And seriously... how do you think my self esteem was after I'd (a) gone through a ugly breakup that (b) got me fired from my job, which (c) caused me to get my house foreclosed on, and (d) forced me to file bankruptcy? Ya think I was feeling really good about myself right about then? \n How was I supposed to know any of that? And how does that change anything about how a moral and ethical person would respond to someone looking for help like OP? If anything, it just proves you should be empathetic. I'm not even sure what the point of asking those questions is. \n >If she already knew that, she wouldn't be on the internet complaining about her ex being a scumbag. \n People sometimes need to vent to get over a situation. Her complaining about an obviously shitty ex does not mean she doesn't recognize her mistakes. \n >By doing so she is shifting the blame for her predicament to him, and not owning up to the reality that she could have and should have made different choices \n So if she complains about her ex and looks for comfort from people that might have gone through the same thing that means she doesn't think she made a mistake in judgement? That statement is just plain wrong and stupid. Also, she should be placing some of the blame on him anyway. If she just blamed herself, that would be just as unhealthy as only blaming him. \n >If she knew she was being stupid, she'd stop continuing to be stupid and move on. \n Did you miss the part where she says he's her ex ? Also I could say the same to you about your shitty mistake, what with your red flags and all. Hence, you should be able to empathize. \n >But I am unsympathetic. Completely, 100% unsympathetic. \n You openly admit to making a similar mistake, yet you can't even sympathize, more less empathize? This make you an asshole, and that's where your downvotes are coming from. \n >she had plenty of chances to change the outcome here and obviously abandoned them all. \n So did you. And I'll bet dollars to doughnuts that you vented more than once to someone, as well as you got sympathy from your peers, along with the tough love that apparently works for you. News flash though, not everyone is the same. \n >Why is this about her, and not about the child who is going to have to grow up knowing that their biological father was a douchebag who wanted nothing to do with them? \n Sounds like a good thing the biological father isn't around then, doesn't it? Children need positive role models from both genders. Being the biological parent means nothing. \n >I could give a fuck about her in this situation \n Again...asshole. \n >it's the child I'm concerned about. \n I highly doubt you've even given this child a second thought beyond typing these responses. You're just coming off as someone who wants to feel superior compared to someone else. And since you've already admitted to being in a shit situation just like the OP, you actually just come as an asshole and a hypocrite."},"correct_answer":{"kind":"string","value":"Not being reminded of it certainly isn't going to help her not do it again. \n Being a dick and constantly reminding her of her mistake isn't going to help her either. \n >And seriously... how do you think my self esteem was after I'd (a) gone through a ugly breakup that (b) got me fired from my job, which (c) caused me to get my house foreclosed on, and (d) forced me to file bankruptcy? Ya think I was feeling really good about myself right about then? \n How was I supposed to know any of that? And how does that change anything about how a moral and ethical person would respond to someone looking for help like OP? If anything, it just proves you should be empathetic. I'm not even sure what the point of asking those questions is. \n >If she already knew that, she wouldn't be on the internet complaining about her ex being a scumbag. \n People sometimes need to vent to get over a situation. Her complaining about an obviously shitty ex does not mean she doesn't recognize her mistakes. \n >By doing so she is shifting the blame for her predicament to him, and not owning up to the reality that she could have and should have made different choices \n So if she complains about her ex and looks for comfort from people that might have gone through the same thing that means she doesn't think she made a mistake in judgement? That statement is just plain wrong and stupid. Also, she should be placing some of the blame on him anyway. If she just blamed herself, that would be just as unhealthy as only blaming him. \n >If she knew she was being stupid, she'd stop continuing to be stupid and move on. \n Did you miss the part where she says he's her ex ? Also I could say the same to you about your shitty mistake, what with your red flags and all. Hence, you should be able to empathize. \n >But I am unsympathetic. Completely, 100% unsympathetic. \n You openly admit to making a similar mistake, yet you can't even sympathize, more less empathize? This make you an asshole, and that's where your downvotes are coming from. \n >she had plenty of chances to change the outcome here and obviously abandoned them all. \n So did you. And I'll bet dollars to doughnuts that you vented more than once to someone, as well as you got sympathy from your peers, along with the tough love that apparently works for you. News flash though, not everyone is the same. \n >Why is this about her, and not about the child who is going to have to grow up knowing that their biological father was a douchebag who wanted nothing to do with them? \n Sounds like a good thing the biological father isn't around then, doesn't it? Children need positive role models from both genders. Being the biological parent means nothing. \n >I could give a fuck about her in this situation \n Again...asshole. \n >it's the child I'm concerned about. \n I highly doubt you've even given this child a second thought beyond typing these responses. You're just coming off as someone who wants to feel superior compared to someone else. And since you've already admitted to being in a shit situation just like the OP, you actually just come as an asshole and a hypocrite."},"documents":{"kind":"list like","value":["Summary: Art is strange. I could shit in a bowl and we might have the same discussion. I (try to) believe everyone's opinion should be equally valid. Does that mean that at no point can anyone say that one piece of art is more artistic than another, or does it mean that someone could always make that claim? Probably both. In my opinion. \n Edit: I just now realized that for my definition to work, intent would still need to be implied. An argument would never be art, but still inspire emotion. I'm not the smartest.\n\nPost: Thanks for the replies. \n What if I saw the trails and said they're beautiful like a piece of art. Do the trails then go from nothing to art, or does there have to be something tangible that I can show or perform for others? \n I always thought art was something that inspired emotion. So by my definition, anything can be art. I may see a freshly mowed lawn, and say that's beautiful. However, I also believe art to be subjective, so what pulls emotion out of me might not do the same for you. Hence what's his name thinking B L A K I E isn't art, but you and whoever else does. You might see the same lawn mentioned earlier and say that it's just a lawn, what's so beautiful about it? \n Of course, by my definition, even a negative emotion would validate it as art and make what's his name incorrect, since he's obviously having a negative emotional response to the performer.","Summary: People should always assume the person they're talking to values the life of family and friends over the life of any animal.\n\nPost: Who are you to question the depth of their love? \n Why should she assume that just because she can't find someone she cares about as much as her pet, that others must not be able to as well? Don't try and pretend that it's not common knowledge that people care more for other people than animals. She should've used common sense and not compared a person to a dog. \n > It's not how you feel, it's how they feel. \n He's talking to someone about losing his dad and he should be thinking of the feelings of the co-worker? \n >Instead of being insulted you should be thankful someone was trying to relate to your pain and offer sympathy. \n I like how you tell someone going through the grieving process how to feel. Never mind the fact that she compared his dad to her dog, which is obviously insulting, no matter how much you love animals. Either way, if anyone at any point in time compared losing a pet to losing a family member or friend, that person deserves ridicule.","Summary: It's not about gender, it's about whether or not a weaker individual is is in physical danger. Even if a weaker person instigates it, the stronger person controls the (violent) situation. With that power comes responsibility. It's pretty easy to exit a one on one violent situation when you're obviously the stronger person, assuming you don't just act on emotions and use your head.\n\nPost: Flawed example. Retaliation from a punch to the face doesn't have to be knock the other person out. The woman in your example didn't make anybody hit her. If you were punched by anyone weaker, why would you have to knock them out? \n I think people in this thread seem to be forgetting that on the average, women are weaker than men. It's fairly simple to stop an attack from someone weaker than you without, \"knocking them out\". \n I also want to add, gender equality doesn't mean you can hit women. In this situation it would mean that when a weaker individual finds themselves in a violent situation with someone much stronger than them, they would be met with the same response of help, support, and sympathy as someone of the opposite gender in the same situation.","Summary: Try talking to him. He may be more receptive than you think, and the weed might not be as big of a deal as you think.\n\nPost: I stopped talking to him for a long time to see if he'd reach out to me but no. \n >>I guess we weren't as close as I thought \n Maybe that's what he thought when you stopped talking to him. \n Did you tell him why you stopped talking to him? Do you know why he's addicted or wants to smoke everyday? Did you talk to him about how you feel in regards to the changes in your relationship?","Summary: The bigger sized person in a physical altercation has to be able to be just that, the bigger person. You'll always be looked down on for abusing a weaker person, regardless of gender. At least from me.\n\nPost: Equality doesn't mean a man is now allowed to hit a woman. It means hurting a weaker individual will yeild the same results, regardless of gender. It means whoever is involved in a physically violent situation is given help and support when they need it. It's not about gender, it's about size. A weak man getting beat up by a strong man is just as shitty as a weak woman getting beat up by a strong man. \n To answer your question, it depends on the situation. If the man was someone who couldn't protect himself and the woman was really strong, then yes, be all means, help him. Since most likely this isn't the case, and the man is most likely able to easily subdue the woman, then on the average, the answer would be no. If you saw a 5'7\" man pick a fight with another man who was 6'2\", would you jump at the opportunity to help the bigger man?","Summary: I guess guys should never assume a woman knows what a date is. You always have to explicitly say whether or not it's a date, with the term, \"date.\" \n Edit: Just read your other comment claiming sarcasm. Now I look like a fool. Whoosh on me, I guess.\n\nPost: So wait a minute. You're saying that if I ask a girl to dinner and movie, we have a good time and split a milkshake afterwards, then we go to my place and cuddle and make out...but if i ask her out on a second date an appropriate response from her is, \"we never went on a first.\"? This is an appropriate response from her because I asked her to go to a movie and dinner, then chill at my place as opposed to saying, \"do you want to go out on a date ?\" \n I can see this conversation with you're friends now. \n \"How was your night last night?\" \n \"Pretty good. I went out with a guy. We had dinner, then saw a movie. After we got a milkshake for dessert. Then I went to his place to cuddle and make out.\" \n \"Sounds nice. When did you start dating this guy?\" \n \"Oh, we're not dating. He didn't ask me on a date, just dinner and a movie, and a nice cuddle/make out session.\" \n \"...Um...are you going to see him again?\" \n \"Only if he doesn't ask me on a date again. I wouldn't have said yes had he said it was a date. Since he didn't, this way I can lead him on then if I find someone better i can claim ignorance when he tries clarify the confusing situation. I can be like, \"it's your fault for assuming I have any common sense, or know anything about human interaction.\"\" \n It's almost like you're implying that women don't need to use common sense at all when dating. \n I also like how you say that it's up to the guy to decide whether or not it's a date. As if a woman couldn't accept the invitation and say, \"it's not a date though.\" You know, using common sense, since it's generally obvious what someones intentions are when asking you to dinner and a movie. Nah, don't do that. That might lead to an awkward conversation :/","Summary: This article claims research is largely unnecessary do to new technologies, however there's no explanation to what the new technologies are, as well as no explanation as to what chimps have taught us so far. This raises questions for me.\n\nPost: This was my first thought as well. I'm confused as to why this article is making it seem like we've learned all we could from chimps. And what is the issue with testing on them in the first place? Because they're endangered? Wouldn't breeding them in captivity make this a non-issue? It seems like some people just have moral obligations to it because how how closely they're related to humans, but isn't that a reason to test on them? \n Sorry for all the questions. Don't feel like you need to respond if you don't want to.","Summary: PC gamers need console gamers to survive, yet claim different for a false sense of superiority.\n\nPost: Pc gamers are funny. You claim to be the master race while complaining that all you get are shitty ports from consoles. Games are made for console because of the infinitely more people that play on them. So we get games made specifically for our console, you complain about it, nothing changes because of the smaller user base for pc gaming, but you're the master race. You should actually be thanking us, because without us, your library would be very limited.","Summary: You suck\n\nPost: Fair? Obviously not. Look at the story that started this conversation. I live by the \"do one to others, what has been done to you\" rule, and seem to be keeping good company. Also, people hitching rides just get kicked to the curb, no big deal. In this situation weren't you the one technically hitching a ride on her coat tails, anyway? Any who, justify it how you want, you're still a douche.","Summary: You'll have an easier time trying to educate your children then strangers driving too fast.\n\nPost: Teach your kids the importance of safety, especially around areas where there are moving vehicles. Teach them to always look both ways and never run into the road or even cross it without properly assessing the situation. This includes teaching them that even parked cars can move in a moments notice. Once you're confident in your child's understanding of the danger that carelessness around vehicles and roads can cause, and you feel he/she has the ability to keep themselves relatively out of harms way, you won't even have to really worry about signs and speeders. Your kid will probably say the same thing about the speeders as you do.","Summary: Strippers don't degrade themselves. The people tossing them money, however, do degrade themselves.\n\nPost: Guys work a forty hour work to toss his money at an attractive female, while getting nothing in return. She ends up making double what he did in less than forty hours. The woman has all the power. If anything, it's degrading to men. The women are taking advantage of the men, and the guys just accept it because they want to see an attractive woman naked for once.","Summary: There are benefits, so don't judge people making informed decisions. And DON'T compare it to child abuse or mutilation.\n\nPost: Except for the [legitimate reasons.]( \n From the article: \n> Although health benefits are not great enough to recommend routine circumcision for all male newborns, the benefits of circumcision are sufficient to justify access to this procedure for families choosing it and to warrant third-party payment for circumcision of male newborns. \n More: \n> Specific benefits identified included prevention of urinary tract infections, penile cancer, and transmission of some sexually transmitted infections, including HIV. The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists has endorsed this statement. \n Here's another [reputable site (npr)]( that disagrees with you. \nFrom the link: \n> circumcision helps baby boys pretty much immediately.\n\"The health benefits of male circumcision include a drop in the risk of urinary tract infection in the first year of life by up to 90 percent,\" she says.\nBut there's a much bigger reason to do it, Blank said. Circumcised males are far less likely to get infected with a long list of sexually transmitted diseases.\n\"It drops the risk of heterosexual HIV acquisition by about 60 percent. It drops the risk of human papillomavirus [HPV], herpes virus and other infectious genital ulcers,\" she says.\n It also reduces the chances that men will spread HPV to their wives and girlfriends, protecting them from getting cervical cancer. \n The Mayo Clinic . This can lead to inflammation of the foreskin or head of the penis.\n Decreased risk of penile cancer . Although cancer of the penis is rare, it's less common in circumcised men. In addition, cervical cancer is less common in the female sexual partners of circumcised men. \n > Circumcision doesn't affect fertility, nor is circumcision generally thought to enhance or detract from sexual pleasure for men or their partners.","Summary: There are benefits to male circumcision, so don't judge people making informed decisions. And DON'T compare it to child abuse, female circumcision, or mutilation.\n\nPost: For those looking to [learn]( more. \n From the article: \n> Although health benefits are not great enough to recommend routine circumcision for all male newborns, the benefits of circumcision are sufficient to justify access to this procedure for families choosing it and to warrant third-party payment for circumcision of male newborns. \n More: \n> Specific benefits identified included prevention of urinary tract infections, penile cancer, and transmission of some sexually transmitted infections, including HIV. The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists has endorsed this statement. \n Here's another [reputable site (npr)]( \nFrom the link: \n> circumcision helps baby boys pretty much immediately.\n\"The health benefits of male circumcision include a drop in the risk of urinary tract infection in the first year of life by up to 90 percent,\" she says.\nBut there's a much bigger reason to do it, Blank said. Circumcised males are far less likely to get infected with a long list of sexually transmitted diseases.\n\"It drops the risk of heterosexual HIV acquisition by about 60 percent. It drops the risk of human papillomavirus [HPV], herpes virus and other infectious genital ulcers,\" she says.\n It also reduces the chances that men will spread HPV to their wives and girlfriends, protecting them from getting cervical cancer. \n The Mayo Clinic . This can lead to inflammation of the foreskin or head of the penis.\n Decreased risk of penile cancer . Although cancer of the penis is rare, it's less common in circumcised men. In addition, cervical cancer is less common in the female sexual partners of circumcised men. \n > Circumcision doesn't affect fertility, nor is circumcision generally thought to enhance or detract from sexual pleasure for men or their partners.","Summary: Wanting someone to put up with something they hate just so your boat doesn't get rocked seems pretty selfish to me.\n\nPost: Wanting someone to go through their shitty life just because you don't want to deal with something that you don't understand seems selfish on your part, to me. The person who wants to commit suicide obviously doesn't enjoy his/her life. It's most likely been that way for years, if not forever. Sometimes people just get sick of it all. Especially if there's no discernible reason for the feeling. \n Should he/she just put up with that feeling for your benefit? It might suck that you can't understand why someone you love would do that, but why should someone put up with something they want to quit just for your benefit? And why do you have a right to be pissed if they don't? \n If your not depressed, don't try to understand depression. Some people who are depressed don't even understand it. If someone you love kills themselves, don't think about what you/him/her could've done, as anything you would've said likely would only come off as patronizing and would've been no help unless you understand and have been through it yourself. Even then it would be hard to believe that this person understands your pain. Only you can understand the value of your own life, and not all life is worth living, no matter how much you want it to be.","Summary: Career drug dealers want to get you hooked.\n\nPost: I don't really feel like talking about my coke days, but since I don't agree with anything you said, I guess I will. \n Free product is given to pull you away from your current source to them, or, if you're a new user, to get you into the drug. The first few free times you get it, it's not stomped on (cut with baby laxative, etc.) by the new connect, so it's really good. Now you're going through them, since you like the drug. What happens is once you start paying for it and coming back for more, each time you go back, it's cut a little bit more than the last time. This goes on until the stuff you're getting is shit. Because of how easy it is to get and the fact you are addicted, you keep coming back. Addiction definitely does work that way. You do something you like, and you want more of it. This is even without the physical addiction found in some drugs. When the physical addiction is an issue, the dealer knows you'll come back even though the drug your buying is now shit. \n >besides there is such a huge demand for drugs anyway that it is definitely not necessary to get additional people hooked on drugs. \n It may not be necessary, but it definitely does happen. They meet you through someone they already sell to as to have faith that you yourself are legit. They give you good stuff at first, then once you're addicted the stomping starts. Then if/when you can't afford the addiction anymore, your options are to quit or sell to make free product. If you still want the drug, you go the seller route. This allows your connect to off more product on you (a single person), and have you deal the drugs for them. Now they get rid of more product, without the hassle of dealing with more people, that you now deal with.","Summary: If you want to know, then read. I didn't say anything important, so you're not missing anything if you don't.\n\nPost: I agree with the fact that you can find someone attractive and awesome and not intend on dating or sleeping with them, but I disagree with the way you worded it. \n If you find them attractive, then you feel some sort of attraction. Unfortunately, people will often let their emotions get the best of them. They put today's happiness before tomorrow's, and act without forethought. This leads to the thought that many people subscribe to, which is that once the attraction is felt, the friendship has already been ruined...and a lot of times, this is correct. \n In my opinion, this post is about a woman who would date someone who acts like the guy, but is good looking. Not that women can't be selective in the appearance of their mate. However, if they're using the guy who's personality they like but find physically unattractive as an emotional crutch, then that's wrong, especially if they're aware of his feelings. Not that you implied this type of behavior is acceptable. I'm just babbling till the whistle blows. \n End rant. \n P.S. I feel I should note that any one of the gender specific words can be changed with the opposite and the point remains the same.","Summary: Only a weak willed individual would shy away from a conversation as trivial as a proposal to hang out.\n\nPost: Only a weak minded individual wouldn't take 2 seconds to reply, \"no thanks.\" They're afraid of conversations. And of course you drop it after you don't get a response. One text is enough. All I'm saying is when the person doing the ignoring inevitably hits you up to hang, you have every right to call them out on their lack of respect and inability to say something the other party might not want to hear. And that last part is sad when you consider how trivial this whole thing is. Imagine them having something negative and real to say about a SO. It most likely wouldn't happen if said person can't take 2 seconds to say no thanks to a proposal to hang out one night.","Summary: It happens.\n\nPost: Sleep schedule. Persons one and two get up the earliest and park in the garage. Person three parks on the street as to not have to get up early to move their car. Most likely a parent kid combination, or a friend/relative visiting from out of town. Although the right thing to do would be to give the person leaving last the garage, but people are selfish. Especially parents (at least when it comes to feeling entitled to something over said offspring). Or it's possible that the car has an oil leak and they don't want to ruin the driveway. Or maybe there were kids playing basketball the night before, and the owner didn't move it before they went to bed.","Summary: A human life is worth more than any animal's. \n EDIT: You're on the same level as that baby slammer. \n There's no way you honestly believe that.\n\nPost: Animal advocate or not, if you're faced with the decision to choose between saving a human of any age, or any animal of any age, then you had better be saving the human without a second thought (including if the animal was your pet). Anything else would make you a shitty person. I'm guessing that's what Mandrill_Down was trying to say.","Summary: If it's considered racist for one, it should be considered racist for all\n\nPost: Are you afraid how society will look at you and judge you? \n This is the double standard that people are talking about. Personally, I couldn't care less about not having a white power group to join, but if we're all supposed to be equal, and if you take what we're talking about at face value, than not allowing someone to join or start a group(whether because of law or social stigma) because of skin color only detracts from our main goal. Which is, of course, equality. \n It's not about not being able to join a white power group because of social stigma, it's about other races being able to do the same thing without society recognizing the hypocrisy. This hypocritical view only separates us, and promotes the idea that we're all too different.","Summary: Like I give a rats ass what you think. \n I think you do ;)\n\nPost: So perhaps you can explain how the very fact that she had the dude's kid ISN'T going to constantly remind her of that mistake. \n Probably because the kid was the one good thing that came out of the relationship. Abra-ca spla. I sincerely hope you never have a kid. \n >Never mind the irresponsibility of not using birth control, \n You like to make assumptions, don't you? You don't know if they planned on the kid, or had some kind of malfunction. And even if it was a mistake, you don't know if she has the means and ability to raise a child. Done and done. \n >or bringing a child into an unstable home. \n The boyfriend is an ex now. You don't know her living situation. I shouldn't have to keep repeating myself. I thought you were an adult. \n >She was the one that made the choice to have his kid. \n So? Her having a kid was never the problem. \n >I don't empathize with her at all because, like me, she chose to stay there and that was not a joint decision. \n em·pa·thize \n/ˈempəˌTHīz/\nVerb\nUnderstand and share the feelings of another \n I'm not sure you know what empathize means, so there's the definition. \n > It's not a matter that someone fucked me over, it's a matter that I ALLOWED this person to do that shit to me. \n So you put all the blame on yourself and none on the person who fucked you over? It's good you can accept your mistakes and try to learn from them, but acting like none of the blame goes towards the person who fucked you over is just stupid and unhealthy. I'm starting to understand why you feel so strongly about this while clearly being wrong. \n >And you'd be wrong. \n Okay. So none of the people closest to you showed you any sympathy? Again, I guess I can see why you're so cold. \n sym·pa·thy \n/ˈsimpəTHē/\nNoun \n Feelings of pity and sorrow for someone else's misfortune.\nFormal expression of such feelings; condolences. \n \n Thought I would throw that definition out there for you to show the people that \"care\" about you. \n > Irresponsibly bringing a life into the world is stupid, and will always be stupid no matter how you try to justify it. \n Assumptions again. What makes it irresponsible? Single parents raise kids all the time. Why do you assume the kid doesn't have some other male role model? Or that she won't find someone who loves them both? Or that she couldn't do it herself, like it's been done a million time before in the past? You know what they say, assumptions make an ass out of you and me. \n >No it doesn't, because the child still has the DNA of a douche who didn't want them, and that child's social development is going to be affected by that reality. \n Not with positive role models around. Again with the assumptions, and again with me repeating myself. \n >Look at you all high and mighty talking about how someone else wants to feel superior than others. \n It's easy to feel superior when compared to someone like you. \n >while you call them \"asshole\" \n But that word describes what I know about you from this conversation. It's accurate. Better than your generic insults. \n >fuck yourself with a cactus. \n>And again, go fuck yourself. \n>Shove a saguaro up your anus and rotate.","Summary: Find a different site if you don't like the stuff being posted here.\n\nPost: I Reddit at work mon-fri. I've never seen this picture of a guy with blue balls that you speak of, yet you claim it makes the front page five times a week? All I do is scroll the what's hot front page (sometimes over 1000 submissions), with the default subs all still subscribed. Maybe you just spend way to much time on Reddit, then exaggerate how many times you see something because it all blends together, or something. Either way, all you have to do is keep scrolling. Not hard. It's even easier than going into the comments section to complain.","Summary: There's no easy solution to the problem we're discussing. We agree women should be able to wear whatever they want, but we also agree it's naive to think you're not going to get negative attention dressing provocatively. I just believe that a lot of the time it's not the attention that woman don't like, but the attention from an unattractive man. \n Almost forgot \n>So aren't you basically saying that girls have no right to complain about getting sexual attention from anybody when they wear yoga pants \n What I'm saying is when it's just the attention of an unattractive male the woman doesn't want, that doesn't seem right, since we're all human. Now, if I strike up a conversation with this hypothetical woman, and she shows no interest, that's that and I should just leave it at that. But if she's rude about it, but not rude when Johny six pack does the same thing, that's kind of shitty, and she's probably just a vain person looking for attention.\n\nPost: I think maybe we're thinking of different scenarios and misunderstanding each other. \n I think you're right. I came here from SRS (which i was linked to that from a different thread), and didn't read what the original post was about. I should have. \n >What I don't agree with is how that makes others think they have the right to assume that's the case about a stranger, when it may very well not be. And even if it WAS the case, why should that give them the right to treat her with any less respect than they would otherwise? \n I agree with the point you're making here, 100% \n >But I think where we disagree is that you seem to think this is some sort of natural law that we just have to accept \n I can see why you would say that, and on some level, maybe I do believe that. I don't like saying it, because it comes close to me saying men can't control themselves, which overall I don't agree with (although some can't). \n What I'm trying to say is sometimes it's the guy that makes ladies uncomfortable, and not the staring. In other words, if the guy staring was someone the woman was attracted to, then all of the sudden what he's doing isn't creepy, he's just making his intentions known. But when it's an unattractive male staring, all the sudden it's a different scenario than the first, and he's creepy. I guess what I'm saying is, it seems the average woman (I've met) decides who's creepy by the mans level of attractiveness. I don't agree with this double standard, and to me that's just like saying, \"you're not good looking enough to be looking at me.\" This may be me being cynical because of the way I think women look at me in terms of attractiveness, so maybe I'm not the best person to discuss this with. I will say, having been called creepy without leering or staring (whether you believe me is irrelevant; see next paragraph) or anything, it's a shitty thing to say. Knowing full well I didn't stare or say anything inappropriate (I'm introverted) leads me to believe I was called that based on looks alone. Anecdotal, I know. It's hard not to judge people off past experiences. \n I would also like to note that what someone considers staring, someone else might not. Some women may be uncomfortable when someone is just looking for a second, while others may never feel uncomfortable with people actually leering. When I look at women I'm attracted to, I generally only look for a second, but it can be hard for me to not look for another second thirty minutes down the line, and so on. While I may not be staring, I must come across as creepy anyway, as I've been told that before. Of course, as stated above, I assume this has more to do with me being unattractive and looking, than just looking.","Summary: We both agree that women should be able to wear what they want. We both agree that revealing clothing isn't an invitation for harassment, or for my benefit (an ugly male). Why can't you agree that a lot of choices we make, including clothing, are because we are trying to attract someone we're attracted to (be it someone we know or not), which is an obvious truth?\n\nPost: I don't think you're getting what I'm saying (probably because I ain't no good with words). \n First off, were not talking about women who wear yoga pants to yoga, or spandex while running. We're talking about women who wear these types or more revealing clothing in a public setting that everyday people will see. \n If you choose to dress provocatively, then that's your prerogative, and I have no issue with that. However, people will look at you. And you knew this before dressing provocatively. Don't wear skin tight clothing then tell me it's just a comfort thing, when we both know there's much more comfortable options available for you to choose that aren't revealing. \n >Your claim that women wouldn't wear yoga pants if they didn't want to be stared at just doesn't make sense. \n It doesn't. Good thing I never made that claim. I do make the claim that women dress provocatively to gain attention from someone they find attractive, whether or not they've met this hypothetical person before their hypothetical encounter. I will also make the claim that when dressing provocatively gains the attention of someone a women isn't attracted to, we end up with a conversation like this. \n >Shouldn't we be trying to create a world wear anyone can wear/do whatever they want if it doesn't hurt anyone else? \n Again, I never claimed women shouldn't be allowed to dress provocatively. Just don't act surprised when people notice you. You knew the attention you would get wearing yoga pants or whatever to the bar, then made that decision anyway. Just like I have a shirt that says, \"God Hates us All!\" I could wear it in public and be like, \"Wtf, stop looking at my shirt.\" But i don't, because I know the reaction I would get wearing it in certain places. It's called reality. \n >Or are you really just going to insist that \"all women wearing certain clothes I like must want my sexual attention\" \n You like putting words in mouth, don't you? I don't think any women want my sexual attention. I'm not a good looking guy, but that's besides the point anyway. My point is they want attention from someone they are attracted to, hence the choice of clothing they wear in a public setting (I added that last part of that sentence in response to your, \"women wear yoga pants in private,\" comment. Who cares what women wear in private? That's not we're talking about. Unless your response to that is, \"see, proof we wear them for comfort.\" Which is fine if you like the comfort. Just don't act you don't have other choices for comfort in public. When we take that into account, we can all but assume you're choosing to wear something revealing over something more comfortable and less revealing, for the obvious reason of wanting to feel attractive to someone you're attracted to.)","Summary: I'm saying nobody loves you. You're delusional.\n\nPost: Definition of DELUSION\n1\n: the act of deluding : the state of being deluded\n2\na : something that is falsely or delusively believed or propagated\nb : a persistent false psychotic belief regarding the self or persons or objects outside the self that is maintained despite indisputable evidence to the contrary \n You think your SO loves you, but is actually sleeping with your friends. \n You think your parents are proud of you, but they actually think they themselves are failures because of your shortcomings. \n You think your pet loves you unconditionally, but it seems that way only because you feed it, and would actually jump at the chance to find a respectable owner it actually wants to see. \n You think your friends like you, but they just use you for material possessions. They don't enjoy your company.","Summary: You can't predict the future, so you might as well be as honest as possible so people can make the best decision for them and they're family. OP and skank are deciding what's best for someone who has no idea what's going on. That's not right.\n\nPost: Upvote for a decent response. But it seems your not looking at it from the boyfriends point of view. Who cares what the woman wants? Hypothetical scenario, maybe the boyfriend finds out three years from now(he could find out a number of different ways). Decides he doesn't want to raise said child. Now we're talking about a five year old who isn't old enough to comprehend wants going on. The father she once knew isn't around, then what? OP will turn around and do what's right and raise his child, after five years? Can't say for sure, but I doubt it. There's any number of scenarios that could play out negatively for everyone. I can't assume both OP and boyfriend have exactly the same view on raising a kid. If OP cared about the kid, wouldn't this be an issue? Maybe if OP and skank told him as soon as it happened, he would have forgave her and raised child. Now in my hypothetical he might not want to care for a child after being betrayed and having his world turned upside down. And lets not forget the mother isn't the best role model for this child either.","Summary: Apologies for being a dick, but you're kind of an ass.\n\nPost: Okay...so your answer is to put the child in a foster home. At least you understand there isn't always a good option. \n >Every opportunity to save a family should be taken. \n Which is why that's what happens. Here's a [non malicious] ( link for you to check out. Specifically chapter 4, paragraph case planning. \n >If abuse is discovered the CPS worker responsible for that child should be charged with the same severity as the abuser. \n Well that's just ridiculous. \n >I ignored the irrelevant chatter at the top of your comment. \n Oh. You mean the part where I call you out for linking a malicious site that looks like it was made in someones basement and doesn't have any information after the year 2000? I can see why you would ignore that. \n I will say, your bullshit link did get me to do some research (from reputable sites), and things do seem to be worse than I thought. Of course, to say every CPS worker is just as bad as someone who abuses children is completely moronic, but at least you had a point. \n In the future, if you don't act like such an asshole and provide a non malicious reputable link to back up your information, you might find that more people will listen to you. Not everyone will do research on there own.","Summary: Mom was right there, probably saw the whole thing. If her and her kid were in a skate park, bad on her. If it was a public park, bad on the skater, since he shouldn't have been skating there. \n Edit: When I say bad on her, bad on him, I'm only referring to the collision.\n\nPost: I don't get all these unsupervised comments. The mom was right there. That's why she was able to punch the skater. You can supervise a child while it's playing twenty feet in front of you. \n I also don't understand why so many people are walking around in a skate park. Someone earlier in this thread mentioned where he's from, skate parks are right next to public ones, and this skater possible skated to the public side. This makes sense to me since there are so many people walking and not skating in this park. I am no skater though, so maybe that is common place.","Summary: I'm just venting because a service I paid for stopped working, and Playstation's customer service sucks.\n\nPost: This guy gets it. My Music Unlimited service isn't working, so I called PS3's customer support, did some tests, she said it must be MU's servers, so I should call them. The number she gives me, although different from the one I called originally, connected me to the same department. \n After I explain everything, including me getting redirected after dialing the new number, person 2 proceeds to tell me that based on me not being able to establish a connection to MU's servers, it's definitely my internet connection, and I need to call my ISP. I explain (for a second time to this person, third overall) that all applications on my PS3 connect to the internet, as well as any other device I have. I also explain that I can access Music Unlimited on other devices, just not the PS3. Her response? The PS3 requires 75% of my bandwidth (I have 12meg, so she's claiming the PS3 is using 9 meg...just being turned on), and that the reason I can't connect is because my internet connection was timing out (presumably due to the massive amounts of bandwidth she's claiming the PS3 requires without even doing anything, mind you), and that was a problem on my ISP's end. Never mind everything I already told her and the fact that I've used this service since August without issues until two weeks ago. She told me this wasn't a problem on Playstation's or MU's end without having me do one single thing to try and alleviate the problem. Unlike the first woman who at least did a test in safe mode, admitted it was MU's issue, then put me on hold for another five minutes to find the number for Music Unlimited's customer service line, which...like I said...just redirected me back to the same department. \n When I tell this story to friends, they ask: \n \"What did she say when you asked why the PS3 requires so much bandwidth?\" \n My response: \n \"I didn't ask. I told her to fuck off, then hung up.\""],"string":"[\n \"Summary: Art is strange. I could shit in a bowl and we might have the same discussion. I (try to) believe everyone's opinion should be equally valid. Does that mean that at no point can anyone say that one piece of art is more artistic than another, or does it mean that someone could always make that claim? Probably both. In my opinion. \\n Edit: I just now realized that for my definition to work, intent would still need to be implied. An argument would never be art, but still inspire emotion. I'm not the smartest.\\n\\nPost: Thanks for the replies. \\n What if I saw the trails and said they're beautiful like a piece of art. Do the trails then go from nothing to art, or does there have to be something tangible that I can show or perform for others? \\n I always thought art was something that inspired emotion. So by my definition, anything can be art. I may see a freshly mowed lawn, and say that's beautiful. However, I also believe art to be subjective, so what pulls emotion out of me might not do the same for you. Hence what's his name thinking B L A K I E isn't art, but you and whoever else does. You might see the same lawn mentioned earlier and say that it's just a lawn, what's so beautiful about it? \\n Of course, by my definition, even a negative emotion would validate it as art and make what's his name incorrect, since he's obviously having a negative emotional response to the performer.\",\n \"Summary: People should always assume the person they're talking to values the life of family and friends over the life of any animal.\\n\\nPost: Who are you to question the depth of their love? \\n Why should she assume that just because she can't find someone she cares about as much as her pet, that others must not be able to as well? Don't try and pretend that it's not common knowledge that people care more for other people than animals. She should've used common sense and not compared a person to a dog. \\n > It's not how you feel, it's how they feel. \\n He's talking to someone about losing his dad and he should be thinking of the feelings of the co-worker? \\n >Instead of being insulted you should be thankful someone was trying to relate to your pain and offer sympathy. \\n I like how you tell someone going through the grieving process how to feel. Never mind the fact that she compared his dad to her dog, which is obviously insulting, no matter how much you love animals. Either way, if anyone at any point in time compared losing a pet to losing a family member or friend, that person deserves ridicule.\",\n \"Summary: It's not about gender, it's about whether or not a weaker individual is is in physical danger. Even if a weaker person instigates it, the stronger person controls the (violent) situation. With that power comes responsibility. It's pretty easy to exit a one on one violent situation when you're obviously the stronger person, assuming you don't just act on emotions and use your head.\\n\\nPost: Flawed example. Retaliation from a punch to the face doesn't have to be knock the other person out. The woman in your example didn't make anybody hit her. If you were punched by anyone weaker, why would you have to knock them out? \\n I think people in this thread seem to be forgetting that on the average, women are weaker than men. It's fairly simple to stop an attack from someone weaker than you without, \\\"knocking them out\\\". \\n I also want to add, gender equality doesn't mean you can hit women. In this situation it would mean that when a weaker individual finds themselves in a violent situation with someone much stronger than them, they would be met with the same response of help, support, and sympathy as someone of the opposite gender in the same situation.\",\n \"Summary: Try talking to him. He may be more receptive than you think, and the weed might not be as big of a deal as you think.\\n\\nPost: I stopped talking to him for a long time to see if he'd reach out to me but no. \\n >>I guess we weren't as close as I thought \\n Maybe that's what he thought when you stopped talking to him. \\n Did you tell him why you stopped talking to him? Do you know why he's addicted or wants to smoke everyday? Did you talk to him about how you feel in regards to the changes in your relationship?\",\n \"Summary: The bigger sized person in a physical altercation has to be able to be just that, the bigger person. You'll always be looked down on for abusing a weaker person, regardless of gender. At least from me.\\n\\nPost: Equality doesn't mean a man is now allowed to hit a woman. It means hurting a weaker individual will yeild the same results, regardless of gender. It means whoever is involved in a physically violent situation is given help and support when they need it. It's not about gender, it's about size. A weak man getting beat up by a strong man is just as shitty as a weak woman getting beat up by a strong man. \\n To answer your question, it depends on the situation. If the man was someone who couldn't protect himself and the woman was really strong, then yes, be all means, help him. Since most likely this isn't the case, and the man is most likely able to easily subdue the woman, then on the average, the answer would be no. If you saw a 5'7\\\" man pick a fight with another man who was 6'2\\\", would you jump at the opportunity to help the bigger man?\",\n \"Summary: I guess guys should never assume a woman knows what a date is. You always have to explicitly say whether or not it's a date, with the term, \\\"date.\\\" \\n Edit: Just read your other comment claiming sarcasm. Now I look like a fool. Whoosh on me, I guess.\\n\\nPost: So wait a minute. You're saying that if I ask a girl to dinner and movie, we have a good time and split a milkshake afterwards, then we go to my place and cuddle and make out...but if i ask her out on a second date an appropriate response from her is, \\\"we never went on a first.\\\"? This is an appropriate response from her because I asked her to go to a movie and dinner, then chill at my place as opposed to saying, \\\"do you want to go out on a date ?\\\" \\n I can see this conversation with you're friends now. \\n \\\"How was your night last night?\\\" \\n \\\"Pretty good. I went out with a guy. We had dinner, then saw a movie. After we got a milkshake for dessert. Then I went to his place to cuddle and make out.\\\" \\n \\\"Sounds nice. When did you start dating this guy?\\\" \\n \\\"Oh, we're not dating. He didn't ask me on a date, just dinner and a movie, and a nice cuddle/make out session.\\\" \\n \\\"...Um...are you going to see him again?\\\" \\n \\\"Only if he doesn't ask me on a date again. I wouldn't have said yes had he said it was a date. Since he didn't, this way I can lead him on then if I find someone better i can claim ignorance when he tries clarify the confusing situation. I can be like, \\\"it's your fault for assuming I have any common sense, or know anything about human interaction.\\\"\\\" \\n It's almost like you're implying that women don't need to use common sense at all when dating. \\n I also like how you say that it's up to the guy to decide whether or not it's a date. As if a woman couldn't accept the invitation and say, \\\"it's not a date though.\\\" You know, using common sense, since it's generally obvious what someones intentions are when asking you to dinner and a movie. Nah, don't do that. That might lead to an awkward conversation :/\",\n \"Summary: This article claims research is largely unnecessary do to new technologies, however there's no explanation to what the new technologies are, as well as no explanation as to what chimps have taught us so far. This raises questions for me.\\n\\nPost: This was my first thought as well. I'm confused as to why this article is making it seem like we've learned all we could from chimps. And what is the issue with testing on them in the first place? Because they're endangered? Wouldn't breeding them in captivity make this a non-issue? It seems like some people just have moral obligations to it because how how closely they're related to humans, but isn't that a reason to test on them? \\n Sorry for all the questions. Don't feel like you need to respond if you don't want to.\",\n \"Summary: PC gamers need console gamers to survive, yet claim different for a false sense of superiority.\\n\\nPost: Pc gamers are funny. You claim to be the master race while complaining that all you get are shitty ports from consoles. Games are made for console because of the infinitely more people that play on them. So we get games made specifically for our console, you complain about it, nothing changes because of the smaller user base for pc gaming, but you're the master race. You should actually be thanking us, because without us, your library would be very limited.\",\n \"Summary: You suck\\n\\nPost: Fair? Obviously not. Look at the story that started this conversation. I live by the \\\"do one to others, what has been done to you\\\" rule, and seem to be keeping good company. Also, people hitching rides just get kicked to the curb, no big deal. In this situation weren't you the one technically hitching a ride on her coat tails, anyway? Any who, justify it how you want, you're still a douche.\",\n \"Summary: You'll have an easier time trying to educate your children then strangers driving too fast.\\n\\nPost: Teach your kids the importance of safety, especially around areas where there are moving vehicles. Teach them to always look both ways and never run into the road or even cross it without properly assessing the situation. This includes teaching them that even parked cars can move in a moments notice. Once you're confident in your child's understanding of the danger that carelessness around vehicles and roads can cause, and you feel he/she has the ability to keep themselves relatively out of harms way, you won't even have to really worry about signs and speeders. Your kid will probably say the same thing about the speeders as you do.\",\n \"Summary: Strippers don't degrade themselves. The people tossing them money, however, do degrade themselves.\\n\\nPost: Guys work a forty hour work to toss his money at an attractive female, while getting nothing in return. She ends up making double what he did in less than forty hours. The woman has all the power. If anything, it's degrading to men. The women are taking advantage of the men, and the guys just accept it because they want to see an attractive woman naked for once.\",\n \"Summary: There are benefits, so don't judge people making informed decisions. And DON'T compare it to child abuse or mutilation.\\n\\nPost: Except for the [legitimate reasons.]( \\n From the article: \\n> Although health benefits are not great enough to recommend routine circumcision for all male newborns, the benefits of circumcision are sufficient to justify access to this procedure for families choosing it and to warrant third-party payment for circumcision of male newborns. \\n More: \\n> Specific benefits identified included prevention of urinary tract infections, penile cancer, and transmission of some sexually transmitted infections, including HIV. The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists has endorsed this statement. \\n Here's another [reputable site (npr)]( that disagrees with you. \\nFrom the link: \\n> circumcision helps baby boys pretty much immediately.\\n\\\"The health benefits of male circumcision include a drop in the risk of urinary tract infection in the first year of life by up to 90 percent,\\\" she says.\\nBut there's a much bigger reason to do it, Blank said. Circumcised males are far less likely to get infected with a long list of sexually transmitted diseases.\\n\\\"It drops the risk of heterosexual HIV acquisition by about 60 percent. It drops the risk of human papillomavirus [HPV], herpes virus and other infectious genital ulcers,\\\" she says.\\n It also reduces the chances that men will spread HPV to their wives and girlfriends, protecting them from getting cervical cancer. \\n The Mayo Clinic . This can lead to inflammation of the foreskin or head of the penis.\\n Decreased risk of penile cancer . Although cancer of the penis is rare, it's less common in circumcised men. In addition, cervical cancer is less common in the female sexual partners of circumcised men. \\n > Circumcision doesn't affect fertility, nor is circumcision generally thought to enhance or detract from sexual pleasure for men or their partners.\",\n \"Summary: There are benefits to male circumcision, so don't judge people making informed decisions. And DON'T compare it to child abuse, female circumcision, or mutilation.\\n\\nPost: For those looking to [learn]( more. \\n From the article: \\n> Although health benefits are not great enough to recommend routine circumcision for all male newborns, the benefits of circumcision are sufficient to justify access to this procedure for families choosing it and to warrant third-party payment for circumcision of male newborns. \\n More: \\n> Specific benefits identified included prevention of urinary tract infections, penile cancer, and transmission of some sexually transmitted infections, including HIV. The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists has endorsed this statement. \\n Here's another [reputable site (npr)]( \\nFrom the link: \\n> circumcision helps baby boys pretty much immediately.\\n\\\"The health benefits of male circumcision include a drop in the risk of urinary tract infection in the first year of life by up to 90 percent,\\\" she says.\\nBut there's a much bigger reason to do it, Blank said. Circumcised males are far less likely to get infected with a long list of sexually transmitted diseases.\\n\\\"It drops the risk of heterosexual HIV acquisition by about 60 percent. It drops the risk of human papillomavirus [HPV], herpes virus and other infectious genital ulcers,\\\" she says.\\n It also reduces the chances that men will spread HPV to their wives and girlfriends, protecting them from getting cervical cancer. \\n The Mayo Clinic . This can lead to inflammation of the foreskin or head of the penis.\\n Decreased risk of penile cancer . Although cancer of the penis is rare, it's less common in circumcised men. In addition, cervical cancer is less common in the female sexual partners of circumcised men. \\n > Circumcision doesn't affect fertility, nor is circumcision generally thought to enhance or detract from sexual pleasure for men or their partners.\",\n \"Summary: Wanting someone to put up with something they hate just so your boat doesn't get rocked seems pretty selfish to me.\\n\\nPost: Wanting someone to go through their shitty life just because you don't want to deal with something that you don't understand seems selfish on your part, to me. The person who wants to commit suicide obviously doesn't enjoy his/her life. It's most likely been that way for years, if not forever. Sometimes people just get sick of it all. Especially if there's no discernible reason for the feeling. \\n Should he/she just put up with that feeling for your benefit? It might suck that you can't understand why someone you love would do that, but why should someone put up with something they want to quit just for your benefit? And why do you have a right to be pissed if they don't? \\n If your not depressed, don't try to understand depression. Some people who are depressed don't even understand it. If someone you love kills themselves, don't think about what you/him/her could've done, as anything you would've said likely would only come off as patronizing and would've been no help unless you understand and have been through it yourself. Even then it would be hard to believe that this person understands your pain. Only you can understand the value of your own life, and not all life is worth living, no matter how much you want it to be.\",\n \"Summary: Career drug dealers want to get you hooked.\\n\\nPost: I don't really feel like talking about my coke days, but since I don't agree with anything you said, I guess I will. \\n Free product is given to pull you away from your current source to them, or, if you're a new user, to get you into the drug. The first few free times you get it, it's not stomped on (cut with baby laxative, etc.) by the new connect, so it's really good. Now you're going through them, since you like the drug. What happens is once you start paying for it and coming back for more, each time you go back, it's cut a little bit more than the last time. This goes on until the stuff you're getting is shit. Because of how easy it is to get and the fact you are addicted, you keep coming back. Addiction definitely does work that way. You do something you like, and you want more of it. This is even without the physical addiction found in some drugs. When the physical addiction is an issue, the dealer knows you'll come back even though the drug your buying is now shit. \\n >besides there is such a huge demand for drugs anyway that it is definitely not necessary to get additional people hooked on drugs. \\n It may not be necessary, but it definitely does happen. They meet you through someone they already sell to as to have faith that you yourself are legit. They give you good stuff at first, then once you're addicted the stomping starts. Then if/when you can't afford the addiction anymore, your options are to quit or sell to make free product. If you still want the drug, you go the seller route. This allows your connect to off more product on you (a single person), and have you deal the drugs for them. Now they get rid of more product, without the hassle of dealing with more people, that you now deal with.\",\n \"Summary: If you want to know, then read. I didn't say anything important, so you're not missing anything if you don't.\\n\\nPost: I agree with the fact that you can find someone attractive and awesome and not intend on dating or sleeping with them, but I disagree with the way you worded it. \\n If you find them attractive, then you feel some sort of attraction. Unfortunately, people will often let their emotions get the best of them. They put today's happiness before tomorrow's, and act without forethought. This leads to the thought that many people subscribe to, which is that once the attraction is felt, the friendship has already been ruined...and a lot of times, this is correct. \\n In my opinion, this post is about a woman who would date someone who acts like the guy, but is good looking. Not that women can't be selective in the appearance of their mate. However, if they're using the guy who's personality they like but find physically unattractive as an emotional crutch, then that's wrong, especially if they're aware of his feelings. Not that you implied this type of behavior is acceptable. I'm just babbling till the whistle blows. \\n End rant. \\n P.S. I feel I should note that any one of the gender specific words can be changed with the opposite and the point remains the same.\",\n \"Summary: Only a weak willed individual would shy away from a conversation as trivial as a proposal to hang out.\\n\\nPost: Only a weak minded individual wouldn't take 2 seconds to reply, \\\"no thanks.\\\" They're afraid of conversations. And of course you drop it after you don't get a response. One text is enough. All I'm saying is when the person doing the ignoring inevitably hits you up to hang, you have every right to call them out on their lack of respect and inability to say something the other party might not want to hear. And that last part is sad when you consider how trivial this whole thing is. Imagine them having something negative and real to say about a SO. It most likely wouldn't happen if said person can't take 2 seconds to say no thanks to a proposal to hang out one night.\",\n \"Summary: It happens.\\n\\nPost: Sleep schedule. Persons one and two get up the earliest and park in the garage. Person three parks on the street as to not have to get up early to move their car. Most likely a parent kid combination, or a friend/relative visiting from out of town. Although the right thing to do would be to give the person leaving last the garage, but people are selfish. Especially parents (at least when it comes to feeling entitled to something over said offspring). Or it's possible that the car has an oil leak and they don't want to ruin the driveway. Or maybe there were kids playing basketball the night before, and the owner didn't move it before they went to bed.\",\n \"Summary: A human life is worth more than any animal's. \\n EDIT: You're on the same level as that baby slammer. \\n There's no way you honestly believe that.\\n\\nPost: Animal advocate or not, if you're faced with the decision to choose between saving a human of any age, or any animal of any age, then you had better be saving the human without a second thought (including if the animal was your pet). Anything else would make you a shitty person. I'm guessing that's what Mandrill_Down was trying to say.\",\n \"Summary: If it's considered racist for one, it should be considered racist for all\\n\\nPost: Are you afraid how society will look at you and judge you? \\n This is the double standard that people are talking about. Personally, I couldn't care less about not having a white power group to join, but if we're all supposed to be equal, and if you take what we're talking about at face value, than not allowing someone to join or start a group(whether because of law or social stigma) because of skin color only detracts from our main goal. Which is, of course, equality. \\n It's not about not being able to join a white power group because of social stigma, it's about other races being able to do the same thing without society recognizing the hypocrisy. This hypocritical view only separates us, and promotes the idea that we're all too different.\",\n \"Summary: Like I give a rats ass what you think. \\n I think you do ;)\\n\\nPost: So perhaps you can explain how the very fact that she had the dude's kid ISN'T going to constantly remind her of that mistake. \\n Probably because the kid was the one good thing that came out of the relationship. Abra-ca spla. I sincerely hope you never have a kid. \\n >Never mind the irresponsibility of not using birth control, \\n You like to make assumptions, don't you? You don't know if they planned on the kid, or had some kind of malfunction. And even if it was a mistake, you don't know if she has the means and ability to raise a child. Done and done. \\n >or bringing a child into an unstable home. \\n The boyfriend is an ex now. You don't know her living situation. I shouldn't have to keep repeating myself. I thought you were an adult. \\n >She was the one that made the choice to have his kid. \\n So? Her having a kid was never the problem. \\n >I don't empathize with her at all because, like me, she chose to stay there and that was not a joint decision. \\n em·pa·thize \\n/ˈempəˌTHīz/\\nVerb\\nUnderstand and share the feelings of another \\n I'm not sure you know what empathize means, so there's the definition. \\n > It's not a matter that someone fucked me over, it's a matter that I ALLOWED this person to do that shit to me. \\n So you put all the blame on yourself and none on the person who fucked you over? It's good you can accept your mistakes and try to learn from them, but acting like none of the blame goes towards the person who fucked you over is just stupid and unhealthy. I'm starting to understand why you feel so strongly about this while clearly being wrong. \\n >And you'd be wrong. \\n Okay. So none of the people closest to you showed you any sympathy? Again, I guess I can see why you're so cold. \\n sym·pa·thy \\n/ˈsimpəTHē/\\nNoun \\n Feelings of pity and sorrow for someone else's misfortune.\\nFormal expression of such feelings; condolences. \\n \\n Thought I would throw that definition out there for you to show the people that \\\"care\\\" about you. \\n > Irresponsibly bringing a life into the world is stupid, and will always be stupid no matter how you try to justify it. \\n Assumptions again. What makes it irresponsible? Single parents raise kids all the time. Why do you assume the kid doesn't have some other male role model? Or that she won't find someone who loves them both? Or that she couldn't do it herself, like it's been done a million time before in the past? You know what they say, assumptions make an ass out of you and me. \\n >No it doesn't, because the child still has the DNA of a douche who didn't want them, and that child's social development is going to be affected by that reality. \\n Not with positive role models around. Again with the assumptions, and again with me repeating myself. \\n >Look at you all high and mighty talking about how someone else wants to feel superior than others. \\n It's easy to feel superior when compared to someone like you. \\n >while you call them \\\"asshole\\\" \\n But that word describes what I know about you from this conversation. It's accurate. Better than your generic insults. \\n >fuck yourself with a cactus. \\n>And again, go fuck yourself. \\n>Shove a saguaro up your anus and rotate.\",\n \"Summary: Find a different site if you don't like the stuff being posted here.\\n\\nPost: I Reddit at work mon-fri. I've never seen this picture of a guy with blue balls that you speak of, yet you claim it makes the front page five times a week? All I do is scroll the what's hot front page (sometimes over 1000 submissions), with the default subs all still subscribed. Maybe you just spend way to much time on Reddit, then exaggerate how many times you see something because it all blends together, or something. Either way, all you have to do is keep scrolling. Not hard. It's even easier than going into the comments section to complain.\",\n \"Summary: There's no easy solution to the problem we're discussing. We agree women should be able to wear whatever they want, but we also agree it's naive to think you're not going to get negative attention dressing provocatively. I just believe that a lot of the time it's not the attention that woman don't like, but the attention from an unattractive man. \\n Almost forgot \\n>So aren't you basically saying that girls have no right to complain about getting sexual attention from anybody when they wear yoga pants \\n What I'm saying is when it's just the attention of an unattractive male the woman doesn't want, that doesn't seem right, since we're all human. Now, if I strike up a conversation with this hypothetical woman, and she shows no interest, that's that and I should just leave it at that. But if she's rude about it, but not rude when Johny six pack does the same thing, that's kind of shitty, and she's probably just a vain person looking for attention.\\n\\nPost: I think maybe we're thinking of different scenarios and misunderstanding each other. \\n I think you're right. I came here from SRS (which i was linked to that from a different thread), and didn't read what the original post was about. I should have. \\n >What I don't agree with is how that makes others think they have the right to assume that's the case about a stranger, when it may very well not be. And even if it WAS the case, why should that give them the right to treat her with any less respect than they would otherwise? \\n I agree with the point you're making here, 100% \\n >But I think where we disagree is that you seem to think this is some sort of natural law that we just have to accept \\n I can see why you would say that, and on some level, maybe I do believe that. I don't like saying it, because it comes close to me saying men can't control themselves, which overall I don't agree with (although some can't). \\n What I'm trying to say is sometimes it's the guy that makes ladies uncomfortable, and not the staring. In other words, if the guy staring was someone the woman was attracted to, then all of the sudden what he's doing isn't creepy, he's just making his intentions known. But when it's an unattractive male staring, all the sudden it's a different scenario than the first, and he's creepy. I guess what I'm saying is, it seems the average woman (I've met) decides who's creepy by the mans level of attractiveness. I don't agree with this double standard, and to me that's just like saying, \\\"you're not good looking enough to be looking at me.\\\" This may be me being cynical because of the way I think women look at me in terms of attractiveness, so maybe I'm not the best person to discuss this with. I will say, having been called creepy without leering or staring (whether you believe me is irrelevant; see next paragraph) or anything, it's a shitty thing to say. Knowing full well I didn't stare or say anything inappropriate (I'm introverted) leads me to believe I was called that based on looks alone. Anecdotal, I know. It's hard not to judge people off past experiences. \\n I would also like to note that what someone considers staring, someone else might not. Some women may be uncomfortable when someone is just looking for a second, while others may never feel uncomfortable with people actually leering. When I look at women I'm attracted to, I generally only look for a second, but it can be hard for me to not look for another second thirty minutes down the line, and so on. While I may not be staring, I must come across as creepy anyway, as I've been told that before. Of course, as stated above, I assume this has more to do with me being unattractive and looking, than just looking.\",\n \"Summary: We both agree that women should be able to wear what they want. We both agree that revealing clothing isn't an invitation for harassment, or for my benefit (an ugly male). Why can't you agree that a lot of choices we make, including clothing, are because we are trying to attract someone we're attracted to (be it someone we know or not), which is an obvious truth?\\n\\nPost: I don't think you're getting what I'm saying (probably because I ain't no good with words). \\n First off, were not talking about women who wear yoga pants to yoga, or spandex while running. We're talking about women who wear these types or more revealing clothing in a public setting that everyday people will see. \\n If you choose to dress provocatively, then that's your prerogative, and I have no issue with that. However, people will look at you. And you knew this before dressing provocatively. Don't wear skin tight clothing then tell me it's just a comfort thing, when we both know there's much more comfortable options available for you to choose that aren't revealing. \\n >Your claim that women wouldn't wear yoga pants if they didn't want to be stared at just doesn't make sense. \\n It doesn't. Good thing I never made that claim. I do make the claim that women dress provocatively to gain attention from someone they find attractive, whether or not they've met this hypothetical person before their hypothetical encounter. I will also make the claim that when dressing provocatively gains the attention of someone a women isn't attracted to, we end up with a conversation like this. \\n >Shouldn't we be trying to create a world wear anyone can wear/do whatever they want if it doesn't hurt anyone else? \\n Again, I never claimed women shouldn't be allowed to dress provocatively. Just don't act surprised when people notice you. You knew the attention you would get wearing yoga pants or whatever to the bar, then made that decision anyway. Just like I have a shirt that says, \\\"God Hates us All!\\\" I could wear it in public and be like, \\\"Wtf, stop looking at my shirt.\\\" But i don't, because I know the reaction I would get wearing it in certain places. It's called reality. \\n >Or are you really just going to insist that \\\"all women wearing certain clothes I like must want my sexual attention\\\" \\n You like putting words in mouth, don't you? I don't think any women want my sexual attention. I'm not a good looking guy, but that's besides the point anyway. My point is they want attention from someone they are attracted to, hence the choice of clothing they wear in a public setting (I added that last part of that sentence in response to your, \\\"women wear yoga pants in private,\\\" comment. Who cares what women wear in private? That's not we're talking about. Unless your response to that is, \\\"see, proof we wear them for comfort.\\\" Which is fine if you like the comfort. Just don't act you don't have other choices for comfort in public. When we take that into account, we can all but assume you're choosing to wear something revealing over something more comfortable and less revealing, for the obvious reason of wanting to feel attractive to someone you're attracted to.)\",\n \"Summary: I'm saying nobody loves you. You're delusional.\\n\\nPost: Definition of DELUSION\\n1\\n: the act of deluding : the state of being deluded\\n2\\na : something that is falsely or delusively believed or propagated\\nb : a persistent false psychotic belief regarding the self or persons or objects outside the self that is maintained despite indisputable evidence to the contrary \\n You think your SO loves you, but is actually sleeping with your friends. \\n You think your parents are proud of you, but they actually think they themselves are failures because of your shortcomings. \\n You think your pet loves you unconditionally, but it seems that way only because you feed it, and would actually jump at the chance to find a respectable owner it actually wants to see. \\n You think your friends like you, but they just use you for material possessions. They don't enjoy your company.\",\n \"Summary: You can't predict the future, so you might as well be as honest as possible so people can make the best decision for them and they're family. OP and skank are deciding what's best for someone who has no idea what's going on. That's not right.\\n\\nPost: Upvote for a decent response. But it seems your not looking at it from the boyfriends point of view. Who cares what the woman wants? Hypothetical scenario, maybe the boyfriend finds out three years from now(he could find out a number of different ways). Decides he doesn't want to raise said child. Now we're talking about a five year old who isn't old enough to comprehend wants going on. The father she once knew isn't around, then what? OP will turn around and do what's right and raise his child, after five years? Can't say for sure, but I doubt it. There's any number of scenarios that could play out negatively for everyone. I can't assume both OP and boyfriend have exactly the same view on raising a kid. If OP cared about the kid, wouldn't this be an issue? Maybe if OP and skank told him as soon as it happened, he would have forgave her and raised child. Now in my hypothetical he might not want to care for a child after being betrayed and having his world turned upside down. And lets not forget the mother isn't the best role model for this child either.\",\n \"Summary: Apologies for being a dick, but you're kind of an ass.\\n\\nPost: Okay...so your answer is to put the child in a foster home. At least you understand there isn't always a good option. \\n >Every opportunity to save a family should be taken. \\n Which is why that's what happens. Here's a [non malicious] ( link for you to check out. Specifically chapter 4, paragraph case planning. \\n >If abuse is discovered the CPS worker responsible for that child should be charged with the same severity as the abuser. \\n Well that's just ridiculous. \\n >I ignored the irrelevant chatter at the top of your comment. \\n Oh. You mean the part where I call you out for linking a malicious site that looks like it was made in someones basement and doesn't have any information after the year 2000? I can see why you would ignore that. \\n I will say, your bullshit link did get me to do some research (from reputable sites), and things do seem to be worse than I thought. Of course, to say every CPS worker is just as bad as someone who abuses children is completely moronic, but at least you had a point. \\n In the future, if you don't act like such an asshole and provide a non malicious reputable link to back up your information, you might find that more people will listen to you. Not everyone will do research on there own.\",\n \"Summary: Mom was right there, probably saw the whole thing. If her and her kid were in a skate park, bad on her. If it was a public park, bad on the skater, since he shouldn't have been skating there. \\n Edit: When I say bad on her, bad on him, I'm only referring to the collision.\\n\\nPost: I don't get all these unsupervised comments. The mom was right there. That's why she was able to punch the skater. You can supervise a child while it's playing twenty feet in front of you. \\n I also don't understand why so many people are walking around in a skate park. Someone earlier in this thread mentioned where he's from, skate parks are right next to public ones, and this skater possible skated to the public side. This makes sense to me since there are so many people walking and not skating in this park. I am no skater though, so maybe that is common place.\",\n \"Summary: I'm just venting because a service I paid for stopped working, and Playstation's customer service sucks.\\n\\nPost: This guy gets it. My Music Unlimited service isn't working, so I called PS3's customer support, did some tests, she said it must be MU's servers, so I should call them. The number she gives me, although different from the one I called originally, connected me to the same department. \\n After I explain everything, including me getting redirected after dialing the new number, person 2 proceeds to tell me that based on me not being able to establish a connection to MU's servers, it's definitely my internet connection, and I need to call my ISP. I explain (for a second time to this person, third overall) that all applications on my PS3 connect to the internet, as well as any other device I have. I also explain that I can access Music Unlimited on other devices, just not the PS3. Her response? The PS3 requires 75% of my bandwidth (I have 12meg, so she's claiming the PS3 is using 9 meg...just being turned on), and that the reason I can't connect is because my internet connection was timing out (presumably due to the massive amounts of bandwidth she's claiming the PS3 requires without even doing anything, mind you), and that was a problem on my ISP's end. Never mind everything I already told her and the fact that I've used this service since August without issues until two weeks ago. She told me this wasn't a problem on Playstation's or MU's end without having me do one single thing to try and alleviate the problem. Unlike the first woman who at least did a test in safe mode, admitted it was MU's issue, then put me on hold for another five minutes to find the number for Music Unlimited's customer service line, which...like I said...just redirected me back to the same department. \\n When I tell this story to friends, they ask: \\n \\\"What did she say when you asked why the PS3 requires so much bandwidth?\\\" \\n My response: \\n \\\"I didn't ask. I told her to fuck off, then hung up.\\\"\"\n]","isConversational":false},"profile_size":{"kind":"number","value":29,"string":"29"},"task":{"kind":"string","value":"longlamp_4"},"split_kind":{"kind":"string","value":"user_based"},"id":{"kind":"number","value":1293,"string":"1,293"}}},{"rowIdx":1294,"cells":{"question_id":{"kind":"string","value":"HashTagDeeperino"},"question":{"kind":"string","value":"Generate the content for a reddit post try not to craft commons, cautiously craft rares, be sure you'll actually use the epic/legendaries you craft but otherwise don't worry too much because it's unlikely anything will go wrong, just remember that a lot of rares can be a lot more important than just 1 legendary/epic."},"answer":{"kind":"string","value":"Golden cards are as far as use go exactly the same as normal cards. Once you have 2 regular versions of a card there's no reason (unless you like goldens) to keep the golden card. \n As for what to craft it's typically a very bad idea to craft commons because they're rather expensive yet easy to find, it's OK but similarly \"meh\" to craft rares and crafting epics/legendaries can't go too wrong unless RNGesus plays a cruel trick on you and you happen to open them in a pack after crafting them (which would basically waste 300/1200 dust compared to just finding one in a pack), of course if you only craft one copy of an epic you'd have to get even more unlucky to open 2 of them in packs which is really, really unlikely. \n So"},"correct_answer":{"kind":"string","value":"Golden cards are as far as use go exactly the same as normal cards. Once you have 2 regular versions of a card there's no reason (unless you like goldens) to keep the golden card. \n As for what to craft it's typically a very bad idea to craft commons because they're rather expensive yet easy to find, it's OK but similarly \"meh\" to craft rares and crafting epics/legendaries can't go too wrong unless RNGesus plays a cruel trick on you and you happen to open them in a pack after crafting them (which would basically waste 300/1200 dust compared to just finding one in a pack), of course if you only craft one copy of an epic you'd have to get even more unlucky to open 2 of them in packs which is really, really unlikely. \n So"},"documents":{"kind":"list like","value":["Summary: It's a matter of balance. Soulfire is really strong and does stuff to the board, part of the cost is the knowledge you give to the enemy. Tracking is good but only good because it doesn't give up knowledge to your enemy, it's about gaining knowledge not just thinning your deck.\n\nPost: Soulfire has direct impact to the board, giving up some knowledge for that is alright. Tracking does nothing to the board and is largely just a cycle+knowledge gain. Often the enemy would be left knowing all 3 cards. If someone sees you discard X and Y they can rule that you obviously got an X or a T because they're the only things you'd possibly take over Y so you're thinning your deck but your enemy now has a good idea of what's in your hand and gains knowledge of 2 cards that are now not in your deck. That's just huge. \n It's kind of like the inconsistency of silencing druid cards. Ancient of War becomes a 5/5, Druid of the Claw becomes a 4/6 (assuming it was taunt form). It's mostly about balance, Ancient of War is really powerful and an extra form of counterplay helps it comes being too good (like with soulfire, giving away knowledge on top of the discard is a good way to offset some of it's innate power) but Druid of the Claw isn't this massive force to be reckoned with, even though yes it is rather powerful so if it's silenced it doesn't lose more health because it simply doesn't need that extra bit of counterplay to be well balance just like Tracking does too little to really make it a necessity to give up that knowledge. Tracking is almost entirely about knowledge, giving both players said knowledge almost completely defeats the purpose.","Summary: Zoo (and pretty much any agro deck) has plenty of things to consider, it has all of the things any other deck would have to consider (the enemy's deck, odds of drawing X) as well as an exceptionally hard to optimize early game due to the massive array of different potential hands. It's got a low skillfloor, sure, but ultimately it's a very complicated deck that people don't give enough credit to due to a lack of understanding and frustration with it's strength.\n\nPost: When I play control, there are usually 3-4 possible ways for a turn and you have to predict what your opponent will do next turn and pick the best possible solution. \n There's a lot of decision making in agro. For example in Zoo, if you're playing the wrong minions you're going to get fucked in higher tiers of play. If you have a hand of 5 1 drops and don't know which is optimal to play you may recover from your mistake, it might not even be punished but there's a thought process to be had to make the best decision just like in the case of your example. \n You also have a lot of considerations with what to play before soulfiring/doomguarding or what you may life tap into, remembering your exact deck is exceptionally important. Y'know what, here's a list of some of the questions you have to ask yourself while playing Zoo. \n Should I tap before or after I soulfire/doomguard, is it worth potentially discarding Y to have a better chance of not discarding X? \n Should I tap this turn or should I extend further into the board? \n What potential AoE could they use to turn around the game, do I have enough in my hand to recover from that? \n What's the optimal way to play out this hand? Turn by turn, mana usage, complicated by a potential coin and the fact that you have such a massive array of different possible hands to consider making you consider a new selection every hand which is particularly hard to make the right decision with as a new player to the deck. Seriously, when you're playing a late game deck you have relatively few different options, sure you may take awhile to figure out oh \"X is better than Y\" but ultimately once you figure out which is better than the other you're generally going to know what to do or have an exceptionally easy time figuring it out. With Zoo you're going to have 5 cards in your hand and be able to play the hand in tens of different ways while having to think 3 turns ahead to properly use your mana, all the battlecries and work around potential minions efficiently. I can't understate the complexity and variety of decisions you have to make with such a massive number of low cost minions. \n Can I race? This requires some fast thinking and (assuming you don't already have the tools in your hand/board) some consideration of potential top decks and the size of your deck currently. Say they're 20 health and you can either answer their Cairne and play some more minions or deal 5 damage to the face you have to consider how much damage they can do with potential combos, how many minons Cairne will kill over the duration, how many potential answers they have to the board (Does this deck run starfall? Have they already used both Swipes?). Maybe your deck runs a power overwhelming and some charge minions or the black knight to keep up pressure on the face, you might be able to race them if you've flooded the board and they have no more AoE but if you're wrong and they happen to have AoE well there goes your board control and now they're going to kill you good job you're an idiot and get to lose because you didn't think.","Summary: Gruul/Millhouse are pretty much not worthwhile right now. They might become better in the future but if you're itching for a new legendary you probably won't regret DEing this pair any time soon. \n Deathwing has a small niche and will have a larger one come Naxx at least I think so . \n TBK/Leeroy/Al'Akir are great. \n Hellscream is great but you could consider DEing it because he's not useful in any decks for you right now . He'll be worth keeping for the future though maybe.\n\nPost: Deathwing is sometimes used in silly Druid decks. He's also something you might regret DEing as he'll potentially have a place in a death-rattle focused deck, generally you'd lose a lot of stuff by playing him but if you get a bunch of stuff to help you recover from discarding your hand/clearing your board he'd be rather good. \n Gruul is never used but may find a place after Naxx for some reason. It's unlikely based on what we've seen though as he's so slow with such a low pay-off and high backfire rate. By doing nothing the turn it's played it gives your enemy a chance to answer it without it ever having done anything but soak up a removal which isn't good in terms of tempo and such. \n Millhouse is, y'know. . . Awful. Unless we get a card that says \"your enemy can't play spells next turn\" as a battlecry or something he'll always be a high risk low-moderate reward card. Sure in the ideal situation he might be good but late game? Good god he's just useless . He's basically just saying \"HEY BURN MY FACE OFF\" to Miracle Rogues, Druids who run Savage/FoN, mages, this, that and the other class. He's too risky to be worthwhile in any deck you'd like to be consistent and if you're playing seriously to gain ranks your best friend's name is \"Consistency\". \n The Black Knight is pretty much one of the best cards in the game against ramp druid and is a pretty decent card in most matchups, even against Zoo it'll often kill off a buffed up taunt guy. Potentially even a 6/8 Doomguard that they Defendered up although lets be honest that's a pretty unlikely situation. Really the only control matchup he's not valuable in is into warrior and even then you might find a time to play him if they've teched against Miracle Rogues (with sunfuries or something to help deal with the massive amounts of direct damage they could otherwise deal but lets be real that's not a common tech.) \n Leeroy is needless to say pretty great as he's pretty much the best finishing charger, used in lots of decks etc. \n Al'Akir is really underrated by a lot of people so I'm glad you understand his power, definitely a keeper. \n Hellscream might be great in a full control warrior deck and a few others but he might actually be something you could consider DEing if you never intend to play control warrior. As it stands control warrior isn't that great and you have basically 0 other control warrior cards. I don't recommend it but I'd say it's something you could consider.","Summary: FE12 is generally worse than other FE games but there's no reason not to try it, really. Being worse than something awesome isn't necessarily a negative. \n \n FE9/10 are more popular, harder to emulate and a bit different from Awakening but still FE and still fantastic. \n \n FE8 is a lot like Awakening or at least the closest you'll probably get in my mind, it's rather easy, it's got grinding, it's got a great cast.\n\nPost: I'd suggest against it. \n I ran a poll awhile ago, here's some of the results. \n [Which FE games have you played?]( \n Now, we see FE12 has a meager 39 votes. This can largely be chalked up to not having a proper localization, so know that you will have to play FE12 on an emulator, on your computer, with a patch, and all that other junk. The patch I use isn't too bad, but it can run a bit slowly on my nearly 6 year old PC, if you're working with something half decent you should have 0 problems playing it. \n Anyway. . . Now we look at this poll. \n [Which of the games you've played had the best story?]( \n And we see FE12 has 0. Literally. 0. Votes. Okay, maybe the patch wasn't that good, maybe something was lost in translation? Who knows. But if that is the case, if something is lost in translation . . . Why not go for something else? \n Then, finally, \n [Which of the games you've played had the best gameplay?]( \n 1 vote for FE12. Out of 99 votes. Yeahhhhhhhhhhh. \n It's just not really a great game, eh? It didn't sell well, it didn't get localized, it's not getting votes (and other older, also not localized games are getting plenty). . . I know I don't like playing it that much and we see a lot of \"pick my units\" but never once have I seen \"pick my units FE12.\" \n And sure, you might like it, it does have reclassing and Avatar which could be really big pluses, I'd even still suggest giving it a try if you're fine with piracy (and hopefully you are if you want to play older FEs), it's a rather small download and it's free. . . Butttttt I think you should probably try out one of the more popular titles instead, they're popular for a reason after all. \n FE9/10 are something of a pair, FE10 in particular is very popular and getting that sort of two game experience where one plays off the other kind of thing? That is pretty awesome. Again, that can be emulated but will give you more slow down than FE12, so weak PC beware. I'd really not suggest getting them off ebay- you're not helping the devs or anyone really by getting a physical copy, just the guy you buy it off. \n So yeah, emulate FE9/10 (skipping to FE10 wouldn't be a terrible idea, probably) if you're wanting to trust the general opinion (based on this small poll . . .) and don't mind sinking your teeth into a potentially very different game. \n Personally, I think FE8 would be a great fit. It's got great supports/characters which really do trump Awakening a lot of the time. It's a pretty easy game too, you won't experience much pain playing it. This one's also super easy to emulate, even my ol' pile of junk can handle it.","Summary: my suggestions would be \n -1x Shadowstep \n -2x Preparation \n -2x Assassinate \n -1x Sprint \n +1x Coldlight Oracle \n +1x Murloc Warleader \n +1x Deadly Poison \n +1x Assassin's Blade \n This leaves you with 2 spots. Personally I'd feel compelled to throw in Sinister Strikes at first but settle on Shiv, maybe Novice Engigneer. I haven't thought about it enough to be completely sure how I'd feel about those last 2 slots. Maybe an Acolyte would be good or a couple of Loot Hoarders. Definitely something to think about, probably something with card draw/cycling though. \n Actually, I'm not even sure how I feel about Eviscerate, honestly. It's hard to combo it a lot of the time so it's often just 2 damage I'd think. Investing mana into just trying to combo it could be painful. Sure it's nice for taking big minions but why not cut both at least one of them for another Sap? Sap guarantees attacking through a potential taunt that turn and doesn't require a combo. Sure you can't use it as burn to their face but often you'll find yourself losing damage because you had to trade. Imagine they play a 4/5, you can trade in 5 potential minions or you can sap the Yeti. Bam. You just gained 5 damage to their face and now can potentially end the game because NEXT turn you can potentially just hit them for 5 again. Or a 5/10 with taunt you sap that, you get to hit for 10 damage before trading off your minions. \n In fact, maybe -2x Eviscerate and +1x Sap/+1 The Black Knight would be perfect or hey maybe even an Assassinate instead of TBK.\n\nPost: Having the link in the I was a bit weird. If I didn't know to look for it I'd've not noticed it. \n Anyway, I dislike the Preparations. There's almost nothing you want to prep out half the time since they're typically 1 mana. I understand they're a big tempo boost when used with Sap/Evi/Assassinate but they're just not worth the slot. I also REALLY dislike seeing 2 assassinates at all, especially since the preparations are something you want to cut. Just 1 is really pushing it. \n Backstab's good, cold blood's good. Deadly Poison's good. You know, come to think of it this deck probably would do great with an Assassin's Blade rather than an Assassinate, x2 Deadly Poison is useful on it's own and so is Assassin's Blade but when they come together you're looking at up to 20-28 damage coming out from your Assassin's Blade either to clear the path for your little guys or just to help apply pressure to the enemy's face. \n Shadowstep is largely useless. You don't have a big charger to help you end the game with it like Leeroy or even just Arcane Golem. It's, at best, helping you draw more with Coldlight Oracle or getting you another 2/1 with Ringleader. \n The lack of a second Murloc Warleader is HUGELY problematic and you definitely want another one ASAP if you're going to stick with this. It's your biggest card to deal with bigger threats, close out the game or avoid AoE. \n Sprint is too late game, especially without prep you're never going to realistically play it and even then it's a 2 for 4 and spends your entire 4th turn's mana. Of course you need some card draw so just toss in another Coldlight. \n So","Summary: Studded->Carapace->Green D'hide->Void eventually \nBows->Aw fuck can't get yew bow->Rune mainhands->Tzhaar main hand->Karil's crossbow->Probably chaotics one day.\n\nPost: For ranged, which is honestly the only combat I've been doing for the most part, I didn't bother with armour and just used pathfinder until level 20 at which point I got studded. I then got carapace and eventually upgraded to green d'hide from different shops and I think a drop for the vambraces. I'd look into better armour to get but I'm just going to get void eventually so meh. \n As for weaponry I used the highest tier bow and arrows I could use until I hit 40, I tried to get a yew and magic bow from their respective droppers but had no luck. \n I went to 50 range with a maple bow mostly at which point I picked up rune throwing weapons from the archery guild as well as used those I got from drops . I would use off-hand knives but my smithing wasn't all too high and frankly still isn't, a lot of the time I'd be facing off against bosses or dragons so I had an excuse for a shield at least. \n At 60 range I got the Tzhaar range weapon, basically was the same as rune weapons in that it's one handed and I didn't have a great off-hand. So again I trained generally with a shield against strong monsters (like bosses and dragons) and a lame off-hand against things like Banshees. \n As I knew I needed a better weapon I had done barrows a lot (in terms of time investment, not necessarily runs) and eventually got a Karil's Crossbow. I actually got it on maybe my 7th run which is incredibly lucky. Just getting a barrows item in general that early wouldn't be that crazy but me getting a T7 2H range weapon when I'm training pretty much exclusively range? On my 7th run? That's really lucky. So now I'm using that. I had also planned to potentially get a crystal bow but now that I have my Karil's Crossbow I don't see the point really, I'll just do that whenever. \n So","Summary: knowledge is power. Study, keep track of cards played by both players and deduce the enemy's hand as much as possible.\n\nPost: I think the biggest thing about climbing higher up is about deducing what the enemy's hand is. This can be from things like where they point their cards to how they react to a situation. For example if you're play Auctioneer and they don't kill it you can obviously say they don't have soulfire or they do have soulfire but are also sitting on Molten Giants. \n Also, keep track of what they've played and what you've played. Use a notepad if you have to, a physical one or the actual program. Knowing exactly what you have left in your deck is a great way to know when to draw and when not to draw, when you can race and when you should play more conservatively etc. this also means you should read up on popular decks and maybe even play them a bit even when you have absolutely no intention of playing them a lot because learning exactly what your enemy wants to do and does do is going to get you a ton of wins since it'll be easier to play around their win conditions/cards in general.","Summary: I think you should be patient and let it happen naturally from packs/arena.\n\nPost: It would cost you 8100 dust to make a set of them and 16200 to make two of each. \n I think you shouldn't though, you're likely to get a lot of multiples of any given rare without ever crafting a single one of it so in the long run it's better to just focus on other cards like Legendaries or at least Epics with your dust. \n I understand if gives a nice sense of completion to have a full set of rares but ultimately it's a very inefficient usage of your dust and you'll naturally come by that feeling at some point without ever crafting them so basically","Summary: this has helped a lot, thanks for all the advice.\n\nPost: The general thing about how RNG should be handled I definitely agree with, there was some answers similar to what you're saying and I definitely think those were a homerun alongside your comment here. I thought of RNG too straightforwardly before, but now I'm shifting my mindset to more interesting ideas, like making sure there's a way to \"defuse\" them. \n > For example, most hidden items are obnoxious because trial and error is far too time consuming, and you should not be forced to look up online where the items are. \n Mm. I think I'll just shift my ideas for fun, cool \"secret\" stuff to more just remote-ish locations, more emphasis on chests/houses guarded by strong mooks in a mountain range (or something) rather than super-secret less obvious stuff. \n >This is also why things like spawn-moving reinforcements are bad because despite all the \"hints\" the game gives you, you still can't make a rock-solid safe plan unless you know what the pattern is (or the alternative is you just basically only field avatar because avatar can't die and so the reinforcements can't kill you, which is still bad game design just from a different angle). \n I think these can be okay in very slight moderation, the sort of FE luna+ stuff we see? Definitely not what I'm thinking of. \n What do you think a sort of spawn-moving weak guy that would deal like 5 damage would be? I've noticed when I play FE I often neglect characters, leave them way in the back without healing or whatever and if something doesn't spawn-move they live/can run away, but I've always thought that the game was going too easy on me for that fact. So sending out a first (small) wave of spawn-moving mooks that can take out really low health (already been beaten up a fair bit) targets would be an interesting thing to have alongside usual reinforcements, that'd be something I think I'd like. What do you think? Weak (and few) spawn-movers, strong standard spawns. \n You've got some great points about larger maps, definitely reinforces a lot of the thoughts I've had. Some people tend to just think, \"well bigger map means you can have more units woo!\" but there's more too it than that, as you plainly know. \n I also am loving your thoughts on balancing every character out, I knew I wanted to fiddle with growths but I typically thought of the crazy stuff (as reflected in the survey . . .) but I think this would be a cause better worth fighting for. I'll be sure to fiddle with growths to make sure characters are worth using for one reason or another and perhaps tone down a few.","Summary: it almost always just directly translates to face damage when Miracle Rogue needs to be able to remove/stall the game out so other cards (like Eviserate) are more versatile and add more to the deck.\n\nPost: Many decks do run 2 copies. Typically the \"burst down\" varieties which have Mana Addicts thus can burst you out with even as few as 3-4 cards after their addict survives will run 2. Hell, I run 2 in my regular Miracle Rogue just because it helps against faster decks or the mirror. \n Anyway, the miracle rogues you'll see on ladder most games have 1 because you often because it's not very useful outside of it's amazing card/mana->damage ratio. \n See, Miracle Rogue naturally has rather few minions and thus having minions out and/or keeping them alive becomes rather problematic without conceal particularly when you realize what minions will often be able to trade up with it (small little guys like Thalnos) are exactly that, small thus easily removed. You're likely only running 1-2 chargers too so most of the time it's a \"meh\" card that doesn't cycle/thin through your deck or remove the enemy's board. It's not like Blessing of Might in Paladin where you have plenty of targets and these 1/1 tokens to buff up and kill Azure Drakes with or something.","Summary: while Leeroy is very powerful and absolutely a card that abuses the things surrounding him the best he's not the root of the issue. The root of the problem is high efficiency buffs/shadowstep that empower the minions, not the minions. Get to the root of the problem = everything's fixed. Just tone down the first thing in line to be abused alongside the root of the problem = end up just wanting to nerf the next thing in line.\n\nPost: Many of your suggestions were completely awful and didn't make Leeroy more niche, it simply killed him and made Arcane Golem replace him. \n As it stands Leeroy is 4 mana 6 damage, that's 1.5 damage/mana and Arcane Golem is 1.33 damage/mana, Leeroy is already very threatened by the power of Arcane Golem as it's a similarly low costing card that serves as a vessle for Power Overwhelmings, Cold Bloods and other strong, mana to damage efficient buffs. Leeroy only really has the edge of him being better in terms of card->damage efficiency and you're taking that away with just about all of the changes you suggested. What I'm saying is the problem doesn't lie in Leeroy, it lies in the things that empower him. \n Here's a little list, an incomplete one that I'd like to work on more so forgive minor errors and point them out to me, that will help you understand how close Arcane Golem and Leeroy are. Consider any of the changes you suggested and all this does is make Arcane Golem more popular, a card that is pretty much just as powerful as Leeroy in a lot of situations. \n 4 mana you're dealing \n \n 6 damage with Leeroy. \n 8 damage with Arcane Golem + Cold Blood. \n \n For 5 mana it's \n \n 10 with Leeroy + Cold Blood. \n 12 with Golem + Cold Blood x2 or Golem + Shadowstep x2. \n \n 6 mana \n \n 14 with Leeroy + Cold Blood x2. \n 15 with Golem + Cold Blood x2+Sinister Strike. \n \n 7 mana \n \n 17 with Leeroy + Cold Blood x2 + Sinister Strike. \n 18 with Golem + Cold Blood x2 + Sinister Strike x2. \n \n 8 mana \n \n 18 with Leeroy + Shadowstep x2 or 20 with Leeroy + Cold Blood x2 + Shadowstep. \n \n 21 with Arcane Golem + Cold Blood x2 + Sinister Strike x2 + Shadow step. \n \n \n 9 mana \n \n 23 with Leeroy + Shadowstep + Cold Blood x2 + Sinister Strike x1. \n \n 26 with Arcane Golem + Shadow Step x2 + Cold Blood x2 + Sinister Strike x2 \n \n \n 10 mana \n \n 26 with Leeroy + Shadowstep x2 + Cold Blood x2. \n 27 with Arcane Golem + Shadowstep x2 + Cold Blood x2 + Eviserate + Sinister Strike. \n \n So what I'm basically saying is your changes are not good, they're destroying one minion who only is a problem in Miracle and potentially Warlock but simply not fixing the problem surrounding it leaving Arcane Golem to pick up the slack. \n Imagine if instead of nerfing UTH Blizzard had nerfed Buzzard. That just makes Buzzard less good and other cards that work well with UTH have to pick up the slack. Just like nerfing Leeroy just makes Arcane Golem the next in line to be abused by Miracle Rogue. It doesn't fix the problem of high mana efficiency damage it just tones it back ever so slightly while destroying perfectly fine cards (Buzzard, Leeroy).","Summary: Drygores, grind hard for money for bones but train prayer later.\n\nPost: Just depends what bosses you like. Like Glacors? Don't get Drygores. Like some boss you use protect prayers at? Get Drygores. Want to really, really careful and ensure you can't be hacked for your stuff? Get prayer. Want to do QBD and frosts? Get Herblore. \n Ultimately QBD is like, what? Potentially 5M an hour consistently if you're great at it (much less presumably without soulsplit and such but still great even just with super antifires)? But if you hate QBD you're not going to do it consistently, you'll get bored and stray. Just beef up your performance in the thing you want to do. \n I think the most important thing though is this: do not hesitate . Pick one soon, while prices are low / BXP is coming up (in case you decide on Herblore). If you don't decide and Drygores/your total bone costs go back up a good 5M-20M you'll be less than happy. \n If you want a simple answer though, I'd say Drygores. Are they the best option? Maybe not. But they're probably the cheapest and you spend no time training , want Herblore/prayer? Good. Dish out the money and spend X amount of hours training. Drygores? Buy them and get back to making money. With bone prices so low and Drygore prices so low you should act now , make money as fast as you can and buy as much of the crashing products as you can. Don't waste time training prayer, save that for after this ideal time to amass bones/Drygores/general wealth has passed, then train prayer.","Summary: short term you gain some cards for a few decks (if even multiple decks) but long term all you're doing is screw yourself out of being able to play a large number of decks because you were impatient.\n\nPost: In the short term the best thing you can do is focus on a few classes you really like and get as much out of those as you can by DEing other classes as well as shitty neutrals. \n In the long term though you want to keep most cards. If you want to take efficiency to an extreme you could even keep 3rd+ copies of cards to make sure you get the most dust if they're ever changed directly but Blizz doesn't want to make a lot of changes to pre-existing cards so more realistically you want to just keep everything that has strong potential to be changed or indirectly affected in such a way that it becomes strong by new cards/card changes or innovations. This means basically everything is worth keeping because eventually you may want to play a deck that involves it and you already just DE'd (for just 40 dust!) the two rares you'd now have to pay 200 dust for. Even without the innovations and such in mind you'll want to keep them because hey, you don't like Shaman or whatever now but Feral Spirit is a fantastic card that you'll want in basically every Shaman deck.","Summary: harps are probably one of your worst options EXP gains wise and you'll probably be best off cutting gems or crafting dragonleather bodies. Look into the GP/EXP for a bunch of different methods in that ballpark and factor in the time it'll take you to acquire the GP as well as the potential EXP from those money making methods.\n\nPost: Your optimal crafting item is largely based around what you can afford. \n From a strictly efficiency focused standpoint you'll want to do the thing that leaves you gaining the most experience overall (considering potential profits as EXP in a buyable). So for example, say option A is 10 hours of crafting, gaining 500K EXP and leaving you with a net profit of 0GP. \n If option B is 3 hours of crafting (gaining 500K EXP) and 7 hours of money making (also ending at overall 0GP profit), your option B would be better as gaining the money is providing EXP as well. \n So with this in mind you'll generally want to aim towards using methods that are a high EXP rates when it comes to buyable skills, within reason. Of course what's ultimately \"within reason\" is again dependant on how much you can make an hour as well as the specifics (exp gains most importantly) of that money making method. \n So I can't tell you what you should train on without assuming stats you have (crafting is almost the least important stat when thinking of how you should train crafting) or telling you to get certain stats to gain access to a certain money making method. \n You'll have to figure it out for yourself by yourself if you want the best answer and really, you'll be better off for it I'd say. \n All said and done/","Summary: sure, the person OP's posting is potentially an autoclicker. If they really have been standing there for hours on end and this has been seen many days in a row, it's very likely they are. But is that good enough? No. \n Yes, the ramifications of Jagex assuming they're an autoclicker and us assuming they're an autoclicker are very different, but it's still the wrong path to walk all the same.\n\nPost: defending him and autoclickers \n That's the thing, you can be defending him and not defending autoclickers. More importantly for me, it's not really about that individual but this idea that we can just assume people are cheating, which is a horrible way to approach things if you ask me. I'd feel awful for a friend if they found themselves in an iffy looking situation then got \"called out for autoclicking\" when they did no such thing. It's much like someone accusing you of a crime, even without proof and very little evidence if someone accuses you suddenly you may find yourself being looked at very differently, and that's absolutely shitty. \n My concern here is so many people are trying to make another player out to be an autoclicker but they could still be one of the people who just pays essentially 0 attention to their screen while doing something else and clicking very occasionally. \n I mean imagine you've got a laptop. You just use a mouse, tape the bottom and click occasionally, never focusing on the laptop and yeah it's not too crazy to think someone could get stuck for hours at a time because they just don't care to check. Imagine you're just playing some fast-paced game, you only get a chance to click infrequently and when you do you don't really check. \n I know when I play games I really like they can eat my attention alive so yeah if I was doing this sort of thing I might not notice not actually moving. What if I had a laptop behind me and I was just clicking a wireless mouse occasionally? I'd not bother checking because of the fast pace nature of the other game I'm playing, despite this potential hypothetical OP's post largely screams to me, \"NOPE HE'S AN AUTOCLICKER.\" And you know what? He very well could be, in fact I'd wager they probably are if they really have been getting stuck for hours. \n But if they are or aren't isn't exactly what's important in my eyes, what's important is do we know that they are? No. So you report them, you move on, and you let Jagex sort it out. If anyone's going to be able to prove it, it's Jagex, and if they can't then why should be assuming they're an autoclicker? Jagex has more information on offer regarding the person's account, right? So if they can't definitely say they're autoclicking with a decent level of confidence it's not very right for us to do that with even less information . Not to mention OP's not really shown us anything more than a person standing still and claims they've been like this for however long, and while I don't doubt OP really I also think for anyone to make a big assumption about this player given just what OP has said would be poor form as well. \n The point is while it's very likely that the kind of people you see getting stuck for hours on end are autoclickers but to assume all of them are with nothing more than some iffy evidence that you can explain away with some hypothetical situations . . . That's just kind of fucked up. I mean, what if Jagex just took this as \"good enough\", like everyone else is so quick to do, and banned the poor schmuck despite him hypothetically just being the corner case where he really wasn't autoclicking. \n I'd rather hundreds of players auto click seren stones, hefin course, etc. than let even one person get banned just for looking suspicious. I don't want to play a game where you can be banned for being suspicious*. I also don't really like the idea of having a lynch mob called on me just because I'm not paying enough attention for their tastes. Given I'll be going for 99 agility at some point, this makes me irked as fuck.","Summary: Optimized lunatic+ units so that skills are reasonable to beat, but still incredibly hard and demanding to beat. AKA no more silver-bullet, player begone type enemies like the hawkeye vantage luna+ hammer dudes in the early chapters. \n \n More side objectives* to add depth to gameplay and optimal difficulty that you're rewarded for executing on. God save the poor soul who has to balance this. \n \n Better/more variety in objectives* to add more forced difficulty. Having a weak dude to protect makes things that much more complex. \n \n More key units* to deal with ASAP, like healers that actually do shit. \n \n \n (*than Awakening) \n Or I could sum it up as \n \n I want the game to be excruciatingly hard with a variety of considerations that are produced by the game in general and specifically, by the Awakening luna+ skills, but not impossible/forcing me to reset just to change the enemy skills to make the level possible . \n \n Or something like that.\n\nPost: I'm sure the subject of permadeth or not has been approached a lot in theose last couple of days. Boy, that feels like an understatement \n I'm beating that horse dead . I mean I alone probably have like 20 comments (and these are long comments . . .) about it already. It's already getting a bit old, so I'm appreciating this being not about that. \n Anyway, in terms of enemy strength, I want lunatic+ enemies but stripping away all the RNG - just give each individual enemy a certain, specific set of skills. \n So for example, ambush spawns? They'd potentially be fine with counter, the player would simply learn that that specific enemy has counter and next time? Play around it. Resetting because reinforcements fucked you is fine with me . . . But if they only screw you 20% of the time I'd rather just play optimally based on what I know and hope the reinforcements don't screw me, because the level may very well not even be possible for me if I don't play greedy. \n I'd rather see counter always in the skill slot of one of the enemies than only see it 20% of the time, then instead of taking a dice roll the game says \"LEARN TO DEAL WITH IT.\", which I'd happily do if I had to and the level was balanced in such a way that I could. We already have RNG from crits/dodges/hits to worry about, any individual one completely ruining a lunatic+ level. I just don't want to see it on skills anymore. It's incredibly annoying. \n Imagine a lunatic mode, those delicious, actually challenging enemies (wow imagine that . . .), along with some vantage thrown in, some counter, Hell pass is awesome too. I know pass would make me think twice about my \"totally impenetrable wall of defense\" I typically create around choke point, the little bugger'd just run straight through and ruin my day. There's a lot of situations you can get in cheeky heals but in those same situations if a dude with pass was on the map, you couldn't. I want that. I want to have to consider that. Awakening's skills in lower difficulties almost never had enough of an impact, at least tactically. It was always +5 health, +5 strength, that kind of crap which is just. . . NOT EVEN A SKILL IN MY MIND. That's stats. You want the enemy to be beefier? Deal more damage? Just increase those stats, don't give them a \"skill\" for it. \n Also I hate how the enemy units almost never have staff users, and when they do they don't use things effectively, the only time healers really game me issues in Awakening was during the fight against Grima and god knows you can just kill Grima before they show up anyway. \n I want to see a situation where if I don't quickly take out the enemy healer, or deal with enemies in one round, I'll start to have problems. This ties into side objectives, making more really key units that should be dealt with ASAP is awesome since the difficulty naturally scales to your ability to work things out - the less strategy you use the harder it gets to deal with. \n I'd also be interested to see more staves like from older games, but I fear they'd be too impactful to really be anything more than \"20% chance to ruin your day, happy resetting!\" which is exactly why I don't like ambush counter spawns, so nevermind. Because either the levels balanced around that sleep hitting, and it's too easy if it doesn't, or it's balanced around it not hitting and you have a 20% chance to lose. There's no winning for the player in that situation. \n Similarly, you know the \"danger zone\"? Or whatever it's called, that's always right baring reinforcements - I want to see a situation without reinforcements where that might be \"wrong\", it'd be nice to feel like that's just \"imperfect\" and I need to double check, \"scout\", for concerning things. The easiest example would be an enemy staff user rescuing a unit to get them closer, then them closing the rest of the distance to be a threat. That would make me further consider oddities that simply don't exist in FEs (that I've played). \n Awakening's maps did leave a bit to be desired too, though. I feel like this largely would be solved by having different objectives, or just more incentive to play really aggressively. Often thieves should have served this purpose but largely the things they stole were inconsequential, the ones that had master seals and the like in the early game? I went ham for those and it made the game way more interesting, those thieves get away really fast so you need to milk the crap out of your play to really get all of them. . . But then, again, the things you got were largely crap. So I wouldn't even bother, when I did it was because the level was too easy anyway, which isn't a good sign. \n So yeah, adding something that rushes you more and rewards you for rushing well would be nice too, it adds optional and rewarding difficulty that you can decide on on the fly. \n I get it though, that sort of thing's really hard to balance. Because you either balance around the player getting that (potentially leaving future levels to be impossible) or you balance around them not getting it and then the game becomes easier . . . So you kind of are ruining the experience for yourself by doing something hard, or at least using the fruits of your labour. I'm pretty hard to please.","Summary: better value in the early game, ditch the sunfuries and get some real taunts like Taz'Dingo and Sunwalker so you can invest into Argent Squires and such in the early game. Careful how you use your hero power, remember that developing your board helps you keep up with early game decks much better than pinging a lot of stuff. Try out Arcane Explosion, especially if you have Bloodmage Thalnos.\n\nPost: The first problem is that you're playing Mage. Hahahaaaaaa. \n Anyway, I think your deck is lacking in taunts and early board clear. You're running 2 azure drakes anyway, you can empower an Arcane Explosion really well and get amazing board clear like that or just pair Arcane Explosion into a hero power/attack from Argent Squire to clear 2/1s and a 3/2. \n I also am confused by the fact that you're running 2 sunfuries. I know you're lacking taunt so it makes sense to throw it in on some level but getting better 1 drops well really help you deal with aggro. Taunt isn't good in the early game, it's about board control via sheer force (high stats/value) so getting another Mana Wyrm and Argent Squire in place of Sunfury would be good then you can just replace your yetis with Taz'Dingo. \n You also probably use your hero power a bit too much, lots of people think \"oh I could ping that 2/1 instead of playing my 2/3\" but in a lot of cases that's incorrect, developing your board even when you get less value will keep the tempo in your favour which is paramount against things such as Zoo and aggro. Your late game is great, stalling out and keeping yourself healthy until then is priority #1 with your early game minions. \n I'd also suggest a late game taunt like Sunwalker in place of Ogre. You don't want to invest things like Sunfury into your deck as they don't provide good early value/pressure and your late game will be good enough to deal with aggro anyway even with slightly weaker minions (weaker as in less damage). Sure it might hurt your control matchup but it could also help make sure your Raging Worgen or whatever else forces out a removal instead of just getting attacked into or, y'know, help you kill them with it.","Summary: Dragon rider is worse in terms of profit/efficient but offers you more AFKability. You must weigh how much you value being able to AFK more comapared to profiting more. \n \n Dragon rider amulet is a reasonable alternative to a ranged necklace but still questionable if you have access to high tier amulets like the [farsight blood necklace]( \n \n Dragon rider boots/gloves aren't worth it at all. You should just use armadyl boots/gloves even if you're valuing the ability to AFK longer highly.\n\nPost: I think the dragon rider amulet would be worthwhile, because of that very nice +10 prayer bonus it's offering and only slightly worse stats in terms of offensive bonuses you're not losing out too hard by using it unless you would otherwise be using a blood necklace, which is probably really good given the nature of killing rorarii, what with them piling on you and stuff. \n From there I'd say it's harder and harder to justify using dragon rider in terms of efficiency, but definitely understandable if you're looking for AFKability. \n If you're looking for a heavily AFK experience, dragon rider would be fine, sure, but if you want better profit armadyl all the way. \n If you do choose to go for dragon rider though I highly recommend you avoid the gloves/boots though, they only offer you 1 prayer bonus more each at the expense of expense of 11 range bonus each, that's just not worth it at all, even if you do want to AFK.","Summary: fashionscape\n\nPost: Eh, people pay more GP for cosmetic items. You might say \"Oh but partyhats, [INSERT EXPENSIVE COSMETIC ITEM HERE] and such all can be sold back.\" and you're right (in most cases anyway) but plenty of people have plenty of GP to spare and thus simply don't care to ever sell them back. They're perfectly happy to drop hundreds of millions (or billions) of GP to get a cosmetic upgrades. This? Maybe it's not reasonably priced for you but to many this is probably a complete steal of a deal, especially since it's something a lot of people probably haven't even seen .","Summary: not really sure but I'd suggest RS3 anyway. \n \n Yes, skiller accounts are still a thing. Maybe less popular than before but they're still very much alive and kicking.\n\nPost: OSRS from what I hear is pretty god awful. They have a track record of being a bunch of childish pricks, there was an instance of a charity event being flooded with hate from OSRS in chat. That was a livesteam though, Twitch is kind of a cesspool anyway so that's a low blow on them though, I guess? \n The PK community is mostly where OSRS went though, and we've seen how aggressive people can get over PVP. \n Anyway, RS3's community's still pretty shitty too but that's mostly shown out of at least a genuine concern. The most annoying thing I see about the community is their stupidity regarding MTX. Being against MTX is totally fine but some people just are dense as shit and refuse to accept being even slightly wrong, then you've just got people who are way too zealous and refuse to want to work with Jagex and instead go for a very \"NO MTX WHAT SO EVER GET RID OF IT NOWWWWWWW\" sort of approach. \n But even those people, they're not assholes really, even the people who really aren't level headed and really have no idea what they're talking about (which is by no means all of them) are really just looking out for what they believe is best for the game anyway. . . \n So compare that to what I've said about OSRS . . . \n Obviously RS3' got my vote. \n \n Being a skiller on RS3? Easier or harder . . . Mm. I guess harder, depends? OSRS doesn't have dungeoneering, dungeoneering requires you to either pay people to let you leech or for you to participate in combat so if we consider that? I guess RS3's way harder, especially with 120 dungeoneering. \n Overall I tend to think of, content wise anyway, OSRS v. RS3 like this, RS3 intends to add more and more updates, OSRS will add very sparse, polled updates. RS3 is already years ahead of OSRS content by it's very nature. . . RS3's going to not necessarily be harder or easier as much as it will be more expansive. \n We've got [runespan]( for runecrafting and you can make some good money on [vis wax]( so I guess maybe it'd be easier to do it on RS3? The main thing I'm really not sure about is prices for OSRS, this is a huge deal for buyable skills and largely will dictate just how hard things are.","Summary: Consider starfall instead of swipe, cut some Savage Roars and FoNs, Ancient of Wars, Taz'Dingo instead of Yeti, try Argent Squire and potentially Blood Knight, Mark of the Wild to give your minions taunt on the fly (particularly good with Argent Squire, try naturalize for dealing with Doomguard (also OK into control matchups where late-game tempo is game winning), mulligan for Wild Growth and Innervate as well as your early game minions like Argent Squire/Harvest Golem. Remember that this is advice for dealing with Zoo, sometimes the best option is to not tech this way though.\n\nPost: By the looks of it you're not really teching well into Zoo and that's fine , sometimes you're going to prefer to have a bad Zoo matchup in favour of a better matchup into other stuff but if you're queuing into them constantly you should tech against them. \n Swipe is considerably worse compared to Starfall since the x/1s in Zoo typically do stuff the turn they're played thus if they die they're still getting value, it's the 3/2s and such that are really their weak spot that you want to target. You might say \"But Bloodmage Thalnos!\" but that just makes your Starfall better into 4/3s instead of leaving you with no particularly good option with a spell damage swipe (3/2s with the defender of argus buff, shattered sun, whatever). And yes, it is more expensive but it's far more effective. You typically just don't clear their board with one swipe, you leave a lot of 3/1s and such. \n I also think you're rather lacking taunts, you're leaving yourself very vulnerable to the massive reach of the more aggressively built Zoo decks and just Doomguard's natural power being a 5/7 he's able to answer all but the most powerful of taunts. You really could use a couple of Ancient of Wars. \n Also, Naturalize is worthwhile against Doomguard, surprisingly. It's near impossible to answer it if they play it at an opportune time and gives you a big tempo boost letting you answer their Doomguard+play something like Yeti/Taz'Dingo (which by the way is a good option since the extra power of Yeti typically isn't too helpful into Zoo). \n There's also the matter of mulligans, you should be mulliganing for innervate and wild growth. You want tempo spikes via innervate and you want to get enough mana to play creatures consistently ASAP. A turn 2 yeti generally puts a big damper on aggression unless they pull a 3/2+abusive combo and even then they're not in a fantastic spot. \n As for general deck changes I'd say try Argent Squire/Blood Knight (just try it , if it doesn't work for you that's fine) as Argent Squire is great for early game helping you answer 3/2s with your hero power and just trade for pesky 2/1s. Blood Knight of course puts a big minion on the board while only sacrificing a divine shield or even potentially taking their divine shield(s), Zoo is VERY bad at dealing with 6 health minions as their reach is normally ~5 with Doomguard or a +2'd 3/2 so outside of very great situations where they get good RNG it'll be a 1 for 2/3ish. \n Taz'Dingo instead of Yeti's good to slow down the more aggressive decks/players. \n Cutting Savage Roar at least x1 will help you more consistently have the cards to answer early game minions \n As I said earlier, Starfall instead of swipe IMO. \n Kodo is interesting, haven't used it so I don't have a valid opinion. \n Cutting at least 1x FoN will help you make space for early game minions, it's a pretty bad AoE honestly, it's 1 extra mana for a 3 minion Starfall although yes it can work well in some other niche situations I just think it's bad for the matchup. \n As I said earlier, Ancient of War would be good too. \n Mark of the wild would be good too, especially if you put in Argent Squires since that would give you a great target for a +2/+2 and taunt.","Summary: membership is 10/10 would buy with IRL cash if bonds isn't exist highly recommend.\n\nPost: I'd say finish up all your F2P stuff then buy members. Especially if you aren't in much rush. Sure, getting P2P is nice but if you'll just be doing F2P quests with F2P gear with F2P spells and F2P this and that you're basically wasting your membership on being able to do farming every once in awhile. \n I mean don't go all out getting 50+ in your skills or whatever but get some basic stuff done at least. That's how I went about things anyway. \n In the long term, membership massively boasters your EXP gains. You're getting an unspeakable amount of extra methods, weaponry, spells, quests, so on. Not being a member absolutely ruins any chance of having competitive EXP gains and for a more casual player can just be a bit boring, I'd think.","Summary: vision on/around Baron, make picks and/or take Baron. Of course that's just one way of doing things, my personally preferred method.\n\nPost: You are partly right that laning phase doesn't matter, it's not as if it completely doesn't matter but it's impact on the overall game has been diminished a bit by the anti-snowballing things we've seen in recent patches. If that's a good thing or not is up to you decide for yourself but I personally think it's great. It expands my pool of potential champions by letting me use those who don't excel in laning but still rewards me if I do great with a champion that is good at laning. \n Anyway, I think it comes down to taking advantage of vision. As you said, killing a facechecker is good. You're just putting this to the next level and extending your vision, instead of just seeing in the brush you're sitting in you've got wards all over either or both jungles to help you catch someone out and then pressure objectives. To put this to the next level you can push out a couple of lanes THEN look for your pick so even if you come up dry you'll have lanes pushed, applying pressure despite being relatively docile. I have a problem with just sitting around too though so to make things EVEN BETTER (it keeps doing that, doesn't it?) is you can take vision on Baron, FORCING the enemies to facecheck your area of vision and if they don't, simply letting you take baron which will allow you to make more aggressive plays. \n Sorry for wall-of-texting you there but","Summary: Your deck, good or bad in general lacks win conditions and you should consider putting in more of them such as Van Cleef.\n\nPost: I lurk here all the time, but I've never posted here before so I don't know if that means I'm breaking the 9:1 rule or not. \n I don't think anyone really follows that and it's very rarely enforced. In any case it's more so linking to your own content can only be 10% of your posts so this sort of post should in fact help you stay away from breaking that rule. 10% of linked content should be your own, the other 90% should not be yours. I misread the rules earlier, I thought it was only 10 of your content can be you linking to your own content . It doesn't really matter though anyway. \n As for your deck I really have no clue what to say. I'd have to try it to really see but by eyeballing it I doubt it works very consistently. You have basically 1 win condition, that's bad in just about any deck. \n Regular Miracle has 2 auctioneers that help fish for other win conditions such as Van Cleef, Mana Addicts, Leeroy, Conceal to empower just about any minion to be buffed by cold bloods, etc. or hey just a bunch of mana to damage efficient spells to burst them out in the regular Auctioneer miracle style. So basically Van is a win condition, Leeroy is a win condition, Auctioneer can be a win condition or helps set up for a different one (cycling 5 cards is massive even if that's all he actually does for you), that's already 4. Then there's Addicts, Questings, Malygos in some decks, maybe Arcane Golems even since they're a great body for Cold Blood and such. \n On a side note \n>Van Cleef: Because you don't draw and subsequently play your whole deck at once here, Van Cleef would just be probably a 6/6 body at best. You could try using him, but he didn't feel right in play tests. \n I'll be happy to have a 3 mana 6/6 body, you should be too. Hell, a 4/4 after backstabbing something's pretty great.","Summary: of course \"in time\" we probably will see lucky noxious weaponry, but in time what else will happen?\n\nPost: If a time for this to happen should come it will be after the items are largely worth next to nothing (compared to their current price anyway) anyway and they're outclassed by other weaponry, much like how lucky chaotics only just lately were released. Chaotics, now-a-days, are just so easy to get and at the same time not a be all end all type weapon anymore. They have many better alternatives in the game do every style and even, for range, a rather good same-tier buyable alternative. \n In 5 years will Noxious weaponry really be that important? Hey, maybe it will be. But in the case that we then have t95, maybe t99 weaponry as well, among many other upgrades to our combat equipment, we'll see Araxxor's easier than ever and since it's been out for so long the amount of Noxious weapons in the game is only really going UP and price for them will dwindle, over the years. \n But hold up, we got about t85 completely though. There's going to be a long wait between the release of each set of lucky weaponry and noxious weaponry thus has even more time to slowly fall in relevant and price. As for wyrm weapons, they're only going down and down too, it offers a sink for the t75 stuff but not it's self , so as new and higher tier weaponry comes out it will become less and less relevant, we probably might even see more t85 weaponry which might be slightly better for some reason or just more obtainable, more than anything we know that as more wyrm pieces come into the game they'll all be worth less and less. Lucky wyrm weapons won't be a gigantic deal in a Runescape with more t85, t90, t95 weapons, and years of a falling price due to inflating item volume. \n So","Summary: Priestess is a big, fast paced body that you can reasonably play turn one. Blood Imp is a small body that's too slow to really be worthwhile.\n\nPost: At least in the Zoo deck we've commonly seen as of late out of warlocks Priestess is much better. \n In terms of straight up value the worst case Blood Imp is bringing 0/1 value to the table the turn it's played whereas Priestess is bringing 2/1, Priestess is potentially bringing 2/2 in ideal circumstances and Imp 0/2 making Priestess much better in terms of consistency and early tempo. \n On top of this, Priestess has really good combos with taunts which the deck already wants to protect things like Flame Imp and Knife Juggler so the fact that Blood Imp has stealth isn't really a selling point even and while on the topic of it's stealth being useless, the fact that you can't ping it as a mage (as if mage is even that common in constructed) isn't much of a selling point either since it's FINE to get their hero power down, that's trading a card for tempo since they used 1 more mana than you. \n Another big factor is that Zoo really loves buffing up minions, you've got at least 6 cards off the top of my head that give damage buffs (Dire, Shattered Sun and, Defender all x2) and Priestess is MUCH more likely to trade up due to a buff than Blood Imp is. In fact, it's horribly unlikely Blood Imp will do so without more than 1 buff on it which just adds to it's horrid inconsistency.","Summary: I think we're just fine. If there's lacking diversity (and compared to before there probably is) that's alright, that's what the community wants then and I don't blame them. RS is the best game with a grind oriented section of the game from what I understand, even with the . . . helpful? elements that have been added over time.\n\nPost: I think it's perfectly fine for there to be no \" solution\" . I mean, if everyone really loves focusing on their EXPs, getting their max capes 120s, etc. well, let them do their thing. That's fine, if the whole community loves the shit out of that and is willing to put in hours upon hours to doing that it's surely something they deem worthwhile or fun and that's all they may need out of a game at the end of the day. \n Maybe more importantly there's plenty of diversity in the game as is, people just don't care to look for it or don't look deep enough to find it. There's lots of little subset communities that you'll find. Look for those minigame/DND focused FCs and you'll find people who really enjoy chasing around stars or gathering counterintelligence on those bastard spy penguins . Plus hey, if you go to a PVP world (at least one of them anyway) you'll find some good fights. I see at the very least plenty of mains doing anything from rune fights with 200k risk to risking drygores and AGS. Ever been on an RPing world too? I can certainly imagine that one guy singing poetry in Taverly while I was doing construction really enjoys doing that. Sure, there's less diversity maybe but that's fine, there still is diversity. \n Speaking of diversity, ironman . Ironman is, oddly enough given we're excluded from a lot of things, the highest height of diverse play that's commonplace now-a-days. You will see people asking the most bizarre questions sometimes, how do I get a raw shark without fishing it? Well, you use the GE . . . Oh wait. How do you get a raw shark without fishing it? We can't use the GE after all. You have to collect so much more in ironman and this leads to much more diversity in your play, even if you know exactly how to get that raw shark you still have to actually do it instead of pop a varrock tab and buy it on the GE. \n There's diversity out there and we as players can choose to play in different ways or even get it set up in a way that we're half-ass forced to play in more diverse ways (ironman mode), there's no solution necessary really. If people want to do stuff besides rush to max cape, they can and they probably will. But hey, if the main focus of a large portion of the community is to max out, great. I don't think I could find another MMO nearly as grindy as Runescape is, even with all the BXP and whatnot, and that's kind of cool. I know I really enjoy grinding and the only thing that's stopping me from maxing out my main is maxing out my ironman. I love the grind, I love all the other stuff too (especially the quests when I get into them) but the grind's great too and that's a good thing.","Summary: poor Awakening. ;-;7\n\nPost: The answer is clearly Awakening, it's not even that it's necessarily that hard but just that it gets so much flak for being \"too easy\" and whatnot. People make it out to be very mindless but it's really not on higher difficulties, which is really where stuff counts, right? I mean, if someone complains a game is too easy while playing on easy difficulties, that's just stupid isn't it? You turn up the difficulty if you want it to be more difficulty, problem solved! Woo . . . \n And I mean, it is hard. Lets be honest. I don't even have the words for luna+ . . . Actually I do. \"Ambush spawn counter units.\" and, \"Ugh.\" \n Naturally EXPonential Growth and the other less easy ways of grinding do make things easier, yes, but again it's not about Awakening being the peak of difficulty, it's about so many people who've probably only played on hard saying it's as easy as flumping some units into the middle of the enemies and turn skipping yet it's anything but at higher difficulties. \n And real fast I know lunatic and more so, luna+, have their problems (AMBUSH SPAWNS WITH COUNTER FTJR9IWJYQ953J7U934JU6) but is difficulty one of them? No.","Summary: it's like farming, start ASAP before you regret it.\n\nPost: Ah, but you will have them in the future. You will be ready to make your armour, too. \n Pop takes a lot of time. Not like, actually investment of time but basically it's farming. You might focus a bit more in the earlier bits of it to train extra fast but for the most part it's a big ass waiting game. \n So get a head start and be sure you have the materials to make your armour. It'll be a big reward for yourself when you finally get the levels and a bit of profit if you have left overs. Not to mention the spices and skrimshaws.","Summary: smooth your curve, boost your tempo or plan for future plays with your potentially larger mana pool. No option will always be the best option, knowing your deck will make you make the best decision more consistently.\n\nPost: Depends what you're playing. Miracle Rogues like to keep it to cycle but are willing to play it to make a good play that equates to higher value than a cycle for negative 1 mana. \n Typically most other decks just want to smooth their curve with it, similar to innervate. Say you've got a 1 drop and 2 3 drops, I don't think you need me to tell you how to play that situation. Similarly you can skip your X drop, say you have a 3 drop, 2 4 drops and a 5 drop. You can play a 4 drop turn 3 then your next on turn 4 etc. of course you can also just keep it in a situation like that so if you happen to draw into a 7 drop turn 6 you still have your coin to use it. So it becomes a matter of knowing your deck, if of have another potential play coming up with coin you could refrain from using it but ultimately the tempo boost early may be worth it.","Summary: Pigeon Emblem. \n \n AI fighting. \n \n Accessibility wins, even if we can hack newer games they probably won't explode until emulate-able. \n \n FE6-8 have lots of established tools to make it easy. \n \n Accessibility + popularity of games + simplicity = more hackerinos for those things moving forward.\n\nPost: What do I think is the future of FE hacking? No, sonny boy I know the future of FE hacking and what is it? \n Pigeon. Emblem. \n I can't get into the specifics or I'll be shot dead by multiple military officers, but needless to say it's an exciting time to be alive! \n \n But what exactly are you asking, anyway? Are you asking \"what's the next big break through for hacking?\" or, \"What sort of gameplay will we see?\" maybe you're asking, \"Will we see hacking at all?! \" \n Your question's quite vague, but I like to think it's vague intentionally so to let us give a wider range of answers. \n So, as for my answer? I know pretty much nothing about the FE hacking scene, the extent of my interaction with the community is occasionally using sereneforest forums to search up some questions I have and try to work out a solution for a hurtle I'm facing. \n Personally, I'm working on some AI vs. AI stuff as well as a player vs. wave game but I really doubt that's going to be some big thing. \n Both are essentially just extreme barebones gameplay, either literally not having gameplay or being a lot like a regular FE but without the storyline. \n Although much like a parent with a child who can play the flute (poorly) I'm very excited about them and in my heart think they could be the future of FE hacking. \n Seriously the AI v AI thing? I've been coding units a lot, adjusting them this way or that way, once I get a big cast of well balanced characters I'll work on items, making them a bit more balanced. Then we assign a cost to each unit, two players get a set amount of points to \"buy\" units and items with - the items and units stats would be given to them of course, before buying - then they decide what unit gets what, some choices for AI for each unit are given and they can decide on positioning. Then once the two players are finished I generate a random number giving one of them red phase and the other side green phase. \n Then, with their units loaded up, the AI fights it out! Fuck it that's the future of FE hacking right there. . . \n \n But a more serious answer than my emotional answer . . . I think the future will just be a slow shift of whatever's happening right now into future games, as well as more great FE hacks for the more easily hacked games. FE6-8 are all incredibly easy to hack due to nightmare, event assembler, and this here fancy tool way, it's only natural more and more will come from there. \n We've seen a lot of crazy ways with the QR codes and whatever to fiddle with FE13 already, although I don't honestly know much about it, I like to hope one day we'll see a Lunatic+ no-RNG skill edition or something like that and if FE14 doesn't feature a hard enough game mode on Nohr path, maybe a [insert hardest mode here]+ for that. \n Dunno. There's a lot that could happen, I think that it's really just a matter of how hard people put their minds to it and how easy it is to do, I have heard a lot of \"you can't do this on such and such firmware/hardware/whatever\" in regards to FE13 hacking, so I kind of feel like the non-emulate-able games might be neglected quite heavily. It's way easier to play-test via emulation/fully on PC.","Summary: try draw mechanics, try a stronger early game or a strong late game, think of health as a resource that only really matters once it's in range of a strong finisher (like a high damage minion with charge or a high damage spell).\n\nPost: If you find yourself getting the game turned on you late game this is likely due to your deck lacking good draw mechanics or late game, of course if you've got a strong health advantage you may want to just go all out and go for more early game to just try and rush down the enemy, if you're having an easy time getting early health advantages you may be good at rushing.\nThat all said you may simply be missing the fact that board advantage=long term health advantage. You should generally go for board control over health as eventually the enemy will overtake your board should you spend tens of damage on their face instead of their board.","Summary: of the changes I'm suggesting right now, \n \n More 1 drop minions to have a more consistent early game (Argent Squire, Abusive, etc.) \n \n More minions that give buffs as soon as they're played (Argus, Shattered Sun, Abusive, Dark Iron are all great and many others are good too). \n \n More focus on keeping your minions alive (no flesheating ghoul). \n \n More focus on powerful, non-niche situation, efficient minions (ditch Thalnos, Inner Fire, Mogu, Flesheating, 1x SW: P). \n \n A couple of big chargers to help close out/have large board impact later on (argent commanders are the best ones that come to mind). \n \n \n There's more problems with the deck beyond that but that's a decent outline of your more major problems that can actually be addressed. Things such as your general lack of draw are always going to loom overhead if you don't draw Northshire and that's pretty much just \"too bad\" and the drawback of playing a rather silly deck. I think your lack of draw is decently offset by your healing though, often times minions can be saved by that +2 heal and that makes it so you take longer to run out of steam, at the same time you want to be playing minions not using something rather inefficient like your hero power so it's a big struggle. Like think of Knife Juggler, that puts +3/+2 on the board (and more if you play some minions), your hero power puts +0/+2 on board. It's awkward.\n\nPost: To really be \"Zoo\" there's a few things to focus on: \n \n Consistent flow of early game minions. \n \n Buffs. \n \n Tempo cards. \n \n Mana efficient cards. \n \n Card flow/draw. \n \n \n There's many things that you're lacking and definitely should have, Argent Squire is a fantastic minion for example. It gives you a divine shield minion to help abuse the many buffs of your deck such as Abusive Sargent. . . Yet you have neither. In fact, you take Holy Smite instead of Abusive Sargent yet Abusive Sargent often translates into a Holy Smite in the battlecry as well as give you a 2/1. \n Then there's the fact that you have just a meager 7 one mana drop minions, this is compared to the 12 or so used in regular Zoo. This means your early game is significantly less consistent compared to a regular Zoo, you have 5 less chances to hit a 1 drop minion in your early game, you're not even above a 50% shot of having a 1 drop on turn 1 when you're first. \n See, with 12 potential 1 drops this gives you an expected one 1 mana drop minion per 2.5 cards, this gives you a great statistical chance of getting a 1 drop, with just 7 that chance is all the way down to one 1 mana drop per 4.3 cards, that's risky to say the least. Taking out your cheesy, inconsistent spells such as Holy Smite and Inner Fire would be great as it frees up space for Abusive/Argent, two of the biggest boons to trading in all of Zoo. You might even want to can the Power Word: Shield in favour of another Young Priestess and perhaps an Elven Archer. \n You're also lacking on-play pressure. You have no defenders of argus which are extremely good for keeping your board out of AoE range and gives lots of on-play pressure applying +2/+2 to the board right away, no shattered Sun Cleric which applies +1/+1 to the board, no Dark Iron Drawfs or powerful chargers like Argent Commander. You need more ways to be one step ahead of your enemy and efficiently trade, as it stands your deck is just too slow and predictable, you have no ways of abusing the enemy really which is particularly important in your deck as you have so few ways of drawing consistently. \n There's also a few that completely go against what Zoo wants to do, for example Flesheating Ghoul. Sure you'll ultimately have to trade off some guys sometimes but you'd preferably not do so and given you're playing Priest this is particularly something you'd like to avoid as your hero power is so good at keeping things alive. \n Another big issue is you're running all these silly \"hey in this particular situation\" type cards that work really decently within their niche but otherwise are just trash. For example, Inner Fire+Mogushan is generally awful, it's basically a bad version of Argent Squire+Blood Knight (by virtue of being more expensive, putting you into BGH range and being generally useless cards outside of the synergy). BMT is also silly, sure he works well with 2 cards that you might want to keep in your deck but he's just a bad loot hoarder most of the time and you need consistent minions, not niche minions. Shadow Word: Pain is \"eh\" as well, I think it's worth keeping in 1x but 2x it'll clog your hand when you can just trade with your minions then heal them up anyway. Circle+Injured is pretty much the only combo I think is worth keeping around since you can heal Injured with your hero power and Circle can help you heal up after say an explosive trap or a bunch of trades. \n So","Summary: it's saying \"Oh, you already are playing around the 30 cards in my deck? Well, play around your own deck too, bitch. \"\n\nPost: It's like Arcane Intellect but makes things exceptionally hard to play around and is in a better class for such a card. Priest is naturally slow so it often has the time to play a 3 mana draw 2 type card. Mage? Not so much. \n Back to my point of it making things hard to play around basically","Summary: Don't rush yourself. Look into streams, take notes and focus on improvement instead of ranking. Find a deck you like and understand how to use and craft it. Be careful how you craft. Try not to buy packs with real money until you're sure you're going to stick with the game and really want to drop that $50 or however much. \n Edited in the 'quick aside' and a few minor changes.\n\nPost: I think you're just rushing yourself, if you don't concern yourself with your rank but simply getting better you'll get better. You don't gain ranks by wanting to gain ranks really, really bad. You gain ranks by learning the game and improving how you play. Sometimes you'll lose games you played perfectly in and that's fine because you played well and should you continue to do so you'll climb over time even with rather cheap and potentially rather bad decks. \n All of my large jumps in rank have come after a bit of time spent studying or a well thought out update to my deck but you definitely don't want to spend your dust before knowing what's good unless you're copy/pasting a really well established, up to date deck that you've watched someone else play with (to look at their thought process to make good plays and learn from them as well as be sure you enjoy the play-style employed while using them) so I'd mostly just suggest watching streamers and finding a cheap looking deck you like so you can learn how to play it before using it and investing your dust, this will leave you with buyer's remorse a LOT less. \n Also a quick aside that's rather off topic, you're not the most dedicated of players (try not to be offended, nothing wrong with it) so don't feel pressured into buying packs with real life money. In fact, feel pressured not to. When you buy packs you've spent your money and that's that regardless of if you keep playing or like what you pull so just remember you're not getting any return on investment and you can always buy packs in the future.","Summary: dumping money on smithing, getting crafting to be easily boosted for effigies, finishing up fletching/summoning, spamming thieving to try and avoid as much non-elf city PP as I possibly can and doing agility on VOS.\n\nPost: I actually have it planned out decently well. \n List is in order of priority. * Denotes a time sensitivity that puts it above other things I would be doing. \n \n 85->?? hunter (divine box traps).* \n \n 98->99 summoning (yaks, VOS).* I might as well just finish it off and hopefully learn to stop being lazy and actually use a steel titan. \n \n 85->88 smithing (TBD). \n 88->89 smithing (addy plates). \n 89->?? smithing (corrupted ore with VOS)*. This is mostly so I can make tetsu but it's also just one more step on the path to max cape. \n \n 93->94 crafting (TBD). This is so I can open gorged ancient effigies without stew. \n \n 97->99 fletching broad arrows. Why not. \n \n Use remaining money on buyable skills, probably smithing since that'd lower repair costs. \n From there it'd not really matter what I do but I've been thinking \n \n 78->?? thieving. This gives me 80+ all skills and puts me closer to elf city PPing which is really where it gets ezpz so getting as close to that as I can would be great. \n \n 90->?? agility (VOS).* \n \n So","Summary: Lets take a more constructive, Jagex considerate approach with our suggestions and work towards a middle ground with Jagex where those who enjoy MTX as it is can do that but those of us who despise MTX as it is can get in on the action better while still supporting Jagex.\n\nPost: Please try to read all the way through - I hate it when people bring up something when I've already addressed it or assume I will/won't say certain things then instantly just up/downvote. \n \n Oh wait we can already do that? Oh. \n Yes, it's true everyone. A surprise to hopefully no one, you can simply buy Bonds and convert these for runecoins, TH keys, even membership. Personally I don't pay a penny out of pocket for my main's membership and I'm really happy with Jagex giving me that option. \n Yes, someone needs to spend money on these. \n No, that doesn't matter. The point is I don't have to. I pay less money for the game, I get all the benefits of being a member without paying a cent. \n The problem seems not to be that though, most people know that you can get bonds with RSGP and convert them to TH keys, the problem seems to be that players feel either \n A) Ripped off by the RNG nature of TH \n And hey guess what there's a ton of RNG in this game already, but maybe this is something Jagex can reasonably 'fix'. We'll get into that in a later section of the post. \n Or plays feel \n B) Unable to make large sums of money to reasonable acquire the things. \n To this, I think it's important to remember that not everyone can/should cut dragonstones for 99 crafting. Sure, they're 700K EXP/hour or whatever but they're really expensive to do . . . By the same token, not everyone can/should spend money on bonds to train. Buying bonds with RSGP is a rich player's training method, it isn't for everyone and that's just too bad for you. \n You can buy TH keys with real life money, and you might think that somehow makes this different but it's not . \n If you think, \"oh the only other option for acquiring TH keys is spending immense amount of RSGP on bonds and that's crazy!\" well I can just say \"oh the only other option for acquire GP instead of buying bonds from Jagex is immense amounts of time on making money in the game!\" \n Yes. Not paying Jagex will make things harder. This is the status quo at this point. \n Want to make a 1B bank? Well, buy 120ish bonds and you're about set. \n Want the the new shark outfit? Well, buy 100 keys and you're set. \n Sure, those are our \"best\" options, our \"most efficient\" options and for many players it feels like the only viable option. \n But they aren't our only options. \n Ultimately, getting an artisan's outfit or whatever else just boils down to a GP/XP. How much RSGP do I pay to get the keys to get the outfit? Consider the other rewards from TH and well, I guess it's probably worth it for some people. Some other people? It's just too expensive so they pay real money or simply don't get the outfit. Too bad for them, hopefully they'll one day reach the GP/hour that it becomes efficient for them so they can stop whining. \n But there's still the other issue, RNG in TH isn't particularly popular. This is the most easily addressed issue with TH, and I believe fixing this or giving an alternative to it will be our first step towards having a good, reasonable discussion with each other and Jagex. \n If you ask me, moving forward we should \n \n Accept that buying TH keys with RSGP is very expensive and realize this simply makes it a training method for those with a lot of GP. It's only forcing you to buy TH keys from Jagex as much as uncut dragonstones are forcing you to buy bonds from Jagex. \n \n Rally for direct bond to outfit purchases. So for example - have Vic be around year round and sell skilling outfits for bonds. You lose out on the BXP/XP/other rewards you'd get from TH if you just converted to keys, but you know you get the outfit piece.\nAdding them to minigames makes the game better, sure, but it directly (at least short term) goes against making money for Jagex and simply put - that isn't going to happen and we need to stop being deluded enough to think it will. We have to find a middle ground . Another alternative that I enjoy would be \"guaranteed\" items, so for every X amount of bought keys you use you will be given an item of your choosing, no RNG. Just, \"Hey I want this item. Gimme.\" I'm not a market analyst so the \"x\"s and such need to be fine tuned so it's still making Jagex happy with profits but also moves towards a less RNG focused TH. Perhaps we could even ask for bonds AND minigame reward tokens to be necessary, thus reviving minigames while still appeasing IVP. \n \n Be more constructive and realistic about our complaints. Whining that Jagex is running the game into the ground is fine, but we need to tell them why they are how we can fix that. Asking for a different way to acquire TH outfits is fine, but it needs to be in a way that Jagex can still profit from because otherwise it simply won't happen. We can make MTX better for everyone, but until we start being reasonable with each other it'll only get worse. We need to find a model that the player base enjoys but still makes Jagex money, see point #2.","Summary: If you're the biggest of investors in TH already, you'll probably find these no problem and think nothing of it anyway because T80 weapons aren't that important to you anyway. \n If you want to invest in TH just for these, unless you really like them cosmetically and have money to burn . . . Probably not worth your while. \n Some people will get them from their daily keys, but that's not going to be the norm and it at best they're saving 200K DG tokens and a Zamorakian spear, at worst they'll get a chaotic kiteshield with pretty much 0 practical applications. \n \n If any of my math is off, you have suggestions for formatting, please feel free to correct / give me those suggestions. \n Other than that, I guess just discuss as you see fit and thank you very much for reading.\n\nPost: Alright, so as you all may know there's many new things coming to Treasure Hunter but the most controversial of them is by far the Lucky chaotics. \n I did a bit of digging and I'm here to bring you facts and take a look at how much these will effect the game and if they're worth your worries. \n First thing's first - lets make it very clear that these weapons function in the same way a regular chaotic does, combat statistics and recharge costs are the same. The requirement of 80 dungeoneering is still there as well. \n Winning a lucky chaotic is much like winning a free 100K-200K tokens from DG or in the case of the lucky chaotic claw/off-hand claw, the relevant dragon claw as well and the chaotic spear, a Zamorakian spear. \n Although the official wiki is not known for accurate information (sorry Jagex) the wiki says, \n > As with other chaotic items, lucky chaotic items are degradable and will last for 10 hours before they break. \n I do not yet know if they come at 20% (as a non-claw/spear chaotic would be upon buying) or 100% though, so winning a lucky one could be a smidgen better than the 100k-200k figure I mentioned earlier. Either \n You can earn many different lucky weapons. \n \n Lucky chaotic rapier (200K DG tokens to obtain the regular version). \n \n Lucky off-hand chaotic rapier (100K). \n \n Lucky chaotic longsword (200k). \n \n Lucky off-hand chaotic longsword (100k). \n \n Lucky chaotic claw (100k, a dragon claw [120K]). \n \n Lucky off-hand chaotic claw (100k, an off-hand dragon claw [85k]). \n \n Lucky chaotic maul (200k). \n \n Lucky chaotic spear (200k, a Zamorakian spear [900K]). \n \n Lucky chaotic staff (200k). \n \n Lucky chaotic chrossbow (200k). \n \n Lucky off-hand chaotic crossbow (100k). \n \n Lucky chaotic kiteshield (200k). \n \n Lucky eagle-eye kiteshield (200k). \n \n Lucky farseer kiteshield (200k). \n \n \n I do not yet know if these can be destroyed to earn half of their would-be-token worth in tokens. \n All other \"lucky\" items have been in the \"Very Rare\" category, so we can only assume they will be in there. Within the \"Very Rare\" category, many things have different rarities (confusing, right?) I think we can all agree the 200M reward for example is much rarer than lucky GWD items. Due to this, I believe lucky chaotics will be at the very least as rare as but more likely, rare than, lucky GWD items. \n \n Now - this next part is much less about facts and more about grasping the situation. It's to illustrate their rarity a bit and give you a ballpark of how much you'll have to drop to find one of these lucky chaotics. \n Remember that although I won't mention it you'll get lots of other stuff, not just the chaotics, so while the investment to a chaotic may look high it's really the investment to get a chaotic along with lots of BXP, XP, skilling outfits, etc. \n So, lets make some hypothetical situations. Lets say you have a 1/100, 1/200 and 1/500 chance of getting a lucky chaotic. (I believe these figures are incredibly low, as we'll go into later). \n First, lets talk pricing. I'll be using CAD because I'm a lazy fuck (sorry). \n 15 keys is $5 CAD \n 35 keys is $10 CAD \n 75 keys is $20 CAD \n 200 keys is $50 CAD \n 450 keys is $100 CAD \n When paying with bonds and assuming they are 8M (currently 7.7M GE mid but we all know they'll be rising in price due to their recently increased price so I'm going to price them at 8M. Don't shoot me over this please.) \n 15 keys is 8M, thus 1 key is 533K. ($5 CAD if bought directly with IRL cash). \n 35 keys is 18.6M ($10) \n 75 keys is 39.97M ($20) \n 200 keys is 106.6M ($50) \n 450 keys is 239.85M ($100) \n This next part is a bit of an aside but will illustrate something important. If we again say bonds are 8M on the GE and consider their $6.19 CAD price to buy a bond lets think about how much RSGP you'd receive by spending the money you would have spent on keys on bonds then selling the bonds on the GE (again, for 8M). 8M / 619 = 12924, thus 1 cent = 12924GP \n 15 keys = $5 = 6462000GP (6.46M) \n 35 keys = $10 = 129240000 (12.9M) \n 75 keys = $20 = 2584000 (25.8M) \n 200 keys = $50 = 646200000 (64.6M) \n 450 keys = $100 = 129240000 (129.2M) \n Lets all bring this together and talk about what the price tags on lucky stuff is. \n \n At an assumed 1/100 you're shelling out about $22/lucky chaotic (assuming you buy keys in chunks of 450, which is your best deal in terms of $->keys). \n At 1/200 it's $44. \n At 1/500 it's $110. \n If we buy keys via bonds bought with RSGP you're paying \n 53.3M at 1/100. \n 106.6M at 1/200. \n 266.5M at 1/500. \n If you are a silver/gold member, do your daily challenge each day and use your regular keys you'll have a total of 4 keys. \n At 1/100 you'll find a lucky chaotic every 25 days. \n At 1/200, 50 days. \n At 1/500, 100 days. \n This last one (daily keys) is to put into perspective the fact that the idea of them being as common as even 1/500 is pretty low. I mean, if you're reading this you've probably been a member for a reasonable amount of time, do you even have 1 lucky GWD item? 2? 3? \n And even if you do have 1 or 2 from daily keys, remember that these lucky chaotics are potentially rarer than lucky GWD items and you probably don't even care about some of them. I mean, chaotic kiteshield? Who cares about that? \n I believe these could be much, much rarer than even 1/500. . . Yet look at how high the figures are for our hypothetical money/RSGP investments to find these items, and these hypothetical situations rule out the possibility of big dry streaks too! \n There are a total of 14 lucky chaotics (although you should remember about 5 of these are pretty useless). \n To get all of them, assuming your chance of getting a lucky chaotic remains a constant 1/100, 1/200, 1/500, even as the number of them you have increases (thus the amount of different chaotics you see in TH decreases) you would need to spend . . . \n At 1/100, $308. \n At 1/200, $608. \n At 1/500, $1540. \n At 1/100, 746.2M \n At 1/200, 1492.4M \n At 1/500, 3731M \n Again, remember you'll get other TH rewards alongside these but also remember that the rates for lucky chaotics are probably lower than even 1/500, it wouldn't make sense for them to be more common than lucky GWD items but we're not all swimming in lucky GWD items from daily keys."],"string":"[\n \"Summary: It's a matter of balance. Soulfire is really strong and does stuff to the board, part of the cost is the knowledge you give to the enemy. Tracking is good but only good because it doesn't give up knowledge to your enemy, it's about gaining knowledge not just thinning your deck.\\n\\nPost: Soulfire has direct impact to the board, giving up some knowledge for that is alright. Tracking does nothing to the board and is largely just a cycle+knowledge gain. Often the enemy would be left knowing all 3 cards. If someone sees you discard X and Y they can rule that you obviously got an X or a T because they're the only things you'd possibly take over Y so you're thinning your deck but your enemy now has a good idea of what's in your hand and gains knowledge of 2 cards that are now not in your deck. That's just huge. \\n It's kind of like the inconsistency of silencing druid cards. Ancient of War becomes a 5/5, Druid of the Claw becomes a 4/6 (assuming it was taunt form). It's mostly about balance, Ancient of War is really powerful and an extra form of counterplay helps it comes being too good (like with soulfire, giving away knowledge on top of the discard is a good way to offset some of it's innate power) but Druid of the Claw isn't this massive force to be reckoned with, even though yes it is rather powerful so if it's silenced it doesn't lose more health because it simply doesn't need that extra bit of counterplay to be well balance just like Tracking does too little to really make it a necessity to give up that knowledge. Tracking is almost entirely about knowledge, giving both players said knowledge almost completely defeats the purpose.\",\n \"Summary: Zoo (and pretty much any agro deck) has plenty of things to consider, it has all of the things any other deck would have to consider (the enemy's deck, odds of drawing X) as well as an exceptionally hard to optimize early game due to the massive array of different potential hands. It's got a low skillfloor, sure, but ultimately it's a very complicated deck that people don't give enough credit to due to a lack of understanding and frustration with it's strength.\\n\\nPost: When I play control, there are usually 3-4 possible ways for a turn and you have to predict what your opponent will do next turn and pick the best possible solution. \\n There's a lot of decision making in agro. For example in Zoo, if you're playing the wrong minions you're going to get fucked in higher tiers of play. If you have a hand of 5 1 drops and don't know which is optimal to play you may recover from your mistake, it might not even be punished but there's a thought process to be had to make the best decision just like in the case of your example. \\n You also have a lot of considerations with what to play before soulfiring/doomguarding or what you may life tap into, remembering your exact deck is exceptionally important. Y'know what, here's a list of some of the questions you have to ask yourself while playing Zoo. \\n Should I tap before or after I soulfire/doomguard, is it worth potentially discarding Y to have a better chance of not discarding X? \\n Should I tap this turn or should I extend further into the board? \\n What potential AoE could they use to turn around the game, do I have enough in my hand to recover from that? \\n What's the optimal way to play out this hand? Turn by turn, mana usage, complicated by a potential coin and the fact that you have such a massive array of different possible hands to consider making you consider a new selection every hand which is particularly hard to make the right decision with as a new player to the deck. Seriously, when you're playing a late game deck you have relatively few different options, sure you may take awhile to figure out oh \\\"X is better than Y\\\" but ultimately once you figure out which is better than the other you're generally going to know what to do or have an exceptionally easy time figuring it out. With Zoo you're going to have 5 cards in your hand and be able to play the hand in tens of different ways while having to think 3 turns ahead to properly use your mana, all the battlecries and work around potential minions efficiently. I can't understate the complexity and variety of decisions you have to make with such a massive number of low cost minions. \\n Can I race? This requires some fast thinking and (assuming you don't already have the tools in your hand/board) some consideration of potential top decks and the size of your deck currently. Say they're 20 health and you can either answer their Cairne and play some more minions or deal 5 damage to the face you have to consider how much damage they can do with potential combos, how many minons Cairne will kill over the duration, how many potential answers they have to the board (Does this deck run starfall? Have they already used both Swipes?). Maybe your deck runs a power overwhelming and some charge minions or the black knight to keep up pressure on the face, you might be able to race them if you've flooded the board and they have no more AoE but if you're wrong and they happen to have AoE well there goes your board control and now they're going to kill you good job you're an idiot and get to lose because you didn't think.\",\n \"Summary: Gruul/Millhouse are pretty much not worthwhile right now. They might become better in the future but if you're itching for a new legendary you probably won't regret DEing this pair any time soon. \\n Deathwing has a small niche and will have a larger one come Naxx at least I think so . \\n TBK/Leeroy/Al'Akir are great. \\n Hellscream is great but you could consider DEing it because he's not useful in any decks for you right now . He'll be worth keeping for the future though maybe.\\n\\nPost: Deathwing is sometimes used in silly Druid decks. He's also something you might regret DEing as he'll potentially have a place in a death-rattle focused deck, generally you'd lose a lot of stuff by playing him but if you get a bunch of stuff to help you recover from discarding your hand/clearing your board he'd be rather good. \\n Gruul is never used but may find a place after Naxx for some reason. It's unlikely based on what we've seen though as he's so slow with such a low pay-off and high backfire rate. By doing nothing the turn it's played it gives your enemy a chance to answer it without it ever having done anything but soak up a removal which isn't good in terms of tempo and such. \\n Millhouse is, y'know. . . Awful. Unless we get a card that says \\\"your enemy can't play spells next turn\\\" as a battlecry or something he'll always be a high risk low-moderate reward card. Sure in the ideal situation he might be good but late game? Good god he's just useless . He's basically just saying \\\"HEY BURN MY FACE OFF\\\" to Miracle Rogues, Druids who run Savage/FoN, mages, this, that and the other class. He's too risky to be worthwhile in any deck you'd like to be consistent and if you're playing seriously to gain ranks your best friend's name is \\\"Consistency\\\". \\n The Black Knight is pretty much one of the best cards in the game against ramp druid and is a pretty decent card in most matchups, even against Zoo it'll often kill off a buffed up taunt guy. Potentially even a 6/8 Doomguard that they Defendered up although lets be honest that's a pretty unlikely situation. Really the only control matchup he's not valuable in is into warrior and even then you might find a time to play him if they've teched against Miracle Rogues (with sunfuries or something to help deal with the massive amounts of direct damage they could otherwise deal but lets be real that's not a common tech.) \\n Leeroy is needless to say pretty great as he's pretty much the best finishing charger, used in lots of decks etc. \\n Al'Akir is really underrated by a lot of people so I'm glad you understand his power, definitely a keeper. \\n Hellscream might be great in a full control warrior deck and a few others but he might actually be something you could consider DEing if you never intend to play control warrior. As it stands control warrior isn't that great and you have basically 0 other control warrior cards. I don't recommend it but I'd say it's something you could consider.\",\n \"Summary: FE12 is generally worse than other FE games but there's no reason not to try it, really. Being worse than something awesome isn't necessarily a negative. \\n \\n FE9/10 are more popular, harder to emulate and a bit different from Awakening but still FE and still fantastic. \\n \\n FE8 is a lot like Awakening or at least the closest you'll probably get in my mind, it's rather easy, it's got grinding, it's got a great cast.\\n\\nPost: I'd suggest against it. \\n I ran a poll awhile ago, here's some of the results. \\n [Which FE games have you played?]( \\n Now, we see FE12 has a meager 39 votes. This can largely be chalked up to not having a proper localization, so know that you will have to play FE12 on an emulator, on your computer, with a patch, and all that other junk. The patch I use isn't too bad, but it can run a bit slowly on my nearly 6 year old PC, if you're working with something half decent you should have 0 problems playing it. \\n Anyway. . . Now we look at this poll. \\n [Which of the games you've played had the best story?]( \\n And we see FE12 has 0. Literally. 0. Votes. Okay, maybe the patch wasn't that good, maybe something was lost in translation? Who knows. But if that is the case, if something is lost in translation . . . Why not go for something else? \\n Then, finally, \\n [Which of the games you've played had the best gameplay?]( \\n 1 vote for FE12. Out of 99 votes. Yeahhhhhhhhhhh. \\n It's just not really a great game, eh? It didn't sell well, it didn't get localized, it's not getting votes (and other older, also not localized games are getting plenty). . . I know I don't like playing it that much and we see a lot of \\\"pick my units\\\" but never once have I seen \\\"pick my units FE12.\\\" \\n And sure, you might like it, it does have reclassing and Avatar which could be really big pluses, I'd even still suggest giving it a try if you're fine with piracy (and hopefully you are if you want to play older FEs), it's a rather small download and it's free. . . Butttttt I think you should probably try out one of the more popular titles instead, they're popular for a reason after all. \\n FE9/10 are something of a pair, FE10 in particular is very popular and getting that sort of two game experience where one plays off the other kind of thing? That is pretty awesome. Again, that can be emulated but will give you more slow down than FE12, so weak PC beware. I'd really not suggest getting them off ebay- you're not helping the devs or anyone really by getting a physical copy, just the guy you buy it off. \\n So yeah, emulate FE9/10 (skipping to FE10 wouldn't be a terrible idea, probably) if you're wanting to trust the general opinion (based on this small poll . . .) and don't mind sinking your teeth into a potentially very different game. \\n Personally, I think FE8 would be a great fit. It's got great supports/characters which really do trump Awakening a lot of the time. It's a pretty easy game too, you won't experience much pain playing it. This one's also super easy to emulate, even my ol' pile of junk can handle it.\",\n \"Summary: my suggestions would be \\n -1x Shadowstep \\n -2x Preparation \\n -2x Assassinate \\n -1x Sprint \\n +1x Coldlight Oracle \\n +1x Murloc Warleader \\n +1x Deadly Poison \\n +1x Assassin's Blade \\n This leaves you with 2 spots. Personally I'd feel compelled to throw in Sinister Strikes at first but settle on Shiv, maybe Novice Engigneer. I haven't thought about it enough to be completely sure how I'd feel about those last 2 slots. Maybe an Acolyte would be good or a couple of Loot Hoarders. Definitely something to think about, probably something with card draw/cycling though. \\n Actually, I'm not even sure how I feel about Eviscerate, honestly. It's hard to combo it a lot of the time so it's often just 2 damage I'd think. Investing mana into just trying to combo it could be painful. Sure it's nice for taking big minions but why not cut both at least one of them for another Sap? Sap guarantees attacking through a potential taunt that turn and doesn't require a combo. Sure you can't use it as burn to their face but often you'll find yourself losing damage because you had to trade. Imagine they play a 4/5, you can trade in 5 potential minions or you can sap the Yeti. Bam. You just gained 5 damage to their face and now can potentially end the game because NEXT turn you can potentially just hit them for 5 again. Or a 5/10 with taunt you sap that, you get to hit for 10 damage before trading off your minions. \\n In fact, maybe -2x Eviscerate and +1x Sap/+1 The Black Knight would be perfect or hey maybe even an Assassinate instead of TBK.\\n\\nPost: Having the link in the I was a bit weird. If I didn't know to look for it I'd've not noticed it. \\n Anyway, I dislike the Preparations. There's almost nothing you want to prep out half the time since they're typically 1 mana. I understand they're a big tempo boost when used with Sap/Evi/Assassinate but they're just not worth the slot. I also REALLY dislike seeing 2 assassinates at all, especially since the preparations are something you want to cut. Just 1 is really pushing it. \\n Backstab's good, cold blood's good. Deadly Poison's good. You know, come to think of it this deck probably would do great with an Assassin's Blade rather than an Assassinate, x2 Deadly Poison is useful on it's own and so is Assassin's Blade but when they come together you're looking at up to 20-28 damage coming out from your Assassin's Blade either to clear the path for your little guys or just to help apply pressure to the enemy's face. \\n Shadowstep is largely useless. You don't have a big charger to help you end the game with it like Leeroy or even just Arcane Golem. It's, at best, helping you draw more with Coldlight Oracle or getting you another 2/1 with Ringleader. \\n The lack of a second Murloc Warleader is HUGELY problematic and you definitely want another one ASAP if you're going to stick with this. It's your biggest card to deal with bigger threats, close out the game or avoid AoE. \\n Sprint is too late game, especially without prep you're never going to realistically play it and even then it's a 2 for 4 and spends your entire 4th turn's mana. Of course you need some card draw so just toss in another Coldlight. \\n So\",\n \"Summary: Studded->Carapace->Green D'hide->Void eventually \\nBows->Aw fuck can't get yew bow->Rune mainhands->Tzhaar main hand->Karil's crossbow->Probably chaotics one day.\\n\\nPost: For ranged, which is honestly the only combat I've been doing for the most part, I didn't bother with armour and just used pathfinder until level 20 at which point I got studded. I then got carapace and eventually upgraded to green d'hide from different shops and I think a drop for the vambraces. I'd look into better armour to get but I'm just going to get void eventually so meh. \\n As for weaponry I used the highest tier bow and arrows I could use until I hit 40, I tried to get a yew and magic bow from their respective droppers but had no luck. \\n I went to 50 range with a maple bow mostly at which point I picked up rune throwing weapons from the archery guild as well as used those I got from drops . I would use off-hand knives but my smithing wasn't all too high and frankly still isn't, a lot of the time I'd be facing off against bosses or dragons so I had an excuse for a shield at least. \\n At 60 range I got the Tzhaar range weapon, basically was the same as rune weapons in that it's one handed and I didn't have a great off-hand. So again I trained generally with a shield against strong monsters (like bosses and dragons) and a lame off-hand against things like Banshees. \\n As I knew I needed a better weapon I had done barrows a lot (in terms of time investment, not necessarily runs) and eventually got a Karil's Crossbow. I actually got it on maybe my 7th run which is incredibly lucky. Just getting a barrows item in general that early wouldn't be that crazy but me getting a T7 2H range weapon when I'm training pretty much exclusively range? On my 7th run? That's really lucky. So now I'm using that. I had also planned to potentially get a crystal bow but now that I have my Karil's Crossbow I don't see the point really, I'll just do that whenever. \\n So\",\n \"Summary: knowledge is power. Study, keep track of cards played by both players and deduce the enemy's hand as much as possible.\\n\\nPost: I think the biggest thing about climbing higher up is about deducing what the enemy's hand is. This can be from things like where they point their cards to how they react to a situation. For example if you're play Auctioneer and they don't kill it you can obviously say they don't have soulfire or they do have soulfire but are also sitting on Molten Giants. \\n Also, keep track of what they've played and what you've played. Use a notepad if you have to, a physical one or the actual program. Knowing exactly what you have left in your deck is a great way to know when to draw and when not to draw, when you can race and when you should play more conservatively etc. this also means you should read up on popular decks and maybe even play them a bit even when you have absolutely no intention of playing them a lot because learning exactly what your enemy wants to do and does do is going to get you a ton of wins since it'll be easier to play around their win conditions/cards in general.\",\n \"Summary: I think you should be patient and let it happen naturally from packs/arena.\\n\\nPost: It would cost you 8100 dust to make a set of them and 16200 to make two of each. \\n I think you shouldn't though, you're likely to get a lot of multiples of any given rare without ever crafting a single one of it so in the long run it's better to just focus on other cards like Legendaries or at least Epics with your dust. \\n I understand if gives a nice sense of completion to have a full set of rares but ultimately it's a very inefficient usage of your dust and you'll naturally come by that feeling at some point without ever crafting them so basically\",\n \"Summary: this has helped a lot, thanks for all the advice.\\n\\nPost: The general thing about how RNG should be handled I definitely agree with, there was some answers similar to what you're saying and I definitely think those were a homerun alongside your comment here. I thought of RNG too straightforwardly before, but now I'm shifting my mindset to more interesting ideas, like making sure there's a way to \\\"defuse\\\" them. \\n > For example, most hidden items are obnoxious because trial and error is far too time consuming, and you should not be forced to look up online where the items are. \\n Mm. I think I'll just shift my ideas for fun, cool \\\"secret\\\" stuff to more just remote-ish locations, more emphasis on chests/houses guarded by strong mooks in a mountain range (or something) rather than super-secret less obvious stuff. \\n >This is also why things like spawn-moving reinforcements are bad because despite all the \\\"hints\\\" the game gives you, you still can't make a rock-solid safe plan unless you know what the pattern is (or the alternative is you just basically only field avatar because avatar can't die and so the reinforcements can't kill you, which is still bad game design just from a different angle). \\n I think these can be okay in very slight moderation, the sort of FE luna+ stuff we see? Definitely not what I'm thinking of. \\n What do you think a sort of spawn-moving weak guy that would deal like 5 damage would be? I've noticed when I play FE I often neglect characters, leave them way in the back without healing or whatever and if something doesn't spawn-move they live/can run away, but I've always thought that the game was going too easy on me for that fact. So sending out a first (small) wave of spawn-moving mooks that can take out really low health (already been beaten up a fair bit) targets would be an interesting thing to have alongside usual reinforcements, that'd be something I think I'd like. What do you think? Weak (and few) spawn-movers, strong standard spawns. \\n You've got some great points about larger maps, definitely reinforces a lot of the thoughts I've had. Some people tend to just think, \\\"well bigger map means you can have more units woo!\\\" but there's more too it than that, as you plainly know. \\n I also am loving your thoughts on balancing every character out, I knew I wanted to fiddle with growths but I typically thought of the crazy stuff (as reflected in the survey . . .) but I think this would be a cause better worth fighting for. I'll be sure to fiddle with growths to make sure characters are worth using for one reason or another and perhaps tone down a few.\",\n \"Summary: it almost always just directly translates to face damage when Miracle Rogue needs to be able to remove/stall the game out so other cards (like Eviserate) are more versatile and add more to the deck.\\n\\nPost: Many decks do run 2 copies. Typically the \\\"burst down\\\" varieties which have Mana Addicts thus can burst you out with even as few as 3-4 cards after their addict survives will run 2. Hell, I run 2 in my regular Miracle Rogue just because it helps against faster decks or the mirror. \\n Anyway, the miracle rogues you'll see on ladder most games have 1 because you often because it's not very useful outside of it's amazing card/mana->damage ratio. \\n See, Miracle Rogue naturally has rather few minions and thus having minions out and/or keeping them alive becomes rather problematic without conceal particularly when you realize what minions will often be able to trade up with it (small little guys like Thalnos) are exactly that, small thus easily removed. You're likely only running 1-2 chargers too so most of the time it's a \\\"meh\\\" card that doesn't cycle/thin through your deck or remove the enemy's board. It's not like Blessing of Might in Paladin where you have plenty of targets and these 1/1 tokens to buff up and kill Azure Drakes with or something.\",\n \"Summary: while Leeroy is very powerful and absolutely a card that abuses the things surrounding him the best he's not the root of the issue. The root of the problem is high efficiency buffs/shadowstep that empower the minions, not the minions. Get to the root of the problem = everything's fixed. Just tone down the first thing in line to be abused alongside the root of the problem = end up just wanting to nerf the next thing in line.\\n\\nPost: Many of your suggestions were completely awful and didn't make Leeroy more niche, it simply killed him and made Arcane Golem replace him. \\n As it stands Leeroy is 4 mana 6 damage, that's 1.5 damage/mana and Arcane Golem is 1.33 damage/mana, Leeroy is already very threatened by the power of Arcane Golem as it's a similarly low costing card that serves as a vessle for Power Overwhelmings, Cold Bloods and other strong, mana to damage efficient buffs. Leeroy only really has the edge of him being better in terms of card->damage efficiency and you're taking that away with just about all of the changes you suggested. What I'm saying is the problem doesn't lie in Leeroy, it lies in the things that empower him. \\n Here's a little list, an incomplete one that I'd like to work on more so forgive minor errors and point them out to me, that will help you understand how close Arcane Golem and Leeroy are. Consider any of the changes you suggested and all this does is make Arcane Golem more popular, a card that is pretty much just as powerful as Leeroy in a lot of situations. \\n 4 mana you're dealing \\n \\n 6 damage with Leeroy. \\n 8 damage with Arcane Golem + Cold Blood. \\n \\n For 5 mana it's \\n \\n 10 with Leeroy + Cold Blood. \\n 12 with Golem + Cold Blood x2 or Golem + Shadowstep x2. \\n \\n 6 mana \\n \\n 14 with Leeroy + Cold Blood x2. \\n 15 with Golem + Cold Blood x2+Sinister Strike. \\n \\n 7 mana \\n \\n 17 with Leeroy + Cold Blood x2 + Sinister Strike. \\n 18 with Golem + Cold Blood x2 + Sinister Strike x2. \\n \\n 8 mana \\n \\n 18 with Leeroy + Shadowstep x2 or 20 with Leeroy + Cold Blood x2 + Shadowstep. \\n \\n 21 with Arcane Golem + Cold Blood x2 + Sinister Strike x2 + Shadow step. \\n \\n \\n 9 mana \\n \\n 23 with Leeroy + Shadowstep + Cold Blood x2 + Sinister Strike x1. \\n \\n 26 with Arcane Golem + Shadow Step x2 + Cold Blood x2 + Sinister Strike x2 \\n \\n \\n 10 mana \\n \\n 26 with Leeroy + Shadowstep x2 + Cold Blood x2. \\n 27 with Arcane Golem + Shadowstep x2 + Cold Blood x2 + Eviserate + Sinister Strike. \\n \\n So what I'm basically saying is your changes are not good, they're destroying one minion who only is a problem in Miracle and potentially Warlock but simply not fixing the problem surrounding it leaving Arcane Golem to pick up the slack. \\n Imagine if instead of nerfing UTH Blizzard had nerfed Buzzard. That just makes Buzzard less good and other cards that work well with UTH have to pick up the slack. Just like nerfing Leeroy just makes Arcane Golem the next in line to be abused by Miracle Rogue. It doesn't fix the problem of high mana efficiency damage it just tones it back ever so slightly while destroying perfectly fine cards (Buzzard, Leeroy).\",\n \"Summary: Drygores, grind hard for money for bones but train prayer later.\\n\\nPost: Just depends what bosses you like. Like Glacors? Don't get Drygores. Like some boss you use protect prayers at? Get Drygores. Want to really, really careful and ensure you can't be hacked for your stuff? Get prayer. Want to do QBD and frosts? Get Herblore. \\n Ultimately QBD is like, what? Potentially 5M an hour consistently if you're great at it (much less presumably without soulsplit and such but still great even just with super antifires)? But if you hate QBD you're not going to do it consistently, you'll get bored and stray. Just beef up your performance in the thing you want to do. \\n I think the most important thing though is this: do not hesitate . Pick one soon, while prices are low / BXP is coming up (in case you decide on Herblore). If you don't decide and Drygores/your total bone costs go back up a good 5M-20M you'll be less than happy. \\n If you want a simple answer though, I'd say Drygores. Are they the best option? Maybe not. But they're probably the cheapest and you spend no time training , want Herblore/prayer? Good. Dish out the money and spend X amount of hours training. Drygores? Buy them and get back to making money. With bone prices so low and Drygore prices so low you should act now , make money as fast as you can and buy as much of the crashing products as you can. Don't waste time training prayer, save that for after this ideal time to amass bones/Drygores/general wealth has passed, then train prayer.\",\n \"Summary: short term you gain some cards for a few decks (if even multiple decks) but long term all you're doing is screw yourself out of being able to play a large number of decks because you were impatient.\\n\\nPost: In the short term the best thing you can do is focus on a few classes you really like and get as much out of those as you can by DEing other classes as well as shitty neutrals. \\n In the long term though you want to keep most cards. If you want to take efficiency to an extreme you could even keep 3rd+ copies of cards to make sure you get the most dust if they're ever changed directly but Blizz doesn't want to make a lot of changes to pre-existing cards so more realistically you want to just keep everything that has strong potential to be changed or indirectly affected in such a way that it becomes strong by new cards/card changes or innovations. This means basically everything is worth keeping because eventually you may want to play a deck that involves it and you already just DE'd (for just 40 dust!) the two rares you'd now have to pay 200 dust for. Even without the innovations and such in mind you'll want to keep them because hey, you don't like Shaman or whatever now but Feral Spirit is a fantastic card that you'll want in basically every Shaman deck.\",\n \"Summary: harps are probably one of your worst options EXP gains wise and you'll probably be best off cutting gems or crafting dragonleather bodies. Look into the GP/EXP for a bunch of different methods in that ballpark and factor in the time it'll take you to acquire the GP as well as the potential EXP from those money making methods.\\n\\nPost: Your optimal crafting item is largely based around what you can afford. \\n From a strictly efficiency focused standpoint you'll want to do the thing that leaves you gaining the most experience overall (considering potential profits as EXP in a buyable). So for example, say option A is 10 hours of crafting, gaining 500K EXP and leaving you with a net profit of 0GP. \\n If option B is 3 hours of crafting (gaining 500K EXP) and 7 hours of money making (also ending at overall 0GP profit), your option B would be better as gaining the money is providing EXP as well. \\n So with this in mind you'll generally want to aim towards using methods that are a high EXP rates when it comes to buyable skills, within reason. Of course what's ultimately \\\"within reason\\\" is again dependant on how much you can make an hour as well as the specifics (exp gains most importantly) of that money making method. \\n So I can't tell you what you should train on without assuming stats you have (crafting is almost the least important stat when thinking of how you should train crafting) or telling you to get certain stats to gain access to a certain money making method. \\n You'll have to figure it out for yourself by yourself if you want the best answer and really, you'll be better off for it I'd say. \\n All said and done/\",\n \"Summary: sure, the person OP's posting is potentially an autoclicker. If they really have been standing there for hours on end and this has been seen many days in a row, it's very likely they are. But is that good enough? No. \\n Yes, the ramifications of Jagex assuming they're an autoclicker and us assuming they're an autoclicker are very different, but it's still the wrong path to walk all the same.\\n\\nPost: defending him and autoclickers \\n That's the thing, you can be defending him and not defending autoclickers. More importantly for me, it's not really about that individual but this idea that we can just assume people are cheating, which is a horrible way to approach things if you ask me. I'd feel awful for a friend if they found themselves in an iffy looking situation then got \\\"called out for autoclicking\\\" when they did no such thing. It's much like someone accusing you of a crime, even without proof and very little evidence if someone accuses you suddenly you may find yourself being looked at very differently, and that's absolutely shitty. \\n My concern here is so many people are trying to make another player out to be an autoclicker but they could still be one of the people who just pays essentially 0 attention to their screen while doing something else and clicking very occasionally. \\n I mean imagine you've got a laptop. You just use a mouse, tape the bottom and click occasionally, never focusing on the laptop and yeah it's not too crazy to think someone could get stuck for hours at a time because they just don't care to check. Imagine you're just playing some fast-paced game, you only get a chance to click infrequently and when you do you don't really check. \\n I know when I play games I really like they can eat my attention alive so yeah if I was doing this sort of thing I might not notice not actually moving. What if I had a laptop behind me and I was just clicking a wireless mouse occasionally? I'd not bother checking because of the fast pace nature of the other game I'm playing, despite this potential hypothetical OP's post largely screams to me, \\\"NOPE HE'S AN AUTOCLICKER.\\\" And you know what? He very well could be, in fact I'd wager they probably are if they really have been getting stuck for hours. \\n But if they are or aren't isn't exactly what's important in my eyes, what's important is do we know that they are? No. So you report them, you move on, and you let Jagex sort it out. If anyone's going to be able to prove it, it's Jagex, and if they can't then why should be assuming they're an autoclicker? Jagex has more information on offer regarding the person's account, right? So if they can't definitely say they're autoclicking with a decent level of confidence it's not very right for us to do that with even less information . Not to mention OP's not really shown us anything more than a person standing still and claims they've been like this for however long, and while I don't doubt OP really I also think for anyone to make a big assumption about this player given just what OP has said would be poor form as well. \\n The point is while it's very likely that the kind of people you see getting stuck for hours on end are autoclickers but to assume all of them are with nothing more than some iffy evidence that you can explain away with some hypothetical situations . . . That's just kind of fucked up. I mean, what if Jagex just took this as \\\"good enough\\\", like everyone else is so quick to do, and banned the poor schmuck despite him hypothetically just being the corner case where he really wasn't autoclicking. \\n I'd rather hundreds of players auto click seren stones, hefin course, etc. than let even one person get banned just for looking suspicious. I don't want to play a game where you can be banned for being suspicious*. I also don't really like the idea of having a lynch mob called on me just because I'm not paying enough attention for their tastes. Given I'll be going for 99 agility at some point, this makes me irked as fuck.\",\n \"Summary: Optimized lunatic+ units so that skills are reasonable to beat, but still incredibly hard and demanding to beat. AKA no more silver-bullet, player begone type enemies like the hawkeye vantage luna+ hammer dudes in the early chapters. \\n \\n More side objectives* to add depth to gameplay and optimal difficulty that you're rewarded for executing on. God save the poor soul who has to balance this. \\n \\n Better/more variety in objectives* to add more forced difficulty. Having a weak dude to protect makes things that much more complex. \\n \\n More key units* to deal with ASAP, like healers that actually do shit. \\n \\n \\n (*than Awakening) \\n Or I could sum it up as \\n \\n I want the game to be excruciatingly hard with a variety of considerations that are produced by the game in general and specifically, by the Awakening luna+ skills, but not impossible/forcing me to reset just to change the enemy skills to make the level possible . \\n \\n Or something like that.\\n\\nPost: I'm sure the subject of permadeth or not has been approached a lot in theose last couple of days. Boy, that feels like an understatement \\n I'm beating that horse dead . I mean I alone probably have like 20 comments (and these are long comments . . .) about it already. It's already getting a bit old, so I'm appreciating this being not about that. \\n Anyway, in terms of enemy strength, I want lunatic+ enemies but stripping away all the RNG - just give each individual enemy a certain, specific set of skills. \\n So for example, ambush spawns? They'd potentially be fine with counter, the player would simply learn that that specific enemy has counter and next time? Play around it. Resetting because reinforcements fucked you is fine with me . . . But if they only screw you 20% of the time I'd rather just play optimally based on what I know and hope the reinforcements don't screw me, because the level may very well not even be possible for me if I don't play greedy. \\n I'd rather see counter always in the skill slot of one of the enemies than only see it 20% of the time, then instead of taking a dice roll the game says \\\"LEARN TO DEAL WITH IT.\\\", which I'd happily do if I had to and the level was balanced in such a way that I could. We already have RNG from crits/dodges/hits to worry about, any individual one completely ruining a lunatic+ level. I just don't want to see it on skills anymore. It's incredibly annoying. \\n Imagine a lunatic mode, those delicious, actually challenging enemies (wow imagine that . . .), along with some vantage thrown in, some counter, Hell pass is awesome too. I know pass would make me think twice about my \\\"totally impenetrable wall of defense\\\" I typically create around choke point, the little bugger'd just run straight through and ruin my day. There's a lot of situations you can get in cheeky heals but in those same situations if a dude with pass was on the map, you couldn't. I want that. I want to have to consider that. Awakening's skills in lower difficulties almost never had enough of an impact, at least tactically. It was always +5 health, +5 strength, that kind of crap which is just. . . NOT EVEN A SKILL IN MY MIND. That's stats. You want the enemy to be beefier? Deal more damage? Just increase those stats, don't give them a \\\"skill\\\" for it. \\n Also I hate how the enemy units almost never have staff users, and when they do they don't use things effectively, the only time healers really game me issues in Awakening was during the fight against Grima and god knows you can just kill Grima before they show up anyway. \\n I want to see a situation where if I don't quickly take out the enemy healer, or deal with enemies in one round, I'll start to have problems. This ties into side objectives, making more really key units that should be dealt with ASAP is awesome since the difficulty naturally scales to your ability to work things out - the less strategy you use the harder it gets to deal with. \\n I'd also be interested to see more staves like from older games, but I fear they'd be too impactful to really be anything more than \\\"20% chance to ruin your day, happy resetting!\\\" which is exactly why I don't like ambush counter spawns, so nevermind. Because either the levels balanced around that sleep hitting, and it's too easy if it doesn't, or it's balanced around it not hitting and you have a 20% chance to lose. There's no winning for the player in that situation. \\n Similarly, you know the \\\"danger zone\\\"? Or whatever it's called, that's always right baring reinforcements - I want to see a situation without reinforcements where that might be \\\"wrong\\\", it'd be nice to feel like that's just \\\"imperfect\\\" and I need to double check, \\\"scout\\\", for concerning things. The easiest example would be an enemy staff user rescuing a unit to get them closer, then them closing the rest of the distance to be a threat. That would make me further consider oddities that simply don't exist in FEs (that I've played). \\n Awakening's maps did leave a bit to be desired too, though. I feel like this largely would be solved by having different objectives, or just more incentive to play really aggressively. Often thieves should have served this purpose but largely the things they stole were inconsequential, the ones that had master seals and the like in the early game? I went ham for those and it made the game way more interesting, those thieves get away really fast so you need to milk the crap out of your play to really get all of them. . . But then, again, the things you got were largely crap. So I wouldn't even bother, when I did it was because the level was too easy anyway, which isn't a good sign. \\n So yeah, adding something that rushes you more and rewards you for rushing well would be nice too, it adds optional and rewarding difficulty that you can decide on on the fly. \\n I get it though, that sort of thing's really hard to balance. Because you either balance around the player getting that (potentially leaving future levels to be impossible) or you balance around them not getting it and then the game becomes easier . . . So you kind of are ruining the experience for yourself by doing something hard, or at least using the fruits of your labour. I'm pretty hard to please.\",\n \"Summary: better value in the early game, ditch the sunfuries and get some real taunts like Taz'Dingo and Sunwalker so you can invest into Argent Squires and such in the early game. Careful how you use your hero power, remember that developing your board helps you keep up with early game decks much better than pinging a lot of stuff. Try out Arcane Explosion, especially if you have Bloodmage Thalnos.\\n\\nPost: The first problem is that you're playing Mage. Hahahaaaaaa. \\n Anyway, I think your deck is lacking in taunts and early board clear. You're running 2 azure drakes anyway, you can empower an Arcane Explosion really well and get amazing board clear like that or just pair Arcane Explosion into a hero power/attack from Argent Squire to clear 2/1s and a 3/2. \\n I also am confused by the fact that you're running 2 sunfuries. I know you're lacking taunt so it makes sense to throw it in on some level but getting better 1 drops well really help you deal with aggro. Taunt isn't good in the early game, it's about board control via sheer force (high stats/value) so getting another Mana Wyrm and Argent Squire in place of Sunfury would be good then you can just replace your yetis with Taz'Dingo. \\n You also probably use your hero power a bit too much, lots of people think \\\"oh I could ping that 2/1 instead of playing my 2/3\\\" but in a lot of cases that's incorrect, developing your board even when you get less value will keep the tempo in your favour which is paramount against things such as Zoo and aggro. Your late game is great, stalling out and keeping yourself healthy until then is priority #1 with your early game minions. \\n I'd also suggest a late game taunt like Sunwalker in place of Ogre. You don't want to invest things like Sunfury into your deck as they don't provide good early value/pressure and your late game will be good enough to deal with aggro anyway even with slightly weaker minions (weaker as in less damage). Sure it might hurt your control matchup but it could also help make sure your Raging Worgen or whatever else forces out a removal instead of just getting attacked into or, y'know, help you kill them with it.\",\n \"Summary: Dragon rider is worse in terms of profit/efficient but offers you more AFKability. You must weigh how much you value being able to AFK more comapared to profiting more. \\n \\n Dragon rider amulet is a reasonable alternative to a ranged necklace but still questionable if you have access to high tier amulets like the [farsight blood necklace]( \\n \\n Dragon rider boots/gloves aren't worth it at all. You should just use armadyl boots/gloves even if you're valuing the ability to AFK longer highly.\\n\\nPost: I think the dragon rider amulet would be worthwhile, because of that very nice +10 prayer bonus it's offering and only slightly worse stats in terms of offensive bonuses you're not losing out too hard by using it unless you would otherwise be using a blood necklace, which is probably really good given the nature of killing rorarii, what with them piling on you and stuff. \\n From there I'd say it's harder and harder to justify using dragon rider in terms of efficiency, but definitely understandable if you're looking for AFKability. \\n If you're looking for a heavily AFK experience, dragon rider would be fine, sure, but if you want better profit armadyl all the way. \\n If you do choose to go for dragon rider though I highly recommend you avoid the gloves/boots though, they only offer you 1 prayer bonus more each at the expense of expense of 11 range bonus each, that's just not worth it at all, even if you do want to AFK.\",\n \"Summary: fashionscape\\n\\nPost: Eh, people pay more GP for cosmetic items. You might say \\\"Oh but partyhats, [INSERT EXPENSIVE COSMETIC ITEM HERE] and such all can be sold back.\\\" and you're right (in most cases anyway) but plenty of people have plenty of GP to spare and thus simply don't care to ever sell them back. They're perfectly happy to drop hundreds of millions (or billions) of GP to get a cosmetic upgrades. This? Maybe it's not reasonably priced for you but to many this is probably a complete steal of a deal, especially since it's something a lot of people probably haven't even seen .\",\n \"Summary: not really sure but I'd suggest RS3 anyway. \\n \\n Yes, skiller accounts are still a thing. Maybe less popular than before but they're still very much alive and kicking.\\n\\nPost: OSRS from what I hear is pretty god awful. They have a track record of being a bunch of childish pricks, there was an instance of a charity event being flooded with hate from OSRS in chat. That was a livesteam though, Twitch is kind of a cesspool anyway so that's a low blow on them though, I guess? \\n The PK community is mostly where OSRS went though, and we've seen how aggressive people can get over PVP. \\n Anyway, RS3's community's still pretty shitty too but that's mostly shown out of at least a genuine concern. The most annoying thing I see about the community is their stupidity regarding MTX. Being against MTX is totally fine but some people just are dense as shit and refuse to accept being even slightly wrong, then you've just got people who are way too zealous and refuse to want to work with Jagex and instead go for a very \\\"NO MTX WHAT SO EVER GET RID OF IT NOWWWWWWW\\\" sort of approach. \\n But even those people, they're not assholes really, even the people who really aren't level headed and really have no idea what they're talking about (which is by no means all of them) are really just looking out for what they believe is best for the game anyway. . . \\n So compare that to what I've said about OSRS . . . \\n Obviously RS3' got my vote. \\n \\n Being a skiller on RS3? Easier or harder . . . Mm. I guess harder, depends? OSRS doesn't have dungeoneering, dungeoneering requires you to either pay people to let you leech or for you to participate in combat so if we consider that? I guess RS3's way harder, especially with 120 dungeoneering. \\n Overall I tend to think of, content wise anyway, OSRS v. RS3 like this, RS3 intends to add more and more updates, OSRS will add very sparse, polled updates. RS3 is already years ahead of OSRS content by it's very nature. . . RS3's going to not necessarily be harder or easier as much as it will be more expansive. \\n We've got [runespan]( for runecrafting and you can make some good money on [vis wax]( so I guess maybe it'd be easier to do it on RS3? The main thing I'm really not sure about is prices for OSRS, this is a huge deal for buyable skills and largely will dictate just how hard things are.\",\n \"Summary: Consider starfall instead of swipe, cut some Savage Roars and FoNs, Ancient of Wars, Taz'Dingo instead of Yeti, try Argent Squire and potentially Blood Knight, Mark of the Wild to give your minions taunt on the fly (particularly good with Argent Squire, try naturalize for dealing with Doomguard (also OK into control matchups where late-game tempo is game winning), mulligan for Wild Growth and Innervate as well as your early game minions like Argent Squire/Harvest Golem. Remember that this is advice for dealing with Zoo, sometimes the best option is to not tech this way though.\\n\\nPost: By the looks of it you're not really teching well into Zoo and that's fine , sometimes you're going to prefer to have a bad Zoo matchup in favour of a better matchup into other stuff but if you're queuing into them constantly you should tech against them. \\n Swipe is considerably worse compared to Starfall since the x/1s in Zoo typically do stuff the turn they're played thus if they die they're still getting value, it's the 3/2s and such that are really their weak spot that you want to target. You might say \\\"But Bloodmage Thalnos!\\\" but that just makes your Starfall better into 4/3s instead of leaving you with no particularly good option with a spell damage swipe (3/2s with the defender of argus buff, shattered sun, whatever). And yes, it is more expensive but it's far more effective. You typically just don't clear their board with one swipe, you leave a lot of 3/1s and such. \\n I also think you're rather lacking taunts, you're leaving yourself very vulnerable to the massive reach of the more aggressively built Zoo decks and just Doomguard's natural power being a 5/7 he's able to answer all but the most powerful of taunts. You really could use a couple of Ancient of Wars. \\n Also, Naturalize is worthwhile against Doomguard, surprisingly. It's near impossible to answer it if they play it at an opportune time and gives you a big tempo boost letting you answer their Doomguard+play something like Yeti/Taz'Dingo (which by the way is a good option since the extra power of Yeti typically isn't too helpful into Zoo). \\n There's also the matter of mulligans, you should be mulliganing for innervate and wild growth. You want tempo spikes via innervate and you want to get enough mana to play creatures consistently ASAP. A turn 2 yeti generally puts a big damper on aggression unless they pull a 3/2+abusive combo and even then they're not in a fantastic spot. \\n As for general deck changes I'd say try Argent Squire/Blood Knight (just try it , if it doesn't work for you that's fine) as Argent Squire is great for early game helping you answer 3/2s with your hero power and just trade for pesky 2/1s. Blood Knight of course puts a big minion on the board while only sacrificing a divine shield or even potentially taking their divine shield(s), Zoo is VERY bad at dealing with 6 health minions as their reach is normally ~5 with Doomguard or a +2'd 3/2 so outside of very great situations where they get good RNG it'll be a 1 for 2/3ish. \\n Taz'Dingo instead of Yeti's good to slow down the more aggressive decks/players. \\n Cutting Savage Roar at least x1 will help you more consistently have the cards to answer early game minions \\n As I said earlier, Starfall instead of swipe IMO. \\n Kodo is interesting, haven't used it so I don't have a valid opinion. \\n Cutting at least 1x FoN will help you make space for early game minions, it's a pretty bad AoE honestly, it's 1 extra mana for a 3 minion Starfall although yes it can work well in some other niche situations I just think it's bad for the matchup. \\n As I said earlier, Ancient of War would be good too. \\n Mark of the wild would be good too, especially if you put in Argent Squires since that would give you a great target for a +2/+2 and taunt.\",\n \"Summary: membership is 10/10 would buy with IRL cash if bonds isn't exist highly recommend.\\n\\nPost: I'd say finish up all your F2P stuff then buy members. Especially if you aren't in much rush. Sure, getting P2P is nice but if you'll just be doing F2P quests with F2P gear with F2P spells and F2P this and that you're basically wasting your membership on being able to do farming every once in awhile. \\n I mean don't go all out getting 50+ in your skills or whatever but get some basic stuff done at least. That's how I went about things anyway. \\n In the long term, membership massively boasters your EXP gains. You're getting an unspeakable amount of extra methods, weaponry, spells, quests, so on. Not being a member absolutely ruins any chance of having competitive EXP gains and for a more casual player can just be a bit boring, I'd think.\",\n \"Summary: vision on/around Baron, make picks and/or take Baron. Of course that's just one way of doing things, my personally preferred method.\\n\\nPost: You are partly right that laning phase doesn't matter, it's not as if it completely doesn't matter but it's impact on the overall game has been diminished a bit by the anti-snowballing things we've seen in recent patches. If that's a good thing or not is up to you decide for yourself but I personally think it's great. It expands my pool of potential champions by letting me use those who don't excel in laning but still rewards me if I do great with a champion that is good at laning. \\n Anyway, I think it comes down to taking advantage of vision. As you said, killing a facechecker is good. You're just putting this to the next level and extending your vision, instead of just seeing in the brush you're sitting in you've got wards all over either or both jungles to help you catch someone out and then pressure objectives. To put this to the next level you can push out a couple of lanes THEN look for your pick so even if you come up dry you'll have lanes pushed, applying pressure despite being relatively docile. I have a problem with just sitting around too though so to make things EVEN BETTER (it keeps doing that, doesn't it?) is you can take vision on Baron, FORCING the enemies to facecheck your area of vision and if they don't, simply letting you take baron which will allow you to make more aggressive plays. \\n Sorry for wall-of-texting you there but\",\n \"Summary: Your deck, good or bad in general lacks win conditions and you should consider putting in more of them such as Van Cleef.\\n\\nPost: I lurk here all the time, but I've never posted here before so I don't know if that means I'm breaking the 9:1 rule or not. \\n I don't think anyone really follows that and it's very rarely enforced. In any case it's more so linking to your own content can only be 10% of your posts so this sort of post should in fact help you stay away from breaking that rule. 10% of linked content should be your own, the other 90% should not be yours. I misread the rules earlier, I thought it was only 10 of your content can be you linking to your own content . It doesn't really matter though anyway. \\n As for your deck I really have no clue what to say. I'd have to try it to really see but by eyeballing it I doubt it works very consistently. You have basically 1 win condition, that's bad in just about any deck. \\n Regular Miracle has 2 auctioneers that help fish for other win conditions such as Van Cleef, Mana Addicts, Leeroy, Conceal to empower just about any minion to be buffed by cold bloods, etc. or hey just a bunch of mana to damage efficient spells to burst them out in the regular Auctioneer miracle style. So basically Van is a win condition, Leeroy is a win condition, Auctioneer can be a win condition or helps set up for a different one (cycling 5 cards is massive even if that's all he actually does for you), that's already 4. Then there's Addicts, Questings, Malygos in some decks, maybe Arcane Golems even since they're a great body for Cold Blood and such. \\n On a side note \\n>Van Cleef: Because you don't draw and subsequently play your whole deck at once here, Van Cleef would just be probably a 6/6 body at best. You could try using him, but he didn't feel right in play tests. \\n I'll be happy to have a 3 mana 6/6 body, you should be too. Hell, a 4/4 after backstabbing something's pretty great.\",\n \"Summary: of course \\\"in time\\\" we probably will see lucky noxious weaponry, but in time what else will happen?\\n\\nPost: If a time for this to happen should come it will be after the items are largely worth next to nothing (compared to their current price anyway) anyway and they're outclassed by other weaponry, much like how lucky chaotics only just lately were released. Chaotics, now-a-days, are just so easy to get and at the same time not a be all end all type weapon anymore. They have many better alternatives in the game do every style and even, for range, a rather good same-tier buyable alternative. \\n In 5 years will Noxious weaponry really be that important? Hey, maybe it will be. But in the case that we then have t95, maybe t99 weaponry as well, among many other upgrades to our combat equipment, we'll see Araxxor's easier than ever and since it's been out for so long the amount of Noxious weapons in the game is only really going UP and price for them will dwindle, over the years. \\n But hold up, we got about t85 completely though. There's going to be a long wait between the release of each set of lucky weaponry and noxious weaponry thus has even more time to slowly fall in relevant and price. As for wyrm weapons, they're only going down and down too, it offers a sink for the t75 stuff but not it's self , so as new and higher tier weaponry comes out it will become less and less relevant, we probably might even see more t85 weaponry which might be slightly better for some reason or just more obtainable, more than anything we know that as more wyrm pieces come into the game they'll all be worth less and less. Lucky wyrm weapons won't be a gigantic deal in a Runescape with more t85, t90, t95 weapons, and years of a falling price due to inflating item volume. \\n So\",\n \"Summary: Priestess is a big, fast paced body that you can reasonably play turn one. Blood Imp is a small body that's too slow to really be worthwhile.\\n\\nPost: At least in the Zoo deck we've commonly seen as of late out of warlocks Priestess is much better. \\n In terms of straight up value the worst case Blood Imp is bringing 0/1 value to the table the turn it's played whereas Priestess is bringing 2/1, Priestess is potentially bringing 2/2 in ideal circumstances and Imp 0/2 making Priestess much better in terms of consistency and early tempo. \\n On top of this, Priestess has really good combos with taunts which the deck already wants to protect things like Flame Imp and Knife Juggler so the fact that Blood Imp has stealth isn't really a selling point even and while on the topic of it's stealth being useless, the fact that you can't ping it as a mage (as if mage is even that common in constructed) isn't much of a selling point either since it's FINE to get their hero power down, that's trading a card for tempo since they used 1 more mana than you. \\n Another big factor is that Zoo really loves buffing up minions, you've got at least 6 cards off the top of my head that give damage buffs (Dire, Shattered Sun and, Defender all x2) and Priestess is MUCH more likely to trade up due to a buff than Blood Imp is. In fact, it's horribly unlikely Blood Imp will do so without more than 1 buff on it which just adds to it's horrid inconsistency.\",\n \"Summary: I think we're just fine. If there's lacking diversity (and compared to before there probably is) that's alright, that's what the community wants then and I don't blame them. RS is the best game with a grind oriented section of the game from what I understand, even with the . . . helpful? elements that have been added over time.\\n\\nPost: I think it's perfectly fine for there to be no \\\" solution\\\" . I mean, if everyone really loves focusing on their EXPs, getting their max capes 120s, etc. well, let them do their thing. That's fine, if the whole community loves the shit out of that and is willing to put in hours upon hours to doing that it's surely something they deem worthwhile or fun and that's all they may need out of a game at the end of the day. \\n Maybe more importantly there's plenty of diversity in the game as is, people just don't care to look for it or don't look deep enough to find it. There's lots of little subset communities that you'll find. Look for those minigame/DND focused FCs and you'll find people who really enjoy chasing around stars or gathering counterintelligence on those bastard spy penguins . Plus hey, if you go to a PVP world (at least one of them anyway) you'll find some good fights. I see at the very least plenty of mains doing anything from rune fights with 200k risk to risking drygores and AGS. Ever been on an RPing world too? I can certainly imagine that one guy singing poetry in Taverly while I was doing construction really enjoys doing that. Sure, there's less diversity maybe but that's fine, there still is diversity. \\n Speaking of diversity, ironman . Ironman is, oddly enough given we're excluded from a lot of things, the highest height of diverse play that's commonplace now-a-days. You will see people asking the most bizarre questions sometimes, how do I get a raw shark without fishing it? Well, you use the GE . . . Oh wait. How do you get a raw shark without fishing it? We can't use the GE after all. You have to collect so much more in ironman and this leads to much more diversity in your play, even if you know exactly how to get that raw shark you still have to actually do it instead of pop a varrock tab and buy it on the GE. \\n There's diversity out there and we as players can choose to play in different ways or even get it set up in a way that we're half-ass forced to play in more diverse ways (ironman mode), there's no solution necessary really. If people want to do stuff besides rush to max cape, they can and they probably will. But hey, if the main focus of a large portion of the community is to max out, great. I don't think I could find another MMO nearly as grindy as Runescape is, even with all the BXP and whatnot, and that's kind of cool. I know I really enjoy grinding and the only thing that's stopping me from maxing out my main is maxing out my ironman. I love the grind, I love all the other stuff too (especially the quests when I get into them) but the grind's great too and that's a good thing.\",\n \"Summary: poor Awakening. ;-;7\\n\\nPost: The answer is clearly Awakening, it's not even that it's necessarily that hard but just that it gets so much flak for being \\\"too easy\\\" and whatnot. People make it out to be very mindless but it's really not on higher difficulties, which is really where stuff counts, right? I mean, if someone complains a game is too easy while playing on easy difficulties, that's just stupid isn't it? You turn up the difficulty if you want it to be more difficulty, problem solved! Woo . . . \\n And I mean, it is hard. Lets be honest. I don't even have the words for luna+ . . . Actually I do. \\\"Ambush spawn counter units.\\\" and, \\\"Ugh.\\\" \\n Naturally EXPonential Growth and the other less easy ways of grinding do make things easier, yes, but again it's not about Awakening being the peak of difficulty, it's about so many people who've probably only played on hard saying it's as easy as flumping some units into the middle of the enemies and turn skipping yet it's anything but at higher difficulties. \\n And real fast I know lunatic and more so, luna+, have their problems (AMBUSH SPAWNS WITH COUNTER FTJR9IWJYQ953J7U934JU6) but is difficulty one of them? No.\",\n \"Summary: it's like farming, start ASAP before you regret it.\\n\\nPost: Ah, but you will have them in the future. You will be ready to make your armour, too. \\n Pop takes a lot of time. Not like, actually investment of time but basically it's farming. You might focus a bit more in the earlier bits of it to train extra fast but for the most part it's a big ass waiting game. \\n So get a head start and be sure you have the materials to make your armour. It'll be a big reward for yourself when you finally get the levels and a bit of profit if you have left overs. Not to mention the spices and skrimshaws.\",\n \"Summary: smooth your curve, boost your tempo or plan for future plays with your potentially larger mana pool. No option will always be the best option, knowing your deck will make you make the best decision more consistently.\\n\\nPost: Depends what you're playing. Miracle Rogues like to keep it to cycle but are willing to play it to make a good play that equates to higher value than a cycle for negative 1 mana. \\n Typically most other decks just want to smooth their curve with it, similar to innervate. Say you've got a 1 drop and 2 3 drops, I don't think you need me to tell you how to play that situation. Similarly you can skip your X drop, say you have a 3 drop, 2 4 drops and a 5 drop. You can play a 4 drop turn 3 then your next on turn 4 etc. of course you can also just keep it in a situation like that so if you happen to draw into a 7 drop turn 6 you still have your coin to use it. So it becomes a matter of knowing your deck, if of have another potential play coming up with coin you could refrain from using it but ultimately the tempo boost early may be worth it.\",\n \"Summary: Pigeon Emblem. \\n \\n AI fighting. \\n \\n Accessibility wins, even if we can hack newer games they probably won't explode until emulate-able. \\n \\n FE6-8 have lots of established tools to make it easy. \\n \\n Accessibility + popularity of games + simplicity = more hackerinos for those things moving forward.\\n\\nPost: What do I think is the future of FE hacking? No, sonny boy I know the future of FE hacking and what is it? \\n Pigeon. Emblem. \\n I can't get into the specifics or I'll be shot dead by multiple military officers, but needless to say it's an exciting time to be alive! \\n \\n But what exactly are you asking, anyway? Are you asking \\\"what's the next big break through for hacking?\\\" or, \\\"What sort of gameplay will we see?\\\" maybe you're asking, \\\"Will we see hacking at all?! \\\" \\n Your question's quite vague, but I like to think it's vague intentionally so to let us give a wider range of answers. \\n So, as for my answer? I know pretty much nothing about the FE hacking scene, the extent of my interaction with the community is occasionally using sereneforest forums to search up some questions I have and try to work out a solution for a hurtle I'm facing. \\n Personally, I'm working on some AI vs. AI stuff as well as a player vs. wave game but I really doubt that's going to be some big thing. \\n Both are essentially just extreme barebones gameplay, either literally not having gameplay or being a lot like a regular FE but without the storyline. \\n Although much like a parent with a child who can play the flute (poorly) I'm very excited about them and in my heart think they could be the future of FE hacking. \\n Seriously the AI v AI thing? I've been coding units a lot, adjusting them this way or that way, once I get a big cast of well balanced characters I'll work on items, making them a bit more balanced. Then we assign a cost to each unit, two players get a set amount of points to \\\"buy\\\" units and items with - the items and units stats would be given to them of course, before buying - then they decide what unit gets what, some choices for AI for each unit are given and they can decide on positioning. Then once the two players are finished I generate a random number giving one of them red phase and the other side green phase. \\n Then, with their units loaded up, the AI fights it out! Fuck it that's the future of FE hacking right there. . . \\n \\n But a more serious answer than my emotional answer . . . I think the future will just be a slow shift of whatever's happening right now into future games, as well as more great FE hacks for the more easily hacked games. FE6-8 are all incredibly easy to hack due to nightmare, event assembler, and this here fancy tool way, it's only natural more and more will come from there. \\n We've seen a lot of crazy ways with the QR codes and whatever to fiddle with FE13 already, although I don't honestly know much about it, I like to hope one day we'll see a Lunatic+ no-RNG skill edition or something like that and if FE14 doesn't feature a hard enough game mode on Nohr path, maybe a [insert hardest mode here]+ for that. \\n Dunno. There's a lot that could happen, I think that it's really just a matter of how hard people put their minds to it and how easy it is to do, I have heard a lot of \\\"you can't do this on such and such firmware/hardware/whatever\\\" in regards to FE13 hacking, so I kind of feel like the non-emulate-able games might be neglected quite heavily. It's way easier to play-test via emulation/fully on PC.\",\n \"Summary: try draw mechanics, try a stronger early game or a strong late game, think of health as a resource that only really matters once it's in range of a strong finisher (like a high damage minion with charge or a high damage spell).\\n\\nPost: If you find yourself getting the game turned on you late game this is likely due to your deck lacking good draw mechanics or late game, of course if you've got a strong health advantage you may want to just go all out and go for more early game to just try and rush down the enemy, if you're having an easy time getting early health advantages you may be good at rushing.\\nThat all said you may simply be missing the fact that board advantage=long term health advantage. You should generally go for board control over health as eventually the enemy will overtake your board should you spend tens of damage on their face instead of their board.\",\n \"Summary: of the changes I'm suggesting right now, \\n \\n More 1 drop minions to have a more consistent early game (Argent Squire, Abusive, etc.) \\n \\n More minions that give buffs as soon as they're played (Argus, Shattered Sun, Abusive, Dark Iron are all great and many others are good too). \\n \\n More focus on keeping your minions alive (no flesheating ghoul). \\n \\n More focus on powerful, non-niche situation, efficient minions (ditch Thalnos, Inner Fire, Mogu, Flesheating, 1x SW: P). \\n \\n A couple of big chargers to help close out/have large board impact later on (argent commanders are the best ones that come to mind). \\n \\n \\n There's more problems with the deck beyond that but that's a decent outline of your more major problems that can actually be addressed. Things such as your general lack of draw are always going to loom overhead if you don't draw Northshire and that's pretty much just \\\"too bad\\\" and the drawback of playing a rather silly deck. I think your lack of draw is decently offset by your healing though, often times minions can be saved by that +2 heal and that makes it so you take longer to run out of steam, at the same time you want to be playing minions not using something rather inefficient like your hero power so it's a big struggle. Like think of Knife Juggler, that puts +3/+2 on the board (and more if you play some minions), your hero power puts +0/+2 on board. It's awkward.\\n\\nPost: To really be \\\"Zoo\\\" there's a few things to focus on: \\n \\n Consistent flow of early game minions. \\n \\n Buffs. \\n \\n Tempo cards. \\n \\n Mana efficient cards. \\n \\n Card flow/draw. \\n \\n \\n There's many things that you're lacking and definitely should have, Argent Squire is a fantastic minion for example. It gives you a divine shield minion to help abuse the many buffs of your deck such as Abusive Sargent. . . Yet you have neither. In fact, you take Holy Smite instead of Abusive Sargent yet Abusive Sargent often translates into a Holy Smite in the battlecry as well as give you a 2/1. \\n Then there's the fact that you have just a meager 7 one mana drop minions, this is compared to the 12 or so used in regular Zoo. This means your early game is significantly less consistent compared to a regular Zoo, you have 5 less chances to hit a 1 drop minion in your early game, you're not even above a 50% shot of having a 1 drop on turn 1 when you're first. \\n See, with 12 potential 1 drops this gives you an expected one 1 mana drop minion per 2.5 cards, this gives you a great statistical chance of getting a 1 drop, with just 7 that chance is all the way down to one 1 mana drop per 4.3 cards, that's risky to say the least. Taking out your cheesy, inconsistent spells such as Holy Smite and Inner Fire would be great as it frees up space for Abusive/Argent, two of the biggest boons to trading in all of Zoo. You might even want to can the Power Word: Shield in favour of another Young Priestess and perhaps an Elven Archer. \\n You're also lacking on-play pressure. You have no defenders of argus which are extremely good for keeping your board out of AoE range and gives lots of on-play pressure applying +2/+2 to the board right away, no shattered Sun Cleric which applies +1/+1 to the board, no Dark Iron Drawfs or powerful chargers like Argent Commander. You need more ways to be one step ahead of your enemy and efficiently trade, as it stands your deck is just too slow and predictable, you have no ways of abusing the enemy really which is particularly important in your deck as you have so few ways of drawing consistently. \\n There's also a few that completely go against what Zoo wants to do, for example Flesheating Ghoul. Sure you'll ultimately have to trade off some guys sometimes but you'd preferably not do so and given you're playing Priest this is particularly something you'd like to avoid as your hero power is so good at keeping things alive. \\n Another big issue is you're running all these silly \\\"hey in this particular situation\\\" type cards that work really decently within their niche but otherwise are just trash. For example, Inner Fire+Mogushan is generally awful, it's basically a bad version of Argent Squire+Blood Knight (by virtue of being more expensive, putting you into BGH range and being generally useless cards outside of the synergy). BMT is also silly, sure he works well with 2 cards that you might want to keep in your deck but he's just a bad loot hoarder most of the time and you need consistent minions, not niche minions. Shadow Word: Pain is \\\"eh\\\" as well, I think it's worth keeping in 1x but 2x it'll clog your hand when you can just trade with your minions then heal them up anyway. Circle+Injured is pretty much the only combo I think is worth keeping around since you can heal Injured with your hero power and Circle can help you heal up after say an explosive trap or a bunch of trades. \\n So\",\n \"Summary: it's saying \\\"Oh, you already are playing around the 30 cards in my deck? Well, play around your own deck too, bitch. \\\"\\n\\nPost: It's like Arcane Intellect but makes things exceptionally hard to play around and is in a better class for such a card. Priest is naturally slow so it often has the time to play a 3 mana draw 2 type card. Mage? Not so much. \\n Back to my point of it making things hard to play around basically\",\n \"Summary: Don't rush yourself. Look into streams, take notes and focus on improvement instead of ranking. Find a deck you like and understand how to use and craft it. Be careful how you craft. Try not to buy packs with real money until you're sure you're going to stick with the game and really want to drop that $50 or however much. \\n Edited in the 'quick aside' and a few minor changes.\\n\\nPost: I think you're just rushing yourself, if you don't concern yourself with your rank but simply getting better you'll get better. You don't gain ranks by wanting to gain ranks really, really bad. You gain ranks by learning the game and improving how you play. Sometimes you'll lose games you played perfectly in and that's fine because you played well and should you continue to do so you'll climb over time even with rather cheap and potentially rather bad decks. \\n All of my large jumps in rank have come after a bit of time spent studying or a well thought out update to my deck but you definitely don't want to spend your dust before knowing what's good unless you're copy/pasting a really well established, up to date deck that you've watched someone else play with (to look at their thought process to make good plays and learn from them as well as be sure you enjoy the play-style employed while using them) so I'd mostly just suggest watching streamers and finding a cheap looking deck you like so you can learn how to play it before using it and investing your dust, this will leave you with buyer's remorse a LOT less. \\n Also a quick aside that's rather off topic, you're not the most dedicated of players (try not to be offended, nothing wrong with it) so don't feel pressured into buying packs with real life money. In fact, feel pressured not to. When you buy packs you've spent your money and that's that regardless of if you keep playing or like what you pull so just remember you're not getting any return on investment and you can always buy packs in the future.\",\n \"Summary: dumping money on smithing, getting crafting to be easily boosted for effigies, finishing up fletching/summoning, spamming thieving to try and avoid as much non-elf city PP as I possibly can and doing agility on VOS.\\n\\nPost: I actually have it planned out decently well. \\n List is in order of priority. * Denotes a time sensitivity that puts it above other things I would be doing. \\n \\n 85->?? hunter (divine box traps).* \\n \\n 98->99 summoning (yaks, VOS).* I might as well just finish it off and hopefully learn to stop being lazy and actually use a steel titan. \\n \\n 85->88 smithing (TBD). \\n 88->89 smithing (addy plates). \\n 89->?? smithing (corrupted ore with VOS)*. This is mostly so I can make tetsu but it's also just one more step on the path to max cape. \\n \\n 93->94 crafting (TBD). This is so I can open gorged ancient effigies without stew. \\n \\n 97->99 fletching broad arrows. Why not. \\n \\n Use remaining money on buyable skills, probably smithing since that'd lower repair costs. \\n From there it'd not really matter what I do but I've been thinking \\n \\n 78->?? thieving. This gives me 80+ all skills and puts me closer to elf city PPing which is really where it gets ezpz so getting as close to that as I can would be great. \\n \\n 90->?? agility (VOS).* \\n \\n So\",\n \"Summary: Lets take a more constructive, Jagex considerate approach with our suggestions and work towards a middle ground with Jagex where those who enjoy MTX as it is can do that but those of us who despise MTX as it is can get in on the action better while still supporting Jagex.\\n\\nPost: Please try to read all the way through - I hate it when people bring up something when I've already addressed it or assume I will/won't say certain things then instantly just up/downvote. \\n \\n Oh wait we can already do that? Oh. \\n Yes, it's true everyone. A surprise to hopefully no one, you can simply buy Bonds and convert these for runecoins, TH keys, even membership. Personally I don't pay a penny out of pocket for my main's membership and I'm really happy with Jagex giving me that option. \\n Yes, someone needs to spend money on these. \\n No, that doesn't matter. The point is I don't have to. I pay less money for the game, I get all the benefits of being a member without paying a cent. \\n The problem seems not to be that though, most people know that you can get bonds with RSGP and convert them to TH keys, the problem seems to be that players feel either \\n A) Ripped off by the RNG nature of TH \\n And hey guess what there's a ton of RNG in this game already, but maybe this is something Jagex can reasonably 'fix'. We'll get into that in a later section of the post. \\n Or plays feel \\n B) Unable to make large sums of money to reasonable acquire the things. \\n To this, I think it's important to remember that not everyone can/should cut dragonstones for 99 crafting. Sure, they're 700K EXP/hour or whatever but they're really expensive to do . . . By the same token, not everyone can/should spend money on bonds to train. Buying bonds with RSGP is a rich player's training method, it isn't for everyone and that's just too bad for you. \\n You can buy TH keys with real life money, and you might think that somehow makes this different but it's not . \\n If you think, \\\"oh the only other option for acquiring TH keys is spending immense amount of RSGP on bonds and that's crazy!\\\" well I can just say \\\"oh the only other option for acquire GP instead of buying bonds from Jagex is immense amounts of time on making money in the game!\\\" \\n Yes. Not paying Jagex will make things harder. This is the status quo at this point. \\n Want to make a 1B bank? Well, buy 120ish bonds and you're about set. \\n Want the the new shark outfit? Well, buy 100 keys and you're set. \\n Sure, those are our \\\"best\\\" options, our \\\"most efficient\\\" options and for many players it feels like the only viable option. \\n But they aren't our only options. \\n Ultimately, getting an artisan's outfit or whatever else just boils down to a GP/XP. How much RSGP do I pay to get the keys to get the outfit? Consider the other rewards from TH and well, I guess it's probably worth it for some people. Some other people? It's just too expensive so they pay real money or simply don't get the outfit. Too bad for them, hopefully they'll one day reach the GP/hour that it becomes efficient for them so they can stop whining. \\n But there's still the other issue, RNG in TH isn't particularly popular. This is the most easily addressed issue with TH, and I believe fixing this or giving an alternative to it will be our first step towards having a good, reasonable discussion with each other and Jagex. \\n If you ask me, moving forward we should \\n \\n Accept that buying TH keys with RSGP is very expensive and realize this simply makes it a training method for those with a lot of GP. It's only forcing you to buy TH keys from Jagex as much as uncut dragonstones are forcing you to buy bonds from Jagex. \\n \\n Rally for direct bond to outfit purchases. So for example - have Vic be around year round and sell skilling outfits for bonds. You lose out on the BXP/XP/other rewards you'd get from TH if you just converted to keys, but you know you get the outfit piece.\\nAdding them to minigames makes the game better, sure, but it directly (at least short term) goes against making money for Jagex and simply put - that isn't going to happen and we need to stop being deluded enough to think it will. We have to find a middle ground . Another alternative that I enjoy would be \\\"guaranteed\\\" items, so for every X amount of bought keys you use you will be given an item of your choosing, no RNG. Just, \\\"Hey I want this item. Gimme.\\\" I'm not a market analyst so the \\\"x\\\"s and such need to be fine tuned so it's still making Jagex happy with profits but also moves towards a less RNG focused TH. Perhaps we could even ask for bonds AND minigame reward tokens to be necessary, thus reviving minigames while still appeasing IVP. \\n \\n Be more constructive and realistic about our complaints. Whining that Jagex is running the game into the ground is fine, but we need to tell them why they are how we can fix that. Asking for a different way to acquire TH outfits is fine, but it needs to be in a way that Jagex can still profit from because otherwise it simply won't happen. We can make MTX better for everyone, but until we start being reasonable with each other it'll only get worse. We need to find a model that the player base enjoys but still makes Jagex money, see point #2.\",\n \"Summary: If you're the biggest of investors in TH already, you'll probably find these no problem and think nothing of it anyway because T80 weapons aren't that important to you anyway. \\n If you want to invest in TH just for these, unless you really like them cosmetically and have money to burn . . . Probably not worth your while. \\n Some people will get them from their daily keys, but that's not going to be the norm and it at best they're saving 200K DG tokens and a Zamorakian spear, at worst they'll get a chaotic kiteshield with pretty much 0 practical applications. \\n \\n If any of my math is off, you have suggestions for formatting, please feel free to correct / give me those suggestions. \\n Other than that, I guess just discuss as you see fit and thank you very much for reading.\\n\\nPost: Alright, so as you all may know there's many new things coming to Treasure Hunter but the most controversial of them is by far the Lucky chaotics. \\n I did a bit of digging and I'm here to bring you facts and take a look at how much these will effect the game and if they're worth your worries. \\n First thing's first - lets make it very clear that these weapons function in the same way a regular chaotic does, combat statistics and recharge costs are the same. The requirement of 80 dungeoneering is still there as well. \\n Winning a lucky chaotic is much like winning a free 100K-200K tokens from DG or in the case of the lucky chaotic claw/off-hand claw, the relevant dragon claw as well and the chaotic spear, a Zamorakian spear. \\n Although the official wiki is not known for accurate information (sorry Jagex) the wiki says, \\n > As with other chaotic items, lucky chaotic items are degradable and will last for 10 hours before they break. \\n I do not yet know if they come at 20% (as a non-claw/spear chaotic would be upon buying) or 100% though, so winning a lucky one could be a smidgen better than the 100k-200k figure I mentioned earlier. Either \\n You can earn many different lucky weapons. \\n \\n Lucky chaotic rapier (200K DG tokens to obtain the regular version). \\n \\n Lucky off-hand chaotic rapier (100K). \\n \\n Lucky chaotic longsword (200k). \\n \\n Lucky off-hand chaotic longsword (100k). \\n \\n Lucky chaotic claw (100k, a dragon claw [120K]). \\n \\n Lucky off-hand chaotic claw (100k, an off-hand dragon claw [85k]). \\n \\n Lucky chaotic maul (200k). \\n \\n Lucky chaotic spear (200k, a Zamorakian spear [900K]). \\n \\n Lucky chaotic staff (200k). \\n \\n Lucky chaotic chrossbow (200k). \\n \\n Lucky off-hand chaotic crossbow (100k). \\n \\n Lucky chaotic kiteshield (200k). \\n \\n Lucky eagle-eye kiteshield (200k). \\n \\n Lucky farseer kiteshield (200k). \\n \\n \\n I do not yet know if these can be destroyed to earn half of their would-be-token worth in tokens. \\n All other \\\"lucky\\\" items have been in the \\\"Very Rare\\\" category, so we can only assume they will be in there. Within the \\\"Very Rare\\\" category, many things have different rarities (confusing, right?) I think we can all agree the 200M reward for example is much rarer than lucky GWD items. Due to this, I believe lucky chaotics will be at the very least as rare as but more likely, rare than, lucky GWD items. \\n \\n Now - this next part is much less about facts and more about grasping the situation. It's to illustrate their rarity a bit and give you a ballpark of how much you'll have to drop to find one of these lucky chaotics. \\n Remember that although I won't mention it you'll get lots of other stuff, not just the chaotics, so while the investment to a chaotic may look high it's really the investment to get a chaotic along with lots of BXP, XP, skilling outfits, etc. \\n So, lets make some hypothetical situations. Lets say you have a 1/100, 1/200 and 1/500 chance of getting a lucky chaotic. (I believe these figures are incredibly low, as we'll go into later). \\n First, lets talk pricing. I'll be using CAD because I'm a lazy fuck (sorry). \\n 15 keys is $5 CAD \\n 35 keys is $10 CAD \\n 75 keys is $20 CAD \\n 200 keys is $50 CAD \\n 450 keys is $100 CAD \\n When paying with bonds and assuming they are 8M (currently 7.7M GE mid but we all know they'll be rising in price due to their recently increased price so I'm going to price them at 8M. Don't shoot me over this please.) \\n 15 keys is 8M, thus 1 key is 533K. ($5 CAD if bought directly with IRL cash). \\n 35 keys is 18.6M ($10) \\n 75 keys is 39.97M ($20) \\n 200 keys is 106.6M ($50) \\n 450 keys is 239.85M ($100) \\n This next part is a bit of an aside but will illustrate something important. If we again say bonds are 8M on the GE and consider their $6.19 CAD price to buy a bond lets think about how much RSGP you'd receive by spending the money you would have spent on keys on bonds then selling the bonds on the GE (again, for 8M). 8M / 619 = 12924, thus 1 cent = 12924GP \\n 15 keys = $5 = 6462000GP (6.46M) \\n 35 keys = $10 = 129240000 (12.9M) \\n 75 keys = $20 = 2584000 (25.8M) \\n 200 keys = $50 = 646200000 (64.6M) \\n 450 keys = $100 = 129240000 (129.2M) \\n Lets all bring this together and talk about what the price tags on lucky stuff is. \\n \\n At an assumed 1/100 you're shelling out about $22/lucky chaotic (assuming you buy keys in chunks of 450, which is your best deal in terms of $->keys). \\n At 1/200 it's $44. \\n At 1/500 it's $110. \\n If we buy keys via bonds bought with RSGP you're paying \\n 53.3M at 1/100. \\n 106.6M at 1/200. \\n 266.5M at 1/500. \\n If you are a silver/gold member, do your daily challenge each day and use your regular keys you'll have a total of 4 keys. \\n At 1/100 you'll find a lucky chaotic every 25 days. \\n At 1/200, 50 days. \\n At 1/500, 100 days. \\n This last one (daily keys) is to put into perspective the fact that the idea of them being as common as even 1/500 is pretty low. I mean, if you're reading this you've probably been a member for a reasonable amount of time, do you even have 1 lucky GWD item? 2? 3? \\n And even if you do have 1 or 2 from daily keys, remember that these lucky chaotics are potentially rarer than lucky GWD items and you probably don't even care about some of them. I mean, chaotic kiteshield? Who cares about that? \\n I believe these could be much, much rarer than even 1/500. . . Yet look at how high the figures are for our hypothetical money/RSGP investments to find these items, and these hypothetical situations rule out the possibility of big dry streaks too! \\n There are a total of 14 lucky chaotics (although you should remember about 5 of these are pretty useless). \\n To get all of them, assuming your chance of getting a lucky chaotic remains a constant 1/100, 1/200, 1/500, even as the number of them you have increases (thus the amount of different chaotics you see in TH decreases) you would need to spend . . . \\n At 1/100, $308. \\n At 1/200, $608. \\n At 1/500, $1540. \\n At 1/100, 746.2M \\n At 1/200, 1492.4M \\n At 1/500, 3731M \\n Again, remember you'll get other TH rewards alongside these but also remember that the rates for lucky chaotics are probably lower than even 1/500, it wouldn't make sense for them to be more common than lucky GWD items but we're not all swimming in lucky GWD items from daily keys.\"\n]","isConversational":false},"profile_size":{"kind":"number","value":38,"string":"38"},"task":{"kind":"string","value":"longlamp_4"},"split_kind":{"kind":"string","value":"user_based"},"id":{"kind":"number","value":1294,"string":"1,294"}}},{"rowIdx":1295,"cells":{"question_id":{"kind":"string","value":"fedabog"},"question":{"kind":"string","value":"Generate the content for a reddit post Basically, yeah. The meds help you cope and clear your mind. Then you can rationally figure out what negative thoughts you have, and replace them with positive ones. Lying to yourself works, as long as you confront your problems at the same time."},"answer":{"kind":"string","value":"edit: Not-steve, this is the idea in a nutshell. There is a lot that goes behind it, and its not as easy at it may seem....especially if you have a mental illness (depression, manic depressive, disassociation, ect.) \n \n I used to have major depressive disorder with suicidal ideations (sounds complex... I know). \n The idea behind CBT is that people allow negative feelings and behaviors control their thoughts. By thinking negatively, you feel worse and behave worse, thus creating a never ending cycle of suck. \n By recognizing your negative thoughts, and replacing them with positive and (mostly) rational thoughts, you cut off the cycle. Eventually, after realizing your negative thought tendencies and working them through, your positive thoughts take hold, making you feel better. \n For example, John Doe is feeling down on his luck lately. He lost his job, his girlfriend, and his dog. Since he's feeling down, he begins to think, \"Nobody likes me. I'm worthless. I'll never have a job again. I'll never date again\". These thoughts make him feel worse and act depressed, which in turn make him think worse thoughts (such as considering suicide). However one day, he decides, \"It's not worth feeling this bad. I should just go out and job hunt. If most places won't hire me, then I didn't want to work there in the first place. Hell, while I'm at it, I'll call an old friend for coffee and hit up the local animal shelter as well! I'm fucking awesome, and its time I live like it!\" He begins to feel better because he cut off the cycle. He might still be going through some shitty times, but he eventually has an easier time coping and coming up with rational solutions. \n Sometimes faking happiness and confidence is what you need to actually feel happy. As long as faking it goes alongside dealing with your issues in a rational, thought-out way. It's what I learned to do, and it literally saved my life."},"correct_answer":{"kind":"string","value":"edit: Not-steve, this is the idea in a nutshell. There is a lot that goes behind it, and its not as easy at it may seem....especially if you have a mental illness (depression, manic depressive, disassociation, ect.) \n \n I used to have major depressive disorder with suicidal ideations (sounds complex... I know). \n The idea behind CBT is that people allow negative feelings and behaviors control their thoughts. By thinking negatively, you feel worse and behave worse, thus creating a never ending cycle of suck. \n By recognizing your negative thoughts, and replacing them with positive and (mostly) rational thoughts, you cut off the cycle. Eventually, after realizing your negative thought tendencies and working them through, your positive thoughts take hold, making you feel better. \n For example, John Doe is feeling down on his luck lately. He lost his job, his girlfriend, and his dog. Since he's feeling down, he begins to think, \"Nobody likes me. I'm worthless. I'll never have a job again. I'll never date again\". These thoughts make him feel worse and act depressed, which in turn make him think worse thoughts (such as considering suicide). However one day, he decides, \"It's not worth feeling this bad. I should just go out and job hunt. If most places won't hire me, then I didn't want to work there in the first place. Hell, while I'm at it, I'll call an old friend for coffee and hit up the local animal shelter as well! I'm fucking awesome, and its time I live like it!\" He begins to feel better because he cut off the cycle. He might still be going through some shitty times, but he eventually has an easier time coping and coming up with rational solutions. \n Sometimes faking happiness and confidence is what you need to actually feel happy. As long as faking it goes alongside dealing with your issues in a rational, thought-out way. It's what I learned to do, and it literally saved my life."},"documents":{"kind":"list like","value":["Summary: Go see your doctor first, then gradually work yourself up. Stay focused and stay strong\n\nPost: First off, go see your doctor. Make sure you are physically able to exercise. This might sound like a joke, but if you have an underlying heart condition or cardiovascular disease you are unaware about.... it could kill you. I am not saying to never exercise again, but talk to your doctor and see what they recommend. \n I have been helping my mother reach her weight goals. Currently, she has lost almost 20lbs in the last few months and her Type 2 diabetes is stabilizing. \n The key to losing weight is to keep with it. Start small, and work yourself up. You might feel frustrated that you can only do a light workout during your first few weeks. But the first few weeks are the most important of your weight loss. Mentally, you are going to have to push yourself, but the rewards are completely worth the hardships. \n This is what I am having my mom do: For the first week, go for a walk. If you have dogs, even better. Walk until you get tired, and reward yourself mentally for however long you make it. If you can, try to walk a set distance each day for 5 days and take the weekend to recover. If you can't manage 5 days, try 3 and work up to it. Each week, try to add 10% to your walk. So, if you manage 1 mile each day your first week...try 1.1 miles. \n When you can comfortably walk around 3-5 miles each session, try incorporating a light jog. For example, try jogging till you get tired on monday. Try doing it once a week, with each week trying to jog a little more. If you feel pain, stop, rest, recover. Do NOT be discouraged. \n Eventually try doing a little more each time you go out. Listen to your body. If you get to a point where you can comfortably work out each day and feel good, always try something new. My mom is doing kickboxing and she absolutely loves it. \n As for dieting...greens are good. McDonalds is bad. Incorporate fruits and vegetables into your day. Try eating lean meats and staying away from soda, candy, fatty cakes, and anything super processed. Personally, I love protein shakes. I make a shake, around 200 cal per serving, full of protein and vitamins/minerals. A shake is a great meal replacement for me. Understand that I am 175lbs, trying to cut down to 155...so its a tad easier for me. However, its worth a shot. Also, you don't have to go cold turkey on bad foods. Maybe try rewarding yourself at the end of the week. \n [ is the weight loss stack that I use.) When you get a point to where you can comfortably exercise, try a stack. Make sure you consult your doctor first, because a stack like this will make you sweat and will raise your heartrate. For me, the BSN mens weightloss stack has given me a ton of energy, keeps me focused, and gives me the extra push of motivation to work harder during my workouts. \n Finallly, remember that training is just as mental as it is physical. Focus on your goals and keep pushing yourself to achieve your goals. You will have hard days, but keep reminding yourself that you will get through them. I don't know you, but I believe in you.","Summary: It's not a matter of how terrible it is. People smoke for a variety of reasons. For me, it was a way to take a break from life for a few minutes while gaining mental clarity. It ultimately led to nicotine addiction. \n Also, I would like to point out that I have cut down to just 3 cigarettes a day (sometimes 0 a day). I now use an electronic cigarette, which has all the benefits of nicotine, and non of the cancerous death-dealing of cigarettes.\n\nPost: Although I believe that /u/Exis007 described it almost perfectly, I would like to give my own personal standpoint about smoking. \n I started smoking at the age of 20. I was fresh out of my army training and was in my company for a few months. The running joke with the military is that it breeds two types of people, smokers and drinkers. It's a sad joke, but in reality, its kind of true. \n See, I started smoking because many of my peers did it. Now I know that you should never vow to peer pressure, but my peers never pressured me. I had realized that my smoker buddies went out to smoke to a) hide from higher ups, or b) to take a break from either sitting around or doing a long detail. For them, it was a way out and stress relief, even for just a few mintues. \n So, I started. I tried one, just thinking that if I had it, I would hate it. That would be the end of it. But, here is the thing, it only takes one to become addicted. Why? Because of nicotine. \n Nicotine is a drug classified as a nootropic. Nootropics, such as -racetams, acetylcholine, adrafinil, and even stims like caffine make your brain more effective. They increase concentration, mental clarity, focus, memory, and make you feel smarter. You get a buzz from the nicotine, that feels pleasant and makes you feel more \"in control\". But unlike most nootropics, nicotine is also highly addictive (obviously). \n I hated my first cigarette. But I loved the buzz. So, I tried one more. One became one a day. Then two a day. Then came the point where instead of getting the buzz, I smoked to keep nicotine in my body, to keep myself from feeling withdrawl. It had gotten to the point that I was smoking a pack a day, just to feel normal. \n Sure, I knew the risks. Hell, I didn't want to smoke in the first place. I did not what to smoke when I was out smoking. But it provided things for me. I provided me a break from work. It provided me a means to go and control my thoughts while relaxing, or when things were going bad. It was a mechanism to excuse me from life. \n We all know the risks going into smoking. But we all have different reasons for doing it. For many, its the inherent thought of it being \"bad\". Driving a motorcycle is dangerous, but I still do it. Drinking soda is bad, but millions of people drink soda every day. Some people smoke pot because its a \"banned substance\". For others, they smoke because they are desensitized to it. If people around you smoke, and you see the community, you begin to see more pros than cons. You know its bad, but you see others using it to their advantage. As with anything else, people do it for their own reasons.","Summary: There is still a lot of good in this world and in the US, and that's what I fight for, and would die for. \n EDIT: I was gifted gold. Thanks for the support guys!\n\nPost: As a servicemember, I don't think any soldier/sailor/marine/airman/coast guardsman WANT's to die for their country. Personally, I don't want to die. However, I would gladly pay the ultimate price for my country, if it came to it. Does that make sense? \n As totally messed up as the United States is these days, and as much as I want to see things change, I still am a proud citizen. I still believe in this beautiful nation and I took an oath to protect this nation against all enemies, foreign and domestic. Many of my fellow servicemembers feel the same way I do. \n I feel that being a servicemember exposes us to the ugly truth that there are other places in the world that are much worse than things are here. We also see the path that we are taking, and it can be really scary sometimes. The knowledge of this helps me form not only an opinion, but a plan of action to help return this country back to it's former glory. And that's what I fight for, making sure the USA will be a better place for future generations.","Summary: If Ron Paul doesn't win, I'm voting for Gary Johnson. Why? Because I can.\n\nPost: I think that I can speak for many of RP supporters, and say that Romney and Obama are just not options for the presidency. I (we) believe that voting for either candidate is just 4 more years of the same. We chose to support Ron Paul because we are done with the same. We are done with the Federal Reserve making money out of thin air, giving money to other nations with no regard to our own people struggling, fighting drug wars that cost lives and dollars, fighting wars overseas, having laws imposed that restrict our own freedoms, ect. \n So, we do we do. We have 2 options. Either we support the Liberty movement by voting Gary Johnson, or we do not vote at all. Voting for more of the same is just not a viable option for the vast majority of us. \nAs for me, I still hold hope for the RNC and a Paul upset, no matter the odds. If/when Paul is out, I will for sure vote for Gary Johnson, as his views most closely follow mine. \n One of the criticisms I usually receive for displaying my support for a third part candidate is, \"You are throwing your vote away\" or \"Your vote for Gary is a vote for Obama.\" My vote for Gary Johnson is a vote for Gary Johnson. Supporters of the Liberty movement should (and do) vote based on morals, not on numbers. Which is what the voting system should be.","Summary: This post is basically about CBT. It is used to treat mental disorders.\n\nPost: This is actually part of the basis of Cognitive Behavior Therapy. I learned about CBT after trying to commit suicide in 2010. I have been fuck free since learning about it. \n Basically, the common mentality (especially among depressed people) is that peoples feelings control their thoughts and behaviors. For example, I feel worthless today, so I will think worthless thoughts. By thinking worthless thoughts, you begin to act like a worthless person or you try faking happiness until you realize it doesn't work. By behaving so poorly, you continue thinking based on your feelings and behaviors, creating a cycle of despair and negative thoughts. \n However, the correct way to think is to not let your feelings dictate your thoughts or actions. You break up the circle of depression by letting your thoughts control your feelings. For example, your SO breaks up with you. You feel pretty sad. But, you think, \"Everything happens for a reason\" or \"Thank God its over!\" or \"IDGAF\" instead of, \"Man, I am so depressed!\". This breaks the cycle and causes you to behave in a more positive light. You might still be sad, but you are not catastrophizing over the situation. In fact, you give your brain time to process the situation for what its worth, and maybe realizing that the breakup wasnt bad afterall. At the very least, you get a break of mental clarity to find a way to \"win them back\" (I don't suggest winning them back) \n Pretty much.... Don't let your feelings control your thoughts and behaviors. Let your thoughts (consciousness) control your feelings and behaviors. If you think good thoughts, you will feel good and behave well. Not giving a fuck is a great thought and produces even better feelings and behaviors!","Summary: The best way to fight bullying, it to fight a bully.\n\nPost: Honestly, this advice of deflecting and using verbal tactics to start a conversation with the bully sounds nice on paper, but is not effective in practice. \n In high school, I tried responding to bullying showing I didn't care, by trying to talk to them about it, by telling the administration, ect. Let me tell you, it didn't stop. Asshole teenagers don't care and will continue to bug you as long as they feel safe doing it. \n So, what did I do? I threatened them, and backed it up. I remember one time I was being bullied, I told the kid \"either you knock it off or I will knock your head off\". He didn't knock it off, so I popped him in the jaw in front of all his little friends. All of the bullying stopped that day, because they knew that if they bugged me, I might hurt them. \n Yeah, I got called into the office, and they asked me why I hit them. I replied, \"I told you he was bullying me. You refused to do anything about it, so I did\". Yeah, I ended up getting in trouble, but being in trouble for a few days was a lot better than being picked on. Plus, I was respected.","Summary: Smoking is bad, mmkay? \n EDIT: Apparently, I can still edit my post once it's archived. I want to make the point that I wrote this 11 months ago, and that my views have changed somewhat. Note that this was based on personal observation and the observations of those around me. \n I do think that methods to quit can help. Patches, gum, and lozenges can help... However, they really are not that effective. I took Chantix to quit, which caused suicidal ideations and vivid dreams (both are side effects). It may work for some, but it's very slippery and I've yet to hear a single success story. \n Finally, there have a ton of replies on the /r/bestof that they quit cold turkey. Congratulations! Seriously, good job. Again, I mentioned cold turkey as innefective from personal expereince and oberservation. It takes a ton of willpower to quit cold turkey, and a ton of willpower to continue to keep off the habit. Like many have said, it only takes one to get you back on the habit again. \n Finally, I want to express my thanks for getting this on /r/bestof. I love all the comments and debates going on.[ Here is the link to that page.](\n\nPost: He is what will probably happen if you start smoking... \n First, you will try a cigarette. You will cough, your lungs will hurt, and you might have the feeling like you wanna puke. However, you will also get a feeling like all of your blood is rushing to your head. It will feel mildly euphoric, and you will have a little more clarity of thinking. I think of it as taking a very low dose of Percocet or other prescription pain killer, only enough to feel the effects but to not be a zombie. \n Next, that feeling will go away, and you will light up again. Might be after a few hours or it might be a month down the road. After you light, you realize that it doesn't hurt so much to inhale. It's actually quite pleasurable. And that nicotine rush....WOW!!!! Hit you like a ton of bricks. Now you feel amazing! You're thinking clearly, you feel great, life is on the up and up. \n Fast forward a little bit. You now smoke 3 cigarettes a day. Smoking one still feels good, but it's a little harder to feel that high. You explain to yourself that you will only have 3 a day. You don't want to be full on addicted. Fact is, it's already too late. \n Before long, 3 cigarettes dont give you the high anymore, so you do 4. 4 becomes 5. You start smoking right after you get out of bed in the morning. Next thing you know, you're smoking a half pack a day. You smoke more when you are stressed. You start smoking after a drink at the bar, after a few rounds of video games, during your break at work, on your way home. You start to realize that now you don't get a nicotine high, but you smoke so you don't have cravings. \n On top of all of this, you start going through body changes. You are more irritable if you haven't smoked for a while. Food/drinks don't taste as good. Your fingers smell. You smell. Your level of fitness drops (can't run as far, cant push as much, ect) and even moderate cardio makes you short of breath. You cough more. Your libido drops a bit. Your overall health drops, but you continue because you are addicted. \n Finally, you decide to quit. However, patches, gum, and lozenges are total shit. You may try the prescription medication route. It works, but you start having vivid dreams and difficulty discerning reality from the dream world (I did). You may even consider suicide because it feels as if you are going insane. You quit prescriptions and go back to the cancer stick. Btw, cold turkey and the lollypop methods don't work. \n Smoking may seem harmless at first. But honestly, its a very slippery slope. I have been smoking for almost 5 years now. Yeah, I admit that sometimes I love it, and that it helps reduce stress (or my mind had reasoned that it does). But I also hate it. I currently have an e-cig on order so I can try to quit, because smoking a pack a day is hard on the body and extremely hard on the wallet.","Summary: I think we are not alone as the only life in the universe. However, I don't think we will ever hear them.\n\nPost: I see it this way: \n \"Are we alone in the universe?\" is a double sided question. In regards to the presence of extra-terrestrial life, I don't believe we are. With the recent discoveries of thousands of Earth-like planets in our little quadrant of space, its mathematically probable that there are other worlds that sustain life. Is Earth really a 1 in a quadrillion type deal? Hell no. I bet there are probably millions of civilizations in the universe, all with varying degrees of technology/religion/ect. \n However, on the other side of the \"are we alone?\" question, is wether or not WE (as earthlings) will ever meet alien life. Sure, we might find microbes on Mars or Europa. However, we can only go as fast as light takes us. Which means that unless we find a way to go faster than light, we will never know. Even then, where will we begin to look. And how can we be sure that other life sent/is sending messages via radio signals now? What are we trying to hear? Us listening for something other than white noise, or looking through a telescope is like looking for a needle in a haystack the size of the Milky Way.","Summary: We are not extreme right or left, but rather a correlation of the positives both sides. \n edit: Here is a good graph to describe what I said:\n\nPost: I cannot speak on behalf of anarcho-capitalists, because I am ignorant on the true nature of their views. However as a libertarian, I can try to change your view. \n Libertarians can actually be considered centerists in a way. \n On the conservative side, we support a limited government and fiscal responsibility. So, as conservatives (used to) support less taxes, less unregulated government spending, and less government intervention in private affairs, we support these ideas too. For instance, most libertarians believe in having a strong national defense, giving generously to those in need, and advancement based upon ability. However, we stray from conservativism when conservatives fight for things such as government regulated moratily (abortion, gay marriage), the \"war on drugs\" and any other moral wars for that matter, the Patriot act, special treatment for corporations, and taxpayer funding of charities. \n On the liberal side, we support personal freedom and civil liberties. As liberals support the right to choose who you love or what you do with your body, we do to. We support the de-regulation of drugs, abortion, and civil liberties such as gay marriage. We also belive in that our military is there to defend us, not to intervene in other's lives. However, we stray from the liberal side when they support things such as: a bigger government, UN led military actions, restricting our constitutional rights, and special treatment for select minorities. Most libertarians are also egalitarians(sp?), such that we support that all men (regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, ect) are created equal. \n So, to recap, we believe in the right wing ideas of personal freedom and economic responsibility, but also in the left wing ideas of personal choice and civil liberties. This is why some people argue that on some issues we are further right the the right, but on others, we are further left than the left. We belive that the constitution is the supreme law of the land, and that we shouldn't make interpretations to restrict it. We also believe that everybody should be free to do as they please, and make decisions personally (or at most the state level) rather than the national level. We don't favor the rich, as we belive that corporations have too much freedom, wall street needs to be held accountable instead of bailed out, and that money should be taken out of politics.","Summary: BEER IS AWESOME! \n Homebrewing Redditors.... How was your first brewing experience? What did you make? How did you feel? How did it turn out?\n\nPost: I just popped the top of my first bottle of an Irish Red Ale. I have to admit that the feeling of drinking your first homebrew, coupled with the stress of making your first batch, is such a great feeling. My ale is frigging delicious! \n As I was sipping on this fine masterpiece of a beer, I began to think back almost 6 weeks ago. Back then, I spend almost all evening making the wort, worrying about having the temperature above or below the temperature. Then after boiling, worrying about if my chilling process was taking too long. For the next week, I kept looking at my bucket, hoping it would turn out. Then I transfered my beer to the carboy for secondary fermentation. \n I remember after the secondary fermentation, taking a hydrometer reading. 1.020! I was wanting the recommended FG of 1.012! My day is ruined! Oh well, I shall bottle it anyway! \n Then, for the next three weeks, I was hoping I would not have exploding bottles...or worse... non-carbonated beer! Each day increased my excitement, and my doubt. \n Then comes tonight. I finally decided I could not wait any longer. I took my trusty bottle opener, cracked open the bottle, slowly poured the brew into a glass, and took a sip. After 5 weeks of hard work...it all paid off, and I now have amazing beer! I feel as though I just won the beer brewing lottery!","Summary: Drive through the desert, and your car might explode.\n\nPost: Mine occurred a few months ago. \n I was driving from Las Vegas to Portland, Or after a week of...well, vegas. I was driving my car, which I had done exhaust work a year earlier. The drive down to Vegas was perfect. \n As I was driving through I-15 to LA, I noticed my gas gauge was going down more than usual. About 150 miles into my trip, I was nearly empty and I was in the middle of the desert on a 115 degree day. I finally stop at a gas station to fuel up, and I indeed notice a leak. Thinking it was just a blown fuel hose (not a big problem), I fueled up and made my way to the closest service station in Barstow. \n When I show up to the closest service station, I found out that my fuel line was fine. However, My muffler had melted my gas tank, and gasoline was leaking onto a red hot exhaust. The men at the service station told me that my car could/should have exploded on the road, and that I was lucky to be alive.","Summary: To change the nature of politics, we need to keep the conversation going, elect libertarians, and respect others instead of spam them. \n What do you all think we need to do to promote Liberty in the US? This post is meant as a sort of blanket conversation over what we need to do and how we need to do it.\n\nPost: Now that America has decided for more of the same, the GOP has seen what happens when they ignore the ideals of the Liberty movement, and Gary Johnson received over 1 million votes, it is time for the Libertarian Party and the Liberty movement to move forward and plan for the next 4 years. \n Here is what I think needs to happen: \n First, we still need to continue to conversation we have been talking about for the last year. This should be obvious, but I see too many people say, \"Okay, Election day is over. Obama won. I'm done with politics till 2016\". This lack of caring is the reason we are sucking right now. NOW is the time to fight for our ideals. We need to continue the facebook posts, the posts in /r/politics and around reddit, the conversations with our friends and family, ect. No doubt, the country is starting to pay attention to us, and we have the ability to say, \"this is what you voted for\". \n Secondly, its time to plan for future elections. One huge way to gain traction is to support and elect Libertarians at lower levels. If you have a Libertarian running for city council, support them. If in the next few years, you have a libertarian running for county commissioner, state senate, or state rep., vote for them and support their cause. When its time to vote for your Reps and Senators in US Congress, support libertarian. \n Lastly, we need to be respectful and professional. This should also be as obvious as the last two points, but it is easy to make the establishment think we are a bunch of crazy, anarchist potheads if we don't act with a professional demeanor. I felt that much of our movement this year (both in Ron Paul and Johnson) was hindered by a lack of professionalism in our organization. For example, many Ron Paul fanboys and had taken over and spammed /r/politics and /r/republican that it seemed to give EPS a lot of traction. You could also see this on the national scale. So, to battle this, we need to stay away from \"Libertarians are always right\", \"Liberty FTW! LOLZ!\" and spam posts, and post threads promoting our ideas in a thought out way while respecting the ideals of others.","Summary: I want to do kegels better and more productively. Please shed your words of wisdom!\n\nPost: A little background about me: I am a 23 year old male who is looking for better sexual performance. I, as most men would, want to be able to perform longer and preform better. As such, I'm getting in the habit of doing kegels. I have been doing them for about a week and a half. \n First question. Am I doing them correctly? I tried the method of stopping my pee. And I have gotten good at singling out that particular PC muscle. However, when I'm doing the exercise, I can only hold it for an instant. I flex, then I suddenly release. I'm lucky to get a one second squeeze. \n I also heard that you squeeze the entire area, to include your anus/sphincter. That this method, a metaphor being holding a poo and pee, is a correct way of doing kegels. If I do this method, I can hold for about twice as long. \n So, Kegel masters of reddit, which method is more correct? \n Third question. How long did it take you to hold for longer than a few seconds? I understand that I shouldn't expect mindblowing results in 11 days, but how long did it take you to see noticeable results on average? \n Finally, How do these exercises pertain to sex? I've read arguments that you squeeze your PC muscles as you start to get the orgasmic tingle, while others say you relax and reverse kegel. What methods/tips/tricks do you use? \n I understand that there are a ton of posts, google links, information about kegels, but I still haven't found good answers to these questions. Mostly, I just see \"dood, kegels made me a sexual Superman!\". Thank you all for any advice you give!","Summary: Kegels make you harder, last longer, able to shoot jizz shells out of your 12 gauge cock-shotgun, and maybe bigger too. The Fleshlight STU is a masturbatory must that will not only feel great, but might make a better lover too. \n So, ladies and gentlmen. What do you think? Have any Kegel or Fleshlight success stories? How do you feel about getting past the stigmas of using a masturbator? Let's foster some sexy-ass discussion! \n Edit: Spelling/Grammer.\n\nPost: Let me begin by pointing out that upon seeing the word \"Kegels\", I bet quite a few of you guys just flexed it. Good job, people! \n Let's get onto my story and to my plea for the men and women of sexxit. \n Prepare for a wall of text! \n For the last month, I have been doing kegel exercises. /u/toastysidearm posted an AMA of sorts on this sub a month ago about his experience with kegels ([Link]( This hilarious, yet informative post got me real interested in kegels. I mean, who doesn't want to last longer in bed, have harder erections, and be able to shoot jizz out of your \"cock glock\", and enjoy the array of other benefits that a stronger PC muscle has to offer? \n After a month, a ton of google searches, and a post on this sub to make sure I was doing them right, I have seen some fantastic results already! My routine was pretty basic. Thrice a day, I do my kegels. I squeeze, hold for as long as I could, and relax. I do a set of 10-20 squeezes, maybe add a few reverse kegels (the push) for variety, and continue on with my day until my brain decides, \"hey buddy, you should do some more kegels!\". It's been a pretty low key exercise regimen. I've seen improvement from split second squeezes, to squeezes that last 3-4 seconds now. \n How have my results been after a month? Pretty damn fantastic! I felt like I was a good lover before. Hell, no woman has ever issued a complaint on my sexual prowlice! But now, I'm already feeling like I'm stepping up into a new level. \n \n My erections are stronger and more frequent. Randomly throughout the day, my man-cannon will decided to get cocked, locked, and ready to rock. I'll be all like, \"DOWN BOY!\", and my penis will be all like, \"MAN, FUCK YOU! LETS DO THIS SHIT!\". Seriously, 94.3% of the time my little friend decides to raise his flag, he goes full mast and stays there for a long time. I'm starting to forget what half mast feels like! \n \n Lasting longer... Now, my sex life the last month and a half have been quite lonely. However, my \"alone time\" has gotten much better. I'm seeing a transition from \"find porn, rub one out, continue with life\", to \"find porn (or just fantasize), start rubbing, feel the urges, FLEX!!!!!, continue going to town, decide to finish, continue with life\". It feels great! Personal sessions are starting to go from 1-2 minutes to whenever im too tired to go on. \n \n Shooting jizz out of your cock glock. I haven't tried to do any practice at the firing range, but with having a stronger PC muscle, there is a definite feeling of more control and harder orgasms. If I were to try, I bet I could shoot a quarter from a half mile away, if you know what I mean! \n \n A larger piece and more confidence. Yes, kegels can make you grow a little bit. There's not much at this point, but I do seem to have a little more girth and a little more length. Maybe I just feel better about myself. I'll have to keep going for another few months to test this theory. \n \n \n So, here is where we talk about the fleshlight. Still with me here? \n I caved in and ordered the Fleshlight STU (stamina training unit) and it came in the mail last week. I was tired of using Palmela Handerson, and saw some good reviews about it. I, like many males, was a little apprehensive about using a fake vagina. However, apprehensiveness is gone now. \n The Fleshlight STU is FUCKING AWESOME! Let's put it to you this way: If amazing vaginal sex is a 10/10, and using your hand is a 5/10, I would rate the STU at a 8.7/10. It's not quite like the real thing, but its incredible. Does it feel like a vagina? Close enough! The texture of the rubber feels very skin-like. The little ribs inside deviate from the vagina-feel, but its freaking intense dude! Those little ribs rub your head and shaft so smoothly, making the sensation incredible. I'll be going fast, just doing my thing, decide to slow down...and it feels more sensitive and intense. I tried stroking slower than a turtle walking across a highway, and nearly came faster! Ladies and gentlemen, its that intense. \n Oh, btw... when you do orgasm, imagine that intense orgasm after a half hour of sex, where your toes want to curl and your head become crazy sensitive. You start saying, \"Oh fuck! Oh fuck!\" as your life-juice starts flowing freely from the fountain. It's pretty much just like that. Bet you don't get that feeling often when you're doing the Five Finger Knuckle Shuffle... \n Lasting long with the fleshie is becoming an art form. The STU was designed to provide maximum stimulation, in hopes that \"lasting 10 minutes with fleshie will make you last 20 in bed\". This is where your kegels come into play. Going all out will last you maybe a good 2-3 minutes. However, when you start to feel the \"urges\", do a few kegels, and you are good to go a little while longer. I still don't see how you can go 10 mintues....but its a goal to work up to. \n Here is my plea for you all! \n Do kegels and have a fleshlight handy. Exercise is just important, and your pelvic floor should be no different. Even if it's for no reason at all, just do them. You'll be glad you did. \n The fleshlight is an incredible device. It's great to use, easy to clean, and will prevent carpal tunnel syndrome. Feeling lonely? Bust it out! Woman on her period? Bust it out? Work trip away from home? Bust. It. OUT! \n Women have toys, and there is little stigma against them using it. Why shouldn't it be any different for men? It's not cheating, it's better than using your hand, and it might make him a little better in the sack. That's a win-win-win situation right thurr! \n So, what have you got to lose? A few bucks? Everything will pay for itself! Seriously...Trust me here... it will...","Summary: I want to kick my roommate out, because shes annoying the fuck out of me. How do I not give a fuck? \n Edit: I told her today, the 19th, that I didn't feel comfortable with here staying here and that she should find another place to live. She asked why, and I told her everything. She said she would change and that she would never take advantage of me again, but I just stuck to my guns and told her she had one month to leave. Thank you all for helping me not give a fuck, as I probably would have let her stay here otherwise.\n\nPost: I feel like you guys and gals can give me the appropriate advice I need to help me with my situation. \n So, I have this roommate. She needed some help finding a place to stay and I had the other room here open. So, I kindly let her take it. For the first few weeks, things seemed fine, as she was pretty chill. \n Boy, was I wrong. \n In the last month, she has made my living situation quite terrible. \n First, she complains every day about her possession of MJ charge, and how the \"system is screwing me over, man\". It's the same complaint every day, and even when I tell her to shut the fuck up, shes back at at the next day. \n Second, she smoked pot inside the apartment. I told her on day one to do it outside. I'm in the military, and I cannot be around it at all. I'm not gonna risk my career because homegirl wants to get high in her bedroom. \n Third, she has lied on multiple occasions about drinking my alcohol. I have a very expensive bottle of whisky and have noticed that a quarter of it is missing. When confronting her, she has denied ever drinking it. However, I have not had any guests over since she moved in. \n Finally, she is generally ruining the general atmosphere of the apartment. I like my place to be a laid back, chill place, where you go to unwind and not give a fuck about anything going on in the outside world. Now, I'm constantly having to deal with her bullshit. The only bright side is that she pays her portion of the bills on time. \n Usually, I could not give any less fucks about things. For some reason, I'm giving her the benefit of the doubt because I know shes poor and has had a rough couple of months. But, now I just want her out. She's not on the lease, but I know that I still have to give her a month to go. \n So, my fine friends at HTNGAF, how do I not give any more fucks about her \"rough times\" and kick her out? Should I be all like, \"Bitch, GTFO\", or, \"I feel like we are not compatable roommates\"? \n Please help me not give any more fucks!"],"string":"[\n \"Summary: Go see your doctor first, then gradually work yourself up. Stay focused and stay strong\\n\\nPost: First off, go see your doctor. Make sure you are physically able to exercise. This might sound like a joke, but if you have an underlying heart condition or cardiovascular disease you are unaware about.... it could kill you. I am not saying to never exercise again, but talk to your doctor and see what they recommend. \\n I have been helping my mother reach her weight goals. Currently, she has lost almost 20lbs in the last few months and her Type 2 diabetes is stabilizing. \\n The key to losing weight is to keep with it. Start small, and work yourself up. You might feel frustrated that you can only do a light workout during your first few weeks. But the first few weeks are the most important of your weight loss. Mentally, you are going to have to push yourself, but the rewards are completely worth the hardships. \\n This is what I am having my mom do: For the first week, go for a walk. If you have dogs, even better. Walk until you get tired, and reward yourself mentally for however long you make it. If you can, try to walk a set distance each day for 5 days and take the weekend to recover. If you can't manage 5 days, try 3 and work up to it. Each week, try to add 10% to your walk. So, if you manage 1 mile each day your first week...try 1.1 miles. \\n When you can comfortably walk around 3-5 miles each session, try incorporating a light jog. For example, try jogging till you get tired on monday. Try doing it once a week, with each week trying to jog a little more. If you feel pain, stop, rest, recover. Do NOT be discouraged. \\n Eventually try doing a little more each time you go out. Listen to your body. If you get to a point where you can comfortably work out each day and feel good, always try something new. My mom is doing kickboxing and she absolutely loves it. \\n As for dieting...greens are good. McDonalds is bad. Incorporate fruits and vegetables into your day. Try eating lean meats and staying away from soda, candy, fatty cakes, and anything super processed. Personally, I love protein shakes. I make a shake, around 200 cal per serving, full of protein and vitamins/minerals. A shake is a great meal replacement for me. Understand that I am 175lbs, trying to cut down to 155...so its a tad easier for me. However, its worth a shot. Also, you don't have to go cold turkey on bad foods. Maybe try rewarding yourself at the end of the week. \\n [ is the weight loss stack that I use.) When you get a point to where you can comfortably exercise, try a stack. Make sure you consult your doctor first, because a stack like this will make you sweat and will raise your heartrate. For me, the BSN mens weightloss stack has given me a ton of energy, keeps me focused, and gives me the extra push of motivation to work harder during my workouts. \\n Finallly, remember that training is just as mental as it is physical. Focus on your goals and keep pushing yourself to achieve your goals. You will have hard days, but keep reminding yourself that you will get through them. I don't know you, but I believe in you.\",\n \"Summary: It's not a matter of how terrible it is. People smoke for a variety of reasons. For me, it was a way to take a break from life for a few minutes while gaining mental clarity. It ultimately led to nicotine addiction. \\n Also, I would like to point out that I have cut down to just 3 cigarettes a day (sometimes 0 a day). I now use an electronic cigarette, which has all the benefits of nicotine, and non of the cancerous death-dealing of cigarettes.\\n\\nPost: Although I believe that /u/Exis007 described it almost perfectly, I would like to give my own personal standpoint about smoking. \\n I started smoking at the age of 20. I was fresh out of my army training and was in my company for a few months. The running joke with the military is that it breeds two types of people, smokers and drinkers. It's a sad joke, but in reality, its kind of true. \\n See, I started smoking because many of my peers did it. Now I know that you should never vow to peer pressure, but my peers never pressured me. I had realized that my smoker buddies went out to smoke to a) hide from higher ups, or b) to take a break from either sitting around or doing a long detail. For them, it was a way out and stress relief, even for just a few mintues. \\n So, I started. I tried one, just thinking that if I had it, I would hate it. That would be the end of it. But, here is the thing, it only takes one to become addicted. Why? Because of nicotine. \\n Nicotine is a drug classified as a nootropic. Nootropics, such as -racetams, acetylcholine, adrafinil, and even stims like caffine make your brain more effective. They increase concentration, mental clarity, focus, memory, and make you feel smarter. You get a buzz from the nicotine, that feels pleasant and makes you feel more \\\"in control\\\". But unlike most nootropics, nicotine is also highly addictive (obviously). \\n I hated my first cigarette. But I loved the buzz. So, I tried one more. One became one a day. Then two a day. Then came the point where instead of getting the buzz, I smoked to keep nicotine in my body, to keep myself from feeling withdrawl. It had gotten to the point that I was smoking a pack a day, just to feel normal. \\n Sure, I knew the risks. Hell, I didn't want to smoke in the first place. I did not what to smoke when I was out smoking. But it provided things for me. I provided me a break from work. It provided me a means to go and control my thoughts while relaxing, or when things were going bad. It was a mechanism to excuse me from life. \\n We all know the risks going into smoking. But we all have different reasons for doing it. For many, its the inherent thought of it being \\\"bad\\\". Driving a motorcycle is dangerous, but I still do it. Drinking soda is bad, but millions of people drink soda every day. Some people smoke pot because its a \\\"banned substance\\\". For others, they smoke because they are desensitized to it. If people around you smoke, and you see the community, you begin to see more pros than cons. You know its bad, but you see others using it to their advantage. As with anything else, people do it for their own reasons.\",\n \"Summary: There is still a lot of good in this world and in the US, and that's what I fight for, and would die for. \\n EDIT: I was gifted gold. Thanks for the support guys!\\n\\nPost: As a servicemember, I don't think any soldier/sailor/marine/airman/coast guardsman WANT's to die for their country. Personally, I don't want to die. However, I would gladly pay the ultimate price for my country, if it came to it. Does that make sense? \\n As totally messed up as the United States is these days, and as much as I want to see things change, I still am a proud citizen. I still believe in this beautiful nation and I took an oath to protect this nation against all enemies, foreign and domestic. Many of my fellow servicemembers feel the same way I do. \\n I feel that being a servicemember exposes us to the ugly truth that there are other places in the world that are much worse than things are here. We also see the path that we are taking, and it can be really scary sometimes. The knowledge of this helps me form not only an opinion, but a plan of action to help return this country back to it's former glory. And that's what I fight for, making sure the USA will be a better place for future generations.\",\n \"Summary: If Ron Paul doesn't win, I'm voting for Gary Johnson. Why? Because I can.\\n\\nPost: I think that I can speak for many of RP supporters, and say that Romney and Obama are just not options for the presidency. I (we) believe that voting for either candidate is just 4 more years of the same. We chose to support Ron Paul because we are done with the same. We are done with the Federal Reserve making money out of thin air, giving money to other nations with no regard to our own people struggling, fighting drug wars that cost lives and dollars, fighting wars overseas, having laws imposed that restrict our own freedoms, ect. \\n So, we do we do. We have 2 options. Either we support the Liberty movement by voting Gary Johnson, or we do not vote at all. Voting for more of the same is just not a viable option for the vast majority of us. \\nAs for me, I still hold hope for the RNC and a Paul upset, no matter the odds. If/when Paul is out, I will for sure vote for Gary Johnson, as his views most closely follow mine. \\n One of the criticisms I usually receive for displaying my support for a third part candidate is, \\\"You are throwing your vote away\\\" or \\\"Your vote for Gary is a vote for Obama.\\\" My vote for Gary Johnson is a vote for Gary Johnson. Supporters of the Liberty movement should (and do) vote based on morals, not on numbers. Which is what the voting system should be.\",\n \"Summary: This post is basically about CBT. It is used to treat mental disorders.\\n\\nPost: This is actually part of the basis of Cognitive Behavior Therapy. I learned about CBT after trying to commit suicide in 2010. I have been fuck free since learning about it. \\n Basically, the common mentality (especially among depressed people) is that peoples feelings control their thoughts and behaviors. For example, I feel worthless today, so I will think worthless thoughts. By thinking worthless thoughts, you begin to act like a worthless person or you try faking happiness until you realize it doesn't work. By behaving so poorly, you continue thinking based on your feelings and behaviors, creating a cycle of despair and negative thoughts. \\n However, the correct way to think is to not let your feelings dictate your thoughts or actions. You break up the circle of depression by letting your thoughts control your feelings. For example, your SO breaks up with you. You feel pretty sad. But, you think, \\\"Everything happens for a reason\\\" or \\\"Thank God its over!\\\" or \\\"IDGAF\\\" instead of, \\\"Man, I am so depressed!\\\". This breaks the cycle and causes you to behave in a more positive light. You might still be sad, but you are not catastrophizing over the situation. In fact, you give your brain time to process the situation for what its worth, and maybe realizing that the breakup wasnt bad afterall. At the very least, you get a break of mental clarity to find a way to \\\"win them back\\\" (I don't suggest winning them back) \\n Pretty much.... Don't let your feelings control your thoughts and behaviors. Let your thoughts (consciousness) control your feelings and behaviors. If you think good thoughts, you will feel good and behave well. Not giving a fuck is a great thought and produces even better feelings and behaviors!\",\n \"Summary: The best way to fight bullying, it to fight a bully.\\n\\nPost: Honestly, this advice of deflecting and using verbal tactics to start a conversation with the bully sounds nice on paper, but is not effective in practice. \\n In high school, I tried responding to bullying showing I didn't care, by trying to talk to them about it, by telling the administration, ect. Let me tell you, it didn't stop. Asshole teenagers don't care and will continue to bug you as long as they feel safe doing it. \\n So, what did I do? I threatened them, and backed it up. I remember one time I was being bullied, I told the kid \\\"either you knock it off or I will knock your head off\\\". He didn't knock it off, so I popped him in the jaw in front of all his little friends. All of the bullying stopped that day, because they knew that if they bugged me, I might hurt them. \\n Yeah, I got called into the office, and they asked me why I hit them. I replied, \\\"I told you he was bullying me. You refused to do anything about it, so I did\\\". Yeah, I ended up getting in trouble, but being in trouble for a few days was a lot better than being picked on. Plus, I was respected.\",\n \"Summary: Smoking is bad, mmkay? \\n EDIT: Apparently, I can still edit my post once it's archived. I want to make the point that I wrote this 11 months ago, and that my views have changed somewhat. Note that this was based on personal observation and the observations of those around me. \\n I do think that methods to quit can help. Patches, gum, and lozenges can help... However, they really are not that effective. I took Chantix to quit, which caused suicidal ideations and vivid dreams (both are side effects). It may work for some, but it's very slippery and I've yet to hear a single success story. \\n Finally, there have a ton of replies on the /r/bestof that they quit cold turkey. Congratulations! Seriously, good job. Again, I mentioned cold turkey as innefective from personal expereince and oberservation. It takes a ton of willpower to quit cold turkey, and a ton of willpower to continue to keep off the habit. Like many have said, it only takes one to get you back on the habit again. \\n Finally, I want to express my thanks for getting this on /r/bestof. I love all the comments and debates going on.[ Here is the link to that page.](\\n\\nPost: He is what will probably happen if you start smoking... \\n First, you will try a cigarette. You will cough, your lungs will hurt, and you might have the feeling like you wanna puke. However, you will also get a feeling like all of your blood is rushing to your head. It will feel mildly euphoric, and you will have a little more clarity of thinking. I think of it as taking a very low dose of Percocet or other prescription pain killer, only enough to feel the effects but to not be a zombie. \\n Next, that feeling will go away, and you will light up again. Might be after a few hours or it might be a month down the road. After you light, you realize that it doesn't hurt so much to inhale. It's actually quite pleasurable. And that nicotine rush....WOW!!!! Hit you like a ton of bricks. Now you feel amazing! You're thinking clearly, you feel great, life is on the up and up. \\n Fast forward a little bit. You now smoke 3 cigarettes a day. Smoking one still feels good, but it's a little harder to feel that high. You explain to yourself that you will only have 3 a day. You don't want to be full on addicted. Fact is, it's already too late. \\n Before long, 3 cigarettes dont give you the high anymore, so you do 4. 4 becomes 5. You start smoking right after you get out of bed in the morning. Next thing you know, you're smoking a half pack a day. You smoke more when you are stressed. You start smoking after a drink at the bar, after a few rounds of video games, during your break at work, on your way home. You start to realize that now you don't get a nicotine high, but you smoke so you don't have cravings. \\n On top of all of this, you start going through body changes. You are more irritable if you haven't smoked for a while. Food/drinks don't taste as good. Your fingers smell. You smell. Your level of fitness drops (can't run as far, cant push as much, ect) and even moderate cardio makes you short of breath. You cough more. Your libido drops a bit. Your overall health drops, but you continue because you are addicted. \\n Finally, you decide to quit. However, patches, gum, and lozenges are total shit. You may try the prescription medication route. It works, but you start having vivid dreams and difficulty discerning reality from the dream world (I did). You may even consider suicide because it feels as if you are going insane. You quit prescriptions and go back to the cancer stick. Btw, cold turkey and the lollypop methods don't work. \\n Smoking may seem harmless at first. But honestly, its a very slippery slope. I have been smoking for almost 5 years now. Yeah, I admit that sometimes I love it, and that it helps reduce stress (or my mind had reasoned that it does). But I also hate it. I currently have an e-cig on order so I can try to quit, because smoking a pack a day is hard on the body and extremely hard on the wallet.\",\n \"Summary: I think we are not alone as the only life in the universe. However, I don't think we will ever hear them.\\n\\nPost: I see it this way: \\n \\\"Are we alone in the universe?\\\" is a double sided question. In regards to the presence of extra-terrestrial life, I don't believe we are. With the recent discoveries of thousands of Earth-like planets in our little quadrant of space, its mathematically probable that there are other worlds that sustain life. Is Earth really a 1 in a quadrillion type deal? Hell no. I bet there are probably millions of civilizations in the universe, all with varying degrees of technology/religion/ect. \\n However, on the other side of the \\\"are we alone?\\\" question, is wether or not WE (as earthlings) will ever meet alien life. Sure, we might find microbes on Mars or Europa. However, we can only go as fast as light takes us. Which means that unless we find a way to go faster than light, we will never know. Even then, where will we begin to look. And how can we be sure that other life sent/is sending messages via radio signals now? What are we trying to hear? Us listening for something other than white noise, or looking through a telescope is like looking for a needle in a haystack the size of the Milky Way.\",\n \"Summary: We are not extreme right or left, but rather a correlation of the positives both sides. \\n edit: Here is a good graph to describe what I said:\\n\\nPost: I cannot speak on behalf of anarcho-capitalists, because I am ignorant on the true nature of their views. However as a libertarian, I can try to change your view. \\n Libertarians can actually be considered centerists in a way. \\n On the conservative side, we support a limited government and fiscal responsibility. So, as conservatives (used to) support less taxes, less unregulated government spending, and less government intervention in private affairs, we support these ideas too. For instance, most libertarians believe in having a strong national defense, giving generously to those in need, and advancement based upon ability. However, we stray from conservativism when conservatives fight for things such as government regulated moratily (abortion, gay marriage), the \\\"war on drugs\\\" and any other moral wars for that matter, the Patriot act, special treatment for corporations, and taxpayer funding of charities. \\n On the liberal side, we support personal freedom and civil liberties. As liberals support the right to choose who you love or what you do with your body, we do to. We support the de-regulation of drugs, abortion, and civil liberties such as gay marriage. We also belive in that our military is there to defend us, not to intervene in other's lives. However, we stray from the liberal side when they support things such as: a bigger government, UN led military actions, restricting our constitutional rights, and special treatment for select minorities. Most libertarians are also egalitarians(sp?), such that we support that all men (regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, ect) are created equal. \\n So, to recap, we believe in the right wing ideas of personal freedom and economic responsibility, but also in the left wing ideas of personal choice and civil liberties. This is why some people argue that on some issues we are further right the the right, but on others, we are further left than the left. We belive that the constitution is the supreme law of the land, and that we shouldn't make interpretations to restrict it. We also believe that everybody should be free to do as they please, and make decisions personally (or at most the state level) rather than the national level. We don't favor the rich, as we belive that corporations have too much freedom, wall street needs to be held accountable instead of bailed out, and that money should be taken out of politics.\",\n \"Summary: BEER IS AWESOME! \\n Homebrewing Redditors.... How was your first brewing experience? What did you make? How did you feel? How did it turn out?\\n\\nPost: I just popped the top of my first bottle of an Irish Red Ale. I have to admit that the feeling of drinking your first homebrew, coupled with the stress of making your first batch, is such a great feeling. My ale is frigging delicious! \\n As I was sipping on this fine masterpiece of a beer, I began to think back almost 6 weeks ago. Back then, I spend almost all evening making the wort, worrying about having the temperature above or below the temperature. Then after boiling, worrying about if my chilling process was taking too long. For the next week, I kept looking at my bucket, hoping it would turn out. Then I transfered my beer to the carboy for secondary fermentation. \\n I remember after the secondary fermentation, taking a hydrometer reading. 1.020! I was wanting the recommended FG of 1.012! My day is ruined! Oh well, I shall bottle it anyway! \\n Then, for the next three weeks, I was hoping I would not have exploding bottles...or worse... non-carbonated beer! Each day increased my excitement, and my doubt. \\n Then comes tonight. I finally decided I could not wait any longer. I took my trusty bottle opener, cracked open the bottle, slowly poured the brew into a glass, and took a sip. After 5 weeks of hard work...it all paid off, and I now have amazing beer! I feel as though I just won the beer brewing lottery!\",\n \"Summary: Drive through the desert, and your car might explode.\\n\\nPost: Mine occurred a few months ago. \\n I was driving from Las Vegas to Portland, Or after a week of...well, vegas. I was driving my car, which I had done exhaust work a year earlier. The drive down to Vegas was perfect. \\n As I was driving through I-15 to LA, I noticed my gas gauge was going down more than usual. About 150 miles into my trip, I was nearly empty and I was in the middle of the desert on a 115 degree day. I finally stop at a gas station to fuel up, and I indeed notice a leak. Thinking it was just a blown fuel hose (not a big problem), I fueled up and made my way to the closest service station in Barstow. \\n When I show up to the closest service station, I found out that my fuel line was fine. However, My muffler had melted my gas tank, and gasoline was leaking onto a red hot exhaust. The men at the service station told me that my car could/should have exploded on the road, and that I was lucky to be alive.\",\n \"Summary: To change the nature of politics, we need to keep the conversation going, elect libertarians, and respect others instead of spam them. \\n What do you all think we need to do to promote Liberty in the US? This post is meant as a sort of blanket conversation over what we need to do and how we need to do it.\\n\\nPost: Now that America has decided for more of the same, the GOP has seen what happens when they ignore the ideals of the Liberty movement, and Gary Johnson received over 1 million votes, it is time for the Libertarian Party and the Liberty movement to move forward and plan for the next 4 years. \\n Here is what I think needs to happen: \\n First, we still need to continue to conversation we have been talking about for the last year. This should be obvious, but I see too many people say, \\\"Okay, Election day is over. Obama won. I'm done with politics till 2016\\\". This lack of caring is the reason we are sucking right now. NOW is the time to fight for our ideals. We need to continue the facebook posts, the posts in /r/politics and around reddit, the conversations with our friends and family, ect. No doubt, the country is starting to pay attention to us, and we have the ability to say, \\\"this is what you voted for\\\". \\n Secondly, its time to plan for future elections. One huge way to gain traction is to support and elect Libertarians at lower levels. If you have a Libertarian running for city council, support them. If in the next few years, you have a libertarian running for county commissioner, state senate, or state rep., vote for them and support their cause. When its time to vote for your Reps and Senators in US Congress, support libertarian. \\n Lastly, we need to be respectful and professional. This should also be as obvious as the last two points, but it is easy to make the establishment think we are a bunch of crazy, anarchist potheads if we don't act with a professional demeanor. I felt that much of our movement this year (both in Ron Paul and Johnson) was hindered by a lack of professionalism in our organization. For example, many Ron Paul fanboys and had taken over and spammed /r/politics and /r/republican that it seemed to give EPS a lot of traction. You could also see this on the national scale. So, to battle this, we need to stay away from \\\"Libertarians are always right\\\", \\\"Liberty FTW! LOLZ!\\\" and spam posts, and post threads promoting our ideas in a thought out way while respecting the ideals of others.\",\n \"Summary: I want to do kegels better and more productively. Please shed your words of wisdom!\\n\\nPost: A little background about me: I am a 23 year old male who is looking for better sexual performance. I, as most men would, want to be able to perform longer and preform better. As such, I'm getting in the habit of doing kegels. I have been doing them for about a week and a half. \\n First question. Am I doing them correctly? I tried the method of stopping my pee. And I have gotten good at singling out that particular PC muscle. However, when I'm doing the exercise, I can only hold it for an instant. I flex, then I suddenly release. I'm lucky to get a one second squeeze. \\n I also heard that you squeeze the entire area, to include your anus/sphincter. That this method, a metaphor being holding a poo and pee, is a correct way of doing kegels. If I do this method, I can hold for about twice as long. \\n So, Kegel masters of reddit, which method is more correct? \\n Third question. How long did it take you to hold for longer than a few seconds? I understand that I shouldn't expect mindblowing results in 11 days, but how long did it take you to see noticeable results on average? \\n Finally, How do these exercises pertain to sex? I've read arguments that you squeeze your PC muscles as you start to get the orgasmic tingle, while others say you relax and reverse kegel. What methods/tips/tricks do you use? \\n I understand that there are a ton of posts, google links, information about kegels, but I still haven't found good answers to these questions. Mostly, I just see \\\"dood, kegels made me a sexual Superman!\\\". Thank you all for any advice you give!\",\n \"Summary: Kegels make you harder, last longer, able to shoot jizz shells out of your 12 gauge cock-shotgun, and maybe bigger too. The Fleshlight STU is a masturbatory must that will not only feel great, but might make a better lover too. \\n So, ladies and gentlmen. What do you think? Have any Kegel or Fleshlight success stories? How do you feel about getting past the stigmas of using a masturbator? Let's foster some sexy-ass discussion! \\n Edit: Spelling/Grammer.\\n\\nPost: Let me begin by pointing out that upon seeing the word \\\"Kegels\\\", I bet quite a few of you guys just flexed it. Good job, people! \\n Let's get onto my story and to my plea for the men and women of sexxit. \\n Prepare for a wall of text! \\n For the last month, I have been doing kegel exercises. /u/toastysidearm posted an AMA of sorts on this sub a month ago about his experience with kegels ([Link]( This hilarious, yet informative post got me real interested in kegels. I mean, who doesn't want to last longer in bed, have harder erections, and be able to shoot jizz out of your \\\"cock glock\\\", and enjoy the array of other benefits that a stronger PC muscle has to offer? \\n After a month, a ton of google searches, and a post on this sub to make sure I was doing them right, I have seen some fantastic results already! My routine was pretty basic. Thrice a day, I do my kegels. I squeeze, hold for as long as I could, and relax. I do a set of 10-20 squeezes, maybe add a few reverse kegels (the push) for variety, and continue on with my day until my brain decides, \\\"hey buddy, you should do some more kegels!\\\". It's been a pretty low key exercise regimen. I've seen improvement from split second squeezes, to squeezes that last 3-4 seconds now. \\n How have my results been after a month? Pretty damn fantastic! I felt like I was a good lover before. Hell, no woman has ever issued a complaint on my sexual prowlice! But now, I'm already feeling like I'm stepping up into a new level. \\n \\n My erections are stronger and more frequent. Randomly throughout the day, my man-cannon will decided to get cocked, locked, and ready to rock. I'll be all like, \\\"DOWN BOY!\\\", and my penis will be all like, \\\"MAN, FUCK YOU! LETS DO THIS SHIT!\\\". Seriously, 94.3% of the time my little friend decides to raise his flag, he goes full mast and stays there for a long time. I'm starting to forget what half mast feels like! \\n \\n Lasting longer... Now, my sex life the last month and a half have been quite lonely. However, my \\\"alone time\\\" has gotten much better. I'm seeing a transition from \\\"find porn, rub one out, continue with life\\\", to \\\"find porn (or just fantasize), start rubbing, feel the urges, FLEX!!!!!, continue going to town, decide to finish, continue with life\\\". It feels great! Personal sessions are starting to go from 1-2 minutes to whenever im too tired to go on. \\n \\n Shooting jizz out of your cock glock. I haven't tried to do any practice at the firing range, but with having a stronger PC muscle, there is a definite feeling of more control and harder orgasms. If I were to try, I bet I could shoot a quarter from a half mile away, if you know what I mean! \\n \\n A larger piece and more confidence. Yes, kegels can make you grow a little bit. There's not much at this point, but I do seem to have a little more girth and a little more length. Maybe I just feel better about myself. I'll have to keep going for another few months to test this theory. \\n \\n \\n So, here is where we talk about the fleshlight. Still with me here? \\n I caved in and ordered the Fleshlight STU (stamina training unit) and it came in the mail last week. I was tired of using Palmela Handerson, and saw some good reviews about it. I, like many males, was a little apprehensive about using a fake vagina. However, apprehensiveness is gone now. \\n The Fleshlight STU is FUCKING AWESOME! Let's put it to you this way: If amazing vaginal sex is a 10/10, and using your hand is a 5/10, I would rate the STU at a 8.7/10. It's not quite like the real thing, but its incredible. Does it feel like a vagina? Close enough! The texture of the rubber feels very skin-like. The little ribs inside deviate from the vagina-feel, but its freaking intense dude! Those little ribs rub your head and shaft so smoothly, making the sensation incredible. I'll be going fast, just doing my thing, decide to slow down...and it feels more sensitive and intense. I tried stroking slower than a turtle walking across a highway, and nearly came faster! Ladies and gentlemen, its that intense. \\n Oh, btw... when you do orgasm, imagine that intense orgasm after a half hour of sex, where your toes want to curl and your head become crazy sensitive. You start saying, \\\"Oh fuck! Oh fuck!\\\" as your life-juice starts flowing freely from the fountain. It's pretty much just like that. Bet you don't get that feeling often when you're doing the Five Finger Knuckle Shuffle... \\n Lasting long with the fleshie is becoming an art form. The STU was designed to provide maximum stimulation, in hopes that \\\"lasting 10 minutes with fleshie will make you last 20 in bed\\\". This is where your kegels come into play. Going all out will last you maybe a good 2-3 minutes. However, when you start to feel the \\\"urges\\\", do a few kegels, and you are good to go a little while longer. I still don't see how you can go 10 mintues....but its a goal to work up to. \\n Here is my plea for you all! \\n Do kegels and have a fleshlight handy. Exercise is just important, and your pelvic floor should be no different. Even if it's for no reason at all, just do them. You'll be glad you did. \\n The fleshlight is an incredible device. It's great to use, easy to clean, and will prevent carpal tunnel syndrome. Feeling lonely? Bust it out! Woman on her period? Bust it out? Work trip away from home? Bust. It. OUT! \\n Women have toys, and there is little stigma against them using it. Why shouldn't it be any different for men? It's not cheating, it's better than using your hand, and it might make him a little better in the sack. That's a win-win-win situation right thurr! \\n So, what have you got to lose? A few bucks? Everything will pay for itself! Seriously...Trust me here... it will...\",\n \"Summary: I want to kick my roommate out, because shes annoying the fuck out of me. How do I not give a fuck? \\n Edit: I told her today, the 19th, that I didn't feel comfortable with here staying here and that she should find another place to live. She asked why, and I told her everything. She said she would change and that she would never take advantage of me again, but I just stuck to my guns and told her she had one month to leave. Thank you all for helping me not give a fuck, as I probably would have let her stay here otherwise.\\n\\nPost: I feel like you guys and gals can give me the appropriate advice I need to help me with my situation. \\n So, I have this roommate. She needed some help finding a place to stay and I had the other room here open. So, I kindly let her take it. For the first few weeks, things seemed fine, as she was pretty chill. \\n Boy, was I wrong. \\n In the last month, she has made my living situation quite terrible. \\n First, she complains every day about her possession of MJ charge, and how the \\\"system is screwing me over, man\\\". It's the same complaint every day, and even when I tell her to shut the fuck up, shes back at at the next day. \\n Second, she smoked pot inside the apartment. I told her on day one to do it outside. I'm in the military, and I cannot be around it at all. I'm not gonna risk my career because homegirl wants to get high in her bedroom. \\n Third, she has lied on multiple occasions about drinking my alcohol. I have a very expensive bottle of whisky and have noticed that a quarter of it is missing. When confronting her, she has denied ever drinking it. However, I have not had any guests over since she moved in. \\n Finally, she is generally ruining the general atmosphere of the apartment. I like my place to be a laid back, chill place, where you go to unwind and not give a fuck about anything going on in the outside world. Now, I'm constantly having to deal with her bullshit. The only bright side is that she pays her portion of the bills on time. \\n Usually, I could not give any less fucks about things. For some reason, I'm giving her the benefit of the doubt because I know shes poor and has had a rough couple of months. But, now I just want her out. She's not on the lease, but I know that I still have to give her a month to go. \\n So, my fine friends at HTNGAF, how do I not give any more fucks about her \\\"rough times\\\" and kick her out? Should I be all like, \\\"Bitch, GTFO\\\", or, \\\"I feel like we are not compatable roommates\\\"? \\n Please help me not give any more fucks!\"\n]","isConversational":false},"profile_size":{"kind":"number","value":15,"string":"15"},"task":{"kind":"string","value":"longlamp_4"},"split_kind":{"kind":"string","value":"user_based"},"id":{"kind":"number","value":1295,"string":"1,295"}}},{"rowIdx":1296,"cells":{"question_id":{"kind":"string","value":"aronivars"},"question":{"kind":"string","value":"Generate the content for a reddit post I am sick of labels in politics as well, and have seen signs of this happening in my own country."},"answer":{"kind":"string","value":"You are right, but most people are taught to \"fight fire with fire\", which basically leads to a shouting match. And what do simple-minded people look to? Catchy slogans and labels. \n But we cannot deny that there are figures out there spouting racist and inaccurate points to fuel their war and affect views of the people. Both sides of course. \n This kind of political \"action\" is getting similar in Iceland. You praise the current left government, you get labeled as a nature freak loving fascist that wants to ban breathing because it releases CO2. If you are against the government then you are a right wing puppet that is working with the banks and business people to bankrupt the Icelandic citizen, and squeeze every last ISK from him. (Not the EVE currency.) \n As a right wing liberal, who wants freedom to choose my future and how I live, but I´m ready to contribute to society in form of taxes, especially on luxury items, these labels are really getting on my nerves. And yes, it has been used on me when I´ve been trying to debate people. Last time I was a capitalist bloodsucker that receives kickbacks from the banks."},"correct_answer":{"kind":"string","value":"You are right, but most people are taught to \"fight fire with fire\", which basically leads to a shouting match. And what do simple-minded people look to? Catchy slogans and labels. \n But we cannot deny that there are figures out there spouting racist and inaccurate points to fuel their war and affect views of the people. Both sides of course. \n This kind of political \"action\" is getting similar in Iceland. You praise the current left government, you get labeled as a nature freak loving fascist that wants to ban breathing because it releases CO2. If you are against the government then you are a right wing puppet that is working with the banks and business people to bankrupt the Icelandic citizen, and squeeze every last ISK from him. (Not the EVE currency.) \n As a right wing liberal, who wants freedom to choose my future and how I live, but I´m ready to contribute to society in form of taxes, especially on luxury items, these labels are really getting on my nerves. And yes, it has been used on me when I´ve been trying to debate people. Last time I was a capitalist bloodsucker that receives kickbacks from the banks."},"documents":{"kind":"list like","value":["Summary: Not all DLC is bad, but EA screwed my brother and I, and that is why I began avoiding their products. \n P.S: Sorry if there are spelling or grammar errors. English is my second language, but I use it so much it shouldn't be an excuse for poor writing.\n\nPost: I think you are being too straight forward with your complaint. But there is one argument I want to elaborate on: \n > A DLC is something that should have been in the game to start with. \n Not always, but I admit I get the same feeling sometimes. Especially when there are number of DLC's planned before the full release. However, add-ons in multiplayer gameplay, new maps/weapons/aesthetics for example, are acceptable DLC for those who can afford to expand their multiplayer experience. \n Now to my complaint. The DLC that is hard to buy, and which purchases can be voided just because the distributor changed the account settings. Yes, I'm talking about EA. All my brothers Mass Effect 1 & 2 DLC's and Dragon Age: Origins have all been void, because of his new EA account. Now, we live in a small market country, and reaching those DLC's was hard, since we had to buy Microsoft Points to be able to purchase those DLC. After all that, and a lot of money spent since our currency was down the tubes at the time, these DLC's are gone. They have been erased from the account, which still exists, and there is no way to redeem them. We have the retail versions of the games still, but not for the DLC. That is why, I have started boycotting EA products, even the FIFA franchise. \n If anyone can or is willing to help us redeem his old account, or has a similar story but with a happy ending, please comment. I also want to add that I helped my brother pirate these DLC's, but I'm not proud of it. I stopped pirating games a long time ago, but sometimes, sometimes you feel it is the right thing to do. Which of course, is utterly wrong.","Summary: Your definition of terms used by other people doesn't mean that you can make dumbfounded assumptions about whether these people are advocating anything. My point is that Subduction(man, this username spooks me) is making assumptions because he refuses to accept proper definition of words. \n EDIT: OK I found this in your link: \n>Employee rights are said to be valid when employers pressure \nemployees into sexual activity. Why don't they quit once the so-called \nharassment starts? \n Very poorly worded, I totally agree you can make the assumption that he doesn't view sexual harassment as an offense. But you say he advocates this behavior, and you made the assumption that Ron Paul has nothing against that bosses can make the demand: \"Fuck me or you're fired\". That is a form of violence, this is the employer using force. \n I make the assumption that Ron Paul is talking more about social pressure, like if the boss constantly was asking her out, or saying she looked sexy, or getting her in an awkward situation where she looks like the bad guy because she keeps turning him down in front of her fellow employees. Again, I personally think this is form of harassment, but not a criminal one. And Ron Paul is quite stupid to say: \n >Why don't they quit once the so-called \nharassment starts? \n I say, if she/he is forced to quit because of this harassment, wasn't the boss abusing his position to make those advances? Isn't it his job to make his employers workplace comfortable? This boss has totally failed, and it has lead to a termination of an employee. I think more would follow suit if they witnessed this kind of harassment on their fellow employee. This organization would fail.\n\nPost: OK, so you've asked Ron Paul in person, and he said he advocated that if a boss threatens: \"Fuck me or you're fired\" should not lead disciplinary actions? And he said yes? And you can prove it? No? Oh, so you made the assumption that what he is advocating. \n You also define violence as something that can only be performed physically. I don't know this, but maybe Ron Paul defines it that way as well. But I'm not making the assumption that it is what he truly believes. \n Emotional violence can be as direct as physical violence, but doesn't affect us the same as physical violence does. I truly believe, but do not know for certain, that Ron Paul is against any form of violence in the workplace. And the sentence you say Ron Paul advocates, is violence. Some would ignore it because they know they're boss does not have this power he's trying to show and make him regret for saying it, others could be frightened and think that their only option is to submit. Depends on the person's willpower, and intelligence. \n Again I will quote from your insert from his book:\n>If force was clearly used, that is another story, but pressure and submission is hardly an example of a violation of one's employment rights. \n Pressure and submission. \n Pressure: This could mean a boss hassling you, telling you to work harder, never giving you the raise you think you deserve, always on your back. I know of some cases personally where the boss lays a whole lot of pressure on his workforce and rewards very little for hard work. However, he should not be held against a criminal court for this. \n Submission: I think this word is bothering you, even though you call yourself Subduction. I agree it can be defined as you stated, that Ron Paul advocates sexual submission in the workplace. But I think personally that he is talking about, for example, when the boss tells you to do something because he is the boss, like getting him coffee, or work overtime even though you had made plans and tried all month to prevent getting overtime this day. That kind of submission is harsh, but not a criminal offence. \n All of these examples can be defined as harassment. He never, ever condones specifically sexual harassment, if asked, I think Ron Paul would agree that sexual harassment is a form of violence. It is your interpretation that he is only against physical violence and advocates sexual harassment. You made those assumptions, and you can't deny that.","Summary: The example Subduction used isn't really viable here, but he has a point and was right to criticize this paragraph from Ron Paul's book.\n\nPost: What you quoted from the Ron Paul book:\n>If force was clearly used, that is another story, but pressure and submission is hardly an example of a violation of one's employment rights. \n And you said:\n>So, using the example I used in another thread, a boss going to his secretary and saying:\n\"You fuck me or your fired, and your children will starve.\"\nis protected in Ron Paul's world view.\nThe only recourse she has is quit or fuck. She wouldn't even have legal standing to sue. \n So I have some questions. Is it not force when you make a threat? Is it not force when you fire someone without acceptable grounds, like not fucking him? \n >\"You fuck me or your fired, and your children will starve.\" \n I'm not condoning what Ron Paul wrote in his book, it was terribly worded and you are correct in criticizing him for it. But you are taking it little out of context. You should know, that he is against using force, and the example you gave clearly states that this boss is using force. \n But after reading your quote, I understand why he would be criticized. Maybe Ron doesn't really understand what effect sexual bantering or what he calls jokes can have on a persons mind or feeling. He clearly understates what kind of problems it can have on employees if the workplace is an uncomfortable place to work in, which it would be if the boss would constantly approach you with sexual intent, even though he considers them jokes or mindless banter. That should not be acceptable in any workplace, and the management should be charged or disciplined for it. \n EDIT: Here is","Summary: I still see the Lakers as a playoff team, young prospects plus Kobe's mentality can carry them to the playoffs, but not all the way.\n\nPost: Wes could be a diamond in the rough. Nick Young too, these kind of players seem to flourish in LA, and they get the best veteran in the league for them to train with. \n People will talk bad about Kobe' personality, but I think personally he just has high standards. He's giving more then 100%, why should he respect someone who doesn't? Wes and Nick will have a chance to prove themselves in front of one of the best in history of basketball, if they don't listen, then surely nothing will come out of their career. I think Kaman and Pau can become a good combo offensively, as they both have good range and post moves. Defense could be a problem, but Pau will not disappoint. Just 3 years ago I convinced my friends, thanks to his stellar play, that he was easily top 5 big man, if not the best in the NBA. \n My prediction: Close to playoffs, finish strong like last season and get the 7th/8th again. With Kobe, they can challenge Spurs/Thunder/Rockets/Clippers, but I believe it will be an early exit, but a close series in the first round. My reason for this is exactly your point of Kobe being basically ready to play now. Like the video says, he's going for a championship, no matter what. I doubt he can go all the way with his team, but boy, he ain't letting them quit even though this draft is stacked.","Summary: Giving privatized drug stores monopoly over cigarettes and limiting their supply is bad. Keep them in our state-runned ÁTVR stores and out of small cornershops and supermarkets.\n\nPost: Icelander here as well, what I´m afraid of is that they are giving the drug stores monopoly over cigarette sales, and they are privately owned. And this will not restrict young people from getting cigarettes, like Siv Friðleifsdóttir promised. It just opens up for a new black market. \n Think about, we know a lot of kids get beer from illegal beer vendors all over town, I think smuggling cigarettes will become popular and these vendors will sell them with the beer. Limited supply does not mean limited demand, no matter what. Limited supply encourages black markets. \n But I´m not saying this is a bad idea, but I think we should limit cigarettes to ÁTVR(Alcohol & Tobacco shops) and other kind of tobacco to special tobacco shops. Take them out of stores and cornershops, and tax it to hell. But I´m not an expert and I could be wrong.","Summary: We can work together, even though USA doesn´t think so.\n\nPost: Thanks to the loan system you hold to so dearly. But I´m not blaming you, we all have to take our loans and pick a career we want to pursue. And of course, I would not want you to give everyone free dental care, unless you got subsidies and grants from the government for equipment etc., which I believe you do not get. \n Imagine if your school system was publicly funded, you would not need a loan. And you would not need to practise privately. Of course, you would not have your own practise, and you had to pay higher taxes. Not saying anything is wrong with your system overseas, well, not entirely, but a lot of countries in Europe and other regions have a public system, and on every list they top USA in medical care.","Summary: After watching Open Court, I think rings are important when comparing great players.\n\nPost: After watching Open Court, I think the rings do matter when comparing greats, like Kobe and MJ. You can't say Robert Horry is the GOAT just because he has the most rings, but when you compare two great superstars, you look how long they've played and how many rings they won over they're career. \n Another good point made in Open Court, you have to look at the teams the player played with when he won those rings. Like Kenny Smith said, Kobe was always on a team when there was another player double-teamed, Lebron won a title in a team where another player is double-teamed. MJ never played with anyone who was double-teamed, everybody on the opposing defence were thinking what MJ was going to do.","Summary: I guess I did need to vent out as well. I hope I didn't come out to critical or unfair.\n\nPost: I would like to share with you my view since we come from a similar background, similar age and similar...playing style, sorry I'm going to have to use the excuse that English is my second language. I want to say that also because of my career I have to limit my gaming, and that time has become very important. I play games with good stories, I like the ones most where I create the character and he doesn't have a voice, I am literally playing his role. Games with linear stories and walls of text I do enjoy most of the times, like most Bioware games, since they give you a lot different texts to choose from for your character to say. Elder Scrolls are my favourite. \n However, I understand you views but I like to debate them from my point of view, one at a time. \n >I don't know why, but I feel like online gaming became a very hostile place. \n I hate to use the word hostile, I would say unforgiving. This is, well, competition. Of course, most look at it to relax and forget themselves in a computer game, but there are a lot of players who take the competition very seriously. I might be reading into it wrongly, but that is the experience I have gotten from CS and LoL. I agree this can repeal new players and comes as hostile, and it is really unfair and bad behaviour, but try to join a random soccer or basketball pickup game and suck. What I did was try to ignore the shittalking, and try to grab the little suggestions and tips that were sometime hidden in the message. Maybe I'm not on the right track or explaining it well, but I sometime forgive those ragers once in a while. When competing, people tend to lose their tempers if a teammate is hurting their competition or doesn't give as much to the game. If you're just talking about those who send childish messages because you fragged them or just want to throw out offensive slurs, I agree with you completely. \n >Reviews should be read critically and should be allowed to include opinions and whatever the author feels like including \n Completely agree with the first statement in this sentence, but can debate the other one. I guess I can agree that they should allow their opinions, but please, leave it out of the game score. This is not the real world, sociological issues and utopian ideas do not need to be discussed in a world that doesn't exist. I find most people take media to seriously, if a man beats a woman in a movie or a game, I don't need to jump straight to the conclusion that the creator is a misogynist. I have played every Street Fighter game and finished with every character in all the mode, or so I would like to think, but not once have I or want to get in a street fight. I was 8 when my dad bought me the #2 on SNES, he knew I was smart enough then to figure out that game didn't portray reality. \n >Don't be blind fellow gamers; we are considered hostile, stupid and offensive because MANY GAMERS ARE \n Sure, but why the generalization? Do you generalize every football player because of Ray Rice's actions? You know what, I'm not going to agree with this statement. Gamers are PEOPLE, and PEOPLE can be hostile, stupid and offensive. I don't like that you say many are, it is probably true, but I would like to give people like us a little more credit for not resorting to be hostile, stupid or offensive. Instead, I will say gamers are honest, hard-working people because MANY GAMERS ARE. The ones who are hostile are given every bit of attention, that is the real problem in my opinion. \n >As for harassment, I think the debate is over. No side, pro or anti-GG, is FOR harassment. There just happens to be radicals on both sides who seem to make their issues bypass empathy for human beings. Stop associating harassment with a side, associate it with the individuals guilty of it \n Amen. Couldn't have said it better myself. \n Sorry for the long text, bad grammar and no","Summary: Yes, some of us Icelanders are cool and really open minded. But like any other place, some people have problems and a bad apple there and there. \n Edit: \"Alþingi\" is basically our GOP.\n\nPost: Well, not sure where you are getting your info, but try living here. I am however not complaining and admit that I probably have it much better and can live more peacefully than most people in the world. \n But there are people who lost their jobs and homes because of the economy crash, and they get little help from the government because there had to be cutbacks made, and the general public and small companies got the biggest share of the cutbacks. \n And yeah, basically our Alþingi can reject the new constitution without any trouble. If it is not written like they want, it will never hold. But the positive thing is if the new constitution fails, those 25 people will form a new political group, and they will get ALL THE VOTES!","Summary: Even though problems in Iceland are miniscule compared of other nations, and is a common problem over the world, it does not mean I have no right to be concerned over these problems of my nation. Iceland is not perfect, and I want people to know.\n\nPost: Yes, that´s the big gripe with my country. Seeing people have to move out to the streets because their debt doubled, thanks to our currency dropping so drastically. I´m seeing a lot of my generation pay for debts of big businessmen who were hailed as entrepreneurs take over our banks who steadily grew until the market couldn´t handle no more and there was no loan fee available from international banks. And they get off free, many of them keep their riches, while we the common people have to see tax raised, debt going out of control and getting evicted, just because a few Icelanders made mistakes. \n I´m sorry, we don´t have any bigger problems than that until the volcano Katla erupts at least. And I feel for every single person that has to riot and risk their lives so their voice can be heard, and for every single person that has to fight through his whole life just to find food for his family and himself. But I do not have the power to change their environment or effect the political government controlling these nations. I wish I could, and if anyone comes up with a solution and needs international help, I will answer the call. \n The best I can do is to try to voice my concerns here, and let everyone know that even we need a drastic change in our lifestyle here in Iceland as well. That´s the best I can do.","Summary: I hate these kind of questions, and to many people are too fast blaming players for not giving 100%. How the F would you know? It's the NBA, the Unstoppabulls lost to 7 Raptors' players, MJ played 39 mins.\n\nPost: Look, you can have bad days, and you can have wonderful days. This is the NBA, even though the Wizards \"suck\", they are professional basketball players, and if the Heat or Thunder have a bad day, every NBA team has a chance of winning a game. \n This subreddit is really fast playing people down for some reason. These players will give their effort, and they hate it when they lose no doubt, but this is the NBA, almost every player has the capability to win a single game for their team, but you talk about talent when they do it constantly. Losing to the Jazz should not mean that the Thunder were lazy or they didn't give a damn. The Jazz came to play, and in fact they played better. Don't take away from the Jazz because you thought it would be an easy win for the Thunder. These questions are downright insulting, \"Did you lose the game, or did Jazz win.\" Really stupid question, the answer was on the scoreboard, the Jazz were on, the Thunder weren't. \n The level of effort put forth by players varies from night to night? Sorry, but who are you to make that statement? Is every single day perfect for you? You can put 110% effort, but the ball might not go in as much as it usually does, and the Jazz are fighting hard to make an upset, and you are taking that away from them, just because you say players don't put 100% effort each and every night. \n Sorry for posting this on you, nothing personal, but I just hate these assumptions. My local team is losing a lot of fanbase, because history-wise they should be on the top of the table, but they are not so people stop coming to the games because they know for sure that the team is not giving 100%. Fuck that, really. That's why I find this a ridiculous question. Easy to criticize, but you and I have no idea what is going through these players heads.","Summary: I think AI could become a great reward, especially for the Celtics. And please, give me the Spurs vs Celtics finals, it was so close last year. \n EDIT: Fixed some spelling here and there...\n\nPost: I think you named most of the reasons why teams are skeptic. If he wouldn't be able to show anything during workout, and if his interview with the coach shows that he hasn't matured at all, then I will accept that he doesn't have a chance. But I believe he will relish any chance to get back to the NBA, and is ready to compromise anything. I believe a 37 year old Iverson will shut up when told to, and he will give 110%. I think there is something left in him, but I think that your view is more common and much more safe for teams in the league, and you could be absolutely right. \n People have been throwing the Celtics around, I agree with this as they have a strong mindset, and Coach Rivers I think is willing to take any chance to improve the Celtics record this season. AI could be a bust, too slow to defend, too weak to penetrate like he used to, but I'm not ready to write it down as a fact. Iverson was simply amazing, I would love if the Spurs picked him up, but our roster is great. So yeah, I'm gonna jump on the Celtics wagon and hope AI could bring KG to the finals against Timmy D for one last showdown, all or nothing, who is better? :D","Summary: I´m doing great reddit! And experience varies from person to person. Not everybody abuse trees, and can actually handle the \"addiction\".\n\nPost: Doing pretty well, thank you. Wouldn´t be in a university without it. Helps me motivate myself, you know, reward after a long day of school and work. It´s not the healthiest thing I do, but I go jogging and play amatuer basketball, and I eat healthy. \n But I would quit if I had a girlfriend who´s against it, and if I were starting a family. \n And about toking when depressed? I know a man who got over his break-up thanks to my visit. He told me he would´ve ruined his apartment if I hadn´t come. So you see, I have a different experience. Doesn´t prove though it has no bad side effects, but I can deal with them.","Summary: My experience with Bethesda games has been great. Matter of taste I guess, but that is why I call these games great. \n P.S: If you need extra info about the lore, I suggest [UESPwiki]( For me, the Elder Scrolls do not have half assed stories, it is one of the most engaging lore I've ever encountered. I read the books a lot in these games, most of them are quite short but I enjoy them immensely.\n\nPost: I treat them like great games, because they gave me hours, days, weeks, years of fun through replay. Daggerfall was my favorite. I still play today for nostalgia, but I'm trying to go through Skyrim a bit more. I'm not sure if I could go through Morrowind or Oblivion again, but I guess when I get older I might pick them up again. \n Of course this differs from person to person. For example, I've never encountered a game breaking bug in any Bethesda game, except the Fallout games. Wait, there was one in Daggerfall where I couldn't travel to different places unless I fast traveled, but that was like 1990's. These games have given me that experience that I find lacking in titles like Neverwinter Nights, Dragon Age etc. I used to have a lot of fun with Eye of the Beholder on SNES and the classic Might & Magic games, but the reason I hold the Elder Scrolls on a higher level, is that they keep going on. And I still get the same experience. Again, it is probably because I've grown accustomed to their games, this style just fits me perfectly and apparently I've been lucky with bugs. Always had a solid gaming rig, thanks to my father only settling for the best, and allowing me to use it for gaming. \n But you make a very good point, since I cannot really find anything to compare them to, and am always thrilled with their releases even though many problems could be found. Call me a fanboy, I'm not ashamed.","Summary: 90's NBA will always be remembered by me, even though I don't remember the games, I remember my moments.\n\nPost: And what is wrong with that? I do not agree that NBA was any better during that time, but in my opinion it had more heart. Now everybody gets slapped with a fine or suspensions for opening there mouths and you can't even show emotion on the court. My memory might be playing tricks on me, but that's how I lived it. Actually when I think about it, I hype this period a bit much when discussing with friends. \n I enjoy NBA as much today, but the times seemed so much greater when you could like only watch one game per weekend (limited TV time at my house) and I didn't understand the game like today. Everything seemed so huge, so great, even regular season. My thoughts were only on this game. And then The Admiral dunks, or Sean Elliott hits a three, Avery Johnson interview, and I literally explode with emotion. I remember those times, but not the games I watched. These memories will always hold a special place in my heart, and I guess that's why I glorify these years so much. Just my thought on this.","Summary: I want my RPG´s with story and character building, and it better end at some point.\n\nPost: As I said I am objective, and I might have phrased my opinion wrong. Thanks for pointing that out. \n I also know people like you, who have met great people and enjoyed their time playing WoW, even though I personally think they are wasting their time. I have always been a gamer who looks for interesting plot and good character building in RPG´s. I play other games as well, like adventure games, RTS/TBS and shooters. Those are kind of games I like to play in multiplayer. But RPG´s man, they are supposed to give you a whole other experience. \n I´ve read tons of books and watched a lot of movies, but as so many others, my ultimate experience is when I can interact within this story. And also, I´m one of those who demands an ending. I am building up to something, not just to get a flying steed or better gear. I crave resolution. \n But of course, those are my two cents. Might be worthless to you, but at least they´re mine.","Summary: I have been a ref in both football and basketball, but not on a professional level, and I find football harder to officiate.\n\nPost: OK, before anyone rips me or something for telling about my experience and my personal opinion: I never officiated on a professional level, except for a few exhibition matches in both sports, so I can't really give a better insight then my personal experience. \n But as I have been a referee in both football and basketball, I'm telling you football was way harder. There are a lot of factors that come in mind, sure basketball is faster, and I never experienced NBA fast, but you have more time to focus in and see those little things that get past you then when you officiate a football match, either because you were too far away, or you had a bad angle. In basketball you have a set area which you are responsible for, and it is easier to detect the little things and, personally, I think the rules are more clear when a foul is committed in basketball then football. Still, in basketball you also have to think about traveling, offensive 3 sec, double dribble and fouls away from ball, but trust me you get used to it. But you can never catch every foul. \n Plus, I think the NBA refs have it easier then the International referees responsible for calling a penalty or sending players of in the knockout stages of the World Cup or Champions League. Andreas Frisk had to retire to protect his family from Chelsea fanatics is one example that came to mind.","Summary: DRM does not make money. It can´t make money. And, here I go....DRM is useless. Companies are getting huge because of a huge marketing scope and smart investments.\n\nPost: But, your point about DRM not being useless is hard to swallow. It is, in fact, kind of useless as many crackers have proven. Why fight when you know you´re gonna lose? \n But thanks to their huge market scope, they don´t have to think much about it. I mean, EA will always be able to make money on safe projects like sports games, movie games etc. but I´m not going into that. \n DRM = More money is just foolish. DRM can lead to faulty product/service and lead to massive refund claims e.g. From Dust incident. And it only affects those who bought the product, not those who pirated it, but this applies usually to single player games. Most companies offer a multiplayer service, and I find that is a good idea to prevent piracy. \n EA are not massive because they only MAKE MONEY as you say. They make shrewd marketing moves that get to a lot more people then just us gamers who know how to get a game for free. Also, they make good investments in other developers, that have their own reputation and fan-base. Look at Bioware, I wouldn´t dare to pirate a product from those great developers, but I got pretty pissed when my computer crashed and I couldn´t play my retail Mass Effect because I had used up my install quota. But that was resolved, but I can´t get my DLC anymore that was supposed to come with the retail version. \n At least where I live a lot of people are actually shocked you bought a PC game, since a little search on the internet can get you the game for free. Even X-box 360 games and PS3 games have become easy to crack and modded consoles have become a sort of norm, well for those who feel they don´t need multiplayer at least.","Summary: Rant, Rant and btw Santorum and Gingrich are literally maniacs everywhere except in America.\n\nPost: I'm not an American citizen, but I follow your news and I have gathered much information about the republican candidates. I am shocked, literally shocked that this is still being \"discussed\". Ron Paul is the only one I can see some integrity in, maybe I'm getting biased information, but for example Santorum and Gingrich wouldn't even be considered as possible politicians where I'm from. It's like they have no connection to the normal person, and they expect people to vote for them? The Media is handling this like a sports event, and people generally are supporting their candidate like it was their favorite sport team. When I decide to vote for somebody, it is because of his message and what he stands for, what he is actually going to bring into the system. Not if he has more chance to \"beat\" someone from another political party. \n This post has nothing to do with American Politics. Nothing. Statistics can tell you everything you want, but statistics aren't always telling you the truth. Third chance of beating Obama? Who cares? Who in their right mind would vote for Santorum and Gingrich really? Romney is at least a bit normal, but he's been a rich boy for too long and he has cheated the system, which would make me think about not voting for him, but I'm not saying he's all evil, businessmen are just sometimes like that. \n I'm not a Paul fanatic, but honestly, how can you not see he's the only one who would actually make your vote count? You think these other freaks are going to do anything that would help your country? Paul might not be the answer, but man, if he isn't in the race against Obama you \"republicans\" should really, and I mean really think about your political stand. There is controversial, but there is also batshit crazy, and 50% of the candidates you wrote down shouldn't be allowed to take part in anything that involves responsibility."],"string":"[\n \"Summary: Not all DLC is bad, but EA screwed my brother and I, and that is why I began avoiding their products. \\n P.S: Sorry if there are spelling or grammar errors. English is my second language, but I use it so much it shouldn't be an excuse for poor writing.\\n\\nPost: I think you are being too straight forward with your complaint. But there is one argument I want to elaborate on: \\n > A DLC is something that should have been in the game to start with. \\n Not always, but I admit I get the same feeling sometimes. Especially when there are number of DLC's planned before the full release. However, add-ons in multiplayer gameplay, new maps/weapons/aesthetics for example, are acceptable DLC for those who can afford to expand their multiplayer experience. \\n Now to my complaint. The DLC that is hard to buy, and which purchases can be voided just because the distributor changed the account settings. Yes, I'm talking about EA. All my brothers Mass Effect 1 & 2 DLC's and Dragon Age: Origins have all been void, because of his new EA account. Now, we live in a small market country, and reaching those DLC's was hard, since we had to buy Microsoft Points to be able to purchase those DLC. After all that, and a lot of money spent since our currency was down the tubes at the time, these DLC's are gone. They have been erased from the account, which still exists, and there is no way to redeem them. We have the retail versions of the games still, but not for the DLC. That is why, I have started boycotting EA products, even the FIFA franchise. \\n If anyone can or is willing to help us redeem his old account, or has a similar story but with a happy ending, please comment. I also want to add that I helped my brother pirate these DLC's, but I'm not proud of it. I stopped pirating games a long time ago, but sometimes, sometimes you feel it is the right thing to do. Which of course, is utterly wrong.\",\n \"Summary: Your definition of terms used by other people doesn't mean that you can make dumbfounded assumptions about whether these people are advocating anything. My point is that Subduction(man, this username spooks me) is making assumptions because he refuses to accept proper definition of words. \\n EDIT: OK I found this in your link: \\n>Employee rights are said to be valid when employers pressure \\nemployees into sexual activity. Why don't they quit once the so-called \\nharassment starts? \\n Very poorly worded, I totally agree you can make the assumption that he doesn't view sexual harassment as an offense. But you say he advocates this behavior, and you made the assumption that Ron Paul has nothing against that bosses can make the demand: \\\"Fuck me or you're fired\\\". That is a form of violence, this is the employer using force. \\n I make the assumption that Ron Paul is talking more about social pressure, like if the boss constantly was asking her out, or saying she looked sexy, or getting her in an awkward situation where she looks like the bad guy because she keeps turning him down in front of her fellow employees. Again, I personally think this is form of harassment, but not a criminal one. And Ron Paul is quite stupid to say: \\n >Why don't they quit once the so-called \\nharassment starts? \\n I say, if she/he is forced to quit because of this harassment, wasn't the boss abusing his position to make those advances? Isn't it his job to make his employers workplace comfortable? This boss has totally failed, and it has lead to a termination of an employee. I think more would follow suit if they witnessed this kind of harassment on their fellow employee. This organization would fail.\\n\\nPost: OK, so you've asked Ron Paul in person, and he said he advocated that if a boss threatens: \\\"Fuck me or you're fired\\\" should not lead disciplinary actions? And he said yes? And you can prove it? No? Oh, so you made the assumption that what he is advocating. \\n You also define violence as something that can only be performed physically. I don't know this, but maybe Ron Paul defines it that way as well. But I'm not making the assumption that it is what he truly believes. \\n Emotional violence can be as direct as physical violence, but doesn't affect us the same as physical violence does. I truly believe, but do not know for certain, that Ron Paul is against any form of violence in the workplace. And the sentence you say Ron Paul advocates, is violence. Some would ignore it because they know they're boss does not have this power he's trying to show and make him regret for saying it, others could be frightened and think that their only option is to submit. Depends on the person's willpower, and intelligence. \\n Again I will quote from your insert from his book:\\n>If force was clearly used, that is another story, but pressure and submission is hardly an example of a violation of one's employment rights. \\n Pressure and submission. \\n Pressure: This could mean a boss hassling you, telling you to work harder, never giving you the raise you think you deserve, always on your back. I know of some cases personally where the boss lays a whole lot of pressure on his workforce and rewards very little for hard work. However, he should not be held against a criminal court for this. \\n Submission: I think this word is bothering you, even though you call yourself Subduction. I agree it can be defined as you stated, that Ron Paul advocates sexual submission in the workplace. But I think personally that he is talking about, for example, when the boss tells you to do something because he is the boss, like getting him coffee, or work overtime even though you had made plans and tried all month to prevent getting overtime this day. That kind of submission is harsh, but not a criminal offence. \\n All of these examples can be defined as harassment. He never, ever condones specifically sexual harassment, if asked, I think Ron Paul would agree that sexual harassment is a form of violence. It is your interpretation that he is only against physical violence and advocates sexual harassment. You made those assumptions, and you can't deny that.\",\n \"Summary: The example Subduction used isn't really viable here, but he has a point and was right to criticize this paragraph from Ron Paul's book.\\n\\nPost: What you quoted from the Ron Paul book:\\n>If force was clearly used, that is another story, but pressure and submission is hardly an example of a violation of one's employment rights. \\n And you said:\\n>So, using the example I used in another thread, a boss going to his secretary and saying:\\n\\\"You fuck me or your fired, and your children will starve.\\\"\\nis protected in Ron Paul's world view.\\nThe only recourse she has is quit or fuck. She wouldn't even have legal standing to sue. \\n So I have some questions. Is it not force when you make a threat? Is it not force when you fire someone without acceptable grounds, like not fucking him? \\n >\\\"You fuck me or your fired, and your children will starve.\\\" \\n I'm not condoning what Ron Paul wrote in his book, it was terribly worded and you are correct in criticizing him for it. But you are taking it little out of context. You should know, that he is against using force, and the example you gave clearly states that this boss is using force. \\n But after reading your quote, I understand why he would be criticized. Maybe Ron doesn't really understand what effect sexual bantering or what he calls jokes can have on a persons mind or feeling. He clearly understates what kind of problems it can have on employees if the workplace is an uncomfortable place to work in, which it would be if the boss would constantly approach you with sexual intent, even though he considers them jokes or mindless banter. That should not be acceptable in any workplace, and the management should be charged or disciplined for it. \\n EDIT: Here is\",\n \"Summary: I still see the Lakers as a playoff team, young prospects plus Kobe's mentality can carry them to the playoffs, but not all the way.\\n\\nPost: Wes could be a diamond in the rough. Nick Young too, these kind of players seem to flourish in LA, and they get the best veteran in the league for them to train with. \\n People will talk bad about Kobe' personality, but I think personally he just has high standards. He's giving more then 100%, why should he respect someone who doesn't? Wes and Nick will have a chance to prove themselves in front of one of the best in history of basketball, if they don't listen, then surely nothing will come out of their career. I think Kaman and Pau can become a good combo offensively, as they both have good range and post moves. Defense could be a problem, but Pau will not disappoint. Just 3 years ago I convinced my friends, thanks to his stellar play, that he was easily top 5 big man, if not the best in the NBA. \\n My prediction: Close to playoffs, finish strong like last season and get the 7th/8th again. With Kobe, they can challenge Spurs/Thunder/Rockets/Clippers, but I believe it will be an early exit, but a close series in the first round. My reason for this is exactly your point of Kobe being basically ready to play now. Like the video says, he's going for a championship, no matter what. I doubt he can go all the way with his team, but boy, he ain't letting them quit even though this draft is stacked.\",\n \"Summary: Giving privatized drug stores monopoly over cigarettes and limiting their supply is bad. Keep them in our state-runned ÁTVR stores and out of small cornershops and supermarkets.\\n\\nPost: Icelander here as well, what I´m afraid of is that they are giving the drug stores monopoly over cigarette sales, and they are privately owned. And this will not restrict young people from getting cigarettes, like Siv Friðleifsdóttir promised. It just opens up for a new black market. \\n Think about, we know a lot of kids get beer from illegal beer vendors all over town, I think smuggling cigarettes will become popular and these vendors will sell them with the beer. Limited supply does not mean limited demand, no matter what. Limited supply encourages black markets. \\n But I´m not saying this is a bad idea, but I think we should limit cigarettes to ÁTVR(Alcohol & Tobacco shops) and other kind of tobacco to special tobacco shops. Take them out of stores and cornershops, and tax it to hell. But I´m not an expert and I could be wrong.\",\n \"Summary: We can work together, even though USA doesn´t think so.\\n\\nPost: Thanks to the loan system you hold to so dearly. But I´m not blaming you, we all have to take our loans and pick a career we want to pursue. And of course, I would not want you to give everyone free dental care, unless you got subsidies and grants from the government for equipment etc., which I believe you do not get. \\n Imagine if your school system was publicly funded, you would not need a loan. And you would not need to practise privately. Of course, you would not have your own practise, and you had to pay higher taxes. Not saying anything is wrong with your system overseas, well, not entirely, but a lot of countries in Europe and other regions have a public system, and on every list they top USA in medical care.\",\n \"Summary: After watching Open Court, I think rings are important when comparing great players.\\n\\nPost: After watching Open Court, I think the rings do matter when comparing greats, like Kobe and MJ. You can't say Robert Horry is the GOAT just because he has the most rings, but when you compare two great superstars, you look how long they've played and how many rings they won over they're career. \\n Another good point made in Open Court, you have to look at the teams the player played with when he won those rings. Like Kenny Smith said, Kobe was always on a team when there was another player double-teamed, Lebron won a title in a team where another player is double-teamed. MJ never played with anyone who was double-teamed, everybody on the opposing defence were thinking what MJ was going to do.\",\n \"Summary: I guess I did need to vent out as well. I hope I didn't come out to critical or unfair.\\n\\nPost: I would like to share with you my view since we come from a similar background, similar age and similar...playing style, sorry I'm going to have to use the excuse that English is my second language. I want to say that also because of my career I have to limit my gaming, and that time has become very important. I play games with good stories, I like the ones most where I create the character and he doesn't have a voice, I am literally playing his role. Games with linear stories and walls of text I do enjoy most of the times, like most Bioware games, since they give you a lot different texts to choose from for your character to say. Elder Scrolls are my favourite. \\n However, I understand you views but I like to debate them from my point of view, one at a time. \\n >I don't know why, but I feel like online gaming became a very hostile place. \\n I hate to use the word hostile, I would say unforgiving. This is, well, competition. Of course, most look at it to relax and forget themselves in a computer game, but there are a lot of players who take the competition very seriously. I might be reading into it wrongly, but that is the experience I have gotten from CS and LoL. I agree this can repeal new players and comes as hostile, and it is really unfair and bad behaviour, but try to join a random soccer or basketball pickup game and suck. What I did was try to ignore the shittalking, and try to grab the little suggestions and tips that were sometime hidden in the message. Maybe I'm not on the right track or explaining it well, but I sometime forgive those ragers once in a while. When competing, people tend to lose their tempers if a teammate is hurting their competition or doesn't give as much to the game. If you're just talking about those who send childish messages because you fragged them or just want to throw out offensive slurs, I agree with you completely. \\n >Reviews should be read critically and should be allowed to include opinions and whatever the author feels like including \\n Completely agree with the first statement in this sentence, but can debate the other one. I guess I can agree that they should allow their opinions, but please, leave it out of the game score. This is not the real world, sociological issues and utopian ideas do not need to be discussed in a world that doesn't exist. I find most people take media to seriously, if a man beats a woman in a movie or a game, I don't need to jump straight to the conclusion that the creator is a misogynist. I have played every Street Fighter game and finished with every character in all the mode, or so I would like to think, but not once have I or want to get in a street fight. I was 8 when my dad bought me the #2 on SNES, he knew I was smart enough then to figure out that game didn't portray reality. \\n >Don't be blind fellow gamers; we are considered hostile, stupid and offensive because MANY GAMERS ARE \\n Sure, but why the generalization? Do you generalize every football player because of Ray Rice's actions? You know what, I'm not going to agree with this statement. Gamers are PEOPLE, and PEOPLE can be hostile, stupid and offensive. I don't like that you say many are, it is probably true, but I would like to give people like us a little more credit for not resorting to be hostile, stupid or offensive. Instead, I will say gamers are honest, hard-working people because MANY GAMERS ARE. The ones who are hostile are given every bit of attention, that is the real problem in my opinion. \\n >As for harassment, I think the debate is over. No side, pro or anti-GG, is FOR harassment. There just happens to be radicals on both sides who seem to make their issues bypass empathy for human beings. Stop associating harassment with a side, associate it with the individuals guilty of it \\n Amen. Couldn't have said it better myself. \\n Sorry for the long text, bad grammar and no\",\n \"Summary: Yes, some of us Icelanders are cool and really open minded. But like any other place, some people have problems and a bad apple there and there. \\n Edit: \\\"Alþingi\\\" is basically our GOP.\\n\\nPost: Well, not sure where you are getting your info, but try living here. I am however not complaining and admit that I probably have it much better and can live more peacefully than most people in the world. \\n But there are people who lost their jobs and homes because of the economy crash, and they get little help from the government because there had to be cutbacks made, and the general public and small companies got the biggest share of the cutbacks. \\n And yeah, basically our Alþingi can reject the new constitution without any trouble. If it is not written like they want, it will never hold. But the positive thing is if the new constitution fails, those 25 people will form a new political group, and they will get ALL THE VOTES!\",\n \"Summary: Even though problems in Iceland are miniscule compared of other nations, and is a common problem over the world, it does not mean I have no right to be concerned over these problems of my nation. Iceland is not perfect, and I want people to know.\\n\\nPost: Yes, that´s the big gripe with my country. Seeing people have to move out to the streets because their debt doubled, thanks to our currency dropping so drastically. I´m seeing a lot of my generation pay for debts of big businessmen who were hailed as entrepreneurs take over our banks who steadily grew until the market couldn´t handle no more and there was no loan fee available from international banks. And they get off free, many of them keep their riches, while we the common people have to see tax raised, debt going out of control and getting evicted, just because a few Icelanders made mistakes. \\n I´m sorry, we don´t have any bigger problems than that until the volcano Katla erupts at least. And I feel for every single person that has to riot and risk their lives so their voice can be heard, and for every single person that has to fight through his whole life just to find food for his family and himself. But I do not have the power to change their environment or effect the political government controlling these nations. I wish I could, and if anyone comes up with a solution and needs international help, I will answer the call. \\n The best I can do is to try to voice my concerns here, and let everyone know that even we need a drastic change in our lifestyle here in Iceland as well. That´s the best I can do.\",\n \"Summary: I hate these kind of questions, and to many people are too fast blaming players for not giving 100%. How the F would you know? It's the NBA, the Unstoppabulls lost to 7 Raptors' players, MJ played 39 mins.\\n\\nPost: Look, you can have bad days, and you can have wonderful days. This is the NBA, even though the Wizards \\\"suck\\\", they are professional basketball players, and if the Heat or Thunder have a bad day, every NBA team has a chance of winning a game. \\n This subreddit is really fast playing people down for some reason. These players will give their effort, and they hate it when they lose no doubt, but this is the NBA, almost every player has the capability to win a single game for their team, but you talk about talent when they do it constantly. Losing to the Jazz should not mean that the Thunder were lazy or they didn't give a damn. The Jazz came to play, and in fact they played better. Don't take away from the Jazz because you thought it would be an easy win for the Thunder. These questions are downright insulting, \\\"Did you lose the game, or did Jazz win.\\\" Really stupid question, the answer was on the scoreboard, the Jazz were on, the Thunder weren't. \\n The level of effort put forth by players varies from night to night? Sorry, but who are you to make that statement? Is every single day perfect for you? You can put 110% effort, but the ball might not go in as much as it usually does, and the Jazz are fighting hard to make an upset, and you are taking that away from them, just because you say players don't put 100% effort each and every night. \\n Sorry for posting this on you, nothing personal, but I just hate these assumptions. My local team is losing a lot of fanbase, because history-wise they should be on the top of the table, but they are not so people stop coming to the games because they know for sure that the team is not giving 100%. Fuck that, really. That's why I find this a ridiculous question. Easy to criticize, but you and I have no idea what is going through these players heads.\",\n \"Summary: I think AI could become a great reward, especially for the Celtics. And please, give me the Spurs vs Celtics finals, it was so close last year. \\n EDIT: Fixed some spelling here and there...\\n\\nPost: I think you named most of the reasons why teams are skeptic. If he wouldn't be able to show anything during workout, and if his interview with the coach shows that he hasn't matured at all, then I will accept that he doesn't have a chance. But I believe he will relish any chance to get back to the NBA, and is ready to compromise anything. I believe a 37 year old Iverson will shut up when told to, and he will give 110%. I think there is something left in him, but I think that your view is more common and much more safe for teams in the league, and you could be absolutely right. \\n People have been throwing the Celtics around, I agree with this as they have a strong mindset, and Coach Rivers I think is willing to take any chance to improve the Celtics record this season. AI could be a bust, too slow to defend, too weak to penetrate like he used to, but I'm not ready to write it down as a fact. Iverson was simply amazing, I would love if the Spurs picked him up, but our roster is great. So yeah, I'm gonna jump on the Celtics wagon and hope AI could bring KG to the finals against Timmy D for one last showdown, all or nothing, who is better? :D\",\n \"Summary: I´m doing great reddit! And experience varies from person to person. Not everybody abuse trees, and can actually handle the \\\"addiction\\\".\\n\\nPost: Doing pretty well, thank you. Wouldn´t be in a university without it. Helps me motivate myself, you know, reward after a long day of school and work. It´s not the healthiest thing I do, but I go jogging and play amatuer basketball, and I eat healthy. \\n But I would quit if I had a girlfriend who´s against it, and if I were starting a family. \\n And about toking when depressed? I know a man who got over his break-up thanks to my visit. He told me he would´ve ruined his apartment if I hadn´t come. So you see, I have a different experience. Doesn´t prove though it has no bad side effects, but I can deal with them.\",\n \"Summary: My experience with Bethesda games has been great. Matter of taste I guess, but that is why I call these games great. \\n P.S: If you need extra info about the lore, I suggest [UESPwiki]( For me, the Elder Scrolls do not have half assed stories, it is one of the most engaging lore I've ever encountered. I read the books a lot in these games, most of them are quite short but I enjoy them immensely.\\n\\nPost: I treat them like great games, because they gave me hours, days, weeks, years of fun through replay. Daggerfall was my favorite. I still play today for nostalgia, but I'm trying to go through Skyrim a bit more. I'm not sure if I could go through Morrowind or Oblivion again, but I guess when I get older I might pick them up again. \\n Of course this differs from person to person. For example, I've never encountered a game breaking bug in any Bethesda game, except the Fallout games. Wait, there was one in Daggerfall where I couldn't travel to different places unless I fast traveled, but that was like 1990's. These games have given me that experience that I find lacking in titles like Neverwinter Nights, Dragon Age etc. I used to have a lot of fun with Eye of the Beholder on SNES and the classic Might & Magic games, but the reason I hold the Elder Scrolls on a higher level, is that they keep going on. And I still get the same experience. Again, it is probably because I've grown accustomed to their games, this style just fits me perfectly and apparently I've been lucky with bugs. Always had a solid gaming rig, thanks to my father only settling for the best, and allowing me to use it for gaming. \\n But you make a very good point, since I cannot really find anything to compare them to, and am always thrilled with their releases even though many problems could be found. Call me a fanboy, I'm not ashamed.\",\n \"Summary: 90's NBA will always be remembered by me, even though I don't remember the games, I remember my moments.\\n\\nPost: And what is wrong with that? I do not agree that NBA was any better during that time, but in my opinion it had more heart. Now everybody gets slapped with a fine or suspensions for opening there mouths and you can't even show emotion on the court. My memory might be playing tricks on me, but that's how I lived it. Actually when I think about it, I hype this period a bit much when discussing with friends. \\n I enjoy NBA as much today, but the times seemed so much greater when you could like only watch one game per weekend (limited TV time at my house) and I didn't understand the game like today. Everything seemed so huge, so great, even regular season. My thoughts were only on this game. And then The Admiral dunks, or Sean Elliott hits a three, Avery Johnson interview, and I literally explode with emotion. I remember those times, but not the games I watched. These memories will always hold a special place in my heart, and I guess that's why I glorify these years so much. Just my thought on this.\",\n \"Summary: I want my RPG´s with story and character building, and it better end at some point.\\n\\nPost: As I said I am objective, and I might have phrased my opinion wrong. Thanks for pointing that out. \\n I also know people like you, who have met great people and enjoyed their time playing WoW, even though I personally think they are wasting their time. I have always been a gamer who looks for interesting plot and good character building in RPG´s. I play other games as well, like adventure games, RTS/TBS and shooters. Those are kind of games I like to play in multiplayer. But RPG´s man, they are supposed to give you a whole other experience. \\n I´ve read tons of books and watched a lot of movies, but as so many others, my ultimate experience is when I can interact within this story. And also, I´m one of those who demands an ending. I am building up to something, not just to get a flying steed or better gear. I crave resolution. \\n But of course, those are my two cents. Might be worthless to you, but at least they´re mine.\",\n \"Summary: I have been a ref in both football and basketball, but not on a professional level, and I find football harder to officiate.\\n\\nPost: OK, before anyone rips me or something for telling about my experience and my personal opinion: I never officiated on a professional level, except for a few exhibition matches in both sports, so I can't really give a better insight then my personal experience. \\n But as I have been a referee in both football and basketball, I'm telling you football was way harder. There are a lot of factors that come in mind, sure basketball is faster, and I never experienced NBA fast, but you have more time to focus in and see those little things that get past you then when you officiate a football match, either because you were too far away, or you had a bad angle. In basketball you have a set area which you are responsible for, and it is easier to detect the little things and, personally, I think the rules are more clear when a foul is committed in basketball then football. Still, in basketball you also have to think about traveling, offensive 3 sec, double dribble and fouls away from ball, but trust me you get used to it. But you can never catch every foul. \\n Plus, I think the NBA refs have it easier then the International referees responsible for calling a penalty or sending players of in the knockout stages of the World Cup or Champions League. Andreas Frisk had to retire to protect his family from Chelsea fanatics is one example that came to mind.\",\n \"Summary: DRM does not make money. It can´t make money. And, here I go....DRM is useless. Companies are getting huge because of a huge marketing scope and smart investments.\\n\\nPost: But, your point about DRM not being useless is hard to swallow. It is, in fact, kind of useless as many crackers have proven. Why fight when you know you´re gonna lose? \\n But thanks to their huge market scope, they don´t have to think much about it. I mean, EA will always be able to make money on safe projects like sports games, movie games etc. but I´m not going into that. \\n DRM = More money is just foolish. DRM can lead to faulty product/service and lead to massive refund claims e.g. From Dust incident. And it only affects those who bought the product, not those who pirated it, but this applies usually to single player games. Most companies offer a multiplayer service, and I find that is a good idea to prevent piracy. \\n EA are not massive because they only MAKE MONEY as you say. They make shrewd marketing moves that get to a lot more people then just us gamers who know how to get a game for free. Also, they make good investments in other developers, that have their own reputation and fan-base. Look at Bioware, I wouldn´t dare to pirate a product from those great developers, but I got pretty pissed when my computer crashed and I couldn´t play my retail Mass Effect because I had used up my install quota. But that was resolved, but I can´t get my DLC anymore that was supposed to come with the retail version. \\n At least where I live a lot of people are actually shocked you bought a PC game, since a little search on the internet can get you the game for free. Even X-box 360 games and PS3 games have become easy to crack and modded consoles have become a sort of norm, well for those who feel they don´t need multiplayer at least.\",\n \"Summary: Rant, Rant and btw Santorum and Gingrich are literally maniacs everywhere except in America.\\n\\nPost: I'm not an American citizen, but I follow your news and I have gathered much information about the republican candidates. I am shocked, literally shocked that this is still being \\\"discussed\\\". Ron Paul is the only one I can see some integrity in, maybe I'm getting biased information, but for example Santorum and Gingrich wouldn't even be considered as possible politicians where I'm from. It's like they have no connection to the normal person, and they expect people to vote for them? The Media is handling this like a sports event, and people generally are supporting their candidate like it was their favorite sport team. When I decide to vote for somebody, it is because of his message and what he stands for, what he is actually going to bring into the system. Not if he has more chance to \\\"beat\\\" someone from another political party. \\n This post has nothing to do with American Politics. Nothing. Statistics can tell you everything you want, but statistics aren't always telling you the truth. Third chance of beating Obama? Who cares? Who in their right mind would vote for Santorum and Gingrich really? Romney is at least a bit normal, but he's been a rich boy for too long and he has cheated the system, which would make me think about not voting for him, but I'm not saying he's all evil, businessmen are just sometimes like that. \\n I'm not a Paul fanatic, but honestly, how can you not see he's the only one who would actually make your vote count? You think these other freaks are going to do anything that would help your country? Paul might not be the answer, but man, if he isn't in the race against Obama you \\\"republicans\\\" should really, and I mean really think about your political stand. There is controversial, but there is also batshit crazy, and 50% of the candidates you wrote down shouldn't be allowed to take part in anything that involves responsibility.\"\n]","isConversational":false},"profile_size":{"kind":"number","value":19,"string":"19"},"task":{"kind":"string","value":"longlamp_4"},"split_kind":{"kind":"string","value":"user_based"},"id":{"kind":"number","value":1296,"string":"1,296"}}},{"rowIdx":1297,"cells":{"question_id":{"kind":"string","value":"Kombat_Wombat"},"question":{"kind":"string","value":"Generate the content for a reddit post I was praised too much as a child, and when I lost my mother, I realized how much nothing I am without the pats on the back."},"answer":{"kind":"string","value":"I've noticed that often times people brag about how they're doing complicated maths or something extra nerdy. The truth is, anyone can do the maths if they wanted to. \n >Little do they know that I'm going to go home and run multi-variable economic regressions for fun \n It's like some sort of trophy that makes them special where actually taking a course in advanced analysis doesn't make you any more special than someone who majors in a theater, history, or any other class. \n It drives me nuts when people ask you major and you say math, engineering, physics and the like, and people say, \"Ohh, that's really difficult and boring.\" I've spent enough time in academia to realize that when people talk about their \"Alpha-Beta-tautomer-ligapolymerase dihedral reactionary magnets\", they somehow smile at you as if they told you that they just cured cancer with their mind. In reality, it's just a process that people do and that a majority of people could do given a couple years. \n Bear with me please. One of my flaws is that I get pissed at people who share my same flaws and situation for no other reason that I can see their flaws clearly. I'm doing this right now with you, I suppose. I share the looks, the anxieties, and the need to be intellectually stimulated. \n For my whole life up until a couple of years ago, I feel like I created this ego based around me being super scientist man. I chose my two majors around this, and I was going to grad school for math, and I discovered that the reason I spent so much time being good at math is because I got wows from people. I got pats on the back, and people made me feel smart because I was doing something that they couldn't. I quit grad school, thank god. \n These issues mostly came about because I was praised as a child too much, not for my hard work ethic, being nice or doing community service, but I was praised for good looks, being 'naturally' smart (which is mostly bullshit), and excelling where my peers didn't. It caused a lot of problems for me these past few years. I ended up losing my mother six months ago, bless her heart, and she was the main source of my [narcissistic supply]( \n So yeah, it's time to go find out what I actually like doing for me. I hope you figure stuff out too, and this might not even relate to your problems, although I have a feeling that it does."},"correct_answer":{"kind":"string","value":"I've noticed that often times people brag about how they're doing complicated maths or something extra nerdy. The truth is, anyone can do the maths if they wanted to. \n >Little do they know that I'm going to go home and run multi-variable economic regressions for fun \n It's like some sort of trophy that makes them special where actually taking a course in advanced analysis doesn't make you any more special than someone who majors in a theater, history, or any other class. \n It drives me nuts when people ask you major and you say math, engineering, physics and the like, and people say, \"Ohh, that's really difficult and boring.\" I've spent enough time in academia to realize that when people talk about their \"Alpha-Beta-tautomer-ligapolymerase dihedral reactionary magnets\", they somehow smile at you as if they told you that they just cured cancer with their mind. In reality, it's just a process that people do and that a majority of people could do given a couple years. \n Bear with me please. One of my flaws is that I get pissed at people who share my same flaws and situation for no other reason that I can see their flaws clearly. I'm doing this right now with you, I suppose. I share the looks, the anxieties, and the need to be intellectually stimulated. \n For my whole life up until a couple of years ago, I feel like I created this ego based around me being super scientist man. I chose my two majors around this, and I was going to grad school for math, and I discovered that the reason I spent so much time being good at math is because I got wows from people. I got pats on the back, and people made me feel smart because I was doing something that they couldn't. I quit grad school, thank god. \n These issues mostly came about because I was praised as a child too much, not for my hard work ethic, being nice or doing community service, but I was praised for good looks, being 'naturally' smart (which is mostly bullshit), and excelling where my peers didn't. It caused a lot of problems for me these past few years. I ended up losing my mother six months ago, bless her heart, and she was the main source of my [narcissistic supply]( \n So yeah, it's time to go find out what I actually like doing for me. I hope you figure stuff out too, and this might not even relate to your problems, although I have a feeling that it does."},"documents":{"kind":"list like","value":["Summary: Books are dumb. TV is smart.\n\nPost: I don't read a ton. I've read I'd say a total of about 100 books for leisure in my life. I had to read a ton in college, and now I read articles and such. I feel badly about myself when people tout that they read a book a week or something like that because I might be missing out. \n Reading a lot of books will give you a lot of knowledge, but as long as you keep your brain active, there are a lot of alternatives to becoming educated. I did music, practiced maths, was very sociable, and I played a ton of video games. I always paid attention to the details and had a thirst for the truth in all things. Someone correct me if I'm wrong please, but you don't need to be a literary genius to extract the important meanings and themes out of life. \n Why is reading books the preferred interface anyways? Isn't it as bad (or good) as television or any other expression of art? Rhetoric and debate aren't practiced as much as they were in the past, and they could very well be requisites for learning that our generation missed out on. The internet and digital media are faster than books, and we stand to learn in greater detail the lives and experiences of people of the world. There was a time when we didn't even have books at all, and there may have been folks who shun books like we shun television. \n These are all thoughts I've had, and I'm not trying to bash books. If anything I'm reading more than I have growing up. Thanks for reading my post!","Summary: Lack of purpose and loss of identity are crippling.\n\nPost: Most all of these comments seem to be lacking any perspective. Being 24 fucking sucks. 22 is great, you're just out of college. 23 you start feeling like a failure, but it is super common to have a serious episode of depression and anxiety after you're all done with college. \n I can tell by the way that you pass off making coffee as the simplest thing in the world. To him, it's not simple at all. It's some guy (albiet, his dad) expecting him to make a pot of coffee for you. Sure, he'll do it once, twice, but eventually it just feels like you're dictating his life. All of the things that he needs to do, the applications for jobs, finding a part time job, thinking about his career, dealing with many many lost relationships, dealing with needing to find a girlfriend, all of these things are interrupted by someone telling him to make a pot of coffee. \n He doesn't have structure anymore, and everyone is asking him to conform to a 9-5 schedule as opposed to his random school schedule. \n It's not laziness. It's anxiety, pure and simple. It's the fear of failure that you and society instill in him on a seemingly daily basis. The expectations that he feels from society are overwhelming and he doesn't know what to do with them other than completely shut down and go into resource-save mode. \n If someone told me to make a pot of coffee at 24, It would be ten times harder on me back then than today in 2012 working a 14 hour day. No hyperbole. I love what I do now because I feel empowered, enfranchised and successful, but then, everything that I knew about the world was telling me that I was a failure. \n I'm not lazy. I've always had a good work ethic, and it sounds like he does too (master's degree). I look back on that time and I realize that I gained a ton of perspective on who I was, what I wanted, and whether or not I wanted to buy into the whole social contract. \n I had to determine what I actually owed to society. It turns out I don't owe anything to society or my father, and I don't have to do anything that I don't want to. At the time, I thought I had all of these responsibilities because I got this wonderful education and support from society. It's strange that with the perspective of not giving a fuck, I'm much more enthusiastic and more of a 'model citizen'. \n So with all this in mind, sorry for the wall of text, I'm not telling you to house him or support him financially or put up with his shit. I just wanted to give my two cents. You can kick him out, but don't just think that he's a lazy cunt. He doesn't owe you anything, and you don't owe him anything either. \n Expectations are a bitch, for all parties involved.","Summary: No one person can choose what everyone 'deserves'. It's a dangerous word, and it robs us of a lot of what we could have.\n\nPost: I didn't say that we should be able to watch it for free. I'm not sure if you read my comment or comprehended which side that I was supporting. \n I was saying that people shouldn't pay for a service that gouges them on the price if they don't want to be gouged. As a community, they should work to lower the price of hollywood movies through not paying,\nwork towards creating competition, and using alternate means of entertainment. \n I'm saying that entitlement and deservedness has absolutely nothing to do with this, or morality in general. So many people use the word \"deserve\" as a powerful tool for rhetoric, and it has so many horrible backlashes. \n For example, the poor deserve what they have because they don't work hard. People don't deserve to eat because they didn't grow the food themselves. People don't deserve to watch anything for free. People don't deserve to make over a million dollars a year. \n All of these statements are not arguments. They don't mean anything by themselves. Saying that people don't deserve to watch anything for free means that people will never be able to have that thing for free where there is definitely a situation to have that very thing for free. Soon enough, people will try to monetize the internet even more than they do because they have a monopoly. Many people have stated that no one business deserves to have a monopoly, and it's true because it's easy to see how it becomes a racket. Eventually, the internet will be completely monetized, and there will be someone who says that no one deserves the internet for free. Why the fuck not? Why can't the internet be a great tool for education and prosperity like the radio is or the television was meant to be? \n Eventually, technology will be good enough so that we can start having free lunches. The difference between someone having a meal or not will be decided on whether or not we can get over this whole attitude of desevedness. Some people say that people only deserve what they can earn. I say that people deserve as much as we can give each other.","Summary: Prohibition would've worked better in a society without Christianity. Just read it and let me know what you think.\n\nPost: This is interesting. I'm trying to think of someone who goes around and tells people not to drink because it's basically poison. What a buzzkill. On the other side of the coin, he's totally right that if people weren't drinking, people would not get in drunk driving accidents, people wouldn't fall ill to the effects of alcoholism and its physical effects, and everyone would maintain their non-drunk judgement. \n Religion gives poor judgement sometimes, and people can become addicted to religion very easily. The guy is still a buzzkill because there are many many people who drink responsibly and have a good time. Are you going to say that people who drink are responsible for other drinkers' behaviors? They create an environment that is conducive to drinking where it encourages people to imbibe too much. \n Drunk driving deaths could be comparable to the deaths and oppression that religion causes. Some people choose booze, and others choose ignorance. If you want out with one, it makes sense to have out with the other.","Summary: The language of responsibility and blame buries our empathy of the situation, and we lose a tool to fix the problem: acceptance of us as people simply for being people.\n\nPost: Woof, look at all my downvotes. I wasn't making a point contrary to yours, I just didn't approve of one of the supporting arguments. This is more a message to everyone who doesn't understand that. \n It kind of actually gives a lot of voice to my scruple that I have with the whole, \"Well they can deal with the consequences.\" It's so very much one way or the other. Absolutely I 100% agree that people who choose to be fat will fairly be judged as unhealthy and often undesirable in a lifelong partnership or even friendship. It's rough. \n I think the language: \n >be prepared to deal with the consequences \n is a product of people being so incredibly uncomfortable with the fact that there is someone hurting and living a life that is so contrary to reality. This happens with every single thing that is not the norm. Whenever someone does something that isn't socially acceptable, there is a major unconscious push within themselves to separate from whatever this foreign and strange trend, illness or lifestyle may be. \n This strangeness makes people do strange things, and it makes people dissociate strongly. I've done it, and I still do. But! These people are not helped by putting this \"blame\" or uncomfortable responsibility back on them. Like any addiction, a person addicted to booze will not always be helped by someone saying, \"It's your fault you destroyed your liver.\" After all, they're the first ones to admit it, not always openly, but they're filled with self-loathing already. More self-loathing and responsibility will not help. \n This is because addiction is used to cope with huge gaping holes and a loss of their senses of self. They are broken at a very fundamental level. To help these people make better life decisions, we have to help them repair their senses of self and fill up their holes. After all, they have to make the decisions themselves lest we become in control of their situation. \n We all have this dynamic in ourselves, and it's jarring to see the visual representation of sloth and addiction present in the persistent image of a fat person. Therefore it is much easier to say, \"They must face the consequences.\" as if this is new information. It's a platitude and avoidance so we don't have to face that very same demon that these people face. \n So these people are reaching out and crying for acceptance, and they want acceptance for what they've been made to feel less than human for. They don't need that. What they actually need is fundamental acceptance for being human, and I truly believe that if they got this, they would make much better life choices because they could then find their real selves. They could listen to their inside voice, that which will obviously want to live life better, and they could tune out the deafening outside voice that tells them to be an awesome barbie-ken-achiever-robot. \n So yeah, I hope that makes sense and applies to what you were saying, and this isn't all contrary to your comment because it sounds like you empathize and understand a lot of this. I just wanted to articulate my thoughts on self-worth and how a lot of people in discussions like these like to talk about blame and responsibility but fail to see that these people would certainly make better life choices if they could just find themselves. This doesn't just go for being overweight either. Acceptance of our inherent worth goes a long ways to healing and finding our true inner-self as opposed to appealing to an authority (as in people who will judge you), responsibility or an outside voice.","Summary: Stop judging yourself. You're good enough simply for being human. It's easier said than done, but you can certainly get help. You can ask explicitly for what you need and finally start getting your needs met without shame, guilt or thinking that you're an impostor.\n\nPost: I had it bad once upon a time. It usually had to do with relationships, and I always had to have instant resolution during an argument or I'd go crazy. If there was even a moment of tension, I'd freak out and think that everything was wrong. I like to call this my sense of impending doom or dread. \n I'm still working through stuff. It's always a work in progress, but I've since learned that taking space is okay. If I'm having a tiff and I'm in a relationship with someone that cares about me, then I should be able to take my time and have the confidence that what I'm feeling is real- that I'm not an impostor. I have the confidence to communicate my feelings and concerns, and that this process might take a few hours with long breaks. \n In public, I'll get it too. On stage, again, I was always afraid of fucking up. I'd feel eyes on me, and this feeling didn't go away for a long time. I was afraid what people would think of me and what people would think of me because of the people I am with. It's all fucking ridiculous though. \n We aren't impostors. Just because we missed a bill doesn't mean we're wasteful and will never be rich ever. Just because we're a little awkward here and there doesn't mean we'll never be liked, and just because we don't go to graduate school doesn't mean we're not smart enough to do our jobs. And just because we don't have jobs doesn't mean we're a failure as a person. \n Overcoming this anxiety takes time. We were trained that our selves are secondary to the needs of our narcissistic parents whether it be alcohol, pride, emotional stability or whatever. My parents completely co-opted my sense of self to meet the needs that they never had met when they were children. It's a vicious cycle, but it started somewhere and it can end with you. \n Going through therapy helped me. Being able to articulate my situation and constantly affirm myself through proof that I have collected (doctors tell me, my experience, my feelings, peer reviewed literature, etc.) I found the truth. This gives me a basis to constantly tell myself that I'm good simply for being human. I'm good despite this pattern of self hate that was handed down to me from Western culture, a strict religion and self-hating parents.","Summary: This is simply perpetuating an abusive attitude from one person to another.\n\nPost: You have a serious lack of understanding of what depression is. \n Also, you need to recognize that just because someone has it worse, it doesn't mean that you can't have some serious (sometimes insurmountable) problems. \n Blame is stupid. We are all a product of our environment. All we can do now is deal with it. \n By typing out this whole speech on the internet, you're not helping this guy or anyone in the least. All you're doing is reiterating your own abusive coping mechanism which is seriously broken. \n The solution to this guy's problems has already been found by a bunch of smart people who analyze brains and social situations. The solution is support, pills and exercise.","Summary: bolded main points\n\nPost: There are things you can do that help, I suppose. The goal of a good educator is to open up a dialogue between them and the student. It's an ideal situation when the student can feel comfortable exploring the subject and don't feel like they are stepping on eggshells or navigating a minefield. \n Something the student can do is to familiarize themselves with the language and ideas before lecture. This means that if you're strapped for time, it might help to scan the assigned reading for definitions and examples, but don't get hung up on any one thing if you don't understand . Feel free to ask questions, and create situations where it's okay for you to make mistakes. \n It might sound silly, but being easy on yourself for doing poorly on homework or tests is an often overlooked technique in dealing with this 'walking on eggshells' feeling. \n Was the vector material just dot product, cross product, addition and such? Projections are also a cool thing with calc 3. \n That's actually a good example here. In thinking about projections, we can easily find a projection of one vector onto another by that formula. An exam question might ask you to find just that, but when you get into word problems or application, it is more helpful to know what a projection physically represents. You could do the exploration of how different combinations of vectors affect the value of the projection. You come to see that perpendicular vectors have a value of zero because one vector has no directional part of the other vector. Parallel vectors give a value of the magnitude of the projected onto vector because it is all directional parts of the onto vector. You can draw pictures and play with your hands by making weird pointy gestures while your roommate thinks you're crazy. I did this a lot. \n Most importantly, there will be a definition in the textbook that if you ever use that definition in one of your problem sets, then it will be on the test . It's comforting to know that any problem involving vector projection will absolutely always obey that definition. So \n >Should we be focusing on the intuitions behind the way we do things more than the actual mechanics? \n I would say that intuition helps, but you don't need to rely on that completely. You can always rely on the definition . \n Any work that you put into understanding the core definition and application of it is not work that is wasted. Also, I don't see how much time you can save yourself by not doing this work. I see it as a time-saver in fact. This work is guided by the problem sets, so you do have many hints on what will be tested on. In the future, if you can recall what the projection is, there are different things on finding the smallest distance between two lines and such. You can follow the method, but knowing the derivation can be helpful in memorizing the formulas as well as nailing the proof based problems on the exam. It also helps with future concepts. \n Edit:","Summary: College kicks ass, and I wish it were cheaper for everyone.\n\nPost: you appear to assume that the only way to develop critical thinking skills is to spend 3-4 years in full time education learning about some random subject which is of absolutely no use to you as a garbage truck driver. \n I didn't say that. The goal of a 4 year degree is critical thinking. That does not imply that the only way to be able to critically think is through formal education. \n Also, never did I suggest that the garbage collector should actually get a degree at all. All I said was that a degree would make him both a more conscientious worker and citizen. \n You assumed an awful lot. \n Also \n >He will be continually thinking he could have should have would have 'made something' of himself and not have to drive this crappy garbage truck. \n Will he really? There is no guarantee that he'll be thinking this way. It sounds like you're imposing yourself on the situation. \n You are placing a lot of expectations on this garbage collectors life, like that he'd even want to be a garbage station supervisor versus a garbage man. \n The benefits and goals of higher education are somewhat immeasurable. Millions of Americans go into the system and come out better able to tackle the endless problems that adulthood has to offer, career and otherwise. Sadly, this is accompanied by a lot of debt. \n If you want to look at the path of high schooler => math degree => garbage collector, it might be completely not worth the 4 years in college. I had minimal school expenses, and I would gladly spend 4 years of my life in college again. It was not something where I ended up saying, \"I studied math for 4 years for this ?\" because I enjoyed the partying, subject material, young people, and high energy. I loved the experience, and it did make me better at how to think about problems in a different way. \n I would willingly incur about 15k in debt to have that experience in my back pocket. As a citizen alone, it's worth it. I vote better, treat my surroundings more responsibly, act with confidence and am in a better mental state than without. \n The one who started right out of high school can keep his management position. My life would be richer in just about every other way.","Summary: Ignorant Americans don't loathe to learn from other countries; they don't like to learn period.\n\nPost: Hey, we're the greatest country in the world! Why would we want to learn what inferior countries have done?\" \n I don't know if people even get that far. Don't attribute to malice what you can contribute to stupidity. Most ignorant people I know are ones that shoot from the hip and don't really look at logical arguments... ever. They explain things that they have no idea about, and they never ask questions. \n So, you're right that they're proud, but I feel that it's inaccurate to say that they don't look at other countries and their progress. It's better to say that they only look at appeals to emotion and shitty arguments. All of their thoughts have to fit into one sentence where they can say, \"Yeah, I told you.\" \n I was listening to my uncle in law about how he knew everything about the financial crisis. It drove me fucking nuts and it was downright embarrassing that someone could accept so many faulty statistics and incomplete arguments and regard them as truth. The emotion I felt was embarrassment. \n So few people start with truths and only speak to what they know as true. We have a deficiency of critical thinkers in America and an overabundance of people who want to protect their egos.","Summary: When feelings are this large that someone has to say that they'll kill themselves, then there is a large problem somewhere even though superficially, the problem is, \"John broke up with Erica.\" \n edit: Also, I'm sorry to hear that you've developed resentment towards these people. It was a misconception then that you felt like you had to cater to these people. There is a way to deal with them without getting your own feelings involved, and if it's done any other way, then you get sucked in and do some strange psychological things such as projection and tying your worth to them etc. Being an enabler in a relationship is just as draining as being the enabled.\n\nPost: It's really difficult to be able to judge whether someone is being an attention whore or if they really do hurt. There is someone out there who thinks they should just tough through a situation out just because someone has it worse than them, and this attitude is pervasive. It is by the same token that we 'weed out' and set straight the attention whores. \n They might be complaining about petty stuff and how they were just dumped by a cute guy that they've only been dating for a week. The pain that they feel is not from this singular event of breaking up, but it comes from a myriad of expectations, measuring of self worth, and other relationships that the person's had their entire lives. We're all people, and I dare to say that we all have had the same amount of this human condition that we all have to struggle with. \n So next time there is someone complaining about something petty, listen to them one time through and then tell them that it's small cheese. They might say that no, it isn't a petty thing, and then they might tell you a more real reason why they hurt such as abuse or overbearing parents or preconceptions that shouldn't exist. The dating scene (in America at least) is fairly toxic, and most relationships are based on some very volatile emotions and needs.","Summary: I'm upset that celebrities in our society aren't the engineers and community workers.\n\nPost: You can't understand it because you hate him \n Sorry I put words in your mouth, but don't put words in mine. \n >No man can blame another for his own moral judgements. \n Maybe not as an individual, but as a public figure, they can. \n >Just because he isn't perfect doesn't mean he needs to be condemned. \n I really do get the point that you're making, but he's far from perfect. \n I don't hate the guy. Let's make this clear. I'm all for forgiveness. What bothers me is that people are celebrity worshiping him, and they really shouldn't be. People shouldn't be praising many a people in the public eye, but they still do because they have a lot of monies. I don't want this man to receive public praise because I don't want a ton of people to go out and be like him. \n I don't want it to be possible for anyone's children to look at Steve Jobs and say, \"What an innovator. I want to be exactly like him.\" Like you, I feel that people need to understand that this man is just a person, and while you say that no man is perfect, that he should be given forgiveness, I say that he is a public figure and should undergo more scrutiny than a normal person. \n Steve Jobs is a special case because he represents a class of people that aren't all that special, but are praised beyond belief. People who have money receive a certain respect that no one should have. I don't like it because even though this man did some pretty cool things, a responsible parent who no one knows about is more worthy of praise. A band director who allows children to enjoy music should be more looked up to than Steve Jobs. \n I feel like when you say that people are condemning Steve Jobs, these folks are just realizing that he's a normal dude, and he really didn't do anything special. He was just a figurehead for a big corporation who liked the limelight. I don't think they actually condemn him as a person. \n I hope I didn't upset you too much. This is a worthwhile discussion.","Summary: there is the same tacit societal consent of mild violence as there is to mild sexual harassment. \n But with that, I suppose that with this type of behavior, the victims feelings should always be taken into account. Right now, I'm no longer on the fence about this. The guy slapping the girls' butts should feel badly for any hurt that he might have caused those girls. \n So I agree, but I still get this contradicting feeling that a ton of these comments are overreacting or sending the wrong message. The \"It's sexist and sexual assault\" responses don't seem appropriate or normalized somehow.\n\nPost: It's not really like getting a fun-punch on the arm and calling it battery. \n I guess I'd like to share my feelings about getting 'fun punched'. This guy was about 6'4'' and had hands the size of bear paws. His fun punches hurt, but everyone around me (and everyone else that he fun punched) could tell that they were fun punches. I felt like he was kind of a bully, and I would have majorly preferred to not get punched in the arm to the point of starting a fight over it. I'm not the fighting type, so I considered my only alternative to keep from being victimized, and that's to call the police. \n In the end, I just avoided him completely which wasn't that difficult. But still, the feelings were there of being somewhat bullied, and the situation is comparable to a lesser sexual assault. You could ask the same questions about it being acceptable behavior or not. The intent of the perp in both situations is fun with a mild dose of bullying.","Summary: it's more nurture than nature IMO.\n\nPost: There's this quality about the jackass guys that they just have absolutely no ego, and when they did, like with Bam Margera, his ego trips or showboating were totally not condoned by the group. \n The girls here are all concerned about who's gonna win, and you can tell that they're super self-conscious. Their egos are apparent, and you can tell they're not being themselves. This is why I think good female comedians are few and far between. \n I think this aspect of gender difference is severely affected by social conditioning. Maybe genetics has a huge part in this social conditioning, maybe it doesn't.","Summary: A genius is not a marble statue, already perfect. A genius doesn't know everything. They have a super vague idea of what they need, but they know how to navigate their feelings in order to get there.\n\nPost: Educator here. The why is more important than what. \n Adults have the skill to use reference material. They have the ability to look up and study things that they want to. \n In middle school on up, most students are inclined to feel that they must know things. The entire time, hopefully you learned how to learn. Any material that you happened to remember is just incidental! \n If we had younger students actually figure out what they wanted to learn and why, I feel like we'd never ask this question again.","Summary: We need to be solution focused, and not punishment focused\n\nPost: I really appreciate your tempered approach to this situation. Obviously, the victims rights, safety and well being come first. The next thing to think about is punishment as a deterrent to future perpetrators of the same crime. Is putting these people away for life an effective deterrent for other criminals? Maybe we could find through studies, facts, and statistics that 10 years is the magic number for the least amount of crimes in rapists. We can go through the list of pros and cons about the money it costs, the money a released convict would actually contribute to society, and hell, even the convicts rights. \n The point is to not operate out of fear, emotion and revenge fantasies. After all, killing the rapist, imprisoning the rapist, nothing we can do to the rapist will ever fix what has already been done. Fear blinds us to this fact, and we think that he 'deserves' punishment. The rapist deserves nothing. It's what society deserves. Society deserves a legitimate method where we can systematically reduce crime through ethical means, and if that comes to mean that we put them away for life, then we've done the best that we can do for the victims and the members of society.","Summary: People be confused about sexuality.\n\nPost: The only way this is seen as sexist is because the fact that any sexuality is portrayed accentuates the aspect of men objectifying women. The sexuality is not wrong, but our history has turned sexuality into a man-oriented thing. \n It's a shame that these two are often confused, and hopefully in time we can take steps towards men and women being equally sexy. I always thought it was funny how there are so many feminist types who praise the woman form over man's form as some way to gain power through their sexuality when they are actually just playing along with the age old stereotype.","Summary: Maybe he was justified, but that's really fucking hard to believe.\n\nPost: It certainly shouldn't ever stand up in a court of law. He knew what he was doing, and if he got caught, he would have to pay the consequences. Within the context of how our society works, even if you were stealing for your mother's operation, it would not be even ethically right. \n In almost every situation, there are other actions that you take in order to not be a lazy jerk. The exceptions here would be a 1 in a million deal. \n You give us a hypothetical where this man's mother needs an operation. Other things he could do is cold call tons of people until he gets a desired response. He can figure shit out, take out loans, appeal to certain non-profits, or do non-stop fundraisers. He could start by selling that suit and everything he owns. \n Another thing to ask is why does this man's mother need an operation? Was she really discriminated against? Were so many things stacked against her that she really deserved someone to go all vigilante on society for a means to her end? \n If this is the case, then after her supposed death, this mugger better go out and write his congressmen constantly and be a paragon of political involvement with regards to what oppressed his mother so badly that she died because of a lack of funds.","Summary: This ad was made to get money from crazy people.\n\nPost: My guess is that Rick Perry was only meant to be a fundraiser for the Republican party. I see that most of the candidates are just puppets to appease one demographic or another. They know who they were going to choose long before they started this theater, and it's probably going to be Mitt Romney.","Summary: Do all lectures and homework to pass (with a good grade); read for extra points. Studying is an afterthought.\n\nPost: Oh, well right on. Studying is actually pretty easy, and I'd bet that you already have these skills that everyone talks about. \n The hardest way to study is to study all at once. It makes it a complex problem where you have to consider way too much. The whole process of learning everything at once is unmotivating. \n To avoid this, just go to all of the classes and do all the homework. Try to have fun and pay attention during lecture. You probably don't even have to take good notes. Notes never helped me all that much. I could hardly read them anyways. \n If you really want to ace the course, read through all of the required reading before you get to the class. Textbooks are great, especially if you do the retaining information thing.","Summary: then is that people are people, and so long as they aren't hateful, then why should religious belief define who they are?\n\nPost: That's really a loaded question. It presumes that you don't do things that fly in the face of rational thought. \n I respect my parents, Martin Luther King, Isaac Newton, and many other religious people. If they don't impose on other people, then why should you fault them to such an extent when it doesn't really matter all that much? \n Again, I don't respect the belief, but I do respect that they have the beliefs. People aren't perfect, and there are many reasons people are religious that are beyond the scope of you and I. These reasons could be cultural, emotional or sociological. The circumstances are different such that they are religious, but you and I aren't. \n In the end, all that really matters is that two people in a relationship respect each other and support each other through their lives. It's not our job to act like they're an extension of ourselves, and to presume that they represent you or that you represent them is dangerous and can lead to a toxic relationship. \n But that's a good question. It's a sort of loaded question, but it's a good one. I asked myself the same question at the beginning of my relationship, and this is basically how I rationalize it. The","Summary: Stop caring so much and trying to please and you'll be much happier\n\nPost: Don't let other people or society dictate what you should be doing with your time and don't listen to those people that say \n Yes! When I was growing up, I was involved in quite a bit. I was in 11 choirs, played french horn, played piano, played trumpet, played ultimate frisbee, was in musicals, yada yada, and I was a math and science major in college. Most all of these things I could not give two shits about. The math was fun for me, and that's about it. I was pressured into thinking that I was better off doing all of those things rather than the things I wanted to do, and now I realize that I was doing those things just to impress other people- for attention and praise. \n Right now, all I want to do is have a business, any business, and I'll play with it like I would any game. Because I love games and numbers and strategy. I was told in college that playing poker for a living wasn't viable (I could've done fine at it), and even though the people telling me this were saying it because they cared about me, they will never know what makes me tick. Hell, my dad's 65, and I think that he still doesn't have this perspective. He has eighty billion hobbies and he seeks attention and praise in every single one of them. He isn't happy with what he's done even after being one of the most accomplished people I know. \n You don't have to be 65 or 37 or 24 years old to realize that people have unrealistic expectations for you. I wish people didn't think that older people hold all the wisdom. My attitude is that if you're a thoughtful adult, no matter how old you are, you will always have insights that others don't. This insight in specific should be shared more, and it's one that can be understood by adults of every age. \n I agree though.","Summary: Fuck the man.\n\nPost: In a sense he's right. There's some very real shit that goes down once you learn truths of any situation. One such thing that many people can relate to is becoming an adult. There was a point in time, and really I still am tempted, where I wanted to just not have woken up from beliefs that I used to have. I didn't want to grow because growing fucking hurts sometimes. \n In the same way, God is and always has been a solution. Any question to that is actively destroying the very thing that they like about worshipping a god. There is a very real stability and solidarity that you get when you have a god, and any awakening will absolutely rape the benefits of god away. \n This goes for nationalism, patriotism, excessive affinity to a sports team and all that. If there is someone acting against the grain, they are given the treatment. In this way, all authority can be seen as illegitimate. Any appeal to something greater than an individual has no legitimate basis for someone else unless they choose to believe in it.","Summary: internal bleeding from botched appendectomy, allergic reaction to something, and snowmobiling over open water.\n\nPost: three years ago, I had an emergency (laproscopic) appendectomy. The doctor knicked an artery that was close to my stomach and then sewed me back up without noticing. A week later I was seeing stars from lack of blood and went to the er, and the doc was like, \"You're totally bleeding a ton.\" I was airlifted 30 minutes away. My stomach hurt like a bitch (blood is a huge irritant), and now I can tell pregnant women that I was in more pain than they'd ever be in labor. I discovered that morphine was awesome, and there was this other drug that worked even better that I can't remember the name of. \n When I was 6 or 7, I had a histamine reaction and had a huge migraine. I was airlifted then as well, and my parents thought I was gonna die. \n When I was 14, I was snowmobiling across a rather large resort lake. It was nighttime, and I was on the back of the largest sled with my dad, where by brother and two uncles had single passenger sleds. We came across open water going about 50 mph. How I knew is that the horizon sank because the sled was tipping upwards. I looked back, and we were making a fucking wake. I think I would've felt better if I was the one gunning it to get across, but we all made it. It was pretty cool looking to see four sleds speeding across the water during the nighttime, but I seriously thought I was going to drown in freezing water. \n I'm only in my twenties, so I figure I have 6 more of these left. \n Edit:","Summary: Black sea urchins come in when during the time I was snorkeling. I had to navigate the maze of death spikes to get back on shore.\n\nPost: Oh! I have one more story. I was 20 at the time. I was snorkeling in the US virgin islands, and we went out for 2 hours or so. The tide had brought in HUNDREDS of huge motherfucking [black sea urchins]( The floor was covered. I just wanted to get back to shore, and I had on the flippers, which I sure as hell wasn't taking off. The waves were not only pushing me back and forth, but it was pushing the urchins around too. I used my snorkel gear to look underwater and plotted out the best course to get back to shore. I'd take a step, look underwater, take a step, look underwater. It must've taken twenty minutes, and I bet I looked like a goon to all the beachgoers. This wasn't a near death experience, but it was a near impaled by large black spines for 20 minutes experience which is almost worse if you ask me. Also, I have always had an irrational fear of ocean fish and big lake fish. This doesn't help."],"string":"[\n \"Summary: Books are dumb. TV is smart.\\n\\nPost: I don't read a ton. I've read I'd say a total of about 100 books for leisure in my life. I had to read a ton in college, and now I read articles and such. I feel badly about myself when people tout that they read a book a week or something like that because I might be missing out. \\n Reading a lot of books will give you a lot of knowledge, but as long as you keep your brain active, there are a lot of alternatives to becoming educated. I did music, practiced maths, was very sociable, and I played a ton of video games. I always paid attention to the details and had a thirst for the truth in all things. Someone correct me if I'm wrong please, but you don't need to be a literary genius to extract the important meanings and themes out of life. \\n Why is reading books the preferred interface anyways? Isn't it as bad (or good) as television or any other expression of art? Rhetoric and debate aren't practiced as much as they were in the past, and they could very well be requisites for learning that our generation missed out on. The internet and digital media are faster than books, and we stand to learn in greater detail the lives and experiences of people of the world. There was a time when we didn't even have books at all, and there may have been folks who shun books like we shun television. \\n These are all thoughts I've had, and I'm not trying to bash books. If anything I'm reading more than I have growing up. Thanks for reading my post!\",\n \"Summary: Lack of purpose and loss of identity are crippling.\\n\\nPost: Most all of these comments seem to be lacking any perspective. Being 24 fucking sucks. 22 is great, you're just out of college. 23 you start feeling like a failure, but it is super common to have a serious episode of depression and anxiety after you're all done with college. \\n I can tell by the way that you pass off making coffee as the simplest thing in the world. To him, it's not simple at all. It's some guy (albiet, his dad) expecting him to make a pot of coffee for you. Sure, he'll do it once, twice, but eventually it just feels like you're dictating his life. All of the things that he needs to do, the applications for jobs, finding a part time job, thinking about his career, dealing with many many lost relationships, dealing with needing to find a girlfriend, all of these things are interrupted by someone telling him to make a pot of coffee. \\n He doesn't have structure anymore, and everyone is asking him to conform to a 9-5 schedule as opposed to his random school schedule. \\n It's not laziness. It's anxiety, pure and simple. It's the fear of failure that you and society instill in him on a seemingly daily basis. The expectations that he feels from society are overwhelming and he doesn't know what to do with them other than completely shut down and go into resource-save mode. \\n If someone told me to make a pot of coffee at 24, It would be ten times harder on me back then than today in 2012 working a 14 hour day. No hyperbole. I love what I do now because I feel empowered, enfranchised and successful, but then, everything that I knew about the world was telling me that I was a failure. \\n I'm not lazy. I've always had a good work ethic, and it sounds like he does too (master's degree). I look back on that time and I realize that I gained a ton of perspective on who I was, what I wanted, and whether or not I wanted to buy into the whole social contract. \\n I had to determine what I actually owed to society. It turns out I don't owe anything to society or my father, and I don't have to do anything that I don't want to. At the time, I thought I had all of these responsibilities because I got this wonderful education and support from society. It's strange that with the perspective of not giving a fuck, I'm much more enthusiastic and more of a 'model citizen'. \\n So with all this in mind, sorry for the wall of text, I'm not telling you to house him or support him financially or put up with his shit. I just wanted to give my two cents. You can kick him out, but don't just think that he's a lazy cunt. He doesn't owe you anything, and you don't owe him anything either. \\n Expectations are a bitch, for all parties involved.\",\n \"Summary: No one person can choose what everyone 'deserves'. It's a dangerous word, and it robs us of a lot of what we could have.\\n\\nPost: I didn't say that we should be able to watch it for free. I'm not sure if you read my comment or comprehended which side that I was supporting. \\n I was saying that people shouldn't pay for a service that gouges them on the price if they don't want to be gouged. As a community, they should work to lower the price of hollywood movies through not paying,\\nwork towards creating competition, and using alternate means of entertainment. \\n I'm saying that entitlement and deservedness has absolutely nothing to do with this, or morality in general. So many people use the word \\\"deserve\\\" as a powerful tool for rhetoric, and it has so many horrible backlashes. \\n For example, the poor deserve what they have because they don't work hard. People don't deserve to eat because they didn't grow the food themselves. People don't deserve to watch anything for free. People don't deserve to make over a million dollars a year. \\n All of these statements are not arguments. They don't mean anything by themselves. Saying that people don't deserve to watch anything for free means that people will never be able to have that thing for free where there is definitely a situation to have that very thing for free. Soon enough, people will try to monetize the internet even more than they do because they have a monopoly. Many people have stated that no one business deserves to have a monopoly, and it's true because it's easy to see how it becomes a racket. Eventually, the internet will be completely monetized, and there will be someone who says that no one deserves the internet for free. Why the fuck not? Why can't the internet be a great tool for education and prosperity like the radio is or the television was meant to be? \\n Eventually, technology will be good enough so that we can start having free lunches. The difference between someone having a meal or not will be decided on whether or not we can get over this whole attitude of desevedness. Some people say that people only deserve what they can earn. I say that people deserve as much as we can give each other.\",\n \"Summary: Prohibition would've worked better in a society without Christianity. Just read it and let me know what you think.\\n\\nPost: This is interesting. I'm trying to think of someone who goes around and tells people not to drink because it's basically poison. What a buzzkill. On the other side of the coin, he's totally right that if people weren't drinking, people would not get in drunk driving accidents, people wouldn't fall ill to the effects of alcoholism and its physical effects, and everyone would maintain their non-drunk judgement. \\n Religion gives poor judgement sometimes, and people can become addicted to religion very easily. The guy is still a buzzkill because there are many many people who drink responsibly and have a good time. Are you going to say that people who drink are responsible for other drinkers' behaviors? They create an environment that is conducive to drinking where it encourages people to imbibe too much. \\n Drunk driving deaths could be comparable to the deaths and oppression that religion causes. Some people choose booze, and others choose ignorance. If you want out with one, it makes sense to have out with the other.\",\n \"Summary: The language of responsibility and blame buries our empathy of the situation, and we lose a tool to fix the problem: acceptance of us as people simply for being people.\\n\\nPost: Woof, look at all my downvotes. I wasn't making a point contrary to yours, I just didn't approve of one of the supporting arguments. This is more a message to everyone who doesn't understand that. \\n It kind of actually gives a lot of voice to my scruple that I have with the whole, \\\"Well they can deal with the consequences.\\\" It's so very much one way or the other. Absolutely I 100% agree that people who choose to be fat will fairly be judged as unhealthy and often undesirable in a lifelong partnership or even friendship. It's rough. \\n I think the language: \\n >be prepared to deal with the consequences \\n is a product of people being so incredibly uncomfortable with the fact that there is someone hurting and living a life that is so contrary to reality. This happens with every single thing that is not the norm. Whenever someone does something that isn't socially acceptable, there is a major unconscious push within themselves to separate from whatever this foreign and strange trend, illness or lifestyle may be. \\n This strangeness makes people do strange things, and it makes people dissociate strongly. I've done it, and I still do. But! These people are not helped by putting this \\\"blame\\\" or uncomfortable responsibility back on them. Like any addiction, a person addicted to booze will not always be helped by someone saying, \\\"It's your fault you destroyed your liver.\\\" After all, they're the first ones to admit it, not always openly, but they're filled with self-loathing already. More self-loathing and responsibility will not help. \\n This is because addiction is used to cope with huge gaping holes and a loss of their senses of self. They are broken at a very fundamental level. To help these people make better life decisions, we have to help them repair their senses of self and fill up their holes. After all, they have to make the decisions themselves lest we become in control of their situation. \\n We all have this dynamic in ourselves, and it's jarring to see the visual representation of sloth and addiction present in the persistent image of a fat person. Therefore it is much easier to say, \\\"They must face the consequences.\\\" as if this is new information. It's a platitude and avoidance so we don't have to face that very same demon that these people face. \\n So these people are reaching out and crying for acceptance, and they want acceptance for what they've been made to feel less than human for. They don't need that. What they actually need is fundamental acceptance for being human, and I truly believe that if they got this, they would make much better life choices because they could then find their real selves. They could listen to their inside voice, that which will obviously want to live life better, and they could tune out the deafening outside voice that tells them to be an awesome barbie-ken-achiever-robot. \\n So yeah, I hope that makes sense and applies to what you were saying, and this isn't all contrary to your comment because it sounds like you empathize and understand a lot of this. I just wanted to articulate my thoughts on self-worth and how a lot of people in discussions like these like to talk about blame and responsibility but fail to see that these people would certainly make better life choices if they could just find themselves. This doesn't just go for being overweight either. Acceptance of our inherent worth goes a long ways to healing and finding our true inner-self as opposed to appealing to an authority (as in people who will judge you), responsibility or an outside voice.\",\n \"Summary: Stop judging yourself. You're good enough simply for being human. It's easier said than done, but you can certainly get help. You can ask explicitly for what you need and finally start getting your needs met without shame, guilt or thinking that you're an impostor.\\n\\nPost: I had it bad once upon a time. It usually had to do with relationships, and I always had to have instant resolution during an argument or I'd go crazy. If there was even a moment of tension, I'd freak out and think that everything was wrong. I like to call this my sense of impending doom or dread. \\n I'm still working through stuff. It's always a work in progress, but I've since learned that taking space is okay. If I'm having a tiff and I'm in a relationship with someone that cares about me, then I should be able to take my time and have the confidence that what I'm feeling is real- that I'm not an impostor. I have the confidence to communicate my feelings and concerns, and that this process might take a few hours with long breaks. \\n In public, I'll get it too. On stage, again, I was always afraid of fucking up. I'd feel eyes on me, and this feeling didn't go away for a long time. I was afraid what people would think of me and what people would think of me because of the people I am with. It's all fucking ridiculous though. \\n We aren't impostors. Just because we missed a bill doesn't mean we're wasteful and will never be rich ever. Just because we're a little awkward here and there doesn't mean we'll never be liked, and just because we don't go to graduate school doesn't mean we're not smart enough to do our jobs. And just because we don't have jobs doesn't mean we're a failure as a person. \\n Overcoming this anxiety takes time. We were trained that our selves are secondary to the needs of our narcissistic parents whether it be alcohol, pride, emotional stability or whatever. My parents completely co-opted my sense of self to meet the needs that they never had met when they were children. It's a vicious cycle, but it started somewhere and it can end with you. \\n Going through therapy helped me. Being able to articulate my situation and constantly affirm myself through proof that I have collected (doctors tell me, my experience, my feelings, peer reviewed literature, etc.) I found the truth. This gives me a basis to constantly tell myself that I'm good simply for being human. I'm good despite this pattern of self hate that was handed down to me from Western culture, a strict religion and self-hating parents.\",\n \"Summary: This is simply perpetuating an abusive attitude from one person to another.\\n\\nPost: You have a serious lack of understanding of what depression is. \\n Also, you need to recognize that just because someone has it worse, it doesn't mean that you can't have some serious (sometimes insurmountable) problems. \\n Blame is stupid. We are all a product of our environment. All we can do now is deal with it. \\n By typing out this whole speech on the internet, you're not helping this guy or anyone in the least. All you're doing is reiterating your own abusive coping mechanism which is seriously broken. \\n The solution to this guy's problems has already been found by a bunch of smart people who analyze brains and social situations. The solution is support, pills and exercise.\",\n \"Summary: bolded main points\\n\\nPost: There are things you can do that help, I suppose. The goal of a good educator is to open up a dialogue between them and the student. It's an ideal situation when the student can feel comfortable exploring the subject and don't feel like they are stepping on eggshells or navigating a minefield. \\n Something the student can do is to familiarize themselves with the language and ideas before lecture. This means that if you're strapped for time, it might help to scan the assigned reading for definitions and examples, but don't get hung up on any one thing if you don't understand . Feel free to ask questions, and create situations where it's okay for you to make mistakes. \\n It might sound silly, but being easy on yourself for doing poorly on homework or tests is an often overlooked technique in dealing with this 'walking on eggshells' feeling. \\n Was the vector material just dot product, cross product, addition and such? Projections are also a cool thing with calc 3. \\n That's actually a good example here. In thinking about projections, we can easily find a projection of one vector onto another by that formula. An exam question might ask you to find just that, but when you get into word problems or application, it is more helpful to know what a projection physically represents. You could do the exploration of how different combinations of vectors affect the value of the projection. You come to see that perpendicular vectors have a value of zero because one vector has no directional part of the other vector. Parallel vectors give a value of the magnitude of the projected onto vector because it is all directional parts of the onto vector. You can draw pictures and play with your hands by making weird pointy gestures while your roommate thinks you're crazy. I did this a lot. \\n Most importantly, there will be a definition in the textbook that if you ever use that definition in one of your problem sets, then it will be on the test . It's comforting to know that any problem involving vector projection will absolutely always obey that definition. So \\n >Should we be focusing on the intuitions behind the way we do things more than the actual mechanics? \\n I would say that intuition helps, but you don't need to rely on that completely. You can always rely on the definition . \\n Any work that you put into understanding the core definition and application of it is not work that is wasted. Also, I don't see how much time you can save yourself by not doing this work. I see it as a time-saver in fact. This work is guided by the problem sets, so you do have many hints on what will be tested on. In the future, if you can recall what the projection is, there are different things on finding the smallest distance between two lines and such. You can follow the method, but knowing the derivation can be helpful in memorizing the formulas as well as nailing the proof based problems on the exam. It also helps with future concepts. \\n Edit:\",\n \"Summary: College kicks ass, and I wish it were cheaper for everyone.\\n\\nPost: you appear to assume that the only way to develop critical thinking skills is to spend 3-4 years in full time education learning about some random subject which is of absolutely no use to you as a garbage truck driver. \\n I didn't say that. The goal of a 4 year degree is critical thinking. That does not imply that the only way to be able to critically think is through formal education. \\n Also, never did I suggest that the garbage collector should actually get a degree at all. All I said was that a degree would make him both a more conscientious worker and citizen. \\n You assumed an awful lot. \\n Also \\n >He will be continually thinking he could have should have would have 'made something' of himself and not have to drive this crappy garbage truck. \\n Will he really? There is no guarantee that he'll be thinking this way. It sounds like you're imposing yourself on the situation. \\n You are placing a lot of expectations on this garbage collectors life, like that he'd even want to be a garbage station supervisor versus a garbage man. \\n The benefits and goals of higher education are somewhat immeasurable. Millions of Americans go into the system and come out better able to tackle the endless problems that adulthood has to offer, career and otherwise. Sadly, this is accompanied by a lot of debt. \\n If you want to look at the path of high schooler => math degree => garbage collector, it might be completely not worth the 4 years in college. I had minimal school expenses, and I would gladly spend 4 years of my life in college again. It was not something where I ended up saying, \\\"I studied math for 4 years for this ?\\\" because I enjoyed the partying, subject material, young people, and high energy. I loved the experience, and it did make me better at how to think about problems in a different way. \\n I would willingly incur about 15k in debt to have that experience in my back pocket. As a citizen alone, it's worth it. I vote better, treat my surroundings more responsibly, act with confidence and am in a better mental state than without. \\n The one who started right out of high school can keep his management position. My life would be richer in just about every other way.\",\n \"Summary: Ignorant Americans don't loathe to learn from other countries; they don't like to learn period.\\n\\nPost: Hey, we're the greatest country in the world! Why would we want to learn what inferior countries have done?\\\" \\n I don't know if people even get that far. Don't attribute to malice what you can contribute to stupidity. Most ignorant people I know are ones that shoot from the hip and don't really look at logical arguments... ever. They explain things that they have no idea about, and they never ask questions. \\n So, you're right that they're proud, but I feel that it's inaccurate to say that they don't look at other countries and their progress. It's better to say that they only look at appeals to emotion and shitty arguments. All of their thoughts have to fit into one sentence where they can say, \\\"Yeah, I told you.\\\" \\n I was listening to my uncle in law about how he knew everything about the financial crisis. It drove me fucking nuts and it was downright embarrassing that someone could accept so many faulty statistics and incomplete arguments and regard them as truth. The emotion I felt was embarrassment. \\n So few people start with truths and only speak to what they know as true. We have a deficiency of critical thinkers in America and an overabundance of people who want to protect their egos.\",\n \"Summary: When feelings are this large that someone has to say that they'll kill themselves, then there is a large problem somewhere even though superficially, the problem is, \\\"John broke up with Erica.\\\" \\n edit: Also, I'm sorry to hear that you've developed resentment towards these people. It was a misconception then that you felt like you had to cater to these people. There is a way to deal with them without getting your own feelings involved, and if it's done any other way, then you get sucked in and do some strange psychological things such as projection and tying your worth to them etc. Being an enabler in a relationship is just as draining as being the enabled.\\n\\nPost: It's really difficult to be able to judge whether someone is being an attention whore or if they really do hurt. There is someone out there who thinks they should just tough through a situation out just because someone has it worse than them, and this attitude is pervasive. It is by the same token that we 'weed out' and set straight the attention whores. \\n They might be complaining about petty stuff and how they were just dumped by a cute guy that they've only been dating for a week. The pain that they feel is not from this singular event of breaking up, but it comes from a myriad of expectations, measuring of self worth, and other relationships that the person's had their entire lives. We're all people, and I dare to say that we all have had the same amount of this human condition that we all have to struggle with. \\n So next time there is someone complaining about something petty, listen to them one time through and then tell them that it's small cheese. They might say that no, it isn't a petty thing, and then they might tell you a more real reason why they hurt such as abuse or overbearing parents or preconceptions that shouldn't exist. The dating scene (in America at least) is fairly toxic, and most relationships are based on some very volatile emotions and needs.\",\n \"Summary: I'm upset that celebrities in our society aren't the engineers and community workers.\\n\\nPost: You can't understand it because you hate him \\n Sorry I put words in your mouth, but don't put words in mine. \\n >No man can blame another for his own moral judgements. \\n Maybe not as an individual, but as a public figure, they can. \\n >Just because he isn't perfect doesn't mean he needs to be condemned. \\n I really do get the point that you're making, but he's far from perfect. \\n I don't hate the guy. Let's make this clear. I'm all for forgiveness. What bothers me is that people are celebrity worshiping him, and they really shouldn't be. People shouldn't be praising many a people in the public eye, but they still do because they have a lot of monies. I don't want this man to receive public praise because I don't want a ton of people to go out and be like him. \\n I don't want it to be possible for anyone's children to look at Steve Jobs and say, \\\"What an innovator. I want to be exactly like him.\\\" Like you, I feel that people need to understand that this man is just a person, and while you say that no man is perfect, that he should be given forgiveness, I say that he is a public figure and should undergo more scrutiny than a normal person. \\n Steve Jobs is a special case because he represents a class of people that aren't all that special, but are praised beyond belief. People who have money receive a certain respect that no one should have. I don't like it because even though this man did some pretty cool things, a responsible parent who no one knows about is more worthy of praise. A band director who allows children to enjoy music should be more looked up to than Steve Jobs. \\n I feel like when you say that people are condemning Steve Jobs, these folks are just realizing that he's a normal dude, and he really didn't do anything special. He was just a figurehead for a big corporation who liked the limelight. I don't think they actually condemn him as a person. \\n I hope I didn't upset you too much. This is a worthwhile discussion.\",\n \"Summary: there is the same tacit societal consent of mild violence as there is to mild sexual harassment. \\n But with that, I suppose that with this type of behavior, the victims feelings should always be taken into account. Right now, I'm no longer on the fence about this. The guy slapping the girls' butts should feel badly for any hurt that he might have caused those girls. \\n So I agree, but I still get this contradicting feeling that a ton of these comments are overreacting or sending the wrong message. The \\\"It's sexist and sexual assault\\\" responses don't seem appropriate or normalized somehow.\\n\\nPost: It's not really like getting a fun-punch on the arm and calling it battery. \\n I guess I'd like to share my feelings about getting 'fun punched'. This guy was about 6'4'' and had hands the size of bear paws. His fun punches hurt, but everyone around me (and everyone else that he fun punched) could tell that they were fun punches. I felt like he was kind of a bully, and I would have majorly preferred to not get punched in the arm to the point of starting a fight over it. I'm not the fighting type, so I considered my only alternative to keep from being victimized, and that's to call the police. \\n In the end, I just avoided him completely which wasn't that difficult. But still, the feelings were there of being somewhat bullied, and the situation is comparable to a lesser sexual assault. You could ask the same questions about it being acceptable behavior or not. The intent of the perp in both situations is fun with a mild dose of bullying.\",\n \"Summary: it's more nurture than nature IMO.\\n\\nPost: There's this quality about the jackass guys that they just have absolutely no ego, and when they did, like with Bam Margera, his ego trips or showboating were totally not condoned by the group. \\n The girls here are all concerned about who's gonna win, and you can tell that they're super self-conscious. Their egos are apparent, and you can tell they're not being themselves. This is why I think good female comedians are few and far between. \\n I think this aspect of gender difference is severely affected by social conditioning. Maybe genetics has a huge part in this social conditioning, maybe it doesn't.\",\n \"Summary: A genius is not a marble statue, already perfect. A genius doesn't know everything. They have a super vague idea of what they need, but they know how to navigate their feelings in order to get there.\\n\\nPost: Educator here. The why is more important than what. \\n Adults have the skill to use reference material. They have the ability to look up and study things that they want to. \\n In middle school on up, most students are inclined to feel that they must know things. The entire time, hopefully you learned how to learn. Any material that you happened to remember is just incidental! \\n If we had younger students actually figure out what they wanted to learn and why, I feel like we'd never ask this question again.\",\n \"Summary: We need to be solution focused, and not punishment focused\\n\\nPost: I really appreciate your tempered approach to this situation. Obviously, the victims rights, safety and well being come first. The next thing to think about is punishment as a deterrent to future perpetrators of the same crime. Is putting these people away for life an effective deterrent for other criminals? Maybe we could find through studies, facts, and statistics that 10 years is the magic number for the least amount of crimes in rapists. We can go through the list of pros and cons about the money it costs, the money a released convict would actually contribute to society, and hell, even the convicts rights. \\n The point is to not operate out of fear, emotion and revenge fantasies. After all, killing the rapist, imprisoning the rapist, nothing we can do to the rapist will ever fix what has already been done. Fear blinds us to this fact, and we think that he 'deserves' punishment. The rapist deserves nothing. It's what society deserves. Society deserves a legitimate method where we can systematically reduce crime through ethical means, and if that comes to mean that we put them away for life, then we've done the best that we can do for the victims and the members of society.\",\n \"Summary: People be confused about sexuality.\\n\\nPost: The only way this is seen as sexist is because the fact that any sexuality is portrayed accentuates the aspect of men objectifying women. The sexuality is not wrong, but our history has turned sexuality into a man-oriented thing. \\n It's a shame that these two are often confused, and hopefully in time we can take steps towards men and women being equally sexy. I always thought it was funny how there are so many feminist types who praise the woman form over man's form as some way to gain power through their sexuality when they are actually just playing along with the age old stereotype.\",\n \"Summary: Maybe he was justified, but that's really fucking hard to believe.\\n\\nPost: It certainly shouldn't ever stand up in a court of law. He knew what he was doing, and if he got caught, he would have to pay the consequences. Within the context of how our society works, even if you were stealing for your mother's operation, it would not be even ethically right. \\n In almost every situation, there are other actions that you take in order to not be a lazy jerk. The exceptions here would be a 1 in a million deal. \\n You give us a hypothetical where this man's mother needs an operation. Other things he could do is cold call tons of people until he gets a desired response. He can figure shit out, take out loans, appeal to certain non-profits, or do non-stop fundraisers. He could start by selling that suit and everything he owns. \\n Another thing to ask is why does this man's mother need an operation? Was she really discriminated against? Were so many things stacked against her that she really deserved someone to go all vigilante on society for a means to her end? \\n If this is the case, then after her supposed death, this mugger better go out and write his congressmen constantly and be a paragon of political involvement with regards to what oppressed his mother so badly that she died because of a lack of funds.\",\n \"Summary: This ad was made to get money from crazy people.\\n\\nPost: My guess is that Rick Perry was only meant to be a fundraiser for the Republican party. I see that most of the candidates are just puppets to appease one demographic or another. They know who they were going to choose long before they started this theater, and it's probably going to be Mitt Romney.\",\n \"Summary: Do all lectures and homework to pass (with a good grade); read for extra points. Studying is an afterthought.\\n\\nPost: Oh, well right on. Studying is actually pretty easy, and I'd bet that you already have these skills that everyone talks about. \\n The hardest way to study is to study all at once. It makes it a complex problem where you have to consider way too much. The whole process of learning everything at once is unmotivating. \\n To avoid this, just go to all of the classes and do all the homework. Try to have fun and pay attention during lecture. You probably don't even have to take good notes. Notes never helped me all that much. I could hardly read them anyways. \\n If you really want to ace the course, read through all of the required reading before you get to the class. Textbooks are great, especially if you do the retaining information thing.\",\n \"Summary: then is that people are people, and so long as they aren't hateful, then why should religious belief define who they are?\\n\\nPost: That's really a loaded question. It presumes that you don't do things that fly in the face of rational thought. \\n I respect my parents, Martin Luther King, Isaac Newton, and many other religious people. If they don't impose on other people, then why should you fault them to such an extent when it doesn't really matter all that much? \\n Again, I don't respect the belief, but I do respect that they have the beliefs. People aren't perfect, and there are many reasons people are religious that are beyond the scope of you and I. These reasons could be cultural, emotional or sociological. The circumstances are different such that they are religious, but you and I aren't. \\n In the end, all that really matters is that two people in a relationship respect each other and support each other through their lives. It's not our job to act like they're an extension of ourselves, and to presume that they represent you or that you represent them is dangerous and can lead to a toxic relationship. \\n But that's a good question. It's a sort of loaded question, but it's a good one. I asked myself the same question at the beginning of my relationship, and this is basically how I rationalize it. The\",\n \"Summary: Stop caring so much and trying to please and you'll be much happier\\n\\nPost: Don't let other people or society dictate what you should be doing with your time and don't listen to those people that say \\n Yes! When I was growing up, I was involved in quite a bit. I was in 11 choirs, played french horn, played piano, played trumpet, played ultimate frisbee, was in musicals, yada yada, and I was a math and science major in college. Most all of these things I could not give two shits about. The math was fun for me, and that's about it. I was pressured into thinking that I was better off doing all of those things rather than the things I wanted to do, and now I realize that I was doing those things just to impress other people- for attention and praise. \\n Right now, all I want to do is have a business, any business, and I'll play with it like I would any game. Because I love games and numbers and strategy. I was told in college that playing poker for a living wasn't viable (I could've done fine at it), and even though the people telling me this were saying it because they cared about me, they will never know what makes me tick. Hell, my dad's 65, and I think that he still doesn't have this perspective. He has eighty billion hobbies and he seeks attention and praise in every single one of them. He isn't happy with what he's done even after being one of the most accomplished people I know. \\n You don't have to be 65 or 37 or 24 years old to realize that people have unrealistic expectations for you. I wish people didn't think that older people hold all the wisdom. My attitude is that if you're a thoughtful adult, no matter how old you are, you will always have insights that others don't. This insight in specific should be shared more, and it's one that can be understood by adults of every age. \\n I agree though.\",\n \"Summary: Fuck the man.\\n\\nPost: In a sense he's right. There's some very real shit that goes down once you learn truths of any situation. One such thing that many people can relate to is becoming an adult. There was a point in time, and really I still am tempted, where I wanted to just not have woken up from beliefs that I used to have. I didn't want to grow because growing fucking hurts sometimes. \\n In the same way, God is and always has been a solution. Any question to that is actively destroying the very thing that they like about worshipping a god. There is a very real stability and solidarity that you get when you have a god, and any awakening will absolutely rape the benefits of god away. \\n This goes for nationalism, patriotism, excessive affinity to a sports team and all that. If there is someone acting against the grain, they are given the treatment. In this way, all authority can be seen as illegitimate. Any appeal to something greater than an individual has no legitimate basis for someone else unless they choose to believe in it.\",\n \"Summary: internal bleeding from botched appendectomy, allergic reaction to something, and snowmobiling over open water.\\n\\nPost: three years ago, I had an emergency (laproscopic) appendectomy. The doctor knicked an artery that was close to my stomach and then sewed me back up without noticing. A week later I was seeing stars from lack of blood and went to the er, and the doc was like, \\\"You're totally bleeding a ton.\\\" I was airlifted 30 minutes away. My stomach hurt like a bitch (blood is a huge irritant), and now I can tell pregnant women that I was in more pain than they'd ever be in labor. I discovered that morphine was awesome, and there was this other drug that worked even better that I can't remember the name of. \\n When I was 6 or 7, I had a histamine reaction and had a huge migraine. I was airlifted then as well, and my parents thought I was gonna die. \\n When I was 14, I was snowmobiling across a rather large resort lake. It was nighttime, and I was on the back of the largest sled with my dad, where by brother and two uncles had single passenger sleds. We came across open water going about 50 mph. How I knew is that the horizon sank because the sled was tipping upwards. I looked back, and we were making a fucking wake. I think I would've felt better if I was the one gunning it to get across, but we all made it. It was pretty cool looking to see four sleds speeding across the water during the nighttime, but I seriously thought I was going to drown in freezing water. \\n I'm only in my twenties, so I figure I have 6 more of these left. \\n Edit:\",\n \"Summary: Black sea urchins come in when during the time I was snorkeling. I had to navigate the maze of death spikes to get back on shore.\\n\\nPost: Oh! I have one more story. I was 20 at the time. I was snorkeling in the US virgin islands, and we went out for 2 hours or so. The tide had brought in HUNDREDS of huge motherfucking [black sea urchins]( The floor was covered. I just wanted to get back to shore, and I had on the flippers, which I sure as hell wasn't taking off. The waves were not only pushing me back and forth, but it was pushing the urchins around too. I used my snorkel gear to look underwater and plotted out the best course to get back to shore. I'd take a step, look underwater, take a step, look underwater. It must've taken twenty minutes, and I bet I looked like a goon to all the beachgoers. This wasn't a near death experience, but it was a near impaled by large black spines for 20 minutes experience which is almost worse if you ask me. Also, I have always had an irrational fear of ocean fish and big lake fish. This doesn't help.\"\n]","isConversational":false},"profile_size":{"kind":"number","value":25,"string":"25"},"task":{"kind":"string","value":"longlamp_4"},"split_kind":{"kind":"string","value":"user_based"},"id":{"kind":"number","value":1297,"string":"1,297"}}},{"rowIdx":1298,"cells":{"question_id":{"kind":"string","value":"databeast"},"question":{"kind":"string","value":"Generate the content for a reddit post I'm guessing he's really weak to fire dmg. my krieg had a hellborn build going on at the time."},"answer":{"kind":"string","value":"huh, completely the opposite experience here. ran the dlc in TVHM with lvl50 Krieg. Took off 3/4 of his health in literally seconds with a fire conf.call, then finished him off with buzzaxe rampage - seriously underwhelming after the build up about him needing you to 'master the candies' to beat him."},"correct_answer":{"kind":"string","value":"huh, completely the opposite experience here. ran the dlc in TVHM with lvl50 Krieg. Took off 3/4 of his health in literally seconds with a fire conf.call, then finished him off with buzzaxe rampage - seriously underwhelming after the build up about him needing you to 'master the candies' to beat him."},"documents":{"kind":"list like","value":["Summary: I'm expecting far-less-emo Barry to emerge, and more of the Barry that Batman described like this: \"Barry is the kind of man that I would've hoped to become if my parents hadn't been murdered.\"\n\nPost: yep, that's what I'm hoping to see as well. My suspicions are that this season has been about establishing Barry's moral compass first (last Tuesday's episode certainly hammered that home), after this season's finale, I think we're gonna see a more confident Barry, who's no longer angsting over things he cannot change. But the work done this season means that transition can happen without him just coming off as Wally West levels of jackass.","Summary: the Aliens are interesting background context, and don't change storyline canon one iota.\n\nPost: Thank you! \n I feel like one of the few folks who appreciates the Aliens/Zeta. (though the DLC as a game experience was pretty weak) For exactly this reason, they are /not/ the power behind events, but more very partial (ie, not impartial) observers now that, well, exactly as you pointed out, their plans to invade us were abruptly cut short when we managed to destroy ourselves instead.","Summary: the Enclave is Dick Cheney, the Brotherhood is George Patton. :)\n\nPost: The Brotherhood's origins lie in that old trope of the high-ranking military officer realizing that \"Those pencil-pushers in Washington have lost their minds\". Maxson's creation of the Brotherhood is grounded in a cliched realization that he's spent his career trying to defend America, only to discover that the politicians are planning to destroy it for their own ends. He takes the stance that advanced technology can't be left in the hands of politicians or regular folks, and that only the 'boots on the ground' military mindset is responsible enough to keep them out of irresponsible hands. \n The brotherhood differs from the Enclave in one very major aspect - they have no interest in ruling other people, they just think they're better than everyone else - other people can't be trusted with technology, because they do stupid shit with it (like, y'know, blow up the world).","Summary: the NCR is about hanging onto the past, taking the 'easy road' to rebuilding the world, bureaucratic, unguided growth and perhaps inevitably bringing the world back to a place where another apocalypse is inevitable. The legion is about paying the cost for peace in suffering and brutality in the early years, placing the good of society above the good of the individual, in the goal of building a new society where warring nations no longer exist. \n This is an essential theme to Fallout. Caesar and the Master are actually very alike in that their goal is to build an entirely new world and prevent a future apocalypse. NCR and the Enclave are alike in that they both want to bring back the old world, so long as they can be in charge of it. The Fallout Universe's central question is \"Which of these is the right answer? Or does it even matter in the end?\".. because war, well... you know.\n\nPost: What people don't seem to realize about NCR versus Legion, is that they in no way represent a 'good versus evil' dynamic. (certainly not in Caesar's mind at least). \n the NCR represents trying to reclaim the old world (and recreate all the mistakes that led up to the apocalypse). Caesar sees the model of Ancient Rome as a way to build a new Civilization out of the ashes of the old world, a society built according to a strict plan that will lead to a 1000-year \"Pax Romana\" and protect humanity from exterminating itself once more. \n Unfortunately this just isn't really explored properly in the main game (although Lonesome Road does a pretty damn good job of fixing that). Caesar's lecture to you on Hegelian Dialectic is an incredibly important part of this however. Caesar sees the battle with the NCR as his way of letting fate answer his few doubts about whether his vision is the right thing for humanity - literally, that if what he is doing is actually wrong, then then universe will answer his question with a defeat at the battle of Hoover Dam. Conversely, if he succeeds and ends up conquering the NCR, the absorption of the NCR will begin the transformation of the legion from within, from conquering army to a nation of stability.","Summary: they've paid their dues too now.\n\nPost: I'm in the same boat, been watching every episode the day of airing, since the late 70's here too. But I realized something kind of interesting, it's now been 8 years of new series, so folks that only started watching in 2005, are to the point where they've seen as much new material as us 'old timers' got, before the show got cancelled.","Summary: just because I say your reasoning was off-mark, doesn't mean I disagree with the main deduction that it's fake).\n\nPost: I'm not arguing whether or not he was off-balance enough to fall, because he obviously was. I'm arguing that the punch and dodge was staged\" \n well good for you, because I'm not arguing that. My point was that, staged or not, the form is so bad, the result would have been the same anyway. And yeah, kids do have a tendency to fight with absolutely terrible form like this. \n \"I don't get why you want this to be real so badly.\" \n I don't, but you seem obsessed with believing that I do. Not all observational offering is contradictory to the main assumption. (","Summary: Tassiter is an insecure little man and a terrible boss.\n\nPost: Here's my take. \n Tassiter is a Business Guy - he's into financials, marketing, M&A's. He considers himself and his kind 'real business people', that actually make the company happen. \n He looks down upon Jack, a technical guy, as 'not a real business guy', because engineering isn't business, it's a bunch of nerds messing around with stuff. Jack may be Lead Engineer of one of Hyperion's largest projects around an emerging market - but in Tassiter's mind, he's just another loser egghead who will never comprehend how 'Real Business\" gets done. \n I.E. rather similar to what we experience in the real world. (source; am filthy nerd and lead engineer) \n Edit: thinking about Tassiter's lines and delivery, throughout the games, I think there's a fair amount of evidence that Tassiter is secretly intimidated by Jack's ambition, and so amplifies the put-downs even more.","Summary: IamA card-carrying pro-2nd-amendment Englishman living in the US, who firmly believes that private firearms ownership is a fundamentally positive factor overall on society (though of course not without risks)\n\nPost: Here's a European perspective for you. I watched my nation (England) go gun-control crazy and disarm everyone after a mass shooting by one guy in a remote village in the UK. I grew up in one of the most violent areas of the UK in the 80's. I've watched the nation freak out about 'rampant knife crime' now and try to ban kitchen knives with points on them. \n But I don't really care, I've lived in the US for nearly two decades now, and have traveled extensively over most of it. In some states (where my concealed carry rights are reciprocated), I've actively carried a firearm with me too. \n But the most interesting point is that I've encountered far less general violence in the US in my entire time here, than I've seen during my time in the UK - where my hometown had a thriving gun culture - all of them in the hands of criminals. \n (Btw: not every European nation is as anti-firearm as you'd think, many european nations have fairly extensive provision for civilian ownership)","Summary: don't artificially limit your potential audience ahead of time. You're just listing reasons why people would not wanna use your mod (other than the smaller group of folks who want a more difficult experience).\n\nPost: well, not true, there are plenty of things that only exist below Y:20, so you're creating something that uses power to remove scarcity of more common items, at the cost of increased landscape desolation. \n All you're talking about is trying to rebalance other people's mods, not creating alternatives that stand on their own merits.","Summary: there just aren't enough people in the Cap.wasteland to really rebuild much.\n\nPost: the Capitol wasteland is pretty short on established human settlements however - really, there are only really 4 wasteland settlements in the Capitol Wasteland - Megaton (fairly agricultural, poor, dirty, hell the center of their town is a pool of dirty radioactive water), Tenpenny Tower is certainly pretty clean, Rivet City is as 'clean' as you can make a rusting military naval vessel be, and the Republic of Dave is just a barn.","Summary: Lawyers)\n\nPost: Indeed, considering this is basically an 'INSTALL.txt' for the film, a technical document, it's rather neat seeing this sort of respectful, light informality in here, a 'from one professional to another' tone that has almost completely disappeared from today's technical and business writing. Compare this to today's equivalent of things like this, which amount to \"follow instructions precisely or your license will be considered null and void\".\n(","Summary: if Lilith is BL3's penultimate boss, y'all heard it in this thread first.\n\nPost: With 6 sirens in the Universe, 2 of them dead now, 2 unaccounted for, and the remaining two known living ones - a nerdy girl raised in a convent, and a newly-forged leader who is rapidly becoming one of the most powerful (remaining) living things on Pandora... and yeah.. \"the road to hell is paved with good intentions\". That was Jack's story we just played. Fear and Paranoia and narcissistic 'Destiny' and \"Heroism\" all fueled it. Lilith's veering towards the same path to becoming a self-appointed 'righteous diety'. We've still yet to learn what the true nature of the Sirens is, and how they (obviously) connect the Human Race to the Eridians... well, in all likelihood, the person who's going to be most obsessed with unlocking that secret is Lilith now... and it just may be what puts her over the edge.","Summary: I'm getting tired of maintaining my own diff()'s to track configs.\n\nPost: If you (not you personally) need your modpack authors to make anti-griefing decisions for you, you have no business running a public server. In all seriousness. I want things default-disabled because they present stability/corruption issues. Everything else should be down to the admin to decide. Also, many/most? people play single player anyway.. forcing server-level decisions upon their baseline experience is a VERY poor decision.","Summary: more capacitors is a more efficient and effective solution than speed upgrades, which eat a certain amount of power themselves, in extreme cases, more than the capacitor is actually recieving\n\nPost: actually, speed upgrades waste a shitload of power. what you want is a lot of coercers (convert power to fortron), and a pretty big network of capacitors (with SOME speed upgrades, but don't max out). and a couple of range upgrades because they're gonna take up some space themselves. \n I've got a cylinder forcefield over my 128+ high tower currently, and it takes about 12 coercers and 48 capacitors (all feeding direct to projector with range upgrades), to maintain a 128 tall by 48 diameter cylinder shield. Some power loss because of upgrades but fairly manageable, power drain is around 8000RF/tick to maintain the shield.","Summary: Ulysses' problem with the courier delivering the package that destroyed the divide, that that the courier just saw it as 'another job', without realizing that everything they do could decide the future.. It's Fallout's \"Would you Kindly\" moment.\n\nPost: Ulysses isn't irrational though. the whole point of Lonesome Road (and perhaps, Fallout in general) is that the world is rising up from the ashes, and that certain types of people are emerging too, people who will define what that future is. Ulysses reaches out to show you that - you have a choice, even when choices are made for you . The world of Fallout is not just about rebuilding society, but about what kind of society that will be rebuilt. This is the core narrative of FO:NV","Summary: law-breaking and system intrusion may be the most direct way, but it's not the only way,and likely not the easiest either.\n\nPost: I don't have time to check if youtube messages supports this (and it's very likely beyond the resources of the son in question here), but, some simple OSINT techniques for you that should give you a few ideas about how this would be possible without committing illegal acts. \n (assuming Youtube messaging supports inline imagines) I'd send a message to all 8 accounts, with a link to an image I'd placed specifically for this task on a webserver I had control over. Check server logs for people accessing that (otherwise non-public) image, if I see a bunch of folks accessing it from 8 different referrerer URL's, but the same client IP, I can make a pretty strong assertion that these 8 accounts are all operated by the same person. \n No hacking required, no laws broken, just basic OSINT techniques that we teach people in the infosec world all the time. There's really no difference between this and advertising tracking via cookies. Put together similar light-SE techniques and you can do the same from the reddit side of stuff, etc. IP Addresses are transient, they don't identify people,they just form links between less transient elements that do identify people \n source: 20 years of infosec experience, mostly focused on forensics and intelligence.","Summary: Citation Needed\"\n\nPost: yeah, that shit drives me crazy, every person I know who watches Doctor who, now thinks allons-y is a who reference every time they hear it ... likewise I know one guy who has never played any other RPG except Skyrim.. so to him, every fantasy thing is a Skyrim reference now. It's Just a long-running personal peeve. \n So yeah, there's zero context that Claptrap saying allons-y is anything more than him just being a little multilingual... except for the fact that it's /highly probable/ since Burch is a fan.","Summary: get off my lawn.\n\nPost: ahh yeah, the perception of internet comments indeed, since (unsurprisingly), I perceive the tantrums to be on the other side, belittling, no, jadedly dismissing.. sure I'll admit guilt on that on. \n See, I look at mod dev drama (like the gregtech/Mdiyo stuff) and (incorrectly?) imagine the people behind this sort of stuff to be 20-something comp.sci students (the \"brogrammer\" archetype certainly comes to mind) that's just unbecoming of anyone that would call themselves a software engineer. \n full of himself teenager? nahh...occasionally still might act like one between naps, and I do spend a lot of time telling audiences at conferences that everything they're doing is wrong (and very likely unethical), so pontificating is in my blood.","Summary: unless you've distributed your mod with code-signing, close-sourcing java code is a moot gesture.\n\nPost: high five \n Yeah, the point to my original comment was that complaining about a mod 'never making it to 1.7' is a far less relevant complaint when that mod is open sourced. Folks in the ftb community seem to be getting used to the idea of mods being abandoned, dying off, etc. My point was that this is not the way it has to be, and FOSS'ing something that gets used in a popular modpack is the socially responsible thing to do. \n Yes, I have strong feelings about software curation; one of my buddies is one of the major people over at archive.org - so his thoughts on the ethics of software preservation and freedom have certainly rubbed off on me.","Summary: don't try to buy and sell stuff blind, do a bit of market research beforehand. having a pen and paper with you while playing the game actually helps a bunch.\n\nPost: Plenty of good advice in the comments here, but I'll throw in my own little trading advice here. \n The key to making the most of trading, is to go scout out 2-3 systems first, and take a note of the type of stations in those systems. Extraction stations produce raw materials, which are used by refinery stations to turn into processed materials, which are used by industrial stations to build machinery with. All station types need machinery from industrial stations, and all station types need food products from agricultural stations. \n dock at some of these stations, take note of products that they have a High supply of, and are selling for significantly below the galactic average, likewise, look for products they have a High demand for and will buy for well above the galactic average. \n with that info, you should be able to put together your own trade route between, say, three stations across 2-3 star systems, and make a known profit on each leg of your journey between those stations.. Run that traderoute for an hour, or two , or three, or until you get bored or hungry for better profits. \n The supply/demand figures are affected by every other person playing the game, so any traderoute you put together will eventually dry up, but most are usually good for several days at a time, and then it's time to go out and recon yourself another profitable route.","Summary: I'm a crotchety old bastard.\n\nPost: heh, yeah, you're right. \n FWIW: I was just reacting to the \"haha 5 aces is impossible!\" implied factor on this one. This isn't the first thread I've seen in this sub where people have smugly posted something to the tune of\"Haha FO:NV doesn't know what's in a standard deck of cards!\", without realizing how tables work.","Summary: I never said Python was a cure-all for being a bad developer in the first place - I implied that it was generously flexible in how it allows construction of invocation and flow (ie. \"Idiomatic Python\") \n (I'll say this much though, in the vein of what you're grumbling about. Python really needs to do something about the way it handles strack traces resulting from nested setattr() calls.)\n\nPost: Intellisense.. yes, I get it, you like C#, so do I, and I've got about ten years with that - and I love strong typing too - but, you're totally missing the point. 'found your Trivial Typo', no that'll easily raise an exception, and not even in the ballpark of complexity of what I'm discussing. \n I was actually referring to things like Nested List Comprehensions, Or modifying a Type Class during runtime and duck typing happily handling a runtime-defined method on a type imported entirely within from a method-local scope. \n \"A Bomb of Bad Data just waiting\".. you've never heard of Assertions and Unit Tests?","Summary: This game is about Gearbox trying to find the 'sweet spot' for BL3. Not a bad thing.\n\nPost: there's definitely a lot of tweaking of BL2's gameplay going on in TPS. there are many things we did in BL1 that become obsolete in BL2.. \n I'm getting a big 'rebalance' vibe from TPS, and I say this in a good way.. but I think the major reason behind TPS is so gearbox can get a massive amount of customer gameplay data back, before Borderland/Worlds 3 arrives..","Summary: don't confuse me trying to illustrate things to someone with almost no programming experience, to me discussing things in an actual development forum.\n\nPost: trying to explain duck typing with objects to someone who has barely written their first function, is an exercise in confusion for them. (eh, you're right though, not the best example to give him, but still, trying to keep it simple) \n likewise, explaining how various idiomatically pythonic structures appear to be unworkable simplifications (such as with list expansion) to people used to other languages, isn't something a noob would understand.","Summary: valve makes awesome gravity gun tutorial level, that makes you work to get the most from the gravity gun, instead of sacrificing level design to spoon-feed mastery to you.\n\nPost: Although it's obvious that the purpose of the level was to get you to become comfortable with the newly-acquired gravity gun, Ravenholme stands out still. Plenty of games have a 'you just gained a new ability, now we're going to make you use that ability extensively in the next part' and a select few games have a 'here's an ability you've never seen before in a videogame' factor as well. Hats off to Valve for doing both of those things together in a way that way that was both subtle in implementation (giving you lots of opportunities to use the new ability, yet never really forcing it), and an excellent level in its own right (instead of just being an awkwardly-forced environment designed only to showcase the ability.","Summary: what you're asking for is something plenty of people would agree would be really useful. now Yield to the hands-on imperative! :-P \n I think a lot of mod devs would certainly include a well-written in-game getting started tutorial book, written by a third person, if approached. Many of those devs are on these forums too. \n Oh, random closing thought - kinda related. Some mods have started using the Achievements feature in minecraft as a rather interesting way to provide that linear roadmap kind of information you're describing; pretty neat way to do that. \n We definitely need more wiki pages like these (scroll to bottom): seems to be right down your alley in terms of the kind of content you're asking for.\n\nPost: I hear ya, and my point is, it's anything but absurd, once you understand the state of where things are at right now, what you're asking for, is the absurd position. \n I getcha though, it's a matter pet peeves and all, but you just gotta remember that the FTB modpack project is barely a year old, and most of the mods in it went through some pretty heavy redesigns in that last year. \n But yeah, it's definitely a matter of how you're saying it - e.g. \"but as a new user why the HELL would you leave that gap?\".. you keep talking about this hypothetical 'you' when there is only 'us'. Heh, anyway, I'm getting the idea that we're both developers, from fairly different working fields. (and certainly the one I work in, is mostly research and discovery based, so the only documentation is usually what we write ourselves).","Summary: FO3 feels like the developers didn't even play the first two games.\n\nPost: Most of FO3's problems lie in the fact that it was fairly obviously meant to be a prequel to the first game, set only a few decades after the bombs dropped, then they changed their mind but didn't change all the content to match it.. This internal inconsistency along with stuff just not matching up to previous games very well (Their explanations for why the Enclave, supermutants, etc are on the east coast are pretty flimsy). \n They even changed one of the serious core maggufin items, the G.E.C.K. into some kind of super-powerful nanoassembler (think the Genesis device from Star Trek:Wrath of Khan).","Summary: to save memory, the programmer isn't using native integers, but reconstructing integers from individual bits, arbitrarily packed together to save memory. \n 0100-1111-1111-1000-0100-0101 \n \\flags/\\ kill count /\\health value / \n \n 4 boolean status flags ('moving', 'shooting', etc etc ) \n 9 bits of kill count number (0-511) \n 11 bits for health value (0-2047)\n\nPost: ahh, nm, my first reply was meant for your earlier comment, just realized you're talking about the 511 (instead of 512) issue in this one, my bad, alright, let's take a crack at that now. \n My immediate guess is that this is a case where the developers are using Bitfields ( to store data on units. ie.. each unit has X number of bytes of data assigned to it, and the developers have arbitrarily assigned 9 bits of those X bytes (ie 1 whole byte and 1 bit from the next byte over) to represent the unit's kill count . The other 7 bits from that byte, might be used to store the units health, or perhaps other true/false properties about the unit.","Summary: I'm glad I played it myself, and didn't just watch a playthrough - getting to choose how much of an asshole to make my characters be, was just as much fun as the asshole responses themselves.\n\nPost: if you enjoy the world-building done in BL2 and TPS, you'll enjoy TFTBL. Quite a few minor characters from BL2 make an appearance in the game, you get to see what Pandora's like aside from all the constant shooting things in the face. While the gameplay itself was fairly minimal (was it even possible to fail/ie in this game?) just being able to control the narrative a little, was a lot of fun. Trying not to spoil anything here, but one of the two characters you play, has only a single gun, with a single bullet, when I finally made the decision to fire that bullet, it was DAMN satisfying. \n Also, getting the other character to go completely fanboy when he meets Zer0.","Summary: for people having problems convincing employers that they can code, the solution is to write more code.\n\nPost: heh, yeah, everything can get taken to (ridiculous) extremes. \n As I said, I'm an infosec guy, and although we require people with some programming skills, it's not the only thing on the list of requirements. For other folks I'm looking for activity on mailing lists, answering questions, engaging in the community, etc etc. \n The end-game is, when hiring people, you're looking for people who are self-motivated to improve, and aren't going to do the absolute minimum, using only what's handed to them on a plate. \n And remember, my original reply was to someone who wanted to /get into/ writing software for pay: obviously if your resume says you spent the last three years working on insert large-well-known commercial product here , the need to have something of a private portfolio becomes significantly less.","Summary: protect your noggins, fellow nerds, it's where we keep our most important loot!\n\nPost: Nice to see this confirmed. I've met many homeless folks over the years who showed shadows of their former lives - to the point where I've on a few encounters realized that I'm talking to someone who I would consider an engineering peer - the standard tropes of emotional stress collapse being the cause of their downfall never struck me as comprehensive.","Summary: if FD isn't just champing at the bit to kick our asses with Thargoid motherships already, something is seriously wrong. \n \" It has been rumoured that Thargoids could be capable of building large artificial structures which could possibly be on a scale with planets\"\n\nPost: nothing I've seen, however the fact that E:D is following the same chronological timeline (it's now 3301) makes me think that Dave Braben considers the events of his prior three games canon to this one. \n Considering we're all starting out as useless plebs and working out way up the societal structure, I can see how that, for the first few months at least, we (as our player characters) just aren't worthy of knowing the secret details of history yet.","Summary: he didn't give you a long-ass answer like I just did, and the simplest and most believable answer is \"youtube does it deliberately\"\n\nPost: it's not THAT much of an assumption. Implementing Levenshtein Distance is something any half-decent software developer will do multiple times in their career. With the knowledge that it really is trivial to find the video title that is the most similar to the one you're already watching (including numerics) he actually provided the answer that requires the fewest additional factors to answer.","Summary: vulgarity is funny when it's the only way to rebel against being the very thing you were built to be.\n\nPost: Fallout has generally been, tastefully light, on use of the 'big 7' profanities. It's not that you don't see them used, but they're always used for the right reasons - sparingly, and for effect. That got turned around with Muggy and the Toaster, but brilliantly done, as part of their relative neuroses. The thing that makes it so brilliantly fucking funny, is that it's the only fucking thing their fucking programming will allow them to fucking do to try and fucking protest against the living fucking nightmare that is their fucking hellish existence and total fucking inability to do anything but what they were fucking programmed for.","Summary: it's impossible to really say what the right answer is, until the results can be observed. but I agree with the general tone of New Vegas that trying to rebuild what was lost purely for its own sake, is the wrong answer.\n\nPost: My interpretation of what JSawyer and the gang intended to communicate, is that, in the end, the choice is moot because \"war never changes\". each answer is right in some regards, wrong in others.. what's important is not which choice is made, but that a choice is made . New Vegas pushes this pretty heavily, that the world is emerging from the ashes and that the time to choose is now . In that much I agree with them. \n Personally, I've played through all four endings, and although I see many people prefer the independent vegas ending, I actually find this one to be the least preferable of the bunch, since it seems to be selfishly 'delaying the inevitable' and refusing to answer the question at all. Personally I find House's scientific/business approach to the question interesting - his answer is an interesting fusion in terms of refusing to pick one or the other, and instead coming up with his own answer. The NCR seems doomed to expand to the point where it breaks apart into warring nations within the next century, and the legion is playing an 'ends justify the means' long game that may never actually come to see its intended payoff. \n NCR and independent Vegas don't answer the question of how to prevent another apocalypse happening, but are easier to live with in the short term,and are guaranteed to work. House and Legion hope to ensure the survival of humanity into the millenia, but are going to be no fun in the coming decades, and may not ever work at all. House is the lesser of two evils, and potentially more capable of seeing his plans come to fruition, but he strikes me as someone who just cannot take human nature into account (and let's remember that human nature is what brought about an apocalypse in the first place). Caesar is all about addressing human nature first and foremost. \n So, if pushed for an answer, I'd say on a risk/reward analysis of the four options, House is the best compromise for the future of the world - do not abandon what was lost, but move on.. Second to that is Caesar - because survival for its own sake is pointless if it is only to repeat the same mistakes again (as in, his New Republic may well end up being what humanity needs, to fully raise itself out of the ashes, although at great cost in suffering during the early years).","Summary: interesting in hearing different perspectives between folks that have been waiting for this game for the better part of 20 years, and folks new to the universe.\n\nPost: So as someone who played the original Elite, and then played the hell out of Fronter/First Encounters (hell I even wrote a very widely-distributed players guide to Frontier, back in the BBS days) I'm curious to hear from both sides of the coin here. \n For us old farts, what are the things from the first games you're most looking forward to seeing return to the game? (aside from Thargoids and the Panther Clipper :) ). \n New folks: Has Elite:Dangerous given you reason to go check out the earlier games (even if just on youtube) - For a game series that dates back 30 years now, what do you think of the progression - also: do you know what a Thargoid is and why they need to hurry up and put them in the game?"],"string":"[\n \"Summary: I'm expecting far-less-emo Barry to emerge, and more of the Barry that Batman described like this: \\\"Barry is the kind of man that I would've hoped to become if my parents hadn't been murdered.\\\"\\n\\nPost: yep, that's what I'm hoping to see as well. My suspicions are that this season has been about establishing Barry's moral compass first (last Tuesday's episode certainly hammered that home), after this season's finale, I think we're gonna see a more confident Barry, who's no longer angsting over things he cannot change. But the work done this season means that transition can happen without him just coming off as Wally West levels of jackass.\",\n \"Summary: the Aliens are interesting background context, and don't change storyline canon one iota.\\n\\nPost: Thank you! \\n I feel like one of the few folks who appreciates the Aliens/Zeta. (though the DLC as a game experience was pretty weak) For exactly this reason, they are /not/ the power behind events, but more very partial (ie, not impartial) observers now that, well, exactly as you pointed out, their plans to invade us were abruptly cut short when we managed to destroy ourselves instead.\",\n \"Summary: the Enclave is Dick Cheney, the Brotherhood is George Patton. :)\\n\\nPost: The Brotherhood's origins lie in that old trope of the high-ranking military officer realizing that \\\"Those pencil-pushers in Washington have lost their minds\\\". Maxson's creation of the Brotherhood is grounded in a cliched realization that he's spent his career trying to defend America, only to discover that the politicians are planning to destroy it for their own ends. He takes the stance that advanced technology can't be left in the hands of politicians or regular folks, and that only the 'boots on the ground' military mindset is responsible enough to keep them out of irresponsible hands. \\n The brotherhood differs from the Enclave in one very major aspect - they have no interest in ruling other people, they just think they're better than everyone else - other people can't be trusted with technology, because they do stupid shit with it (like, y'know, blow up the world).\",\n \"Summary: the NCR is about hanging onto the past, taking the 'easy road' to rebuilding the world, bureaucratic, unguided growth and perhaps inevitably bringing the world back to a place where another apocalypse is inevitable. The legion is about paying the cost for peace in suffering and brutality in the early years, placing the good of society above the good of the individual, in the goal of building a new society where warring nations no longer exist. \\n This is an essential theme to Fallout. Caesar and the Master are actually very alike in that their goal is to build an entirely new world and prevent a future apocalypse. NCR and the Enclave are alike in that they both want to bring back the old world, so long as they can be in charge of it. The Fallout Universe's central question is \\\"Which of these is the right answer? Or does it even matter in the end?\\\".. because war, well... you know.\\n\\nPost: What people don't seem to realize about NCR versus Legion, is that they in no way represent a 'good versus evil' dynamic. (certainly not in Caesar's mind at least). \\n the NCR represents trying to reclaim the old world (and recreate all the mistakes that led up to the apocalypse). Caesar sees the model of Ancient Rome as a way to build a new Civilization out of the ashes of the old world, a society built according to a strict plan that will lead to a 1000-year \\\"Pax Romana\\\" and protect humanity from exterminating itself once more. \\n Unfortunately this just isn't really explored properly in the main game (although Lonesome Road does a pretty damn good job of fixing that). Caesar's lecture to you on Hegelian Dialectic is an incredibly important part of this however. Caesar sees the battle with the NCR as his way of letting fate answer his few doubts about whether his vision is the right thing for humanity - literally, that if what he is doing is actually wrong, then then universe will answer his question with a defeat at the battle of Hoover Dam. Conversely, if he succeeds and ends up conquering the NCR, the absorption of the NCR will begin the transformation of the legion from within, from conquering army to a nation of stability.\",\n \"Summary: they've paid their dues too now.\\n\\nPost: I'm in the same boat, been watching every episode the day of airing, since the late 70's here too. But I realized something kind of interesting, it's now been 8 years of new series, so folks that only started watching in 2005, are to the point where they've seen as much new material as us 'old timers' got, before the show got cancelled.\",\n \"Summary: just because I say your reasoning was off-mark, doesn't mean I disagree with the main deduction that it's fake).\\n\\nPost: I'm not arguing whether or not he was off-balance enough to fall, because he obviously was. I'm arguing that the punch and dodge was staged\\\" \\n well good for you, because I'm not arguing that. My point was that, staged or not, the form is so bad, the result would have been the same anyway. And yeah, kids do have a tendency to fight with absolutely terrible form like this. \\n \\\"I don't get why you want this to be real so badly.\\\" \\n I don't, but you seem obsessed with believing that I do. Not all observational offering is contradictory to the main assumption. (\",\n \"Summary: Tassiter is an insecure little man and a terrible boss.\\n\\nPost: Here's my take. \\n Tassiter is a Business Guy - he's into financials, marketing, M&A's. He considers himself and his kind 'real business people', that actually make the company happen. \\n He looks down upon Jack, a technical guy, as 'not a real business guy', because engineering isn't business, it's a bunch of nerds messing around with stuff. Jack may be Lead Engineer of one of Hyperion's largest projects around an emerging market - but in Tassiter's mind, he's just another loser egghead who will never comprehend how 'Real Business\\\" gets done. \\n I.E. rather similar to what we experience in the real world. (source; am filthy nerd and lead engineer) \\n Edit: thinking about Tassiter's lines and delivery, throughout the games, I think there's a fair amount of evidence that Tassiter is secretly intimidated by Jack's ambition, and so amplifies the put-downs even more.\",\n \"Summary: IamA card-carrying pro-2nd-amendment Englishman living in the US, who firmly believes that private firearms ownership is a fundamentally positive factor overall on society (though of course not without risks)\\n\\nPost: Here's a European perspective for you. I watched my nation (England) go gun-control crazy and disarm everyone after a mass shooting by one guy in a remote village in the UK. I grew up in one of the most violent areas of the UK in the 80's. I've watched the nation freak out about 'rampant knife crime' now and try to ban kitchen knives with points on them. \\n But I don't really care, I've lived in the US for nearly two decades now, and have traveled extensively over most of it. In some states (where my concealed carry rights are reciprocated), I've actively carried a firearm with me too. \\n But the most interesting point is that I've encountered far less general violence in the US in my entire time here, than I've seen during my time in the UK - where my hometown had a thriving gun culture - all of them in the hands of criminals. \\n (Btw: not every European nation is as anti-firearm as you'd think, many european nations have fairly extensive provision for civilian ownership)\",\n \"Summary: don't artificially limit your potential audience ahead of time. You're just listing reasons why people would not wanna use your mod (other than the smaller group of folks who want a more difficult experience).\\n\\nPost: well, not true, there are plenty of things that only exist below Y:20, so you're creating something that uses power to remove scarcity of more common items, at the cost of increased landscape desolation. \\n All you're talking about is trying to rebalance other people's mods, not creating alternatives that stand on their own merits.\",\n \"Summary: there just aren't enough people in the Cap.wasteland to really rebuild much.\\n\\nPost: the Capitol wasteland is pretty short on established human settlements however - really, there are only really 4 wasteland settlements in the Capitol Wasteland - Megaton (fairly agricultural, poor, dirty, hell the center of their town is a pool of dirty radioactive water), Tenpenny Tower is certainly pretty clean, Rivet City is as 'clean' as you can make a rusting military naval vessel be, and the Republic of Dave is just a barn.\",\n \"Summary: Lawyers)\\n\\nPost: Indeed, considering this is basically an 'INSTALL.txt' for the film, a technical document, it's rather neat seeing this sort of respectful, light informality in here, a 'from one professional to another' tone that has almost completely disappeared from today's technical and business writing. Compare this to today's equivalent of things like this, which amount to \\\"follow instructions precisely or your license will be considered null and void\\\".\\n(\",\n \"Summary: if Lilith is BL3's penultimate boss, y'all heard it in this thread first.\\n\\nPost: With 6 sirens in the Universe, 2 of them dead now, 2 unaccounted for, and the remaining two known living ones - a nerdy girl raised in a convent, and a newly-forged leader who is rapidly becoming one of the most powerful (remaining) living things on Pandora... and yeah.. \\\"the road to hell is paved with good intentions\\\". That was Jack's story we just played. Fear and Paranoia and narcissistic 'Destiny' and \\\"Heroism\\\" all fueled it. Lilith's veering towards the same path to becoming a self-appointed 'righteous diety'. We've still yet to learn what the true nature of the Sirens is, and how they (obviously) connect the Human Race to the Eridians... well, in all likelihood, the person who's going to be most obsessed with unlocking that secret is Lilith now... and it just may be what puts her over the edge.\",\n \"Summary: I'm getting tired of maintaining my own diff()'s to track configs.\\n\\nPost: If you (not you personally) need your modpack authors to make anti-griefing decisions for you, you have no business running a public server. In all seriousness. I want things default-disabled because they present stability/corruption issues. Everything else should be down to the admin to decide. Also, many/most? people play single player anyway.. forcing server-level decisions upon their baseline experience is a VERY poor decision.\",\n \"Summary: more capacitors is a more efficient and effective solution than speed upgrades, which eat a certain amount of power themselves, in extreme cases, more than the capacitor is actually recieving\\n\\nPost: actually, speed upgrades waste a shitload of power. what you want is a lot of coercers (convert power to fortron), and a pretty big network of capacitors (with SOME speed upgrades, but don't max out). and a couple of range upgrades because they're gonna take up some space themselves. \\n I've got a cylinder forcefield over my 128+ high tower currently, and it takes about 12 coercers and 48 capacitors (all feeding direct to projector with range upgrades), to maintain a 128 tall by 48 diameter cylinder shield. Some power loss because of upgrades but fairly manageable, power drain is around 8000RF/tick to maintain the shield.\",\n \"Summary: Ulysses' problem with the courier delivering the package that destroyed the divide, that that the courier just saw it as 'another job', without realizing that everything they do could decide the future.. It's Fallout's \\\"Would you Kindly\\\" moment.\\n\\nPost: Ulysses isn't irrational though. the whole point of Lonesome Road (and perhaps, Fallout in general) is that the world is rising up from the ashes, and that certain types of people are emerging too, people who will define what that future is. Ulysses reaches out to show you that - you have a choice, even when choices are made for you . The world of Fallout is not just about rebuilding society, but about what kind of society that will be rebuilt. This is the core narrative of FO:NV\",\n \"Summary: law-breaking and system intrusion may be the most direct way, but it's not the only way,and likely not the easiest either.\\n\\nPost: I don't have time to check if youtube messages supports this (and it's very likely beyond the resources of the son in question here), but, some simple OSINT techniques for you that should give you a few ideas about how this would be possible without committing illegal acts. \\n (assuming Youtube messaging supports inline imagines) I'd send a message to all 8 accounts, with a link to an image I'd placed specifically for this task on a webserver I had control over. Check server logs for people accessing that (otherwise non-public) image, if I see a bunch of folks accessing it from 8 different referrerer URL's, but the same client IP, I can make a pretty strong assertion that these 8 accounts are all operated by the same person. \\n No hacking required, no laws broken, just basic OSINT techniques that we teach people in the infosec world all the time. There's really no difference between this and advertising tracking via cookies. Put together similar light-SE techniques and you can do the same from the reddit side of stuff, etc. IP Addresses are transient, they don't identify people,they just form links between less transient elements that do identify people \\n source: 20 years of infosec experience, mostly focused on forensics and intelligence.\",\n \"Summary: Citation Needed\\\"\\n\\nPost: yeah, that shit drives me crazy, every person I know who watches Doctor who, now thinks allons-y is a who reference every time they hear it ... likewise I know one guy who has never played any other RPG except Skyrim.. so to him, every fantasy thing is a Skyrim reference now. It's Just a long-running personal peeve. \\n So yeah, there's zero context that Claptrap saying allons-y is anything more than him just being a little multilingual... except for the fact that it's /highly probable/ since Burch is a fan.\",\n \"Summary: get off my lawn.\\n\\nPost: ahh yeah, the perception of internet comments indeed, since (unsurprisingly), I perceive the tantrums to be on the other side, belittling, no, jadedly dismissing.. sure I'll admit guilt on that on. \\n See, I look at mod dev drama (like the gregtech/Mdiyo stuff) and (incorrectly?) imagine the people behind this sort of stuff to be 20-something comp.sci students (the \\\"brogrammer\\\" archetype certainly comes to mind) that's just unbecoming of anyone that would call themselves a software engineer. \\n full of himself teenager? nahh...occasionally still might act like one between naps, and I do spend a lot of time telling audiences at conferences that everything they're doing is wrong (and very likely unethical), so pontificating is in my blood.\",\n \"Summary: unless you've distributed your mod with code-signing, close-sourcing java code is a moot gesture.\\n\\nPost: high five \\n Yeah, the point to my original comment was that complaining about a mod 'never making it to 1.7' is a far less relevant complaint when that mod is open sourced. Folks in the ftb community seem to be getting used to the idea of mods being abandoned, dying off, etc. My point was that this is not the way it has to be, and FOSS'ing something that gets used in a popular modpack is the socially responsible thing to do. \\n Yes, I have strong feelings about software curation; one of my buddies is one of the major people over at archive.org - so his thoughts on the ethics of software preservation and freedom have certainly rubbed off on me.\",\n \"Summary: don't try to buy and sell stuff blind, do a bit of market research beforehand. having a pen and paper with you while playing the game actually helps a bunch.\\n\\nPost: Plenty of good advice in the comments here, but I'll throw in my own little trading advice here. \\n The key to making the most of trading, is to go scout out 2-3 systems first, and take a note of the type of stations in those systems. Extraction stations produce raw materials, which are used by refinery stations to turn into processed materials, which are used by industrial stations to build machinery with. All station types need machinery from industrial stations, and all station types need food products from agricultural stations. \\n dock at some of these stations, take note of products that they have a High supply of, and are selling for significantly below the galactic average, likewise, look for products they have a High demand for and will buy for well above the galactic average. \\n with that info, you should be able to put together your own trade route between, say, three stations across 2-3 star systems, and make a known profit on each leg of your journey between those stations.. Run that traderoute for an hour, or two , or three, or until you get bored or hungry for better profits. \\n The supply/demand figures are affected by every other person playing the game, so any traderoute you put together will eventually dry up, but most are usually good for several days at a time, and then it's time to go out and recon yourself another profitable route.\",\n \"Summary: I'm a crotchety old bastard.\\n\\nPost: heh, yeah, you're right. \\n FWIW: I was just reacting to the \\\"haha 5 aces is impossible!\\\" implied factor on this one. This isn't the first thread I've seen in this sub where people have smugly posted something to the tune of\\\"Haha FO:NV doesn't know what's in a standard deck of cards!\\\", without realizing how tables work.\",\n \"Summary: I never said Python was a cure-all for being a bad developer in the first place - I implied that it was generously flexible in how it allows construction of invocation and flow (ie. \\\"Idiomatic Python\\\") \\n (I'll say this much though, in the vein of what you're grumbling about. Python really needs to do something about the way it handles strack traces resulting from nested setattr() calls.)\\n\\nPost: Intellisense.. yes, I get it, you like C#, so do I, and I've got about ten years with that - and I love strong typing too - but, you're totally missing the point. 'found your Trivial Typo', no that'll easily raise an exception, and not even in the ballpark of complexity of what I'm discussing. \\n I was actually referring to things like Nested List Comprehensions, Or modifying a Type Class during runtime and duck typing happily handling a runtime-defined method on a type imported entirely within from a method-local scope. \\n \\\"A Bomb of Bad Data just waiting\\\".. you've never heard of Assertions and Unit Tests?\",\n \"Summary: This game is about Gearbox trying to find the 'sweet spot' for BL3. Not a bad thing.\\n\\nPost: there's definitely a lot of tweaking of BL2's gameplay going on in TPS. there are many things we did in BL1 that become obsolete in BL2.. \\n I'm getting a big 'rebalance' vibe from TPS, and I say this in a good way.. but I think the major reason behind TPS is so gearbox can get a massive amount of customer gameplay data back, before Borderland/Worlds 3 arrives..\",\n \"Summary: don't confuse me trying to illustrate things to someone with almost no programming experience, to me discussing things in an actual development forum.\\n\\nPost: trying to explain duck typing with objects to someone who has barely written their first function, is an exercise in confusion for them. (eh, you're right though, not the best example to give him, but still, trying to keep it simple) \\n likewise, explaining how various idiomatically pythonic structures appear to be unworkable simplifications (such as with list expansion) to people used to other languages, isn't something a noob would understand.\",\n \"Summary: valve makes awesome gravity gun tutorial level, that makes you work to get the most from the gravity gun, instead of sacrificing level design to spoon-feed mastery to you.\\n\\nPost: Although it's obvious that the purpose of the level was to get you to become comfortable with the newly-acquired gravity gun, Ravenholme stands out still. Plenty of games have a 'you just gained a new ability, now we're going to make you use that ability extensively in the next part' and a select few games have a 'here's an ability you've never seen before in a videogame' factor as well. Hats off to Valve for doing both of those things together in a way that way that was both subtle in implementation (giving you lots of opportunities to use the new ability, yet never really forcing it), and an excellent level in its own right (instead of just being an awkwardly-forced environment designed only to showcase the ability.\",\n \"Summary: what you're asking for is something plenty of people would agree would be really useful. now Yield to the hands-on imperative! :-P \\n I think a lot of mod devs would certainly include a well-written in-game getting started tutorial book, written by a third person, if approached. Many of those devs are on these forums too. \\n Oh, random closing thought - kinda related. Some mods have started using the Achievements feature in minecraft as a rather interesting way to provide that linear roadmap kind of information you're describing; pretty neat way to do that. \\n We definitely need more wiki pages like these (scroll to bottom): seems to be right down your alley in terms of the kind of content you're asking for.\\n\\nPost: I hear ya, and my point is, it's anything but absurd, once you understand the state of where things are at right now, what you're asking for, is the absurd position. \\n I getcha though, it's a matter pet peeves and all, but you just gotta remember that the FTB modpack project is barely a year old, and most of the mods in it went through some pretty heavy redesigns in that last year. \\n But yeah, it's definitely a matter of how you're saying it - e.g. \\\"but as a new user why the HELL would you leave that gap?\\\".. you keep talking about this hypothetical 'you' when there is only 'us'. Heh, anyway, I'm getting the idea that we're both developers, from fairly different working fields. (and certainly the one I work in, is mostly research and discovery based, so the only documentation is usually what we write ourselves).\",\n \"Summary: FO3 feels like the developers didn't even play the first two games.\\n\\nPost: Most of FO3's problems lie in the fact that it was fairly obviously meant to be a prequel to the first game, set only a few decades after the bombs dropped, then they changed their mind but didn't change all the content to match it.. This internal inconsistency along with stuff just not matching up to previous games very well (Their explanations for why the Enclave, supermutants, etc are on the east coast are pretty flimsy). \\n They even changed one of the serious core maggufin items, the G.E.C.K. into some kind of super-powerful nanoassembler (think the Genesis device from Star Trek:Wrath of Khan).\",\n \"Summary: to save memory, the programmer isn't using native integers, but reconstructing integers from individual bits, arbitrarily packed together to save memory. \\n 0100-1111-1111-1000-0100-0101 \\n \\\\flags/\\\\ kill count /\\\\health value / \\n \\n 4 boolean status flags ('moving', 'shooting', etc etc ) \\n 9 bits of kill count number (0-511) \\n 11 bits for health value (0-2047)\\n\\nPost: ahh, nm, my first reply was meant for your earlier comment, just realized you're talking about the 511 (instead of 512) issue in this one, my bad, alright, let's take a crack at that now. \\n My immediate guess is that this is a case where the developers are using Bitfields ( to store data on units. ie.. each unit has X number of bytes of data assigned to it, and the developers have arbitrarily assigned 9 bits of those X bytes (ie 1 whole byte and 1 bit from the next byte over) to represent the unit's kill count . The other 7 bits from that byte, might be used to store the units health, or perhaps other true/false properties about the unit.\",\n \"Summary: I'm glad I played it myself, and didn't just watch a playthrough - getting to choose how much of an asshole to make my characters be, was just as much fun as the asshole responses themselves.\\n\\nPost: if you enjoy the world-building done in BL2 and TPS, you'll enjoy TFTBL. Quite a few minor characters from BL2 make an appearance in the game, you get to see what Pandora's like aside from all the constant shooting things in the face. While the gameplay itself was fairly minimal (was it even possible to fail/ie in this game?) just being able to control the narrative a little, was a lot of fun. Trying not to spoil anything here, but one of the two characters you play, has only a single gun, with a single bullet, when I finally made the decision to fire that bullet, it was DAMN satisfying. \\n Also, getting the other character to go completely fanboy when he meets Zer0.\",\n \"Summary: for people having problems convincing employers that they can code, the solution is to write more code.\\n\\nPost: heh, yeah, everything can get taken to (ridiculous) extremes. \\n As I said, I'm an infosec guy, and although we require people with some programming skills, it's not the only thing on the list of requirements. For other folks I'm looking for activity on mailing lists, answering questions, engaging in the community, etc etc. \\n The end-game is, when hiring people, you're looking for people who are self-motivated to improve, and aren't going to do the absolute minimum, using only what's handed to them on a plate. \\n And remember, my original reply was to someone who wanted to /get into/ writing software for pay: obviously if your resume says you spent the last three years working on insert large-well-known commercial product here , the need to have something of a private portfolio becomes significantly less.\",\n \"Summary: protect your noggins, fellow nerds, it's where we keep our most important loot!\\n\\nPost: Nice to see this confirmed. I've met many homeless folks over the years who showed shadows of their former lives - to the point where I've on a few encounters realized that I'm talking to someone who I would consider an engineering peer - the standard tropes of emotional stress collapse being the cause of their downfall never struck me as comprehensive.\",\n \"Summary: if FD isn't just champing at the bit to kick our asses with Thargoid motherships already, something is seriously wrong. \\n \\\" It has been rumoured that Thargoids could be capable of building large artificial structures which could possibly be on a scale with planets\\\"\\n\\nPost: nothing I've seen, however the fact that E:D is following the same chronological timeline (it's now 3301) makes me think that Dave Braben considers the events of his prior three games canon to this one. \\n Considering we're all starting out as useless plebs and working out way up the societal structure, I can see how that, for the first few months at least, we (as our player characters) just aren't worthy of knowing the secret details of history yet.\",\n \"Summary: he didn't give you a long-ass answer like I just did, and the simplest and most believable answer is \\\"youtube does it deliberately\\\"\\n\\nPost: it's not THAT much of an assumption. Implementing Levenshtein Distance is something any half-decent software developer will do multiple times in their career. With the knowledge that it really is trivial to find the video title that is the most similar to the one you're already watching (including numerics) he actually provided the answer that requires the fewest additional factors to answer.\",\n \"Summary: vulgarity is funny when it's the only way to rebel against being the very thing you were built to be.\\n\\nPost: Fallout has generally been, tastefully light, on use of the 'big 7' profanities. It's not that you don't see them used, but they're always used for the right reasons - sparingly, and for effect. That got turned around with Muggy and the Toaster, but brilliantly done, as part of their relative neuroses. The thing that makes it so brilliantly fucking funny, is that it's the only fucking thing their fucking programming will allow them to fucking do to try and fucking protest against the living fucking nightmare that is their fucking hellish existence and total fucking inability to do anything but what they were fucking programmed for.\",\n \"Summary: it's impossible to really say what the right answer is, until the results can be observed. but I agree with the general tone of New Vegas that trying to rebuild what was lost purely for its own sake, is the wrong answer.\\n\\nPost: My interpretation of what JSawyer and the gang intended to communicate, is that, in the end, the choice is moot because \\\"war never changes\\\". each answer is right in some regards, wrong in others.. what's important is not which choice is made, but that a choice is made . New Vegas pushes this pretty heavily, that the world is emerging from the ashes and that the time to choose is now . In that much I agree with them. \\n Personally, I've played through all four endings, and although I see many people prefer the independent vegas ending, I actually find this one to be the least preferable of the bunch, since it seems to be selfishly 'delaying the inevitable' and refusing to answer the question at all. Personally I find House's scientific/business approach to the question interesting - his answer is an interesting fusion in terms of refusing to pick one or the other, and instead coming up with his own answer. The NCR seems doomed to expand to the point where it breaks apart into warring nations within the next century, and the legion is playing an 'ends justify the means' long game that may never actually come to see its intended payoff. \\n NCR and independent Vegas don't answer the question of how to prevent another apocalypse happening, but are easier to live with in the short term,and are guaranteed to work. House and Legion hope to ensure the survival of humanity into the millenia, but are going to be no fun in the coming decades, and may not ever work at all. House is the lesser of two evils, and potentially more capable of seeing his plans come to fruition, but he strikes me as someone who just cannot take human nature into account (and let's remember that human nature is what brought about an apocalypse in the first place). Caesar is all about addressing human nature first and foremost. \\n So, if pushed for an answer, I'd say on a risk/reward analysis of the four options, House is the best compromise for the future of the world - do not abandon what was lost, but move on.. Second to that is Caesar - because survival for its own sake is pointless if it is only to repeat the same mistakes again (as in, his New Republic may well end up being what humanity needs, to fully raise itself out of the ashes, although at great cost in suffering during the early years).\",\n \"Summary: interesting in hearing different perspectives between folks that have been waiting for this game for the better part of 20 years, and folks new to the universe.\\n\\nPost: So as someone who played the original Elite, and then played the hell out of Fronter/First Encounters (hell I even wrote a very widely-distributed players guide to Frontier, back in the BBS days) I'm curious to hear from both sides of the coin here. \\n For us old farts, what are the things from the first games you're most looking forward to seeing return to the game? (aside from Thargoids and the Panther Clipper :) ). \\n New folks: Has Elite:Dangerous given you reason to go check out the earlier games (even if just on youtube) - For a game series that dates back 30 years now, what do you think of the progression - also: do you know what a Thargoid is and why they need to hurry up and put them in the game?\"\n]","isConversational":false},"profile_size":{"kind":"number","value":36,"string":"36"},"task":{"kind":"string","value":"longlamp_4"},"split_kind":{"kind":"string","value":"user_based"},"id":{"kind":"number","value":1298,"string":"1,298"}}},{"rowIdx":1299,"cells":{"question_id":{"kind":"string","value":"TBOJ"},"question":{"kind":"string","value":"Generate the content for a reddit post Warwick was previously strong, new jungle favors warwicks sustain, and new feral flare is insanely OP, and new smite synergizes with ww incredibly well"},"answer":{"kind":"string","value":"I've played a ton of warwick both before and after the patch. I've got a good idea - but honestly its a whole bunch of factors. \n First and foremost - the new jungle WRECKS people in terms of damage. So much so that even after leashes a lot of junglers don't feel comfortable doing both blue and red buff without returning to the fountain to heal. Warwick can sustain and farm in the jungler better than a lot of other junglers can as a result. \n But also- the new \"feral flare\" jungle item- is incredibly OP. Does 40 magic damage on hit instead of 25 when purchased. It also scales better - assists and kills provide 2 stacks instead of just one. Also, you can get it earlier than flare used to activate. I normally got feral flare on ww around 16-17 minutes, I find myself having the new flare around 13-14 minutes. My record for feral flare stacks before the jungle changes was around 40-50 on warwick. that means by the 40 minute mark i was doing 65-75 magic damage per hit. In the new jungle, I've gotten up to 70 stacks multiple times with him around the 35-40 min mark (if the game lasts that long, they normally dont with warwick on your team). That means 110 magic damage per hit. \n And finally, there's a new jungle item that lets you smite your opponents for additional true damage on hit for 6 seconds. at level 18 and full build, it does about 70 true damage per hit. \n Remember his ult applies on hit effects 5 times in addition to doing a decent amount of magic damage. \n Warwick was ALREADY really strong before the changes (had around a 53-54% win rate) but now he's basically invincible in a 1 on 1 scenario."},"correct_answer":{"kind":"string","value":"I've played a ton of warwick both before and after the patch. I've got a good idea - but honestly its a whole bunch of factors. \n First and foremost - the new jungle WRECKS people in terms of damage. So much so that even after leashes a lot of junglers don't feel comfortable doing both blue and red buff without returning to the fountain to heal. Warwick can sustain and farm in the jungler better than a lot of other junglers can as a result. \n But also- the new \"feral flare\" jungle item- is incredibly OP. Does 40 magic damage on hit instead of 25 when purchased. It also scales better - assists and kills provide 2 stacks instead of just one. Also, you can get it earlier than flare used to activate. I normally got feral flare on ww around 16-17 minutes, I find myself having the new flare around 13-14 minutes. My record for feral flare stacks before the jungle changes was around 40-50 on warwick. that means by the 40 minute mark i was doing 65-75 magic damage per hit. In the new jungle, I've gotten up to 70 stacks multiple times with him around the 35-40 min mark (if the game lasts that long, they normally dont with warwick on your team). That means 110 magic damage per hit. \n And finally, there's a new jungle item that lets you smite your opponents for additional true damage on hit for 6 seconds. at level 18 and full build, it does about 70 true damage per hit. \n Remember his ult applies on hit effects 5 times in addition to doing a decent amount of magic damage. \n Warwick was ALREADY really strong before the changes (had around a 53-54% win rate) but now he's basically invincible in a 1 on 1 scenario."},"documents":{"kind":"list like","value":["Summary: Tone is important, word choice is important, and Riot isn't robbing anyone, and you aren't a complete idiot if you think the chromas are worth it, thats just your choice\n\nPost: Okay, This is a really long response but i started typing and just didnt stop so sorry for that. But this whole situation has brought out some rather strong opinions and it looks like both sides there are people who are mentioning the same points but are getting downvoted/upvoted rather differently. \n He's being downvoted not because of his opinion but because of presentation. People seem to forget the importance and meaning behind words these days. \n He's upset that these pseudo skins cost as much as they do. He has every right to voice his opinion about this. And they are overpriced- I agree with him. I also agree with him they take very little effort to make. \n But instead of simply stating these points (all legitimate concerns) he kinda goes too far by saying things like Riot is \"robbing\" us with these things. That this is \"obvious abuse.\" \n Okay, first of all, I hope you can see that Riot is clearly robbing no one with these things. Robbing is an actually serious accusation, with heavily negative connotations. This is not really a case of hyperbole, but a case of just flat out accusatory tone of something that isn't true. Robbing implies violence/threat of violence in order to steal. \n Secondly, \"obvious abuse\" is kind of insulting anyone who actually likes this idea- and as you can see from these threads, there are people with different views who are legitimately interested in getting chromas, stating things like \"190 RP per chroma is cheap af\" as their opinion. They don't like to think others think they have been swindled or they are making a stupid decision. They want to pay a little extra to give lucian a blue coat. People are not being swindled here. They know EXACTLY what they are buying and they know the exact price they are buying it. \n So in this case, the way he is choosing to present his point doesn't come across as \"these skins are overpriced.\" It comes across as it an attack on anyone who thinks they are worth what they are priced. And he also implies/states that Riot is acting unethically by trying to make these sales.","Summary: people hate eachother based off of 5 second first impressions, zero got his first impression at the invitational \n EDIT: Although, I haven't heard anyone hating on zero in a long time....\n\nPost: started at the E3 invitational. I think it was largely driven by a lot of factors: \n \n Zero had \"played campy\" in order to survive the free for all rounds \n Zero was playing against hungrybox, who has a high command of respect among smashes \n Zero's appearance turned people off and they found his choice of style weird (scarf and whatnot) \n People felt like ZSS was too good and zero won by virtue of character chosen rather than skill \n \n And at first glimpse - I honestly wanted to jump on the hate bandwagon but mostly because I wanted the hero of jigglypuff to reign supreme and I wasn't familiar enough with brawl to know Zero. Also the scarf turned me off too until I learned that it carried sentimental value. And once you actually watch his stream he actually seems like a great genuine guy. \n Thing is, people we're mostly upset about #1 above. But in a FFA, its honestly the best strategy, its nintendo's fault for coming up with a set of tournament rules where aggressive play will make you lose. Funnily enough though, if you go back and watch the tournament, Hungrybox actually camped way more IMO.","Summary: watch again the mistakes made are understandable\n\nPost: its not that crazy. The play they made wasnt that bad. Varus had a good read on leona dodging her ult, which really wasnt that poorly made. Amumu's missed grab missed by the smallest amount possible. After amumu ulted it really did look like it was okay to kill blitz and get out. Blitz barely survived as well.","Summary: version of the review and pretend like that's all there was too it. \n At the end of the day its a simple joke to a lot of people, but to others its a way of invalidating anything she says by portraying the reviewer as dumb as nails\n\nPost: Oh, the review is awful. It's short and doesn't go into a lot of the features of the game and doesn't have a lot of solid points, and doesn't do a good job summarizing the positives and negatives. \n However, out of all the things the reviewer said, their strongest point is that pokemon had the opportunity to improve on one of the most repetitive parts of the game by increasing pokemon diversity and didn't take it. That's what's upsetting. It sounds like we're going to encounter a zillion wingulls and tentacruels when theres a pool of 80 water pokemon (in the first 3 gens) to pull from. \n It's clear the reviewer meant \"not enough pokemon diversity\" instead of \"too much water.\" Even then, its kind of unfair to take something from a \"","Summary: While all status moves could be classified as normal, some just make more sense being another type.\n\nPost: I was simply stating that certain status moves CANNOT affect all pokemon due to their typing. That makes sense right? Now, there are some moves like confuse ray, which is ghost, but still affects normal types. This also doesn't make any sense to me. But most status moves typing makes intuitive sense. You'd be confused if wilo-o-wisp was normal instead of fire, right? And there are some status moves that are unique to a type. Quiver dance can only be used by bugs, so it is bug type! Defend order is another example - bug type as it raises defense by calling to the aid of bees. Nasty plot is dark type - that also makes sense to me.","Summary: just ignore im dumb\n\nPost: I just realize how stupid my \"I think there's a good reason for that\" sounded. I meant there is good reason for him to want to be a support, not to afk. Supports play a HUGE factor in the outcome of the game, but say if a 2300 elo player is supporting its more difficult for him to carry than if he tops/mid/or adcs.","Summary: I cannot for the life of me figure out why esports and chess players are upset that people don't consider them athletes. They are simply different things.\n\nPost: Good for the international Olympics committee. But I think the majority of (at least, US citizens, I cannot speak for other countries) consider sports involving physical exertion. The only exception I can think of is Golf (which does involve more physical exertion than chess and esports). \n Don't get me wrong, chess has some serious levels of thought and good players should be recognized as masters of strategy and intelligence. But not as athletes. AND THAT IS FINE. Its merely a definition. I am not attacking chess players and esports players as not being as good as a person as athletes.","Summary: I really don't want this sub turning into /r/pokemon. I like how it has a high focus on the real competitive gaming aspect of smash.\n\nPost: Really? /r/pokemon seems extremely lax with what they allow as far as I can tell. \n From their rules section, they don't allow pictures of shiny pokemon, fusions, memes, and friend code trading/pokemon trading. \n To me it doesn't seem that restricting. They do allow for pretty much anything else. They seem to have a very high tolerance to shitposts (ie look at this pokemon card i had), and they love silly posts like [\"Omg you guys there's ladders in 3d now,\"]( and absolutely love repeat gifs of bellsprout shaking his junk and pikachu with a watering can. I frequent the subreddit too, I like a lot of their stuff, but none of it is really \"conversation\" starting in the slightest. It's more like stuff you can say \"oh, neat\" too but that's about it.","Summary: many people love blind pick.\n\nPost: im at high plat III mmr in ranked, and I assume my normal mmr is the same. \n I only remember one troll in a blind normal in the past 3 months. Some Lucian that purposefully fed because he tried to steal the jungler's red (our own jungler's red) during his first clear, after failing proceded to feed becasue we wouldn't let him carry us because we stole \"his jungle\" (he called ADC). \n This is trolling. What ISN'T Trolling is instalocking roles/champions. That's fair game in blind normals because there is no \"fair way\" to determine who gets what besides picking it first. If someone else is always quicker you just have to accept that. There are plenty of games where no one chooses anything for the first 10 seconds as well. \n and if two people instalock the same roll then one person is gonna have to try something unconventional, like ahri top. Or you know what? Double mid is undesirable, but as long as both people mid are trying to win who can really say it can't work? \n ALSO- its a great place to play unconventional things. I very much enjoy jungle blitzcrank, I play blind normals and no one yells at me for \"trolling\". Its not trolling because im trying to win but if I did it in ranked people would at the very least try to convince me to play something else.","Summary: This is a fucking awful idea that will only help spread hate\n\nPost: exactly. This is a place people will use to justify their hate of someone and not try to fix any behavioral issues. People will use this as a place to vent their frustration, and I feel like a lot of people who use this will be the most toxic among us. \n Additionally, hasn't anyone been flamed for doing something perfectly fine? For example, as jungler, you could get flamed by top for not ganking top, but you've done a great job setting up mid and bot/dragon. BUt that top person is so salty he didn't get any help and camped by the enemy that he throws the game and blames you. Then he comes to this site, sees someone else who wrote something like \"never helped me after repeatedly asking nicely to assist me top\" and then feels justified writing another negative review. \n Even now, take a look at a highly rated comment: \n What if split pushing is the best chance to victory? And what if everyone is on board except for ONE person who was just REALLY MAD at their fed zed (split pushing top) and got caught repeatedly, but blamed the person who wasn't there for the 4v5 teamfight?","Summary: I disagree.\n\nPost: Because it really isn't working as intended. Although they aren't \"channeling spells\" they still have a cast time. For every play made, Riot wants ways that you can counterplay. Normally you can use minions or your support to block the hooks for you. Thresh flashing with his hook meant a guaranteed connection if he did it right. There's no real way to position yourself to dodge the flash hook. \n They only way to \"counterplay it\" was to flash before he did- meaning you would flash (and then he would not). \n Thresh's example is probably the most extreme example of this because getting caught by one hook means your going to be stunned and pulled back for 1.5 sec, flayed back, and then boxed. \n Additionally, flash hooks are WAY easier to land then just a regular hook. Quite frankly, once the flash hook was discovered possible, it made thresh just an insanely powerful support.","Summary: yeah i think i could make contrary serpieror work on a team better than mega-S\n\nPost: Never said it would be unstoppable, I thought I was saying it in a jokey manner anyways. My last post is more about my disappointment that they could have given mega sceptile much, much more than they did. MUCH MUCH more. Access to more moves, a better ability, a better distribution of stats when it comes to the mega. Its not really about comparing it to an unobtainable hidden ability serperior. \n But I would say contrary serperior IS better than mega sceptile, even if it is extremely predictable... just from the sheer power it can gain in 1 move, let alone two. It leaves a lot to chance (90% accuracy playing with fire) but if you are lucky it will work. After 1 leaf storm it essentially gains neutral coverage over all those types that resist it. \n Keep in mind too that we're comparing a non-mega Serperior to a Mega sceptile, I feel like the mega SHOULD be much better considering they are supposed to be comparable to begin with (BOTH pure type grass starters). \n Finally, Serperior is bulkier than mega-S, and can even be faster (choice scarf) or you could go all out attack sauce with choice specs. I mean, hey, you'll only be using one move anyways! \n Come to think of it, Calm minded boosts baton passed to a choice scarf contrary serpieror would be nigh unstoppable without something like a dragonite that 4X resists it.","Summary: He's just stating things without their being any real point to them. He brings up no items - no conclusive point\nHe brings up no real stage selection - He seems upset that competitive players don't want to play on Brinstar/Mute City. Again, he's analyzing the competitive scene, not melee. Why should we care what the competitive scene does? \nHe fails to convince me the game is unaccessible to everyone, and overall takes too long to not make solid points. \n EDIT: The only point he makes that the game isn't perfect. But the only real example he gives behind this conclusion are that the characters themselves aren't balanced, which he only ends at the very end of the video. Nothing he brought up previously supports this point.\n\nPost: okay, i turned it back on for another 5 minutes. \n I'm guess I really dislike the presentation of the arguments. Too much time doing kooky stuff. I don't want to listen to kirby/fox/falco banter. \n He also seems to be tripped on \"does this make it accessible to everyone?\" \n I haven't seen him make one valid point to why it's not. It is just as accessible as any other smash bros before or after it will be. He brings up \"L-Cancelling\" and \"wave-dashing.\" He says they aren't easy to do, therefore melee is harder to \"just pick up and play.\" These issues only really apply to competitive melee. When we played it for the first 5 years casually, NONE of my friends knew wtf wave-dashing was, including myself, and we L-cancelled maybe 1/50th of the time. These weren't real factors in enjoying the game. They are not present in casual play, nor are they necessary to play the game at all . If you are a beginning smash player, and your opponent can CONSISTENTLY pull off these moves against you, guess what? You are going to get creamed whether or not he uses them because your a newbie vs a pro. \n He also brings up that the fact that competitive melee doesn't use items and the lack of stages as cons.... but these aren't issues with melee, they are problems with the competitive scene. He's getting the competitive scene mixed up with the game itself, and that's what I really dislike about this video. The game itself doesn't ban stages, only serious tournaments do! And do we really need to tell him why we want randomness eliminated from a game of skill?","Summary: Articuno itsnt really that cheap in actual pvp. \n PS WHY NOT CLOYSTER???\n\nPost: Don't know why people would down vote you! While its true articuno is technically \"legendary\" it still only has base stats of 580, and suboptimal typing. It has a total of 4 weaknesses (somewhat high), including a 4X weakness (rock). Commonly used moves like stealth rocks pretty much destroy any chances Articuno has of leaving NU tier.","Summary: Try to think about the others, its not just you on this site.\n\nPost: I think you missed the point of my post. I'm saying WHY reposts are consistently on the front page. Because the majority of people HAVEN'T seen this before. You have to reddit a shit ton in order to take it all in - even if you are only monitoring the front page. Why is reposting considered a bad thing if its still getting voted to the top of the page? It means more people want to see it than have already seen it - otherwise it simply wouldn't get the upvotes. Not everyone has the same experience here. Personally, I LOVE reposts! And the only reason I know I do - is because I read the comments. At least 60% of the time I'm looking at posts for the first time - someone else has commented its a repost. Not to me its not. I consider myself a decent visitor to reddit. I'll spend a good amount of time on reddit at least every other day - but things are being posted on days I'm not here. \n So sure. Posters can use the search bar. But what if they do and they find out it is a repost.... but one only 20 or so people voted on? And it has 12 upvotes and 8 downvotes because it never got huge??? Should they refrain from posting? I'd say they should give it a shot if they truly believe its interesting. This site would suffer greatly if literally no reposts we're allowed. I'm sick of seeing complaints over them just because the vocal minority (the commenting community) has seen them before.","Summary: Wolf and Lucas are unique characters, not clones. And that's one of the reasons people liked them so much.\n\nPost: you know, when brawl was released, i thought to myself \"oh boy, 3 space animals. How fantastic.\" The similarity in their final smashes really solidified my impression that they were clones. \n Only now do i realize how much lucas and wolf were ACTUALLY different from ness and fox/falco. Think back at wolf in particular - did ANY of his A moves match up with foxes? Maybe his f-tilt, i can't remember, but his smashes, jabs, aerials were all different. Also, his specials were more \"inspired\" by fox/falcos and can be considered clone-esque, but they are different. Completely different blaster with new animations for regular b, his up B is different. Now his Side B and down B are definitely very close to how it worked with fox, but they still offer separate utility and different animations. \n Lucas is more similar to ness, but most of his A moves were different.","Summary: If someone wanted to make an ACTUALLY ACCURATE show (origins was way better) that appealed to a more adult audience I'd love it.\n\nPost: I am one of the few people that probably visits this subreddit regularly but just really hates the anime. I used to rush home from school to watch pokemon as a kid when i was in grade school during its first season. There was an episode where ashe was fighting a golem with his bulbasaur and SWITCHED IT OUT WITH CHARMANDER. 10 year old me was like NOOOO DONT DO THAT THATS THE DUMBEST THING YOU COULD POSSIBLY DO. It was already bad enough that a bulbasuar was fighting a golem, because there is very likely a big enough level difference that typing didn't matter. \n But then - something even worse happened - the charmander WON the fight with like 1 flamethrower. \n I could maybe forgive ashe for just being an idiot, but I couldn't forgive the show for just being so incredibly inaccurate. This wasn't pokemon. This was something else.","Summary: I WANT MY LASERS TO KILL PEOPLE.\n\nPost: Hey fellas. \n So, pretty much what the title says. Who (specific champions OR lanes) do you think is hurt or helped most by the changes. \n I for one am really worried about my all time favorite ap mid- Lux. Here's a look at my standard build currently: \n \n boots (sorc shoes) \n Athene's unholy grail \n Deathcap \n Void Staff \n Hourglass \n Where ever the night takes me (situational) \n \n This build currently costs 13K (without item 6) \n Before I dive into the details- I want to tell you what I value most in lux- High AP, Mana Regen, Cooldown Reduction, and Spell penetration. (I am not going to look at Anything else stat wise) \n Currently my runes/masteries provide me with roughly: \n 5% extra ap\n21 flat ap \n4% CDR\n9 magic pen \n I have assumed this part will stay fundamentally the same. I have not looked extensively at runes/mastery changes. Please tell me if something significant changes the following analysis: \n Now , taking a look at the changes, If i built the first 5 items here, I would have a build that cost 550 LESS gold , BUT also provides 86 LESS ap . \n Additionally, the spell pen% is different. in S2, lux gets 46% spell pen void staff/masteries. in S3, she will get 40% spell pen from runes and masteries. However, the flat spell pen is way more effective in S3. \n Considering these changes, I feel like lux will have a much more difficult time bursting even squishies down. Maybe I can adjust my build, but I am convinced Athenes is the best first item on her, and Deathcap comes next. Both of these items have been gimped significantly in AP. At the very least, Lux's early game will be weaker (it was never that strong to begin with).","Summary: summary): BUILD A DAMN TELEPORTER ENTRANCE OUTSIDE THE SPAWN, thank you\n\nPost: Hello there engineers. Listen, I love what your capable of- and normally I love seeing you on my team. But I just finished a streak of games on thundermountain where at all times I had at least 4 engies on my team. It was clear the vast majority of them still don't know some basics- and I've seen this a lot recently. If you wish to be credit to team and not add to your team's headache, take a good look at this list. \n Common mistake #1: YOU FORGOT TO BUILD A DAMN TELEPORTER ENTRANCE \n So I'm giving friendly reminders to the engies that I don't see any entrances. Its midway through setup, so thats understandable that they don't come rushing back. But, as we lose the first area and begin setup on the second, not one of them remembers a teleporter entrance- even after I remind them again. \n Engies, I've got news for you. Your teleporter is the number 1 priority during setup. Know whats better than a sentry gun? A teammate warping to your location every 3 seconds. Additionally, this also ensures your team will help your base! That spy is gonna have a much harder time with a constant supply of teammates at your side. Plus, during setup, if you are quick, you will have enough time to get a level 3 tele up AND a level 3 sentry up. But please start with the teleporter. And there is simply no excuse for not dropping that entrance down. \n Common mistake number 2: You build your sentry gun 5 INCHES away from another sentry gun \n I see this all the time. One engineer gets a great sentry spot, and another engineer becomes his number 1 fan so he copies him as much as he can by building his sentry as close as physically can to the existing sentry. This is problematic for several reasons, but most of all it's because the seconds sentry is literally doing nothing- sure, its shooting at all the same people, and getting assists, but anything it touches would have died anyway to the first gun. It is much smarter to set up in a spot that complements the existing gun- if the first gun is vunerable to enemy fire, maybe put your sentry in a place that can protect it. Lastly, as someone who plays a lot of demo, I can't tell you how easy it is for me to blow up everything in one go. Sentries placed next to eachother will fall quickly to the same things. \n Common mistake number 3 : You build all of your buildings outside of spawn and outside the range of helping the team \n This seems like a good idea- and you see people doing it all the time. You can upgrade all your stuff with it being out of harms way and get it to level three quickly. I'm here to tell you there is something much better- building your base where you actually want it. There is a HUGE risk by the time you move out from the spawn and reach your desired destination, it won't be safe anymore. And good engineers know they can make that level 3 sentry gun (after building their teleporter, of course) just as quickly with a big pack of metal. There is almost ALWAYS a big pack of metal next to good sentry spots (with the exception of back and forth control point maps, like badlands). In fact, these engineers will complete their bases quicker than the spawn building engineers can carry all of there equipment to the right place. Also- any time you spend carrying equipment you are moving slower: not to mention that your equipment is NOT AT ALL USEFUL in transit. \n Believe me, you can get your base built faster and in position if you build it where you want it \n Common mistake number 4: You automatically assume we will lose the first point \n Here's an example of what I mean: Playing badwater on defense- three engineers but no sentries insight. Well, I thinks to meself, maybe they are on their slow way carrying their gear up from spawn. It goes into overtime over the first checkpoint- we barely give it up after I die. After respawn, on my way back, I see three engineers on the roof overlooking the second checkpoint with sentries up. facepalm . \n There are several times that engineers will build during setup at the second point. What kind of attitude is that? Grow some backbone, you damn wimp! Don't just try to win, TRY TO DESTROY YOUR ENEMY. MAKE HIM FEEL THE SHAME OF FAILING TO CAP THAT FIRST POINT. Also, building those sentries up at point 1, at a minimum, delays them and buys you time. And time in TF2 is a very valuable commodity. I've seen an engi set up right next to the second point in a map before, and stayed there guarding his stuff for the whole match. We actually held them off at first point. So for the entire 8 minute game, this engineer accumulated 0 points. Was that fun for him? To do nothing for that long? Don't become this person. \n Afterthought- I realize a lot of you probably only looked to see what other people are doing and copied that. This is why a lot of bad habits started forming- habits that were squished out quickly before the F2P surge. I realize some people will probably disagree with mistake number 3- but I beg that you try my method before you go knocking it. You might just find out that its the right thing to do. \n Please tell me if this is helpful- also please do add any common mistakes I may have forgotten. \n Cheers to the engineer- A worthy class!","Summary: Make BV's passive an active to make it a more desirable item choice.\n\nPost: Banshee's Veil (especially) in season 1 was one of the most seen MR items in the game. It wasn't uncommon to see it on 7 or 8 of the 10 players. Recently, I'm surprised when I see it more than once in 7 or 8 games. Since then, the MR value of banshee's has been reduced, but the passive was updated to make the \"Veil\" appear more quickly. The item is technically still \"Gold Efficient\" (according to the [wiki]( So why do we not see the Veil more often? \n I'm no real pro (currently sitting at Gold IV) but I have a couple ideas on why this is. \n -- Firstly , the real allure to choose banshee's veil over other MR items lies in the power of the passive. However, it's pretty easy to lose this passive to long range pokes like varus Q's, kogmaw ults, or ashe volleys. As a result, there are several times you don't have the veil available during the actual team fight to block what you would like to block. Even if it is up, the enemies choose which spell does get blocked. So much of the time \n -- Secondly , while the item is technically gold efficient, it is BARELY so. With a cost of 2520G, its technically worth 2556G. Congratulations! You've saved enough money to buy a health pot with all your frugal spending, with 1G to spare. Additionally, you've now got 600G more mana, which is certainly not a bad thing, but you may never actually end up needing those extra mana reserves. Also, the longer the game goes on, the less valuable additional mana becomes for a majority of the champions. \n -- Thirdly , I think [ Spirit Visage ]( is good. I mean, REALLY good. It provides 200 less health, but 5 more MR and 20% cooldown while costing 320G less. I'd definitely make that tradeoff, and I often find myself buying this item regardless if I can utilize the passive or not. 20% CD is incredibly good, and much more valuable than 300 mana and 200 health if you consider its price. \n So, how do we improve banshee's veil? \n Personally, I think it should be focused on what it really is supposed to do: Either block an extremely powerful spell (such as a Karthus ultimate) or to block a devastating CC (such as a Malphite ult). I suggest giving banshee's veil an active rather than a passive that works the exact same as Sivir's spell shield. I'd suggest have the passive last 2 seconds and block the first incoming attack and be on a 90 second cd. I feel like this would provide a real reason to choose banshee's veil over spirit visage. \n I'm not saying BV is a bad item. It's definitely good, it's just that there are better choices at the moment.","Summary: Please make LCS at a time where people can watch it live\n\nPost: Hey guys, \n I'm really curious as to how they decided the schedule for LCS. I may be missing something big here, but for NA, I simply can't see any advantages to starting at 1pm on a weekday. To be brutally honest, I can think of several reasons this is a horrible choice (assuming that having a large amount live viewership is the primary goal). \n First of all, the majority of kids and adults are not available at this time. Kids are in school, adults are at work, and I really don't think too many stay at home parents are tuning in at this time. And while some people may be able to watch at work, most cannot (or shouldn't be). This is a pretty big indicator in my eyes that live viewership numbers are a fraction of their potential. \n Now, I know I can just go and watch all these VODs spoiler free, which is a phenomenal feature, but i have to say, knowing these games have already happened is a huge deterrent to watching them. That's just how I am, and I know a lot of my friends feel the same way. So I feel like Riot's really missing out here. \n I really want esports to reach the fullest potential it can, and I just can't come up with a good reason on why 1pm on a weekday would be a good way to start. \n If there's something im missing id love to know!","Summary: Give Chespin a badass final form with strong base stats and moveset and great secondary type (im thinking ROCK). Or at the very least, don't make his stats weaker just because. \n PS . Things I expect to see as counterarguments: \n \n BUT TBOJ, some grass starters evolve at level 32 not 36. Response: WHOPPDEE FREAKING DOOOOOoooo. \n \n BUT TBOJ, energy ball is comparable to shadowball, crunch, and flash cannon, not thunderbolt. Response: TAKE YOUR VALID COUNTERPOINTS ELSEWHERE, EARTH HATER. \n \n \n Edits: I am not so good at reddit formatting, I tried to make it more spacey and readable.\n\nPost: Okay, here me out here, because I took time not working to write this today. I also can't check the subreddit everyday, and don't know about sub-sub reddits so redirect me if you think this belongs elsewhere. \n BUT: Nintendo has it out for grass Pokemon, especially starters . \n Argument 1 : From a total base stats perspective, Grass Starters Have in ALL generations received either the lowest base stats or tied with the lowest base stats. What gives? Why Only in Gen V did all three starters share the same total (528)??? Why wouldn't it be equal every time? \n Argument 2 : Typing. Grass has arguably the WORST typing out of all the pokemon. Let's just look at the basic numbers here: \n Grass moves are NOT VERY EFFECTIVE against SEVEN out of the SEVENTEEN different types of Pokemon. This is the largest amount of any type! This is out of control! Roughly 40% of the time your STAB move isn't going be as effective. That seems a little high. \n Grass moves are SUPER EFFECTIVE against 3 types (Which a good number, so I don't have any real complaints there). Water is a good thing to be super effective against. HOWEVER, if you think that water pokemon your setting up to solar beam isn’t about to ice beam you in the face, well, keep dreaming. \n Grass pokemon are weak against FIVE out of the Seventeen different types of Pokemon. This means its tied with Rock for Most weaknesses. I mean, COME ON! It already has the record for most not very effective moves! What the heck Nintendo!!!! \n Grass Pokemon are resistant to four types. This is a good number, but the weaknesses greatly outnumber the strengths here. Plus how worthwhile is a rock type resistance. Lets be honest, that rock slide or stone edge misses 80% of the time anyways. \n These numbers are just plain worse than Water and Fire. \n Side note: grass is THE ONLY THING weak to poison! WHAT? I can imagine the decision making behind this now. \"Oh shit Mr. Miyamoto, we forgot to make poison super effective against something.\" \"Ah, yes.... well... why not grass? Its weak against everything else anyway LOLOLOLOL.\" \n Argument 3 : Movesets. I feel like Grass, especially in early generations, have comparably way worse moves. Case and point: Vine whip. ARE YOU KIDDING ME? 10 PP for a 35 power move that doesn't have any side effects? Ember can burn shit and has a PP of 25 and 5 more power! It's not so much this particular case that upsets me, just the thinking/methodology behind it. There's really no reason that it should be weaker AND have less resources AND have no secondary effect. Furthermore, Gameshark INCREASED its base PP to 15 in Gen IV. Most of you would think this is a good fix, but again, what was the logic? It's still weak and has less PP than other comparable moves (watergun and ember). They recongnized it was objectively worse and even after the fix it remains objectively worse. Additionally, they added Energy Ball in gen IV which in my eyes should have been on the same level as thunderbolt, icebeam, flamethrower and surf (aka 95 power special attack with 100% accuracy), but instead they gave it an 80 power. \n Argument 4 : Meganium. Have you seen this abomination? Gross. I don't see nearly as much love for Meganium as I do for Fearligator and Typhlosion. Moveset is horrendous. I know its supposed to be a defensive pokemon, which actually might work if it wasn’t for Argument #2. \n Now, that being said, the reason I am so revved up about this is because I love grass type Pokemon. Venasuar, Toreterra, Ferrothorn, and Abomasnow are among my very favorites. The important thing is \n ITS NOT TOO LATE TO GIVE GRASS THE UPPER HAND (JUST ONCE PLEASE)! \n Its time to give not just good stats, but the best stats to a grass starter! Also, some sweet moves. Regardless, I've already made my choice. I'm fully expecting to choose Chespin and have him be the weakest of the three with the worst moveset, but I will love him more than you posers with your froakies and firefoxes. \n Also, theres a good opportunity here If to balance out the typing weaknesses if LIGHT and SOUND become types. I feel like Grass should have an immunity against light (giving them a real valuable asset) or even heal from light moves, and hopefully sound will be not very effective against them (grass doesn't have ears! Yes, let's use that logic).","Summary: While Alistar provides good CC and does/should do little damage, I still think he does too little damage for what his kit offers. This is a small buff to his damage (through his passive) only while his ult is active.\n\nPost: Hey guys, \n Just a couple of ideas to buff alistar, who is [currently listed with a win ratio of 44.29%, or 118th highest out of 123 champions]( \n Alistar certainly has his place on his team and I don't think he's necessarily ALL that weak per se, but that doesn't mean he couldn't use a little bit of love. Alistar is primarly a utility support, providing knockback, AOE knockup, a small heal, and great tower dive potential post 6. \n Given his strengths, it would make sense that he does not provide all that much damage. As is right now, he provides almost no damage! So- while I completely agree he shouldn't be dishing out a great amount of damage, I think some small buffs in this area would at least help him out a little. \n My thought is to either focus on a small change to the Ult/passive or both. A lot of supports can use their ults both offensively and defensively - Nami, thresh, leona, morgana, and others can use it to escape (but also to trap), but Alistar's is a little more defensive in nature. True, his ult gives him attack damage, but good ADCs who kite aren't going to let you just sit there and auto attack them as you please. Its difficult to utilize it offensively as your opponents are running away in lane. And while you can use it \"offensively\" to tower dive, its more about the damage reduction than the damage supplied by alistar. \n So, I think the best way to just let his ult feel like its making more of an impact is to do the following: While alistar's ult is active, Trample (the passive) gains a range of 50, 75, 100 and does 50%, 75%, 100% more damage to enemy champions. Additionally, trample will be active as long as unbreakable will is active. Keep in mind, a 50% boost at level 6 would mean 18 magic damage per second with a 350 range AOE effect. This range is still extremely small (to give you a sense of how small,\nirelia's E has a range of 475). He'll still have to be basically on top of enemies to do damage to them. \n This will give alistars the feeling that they are actually doing something after ulting during an All-in. Obviously, its just a suggestion, but I think it would a nice little something for all the alistar players out there. I just feel like champions like leona and thresh completely outshine alistar right now. I think this is a good change that may not be all the love he needs, but why not try to tweak him a little bit. I know one of Riot's concerns is always the potential return of jungle alistar, so I tried to give him a little love in a way that wont buff his clear (unless you really wanna spend that ult getting red, i guess).","Summary: While Alistar provides good CC and does/should do little damage, I still think he does too little damage for what his kit offers. This is a small buff to his damage (through his passive) only while his ult is active. \n Also, full disclosure, I did try posting this idea a couple days ago, however, literally minutes after posting it DJ sona was announced so basically no one saw it- trying again.\n\nPost: Hey Fellas, \n Just a couple of ideas to buff alistar, who is currently listed with a win ratio of 43.67%, or 118th highest out of 123 champions.\nAlistar certainly has his place on his team and I don't think he's necessarily ALL that weak per se, but that doesn't mean he couldn't use a little bit of love. Alistar is primarly a utility support, providing knockback, AOE knockup, a small heal, and great tower dive potential post 6. \n Given his strengths, it would make sense that he does not provide all that much damage. As is right now, he provides almost no damage! So- while I completely agree he shouldn't be dishing out a great amount of damage, I think some small buffs in this area would at least help him out a little. \n My thought is to either focus on a small change to the Ult/passive or both. A lot of supports can use their ults both offensively and defensively - Nami, thresh, leona, morgana, and others can use it to escape (but also to trap), but Alistar's is a little more defensive in nature. True, his ult gives him attack damage, but good ADCs who kite aren't going to let you just sit there and auto attack them as you please. Its difficult to utilize it offensively as your opponents are running away in lane. And while you can use it \"offensively\" to tower dive, its more about the damage reduction than the damage supplied by alistar. \n So, I think the best way to just let his ult feel like its making more of an impact is to do the following: While alistar's ult is active, Trample (the passive) gains a range of 50, 75, 100 and does 50%, 75%, 100% more damage to enemy champions. Additionally, trample will be active as long as unbreakable will is active. Keep in mind, a 50% boost at level 6 would mean 18 magic damage per second with a 350 range AOE effect. This range is still extremely small (to give you a sense of how small, irelia's E has a range of 475). He'll still have to be basically on top of enemies to do damage to them. \n Another reason I think this would be good is that encourages alistars to hit their combos. If you wanted to do the most damage with alistar and utilize his passive, you would activate his skills 3 seconds apart from eachother. However, one of his strongest initiates is the W, Q combo, and you don't exactly have time to wait 3 seconds inbetween them to pull it off. Alistar is a champion that tends to fire off his spells immediately after the other, and his passive just doesn't reflect that behavior. \n This will give alistars the feeling that they are actually doing something after ulting during an All-in. Obviously, its just a suggestion, but I think it would a nice little something for all the alistar players out there. I just feel like champions like leona and thresh completely outshine alistar right now. I think this is a good change that may not be all the love he needs, but why not try to tweak him a little bit. I know one of Riot's concerns is always the potential return of jungle alistar, so I tried to give him a little love in a way that wont buff his clear (unless you really wanna spend that ult getting red, i guess).","Summary: CALL AND MAKE SURE THEY ARE DOING THE MIDNIGHT RELEASE FOR 3DS and not just Wii U !!!\n\nPost: Guys, \n I just dodged a very disappointing bullet through sheer luck. I called a nearby gamestop asking if they'd be doing a midnight release for the new smash brothers coming out. They said yes, they were planning on it! He advised me to come to the store before then to preorder and ensure I get a copy reserved. \n Well, I typically get out of work late, so I called back becasue I realized I couldn't make it there during business hours this week to see if i could pre-order over phone. Got a different person who clarified they WOULD NOT be doing a midnight release for the 3DS, but would for the Wii U.","Summary: If yasuo is going to scale well into the lategame, I’d like to see something that makes it more difficult for him to lane efficiently.\n\nPost: I know a ton of people are complaining about yasuo; and a lot of people will tell you they think he’s broken in pretty much every way (wind wall is too strong, he’s got two passives, he has unlimited dashes). After facing a ton of them mid lane, I was inclined to agree with all of these, but mostly out of frustration rather than thinking it through. Sure he’s damn strong, but what is really the most frustrating thing about him? Is there anything thats truly broken about him? \n I really think that yasuo was intended to be a mid or late game monster, with a weak laning phase. The fact that he’s melee and that it takes a lot more time to ramp up his shield and is harder to dash around faster early game reinforce this idea. However, people have discovered he actually can have a really good and safe laning phase if played mid lane. And he can do it by simply pushing as hard as he can all of the time. \n This to me is what makes him so frustrating. Yasuo spams e and q and just continuously fires whirlwinds on the creepline. A couple q’s and a whirlwind and the entire creepline is gone, while any meaningful damage is mitigated by his passive, health potions and a doran’s shield. \n Against certain midlaners – particularly anyone whose waveclear relies on mana (extreme examples include lux and brand), is going to have a hard time doing ANYTHING against him. They are too busy trying to push back so they don’t lose half the farm to their tower. That’s extremely frustrating to me… being confined to the tower and watching my mana bar get depleted. \nWhat I’d really like to see is significant increases to CDs – if he’s only using abilities to hit minions – or significantly reduced damage his abilities do to minions. Maybe give him ezreal q treatment but only applies if you hit champions. This would at least decrease his pushing power significantly, and other midlaners would be able to actually farm. \n Now keep in mind, I am a gold level player. I am not diamond or anything, but I have had an incredibly hard time combating this strategy without immense help from the jungler. But if that jungler is someone like amumu or lee sin who relies on a skillshot projectile to gap close, theres not a lot you can do while you are spending all your mana and cds just to farm under tower. Any advice on facing this guy would be appreciated, but I really think he just needs to have his pushing power toned down."],"string":"[\n \"Summary: Tone is important, word choice is important, and Riot isn't robbing anyone, and you aren't a complete idiot if you think the chromas are worth it, thats just your choice\\n\\nPost: Okay, This is a really long response but i started typing and just didnt stop so sorry for that. But this whole situation has brought out some rather strong opinions and it looks like both sides there are people who are mentioning the same points but are getting downvoted/upvoted rather differently. \\n He's being downvoted not because of his opinion but because of presentation. People seem to forget the importance and meaning behind words these days. \\n He's upset that these pseudo skins cost as much as they do. He has every right to voice his opinion about this. And they are overpriced- I agree with him. I also agree with him they take very little effort to make. \\n But instead of simply stating these points (all legitimate concerns) he kinda goes too far by saying things like Riot is \\\"robbing\\\" us with these things. That this is \\\"obvious abuse.\\\" \\n Okay, first of all, I hope you can see that Riot is clearly robbing no one with these things. Robbing is an actually serious accusation, with heavily negative connotations. This is not really a case of hyperbole, but a case of just flat out accusatory tone of something that isn't true. Robbing implies violence/threat of violence in order to steal. \\n Secondly, \\\"obvious abuse\\\" is kind of insulting anyone who actually likes this idea- and as you can see from these threads, there are people with different views who are legitimately interested in getting chromas, stating things like \\\"190 RP per chroma is cheap af\\\" as their opinion. They don't like to think others think they have been swindled or they are making a stupid decision. They want to pay a little extra to give lucian a blue coat. People are not being swindled here. They know EXACTLY what they are buying and they know the exact price they are buying it. \\n So in this case, the way he is choosing to present his point doesn't come across as \\\"these skins are overpriced.\\\" It comes across as it an attack on anyone who thinks they are worth what they are priced. And he also implies/states that Riot is acting unethically by trying to make these sales.\",\n \"Summary: people hate eachother based off of 5 second first impressions, zero got his first impression at the invitational \\n EDIT: Although, I haven't heard anyone hating on zero in a long time....\\n\\nPost: started at the E3 invitational. I think it was largely driven by a lot of factors: \\n \\n Zero had \\\"played campy\\\" in order to survive the free for all rounds \\n Zero was playing against hungrybox, who has a high command of respect among smashes \\n Zero's appearance turned people off and they found his choice of style weird (scarf and whatnot) \\n People felt like ZSS was too good and zero won by virtue of character chosen rather than skill \\n \\n And at first glimpse - I honestly wanted to jump on the hate bandwagon but mostly because I wanted the hero of jigglypuff to reign supreme and I wasn't familiar enough with brawl to know Zero. Also the scarf turned me off too until I learned that it carried sentimental value. And once you actually watch his stream he actually seems like a great genuine guy. \\n Thing is, people we're mostly upset about #1 above. But in a FFA, its honestly the best strategy, its nintendo's fault for coming up with a set of tournament rules where aggressive play will make you lose. Funnily enough though, if you go back and watch the tournament, Hungrybox actually camped way more IMO.\",\n \"Summary: watch again the mistakes made are understandable\\n\\nPost: its not that crazy. The play they made wasnt that bad. Varus had a good read on leona dodging her ult, which really wasnt that poorly made. Amumu's missed grab missed by the smallest amount possible. After amumu ulted it really did look like it was okay to kill blitz and get out. Blitz barely survived as well.\",\n \"Summary: version of the review and pretend like that's all there was too it. \\n At the end of the day its a simple joke to a lot of people, but to others its a way of invalidating anything she says by portraying the reviewer as dumb as nails\\n\\nPost: Oh, the review is awful. It's short and doesn't go into a lot of the features of the game and doesn't have a lot of solid points, and doesn't do a good job summarizing the positives and negatives. \\n However, out of all the things the reviewer said, their strongest point is that pokemon had the opportunity to improve on one of the most repetitive parts of the game by increasing pokemon diversity and didn't take it. That's what's upsetting. It sounds like we're going to encounter a zillion wingulls and tentacruels when theres a pool of 80 water pokemon (in the first 3 gens) to pull from. \\n It's clear the reviewer meant \\\"not enough pokemon diversity\\\" instead of \\\"too much water.\\\" Even then, its kind of unfair to take something from a \\\"\",\n \"Summary: While all status moves could be classified as normal, some just make more sense being another type.\\n\\nPost: I was simply stating that certain status moves CANNOT affect all pokemon due to their typing. That makes sense right? Now, there are some moves like confuse ray, which is ghost, but still affects normal types. This also doesn't make any sense to me. But most status moves typing makes intuitive sense. You'd be confused if wilo-o-wisp was normal instead of fire, right? And there are some status moves that are unique to a type. Quiver dance can only be used by bugs, so it is bug type! Defend order is another example - bug type as it raises defense by calling to the aid of bees. Nasty plot is dark type - that also makes sense to me.\",\n \"Summary: just ignore im dumb\\n\\nPost: I just realize how stupid my \\\"I think there's a good reason for that\\\" sounded. I meant there is good reason for him to want to be a support, not to afk. Supports play a HUGE factor in the outcome of the game, but say if a 2300 elo player is supporting its more difficult for him to carry than if he tops/mid/or adcs.\",\n \"Summary: I cannot for the life of me figure out why esports and chess players are upset that people don't consider them athletes. They are simply different things.\\n\\nPost: Good for the international Olympics committee. But I think the majority of (at least, US citizens, I cannot speak for other countries) consider sports involving physical exertion. The only exception I can think of is Golf (which does involve more physical exertion than chess and esports). \\n Don't get me wrong, chess has some serious levels of thought and good players should be recognized as masters of strategy and intelligence. But not as athletes. AND THAT IS FINE. Its merely a definition. I am not attacking chess players and esports players as not being as good as a person as athletes.\",\n \"Summary: I really don't want this sub turning into /r/pokemon. I like how it has a high focus on the real competitive gaming aspect of smash.\\n\\nPost: Really? /r/pokemon seems extremely lax with what they allow as far as I can tell. \\n From their rules section, they don't allow pictures of shiny pokemon, fusions, memes, and friend code trading/pokemon trading. \\n To me it doesn't seem that restricting. They do allow for pretty much anything else. They seem to have a very high tolerance to shitposts (ie look at this pokemon card i had), and they love silly posts like [\\\"Omg you guys there's ladders in 3d now,\\\"]( and absolutely love repeat gifs of bellsprout shaking his junk and pikachu with a watering can. I frequent the subreddit too, I like a lot of their stuff, but none of it is really \\\"conversation\\\" starting in the slightest. It's more like stuff you can say \\\"oh, neat\\\" too but that's about it.\",\n \"Summary: many people love blind pick.\\n\\nPost: im at high plat III mmr in ranked, and I assume my normal mmr is the same. \\n I only remember one troll in a blind normal in the past 3 months. Some Lucian that purposefully fed because he tried to steal the jungler's red (our own jungler's red) during his first clear, after failing proceded to feed becasue we wouldn't let him carry us because we stole \\\"his jungle\\\" (he called ADC). \\n This is trolling. What ISN'T Trolling is instalocking roles/champions. That's fair game in blind normals because there is no \\\"fair way\\\" to determine who gets what besides picking it first. If someone else is always quicker you just have to accept that. There are plenty of games where no one chooses anything for the first 10 seconds as well. \\n and if two people instalock the same roll then one person is gonna have to try something unconventional, like ahri top. Or you know what? Double mid is undesirable, but as long as both people mid are trying to win who can really say it can't work? \\n ALSO- its a great place to play unconventional things. I very much enjoy jungle blitzcrank, I play blind normals and no one yells at me for \\\"trolling\\\". Its not trolling because im trying to win but if I did it in ranked people would at the very least try to convince me to play something else.\",\n \"Summary: This is a fucking awful idea that will only help spread hate\\n\\nPost: exactly. This is a place people will use to justify their hate of someone and not try to fix any behavioral issues. People will use this as a place to vent their frustration, and I feel like a lot of people who use this will be the most toxic among us. \\n Additionally, hasn't anyone been flamed for doing something perfectly fine? For example, as jungler, you could get flamed by top for not ganking top, but you've done a great job setting up mid and bot/dragon. BUt that top person is so salty he didn't get any help and camped by the enemy that he throws the game and blames you. Then he comes to this site, sees someone else who wrote something like \\\"never helped me after repeatedly asking nicely to assist me top\\\" and then feels justified writing another negative review. \\n Even now, take a look at a highly rated comment: \\n What if split pushing is the best chance to victory? And what if everyone is on board except for ONE person who was just REALLY MAD at their fed zed (split pushing top) and got caught repeatedly, but blamed the person who wasn't there for the 4v5 teamfight?\",\n \"Summary: I disagree.\\n\\nPost: Because it really isn't working as intended. Although they aren't \\\"channeling spells\\\" they still have a cast time. For every play made, Riot wants ways that you can counterplay. Normally you can use minions or your support to block the hooks for you. Thresh flashing with his hook meant a guaranteed connection if he did it right. There's no real way to position yourself to dodge the flash hook. \\n They only way to \\\"counterplay it\\\" was to flash before he did- meaning you would flash (and then he would not). \\n Thresh's example is probably the most extreme example of this because getting caught by one hook means your going to be stunned and pulled back for 1.5 sec, flayed back, and then boxed. \\n Additionally, flash hooks are WAY easier to land then just a regular hook. Quite frankly, once the flash hook was discovered possible, it made thresh just an insanely powerful support.\",\n \"Summary: yeah i think i could make contrary serpieror work on a team better than mega-S\\n\\nPost: Never said it would be unstoppable, I thought I was saying it in a jokey manner anyways. My last post is more about my disappointment that they could have given mega sceptile much, much more than they did. MUCH MUCH more. Access to more moves, a better ability, a better distribution of stats when it comes to the mega. Its not really about comparing it to an unobtainable hidden ability serperior. \\n But I would say contrary serperior IS better than mega sceptile, even if it is extremely predictable... just from the sheer power it can gain in 1 move, let alone two. It leaves a lot to chance (90% accuracy playing with fire) but if you are lucky it will work. After 1 leaf storm it essentially gains neutral coverage over all those types that resist it. \\n Keep in mind too that we're comparing a non-mega Serperior to a Mega sceptile, I feel like the mega SHOULD be much better considering they are supposed to be comparable to begin with (BOTH pure type grass starters). \\n Finally, Serperior is bulkier than mega-S, and can even be faster (choice scarf) or you could go all out attack sauce with choice specs. I mean, hey, you'll only be using one move anyways! \\n Come to think of it, Calm minded boosts baton passed to a choice scarf contrary serpieror would be nigh unstoppable without something like a dragonite that 4X resists it.\",\n \"Summary: He's just stating things without their being any real point to them. He brings up no items - no conclusive point\\nHe brings up no real stage selection - He seems upset that competitive players don't want to play on Brinstar/Mute City. Again, he's analyzing the competitive scene, not melee. Why should we care what the competitive scene does? \\nHe fails to convince me the game is unaccessible to everyone, and overall takes too long to not make solid points. \\n EDIT: The only point he makes that the game isn't perfect. But the only real example he gives behind this conclusion are that the characters themselves aren't balanced, which he only ends at the very end of the video. Nothing he brought up previously supports this point.\\n\\nPost: okay, i turned it back on for another 5 minutes. \\n I'm guess I really dislike the presentation of the arguments. Too much time doing kooky stuff. I don't want to listen to kirby/fox/falco banter. \\n He also seems to be tripped on \\\"does this make it accessible to everyone?\\\" \\n I haven't seen him make one valid point to why it's not. It is just as accessible as any other smash bros before or after it will be. He brings up \\\"L-Cancelling\\\" and \\\"wave-dashing.\\\" He says they aren't easy to do, therefore melee is harder to \\\"just pick up and play.\\\" These issues only really apply to competitive melee. When we played it for the first 5 years casually, NONE of my friends knew wtf wave-dashing was, including myself, and we L-cancelled maybe 1/50th of the time. These weren't real factors in enjoying the game. They are not present in casual play, nor are they necessary to play the game at all . If you are a beginning smash player, and your opponent can CONSISTENTLY pull off these moves against you, guess what? You are going to get creamed whether or not he uses them because your a newbie vs a pro. \\n He also brings up that the fact that competitive melee doesn't use items and the lack of stages as cons.... but these aren't issues with melee, they are problems with the competitive scene. He's getting the competitive scene mixed up with the game itself, and that's what I really dislike about this video. The game itself doesn't ban stages, only serious tournaments do! And do we really need to tell him why we want randomness eliminated from a game of skill?\",\n \"Summary: Articuno itsnt really that cheap in actual pvp. \\n PS WHY NOT CLOYSTER???\\n\\nPost: Don't know why people would down vote you! While its true articuno is technically \\\"legendary\\\" it still only has base stats of 580, and suboptimal typing. It has a total of 4 weaknesses (somewhat high), including a 4X weakness (rock). Commonly used moves like stealth rocks pretty much destroy any chances Articuno has of leaving NU tier.\",\n \"Summary: Try to think about the others, its not just you on this site.\\n\\nPost: I think you missed the point of my post. I'm saying WHY reposts are consistently on the front page. Because the majority of people HAVEN'T seen this before. You have to reddit a shit ton in order to take it all in - even if you are only monitoring the front page. Why is reposting considered a bad thing if its still getting voted to the top of the page? It means more people want to see it than have already seen it - otherwise it simply wouldn't get the upvotes. Not everyone has the same experience here. Personally, I LOVE reposts! And the only reason I know I do - is because I read the comments. At least 60% of the time I'm looking at posts for the first time - someone else has commented its a repost. Not to me its not. I consider myself a decent visitor to reddit. I'll spend a good amount of time on reddit at least every other day - but things are being posted on days I'm not here. \\n So sure. Posters can use the search bar. But what if they do and they find out it is a repost.... but one only 20 or so people voted on? And it has 12 upvotes and 8 downvotes because it never got huge??? Should they refrain from posting? I'd say they should give it a shot if they truly believe its interesting. This site would suffer greatly if literally no reposts we're allowed. I'm sick of seeing complaints over them just because the vocal minority (the commenting community) has seen them before.\",\n \"Summary: Wolf and Lucas are unique characters, not clones. And that's one of the reasons people liked them so much.\\n\\nPost: you know, when brawl was released, i thought to myself \\\"oh boy, 3 space animals. How fantastic.\\\" The similarity in their final smashes really solidified my impression that they were clones. \\n Only now do i realize how much lucas and wolf were ACTUALLY different from ness and fox/falco. Think back at wolf in particular - did ANY of his A moves match up with foxes? Maybe his f-tilt, i can't remember, but his smashes, jabs, aerials were all different. Also, his specials were more \\\"inspired\\\" by fox/falcos and can be considered clone-esque, but they are different. Completely different blaster with new animations for regular b, his up B is different. Now his Side B and down B are definitely very close to how it worked with fox, but they still offer separate utility and different animations. \\n Lucas is more similar to ness, but most of his A moves were different.\",\n \"Summary: If someone wanted to make an ACTUALLY ACCURATE show (origins was way better) that appealed to a more adult audience I'd love it.\\n\\nPost: I am one of the few people that probably visits this subreddit regularly but just really hates the anime. I used to rush home from school to watch pokemon as a kid when i was in grade school during its first season. There was an episode where ashe was fighting a golem with his bulbasaur and SWITCHED IT OUT WITH CHARMANDER. 10 year old me was like NOOOO DONT DO THAT THATS THE DUMBEST THING YOU COULD POSSIBLY DO. It was already bad enough that a bulbasuar was fighting a golem, because there is very likely a big enough level difference that typing didn't matter. \\n But then - something even worse happened - the charmander WON the fight with like 1 flamethrower. \\n I could maybe forgive ashe for just being an idiot, but I couldn't forgive the show for just being so incredibly inaccurate. This wasn't pokemon. This was something else.\",\n \"Summary: I WANT MY LASERS TO KILL PEOPLE.\\n\\nPost: Hey fellas. \\n So, pretty much what the title says. Who (specific champions OR lanes) do you think is hurt or helped most by the changes. \\n I for one am really worried about my all time favorite ap mid- Lux. Here's a look at my standard build currently: \\n \\n boots (sorc shoes) \\n Athene's unholy grail \\n Deathcap \\n Void Staff \\n Hourglass \\n Where ever the night takes me (situational) \\n \\n This build currently costs 13K (without item 6) \\n Before I dive into the details- I want to tell you what I value most in lux- High AP, Mana Regen, Cooldown Reduction, and Spell penetration. (I am not going to look at Anything else stat wise) \\n Currently my runes/masteries provide me with roughly: \\n 5% extra ap\\n21 flat ap \\n4% CDR\\n9 magic pen \\n I have assumed this part will stay fundamentally the same. I have not looked extensively at runes/mastery changes. Please tell me if something significant changes the following analysis: \\n Now , taking a look at the changes, If i built the first 5 items here, I would have a build that cost 550 LESS gold , BUT also provides 86 LESS ap . \\n Additionally, the spell pen% is different. in S2, lux gets 46% spell pen void staff/masteries. in S3, she will get 40% spell pen from runes and masteries. However, the flat spell pen is way more effective in S3. \\n Considering these changes, I feel like lux will have a much more difficult time bursting even squishies down. Maybe I can adjust my build, but I am convinced Athenes is the best first item on her, and Deathcap comes next. Both of these items have been gimped significantly in AP. At the very least, Lux's early game will be weaker (it was never that strong to begin with).\",\n \"Summary: summary): BUILD A DAMN TELEPORTER ENTRANCE OUTSIDE THE SPAWN, thank you\\n\\nPost: Hello there engineers. Listen, I love what your capable of- and normally I love seeing you on my team. But I just finished a streak of games on thundermountain where at all times I had at least 4 engies on my team. It was clear the vast majority of them still don't know some basics- and I've seen this a lot recently. If you wish to be credit to team and not add to your team's headache, take a good look at this list. \\n Common mistake #1: YOU FORGOT TO BUILD A DAMN TELEPORTER ENTRANCE \\n So I'm giving friendly reminders to the engies that I don't see any entrances. Its midway through setup, so thats understandable that they don't come rushing back. But, as we lose the first area and begin setup on the second, not one of them remembers a teleporter entrance- even after I remind them again. \\n Engies, I've got news for you. Your teleporter is the number 1 priority during setup. Know whats better than a sentry gun? A teammate warping to your location every 3 seconds. Additionally, this also ensures your team will help your base! That spy is gonna have a much harder time with a constant supply of teammates at your side. Plus, during setup, if you are quick, you will have enough time to get a level 3 tele up AND a level 3 sentry up. But please start with the teleporter. And there is simply no excuse for not dropping that entrance down. \\n Common mistake number 2: You build your sentry gun 5 INCHES away from another sentry gun \\n I see this all the time. One engineer gets a great sentry spot, and another engineer becomes his number 1 fan so he copies him as much as he can by building his sentry as close as physically can to the existing sentry. This is problematic for several reasons, but most of all it's because the seconds sentry is literally doing nothing- sure, its shooting at all the same people, and getting assists, but anything it touches would have died anyway to the first gun. It is much smarter to set up in a spot that complements the existing gun- if the first gun is vunerable to enemy fire, maybe put your sentry in a place that can protect it. Lastly, as someone who plays a lot of demo, I can't tell you how easy it is for me to blow up everything in one go. Sentries placed next to eachother will fall quickly to the same things. \\n Common mistake number 3 : You build all of your buildings outside of spawn and outside the range of helping the team \\n This seems like a good idea- and you see people doing it all the time. You can upgrade all your stuff with it being out of harms way and get it to level three quickly. I'm here to tell you there is something much better- building your base where you actually want it. There is a HUGE risk by the time you move out from the spawn and reach your desired destination, it won't be safe anymore. And good engineers know they can make that level 3 sentry gun (after building their teleporter, of course) just as quickly with a big pack of metal. There is almost ALWAYS a big pack of metal next to good sentry spots (with the exception of back and forth control point maps, like badlands). In fact, these engineers will complete their bases quicker than the spawn building engineers can carry all of there equipment to the right place. Also- any time you spend carrying equipment you are moving slower: not to mention that your equipment is NOT AT ALL USEFUL in transit. \\n Believe me, you can get your base built faster and in position if you build it where you want it \\n Common mistake number 4: You automatically assume we will lose the first point \\n Here's an example of what I mean: Playing badwater on defense- three engineers but no sentries insight. Well, I thinks to meself, maybe they are on their slow way carrying their gear up from spawn. It goes into overtime over the first checkpoint- we barely give it up after I die. After respawn, on my way back, I see three engineers on the roof overlooking the second checkpoint with sentries up. facepalm . \\n There are several times that engineers will build during setup at the second point. What kind of attitude is that? Grow some backbone, you damn wimp! Don't just try to win, TRY TO DESTROY YOUR ENEMY. MAKE HIM FEEL THE SHAME OF FAILING TO CAP THAT FIRST POINT. Also, building those sentries up at point 1, at a minimum, delays them and buys you time. And time in TF2 is a very valuable commodity. I've seen an engi set up right next to the second point in a map before, and stayed there guarding his stuff for the whole match. We actually held them off at first point. So for the entire 8 minute game, this engineer accumulated 0 points. Was that fun for him? To do nothing for that long? Don't become this person. \\n Afterthought- I realize a lot of you probably only looked to see what other people are doing and copied that. This is why a lot of bad habits started forming- habits that were squished out quickly before the F2P surge. I realize some people will probably disagree with mistake number 3- but I beg that you try my method before you go knocking it. You might just find out that its the right thing to do. \\n Please tell me if this is helpful- also please do add any common mistakes I may have forgotten. \\n Cheers to the engineer- A worthy class!\",\n \"Summary: Make BV's passive an active to make it a more desirable item choice.\\n\\nPost: Banshee's Veil (especially) in season 1 was one of the most seen MR items in the game. It wasn't uncommon to see it on 7 or 8 of the 10 players. Recently, I'm surprised when I see it more than once in 7 or 8 games. Since then, the MR value of banshee's has been reduced, but the passive was updated to make the \\\"Veil\\\" appear more quickly. The item is technically still \\\"Gold Efficient\\\" (according to the [wiki]( So why do we not see the Veil more often? \\n I'm no real pro (currently sitting at Gold IV) but I have a couple ideas on why this is. \\n -- Firstly , the real allure to choose banshee's veil over other MR items lies in the power of the passive. However, it's pretty easy to lose this passive to long range pokes like varus Q's, kogmaw ults, or ashe volleys. As a result, there are several times you don't have the veil available during the actual team fight to block what you would like to block. Even if it is up, the enemies choose which spell does get blocked. So much of the time \\n -- Secondly , while the item is technically gold efficient, it is BARELY so. With a cost of 2520G, its technically worth 2556G. Congratulations! You've saved enough money to buy a health pot with all your frugal spending, with 1G to spare. Additionally, you've now got 600G more mana, which is certainly not a bad thing, but you may never actually end up needing those extra mana reserves. Also, the longer the game goes on, the less valuable additional mana becomes for a majority of the champions. \\n -- Thirdly , I think [ Spirit Visage ]( is good. I mean, REALLY good. It provides 200 less health, but 5 more MR and 20% cooldown while costing 320G less. I'd definitely make that tradeoff, and I often find myself buying this item regardless if I can utilize the passive or not. 20% CD is incredibly good, and much more valuable than 300 mana and 200 health if you consider its price. \\n So, how do we improve banshee's veil? \\n Personally, I think it should be focused on what it really is supposed to do: Either block an extremely powerful spell (such as a Karthus ultimate) or to block a devastating CC (such as a Malphite ult). I suggest giving banshee's veil an active rather than a passive that works the exact same as Sivir's spell shield. I'd suggest have the passive last 2 seconds and block the first incoming attack and be on a 90 second cd. I feel like this would provide a real reason to choose banshee's veil over spirit visage. \\n I'm not saying BV is a bad item. It's definitely good, it's just that there are better choices at the moment.\",\n \"Summary: Please make LCS at a time where people can watch it live\\n\\nPost: Hey guys, \\n I'm really curious as to how they decided the schedule for LCS. I may be missing something big here, but for NA, I simply can't see any advantages to starting at 1pm on a weekday. To be brutally honest, I can think of several reasons this is a horrible choice (assuming that having a large amount live viewership is the primary goal). \\n First of all, the majority of kids and adults are not available at this time. Kids are in school, adults are at work, and I really don't think too many stay at home parents are tuning in at this time. And while some people may be able to watch at work, most cannot (or shouldn't be). This is a pretty big indicator in my eyes that live viewership numbers are a fraction of their potential. \\n Now, I know I can just go and watch all these VODs spoiler free, which is a phenomenal feature, but i have to say, knowing these games have already happened is a huge deterrent to watching them. That's just how I am, and I know a lot of my friends feel the same way. So I feel like Riot's really missing out here. \\n I really want esports to reach the fullest potential it can, and I just can't come up with a good reason on why 1pm on a weekday would be a good way to start. \\n If there's something im missing id love to know!\",\n \"Summary: Give Chespin a badass final form with strong base stats and moveset and great secondary type (im thinking ROCK). Or at the very least, don't make his stats weaker just because. \\n PS . Things I expect to see as counterarguments: \\n \\n BUT TBOJ, some grass starters evolve at level 32 not 36. Response: WHOPPDEE FREAKING DOOOOOoooo. \\n \\n BUT TBOJ, energy ball is comparable to shadowball, crunch, and flash cannon, not thunderbolt. Response: TAKE YOUR VALID COUNTERPOINTS ELSEWHERE, EARTH HATER. \\n \\n \\n Edits: I am not so good at reddit formatting, I tried to make it more spacey and readable.\\n\\nPost: Okay, here me out here, because I took time not working to write this today. I also can't check the subreddit everyday, and don't know about sub-sub reddits so redirect me if you think this belongs elsewhere. \\n BUT: Nintendo has it out for grass Pokemon, especially starters . \\n Argument 1 : From a total base stats perspective, Grass Starters Have in ALL generations received either the lowest base stats or tied with the lowest base stats. What gives? Why Only in Gen V did all three starters share the same total (528)??? Why wouldn't it be equal every time? \\n Argument 2 : Typing. Grass has arguably the WORST typing out of all the pokemon. Let's just look at the basic numbers here: \\n Grass moves are NOT VERY EFFECTIVE against SEVEN out of the SEVENTEEN different types of Pokemon. This is the largest amount of any type! This is out of control! Roughly 40% of the time your STAB move isn't going be as effective. That seems a little high. \\n Grass moves are SUPER EFFECTIVE against 3 types (Which a good number, so I don't have any real complaints there). Water is a good thing to be super effective against. HOWEVER, if you think that water pokemon your setting up to solar beam isn’t about to ice beam you in the face, well, keep dreaming. \\n Grass pokemon are weak against FIVE out of the Seventeen different types of Pokemon. This means its tied with Rock for Most weaknesses. I mean, COME ON! It already has the record for most not very effective moves! What the heck Nintendo!!!! \\n Grass Pokemon are resistant to four types. This is a good number, but the weaknesses greatly outnumber the strengths here. Plus how worthwhile is a rock type resistance. Lets be honest, that rock slide or stone edge misses 80% of the time anyways. \\n These numbers are just plain worse than Water and Fire. \\n Side note: grass is THE ONLY THING weak to poison! WHAT? I can imagine the decision making behind this now. \\\"Oh shit Mr. Miyamoto, we forgot to make poison super effective against something.\\\" \\\"Ah, yes.... well... why not grass? Its weak against everything else anyway LOLOLOLOL.\\\" \\n Argument 3 : Movesets. I feel like Grass, especially in early generations, have comparably way worse moves. Case and point: Vine whip. ARE YOU KIDDING ME? 10 PP for a 35 power move that doesn't have any side effects? Ember can burn shit and has a PP of 25 and 5 more power! It's not so much this particular case that upsets me, just the thinking/methodology behind it. There's really no reason that it should be weaker AND have less resources AND have no secondary effect. Furthermore, Gameshark INCREASED its base PP to 15 in Gen IV. Most of you would think this is a good fix, but again, what was the logic? It's still weak and has less PP than other comparable moves (watergun and ember). They recongnized it was objectively worse and even after the fix it remains objectively worse. Additionally, they added Energy Ball in gen IV which in my eyes should have been on the same level as thunderbolt, icebeam, flamethrower and surf (aka 95 power special attack with 100% accuracy), but instead they gave it an 80 power. \\n Argument 4 : Meganium. Have you seen this abomination? Gross. I don't see nearly as much love for Meganium as I do for Fearligator and Typhlosion. Moveset is horrendous. I know its supposed to be a defensive pokemon, which actually might work if it wasn’t for Argument #2. \\n Now, that being said, the reason I am so revved up about this is because I love grass type Pokemon. Venasuar, Toreterra, Ferrothorn, and Abomasnow are among my very favorites. The important thing is \\n ITS NOT TOO LATE TO GIVE GRASS THE UPPER HAND (JUST ONCE PLEASE)! \\n Its time to give not just good stats, but the best stats to a grass starter! Also, some sweet moves. Regardless, I've already made my choice. I'm fully expecting to choose Chespin and have him be the weakest of the three with the worst moveset, but I will love him more than you posers with your froakies and firefoxes. \\n Also, theres a good opportunity here If to balance out the typing weaknesses if LIGHT and SOUND become types. I feel like Grass should have an immunity against light (giving them a real valuable asset) or even heal from light moves, and hopefully sound will be not very effective against them (grass doesn't have ears! Yes, let's use that logic).\",\n \"Summary: While Alistar provides good CC and does/should do little damage, I still think he does too little damage for what his kit offers. This is a small buff to his damage (through his passive) only while his ult is active.\\n\\nPost: Hey guys, \\n Just a couple of ideas to buff alistar, who is [currently listed with a win ratio of 44.29%, or 118th highest out of 123 champions]( \\n Alistar certainly has his place on his team and I don't think he's necessarily ALL that weak per se, but that doesn't mean he couldn't use a little bit of love. Alistar is primarly a utility support, providing knockback, AOE knockup, a small heal, and great tower dive potential post 6. \\n Given his strengths, it would make sense that he does not provide all that much damage. As is right now, he provides almost no damage! So- while I completely agree he shouldn't be dishing out a great amount of damage, I think some small buffs in this area would at least help him out a little. \\n My thought is to either focus on a small change to the Ult/passive or both. A lot of supports can use their ults both offensively and defensively - Nami, thresh, leona, morgana, and others can use it to escape (but also to trap), but Alistar's is a little more defensive in nature. True, his ult gives him attack damage, but good ADCs who kite aren't going to let you just sit there and auto attack them as you please. Its difficult to utilize it offensively as your opponents are running away in lane. And while you can use it \\\"offensively\\\" to tower dive, its more about the damage reduction than the damage supplied by alistar. \\n So, I think the best way to just let his ult feel like its making more of an impact is to do the following: While alistar's ult is active, Trample (the passive) gains a range of 50, 75, 100 and does 50%, 75%, 100% more damage to enemy champions. Additionally, trample will be active as long as unbreakable will is active. Keep in mind, a 50% boost at level 6 would mean 18 magic damage per second with a 350 range AOE effect. This range is still extremely small (to give you a sense of how small,\\nirelia's E has a range of 475). He'll still have to be basically on top of enemies to do damage to them. \\n This will give alistars the feeling that they are actually doing something after ulting during an All-in. Obviously, its just a suggestion, but I think it would a nice little something for all the alistar players out there. I just feel like champions like leona and thresh completely outshine alistar right now. I think this is a good change that may not be all the love he needs, but why not try to tweak him a little bit. I know one of Riot's concerns is always the potential return of jungle alistar, so I tried to give him a little love in a way that wont buff his clear (unless you really wanna spend that ult getting red, i guess).\",\n \"Summary: While Alistar provides good CC and does/should do little damage, I still think he does too little damage for what his kit offers. This is a small buff to his damage (through his passive) only while his ult is active. \\n Also, full disclosure, I did try posting this idea a couple days ago, however, literally minutes after posting it DJ sona was announced so basically no one saw it- trying again.\\n\\nPost: Hey Fellas, \\n Just a couple of ideas to buff alistar, who is currently listed with a win ratio of 43.67%, or 118th highest out of 123 champions.\\nAlistar certainly has his place on his team and I don't think he's necessarily ALL that weak per se, but that doesn't mean he couldn't use a little bit of love. Alistar is primarly a utility support, providing knockback, AOE knockup, a small heal, and great tower dive potential post 6. \\n Given his strengths, it would make sense that he does not provide all that much damage. As is right now, he provides almost no damage! So- while I completely agree he shouldn't be dishing out a great amount of damage, I think some small buffs in this area would at least help him out a little. \\n My thought is to either focus on a small change to the Ult/passive or both. A lot of supports can use their ults both offensively and defensively - Nami, thresh, leona, morgana, and others can use it to escape (but also to trap), but Alistar's is a little more defensive in nature. True, his ult gives him attack damage, but good ADCs who kite aren't going to let you just sit there and auto attack them as you please. Its difficult to utilize it offensively as your opponents are running away in lane. And while you can use it \\\"offensively\\\" to tower dive, its more about the damage reduction than the damage supplied by alistar. \\n So, I think the best way to just let his ult feel like its making more of an impact is to do the following: While alistar's ult is active, Trample (the passive) gains a range of 50, 75, 100 and does 50%, 75%, 100% more damage to enemy champions. Additionally, trample will be active as long as unbreakable will is active. Keep in mind, a 50% boost at level 6 would mean 18 magic damage per second with a 350 range AOE effect. This range is still extremely small (to give you a sense of how small, irelia's E has a range of 475). He'll still have to be basically on top of enemies to do damage to them. \\n Another reason I think this would be good is that encourages alistars to hit their combos. If you wanted to do the most damage with alistar and utilize his passive, you would activate his skills 3 seconds apart from eachother. However, one of his strongest initiates is the W, Q combo, and you don't exactly have time to wait 3 seconds inbetween them to pull it off. Alistar is a champion that tends to fire off his spells immediately after the other, and his passive just doesn't reflect that behavior. \\n This will give alistars the feeling that they are actually doing something after ulting during an All-in. Obviously, its just a suggestion, but I think it would a nice little something for all the alistar players out there. I just feel like champions like leona and thresh completely outshine alistar right now. I think this is a good change that may not be all the love he needs, but why not try to tweak him a little bit. I know one of Riot's concerns is always the potential return of jungle alistar, so I tried to give him a little love in a way that wont buff his clear (unless you really wanna spend that ult getting red, i guess).\",\n \"Summary: CALL AND MAKE SURE THEY ARE DOING THE MIDNIGHT RELEASE FOR 3DS and not just Wii U !!!\\n\\nPost: Guys, \\n I just dodged a very disappointing bullet through sheer luck. I called a nearby gamestop asking if they'd be doing a midnight release for the new smash brothers coming out. They said yes, they were planning on it! He advised me to come to the store before then to preorder and ensure I get a copy reserved. \\n Well, I typically get out of work late, so I called back becasue I realized I couldn't make it there during business hours this week to see if i could pre-order over phone. Got a different person who clarified they WOULD NOT be doing a midnight release for the 3DS, but would for the Wii U.\",\n \"Summary: If yasuo is going to scale well into the lategame, I’d like to see something that makes it more difficult for him to lane efficiently.\\n\\nPost: I know a ton of people are complaining about yasuo; and a lot of people will tell you they think he’s broken in pretty much every way (wind wall is too strong, he’s got two passives, he has unlimited dashes). After facing a ton of them mid lane, I was inclined to agree with all of these, but mostly out of frustration rather than thinking it through. Sure he’s damn strong, but what is really the most frustrating thing about him? Is there anything thats truly broken about him? \\n I really think that yasuo was intended to be a mid or late game monster, with a weak laning phase. The fact that he’s melee and that it takes a lot more time to ramp up his shield and is harder to dash around faster early game reinforce this idea. However, people have discovered he actually can have a really good and safe laning phase if played mid lane. And he can do it by simply pushing as hard as he can all of the time. \\n This to me is what makes him so frustrating. Yasuo spams e and q and just continuously fires whirlwinds on the creepline. A couple q’s and a whirlwind and the entire creepline is gone, while any meaningful damage is mitigated by his passive, health potions and a doran’s shield. \\n Against certain midlaners – particularly anyone whose waveclear relies on mana (extreme examples include lux and brand), is going to have a hard time doing ANYTHING against him. They are too busy trying to push back so they don’t lose half the farm to their tower. That’s extremely frustrating to me… being confined to the tower and watching my mana bar get depleted. \\nWhat I’d really like to see is significant increases to CDs – if he’s only using abilities to hit minions – or significantly reduced damage his abilities do to minions. Maybe give him ezreal q treatment but only applies if you hit champions. This would at least decrease his pushing power significantly, and other midlaners would be able to actually farm. \\n Now keep in mind, I am a gold level player. I am not diamond or anything, but I have had an incredibly hard time combating this strategy without immense help from the jungler. But if that jungler is someone like amumu or lee sin who relies on a skillshot projectile to gap close, theres not a lot you can do while you are spending all your mana and cds just to farm under tower. 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stingharkonnen | Generate the content for a reddit post up up down down left right left right Zoe, I don't give a shit | She did what she did.
People say what they're gonna say.
Will I buy her games? No, because this last game was a piece of crap.
Will this change my POV on the gaming sites? A bit, but this is 2014, not 1984. We have gaming videos, forums, and more search engines than Charlemagne had siege engines. We can find out ... | She did what she did.
People say what they're gonna say.
Will I buy her games? No, because this last game was a piece of crap.
Will this change my POV on the gaming sites? A bit, but this is 2014, not 1984. We have gaming videos, forums, and more search engines than Charlemagne had siege engines. We can find out ... | [
"Summary: Some interviewers should be around sharp objects or children.\n\nPost: Some people shouldn't be an interviewer. I had an interview with a company that went south within 5 minutes of the start of it. The interviewer just got more abusive and I terminated the interview. I said we weren't a good fit and wish... | 28 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,200 |
steamwhistler | Generate the content for a reddit post Share what you want to accomplish this week and how you will do it. Having people check on you via Reddit is extremely helpful! | r/ADHD it's time for [Kick-Start Sunday] -- guaranteed accomplishments if you actively participate!
Kick-Start Sunday is where /r/adhd and we can check in with you...helping YOU get things done.
I suggest you read the whole post to be MORE successful, so put in the little extra initial effort and continue reading... | r/ADHD it's time for [Kick-Start Sunday] -- guaranteed accomplishments if you actively participate!
Kick-Start Sunday is where /r/adhd and we can check in with you...helping YOU get things done.
I suggest you read the whole post to be MORE successful, so put in the little extra initial effort and continue reading... | [
"Summary: Ain't nobody got time f'dat.\n\nPost: Definitely not. I haven't even entirely rewatched Game of Thrones all the way through, (though I've probably seen every episode more than once, especially the ones in Seasons 3 and 4,) or even re-read the books, even though I'm a raving fanatic of the franchise. They ... | 17 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,201 |
GoAskAlice | Generate the content for a reddit post part of beating your own fatlogic is tricking it with healthy foods.
>You're going to make it!
Back to OP: There are plenty of things you don't have to spend a ton of time cooking. That being said, use the freezer, bro. We spend a considerable amount of time on Sundays stockin... | I'm going to copy/paste a comment I made to someone else in fps trying to lose weight.
>Protips from someone 6 months into the F2F thang and 40 pounds down, pretty damn amazing since I am a lazy sot who doesn't exercise:
>Helps a LOT if you make a week's worth of salad every, say, Sunday (got it ready for the week ... | I'm going to copy/paste a comment I made to someone else in fps trying to lose weight.
>Protips from someone 6 months into the F2F thang and 40 pounds down, pretty damn amazing since I am a lazy sot who doesn't exercise:
>Helps a LOT if you make a week's worth of salad every, say, Sunday (got it ready for the week ... | [
"Summary: fuck the haters\n\nPost: Personally, I think it makes you more human, and your stories believable. There's not a person here who hasn't fucked up. Everyone's done shit that they squirm to remember. And everyone's gonna fuck up some more. The thing is to own it, learn from it, move on, and not do that agai... | 16 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,202 |
ForeverAlot | Generate the content for a reddit post autotargeting feels more like a crutch intended for new players than a helpful usability-improving mechanic. | The short answer is that autotargeting is only slightly less broken than targeting in general, which is itself horribly broken. There are many skills whose targeting mechanics are inane (e.g. Phase Retreat vs. Phantasmal Warlock). I turned off the two autotargeting related settings a long time ago (and more recently me... | The short answer is that autotargeting is only slightly less broken than targeting in general, which is itself horribly broken. There are many skills whose targeting mechanics are inane (e.g. Phase Retreat vs. Phantasmal Warlock). I turned off the two autotargeting related settings a long time ago (and more recently me... | [
"Summary: Humble Bundlies are filthy capitalists omg.\n\nPost: Disappointing realization: while notch and the bronies are simply raising their donations instead of making completely new ones this battle nevertheless has a negative impact on the average price. If somebody went and did this the current average (7.78)... | 15 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,203 |
IAmScience | Generate the content for a reddit post If we only let some people make the rules, we damage the freedom of all the people. | Ultimately, I think the problem is the determination of an objective arbiter of merit. Who makes those determinations? If we put that power in the hands of a wealthy elite, they will make "merit" mean something vastly different than if we gave that definitional power to a poor minority class. Perhaps the philosophers o... | Ultimately, I think the problem is the determination of an objective arbiter of merit. Who makes those determinations? If we put that power in the hands of a wealthy elite, they will make "merit" mean something vastly different than if we gave that definitional power to a poor minority class. Perhaps the philosophers o... | [
"Summary: It really is all about controlling the line between divine ecstasy and the (more powerful) sexual ecstasy. Control that line: Control people.\n\nPost: It's a quick question, but I think it requires sort of a long answer, so forgive me if I carry on a bit. \n Doctrinally, the condemnation of masturbation t... | 32 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,204 |
kjata | Generate the content for a reddit post most of the problems are caused by not fully understanding the principles of the design. | Agreed.
Opinions. A GM can adjust the power level of the campaign, but that is not an argument in favor of the variant presented, merely an argument in favor of the system's flexibility. Hit points don't exactly represent how many hits you can take. Technically speaking, they are stamina. Shadowrun's wounds syste... | Agreed.
Opinions. A GM can adjust the power level of the campaign, but that is not an argument in favor of the variant presented, merely an argument in favor of the system's flexibility. Hit points don't exactly represent how many hits you can take. Technically speaking, they are stamina. Shadowrun's wounds syste... | [
"Summary: The Pokemon world is a shithole that everyone glosses over because yay childhood isn't adventure neat.\n\nPost: Dead Marowak, for starters. There's a theory that you (accidentally?) killed your rival's Raticate, and the protagonist's stoic nature implies somewhat that he just doesn't care. A lot of the Po... | 24 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,205 |
wilhrt | Generate the content for a reddit post Shooting POV with a DSLR, advice? | Hey filmmakers,
So I'm making this music video and its going to be mostly POV with inserts of the artist (a rapper) rapping in different locations.
The concept is that the perspective of the camera is a person being driven around by a drive through a city. The driver of the vehicle is the artist. The camera will be... | Hey filmmakers,
So I'm making this music video and its going to be mostly POV with inserts of the artist (a rapper) rapping in different locations.
The concept is that the perspective of the camera is a person being driven around by a drive through a city. The driver of the vehicle is the artist. The camera will be... | [
"Summary: mistook a girl who was hitting on me with another girl, in an elevator, with multiple other people there.\n\nPost: In an elevator going up to my room with my friend, when these girls come in and they are talking about going out. And one of them says, \"I've got to comb my hair\" she asks me\n \"Does my ha... | 17 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,206 |
PParker46 | Generate the content for a reddit post pay the ticket and the problem & doubts go away. | edit = changed paragraph order
professorpan has given you advice. Don't mock the prof. or the instructions on the ticket. Because if the video shows you were in the intersection BEFORE the light turned red you have a case. Not perfect slam dunk, but a case.
If the mope is not ever coming back to Chicago he migh... | edit = changed paragraph order
professorpan has given you advice. Don't mock the prof. or the instructions on the ticket. Because if the video shows you were in the intersection BEFORE the light turned red you have a case. Not perfect slam dunk, but a case.
If the mope is not ever coming back to Chicago he migh... | [
"Summary: Downvotes on this sub are neither personal nor rational.\n\nPost: Almost impossible to prove a negative (ie. absence of a permit means no actual construction) \n \n this sub is insanely downvote crazy, using downvotes to indicate everything including not liking story, not liking the business named, not li... | 50 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,207 |
analog_jedi | Generate the content for a reddit post I'm a sage healer and I'm enjoying the added challenge of not having free endless Force in PvE. | I am a sage/seer, and we have cleared Denova twice now, (starting hard mode next week). 1.2 did change a bit, but honestly we needed a bit of a nerf. Going out of Force faster and more often is the biggest change, but I've learned how to manage better. I enjoy the added challenge, and have learned ways to adapt to f... | I am a sage/seer, and we have cleared Denova twice now, (starting hard mode next week). 1.2 did change a bit, but honestly we needed a bit of a nerf. Going out of Force faster and more often is the biggest change, but I've learned how to manage better. I enjoy the added challenge, and have learned ways to adapt to f... | [
"Summary: hospital on my birthday, in assloads of pain and sick on morphine, then reading the coming changes in MoP was what was really depressing lol\n\nPost: Aside from the pokemon battles, none of the changes sound like they are going in the right direction. How is less abilities for all classes a selling point... | 15 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,208 |
InHoc12 | Generate the content for a reddit post Twitter is the best to get quick news to the point, reddit is the best to talk about the news with people. | That's what makes it so great.
You can only see, "Padres looking to make trade for Kemp."
Scroll down and see, "RB Ryan Matthews and WR Keenan Allen ruled out."
etc. It is much more useful then reddit because you can get information straight from person whose profession is to post news quickest. Most everything y... | That's what makes it so great.
You can only see, "Padres looking to make trade for Kemp."
Scroll down and see, "RB Ryan Matthews and WR Keenan Allen ruled out."
etc. It is much more useful then reddit because you can get information straight from person whose profession is to post news quickest. Most everything y... | [
"Summary: Teams can have bad games.\n\nPost: I've been saying it all season and keep will. \n We may have been pretty overrated at that point at #13, and Washington pretty underrated they have some studs in Williams-Goss and Kemp Jr. \n But that doesn't defeat the fact that they have only played 2 quality opponents... | 51 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,209 |
supercore23 | Generate the content for a reddit post It's basically plastic surgery performed on newborns. | I think it comes down to choice. Almost all circumcisions are done without the consent of the person being affected. If it was a procedure like lipo or a nosejob that men could choose to get in order to "look better" then no one would have a problem with it. | I think it comes down to choice. Almost all circumcisions are done without the consent of the person being affected. If it was a procedure like lipo or a nosejob that men could choose to get in order to "look better" then no one would have a problem with it. | [
"Summary: I almost walked right into a kidnapping/murder investigation because I was too lazy to walk home on the sidewalk.\n\nPost: This sort of happened to me once. \n I got detention for some stupid reason in high school so I missed my bus and had to walk home. I decided that instead of walking around my neighbo... | 26 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,210 |
PapaJacky | Generate the content for a reddit post always peel. | Braum's laning phase is his weakest point. You shouldn't be sad if you go even or lose lane. This is because as Braum, if you can't finish a skirmish quickly, then pretty much every other support out-trades him. He's tanky and has a lot of CC, but after the nerfs, not too much damage. If you blow your W/E, you better h... | Braum's laning phase is his weakest point. You shouldn't be sad if you go even or lose lane. This is because as Braum, if you can't finish a skirmish quickly, then pretty much every other support out-trades him. He's tanky and has a lot of CC, but after the nerfs, not too much damage. If you blow your W/E, you better h... | [
"Summary: Roam mid \n Control vision \n Shotcall\n\nPost: There are multiple avenues for a support to further carry their teams asides from the laning with the ADC. The main method is to roam. This is most viable when the enemy duo left lane or backed which their pressure and allows you to either pressure them furt... | 16 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,211 |
TheNadir | Generate the content for a reddit post The collusion of telcos (and other data sources) and the government is an ongoing and ever-present fact. | Wrong.
That indeed happened but it was only the tip of the iceberg. Lawsuits abounded and all were dismissed on flimsy grounds. Congress granted the telcos immunity. They now do it completely within the shrouds of quasi-legality. aka: All the time and with no whistleblowing required. It is an open (if unacknowled... | Wrong.
That indeed happened but it was only the tip of the iceberg. Lawsuits abounded and all were dismissed on flimsy grounds. Congress granted the telcos immunity. They now do it completely within the shrouds of quasi-legality. aka: All the time and with no whistleblowing required. It is an open (if unacknowled... | [
"Summary: When Disney or Hollywood or Nashville pirated that was just good sense, or smart businessTM. When you or I watch a TV show without the commercials? CRIMINAL!\n\nPost: Eldred v. Ashcroft.]( \n [Lawrence Lessig.]( \n I love when Reddit has these piracy/copyright circle-jerks every few months. It gives me ... | 22 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,212 |
HULK-SMASH | Generate the content for a reddit post YOU DON'T | WHOA WHOA WHOA, everyone stop with the shit advice already!
If you go in and say "I would like this job but if i don't get it i am leaving" it sounds like your giving them an ultimatum. People have done this to me when I've been interviewing and it lowered my opinion of them.
Just be enthusiastic, prove that yo... | WHOA WHOA WHOA, everyone stop with the shit advice already!
If you go in and say "I would like this job but if i don't get it i am leaving" it sounds like your giving them an ultimatum. People have done this to me when I've been interviewing and it lowered my opinion of them.
Just be enthusiastic, prove that yo... | [
"Summary: 13 year old tried some DIY improvements to play Half-Life on 66mhz shit box, Got electricuted, blew up PC. \n HOWEVER! I did get a new PC, and i DID get to play Half-Life, ONLINE, on a 14k modem with a PAYG internet plan my parents didn't know about, eventually getting caught and banned from using the com... | 19 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,213 |
aivenho | Generate the content for a reddit post Putting in great effort and getting decent reward for it is all that MMORPG is about for me. | Disagree completely about cheat codes. Why people don't use them? Because it makes things too easy! Easy = no fun. It is not for all, at least some of them claim its not like that. I'm one of those who want to grind. Grind, great effort, call it as you want, it is measurable progress. Cool stuff never must be given, it... | Disagree completely about cheat codes. Why people don't use them? Because it makes things too easy! Easy = no fun. It is not for all, at least some of them claim its not like that. I'm one of those who want to grind. Grind, great effort, call it as you want, it is measurable progress. Cool stuff never must be given, it... | [
"Summary: DE and dungeon reward DR are not separated.\nP.S. I think that all this system is F'd up. At the moment its not worth playing for more than 30min-1h, after that you just do not get any reward or drop. And if you ask me, there is no separation of what mobs you kill, loot just won't drop.\n\nPost: Lots of t... | 19 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,214 |
BendoverOR | Generate the content for a reddit post Just because you want to be a cop, doesn't mean you'll always be a cop, and you should get a non-CJ degree in case that happens. | 1, pretty much ANY agency is going to start you as a Patrol officer before you go SWAT or Detective. Many agencies have a minimum time in service before you can even apply. Some agencies have a usual rotation to spend some time on a SWATish team and detectives.
2) A minor in CJ isn't a bad thing if you pair it with s... | 1, pretty much ANY agency is going to start you as a Patrol officer before you go SWAT or Detective. Many agencies have a minimum time in service before you can even apply. Some agencies have a usual rotation to spend some time on a SWATish team and detectives.
2) A minor in CJ isn't a bad thing if you pair it with s... | [
"Summary: IF THE SHIP IS SINKING, THE RATS HAVE A POINT!\n\nPost: Oh, its absolutely a shitty tactic. But here's the thing, and this is really the most important thing about why I never want to go to work for a large corporation, now matter how much money someone offers me, no matter the title, the benefits, the lo... | 15 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,215 |
Sugarmaker | Generate the content for a reddit post Don't try this at home, kids. | I was wrestling in a high school tournament and my partner decided to try this out during warm-ups. We were kids just messing around. And, hey, it looked fun. Anyway, he kicked me in the back of the head and knocked me out for a few moments. I felt woozy the rest of the night and ended up losing to a kid I beat earlier... | I was wrestling in a high school tournament and my partner decided to try this out during warm-ups. We were kids just messing around. And, hey, it looked fun. Anyway, he kicked me in the back of the head and knocked me out for a few moments. I felt woozy the rest of the night and ended up losing to a kid I beat earlier... | [
"Summary: Writing isn't about the writer expressing, it's about the reader experiencing.\n\nPost: Honestly, much of my writing is a reaction to what I read or see. Sometimes a novel or movie sparks an idea, and I think, \"Well, if I were making a movie in the same genre it would be ...\" There have been times I fin... | 17 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,216 |
z3k3 | Generate the content for a reddit post By being offended you are giving the hateful another tool in which to make your life shit. However Taking these terms and using them playfully with friends and ignore them from folk you don't know you can have a good larf and be a lot less miserable. | Good on you, because I imagine most folk would find such language quite offensive. I probably would.
Why thank you but I didn't tell that story to say look at how awesome and tolerant I am but rather to show that the asshat's are in every walk of life and if they think this about 1 random jock they have never met bef... | Good on you, because I imagine most folk would find such language quite offensive. I probably would.
Why thank you but I didn't tell that story to say look at how awesome and tolerant I am but rather to show that the asshat's are in every walk of life and if they think this about 1 random jock they have never met bef... | [
"Summary: sarcasm and meh\n\nPost: I struggle to see what your asking. \n Are you pointing out its an organisation for women by woman and about how women want to achieve their goals. \n holy shit stop the presses. \n I see zero issue with this. \n Is it because they are looking to make it an annual thing fuck me im... | 23 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,217 |
TroyDowling | Generate the content for a reddit post I think micro-transactions suck, but I agree that they are not the main reason the game has changed so much. Other factors precipitated the changes we see today. | I hate to sound like such a cantankerous old man, but I played somewhere in the hundreds of hours of Team Fortress classic (came with the "Platinum Package" of HL1 I bought ages ago). I loved that game to death. TF2 vanilla was a dream come true for me. But, I find that when the player base started diverging with diffe... | I hate to sound like such a cantankerous old man, but I played somewhere in the hundreds of hours of Team Fortress classic (came with the "Platinum Package" of HL1 I bought ages ago). I loved that game to death. TF2 vanilla was a dream come true for me. But, I find that when the player base started diverging with diffe... | [
"Summary: HDMI is a standard. It has to be the same.\n\nPost: My argument has always been that HDMI is a standard , odds are it is up-to-spec, and therefore just as good as the crazy expensive alternative. \n I was curious about this exact thing a while ago. I purchased a 10' cable off eBay for around $4, anothe... | 17 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,218 |
igrokyourmilkshake | Generate the content for a reddit post Do you agree that “Taking money from someone who makes an average amount of money affects their quality of living a lot more than it does to an extremely wealthy person?” and subsequently: Why shouldn’t this concept be a factor in the tax system? | Why do we need a "cut-off" point? I think this question avoids the real issue: Do you agree that “Taking money from someone who makes an average amount of money affects their quality of living a lot more than it does to an extremely wealthy person?” and subsequently: Why shouldn’t this concept be a factor in the ta... | Why do we need a "cut-off" point? I think this question avoids the real issue: Do you agree that “Taking money from someone who makes an average amount of money affects their quality of living a lot more than it does to an extremely wealthy person?” and subsequently: Why shouldn’t this concept be a factor in the ta... | [
"Summary: Actually seeing a character interact physically with another character and the environment is pretty important for story-telling and immersion; GW2 currently lacks in that department.\n\nPost: I disagree; I feel like this is my main gripe with Guild Wars 2: they want to establish this really dramatic stor... | 19 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,219 |
heimdelight | Generate the content for a reddit post you base your conclusions on PUG play while I base mine on knowledge, high-tier play, and personal experience in high-tier play. You took a few screenshots to make yourself happy that you beat the Lords, certainly your entire argument is correct just from that alone. | No, the actual difference between you and the Lords is that we don't use public matchmaking as an indicator of anything because of random players on our team. The matchmaker often balances out High Elos (Lords) with low Elos (extremely new players), expecting each Lord to do 600+ damage sometimes. For example, in the ... | No, the actual difference between you and the Lords is that we don't use public matchmaking as an indicator of anything because of random players on our team. The matchmaker often balances out High Elos (Lords) with low Elos (extremely new players), expecting each Lord to do 600+ damage sometimes. For example, in the ... | [
"Summary: people on OutreachHPG are more active community members who are using the weapon mechanics to their fullest potential and understand their capabilities. People on the forums have bad communication skills and are mostly casual, so they see imbalance from skill variance rather than weapon balance itself.\n\... | 23 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,220 |
EngelbertHerpaderp | Generate the content for a reddit post 34M. Still don't feel like an adult. Wondering when or if that will ever change.
UPDATE - Really enjoying this thread. Your realizations are honest, humorous, and sometimes heartbreaking. I'm surprised I can relate to so many posts. Keep 'em coming! | American here. I don't care what the law states - There are very few 18 year olds who are adults. And if you're allowed to be drafted but still aren't allowed to enjoy an alcoholic beverage, you're not an adult.
I'm 34 and I'm still waiting to feel like an adult. The only time I do is when I pay my bills or find my... | American here. I don't care what the law states - There are very few 18 year olds who are adults. And if you're allowed to be drafted but still aren't allowed to enjoy an alcoholic beverage, you're not an adult.
I'm 34 and I'm still waiting to feel like an adult. The only time I do is when I pay my bills or find my... | [
"Summary: Sexual compatibility is an incredibly common deal breaker, and more people need to know if they're compatible before considering a long term relationship. Especially marriage.\n\nPost: THIS \n Your thoughts match my own to a tee. I'm currently seeing someone whom as far as I'm concerned is a wonderful gir... | 15 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,221 |
sir_sri | Generate the content for a reddit post The Church and Vatican city are supposed to last forever. If you get rid of anything you have of value now you have no income in future and that's a problem. Granted, getting them to just go away entirely has its merits too, but that's a whole other problem than 'how much can t... | How long could he feed them for? How sustainable is that money.
The vatican is an insignificant drop in the bucket on the scale of poverty. A bunch of art in a building they charge tourists to see is generating income. Selling it and investing the money might also generate income. But that would just piss people ... | How long could he feed them for? How sustainable is that money.
The vatican is an insignificant drop in the bucket on the scale of poverty. A bunch of art in a building they charge tourists to see is generating income. Selling it and investing the money might also generate income. But that would just piss people ... | [
"Summary: japans a reasonably rich country that's similar enough to the US and Europe that the differences are interesting rather than overwhelming. And while I agree with your central theme, i think you left some bits out that others might find interestnig.\n\nPost: Source: I once read a book about this thing but... | 36 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,222 |
Plasma_Ball1 | Generate the content for a reddit post which still applies since he's basically unchanged from 9 months ago.
Peachymoonz has a [video guide to Pugna on YouTube](
[Here]( is how Nether Ward can decimate an enemy team. There was another example on Dota Cinema Top 10 but I can't find it, if anyone wants to help me fin... | Pugna, the Oblivion
Pugna is a fragile yet versatile spellcaster. Due to his massive base intelligence and high gain per level, he has plenty of mana to cast his spells as much as he wants. Nether Blast is his primary method for dealing damage, and its large area of effect, high strength, and low cooldown make it goo... | Pugna, the Oblivion
Pugna is a fragile yet versatile spellcaster. Due to his massive base intelligence and high gain per level, he has plenty of mana to cast his spells as much as he wants. Nether Blast is his primary method for dealing damage, and its large area of effect, high strength, and low cooldown make it goo... | [
"Summary: only vote if you want to play it.\n\nPost: It's funny how the hivemind of the Pro-07 Reddit is downvoting you. It's fairly reasonable, if you don't plan on playing it, don't vote for it. They call you selfish, even though it's selfish of them to ask you to vote for something you don't want to vote for. An... | 37 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,223 |
WhoH8in | Generate the content for a reddit post got a call from a blocked number in a creepy voice making death threats | Well I was gonna do my own ask reddit but I think this is a good place to tell my tale.
I am a security guard and work graveyard shift for a federal contractor in an office building in the Washington DC area and have been at this site for about two months. The building is very secure, you need a key card to get in th... | Well I was gonna do my own ask reddit but I think this is a good place to tell my tale.
I am a security guard and work graveyard shift for a federal contractor in an office building in the Washington DC area and have been at this site for about two months. The building is very secure, you need a key card to get in th... | [
"Summary: JJ Abrams is a hack and will fuck it up.\n\nPost: I'm pretty sure JJ is gonna do a better job but still a crappy one. He is good at createing flashy, action packed, fast paced action sequences that look cool but thats about it. He's not particularly good at charcter development or creating coherent plots.... | 24 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,224 |
iwishiwereyou | Generate the content for a reddit post Waiting was one of the best decisions I have made on the subject of sex. | I very strongly disagree with this sentiment. My first time was her first time, and while it wasn't the best sex I've ever had, it was incredible experience of trusting and sharing something with another person. It was a statement that while we had never trusted or truly wanted this with someone before, we wanted it wi... | I very strongly disagree with this sentiment. My first time was her first time, and while it wasn't the best sex I've ever had, it was incredible experience of trusting and sharing something with another person. It was a statement that while we had never trusted or truly wanted this with someone before, we wanted it wi... | [
"Summary: I'm ambivalent.\n\nPost: I think that started before SJPD had no officers and the East Side started expanding west. \n Still, the singers are told to expect it, and they don't start singing until after someone yells it. I don't think of it so much as interrupting the anthem as it is them taking advantage ... | 15 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,225 |
Itsating | Generate the content for a reddit post because all of this stuff is important to the question. | I'll try to explain it to my best. It won't be too detailed though.
When we turn the age of 5, that is the year that we start school, in kindergarten. This is the start of elementary (primary) school. Primary school lasts from kindergarten to 5th grade. Then you go into middle (junior high or secondary) school. This ... | I'll try to explain it to my best. It won't be too detailed though.
When we turn the age of 5, that is the year that we start school, in kindergarten. This is the start of elementary (primary) school. Primary school lasts from kindergarten to 5th grade. Then you go into middle (junior high or secondary) school. This ... | [
"Summary: WWII.5 at my school\n\nPost: This was before I came to the school, but anywhoo.... \n In January this guy was falsely accused of being in a gang revolving around my school so their rival gang's leader came and shot him during class. One month later, the actual gang in our school went to their school and... | 16 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,226 |
Minotaur_in_house | Generate the content for a reddit post Wifi not working on laptop, staples takes it, keep it longer then promised, can't figure out problem nor even have wifi to test problem, girlfriend points out small switch to reactivate wifi, I'm out 110$ and some pride. | Staples tech support.
Against my better judgement I let the guy check out my laptop. He sold me with his sales pitch.
I tell him my problem, I've been unable to connect to the Internet via wifi for a week and it's starting to really get irksome.
The guy smiles and says "no problem, would you like a free upgrade t... | Staples tech support.
Against my better judgement I let the guy check out my laptop. He sold me with his sales pitch.
I tell him my problem, I've been unable to connect to the Internet via wifi for a week and it's starting to really get irksome.
The guy smiles and says "no problem, would you like a free upgrade t... | [
"Summary: Pretended to have a prosthetic arm to a guy who insult my costume humbled him a tad.\n\nPost: Last year at halloween my college was doing this big event for kids ages 3-12. My club was a part of it and our theme was Cards. \n I came in as a motley joker. Black and white. So I had one arm bare(left) and my... | 16 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,227 |
redli0nswift | Generate the content for a reddit post C.S. Lewis - His Omnipotence means power to do all that is intrinsically possible, not to do the intrinsically impossible. | Thanks for the upvote. I appreciate it. I secretly suspect its the Christians in these threads downvoting everything to Hell!
Now since I think you summed up the trust viewpoint nicely. I'll move to your second point.
Did God decide the nature of sin? I logically don't see any evidence for that viewpoint. This... | Thanks for the upvote. I appreciate it. I secretly suspect its the Christians in these threads downvoting everything to Hell!
Now since I think you summed up the trust viewpoint nicely. I'll move to your second point.
Did God decide the nature of sin? I logically don't see any evidence for that viewpoint. This... | [
"Summary: Not all hearsay. As they where introduced to Jesus their account contains alot of first hand knowledge.\n\nPost: I don't consider it all hearsay. The account of Jesus was written by people with a first hand account of his miracles and observed his teaching (Matthew, John) Their presentation of what they... | 17 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,228 |
Deadbreeze | Generate the content for a reddit post Spent whole day looking for 5 rocks, played with torch, accidentally burned hunting shelter to ground as night began. 0/10, Will never use torch again.
EDIT: Here's the pics:[fire just dying out]( and [the result]( | So I just spent an entire in game day looking for rocks to complete my fireplace in a small cliffside base on the southwest side by a large lake. Evidently rocks are pretty rare there. Strange. Anyways, I got my rocks and got back just before dark. Fireplace made, recon base set.
So I'm bored and I realize that I hav... | So I just spent an entire in game day looking for rocks to complete my fireplace in a small cliffside base on the southwest side by a large lake. Evidently rocks are pretty rare there. Strange. Anyways, I got my rocks and got back just before dark. Fireplace made, recon base set.
So I'm bored and I realize that I hav... | [
"Summary: Lost hope. Quit. Came back armed with wiki knowledge and experience. Killed bunnies. Killed hounds. Learned how to cook. Made friends with Mr. Twig, and Mr. Grass. Survived winter. Died.\n\nPost: Okay, so for starters, let me state that when this toon reached winter, I kind of gave up. I had nothing prepa... | 35 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,229 |
ZoFreX | Generate the content for a reddit post don't buy cheap DVDRs | Two posts and someone already linked that guide? I've gotta get faster!
Completely agree with the above, spending a little extra goes a long way with DVD media. I've never had Taiyo Yuden (I'm in the UK and they aren't easy to get hold of) but I have had very good experiences with Verbatim and Sony. The reliability o... | Two posts and someone already linked that guide? I've gotta get faster!
Completely agree with the above, spending a little extra goes a long way with DVD media. I've never had Taiyo Yuden (I'm in the UK and they aren't easy to get hold of) but I have had very good experiences with Verbatim and Sony. The reliability o... | [
"Summary: TROLLS TROLLING TROLLS\n\nPost: Why do I have to \"take\" a joke? If I say \"Why did the chicken cross the road? To get to the other side\" and you don't find it funny, are you not \"taking\" it? You only have to \"take\" a joke when it's not funny and it's offensive, generally in a really boring and un... | 32 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,230 |
Hazel242 | Generate the content for a reddit post version again: Leaving the baby at a designated safe haven location or placing the baby with an adoptive family are both ways of fulfilling parental responsibility, and they are okay because they ensure the baby will be cared for. Abortion is not okay, because it does not ensure t... | Erm, no, actually it isn't. If you live in a location with safe haven laws, and if the child is within the age limit, then yes, you can drop the baby off at a designated location. And dropping off your baby at a fire station is, like adoption, a form of fulfilling your parental responsibility towards the child, because... | Erm, no, actually it isn't. If you live in a location with safe haven laws, and if the child is within the age limit, then yes, you can drop the baby off at a designated location. And dropping off your baby at a fire station is, like adoption, a form of fulfilling your parental responsibility towards the child, because... | [
"Summary: Yes, we should provide financial and practical support to parents, children, and the poor in general. Government assistance programs and private charities are both ways to do this. Pregnancy resource centers provide all kinds of services: baby clothes, parenting classes, diapers, etc. Sex-ed, IMO, should ... | 49 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,231 |
SelinaFwar | Generate the content for a reddit post Well you know what? I have. | In 12 I've seen it tons.
At I still see it on a regular basis on F-list and Furcadia (Hell I want to blame Furcadia FOR it, when they started it they used the term 'furie" to describe their characters, I think groups of the fandom just naturally adapted this into 'furrie' over time due to it's shared pronunciation an... | In 12 I've seen it tons.
At I still see it on a regular basis on F-list and Furcadia (Hell I want to blame Furcadia FOR it, when they started it they used the term 'furie" to describe their characters, I think groups of the fandom just naturally adapted this into 'furrie' over time due to it's shared pronunciation an... | [
"Summary: we're playing at a rate that makes the testing team look like an ant compared to the Empire State Building. Glitches will come out of the wood works no matter what. \n Sources: basic math, talking to a few people who work in game production, and common damn sense.\n\nPost: Well lets see. Securing the band... | 44 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,232 |
catherder9000 | Generate the content for a reddit post If animals were so important, they'd evolve to taste less delicious . | What a fucking tit.
"Are you aware that if humans were removed from the planet yada yada yada." If he, and all the other clowns like him, truly believed in what he was blithering on about they would immediately kill themselves to better all other nature.
Fuck you pal, I'm the apex predator, I am the peak of evoluti... | What a fucking tit.
"Are you aware that if humans were removed from the planet yada yada yada." If he, and all the other clowns like him, truly believed in what he was blithering on about they would immediately kill themselves to better all other nature.
Fuck you pal, I'm the apex predator, I am the peak of evoluti... | [
"Summary: Get cracking on applying for immigration, it's not that easy to get into our utopia!\n\nPost: Canada is a lot like America, so it won't be a big culture shock for you. You can get, and do all the same things here as there. Except everything here is, mostly, moderate to the left of center. Until very recen... | 20 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,233 |
Alexfour | Generate the content for a reddit post Blew the face off a squirrel. Cried all night | When I was a little kid I had a pellet gun. I rarely used it but one time when my parents weren't home I got bored and started shooting cans. I saw a squirrel eating from a plastic bag of like smartfood. I decided I wanted to startle it by shooting the ground near it
I took aim and fired and immediately got a head sh... | When I was a little kid I had a pellet gun. I rarely used it but one time when my parents weren't home I got bored and started shooting cans. I saw a squirrel eating from a plastic bag of like smartfood. I decided I wanted to startle it by shooting the ground near it
I took aim and fired and immediately got a head sh... | [
"Summary: go to concert , destroy my back , friends don't believe me, could have died (sorry for format on my phone)\n\nPost: I'm a sophomore in college. My freshman year I was at a concert about 100 miles away from my school with my two Best friends (had been so for several years) ... I got pushed off a stage and ... | 17 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,234 |
thestaticwizard | Generate the content for a reddit post Mace Tyrell's corpse is found by his ward, Lord Marq Darklyn. The serving girl ends up fetching Lord Warryn Beesbury as featured [here.]( | The day after [this post]( set in the 3rd month of 289AC.
Winter was almost on the Red Keep. From his window Marq could see a light coating of frost covering everything in sight, a strong wind blowing at the trees and whipping the Blackwater into a frenzy. It was the very last moment of sunrise where the world was al... | The day after [this post]( set in the 3rd month of 289AC.
Winter was almost on the Red Keep. From his window Marq could see a light coating of frost covering everything in sight, a strong wind blowing at the trees and whipping the Blackwater into a frenzy. It was the very last moment of sunrise where the world was al... | [
"Summary: Finding a valyrian steel blade under their weirwood helped help make House Blackwood the King of the Riverlands after they fled south. It's called Blackbeak.\n\nPost: Pale Roots \n “Tell us Bethany,” Gryndyl said, swinging a little on his seat in the guard’s hall of Raventree Hall. “The best one. The one ... | 25 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,235 |
myrandomname | Generate the content for a reddit post 5 years in, 2 westpacs and 1.5 years in oki and only one nam. | Confirmed. Its really hard to get personal awards in the marines, and the lower rank you are the harder it is.
I deployed to cobra gold with iii mef ce. 38 of 45 computers were inop, i was able to get 35 of them working, and i worked 12 hours straight to do it (as a lance). All i got was a thanks from my det gunny an... | Confirmed. Its really hard to get personal awards in the marines, and the lower rank you are the harder it is.
I deployed to cobra gold with iii mef ce. 38 of 45 computers were inop, i was able to get 35 of them working, and i worked 12 hours straight to do it (as a lance). All i got was a thanks from my det gunny an... | [
"Summary: Told a girl I didn't get hints, so she almost raped me.\n\nPost: I was trying to be a wingman for my friend. I pulled the friend aside and made bs small talk with her. I don't remember how we got on the topic, but I just told her I didn't pick up on hints from females very easily. She said, \"oh, how abou... | 20 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,236 |
IrideTheDirt | Generate the content for a reddit post Slept with my roommate and don't know what to do. | Copy the post.
Edit the gender identifiers in the post. Change the aggressor to be male. Repost the edited version, but wait a couple weeks so that people forget about this one.
Observe the reactions, then link the original. Boom.
Repeat the experiment again maybe another month or so later. This time make the fe... | Copy the post.
Edit the gender identifiers in the post. Change the aggressor to be male. Repost the edited version, but wait a couple weeks so that people forget about this one.
Observe the reactions, then link the original. Boom.
Repeat the experiment again maybe another month or so later. This time make the fe... | [
"Summary: Karma isn't magic or a spiritual force. It's simply cause and effect on a scale of aggregates combined with human nature and psychology.\n\nPost: I see what you did there... Clever. \n Karma isn't a magical force that brings balance to all rights and wrongs. It is cause and effect. You smile at someone... | 20 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,237 |
reaper527 | Generate the content for a reddit post i expect updates on things we already know, and announcements about things that already happened. i don't expect new titles to come out of gamescom, that will be reserved for TGS. | ps:now statistics from the american beta, and an announcement a european beta is coming soon
sony pretending that driveclub ps+ edition is more than a demo
updates on the order and uncharted
hopefully some kind of mention about guilty gear xrd (being on ps3+ps4 but not x360 or x1, i don't think it's unreasonable ... | ps:now statistics from the american beta, and an announcement a european beta is coming soon
sony pretending that driveclub ps+ edition is more than a demo
updates on the order and uncharted
hopefully some kind of mention about guilty gear xrd (being on ps3+ps4 but not x360 or x1, i don't think it's unreasonable ... | [
"Summary: i'm going to take microsoft's advice and use an xbox360, and in addition to that i'll use a ps4.\n\nPost: I've also never experienced this \"internet going down\" thing that people keep talking about. \n my internet went down for about 12 hours 2 weeks ago (15 minutes north of boston, hardly a 3rd world a... | 21 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,238 |
1live4downvotes | Generate the content for a reddit post Eating right can do wonders. | I used to weigh 230 lbs, I ended up getting down to 160 through diet change; No longer eating junk food but instead eating healthy alternatives...that as well as being 16. I have stayed between 165-175 because I no longer eat crap. Though drinking has made it so I weight closer to 175 in the last few years. | I used to weigh 230 lbs, I ended up getting down to 160 through diet change; No longer eating junk food but instead eating healthy alternatives...that as well as being 16. I have stayed between 165-175 because I no longer eat crap. Though drinking has made it so I weight closer to 175 in the last few years. | [
"Summary: I fixed my parents oldish (2.6 gHz dual core 4gb of ram) computer turning it into a web browsing, email reading, microsoft suite machine. After they got hold of the admin password they destroyed it, and said it was because it was old.\n\nPost: My parents computer a few years ago went to absolute shit, so... | 32 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,239 |
Bewildered_vagabond | Generate the content for a reddit post How do you trump surviving the jungle of impermanence with seeing the ultimate reality of the universe? | I was contemplating these two ideas with a friend the other day.
Now if the Buddha understood the ultimate reality than he understood impermanence very deeply. So if Siddhartha were to be mauled by a bear. He would take responsibility for walking in the bear's path vs. blame the bears ignorance for hunger or territor... | I was contemplating these two ideas with a friend the other day.
Now if the Buddha understood the ultimate reality than he understood impermanence very deeply. So if Siddhartha were to be mauled by a bear. He would take responsibility for walking in the bear's path vs. blame the bears ignorance for hunger or territor... | [
"Summary: inline speedskating isnt in the olympics so the majority of the top athletes leave the sport to win an olympic medal.\n\nPost: I would guess the reason for this is because it isnt an olympic sport. \n[Brittany Bowe]( is a world champion inliner that went to ice just a couple years ago and already broke th... | 15 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,240 |
Jestersimon | Generate the content for a reddit post The company that makes the phone book makes more money if they send out more books. | It is a total waste of paper for a lot of people, but there's a business case for why they still print them.
Phone books are a for-profit venture by a corporation. They get businesses to pay for ads int the yellow pages, along with bolded names and other special considerations. Often the fees are relatively small, an... | It is a total waste of paper for a lot of people, but there's a business case for why they still print them.
Phone books are a for-profit venture by a corporation. They get businesses to pay for ads int the yellow pages, along with bolded names and other special considerations. Often the fees are relatively small, an... | [
"Summary: I bought a typewriter on eBay while I was hammered.\n\nPost: A 1940s Underwood Portable Typewriter, which I bought for $150 while I was trashed. \n Apparently (according to my internet history) I came home around 2 a.m. and started surfing eBay. I picked out the typewriter, set up a snipe, and passed out.... | 18 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,241 |
deltopia | Generate the content for a reddit post tell him to talk to someone and self-refer, so he can't get punished for it. | Military rules on drug use are a little more in-depth than the didactic civilian "NO POT USE CUZ POT BAD" line. Being addicted to drugs can be a real hit to the team if your friend is, for example, deployed to somewhere that he can't get drugs, and he goes into withdrawal and has shakes or tremors during a situation w... | Military rules on drug use are a little more in-depth than the didactic civilian "NO POT USE CUZ POT BAD" line. Being addicted to drugs can be a real hit to the team if your friend is, for example, deployed to somewhere that he can't get drugs, and he goes into withdrawal and has shakes or tremors during a situation w... | [
"Summary: Me, too.\n\nPost: A spycicle-wielder grabbed intel and was running away from pyro me yesterday as a spy (on doublecross). Two seconds of fireproofness -- or, as I prefer to call it, being completely invulnerable to me -- was a long way to carry that stuff; he wound up getting to teammates and bringing ... | 19 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,242 |
Branflakes1117 | Generate the content for a reddit post Both modes can be fun, rush gets boring around the 550 hour mark. I'll stick with the pure Aryan Battlefield mode and play conquest. =] | Eh rush is fun but toe easy at times. The maps in Bad Company 2, as dynamic as they are, still only offer a limited number of ways to attack an objective. It becomes more apparent in maps like Vantage Point on BC:VN. After sinking so much time into all the maps you more or less just know who will go where and what the ... | Eh rush is fun but toe easy at times. The maps in Bad Company 2, as dynamic as they are, still only offer a limited number of ways to attack an objective. It becomes more apparent in maps like Vantage Point on BC:VN. After sinking so much time into all the maps you more or less just know who will go where and what the ... | [
"Summary: cause people are dick baskets\n\nPost: Well I for one have toned it down just due to the state of pugs. I've tanked prot war and Blood DK. I enjoy it, I really do, but too many idiots killed the boner. Between the hunter who multi shots the cc'd mobs, the rogue who stealths when we warp in and wanders aro... | 22 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,243 |
Jansanmora | Generate the content for a reddit post Writers fucked up, badly. | A) Blocking off a lane is not the same as blocking out a whole planet, which is what they are clearly trying to do in the movie. Had the movie portrayed them blocking hyperspace lanes you might have a point, but they clearly don't, and instead try to blockade the entire planet itself
B) The occupation happens after t... | A) Blocking off a lane is not the same as blocking out a whole planet, which is what they are clearly trying to do in the movie. Had the movie portrayed them blocking hyperspace lanes you might have a point, but they clearly don't, and instead try to blockade the entire planet itself
B) The occupation happens after t... | [
"Summary: This woman is an utter disgrace and failure as a holder of an English degree, and I am both glad and not surprised to learn that no one seems willing to hire her as an English Professor. \n Edit: Also, Utopia does not mean \"literally nowhere\". More created the word to be a pun on the Greek 'ou-topos' [n... | 34 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,244 |
TheFuzzyUnicorn | Generate the content for a reddit post As I enter my mid 20's video games (a handful of exceptions aside) have nothing to offer me, or offer me an inferior version of what I can get from other sources.
Edit: I also play Mount and Blade: Warband/Kerbal Space Program sporadically (once every month for a few hours).
E... | I am like several other posters who have been slowly migrating away from video games. My main reasons are
The "challenge" aspect of gaming makes no sense to me, as in the end I have nothing tangible to show for it, nor do I feel any better for it. This is in contrast to things like learning a language, dabbling in ... | I am like several other posters who have been slowly migrating away from video games. My main reasons are
The "challenge" aspect of gaming makes no sense to me, as in the end I have nothing tangible to show for it, nor do I feel any better for it. This is in contrast to things like learning a language, dabbling in ... | [
"Summary: The oil sands won't be \"running out\" any time soon, probably not in our lifetimes.\n\nPost: That is a difficult number to come up with. At current production/what is economically and technologically available, there is roughly 150-170 years of production left. That number may go up and down depending on... | 19 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,245 |
inevergotaname | Generate the content for a reddit post Me and guy like each other. He goes away for a month. He becomes angry that i was too busy to text him cauSe he thinks it was cause i didn't like him. I corrected his error he apologized to me. I find out he liked this girl on his trip. We texted for a bit and he seemed like he wa... | I (17/f) am confused about guy (m/18). Me and guy have a lot of history. We both liked each other last year but I was really busy and told him I could not start dating right then. Later on that year we both decided we still liked each other and wanted to hang out.
He had to leave in a few days for a school trip where... | I (17/f) am confused about guy (m/18). Me and guy have a lot of history. We both liked each other last year but I was really busy and told him I could not start dating right then. Later on that year we both decided we still liked each other and wanted to hang out.
He had to leave in a few days for a school trip where... | [
"Summary: I don't know how I feel about guy. One minute \nI will like him and the next I need some space.\n\nPost: So quick question. I have liked this guy(m/18) for a \nreally long time. I have been tempted to talk to him \nagain but I am conflicted about what to do. In the \npast I have really liked him and then ... | 20 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,246 |
Ornlu_Wolfjarl | Generate the content for a reddit post If you don't enjoy being overrun by hackers in an MMO, stop following the hype train and wait for a few months before getting into it. | Have you no idea of how bots and scripts function? Firstly, it is virtually impossible for a programmer to make a piece of software and anticipate all vulnerabilities that their system may have. Granted, the fewer they guarantee against, the better their skill, but still.
Secondly, among the thousands of people out t... | Have you no idea of how bots and scripts function? Firstly, it is virtually impossible for a programmer to make a piece of software and anticipate all vulnerabilities that their system may have. Granted, the fewer they guarantee against, the better their skill, but still.
Secondly, among the thousands of people out t... | [
"Summary: I'm not trying to debate the validity of the church either. I'm trying to debate whether by your stance you do anything to solve its problems, so that catholics (for instance) don't receive a bad name from a few individuals, which are the ones we attack as stupid, and not all catholics in general\n\nPost:... | 17 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,247 |
bitcoind3 | Generate the content for a reddit post Even if all nodes were miners it barely be a drop in the ocean in terms of hashing power.
Edit Fixed the maths based on everyone running quad-core not 48-core. Now it's even worse. | A top range quad core CPU hashing at 100% can maybe do 10 MHash/second = 0.01 GHash/second. The difficulty is 800000 GHash/second. So to even get 50% of the hashrate you'd need 40 million nodes. It's hard to know how many nodes exactly there are but it's nowhere near this many, 5-10k is a more likely amount, and they w... | A top range quad core CPU hashing at 100% can maybe do 10 MHash/second = 0.01 GHash/second. The difficulty is 800000 GHash/second. So to even get 50% of the hashrate you'd need 40 million nodes. It's hard to know how many nodes exactly there are but it's nowhere near this many, 5-10k is a more likely amount, and they w... | [
"Summary: With insider trading there is NO market.\n\nPost: I'm going to borrow an example from Tim Hartfords execllent book \"The Undercover Economist\". \n Suppose you go to a car dealership that sells two kinds of cars: Peaches worth $10,000 and Lemons worth $2,000 (in equal amounts). The problem is that since y... | 15 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,248 |
blart_history | Generate the content for a reddit post if I had kids like little-me and my brother, I'd probably look into leashes. | This. We never had a leash for my brother, but it should have been an explored option. He loved to run into traffic. A lot of above commenters keep telling these stories like, "Oh, well I was punished for that ONCE, and I LEARNED because blah blah I was raised so perfectly." No, dude. First of all, some kids are... | This. We never had a leash for my brother, but it should have been an explored option. He loved to run into traffic. A lot of above commenters keep telling these stories like, "Oh, well I was punished for that ONCE, and I LEARNED because blah blah I was raised so perfectly." No, dude. First of all, some kids are... | [
"Summary: reasons. I also don't think that saying the word \"hell\" is mean or offensive. \n I seriously don't think either of those quotes are mean. I really don't. I shouldn't have to preface my post by calling everyone \"lovelies\" or say something overly chipper in order for my post to get taken seriously.\n... | 24 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,249 |
Telionis | Generate the content for a reddit post Nobody hates the students of for-profit schools, they hate the schools themselves because they are predatory, take advantage of veterans, and are obscenely expensive. Community colleges or legitimate non-profit online schools are the way to go for people who want to improve themse... | I don't think anyone looks down on those trying to get a degree, most hate the corporations themselves.
The problem I have with for-profit schools like ITT and University of Phoenix is that they are predatory in the extreme. What's worse, they target the people who are most in need of educational assistance - those w... | I don't think anyone looks down on those trying to get a degree, most hate the corporations themselves.
The problem I have with for-profit schools like ITT and University of Phoenix is that they are predatory in the extreme. What's worse, they target the people who are most in need of educational assistance - those w... | [
"Summary: All the Sci-Fi films that show them invading for water, or territory, or mineral deposits are pure nonsense. There is nothing that an interstellar civilization would value on Earth. They'd probably see us like ants and ignore us unless we got annoying.\n\nPost: Our radio emissions are so faint that I susp... | 66 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,250 |
Themehmeh | Generate the content for a reddit post Grass is always greener. | I wish I had A cups. These huge things always get in the way and the only thing stopping me from reduction is the awful awful scars I see on the Internet. That and my big belly would look even more pregnant than it already does.
I am very active and it really sucks when your back/shoulders starts hurting 5 minutes in... | I wish I had A cups. These huge things always get in the way and the only thing stopping me from reduction is the awful awful scars I see on the Internet. That and my big belly would look even more pregnant than it already does.
I am very active and it really sucks when your back/shoulders starts hurting 5 minutes in... | [
"Summary: Was Messianic Jew in my parent's house, Now Non denominational Christian.\n\nPost: I dont know exactly what I am :( I am opposed to giving myself a denomination other than christian, but I would like to know under what field of study I fall under and from which church I would be best off furthering my edu... | 17 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,251 |
Hot_Wheels_guy | Generate the content for a reddit post I think longer seasons are only justified if the rewards are greatly increased. Which they should be. | First off, I agree that 1 month is too little, but for different reasons.)
50-100 hours per month is not enough gameplay to gain the skill needed for legendary status in any video game. People who can only play 15 minutes a day will always be at a disadvantage compared to people who log a few hours a day. Again... | First off, I agree that 1 month is too little, but for different reasons.)
50-100 hours per month is not enough gameplay to gain the skill needed for legendary status in any video game. People who can only play 15 minutes a day will always be at a disadvantage compared to people who log a few hours a day. Again... | [
"Summary: I'm jelly you have more friends than I do!\n\nPost: Do you do that in ranked mode? I have less than a hundred ranked wins to my name but I've been playing since season 1, mostly in casual and arena, and no one ever adds me, no matter how stupid and ridiculous the plays I make are. I've literally had 1 p... | 36 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,252 |
ahatmadeofshoes12 | Generate the content for a reddit post My partner and I had both vaginal and anal sex (accidentally) for the first time on the same day and it was awesome. | I technically consider my sexual debut to have occurred when I was 16 and started having non-penetrative sex, however, I'll tell my first PIV story for the sake of this post. I've been masturbating since I was 12 and I spent 4 years having non-penetrative sex before I had my first penetrative experience.
I was 21 at... | I technically consider my sexual debut to have occurred when I was 16 and started having non-penetrative sex, however, I'll tell my first PIV story for the sake of this post. I've been masturbating since I was 12 and I spent 4 years having non-penetrative sex before I had my first penetrative experience.
I was 21 at... | [
"Summary: I want a partner not a \"Prince\" I can buy my own damn stuff and take care of myself. I want an equal companion. And opening doors is just something polite you should do for people of all genders.\n\nPost: This is not a feminist stance. Feminism does not advocate that women have men pay for them. The... | 21 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,253 |
bkh | Generate the content for a reddit post If you want casual sex, ask for it. | Hahaha, from my experience (and flat out asking female friends), if a girl agrees to 'watch a movie' alone with you they want to at least fool around.
It's just more socially acceptable than saying, 'Wanna fuck?'
Edit: a note on the socially acceptable thing...
When a friend of mine first moved here from anothe... | Hahaha, from my experience (and flat out asking female friends), if a girl agrees to 'watch a movie' alone with you they want to at least fool around.
It's just more socially acceptable than saying, 'Wanna fuck?'
Edit: a note on the socially acceptable thing...
When a friend of mine first moved here from anothe... | [
"Summary: Farted in a theatre at an [8], mistook the feeling of my testicles through my jeans as shit.\n\nPost: No. \n NO! \n I fucking hate pooping when I'm high. Also hate farting. I'm sure you can see why. \n Back in high school a bunch of friends and I went to see The Two Towers when it came out. Obviously, we ... | 18 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,254 |
GoDyrusGo | Generate the content for a reddit post There's been considerable downtime, and playoffs motivate each team differently. Anything can happen. | People are on the SKT train because they looked strong towards the end of the split, but GET was really dominant beforehand. SKT got the better of GET at the end of the split, but GET didn't really have anything to play for. It'll have been a few weeks since then, so who's to say how teams have improved in the downti... | People are on the SKT train because they looked strong towards the end of the split, but GET was really dominant beforehand. SKT got the better of GET at the end of the split, but GET didn't really have anything to play for. It'll have been a few weeks since then, so who's to say how teams have improved in the downti... | [
"Summary: I don't know lol\n\nPost: It's interesting to think about. I wish I could talk more on NA culture, especially in being sensitive, but it's so complex I have no idea how to draw a good conclusion. I've spent several years in Germany and some time in SEA. While my time abroad has taught me to appreciate ... | 17 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,255 |
Nard_Dawg | Generate the content for a reddit post I think that people are more moderate than you feel, and their goals do not even necessitate a violent revolution that dismantles our society. I can't imagine a lot of people would want to go through such hassle, anyway. | I don't think people support a violent revolution. While the police actions toward the occupy movement are a bit drastic and unconstitutional, comparing it to Tahrir Square is obvious hyperbole. As such, any intelligent person can see that a violent revolution is neither legitimate nor required--and that the people who... | I don't think people support a violent revolution. While the police actions toward the occupy movement are a bit drastic and unconstitutional, comparing it to Tahrir Square is obvious hyperbole. As such, any intelligent person can see that a violent revolution is neither legitimate nor required--and that the people who... | [
"Summary: maybe not even worth reading, but it isn't a case of embracing your gayness, just realizing that some of this shit isn't actually gay and not worrying about being remotely associated with it. Also don't assume gay guys find you irresistible and can't fight.\n\nPost: I don't really think that sleeping in t... | 16 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,256 |
BobbyJo_babe | Generate the content for a reddit post patience, grasshopper. | Haha, it's been less than 24 hours and there have already been some women posting, not including me.
And let's not forget that it's REPLACING another subreddit that was dying without moderation. So there IS a demand - and my inbox full of requests to create it is proof!
Plus, if you understand how /r/RandomActsOfB... | Haha, it's been less than 24 hours and there have already been some women posting, not including me.
And let's not forget that it's REPLACING another subreddit that was dying without moderation. So there IS a demand - and my inbox full of requests to create it is proof!
Plus, if you understand how /r/RandomActsOfB... | [
"Summary: isn't it already processing 99.9% of the data required to do this, so you'd only need to add the last 0.1% with that one parsed field \"by ...\"?\n\nPost: Au contraire; the layout is perfect as it is because it's a repeating/looping list that can already be as long or as short as the mod list, so the pa... | 34 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,257 |
Moosemaster21 | Generate the content for a reddit post Get Kalil out of the banner, move Patterson to Kalil's old spot (different pose obviously) and put Teddy front and center. Replacing Greenway with Barr would also be nice.
You may sign below | The Unanimous Declaration of the State of Minnesota
When in the course of the football season, it becomes necessary for one fan base to dissolve the bands which have connected them with one player, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's ... | The Unanimous Declaration of the State of Minnesota
When in the course of the football season, it becomes necessary for one fan base to dissolve the bands which have connected them with one player, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's ... | [
"Summary: Reaction time so limited, refs can't expect sudden cessation of movements that have inertia. QB's, particularly \"elites\" are pandered to. Drew Brees is a little bitch and always has been. Officiating was handled incorrectly, that is indisputable. Zimmer should send it in. Skol the end.\n\nPost: I edited... | 21 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,258 |
QandAndroid | Generate the content for a reddit post if you don't mind managing your storage, a phone with 8GB should be fine. If you don't want to have to delete/upload stuff, look for at least 16GB. | Android doesn't really help you out by managing the storage at all (it does for RAM, but that's completely different).
Every phone has an advertised amount of storage (in this case, 8GB). Of this 8GB, some will be taken up by the OS (the OS can take anywhere from 2GB-6GB depending on the phone and pre-installed softw... | Android doesn't really help you out by managing the storage at all (it does for RAM, but that's completely different).
Every phone has an advertised amount of storage (in this case, 8GB). Of this 8GB, some will be taken up by the OS (the OS can take anywhere from 2GB-6GB depending on the phone and pre-installed softw... | [
"Summary: had a great run with the OG Moto X - sounds like they've only improved on it. Haven't used an HTC One M8, but I've herd more than many great things about it. \n Basically, the previous generation was really good... and they've only improved on it.\n\nPost: I used a Moto X (first gen) for 6 months. It was ... | 29 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,259 |
D-Speak | Generate the content for a reddit post Jon has been shown to have potential to lead, and he's not a primary mover and shaker yet. That comes next season. Right now, establishing his relationship with Ygritte is most important. | Jon has potential to lead, which only slightly surfaces in the books until the defense of the Wall. He's shown, after some lecturing from Donal Noye (in the books)/Tyrion (in the show) to be capable of being a leader in the first book/season once he gets over himself.
Aside from the butchering of the Halfhand storyli... | Jon has potential to lead, which only slightly surfaces in the books until the defense of the Wall. He's shown, after some lecturing from Donal Noye (in the books)/Tyrion (in the show) to be capable of being a leader in the first book/season once he gets over himself.
Aside from the butchering of the Halfhand storyli... | [
"Summary: If, next episode, some guy decided to dump a pot of molten gold on Dany's head, it would play out just as it did with Viserys.\n\nPost: A thing that should be noted is that Daenerys saying that doesn't make it true. The Targaryen dynasty is an incredibly proud one, to the point of delusions of grandeur. D... | 34 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,260 |
rabidmonkey1 | Generate the content for a reddit post This isn't your subbreddit. It never will be and you certainly don't get to make the rules. If you don't like the rules, you're free to not participate. If you can't abide by the rules, you will be banned. | Actually, it is analogous because the rules are clear, as I stated in the beginning.
The fact of the matter is Atheists don't like this rule because it effectively silences them. That is because there is really nothing they can say without it pushing a non-Christian agenda.
The rule came into play because atheists ... | Actually, it is analogous because the rules are clear, as I stated in the beginning.
The fact of the matter is Atheists don't like this rule because it effectively silences them. That is because there is really nothing they can say without it pushing a non-Christian agenda.
The rule came into play because atheists ... | [
"Summary: Ancient paganism was brutal. Indeed, they had temple prostitutes and burned the resulting children as offerings to their male and female fertility gods (Ba'al and Ashera, respectively).\n\nPost: Truly, it's hard to find reputable sources online for this kind of stuff, as it is generally talked about in ... | 24 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,261 |
dVnt | Generate the content for a reddit post I think you miss the point of a post like this. | that's impossible to fight without first understanding it.
I disagree, vehemently. Bullshit is bullshit because it's bullshit. Bear with me here: it doesn't not make sense for a reason that needs to be understood -- there is simply no reason why it makes sense. "I don't believe in believing in nonsense" is always a... | that's impossible to fight without first understanding it.
I disagree, vehemently. Bullshit is bullshit because it's bullshit. Bear with me here: it doesn't not make sense for a reason that needs to be understood -- there is simply no reason why it makes sense. "I don't believe in believing in nonsense" is always a... | [
"Summary: Alanis Morissette is probably an idiot, but you're certainly a douchemonger.\n\nPost: First of all, calm down. Emotional outbursts are hardly becoming of someone who goes by the handle logical . Dare I say, your attitude is quite ironic, don't ya think? ;) \n In the context of the average person's egotis... | 30 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,262 |
Ehlmaris | Generate the content for a reddit post mincerray is right. | I'm a guy who was in the same position as OP recently with this girl I know. Incredibly oblivious, didn't even consider the fact that she might be flirting. But every time I'd show up at a gathering of all our friends, she'd kinda watch me as I approached and look away when I left (I assume cuz she didn't want me to go... | I'm a guy who was in the same position as OP recently with this girl I know. Incredibly oblivious, didn't even consider the fact that she might be flirting. But every time I'd show up at a gathering of all our friends, she'd kinda watch me as I approached and look away when I left (I assume cuz she didn't want me to go... | [
"Summary: Either earn it, or be super witty. You can occasionally get it by asking, but it's more common in my experience to get it from explicitly requesting that you not be gilded. Reddit enjoys being contrary.\n\nPost: I have been gilded twice. \n First was an ExplainLikeIAmA, and I just did a wonderful job of b... | 16 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,263 |
OftenStupid | Generate the content for a reddit post Image is of -basically- a Zoroastrian graveyard. The rest is the equivalent of zombie tales about modern regular christian graveyards.
imho. | Towers of Silence are real, the picture is from one of them if i recall correctly. The rest sounds like bullshit to embellish the story although for the life of me I can't figure out why. When I first heard about the towers i found them fucking FASCINATING in their own respect. | Towers of Silence are real, the picture is from one of them if i recall correctly. The rest sounds like bullshit to embellish the story although for the life of me I can't figure out why. When I first heard about the towers i found them fucking FASCINATING in their own respect. | [
"Summary: I am sick and tired of authoritative dismissive comments that are backed by zero knowledge or facts on the situation.\n\nPost: I'm at work (shocking, I know) so I can't go digging for links right now. \n Here's something quick and interesting though: [Greece’s Tax Evasion Prosecutors Quit, Blame Political... | 30 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,264 |
Dennis_Langley | Generate the content for a reddit post Please read. | First item" is implied anyway, since nobody builds tear 6th item. The comment to which you originally responded gave the correct answer: early tear gives you more sustained poke but forces you to take late-game presence over lane-phase dominance.
Furthermore, you said that OP was asking should you build tear, which... | First item" is implied anyway, since nobody builds tear 6th item. The comment to which you originally responded gave the correct answer: early tear gives you more sustained poke but forces you to take late-game presence over lane-phase dominance.
Furthermore, you said that OP was asking should you build tear, which... | [
"Summary: Yes, the 14th Amendment protects the right of gay couples to marry.\n\nPost: I think it does. Marriage benefits are a federal institution. Currently, the federal government discriminates against duly-married gay couples (via DOMA) in violation of the EPC. Furthermore, because marriage is a fundamental rig... | 20 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,265 |
ThePain | Generate the content for a reddit post No one in the industry fucking cares if you went to school for this, or where. No one, not a single fucking person. You are wasting your money if you think that degree will get you anywhere. Go join a mod team (or start one) now if you want anyone to take you seriously. | I have never, never heard or read of, or spoken to a single game developer who takes places like Digipen, or Fullsail, or Dave's seriously. They don't fucking care if you have a masters in 3D modeling. They don't fucking care if you are Valedictorian of Digipen (because I know one of those). What they care about is you... | I have never, never heard or read of, or spoken to a single game developer who takes places like Digipen, or Fullsail, or Dave's seriously. They don't fucking care if you have a masters in 3D modeling. They don't fucking care if you are Valedictorian of Digipen (because I know one of those). What they care about is you... | [
"Summary: version- Dress nicely and act like nothing phases and you're not there to impress anyone, while not coming off as a douche is the way to go if you want to attract the right people. You can be dirt poor, but if you can play off being important people will want to be your friend, even if they don't know why... | 20 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,266 |
billyfazz | Generate the content for a reddit post I got screwed by my state's sexist domestic violence justice, advocacy, and resource/support systems after my wife assaulted me. | After I got beat up and put in the hospital from a beating by my now-ex-wife (3 broken ribs, dislocated shoulder, concussion), I realized how few resources there are for men and how biased the domestic violence justice, advocacy and victims' programs are:
I was told by the ambulance people, the ER nurses, and my fr... | After I got beat up and put in the hospital from a beating by my now-ex-wife (3 broken ribs, dislocated shoulder, concussion), I realized how few resources there are for men and how biased the domestic violence justice, advocacy and victims' programs are:
I was told by the ambulance people, the ER nurses, and my fr... | [
"Summary: Yes, but if a thing's worth doing, it's worth doing right.\n\nPost: It would kill the prison \"industry,\" but it would go a long way toward a more reasoned system of justice. \n Of course, we'd still have to consider jail time (in facilities for non-violent offenders) for the Bernie Madoffs of the world,... | 20 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,267 |
TwoChe | Generate the content for a reddit post I can empathize. Chase is crooked, and will lie, cheat and steal every penny away from you. So I wont be spending any pennies with them anymore. | I just dealt with payment protector today, I tried to activate it because I wont have any money until my loans come in mid January. They said sure, but not this month because they cant do that. I have to make this month's payment, to which I said OK let me cancel payment protector then. So I got transferred to the c... | I just dealt with payment protector today, I tried to activate it because I wont have any money until my loans come in mid January. They said sure, but not this month because they cant do that. I have to make this month's payment, to which I said OK let me cancel payment protector then. So I got transferred to the c... | [
"Summary: You win games by outscoring your opponent, so this is just a silly way of saying we have 32 wins.\n\nPost: In basketball the goal is to score points by getting the ball to go through the hoop. Points can be scored in multiples of 1,2 or 3. 2 and 3 are the most common basket values because a 1 pointer ca... | 17 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,268 |
L33tMasta | Generate the content for a reddit post Run your shit between the mobo and the mobo mounting plate. | Good cable management is DAMNED hard to do. Try to tuck things between the motherboard and the mounting plate to hide them best. Judging by your picture you don't have your wires grouped together and pre-sleeved, which is good. It should make it much easier to run them between because they don't take up much space. The... | Good cable management is DAMNED hard to do. Try to tuck things between the motherboard and the mounting plate to hide them best. Judging by your picture you don't have your wires grouped together and pre-sleeved, which is good. It should make it much easier to run them between because they don't take up much space. The... | [
"Summary: Big numbers don't mean better. Also I seem to have an increasing comment karma, and the downvotes aren't really that big a deal. I know I'm right and I have the evidence to prove it.\n\nPost: Out of the 12 benchmarks, it lost 9 of them to the iPhone5. Apple's A6 1Ghz (auto underclock/overclock 800mhz-1.3G... | 21 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,269 |
MuadD1b | Generate the content for a reddit post Scumbag media draws attention to zip-guns reminding people how to make effective untraceable firearms.
Edit: Not calling out OP just the media who created this shit-storm. | Thanks to the ambulance chasing media making a big fuss about the potential dangers of 3D printed guns (masturbatory hand gesture) the internet is getting reacquainted with zip-guns. Unlike 3D printed guns which as of now are probably pretty traceable (just look for people with access to a 3D printer) these boom-tubes ... | Thanks to the ambulance chasing media making a big fuss about the potential dangers of 3D printed guns (masturbatory hand gesture) the internet is getting reacquainted with zip-guns. Unlike 3D printed guns which as of now are probably pretty traceable (just look for people with access to a 3D printer) these boom-tubes ... | [
"Summary: Gears for crowd control and civil disobedience and maybe a few drug raids. Also it's probably a little bit of a guy thing, I mean just look at that truck if you could get the tax payers to pick up the tab for that guy wouldn't you? It's just a ballistic vehicle equivalent of those Dodge Chargers you see ... | 21 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,270 |
Xervicx | Generate the content for a reddit post I'd rather have a ton of information and little weaponry than a ton of weapons and little information. | At the top of my Zombie Survival list are items like pencils, pens, mechanical pencil refills, ink, markers, miniature whiteboards, cork boards, and many types of paper, as well as books and maps.
Some of you might be thinking: "Well those are everywhere! Why would they be essential in a Zombie Survival Kit?". Well, ... | At the top of my Zombie Survival list are items like pencils, pens, mechanical pencil refills, ink, markers, miniature whiteboards, cork boards, and many types of paper, as well as books and maps.
Some of you might be thinking: "Well those are everywhere! Why would they be essential in a Zombie Survival Kit?". Well, ... | [
"Summary: Are you saying that you support what LiterallyOuttoLunch said, or are you saying you don't support it?\n\nPost: LiterallyOuttoLunch was speaking about how people ask others how they are doing and can tell someone isn't from their state when they are given an answer. \n I criticized and questioned that. \n... | 76 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,271 |
daveime | Generate the content for a reddit post We only have ourselves to blame. | Personally, I blame people. We all know politicians lie, and are only concerned with their own self-interest and lining their buddies pockets. All the altruism, and concern for the poorer members of society, all the socialist ethic we hear repeated here ad nauseum all goes out of the fucking window come election time... | Personally, I blame people. We all know politicians lie, and are only concerned with their own self-interest and lining their buddies pockets. All the altruism, and concern for the poorer members of society, all the socialist ethic we hear repeated here ad nauseum all goes out of the fucking window come election time... | [
"Summary: They act like criminals because they are criminals. Just because you put them all in one contained area it doesn't repress their criminal mentality.\n\nPost: Because they are criminals. I don't see why this is so hard to understand. They do not follow the laws and moral precepts the rest of civilization d... | 45 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,272 |
R3cognizer | Generate the content for a reddit post People are capable of justifying all sorts of atrocities, so the only difference between condoning hate-motivated violence and condoning war is really just a question of how many people agree with you that such actions are sometimes necessary. | The only difference between them is the reasons people use to justify this violence. If you want to make it illegal to promote or invite just hate-motivated violence, then that's what you should say, but the problem is mostly in how you define 'hate'. Ultimately, one's motives are subject to interpretation, and this sk... | The only difference between them is the reasons people use to justify this violence. If you want to make it illegal to promote or invite just hate-motivated violence, then that's what you should say, but the problem is mostly in how you define 'hate'. Ultimately, one's motives are subject to interpretation, and this sk... | [
"Summary: It's okay to be concerned about what people think and how they perceive you. But as soon as you start listening to people who have an overly narrow and exclusive view of what is \"beautiful\" and \"normal\", you are just giving up what little control you do have over how people perceive who you are. Trans... | 16 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,273 |
frakking-anustart | Generate the content for a reddit post Don't blame all your problems on Loria and Montreal should have a AAA team. | Look, ignore Loria for a second. In the 90's, the Buffalo Bisons outdrew the Expos. Look, you seem incredibly bitter and that is fine. After 1983 the Expos never broke the 2 million barrier. In 1991 it was 943 thousand. from 1997-2003 yes it never broke 1 million. The Nats broke 2 million several times as a bad team. S... | Look, ignore Loria for a second. In the 90's, the Buffalo Bisons outdrew the Expos. Look, you seem incredibly bitter and that is fine. After 1983 the Expos never broke the 2 million barrier. In 1991 it was 943 thousand. from 1997-2003 yes it never broke 1 million. The Nats broke 2 million several times as a bad team. S... | [
"Summary: you are the queen of drama and the hottest takes. How many Alternate accounts can you create to downvote me? Lel\n\nPost: Please I don't give two fucks about our owners. And yeah I'm emotional sometimes but melt down into reality. \n You, mostly, turned me into an optomist. Before I was just another pessi... | 17 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,274 |
stinatown | Generate the content for a reddit post Some guys have a weird level of rejection/ignoring stamina. | Sometimes, not always. My sister and I went to a music festival this summer, and she was volunteering there. A guy she was volunteering with was nice enough, so he hung out with us throughout the weekend. By the end of the weekend, he was getting a little clingy, and some of the personal details he shared (he was a ... | Sometimes, not always. My sister and I went to a music festival this summer, and she was volunteering there. A guy she was volunteering with was nice enough, so he hung out with us throughout the weekend. By the end of the weekend, he was getting a little clingy, and some of the personal details he shared (he was a ... | [
"Summary: get up and walk away when you're done eating. Don't hang out in the kitchen.\n\nPost: The kitchen, in my house, is the center of our home, where we tend to congregate, talk, watch the news, read, and (of course) eat. If I'm in the kitchen, I want to eat, even if I'm only there to sit down and read. So ... | 26 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,275 |
Belgand | Generate the content for a reddit post Most of the innovation was done in the first 5 or 6 years of the web and of the examples cited the majority were either already popular or embryonic by around 1999 and have merely seen improvements in interface and/or speed. | I think it depends heavily on what you're specifically talking about as many of those things already existed and were used.
For our purposes let's restrict this to the web which would essentially mean that our survey begins in 1993 with the release of Mosaic. I might even push that back a bit to 1994 when Netscape Na... | I think it depends heavily on what you're specifically talking about as many of those things already existed and were used.
For our purposes let's restrict this to the web which would essentially mean that our survey begins in 1993 with the release of Mosaic. I might even push that back a bit to 1994 when Netscape Na... | [
"Summary: The concept and algorithm seems sound, but the method of determining the data itself seems to be flawed and could be improved in several areas.\n\nPost: Interesting, but not the best. A better option would be to actually take measurements of 1 minute intervals from a variety of her films and then compute ... | 18 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,276 |
Zombie989 | Generate the content for a reddit post Total gain from ten trillion dollar wish: 728,400,000. Still not bad.
Edit: that's if the NSA doesn't jail you while they investigate. The IRS's backing only goes so far as to say that you have this money and that it's real, and they get a cut. 10 trillion dollars deposits into... | Insured at $100,000 per depositor, that's 100,000 banks. In the US, there are 6,799 FDIC insured banks. A very small bank requires $9,000,000 of its own to be a bank. That means you'd still have to tie up 9,225,000,000 in building the banks (and at that cost, it's only 1,025 banks) to hold the remaining 775,000,000. Ho... | Insured at $100,000 per depositor, that's 100,000 banks. In the US, there are 6,799 FDIC insured banks. A very small bank requires $9,000,000 of its own to be a bank. That means you'd still have to tie up 9,225,000,000 in building the banks (and at that cost, it's only 1,025 banks) to hold the remaining 775,000,000. Ho... | [
"Summary: you're alright; don't be too embarrassed. Half the problem was his mildly uncomfortable sex, anyway.\n\nPost: Sometimes, when we're happy about the way something is going, adrenalin kicks in, and we get the shakes. In hunting, sometimes it happens to someone when they've shot an animal, and in that contex... | 21 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,277 |
picmip | Generate the content for a reddit post vacations are overrated but the current odds don't really justify an NiP bet for me. | Never posted any analyses here before, but alright:
People seem to be referring to vacations as a possible decrease in individual performance, as said, at least GTR and friberg have been streaming loads during their vacation and I'm not entirely sure what the rest have been doing.
I heavily doubt anyone's individua... | Never posted any analyses here before, but alright:
People seem to be referring to vacations as a possible decrease in individual performance, as said, at least GTR and friberg have been streaming loads during their vacation and I'm not entirely sure what the rest have been doing.
I heavily doubt anyone's individua... | [
"Summary: will be the same as it is to the guy who replied to you, you're fucking retarded. The backlash is justified, if there are death threats, report them, but in the end, nobody is going to fucking die, you moron.\n\nPost: If you're going to basically steal from your fans, the people who bet on you and deliber... | 15 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,278 |
Quellman | Generate the content for a reddit post The Headless Horseman is throwing a party and it will be awesome. | Like the title says share your dates when you plan on going! Include if you plan on dressing up as well. Who knows, maybe some of you will get an opportunity to meet up for a quick minute.
Now for the small request. Notice, I said "some of you ." I won't be attending this year. Prime reason is this guy then I... | Like the title says share your dates when you plan on going! Include if you plan on dressing up as well. Who knows, maybe some of you will get an opportunity to meet up for a quick minute.
Now for the small request. Notice, I said "some of you ." I won't be attending this year. Prime reason is this guy then I... | [
"Summary: I love the rest of your points otherwise, especially number 1.\n\nPost: I got hung up when you said CrossFit is a challenge and liken it to ToughMudder. I don't think the 2 are related in any sense unless you are talking about the CrossFit Open (going on currently) or some local competition. \n Toughmudd... | 40 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,279 |
sons_of_mothers | Generate the content for a reddit post A Recon's job is to spot and KILL, and the kill through the means of sniping. | Recons have always been a "difficult" topic for Battlefielders. I feel I need to clarify something.
What is a Recons job?
A medic's job is to assault on the front lines, heal, and revive teammates.
An engineer is supposed to repair vehicles and overall be against enemy vehicles.
Supports are there to of course ... | Recons have always been a "difficult" topic for Battlefielders. I feel I need to clarify something.
What is a Recons job?
A medic's job is to assault on the front lines, heal, and revive teammates.
An engineer is supposed to repair vehicles and overall be against enemy vehicles.
Supports are there to of course ... | [
"Summary: single player: Far Cry 4 \n Multiplayer: GTA V\n\nPost: It's mostly a preference. The GTA V story is good but Far Cry 4 has a much more enjoyable single player experience. \n However, as someone who plays games with 1-5 other friends online constantly I enjoy the online of GTA V more. I don't host the coo... | 21 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,280 |
the_glass_gecko | Generate the content for a reddit post West-coast MA programs in Psychology/Communication with an emphasis in Animal Behavior/Psychology, and respective careers? | Hello, thanks all for having this community to answer questions!
I was the kind of kid who did well in everything in school and was swept along by my instructors step by step - when I graduated high school and didn't know what to study, each teacher pushed me to follow their subject. So I changed my major twice, fel... | Hello, thanks all for having this community to answer questions!
I was the kind of kid who did well in everything in school and was swept along by my instructors step by step - when I graduated high school and didn't know what to study, each teacher pushed me to follow their subject. So I changed my major twice, fel... | [
"Summary: Both cow stomachs and silage are fermenting, but different bacterias and different types of fermentation are occurring. Bacteria in rumens are targeting the breakdown of cellulose, freeing up nutrients in grasses we humans cannot access. Fermentation in silage is not so consistent. It makes perfect sen... | 18 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,281 |
Sm3agolol | Generate the content for a reddit post You're going to have to get off the treadmill. | I'm not going to lie, I have no idea what you're talking about in regards to resistance. To get faster though, most people are just going to tell you to practice faster. Add things like intervals and fartleks into your training regime....both things that are really difficult to do on a treadmill. | I'm not going to lie, I have no idea what you're talking about in regards to resistance. To get faster though, most people are just going to tell you to practice faster. Add things like intervals and fartleks into your training regime....both things that are really difficult to do on a treadmill. | [
"Summary: i still think mana drain is worth it to max earlier than hex.\n\nPost: This is the point in the game where you need those extra levels of hex the most to maintain your map dominance. \n This is basically the crux of your entire argument in the favor of hex, and I completely disagree with it. \n \n First o... | 19 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,282 |
ikinone | Generate the content for a reddit post Mac is pc | Buy a decent pc. It runs fine.
What people don't get is that it is not PC vs MAC, it is Sony vs Mac vs Acer vs Asus, vs Lenovo etc. Some PC brands are good, some are not. Really, Mac IS a brand of PC. PC is simply personal computer. While PCs used to be dominated by Microsoft, they are to a lesser extent now. There i... | Buy a decent pc. It runs fine.
What people don't get is that it is not PC vs MAC, it is Sony vs Mac vs Acer vs Asus, vs Lenovo etc. Some PC brands are good, some are not. Really, Mac IS a brand of PC. PC is simply personal computer. While PCs used to be dominated by Microsoft, they are to a lesser extent now. There i... | [
"Summary: It is fine to discourage religion. You would probably discourage any other insane or fanciful belief (which has an impact on peoples lives) you encounter in society.\n\nPost: Atheists who go over to r/[religion] and attack them are being jerks, \n Why exactly? If there was a r/rapetechniques or a r/howtot... | 19 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,283 |
freedomweasel | Generate the content for a reddit post everyone knows, and no one gives a shit. | Joe asks how many baseballs Bob has in his collection. Bob says, I dunno, probably around 100. Joe says, actually you have exactly 99, not 100, so you are wrong. Everyone tells Joe that, while true, it's still pretty much 100 so who cares. Joe insists that he's right because it's exactly 99, which is not 100. Ever... | Joe asks how many baseballs Bob has in his collection. Bob says, I dunno, probably around 100. Joe says, actually you have exactly 99, not 100, so you are wrong. Everyone tells Joe that, while true, it's still pretty much 100 so who cares. Joe insists that he's right because it's exactly 99, which is not 100. Ever... | [
"Summary: is that no, you probably won't die and explode your head against the bar, but you're adding that risk, gaining nothing, and losing money. \n If you don't feel unsafe driving to work in your del sol, you shouldn't worry about autox. If you do feel unsafe driving in your del sol, you should buy a differe... | 177 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,284 |
dirtyklingon | Generate the content for a reddit post difference between people making a change and the people we make fun of. lots of people latching on to this that would deny simple realities simply for attention or to be angry. but there's still good people making positive and good change in the world that get a bad rap by associ... | sure and there's people that fight for social justice that are doing good, and not being hateful.
i'd like to think i'm one of the former, as i was telling people that i see nothing wrong with being gay or gay marriage long before it was the trendy hot topic of today despite so called "open minded" people calling me ... | sure and there's people that fight for social justice that are doing good, and not being hateful.
i'd like to think i'm one of the former, as i was telling people that i see nothing wrong with being gay or gay marriage long before it was the trendy hot topic of today despite so called "open minded" people calling me ... | [
"Summary: do more than just link your shitty blog and you won't get modded. rule #1 of the internet here folks.\n\nPost: shamelessly linking to your own ad driven site on someone else's site isn't ok. plain and simple. \n OC is great and all, but this behaviour was not ok or even great. \n i think content that does... | 19 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,285 |
NecroGod | Generate the content for a reddit post Picked my cars broken lock with a piece of mulch and gave some people free entertainment. | I had an old Camaro and I locked my keys in it at the mall one day. The hatchback lock was broken and removed and you could open it by inserting a flat head screwdriver and turning the latch. I had no screwdriver at hand so I instead picked up a piece of mulch that was surrounding one of the trees.
I started scraping... | I had an old Camaro and I locked my keys in it at the mall one day. The hatchback lock was broken and removed and you could open it by inserting a flat head screwdriver and turning the latch. I had no screwdriver at hand so I instead picked up a piece of mulch that was surrounding one of the trees.
I started scraping... | [
"Summary: Had a roommate who would use a poop-rag instead of buying more toilet paper.\n\nPost: I had a roommate one time who would consume toilet paper like crazy. Example: One weekend, for science, I replaced a partially used roll of toilet paper with a new one before leaving town. When I got back on Sunday there... | 33 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,286 |
Fiat_Nox | Generate the content for a reddit post HDR is a technique-trend, and when poorly applied, it can create very ugly photos. While some professional photographers will deliver HDR photos to clients who want it, others are more eager to continue doing what they know produces quality images that will stand the test of time... | I think a large part of the reason that HDR has a bad reputation are photos like this: and this:
where the photos have been over-processed and are, to steal a phrase from digitalrev, a "vomit of colours."
Moreover, HDR processing can have unpleasant effects, like bright fringing at high-contrast points in the photo... | I think a large part of the reason that HDR has a bad reputation are photos like this: and this:
where the photos have been over-processed and are, to steal a phrase from digitalrev, a "vomit of colours."
Moreover, HDR processing can have unpleasant effects, like bright fringing at high-contrast points in the photo... | [
"Summary: In short, Pentax would be developing and producing a line of products that may appease a small amount of their customer base, but be unlikely to tempt Canon and Nikon users away from their systems. They would very likely lose money on a full frame system. \nPentax users typically buy into Pentax because ... | 21 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,287 |
hollowaydivision | Generate the content for a reddit post Greenseers are sicker than your average citizen of Westeros, but it manifests in different ways. Not all look alike, as long as there’s a sacrificial loss of vitality and an initial recruitment phase of greendreams. The Maesters have forgotten the purpose of their order, and so ev... | There's a chance Maester Luwin tricked us.
He didn’t do it intentionally, of course - Luwin would never. Rather, George R.R. Martin tricked us with Maester Luwin. Luwin's deep, honest love for crippled Bran and the rest of the Starks lulls us into seeing the maesters as the promise of enlightenment for poor feudal ... | There's a chance Maester Luwin tricked us.
He didn’t do it intentionally, of course - Luwin would never. Rather, George R.R. Martin tricked us with Maester Luwin. Luwin's deep, honest love for crippled Bran and the rest of the Starks lulls us into seeing the maesters as the promise of enlightenment for poor feudal ... | [
"Summary: There is a black and Sunless Sea beneath the world, and if greyscale comes from anywhere, it comes from there.\n\nPost: Grey Water \n ASOIAF includes many examples of water-based magic. First and foremost there is greyscale , and the Sorrows , and the Stone Men , and the Shrouded Lord. And then there... | 61 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,288 |
M0dusPwnens | Generate the content for a reddit post The game is in a pretty great state for only being a few months out from release and there's a lot of promise, but I think people are increasingly worried that it's a promise the game isn't going to keep. | There is great stuff in almost every system in the game.
The problem is that there is also not-so-great stuff in almost every system in the game.
People will tell you that the leveling isn't good, but there's a lot to like there. Other people will tell you that the endgame instances are the problem, but, in mos... | There is great stuff in almost every system in the game.
The problem is that there is also not-so-great stuff in almost every system in the game.
People will tell you that the leveling isn't good, but there's a lot to like there. Other people will tell you that the endgame instances are the problem, but, in mos... | [
"Summary: I think it's less a sense of entitlement, and more a sense of exasperation after Wollay continues to err on the side of extreme caution when the videos we're seeing show that the game is plenty ready for a test release.\n\nPost: I think more than anything else I just find the whole distribution thing wei... | 54 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,289 |
Mr-Magnus | Generate the content for a reddit post of the rest of that text is that muons from our perspective slow down and thus live long enough to reach the earth. From their perpesctive they live for the correct amount of time but instead the distance from them and to the ground gets shorter so they can reach it in time at the... | As you accelerate to light speed, wouldn't you witness everything in the universe sped up?
why should everything speed up? remember, the universe is the one moving, not you. from your frame of reference there is no instinctive difference between you yourself moving and everything but you moving. The only law you have... | As you accelerate to light speed, wouldn't you witness everything in the universe sped up?
why should everything speed up? remember, the universe is the one moving, not you. from your frame of reference there is no instinctive difference between you yourself moving and everything but you moving. The only law you have... | [
"Summary: E = MC^2 is Einsteins equation, it appears in general relativity and describes the exchange rate between mass and pure energy if you would turn one into the other\n\nPost: E = MC^2 is an equation that describes energy contained in any mass that isn't moving (Its essentially a simpler version of another eq... | 26 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,290 |
Eizooz | Generate the content for a reddit post i love adderall but am worried if i take it everyday i will become addicted or build tolerance | So im 1.5 weeks into taking 20mg Adderall XR daily. I have skipped a few days to see the difference and mostly because im afraid of dependence or tolerance.
The problem is that so far it has been a magic drug for me. I have only had side effects when taken alongside caffeine (bruxism) but have not experienced anythin... | So im 1.5 weeks into taking 20mg Adderall XR daily. I have skipped a few days to see the difference and mostly because im afraid of dependence or tolerance.
The problem is that so far it has been a magic drug for me. I have only had side effects when taken alongside caffeine (bruxism) but have not experienced anythin... | [
"Summary: I'm Harry potter\n\nPost: When I was in school there was this dude that was a massive douche to me. Like massive. His dad was well known and also a massive douche. His family was rich and he lorded it over everyone and was always bragging about his lineage and he was pretty racist. He always made fun of m... | 18 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,291 |
StManTiS | Generate the content for a reddit post the center is the captain of the line. | The center makes the calls on who the loose blocker is and where the middle of the alignment is amongst other things. Just watch a center lining up, he looks both way and points and usually shouts something. Also the center has to make the call as to which guard he is helping or is he is going up a level on the play. I... | The center makes the calls on who the loose blocker is and where the middle of the alignment is amongst other things. Just watch a center lining up, he looks both way and points and usually shouts something. Also the center has to make the call as to which guard he is helping or is he is going up a level on the play. I... | [
"Summary: no it is no easier for women\n\nPost: Also I feel the need to add this in addition to my other comment: the pill has SIDEFFECTS. Some pretty major ones at that. Common ones include mood changes and weight gain which really go together. But there are some much more major ones like on-period related bleed. ... | 26 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,292 |
mda_jailbird | Generate the content for a reddit post You're a shitty person | Not being reminded of it certainly isn't going to help her not do it again.
Being a dick and constantly reminding her of her mistake isn't going to help her either.
>And seriously... how do you think my self esteem was after I'd (a) gone through a ugly breakup that (b) got me fired from my job, which (c) caused me ... | Not being reminded of it certainly isn't going to help her not do it again.
Being a dick and constantly reminding her of her mistake isn't going to help her either.
>And seriously... how do you think my self esteem was after I'd (a) gone through a ugly breakup that (b) got me fired from my job, which (c) caused me ... | [
"Summary: Art is strange. I could shit in a bowl and we might have the same discussion. I (try to) believe everyone's opinion should be equally valid. Does that mean that at no point can anyone say that one piece of art is more artistic than another, or does it mean that someone could always make that claim? Probab... | 29 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,293 |
HashTagDeeperino | Generate the content for a reddit post try not to craft commons, cautiously craft rares, be sure you'll actually use the epic/legendaries you craft but otherwise don't worry too much because it's unlikely anything will go wrong, just remember that a lot of rares can be a lot more important than just 1 legendary/epic. | Golden cards are as far as use go exactly the same as normal cards. Once you have 2 regular versions of a card there's no reason (unless you like goldens) to keep the golden card.
As for what to craft it's typically a very bad idea to craft commons because they're rather expensive yet easy to find, it's OK but simila... | Golden cards are as far as use go exactly the same as normal cards. Once you have 2 regular versions of a card there's no reason (unless you like goldens) to keep the golden card.
As for what to craft it's typically a very bad idea to craft commons because they're rather expensive yet easy to find, it's OK but simila... | [
"Summary: It's a matter of balance. Soulfire is really strong and does stuff to the board, part of the cost is the knowledge you give to the enemy. Tracking is good but only good because it doesn't give up knowledge to your enemy, it's about gaining knowledge not just thinning your deck.\n\nPost: Soulfire has direc... | 38 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,294 |
fedabog | Generate the content for a reddit post Basically, yeah. The meds help you cope and clear your mind. Then you can rationally figure out what negative thoughts you have, and replace them with positive ones. Lying to yourself works, as long as you confront your problems at the same time. | edit: Not-steve, this is the idea in a nutshell. There is a lot that goes behind it, and its not as easy at it may seem....especially if you have a mental illness (depression, manic depressive, disassociation, ect.)
I used to have major depressive disorder with suicidal ideations (sounds complex... I know).
The ... | edit: Not-steve, this is the idea in a nutshell. There is a lot that goes behind it, and its not as easy at it may seem....especially if you have a mental illness (depression, manic depressive, disassociation, ect.)
I used to have major depressive disorder with suicidal ideations (sounds complex... I know).
The ... | [
"Summary: Go see your doctor first, then gradually work yourself up. Stay focused and stay strong\n\nPost: First off, go see your doctor. Make sure you are physically able to exercise. This might sound like a joke, but if you have an underlying heart condition or cardiovascular disease you are unaware about.... it ... | 15 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,295 |
aronivars | Generate the content for a reddit post I am sick of labels in politics as well, and have seen signs of this happening in my own country. | You are right, but most people are taught to "fight fire with fire", which basically leads to a shouting match. And what do simple-minded people look to? Catchy slogans and labels.
But we cannot deny that there are figures out there spouting racist and inaccurate points to fuel their war and affect views of the peopl... | You are right, but most people are taught to "fight fire with fire", which basically leads to a shouting match. And what do simple-minded people look to? Catchy slogans and labels.
But we cannot deny that there are figures out there spouting racist and inaccurate points to fuel their war and affect views of the peopl... | [
"Summary: Not all DLC is bad, but EA screwed my brother and I, and that is why I began avoiding their products. \n P.S: Sorry if there are spelling or grammar errors. English is my second language, but I use it so much it shouldn't be an excuse for poor writing.\n\nPost: I think you are being too straight forward w... | 19 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,296 |
Kombat_Wombat | Generate the content for a reddit post I was praised too much as a child, and when I lost my mother, I realized how much nothing I am without the pats on the back. | I've noticed that often times people brag about how they're doing complicated maths or something extra nerdy. The truth is, anyone can do the maths if they wanted to.
>Little do they know that I'm going to go home and run multi-variable economic regressions for fun
It's like some sort of trophy that makes them spe... | I've noticed that often times people brag about how they're doing complicated maths or something extra nerdy. The truth is, anyone can do the maths if they wanted to.
>Little do they know that I'm going to go home and run multi-variable economic regressions for fun
It's like some sort of trophy that makes them spe... | [
"Summary: Books are dumb. TV is smart.\n\nPost: I don't read a ton. I've read I'd say a total of about 100 books for leisure in my life. I had to read a ton in college, and now I read articles and such. I feel badly about myself when people tout that they read a book a week or something like that because I migh... | 25 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,297 |
databeast | Generate the content for a reddit post I'm guessing he's really weak to fire dmg. my krieg had a hellborn build going on at the time. | huh, completely the opposite experience here. ran the dlc in TVHM with lvl50 Krieg. Took off 3/4 of his health in literally seconds with a fire conf.call, then finished him off with buzzaxe rampage - seriously underwhelming after the build up about him needing you to 'master the candies' to beat him. | huh, completely the opposite experience here. ran the dlc in TVHM with lvl50 Krieg. Took off 3/4 of his health in literally seconds with a fire conf.call, then finished him off with buzzaxe rampage - seriously underwhelming after the build up about him needing you to 'master the candies' to beat him. | [
"Summary: I'm expecting far-less-emo Barry to emerge, and more of the Barry that Batman described like this: \"Barry is the kind of man that I would've hoped to become if my parents hadn't been murdered.\"\n\nPost: yep, that's what I'm hoping to see as well. My suspicions are that this season has been about establi... | 36 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,298 |
TBOJ | Generate the content for a reddit post Warwick was previously strong, new jungle favors warwicks sustain, and new feral flare is insanely OP, and new smite synergizes with ww incredibly well | I've played a ton of warwick both before and after the patch. I've got a good idea - but honestly its a whole bunch of factors.
First and foremost - the new jungle WRECKS people in terms of damage. So much so that even after leashes a lot of junglers don't feel comfortable doing both blue and red buff without retur... | I've played a ton of warwick both before and after the patch. I've got a good idea - but honestly its a whole bunch of factors.
First and foremost - the new jungle WRECKS people in terms of damage. So much so that even after leashes a lot of junglers don't feel comfortable doing both blue and red buff without retur... | [
"Summary: Tone is important, word choice is important, and Riot isn't robbing anyone, and you aren't a complete idiot if you think the chromas are worth it, thats just your choice\n\nPost: Okay, This is a really long response but i started typing and just didnt stop so sorry for that. But this whole situation has ... | 26 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,299 |
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