author
stringlengths 3
20
| body
stringlengths 12
18.4k
| normalizedBody
stringlengths 13
17.9k
| subreddit
stringlengths 2
24
| subreddit_id
stringlengths 4
8
| id
stringlengths 3
7
| content
stringlengths 3
17.9k
| summary
stringlengths 1
7.54k
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
CDHorban | G'day OP, I've just finished writing a big essay on this sort of topic so I'll chime in and give a summary of what I can.
Firstly, what you're arguing is summed up in corporate social responsibility (CSR). There are varying degrees of this: a book by Secchi defines three business views of CSR: utilitarian, managerial and relational, which I'll come back to shortly. Basically, each view of CSR defines exactly how firms view their interaction with society and the wider world. You've said that firms aim to maximise their profits, which is true: though depending on their CSR view, firms view how far their profits can be maximised in different ways, not all of which are sociopathic or, as I'm sure you are implying, *unethical*. Of course business aim to return money to their owner(s) - that's what they're in the game for. How they go about it, though, is where things get tricky.
OK, so let's run through the varying degrees of how an organisation can view itself in terms of its social responsibility. First, there's utilitarian: this is where the company views itself purely as an economic actor, and is required to maximise its return to shareholders. There is argument that this, in itself, is ethical - provided the company operates within the law, its responsibility is to its owners and no others - as an economic increase lifts living standards of wider society too, or as Reagan said, 'A rising tide lifts all boats'. This is, in my view, incredibly short-sighted, as obviously profit maximisation can happen at the expense of society! This can affect business profitability in the long run, though as I'm sure we're all aware, western businesses look at their profits in quarterly or yearly terms and aren't fussed with the long-term effects. I mean, think about a businesses' environmental impact. If they fuck the earth, eventually there won't be an earth for them to operate within and their profits will be nonexistent. Likewise, if a company underpays its workers and it employs a lot of people, eventually their families won't have enough money to pay for their products or services and they'll have to drop their prices (and profits) to maintain patronage - this is very simplified of course, but you get the picture.
Secondly, you have managerial view of CSR - that the company has a responsibility to stakeholders of the firm, while managers have the responsibility to 'fix' or 'prevent' problems that may arise. So, to continue from my example before, a company underpaying its workers would experience problems with staff morale or effort, which thereby affects the productivity and profitability of the company. Thus, profit maximisation has an effect on the firm's longer-term profitability *and management realises this*, and would attempt to rectify it. From an environmental perspective, the firm's pollution might be viewed as a problem for management to set green targets on, thus being a fixable problem.
Third, you have a relational view of CSR, which is where the company is aware of its position as a member of wider society and its actions are inherently linked to societal effects. The firm still exists to maximise profits, but this is truncated by its knowledge of wider consequences and how far it can push things in any direction. There are many businesses that adhere to this, but they're often smaller than their big-box counterparts who maintain a very utilitarian (or sometimes managerial) view of their responsibilities. I believe that eventually companies will become more aware as things get worse by their hand - they're going to have to, just look at the wage campaigns and rights to organise pushed by McDonald's and Wal-Mart employees - but when this will happen is hard to say.
**TL;DR** - sure companies exist to profit. Differences lie with how firms view themselves: either as economic or societal actors. Pushes for profit are not unethical per se, though this depends on what this profit is in expense of.
**ELI5:** Companies can be bad, but not all of them are bad.
| G'day OP, I've just finished writing a big essay on this sort of topic so I'll chime in and give a summary of what I can.
Firstly, what you're arguing is summed up in corporate social responsibility (CSR). There are varying degrees of this: a book by Secchi defines three business views of CSR: utilitarian, managerial and relational, which I'll come back to shortly. Basically, each view of CSR defines exactly how firms view their interaction with society and the wider world. You've said that firms aim to maximise their profits, which is true: though depending on their CSR view, firms view how far their profits can be maximised in different ways, not all of which are sociopathic or, as I'm sure you are implying, unethical . Of course business aim to return money to their owner(s) - that's what they're in the game for. How they go about it, though, is where things get tricky.
OK, so let's run through the varying degrees of how an organisation can view itself in terms of its social responsibility. First, there's utilitarian: this is where the company views itself purely as an economic actor, and is required to maximise its return to shareholders. There is argument that this, in itself, is ethical - provided the company operates within the law, its responsibility is to its owners and no others - as an economic increase lifts living standards of wider society too, or as Reagan said, 'A rising tide lifts all boats'. This is, in my view, incredibly short-sighted, as obviously profit maximisation can happen at the expense of society! This can affect business profitability in the long run, though as I'm sure we're all aware, western businesses look at their profits in quarterly or yearly terms and aren't fussed with the long-term effects. I mean, think about a businesses' environmental impact. If they fuck the earth, eventually there won't be an earth for them to operate within and their profits will be nonexistent. Likewise, if a company underpays its workers and it employs a lot of people, eventually their families won't have enough money to pay for their products or services and they'll have to drop their prices (and profits) to maintain patronage - this is very simplified of course, but you get the picture.
Secondly, you have managerial view of CSR - that the company has a responsibility to stakeholders of the firm, while managers have the responsibility to 'fix' or 'prevent' problems that may arise. So, to continue from my example before, a company underpaying its workers would experience problems with staff morale or effort, which thereby affects the productivity and profitability of the company. Thus, profit maximisation has an effect on the firm's longer-term profitability and management realises this , and would attempt to rectify it. From an environmental perspective, the firm's pollution might be viewed as a problem for management to set green targets on, thus being a fixable problem.
Third, you have a relational view of CSR, which is where the company is aware of its position as a member of wider society and its actions are inherently linked to societal effects. The firm still exists to maximise profits, but this is truncated by its knowledge of wider consequences and how far it can push things in any direction. There are many businesses that adhere to this, but they're often smaller than their big-box counterparts who maintain a very utilitarian (or sometimes managerial) view of their responsibilities. I believe that eventually companies will become more aware as things get worse by their hand - they're going to have to, just look at the wage campaigns and rights to organise pushed by McDonald's and Wal-Mart employees - but when this will happen is hard to say.
TL;DR - sure companies exist to profit. Differences lie with how firms view themselves: either as economic or societal actors. Pushes for profit are not unethical per se, though this depends on what this profit is in expense of.
ELI5: Companies can be bad, but not all of them are bad.
| changemyview | t5_2w2s8 | cke0abo | G'day OP, I've just finished writing a big essay on this sort of topic so I'll chime in and give a summary of what I can.
Firstly, what you're arguing is summed up in corporate social responsibility (CSR). There are varying degrees of this: a book by Secchi defines three business views of CSR: utilitarian, managerial and relational, which I'll come back to shortly. Basically, each view of CSR defines exactly how firms view their interaction with society and the wider world. You've said that firms aim to maximise their profits, which is true: though depending on their CSR view, firms view how far their profits can be maximised in different ways, not all of which are sociopathic or, as I'm sure you are implying, unethical . Of course business aim to return money to their owner(s) - that's what they're in the game for. How they go about it, though, is where things get tricky.
OK, so let's run through the varying degrees of how an organisation can view itself in terms of its social responsibility. First, there's utilitarian: this is where the company views itself purely as an economic actor, and is required to maximise its return to shareholders. There is argument that this, in itself, is ethical - provided the company operates within the law, its responsibility is to its owners and no others - as an economic increase lifts living standards of wider society too, or as Reagan said, 'A rising tide lifts all boats'. This is, in my view, incredibly short-sighted, as obviously profit maximisation can happen at the expense of society! This can affect business profitability in the long run, though as I'm sure we're all aware, western businesses look at their profits in quarterly or yearly terms and aren't fussed with the long-term effects. I mean, think about a businesses' environmental impact. If they fuck the earth, eventually there won't be an earth for them to operate within and their profits will be nonexistent. Likewise, if a company underpays its workers and it employs a lot of people, eventually their families won't have enough money to pay for their products or services and they'll have to drop their prices (and profits) to maintain patronage - this is very simplified of course, but you get the picture.
Secondly, you have managerial view of CSR - that the company has a responsibility to stakeholders of the firm, while managers have the responsibility to 'fix' or 'prevent' problems that may arise. So, to continue from my example before, a company underpaying its workers would experience problems with staff morale or effort, which thereby affects the productivity and profitability of the company. Thus, profit maximisation has an effect on the firm's longer-term profitability and management realises this , and would attempt to rectify it. From an environmental perspective, the firm's pollution might be viewed as a problem for management to set green targets on, thus being a fixable problem.
Third, you have a relational view of CSR, which is where the company is aware of its position as a member of wider society and its actions are inherently linked to societal effects. The firm still exists to maximise profits, but this is truncated by its knowledge of wider consequences and how far it can push things in any direction. There are many businesses that adhere to this, but they're often smaller than their big-box counterparts who maintain a very utilitarian (or sometimes managerial) view of their responsibilities. I believe that eventually companies will become more aware as things get worse by their hand - they're going to have to, just look at the wage campaigns and rights to organise pushed by McDonald's and Wal-Mart employees - but when this will happen is hard to say. | sure companies exist to profit. Differences lie with how firms view themselves: either as economic or societal actors. Pushes for profit are not unethical per se, though this depends on what this profit is in expense of.
ELI5: Companies can be bad, but not all of them are bad. |
eqdw | > How about letting people work for a wage that would not allow them to have an acceptable standard of living?
Here's an alternative thought for you: why are corporations responsible for guaranteeing an individual's quality of life. Parallel-wise, why am I legally prevented from working for a wage below a certain threshold; why is the government allowed to tell me what kind of work is good for me, and why are they allowed to decide *for* me what kind of work is bad.
I agree with you that it sucks when people can't afford food and shelter. I'd even go so far as to say that I agree with you that it is a failure of society when we have a situation where some people can't afford food and shelter. But here's where I disagree: why is it all the sudden the responsibility of *corporations* when this happens.
To make an analogy:
> heavy traffic is very very bad. Heavy traffic can double your travel time. This causes undue environmental pollution in the form of millions of idling engines. Heavy traffic also increases the risk of accident, and last year there was [33,561]( traffic fatalities. And I'd say corporations are responsible for this. After all, they put their head offices way out in the suburbs where land is cheaper. This forces people to have to drive further for their jobs. There should be a law putting a limit on how far corporations can force you to commute, to solve this problem.
Everything I just said above is literally true. Heavy traffic has many negative effects. There are ridiculous amounts of traffic fatalities every year. Traffic fatalities scale with miles driven. For that matter: There are many places in the US where the communities are structured such that you *need* a car to get to work. It really, *really* sucks that minimum wage workers are forced into a situation where they need to spend 25-35% of their income on transportation, when it would be just as easy for jobs to be closer to them.
But here's the difference: for whatever reason, nobody sees this as corporations' faults. They see this as the government's fault. And so nobody thinks it's reasonable for corporations to try and solve this (and, in fact, when corporations actually try and be responsible for their impact on traffic congestion, [people get ***ANGRY*** about it](
And yet, all the sudden, when we're talking about low wage workers, the responsibility for helping them is not their community, it's not their social organizations (church/etc), it's not their local government, it's not their national government, it's their employers. This is crazy.
As far as I'm concerned, if someone is unable to afford food or shelter, this is a failure of *society*, and it's *society*'s responsibility to solve it. Wage controls are a shitty attempt by the government to force someone else to solve their problem.
Instead of forcing employers to pay above-market wages for low-value work, why not try and solve this problem more directly. Raise taxes, use the revenue to fund antipoverty programs. Minimum wage legislation is crude and poorly targeted.
Progressive taxation + antipoverty programs takes from the rich and gives to the poor. Minimum wage laws on the other hand? They take from corporate revenues and give to the employable poor. On the taking side: you're not taking from the rich. You're forcing businesses to increase their prices. Which hits their customers. Who are typically members of the middle class (you think millionaires shop at Walmart and eat at McDonalds? Hah!). On the giving side: you're not giving to all the poor. You're giving to the poor who are able to jump through the hoop of 'employability'. You're sure not helping homeless or unemployed people.
***TL;DR:*** long rambly rant on how minimum wage legislation is an inefficient way to achieve the goals you're advocating | > How about letting people work for a wage that would not allow them to have an acceptable standard of living?
Here's an alternative thought for you: why are corporations responsible for guaranteeing an individual's quality of life. Parallel-wise, why am I legally prevented from working for a wage below a certain threshold; why is the government allowed to tell me what kind of work is good for me, and why are they allowed to decide for me what kind of work is bad.
I agree with you that it sucks when people can't afford food and shelter. I'd even go so far as to say that I agree with you that it is a failure of society when we have a situation where some people can't afford food and shelter. But here's where I disagree: why is it all the sudden the responsibility of corporations when this happens.
To make an analogy:
> heavy traffic is very very bad. Heavy traffic can double your travel time. This causes undue environmental pollution in the form of millions of idling engines. Heavy traffic also increases the risk of accident, and last year there was [33,561]( traffic fatalities. And I'd say corporations are responsible for this. After all, they put their head offices way out in the suburbs where land is cheaper. This forces people to have to drive further for their jobs. There should be a law putting a limit on how far corporations can force you to commute, to solve this problem.
Everything I just said above is literally true. Heavy traffic has many negative effects. There are ridiculous amounts of traffic fatalities every year. Traffic fatalities scale with miles driven. For that matter: There are many places in the US where the communities are structured such that you need a car to get to work. It really, really sucks that minimum wage workers are forced into a situation where they need to spend 25-35% of their income on transportation, when it would be just as easy for jobs to be closer to them.
But here's the difference: for whatever reason, nobody sees this as corporations' faults. They see this as the government's fault. And so nobody thinks it's reasonable for corporations to try and solve this (and, in fact, when corporations actually try and be responsible for their impact on traffic congestion, [people get ANGRY about it](
And yet, all the sudden, when we're talking about low wage workers, the responsibility for helping them is not their community, it's not their social organizations (church/etc), it's not their local government, it's not their national government, it's their employers. This is crazy.
As far as I'm concerned, if someone is unable to afford food or shelter, this is a failure of society , and it's society 's responsibility to solve it. Wage controls are a shitty attempt by the government to force someone else to solve their problem.
Instead of forcing employers to pay above-market wages for low-value work, why not try and solve this problem more directly. Raise taxes, use the revenue to fund antipoverty programs. Minimum wage legislation is crude and poorly targeted.
Progressive taxation + antipoverty programs takes from the rich and gives to the poor. Minimum wage laws on the other hand? They take from corporate revenues and give to the employable poor. On the taking side: you're not taking from the rich. You're forcing businesses to increase their prices. Which hits their customers. Who are typically members of the middle class (you think millionaires shop at Walmart and eat at McDonalds? Hah!). On the giving side: you're not giving to all the poor. You're giving to the poor who are able to jump through the hoop of 'employability'. You're sure not helping homeless or unemployed people.
TL;DR: long rambly rant on how minimum wage legislation is an inefficient way to achieve the goals you're advocating
| changemyview | t5_2w2s8 | ckdmvhv | How about letting people work for a wage that would not allow them to have an acceptable standard of living?
Here's an alternative thought for you: why are corporations responsible for guaranteeing an individual's quality of life. Parallel-wise, why am I legally prevented from working for a wage below a certain threshold; why is the government allowed to tell me what kind of work is good for me, and why are they allowed to decide for me what kind of work is bad.
I agree with you that it sucks when people can't afford food and shelter. I'd even go so far as to say that I agree with you that it is a failure of society when we have a situation where some people can't afford food and shelter. But here's where I disagree: why is it all the sudden the responsibility of corporations when this happens.
To make an analogy:
> heavy traffic is very very bad. Heavy traffic can double your travel time. This causes undue environmental pollution in the form of millions of idling engines. Heavy traffic also increases the risk of accident, and last year there was [33,561]( traffic fatalities. And I'd say corporations are responsible for this. After all, they put their head offices way out in the suburbs where land is cheaper. This forces people to have to drive further for their jobs. There should be a law putting a limit on how far corporations can force you to commute, to solve this problem.
Everything I just said above is literally true. Heavy traffic has many negative effects. There are ridiculous amounts of traffic fatalities every year. Traffic fatalities scale with miles driven. For that matter: There are many places in the US where the communities are structured such that you need a car to get to work. It really, really sucks that minimum wage workers are forced into a situation where they need to spend 25-35% of their income on transportation, when it would be just as easy for jobs to be closer to them.
But here's the difference: for whatever reason, nobody sees this as corporations' faults. They see this as the government's fault. And so nobody thinks it's reasonable for corporations to try and solve this (and, in fact, when corporations actually try and be responsible for their impact on traffic congestion, [people get ANGRY about it](
And yet, all the sudden, when we're talking about low wage workers, the responsibility for helping them is not their community, it's not their social organizations (church/etc), it's not their local government, it's not their national government, it's their employers. This is crazy.
As far as I'm concerned, if someone is unable to afford food or shelter, this is a failure of society , and it's society 's responsibility to solve it. Wage controls are a shitty attempt by the government to force someone else to solve their problem.
Instead of forcing employers to pay above-market wages for low-value work, why not try and solve this problem more directly. Raise taxes, use the revenue to fund antipoverty programs. Minimum wage legislation is crude and poorly targeted.
Progressive taxation + antipoverty programs takes from the rich and gives to the poor. Minimum wage laws on the other hand? They take from corporate revenues and give to the employable poor. On the taking side: you're not taking from the rich. You're forcing businesses to increase their prices. Which hits their customers. Who are typically members of the middle class (you think millionaires shop at Walmart and eat at McDonalds? Hah!). On the giving side: you're not giving to all the poor. You're giving to the poor who are able to jump through the hoop of 'employability'. You're sure not helping homeless or unemployed people. | long rambly rant on how minimum wage legislation is an inefficient way to achieve the goals you're advocating |
Catness_NeverClean | Yep. Let me share some thrifting finds from this past weekend, if I may. Don't mind the mannequin. :)
[Walter Baker Skirt](
[This Anthropologie dress](
[Anthro jeans!](
[I really like Anthropologie ok?!](
[Free People top!](
Seriously, nothing was over $3, and I got all of these (and 3x more) in a matter of hours. Spending a couple bucks on each piece of my wardrobe helps me 1) feel free to turn over my wardrobe at a high rate so I never get so attached that I refuse to get rid of it and 2) budget for more important shit like makeup!
Tl;dr thrifting yo | Yep. Let me share some thrifting finds from this past weekend, if I may. Don't mind the mannequin. :)
[Walter Baker Skirt](
[This Anthropologie dress](
[Anthro jeans!](
[I really like Anthropologie ok?!](
[Free People top!](
Seriously, nothing was over $3, and I got all of these (and 3x more) in a matter of hours. Spending a couple bucks on each piece of my wardrobe helps me 1) feel free to turn over my wardrobe at a high rate so I never get so attached that I refuse to get rid of it and 2) budget for more important shit like makeup!
Tl;dr thrifting yo
| MakeupAddiction | t5_2rww2 | cke6y2x | Yep. Let me share some thrifting finds from this past weekend, if I may. Don't mind the mannequin. :)
[Walter Baker Skirt](
[This Anthropologie dress](
[Anthro jeans!](
[I really like Anthropologie ok?!](
[Free People top!](
Seriously, nothing was over $3, and I got all of these (and 3x more) in a matter of hours. Spending a couple bucks on each piece of my wardrobe helps me 1) feel free to turn over my wardrobe at a high rate so I never get so attached that I refuse to get rid of it and 2) budget for more important shit like makeup! | thrifting yo |
agnaram | Attitude is one of the most underrated things in any form of competitive play. People who throw shit at other players in the game are absolute bricks. Not only does it lower the rest of the team's concentration, but also morale and will to win. In other words, when you are harassing people and telling them that they are bad, you are actually making them less likely to do well, and yourself at the same time.
Mental state makes such an impact on a game it's silly, but often overlooked as it's not something you can clearly see. This game is not about how well you are doing, how well the guy with 3/9 are doing, but how the team as a whole are doing. This is where dicks start ruining and the optimists start buffing. The attitude you show towards your team can hang over every player as a buff/debuff adding or taking away 20% fail chance.
The Norwegian women's handball team had their goal keeper listen to recordings of people cheering her on. They won the olympics and folks could not stop talking about how good that goal keeper were.
**TL;DR Be positive, if you throw shit you are shit.** | Attitude is one of the most underrated things in any form of competitive play. People who throw shit at other players in the game are absolute bricks. Not only does it lower the rest of the team's concentration, but also morale and will to win. In other words, when you are harassing people and telling them that they are bad, you are actually making them less likely to do well, and yourself at the same time.
Mental state makes such an impact on a game it's silly, but often overlooked as it's not something you can clearly see. This game is not about how well you are doing, how well the guy with 3/9 are doing, but how the team as a whole are doing. This is where dicks start ruining and the optimists start buffing. The attitude you show towards your team can hang over every player as a buff/debuff adding or taking away 20% fail chance.
The Norwegian women's handball team had their goal keeper listen to recordings of people cheering her on. They won the olympics and folks could not stop talking about how good that goal keeper were.
TL;DR Be positive, if you throw shit you are shit.
| DotA2 | t5_2s580 | cke8ow5 | Attitude is one of the most underrated things in any form of competitive play. People who throw shit at other players in the game are absolute bricks. Not only does it lower the rest of the team's concentration, but also morale and will to win. In other words, when you are harassing people and telling them that they are bad, you are actually making them less likely to do well, and yourself at the same time.
Mental state makes such an impact on a game it's silly, but often overlooked as it's not something you can clearly see. This game is not about how well you are doing, how well the guy with 3/9 are doing, but how the team as a whole are doing. This is where dicks start ruining and the optimists start buffing. The attitude you show towards your team can hang over every player as a buff/debuff adding or taking away 20% fail chance.
The Norwegian women's handball team had their goal keeper listen to recordings of people cheering her on. They won the olympics and folks could not stop talking about how good that goal keeper were. | Be positive, if you throw shit you are shit. |
clevermiss | The stupidest person at my work is BFFs with my boss. She is so underqualified that she effs up everyday but gets to stay.
so TLDR....blow somebody | The stupidest person at my work is BFFs with my boss. She is so underqualified that she effs up everyday but gets to stay.
so TLDR....blow somebody
| AskWomen | t5_2rxrw | ckeb6zl | The stupidest person at my work is BFFs with my boss. She is so underqualified that she effs up everyday but gets to stay.
so | blow somebody |
Cheesebomb30 | I have both consoles, and I honestly feel like they're doing alright considering they haven't even been out for a full year yet. There aren't really any games that actually test the hardware of either system, but that's because very few games are "next-gen" exclusive, and because developers don't know the limits of the consoles yet. Look at a comparison between (don't kill me for this example) Call of Duty 3 and Call of Duty: Ghosts. Graphically, the two games look like they're from different console generations.
Aside from CoD's "astounding visual improvement" being one thing to compare, think about gameplay. Look at the lists of launch titles for the PS3 and 360. Most of them are shit (Peter Jackson's King Kong: The Video Game, case in point). Now look at some of the more recent games for both systems.
tl;dr
There's no sense in judging a newborn console before it even knows how to walk. Wait until it's out of its crawling phase. | I have both consoles, and I honestly feel like they're doing alright considering they haven't even been out for a full year yet. There aren't really any games that actually test the hardware of either system, but that's because very few games are "next-gen" exclusive, and because developers don't know the limits of the consoles yet. Look at a comparison between (don't kill me for this example) Call of Duty 3 and Call of Duty: Ghosts. Graphically, the two games look like they're from different console generations.
Aside from CoD's "astounding visual improvement" being one thing to compare, think about gameplay. Look at the lists of launch titles for the PS3 and 360. Most of them are shit (Peter Jackson's King Kong: The Video Game, case in point). Now look at some of the more recent games for both systems.
tl;dr
There's no sense in judging a newborn console before it even knows how to walk. Wait until it's out of its crawling phase.
| gaming | t5_2qh03 | cke7nw1 | I have both consoles, and I honestly feel like they're doing alright considering they haven't even been out for a full year yet. There aren't really any games that actually test the hardware of either system, but that's because very few games are "next-gen" exclusive, and because developers don't know the limits of the consoles yet. Look at a comparison between (don't kill me for this example) Call of Duty 3 and Call of Duty: Ghosts. Graphically, the two games look like they're from different console generations.
Aside from CoD's "astounding visual improvement" being one thing to compare, think about gameplay. Look at the lists of launch titles for the PS3 and 360. Most of them are shit (Peter Jackson's King Kong: The Video Game, case in point). Now look at some of the more recent games for both systems. | There's no sense in judging a newborn console before it even knows how to walk. Wait until it's out of its crawling phase. |
naturehatesyou | I parked outside a museum in DC and had my car towed along with another family's. I stared at the sign for a good few minutes and still couldn't figure out why they wouldn't let me park there. Called the number for parking violations: no dice. Call back tomorrow between 8 and 5. The next morning they informed me that my car was simply towed around the corner. Went back to find a SECOND TICKET for the car being parked where they towed it. That's right, they towed my car to a place that it was illegal to park during morning rush hour and ticketed it a second time. Tried to appeal and never got a response. Ended up paying $500.
TL;DR Don't ever drive in D.C. | I parked outside a museum in DC and had my car towed along with another family's. I stared at the sign for a good few minutes and still couldn't figure out why they wouldn't let me park there. Called the number for parking violations: no dice. Call back tomorrow between 8 and 5. The next morning they informed me that my car was simply towed around the corner. Went back to find a SECOND TICKET for the car being parked where they towed it. That's right, they towed my car to a place that it was illegal to park during morning rush hour and ticketed it a second time. Tried to appeal and never got a response. Ended up paying $500.
TL;DR Don't ever drive in D.C.
| Libertarian | t5_2qh63 | ckeqwj0 | I parked outside a museum in DC and had my car towed along with another family's. I stared at the sign for a good few minutes and still couldn't figure out why they wouldn't let me park there. Called the number for parking violations: no dice. Call back tomorrow between 8 and 5. The next morning they informed me that my car was simply towed around the corner. Went back to find a SECOND TICKET for the car being parked where they towed it. That's right, they towed my car to a place that it was illegal to park during morning rush hour and ticketed it a second time. Tried to appeal and never got a response. Ended up paying $500. | Don't ever drive in D.C. |
DragonsAreReal96 | In case you were wondering, Mejais becomes cost efficient at 5 stacks which honestly isn't terribly hard to get to and maintain (which is why it's commonly bought for midlaners by China players), especially as more passive supports like Janna or Soraka who rack up assists like its nobody's business and don't die all too often if played well.
The question therefore becomes *which* item would you want to give up for flat AP? As a support, unless you want to be the secondary mage, it's generally better to itemise for utility than flat AP, ESPECIALLY if you're a passive support like Janna or Soraka and therein lies the issue with Mejais.
It provides AP, yes, but otherwise its really lackluster on supports unless you hit 20 stacks which nets you a nice 15% CDR. Oh wait, you're a support; you should be itemising for CDR already which renders the full stack benefit moot.
Cost efficient also doesn't mean slot efficient; at 5 stacks where its *technically* cost efficient, Mejais gives a whopping **60 AP** and nothing else. It's not even a permanent value; something like the Morellonomicon which costs 2200 already gives you more AP, MP5 and CDR than a Mejais **permanently** as well as a very useful support passive.
You could argue that it only gets more cost and slot efficient as the game goes on, but that's assuming you won't die a ton. Even as Soraka or Janna, you're probably going to die fairly often because you're the support and CC machine that everyone on the enemy team hates.
tl;dr Don't get Mejais as a support *unless* you're stupidly confident in your skills. It's very slot inefficient on a support and is just too inconsistent. | In case you were wondering, Mejais becomes cost efficient at 5 stacks which honestly isn't terribly hard to get to and maintain (which is why it's commonly bought for midlaners by China players), especially as more passive supports like Janna or Soraka who rack up assists like its nobody's business and don't die all too often if played well.
The question therefore becomes which item would you want to give up for flat AP? As a support, unless you want to be the secondary mage, it's generally better to itemise for utility than flat AP, ESPECIALLY if you're a passive support like Janna or Soraka and therein lies the issue with Mejais.
It provides AP, yes, but otherwise its really lackluster on supports unless you hit 20 stacks which nets you a nice 15% CDR. Oh wait, you're a support; you should be itemising for CDR already which renders the full stack benefit moot.
Cost efficient also doesn't mean slot efficient; at 5 stacks where its technically cost efficient, Mejais gives a whopping 60 AP and nothing else. It's not even a permanent value; something like the Morellonomicon which costs 2200 already gives you more AP, MP5 and CDR than a Mejais permanently as well as a very useful support passive.
You could argue that it only gets more cost and slot efficient as the game goes on, but that's assuming you won't die a ton. Even as Soraka or Janna, you're probably going to die fairly often because you're the support and CC machine that everyone on the enemy team hates.
tl;dr Don't get Mejais as a support unless you're stupidly confident in your skills. It's very slot inefficient on a support and is just too inconsistent.
| summonerschool | t5_2t9x3 | ckejssu | In case you were wondering, Mejais becomes cost efficient at 5 stacks which honestly isn't terribly hard to get to and maintain (which is why it's commonly bought for midlaners by China players), especially as more passive supports like Janna or Soraka who rack up assists like its nobody's business and don't die all too often if played well.
The question therefore becomes which item would you want to give up for flat AP? As a support, unless you want to be the secondary mage, it's generally better to itemise for utility than flat AP, ESPECIALLY if you're a passive support like Janna or Soraka and therein lies the issue with Mejais.
It provides AP, yes, but otherwise its really lackluster on supports unless you hit 20 stacks which nets you a nice 15% CDR. Oh wait, you're a support; you should be itemising for CDR already which renders the full stack benefit moot.
Cost efficient also doesn't mean slot efficient; at 5 stacks where its technically cost efficient, Mejais gives a whopping 60 AP and nothing else. It's not even a permanent value; something like the Morellonomicon which costs 2200 already gives you more AP, MP5 and CDR than a Mejais permanently as well as a very useful support passive.
You could argue that it only gets more cost and slot efficient as the game goes on, but that's assuming you won't die a ton. Even as Soraka or Janna, you're probably going to die fairly often because you're the support and CC machine that everyone on the enemy team hates. | Don't get Mejais as a support unless you're stupidly confident in your skills. It's very slot inefficient on a support and is just too inconsistent. |
Scholeren | I have recently been working a bit on my own control warrior. There is a few cards i want to add when i get them mainly:
> 2nd shield slam
> 2nd armorsmith
> cairne
> alexstraza
My deck is mostly lacking finishing power and alexstraza is definetely great in that regard. I can ellaborate on the rest of my choices compared to yours, but I think it's mostly preference.
[My deck](
**TL;DR your deck looks great, would make minor changes :)** | I have recently been working a bit on my own control warrior. There is a few cards i want to add when i get them mainly:
> 2nd shield slam
> 2nd armorsmith
> cairne
> alexstraza
My deck is mostly lacking finishing power and alexstraza is definetely great in that regard. I can ellaborate on the rest of my choices compared to yours, but I think it's mostly preference.
[My deck](
TL;DR your deck looks great, would make minor changes :)
| hearthstone | t5_2w31t | ckemm2u | I have recently been working a bit on my own control warrior. There is a few cards i want to add when i get them mainly:
> 2nd shield slam
> 2nd armorsmith
> cairne
> alexstraza
My deck is mostly lacking finishing power and alexstraza is definetely great in that regard. I can ellaborate on the rest of my choices compared to yours, but I think it's mostly preference.
[My deck]( | your deck looks great, would make minor changes :) |
LegenW84ITdary | I own this case, bought it last year. I was pretty impressed. I can't remember what I paid for it, it was on sale at walmart and I bought it to carry my guns when I flew to my hometown for Christmas.
Foam inside is almost pre-cut into blocks that were easy to remove to fit for my guns. You don't have to use a knife like a Pelican. The latches are nice positive clamps. One problem I did have was one of the locks on the clamp wouldn't unlock. No matter how many times I tried the key I just couldn't get it. I finally said screw it and pushed the case in away from the clamp and was able to open it when it was locked. So I wouldn't rely on those keys to lock it. I used TSA locks instead anyways so it doesn't change much for me.
TL;DR great substitute for budget instead of Pelican, but don't trust the locks.
EDIT: Do not use TSA locks, they don't seem to care but it's against DHS
| I own this case, bought it last year. I was pretty impressed. I can't remember what I paid for it, it was on sale at walmart and I bought it to carry my guns when I flew to my hometown for Christmas.
Foam inside is almost pre-cut into blocks that were easy to remove to fit for my guns. You don't have to use a knife like a Pelican. The latches are nice positive clamps. One problem I did have was one of the locks on the clamp wouldn't unlock. No matter how many times I tried the key I just couldn't get it. I finally said screw it and pushed the case in away from the clamp and was able to open it when it was locked. So I wouldn't rely on those keys to lock it. I used TSA locks instead anyways so it doesn't change much for me.
TL;DR great substitute for budget instead of Pelican, but don't trust the locks.
EDIT: Do not use TSA locks, they don't seem to care but it's against DHS
| gundeals | t5_2rq8n | ckeoifz | I own this case, bought it last year. I was pretty impressed. I can't remember what I paid for it, it was on sale at walmart and I bought it to carry my guns when I flew to my hometown for Christmas.
Foam inside is almost pre-cut into blocks that were easy to remove to fit for my guns. You don't have to use a knife like a Pelican. The latches are nice positive clamps. One problem I did have was one of the locks on the clamp wouldn't unlock. No matter how many times I tried the key I just couldn't get it. I finally said screw it and pushed the case in away from the clamp and was able to open it when it was locked. So I wouldn't rely on those keys to lock it. I used TSA locks instead anyways so it doesn't change much for me. | great substitute for budget instead of Pelican, but don't trust the locks.
EDIT: Do not use TSA locks, they don't seem to care but it's against DHS |
geek180 | I consider myself somewhat of an 'amateur expert' on Michael Jackson. I do enjoy his music, but I think his life is even more fascinating than his work. I've watched and read transcripts from nearly every interview from him and people who were around him, read a few biographies and seen as many of the countless documentaries as I could (many of these info sources contradict each other so some people tell lies)
MJ had multiple physical and mental health issues, one of which was his infatuation with children and pre-adolescence. But there is very little reason to believe his obsession was in any way sexual, in fact if I would bet money on MJ being asexual based on many things he has said about his own sexuality and relationships.
But MJ loved living like a child and children are who he was best at connecting with. He only had a small handful of close, adult friends. But MJ was an adult man, and adult men have a natural desire for sex, and I would concede that it is possible that some mild sexual misconduct/experimenting could have occurred between MJ and children at times. But this would be a far cry from the "sadistic manipulation and systematic sexual exploitation" as some individuals have claimed. But MJ settled out of court once (the entire Jordan Chandler story is extremely tragic as it destroyed MJs career and completely tore apart the Chandler family) and was proven innocent in court ten years later. Both sets of allegations came from highly dis-credible people, I wouldn't trust either parties at all, they really did appear to have ulterior motives, I won't get in to why, but there are many reasons to not trust them or their claims. Other testimony and accusations that were made by staff to tabloids for money have shown to be mostly false. It's really sad and it completely destroyed MJs career and life.
TL;DR, MJ *may* have molested children, but most likely he didn't, and instead was just a really strange guy. | I consider myself somewhat of an 'amateur expert' on Michael Jackson. I do enjoy his music, but I think his life is even more fascinating than his work. I've watched and read transcripts from nearly every interview from him and people who were around him, read a few biographies and seen as many of the countless documentaries as I could (many of these info sources contradict each other so some people tell lies)
MJ had multiple physical and mental health issues, one of which was his infatuation with children and pre-adolescence. But there is very little reason to believe his obsession was in any way sexual, in fact if I would bet money on MJ being asexual based on many things he has said about his own sexuality and relationships.
But MJ loved living like a child and children are who he was best at connecting with. He only had a small handful of close, adult friends. But MJ was an adult man, and adult men have a natural desire for sex, and I would concede that it is possible that some mild sexual misconduct/experimenting could have occurred between MJ and children at times. But this would be a far cry from the "sadistic manipulation and systematic sexual exploitation" as some individuals have claimed. But MJ settled out of court once (the entire Jordan Chandler story is extremely tragic as it destroyed MJs career and completely tore apart the Chandler family) and was proven innocent in court ten years later. Both sets of allegations came from highly dis-credible people, I wouldn't trust either parties at all, they really did appear to have ulterior motives, I won't get in to why, but there are many reasons to not trust them or their claims. Other testimony and accusations that were made by staff to tabloids for money have shown to be mostly false. It's really sad and it completely destroyed MJs career and life.
TL;DR, MJ may have molested children, but most likely he didn't, and instead was just a really strange guy.
| news | t5_2qh3l | ckffub3 | I consider myself somewhat of an 'amateur expert' on Michael Jackson. I do enjoy his music, but I think his life is even more fascinating than his work. I've watched and read transcripts from nearly every interview from him and people who were around him, read a few biographies and seen as many of the countless documentaries as I could (many of these info sources contradict each other so some people tell lies)
MJ had multiple physical and mental health issues, one of which was his infatuation with children and pre-adolescence. But there is very little reason to believe his obsession was in any way sexual, in fact if I would bet money on MJ being asexual based on many things he has said about his own sexuality and relationships.
But MJ loved living like a child and children are who he was best at connecting with. He only had a small handful of close, adult friends. But MJ was an adult man, and adult men have a natural desire for sex, and I would concede that it is possible that some mild sexual misconduct/experimenting could have occurred between MJ and children at times. But this would be a far cry from the "sadistic manipulation and systematic sexual exploitation" as some individuals have claimed. But MJ settled out of court once (the entire Jordan Chandler story is extremely tragic as it destroyed MJs career and completely tore apart the Chandler family) and was proven innocent in court ten years later. Both sets of allegations came from highly dis-credible people, I wouldn't trust either parties at all, they really did appear to have ulterior motives, I won't get in to why, but there are many reasons to not trust them or their claims. Other testimony and accusations that were made by staff to tabloids for money have shown to be mostly false. It's really sad and it completely destroyed MJs career and life. | MJ may have molested children, but most likely he didn't, and instead was just a really strange guy. |
nahomish | I also like the concept of Setback, but since I'm not a developer and I don't have much to hide (I've got some things that already are hidden) I really can't think of any reason to use this.
TL:DR I really want to buy & use Setbacks but I don't have any reason to. | I also like the concept of Setback, but since I'm not a developer and I don't have much to hide (I've got some things that already are hidden) I really can't think of any reason to use this.
TL:DR I really want to buy & use Setbacks but I don't have any reason to.
| jailbreak | t5_2r8c5 | ckeua56 | I also like the concept of Setback, but since I'm not a developer and I don't have much to hide (I've got some things that already are hidden) I really can't think of any reason to use this. | I really want to buy & use Setbacks but I don't have any reason to. |
atmorrison | Never mind, just answered this myself. Found the specific clauses under the Electoral Act that comment on this. Under sections 179(5) and 179(6):
*If there is an equality of votes between constituency candidates for a district and the addition of 1 vote would entitle one of those candidates to be declared elected, the Electoral Commission must, without delay, apply to a District Court Judge for a recount under section 180, and all the provisions of that section apply accordingly, except that no deposit is necessary.*
*If on a recount under section 180 there is an equality of votes between constituency candidates and the addition of 1 vote would entitle one of those candidates to be declared elected, the Electoral Commission must determine by lot which of those candidates is to be elected.*
**TL;DR Answered own question. Tie forces one recount. If there is still a tie, Electoral Commission flips a coin.** | Never mind, just answered this myself. Found the specific clauses under the Electoral Act that comment on this. Under sections 179(5) and 179(6):
If there is an equality of votes between constituency candidates for a district and the addition of 1 vote would entitle one of those candidates to be declared elected, the Electoral Commission must, without delay, apply to a District Court Judge for a recount under section 180, and all the provisions of that section apply accordingly, except that no deposit is necessary.
If on a recount under section 180 there is an equality of votes between constituency candidates and the addition of 1 vote would entitle one of those candidates to be declared elected, the Electoral Commission must determine by lot which of those candidates is to be elected.
TL;DR Answered own question. Tie forces one recount. If there is still a tie, Electoral Commission flips a coin.
| newzealand | t5_2qhma | ckex2ka | Never mind, just answered this myself. Found the specific clauses under the Electoral Act that comment on this. Under sections 179(5) and 179(6):
If there is an equality of votes between constituency candidates for a district and the addition of 1 vote would entitle one of those candidates to be declared elected, the Electoral Commission must, without delay, apply to a District Court Judge for a recount under section 180, and all the provisions of that section apply accordingly, except that no deposit is necessary.
If on a recount under section 180 there is an equality of votes between constituency candidates and the addition of 1 vote would entitle one of those candidates to be declared elected, the Electoral Commission must determine by lot which of those candidates is to be elected. | Answered own question. Tie forces one recount. If there is still a tie, Electoral Commission flips a coin. |
thatredbeanie | Think about it, I told we lost some, got separated. They went left, we went right. He couldn't have been steering us. He couldn't have planned for Olive to freak out. Also, why would he need a transmitter to hit the compound if he seceded from it? No, Lucas was driven out, and so was anyone else who didn't agree in a female dictatorship. He genuinely meant to help us earlier, but got caught up. Lucy is trying to blame us, using the transmitter as justification to send us on a suicide mission.
Tl;Dr
I have a little faith in Lucas. I'm usually a good judge of character. If I'm wrong guys, I'm sorry, but these are my thoughts. | Think about it, I told we lost some, got separated. They went left, we went right. He couldn't have been steering us. He couldn't have planned for Olive to freak out. Also, why would he need a transmitter to hit the compound if he seceded from it? No, Lucas was driven out, and so was anyone else who didn't agree in a female dictatorship. He genuinely meant to help us earlier, but got caught up. Lucy is trying to blame us, using the transmitter as justification to send us on a suicide mission.
Tl;Dr
I have a little faith in Lucas. I'm usually a good judge of character. If I'm wrong guys, I'm sorry, but these are my thoughts.
| shadowofsurvival | t5_332gw | ckg7whr | Think about it, I told we lost some, got separated. They went left, we went right. He couldn't have been steering us. He couldn't have planned for Olive to freak out. Also, why would he need a transmitter to hit the compound if he seceded from it? No, Lucas was driven out, and so was anyone else who didn't agree in a female dictatorship. He genuinely meant to help us earlier, but got caught up. Lucy is trying to blame us, using the transmitter as justification to send us on a suicide mission. | I have a little faith in Lucas. I'm usually a good judge of character. If I'm wrong guys, I'm sorry, but these are my thoughts. |
RedditAntiHero | Depends on what you want out of the rest of the expansion? Do you want to gear up so you can run Flex/Normal? (heroic might be out of the question unless you have connections)
Gearing up is just one part of the game. You could run LFR to get the story line and see the content before the xpack comes out and then concentrate on the other little things in the game.
Example: I am only about 550 but stopped gearing up and started both trying to get all my CM golds (have 4 left) as well as mount farming as I know I won't have any time for it once WoD comes out and I am swarmed with so much content and new things to do and trying to also level, gear, and profession 12-14 toons.
TL;DR
---------------
Unless you really want the gear for the fun of it or want to try and run Flex/Normal... I would do other stuff. | Depends on what you want out of the rest of the expansion? Do you want to gear up so you can run Flex/Normal? (heroic might be out of the question unless you have connections)
Gearing up is just one part of the game. You could run LFR to get the story line and see the content before the xpack comes out and then concentrate on the other little things in the game.
Example: I am only about 550 but stopped gearing up and started both trying to get all my CM golds (have 4 left) as well as mount farming as I know I won't have any time for it once WoD comes out and I am swarmed with so much content and new things to do and trying to also level, gear, and profession 12-14 toons.
TL;DR
Unless you really want the gear for the fun of it or want to try and run Flex/Normal... I would do other stuff.
| wow | t5_2qio8 | ckfbm96 | Depends on what you want out of the rest of the expansion? Do you want to gear up so you can run Flex/Normal? (heroic might be out of the question unless you have connections)
Gearing up is just one part of the game. You could run LFR to get the story line and see the content before the xpack comes out and then concentrate on the other little things in the game.
Example: I am only about 550 but stopped gearing up and started both trying to get all my CM golds (have 4 left) as well as mount farming as I know I won't have any time for it once WoD comes out and I am swarmed with so much content and new things to do and trying to also level, gear, and profession 12-14 toons. | Unless you really want the gear for the fun of it or want to try and run Flex/Normal... I would do other stuff. |
GeneralNemo | They did not treat you unfairly. You wanted them to go beyond what you purchased ($200 worth of models is worth roughly the $200 you paid for them and not more). To me it is not unreasonable for them to replace your parts and nothing else. Sure, it would have been a mark of excellent customer service to go beyond, but still, I don't think they are required to do so to meet the requirements of servicing their customer.
tl;dr You got the bare minimum of service and that is all they are required to give you. | They did not treat you unfairly. You wanted them to go beyond what you purchased ($200 worth of models is worth roughly the $200 you paid for them and not more). To me it is not unreasonable for them to replace your parts and nothing else. Sure, it would have been a mark of excellent customer service to go beyond, but still, I don't think they are required to do so to meet the requirements of servicing their customer.
tl;dr You got the bare minimum of service and that is all they are required to give you.
| Warmachine | t5_2s3ta | ckfenr8 | They did not treat you unfairly. You wanted them to go beyond what you purchased ($200 worth of models is worth roughly the $200 you paid for them and not more). To me it is not unreasonable for them to replace your parts and nothing else. Sure, it would have been a mark of excellent customer service to go beyond, but still, I don't think they are required to do so to meet the requirements of servicing their customer. | You got the bare minimum of service and that is all they are required to give you. |
PsychMarketing | Now that I have your URL.
The website took me 8 seconds to load at
8 seconds to load... that is horrific.
Google's pagespeed agrees with me - check it out, you need to fix this. The mobile version is even worse...
"An Online Shared Validated Learning Platform for Entrepreneurs"
I have absolutely no idea what that even means, and that's the main message people are getting.
Your Exit pop-up is slightly broken as well - and that's not how you should be using an exit-intent popup. If I'm getting ready to leave, you're supposed to use the exit-intent popup to offer me something for free so that I'll give it a second chance - instead, you give me a popup to make me do more work... nope... that's bad... so now I want to leave, now you make it harder, by trying to give me work to do? Now I'm just annoyed, and will probably never come back (just thinking out loud as a potential visitor, and what could be going through their mind)
Then when I click on "Learn More" - it scrolls down, but then takes me to the join page... And holy crap - I'm using two monitors to try and use the site and continue writing my content, and that stupid exit popup keeps coming up over and over... you need to get rid of that... like now...
Oh man, this is just overall frustrating... but I'll move on...
Okay - I'm back on your learning page - and I see the Learn, Test, Share, Repeat.
What are experiments? what experiments? The copy on this page is too long, nobody has time to read through all of this. You need to be able to tell me what your site does FOR ME, in about 3 - 5 seconds. And it should be the first thing I see when I'm on the landing page.
I still have no idea what your Endless Learning does. Maybe you need to provide some examples, I don't have time to click and watch the video. Which is also 3 mins long.....
Sorry if this post is harsh - but I'm actually frustrated in just reviewing the site.
Here's the TL;DR - You may have a WONDERFUL product, but I have no idea what it is - and you've created SO many barriers for me to access it. When a person lands on your website, they only care about TWO things.
1) How Does This Help Me? What Does it Do For Me? What's In it for Me?
and
2) What Do I Do Next
So In the end, I don't think it's your ad, or your product, it's your website...
| Now that I have your URL.
The website took me 8 seconds to load at
8 seconds to load... that is horrific.
Google's pagespeed agrees with me - check it out, you need to fix this. The mobile version is even worse...
"An Online Shared Validated Learning Platform for Entrepreneurs"
I have absolutely no idea what that even means, and that's the main message people are getting.
Your Exit pop-up is slightly broken as well - and that's not how you should be using an exit-intent popup. If I'm getting ready to leave, you're supposed to use the exit-intent popup to offer me something for free so that I'll give it a second chance - instead, you give me a popup to make me do more work... nope... that's bad... so now I want to leave, now you make it harder, by trying to give me work to do? Now I'm just annoyed, and will probably never come back (just thinking out loud as a potential visitor, and what could be going through their mind)
Then when I click on "Learn More" - it scrolls down, but then takes me to the join page... And holy crap - I'm using two monitors to try and use the site and continue writing my content, and that stupid exit popup keeps coming up over and over... you need to get rid of that... like now...
Oh man, this is just overall frustrating... but I'll move on...
Okay - I'm back on your learning page - and I see the Learn, Test, Share, Repeat.
What are experiments? what experiments? The copy on this page is too long, nobody has time to read through all of this. You need to be able to tell me what your site does FOR ME, in about 3 - 5 seconds. And it should be the first thing I see when I'm on the landing page.
I still have no idea what your Endless Learning does. Maybe you need to provide some examples, I don't have time to click and watch the video. Which is also 3 mins long.....
Sorry if this post is harsh - but I'm actually frustrated in just reviewing the site.
Here's the TL;DR - You may have a WONDERFUL product, but I have no idea what it is - and you've created SO many barriers for me to access it. When a person lands on your website, they only care about TWO things.
1) How Does This Help Me? What Does it Do For Me? What's In it for Me?
and
2) What Do I Do Next
So In the end, I don't think it's your ad, or your product, it's your website...
| AskMarketing | t5_2vqfw | ckgbq66 | Now that I have your URL.
The website took me 8 seconds to load at
8 seconds to load... that is horrific.
Google's pagespeed agrees with me - check it out, you need to fix this. The mobile version is even worse...
"An Online Shared Validated Learning Platform for Entrepreneurs"
I have absolutely no idea what that even means, and that's the main message people are getting.
Your Exit pop-up is slightly broken as well - and that's not how you should be using an exit-intent popup. If I'm getting ready to leave, you're supposed to use the exit-intent popup to offer me something for free so that I'll give it a second chance - instead, you give me a popup to make me do more work... nope... that's bad... so now I want to leave, now you make it harder, by trying to give me work to do? Now I'm just annoyed, and will probably never come back (just thinking out loud as a potential visitor, and what could be going through their mind)
Then when I click on "Learn More" - it scrolls down, but then takes me to the join page... And holy crap - I'm using two monitors to try and use the site and continue writing my content, and that stupid exit popup keeps coming up over and over... you need to get rid of that... like now...
Oh man, this is just overall frustrating... but I'll move on...
Okay - I'm back on your learning page - and I see the Learn, Test, Share, Repeat.
What are experiments? what experiments? The copy on this page is too long, nobody has time to read through all of this. You need to be able to tell me what your site does FOR ME, in about 3 - 5 seconds. And it should be the first thing I see when I'm on the landing page.
I still have no idea what your Endless Learning does. Maybe you need to provide some examples, I don't have time to click and watch the video. Which is also 3 mins long.....
Sorry if this post is harsh - but I'm actually frustrated in just reviewing the site.
Here's the | You may have a WONDERFUL product, but I have no idea what it is - and you've created SO many barriers for me to access it. When a person lands on your website, they only care about TWO things.
1) How Does This Help Me? What Does it Do For Me? What's In it for Me?
and
2) What Do I Do Next
So In the end, I don't think it's your ad, or your product, it's your website... |
strangeandconfusing | As a shy girl who also has confidence issues, I understand how your girlfriend feels. It's very important to be sensitive, and not make it all about the sex stuff. Insecurity really does effect almost every aspect of life in some way. When somebody tells you to be more confident in something, it is easy to interpret it as a "you're not good enough"-type comment - we're the best at twisting our partners words so they seem hurtful to us, because we secretly feel we deserve it.
My advice would be to be patient and make sure you're supporting and communicating with her in other parts of her life (as this sounds like it could possibly be the sign of bigger problems) - make her feel loved, appreciated, and remind her of all her awesome qualities. If she's being quiet like she did that morning, cuddle her and act warmly towards her, don't be silent around her. After all, the one thing she wants is reassurance that she's good enough.
Talk openly about the bedroom stuff, but maybe not when you're actually in bed about to sleep - find a quiet time during the day. Frame it in a way that doesn't come across as 'her fault'. These are just ideas, but reassure her that you love her and want to make her feel worthy/confident, because you want both of you to enjoy sex. Repeat that you're more than happy to show her what to do, because you love her touch, and that she can do the same for you (could even make it into a little game). Say she's beautiful and sexy and doesn't deserve to have such a low opinion of herself.
This might seem like you're having to do all the work, but these are ingrained issues we're dealing with and it'll take time to change. Be encouraging and supportive, always.
TL; DR: The more happy and secure she feels with you emotionally, the more self-confident she'll be sexually. | As a shy girl who also has confidence issues, I understand how your girlfriend feels. It's very important to be sensitive, and not make it all about the sex stuff. Insecurity really does effect almost every aspect of life in some way. When somebody tells you to be more confident in something, it is easy to interpret it as a "you're not good enough"-type comment - we're the best at twisting our partners words so they seem hurtful to us, because we secretly feel we deserve it.
My advice would be to be patient and make sure you're supporting and communicating with her in other parts of her life (as this sounds like it could possibly be the sign of bigger problems) - make her feel loved, appreciated, and remind her of all her awesome qualities. If she's being quiet like she did that morning, cuddle her and act warmly towards her, don't be silent around her. After all, the one thing she wants is reassurance that she's good enough.
Talk openly about the bedroom stuff, but maybe not when you're actually in bed about to sleep - find a quiet time during the day. Frame it in a way that doesn't come across as 'her fault'. These are just ideas, but reassure her that you love her and want to make her feel worthy/confident, because you want both of you to enjoy sex. Repeat that you're more than happy to show her what to do, because you love her touch, and that she can do the same for you (could even make it into a little game). Say she's beautiful and sexy and doesn't deserve to have such a low opinion of herself.
This might seem like you're having to do all the work, but these are ingrained issues we're dealing with and it'll take time to change. Be encouraging and supportive, always.
TL; DR: The more happy and secure she feels with you emotionally, the more self-confident she'll be sexually.
| relationship_advice | t5_2r0cn | ckfx60n | As a shy girl who also has confidence issues, I understand how your girlfriend feels. It's very important to be sensitive, and not make it all about the sex stuff. Insecurity really does effect almost every aspect of life in some way. When somebody tells you to be more confident in something, it is easy to interpret it as a "you're not good enough"-type comment - we're the best at twisting our partners words so they seem hurtful to us, because we secretly feel we deserve it.
My advice would be to be patient and make sure you're supporting and communicating with her in other parts of her life (as this sounds like it could possibly be the sign of bigger problems) - make her feel loved, appreciated, and remind her of all her awesome qualities. If she's being quiet like she did that morning, cuddle her and act warmly towards her, don't be silent around her. After all, the one thing she wants is reassurance that she's good enough.
Talk openly about the bedroom stuff, but maybe not when you're actually in bed about to sleep - find a quiet time during the day. Frame it in a way that doesn't come across as 'her fault'. These are just ideas, but reassure her that you love her and want to make her feel worthy/confident, because you want both of you to enjoy sex. Repeat that you're more than happy to show her what to do, because you love her touch, and that she can do the same for you (could even make it into a little game). Say she's beautiful and sexy and doesn't deserve to have such a low opinion of herself.
This might seem like you're having to do all the work, but these are ingrained issues we're dealing with and it'll take time to change. Be encouraging and supportive, always. | The more happy and secure she feels with you emotionally, the more self-confident she'll be sexually. |
BringTheBeatBack | I worked with mentally disabled people for over a year. Lots of great stories that had me crying with laughter by the time I'd relay it to family, lots of terrible, head-ache induced ones, too. The person I have the most stories with though, is a middle aged woman I'll call "Jess".
Jess was one of the most difficult people to work with. She had a disorder called Polydipsia - Basically, if she saw a beverage she'd compulsively drink it. Literally anything. She can't control it, but at the same time she didn't want to. Well, she COULD control it if she really wanted to (AKA bribing her to do her favorite things) but often times it was a lost cause. She was EXTREMELY OCD as well as had Autism. She also had a terrible temper and would chase/hit/yell at people so many didn't want to work with her. I did well with her though, so I was always put on shifts with her because for some reason she really liked me.
Anyway, the one time I considered punching someone in the face was when I was with Jess. She had an obligation to walk/do some kind of exercise once per day which she absolutely hated. However, she liked the mall a lot so I was able to convince her to walk with me for a half hour, and I would reward her by letting her look at magazines (She LOVED magazines).
So one day we're doing our walk when I hear some woman yelling after me "EXCUSE me! EXCCUUSSEE me!" I turned around, surprised and the woman at the kiosk comes storming up to me and Jess.
"Can I help you?" I asked her. She looked from me to Jess, glaring at her as she did.
She explained to me that Jess had been there the day before which I knew wasn't possible because I had taken her to the YMCA to do Zumba. I tried to explain to her but she kept cutting me off. She told me it was at around one when Jess had come by their kiosk and stolen a drink that had been laying around. She had drank all of it and the woman wanted compensation for it for the employee Jess had taken it from.
I hadn't been with her in the afternoon the day before so I turned to her and asked, "Jess, were you at the Mall yesterday?" she looked down and mumbled yes and told me she had been at her day "job" (Which is just at the center where she does crafts/whatever to occupy her time).
"What is that?!" snapped the woman. I turned to her and gently explained what it was, that I was sorry this had happened, and informed her about Jess's condition. I also told her I was sorry but I hadn't brought money so if she wanted compensation we'd have to come back later. The woman sniped, "Well YOU shouldn't have to pay for it!" I agreed and told her Jess would pay for it out of her funds and that this was sort of common (this drink cost 2 fucking dollars - come ON lady!).
The lady looks away from me and starts badgering Jess, saying things like, "You KNOW what you did!" "You did something BAD didn't you? HUH?" and I was slowly getting angry so I jumped in, saying sharply, "Ma'am, she is my participant and what you are doing is inappropriate. You do not know her condition. I understand you're upset but we will take care of it." The woman glares at me and goes back to berating Jess, talking to her like she's - well - mentally disabled and sub-human which anyone in the business can tell you is EXTREMELY rude and unnecessary. I figured she was treating me like an ignorant shit-head because I was young (only 21) so she probably thought she could take advantage of me and Jess.
I was done the minute she said, "Do you UNDERSTAND what I'm saying? Do you know ENGLISH?" I move Jess aside, step in front of her and tell the woman, "You know what? We're done here. You can get your money, but I won't condone you talking down to her anymore. Goodbye." I take Jess and we walk, the woman says something to our backs but I ignore her because I am about two seconds away from going ape shit on this ignorant bitch.
So we walk the mall some more and pass the woman a few times. She glares at us and starts talking shit to employees in other kiosks. She also points and laughs at us.
So the next day I called the company she worked for, made a huge stink about how someone that ignorant and shitty shouldn't be suited to work for the general public if she doesn't understand mental disabilities and treats people like monkeys (before I could give her name they said "Oh, we know her and have gotten complaints in the past") and the next week, she wasn't there anymore.
**TL;DR** A shitty person yelled at my participant over a 2 dollar drink.
A FUNNY story is one time while doing Zumba with Jess, I looked over at her, saw her plugging her nose and fanning her ass so I knew she farted and it must have smelled. I look behind her to see the shocked faces of two woman as they tried to (inconspicuously) plug their noses. | I worked with mentally disabled people for over a year. Lots of great stories that had me crying with laughter by the time I'd relay it to family, lots of terrible, head-ache induced ones, too. The person I have the most stories with though, is a middle aged woman I'll call "Jess".
Jess was one of the most difficult people to work with. She had a disorder called Polydipsia - Basically, if she saw a beverage she'd compulsively drink it. Literally anything. She can't control it, but at the same time she didn't want to. Well, she COULD control it if she really wanted to (AKA bribing her to do her favorite things) but often times it was a lost cause. She was EXTREMELY OCD as well as had Autism. She also had a terrible temper and would chase/hit/yell at people so many didn't want to work with her. I did well with her though, so I was always put on shifts with her because for some reason she really liked me.
Anyway, the one time I considered punching someone in the face was when I was with Jess. She had an obligation to walk/do some kind of exercise once per day which she absolutely hated. However, she liked the mall a lot so I was able to convince her to walk with me for a half hour, and I would reward her by letting her look at magazines (She LOVED magazines).
So one day we're doing our walk when I hear some woman yelling after me "EXCUSE me! EXCCUUSSEE me!" I turned around, surprised and the woman at the kiosk comes storming up to me and Jess.
"Can I help you?" I asked her. She looked from me to Jess, glaring at her as she did.
She explained to me that Jess had been there the day before which I knew wasn't possible because I had taken her to the YMCA to do Zumba. I tried to explain to her but she kept cutting me off. She told me it was at around one when Jess had come by their kiosk and stolen a drink that had been laying around. She had drank all of it and the woman wanted compensation for it for the employee Jess had taken it from.
I hadn't been with her in the afternoon the day before so I turned to her and asked, "Jess, were you at the Mall yesterday?" she looked down and mumbled yes and told me she had been at her day "job" (Which is just at the center where she does crafts/whatever to occupy her time).
"What is that?!" snapped the woman. I turned to her and gently explained what it was, that I was sorry this had happened, and informed her about Jess's condition. I also told her I was sorry but I hadn't brought money so if she wanted compensation we'd have to come back later. The woman sniped, "Well YOU shouldn't have to pay for it!" I agreed and told her Jess would pay for it out of her funds and that this was sort of common (this drink cost 2 fucking dollars - come ON lady!).
The lady looks away from me and starts badgering Jess, saying things like, "You KNOW what you did!" "You did something BAD didn't you? HUH?" and I was slowly getting angry so I jumped in, saying sharply, "Ma'am, she is my participant and what you are doing is inappropriate. You do not know her condition. I understand you're upset but we will take care of it." The woman glares at me and goes back to berating Jess, talking to her like she's - well - mentally disabled and sub-human which anyone in the business can tell you is EXTREMELY rude and unnecessary. I figured she was treating me like an ignorant shit-head because I was young (only 21) so she probably thought she could take advantage of me and Jess.
I was done the minute she said, "Do you UNDERSTAND what I'm saying? Do you know ENGLISH?" I move Jess aside, step in front of her and tell the woman, "You know what? We're done here. You can get your money, but I won't condone you talking down to her anymore. Goodbye." I take Jess and we walk, the woman says something to our backs but I ignore her because I am about two seconds away from going ape shit on this ignorant bitch.
So we walk the mall some more and pass the woman a few times. She glares at us and starts talking shit to employees in other kiosks. She also points and laughs at us.
So the next day I called the company she worked for, made a huge stink about how someone that ignorant and shitty shouldn't be suited to work for the general public if she doesn't understand mental disabilities and treats people like monkeys (before I could give her name they said "Oh, we know her and have gotten complaints in the past") and the next week, she wasn't there anymore.
TL;DR A shitty person yelled at my participant over a 2 dollar drink.
A FUNNY story is one time while doing Zumba with Jess, I looked over at her, saw her plugging her nose and fanning her ass so I knew she farted and it must have smelled. I look behind her to see the shocked faces of two woman as they tried to (inconspicuously) plug their noses.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | ckfnuug | I worked with mentally disabled people for over a year. Lots of great stories that had me crying with laughter by the time I'd relay it to family, lots of terrible, head-ache induced ones, too. The person I have the most stories with though, is a middle aged woman I'll call "Jess".
Jess was one of the most difficult people to work with. She had a disorder called Polydipsia - Basically, if she saw a beverage she'd compulsively drink it. Literally anything. She can't control it, but at the same time she didn't want to. Well, she COULD control it if she really wanted to (AKA bribing her to do her favorite things) but often times it was a lost cause. She was EXTREMELY OCD as well as had Autism. She also had a terrible temper and would chase/hit/yell at people so many didn't want to work with her. I did well with her though, so I was always put on shifts with her because for some reason she really liked me.
Anyway, the one time I considered punching someone in the face was when I was with Jess. She had an obligation to walk/do some kind of exercise once per day which she absolutely hated. However, she liked the mall a lot so I was able to convince her to walk with me for a half hour, and I would reward her by letting her look at magazines (She LOVED magazines).
So one day we're doing our walk when I hear some woman yelling after me "EXCUSE me! EXCCUUSSEE me!" I turned around, surprised and the woman at the kiosk comes storming up to me and Jess.
"Can I help you?" I asked her. She looked from me to Jess, glaring at her as she did.
She explained to me that Jess had been there the day before which I knew wasn't possible because I had taken her to the YMCA to do Zumba. I tried to explain to her but she kept cutting me off. She told me it was at around one when Jess had come by their kiosk and stolen a drink that had been laying around. She had drank all of it and the woman wanted compensation for it for the employee Jess had taken it from.
I hadn't been with her in the afternoon the day before so I turned to her and asked, "Jess, were you at the Mall yesterday?" she looked down and mumbled yes and told me she had been at her day "job" (Which is just at the center where she does crafts/whatever to occupy her time).
"What is that?!" snapped the woman. I turned to her and gently explained what it was, that I was sorry this had happened, and informed her about Jess's condition. I also told her I was sorry but I hadn't brought money so if she wanted compensation we'd have to come back later. The woman sniped, "Well YOU shouldn't have to pay for it!" I agreed and told her Jess would pay for it out of her funds and that this was sort of common (this drink cost 2 fucking dollars - come ON lady!).
The lady looks away from me and starts badgering Jess, saying things like, "You KNOW what you did!" "You did something BAD didn't you? HUH?" and I was slowly getting angry so I jumped in, saying sharply, "Ma'am, she is my participant and what you are doing is inappropriate. You do not know her condition. I understand you're upset but we will take care of it." The woman glares at me and goes back to berating Jess, talking to her like she's - well - mentally disabled and sub-human which anyone in the business can tell you is EXTREMELY rude and unnecessary. I figured she was treating me like an ignorant shit-head because I was young (only 21) so she probably thought she could take advantage of me and Jess.
I was done the minute she said, "Do you UNDERSTAND what I'm saying? Do you know ENGLISH?" I move Jess aside, step in front of her and tell the woman, "You know what? We're done here. You can get your money, but I won't condone you talking down to her anymore. Goodbye." I take Jess and we walk, the woman says something to our backs but I ignore her because I am about two seconds away from going ape shit on this ignorant bitch.
So we walk the mall some more and pass the woman a few times. She glares at us and starts talking shit to employees in other kiosks. She also points and laughs at us.
So the next day I called the company she worked for, made a huge stink about how someone that ignorant and shitty shouldn't be suited to work for the general public if she doesn't understand mental disabilities and treats people like monkeys (before I could give her name they said "Oh, we know her and have gotten complaints in the past") and the next week, she wasn't there anymore. | A shitty person yelled at my participant over a 2 dollar drink.
A FUNNY story is one time while doing Zumba with Jess, I looked over at her, saw her plugging her nose and fanning her ass so I knew she farted and it must have smelled. I look behind her to see the shocked faces of two woman as they tried to (inconspicuously) plug their noses. |
razain86 | I had a crush on this girl who was 15 and she was the right age. It was so awkward and backwards. I felt strange fooling around but she was a teen so it seemed natural to her. she talked me into trying it and if it was weird we'd stop. I gave into peer pressure. It was weird, we stopped a few minutes into it. She dumped me a few days later to find a guy her age. Never blamed her when I was older, but damn I felt so dirty. It also caused problems in my teens as I was sexually further and more aggressive, especially around 14 and 15. And I don't mean rape aggressive, I mean I was looking to get laid much more than kids my age.
Tl:Dr I was male 12 year oldpeer pressured into sex by a teen of 15 and it made middle/high school even more awkward. | I had a crush on this girl who was 15 and she was the right age. It was so awkward and backwards. I felt strange fooling around but she was a teen so it seemed natural to her. she talked me into trying it and if it was weird we'd stop. I gave into peer pressure. It was weird, we stopped a few minutes into it. She dumped me a few days later to find a guy her age. Never blamed her when I was older, but damn I felt so dirty. It also caused problems in my teens as I was sexually further and more aggressive, especially around 14 and 15. And I don't mean rape aggressive, I mean I was looking to get laid much more than kids my age.
Tl:Dr I was male 12 year oldpeer pressured into sex by a teen of 15 and it made middle/high school even more awkward.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | ckg967i | I had a crush on this girl who was 15 and she was the right age. It was so awkward and backwards. I felt strange fooling around but she was a teen so it seemed natural to her. she talked me into trying it and if it was weird we'd stop. I gave into peer pressure. It was weird, we stopped a few minutes into it. She dumped me a few days later to find a guy her age. Never blamed her when I was older, but damn I felt so dirty. It also caused problems in my teens as I was sexually further and more aggressive, especially around 14 and 15. And I don't mean rape aggressive, I mean I was looking to get laid much more than kids my age. | I was male 12 year oldpeer pressured into sex by a teen of 15 and it made middle/high school even more awkward. |
machmothetrumpeteer | I don't have experiences with the other brands, but I'll speak for Banana Republic suits. I wear a suit every weekday and rarely take my jacket off during the day. I only really own seven suits and two are the 'backups' that I don't really like very much, so my five Banana suits have been worn probably 100 full days each over the past couple+ years.
I'm about 6' 1" and 190, so a thin/athletic build, and the tailored fit jackets look amazing and fit me almost perfect right off the rack. No collar gap, no real bunching, it's great for someone as fashionably lazy as I am, who still wants to look really put-together.
This far every suit has held up with no visible wear, thinning, or tearing, except catching a pant leg in my bike chain once. You could probably get better quality if you're willing to spend $500, but if you shop sales properly, banana is dirt cheap for the quality I've found. Fwiw, the jcrew ludlow fits similarly.
tldr- apparently I turned into a BR spokesperson. I wish they'd pay me. | I don't have experiences with the other brands, but I'll speak for Banana Republic suits. I wear a suit every weekday and rarely take my jacket off during the day. I only really own seven suits and two are the 'backups' that I don't really like very much, so my five Banana suits have been worn probably 100 full days each over the past couple+ years.
I'm about 6' 1" and 190, so a thin/athletic build, and the tailored fit jackets look amazing and fit me almost perfect right off the rack. No collar gap, no real bunching, it's great for someone as fashionably lazy as I am, who still wants to look really put-together.
This far every suit has held up with no visible wear, thinning, or tearing, except catching a pant leg in my bike chain once. You could probably get better quality if you're willing to spend $500, but if you shop sales properly, banana is dirt cheap for the quality I've found. Fwiw, the jcrew ludlow fits similarly.
tldr- apparently I turned into a BR spokesperson. I wish they'd pay me.
| frugalmalefashion | t5_2s8e9 | ckg8fde | I don't have experiences with the other brands, but I'll speak for Banana Republic suits. I wear a suit every weekday and rarely take my jacket off during the day. I only really own seven suits and two are the 'backups' that I don't really like very much, so my five Banana suits have been worn probably 100 full days each over the past couple+ years.
I'm about 6' 1" and 190, so a thin/athletic build, and the tailored fit jackets look amazing and fit me almost perfect right off the rack. No collar gap, no real bunching, it's great for someone as fashionably lazy as I am, who still wants to look really put-together.
This far every suit has held up with no visible wear, thinning, or tearing, except catching a pant leg in my bike chain once. You could probably get better quality if you're willing to spend $500, but if you shop sales properly, banana is dirt cheap for the quality I've found. Fwiw, the jcrew ludlow fits similarly. | apparently I turned into a BR spokesperson. I wish they'd pay me. |
muki_mono | Oooh let's talk about clothes! I love pants with buttons instead of zippers. Jeans especially are much much nicer when they have buttons all the way down. I don't really wear jeans often anymore, because I discovered non-slim fit chinos and khakis are as comfortable as those, but my favorite jeans had buttons all the way down.
And yess I see tons of dudes wearing pants that are *way* too big for them. I was at H&M Man a couple of weeks ago and especially teenage boys would come out to show their gf/mum their pants and it was like... dude. No. One size smaller would make you look so much more put together.
Definitely jealous of men's suit jackets though. I spent all summer looking for a mint green suit jacket and I only saw them in men's departments (super nice too, with all these inside pockets and shit), and those are way too big for me, so a no go.
TL;DR: I like clothes a lot and may talk about them nonstop right now. I don't think liking clothes means you like men, becaue I love clothes and I like women (: | Oooh let's talk about clothes! I love pants with buttons instead of zippers. Jeans especially are much much nicer when they have buttons all the way down. I don't really wear jeans often anymore, because I discovered non-slim fit chinos and khakis are as comfortable as those, but my favorite jeans had buttons all the way down.
And yess I see tons of dudes wearing pants that are way too big for them. I was at H&M Man a couple of weeks ago and especially teenage boys would come out to show their gf/mum their pants and it was like... dude. No. One size smaller would make you look so much more put together.
Definitely jealous of men's suit jackets though. I spent all summer looking for a mint green suit jacket and I only saw them in men's departments (super nice too, with all these inside pockets and shit), and those are way too big for me, so a no go.
TL;DR: I like clothes a lot and may talk about them nonstop right now. I don't think liking clothes means you like men, becaue I love clothes and I like women (:
| AskWomen | t5_2rxrw | ckgbjyy | Oooh let's talk about clothes! I love pants with buttons instead of zippers. Jeans especially are much much nicer when they have buttons all the way down. I don't really wear jeans often anymore, because I discovered non-slim fit chinos and khakis are as comfortable as those, but my favorite jeans had buttons all the way down.
And yess I see tons of dudes wearing pants that are way too big for them. I was at H&M Man a couple of weeks ago and especially teenage boys would come out to show their gf/mum their pants and it was like... dude. No. One size smaller would make you look so much more put together.
Definitely jealous of men's suit jackets though. I spent all summer looking for a mint green suit jacket and I only saw them in men's departments (super nice too, with all these inside pockets and shit), and those are way too big for me, so a no go. | I like clothes a lot and may talk about them nonstop right now. I don't think liking clothes means you like men, becaue I love clothes and I like women (: |
infinitude | They made quite a few mistakes and hit quite a few roadblocks. That's a simple truth. The game hasn't been cancelled, rocket didn't "ditch" it. There wasn't any place for him. He said himself that he was the type of guy who got things started and then passed them to those who could do it better than him. He said the game was inherently flawed because that's correct, so now they're going back to the basics and working there way up.
TL;DR *"I have not failed 1,000 times. I have successfully discovered 1,000 ways to NOT make a light bulb."* | They made quite a few mistakes and hit quite a few roadblocks. That's a simple truth. The game hasn't been cancelled, rocket didn't "ditch" it. There wasn't any place for him. He said himself that he was the type of guy who got things started and then passed them to those who could do it better than him. He said the game was inherently flawed because that's correct, so now they're going back to the basics and working there way up.
TL;DR "I have not failed 1,000 times. I have successfully discovered 1,000 ways to NOT make a light bulb."
| Games | t5_2qhwp | ckgyrmn | They made quite a few mistakes and hit quite a few roadblocks. That's a simple truth. The game hasn't been cancelled, rocket didn't "ditch" it. There wasn't any place for him. He said himself that he was the type of guy who got things started and then passed them to those who could do it better than him. He said the game was inherently flawed because that's correct, so now they're going back to the basics and working there way up. | I have not failed 1,000 times. I have successfully discovered 1,000 ways to NOT make a light bulb." |
infinitude | I doubt this took an insane amount of resources or time. They also have tens of millions to put into the game. This type of advertising can bring more support money in.
TL;DR think of it as an investment. | I doubt this took an insane amount of resources or time. They also have tens of millions to put into the game. This type of advertising can bring more support money in.
TL;DR think of it as an investment.
| Games | t5_2qhwp | ckgzicq | I doubt this took an insane amount of resources or time. They also have tens of millions to put into the game. This type of advertising can bring more support money in. | think of it as an investment. |
Ithloniel | Let's just number your 4 requirements in order, as 1, 2, 3, and 4 for the ease of my post. For the sake of this comment, I am taking into account all discussion that was previously done concerning actual critiques and alternatives. I am also considering whatever new changes I've added, as the problem with Cauterize was made evident, and I decided I didn't like Meditate in the least.
 
Ember:
* 1) Ember uses Accelerant quite effectively to stop incoming damage, with the glass-cannon goal of killing all enemies prior to being killed herself
* 2) Ignoring enemy CC is easy on any frame by simply using an animation-based power. Any frame can do it, and if you can't, I guess its time you practice.
* 3) My reworks for WoF damage, Rising Phoenix's extra damage, and the energy cost drop of Fire Blast allows for decent later-game damage that can stack quite well when combined together
* 4) Too many frames repeat powers. Most of my ideas are designed to step a bit away from that. Also, this was a two-part question you made. Yes, this is helpful to the group, since Rising Phoenix aids in revives, AND has a chance of keeping Ember alive on what would normally be death.
 
Excalibur:
* 1) Slash Dash has front facing damage immunity. Ward cuts down 45% of all damage at the cost of stamina, functioning as an alternative parry with 360 degrees.
* 2) Once again, learn to animation dodge. If not, use the power strength version of Radial Blind to keep nearby enemies from messing with you
* 3) It is Excalibur. The sword? No. It has never given gun bonuses, and frankly, I've never needed them even past an hour of survival... but since you brought it up, 4x melee damage isn't too bad. Gotta love RB.
* 4) RB was stolen by Mirage, so in that case, nope. Ward is unique, so there's that. Slash Dash, as I designed it, is amazing mobility, and can be chained, making it very unique.
 
Saryn:
* 1) Molt. It is already a skill. If you find it doesn't help enough or needs more health, maybe you need to be more tactful in how you use it.
* 2) Animation dodge... again.
* 3) As discussed on the thread, Contagion, even with the radius percent bonus, should give a toxin damage modifier. Besides that... why are you so set on gun DPS bonuses? The damage is high enough as is, and we don't need it. 200k red crit head-shots using a dread is proof enough of that. Get with the program. DE is trying to actively moderate ridiculous weapon damage these days.
* 4) Power-based Reach for huge melee range... Molt to be used as a melee short-fuse bomb, while pulling aggro...
 
At the end of the day, all of these ideas are still being worked on, thanks to the great critiques and suggestions of others. Currently, Saryn needs the most work. As for similar skills, I try to keep my ideas somewhat original, but even then, most classes in many games are capable of similar skills even if they do it less efficiently than others. A great example is how Paladins in most games can heal, but not as well as Priests or Clerics. Such differences in their style and quality of two similar skills is what sets them apart. If you have anything positive to add in the progression of these ideas, I'd appreciate your input. If not, feel free to take this imaginary [gold star](
 
TL;DR -- then how did you ever get through my posts or threads in the first place? See: [Gold Star.]( | Let's just number your 4 requirements in order, as 1, 2, 3, and 4 for the ease of my post. For the sake of this comment, I am taking into account all discussion that was previously done concerning actual critiques and alternatives. I am also considering whatever new changes I've added, as the problem with Cauterize was made evident, and I decided I didn't like Meditate in the least.
Ember:
1) Ember uses Accelerant quite effectively to stop incoming damage, with the glass-cannon goal of killing all enemies prior to being killed herself
2) Ignoring enemy CC is easy on any frame by simply using an animation-based power. Any frame can do it, and if you can't, I guess its time you practice.
3) My reworks for WoF damage, Rising Phoenix's extra damage, and the energy cost drop of Fire Blast allows for decent later-game damage that can stack quite well when combined together
4) Too many frames repeat powers. Most of my ideas are designed to step a bit away from that. Also, this was a two-part question you made. Yes, this is helpful to the group, since Rising Phoenix aids in revives, AND has a chance of keeping Ember alive on what would normally be death.
Excalibur:
1) Slash Dash has front facing damage immunity. Ward cuts down 45% of all damage at the cost of stamina, functioning as an alternative parry with 360 degrees.
2) Once again, learn to animation dodge. If not, use the power strength version of Radial Blind to keep nearby enemies from messing with you
3) It is Excalibur. The sword? No. It has never given gun bonuses, and frankly, I've never needed them even past an hour of survival... but since you brought it up, 4x melee damage isn't too bad. Gotta love RB.
4) RB was stolen by Mirage, so in that case, nope. Ward is unique, so there's that. Slash Dash, as I designed it, is amazing mobility, and can be chained, making it very unique.
Saryn:
1) Molt. It is already a skill. If you find it doesn't help enough or needs more health, maybe you need to be more tactful in how you use it.
2) Animation dodge... again.
3) As discussed on the thread, Contagion, even with the radius percent bonus, should give a toxin damage modifier. Besides that... why are you so set on gun DPS bonuses? The damage is high enough as is, and we don't need it. 200k red crit head-shots using a dread is proof enough of that. Get with the program. DE is trying to actively moderate ridiculous weapon damage these days.
4) Power-based Reach for huge melee range... Molt to be used as a melee short-fuse bomb, while pulling aggro...
At the end of the day, all of these ideas are still being worked on, thanks to the great critiques and suggestions of others. Currently, Saryn needs the most work. As for similar skills, I try to keep my ideas somewhat original, but even then, most classes in many games are capable of similar skills even if they do it less efficiently than others. A great example is how Paladins in most games can heal, but not as well as Priests or Clerics. Such differences in their style and quality of two similar skills is what sets them apart. If you have anything positive to add in the progression of these ideas, I'd appreciate your input. If not, feel free to take this imaginary [gold star](
TL;DR -- then how did you ever get through my posts or threads in the first place? See: [Gold Star.](
| Warframe | t5_2urg0 | ckh0nds | Let's just number your 4 requirements in order, as 1, 2, 3, and 4 for the ease of my post. For the sake of this comment, I am taking into account all discussion that was previously done concerning actual critiques and alternatives. I am also considering whatever new changes I've added, as the problem with Cauterize was made evident, and I decided I didn't like Meditate in the least.
Ember:
1) Ember uses Accelerant quite effectively to stop incoming damage, with the glass-cannon goal of killing all enemies prior to being killed herself
2) Ignoring enemy CC is easy on any frame by simply using an animation-based power. Any frame can do it, and if you can't, I guess its time you practice.
3) My reworks for WoF damage, Rising Phoenix's extra damage, and the energy cost drop of Fire Blast allows for decent later-game damage that can stack quite well when combined together
4) Too many frames repeat powers. Most of my ideas are designed to step a bit away from that. Also, this was a two-part question you made. Yes, this is helpful to the group, since Rising Phoenix aids in revives, AND has a chance of keeping Ember alive on what would normally be death.
Excalibur:
1) Slash Dash has front facing damage immunity. Ward cuts down 45% of all damage at the cost of stamina, functioning as an alternative parry with 360 degrees.
2) Once again, learn to animation dodge. If not, use the power strength version of Radial Blind to keep nearby enemies from messing with you
3) It is Excalibur. The sword? No. It has never given gun bonuses, and frankly, I've never needed them even past an hour of survival... but since you brought it up, 4x melee damage isn't too bad. Gotta love RB.
4) RB was stolen by Mirage, so in that case, nope. Ward is unique, so there's that. Slash Dash, as I designed it, is amazing mobility, and can be chained, making it very unique.
Saryn:
1) Molt. It is already a skill. If you find it doesn't help enough or needs more health, maybe you need to be more tactful in how you use it.
2) Animation dodge... again.
3) As discussed on the thread, Contagion, even with the radius percent bonus, should give a toxin damage modifier. Besides that... why are you so set on gun DPS bonuses? The damage is high enough as is, and we don't need it. 200k red crit head-shots using a dread is proof enough of that. Get with the program. DE is trying to actively moderate ridiculous weapon damage these days.
4) Power-based Reach for huge melee range... Molt to be used as a melee short-fuse bomb, while pulling aggro...
At the end of the day, all of these ideas are still being worked on, thanks to the great critiques and suggestions of others. Currently, Saryn needs the most work. As for similar skills, I try to keep my ideas somewhat original, but even then, most classes in many games are capable of similar skills even if they do it less efficiently than others. A great example is how Paladins in most games can heal, but not as well as Priests or Clerics. Such differences in their style and quality of two similar skills is what sets them apart. If you have anything positive to add in the progression of these ideas, I'd appreciate your input. If not, feel free to take this imaginary [gold star](
| then how did you ever get through my posts or threads in the first place? See: [Gold Star.]( |
ghost_in_the_code | Shouldn't it really be tl,dr? Just saying | Shouldn't it really be tl,dr? Just saying
| Showerthoughts | t5_2szyo | ckgmlec | Shouldn't it really be | Just saying |
Xenxe | Just letting you know that if every transgender person had access to medically perfect cost free no complication procedures then sure what you say might be true. But no, the procedures aren't perfect, are super expensive and often come with major risks.
To not recognize someone as the gender they are because of something you probably can't and won't see is pretty fucked up.
I'm not attacking you in particular but you have a misguided viewpoint which is sadly shared with many people.
Most physical characteristics can be accomplished through a process called HRT. which is pretty cost effective and allows a person to take hormones and suppress their natural ones to take on characterisitics of the preferred gender. But even still access to HRT isn't given to everyone who wants it sadly so in a perfect world everyone would accept everyone for what they want regardless of that even.
**tl;dr** don't judge by whats in the pants. Because that's not all that matters. | Just letting you know that if every transgender person had access to medically perfect cost free no complication procedures then sure what you say might be true. But no, the procedures aren't perfect, are super expensive and often come with major risks.
To not recognize someone as the gender they are because of something you probably can't and won't see is pretty fucked up.
I'm not attacking you in particular but you have a misguided viewpoint which is sadly shared with many people.
Most physical characteristics can be accomplished through a process called HRT. which is pretty cost effective and allows a person to take hormones and suppress their natural ones to take on characterisitics of the preferred gender. But even still access to HRT isn't given to everyone who wants it sadly so in a perfect world everyone would accept everyone for what they want regardless of that even.
tl;dr don't judge by whats in the pants. Because that's not all that matters.
| funny | t5_2qh33 | ckh3pjh | Just letting you know that if every transgender person had access to medically perfect cost free no complication procedures then sure what you say might be true. But no, the procedures aren't perfect, are super expensive and often come with major risks.
To not recognize someone as the gender they are because of something you probably can't and won't see is pretty fucked up.
I'm not attacking you in particular but you have a misguided viewpoint which is sadly shared with many people.
Most physical characteristics can be accomplished through a process called HRT. which is pretty cost effective and allows a person to take hormones and suppress their natural ones to take on characterisitics of the preferred gender. But even still access to HRT isn't given to everyone who wants it sadly so in a perfect world everyone would accept everyone for what they want regardless of that even. | don't judge by whats in the pants. Because that's not all that matters. |
Gaz_Of_Naz | Shit.
I'm an assistant manager in a chain of frozen food stores in the UK. We have a similar policy that urges staff to approach shoplifters in a civilised manner and to never follow them out the store.
One Saturday evening we had 2 blokes fill up a full shopping trolley (cart) with around £300 - £500 of shopping and slowly made their way to the exit.
Luckily, shoplifters in our area have a certain look about them, making them easy to spot. so I'd watched them the whole way round.
They kept a distance of around 20ft from each other at all times and as the first one (very casually) left the store, and was promptly stopped by myself. (Me: "what the fuck do you think you're playing at?" Him:"oh shit, sorry mate, I forgot"). The other bloke noticed and hanged back.
After sending the first would-be shoplifter on his way, the 2nd decided to try his luck, however this time I wasn't feeling so generous. I followed him out the store, took the trolley from his grasp and threw him on the floor, at which point, one of my larger colleagues darted out the store and sat on him till the rozzers arrived.
Yay for justice. Also, still in my job.
Tl;dr: 2 shoplifters try to walk out with trolleys full of stock. No. Justice.
| Shit.
I'm an assistant manager in a chain of frozen food stores in the UK. We have a similar policy that urges staff to approach shoplifters in a civilised manner and to never follow them out the store.
One Saturday evening we had 2 blokes fill up a full shopping trolley (cart) with around £300 - £500 of shopping and slowly made their way to the exit.
Luckily, shoplifters in our area have a certain look about them, making them easy to spot. so I'd watched them the whole way round.
They kept a distance of around 20ft from each other at all times and as the first one (very casually) left the store, and was promptly stopped by myself. (Me: "what the fuck do you think you're playing at?" Him:"oh shit, sorry mate, I forgot"). The other bloke noticed and hanged back.
After sending the first would-be shoplifter on his way, the 2nd decided to try his luck, however this time I wasn't feeling so generous. I followed him out the store, took the trolley from his grasp and threw him on the floor, at which point, one of my larger colleagues darted out the store and sat on him till the rozzers arrived.
Yay for justice. Also, still in my job.
Tl;dr: 2 shoplifters try to walk out with trolleys full of stock. No. Justice.
| funny | t5_2qh33 | ckhg918 | Shit.
I'm an assistant manager in a chain of frozen food stores in the UK. We have a similar policy that urges staff to approach shoplifters in a civilised manner and to never follow them out the store.
One Saturday evening we had 2 blokes fill up a full shopping trolley (cart) with around £300 - £500 of shopping and slowly made their way to the exit.
Luckily, shoplifters in our area have a certain look about them, making them easy to spot. so I'd watched them the whole way round.
They kept a distance of around 20ft from each other at all times and as the first one (very casually) left the store, and was promptly stopped by myself. (Me: "what the fuck do you think you're playing at?" Him:"oh shit, sorry mate, I forgot"). The other bloke noticed and hanged back.
After sending the first would-be shoplifter on his way, the 2nd decided to try his luck, however this time I wasn't feeling so generous. I followed him out the store, took the trolley from his grasp and threw him on the floor, at which point, one of my larger colleagues darted out the store and sat on him till the rozzers arrived.
Yay for justice. Also, still in my job. | 2 shoplifters try to walk out with trolleys full of stock. No. Justice. |
KCG0005 | You know, I'd be willing to bet that a large number of the huge guys in the NFL have used HGH to recover from injuries faster. That's typically what it's been used for in the past, and its effects aren't as blatant physically as other types of steroids. Big guys with a lot of pressure on their ligaments and joints can definitely benefit largely from having a bit of extra lean muscle surrounding those joints and ligaments to aid them in returning.
**TL; DR - I think we'll start to see much longer recoveries for the bigger guys in the NFL, and possibly others once the hgh testing gets passed.** | You know, I'd be willing to bet that a large number of the huge guys in the NFL have used HGH to recover from injuries faster. That's typically what it's been used for in the past, and its effects aren't as blatant physically as other types of steroids. Big guys with a lot of pressure on their ligaments and joints can definitely benefit largely from having a bit of extra lean muscle surrounding those joints and ligaments to aid them in returning.
TL; DR - I think we'll start to see much longer recoveries for the bigger guys in the NFL, and possibly others once the hgh testing gets passed.
| fantasyfootball | t5_2qlqq | cki2778 | You know, I'd be willing to bet that a large number of the huge guys in the NFL have used HGH to recover from injuries faster. That's typically what it's been used for in the past, and its effects aren't as blatant physically as other types of steroids. Big guys with a lot of pressure on their ligaments and joints can definitely benefit largely from having a bit of extra lean muscle surrounding those joints and ligaments to aid them in returning. | I think we'll start to see much longer recoveries for the bigger guys in the NFL, and possibly others once the hgh testing gets passed. |
CosmicLeiGun | I was driving with my blonde friend, and we heard a song on the radio [in spanish] about a cat having 7 lives, and I said out loud, "Hmm that's weird, i thought [the saying] it was 9 lives". So my friend looks at me and asks: "Is that true? Do cats have nine lives?" (she was 20). After I told her no, her defense was that "animals have really curious facts about them, and like, she doesn't know much about animals"
TL;DR: friend thought cats actually had 9 lives | I was driving with my blonde friend, and we heard a song on the radio [in spanish] about a cat having 7 lives, and I said out loud, "Hmm that's weird, i thought [the saying] it was 9 lives". So my friend looks at me and asks: "Is that true? Do cats have nine lives?" (she was 20). After I told her no, her defense was that "animals have really curious facts about them, and like, she doesn't know much about animals"
TL;DR: friend thought cats actually had 9 lives
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | ckhtt8x | I was driving with my blonde friend, and we heard a song on the radio [in spanish] about a cat having 7 lives, and I said out loud, "Hmm that's weird, i thought [the saying] it was 9 lives". So my friend looks at me and asks: "Is that true? Do cats have nine lives?" (she was 20). After I told her no, her defense was that "animals have really curious facts about them, and like, she doesn't know much about animals" | friend thought cats actually had 9 lives |
ZSmith57 | As it was in the city of Bethlehem, it wouldn't have been a shed either. It would have been a cave or rock dwelling near the inn. Of course, it most likely was a stable, as you don't use a manger for anything else, so it most likely was occupied with animals, because the inn's inhabitants had to put their donkeys somewhere. And since it was tax season and people were traveling from all over to go to the city of their fathers rather than the city they lived in, there met definitely would be animals.
TL;DR: not a shed, most likely a cave or rock dwelling that almost certainly has animals. | As it was in the city of Bethlehem, it wouldn't have been a shed either. It would have been a cave or rock dwelling near the inn. Of course, it most likely was a stable, as you don't use a manger for anything else, so it most likely was occupied with animals, because the inn's inhabitants had to put their donkeys somewhere. And since it was tax season and people were traveling from all over to go to the city of their fathers rather than the city they lived in, there met definitely would be animals.
TL;DR: not a shed, most likely a cave or rock dwelling that almost certainly has animals.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | ckhkbwb | As it was in the city of Bethlehem, it wouldn't have been a shed either. It would have been a cave or rock dwelling near the inn. Of course, it most likely was a stable, as you don't use a manger for anything else, so it most likely was occupied with animals, because the inn's inhabitants had to put their donkeys somewhere. And since it was tax season and people were traveling from all over to go to the city of their fathers rather than the city they lived in, there met definitely would be animals. | not a shed, most likely a cave or rock dwelling that almost certainly has animals. |
DimensioX | In Cooking Class preparing for a big event for the art department. We were setting up flower arrangements. Someone though the flowers would die if we left them out. Someone in the class used their excellent knowledge of botany and put salt in one of the vases saying "It would help absorb the water". I told him he was an idiot, he said I was stupid and should learn shit about plants and science. Fast forward 30 minutes, the salt-infused flowers were dead. He was never in the setup crew again.
tl;dr: Tried to convince people that salt helped plants absorb water. | In Cooking Class preparing for a big event for the art department. We were setting up flower arrangements. Someone though the flowers would die if we left them out. Someone in the class used their excellent knowledge of botany and put salt in one of the vases saying "It would help absorb the water". I told him he was an idiot, he said I was stupid and should learn shit about plants and science. Fast forward 30 minutes, the salt-infused flowers were dead. He was never in the setup crew again.
tl;dr: Tried to convince people that salt helped plants absorb water.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | ckhtren | In Cooking Class preparing for a big event for the art department. We were setting up flower arrangements. Someone though the flowers would die if we left them out. Someone in the class used their excellent knowledge of botany and put salt in one of the vases saying "It would help absorb the water". I told him he was an idiot, he said I was stupid and should learn shit about plants and science. Fast forward 30 minutes, the salt-infused flowers were dead. He was never in the setup crew again. | Tried to convince people that salt helped plants absorb water. |
EggCouncilCreep | I don't know about that. I played around with it this afternoon and I think this looks OK. The midfield may be a little bit thin but it's definitely workable. Also if injuries or poor form beset them, it will be easy to downgrade them as needed. That scenario may cost a points hit in future, I accept that. Ignore the goalies for now, that's a work in progress.
FYI I'm left with 0.8 in this squad, so Sterling can be downgraded to Schneiderlin or Nolan and Ramsey can be retained.
TL;DR: I don't think the squad will be as thin as feared with a Big 3 front line. | I don't know about that. I played around with it this afternoon and I think this looks OK. The midfield may be a little bit thin but it's definitely workable. Also if injuries or poor form beset them, it will be easy to downgrade them as needed. That scenario may cost a points hit in future, I accept that. Ignore the goalies for now, that's a work in progress.
FYI I'm left with 0.8 in this squad, so Sterling can be downgraded to Schneiderlin or Nolan and Ramsey can be retained.
TL;DR: I don't think the squad will be as thin as feared with a Big 3 front line.
| FantasyPL | t5_2snvr | ckhoy7f | I don't know about that. I played around with it this afternoon and I think this looks OK. The midfield may be a little bit thin but it's definitely workable. Also if injuries or poor form beset them, it will be easy to downgrade them as needed. That scenario may cost a points hit in future, I accept that. Ignore the goalies for now, that's a work in progress.
FYI I'm left with 0.8 in this squad, so Sterling can be downgraded to Schneiderlin or Nolan and Ramsey can be retained. | I don't think the squad will be as thin as feared with a Big 3 front line. |
Astrosurf96 | I'm pretty sure the camera man was at a nice 10ft above sea level.
TL;DR 10 feet | I'm pretty sure the camera man was at a nice 10ft above sea level.
TL;DR 10 feet
| nasa | t5_2qk6m | ckjmzfg | I'm pretty sure the camera man was at a nice 10ft above sea level. | 10 feet |
kirianthine | The penises were probably there for humor and I think they just added a bit of flavor to the piece, though didn't really serve a purpose aside from that. That's fine. It's just a comment I thought I'd put here.
Anyway! You, my friend, have a peculiar problem. It's the exact opposite of what plagues most writers. You appear to actively dislike description (except for sounds). This left me very confused as to what was going on (I could make out they were in a museum and that they are famous statues, but if I didn't know what these statues looked like then I wouldn't have seen a darned thing in my mind's eye). I had no idea where anything was but you went on expecting me to know. The setting I thought of was pretty generic and boring, well-lit as if it was in the middle of the afternoon, but deserted. It had gray walls and was kind of run-down. The floors were marble and I have no idea where the exhibits were located so I imagined they were just adjacent rooms with a stone archway leading from one to the other.
In the last three sentences, I think I have given readers more description about the setting than your entire piece did. o.e Even with my improvisation, I still had no idea where everything was positioned and ended up so confused, especially when you added Lady Justice. Like what? I hadn't even figured out from which corner Thinker was peering from and he just drags over a lady and positions her...somewhere in the room.
You like describing sounds, and that's good. Writers should aim to engage all the senses. Unfortunately, your sound description was limited solely to stone on stone. You could have mentioned the way their voices sounded to add some variation, or maybe even described if David could feel the marble under his feet or almost slipped (smooth marble on smooth marble?). In fact, anything aside from a variation of the sound of stone on stone would have been nice.
Lastly, your flow is a bit clunky. What I liked was that you hardly used any word with more than two syllables. What I didn't like was that you sacrificed your flow by using too many overly-simple words. I think bigger words now and then help with flow. Maybe try to restructure your sentences - it may be that it's not the words but the sentences themselves that are making it difficult to read. It could also be the conversational tone of the piece, but that's your voice as a writer and I'm iffy about critiquing voice unless it's downright terrible. :/
Lastly, emotions! Where other writers club the reader with what to feel, you just throw them into the dark room and expect them to know the nuances of the MC's emotions. There are hardly any emotions in this piece (except for the Thinker, I think I felt a bit of his petulance). For something that's supposed to be sad/funny/awkward, this piece is very flat. You could try to incorporate more of David's feelings of annoyance/sadness about leaving by putting in more thoughts of his. How does he feel about Savannah? How does he feel about moving in general? Stuff like that would help greatly. I mean, the reader instinctively knows this is a sad/funny/awkward event, but the details are lost on the reader and it's the details that matter most when it comes to emotions.
TL;DR: You left the reader totally in the dark about how everything looks and how things are supposed to feel. | The penises were probably there for humor and I think they just added a bit of flavor to the piece, though didn't really serve a purpose aside from that. That's fine. It's just a comment I thought I'd put here.
Anyway! You, my friend, have a peculiar problem. It's the exact opposite of what plagues most writers. You appear to actively dislike description (except for sounds). This left me very confused as to what was going on (I could make out they were in a museum and that they are famous statues, but if I didn't know what these statues looked like then I wouldn't have seen a darned thing in my mind's eye). I had no idea where anything was but you went on expecting me to know. The setting I thought of was pretty generic and boring, well-lit as if it was in the middle of the afternoon, but deserted. It had gray walls and was kind of run-down. The floors were marble and I have no idea where the exhibits were located so I imagined they were just adjacent rooms with a stone archway leading from one to the other.
In the last three sentences, I think I have given readers more description about the setting than your entire piece did. o.e Even with my improvisation, I still had no idea where everything was positioned and ended up so confused, especially when you added Lady Justice. Like what? I hadn't even figured out from which corner Thinker was peering from and he just drags over a lady and positions her...somewhere in the room.
You like describing sounds, and that's good. Writers should aim to engage all the senses. Unfortunately, your sound description was limited solely to stone on stone. You could have mentioned the way their voices sounded to add some variation, or maybe even described if David could feel the marble under his feet or almost slipped (smooth marble on smooth marble?). In fact, anything aside from a variation of the sound of stone on stone would have been nice.
Lastly, your flow is a bit clunky. What I liked was that you hardly used any word with more than two syllables. What I didn't like was that you sacrificed your flow by using too many overly-simple words. I think bigger words now and then help with flow. Maybe try to restructure your sentences - it may be that it's not the words but the sentences themselves that are making it difficult to read. It could also be the conversational tone of the piece, but that's your voice as a writer and I'm iffy about critiquing voice unless it's downright terrible. :/
Lastly, emotions! Where other writers club the reader with what to feel, you just throw them into the dark room and expect them to know the nuances of the MC's emotions. There are hardly any emotions in this piece (except for the Thinker, I think I felt a bit of his petulance). For something that's supposed to be sad/funny/awkward, this piece is very flat. You could try to incorporate more of David's feelings of annoyance/sadness about leaving by putting in more thoughts of his. How does he feel about Savannah? How does he feel about moving in general? Stuff like that would help greatly. I mean, the reader instinctively knows this is a sad/funny/awkward event, but the details are lost on the reader and it's the details that matter most when it comes to emotions.
TL;DR: You left the reader totally in the dark about how everything looks and how things are supposed to feel.
| DestructiveReaders | t5_2z15u | ckhwzf7 | The penises were probably there for humor and I think they just added a bit of flavor to the piece, though didn't really serve a purpose aside from that. That's fine. It's just a comment I thought I'd put here.
Anyway! You, my friend, have a peculiar problem. It's the exact opposite of what plagues most writers. You appear to actively dislike description (except for sounds). This left me very confused as to what was going on (I could make out they were in a museum and that they are famous statues, but if I didn't know what these statues looked like then I wouldn't have seen a darned thing in my mind's eye). I had no idea where anything was but you went on expecting me to know. The setting I thought of was pretty generic and boring, well-lit as if it was in the middle of the afternoon, but deserted. It had gray walls and was kind of run-down. The floors were marble and I have no idea where the exhibits were located so I imagined they were just adjacent rooms with a stone archway leading from one to the other.
In the last three sentences, I think I have given readers more description about the setting than your entire piece did. o.e Even with my improvisation, I still had no idea where everything was positioned and ended up so confused, especially when you added Lady Justice. Like what? I hadn't even figured out from which corner Thinker was peering from and he just drags over a lady and positions her...somewhere in the room.
You like describing sounds, and that's good. Writers should aim to engage all the senses. Unfortunately, your sound description was limited solely to stone on stone. You could have mentioned the way their voices sounded to add some variation, or maybe even described if David could feel the marble under his feet or almost slipped (smooth marble on smooth marble?). In fact, anything aside from a variation of the sound of stone on stone would have been nice.
Lastly, your flow is a bit clunky. What I liked was that you hardly used any word with more than two syllables. What I didn't like was that you sacrificed your flow by using too many overly-simple words. I think bigger words now and then help with flow. Maybe try to restructure your sentences - it may be that it's not the words but the sentences themselves that are making it difficult to read. It could also be the conversational tone of the piece, but that's your voice as a writer and I'm iffy about critiquing voice unless it's downright terrible. :/
Lastly, emotions! Where other writers club the reader with what to feel, you just throw them into the dark room and expect them to know the nuances of the MC's emotions. There are hardly any emotions in this piece (except for the Thinker, I think I felt a bit of his petulance). For something that's supposed to be sad/funny/awkward, this piece is very flat. You could try to incorporate more of David's feelings of annoyance/sadness about leaving by putting in more thoughts of his. How does he feel about Savannah? How does he feel about moving in general? Stuff like that would help greatly. I mean, the reader instinctively knows this is a sad/funny/awkward event, but the details are lost on the reader and it's the details that matter most when it comes to emotions. | You left the reader totally in the dark about how everything looks and how things are supposed to feel. |
Mr_Strangelove_MSc | *One*
From one of your replies:
> I can study medicine abroad but I'm just so worried because by the time I come out of school I'll be in my 30s and my whole life has gone by.
Look, I have a friend who failed high school. He then went to a manual labor school and graduated at 18. He then said "fuck it, I don't want to do this". So he started working part time and enrolling in a evening high school. 6 years later, he had his high school diploma.
He then started law school, at the honorable age of 25. If he wants to be a lawyer in my country - which is what he wants to be - he'll be one at 32 years old.
If you really - **really, really** - feel like you should be a doctor, like in your most profound depths, then do whatever it may takes, because you are the master of your own destiny. That being said, hear me out.
Another friend of mine did graduate high school, but not with a sufficient enough score to enroll in any good university. What did he do? He fucking DID AGAIN HIS SENIOR YEAR and sit his high school exams once again to enter. Which he did.
Then after all this shit, he failed twice his first years university exams, and now doesn't know what to do with his life. Nevertheless, we partied and got drunk last night, because he knows that there's hope, and still a thousand fulfilling things he can do with his life.
**Now, I don't want to belittle what you feel, or to tell you to "man up". I know that it hurts. I know that it's not easy. I know that sometimes everything seems gray and hopeless. And that shit's real; it's not in your imagination.**
My point is that you see yourself as a total and unique "failure". Now I don't know what kind of family you come from, or what is your social background. But you really have to understand that what you feel, what I've read in your post compares to a lot of situations that I've encountered in my life. People have projects, some of them succeed, some of them fail. And for every person you meet, and every glorious CV you read, you could write a "anti-CV" or an "anti-biography" which would be read as "he failed this, he failed that, he failed this other thing....", for pages and pages.
People fail, and that's OK. Maybe your destiny isn't to become a MD. Maybe it's the opportune time - as you are young and single - to restate what you want to do with your life and how you want to build your happiness. Really, try it out. So many people discover this too late, and now here you are, free and with the possibility of embracing the whole world. Some people would give millions to have that. See it as a positive, as a way to restart anew. Read *The Alchemist*, or Nietzsche's *The Gay Knowledge*.
*Two*
> All through this happening I still can't help but think what would he think. He'd be glad he never got serious with a failure like me. Whilst he's moved on and excelling in life - got a good job and new car, my life has completely fallen apart.
I don't want to sound insulting - I'm way past that - but your vision of "success" seems pretty warped. You seem to only see success as "material + studies" success. What if I told you that there are other way to succeed than having a brand new car and never failing a class? My mom failed college, and my father didn't even graduate high school. Yet, the both have been married for 25 years, have a nice job that make them happy, two children and a summer house in the south of the country. Be happy, and stop considering what your shitty ex would think, or simply analyzing your life in the light of criterions that are seriously insufficient. You can have a happy life even after having failures. I would even argue that a lot of happy life are due to what people have learned from their failures. There are just so many ways to be happy.
Furthermore, I've met a lot of people who sat on a considerable of wealth and who could provide you with their splendid CVs, but were deeply sad or depressed. Consider that for a second. I don't know who your boyfriend is, what he does, where he comes from. But don't take what you see a his "success" as a garant of happiness. Happiness lies elsewhere.
*Three*
> I have nothing worth having anymore.
Well, you seem to have enough to find the time to write all that shit and post it on an internet site. Consider for an instant the amount of sadness and suffering in the world compared to what participates to your comfort. You probably have food, bed, books, music, and the sun. So many people don't have even one of these things. Again, I don't belittle, I'm just trying to force you to place yourself in contrast with the rest of the world, and at the same time identify all the things you indeed *have*.
TL;DR: Happiness is possible.
| One
From one of your replies:
> I can study medicine abroad but I'm just so worried because by the time I come out of school I'll be in my 30s and my whole life has gone by.
Look, I have a friend who failed high school. He then went to a manual labor school and graduated at 18. He then said "fuck it, I don't want to do this". So he started working part time and enrolling in a evening high school. 6 years later, he had his high school diploma.
He then started law school, at the honorable age of 25. If he wants to be a lawyer in my country - which is what he wants to be - he'll be one at 32 years old.
If you really - really, really - feel like you should be a doctor, like in your most profound depths, then do whatever it may takes, because you are the master of your own destiny. That being said, hear me out.
Another friend of mine did graduate high school, but not with a sufficient enough score to enroll in any good university. What did he do? He fucking DID AGAIN HIS SENIOR YEAR and sit his high school exams once again to enter. Which he did.
Then after all this shit, he failed twice his first years university exams, and now doesn't know what to do with his life. Nevertheless, we partied and got drunk last night, because he knows that there's hope, and still a thousand fulfilling things he can do with his life.
Now, I don't want to belittle what you feel, or to tell you to "man up". I know that it hurts. I know that it's not easy. I know that sometimes everything seems gray and hopeless. And that shit's real; it's not in your imagination.
My point is that you see yourself as a total and unique "failure". Now I don't know what kind of family you come from, or what is your social background. But you really have to understand that what you feel, what I've read in your post compares to a lot of situations that I've encountered in my life. People have projects, some of them succeed, some of them fail. And for every person you meet, and every glorious CV you read, you could write a "anti-CV" or an "anti-biography" which would be read as "he failed this, he failed that, he failed this other thing....", for pages and pages.
People fail, and that's OK. Maybe your destiny isn't to become a MD. Maybe it's the opportune time - as you are young and single - to restate what you want to do with your life and how you want to build your happiness. Really, try it out. So many people discover this too late, and now here you are, free and with the possibility of embracing the whole world. Some people would give millions to have that. See it as a positive, as a way to restart anew. Read The Alchemist , or Nietzsche's The Gay Knowledge .
Two
> All through this happening I still can't help but think what would he think. He'd be glad he never got serious with a failure like me. Whilst he's moved on and excelling in life - got a good job and new car, my life has completely fallen apart.
I don't want to sound insulting - I'm way past that - but your vision of "success" seems pretty warped. You seem to only see success as "material + studies" success. What if I told you that there are other way to succeed than having a brand new car and never failing a class? My mom failed college, and my father didn't even graduate high school. Yet, the both have been married for 25 years, have a nice job that make them happy, two children and a summer house in the south of the country. Be happy, and stop considering what your shitty ex would think, or simply analyzing your life in the light of criterions that are seriously insufficient. You can have a happy life even after having failures. I would even argue that a lot of happy life are due to what people have learned from their failures. There are just so many ways to be happy.
Furthermore, I've met a lot of people who sat on a considerable of wealth and who could provide you with their splendid CVs, but were deeply sad or depressed. Consider that for a second. I don't know who your boyfriend is, what he does, where he comes from. But don't take what you see a his "success" as a garant of happiness. Happiness lies elsewhere.
Three
> I have nothing worth having anymore.
Well, you seem to have enough to find the time to write all that shit and post it on an internet site. Consider for an instant the amount of sadness and suffering in the world compared to what participates to your comfort. You probably have food, bed, books, music, and the sun. So many people don't have even one of these things. Again, I don't belittle, I'm just trying to force you to place yourself in contrast with the rest of the world, and at the same time identify all the things you indeed have .
TL;DR: Happiness is possible.
| relationships | t5_2qjvn | ckhx54o | One
From one of your replies:
> I can study medicine abroad but I'm just so worried because by the time I come out of school I'll be in my 30s and my whole life has gone by.
Look, I have a friend who failed high school. He then went to a manual labor school and graduated at 18. He then said "fuck it, I don't want to do this". So he started working part time and enrolling in a evening high school. 6 years later, he had his high school diploma.
He then started law school, at the honorable age of 25. If he wants to be a lawyer in my country - which is what he wants to be - he'll be one at 32 years old.
If you really - really, really - feel like you should be a doctor, like in your most profound depths, then do whatever it may takes, because you are the master of your own destiny. That being said, hear me out.
Another friend of mine did graduate high school, but not with a sufficient enough score to enroll in any good university. What did he do? He fucking DID AGAIN HIS SENIOR YEAR and sit his high school exams once again to enter. Which he did.
Then after all this shit, he failed twice his first years university exams, and now doesn't know what to do with his life. Nevertheless, we partied and got drunk last night, because he knows that there's hope, and still a thousand fulfilling things he can do with his life.
Now, I don't want to belittle what you feel, or to tell you to "man up". I know that it hurts. I know that it's not easy. I know that sometimes everything seems gray and hopeless. And that shit's real; it's not in your imagination.
My point is that you see yourself as a total and unique "failure". Now I don't know what kind of family you come from, or what is your social background. But you really have to understand that what you feel, what I've read in your post compares to a lot of situations that I've encountered in my life. People have projects, some of them succeed, some of them fail. And for every person you meet, and every glorious CV you read, you could write a "anti-CV" or an "anti-biography" which would be read as "he failed this, he failed that, he failed this other thing....", for pages and pages.
People fail, and that's OK. Maybe your destiny isn't to become a MD. Maybe it's the opportune time - as you are young and single - to restate what you want to do with your life and how you want to build your happiness. Really, try it out. So many people discover this too late, and now here you are, free and with the possibility of embracing the whole world. Some people would give millions to have that. See it as a positive, as a way to restart anew. Read The Alchemist , or Nietzsche's The Gay Knowledge .
Two
> All through this happening I still can't help but think what would he think. He'd be glad he never got serious with a failure like me. Whilst he's moved on and excelling in life - got a good job and new car, my life has completely fallen apart.
I don't want to sound insulting - I'm way past that - but your vision of "success" seems pretty warped. You seem to only see success as "material + studies" success. What if I told you that there are other way to succeed than having a brand new car and never failing a class? My mom failed college, and my father didn't even graduate high school. Yet, the both have been married for 25 years, have a nice job that make them happy, two children and a summer house in the south of the country. Be happy, and stop considering what your shitty ex would think, or simply analyzing your life in the light of criterions that are seriously insufficient. You can have a happy life even after having failures. I would even argue that a lot of happy life are due to what people have learned from their failures. There are just so many ways to be happy.
Furthermore, I've met a lot of people who sat on a considerable of wealth and who could provide you with their splendid CVs, but were deeply sad or depressed. Consider that for a second. I don't know who your boyfriend is, what he does, where he comes from. But don't take what you see a his "success" as a garant of happiness. Happiness lies elsewhere.
Three
> I have nothing worth having anymore.
Well, you seem to have enough to find the time to write all that shit and post it on an internet site. Consider for an instant the amount of sadness and suffering in the world compared to what participates to your comfort. You probably have food, bed, books, music, and the sun. So many people don't have even one of these things. Again, I don't belittle, I'm just trying to force you to place yourself in contrast with the rest of the world, and at the same time identify all the things you indeed have . | Happiness is possible. |
hwkipierce4077 | After reading this thread I decided to check my pre-order status and it too says "backordered." I called AT&T and they told me that if you have a confirmation e-mail with a date on it (for instance mine says it will be delivered on the 19th) then that is when you will get your phone.
He called it a delivery date promise. He even went so far as to let me know that he saved the phone call and notated that I called in to inquire about the ship date. It was actually probably the best phone call I've ever had with AT&T.
TL;DR If your confirmation e-mail says you're getting your phone on the 19th, you're getting your phone on the 19th. | After reading this thread I decided to check my pre-order status and it too says "backordered." I called AT&T and they told me that if you have a confirmation e-mail with a date on it (for instance mine says it will be delivered on the 19th) then that is when you will get your phone.
He called it a delivery date promise. He even went so far as to let me know that he saved the phone call and notated that I called in to inquire about the ship date. It was actually probably the best phone call I've ever had with AT&T.
TL;DR If your confirmation e-mail says you're getting your phone on the 19th, you're getting your phone on the 19th.
| apple | t5_2qh1f | ckia6nv | After reading this thread I decided to check my pre-order status and it too says "backordered." I called AT&T and they told me that if you have a confirmation e-mail with a date on it (for instance mine says it will be delivered on the 19th) then that is when you will get your phone.
He called it a delivery date promise. He even went so far as to let me know that he saved the phone call and notated that I called in to inquire about the ship date. It was actually probably the best phone call I've ever had with AT&T. | If your confirmation e-mail says you're getting your phone on the 19th, you're getting your phone on the 19th. |
zehamberglar | Regarding an alternative to the AK:
I really think CSGO should experiment with something like the M14 or the FAL. A semi automatic rifle with something like 20 bullets in the magazine. We've never had anything like this short of the 5-7, but I'd like to see it with damage and accuracy comparable or even equal to the first shot of the AK.
Tldr: alternative to the AK that's the same as tapping with the AK, but no spray available. | Regarding an alternative to the AK:
I really think CSGO should experiment with something like the M14 or the FAL. A semi automatic rifle with something like 20 bullets in the magazine. We've never had anything like this short of the 5-7, but I'd like to see it with damage and accuracy comparable or even equal to the first shot of the AK.
Tldr: alternative to the AK that's the same as tapping with the AK, but no spray available.
| GlobalOffensive | t5_2sqho | ckid6jq | Regarding an alternative to the AK:
I really think CSGO should experiment with something like the M14 or the FAL. A semi automatic rifle with something like 20 bullets in the magazine. We've never had anything like this short of the 5-7, but I'd like to see it with damage and accuracy comparable or even equal to the first shot of the AK. | alternative to the AK that's the same as tapping with the AK, but no spray available. |
shadoworso | Actually, contrarily, I feel that the true way to nerf the M4A1-S is to simply keep the current stats on the un-silenced version, and simply weaken the silenced version. IRL, silencers reduce effective range, so simply do that here. Also, silencers reduce damage, due to a lowering of the bullet velocity in order to silence them with the expulsion of gas.
TL;DR: Nerf the M4A1-S, not the M4A1 unsilenced. | Actually, contrarily, I feel that the true way to nerf the M4A1-S is to simply keep the current stats on the un-silenced version, and simply weaken the silenced version. IRL, silencers reduce effective range, so simply do that here. Also, silencers reduce damage, due to a lowering of the bullet velocity in order to silence them with the expulsion of gas.
TL;DR: Nerf the M4A1-S, not the M4A1 unsilenced.
| GlobalOffensive | t5_2sqho | ckintze | Actually, contrarily, I feel that the true way to nerf the M4A1-S is to simply keep the current stats on the un-silenced version, and simply weaken the silenced version. IRL, silencers reduce effective range, so simply do that here. Also, silencers reduce damage, due to a lowering of the bullet velocity in order to silence them with the expulsion of gas. | Nerf the M4A1-S, not the M4A1 unsilenced. |
7thSonOfSons | Batman can't win with the Rise of the Anti-Bat-Jerk. Freddie has been stopped by the pokemon professor. 4chan Shrek is beaten by 4chan Groot. Song Gaston was Beaten by Song Mulan (due to technicalities). Chuck Norris was slain by The Ultimate Showdown. Mr. Popo could not overcome the might of 4chan Groot either, but 4chan Groot was beaten out by Prep-God Batman, who we've already shown to lose. 60's Batman was assimilated by Popo. Youtube Comments Goku couldn't even fight Abridged Popo.
So, we come to the Conclussion of: Prep-God Batman > 4chan Groot > Mr. Popo > 4chan Shrek > The Will of the Pokemon Professor > Unstoppable Freddie Mercury > All-Black the All Father, the God of Butchers, the Necro-Thor, Eater of World Eaters, Last King of the Dead Earth > /r/WhoWouldWin Clifford > Adam West Batman > Gaben > The Ultimate Showdown > Chuck Norris > Rational Wizard with a Wand > Bloodlusted Silver Surfer > Rational Man with a Shotgun > Kim Jong Un > Youtube Comments Goku > Song Mulan > Song Gaston, but Prep-God Batman CAN'T Win because of the power of the Anti-Jerk.
Ignoring the anti-jerk, there really is only one hero who can save us from Prep-God Batman. The Only one true Omnipotent threat on these Forums: [Squirtle](
EDIT: Looks like I need to expand a little to breakdown why we gotta love the Squirtle. Spiderman can't touch Squirtle. What's spidey's greatest weapons? His Fists. What are fists made of? Fingers. And according to the Bulbapedia, Squirtle's shell bounces off prodding fingers. Ergo, Spidey just punches himself in the face. Squirtles also immune to magic. Mismagius, Pokemons greatest wizard, was unable to effect Squirtle with her most powerful spell Will-O-Wisp. The text says it missed, but we all know what it meant was "Magic Doesn't Work on Squirtle, you dumbo". So, Aveda Kedavra doesn't work either.
Warhammer 40K has no place in pokemon, they have the exact same problem as The Culture: Squirtle can learn protect. So they shoot off they're weapons, not unlike highschoolers shooting pea shooters at the sun, and all the attacks are absorbed into Squirtles Shield. Embaressed, every member of the Culture and 40K commit Sudoku in his magnificence. Skywalker can't even step to Squirtle, because Squirtle can tank Spacial Rends, Divine Judgement, Moon Blasts, and all Psychic Power ever with little more than a scratch. He just gets up from it again and again. Eventually, Luke dies of old age. Not even the MODS can stop squirtle's powers, as /r/Squirtle has no mods. You can't contain that level of OP. And though Jackie Chan may not be looking for any trouble, the average squirtle is looking for enough trouble for both of them, so he is eliminated the same way as Magmar: Squirtle kicks his head off.
And as for YOU Bloodlusted Silver Surfer AND Bloodlusted Dr. Manhatten, you seem to forget that Squirtle can learn water pulse, and is already way faster than you (see my comment below). And when you're confused, half the time you're going to hit yourself, and the other half, you hit Protect. So, by process of Trial by Fire, you use your own Extreme High Tier Reality Warping Powers on yourself and get killed in one hit. As for Omega Hulk, just look at Squirtle. Little dude is so damn cute, Hulk would calm down instantly, and Squirtle would let him go, for he is a Merciful God.
"But oh handsome prophet" I here ye of little faith calling. "What about Kal-Karot Odinson! Surely he with the power of the Gods, the Saiyan, and the Sun could content with the All-Squirtle, right? After all, he can fly!" And that's fair, they can fly. BUT, as we all known from the Bulbapedia, Squirtle is an incredibly proficient Swimmer. He glides through water swiftly and efficiently. And what is water? "A Liquid" you reply. And while correct, it is also a Fluid. What else is a Fluid? Air. By the transitive property of pokemon, Squirtle can swim through the air just as easily as he can swim through the water, if not easier due to lack of resistence. And with his confirmed WAY faster than light travel, Kal-Karot better start praying to his daddy that Squirtle allows him to reach Valhallah. No one questions the beyond divine rights All-Swag the Pimp-Father, The God of Celestials, the Squirtle-Squirt, Conquerer of the Unconquered, Only King of All Combat.
Finally, Squirrel Girl. Obviously, Squirtle's Hard Counter. On Paper, squirtle should be a serious disadvantage. BUT, that's where you're wrong. You're wrong on that one cause of a little thing called TORRENT! In a pinch, squirtles water attacks do 1.3x Damage. Now, when squirtle isn't lowered down to the level of his more useless opponents, he can attack whenever he wants. And as we all know, squirtle never runs out of water. So we Have Infinite Water x 1.3 Damage x 1.5 for being a STAB x 2 for a crit (Squirtle always crits when it's clutch, can confirm by seeing it) and the damage comes too.... Infinity x 2.8 Damages worth of water, and that's assuming every water does only one damage. If we assume he expels it in the form of Hydro Pump. In THAT Case, the damage is actually Infinity x 288. That kind of damage could wipe out STTGL in a fraction of a second. Squirrel Girl will not survive that kind of Onslaught.
That is all, of course, ignoring the Mammoswine in the room: There are TWO Canon Squirtles. The one in First Generation, and the one in 6th generation. And, as anyone who knows anything knows, each squirtle is both more powerful than the last AND more powerful than the next. This means that the two Squirtles already Deity among Deities standings is amplified and maximized simply by the existence of the two Squirtles. For all intents and purposes, and to maintain the rights for other competitors to have a glimmer of hope. I have calculated all of the above as an Isolated Squirtle, unaware of the existence of his other half, without any IV's, EV's, or any Nature at all.
TL/DR: Squirtle is not only the Best Pokemon, he is the undisputed Champion of ALL EXISTENCE thus far and forever into the future | Batman can't win with the Rise of the Anti-Bat-Jerk. Freddie has been stopped by the pokemon professor. 4chan Shrek is beaten by 4chan Groot. Song Gaston was Beaten by Song Mulan (due to technicalities). Chuck Norris was slain by The Ultimate Showdown. Mr. Popo could not overcome the might of 4chan Groot either, but 4chan Groot was beaten out by Prep-God Batman, who we've already shown to lose. 60's Batman was assimilated by Popo. Youtube Comments Goku couldn't even fight Abridged Popo.
So, we come to the Conclussion of: Prep-God Batman > 4chan Groot > Mr. Popo > 4chan Shrek > The Will of the Pokemon Professor > Unstoppable Freddie Mercury > All-Black the All Father, the God of Butchers, the Necro-Thor, Eater of World Eaters, Last King of the Dead Earth > /r/WhoWouldWin Clifford > Adam West Batman > Gaben > The Ultimate Showdown > Chuck Norris > Rational Wizard with a Wand > Bloodlusted Silver Surfer > Rational Man with a Shotgun > Kim Jong Un > Youtube Comments Goku > Song Mulan > Song Gaston, but Prep-God Batman CAN'T Win because of the power of the Anti-Jerk.
Ignoring the anti-jerk, there really is only one hero who can save us from Prep-God Batman. The Only one true Omnipotent threat on these Forums: [Squirtle](
EDIT: Looks like I need to expand a little to breakdown why we gotta love the Squirtle. Spiderman can't touch Squirtle. What's spidey's greatest weapons? His Fists. What are fists made of? Fingers. And according to the Bulbapedia, Squirtle's shell bounces off prodding fingers. Ergo, Spidey just punches himself in the face. Squirtles also immune to magic. Mismagius, Pokemons greatest wizard, was unable to effect Squirtle with her most powerful spell Will-O-Wisp. The text says it missed, but we all know what it meant was "Magic Doesn't Work on Squirtle, you dumbo". So, Aveda Kedavra doesn't work either.
Warhammer 40K has no place in pokemon, they have the exact same problem as The Culture: Squirtle can learn protect. So they shoot off they're weapons, not unlike highschoolers shooting pea shooters at the sun, and all the attacks are absorbed into Squirtles Shield. Embaressed, every member of the Culture and 40K commit Sudoku in his magnificence. Skywalker can't even step to Squirtle, because Squirtle can tank Spacial Rends, Divine Judgement, Moon Blasts, and all Psychic Power ever with little more than a scratch. He just gets up from it again and again. Eventually, Luke dies of old age. Not even the MODS can stop squirtle's powers, as /r/Squirtle has no mods. You can't contain that level of OP. And though Jackie Chan may not be looking for any trouble, the average squirtle is looking for enough trouble for both of them, so he is eliminated the same way as Magmar: Squirtle kicks his head off.
And as for YOU Bloodlusted Silver Surfer AND Bloodlusted Dr. Manhatten, you seem to forget that Squirtle can learn water pulse, and is already way faster than you (see my comment below). And when you're confused, half the time you're going to hit yourself, and the other half, you hit Protect. So, by process of Trial by Fire, you use your own Extreme High Tier Reality Warping Powers on yourself and get killed in one hit. As for Omega Hulk, just look at Squirtle. Little dude is so damn cute, Hulk would calm down instantly, and Squirtle would let him go, for he is a Merciful God.
"But oh handsome prophet" I here ye of little faith calling. "What about Kal-Karot Odinson! Surely he with the power of the Gods, the Saiyan, and the Sun could content with the All-Squirtle, right? After all, he can fly!" And that's fair, they can fly. BUT, as we all known from the Bulbapedia, Squirtle is an incredibly proficient Swimmer. He glides through water swiftly and efficiently. And what is water? "A Liquid" you reply. And while correct, it is also a Fluid. What else is a Fluid? Air. By the transitive property of pokemon, Squirtle can swim through the air just as easily as he can swim through the water, if not easier due to lack of resistence. And with his confirmed WAY faster than light travel, Kal-Karot better start praying to his daddy that Squirtle allows him to reach Valhallah. No one questions the beyond divine rights All-Swag the Pimp-Father, The God of Celestials, the Squirtle-Squirt, Conquerer of the Unconquered, Only King of All Combat.
Finally, Squirrel Girl. Obviously, Squirtle's Hard Counter. On Paper, squirtle should be a serious disadvantage. BUT, that's where you're wrong. You're wrong on that one cause of a little thing called TORRENT! In a pinch, squirtles water attacks do 1.3x Damage. Now, when squirtle isn't lowered down to the level of his more useless opponents, he can attack whenever he wants. And as we all know, squirtle never runs out of water. So we Have Infinite Water x 1.3 Damage x 1.5 for being a STAB x 2 for a crit (Squirtle always crits when it's clutch, can confirm by seeing it) and the damage comes too.... Infinity x 2.8 Damages worth of water, and that's assuming every water does only one damage. If we assume he expels it in the form of Hydro Pump. In THAT Case, the damage is actually Infinity x 288. That kind of damage could wipe out STTGL in a fraction of a second. Squirrel Girl will not survive that kind of Onslaught.
That is all, of course, ignoring the Mammoswine in the room: There are TWO Canon Squirtles. The one in First Generation, and the one in 6th generation. And, as anyone who knows anything knows, each squirtle is both more powerful than the last AND more powerful than the next. This means that the two Squirtles already Deity among Deities standings is amplified and maximized simply by the existence of the two Squirtles. For all intents and purposes, and to maintain the rights for other competitors to have a glimmer of hope. I have calculated all of the above as an Isolated Squirtle, unaware of the existence of his other half, without any IV's, EV's, or any Nature at all.
TL/DR: Squirtle is not only the Best Pokemon, he is the undisputed Champion of ALL EXISTENCE thus far and forever into the future
| whowouldwin | t5_2s599 | ckig2lr | Batman can't win with the Rise of the Anti-Bat-Jerk. Freddie has been stopped by the pokemon professor. 4chan Shrek is beaten by 4chan Groot. Song Gaston was Beaten by Song Mulan (due to technicalities). Chuck Norris was slain by The Ultimate Showdown. Mr. Popo could not overcome the might of 4chan Groot either, but 4chan Groot was beaten out by Prep-God Batman, who we've already shown to lose. 60's Batman was assimilated by Popo. Youtube Comments Goku couldn't even fight Abridged Popo.
So, we come to the Conclussion of: Prep-God Batman > 4chan Groot > Mr. Popo > 4chan Shrek > The Will of the Pokemon Professor > Unstoppable Freddie Mercury > All-Black the All Father, the God of Butchers, the Necro-Thor, Eater of World Eaters, Last King of the Dead Earth > /r/WhoWouldWin Clifford > Adam West Batman > Gaben > The Ultimate Showdown > Chuck Norris > Rational Wizard with a Wand > Bloodlusted Silver Surfer > Rational Man with a Shotgun > Kim Jong Un > Youtube Comments Goku > Song Mulan > Song Gaston, but Prep-God Batman CAN'T Win because of the power of the Anti-Jerk.
Ignoring the anti-jerk, there really is only one hero who can save us from Prep-God Batman. The Only one true Omnipotent threat on these Forums: [Squirtle](
EDIT: Looks like I need to expand a little to breakdown why we gotta love the Squirtle. Spiderman can't touch Squirtle. What's spidey's greatest weapons? His Fists. What are fists made of? Fingers. And according to the Bulbapedia, Squirtle's shell bounces off prodding fingers. Ergo, Spidey just punches himself in the face. Squirtles also immune to magic. Mismagius, Pokemons greatest wizard, was unable to effect Squirtle with her most powerful spell Will-O-Wisp. The text says it missed, but we all know what it meant was "Magic Doesn't Work on Squirtle, you dumbo". So, Aveda Kedavra doesn't work either.
Warhammer 40K has no place in pokemon, they have the exact same problem as The Culture: Squirtle can learn protect. So they shoot off they're weapons, not unlike highschoolers shooting pea shooters at the sun, and all the attacks are absorbed into Squirtles Shield. Embaressed, every member of the Culture and 40K commit Sudoku in his magnificence. Skywalker can't even step to Squirtle, because Squirtle can tank Spacial Rends, Divine Judgement, Moon Blasts, and all Psychic Power ever with little more than a scratch. He just gets up from it again and again. Eventually, Luke dies of old age. Not even the MODS can stop squirtle's powers, as /r/Squirtle has no mods. You can't contain that level of OP. And though Jackie Chan may not be looking for any trouble, the average squirtle is looking for enough trouble for both of them, so he is eliminated the same way as Magmar: Squirtle kicks his head off.
And as for YOU Bloodlusted Silver Surfer AND Bloodlusted Dr. Manhatten, you seem to forget that Squirtle can learn water pulse, and is already way faster than you (see my comment below). And when you're confused, half the time you're going to hit yourself, and the other half, you hit Protect. So, by process of Trial by Fire, you use your own Extreme High Tier Reality Warping Powers on yourself and get killed in one hit. As for Omega Hulk, just look at Squirtle. Little dude is so damn cute, Hulk would calm down instantly, and Squirtle would let him go, for he is a Merciful God.
"But oh handsome prophet" I here ye of little faith calling. "What about Kal-Karot Odinson! Surely he with the power of the Gods, the Saiyan, and the Sun could content with the All-Squirtle, right? After all, he can fly!" And that's fair, they can fly. BUT, as we all known from the Bulbapedia, Squirtle is an incredibly proficient Swimmer. He glides through water swiftly and efficiently. And what is water? "A Liquid" you reply. And while correct, it is also a Fluid. What else is a Fluid? Air. By the transitive property of pokemon, Squirtle can swim through the air just as easily as he can swim through the water, if not easier due to lack of resistence. And with his confirmed WAY faster than light travel, Kal-Karot better start praying to his daddy that Squirtle allows him to reach Valhallah. No one questions the beyond divine rights All-Swag the Pimp-Father, The God of Celestials, the Squirtle-Squirt, Conquerer of the Unconquered, Only King of All Combat.
Finally, Squirrel Girl. Obviously, Squirtle's Hard Counter. On Paper, squirtle should be a serious disadvantage. BUT, that's where you're wrong. You're wrong on that one cause of a little thing called TORRENT! In a pinch, squirtles water attacks do 1.3x Damage. Now, when squirtle isn't lowered down to the level of his more useless opponents, he can attack whenever he wants. And as we all know, squirtle never runs out of water. So we Have Infinite Water x 1.3 Damage x 1.5 for being a STAB x 2 for a crit (Squirtle always crits when it's clutch, can confirm by seeing it) and the damage comes too.... Infinity x 2.8 Damages worth of water, and that's assuming every water does only one damage. If we assume he expels it in the form of Hydro Pump. In THAT Case, the damage is actually Infinity x 288. That kind of damage could wipe out STTGL in a fraction of a second. Squirrel Girl will not survive that kind of Onslaught.
That is all, of course, ignoring the Mammoswine in the room: There are TWO Canon Squirtles. The one in First Generation, and the one in 6th generation. And, as anyone who knows anything knows, each squirtle is both more powerful than the last AND more powerful than the next. This means that the two Squirtles already Deity among Deities standings is amplified and maximized simply by the existence of the two Squirtles. For all intents and purposes, and to maintain the rights for other competitors to have a glimmer of hope. I have calculated all of the above as an Isolated Squirtle, unaware of the existence of his other half, without any IV's, EV's, or any Nature at all. | Squirtle is not only the Best Pokemon, he is the undisputed Champion of ALL EXISTENCE thus far and forever into the future |
wormed | The whole high rep/light weight = sculpting and low rep/high weight = bulk is the dumbest myth that is still perpetuated today. Both result in hypertrophy and both will simply build the muscle required for the exercise. Muscle is muscle. It's primarily based on your genetics in this regard.
There are studies now that are saying strength training (low rep/high weight) is just as effective in muscle creation as "hypertrophy-style (eccentric focused)", which would be the higher rep/lower weight.
tl;dr lift weights that force your muscles to actually use effort and they'll grow how your body is designed for them to grow. | The whole high rep/light weight = sculpting and low rep/high weight = bulk is the dumbest myth that is still perpetuated today. Both result in hypertrophy and both will simply build the muscle required for the exercise. Muscle is muscle. It's primarily based on your genetics in this regard.
There are studies now that are saying strength training (low rep/high weight) is just as effective in muscle creation as "hypertrophy-style (eccentric focused)", which would be the higher rep/lower weight.
tl;dr lift weights that force your muscles to actually use effort and they'll grow how your body is designed for them to grow.
| Kappa | t5_2tjsd | ckil0uz | The whole high rep/light weight = sculpting and low rep/high weight = bulk is the dumbest myth that is still perpetuated today. Both result in hypertrophy and both will simply build the muscle required for the exercise. Muscle is muscle. It's primarily based on your genetics in this regard.
There are studies now that are saying strength training (low rep/high weight) is just as effective in muscle creation as "hypertrophy-style (eccentric focused)", which would be the higher rep/lower weight. | lift weights that force your muscles to actually use effort and they'll grow how your body is designed for them to grow. |
bjorn2bwild |
>1.) Aside from a degree in journalism I am under the impression that degrees in other fields such as English Lit., Law, Political Science, etc. are able to hold value when searching for a career in journalism. Is this impression correct? If I were to major in chemistry and minor in another field (perhaps one mentioned above) how would that look? Are there any fields that are suggested?
Having a science minor will be helpful if you want to write for a trade publication or science based outlet. It can help you build a niche as a "science guy" for stories. There is no major or minor that really matters in journalism. You need to be able to write and communicate so English and Communication degrees are popular but poli Sci or history degrees also help. It's pretty irrelevant since the industry is based on getting practical work experience.
This is the part where I tell you that if you want to be a journalist you need to start writing for your college paper or reporting for your college TV channel/radio station. This is the experience that will matter 100 times more than your degree.
>2.) How difficult is it to be placed oversees as a correspondent? I assume this depends on where you find yourself working, effectively making this a difficult question to answer. I refuse to work for major media outlets if that narrows it down at all.
Not to be glib but that's like asking a forum of doctors how they can be like Dr. Sanjay Gupta.
Very few outlets have overseas correspondents. They are very expensive and inefficient in an industry where you need to be producing regular content. A lot of overseas guys are freelancers, paying for everything out of pocket and hoping to sell a story. Major outlets (cnn, ABC national, app) have them. A lot of international companies have overseas bureaus so instead of having some schmuck air drop into a country and play catch up they'll just throw to the local reporter who knows the area.
By in large, 90% (fabricated statistic) of reporters are local reporters. The reality is while the middle east conflict is sexy, the bread and butter of journalism is covering council meetings, going to press conferences, and asking random people on the street their opinions about local issues.
>3.) I understand that this arena of work is not at all lucrative unless you sell yourself out; but is it enough to simply live on?
Journalism consistently ranks amongst the lowest paid professions. It also has odd hours and low job stability. Expect to make under 35k initially and don't be surprised if you make under 30k. A select few make great money, most toil making the equivalent of a retail store manager.
>4.) What is it often like to start out in this field?
By the time your starting for real you should already have experience working for a college media outlet or local paper as a freelancer. There's no on the job training and you have to be ready to go balls deep into your beat. Know who the mayors the council people are, what do residents care about, etc.
The job can be the most fun thing ever one day and a pain in the ass the next. Some days I get to work from home making phone calls for my stories and other times I've had to wake up at 2am and drive two hours for a story. I've slept in my car while covering breaking news (doing live hits till ten pm then being ready for morning drive at 5am).
I also make 28 thousand, live at home, and am struggling to make ends meet. There few accolades and a lot of people won't like you.
It feels like you want to do overseas reporting and make a big difference. That's noble, but to be successful you have to find joy in reporting on the mundane. The reality is you'll be doing more stories about local robberies and mayoral races than sectarian violence. You will likely not change the world but you will make people better informed. Being a reporter means being diplomatic and building relationships. You might want to rip apart a politician in your questioning, but it's not hard for a politician to dodge questions and even easier for them to never return your phone call again.
Tldr; keep being a chemistry major and start a blog | >1.) Aside from a degree in journalism I am under the impression that degrees in other fields such as English Lit., Law, Political Science, etc. are able to hold value when searching for a career in journalism. Is this impression correct? If I were to major in chemistry and minor in another field (perhaps one mentioned above) how would that look? Are there any fields that are suggested?
Having a science minor will be helpful if you want to write for a trade publication or science based outlet. It can help you build a niche as a "science guy" for stories. There is no major or minor that really matters in journalism. You need to be able to write and communicate so English and Communication degrees are popular but poli Sci or history degrees also help. It's pretty irrelevant since the industry is based on getting practical work experience.
This is the part where I tell you that if you want to be a journalist you need to start writing for your college paper or reporting for your college TV channel/radio station. This is the experience that will matter 100 times more than your degree.
>2.) How difficult is it to be placed oversees as a correspondent? I assume this depends on where you find yourself working, effectively making this a difficult question to answer. I refuse to work for major media outlets if that narrows it down at all.
Not to be glib but that's like asking a forum of doctors how they can be like Dr. Sanjay Gupta.
Very few outlets have overseas correspondents. They are very expensive and inefficient in an industry where you need to be producing regular content. A lot of overseas guys are freelancers, paying for everything out of pocket and hoping to sell a story. Major outlets (cnn, ABC national, app) have them. A lot of international companies have overseas bureaus so instead of having some schmuck air drop into a country and play catch up they'll just throw to the local reporter who knows the area.
By in large, 90% (fabricated statistic) of reporters are local reporters. The reality is while the middle east conflict is sexy, the bread and butter of journalism is covering council meetings, going to press conferences, and asking random people on the street their opinions about local issues.
>3.) I understand that this arena of work is not at all lucrative unless you sell yourself out; but is it enough to simply live on?
Journalism consistently ranks amongst the lowest paid professions. It also has odd hours and low job stability. Expect to make under 35k initially and don't be surprised if you make under 30k. A select few make great money, most toil making the equivalent of a retail store manager.
>4.) What is it often like to start out in this field?
By the time your starting for real you should already have experience working for a college media outlet or local paper as a freelancer. There's no on the job training and you have to be ready to go balls deep into your beat. Know who the mayors the council people are, what do residents care about, etc.
The job can be the most fun thing ever one day and a pain in the ass the next. Some days I get to work from home making phone calls for my stories and other times I've had to wake up at 2am and drive two hours for a story. I've slept in my car while covering breaking news (doing live hits till ten pm then being ready for morning drive at 5am).
I also make 28 thousand, live at home, and am struggling to make ends meet. There few accolades and a lot of people won't like you.
It feels like you want to do overseas reporting and make a big difference. That's noble, but to be successful you have to find joy in reporting on the mundane. The reality is you'll be doing more stories about local robberies and mayoral races than sectarian violence. You will likely not change the world but you will make people better informed. Being a reporter means being diplomatic and building relationships. You might want to rip apart a politician in your questioning, but it's not hard for a politician to dodge questions and even easier for them to never return your phone call again.
Tldr; keep being a chemistry major and start a blog
| Journalism | t5_2qhym | ckio1lw | 1.) Aside from a degree in journalism I am under the impression that degrees in other fields such as English Lit., Law, Political Science, etc. are able to hold value when searching for a career in journalism. Is this impression correct? If I were to major in chemistry and minor in another field (perhaps one mentioned above) how would that look? Are there any fields that are suggested?
Having a science minor will be helpful if you want to write for a trade publication or science based outlet. It can help you build a niche as a "science guy" for stories. There is no major or minor that really matters in journalism. You need to be able to write and communicate so English and Communication degrees are popular but poli Sci or history degrees also help. It's pretty irrelevant since the industry is based on getting practical work experience.
This is the part where I tell you that if you want to be a journalist you need to start writing for your college paper or reporting for your college TV channel/radio station. This is the experience that will matter 100 times more than your degree.
>2.) How difficult is it to be placed oversees as a correspondent? I assume this depends on where you find yourself working, effectively making this a difficult question to answer. I refuse to work for major media outlets if that narrows it down at all.
Not to be glib but that's like asking a forum of doctors how they can be like Dr. Sanjay Gupta.
Very few outlets have overseas correspondents. They are very expensive and inefficient in an industry where you need to be producing regular content. A lot of overseas guys are freelancers, paying for everything out of pocket and hoping to sell a story. Major outlets (cnn, ABC national, app) have them. A lot of international companies have overseas bureaus so instead of having some schmuck air drop into a country and play catch up they'll just throw to the local reporter who knows the area.
By in large, 90% (fabricated statistic) of reporters are local reporters. The reality is while the middle east conflict is sexy, the bread and butter of journalism is covering council meetings, going to press conferences, and asking random people on the street their opinions about local issues.
>3.) I understand that this arena of work is not at all lucrative unless you sell yourself out; but is it enough to simply live on?
Journalism consistently ranks amongst the lowest paid professions. It also has odd hours and low job stability. Expect to make under 35k initially and don't be surprised if you make under 30k. A select few make great money, most toil making the equivalent of a retail store manager.
>4.) What is it often like to start out in this field?
By the time your starting for real you should already have experience working for a college media outlet or local paper as a freelancer. There's no on the job training and you have to be ready to go balls deep into your beat. Know who the mayors the council people are, what do residents care about, etc.
The job can be the most fun thing ever one day and a pain in the ass the next. Some days I get to work from home making phone calls for my stories and other times I've had to wake up at 2am and drive two hours for a story. I've slept in my car while covering breaking news (doing live hits till ten pm then being ready for morning drive at 5am).
I also make 28 thousand, live at home, and am struggling to make ends meet. There few accolades and a lot of people won't like you.
It feels like you want to do overseas reporting and make a big difference. That's noble, but to be successful you have to find joy in reporting on the mundane. The reality is you'll be doing more stories about local robberies and mayoral races than sectarian violence. You will likely not change the world but you will make people better informed. Being a reporter means being diplomatic and building relationships. You might want to rip apart a politician in your questioning, but it's not hard for a politician to dodge questions and even easier for them to never return your phone call again. | keep being a chemistry major and start a blog |
jiroland | From my experience with JP groups, it's very rare. In these few months, I only saw one static recruitment PF group that openly say that they use voice chat, and enforce a 'you must be in, but you can just listen' rule. Judging from how I still see the same guy actually recruiting for MORE spots, and the fact that people talk him down for enforcing the rule, I think it's safe to say that in general it's actually not preferred.
They're aware of how useful it is (the Savage world first JP group use it, after all), but most opinions that I hear is they just don't find it comfortable. I'm not sure about NA/EU servers, but here we use macros with sound effects all over the place instead. Stuff like bouquet, voice/shriek/petri got their own macro, tankswaps in T6 uses a macro that announce the provoke AND mark the current MT with a circle mark, and tanks (MT, mainly) going to T8 are more or less expected to have a long-ass two-part automated macro noticing who should push what tower on the beginning of a phase, and then alarming everyone five seconds before a tower goes off. I think there's also a similar one for T9. I've cleared up until T8 without much hassle this way.
There are other disadvantages that I can think of, however. When things go awry in the middle, it's kinda hard to improvise. Some might argue that having voicechat won't do much in that kind of situation, but I'll take voicechat over having to type 'i'll do xx instead!' within a few seconds. By extension, learning brand new (as in, no guides on the net yet) contents might be more of a hassle.
tl;dr It's doable, and not as hard as some people would tell you, though not without it's disadvantages. | From my experience with JP groups, it's very rare. In these few months, I only saw one static recruitment PF group that openly say that they use voice chat, and enforce a 'you must be in, but you can just listen' rule. Judging from how I still see the same guy actually recruiting for MORE spots, and the fact that people talk him down for enforcing the rule, I think it's safe to say that in general it's actually not preferred.
They're aware of how useful it is (the Savage world first JP group use it, after all), but most opinions that I hear is they just don't find it comfortable. I'm not sure about NA/EU servers, but here we use macros with sound effects all over the place instead. Stuff like bouquet, voice/shriek/petri got their own macro, tankswaps in T6 uses a macro that announce the provoke AND mark the current MT with a circle mark, and tanks (MT, mainly) going to T8 are more or less expected to have a long-ass two-part automated macro noticing who should push what tower on the beginning of a phase, and then alarming everyone five seconds before a tower goes off. I think there's also a similar one for T9. I've cleared up until T8 without much hassle this way.
There are other disadvantages that I can think of, however. When things go awry in the middle, it's kinda hard to improvise. Some might argue that having voicechat won't do much in that kind of situation, but I'll take voicechat over having to type 'i'll do xx instead!' within a few seconds. By extension, learning brand new (as in, no guides on the net yet) contents might be more of a hassle.
tl;dr It's doable, and not as hard as some people would tell you, though not without it's disadvantages.
| ffxiv | t5_2rgs7 | ckj30pv | From my experience with JP groups, it's very rare. In these few months, I only saw one static recruitment PF group that openly say that they use voice chat, and enforce a 'you must be in, but you can just listen' rule. Judging from how I still see the same guy actually recruiting for MORE spots, and the fact that people talk him down for enforcing the rule, I think it's safe to say that in general it's actually not preferred.
They're aware of how useful it is (the Savage world first JP group use it, after all), but most opinions that I hear is they just don't find it comfortable. I'm not sure about NA/EU servers, but here we use macros with sound effects all over the place instead. Stuff like bouquet, voice/shriek/petri got their own macro, tankswaps in T6 uses a macro that announce the provoke AND mark the current MT with a circle mark, and tanks (MT, mainly) going to T8 are more or less expected to have a long-ass two-part automated macro noticing who should push what tower on the beginning of a phase, and then alarming everyone five seconds before a tower goes off. I think there's also a similar one for T9. I've cleared up until T8 without much hassle this way.
There are other disadvantages that I can think of, however. When things go awry in the middle, it's kinda hard to improvise. Some might argue that having voicechat won't do much in that kind of situation, but I'll take voicechat over having to type 'i'll do xx instead!' within a few seconds. By extension, learning brand new (as in, no guides on the net yet) contents might be more of a hassle. | It's doable, and not as hard as some people would tell you, though not without it's disadvantages. |
mmSNAKE | Yes, I usually play with another WD, Monk, Crusader,DH or another Barb. Or to be more exact, I'm helping friends to gear up well. Anyway here is how it is:
You don't need to take risks with packs you don't like the look of, if you see firechains/electrified I wouldn't touch that with anything except your cota. Since you have friends that help it will offset your lack of damage contribution (minus the cota, which is rather significant with high CDR, it's like at 60% your downtime on cota is 16s, thats absurd considering how much damage they do). Anyway you can easily stunlock stuff and group up, the wizard can black hole and that increases the damage significantly. Strongarm bracers are additive for each person, so if you have them and slam into an enemy thats up to 30% damage for the party, if wizard throws black hole and has strongarms, that's another 30%. As you can see for clearing that's rather efficient. Wizards are also flexible since they can lay their dots all over the place and you just have to keep the enemies in the fire.
The only time this will backfire is electrified. If they hit more it means instant death for you.
Trick is group up enemies and do small stutter charges to do damage and keep them relatively in place. This also make's the wizard's job easier when applying the 6p firebird dot.
tldr version: absolutely, just let your buddies do most of the lifting on firechains and electrified, and keep your charges short and group up stuff as much as possible. | Yes, I usually play with another WD, Monk, Crusader,DH or another Barb. Or to be more exact, I'm helping friends to gear up well. Anyway here is how it is:
You don't need to take risks with packs you don't like the look of, if you see firechains/electrified I wouldn't touch that with anything except your cota. Since you have friends that help it will offset your lack of damage contribution (minus the cota, which is rather significant with high CDR, it's like at 60% your downtime on cota is 16s, thats absurd considering how much damage they do). Anyway you can easily stunlock stuff and group up, the wizard can black hole and that increases the damage significantly. Strongarm bracers are additive for each person, so if you have them and slam into an enemy thats up to 30% damage for the party, if wizard throws black hole and has strongarms, that's another 30%. As you can see for clearing that's rather efficient. Wizards are also flexible since they can lay their dots all over the place and you just have to keep the enemies in the fire.
The only time this will backfire is electrified. If they hit more it means instant death for you.
Trick is group up enemies and do small stutter charges to do damage and keep them relatively in place. This also make's the wizard's job easier when applying the 6p firebird dot.
tldr version: absolutely, just let your buddies do most of the lifting on firechains and electrified, and keep your charges short and group up stuff as much as possible.
| Diablo3Barbarians | t5_2w19t | ckjyymr | Yes, I usually play with another WD, Monk, Crusader,DH or another Barb. Or to be more exact, I'm helping friends to gear up well. Anyway here is how it is:
You don't need to take risks with packs you don't like the look of, if you see firechains/electrified I wouldn't touch that with anything except your cota. Since you have friends that help it will offset your lack of damage contribution (minus the cota, which is rather significant with high CDR, it's like at 60% your downtime on cota is 16s, thats absurd considering how much damage they do). Anyway you can easily stunlock stuff and group up, the wizard can black hole and that increases the damage significantly. Strongarm bracers are additive for each person, so if you have them and slam into an enemy thats up to 30% damage for the party, if wizard throws black hole and has strongarms, that's another 30%. As you can see for clearing that's rather efficient. Wizards are also flexible since they can lay their dots all over the place and you just have to keep the enemies in the fire.
The only time this will backfire is electrified. If they hit more it means instant death for you.
Trick is group up enemies and do small stutter charges to do damage and keep them relatively in place. This also make's the wizard's job easier when applying the 6p firebird dot. | version: absolutely, just let your buddies do most of the lifting on firechains and electrified, and keep your charges short and group up stuff as much as possible. |
eamus_catuli | Great point.
I look at it this way. I've gotten in a bar fight or two in my stupid, drunken youth. I'm sure many of us have. Is it a crime? Yes - it's technically assault and battery. But I was never arrested for it, never shunned for it by society or my friends or family. Bloody nose, sore knuckles, etc. were about the worst I ever got or gave out of it - as is the case with most bar fights.
But imagine getting the upper hand on a guy, and all of a sudden you're on top of him. He's helpless, arms pinned, and nobody there is intervening. You have complete control over whether this guy walks away with just a bloody nose, or ends up in a coma or dead. At that moment, IMHO, you become completely liable for any result that occurs - whether or not you intended it.
If you hit him even 2 or 3 more times and he ends up with severe damage? I don't feel sorry for you or feel an injustice has occurred if you end up getting arrested and charged, regardless of your intent. You were in complete control and threw the punches. Maybe you just wanted to teach the guy a lesson? Too bad. The lesson is now yours.
So now put that idea into the context of an NFL player disciplining a 4 year old child. You want to teach a four year old a lesson? Fine, punish him. You want to use corporal punishment and believe that lessons need to be learned by spanking? Fine, spank him on the bottom with your hand a few times. Feel free to even make it sting a little. I don't agree with it (not at that age), but I can understand the logic behind it to a degree.
Taking a tree branch and whipping a naked 4 year old child with it repeatedly as though he were a slave getting a whipping? Come on, man. That's a whole other level. That's like beating the helpless guy over and over in my example above.
TL; DR: Peterson didn't discipline a child, he abused one. Just like sitting on a guy with his arms pinned and whaling on him isn't a harmless "bar fight", it's felonious aggravated battery or manslaughter, depending on the result. | Great point.
I look at it this way. I've gotten in a bar fight or two in my stupid, drunken youth. I'm sure many of us have. Is it a crime? Yes - it's technically assault and battery. But I was never arrested for it, never shunned for it by society or my friends or family. Bloody nose, sore knuckles, etc. were about the worst I ever got or gave out of it - as is the case with most bar fights.
But imagine getting the upper hand on a guy, and all of a sudden you're on top of him. He's helpless, arms pinned, and nobody there is intervening. You have complete control over whether this guy walks away with just a bloody nose, or ends up in a coma or dead. At that moment, IMHO, you become completely liable for any result that occurs - whether or not you intended it.
If you hit him even 2 or 3 more times and he ends up with severe damage? I don't feel sorry for you or feel an injustice has occurred if you end up getting arrested and charged, regardless of your intent. You were in complete control and threw the punches. Maybe you just wanted to teach the guy a lesson? Too bad. The lesson is now yours.
So now put that idea into the context of an NFL player disciplining a 4 year old child. You want to teach a four year old a lesson? Fine, punish him. You want to use corporal punishment and believe that lessons need to be learned by spanking? Fine, spank him on the bottom with your hand a few times. Feel free to even make it sting a little. I don't agree with it (not at that age), but I can understand the logic behind it to a degree.
Taking a tree branch and whipping a naked 4 year old child with it repeatedly as though he were a slave getting a whipping? Come on, man. That's a whole other level. That's like beating the helpless guy over and over in my example above.
TL; DR: Peterson didn't discipline a child, he abused one. Just like sitting on a guy with his arms pinned and whaling on him isn't a harmless "bar fight", it's felonious aggravated battery or manslaughter, depending on the result.
| minnesotavikings | t5_2qocl | ckj34gt | Great point.
I look at it this way. I've gotten in a bar fight or two in my stupid, drunken youth. I'm sure many of us have. Is it a crime? Yes - it's technically assault and battery. But I was never arrested for it, never shunned for it by society or my friends or family. Bloody nose, sore knuckles, etc. were about the worst I ever got or gave out of it - as is the case with most bar fights.
But imagine getting the upper hand on a guy, and all of a sudden you're on top of him. He's helpless, arms pinned, and nobody there is intervening. You have complete control over whether this guy walks away with just a bloody nose, or ends up in a coma or dead. At that moment, IMHO, you become completely liable for any result that occurs - whether or not you intended it.
If you hit him even 2 or 3 more times and he ends up with severe damage? I don't feel sorry for you or feel an injustice has occurred if you end up getting arrested and charged, regardless of your intent. You were in complete control and threw the punches. Maybe you just wanted to teach the guy a lesson? Too bad. The lesson is now yours.
So now put that idea into the context of an NFL player disciplining a 4 year old child. You want to teach a four year old a lesson? Fine, punish him. You want to use corporal punishment and believe that lessons need to be learned by spanking? Fine, spank him on the bottom with your hand a few times. Feel free to even make it sting a little. I don't agree with it (not at that age), but I can understand the logic behind it to a degree.
Taking a tree branch and whipping a naked 4 year old child with it repeatedly as though he were a slave getting a whipping? Come on, man. That's a whole other level. That's like beating the helpless guy over and over in my example above. | Peterson didn't discipline a child, he abused one. Just like sitting on a guy with his arms pinned and whaling on him isn't a harmless "bar fight", it's felonious aggravated battery or manslaughter, depending on the result. |
shemp33 | I've been a photographer and videographer on many weddings (and bar/bat mitzvahs, sweet 16, graduations, etc) over the years. Sometimes on my own as my own business, but mostly working for someone (they'd send me out as "the" guy, or on a larger event, I would be a 2nd).
Additionally, I have consulted a few other folks who have started their own business doing this. (My schooling is in radio/television production/broadcasting and business)
What I've seen lately is disturbing. It seems that as equipment quality on the consumer side has increased (think: $350 video camera that can output 1080p), everyone suddenly thinks they're a professional videographer, and are saturating the market with offers to shoot your wedding for $500. These guys are just trying to make extra money- I understand it, but it messes up the market for people doing it for a living.
If you're going legit with this, be prepared to buy the right equipment. I don't say you need Ikegami cameras, and a pimped out Grass Valley edit bay to work on, like at your network news station, but have the pro stuff, not the prosumer, or consumer stuff. Lighting and off-camera mic are the two absolute prerequisites. Plus plenty of extra batteries, a solid tripod, you know the drill.
But more importantly, get the business model down right first. Know what you will be able to devote to this to crank out a finished product, and base your pricing on what a fair hourly wage for that much work will cost. Let's say you budget 12 hours for the day, and 30 hours of editing/post work, that's 42 hours, and let's say $40/hour is your "Must have" rate. Let's assume you pay a 2nd $300 for the day. And you have $20 in consumables... (like DVDs, boxes, shipping, etc.) that's $2,000.
But - story time for a moment -- a photographer friend of mine had an issue crop up last year. One bridezilla would not be happy no matter what. She was very demanding on the wedding day (we later found out that her maid of honor bailed the night before the wedding - so that could have started things?), she wanted a lot of very unreasonable things, and he did the best he could with her. The pictures were completely fine. She sued him saying that he didn't do any of the shots or things she wanted. She also figured out (message boards or facebook or something?) who some of his other clients were, and they ganged up on him and all tried to sue him for their money back plus damages (crying bride in front of a judge "he ruined our whole wedding" shit). In the end, the judge said the pictured looked fine, and tossed the lawsuit out. But the stress of being sued took a pretty big physical and emotional toll on him. The lesson here: he did not vet out the right kinds of clients. Be careful who you let hire you. The other lesson, is he now has a general release as part of his contract. The only way anyone gets any final output is after they sign a release saying they accept the images as-is, and sign-off that the work is compete. Obviously, he won't give them crap pictures, and this is his way of making sure they don't say "ya ya ya" to get the pictures, and then turn around later and become unhappy a week down the road.
**TL/DR** Equipment, Rate, Contract, and be sure what you're getting into.
| I've been a photographer and videographer on many weddings (and bar/bat mitzvahs, sweet 16, graduations, etc) over the years. Sometimes on my own as my own business, but mostly working for someone (they'd send me out as "the" guy, or on a larger event, I would be a 2nd).
Additionally, I have consulted a few other folks who have started their own business doing this. (My schooling is in radio/television production/broadcasting and business)
What I've seen lately is disturbing. It seems that as equipment quality on the consumer side has increased (think: $350 video camera that can output 1080p), everyone suddenly thinks they're a professional videographer, and are saturating the market with offers to shoot your wedding for $500. These guys are just trying to make extra money- I understand it, but it messes up the market for people doing it for a living.
If you're going legit with this, be prepared to buy the right equipment. I don't say you need Ikegami cameras, and a pimped out Grass Valley edit bay to work on, like at your network news station, but have the pro stuff, not the prosumer, or consumer stuff. Lighting and off-camera mic are the two absolute prerequisites. Plus plenty of extra batteries, a solid tripod, you know the drill.
But more importantly, get the business model down right first. Know what you will be able to devote to this to crank out a finished product, and base your pricing on what a fair hourly wage for that much work will cost. Let's say you budget 12 hours for the day, and 30 hours of editing/post work, that's 42 hours, and let's say $40/hour is your "Must have" rate. Let's assume you pay a 2nd $300 for the day. And you have $20 in consumables... (like DVDs, boxes, shipping, etc.) that's $2,000.
But - story time for a moment -- a photographer friend of mine had an issue crop up last year. One bridezilla would not be happy no matter what. She was very demanding on the wedding day (we later found out that her maid of honor bailed the night before the wedding - so that could have started things?), she wanted a lot of very unreasonable things, and he did the best he could with her. The pictures were completely fine. She sued him saying that he didn't do any of the shots or things she wanted. She also figured out (message boards or facebook or something?) who some of his other clients were, and they ganged up on him and all tried to sue him for their money back plus damages (crying bride in front of a judge "he ruined our whole wedding" shit). In the end, the judge said the pictured looked fine, and tossed the lawsuit out. But the stress of being sued took a pretty big physical and emotional toll on him. The lesson here: he did not vet out the right kinds of clients. Be careful who you let hire you. The other lesson, is he now has a general release as part of his contract. The only way anyone gets any final output is after they sign a release saying they accept the images as-is, and sign-off that the work is compete. Obviously, he won't give them crap pictures, and this is his way of making sure they don't say "ya ya ya" to get the pictures, and then turn around later and become unhappy a week down the road.
TL/DR Equipment, Rate, Contract, and be sure what you're getting into.
| videography | t5_2qwgz | ckjtx1b | I've been a photographer and videographer on many weddings (and bar/bat mitzvahs, sweet 16, graduations, etc) over the years. Sometimes on my own as my own business, but mostly working for someone (they'd send me out as "the" guy, or on a larger event, I would be a 2nd).
Additionally, I have consulted a few other folks who have started their own business doing this. (My schooling is in radio/television production/broadcasting and business)
What I've seen lately is disturbing. It seems that as equipment quality on the consumer side has increased (think: $350 video camera that can output 1080p), everyone suddenly thinks they're a professional videographer, and are saturating the market with offers to shoot your wedding for $500. These guys are just trying to make extra money- I understand it, but it messes up the market for people doing it for a living.
If you're going legit with this, be prepared to buy the right equipment. I don't say you need Ikegami cameras, and a pimped out Grass Valley edit bay to work on, like at your network news station, but have the pro stuff, not the prosumer, or consumer stuff. Lighting and off-camera mic are the two absolute prerequisites. Plus plenty of extra batteries, a solid tripod, you know the drill.
But more importantly, get the business model down right first. Know what you will be able to devote to this to crank out a finished product, and base your pricing on what a fair hourly wage for that much work will cost. Let's say you budget 12 hours for the day, and 30 hours of editing/post work, that's 42 hours, and let's say $40/hour is your "Must have" rate. Let's assume you pay a 2nd $300 for the day. And you have $20 in consumables... (like DVDs, boxes, shipping, etc.) that's $2,000.
But - story time for a moment -- a photographer friend of mine had an issue crop up last year. One bridezilla would not be happy no matter what. She was very demanding on the wedding day (we later found out that her maid of honor bailed the night before the wedding - so that could have started things?), she wanted a lot of very unreasonable things, and he did the best he could with her. The pictures were completely fine. She sued him saying that he didn't do any of the shots or things she wanted. She also figured out (message boards or facebook or something?) who some of his other clients were, and they ganged up on him and all tried to sue him for their money back plus damages (crying bride in front of a judge "he ruined our whole wedding" shit). In the end, the judge said the pictured looked fine, and tossed the lawsuit out. But the stress of being sued took a pretty big physical and emotional toll on him. The lesson here: he did not vet out the right kinds of clients. Be careful who you let hire you. The other lesson, is he now has a general release as part of his contract. The only way anyone gets any final output is after they sign a release saying they accept the images as-is, and sign-off that the work is compete. Obviously, he won't give them crap pictures, and this is his way of making sure they don't say "ya ya ya" to get the pictures, and then turn around later and become unhappy a week down the road. | Equipment, Rate, Contract, and be sure what you're getting into. |
Steeped_In_Folly | I can't find a video of it, but Patrice Oneal explained why you should never ask women for relationship advice with a brilliant analogy. I'm paraphrasing:
As a fisherman, who do you ask for advice on catching fish? Do you ask the fish? You don't, because fish don't want to be caught. Why would they explain to you how they work their bullshit if their sole purpose in life is to test your fishing skills? The answer is simple: you ask fellow fishermen who have caught fish and who have been through the storm.
'Catching fish' not only applies to getting women but also to keeping them i.e. consistently catching their bullshit and keeping them in line.
tl;dr don't ask the fish, ask the fisherman for fishing advice
| I can't find a video of it, but Patrice Oneal explained why you should never ask women for relationship advice with a brilliant analogy. I'm paraphrasing:
As a fisherman, who do you ask for advice on catching fish? Do you ask the fish? You don't, because fish don't want to be caught. Why would they explain to you how they work their bullshit if their sole purpose in life is to test your fishing skills? The answer is simple: you ask fellow fishermen who have caught fish and who have been through the storm.
'Catching fish' not only applies to getting women but also to keeping them i.e. consistently catching their bullshit and keeping them in line.
tl;dr don't ask the fish, ask the fisherman for fishing advice
| TheRedPill | t5_2ve1u | ckjt5yv | I can't find a video of it, but Patrice Oneal explained why you should never ask women for relationship advice with a brilliant analogy. I'm paraphrasing:
As a fisherman, who do you ask for advice on catching fish? Do you ask the fish? You don't, because fish don't want to be caught. Why would they explain to you how they work their bullshit if their sole purpose in life is to test your fishing skills? The answer is simple: you ask fellow fishermen who have caught fish and who have been through the storm.
'Catching fish' not only applies to getting women but also to keeping them i.e. consistently catching their bullshit and keeping them in line. | don't ask the fish, ask the fisherman for fishing advice |
corporaterebel | Most rich folks are soft majors....generally, getting rich is about convincing folks to voluntarily give their money to them via sports, entertainment or pseudo-science. And throw in a big measure of luck.
These folks are used to having people do their bidding on what "feels right". And sticking a needle into somebody causing pain, especially your child, doesn't feel right.
I'm used to some pretty brutal things, but I did NOT like watching my kids get vaccinated. They screamed and clutched me as a protector and I was letting them down. I had to convince myself that what I was doing was the best thing and I felt guilty afterwards when the kids were recovering from the stress.
tl;dr People with means that complain about GMO's, "chemicals" and nuclear power.
EDIT: vaccinations seem brutal, uncivilized and just plain backwards. We need the Star Trek version of injections..
Source: for you down voters..I lived in Malibu for 10+ years. It is rare that ANY of my were technically literate, most ran on emotion and often just a bit out of touch with reality. And half of the population in Malibu just married well due their looks and weren't real rigid in their reasoning. | Most rich folks are soft majors....generally, getting rich is about convincing folks to voluntarily give their money to them via sports, entertainment or pseudo-science. And throw in a big measure of luck.
These folks are used to having people do their bidding on what "feels right". And sticking a needle into somebody causing pain, especially your child, doesn't feel right.
I'm used to some pretty brutal things, but I did NOT like watching my kids get vaccinated. They screamed and clutched me as a protector and I was letting them down. I had to convince myself that what I was doing was the best thing and I felt guilty afterwards when the kids were recovering from the stress.
tl;dr People with means that complain about GMO's, "chemicals" and nuclear power.
EDIT: vaccinations seem brutal, uncivilized and just plain backwards. We need the Star Trek version of injections..
Source: for you down voters..I lived in Malibu for 10+ years. It is rare that ANY of my were technically literate, most ran on emotion and often just a bit out of touch with reality. And half of the population in Malibu just married well due their looks and weren't real rigid in their reasoning.
| LosAngeles | t5_2qht0 | ckkdzw2 | Most rich folks are soft majors....generally, getting rich is about convincing folks to voluntarily give their money to them via sports, entertainment or pseudo-science. And throw in a big measure of luck.
These folks are used to having people do their bidding on what "feels right". And sticking a needle into somebody causing pain, especially your child, doesn't feel right.
I'm used to some pretty brutal things, but I did NOT like watching my kids get vaccinated. They screamed and clutched me as a protector and I was letting them down. I had to convince myself that what I was doing was the best thing and I felt guilty afterwards when the kids were recovering from the stress. | People with means that complain about GMO's, "chemicals" and nuclear power.
EDIT: vaccinations seem brutal, uncivilized and just plain backwards. We need the Star Trek version of injections..
Source: for you down voters..I lived in Malibu for 10+ years. It is rare that ANY of my were technically literate, most ran on emotion and often just a bit out of touch with reality. And half of the population in Malibu just married well due their looks and weren't real rigid in their reasoning. |
PenguDood | Infusing a weapon with an element does a few things:
1. First off, it reduces the scaling grade of whatever the weapon previously scaled with. The weapon still gains AR with that stat, just not as much as before.
2. To counter point 1, it outright adds damage of whatever element you are infusing. To go with your mention of GMB, let's assume that you infuse Magic (so it adds magic).
3. It will also add a scaling bonus on that element. Magic infusion adds an Intelligence scaling (more Int = more AR).
Now, a few things happen and change the flow of combat. Seeing as your weapon now is SPLIT damage (IE part of your weapons AR is physical and part is magic), the total number will be higher than if it was pure physical. This looks good on a character sheet, but keep in mind...you now will make TWO defense checks against your opponent. Half of your damage will check against their physical defense, half against their magical. This can work for or against you.
If you go up against someone with super high physical defense but very little magic defense, then your weapon will do more as split (seeing as part of the damage has little 'resistance'). On the flip, if someone has decently even defense, it'll do less because there's a decent block to both sides. Things like GMB greatly boost a persons magic defense, they do nothing against their physical. In short an infused weapon will do LESS than pure physical to someone using GMB.
Now, to add another level to infusions. In DS2 you can also ENCHANT an infused weapon (with things like Crystal Magic Weapon, Sunlight Blade, Flame Weapon, etc. you just can't use a resin). Now for some math.
All the weapon enchants (including resins, but remember, resin can't be used on infused weapons) add a FLAT damage gain, of the corresponding element, to a weapon in addition to a percentage. This means, say your weapon does 100 physical and 100 magic damage, then you cast CMW. This adds 50 flat (so now it's 100ph/150mag) AND it increases the magic damage by 30%. Now that turns that 150 into (150*1.3) 195. As you can see, it's a nice little compound.
The ideal situation is to infuse/enchant a weapon with an element it already deals, or that you plan on using in large amounts. In other words, don't bother enchanting dark if you don't have good int AND faith...or don't go magic if you use miracles and pyro exclusively, you get the jist. Also, keep in mind if you change weapons, any imbue/resin/enchant you have on WILL GO AWAY.
In the end, pure physical is better if you do a lot of weapon swapping, don't have a slew of magic at disposal (as the bonus would be low, because of little investment), or run into someone that looks to have high defense against an element you would otherwise use. Plus, on an un-imbued weapon, remember you can apply ANY kind of resin as the situation warrants. Sure it's not as much bonus as if it was enchanted and imbued, but it's versatile based on current situations.
Infusing is better if you play with the corresponding element more. IE, if you have 50 faith to cast your super miracles, infusing Lightning or Fire will give you more output than pure physical...but it does put you at risk of the "GMB/high split defense" problem above.
TL;DR: There isn't one. If you were lookin for info on imbues/enchants, read the whole thing. | Infusing a weapon with an element does a few things:
First off, it reduces the scaling grade of whatever the weapon previously scaled with. The weapon still gains AR with that stat, just not as much as before.
To counter point 1, it outright adds damage of whatever element you are infusing. To go with your mention of GMB, let's assume that you infuse Magic (so it adds magic).
It will also add a scaling bonus on that element. Magic infusion adds an Intelligence scaling (more Int = more AR).
Now, a few things happen and change the flow of combat. Seeing as your weapon now is SPLIT damage (IE part of your weapons AR is physical and part is magic), the total number will be higher than if it was pure physical. This looks good on a character sheet, but keep in mind...you now will make TWO defense checks against your opponent. Half of your damage will check against their physical defense, half against their magical. This can work for or against you.
If you go up against someone with super high physical defense but very little magic defense, then your weapon will do more as split (seeing as part of the damage has little 'resistance'). On the flip, if someone has decently even defense, it'll do less because there's a decent block to both sides. Things like GMB greatly boost a persons magic defense, they do nothing against their physical. In short an infused weapon will do LESS than pure physical to someone using GMB.
Now, to add another level to infusions. In DS2 you can also ENCHANT an infused weapon (with things like Crystal Magic Weapon, Sunlight Blade, Flame Weapon, etc. you just can't use a resin). Now for some math.
All the weapon enchants (including resins, but remember, resin can't be used on infused weapons) add a FLAT damage gain, of the corresponding element, to a weapon in addition to a percentage. This means, say your weapon does 100 physical and 100 magic damage, then you cast CMW. This adds 50 flat (so now it's 100ph/150mag) AND it increases the magic damage by 30%. Now that turns that 150 into (150*1.3) 195. As you can see, it's a nice little compound.
The ideal situation is to infuse/enchant a weapon with an element it already deals, or that you plan on using in large amounts. In other words, don't bother enchanting dark if you don't have good int AND faith...or don't go magic if you use miracles and pyro exclusively, you get the jist. Also, keep in mind if you change weapons, any imbue/resin/enchant you have on WILL GO AWAY.
In the end, pure physical is better if you do a lot of weapon swapping, don't have a slew of magic at disposal (as the bonus would be low, because of little investment), or run into someone that looks to have high defense against an element you would otherwise use. Plus, on an un-imbued weapon, remember you can apply ANY kind of resin as the situation warrants. Sure it's not as much bonus as if it was enchanted and imbued, but it's versatile based on current situations.
Infusing is better if you play with the corresponding element more. IE, if you have 50 faith to cast your super miracles, infusing Lightning or Fire will give you more output than pure physical...but it does put you at risk of the "GMB/high split defense" problem above.
TL;DR: There isn't one. If you were lookin for info on imbues/enchants, read the whole thing.
| DarkSouls2 | t5_2vqni | ckjw2ml | Infusing a weapon with an element does a few things:
First off, it reduces the scaling grade of whatever the weapon previously scaled with. The weapon still gains AR with that stat, just not as much as before.
To counter point 1, it outright adds damage of whatever element you are infusing. To go with your mention of GMB, let's assume that you infuse Magic (so it adds magic).
It will also add a scaling bonus on that element. Magic infusion adds an Intelligence scaling (more Int = more AR).
Now, a few things happen and change the flow of combat. Seeing as your weapon now is SPLIT damage (IE part of your weapons AR is physical and part is magic), the total number will be higher than if it was pure physical. This looks good on a character sheet, but keep in mind...you now will make TWO defense checks against your opponent. Half of your damage will check against their physical defense, half against their magical. This can work for or against you.
If you go up against someone with super high physical defense but very little magic defense, then your weapon will do more as split (seeing as part of the damage has little 'resistance'). On the flip, if someone has decently even defense, it'll do less because there's a decent block to both sides. Things like GMB greatly boost a persons magic defense, they do nothing against their physical. In short an infused weapon will do LESS than pure physical to someone using GMB.
Now, to add another level to infusions. In DS2 you can also ENCHANT an infused weapon (with things like Crystal Magic Weapon, Sunlight Blade, Flame Weapon, etc. you just can't use a resin). Now for some math.
All the weapon enchants (including resins, but remember, resin can't be used on infused weapons) add a FLAT damage gain, of the corresponding element, to a weapon in addition to a percentage. This means, say your weapon does 100 physical and 100 magic damage, then you cast CMW. This adds 50 flat (so now it's 100ph/150mag) AND it increases the magic damage by 30%. Now that turns that 150 into (150*1.3) 195. As you can see, it's a nice little compound.
The ideal situation is to infuse/enchant a weapon with an element it already deals, or that you plan on using in large amounts. In other words, don't bother enchanting dark if you don't have good int AND faith...or don't go magic if you use miracles and pyro exclusively, you get the jist. Also, keep in mind if you change weapons, any imbue/resin/enchant you have on WILL GO AWAY.
In the end, pure physical is better if you do a lot of weapon swapping, don't have a slew of magic at disposal (as the bonus would be low, because of little investment), or run into someone that looks to have high defense against an element you would otherwise use. Plus, on an un-imbued weapon, remember you can apply ANY kind of resin as the situation warrants. Sure it's not as much bonus as if it was enchanted and imbued, but it's versatile based on current situations.
Infusing is better if you play with the corresponding element more. IE, if you have 50 faith to cast your super miracles, infusing Lightning or Fire will give you more output than pure physical...but it does put you at risk of the "GMB/high split defense" problem above. | There isn't one. If you were lookin for info on imbues/enchants, read the whole thing. |
oozles | Look at the pros/cons of might.
Cons:
Raids are harder, both offensive and defensive
Daily loot gold/mana goals require more
Quests become more demanding
Pros:
Raid targets tend to have larger loot reserves, whether or not you can pick at them or clear their entire base
Additional Quests available. Better Quest rewards.
Hero upgrades in Expedition
Daily Might rewards
I'd argue that Gold and Mana is largely irrelevant, so we can pretty much ignore that raids are harder. Without too much planning you can spread out what days your builders are going to finish their projects so you don't get hit with an 8 Million gold cost on one day and then nothing for a week. Also with a guild you can get a full shield for a fraction of the price, so incoming raids aren't a big issue either. In my experience, higher might means people that are much stronger than you hit you sooner, which means losing fewer resources to vultures.
In my opinion the quests give the most valuable rewards. HB, Experience, and gems. The shards they give are pretty lackluster but are still there. The chance of getting a free talent reroll or even the +25 gem quests outweighs the increased difficulty in beating the Loot X gold/mana daily goals.
TL;DR: Raiding is stupid. Gold and Mana is stupid. Acquire experience books and HB. Might is right. | Look at the pros/cons of might.
Cons:
Raids are harder, both offensive and defensive
Daily loot gold/mana goals require more
Quests become more demanding
Pros:
Raid targets tend to have larger loot reserves, whether or not you can pick at them or clear their entire base
Additional Quests available. Better Quest rewards.
Hero upgrades in Expedition
Daily Might rewards
I'd argue that Gold and Mana is largely irrelevant, so we can pretty much ignore that raids are harder. Without too much planning you can spread out what days your builders are going to finish their projects so you don't get hit with an 8 Million gold cost on one day and then nothing for a week. Also with a guild you can get a full shield for a fraction of the price, so incoming raids aren't a big issue either. In my experience, higher might means people that are much stronger than you hit you sooner, which means losing fewer resources to vultures.
In my opinion the quests give the most valuable rewards. HB, Experience, and gems. The shards they give are pretty lackluster but are still there. The chance of getting a free talent reroll or even the +25 gem quests outweighs the increased difficulty in beating the Loot X gold/mana daily goals.
TL;DR: Raiding is stupid. Gold and Mana is stupid. Acquire experience books and HB. Might is right.
| CastleClash | t5_2ya92 | cklzvcb | Look at the pros/cons of might.
Cons:
Raids are harder, both offensive and defensive
Daily loot gold/mana goals require more
Quests become more demanding
Pros:
Raid targets tend to have larger loot reserves, whether or not you can pick at them or clear their entire base
Additional Quests available. Better Quest rewards.
Hero upgrades in Expedition
Daily Might rewards
I'd argue that Gold and Mana is largely irrelevant, so we can pretty much ignore that raids are harder. Without too much planning you can spread out what days your builders are going to finish their projects so you don't get hit with an 8 Million gold cost on one day and then nothing for a week. Also with a guild you can get a full shield for a fraction of the price, so incoming raids aren't a big issue either. In my experience, higher might means people that are much stronger than you hit you sooner, which means losing fewer resources to vultures.
In my opinion the quests give the most valuable rewards. HB, Experience, and gems. The shards they give are pretty lackluster but are still there. The chance of getting a free talent reroll or even the +25 gem quests outweighs the increased difficulty in beating the Loot X gold/mana daily goals. | Raiding is stupid. Gold and Mana is stupid. Acquire experience books and HB. Might is right. |
russellvt | Really?!?! It's come to this... this *isn't* a catch all - with my voicemail systems, the pound is short for "end," which just means "send it." If you want to end, you hit "*", not "#".
tl;dr - This doesn't work everywhere, or even in "most" places. Why is this an LPT front page? | Really?!?! It's come to this... this isn't a catch all - with my voicemail systems, the pound is short for "end," which just means "send it." If you want to end, you hit "*", not "#".
tl;dr - This doesn't work everywhere, or even in "most" places. Why is this an LPT front page?
| LifeProTips | t5_2s5oq | ckkmdc3 | Really?!?! It's come to this... this isn't a catch all - with my voicemail systems, the pound is short for "end," which just means "send it." If you want to end, you hit "*", not "#". | This doesn't work everywhere, or even in "most" places. Why is this an LPT front page? |
JoshuMertens | Its a show meant to go adventuring, fight monsters, get loot, traverse dungeons like a make-believe world where the characters are like next to you. You can show adventure time to infants, but theyll just say its colorful and the characters are noodly blobs with a face. Pen Ward made the show based on the games Dungeons and Dragons, the focus is on fighting and the private life of each protagonist ,which is hanging out, eating bacon pancakes to all sorts of antics and HOW EACH GROWS. Its meant for all ages, its range is from 6-?? According to standards of a person but its storyline and plot arcs are variated and handle deep concept from religion,puberty,life decision,knowledge to morals so its good to show to younglings if you understand the theme.
But If youre going to show it to
"Overprotective parents who wants their kids not too watch violence because theyll copy it" type of parents. Id advice not for them to show it to their "Oh so easily influenced" children because theyll just criticize it more as a weird show and not a show of importance as stated from above. I dont know, this is my opinion.
TLDR:its appropriate if youre not an "overprotective" type parent or elder | Its a show meant to go adventuring, fight monsters, get loot, traverse dungeons like a make-believe world where the characters are like next to you. You can show adventure time to infants, but theyll just say its colorful and the characters are noodly blobs with a face. Pen Ward made the show based on the games Dungeons and Dragons, the focus is on fighting and the private life of each protagonist ,which is hanging out, eating bacon pancakes to all sorts of antics and HOW EACH GROWS. Its meant for all ages, its range is from 6-?? According to standards of a person but its storyline and plot arcs are variated and handle deep concept from religion,puberty,life decision,knowledge to morals so its good to show to younglings if you understand the theme.
But If youre going to show it to
"Overprotective parents who wants their kids not too watch violence because theyll copy it" type of parents. Id advice not for them to show it to their "Oh so easily influenced" children because theyll just criticize it more as a weird show and not a show of importance as stated from above. I dont know, this is my opinion.
TLDR:its appropriate if youre not an "overprotective" type parent or elder
| adventuretime | t5_2s54g | ckknwuy | Its a show meant to go adventuring, fight monsters, get loot, traverse dungeons like a make-believe world where the characters are like next to you. You can show adventure time to infants, but theyll just say its colorful and the characters are noodly blobs with a face. Pen Ward made the show based on the games Dungeons and Dragons, the focus is on fighting and the private life of each protagonist ,which is hanging out, eating bacon pancakes to all sorts of antics and HOW EACH GROWS. Its meant for all ages, its range is from 6-?? According to standards of a person but its storyline and plot arcs are variated and handle deep concept from religion,puberty,life decision,knowledge to morals so its good to show to younglings if you understand the theme.
But If youre going to show it to
"Overprotective parents who wants their kids not too watch violence because theyll copy it" type of parents. Id advice not for them to show it to their "Oh so easily influenced" children because theyll just criticize it more as a weird show and not a show of importance as stated from above. I dont know, this is my opinion. | its appropriate if youre not an "overprotective" type parent or elder |
Galejade | Here, [take a look at this article]( about social media and how it affects all debates; nothing really new but it may help you realize why things have changed a bit since you played games in high-school.
TL;DR, people will always be in need of myths, symbols, and enemies, in the game industry or elsewhere. | Here, [take a look at this article]( about social media and how it affects all debates; nothing really new but it may help you realize why things have changed a bit since you played games in high-school.
TL;DR, people will always be in need of myths, symbols, and enemies, in the game industry or elsewhere.
| truegaming | t5_2sgq6 | cklrr05 | Here, [take a look at this article]( about social media and how it affects all debates; nothing really new but it may help you realize why things have changed a bit since you played games in high-school. | people will always be in need of myths, symbols, and enemies, in the game industry or elsewhere. |
butter14 | Your comment can be applied to our connected society as a whole. The internet is an echo chamber where everyone's voice is heard and not heard at the same time, where the minority opinion seems like the majority and where those who scream the loudest make the most waves.
TL;DR: Screw SJWs. | Your comment can be applied to our connected society as a whole. The internet is an echo chamber where everyone's voice is heard and not heard at the same time, where the minority opinion seems like the majority and where those who scream the loudest make the most waves.
TL;DR: Screw SJWs.
| truegaming | t5_2sgq6 | ckltked | Your comment can be applied to our connected society as a whole. The internet is an echo chamber where everyone's voice is heard and not heard at the same time, where the minority opinion seems like the majority and where those who scream the loudest make the most waves. | Screw SJWs. |
bennocide | I was a journalism major in college and one of our projects was to do a half day ride along with police. Start the ride along with a cop, real nice guy, relaxed and not on a high horse like many cops are. Reiterated that the day was probably going to be slow. Nothing really happen up to lunch, we stop to grab something to eat and I down a couple cups of water expecting to be done in an hour or so.
Right after lunch, domestic call comes in and I watch him calmly diffuse the situation, all the while I feel the hint of having to pee. He gets ready to call it a day for me when his phone rings and he gets a tip for a drug related case he worked a week prior, and he needed to meet with the tipster ASAP. So we go and listen to this skeezy looking dude ramble on about this house that's got meth for a solid half-hour. My have to pee meter was steadily rising out of impatience but I was still good.
The cop had to follow up on the tip and in truth I wanted to see a little action so I said I was good. He called back up and they proceeded to the house. Not much to say about the incident except that it took two hours and I was beginning to initiate clinch mode on my pee meter. Many times I looked at the nearby tree in agony wanting to piss, but I figured that would probably be a bad idea in front of cops, and I felt embarrassed to ask to be taken somewhere.
So finally we are headed back to the station, and I was in absolute visual discomfort and the cop could tell, but before he could ask what was wrong, a driver ran a stop sign and cut us off, we gave chase hitting every pothole on the shitty street. By this time, I'm going zen trying to hold it. The guy stopped and after an additional hour of ticketing we were finally on our way back, wherein in immense pain and anguish I swallowed my pride and begged him to stop at a gas station where I then smashed through the mens room door whether occupied or not (thankfully it wasn't) and had a piss that rivaled the scene with Tom Hanks in a League of their Own.
tl;dr On a police ride along for school, crime kept getting in the way of my opportunity to pee. | I was a journalism major in college and one of our projects was to do a half day ride along with police. Start the ride along with a cop, real nice guy, relaxed and not on a high horse like many cops are. Reiterated that the day was probably going to be slow. Nothing really happen up to lunch, we stop to grab something to eat and I down a couple cups of water expecting to be done in an hour or so.
Right after lunch, domestic call comes in and I watch him calmly diffuse the situation, all the while I feel the hint of having to pee. He gets ready to call it a day for me when his phone rings and he gets a tip for a drug related case he worked a week prior, and he needed to meet with the tipster ASAP. So we go and listen to this skeezy looking dude ramble on about this house that's got meth for a solid half-hour. My have to pee meter was steadily rising out of impatience but I was still good.
The cop had to follow up on the tip and in truth I wanted to see a little action so I said I was good. He called back up and they proceeded to the house. Not much to say about the incident except that it took two hours and I was beginning to initiate clinch mode on my pee meter. Many times I looked at the nearby tree in agony wanting to piss, but I figured that would probably be a bad idea in front of cops, and I felt embarrassed to ask to be taken somewhere.
So finally we are headed back to the station, and I was in absolute visual discomfort and the cop could tell, but before he could ask what was wrong, a driver ran a stop sign and cut us off, we gave chase hitting every pothole on the shitty street. By this time, I'm going zen trying to hold it. The guy stopped and after an additional hour of ticketing we were finally on our way back, wherein in immense pain and anguish I swallowed my pride and begged him to stop at a gas station where I then smashed through the mens room door whether occupied or not (thankfully it wasn't) and had a piss that rivaled the scene with Tom Hanks in a League of their Own.
tl;dr On a police ride along for school, crime kept getting in the way of my opportunity to pee.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | ckl2nul | I was a journalism major in college and one of our projects was to do a half day ride along with police. Start the ride along with a cop, real nice guy, relaxed and not on a high horse like many cops are. Reiterated that the day was probably going to be slow. Nothing really happen up to lunch, we stop to grab something to eat and I down a couple cups of water expecting to be done in an hour or so.
Right after lunch, domestic call comes in and I watch him calmly diffuse the situation, all the while I feel the hint of having to pee. He gets ready to call it a day for me when his phone rings and he gets a tip for a drug related case he worked a week prior, and he needed to meet with the tipster ASAP. So we go and listen to this skeezy looking dude ramble on about this house that's got meth for a solid half-hour. My have to pee meter was steadily rising out of impatience but I was still good.
The cop had to follow up on the tip and in truth I wanted to see a little action so I said I was good. He called back up and they proceeded to the house. Not much to say about the incident except that it took two hours and I was beginning to initiate clinch mode on my pee meter. Many times I looked at the nearby tree in agony wanting to piss, but I figured that would probably be a bad idea in front of cops, and I felt embarrassed to ask to be taken somewhere.
So finally we are headed back to the station, and I was in absolute visual discomfort and the cop could tell, but before he could ask what was wrong, a driver ran a stop sign and cut us off, we gave chase hitting every pothole on the shitty street. By this time, I'm going zen trying to hold it. The guy stopped and after an additional hour of ticketing we were finally on our way back, wherein in immense pain and anguish I swallowed my pride and begged him to stop at a gas station where I then smashed through the mens room door whether occupied or not (thankfully it wasn't) and had a piss that rivaled the scene with Tom Hanks in a League of their Own. | On a police ride along for school, crime kept getting in the way of my opportunity to pee. |
Vudukudu | Throwing in my lot with the unpopular opinion, here. Hel's the only character in the game who's appearance actually means something.
It's an unfortunate fact that Hel recolors are an inconvenience. There's no arguing it. She's a character based solely on color. Adding skins that change those colors is essentially a skin to change her function. No other skin affects the enemy's ability to anticipate abilities.
Even "just one game" isn't an excuse. It's still a game that someone else has to adjust to a new, unique, and unnecessary aspect. New players will suffer, experienced players will suffer the annoyance, and I doubt Hi-Rez is particularly interested in either. Cost analysis is People who Main Hel VS Everyone Else.
TL;DR Hel recolors have an effect on gameplay.
Footnote: Hi-Rez has better things to do than recolor Hel. Like work on meaningful content.
Addendum: Rest of community cares about gameplay. Hel players care about Hel skins. Sucks to be the minority. | Throwing in my lot with the unpopular opinion, here. Hel's the only character in the game who's appearance actually means something.
It's an unfortunate fact that Hel recolors are an inconvenience. There's no arguing it. She's a character based solely on color. Adding skins that change those colors is essentially a skin to change her function. No other skin affects the enemy's ability to anticipate abilities.
Even "just one game" isn't an excuse. It's still a game that someone else has to adjust to a new, unique, and unnecessary aspect. New players will suffer, experienced players will suffer the annoyance, and I doubt Hi-Rez is particularly interested in either. Cost analysis is People who Main Hel VS Everyone Else.
TL;DR Hel recolors have an effect on gameplay.
Footnote: Hi-Rez has better things to do than recolor Hel. Like work on meaningful content.
Addendum: Rest of community cares about gameplay. Hel players care about Hel skins. Sucks to be the minority.
| Smite | t5_2stl8 | ckl9c7q | Throwing in my lot with the unpopular opinion, here. Hel's the only character in the game who's appearance actually means something.
It's an unfortunate fact that Hel recolors are an inconvenience. There's no arguing it. She's a character based solely on color. Adding skins that change those colors is essentially a skin to change her function. No other skin affects the enemy's ability to anticipate abilities.
Even "just one game" isn't an excuse. It's still a game that someone else has to adjust to a new, unique, and unnecessary aspect. New players will suffer, experienced players will suffer the annoyance, and I doubt Hi-Rez is particularly interested in either. Cost analysis is People who Main Hel VS Everyone Else. | Hel recolors have an effect on gameplay.
Footnote: Hi-Rez has better things to do than recolor Hel. Like work on meaningful content.
Addendum: Rest of community cares about gameplay. Hel players care about Hel skins. Sucks to be the minority. |
shane_low | This was asked before [here](
I've pasted the top comment by /u/jazzamk below.
My ELI5 translation would be that the extra stuff in your embryo that results in down's syndrome makes your body different in several ways, when the embryo is developing into a fetus.
Some of these ways include not developing fully for certain facial features. Because we as humans have a tendency to think that people who 1. have features that are different from our own and 2. have these shared features, will all "look alike". This human nature also explains why we think people from a certain race (other than our own) look alike.
> I won't bore you with the specifics regarding aetiology, but essentially Down's is due to a an extra chromosome leading to significant neural and physical defects, one of which is their 'similar' appearance as you term it.
> Those with Down's appear to have a significant degree of deficiency in midfacial area, mandibular area, and endocranial area1, perhaps due to muscular atrophy caused by the disease.
> Otherwise, why they look similar is down to human conditioning. In simple terms, we are very adept at noticing facial differences in our own race, however often, we look at other races, black, asian etc. and cannot differentiate as well between the faces2. This is what occurs with those with Down's syndrome; we see a similar trait and assume they all 'look the same'. This is obviously not the case as those with Down's syndrome often have very different features, but we can't see past this human trait of recognising those similar to us, far better.
> TL:DR - Down's syndrome sufferers look the same as each other, much the same as other races often look similar as a group, due to a human conditioning effect called the 'Other Race Effect'3.
> As far as my own research can tell!
>
| This was asked before [here](
I've pasted the top comment by /u/jazzamk below.
My ELI5 translation would be that the extra stuff in your embryo that results in down's syndrome makes your body different in several ways, when the embryo is developing into a fetus.
Some of these ways include not developing fully for certain facial features. Because we as humans have a tendency to think that people who 1. have features that are different from our own and 2. have these shared features, will all "look alike". This human nature also explains why we think people from a certain race (other than our own) look alike.
> I won't bore you with the specifics regarding aetiology, but essentially Down's is due to a an extra chromosome leading to significant neural and physical defects, one of which is their 'similar' appearance as you term it.
> Those with Down's appear to have a significant degree of deficiency in midfacial area, mandibular area, and endocranial area1, perhaps due to muscular atrophy caused by the disease.
> Otherwise, why they look similar is down to human conditioning. In simple terms, we are very adept at noticing facial differences in our own race, however often, we look at other races, black, asian etc. and cannot differentiate as well between the faces2. This is what occurs with those with Down's syndrome; we see a similar trait and assume they all 'look the same'. This is obviously not the case as those with Down's syndrome often have very different features, but we can't see past this human trait of recognising those similar to us, far better.
> TL:DR - Down's syndrome sufferers look the same as each other, much the same as other races often look similar as a group, due to a human conditioning effect called the 'Other Race Effect'3.
> As far as my own research can tell!
>
| explainlikeimfive | t5_2sokd | ckl6gr8 | This was asked before [here](
I've pasted the top comment by /u/jazzamk below.
My ELI5 translation would be that the extra stuff in your embryo that results in down's syndrome makes your body different in several ways, when the embryo is developing into a fetus.
Some of these ways include not developing fully for certain facial features. Because we as humans have a tendency to think that people who 1. have features that are different from our own and 2. have these shared features, will all "look alike". This human nature also explains why we think people from a certain race (other than our own) look alike.
> I won't bore you with the specifics regarding aetiology, but essentially Down's is due to a an extra chromosome leading to significant neural and physical defects, one of which is their 'similar' appearance as you term it.
> Those with Down's appear to have a significant degree of deficiency in midfacial area, mandibular area, and endocranial area1, perhaps due to muscular atrophy caused by the disease.
> Otherwise, why they look similar is down to human conditioning. In simple terms, we are very adept at noticing facial differences in our own race, however often, we look at other races, black, asian etc. and cannot differentiate as well between the faces2. This is what occurs with those with Down's syndrome; we see a similar trait and assume they all 'look the same'. This is obviously not the case as those with Down's syndrome often have very different features, but we can't see past this human trait of recognising those similar to us, far better.
> | Down's syndrome sufferers look the same as each other, much the same as other races often look similar as a group, due to a human conditioning effect called the 'Other Race Effect'3.
> As far as my own research can tell!
> |
thoughtfulandkind | My wife works in elder care. By the time someone gets to be old or infirm enough to need to live in a long term care facility, the harder maintaining the mask that abusive people put on. There's always been lots of residents in my wife's facility who receive few visitors. Often, yes, it's because those people treated everyone around them like shit their entire lives. In some cases, next of kin have refused to deal with a resident even after they've died, leaving the facility to deal with making arrangements (that proves very difficult).
But there are many reasons a resident may not have many visitors. Sometimes, it's the resident who is the decent person and their family are the shitty ones. As much as everyone here in /r/raisedbynarcissists is tuned into the existence of abusive parents, there are many parents who, despite their best efforts, have shitty or mentally ill children. I'm not sure what's worse, the residents who never see their shitty families because they have nothing to offer them, or the ones who are constantly surrounded by horrible people feuding between themselves for whatever money (they think) the resident has that they'll receive after the resident dies. I've seen many families held under the sway of terrifyingly abusive residents because of money or obligation to "be there" for their family member. There is another possibility. Residents with no living relatives.
For each of them, their life at the facility is what they make of it, if they still have the mental acuity to do so. By the time people end up in my wife's facility, most of them are suffering from some sort of dementia. Even then, though, the ones who are decent people make the best of it. The staff treats everyone well, regardless of how each resident may behave.
**tl;dr Sometimes, you reap what you sow. Sometimes, you still wind up with nothing despite having lived a good life.** | My wife works in elder care. By the time someone gets to be old or infirm enough to need to live in a long term care facility, the harder maintaining the mask that abusive people put on. There's always been lots of residents in my wife's facility who receive few visitors. Often, yes, it's because those people treated everyone around them like shit their entire lives. In some cases, next of kin have refused to deal with a resident even after they've died, leaving the facility to deal with making arrangements (that proves very difficult).
But there are many reasons a resident may not have many visitors. Sometimes, it's the resident who is the decent person and their family are the shitty ones. As much as everyone here in /r/raisedbynarcissists is tuned into the existence of abusive parents, there are many parents who, despite their best efforts, have shitty or mentally ill children. I'm not sure what's worse, the residents who never see their shitty families because they have nothing to offer them, or the ones who are constantly surrounded by horrible people feuding between themselves for whatever money (they think) the resident has that they'll receive after the resident dies. I've seen many families held under the sway of terrifyingly abusive residents because of money or obligation to "be there" for their family member. There is another possibility. Residents with no living relatives.
For each of them, their life at the facility is what they make of it, if they still have the mental acuity to do so. By the time people end up in my wife's facility, most of them are suffering from some sort of dementia. Even then, though, the ones who are decent people make the best of it. The staff treats everyone well, regardless of how each resident may behave.
tl;dr Sometimes, you reap what you sow. Sometimes, you still wind up with nothing despite having lived a good life.
| raisedbynarcissists | t5_2we9n | cklauhh | My wife works in elder care. By the time someone gets to be old or infirm enough to need to live in a long term care facility, the harder maintaining the mask that abusive people put on. There's always been lots of residents in my wife's facility who receive few visitors. Often, yes, it's because those people treated everyone around them like shit their entire lives. In some cases, next of kin have refused to deal with a resident even after they've died, leaving the facility to deal with making arrangements (that proves very difficult).
But there are many reasons a resident may not have many visitors. Sometimes, it's the resident who is the decent person and their family are the shitty ones. As much as everyone here in /r/raisedbynarcissists is tuned into the existence of abusive parents, there are many parents who, despite their best efforts, have shitty or mentally ill children. I'm not sure what's worse, the residents who never see their shitty families because they have nothing to offer them, or the ones who are constantly surrounded by horrible people feuding between themselves for whatever money (they think) the resident has that they'll receive after the resident dies. I've seen many families held under the sway of terrifyingly abusive residents because of money or obligation to "be there" for their family member. There is another possibility. Residents with no living relatives.
For each of them, their life at the facility is what they make of it, if they still have the mental acuity to do so. By the time people end up in my wife's facility, most of them are suffering from some sort of dementia. Even then, though, the ones who are decent people make the best of it. The staff treats everyone well, regardless of how each resident may behave. | Sometimes, you reap what you sow. Sometimes, you still wind up with nothing despite having lived a good life. |
Cloberella | Not the first thread he sent me. I've literally never even posted in that subreddit.
It took a few exchanges for me to figure out what was going on. As far as I can tell he's collecting links that piss him off and PMing the authors to scold them for it. He accidentally pasted a link he meant to harass a different user over into a message he sent to me.
When I pointed this out he sent me a link to a comment I did make, but that did not match what he was talking about.
I am still not sure if he's just awful at communicating and was using a specific term to refer to men in general, or if he again sent me the wrong link and then attempted to backtrack and claim it was the right one all along.
I suspect he's hamstring and actually sent the wrong link twice, because his complaints about the content of my post more closely match a different comment of mine, and not the one he PM'd to me.
Tl;Dr desperate for attention guy makes multiple errors then hampsters them away while still desperately trying to get the last word in. | Not the first thread he sent me. I've literally never even posted in that subreddit.
It took a few exchanges for me to figure out what was going on. As far as I can tell he's collecting links that piss him off and PMing the authors to scold them for it. He accidentally pasted a link he meant to harass a different user over into a message he sent to me.
When I pointed this out he sent me a link to a comment I did make, but that did not match what he was talking about.
I am still not sure if he's just awful at communicating and was using a specific term to refer to men in general, or if he again sent me the wrong link and then attempted to backtrack and claim it was the right one all along.
I suspect he's hamstring and actually sent the wrong link twice, because his complaints about the content of my post more closely match a different comment of mine, and not the one he PM'd to me.
Tl;Dr desperate for attention guy makes multiple errors then hampsters them away while still desperately trying to get the last word in.
| TheBluePill | t5_2vzvv | ckly6a1 | Not the first thread he sent me. I've literally never even posted in that subreddit.
It took a few exchanges for me to figure out what was going on. As far as I can tell he's collecting links that piss him off and PMing the authors to scold them for it. He accidentally pasted a link he meant to harass a different user over into a message he sent to me.
When I pointed this out he sent me a link to a comment I did make, but that did not match what he was talking about.
I am still not sure if he's just awful at communicating and was using a specific term to refer to men in general, or if he again sent me the wrong link and then attempted to backtrack and claim it was the right one all along.
I suspect he's hamstring and actually sent the wrong link twice, because his complaints about the content of my post more closely match a different comment of mine, and not the one he PM'd to me. | desperate for attention guy makes multiple errors then hampsters them away while still desperately trying to get the last word in. |
Velocicrappper | Somebody over on ADVrider did a non-scientific test and measured how much force it took to start to tip a bike off the center stand versus the side stand.
IIRC it took substantially more force to tip the bike off the center stand in his test.
The issue was that when the bike is on the side stand, the bike's suspension is still loaded and can be compressed. It is pretty easy to compress the suspension and substantially decrease the lean of the bike (and thus the stability).
Of course, this is only accomplishing by pushing on the sidestand side of the bike. Pushing on the other side is VERY stable as it pushes the stand against the ground and attempts to unload the suspension.
TLDR it's bike dependent on the bike and dependent on the direction of the force trying to knock the bike over.
Edit: forgot a word | Somebody over on ADVrider did a non-scientific test and measured how much force it took to start to tip a bike off the center stand versus the side stand.
IIRC it took substantially more force to tip the bike off the center stand in his test.
The issue was that when the bike is on the side stand, the bike's suspension is still loaded and can be compressed. It is pretty easy to compress the suspension and substantially decrease the lean of the bike (and thus the stability).
Of course, this is only accomplishing by pushing on the sidestand side of the bike. Pushing on the other side is VERY stable as it pushes the stand against the ground and attempts to unload the suspension.
TLDR it's bike dependent on the bike and dependent on the direction of the force trying to knock the bike over.
Edit: forgot a word
| motorcycles | t5_2qi6d | cklwcaq | Somebody over on ADVrider did a non-scientific test and measured how much force it took to start to tip a bike off the center stand versus the side stand.
IIRC it took substantially more force to tip the bike off the center stand in his test.
The issue was that when the bike is on the side stand, the bike's suspension is still loaded and can be compressed. It is pretty easy to compress the suspension and substantially decrease the lean of the bike (and thus the stability).
Of course, this is only accomplishing by pushing on the sidestand side of the bike. Pushing on the other side is VERY stable as it pushes the stand against the ground and attempts to unload the suspension. | it's bike dependent on the bike and dependent on the direction of the force trying to knock the bike over.
Edit: forgot a word |
fury-phantom | This may be relevant. My parents expected me to go to a local university, but I had my hopes for Glendon (part of York) in Toronto. The local university has a reputation for being second rate. I don't like it much. Its very dirty, dingy, with a high crime rate and poor teaching. However, it is dirt cheap. I was offered 10 grand to go on a scholarship.
I waited two months to tell my parents I was going to Glendon. When I eventually did, I was scared they'd cry and generally be upset. They were. I'm their oldest child and so they were devastated that I was leaving. However, even through their tears they told me they were proud for making my own decision, getting into York, and having the courage to do this. Moving was hard. My Dad has taken up yard sale surfing and is now buying stuff to replace me, it seems. There is now a statue on my dining room chair. My Mom is okay. She misses me, and we skype every few days. She's mostly sad that I grew up.
I don't regret moving out. I'm happy in my new school, with my new friends, and in my new classes. It was hard, but worth it.
Tl; dr moved away for university. Parents cried but respected it. | This may be relevant. My parents expected me to go to a local university, but I had my hopes for Glendon (part of York) in Toronto. The local university has a reputation for being second rate. I don't like it much. Its very dirty, dingy, with a high crime rate and poor teaching. However, it is dirt cheap. I was offered 10 grand to go on a scholarship.
I waited two months to tell my parents I was going to Glendon. When I eventually did, I was scared they'd cry and generally be upset. They were. I'm their oldest child and so they were devastated that I was leaving. However, even through their tears they told me they were proud for making my own decision, getting into York, and having the courage to do this. Moving was hard. My Dad has taken up yard sale surfing and is now buying stuff to replace me, it seems. There is now a statue on my dining room chair. My Mom is okay. She misses me, and we skype every few days. She's mostly sad that I grew up.
I don't regret moving out. I'm happy in my new school, with my new friends, and in my new classes. It was hard, but worth it.
Tl; dr moved away for university. Parents cried but respected it.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | cklvrvf | This may be relevant. My parents expected me to go to a local university, but I had my hopes for Glendon (part of York) in Toronto. The local university has a reputation for being second rate. I don't like it much. Its very dirty, dingy, with a high crime rate and poor teaching. However, it is dirt cheap. I was offered 10 grand to go on a scholarship.
I waited two months to tell my parents I was going to Glendon. When I eventually did, I was scared they'd cry and generally be upset. They were. I'm their oldest child and so they were devastated that I was leaving. However, even through their tears they told me they were proud for making my own decision, getting into York, and having the courage to do this. Moving was hard. My Dad has taken up yard sale surfing and is now buying stuff to replace me, it seems. There is now a statue on my dining room chair. My Mom is okay. She misses me, and we skype every few days. She's mostly sad that I grew up.
I don't regret moving out. I'm happy in my new school, with my new friends, and in my new classes. It was hard, but worth it. | moved away for university. Parents cried but respected it. |
T-wan | Thats not the irritating part unfortunately. He consistently vapes only 0, as that has "no throat hit" and he cant handle 3 or 6 and its "huge" throat hit. He uses a mechanical mod and rda and expects to quit using 0mg. Hes always saying things like "idk man i just cant stick with it" or his battery will die, and since he isnt getting nic he wont see any hurry to charge it for nic. Hell just smoke a cig. Its fucking frustrating, because i have to watch someone fail quitting cigarettes because they are too stupid to use nic in the juice they buy, and too stupid to understand that going from cigs to vaping 6 in an rda is a terrible transistion.
EDIT: not to mention that i have been tasked with doing all his builds for him and all the matenence on his mod which include fixing the fucking pins if thats even considered work, and this all just boils down to utter stupidity. He comes to me the other day, cotton black as night and says "i need a new wrap" first of all, wtf do you mean? New wrap? Of fucking what? He uses the words "new wrap" to describe rewicking. His actual build? A week old. I switched out the cotton, and he immediately fired it with no juice on it let the cotton burn and says "hell yeah". I was like what the fuck man now you need new cotton again, which he just didnt understand.
TL:DR never let fucking retards fuck with mods | Thats not the irritating part unfortunately. He consistently vapes only 0, as that has "no throat hit" and he cant handle 3 or 6 and its "huge" throat hit. He uses a mechanical mod and rda and expects to quit using 0mg. Hes always saying things like "idk man i just cant stick with it" or his battery will die, and since he isnt getting nic he wont see any hurry to charge it for nic. Hell just smoke a cig. Its fucking frustrating, because i have to watch someone fail quitting cigarettes because they are too stupid to use nic in the juice they buy, and too stupid to understand that going from cigs to vaping 6 in an rda is a terrible transistion.
EDIT: not to mention that i have been tasked with doing all his builds for him and all the matenence on his mod which include fixing the fucking pins if thats even considered work, and this all just boils down to utter stupidity. He comes to me the other day, cotton black as night and says "i need a new wrap" first of all, wtf do you mean? New wrap? Of fucking what? He uses the words "new wrap" to describe rewicking. His actual build? A week old. I switched out the cotton, and he immediately fired it with no juice on it let the cotton burn and says "hell yeah". I was like what the fuck man now you need new cotton again, which he just didnt understand.
TL:DR never let fucking retards fuck with mods
| electronic_cigarette | t5_2qmlu | clwh90c | Thats not the irritating part unfortunately. He consistently vapes only 0, as that has "no throat hit" and he cant handle 3 or 6 and its "huge" throat hit. He uses a mechanical mod and rda and expects to quit using 0mg. Hes always saying things like "idk man i just cant stick with it" or his battery will die, and since he isnt getting nic he wont see any hurry to charge it for nic. Hell just smoke a cig. Its fucking frustrating, because i have to watch someone fail quitting cigarettes because they are too stupid to use nic in the juice they buy, and too stupid to understand that going from cigs to vaping 6 in an rda is a terrible transistion.
EDIT: not to mention that i have been tasked with doing all his builds for him and all the matenence on his mod which include fixing the fucking pins if thats even considered work, and this all just boils down to utter stupidity. He comes to me the other day, cotton black as night and says "i need a new wrap" first of all, wtf do you mean? New wrap? Of fucking what? He uses the words "new wrap" to describe rewicking. His actual build? A week old. I switched out the cotton, and he immediately fired it with no juice on it let the cotton burn and says "hell yeah". I was like what the fuck man now you need new cotton again, which he just didnt understand. | never let fucking retards fuck with mods |
AustinBoz | You might do well to invest in a Nautilus Mini. I started in tanks just like you, then graduated to RDAs and RTAs, and was never very satisfied. Ever since I bought the mini though, flavors come through and the vapor is phenomenal for a tank. Also, the mini requires much less maintenance.
TL;DR: One good angle to try before giving up vaping is investing in a Nautilus Mini. Relatively cheap, low maintenance, great performance. | You might do well to invest in a Nautilus Mini. I started in tanks just like you, then graduated to RDAs and RTAs, and was never very satisfied. Ever since I bought the mini though, flavors come through and the vapor is phenomenal for a tank. Also, the mini requires much less maintenance.
TL;DR: One good angle to try before giving up vaping is investing in a Nautilus Mini. Relatively cheap, low maintenance, great performance.
| electronic_cigarette | t5_2qmlu | ckmzull | You might do well to invest in a Nautilus Mini. I started in tanks just like you, then graduated to RDAs and RTAs, and was never very satisfied. Ever since I bought the mini though, flavors come through and the vapor is phenomenal for a tank. Also, the mini requires much less maintenance. | One good angle to try before giving up vaping is investing in a Nautilus Mini. Relatively cheap, low maintenance, great performance. |
Tarrant_1 | This is a long article but well worth the read. It sheds light on the reasons Obama won in 2012. TL;DR: The Democrats collaborated and used technology, the Republicans preserved turf and lagged in technology. | This is a long article but well worth the read. It sheds light on the reasons Obama won in 2012. TL;DR: The Democrats collaborated and used technology, the Republicans preserved turf and lagged in technology.
| Conservative | t5_2qh6p | ckm8afg | This is a long article but well worth the read. It sheds light on the reasons Obama won in 2012. | The Democrats collaborated and used technology, the Republicans preserved turf and lagged in technology. |
nikodmus | I started in the industry when I was 28. I will be 32 in December of this year. In that time I have gone from Bouncer/whatever needs doing right now to Bartending, to running a place in Boston to going back to bartending and I just last night was offered basically a dream job at a resort in Utah as an assistant manager in a high end place where the chef is the manager so i'm basically FOH.
TLDR: Never too late to do something that you think is going to make you happy | I started in the industry when I was 28. I will be 32 in December of this year. In that time I have gone from Bouncer/whatever needs doing right now to Bartending, to running a place in Boston to going back to bartending and I just last night was offered basically a dream job at a resort in Utah as an assistant manager in a high end place where the chef is the manager so i'm basically FOH.
TLDR: Never too late to do something that you think is going to make you happy
| bartenders | t5_2smw0 | ckn9d5j | I started in the industry when I was 28. I will be 32 in December of this year. In that time I have gone from Bouncer/whatever needs doing right now to Bartending, to running a place in Boston to going back to bartending and I just last night was offered basically a dream job at a resort in Utah as an assistant manager in a high end place where the chef is the manager so i'm basically FOH. | Never too late to do something that you think is going to make you happy |
Hummingbird36 | Little bit of a misplay perhaps that could have been punished at 0:35. He started salving up when he knew the Prophet was close enough to cancel it. Didn't get punished and I guess it's a safe assumption that the prophet had fucked off rather than stick around.
However really good play immediately after, surprising the QoP with level three the exact moment that the QoP will lose the lane from there onwards.
Pretty poor play from QoP being hilariously out of position letting herself get netted pretty much means death.
Looovely 11:30 aghs timing. Pretty much perfect timing and the way he immediately utilises it to make sure he's still absorbing experience is impressive rather than immediately poofing all his injured meepos back and walking back out.
Again poor QoP positioning immediately after. And Slardar after that and then skywrath mage tries to ult all his meepos (the most he could do there was catch one meepo on the edge of the ult to do the most damage to one.
Again immediately uses the blink to great effect. Brilliant play catching the QoP out again. She's now just going to die not much she can do anymore.
3:00 making sure all meepos get DD buff by poofing them within 500 range of meepo prime picking it up.
3:30 could have roshed earlier but I guess the DD allows him to do it quickly and safely so that the Slardar can't jump on him. Again leaving the newly spawned meepo there to continue farming.
4:20 Nice void ult but too little too late and his team isn't there to capitalise from it. Not much the void or the Slardar could do here. I guess the Slardar could have juked a little bit from the incoming net but I'm not sure whether meepo prime was in fog or not for Slardar to see the net attempt. Either way pretty unavoidable death. Nice play in Meepo making sure a meepo with Net off CD didn't get stunned other than that pretty standard.
5:00 Nice burning of the Aegis here but pretty silly to stick around. However that fight could have gone a lot differently had the Tusk not done work immediately before the Chrono.
5:30 I think almost inentional feed by Slardar there.
6:00 probing with nets and jumping on the QoP pretty standard blink meepo. Technically out of position but it hardly matters anymore. Game is lost unless meepo throws really hard. Example of QoP being dead weight in this game since level 3 meepo.
Ouch that blown up Void at 7:50.
TL;DR Badly position enemies and generally awe inspiring play by meepo. Only one misplay which wasn't punished that I could spot. | Little bit of a misplay perhaps that could have been punished at 0:35. He started salving up when he knew the Prophet was close enough to cancel it. Didn't get punished and I guess it's a safe assumption that the prophet had fucked off rather than stick around.
However really good play immediately after, surprising the QoP with level three the exact moment that the QoP will lose the lane from there onwards.
Pretty poor play from QoP being hilariously out of position letting herself get netted pretty much means death.
Looovely 11:30 aghs timing. Pretty much perfect timing and the way he immediately utilises it to make sure he's still absorbing experience is impressive rather than immediately poofing all his injured meepos back and walking back out.
Again poor QoP positioning immediately after. And Slardar after that and then skywrath mage tries to ult all his meepos (the most he could do there was catch one meepo on the edge of the ult to do the most damage to one.
Again immediately uses the blink to great effect. Brilliant play catching the QoP out again. She's now just going to die not much she can do anymore.
3:00 making sure all meepos get DD buff by poofing them within 500 range of meepo prime picking it up.
3:30 could have roshed earlier but I guess the DD allows him to do it quickly and safely so that the Slardar can't jump on him. Again leaving the newly spawned meepo there to continue farming.
4:20 Nice void ult but too little too late and his team isn't there to capitalise from it. Not much the void or the Slardar could do here. I guess the Slardar could have juked a little bit from the incoming net but I'm not sure whether meepo prime was in fog or not for Slardar to see the net attempt. Either way pretty unavoidable death. Nice play in Meepo making sure a meepo with Net off CD didn't get stunned other than that pretty standard.
5:00 Nice burning of the Aegis here but pretty silly to stick around. However that fight could have gone a lot differently had the Tusk not done work immediately before the Chrono.
5:30 I think almost inentional feed by Slardar there.
6:00 probing with nets and jumping on the QoP pretty standard blink meepo. Technically out of position but it hardly matters anymore. Game is lost unless meepo throws really hard. Example of QoP being dead weight in this game since level 3 meepo.
Ouch that blown up Void at 7:50.
TL;DR Badly position enemies and generally awe inspiring play by meepo. Only one misplay which wasn't punished that I could spot.
| DotA2 | t5_2s580 | ckmnc9h | Little bit of a misplay perhaps that could have been punished at 0:35. He started salving up when he knew the Prophet was close enough to cancel it. Didn't get punished and I guess it's a safe assumption that the prophet had fucked off rather than stick around.
However really good play immediately after, surprising the QoP with level three the exact moment that the QoP will lose the lane from there onwards.
Pretty poor play from QoP being hilariously out of position letting herself get netted pretty much means death.
Looovely 11:30 aghs timing. Pretty much perfect timing and the way he immediately utilises it to make sure he's still absorbing experience is impressive rather than immediately poofing all his injured meepos back and walking back out.
Again poor QoP positioning immediately after. And Slardar after that and then skywrath mage tries to ult all his meepos (the most he could do there was catch one meepo on the edge of the ult to do the most damage to one.
Again immediately uses the blink to great effect. Brilliant play catching the QoP out again. She's now just going to die not much she can do anymore.
3:00 making sure all meepos get DD buff by poofing them within 500 range of meepo prime picking it up.
3:30 could have roshed earlier but I guess the DD allows him to do it quickly and safely so that the Slardar can't jump on him. Again leaving the newly spawned meepo there to continue farming.
4:20 Nice void ult but too little too late and his team isn't there to capitalise from it. Not much the void or the Slardar could do here. I guess the Slardar could have juked a little bit from the incoming net but I'm not sure whether meepo prime was in fog or not for Slardar to see the net attempt. Either way pretty unavoidable death. Nice play in Meepo making sure a meepo with Net off CD didn't get stunned other than that pretty standard.
5:00 Nice burning of the Aegis here but pretty silly to stick around. However that fight could have gone a lot differently had the Tusk not done work immediately before the Chrono.
5:30 I think almost inentional feed by Slardar there.
6:00 probing with nets and jumping on the QoP pretty standard blink meepo. Technically out of position but it hardly matters anymore. Game is lost unless meepo throws really hard. Example of QoP being dead weight in this game since level 3 meepo.
Ouch that blown up Void at 7:50. | Badly position enemies and generally awe inspiring play by meepo. Only one misplay which wasn't punished that I could spot. |
Bkeeneme | I think another reason is psychological... "holes" aren't a good thing to have in the sky, neither is radiation or cancer- terms that were batted about durning the push to educate the population about the ozone problem... People can't understand "global warming" when it snows or when it is very cold. Plus, many people enjoy the warmer weather. Had more threatening terms been applied like "The Cinders' Ghost Phenomena" The general population might've been scared enough to actually care.
Tldr: [Global warming was a poor choice of words]( | I think another reason is psychological... "holes" aren't a good thing to have in the sky, neither is radiation or cancer- terms that were batted about durning the push to educate the population about the ozone problem... People can't understand "global warming" when it snows or when it is very cold. Plus, many people enjoy the warmer weather. Had more threatening terms been applied like "The Cinders' Ghost Phenomena" The general population might've been scared enough to actually care.
Tldr: [Global warming was a poor choice of words](
| askscience | t5_2qm4e | ckmo2hd | I think another reason is psychological... "holes" aren't a good thing to have in the sky, neither is radiation or cancer- terms that were batted about durning the push to educate the population about the ozone problem... People can't understand "global warming" when it snows or when it is very cold. Plus, many people enjoy the warmer weather. Had more threatening terms been applied like "The Cinders' Ghost Phenomena" The general population might've been scared enough to actually care. | Global warming was a poor choice of words]( |
billiamlumbergh | Arrested Development, Seinfeld, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Wilfred, Louie, Lost, Parks and Recreation, The Office, Scrubs, How I Met Your Mother, Game of Thrones, Sherlock, Doctor Who, Spongebob (before its writers changed and it went to Rock Bottom--haha), It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Friends, Workaholics, The Walking Dead, Prison Break, 24, White Collar, House M.D. and Dragon Ball/Dragon Ball Z
tl;dr: too many | Arrested Development, Seinfeld, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Wilfred, Louie, Lost, Parks and Recreation, The Office, Scrubs, How I Met Your Mother, Game of Thrones, Sherlock, Doctor Who, Spongebob (before its writers changed and it went to Rock Bottom--haha), It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Friends, Workaholics, The Walking Dead, Prison Break, 24, White Collar, House M.D. and Dragon Ball/Dragon Ball Z
tl;dr: too many
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | ckmg1f1 | Arrested Development, Seinfeld, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Wilfred, Louie, Lost, Parks and Recreation, The Office, Scrubs, How I Met Your Mother, Game of Thrones, Sherlock, Doctor Who, Spongebob (before its writers changed and it went to Rock Bottom--haha), It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Friends, Workaholics, The Walking Dead, Prison Break, 24, White Collar, House M.D. and Dragon Ball/Dragon Ball Z | too many |
LARISSATIME | Lol she was nice to you and you assume she thought you were gay? I've assumed more gay guys are straight than I have assumed straight guys are gay.
I assume very flamboyant men are gay. You should probably just express interest in women you're interested in. How old are you, if you don't mind me asking? Being this unnecessarily worried about appearing gay is kinda juvenile.
TL;DR - Really obviously gay people are presumed gay. Everyone else could be either gay or straight, but statistically more likely to be straight so I assume that. | Lol she was nice to you and you assume she thought you were gay? I've assumed more gay guys are straight than I have assumed straight guys are gay.
I assume very flamboyant men are gay. You should probably just express interest in women you're interested in. How old are you, if you don't mind me asking? Being this unnecessarily worried about appearing gay is kinda juvenile.
TL;DR - Really obviously gay people are presumed gay. Everyone else could be either gay or straight, but statistically more likely to be straight so I assume that.
| AskWomen | t5_2rxrw | ckmi7iv | Lol she was nice to you and you assume she thought you were gay? I've assumed more gay guys are straight than I have assumed straight guys are gay.
I assume very flamboyant men are gay. You should probably just express interest in women you're interested in. How old are you, if you don't mind me asking? Being this unnecessarily worried about appearing gay is kinda juvenile. | Really obviously gay people are presumed gay. Everyone else could be either gay or straight, but statistically more likely to be straight so I assume that. |
allofthebeards | Moon here, Spinyeti's mono GF.
I feel like I can identify with your situation a great deal, but I'm not sure how much I have to offer beyond what he did. I can share how my experience has been thus far, though because every person is different, and every poly relationship is different, I'm not sure how helpful it will be.
I fell head over heals for him, full well knowing he was poly and I am not. I've also toyed with the idea of being poly, as the other two members of my V are, but I just may not be. Lala affectionately coined the term monopoly for me. I'm mono-minded, but comfortable and happy dating poly people in poly settings. I also think I'd be comfortable in a triad, as I am bisexual, but it'd likely need to be a poly-fidelitous one for me to be comfortable. I digress...
My mister failed to mention that we're not just moving in together, but we are moving into a house that is fairly ideal for our V. It's got two master bedrooms which share a bathroom, and having two master bedrooms means that as co-primaries, we're reducing perceived inequalities. This makes a huge difference because it automatically sets us up in a way that will help us find balance more easily.
Likewise, we all have similar values, and life goals that align well.
Regarding sex in the same house, while it's not /always/ ideal, mostly, compersion goes a long way if you're able to feel it.
Something for me that made a huge difference, was the realization that being in a polyfamily still gives me all of the things I've always wanted in a family. We're a large family of people who love to eat, and play together, and seem to do okay working together as well (three busy adults and a baby make a LOT of laundry). I always thought in my head that big family just meant that I wanted to have a lot of kids... this isn't the same thing, but it gives me the same warm fuzzies. (plus I've come to accept the poly parenting joke "always outnumber the children" as pretty excellent advice)
We have the benefits of having three incomes, and more adult people means more free childcare...
I'm probably rambling now, it's been a very long day...
tldr; I'm also mono and in my first poly relationship, but now that I'm starting a polyfamily, I can't imagine my life going any other way. I'm the happiest I've ever been. | Moon here, Spinyeti's mono GF.
I feel like I can identify with your situation a great deal, but I'm not sure how much I have to offer beyond what he did. I can share how my experience has been thus far, though because every person is different, and every poly relationship is different, I'm not sure how helpful it will be.
I fell head over heals for him, full well knowing he was poly and I am not. I've also toyed with the idea of being poly, as the other two members of my V are, but I just may not be. Lala affectionately coined the term monopoly for me. I'm mono-minded, but comfortable and happy dating poly people in poly settings. I also think I'd be comfortable in a triad, as I am bisexual, but it'd likely need to be a poly-fidelitous one for me to be comfortable. I digress...
My mister failed to mention that we're not just moving in together, but we are moving into a house that is fairly ideal for our V. It's got two master bedrooms which share a bathroom, and having two master bedrooms means that as co-primaries, we're reducing perceived inequalities. This makes a huge difference because it automatically sets us up in a way that will help us find balance more easily.
Likewise, we all have similar values, and life goals that align well.
Regarding sex in the same house, while it's not /always/ ideal, mostly, compersion goes a long way if you're able to feel it.
Something for me that made a huge difference, was the realization that being in a polyfamily still gives me all of the things I've always wanted in a family. We're a large family of people who love to eat, and play together, and seem to do okay working together as well (three busy adults and a baby make a LOT of laundry). I always thought in my head that big family just meant that I wanted to have a lot of kids... this isn't the same thing, but it gives me the same warm fuzzies. (plus I've come to accept the poly parenting joke "always outnumber the children" as pretty excellent advice)
We have the benefits of having three incomes, and more adult people means more free childcare...
I'm probably rambling now, it's been a very long day...
tldr; I'm also mono and in my first poly relationship, but now that I'm starting a polyfamily, I can't imagine my life going any other way. I'm the happiest I've ever been.
| polyfamilies | t5_32ai2 | cknbvru | Moon here, Spinyeti's mono GF.
I feel like I can identify with your situation a great deal, but I'm not sure how much I have to offer beyond what he did. I can share how my experience has been thus far, though because every person is different, and every poly relationship is different, I'm not sure how helpful it will be.
I fell head over heals for him, full well knowing he was poly and I am not. I've also toyed with the idea of being poly, as the other two members of my V are, but I just may not be. Lala affectionately coined the term monopoly for me. I'm mono-minded, but comfortable and happy dating poly people in poly settings. I also think I'd be comfortable in a triad, as I am bisexual, but it'd likely need to be a poly-fidelitous one for me to be comfortable. I digress...
My mister failed to mention that we're not just moving in together, but we are moving into a house that is fairly ideal for our V. It's got two master bedrooms which share a bathroom, and having two master bedrooms means that as co-primaries, we're reducing perceived inequalities. This makes a huge difference because it automatically sets us up in a way that will help us find balance more easily.
Likewise, we all have similar values, and life goals that align well.
Regarding sex in the same house, while it's not /always/ ideal, mostly, compersion goes a long way if you're able to feel it.
Something for me that made a huge difference, was the realization that being in a polyfamily still gives me all of the things I've always wanted in a family. We're a large family of people who love to eat, and play together, and seem to do okay working together as well (three busy adults and a baby make a LOT of laundry). I always thought in my head that big family just meant that I wanted to have a lot of kids... this isn't the same thing, but it gives me the same warm fuzzies. (plus I've come to accept the poly parenting joke "always outnumber the children" as pretty excellent advice)
We have the benefits of having three incomes, and more adult people means more free childcare...
I'm probably rambling now, it's been a very long day... | I'm also mono and in my first poly relationship, but now that I'm starting a polyfamily, I can't imagine my life going any other way. I'm the happiest I've ever been. |
Mookie_Wilson | Tyson didn't fire back at the Knicks, he fired back at the media (most probably ESPN itself). The Knicks have been mostly silent on his departure, but the media have published their usual B.S., quoting unnamed sources as per usual.
TL/DR: Fuck ESPN. | Tyson didn't fire back at the Knicks, he fired back at the media (most probably ESPN itself). The Knicks have been mostly silent on his departure, but the media have published their usual B.S., quoting unnamed sources as per usual.
TL/DR: Fuck ESPN.
| NYKnicks | t5_2rur5 | ckni0qi | Tyson didn't fire back at the Knicks, he fired back at the media (most probably ESPN itself). The Knicks have been mostly silent on his departure, but the media have published their usual B.S., quoting unnamed sources as per usual. | Fuck ESPN. |
therealbighairy | /r/spacedicks
I kid, I kid. We were both just looking for someone to talk to, to pass the time. I work nights in Scotland, alone for twelve hours a day, and she is a single Mom. She posted up looking for a friend, and I responded. After a while, it became obvious that I was developing feelings for her, but I suppressed them, at that point in time, busy trying to deal with getting a divorce. I was about to break off all contact, rather than face the pain of putting myself in the friendzone of a woman nearly five thousand miles away, and spending my days pining for what I could never have, when she dropped some heavy hints about being romantically interested in me. I shared a picture of myself, thinking that would put her off, but it didn't, and things kind of grew. She came out for a visit, and...well, the single best week of my life was the result. After being married for nearly eight years, and being in the midst of a divorce, I finally knew what being in love was like.
TLDR: we get on like a house on fire. There are no survivors... | /r/spacedicks
I kid, I kid. We were both just looking for someone to talk to, to pass the time. I work nights in Scotland, alone for twelve hours a day, and she is a single Mom. She posted up looking for a friend, and I responded. After a while, it became obvious that I was developing feelings for her, but I suppressed them, at that point in time, busy trying to deal with getting a divorce. I was about to break off all contact, rather than face the pain of putting myself in the friendzone of a woman nearly five thousand miles away, and spending my days pining for what I could never have, when she dropped some heavy hints about being romantically interested in me. I shared a picture of myself, thinking that would put her off, but it didn't, and things kind of grew. She came out for a visit, and...well, the single best week of my life was the result. After being married for nearly eight years, and being in the midst of a divorce, I finally knew what being in love was like.
TLDR: we get on like a house on fire. There are no survivors...
| LongDistance | t5_2s6ky | cko59kz | r/spacedicks
I kid, I kid. We were both just looking for someone to talk to, to pass the time. I work nights in Scotland, alone for twelve hours a day, and she is a single Mom. She posted up looking for a friend, and I responded. After a while, it became obvious that I was developing feelings for her, but I suppressed them, at that point in time, busy trying to deal with getting a divorce. I was about to break off all contact, rather than face the pain of putting myself in the friendzone of a woman nearly five thousand miles away, and spending my days pining for what I could never have, when she dropped some heavy hints about being romantically interested in me. I shared a picture of myself, thinking that would put her off, but it didn't, and things kind of grew. She came out for a visit, and...well, the single best week of my life was the result. After being married for nearly eight years, and being in the midst of a divorce, I finally knew what being in love was like. | we get on like a house on fire. There are no survivors... |
Karmatastic | Every single hero has been (or is) involved in significantly important historic events in the Warcraft lore, absolutely no exceptions. Although you could argue that some events were less world-shaping than others, which I would agree with.
**AT THIS TIME in World of Warcraft:**
- **Gul'dan** and **Uther** are dead
- **Garrosh** was Warchief of the Horde and is now imprisoned because of his (war)crimes
- **Valeera** is out of the picture at the moment, she currently is a minor npc in WoW
- **Malfurion** is found standing in Darnassus (Night Elf capital) next to his Wife Tyrande Whisperwind, who is the leader of the night elves
- **Jaina**'s home town Theramore was hit by a giant Mana Bomb and almost completely destroyed, this was ordered by **Garrosh**. After being betrayed by members of her own group of mages, the Kirin Tor, she became even more hostile towards the Horde and took an unreasonable stance of trying to wipe them out
- **Thrall**, former Warchief of the Horde, worked actively to bring **Garrosh** down
- **Rexxar** currently plays no important role in WoW except being a traveling quest npc
- **Anduin** is the son of the leader of the Alliance, King Varian Wrynn, and former King of Stormwind. He is currently recovering from injuries resulting from a confrontation with **Garrosh**
Many of these things are going to change in the upcoming WoW expansion Warlords of Draenor. Garrosh escaped his imprisonment and will travel back to a time in which Gul'dan is alive again, all kinds of trouble and war brewing.
If I would have to give some form of ranking in importance, it would look something like this:
Garrosh, Thrall, Jaina and Anduin will very likely play a major part in the future storylines of the Warcraft universe, they were incredibly important in recent times and will very likely continue to do so. Out of these four, Thrall is likely the most influental character that appeared in Hearthstone.
Gul'dan will make an appearance in Warlords of Draenor, he was seen in the [WoD cinematic
]( I do not know how important his role will be.
Rexxar will appear in WoD but I don't think he will have a bigger role, I think the same about Malfurion although I don't know if he will make an appearance in WoD but I assume he will.
I know nothing of Valeera's future, I doubt she will rise above the ranks of a quest giving npc.
Uther is still dead, Arthas is not important in WoD, I doubt he will even be mentioned.
**tl;dr**: Thrall / Garrosh > Jaina > Anduin > Gul'dan > Rexxar > Malfurion > Valeera > Uther
All of this is just my opinion, I could be totally wrong with the future of these heros.
In the past, all of these characters were involved in many, many important events. Some are not relevant anymore, some still are. To be honest, I think I already wrote too much or interpreted more than I should have so I will stop now and link you the hero's respective wiki sites:
[Garrosh](
[Thrall](
[Jaina](
[Anduin](
[Gul'dan](
[Rexxar](
[Malfurion](
[Valeera](
[Uther]( | Every single hero has been (or is) involved in significantly important historic events in the Warcraft lore, absolutely no exceptions. Although you could argue that some events were less world-shaping than others, which I would agree with.
AT THIS TIME in World of Warcraft:
Gul'dan and Uther are dead
Garrosh was Warchief of the Horde and is now imprisoned because of his (war)crimes
Valeera is out of the picture at the moment, she currently is a minor npc in WoW
Malfurion is found standing in Darnassus (Night Elf capital) next to his Wife Tyrande Whisperwind, who is the leader of the night elves
Jaina 's home town Theramore was hit by a giant Mana Bomb and almost completely destroyed, this was ordered by Garrosh . After being betrayed by members of her own group of mages, the Kirin Tor, she became even more hostile towards the Horde and took an unreasonable stance of trying to wipe them out
Thrall , former Warchief of the Horde, worked actively to bring Garrosh down
Rexxar currently plays no important role in WoW except being a traveling quest npc
Anduin is the son of the leader of the Alliance, King Varian Wrynn, and former King of Stormwind. He is currently recovering from injuries resulting from a confrontation with Garrosh
Many of these things are going to change in the upcoming WoW expansion Warlords of Draenor. Garrosh escaped his imprisonment and will travel back to a time in which Gul'dan is alive again, all kinds of trouble and war brewing.
If I would have to give some form of ranking in importance, it would look something like this:
Garrosh, Thrall, Jaina and Anduin will very likely play a major part in the future storylines of the Warcraft universe, they were incredibly important in recent times and will very likely continue to do so. Out of these four, Thrall is likely the most influental character that appeared in Hearthstone.
Gul'dan will make an appearance in Warlords of Draenor, he was seen in the [WoD cinematic
]( I do not know how important his role will be.
Rexxar will appear in WoD but I don't think he will have a bigger role, I think the same about Malfurion although I don't know if he will make an appearance in WoD but I assume he will.
I know nothing of Valeera's future, I doubt she will rise above the ranks of a quest giving npc.
Uther is still dead, Arthas is not important in WoD, I doubt he will even be mentioned.
tl;dr : Thrall / Garrosh > Jaina > Anduin > Gul'dan > Rexxar > Malfurion > Valeera > Uther
All of this is just my opinion, I could be totally wrong with the future of these heros.
In the past, all of these characters were involved in many, many important events. Some are not relevant anymore, some still are. To be honest, I think I already wrote too much or interpreted more than I should have so I will stop now and link you the hero's respective wiki sites:
[Garrosh](
[Thrall](
[Jaina](
[Anduin](
[Gul'dan](
[Rexxar](
[Malfurion](
[Valeera](
[Uther](
| hearthstone | t5_2w31t | cknkzwt | Every single hero has been (or is) involved in significantly important historic events in the Warcraft lore, absolutely no exceptions. Although you could argue that some events were less world-shaping than others, which I would agree with.
AT THIS TIME in World of Warcraft:
Gul'dan and Uther are dead
Garrosh was Warchief of the Horde and is now imprisoned because of his (war)crimes
Valeera is out of the picture at the moment, she currently is a minor npc in WoW
Malfurion is found standing in Darnassus (Night Elf capital) next to his Wife Tyrande Whisperwind, who is the leader of the night elves
Jaina 's home town Theramore was hit by a giant Mana Bomb and almost completely destroyed, this was ordered by Garrosh . After being betrayed by members of her own group of mages, the Kirin Tor, she became even more hostile towards the Horde and took an unreasonable stance of trying to wipe them out
Thrall , former Warchief of the Horde, worked actively to bring Garrosh down
Rexxar currently plays no important role in WoW except being a traveling quest npc
Anduin is the son of the leader of the Alliance, King Varian Wrynn, and former King of Stormwind. He is currently recovering from injuries resulting from a confrontation with Garrosh
Many of these things are going to change in the upcoming WoW expansion Warlords of Draenor. Garrosh escaped his imprisonment and will travel back to a time in which Gul'dan is alive again, all kinds of trouble and war brewing.
If I would have to give some form of ranking in importance, it would look something like this:
Garrosh, Thrall, Jaina and Anduin will very likely play a major part in the future storylines of the Warcraft universe, they were incredibly important in recent times and will very likely continue to do so. Out of these four, Thrall is likely the most influental character that appeared in Hearthstone.
Gul'dan will make an appearance in Warlords of Draenor, he was seen in the [WoD cinematic
]( I do not know how important his role will be.
Rexxar will appear in WoD but I don't think he will have a bigger role, I think the same about Malfurion although I don't know if he will make an appearance in WoD but I assume he will.
I know nothing of Valeera's future, I doubt she will rise above the ranks of a quest giving npc.
Uther is still dead, Arthas is not important in WoD, I doubt he will even be mentioned. | Thrall / Garrosh > Jaina > Anduin > Gul'dan > Rexxar > Malfurion > Valeera > Uther
All of this is just my opinion, I could be totally wrong with the future of these heros.
In the past, all of these characters were involved in many, many important events. Some are not relevant anymore, some still are. To be honest, I think I already wrote too much or interpreted more than I should have so I will stop now and link you the hero's respective wiki sites:
[Garrosh](
[Thrall](
[Jaina](
[Anduin](
[Gul'dan](
[Rexxar](
[Malfurion](
[Valeera](
[Uther]( |
Killatrap | A lot of people are giving you good answers, but they aren't really as in depth as I would like.
**Thrall**: probably the most important; leader of the Horde for a long time, and the leader who brought them to Kalimdor (where he, along with Jaina and Malfurion, saved the World Tree from Archimonde, an Eredar Lord of the Burning Legion). After that happened, he simply ruled the horde, until the Cataclysm (aka deathwing comes and everything about WoW is changed), where he gives Garrosh the Horde and uses his vast shamanistic powers to help prevent the world from imploding, and eventually is critical in the battle to kill deathwing. Very important character.
**Malfurion**: One of the main leaders of the Night Elves, around forever pretty much. 10,000 years before WoW, he, Illidan, and Tyrande were critical in defeating the first invasion of the Burning Legion. Fast forward 10,000 years, and Malfurion is crucial in rallying the Night Elves to help defeat the Burning Legion once more (along with Thrall and Jaina). After that, takes more of a back seat role, but has saved the world.
**Jaina**: Powerful young mage, who is the friend/lover of Arthas until he goes crazy. Also goes to Kalimdor at the heed of Medivh (prophet), where she helps to fight the Burning Legion with Thrall and Malfurion. Later, she is the main diplomatic figure that is keeping the Horde and Alliance on decent terms, but then her Fortress (Theramore Isle) is nuked by Garrosh cause he is grumpy that there are humans nearby and so she turns into mega-bitch. I think she has gotten less bitchy towards the end of MoP.
**Gul'Dan**: The Orc Warlock who helps to enslave the Oricsh race to the Burning Legion, and also open the Dark Portal and have the Orcs pour into Azeroth, beginning the first war, as well as causing the 2nd and 3rd wars. He dies when he tries to become Sargeras (or something like that), but his immense power and the impact he had on the story make him very important.
**Garrosh**: Thrall made him Warchief when the Cataclysm started, which ended up being a horrible idea for many reasons. First of all, he was arrogant and rude to the other races of the horde, prompting Cairne to call for a duel. It turns out that a rival Tauren poisoned Garrosh's weapon, causing Cairne's death. This created a huge rift in the horde. Later, Garrosh's arrogance and his need to live up to his Father (Grommash)'s legacy led him to doing many dumb and rash things, like nuking Theramore and just being ape shit crazy. He eventually gets an old god's heart from pandaria and the Horde leaders rebel against him with the help of the Alliance and you take him down. Vol'Jin becomes the new Warchief.
**Rexxar**: Hunter Bro (Hearthstone gave him a bad reputation) who traveled around Kalimdor and was pivotal in the foundation of Orgrimmar and it's survival.
**Valeera**: Some random Rogue lady who was like a gladiator buddy with Varian (Human King) or something like that. Really inconsequential character. Hell, I don't even know if she actually makes an appearance in WoW.
**Anduin**: The leveled headed and not ape-shit crazy son of Varian (who is pretty bigoted towards Orcs and is just a not super nice guy, like Garrosh; However, Varian is honorable and valorous). Anduin is just a really cool dude who everybody loves, and is serving as a pretty good diplomat of sorts with the horde, especially Baine Bloodhoof.
Uther: The founder of the Knights of the Silver Hand, a paladin brotherhood. He was also one of the first human paladins. Was a war hero during the first and second wars against the orcs, and later was the mentor of Arthas. They ended up fighting the scourge, until Arthas' betrayal. Later killed by Arthas.
**TL;DR**
Edit: forgot Uther
If i were to rank, I would say:
Thrall; Malfurion; Gul'Dan; Jaina; Garrosh; Uther; Rexxar; Anduin; Valeera; | A lot of people are giving you good answers, but they aren't really as in depth as I would like.
Thrall : probably the most important; leader of the Horde for a long time, and the leader who brought them to Kalimdor (where he, along with Jaina and Malfurion, saved the World Tree from Archimonde, an Eredar Lord of the Burning Legion). After that happened, he simply ruled the horde, until the Cataclysm (aka deathwing comes and everything about WoW is changed), where he gives Garrosh the Horde and uses his vast shamanistic powers to help prevent the world from imploding, and eventually is critical in the battle to kill deathwing. Very important character.
Malfurion : One of the main leaders of the Night Elves, around forever pretty much. 10,000 years before WoW, he, Illidan, and Tyrande were critical in defeating the first invasion of the Burning Legion. Fast forward 10,000 years, and Malfurion is crucial in rallying the Night Elves to help defeat the Burning Legion once more (along with Thrall and Jaina). After that, takes more of a back seat role, but has saved the world.
Jaina : Powerful young mage, who is the friend/lover of Arthas until he goes crazy. Also goes to Kalimdor at the heed of Medivh (prophet), where she helps to fight the Burning Legion with Thrall and Malfurion. Later, she is the main diplomatic figure that is keeping the Horde and Alliance on decent terms, but then her Fortress (Theramore Isle) is nuked by Garrosh cause he is grumpy that there are humans nearby and so she turns into mega-bitch. I think she has gotten less bitchy towards the end of MoP.
Gul'Dan : The Orc Warlock who helps to enslave the Oricsh race to the Burning Legion, and also open the Dark Portal and have the Orcs pour into Azeroth, beginning the first war, as well as causing the 2nd and 3rd wars. He dies when he tries to become Sargeras (or something like that), but his immense power and the impact he had on the story make him very important.
Garrosh : Thrall made him Warchief when the Cataclysm started, which ended up being a horrible idea for many reasons. First of all, he was arrogant and rude to the other races of the horde, prompting Cairne to call for a duel. It turns out that a rival Tauren poisoned Garrosh's weapon, causing Cairne's death. This created a huge rift in the horde. Later, Garrosh's arrogance and his need to live up to his Father (Grommash)'s legacy led him to doing many dumb and rash things, like nuking Theramore and just being ape shit crazy. He eventually gets an old god's heart from pandaria and the Horde leaders rebel against him with the help of the Alliance and you take him down. Vol'Jin becomes the new Warchief.
Rexxar : Hunter Bro (Hearthstone gave him a bad reputation) who traveled around Kalimdor and was pivotal in the foundation of Orgrimmar and it's survival.
Valeera : Some random Rogue lady who was like a gladiator buddy with Varian (Human King) or something like that. Really inconsequential character. Hell, I don't even know if she actually makes an appearance in WoW.
Anduin : The leveled headed and not ape-shit crazy son of Varian (who is pretty bigoted towards Orcs and is just a not super nice guy, like Garrosh; However, Varian is honorable and valorous). Anduin is just a really cool dude who everybody loves, and is serving as a pretty good diplomat of sorts with the horde, especially Baine Bloodhoof.
Uther: The founder of the Knights of the Silver Hand, a paladin brotherhood. He was also one of the first human paladins. Was a war hero during the first and second wars against the orcs, and later was the mentor of Arthas. They ended up fighting the scourge, until Arthas' betrayal. Later killed by Arthas.
TL;DR
Edit: forgot Uther
If i were to rank, I would say:
Thrall; Malfurion; Gul'Dan; Jaina; Garrosh; Uther; Rexxar; Anduin; Valeera;
| hearthstone | t5_2w31t | cknvv8r | A lot of people are giving you good answers, but they aren't really as in depth as I would like.
Thrall : probably the most important; leader of the Horde for a long time, and the leader who brought them to Kalimdor (where he, along with Jaina and Malfurion, saved the World Tree from Archimonde, an Eredar Lord of the Burning Legion). After that happened, he simply ruled the horde, until the Cataclysm (aka deathwing comes and everything about WoW is changed), where he gives Garrosh the Horde and uses his vast shamanistic powers to help prevent the world from imploding, and eventually is critical in the battle to kill deathwing. Very important character.
Malfurion : One of the main leaders of the Night Elves, around forever pretty much. 10,000 years before WoW, he, Illidan, and Tyrande were critical in defeating the first invasion of the Burning Legion. Fast forward 10,000 years, and Malfurion is crucial in rallying the Night Elves to help defeat the Burning Legion once more (along with Thrall and Jaina). After that, takes more of a back seat role, but has saved the world.
Jaina : Powerful young mage, who is the friend/lover of Arthas until he goes crazy. Also goes to Kalimdor at the heed of Medivh (prophet), where she helps to fight the Burning Legion with Thrall and Malfurion. Later, she is the main diplomatic figure that is keeping the Horde and Alliance on decent terms, but then her Fortress (Theramore Isle) is nuked by Garrosh cause he is grumpy that there are humans nearby and so she turns into mega-bitch. I think she has gotten less bitchy towards the end of MoP.
Gul'Dan : The Orc Warlock who helps to enslave the Oricsh race to the Burning Legion, and also open the Dark Portal and have the Orcs pour into Azeroth, beginning the first war, as well as causing the 2nd and 3rd wars. He dies when he tries to become Sargeras (or something like that), but his immense power and the impact he had on the story make him very important.
Garrosh : Thrall made him Warchief when the Cataclysm started, which ended up being a horrible idea for many reasons. First of all, he was arrogant and rude to the other races of the horde, prompting Cairne to call for a duel. It turns out that a rival Tauren poisoned Garrosh's weapon, causing Cairne's death. This created a huge rift in the horde. Later, Garrosh's arrogance and his need to live up to his Father (Grommash)'s legacy led him to doing many dumb and rash things, like nuking Theramore and just being ape shit crazy. He eventually gets an old god's heart from pandaria and the Horde leaders rebel against him with the help of the Alliance and you take him down. Vol'Jin becomes the new Warchief.
Rexxar : Hunter Bro (Hearthstone gave him a bad reputation) who traveled around Kalimdor and was pivotal in the foundation of Orgrimmar and it's survival.
Valeera : Some random Rogue lady who was like a gladiator buddy with Varian (Human King) or something like that. Really inconsequential character. Hell, I don't even know if she actually makes an appearance in WoW.
Anduin : The leveled headed and not ape-shit crazy son of Varian (who is pretty bigoted towards Orcs and is just a not super nice guy, like Garrosh; However, Varian is honorable and valorous). Anduin is just a really cool dude who everybody loves, and is serving as a pretty good diplomat of sorts with the horde, especially Baine Bloodhoof.
Uther: The founder of the Knights of the Silver Hand, a paladin brotherhood. He was also one of the first human paladins. Was a war hero during the first and second wars against the orcs, and later was the mentor of Arthas. They ended up fighting the scourge, until Arthas' betrayal. Later killed by Arthas. | Edit: forgot Uther
If i were to rank, I would say:
Thrall; Malfurion; Gul'Dan; Jaina; Garrosh; Uther; Rexxar; Anduin; Valeera; |
EmergencyTaco | Learn to pressure objectives properly.
I'm going to post this picture here: (this was taken by my friend, I was playing Malphite)
This is a game that I won yesterday. We were down over 15k gold at the end of this game. They were ahead by 28 kills when the last fight started and we aced them. There were three separate times when they could have easily ended the game and didn't because they were too indecisive or didn't pressure the right objectives. These guys were all Silver II to Gold III in rank.
We were able to win this game because I as a Platinum player and our Azir as a Diamond player were able to keep the up morale of our two Silver players (Kha and Lucian) despite them wanting to surrender quite a few times. Kha'Zix and Lucian had almost no impact this game, with Kha picking up four of his 6 kills in the final teamfight and Lucian only doing 1k damage more than me as a (mostly) full tank Malphite. (Notice his lack of Last Whisper vs two Zhonyas, two Randuins and two GAs. Also, Kha was almost 8k damage behind me.) Karthus did over 100k damage this game alone while our whole team did 165k together (Kha did 19k, I did 27k, Lucian did 28k, Nidalee did 40k and Azir did 51k).
What I'm trying to say here is there wasn't a single person on our team who was super fed, and no one was putting out a huge amount of damage. However, because these Gold level players were unable to pressure effectively, they couldn't win despite having a super fed Karthus and every advantage they could possibly want. (Hard engage, late-game champs, better teamfight and more.) That means that at your Bronze II level, there are undoubtedly going to be plenty of missed opportunities for the enemy team. Is someone on their team super fed? Then wait until they decide not to push when they should and take a small advantage. Did they kill three of you guys and then just decide to go back to base or take baron when they could have easily won? Grab a pink ward and go see if dragon is warded, if it isn't then solo it and get out, they probably won't check it. (Make sure you have flash though.) Push out the lanes and don't fight anywhere besides under your tower. In my game they had two inhibs down yet still decided to dive us under our only inhib tower left, even though our base wasn't being overrun yet. Wait for them to make the mistake that they inevitably will and punish them for it when they do. (In this game the Lucian overextended and had to flash unnecessarily, and this let me isolate him from the final fight. Karthus also dove our tower when his team was a bit split up and we killed him before the fight even began.
TL;DR: Learn to spot some of the mistakes that are incredibly prevalent in lower elos and punish them, then go and take an objective. Remember that the game isn't over until the nexus explodes, and if everyone in the game has 6 items and is level 18 then your 0-12 Tristana can still be outputting more damage than their 18-2 Corki.
| Learn to pressure objectives properly.
I'm going to post this picture here: (this was taken by my friend, I was playing Malphite)
This is a game that I won yesterday. We were down over 15k gold at the end of this game. They were ahead by 28 kills when the last fight started and we aced them. There were three separate times when they could have easily ended the game and didn't because they were too indecisive or didn't pressure the right objectives. These guys were all Silver II to Gold III in rank.
We were able to win this game because I as a Platinum player and our Azir as a Diamond player were able to keep the up morale of our two Silver players (Kha and Lucian) despite them wanting to surrender quite a few times. Kha'Zix and Lucian had almost no impact this game, with Kha picking up four of his 6 kills in the final teamfight and Lucian only doing 1k damage more than me as a (mostly) full tank Malphite. (Notice his lack of Last Whisper vs two Zhonyas, two Randuins and two GAs. Also, Kha was almost 8k damage behind me.) Karthus did over 100k damage this game alone while our whole team did 165k together (Kha did 19k, I did 27k, Lucian did 28k, Nidalee did 40k and Azir did 51k).
What I'm trying to say here is there wasn't a single person on our team who was super fed, and no one was putting out a huge amount of damage. However, because these Gold level players were unable to pressure effectively, they couldn't win despite having a super fed Karthus and every advantage they could possibly want. (Hard engage, late-game champs, better teamfight and more.) That means that at your Bronze II level, there are undoubtedly going to be plenty of missed opportunities for the enemy team. Is someone on their team super fed? Then wait until they decide not to push when they should and take a small advantage. Did they kill three of you guys and then just decide to go back to base or take baron when they could have easily won? Grab a pink ward and go see if dragon is warded, if it isn't then solo it and get out, they probably won't check it. (Make sure you have flash though.) Push out the lanes and don't fight anywhere besides under your tower. In my game they had two inhibs down yet still decided to dive us under our only inhib tower left, even though our base wasn't being overrun yet. Wait for them to make the mistake that they inevitably will and punish them for it when they do. (In this game the Lucian overextended and had to flash unnecessarily, and this let me isolate him from the final fight. Karthus also dove our tower when his team was a bit split up and we killed him before the fight even began.
TL;DR: Learn to spot some of the mistakes that are incredibly prevalent in lower elos and punish them, then go and take an objective. Remember that the game isn't over until the nexus explodes, and if everyone in the game has 6 items and is level 18 then your 0-12 Tristana can still be outputting more damage than their 18-2 Corki.
| summonerschool | t5_2t9x3 | cknutu6 | Learn to pressure objectives properly.
I'm going to post this picture here: (this was taken by my friend, I was playing Malphite)
This is a game that I won yesterday. We were down over 15k gold at the end of this game. They were ahead by 28 kills when the last fight started and we aced them. There were three separate times when they could have easily ended the game and didn't because they were too indecisive or didn't pressure the right objectives. These guys were all Silver II to Gold III in rank.
We were able to win this game because I as a Platinum player and our Azir as a Diamond player were able to keep the up morale of our two Silver players (Kha and Lucian) despite them wanting to surrender quite a few times. Kha'Zix and Lucian had almost no impact this game, with Kha picking up four of his 6 kills in the final teamfight and Lucian only doing 1k damage more than me as a (mostly) full tank Malphite. (Notice his lack of Last Whisper vs two Zhonyas, two Randuins and two GAs. Also, Kha was almost 8k damage behind me.) Karthus did over 100k damage this game alone while our whole team did 165k together (Kha did 19k, I did 27k, Lucian did 28k, Nidalee did 40k and Azir did 51k).
What I'm trying to say here is there wasn't a single person on our team who was super fed, and no one was putting out a huge amount of damage. However, because these Gold level players were unable to pressure effectively, they couldn't win despite having a super fed Karthus and every advantage they could possibly want. (Hard engage, late-game champs, better teamfight and more.) That means that at your Bronze II level, there are undoubtedly going to be plenty of missed opportunities for the enemy team. Is someone on their team super fed? Then wait until they decide not to push when they should and take a small advantage. Did they kill three of you guys and then just decide to go back to base or take baron when they could have easily won? Grab a pink ward and go see if dragon is warded, if it isn't then solo it and get out, they probably won't check it. (Make sure you have flash though.) Push out the lanes and don't fight anywhere besides under your tower. In my game they had two inhibs down yet still decided to dive us under our only inhib tower left, even though our base wasn't being overrun yet. Wait for them to make the mistake that they inevitably will and punish them for it when they do. (In this game the Lucian overextended and had to flash unnecessarily, and this let me isolate him from the final fight. Karthus also dove our tower when his team was a bit split up and we killed him before the fight even began. | Learn to spot some of the mistakes that are incredibly prevalent in lower elos and punish them, then go and take an objective. Remember that the game isn't over until the nexus explodes, and if everyone in the game has 6 items and is level 18 then your 0-12 Tristana can still be outputting more damage than their 18-2 Corki. |
sakatana | [$99 for AppleCare+]( + $79 for the replacement = $178. Since this phone has actual LCD damage, it's unlikely it'll be replaced for that cute $109 screen (glass) repair cost, so OP would have to fork out a nice $329 for that sucker.
MONEY SAVED:
AppleCare+: 329 - (99 + 79) = 151
Carrier Insurance: (200 + NUM_MONTHS*MONTH_COST) - (99 + 79) >= 22
tl;dr: AppleCare+ is a fucking hell of a deal. | $99 for AppleCare+ repair cost, so OP would have to fork out a nice $329 for that sucker.
MONEY SAVED:
AppleCare+: 329 - (99 + 79) = 151
Carrier Insurance: (200 + NUM_MONTHS*MONTH_COST) - (99 + 79) >= 22
tl;dr: AppleCare+ is a fucking hell of a deal.
| pics | t5_2qh0u | cko9jr2 | 99 for AppleCare+ repair cost, so OP would have to fork out a nice $329 for that sucker.
MONEY SAVED:
AppleCare+: 329 - (99 + 79) = 151
Carrier Insurance: (200 + NUM_MONTHS*MONTH_COST) - (99 + 79) >= 22 | AppleCare+ is a fucking hell of a deal. |
hellabad | This actually happened to me where I dropped the phone and then had a crack go across the screen from top to bottom, it was hard to see if you were looking directly at it but at an angle you can see the crack. About a week later after being careful I decided to put my note 3 in my back pocket (this was normal) and I sat down on my couch and immediately took it out and the thing spider webbed. I would be replace it as soon as possible before any pressure causes it to spider web because if it does and then your phone doesn't react to your touches then you're SOL till its fixed. Pristine to how the OP's looked in about a week.
TLDR: don't break your phone and get insurance because 2 years of insurance cost about the same amount for a new screen. | This actually happened to me where I dropped the phone and then had a crack go across the screen from top to bottom, it was hard to see if you were looking directly at it but at an angle you can see the crack. About a week later after being careful I decided to put my note 3 in my back pocket (this was normal) and I sat down on my couch and immediately took it out and the thing spider webbed. I would be replace it as soon as possible before any pressure causes it to spider web because if it does and then your phone doesn't react to your touches then you're SOL till its fixed. Pristine to how the OP's looked in about a week.
TLDR: don't break your phone and get insurance because 2 years of insurance cost about the same amount for a new screen.
| pics | t5_2qh0u | cko161x | This actually happened to me where I dropped the phone and then had a crack go across the screen from top to bottom, it was hard to see if you were looking directly at it but at an angle you can see the crack. About a week later after being careful I decided to put my note 3 in my back pocket (this was normal) and I sat down on my couch and immediately took it out and the thing spider webbed. I would be replace it as soon as possible before any pressure causes it to spider web because if it does and then your phone doesn't react to your touches then you're SOL till its fixed. Pristine to how the OP's looked in about a week. | don't break your phone and get insurance because 2 years of insurance cost about the same amount for a new screen. |
XenaWarriorPrincesse | It was the same for me until the day I tried to hackey sack my hair straightener while it was plugged in. I caught it with my thigh and held it for longer than I should have too because I didn't want to have a burned thigh and a burnt foot.
**TL/DR: I have a burn scar on my thigh from hackey sacking falling items** | It was the same for me until the day I tried to hackey sack my hair straightener while it was plugged in. I caught it with my thigh and held it for longer than I should have too because I didn't want to have a burned thigh and a burnt foot.
TL/DR: I have a burn scar on my thigh from hackey sacking falling items
| pics | t5_2qh0u | cko66jj | It was the same for me until the day I tried to hackey sack my hair straightener while it was plugged in. I caught it with my thigh and held it for longer than I should have too because I didn't want to have a burned thigh and a burnt foot. | I have a burn scar on my thigh from hackey sacking falling items |
katcruise | I hate the feel of big clunky cases. I've yet to find one (that adds significant protection) I like enough to put on my beautiful galaxy S4. The otterboxes are great but they are way too big!
I do use [this]( style case and find it fits my needs perfectly. It replaces the back of the phone with an exact replica so it doesn't change the shape/feel. The back is starting to get worn down now, but at least I still have the original back that is in pristine condition. The front case protects from scratches and probably helps a bit with dropping it. The metal on my phone is a chipped a bit. But I have insurance on it.
I feel very convinced that Iphones are just not as durable. I shouldn't have to put a huge case on my phone to stop it from shattering. I know this is a huge circle jerk but nearly all of my friends with iphones have had a smashed up iphone either currently or in the past. My samsung friends may have a dent or a small crack but I have never seen one shattered unless the person really made an abnormally large impact.
TL;DR - Get protection for your phone, you won't need a case and can keep the original feel | I hate the feel of big clunky cases. I've yet to find one (that adds significant protection) I like enough to put on my beautiful galaxy S4. The otterboxes are great but they are way too big!
I do use [this]( style case and find it fits my needs perfectly. It replaces the back of the phone with an exact replica so it doesn't change the shape/feel. The back is starting to get worn down now, but at least I still have the original back that is in pristine condition. The front case protects from scratches and probably helps a bit with dropping it. The metal on my phone is a chipped a bit. But I have insurance on it.
I feel very convinced that Iphones are just not as durable. I shouldn't have to put a huge case on my phone to stop it from shattering. I know this is a huge circle jerk but nearly all of my friends with iphones have had a smashed up iphone either currently or in the past. My samsung friends may have a dent or a small crack but I have never seen one shattered unless the person really made an abnormally large impact.
TL;DR - Get protection for your phone, you won't need a case and can keep the original feel
| pics | t5_2qh0u | ckoefkf | I hate the feel of big clunky cases. I've yet to find one (that adds significant protection) I like enough to put on my beautiful galaxy S4. The otterboxes are great but they are way too big!
I do use [this]( style case and find it fits my needs perfectly. It replaces the back of the phone with an exact replica so it doesn't change the shape/feel. The back is starting to get worn down now, but at least I still have the original back that is in pristine condition. The front case protects from scratches and probably helps a bit with dropping it. The metal on my phone is a chipped a bit. But I have insurance on it.
I feel very convinced that Iphones are just not as durable. I shouldn't have to put a huge case on my phone to stop it from shattering. I know this is a huge circle jerk but nearly all of my friends with iphones have had a smashed up iphone either currently or in the past. My samsung friends may have a dent or a small crack but I have never seen one shattered unless the person really made an abnormally large impact. | Get protection for your phone, you won't need a case and can keep the original feel |
Reditraptor | Story time:
Driving down the road, speed limit 45. All of a sudden a older SUV pull out in front of me coming out of a McDonald's. I had to slam on my breaks to the point that i was skidding. I was in a very bad part of town close to midnight so I back off and do not do anything to retaliate. They never got above 10 mph, and I was unable to pass. 3 blocks later they make a right hand turn. As soon as they clear I accelerate. I drive a very large loud truck, so I didn't full throttle to signal I was pissed but enough to get me back up to speed. However it was loud. They immediately turned jumping over a curb, through a dirt lot, and back onto the road right behind me. I saw this and took off for fear of my life. We were then in a case over 85 mph. After about a mile I had enough space behind me to try and lose them. I turn into a residential neighborhood, weaving through different street. I saw a carport with only one car in it so I pulled in next to it and turn off my truck. Spent the next 30 mins hoping they would give up. Lucky I left without seeing.
tl;dr - Chased by crazy hoodlums | Story time:
Driving down the road, speed limit 45. All of a sudden a older SUV pull out in front of me coming out of a McDonald's. I had to slam on my breaks to the point that i was skidding. I was in a very bad part of town close to midnight so I back off and do not do anything to retaliate. They never got above 10 mph, and I was unable to pass. 3 blocks later they make a right hand turn. As soon as they clear I accelerate. I drive a very large loud truck, so I didn't full throttle to signal I was pissed but enough to get me back up to speed. However it was loud. They immediately turned jumping over a curb, through a dirt lot, and back onto the road right behind me. I saw this and took off for fear of my life. We were then in a case over 85 mph. After about a mile I had enough space behind me to try and lose them. I turn into a residential neighborhood, weaving through different street. I saw a carport with only one car in it so I pulled in next to it and turn off my truck. Spent the next 30 mins hoping they would give up. Lucky I left without seeing.
tl;dr - Chased by crazy hoodlums
| pics | t5_2qh0u | ckolnqo | Story time:
Driving down the road, speed limit 45. All of a sudden a older SUV pull out in front of me coming out of a McDonald's. I had to slam on my breaks to the point that i was skidding. I was in a very bad part of town close to midnight so I back off and do not do anything to retaliate. They never got above 10 mph, and I was unable to pass. 3 blocks later they make a right hand turn. As soon as they clear I accelerate. I drive a very large loud truck, so I didn't full throttle to signal I was pissed but enough to get me back up to speed. However it was loud. They immediately turned jumping over a curb, through a dirt lot, and back onto the road right behind me. I saw this and took off for fear of my life. We were then in a case over 85 mph. After about a mile I had enough space behind me to try and lose them. I turn into a residential neighborhood, weaving through different street. I saw a carport with only one car in it so I pulled in next to it and turn off my truck. Spent the next 30 mins hoping they would give up. Lucky I left without seeing. | Chased by crazy hoodlums |
Plantundra | First: I do think Neal is treating Gen really unfair. Yes she can be aggravating at times and often misunderstands and misreads situations mostly because of the language barrier but even when she is spot on and tries her best to use her Skills to her advantage he often just denies it.
If I think back in the last few Solum weeks she keeps repeating "But I wouldn't have done X if I knew Y" and she is mostly right. It is not her fault that when she says "I will hide behind something so I am out of sight" he places her randomly behind a tree that actually doesn't conceal her and doesn't even tell her so.
And then she gets specific and plans out everything and he still denies her every action even when it would totally make sense for her character to do exactly that.
If they don't take her seriously then swap her for another player but the treatment she gets is getting really cringeworthy.
Second: The battle was badly planned on both sides. They had a good plan going (Hiding and killing them in the day) and then forfeited all their advantages by fighting in the night where they are clearly at a huge disadvantage. Neal then obviously saw his chance to "get them good" and piled on other disadvantages. I see his point though but it made things needlessly complicated and invoked a lot of salt on all sides.
Third: Neal seems to really want to destroy the party. Maybe he doesn't realise it himself but it gets progressively worse. He seems to want them to be the eternal underdog in this campaign, running and hiding all the time. Geoff obviously doesn't want to take this shit and they all creatively try to destroy everything pitted against them. Instead of trying to end the campaign by killing them all he should just wrap it up if he doesn't want to play like this anymore. The amount of salt on his side after they killed Felicity (And the whole Felicity encounter which was weird beyond measure, the general herself appearing and disappearing at will for one and her coming herself even though she could have essentially mobilised everything against them given she knew where they were all the time) is a clear indicator that he got more invested in the opposition than the party.
Last: Spells and Spell descriptions. Neal either forbids strong spells outright or subtly makes them useless. The whole Flame Sphere thing and the Dig restrictions for one. Gens more than useless Divination Spells. The plan for this campaign was a low magic overland travel campaign, which is why they dont encounter strong Outsiders/Demons or anything truly dangerous that only a Magic equipped party could deal with. Then he allows JP and Gen to play wizards with medium to high level. Of course he should have known that Orc Armies were no longer a match for them and a single Voraci General was no match either. But instead of not letting them choose Magic classes or finding appropriate enemies he rather chose to make Gen useless. The only reason he is not doing the same with JP is because JP comes overprepared and plays it extremely safe.
TL:DR As most of the others here I do not agree with the way things are going in Solum. Which is not to say I hate Neal now or anything just that all is not well and he should take a step back and try to objectively reevaluate how things are going right now. | First: I do think Neal is treating Gen really unfair. Yes she can be aggravating at times and often misunderstands and misreads situations mostly because of the language barrier but even when she is spot on and tries her best to use her Skills to her advantage he often just denies it.
If I think back in the last few Solum weeks she keeps repeating "But I wouldn't have done X if I knew Y" and she is mostly right. It is not her fault that when she says "I will hide behind something so I am out of sight" he places her randomly behind a tree that actually doesn't conceal her and doesn't even tell her so.
And then she gets specific and plans out everything and he still denies her every action even when it would totally make sense for her character to do exactly that.
If they don't take her seriously then swap her for another player but the treatment she gets is getting really cringeworthy.
Second: The battle was badly planned on both sides. They had a good plan going (Hiding and killing them in the day) and then forfeited all their advantages by fighting in the night where they are clearly at a huge disadvantage. Neal then obviously saw his chance to "get them good" and piled on other disadvantages. I see his point though but it made things needlessly complicated and invoked a lot of salt on all sides.
Third: Neal seems to really want to destroy the party. Maybe he doesn't realise it himself but it gets progressively worse. He seems to want them to be the eternal underdog in this campaign, running and hiding all the time. Geoff obviously doesn't want to take this shit and they all creatively try to destroy everything pitted against them. Instead of trying to end the campaign by killing them all he should just wrap it up if he doesn't want to play like this anymore. The amount of salt on his side after they killed Felicity (And the whole Felicity encounter which was weird beyond measure, the general herself appearing and disappearing at will for one and her coming herself even though she could have essentially mobilised everything against them given she knew where they were all the time) is a clear indicator that he got more invested in the opposition than the party.
Last: Spells and Spell descriptions. Neal either forbids strong spells outright or subtly makes them useless. The whole Flame Sphere thing and the Dig restrictions for one. Gens more than useless Divination Spells. The plan for this campaign was a low magic overland travel campaign, which is why they dont encounter strong Outsiders/Demons or anything truly dangerous that only a Magic equipped party could deal with. Then he allows JP and Gen to play wizards with medium to high level. Of course he should have known that Orc Armies were no longer a match for them and a single Voraci General was no match either. But instead of not letting them choose Magic classes or finding appropriate enemies he rather chose to make Gen useless. The only reason he is not doing the same with JP is because JP comes overprepared and plays it extremely safe.
TL:DR As most of the others here I do not agree with the way things are going in Solum. Which is not to say I hate Neal now or anything just that all is not well and he should take a step back and try to objectively reevaluate how things are going right now.
| itmejp | t5_2v9r5 | ckqhre2 | First: I do think Neal is treating Gen really unfair. Yes she can be aggravating at times and often misunderstands and misreads situations mostly because of the language barrier but even when she is spot on and tries her best to use her Skills to her advantage he often just denies it.
If I think back in the last few Solum weeks she keeps repeating "But I wouldn't have done X if I knew Y" and she is mostly right. It is not her fault that when she says "I will hide behind something so I am out of sight" he places her randomly behind a tree that actually doesn't conceal her and doesn't even tell her so.
And then she gets specific and plans out everything and he still denies her every action even when it would totally make sense for her character to do exactly that.
If they don't take her seriously then swap her for another player but the treatment she gets is getting really cringeworthy.
Second: The battle was badly planned on both sides. They had a good plan going (Hiding and killing them in the day) and then forfeited all their advantages by fighting in the night where they are clearly at a huge disadvantage. Neal then obviously saw his chance to "get them good" and piled on other disadvantages. I see his point though but it made things needlessly complicated and invoked a lot of salt on all sides.
Third: Neal seems to really want to destroy the party. Maybe he doesn't realise it himself but it gets progressively worse. He seems to want them to be the eternal underdog in this campaign, running and hiding all the time. Geoff obviously doesn't want to take this shit and they all creatively try to destroy everything pitted against them. Instead of trying to end the campaign by killing them all he should just wrap it up if he doesn't want to play like this anymore. The amount of salt on his side after they killed Felicity (And the whole Felicity encounter which was weird beyond measure, the general herself appearing and disappearing at will for one and her coming herself even though she could have essentially mobilised everything against them given she knew where they were all the time) is a clear indicator that he got more invested in the opposition than the party.
Last: Spells and Spell descriptions. Neal either forbids strong spells outright or subtly makes them useless. The whole Flame Sphere thing and the Dig restrictions for one. Gens more than useless Divination Spells. The plan for this campaign was a low magic overland travel campaign, which is why they dont encounter strong Outsiders/Demons or anything truly dangerous that only a Magic equipped party could deal with. Then he allows JP and Gen to play wizards with medium to high level. Of course he should have known that Orc Armies were no longer a match for them and a single Voraci General was no match either. But instead of not letting them choose Magic classes or finding appropriate enemies he rather chose to make Gen useless. The only reason he is not doing the same with JP is because JP comes overprepared and plays it extremely safe. | As most of the others here I do not agree with the way things are going in Solum. Which is not to say I hate Neal now or anything just that all is not well and he should take a step back and try to objectively reevaluate how things are going right now. |
Bananekaiser | You know, this invite system had created quite a few thirsty people in this world, me being one of them. I believe that by getting this phone, the thirst will end, resulting in a feeling of euphoria and bliss that one can only experience when dying or masturbating whilst suffocating themselves on a doorknob. If one of you have already felt any of these, I am honestly jealous of you and I will try my best to become like you. All I ask of you is to upvote this so that a poor child like me from Uganda and feel the bliss that is the OPO and so that I can contact some rich oil magnate to give me the black gold so I can help my family live in prosperity.
However, until then, I will remain an inconspicuous, small, worthless African entity whose heart is as big as a Baobab but who's life is worse than Marmite.
tl;dr, we all want this phone | You know, this invite system had created quite a few thirsty people in this world, me being one of them. I believe that by getting this phone, the thirst will end, resulting in a feeling of euphoria and bliss that one can only experience when dying or masturbating whilst suffocating themselves on a doorknob. If one of you have already felt any of these, I am honestly jealous of you and I will try my best to become like you. All I ask of you is to upvote this so that a poor child like me from Uganda and feel the bliss that is the OPO and so that I can contact some rich oil magnate to give me the black gold so I can help my family live in prosperity.
However, until then, I will remain an inconspicuous, small, worthless African entity whose heart is as big as a Baobab but who's life is worse than Marmite.
tl;dr, we all want this phone
| oneplus | t5_30qnb | cko0x3q | You know, this invite system had created quite a few thirsty people in this world, me being one of them. I believe that by getting this phone, the thirst will end, resulting in a feeling of euphoria and bliss that one can only experience when dying or masturbating whilst suffocating themselves on a doorknob. If one of you have already felt any of these, I am honestly jealous of you and I will try my best to become like you. All I ask of you is to upvote this so that a poor child like me from Uganda and feel the bliss that is the OPO and so that I can contact some rich oil magnate to give me the black gold so I can help my family live in prosperity.
However, until then, I will remain an inconspicuous, small, worthless African entity whose heart is as big as a Baobab but who's life is worse than Marmite. | we all want this phone |
oolongjohnson07 | I played the beta and loved figuring there would be more to the game, but there wasn't it was just like the beta. I think the biggest problem is lack of story and interesting charecters . I see people compare Destiny to borderlands and halo. But halo had a story and interesting charecters as did borderlands. The best parts of destiny are the visuals, sound and gameplay. I agree witg Joe in that people have been defending this game since launch when it comes to content. Destiny has less variety than any mmo I've played . It reminds me of assasins creed 3's main story where 80% of the missions were tailing missions except in destiny its 80% defend missions. I don't wanna here how difficult it is to build a world like this and how I'm asking for too much when games like GTAV and the Last of us were able to give as much content as Destiny with equally stunning visuals on last gen consoles. Even games like skyrim and borderlands 2 that came out over 2 years ago have more content than destiny. I did enjoy it somewhat, mostly in the crucible, but it feels unfinished and broken.
tl; dr I enjoyed the crucible but pve was awful. | I played the beta and loved figuring there would be more to the game, but there wasn't it was just like the beta. I think the biggest problem is lack of story and interesting charecters . I see people compare Destiny to borderlands and halo. But halo had a story and interesting charecters as did borderlands. The best parts of destiny are the visuals, sound and gameplay. I agree witg Joe in that people have been defending this game since launch when it comes to content. Destiny has less variety than any mmo I've played . It reminds me of assasins creed 3's main story where 80% of the missions were tailing missions except in destiny its 80% defend missions. I don't wanna here how difficult it is to build a world like this and how I'm asking for too much when games like GTAV and the Last of us were able to give as much content as Destiny with equally stunning visuals on last gen consoles. Even games like skyrim and borderlands 2 that came out over 2 years ago have more content than destiny. I did enjoy it somewhat, mostly in the crucible, but it feels unfinished and broken.
tl; dr I enjoyed the crucible but pve was awful.
| Games | t5_2qhwp | cko8id8 | I played the beta and loved figuring there would be more to the game, but there wasn't it was just like the beta. I think the biggest problem is lack of story and interesting charecters . I see people compare Destiny to borderlands and halo. But halo had a story and interesting charecters as did borderlands. The best parts of destiny are the visuals, sound and gameplay. I agree witg Joe in that people have been defending this game since launch when it comes to content. Destiny has less variety than any mmo I've played . It reminds me of assasins creed 3's main story where 80% of the missions were tailing missions except in destiny its 80% defend missions. I don't wanna here how difficult it is to build a world like this and how I'm asking for too much when games like GTAV and the Last of us were able to give as much content as Destiny with equally stunning visuals on last gen consoles. Even games like skyrim and borderlands 2 that came out over 2 years ago have more content than destiny. I did enjoy it somewhat, mostly in the crucible, but it feels unfinished and broken. | I enjoyed the crucible but pve was awful. |
Noneerror | Mag is awesome in endgame missions. Just make sure it's a mission the enemies have shields- aka Corpus and Void. (Void being the important one.) See that shield osprey? It's now your best friend.
I routinely end up as top dps and beat all other frames (yes even Nova) in Void missions using Mag. I believe Mag gets a bad rap because new players use Mag with all 4 of her abilities slotted. That's a bad idea. Bullet Attractor is only good on certain bosses so only slot it on Assassination missions. Crush is meh. For the same energy and about the same total casting time you can use Pull four times in a row. Four Pulls is more versatile and doesn't leave you standing around in one spot forever like Crush.
Late wave T4 Def etc you need to think of her abilities not as damage but as utility. Shield Polarize keeps your team's shields and the objective topped up while removing enemy buffs (shield ospreys.) And Pull is CC while you shoot them in the head.
**tl'dr: Yes Mag is good for endgame Voids. If you build her right.** | Mag is awesome in endgame missions. Just make sure it's a mission the enemies have shields- aka Corpus and Void. (Void being the important one.) See that shield osprey? It's now your best friend.
I routinely end up as top dps and beat all other frames (yes even Nova) in Void missions using Mag. I believe Mag gets a bad rap because new players use Mag with all 4 of her abilities slotted. That's a bad idea. Bullet Attractor is only good on certain bosses so only slot it on Assassination missions. Crush is meh. For the same energy and about the same total casting time you can use Pull four times in a row. Four Pulls is more versatile and doesn't leave you standing around in one spot forever like Crush.
Late wave T4 Def etc you need to think of her abilities not as damage but as utility. Shield Polarize keeps your team's shields and the objective topped up while removing enemy buffs (shield ospreys.) And Pull is CC while you shoot them in the head.
tl'dr: Yes Mag is good for endgame Voids. If you build her right.
| Warframe | t5_2urg0 | ckoofkj | Mag is awesome in endgame missions. Just make sure it's a mission the enemies have shields- aka Corpus and Void. (Void being the important one.) See that shield osprey? It's now your best friend.
I routinely end up as top dps and beat all other frames (yes even Nova) in Void missions using Mag. I believe Mag gets a bad rap because new players use Mag with all 4 of her abilities slotted. That's a bad idea. Bullet Attractor is only good on certain bosses so only slot it on Assassination missions. Crush is meh. For the same energy and about the same total casting time you can use Pull four times in a row. Four Pulls is more versatile and doesn't leave you standing around in one spot forever like Crush.
Late wave T4 Def etc you need to think of her abilities not as damage but as utility. Shield Polarize keeps your team's shields and the objective topped up while removing enemy buffs (shield ospreys.) And Pull is CC while you shoot them in the head. | Yes Mag is good for endgame Voids. If you build her right. |
Precaution | My UBC experience was deeply rooted in several different faculties/departments that all addressed gender in some societal function or problematization. Even after reading countless hours of Judith Butler and other academics who research gender binaries and gender performativity and power, my biggest issue comes from acting the perspective of a humanist.
I feel like I'm thinking "wrongly" for my opinions on gender issues as less important than decolonialization, the progress and survival of our species, and technological and scientific advances, despite finding myself parroting the "eliminate the gender binary" ideal that humanism often supports.
This isn't to shut down gender privilege as an issue to be fixed or addressed, but to acknowledge that the different waves of feminism and varying beliefs in social justice movements all link back to these macro-scale ideas at their roots, and often leave people out of the equality narrative, eapecially those of genderqueer, null/asexual, and transexual identities ALREADY, leading to a need for a generalist equality movement that doesn't alienate anyone, and is wholly inclusive of diversity.
TLDR;
I feel torn between what I believe is more important, and the 'right' belief on equality or equity.
| My UBC experience was deeply rooted in several different faculties/departments that all addressed gender in some societal function or problematization. Even after reading countless hours of Judith Butler and other academics who research gender binaries and gender performativity and power, my biggest issue comes from acting the perspective of a humanist.
I feel like I'm thinking "wrongly" for my opinions on gender issues as less important than decolonialization, the progress and survival of our species, and technological and scientific advances, despite finding myself parroting the "eliminate the gender binary" ideal that humanism often supports.
This isn't to shut down gender privilege as an issue to be fixed or addressed, but to acknowledge that the different waves of feminism and varying beliefs in social justice movements all link back to these macro-scale ideas at their roots, and often leave people out of the equality narrative, eapecially those of genderqueer, null/asexual, and transexual identities ALREADY, leading to a need for a generalist equality movement that doesn't alienate anyone, and is wholly inclusive of diversity.
TLDR;
I feel torn between what I believe is more important, and the 'right' belief on equality or equity.
| AdviceAnimals | t5_2s7tt | ckongex | My UBC experience was deeply rooted in several different faculties/departments that all addressed gender in some societal function or problematization. Even after reading countless hours of Judith Butler and other academics who research gender binaries and gender performativity and power, my biggest issue comes from acting the perspective of a humanist.
I feel like I'm thinking "wrongly" for my opinions on gender issues as less important than decolonialization, the progress and survival of our species, and technological and scientific advances, despite finding myself parroting the "eliminate the gender binary" ideal that humanism often supports.
This isn't to shut down gender privilege as an issue to be fixed or addressed, but to acknowledge that the different waves of feminism and varying beliefs in social justice movements all link back to these macro-scale ideas at their roots, and often leave people out of the equality narrative, eapecially those of genderqueer, null/asexual, and transexual identities ALREADY, leading to a need for a generalist equality movement that doesn't alienate anyone, and is wholly inclusive of diversity. | I feel torn between what I believe is more important, and the 'right' belief on equality or equity. |
DatPiff916 | I mean people like to say this and that about why Sacramento gets a bad rap but in my opinion the truth of the matter is it is a GREAT city with no access to beaches in a state that's...known for it's beaches. People generally associate CA with the beach, many people associate the high prices of CA is due to the ability to live near a beach.
An equivalent of Sacramento would be if there was some hypothetical city in western New York that had the most gorgeous mountain range on the East Coast, the best campgrounds, excellent weather and one of the best freshwater lakes in the country. Now if you were from this city and went to say Manhattan, people would probably feel sorry for you and say your city sucks because NY is known for the big city and if you are anywhere but in the big city in NY it must suck right?
tl;dr people judge the city based on what the state is known for | I mean people like to say this and that about why Sacramento gets a bad rap but in my opinion the truth of the matter is it is a GREAT city with no access to beaches in a state that's...known for it's beaches. People generally associate CA with the beach, many people associate the high prices of CA is due to the ability to live near a beach.
An equivalent of Sacramento would be if there was some hypothetical city in western New York that had the most gorgeous mountain range on the East Coast, the best campgrounds, excellent weather and one of the best freshwater lakes in the country. Now if you were from this city and went to say Manhattan, people would probably feel sorry for you and say your city sucks because NY is known for the big city and if you are anywhere but in the big city in NY it must suck right?
tl;dr people judge the city based on what the state is known for
| Sacramento | t5_2qi09 | ckq0efg | I mean people like to say this and that about why Sacramento gets a bad rap but in my opinion the truth of the matter is it is a GREAT city with no access to beaches in a state that's...known for it's beaches. People generally associate CA with the beach, many people associate the high prices of CA is due to the ability to live near a beach.
An equivalent of Sacramento would be if there was some hypothetical city in western New York that had the most gorgeous mountain range on the East Coast, the best campgrounds, excellent weather and one of the best freshwater lakes in the country. Now if you were from this city and went to say Manhattan, people would probably feel sorry for you and say your city sucks because NY is known for the big city and if you are anywhere but in the big city in NY it must suck right? | people judge the city based on what the state is known for |
anbeav | Calculate your calories for a 20% deficit and you will lose fat with little to no muscle loss as long as you meet your protein goal.
tl;dr use the handy keto calculator (in the sidebar) and set your calories and macros | Calculate your calories for a 20% deficit and you will lose fat with little to no muscle loss as long as you meet your protein goal.
tl;dr use the handy keto calculator (in the sidebar) and set your calories and macros
| keto | t5_2rske | ckojh8t | Calculate your calories for a 20% deficit and you will lose fat with little to no muscle loss as long as you meet your protein goal. | use the handy keto calculator (in the sidebar) and set your calories and macros |
funkbanger | Back to square one then
No tip for free meals.
The price of the meals is an indication of the quality of service you should get. I dont expect that much service from the local diner, but i do from the 150$ steak house.
If i need to ask for water at the local diner, fine. But if i need to ask for water at the high end restaurant, its another thing, tip will reflect that omission. Higher grade restaurants, higher standards.
Tl;dr: higher price = higher standard = better service = more work/attention = higher tip. | Back to square one then
No tip for free meals.
The price of the meals is an indication of the quality of service you should get. I dont expect that much service from the local diner, but i do from the 150$ steak house.
If i need to ask for water at the local diner, fine. But if i need to ask for water at the high end restaurant, its another thing, tip will reflect that omission. Higher grade restaurants, higher standards.
Tl;dr: higher price = higher standard = better service = more work/attention = higher tip.
| pics | t5_2qh0u | ckpk8ga | Back to square one then
No tip for free meals.
The price of the meals is an indication of the quality of service you should get. I dont expect that much service from the local diner, but i do from the 150$ steak house.
If i need to ask for water at the local diner, fine. But if i need to ask for water at the high end restaurant, its another thing, tip will reflect that omission. Higher grade restaurants, higher standards. | higher price = higher standard = better service = more work/attention = higher tip. |
Serrat | From a guy - He's not worth it.
Time is basically the only thing that will get you through a break up. It hurts, and then it hurts less and then a little less, and then you realize you're over it and ready to move on.
First real relationship breakups are the worse, you end up questioning everything.
TL;DR- You're better off without him and you'll get through this. (cliche advice that you might not believe, but it really is true.) | From a guy - He's not worth it.
Time is basically the only thing that will get you through a break up. It hurts, and then it hurts less and then a little less, and then you realize you're over it and ready to move on.
First real relationship breakups are the worse, you end up questioning everything.
TL;DR- You're better off without him and you'll get through this. (cliche advice that you might not believe, but it really is true.)
| TwoXChromosomes | t5_2r2jt | ckp844b | From a guy - He's not worth it.
Time is basically the only thing that will get you through a break up. It hurts, and then it hurts less and then a little less, and then you realize you're over it and ready to move on.
First real relationship breakups are the worse, you end up questioning everything. | You're better off without him and you'll get through this. (cliche advice that you might not believe, but it really is true.) |
Crimyote | Me and my wife tried something like this. I busted into the bedroom and started at it then she went, "no, stop." So I did. She looked at me funny and asked why I stopped. Apparently, "Because you told me to," was not the right answer.
We never tried it again and we still laugh about it now and then.
TL;DR I'm too nice to 'rape' my wife. | Me and my wife tried something like this. I busted into the bedroom and started at it then she went, "no, stop." So I did. She looked at me funny and asked why I stopped. Apparently, "Because you told me to," was not the right answer.
We never tried it again and we still laugh about it now and then.
TL;DR I'm too nice to 'rape' my wife.
| AdviceAnimals | t5_2s7tt | ckpqd3c | Me and my wife tried something like this. I busted into the bedroom and started at it then she went, "no, stop." So I did. She looked at me funny and asked why I stopped. Apparently, "Because you told me to," was not the right answer.
We never tried it again and we still laugh about it now and then. | I'm too nice to 'rape' my wife. |
wesed | I count beans, sort the beans, move the beans from one pile to another, filter them through a tax return to get better tastier after tax beans, call the government to ensure they got their beans...
TL;DR I want chili now. | I count beans, sort the beans, move the beans from one pile to another, filter them through a tax return to get better tastier after tax beans, call the government to ensure they got their beans...
TL;DR I want chili now.
| toronto | t5_2qi63 | ckqeht7 | I count beans, sort the beans, move the beans from one pile to another, filter them through a tax return to get better tastier after tax beans, call the government to ensure they got their beans... | I want chili now. |
fezir108 | I know that would be the norm but now I'm trying to design an application around a silly existing process. We have an internal application that needs a config file updated for each new situation. I created one SCCM application for the core application and another for the config update script. They'll need to run this second application every time they want to update their config so I thought if I could script a file creation and have a detection method that finds that file's creation time and checks if it was in the last 10 minutes, then it wouldn't block most attempts to run the software while still not coming up as failed.
Of course an alternative would be to just let it fail every time but I wrote return codes into the script which would be very handy for the help desk to troubleshoot and I believe a failure may break that, though I could be wrong.
**TL;DR: The users will need to run this application on-demand multiple times so it must be re-usable.** | I know that would be the norm but now I'm trying to design an application around a silly existing process. We have an internal application that needs a config file updated for each new situation. I created one SCCM application for the core application and another for the config update script. They'll need to run this second application every time they want to update their config so I thought if I could script a file creation and have a detection method that finds that file's creation time and checks if it was in the last 10 minutes, then it wouldn't block most attempts to run the software while still not coming up as failed.
Of course an alternative would be to just let it fail every time but I wrote return codes into the script which would be very handy for the help desk to troubleshoot and I believe a failure may break that, though I could be wrong.
TL;DR: The users will need to run this application on-demand multiple times so it must be re-usable.
| SCCM | t5_2t39l | ckpmarn | I know that would be the norm but now I'm trying to design an application around a silly existing process. We have an internal application that needs a config file updated for each new situation. I created one SCCM application for the core application and another for the config update script. They'll need to run this second application every time they want to update their config so I thought if I could script a file creation and have a detection method that finds that file's creation time and checks if it was in the last 10 minutes, then it wouldn't block most attempts to run the software while still not coming up as failed.
Of course an alternative would be to just let it fail every time but I wrote return codes into the script which would be very handy for the help desk to troubleshoot and I believe a failure may break that, though I could be wrong. | The users will need to run this application on-demand multiple times so it must be re-usable. |
fapicus | Even if you could get the various peoples to agree to it in principal (unlikely) it would never work in practice. What would be the criteria for choosing boundaries? If you carved it up based on religious sect you might be able to create semi stable regions but you would leave the minorities left there in terrible danger and create tension between the new states. You would also be creating nation states that would start out with a reason to fight each other. Someone would end up feeling short changed as one new country got the lion share of important resources adding another reason for conflict. Some existing militant groups will inevitably disagree with the new boundary and wage a guerrilla war to take back what they see as their ancestral lands.
TL:DR - All roads lead back to war. You are exchanging one set of terrible problems for another set of terrible problems and ending up in the same place. | Even if you could get the various peoples to agree to it in principal (unlikely) it would never work in practice. What would be the criteria for choosing boundaries? If you carved it up based on religious sect you might be able to create semi stable regions but you would leave the minorities left there in terrible danger and create tension between the new states. You would also be creating nation states that would start out with a reason to fight each other. Someone would end up feeling short changed as one new country got the lion share of important resources adding another reason for conflict. Some existing militant groups will inevitably disagree with the new boundary and wage a guerrilla war to take back what they see as their ancestral lands.
TL:DR - All roads lead back to war. You are exchanging one set of terrible problems for another set of terrible problems and ending up in the same place.
| NeutralPolitics | t5_2tk0i | ckq9wm7 | Even if you could get the various peoples to agree to it in principal (unlikely) it would never work in practice. What would be the criteria for choosing boundaries? If you carved it up based on religious sect you might be able to create semi stable regions but you would leave the minorities left there in terrible danger and create tension between the new states. You would also be creating nation states that would start out with a reason to fight each other. Someone would end up feeling short changed as one new country got the lion share of important resources adding another reason for conflict. Some existing militant groups will inevitably disagree with the new boundary and wage a guerrilla war to take back what they see as their ancestral lands. | All roads lead back to war. You are exchanging one set of terrible problems for another set of terrible problems and ending up in the same place. |
Mokman7 | As a white male, I went to school with animals, blacks, Hispanics, whites as well, just trash, it's not really a race I hate just a certain type of people, and the majority if these people happen to be black. I have no problems with my neighbors who are some of the nicest people I know. One of my older brothers closest friends who has become a family friend is a Mexican, he came here illegally and has done everything in his power to become legal with my families help. It's horrible that there's such a stigma on black people but there's a reason it exists. And my honest opinion is that racism Will never cease to exist, black people and white people and all the other races are very different. And no one likes the odd man out. Thats just how it is. Tl:dr I don't hate all black people just the monkeys I went to school with | As a white male, I went to school with animals, blacks, Hispanics, whites as well, just trash, it's not really a race I hate just a certain type of people, and the majority if these people happen to be black. I have no problems with my neighbors who are some of the nicest people I know. One of my older brothers closest friends who has become a family friend is a Mexican, he came here illegally and has done everything in his power to become legal with my families help. It's horrible that there's such a stigma on black people but there's a reason it exists. And my honest opinion is that racism Will never cease to exist, black people and white people and all the other races are very different. And no one likes the odd man out. Thats just how it is. Tl:dr I don't hate all black people just the monkeys I went to school with
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | ckpkmvn | As a white male, I went to school with animals, blacks, Hispanics, whites as well, just trash, it's not really a race I hate just a certain type of people, and the majority if these people happen to be black. I have no problems with my neighbors who are some of the nicest people I know. One of my older brothers closest friends who has become a family friend is a Mexican, he came here illegally and has done everything in his power to become legal with my families help. It's horrible that there's such a stigma on black people but there's a reason it exists. And my honest opinion is that racism Will never cease to exist, black people and white people and all the other races are very different. And no one likes the odd man out. Thats just how it is. | I don't hate all black people just the monkeys I went to school with |
LARISSATIME | I think of confidence as not actively self loathing. Everyone has flaws, and its okay to be aware of your own. But I disregard my flaws and put my best face forward in the day. And everyone has ups and downs, but I weather the downs and strive to get back into the ups.
*Lack of* confidence is the relationship killer here: letting minor set backs ruin your week, letting a break out or bad hair cut keep you inside for a month, constantly putting yourself down, etc.
TL;DR - Everyone has things they're self conscious about, but actively focusing on those things and letting it colour your entire life is unattractive. Actively getting down on yourself is shitty, actively building yourself up is confidence. | I think of confidence as not actively self loathing. Everyone has flaws, and its okay to be aware of your own. But I disregard my flaws and put my best face forward in the day. And everyone has ups and downs, but I weather the downs and strive to get back into the ups.
Lack of confidence is the relationship killer here: letting minor set backs ruin your week, letting a break out or bad hair cut keep you inside for a month, constantly putting yourself down, etc.
TL;DR - Everyone has things they're self conscious about, but actively focusing on those things and letting it colour your entire life is unattractive. Actively getting down on yourself is shitty, actively building yourself up is confidence.
| AskWomen | t5_2rxrw | ckplizz | I think of confidence as not actively self loathing. Everyone has flaws, and its okay to be aware of your own. But I disregard my flaws and put my best face forward in the day. And everyone has ups and downs, but I weather the downs and strive to get back into the ups.
Lack of confidence is the relationship killer here: letting minor set backs ruin your week, letting a break out or bad hair cut keep you inside for a month, constantly putting yourself down, etc. | Everyone has things they're self conscious about, but actively focusing on those things and letting it colour your entire life is unattractive. Actively getting down on yourself is shitty, actively building yourself up is confidence. |
tragedyinwisco | It annoys me but it worked to my advantage for awhile. I got caught dipping in the company car and the management flipped a tit and hung up signs saying "no chewing in company cars!" Which was funny cause I was dipping not chewing. So I kept on dipping until they caught me again, I almost got fired and pointed out the errors of their ways, they were livid but let me keep my job because I was technically not breaking the no chew rule. Now they have signs that say no dipping and/or chewing in company cars. Thank god for snus ;)
TL;DR Got caught dipping at work, told not to chew, kept dipping because dipping isn't chew. I'm a smartass. | It annoys me but it worked to my advantage for awhile. I got caught dipping in the company car and the management flipped a tit and hung up signs saying "no chewing in company cars!" Which was funny cause I was dipping not chewing. So I kept on dipping until they caught me again, I almost got fired and pointed out the errors of their ways, they were livid but let me keep my job because I was technically not breaking the no chew rule. Now they have signs that say no dipping and/or chewing in company cars. Thank god for snus ;)
TL;DR Got caught dipping at work, told not to chew, kept dipping because dipping isn't chew. I'm a smartass.
| DippingTobacco | t5_2uto2 | ckq4aea | It annoys me but it worked to my advantage for awhile. I got caught dipping in the company car and the management flipped a tit and hung up signs saying "no chewing in company cars!" Which was funny cause I was dipping not chewing. So I kept on dipping until they caught me again, I almost got fired and pointed out the errors of their ways, they were livid but let me keep my job because I was technically not breaking the no chew rule. Now they have signs that say no dipping and/or chewing in company cars. Thank god for snus ;) | Got caught dipping at work, told not to chew, kept dipping because dipping isn't chew. I'm a smartass. |
lumberjawsh | Yeah, non-smokers seem to have this view of smoking that it should just be no problem to drop something that has been a real addiction for years, something that their body craves and reacts badly to not having. Like its just a perk, just to look cool.
I've had a number of people tell me, "well, you're not really quitting, just replacing one vice for another" which is a valid point. However, if someone quits drinking alcohol and drinks a lot of soda, they don't get a lecture. A poor comparison is how methadone clinics use small doses to help ween people off their far worse habit.
My answer to vape haters is always just as much information about how it has improved MY quality of life. Stronger senses, better breathing, more energy, the list goes on and on.
When I break down the stuff that is actually inside my juice- usually less than a dozen things like in most juices, and compare that to the thousands of carcinogens produced just from burning pure tobacco and paper (not even factoring in all of the nasty shit chemicals Big Tobacco adds in) - it helps, but some people just hate to hate.
I always tell people that what works for me might not work for them. It took me nearly a year to REALLY quit analogs, and a decent amount of money spent perfecting and getting used to vaping. My boss and a couple of my friends have e-cigarettes they use occasionally, but still smoke for one reason or the other. I try not to pressure them into quitting, as I don't want to be 'that guy' and seem like I think I'm 'better' than them for quitting.
TL;DR: Fuck that guy, keep doing what you're doing, brush the haters off | Yeah, non-smokers seem to have this view of smoking that it should just be no problem to drop something that has been a real addiction for years, something that their body craves and reacts badly to not having. Like its just a perk, just to look cool.
I've had a number of people tell me, "well, you're not really quitting, just replacing one vice for another" which is a valid point. However, if someone quits drinking alcohol and drinks a lot of soda, they don't get a lecture. A poor comparison is how methadone clinics use small doses to help ween people off their far worse habit.
My answer to vape haters is always just as much information about how it has improved MY quality of life. Stronger senses, better breathing, more energy, the list goes on and on.
When I break down the stuff that is actually inside my juice- usually less than a dozen things like in most juices, and compare that to the thousands of carcinogens produced just from burning pure tobacco and paper (not even factoring in all of the nasty shit chemicals Big Tobacco adds in) - it helps, but some people just hate to hate.
I always tell people that what works for me might not work for them. It took me nearly a year to REALLY quit analogs, and a decent amount of money spent perfecting and getting used to vaping. My boss and a couple of my friends have e-cigarettes they use occasionally, but still smoke for one reason or the other. I try not to pressure them into quitting, as I don't want to be 'that guy' and seem like I think I'm 'better' than them for quitting.
TL;DR: Fuck that guy, keep doing what you're doing, brush the haters off
| electronic_cigarette | t5_2qmlu | ckq2lq5 | Yeah, non-smokers seem to have this view of smoking that it should just be no problem to drop something that has been a real addiction for years, something that their body craves and reacts badly to not having. Like its just a perk, just to look cool.
I've had a number of people tell me, "well, you're not really quitting, just replacing one vice for another" which is a valid point. However, if someone quits drinking alcohol and drinks a lot of soda, they don't get a lecture. A poor comparison is how methadone clinics use small doses to help ween people off their far worse habit.
My answer to vape haters is always just as much information about how it has improved MY quality of life. Stronger senses, better breathing, more energy, the list goes on and on.
When I break down the stuff that is actually inside my juice- usually less than a dozen things like in most juices, and compare that to the thousands of carcinogens produced just from burning pure tobacco and paper (not even factoring in all of the nasty shit chemicals Big Tobacco adds in) - it helps, but some people just hate to hate.
I always tell people that what works for me might not work for them. It took me nearly a year to REALLY quit analogs, and a decent amount of money spent perfecting and getting used to vaping. My boss and a couple of my friends have e-cigarettes they use occasionally, but still smoke for one reason or the other. I try not to pressure them into quitting, as I don't want to be 'that guy' and seem like I think I'm 'better' than them for quitting. | Fuck that guy, keep doing what you're doing, brush the haters off |
littlemonster1618 | Bets advice I can give without getting specific is just to really understand how everything you do affects him. Takes some practice and exploration but you will come to learn all his buttons. My guy for example really likes soft kisses on the back of his neck and his sacrum or when i suck on his ear.
Think of sex an building a fire and think of things like that as igniting sparks. You start small like that with stuff he likes a lot (burn very thin twigs or cardboard). Then you put thicker branches over it... Do something a little more intense. Then more... then more. Dont rush it though. If you put a big thick log on that little fire it wont be as effective. BUILD UP TO IT! Use certain triggers at certain times and follow his pace. Wait for signs like moaning/sounds, moving limbs, curling digits, etc....
Be thinking about "how is this feeling on him? what is it going to make him want next?".... and then dont immeditaely give it to him... for example... if you are rubbing his inner thigh and slowly moving upward, he will be anticipating you to eventually touch his balls. Which you should... but maybe before you get to the top, head the other direction or pause the motion so he is craving that action. He will be anticipating it and when you finally decide to give it to him it will feel that much better.
Finally, when you have built up the fire and are now really watching a good flame going and you think he is about to finish, try to stay a little more constant. If he is really getting close he is really liking what you are doing. Dont make any sudden or drastic changes. You might want to increase speed slighly or just slightly alter something but like i said, dont change too much cause you have found something he really enjoys and if you change too much he might loose it or have a less intense orgasm. Also, if you are really enjoying doing something, show it... seeing a guy in pleasure is a common trigger.
**TLDR: Practice. Use foreplay specifically geared towards what triggers him. Use teasing actions before you actually do something. Stay fairly constant in the closing act. Dont be afraid to show that you are enjoying yourself too.** | Bets advice I can give without getting specific is just to really understand how everything you do affects him. Takes some practice and exploration but you will come to learn all his buttons. My guy for example really likes soft kisses on the back of his neck and his sacrum or when i suck on his ear.
Think of sex an building a fire and think of things like that as igniting sparks. You start small like that with stuff he likes a lot (burn very thin twigs or cardboard). Then you put thicker branches over it... Do something a little more intense. Then more... then more. Dont rush it though. If you put a big thick log on that little fire it wont be as effective. BUILD UP TO IT! Use certain triggers at certain times and follow his pace. Wait for signs like moaning/sounds, moving limbs, curling digits, etc....
Be thinking about "how is this feeling on him? what is it going to make him want next?".... and then dont immeditaely give it to him... for example... if you are rubbing his inner thigh and slowly moving upward, he will be anticipating you to eventually touch his balls. Which you should... but maybe before you get to the top, head the other direction or pause the motion so he is craving that action. He will be anticipating it and when you finally decide to give it to him it will feel that much better.
Finally, when you have built up the fire and are now really watching a good flame going and you think he is about to finish, try to stay a little more constant. If he is really getting close he is really liking what you are doing. Dont make any sudden or drastic changes. You might want to increase speed slighly or just slightly alter something but like i said, dont change too much cause you have found something he really enjoys and if you change too much he might loose it or have a less intense orgasm. Also, if you are really enjoying doing something, show it... seeing a guy in pleasure is a common trigger.
TLDR: Practice. Use foreplay specifically geared towards what triggers him. Use teasing actions before you actually do something. Stay fairly constant in the closing act. Dont be afraid to show that you are enjoying yourself too.
| askgaybros | t5_2vgfw | ckpwnec | Bets advice I can give without getting specific is just to really understand how everything you do affects him. Takes some practice and exploration but you will come to learn all his buttons. My guy for example really likes soft kisses on the back of his neck and his sacrum or when i suck on his ear.
Think of sex an building a fire and think of things like that as igniting sparks. You start small like that with stuff he likes a lot (burn very thin twigs or cardboard). Then you put thicker branches over it... Do something a little more intense. Then more... then more. Dont rush it though. If you put a big thick log on that little fire it wont be as effective. BUILD UP TO IT! Use certain triggers at certain times and follow his pace. Wait for signs like moaning/sounds, moving limbs, curling digits, etc....
Be thinking about "how is this feeling on him? what is it going to make him want next?".... and then dont immeditaely give it to him... for example... if you are rubbing his inner thigh and slowly moving upward, he will be anticipating you to eventually touch his balls. Which you should... but maybe before you get to the top, head the other direction or pause the motion so he is craving that action. He will be anticipating it and when you finally decide to give it to him it will feel that much better.
Finally, when you have built up the fire and are now really watching a good flame going and you think he is about to finish, try to stay a little more constant. If he is really getting close he is really liking what you are doing. Dont make any sudden or drastic changes. You might want to increase speed slighly or just slightly alter something but like i said, dont change too much cause you have found something he really enjoys and if you change too much he might loose it or have a less intense orgasm. Also, if you are really enjoying doing something, show it... seeing a guy in pleasure is a common trigger. | Practice. Use foreplay specifically geared towards what triggers him. Use teasing actions before you actually do something. Stay fairly constant in the closing act. Dont be afraid to show that you are enjoying yourself too. |
mithikx | IDK how I feel about this, the comparison shows the same angles and proportions were used so *at the very least* the illustrator made use of the other art as a reference without bothering to change up the poses and angle for additional originality.
It definitely lies on the side of scummy, but I don't think it constitutes anything as bad as plagiarism, it's just renders it unoriginal and uninspired but it doesn't invalidate the work that was put in to the illustrations in question.
I see it like ripping off a camera angle used in a famous TV or movie production or color palette from some other work, you don't really notice it unless you look specifically for it which is what I feel like the person on Twitter did, a few of them are just straight up nitpicking. Perhaps they had something against NGNL's creator since it seems like the Twitter account itself is a throwaway.
The main point is selling the LN so I would argue that the artwork is secondary the exception would be is if they sold the artwork in question and even if they did it'd be shady/scummy but not utterly deplorable like some have been suggesting.
tl;dr to reiterate my point it's scummy but there are worse ways to steal as far as art is concerned; if he stole from multiple source it would have been considered original.
| IDK how I feel about this, the comparison shows the same angles and proportions were used so at the very least the illustrator made use of the other art as a reference without bothering to change up the poses and angle for additional originality.
It definitely lies on the side of scummy, but I don't think it constitutes anything as bad as plagiarism, it's just renders it unoriginal and uninspired but it doesn't invalidate the work that was put in to the illustrations in question.
I see it like ripping off a camera angle used in a famous TV or movie production or color palette from some other work, you don't really notice it unless you look specifically for it which is what I feel like the person on Twitter did, a few of them are just straight up nitpicking. Perhaps they had something against NGNL's creator since it seems like the Twitter account itself is a throwaway.
The main point is selling the LN so I would argue that the artwork is secondary the exception would be is if they sold the artwork in question and even if they did it'd be shady/scummy but not utterly deplorable like some have been suggesting.
tl;dr to reiterate my point it's scummy but there are worse ways to steal as far as art is concerned; if he stole from multiple source it would have been considered original.
| anime | t5_2qh22 | ckqj2ju | IDK how I feel about this, the comparison shows the same angles and proportions were used so at the very least the illustrator made use of the other art as a reference without bothering to change up the poses and angle for additional originality.
It definitely lies on the side of scummy, but I don't think it constitutes anything as bad as plagiarism, it's just renders it unoriginal and uninspired but it doesn't invalidate the work that was put in to the illustrations in question.
I see it like ripping off a camera angle used in a famous TV or movie production or color palette from some other work, you don't really notice it unless you look specifically for it which is what I feel like the person on Twitter did, a few of them are just straight up nitpicking. Perhaps they had something against NGNL's creator since it seems like the Twitter account itself is a throwaway.
The main point is selling the LN so I would argue that the artwork is secondary the exception would be is if they sold the artwork in question and even if they did it'd be shady/scummy but not utterly deplorable like some have been suggesting. | to reiterate my point it's scummy but there are worse ways to steal as far as art is concerned; if he stole from multiple source it would have been considered original. |
ContinuumGuy | No matter what, eventually something horrible would have happened. It's just the very nature of a zoo and/or amusement park that is visited by lots and lots of people and has lots of complexity.
Disney's theme parks are the gold standard for amusement parks and resorts, but even they occasionally will have a customer or employee ("cast member") die while at the park. Modern Zoos must meet strict standards, but still there is the occasional individual who dies at the hands of an animal. Often times, deaths at Disney or the Zoo are because of the stupidity of individuals- drunk guys thinking they can go hang out with a gorilla, or students who don't follow the safety instructions before getting the ride. Still other times, it's just because things break. You cannot predict people, you cannot predict wildlife, and you cannot predict bad luck.
But, you are saying: "Yeah, but you don't see Disney or any Zoos failing because of that."
That is true. Except the thing is that Jurassic Park would have been a SINGULAR PLACE. There are tons of zoos, there are tons of amusement parks, so one tourist or employee dying here and there is drowned out by the many many more who went and had a good safe time. But there would have been only one Jurassic Park (although certainly it may have been expanded to Asia, etc. if successful, it is still likely it would have been a very rare place), so anything that went wrong there would instantly come under more scrutiny than the kid who died on Space Mountain because of a heart condition. And that leads to the biggest problem: the optics of what happens when something goes wrong.
You see, the fact is, in our minds dinosaurs are monsters, only one step up from Dracula or Frankenstein's Monster. Even the most ferocious modern animals- with the possible exception of the Great White Shark- still are considered just that- animals, able to be killed. So if a drunk man tries to pick a fight with a lion and gets torn to shreds when he jumps into the enclosure, he's just an idiot. But with dinosaurs, especially the predators, the general public would not see or hear "a animal killing a drunk guy", they'd hear it as "a *dinosaur* killed a guy" (the drunk part would get lost in the retelling, to be replaced with the graphic details of how the raptors sliced him up and picked him to the bone), which to the ordinary person just sounds so abnormal it is more revolting. And that is what would cause Jurassic Park to fail: the bad publicity that would result from having brought "monsters" back to life and then killing a guy.
**TLDR**: Eventually something would go wrong because everything eventually goes wrong at least in some way. JP would be under more scrutiny than any amusement park or zoo in history and everything that would happen there would be blown up to humongous proportions. "You yell 'Barracuda,' everybody says 'Huh? What?' You yell 'Shark,' we've got a panic on our hands on the Fourth of July." | No matter what, eventually something horrible would have happened. It's just the very nature of a zoo and/or amusement park that is visited by lots and lots of people and has lots of complexity.
Disney's theme parks are the gold standard for amusement parks and resorts, but even they occasionally will have a customer or employee ("cast member") die while at the park. Modern Zoos must meet strict standards, but still there is the occasional individual who dies at the hands of an animal. Often times, deaths at Disney or the Zoo are because of the stupidity of individuals- drunk guys thinking they can go hang out with a gorilla, or students who don't follow the safety instructions before getting the ride. Still other times, it's just because things break. You cannot predict people, you cannot predict wildlife, and you cannot predict bad luck.
But, you are saying: "Yeah, but you don't see Disney or any Zoos failing because of that."
That is true. Except the thing is that Jurassic Park would have been a SINGULAR PLACE. There are tons of zoos, there are tons of amusement parks, so one tourist or employee dying here and there is drowned out by the many many more who went and had a good safe time. But there would have been only one Jurassic Park (although certainly it may have been expanded to Asia, etc. if successful, it is still likely it would have been a very rare place), so anything that went wrong there would instantly come under more scrutiny than the kid who died on Space Mountain because of a heart condition. And that leads to the biggest problem: the optics of what happens when something goes wrong.
You see, the fact is, in our minds dinosaurs are monsters, only one step up from Dracula or Frankenstein's Monster. Even the most ferocious modern animals- with the possible exception of the Great White Shark- still are considered just that- animals, able to be killed. So if a drunk man tries to pick a fight with a lion and gets torn to shreds when he jumps into the enclosure, he's just an idiot. But with dinosaurs, especially the predators, the general public would not see or hear "a animal killing a drunk guy", they'd hear it as "a dinosaur killed a guy" (the drunk part would get lost in the retelling, to be replaced with the graphic details of how the raptors sliced him up and picked him to the bone), which to the ordinary person just sounds so abnormal it is more revolting. And that is what would cause Jurassic Park to fail: the bad publicity that would result from having brought "monsters" back to life and then killing a guy.
TLDR : Eventually something would go wrong because everything eventually goes wrong at least in some way. JP would be under more scrutiny than any amusement park or zoo in history and everything that would happen there would be blown up to humongous proportions. "You yell 'Barracuda,' everybody says 'Huh? What?' You yell 'Shark,' we've got a panic on our hands on the Fourth of July."
| AskScienceFiction | t5_2slu2 | ckql3la | No matter what, eventually something horrible would have happened. It's just the very nature of a zoo and/or amusement park that is visited by lots and lots of people and has lots of complexity.
Disney's theme parks are the gold standard for amusement parks and resorts, but even they occasionally will have a customer or employee ("cast member") die while at the park. Modern Zoos must meet strict standards, but still there is the occasional individual who dies at the hands of an animal. Often times, deaths at Disney or the Zoo are because of the stupidity of individuals- drunk guys thinking they can go hang out with a gorilla, or students who don't follow the safety instructions before getting the ride. Still other times, it's just because things break. You cannot predict people, you cannot predict wildlife, and you cannot predict bad luck.
But, you are saying: "Yeah, but you don't see Disney or any Zoos failing because of that."
That is true. Except the thing is that Jurassic Park would have been a SINGULAR PLACE. There are tons of zoos, there are tons of amusement parks, so one tourist or employee dying here and there is drowned out by the many many more who went and had a good safe time. But there would have been only one Jurassic Park (although certainly it may have been expanded to Asia, etc. if successful, it is still likely it would have been a very rare place), so anything that went wrong there would instantly come under more scrutiny than the kid who died on Space Mountain because of a heart condition. And that leads to the biggest problem: the optics of what happens when something goes wrong.
You see, the fact is, in our minds dinosaurs are monsters, only one step up from Dracula or Frankenstein's Monster. Even the most ferocious modern animals- with the possible exception of the Great White Shark- still are considered just that- animals, able to be killed. So if a drunk man tries to pick a fight with a lion and gets torn to shreds when he jumps into the enclosure, he's just an idiot. But with dinosaurs, especially the predators, the general public would not see or hear "a animal killing a drunk guy", they'd hear it as "a dinosaur killed a guy" (the drunk part would get lost in the retelling, to be replaced with the graphic details of how the raptors sliced him up and picked him to the bone), which to the ordinary person just sounds so abnormal it is more revolting. And that is what would cause Jurassic Park to fail: the bad publicity that would result from having brought "monsters" back to life and then killing a guy. | Eventually something would go wrong because everything eventually goes wrong at least in some way. JP would be under more scrutiny than any amusement park or zoo in history and everything that would happen there would be blown up to humongous proportions. "You yell 'Barracuda,' everybody says 'Huh? What?' You yell 'Shark,' we've got a panic on our hands on the Fourth of July." |
Subsets and Splits
No saved queries yet
Save your SQL queries to embed, download, and access them later. Queries will appear here once saved.