Um, yeah it’s obvious what Trump would do based on his actions from his last term. He should be in prison for all kinds of high crimes, and yet Biden’s DOJ didn’t even move to prosecute for 2 years, ensuring Trump had time to delay and evade justice. This is because the elites don’t wish to hold themselves accountable, regardless of the letter next to their name. Dems want to appear to do the right thing, but not effect any meaningful change.

Biden promised his donors that nothing will fundamentally change. He delivered on that one, and now the working class is waking up to the unfortunate reality that Dems work for their donors, not their voters. Turnout reflected this. If Dems actually want to win, we need to demand they do better, and they need to be willing to change. I’ve seen no evidence of this occurring, so get ready for an even worse loss for Dems in upcoming elections.

Snu-snu?..

Heh, yup. Whole lot of suckers about to be robbed of their last dollar in the next few years.

This nepobaby removed boy doesn’t know the first thing about path of exile, this is a Nazi moment not a gaming moment.

Interesting. Total honor is calculated by your combined (life + ES) * relic bonuses. I wonder if when you swapped you lost some total pool and it instantly recalculated your honor?

Punch them in the face.

Biden didn’t do jack shit to further those rights, and arguably fumbled so badly he actively diminished them. The president is supposed to use his influence to ensure the rest of the party passes meaningful policy while in power - do you see any republicans stepping out of line regarding Trump’s wishes? But sure, keep deluding yourself into thinking the Dems do a good job because they aren’t Trump. That bar is laughably low, and Biden still stumbled on it.

Liberalism enables fascism, it cannot defeat it.

Rights…such as the right to free speech, assembly and protest against Israel’s war crimes, which Biden admitted were such this past weekend? How about the right to women’s bodily autonomy, which Biden has had 2 opportunities to codify into law while in the White House?

Yeah, he should have acted more. Actually doing things to help people motivates future voter turnout. If Dems don’t figure out basic politics such as this, they will continue to lose in embarrassing fashion, even to fascist garbage like Trump.

Send him to The Hague.

fr, it’s still ravaging the country and people are still dying from it. What rescue?!

I think you have made a very insightful observation. I’m speaking from the perspective of a long time poe1 player. For me, I want to get to the endgame farming to put pinnacle bosses on farm mode and find all the best gear, asap. Buying my gear progression makes more sense personally, and it is definitely a fast and efficient way to trivialize the campaign content if you have the currency to do so.

For a new player, this probably isn’t the case, as you point out. Here’s why: I know GGG quite well after all these years, and what they actually intend for us is to play pseudo-SSF…they really want us crafting our own gear and/or finding good upgrades on the ground. However, they recognize that a live trade economy adds tremendous chase value to the best gear, and so they want that as part of the game too, which means they have to balance drops around it. This can put the players in a weird spot sometimes.

I think that if you enjoy doing things your way, by all means craft your own gear and have fun. It’s definitely possible to do this and be fine, if you have enough time. Many of the best streamers play SSF. If you are short on time or get stuck/frustrated while progressing, perhaps a few upgrades from trade would make more sense. Just have to find the right balance for you!

CEOs very commonly serve as board members for their friends’ companies. In many instances they’re the same thing.

Yeah well unfortunately Huffman is a greedy little kiddy diddlin’ pig boy.

ahh the good ol’ days

Nice!

what a dumbass nepo-baby.

The Iran-contra thing is pretty relevant now especially. Republicans working with a foreign government to sabotage diplomatic hostage negotiations in order to change the outcome of the next election in their favor…pretty despicable, and a tactic they clearly haven’t moved far beyond.

Good point about the Dems too. Extrajudicial killings of American citizens isn’t very well grounded in rule of law and justice, same can be said of Biden subverting the ICC to provide cover for the Israeli war crimes. Sadly it’s all lead to a very dark place for the world.

That’s cool, I’m really excited for you…so much to discover!

There’s a lot of value in figuring out your own path when making builds, but it can really be overwhelming at first because the gearing and itemization choice is quite deep compared to other games. If you’re feeling stuck on your merc, consider checking out a few build guides on the mobalytics website to see what others are doing and try to adapt what you find for your build. If you search through and find a couple that use the same main skill you’d like to use, you might find some common patterns between them which could be useful.

I was just doing Nugi meme my man, but yeah I hear ya. Crafting system is petty brutal right now, especially for weapons. Are you SSF or something? I’m on my 3rd alt, and I’ve found it very easy to gear all of them for maps via trade site for under 30exalts each. If you’re new to GGG, they do balance the loot system around the idea you have access to trade.

This is the problem with doctrine such as Obama’s “we don’t look backward, we look forward.” Sometimes you actually have to confront history in order to learn from it and not be doomed to repeat it.