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Agent_McMuffin | Clearly you've never been punched in the eye, otherwise you would know you can't see shit after getting punched.
Tl; dr: you are fucking dumb and why are you on the internet | Clearly you've never been punched in the eye, otherwise you would know you can't see shit after getting punched.
Tl; dr: you are fucking dumb and why are you on the internet
| AdviceAnimals | t5_2s7tt | cksetwx | Clearly you've never been punched in the eye, otherwise you would know you can't see shit after getting punched. | you are fucking dumb and why are you on the internet |
pokemon_tits | my best friend from like 3rd grade until 11th became this person. he was that one friend you had that you would always be with, always staying at each others houses, learning to skateboard, making stupid videos, seriously everything. for christ sake our birthdays are like a week apart. but he branched off with "the cool kids" while i stayed with the "misfits." i wasnt cool for not drinking, and smoking cigs, partying hard, whatever was cool then. so we started to lose touch with each other, especially once we got our driving license. he actually began to hate on me which hurt the worst and just became a huge prick. about a year after we all had graduated, i was with some friends who were also his friends prior, get this call and its him wanting to hangout, it was like 1am, and he comes overs. at first it was great catching up, playing videos games, talking about chicks, anyways, he starts talking about "the cool kids" and how he is fighting with them and there was no one else to hangout with. so in a last ditch effort he called us and we were nice enough to let him come over thinking he finally grew up or something and wanted to actually hang out with us. nope. after that night i never saw him again, we lived in the same town until i moved away when i was 22. it still hurts today knowing i had this great friend who became a giant dick :(
**tl;dr**
i had a bestfriend from grade school until high school when he became "cool" and i didnt and he decided to become a dick to me and never talk to me again, because i wasnt cool. it sucked :( | my best friend from like 3rd grade until 11th became this person. he was that one friend you had that you would always be with, always staying at each others houses, learning to skateboard, making stupid videos, seriously everything. for christ sake our birthdays are like a week apart. but he branched off with "the cool kids" while i stayed with the "misfits." i wasnt cool for not drinking, and smoking cigs, partying hard, whatever was cool then. so we started to lose touch with each other, especially once we got our driving license. he actually began to hate on me which hurt the worst and just became a huge prick. about a year after we all had graduated, i was with some friends who were also his friends prior, get this call and its him wanting to hangout, it was like 1am, and he comes overs. at first it was great catching up, playing videos games, talking about chicks, anyways, he starts talking about "the cool kids" and how he is fighting with them and there was no one else to hangout with. so in a last ditch effort he called us and we were nice enough to let him come over thinking he finally grew up or something and wanted to actually hang out with us. nope. after that night i never saw him again, we lived in the same town until i moved away when i was 22. it still hurts today knowing i had this great friend who became a giant dick :(
tl;dr
i had a bestfriend from grade school until high school when he became "cool" and i didnt and he decided to become a dick to me and never talk to me again, because i wasnt cool. it sucked :(
| AdviceAnimals | t5_2s7tt | ckqs0za | my best friend from like 3rd grade until 11th became this person. he was that one friend you had that you would always be with, always staying at each others houses, learning to skateboard, making stupid videos, seriously everything. for christ sake our birthdays are like a week apart. but he branched off with "the cool kids" while i stayed with the "misfits." i wasnt cool for not drinking, and smoking cigs, partying hard, whatever was cool then. so we started to lose touch with each other, especially once we got our driving license. he actually began to hate on me which hurt the worst and just became a huge prick. about a year after we all had graduated, i was with some friends who were also his friends prior, get this call and its him wanting to hangout, it was like 1am, and he comes overs. at first it was great catching up, playing videos games, talking about chicks, anyways, he starts talking about "the cool kids" and how he is fighting with them and there was no one else to hangout with. so in a last ditch effort he called us and we were nice enough to let him come over thinking he finally grew up or something and wanted to actually hang out with us. nope. after that night i never saw him again, we lived in the same town until i moved away when i was 22. it still hurts today knowing i had this great friend who became a giant dick :( | i had a bestfriend from grade school until high school when he became "cool" and i didnt and he decided to become a dick to me and never talk to me again, because i wasnt cool. it sucked :( |
pieuvre776 | I'm a little old-fashioned about this, but as I've gotten older and wiser I've become disinterested in one-night stands etc., partly because of what you're talking about here.
Most people who have something to hide can't hide it for very long. Movies and books where someone hides a fundamental part of their personality (e.g. being completely nuts) aren't indicative of reality - it's REALLY HARD to suppress something like that. Most people can't do it for very long. My bare minimum for considering someone for romance is six months, preferably longer.
That's not to say I'm not a little flirty, but again, it's only after you've known someone for a few months that they start to show hints of who they really are. That fact usually gets swept up in the infatuation that people mistake for real affection.
Tl;dr there's not really a quick way to do it (unless you're some kind of Batman-esque guy who's cool with privacy invasion). | I'm a little old-fashioned about this, but as I've gotten older and wiser I've become disinterested in one-night stands etc., partly because of what you're talking about here.
Most people who have something to hide can't hide it for very long. Movies and books where someone hides a fundamental part of their personality (e.g. being completely nuts) aren't indicative of reality - it's REALLY HARD to suppress something like that. Most people can't do it for very long. My bare minimum for considering someone for romance is six months, preferably longer.
That's not to say I'm not a little flirty, but again, it's only after you've known someone for a few months that they start to show hints of who they really are. That fact usually gets swept up in the infatuation that people mistake for real affection.
Tl;dr there's not really a quick way to do it (unless you're some kind of Batman-esque guy who's cool with privacy invasion).
| legaladvice | t5_2rawz | ckqfryu | I'm a little old-fashioned about this, but as I've gotten older and wiser I've become disinterested in one-night stands etc., partly because of what you're talking about here.
Most people who have something to hide can't hide it for very long. Movies and books where someone hides a fundamental part of their personality (e.g. being completely nuts) aren't indicative of reality - it's REALLY HARD to suppress something like that. Most people can't do it for very long. My bare minimum for considering someone for romance is six months, preferably longer.
That's not to say I'm not a little flirty, but again, it's only after you've known someone for a few months that they start to show hints of who they really are. That fact usually gets swept up in the infatuation that people mistake for real affection. | there's not really a quick way to do it (unless you're some kind of Batman-esque guy who's cool with privacy invasion). |
Gracelberrypie | Female redditor/comic reader here. (I fucking hate starting out shit with "____ here", and ESPECIALLY hate identifying myself by gender, but you asked.) Honestly, I wish they had kept Manara as the alt artist on the future covers. It was a really great chance for redemption. Especially since we know he can [draw]( [beautiful]( [sexy] ( [powerful]( [women]( (ignore the face on that last one... terrible!).
For a lot of people, the SW alt cover was the only experience they had with Manara, and probably the only one they will ever have again. It's unfortunate. If they kept him and he did some alt covers with the porno toned down and the power, perspective, lighting, color, technical skills turned up, it would have shown people that he's not a one trick porno pony; as well as show that Marvel isn't "supporting misogyny to a userbase of virgin males."
That's one thing that pissed me off so much when this whole controversy started. It was the labeling and name-calling of the comic reading community. As if for some reason, if your character is strongly sexualized, she can't be strong. Of if you support your superheroes being sexy, you're some virgin loser. I like having sexy comic book characters. It's fantasy fulfillment for men and women alike. There's nothing inherently wrong with being sexy. However, the characters need to be well-rounded as well. They use their sexuality not simply to please men, but to establish control. That's an even bigger turn on to me.
That was my main gripe with the SW cover. Not only was she overly sexualized, she was placed in a completely submissive position. I don't care how people tried to argue that it was just one "moment" of her crawling up a wall. Then pick past the moment when it appears she's displaying her genitals to be mounted and get to her standing up and kicking ass. Get to the action, not the exposition. His cover was almost text based [Gender Advertising]( Women are low/submissive. And I've noticed in several of his [covers]( women are displayed with their shoulders hunched, their asses popped out, their vaginas spread (ignore the cyclops cover, that shit is rad and has a lot of action/emotion in it even though the vag is the focal point). It's like he views women not only for their sexual organs, which isn't inherently wrong (I mean, c'mon, boobies are fun), but he draws them as weaker, submissive, less than man. THAT was my main issue with SW and Manara in general. Which is why I think he needed those future covers.
Sorry for the huge/long tirade!
TL;DR: women can be sexy, but should also be strong, not submissive and out to please men. | Female redditor/comic reader here. (I fucking hate starting out shit with " __ here", and ESPECIALLY hate identifying myself by gender, but you asked.) Honestly, I wish they had kept Manara as the alt artist on the future covers. It was a really great chance for redemption. Especially since we know he can draw .
For a lot of people, the SW alt cover was the only experience they had with Manara, and probably the only one they will ever have again. It's unfortunate. If they kept him and he did some alt covers with the porno toned down and the power, perspective, lighting, color, technical skills turned up, it would have shown people that he's not a one trick porno pony; as well as show that Marvel isn't "supporting misogyny to a userbase of virgin males."
That's one thing that pissed me off so much when this whole controversy started. It was the labeling and name-calling of the comic reading community. As if for some reason, if your character is strongly sexualized, she can't be strong. Of if you support your superheroes being sexy, you're some virgin loser. I like having sexy comic book characters. It's fantasy fulfillment for men and women alike. There's nothing inherently wrong with being sexy. However, the characters need to be well-rounded as well. They use their sexuality not simply to please men, but to establish control. That's an even bigger turn on to me.
That was my main gripe with the SW cover. Not only was she overly sexualized, she was placed in a completely submissive position. I don't care how people tried to argue that it was just one "moment" of her crawling up a wall. Then pick past the moment when it appears she's displaying her genitals to be mounted and get to her standing up and kicking ass. Get to the action, not the exposition. His cover was almost text based Gender Advertising . It's like he views women not only for their sexual organs, which isn't inherently wrong (I mean, c'mon, boobies are fun), but he draws them as weaker, submissive, less than man. THAT was my main issue with SW and Manara in general. Which is why I think he needed those future covers.
Sorry for the huge/long tirade!
TL;DR: women can be sexy, but should also be strong, not submissive and out to please men.
| comicbooks | t5_2qhon | ckqzhlb | Female redditor/comic reader here. (I fucking hate starting out shit with " __ here", and ESPECIALLY hate identifying myself by gender, but you asked.) Honestly, I wish they had kept Manara as the alt artist on the future covers. It was a really great chance for redemption. Especially since we know he can draw .
For a lot of people, the SW alt cover was the only experience they had with Manara, and probably the only one they will ever have again. It's unfortunate. If they kept him and he did some alt covers with the porno toned down and the power, perspective, lighting, color, technical skills turned up, it would have shown people that he's not a one trick porno pony; as well as show that Marvel isn't "supporting misogyny to a userbase of virgin males."
That's one thing that pissed me off so much when this whole controversy started. It was the labeling and name-calling of the comic reading community. As if for some reason, if your character is strongly sexualized, she can't be strong. Of if you support your superheroes being sexy, you're some virgin loser. I like having sexy comic book characters. It's fantasy fulfillment for men and women alike. There's nothing inherently wrong with being sexy. However, the characters need to be well-rounded as well. They use their sexuality not simply to please men, but to establish control. That's an even bigger turn on to me.
That was my main gripe with the SW cover. Not only was she overly sexualized, she was placed in a completely submissive position. I don't care how people tried to argue that it was just one "moment" of her crawling up a wall. Then pick past the moment when it appears she's displaying her genitals to be mounted and get to her standing up and kicking ass. Get to the action, not the exposition. His cover was almost text based Gender Advertising . It's like he views women not only for their sexual organs, which isn't inherently wrong (I mean, c'mon, boobies are fun), but he draws them as weaker, submissive, less than man. THAT was my main issue with SW and Manara in general. Which is why I think he needed those future covers.
Sorry for the huge/long tirade! | women can be sexy, but should also be strong, not submissive and out to please men. |
aiseop | Congrats to Dan Savery, first of all. I do think the whole tip thing from one of Dan's students raises the appearance of impropriety, even if that is all it is, an appearance.
Regardless, I do think this is a great thing Open Mat, Artéchoke, and r/bjj are doing. The fact they opened it to a democratic process is worthy of praise and our respect.
This is like those "BEST of [city/county]" contests we have yearly here in the states, run by the weekly [city/county] periodical - New Haven County Weekly here, for example. I know that that ice cream place that has won 25 years in a row is not necessarily the best, although it's damn good, and that they promote via facebook to stuff ballots, etc., so it's more of a popularity, get out the vote machine, contest than "BEST." But that's all we have for now. Let's not spoil the process too early.
TL;DR: Congrats, Dan. Let's all chill. | Congrats to Dan Savery, first of all. I do think the whole tip thing from one of Dan's students raises the appearance of impropriety, even if that is all it is, an appearance.
Regardless, I do think this is a great thing Open Mat, Artéchoke, and r/bjj are doing. The fact they opened it to a democratic process is worthy of praise and our respect.
This is like those "BEST of [city/county]" contests we have yearly here in the states, run by the weekly [city/county] periodical - New Haven County Weekly here, for example. I know that that ice cream place that has won 25 years in a row is not necessarily the best, although it's damn good, and that they promote via facebook to stuff ballots, etc., so it's more of a popularity, get out the vote machine, contest than "BEST." But that's all we have for now. Let's not spoil the process too early.
TL;DR: Congrats, Dan. Let's all chill.
| bjj | t5_2qn02 | ckr7zw6 | Congrats to Dan Savery, first of all. I do think the whole tip thing from one of Dan's students raises the appearance of impropriety, even if that is all it is, an appearance.
Regardless, I do think this is a great thing Open Mat, Artéchoke, and r/bjj are doing. The fact they opened it to a democratic process is worthy of praise and our respect.
This is like those "BEST of [city/county]" contests we have yearly here in the states, run by the weekly [city/county] periodical - New Haven County Weekly here, for example. I know that that ice cream place that has won 25 years in a row is not necessarily the best, although it's damn good, and that they promote via facebook to stuff ballots, etc., so it's more of a popularity, get out the vote machine, contest than "BEST." But that's all we have for now. Let's not spoil the process too early. | Congrats, Dan. Let's all chill. |
TyFIGHTER420 | Who are you to say that someone can't love a hacked pokemon? That should be up to that pokemon's trainer. I know that I do love my hacked pokemon. Some of my hacked mons have become my favorites. Like my 6IV Virizion(which I couldn't have obtained legitimately) with whom I've had many battles, and thus our bond has been strengthened over time. I've thought, in the past, of replacing him with a perfect shiny variant, but then I realized that we'd been through too much together, and decided he was perfect the way he is.
TL;DR Hackers have feelings too, ya know. | Who are you to say that someone can't love a hacked pokemon? That should be up to that pokemon's trainer. I know that I do love my hacked pokemon. Some of my hacked mons have become my favorites. Like my 6IV Virizion(which I couldn't have obtained legitimately) with whom I've had many battles, and thus our bond has been strengthened over time. I've thought, in the past, of replacing him with a perfect shiny variant, but then I realized that we'd been through too much together, and decided he was perfect the way he is.
TL;DR Hackers have feelings too, ya know.
| pokemon | t5_2qmeb | ckr74xi | Who are you to say that someone can't love a hacked pokemon? That should be up to that pokemon's trainer. I know that I do love my hacked pokemon. Some of my hacked mons have become my favorites. Like my 6IV Virizion(which I couldn't have obtained legitimately) with whom I've had many battles, and thus our bond has been strengthened over time. I've thought, in the past, of replacing him with a perfect shiny variant, but then I realized that we'd been through too much together, and decided he was perfect the way he is. | Hackers have feelings too, ya know. |
Toad_Fiction | Well, a high strength character can get himself heavy armor and get decent AC for it.
Plus with bounded accuracy, the high strength characters are still going to be relevant in fights.
Also, while the AC is bounded, the HP is less so. I'd hate for high dex characters to go up to the boss and try to do death by 1000 cuts only to find that they need to do death by 10000 cuts. (Plus isn't the image of a super fast swordsman placing that one precise strike into the orc's heart badass?).
Grappling uses strength and is pretty good in 5th edition.
DM fiat. With all of the benefits that high Dex characters get, a strength character can easily go, "can I use my strength to [insert badass non-traditional combat tactic here]?". The most memorable combat moments aren't when the fighter places another well placed blow. It's when the Barbarian drags the Aboleth out of the water for a fair fight.
TLDR: the game is balanced around dexterity being this good. Also live my Ms. Frizzle's word's "take chances, make mistakes, get messy!".
| Well, a high strength character can get himself heavy armor and get decent AC for it.
Plus with bounded accuracy, the high strength characters are still going to be relevant in fights.
Also, while the AC is bounded, the HP is less so. I'd hate for high dex characters to go up to the boss and try to do death by 1000 cuts only to find that they need to do death by 10000 cuts. (Plus isn't the image of a super fast swordsman placing that one precise strike into the orc's heart badass?).
Grappling uses strength and is pretty good in 5th edition.
DM fiat. With all of the benefits that high Dex characters get, a strength character can easily go, "can I use my strength to [insert badass non-traditional combat tactic here]?". The most memorable combat moments aren't when the fighter places another well placed blow. It's when the Barbarian drags the Aboleth out of the water for a fair fight.
TLDR: the game is balanced around dexterity being this good. Also live my Ms. Frizzle's word's "take chances, make mistakes, get messy!".
| dndnext | t5_2vbgl | ckrb28g | Well, a high strength character can get himself heavy armor and get decent AC for it.
Plus with bounded accuracy, the high strength characters are still going to be relevant in fights.
Also, while the AC is bounded, the HP is less so. I'd hate for high dex characters to go up to the boss and try to do death by 1000 cuts only to find that they need to do death by 10000 cuts. (Plus isn't the image of a super fast swordsman placing that one precise strike into the orc's heart badass?).
Grappling uses strength and is pretty good in 5th edition.
DM fiat. With all of the benefits that high Dex characters get, a strength character can easily go, "can I use my strength to [insert badass non-traditional combat tactic here]?". The most memorable combat moments aren't when the fighter places another well placed blow. It's when the Barbarian drags the Aboleth out of the water for a fair fight. | the game is balanced around dexterity being this good. Also live my Ms. Frizzle's word's "take chances, make mistakes, get messy!". |
NoHelmet | Joe's biggest mistake was telling anyone he was doing this. That's it. He got too excited, and underestimated how hard this was going to be.
I come from this industry, and I've watched some of you guys piss and fucking moan over Joe trying to let people have the opportunity to get one of these. I'm tired of watching it. You don't have any idea how hard it is to prototype this shit and get it out IF you're all set up with people you trust and you know the industry. If you're totally green? You've got a better chance at sucking your own dick than getting this shit together in less than three years.
Why don't you talk to Greg over at iKon about all the serious fucking pain he went through to get them off the ground? And that was his one dedication at the time. Joe is trying to run a successful distribution business, while making and promoting his own brand, AND he has been VERY CLEAR that this is a PET PROJECT.
Check out the "Billit Box". It's a revelutionary in demand vape that's been going through the same pain for the last three years. And the creator/owner OWNS HIS OWN MACHINE SHOP.
Until you have some understanding of how hard it is to bring a new product to market as a small timer, PLEASE stop fucking slamming Joe. I'm so tired of reading it. He's trying his best to get his shit out to us whiney cunts despite the fact that he feels like it's unfinished, but because he screwed up and let the cat out of the bag, he's trying everything he can to be as fair as possible about letting out prototypes.
If you're so concerned with this razor hitting production stages, why not go buy a $250,000 CNC milling machine, a $100,000 CNC lathe, and about $25,000 worth of anodizing equipment and learn how to use it all, source quality material, and let Joe know you're ready to rock and roll to get this slant out the door.
Tl;dr:
Can we try to be grateful that we may have the unique opportunity to try a product while it's still in R&D phase instead of bitching and moaning that they don't have it now now now.
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Thanks for the gold kind stranger! Always nice to have my more dick level comments appreciated. | Joe's biggest mistake was telling anyone he was doing this. That's it. He got too excited, and underestimated how hard this was going to be.
I come from this industry, and I've watched some of you guys piss and fucking moan over Joe trying to let people have the opportunity to get one of these. I'm tired of watching it. You don't have any idea how hard it is to prototype this shit and get it out IF you're all set up with people you trust and you know the industry. If you're totally green? You've got a better chance at sucking your own dick than getting this shit together in less than three years.
Why don't you talk to Greg over at iKon about all the serious fucking pain he went through to get them off the ground? And that was his one dedication at the time. Joe is trying to run a successful distribution business, while making and promoting his own brand, AND he has been VERY CLEAR that this is a PET PROJECT.
Check out the "Billit Box". It's a revelutionary in demand vape that's been going through the same pain for the last three years. And the creator/owner OWNS HIS OWN MACHINE SHOP.
Until you have some understanding of how hard it is to bring a new product to market as a small timer, PLEASE stop fucking slamming Joe. I'm so tired of reading it. He's trying his best to get his shit out to us whiney cunts despite the fact that he feels like it's unfinished, but because he screwed up and let the cat out of the bag, he's trying everything he can to be as fair as possible about letting out prototypes.
If you're so concerned with this razor hitting production stages, why not go buy a $250,000 CNC milling machine, a $100,000 CNC lathe, and about $25,000 worth of anodizing equipment and learn how to use it all, source quality material, and let Joe know you're ready to rock and roll to get this slant out the door.
Tl;dr:
Can we try to be grateful that we may have the unique opportunity to try a product while it's still in R&D phase instead of bitching and moaning that they don't have it now now now.
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Thanks for the gold kind stranger! Always nice to have my more dick level comments appreciated.
| Wet_Shavers | t5_32kax | ckrcuib | Joe's biggest mistake was telling anyone he was doing this. That's it. He got too excited, and underestimated how hard this was going to be.
I come from this industry, and I've watched some of you guys piss and fucking moan over Joe trying to let people have the opportunity to get one of these. I'm tired of watching it. You don't have any idea how hard it is to prototype this shit and get it out IF you're all set up with people you trust and you know the industry. If you're totally green? You've got a better chance at sucking your own dick than getting this shit together in less than three years.
Why don't you talk to Greg over at iKon about all the serious fucking pain he went through to get them off the ground? And that was his one dedication at the time. Joe is trying to run a successful distribution business, while making and promoting his own brand, AND he has been VERY CLEAR that this is a PET PROJECT.
Check out the "Billit Box". It's a revelutionary in demand vape that's been going through the same pain for the last three years. And the creator/owner OWNS HIS OWN MACHINE SHOP.
Until you have some understanding of how hard it is to bring a new product to market as a small timer, PLEASE stop fucking slamming Joe. I'm so tired of reading it. He's trying his best to get his shit out to us whiney cunts despite the fact that he feels like it's unfinished, but because he screwed up and let the cat out of the bag, he's trying everything he can to be as fair as possible about letting out prototypes.
If you're so concerned with this razor hitting production stages, why not go buy a $250,000 CNC milling machine, a $100,000 CNC lathe, and about $25,000 worth of anodizing equipment and learn how to use it all, source quality material, and let Joe know you're ready to rock and roll to get this slant out the door. | Can we try to be grateful that we may have the unique opportunity to try a product while it's still in R&D phase instead of bitching and moaning that they don't have it now now now.
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Thanks for the gold kind stranger! Always nice to have my more dick level comments appreciated. |
MickePB | Dude, I'm nt trying to sound mean but you have to let people have their views on fashion. I had this argument with my friends yesterday who don't get why I get all jazzed up over desigfner clothes that look weird. I don't have time to go in depth at the moment but what you need to understand is that while you are into fashion to look good then other people are in to fashion so that they can express themselves.
Everyone gets to have their own view of the subject and you have clearly chose yours, now just let others chose theirs as well.
Also **Alien Blue 4 lyfe**
**EDIT:** Tl;Dr you need to broden your views and stop being so close minded | Dude, I'm nt trying to sound mean but you have to let people have their views on fashion. I had this argument with my friends yesterday who don't get why I get all jazzed up over desigfner clothes that look weird. I don't have time to go in depth at the moment but what you need to understand is that while you are into fashion to look good then other people are in to fashion so that they can express themselves.
Everyone gets to have their own view of the subject and you have clearly chose yours, now just let others chose theirs as well.
Also Alien Blue 4 lyfe
EDIT: Tl;Dr you need to broden your views and stop being so close minded
| TeenMFA | t5_2sjsv | cks58w1 | Dude, I'm nt trying to sound mean but you have to let people have their views on fashion. I had this argument with my friends yesterday who don't get why I get all jazzed up over desigfner clothes that look weird. I don't have time to go in depth at the moment but what you need to understand is that while you are into fashion to look good then other people are in to fashion so that they can express themselves.
Everyone gets to have their own view of the subject and you have clearly chose yours, now just let others chose theirs as well.
Also Alien Blue 4 lyfe
EDIT: | you need to broden your views and stop being so close minded |
Gratuitious_Gibbon | **Copy Pasta of my post in the /r/games thread:**
After spending several hours messing with it/trying to make it work properly, I've decided that this...isn't very good. Be warned, loooong rant incoming.
**/u/Gratuitous_Gibbon 's big list of things wrong with steam music:**
As far as I can tell, it has no way to browse by songs, only by albums or artists. You also can't 'shuffle all', the only way I've found to do this so far is to manually create a playlist and go through and add each artist to it individually (A major pain if you have a moderate-large library). There's no way to edit metadata directly, instead forcing you to go to the music folder, right click, properties, edit, apply, re-scan the library to see if the changes stuck...
If you have an album with multiple discs it refuses to list them as a single album, instead listing it twice with the second/third/whatever discs listed as 'albumName (2)'. Looks incredibly messy. [Full disclosure: I'm a bit anal about my music library, I like it looking nice without duplicate artists/albums/songs or 'AlbumName(2013)(320kbs)(deluxe edition)(bonus Tracks)]
Oh, and as I went through and manually changed all my metadata for this I found some songs I didn't want any more, so I deleted them. Except steam music refuses to accept this, and still lists them. If you attempt to play them it brings up the player blank with nothing playing. If you click 'go to system folder', it isn't there either. so now there's dead songs in the library. re-scanning or restarting steam doesn't fix this either.
Album art - a feature to auto-grab this would be nice, but they could be trying to remove the bloat, so no problems here. The problem comes when it takes any embedded album art as default over any in the folder, often displaying the wrong art if your metadata isn't meticulous. If you have multiple image files in the folder, say, 'albumArt_back', 'albumArt_disc' & 'albumArt_Front', will it check the filenames to see which to use? Nope, it takes the front one. It's really not hard to write a simple script to check if, say, the filename contains the words 'front' or 'cover' then use. A bit of a minor complaint to be sure, but it's the masses of little things like this/the above that add up to make the overall experience pretty poor overall.
File formats - no m4a or flaac. I (thankfully) have no wma songs to test it with, but i'd be surprised if it was supported.
TL;DR/Overall judgement - I'm disappointed. So far the only reasons to use this I can see is if you want the ease of being able to change your music in the overlay, or if you want the free soundtracks. Future updates may solve my problems/frustrations, but until then I'm sticking with Winamp.
EDIT: Now with screenshots!
Albums with multiple discs:
Metadata failure (identical metadata, steam is refusing to join them):
Duplicate albums (Note the songs in the second album are also present in the first, and no, there isn't two version of the files. it's detected the same songs twice and put them into different albums): and
Nonexistent songs: steam says - the folder says -
| Copy Pasta of my post in the /r/games thread:
After spending several hours messing with it/trying to make it work properly, I've decided that this...isn't very good. Be warned, loooong rant incoming.
/u/Gratuitous_Gibbon 's big list of things wrong with steam music:
As far as I can tell, it has no way to browse by songs, only by albums or artists. You also can't 'shuffle all', the only way I've found to do this so far is to manually create a playlist and go through and add each artist to it individually (A major pain if you have a moderate-large library). There's no way to edit metadata directly, instead forcing you to go to the music folder, right click, properties, edit, apply, re-scan the library to see if the changes stuck...
If you have an album with multiple discs it refuses to list them as a single album, instead listing it twice with the second/third/whatever discs listed as 'albumName (2)'. Looks incredibly messy. [Full disclosure: I'm a bit anal about my music library, I like it looking nice without duplicate artists/albums/songs or 'AlbumName(2013)(320kbs)(deluxe edition)(bonus Tracks)]
Oh, and as I went through and manually changed all my metadata for this I found some songs I didn't want any more, so I deleted them. Except steam music refuses to accept this, and still lists them. If you attempt to play them it brings up the player blank with nothing playing. If you click 'go to system folder', it isn't there either. so now there's dead songs in the library. re-scanning or restarting steam doesn't fix this either.
Album art - a feature to auto-grab this would be nice, but they could be trying to remove the bloat, so no problems here. The problem comes when it takes any embedded album art as default over any in the folder, often displaying the wrong art if your metadata isn't meticulous. If you have multiple image files in the folder, say, 'albumArt_back', 'albumArt_disc' & 'albumArt_Front', will it check the filenames to see which to use? Nope, it takes the front one. It's really not hard to write a simple script to check if, say, the filename contains the words 'front' or 'cover' then use. A bit of a minor complaint to be sure, but it's the masses of little things like this/the above that add up to make the overall experience pretty poor overall.
File formats - no m4a or flaac. I (thankfully) have no wma songs to test it with, but i'd be surprised if it was supported.
TL;DR/Overall judgement - I'm disappointed. So far the only reasons to use this I can see is if you want the ease of being able to change your music in the overlay, or if you want the free soundtracks. Future updates may solve my problems/frustrations, but until then I'm sticking with Winamp.
EDIT: Now with screenshots!
Albums with multiple discs:
Metadata failure (identical metadata, steam is refusing to join them):
Duplicate albums (Note the songs in the second album are also present in the first, and no, there isn't two version of the files. it's detected the same songs twice and put them into different albums): and
Nonexistent songs: steam says - the folder says -
| Steam | t5_2qwis | ckryk6k | Copy Pasta of my post in the /r/games thread:
After spending several hours messing with it/trying to make it work properly, I've decided that this...isn't very good. Be warned, loooong rant incoming.
/u/Gratuitous_Gibbon 's big list of things wrong with steam music:
As far as I can tell, it has no way to browse by songs, only by albums or artists. You also can't 'shuffle all', the only way I've found to do this so far is to manually create a playlist and go through and add each artist to it individually (A major pain if you have a moderate-large library). There's no way to edit metadata directly, instead forcing you to go to the music folder, right click, properties, edit, apply, re-scan the library to see if the changes stuck...
If you have an album with multiple discs it refuses to list them as a single album, instead listing it twice with the second/third/whatever discs listed as 'albumName (2)'. Looks incredibly messy. [Full disclosure: I'm a bit anal about my music library, I like it looking nice without duplicate artists/albums/songs or 'AlbumName(2013)(320kbs)(deluxe edition)(bonus Tracks)]
Oh, and as I went through and manually changed all my metadata for this I found some songs I didn't want any more, so I deleted them. Except steam music refuses to accept this, and still lists them. If you attempt to play them it brings up the player blank with nothing playing. If you click 'go to system folder', it isn't there either. so now there's dead songs in the library. re-scanning or restarting steam doesn't fix this either.
Album art - a feature to auto-grab this would be nice, but they could be trying to remove the bloat, so no problems here. The problem comes when it takes any embedded album art as default over any in the folder, often displaying the wrong art if your metadata isn't meticulous. If you have multiple image files in the folder, say, 'albumArt_back', 'albumArt_disc' & 'albumArt_Front', will it check the filenames to see which to use? Nope, it takes the front one. It's really not hard to write a simple script to check if, say, the filename contains the words 'front' or 'cover' then use. A bit of a minor complaint to be sure, but it's the masses of little things like this/the above that add up to make the overall experience pretty poor overall.
File formats - no m4a or flaac. I (thankfully) have no wma songs to test it with, but i'd be surprised if it was supported. | Overall judgement - I'm disappointed. So far the only reasons to use this I can see is if you want the ease of being able to change your music in the overlay, or if you want the free soundtracks. Future updates may solve my problems/frustrations, but until then I'm sticking with Winamp.
EDIT: Now with screenshots!
Albums with multiple discs:
Metadata failure (identical metadata, steam is refusing to join them):
Duplicate albums (Note the songs in the second album are also present in the first, and no, there isn't two version of the files. it's detected the same songs twice and put them into different albums): and
Nonexistent songs: steam says - the folder says - |
ashlicrowe | Yes but we are still here. It's lackluster and often disappointing, but this team is still in contention. This organization seems to fight its way with their back against the wall... There's really no reason to rule out the possibility of it happening for this particular team until the last out is recorded.
I was just talking to a friend about how the unpredictability of baseball is what makes it so exciting. When you make up your mind already about the outcome, you remove the thrill and often the joy of being a fan of the sport.
TL;DR OPTIMISM | Yes but we are still here. It's lackluster and often disappointing, but this team is still in contention. This organization seems to fight its way with their back against the wall... There's really no reason to rule out the possibility of it happening for this particular team until the last out is recorded.
I was just talking to a friend about how the unpredictability of baseball is what makes it so exciting. When you make up your mind already about the outcome, you remove the thrill and often the joy of being a fan of the sport.
TL;DR OPTIMISM
| Cardinals | t5_2r7tu | ckrvhia | Yes but we are still here. It's lackluster and often disappointing, but this team is still in contention. This organization seems to fight its way with their back against the wall... There's really no reason to rule out the possibility of it happening for this particular team until the last out is recorded.
I was just talking to a friend about how the unpredictability of baseball is what makes it so exciting. When you make up your mind already about the outcome, you remove the thrill and often the joy of being a fan of the sport. | OPTIMISM |
ss977 | Aside from me personally disliking that recipe, it factually creates the slowest character in game. Donny who is considered to have one of the worst **final** stats among the 1st gen has 41 max speed as a hero and Morgan in that recipe has **39** max speed in the same class. As a General, Morgan has **32** max speed which is even slower than Frederick or Kellam in the same class. That's very problematic and a major flaw for a character in a game where one considers a unit good when they double hit and the game is balanced assuming that characters double hit in the end levels, or at least that they don't get double hit by most enemies.
It's also worth noting that not being able to double attack equates to all proc skills getting their effectiveness cut by half in essence, which means there's more to the problem than just not attacking one more time. For manaketes with no access to brave weapons, are naturally slow, and have a rather clear limit to the damage they do without proc skills, the above problem also leads to their kill-based(Lifetaker) or damaged-based(Sol) self heals not being effective which in turn hurts their sustainability, especially on enemy turns. Moreover, it also negates the effectiveness of dual attacks, a major firepower booster in FE:A along with proc skills, as well for the same reason.
What also compounds in damaging their sustainability is that enemies with skills will double on them. Double the chance of lethality for example is not fun at all when there's already so many freak incidents of Jaffar killing off units in impossible situations when given even one shot at it. With no finishing power on Morgan(Or Nah)'s side, Sorcerers and Sages with Vengeance are a clear threat because this Morgan's Res is vulnerable. Getting doubled with a moderately procced Vengeance will hurt a LOT and this build assimilates moderately procced Vengeances. Luna is also a threat because of how common they are and that one can consider it to proc at almost 100% chance given the two or four attacks that Morgan and Nah will have to endure.
And then there's the problem of Nah being even more problematic than this Morgan because she inherits the same demerit of having the lowest speed in game while getting fewer class pools with questionable effectiveness and lower defense bonus while having to play the same role as Morgan's.
All in all I think it's only a numerically interesting build at best that only aims for one specific map with debatable actual effectiveness.
tl;dr Maybe statistically interesting, but versatility and all things considered it doesn't make much of a difference from other builds and potentially falls off to other possibilities due to one of the more noticeable stats being too low imo. | Aside from me personally disliking that recipe, it factually creates the slowest character in game. Donny who is considered to have one of the worst final stats among the 1st gen has 41 max speed as a hero and Morgan in that recipe has 39 max speed in the same class. As a General, Morgan has 32 max speed which is even slower than Frederick or Kellam in the same class. That's very problematic and a major flaw for a character in a game where one considers a unit good when they double hit and the game is balanced assuming that characters double hit in the end levels, or at least that they don't get double hit by most enemies.
It's also worth noting that not being able to double attack equates to all proc skills getting their effectiveness cut by half in essence, which means there's more to the problem than just not attacking one more time. For manaketes with no access to brave weapons, are naturally slow, and have a rather clear limit to the damage they do without proc skills, the above problem also leads to their kill-based(Lifetaker) or damaged-based(Sol) self heals not being effective which in turn hurts their sustainability, especially on enemy turns. Moreover, it also negates the effectiveness of dual attacks, a major firepower booster in FE:A along with proc skills, as well for the same reason.
What also compounds in damaging their sustainability is that enemies with skills will double on them. Double the chance of lethality for example is not fun at all when there's already so many freak incidents of Jaffar killing off units in impossible situations when given even one shot at it. With no finishing power on Morgan(Or Nah)'s side, Sorcerers and Sages with Vengeance are a clear threat because this Morgan's Res is vulnerable. Getting doubled with a moderately procced Vengeance will hurt a LOT and this build assimilates moderately procced Vengeances. Luna is also a threat because of how common they are and that one can consider it to proc at almost 100% chance given the two or four attacks that Morgan and Nah will have to endure.
And then there's the problem of Nah being even more problematic than this Morgan because she inherits the same demerit of having the lowest speed in game while getting fewer class pools with questionable effectiveness and lower defense bonus while having to play the same role as Morgan's.
All in all I think it's only a numerically interesting build at best that only aims for one specific map with debatable actual effectiveness.
tl;dr Maybe statistically interesting, but versatility and all things considered it doesn't make much of a difference from other builds and potentially falls off to other possibilities due to one of the more noticeable stats being too low imo.
| fireemblem | t5_2t0cn | cks1hb3 | Aside from me personally disliking that recipe, it factually creates the slowest character in game. Donny who is considered to have one of the worst final stats among the 1st gen has 41 max speed as a hero and Morgan in that recipe has 39 max speed in the same class. As a General, Morgan has 32 max speed which is even slower than Frederick or Kellam in the same class. That's very problematic and a major flaw for a character in a game where one considers a unit good when they double hit and the game is balanced assuming that characters double hit in the end levels, or at least that they don't get double hit by most enemies.
It's also worth noting that not being able to double attack equates to all proc skills getting their effectiveness cut by half in essence, which means there's more to the problem than just not attacking one more time. For manaketes with no access to brave weapons, are naturally slow, and have a rather clear limit to the damage they do without proc skills, the above problem also leads to their kill-based(Lifetaker) or damaged-based(Sol) self heals not being effective which in turn hurts their sustainability, especially on enemy turns. Moreover, it also negates the effectiveness of dual attacks, a major firepower booster in FE:A along with proc skills, as well for the same reason.
What also compounds in damaging their sustainability is that enemies with skills will double on them. Double the chance of lethality for example is not fun at all when there's already so many freak incidents of Jaffar killing off units in impossible situations when given even one shot at it. With no finishing power on Morgan(Or Nah)'s side, Sorcerers and Sages with Vengeance are a clear threat because this Morgan's Res is vulnerable. Getting doubled with a moderately procced Vengeance will hurt a LOT and this build assimilates moderately procced Vengeances. Luna is also a threat because of how common they are and that one can consider it to proc at almost 100% chance given the two or four attacks that Morgan and Nah will have to endure.
And then there's the problem of Nah being even more problematic than this Morgan because she inherits the same demerit of having the lowest speed in game while getting fewer class pools with questionable effectiveness and lower defense bonus while having to play the same role as Morgan's.
All in all I think it's only a numerically interesting build at best that only aims for one specific map with debatable actual effectiveness. | Maybe statistically interesting, but versatility and all things considered it doesn't make much of a difference from other builds and potentially falls off to other possibilities due to one of the more noticeable stats being too low imo. |
DevourerOfViagra | You're forgetting that Dragonstone+ also gives +4 speed, which will mean that her max speed is 36, enough to counter the speed difference for Sorcerers. Not to mention Pair Up! Pairing up Morgan with her husband Berserker will increase her speed to 7, putting her up to 43, enough to eliminate the speed-worry for all the classes, while increasing her damage while at it.
Manakete Morgan shouldn't carry Lifetaker or Sol if you spotpass. She should have Luna, as it increases the damage more than Sol does, she should instead have Renewal.
Morgan will have a Res of **+3**, which combined with the Dragonstone+, will bring her Res up to 52. Enough to block off a large amount of the damage dealt. Vengeance will still be a problem, but if the Sorcerer attacks first or Morgan has Adept, then she'll be able to 3-shot it, or maybe even 2-shot it if Luna pops.
Lethality is a rare beast, only normally found on characters specialized on it, like a Lon'qu!Yarne!Morgan Taguel with Speed MU, but those things will double almost everyone, and a Manakete's range will sometimes be enough to take advantage. The only problem is Luna, but even that is only somewhat problematic. After all, it only has 50% chance of proccing, and even if it does proc, there will still be 5 damage less than what a normal character would take.
At the end of the day, it's all about opinions. This child might fall short for some people, but it might be one of the best for others. Awakening will be faceroll no matter what you do, anyway. When it comes to streetpass, her only stat in the red is actually Speed. Everything else is at 0 or above, so she's good statwise as well.
Nah however, should be discarded the instant Morgan's made. You will never need 2 Manaketes, no matter how different her stats are. She's easily replaced by any other child that isn't gimped.
tl;dr: Even though she's got a lot of problems at first sight, they are easily countered through pair up and skills. | You're forgetting that Dragonstone+ also gives +4 speed, which will mean that her max speed is 36, enough to counter the speed difference for Sorcerers. Not to mention Pair Up! Pairing up Morgan with her husband Berserker will increase her speed to 7, putting her up to 43, enough to eliminate the speed-worry for all the classes, while increasing her damage while at it.
Manakete Morgan shouldn't carry Lifetaker or Sol if you spotpass. She should have Luna, as it increases the damage more than Sol does, she should instead have Renewal.
Morgan will have a Res of +3 , which combined with the Dragonstone+, will bring her Res up to 52. Enough to block off a large amount of the damage dealt. Vengeance will still be a problem, but if the Sorcerer attacks first or Morgan has Adept, then she'll be able to 3-shot it, or maybe even 2-shot it if Luna pops.
Lethality is a rare beast, only normally found on characters specialized on it, like a Lon'qu!Yarne!Morgan Taguel with Speed MU, but those things will double almost everyone, and a Manakete's range will sometimes be enough to take advantage. The only problem is Luna, but even that is only somewhat problematic. After all, it only has 50% chance of proccing, and even if it does proc, there will still be 5 damage less than what a normal character would take.
At the end of the day, it's all about opinions. This child might fall short for some people, but it might be one of the best for others. Awakening will be faceroll no matter what you do, anyway. When it comes to streetpass, her only stat in the red is actually Speed. Everything else is at 0 or above, so she's good statwise as well.
Nah however, should be discarded the instant Morgan's made. You will never need 2 Manaketes, no matter how different her stats are. She's easily replaced by any other child that isn't gimped.
tl;dr: Even though she's got a lot of problems at first sight, they are easily countered through pair up and skills.
| fireemblem | t5_2t0cn | cks2qr6 | You're forgetting that Dragonstone+ also gives +4 speed, which will mean that her max speed is 36, enough to counter the speed difference for Sorcerers. Not to mention Pair Up! Pairing up Morgan with her husband Berserker will increase her speed to 7, putting her up to 43, enough to eliminate the speed-worry for all the classes, while increasing her damage while at it.
Manakete Morgan shouldn't carry Lifetaker or Sol if you spotpass. She should have Luna, as it increases the damage more than Sol does, she should instead have Renewal.
Morgan will have a Res of +3 , which combined with the Dragonstone+, will bring her Res up to 52. Enough to block off a large amount of the damage dealt. Vengeance will still be a problem, but if the Sorcerer attacks first or Morgan has Adept, then she'll be able to 3-shot it, or maybe even 2-shot it if Luna pops.
Lethality is a rare beast, only normally found on characters specialized on it, like a Lon'qu!Yarne!Morgan Taguel with Speed MU, but those things will double almost everyone, and a Manakete's range will sometimes be enough to take advantage. The only problem is Luna, but even that is only somewhat problematic. After all, it only has 50% chance of proccing, and even if it does proc, there will still be 5 damage less than what a normal character would take.
At the end of the day, it's all about opinions. This child might fall short for some people, but it might be one of the best for others. Awakening will be faceroll no matter what you do, anyway. When it comes to streetpass, her only stat in the red is actually Speed. Everything else is at 0 or above, so she's good statwise as well.
Nah however, should be discarded the instant Morgan's made. You will never need 2 Manaketes, no matter how different her stats are. She's easily replaced by any other child that isn't gimped. | Even though she's got a lot of problems at first sight, they are easily countered through pair up and skills. |
ss977 | > Nah however, should be discarded the instant Morgan's made. You will never need 2 Manaketes, no matter how different her stats are. She's easily replaced by any other child that isn't gimped.
Which is why I don't use that build. There's more stable builds that lets you use both Nah and Morgan without such stark problems and Nah happens to be my favorite child along with Morgan so I keep her on my team whatever I'm doing. Also, I think Avatar!Nah&Morgan or just any twin sibling recipe trumps single focused Morgan's usefulness simply because a difference of +3 in defense(That's all this 3rd gen Morgan basically is) is never going to match up to the versatility of having a twin unit with access to all skills in your arsenal.
Also, speed happens to be one of the more important stats with more implications on the game mechanics than most other stats so that being red and at the lowest possible value has more problems than other stats being red imo.
It's one build that has a big number in one stat, but in the end it's just one build among many with comparable effectiveness as you say. It doesn't deserve the misled perception that it's the best for either Nah or Morgan, especially for Nah at the point that Nah is discarded.
tl;dr: One build among many others, but not especially OP or optimal. | > Nah however, should be discarded the instant Morgan's made. You will never need 2 Manaketes, no matter how different her stats are. She's easily replaced by any other child that isn't gimped.
Which is why I don't use that build. There's more stable builds that lets you use both Nah and Morgan without such stark problems and Nah happens to be my favorite child along with Morgan so I keep her on my team whatever I'm doing. Also, I think Avatar!Nah&Morgan or just any twin sibling recipe trumps single focused Morgan's usefulness simply because a difference of +3 in defense(That's all this 3rd gen Morgan basically is) is never going to match up to the versatility of having a twin unit with access to all skills in your arsenal.
Also, speed happens to be one of the more important stats with more implications on the game mechanics than most other stats so that being red and at the lowest possible value has more problems than other stats being red imo.
It's one build that has a big number in one stat, but in the end it's just one build among many with comparable effectiveness as you say. It doesn't deserve the misled perception that it's the best for either Nah or Morgan, especially for Nah at the point that Nah is discarded.
tl;dr: One build among many others, but not especially OP or optimal.
| fireemblem | t5_2t0cn | cks2zhn | Nah however, should be discarded the instant Morgan's made. You will never need 2 Manaketes, no matter how different her stats are. She's easily replaced by any other child that isn't gimped.
Which is why I don't use that build. There's more stable builds that lets you use both Nah and Morgan without such stark problems and Nah happens to be my favorite child along with Morgan so I keep her on my team whatever I'm doing. Also, I think Avatar!Nah&Morgan or just any twin sibling recipe trumps single focused Morgan's usefulness simply because a difference of +3 in defense(That's all this 3rd gen Morgan basically is) is never going to match up to the versatility of having a twin unit with access to all skills in your arsenal.
Also, speed happens to be one of the more important stats with more implications on the game mechanics than most other stats so that being red and at the lowest possible value has more problems than other stats being red imo.
It's one build that has a big number in one stat, but in the end it's just one build among many with comparable effectiveness as you say. It doesn't deserve the misled perception that it's the best for either Nah or Morgan, especially for Nah at the point that Nah is discarded. | One build among many others, but not especially OP or optimal. |
cheesepuff18 | The complaint being they changed the stuff that more people liked than disliked incredibly fast but are waiting for possibly much longer to fix the stuff people are complaining about
I get that the other changes they're making to improve the game require much more development time (like voice comms), but I feel like community reception would have been better if they held off on patching out all the good farm spots/methods until they had some actual improvements to the game to release as well
TL;DR mix the hotfix in with the next patch for better community reception | The complaint being they changed the stuff that more people liked than disliked incredibly fast but are waiting for possibly much longer to fix the stuff people are complaining about
I get that the other changes they're making to improve the game require much more development time (like voice comms), but I feel like community reception would have been better if they held off on patching out all the good farm spots/methods until they had some actual improvements to the game to release as well
TL;DR mix the hotfix in with the next patch for better community reception
| DestinyTheGame | t5_2vq0w | ckshhrf | The complaint being they changed the stuff that more people liked than disliked incredibly fast but are waiting for possibly much longer to fix the stuff people are complaining about
I get that the other changes they're making to improve the game require much more development time (like voice comms), but I feel like community reception would have been better if they held off on patching out all the good farm spots/methods until they had some actual improvements to the game to release as well | mix the hotfix in with the next patch for better community reception |
weezle | Hmm. I have just been playing the game because I like to kill bad guys with friends. It is pretty easy to get caught up in the loot game, but I just try to have fun just playing the game and being surprised when I have enough marks for a good piece of gear or get something new that I can use! Getting bored with your gear? Try stacking Strength and being a melee warlock.
The only problem with this is that you can't really enjoy the raids and cooler content unless you have the gear. It doesn't matter if you have a shitload of XP and have put in the time. If you haven't lucked out and got the gear, you don't get to do the harder end game stuff.
TLDR; The 20-30 gear based level system makes people focus on gear, you have to have the gear to do end game content, and the loot system keeps you from enjoying the end game content. | Hmm. I have just been playing the game because I like to kill bad guys with friends. It is pretty easy to get caught up in the loot game, but I just try to have fun just playing the game and being surprised when I have enough marks for a good piece of gear or get something new that I can use! Getting bored with your gear? Try stacking Strength and being a melee warlock.
The only problem with this is that you can't really enjoy the raids and cooler content unless you have the gear. It doesn't matter if you have a shitload of XP and have put in the time. If you haven't lucked out and got the gear, you don't get to do the harder end game stuff.
TLDR; The 20-30 gear based level system makes people focus on gear, you have to have the gear to do end game content, and the loot system keeps you from enjoying the end game content.
| DestinyTheGame | t5_2vq0w | cksoaoh | Hmm. I have just been playing the game because I like to kill bad guys with friends. It is pretty easy to get caught up in the loot game, but I just try to have fun just playing the game and being surprised when I have enough marks for a good piece of gear or get something new that I can use! Getting bored with your gear? Try stacking Strength and being a melee warlock.
The only problem with this is that you can't really enjoy the raids and cooler content unless you have the gear. It doesn't matter if you have a shitload of XP and have put in the time. If you haven't lucked out and got the gear, you don't get to do the harder end game stuff. | The 20-30 gear based level system makes people focus on gear, you have to have the gear to do end game content, and the loot system keeps you from enjoying the end game content. |
StankyMung | The Flats definitely needs this strong leadership. Scranton peninsula should be a gorgeous area to view and enjoy the city but instead is a mess of old, defunct lots and struggling businesses. Columbus peninsula is a hodge podge of whatever you can imagine. A grainary next to a strip club next to a seafood warehouse next to some abandoned buildings.
Tldr the flats needs organization | The Flats definitely needs this strong leadership. Scranton peninsula should be a gorgeous area to view and enjoy the city but instead is a mess of old, defunct lots and struggling businesses. Columbus peninsula is a hodge podge of whatever you can imagine. A grainary next to a strip club next to a seafood warehouse next to some abandoned buildings.
Tldr the flats needs organization
| Cleveland | t5_2qkh0 | ckszcg0 | The Flats definitely needs this strong leadership. Scranton peninsula should be a gorgeous area to view and enjoy the city but instead is a mess of old, defunct lots and struggling businesses. Columbus peninsula is a hodge podge of whatever you can imagine. A grainary next to a strip club next to a seafood warehouse next to some abandoned buildings. | the flats needs organization |
Death_Star_ | > Russ Willy
Haha, it reminds me of the two valet guys in Key & Peele who have their own nick names for movie stars, like Melly Gibsons.
But yes, Tony Romo, *ON PAPER*, has an outstanding match-up and chance to put up 20+ points:
* The Saints defense: The Saints are allowing 278 yards/game, putting them 29th out of 32 teams. They're allowing 7.5 yards/attempt, ranking 21st. They're 23rd in QB-rating allowed at 97.7 -- and that's only because they've only allowed 4 passing TDs against zero INTs. **Again, the Saints are allowing close to 280 yards per game through the air.**
* Saints' Competition: Yes, Matt Ryan torched New Orleans in Week 1. In Week 2, the Saints faced the "mighty" Browns, who had Brian Hoyer and Johnny Manziel combining for 24/41, 202 yards, 1 TD and 0 INTs. But last week the Saints faced rookie Teddy Bridgewater for 2/3 of the game, and he finished 12/20 for 150 yards and 0/0 TD/INT.
* Shootout Potential: As we know, if there's a SHOOTOUT, the QBs and WRs are the big winners. Saints vs. Cowboys? All indications are that it will be an absolute shootout, in which case Romo would be airing it out 35-40 times. Assuming a modest 7.5 yards/attempt -- which also happens to be the Saints' YPA -- that's *at least* about 260-300 yards on 35-40 attempts.
* Romo's Competition: First of all, Romo has arguably had the toughest schedule so far for QBs, since TEN, STL, and SF are ranked 2nd, 5th, and 13th, respectively, in pass yardage allowed. Ironically, he has actually performed ***better*** against the top defenses. You would think that Romo would struggle against the first two but perform well against SF. NOPE! Against #2 Tennessee, Romo went 19/29 with 1 TD, 0 INTs, 176 yards. Against #5 St. Louis, he went 18/23, 217 yards, 2 TDs, 1 INT.
So, **against the two top-5 pass defenses**, Romo has combined for 37/52 (an amazing **71.2% completion percentage**), 393 yards, 3 TDs, 1 INT for a **104.08 QB rating** -- and these his two most recent games, showing momentum.
**Bottom line/TL;DR -- Romo is ON FIRE (71.2% completion percentage, 104.1 QB rating) heading into the game against one of the worst NFL pass defenses (The Saints are ranked 29th). *Conservatively*, let's say Romo merely *MATCHES* the Saints' *average* for yards given up (280), and allows 2 TDs -- that would be 19.2 points.... AT LEAST -- i.e., his FLOOR should be around 19 points, with the possibility of getting 24+ points.** | > Russ Willy
Haha, it reminds me of the two valet guys in Key & Peele who have their own nick names for movie stars, like Melly Gibsons.
But yes, Tony Romo, ON PAPER , has an outstanding match-up and chance to put up 20+ points:
The Saints defense: The Saints are allowing 278 yards/game, putting them 29th out of 32 teams. They're allowing 7.5 yards/attempt, ranking 21st. They're 23rd in QB-rating allowed at 97.7 -- and that's only because they've only allowed 4 passing TDs against zero INTs. Again, the Saints are allowing close to 280 yards per game through the air.
Saints' Competition: Yes, Matt Ryan torched New Orleans in Week 1. In Week 2, the Saints faced the "mighty" Browns, who had Brian Hoyer and Johnny Manziel combining for 24/41, 202 yards, 1 TD and 0 INTs. But last week the Saints faced rookie Teddy Bridgewater for 2/3 of the game, and he finished 12/20 for 150 yards and 0/0 TD/INT.
Shootout Potential: As we know, if there's a SHOOTOUT, the QBs and WRs are the big winners. Saints vs. Cowboys? All indications are that it will be an absolute shootout, in which case Romo would be airing it out 35-40 times. Assuming a modest 7.5 yards/attempt -- which also happens to be the Saints' YPA -- that's at least about 260-300 yards on 35-40 attempts.
Romo's Competition: First of all, Romo has arguably had the toughest schedule so far for QBs, since TEN, STL, and SF are ranked 2nd, 5th, and 13th, respectively, in pass yardage allowed. Ironically, he has actually performed better against the top defenses. You would think that Romo would struggle against the first two but perform well against SF. NOPE! Against #2 Tennessee, Romo went 19/29 with 1 TD, 0 INTs, 176 yards. Against #5 St. Louis, he went 18/23, 217 yards, 2 TDs, 1 INT.
So, against the two top-5 pass defenses , Romo has combined for 37/52 (an amazing 71.2% completion percentage ), 393 yards, 3 TDs, 1 INT for a 104.08 QB rating -- and these his two most recent games, showing momentum.
Bottom line/TL;DR -- Romo is ON FIRE (71.2% completion percentage, 104.1 QB rating) heading into the game against one of the worst NFL pass defenses (The Saints are ranked 29th). Conservatively , let's say Romo merely MATCHES the Saints' average for yards given up (280), and allows 2 TDs -- that would be 19.2 points.... AT LEAST -- i.e., his FLOOR should be around 19 points, with the possibility of getting 24+ points.
| fantasyfootball | t5_2qlqq | cktlqhb | Russ Willy
Haha, it reminds me of the two valet guys in Key & Peele who have their own nick names for movie stars, like Melly Gibsons.
But yes, Tony Romo, ON PAPER , has an outstanding match-up and chance to put up 20+ points:
The Saints defense: The Saints are allowing 278 yards/game, putting them 29th out of 32 teams. They're allowing 7.5 yards/attempt, ranking 21st. They're 23rd in QB-rating allowed at 97.7 -- and that's only because they've only allowed 4 passing TDs against zero INTs. Again, the Saints are allowing close to 280 yards per game through the air.
Saints' Competition: Yes, Matt Ryan torched New Orleans in Week 1. In Week 2, the Saints faced the "mighty" Browns, who had Brian Hoyer and Johnny Manziel combining for 24/41, 202 yards, 1 TD and 0 INTs. But last week the Saints faced rookie Teddy Bridgewater for 2/3 of the game, and he finished 12/20 for 150 yards and 0/0 TD/INT.
Shootout Potential: As we know, if there's a SHOOTOUT, the QBs and WRs are the big winners. Saints vs. Cowboys? All indications are that it will be an absolute shootout, in which case Romo would be airing it out 35-40 times. Assuming a modest 7.5 yards/attempt -- which also happens to be the Saints' YPA -- that's at least about 260-300 yards on 35-40 attempts.
Romo's Competition: First of all, Romo has arguably had the toughest schedule so far for QBs, since TEN, STL, and SF are ranked 2nd, 5th, and 13th, respectively, in pass yardage allowed. Ironically, he has actually performed better against the top defenses. You would think that Romo would struggle against the first two but perform well against SF. NOPE! Against #2 Tennessee, Romo went 19/29 with 1 TD, 0 INTs, 176 yards. Against #5 St. Louis, he went 18/23, 217 yards, 2 TDs, 1 INT.
So, against the two top-5 pass defenses , Romo has combined for 37/52 (an amazing 71.2% completion percentage ), 393 yards, 3 TDs, 1 INT for a 104.08 QB rating -- and these his two most recent games, showing momentum.
Bottom line/ | Romo is ON FIRE (71.2% completion percentage, 104.1 QB rating) heading into the game against one of the worst NFL pass defenses (The Saints are ranked 29th). Conservatively , let's say Romo merely MATCHES the Saints' average for yards given up (280), and allows 2 TDs -- that would be 19.2 points.... AT LEAST -- i.e., his FLOOR should be around 19 points, with the possibility of getting 24+ points. |
bladzalot | Seriously, I am on your bandwagon sir. He had an absolutely shit night, I started him and literally got ZERO points for his stats, but he will be back next week and I assume he will be back to his numbers of last week. Guy is amazing, he is just freaking out over all the media hype. Redskins play the Seahawks next week, Seahawks will now be favored by 37 points and Cousins will play to his opponents level. Give it a week, all the media outlets will be back on the Cousins bandwagon...
PS: I have ZERO faith in the Giants being "back"... Eagles are amazing and BARELY beat the skins, Giants suck a turd and Eli looked like last years Peyton. First three weeks of football have been a clusterfuck, I do not expect that to change anytime soon...
EDIT: Forgot a word
TLDR: Cousins deserves the hype | Seriously, I am on your bandwagon sir. He had an absolutely shit night, I started him and literally got ZERO points for his stats, but he will be back next week and I assume he will be back to his numbers of last week. Guy is amazing, he is just freaking out over all the media hype. Redskins play the Seahawks next week, Seahawks will now be favored by 37 points and Cousins will play to his opponents level. Give it a week, all the media outlets will be back on the Cousins bandwagon...
PS: I have ZERO faith in the Giants being "back"... Eagles are amazing and BARELY beat the skins, Giants suck a turd and Eli looked like last years Peyton. First three weeks of football have been a clusterfuck, I do not expect that to change anytime soon...
EDIT: Forgot a word
TLDR: Cousins deserves the hype
| fantasyfootball | t5_2qlqq | ckt3lv2 | Seriously, I am on your bandwagon sir. He had an absolutely shit night, I started him and literally got ZERO points for his stats, but he will be back next week and I assume he will be back to his numbers of last week. Guy is amazing, he is just freaking out over all the media hype. Redskins play the Seahawks next week, Seahawks will now be favored by 37 points and Cousins will play to his opponents level. Give it a week, all the media outlets will be back on the Cousins bandwagon...
PS: I have ZERO faith in the Giants being "back"... Eagles are amazing and BARELY beat the skins, Giants suck a turd and Eli looked like last years Peyton. First three weeks of football have been a clusterfuck, I do not expect that to change anytime soon...
EDIT: Forgot a word | Cousins deserves the hype |
Tense_Situation | Im not 100% about the speed tiers/KOs you'll be missing but I do know that Timid is prefered because base 112 speed is a very good/trolly speed teir that when maxed out still gets the jump on a lot of positive natured speedy pokemon. Also its better to use a boosting move for attacking stats e.g. Swords Dance/Nasty Plot as many feel Agility is a waste of a move slot.
**TL;DR:** Timid/Jolly is the way to go because speed creep is more important than power creep | Im not 100% about the speed tiers/KOs you'll be missing but I do know that Timid is prefered because base 112 speed is a very good/trolly speed teir that when maxed out still gets the jump on a lot of positive natured speedy pokemon. Also its better to use a boosting move for attacking stats e.g. Swords Dance/Nasty Plot as many feel Agility is a waste of a move slot.
TL;DR: Timid/Jolly is the way to go because speed creep is more important than power creep
| stunfisk | t5_2sn6d | cksr9v1 | Im not 100% about the speed tiers/KOs you'll be missing but I do know that Timid is prefered because base 112 speed is a very good/trolly speed teir that when maxed out still gets the jump on a lot of positive natured speedy pokemon. Also its better to use a boosting move for attacking stats e.g. Swords Dance/Nasty Plot as many feel Agility is a waste of a move slot. | Timid/Jolly is the way to go because speed creep is more important than power creep |
kochachi1 | You have to remember though that here in Dota everyone has access to all (107?) heroes. So rather than playing against someone who probably owns 40 champions or less you have to be able to play against a team where the only confinement of what they can pick is your bans(if you are captains mode or draft). You have to be able to play every single hero at least close to an equal skill level if you are in the pro scene. Also having played both games I think that team composition is far less important in league. Here 2 carries are never equal picks, they are all unique in what they offer and so you have to know every single one to draft and play right.
TL;DR: Don't main in Dota, it doesn't help you get better.
Edit, Phrasing | You have to remember though that here in Dota everyone has access to all (107?) heroes. So rather than playing against someone who probably owns 40 champions or less you have to be able to play against a team where the only confinement of what they can pick is your bans(if you are captains mode or draft). You have to be able to play every single hero at least close to an equal skill level if you are in the pro scene. Also having played both games I think that team composition is far less important in league. Here 2 carries are never equal picks, they are all unique in what they offer and so you have to know every single one to draft and play right.
TL;DR: Don't main in Dota, it doesn't help you get better.
Edit, Phrasing
| DotA2 | t5_2s580 | ckt47sy | You have to remember though that here in Dota everyone has access to all (107?) heroes. So rather than playing against someone who probably owns 40 champions or less you have to be able to play against a team where the only confinement of what they can pick is your bans(if you are captains mode or draft). You have to be able to play every single hero at least close to an equal skill level if you are in the pro scene. Also having played both games I think that team composition is far less important in league. Here 2 carries are never equal picks, they are all unique in what they offer and so you have to know every single one to draft and play right. | Don't main in Dota, it doesn't help you get better.
Edit, Phrasing |
SHv2 | **Primary**
* 6g - Pumpkin Ale (OG: 1.051) - Bottling this weekend
* 6g - Imperial Pumpkin Ale (OG: 1.083) - Bottling this weekend
* 60g - Mead (OG: 1.107)
**Secondary**
* 5g - Imperial Flanders Red (OG: 1.075) - Bottling Soon
**Bulk Aging/Clearing**
* 5g - Maple Wine (OG: 1.110)
* 5g - Mead (OG: 1.157) - Bottling Soon
**Bottle Aging**
* Blackberry, Blueberry, Raspberry Melomel - Mixed Mead 1, Berry on Me (ABV: 14.3%)
* Blackberry, Blueberry, Raspberry Melomel - Mixed Mead 2, Berry on You (ABV: 14.3%)
* Blueberry Melomel - Feeling Blue (ABV: 14.8%)
* Blueberry Melomel - Feeling Blue Too (ABV: 14.8%)
* Orange Melomel - Orange Aide (ABV: 14.3%)
* Acerglyn - Ma-honey(ABV: 14.7%)
* Mead - Bumble Bee Buzz (ABV: 14.7%)
* Mead - Bumble Bee Duzz (ABV: 14.4%)
* Mead - W'all Spr'all (ABV: 14.6%)
* Pseudo-Bochet - sudo Bochet (ABV: 9.7%)
* Raspberry Melomel - Emberryssed (ABV: 14.2%)
**Drinking - Bottles**
Beer
* American Wheat - SWheat (ABV: 3.9%)
* Braggot - BEE cALEful (ABV: 6.4%)
* California Common - West Coast (ABV: 4.2%)
* Oatmeal Stout - Taking More RiSks (ABV: 4.5%)
* Pale Ale - Plainly pALE (ABV: 5.5%)
* Russian Imperial Stout - Taking RISks (ABV: 8.1%)
Mead
* Mead - Fall-en Honey (20.9%)
* Mead - Final Fall (Yes%)
* Mead - Land of the Unknown (Yes%)
* Melomel - Berry Mead Six Feet Down (6.6%)
* Melomel - Razz Me Berry (13.4%)
**Planning**
* Got a $5/gallon quote for fresh pressed raw cider from [Carlson Orchard]( near me. Looking to get 50 gallons once the pressing begins.
So far the different recipes I'm planning are:
1) 5g Brett'd Graff (Stout base)
2) 8g Graff (Stout base)
3) 5g Graff (Hefeweizen base)
4) 5g Graff (Pale Ale base)
5) 7g Cider (with cherries)
6) 5g Cider (with ginger)
7) 5g Brett'd Cider (with cherries soaked in Whiskey)
8) 5g Cider (wild yeast ferment)
9) 5g Cider (backsweetened)
**Brewing Soon**
* Doing a barley wine tomorrow during the pig roast. /u/UnsungSavior16 provided his [recipe]( in the ABRT last week so I took that and scaled it up to 5 gallons.
This is my first barley wine so it will be interesting. Going to do first runnings with the recipe below and then second runnings I'll add my home grown Cascade and Columbus to make a second beer of sorts with Safale S-04.
> Recipe Name: Barely Whine
> Style: Barley Wine
> Batch Size: 5 gal
>
> 18lb 7oz - Maris Otter
> 1lb 5oz - Crystal 60
> 1lb 5oz - Crystal 80
> 1lb 5oz - Flaked Oats
> 5oz - Kent Goldings @ 60
> .5oz - Kent Goldings @ 10
> .5oz - Kent Goldings @ 5
> British Ale Yeast (Wyeast #1098)
**Other**
* Bottling pumpkin beers this weekend. Yum. Should be ready with plenty of time to spare for Halloween.
* Starting to look into clearing out all of my fermenters for cider time.
* My eggnong is looking so delicious in the fridge. I can't wait to bottle and drink this.
TL;DR Beer here, beer there, beer everywhere... | Primary
6g - Pumpkin Ale (OG: 1.051) - Bottling this weekend
6g - Imperial Pumpkin Ale (OG: 1.083) - Bottling this weekend
60g - Mead (OG: 1.107)
Secondary
5g - Imperial Flanders Red (OG: 1.075) - Bottling Soon
Bulk Aging/Clearing
5g - Maple Wine (OG: 1.110)
5g - Mead (OG: 1.157) - Bottling Soon
Bottle Aging
Blackberry, Blueberry, Raspberry Melomel - Mixed Mead 1, Berry on Me (ABV: 14.3%)
Blackberry, Blueberry, Raspberry Melomel - Mixed Mead 2, Berry on You (ABV: 14.3%)
Blueberry Melomel - Feeling Blue (ABV: 14.8%)
Blueberry Melomel - Feeling Blue Too (ABV: 14.8%)
Orange Melomel - Orange Aide (ABV: 14.3%)
Acerglyn - Ma-honey(ABV: 14.7%)
Mead - Bumble Bee Buzz (ABV: 14.7%)
Mead - Bumble Bee Duzz (ABV: 14.4%)
Mead - W'all Spr'all (ABV: 14.6%)
Pseudo-Bochet - sudo Bochet (ABV: 9.7%)
Raspberry Melomel - Emberryssed (ABV: 14.2%)
Drinking - Bottles
Beer
American Wheat - SWheat (ABV: 3.9%)
Braggot - BEE cALEful (ABV: 6.4%)
California Common - West Coast (ABV: 4.2%)
Oatmeal Stout - Taking More RiSks (ABV: 4.5%)
Pale Ale - Plainly pALE (ABV: 5.5%)
Russian Imperial Stout - Taking RISks (ABV: 8.1%)
Mead
Mead - Fall-en Honey (20.9%)
Mead - Final Fall (Yes%)
Mead - Land of the Unknown (Yes%)
Melomel - Berry Mead Six Feet Down (6.6%)
Melomel - Razz Me Berry (13.4%)
Planning
Got a $5/gallon quote for fresh pressed raw cider from [Carlson Orchard]( near me. Looking to get 50 gallons once the pressing begins.
So far the different recipes I'm planning are:
1) 5g Brett'd Graff (Stout base)
2) 8g Graff (Stout base)
3) 5g Graff (Hefeweizen base)
4) 5g Graff (Pale Ale base)
5) 7g Cider (with cherries)
6) 5g Cider (with ginger)
7) 5g Brett'd Cider (with cherries soaked in Whiskey)
8) 5g Cider (wild yeast ferment)
9) 5g Cider (backsweetened)
Brewing Soon
Doing a barley wine tomorrow during the pig roast. /u/UnsungSavior16 provided his [recipe]( in the ABRT last week so I took that and scaled it up to 5 gallons.
This is my first barley wine so it will be interesting. Going to do first runnings with the recipe below and then second runnings I'll add my home grown Cascade and Columbus to make a second beer of sorts with Safale S-04.
> Recipe Name: Barely Whine
> Style: Barley Wine
> Batch Size: 5 gal
>
> 18lb 7oz - Maris Otter
> 1lb 5oz - Crystal 60
> 1lb 5oz - Crystal 80
> 1lb 5oz - Flaked Oats
> 5oz - Kent Goldings @ 60
> .5oz - Kent Goldings @ 10
> .5oz - Kent Goldings @ 5
> British Ale Yeast (Wyeast #1098)
Other
Bottling pumpkin beers this weekend. Yum. Should be ready with plenty of time to spare for Halloween.
Starting to look into clearing out all of my fermenters for cider time.
My eggnong is looking so delicious in the fridge. I can't wait to bottle and drink this.
TL;DR Beer here, beer there, beer everywhere...
| Homebrewing | t5_2qj8u | ckt1fyb | Primary
6g - Pumpkin Ale (OG: 1.051) - Bottling this weekend
6g - Imperial Pumpkin Ale (OG: 1.083) - Bottling this weekend
60g - Mead (OG: 1.107)
Secondary
5g - Imperial Flanders Red (OG: 1.075) - Bottling Soon
Bulk Aging/Clearing
5g - Maple Wine (OG: 1.110)
5g - Mead (OG: 1.157) - Bottling Soon
Bottle Aging
Blackberry, Blueberry, Raspberry Melomel - Mixed Mead 1, Berry on Me (ABV: 14.3%)
Blackberry, Blueberry, Raspberry Melomel - Mixed Mead 2, Berry on You (ABV: 14.3%)
Blueberry Melomel - Feeling Blue (ABV: 14.8%)
Blueberry Melomel - Feeling Blue Too (ABV: 14.8%)
Orange Melomel - Orange Aide (ABV: 14.3%)
Acerglyn - Ma-honey(ABV: 14.7%)
Mead - Bumble Bee Buzz (ABV: 14.7%)
Mead - Bumble Bee Duzz (ABV: 14.4%)
Mead - W'all Spr'all (ABV: 14.6%)
Pseudo-Bochet - sudo Bochet (ABV: 9.7%)
Raspberry Melomel - Emberryssed (ABV: 14.2%)
Drinking - Bottles
Beer
American Wheat - SWheat (ABV: 3.9%)
Braggot - BEE cALEful (ABV: 6.4%)
California Common - West Coast (ABV: 4.2%)
Oatmeal Stout - Taking More RiSks (ABV: 4.5%)
Pale Ale - Plainly pALE (ABV: 5.5%)
Russian Imperial Stout - Taking RISks (ABV: 8.1%)
Mead
Mead - Fall-en Honey (20.9%)
Mead - Final Fall (Yes%)
Mead - Land of the Unknown (Yes%)
Melomel - Berry Mead Six Feet Down (6.6%)
Melomel - Razz Me Berry (13.4%)
Planning
Got a $5/gallon quote for fresh pressed raw cider from [Carlson Orchard]( near me. Looking to get 50 gallons once the pressing begins.
So far the different recipes I'm planning are:
1) 5g Brett'd Graff (Stout base)
2) 8g Graff (Stout base)
3) 5g Graff (Hefeweizen base)
4) 5g Graff (Pale Ale base)
5) 7g Cider (with cherries)
6) 5g Cider (with ginger)
7) 5g Brett'd Cider (with cherries soaked in Whiskey)
8) 5g Cider (wild yeast ferment)
9) 5g Cider (backsweetened)
Brewing Soon
Doing a barley wine tomorrow during the pig roast. /u/UnsungSavior16 provided his [recipe]( in the ABRT last week so I took that and scaled it up to 5 gallons.
This is my first barley wine so it will be interesting. Going to do first runnings with the recipe below and then second runnings I'll add my home grown Cascade and Columbus to make a second beer of sorts with Safale S-04.
> Recipe Name: Barely Whine
> Style: Barley Wine
> Batch Size: 5 gal
>
> 18lb 7oz - Maris Otter
> 1lb 5oz - Crystal 60
> 1lb 5oz - Crystal 80
> 1lb 5oz - Flaked Oats
> 5oz - Kent Goldings @ 60
> .5oz - Kent Goldings @ 10
> .5oz - Kent Goldings @ 5
> British Ale Yeast (Wyeast #1098)
Other
Bottling pumpkin beers this weekend. Yum. Should be ready with plenty of time to spare for Halloween.
Starting to look into clearing out all of my fermenters for cider time.
My eggnong is looking so delicious in the fridge. I can't wait to bottle and drink this. | Beer here, beer there, beer everywhere... |
Not_Ben_Stein | The real problem I think is that video gaming is no longer viewed as a form of intuitive entertainment but now a cash cow money grabbing scheme in the eyes of developers. There are so many games out now with limited functionality and poor mechanics and a clear lack of wanting to go the extra mile to make a top notch game because "it's not going to fit in the budget".
TL;DR: Profits over perfection. | The real problem I think is that video gaming is no longer viewed as a form of intuitive entertainment but now a cash cow money grabbing scheme in the eyes of developers. There are so many games out now with limited functionality and poor mechanics and a clear lack of wanting to go the extra mile to make a top notch game because "it's not going to fit in the budget".
TL;DR: Profits over perfection.
| gaming | t5_2qh03 | cktf4cx | The real problem I think is that video gaming is no longer viewed as a form of intuitive entertainment but now a cash cow money grabbing scheme in the eyes of developers. There are so many games out now with limited functionality and poor mechanics and a clear lack of wanting to go the extra mile to make a top notch game because "it's not going to fit in the budget". | Profits over perfection. |
ztsmart | The same thing happened to me in 6th grade. Our teacher would give is "tickets" for certain things, and I found a way to game the system and ended up with a fuckton of tickets. I was going to McDonald's (Lunch at McD was a redeemable option) like a pimp.
Towards the end of the year we had this auction-like event where we could use our tickets to buy prizes. This girl, Kelly, pretended to like me and I had a huge crush on her, so I bought this super nice bubble set for her with my tickets.
Then at recess, she gave the set to Stephen, this boy she liked, and they were playing with them. I tried to join in because I wanted to be with her, and she told me I couldn't, which broke my little 6th grade heart.
TL;DR: Fuck Bitches, Get Tickets | The same thing happened to me in 6th grade. Our teacher would give is "tickets" for certain things, and I found a way to game the system and ended up with a fuckton of tickets. I was going to McDonald's (Lunch at McD was a redeemable option) like a pimp.
Towards the end of the year we had this auction-like event where we could use our tickets to buy prizes. This girl, Kelly, pretended to like me and I had a huge crush on her, so I bought this super nice bubble set for her with my tickets.
Then at recess, she gave the set to Stephen, this boy she liked, and they were playing with them. I tried to join in because I wanted to be with her, and she told me I couldn't, which broke my little 6th grade heart.
TL;DR: Fuck Bitches, Get Tickets
| AdviceAnimals | t5_2s7tt | cktl87y | The same thing happened to me in 6th grade. Our teacher would give is "tickets" for certain things, and I found a way to game the system and ended up with a fuckton of tickets. I was going to McDonald's (Lunch at McD was a redeemable option) like a pimp.
Towards the end of the year we had this auction-like event where we could use our tickets to buy prizes. This girl, Kelly, pretended to like me and I had a huge crush on her, so I bought this super nice bubble set for her with my tickets.
Then at recess, she gave the set to Stephen, this boy she liked, and they were playing with them. I tried to join in because I wanted to be with her, and she told me I couldn't, which broke my little 6th grade heart. | Fuck Bitches, Get Tickets |
Angelofpity | In some states, yes. However, those laws were originally intended to protect women who had been promised marriage (I.e. were engaged) under the coverture doctrines and had already begun the process of combining estates. In the end, the likely outcome would be a shrug from the judge unless you could prove in writing that the initial intent was deception for profit, in which case it would be a slam dunk.
Edit: Tl:dr You would have to difinitively prove intent to defraud. The assumption would usually be against you.
Disclaimer: Political Scientist who writes law, not lawyer who argues it. | In some states, yes. However, those laws were originally intended to protect women who had been promised marriage (I.e. were engaged) under the coverture doctrines and had already begun the process of combining estates. In the end, the likely outcome would be a shrug from the judge unless you could prove in writing that the initial intent was deception for profit, in which case it would be a slam dunk.
Edit: Tl:dr You would have to difinitively prove intent to defraud. The assumption would usually be against you.
Disclaimer: Political Scientist who writes law, not lawyer who argues it.
| AdviceAnimals | t5_2s7tt | cktqzux | In some states, yes. However, those laws were originally intended to protect women who had been promised marriage (I.e. were engaged) under the coverture doctrines and had already begun the process of combining estates. In the end, the likely outcome would be a shrug from the judge unless you could prove in writing that the initial intent was deception for profit, in which case it would be a slam dunk.
Edit: | You would have to difinitively prove intent to defraud. The assumption would usually be against you.
Disclaimer: Political Scientist who writes law, not lawyer who argues it. |
S7R4nG3 | This is actually a much more complicated question than it sounds. So suppose you have a 75kg skydiver that decides to leap off of something and impact the ground. Using drag due to air as simple quadratic drag, you end up with a terminal velocity of: v_term = sqrt(2mg/CpA)
where C is a numerical drag coefficient, p is the air density, and A is the cross-sectional area. Plugging in some values provided [Source]( you end up with a terminal velocity of ~60 m/s or ~130 mph.
This is simply your speed hitting the ground if you drop from a height where you can reach terminal velocity, what you're asking in your question is really about deceleration (sudden deceleration causes damage). Using the "ground" as a simple surface that accounts for deceleration instantly (effectively killing you) its pretty straightforward using the force equations to find out what force you would be hitting the ground with from some height, which you could then extrapolate what bones etc you may damage and make an assumption on whether or not you would live.
Granted this is just for the ground. When you bring a fluid surface into the problem you get much more complex calculations branching into fluid dynamics, based on the time it would take you to decelerate, resistive forces from surface tension, and temperature density to name a few (also assuming you have an infinite depth of water).
What also plays a major factor though in these calculations is *how* you land. The larger surface area contacting the fluid will effectively cause more damage since force is roughly proportional to pressure per unit area (increase the area, increase the resistive force, increase the deceleration, increase the damage). This is why you can see cliff jumpers survive jumps from several stories up, they have practiced their dives rigorously to land in a very specific manner (they also time for any waves etc but that beyond the point) so that they reduce their surface area contacting the water to decelerate slower.
TL;DR Landing on water gets complicated really fast, ground is pretty straightforward. Landing in water really depends largely on *how* you land, but there are many other components that can play large roles depending on the situation.
| This is actually a much more complicated question than it sounds. So suppose you have a 75kg skydiver that decides to leap off of something and impact the ground. Using drag due to air as simple quadratic drag, you end up with a terminal velocity of: v_term = sqrt(2mg/CpA)
where C is a numerical drag coefficient, p is the air density, and A is the cross-sectional area. Plugging in some values provided [Source]( you end up with a terminal velocity of ~60 m/s or ~130 mph.
This is simply your speed hitting the ground if you drop from a height where you can reach terminal velocity, what you're asking in your question is really about deceleration (sudden deceleration causes damage). Using the "ground" as a simple surface that accounts for deceleration instantly (effectively killing you) its pretty straightforward using the force equations to find out what force you would be hitting the ground with from some height, which you could then extrapolate what bones etc you may damage and make an assumption on whether or not you would live.
Granted this is just for the ground. When you bring a fluid surface into the problem you get much more complex calculations branching into fluid dynamics, based on the time it would take you to decelerate, resistive forces from surface tension, and temperature density to name a few (also assuming you have an infinite depth of water).
What also plays a major factor though in these calculations is how you land. The larger surface area contacting the fluid will effectively cause more damage since force is roughly proportional to pressure per unit area (increase the area, increase the resistive force, increase the deceleration, increase the damage). This is why you can see cliff jumpers survive jumps from several stories up, they have practiced their dives rigorously to land in a very specific manner (they also time for any waves etc but that beyond the point) so that they reduce their surface area contacting the water to decelerate slower.
TL;DR Landing on water gets complicated really fast, ground is pretty straightforward. Landing in water really depends largely on how you land, but there are many other components that can play large roles depending on the situation.
| askscience | t5_2qm4e | cku5pha | This is actually a much more complicated question than it sounds. So suppose you have a 75kg skydiver that decides to leap off of something and impact the ground. Using drag due to air as simple quadratic drag, you end up with a terminal velocity of: v_term = sqrt(2mg/CpA)
where C is a numerical drag coefficient, p is the air density, and A is the cross-sectional area. Plugging in some values provided [Source]( you end up with a terminal velocity of ~60 m/s or ~130 mph.
This is simply your speed hitting the ground if you drop from a height where you can reach terminal velocity, what you're asking in your question is really about deceleration (sudden deceleration causes damage). Using the "ground" as a simple surface that accounts for deceleration instantly (effectively killing you) its pretty straightforward using the force equations to find out what force you would be hitting the ground with from some height, which you could then extrapolate what bones etc you may damage and make an assumption on whether or not you would live.
Granted this is just for the ground. When you bring a fluid surface into the problem you get much more complex calculations branching into fluid dynamics, based on the time it would take you to decelerate, resistive forces from surface tension, and temperature density to name a few (also assuming you have an infinite depth of water).
What also plays a major factor though in these calculations is how you land. The larger surface area contacting the fluid will effectively cause more damage since force is roughly proportional to pressure per unit area (increase the area, increase the resistive force, increase the deceleration, increase the damage). This is why you can see cliff jumpers survive jumps from several stories up, they have practiced their dives rigorously to land in a very specific manner (they also time for any waves etc but that beyond the point) so that they reduce their surface area contacting the water to decelerate slower. | Landing on water gets complicated really fast, ground is pretty straightforward. Landing in water really depends largely on how you land, but there are many other components that can play large roles depending on the situation. |
Stole_My_Banana | Pro tip : don't take your arguments outside of your relationship. You seem to already know the answer to your question, this is just humiliating her.
#2 you said they are her knives. Well you should probably use other people's property in a manner they request and just be happy they let you use it at all.
Tl;dr keep arguments in house, respect her wishes for her own property | Pro tip : don't take your arguments outside of your relationship. You seem to already know the answer to your question, this is just humiliating her.
2 you said they are her knives. Well you should probably use other people's property in a manner they request and just be happy they let you use it at all.
Tl;dr keep arguments in house, respect her wishes for her own property
| knives | t5_2qzyn | cktskc0 | Pro tip : don't take your arguments outside of your relationship. You seem to already know the answer to your question, this is just humiliating her.
2 you said they are her knives. Well you should probably use other people's property in a manner they request and just be happy they let you use it at all. | keep arguments in house, respect her wishes for her own property |
Mapleine | A few reasons for this:
1.) This is probably the most casual MMO on the market, there's little incentive for the playerbase to work hard when it's simply not required.
2.) Most people do not pick up skills to bring back down from raiding because you are essentially handed equal quality gear from a vendor and between the low boss count and savage being unitemized, raiding just isn't a big part of the game.
Also, BiS is completely irrelevant in a game where ~0.10 percent of a point from the already very poorly scaling substat system is the reward.
3.) There's no metering. Metering isn't just an ego thing, it's the primary method of growth.
These are purely math based games with most of said math running behind the scenes. Also add in the lack of customization for both character and equipment which combines with the lack of meters to make a complete wasteland of public conversation about the to and fro of battle jobs and you have a lot of people without education or inspiration. This is before we even get to the peer pressure part of no one wanting to be 15th on the meters.
Tl;dr, no one cares because the game and the community has made it irrelevant for them to care. Just grind mindless, dated content for top end rewards and don't think.
Relic Weapon Astrum in 2.42. Run 1100 Guildhests to create a Friendship Bond.
I'm sure they'll refresh Hunting so you don't even have to bother with those evil dungeons at all, too.
| A few reasons for this:
1.) This is probably the most casual MMO on the market, there's little incentive for the playerbase to work hard when it's simply not required.
2.) Most people do not pick up skills to bring back down from raiding because you are essentially handed equal quality gear from a vendor and between the low boss count and savage being unitemized, raiding just isn't a big part of the game.
Also, BiS is completely irrelevant in a game where ~0.10 percent of a point from the already very poorly scaling substat system is the reward.
3.) There's no metering. Metering isn't just an ego thing, it's the primary method of growth.
These are purely math based games with most of said math running behind the scenes. Also add in the lack of customization for both character and equipment which combines with the lack of meters to make a complete wasteland of public conversation about the to and fro of battle jobs and you have a lot of people without education or inspiration. This is before we even get to the peer pressure part of no one wanting to be 15th on the meters.
Tl;dr, no one cares because the game and the community has made it irrelevant for them to care. Just grind mindless, dated content for top end rewards and don't think.
Relic Weapon Astrum in 2.42. Run 1100 Guildhests to create a Friendship Bond.
I'm sure they'll refresh Hunting so you don't even have to bother with those evil dungeons at all, too.
| ffxiv | t5_2rgs7 | ckufgc4 | A few reasons for this:
1.) This is probably the most casual MMO on the market, there's little incentive for the playerbase to work hard when it's simply not required.
2.) Most people do not pick up skills to bring back down from raiding because you are essentially handed equal quality gear from a vendor and between the low boss count and savage being unitemized, raiding just isn't a big part of the game.
Also, BiS is completely irrelevant in a game where ~0.10 percent of a point from the already very poorly scaling substat system is the reward.
3.) There's no metering. Metering isn't just an ego thing, it's the primary method of growth.
These are purely math based games with most of said math running behind the scenes. Also add in the lack of customization for both character and equipment which combines with the lack of meters to make a complete wasteland of public conversation about the to and fro of battle jobs and you have a lot of people without education or inspiration. This is before we even get to the peer pressure part of no one wanting to be 15th on the meters. | no one cares because the game and the community has made it irrelevant for them to care. Just grind mindless, dated content for top end rewards and don't think.
Relic Weapon Astrum in 2.42. Run 1100 Guildhests to create a Friendship Bond.
I'm sure they'll refresh Hunting so you don't even have to bother with those evil dungeons at all, too. |
Do_not_reply_to_me | I think I'm reading this differently than you guys, but I'm not sure. The driver of the Silver Nissan X-Trail is not at fault here, unless it is some kind of elaborate scam.
I noticed that after the impact ([00:09]( a third vehicle rolls forward a short distance in front of the X-Trail. It took me a few viewings to identify where that vehicle comes from, it almost appears out of nowhere, but it is the reason the X-Trail stopped suddenly in the middle of the road.
If you look back at [00:03]( you can see the vehicle approaching from the far right had side of the road (just in front of the X-Trail on screen).
The darker vehicle moves across all lanes of traffic and cuts in front of the X-Trail. I don't think the X-Trail intended to even turn left or stop there. The driver of the X-Trail made a bad decision at roughly [00:05]( to try to steer left and go around the black vehicle. He was unaware of the black vehicle's ultimate intention at this point. The best move would have been to drift right slightly and continue mostly in the middle lane. Of course it is easy for me to sit here and say that having watched the video 5 times, in the heat of the moment the wrong decision is easy to make.
Drifting further and further left, the X-Trail driver realises this tactic isn't working during [00:06]( and starts to hit the brakes. He continues to track the black vehicle leftwards until, inevitably, he has to come to a complete halt behind it.
Our Cammer is, unfortunately, too close to stop in time.
tl;dr The silver X-trail was not the perp, it stopped behind a black car which enters the video at [00:03]( | I think I'm reading this differently than you guys, but I'm not sure. The driver of the Silver Nissan X-Trail is not at fault here, unless it is some kind of elaborate scam.
I noticed that after the impact ([00:09]( a third vehicle rolls forward a short distance in front of the X-Trail. It took me a few viewings to identify where that vehicle comes from, it almost appears out of nowhere, but it is the reason the X-Trail stopped suddenly in the middle of the road.
If you look back at 00:03 .
The darker vehicle moves across all lanes of traffic and cuts in front of the X-Trail. I don't think the X-Trail intended to even turn left or stop there. The driver of the X-Trail made a bad decision at roughly [00:05]( to try to steer left and go around the black vehicle. He was unaware of the black vehicle's ultimate intention at this point. The best move would have been to drift right slightly and continue mostly in the middle lane. Of course it is easy for me to sit here and say that having watched the video 5 times, in the heat of the moment the wrong decision is easy to make.
Drifting further and further left, the X-Trail driver realises this tactic isn't working during [00:06]( and starts to hit the brakes. He continues to track the black vehicle leftwards until, inevitably, he has to come to a complete halt behind it.
Our Cammer is, unfortunately, too close to stop in time.
tl;dr The silver X-trail was not the perp, it stopped behind a black car which enters the video at [00:03](
| Roadcam | t5_2u6os | ckukx3x | I think I'm reading this differently than you guys, but I'm not sure. The driver of the Silver Nissan X-Trail is not at fault here, unless it is some kind of elaborate scam.
I noticed that after the impact ([00:09]( a third vehicle rolls forward a short distance in front of the X-Trail. It took me a few viewings to identify where that vehicle comes from, it almost appears out of nowhere, but it is the reason the X-Trail stopped suddenly in the middle of the road.
If you look back at 00:03 .
The darker vehicle moves across all lanes of traffic and cuts in front of the X-Trail. I don't think the X-Trail intended to even turn left or stop there. The driver of the X-Trail made a bad decision at roughly [00:05]( to try to steer left and go around the black vehicle. He was unaware of the black vehicle's ultimate intention at this point. The best move would have been to drift right slightly and continue mostly in the middle lane. Of course it is easy for me to sit here and say that having watched the video 5 times, in the heat of the moment the wrong decision is easy to make.
Drifting further and further left, the X-Trail driver realises this tactic isn't working during [00:06]( and starts to hit the brakes. He continues to track the black vehicle leftwards until, inevitably, he has to come to a complete halt behind it.
Our Cammer is, unfortunately, too close to stop in time. | The silver X-trail was not the perp, it stopped behind a black car which enters the video at [00:03]( |
harris5 | Gorg makes good weapons, and they're competitively priced with the other pre-made options out there. [Forged Foam]( and [Warlord Sports]( are the two other major makers. They offer comparable products, and it may come out to be a little less. The shield is probably what's really driving up the cost for you. They cost more to start with, and I'm sure it's driving up the shipping. Any of those three stores will probably make you happy, just read the product details to be sure of what you're getting.
There's two other options besides purchasing pre-made swords. Option 1 is making your own from scratch. It isn't what I'd recommend for new players, and it sounds like you already decided against it. It's the cheapest option, but it is hard to make a durable and safe blade your first time through. I'm an editor at [this site which may offer some suggestions.]( [Here's some other tutorials.]( The cost is about $20usd for a sword, down to $15 if you're making in bulk.
Option 2 is what I'd recommend for most people. It's buying a pre-made blade kit from one of the 3 stores, then making your own weapon with that. It brings the cost up a few bucks, but you get a much higher quality blade (which is the most difficult part to construct). Forged foam sells blade kits for $6-8.
Shields can be done from kits, or from scratch as well, with comparable reductions in price.
TL;DR: There are other sources for pre-built purchases, linked above. If you want to reduct the cost more, you can make your own from scratch, or make your own from kits. They will probably be less durable and cleanly built, but the cost will be significantly less. | Gorg makes good weapons, and they're competitively priced with the other pre-made options out there. [Forged Foam]( and [Warlord Sports]( are the two other major makers. They offer comparable products, and it may come out to be a little less. The shield is probably what's really driving up the cost for you. They cost more to start with, and I'm sure it's driving up the shipping. Any of those three stores will probably make you happy, just read the product details to be sure of what you're getting.
There's two other options besides purchasing pre-made swords. Option 1 is making your own from scratch. It isn't what I'd recommend for new players, and it sounds like you already decided against it. It's the cheapest option, but it is hard to make a durable and safe blade your first time through. I'm an editor at [this site which may offer some suggestions.]( [Here's some other tutorials.]( The cost is about $20usd for a sword, down to $15 if you're making in bulk.
Option 2 is what I'd recommend for most people. It's buying a pre-made blade kit from one of the 3 stores, then making your own weapon with that. It brings the cost up a few bucks, but you get a much higher quality blade (which is the most difficult part to construct). Forged foam sells blade kits for $6-8.
Shields can be done from kits, or from scratch as well, with comparable reductions in price.
TL;DR: There are other sources for pre-built purchases, linked above. If you want to reduct the cost more, you can make your own from scratch, or make your own from kits. They will probably be less durable and cleanly built, but the cost will be significantly less.
| LARP | t5_2rl8h | ckvd5q5 | Gorg makes good weapons, and they're competitively priced with the other pre-made options out there. [Forged Foam]( and [Warlord Sports]( are the two other major makers. They offer comparable products, and it may come out to be a little less. The shield is probably what's really driving up the cost for you. They cost more to start with, and I'm sure it's driving up the shipping. Any of those three stores will probably make you happy, just read the product details to be sure of what you're getting.
There's two other options besides purchasing pre-made swords. Option 1 is making your own from scratch. It isn't what I'd recommend for new players, and it sounds like you already decided against it. It's the cheapest option, but it is hard to make a durable and safe blade your first time through. I'm an editor at [this site which may offer some suggestions.]( [Here's some other tutorials.]( The cost is about $20usd for a sword, down to $15 if you're making in bulk.
Option 2 is what I'd recommend for most people. It's buying a pre-made blade kit from one of the 3 stores, then making your own weapon with that. It brings the cost up a few bucks, but you get a much higher quality blade (which is the most difficult part to construct). Forged foam sells blade kits for $6-8.
Shields can be done from kits, or from scratch as well, with comparable reductions in price. | There are other sources for pre-built purchases, linked above. If you want to reduct the cost more, you can make your own from scratch, or make your own from kits. They will probably be less durable and cleanly built, but the cost will be significantly less. |
zanguine | OK people need to stop hating on Wickd, his champion pool actually isnt that small
perhaps his kayle games at worlds was last luckluster, but he seems to be able to play it well in EU LCS as he has won the two games he played her in
more or less, his main focus with kayle was to counter the ryze, as his other champions cant counter ryze, therefore went kayle top again to try and counter the ryze but got wrecked by elise's ganks therefore never really executed what he wanted to do with kayle
if maokai or irelia were up, he would have probably used them but guess what, both were banned
wickd's champion pool is where, the only meta top laner he does not play, is ryze
he has played a lot of other champions, but irelia has always been his strongest champ and since it is in the meta, why not pick it
if froggen's anivia was in the meta right now, i am pretty sure froggen would continue to pick it
waht he couldve gone however, is lulu, if you havent noticed, he has played it a lot at eu summer split, also with it, he would actually make the team comp, idk not suck?
tl:dr stop hating wickd, he picked ryze for counter but got ganked, couldve gone lulu though, team comp sucked | OK people need to stop hating on Wickd, his champion pool actually isnt that small
perhaps his kayle games at worlds was last luckluster, but he seems to be able to play it well in EU LCS as he has won the two games he played her in
more or less, his main focus with kayle was to counter the ryze, as his other champions cant counter ryze, therefore went kayle top again to try and counter the ryze but got wrecked by elise's ganks therefore never really executed what he wanted to do with kayle
if maokai or irelia were up, he would have probably used them but guess what, both were banned
wickd's champion pool is where, the only meta top laner he does not play, is ryze
he has played a lot of other champions, but irelia has always been his strongest champ and since it is in the meta, why not pick it
if froggen's anivia was in the meta right now, i am pretty sure froggen would continue to pick it
waht he couldve gone however, is lulu, if you havent noticed, he has played it a lot at eu summer split, also with it, he would actually make the team comp, idk not suck?
tl:dr stop hating wickd, he picked ryze for counter but got ganked, couldve gone lulu though, team comp sucked
| leagueoflegends | t5_2rfxx | ckulk3z | OK people need to stop hating on Wickd, his champion pool actually isnt that small
perhaps his kayle games at worlds was last luckluster, but he seems to be able to play it well in EU LCS as he has won the two games he played her in
more or less, his main focus with kayle was to counter the ryze, as his other champions cant counter ryze, therefore went kayle top again to try and counter the ryze but got wrecked by elise's ganks therefore never really executed what he wanted to do with kayle
if maokai or irelia were up, he would have probably used them but guess what, both were banned
wickd's champion pool is where, the only meta top laner he does not play, is ryze
he has played a lot of other champions, but irelia has always been his strongest champ and since it is in the meta, why not pick it
if froggen's anivia was in the meta right now, i am pretty sure froggen would continue to pick it
waht he couldve gone however, is lulu, if you havent noticed, he has played it a lot at eu summer split, also with it, he would actually make the team comp, idk not suck? | stop hating wickd, he picked ryze for counter but got ganked, couldve gone lulu though, team comp sucked |
Monsees | I think more emphasis needs to be added on how much of an underdog KaBum was this game. Alliance is the #1 team out of Europe, said by many to be the West's only chance against the mighty Korean teams in terms of winning the whole tournament. KaBum is a team from Brazil, which has a small but developing League professional scene. KaBum was not even the clear favorite to make it out of their region, let alone take down a prominent team in the World's tournament. Alliance also had recently beaten NaJin White Shield, a Korean team favored by many to make it to the finals, extremely convincingly.
There was a fair amount of controversy as to whether these wild card teams from weaker regions should be even allowed in the tournament, as they are easily defeated by the superior regions. KaBum's win puts Alliance at a record of 3-3, and placing them volatile to being knocked out of the group stages.
TL;DR: This is the biggest upset in League's history. | I think more emphasis needs to be added on how much of an underdog KaBum was this game. Alliance is the #1 team out of Europe, said by many to be the West's only chance against the mighty Korean teams in terms of winning the whole tournament. KaBum is a team from Brazil, which has a small but developing League professional scene. KaBum was not even the clear favorite to make it out of their region, let alone take down a prominent team in the World's tournament. Alliance also had recently beaten NaJin White Shield, a Korean team favored by many to make it to the finals, extremely convincingly.
There was a fair amount of controversy as to whether these wild card teams from weaker regions should be even allowed in the tournament, as they are easily defeated by the superior regions. KaBum's win puts Alliance at a record of 3-3, and placing them volatile to being knocked out of the group stages.
TL;DR: This is the biggest upset in League's history.
| leagueoflegends | t5_2rfxx | ckulsx9 | I think more emphasis needs to be added on how much of an underdog KaBum was this game. Alliance is the #1 team out of Europe, said by many to be the West's only chance against the mighty Korean teams in terms of winning the whole tournament. KaBum is a team from Brazil, which has a small but developing League professional scene. KaBum was not even the clear favorite to make it out of their region, let alone take down a prominent team in the World's tournament. Alliance also had recently beaten NaJin White Shield, a Korean team favored by many to make it to the finals, extremely convincingly.
There was a fair amount of controversy as to whether these wild card teams from weaker regions should be even allowed in the tournament, as they are easily defeated by the superior regions. KaBum's win puts Alliance at a record of 3-3, and placing them volatile to being knocked out of the group stages. | This is the biggest upset in League's history. |
Dead_Starks | Mom abandons family to "protect" son from Paladins. Goes and irresponsibly starts up another family with the possibility of that kid also being a jumper and having to be abandoned.
Tl:dr Diane Lane is a sexy milf whore but a terrible parent.
Edited words. | Mom abandons family to "protect" son from Paladins. Goes and irresponsibly starts up another family with the possibility of that kid also being a jumper and having to be abandoned.
Tl:dr Diane Lane is a sexy milf whore but a terrible parent.
Edited words.
| CinemaSins | t5_2yy0f | ckv10q0 | Mom abandons family to "protect" son from Paladins. Goes and irresponsibly starts up another family with the possibility of that kid also being a jumper and having to be abandoned. | Diane Lane is a sexy milf whore but a terrible parent.
Edited words. |
KeinBaum | I highly doubt he will leave that cart unaffected, let alone with a +1 to strength. [Sensory deprivation]( has serious effects on your mental well-being. You'll start to hallucinate pretty soon and it will only get worse from there. Two days can weaken your memory for quite a bit. In experiments, no participant was able to stay in a light- and soudproof chamber for longer than three days. The cart may not be sound proof but I guess the dungeon will still be quite silent. Long term deprivation can lead to symptoms similar to those of schizophrenia.
Even the ring's "mind refreshing" abilities wont help much, the same effects occur if you're well fed and rested.
Also since the ring provides nourishment instead of removing the need to eat and drink, he'll still have to do his daily business. That doesn't make the cart more comfortable. It's not exactly healthy either.
**TL;DR** If he doesn't get out of there fast, he'll most likely go insane and will quite possibly get (physically) sick, too.
Edit: More explanation on effects of deprivation. | I highly doubt he will leave that cart unaffected, let alone with a +1 to strength. [Sensory deprivation]( has serious effects on your mental well-being. You'll start to hallucinate pretty soon and it will only get worse from there. Two days can weaken your memory for quite a bit. In experiments, no participant was able to stay in a light- and soudproof chamber for longer than three days. The cart may not be sound proof but I guess the dungeon will still be quite silent. Long term deprivation can lead to symptoms similar to those of schizophrenia.
Even the ring's "mind refreshing" abilities wont help much, the same effects occur if you're well fed and rested.
Also since the ring provides nourishment instead of removing the need to eat and drink, he'll still have to do his daily business. That doesn't make the cart more comfortable. It's not exactly healthy either.
TL;DR If he doesn't get out of there fast, he'll most likely go insane and will quite possibly get (physically) sick, too.
Edit: More explanation on effects of deprivation.
| DnD | t5_2r9ei | ckv4p8l | I highly doubt he will leave that cart unaffected, let alone with a +1 to strength. [Sensory deprivation]( has serious effects on your mental well-being. You'll start to hallucinate pretty soon and it will only get worse from there. Two days can weaken your memory for quite a bit. In experiments, no participant was able to stay in a light- and soudproof chamber for longer than three days. The cart may not be sound proof but I guess the dungeon will still be quite silent. Long term deprivation can lead to symptoms similar to those of schizophrenia.
Even the ring's "mind refreshing" abilities wont help much, the same effects occur if you're well fed and rested.
Also since the ring provides nourishment instead of removing the need to eat and drink, he'll still have to do his daily business. That doesn't make the cart more comfortable. It's not exactly healthy either. | If he doesn't get out of there fast, he'll most likely go insane and will quite possibly get (physically) sick, too.
Edit: More explanation on effects of deprivation. |
heartshapeddog | Pan girl checking in. If she likes you, she likes you. I'm in a hetero relationship even though I don't consider myself totally straight. I find him attractive and funny and I love him for who he is, but his attractiveness doesn't hinge on his being a cis male for me.
TLDR if she thinks you're hot, she thinks you're hot. | Pan girl checking in. If she likes you, she likes you. I'm in a hetero relationship even though I don't consider myself totally straight. I find him attractive and funny and I love him for who he is, but his attractiveness doesn't hinge on his being a cis male for me.
TLDR if she thinks you're hot, she thinks you're hot.
| sex | t5_2qh3p | ckvbt33 | Pan girl checking in. If she likes you, she likes you. I'm in a hetero relationship even though I don't consider myself totally straight. I find him attractive and funny and I love him for who he is, but his attractiveness doesn't hinge on his being a cis male for me. | if she thinks you're hot, she thinks you're hot. |
eiyukabe | Here's something I've thought about regarding ads being barely noticeable: Ad blindness. Many people get so habituated to ads they ignore them, meaning that the advertiser is paying for a service they aren't going to get anything from. Maybe in the aggregate enough people will make a purchase based on an ad that it's worth it, but as an individual am I contributing "my fair share"? It gets to this weird position where you feel guilty for using ad block, so you turn it off and ignore the ads. Then you feel guilty for ignoring the ads, so you read them even though you have no real interest in them. Then what do you do, start purchasing things that are advertised to you that you don't need out of guilt? Otherwise aren't you extorting the advertising company into paying for your surfing habits, like going on a date with someone willing to buy you supper but knowing ahead of time you aren't really interested in them (beyond the free meal)?
tldr; online advertising as it stands is highly irrational, so it is hard to justifiably guilt-monger around it. | Here's something I've thought about regarding ads being barely noticeable: Ad blindness. Many people get so habituated to ads they ignore them, meaning that the advertiser is paying for a service they aren't going to get anything from. Maybe in the aggregate enough people will make a purchase based on an ad that it's worth it, but as an individual am I contributing "my fair share"? It gets to this weird position where you feel guilty for using ad block, so you turn it off and ignore the ads. Then you feel guilty for ignoring the ads, so you read them even though you have no real interest in them. Then what do you do, start purchasing things that are advertised to you that you don't need out of guilt? Otherwise aren't you extorting the advertising company into paying for your surfing habits, like going on a date with someone willing to buy you supper but knowing ahead of time you aren't really interested in them (beyond the free meal)?
tldr; online advertising as it stands is highly irrational, so it is hard to justifiably guilt-monger around it.
| changemyview | t5_2w2s8 | ckv69uz | Here's something I've thought about regarding ads being barely noticeable: Ad blindness. Many people get so habituated to ads they ignore them, meaning that the advertiser is paying for a service they aren't going to get anything from. Maybe in the aggregate enough people will make a purchase based on an ad that it's worth it, but as an individual am I contributing "my fair share"? It gets to this weird position where you feel guilty for using ad block, so you turn it off and ignore the ads. Then you feel guilty for ignoring the ads, so you read them even though you have no real interest in them. Then what do you do, start purchasing things that are advertised to you that you don't need out of guilt? Otherwise aren't you extorting the advertising company into paying for your surfing habits, like going on a date with someone willing to buy you supper but knowing ahead of time you aren't really interested in them (beyond the free meal)? | online advertising as it stands is highly irrational, so it is hard to justifiably guilt-monger around it. |
eiyukabe | It's not just pedantry though -- there are meaningful world view implications of the mindset implied that people who load then ignore ads are "contributors" but people who block ads aren't. If you load an ad with no intention to buy the advertising company's products or to even *pay it any attention* (as is statistically likely then aren't you in a way defrauding the company paying for the ad into paying for your browsing habits? Conversely, if you feel guilted into buying things through ads that you don't need so you aren't a moocher as I outlined, then you just as well be paying for the service you are using and leaving out the middle man (and the shipping of a product you don't really want other than to avoid guilt). If you load an ad and genuinely follow through (by purchasing something, not by clicking on it to go to another website whose ads you ignore), then I suppose you are balancing the local economy by sacrificing money, but it is only through sheer luck that you were interested in that product enough to purchase it but had not yet purchased it through another channel.
I'm not trying to be pedantic, the whole thing just seems like an irrational custom that I feel worth scrutinizing.
tldr; people who load ads usually aren't giving any more than people who use adblock; they are merely getting other people to give for them. | It's not just pedantry though -- there are meaningful world view implications of the mindset implied that people who load then ignore ads are "contributors" but people who block ads aren't. If you load an ad with no intention to buy the advertising company's products or to even pay it any attention (as is statistically likely then aren't you in a way defrauding the company paying for the ad into paying for your browsing habits? Conversely, if you feel guilted into buying things through ads that you don't need so you aren't a moocher as I outlined, then you just as well be paying for the service you are using and leaving out the middle man (and the shipping of a product you don't really want other than to avoid guilt). If you load an ad and genuinely follow through (by purchasing something, not by clicking on it to go to another website whose ads you ignore), then I suppose you are balancing the local economy by sacrificing money, but it is only through sheer luck that you were interested in that product enough to purchase it but had not yet purchased it through another channel.
I'm not trying to be pedantic, the whole thing just seems like an irrational custom that I feel worth scrutinizing.
tldr; people who load ads usually aren't giving any more than people who use adblock; they are merely getting other people to give for them.
| changemyview | t5_2w2s8 | ckvmeci | It's not just pedantry though -- there are meaningful world view implications of the mindset implied that people who load then ignore ads are "contributors" but people who block ads aren't. If you load an ad with no intention to buy the advertising company's products or to even pay it any attention (as is statistically likely then aren't you in a way defrauding the company paying for the ad into paying for your browsing habits? Conversely, if you feel guilted into buying things through ads that you don't need so you aren't a moocher as I outlined, then you just as well be paying for the service you are using and leaving out the middle man (and the shipping of a product you don't really want other than to avoid guilt). If you load an ad and genuinely follow through (by purchasing something, not by clicking on it to go to another website whose ads you ignore), then I suppose you are balancing the local economy by sacrificing money, but it is only through sheer luck that you were interested in that product enough to purchase it but had not yet purchased it through another channel.
I'm not trying to be pedantic, the whole thing just seems like an irrational custom that I feel worth scrutinizing. | people who load ads usually aren't giving any more than people who use adblock; they are merely getting other people to give for them. |
InfiniteDoors | Well in Doom's case, first they find suitable candidates that, after a period of hypothesizing and testing, will create a human being as close a possible to Victor von Doom. Then, they send him and team of scientists to hone him into the universe's only savior. After Doom is old enough, he will begin creating a whole utopia for us in Europe. After much research and development, we have a real life equivalent of Doom from the comics, complete with a Latveria-esque country and everything it contains. Then they listen to the sound his lasers make, and use that for the comics.
**TL;DR: Government made real Doom, used his real lasers to know how lasers sound** | Well in Doom's case, first they find suitable candidates that, after a period of hypothesizing and testing, will create a human being as close a possible to Victor von Doom. Then, they send him and team of scientists to hone him into the universe's only savior. After Doom is old enough, he will begin creating a whole utopia for us in Europe. After much research and development, we have a real life equivalent of Doom from the comics, complete with a Latveria-esque country and everything it contains. Then they listen to the sound his lasers make, and use that for the comics.
TL;DR: Government made real Doom, used his real lasers to know how lasers sound
| whowouldwin | t5_2s599 | ckv3x00 | Well in Doom's case, first they find suitable candidates that, after a period of hypothesizing and testing, will create a human being as close a possible to Victor von Doom. Then, they send him and team of scientists to hone him into the universe's only savior. After Doom is old enough, he will begin creating a whole utopia for us in Europe. After much research and development, we have a real life equivalent of Doom from the comics, complete with a Latveria-esque country and everything it contains. Then they listen to the sound his lasers make, and use that for the comics. | Government made real Doom, used his real lasers to know how lasers sound |
TomBadombadil | Race cars often don't give a damn about aerodynamic drag or mileage. Or at least consider those things low priority. Races are often short enough that fuel consumption is a non-issue. Race cars care about downforce, and fucking lots of it, to increase the available cornering speed. So most of the race car aero you see, like huge wings, causes tons of drag, because no free lunch. Defusers, much like huge wings, often cause drag, lowering ultimate top speed, but increasing overall cornering speed.
When modification is aimed at increasing mileage, and mileage only on a street car operated at legal speeds, the mods are much more subtle and look very different. Or in the case of scdcslave's link, the mods are aimed at reducing any air resistance from the car body in order to get a bit more speed out of a low horsepower drag racer. Amounts to similar approaches.
On F1 level cars, with million dollar development budgets involving wind tunnels, teams of engineers, and computer modeling, all the little aero tricks exist at once and are built into the very shape of the car. It's why the noses are so pointy, to make up for that huge wing I discussed. If the car is standing still, you know what you're looking at, and can inspect the car carefully, you will find the little tricks that increase mileage and help aero, except here they will be used to ensure top speed and such.
In lesser race cars, with mortal budgets, they just slap on all those wings and shit for downforce, like I said, and usually try to make up for the loss with more power. I'm thinking of stuff like Mustang road racers here.
TLDR- If you knew more about race cars you'd realize that all that "increase mileage and help aerodynamics" shit is on race cars. | Race cars often don't give a damn about aerodynamic drag or mileage. Or at least consider those things low priority. Races are often short enough that fuel consumption is a non-issue. Race cars care about downforce, and fucking lots of it, to increase the available cornering speed. So most of the race car aero you see, like huge wings, causes tons of drag, because no free lunch. Defusers, much like huge wings, often cause drag, lowering ultimate top speed, but increasing overall cornering speed.
When modification is aimed at increasing mileage, and mileage only on a street car operated at legal speeds, the mods are much more subtle and look very different. Or in the case of scdcslave's link, the mods are aimed at reducing any air resistance from the car body in order to get a bit more speed out of a low horsepower drag racer. Amounts to similar approaches.
On F1 level cars, with million dollar development budgets involving wind tunnels, teams of engineers, and computer modeling, all the little aero tricks exist at once and are built into the very shape of the car. It's why the noses are so pointy, to make up for that huge wing I discussed. If the car is standing still, you know what you're looking at, and can inspect the car carefully, you will find the little tricks that increase mileage and help aero, except here they will be used to ensure top speed and such.
In lesser race cars, with mortal budgets, they just slap on all those wings and shit for downforce, like I said, and usually try to make up for the loss with more power. I'm thinking of stuff like Mustang road racers here.
TLDR- If you knew more about race cars you'd realize that all that "increase mileage and help aerodynamics" shit is on race cars.
| Shitty_Car_Mods | t5_2wfqt | ckvc9un | Race cars often don't give a damn about aerodynamic drag or mileage. Or at least consider those things low priority. Races are often short enough that fuel consumption is a non-issue. Race cars care about downforce, and fucking lots of it, to increase the available cornering speed. So most of the race car aero you see, like huge wings, causes tons of drag, because no free lunch. Defusers, much like huge wings, often cause drag, lowering ultimate top speed, but increasing overall cornering speed.
When modification is aimed at increasing mileage, and mileage only on a street car operated at legal speeds, the mods are much more subtle and look very different. Or in the case of scdcslave's link, the mods are aimed at reducing any air resistance from the car body in order to get a bit more speed out of a low horsepower drag racer. Amounts to similar approaches.
On F1 level cars, with million dollar development budgets involving wind tunnels, teams of engineers, and computer modeling, all the little aero tricks exist at once and are built into the very shape of the car. It's why the noses are so pointy, to make up for that huge wing I discussed. If the car is standing still, you know what you're looking at, and can inspect the car carefully, you will find the little tricks that increase mileage and help aero, except here they will be used to ensure top speed and such.
In lesser race cars, with mortal budgets, they just slap on all those wings and shit for downforce, like I said, and usually try to make up for the loss with more power. I'm thinking of stuff like Mustang road racers here. | If you knew more about race cars you'd realize that all that "increase mileage and help aerodynamics" shit is on race cars. |
ComebacKids | Draven probably is more mechanically demanding, but Vayne is up there too.
So one of the biggest factor's is Vayne's auto attack range. Because it is so low, your mechanics, meaning not just your last hitting but also your ability to auto harass, dodge skill shots, and use tumble correctly, will play a big role in how well laning goes.
Also because Vayne's auto range is so low, endgame during teamfights you are always going to be walking the tightrope of bad positioning and good positioning. Tumble in preemptively and you're screwed. Don't orb walk/kite well and you're screwed. Position correctly and bruisers/assassins without extreme sticking power won't have a chance.
She's not like Cait, Kog, Twitch, etc that can stand in the back lines and safely auto. As Vayne you have to get your hands dirty more so than any other adc.
TL;DR- your auto range makes laning hard and teamfights more dangerous, so proper mechanics and positioning are everything for Vayne since you do nothing but auto attack. | Draven probably is more mechanically demanding, but Vayne is up there too.
So one of the biggest factor's is Vayne's auto attack range. Because it is so low, your mechanics, meaning not just your last hitting but also your ability to auto harass, dodge skill shots, and use tumble correctly, will play a big role in how well laning goes.
Also because Vayne's auto range is so low, endgame during teamfights you are always going to be walking the tightrope of bad positioning and good positioning. Tumble in preemptively and you're screwed. Don't orb walk/kite well and you're screwed. Position correctly and bruisers/assassins without extreme sticking power won't have a chance.
She's not like Cait, Kog, Twitch, etc that can stand in the back lines and safely auto. As Vayne you have to get your hands dirty more so than any other adc.
TL;DR- your auto range makes laning hard and teamfights more dangerous, so proper mechanics and positioning are everything for Vayne since you do nothing but auto attack.
| summonerschool | t5_2t9x3 | ckv85y8 | Draven probably is more mechanically demanding, but Vayne is up there too.
So one of the biggest factor's is Vayne's auto attack range. Because it is so low, your mechanics, meaning not just your last hitting but also your ability to auto harass, dodge skill shots, and use tumble correctly, will play a big role in how well laning goes.
Also because Vayne's auto range is so low, endgame during teamfights you are always going to be walking the tightrope of bad positioning and good positioning. Tumble in preemptively and you're screwed. Don't orb walk/kite well and you're screwed. Position correctly and bruisers/assassins without extreme sticking power won't have a chance.
She's not like Cait, Kog, Twitch, etc that can stand in the back lines and safely auto. As Vayne you have to get your hands dirty more so than any other adc. | your auto range makes laning hard and teamfights more dangerous, so proper mechanics and positioning are everything for Vayne since you do nothing but auto attack. |
Timeb0mbGR | Play him mid lane, probably better results given the meta.
If you want to play him top, pick him INTO a matchup you feel confident, and never blind pick wukong for top. The matchups up there are so hard for wukong that you need to be playing below your skill level to win them. (implying you sure can win if you're a plat vs gold and below.
At equal skill level no way you win, say, a renekton vs wukong. A general rule in this game is champ belong to categories, mana/no mana, burst/sustain damage, resilient/non resilient (there are more but i'm in a rush). Let's say Wukong is a mana burst non resilient champ. Renekton for example is a non mana burst/sustain resilient champ. It's not even about skill, you lose straight on paper the champ is just superior in a 1v1 scenario, same for pretty much every top matchup vs wukong, hell, being mana gated with no form of defense won't work up there, it just can't. That's why he is bad in the top lane. However his mid lane is super strong, your burst is enough to win a lot of matchup, and the fact that people aren't used to it plays in your favor.
Put every factor to your side. Also solo queue is about winning lane if you intend to climb consistently.
tl;dr: try him mid lane, your lv1/2 are sooo good, don't blind pick him top, you're asking for the spanking. | Play him mid lane, probably better results given the meta.
If you want to play him top, pick him INTO a matchup you feel confident, and never blind pick wukong for top. The matchups up there are so hard for wukong that you need to be playing below your skill level to win them. (implying you sure can win if you're a plat vs gold and below.
At equal skill level no way you win, say, a renekton vs wukong. A general rule in this game is champ belong to categories, mana/no mana, burst/sustain damage, resilient/non resilient (there are more but i'm in a rush). Let's say Wukong is a mana burst non resilient champ. Renekton for example is a non mana burst/sustain resilient champ. It's not even about skill, you lose straight on paper the champ is just superior in a 1v1 scenario, same for pretty much every top matchup vs wukong, hell, being mana gated with no form of defense won't work up there, it just can't. That's why he is bad in the top lane. However his mid lane is super strong, your burst is enough to win a lot of matchup, and the fact that people aren't used to it plays in your favor.
Put every factor to your side. Also solo queue is about winning lane if you intend to climb consistently.
tl;dr: try him mid lane, your lv1/2 are sooo good, don't blind pick him top, you're asking for the spanking.
| LeagueofLegendsMeta | t5_2smhl | ckx4kim | Play him mid lane, probably better results given the meta.
If you want to play him top, pick him INTO a matchup you feel confident, and never blind pick wukong for top. The matchups up there are so hard for wukong that you need to be playing below your skill level to win them. (implying you sure can win if you're a plat vs gold and below.
At equal skill level no way you win, say, a renekton vs wukong. A general rule in this game is champ belong to categories, mana/no mana, burst/sustain damage, resilient/non resilient (there are more but i'm in a rush). Let's say Wukong is a mana burst non resilient champ. Renekton for example is a non mana burst/sustain resilient champ. It's not even about skill, you lose straight on paper the champ is just superior in a 1v1 scenario, same for pretty much every top matchup vs wukong, hell, being mana gated with no form of defense won't work up there, it just can't. That's why he is bad in the top lane. However his mid lane is super strong, your burst is enough to win a lot of matchup, and the fact that people aren't used to it plays in your favor.
Put every factor to your side. Also solo queue is about winning lane if you intend to climb consistently. | try him mid lane, your lv1/2 are sooo good, don't blind pick him top, you're asking for the spanking. |
Timeb0mbGR | This mindset is good, no doubt, however that's not how soloq works for solo lanes. You have to pick a "safe" champ if picking first, you can't pick your fav champ first if he isn't in a good spot in the meta. However you can pick him blindly when you know your experience on it will have so much weight that your enemy won't deal with you, however in that case it means you are probably playing below your skill level. You have to RESPECT your enemies, if you are smurfing, sure go ahead and disrespect, if you are not, you can't rely on your champ to scale better of late game.
In top lane or mid lane against an opponent as skilled as you you won't come back from 0/2 or 0/3 without your team helping you, meaning you are a burden to your team which you shouldn't be, as a solo lane role is to carry almost whole game while the adc shines in the end. What i mean is if you pick a losing matchup because its your fav champ and you think you can overcome, don't be mad when you lost at 20 because your mid/top and bot fed or smthg. You never put your self in a position to carry in the first place.
Respect your opponents, or blame yourself. Some champs are just not in a good spot, use them cautiously. Getting carried, and waiting for the late game are different things. Being 100cs and one or two kills behind your enemy and winning late game means someone in your team pulled your weight during this whole time somehow. Sure you where there to pick your quadra, good job. But if your mid and bot performed early as poorly as you did game would end with the "Defeat" screen.
its SOLOqueue, you NEED to pull your own weight, you can't assume that your enemy won't abuse you.
This is one of the most common mistake in soloq, people picking their champs into anything because they are good at them, they forget that they might be playing against someone as good or better as them, and put themselves and their team at disadvantage before game even started.
tl;dr: abuse champ select and don't get abused by it. also don't let your pride go in your way if you plan to go up in ranks. if not just have fun, but don't expect crazy good results.
Everyone learns this eventually, the sooner the better,
NOW GO GET THAT FREELO. Sorry for wall
EDIT: Getting carried is a VIABLE way to get elo, it's just not consistent. | This mindset is good, no doubt, however that's not how soloq works for solo lanes. You have to pick a "safe" champ if picking first, you can't pick your fav champ first if he isn't in a good spot in the meta. However you can pick him blindly when you know your experience on it will have so much weight that your enemy won't deal with you, however in that case it means you are probably playing below your skill level. You have to RESPECT your enemies, if you are smurfing, sure go ahead and disrespect, if you are not, you can't rely on your champ to scale better of late game.
In top lane or mid lane against an opponent as skilled as you you won't come back from 0/2 or 0/3 without your team helping you, meaning you are a burden to your team which you shouldn't be, as a solo lane role is to carry almost whole game while the adc shines in the end. What i mean is if you pick a losing matchup because its your fav champ and you think you can overcome, don't be mad when you lost at 20 because your mid/top and bot fed or smthg. You never put your self in a position to carry in the first place.
Respect your opponents, or blame yourself. Some champs are just not in a good spot, use them cautiously. Getting carried, and waiting for the late game are different things. Being 100cs and one or two kills behind your enemy and winning late game means someone in your team pulled your weight during this whole time somehow. Sure you where there to pick your quadra, good job. But if your mid and bot performed early as poorly as you did game would end with the "Defeat" screen.
its SOLOqueue, you NEED to pull your own weight, you can't assume that your enemy won't abuse you.
This is one of the most common mistake in soloq, people picking their champs into anything because they are good at them, they forget that they might be playing against someone as good or better as them, and put themselves and their team at disadvantage before game even started.
tl;dr: abuse champ select and don't get abused by it. also don't let your pride go in your way if you plan to go up in ranks. if not just have fun, but don't expect crazy good results.
Everyone learns this eventually, the sooner the better,
NOW GO GET THAT FREELO. Sorry for wall
EDIT: Getting carried is a VIABLE way to get elo, it's just not consistent.
| LeagueofLegendsMeta | t5_2smhl | ckx5km4 | This mindset is good, no doubt, however that's not how soloq works for solo lanes. You have to pick a "safe" champ if picking first, you can't pick your fav champ first if he isn't in a good spot in the meta. However you can pick him blindly when you know your experience on it will have so much weight that your enemy won't deal with you, however in that case it means you are probably playing below your skill level. You have to RESPECT your enemies, if you are smurfing, sure go ahead and disrespect, if you are not, you can't rely on your champ to scale better of late game.
In top lane or mid lane against an opponent as skilled as you you won't come back from 0/2 or 0/3 without your team helping you, meaning you are a burden to your team which you shouldn't be, as a solo lane role is to carry almost whole game while the adc shines in the end. What i mean is if you pick a losing matchup because its your fav champ and you think you can overcome, don't be mad when you lost at 20 because your mid/top and bot fed or smthg. You never put your self in a position to carry in the first place.
Respect your opponents, or blame yourself. Some champs are just not in a good spot, use them cautiously. Getting carried, and waiting for the late game are different things. Being 100cs and one or two kills behind your enemy and winning late game means someone in your team pulled your weight during this whole time somehow. Sure you where there to pick your quadra, good job. But if your mid and bot performed early as poorly as you did game would end with the "Defeat" screen.
its SOLOqueue, you NEED to pull your own weight, you can't assume that your enemy won't abuse you.
This is one of the most common mistake in soloq, people picking their champs into anything because they are good at them, they forget that they might be playing against someone as good or better as them, and put themselves and their team at disadvantage before game even started. | abuse champ select and don't get abused by it. also don't let your pride go in your way if you plan to go up in ranks. if not just have fun, but don't expect crazy good results.
Everyone learns this eventually, the sooner the better,
NOW GO GET THAT FREELO. Sorry for wall
EDIT: Getting carried is a VIABLE way to get elo, it's just not consistent. |
ClevarNiggar | It was because he felt out of place in this crazy fast paced world we live in, he was playing football but his family were wrestlers and he was unsure what path he would take, he just wanted to belong to something and he fell into the wrong crowd and found it hard to say NO to the drugs because he didn't want to be lost again and not know what to do.
TL;DR He didn't know his role, couldn't shut his hole | It was because he felt out of place in this crazy fast paced world we live in, he was playing football but his family were wrestlers and he was unsure what path he would take, he just wanted to belong to something and he fell into the wrong crowd and found it hard to say NO to the drugs because he didn't want to be lost again and not know what to do.
TL;DR He didn't know his role, couldn't shut his hole
| Jokes | t5_2qh72 | ckvxmo1 | It was because he felt out of place in this crazy fast paced world we live in, he was playing football but his family were wrestlers and he was unsure what path he would take, he just wanted to belong to something and he fell into the wrong crowd and found it hard to say NO to the drugs because he didn't want to be lost again and not know what to do. | He didn't know his role, couldn't shut his hole |
palinola | The purpose of language is to convey information in the most effective way possible. Mastery of a language is not so much a matter of vocabulary or grammar as it is a matter of pace.
If a person is used to receiving and conveying information at a certain pace, they will feel overwhelmed if they receive information at a higher pace, and impatient if they receive information at a slower pace.
Humans have a natural tendency to seek the highest possible pace of language to ensure that information is conveyed accurately and promptly. This is especially true in professional situations (when people are at work) or when people are on their way somewhere (out in the city).
Swedes have a high pace in Swedish and a good pace in English.
if you then initiate a conversation in Swedish in a slow pace, with a clear British/American accent, people will naturally move over to English because they presume that the pace will be faster that way. They don't have to decipher what you are trying to say, they don't have to repeat themselves, they don't have to limit their vocabulary. They can speak with purpose and clarity.
**tl;dr: It is no-one's duty to be your teacher or practice puppet, only to receive and convey information in the most efficient way available.**
There is also a factor that swedes are proud of the fact that they know English well and want to accommodate Anglo-American visitors. Plus, have you considered the fact that they may be just as anxious to practice their English as you are to practice your Swedish?
Imagine that you're living in your home country, and have studied Swedish your whole life. You are excellent at it, and you pride yourself on that fact, but it's quite uncommon to actually run into any Swedish people visiting your country! Then one day you run into a Swedish tourist, who speaks to you in really really terrible English, but you can tell he has a Swedish accent, so you switch over to Swedish to make the exchange easier.
How would you feel if that Swedish tourist got cross with you just because you wanted to speak with him? | The purpose of language is to convey information in the most effective way possible. Mastery of a language is not so much a matter of vocabulary or grammar as it is a matter of pace.
If a person is used to receiving and conveying information at a certain pace, they will feel overwhelmed if they receive information at a higher pace, and impatient if they receive information at a slower pace.
Humans have a natural tendency to seek the highest possible pace of language to ensure that information is conveyed accurately and promptly. This is especially true in professional situations (when people are at work) or when people are on their way somewhere (out in the city).
Swedes have a high pace in Swedish and a good pace in English.
if you then initiate a conversation in Swedish in a slow pace, with a clear British/American accent, people will naturally move over to English because they presume that the pace will be faster that way. They don't have to decipher what you are trying to say, they don't have to repeat themselves, they don't have to limit their vocabulary. They can speak with purpose and clarity.
tl;dr: It is no-one's duty to be your teacher or practice puppet, only to receive and convey information in the most efficient way available.
There is also a factor that swedes are proud of the fact that they know English well and want to accommodate Anglo-American visitors. Plus, have you considered the fact that they may be just as anxious to practice their English as you are to practice your Swedish?
Imagine that you're living in your home country, and have studied Swedish your whole life. You are excellent at it, and you pride yourself on that fact, but it's quite uncommon to actually run into any Swedish people visiting your country! Then one day you run into a Swedish tourist, who speaks to you in really really terrible English, but you can tell he has a Swedish accent, so you switch over to Swedish to make the exchange easier.
How would you feel if that Swedish tourist got cross with you just because you wanted to speak with him?
| sweden | t5_2qofe | ckvtsgw | The purpose of language is to convey information in the most effective way possible. Mastery of a language is not so much a matter of vocabulary or grammar as it is a matter of pace.
If a person is used to receiving and conveying information at a certain pace, they will feel overwhelmed if they receive information at a higher pace, and impatient if they receive information at a slower pace.
Humans have a natural tendency to seek the highest possible pace of language to ensure that information is conveyed accurately and promptly. This is especially true in professional situations (when people are at work) or when people are on their way somewhere (out in the city).
Swedes have a high pace in Swedish and a good pace in English.
if you then initiate a conversation in Swedish in a slow pace, with a clear British/American accent, people will naturally move over to English because they presume that the pace will be faster that way. They don't have to decipher what you are trying to say, they don't have to repeat themselves, they don't have to limit their vocabulary. They can speak with purpose and clarity. | It is no-one's duty to be your teacher or practice puppet, only to receive and convey information in the most efficient way available.
There is also a factor that swedes are proud of the fact that they know English well and want to accommodate Anglo-American visitors. Plus, have you considered the fact that they may be just as anxious to practice their English as you are to practice your Swedish?
Imagine that you're living in your home country, and have studied Swedish your whole life. You are excellent at it, and you pride yourself on that fact, but it's quite uncommon to actually run into any Swedish people visiting your country! Then one day you run into a Swedish tourist, who speaks to you in really really terrible English, but you can tell he has a Swedish accent, so you switch over to Swedish to make the exchange easier.
How would you feel if that Swedish tourist got cross with you just because you wanted to speak with him? |
billsil | > I need some concrete examples of how I should design my meals. Do I eat 28 eggs (it totals around 1500 kcal which is what I need) and nothing else? Do I even cook the eggs?!?!?
You are so overthinking it. They list eggs because you can/should eat eggs. Eat them raw, eat them fried, eat them cooked, whatever. I'm sure you can decide how you'd like them better than me.
The point of the site is to eat real food. Want potatoes? Eat potatoes. Just don't fry them in vegetable oil.
> Do I eat 28 eggs
Why would you do that? Since you asked...if you really want to. The site lists a bunch of things to eat. Eat them all, just not at the same time.
So for example, have 4 eggs, some kale, with olive oil. Don't like kale? Try cabbage. Is it bland? Throw in spices and some fat. Still bland...more spices and fat.
> I don't think in eggs and tomatoes. What I know is the final product such as "fried rice" and "cheese burger".
That's just it. You need to. Potatoes fried in butter...totally fine. Potatoes fried in vegetable oil that's been used 100 times by McDonalds, not so much. A can of coke, not healthy. A glass of orange juice...not healthy. 6 oranges (the same amount of juice as that glass), totally fine.
If you buy premade food (from a restaurant or the store), you're (more than likely) doing it wrong.
tldr; Eat food, not food like products. If it doesn't exist in nature, you probably shouldn't be eating it. | > I need some concrete examples of how I should design my meals. Do I eat 28 eggs (it totals around 1500 kcal which is what I need) and nothing else? Do I even cook the eggs?!?!?
You are so overthinking it. They list eggs because you can/should eat eggs. Eat them raw, eat them fried, eat them cooked, whatever. I'm sure you can decide how you'd like them better than me.
The point of the site is to eat real food. Want potatoes? Eat potatoes. Just don't fry them in vegetable oil.
> Do I eat 28 eggs
Why would you do that? Since you asked...if you really want to. The site lists a bunch of things to eat. Eat them all, just not at the same time.
So for example, have 4 eggs, some kale, with olive oil. Don't like kale? Try cabbage. Is it bland? Throw in spices and some fat. Still bland...more spices and fat.
> I don't think in eggs and tomatoes. What I know is the final product such as "fried rice" and "cheese burger".
That's just it. You need to. Potatoes fried in butter...totally fine. Potatoes fried in vegetable oil that's been used 100 times by McDonalds, not so much. A can of coke, not healthy. A glass of orange juice...not healthy. 6 oranges (the same amount of juice as that glass), totally fine.
If you buy premade food (from a restaurant or the store), you're (more than likely) doing it wrong.
tldr; Eat food, not food like products. If it doesn't exist in nature, you probably shouldn't be eating it.
| nutrition | t5_2qoox | ckw1w51 | I need some concrete examples of how I should design my meals. Do I eat 28 eggs (it totals around 1500 kcal which is what I need) and nothing else? Do I even cook the eggs?!?!?
You are so overthinking it. They list eggs because you can/should eat eggs. Eat them raw, eat them fried, eat them cooked, whatever. I'm sure you can decide how you'd like them better than me.
The point of the site is to eat real food. Want potatoes? Eat potatoes. Just don't fry them in vegetable oil.
> Do I eat 28 eggs
Why would you do that? Since you asked...if you really want to. The site lists a bunch of things to eat. Eat them all, just not at the same time.
So for example, have 4 eggs, some kale, with olive oil. Don't like kale? Try cabbage. Is it bland? Throw in spices and some fat. Still bland...more spices and fat.
> I don't think in eggs and tomatoes. What I know is the final product such as "fried rice" and "cheese burger".
That's just it. You need to. Potatoes fried in butter...totally fine. Potatoes fried in vegetable oil that's been used 100 times by McDonalds, not so much. A can of coke, not healthy. A glass of orange juice...not healthy. 6 oranges (the same amount of juice as that glass), totally fine.
If you buy premade food (from a restaurant or the store), you're (more than likely) doing it wrong. | Eat food, not food like products. If it doesn't exist in nature, you probably shouldn't be eating it. |
ACleverRedditorName | Too bad those girls start off with mixed messages then. You both liked each other. So if you're not actually interested, remove him and/or tell him as much.
TL/DR: girls who refuse to talk are bitches. | Too bad those girls start off with mixed messages then. You both liked each other. So if you're not actually interested, remove him and/or tell him as much.
TL/DR: girls who refuse to talk are bitches.
| AdviceAnimals | t5_2s7tt | ckwn2z3 | Too bad those girls start off with mixed messages then. You both liked each other. So if you're not actually interested, remove him and/or tell him as much. | girls who refuse to talk are bitches. |
bobstevejoe365 | If you really like community aspects of mmos, you'll probably like it. There's not much to the rpg part of the game yet, it's a basic 'get to a higher level so you can get loot so you can get to a higher level so you can do raids so you can get better loot' The actual loot is pretty cool though, since the majority of it is community designed and often referential to other media. That said, There are only three weapon types and only two 'armor' types so if you do multiple playthroughs, you'll probably end up with alot of repeats. There are also other rare aesthetic items you can go for, with very low drop chances so if that's your thing then that'll be fun. Adventureing is fun for the first character playthrough I find, but after that you'll have seen every dungeon in every biome and every boss and every enemy. The constantly randomly generated worlds do remedy this, but there's only so much you can do with a random generator before the novelty wears thin and you stop exploring and just look for dungeons, pausing to mine ore occasionally. Combat is pretty fun, there are five vastly different classes right now (but expect to have to grind in-game or pay up front for a couple of them), and they're each fun to play. It does add a replay value to the game if you want to go through all the worlds again. It can eventually get repetitive if you only use one class, as there are only 4 abilities each and no special weapon or armor effects like in other rpgs such as elemental effects. The most you'll be doing is comparing red and green stat values, where one item will be objectively worse and one objectively better, not really any trade-offs here. I do believe that the community aspect is the games strongest point so far, as it is simple, uncomplicated fun to play with a bunch of people. This is where I think the simplicity is advantageous over other mmos, as it can be enjoyed by anyone without any learning curve or large gap separating the new players and veterans; everyone just has a good time. Seeing how different classes synergize or the creativity of a group working together is the most fun I've had so far. If you don't really like groups, trying to go solo will definitely get boring fast. You have only a small plot of land that is all yours to customize (but seeing what people can do with it is pretty cool) that you can bring with you to wherever you travel to. But besides showing it off, you'll only use it as a portable refuel/storage station. These are of course only my opinions, even if I was trying to be objective, so watch video of the game and listen to others before deciding. And of course, it's in beta and incomplete, so you could wait for the full game before making a purchase decision.
TL/DR: It's a basic, uncomplicated mmorpg, with a mediocre solo experience (it is an mmo). However, the community aspect is very fun and active, and if you can get a group of friends to play with then you'll probably love it.
Edit: I also want to have some detailed discussion going on here, as I want to read other people's evaluations of the game so far, and so there are more viewpoints to go on besides just mine. | If you really like community aspects of mmos, you'll probably like it. There's not much to the rpg part of the game yet, it's a basic 'get to a higher level so you can get loot so you can get to a higher level so you can do raids so you can get better loot' The actual loot is pretty cool though, since the majority of it is community designed and often referential to other media. That said, There are only three weapon types and only two 'armor' types so if you do multiple playthroughs, you'll probably end up with alot of repeats. There are also other rare aesthetic items you can go for, with very low drop chances so if that's your thing then that'll be fun. Adventureing is fun for the first character playthrough I find, but after that you'll have seen every dungeon in every biome and every boss and every enemy. The constantly randomly generated worlds do remedy this, but there's only so much you can do with a random generator before the novelty wears thin and you stop exploring and just look for dungeons, pausing to mine ore occasionally. Combat is pretty fun, there are five vastly different classes right now (but expect to have to grind in-game or pay up front for a couple of them), and they're each fun to play. It does add a replay value to the game if you want to go through all the worlds again. It can eventually get repetitive if you only use one class, as there are only 4 abilities each and no special weapon or armor effects like in other rpgs such as elemental effects. The most you'll be doing is comparing red and green stat values, where one item will be objectively worse and one objectively better, not really any trade-offs here. I do believe that the community aspect is the games strongest point so far, as it is simple, uncomplicated fun to play with a bunch of people. This is where I think the simplicity is advantageous over other mmos, as it can be enjoyed by anyone without any learning curve or large gap separating the new players and veterans; everyone just has a good time. Seeing how different classes synergize or the creativity of a group working together is the most fun I've had so far. If you don't really like groups, trying to go solo will definitely get boring fast. You have only a small plot of land that is all yours to customize (but seeing what people can do with it is pretty cool) that you can bring with you to wherever you travel to. But besides showing it off, you'll only use it as a portable refuel/storage station. These are of course only my opinions, even if I was trying to be objective, so watch video of the game and listen to others before deciding. And of course, it's in beta and incomplete, so you could wait for the full game before making a purchase decision.
TL/DR: It's a basic, uncomplicated mmorpg, with a mediocre solo experience (it is an mmo). However, the community aspect is very fun and active, and if you can get a group of friends to play with then you'll probably love it.
Edit: I also want to have some detailed discussion going on here, as I want to read other people's evaluations of the game so far, and so there are more viewpoints to go on besides just mine.
| Trove | t5_2z0i3 | ckwcyh0 | If you really like community aspects of mmos, you'll probably like it. There's not much to the rpg part of the game yet, it's a basic 'get to a higher level so you can get loot so you can get to a higher level so you can do raids so you can get better loot' The actual loot is pretty cool though, since the majority of it is community designed and often referential to other media. That said, There are only three weapon types and only two 'armor' types so if you do multiple playthroughs, you'll probably end up with alot of repeats. There are also other rare aesthetic items you can go for, with very low drop chances so if that's your thing then that'll be fun. Adventureing is fun for the first character playthrough I find, but after that you'll have seen every dungeon in every biome and every boss and every enemy. The constantly randomly generated worlds do remedy this, but there's only so much you can do with a random generator before the novelty wears thin and you stop exploring and just look for dungeons, pausing to mine ore occasionally. Combat is pretty fun, there are five vastly different classes right now (but expect to have to grind in-game or pay up front for a couple of them), and they're each fun to play. It does add a replay value to the game if you want to go through all the worlds again. It can eventually get repetitive if you only use one class, as there are only 4 abilities each and no special weapon or armor effects like in other rpgs such as elemental effects. The most you'll be doing is comparing red and green stat values, where one item will be objectively worse and one objectively better, not really any trade-offs here. I do believe that the community aspect is the games strongest point so far, as it is simple, uncomplicated fun to play with a bunch of people. This is where I think the simplicity is advantageous over other mmos, as it can be enjoyed by anyone without any learning curve or large gap separating the new players and veterans; everyone just has a good time. Seeing how different classes synergize or the creativity of a group working together is the most fun I've had so far. If you don't really like groups, trying to go solo will definitely get boring fast. You have only a small plot of land that is all yours to customize (but seeing what people can do with it is pretty cool) that you can bring with you to wherever you travel to. But besides showing it off, you'll only use it as a portable refuel/storage station. These are of course only my opinions, even if I was trying to be objective, so watch video of the game and listen to others before deciding. And of course, it's in beta and incomplete, so you could wait for the full game before making a purchase decision. | It's a basic, uncomplicated mmorpg, with a mediocre solo experience (it is an mmo). However, the community aspect is very fun and active, and if you can get a group of friends to play with then you'll probably love it.
Edit: I also want to have some detailed discussion going on here, as I want to read other people's evaluations of the game so far, and so there are more viewpoints to go on besides just mine. |
Infectedbumhole | Simple answer. No
Complicated answer. No, unfortunately not and it's not know weather sony are planning to either.
tl:dr No | Simple answer. No
Complicated answer. No, unfortunately not and it's not know weather sony are planning to either.
tl:dr No
| PS4 | t5_2rrlp | ckwdenn | Simple answer. No
Complicated answer. No, unfortunately not and it's not know weather sony are planning to either. | No |
StoicRomance | I have been in the beta for awhile and I decided to compare it with Rdio, which has been around in Canada for some time.
To summarize, if you are invested in the Rdio ecosystem, the incentive to switch isn't huge. The selection is very good on Rdio, and Spotify mostly keeps up. It seems to have fewer EPs and singles, but the only real omission I could find in my short playlist of tester songs was something by [Autre Ne Veut]( I was satisfied.
On the software side, the desktop edge goes to Spotify. It seems a bit snappier. There is a learning curve coming from Rdio, with some tried and true organization layouts missing, but Spotify has some great additions. One of the best is the "featured on" section, notable on rappers' artist pages. It lists some of the songs they have verses on from other artists, which is really cool (Rdio is notoriously bad at highlighting hip hop features). In the mobile space, the Spotify app is a touch better than Rdio in terms of responsiveness and layout, but not enough to get me to switch.
Pricing is roughly a wash too, ~~with Rdio totally free on desktop whereas Spotify is ad-supported~~ with their free desktop offerings both being supported by ads. Their pay options are basically the same.
TL;DR - If you have Rdio, stick with it. Not a huge advantage to switching to Spotify. Both are very competent services worth your bucks.
EDIT: I was wrong about ad support. Harakiri to follow. | I have been in the beta for awhile and I decided to compare it with Rdio, which has been around in Canada for some time.
To summarize, if you are invested in the Rdio ecosystem, the incentive to switch isn't huge. The selection is very good on Rdio, and Spotify mostly keeps up. It seems to have fewer EPs and singles, but the only real omission I could find in my short playlist of tester songs was something by [Autre Ne Veut]( I was satisfied.
On the software side, the desktop edge goes to Spotify. It seems a bit snappier. There is a learning curve coming from Rdio, with some tried and true organization layouts missing, but Spotify has some great additions. One of the best is the "featured on" section, notable on rappers' artist pages. It lists some of the songs they have verses on from other artists, which is really cool (Rdio is notoriously bad at highlighting hip hop features). In the mobile space, the Spotify app is a touch better than Rdio in terms of responsiveness and layout, but not enough to get me to switch.
Pricing is roughly a wash too, with Rdio totally free on desktop whereas Spotify is ad-supported with their free desktop offerings both being supported by ads. Their pay options are basically the same.
TL;DR - If you have Rdio, stick with it. Not a huge advantage to switching to Spotify. Both are very competent services worth your bucks.
EDIT: I was wrong about ad support. Harakiri to follow.
| canada | t5_2qh68 | ckwlebg | I have been in the beta for awhile and I decided to compare it with Rdio, which has been around in Canada for some time.
To summarize, if you are invested in the Rdio ecosystem, the incentive to switch isn't huge. The selection is very good on Rdio, and Spotify mostly keeps up. It seems to have fewer EPs and singles, but the only real omission I could find in my short playlist of tester songs was something by [Autre Ne Veut]( I was satisfied.
On the software side, the desktop edge goes to Spotify. It seems a bit snappier. There is a learning curve coming from Rdio, with some tried and true organization layouts missing, but Spotify has some great additions. One of the best is the "featured on" section, notable on rappers' artist pages. It lists some of the songs they have verses on from other artists, which is really cool (Rdio is notoriously bad at highlighting hip hop features). In the mobile space, the Spotify app is a touch better than Rdio in terms of responsiveness and layout, but not enough to get me to switch.
Pricing is roughly a wash too, with Rdio totally free on desktop whereas Spotify is ad-supported with their free desktop offerings both being supported by ads. Their pay options are basically the same. | If you have Rdio, stick with it. Not a huge advantage to switching to Spotify. Both are very competent services worth your bucks.
EDIT: I was wrong about ad support. Harakiri to follow. |
Skyline969 | Personally, I find Google Play Music to be vastly superior. I tried both, and GPM wins in terms of user-friendliness and features. GPM allows you to upload your own music, so if you have some bonus tracks from an album that they don't, you've got 'em. Got entire albums that they don't? They're in your library. Spotify has no such feature, it can only "sync" your library with theirs, and let you stream songs that match the ones they have. Spotify does have a desktop application, but it's a moot point - you can access GPM from any modern web browser on any modern OS.
tl;dr If you want a cloud-based music service, go for Google Play Music All-Access. | Personally, I find Google Play Music to be vastly superior. I tried both, and GPM wins in terms of user-friendliness and features. GPM allows you to upload your own music, so if you have some bonus tracks from an album that they don't, you've got 'em. Got entire albums that they don't? They're in your library. Spotify has no such feature, it can only "sync" your library with theirs, and let you stream songs that match the ones they have. Spotify does have a desktop application, but it's a moot point - you can access GPM from any modern web browser on any modern OS.
tl;dr If you want a cloud-based music service, go for Google Play Music All-Access.
| canada | t5_2qh68 | ckwwkup | Personally, I find Google Play Music to be vastly superior. I tried both, and GPM wins in terms of user-friendliness and features. GPM allows you to upload your own music, so if you have some bonus tracks from an album that they don't, you've got 'em. Got entire albums that they don't? They're in your library. Spotify has no such feature, it can only "sync" your library with theirs, and let you stream songs that match the ones they have. Spotify does have a desktop application, but it's a moot point - you can access GPM from any modern web browser on any modern OS. | If you want a cloud-based music service, go for Google Play Music All-Access. |
provocatio | Will there's still some hope:
Paradox games (Crusader Kings, Europa Universalis) used to store its save files and configs in `~/Documents/Paradox Interactive`.
The *Documents* part was apperently hard-coded and it ignored my localized folder name.
(Really annoying to have both a Documents and Dokumente folder...)
They did patch it, though. Now it is neatly stored in ~/.paradoxinteractive.
**TL;DR** Complain/issue a bug report to the game dev and it might get changed.
| Will there's still some hope:
Paradox games (Crusader Kings, Europa Universalis) used to store its save files and configs in ~/Documents/Paradox Interactive .
The Documents part was apperently hard-coded and it ignored my localized folder name.
(Really annoying to have both a Documents and Dokumente folder...)
They did patch it, though. Now it is neatly stored in ~/.paradoxinteractive.
TL;DR Complain/issue a bug report to the game dev and it might get changed.
| linux_gaming | t5_2r2u0 | ckxdvwr | Will there's still some hope:
Paradox games (Crusader Kings, Europa Universalis) used to store its save files and configs in ~/Documents/Paradox Interactive .
The Documents part was apperently hard-coded and it ignored my localized folder name.
(Really annoying to have both a Documents and Dokumente folder...)
They did patch it, though. Now it is neatly stored in ~/.paradoxinteractive. | Complain/issue a bug report to the game dev and it might get changed. |
TheInternetHivemind | Or he could donate 90% of it (the 10% would quickly be determined to be his "cut").
This man would gain a reputation of being trustworthy (enough) to handle large donations.
People would start off being responsible with small donations and move to larger ones as they get references.
You're thinking very short term. Long term 10% (or whatever %) of 1,000 multi-million dollar donations is more than 100% of 1 couple of thousand donation.
TL;DR: It would be like trying to find a dealer that doesn't screw you, but in reverse. | Or he could donate 90% of it (the 10% would quickly be determined to be his "cut").
This man would gain a reputation of being trustworthy (enough) to handle large donations.
People would start off being responsible with small donations and move to larger ones as they get references.
You're thinking very short term. Long term 10% (or whatever %) of 1,000 multi-million dollar donations is more than 100% of 1 couple of thousand donation.
TL;DR: It would be like trying to find a dealer that doesn't screw you, but in reverse.
| todayilearned | t5_2qqjc | ckxbyxg | Or he could donate 90% of it (the 10% would quickly be determined to be his "cut").
This man would gain a reputation of being trustworthy (enough) to handle large donations.
People would start off being responsible with small donations and move to larger ones as they get references.
You're thinking very short term. Long term 10% (or whatever %) of 1,000 multi-million dollar donations is more than 100% of 1 couple of thousand donation. | It would be like trying to find a dealer that doesn't screw you, but in reverse. |
derooy | I expelled an above average amount of air from my nostril upon reading your comment. I then scrolled on. Felt guilty. Up voted and then commented. Have a nice day. (=
tl;dr lolled. | I expelled an above average amount of air from my nostril upon reading your comment. I then scrolled on. Felt guilty. Up voted and then commented. Have a nice day. (=
tl;dr lolled.
| LifeProTips | t5_2s5oq | ckxk7py | I expelled an above average amount of air from my nostril upon reading your comment. I then scrolled on. Felt guilty. Up voted and then commented. Have a nice day. (= | lolled. |
jasonjk1 | I don't care about the meta but if you want an immobile skillshot midlane mage vel is an awesome choice. I feel like his passive really shines in the support role however as it makes him a non-item dependant mage. Even with only frost queen's claim and support items he will become a damage threat with his true damage passive. Late game throw in a Liandry's Torment to counter health stacking which counters true damage and no matter what you'll be doing tons of damage. He has good synergy with champions like MF when he supports not only because of the wombo combo ults but because of the amazing harrass he provides to supplement MF's lane bully nature.
TL;DR I think if played well he's an awesome mid laner or support especially because a lot of his damage isn't item dependant. | I don't care about the meta but if you want an immobile skillshot midlane mage vel is an awesome choice. I feel like his passive really shines in the support role however as it makes him a non-item dependant mage. Even with only frost queen's claim and support items he will become a damage threat with his true damage passive. Late game throw in a Liandry's Torment to counter health stacking which counters true damage and no matter what you'll be doing tons of damage. He has good synergy with champions like MF when he supports not only because of the wombo combo ults but because of the amazing harrass he provides to supplement MF's lane bully nature.
TL;DR I think if played well he's an awesome mid laner or support especially because a lot of his damage isn't item dependant.
| leagueoflegends | t5_2rfxx | ckx0qe1 | I don't care about the meta but if you want an immobile skillshot midlane mage vel is an awesome choice. I feel like his passive really shines in the support role however as it makes him a non-item dependant mage. Even with only frost queen's claim and support items he will become a damage threat with his true damage passive. Late game throw in a Liandry's Torment to counter health stacking which counters true damage and no matter what you'll be doing tons of damage. He has good synergy with champions like MF when he supports not only because of the wombo combo ults but because of the amazing harrass he provides to supplement MF's lane bully nature. | I think if played well he's an awesome mid laner or support especially because a lot of his damage isn't item dependant. |
Nolanola |
Personally, I'd go for either of the Seiko's and put a leather strap on it. You can find leather straps for as little as $15 and any jewelry store will swap it out for free in about 60 seconds.
The retail prices (not in bold red) on that website are what you'd pay in the store. That website is a grey-market dealer and while any brand will tell you to buy from an authorized dealer, jomashop.com really isn't a bad place to order watches.
That's a thread on /r/Watches and people overall have good experiences, so while I wouldn't discourage you from going to a store, I won't tell you not to order from jomashop.com.
Regarding the merits of the Seiko 5, it's widely looked at as the benchmark for entry-level automatic watches. Watch enthusiasts widely praise them for their rugged nature and their great value. One brand i'll say to avoid at all costs is Invicta. Some people like theirs, but overall I rarely hear good things. They are incredibly cheaply made and their customer support is basically non-existant.
TLDR: Get the Seiko 5 and put a leather strap on it. | Personally, I'd go for either of the Seiko's and put a leather strap on it. You can find leather straps for as little as $15 and any jewelry store will swap it out for free in about 60 seconds.
The retail prices (not in bold red) on that website are what you'd pay in the store. That website is a grey-market dealer and while any brand will tell you to buy from an authorized dealer, jomashop.com really isn't a bad place to order watches.
That's a thread on /r/Watches and people overall have good experiences, so while I wouldn't discourage you from going to a store, I won't tell you not to order from jomashop.com.
Regarding the merits of the Seiko 5, it's widely looked at as the benchmark for entry-level automatic watches. Watch enthusiasts widely praise them for their rugged nature and their great value. One brand i'll say to avoid at all costs is Invicta. Some people like theirs, but overall I rarely hear good things. They are incredibly cheaply made and their customer support is basically non-existant.
TLDR: Get the Seiko 5 and put a leather strap on it.
| NewOrleans | t5_2qhp5 | ckwzm3w | Personally, I'd go for either of the Seiko's and put a leather strap on it. You can find leather straps for as little as $15 and any jewelry store will swap it out for free in about 60 seconds.
The retail prices (not in bold red) on that website are what you'd pay in the store. That website is a grey-market dealer and while any brand will tell you to buy from an authorized dealer, jomashop.com really isn't a bad place to order watches.
That's a thread on /r/Watches and people overall have good experiences, so while I wouldn't discourage you from going to a store, I won't tell you not to order from jomashop.com.
Regarding the merits of the Seiko 5, it's widely looked at as the benchmark for entry-level automatic watches. Watch enthusiasts widely praise them for their rugged nature and their great value. One brand i'll say to avoid at all costs is Invicta. Some people like theirs, but overall I rarely hear good things. They are incredibly cheaply made and their customer support is basically non-existant. | Get the Seiko 5 and put a leather strap on it. |
PullOutFirst | So I was stupid and forgot that my new $600 phone was $600....and I used it as an aid for my baking a little over a month ago. I used the neat feature of quick memo to draw notes and measurements over a screen shot of another recipe. While baking, and one hand covered with powder, I fidangled with my phone to incline it on an angle to see the recipe but with a loose grip, I dropped (pretty much laterally [not literally or figuratively] shot-putted) it across the kitchen and onto the hard tile floor.
My heart sank 20,000 leagues as I barely just had the phone for a month....
o.o
O.O
>o<
-_-
Time to assess the damage....I picked it up and saw a ginormous crack from one corner and extending across my phone. fuck. fuckitty fuck. <sadface.gif>
I slowly built up the confidence, and tapped on the screen...It turned on! Better yet, everything fully works, and the LCD is intact!!
After recollecting myself, and finishing my /r/Keto Coconut Pancakes by memory and just adding a little of this and that
...I remembered that the title of the screen protector on the Amazon mentioned a lifetime warranty!
I couldn't find any other details in the original packaging or on their website addressing this warantee, so I contacted iCarez through their email, [email protected], but the email didn't hit (got a server not found message). I contacted them through my Amazon account, contact seller and this got me a response. They told me to reply with some images of the damage (See album below). After a day, I received a shipping confirmation from them and received my replacement and within a week, I received a brand new screen protector!
I've been definitely babying my phone a lot more since this incident. But thanks to the awesome support and ease of replacement, I whole-heartedly recommend getting the iCarez glass screen protector! it kicks the llama's ass, although their website is janky as hell.
Lessons learned:
Always write down your recipe. I made the best fluffy and moist flourless pancakes ever that night without a recipe and didn't bother to write it down since I thought that I would remember. I didn't.
tldr; write down your recipe if experimenting in the kitchen.
Also buy the a glass screen protector from iCarez, it has a lifetime warranty and only costs $9. It's worth it.
link again to screen protector:
Link to album of damage:
| So I was stupid and forgot that my new $600 phone was $600....and I used it as an aid for my baking a little over a month ago. I used the neat feature of quick memo to draw notes and measurements over a screen shot of another recipe. While baking, and one hand covered with powder, I fidangled with my phone to incline it on an angle to see the recipe but with a loose grip, I dropped (pretty much laterally [not literally or figuratively] shot-putted) it across the kitchen and onto the hard tile floor.
My heart sank 20,000 leagues as I barely just had the phone for a month....
o.o
O.O
>o<
Time to assess the damage....I picked it up and saw a ginormous crack from one corner and extending across my phone. fuck. fuckitty fuck. <sadface.gif>
I slowly built up the confidence, and tapped on the screen...It turned on! Better yet, everything fully works, and the LCD is intact!!
After recollecting myself, and finishing my /r/Keto Coconut Pancakes by memory and just adding a little of this and that
...I remembered that the title of the screen protector on the Amazon mentioned a lifetime warranty!
I couldn't find any other details in the original packaging or on their website addressing this warantee, so I contacted iCarez through their email, [email protected], but the email didn't hit (got a server not found message). I contacted them through my Amazon account, contact seller and this got me a response. They told me to reply with some images of the damage (See album below). After a day, I received a shipping confirmation from them and received my replacement and within a week, I received a brand new screen protector!
I've been definitely babying my phone a lot more since this incident. But thanks to the awesome support and ease of replacement, I whole-heartedly recommend getting the iCarez glass screen protector! it kicks the llama's ass, although their website is janky as hell.
Lessons learned:
Always write down your recipe. I made the best fluffy and moist flourless pancakes ever that night without a recipe and didn't bother to write it down since I thought that I would remember. I didn't.
tldr; write down your recipe if experimenting in the kitchen.
Also buy the a glass screen protector from iCarez, it has a lifetime warranty and only costs $9. It's worth it.
link again to screen protector:
Link to album of damage:
| LGG3 | t5_2ypp1 | ckyw47u | So I was stupid and forgot that my new $600 phone was $600....and I used it as an aid for my baking a little over a month ago. I used the neat feature of quick memo to draw notes and measurements over a screen shot of another recipe. While baking, and one hand covered with powder, I fidangled with my phone to incline it on an angle to see the recipe but with a loose grip, I dropped (pretty much laterally [not literally or figuratively] shot-putted) it across the kitchen and onto the hard tile floor.
My heart sank 20,000 leagues as I barely just had the phone for a month....
o.o
O.O
>o<
Time to assess the damage....I picked it up and saw a ginormous crack from one corner and extending across my phone. fuck. fuckitty fuck. <sadface.gif>
I slowly built up the confidence, and tapped on the screen...It turned on! Better yet, everything fully works, and the LCD is intact!!
After recollecting myself, and finishing my /r/Keto Coconut Pancakes by memory and just adding a little of this and that
...I remembered that the title of the screen protector on the Amazon mentioned a lifetime warranty!
I couldn't find any other details in the original packaging or on their website addressing this warantee, so I contacted iCarez through their email, [email protected], but the email didn't hit (got a server not found message). I contacted them through my Amazon account, contact seller and this got me a response. They told me to reply with some images of the damage (See album below). After a day, I received a shipping confirmation from them and received my replacement and within a week, I received a brand new screen protector!
I've been definitely babying my phone a lot more since this incident. But thanks to the awesome support and ease of replacement, I whole-heartedly recommend getting the iCarez glass screen protector! it kicks the llama's ass, although their website is janky as hell.
Lessons learned:
Always write down your recipe. I made the best fluffy and moist flourless pancakes ever that night without a recipe and didn't bother to write it down since I thought that I would remember. I didn't. | write down your recipe if experimenting in the kitchen.
Also buy the a glass screen protector from iCarez, it has a lifetime warranty and only costs $9. It's worth it.
link again to screen protector:
Link to album of damage: |
TransInColumbus | Cool story, bro. I wasn't arguing semantics, statistics or anything else. I was very simply and in plain language saying **they don't recycle them.**
Your TL;DR (Fixed): "At least they don't, like, just throw them into the air or something." | Cool story, bro. I wasn't arguing semantics, statistics or anything else. I was very simply and in plain language saying they don't recycle them.
Your TL;DR (Fixed): "At least they don't, like, just throw them into the air or something."
| Columbus | t5_2r373 | ckxr78u | Cool story, bro. I wasn't arguing semantics, statistics or anything else. I was very simply and in plain language saying they don't recycle them.
Your | Fixed): "At least they don't, like, just throw them into the air or something." |
cleansoap | I think for many people the question of if the bags get recycled or not is secondary. While in a perfect world they would be recycled at minimal cost, most know that the economics of plastic recycling are poor - especially for low molecular weight polymers.
I believe the primary concern for most when it comes to plastic bags is preventing their entry into the environment as litter. Ironically the cost and (to a lesser extent) environmental concerns which has lead to the drastic decrease in the amount of resources used per bag has only served to increase their spread into the Earth's waters. Modern disposable shopping bags trump nearly all plastic trash (including the aforementioned food and cigarette wrappers) when it comes to their ability to blow and stay lofted in the atmosphere - leading to very wide dispersal.
While there was plenty of indistinguishable and impossible (for me) to geolocate plastic trash clogging the shores of Micronesia, I have a pretty strong belief than the Albertson's bags I found did not come from China or Japan (much less locally).
TL;DR - If all disposable bags ended up in a landfill that would be far preferable to where many end up now. | I think for many people the question of if the bags get recycled or not is secondary. While in a perfect world they would be recycled at minimal cost, most know that the economics of plastic recycling are poor - especially for low molecular weight polymers.
I believe the primary concern for most when it comes to plastic bags is preventing their entry into the environment as litter. Ironically the cost and (to a lesser extent) environmental concerns which has lead to the drastic decrease in the amount of resources used per bag has only served to increase their spread into the Earth's waters. Modern disposable shopping bags trump nearly all plastic trash (including the aforementioned food and cigarette wrappers) when it comes to their ability to blow and stay lofted in the atmosphere - leading to very wide dispersal.
While there was plenty of indistinguishable and impossible (for me) to geolocate plastic trash clogging the shores of Micronesia, I have a pretty strong belief than the Albertson's bags I found did not come from China or Japan (much less locally).
TL;DR - If all disposable bags ended up in a landfill that would be far preferable to where many end up now.
| Columbus | t5_2r373 | ckxqzcc | I think for many people the question of if the bags get recycled or not is secondary. While in a perfect world they would be recycled at minimal cost, most know that the economics of plastic recycling are poor - especially for low molecular weight polymers.
I believe the primary concern for most when it comes to plastic bags is preventing their entry into the environment as litter. Ironically the cost and (to a lesser extent) environmental concerns which has lead to the drastic decrease in the amount of resources used per bag has only served to increase their spread into the Earth's waters. Modern disposable shopping bags trump nearly all plastic trash (including the aforementioned food and cigarette wrappers) when it comes to their ability to blow and stay lofted in the atmosphere - leading to very wide dispersal.
While there was plenty of indistinguishable and impossible (for me) to geolocate plastic trash clogging the shores of Micronesia, I have a pretty strong belief than the Albertson's bags I found did not come from China or Japan (much less locally). | If all disposable bags ended up in a landfill that would be far preferable to where many end up now. |
Fitzyhere | Hey guys! I just so happened to be checking r/starcraft for the first time in a while so its what a coincidence! I actually play my first game in 3 months last night and I WON! So anyway, I haven't really been playing all too much Starcraft as you may know. To be honest, I play a lot of Dota2. The reason is because whenever I seem to play Starcraft, I feel like I have to be at the same level of play that I showed when I was playing ridiculous amount of hours a week. I don't have the time for that, and whenever I would play I would get really depressed because I wasn't satisfied with my level of play. Dota2 I can suck and it doesn't matter, because I was never good, so I don't have something to prove to anybody or to myself.
Why don't I have time you may ask? Well, over the summer I was working 60 hours a week at Kings Island as a lifeguard, so that just ended in September. Now school has started, as it has every other year, and with 18 credit hours and working 20 hours a week, my free time is pretty low, so the time I do have to play computer games I usually just play Dota2.
When I started streaming my freshman year in December of 2011 It was like a dream come true. I always wanted to entertain people growing up, so that was the perfect outlet. Not only that, but I was very competitive so Starcraft 2 was perfect. With some shit going down with some close family members, one being when I went to Anaheim, I had to reevaluate my life choices and decisions. I still streamed here and there, but I was distracted by my failure in school. After essentially just not showing up to class an entire semester streaming and Starcraft had gone too far. So I slowly faded away from the scene to get my school back on track and life back to normalcy.
I haven't really been streaming because I don't have the internet connection quality to provide a decent stream. Like I said before with getting depressed about not playing good, if my stream quality isn't as good as it was, then I feel ashamed to provide the poor quality. As much as I would LOVE to stream, I don't have the connection nor quality of play to provide good content.
As for how I'm doing right now, I feel great! I'm doing well in all my classes, have a job, and enjoy playing some video games and watching some streams. After I get my shit together completely and have everything under control, I might be back to play some more Starcraft and provide some sick mass queen, hive 9 mins, creep spreading games. All in all sorry for the wall of text, just in between class and thought you guys should know whats going down.
Have a nice day guys!
~Fitzyhere
TL;DR Time is spent playing Dota2, School, and work | Hey guys! I just so happened to be checking r/starcraft for the first time in a while so its what a coincidence! I actually play my first game in 3 months last night and I WON! So anyway, I haven't really been playing all too much Starcraft as you may know. To be honest, I play a lot of Dota2. The reason is because whenever I seem to play Starcraft, I feel like I have to be at the same level of play that I showed when I was playing ridiculous amount of hours a week. I don't have the time for that, and whenever I would play I would get really depressed because I wasn't satisfied with my level of play. Dota2 I can suck and it doesn't matter, because I was never good, so I don't have something to prove to anybody or to myself.
Why don't I have time you may ask? Well, over the summer I was working 60 hours a week at Kings Island as a lifeguard, so that just ended in September. Now school has started, as it has every other year, and with 18 credit hours and working 20 hours a week, my free time is pretty low, so the time I do have to play computer games I usually just play Dota2.
When I started streaming my freshman year in December of 2011 It was like a dream come true. I always wanted to entertain people growing up, so that was the perfect outlet. Not only that, but I was very competitive so Starcraft 2 was perfect. With some shit going down with some close family members, one being when I went to Anaheim, I had to reevaluate my life choices and decisions. I still streamed here and there, but I was distracted by my failure in school. After essentially just not showing up to class an entire semester streaming and Starcraft had gone too far. So I slowly faded away from the scene to get my school back on track and life back to normalcy.
I haven't really been streaming because I don't have the internet connection quality to provide a decent stream. Like I said before with getting depressed about not playing good, if my stream quality isn't as good as it was, then I feel ashamed to provide the poor quality. As much as I would LOVE to stream, I don't have the connection nor quality of play to provide good content.
As for how I'm doing right now, I feel great! I'm doing well in all my classes, have a job, and enjoy playing some video games and watching some streams. After I get my shit together completely and have everything under control, I might be back to play some more Starcraft and provide some sick mass queen, hive 9 mins, creep spreading games. All in all sorry for the wall of text, just in between class and thought you guys should know whats going down.
Have a nice day guys!
~Fitzyhere
TL;DR Time is spent playing Dota2, School, and work
| starcraft | t5_2qpp6 | ckxiswc | Hey guys! I just so happened to be checking r/starcraft for the first time in a while so its what a coincidence! I actually play my first game in 3 months last night and I WON! So anyway, I haven't really been playing all too much Starcraft as you may know. To be honest, I play a lot of Dota2. The reason is because whenever I seem to play Starcraft, I feel like I have to be at the same level of play that I showed when I was playing ridiculous amount of hours a week. I don't have the time for that, and whenever I would play I would get really depressed because I wasn't satisfied with my level of play. Dota2 I can suck and it doesn't matter, because I was never good, so I don't have something to prove to anybody or to myself.
Why don't I have time you may ask? Well, over the summer I was working 60 hours a week at Kings Island as a lifeguard, so that just ended in September. Now school has started, as it has every other year, and with 18 credit hours and working 20 hours a week, my free time is pretty low, so the time I do have to play computer games I usually just play Dota2.
When I started streaming my freshman year in December of 2011 It was like a dream come true. I always wanted to entertain people growing up, so that was the perfect outlet. Not only that, but I was very competitive so Starcraft 2 was perfect. With some shit going down with some close family members, one being when I went to Anaheim, I had to reevaluate my life choices and decisions. I still streamed here and there, but I was distracted by my failure in school. After essentially just not showing up to class an entire semester streaming and Starcraft had gone too far. So I slowly faded away from the scene to get my school back on track and life back to normalcy.
I haven't really been streaming because I don't have the internet connection quality to provide a decent stream. Like I said before with getting depressed about not playing good, if my stream quality isn't as good as it was, then I feel ashamed to provide the poor quality. As much as I would LOVE to stream, I don't have the connection nor quality of play to provide good content.
As for how I'm doing right now, I feel great! I'm doing well in all my classes, have a job, and enjoy playing some video games and watching some streams. After I get my shit together completely and have everything under control, I might be back to play some more Starcraft and provide some sick mass queen, hive 9 mins, creep spreading games. All in all sorry for the wall of text, just in between class and thought you guys should know whats going down.
Have a nice day guys!
~Fitzyhere | Time is spent playing Dota2, School, and work |
CanadianConspiracy | The point about playing with a set team is that if you play with them long enough, you'll find their consistencies and inconsistencies, as in: This person can play B well, but not A, or this person isn't good with the awp, etc. Once you start figuring out how each person works / their strengths, weaknesses, the easier it will be to work as a team.
**TL;DR** Play with one set of people, (i.e redditors) and figure out how each other work, once you do, you'll work better as a team. | The point about playing with a set team is that if you play with them long enough, you'll find their consistencies and inconsistencies, as in: This person can play B well, but not A, or this person isn't good with the awp, etc. Once you start figuring out how each person works / their strengths, weaknesses, the easier it will be to work as a team.
TL;DR Play with one set of people, (i.e redditors) and figure out how each other work, once you do, you'll work better as a team.
| GlobalOffensive | t5_2sqho | ckxoygq | The point about playing with a set team is that if you play with them long enough, you'll find their consistencies and inconsistencies, as in: This person can play B well, but not A, or this person isn't good with the awp, etc. Once you start figuring out how each person works / their strengths, weaknesses, the easier it will be to work as a team. | Play with one set of people, (i.e redditors) and figure out how each other work, once you do, you'll work better as a team. |
Patsiecki | I'm a little new to the SE line but from what I can tell it's more of a lower end enterprise-oriented model, it is designed to better handle 24/7 operation and use in RAID. It will be less likely to have problems with RAID down the line. The WD black on the other hand is a higher end consumer drive, and is among the nicer quality consumer drives out there. Its no surprise the WD blacks performed well for you. In terms of overall speed and quality, they should probably be pretty similar. If data integrity is a big concern for you (which it might be considering the redundancy) I would lean toward the SE line. It's got the enterprise features such as vibration/shock compensation, RAID/error recovery that give it an edge when it comes to data integrity.
Thoughts on other drives: There are also drives out there marketed toward NAS applications (WD Red, Seagate NAS, etc) which seem to be consumer grade drives that borrow a couple enterprise features. I have the 2TB seagate variety in my home NAS as it had good reviews. the WD Reds seem to have suffered from quality issues in the past, which I've more or less seen myself as I work in an enterprise setting. I'd avoid greens altogether, I consider WD Blue as a bare minimum even if I was building a cheapy rig for an elderly relative. On the other end of the spectrum you have the RE line - these are fantastic, reliable, speedy drives meant for heavy workload server environments, but at quite a premium. I'd run REs all day every day if they didn't cost so much.
A final thought - in the business I've seen a lot of people rely on RAID and then act completely shocked when both drives eventually fail, thinking their data was safe forever. Don't be the guy who learns the lessons the hard way: regularly monitor the health of the drives, automated weekly checks if you can, and if there's any data that's *truly* important a copy of it should exist somewhere else.
***tl;dr***: WD 2TB SE | I'm a little new to the SE line but from what I can tell it's more of a lower end enterprise-oriented model, it is designed to better handle 24/7 operation and use in RAID. It will be less likely to have problems with RAID down the line. The WD black on the other hand is a higher end consumer drive, and is among the nicer quality consumer drives out there. Its no surprise the WD blacks performed well for you. In terms of overall speed and quality, they should probably be pretty similar. If data integrity is a big concern for you (which it might be considering the redundancy) I would lean toward the SE line. It's got the enterprise features such as vibration/shock compensation, RAID/error recovery that give it an edge when it comes to data integrity.
Thoughts on other drives: There are also drives out there marketed toward NAS applications (WD Red, Seagate NAS, etc) which seem to be consumer grade drives that borrow a couple enterprise features. I have the 2TB seagate variety in my home NAS as it had good reviews. the WD Reds seem to have suffered from quality issues in the past, which I've more or less seen myself as I work in an enterprise setting. I'd avoid greens altogether, I consider WD Blue as a bare minimum even if I was building a cheapy rig for an elderly relative. On the other end of the spectrum you have the RE line - these are fantastic, reliable, speedy drives meant for heavy workload server environments, but at quite a premium. I'd run REs all day every day if they didn't cost so much.
A final thought - in the business I've seen a lot of people rely on RAID and then act completely shocked when both drives eventually fail, thinking their data was safe forever. Don't be the guy who learns the lessons the hard way: regularly monitor the health of the drives, automated weekly checks if you can, and if there's any data that's truly important a copy of it should exist somewhere else.
tl;dr : WD 2TB SE
| buildapc | t5_2rnve | ckxqeph | I'm a little new to the SE line but from what I can tell it's more of a lower end enterprise-oriented model, it is designed to better handle 24/7 operation and use in RAID. It will be less likely to have problems with RAID down the line. The WD black on the other hand is a higher end consumer drive, and is among the nicer quality consumer drives out there. Its no surprise the WD blacks performed well for you. In terms of overall speed and quality, they should probably be pretty similar. If data integrity is a big concern for you (which it might be considering the redundancy) I would lean toward the SE line. It's got the enterprise features such as vibration/shock compensation, RAID/error recovery that give it an edge when it comes to data integrity.
Thoughts on other drives: There are also drives out there marketed toward NAS applications (WD Red, Seagate NAS, etc) which seem to be consumer grade drives that borrow a couple enterprise features. I have the 2TB seagate variety in my home NAS as it had good reviews. the WD Reds seem to have suffered from quality issues in the past, which I've more or less seen myself as I work in an enterprise setting. I'd avoid greens altogether, I consider WD Blue as a bare minimum even if I was building a cheapy rig for an elderly relative. On the other end of the spectrum you have the RE line - these are fantastic, reliable, speedy drives meant for heavy workload server environments, but at quite a premium. I'd run REs all day every day if they didn't cost so much.
A final thought - in the business I've seen a lot of people rely on RAID and then act completely shocked when both drives eventually fail, thinking their data was safe forever. Don't be the guy who learns the lessons the hard way: regularly monitor the health of the drives, automated weekly checks if you can, and if there's any data that's truly important a copy of it should exist somewhere else. | WD 2TB SE |
ThreeTimesUp | Dear Mr. Attorney General:
Unfortunately, those in your industry have shown themselves to less than honest people.
Furthermore, they have shown that, given the opportunity, they will abuse the privilege.
tl;dr: You should seek counseling
Sincerely,
Concerned Citizen | Dear Mr. Attorney General:
Unfortunately, those in your industry have shown themselves to less than honest people.
Furthermore, they have shown that, given the opportunity, they will abuse the privilege.
tl;dr: You should seek counseling
Sincerely,
Concerned Citizen
| news | t5_2qh3l | ckxu0km | Dear Mr. Attorney General:
Unfortunately, those in your industry have shown themselves to less than honest people.
Furthermore, they have shown that, given the opportunity, they will abuse the privilege. | You should seek counseling
Sincerely,
Concerned Citizen |
richardjohn | No idea about their podcast (doesn't seem to be any episodes available atm either), but it's a shit club night that leaves a bit of a bad taste for quite a few people.
Backroom was an absolutely incredible club night that started in the vaults of the old Natwest bank down the bay. Mostly (actual) deep house and techno, they were booking world class DJs every month there, and it was all pretty much word of mouth to start with so was always a great crowd. The venue was amazing and was just left as it was, a pretty much pitch black bank vault. Eventually it got incredibly popular (and lost a bit of its charm as the crowds were just people who were there 'cause they'd heard it was cool, but was still good). For whatever reason they had to leave the vaults, and they moved to the old furniture shop on Trade Street for bigger events. It's stopped now since most of the people involved moved to Berlin.
Cellar Door somehow managed to get use of the venue, which I and many people thought was great at first because even if it wasn't Backroom, at least a great venue would get used. It turned out to be a load of valleys people with absolutely no clue about what made Backroom great, just wanting to make some money off Backroom's reputation. They charge £15 entry but don't book any DJs, instead having locals play shitty, shitty tech house (though I don't doubt they've moved on to playing "deep" house now). They've filled the thing with flashy lighting to make it look like a club in low-budget film (seriously a dark room was fine), and they even have themes/fancy dress. The crowd is as you'd imagine it.
Would be great to see someone putting decent stuff on in there again, but apparently the Cellar Door guys are charging £1k+ for venue hire (lol)
**TLDR** Legendary club night loses use of venue, people who've never left Wales move in and start one there | No idea about their podcast (doesn't seem to be any episodes available atm either), but it's a shit club night that leaves a bit of a bad taste for quite a few people.
Backroom was an absolutely incredible club night that started in the vaults of the old Natwest bank down the bay. Mostly (actual) deep house and techno, they were booking world class DJs every month there, and it was all pretty much word of mouth to start with so was always a great crowd. The venue was amazing and was just left as it was, a pretty much pitch black bank vault. Eventually it got incredibly popular (and lost a bit of its charm as the crowds were just people who were there 'cause they'd heard it was cool, but was still good). For whatever reason they had to leave the vaults, and they moved to the old furniture shop on Trade Street for bigger events. It's stopped now since most of the people involved moved to Berlin.
Cellar Door somehow managed to get use of the venue, which I and many people thought was great at first because even if it wasn't Backroom, at least a great venue would get used. It turned out to be a load of valleys people with absolutely no clue about what made Backroom great, just wanting to make some money off Backroom's reputation. They charge £15 entry but don't book any DJs, instead having locals play shitty, shitty tech house (though I don't doubt they've moved on to playing "deep" house now). They've filled the thing with flashy lighting to make it look like a club in low-budget film (seriously a dark room was fine), and they even have themes/fancy dress. The crowd is as you'd imagine it.
Would be great to see someone putting decent stuff on in there again, but apparently the Cellar Door guys are charging £1k+ for venue hire (lol)
TLDR Legendary club night loses use of venue, people who've never left Wales move in and start one there
| Cardiff | t5_2rh06 | ckyyjih | No idea about their podcast (doesn't seem to be any episodes available atm either), but it's a shit club night that leaves a bit of a bad taste for quite a few people.
Backroom was an absolutely incredible club night that started in the vaults of the old Natwest bank down the bay. Mostly (actual) deep house and techno, they were booking world class DJs every month there, and it was all pretty much word of mouth to start with so was always a great crowd. The venue was amazing and was just left as it was, a pretty much pitch black bank vault. Eventually it got incredibly popular (and lost a bit of its charm as the crowds were just people who were there 'cause they'd heard it was cool, but was still good). For whatever reason they had to leave the vaults, and they moved to the old furniture shop on Trade Street for bigger events. It's stopped now since most of the people involved moved to Berlin.
Cellar Door somehow managed to get use of the venue, which I and many people thought was great at first because even if it wasn't Backroom, at least a great venue would get used. It turned out to be a load of valleys people with absolutely no clue about what made Backroom great, just wanting to make some money off Backroom's reputation. They charge £15 entry but don't book any DJs, instead having locals play shitty, shitty tech house (though I don't doubt they've moved on to playing "deep" house now). They've filled the thing with flashy lighting to make it look like a club in low-budget film (seriously a dark room was fine), and they even have themes/fancy dress. The crowd is as you'd imagine it.
Would be great to see someone putting decent stuff on in there again, but apparently the Cellar Door guys are charging £1k+ for venue hire (lol) | Legendary club night loses use of venue, people who've never left Wales move in and start one there |
Fallinwinter | I ran CoCo/Sakuya long after Amaterasu was hardly seen in tournaments and I've won tournaments using CoCo/Sakuya until around set 10 in the English format was released.
Garmore I never ran with Pellinore and ran 4x Garmore, 4x 12k attackers and went for a consistent beatdown build with him. I topped many tournaments with that deck at my locals and never found Pellinore necessary.
The point I'm trying to make is that like I said previously, you're removing the more competitive cards from the new sets and replacing them with cards that were also competitive, but not *as* popular cards.
Which if you're going for a "Build any and all decks that were sort of/never viable" a lot of those generic +5k lb4 units or other budget Rare grade 3's are still not going to see much play unless they have good effects like Garmore or Cocytus if he were legal in your format since there's still pretty viable and inherently stronger builds even with your limitations that will likely dominate compared to those random grade 3's they throw in that never see play.
TL;DR: You're replacing the Meta with a new, less strong, but still strong Meta which will still be the more commonly used builds making all the less viable or not used units still go unused. | I ran CoCo/Sakuya long after Amaterasu was hardly seen in tournaments and I've won tournaments using CoCo/Sakuya until around set 10 in the English format was released.
Garmore I never ran with Pellinore and ran 4x Garmore, 4x 12k attackers and went for a consistent beatdown build with him. I topped many tournaments with that deck at my locals and never found Pellinore necessary.
The point I'm trying to make is that like I said previously, you're removing the more competitive cards from the new sets and replacing them with cards that were also competitive, but not as popular cards.
Which if you're going for a "Build any and all decks that were sort of/never viable" a lot of those generic +5k lb4 units or other budget Rare grade 3's are still not going to see much play unless they have good effects like Garmore or Cocytus if he were legal in your format since there's still pretty viable and inherently stronger builds even with your limitations that will likely dominate compared to those random grade 3's they throw in that never see play.
TL;DR: You're replacing the Meta with a new, less strong, but still strong Meta which will still be the more commonly used builds making all the less viable or not used units still go unused.
| cardfightvanguard | t5_2tcbx | cky2nqy | I ran CoCo/Sakuya long after Amaterasu was hardly seen in tournaments and I've won tournaments using CoCo/Sakuya until around set 10 in the English format was released.
Garmore I never ran with Pellinore and ran 4x Garmore, 4x 12k attackers and went for a consistent beatdown build with him. I topped many tournaments with that deck at my locals and never found Pellinore necessary.
The point I'm trying to make is that like I said previously, you're removing the more competitive cards from the new sets and replacing them with cards that were also competitive, but not as popular cards.
Which if you're going for a "Build any and all decks that were sort of/never viable" a lot of those generic +5k lb4 units or other budget Rare grade 3's are still not going to see much play unless they have good effects like Garmore or Cocytus if he were legal in your format since there's still pretty viable and inherently stronger builds even with your limitations that will likely dominate compared to those random grade 3's they throw in that never see play. | You're replacing the Meta with a new, less strong, but still strong Meta which will still be the more commonly used builds making all the less viable or not used units still go unused. |
Kerithlan | I made it clear in the opening post that I'm more than open to the idea of changing or modifying rules and stipulations (ex: Neo Nectar portion of the post), but want to test the format out as-is to see what needs to be tweaked. As this format does not exist at this point in time, going overboard with the "ban all RRR" ruling is a good place to start and springboard from as it allows us to see what does and does not work.
The only rule that is 100% set in stone is the 10k defense one, as it ensures that more units can be used. Locking out cards that always have 11k defense or higher only removes approximately 12.5% (or 1/8th, depending on the clan) of a clan's cards, the overwhelming majority of which are G3. Those units removed represent boss units.
>To sum it up, I don't see why you would limit things to just a new meta when you could leave it as it is and just tier everything so that every card can get some form of play from the budget rare and commons all the way to the current meta.
Because, unlike Pokemon, a deck is more than just six interchangeable parts. It's 50 parts all working together. A simple tiering structure for each individual card is impossible to sort out due to the very nature of a card game.
Some examples:
* You may only have 1 of each Pokemon on a team, with each Pokemon having 4 moves that are different than its other 4 (but might be shared by other team mates).
* In a TCG, you may have up to 4 of each card in a deck, with each card potentially having the same ability as other cards in the deck (such as critical triggers).
* In Pokemon, units have multiple forms with potentially different abilities, making it possible to view units in the same "ride chain" as individual team components with unique roles.
* In CFV, individuality is determined by a deck's overall composition, not by its individual parts; this is due to the inherently random nature of a TCG as opposed to the known statistics in Pokemon.
There's more but the tl;dr is that directly copy/pasting the Pokemon formats into a TCG isn't going to work in the slightest. That's why you usually only see Bushiroad limiting or restricting individual cards (like Barcgal and Conroe) if they cause a particular *deck* to act in an unintended way or with an unintended strength. | I made it clear in the opening post that I'm more than open to the idea of changing or modifying rules and stipulations (ex: Neo Nectar portion of the post), but want to test the format out as-is to see what needs to be tweaked. As this format does not exist at this point in time, going overboard with the "ban all RRR" ruling is a good place to start and springboard from as it allows us to see what does and does not work.
The only rule that is 100% set in stone is the 10k defense one, as it ensures that more units can be used. Locking out cards that always have 11k defense or higher only removes approximately 12.5% (or 1/8th, depending on the clan) of a clan's cards, the overwhelming majority of which are G3. Those units removed represent boss units.
>To sum it up, I don't see why you would limit things to just a new meta when you could leave it as it is and just tier everything so that every card can get some form of play from the budget rare and commons all the way to the current meta.
Because, unlike Pokemon, a deck is more than just six interchangeable parts. It's 50 parts all working together. A simple tiering structure for each individual card is impossible to sort out due to the very nature of a card game.
Some examples:
You may only have 1 of each Pokemon on a team, with each Pokemon having 4 moves that are different than its other 4 (but might be shared by other team mates).
In a TCG, you may have up to 4 of each card in a deck, with each card potentially having the same ability as other cards in the deck (such as critical triggers).
In Pokemon, units have multiple forms with potentially different abilities, making it possible to view units in the same "ride chain" as individual team components with unique roles.
In CFV, individuality is determined by a deck's overall composition, not by its individual parts; this is due to the inherently random nature of a TCG as opposed to the known statistics in Pokemon.
There's more but the tl;dr is that directly copy/pasting the Pokemon formats into a TCG isn't going to work in the slightest. That's why you usually only see Bushiroad limiting or restricting individual cards (like Barcgal and Conroe) if they cause a particular deck to act in an unintended way or with an unintended strength.
| cardfightvanguard | t5_2tcbx | ckynf0n | I made it clear in the opening post that I'm more than open to the idea of changing or modifying rules and stipulations (ex: Neo Nectar portion of the post), but want to test the format out as-is to see what needs to be tweaked. As this format does not exist at this point in time, going overboard with the "ban all RRR" ruling is a good place to start and springboard from as it allows us to see what does and does not work.
The only rule that is 100% set in stone is the 10k defense one, as it ensures that more units can be used. Locking out cards that always have 11k defense or higher only removes approximately 12.5% (or 1/8th, depending on the clan) of a clan's cards, the overwhelming majority of which are G3. Those units removed represent boss units.
>To sum it up, I don't see why you would limit things to just a new meta when you could leave it as it is and just tier everything so that every card can get some form of play from the budget rare and commons all the way to the current meta.
Because, unlike Pokemon, a deck is more than just six interchangeable parts. It's 50 parts all working together. A simple tiering structure for each individual card is impossible to sort out due to the very nature of a card game.
Some examples:
You may only have 1 of each Pokemon on a team, with each Pokemon having 4 moves that are different than its other 4 (but might be shared by other team mates).
In a TCG, you may have up to 4 of each card in a deck, with each card potentially having the same ability as other cards in the deck (such as critical triggers).
In Pokemon, units have multiple forms with potentially different abilities, making it possible to view units in the same "ride chain" as individual team components with unique roles.
In CFV, individuality is determined by a deck's overall composition, not by its individual parts; this is due to the inherently random nature of a TCG as opposed to the known statistics in Pokemon.
There's more but the | is that directly copy/pasting the Pokemon formats into a TCG isn't going to work in the slightest. That's why you usually only see Bushiroad limiting or restricting individual cards (like Barcgal and Conroe) if they cause a particular deck to act in an unintended way or with an unintended strength. |
OmniscientOctopode | Lonesome Road is the worst DLC for NV. The entire DLC revolves around Ulysses not being able to get over you destroying the Divide, the survivalist community that you spent much of your career a a courier traveling to and through, and his adopted him. He saw so much hope for the future in this community that seeing it destroyed literally broke him. But then you start exploring, and it's generic Fallout story-telling: buildings that look like they haven't been inhabited since the Great War, no deserted farms, or defenses that would indicate a settlement, the only messages and records are either pre-war, or from NCR soldiers concerning the Legion. There are literally zero indications that the community that was reportedly flourishing in the Divide was anything other than a figment of Ulysses' imagination.
Of course it doesn't help that the Courier is seemingly unaware that it was destroyed, and unable to give any indication that it had any meaning to him. It's entirely possible that Ulysses exaggerated the importance of the Divide, but the idea that the Courier is that apathetic about what seems to be his "home away from home" without having suffered amnesia (which is canonically true) is mind boggling.
Obsidian made a dangerous choice with this DLC. They decided to add an incredibly significant event to every Courier's story that the player was given no choice about. Now, that idea can work, and when done right can be part of a wonderful story, but it requires Obsidian to do one thing: make the player care about the Divide and Ulysses. There are two simple ways to accomplish this: establish the event as part of the Courier's character from early on, or give the Courier a reason to not be aware of the destruction of community he helped build and for whose destruction he is partly at fault. But for some reason, Obsidian chose neither option. Not only is there no indication that the Divide was anything other than an impassable canyon in any prior material, the Courier isn't even given amnesia to justify not remembering it. And because of this failure to establish the Divide and the Courier's relationship to any reasonable amount, Ulysses character fails too. He is written as a broken man who spent his whole life looking for a home to call his own only to have it destroyed by the closest thing he has to an idol, a tragic figure whose misplaced rage contrasted the Courier's guilt (or lack thereof) and made him a compelling character, but instead he comes off as a creepy, delusional idiot throwing a nuclear temper tantrum because I as a player am given no indication of why this random guy has any reason to even know who I am, let alone hate me.
tl;dr I'm mad that LR sucked when it could have been great and you should be too. | Lonesome Road is the worst DLC for NV. The entire DLC revolves around Ulysses not being able to get over you destroying the Divide, the survivalist community that you spent much of your career a a courier traveling to and through, and his adopted him. He saw so much hope for the future in this community that seeing it destroyed literally broke him. But then you start exploring, and it's generic Fallout story-telling: buildings that look like they haven't been inhabited since the Great War, no deserted farms, or defenses that would indicate a settlement, the only messages and records are either pre-war, or from NCR soldiers concerning the Legion. There are literally zero indications that the community that was reportedly flourishing in the Divide was anything other than a figment of Ulysses' imagination.
Of course it doesn't help that the Courier is seemingly unaware that it was destroyed, and unable to give any indication that it had any meaning to him. It's entirely possible that Ulysses exaggerated the importance of the Divide, but the idea that the Courier is that apathetic about what seems to be his "home away from home" without having suffered amnesia (which is canonically true) is mind boggling.
Obsidian made a dangerous choice with this DLC. They decided to add an incredibly significant event to every Courier's story that the player was given no choice about. Now, that idea can work, and when done right can be part of a wonderful story, but it requires Obsidian to do one thing: make the player care about the Divide and Ulysses. There are two simple ways to accomplish this: establish the event as part of the Courier's character from early on, or give the Courier a reason to not be aware of the destruction of community he helped build and for whose destruction he is partly at fault. But for some reason, Obsidian chose neither option. Not only is there no indication that the Divide was anything other than an impassable canyon in any prior material, the Courier isn't even given amnesia to justify not remembering it. And because of this failure to establish the Divide and the Courier's relationship to any reasonable amount, Ulysses character fails too. He is written as a broken man who spent his whole life looking for a home to call his own only to have it destroyed by the closest thing he has to an idol, a tragic figure whose misplaced rage contrasted the Courier's guilt (or lack thereof) and made him a compelling character, but instead he comes off as a creepy, delusional idiot throwing a nuclear temper tantrum because I as a player am given no indication of why this random guy has any reason to even know who I am, let alone hate me.
tl;dr I'm mad that LR sucked when it could have been great and you should be too.
| Fallout | t5_2qnzu | ckyk6vm | Lonesome Road is the worst DLC for NV. The entire DLC revolves around Ulysses not being able to get over you destroying the Divide, the survivalist community that you spent much of your career a a courier traveling to and through, and his adopted him. He saw so much hope for the future in this community that seeing it destroyed literally broke him. But then you start exploring, and it's generic Fallout story-telling: buildings that look like they haven't been inhabited since the Great War, no deserted farms, or defenses that would indicate a settlement, the only messages and records are either pre-war, or from NCR soldiers concerning the Legion. There are literally zero indications that the community that was reportedly flourishing in the Divide was anything other than a figment of Ulysses' imagination.
Of course it doesn't help that the Courier is seemingly unaware that it was destroyed, and unable to give any indication that it had any meaning to him. It's entirely possible that Ulysses exaggerated the importance of the Divide, but the idea that the Courier is that apathetic about what seems to be his "home away from home" without having suffered amnesia (which is canonically true) is mind boggling.
Obsidian made a dangerous choice with this DLC. They decided to add an incredibly significant event to every Courier's story that the player was given no choice about. Now, that idea can work, and when done right can be part of a wonderful story, but it requires Obsidian to do one thing: make the player care about the Divide and Ulysses. There are two simple ways to accomplish this: establish the event as part of the Courier's character from early on, or give the Courier a reason to not be aware of the destruction of community he helped build and for whose destruction he is partly at fault. But for some reason, Obsidian chose neither option. Not only is there no indication that the Divide was anything other than an impassable canyon in any prior material, the Courier isn't even given amnesia to justify not remembering it. And because of this failure to establish the Divide and the Courier's relationship to any reasonable amount, Ulysses character fails too. He is written as a broken man who spent his whole life looking for a home to call his own only to have it destroyed by the closest thing he has to an idol, a tragic figure whose misplaced rage contrasted the Courier's guilt (or lack thereof) and made him a compelling character, but instead he comes off as a creepy, delusional idiot throwing a nuclear temper tantrum because I as a player am given no indication of why this random guy has any reason to even know who I am, let alone hate me. | I'm mad that LR sucked when it could have been great and you should be too. |
Strix97 | **Disclaimer, there are probably going to be some mistakes and / or oversimplifications**
The Netherlands and Belgium (the Low Countries / Lage Landen) are a relatively new concept. There were no Belgium (BE) or The Netherlands (NL) in the middle ages. You had Flanders and some Dutch duchies like Holland or Utrecht. They were however connected in language, Diets (Middle Dutch).
That changed when the Habsburgers got control of the Low Counties in the 16th century (I'm ignoring the independent bisdoms). Fillip II, king of Spain, had control but due to bad management, religious tension and high taxes the Low Countries broke free beand declared independence. (Oversimplification)
The North what we now call The Netherlands became independent and Flanders stayed under Spanish / Habsburgian rule. Skip ahead until the convention of Vienna, Napoleon was defeated and the monarchies were carving up Europe. In this turbulent time of revolution, war and crumbling empires, The United Netherlands were formed.
It was an economic powerhouse due to the combination of the Wallonian industry and the Dutch trading power lead. But there was one problem. The southern Netherlands (present day BE) was filled with dissent, the French speaking nobility, the Catholic Church and liberal politicians hated the King. He wanted to make Dutch the one language, institute religious freedom and was a despot.
These factors eventually coincided in an uprising in Brussels. At first it was just a cry for more self control but it radicalised when the army showed up. Suddenly the Southern Netherlands wanted to break of. How they succeeded is still a mystery to me but they did. Then they wasted their potential on infighting. I hate the Belgian Revolt
TL;DR Belgium was only unified by a common hatred of the United Kingdom of The Netherlands. | Disclaimer, there are probably going to be some mistakes and / or oversimplifications
The Netherlands and Belgium (the Low Countries / Lage Landen) are a relatively new concept. There were no Belgium (BE) or The Netherlands (NL) in the middle ages. You had Flanders and some Dutch duchies like Holland or Utrecht. They were however connected in language, Diets (Middle Dutch).
That changed when the Habsburgers got control of the Low Counties in the 16th century (I'm ignoring the independent bisdoms). Fillip II, king of Spain, had control but due to bad management, religious tension and high taxes the Low Countries broke free beand declared independence. (Oversimplification)
The North what we now call The Netherlands became independent and Flanders stayed under Spanish / Habsburgian rule. Skip ahead until the convention of Vienna, Napoleon was defeated and the monarchies were carving up Europe. In this turbulent time of revolution, war and crumbling empires, The United Netherlands were formed.
It was an economic powerhouse due to the combination of the Wallonian industry and the Dutch trading power lead. But there was one problem. The southern Netherlands (present day BE) was filled with dissent, the French speaking nobility, the Catholic Church and liberal politicians hated the King. He wanted to make Dutch the one language, institute religious freedom and was a despot.
These factors eventually coincided in an uprising in Brussels. At first it was just a cry for more self control but it radicalised when the army showed up. Suddenly the Southern Netherlands wanted to break of. How they succeeded is still a mystery to me but they did. Then they wasted their potential on infighting. I hate the Belgian Revolt
TL;DR Belgium was only unified by a common hatred of the United Kingdom of The Netherlands.
| polandball | t5_2sih3 | cl0f73g | Disclaimer, there are probably going to be some mistakes and / or oversimplifications
The Netherlands and Belgium (the Low Countries / Lage Landen) are a relatively new concept. There were no Belgium (BE) or The Netherlands (NL) in the middle ages. You had Flanders and some Dutch duchies like Holland or Utrecht. They were however connected in language, Diets (Middle Dutch).
That changed when the Habsburgers got control of the Low Counties in the 16th century (I'm ignoring the independent bisdoms). Fillip II, king of Spain, had control but due to bad management, religious tension and high taxes the Low Countries broke free beand declared independence. (Oversimplification)
The North what we now call The Netherlands became independent and Flanders stayed under Spanish / Habsburgian rule. Skip ahead until the convention of Vienna, Napoleon was defeated and the monarchies were carving up Europe. In this turbulent time of revolution, war and crumbling empires, The United Netherlands were formed.
It was an economic powerhouse due to the combination of the Wallonian industry and the Dutch trading power lead. But there was one problem. The southern Netherlands (present day BE) was filled with dissent, the French speaking nobility, the Catholic Church and liberal politicians hated the King. He wanted to make Dutch the one language, institute religious freedom and was a despot.
These factors eventually coincided in an uprising in Brussels. At first it was just a cry for more self control but it radicalised when the army showed up. Suddenly the Southern Netherlands wanted to break of. How they succeeded is still a mystery to me but they did. Then they wasted their potential on infighting. I hate the Belgian Revolt | Belgium was only unified by a common hatred of the United Kingdom of The Netherlands. |
Caisha | So, this one might be more funny then sad.
My brother was in the band at UT so we'd go to the games at least a few times a year. I'm ten years younger than him, so at this event I'm barely 8 years old. My parents take me to the game and we're on the opposite side of the stadium from the band, and my dad leaves us to go to the concession stand before halftime rush. After about ten minutes, my mom needs to go to the bathroom...so she leaves me there, telling me not to go anywhere. So there I am, all alone. Whatever, I was into the game.
A few minutes later, it starts *pouring* down rain and since it's almost halftime everyone just goes inside to get out from the rain. So I'm standing there wondering what I should do, so I just go inside to the concession stands and look for my parents - of course, it's very crowded and at this point I'm a little scared.
What's an eight year old to do? I walked over to a security guard and told him that I needed to find my brother because my parents had gotten lost, and that he was in the UT band. So he escorts me there before promising to put a call in to look out for my parents. Of course, they had already contacted security so they found me chilling with my brother and his friends, drenched to the bone and smiling (cause I love my brother)
I don't even remember the game much.
**tl;dr parents accidentally abandoned me during a UT game, got to hang out with the band**
..oh, but my favorite actual gameday memory with family was when my brother took me to his last UT game and Ricky Williams broke the rushing record during it =)
| So, this one might be more funny then sad.
My brother was in the band at UT so we'd go to the games at least a few times a year. I'm ten years younger than him, so at this event I'm barely 8 years old. My parents take me to the game and we're on the opposite side of the stadium from the band, and my dad leaves us to go to the concession stand before halftime rush. After about ten minutes, my mom needs to go to the bathroom...so she leaves me there, telling me not to go anywhere. So there I am, all alone. Whatever, I was into the game.
A few minutes later, it starts pouring down rain and since it's almost halftime everyone just goes inside to get out from the rain. So I'm standing there wondering what I should do, so I just go inside to the concession stands and look for my parents - of course, it's very crowded and at this point I'm a little scared.
What's an eight year old to do? I walked over to a security guard and told him that I needed to find my brother because my parents had gotten lost, and that he was in the UT band. So he escorts me there before promising to put a call in to look out for my parents. Of course, they had already contacted security so they found me chilling with my brother and his friends, drenched to the bone and smiling (cause I love my brother)
I don't even remember the game much.
tl;dr parents accidentally abandoned me during a UT game, got to hang out with the band
..oh, but my favorite actual gameday memory with family was when my brother took me to his last UT game and Ricky Williams broke the rushing record during it =)
| CFB | t5_2qm9d | ckyn5l8 | So, this one might be more funny then sad.
My brother was in the band at UT so we'd go to the games at least a few times a year. I'm ten years younger than him, so at this event I'm barely 8 years old. My parents take me to the game and we're on the opposite side of the stadium from the band, and my dad leaves us to go to the concession stand before halftime rush. After about ten minutes, my mom needs to go to the bathroom...so she leaves me there, telling me not to go anywhere. So there I am, all alone. Whatever, I was into the game.
A few minutes later, it starts pouring down rain and since it's almost halftime everyone just goes inside to get out from the rain. So I'm standing there wondering what I should do, so I just go inside to the concession stands and look for my parents - of course, it's very crowded and at this point I'm a little scared.
What's an eight year old to do? I walked over to a security guard and told him that I needed to find my brother because my parents had gotten lost, and that he was in the UT band. So he escorts me there before promising to put a call in to look out for my parents. Of course, they had already contacted security so they found me chilling with my brother and his friends, drenched to the bone and smiling (cause I love my brother)
I don't even remember the game much. | parents accidentally abandoned me during a UT game, got to hang out with the band
..oh, but my favorite actual gameday memory with family was when my brother took me to his last UT game and Ricky Williams broke the rushing record during it =) |
MargaretCharles | There are probably worse ones, but [the Tuskegee syphilis experiment]( is one that I usually think of when I think of shitty things.
Basically, syphilis is a weird, difficult disease. It can't be grown in cultures or anything like that to be studied. They have to grow it in rabbit testicles for experimenting and stuff now. I'm not sure if they hadn't figured out the whole rabbit-ball-petri-dish thing in the 1930s or what, but they basically used a bunch of black people in the south as human petri dishes for syphilis.
They kept a large group of people oblivious to the fact that they had syphilis, and instead just watched how it worked in their body. For like 40 years. Even after there was a cure, they purposefully kept them away from it and coerced them into things like agreeing for an autopsy after death and getting them to come to their time-consuming and painful studies. They purposefully kept them away from treatment or gave them placebos. Their wives got syphilis, their kids got syphilis, and some of them died from syphilis. They didn't put an end to it until the 70's, when someone brought attention to what they were doing and they were forced to shut it down.
tl;dr: 1930's Southern mindset - "We can't study syphilis in a lab? Hmmm, what about animal testing? Wait, a black person? SAME THING!" | There are probably worse ones, but [the Tuskegee syphilis experiment]( is one that I usually think of when I think of shitty things.
Basically, syphilis is a weird, difficult disease. It can't be grown in cultures or anything like that to be studied. They have to grow it in rabbit testicles for experimenting and stuff now. I'm not sure if they hadn't figured out the whole rabbit-ball-petri-dish thing in the 1930s or what, but they basically used a bunch of black people in the south as human petri dishes for syphilis.
They kept a large group of people oblivious to the fact that they had syphilis, and instead just watched how it worked in their body. For like 40 years. Even after there was a cure, they purposefully kept them away from it and coerced them into things like agreeing for an autopsy after death and getting them to come to their time-consuming and painful studies. They purposefully kept them away from treatment or gave them placebos. Their wives got syphilis, their kids got syphilis, and some of them died from syphilis. They didn't put an end to it until the 70's, when someone brought attention to what they were doing and they were forced to shut it down.
tl;dr: 1930's Southern mindset - "We can't study syphilis in a lab? Hmmm, what about animal testing? Wait, a black person? SAME THING!"
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | ckyzqci | There are probably worse ones, but [the Tuskegee syphilis experiment]( is one that I usually think of when I think of shitty things.
Basically, syphilis is a weird, difficult disease. It can't be grown in cultures or anything like that to be studied. They have to grow it in rabbit testicles for experimenting and stuff now. I'm not sure if they hadn't figured out the whole rabbit-ball-petri-dish thing in the 1930s or what, but they basically used a bunch of black people in the south as human petri dishes for syphilis.
They kept a large group of people oblivious to the fact that they had syphilis, and instead just watched how it worked in their body. For like 40 years. Even after there was a cure, they purposefully kept them away from it and coerced them into things like agreeing for an autopsy after death and getting them to come to their time-consuming and painful studies. They purposefully kept them away from treatment or gave them placebos. Their wives got syphilis, their kids got syphilis, and some of them died from syphilis. They didn't put an end to it until the 70's, when someone brought attention to what they were doing and they were forced to shut it down. | 1930's Southern mindset - "We can't study syphilis in a lab? Hmmm, what about animal testing? Wait, a black person? SAME THING!" |
AtomikRadio | No exercise is necessary to lose weight.
That said, there are pros and cons to both styles of exercise for weight loss/fitness building.
Lifting provides low (relative to cardio) calorie burn and, while muscle *is* more metabolically active than fat, this difference is so slight as to be negligible on the grand scheme of things (We're talking <50 kcal/day difference in RMR for most people). So from a calorie perspective it's really not super great for weight-loss. It also doesn't work the cardiovascular system like cardio (hence the name) does. However it makes you stronger (obv), improves life-long bone health, for most people has a positive impact on flexibility and range of motion, and can provide a nice visual improvement than is both motivating and can reduce the obviousness of loose skin from major weight loss.
Cardio is important for lifelong heart health and burns more calories than lifting, but typically targets very few and very specific muscle groups.
**TLDR:** If you were to choose one or the other for weight loss I'd recommend cardio due to the caloric deficit you can work up and the importance of cardiovascular fitness. Both would be ideal. I did neither. So it's really about finding an exercise routine that gets you towards your personal goals that you like enough to sustain. | No exercise is necessary to lose weight.
That said, there are pros and cons to both styles of exercise for weight loss/fitness building.
Lifting provides low (relative to cardio) calorie burn and, while muscle is more metabolically active than fat, this difference is so slight as to be negligible on the grand scheme of things (We're talking <50 kcal/day difference in RMR for most people). So from a calorie perspective it's really not super great for weight-loss. It also doesn't work the cardiovascular system like cardio (hence the name) does. However it makes you stronger (obv), improves life-long bone health, for most people has a positive impact on flexibility and range of motion, and can provide a nice visual improvement than is both motivating and can reduce the obviousness of loose skin from major weight loss.
Cardio is important for lifelong heart health and burns more calories than lifting, but typically targets very few and very specific muscle groups.
TLDR: If you were to choose one or the other for weight loss I'd recommend cardio due to the caloric deficit you can work up and the importance of cardiovascular fitness. Both would be ideal. I did neither. So it's really about finding an exercise routine that gets you towards your personal goals that you like enough to sustain.
| loseit | t5_2rz8w | ckz458g | No exercise is necessary to lose weight.
That said, there are pros and cons to both styles of exercise for weight loss/fitness building.
Lifting provides low (relative to cardio) calorie burn and, while muscle is more metabolically active than fat, this difference is so slight as to be negligible on the grand scheme of things (We're talking <50 kcal/day difference in RMR for most people). So from a calorie perspective it's really not super great for weight-loss. It also doesn't work the cardiovascular system like cardio (hence the name) does. However it makes you stronger (obv), improves life-long bone health, for most people has a positive impact on flexibility and range of motion, and can provide a nice visual improvement than is both motivating and can reduce the obviousness of loose skin from major weight loss.
Cardio is important for lifelong heart health and burns more calories than lifting, but typically targets very few and very specific muscle groups. | If you were to choose one or the other for weight loss I'd recommend cardio due to the caloric deficit you can work up and the importance of cardiovascular fitness. Both would be ideal. I did neither. So it's really about finding an exercise routine that gets you towards your personal goals that you like enough to sustain. |
3andrew | After reading everything below, I agree with what everyone is stating. 980 SLI would perform a bit better. One thing to consider though is that it will cost you around $200 more for the 980's vs the 780ti's. You will need a more powerful PSU and a little better airflow which could mean a larger case. Though for many of us airflow would not be much an issue.
If your looking to buy the cards now and have a budget, I think that would play a big part into what cards you get. $200 more might mean your going over budget and I honestly don't think the performance difference between them is large enough to justify the cost.
With that being said, you could snag 2 970's for around $660 and be close to 780ti's and save another $240 by not getting the 780ti's. The 970's OC very well and often trade blows with the 780ti.
TLDR: 970's are extremely close and sometimes beat the 780ti's in performance. If your on a budget and want outstanding performance, the 970's can't be beat. | After reading everything below, I agree with what everyone is stating. 980 SLI would perform a bit better. One thing to consider though is that it will cost you around $200 more for the 980's vs the 780ti's. You will need a more powerful PSU and a little better airflow which could mean a larger case. Though for many of us airflow would not be much an issue.
If your looking to buy the cards now and have a budget, I think that would play a big part into what cards you get. $200 more might mean your going over budget and I honestly don't think the performance difference between them is large enough to justify the cost.
With that being said, you could snag 2 970's for around $660 and be close to 780ti's and save another $240 by not getting the 780ti's. The 970's OC very well and often trade blows with the 780ti.
TLDR: 970's are extremely close and sometimes beat the 780ti's in performance. If your on a budget and want outstanding performance, the 970's can't be beat.
| buildapc | t5_2rnve | ckzltqo | After reading everything below, I agree with what everyone is stating. 980 SLI would perform a bit better. One thing to consider though is that it will cost you around $200 more for the 980's vs the 780ti's. You will need a more powerful PSU and a little better airflow which could mean a larger case. Though for many of us airflow would not be much an issue.
If your looking to buy the cards now and have a budget, I think that would play a big part into what cards you get. $200 more might mean your going over budget and I honestly don't think the performance difference between them is large enough to justify the cost.
With that being said, you could snag 2 970's for around $660 and be close to 780ti's and save another $240 by not getting the 780ti's. The 970's OC very well and often trade blows with the 780ti. | 970's are extremely close and sometimes beat the 780ti's in performance. If your on a budget and want outstanding performance, the 970's can't be beat. |
laserinlove | according to the pc per article they got the same clockspeeds on water and air difference being 42C water 82C air. the argument therefore is that water cooling is needless since the card doesn't mind being at 82C. that temp may make some squirmish but it really isnt that hot.
tl;dr water cooling gives no real benefit atm. | according to the pc per article they got the same clockspeeds on water and air difference being 42C water 82C air. the argument therefore is that water cooling is needless since the card doesn't mind being at 82C. that temp may make some squirmish but it really isnt that hot.
tl;dr water cooling gives no real benefit atm.
| buildapc | t5_2rnve | ckztiu9 | according to the pc per article they got the same clockspeeds on water and air difference being 42C water 82C air. the argument therefore is that water cooling is needless since the card doesn't mind being at 82C. that temp may make some squirmish but it really isnt that hot. | water cooling gives no real benefit atm. |
Aethien | I saw the length then checked the comments for a tl;dr. No way I'm reading all that. | I saw the length then checked the comments for a tl;dr. No way I'm reading all that.
| creepyPMs | t5_2ug83 | ckzp8h9 | I saw the length then checked the comments for a | No way I'm reading all that. |
gunshlinger | Well, for as childish as it may seem, please and thank you are the two best phrases.
Engineer, could you please put your sentry here? vs Engineer, put your sentry here. Which would you be more likely to follow?
Medic, would you please put on Kritzkrieg? It benefits the entire team. vs Med go kritz. Which would you follow?
Scout, can you put on Mad Milk and Fan o War/Sandman? vs. Scout, put on Milk and FoW. Which would you follow?
The best thing to do is to treat people with respect. They don't know any better, just like W+M1 Pyros, they don't know Right Click is the best invention since Gunboats. That, or let people experiment. MVM is a game made for fun and creativity, the meta isn't fun, having a demo, med, solly, scout, heavy, and engi. Why not experiment with a pyro instead of heavy, or 6 bison soldiers?
tl;dr. be nice to people, it'll make them more likely to stay. | Well, for as childish as it may seem, please and thank you are the two best phrases.
Engineer, could you please put your sentry here? vs Engineer, put your sentry here. Which would you be more likely to follow?
Medic, would you please put on Kritzkrieg? It benefits the entire team. vs Med go kritz. Which would you follow?
Scout, can you put on Mad Milk and Fan o War/Sandman? vs. Scout, put on Milk and FoW. Which would you follow?
The best thing to do is to treat people with respect. They don't know any better, just like W+M1 Pyros, they don't know Right Click is the best invention since Gunboats. That, or let people experiment. MVM is a game made for fun and creativity, the meta isn't fun, having a demo, med, solly, scout, heavy, and engi. Why not experiment with a pyro instead of heavy, or 6 bison soldiers?
tl;dr. be nice to people, it'll make them more likely to stay.
| tf2 | t5_2qka0 | cl1aqpw | Well, for as childish as it may seem, please and thank you are the two best phrases.
Engineer, could you please put your sentry here? vs Engineer, put your sentry here. Which would you be more likely to follow?
Medic, would you please put on Kritzkrieg? It benefits the entire team. vs Med go kritz. Which would you follow?
Scout, can you put on Mad Milk and Fan o War/Sandman? vs. Scout, put on Milk and FoW. Which would you follow?
The best thing to do is to treat people with respect. They don't know any better, just like W+M1 Pyros, they don't know Right Click is the best invention since Gunboats. That, or let people experiment. MVM is a game made for fun and creativity, the meta isn't fun, having a demo, med, solly, scout, heavy, and engi. Why not experiment with a pyro instead of heavy, or 6 bison soldiers? | be nice to people, it'll make them more likely to stay. |
MoarCC | I think it's in your head, honestly. It's just that, the more you play, the more stupid people you meet. And we tend to remember the negative very well. Trust me, it adds up.
TL;DR - Have faith in the good part of the TF2 community. | I think it's in your head, honestly. It's just that, the more you play, the more stupid people you meet. And we tend to remember the negative very well. Trust me, it adds up.
TL;DR - Have faith in the good part of the TF2 community.
| tf2 | t5_2qka0 | cl0bbin | I think it's in your head, honestly. It's just that, the more you play, the more stupid people you meet. And we tend to remember the negative very well. Trust me, it adds up. | Have faith in the good part of the TF2 community. |
schmoegreene | He is such a fucking douchebag. I have no problem with Derosa disagreeing with Ant or even disliking him, but why does he choose to ramble about it on podcasts? Most people make their opinions clear in a tweet or a few sentences. Joe feels the need to pontificate for 20 minutes at a time until his original point makes no sense. And he's talking to a fucking nobody who has no connection to OnA. Keep that shit in the family, you rat-bastard.
TL/DR: *Jesus*, Joe. | He is such a fucking douchebag. I have no problem with Derosa disagreeing with Ant or even disliking him, but why does he choose to ramble about it on podcasts? Most people make their opinions clear in a tweet or a few sentences. Joe feels the need to pontificate for 20 minutes at a time until his original point makes no sense. And he's talking to a fucking nobody who has no connection to OnA. Keep that shit in the family, you rat-bastard.
TL/DR: Jesus , Joe.
| opieandanthony | t5_2se0w | cl0di82 | He is such a fucking douchebag. I have no problem with Derosa disagreeing with Ant or even disliking him, but why does he choose to ramble about it on podcasts? Most people make their opinions clear in a tweet or a few sentences. Joe feels the need to pontificate for 20 minutes at a time until his original point makes no sense. And he's talking to a fucking nobody who has no connection to OnA. Keep that shit in the family, you rat-bastard. | Jesus , Joe. |
Tsuki4735 | Mind you, this is based on what I've heard and seen, but I'm pretty sure it's fairly accurate:
**Why Fate Stay/Night (aka FSN) is so popular/renowned:**
The average Visual Novel before the Typemoon era was fairly different from what we see nowadays.
VNs before tended to be more along the lines of your typical dating-sim. You know, the usual high school setting with a bland protagonist whom interacts with a bunch of girls. You get familiar with one, follow their route, have the mc fall in love, etc. Examples of this classical setup would be the likes of Clannad, Shuffle, etc.
That's not to say Tsukihime and Fate doesn't have these elements; rather, FSN and Tsukihime were amongst the first VNs that had put significant effort into worldbuilding, an elaborate plot, and other elements outside of your typical dating sim.
FSN, in particular, was Typemoon's first professionally developed VN. Unlike Tsukihime (which was a fanmade doujin VN), FSN went all out with it's world-building, character development, plot, etc. It was a hit (even amongst overseas fans), and gained a ton of hardcore fans.
Even now, we still see the effects of FSN and Tsukihime's success; there are a ton of VNs that have experimented with more non-traditional plotlines and stories, some more successful than others. This has had a halo effect of sorts.
FSN is pretty much the pioneer, the epic story-based VN that inspired and drew forth a huge fanbase. And that has spawned spin-offs, prequels, character goods, etc. Typemoon has been milking the FSN franchise for over 10 years now; it was that successful.
**TL;DR** - Typemoon was a pioneer of sorts for the modern day, plot-focused VN. Before Typemoon, VNs generally were stuff similar to the likes of Clannad, Shuffle, etc. This pioneer status drew in a large, dedicated fanbase that persists to this very day. | Mind you, this is based on what I've heard and seen, but I'm pretty sure it's fairly accurate:
Why Fate Stay/Night (aka FSN) is so popular/renowned:
The average Visual Novel before the Typemoon era was fairly different from what we see nowadays.
VNs before tended to be more along the lines of your typical dating-sim. You know, the usual high school setting with a bland protagonist whom interacts with a bunch of girls. You get familiar with one, follow their route, have the mc fall in love, etc. Examples of this classical setup would be the likes of Clannad, Shuffle, etc.
That's not to say Tsukihime and Fate doesn't have these elements; rather, FSN and Tsukihime were amongst the first VNs that had put significant effort into worldbuilding, an elaborate plot, and other elements outside of your typical dating sim.
FSN, in particular, was Typemoon's first professionally developed VN. Unlike Tsukihime (which was a fanmade doujin VN), FSN went all out with it's world-building, character development, plot, etc. It was a hit (even amongst overseas fans), and gained a ton of hardcore fans.
Even now, we still see the effects of FSN and Tsukihime's success; there are a ton of VNs that have experimented with more non-traditional plotlines and stories, some more successful than others. This has had a halo effect of sorts.
FSN is pretty much the pioneer, the epic story-based VN that inspired and drew forth a huge fanbase. And that has spawned spin-offs, prequels, character goods, etc. Typemoon has been milking the FSN franchise for over 10 years now; it was that successful.
TL;DR - Typemoon was a pioneer of sorts for the modern day, plot-focused VN. Before Typemoon, VNs generally were stuff similar to the likes of Clannad, Shuffle, etc. This pioneer status drew in a large, dedicated fanbase that persists to this very day.
| anime | t5_2qh22 | cl0td2q | Mind you, this is based on what I've heard and seen, but I'm pretty sure it's fairly accurate:
Why Fate Stay/Night (aka FSN) is so popular/renowned:
The average Visual Novel before the Typemoon era was fairly different from what we see nowadays.
VNs before tended to be more along the lines of your typical dating-sim. You know, the usual high school setting with a bland protagonist whom interacts with a bunch of girls. You get familiar with one, follow their route, have the mc fall in love, etc. Examples of this classical setup would be the likes of Clannad, Shuffle, etc.
That's not to say Tsukihime and Fate doesn't have these elements; rather, FSN and Tsukihime were amongst the first VNs that had put significant effort into worldbuilding, an elaborate plot, and other elements outside of your typical dating sim.
FSN, in particular, was Typemoon's first professionally developed VN. Unlike Tsukihime (which was a fanmade doujin VN), FSN went all out with it's world-building, character development, plot, etc. It was a hit (even amongst overseas fans), and gained a ton of hardcore fans.
Even now, we still see the effects of FSN and Tsukihime's success; there are a ton of VNs that have experimented with more non-traditional plotlines and stories, some more successful than others. This has had a halo effect of sorts.
FSN is pretty much the pioneer, the epic story-based VN that inspired and drew forth a huge fanbase. And that has spawned spin-offs, prequels, character goods, etc. Typemoon has been milking the FSN franchise for over 10 years now; it was that successful. | Typemoon was a pioneer of sorts for the modern day, plot-focused VN. Before Typemoon, VNs generally were stuff similar to the likes of Clannad, Shuffle, etc. This pioneer status drew in a large, dedicated fanbase that persists to this very day. |
GodsDelight | And the Occupy Central movement is starting to lose momentum. So far, the Chinese central government and the Hong Kong government have done pratically nothing.
The original hope was that Golden Week (1 week vacation following National Day on Oct 1st), the rest of the Hong Kong population would rise up with them. But as it turns out, Golden Week is a popular shopping time in Hong Kong equivalent of Christmas season. For some buisnesses, this week accounts for a great chunk (~20%) their annual profit. There was an interview with a struggling new-restaurant owner that already lost 300k in inventory spoilage and began laying off staff. People have bills to pay and mouths to feed. The majority working population is hit hard while the people protesting were getting their lives paid for them.
Then there's the lack of support. Hong Kong hasn't changed since China took over. Even under British rule, there was no democracy. The Hong Kong's older generation built the city into the world 3rd biggest financial center that it is today and the protest is destroying it. Most people know that the protest is futile and if anything, it's making the situation worse. However, anti-OccupyCentral doesn't mean anti-Democracy. It would have been better for them to stop a few days earlier where they got the message across without the angry mob.
Despite the censorship, people on mainland do know about this protest, and they believe that Hong Kongers are being "snobs." China already treats Hong Kong very well, but this demand is way over the top. Mainlanders already dislike Hong Kongers for stereotyping them as uncivilized and treating them like dirt. There are always pro-democracy and pro-goverment post on Chinese forums, especially when Taiwan is involved, but this time it's rather anti-Hong Kong. So there's no support from a good chunk of people in Hong Kong, there's no support from Mainland China, and the Hong Kong and China goverments aren't budging.
Lastly there's international support. Unless the goverments acts on it, international support is worthless. I'm not saying that the media is biased, but things will always get over-reported for popularity (or in case the goverment does eventually act on it.) Other than Westboro, there aren't many protests that the internet dosen't support.
**TLDR. This protest is hyped like every other protest. The difference? China.** | And the Occupy Central movement is starting to lose momentum. So far, the Chinese central government and the Hong Kong government have done pratically nothing.
The original hope was that Golden Week (1 week vacation following National Day on Oct 1st), the rest of the Hong Kong population would rise up with them. But as it turns out, Golden Week is a popular shopping time in Hong Kong equivalent of Christmas season. For some buisnesses, this week accounts for a great chunk (~20%) their annual profit. There was an interview with a struggling new-restaurant owner that already lost 300k in inventory spoilage and began laying off staff. People have bills to pay and mouths to feed. The majority working population is hit hard while the people protesting were getting their lives paid for them.
Then there's the lack of support. Hong Kong hasn't changed since China took over. Even under British rule, there was no democracy. The Hong Kong's older generation built the city into the world 3rd biggest financial center that it is today and the protest is destroying it. Most people know that the protest is futile and if anything, it's making the situation worse. However, anti-OccupyCentral doesn't mean anti-Democracy. It would have been better for them to stop a few days earlier where they got the message across without the angry mob.
Despite the censorship, people on mainland do know about this protest, and they believe that Hong Kongers are being "snobs." China already treats Hong Kong very well, but this demand is way over the top. Mainlanders already dislike Hong Kongers for stereotyping them as uncivilized and treating them like dirt. There are always pro-democracy and pro-goverment post on Chinese forums, especially when Taiwan is involved, but this time it's rather anti-Hong Kong. So there's no support from a good chunk of people in Hong Kong, there's no support from Mainland China, and the Hong Kong and China goverments aren't budging.
Lastly there's international support. Unless the goverments acts on it, international support is worthless. I'm not saying that the media is biased, but things will always get over-reported for popularity (or in case the goverment does eventually act on it.) Other than Westboro, there aren't many protests that the internet dosen't support.
TLDR. This protest is hyped like every other protest. The difference? China.
| worldnews | t5_2qh13 | cl0r76s | And the Occupy Central movement is starting to lose momentum. So far, the Chinese central government and the Hong Kong government have done pratically nothing.
The original hope was that Golden Week (1 week vacation following National Day on Oct 1st), the rest of the Hong Kong population would rise up with them. But as it turns out, Golden Week is a popular shopping time in Hong Kong equivalent of Christmas season. For some buisnesses, this week accounts for a great chunk (~20%) their annual profit. There was an interview with a struggling new-restaurant owner that already lost 300k in inventory spoilage and began laying off staff. People have bills to pay and mouths to feed. The majority working population is hit hard while the people protesting were getting their lives paid for them.
Then there's the lack of support. Hong Kong hasn't changed since China took over. Even under British rule, there was no democracy. The Hong Kong's older generation built the city into the world 3rd biggest financial center that it is today and the protest is destroying it. Most people know that the protest is futile and if anything, it's making the situation worse. However, anti-OccupyCentral doesn't mean anti-Democracy. It would have been better for them to stop a few days earlier where they got the message across without the angry mob.
Despite the censorship, people on mainland do know about this protest, and they believe that Hong Kongers are being "snobs." China already treats Hong Kong very well, but this demand is way over the top. Mainlanders already dislike Hong Kongers for stereotyping them as uncivilized and treating them like dirt. There are always pro-democracy and pro-goverment post on Chinese forums, especially when Taiwan is involved, but this time it's rather anti-Hong Kong. So there's no support from a good chunk of people in Hong Kong, there's no support from Mainland China, and the Hong Kong and China goverments aren't budging.
Lastly there's international support. Unless the goverments acts on it, international support is worthless. I'm not saying that the media is biased, but things will always get over-reported for popularity (or in case the goverment does eventually act on it.) Other than Westboro, there aren't many protests that the internet dosen't support. | This protest is hyped like every other protest. The difference? China. |
svpam | Apparently [the bridge was first installed \(in 1904\) for a tram line](
You can see it on [the Montreal Tramways Company map from 1941](
The trams ran until 1959, and then the bridge would have still been property of the MTC (and its successor agencies). The canal became federal property in 1978, and since the bridge was no longer used for transit, it was probably given to the feds.
TL;DR: Nobody removed the sign. | Apparently [the bridge was first installed (in 1904) for a tram line](
You can see it on [the Montreal Tramways Company map from 1941](
The trams ran until 1959, and then the bridge would have still been property of the MTC (and its successor agencies). The canal became federal property in 1978, and since the bridge was no longer used for transit, it was probably given to the feds.
TL;DR: Nobody removed the sign.
| montreal | t5_2qnmr | cl1e2ws | Apparently [the bridge was first installed (in 1904) for a tram line](
You can see it on [the Montreal Tramways Company map from 1941](
The trams ran until 1959, and then the bridge would have still been property of the MTC (and its successor agencies). The canal became federal property in 1978, and since the bridge was no longer used for transit, it was probably given to the feds. | Nobody removed the sign. |
Svardskampe | Being among other people so there is not much room to interject yourself, also having no body language in the sense of, looking up when I walk past by, or have a faint smile. Just the acknowledgement of "hey I see you" could a man make his mind up of thinking "I should say hello to this woman".
And what you say, not relationship material but friends is what in my eyes is even harder. They say it "can" happen, but I have a very hard time to befriend girls on more than an acquaintance-level, who would contact me, however my interaction with women don't seem that bad as I've got a girlfriend for a very long time.
(Maybe it is because girls are so used by being contacted all the time they don't see a need for initiating contact?)
But then again, I have very intimate (male) friends, and not everyone could say that in the first place, so I consider myself lucky.
**TL;DR**: Getting a relationship with the opposite gender seems easier to me than to befriend them. | Being among other people so there is not much room to interject yourself, also having no body language in the sense of, looking up when I walk past by, or have a faint smile. Just the acknowledgement of "hey I see you" could a man make his mind up of thinking "I should say hello to this woman".
And what you say, not relationship material but friends is what in my eyes is even harder. They say it "can" happen, but I have a very hard time to befriend girls on more than an acquaintance-level, who would contact me, however my interaction with women don't seem that bad as I've got a girlfriend for a very long time.
(Maybe it is because girls are so used by being contacted all the time they don't see a need for initiating contact?)
But then again, I have very intimate (male) friends, and not everyone could say that in the first place, so I consider myself lucky.
TL;DR : Getting a relationship with the opposite gender seems easier to me than to befriend them.
| AskMen | t5_2s30g | cl1ubof | Being among other people so there is not much room to interject yourself, also having no body language in the sense of, looking up when I walk past by, or have a faint smile. Just the acknowledgement of "hey I see you" could a man make his mind up of thinking "I should say hello to this woman".
And what you say, not relationship material but friends is what in my eyes is even harder. They say it "can" happen, but I have a very hard time to befriend girls on more than an acquaintance-level, who would contact me, however my interaction with women don't seem that bad as I've got a girlfriend for a very long time.
(Maybe it is because girls are so used by being contacted all the time they don't see a need for initiating contact?)
But then again, I have very intimate (male) friends, and not everyone could say that in the first place, so I consider myself lucky. | Getting a relationship with the opposite gender seems easier to me than to befriend them. |
BlakeTheTank | Okay, hear me out:
1). Any class can equip any weapon.
2). With how effective they are, tech and biotic explosions become a high-priority tactic. By the time I reached Priority: Earth, my vanguard was no longer charging, but instead primed and detonating explosions with Assault Rifle+Incendiary Ammo + Flare. My Adept was Pulling And Throwing all enemies she saw. My Sentinel did to bother with Tech Armor, she was Cryoing and Incinerating enemies. I didn't feel like scope slowdown in the Infiltrator made him stand out as an sniper. My Soldier was priming explosions with Incendiary Ammo and detonating with Concussive Shot or Carnage. He didn't bring a lot of weapons in order to fulfill this strategy.
**TL; DR** all classes can equip all weapons, all classes ultimately go for combo explosions because they are ultimately more effective than weapon fire. At least on Insanity. | Okay, hear me out:
1). Any class can equip any weapon.
2). With how effective they are, tech and biotic explosions become a high-priority tactic. By the time I reached Priority: Earth, my vanguard was no longer charging, but instead primed and detonating explosions with Assault Rifle+Incendiary Ammo + Flare. My Adept was Pulling And Throwing all enemies she saw. My Sentinel did to bother with Tech Armor, she was Cryoing and Incinerating enemies. I didn't feel like scope slowdown in the Infiltrator made him stand out as an sniper. My Soldier was priming explosions with Incendiary Ammo and detonating with Concussive Shot or Carnage. He didn't bring a lot of weapons in order to fulfill this strategy.
TL; DR all classes can equip all weapons, all classes ultimately go for combo explosions because they are ultimately more effective than weapon fire. At least on Insanity.
| masseffect | t5_2rc19 | cl1ys2j | Okay, hear me out:
1). Any class can equip any weapon.
2). With how effective they are, tech and biotic explosions become a high-priority tactic. By the time I reached Priority: Earth, my vanguard was no longer charging, but instead primed and detonating explosions with Assault Rifle+Incendiary Ammo + Flare. My Adept was Pulling And Throwing all enemies she saw. My Sentinel did to bother with Tech Armor, she was Cryoing and Incinerating enemies. I didn't feel like scope slowdown in the Infiltrator made him stand out as an sniper. My Soldier was priming explosions with Incendiary Ammo and detonating with Concussive Shot or Carnage. He didn't bring a lot of weapons in order to fulfill this strategy. | all classes can equip all weapons, all classes ultimately go for combo explosions because they are ultimately more effective than weapon fire. At least on Insanity. |
mynameipaul | I have a friend who is *severely* allergic to *so* many things.
She carries an epipen and antihistamines everywhere with her.
If she, say, gets stung by a bee, or accidentally eats shellfish, she's supposed to take the pills, inject the epipen and call an ambulance.
A few months ago she ate nut by mistake (in a birthday cake).
She took the pills, but didn't use the epipen "because it's fucking expensive!!" And refused to call an ambulance because the ambulance costs more than the hospital visit. "My throat isn't closing up yet, there's still time!"
So she made our friend drive her to the hospital, with the pen in her hand, "just in case". She got to the hospital and pocketed the pen (unused). The first thing the doctor did is stick her with an epipen but she gets charged a flat rate for emergency procedures in the ER, and doesn't have to pay separately to replace her own epipen.
They cost about €50 (less than half a day's wage for her).
(Epipen is the wrong word, but it's something similar with a similar name)
**Tl;dr not taking a life-saving epipen when having a severe allergic reaction because its expensive** | I have a friend who is severely allergic to so many things.
She carries an epipen and antihistamines everywhere with her.
If she, say, gets stung by a bee, or accidentally eats shellfish, she's supposed to take the pills, inject the epipen and call an ambulance.
A few months ago she ate nut by mistake (in a birthday cake).
She took the pills, but didn't use the epipen "because it's fucking expensive!!" And refused to call an ambulance because the ambulance costs more than the hospital visit. "My throat isn't closing up yet, there's still time!"
So she made our friend drive her to the hospital, with the pen in her hand, "just in case". She got to the hospital and pocketed the pen (unused). The first thing the doctor did is stick her with an epipen but she gets charged a flat rate for emergency procedures in the ER, and doesn't have to pay separately to replace her own epipen.
They cost about €50 (less than half a day's wage for her).
(Epipen is the wrong word, but it's something similar with a similar name)
Tl;dr not taking a life-saving epipen when having a severe allergic reaction because its expensive
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | cl207vp | I have a friend who is severely allergic to so many things.
She carries an epipen and antihistamines everywhere with her.
If she, say, gets stung by a bee, or accidentally eats shellfish, she's supposed to take the pills, inject the epipen and call an ambulance.
A few months ago she ate nut by mistake (in a birthday cake).
She took the pills, but didn't use the epipen "because it's fucking expensive!!" And refused to call an ambulance because the ambulance costs more than the hospital visit. "My throat isn't closing up yet, there's still time!"
So she made our friend drive her to the hospital, with the pen in her hand, "just in case". She got to the hospital and pocketed the pen (unused). The first thing the doctor did is stick her with an epipen but she gets charged a flat rate for emergency procedures in the ER, and doesn't have to pay separately to replace her own epipen.
They cost about €50 (less than half a day's wage for her).
(Epipen is the wrong word, but it's something similar with a similar name) | not taking a life-saving epipen when having a severe allergic reaction because its expensive |
TiredTofu | I have an EDH deck built around [[Living End]]. Like the modern deck, it's mostly cyclers and it has literally only one thing with a CMC of 2 or less (Living End), so whenever you cascade with [[Violent Outburst]] or [[Demonic Dread]], you always cascade into a free-to-cast Living End.
Anyway, the most recent game of playing with this went beautifully. Turn 5, I cast [[Necrologia]] with X=25, discarding most of the creatures. I survived until the next turn, which led me to resolve [[Gnaw to the Bone]] (putting me back over 40) followed by Living End.
The turn after, I stuck [[Greater Good]]. Finally, someone boardwiped on their turn, but I stuck [[Living End]] back onto the bottom of my deck by activating [[Battlefield Scrounger]], then I used Greater Good to draw & discard most of my deck, setting me up to reanimate my entire deck next turn with a cascade next turn.
With 9 cards on the bottom of my deck (the bottom two being Living End and Violent Outburst, respectively), I got smacked in the face by a hasty Dragon Mage, making me discard my hand (including the [[Demonic Dread]] I needed to win) and draw 7 cards, leaving me with a known library of two cards: Living End & Violent Outburst. Boy did I think I was screwed.
On my draw step, I draw Living End and ponder my options. [[Crypt of Agadeem]] gave me quite a bit of mana to work with, but my only way of reanimating my graveyard for the win was stranded in my hand. Eventually, I saw the solution.
1. I cast my general (Prossh) for the first time in the game.
2. I sac a Kobold to Greater Good to draw zero cards and discard three cards, including Living End.
3. I cast a [[Solemn Simulacrum]], whiff on the search trigger (obviously), then sac it to Prossh to draw Violent Outburst (leaving me with a 0 card library).
4. I then cast a hasty [[Junktroller]] thanks to [[Anger]] in the graveyard, and tuck Living End back onto the bottom (also, top) of my library.
5. Finally, I follow it up by casting the Violent Outburst from my hand, which cascades into the Living End--reanimating my entire deck/graveyard full of creatures including a few haste enablers and a [[Craterhoof Behemoth]] for the win.
TL;DR: I solved a Duels of the Planeswalkers puzzle in EDH to reanimate my entire deck at once and deal over 4000 damage in a single turn. | I have an EDH deck built around [[Living End]]. Like the modern deck, it's mostly cyclers and it has literally only one thing with a CMC of 2 or less (Living End), so whenever you cascade with [[Violent Outburst]] or [[Demonic Dread]], you always cascade into a free-to-cast Living End.
Anyway, the most recent game of playing with this went beautifully. Turn 5, I cast [[Necrologia]] with X=25, discarding most of the creatures. I survived until the next turn, which led me to resolve [[Gnaw to the Bone]] (putting me back over 40) followed by Living End.
The turn after, I stuck [[Greater Good]]. Finally, someone boardwiped on their turn, but I stuck [[Living End]] back onto the bottom of my deck by activating [[Battlefield Scrounger]], then I used Greater Good to draw & discard most of my deck, setting me up to reanimate my entire deck next turn with a cascade next turn.
With 9 cards on the bottom of my deck (the bottom two being Living End and Violent Outburst, respectively), I got smacked in the face by a hasty Dragon Mage, making me discard my hand (including the [[Demonic Dread]] I needed to win) and draw 7 cards, leaving me with a known library of two cards: Living End & Violent Outburst. Boy did I think I was screwed.
On my draw step, I draw Living End and ponder my options. [[Crypt of Agadeem]] gave me quite a bit of mana to work with, but my only way of reanimating my graveyard for the win was stranded in my hand. Eventually, I saw the solution.
I cast my general (Prossh) for the first time in the game.
I sac a Kobold to Greater Good to draw zero cards and discard three cards, including Living End.
I cast a [[Solemn Simulacrum]], whiff on the search trigger (obviously), then sac it to Prossh to draw Violent Outburst (leaving me with a 0 card library).
I then cast a hasty [[Junktroller]] thanks to [[Anger]] in the graveyard, and tuck Living End back onto the bottom (also, top) of my library.
Finally, I follow it up by casting the Violent Outburst from my hand, which cascades into the Living End--reanimating my entire deck/graveyard full of creatures including a few haste enablers and a [[Craterhoof Behemoth]] for the win.
TL;DR: I solved a Duels of the Planeswalkers puzzle in EDH to reanimate my entire deck at once and deal over 4000 damage in a single turn.
| EDH | t5_2scee | cl232zw | I have an EDH deck built around [[Living End]]. Like the modern deck, it's mostly cyclers and it has literally only one thing with a CMC of 2 or less (Living End), so whenever you cascade with [[Violent Outburst]] or [[Demonic Dread]], you always cascade into a free-to-cast Living End.
Anyway, the most recent game of playing with this went beautifully. Turn 5, I cast [[Necrologia]] with X=25, discarding most of the creatures. I survived until the next turn, which led me to resolve [[Gnaw to the Bone]] (putting me back over 40) followed by Living End.
The turn after, I stuck [[Greater Good]]. Finally, someone boardwiped on their turn, but I stuck [[Living End]] back onto the bottom of my deck by activating [[Battlefield Scrounger]], then I used Greater Good to draw & discard most of my deck, setting me up to reanimate my entire deck next turn with a cascade next turn.
With 9 cards on the bottom of my deck (the bottom two being Living End and Violent Outburst, respectively), I got smacked in the face by a hasty Dragon Mage, making me discard my hand (including the [[Demonic Dread]] I needed to win) and draw 7 cards, leaving me with a known library of two cards: Living End & Violent Outburst. Boy did I think I was screwed.
On my draw step, I draw Living End and ponder my options. [[Crypt of Agadeem]] gave me quite a bit of mana to work with, but my only way of reanimating my graveyard for the win was stranded in my hand. Eventually, I saw the solution.
I cast my general (Prossh) for the first time in the game.
I sac a Kobold to Greater Good to draw zero cards and discard three cards, including Living End.
I cast a [[Solemn Simulacrum]], whiff on the search trigger (obviously), then sac it to Prossh to draw Violent Outburst (leaving me with a 0 card library).
I then cast a hasty [[Junktroller]] thanks to [[Anger]] in the graveyard, and tuck Living End back onto the bottom (also, top) of my library.
Finally, I follow it up by casting the Violent Outburst from my hand, which cascades into the Living End--reanimating my entire deck/graveyard full of creatures including a few haste enablers and a [[Craterhoof Behemoth]] for the win. | I solved a Duels of the Planeswalkers puzzle in EDH to reanimate my entire deck at once and deal over 4000 damage in a single turn. |
biglefttoe | No real damaging failures here.
I've destroyed my fair sum of capacitors (and been shocked for it) and the most all I see is the top balloon out. Search youtube for capacitor explosions and you'll see most just balloon or vent off a vapor (having something explode is a bad fail-safe). Probably just a little bit of special effects. Maybe the cord was sliced off at the end (not the end on screen) and was attached to a battery so it wasn't plugged into the wall.
Also, notice when he "touches" the A/C wires. Look at the voltmeter, it never jumped up even a single volt when he shocked himself (he claims a high voltage is running). He also pushes it off screen really fast to avoid us seeing that.
This video will certainly be one you'll remember when dealing with capacitors and bare wires.
Tl:dr
No real danger, really good safety reminder video. | No real damaging failures here.
I've destroyed my fair sum of capacitors (and been shocked for it) and the most all I see is the top balloon out. Search youtube for capacitor explosions and you'll see most just balloon or vent off a vapor (having something explode is a bad fail-safe). Probably just a little bit of special effects. Maybe the cord was sliced off at the end (not the end on screen) and was attached to a battery so it wasn't plugged into the wall.
Also, notice when he "touches" the A/C wires. Look at the voltmeter, it never jumped up even a single volt when he shocked himself (he claims a high voltage is running). He also pushes it off screen really fast to avoid us seeing that.
This video will certainly be one you'll remember when dealing with capacitors and bare wires.
Tl:dr
No real danger, really good safety reminder video.
| videos | t5_2qh1e | cl2n9lw | No real damaging failures here.
I've destroyed my fair sum of capacitors (and been shocked for it) and the most all I see is the top balloon out. Search youtube for capacitor explosions and you'll see most just balloon or vent off a vapor (having something explode is a bad fail-safe). Probably just a little bit of special effects. Maybe the cord was sliced off at the end (not the end on screen) and was attached to a battery so it wasn't plugged into the wall.
Also, notice when he "touches" the A/C wires. Look at the voltmeter, it never jumped up even a single volt when he shocked himself (he claims a high voltage is running). He also pushes it off screen really fast to avoid us seeing that.
This video will certainly be one you'll remember when dealing with capacitors and bare wires. | No real danger, really good safety reminder video. |
WizzMuch | I'd be a character in the world of A Song Of Ice and Fire.
I'd be a hooded man, my face always pitch black from the shadow my hood casts.
I'd be independent, though swaying towards the side with the more "righteous" cause. Which in this case, would be the North.
My name would simply be The Hooded protector. For under my robes, I am clad in full plate mail, with board and sword to match. And under my gentle, altruistic nature, I would stop at nothing to protect the weak from the tyrannical.
Also, goes without saying I'd be an INFJ here too.
TL; DR: Old badass knight hidden in black robes. INFJ. | I'd be a character in the world of A Song Of Ice and Fire.
I'd be a hooded man, my face always pitch black from the shadow my hood casts.
I'd be independent, though swaying towards the side with the more "righteous" cause. Which in this case, would be the North.
My name would simply be The Hooded protector. For under my robes, I am clad in full plate mail, with board and sword to match. And under my gentle, altruistic nature, I would stop at nothing to protect the weak from the tyrannical.
Also, goes without saying I'd be an INFJ here too.
TL; DR: Old badass knight hidden in black robes. INFJ.
| infj | t5_2r39a | cl2gqfl | I'd be a character in the world of A Song Of Ice and Fire.
I'd be a hooded man, my face always pitch black from the shadow my hood casts.
I'd be independent, though swaying towards the side with the more "righteous" cause. Which in this case, would be the North.
My name would simply be The Hooded protector. For under my robes, I am clad in full plate mail, with board and sword to match. And under my gentle, altruistic nature, I would stop at nothing to protect the weak from the tyrannical.
Also, goes without saying I'd be an INFJ here too. | Old badass knight hidden in black robes. INFJ. |
nykzero | Eh, it depends on how they are handling it. I have gone to the Air Force Ball with my wife and kids, as well as some Unit Christmas parties. The kids are usually set up in a different area from the adults, and they have always had a great time. While alcohol is available at the ball, it's historically been outrageously priced (stadium prices basically), so nobody drinks more than a couple (in addition, it's probably not a great idea to get smashed near high level leadership). If it's set up this way, it could be fine. I had a few Christmas parties where the alcohol was served a bit heavier, but there was a dedicated group whose job was to make sure everyone got home safe, but they were not usually needed. I suppose if your group is more childish than military members, you might be in trouble.
TL;DR It can work, but it depends on the planning and behavior of those present. Do more research. | Eh, it depends on how they are handling it. I have gone to the Air Force Ball with my wife and kids, as well as some Unit Christmas parties. The kids are usually set up in a different area from the adults, and they have always had a great time. While alcohol is available at the ball, it's historically been outrageously priced (stadium prices basically), so nobody drinks more than a couple (in addition, it's probably not a great idea to get smashed near high level leadership). If it's set up this way, it could be fine. I had a few Christmas parties where the alcohol was served a bit heavier, but there was a dedicated group whose job was to make sure everyone got home safe, but they were not usually needed. I suppose if your group is more childish than military members, you might be in trouble.
TL;DR It can work, but it depends on the planning and behavior of those present. Do more research.
| Parenting | t5_2qhn3 | cl2ta0d | Eh, it depends on how they are handling it. I have gone to the Air Force Ball with my wife and kids, as well as some Unit Christmas parties. The kids are usually set up in a different area from the adults, and they have always had a great time. While alcohol is available at the ball, it's historically been outrageously priced (stadium prices basically), so nobody drinks more than a couple (in addition, it's probably not a great idea to get smashed near high level leadership). If it's set up this way, it could be fine. I had a few Christmas parties where the alcohol was served a bit heavier, but there was a dedicated group whose job was to make sure everyone got home safe, but they were not usually needed. I suppose if your group is more childish than military members, you might be in trouble. | It can work, but it depends on the planning and behavior of those present. Do more research. |
Shooter-McDabn | Is there a setting on the board to adjust trigger debounce?
or look in the manual how to adjust your triggers debounce settings manually with hand tools.
When you find out how, you raise it up slowly and check in semi mode to see if it still fires uncontrollably
TL/DR ::: Figure out how to adjust debounce and increase / raise it. | Is there a setting on the board to adjust trigger debounce?
or look in the manual how to adjust your triggers debounce settings manually with hand tools.
When you find out how, you raise it up slowly and check in semi mode to see if it still fires uncontrollably
TL/DR ::: Figure out how to adjust debounce and increase / raise it.
| paintball | t5_2qkm6 | cl3cmmr | Is there a setting on the board to adjust trigger debounce?
or look in the manual how to adjust your triggers debounce settings manually with hand tools.
When you find out how, you raise it up slowly and check in semi mode to see if it still fires uncontrollably | Figure out how to adjust debounce and increase / raise it. |
seocurious13 | I don't think it's fair to place the men and women of our armed forces with the inbred gutter trash that think this sort of behaviour is ok. There may be some members of the military with that view, but they would be in a considerable minority along with the muppet who had a skateboard thrown at him.
TLDR - there are douchebags everywhere, just being in the ADF does not make you one.
| I don't think it's fair to place the men and women of our armed forces with the inbred gutter trash that think this sort of behaviour is ok. There may be some members of the military with that view, but they would be in a considerable minority along with the muppet who had a skateboard thrown at him.
TLDR - there are douchebags everywhere, just being in the ADF does not make you one.
| australia | t5_2qh8e | cl3luxt | I don't think it's fair to place the men and women of our armed forces with the inbred gutter trash that think this sort of behaviour is ok. There may be some members of the military with that view, but they would be in a considerable minority along with the muppet who had a skateboard thrown at him. | there are douchebags everywhere, just being in the ADF does not make you one. |
MorningRooster | The old, famous top articles brought me in. But [Dr. Clef's proposal]( was one of the old ones that really showed me the potential of this format.
But what inspired me to really get into writing? [SCP-1193]( but more specifically, the way ophite described it [here](
> This was my first SCP, and pretty much a pure formal exercise in SCP creation. There's no plot, no backstory, and no interesting effects.
>
> So, here's the trick. You can replicate it yourself fairly easily. The trick isn't the arm is horrible. The arm is just scary-big, which isn't much of anything on its own. The trick is the phone. Via the phone, whatever's on the end conveys that it's life is just like ours in some respects. In response to that, we can do one of several things:
>
> (1) We could believe it's lying. In that case, why does it believe that we're likely to be convinced by its lies? In fact, why is it talking to us at all? It doesn't seem to be actively resisting containment, and it seems to have gotten itself into the predicament it's in (and it's unclear what that is) under its own power. It does not need our help, and if it does, we are unable and unwilling to provide it. This is the least horrible answer.
>
> (2) We could believe it's deluded. But in order to be deluded, there must be some sort of reference. Presuming it is what it appears to be, how does it know about ovens and hospitals and cakes? Can it sense the surface? This is the second-least-horrible answer.
>
> (3) We could believe that there is a world of ovens, hospitals, and cakes in the center of the Earth, and that somehow a creature with a seventy-kilometer arm can participate meaningfully in this world. The world where this entity is telling the truth is inconceivable. This is the second-most horrible answer, and one of the answers I was hoping people to come to.
>
> (4) We could believe that we are somehow wrong about the nature of everything that surrounds us. The world of conventional objects which the being with the arm describes is not subject to the conventional and comprehensible laws we believe it to be. Its dream-logic about ovens and cakes and casts and invulnerability is the way the world works, not a deluded fantasy by a buried giant. The Foundation's attempts to rigorously study it are futile, because reason itself is a bizarre delusion. This is the most horrible answer, and what I'm trying to get at.
>
> That's what the barely-disguised contempt by the voice on the other end of the phone is. We could help it climb out of its oven, or get its hand out of the jelly jar, if only we understood a few basic facts about the universe. The same facts which the person who installed the telephone understood to a degree that he thought the arm was unremarkable. And that's the terrible part: how commonplace our misconceptions are, and how desperately wrong our attempts at grasping the nature of the universe have been.
>
> TL;DR: The arm isn't horrible. The arm is normal. The world of unremarkable things is horrible.
EDIT: And yeah! I've got 4 SCP drafts working, an active tale series, and am planning two more tale series. | The old, famous top articles brought me in. But [Dr. Clef's proposal]( was one of the old ones that really showed me the potential of this format.
But what inspired me to really get into writing? [SCP-1193]( but more specifically, the way ophite described it [here](
> This was my first SCP, and pretty much a pure formal exercise in SCP creation. There's no plot, no backstory, and no interesting effects.
>
> So, here's the trick. You can replicate it yourself fairly easily. The trick isn't the arm is horrible. The arm is just scary-big, which isn't much of anything on its own. The trick is the phone. Via the phone, whatever's on the end conveys that it's life is just like ours in some respects. In response to that, we can do one of several things:
>
> (1) We could believe it's lying. In that case, why does it believe that we're likely to be convinced by its lies? In fact, why is it talking to us at all? It doesn't seem to be actively resisting containment, and it seems to have gotten itself into the predicament it's in (and it's unclear what that is) under its own power. It does not need our help, and if it does, we are unable and unwilling to provide it. This is the least horrible answer.
>
> (2) We could believe it's deluded. But in order to be deluded, there must be some sort of reference. Presuming it is what it appears to be, how does it know about ovens and hospitals and cakes? Can it sense the surface? This is the second-least-horrible answer.
>
> (3) We could believe that there is a world of ovens, hospitals, and cakes in the center of the Earth, and that somehow a creature with a seventy-kilometer arm can participate meaningfully in this world. The world where this entity is telling the truth is inconceivable. This is the second-most horrible answer, and one of the answers I was hoping people to come to.
>
> (4) We could believe that we are somehow wrong about the nature of everything that surrounds us. The world of conventional objects which the being with the arm describes is not subject to the conventional and comprehensible laws we believe it to be. Its dream-logic about ovens and cakes and casts and invulnerability is the way the world works, not a deluded fantasy by a buried giant. The Foundation's attempts to rigorously study it are futile, because reason itself is a bizarre delusion. This is the most horrible answer, and what I'm trying to get at.
>
> That's what the barely-disguised contempt by the voice on the other end of the phone is. We could help it climb out of its oven, or get its hand out of the jelly jar, if only we understood a few basic facts about the universe. The same facts which the person who installed the telephone understood to a degree that he thought the arm was unremarkable. And that's the terrible part: how commonplace our misconceptions are, and how desperately wrong our attempts at grasping the nature of the universe have been.
>
> TL;DR: The arm isn't horrible. The arm is normal. The world of unremarkable things is horrible.
EDIT: And yeah! I've got 4 SCP drafts working, an active tale series, and am planning two more tale series.
| SCP | t5_2r4ni | cl3ik2l | The old, famous top articles brought me in. But [Dr. Clef's proposal]( was one of the old ones that really showed me the potential of this format.
But what inspired me to really get into writing? [SCP-1193]( but more specifically, the way ophite described it [here](
> This was my first SCP, and pretty much a pure formal exercise in SCP creation. There's no plot, no backstory, and no interesting effects.
>
> So, here's the trick. You can replicate it yourself fairly easily. The trick isn't the arm is horrible. The arm is just scary-big, which isn't much of anything on its own. The trick is the phone. Via the phone, whatever's on the end conveys that it's life is just like ours in some respects. In response to that, we can do one of several things:
>
> (1) We could believe it's lying. In that case, why does it believe that we're likely to be convinced by its lies? In fact, why is it talking to us at all? It doesn't seem to be actively resisting containment, and it seems to have gotten itself into the predicament it's in (and it's unclear what that is) under its own power. It does not need our help, and if it does, we are unable and unwilling to provide it. This is the least horrible answer.
>
> (2) We could believe it's deluded. But in order to be deluded, there must be some sort of reference. Presuming it is what it appears to be, how does it know about ovens and hospitals and cakes? Can it sense the surface? This is the second-least-horrible answer.
>
> (3) We could believe that there is a world of ovens, hospitals, and cakes in the center of the Earth, and that somehow a creature with a seventy-kilometer arm can participate meaningfully in this world. The world where this entity is telling the truth is inconceivable. This is the second-most horrible answer, and one of the answers I was hoping people to come to.
>
> (4) We could believe that we are somehow wrong about the nature of everything that surrounds us. The world of conventional objects which the being with the arm describes is not subject to the conventional and comprehensible laws we believe it to be. Its dream-logic about ovens and cakes and casts and invulnerability is the way the world works, not a deluded fantasy by a buried giant. The Foundation's attempts to rigorously study it are futile, because reason itself is a bizarre delusion. This is the most horrible answer, and what I'm trying to get at.
>
> That's what the barely-disguised contempt by the voice on the other end of the phone is. We could help it climb out of its oven, or get its hand out of the jelly jar, if only we understood a few basic facts about the universe. The same facts which the person who installed the telephone understood to a degree that he thought the arm was unremarkable. And that's the terrible part: how commonplace our misconceptions are, and how desperately wrong our attempts at grasping the nature of the universe have been.
>
> | The arm isn't horrible. The arm is normal. The world of unremarkable things is horrible.
EDIT: And yeah! I've got 4 SCP drafts working, an active tale series, and am planning two more tale series. |
barbellbunny | I'm so jealous about that pharmaceutical company testing thing, that sounds like an awesome opportunity. Congrats on the loss too! KCKO is always the best motto.
As for the list of meds that interfere with low carb diets, I took [these experts]( from Atkin's New Diet Revolution. Should have your answers but the TLDR version is estrogen containing pills, anti-depressants, insulin, anti-arthritis drugs, and diuretics/beta blockers.
However contrary to list, my *n* = 1 experiment shows that the diuretics does not make a difference - I've lost a bit over 20lbs in two months and am on spironaldactone. | I'm so jealous about that pharmaceutical company testing thing, that sounds like an awesome opportunity. Congrats on the loss too! KCKO is always the best motto.
As for the list of meds that interfere with low carb diets, I took [these experts]( from Atkin's New Diet Revolution. Should have your answers but the TLDR version is estrogen containing pills, anti-depressants, insulin, anti-arthritis drugs, and diuretics/beta blockers.
However contrary to list, my n = 1 experiment shows that the diuretics does not make a difference - I've lost a bit over 20lbs in two months and am on spironaldactone.
| xxketo | t5_2u80h | cl3snsl | I'm so jealous about that pharmaceutical company testing thing, that sounds like an awesome opportunity. Congrats on the loss too! KCKO is always the best motto.
As for the list of meds that interfere with low carb diets, I took [these experts]( from Atkin's New Diet Revolution. Should have your answers but the | version is estrogen containing pills, anti-depressants, insulin, anti-arthritis drugs, and diuretics/beta blockers.
However contrary to list, my n = 1 experiment shows that the diuretics does not make a difference - I've lost a bit over 20lbs in two months and am on spironaldactone. |
disAmar | This is **NOT (COMPLETELY)** true.
In *People v. Tom*, a California Supreme Court case it was ruled that what you don't say or ask **can be used against you unless you explicitly say you are using your fifth amendment right.**
*People v. Tom*:
In 2007, Richard Tom killed an 8 year old girl and seriously injured a 10 year old girl in a traffic accident. The prosecutor in his case said that his failure to ask about the girls after the incident (while he was still being detained in a police car) showed "consciousness of his own guilt." The case went to the California Supreme Court where the earlier rulings were upheld.
TL;DR: When you get detained you must immediately say that you are using your fifth amendment right, otherwise what you do not say can be used against you.
Full Disclosure: I am not a lawyer. | This is NOT (COMPLETELY) true.
In People v. Tom , a California Supreme Court case it was ruled that what you don't say or ask can be used against you unless you explicitly say you are using your fifth amendment right.
People v. Tom :
In 2007, Richard Tom killed an 8 year old girl and seriously injured a 10 year old girl in a traffic accident. The prosecutor in his case said that his failure to ask about the girls after the incident (while he was still being detained in a police car) showed "consciousness of his own guilt." The case went to the California Supreme Court where the earlier rulings were upheld.
TL;DR: When you get detained you must immediately say that you are using your fifth amendment right, otherwise what you do not say can be used against you.
Full Disclosure: I am not a lawyer.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | cl498gx | This is NOT (COMPLETELY) true.
In People v. Tom , a California Supreme Court case it was ruled that what you don't say or ask can be used against you unless you explicitly say you are using your fifth amendment right.
People v. Tom :
In 2007, Richard Tom killed an 8 year old girl and seriously injured a 10 year old girl in a traffic accident. The prosecutor in his case said that his failure to ask about the girls after the incident (while he was still being detained in a police car) showed "consciousness of his own guilt." The case went to the California Supreme Court where the earlier rulings were upheld. | When you get detained you must immediately say that you are using your fifth amendment right, otherwise what you do not say can be used against you.
Full Disclosure: I am not a lawyer. |
Guild-Navigator | I decarb it in the oven after it's been purged, and then I just eat it straight a couple times a day, as long as I have food in my stomach already it's good to go. And I actually said 1000-1200.... But I have taken as much as 2000mg or more, I took like at least 1700 today. But that's just milligrammage for the entirety of the oil, so like 1000mg = 1 gram of decarbed oil, not pure THC. My batches usually run around 50% THC, so I guess if we're just talking straight THC, it's actually more like 500mg-600mg per day on average, plus 500mg-600mg of other cannabinoids and terpenes, and anything else that makes up the resin at that point.
Anyway, twice a day I pop in about a half gram of decarbed oil, just straight. I roll it in sugar so it doesn't stick to anything in my mouth (I don't like gelcaps). It actually kicks in really fast (15-20 mins) and lasts a REALLY long time, like I take some in the morning when I wake up and I usually don't need to vape anything until afternoon, and then it's just a few rips. Then I take some a couple hours before bed, and when I wake up I'm still high. Rinse and repeat daily. It's definitely not for everyone, I have always been able to tolerate large amounts of any kind of drug, and it is difficult for me to become visibly intoxicated on anything, even the hard stuff. I am, like, literally, a drug monster, but I don't do drugs anymore besides Cannabinoids. They help keep me on the straight and narrow as well as dealing with things I'd need harder drugs for otherwise (pain pills). This giant dose has literally saved my life AND given me something to do with it. I love weed! :)
P.s. Sorry about the post's length, another side effect is that I sometimes get talkative. IF you ever want more detailed directions on how to decarb oil for eating straight, lmk! You will only need like a little tiny bit, like literally .1 of a gram if you don't eat a lot of edibles will take you to a new [10], pretty much guaranteed. I went to the store today and realized as the world went by in snapshots that I was a [10], listening to Stanley Turrentine like a 1970's pimp. Don't mess with Mr. T!
tl:dr I eat it. | I decarb it in the oven after it's been purged, and then I just eat it straight a couple times a day, as long as I have food in my stomach already it's good to go. And I actually said 1000-1200.... But I have taken as much as 2000mg or more, I took like at least 1700 today. But that's just milligrammage for the entirety of the oil, so like 1000mg = 1 gram of decarbed oil, not pure THC. My batches usually run around 50% THC, so I guess if we're just talking straight THC, it's actually more like 500mg-600mg per day on average, plus 500mg-600mg of other cannabinoids and terpenes, and anything else that makes up the resin at that point.
Anyway, twice a day I pop in about a half gram of decarbed oil, just straight. I roll it in sugar so it doesn't stick to anything in my mouth (I don't like gelcaps). It actually kicks in really fast (15-20 mins) and lasts a REALLY long time, like I take some in the morning when I wake up and I usually don't need to vape anything until afternoon, and then it's just a few rips. Then I take some a couple hours before bed, and when I wake up I'm still high. Rinse and repeat daily. It's definitely not for everyone, I have always been able to tolerate large amounts of any kind of drug, and it is difficult for me to become visibly intoxicated on anything, even the hard stuff. I am, like, literally, a drug monster, but I don't do drugs anymore besides Cannabinoids. They help keep me on the straight and narrow as well as dealing with things I'd need harder drugs for otherwise (pain pills). This giant dose has literally saved my life AND given me something to do with it. I love weed! :)
P.s. Sorry about the post's length, another side effect is that I sometimes get talkative. IF you ever want more detailed directions on how to decarb oil for eating straight, lmk! You will only need like a little tiny bit, like literally .1 of a gram if you don't eat a lot of edibles will take you to a new [10], pretty much guaranteed. I went to the store today and realized as the world went by in snapshots that I was a [10], listening to Stanley Turrentine like a 1970's pimp. Don't mess with Mr. T!
tl:dr I eat it.
| trees | t5_2r9vp | cl4kp80 | I decarb it in the oven after it's been purged, and then I just eat it straight a couple times a day, as long as I have food in my stomach already it's good to go. And I actually said 1000-1200.... But I have taken as much as 2000mg or more, I took like at least 1700 today. But that's just milligrammage for the entirety of the oil, so like 1000mg = 1 gram of decarbed oil, not pure THC. My batches usually run around 50% THC, so I guess if we're just talking straight THC, it's actually more like 500mg-600mg per day on average, plus 500mg-600mg of other cannabinoids and terpenes, and anything else that makes up the resin at that point.
Anyway, twice a day I pop in about a half gram of decarbed oil, just straight. I roll it in sugar so it doesn't stick to anything in my mouth (I don't like gelcaps). It actually kicks in really fast (15-20 mins) and lasts a REALLY long time, like I take some in the morning when I wake up and I usually don't need to vape anything until afternoon, and then it's just a few rips. Then I take some a couple hours before bed, and when I wake up I'm still high. Rinse and repeat daily. It's definitely not for everyone, I have always been able to tolerate large amounts of any kind of drug, and it is difficult for me to become visibly intoxicated on anything, even the hard stuff. I am, like, literally, a drug monster, but I don't do drugs anymore besides Cannabinoids. They help keep me on the straight and narrow as well as dealing with things I'd need harder drugs for otherwise (pain pills). This giant dose has literally saved my life AND given me something to do with it. I love weed! :)
P.s. Sorry about the post's length, another side effect is that I sometimes get talkative. IF you ever want more detailed directions on how to decarb oil for eating straight, lmk! You will only need like a little tiny bit, like literally .1 of a gram if you don't eat a lot of edibles will take you to a new [10], pretty much guaranteed. I went to the store today and realized as the world went by in snapshots that I was a [10], listening to Stanley Turrentine like a 1970's pimp. Don't mess with Mr. T! | I eat it. |
ecodemo | >I see Vice as a frankenstein creation: part ad-agency, part publisher.
Exactly. That's hitting the nail in the head. ;)
>Do they lose credibility for being for profit? Well they certainly aren't the BBC...
There, I don't think you're pointing to the right question;
For or profit media isn't new, It actually [started in the 17th century]( It obviously grew tremendously since, but with it journalistic institutions, ethics, education... so that you can assume when your read the New York Times or anything else, that the people writing about public interest information aren't subordinated to the people trying to sell you shit, because private and public interests aren't the same, and often conflict!
It's not about money, it's about power. The BBC might not make any profits, they still are under the same threat: being influenced, by governments who have strange view on what is the public interest. Do you trust RT (public russian media)?
Journalists need to be protected from any kind of influence, and we have to be suspicious about what form it might take, because their work is based on their independence so we need ethics, laws and institutions we trust to avoid conflicts that might harm the public's interest.
When Vice does News and Ads, that's suspicious. If you listen to Shane Smith talking about it; there is no problem. People at Vice are smart, they're free spirited, they're cool! So they would never change anything to please or conform to any kind of power. Of course not, didn't you see they have tatoos? They're rebels... / maybe not his words exactly but that's what he is selling. Unfortunately, being cool doesn't mean shit.
From the moment I can be suspicious, there is a problem, and with it's "integrated" business model, Vice is asking me to trust them, pretty much more than any other media before. And I'm really fucking suspicious.
> The Call Of Duty piece certainly wasn't a shining moment for them, but -- really, if you're niave enough to not realize that's an advertisement, than, yay -- success for Vice. Everyone else who put 2&2 together go "oh, it's an Ad. dumb. X out." I still trust they have good content, I just don't care about their native bullshit.
Yeah, I'm sorry, but you're being... let's just say wrong.
You know what an ad is? Of course you do, as everybody else. Don't you think people making them know too. You think you can see the difference, you think you know what they're trying to sell you? You're wrong.
We live in an age of idea placement: you very often don't know at all. I worked with some people who do that in TV fiction, I'd give them a script and they'd return a list of sellable changes. Take a typical sitcom, the usual product placement allows you to sell clothes, furniture, tech... but the story allows you a lot more. Where do the characters work? a start up? an ONG? what sports/games do they like? These are not important to the story, you don't necessarily see anything related to it onscreen, maybe they're just mention, maybe it's just a recurring joke... Most of the time it's a creative choice, but very often it's sold to the highest bidder so that without ever thinking about it, companyX, interest groupY, gets it's idea there, like in your peripheral vision, so that when you see the traditional ad, the official message, you'll be more receptive to it.
You can't escape! But I digress
Back to Vice; You seem to say the Call of Duty thing about mercenaries is an obviously an add, the footage from Ukraine is "good content", right?
I completely agree on the first, the ideas in it sound more like the story of the next Game, than any kind of vaguely serious political analysis. So they had the script, and they went to hang out with the mercenaries, without investigating them, because that wasn't the point. Obviously.
But then, it turns out, there might have been as much as [400 Blackwater mercenaries in Donetsk]( Now, should they have investigated these claims? Did they? Would they tell us if Blackwater was in Ukraine? or would they rather show the independentists Blackwater guys would be fighting if they were there, as crazy criminals? I don't know, but I wonder!
Now would you like more of that salt, or is one one grain still enough?
TLDR: Vice basically mixes News and Adds; you think you know the difference, but actually, you don't. Conflicts of interest are sneaky
| >I see Vice as a frankenstein creation: part ad-agency, part publisher.
Exactly. That's hitting the nail in the head. ;)
>Do they lose credibility for being for profit? Well they certainly aren't the BBC...
There, I don't think you're pointing to the right question;
For or profit media isn't new, It actually started in the 17th century ?
Journalists need to be protected from any kind of influence, and we have to be suspicious about what form it might take, because their work is based on their independence so we need ethics, laws and institutions we trust to avoid conflicts that might harm the public's interest.
When Vice does News and Ads, that's suspicious. If you listen to Shane Smith talking about it; there is no problem. People at Vice are smart, they're free spirited, they're cool! So they would never change anything to please or conform to any kind of power. Of course not, didn't you see they have tatoos? They're rebels... / maybe not his words exactly but that's what he is selling. Unfortunately, being cool doesn't mean shit.
From the moment I can be suspicious, there is a problem, and with it's "integrated" business model, Vice is asking me to trust them, pretty much more than any other media before. And I'm really fucking suspicious.
> The Call Of Duty piece certainly wasn't a shining moment for them, but -- really, if you're niave enough to not realize that's an advertisement, than, yay -- success for Vice. Everyone else who put 2&2 together go "oh, it's an Ad. dumb. X out." I still trust they have good content, I just don't care about their native bullshit.
Yeah, I'm sorry, but you're being... let's just say wrong.
You know what an ad is? Of course you do, as everybody else. Don't you think people making them know too. You think you can see the difference, you think you know what they're trying to sell you? You're wrong.
We live in an age of idea placement: you very often don't know at all. I worked with some people who do that in TV fiction, I'd give them a script and they'd return a list of sellable changes. Take a typical sitcom, the usual product placement allows you to sell clothes, furniture, tech... but the story allows you a lot more. Where do the characters work? a start up? an ONG? what sports/games do they like? These are not important to the story, you don't necessarily see anything related to it onscreen, maybe they're just mention, maybe it's just a recurring joke... Most of the time it's a creative choice, but very often it's sold to the highest bidder so that without ever thinking about it, companyX, interest groupY, gets it's idea there, like in your peripheral vision, so that when you see the traditional ad, the official message, you'll be more receptive to it.
You can't escape! But I digress
Back to Vice; You seem to say the Call of Duty thing about mercenaries is an obviously an add, the footage from Ukraine is "good content", right?
I completely agree on the first, the ideas in it sound more like the story of the next Game, than any kind of vaguely serious political analysis. So they had the script, and they went to hang out with the mercenaries, without investigating them, because that wasn't the point. Obviously.
But then, it turns out, there might have been as much as [400 Blackwater mercenaries in Donetsk]( Now, should they have investigated these claims? Did they? Would they tell us if Blackwater was in Ukraine? or would they rather show the independentists Blackwater guys would be fighting if they were there, as crazy criminals? I don't know, but I wonder!
Now would you like more of that salt, or is one one grain still enough?
TLDR: Vice basically mixes News and Adds; you think you know the difference, but actually, you don't. Conflicts of interest are sneaky
| Documentaries | t5_2qhlh | cl5joku | I see Vice as a frankenstein creation: part ad-agency, part publisher.
Exactly. That's hitting the nail in the head. ;)
>Do they lose credibility for being for profit? Well they certainly aren't the BBC...
There, I don't think you're pointing to the right question;
For or profit media isn't new, It actually started in the 17th century ?
Journalists need to be protected from any kind of influence, and we have to be suspicious about what form it might take, because their work is based on their independence so we need ethics, laws and institutions we trust to avoid conflicts that might harm the public's interest.
When Vice does News and Ads, that's suspicious. If you listen to Shane Smith talking about it; there is no problem. People at Vice are smart, they're free spirited, they're cool! So they would never change anything to please or conform to any kind of power. Of course not, didn't you see they have tatoos? They're rebels... / maybe not his words exactly but that's what he is selling. Unfortunately, being cool doesn't mean shit.
From the moment I can be suspicious, there is a problem, and with it's "integrated" business model, Vice is asking me to trust them, pretty much more than any other media before. And I'm really fucking suspicious.
> The Call Of Duty piece certainly wasn't a shining moment for them, but -- really, if you're niave enough to not realize that's an advertisement, than, yay -- success for Vice. Everyone else who put 2&2 together go "oh, it's an Ad. dumb. X out." I still trust they have good content, I just don't care about their native bullshit.
Yeah, I'm sorry, but you're being... let's just say wrong.
You know what an ad is? Of course you do, as everybody else. Don't you think people making them know too. You think you can see the difference, you think you know what they're trying to sell you? You're wrong.
We live in an age of idea placement: you very often don't know at all. I worked with some people who do that in TV fiction, I'd give them a script and they'd return a list of sellable changes. Take a typical sitcom, the usual product placement allows you to sell clothes, furniture, tech... but the story allows you a lot more. Where do the characters work? a start up? an ONG? what sports/games do they like? These are not important to the story, you don't necessarily see anything related to it onscreen, maybe they're just mention, maybe it's just a recurring joke... Most of the time it's a creative choice, but very often it's sold to the highest bidder so that without ever thinking about it, companyX, interest groupY, gets it's idea there, like in your peripheral vision, so that when you see the traditional ad, the official message, you'll be more receptive to it.
You can't escape! But I digress
Back to Vice; You seem to say the Call of Duty thing about mercenaries is an obviously an add, the footage from Ukraine is "good content", right?
I completely agree on the first, the ideas in it sound more like the story of the next Game, than any kind of vaguely serious political analysis. So they had the script, and they went to hang out with the mercenaries, without investigating them, because that wasn't the point. Obviously.
But then, it turns out, there might have been as much as [400 Blackwater mercenaries in Donetsk]( Now, should they have investigated these claims? Did they? Would they tell us if Blackwater was in Ukraine? or would they rather show the independentists Blackwater guys would be fighting if they were there, as crazy criminals? I don't know, but I wonder!
Now would you like more of that salt, or is one one grain still enough? | Vice basically mixes News and Adds; you think you know the difference, but actually, you don't. Conflicts of interest are sneaky |
wolanko | There is a C library [portaudio]( which allows you to do crossplatform audio. [PyAudio]( is a Python wrapper on top of it. Unfortunately the last time I checked it it only supported blocked playback. Depends on your application if you need to do something while playing back.
But there is [pyo]( which is an audio signal processing package but can also just playback or record cross-platform. It also uses the portaudio but has the non blocking feature. You only have to decide which audio server you need to use depending on the platform ASIO, Jack, Coreaudio etc.
**tl;dr**
Use [pyo]( its easy. | There is a C library [portaudio]( which allows you to do crossplatform audio. [PyAudio]( is a Python wrapper on top of it. Unfortunately the last time I checked it it only supported blocked playback. Depends on your application if you need to do something while playing back.
But there is [pyo]( which is an audio signal processing package but can also just playback or record cross-platform. It also uses the portaudio but has the non blocking feature. You only have to decide which audio server you need to use depending on the platform ASIO, Jack, Coreaudio etc.
tl;dr
Use [pyo]( its easy.
| Python | t5_2qh0y | cl4lrs7 | There is a C library [portaudio]( which allows you to do crossplatform audio. [PyAudio]( is a Python wrapper on top of it. Unfortunately the last time I checked it it only supported blocked playback. Depends on your application if you need to do something while playing back.
But there is [pyo]( which is an audio signal processing package but can also just playback or record cross-platform. It also uses the portaudio but has the non blocking feature. You only have to decide which audio server you need to use depending on the platform ASIO, Jack, Coreaudio etc. | Use [pyo]( its easy. |
pk1134 | I have an 8 year old PC that I've gotten to run a lot of games it probably shouldn't be able to. I recently installed Shadow of Mordor and it told me my video card didn't support DirectX 11 and immediately closed. The time has finally come where my PC just can't do it. Now I need to find a way to earn money to build a new one.
Maybe I'll find a job willing to deal with my mental and physical issues. One day hopefully soon I'll have the PC I've been dreaming of.
tl;dr 8 year old PC fails to play shadow of Mordor. It is a sad day. | I have an 8 year old PC that I've gotten to run a lot of games it probably shouldn't be able to. I recently installed Shadow of Mordor and it told me my video card didn't support DirectX 11 and immediately closed. The time has finally come where my PC just can't do it. Now I need to find a way to earn money to build a new one.
Maybe I'll find a job willing to deal with my mental and physical issues. One day hopefully soon I'll have the PC I've been dreaming of.
tl;dr 8 year old PC fails to play shadow of Mordor. It is a sad day.
| pcmasterrace | t5_2sgp1 | cl4k7rv | I have an 8 year old PC that I've gotten to run a lot of games it probably shouldn't be able to. I recently installed Shadow of Mordor and it told me my video card didn't support DirectX 11 and immediately closed. The time has finally come where my PC just can't do it. Now I need to find a way to earn money to build a new one.
Maybe I'll find a job willing to deal with my mental and physical issues. One day hopefully soon I'll have the PC I've been dreaming of. | 8 year old PC fails to play shadow of Mordor. It is a sad day. |
DagoGreg | I think this criticism is patently false. While religions like Judaism and Islam encourage an individual to follow the law, and by extension be transformed through obedience, Christianity proposes that we are first transformed through by the Holy Spirit, and become followers of the law by extension. This is an incredibly important distinction.
"All things are lawful,” but not all things are helpful. “All things are lawful,” but not all things build up. 24 Let no one seek his own good, but the good of his neighbor." - 1 Cor 10:23-24
Simply put, the law demonstrates what is right and wrong, good and bad. Christianity proposes that a relationship with Jesus Christ transforms us into the kind of people who do what is right and good by nature, not by obligation, as is the case with Judaism and Islam.
This is exactly why Jesus was so critical of the religious leaders of his day, the Pharisees. He did not disagree with the laws or "come to abolish them" (Matthew 5:17-20, verse only partially quoted), but amplified them to demonstrate our inability to follow them.
Thus, we do not become the kinds of people we are meant to be by following the law. Rather, by becoming the kinds of people we are meant to by the radical transformation brought about by the Holy Spirit, we are then capable of following the law, which is a reflection of the goodness and rightness of God's character, by nature.
This also implies that one who fails to follow the law and identifies as Christian is doing so because they either:
A) Are attempting to simply "follow the law", and they are missing the entire point as discussed above, or
B) have not yet been fully transformed and made flawless by the Holy Spirit.
Option B is true of all Christians, because this transformation is a continual process while we are alive, finalized at another time. Note that while God recognizes us as pure and sinless, this is because the blood of Christ covers our sins, not because we are perfect right now. We are being made perfect.
TL;DR
Jesus wants to make us into people who follow rules by their nature, not ones who just subscribe to a set of rules. Christians are entirely free to act (1 Cor 10:23-24), but Jesus makes us the kind of people who obey out of desire and love, not obligation. | I think this criticism is patently false. While religions like Judaism and Islam encourage an individual to follow the law, and by extension be transformed through obedience, Christianity proposes that we are first transformed through by the Holy Spirit, and become followers of the law by extension. This is an incredibly important distinction.
"All things are lawful,” but not all things are helpful. “All things are lawful,” but not all things build up. 24 Let no one seek his own good, but the good of his neighbor." - 1 Cor 10:23-24
Simply put, the law demonstrates what is right and wrong, good and bad. Christianity proposes that a relationship with Jesus Christ transforms us into the kind of people who do what is right and good by nature, not by obligation, as is the case with Judaism and Islam.
This is exactly why Jesus was so critical of the religious leaders of his day, the Pharisees. He did not disagree with the laws or "come to abolish them" (Matthew 5:17-20, verse only partially quoted), but amplified them to demonstrate our inability to follow them.
Thus, we do not become the kinds of people we are meant to be by following the law. Rather, by becoming the kinds of people we are meant to by the radical transformation brought about by the Holy Spirit, we are then capable of following the law, which is a reflection of the goodness and rightness of God's character, by nature.
This also implies that one who fails to follow the law and identifies as Christian is doing so because they either:
A) Are attempting to simply "follow the law", and they are missing the entire point as discussed above, or
B) have not yet been fully transformed and made flawless by the Holy Spirit.
Option B is true of all Christians, because this transformation is a continual process while we are alive, finalized at another time. Note that while God recognizes us as pure and sinless, this is because the blood of Christ covers our sins, not because we are perfect right now. We are being made perfect.
TL;DR
Jesus wants to make us into people who follow rules by their nature, not ones who just subscribe to a set of rules. Christians are entirely free to act (1 Cor 10:23-24), but Jesus makes us the kind of people who obey out of desire and love, not obligation.
| Christianity | t5_2qh6c | cl4kaue | I think this criticism is patently false. While religions like Judaism and Islam encourage an individual to follow the law, and by extension be transformed through obedience, Christianity proposes that we are first transformed through by the Holy Spirit, and become followers of the law by extension. This is an incredibly important distinction.
"All things are lawful,” but not all things are helpful. “All things are lawful,” but not all things build up. 24 Let no one seek his own good, but the good of his neighbor." - 1 Cor 10:23-24
Simply put, the law demonstrates what is right and wrong, good and bad. Christianity proposes that a relationship with Jesus Christ transforms us into the kind of people who do what is right and good by nature, not by obligation, as is the case with Judaism and Islam.
This is exactly why Jesus was so critical of the religious leaders of his day, the Pharisees. He did not disagree with the laws or "come to abolish them" (Matthew 5:17-20, verse only partially quoted), but amplified them to demonstrate our inability to follow them.
Thus, we do not become the kinds of people we are meant to be by following the law. Rather, by becoming the kinds of people we are meant to by the radical transformation brought about by the Holy Spirit, we are then capable of following the law, which is a reflection of the goodness and rightness of God's character, by nature.
This also implies that one who fails to follow the law and identifies as Christian is doing so because they either:
A) Are attempting to simply "follow the law", and they are missing the entire point as discussed above, or
B) have not yet been fully transformed and made flawless by the Holy Spirit.
Option B is true of all Christians, because this transformation is a continual process while we are alive, finalized at another time. Note that while God recognizes us as pure and sinless, this is because the blood of Christ covers our sins, not because we are perfect right now. We are being made perfect. | Jesus wants to make us into people who follow rules by their nature, not ones who just subscribe to a set of rules. Christians are entirely free to act (1 Cor 10:23-24), but Jesus makes us the kind of people who obey out of desire and love, not obligation. |
crasher_pt | Elite is a piloting simulator which has trading, fighting and exploration components. You are able to upgrade your ship with rewards from any of these activities.
A game is usually considered dull when there's no dynamic gameplay within a particular element or when switching elements is poorly paced. Right now, all seem to apply.
The original was fun because of the switching of playstyles -- all the components above existed just as in E:D and they dovetailed very well and were greatly paced. You switched seamlessly from one gameplay style to another in a timeframe of a few minutes, just as they were becoming boring. And even if you didn't have a final goal, you had very clear advancement steps.
Now this isn't happening. The individual components are more fun than the original but the game's pace is out of whack. From a conceptual perspective what you're noticing is that there's a lot missing with regards to dynamic gameplay. Maybe it's because the game is still barebones or maybe it's because the design is lacking, I really can't tell. But there is a problem.
TL;DR: some people may find the game's pace sucks. | Elite is a piloting simulator which has trading, fighting and exploration components. You are able to upgrade your ship with rewards from any of these activities.
A game is usually considered dull when there's no dynamic gameplay within a particular element or when switching elements is poorly paced. Right now, all seem to apply.
The original was fun because of the switching of playstyles -- all the components above existed just as in E:D and they dovetailed very well and were greatly paced. You switched seamlessly from one gameplay style to another in a timeframe of a few minutes, just as they were becoming boring. And even if you didn't have a final goal, you had very clear advancement steps.
Now this isn't happening. The individual components are more fun than the original but the game's pace is out of whack. From a conceptual perspective what you're noticing is that there's a lot missing with regards to dynamic gameplay. Maybe it's because the game is still barebones or maybe it's because the design is lacking, I really can't tell. But there is a problem.
TL;DR: some people may find the game's pace sucks.
| EliteDangerous | t5_2vi60 | cl4vpcm | Elite is a piloting simulator which has trading, fighting and exploration components. You are able to upgrade your ship with rewards from any of these activities.
A game is usually considered dull when there's no dynamic gameplay within a particular element or when switching elements is poorly paced. Right now, all seem to apply.
The original was fun because of the switching of playstyles -- all the components above existed just as in E:D and they dovetailed very well and were greatly paced. You switched seamlessly from one gameplay style to another in a timeframe of a few minutes, just as they were becoming boring. And even if you didn't have a final goal, you had very clear advancement steps.
Now this isn't happening. The individual components are more fun than the original but the game's pace is out of whack. From a conceptual perspective what you're noticing is that there's a lot missing with regards to dynamic gameplay. Maybe it's because the game is still barebones or maybe it's because the design is lacking, I really can't tell. But there is a problem. | some people may find the game's pace sucks. |
AethWolf | As far as the deep immersion in nerd hobbies/pursuits goes, it was part of escaping bullying, for me at least. I was mocked for pretty much anything and everything, from stuff as such as not wearing Nike shoes to being the smart kid to being ugly to being into Star Trek. Spending time at the public library physically separated me from the bullies because they were rarely there. Spending time at home reading the books I found there further kept me away from assholes. This further solidified my interest in science and sci-fi in general, which later lead to my fascination with computers. Video games provided a similar escape from assholes, so lots of time went into those, too. In short, I spent a lot of time between early elementary school and the end of high school trying to isolate myself because of bullying, both for shit I didn't have any real control over (being an ugly motherfucker or not having the local accent because the first 5 years of my life were spent in another state) and shit I did have control over (my choice of entertainment or doing well in class). All that isolation and escapism has left me rather...awkward at best, especially in more casual situations (better at talking with customers at work while being an awkward ball of loser while out having pizza and beer with friends, especially if there are people I don't know with the group). I actually thought I was getting better at the whole "not being an awkward loser" thing, but I have paper thin confidence, and that got shredded after a few fuckups, So I retreated right back into self-isolation, venturing out cautiously and only into situations where my awkwardness is at a minimum.
tl;dr:
The kind of bullying you said was wrong can very easily cut down a person until they throw themselves deep ini their nerdy pursuits and interests and never leave as a mental safeguard.
As far as this sub goes, I do think there are quite a few posts that are more "laugh at this specific person" rather than "laugh at this caricature of a stereotype", and I really don't like the former. | As far as the deep immersion in nerd hobbies/pursuits goes, it was part of escaping bullying, for me at least. I was mocked for pretty much anything and everything, from stuff as such as not wearing Nike shoes to being the smart kid to being ugly to being into Star Trek. Spending time at the public library physically separated me from the bullies because they were rarely there. Spending time at home reading the books I found there further kept me away from assholes. This further solidified my interest in science and sci-fi in general, which later lead to my fascination with computers. Video games provided a similar escape from assholes, so lots of time went into those, too. In short, I spent a lot of time between early elementary school and the end of high school trying to isolate myself because of bullying, both for shit I didn't have any real control over (being an ugly motherfucker or not having the local accent because the first 5 years of my life were spent in another state) and shit I did have control over (my choice of entertainment or doing well in class). All that isolation and escapism has left me rather...awkward at best, especially in more casual situations (better at talking with customers at work while being an awkward ball of loser while out having pizza and beer with friends, especially if there are people I don't know with the group). I actually thought I was getting better at the whole "not being an awkward loser" thing, but I have paper thin confidence, and that got shredded after a few fuckups, So I retreated right back into self-isolation, venturing out cautiously and only into situations where my awkwardness is at a minimum.
tl;dr:
The kind of bullying you said was wrong can very easily cut down a person until they throw themselves deep ini their nerdy pursuits and interests and never leave as a mental safeguard.
As far as this sub goes, I do think there are quite a few posts that are more "laugh at this specific person" rather than "laugh at this caricature of a stereotype", and I really don't like the former.
| justneckbeardthings | t5_2xp02 | cl52ix8 | As far as the deep immersion in nerd hobbies/pursuits goes, it was part of escaping bullying, for me at least. I was mocked for pretty much anything and everything, from stuff as such as not wearing Nike shoes to being the smart kid to being ugly to being into Star Trek. Spending time at the public library physically separated me from the bullies because they were rarely there. Spending time at home reading the books I found there further kept me away from assholes. This further solidified my interest in science and sci-fi in general, which later lead to my fascination with computers. Video games provided a similar escape from assholes, so lots of time went into those, too. In short, I spent a lot of time between early elementary school and the end of high school trying to isolate myself because of bullying, both for shit I didn't have any real control over (being an ugly motherfucker or not having the local accent because the first 5 years of my life were spent in another state) and shit I did have control over (my choice of entertainment or doing well in class). All that isolation and escapism has left me rather...awkward at best, especially in more casual situations (better at talking with customers at work while being an awkward ball of loser while out having pizza and beer with friends, especially if there are people I don't know with the group). I actually thought I was getting better at the whole "not being an awkward loser" thing, but I have paper thin confidence, and that got shredded after a few fuckups, So I retreated right back into self-isolation, venturing out cautiously and only into situations where my awkwardness is at a minimum. | The kind of bullying you said was wrong can very easily cut down a person until they throw themselves deep ini their nerdy pursuits and interests and never leave as a mental safeguard.
As far as this sub goes, I do think there are quite a few posts that are more "laugh at this specific person" rather than "laugh at this caricature of a stereotype", and I really don't like the former. |
MrTea99 | If you're interested in the topic of driverless trains I recommend [this in-depth blog post]( on London Reconnections.
TL;DR: Tube trains without drivers won't be running for at least a decade, probably longer. | If you're interested in the topic of driverless trains I recommend [this in-depth blog post]( on London Reconnections.
TL;DR: Tube trains without drivers won't be running for at least a decade, probably longer.
| britishproblems | t5_2sumw | cl57e79 | If you're interested in the topic of driverless trains I recommend [this in-depth blog post]( on London Reconnections. | Tube trains without drivers won't be running for at least a decade, probably longer. |
dotcax | even if u left the game u will still have the game played in your recent games, even if u abandoned, or that the game ended in the picking phase. the only thing i noticed that could cancel a match is a server death (all players dc)
tl:dr yes u can still find the match id | even if u left the game u will still have the game played in your recent games, even if u abandoned, or that the game ended in the picking phase. the only thing i noticed that could cancel a match is a server death (all players dc)
tl:dr yes u can still find the match id
| DotA2 | t5_2s580 | cl4y86v | even if u left the game u will still have the game played in your recent games, even if u abandoned, or that the game ended in the picking phase. the only thing i noticed that could cancel a match is a server death (all players dc) | yes u can still find the match id |
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