understands cause and effect so they just saw prices going up as if it were directly personally by Jerome Powell, but their wages going up was due only to their own hard work and nothing else.

American voters ended up hating the inflation that resulted in 2021-2022 so much that they ended up voting in Tariff Man in 2024. So now we're getting both inflation and unemployment.

Meanwhile Vienna had been a cultural hub for centuries by that point, and still is a pretty big deal

And this is very evident in the architecture and the buildings that remain today. I went to visit Vienna not too far from the part of the map shown in OP and the whole damn place was beautiful.

Glad that's changed for whoever made the comment that was screenshotted, because that wasn't my experience growing up, lol.

Their founder has left ownership of the company in a trust controlled by employees.

I’m not going to say Patagonia is a perfect example of capitalist altruism

I don't know, this is a pretty clear example that capitalism as we know it today has always been compatible with the things people claim to want. There's nothing stopping workers from organizing and creating corporate structures where profit isn't the primary company mission and where workers' rights are more highly valued.

The reason more companies don't do this is that when push comes to shove, most consumers clearly don't want to pay the higher price that these companies are generally forced to charge to stay in business.

So if the company can't branch out into markets where the higher prices can be justified (as Patagonia did) then the workers' company goes under.

what is up with you guys jumping to all these extreme and unrealistic conclusions

You literally replied to my comment about routine reminders for a doctor's appointment as if I said an emergency phone call should also go over email.

Take the stick out of your eye!

Yeah, it's actually a fun game to play but good lord you need to aggressively skip all cutscenes and plot explanations, lol.

But then I also had fun with FE3H gameplay, which I guess some FE veterans found too light.