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>>4699480
Once again, here’s the Honor Chart.

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>>4699487
And as an added bonus, here’s an amused Scorpion lady.

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>>4699480

>>4699480
Take my Energy Crab Brothers and smight down the taint, cause I'm at work and might miss it all ;_;

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Once again, you make your way through the front gate of the castle. It has been left open, for the obvious reason that the guards were hoping to evacuate the village there. You make a note of their faces. They did their duty well, tonight. Perhaps a Crane or Lion might not understand, you can see a particular sort of samurai deeming their actions insubordinate for leaving their posts and defying orders, but the Wall's challenges mandate both discipline and a degree of flexibility. These men were ready to die to protect farmers whose crops feed soldiers on the Wall. As far as you are concerned, they have done as well as heimin can do.

The oldest of them, a rather short, stout, hairy sort, has to jog to keep up with your rapid stride, "Master Arinaga, what are you planning to do?" He asks, determination overwhelming his natural hesitation to question a samurai.

You can understand why. Your expression right now must be frightfully grim, and even the normally good-humored Sayaka is silent, her soft, dark lips pressed into a taut little line. Your sword is clearly resting loosely in its saya, tonight. "I killed O-Tora. He got back up. Now that the bandits are no longer a threat, tomorrow we will need every guard in this castle to hunt him down and put a final end to him. Lady Arinaga cannot gainsay this, it is her duty as a servant of the Emperor and a samurai of the Crab. If Nishiyama Takeshi says otherwise, I am removing him from his post."

"Removing Nishiyama-sama!?" The guard sounds incredulous. Overjoyed, certainly, but incredulous, "Can you do such a thing?"

"It may be a breach of protocol." You certainly aren't certain of that. You are no courtier, no magistrate, not even a court guard. You are a low-ranking soldier, nothing more, "However, I am prepared for the consequences. The undead cannot be permitted to roam free on this side of the Carpenter Wall. Moreover..." You allow heat to creep into your voice. A samurai is supposed to suppress and mask his emotions in public, to maintain Face, but the paradox of that is that when an insult is too great to maintain composure the answer is the three-foot razor riding on your hip. "That ronin is unfit to command a flock of chickens, let alone humans." You sigh, and say very quietly, "There is much to answer for."

You include yourself in this. You are certain this is not the way a more courtly samurai would have handled this, but it is what you know.

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>>4699507
;_;

We'll save you a seat at our victory celebrations Crab Brother.

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"Master Arinaga." The guard says, rather quietly, "It isn't my place, but...I think you may have a warmer welcome than you expect. I mean, naturally I don't listen to gossip, but I couldn't help overhearing some of what happened. Lady Arinaga may have been...distraught, as women are wont to be." His gaze flicks to Sayaka, "Sometimes. But...I believe since then, she may have had cause to reconsider. Nishiyama has, in accordance with tradition, been set to guard our lord's body day and night, and without him by her side, our lady has been very kind today. She held a special meal, to which all of the castle servants were invited. Those of us on guard duty had our food delivered to us at our stations. She said that it was her way of thanking those who kept her place of refuge intact." He smiles, "For someone who was such a strange girl, she...she..." His voice chokes off suddenly, and he clutches his windpipe, his face turning dark.

Behind you, another of the guards collapses, and another. One by one, they fall to the ground. Sayaka rushes over, grabbing the torch one of the guards dropped and holding it up for a look at their faces. Their eyes are bulging, staring, expressions contorted in pained expressions. Pale foam dribbles from the corners of their mouths. She looks up at you, "Poison. It wasn't me, if you're wondering." She comments archly, but you can hear the tension beneath it, a little joke to hide how distraught she is.

You begin trying to force your fingers down one of their throats, but she catches your hand. "Don't." She says quietly, "It's too late."

Who in the World of Men would want to poison these guards? Why? It makes no sense.

>[Reconsider your plans]
>[Press onward]

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>>4699538
>[Press onward]

Fuck.

>>4699538
Ok so Miho is definitely in league with all this crap here.

The villagers need to run now. If we’re victorious we will seek them out later. Remove the heads of the guards. Ten bucks every dead servant and soldier still in the castle is going to get back up and be under her command.

>>4699538
>[Reconsider your plans]
She is accelerating her plans. We cannot be caught by an undead army, we must get word to someone about this breach.
Go, before all the bodies rise again in service.

>>4699538
Say a quick prayer for the guards and start cutting off heads. The guards wouldn’t appreciate having their corpses attack the very villagers they tried to protect.

>>4699552
Tell them to bring a crab patrol when they reach a samurai or a magistrate.

>>4699562
We don't have time, I'm afraid. It's either nip this shit in the bud now, or come back to an army of dead, and I'll be damned if our ancestral land suffer taint in such fashion.

>>4699562
>>4699552

Immediately beheading the guards is a wise choice, and duly noted.

>>4699562
Guess I forgot to actually vote...
>[Press onward]

>>4699538
>>[Press onward]

>>4699552
On another note Miho being a Maho-tsukai is bad, VERY bad. The Crab might just torch the land to get this done with assuming we don't nip this in the bud hard. She's had years to thoroughly taint it all.


List of likely enemies
Horde of Zombies
Undead uncle although given hsi fucked up his body was it's unknown how efficacious he will be
Undead Bandit lord who's turned into a frog zombie thing
Nishiyama who is probably going to be buffed HARD for this if he's not just outright used as undead creation fodder
Maho-tsukai Miho.
Whatever entities she's summoned with her magic.

>>4699595
You just given me an idea.

Ritsu knows how to get home by herself, right? And Sayaka’s guards are still heading over here to get her back, right? Well, we have Sayaka write a note in a cypher her clansmen know how to translate about how Koumugi Castle has been taken over by the undead, or at least a quick note where she is, then tell Ritsu to head home. The guards will find Ritsu because they’ll be looking out for any clues where their charge is, and hopefully they’ll arrive in time to help out. And if they aren’t, at least they’ll know what happened, and can inform the nearest Crab legion about it.

>>4699608
That's a good idea mate.

>a proper witch
>in crab lands

Well slap my ass and call me Salem cause it's hunting time.

Anger level: 306%

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>>4699611
Not over 9000?

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"Stand aside." You state grimly. The pieces have fallen into place already, all of this is just confirmation. You draw your sword, and behead them one by one, the only mercy you have to give.

Aunt Miho was going to act as shugenja at the funeral, wasn't she? Strange, you never heard of her being addressed as one, or casting spells at all, which doesn't fit with the few shugenja you've met. They all did their best to make everyone aware they were shugenja, and given the Centipede Clan's reputation as a Clan of priests closely tied to the kami, surely she would have taken on the appropriate gravitas for her station. Of course, if she had some reason for not wanting a Kuni on the castle grounds, it would make much more sense.

"Sayaka, can you write a note in some sort of cypher your clansmen can translate? Tell them that the dead have risen, give the note to your horse, and tell her to go back to them." Your sword rises. Your sword falls.

Sayaka pouts, "How did you know I could do that?"

"A man assumes everything of his lover, it's the way of things." You reply, and are favored with a sweet smile before she gets out a small scroll and begins fussing with it.

"I'll be back quickly." She promises. "I need a flat surface to write on, and I'll need to send Ritsu off. She will be fine on her own."

You nod, and she does as she promised. Before long, she returns, and the three of you begin making your way back up the steps towards Koumugi Castle, the ancestral fortress of the Arinaga family.

A fortress now in the hands of a witch.

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Just making your way through the gatehouses and up the switchbacks towards the first level sets your teeth on edge. There are sounds you associate with a fortress at night, and those sounds that aren't completely gone are oddly muted.

You hear none of the faint rattle of armor and occasional muffled conversation as guards walk along the wall, nor see the flickering light of their lanterns. You find the bodies of more guards in each of the guardhouses, and realize with a sick feeling just how truly bad this is. Still, you take your sword, and put the fine blade to the bitter work of removing their heads. It is a Crab-made sword, and will not dull or break from this.

However what you truly expected to see does not come into view until you enter the castle grounds themselves. A few of the castle servants, ones you hadn't spoken to before, are dragging away the bodies of some of the guards. Their motions are stiff, unnatural, akin to those of a marionette. Dried foam flecks their chins, and their eyes bulge in an unseemly way, their heads lolling on their necks. Even the way they drag the bodies is inhuman. Inefficient, simply grabbing the nearest part and pulling until they move, even if it means they get stuck on obstacles or slip free of their grasp occasionally.

You hear Sayaka gag, and see her clasp her hands over her mouth, sinking to her knees. You don't need to see her eyes to read the horror in every line of her form at this blasphemy. Surely she has heard of the dead rising, but seeing it? No, she hasn't done that before. A samurai who can face any living foe boldly can still falter in the face of the undead.

Yoshi lowers his head, praying softly as his one, muscular arm tightens into a fist. He begins wrapping his hand in cloth, tying it in place with a string of wooden prayer beads. Protection against touching these corpses with his bare hands, to preserve his kharma.

Your sword is already in your hand, "Sayaka. Listen to me. Aim for their heads. Destroy those, and they will fall. Do not let them touch you, if you can. They are slow, but their bodies will not stop moving unless beheaded or hacked to pieces."

With that, you charge.

>[Begin rolling dice]

Rolled 5 (1d10)

>>4699651
At least they were not instant rezzed. That’s hopefully good.

Rolled 5 (1d10)

>>4699651
Dice!

Rolled 3 (1d10)

>>4699651
Honor!

Rolled 7 (1d10)

>>4699651

Rolled 7 (1d10)

>>4699651
Glory to the CRAB!

Rolled 9 (1d10)

>>4699651
Calling it a night, chop up these walking bags of fertilizer for me, guys.

Rolled 10 (1d10)

>>4699651
>Me has minute at work to check in
OH DEAR GOD IT'S HAPPENING!
Code red, all dice to battle stations, this is not a drill!

Rolled 1 (1d10)

>>4699651

This one's for you, Crab Brother!

Rolled 10 (1d10)

>>4699651
Code Red, I repeat Code Red!

Rolled 4 (1d10)

>>4699651

And this one's for you >>4699660, mate!

Rolled 10, 10, 1 = 21 (3d10)

Zombies only get 1k1 for Initiative. Slow is correct. I'm rolling all three together, and forgive me if I totally do things to have Yoshi fight someone else this session because I...may have lost his stats.

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Rolled 6 (1d10)

>>4699651

>>4699661
>>4699664
I’m sticking around a little bit longer to say holy shit, son, goddamn.

Rolled 10 (1d10)

>>4699651
I'll get you, Witch!

Rolled 2 (1d10)

>>4699667
>those rolls
Oh boy here we go
>>4699664
>>4699661
Thank you for your prompt response Dice
>>4699651
>Insert Emergency Klaxon noises here

Rolled 4 (1d10)

>>4699651
>>4699672
The righteous do not fear the foul.

>>4699651
One more roll and then unfortunately I have return to work

Rolled 3 (1d10)

>>4699651
Maybe I'll get luck this time!

Rolled 2 (1d10)

>>4699676
And I forgot to add the dice
>>4699651

Rolled 2 (1d10)

>>4699651
Welp, may the fortunes bless our later rolls...

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>>4699651

Rolled 9 (1d10)

>>4699651
Righteous murder time, fuck auntie, fuck peecuck, 410,000,000,000 crab noodles eaten

>>4699684
>the guy doing a plunging attack with the giant mace.
>Yeah that's me. You're probably wondering how I got into this situation...

Since it's 1 AM and several of you are either at work or heading bedward, we'll do the battle Saturday, assuming I don't literally have my little brother show up and use his daughter to emotionally blackmail her poor godfather into some shenanigan or other.

A fair warning, the gloves are off a bit in this quest compared to past quests, and you are in a very dangerous place. This is also the most dangerous part of Daisuke's arc (Daisuke's first arc, if he survives). Remember that a samurai's life is cheap, and he is never more than three feet from death. For the sake of your waifu, ganbatte.

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Rolled 2 (1d10)

>>4699690
>It all started when...

Rolled 2 (1d10)

>>4699696
Yosh!

Rolled 3, 10 = 13 (2d10)

>>4699667

>>4699696
I wish I could find my Shaq Ganbatte picture from MSPQ. Those first couple threads of Oda's reveal were the best

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>>4699720
Even from work I can help you with that friend!
>>4699696
Sweet I have Saturday night off, barring unforeseen circumstances.

>>4699737
Thank you my brother, phoneposting from work is hard.

Oh hey, this quest looks interesting-
>postponed to Saturday
well, fuck.

>>4699881
Gives you time to read the backlog at least.

>>4699881
Ah, just relax. Wong isn't some fly-by-night, dead-thread-within-200 posts QM. He will be back.

>>4700037
>he'll be back
>terminator crab

Arnold would be proud.

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>>4701079
>tfw you blast off half of a crab's face with magic and he starts to slow walk towards you

>>4700037
That's... actually a great idea.

Welp, now I caught up, I'm just itching at the bit for the final fight, and Wong... is still not here.

Might be a good time to catch up to Swamplord Quest too, I guess.

>>4702546
>and Wong... is still not here.
Bro it's still Friday, chill.

>>4702557
It's Saturday in more parts of the world than not, though! (Yes, I know Wong has the dubious fortune of being a Murrican).

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>>4702725

There is nothing dubious about that fortune.

>>4702730
I feel like this guy is the answer to every "How American are you?" question all at once.

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>>4701167
>Daisuke hunting O-Tora and his band, depicted in Crab style

Great short film btw.

Looks like his brother employed the forbidden spell. "Charming eyes of the God Daughter."

>>4704088
Rip, sweet prince.

>>4704088
Rip post zombie slaying crab noodle party
F

>>4704147
The party's not out, just postponed!
...I hope.

Looked up Swamplord Quest a bit in between binging the Bayushi quest and Homeless Mutant quest, and huh. I missed a lot more threads than I thought.

>>4704244
>The party's not out, just postponed!
Well, in that case, I've got just the thing to make the time go by quicker! Want some?

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>>4704272
Oh thank Daikoku, I thought I'd left it in my other hakama... Don't you hate when that happens?

Anyway, want a hit?

>>4704275
Can't hurt!

Got a migraine, fell asleep, slept for seven hours.

>>4704412
No worries, man. Migraines suck for everyone.

>>4704412
That sucks.
On a slightly unrelated note, have you considered alternating between running SLQ and this quest. Lately the pace of both have been kinda glacial, and i feel sad about that since I love both. I was thinking you could switch back and forth at arc's or if those are too long just at chapter breaks, like conquering the well, Leaving the castle after uncle died, defeating O taro, more getting a full episode instead of an entire season.

Any chance of more tonight since the head pains from hells topped you last night?

>>4705237
We may just have to wait until Wednesday. Remember, Saturday isn't the typical run.

So, seeing as how Wednesday's over in give or take half the world, I take it no honorable swordan today either?

>>4709328
holy shit stop the presses a QM is flaky
have patience anon

>>4709328
Wong is a proud american and he runs late in the evening his time.

>>4709328
he runs at night so 4-5 hours from now at the earliest.

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>>4709328
Chill, bro. Wait until it’s an hour past his usual starting time of 10:00 PM EST before you panic.

And if you need something to keep you mellow, I’ve got just the thing, friend...

>>4709375
Dirt?

>>4709436
>this guy doesn't want dirt
think of the rice you could grow in the dirt, some nice relaxing farming, and in the end you can make the rice into nice home-made crab style noodles for the ultimate mellow experience.

>>4709436
>surreptitiously looks around for any nearby yoriki, then motions you to come closer
>whispers to you

Opium.

>>4709375
Well, shoot, that's crack'o'dawn o'clock for us wee Yuropoors.

It'll be what it'll be, I guess. Kill some maho zombies for me, lads. [spoilers] And keep our jade close to hand.[/spoiler]

My health has worsened and there are some other factors I might go into later. It's unlikely anything will run this week. There are difficulties.

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Me just restlessly checking in from work
Mu body is ready and full of crab energy
Tonight ia slow so I should be able to pop in and out frequently tonight Hopefully

>>4709916
My*
Is*
What have I said about proof reading huh me?

>>4709912
I'm sorry to hear that Wong. I hope things get better for you soon.

>>4709916
Love the card mate!

>>4709912
Ah, take care of yourself man, we will be here when you are feeling better and up to running!
Real life and your personal health take priority over quests.

>>4709912
Sorry to hear that, Wong... here’s hoping those factors can be straightened out sooner or later. Best wishes, yo.

>>4709912
Welp, I can go to sleep in peace, at least. Get well soon, man.

>>4702730
All the single shotweapins indeed.
As the inhabitant of one of the most ammo restrictive nations in the world I can only applaud that man and hope I can maybe get to enjoy similar toys and the revenue to afford them.
Dunno if trying to move to the lone star is the thing to do however.USA taxman is rather scary

>>4713303
Smooth.

>>4713304
Like my brain, apparently.

>>4713303
>>>/tg/78316991
>>>/tg/78317147
>>>/tg/78317221
>>>/tg/78317816
>>>/tg/78317991
>>>/tg/78318202

>>4712280
Sadly, Texas isn't even the best state for guns anymore. Personally, my eventual plan is to move to Alaska in a few years.

>>4715017
How do you feel about the sun doing weird shit with your sleep cycles two times a year?

>>4716195
Nothing some blackout curtains and an adjustable light on a timer can't fix.

Or you can just be used to being a shut in who never wakes up according to the sun and doesn't even go outside in the first place.

It also depends on where exactly in Alaska you are. Geographically it can get down about halfway through Canada.

>>4716195
I already have a shit sleeping schedule, and the free oil money from the government would smooth over any annoyances.

>>4716387
Until they ban oil drilling because of muh environment and muh green energy.

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>>4716453
>tfw the cost and process to make most green energy is super high in emissions

>and the resultant materials are typically toxic/horrifically non-biodegradable.

Nuclear is the way to go. And fuck anyone who thinks otherwise.

>>4716506
Man many renewables are easy to recycle so that material can be kept using. Why fight for nuclear or renewables when you can have both. They both have their merits and cover eachothers weaknesses.

>>4716506
>>4716536
It's good to keep in mind that green energy can be unreliable in the best of times. Texas recently experienced rolling blackouts because 40% of its energy was produced by windmills, which mechanically froze from extreme temperature changes, causing that 40 to go to 0 within a day.

#nuclear4life

>>4716557

I agree with you that green energy is unreliable, but with Texas keep in mind that the mechanical failure the wind turbines suffered was mirrored by the exact same failure of their gas turbines; their infrastructure simply wasn't built to withstand those temperatures.

>>4716764
I know, but all the Green New Deal type bullshit the socialists try to pull makes the green energy failures stick out in my mind. Never forget, they alway try to subsidize failure, which leads to continuous, nonstop failure until the whole system implodes on itself, and it frustrating to watch people go along with it because of a nonsensical doomsday scenario that's always 5 years away.

>>4716820
I don't know about you, anon, but where I live the climate has changed noticeably between 30 years ago and now. We're getting snow maybe 8 days total per winter now.
Also this "always 5 years away" is just media trying to translate boring research data into attention grabbing headlines. It isn't 5 years away, but it will happen if we do nothing. Have you ever seen rants about dumb abbos destroying the Australian forests? The future rants will be about you.

>>4716820

It's all good anon, and I'm no fan of the Green New Deal either.

>>4716536
There are only three good renewable energy sources. One of them is absolute dogshit, one of them can only be done in places with big heat and no cloudcover, and the other tends to be a titanic anal gaping when it goes wrong.

Also solar is garbage.

>>4716916
Chernobyl disaster was the result of doing something so far outside of it's design constraints, and a poor design feature that was done to save on costs that tipped things over the edge, and Fukushima was 60 years old and the result of something that couldn't exactly be planed against; a strong enough earthquake / Tall enough Tsunami would cause the same thing to happen.

A modern reactor could be designed to use pellets instead of rods which solves both problems handily and would be perfectly safe, and limit fallout to 100's of grams instead of kilograms of active material.

>>4717000
I was talking about dam bursts being mondo bad news but yeah.

>>4717105
If people were dumb enough they could also drill through the plugs of active volcano's so they could also utilize the massive thermal gradient to generate electricity directly with minor losses.

>>4717123
Hey at least they aren't trying to cap off Yellowstone to make a big generator.

>>4717161
well they could at least make it launch something like a casaba howitzer when it goes off next time.

>>4716916
We need Orbital Solar Arrays that beam energy back down.
No cloud cover in space, they can be set up to be in an orbit so they always face the sun.
And as a bonus they reduce the amount of light that actively hits the planet helping reduce global temp.
Only hitch is the beaming energy down technology that's lagging behind for this set up to be currently useable. And while a tether cable could be used that does then mean that the arrays orbit would not always face the sun.
And where I grew up used have glacier caps on the surrounding mountains all year long, now they only have snow cap a few month of the year at the peak of winter and the area has seen a drastic change in temp and annual rain fall....

>>4717251
>not just making a partial dyson sphere with fixed rotation so the Earth is always getting the sunshine it needs

If you want to go big fancy space bullshit you have to go BIG FANCY SPACE BULLSHIT. Even still, we'd need to clear up the metric fuckload of debris in orbit before we should even consider putting any sort of megastructures around our planet. Last thing you need is billions of dollars down the drain because a toilet from a former observation shuttle hit your solar farm at mach 15.

>>4717251
Global warming is a bit of a scam 90% of emissions come from industry, and off that 40% are coal based powerplants in China and India, and the majority of the remainder is oil / gas extraction. None of the solar or consumer efforts will actually change anything.

>>4717285
>Partial Dyson sphere
You are clearly thinking on a larger scale than me.(although understandable since I mentioned reducing the amount of sunlight hitting the planet) Besides a swarm of small solar farm satellites is probably the best way to go over a single large solar installation desu.
But you are correct, we need to clear a lot of shit out of orbit in the coming years if we want to continue with any level of space expansion.
Space solar is just the best way to go with Solar energy as it eliminates so many of the drawbacks with conventional solar farms.
We are at a point where there is legitimate discussion about lunar mining and fabrication, if corporations and governments are going to build orbital or lunar infrastructure for mining then at least some of the materials and fabrication equipment will already be up there for future projects like solar farms.
I'm not saying it's an immediate solution or even one we will likely see fully completed in our lifetime if even started at all.

>>4717299
Most people don't realize the Earth has always had temperature fluctuations. They think the Ice Age was a one off. Really there have been plenty. If the Earth wants to heat up or cool down there's not much anyone can do about it right now.

Should still down our emissions though. Just because smog is annoying. The less cities where masks are needed for your daily health from shit air quality the better.

>>4717299
Yes just like the current environmental plastic plague, large corporations are responsible for nearly all of the pollution.
Except most government figures are in their pocket so all the blame is laid at the feet of the consumers and they're told to change their lifestyles to fix it, even if it's only a token solution.
It doesn't mean it isn't a happening or isn't a problem. Just that many of the proposed solutions aren't real solutions.

>>4717317
>>4717323
If Governments wanted to fix the problem they could fix it practically over night, the only problem is that the fixes would cause massive holes on the availability of electricity in most places, or cost lots of money to make up the deficit that has to come from somewhere.

Businesses don't want to pay because the money has to come from somewhere either their profit margins which their investors won't be happy with, or prices will increase which the market won't support so nothing happens.

The government could pay but can't justify the expense to the voter, or ensure that it would be spent properly so it doesn't happen

>>4717317
Earth has never had such quick temperature changes before though. Yeah, temperature fluctuated, but on a scale of tens of thousands of years, not fucking decades.

>>4716557
This is absolutely incorrect. ~28% of our energy is from Wind and it wasn't the failure of the wind turbines that caused the failure. The plurality of our power, about 47%, (Texas actually has a very diverse power portfolio) is from natural gas and natural gas is EXTREMELY susceptible to cold temps. They hydrocarbons basically turn into solid gunk in the pipes. Our entire system wasn't weatherproofed, almost half our power plants went offline due to the freeze and most of those were natural gas plants. So at the same time we're LOSING power production capability, the demand is skyrocketing. Power needs to ebb and flow at the same rate as demand and if they get out of sync you get catastrophic failure of the entire grid.

Both wind turbines AND natural gas plants went offline due to the freeze knocking them out of commission.

This isn't the fault of liberals and there dumb green energy, this is the fault of having a privately run system that refused to winterize its equipment even though they were explicitly warned that this would happen in 2011.

Also, samurais are cool.

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>>4717317
>Earth has always had temperature fluctuations

>>4717614
Ayup. Sounds about right. Just like when them neanderthals started making fires. Fucking inbred bastards.

>>4716836
The media tries to drum up Global Warming hysteria so the people go along with the massive government power grab that it will enable. The official socialists say in their writings that this is the only way to effectively push forward on their agenda.

>>4717000
Thorium reactors lads. Also, HBO's Chernobyl is a great series, would recommend.

>>4717105
Just wait until the Three Gorges Damn collapses, it'll make Chernobyl look like a firecracker compared to all the communist make nuclear reactors in the disaster area.

>>4717251
One hack and it turns into a giant death ray in space. Plus the debris would make it messy.

>>4717299
100% agree.

>>4717323
Spoken like a true Marxist. How would you explain Communist China expanding coal plant generators, environmental errotion, and massive pollution?

>>4717340
The real problem would be government overreach, tax-draining bureaucracy, and a lack of effective policy. Wouldn't fix the problem because the problem is their income, and there would be no other incentives to fix it. It just becomes another failed government program.

>>4717437
The classic liberals are the Republican, and even then they're useless when in power. Democratic are corrupt, woke, and Marxist, so we're fucked there as well. And for your information, it was the Democrats in power that recently killed a policy of foreign non-interference in our power grid, opening it up for China to gobble up.

>OH HEY, looks like there's a big update that I must have missed! Shame I missed it, but it should be a fun re-
>It's nothing but Green New Deal this and Unwinterized Power Grid that and Temperature Fluctuations and Nuclear Power and Commies and fucking Non-Denominational Space Lasers and BUHHHH

Screw all you guys for getting my hopes up.

>>4717751
Hope is the first step on the road to disappointment. You've naught to blame but your own naivety.

Become one with the nihilist environmentalist gang.

>>4717751
I feel you mate, but how was I supposed to know my post would spark such controversy?

>>4717746
>The real problem would be government overreach
The thing is that a significant portion of the companies that make up the heaviest of polluters are State own/run, and are the big(est) money makers for their respective economies that they depend on for money.

>>4717751
This has all been very cringe. Almost as cringe as not updating your quest for 12 days

>>4717770
As they say "An update a day keeps the autism away".

>>4717767
Sate Capitalism is just Communism under a different name. But you have my curiosity, what industries do you mean?

>>4717770
>>4717777
Welcome to 4chan!

Btw, anybody here listen to Dan Carlin'a Hardcore History? There was an interesting bits of pre-Imperial Japan that may interest people here.

>>4717814
the Oil / Gas / Utilities tend to all have their largest operators be state owned / run if not completely nationalized because that was the easiest way to source the capital needed to get into the business since they profits are either extremely low or heavily dependent on already having the needed infrastructure (especially for the refinement of common sulfur rich; lower quality oil ) and access to good external market (as of 2010 they made up 75% of total production, and 90% of proven reserves).

some links

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationalization_of_oil_supplies

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_oil_production

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_coal_production

>>4717746
>One hack and it turns into a giant death ray in space. Plus the debris would make it messy.
And one hack turns any countries water treatment plants into poisoning plants.
One hack can cause a melt down in a power plant.
One hack changes the pressure in a natural gas pipeline and turns it into a bomb.
What's your point? The vast majority of the global infrastructure is connected online and has piss poor cyber security.

>Spoken like a true Marxist
Hey man, all I want is some level of corporate responsibility, I don't care if it's government or an armed militia of citizens doing it.
Because whatever is currently in place is hilariously ineffective and inefficient.
And yeah, fuck the Chinese "Government" for many, many, MANY reasons, but that doesn't take away from the unchecked awfulness of many companies like Unilever and Nestle.

>>4717852
>Hey man, all I want is some level of corporate responsibility, I don't care if it's government or an armed militia of citizens doing it.
Well you don't want the goobermint doing it, cause it'll fuck the little guy in the ass. Always has, always will.

>>4716557
>>4716764
The real issue, according to some texans I talk with is that Texas isn't part of the rest of the Nation's nuclear grid, so they couldn't briefly mooch off the rest of the nation's grid when theirs went down. Which is why more people died there than in the -1 degree weather than the -40 polar vortex in my own state of Minnesota. Winterization might've played a role too, but laying the blame on Green Energy is dishonest. Texans have to demand companies invest in infrastructure bringing energy in and out of the state, or this bullshit will happen again.

>>4717861
It fucks us in the ass anyways regardless of everything else, so why can’t I just see an old guy in a business suit get railed while I’m being railed myself?

Unless you’re proposing option two, in which case, sure, fuck it, whatever one gets me closer to kicking a broken-off table leg up Bobby Kotick’s asshole sharp end first.

>>4717828
You mean energy production is so important that most nations nationalize it and sometimes use it as a source of revenue. The Gulf States have done this to great effect, do to cheap oil production, but most socialist countries, Venezuela for example due to their large oil reserves, ran their country into the ground from mismanagement and corruption.

>>4717852
I would love some level of corporate responsibility as well, but the government responsibility tops everything, and you'll see that lack of political responsibility in the next 2-4 years. You can already see it happen with Andrew Cuomo getting Julius Caesar-ed in New York, Gavin Newsom getting recalled, and Ted Wheeler letting his city burn to the ground; and that's just on the local level.

I'd say a lack of transparency and accountability inevitably leads to corruption and inefficiency, no matter the institution. There is no incentive to keep them effective, and even less to keep them honest. I'm not defending the corporations, in fact many are quite awful, but there ability to harm society is pitiful compared to an unchecked and corrupt government. It's simply the lesser of two evils.

>>4717865
The federal government is making that case in an attempt to take control of Texas' power grid in a power grab against the state government. Texans would be wise to avoid that, otherwise it'll happen when the Feds decide to turn it off themselves.

>>4717878
How about we commit to the option that doesn't rail is in the ass? I don't want to 1984 it and give everyone a boot to the face if I can help it anon.

>>4717918
If the Feds wanted to turn off Texas' power, they wouldn't have to lift a finger - Texan power companies will do it themselves, as we have just seen.

>>4717986
You might wanna expand on that point, as from my knowledge Texas' utilities vowed to never adhere to federal regulations precisely because it's within the jurisdiction of the state, and not connected to another state, which would then require Fed involvement.

Unrelated but funny clip btw.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3m5qxZm_JqM

>>4717986
>You might wanna expand on that point
Come on. We were just talking about the blackouts in Texas.
If the ebil gubment really wants to kill all Texans, it only has to wait until the Texans do it to themselves.

>>4718059
Ah. I thought you meant intentionally. My bad.

>>4717986
>>4718059

You're opening a can of worms considering that they were unable to operate at full capacity due to federal interference and a spat in which Biden wanted them to raise prices and the power companies actually did not want to do it. Stop empowering these people.

>>4716836

Without wading too deep into this the solution isn't "ban all planes". I'm an environmentalist myself, but I know from bitter experience of a time before the overton window shifted that left-wing environment policy boils down to a lot of celebrities taking private jets to summits where they hobnob with other celebrities and talk, and talk, and talk, and at the end agree that they're all very good people on the right side of history and accomplish nothing. Meanwhile on the right you have Ducks Unlimited actually saving the wetlands because the duck hunters are willing to put their boots on and do the work. If you want to solve the emissions problem, stop trying to cripple people like Elon Musk for not having enough disabled lesbian Samoans in upper management, scrape together all the money you would usually spend on useless government boondoggles like studying the sexual identity of child soldiers in Botswana, and offer bounties on major technological innovations in the field of clean energy and emissions-free cars. Slowly but steadily, capitalism is MAKING the technology, and we'll get it done unless that horse-faced cunt Cortez gets her way. The Green New Deal is just a path for all of the little people to be reduced to serfdom, not permitted to travel or make unauthorized energy expenditures, while the Party continues to travel in private jets, as in every commie country ever.

Also yes, use nuclear. Fuck cuck pinwheels.

>>4717317

You used to be able to make pretty decent wine in Northern England.

>>4718361
Capitalism is only making any forays into clean energy because they think consumers demand it. And they only think so because there's hubbub about it in the media.

Career politicians were a mistake.

>>4718361
>enviromentalist
My knee jerk reaction is to deride all greenies for doing what they did with nuclear on the payroll of oil.

Oil for cars is fine. it is the most effective carburant. But we could have shifted over to nuclear for the far larger transport industries and all the energy industry. All the coal power plants, the various freighters, trains, etc.

Especially if nuclear was not regulated to hell and back that almost no innovation is worth pursuing, like thorium breeders who could be used and are not able to be used for fissile weaponry...

and i am sperging again on the greenies.
but it seems you are one of the few misguided but heart in the right place ones who realizes that space tech is necessary for further human survival. unfortunately most of your fellows just want to enforce unto others what they should do so they feel better. Not thinking in what happens in centuries.

Latest spergouts of the climate apocalypse is just around the corner have been getting even more cringe than they used to be.

>>4718410
most clean energy is clean only post production with a lot of the unclean costs paid upfront, and beyond that it is subsidized to hell and back.

>>4716836
climate is dynamic and not static.
manmade changes are not as important as nature itself changing.

Doing things to keep it stable is a fools errand thinking that a dynamic constantly changing system will remain the same. With or without humans it will change. Our job is to survive and prolong our time where the system is survivable to us until we can GTFO from earth in large enough numbers.

>>4718361
>offer bounties on major technological innovations in the field of clean energy and emissions-free cars
People like AOC want to do shit like that, encourage innovation. So I'm not sure why you're arguing against her.

>>4718649
Because she's a fucking moron, for one. Never trust a stupid person to do complicated things.

>>4718410
Meanwhile Commies expand coal energy production, buy oil from Iran, and allow their citizens the 'privlage' of working in air quality equivalent to Venus.

>>4718649
AOC is a moron for one, a lier second, a hypocrite third, and wouldn't know how wealth and innovation works even when explained to her face. The Green New Deal shows that. When you redistribute wealth, you deincentivize it's creation, and when the wealth runs out everybody gets fucked. Socialism institutionalizes failure, it never fixes it.

So any idea when we'll start talking about samurai stuff instead of a bunch of /pol/-tards circle jerking about how it's communist's fault that everything sucks in the US now?

>>4718833
tomorrow hopefully

>>4718833
I don't know, but can it please be soon?

Or, if /pol/ shit absolutely has to happen, could it at least be in haiku form? Autism about AOC and how trickle-down doesn't work might be a bit more interesting if it's in a 5-7-5 format.

>>4718845
You want a /pol/ haiku? Alright.

Globalist Bugmen
Seep into economies
Ruining them all

I'm sorry my love for nukes devolved into this finger pointing shitshow.

>>4718833
>>4718845
Talk about other shit instead then, don't just complain about it and then not change the subject FFS.

Alright then, here's a bit of a question for anyone who tried out the FFG version of this. I'm kind of interested in trying out either this version or 4th edition and trying, but I can't seem to find for the life of me the Hiruma Bushi school in the 5th ed core book. Is it just not in that version and I'm on a wild goose chase, or is it hidden in another splat that is or will be coming out? And if it's the former, any idea how likely it is that FFG is going to try to remake it for themselves?

>>4718987
*this version or 5th edition

>>4718987
http://lasthaiku.wikidot.com/sccrab

This is what Wong was using.


If memory serves the Hiruma scout was the long stadby for dex boys, until some mad lads went to the fallen Himura stronghodl and brought back the books on the Hirua bushi school out of the Shadowlands. This in turn helped make Hiruma slightly less desperate and prone to getting depressive berserkers.

>>4718680
>>4718776
>AOC is a moron
I have never seen good evidence of this honestly, but either way she wouldn't be directly overseeing anything, specialists do that.
>a lier second, a hypocrite third
How? I'm starting to think you guys are just making shit up.
>wouldn't know how wealth and innovation works even when explained to her face
She's formally educated in economics, so this seems unlikely.
>When you redistribute wealth, you deincentivize it's creation
Depends on the method, extent, timescale, etc. You have a very simplistic understanding of political economics.
>Socialism institutionalizes failure
AOC does not advocate for socialist policies, only social democrat policies, a la Scandinavia.

>>4719302
Have you actually investigated AOC, or do you just uncritically accepting what the media say about her?

>political economics
If your taking wealth from the rich, what would be the incentivized the rich to make wealth? If you give wealth to the poor, what would been the incentive for them to work? I think you don't have a solid grasp on this either anon.

I think this video explains it quite well, if you want to take a gander. Otherwise, I think the other anons might appreciate if we stop, unless you wanna make a /pol/ thread and take this there.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DasORwbGgjE

>>4718646

I think you're vastly misunderstanding my position here. They're not my fucking fellows and if I had my way they'd be up before a firing squad with every other left-wing leaning parasite.

>>4718410

I'll tell you straight out, the only good commie is a dead commie. Capitalism inherently produces technological advancements, and Communism inherently stifles them, as it is the ideology of the jealous loser. In a free market, one not restrained by excessive regulation pushed for by the left, we would already have all of these things.

>>4718768
>>4719401
Bold of you to assume I'm defending communism. I was born in Soviet Union, I've seen what it could do.
That being said, even bolder of you to assume that the people you call marxists are anything close to it. That's such a massive misnomer it isn't even funny.

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I had a long post here summarizing how much contempt I have for anyone on the political left, as they eagerly throw away their own freedom for a government parental figure to run their lives in a manner befitting only eunuchs and children, going into great detail on how AOC is (1) a whore (2) a stupid whore (3) a corrupt whore (4) an incompetent whore and (5) a hypocritical whore who simultaneously simps for violence and throws a fit when it affects her. However, ultimately I deemed it irrelevant, there is only one way samurai should interact with Communists.

>>4719405

I genuinely don't care what hipster brand of communism they follow. Do they want to redistribute my stuff, vote for politicians who want to take my guns, and support the abolition of free speech and national boundaries? Then they're commies and deserve what their comrades got at the hands of Kyle Rittenhouse. If you tread, may you eat lead.

>>4719416
They aren't following any brand of communism, that's the thing.
A|so, abolition of national boundaries? What?

>>4719417
You're gonna get him going, and he's gonna get banned for a while. Please.

>>4719419
Alright

>>4719417

Democratic Socialists are, in fact, Socialists. Socialism is, according to Lenin, just a shade of pink on the road to dyeing a nation red. I have no time for any of them. Did you miss the leftist mobs shouting "Death to America" and "No border, no wall, no USA at all" the last few years? Because I didn't. Globalism is a cancer.

>>4719419

We had this same problem in past quests too where socialists thought this was a safe place for them to propagate their brainless ideology. Again, Otoya Yamaguchi is how a samurai should interact with commies.

>>4719405
I apologize if I caused offense. It hard to distinguish real criticism from the rhetoric the Marxists use, as there are so many subcultures of Marxism it's get's difficult to see the trees from the forest. I'm not pretending that capitalism is perfect or all-wise. Indeed it has been said that capitalism is the worst form of economics, save for all those other forms that have been tried before.

>>4719413
+1 the sentiment.

>>4719381
Yes. I follow politics religiously, and I regularly see people seething about AOC for dumb reasons, that's pretty much it.
>If your taking wealth from the rich, what would be the incentivized the rich to make wealth
Firstly, the rich don't "make" wealth, that's not how it works. They extract it, and as long as they keep some of the wealth they extract, they will continue to. I'm not aware of anyone who proposes the government confiscate literally all wealth from the rich.
>If you give wealth to the poor, what would been the incentive for them to work
The fact that they could be living better, that they want to have purpose in their lives, passion for a topic/occupation, etc. If the only reason you can think someone would want to work is to escape crippling poverty, you're quite silly.
>1 hour video
I watched the first several minutes, and the fact that the one guy hasn't given a straight definition of socialism or communism is damning but not surprising. It seems to mean entirely different things to different people.
Jannies haven't banned us yet so they're probably not in this thread
>>4719401
>Capitalism inherently produces technological advancements, and Communism inherently stifles them
... Don't you consider the USSR communist? A country that, under the Soviets, went from an agrarian monarchy to a world superpower that threatened the US in a matter of decades?
Thankfully this quest isn't about IRL politics kek

>>4719506
>went from an agrarian monarchy to a world superpower
That wasn't due to technological advancement though. USSR imported existing technologies, and may I remind you, used repressions, forced labor, mass confiscation of property, mass forced relocations and a freaking artificial famine to achieve this?
And after that, most of the Soviet scientific advances were in the areas of warfare and space exploration. None of that ever reached the common people.

>>4719506
Oh, nice to find another follower of political discourse. Btw, switching it over to /pol/ would have been more polite to the other anons, but that's your choice I imagine.

Extract. What an interesting concept. So your saying that wealth isn't created, but instead extracted from... what? Minerals, labor? Is innovation considered extractive?

Of course, no one proposes we take all the wealth from the rich, but they instead prepose government ownership of corporations as the solution, called State Capitalism. After that, it's only a step away from the abolition of private property. Then no one owns any wealth.

The problem isn't the fact that they can be living better, the problem is that if they don't work toward a better life for themselves, do they honestly deserve it? If you give them free money, what incentive is there to work? You can see how the Welfare state crippled the Black communities, because they lack the incentive to care about their own financial wellbeing. It's quite heartbreaking, desu.

That's because Communism isn't really an economic theory, but a metaphysical one. Communism is the annihilation of all systems. Socialism Would have to fail in order to bring about Communism. You should finish watching it, as it's an interesting perspective. Learning about a subject does take a lot of time and effort, and I do think what Joshua has to say has merit to it.

I'd also like to mention that the Solviets killed, starved, and abused its own people to the tune of millions. The US had accomplished more that the Solviets, with significantly less brutality and oppression. What's more interesting is the fact that Imperial Japan manage to compress 400 years of economic and political innovation into 40 years, jumping from a medieval feudal society into an industrial colonial empire that went toe to toe with the US in WW2 while trying to win their own Vietnam in China (which would be like the Vietnamese trying to invade America in size and relative population numbers).

Here are some of the AOC takes I find have merit. Maybe you'll find them illuminating.

Joe Rogan discussing AOC's Green New Deal
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ctSdZUyeMmY
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sm-Gl594jYc

AOC's Extremist Rant, with British Commentary
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dvLeOvhUK2E&list=PLHMWulFK2VUvY_T-fdXrMYB-KO8MfOjz6&index=141

>>4718346
>>4718361
>>4719401
>>4719413
>>4719416
>>4719422

I fucking love you Wong. Kinda dropped out of the previous quest halfway through but I will probably go back and finish it just because of this.

Fuck the tankies, fuck the authoritarians, fuck the corpo-fascists, and fuck the people who think we are too stupid for self-determinism and personal responsibility

>>4719545
Wong will never have sex with you.

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>>4719673
Don't dash his hope man, you never know what the future may bring.

I guess migraines don't get in the way of posting off topic political rants like it does for actual quest updates huh Wong?

>>4719693
bruh, leave him alone. drink some milk to put off the heat. I'm just sad this thread devolved into a /pol/ thread. There are other places for you guys to shit on so please just not in the fun places.

Man this has devolved into a shitshow. With respect to Wong and all the anons and their political views. I didn't, and I'm also assuming most of the readers of this quest didn't come here with the intention of this turning into a pol thread.

Nodoby is going to convince each other of anything and all this is going to do is make people flame each other and create resentment. It would probably be best if politics didn't interfere in a quest that has no relevance to politics.

>>4719673
Bet.

>>4719515
>used repression, etc.
I know, I don't like the USSR.
>most of the Soviet scientific advances were in the areas of warfare and space exploration
Boom, you're very close to understanding it. It's not that "communism" (actually meaning central planning when most people say it) stifles innovation; after all, the USSR had a fairly impressive military and competed on even terms in the space race. The problem with central planning is that it sucks ass at producing consumer goods. That's why cars and stuff made in the USSR look like trash.
>>4719542
>wealth isn't created, but instead extracted from... what? Minerals, labor? Is innovation
Yes, all that, as well as government assistance.
>they instead prepose government ownership of corporations as the solution, called State Capitalism
Who is they? Tankies (people who like the USSR and shit) propose that, but they're extremely rare honestly. I don't see anyone else proposing this.
>if they don't work toward a better life for themselves, do they honestly deserve it
Firstly, I don't think in terms of "deserve," I just want to maximize human wellbeing. That said, we can prevent people from suffering in poverty and still let them work their way to a better life.
>You can see how the Welfare state crippled the Black communities
Absolutely not. The drug war crippled black communities. Welfare does nothing but help poor people.
>Communism is the annihilation of all systems
The real definition of communism is this: a stateless, classless, moneyless society where workers own their own means of production and things are not produced to be sold. It does require the annihilation of a lot of things, but "all systems" is a bit dramatic.
>The US had accomplished more that the Solviets, with significantly less brutality and oppression
Agreed.
>first video
That's just UBI, something Rogan has liked in the past. He seems to have no consistent principles. And that doesn't demonstrate that AOC is stupid, only that you disagree with her political beliefs.
>Sargon video
If there ever was a dumbass it would be him, literally crashed a political party. Again though, the rant didn't demonstrate stupidity, just anger and political beliefs you disagree with.
You know you can hate a political figure without calling them dumb, right? I do it all the time.

>>4719829
>It's not that "communism" stifles innovation
Let me tell you a personal anecdote. My father's acquaintance once developed a method of placing the parts to be cut out of a sheet of plywood that reduced material wastage. Seeing that it works well, he went with it to a metalworking plant so that they could also implement it for making stamped metal parts.
They refused, because the plant had a quota for scrap metal production.

>>4719506

Eh, anyone who's cool with riots getting people killed until it remotely threatens her is a cunt. As for everything else, if you're a dyed-in-the-wool commie you're probably too stupid to be here and should find another quest.

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>>4719829

Welfare incentivized single motherhood, this is something even your own side doesn't contest. Fatherlessness is also the greatest indication that a boy child will grow up to be a criminal. For this, you can thank left-wing Hollywood and that cuckold Lyndon Johnson. Welfare makes the poor dependant on government handouts, and if you wanted to maximize human well-being the correct thing to do would be to kill literally every commie politician from Venezuela to Comrade Corbyn.

>>4719709

You really should have seen Mecha Space Pirate Quest sometimes.

>Samanatha is haram
>Waaah but Roarke has a grudge against the megacorps why can't the Belt be a socialist paradise
>What do you mean communism was debunked centuries ago!? You have space Romericans, reee!

The shitposting is the manure from which flowers grow. We must return to our roots and remember that or suffer the fate of /tg/ proper and become a stale, humorless board ruled by toothpaste-haired faggots.

>>4719876
remember that time someone tried to argue for making jump ships with advanced sensor tech so we could send them to check out enemy positions?

good times.

>>4719857
>riots getting people killed until it remotely threatens her is a cunt
And that's the difference between left-wing protests and right-wing protests. Thousands of left-wingers protest and ~95% of them are entirely peaceful (real stat), the 5% remaining involves some property damage or something. Right-wingers protest and they threaten to kill politicians. The American right is incredibly violent, they commit the majority of domestic terror incidents.
>if you're a dyed-in-the-wool commie
I'm not.
>you're probably too stupid to be here and should find another quest
If you want me to leave you'll have to start writing worse.
>>4719867
>Welfare incentivized single motherhood
>Fatherlessness is also the greatest indication that a boy child will grow up to be a criminal
Drug war, Nixon and Reagan. Cutting welfare wouldn't decrease single motherhood, if would just increase poverty and death. This is empirically correct, there is no logical justification for cutting welfare.
Personally I don't advocate for violence, I don't know why you're so obsessed with it.

>>4719829
>after all, the USSR had a fairly impressive military and competed on even terms in the space race.

>the US was putting a token effort into the space race and still spreading their techno goodies across nearly every branch of the sciences both theoretical and applied
>the soviets absolutely fucking dumped EVERYTHING into only very specific avenues of science
Man if the US had focused literally all of their resources into space like the soviets did we'd have those flying cars like the people thought we would in 1910. Hyperbole of course but you get the idea. Not truly an apt comparison.

And even more, with the monumental amount of human rights violations and animal cruelty the soviets did to get those breakthroughs was staggering. Science without ethics is fast and effective but damn.

And I know, not a single nation has clean hands in that regard but just because another is guilty doesn't mean we shouldn't still condemn them. A crime shouldn't be forgiven just because it isn't alone.

>>4719925
I don't disagree with this stuff anon, I'm not a tankie.

>>4719867
>t. Fatherlessness is also the greatest indication that a boy child will grow up to be a criminal. For this, you can thank left-wing Hollywood and that cuckold Lyndon Johnson.
>Pay no attention to the cocaine being shipped in from Nicaragua and sold to crack dealers by Reagan era agencies, the Wizard of Oz has Spoken!

>>4719903

This has to be bait. Nobody could be this wrong about literally everything.

>>4719984

Cocaine use has a lower correlation with violent crime than growing up without a father. Maybe, just maybe, replacing black Christian fathers with literal gangbanging murderers as father figures with the enthusiastic support of the left is part of the problem?

>>4719989
Black christian fathers are no more bulletproof or Crackhead-with-a-knife-proof than gangbangers. Heck, the gangbanger at least knows how to survive in a gun fight between rival dealers.

>>4720001
I don't think you get his point but okay?

>>4719903
Didn't the largest right-wing protest in decades end with a single casualty (one of the protesters)?

I wouldn't call that either incredibly violent nor the majority of domestic terror incidents.


Regardless, the best way to avoid any of this rioting and protest violence or any other bullshit is to just not live in a city. Anyone who lives in a place with a population of more than 20,000 deserves even worse than they get.

>>4719903
Even if we only account for the last year, the amount of deaths caused by left-wing riots was manyfold greater than those caused by righ-wing riots. The popular white supremacist mass shooter meme also fails in smearing the right as, no big suprise, mentally ill people tend to have non-coherent worldviews.Like that latest guy who supported open borders but opposed abortion. The driving force behind most mass shootings isn't idiology, it's insanity. They could be a full blown tanky or a crypto fashist and they will blow peoples brains out just the same.

>>4720402

That, fatherlessness (again), and SSRIs.

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>>4720402
Try again anon. View pic related.
>The driving force behind most mass shootings isn't idiology, it's insanity
Why is the American right so "insane" then?

Oh hey guys, glad to see I caught up to everything just in time for communism to continue destroying everything it touches.

>>4720455
Anon. Stop. Just go to /pol/. Jesus fucking Christ. I know you're doing this on purpose.

Everyone else, too. It's done. Go home, the movie's over.

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>>4719709
It isn't about convincing, it's about learning. But I do agree, this should have moved onto pol.

>>4719829
You mean that the USSR could only keep up in the space race and military matters by cannibalizing their own consumer goods? Doesn't sound like an effective system at all, considering the US could do both.

I'm curious, how would you extract innovation, since I see that as the main driver of wealth creation?

Biden' administration is proposing State Capitalism as a way to bounce back from Covid. Of course they use different terminology, but it's functionally the same in the end.

Oh, a Utilitarian! You know that 'maximizing human wellbeing' only works as a harm mitigation strategy. But what is the incentive to create a better life, when all your needs are already met? Would the lazy just choose not to work? And how would you stop that laziness from infecting others?

You can see the correlation with the government implementing the Welfare state and the rise of single mother homes, and with it criminality. All Welfare did was break apart the Black family structure, which continues to cause gang violence and economic stagnation in these communities. You should look into this one yourself instead of being drawn into the surface argument that giving people welfare directly gives them a better life.

Your almost right, Communism could be interpreted as a liberation from the slavery of all oppressive systems and institutions. This goes past the surface level 'honey traps' of their rhetoric, but they include morality, tradition, family, etc. as systems of oppression. This is because they believe human nature to be 'holy', for lack of a better word, and that anything constraining human nature to be oppressive in design, and thus most be abolished. Only after all the systems of oppression have been destroyed, will Communism finally be achieved.

Are you saying only ideological consistency matters, or is utility a more useful metric? Plus, asking a former MMA fighter how to UBI would work? Kek.

>if there was ever a dumbass it would be him
>You know you can hate a political figure without calling them dumb, right?

Actually, AOC was factually wrong. She was in her office during 1/6, not the Capital building. She was not in any danger, so why the theatric storytelling? What of her crying in response to an empty lot? Plus, she inspired at least two terrorist incidents with her rhetoric, such as the attack on an ICE facility, but I guess you are a bit biased in her favor.

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>>4719903
The left protests, cause millions, potentially billions in damages, 30 dead outright and crime to skyrocket, all of which the American people, political bystanders, will have to shoulder the burden on. Meanwhile, the police let the protesters into the Capital building, didn't cause thousands in damages, and the police murdered a protester who was already surrounded by law enforcement.

>but what about the politicians

If the politicians are fearing the people in a democracy, then they fucked up. No ifs, ands, or buts about it.

But if you're running cover for the Commies burn down businesses, you are enabling them.

Welfare would take two decades to fully impact society, from just the generational nature of it. Cutting welfare would force mothers to get married and have the father be more involved in the home life of their kids. Otherwise your just keeping people in a state of institutional poverty.

>>4719925
>animal cruelty

Soviet space doggos are best boys, they didn't deserve the cruel twist a fate their masters forced upon them.

>>4719932
Your sure are running a lot of defense for them mate. You sure your political views didn't move towards the tanky Overton window?

>>4719984
Why were there criminal crack dealers in the Black community in the first place? Almost like rose dealers didn't have a good family role model growing up.

>>4720001
Because you want gangbangers raise children. This will produce good results... somehow?

>>4720455
You're assuming they're not baised, but that's irrelevant. Where are the White supremacist riots? Where are the violent far-right being arrested? You'd thin the news wouldn't shut up about it if that was the case.

>>4720476
*shrugs*

I came for crabs, noodles, and samurai.

>>4719892

I remember the autism of that thread, yes. Good times.

Righto, start rolling dice. Individual 1d10s this time, I'm gonna see if this works because the 7d10 thing is awkward. Remember you absolutely may roll multiple times. Only vote once, though!

>just try to chop the zombie into pieces with a normal attack and rely in your damage (in which case it has 72 wounds)
>make a Called Shot maneuver at the head. This increases the TN to hit the zombie by 15, but if you do 18 or more damage with your attack it dies immediately.

Rolled 5 (1d10)

>>4720637
>make a Called Shot maneuver at the head. This increases the TN to hit the zombie by 15, but if you do 18 or more damage with your attack it dies immediately.

i mean, kinda a non-option IMO

Rolled 5 (1d10)

>>4720637

Rolled 2 (1d10)

>>4720637
>make a Called Shot maneuver at the head. This increases the TN to hit the zombie by 15, but if you do 18 or more damage with your attack it dies immediately.

Rolled 10 (1d10)

>>4720637
>make a Called Shot maneuver at the head. This increases the TN to hit the zombie by 15, but if you do 18 or more damage with your attack it dies immediately.

Dice!

>>4720637
>>make a Called Shot maneuver at the head. This increases the TN to hit the zombie by 15, but if you do 18 or more damage with your attack it dies immediately.
>>4720644
Forgot to vote.

Rolled 9 (1d10)

>>4720646
Explosion!

Rolled 7 (1d10)

>>4720637
Honor, Glory, Scorpion girls, NOOODLES!

Rolled 3 (1d10)

>>4720637
>>make a Called Shot maneuver at the head. This increases the TN to hit the zombie by 15, but if you do 18 or more damage with your attack it dies immediately.
The dead should be resting, dammit.

>>4720637
DICEMEN, ASSEMBLE!

Rolled 6 (1d10)

>>4720637
Second roll

Rolled 9 (1d10)

>>4720637
>>4720654
DAMNIT DICE!

Rolled 6 (1d10)

>>4720637
The madlad, he's done it again!

Rolled 9 (1d10)

>>4720637
Uh, lads? A little help here.

Rolled 8 (1d10)

>>4720637
DIE DIE DIE

Rolled 6 (1d10)

>>4720637
Behead the dead!

Rolled 1 (1d10)

>>4720637
Undead? More like dead dead

>>4720637
Ganbatte, fellow samurai!

Rolled 10 (1d10)

>>4720637
The rolling will continue until the undead situation improves

Rolled 6 (1d10)

>>4720637
>>4720665
DICE, YOU FOILED ME YET AGAIN!

Rolled 4 (1d10)

>>4720666
Exploding dice? More like Exploding dead

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Rolled 8 (1d10)

>>4720637
Red Dead Redemption

Rolled 8 (1d10)

>>4720637
One more for the Kaiu wall

Rolled 6 (1d10)

>>4720637
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ejga4kJUts

>>4720642
>>4720644
>>4720645
>>4720646
>>4720649
>>4720651
>>4720652
>>4720655

5. 5, 2, 19, 7, 3, 6. Total is 32, the Armor TN of a zombie is...10. However, I forgot that Zombies have Fear 3, so let's see how you do there.

>>4720656
>>4720657
>>4720658

9, 6, 9. It's a raw Willpower roll (so 3k3), plus your Honor rank. The total rolled is 24, plus 6 from Daisuke's Honor. The difficulty of a Fear roll is 5+(5x fear rating), so 20. Crushed it. If you failed, you'd suffer a -Xk0 penalty to your rolls where X is the Fear rating, so -3k0. Zombies can actually be a real problem for the wrong character, as you can see.

>>4720659
>>4720660
>>4720664
>>4720666
>>4720669
>>4720668

8, 6, 1, 14, 6, 8. Thanks to your Kaiu Blade, that comes to 30 damage. That's one dead zombie.

>>4720679
We need to up our Willpower lads.

>>4720690
Agreed, at least one level in it so we get explodes kinda important against undead and the shadowlands.


That said Wong will we need to keep rolling it to attack well?

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One of the zombies is faster than the others, and swings its fist at Yoshi while he's still wrapping his fist in cloth to avoid touching it. Sayaka uses her weapon to good advantage, but your blow is by far the swiftest.

You know how to fight these things. After all, it isn't your first time. Your horizontal, neck-height slash takes the undead serving woman's head right off. Neatly, with little effort. As the other two dispatch their targets, Sayaka struggling somewhat until she realizes that these things don't feel any pain and react little to being stabbed in the vitals rather than beheaded, you hear the shuffling footsteps of more undead approaching.

“We need to secure the gatehouse leading up to the top level.” Yoshi pants, “By the kami, I'm getting too old for this.” His fist shatters the skull of his opponent like a pine board, with a rather ugly sounding squelch.

More zombies lurch and sway as they walk towards you, out from between the buildings, a good half-dozen of them. Some are guards, some are servants, but even those who once had weapons no longer carry them. Zombies are too stupid to keep hold of anything they can't rend and bite. They could be dangerous if they attacked from behind.

>[Send Sayaka and Yoshi ahead to seize the gatehouse, clean up this rabble, and follow them]
>[All three of you run together and avoid splitting up, avoiding the problems of splitting the team but also risking a much more dangerous encounter if the guard house is occupied and the zombies you're running from catch you from behind]

>>4720699

Not yet.

>>4720723
>[Send Sayaka and Yoshi ahead to seize the gatehouse, clean up this rabble, and follow them]

Gotta be through.

>>4720723
>>[Send Sayaka and Yoshi ahead to seize the gatehouse, clean up this rabble, and follow them]

None shall pass.

>>4720723
>[Send Sayaka and Yoshi ahead to seize the gatehouse, clean up this rabble, and follow them]
Dang I missed the first call for dice.
Oh well

>>4720723
>>[Send Sayaka and Yoshi ahead to seize the gatehouse, clean up this rabble, and follow them]

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“You go ahead, I'll take care of business here.” You inform them.

Sayaka stomps her foot, “Best of boys, must you always find ways to make me worry?”

“You make a very cute face when you're worried.” You inform her. Yoshi snorts and mutters something very Crab-like. You point at the beheaded zombie, “Aim for the neck, remove the head and they stop moving. They are slow, but stronger than they look. Take no chances, do not let yourself be bitten or clawed. Some may have forgotten to drop a broom or a weapon, but they have no wit to do more than use it as a club. Be defensive, and-”

You're cut off abruptly as she grabs the front of your cuirass and pulls you into a kiss, before playfully slapping your chest, “I think I know how to fight, Daisuke. Don't take too long, I hate waiting.” She smiles, and turns, “Let us go, monk-san.”

“...What an ominous thing to say.” Yoshi gripes, as the two of them depart. Leaving you alone, facing half a dozen foes, sword in hand.

>[Resume rolling dice, first five are initiative, the rest are attacks]

Rolled 7 (1d10)

>>4720766
Yosh!

Rolled 6 (1d10)

>>4720766
Honor!

Rolled 5 (1d10)

>>4720766
Glory!

Rolled 8 (1d10)

>>4720766
rolls

Rolled 10 (1d10)

>>4720766
More rolls

Rolled 1 (1d10)

>>4720766
Last one for the moment, I'll be back in a bit.

Rolled 1 (1d10)

>>4720766
Speed.

Rolled 6 (1d10)

>>4720782
Explode?

Rolled 10, 4, 3, 5, 3, 2 = 27 (6d10)

Oh, right, zombie initiative. As a side note, as easy as it is to casually stat up a samurai character, monks are entirely different. They don't get techs as they rank up, but more kiho, which are special monk abilities they can use.

Rolled 3 (1d10)

>>4720766

>>4720782
You need a reroll for explodium, mate

Rolled 10 (1d10)

>>4720785
Rerolling ones on attacks, right?

>>4720766

Rolled 3 (1d10)

>>4720766
wow the attack rolls need some help


>>4720785
>>4720784
remember to reroll any 1 on the attack roll due to Kaiu blade guys

Rolled 7 (1d10)

>>4720766
>>4720789
Hey neat. Splodin

>>4720788
already did, also more rolls!

>>4720789
From Ashes to gold. We need a 25 to hit. Looking at a 23 or so right now.

Rolled 6 (1d10)

>>4720766
Sword good?

Rolled 6 (1d10)

>>4720766
MURDER TIME!!! YES

Rolled 8, 2 = 10 (2d10)

Keep rolling, one zombie's initiative explodes. Also since someone BRB'd I'm gonna do their reroll for them.

Rolled 1 (1d10)

>>4720817
rollan

Rolled 10 (1d10)

>>4720817

Rolled 9 (1d10)

>>4720766
>>4720817
Wack

Rolled 9 (1d10)

>>4720821
damn I shit the bed on that one

>>4720822
roll again my man you exploded!

Rolled 10 (1d10)

>>4720822
Exploding Dice.

>>4720826
FUCK YEA

Rolled 5 (1d10)

>>4720826
da fuq

Rolled 7 (1d10)

>>4720817
'ere we go!