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[remeranauthority]

Out of Touch

Graduated high school in 2005. Turned 32 years old yesterday. Feeling out of touch. Quarantine is hitting me hard. Haven't had a haircut in months, and I'm starting to look like I did when I was 18, except with new wrinkles. Out of my head when you're not around, Kagamin.

She's literally sitting on the couch right next to me, tweeting this shit.

[remeranauthority]

Evidence

I once had an argument on reddit about the nature of evidence with respect to how useful it is when trying to win an argument with somebody. The irony here was that I was trying to use evidence to explain that evidence didn’t help, and my opponent, post after post, insisted and repeated over and over that the best way to win an argument was by being factually accurate and citing your sources. I cited anchoring bias, the backfire effect and more. My opponent just repeated themself and told me why I was wrong.

Finally, I asked my opponent what they thought about the peculiarity of me citing my sources and them not citing theirs, in an argument about the whether or not citing your sources helped you change somebody's mind. I told them that it didn't appear to be working; they seemed just as sure of themself and of their position as when we started. Funny enough, it was only after I attacked their character and insulted them by calling them a hypocrite that they backed down.

[remeranauthority]

What’s goin’ on in NewRem right now?

Moncrefe finished a land grab, purchasing a lot of residential space off of some people living near an abandoned commercial district and relocating them to another part of the city that is better zoned for civilian homes, so that they could bulldoze and rebuild. The community is freaking the hell out, because they like the old historic buildings, but Moncrefe City argues that those historic buildings are a goddamn hellhole springtrap of dangerous old infrastructure that could collapse at any moment and kill the inhabitants and they need to clear it out if only to rebuild something up to code.

Windia finally offers comprehensive full ID systems, having caught up with Moncrefe’s technology, no longer using relational databases and instead using tag-and-flag associated databases, so that people can just write in rather than selecting off of a limited list. This was important because some species of demon care very much about their family lines as the name of their species and do not like being grouped, resulting in old databases very quickly running out of space options.

Shiningu’s Pirate Ship has finally moved and analysts say it won’t be back for 4 years. People are making a lot of jokes about Ninja winning the Pirates vs Ninja war. There are a lot of drawings in an article.

There’s a new bustling attraction called Angel Island. That uncharted island north of Shima that is inaccessible is now very much accessible, and rather than having dragons and other terrifying beasts like people expected, it has communities of intelligent and peaceful monsters, as well as The Valkyrie, angelic fiends that look just like humans but with beautiful or cute (depending on the valkyrie) winds. They have deals set up with Moncrefe, so if you want to go there, you go to Moncrefe first and then take a boat.Ticket sales are as low as 300 bux if you’re a civilian, up to 10,000 bux if you’re a tier 2 or higher monster slayer.

Crete is almost done with its sewer renovation campaign, which has been going on for 6 years now. Crete has vast undercity catacomb dungeons, and long ago they warded the entire first level and use the first level for the city’s sub tunnel and sewage system. The wards were expiring, and the city is going to finish replacing all of the wards ahead of schedule. They had 8 years, and they’re getting it done in 6. Good for Crete.

Shibuya is trying to get the endorsement of Asame to build some statues to her honor and call her a citizen of Shibuya, but Asame hasn’t responded and doesn’t seem to have even noticed. The King of Shibuya was caught on camera throwing a little tantrum about it, so he had to make a statement apologizing to her, which Asame also seems not to have noticed.

Alhambra news is all about preparing for SATet. Their city is entirely water based, so the day after SATet ends, they have to re-flood all of the aqueducts and it’s a big show of washing and scrubbing the whole damn city with suds and push brooms every year. Everybody apparently has to pitch in to guarantee the right to vote in elections that year, unless they have a disability of some sort preventing them from helping, such as missing an arm, being in a wheelchair, or being too wealthy.

Fargasta is enjoying a LOT of tourism this year in particular. After Angel Island became a huge big thing deal for Moncrefe with a lot of people from all over the world traveling there to go see Angel Island, Fargasta put a lot of effort into advertising its tourism services, and those ads seemed to have paid off… Perhaps even a little too much as Fargasta is crowding people into hotels, and has actually had to open their disaster shelters to the public.

Tibetta, like usual, has very little news, although earlier in the year, in spring, a cardamine farm was broken up and over 8 million bux worth of cardamine was confiscated. Tibetta very rarely has big news.

Shermone and Fallenhal tensions are increasing, with Shermone citizens having lots and lots of labor protests and strikes right now, and King Shermone enlisting the help of the Fallenhal Army to control the public and break up (cause?) riots.

Fingah and Alvanista are buzzing with excitement because the Gargoyles, autonomous rock creature golem constructs that kidnap humans, appear to have completely stopped, and it’s all thanks to the efforts of a single Dryad who opened some sort of vacation summer resort north of Alvanista. Alvanista is building a road directly to said resort, as lots of people want to go there, and the dungeon where the Gargoyles were holed up is now cleared out and monsters and items are respawning there now. There are some unique resources in that dungeon, such as potions that can be disenchanted into a liquid that doesn’t evaporate in sunlight, and stays wet forever, which Alchemists are currently in a frenzy to get their hands on so they don’t need to quaff galium anymore.

Corneria city is also trying to court the favor of Asame Nightbreak, but is having a fair bit more results there. Asame actually responded to them. She replied “No.”

Fiveside recently got into a bit of trouble, but that’s nothing new. People are angry about counterfeit goods and patent violations. Fiveside reminds the rest of the world that they do not respect any patents other than ones established in Fiveside courts, and if people don’t want counterfeit goods circulating through Fiveside, they should apply for Fiveside patents. Fiveside patents remain 1,000,000 bux to apply, with no guarantee that they’ll be honored.

Fallenhal is currently spread rather thin with police actions being taken in Fiveside, Shermone, Shima, and Parthen. Spread so thin, they’re unable to quell protests in Fallenhal home soil, and there are a lot of protests from queer gender advocacy groups, as well interspecies marriage advocacy groups demanding the King respect civil union partnerships between humans and demons with, at the very least, the same rights that Master-Pet relationships do. Fallenhal politicians are flippant and immature about this, making ignorant statements about how they don’t understand why the demons don’t just wear the collars. One such politician was caught on film saying that, and he resigned and was later found dead in his bedroom in his apartment.

[remeradventure]

There's no clear plan on how to get the hat but you'll keep your eyes open for an opportunity.

At any rate, your pun game is still going strong! You're gonna keep it going. 

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You roll onto your back, then back onto your belly a couple times until your straightman Mrs. Merry asks, "What are you doing?"

"I'm flip flopping!" you begin. "Speaking of flip flopping... weren't we going to discuss the children?"

"Oh! That's right!" Mr. Merry remembers. "We have an idea that might interest the two of you."

Suddenly, Shædo puts two and two together, and catches on to your dangerous pun game. "Are you about to suggest we substitute our children for each other like some kind of substitute teacher?"

Gosh dangit... That was good.