The Off Topic Topic

[Josquius]

Suikoden? 

Si. Still never surpassed.

Suikoden II is better. 

Suikoden V is pretty good as well. All are still very playable.

PS: quotes cropped since it triggered Yi.

Yeah, 2 is the best. That's from there.
It's sad it just withered and died. Even the weird ds spin off was alright. But given what happened to final fantasy I shudder to imagine what might have happened to suikdoen.

[Duque de Bragança]

Suikoden? 

Si. Still never surpassed.

Suikoden II is better. 

Suikoden V is pretty good as well. All are still very playable.

PS: quotes cropped since it triggered Yi.

Yeah, 2 is the best. That's from there.
It's sad it just withered and died. Even the weird ds spin off was alright. But given what happened to final fantasy I shudder to imagine what might have happened to suikdoen.

Well, the whole series is prized by speculators, specially Suikoden II.

The worst I can think of is Front Mission (Evolved) ending up as a goddamn shooter.

[Barrister]

I know Tamas is real because a bot couldn't suck that much at wargames.

Ok, but how do we know he's Hungarian?

I've met him.  Besides having Hungarian plates on his car, you wouldn't confuse that accent for anywhere else.

[Barrister]

Maintaining two such different identities in two very different locations (and speaking so casually about local conditions) is WAY more effort than Dorsey would ever exert to maintain a sock.  If there is one thing we know about him, it is that he takes the easiest way out possible.  His sock to complement AR would be someone initialed RA who coincidentally lives outside Atlanta and loves rock climbing (just a coincidence!).

I maintained an alternate account on Languish a long time ago (we had a lurker named "---", so to troll him I would post under the account "___"), but yeah, it was a huge pain in the neck.  I agree with grumble's analysis above.

[The Brain]

Ed had a vast army of sockpuppets.

I miss Ed.

[Josquius]

I just tried to make one with this openid thing. Failed. Wonder how that's meant to work.

[The Brain]

It took me years to realize that Hungarian wasn't a Nazi porn name.

[Sheilbh]

......So this Matt Gaetz story is kind of crazy and baffling

[Razgovory]

......So this Matt Gaetz story is kind of crazy and baffling

Watchu talkin 'bout, Willis?

[Sheilbh]

He got into a row over non-white kids with a Democrat in committee. He was African-American and was basically saying Republicans were distracting from the proposed bill and in effect minimising the "pain" felt in black communities especially with people with black sons. Gaetz then got very outraged because Republicans have non-white kids and love them just as much.

Then Gaetz revealed his "son Nestor.  We share no blood but he is my life. He came from Cuba (legally, of course) six years ago and lives with me in Florida. I am so proud of him and raising him has been the best, most rewarding thing I've done in my life."

Nestor's 19 now, and has apparently been raised by Gaetz (but not formally adopted) since he was 12-3. He is the brother of Gaetz's ex-girlfriend and has been previously referred to in pictures with Gaetz as his helper,  assistant and house page.

It's just all very strange and it feels like he's ended up here because he wanted to get outraged/make a debate point about Republicans having non-white kids (though Nestor isn't actually black).

[The Larch]

So that's where the "Here's my son, we share no blood..." meme came form? 

I saw the beginning of the exchange, when Gaetz started getting riled up, but didn't get to that part.

[Sheilbh]

Story on London being more religious than the rest of the UK - this is something that's kind of obvious if you pay attention but lots of people seem to miss because they either only notice their circles in London or they're from outside and we're the Liberal Remain capital. A few interesting points. Most impotantly the largest religious group: Catholics  

I hope we ask to, at long last, get Westminster Abbey and all the other stolen churches back

Also I live in an area with a lot of Pentecostal churches so I'm surprised there's more outside London than in.

London more religious than rest of Britain, report finds
Almost two-thirds of people in capital identify as religious compared with 53% in the rest of UK, according to new research
Harriet Sherwood
@harrietsherwood
Wed 24 Jun 2020 00.01 BST

London is more religious and socially conservative than the rest of Britain, confounding perceptions of the capital as liberal and secular, research shows.

People in the capital pray more and attend more religious services than those in the rest of the country, according to the survey. It also found Christian Londoners help their neighbours more than their non-religious counterparts, are more likely to volunteer for a charitable initiative, and are more likely to make charitable donations.

However, a significant minority feel marginalised because of their faith, the research for the Christian thinktank Theos found. It says: "It sometimes seems as if there are two cities in London: one sacred, one secular. Certainly, there is considerable value divergence."

The proportion of people identifying as religious is 62% in the capital, compared with 53% in the rest of Britain – a profile likely to be driven by immigration and diaspora communities, according to the thinktank's report, Religious London: Faith in a Global City.

One in four Londoners attends a religious service at least once a month, compared to one in 10 outside the capital; and 56% of Christians in London pray regularly, as against 32% of Christians in the rest of Britain.

Londoners are nearly twice as likely to say sex before marriage is at least sometimes wrong (24% compared to 13%), and are more likely to say the same about same-sex relationships (29% compared to 23%). On assisted suicide in the case of an incurable illness, 38% of Londoners says it is at least sometimes wrong, compared with 27% outside the capital. The polling was conducted by Savanta ComRes.

In a foreword to the report, Elizabeth Oldfield, director of Theos, writes: "London is, wonderfully, a global city, and can justifiably claim to be one of the most diverse in the world. We shouldn't be surprised, then, by the findings of the Religious London project (though I suspect many will be).

"We think of London not only as a cultural, political and economic hub, but also as England's liberal heartland. In such a diverse city, however, no single story is the whole story. The truth is that London is complicated: it is ... liberal in terms of many social values overall, but also has substantial and intense pockets of traditionalism which mean that, on many so-called 'moral' questions, London is more conservative than other parts of the country."

According to the report, the biggest Christian denomination in London is Catholicism (35% of the Christian population), followed by Anglicanism (33%). Pentecostals (7%) and Orthodox Christians (6%) have a more significant presence than outside the capital.

The report found a more substantial non-Christian religious presence in London than elsewhere, with a fifth of London's population identifying with a non-Christian religion, in contrast to 7% in the rest of Britain.

Roughly one in 10 Londoners identify as Muslim, compared with less than 2% outside the capital, and "all non-Christian religious groups have population concentrations in London, confirming its status as a gateway city".

[Habbaku]

The Stuarts already have a fifth-column in the city.

[Tamas]

The report found a more substantial non-Christian religious presence in London than elsewhere, with a fifth of London's population identifying with a non-Christian religion, in contrast to 7% in the rest of Britain.

So maybe that's why London has more outdated views on same sex marriage and pre-marital sex and the rest, mayhaps?

[Josquius]

Playing around with my laptop I found this link on how to password protect folders.

https://www.laptopmag.com/uk/articles/password-protect-folder-windows-10

Makes a secret folder that vanishes from view when locked. Really quite cool. But...I don't get quite how it works. Any more techy people know what is happening here? Some kind of password protection of the hidden files feature in that folder only?