#also. there is an argument that class mobility was increasing

[oltammefru]

IS4 is coming out soon so I'll post some things about IS4 I've heard from CN players. Some of these are probably outdated and no longer true. Also fair warning that these things are very D15 IS4 skewed because the people who told me these are D15 players.:

Endings are actually consistent (although I've been told double ending is decently hard?).

The primary enemy gimmick of the theme is absurd mobility, so good slows and immobilizing effects are very good.

There's no more +res at higher difficulties and casters are a lot better than they are in IS3. They're still generally one of the weaker classes though, since they are now living in Reed's (flame) shadow instead. Mostima is still goated.

It actually plays like a roguelike in that there's so much more room to pick operators based on what collectibles you get rather than the optimal picks still mostly being the same regardless of relics (in earlier ISes.)

Boss 2 is an anomalously easy boss one and is generally considered to be easier than Boss 1. One person in particular told me that D15 Ending 2 Boss 2 is easier than IS2 normal mode phantom (just comparing boss to boss, the side enemies in the IS4 D15 ending 2 stage are definitely harder.) I'm not sure if I quite agree with that statement but it seems quite reasonable (you can stall this boss with 1 defender 1 medic at D15.)

One of the endings requires picking up a collectible which affects (by which i mean increases) the enemy spawns for every subsequent map. I think is a really neat way of doing an ending collectible but also like holy fuck that's an impressive amount of work done for like just one ending.

With how foldartals work it's much easier to avoid specific hard stages since you can actively change the layout of the map to some degree, although the hardest stages in is4 are somewhat harder than in is3. (this was said before expansion 2 I'm not sure if that's still true.)

Cuora has a fair argument as a top 10 operator at d15 and actual defensive defenders are really strong in the gamemode in general. (I think this one might be outdated.) Horn is not terrible but definitely a lot worse. Jessicalter has a reputation as an incredibly versatile unit that synergies with a ton of otherwise generally not that great collectibles.

Pre-expansion 2 D15 IS4 is generally considered to be a lot easier than D15 IS3. CN players complained hard enough about all of this that they added alternate (which is to say, harder) versions of all the bosses The ending 1 boss also seems to be widely disliked among D15 players (mostly for being boring. I very much see where they're coming from this boss does not seem very good and I'm already expecting to not like it.)

There's a lot more variety in the starts you can play. Someone played Carnelian start in one of the CN IS4 tournaments. I've been told about someone playing Hoederer start and having it be reasonably ok.

Taking advantage of the new investment system is sort of annoying since normal gameplay generally involves taking out way more than you put in and you so should play IS4 with MAA to fill your investment if you care about that.

Between how anti-interference index works and how much much stronger shops are, it's way easier to get to a critical mass of really good collectibles. There's a video on bilibili of someone getting 103 collectibles.

Healers are far far more important in IS4 than IS3 (in which they were barely even necessary). As far as a specific focus on healing goes, Eyjalter is considered the best healing option despite IS4 being very elemental damage light. (which I think says a lot about her, that she's far far better than IS4 than IS3, this is because she isn't actually an elemental healer and her ability to elemental heal is a relatively small part of her kit, despite what her "subclass" might say.)

The IS4 analogue of the rejections system provides team wide debuffs instead of individual ones.

Surtr finally manages to be a good unit. Qiubai is one of the best guards. Popukar is the best 3 star guard. Beagle is generally the best 3 star defender. Dorothy is very good.

The ending badges on each of the squads have multiple variants, the highest one requires at least D10. Post expansion this goes up to D12.

Deep investigation still doesn't have difficulty select. Maybe can we get it by IS6 or IS7.

Reed2 is generally the best starter before expansion, Degenbrecher after. Lava/Spot/Kroos is a pretty good start team that I think does everything f1 leakless except 1 or 2 emergencies.

Early rushes are more prominent, especially in contrast to IS3 where opening never really requires vanguards (with the exception of like 2 stages total.)

Hope is way way way way more plentiful than any of the previous ISes.

#arknights #is4 #integrated strategies #cn spoilers #also ama if you want any questions about is4 you wanted answered but also i might not be able to answer

[mono-red-menace]

another gameplay design i've been considering for my system is making spells that require accuracy, such as a bolt of fire, requiring Agility to aim accurately rather than Acumen or Sense.

i'm not sure if i'll stick with it or not, but a big part of the design in my system lately is attempting to make all 4 attributes appealing for any character, to make the choice of a dump stat a little harder and to make characters feel a little more varied mechanically on top of the flavour.

mages would already want Agility for things like Accuracy (less chance of critically failing), Evasion (higher chance of dodging ranged attacks and spells), and Speed (faster movement). and mages would already want Fitness for more Stamina (stamina is both health and action economy), and Withstand (ability to shrug off physical effects such as poisons), so giving them more of a reason to want it isn't necessarily a bad thing

but there is the issue of making it an Essential attribute. if i make ranged attack spells like that require the mage to have high agility, it removes some of the choice of not having high mobility, sacrificing some of their ranged defence for whatever reason. and while i want every attribute to be useful to have and detrimental to not have, i don't want it to be something so core as "class function."

my idea behind making each attribute something appealing to each class is to make more minor choices, such as what your defences would be, or how likely you are to move first in combat, and not "how likely you are to hit with your core class features."

however there is also the argument that single target spells (or i guess potentially multi-target if it shoots multiple booths like that aren't as widely useful as AoE damage or control spells, or single target spells which don't require accuracy bc you're not firing anything at the target, so ability to hit with them isn't as important, so by moving the ability to hit with them into a different attribute altogether, it could make a meaningful decision for certain characters, like dumping agility to focus on both spellcasting stats for higher stamina and flexibility, or a character who usually fights in melee with a dagger having the option to accurately strike with ranged spells without increasing their flexibility beyond what i find is acceptable, and also while maintaining their ability to focus primarily in their attacking stat without being punished too much in their spell effectiveness.

#my system #my setting #long post

[psyandtech17]

Tired of zoom meetings? Maybe it is nonverbal overload

During the pandemic, zoom calls did take over our life. For students it became normal to spend the day in front of a monitor, having multiple classes in online video tools a day. While it could be very comfortable (you did not really have to leave the house, nobody noticed that you you’re your sweatpants) a lot of students found the long videoconferences exhausting. The term “Zoom Fatigue” was floating around the internet.

In the scientific article „Nonverbal Overload: A Theoretical Argument for the Causes of Zoom Fatigue” J. Bailenson analyses different nonverbal effects that might cause this fatigue. He demonstrates how different features of the zoom interface might lead to psychological draining effects.

Excessive amounts of close-up eye gaze

The first one is about eye contact. Humans are very specific when it comes to the amount of eye contact they are comfortable with. More eye contact creates more intimacy. You can see this effect in an elevator where people are forced to stand close to strangers. They will try to look away from each other in order to minimize eye contact. This way they try to compensate for standing so close together and keep their distance.

In Zoom everyone is directly facing the camera, often also sitting close to the monitor. So when you are sitting in a zoom meeting, everyone seems to be directly staring at you, which feels not normal. In real life meetings people would not look at the speaker non-stop, often also looking at each other or watching a third object like a chalkboard or a projection screen.

2. Cognitive load

There is a specific cognitive load that comes with video meetings. On one hand there are new cues that have to be send. For example to center oneself in front of the screen or to speak louder during a meeting. On the other hand cues that are received are often hard to interpret because it is not clear what people are looking at exactly. Are they glancing at another person in the call or did they just receive a notification from a chat?

Because the camera is just showing the face of a person there are also some cues missing (for example cues about the body, posture, leg movement etc). Therefore the cues that remain have an larger impact.

3. Increased self-evaluation from staring at video of oneself

Another feature of a zoom meeting is the possibility of watching yourself all the time. There is no data yet on viewing oneself for many hours per day in a video call but multiple studies have shown negative effects when people were put in front of a mirror or a real time video of themselves. It seems to enforce the tendency to self-evaluate and can cause negative affect.

4. Constraints on physical mobility.

The last aspect of a zoom call is the reduced mobility. To stay in the video, people have to stay in a very small field in front of the camera. In a real life meeting there might be more opportunities to stand up from time to time.

All these characteristics of video conferences make can make it very draining. Fortunately, students are able to go to real life classes again but video calls will remain an important tool and will still be used a lot in the future. In the end it also has a lot of practical advantages. Nevertheless this article shows that more research could be done to examine the draining effects of zoom meetings. Maybe there are still ways to make the interface of Zoom or other video conference tools more user friendly.

Bailenson, J. N. (2021). Nonverbal Overload: A Theoretical Argument for the Causes of Zoom Fatigue. Technology, Mind, and Behavior, 2(1). https://doi.org/10.1037/tmb0000030

#video conferencing

[worrywrite]

Unsolicited opinion: Student Loan Forgiveness is necessary to maintain the current profitability of high education.

As it stands, a college education in the United States is not a favorable option to achieve a higher salary position. Degree holding adults are highly saturated in the work force, with the current trend of employment taking the leftover degree holding adults to trade programs (electrical, plumbing, construction, HVAC, etc.). This is only going to get worse over the next 10-20 years as we see minimal numbers leaving the general workforce and a significant number more entering it. This gets worse because 1) social security benefits are being stripped back (we just had an increase in the age required to gain them) and older workers are being disincentivised from leaving the workforce and 2) we're going to see more large scale employers cut back on tech and writing positions as they attempt to slim the workforce with AI to increase profits.

High school age students are already seeing that a college education is not what it was worth to the previous generation (not that their high schools, advisors, peers are going to tell them that). What they're seeing is older siblings and young aunts/uncles struggle to work and find employment in the field of their choice. And worse, inflation is making it (and will continue to make it) even harder to pay of their college educations. They likely have parents still paying off their degrees which they also likely do not use in their work.

The governments wholesale rejection of the concept of assisting college students is a dangerous compaction of this trend. They aren't just saying that they don't want to give students (ones that have already shown they are in need, because they already had to qualify for federal financial assistance) a handout. That's they're surface level argument. But what they're getting at is that they don't want to support individuals that can't get into the workforce with their degrees. If you got one of a handful of degrees that are now useless in the US (including things like software engineering; because coding, tech support, and software design are much cheaper to outsource) no one is going to help you offset the cost of that useless degree unless you do something like join the military or the police force.

As potential students realize that they're going to be even less capable of dealing with student debt than previous generations they will be less likely to actually seek out degrees. Not only does this impact the number of skilled workers in the country, it also reduces the income of teachers, creates saturation on trade employment, and increases dependency on outsourced labor.

Increasing the availability of higher education won't always be a good investment, of course. But this offset in the debt burden of the middle class (because that is, primarily, the demographic shouldering the greatest portion of this debt) and gives them a greater employment mobility and buying power. They will be more likely to find work that will be satisfying to them and give them the opportunity to spend more money in the long term. Not to mention that, in many of the states where these repayments will be given they are taxable income. But, unlike student loan debt, taxes don't accrue interest and the state government will more than likely be able to help set up functional payment plans if the taxes for a refund can't be paid in the calendar year they were granted. So the states can actually increase their tax revenue from this money they wouldn't have seen any of anyways as the businesses that own student debt are pretty much all based out of other states.

It also isn't a long term solution. If we expect another wholesale loan payoff, we'd be doing the equivalent of tossing giant ice cubes in the ocean to offset climate change. But if we are going to lessen the burden of student loan debt over future generations of students, we need to offset the existing burden first. It isn't equitable to anyone if only the upcoming generation of students have an easier time paying off their debt, and it's less likely to happen if older generations are stuck working longer than they need to in order to pay off their debt.

#long winded rant #dont expect to change any mind on this #most people that follow this blog are already likely to be in favor of student loan repayment #but its probably going to be a bigger subject in the news cycle over the next month #and i wanted to gdt ahead of that before people start spouting more lies about how bad it would be.

[trexova]

Why You Should Start Doing Yoga Right Away and What It Can Do For You

Yoga is a discipline that has been around for thousands of years but has only recently gained widespread attention. It is a method of improving both one's physical and mental health via the practice of specific postures, breathing methods, and meditation. In this article, I'll explain why yoga is so beneficial and why you should start doing it right away. Below are just a few arguments in favor of checking out one of the meditation classes near me.

 Increases Mobility and Stamina

Increases in flexibility and strength are two of the most well-publicized advantages of taking online yoga classes. Asanas are physical postures that assist stretch and develop muscles to enhance flexibility, strength, and balance.

 Decreases Anxiety and Stress

The stress-relieving and anxiety-calming effects of yoga are well-documented. Yoga's focus on deep breathing and meditation practices has long been recognized for its calming and stress-relieving effects.

 Encourages Reflection

Mindfulness, or being in the here and now, is something that yoga helps cultivate. Awareness and mindfulness can be enhanced during yoga practice by concentrating on the breath and the body's movements.

A better night's rest is the fourth benefit.

It has also been established that yoga can lead to better sleep. Yoga's focus on relaxation might help you wind down for a pleasant night's sleep.

 Improves Defense Mechanisms

The practice of yoga has been linked to improved immunity. Yoga's physical postures and breathing practices can aid in stimulating the lymphatic system, which helps flush the body of toxins and strengthen the immune system.

 Helps with Chronic Pain

Reducing chronic pain is another benefit of Yoga for diabetes. Yoga's physical postures have been shown to ease soreness and boost strength and flexibility.

 It's Good for Your Health in General

Finally, yoga enhances one's general health and happiness. Yoga is a practice that combines physical postures, breathing methods, and meditation to improve one's overall health, decrease one's stress and anxiety levels, and heighten one's awareness and sense of well-being.

 Confidence in Oneself and Oneself Altogether

Finally, online yoga sessions can be a fantastic way to build muscle and self-assurance. Personal yoga practice can help you grow in self-awareness, self-discipline, and self-care, all of which may enrich other areas of your life. Online yoga classes are a fun and convenient way to socialize with like-minded individuals while also stretching out and strengthening muscles. Everyone from beginners to seasoned yogis can benefit from taking yoga classes online.

Taking yoga classes online has many positive effects on one's health and well-being. There are several advantages to taking yoga classes online rather than in a typical classroom setting. If you're interested in yoga and think taking lessons online would help you, why not give it a try?

The benefits of yoga to one's body and mind are numerous. Flexibility and strength are enhanced, stress and anxiety are diminished, mindfulness is fostered, sleep quality is enhanced, the immune system is strengthened, chronic pain is alleviated, and one's sense of well-being is enhanced. You should give yoga a shot right now if you haven't already.

#meditation classes near me #online yoga classes #yoga for diabetes

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How connect naviextras toolbox to igo primo

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[stellaris-all-technology-4n]

How to Use the Research Cheat | Stellaris Cheats

💾 ►►► DOWNLOAD FILE 🔥🔥🔥 With the addition of each new expansion, Stellaris has grown to become one of the best strategy games. Whether for those who like to play in single-player or multiplayer mode. But along with the increase in the possibilities in the game, came the increase in difficulty. What prevents you from having that perfect round where your empire reaches the entire galaxy. This is where you need cheats or in this case Console Commands. Stellaris has by default a console commands feature that allows you to add actions that will help or hinder your empire. Before starting any matches, remember to disable Ironman Mode. Each command has a code and an effect. Many of the effects are geared towards an event or a planet so you need to know the ids of what you want to change. Also, you can use the Paradox Wiki to see the list of IDs. These are all the commands that exist so far. If you have any questions, leave them in the comments and I will respond. 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This command adds the specified amount of engineering points to your current amount. This command will not work if 10 years have not passed in the game. This command adds the specified amount of food to your current amount. This command toggles enables or disables the time limit that prevents you from changing governments too soon after another. This command forcefully ends the game with either domination 0 , federation 1 or conquest 2. This command will speed up the growth of the population of the planet you currently have selected in-game. This command causes all building including ships, upgrades, stations, etc to be instantly completed, rather than take time to build. This command can be used to change the intel level of the space you currently have discovered — 0 for low, 1 for high. This command will kill your current empire if no ID is specified. 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[kravmagaexpert]

Self-Defense Classes have Higher ROI (Return on Investment)

We live in a very unpredictable world where no one can guarantee safety. As adults, we can take care of ourselves, but kids remain vulnerable. That’s why teaching kids self-defense is essential. Helping children learn the skills required to protect themselves builds confidence and guides them to transform their fear during the event of an attack to their advantage. Besides, learning self-defense requires intense focus and practice. It teaches kids the concept of perseverance, which is essential to perfect certain moves through repetition. This will, in turn, help children feel confident when setting goals and achieving milestones, along with guarding themselves all the time.

Physical Activity- Most of today’s kids are occupied with mobile gaming and are busy in the online world. But to learn self-defense, your kid has to come out of his comfort zone and will also get some much-needed physical activity. Learning self-defense through martial arts develops endurance, strength, stamina, balance, coordination, and flexibility.

Increased Self-Discipline- Discipline is the path to success. Self-defense is not only about focusing on physical moves but also about handling any unwanted situation properly, whether in a classroom or any other place. By building this habit early in life, your child will continue to make well-thought-out decisions as they age.

Handling Confrontation- You can easily handle confrontation from time to time, but this can be incredibly difficult. Bullying is widespread in schools. A good self-defense class will teach them how to solve an argument or how to avoid one in the first place.

Lifelong Skill- Learning self-defense is a lifelong skill- A child who learns to stay safe and protect themselves early in life develops skills to tackle threats even at older ages. It is not just a skill that a kid forgets. It is something they carry long-term.

Being Aware of Surroundings- A kid who has gone through self-defense classes can better analyze their surroundings and make better choices. Self-defense teaches kids all the needed skills to avoid things that could harm them.

Good academic performance- Self-defense training is also known for improving the overall concentration of the students. Defense training makes your kid self-reliant. It also helps them focus more on their studies and perform better at school.

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[thedreadvampy]

Ok like I'm sorry for all the Elias discourse but stepping off from OGlias for a moment I legit saw someone saying it was a mischaracterisation to assume Jonah Magnus was himself a rich white dude which

uh

Let's leave aside for the moment that Jonah Magnus not being wealthy and privileged utterly sucks the meaning of of a lot of what the podcast has to say about class and exploration because hey, that's a matter of interpretation

What do we know about Jonah Magnus (from all statements mentioning his original incarnation)?

1816: Interacts as at least an equal with Albrecht von Closen, who has at least one family estate and an aristocratic pedigree and thus could be expected to be at least middle class if not wealthy. This is relevant because Georgian class was very stratified and cross-class mixing heavily discouraged, 1816 is probably fairly early in Magnus' career, and Albrecht doesn't address him as one would a social inferior.

1818: Established the Magnus Institute, apparently without external funding partners because he's the only one ever mentioned in connection with its organisation and his friends talk about it as his own project; it certainly isn't associated with an existing university or academy as far as we can tell.

1824: not a lot of additional information, except that again Magnus' friends are all moving in wealthy, upper class circles

1831: In a position to hire professionals for Millbank under good terms. We learn more about Albrecht, he's definitely painted as wealthy old money, which continues to speak to this association

1841: reasonably close friends with Sampson Kempthorne, workhouse designer, who expresses the expectation of Magnus agreeing with him about workhouses and the treatment of the poor through work. At this time, Magnus is living in an Edinburgh townhouse, by which I'm guessing we're talking about one of the New Town Georgian 4-floors-plus-servant's-quarters which that name implies. Those aren't mansions, but they weren't where a clerk or shopkeeper would live - they were built for ship owners, lawyers, doctors, the upper-middle and upper classes, and as the name townhouse implies they were generally occupied as one of several estates, with the usual occupants being likely to also have a country place.

Beyond specific statement letters, Magnus largely crops up via his association with his wee gang, all of whom are wealthy upper-middle or aristocracy (Smirke, Rayner, Lukas)

He has the resources and social clout to devote his time to pursuing what is, effectively, a hobby; his interest in the supernatural doesn't bring in much income and, conversely, often costs him to chase up. He doesn't appear to have a full-time job at any point; he works on Millbank with Smirke but he doesn't appear on the records, meaning this is unlikely to be a paid management role. His friends refer to his supernatural work as a hobby or interest, not a job, and make it clear that at least by the 1830s-40s this is his whole life (he's "rattling around with his books and letters") - ergo he does not have a need to support himself beyond that.

He had the resources and funds to, by himself and for his own purposes, not only shape the building of Millbank but also to set up an independent academic institution which is still running 200 years later

Like, is it explicit that he's a rich white man? Not per se. Would all of this information make sense if he wasn't? I suppose it's possible but it's a reach, and one that I'm not sure why you as a writer would make without making pretty clear. To be able to move comfortably in moneyed Georgian circles without being born to money, and to be able to do the things Magnus does without having substantial disposable income - that would be exceptional, and would surely merit some sort of comment.

(I've talked about the race politics of Georgian Britain as relates to Jonah Magnus before, but just to sum up: in a time before the abolition of the slave trade and during massive colonial expansion into Asia, being a British man of wealth and not being white was pretty unusual. We can see this in the description of Rayner; he's very specifically described as Black, but also his Blackness is notable to a contemporary narrator. so again, not impossible for Jonah to be a person of colour, but definitely unexpected and it would be an interesting choice to write that unremarked)

just by way of historical context, as I say, class was very structured and immobile in Georgian Britain for the most part. It was also, as I understand it, much more discrete. Whereas now, the lines between working class, middle class and upper class are pretty fuzzy, in the 1800s they were a lot more clear-cut - the working class worked for little money, had little to no education past basic literacy and numeracy, and the entire household would work; the newly developing middle class made a living through highly-skilled jobs (artists, doctors, lawyers, clerks, shopkeepers, factory owners, shop owners and pub landlords, for example) and would have enough disposable income to buy property; and the upper class/gentry may work (but only appropriate to their station; academia, law or the church, largely, and of course a lot of them in the 1810s made bank from Caribbean plantations and their imports) but substantially they lived off the profits of investments, ownership and estate management, built off heritable wealth. 

There’s a big range of middle class though, although it was a small segment of society. At the bottom end, you have your grocers, pub landlords, shopkeepers, clerks and so on - they probably own their homes and business and have money to buy things outright rather than renting. At the top end, we have some really pretty substantial wealth - we’re talking multiple houses and estates, large-scale business concerns, tens of permanent staff, and only one person in the family needing to work. The difference between upper middle and aristocracy isn’t necessarily in quality of life, aside from blood it’s really just a question of whether the majority of your income comes from work or from investment and property management. So for example, Smirke is upper middle, but very wealthy - he has a career in a high-profile trade, he’s notable and welcome in high society, but ultimately his wealth is dependent on him continuing to get work. Von Closen may have more or less material wealth than Smirke, but his money is old money and he does not work; he’s very much a gentleman of the upper crust. Particularly with Industrial Revolution and the profit that the slave trade and the expansion of the Empire were bringing in for traders, the middle class was abruptly getting a lot richer in at the start of the 19th century and if anything class was getting a lot more discrete - urbanisation and industrialisation meant the poor were getting poorer (and less able to exist outside a monetary economy) and the working rich were getting a lot richer (until of course after a couple of hundred years the upper middle class almost eclipsed the idle class as the Rich and Powerful)

So the gentry/nobles/old money/upper class were the only class whose wealth wasn’t to a high degree reliant on them working, and so honestly being a Georgian gentleman was stultifyingly boring. That’s why so many comedies of manners crop up from the lower end of the upper class - you have to find something to keep you busy and social politicking is something. But it also meant a lot of gentlemen scholars - men with time on their hands and nothing they desperately needed to be doing, who got really into eccentric hobbies and niche interests (like social engineering, or art theory, or the occult, or unpicking weirdly specific theological concepts, or a bit earlier experimenting with light and lenses, or a bit later investigating the origins of species, or getting super into a specific aspect of the classics). The idle rich weren’t the only ones doing academia or research, but they had the time, money and resources to devote to really deep dives into things without much financial use.

So my personal take is that, given that by 1818 Jonah Magnus had the capital, the social heft and the time to found and run an independent academic institution focused on his relatively niche interests, and to do so with enough resourcing that it still runs 200 years later, the safest bet is that he was born a gentleman. At the very least, all the people he socialises with are securely upper-middle or gentry; he has a visible disdain for the poor; he owned substantial personal property by at least middle age (the Edinburgh townhouse); he had the social clout to get involved behind the scenes in a major social architecture project - it seems like the lowest this could possibly place him is mid-to-upper middle class at birth (he could have made that much money from working and lucky investments, but to get into a position where by middle age you can afford to become the Idle Rich, spending all your money and time on an obsessive personal interest, you would need to have started off with at least the capital and clout to get a high-level education and/or make significant business investments (say, buy a series of factories or build a shipping empire). You could make a case that he could work his way up from being born to a middling-middle-class family - maybe a country vicar or a shopkeeper - but friends can I show you some numbers I googled?

In the 1810s, being mid- or upper middle class (fourth or above) meant you were richer than 94.5% of the civilian population. Upper middle and above (like literally every person we know of who had social ties to Magnus except maybe the architects)? Literally top 1%. (well. 1.25%).

The middle class in Georgian Britain was the elite. They weren’t the elite of the elite, but they had money, land, property, staff, clout and privilege. You can’t project the class politics of 2021 onto 1818 (that is, in fact, why pure Marxism still requires an updated reading, bc in even the last 150 years the specific distribution and attributes of class and wealth has changed substantially (although the same people do stay at the top and bottom)). 

I think our perceptions are altered by the worries and perspectives of popular contemporary authors. For example, Austen characters often bemoan their lack of wealth, and are firmly Middle Class, and compared to the upper middle and the gentry they are living frugally and on a budget, but with “cottages” that are often six- or seven bedroom houses with several parlours and one or two servants, plus a town house, and with only one breadwinner per family and enough invested wealth to live entirely off the interest (that’s what the incomes of these characters are), they are living in a degree of wealth that would be unthinkable to 95% of their contemporaries, and it would be fair to assess them as rich by modern standards.

You can argue that Jonah Magnus wasn’t aristocracy. You cannot argue realistically that he wasn’t rich. Not only does that make no thematic or character sense (again, that’s a matter of interpretation, but it seems to me to be Pretty Key to his character that he’s an examination of inborn privilege) but it also makes no contextual historical sense.

#pls pay attention to me i spent way too long on this #p r o c r a s t i n a t i n g #also. there is an argument that class mobility was increasing #but uhhhh that doesn't mean it was a plausible thing to jump from penury to princedom #example: in the 1810s my ancestor walked from Edinburgh to London to seek his fortune and escape starvation at home #his was a remarkable rags to riches story #but his 'riches' was a job as a low-level law clerk and an undergraduate degree from Cambridge #he owned a flat I think #but he wasn't out here with the personal wealth to set up an independent research foundation #(I don't remember which ancestor but I think great grandfather?) #anyway the point is this is a wild take #I could talk at length about how it ALSO makes no thematic sense but I feel like I've tapped that one enough lately #tma meta

[fanartfunart]

Suggestions on how to make Link (Legend of Zelda) in DnD!

I’m gonna play Link in DnD one of these days darnit

Stats: On the basis of arguing that Charisma = Courage and that’s generally what Link is said to represent- Charisma is Stat numero 1. Sadly, dump Wisdom or Intelligence, that’s Zelda’s area of expertise and Link has proven multiple times he can and will be a dork.

My preference of order from highest to lowest: Charisma, Strength, Dexterity, Constitution (using ASIs to increase it will give you that ‘heart container’ milestone feel too), Intelligence, Wisdom. (If you want to play a smarter Link, I’d push Strength or Dex down depending on which weapons you wanna use more. Link does solve a lot of puzzles lol.)

Race: I personally would go with Wood Elf (elvish weapon training, base speed of 35 & Mask of the Wild fits very well w/ Link’s ability to run faster than so many NPCs and Mask of the Wild fits nice with the ability to just crouch into the grass and be hidden lol.) or Half Elf for the Charisma increase & Skill Versatility (which if you go with Wood Half Elf, you can switch for the Elvish Weapon Training, speed boost or Mask of the Wild) ....Can you tell I just think Link is innately connected to the woods? (because he is.)

Background: I might go with Far Traveler (Insight and Perception proficiency is always helpful, even if Wis isn’t our best stat here. All Eyes on You & the fact that you’re a relative stranger to the land you’ve entered works nicely for literally any version of Link), Folk Hero (Animal Handling prof is helpful if you want an Epona & Rustic Hospitality will give you an excuse to rest up in random people’s beds and wander into people’s houses without being thrown out lol) or Outlander (Athletics and Survival is a good set, and Wanderer will give you that Breath of the Wild feel)

Class: Narrative-wise, Link is basically a Paladin. Oath of Devotion especially (Sacred Weapon works very nice as the Master Sword & Turn the Unholy has the feeling of the sealing the darkness effect) In addition, we’ve already made Link’s highest stat Charisma. That said, there’s an argument to be had with making Link a Fighter. I might go with Fighter if you want to focus on the actual fighting aspect and the fact that Link really isn’t usually a spell caster himself. Besides, we all know Link is all about making like 3 attacks for every enemy’s 1 (wildly flailing the sword/button smashing for the win!) Personally Battle Master and Champion are good options for Link. I might go with Fighter if your DM lets you have a Master Sword and Paladin if you don’t wanna rely on that, and also wanna make sure you have some ‘hearts’ in store.

I could also imagine doing a Fighter/Paladin multiclass, so that you have that base set of Paladin features/narrative, but mechanically work more as a Fighter or vise versa.  (I’d either dip 2 lvls in Fighter for Action Surge, and the rest in Paladin, or 3 lvls in Paladin for Channel Divinity and the rest in Fighter)

Feats you should totally get:

Mobile (you get extra movement + no opportunity attack when you run away from enemy after hitting it. 100% Link... or maybe just how I play Link....?)

Dungeon Delver is terrifying as a DM and you should totally get it. (really, rolling hit dice get an increase, advantage on perception/investigation for looking for secret doors, advantage on avoiding and resisting traps, and resistance to damage by traps????? that’s a lot for one feat. Definitely good for a dungeon delving Link.)

If you go Paladin, but like the Battle Master, maybe take Martial Adept, it’ll give you the ability to use 2 of the Battle Master’s Maneuvers and 1 superiority die

Skills: if you can, take Animal Handling, Athletics, Acrobatics, Perception/Investigation, Intimidation, Persuasion, Stealth, &/or Survival. Maybe Medicine or Nature. 

Random characterization ideas:

Talk to literally every NPC

Break pots and trim grass with your sword. When asked why and/or what you’re looking for, shrug.

Request your DM give you a fairy friend that constantly tells you to watch out. Which you ignore.

#Legend of Zelda #loz link #dnd #dungeons and dragons #chat a lat #fanart's textposts

[antoine-roquentin]

1) Once again, the standard left theory of “economic anxiety” is not that poor people go reactionary because they are the immiserated poor. This is mostly a strawman set up by identitarian reductionist liberals who are not interested in understanding our position. The standard left explanation is that reactionary politics can become inflamed when workers who are well off — who liberals would call “middle class” — face the danger of downward mobility. Marxists insist that instead of engaging in internecine warfare with other workers, we should defend ourselves against the dangers of precarity and immiseration by making common cause against capitalism. But if you reject that solution, then reactionary politics against other workers is an increasingly probable and dangerous outcome.

2) If we are going to understand what happened yesterday through this framework it is important that we get the terminology (or at least the underlying concepts) right. On one hand, we need to distinguish workers — who, under capitalism, are all ultimately subject to increasing economic precarity — from the bourgeoisie, which is not. This is a class distinction, defined by different relationships to capital and the means of production. On the other hand, however, we also need to be able to distinguish among workers who, at any given moment, may be experiencing very different material conditions despite their identical class position. This is the only way you can avoid the common liberal equivocation between workers and the immiserated poor.

3) Once we make these distinctions, and bearing in mind that demographic generalizations are always dangerous, I think we can speak clearly about who these protesters were. Were most of them the bourgeoisie? Obviously not, simply because very few people are actually the bourgeoisie.

Were they the poor then? This doesn’t seem very likely, either. The poor in the US are overwhelmingly disengaged from politics; they aren’t spending the insane amount of time consuming boutique right-wing infotainment that these protesters clearly consume; and they aren’t taking several days off of work for a field trip to Washington DC, a city where few poor right-wing people actually live. Just a glance at this crowd makes it clear that these are the same people who always show up for this kind of protest in DC: well-off Republican contractors and apparatchiks from the nearby suburbs, and the sort of activists who have the time and disposable income to visit the Capitol. The overlap with Trump’s hardcore base of beautiful boaters is obvious, and the endless succession of protesters who have since been identified as lawyers, doctors, and small business owners don’t exactly contest this.

The confused and mostly definitional arguments that have emerged since yesterday about Trump’s supporters only affirm the need to use these terms with some minimal and clarity. Talk about “the petit bourgeoisie” or “the professional managerial class” or “the overclass” or “the middle class” can obviously have some provisional explanatory value, but used fast-and-loose, or interchangeably with the terms of a strictly Marxist analysis, they corner us into ridiculous arguments like “all of these protesters were extremely rich” or “they were all actually poor.”

[dabistits]

To talk about Twice and villainy is to talk about class and criminality (IV)

(Masterlist)

cw: references the dehumanization of “terrorists,” like, irl

The trash of society

“Disposability” is a framework that interrogates the way human lives are valued. Arising from observations about material disposability in the rapid industrialization of post-’45 and the increasing hold of mass-production and consumerism, “disposability” eventually expanded to an investigation of the human cost of this modern landscape. Theorists raised the question of how the disposability of human lives could be understood in tandem with the disposability of material goods, linking together issues of class, poverty, migration, imperialism, race, production, and consumerism. In essence, disposability as a framework investigates how human lives come to be rendered as disposable—and thus, like waste, byproducts of a lifestyle of endless growth.

This concern is one that receives frequent exploration in fiction that delves into the framework of humans-as-waste; for example, the sci fi dystopian short story Folding Beijing follows a waste worker in his efforts to fund the education of his adoptive daughter, who he found abandoned outside his waste-processing station. Although the conditions in BNHA aren’t nearly as grim, there are nevertheless clear connections drawn between its villainous characters and the concept of humans-as-waste, to the point where villains refer to themselves or are referred to by others as “trash.” Quirks may have effected a massive social upheaval, but that didn’t do away with, only shifted, the specifics of the idea that there are people who are deserving and people who are not, innocent people and criminals.

Throughout the series, we see characters mistreated while a society of deserving innocents looks on. There was little concern from the public when Izuku was mocked and bullied for his Quirklessness, when Rei was sold into a marriage for the benefit of a wealthy and abusive pro hero, when five-year-old Tenko wandered the streets alone, and when Jin was left to fend for himself as a teenager. Under the framework of disposability, they might as well have been rendered “waste,” as Zygmunt Bauman writes: “[t]he story we grow in and with has no interest in waste[...],” instead

“[w]e dispose of leftovers in the most radical and effective way: we make them invisible by not looking and unthinkable by not thinking. They worry us only when the routine elementary defences are broken and the precautions fail—when the comfortable, soporific insularity of our Lebenswelt which they were supposed to protect is in danger.” [source]

It is, interestingly, a bigger-picture version of the charges Shigaraki Tomura directs against the world of BNHA: like Bauman says, the innocent civilians are oblivious, recognizing neither the fragility of their peace nor the artificiality of it as it is maintained by heroes, unwilling to acknowledge the "leftovers”—the people who weren’t saved—until they return as villains and that very peace is threatened.

As for the leftovers themselves, they feel their alienation acutely. According to Bauman, to be “redundant” in a productivity-driven economy is to “share semantic space with ‘rejects’, wastrels’, ‘garbage’, ‘refuse’—with waste.” He outlines the conditions of redundancy thusly, describing it as a kind of “social homelessness”:

“To be redundant means[... t]he others do not need you; they can do as well, and better, without you. There is no self-evident reason for your being around and no obvious justification for your claim to the right to stay around. To be redundant means to have been disposed of because of being disposable[...]”

The experience of this kind of disposability is evident in BNHA, as class and exploitation seem to be highly correlated with social isolation. The members of the Shie Hassaikai were used and abandoned, and bonded strongly to one another after joining Overhaul. Jin’s experience of “social homelessness” shows him walking alone through empty city streets, before he ends up talking to his own clone below an overpass. Jin, too, finds companionship in joining a group, the League of Villains, but fears of disposability and further isolation plague his thoughts. Whether or not he genuinely believes League of Villains would abandon him, Jin feels the need to continue justifying his place among them. The societal bleeds into the personal; Jin’s disposability to society, best represented by his interactions with law enforcement and with his employer, also becomes an anxiety in his interpersonal relationships. Horikoshi’s decision to characterize Jin in such a way makes it impossible to ignore the larger issues that created him; namely, class issues that reflect real-world concerns.

As Jin sits below the overpass, talking to his clone, he asks whether he went wrong somewhere. The other Jin responds that it must have been “being born without an ounce of luck.” Bauman comments on unluckiness thusly:

“In Samuel Butler’s Erewhon it was ‘ill luck of any kind, or even ill treatment at the hands of others’ that was ‘considered an offence against society, inasmuch as it [made] people uncomfortable to hear of it.’ ‘Loss of fortune, therefore’ was ‘punished hardly less severely than physical delinquency’.” [source]

These observations are perfectly applicable to the characters we’ve met. It’s often the “unlucky” who get treated the worst: Izuku was bullied relentlessly for his “unlucky” Quirklessness, and Rei wound up trading her “unlucky” marriage for an institutionalization of ten years. Jin was fired from his job after an “unlucky” accident, fell into a life of crime, and is finally killed by the same hero who offered him a second chance. When Dabi probes Tokoyami Fumikage in an attempt to make him contend with Jin’s “ill treatment” at Hawks’ hands, Tokoyami dismisses it and justifies Jin’s execution, undoubtedly because it would be uncomfortable, possibly even world-shattering, to acknowledge Dabi’s charge. The fact that these people have been unlucky, or have even been actively mistreated or failed by others, turns the public’s gaze away in an attempt to escape the discomfort elicited by these embodiments of society’s waste. For the “redundant” to remind society of its human cost—or even to remind the non-redundant of the small gap of bad luck that separates them—they become objects of revulsion, to be forgotten or discarded as quickly as possible. Rendered “invisible” and “unthinkable” as leftovers, they become “ontologically non-existent.” [source]

Some of the anxiety towards the “redundant” is precisely because the framework of “becoming waste” is permeable. This permeability accounts for the possibility of transforming from citizen to disposable human; perhaps, then, when “all it takes is one bad day,” the line which separates citizen from villain is just as permeable. In the framework of hero society, it may be argued that villains are not simply redundant waste, but the trash whose alienation hero society relies on in a highly visible way. "The disposable, the waste as objects and humans, inhabit a place of exclusion from society which provides not only an unrecognized space of reinforcement for society itself, but also the fuel and the labor for maintaining the status quo.” [source] In BNHA’s terms, not only are villains excluded from a deserving, innocent society, they are also the fuel for maintaining it by embodying its opposite—the guilty and undeserving—their exclusion constantly reinforced through the public spectacle of their arrests and the public idolization of heroes. Villains are no longer simply inert leftovers that can be easily ignored, as Bauman described; villains have broken past hero society’s elementary defenses, and threaten the Lebenswelt of deserving innocents. While their visibility transforms villains back into an acknowledgeable existence, the very act of breaching their invisibility renders them a kind of waste that must be permanently disposed of.

A livable life?

Heroes do not kill. This is stated in 251 by the death-seeking Ending, who, despite his best efforts, is spared an unceremonious execution at the hands of a hero, who the readers know is a domestic abuser. The deathless resolution to Ending’s conflict, then, further compounds the horror of chapter 266, when Jin is eliminated with extreme prejudice by Hawks, who admires the aforementioned hero. The irony is shocking and bitter as readers witness the violation of one of heroism’s fundamental tenets, broken no less for the elimination of one of the series’ most sympathetic villains, after Hawks himself concedes that Jin is “a good person.” It may be said that heroes do not have carte blanche to kill, but neither is it an inviolable principle, and of course a no-kill mandate says nothing about the ways villains have been injured or tortured at the hands of heroes. While arguments can be made about the imminent risk of certain occasions, the issue remains that it’s often the most vulnerable people who pay the highest price for maintaining a nebulous definition of societal “safety” (a “safety” which always seemed to exclude certain people), a concept that is primarily defined by the state and the policing class. Furthermore, the willingness of a hero to kill in defense of hero society begs the question: who may be killed without consequence, and under what circumstances?

In her collection of essays addressing responses to terrorism, Precarious Life, Judith Butler writes:

“Certain lives will be highly protected, and the abrogation of their claims to sanctity will be sufficient to mobilize the forces of war. Other lives will not find such fast and furious support and will not even qualify as "grievable."”

The notion of a “safe” society hinges on the protection of those sanctified lives, at the expense of vulnerable lives deemed “disposable” through poverty, homelessness, or criminality. A threat against the deserving innocents or the murder of a hero unites every other hero and every citizen in public mourning, and then in opposition against murderous villains—there is no such mobilization for the suffering of Quirkless kids, abused women, or orphaned, destitute teenagers. The threats against their well-beings are considered part-and-parcel to their world—normal, unavoidable, and indeed not violence at all. Certainly, a murdered villain will not find such unanimous grief nor anger mobilized in the wake his death, not even directed toward changing the isolated, impoverished conditions which made villainy an appealing choice in the first place. Jin’s death is privately witnessed and privately mourned, only by those who comprised his ibasho. It’s through these uneven displays of grief that Butler questions: “what counts as a livable life and a grievable death?”

Butler argues that certain lives are removed from the bounds of “normative” humanity, and thus “grievability.” Violence against vulnerable lives is dismissed or legitimized by the state through their dehumanization: in the world of BNHA, villains are “presented [...] as so many faces of evil” and treated as mere vessels of a killing instinct.

“Are they pure killing machines? If they are pure killing machines, then they are not humans [...]. They are something less than human, and yet somehow they assume a human form. They represent, as it were, an equivocation of the human, which forms the basis for some of the skepticism about the applicability of legal entitlements and protections.”

This kind of dehumanization is, of course, explained through the claim that certain people are “dangerous,” a designation which (as Butler points out) is determined by none other than the state itself.

“A certain level of dangerousness takes a human outside the bounds of law[... T]he state posits what is dangerous, and in so positing it, establishes the conditions for its own preemption and usurpation of the law[...]”

Perhaps, then, if villains are something other-than-human, something so dedicated to violence that they can be stopped only through death, no "sanctity,” and no law, is violated if they are killed.

The ability of the state to designate certain people as “dangerous” is linked to another political strategy: defining the difference between “legitimate” and “illegitimate” violence. Butler explains:

“The use of the term, "terrorism," thus works to delegitimate certain forms of violence committed by non-state-centered political entities at the same time that it sanctions a violent response by established states. [...] In this sense, the framework for conceptualizing global violence is such that "terrorism" becomes the name to describe the violence of the illegitimate, whereas legal war becomes the prerogative of those who can assume international recognition as legitimate states.” [source]

In the world of BNHA, clearly such a discernment exists between “legitimate” and “illegitimate” violence. Although certain readers have been quick to draw the “terrorism” analogy, the series itself tends to differentiate between “legitimate” and “illegitimate” violence not through charges of terrorism, but through the designation of “hero” and “villain.” Legitimate violence is wielded by heroes in defense of the state, in defense of property, and against villains, whereas illegitimate violence is wielded by villains against the state, against property, and against heroes. This difference between “hero” and “villain” is, in actuality, insubstantial as far as the question of morality, as even labeled villains such as Gentle Criminal behave within a palatable frame of ethics, while some career heroes are just as capable as villains of taking and ruining lives; nevertheless, the state has a vested interest in strongly promoting the idea of this divide—of legitimate, heroic violence as moral, justified, and legal, and illegitimate, villainous violence as immoral, unjustified, and unlawful. In this way, the state can engage in “legal war” with very little questioning or dissent from its populace, and it further delegitimizes the violence of its opponents. The violence of heroes is justified, and therefore they have an understandable human rationale; on the contrary, the violence of villains is unjustified, it is attributed to their innate violence, which is incomprehensible and inhuman.

“The fact that these prisoners are seen as pure vessels of violence [...] suggests that they do not become violent for the same kinds of reason that other politicized beings do, that their violence is somehow constitutive, groundless, and infinite, if not innate. If this violence is terrorism rather than violence, it is conceived as an action with no political goal, or cannot be read politically. It emerges, as they say, from fanatics, extremists, who do not espouse a point of view, but rather exist outside of "reason," and do not have a part in the human community.” [source]

No one personifies this better than Tomura himself. He is named the “Symbol of Terror” by AFO, and is undoubtedly viewed as such by the heroes and civilians of BNHA. It has been repeatedly emphasized that to everyone but the League of Villains, Tomura is not so much a human as he is the embodiment of thoughtless destruction. Tomura is referred to as a monster, as someone unshackled to humanity, as an “it,” as something that cannot be reasoned with. This is an idea that Horikoshi himself seems to play into somewhat, because although Tomura voices certain critiques of the hero system, he nevertheless seems to remain rather apolitical in who or what he decides to target. It’s Jin, then, who lends a political voice to the villains by criticizing pro heroes from his very first narrated chapter, but even a clear articulation of his grievances gets him no understanding reaction from the hero in front of whom he raises these charges.

While the fictional heroes may see villains as nothing more than vessels of violence, it can be argued that Horikoshi himself went through an extensive effort to depict the rationale and humanity of the villains. As I’ve stated before, Jin is very clearly connected to the real-world struggles of certain Japanese citizens, making him real and relatable in ways other characters may not be. At the same time, the rationale and humanity that Horikoshi recognizes are things that heroes like Hawks can’t grasp: as someone who idolized a hero as a child, and who was, for better or worse, enveloped by the hero system, he does not question the legitimacy of the hero system. Hawks understands only unluckiness in Jin’s circumstances, and shows little awareness of the fact that Jin was failed by the very society Hawks defends, that his suffering was both enforced by the legal system and by his boss, and ignored by institutions supposedly designed to help. Jin, of course, is not so obtuse—he reiterates his awareness that he is one of those disposable, ungrievable lives that heroes don’t save, and he is ultimately proven right—when Hawks’ offer of rehabilitation is rejected, he instead moves to kill. Jin, and other villains, are so thoroughly dehumanized, likened to killing machines, that it doesn’t occur to any hero that they can possibly be reasoned with. 

Could there have been any other conclusion? I don’t believe so—not without a significant shift in thinking from heroes. For many of the villains, there’s very little to gain from rejoining the society that they were ejected from. Bauman writes that, for “disposable” humans:

“Unwelcome, tolerated at best, cast firmly on the receiving side of socially recommended or tolerated action, treated in the best of cases as an object of benevolence, charity and pity (challenged, to rub salt into the wound, as undeserved), but not of brotherly help, charged with indolence and suspected of iniquitous intentions and criminal intentions, [they have] few reasons to treat ‘society’ as a home to which one owes loyalty and concern.”

It should come as no surprise, then, that Jin rejects Hawks’ offer of a “socially tolerated” rehabilitation into the society that both caused and ignored his suffering, which he has no reason to believe wouldn’t outcast him again for another slip-up. Of course, he instead chose the place he was understood, where his mistakes were met with patience, where he wasn’t forced to justify his presence, where his sense of belonging felt stable. The people he called his ibasho were a home, a place he was allowed an ontological existence—the very inverse of that old, disposable life.

Conclusion

Bubaigawara Jin should be read as class commentary. The various obstacles in his story are all too reflective of the systemic issues of real-world Japan, concisely highlighting the shortcomings and common abuses of the alternative care system, the justice system, and the workplace. It’s also highly likely that Horikoshi himself is aware of economic inequalities on some level, which seems to reflect in the obvious and less-obvious ways he addresses class in BNHA. I think this probable intentionality is important, as it can lend itself to our speculation on the series’ messages and themes. Importantly, if Jin’s story is a commentary about the real-world trials of economic marginalization, then surely this also applies to the way he is treated by heroes and by wider society. Beyond simple evaluations of “X did this, which forced Y to respond,” certain narrative choices may be better understood as a pattern of illustrating disposability, of the way this fictional society creates “human waste,” and to relate them to real-world patterns of which lives are considered worth saving.

I somewhat downplayed the real-world inspirations for Bauman and Butler’s texts, because I believe those are true and serious topics about capitalism and war that should be discussed on their own merits, unrelated to a fictional series; however, they also perfectly show how certain beliefs in the real world are transferrable to BNHA’s world. Because these beliefs are transferrable, readers’ reactions to certain narratives in fiction are rooted in certain truths we believe about the real world as well. For example, it would pointless to call the League of Villains “terrorists” as a condemnation, unless someone believes that the charge of “terrorism” in itself tells us anything meaningful about morality. As Butler has explained, and as real life shows (e.g. through the designation of black radical groups like the Black Panthers or antifascist groups as terrorist organizations), the term “terrorism” alone holds no inherent moral implication. Imagining that the label of “terrorist” can meaningfully convey anything about morality, and that "being a terrorist” removes a person from the boundaries of “normative humanity” (and thus due legal process in-universe, and reader sympathy out-of-universe) reflects an ignorance about certain real-world political processes.

Injustice in the world doesn’t only take the form of obvious oppression and violence; manipulation is also involved. There is a vested interest by the ruling class in guiding the ways people think and perceive reality, teaching us what we deserve and don’t deserve, what prices are acceptable and unacceptable to pay for human life. These lessons must be rejected from the outset, leaving rules and definitions open for interpretation. What qualifies as violence? Is violence more than a physical act of harm? Is it violence to isolate “unproductive” members of society? Is it violence to deny them food and shelter? Is it then violence to cage and execute them when they do not non-violently accept their subjugation? What forms of violence are unacceptable and why? Where does violence really begin?

Dismantling oppression can only be achieved by questioning its very foundations and the language used to justify it; fiction, by enveloping us into a new reality—a new world with new rules—should make this questioning easier if we’re willing to divest ourselves of certain beliefs fed to us by those in power. BNHA, as imperfect as it is, certainly tries to raise some of these questions about the designations of “heroes” and “villains,” about the deserving and undeserving, about who is saved and who gets left behind. I would go further, and argue that to invest legitimacy into the hero system is to invest legitimacy into everything that perpetuates it: the poverty, the violence, the disposability of those judged “villainous,” and the idea that agents of the state are uniquely positioned to enact legitimate violence. Confronting crime means eliminating the need for it and the conditions that give rise to it, and only then, not a moment before, will the problem of villains largely cease to exist.

#jin bubaigawara #bubaigawara jin #bnha meta #the exhaustive meta about i love twice

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The Dark Flier Class - Fire Emblem Three Houses

For our first DLC exclusive class, we’ll be focusing on Three Houses’ only flying spellcaster class. Because of how strong fliers are in the game and how versatile spellcasters are, there’s a very strong argument that the Dark Flier is the best of the DLC classes. Unfortunately, being a pegasus-rider, it’s exclusive to female units. 

The class exam recommends you have a B+ rank in reason and a C rank in flying. These requirements for a 100% success rate are very reasonable. Taking into account the relative strength of the class and the requirements for other level 30 classes, I’d go even farther and say the requirements are overly generous in favor of the player. 

Analysis

The Dark Flier’s bases are low. Really low. Like level 1 generic student low. Generally speaking, you won’t ever get a base stat boost for classing into Dark Flier. (They’re 6 magic, 7 dexterity, 8 speed and 8 luck at a minimum of level 30.) The stat boosts that they provide are a little more generous, if not really offensively stacked. For class-changing into Dark Flier, the class grants 3 dexterity and 2 speed with an additional 2 speed while mounted. Notably for reasons to-be-discussed below, it grants 3 resistance. The low passive offenses are indicative of the Bow Knight, if slightly more exaggerated, probably in the intention of balancing the class. 

Dark Fliers have excellent mobility with 5 base movement and an additional 2 while mounted. This leaves them with 7 spaces of flight that can ignore most terrain, making them on-par with the high mobility mounted classes and only slightly behind the highest-mobility fliers. 

The class has three Class Skills: Black Tomefaire, Canto and the very interesting Transmute. Upon mastery, the class gives you Transmute for use in other classes. These are good skills and about 40% of what makes Dark Flier a good class. 

Black Tomefaire gives a weaker mage a little more kick and can put a more potent one in the kill range. It’s a very good skill, but it discourages a dark mage from entering into the class. 

Canto is always good. I can’t understate how good the skill is. The ability to us your remaining move after taking an action does wonders for positioning. 

Transmute is a really interesting skill. If you take a spell attack during enemy phase, you gain +3 to all stats until the end of your next turn. It may not be the best skill on a Dark Flier necessarily, but +3 to all stats is a huge buff that can potentially lead to doubling or can allow you to more effectively duel the mage or mages your were fighting. It may not be super good, per say, but I think it’s neat. 

The Dark Flier’s growths are rather lackluster. The only meaningful boost to its growths is a 10% boon to speed growth. If you want to take advantage of Transmute, it additionally grants 10% resistance. Dark Flier definitely isn’t a class to level in, but it makes a really solid endgame class to work towards. 

Good Dark Fliers

Constance makes a natural Dark Flier and her incredible magic makes her a force to be reckoned with in the class. However I wouldn’t put her in the class. It may be her canon class, but I personally think she makes a much better Warlock outside of Cindered Shadows due to doubling her casts of bolting and the better growths. Additionally, flight is antithetical to her budding talent in brawling. 

Annette is my personal choice for the best Dark Flier in the game. Due to her rally prowess and magic specialization, the additional positioning benefits of Dark Flier are a considerable boon. The class also helps to shore up her unimpressive speed. The class may not do anything in favor of her axe abilities if you want to use her Hero’s Relic, however her Relic is locked to Blue Lions so outside of that, reasons to focus axes on Annette are fairly minimal. With that considered, if you want to use axes, the requirments to class Dark Flier are pretty easy, so you do have time to learn axes if you want to give her a Bolt Axe or something in a pinch. Dark Flier Annette is really good, she was a lot of help on my New Game maddening run, and I can’t recommend her enough in this role. 

Marianne as a Dark Flier is something that I would recommend putting her in, at least for the Transmute mastery and the option to class her as a flier if you need to. The requirements are fairly lenient and it gives you a little more time to work up to the more intensive Holy Knight, where I think she works the best. Transmute works very well with Marianne’s high resistance and her Soulblade Combat Art, as well as Frozen Lance. Dark Fliers are even proficient in swords, if you want to make use of her Hero’s Relic. (Also Dark Flier is a really good class to put Marianne in for her paralogue.)

If you want to be cursed, Edelgard makes a notable Dark Flier. She has a budding talent in reason that gives Black Magic Crit +10 and her Personal Skill, Imperial Lineage+ gives her +4 resistance should she take the wait action. This pairs very well with Transmute. Like Annette, you can train her in Axes for use of a Bolt Axe, her Hero’s Relic or the Lightning Axe Combat Art. If you want to go mage Edelgard, your options are really only this or Gremory, and this is the much more interesting choice. 

Flayn has the highest resistance growth in the game and is a potent mage in her own right, even if her spell list doesn’t quite pop the same way as the above options. For exploiting Transmute, she’s the best available option and on the turns that she isn’t, she can act as an excellent support mage. Her Sacred Weapon, the Caduceus Staff also increases the range of attack magic, which can grant her stupidly easy linked attacks due to the class’s mobility. (She also has a special linked bonus with Byleth and Seteth, which can grant a boost to damage.)

Conclusion

Dark Fliers should be deployed in limited quantity due to the lack of good magic flying battalions. Really the only good option is Constance’s Nuvelle Fliers Corps. Anna’s Secret Transport Force can work in a pinch as well, being a stride battalion. Due to these limitations, you should aim to get at much out as the class as possible with a limited number of deploys. To that end, I’d keep your strongest magic users out of this class, particularly Lysithea as she gains no benefit from Black Tomefaire and almost no benefit from Transmute. 

I think the best Dark Fliers have good support abilities but lack warp in addition to their black magic abilities. 

I’ve done more of these, check them out here. 

#fire emblem #fire emblem 3 houses #fire emblem three houses #guide #review #dark flier #constance von nuvelle #annette fantine dominic #marianne von edmund #edelgard von hresvelg #fe3h flayn

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“...Historians concur that live-in domestic service was primarily an urban phenomenon in the late nineteenth century. One estimate suggests that between 15 and 30 percent of northeastern city-dwellers hired live-in domestics. The historian David Katzman, who has generated the most refined statistics, demonstrates that even within relative geographical proximity, city-dwellers hired servants more often than did rural dwellers, and city-dwellers with large pools of foreign labor more than city-dwellers without. Nationwide at midcentury there was one domestic servant for every ten families, with a considerably higher ratio in large cities like Boston and New York. 

A greater proportion of Bostonians hired domestic servants than did residents of any other northern city, with 219 servants per thousand families. With traditions of household service born in slavery, even after the Civil War, the South led the nation in its reliance on domestic servants, with Atlanta in 1880 boasting 331 servants per thousand families. Even in the South, though, the difference between city and country was notable, with Atlanta in 1900 hiring four times as many servants per thousand families as in the rest of Georgia. Together these figures suggest the flourishing of an era in the history of Victorianism. It was common for American bourgeois city-dwellers on the Atlantic seaboard, even ones of modest means, to rely on the labor of maids to sustain their households.

Of course, the end of the story is popular cliché. With the opening of more lucrative and less degrading jobs for young women as sales clerks, ‘‘typewriters,’’ and teachers, the ‘‘servant problem’’ became terminal, and by the First World War, American housewives could not depend on the hiring of live-in domestic help to assist them in their housework. It is significant, though, that even when ‘‘necessity’’ suggested the reintegration of daughters into the domestic economy, they were gone for good. The culture had put girls to other uses, from which they would not return to their mothers’ sides.

We still might ask why girls were often excused from domestic labor— especially given the compounding weight of the advice literature recommending otherwise. The answer lies in the increasing role played by daughters and servants in the bourgeois quest for refinement. Even when the gross number of live-in servants declined as production moved out of the home, the hiring of at least one domestic remained a prerequisite for middle-class status. The statistics on who hired servants bear out the middle-classness of this phenomenon, with 65 percent of servants in the Northeast in 1860 working in households with no other servants. In an increasingly mobile and prosperous society, hiring servants was one way to demonstrate standing, a concrete and conspicuous way of demonstrating what you had left behind. 

One historian argues that the cultural importance of servants should be measured in the amount that some less prosperous families were willing to spend to hire them—sometimes as much as one-third of family income. Clearly, the freeing of daughters from steady household work and the hiring of domestic servants of lesser, often foreign, status went in tandem with the changing purpose of the home itself. Eighteenth-century households had required helpers to assist in domestic production. The homes of the mid– nineteenth century elite instead featured housework ‘‘as the creation and maintenance of comfort and appearance,’’ in the words of the historian Christine Stansell. 

As the Beecher sisters observed, families were increasing ‘‘in refinement’’ such that they no longer wished to live in close intimacy with ‘‘uncultured neighbors,’’ far less daughters of foreign shores, who were working as servants. Thus one mill-owning family in rural Vermont made a point of hiring Irish help rather than the daughters of neighboring farmers, who might object to eating in the kitchen and expect to be ‘‘one of the family.’’ Architects reflected such changes by midcentury, such that servants’ quarters were designed as discrete parts of the house, with back stairs and separate entrances. Custom increasingly favored uniforms and servant dining tables in the kitchen. 

At the same time that middle classes aspired to higher standards of comfort and appearance in accordance with new possibilities, women’s primary responsibility shifted from the supervision of a household manufactory to family nurturance, the raising and socializing of children. Much has been written about the evolution of new ideals for motherhood following the American Revolution, as women gained responsibility for raising virtuous citizens. ‘‘Republican mothers’’ shaped new daughters as well as new sons. Initially considered necessary allies in the steady work of processing the stuff of survival, the daughters of middle-class families became themselves the prime products the home produced—the embodiment of the principles of sensibility and refinement. 

Mothers’ new responsibilities did not erase old ones. The historian Jeanne Boydston has appropriately criticized the readiness of her colleagues to mistake the ideology of domesticity for reality, arguing that by no means did the productive work of the home cease with the industrial revolution. Instead, Boydston argues, the emphasis on the emotional task of mothering tended to eclipse from view, but not eliminate, the continued real labor—the making of clothing, the putting up of preserves, the carrying of fuel—still carried on in the middle-class home. She is right in her argument that ‘‘paid domestic workers did not free the mistress of the household from labor.’’ 

But even Boydston acknowledges that domestic servants instead did the work that would have been done by other females in the household—including adult female relatives and daughters. An interesting case in point is the urban family of woman’s rights advocates Henry Blackwell, Lucy Stone, and their daughter Alice Stone Blackwell. As Boydston tells us, Lucy Stone, who was raised on a farm, still kept chickens, worked a garden, and tended a horse and cow, even as she lived a prosperous middle-class existence outside of Boston. Alice Blackwell later remembered that ‘‘she dried all the herbs and put up all the fruits in their season. She made her own yeast, her own bread, her own dried beef, even her own soap.’’ 

In her lively diary, however, Alice Blackwell reports doing little household work. Such chores as emerge in her diary were designed to interrupt her incessant reading, which was thought to be responsible for her bad headaches. Thus her cousin, visiting the household, ‘‘had undertaken to find me something to stop my reading: churning; and I churned in the cellar till the butter came.’’ In fact, advice writers who had failed in their efforts to promote domestic work for daughters on other grounds often focused on the value of domestic labor as a source of exercise. The Beecher sisters observed that if girls did strenuous housework, their parents would be spared the expense of gymnasiums. ‘‘Does it not seem poor economy to pay servants for letting our muscles grow feeble, and then to pay operators to exercise them for us?’’ 

Louisa May Alcott, whose collected opus represents a powerful gloss on the domestic debates of late-Victorianism, repeatedly suggested the healthfulness of housework, ‘‘the best sort of gymnastics for girls,’’ according to Dr. Alec in Eight Cousins. Her Old-Fashioned Girl explicitly contrasts the healthy republican daughter skilled in domestic arts with the languid late-Victorian belle, afflicted with boredom because of her lack of home chores. Mothers undoubtedly continued both to supervise and perform much household maintenance, but they did so assisted by domestics rather than their own daughters. What did middle-class girls do instead of housework? 

This was a question which greatly concerned commentators, who asked, as did Mary Livermore in 1883, ‘‘What shall we do with our daughters?’’ Mary Virginia Terhune, too, lamented the passing of housework as girls’ raison d’être and with it ‘‘that prime need of a human being—something to do.’’ Parents found a range of things for daughters to do, including the ornamental skills of sewing, playing piano, writing and reading associated with self-culture. Increasingly, also, they sent daughters to school. Common schools designed for both sexes did not include sewing. 

In later years, the Beecher sisters observed, ‘‘A girl often can not keep pace with her class, if she gives any time to domestic matters.’’ And they noted, ‘‘Accordingly she is excused from them all during the whole term of her education.’’ Girls themselves noted the increasing power of lessons in any competition with housework. Agnes Hamilton remarked that first her French tutor and then her German homework prevented her from doing her ‘‘share of Monday’s work.’’ It was not long before the work of some girls was reassigned. 

Those who were serious about domestic education, such as a composer of ‘‘An Ideal Education of Girls’’ that appeared in an 1886 issue of Education, suggested, in fact, that this disjunction be acknowledged. A girl should receive the same education as a boy until the age of twelve, its author suggested. At that time a girl should drop out of school for two years and learn the complete running of a household, returning to school only with that formal apprenticeship accomplished. Only such complete separation of activities would allow the household its due.”

- Jane H. Hunter, “Daughters’ Lives and the Work of the Middle-Class Home.” in How Young Ladies Became Girls: The Victorian Origins of American Girlhood

#history #victorian #servants #american #jane h. hunter #how young ladies became girls #class

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