Also the Eldridge was named after the USS Eldridge, a battleship famous for being part of the Philadelphia Experiment urban legend that says the military was testing a stealth device that caused the ship to phase out of reality and merge with solid objects.
@SagaFraga@AuroraShelf_day I think when the universes merged Shulk’s world went inside the Earth like what happened to the planet Terra when it merged with Gaia in FF9
@memoriesunveil What if this universe had its own version of that event, but Deus successfully piloted the Eldridge back to Earth. The crashed ship in Genesis actually is this universe's Eldridge and the Vengeful God is this world's Deus. That's why they called this game Xenoblade Genesis. XG.
@memoriesunveil In XenoGears Deus was a computer that was exiled from Earth but desperately wanted to go to Earth after it made contact with the Zohar for… reasons.
@x3phia I like to think it’s a ship that returned to earth after it reappeared and crashed nose first into it and poked through to the Dyson sphere inside the Earth
@HattiesClemy@DeWittTom@ScottPresler@elonmusk With ranked choice the cheese pizza probably would have won because some of the pepperoni and salad voters probably would have picked it as their second choice.
@HattiesClemy@DeWittTom@ScottPresler@elonmusk You and 9 friends go to a restaurant. You can only order 1 pizza as a group or 10 salads. 6 of you hate salads and 4 are vegetarians. You decide to vote on it. Results: 3 pepperoni, 3 cheese, and 4 salads. Under the old system you're eating salad even though 60% of you hate them
@DeWittTom@ScottPresler@elonmusk Ranked choice allows C voters to designate B as there second choice, so in the event nobody wins a majority of votes a winner can be chosen that is preferred by the most voters. So you don’t get a situation where a candidate that 60% of voters don’t like wins.
@DeWittTom@ScottPresler@elonmusk Ranked is generally a better system because it stops minority rule. In traditional elections say there are 3 candidates A, B, &C. A gets 42%, B 38%, C 20%. A wins despite getting only 42%, but B only lost because voters that would still prefer them over A voted C.
@CalltoActivism He says he had more people because the crowd was tighter… he’s like a child who thinks the thinner cup has more water in it because the water goes higher than in the wider cup.