drinkinglakewater

drinkinglakewater [he/him] @hexbear.net 2y ago

Dang gonna try that on the last dungeon, I always forget you can use the follow since it hardly comes up

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drinkinglakewater [he/him] @hexbear.net 2y ago

Yeah I think the Sun confidant in P5 was my lowest ranked because of his schedule. But it's still definitely possible to do on your own since Royal has ways to multitask better. Base P3 and P4 were next to impossible without the guides.

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drinkinglakewater [he/him] @hexbear.net 2y ago

It's easier to do the more recent the game is, I think Persona 5 Royal is possible to max everyone without planning on a first playthrough.

General advice:

Get to the end of a dungeon as soon as possible to maximize your free time before the deadline. It sounds challenging but it's pretty easy. Conserve your SP where you can and stock up on SP restoring items and you can finish most dungeons in one day
Your character's social stats will roadblock you during social link progression if you they're not high enough level, so make sure not to neglect them
Pay attention to your choices during dialogue scenes, there's a hidden progression meter for each social link that needs to hit a certain threshold for the next rank to unlock and certain dialogue choices or actions can get you to rank up faster. There's little music notes that appear on screen (I think 3 is the most?) and a sound effect that plays

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drinkinglakewater [he/him] @hexbear.net 2y ago

I'm almost done and having fun playing it, but if I have to come up with a critique it's that all the gameplay systems feel way too flat so they don't give the player a feeling of progression. Number 2 critique is that the water cube is completely OP for how early in the game you can get it.

drinkinglakewater [he/him] @hexbear.net 2y ago

lmao no way truly the second time as farce

drinkinglakewater [he/him] @hexbear.net 2y ago

Wow that's nuts, I was literally just thinking about how this could work yesterday!

Hosting an instance of Diet Hexbear seems like it would fit the project pretty well.

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drinkinglakewater [he/him] @hexbear.net 2y ago

Other way around, Oda is started after him

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drinkinglakewater [he/him] @hexbear.net 2y ago

Whys the lobster man dressed like Two-Face from Batman

drinkinglakewater [he/him] @hexbear.net 2y ago

The Democratic Party being anti democracy is a great bit, very funny

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drinkinglakewater [he/him] @hexbear.net 2y ago

I agree similarly. Degrowth includes a critique of the consumption economy and overproduction of unnecessary products, but there's no incentive for capitalists and governments to actually pursue that in a way that makes sense for capitalism, so there's no concrete path towards degrowth policy until something necessitates it. I do however appreciate the research being done as it provides a vision for socialists in industrialized and post-industrialized countries.

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drinkinglakewater [he/him] @hexbear.net 2y ago

Per Jason Hickel, one of the leading advocates of degrowth, this review is selectively excluding a large amount of degrowth studies.

This hit piece has already come under heavy criticism and for good reason. The methodology really is extremely flawed.
The authors look only at studies with "post-growth" or "degrowth" in the title, but this ignores much of the key empirical work that has shaped and advanced the field recently. The strange thing is that the authors are fully aware of this broader literature, and yet they exclude it.
Not all degrowth research has "degrowth" in the title! Just as not all research on political economy has "political economy" in the title. Basics. Huge swathes of research are ignored... all the work on demand-side mitigation, sufficiency-oriented approaches, energy convergence, ecosocialism, decoupling, doughnut economics, etc — including work reviewed by the IPCC — all of it is ignored.
As Julia Steinberger pointed out, of the 33 papers published under her last major grant on degrowth, only two of them would qualify under this criteria.
Also, if you design your review to include opinion, guess what, you’re going to get a lot of opinion! This is true of any field. This tells us nothing about whether the empirical basis of current degrowth arguments is sound. For that, you need to assess the empirical studies that people actually use for this purpose. And again, most of those are not covered in this review.