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Seems a bit silly to preorder something not even knowing what's on it?

But it has Kurushi. I'd almost get it for that.

Looking at the Japan exclusive they don't seem that exciting. Surely not as exciting as Destuction fucking Derby! (and Oddworld, but I have that on steam)

Or even Twisted Metal, that's a classic right there. I can understand the unfortune of not having Parasite Eve, but who really cares about Parasite Eve?

Rendezvous with Rama is an Arthur C. Clarke novel about an alien spaceship that comes by and humans dock with it.

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I don't care about "hurt", I care about fixing what's actually wrong. There is no reason people cannot keep things civil and try to work together for a better country.

We can come together, we can mend this country. Or we can insist on throwing down others at all costs.

One of these is the actually a hurt I'd be concerned about (actual screwed up things going on in the country). The other one (people's "feelings" being hurt) is stupid.

Well your example implied that as long as it isn't broken there's no point fixing it. Using a water pipe as an example. So I guess I have to elaborate what I mean because I don't think your answer had anything to do with what you had said earlier.

There's a rusty old water pipe in an apartment complex. It is there and an expert looks at it and says "this needs repairs" (aka books worth of papers to go through, to get at this information). The people in the apartment complex go "nah, it's fine, the water works fine, it's always worked fine. You 'experts' just want to scam us of our money with expensive repairs."
So the water pipe is left alone.
Then one day the old pipe bursts. There's water damage all over, but not quite all over. It hits one side of the building, affecting about 30% of the people living there.
1) In a direct democracy example 70% of the people are unaffected by this and might go (not will, this is a thought experiment after all) "this doesn't affect me, I don't think we need to put any money into fixing this problem that isn't our to deal with."
So 30% of the people now live in unlivable conditions, but democracy prevailed.
2) In another version maybe most of the people in the building will go "Yeah, this needs fixing so it doesn't happen to me." They call in the experts and they say "yes, we can fix this, but it will be more than 10 times more expensive compared to when I told you it needed fixing all that time ago that you didn't bother to listen."
So they fix up all the water damage and everyone is happy. And also ten times poorer.

This is what I meant with the fact that we shouldn't always have to wait until things break and people are hurt (you seemed to think "hurt" wasn't a strong enough word. I didn't want to go all the way with "killed" if a water pipe bursts, more about some financial pain).

Basically when the consequences of error are incredibly high. It's probably best not to go with a trial and error style.


On the healthy people front I'm mostly reading "We should not take incredibly simple steps to make it easier for people who already have difficulties." Correct me if I'm wrong.


And dammit I wasn't going to do this

He kept a corrupt politician from holding office.

I skimmed the linked article and I'd say that Trump has about that amount of scandals in a week. And he hasn't even been in politics that long! (so I guess he's racking up the political corruption points because he was late to the game)

"Chakes you should shake the sleeping man, we should first tie him down in case he wakes up angry!"

I rummage in my bag looking for rope.

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Not you, the two people who went "hurr hurr, I got kentona's reference". But seemed oblivious to the actual game referenced!