Strangely I don't seem to gain hash when I up to 1110~1130 clock so I'll stick with 1100. \n Have you heard about the 'sweet spot core to memory ratio'? A theory exists, pushed by the creator of cgminer, that your best hash will come not from your highest overclocks, but from having the perfect ratio of core to memory clocks. Look it up. You might find a higher hash rate if you up your memory more, and if you can't, then see if dropping your core helps your hash. This wasn't true for me though, my best hash just came from maxing them both as much as I could on the voltage I have, which was 1068mhz/1649mhz@1.169v (stock voltage, my dual-x simply gets too hot even on stock voltage to mess with it, not to mention that adding an extra .2v doesn't even yield me 50mhz, so I get near-zero returns for a huge increase in temps, and increased temps means exponentially increased power consumption!). \n On a side note, voltages are actually a bigger impact than temps on electromigration but practically, if you stay below max temps, which are well below the real max temps (where hardcoded chip thermal limits will throttle the chip way before it reaches damaging temps), this isn't a big deal. 1.3v on a 7950, practically, is not going to damage a 7950 at all, although it very well might strain the VRM, so make sure your VRM temps are okay whenever increasing voltages.","Summary: Got my phone back from a knife-thief, gained a reputation as the American Superman.\n\nPost: Okay I got one. \n I went to Tangiers, Morocco (ha, that could be the end of the story). \n So my gf was passed out, and I was up, so at about 2AM i decided to walk around, maybe go to a bar (hint, morocco is muslim, not really a bar place). I find the night area, and see a pay phone so I decide to use it real quick to make a call back to the US. I set my cell phone out, as I need it to check contact numbers. As I set it down to punch the numbers on the pay phone, some guy comes out from behind and grabs my phone and dashes out. \n So I book it after him, because I just bought the Droid 2 and no way was I losing my camera for the month long vacation across Africa and Europe. I chase him past some sort of convenience store, and there's this car, and I go one way around it, and he goes the other, and I didn't realize there was like a flight of 5 stairs with a railing. Now the guy was starting to tear down the alleys down that route, and so I just jumped over the rails (right in front of all the crowd at the convenience store). I catch up to him shortly, and this whole time I'm yelling Help, help, stop, phone, just to get attention. Now once I've caught up to the guy, he whips around and pulls a knife on me. I keep my distance, but no fucking way am I losing that phone so I just scream help, help, yelling loudly, trying to make a scene. \n Well some young 20-30 guy comes, jeans and leather jacket just like the thief, and he looks like he wants to help out, so he approaches the knife guy like hey just give the phone back, and bam he snatches the phone out of knife dude's hand. Now I'm sure it was just a hand-off, and I've read a million times about fake-hand offs and such, but I clearly saw him take it. Just by instinct, I book it after him and I literally shove the knife guy out of the way (I think he was surprised I charged him and I think I forgot he had a knife lol). \n So now I'm chasing Bad Guy #2, and we go down a few dark alleys, things start to get darker and tighter, I have no idea where I am, it's just pitch black and dark, flat, arab concrete walls around me. I catch up to the guy, he reeks of alcohol (with how alcohol is in such a muslim country, I swear, it's like people get 'hooked' on alcohol over there like people in normal places get hooked on crack, it's really weird). I put him in a headlock immediately and just say phone phone, help help, again, trying to create a scene, and just trying to get my phone back. Well, the motherfucker bites me, and draw blood, and that set me off, so I start bashing his face in. \n Then all of the sudden, a bunch of lights come on, and there are at least 20 people all around me, screaming in arabic. I have no idea if they are trying to help me or chanting death to america, so I make it quick and start feeling around for my phone in the guy's pockets, and I find it when I feel him trying to slip it out of his pocket and give it to someone in the crowd. I grab my phone, and jump back with my hands up and the phone out, making clear to the crowd that I just wanted my phone, all is good. \n Eventually, the loudest lady there, says it's okay, how horrible it all is, and the crowd of people were just pissed to be woken up at 2AM by some American screaming their head off and yet another thief and crime occurring in their neighborhood. They invite me in, feed me, take care of my wound, unfortunately the thief weaseled away. Later on I go to the cops and we beat the shit out of alcoholic homeless people with them and I catch another pickpocket, but that's a whole other story. \n But here's the badass part - so I tell my girlfriend about the story, as we left Tangiers the next day to go to Fez for the rest of the week. But, you know, I bullshit a bit - not bullshit exactly, but I tell her how I'm a hero, how everyone will recognize me, how if I take her to where it happened, little kids are going to ride around and come follow us and when we walk around there, you'll hear bird calls and whistling like American drug dealers in projects, and that they'll all recognize me. I mean there's not really much more crazy I can make the story, but I basically tell her a bunch of joking BS how they'll all recognize me and fear me. The whole week, I tell her how I'll have a nickname, all this stuff, and she's like yea right, it was 2AM, they won't recognize you at all. \n So a week later, we're back in Tangiers to catch the ferry back to Spain, and we have a few hours to kill, so I say hey, let me take you to where it all happened, the rail I had to jump and the alleys I went through that were pitch black but are really the entrances to these people's homes. And sure enough, as we break off from the main road toward that area, little kids on bikes start circling us and we hear a few whistles. Now, my gf being an American woman, she was always getting cat calls, so we just sort of looked at each other and it was funny. But as we got closer, we started hearing very definite whooping whistles, and the kids were clearly circling us. As we get to the spot I jumped the rail, one of the kids runs up and starts yelling 'Superman! Superman! You fly over the rail!'. All the guys at the convenience store all say hey what's up, they all immediately recognized me. \n My girlfriend just could not stop laughing. That's my badass story. This happened like 2 years ago now and I just sold the phone on ebay in great condition.","Summary: HWINFO IS WAY BETTER THAN EVERYTHING ELSE\n\nPost: There is nothing better than HWInfo. It will give you information on far more than any other program, the creator is easy to get a hold of and responds quickly to PM and his Dedicated thread on OCN, there are constant updates and betas, there is a huge degree of customization. \n It has literally replaced every program for me except stress tests (prime95 and OCCT:GPU) and software fan control (speedfan) which he's currently working on. \n You can set up graphs to ANYTHING, any color, any size, any border or design, you can set up under/over limits (ie 12v dropping too low to 11.5v, temps or volts too high, power consumption too high, VRM temps, etc) that cause the system to display a warning, shut down, or execute any sort of command or program using any prompts (ie shutdown -t 30). \n it tells you how long it's run (like realtemp), you can set an icon in the tray of any color, of anything. You can have it show a system summary, it can tell you very specific things like your driver versions, BIOS versions, rated specs of your hardware, etc etc. \n Speccy sucks, it just tells you the specs of your system, it doesn't read every IO and it's set up pretty awfully. No graphs, no tray icons, no shutdown/warning/prompt limits. \n Speedfan sucks because there are no graphs, no customization. However for fan control it's the best out there (custom fan profiles for each fan header as far as mobo allows). This is less because it's good and more because everything else sucks though. \n Coretemp only shows core temps, it doesnt show temps to anything else. It has a lot of customization to CPU temp display, which is nice, but it has no graph function, and shows nothing else. \n CPU-Z has the 5 tabs which is awful for trying to grab a screenshot, and doesn't report any IO information. \n GPU-Z is okay, but no graph function, no tray icon function. \n Coretemp is the only one that allows for a shutdown temp, but has zero customability to it, like letting you set a warning temp, or triggering a program or setting up prompts. It also only allows for shutdown, instead of letting you do things like shutdown a program (ie instead of shutting down the PC, have HWinfo shutdown Prime95 or the Game if you hit X temp). \n HWMonitor looks like crap, no graph, no average value reported, no reset of values, you have to close then reopn the program to reset values. You also can't customize which values are shown. HWMonitor also doesn't tell you how long it's been open (ie to validate a 24 hour prime95 run, for example). \n Like HWMonitor, AIDA64 requires a pay version for full feature. \n Yea, all those programs suck compared to HWInfo. Seriously. \n This is only the graph/IO section of HWInfo, and those are only 1/4th of the reported values (voltage, temps, frequencies, ram usage, virtual ram usage, etc, not shown, the pic is just to show some more obscure stuff that most IO programs miss like VRM temps and power consumption). It's also got a System Summary page much like CPU-Z except organized way better and shows more info, and it's got a specific system breakdown page like AIDA64 has but much better and more in-depth. \n Let me know if there is something I missed. I've used pretty much every overclock/system program out there, and talked to almost every developer. HWInfo is the closest thing to a 'One Program does All' that exists. And Mumak is pretty awesome","Summary: It should be pretty simple to figure out. \n \n Can Zerg take a fourth on this map? \n \n Is the rush distance large or small? \n \n Is the third possible to pressure, or can T/P just take a stupidly easy third that Zerg can do nothing about? \n \n Can we send out overlords? \n \n Could we go mutas if we wanted to? \n \n Does the map have any cliffs/features that would make use tear our hair out? \n \n Is their enough open ground, or is the map all chokes?\n\nPost: 1100 Masters Zerg's opinions on vZ: \n \n Maps that have a super easy to take third, are usually much harder for Zerg. This is because T/P can do a stupidly greedy build to take a third and there is nothing, from roach/ling max to mutas, that can punish it on the worst maps, or conversely, they can open some sort of all-in, and if it fails, it doesn't matter, they just back off and take a third when on other maps that'd just straight up because of no ability to take a third. An example of this would be Entombed Valley or Cloud Kingdom, maps that Toss can actually safely go FFE-1gateCyber-Third (it's like a robo expand, but weaker to all-ins, but you can scout, and then it's much stronger at the 12:00+ timings). Maps like Antiga, are a bit weird, in that this factor makes it Terran favored, since Terran sets up a defensive position and/or utilizes the chokes at each base, while for Toss it's not so unfavorable because Toss cannot survive at all in the open against Zerg, as well as the larger distance between nat/third. \n \n This factor is even worse on maps where there are rocks involved, as rocks do not hinder Toss/Terran at all from grabbing even a fast third, but just stop any attempt by Zerg to. An example of this is TDA, Entombed Valley to a small degree, XNC. \n \n Rush Distance. Quite simply, the more distance there is, the less responsive Zerg can be, and the more they have to simply pump units out. On certain maps, like Close Spawns or Steppes, Zerg simply can't play the game at all because they just have to kill their economy just because of the possibility of any move-out. Large map distance does favor Zerg, but there are a lot of other factors involved in maps, and map distance isn't everything. \n \n For example, \"Calm before the [Psionic] Storm' is extremely Toss favored - despite the non-existent rush distance, due to the free third Toss can get, and hard to take fourth, there's just no way Zerg can survive the 3 base Toss deathpush. Generally, rush distance and ease of third are variables that go side by side - a short rush distance on a map can mean T/P won't care at all about ease of third, he just kills Zerg every time on Steppes of War with a 2 base push, but on a map like Calm before the Storm, T/P won't care about rush distances because they just turtle up and hit a devastating 3 base timing. This factor more favors Toss than Terran - Rush distances is a bigger factor in ZvT, while ease of Third is a bigger factor in ZvP. \n \n Air Space - Lack of airspace hurts Zerg in 2 ways. First, it means we can't scout. On a map like Cloud Kingdom, it's just straight up risky to send out that 2nd overlord that you NEED to send out in ZvT to scout in Terran's main. A lot of Terrans don't move out to kill this overlord because if their marines are out on the map, they are susceptible to pressure or an all-in (maybe they should worker scout to see if Zerg took gas, to see if they can kill that overlord or not...), but losing that overlord is a huge deal - Zerg ALWAYS sac's an overlord into the main around 7:00 against both T/P. Secondly, it limits Zerg's options by 50%, as muta play just becomes much weaker, on certain maps like Cloud Kingdom, it's damn near not even viable to go mutas. This makes Zerg a lot more predictable, and a good opponent can cut a ton of corners (ie not even bother to scanning and knowing he doesnt need to blindly put up turrets). Due to Zerg not usually having mobile ground AA, this really doesn't change the ability of drops to do damage, or stargate units, but it does change the ability of Zerg to use air units against the other races. \n \n Split Map. This is a tricky one. Back when ghosts were super strong and deathballing was OP, all T/P had to do on maps like Shakuras was, no matter how bad their early game was or how far behind they were (like a failed all-in that was completely stomped), T just gets enough siege tanks to take a third and then masses ghosts while splitting the map with PFs, or P just gets enough colossus to take a third and then masses VR/Colossus. Recent patches have made this much less of a factor, but split map can still hurt Zerg, as due to the extreme cost inefficiency of Zerg units, we simply will never win a game if it comes down to both players mining out their half of the map. Daybreak has this to a very, very minor degree (can't take those side expos against T...), and over 50% of my games on Ohana and Korhal in ZvT turn into split map games. However, if the map is too wide open, it can potentially really hurt Zerg, as there is no way Broodlord/infestor can keep far off bases alive if the lategame bases are really, really far away (ie good luck having a 6th base on Cloud Kingdom). Since Zerg is quite strong lategame though, this isn't a big factor, nor as bad as it used to be. \n \n \n In fact, Shakuras Plateau, at the highest level of play, used to be considered the most imbalanced map of all in ZvT, and impossible to win. \n \n Ease of Fourth. Whereas Zerg wants a third that is somewhat harder to take (because of having to protect both main/nat and third, you can't rely on static defenses, so defending a fast third as Zerg is not too map dependent, relatively, so as long as it wasn't like trying to take a far-off third on TDA away from the spot with rocks, it really doesn't matter how hard it is to take the third on a map for Zerg) because it makes it harder for T/P, or easier to put aggression on T/P, and delays their push as the map forces more defense, Zerg actually wants a fourth that's easier to take. T/P grabbing their fourth base usually isn't a huge issue, because we'll have siege units that don't care much about map architecture, but Z needs to make sure they can defend their third against an aggressive pre-hive timing 3 base deathball push. For example, Antiga is hell for Zergs because it's just impossible to take a fourth on that base. \n \n Open spaces. That old map, Typhon Peaks, which was just all chokes, sucked ass for Zerg. Just no way to engage at all as Zerg on ridiculous map like that. \n \n Cliff Abuse. Lost temple was ridiculously broken against Zerg. I don't know why they didn't burn down the GOMTV studio when that set of nestea vs mkp happened in GSL Open 2, where MKP rushed thor drop, and Nestea could do nothing against it, despite scouting exactly what MKP was doing, and having a ton of defense set up in advance. Another erxample is Antiga Ladder Edition, Terran can put siege tanks in their main/third to attack Zerg's third/main on close spawns, and TDA has a negative feature with the natural being so easy to siege up. Maps like Antiga, has that little cliff nook that makes Toss warp-ins into the base particularly strong as well. Shakuras also can be a pain with the cliff next to the main. Some cliffs are much worse than others, but irregardless, cliffs are always a negative feature for Zerg. \n \n Overlord Positions. Daybreak does a really good job of this. Newer maps are starting to incorporate this more, like Whirlwind. \n \n Ramps. We want open ramps generally to the natural and third, to allow pressure easier for Zerg, since we simply cannot do pressure on maps like Shakuras against 2 base opponents. On the other hand, ramps/no ramp doesn't really hurt zerg since we usually rely on units, since we can't rely on static defense to defend the quick third we need to take, yet if the opponent does a 1 base all-in, we can really rely just on spines to protect ourselves. Basically, the more open the third and natural, the better for Zerg in terms of options, while defensively we can rely both on open space and chokes. \n \n Gas that we can scout at the natural. This is really huge in ZvP. This sucks ass on Metropolis, a map we constantly see Toss go gasless because it's so damn impossible for Zerg to scout a FFE gas timings. Also important in ZvZ, but gas timings literally identify exactly what Zerg needs to do (a quick 2 gas at natural may not exactly say what Zerg needs, but it does tell us that we NEED to get a lair before speed, drone up because pressure isn't super quick, and that we NEED an evolution chamber, usually spores right away too depending how quick they are and other clues like gateway count/chrono on cyber-gate-forge or not, sentry vs stalker) \n \n We need a ramp to the main that 2 queens can block, otherwise the map is shit for ZvZ. Just like TDA is 4 gate vs 4 gate for Toss, it's 14/14 ling/bane all-ins all day for ZvZ. It's stupid (though not as stupid as 4 gate vs 4gate) \n \n \n Rush distance, openness of third to keep T/P honest, airspace to give us the option of going mutas as well as overlord spotting for drops, a safe overlord route so we can actually possibly scout, nooks to place our overlords, ease of fourth for Zerg to defend to get hivetech in time, and lack of stupid, abusable features like cliffs, that nook on Antiga by main, Lost Temple, or main/third to third/main siege on close spawn Antiga.","Summary: If you really are strapped for cash, asus is good, or if you have extremely high end hardware (and for some reason only buying a $200 monitor but maybe it's your 4th monitor), the Samsung 120hz is a decent choice for FPS gaming, but the insanely fast real-world response time, IPS panel (high color/image quality), high level of support, good quality control, and extremely high quality stand make the Dell Ultrasharps the best choice for most users looking for a 23 or 24\" monitor. \n Prad.de is the only site that does trustworthy reviews on monitors (they are the only ones using high end, modern equipment to test monitors, TFTCentral is 2nd best review site but their hardware isn't as good and their input lag results aren't as reliable, but close, ie for example they use the u2412m is slower than the u2312hm but that's not true, which prad.de states. Otherwise just google like \"u2312hm vs samsung\" and you'll find tons of hits.\n\nPost: It'd really help if you just told us what you usage was, what games/programs you use specifically (the more specific, the better), what hardware you have, and how much budget is a concern (ie is $199.99 okay , the cheaper the better like maybe $100 if $150 isn't a 50% performance boost, or value ?). \n There's also the Dell S2340L, which is basically the same monitor but in glossy instead of matte (and very, very slightly worse performing, not noticeable, same ips panel guts, it'll actually look a lot better due to being glossy but glossy brings it's own issues, ie any bit of light causes a blinding reflection, much more eye strain over long term use like for gaming). \n The Samsung S23A750D is also a good choice, it's a TN 120hz (so more frame output, less sharp picture) so it can be good depending on your game and hardware, but generally speaking 60hz is more reasonable since most games won't average consistently that high without very high end hardware. \n Finally, if you want to save money, there's quite a few good Asus monitors around $100-140 that are still decent monitors that cost very little. \n Ultimately though, I and most others go with the U2312HM because it's response time and input lag is far superior to every other monitor in it's price range, as in wayyy faster than anything else (be aware rated response time means nothing as Overdrive artificially and dramatically boosts it in all modern monitors). The u2312hm I believe is the only sub-$300 monitor, besides the other dells that stay under 2ms, whereas the Asus actually fare pretty poorly in that regard. They are still great monitors, but their response time isn't as good. \n Dells also have amazing quality control, while the Asus monitors you hear a lot of bad apples, and ghosting is common (if it's a quality control issue or just an issue with their monitors, I'm not sure, there are plenty of dells, juts like all monitors/electronics, that are faulty too). Dell also is known for having the best support in the business as well, though Samsung, Asus, and most other brands have great support for sure too. \n Finally, the stand on the Dell Ultrasharp series of monitors alone is worth over $50, it's one of the best stands you'll find on a monitor at stock, and one of the best period. It's a really, really good stand, and frankly you should knock $50 off the price of the Dell Ultrasharps based on how insanely good it is. If you buy an Asus or Dell S2340L, for example, the stand is pretty basic, and kinda crappy, but the Dell Ultrasharps.. it can swivel to horizontal, it slides up and down on a loaded spring (so you just lightly touch it and it'll move up, but it won't ever accidentally move up or down on it's own, it's really amazing). This is something a lot of people overlook in a monitor, but a stand really makes a big difference.","Summary: Literally, the Xbox One/PS4 is so weak it's unplayable for Bioshock Infinite or Crysis3 on High (NOT Ultra) on 1080 (NOT 1600), ie average fps below 30, min fps below 20.\n\nPost: The new gen consoles graphics' cards, which is the heart of graphics performance (duh), is equivalent to a low end $80-100 PC graphics card, that struggles to perform modern triple-A games on high graphics at 1080, ie a GTX 290 (or GTX460/470/5830/5850 or GTX 650TI Boost or 7770/7790, ps4 is slightly better gpu). \n The CPU on these consoles are extremely weak at 1.5-2.5ghz clock speeds. Yes, they have 8 cell cores (which is not like a true 8 physical core chip, it works differently, a bad example would be like saying the memory controller on a cpu is another core), but remember that the PS4 uses a 6 cell core CPU and we are barely seeing mainstream quad-core support and only 3 games have 6 core support and aren't even cpu intensive, and those cores are going to be horribly optimized (even if they were optimized well, it won't be perfect optimization). \n The new consoles will definitely look great in the future, but that is because a lot of improved graphics has to do with improving textures, not polygon count or lighting or shading... which are huge, which is why next-gen consoles will look a lot better, but still be a far cry from what technology has to offer. \n I mean we're talking a $150 GPU and $100 CPU would absolutely destroy an Xbox 1/PS4 in performance, or a sub-$500 PC easily.","Summary: match for money, Jellystix flakes out.\n\nPost: I played a grudge match against someone named Jellystix, after a ladder game. He challenged me to a game, and we accepted to play for $5. \n He loses. He signs off immediately. \n Jellystix, you owe me 5 dollars. Please pay up. I would have honored my end of the agreement. You promised you would to. Man up. \n Proof:\nThe Official Game: \n Chatlog: \n His sc2ranks profile: \n On a side note, for those interested in the game - Mid-Masters ZvP, Toss goes 4 gate +1 and I hold it, not as smoothly as I could have because I didn't start roaches right away, but pretty smoothly, as I made sure not to overcommit to defense, and made sure to start lair and drone hard during the pressure. I get infestation pit after lair, but seeing him go colossus, I opt to go mutas instead and get muta tech. It turns into a base trade against mutas.","Summary: RapDawg@NA is a maphacker. Pre-emptively cannon rushes correct spawn on 4 player map, follows drone, blind counters someone at the right times when that person doesn't even know what strategy to go for and cancels/makes techs.\n\nPost: The guy is an obvious maphacker. \n Condemned ridge, 4 player map. He sends a probe (after forge) straight to the correct base (seeing his POV it's clear he doesn't see my overlord and he sends his probe before my overlord was near his base and my overlord never revealed itself until much later on anyways, and it's not like he ever checked). He queues up a 3 pylon ramp block before even seeing my base. \n When he arrives at my base, he plants down the 3 pylon ramp block. If you watch his POV, you can see that he DOES NOT see my overlord in the natural, and plants the first pylon before he's near it. \n I had a drone out on the map (scouting worker) that he follows as I moved it around the map (i was considering making/cancelling bases as he cannons them but decided against it, but I moved it to a couple different bases as I was quite undecided on it). He keeps his probe out of range of my drone the entire time and is always near by. On condemned ridge, btw. \n He makes 3 cannons at home right away when I start a roach warren (not uncommon after a cannon rush/ramp block). I cancel my roach warren and decide to go banelings instead (as I can see his wall-off with an overlord), and he actually goes for cyber and an extra gateway immediately and starts to chrono sentries (against roaches you want cannons, against banelings you want sentries). \n When I run my lings to the front of his base, and start to prepare and morph banelings, he starts throwing down a TON of buildings at his ramp - extra gateways, pylons, and all throughout has been chronoing sentries. \n There are also a couple other odd things: \n \n He never saw my creep or my base \n I was extremely dilligent in hiding everything, I broke out of his ramp block using just a single spine and a queen, never revealing my lings, and expanding immediately to my natural in front of his buildings. He never had a probe or zealot in front of my base or anything that would have seen my stream of lings leave my base. \n \n I know it's not odd to be super careful after a cannon rush/ramp block as Toss, but the definitive proof of maphacking is: \n \n Knowing exactly where I spawned on Condemned ridge and sending a probe right there and queuing up a weird move command/build that made it clear he had no intention of going up the ramp of that base, or checking other bases afterwards. He never saw any of my overlords before he planted his ramp block (for all a normal player would know, it was a random base) \n Responding correctly to the tech I threw down, then cancelled, then the different tech I threw down \n Reinforcing his wall-in right before I was about to attack \n Having a probe follow the drone I had out on the map, when he never even saw where that probe went to. \n Not looking in fog of war, weird camera pauses of course. \n \n Checking his match history shows an inconsistent and odd win/loss history (ie dominated by wins lol). Checking the build orders shows he uses only cheese builds that benefit maphack (proxy 2 gate, ramp block cannon rush). I also talked to some of the people he played, and they all confirmed their belief that he was a maphacker.","Summary: When I get near my dog's food or ears when he's eating, he gets really aggressive and snaps at me, which is extremely uncharacteristic of him. He just growls at first, but if I start really pushing on his head with my head, or biting his ears, he'll snap toward me, and even bite me. He's a well behaved dog, and only shows aggression when surprised by a stranger or other dogs (yea i know, a problem, im working on it) and just barks at the door but never is a problem to other people. This really worries me and I don't know if this is a huge problem, or I'm just torturing the dog to it's limit by fucking with it so hard as to bite his ear when he's eating (something that doesn't bother him otherwise).\n\nPost: Okay, I know it's a weird title, and no, I don't abuse my dog or anything like that. \n So I have a ~9 year old beagle mix of some sort (like a beagle, but a little bigger, he doesn't look like any dog I've ever seen before, I thought maybe beagle/boxer mix but he's definitely not a 'bogle'). He was a typical family dog, I went to college, and got him back after a couple years. He wasn't really trained at all, but wasn't a bad dog. \n So in the last couple months, this dog has learned all the stand/sit/downs (sit-down, stand-down, sit-stand, etc), rollover, speak, quiet, heel, et cetera. He's doing very good! \n He's not particularly playful, but he's a very loving dog. He's not aggressive at all, except towards other dogs (something I'm working on). He'll bark at the door, but he'll never show aggression to people unless they surprise him (something that didn't happen before, he's clearly getting older, but I'm working ont his too). He doesn't play tug or fetch (relevant). I also just recently taught him speak, so he often barks when I ask him to do something, because that's his most recent trick he learned. \n He's also a very submissive dog (i think). When I approach him he'll often lay down and roll over, he flops over for anything, he follows me everywhere, and just recently I've been teaching him that I'm the first person out the door and back int he house, which I haven't had trouble teaching to him and I think all around he's quite submissive. \n So a few days ago, we gave him a bbq pig bone. Playing around, I started saying \"gimme that Fly!\", trying to encourage a game of tug. Normally, he'll sort of pull back a little bit, or try to eat what he's eating really quickly, but no aggression. Well, he got kind of aggressive and would bark kind of meanly toward me. At the time, we all thought it was cute how Fly was protective of his bone, and wouldn't let me take it away. \n So a few days later, I feed him some food. Trying to replicate what happened with the bone, I sort of got near him and start to say \"gimme that!\" and he would, like usual, start to eat it up real quickly (this happens when he picks something disgusting off the street, it's not like I torture him every time he eats). Well, he started to growl aggressively and bark, like with the bone, and when I got closer to his face, he started to snap at me! \n If I press the issue, like push my head onto his head, or get near his ears (something I know he hates other dogs doing, but doesn't care when I do it, even if I nibble on his ears), or nibble his ears, he gets weird - he sort of half whine/barks, almost as if I'm pulling his tail or he's in extreme pain, and he'll aggressively snap and bark toward me! \n I really don't torture my dog or anything, it's just a characteristic I've NEVER seen from him before! In light of this, I'll nibble his ear or push my head against his, and he doesn't care - but if I do it when he's eating (and not when he just takes his first bite, but midway through), he gets real aggressive, he does this sort of whine/bark thing, he even snaps at me and sort of grazes me (I really think if I pushed it more, he'd straight up bite my face). I don't know if this is just me fucking with the dog too much and just leave it alone, or is this the sign of something really bad, a manifestation of a problem that's grown to level 20 when it should have been stopped at level 1. Like he doesnt get super excited when I present the food, and he'll be very submissive when I present the food, and even if he just starts eating, if I start going at his ears or anything, he'll back off. But when I start bothering him when he's midway through... \n So what should I do? Do I need to establish dominance? If so, how exactly? In all other aspects, he's very submissive. Or should I just leave him be, and that I'm just screwing with a dog way too much when I shouldn't be? I'm very worried, even if I'm messing with the dog, that he'd actually bite me. I mean, Fly follows me everywhere, he's a very loyal dog, he's learned so much recently, I've even got him swimming (oh he hates swimming so much), doing all sorts of fun stuff. But this really worry helps. \n Help reddit. Please let me know if there is a serious problem, or I'm just being an asshole.","Summary: You can't PK or Duel in Diablo, which made the game interesting. Diablo is about PvP, not PvE. Hardcore mode is the most fun I've ever played in a game due to the drama and adrenaline of it all, please allow some form of dueling or PKing and hardcore will once again be the realm where real champions were made, where people would know who truly was the best.\n\nPost: I played Diablo 2 for a long time, all through high school and college. I loved D2, even when WoW came out, when tons of games like Halo and COD came out, I loved this 10 year old game. \n But more specifically, I loved Diablo 2 Hardcore. What made Diablo HC so amazing, was the drama. Now, playing D2XHC in 2008, means that there is literally less than 100 lvl80+ people, and everyone was associated with everyone else on East, either through friends, clanmates, or he PK'd you or someone you knew or witnessed. Trading was done through d2jsp, which kept D2XHC alive. \n Now, what really made d2HC great, was pking. I'm not talking about TPPK, I know that's a sensitive subject, but PKing in general was a ton of fun. Hell, \"Ironmans\" were what got me into HC in the first place (you as part of a group of 8 for a full room, getting together, leveling up a character to level 9 for about an hour, and dueling to the death to see who can make the best character, often for a small prize, or at least bragging rights). Then, things like trying to survive a PK while leveling up in Arcane Sanctuary - it may have been frustrating, but there was a REWARD when you got to level 19, because you weren't dead yet. \n I know many people hate PKs, and hey, i did too. But everyone who played HC, knew what PK's were about, and TPPKers, and it made the game interesting. it was hilarious when that guy who kept stealing your loot, got pk'd. It made for real drama in the game. Nevermind things like when Nirvana- got PK'd as a lvl 98, the first person to reach 98 on East, by someone who had infiltrated his clan, and found the perfect chance to PK someone with over 10k HP by getting him before he got his buffs and shouts during a routine game. \n I know there were a lot of hackers, bugs, and exploits in D2, and there are some differing opinions on those. \n But the reason I am not buying D3, when I played d2 and d1 for years, is because there is no Hostile mode. You cannot duel. Literally, D3 has turned into WoW, with the 'arena' mode where you must duel in teams. D3 was all about making a character on your own , and being the best. Unlike WoW, d3 was a solo game, in a way, with friends who can help you out, but weren't necessary. D3 was cutthroat, and when you challenged someone to a duel in D2HC, it was a real duel. You either shut up, or manned up. \n Now I know dueling was rare in d2HC, but when it happened (which still happened on a daily basis), it was an event for the server. It made news, literally. The forums would be spammed with someone selling the ear of an infamous lvl 80+ shit-talker who bought all their gear, or some jerk pker who got a taste of his own medicine, or when a lvl 30 pk'd back a lvl 80 pker. \n So please. Put hostility back into D3, allow some form of PKing, and I'll gladly buy D3. As it is now, even hardcore mode just seems to friendly. Diablo was never about the PvE, it was all about the PvP. Now, I don't see any reason why I'd buy Diablo over WoW.","Summary: Bronze and Masters are 800 MMR wide. the top of bronze to bottom of Masters is only 1200 MMR wide. Therefore, given the MMR ranges of the leagues, like Gold only being 200 MMR wide, and Diamond only being 400 MMR wide, saying \"Im high diamond/low masters\" is just as accurate, according to MMR, as saying \"im high silver/low diamond\", so please stop saying that, you are in the league you belong in, masters is literally twice as large as diamond, and the ladder system can place you against opponents as much as +/- 400 MMR due to an overhaul to place you against wildly ranging opponents, meaning just because you play league up people, doesnt mean you are about to get promoted, it just means you are improving, and that points/rank doesn't mean shit (except points in Masters+ league). \n You are in the league you belong in.\n\nPost: It kind of bothers me when people say this. Besides, unless you are in GM, no one really sees a difference between Low Masters/Diamond or Gold/Plat. You are in the league you belong in. But here's some facts on MMR: \n When someone says \"I'm High Diamond/Low Masters\", that is as accurate as if someone said \"Hi, I'm High Silver/Low Diamond\", because the MMR difference between the two is literally that large. \n To give an idea, here is the MMR breakdown of the leagues: \n \n 0-800 MMR Bronze (800 MMR) \n 800-1.1k Silver (250) \n 1100 - 1300 Gold (200) \n 1300 - 1600 Platinum (250) \n 1600 - 2k Diamond - ~1.6k - 2k (400) \n 2k - 2.8kMasters - 2k - 2800 MMR (800) \n 2.8k - 3.2k GM to #1 GM (400) \n \n The ladder system was revamped so you can face a wide range of opponents, about +/- 400 MMR (which is larger than some leagues even! btw this change was tested, abandoned, then implemented in a fixed up way, if you recall Blizzard's articles on the subject) Given all this, it doesn't say much if are facing people in a league up from you, on if you are going to get promoted any time soon (it can be an indicator of progress, however, but it does not mean you are imminently about to be promoted, regardless of any 'but 5 out of 10 times of the last 6 games I can recall from memory were league up!\"). \n With these ranges in mind, you can see that the skill gap between High Diamond (1.8k) to Low Masters (2.4k) can be seen as 600 MMR at the wide range of it. 600 MMR is exactly the difference from 1k MMR to 1.6k MMR, which is High Silver to Low Diamond. \n This should also help put into perspective the skill ranges in players. Seeing an MMR breakdown, you can see that a High Masters has a larger skill gap to a Diamond than a Diamond does to a Bronze. \n The only way to really say that you are \"Low Masters/High Diamond\" if you actually knew your exact MMR (which you can get through the Sc2gears MMR plug-in or calculate it yourself), and your MMR was above the average promotion line. But if that were the case, the system would likely promote you as soon as you indicated you'd trend above that line - remember, given that the system will place you against 400 +/- MMR opponents, it's very possible that you could face all masters and not be due for a promotion anytime soon (meaning that it's possible to be a Mid-Masters and face both GMs and Diamonds, or a Gold playing against Diamonds and Bronzes, or that you are in Diamond or Bronze and never face anyone from any other league). \n The True MMR system is actually quite depressing, and unless you are in Masters, points mean nothing, and in all leagues, rank mean nothing. It's a lot nicer to see \"Top 8\" than \"Top 5,000\". All you can do, is track it as a means to compare yourself to 99 other people, it does not even indicate your progress on a whole compared to everyone in that league, or how close you are to be promoted. It's very possible you are nowhere near getting promoted if you are Top 8, as usually is the case, actually (ie in Masters, usually only top 1-2 is High Masters, if at all, usually they are just Mid-Masters and everyone else is still Low Masters). Rank, and points in the lower leagues, only specifically tells you \"Hey, I'm getting better than my division friend PainUser!\" \n These are just the facts. I'm sure many will disagree and say \"but ladder is fucking me over!\" or \"but I have such and such experience!\". I'm not saying you aren't about to get promoted, or that YOU are a bad person, I'm just stating the facts, and that you are actually exactly where you belong, and the differences in leagues, particular Bronze and Masters, is huge, and just because you are playing X+1 league opponents, doesn't mean you are about to get promoted or you on their level. Bonus pool is a huge factor - remember, a LOT more than 2% of people are in Masters, they are just there because bonus pool keeps them from dropping when they really are Diamond level. \n Just take this to appreciate the massive skill that pros and GMs and whatnot have.","Summary: How do you beat ling/infestor into ultras without resorting to a coinflip and hoping it works.\n\nPost: How do you beat ling/infestor into ultra? Seriously, I can't figure out any way to beat this. If you made any roaches against someone who goes ultras, you lose the game because your tech is so far behind (just like if you make roaches vs toss FFE 7:00 third or robo expand into 3 base 3+ colossus push and your broods are too late, or mutas/hydras vs basically any macro fast third into 3 base death push build). \n But the difference, is that you really need roaches to deal with the ling/infestor, or to secure your fourth (right? i mean that's the one advantage you can push with your roach based army). And, you kinda need something to stay alive against the ultras when they come out. \n It's also pretty bad when someone opens like mutas, forcing you to stay in-base (not much difference practically if they go mutas), into ling/infestor/ultra. \n It seems to me the most intuitive answer, from what I've seen pros attempt, is mass spines, lots of hydras, get broodlords on 4 base. But I just get rolled by the mass ultras, and even with mass spines you still need lots of roach/hydra. \n Every single time I've seen pros play against this, they lose. So I'm not really sure what the answer is, for example, vortix vs stephano. Vortix only did it on 1 game, on daybreak, and he crushed stephano with it. No clue why he didn't just do it the entire series. \n I used to do the build myself for a long time \"if you can't beat them, join them' kind of thing, back when the build got popular (why did it die out?). I stopped because on a lot of maps, it seems a bit random - I'd just lose too much to weird roach all-ins. Most of the time, I wouldn't, but it'd happen enough to make the build seem a bit unstable. \n I'm a very macro oriented player, so all-inning doesn't really seem like a solid answer. Because some of the times, a weird roach all-in would work, most of the time, way more often than not, it didn't, because they made mass roaches vs ultras and gg. And that was only because when I played the build, I went fast third (something that doesn't really seem like a great idea anymore), so I probably would have lost a lot less if I wasn't so greedy. \n Any tips? Why did the build go down in popularity? All the pros examples I've seen, it worked tremendously, except the first few times it was done, when weird 2 base roach timings killed it, before people knew how to hold with ling/spine/infestor. \n Thanks. \n ps: please don't recommend nydus or drops, those only work out really well in the lower levels. They never worked against me when I played the build, since I'd just spread out overlords, and patrol 4 lings in my main, and spread my infestors in case of drops), and again, is just some all-in that's just as likely to fail as it is to work.","Summary: Someone alleges my GF assaulted her at a concert in Mississippi, from which she's flying back home today, which is total BS and she hit my GF first and even cop believes her. She is supposed to show up in court next week and plead her case, which is ridiculous \n edit: Okay so apparently the cop wrote a ticket, they both signed something, and they got nothing. Cop said they need to show up 'on friday' but they dont know what time, they dont even know what courthouse.\n\nPost: I'm no lawyer, but I am pretty familiar with the law (friends in trouble, self defense and gun laws, drug/privacy law, etc). However I'm quite confused on this one. \n So my girlfriend and her military friend (just finished basic) in Mississippi, go to see PANTyRAiD in New Orleans. Now the military guy wasn't given permission to leave base. My gf and the guy, drunk or whatever, cut some line in front of a guy, who doesn't care, but his fat girlfriend rages and punches my GF. They get into it, she says they both swing about 4 times, my gf lands a solid in her face and that's that. Everyone goes on partying, whatever, who cares. \n 'Suddenly' a few minutes later, she is put in the back of a cop car by security, where the military guy already is (he wasn't even doing anything), and see the fat girl going on about how they the big black dude and the girl ganged up on her (and the boyfriend just nodding in agreement). \n Cop drops them off at the hospital, says he believes my GF/friend in that they didn't do anything, but because she's claiming assault, they gotta go to court. He doesn't call the friend's military superiors, but he has to go to court too. \n But the problem is my GF is flying back today, Mississippi is halfway across the country. She doesn't have the vacation to fly back, nor the money. I'm sure she can get a lawyer to represent her in absentia (that's what people do in these types of situations, right?) but that's a bit expensive and ridiculous... \n So I don't know what this is. They weren't charged, they weren't arrested. What kind of court is this? They have to plead their case before a judge. \n My guess is the fat girl won't even show up to court, but what is she supposed to do in this situation? \n Thanks.","Summary: If I want to buy a single ~$75 stock, what's the best way to do it? I don't need some broker asshole giving me misguided advice anyways, so basically what's the best site to do this. Thanks. I'm not paper trading this, I don't mind paying fees and likely not making any money anywyas. \n edit: Holy cow so many judgemental, no answer bad replies. Just answer the damn question, is that so hard? \n Anyways, I'm currently looking between Tradeking and Zecco (both are no minimum, $4.95/trade) and Sharebuilder (higher fee). I'm basically looking for No Minimum Deposit, and then lowest fees. \n edit2: okay so tradeking and Zecco have since merged, sharebuilder is a higher fee. No brainer, tradeking it is! I go buy my stock now \n Edit3: okay lots of sending info to tradeking and waiting... hopefully a deposit slip works instead of a voided check (ran out of checks on my checkbook years ago, never bothered for another one...).\n\nPost: I am well aware that there isn't much profit, and that I'd likely lose money to fees, etc, after all is said and done, but I'd like to. \n Yes, I'm aware of playing paper trades, but it's just ~$80 (which I don't see much risk in, worst case scenario it gains no value in short term and I just hold it forever and it goes up slightly after a long time period). \n I want to invest in Raytheon, specifically, due to the coming Syria conflict. I don't know what will happen, but I predict something will happen, and even if it doesn't, something will happen soon, and more shit will happen in the near future. \n They do not have a direct stock buy program, from what I've generally read they are a good company to invest it and have steadily gone up for a while now. It looks like they give $.55 per quarter per share for a long time now. \n What's the best way to do this? Fidelity? All I've come across is a single reddit thread (a search over entire internet, that is) is Fidelity and eTrade are good and cheap for beginners/low volume, and Fidelity is cheaper... \n Thanks. I mean it's just $80, I understand there is a 'risk' that I could lose it all, but it's not a big deal if that happened. Really, I think the risk is not investing way more than that, but I'm not ready to do that. And yes, there is paper trade, I'm doing that too, and chance of bankruptcy is very low, I mean all I'd lose is a couple bucks in fees and just have the stock for a very long term.","Summary: Is Crown Brush cleaner (or any brush cleaner) okay to use on my purdy brush (I killed a brush by soaking overnight before...), good brush comb?, and can I use a wire brush on a paint brush and recommendations if so? \n Thanks! I mean I swear I spend more time cleaning the brushes than painting.\n\nPost: So brush cleaning is a huge PITA, it takes like 30 minutes to really clean out a brush (latex interior paint, using BIN and Purdy!), especially semigloss (it's like cheese!). \n I bought some 'Crown Brush Cleaner' from Lowes but I don't even know what it is. It says good for latex, but I have no idea what the ingredients are, and I don't want to mess up my Purdys. \n I've learned that paint method goes a long way to making cleaning easier (only load ~1inch, avoid side edges from getting paint) but that only does so much. \n With that said, I was wondering on any brush cleaners, and on brush combs and wire brushes. I have used a couple brush combs, like a plastic wooster comb and it's just awful and useless. I have a metal multi-tool with a brush comb but it doesn't seem to be any better than just using my hands and working the brush. And wire brushes, are those okay to use on paint brushes? If so, recommendations?","Summary: HOW DOES THE SIZZURP TASTE?\n\nPost: How does it compare to the regular Hershey's chocolate syrup? I drink a lot of chocolate milk, I've always considered the regular chocolate syrup the best, but was curious if this tasted any different. \n Because if it tastes the same, why not just get this instead of the normal syrup, amirite? \n It appears to have a few vitamins and minerals extra over the regular syrup, so it's better nutritionally right? Obviously, I'm aware syrup ain't fucking healthy, I'm simply asking if it's better in nutrition, and how the taste compares. \n For note, I drink a ton of milk, I'm currently on a high calorie weight gain diet, I like my chocolate milk, I mean I don't know what else to say except if you've tried it, please comment, and if you haven't, don't. I know with reddit I need to write my whole life story just to get a simple answer, I'll be happy to oblige, but please, I just want to know how it compares.","Summary: 3 unpaid paychecks. She fled, but lawyer represents her. They say the time records I have proving I worked there are 'doctored by the original owner who hates her' and that I never worked there (according to her records...lol?). I took it to small claims, then they 'Removed to General District Court'. Now I have to fight her lawyer!\n\nPost: Hi, so I have an issue: \n So I was not paid 3 paychecks by an employer. I moved, so I asked for her to mail them to me, and for month she went on about how she would mail them, they were in the mail, she'd have to remail them, et cetera. I thought she was a fine boss, I liked her, and besides this issue, I'd say she was a good boss. But I didn't find out until half a year later, when I was back in town, that she wouldn't pay them, and not only that, but she fled the store, and screwed the person she bought it from for ~$100,00, and that the IRS was trying to hunt her down, and she fled the state! Her stealing money, so on and so forth! \n And, it also turns out she didn't pay the last paychecks of anyone at the store, but that the old (now new) owner of the store covered them to ensure continued operation of the store. But, since I was no longer working there, he didn't cover mine. So I'm the only one who's screwed here (besides the new owner, but apparently he's not worried about hunting her down, he sells lots of stores, most go well, some bad like this). \n So I got the time records proving I worked there (she claims I didn't work there this period of the time), and I got employees to sign paper saying I worked there, that all of this happened, that I didn't get my paychecks to their knowledge, and most of all, i worked there! I mean, she's claiming I didn't work there for a month! The same lady who said she'd send the paychecks for this time period over and over for months on end. \n So I have no idea where she is, so I filed the small claims suit In Care OF her tax lawyer, whom handles all her communications. Who knows where she really is, but this scumbag is representing her. I went to small claims, and they filed a \"Removal to General District Court\". I tried to plead to the judge that hell no this shouldn't be continued, and that she's intentionally trying to dodge, and has a history of bailing out. But, the judge was obligated to. \n So, that's why I'm here. Do I need a lawyer? I mean it's pretty straightforward you know - I have the time records, and employees state on paper that I worked there. She sent my W-2, I don't know if I can like extrapolate how much I'm due from it because I know these paychecks did exist (according to people who stayed, they saw them there at the office). But now I'm stuck going up against a lawyer (lawyers aren't allowed in small claims, but they are allowed in general district court). I already sent a \"Bill of Particulars\" stating why I'm due, and the evidence (time records, employee papers stating I worked there). \n For the record, there are 3 paychecks in question, for a total of ~$700. The first paycheck she cancelled, and is bad (a criminal offense!, all 3 are, but this one I actually have), and she says that I just didn't pay it in time (lol...) but whatever, but she's fighting the other two. it just happens, she STILL hasn't paid me this one paycheck. However, she sent me a money order for that one paycheck, offering it as a settlement to drop the case, and the 'money is held in escrow'. I'm not sure what that means exactly, but I haven't cashed it, and besides I can just get the judge to guarantee that money, I've already gone this far. \n So just wondering what to do. Like, what about all the gas money and expenses I've put into this. What about the time? Not having this money really screwed me! I'm not sure how I can really prove that, maybe bring receipts of the gas costs to driving back and forth to court? \n So thanks. I have no idea how to go about getting a lawyer on this case, what to expect in general district court, if anyone else has gone through this process. Maybe there's like some real lawyer shit I can do saying 'yo this stuff all goes in the newspaper or public if you don't pay me and I'll make sure to give hell in court\" but I'm pretty sure it's already kind of to that point. She's fled the state, I'm sure she's ruined due to the IRS and all hunting her down, but, you know... I mean I'm sure I won't ever get paid anyways, but I can't lose this case.","Summary: so yea is the blacklist multiplayer like the splinter cell of old, or is it just awful/dumbed down like Double Agent? \n Thanks\n\nPost: So I absolutely LOVED Splinter cell Pandora Tommorow, and Chaos Theory was a huge improvement and made it a lot more fun. It was the perfect game for me - extremely competitive, hard to learn, very little teamwork necessary (though it could definitely make/break tight games), rewarding, and extremely difficult. \n People complained about how hard the game was, and the next Splinter Cell (Double Agent) dumbed it down (as well worse graphics, etc). It looked like an n64 game or something, it was awful. Then the next splinter cell didn't even have multiplayer. \n it's hard to find a real review of it, most reviewers don't seem to have even played the older splinter cells or only care about the single player.","Summary: What lube for 10/22 ruger, 10/22 ruger target pistol, sig 9mm, be specific on exactly what lube and where best to buy it, ebay, etc.\n\nPost: I know that with my 10/22 Ruger carbine, I should acetone wash everything out and only put some \"oil\" on the guide rod. I know you don't lube up the 10/22 carbine, but I still don't know what oil to use. There appears to be plastic wrap on the trigger guard or something, the acetone wash I last did seemed to melt it off, so I'll obviously take the trigger out... \n For my Sig and Ruger 22 pistol, I have no idea what to lube, or how to lube (ie do I get everything all lubed up, or just certain parts). I'll dip these 2, taken apart, in an acetone bath too (I'll take out the triggers and any obvious plastic or wood). \n I really am not familiar with gun terminology at all, I've tried asking this before but answers have always been extremely unclear to me. Don't just tell me, say, froglube, tell me where I can best buy it, what exact kind of froglube to get (ie on ebay there's multiple types of froglubes, the most popular appears to be a pack of 3 different lubes and I dont know which would I use, for exmaple). Please be very clear, and ideally where I can best buy them too. \n I read some very interesting guide on gun lubrication, it talked about some food processing stuff, 'Lubriplate', but there's again, a million types of lubriplate, and on ebay they aren't exactly labeled as the article's (ie there's like 10 different types of FM 350a). \n Thanks. Please, I'm not familiar with gun terminology, I'm here to learn, but a lot of responses I've gotten before were way too vocational.","Summary: srsly is 5vsb on when pc is on, or does it turn off when pc is turned on. ie, is 5vsb always on as long as psu is plugged in, irregardless of pc on/off status.\n\nPost: Very simple question, is 5v stand-by from the PSU on when the system is on? \n Basically, I need to power a mod to my case (read: not pc). I could use my PSU, but the problem with that is if I unplugged my PSU, or even didn't have a PSU installed at all. \n Now, what I'd like to do, is use the PSU when the PSU is plugged in, and then a battery (that is charged by the PSU) when the PSU is unplugged or uninstalled. I could simply use a battery, but that'd be too easy (even if given my application, it'd last a million years anyways). \n If 5VSB turned off when the PC was on, then using the 5vsb would be a waste, and I'd just use the 5v rail (so psu when pc on/battery when pc off or uninstalled). If the 5vsb stayed on when the PC was on, then it'd be psu when psu plugged in/ battery when psu unplugged, which would be a lot cooler. \n I guess it's not much of a difference, I mean if 5vsb turns off when pc is on, I'd have no problem using 5v, but it's a simple, easy question that I'm unable to find the answer to and my dmm was just stolen.","Summary: Can people rent cable set boxes from comcast/anywhere on their own? \n Or, is it possible to buy a box for under $60? Maybe I should just buy one and have him pay an extra $15/mo on rent...\n\nPost: Hi, so I am renting 4 rooms out of my house (bought it as an investment for renting out rooms primarily, but I live here too). I got comcast internet, and due to tenants' requests, I got TV too, and incorporated it into the rent (ultimate cable or w/e + HBO). \n However, I did not incorporate set top boxes, and one of the tenants doesn't want to pay for cable (-$25/mo) if he doesnt have a box. Okay, that seems fine, but it's unfair to the other tenants who are paying for the cable. \n Now I know I can rent a box for ~$10/mo, but the guy could just steal it (being month-to-month room rentals, I can only charge $100/deposit). I mean he should steal it, I couldn't do anything about it! \n Is there any way for people to just rent cable boxes from comcast? Or from anyone? They aren't willing to pay $100 to purchase one off ebay, and I'm not going to do that either. Or have it in their name, in case they try to steal it? \n Thanks.","Summary: does reducing signal loss thats already within spec improve my internet (comcast xfinity, genereally 10-20ms 25/5 - which is what I pay for). \n edit: TO BE CLEAR - does reducing signal loss further have any benefits once it's below the threshold? How would I measure signal loss? I'm assuming just remove the splitter and connect straight and simple to the comcast coaxial? Or just remove the unused lines on the coaxial? My internet is 20ms 25/5 and I'm paying for 25/5\n\nPost: So recently I had an issue where my modem wouldn't connect because I was getting too much signal loss due to a 6-way splitter meant for different frequencies than comcast cable (it must have been used by previous homeowner and first comcast guy just used it instead of replacing it). The down and upstream lights were on, but not the 'online' one (dpc3000). \n Comcast guy replaced the splitter, as it was pushing my signal loss to too much. \n So I was wondering, if I reduced the signal loss further (as it now is within spec), would it improve internet speed/quality? I could just remove the splitter since I'm only using a single line (connection to modem). I could probably cut and reduce the line length too. \n Thanks.","Summary: My dog is very calm and trained okay, but when another dog is on a leash, he goes crazy and fights, but he never fights when dogs are off leash, like at a dog park, or towards people. I also want to get him to be more playful with our puppy, he doesn't seem to care much and only might play a bit once forced to if the puppy starts really harassing him, I'd like to get him to be more sociable.\n\nPost: I have 2 issues with my ~9 year old beagle mutt (he's a bit larger than a beagle, he's not a 'bogle' but a bit smaller than one, not sure what he is). \n He is trained okay, I've been working with him a lot since I got him back recently. We've gotten good at walking, sit/down/stay/rollovers even outside (which is pretty hard for a beagle that gets so distracted outside), and he's a very mild and calm dog. \n When someone knocks on the door, he starts howling away and won't stop, I've been working on this, with progress. He never has a problem with other people, he doesn't even seem to care about people petting him or coming up to him (as in he doesn't care), but he will get a bit aggressive if he's surprised. At dog parks, he doesn't care about the other dogs or have any trouble. \n The problem: \n \n When another dog is around on a leash , he will get aggressive, he will pull hard on the leash, he will bark and snap at them, and it will always end up in a fight (the other dog usually will fight too, but a couple of times that other dog will be calm, and will be a much larger dog too). \n \n There's no trouble with non-leash dogs, but there's a ton of trouble when he spots another dog on a leash. I'm trying very hard to keep his attention, but I'm not really sure how to train him on this. I don't want to praise him for getting roused up. I was thinking maybe praising him before he gets roused up, when the other dog is like across the street? I'm afraid that will just encourage him to be praised for being on alert though... \n It's quite difficult, if I take him to a dog park where everyone is off leash, there is no problem. But when I take him to the neighborhood pooping field, there's always a problem when someone brings their dog around, on leash. \n On a side note, we also have a new puppy. The puppy is very playful and keeps trying to play with the older dog, but he doesn't care at all. My dog gets very aggressive and doesn't like it if another dog gets near his ear or start biting at his ear - my dog won't harm anyone, but he'll snap and bark and he will make clear he won't like it. If we go out to the field, the puppy will harass the older dog and eventually my older dog will be forced to play and run, but I wish I could get them to play more. Any tips on getting my dog to be more playful? I know if I start running back and forth, I can get him to run with me and do a sort of sprinting chase game, but with the puppy it's clear the pup wants to get his attention and play but he's very hard to get to play. \n Thanks","Summary: Help me build a very large, badass ~9ft work/computer desk. Check \"Questions and Concerns\" for the straight questions.\n\nPost: So I'd like to make a dream computer desk for my ~9x9 room. It would be for my large, overclocked, custom computer set-up with 3 monitors, but I also want it to be a good workdesk for all the solder work, wiring, arduino, etc stuff I do. Look decent and be strong at the same time. I've been unable to find anything that comes close to what I want, which, at it's core, is a 8-9ft long table that's deep, at least 2.5ft, ideally 3. \n So, I've come to the realization I'll have to make it, as making it will cost under $200 easily while being way more of what I want than any $2000+ table. And the paradise table is too delicate, too small, and too little too late (5 outlets? 3 monitors, 1 pc, 1 printer, nothing else?) \n I would essentially have 3 tables/ THE PLAN : \n \n 3x8-9ft main table \n 1x3ft side table (put food on, soldering station, etc) \n 2x6ft smaller rear table (just a table on it's own) \n \n So I got a U sort of going here. I'll be incorporating outlets, and a monitor shelf. I'll also add a lazy susan for my pc (frosted glass) and a mounting hole for my killawatt to display easily. \n Okay, so here's what I have in mind so far: \n \n Plywood $34 3x8ft \n Formica, Matte Gray 3x8ft ~$40. I'd just cut the plywood (4x8) on one side and hopefully ezpz fit. I'd actually prefer a 3x9ft table but no 9ft long sheets of plywood out there. \n Use rubber table edge t-molding. \n I can buy screws that work by putting a 'thing' in a drilled hole, and then screwing a bolt into that. That way, no nuts/screws visible on the other side, as well as no damage to the wood by assemble/dissembling multiple times like ikea tables! \n For lazy susan thing, I can buy a rotating display stand and then a simple round frosted glass for ~$30+60. Pretty straightforward, no assembly. Just lay the glass thing on top of the stand on top of the table, maybe a hole for the wire and that's it. Maybe some tape/glue to keep it more secure. \n Use outlet boxes and black (prepainted or paint it, w/e)outlet covers, use some extension cables to attach them to a taped/attached tripplite surge protector. Straightforward. \n Monitor shelf using spaced out, 2x chrome rods holding it up. Rods would secure in holes in both table top and bottom of shelf. \n Killawatt, just drop into a kill-a-watt sized hole that keeps the fatter display-top-half on top of the table, and input/outputs below table. \n 1-2 tiles put into the 1ft side table for solder work that doesnt muck up the table when the melted solder spills. Just make hole in table, put support underneath, have formica overlap the tile a bit. \n \n No current plans for drawers, keyboard drawer, or \n For design, 90* table edge corners. There's a small 1'ft deep side table, and then behidn me another table that's like 6'x2ft with a shallow, sharp angle on part of it to the wall. \n Questions and Concerns still \n \n Table Legs. Really can't find them at a good price. T-legs, a-legs, whatever legs. Not sure where to buy from for an affordable rate. Needs to be adjustable in height. \n Table sag. Pretty sure I need a crossbar or something for additional support, and I'd like to avoid a 3rd set of legs. Could I use a metal bar under the table, a 2x4, what. I might just need a 3rd set of legs though. \n Under-table and shelf coating. Do I just leave naked ply underneath? I can't do that for the monitor shelf, for example. I see on some pre-made desks, like in stores and stuff, that have formica on top, on the bottom they have some thick cardboard (or cardboard colored) covering. Almost similar material to pegboard, I'm not sure what it is. \n Table edge t-molding, not entirely sure on installation or where to get it. Also, I'm interested in other table edge options, like my current ikea desk has some sort of hard (metal?) edging. \n The chrome bars that I use to hold up the monitor shelf. Where do I buy colored chrome bars? I see I can get plain chrome tubes from lowes/hd in the form of clothing rods, but I'm interested in using colored chrome. \n How do I support the monitor shelf using chrome bars? Can I somehow screw or bolt them in without a noticeable bolt? If they maybe screwed into something at the top and bottom that'd be cool... Glue would work but I would rather avoid a permanent solution. I know it's just the monitor shelf but I was thinking of being able to swap colored bars! \n Where my 3 table essentially mate to make one table, I'm not sure what to do in regards to table banding. Do I not put table banding there so they mate tightly? But I still need some cover, right? Maybe use some t-mold to seal the gap between the tables, kinda like kitchen floor transitions? \n \n Thanks. Just these simple questions be answered and it's all good to go! \n I'm thinking a matte dark gray formica. And get this - orange table banding/chrome bars, would that not look badass!? Ah, color, we can decide that later. \n Here's a very old pic of my current PC when it wasn't completed, and my current desk:\n[Imgur](\n[Old build, old monitors...](","Summary: I just need a 24T C1 spline hitec single sided servo arm who's hole is 27mm+ out from the screw, of any material. Has a hole that can either hold a 4-40 ez connector or can be drilled a bit for one. This isn't a high intensity application, but a lot of torque is needed, as in I'll be nearing maxing out an hs-255hb (ie around 40oz). \n You really can ignore all the above if you just answer the question, all of the above is literally just me saying why things other than what I'm asking for won't work. \n edit: oh let me add, the super-duty long servo arms are ugly as heck. I could, but I'd really rather not.\n\nPost: So I have an HS-255BB servo, and the extendable arm it comes with is just barely not enough for my application (as in, barely enough after being heavily modified to grant extra length). Right now it's about 24mm from the hole to screw, and I really need like 27-28mm or more. 28mm really would be the bees knees. Single sided arm. I'm also using all 180* of throw. \n I'm also using a 4-40 EZ Connector, which requires drilling out the hole a bit, and I'm worried if I bought a colored aluminum alloy arm it'd just make it really nasty or break it even as well. \n As for the application itself, very long story short I'm using it to actuate opening a computer side panel. I know many of you guys might say things like \"why dont you...\" but believe me, I've tried everything. I just need a longer arm. Control horn is already literally at the hinge and closest hole (I know, omg so bad, it's the only place it can be mounted). \n Nylon is fine, any material is fine, but metal-blue or black would be cool (obviously I can dye nylon so nylon is cool too). I've considered just getting a sail arm and cutting it, but that'd look really ugly and aesthetics are definitely important here (sure, last resort I can do that, hopefully I can avoid that). \n ANYWAYS TO THE QUESTION. I know that was a lot but if I didn't type it I'd get a million responses all asking about moving the horn up or a different servo. Can't change the horn, can't change the servo. \n I see on stuff like ebay for aluminum horns, none of them ever say the distance from the screw to hole. A few say 'screw to pinion distance' but I'm not certain that's the mounting hole distance (for example, one says that's 27mm, but the total arm length is 42mm so that's weird). Especially the Dynamite servo arms, none of them ever list the length from hole to screw. \n So yea, this is what I'm currently looking at: \n But not sure on 'screw and pinion' \n and then there's a bunch of blue dynamite alluminum alloy arms like: \n But no length to hole is listed. \n Thanks"],"string":"[\n \"Summary: You can easily use too much, ie more than a small rice grain, of thermal paste and end up with 5C+ higher temps, but it's nearly impossible to use too little paste. Use a small dot to small, dry rice grain size of thermal paste. \\n Again, Bad: \\n Good:\\n\\nPost: Hey, I actually have a lot of experience benchmarking and reviewing heatsinks and thermal pastes, so I can answer your question! \\n Basically, it's nearly impossible to use too little paste, but it's very easy to use too much paste . If you use too-much paste, you will see temps about 3-6 C higher* than normal! For reference, almost every manufacturer uses 'too much paste' when they apply it at the factory, but recent heatsinks are having much better applications. \\n You generally want to use a small dot of thermal paste. A rice-grain is a good size too, but really borders on too much paste. We're talking about a small, dry rice grain , as in the actual size of a rice grain (they're smaller than you think! Seriously, look at one!). \\n Here's a picture of an appropriate amount of paste: \\n Or here: \\n This, is what too much paste looks like: \\n Now, you might google and find lots of thermal paste applications out there, but a lot of them are misleading because they don't actually test the paste, they only compare thermal paste prints. Let me show you what a proper application of TIM looks like: \\n WHY? This is because your CPU die, the CPU itself, is what creates heat, not the IHS . Here's a picture of what lays under the IHS, the Integrated Heat Spreader: \\n As you can see, the CPU itself is very small, and lays under the clean, metal cover. This is really all you need to cover with paste. \\n So why the ricegrain/dot? First, you want to avoid air bubbles underneath the paste. As I mentioned before, lots of heatpaste comparison articles are misleading because they compare prints, rather than temperatures. What you want, is to have the paste applied centrally, and then squeezed outwards by your heatsink. \\n If you apply thermal paste with the rice grain/dot method, you'll notice if you try to pull the heatsink off, it isn't easy (hint: twist it, don't rip it, you WILL rip the CPU or motherboard pins out). But, if you apply with the spreader, or X, etc methods, it comes off easily, which is not good. You want this suction to create a tight bond between the CPU IHS and heatsink, for a better transfer of heat. \\n That said, worst case scenario of using too much paste, and you'll only see a gain of ~5-10C, which isn't that big a deal. \\n Wait, but the instuctions say spread it, and even come with a plastic/cardboard spreader! \\n This isn't particularly common knowledge. Any ceramique paste , you will need to apply with a dot/ricegrain. Ignore the spreader, and throw it out. This is likely just the manufacturer making sure you don't apply zero paste (which really, isn't that bad... I mean it is, but you aren't going to burn your CPU or anything drastic like that, really the worst part of not using paste is scratching things up). \\n Exceptions : \\n \\n This does not apply for 'extreme TIMs' that are not ceramiques (ie pastey stuff that 99% of... paste, is) like Coollaboratory Liquid Ultra/Pro, or Indigo Extreme, which act less like paste/peanut butter, and more like liquid mercury and behave weirdly, like are magnetic liquids that roll on metal like oil on water. With those TIMs, you will need to spread it (since it won't spread under pressure anyways). It's pretty obvious if you have something that isn't a ceramique (Coolaboratory Liquid Ultra costs $15+, and it's definitely worth it, but it's more like Terminator's T1000 in consistency than any rational material, and Indigo Xtreme is $20 per application and comes in sheets). \\n \\n For heatsinks with heatspreaders, like the Hyper 212, where the base is not flat but with many pipes, the best way to apply the paste is actually extremely small, thin, rice grain sized lines on the heatpipes. This is because if you put a rice grain in the middle, most of it will gob up into the crevices. Thermal paste application on these is more forgiving because excess paste goes into the gaps, but still many people often use way too much paste on these. Just a needle-thin rice-grain on the pipes. Sorry, I don't have any great pics on this, but here's a picture of TOO MUCH. Use about 1/4 the length this guy uses (the thinness is right): \\n \\n Thermal Paste Application on CPU Dies. This is more for enthusiasts who are delidding, and really are more expert than need advice on this matter, but if you delid your CPU (ie cut the IHS off for better temps, specifically on Ivy Bridge or Haswell only), you actually do need to cover the entire CPU die. Still, a rice grain borders on too much paste, because the surface area is about 1/5th of the IHS. Just a tiny dot, maybe stretched lengthwise. You really should be using CLU/CLP for delid applications though. \\n \\n \\n Here's a review I did comparing thermal pastes and applications a while ago, but you can find plenty of good articles on the subject online!\",\n \"Summary: for instructions on how to do a legit job: \\n Put with exacto knife to pop out pins on the fan header in the slots, pop off the pins held onto the stripped wire (they are super cheap, and you can even reuse the pins with a crimper or just solder/plier brute force), take a 5-12v volt wall wart with at least 1A (ie any wall wart basically) and solder the yellow 12v and GRND respectively to wall wart, wrapped with heatshrink. You can also splice, tape, etc. \\n Very easy to do! For pictures, more instruction, etc, look up how to hook up LEDs to 12v wall wart (same thing going on), like 3528s.\\n\\nPost: Sure, it'd be quite easy. Fans are set up to run at 12v. The wall outlet (in the US) is 120v, so you will need a wall wart, ie adaptor, on 12v. Amperage doesn't matter too much unless you are talking Deltas or something here, wall warts generally have a ton of amperage on them (err, relative to fan power that is). \\n Or really, you could use ANY wall wart of any voltage, for desired affect. Ie, a 9v wall wart would slightly undervolt them, a 5v wall wart would be way lower, etc. \\n Simply remove the fan heads (you can see the metal pins in them, just push down on them with an exacto knife or something, and then pull them out, or just snip snip and strim), and then hook up 12v to hot and ground to ground (which means the 12v 'inside' and the grnd outside, but you can figure that out, no damage if you do it wrong). The speed control and sensor pins obviously, won't be used. \\n For multiple fans, just splice them together. How nice or ugly you want to make this depends on you - you can just tape shit together, or if you want to make it really nice and legit, you would cut the cable on the wall wart adaptor and then strip the cables, and solder 12v to hot, grnd to grnd, wrap in heatshrink (of course put it on before the solder). Make sure you know which is which first before soldering of course, and don't solder while it's plugged in (use a multimeter to figure out which is grnd and hot, etc). \\n As for Noctua fans, there are many different Noctua fans, but I wouldn't use noctua fans because they are quite expensive. I would sell those off, and use cheaper fans. In fact, noctua fans in general are pretty low quality (the static pressure model is okay but still wayyy overpriced). Yate loons outperform Noctuas and cost 1/6th the price, seriously just sell the noctuas and make a profit using cheaper, better fans. \\n Unless you are specifically going for that poop brown aesthetic, of course. \\n As for not wanting to cut the wires and making them unusable, nonsense. You can always re-crimp the pins onto the wires and stick them back into a fan header, hell you don't even need to crimp the pins back on, just stick the wire back into the header (maybe glue to keep it stuck in) and it'll contact with whatever male fan header it attaches to.\",\n \"Summary: bought socks in morocco in a similar fashion. I imagine 99% of tourists just see tourist shit and don't get a view of what the real insert third world country (or any foreign country for that matter) is like.\\n\\nPost: Thanks for the post. I've got a similar story in Morocco. Looking for random stuff in the Moroccan market in Fez, it's all tourist bullshit (faux leather items, knock-off glasses, tagine clay cooking pots, some tourist shit, repeat ad nauseum). Wandering around and following school students when school let out to see where people really go to, I found my way to a super sketchy market, just like what you talk about. \\n A few differences though. In the 'market', I had hustlers like you came across non-stop. In the real market, no one gave a shit about me, just giving me sketchy looks. Kids running around naked, vendors selling meat covered in flies that was cooked on stone slabs (it tasted okay, i mean it was less than a penny), etc. \\n Whereas you were looking for records, I was looking for socks (during my travels, my shoes got wet during New Years in Madrid, Spain, where there was about a centimeter of alcohol covering this huge ass square, literally... fun night i dont remember besides using a slingshot I bought to shoot firecrackers in the air since they don't have fireworks like in the US). Every day my feet and socks would be smelly as fuck, it was terrible, and since I was now in a third world country, I figured I'd just buy socks for pennies and throw them away after the day (why didn't I just buy shoes?lol). In the real market, the vendors were all assholes and selling for what I knew was way too much (i dont recall the price, but I was unhappy with more than 50 cents for a pack of nike rip-offs). Bear in mind this wasn't a completely serious endeavor, just something I did more for fun, since haggling is a source of pride among Moroccans, and my girlfriend and I were having a little competition. \\n I found what I wanted in this sketchy ass market (we're talking burning trashcans for light, just wet mud everywhere, completely fucking packed full of people compared to the tourist shit which was just full of tourists and hustlers, which is still a bit packed, except when it got dark, whereas this place was just bumping). Everything could be found in this market - food of all sorts (dangerous yet delicious! you didnt know what you were eating!), clothes, appliances, furniture, toys of all sorts (dangerous toys, the best kind too), hash (morocco is truly the hash capital of the world). \\n Whereas you story moreso comes from the vendors, mine came from the police (there was a bit of back and forth from the vendors as they clearly saw me walk away, as in down the street away, to other vendors to ask for prices, instead of just go talk to their brother running a shop 3 huts away and not care I went to that vendor instead, so I got them pretty cheap and started quite a shitstorm). \\n I saw some girl crying, bawling, in a park, and were seeing lots of people walk away from there. It was very odd. Naturally, I hung around to see what was going on, and out of nowhere some men came up to us and told us, in no uncertain terms, to follow them. They said they were the police, but I had no clue who they were and clutched the knife I had on me (already once I had gotten into a violent altercation with sketchy people in morocco, I won, but that's another story) and was ready to run. It was extremely dark, but as we got near some light I could see they were uniformed. Still, I wasn't sure who they were, or why some girl was bawling here. They told me to never come back to this part of Fez or they'd arrest me, grabbed me a taxi, and told me to 'go home'. \\n My guess is that girl got raped, and the police were there, and maybe thought I was involved at first. I had already witnessed the police beat the shit out of a couple random people, so I knew what they were capable (at that time, I was with them, so I did not want to be against them at any time).\",\n \"Summary: There is no reason not to have a HDD these days. I was a huge anti-SSD guy for a long time, because I was (still am) a pure performance guy. But dear god, it makes a huge difference. And with SSDs as cheap as they are, seriously, if you do not have an SSD, get one. Now. \\n Here's some great choices: \\n \\n $30 Gen1 Patriot 64gb SSD (Inferno, pyro, etc, bare minimum, still ~50x faster than HDD) \\n $50-60 80gb Gen 2 Intel X25-M G2 or 320 (which is literally the x25-m g3) OR gen 3 Samsung 830 64gb\\n*$90-100 160GB Intel X25-M G2/320 or 128GB Samsung 830 or 840.\\n\\nPost: Nowadays, all computers are more than fast enough to do anything for general usage (except gaming, in which case all that you are really lacking is a graphics card). In fact, computers have been more than fast enough for many years now, I'd say close to a decade (ie Pentium4). \\n With that said, SSDs (from HDD) is really the last, large jump in technology. CPUs went from single ~3ghz cores to multicore, SDRAM went to DDR2/DDR3 and from ~512mb to 2gb+ (ie more than enough for any 32bit application), motherboard functions like memory controller and uncore were moved to the CPU, but HDDs are still basically running on the same technology as 5-10 years ago. \\n My point here, is that SSD is a huge leap in performance where has long been in place for every other part of the PC. On top of that, SSD performance is really what counts for general usage, internet browsing, looking through photos, file transfer, storing/moving music and media. \\n A lot of people will say the CPU is the 'heart' of the PC, and for gaming the GPU is most important - but for general usage, by far, the SSD is truly the heart. To put it in perspective, I 'felt' a bigger performance boost going from a fast HDD to an old, 2nd gen SSD, than going from an Athlon II X2 to Haswell i7 5ghz. \\n A computer from 8 years ago, would easily handle general usage - streaming, music, browsing, even light gaming. But an SSD will by far speed up all the stuff that makes a difference for the every day user. \\n Your boot, shutdown, reset, sleep speeds will all dramatically decrease, you will move windows and between programs much quicker, when you open a folder there is no wait, everything in that folder is instantly available. Your entire system will just feel much snappier. \\n Your gaming FPS won't change (except MMORPG and large 'world'/sandbox games), you won't stream, encode, or compress any quicker, you won't do computational analysis or large scale calculations any quicker... but if you want a snappier system, or a faster system, and you are using a HDD... it's a no brainer, upgrade that shit.\",\n \"Summary: The writer of the article posts some incorrect information on mouse sensitivity, as do the above responses. Sc2 overrides windows sensitivity, if you want 1:1 pixel/movement, go for 51-54%, if you must change your sensitivity, there are certain sweet spots that are better than others because SC2's percentages are just rounded up/down values for windows mouse settings.\\n\\nPost: yea... all of you guys are wrong lol. Starcraft ignores windows sensitivty, it doesn't care what your windows sensitivity is. That's because Sc2 'overrides' windows sensitivity. But it's a bit confusing, because instead of 11 bars, you have percentages. And, SC2 will actually do a bit of rounding, so it's not quite discrete, chopped up bars, so where you set your sensitivity actually matters, unlike what the OP stated. \\n So, percentages sort of go by 5's, but not exactly (it's more like 10/98 or something, than 99-100% is another tier). \\n You basically want to avoid any sort of 5's (0, 5, 10, 15, 20, etc). If you want 1-1 pixel/movement ratio, a la 6/11, just set your sensitivity to 51-54%. \\n If you cannot adjust your CPI/DPI of your mouse, and are forced to adjust your sensitivity for comfortable mouse speed, which is more important than a pixel lost here and there, then there are certain more-optimal places to set your sensitivity. \\n So yes, 51-54% is best and then adjust your CPI/DPI. But if you really must change your sensitivity to more/less, there are certain sweet spots that result in much less pixel loss than others (ie you would much rather be at 81% than 80%).\",\n \"Summary: If you have ever seen someone get shot, or been in a combat situation, you would not make such an ignorant comment like 'shoot him in the leg' or 'use a different weapon'. Cop handled that situation perfectly, shooting a 1\\\" target that's moving erratically like a leg bone, or even a 4\\\" body profile that's turned sideways as it is when it's charging you and moving erratically, is extremely difficult to hit even for trained marksmen. Also, a 150lb body charging you with a knife can close 8ft pretty quickly, that's just a single bound so even if you're shot, your momentum will carry the knife through\\n\\nPost: I'm shocked that anyone would upvote this kind of comment. The human body really is a small target, in combat situations people don't just stand upright like against a wall and waddle toward you. They run towards you, which makes a 150lb, 6\\\" teen turn into a 3\\\" moving target, as you have to hit their center mass where their organs are. \\n On top of that, it's not like the movies where you get shot and you just fly backward. If you've ever seen someone get shot, you'll see that people just can walk through bullets, even if they're dead or gravely injured. \\n So dude charges you to stab you, you land a fatal shot, but his momentum will land his knife in you. The distance in the video is about 8ft, so your reaction time means you shoot him when he's halfway taking a single step, that means he's about 4 feet away from you. A 150lb body will easily fly through 4 feet. Cop could try to widen the gap by backing up, but he could potentially trip by walking backwards (as often happens in combat situations, and then you die by being on the ground against an attacker). \\n So on top of this, a leg is only about a 1\\\" target, as hitting the muscle or skin isn't going to stop a 150lb body. A 1\\\" moving target. Go ahead, go to a range and tell me how many times you hit the bullseye with a pistol at 8 ft away. I'll wait. Oh, once or twice? Great, now tell me how many times you can hit it when it's moving at 15mph in an erratic pattern. Even the best shooters in the world cannot manage that 50% of the time. \\n Not to mention that most of the time, pistol bullets will just deflect off a major bone, or fragment, rather then penetrate and break it. \\n If you ever watch someone get shot in real life, it's not like the movies where a tiny little 9mm bullet just blows you backwards like a car. It all depends where the shot lands, and how the bullet reacts (it's just as common for a bullet to bounce off bone as it is to fragment, stop in, penentrate, or go clean through), but most of the time you won't even notice a bullet hitting you. There's tons of videos where people get shot and they react as if nothing happened (usually to subsequently pass out, fall down, or die a few seconds later).\",\n \"Summary: Comments like that discourage people from posting these interesting stories. Maybe if all you got is a \\\"Fuck you scumbag\\\", you shouldn't have clicked the thread in the first place. Why don't you go to an AA/NA meeting and tell them how they're all scumbags.\\n\\nPost: If people don't appreciate the stories I have to offer that may have been from a low point in my life or when I did something shitty, or are going to make me feel like shit for something that's long since past, feel sorry for already, or have since changed as a person, why would I bother posting? \\n The guy wasn't a good person when he did that, but he already knows that, and if he doesn't, one liners like 'you are scum!' or clicking an arrow isn't going to change anything. \\n Make a meaningful attempt to challenge the person ( gasp productive dialogue!), or inquire further into the situation or person, but don't put some stupid, judgemental internet insult. It's like when people post to pics of models about how they'd love to fuck her or how hot she is, no shit sherlocke!\",\n \"Summary: Small arms fire is to shoot out the optics so the tank is effectively a fish out of water, as well as to distract from where the RPG team is at, so they can have enough time to make a good shot (as the time it takes is about 3-5 seconds, whereas turning a turret and shooting is pretty quick). \\n Also, to shoot out the optics and be able to capture the tank is well worth losing 20 rebels for.\\n\\nPost: You can actually do a lot of damage to a tank with a rifle. There are 2 spots on a tank that are susceptible to small arms fire, the optics which let's the tank driver see where it's going, and... there's another spot too, I forget where. \\n Anyways, there are 2 purposes for shooting at a tank with small arms, blow out the optics so the tank is basically dead meat and immobilized, which makes it an easy target for an RPG or grenade or just walking up to it and fucking it's shit up, or to distract the tank so an RPG can let one loose at it. \\n It's a common tactic with the FSA. The tank knows there are rebels in that big building ahead, just not exactly where. It can fire blindly into the building (and often will), but the reload time is a huge window for an RPG to aim and shoot you down so you have to be careful with your shoot. \\n So you have a group of rebels in the left side of the building, shooting the tank (hopefully to knock out the optics and basically get a free and easy kill) so that the tank is distracted, and moves the turret away from where the grenadier is at, maybe even shoot at the (sacrificial) riflemen, and then the grenadier gets their shot. \\n If you watch tank combat videos from Syria, you'll often see grenadiers fail because they think they can get a quick shot before the tank notices, but the turret is still aimed in their general vicinity, and it basically is a draw between a man who has to turn a corner, kneel, bring up a 50lb stick, and shoot it correctly based on an ironsight, before a tank can just turn the turret an inch and blast away. Hint, best case scenario is tank goes down but you will die too, most likely you will die and either not get the RPG off or miss by a mile.\",\n \"Summary: In the end, Pearl Harbor and the bombings of Hiroshima/Nagasaki were lessons about just loving the one you're with. \\n Source: I'm an economist, and I did my senior thesis on this. You can google things like \\\"Japan US Trade relations before Pearl Harbor\\\" to get a picture of things, plenty of decent summaries in the top results.\\n\\nPost: At the time, it wasn't really a plot twist (sure, a wtf, or more like a massive escalation of a known inevitability). Imperial Japan and the US were engaged in an economic war for the last 30 years prior to Pearl Harbor, with retaliatory tarrifs, aggressive posturing on the Pacific islands, and blocking of shipping routes. \\n See, despite the fact that the US and Japan were the biggest trading partners for a while before Pearl Harbor, everyone knew that China was the girl to win. Both Japan and the US were playing as superpowers to 'control' China, as they both knew the potential for trade was far greater with China than with each other. The tensions and hostility between the two nations were pretty high a long time before Pearl Harbor, and calls for war were called on both sides prior to the event. The US really did some fucked up shit, trade-wise, that there have been some historians and economists to say that the US really threw the first punch (or maybe swat, I mean no one doubts Japan took it to a whole other level). \\n Japan wanted to pretty much annex China, such as the infamous '21 Demands' in 1915 basically saying Japan had control of half of China, while the US wanted to encourage China to become free market and capitalistic (Open Door Policy). Japan invaded Manchuria (NE China) in 1931, and the situation was a lot like Iraq invading Kuwait (I'm sure if Bush was president back then instead of Franklin Appease'Em Roosevelt things would've been a lot different). \\n The US supplied China with arms and resources, and Japan didn't like that at all. On top of that, Japan got all of it's oil from the US. So, the rational thing to do is to bite the hand that just stopped feeding you because you were an asshole.\",\n \"Summary: 8350 is an amazing chip for heavily multi-threaded applications, but it's awful for gaming.... please reconsider. Check out the teamliquid thread or the benches I linked for a quick read. The sad fact is that games today and the foreseeable future are not multi-threaded at all, they care about single-threaded performance only. \\n If gaming is your primary concern, the 8350 is a bad buy.\\n\\nPost: Please be careful with benchmarks, most websites do really bad reviews/benchmarks. If you link the benchmark you saw, I could tell you why, but I'll make sure to show you a few reliable benchmarks. \\n First off, you need to make sure the benchmark showcases the component in question. Comparing the 8350 vs i5 in Furmark (GPU stress test) or BF3 would be useless, because those applications are stressing the GPU, not CPU, so they'll get near identical scores (ie a Pentium and 8350 would score the same). \\n That might sound obvious, but most games are GPU dependent, so most gaming benchmarks are similarly misleading. For example, most BF3 benchmarks go by single player, which is not CPU intensive at all. You might think something like \\\"Great, my 4300 could crush BF3!\\\". However, BF3 64-man is extremely CPU intensive, and a 4300 will struggle, even an 8350 will fall behind. Only a single major review site tested BF3 64-mans, and it's in german (a very good site though, worth translating). \\n The 8350 is outstanding for value when it comes to multithreaded applications only - games are not multithreaded, as they rely on floating point units, not integer points. Basically, the 8350 $190 performs similarly to the i7 $230MC/$300 other in multi-threaded applications, which is awesome. \\n But when it comes to games and general usage programs, the 8350 performs similarly to the i3... which is pretty bad. The reason for this is because the 8350 is a quad-module CPU, it's not actually 8 cores. This is very similar to why the i7 is really bad for gaming - it's not an 8 core CPU, they are both 4 core CPUs that basically use hyperthreading. Hyperthreading is a way of simulating more threads, ie more cores, which is awesome for multi-threaded applications, but it has it's drawbacks. \\n Hyperthreading's problem is that it has to share resources for each core, so unlike each core which has it's own dedicated L1 and L2 cache, resources, energy, and architecture, it gets limited. You're talking only 20-40% the strength of a real extra core. On top of this, games and most programs don't utilize these fake-cores. So, the i7 is literally just a 4-core for gaming, and similarly, the 8350 is just a 4-core for gaming. Making the 8350 no better than a Phenom X4, or the i7 from an i5. \\n On top of all this , another major problem with review sites and benchmarks, is that they test stock speeds vs stock speeds. Take into account that both the 8350 and i5/i7 overclock to 4.4-5ghz (depending on silicon lottery, cooling, and a decent board). Now, benchmarks and reviews would be accurate if they compared a 4.4ghz 8350 vs 4.4ghz i5... but they don't. \\n The stock speed of the i5 is 3.5ghz. The stock speed of the 8350 is 4ghz. That means to get to 5ghz, is a 25% performance boost for the 8350, while it's almost double the performance boost for the i5 - 42%. So when you see benchmarks showing the 8350 vs i5 being neck and neck, it might look like a convincing win for the 8350, but in reality that's more like a huge lead for the i5. \\n Finally, a lot of review sites use average or max fps, which is not the CPU at all, it's the GPU. You need to look at minimum fps when looking at CPU benchmarks. \\n But here, let me show you some reliable benchmarks showcasing the difference in the i5 vs 8350, and why they are reliable: \\n Bit-tech: \\n Bit-tech is pretty good in showcasing cpu intensive gaming benchmarks. Here is Shogun2, one of the very few extremely CPU intensive games out there, and the only that that appreciates heavy multi-threading. You can see that even with the appreciation of the 8logic 8350, the i5 still beats the 8350 OC vs OC. \\n Bear in mind it's the 8350 vs the i5-2500K Sandy Bridge . Add about 15% for Ivy Bridge, and another 15% for Haswell (so 30fps IB, 33 HW, vs 22 8350.. that's a 50% performance boost of Haswell over 8350!) \\n Anandtech SC2 Benchmark \\n Anandtech actually is an awful site for benchmarks and reviews, they are one of the worst offenders, but nevermind that... this is a very simple benchmark of SC2, a very CPU intensive game that, like most games, cares about single core performance. This is stock vs stock, so it's a highly misleading benchmark for the reasons I outlined above, but as you can see, the i5 is almost twice as fast as the 8350 for per core performance, which is what matters in gaming. This difference is doubly compounded OC vs OC. \\n Fr4nc (AMD favorable blogger) \\n Here you can see that stock vs stock, 8350 beats the i5 3570K. But OC vs OC... and suddenly the 3570K wrecks the 8350. \\n Here's a really good thread on Teamliquid about the two: \\n The 8350 is a great chip, don't get me wrong. it's what I use in my main rig for video editing. But when it comes to overclocking, gaming, and general usage (ie non specialty, professional application where value matters, as the i7 wrecks the 8350 in every way but value for multi-threaded professional applications), the 8350 is an awful chip. \\n There's a reason why the i5 is considered the best gaming chip, and it's also considered one of the best overclocking chips. There's a dozen other reasons why the 8350 is worse - a poor memory controller means it can only do ~1866mhz while the i5 haswell can do ~3ghz, no PCI-E 3.0 for multi-GPU high end set-ups, a worse IO that reports less values that are useful for overclocking, a worse chipset that has a slower and less USB/SATA, it consumes about twice the energy so you actually need to use a higher end heatsink and motherboard than for a comparable i5 overclock, it's 32nm which is just older tech than 22nm and has many of it's own drawbacks more complicated than the scope of this post. \\n I know it's hard to read through the many, many biased posts, from both sides, on this issue. The 8350 is a great chip, I fucking love mine, believe me, I bleed green. If anything, I'm an AMD fan rather than Intel. I've owned way more AMD builds than Intel. I use AMD in most of my home rigs, the Sempron 140 is fucking awesome for building farms and the 8350 rocks a lot of value for my encoding work. \\n I'm no longer a gamer and while I still do overclock a lot, I'm not into the liquid nitrogen stuff anymore. But when it comes to a gaming rig, the i5 is by far a better value, and performer, than the 8350. The 8350 is just an awful value for gaming/overclocking. It's for specialty, multi-threaded, value (as the i7 beats it in multi-threaded application).\",\n \"Summary: That's because your brother has no frame of reference, and most games are not CPU dependent. Have your brother try an OC'd i5 system, or see your brother's minimum fps in a big battle in SC2 drop to 30s. The problem with most people's word-of-mouth review is that they only use one CPU, one motherboard, one PC every ~2-5 years. It's way better than their last computer or laptop, and so they say it's awesome, but in reality it's not as good as another product. \\n Every 8320 owner will tell you their FX chip is awesome, but that's also because 99% of 8320 owners (like i5, i7, 4300, etc) haven't used the competition. I'm telling you I have, and I'm knowledgeable enough about all of this, that you should at least strongly reconsider. \\n What game, exactly, do you play? Perhaps I can appeal to specifically what you do...\\n\\nPost: I'm sure he has zero complaints, but has your brother ever used an i5? Or an i7? Or a Phenom X4? He has no frame of reference. \\n I mean really, the 8320/8350 are great chips, they'll manhandle almost any game. But that's more because most games aren't very CPU heavy than them being super strong chips.... but they are still very strong chips. The 8xxx and i5, both, you're talking CPUs multiple times stronger than anything you'd see in a dell or apple store, even the i3 and 4300 are considered a level above what is considered a 'high end consumer CPU' (they are considered enthusiast class). \\n The problem, is that the 8350 is bad for it's price for gaming, and it's bad compared to the i5 for gaming . If you were to just use the 8350, it'd be a great chip! But when you factor in the fact that, like every computer component, there are 20 different options $20 above and below the CPU in price, you get into a situation where one chip is better for the price, for the task. \\n The 8350 is a great chip... the problem is that it's just 2nd best to the i5 when it comes to gaming. Your brother won't have any complaints because he has no frame of reference, and I'm sure most of the games he plays don't even use the CPU. But it's still a bad purchase, because he could have bought an i5 instead for the same price, which allows for stronger GPU set-ups with PCI-E 3.0, about 1ghz faster RAM speeds, and most importantly it's about twice as strong per core. \\n So something like Prime95 or video encoding or WinRAR 4.2 is going to be similar performance on the 8320 vs i5, something like BF3, BF4, Crysis3, Bioshock, SC2, WOW, every single game in existence and the foreseeable future, is going to be twice as strong on the i5 instead of the 8320, when both are overclocked to 4.4ghz+. \\n Most games will be 100+fps even on an i3 (with a good GPU), much less an 8320, but wouldn't you rather have 200+ fps? And then there are still many games and programs that'll be less than 30fps on the 8320, like SC2 and MOBAs. \\n This is why the Phenom X4 ($70 + $40 mobo) is a better CPU per value than the 8320 - it has the same per core performance, clock for clock (ie a 4ghz phenom x4 is the same as a 4ghz 8320), at less than half the price. Here's some benches showing that literally, the 8320 is just as weak as the Phenom X4 (of course, the 8320 can overclock to 4.4ghz+ vs only 4-4.2ghz, but then again dat price difference): \\n There are many other benches out there, but that the Phenom X4 comes even close to the 8350 in per core and gaming performance shows how poor it is for gaming. Multi-threaded applications like encoding, 8350 smashes the X4 and the i5 in value... but for gaming, it's a bad chip! \\n Like I said, I own an 8350, I own most of these CPUs, I know what I'm talking about. You can google 'Belial guide overclock' and find about a million guides and reviews I've written. Unlike most people here, I actually know what I'm talking about. \\n I hope your brother enjoys the 8350, it's still a very good chip. Just not for gaming.\",\n \"Summary: The best console is the one with the best game, but given same game, PC is by far the best due to the best hardware, and for the same price of a console you can make a superior computer, which, as many people don't realize, is extremely easy to do, it's like putting together an ikea\\n\\nPost: Eh, the best console is the one with the best games. \\n But if the game is the same and on every console, PC is by far the best. For the same price as a console, you can make a superior PC (the largest costs being stuff that's always $20-40, ie case, psu, but you could cheap out on them and it'd still be higher quality than console). For $200 you can make something that far beats a 360/PS3 (ie APU or Pentium G2120/Athlon II + 4870) in performance, and for $400 you can make something that just absolutely crushes it... \\n I mean the graphics disparity between PC and console is just ridiculous, no 1080 on 360/PS3? Wut? And completely reduced graphics. The vast majority of games performance is 95% the GPU, and consoles just use low end/midrange GPUs on release with extremely low end CPUs and RAM. \\n It's always about the game though. I was a Sega gamer for Sonic, a Nintendo gamer for Goldeneye and Zelda and Smash, a PC gamer for Diablo2/CS, a PS2 gamer for Metal Gear, an Xbox gamer for Halo, and now PC for Starcraft. \\n However as an actual console, no doubt PC is the absolute best. People don't realize that consoles are just like prebuilt Dells and Alienwares - ripoffs and use low quality components, and that building a computer is insanely fool-proof and easy and cheap. A lot of uninformed people seem to think a PC is expensive, but it's only expensive if you want a bleeding edge system (and $800 for basically top of the line everything is pretty awesome). A simple system that outperforms a console is much cheaper, has less issues, and does way more. I know I got turned off from PCs when young because of 'issues', but better internet and buildling my own computer and I haven't had a single issue ever. \\n PS3 ~ Nvidia 7800 (for reference, the 8xxx and 9xxx series was a long time ago, it got 'reset' to 2xx and now we're on 7xx). You can find these for $10.\\nXbox 360 ~ 7800GTX, about $15.\\nWii ~ X1600 (this is like $2, this is more like an xbox1 in power, it's 1/4th the power of above, which is like 1/8th the power of modern $200 GPUs). \\n 720/PS4 ~ 460/7770 & 470/7790 respectively ($70 and $90 cards). \\n For CPU they are like a Phenom II in strength per core, just with more 'cell cores', which aren't quite like extra cores of a CPU (a very bad analogy would be like saying the memory controller or pci-express controllers on the CPU are extra cores). Games generally don't utilize extra cores, and even if they do, not very well (dont tell me 'oh future games will use 8 cores! because PS3 has '6 core' and we don't see 6 core games except maybe 2 games that just came out that are heavily GPU dependent and dont rely on CPU much anyways). Bear in mind these 8 'core' CPUs are going to be around 1.5-2.5ghz, and their raw processing power is going to be more like an overclocked Phenom X4 when fully utilized, and significantly less in most applications as full utilization will be extremely rare and inefficient anyways. \\n source: I build computers both professionally and as a hobby. You can google my many guides on the topic by searching \\\"Belial guide\\\"\",\n \"Summary: WOL is like Beta, SC2 will be really awesome and finally complete after LOTV is launched, just like BW. This game isn't even near completion.\\n\\nPost: The original SC wasn't really developed either. \\n The way I look at it, SC2 is like Alpha. HOTS will be like Beta. LOTV will be fresh release, and I don't expect the game to be finished until 1-2 years after LOTV. \\n So that SC2, in how 'young' it is right now, is doing as good as it is, to me, is amazing. When the game is actually finished, it's going to be fucking amazing, but I'm glad to be part of the 'beta' before SC2 was 'even launched'. \\n It's like we're all hipsters, enjoying SC2 before it was popular. You know, because it's going to be all fleshed out and awesome 2 years after LOTV. All this DOTA stuff is going to look at 2+ years LOTV and be like \\\"wow, valve sucks, why can't they do anything right like blizzard, SC2:LOTV at least has etc\\\".\",\n \"Summary: Onboard Audio is fine, and actually high quality these days (modern mobos use high quality sound chips, and driver firmware is more responsible for good sound). You need a $500+ sound system before even considering a discrete sound card anyways, and can get 'good' sound using simply 2 speakers + sub. Built in monitor/tv speakers always suck, dont use them\\n\\nPost: Actually, onboard audio on recent mobos is usually pretty good, realtek has done a great job, especially with their drivers which is the biggest battle. \\n Onboard sound is so good, or rather sound cards make such a little difference, that you should really have spent at least $300 on speakers before you can even notice a difference in audio chips, and really more like $500+ before it's economically worth it to consider buying a card. \\n With many recent $100 motherboards that use onboard headphone amps, high quality capacitors, and more, you'd be hard pressed to justify buying a sound card (buying good speakers is justifiable, sure, but you can get 'good' sound with just a 2-way setup and a good sub, or some good, used/older speaker/ receiver setups or even an old cd sound system). \\n I'm sure people will reply saying ' My crap system sounded way better after I got an x-fi more expensive than my cpu+mobo combined!' to which I'd say, that's because your sound system is truly awful garbage to begin with. \\n Finally, please, dont ever use your monitor/TV's built in speakers. This is why you shouldn't care about HDMI carrying sound. No good monitor has good speakers that'll beat some 10 year old cd speaker set (for the same reason they don't have half decent analogue VGA driver chips, it's not worth it).\",\n \"Summary: only non-local chicken needs to really be cooked. That said I love rare chicken, fucking delicious, but I get all my meats from the butcher.\\n\\nPost: I might be wrong, I'm not entirely sure but... I'm pretty sure that for the most part, you really don't need to cook most foods. The only issues were: \\n \\n Like a couple decades ago there was some pork scare due to trichonisis, some really nasty worm, but now we don't get it from pork due to modern processing. \\n \\n You don't get sick from raw red meat, you can literally bite a cow and be fine. The problem is from large meat factories where they slice the cow in half and a bit of poop from the intestine that got nicked by a bad cut from a machine contaminates some meat mixture. As long as you get your meat from a butcher, local source, etc, you are fine with it being raw. You only need to worry about shipped in, low quality meat (ground/processed moreso). \\n \\n Chicken can be eaten raw (chicken sushi exists, it's delicious!), but chicken farms are so absolutely disgusting that unless you know for sure the chicken was grown locally in proper conditions, there is a genuine concern with undercooking chicken. \\n \\n The vast majority of cases like Ecoli and Salmonella occur because of human poop. Contamination during shipping and packaging. Animals (besides chickens) are clean. It's humans that you gotta fucking worry about. \\n \\n Organic/Free range is NOT any safer. You want local .\",\n \"Summary: Quality of Review, not Quantity. Find someone who truly takes the product apart and can tell you exactly what ICs are used and how good the solder joints are, stuff of that nature, and pushes products to their limits. I'm not saying everyone needs to break their stuff, but between 2 comparatively priced products and one can withstand extreme temps, harsh operating conditions, etc, then it'll last much longer in normal usage too \\n Also, I know this might not be popular here, but these headphones are garbage (like any 'gaming' headset). These are pretty weak, lack bass, and all around low quality headphones. There are far better headphones, even under $100, like the Sennheiser HD429, AD700, and Creative Aurvana Live. Really Sennhesier and Beyerdynamic are generally the best brands and have some solid offerings under $100, far better then this 'GaMeR' garbage. \\n Finally, just buy a cheapo $2 mic, like the zalman mic. The integrated mic on these headsets are always garbage, just get a $2 mic that's just as good (or you could put some money into it, but really it's not necessary if you looking at integrated headset-mics to begin with).\\n\\nPost: Tip for everyone - don't rely on newegg reviews (or other retailer reviews)... at all. You'll see 100% ratings on a lot of products provided they don't burn up in a year, like basically every single CPU, GPU, or RAM, because a lot of products are the kind you only buy once every 3-5 years (most people). For example, you'll see a ton of people rate a certain kit of RAM as 100% simply because it works, even though there's far better RAM out there that can overclock better (and thus more stable at lower clocks too). \\n On the flip side, you'll see almost all 0-egg, 0-star, etc reviews are by complete idiots who do things like can't use the product properly, rate it poorly simply because they were unlucky and got the ~2-3% of DOA (as will always happen with electronic/manufactured goods), or completely irrelevant things. \\n Even worse is a lot of review sites like Tomshardware and Anandtech are pretty awful too, as in they'll review a product in a very general, manufacturer 'approved' manner. IE You'll see motherboard reviews talk about how good a motherboard is because of bundled software, even though said bundled software can be used on any of the motherboards (notice TH/AT/etc will never say any product is 'bad', or even in a roundup they won't say any is bad). \\n It's hard to find trustworthy reviews, your best places are going to specialist forums and finding people who've done comparative reviews under real-world, stressful scenarios (ie enough to make the weakest product break), or some select review sites (especially some of the foreign review sites that don't give a shit about kissing ass, like prad.de, but google translate isn't always great for technical review articles). \\n I'd say sites like Johnnyguru, bittech, xbit labs are pretty good, but the best are usually specialist users who run small sites and are active on forums - martinsliquidlabs, sinshardware.\",\n \"Summary: Did you get laid, Vice (corruption, organized crime, gambling, drugs, LGBT, violence/conflict)? What's the differences you took away from each of the different localities/cities/countries (ie if you could sum up what made each area unique), finally any food or sweet that just blew your mind and you'll be looking for stateside \\n One last question - where do you want to go next and why (maybe even back to africa?). And would you ever go back? Would you go back permanently (ie would you be receptive to that idea, maybe you even actually intend to one day, maybe already even have definitive plans to?). Now that I've seen Morocco, which I had a lot of fun in, I don't particularly think I'll ever go back - seen it, done it kind of thing, plus it was a shithole (not a place you bring your girlfriend, which I did, but a fun place for a young guy, long story short I beat up someone who stole my phone and got it back, and gained recognition on the streets in the former spy capital).\\n\\nPost: Did you ever get laid over there? Please, tell us every detail of when it happened. Was there any concern of STDs (i mean i know we all worry everywhere, but it's not uncommon for bareback in the US, just wondering if like it's a huge deal if you are hooking up with someone), where do you meet women? \\n And I'd love to hear sexual customs, norms, etc. I know in other countries sex before marriage is rare (besides a some prostitute, ie most men aren't virgins but most women are before marriage). How did different sexual attitudes of yourself and the women clash? \\n Did you run into any racism at all? What were people's perception of you? Were you just a white guy, or could they tell you weren't just white but an American right off the bat? Any positive or negative attention due to that? Ie in Japan you'll get tons of positive attention, free food, flirting (especially outside of Tokyo), but in Europe they don't give a shit (some places even give you the slightest attitude for it). \\n Corruption - what was your experience with it there? \\n Oh, drugs, organized crime, gambling. Ever run into any of that? In Japan, for example, gambling is illegal, but like much of their laws regarding vice there's a huge gray area and so 'pachinko parolors' (cross between pinball and slot machines) are just everywhere where you win chocolate bars or toys, and then 'conveniently' around the corner happens to be a place that pays for chocolate bars/toys (EVERYWHERE, the smallest town has multiple blaring loud parlors...). \\n What about war and conflict, did you ever run into any active conflict zone? What about post-conflict zones, what was the affect of previous wars? Refugees, etc. Did any conflict anywhere ever cause you to change your plans (maybe you even went towards it?)? \\n Cross-dressing, homosexuality, any of that? In Japan there are certain red light districts where transsexuals will just dress up (kimonos, dresses, very full garb) and just stand there (for attention I guess, in Harajuku - like the song - teens will dress up all goth, lolita, anime, etc, to get noticed too). Anything like that, not just sexuality related, but maybe any cool, hip, or 'alternative' hang-outs in general in Africa? \\n Any strange things that people love over there? Maybe some odd, american musician, or a certain food or sport, that everyone in certain areas just go crazy about that was peculiar? \\n Did you ever get robbed, or were ever victimized? Anyone try to steal or pickpocket or hassle you because of you being an obvious foreigner, maybe charge you higher prices for being a dumb white tourist (or did you just not realize ;) )? \\n I'd love to hear your take on the differences in all of the countries, localities, and cities you visited, especially in regards to the vices I mentioned earlier. It seems to me that places like South Africa are basically like the US, but some places like Uganda are clearly just third world. I spent some time in Morocco, but I've never been to non-arabic africa or sub-saharan. \\n When did you know you wanted to come home? Did you get homesick? When you decided time to go home, how did you get home from that point? Did you keep contact with people stateside throughout the trip, and any lasting relationships rise from the trip? \\n Finally, what food and candy/desert/sweet there that you just can't live without? After Morocco I just fell in love with chicken tagine, mint tea, and macaroons (yes i know mac's are french, but in morocco they cost a penny each). \\n Thanks! Really awesome stuff. I know it's a lot of questions here but your story is awesome. I've done quite a bit of backpacking myself, but nothing longer than a few months and not much time spent in Africa outside a month in Morocco.\",\n \"Summary: I know this got a bit long, but dont trust user reviews on online retailers (either negatives or positives). People have no clue what they are talking about in general, and haven't tried the competition. You need to go by Quality > Quantity when it comes to reviews, and find someone who's tried all the models. This goes for anything.\\n\\nPost: Just an FYI, never trust reviews on amazon, newegg, and other online retailers. It's not people who know what they are talking about, it's literally only people who bought it. \\n Quality > Quantity when it comes to reviews, and even most authentic review sites (which generally overpraise and never point out the worst model as 'bad', just \\\"B+!\\\", but that's a whole other issue) do not critisize and review things for what's important - ie an example of this is motherboard reviews will rate the boards based on the software that comes packaged with it (that can be used for free on any motherboard) rather than the electronic circuits on it which determine performance and lifespan. \\n People generally will buy a product and say A+++ when they have no idea if it's performing well (or performing better or worse than it's competition) as people buy one of X item, and have no idea how it compares to the competition. \\n Conversely, they'll give negative reviews for things like slow shipping, lemons/DOAs (which happens with all manufactured and electronic, ie not handmade, goods), or irrelevant BS like color. \\n I don't know much about dashcams, but on amazon the livue lb-100 has a single 5-star review by a guy who clearly hasn't tried out the competition. I'm not saying the model isn't worthy of 5 stars, but the guy gives zero reasons on why the LB-100 is better than any other model at ~$100. He simply says it works for him, and any $20 dash cam will work. \\n People would be surprised what your money can buy, as long as you don't buy the cheapest piece of crap possible. It's like people giving 5 stars because their Mustang is fast, when the fastest they'll ever drive it is 75mph. It may be a fast car, but they don't know that.\",\n \"Summary: I'm asking if penetrating shots actually result in the 'spray of blood' like you see at the end of American History X and basically every gunshot in film. And links.\\n\\nPost: You know, I've spent a lot of time on the deep internet (goregrish, liveleak when it actually wasn't PG-13, mundonarco, when rotten was active, etc) and I don't recall ever seeing a spray of blood from a gun shot wound... not just head shots and suicides (which I've seen a lot of videos of, like the bjork guy, various 80's office white guys...), but body shots and executions and such... and I don't recall ever seeing a spray of blood like you see in the movies or TV (video quality I'm sure is a huge culprit though, it's more rare to find decent quality video of this stuff). \\n Could anyone link me any gun shot wounds where there's penetration and/or blood spray? Does it happen or have I just not seen the videos of it? I've seen a few rifle penetration shots (guy about to shoot a rocket launcher getting shot and falling over on his ass, i know penetration doesnt cause much force momentumly, but he just sort of tips over onto his ass from a kneeling position, for example, had no blood). \\n The only time I've ever really seen blood spray is from decapitations, where blood will just shoot up in the air (the whole fountain of blood from a quick decapitation DOES actually happen just like the movies though), certain headshots (under the jaw usually) where it's like a terrible terrible nosebleed, or just a leaky hole (temple/side of head shots where blood just leaks out, guy who shoots himself in head in police interrogation room with a .45 and the police are all 'aww fuck we forgot to search him'). \\n I mean, I guess in real life, you rarely have decent quality video (ie video taken in the last couple years in a first world country or like the last year in poorer countries) where someone is shot with a penetrating round in front of a white wall (american x style i guess).\",\n \"Summary: Go by the Quality of Reviews, Not Quantity. Look for reviews that objectively compare a place/product/service to competitors, and breaks down the differences. 99% of people simply don't know what 'good' is, hence why places like Famous Daves, Ruby Tuesdays, Olive Garden, Dominoes, get high ratings consistently\\n\\nPost: Don't go by general critic reviews, and don't go by public reviews; Don't go for quantity of reviews, go for quality . \\n A good review will usually say things like 'I have eaten/used X, Y, and Z, and this place is better because of this and that, and worse in this and that', and will not critique or praise the product/service/place on anything ridiculous (ie a restaurant's food for slow service or other customers, understand that bad/faulty service/products happen even to the best of places/services/products and not to score based on that). \\n Places especially like Amazon, newegg, walmart, etc, have reviews submitted, and they are always very poor to go by. You get lots of poor scores from people who got a faulty product or a bad night, and you get tons of high scores by people who don't know any better (ie oh man this cell phone is awesome! Even though most people only buy one cell phone every 2 years and never tried any other). \\n When looking at reviews, you really want to look for people who have a solid frame of reference and can compare the product against others. \\n Take McDonalds. Objectively, McDonalds is fucking awesome. It's better then any restaurant from, you know, 200 years ago, the food tastes good generally. If you've never had a hamburger anywhere else, or ever been to any other restaurant, McDonalds is fucking awesome. But that's ridiculous right, we all know McDonalds sucks, right? Well, that's what 99% of reviews are. By people who haven't tried anything better, or are using the product incorrectly (ie using a high end product for a low end job, like saying a certain car is great when in reality it sucks, it's just no one is exactly racing their cars and pushing them to the limit). \\n For products especially, you want to hear about people who push the product to the extreme (ie shoes used for hiking mt everest or running marathons, computer parts used to run intense simulations). \\n Anyways, I know people might think this is simple, but you'd be surprised by how ineffective and unreliable 99% of people are as critics. Most people simply don't know what 'good' is. On top of this, people will get very defensive if you say something sucks, that they like. You tell the average person that, say, Olive Garden or Ruby Tuesday's is garbage food, and they won't respond by saying 'Oh, I'd like to try good food', instead they'll balk and call you an asshole. \\n This gets even worse when a particular product/service/place is 'tied' somehow - a local restaurant, a type of product or food that the area might be known for, et cetera. The most egregious example of this is BBQ. There's always a BBQ, Mexican, Pizza, or Sushi place in every town, and unless it's in the South/Western US/West Coast/Big City, 99.99% chance it sucks. Most people simply don't know what authentic BBQ, Mexican, Sushi, or Pizza is, and will defend with their life the best they had. \\n But people confuse 'the best they've had' with 'good'. Famous Dave's, is fucking aweful, flash frozen, low quality food, but it's always 5 stars on Yelp and review sites, simply because it's usually the best BBQ a town will see. \\n Most people have never been to a Michelin restaurant or tasted authentic food that wasn't packaged in a far-away factory and/or frozen. \\n So that's why places like the OP's Mimi's Cafe, can get a decent rating on google. Because you have a bunch of people who have no fucking clue what good coffee is, who've probably only had Starbucks as the best coffee they've had (or not even), and go and get their mind 'blown' at Mimis.\",\n \"Summary: People got taxed on income, then retired, then invest that money to make more money. It appears they aren't being taxed while still making income, but they really did already pay taxes. It would be like if the government taxed your paycheck, and then 10 years later you go to Las Vegas, and you gain income - technically you don't pay taxes that year, but your income was still taxed at some point, you are just spending money to make money.\\n\\nPost: It may sound like an alarming static, but of those 400 richest Americans, most of them do not work, and, they already paid their income taxes. Generally the richest people, what happens is they pay their due share in taxes when working, and then they stop working a salaried job, and the rest of their income is simply made through interest, appreciation, and stocks. \\n They are basically spending money, to make money, as their income - money they have already paid taxes on. So it may look bad that Warren Buffet paid nothing in income taxes, he actually already paid the taxes on that income, and is simply making additional income by investing that money. \\n Just goes to show that any article can be slanted, and alarmist statistics with no context can sound a lot different than what the truth is. You would't like it if you got taxed on your income, and then you spent that money to create a business, but got taxed again simple because you spent the money on something (past sales tax, of course).\",\n \"Summary: Neutral depots are completely necessary. Anyone who thinks drone drilling works is clearly a Non-Zerg player who plays at a low level and doesn't know what they are talking about. Please stop spreading misinformation.\\n\\nPost: You can't drone drill on most maps and most spawn positions. The best way to drone drill is to right click on the building pylon/bunker - this makes it even harder because on many maps, you are forced to use a mineral field from a far away base to drone drill. \\n Finally, drone drilling doesn't work against anyone competent, because they can just reinforce. Toss can just put down a pylon/gateway or 2 pylons and your drone drilling becomes meaningless. Before you can break this 2nd wall, which you most likely will be unable to drone drill against, the cannon will finish. \\n If Terran ramp blocks you, he will always have a marine or two, or a reaper, shooting at your drones while you attempt to drone drill. \\n Also, putting down 3 pylons or 2 bunkers costs around 400-500 minerals, varying on workers pulled and such. \\n To drone drill effectively, you need to pull every drone (or rather, effectiveness increases with drones pulled). All 15 of your drones pulled (which is unlikely, you probably have 1-2 drones still morphing, and 1-2 drones on the map, like a scout and one taking the natural) will take about 60 seconds to clear out a ramp block. \\n That means you lose at the very minimum, 750 minerals (50 m/s x 15). That's not including workers lost because a reaper or marine is shooting at your drones. And don't forget, Terran/Toss is mining this entire time.\",\n \"Summary: 558 vs DT990 vs MA900 . I would really appreciate feedback from users who could compare these. I am well aware these 3 headphones are all amazing and I really couldn't go wrong with any of them and that there are also many other great headphones. Really I'm leaning towards 558, or maybe DT990. The mA900 is $240+ (i swore I saw it for $150) and I hear some people say it's not comfortable (hard headband, stitching, shallow cups).\\n\\nPost: Hi, I'm looking for a good headphone for all-around and electro, open (as I don't care for portability or isolation/leakage, this is literally to replace desktop speakers). Comfort and deep cups is very important as I wear them for 8+ hours at a time. \\n I've done a ton of research and right now my shortlist is the 558, DT990 250 Pro (cheapest), and MA900. You're free to recommend something else, but apart from maybe some of the AKGs, I've eliminated most other choices due to price or relative comfort. \\n I just bought my GF the 681 Evos this week and I've been using them a lot, they sound great as far as I can tell, but they get my ears sore after about 4+ hours because my ear touches the driver pad (I believe that's why, not sure 100%). This is also partly why I'm not really considering the AKGs, same design and I really want something a step up in both comfort and sound. \\n I also tried a ton of headphones at Best Buy and Guitar Center, but it's pretty much entirely just trendy garbage and very basic models only at those places. All I could really conclude was the 428s seemed comfy enough (couldn't really a/b them because hardwired to some stupid 1-track country sample), the AKG K240 (what the superluxes are based off of) was super comfy and great, and the shure 240a and beats were highly uncomfortable and muffled, the latter due to ear contact to driver pad. The Bose AE2i seemed comfy and good as far as I could tell, and the Sony 10RNC sounded fine but one of the two display models was all stale and crusty so I dunno how that would hold up long term. \\n Otherwise, I have no experience with better sound, this would be my first headphones. I have no preference in sound profiles at the moment. \\n \\n Budget: Under $200, but I'd really prefer to keep it under $150 for value (ie $200 headphones better be close to twice as good OR comfortable, at least, as $100). Hence why I'm thinking 558 > 598. \\n Source: Z87X-UD3H only, which is an ALC898 + TI DRV632 600 ohm headphone amp. I will not rule out any headphones that 'need' an amp to sound best, I'd rather get the better phone and just a month or whatever from now I can buy an amp if necessary (of course, better be better than any other on same amp). They won't be used on anything else. \\n Isolation: Not Needed. \\n Portability: Not Needed. \\n Preferred Type: Full-sized Over Ear, Open. Soundstage seems really cool to me so I'm all about that. \\n Preferred tonal balance: No preference, really. I think I may be a bit weary of sibilance but I believe that can be EQ'd anyways. \\n Past headphones: Superlux 681 EVO, sound great afaik, I want something more comfortable and a significant step up though. \\n Preferred Music: Electro, think Justice, Kavinsky, Daft Punk, NOT dubstep or house groups like Skrillex, Bassnectar, etc that are crazy bass. However I'm aiming for general usage since I listen to indie, death metal, some pop, as well as a bit of media. I also play Starcraft 2, an RTS (as I understand, this means go for 'cinematic' but whatever). \\n Headsize: Normal guy head, normal ears. \\n Location: US \\n Modding: I am totally open to modding, I am a big computer modder and arduino guy, I am comfortable with soldering and ripping things apart and all that. If a certain headphone needs to be modded to reach it's full potential, I'm so okay with that. \\n \\n I'm a bit torn between the 558, DT990, and MA900 because I want the one that's most comfortable and sounds best and best stage. I'm leaning towards the 558 for comfort and price right now.\",\n \"Summary: Regions should be blended and intertwined, so that the skill level and metagame goes up more and so foreigner players can actually be interesting and competitive, so that tournaments can make a profit on hosting events with foreigners instead of absolutely zero events going on because the skill gap is so large. The more tournaments, the better, it's really not hard to just watch less tournaments, you have to really have a TON of free time to think too many tournaments exist, you aren't supposed to follow them like that and by having more tournaments, you create a more competitive environment and better quality tournaments, and in turn players. \\n Also, my biggest tip of advice if you want to improve as a player - do not watch games for entertainment, watch games only to improve. For example, I stopped watching every tournament, and nowadays I ONLY watch the GSL, and ONLY ZvX, and at any given time, ONLY a single match-up, the one I currently have problems with or focusing on, and ONLY of certain players that have a style that I like. Like right now, I'm only watching ZvZ of DRG and Symbol. Any other free time I have, that I could spend watching tournaments, I instead spend playing the game.\\n\\nPost: I strongly disagree with a lot of things you are saying... \\n 1) Segregation of scenes as a good thing\\n> Overlapping scenes means that talent grows in all scenes much more. If it was NA, EU, KR all on their own, then each scene would develop the metagame on it's own, and skillwise, develop on their own. The metagame would be staler, the skill level would be lower, and all you'd have, is 1 region would be king while the other 2 just were uncompetitive, like in BW. I know it may appear that way in SC2, but we have many foreigners who are genuinely competitive in the korean scene, and the NA/EU metagames are similar enough to KR. \\n 2) Too many tournaments \\n>Too many tournaments is NOT a bad thing. I really don't agree on this one, and if multiple tournaments merged, you'd just have oligopoly as tournaments give shittier content for a higher price. You want lots of tournaments, so that they keep one-upping eachother, as you see now. It's great! No one is forcing you to watch every tournament, and this idea of 'viewer fatigue' is absolutely ridiculous. You'd have to be a moron to watch every tournament and then whine about being burned out. I only watch the GSL, but I know there has been a HUGE quality increase because of the existence of other leagues, on it. It's pretty simple, no one is forcing you to watch every tournament, and if people want to invest that much money into the scene, great. Back in BW, people couldn't be full time gamers outside of Korea because there just weren't enough tournaments, and even in Korea, very, very few people could be full time gamers, because the scene was so rigid.\\n>\\nI do NOT want another KeSPA, and what you are advocating, is totally Kespa - limit the amount of exposure and tournaments, so that when games happen, people go crazy over it, but people can only see a handful of games a year by their favorite player, the metagame developed much slower, it was impossible for new talent to break in... \\n 3) We should appeal to newbs\\n> I strongly disagree. Lower level players are facing similarly low level opponents, who have just as hard a time at the game. If you are in bronze, your opponent does not know the hotkeys, the shift and control hotkey combinations, either. By appealing to lower level players, you are just killing the popularity of the game. SC2 is an RTS, not exactly the most popular genre, and has gone lightyears ahead of any previous RTS. You are comparing apples and oranges, and Sc2 has done a great job, not a bad one, and appealing to lower level players would only be a move towards what is holding sc2 back, not pushing it forward. \\n 4) Game design is bad\\n> I agree, but I don't agree with everything you say here. I think harass and counterattacks should be the focus, which become more of a factor the longer the game goes on. However, a big problem is that many races have strong advantages only in certain times. It means Zerg will just make 'moar infestors moar spines' so they can survive anything and then mass a deathball. I believe the key problem with zerg, is the uselessness of the hydra and how much better infestors are. By making a standard tier 2 hydra (or muta for that matter), you are just way too all-in and won't have infestors, and broods, out in time. The hydra needs to be buffed - while the hive tech speed requirement sounds a bit ridiculous to me, the viper seems like it's going to go a long way in making the hydra a useful unit all game long. Certain races will always have strengths at certain times in the game, but the problem is how defensive the races can be with sentries, PFs, sim city, infestors and spines so you really have to be extremely all-in, or play the same turtle game. \\n 5) Gamers have boring personalities\\n> Well... shouldn't really be a surprise. Not everyone can be an alpha male. But anyone in the public light could benefit from a Public Relations agent, something EG has done quite well with their quasi-PR team. This should be something both tournaments and teams need to be more aware of, to be honest. \\n >In fact, I can attest to this as a streamer. I'm quite an interesting person, and if you've seen my posts on TeamLiquid, you know that I'm quite a controversial person, and also an asshole. But I'm interesting, both on my posts in TeamLiquid, and in real life (something you'll just have to take my word on right now, I suppose). However, when I'm streaming, I just get so into the game, that's it's kind of hard for me to really 'Be Interesting'. I really need to get a 2nd monitor or something so I can see the stream chat (why can't I put it 'on top' so I can see it on my 1 monitor in-game?), but it can be kind of hard to be interesting in the public light. We have all heard about how 'crazy' Haypro was, but the public wasn't really aware of it. It really requires professional attention (Team EG) or someone who's REALLY out there (Destiny) to have an 'interesting' personality. It's hard.\",\n \"Summary: PC can do co-op and lan, if you think a restrictive OS incapable of doing anything else is 'ease of use' then sure, a bike with training wheels is also 'ease of use'. Freezing and compatibility issues should never happen, and happen just as often with consoles as they do PC, as it's related to software, not hardware (or, faulty hardware is just as common with consoles as it is with PC components, ipods, anything electronic/manufactured). GTA5's graphics were pretty low quality, they were just designed well and good compared to previous games. Seriously, compare Crysis3 on console vs Crysis3 on a GTX 470. \\n Seriously, the 360/ps3 was in 720p! and the 1/ps4 is only 1080p! lololol! It's like watching youtube on 480p. The funny thing is that you can enjoy full content on a PC for less then a console .\\n\\nPost: You can do local co-op on a PC. \\n Ease of use... If you think a console is 'easier to use' then a PC, then you are doing it wrong. And I'd hardly call a limiting OS uncapable of doing anything but the sign in screen with the wii u characters or whatever avatars, and only capable of doing a game, and only one thing at a time, 'easier to use'. \\n That's like saying you prefer a train to a car or plane because it's 'easier to use'. Not really... \\n > lack of freezing over pretty textures any day. \\n If this is happening, then you are doing something wrong. On the other hand, consoles will freeze due to textures, they will overheat (red ring of death for example), the PSU is low quality and regularly blows out to brown-outs and surges, and the case is pretty low quality and fragile. \\n Now, set your graphics to low graphics, and you'll never have 'freezing over textures'. But you should never have freezing on any textures. \\n It's like saying you prefer a bike with training wheels because a real bike can tip over. \\n > I know PC gamers like to pretend compatibility issues and freezing don't happen but they do and it's really bothersome and immersion breaking. \\n They don't, unless you are doing something wrong. \\n Some issues can occur with software/the game, but that happens with console games just as often with PC games (bugs, glitches, hacks, exploits, etc). This has nothing to do with the hardware, and everything to do with the software. As for faulty hardware, consoles can be faulty just as often as PC components - in fact, more so because they are made with low quality components. \\n > GTA5 was visually beautiful to me, if that's \\\"shit\\\" like all PC gamers like to say then I clearly just don't care about PC quality graphics. \\n It may be beautiful by console standards, but honestly every PC gamer looked at it and said 'lol, that looks like shit' (of course, the design aspects of the game are breathtaking, ie the vistas and the view of the landscape). \\n It's like saying 'well Vector on Sega was visually beautiful to me, if that's 'shit' like all PC gamers like to say then I clearly don't care about the Xbox 1/PS4!'. it's just a really ignorant comment to make. \\n Like I said, the best gaming console is all about the game. So if Halo is the game you like, get an Xbox. That said, from a hardware perspective, the Xbox 1 and PS4 are already extremely weak and outdated - the CPU is equivalent to an Athlon II X4 which came out about 5 years ago to be compatible with DDR2 RAM (DDR4 is around the corner), and was considered a mid-grade CPU when it came out, and a GTX 460 which was a decent mid-range GPU about 4 years ago. \\n It's still a decent card by today's standards (as a budget card), relatively speaking the consoles put all their weight into the GPU, as they should, as that's what 95% of games only care about. But the consoles are literally just computers, and low quality ones at that. There's no reason to buy a console besides a certain game only being on that console, which is 100% marketing being douchebags and preventing the game from being accessed by other people. \\n It limits competition, and frankly it hurts gaming. Hopefully the Steam Box will do well to cross the bridge between people who are too old, young, or quite frankly just uninformed, about computers, and bringing gaming to a larger audience (ie if consoles went away, gaming would take a hit for sure since many[most?] gamers are children). \\n A console is literally just a weak computer. Put an extremely low quality motherboard, an extremely cheap external power supply, lack of IO and inputs, a crappy sound controller, an extremely weak CPU, only 2GB of RAM because you are only doing one thing at a time, an extremely low capacity HDD (not even a modern SSD!) because you can't install programs or anything on it, and a GPU, and hey you got a console!\",\n \"Summary: The Paste that Intel uses is actually excellent, and the spread is fine. Intel needed to use thermal paste instead of solder on Ivy/Haswell due to the smaller packages creating more heat per surface area \\n PS: Here's some Videos and Pics of my work: \\n How to 100% Safely Delid with no Risk of Damage (Hammer Delid Method) \\n [Delidded i7-4770K Haswell]( \\n [I Delid so often I even delidded my 7950]( \\n Come join us at Overclock.net's Official Delid Club!\\n\\nPost: I know a lot about some of these things, so I'll reply here: \\n >Why is the thermal paste used for Ivy Bridge & Haswell SO BAD. \\n Actually, the thermal paste used on Ivy and Haswell is really good. People who have 'delidded' their Ivy/Haswell chips (such as myself, I've delidded over a dozen current-gen CPUs) by removing the cover on the chip, have found that if you keep the old thermal paste, you'll still get the same temp drops as using high grade ceramique thermal pastes (just not as high as performance TIMs like coollaboratory liquid ultra). \\n The reason for the higher temps on Ivy/Haswell, is not because of the tim, but because of the gap between the CPU die, and the IHS (the metal cover you see on a chip, the die is the actual CPU that's underneath this metal that's 1/4th the size). This gap is caused by the black, roofing-tar like glue that holds the IHS to the PCB, the package, to the die. Here's a good pic that illustrates this, you can see the black tar that is the cause of the large gap. \\n Here, you can see that the IHS doesn't even contact the PCB without pressure or built-up glue. The best solution would be for intel to apply the glue after applying pressure down on the IHS, but obviously there are issues to address with that (like how long do they need to be clamped for the glue application, how to apply glue, etc). \\n Delid the CPU by cutting through this glue and rubbing off this roofing tar-like glue, and you will get massive temp drops, even with the stock TIM. You'll get about a 5-15C temp drop, just like if you use PK-3, MX-4, or any other ceramique paste. \\n You'll get another ~10-15c temp drop if you use something like Coollaboratory Liquid Ultra, which is less of a conventional ceramique thermal paste , and more of an extreme TIM (with a relatively 'extreme' price, too). \\n This small gap between the CPU die and IHS, is what causes the high temps on Ivy and Sandy. By delidding, you ensure better contact. \\n NOW , to bring it all together - Sandy Bridge and previous CPUs had this same roofing tar glue and gap, but their temps weren't as crazy, or rather delidding wasn't beneficial, because Intel used Fluxless resin Solder (basic electronics solder) to join the IHS to the die. Pure metal makes a much better heat transfer, than even the best thermal pastes. \\n The reason that they could not use fluxless solder on the newer chips, and had to use 'crappy paste', was because Ivy Bridge and Haswell are such small chips. Even though both of them run cooler than their predecessors over all, they are much smaller CPUs (you may have heard of Sandy being 32nm, Ivy and Haswell being 22nm). This refers to the thickness of the silicon package and how much space the transistors have. \\n So if you have 1 billion transistors, micro-circuits, on a, say, 40x10 package, and then you put 1.5billion transistors on a 25x15 package, even if the latter package is more efficient and runs cooler, it's going to be at least twice as much heat emanating from it since the heat is more concentrated. \\n Fluxless solder cannot tolerate certain high temps (or rather, Intel does not feel safe doing so). Hence, why the newer gen CPUs have TIM. \\n Now, if you are an overclocker, the new TIM solution is actually preferable - merely delid your CPU, and you will actually get a cooler CPU than previous gen CPUs. You can overclock a delidded Ivy further than Sandy, and a delidded Haswell can go almost as far as Ivy, on comparable cooling (Haswell has the onboard VRM, which is another issue). \\n > And even ignoring this, the paste & the way it is placed is so bad that you get uneven temperatures between cores, even without any overclocking, simply because the heat is not being spread equally. \\n This isn't really true. You do not get uneven temps between cores due to the paste spread (which intel actually does a great job of using enough, but not too much, as it's nearly impossible to use too little paste but very common for too much paste to be used). Remember, cores are actually quite small, and the die itself is already maybe 1/4th the area underneath the IHS (so you're talking 4/10th of 1/4th). You get uneven temps even with Sandy, Ivy-E, etc chips that are soldered. You get uneven temps even with AMD, between cores. \\n The fact of the matter is that the middle cores are going to get hotter than the cores at the 'edges' of the package, that so many calculations are running through that certain cores just will get hotter than the others. But it's common for cores to be as much as 10c different, and this is entirely because of software demands, as certain cores get utilized more than others. \\n Bear in mind, that right now, there are only two video games that utilize anything more than 4 cores in any appreciable amount, and of those 2 games, neither of them utilized the 5th and 6th core appreciably. You're talking less than 40% and 20% utilization respectively on the 6th and 5th cores. There are about 3-4 other games that use multiple cores, but are not CPU heavy (bioshock, farycry, etc) and even a Phenom II or i3 does just fine on. \\n My point is that threading utilization, is very low right now, and will be for some while, so the reason certain cores getting hotter than others, is really not Intel's fault. It's not even a bad thing either. Overclockers only need to mind for the temperature on the highest core. No one cares about the heat spread between cores, because it doesn't matter.\",\n \"Summary: For RAM overclockers, enthusiast Overclockers, and specialist users like streamers, Haswell is awesome. For others, it's merely a fair value over Ivy. There were a lot of improvements for Haswell, many of them NOT performance related. The RAM IMC improvement on Haswell was quite massive and leads for huge gains though, just get the right Hynix CFR and Samsung D-Rev RAM to unlock it's full potential\\n\\nPost: Finally, I'd like to remind people of the improvements of Haswell, since theres clearly an anti-Haswell sentiment going on in this thread. Haswell was a great chip, as was Ivy. They were not the revolutionary successes like the Phenom, Athlon 64, or Sandy, but they still maintained strong performance gains and were worthwhile. \\n Haswell saw a ~10% performance increase real world, that's quite significant and double what Ivy gained over Sandy. Haswell also incorporates AVX2, which is literally a good 40%+ performance boost in relevant applications, like streaming H264. Haswell also allows for 3 monitors off the iGPU (without 2 having to be DP which basically made Sandy/Ivy 2-monitor iGPU - running 3 monitors off your iGPU and then your dGPU dedicated to gaming is pretty awesome, it also lets you do things like Mining or Folding@Home 'headless' without a monitor while using your iGPU so your system isn't bogged and slowed down). The iGPU is also significantly stronger, allowing you to game or do things off the iGPU while you use your GPU for specialized tasks. \\n Finally, the Haswell's IMC is friggin insane. We're talking about Haswell's average IMC speeds of above 3GHz RAM speeds! . There's a myth that RAM speed and RAM overclocking doesn't matter, but it's wrong. When you're comparing 1866 to 2200mhz, sure, there's no difference. When you're talking 2200 (Ivy's average max on 8gb) to 3ghz , yea, that's a noticeable performance increase, you're talking a good 5% performance boost (add that to Haswell's 10% boost over Ivy, and a 15% is about where Sandy was). \\n Now, the myth is that RAM to go to 3ghz is expensive, but that's not true either. You can find kits like Gskills 2400 CL11 2x4GB 11-13-13-31 Ripjaws X ( this kit is usually on sale for $64 (and $56 after coupon), putting it at the same price as the cheapest RAM, but can easily do 3.2ghz RAM speeds. Yes, 3200mhz RAM speeds, that's a lot higher than 1600, or the 1866 max that AMD's FX chips can do. \\n The onboard VRM, while contentious in the overclocking community, has it's benefits too. It allows for ultra-low power states, meaning if you run specialized GPU work like folding/mining, your computer will consume far less power (meaning more bitcoin profit!). It also allows for more efficient power in general, meaning a good ~$10/yr saved, easily (it adds up), something most reviews fail to notice because old CPUs power consumption figures don't exactly include the motherboard VRM, which Haswell has now partly-included. \\n A single jump in generations is never 'worth it' for most people, even Nehalem to Sandy wasn't 'worth it'. But Haswell was definitely a good improvement over Ivy, which was an improvement over Sandy. Bear in mind a 4.5ghz Haswell = 4.9ghz Ivy = 5.1ghz Sandy. That's not including AVX2, or basically a 200% increase in RAM speed headroom. \\n My point, is that all in all, and not even getting into massive motherboard improvements on Haswell's platform, is that Haswell is definitely worth $40 over Ivy, assuming $20 per '100mhz' of performance from Ivy Bridge era power (that's about how all CPUs are priced, to put it basically), especially if you are a specialist user of sorts that needs higher RAM overclockability, uses memory intensive applications (read: not memory using, ie space) like streaming H264 and most CPU dependent applications, or needs a better iGPU for multi-monitor or performance. No one should be buying Ivy over Haswell for a new system, if anything it's either Sandy for cheap vs Haswell. \\n Oh, and Haswell does amazing on sub-ambient cooling. 5.2ghz daily overclocks are pretty common on phase. \\n BUT For the main criticism of increased heat/reduced overclockability! Okay. Well, as we know, more transistors in same surface area means more heat, and with Haswell they significantly increased transistor count, not just by improving the design, but by adding the onboard VRM. As we all know, you need to delid Ivy and Haswell in order to overclock them. If you aren't going to delid them, either run LN2 (as delidding hurts sub-ambient overclocking, actually, it is still a curious, unsolved but consistent mystery, chips that perform well, then get delidded, perform worse on ln2) or go with Sandy Bridge instead (or maybe go extreme cooling, ie Ivy + Custom Loop, Haswell + Phase Change at minimum). \\n Now. Ivy is supposed to run cooler than Sandy, but the delid issue makes it otherwise. Once delidded, Ivy runs cooler than Sandy, about 10C. On top of that, Ivy has about an extra 20-30C in thermal headroom to play with before it's 'hot'. Oh, and Ivy and Haswell are significantly hardier than Sandy Bridge - Reports of degradation and even death are quite common on Ivy, but almost unheard of on Ivy. There are literally less than a handful of cases of Ivy Bridge degrading, and one of them is myself (intentionally pushing the limits, it seems 1.5v at high temps is about the limit, so either go 1.45v max and the closer you are to max voltage, you should put a larger space between max temp and your temp, ie 1.5v and 70C, not 90C. Haswell appears to be even hardier than Ivy, which is saying a lot, as people are pushing 1.5v+ just fine with no issue, including myself. \\n That said, people have killed Haswell, but that is because of Asus' buggy boards giving crazy higher VRIN than it says it's giving, as well as a few people at the start who didn't realize VRIN can be so dangerous. Don't go above 2.2VRIN lightly, and 2.6VRIN is death. \\n So with Haswell, you have to delid, but you'll still be about 10-20C hotter than Ivy due to the on-board VRM. It hurts for ambient overclocking, but the main benefits is the power savings you get for the on-board VRM, reduced electrical bill substantially yearly. So it's a little less overclockability for a little more being green. I know we don't give a fuck about the environment around here, but that's a solid $10/yr in energy savings, if not way more than that. \\n Finally let me remind you that Haswell is a premium** overclocker's CPU. And like all premium, overclocking CPUs, it gets hot, almost as hot as FX. If you buy a piece of budget crap heatsink like a Hyper 212 or NH-D14 or H60, and then put it on this Lamborghini of a CPU, and it doesn't cool it, don't cry about how it doesn't keep it cool and how it runs hot. Now, spend an extra $20 on cooling, and get a proper 240mm rad CLC at minimum, if not a water kit (h220, eisberg) or 280mm closed loop, or even a proper custom loop.\",\n \"Summary: Unlimited Oil\\n\\nPost: As unpopular as it is to say it, there is a ton of oil out there, and we likely won't be running out for centuries to come. Doomsday predictions saying ~50-150 years don't take into account unproven reserves, or improving technology, lower supply = higher price = lower demand, and unfound reserves. \\n The US has actually been the world's largest oil&gas producer for a few years now, since the large oil find in the Gulf, having way more than Saudi Arabia. There's also the oil shales and sands that is a ton more oil, that usually isn't calculated to doomsday oil projections. \\n Essentially, there is unlimited oil. However, certain deposits don't get tapped until either technology allows us to, say, drill that deep for X dollars, or the price of oil goes up which makes tapping that deposit economically worthwhile. \\n Doomsday predictions are stagnant models. There are huge oil reserves found all the time, there are large swathes of oil-rich areas that haven't even been tapped yet, and tons of 'unproven' reserves that just haven't been officiated yet that have a ton of oil in them.\",\n \"Summary: Anything low fat, organic, low carb, diet, half the sugar, etc. I would be more inclined to buy a product if it said \\\"50% more fat, now with MSG!\\\"\\n\\nPost: Anytime something says something like \\\"low fat, low sugar, 50% less sugar, diet, X% less fat/sugar/calories/carbs than the leading/competitor/comparable brand\\\". \\n Like if something said on it \\\"50% more fat than X competitor\\\", I would buy it. This is often a huge problem when I'm grocery shopping, as every, say, condensed soup or butter says this, all of them, there is no 'normal' butter/soup/cheese, so I will actually look at the nutrition table, compare calories/fat/carbs, and see which one has the most, and compare vitamins and see which one is the least healthiest. \\n Also, whoppers, peppermint patties, junior mints, are all 'Less fat/sugar/etc\\\" on them, which makes me feel really weird when I buy them. Like I just think about how much better they'd be otherwise. \\n It's just diet/lowfat/etc food is so disgusting imo. All of it always tastes terrible in comparison to fattier/unhealthier food. \\n Btw, I'm actually quite fit, I work out, I'm running in a half-marathon tommorow (and young too, that probably has a lot to do with it). I cook most of my meals, and I eat very healthy (rarely ever eat snacks like chips, never eat junk food) and everything I cook is with whole and natural foods, vegetables, etc. But when I need butter, or cheese, or condensed soup for cooking, or pasta, or whatever... it's just so hard to find the most unhealthiest brand. \\n ALSO - I hate anything 'organic'. Can't stand the whole organic thing, for the same reason. I want my food pumped full of hormones and raised with controlled, scientific chemicals. I trust science a lot more than I trust 'god/nature'.\",\n \"Summary: GT300w $100. G1W or Rip-off GT300w if you want to spend less (still very good cams). Bear in mind that these cams are literally ~$150-180 cams, technically they are rip-off of the DOD LS300w which is sold for $180 and highly praised, but paying 2x for the DOD logo is just silly (and they don't have particularly great support compared to Tiotech, the manufacturer).\\n\\nPost: that does need a connection to the internal power, that is a battery powered one \\n I assume you mean it doesn't need a hardwire. None of them need hardwire, they all come with batteries, it's up to you whether you want to run it on battery or on the cig socket (or hardwire to fuse box, which is basically a more semi-permanent cig lighter style). \\n If the power port in your car is broken, it's very simple to hook up to your fuse box. Trust me, it sounds a LOT more complicated than it really is, it's just a matter of sticking a car fuse splitter in the fuse box, and there you go. But if your car cig adaptor isn't working, that's most likely just a blown fuse in the fuse box and an easy replacement (most cars come with extra fuses for this, it'll be next to the fuse box). Check your car manual. \\n If video quality, especially night vision quality, is really what's important to you, which it was for me, than the G1W/G2W or GT300w (or clone) is your best choice by far (a lot of very good dash cams, especially in the ~$100 and some older best buys, suffered from extremely poor night vision despite high quality day). Night vision is asking a lot from a dash cam, but fortunately sub-$100 dash cams come with good night vision (wasn't true ~6 months ago). \\n The difference between a ~$60 G1W/G2W, rip-off GT300w/clone ('neutral', 'givoe', 'non-brand), and legit GT300w/clone, is just slightly better video quality each step up. G2W is just G1W in different housing, GT/LS 300, 350, 450, 550, 680, is same thing in different housing.\",\n \"Summary: You are wrong. This kit is higher quality double-sided Hynix CFRs to the single sided Hynix BFRs of the Team Extreems you linked, not to mention cheaper (ie single sided is 400-600mhz worse per clock and only good for reaching super high mhz validations, not real world usage). Furthermore, RAM overclocks have a huge impact on performance - going from 1600 to 1866 is no difference, but going from 1600 to 2600mhz will give you a good 5-10+ fps gain in games and most applications, which is a pretty big increase for just $12 extra over the absolute cheapest DDR3 on newegg right now.\\n\\nPost: Actually this RAM is significantly higher quality. This RAM is hynix double sided CFRs, while the team extreems you linked are hynix single sided BFRs. \\n Basically, single sided RAM has ICs only on one side, meaning they can't use bank interleave (think of bank interleave as single channel vs dual channel, except instead of simultaneously sending data between 2 lanes on your RAM slots, it's sending data simultaneously on the 2 sides of your RAM stick). \\n Single sided RAM runs about 400-600mhz worse per clock, so you'd have to take those Team Extreems to about 2800-3000mhz CL11 to be equivalent to 2400mhz CL11 on the Gskills. \\n Furthermore, the Gskills are cheaper. \\n You should be able to take these Gskills to about 2600mhz CL10 with 1.8v, provided you have a decent IMC. It's possible to hit even 2800mhz if you are lucky, or maybe with 1.85v. The Team Extreems might go a bit higher, for being single sided, which is why single sided RAM is so coveted by benchers (high Mhz validations), but it's terrible for 24/7, real world use, and those Team Extreems aren't going to be breaking any records (ie it's like the worst of both worlds). \\n Some better high quality ram is the Gskill Tridents with Samsung HCH9s for $99, if you want to spend more money than these Gskills. \\n Finally, quit with the goddamn myth about RAM having very little impact on performance just because you heard someone else say it. This was originally said back when 1866mhz RAM cost over $100+, but nowadays this isn't the case. In fact this stop being the case about 4-5 years ago when PSC was popular and could easily overclock to 2400mhz. There is definitely very little difference between 1600mhz and 1866mhz, but there is a HUGE difference between 1600mhz and 2600mhz RAM. Now it all depends on what you do, as well. A game like BF3 or Crysis3 really doesn't care about RAM speed, but a game like SC2 is heavily RAM dependent and you will get a good 5-10FPS increase going from 1600mhz to 2400mhz. \\n I'd say paying only $0-10 extra for 5-10fps gain is a value you won't see anywhere else. If you do streaming, like H264 codec, you really want to use 2133mhz+ RAM for a high quality, 720@60fps stream to look smooth. RAM speed can make a great difference in speed, especially if you are only paying $0 extra for the speed as long as you buy your RAM smartly. \\n Now these Gskills, are $64. The cheapest 1600mhz DDR3 2x4GB RAM on newegg right now is $52 for some no-name brand RAM. $12 extra for RAM that can go up to 2600mhz CL11 is a pretty fair price. \\n On a side note, the 'stock' settings of a RAM are meaningless, what's important is the RAM IC used (think of the i5-3570K, it's not a 3.5ghz chip, it's a 4.4ghz+ chip that's guaranteed by intel to run at 3.5ghz). Any RAM run past 1333mhz CL9 is technically an overclock on DDR3. Crank up the voltage to 1.75-1.9v (depending how conservative you are), you'll be fine on ambient cooling, especially with just 2 sticks, and keep the stock timings and just increase the speed as high as your IMC and your sticks will take you. I'm sure on Haswell you can do 2800mhz with this kit if you really tried.\",\n \"Summary: Timings have a significant impact on performance. Going from CL9 to CL8 will not impact performance, but going from CL9-9-9-24-2T-190-32 with 1-3-6-4 tertiaries to CL7-8-7-22-1T-100-16 with 1-3-3-3 tertiaries will have a huge impact on performance, and the rated RAM voltage is a completely made up number that means nothing since the true 'stock speed' of all DDR3 RAM is 1333mhz CL9 1.5v and anything else is just a 'guaranteed overclock' and all DDR3 RAM IC's are perfectly safe to 1.75v+ and any modern Intel or AMD chip (ie Sandy and later, Phenom and later) can run any RAM voltage as RAM voltage is no longer tied to the CPU.\\n\\nPost: Incorrect, timings have a huge impact on performance. I can get better real world and benchmark scores using a lower cas latency and just by tightening the tertiary timings, much less the secondary timings, then by messing with cas. \\n Good speed is having a mix of MHz and timings, but generally an increase in MHz is equal to a 'loosening' of the Cas Latency twice (depending on the leap in mhz), and around 8-9 Cas latency is the sweet spot. \\n Also, the 1.65v is a totally arbitrary rating. Basically, there are only about 5 different RAM, and a few sub-types from there, NOT mushkin, gskill, corsair, etc. Corsair, etc, just put together the RAM and slap a cool heatspreader on it, Hynix, Samsung, MicronD9, are the RAM makers (they make the actual chip). \\n Corsair, etc, will literally sell some Hynix or Microns as 1600mhz CL9 1.5v, and then sell the exact same RAM with a different heatspreader as 1866mhz CL9 1.65v, or 1866mhz CL10 1.65v. Furthermore, all DDR3 RAM is safe to run at least to 1.75v. \\n On top of that, be aware that any modern Intel or AMD chip (ie Sandy, Ivy, Haswell, SB-E, included) can be run at 1.75v+ RAM voltages. It was only Nehalem and before where RAM voltage impacted the CPU. There is a common myth going around that you can only run Intel on 1.5v RAM voltage, and that is absolutely, positively not true. \\n You can find many people running 1.8v, 1.9v 24/7 RAM overclocks over at xtremesystems.org or Overclock.net, and plenty of people running 1.65v RAM. It's just not physically possible for a RAM voltage increase to affect the CPU, as the RAM PWM is no longer on-chip. Intel's specificaton that Haswell, Ivy, Sandy, etc, run RAM voltage at 1.5v, is just like the specification for the chips to run at 3.5ghz or 1.1v - it's just a specification for stock speed, that is all. \\n Intel won't guarantee anything if you run RAM voltage above 1.5v, sure, but there is no possible way for them to tell if you ran increased voltage, they will not ask if you did if you submit an RMA ticket for whatever reason, and there is no possible way for increased RAM voltage to impact the CPU. It can affect the motherboard, but you need to go over 1.9v+ to really affect the RAM or motherboard. Basically, running increased RAM voltage is no more dangerous than running an increased CPU speed, and significantly safer than running increased voltage on the chip.\",\n \"Summary: Before a Wave of Downvotes I've used the Haf, I've used almost every major case, I do custom builds, lots of modding and overclocking, and build custom PCs for a living and have been sponsored a few times by tech companies. The HAF was a great case, now, it's out of date, it was made ~5 years ago - you'd be crazy to buy a 5 year old CPU or GPU for a new build, likewise, same with the HAF as it hasn't really dropped in price in the last 5 years. There are much better cases for cheaper nowadays. It was THE case when it came out, but 5 years is an eternity.\\n\\nPost: The HAF 912 is not a great case. It used to be a good case when it came out about 5 years ago, but nowadays it's long outdated (the newer Haf's are a bit better, but not by much). There are many better, more up to date cases at the same price range, and the HAFs haven't dropped in price enough to justify buying an old, outdated case. \\n The Phenom I and Nehalem CPUs were great, still are great for most applications... but no one recommends them for a reason. There's just much better options for both performance and value. \\n > Great airflow \\n First off, case airflow is simply how many holes/mesh does it have, and the more holes/mesh, the louder it is. There isn't really much a computer case can do to increase air flow significantly without affecting sound. There are tons of high quality cases that have 'worse airflow', like the Fractal Design R4, yet it's generally considered one of the best cases ~$100. \\n When you read really misleading and bad reviews from sites like Anandtech and Tomshardware, what they mean by 'airflow' is \\\"How many crappy, low quality $2 fans do we add to this computer case and charge for a +$10?\\\". The 'worst airflow' case with a 2nd, $2.99 Sickleflow fan added to it, will have twice as much airflow as any case with 1 fan. \\n My point, is that airflow design is not a point of contention in good case design, but rather whether you care more about Noise vs Temps, which for even most overclockers, is not enough temps to make a difference (take off the side panel or use open case/test bench if you really care about temps). And, fan noise will always be a bigger contributor to noise than case design. \\n > sturdy \\n The HAF lacks structural support beams seen in newer/higher end cases. It's not particularly sturdy, though sure, it's not flimsy either. \\n > not expensive \\n At $50+ for the 912, I'd say it's overpriced when it's on-par with an NZXT Gamma (which is the older version of the $25 NZXT Source). \\n The problem with the HAF 912 is unpainted interior, extremely limited space behind the motherboard panel, lack of behind-mobo SSD mount, no wire management lip at the top, no PSU vibration mounts, no removable fan filters, lack of cable tie points, no rubber grommets on cable management, no fan filters, no usb 3.0, no 140mm fan mounts!!!, no bottom fan mount!!!, only a single front fan mount!!!... and that dumb Haf logo (subjective). \\n I'd say the Haf 912 is comparable to about any ~$10 case you can find nowadays, like some of the super cheap rosewills. It was an awesome case when it came out ~5 years ago, it really paved the way and made certain high-end features a standard on budget cases like side fan intake, multiple HDD racking, aesthetic design, and mesh intakes.... but by today's standards, it's extremely dated. \\n Some better choices these days are, in approximate order of price, NZXT Source 210 $15-25, Bitfenix Mercs $30, the newer Zalman cases (z9, z11, etc), Bitfenix Shinobi ($30-60, some crazy sale prices on it), Fractal Design R2 & R4, Corsair 300, 400, 500, Rosewill's newer budget cases. \\n Antec and Coolermaster used to dominate the case industry, but they have been rather staid in the last ~4 years. I'd say NZXT also lost it's place as well to Bitfenix, who's clearly been gunning at them the last few years and won (stylish, cheap cases with lots of features and tons of neat peripherals). Corsair has been a big winner in the case (and everything else, really) department, they are slightly pricey but have the best service in the industry and their budget cases are priced fairly.\",\n \"Summary: The best bang for the buck is either the low quality Sapphire 7950 Dual-X for it's low price, or the Asus DC2 V2, Powercolor PCS+, or HIS IceQx2 for having Core, Memory voltage, Hynix RAM, VRM Temp sensor, and decent PCB The new TF3s nowadays have been downgraded and it's one of the worst coolers on an extremely hot running chip.\\n\\nPost: No, it is not, it is way too hot. It has the worst non-reference heatsink, second only to the XFX Double-D, so it runs much hotter, meaning you won't have room for an overvolted overclock, and will mean you consume more power (10*C extra temps results in about 20-50w extra consumption in a 7950). \\n The TF3 actually used to be a great card when it came with a 7970 PCB and Hynix ram, but nowadays, it has Elpidas and just uses a 7950 PCB (not sure if it's reference or custom crappy pcb). Bear in mind that many 7950s nowadays have been re-released crappified (gigabyte is hardware-level voltage locked, 3L dual-x/Flex/Vapor-x use elpida instead of hynix, TF3 uses elpida instead of hynix). \\n What you want in a 7950: \\n \\n Voltage Control \\n Memory Voltage Control \\n Hynix > Elpida RAM \\n VRM Temp sensor \\n 7970 PCB > 7950 Reference PCB > 7950 Custom Cheapo PCB \\n No major issues \\n \\n Right now there are really 4 7950 cards to buy: \\n Cheap: The Sapphire 7950 Dual-X 3L. It's a poor card, but it at least has core voltage control, and uses a good dual-slot cooler. Compared to the new TF3s, you are trading memory voltage control for a much better cooler and a lower price. \\n Good: HIS 7950 IceQx2, Powercolor PCS+. These cards have everything you want in a good 7950, just get which is cheaper. \\n Best: Asus 7950 DC2 V2: Not to be confused with V1 (which had mounting issues and requires you put washers, if you don't mind the mod, due to heatsink not mounting tightly), this card has everything you want in a 7950, plus, it uses the best cooler (quite simply, because it has the biggest fans, although it does have the best heatsink too). However, it is a tri-slot card, so you might not have space for this card.\",\n \"Summary: Get 4th behind mothership instead of deathpushing, use speed prism to buy time while taking your fifth and massing carriers, win. The later your stargate transition and more you put into stalker/immortal/colossus for a 3 base death push before hive tech, the harder it will be if Zerg survives and gets BL out.\\n\\nPost: You should have 5 bases at least, by that point, and have a carrier/HT/mothership/colossus army with 3/3/3 by that time. \\n Toss has 2 choices:\\na)3 base 3+ colossus semi-all-in deathball push before broods pop (good if zerg doesnt make ultras)\\nb)Get mothership, take a fourth with it, and start the mass carrier transition. \\n You should also be using a speed prism on 4+ bases to harass zerg, as you will be vulnerable around after your mothership is out, before mass carriers are out, but when zerg has a ton of bl/infestor. 10 spines doesn't do anything against 20 warped in zealots focusing stuff down. \\n Toss has the best lategame against Zerg, with mass carrier, but we rarely see it because the metagame is not there yet. You see some pros do it. \\n As blizz said, Toss has relied on warp gate all-ins from 1 or 2 bases for a very long time now, and is the least developed in lategame. A few blues on TL talk about it carrier/HT just being the pure counter to bl/infestor though.\",\n \"Summary: Looking for a Sub-$150 and Sub-$100 Open headphone. Sound Leakage and Portability don't matter. Comfort and sound quality is most important. Currently eyeing 558 ($120) and 681EVO ($38) respectively.\\n\\nPost: Hi. I'm looking for 2 headphones here, Sub$150 and Sub$100 for myself and my gf respectively. Our interests and needs are largely the same - we don't care for portability or sound leaking in or out, and will be using them in a private office for extended periods of time. This is pretty much for general usage, though I'll be as specific as I can in the form below. \\n For both of our phones, value is important, with varying ranges. If you suggest a $100 phone for the sub100 choice, they better be close to 2x better then some $50 phones. For myself, I want a step up from the sub100 choice, but I still need a $150 phone to be at least 50% better then a $75 phone. I could always just choose the sub-100 choice for the sub150 if the value just isn't there. \\n I'm currently eyeing the SR850 ($50) and HD 558 ($130) for the choices. This will be both our first foray into better sound. \\n Budget : Sub $150/Sub $100 \\n Location : USA \\n Source : Z87X-UD3H ALC898 with TI DRV632 600 ohm headphone Amp/Various laptops used as desktops. No discrete sound cards or anything like that though. \\n Isolation : Not Needed. \\n Portability : Not Needed. \\n Comfort : Absolutely necessary for both of us, 8+ hour sessions at the computer. \\n Preferred Type : Over Ear (for comfort I presume, but anything considerable), Open (for soundstage/sound quality I presume, but anything considerable) \\n Tonal Balance : No idea on what we'd prefer. \\n Music : Electronic (Think Justice and Kravinsky and Lorde and The Knife and Danger and Chvrches rather then Rodriguez/Stonebridge/House or Skrillex/Dubstep), some indie, some metal (some emperor, Periphery, tesseract). We aren't huge music listeners at home/office but hey, maybe that's because we use crappy sound. \\n Gaming : For the Sub150s, i play Starcraft 2 (an RTS) competitively. As I understand, a 'cinematic' sound is preferable but this isn't an FPS or anything. I do not play any other games, and never will. She doesn't game. \\n Other Media : Some youtube, general usage you know, nothing specific. For most movies and shows, we watch them together off speakers, and won't be using headphones. \\n Past Headphones : None \\n More info : Let me make clear that I don't mind modding. I actually prefer modding. In fact, you could say I am looking for the best potential headphones. I build mod a ton of computers, I enter in Mod of the Month competitions, do a lot of acrylic bending, plasticine fabrication, PCB soldering, Arduino stuff, so I'm a pretty handy guy and know my hardware pretty well. I'm the kind of guy that will desolder circuits on a motherboard and replace them (I have, actually). I've written multiple articles and guides on places like Overclock.net, on topics like VRM chips on various motherboards, how to delid Haswell, different RAM sub-timings, etc. I'm a pretty hardcore overclocker and modder. \\n So I've considered a lot of headphones, and this is my shortlist and reasoning: \\n \\n SR850 for Sub100: Highly Comfortable, Semi-Open and good soundstage, $50 is a good, low price. The highs can be piercing (maybe wont bother us, can change in eq maybe?). \\n HD558s for Sub150: Seem to be generally regarded as the best sub150s for someone who is okay with open, and an all around step above the SR850, and some of the most comfortable headphones around. Slightly less bass, but seems to have acceptable bass still. \\n \\n What I've considered for Sub-100 \\n \\n Superlux 668b $50: Clone of SR850s, same price. I've heard some say it has less bass, more bass, but the wings are uncomfortable? I dont even know what wings are, but i know it can be 'fixed' with a mod. Whatever. \\n \\n V6 $50: Supposedly better sound then the SR850 for me/general usage, and even has comparable sound stage despite being closed. Less comfortable though. However, it can be modded to be more comfortable so... still a contender. \\n \\n 7506 $75: Don't know much about these but the price doesnt make me crazy about what seems to just be a V6. \\n \\n Takstar 2050 $65: From what I understand, neck and neck with the SR850. Ever so slightly less comfortable (or rather, heavier, by like an oz), much more solid build quality (best under 100, maybe 150, as I understand), it's brighter. Definitely a contender vs the SR850, I guess I'll just side with the cheaper ones for the moment. \\n \\n Grado SR60i $50: Very uncomfortable. SR80i's aren't worth it over the SR60i. \\n \\n NVX Audio XPT100 $80: As I understand, an HM5 clone. As I understand, HM5 is a bit 'dark' (not sure if I'd like or dislike that to something warm or neutral) but it's closed so I guess I'll just ignore something I haven't heard much about. \\n \\n CAL! $75: More expensive, seem to be highly regarded but closed and have less sound stage so I'll pass (seem to be the go-to for closed and portability). \\n \\n \\n What I've considered for Sub-150 \\n \\n ATH M50 $100+: As I understand, it's closed and weaker sound stage then 558, and all around much worse then the 558 in every regard, and not as comfortable. It's more portable and closed, so I guess it's just a good headphone that just isn't what I need. \\n \\n CAL2 $130: Great headphones, closed so slightly less soundstage, but warmer sounding and more bass and portable. I guess it's just a preference thing that I'd go with open. I mean bass is always good so... still a contender. \\n \\n Fostex T50RP $110: A 'modder's dream' as a redditor said, i know very little about these. \\n \\n ATH AD700 $130: Lacks bass, not as comfortable, I know there are multiple variations but I've pretty much stricken these out based on what I've heard (whatever variations whomever was talking about). \\n \\n \\n Thanks!\",\n \"Summary: Energizer Ultimate Lithiums are the best battery by far, and for value they are similarly high quality to anything else, but are very useful for keeping their rated voltage for the vast majority of their life (the opposite of most batteries which run less than 30% of their life above 1.2 of 1.5v). \\n For most usages though, any name-brand, mid-range battery will do just fine - plain Duracell, Energizer, Costco's Kirkland batteries. \\n Source:\\n\\nPost: Hmmm I'm not so sure you know what you are talking about. \\n In regards to the 'best' AA/AAA/etc battery, Energizer Ultimate Lithium is a level above and beyond everything else right now. \\n Basically, all AA/AAA batteries are 1.5v (you can wire them to be more voltage, ie 2x @ 3v, etc, or you can wire them for double capacity, ie 2x@ double life). So to generally rate batteries, you go by amperage. \\n Energizer ULs, are over 3000mah. Your average Duracell or Energizer name-brand, high quality battery, is ~1500-2200mah. Price becomes a huge factor, but generally speaking Costco's Kirkland Signature, and regular Energizer/Duracell are all decent. \\n However, Lithium batteries are great not only for their almost double capacity at about double price, but losing much less voltage over their lifespan. An ultimate lithium will live about 80% of it's life at over 1.25. \\n Compare that to most batteries, which will have about 80% of it's life UNDER 1.25v. For voltage-sensitive applications, generally speed, strength, or brightness applications (lights, motors, speakers), you want lithiums, and the Energizer Ultimate Lithium is a level beyond all the others. \\n For 'just turn on' applications (mice, electronics in general, remotes, etc), you just want to get an average battery. The cheapest batteries of all have about 800-1200mah while being about 1/2 price, so they aren't really a better value and will rapidly lose voltage. \\n Of course, Energizer's are expensive at ~$8 per 4xAA, while your standard duracell, energizer, mid-range is ~$5 per 4, and the cheapo ones are ~$2-3x4. So for value, Costco's Kirkland is the best, but plain Energizer and Duracell are similar at ~2000mah. For power and strength, the Energizer Ultimate Lithiums are by far better, and are still a very good battery considering their 3200mah.\",\n \"Summary: No, overclocking will not significantly impact card life as long as you stay below max temps, ie ~80*C on 7950, and you won't be able to reach significant voltages and stay below max temps on basically any modern GPU or CPU without extreme liquid custom cooling (in which case voltage limits are easily googleable). \\n It's so not worth flashing a GPU bios these days. Hardware limited voltage ranges and extremely marginal returns make it so not worth it. You'll struggle to keep a 7950 cool even on softare limited voltages.\\n\\nPost: You have to understand, these cards are binned. It's not that cards are 'overclocked', every chip is different - 1250mhz might be ezpz for one 7950, while enough to blow out another in a month (although that case would 99% more likely be due to the VRM on the card, not the chip itself). \\n AMD made these chips, and arbitrarily picked a value for them (just like PSU wattage ratings and CPU, RAM, PWM, PCH, etc frequencies, any and all electronic chips run at a frequency basically). They said hmm, we could sell the card for X dollars more and eat the cost of .05% returning their cards when the chip is faulty, or we can sell it for less and have .001% returns. Technically, tons of people DO have 'flawed' chips, but AMD (and all companies) leave such a large amount of headroom that most 'flawed' chips don't get returned because they can still do the arbitrarily set, extremely conservative, speed that they deem as 'stock'. \\n For example, some 7950s you see sold as 800mhz, some as 925mhz 'boost', some as 950mhz, some as 1ghz - you see companies like, say, Sapphire say 'well you might not be comfortable eating that cost, but we are okay with a .0027% predicted increase in returns and it's a way for us to rise above the competition'. \\n Less than 5% of 'hardcore computer enthusiasts' (by Steam marketing) use cards stronger than a 7870, and only a very small percentage of those people, understand that the Asus 7950 sold at 1ghz, is completely identical to the chip used in the Powercolor 7950. The most obvious example of this is with RAM - you see tons of different RAM being sold, but in reality there are only ~6 different types of RAM (actually today, more like 3 after BBSE and PSC got bought out). Literally, there are only 3 different types of RAM on the market (granted, a few sub-types, and Hynix chips get binned and sold at varying price points). Yet you see all sorts of different speeds and ratings on RAM, you even hear fairly knowledgeable people say things like \\\"Oh no, Corsair RAM is definitely better than Kingston\\\" when corsair, kingston, etc, they don't even make RAM (Hynix, Samsung, Micron, are the only RAM nowadays basically). You see kits sold as 2000mhz for $150+, yet they are using the exact same chips as 1600mhz RAM for $30, and both will overclock to the exact same speeds when pushed. \\n So when you ask, 'will overclocking 24/7 hurt the card', well, it's wear and tear, but we are talking premium, high quality components. Remember, things like the Pentium G2120/FX4100 and the 7750/650 are considered premo, high grade, equipment by most consumers, by most of the industry (of course enthusiasts and neckbeards would have you think anything less than an i5/i7 and 7950 is crap, and granted I'm guilty of that too). \\n So asking that question is kind of like asking \\\"Will driving on the highway 61 MPH hurt my Bentley? Well... yea, it will, it will hurt the car more than running it at 60mph. Sure. It does. Every day you do so, you are one day closer to the card not working. Is there any significant or serious risk in doing so? Not at all. \\n Be aware, every chip acts differently, so it totally depends on the hardware. For example, Sandy Bridge CPUs were regularly reported as degrading within ~3 months of release when ran on overclocks on 1.4v+ just for normal/gaming usage, or running the IMC over 1.3v. On the flip side, there are zero reports of degradation on Ivy Bridge CPUs running on as high as 1.6v for computational 24/7 work, or anything, and only a single report of an ivy bridge CPU dying (and that was a guy who pushed his chip to 1.9v on air in a viking snow storm with the intent to kill it). There are reports of DDR3 Hynix surviving 2v on air, while 1.8v PSC degrading. \\n It all depends on the chips. My recommendation when overclocking something, is simple google stuff like \\\"7950 degradation\\\" or \\\"7950 blow out\\\", etc, see what happens. The vast majority of the time, when it comes to graphics cards (which, by the way, are faulty very often, it's common to hear reports of DOA or artifacting on stock on arrival, etc), death from overclocking comes from blowing out the VRM, since the chip is attached to the board. If you want to push your GPU overclocks, as in further than what most people do, make sure you monitor the VRM temps and keep them below ~90 C (they are usually rated for 150 C+, but 90*C for a very, very conservative 24/7 operating temp). \\n Finally, when overclocking GPUs specifically, which, by the way, every single GPU company covers not just overclocking in the warranty, by most cover overvolting (at worst they say something grey like 'overvoltage supported in reasonable levels'), they limit the max voltage and frequencies in the BIOS. You literally cannot overclock or overvolt GPUs in any significant or dangerous capacity provided temps are within reason . This is to avoid mass RMAs, but honestly there isn't much reason to overclock past the hardcoded limits in modern GPUs (and this is coming from a guy who delidded his Ivy and runs 1.6v 24/7 on air). \\n Just make sure to keep temps in range on a GPU, and as long as you didn't edit the BIOS, you will be fine. Practically, temps will be a very limiting factor before voltages or anything else unless you move towards extreme cooling. In which case, you can very easily google the voltage limits recommended. When it comes to mining, your card will get so hot that you really won't have much room to overvolt. \\n > Strangely I don't seem to gain hash when I up to 1110~1130 clock so I'll stick with 1100. \\n Have you heard about the 'sweet spot core to memory ratio'? A theory exists, pushed by the creator of cgminer, that your best hash will come not from your highest overclocks, but from having the perfect ratio of core to memory clocks. Look it up. You might find a higher hash rate if you up your memory more, and if you can't, then see if dropping your core helps your hash. This wasn't true for me though, my best hash just came from maxing them both as much as I could on the voltage I have, which was 1068mhz/1649mhz@1.169v (stock voltage, my dual-x simply gets too hot even on stock voltage to mess with it, not to mention that adding an extra .2v doesn't even yield me 50mhz, so I get near-zero returns for a huge increase in temps, and increased temps means exponentially increased power consumption!). \\n On a side note, voltages are actually a bigger impact than temps on electromigration but practically, if you stay below max temps, which are well below the real max temps (where hardcoded chip thermal limits will throttle the chip way before it reaches damaging temps), this isn't a big deal. 1.3v on a 7950, practically, is not going to damage a 7950 at all, although it very well might strain the VRM, so make sure your VRM temps are okay whenever increasing voltages.\",\n \"Summary: Got my phone back from a knife-thief, gained a reputation as the American Superman.\\n\\nPost: Okay I got one. \\n I went to Tangiers, Morocco (ha, that could be the end of the story). \\n So my gf was passed out, and I was up, so at about 2AM i decided to walk around, maybe go to a bar (hint, morocco is muslim, not really a bar place). I find the night area, and see a pay phone so I decide to use it real quick to make a call back to the US. I set my cell phone out, as I need it to check contact numbers. As I set it down to punch the numbers on the pay phone, some guy comes out from behind and grabs my phone and dashes out. \\n So I book it after him, because I just bought the Droid 2 and no way was I losing my camera for the month long vacation across Africa and Europe. I chase him past some sort of convenience store, and there's this car, and I go one way around it, and he goes the other, and I didn't realize there was like a flight of 5 stairs with a railing. Now the guy was starting to tear down the alleys down that route, and so I just jumped over the rails (right in front of all the crowd at the convenience store). I catch up to him shortly, and this whole time I'm yelling Help, help, stop, phone, just to get attention. Now once I've caught up to the guy, he whips around and pulls a knife on me. I keep my distance, but no fucking way am I losing that phone so I just scream help, help, yelling loudly, trying to make a scene. \\n Well some young 20-30 guy comes, jeans and leather jacket just like the thief, and he looks like he wants to help out, so he approaches the knife guy like hey just give the phone back, and bam he snatches the phone out of knife dude's hand. Now I'm sure it was just a hand-off, and I've read a million times about fake-hand offs and such, but I clearly saw him take it. Just by instinct, I book it after him and I literally shove the knife guy out of the way (I think he was surprised I charged him and I think I forgot he had a knife lol). \\n So now I'm chasing Bad Guy #2, and we go down a few dark alleys, things start to get darker and tighter, I have no idea where I am, it's just pitch black and dark, flat, arab concrete walls around me. I catch up to the guy, he reeks of alcohol (with how alcohol is in such a muslim country, I swear, it's like people get 'hooked' on alcohol over there like people in normal places get hooked on crack, it's really weird). I put him in a headlock immediately and just say phone phone, help help, again, trying to create a scene, and just trying to get my phone back. Well, the motherfucker bites me, and draw blood, and that set me off, so I start bashing his face in. \\n Then all of the sudden, a bunch of lights come on, and there are at least 20 people all around me, screaming in arabic. I have no idea if they are trying to help me or chanting death to america, so I make it quick and start feeling around for my phone in the guy's pockets, and I find it when I feel him trying to slip it out of his pocket and give it to someone in the crowd. I grab my phone, and jump back with my hands up and the phone out, making clear to the crowd that I just wanted my phone, all is good. \\n Eventually, the loudest lady there, says it's okay, how horrible it all is, and the crowd of people were just pissed to be woken up at 2AM by some American screaming their head off and yet another thief and crime occurring in their neighborhood. They invite me in, feed me, take care of my wound, unfortunately the thief weaseled away. Later on I go to the cops and we beat the shit out of alcoholic homeless people with them and I catch another pickpocket, but that's a whole other story. \\n But here's the badass part - so I tell my girlfriend about the story, as we left Tangiers the next day to go to Fez for the rest of the week. But, you know, I bullshit a bit - not bullshit exactly, but I tell her how I'm a hero, how everyone will recognize me, how if I take her to where it happened, little kids are going to ride around and come follow us and when we walk around there, you'll hear bird calls and whistling like American drug dealers in projects, and that they'll all recognize me. I mean there's not really much more crazy I can make the story, but I basically tell her a bunch of joking BS how they'll all recognize me and fear me. The whole week, I tell her how I'll have a nickname, all this stuff, and she's like yea right, it was 2AM, they won't recognize you at all. \\n So a week later, we're back in Tangiers to catch the ferry back to Spain, and we have a few hours to kill, so I say hey, let me take you to where it all happened, the rail I had to jump and the alleys I went through that were pitch black but are really the entrances to these people's homes. And sure enough, as we break off from the main road toward that area, little kids on bikes start circling us and we hear a few whistles. Now, my gf being an American woman, she was always getting cat calls, so we just sort of looked at each other and it was funny. But as we got closer, we started hearing very definite whooping whistles, and the kids were clearly circling us. As we get to the spot I jumped the rail, one of the kids runs up and starts yelling 'Superman! Superman! You fly over the rail!'. All the guys at the convenience store all say hey what's up, they all immediately recognized me. \\n My girlfriend just could not stop laughing. That's my badass story. This happened like 2 years ago now and I just sold the phone on ebay in great condition.\",\n \"Summary: HWINFO IS WAY BETTER THAN EVERYTHING ELSE\\n\\nPost: There is nothing better than HWInfo. It will give you information on far more than any other program, the creator is easy to get a hold of and responds quickly to PM and his Dedicated thread on OCN, there are constant updates and betas, there is a huge degree of customization. \\n It has literally replaced every program for me except stress tests (prime95 and OCCT:GPU) and software fan control (speedfan) which he's currently working on. \\n You can set up graphs to ANYTHING, any color, any size, any border or design, you can set up under/over limits (ie 12v dropping too low to 11.5v, temps or volts too high, power consumption too high, VRM temps, etc) that cause the system to display a warning, shut down, or execute any sort of command or program using any prompts (ie shutdown -t 30). \\n it tells you how long it's run (like realtemp), you can set an icon in the tray of any color, of anything. You can have it show a system summary, it can tell you very specific things like your driver versions, BIOS versions, rated specs of your hardware, etc etc. \\n Speccy sucks, it just tells you the specs of your system, it doesn't read every IO and it's set up pretty awfully. No graphs, no tray icons, no shutdown/warning/prompt limits. \\n Speedfan sucks because there are no graphs, no customization. However for fan control it's the best out there (custom fan profiles for each fan header as far as mobo allows). This is less because it's good and more because everything else sucks though. \\n Coretemp only shows core temps, it doesnt show temps to anything else. It has a lot of customization to CPU temp display, which is nice, but it has no graph function, and shows nothing else. \\n CPU-Z has the 5 tabs which is awful for trying to grab a screenshot, and doesn't report any IO information. \\n GPU-Z is okay, but no graph function, no tray icon function. \\n Coretemp is the only one that allows for a shutdown temp, but has zero customability to it, like letting you set a warning temp, or triggering a program or setting up prompts. It also only allows for shutdown, instead of letting you do things like shutdown a program (ie instead of shutting down the PC, have HWinfo shutdown Prime95 or the Game if you hit X temp). \\n HWMonitor looks like crap, no graph, no average value reported, no reset of values, you have to close then reopn the program to reset values. You also can't customize which values are shown. HWMonitor also doesn't tell you how long it's been open (ie to validate a 24 hour prime95 run, for example). \\n Like HWMonitor, AIDA64 requires a pay version for full feature. \\n Yea, all those programs suck compared to HWInfo. Seriously. \\n This is only the graph/IO section of HWInfo, and those are only 1/4th of the reported values (voltage, temps, frequencies, ram usage, virtual ram usage, etc, not shown, the pic is just to show some more obscure stuff that most IO programs miss like VRM temps and power consumption). It's also got a System Summary page much like CPU-Z except organized way better and shows more info, and it's got a specific system breakdown page like AIDA64 has but much better and more in-depth. \\n Let me know if there is something I missed. I've used pretty much every overclock/system program out there, and talked to almost every developer. HWInfo is the closest thing to a 'One Program does All' that exists. And Mumak is pretty awesome\",\n \"Summary: It should be pretty simple to figure out. \\n \\n Can Zerg take a fourth on this map? \\n \\n Is the rush distance large or small? \\n \\n Is the third possible to pressure, or can T/P just take a stupidly easy third that Zerg can do nothing about? \\n \\n Can we send out overlords? \\n \\n Could we go mutas if we wanted to? \\n \\n Does the map have any cliffs/features that would make use tear our hair out? \\n \\n Is their enough open ground, or is the map all chokes?\\n\\nPost: 1100 Masters Zerg's opinions on vZ: \\n \\n Maps that have a super easy to take third, are usually much harder for Zerg. This is because T/P can do a stupidly greedy build to take a third and there is nothing, from roach/ling max to mutas, that can punish it on the worst maps, or conversely, they can open some sort of all-in, and if it fails, it doesn't matter, they just back off and take a third when on other maps that'd just straight up because of no ability to take a third. An example of this would be Entombed Valley or Cloud Kingdom, maps that Toss can actually safely go FFE-1gateCyber-Third (it's like a robo expand, but weaker to all-ins, but you can scout, and then it's much stronger at the 12:00+ timings). Maps like Antiga, are a bit weird, in that this factor makes it Terran favored, since Terran sets up a defensive position and/or utilizes the chokes at each base, while for Toss it's not so unfavorable because Toss cannot survive at all in the open against Zerg, as well as the larger distance between nat/third. \\n \\n This factor is even worse on maps where there are rocks involved, as rocks do not hinder Toss/Terran at all from grabbing even a fast third, but just stop any attempt by Zerg to. An example of this is TDA, Entombed Valley to a small degree, XNC. \\n \\n Rush Distance. Quite simply, the more distance there is, the less responsive Zerg can be, and the more they have to simply pump units out. On certain maps, like Close Spawns or Steppes, Zerg simply can't play the game at all because they just have to kill their economy just because of the possibility of any move-out. Large map distance does favor Zerg, but there are a lot of other factors involved in maps, and map distance isn't everything. \\n \\n For example, \\\"Calm before the [Psionic] Storm' is extremely Toss favored - despite the non-existent rush distance, due to the free third Toss can get, and hard to take fourth, there's just no way Zerg can survive the 3 base Toss deathpush. Generally, rush distance and ease of third are variables that go side by side - a short rush distance on a map can mean T/P won't care at all about ease of third, he just kills Zerg every time on Steppes of War with a 2 base push, but on a map like Calm before the Storm, T/P won't care about rush distances because they just turtle up and hit a devastating 3 base timing. This factor more favors Toss than Terran - Rush distances is a bigger factor in ZvT, while ease of Third is a bigger factor in ZvP. \\n \\n Air Space - Lack of airspace hurts Zerg in 2 ways. First, it means we can't scout. On a map like Cloud Kingdom, it's just straight up risky to send out that 2nd overlord that you NEED to send out in ZvT to scout in Terran's main. A lot of Terrans don't move out to kill this overlord because if their marines are out on the map, they are susceptible to pressure or an all-in (maybe they should worker scout to see if Zerg took gas, to see if they can kill that overlord or not...), but losing that overlord is a huge deal - Zerg ALWAYS sac's an overlord into the main around 7:00 against both T/P. Secondly, it limits Zerg's options by 50%, as muta play just becomes much weaker, on certain maps like Cloud Kingdom, it's damn near not even viable to go mutas. This makes Zerg a lot more predictable, and a good opponent can cut a ton of corners (ie not even bother to scanning and knowing he doesnt need to blindly put up turrets). Due to Zerg not usually having mobile ground AA, this really doesn't change the ability of drops to do damage, or stargate units, but it does change the ability of Zerg to use air units against the other races. \\n \\n Split Map. This is a tricky one. Back when ghosts were super strong and deathballing was OP, all T/P had to do on maps like Shakuras was, no matter how bad their early game was or how far behind they were (like a failed all-in that was completely stomped), T just gets enough siege tanks to take a third and then masses ghosts while splitting the map with PFs, or P just gets enough colossus to take a third and then masses VR/Colossus. Recent patches have made this much less of a factor, but split map can still hurt Zerg, as due to the extreme cost inefficiency of Zerg units, we simply will never win a game if it comes down to both players mining out their half of the map. Daybreak has this to a very, very minor degree (can't take those side expos against T...), and over 50% of my games on Ohana and Korhal in ZvT turn into split map games. However, if the map is too wide open, it can potentially really hurt Zerg, as there is no way Broodlord/infestor can keep far off bases alive if the lategame bases are really, really far away (ie good luck having a 6th base on Cloud Kingdom). Since Zerg is quite strong lategame though, this isn't a big factor, nor as bad as it used to be. \\n \\n \\n In fact, Shakuras Plateau, at the highest level of play, used to be considered the most imbalanced map of all in ZvT, and impossible to win. \\n \\n Ease of Fourth. Whereas Zerg wants a third that is somewhat harder to take (because of having to protect both main/nat and third, you can't rely on static defenses, so defending a fast third as Zerg is not too map dependent, relatively, so as long as it wasn't like trying to take a far-off third on TDA away from the spot with rocks, it really doesn't matter how hard it is to take the third on a map for Zerg) because it makes it harder for T/P, or easier to put aggression on T/P, and delays their push as the map forces more defense, Zerg actually wants a fourth that's easier to take. T/P grabbing their fourth base usually isn't a huge issue, because we'll have siege units that don't care much about map architecture, but Z needs to make sure they can defend their third against an aggressive pre-hive timing 3 base deathball push. For example, Antiga is hell for Zergs because it's just impossible to take a fourth on that base. \\n \\n Open spaces. That old map, Typhon Peaks, which was just all chokes, sucked ass for Zerg. Just no way to engage at all as Zerg on ridiculous map like that. \\n \\n Cliff Abuse. Lost temple was ridiculously broken against Zerg. I don't know why they didn't burn down the GOMTV studio when that set of nestea vs mkp happened in GSL Open 2, where MKP rushed thor drop, and Nestea could do nothing against it, despite scouting exactly what MKP was doing, and having a ton of defense set up in advance. Another erxample is Antiga Ladder Edition, Terran can put siege tanks in their main/third to attack Zerg's third/main on close spawns, and TDA has a negative feature with the natural being so easy to siege up. Maps like Antiga, has that little cliff nook that makes Toss warp-ins into the base particularly strong as well. Shakuras also can be a pain with the cliff next to the main. Some cliffs are much worse than others, but irregardless, cliffs are always a negative feature for Zerg. \\n \\n Overlord Positions. Daybreak does a really good job of this. Newer maps are starting to incorporate this more, like Whirlwind. \\n \\n Ramps. We want open ramps generally to the natural and third, to allow pressure easier for Zerg, since we simply cannot do pressure on maps like Shakuras against 2 base opponents. On the other hand, ramps/no ramp doesn't really hurt zerg since we usually rely on units, since we can't rely on static defense to defend the quick third we need to take, yet if the opponent does a 1 base all-in, we can really rely just on spines to protect ourselves. Basically, the more open the third and natural, the better for Zerg in terms of options, while defensively we can rely both on open space and chokes. \\n \\n Gas that we can scout at the natural. This is really huge in ZvP. This sucks ass on Metropolis, a map we constantly see Toss go gasless because it's so damn impossible for Zerg to scout a FFE gas timings. Also important in ZvZ, but gas timings literally identify exactly what Zerg needs to do (a quick 2 gas at natural may not exactly say what Zerg needs, but it does tell us that we NEED to get a lair before speed, drone up because pressure isn't super quick, and that we NEED an evolution chamber, usually spores right away too depending how quick they are and other clues like gateway count/chrono on cyber-gate-forge or not, sentry vs stalker) \\n \\n We need a ramp to the main that 2 queens can block, otherwise the map is shit for ZvZ. Just like TDA is 4 gate vs 4 gate for Toss, it's 14/14 ling/bane all-ins all day for ZvZ. It's stupid (though not as stupid as 4 gate vs 4gate) \\n \\n \\n Rush distance, openness of third to keep T/P honest, airspace to give us the option of going mutas as well as overlord spotting for drops, a safe overlord route so we can actually possibly scout, nooks to place our overlords, ease of fourth for Zerg to defend to get hivetech in time, and lack of stupid, abusable features like cliffs, that nook on Antiga by main, Lost Temple, or main/third to third/main siege on close spawn Antiga.\",\n \"Summary: If you really are strapped for cash, asus is good, or if you have extremely high end hardware (and for some reason only buying a $200 monitor but maybe it's your 4th monitor), the Samsung 120hz is a decent choice for FPS gaming, but the insanely fast real-world response time, IPS panel (high color/image quality), high level of support, good quality control, and extremely high quality stand make the Dell Ultrasharps the best choice for most users looking for a 23 or 24\\\" monitor. \\n Prad.de is the only site that does trustworthy reviews on monitors (they are the only ones using high end, modern equipment to test monitors, TFTCentral is 2nd best review site but their hardware isn't as good and their input lag results aren't as reliable, but close, ie for example they use the u2412m is slower than the u2312hm but that's not true, which prad.de states. Otherwise just google like \\\"u2312hm vs samsung\\\" and you'll find tons of hits.\\n\\nPost: It'd really help if you just told us what you usage was, what games/programs you use specifically (the more specific, the better), what hardware you have, and how much budget is a concern (ie is $199.99 okay , the cheaper the better like maybe $100 if $150 isn't a 50% performance boost, or value ?). \\n There's also the Dell S2340L, which is basically the same monitor but in glossy instead of matte (and very, very slightly worse performing, not noticeable, same ips panel guts, it'll actually look a lot better due to being glossy but glossy brings it's own issues, ie any bit of light causes a blinding reflection, much more eye strain over long term use like for gaming). \\n The Samsung S23A750D is also a good choice, it's a TN 120hz (so more frame output, less sharp picture) so it can be good depending on your game and hardware, but generally speaking 60hz is more reasonable since most games won't average consistently that high without very high end hardware. \\n Finally, if you want to save money, there's quite a few good Asus monitors around $100-140 that are still decent monitors that cost very little. \\n Ultimately though, I and most others go with the U2312HM because it's response time and input lag is far superior to every other monitor in it's price range, as in wayyy faster than anything else (be aware rated response time means nothing as Overdrive artificially and dramatically boosts it in all modern monitors). The u2312hm I believe is the only sub-$300 monitor, besides the other dells that stay under 2ms, whereas the Asus actually fare pretty poorly in that regard. They are still great monitors, but their response time isn't as good. \\n Dells also have amazing quality control, while the Asus monitors you hear a lot of bad apples, and ghosting is common (if it's a quality control issue or just an issue with their monitors, I'm not sure, there are plenty of dells, juts like all monitors/electronics, that are faulty too). Dell also is known for having the best support in the business as well, though Samsung, Asus, and most other brands have great support for sure too. \\n Finally, the stand on the Dell Ultrasharp series of monitors alone is worth over $50, it's one of the best stands you'll find on a monitor at stock, and one of the best period. It's a really, really good stand, and frankly you should knock $50 off the price of the Dell Ultrasharps based on how insanely good it is. If you buy an Asus or Dell S2340L, for example, the stand is pretty basic, and kinda crappy, but the Dell Ultrasharps.. it can swivel to horizontal, it slides up and down on a loaded spring (so you just lightly touch it and it'll move up, but it won't ever accidentally move up or down on it's own, it's really amazing). This is something a lot of people overlook in a monitor, but a stand really makes a big difference.\",\n \"Summary: Literally, the Xbox One/PS4 is so weak it's unplayable for Bioshock Infinite or Crysis3 on High (NOT Ultra) on 1080 (NOT 1600), ie average fps below 30, min fps below 20.\\n\\nPost: The new gen consoles graphics' cards, which is the heart of graphics performance (duh), is equivalent to a low end $80-100 PC graphics card, that struggles to perform modern triple-A games on high graphics at 1080, ie a GTX 290 (or GTX460/470/5830/5850 or GTX 650TI Boost or 7770/7790, ps4 is slightly better gpu). \\n The CPU on these consoles are extremely weak at 1.5-2.5ghz clock speeds. Yes, they have 8 cell cores (which is not like a true 8 physical core chip, it works differently, a bad example would be like saying the memory controller on a cpu is another core), but remember that the PS4 uses a 6 cell core CPU and we are barely seeing mainstream quad-core support and only 3 games have 6 core support and aren't even cpu intensive, and those cores are going to be horribly optimized (even if they were optimized well, it won't be perfect optimization). \\n The new consoles will definitely look great in the future, but that is because a lot of improved graphics has to do with improving textures, not polygon count or lighting or shading... which are huge, which is why next-gen consoles will look a lot better, but still be a far cry from what technology has to offer. \\n I mean we're talking a $150 GPU and $100 CPU would absolutely destroy an Xbox 1/PS4 in performance, or a sub-$500 PC easily.\",\n \"Summary: match for money, Jellystix flakes out.\\n\\nPost: I played a grudge match against someone named Jellystix, after a ladder game. He challenged me to a game, and we accepted to play for $5. \\n He loses. He signs off immediately. \\n Jellystix, you owe me 5 dollars. Please pay up. I would have honored my end of the agreement. You promised you would to. Man up. \\n Proof:\\nThe Official Game: \\n Chatlog: \\n His sc2ranks profile: \\n On a side note, for those interested in the game - Mid-Masters ZvP, Toss goes 4 gate +1 and I hold it, not as smoothly as I could have because I didn't start roaches right away, but pretty smoothly, as I made sure not to overcommit to defense, and made sure to start lair and drone hard during the pressure. I get infestation pit after lair, but seeing him go colossus, I opt to go mutas instead and get muta tech. It turns into a base trade against mutas.\",\n \"Summary: RapDawg@NA is a maphacker. Pre-emptively cannon rushes correct spawn on 4 player map, follows drone, blind counters someone at the right times when that person doesn't even know what strategy to go for and cancels/makes techs.\\n\\nPost: The guy is an obvious maphacker. \\n Condemned ridge, 4 player map. He sends a probe (after forge) straight to the correct base (seeing his POV it's clear he doesn't see my overlord and he sends his probe before my overlord was near his base and my overlord never revealed itself until much later on anyways, and it's not like he ever checked). He queues up a 3 pylon ramp block before even seeing my base. \\n When he arrives at my base, he plants down the 3 pylon ramp block. If you watch his POV, you can see that he DOES NOT see my overlord in the natural, and plants the first pylon before he's near it. \\n I had a drone out on the map (scouting worker) that he follows as I moved it around the map (i was considering making/cancelling bases as he cannons them but decided against it, but I moved it to a couple different bases as I was quite undecided on it). He keeps his probe out of range of my drone the entire time and is always near by. On condemned ridge, btw. \\n He makes 3 cannons at home right away when I start a roach warren (not uncommon after a cannon rush/ramp block). I cancel my roach warren and decide to go banelings instead (as I can see his wall-off with an overlord), and he actually goes for cyber and an extra gateway immediately and starts to chrono sentries (against roaches you want cannons, against banelings you want sentries). \\n When I run my lings to the front of his base, and start to prepare and morph banelings, he starts throwing down a TON of buildings at his ramp - extra gateways, pylons, and all throughout has been chronoing sentries. \\n There are also a couple other odd things: \\n \\n He never saw my creep or my base \\n I was extremely dilligent in hiding everything, I broke out of his ramp block using just a single spine and a queen, never revealing my lings, and expanding immediately to my natural in front of his buildings. He never had a probe or zealot in front of my base or anything that would have seen my stream of lings leave my base. \\n \\n I know it's not odd to be super careful after a cannon rush/ramp block as Toss, but the definitive proof of maphacking is: \\n \\n Knowing exactly where I spawned on Condemned ridge and sending a probe right there and queuing up a weird move command/build that made it clear he had no intention of going up the ramp of that base, or checking other bases afterwards. He never saw any of my overlords before he planted his ramp block (for all a normal player would know, it was a random base) \\n Responding correctly to the tech I threw down, then cancelled, then the different tech I threw down \\n Reinforcing his wall-in right before I was about to attack \\n Having a probe follow the drone I had out on the map, when he never even saw where that probe went to. \\n Not looking in fog of war, weird camera pauses of course. \\n \\n Checking his match history shows an inconsistent and odd win/loss history (ie dominated by wins lol). Checking the build orders shows he uses only cheese builds that benefit maphack (proxy 2 gate, ramp block cannon rush). I also talked to some of the people he played, and they all confirmed their belief that he was a maphacker.\",\n \"Summary: When I get near my dog's food or ears when he's eating, he gets really aggressive and snaps at me, which is extremely uncharacteristic of him. He just growls at first, but if I start really pushing on his head with my head, or biting his ears, he'll snap toward me, and even bite me. He's a well behaved dog, and only shows aggression when surprised by a stranger or other dogs (yea i know, a problem, im working on it) and just barks at the door but never is a problem to other people. This really worries me and I don't know if this is a huge problem, or I'm just torturing the dog to it's limit by fucking with it so hard as to bite his ear when he's eating (something that doesn't bother him otherwise).\\n\\nPost: Okay, I know it's a weird title, and no, I don't abuse my dog or anything like that. \\n So I have a ~9 year old beagle mix of some sort (like a beagle, but a little bigger, he doesn't look like any dog I've ever seen before, I thought maybe beagle/boxer mix but he's definitely not a 'bogle'). He was a typical family dog, I went to college, and got him back after a couple years. He wasn't really trained at all, but wasn't a bad dog. \\n So in the last couple months, this dog has learned all the stand/sit/downs (sit-down, stand-down, sit-stand, etc), rollover, speak, quiet, heel, et cetera. He's doing very good! \\n He's not particularly playful, but he's a very loving dog. He's not aggressive at all, except towards other dogs (something I'm working on). He'll bark at the door, but he'll never show aggression to people unless they surprise him (something that didn't happen before, he's clearly getting older, but I'm working ont his too). He doesn't play tug or fetch (relevant). I also just recently taught him speak, so he often barks when I ask him to do something, because that's his most recent trick he learned. \\n He's also a very submissive dog (i think). When I approach him he'll often lay down and roll over, he flops over for anything, he follows me everywhere, and just recently I've been teaching him that I'm the first person out the door and back int he house, which I haven't had trouble teaching to him and I think all around he's quite submissive. \\n So a few days ago, we gave him a bbq pig bone. Playing around, I started saying \\\"gimme that Fly!\\\", trying to encourage a game of tug. Normally, he'll sort of pull back a little bit, or try to eat what he's eating really quickly, but no aggression. Well, he got kind of aggressive and would bark kind of meanly toward me. At the time, we all thought it was cute how Fly was protective of his bone, and wouldn't let me take it away. \\n So a few days later, I feed him some food. Trying to replicate what happened with the bone, I sort of got near him and start to say \\\"gimme that!\\\" and he would, like usual, start to eat it up real quickly (this happens when he picks something disgusting off the street, it's not like I torture him every time he eats). Well, he started to growl aggressively and bark, like with the bone, and when I got closer to his face, he started to snap at me! \\n If I press the issue, like push my head onto his head, or get near his ears (something I know he hates other dogs doing, but doesn't care when I do it, even if I nibble on his ears), or nibble his ears, he gets weird - he sort of half whine/barks, almost as if I'm pulling his tail or he's in extreme pain, and he'll aggressively snap and bark toward me! \\n I really don't torture my dog or anything, it's just a characteristic I've NEVER seen from him before! In light of this, I'll nibble his ear or push my head against his, and he doesn't care - but if I do it when he's eating (and not when he just takes his first bite, but midway through), he gets real aggressive, he does this sort of whine/bark thing, he even snaps at me and sort of grazes me (I really think if I pushed it more, he'd straight up bite my face). I don't know if this is just me fucking with the dog too much and just leave it alone, or is this the sign of something really bad, a manifestation of a problem that's grown to level 20 when it should have been stopped at level 1. Like he doesnt get super excited when I present the food, and he'll be very submissive when I present the food, and even if he just starts eating, if I start going at his ears or anything, he'll back off. But when I start bothering him when he's midway through... \\n So what should I do? Do I need to establish dominance? If so, how exactly? In all other aspects, he's very submissive. Or should I just leave him be, and that I'm just screwing with a dog way too much when I shouldn't be? I'm very worried, even if I'm messing with the dog, that he'd actually bite me. I mean, Fly follows me everywhere, he's a very loyal dog, he's learned so much recently, I've even got him swimming (oh he hates swimming so much), doing all sorts of fun stuff. But this really worry helps. \\n Help reddit. Please let me know if there is a serious problem, or I'm just being an asshole.\",\n \"Summary: You can't PK or Duel in Diablo, which made the game interesting. Diablo is about PvP, not PvE. Hardcore mode is the most fun I've ever played in a game due to the drama and adrenaline of it all, please allow some form of dueling or PKing and hardcore will once again be the realm where real champions were made, where people would know who truly was the best.\\n\\nPost: I played Diablo 2 for a long time, all through high school and college. I loved D2, even when WoW came out, when tons of games like Halo and COD came out, I loved this 10 year old game. \\n But more specifically, I loved Diablo 2 Hardcore. What made Diablo HC so amazing, was the drama. Now, playing D2XHC in 2008, means that there is literally less than 100 lvl80+ people, and everyone was associated with everyone else on East, either through friends, clanmates, or he PK'd you or someone you knew or witnessed. Trading was done through d2jsp, which kept D2XHC alive. \\n Now, what really made d2HC great, was pking. I'm not talking about TPPK, I know that's a sensitive subject, but PKing in general was a ton of fun. Hell, \\\"Ironmans\\\" were what got me into HC in the first place (you as part of a group of 8 for a full room, getting together, leveling up a character to level 9 for about an hour, and dueling to the death to see who can make the best character, often for a small prize, or at least bragging rights). Then, things like trying to survive a PK while leveling up in Arcane Sanctuary - it may have been frustrating, but there was a REWARD when you got to level 19, because you weren't dead yet. \\n I know many people hate PKs, and hey, i did too. But everyone who played HC, knew what PK's were about, and TPPKers, and it made the game interesting. it was hilarious when that guy who kept stealing your loot, got pk'd. It made for real drama in the game. Nevermind things like when Nirvana- got PK'd as a lvl 98, the first person to reach 98 on East, by someone who had infiltrated his clan, and found the perfect chance to PK someone with over 10k HP by getting him before he got his buffs and shouts during a routine game. \\n I know there were a lot of hackers, bugs, and exploits in D2, and there are some differing opinions on those. \\n But the reason I am not buying D3, when I played d2 and d1 for years, is because there is no Hostile mode. You cannot duel. Literally, D3 has turned into WoW, with the 'arena' mode where you must duel in teams. D3 was all about making a character on your own , and being the best. Unlike WoW, d3 was a solo game, in a way, with friends who can help you out, but weren't necessary. D3 was cutthroat, and when you challenged someone to a duel in D2HC, it was a real duel. You either shut up, or manned up. \\n Now I know dueling was rare in d2HC, but when it happened (which still happened on a daily basis), it was an event for the server. It made news, literally. The forums would be spammed with someone selling the ear of an infamous lvl 80+ shit-talker who bought all their gear, or some jerk pker who got a taste of his own medicine, or when a lvl 30 pk'd back a lvl 80 pker. \\n So please. Put hostility back into D3, allow some form of PKing, and I'll gladly buy D3. As it is now, even hardcore mode just seems to friendly. Diablo was never about the PvE, it was all about the PvP. Now, I don't see any reason why I'd buy Diablo over WoW.\",\n \"Summary: Bronze and Masters are 800 MMR wide. the top of bronze to bottom of Masters is only 1200 MMR wide. Therefore, given the MMR ranges of the leagues, like Gold only being 200 MMR wide, and Diamond only being 400 MMR wide, saying \\\"Im high diamond/low masters\\\" is just as accurate, according to MMR, as saying \\\"im high silver/low diamond\\\", so please stop saying that, you are in the league you belong in, masters is literally twice as large as diamond, and the ladder system can place you against opponents as much as +/- 400 MMR due to an overhaul to place you against wildly ranging opponents, meaning just because you play league up people, doesnt mean you are about to get promoted, it just means you are improving, and that points/rank doesn't mean shit (except points in Masters+ league). \\n You are in the league you belong in.\\n\\nPost: It kind of bothers me when people say this. Besides, unless you are in GM, no one really sees a difference between Low Masters/Diamond or Gold/Plat. You are in the league you belong in. But here's some facts on MMR: \\n When someone says \\\"I'm High Diamond/Low Masters\\\", that is as accurate as if someone said \\\"Hi, I'm High Silver/Low Diamond\\\", because the MMR difference between the two is literally that large. \\n To give an idea, here is the MMR breakdown of the leagues: \\n \\n 0-800 MMR Bronze (800 MMR) \\n 800-1.1k Silver (250) \\n 1100 - 1300 Gold (200) \\n 1300 - 1600 Platinum (250) \\n 1600 - 2k Diamond - ~1.6k - 2k (400) \\n 2k - 2.8kMasters - 2k - 2800 MMR (800) \\n 2.8k - 3.2k GM to #1 GM (400) \\n \\n The ladder system was revamped so you can face a wide range of opponents, about +/- 400 MMR (which is larger than some leagues even! btw this change was tested, abandoned, then implemented in a fixed up way, if you recall Blizzard's articles on the subject) Given all this, it doesn't say much if are facing people in a league up from you, on if you are going to get promoted any time soon (it can be an indicator of progress, however, but it does not mean you are imminently about to be promoted, regardless of any 'but 5 out of 10 times of the last 6 games I can recall from memory were league up!\\\"). \\n With these ranges in mind, you can see that the skill gap between High Diamond (1.8k) to Low Masters (2.4k) can be seen as 600 MMR at the wide range of it. 600 MMR is exactly the difference from 1k MMR to 1.6k MMR, which is High Silver to Low Diamond. \\n This should also help put into perspective the skill ranges in players. Seeing an MMR breakdown, you can see that a High Masters has a larger skill gap to a Diamond than a Diamond does to a Bronze. \\n The only way to really say that you are \\\"Low Masters/High Diamond\\\" if you actually knew your exact MMR (which you can get through the Sc2gears MMR plug-in or calculate it yourself), and your MMR was above the average promotion line. But if that were the case, the system would likely promote you as soon as you indicated you'd trend above that line - remember, given that the system will place you against 400 +/- MMR opponents, it's very possible that you could face all masters and not be due for a promotion anytime soon (meaning that it's possible to be a Mid-Masters and face both GMs and Diamonds, or a Gold playing against Diamonds and Bronzes, or that you are in Diamond or Bronze and never face anyone from any other league). \\n The True MMR system is actually quite depressing, and unless you are in Masters, points mean nothing, and in all leagues, rank mean nothing. It's a lot nicer to see \\\"Top 8\\\" than \\\"Top 5,000\\\". All you can do, is track it as a means to compare yourself to 99 other people, it does not even indicate your progress on a whole compared to everyone in that league, or how close you are to be promoted. It's very possible you are nowhere near getting promoted if you are Top 8, as usually is the case, actually (ie in Masters, usually only top 1-2 is High Masters, if at all, usually they are just Mid-Masters and everyone else is still Low Masters). Rank, and points in the lower leagues, only specifically tells you \\\"Hey, I'm getting better than my division friend PainUser!\\\" \\n These are just the facts. I'm sure many will disagree and say \\\"but ladder is fucking me over!\\\" or \\\"but I have such and such experience!\\\". I'm not saying you aren't about to get promoted, or that YOU are a bad person, I'm just stating the facts, and that you are actually exactly where you belong, and the differences in leagues, particular Bronze and Masters, is huge, and just because you are playing X+1 league opponents, doesn't mean you are about to get promoted or you on their level. Bonus pool is a huge factor - remember, a LOT more than 2% of people are in Masters, they are just there because bonus pool keeps them from dropping when they really are Diamond level. \\n Just take this to appreciate the massive skill that pros and GMs and whatnot have.\",\n \"Summary: How do you beat ling/infestor into ultras without resorting to a coinflip and hoping it works.\\n\\nPost: How do you beat ling/infestor into ultra? Seriously, I can't figure out any way to beat this. If you made any roaches against someone who goes ultras, you lose the game because your tech is so far behind (just like if you make roaches vs toss FFE 7:00 third or robo expand into 3 base 3+ colossus push and your broods are too late, or mutas/hydras vs basically any macro fast third into 3 base death push build). \\n But the difference, is that you really need roaches to deal with the ling/infestor, or to secure your fourth (right? i mean that's the one advantage you can push with your roach based army). And, you kinda need something to stay alive against the ultras when they come out. \\n It's also pretty bad when someone opens like mutas, forcing you to stay in-base (not much difference practically if they go mutas), into ling/infestor/ultra. \\n It seems to me the most intuitive answer, from what I've seen pros attempt, is mass spines, lots of hydras, get broodlords on 4 base. But I just get rolled by the mass ultras, and even with mass spines you still need lots of roach/hydra. \\n Every single time I've seen pros play against this, they lose. So I'm not really sure what the answer is, for example, vortix vs stephano. Vortix only did it on 1 game, on daybreak, and he crushed stephano with it. No clue why he didn't just do it the entire series. \\n I used to do the build myself for a long time \\\"if you can't beat them, join them' kind of thing, back when the build got popular (why did it die out?). I stopped because on a lot of maps, it seems a bit random - I'd just lose too much to weird roach all-ins. Most of the time, I wouldn't, but it'd happen enough to make the build seem a bit unstable. \\n I'm a very macro oriented player, so all-inning doesn't really seem like a solid answer. Because some of the times, a weird roach all-in would work, most of the time, way more often than not, it didn't, because they made mass roaches vs ultras and gg. And that was only because when I played the build, I went fast third (something that doesn't really seem like a great idea anymore), so I probably would have lost a lot less if I wasn't so greedy. \\n Any tips? Why did the build go down in popularity? All the pros examples I've seen, it worked tremendously, except the first few times it was done, when weird 2 base roach timings killed it, before people knew how to hold with ling/spine/infestor. \\n Thanks. \\n ps: please don't recommend nydus or drops, those only work out really well in the lower levels. They never worked against me when I played the build, since I'd just spread out overlords, and patrol 4 lings in my main, and spread my infestors in case of drops), and again, is just some all-in that's just as likely to fail as it is to work.\",\n \"Summary: Someone alleges my GF assaulted her at a concert in Mississippi, from which she's flying back home today, which is total BS and she hit my GF first and even cop believes her. She is supposed to show up in court next week and plead her case, which is ridiculous \\n edit: Okay so apparently the cop wrote a ticket, they both signed something, and they got nothing. Cop said they need to show up 'on friday' but they dont know what time, they dont even know what courthouse.\\n\\nPost: I'm no lawyer, but I am pretty familiar with the law (friends in trouble, self defense and gun laws, drug/privacy law, etc). However I'm quite confused on this one. \\n So my girlfriend and her military friend (just finished basic) in Mississippi, go to see PANTyRAiD in New Orleans. Now the military guy wasn't given permission to leave base. My gf and the guy, drunk or whatever, cut some line in front of a guy, who doesn't care, but his fat girlfriend rages and punches my GF. They get into it, she says they both swing about 4 times, my gf lands a solid in her face and that's that. Everyone goes on partying, whatever, who cares. \\n 'Suddenly' a few minutes later, she is put in the back of a cop car by security, where the military guy already is (he wasn't even doing anything), and see the fat girl going on about how they the big black dude and the girl ganged up on her (and the boyfriend just nodding in agreement). \\n Cop drops them off at the hospital, says he believes my GF/friend in that they didn't do anything, but because she's claiming assault, they gotta go to court. He doesn't call the friend's military superiors, but he has to go to court too. \\n But the problem is my GF is flying back today, Mississippi is halfway across the country. She doesn't have the vacation to fly back, nor the money. I'm sure she can get a lawyer to represent her in absentia (that's what people do in these types of situations, right?) but that's a bit expensive and ridiculous... \\n So I don't know what this is. They weren't charged, they weren't arrested. What kind of court is this? They have to plead their case before a judge. \\n My guess is the fat girl won't even show up to court, but what is she supposed to do in this situation? \\n Thanks.\",\n \"Summary: If I want to buy a single ~$75 stock, what's the best way to do it? I don't need some broker asshole giving me misguided advice anyways, so basically what's the best site to do this. Thanks. I'm not paper trading this, I don't mind paying fees and likely not making any money anywyas. \\n edit: Holy cow so many judgemental, no answer bad replies. Just answer the damn question, is that so hard? \\n Anyways, I'm currently looking between Tradeking and Zecco (both are no minimum, $4.95/trade) and Sharebuilder (higher fee). I'm basically looking for No Minimum Deposit, and then lowest fees. \\n edit2: okay so tradeking and Zecco have since merged, sharebuilder is a higher fee. No brainer, tradeking it is! I go buy my stock now \\n Edit3: okay lots of sending info to tradeking and waiting... hopefully a deposit slip works instead of a voided check (ran out of checks on my checkbook years ago, never bothered for another one...).\\n\\nPost: I am well aware that there isn't much profit, and that I'd likely lose money to fees, etc, after all is said and done, but I'd like to. \\n Yes, I'm aware of playing paper trades, but it's just ~$80 (which I don't see much risk in, worst case scenario it gains no value in short term and I just hold it forever and it goes up slightly after a long time period). \\n I want to invest in Raytheon, specifically, due to the coming Syria conflict. I don't know what will happen, but I predict something will happen, and even if it doesn't, something will happen soon, and more shit will happen in the near future. \\n They do not have a direct stock buy program, from what I've generally read they are a good company to invest it and have steadily gone up for a while now. It looks like they give $.55 per quarter per share for a long time now. \\n What's the best way to do this? Fidelity? All I've come across is a single reddit thread (a search over entire internet, that is) is Fidelity and eTrade are good and cheap for beginners/low volume, and Fidelity is cheaper... \\n Thanks. I mean it's just $80, I understand there is a 'risk' that I could lose it all, but it's not a big deal if that happened. Really, I think the risk is not investing way more than that, but I'm not ready to do that. And yes, there is paper trade, I'm doing that too, and chance of bankruptcy is very low, I mean all I'd lose is a couple bucks in fees and just have the stock for a very long term.\",\n \"Summary: Is Crown Brush cleaner (or any brush cleaner) okay to use on my purdy brush (I killed a brush by soaking overnight before...), good brush comb?, and can I use a wire brush on a paint brush and recommendations if so? \\n Thanks! I mean I swear I spend more time cleaning the brushes than painting.\\n\\nPost: So brush cleaning is a huge PITA, it takes like 30 minutes to really clean out a brush (latex interior paint, using BIN and Purdy!), especially semigloss (it's like cheese!). \\n I bought some 'Crown Brush Cleaner' from Lowes but I don't even know what it is. It says good for latex, but I have no idea what the ingredients are, and I don't want to mess up my Purdys. \\n I've learned that paint method goes a long way to making cleaning easier (only load ~1inch, avoid side edges from getting paint) but that only does so much. \\n With that said, I was wondering on any brush cleaners, and on brush combs and wire brushes. I have used a couple brush combs, like a plastic wooster comb and it's just awful and useless. I have a metal multi-tool with a brush comb but it doesn't seem to be any better than just using my hands and working the brush. And wire brushes, are those okay to use on paint brushes? If so, recommendations?\",\n \"Summary: HOW DOES THE SIZZURP TASTE?\\n\\nPost: How does it compare to the regular Hershey's chocolate syrup? I drink a lot of chocolate milk, I've always considered the regular chocolate syrup the best, but was curious if this tasted any different. \\n Because if it tastes the same, why not just get this instead of the normal syrup, amirite? \\n It appears to have a few vitamins and minerals extra over the regular syrup, so it's better nutritionally right? Obviously, I'm aware syrup ain't fucking healthy, I'm simply asking if it's better in nutrition, and how the taste compares. \\n For note, I drink a ton of milk, I'm currently on a high calorie weight gain diet, I like my chocolate milk, I mean I don't know what else to say except if you've tried it, please comment, and if you haven't, don't. I know with reddit I need to write my whole life story just to get a simple answer, I'll be happy to oblige, but please, I just want to know how it compares.\",\n \"Summary: 3 unpaid paychecks. She fled, but lawyer represents her. They say the time records I have proving I worked there are 'doctored by the original owner who hates her' and that I never worked there (according to her records...lol?). I took it to small claims, then they 'Removed to General District Court'. Now I have to fight her lawyer!\\n\\nPost: Hi, so I have an issue: \\n So I was not paid 3 paychecks by an employer. I moved, so I asked for her to mail them to me, and for month she went on about how she would mail them, they were in the mail, she'd have to remail them, et cetera. I thought she was a fine boss, I liked her, and besides this issue, I'd say she was a good boss. But I didn't find out until half a year later, when I was back in town, that she wouldn't pay them, and not only that, but she fled the store, and screwed the person she bought it from for ~$100,00, and that the IRS was trying to hunt her down, and she fled the state! Her stealing money, so on and so forth! \\n And, it also turns out she didn't pay the last paychecks of anyone at the store, but that the old (now new) owner of the store covered them to ensure continued operation of the store. But, since I was no longer working there, he didn't cover mine. So I'm the only one who's screwed here (besides the new owner, but apparently he's not worried about hunting her down, he sells lots of stores, most go well, some bad like this). \\n So I got the time records proving I worked there (she claims I didn't work there this period of the time), and I got employees to sign paper saying I worked there, that all of this happened, that I didn't get my paychecks to their knowledge, and most of all, i worked there! I mean, she's claiming I didn't work there for a month! The same lady who said she'd send the paychecks for this time period over and over for months on end. \\n So I have no idea where she is, so I filed the small claims suit In Care OF her tax lawyer, whom handles all her communications. Who knows where she really is, but this scumbag is representing her. I went to small claims, and they filed a \\\"Removal to General District Court\\\". I tried to plead to the judge that hell no this shouldn't be continued, and that she's intentionally trying to dodge, and has a history of bailing out. But, the judge was obligated to. \\n So, that's why I'm here. Do I need a lawyer? I mean it's pretty straightforward you know - I have the time records, and employees state on paper that I worked there. She sent my W-2, I don't know if I can like extrapolate how much I'm due from it because I know these paychecks did exist (according to people who stayed, they saw them there at the office). But now I'm stuck going up against a lawyer (lawyers aren't allowed in small claims, but they are allowed in general district court). I already sent a \\\"Bill of Particulars\\\" stating why I'm due, and the evidence (time records, employee papers stating I worked there). \\n For the record, there are 3 paychecks in question, for a total of ~$700. The first paycheck she cancelled, and is bad (a criminal offense!, all 3 are, but this one I actually have), and she says that I just didn't pay it in time (lol...) but whatever, but she's fighting the other two. it just happens, she STILL hasn't paid me this one paycheck. However, she sent me a money order for that one paycheck, offering it as a settlement to drop the case, and the 'money is held in escrow'. I'm not sure what that means exactly, but I haven't cashed it, and besides I can just get the judge to guarantee that money, I've already gone this far. \\n So just wondering what to do. Like, what about all the gas money and expenses I've put into this. What about the time? Not having this money really screwed me! I'm not sure how I can really prove that, maybe bring receipts of the gas costs to driving back and forth to court? \\n So thanks. I have no idea how to go about getting a lawyer on this case, what to expect in general district court, if anyone else has gone through this process. Maybe there's like some real lawyer shit I can do saying 'yo this stuff all goes in the newspaper or public if you don't pay me and I'll make sure to give hell in court\\\" but I'm pretty sure it's already kind of to that point. She's fled the state, I'm sure she's ruined due to the IRS and all hunting her down, but, you know... I mean I'm sure I won't ever get paid anyways, but I can't lose this case.\",\n \"Summary: so yea is the blacklist multiplayer like the splinter cell of old, or is it just awful/dumbed down like Double Agent? \\n Thanks\\n\\nPost: So I absolutely LOVED Splinter cell Pandora Tommorow, and Chaos Theory was a huge improvement and made it a lot more fun. It was the perfect game for me - extremely competitive, hard to learn, very little teamwork necessary (though it could definitely make/break tight games), rewarding, and extremely difficult. \\n People complained about how hard the game was, and the next Splinter Cell (Double Agent) dumbed it down (as well worse graphics, etc). It looked like an n64 game or something, it was awful. Then the next splinter cell didn't even have multiplayer. \\n it's hard to find a real review of it, most reviewers don't seem to have even played the older splinter cells or only care about the single player.\",\n \"Summary: What lube for 10/22 ruger, 10/22 ruger target pistol, sig 9mm, be specific on exactly what lube and where best to buy it, ebay, etc.\\n\\nPost: I know that with my 10/22 Ruger carbine, I should acetone wash everything out and only put some \\\"oil\\\" on the guide rod. I know you don't lube up the 10/22 carbine, but I still don't know what oil to use. There appears to be plastic wrap on the trigger guard or something, the acetone wash I last did seemed to melt it off, so I'll obviously take the trigger out... \\n For my Sig and Ruger 22 pistol, I have no idea what to lube, or how to lube (ie do I get everything all lubed up, or just certain parts). I'll dip these 2, taken apart, in an acetone bath too (I'll take out the triggers and any obvious plastic or wood). \\n I really am not familiar with gun terminology at all, I've tried asking this before but answers have always been extremely unclear to me. Don't just tell me, say, froglube, tell me where I can best buy it, what exact kind of froglube to get (ie on ebay there's multiple types of froglubes, the most popular appears to be a pack of 3 different lubes and I dont know which would I use, for exmaple). Please be very clear, and ideally where I can best buy them too. \\n I read some very interesting guide on gun lubrication, it talked about some food processing stuff, 'Lubriplate', but there's again, a million types of lubriplate, and on ebay they aren't exactly labeled as the article's (ie there's like 10 different types of FM 350a). \\n Thanks. Please, I'm not familiar with gun terminology, I'm here to learn, but a lot of responses I've gotten before were way too vocational.\",\n \"Summary: srsly is 5vsb on when pc is on, or does it turn off when pc is turned on. ie, is 5vsb always on as long as psu is plugged in, irregardless of pc on/off status.\\n\\nPost: Very simple question, is 5v stand-by from the PSU on when the system is on? \\n Basically, I need to power a mod to my case (read: not pc). I could use my PSU, but the problem with that is if I unplugged my PSU, or even didn't have a PSU installed at all. \\n Now, what I'd like to do, is use the PSU when the PSU is plugged in, and then a battery (that is charged by the PSU) when the PSU is unplugged or uninstalled. I could simply use a battery, but that'd be too easy (even if given my application, it'd last a million years anyways). \\n If 5VSB turned off when the PC was on, then using the 5vsb would be a waste, and I'd just use the 5v rail (so psu when pc on/battery when pc off or uninstalled). If the 5vsb stayed on when the PC was on, then it'd be psu when psu plugged in/ battery when psu unplugged, which would be a lot cooler. \\n I guess it's not much of a difference, I mean if 5vsb turns off when pc is on, I'd have no problem using 5v, but it's a simple, easy question that I'm unable to find the answer to and my dmm was just stolen.\",\n \"Summary: Can people rent cable set boxes from comcast/anywhere on their own? \\n Or, is it possible to buy a box for under $60? Maybe I should just buy one and have him pay an extra $15/mo on rent...\\n\\nPost: Hi, so I am renting 4 rooms out of my house (bought it as an investment for renting out rooms primarily, but I live here too). I got comcast internet, and due to tenants' requests, I got TV too, and incorporated it into the rent (ultimate cable or w/e + HBO). \\n However, I did not incorporate set top boxes, and one of the tenants doesn't want to pay for cable (-$25/mo) if he doesnt have a box. Okay, that seems fine, but it's unfair to the other tenants who are paying for the cable. \\n Now I know I can rent a box for ~$10/mo, but the guy could just steal it (being month-to-month room rentals, I can only charge $100/deposit). I mean he should steal it, I couldn't do anything about it! \\n Is there any way for people to just rent cable boxes from comcast? Or from anyone? They aren't willing to pay $100 to purchase one off ebay, and I'm not going to do that either. Or have it in their name, in case they try to steal it? \\n Thanks.\",\n \"Summary: does reducing signal loss thats already within spec improve my internet (comcast xfinity, genereally 10-20ms 25/5 - which is what I pay for). \\n edit: TO BE CLEAR - does reducing signal loss further have any benefits once it's below the threshold? How would I measure signal loss? I'm assuming just remove the splitter and connect straight and simple to the comcast coaxial? Or just remove the unused lines on the coaxial? My internet is 20ms 25/5 and I'm paying for 25/5\\n\\nPost: So recently I had an issue where my modem wouldn't connect because I was getting too much signal loss due to a 6-way splitter meant for different frequencies than comcast cable (it must have been used by previous homeowner and first comcast guy just used it instead of replacing it). The down and upstream lights were on, but not the 'online' one (dpc3000). \\n Comcast guy replaced the splitter, as it was pushing my signal loss to too much. \\n So I was wondering, if I reduced the signal loss further (as it now is within spec), would it improve internet speed/quality? I could just remove the splitter since I'm only using a single line (connection to modem). I could probably cut and reduce the line length too. \\n Thanks.\",\n \"Summary: My dog is very calm and trained okay, but when another dog is on a leash, he goes crazy and fights, but he never fights when dogs are off leash, like at a dog park, or towards people. I also want to get him to be more playful with our puppy, he doesn't seem to care much and only might play a bit once forced to if the puppy starts really harassing him, I'd like to get him to be more sociable.\\n\\nPost: I have 2 issues with my ~9 year old beagle mutt (he's a bit larger than a beagle, he's not a 'bogle' but a bit smaller than one, not sure what he is). \\n He is trained okay, I've been working with him a lot since I got him back recently. We've gotten good at walking, sit/down/stay/rollovers even outside (which is pretty hard for a beagle that gets so distracted outside), and he's a very mild and calm dog. \\n When someone knocks on the door, he starts howling away and won't stop, I've been working on this, with progress. He never has a problem with other people, he doesn't even seem to care about people petting him or coming up to him (as in he doesn't care), but he will get a bit aggressive if he's surprised. At dog parks, he doesn't care about the other dogs or have any trouble. \\n The problem: \\n \\n When another dog is around on a leash , he will get aggressive, he will pull hard on the leash, he will bark and snap at them, and it will always end up in a fight (the other dog usually will fight too, but a couple of times that other dog will be calm, and will be a much larger dog too). \\n \\n There's no trouble with non-leash dogs, but there's a ton of trouble when he spots another dog on a leash. I'm trying very hard to keep his attention, but I'm not really sure how to train him on this. I don't want to praise him for getting roused up. I was thinking maybe praising him before he gets roused up, when the other dog is like across the street? I'm afraid that will just encourage him to be praised for being on alert though... \\n It's quite difficult, if I take him to a dog park where everyone is off leash, there is no problem. But when I take him to the neighborhood pooping field, there's always a problem when someone brings their dog around, on leash. \\n On a side note, we also have a new puppy. The puppy is very playful and keeps trying to play with the older dog, but he doesn't care at all. My dog gets very aggressive and doesn't like it if another dog gets near his ear or start biting at his ear - my dog won't harm anyone, but he'll snap and bark and he will make clear he won't like it. If we go out to the field, the puppy will harass the older dog and eventually my older dog will be forced to play and run, but I wish I could get them to play more. Any tips on getting my dog to be more playful? I know if I start running back and forth, I can get him to run with me and do a sort of sprinting chase game, but with the puppy it's clear the pup wants to get his attention and play but he's very hard to get to play. \\n Thanks\",\n \"Summary: Help me build a very large, badass ~9ft work/computer desk. Check \\\"Questions and Concerns\\\" for the straight questions.\\n\\nPost: So I'd like to make a dream computer desk for my ~9x9 room. It would be for my large, overclocked, custom computer set-up with 3 monitors, but I also want it to be a good workdesk for all the solder work, wiring, arduino, etc stuff I do. Look decent and be strong at the same time. I've been unable to find anything that comes close to what I want, which, at it's core, is a 8-9ft long table that's deep, at least 2.5ft, ideally 3. \\n So, I've come to the realization I'll have to make it, as making it will cost under $200 easily while being way more of what I want than any $2000+ table. And the paradise table is too delicate, too small, and too little too late (5 outlets? 3 monitors, 1 pc, 1 printer, nothing else?) \\n I would essentially have 3 tables/ THE PLAN : \\n \\n 3x8-9ft main table \\n 1x3ft side table (put food on, soldering station, etc) \\n 2x6ft smaller rear table (just a table on it's own) \\n \\n So I got a U sort of going here. I'll be incorporating outlets, and a monitor shelf. I'll also add a lazy susan for my pc (frosted glass) and a mounting hole for my killawatt to display easily. \\n Okay, so here's what I have in mind so far: \\n \\n Plywood $34 3x8ft \\n Formica, Matte Gray 3x8ft ~$40. I'd just cut the plywood (4x8) on one side and hopefully ezpz fit. I'd actually prefer a 3x9ft table but no 9ft long sheets of plywood out there. \\n Use rubber table edge t-molding. \\n I can buy screws that work by putting a 'thing' in a drilled hole, and then screwing a bolt into that. That way, no nuts/screws visible on the other side, as well as no damage to the wood by assemble/dissembling multiple times like ikea tables! \\n For lazy susan thing, I can buy a rotating display stand and then a simple round frosted glass for ~$30+60. Pretty straightforward, no assembly. Just lay the glass thing on top of the stand on top of the table, maybe a hole for the wire and that's it. Maybe some tape/glue to keep it more secure. \\n Use outlet boxes and black (prepainted or paint it, w/e)outlet covers, use some extension cables to attach them to a taped/attached tripplite surge protector. Straightforward. \\n Monitor shelf using spaced out, 2x chrome rods holding it up. Rods would secure in holes in both table top and bottom of shelf. \\n Killawatt, just drop into a kill-a-watt sized hole that keeps the fatter display-top-half on top of the table, and input/outputs below table. \\n 1-2 tiles put into the 1ft side table for solder work that doesnt muck up the table when the melted solder spills. Just make hole in table, put support underneath, have formica overlap the tile a bit. \\n \\n No current plans for drawers, keyboard drawer, or \\n For design, 90* table edge corners. There's a small 1'ft deep side table, and then behidn me another table that's like 6'x2ft with a shallow, sharp angle on part of it to the wall. \\n Questions and Concerns still \\n \\n Table Legs. Really can't find them at a good price. T-legs, a-legs, whatever legs. Not sure where to buy from for an affordable rate. Needs to be adjustable in height. \\n Table sag. Pretty sure I need a crossbar or something for additional support, and I'd like to avoid a 3rd set of legs. Could I use a metal bar under the table, a 2x4, what. I might just need a 3rd set of legs though. \\n Under-table and shelf coating. Do I just leave naked ply underneath? I can't do that for the monitor shelf, for example. I see on some pre-made desks, like in stores and stuff, that have formica on top, on the bottom they have some thick cardboard (or cardboard colored) covering. Almost similar material to pegboard, I'm not sure what it is. \\n Table edge t-molding, not entirely sure on installation or where to get it. Also, I'm interested in other table edge options, like my current ikea desk has some sort of hard (metal?) edging. \\n The chrome bars that I use to hold up the monitor shelf. Where do I buy colored chrome bars? I see I can get plain chrome tubes from lowes/hd in the form of clothing rods, but I'm interested in using colored chrome. \\n How do I support the monitor shelf using chrome bars? Can I somehow screw or bolt them in without a noticeable bolt? If they maybe screwed into something at the top and bottom that'd be cool... Glue would work but I would rather avoid a permanent solution. I know it's just the monitor shelf but I was thinking of being able to swap colored bars! \\n Where my 3 table essentially mate to make one table, I'm not sure what to do in regards to table banding. Do I not put table banding there so they mate tightly? But I still need some cover, right? Maybe use some t-mold to seal the gap between the tables, kinda like kitchen floor transitions? \\n \\n Thanks. Just these simple questions be answered and it's all good to go! \\n I'm thinking a matte dark gray formica. And get this - orange table banding/chrome bars, would that not look badass!? Ah, color, we can decide that later. \\n Here's a very old pic of my current PC when it wasn't completed, and my current desk:\\n[Imgur](\\n[Old build, old monitors...](\",\n \"Summary: I just need a 24T C1 spline hitec single sided servo arm who's hole is 27mm+ out from the screw, of any material. Has a hole that can either hold a 4-40 ez connector or can be drilled a bit for one. This isn't a high intensity application, but a lot of torque is needed, as in I'll be nearing maxing out an hs-255hb (ie around 40oz). \\n You really can ignore all the above if you just answer the question, all of the above is literally just me saying why things other than what I'm asking for won't work. \\n edit: oh let me add, the super-duty long servo arms are ugly as heck. I could, but I'd really rather not.\\n\\nPost: So I have an HS-255BB servo, and the extendable arm it comes with is just barely not enough for my application (as in, barely enough after being heavily modified to grant extra length). Right now it's about 24mm from the hole to screw, and I really need like 27-28mm or more. 28mm really would be the bees knees. Single sided arm. I'm also using all 180* of throw. \\n I'm also using a 4-40 EZ Connector, which requires drilling out the hole a bit, and I'm worried if I bought a colored aluminum alloy arm it'd just make it really nasty or break it even as well. \\n As for the application itself, very long story short I'm using it to actuate opening a computer side panel. I know many of you guys might say things like \\\"why dont you...\\\" but believe me, I've tried everything. I just need a longer arm. Control horn is already literally at the hinge and closest hole (I know, omg so bad, it's the only place it can be mounted). \\n Nylon is fine, any material is fine, but metal-blue or black would be cool (obviously I can dye nylon so nylon is cool too). I've considered just getting a sail arm and cutting it, but that'd look really ugly and aesthetics are definitely important here (sure, last resort I can do that, hopefully I can avoid that). \\n ANYWAYS TO THE QUESTION. I know that was a lot but if I didn't type it I'd get a million responses all asking about moving the horn up or a different servo. Can't change the horn, can't change the servo. \\n I see on stuff like ebay for aluminum horns, none of them ever say the distance from the screw to hole. A few say 'screw to pinion distance' but I'm not certain that's the mounting hole distance (for example, one says that's 27mm, but the total arm length is 42mm so that's weird). Especially the Dynamite servo arms, none of them ever list the length from hole to screw. \\n So yea, this is what I'm currently looking at: \\n But not sure on 'screw and pinion' \\n and then there's a bunch of blue dynamite alluminum alloy arms like: \\n But no length to hole is listed. \\n Thanks\"\n]","isConversational":false},"profile_size":{"kind":"number","value":62,"string":"62"},"task":{"kind":"string","value":"longlamp_4"},"split_kind":{"kind":"string","value":"user_based"},"id":{"kind":"number","value":1389,"string":"1,389"}}},{"rowIdx":1390,"cells":{"question_id":{"kind":"string","value":"bokchoykn"},"question":{"kind":"string","value":"Generate the content for a reddit post Converge was hit and miss, but I think it was more \"miss\" than it was \"hit\". It's a cool mechanic with a lot design space, but only a few cards in BFZ made good use of it."},"answer":{"kind":"string","value":"I felt that Converge was a mechanic that has TONS of potential, but the execution of it was kind of hit and miss. \n The way I see it, there are two different avenues to make Converge into a cool mechanic: \n \n Using Converge as a means to reward/encourage multicolor decks . \n \n Using Converge as a means to select different modes . \n \n \n An example of #1 in limited would be ** Skyrider Elf to splash a third (or fourth) color, it gets significantly better. Either half of this card is splashable, and Converge makes it extra rewarding since you're already playing another color in addition to UG. One of my opponents splashed G into his WU fliers deck to play two copies of this guy and a Woodland Wanderer. Additionally, if you have Lifespring Druid/Beastcaller Savant/Ally Encampment, you can even add mana of colors that you're not even playing to make an bigger flying Elf. It is a well-designed card, and I attribute that to having the X in the mana cost. More on that later... \n An example of #1 in constructed would be **[Bring to Light]( which I believe is the most powerful constructed card in the set. It's going to be great in Standard because the combination of Fetch Lands and BFZ Lands allows for 4-5 color decks to be played with excellent consistency. It is a very compelling reason to want to play 4-5 colors. Prepare yourselves for 8rhino.dec! \n An example of #2 is **[Radiant Flames]( I like the fact that you can choose the value of X, depending on what is on the board. X=1 clears Hangarback tokens while leaving your Jace, Seekers, and SGMs intact. X=2 is a strong anti-aggro play that lets your Mantis Rider live, something Anger of the Gods can't do. X=3 kills things that Seismic Rupture/Pyroclasm can't, provided that you have three different colors to cast it. \n These three cards are among the Converge designs that I like. However, the majority of Converge cards, are poor/uninteresting design. \n When is **[Brilliant Spectrum]( ever useful? Anything lower than X=3 is card disadvantage. Even then, it's a 4 mana Sorcery. If you're playing a 3-color deck in Limited, you're doing it to improve your card quality at the cost of mana consistency. So why the hell would would this be in your deck? \n **[United Front]( on a good day, is Captain's Call with Allies. You get multiple Ally triggers, but the vast majority of them are binary anyway. 99% of the time, I'd rather just have a 4cmc Ally that doesn't require all these colors or Tajuru Warcallers to be good \n My absolute least favorite is **[Painful Truths]( Is it a bad card? Not really. Some argue that the Scry 2 and 1 life from Read the Bones outweighs the extra card from Painful Truths. In any case, the fact that it's extremely similar and arguably worse than a COMMON in the format is atrocious. On top of that, unlike Bring to Light, this doesn't feel like it's rewarding you for playing multiple colors; this only feels like it's punishing you for not having your three colors available. However, the thing that bugs me the most is that it they missed a glorious opportunity to make this card cooler by simply adding an X to its mana cost: \n > Painful Truths \n > X2B \n > Converge — You draw X cards and you lose X life, where X is the number of colors of mana spent to cast Painful Truths. \n It still costs a minimum 3 mana (no Sign in Blood) and paying three different-colored mana will still draw 3 cards and lose 3 life. However, you could also cast it for as much as WUBRG to draw 5 and lose 5 life. I don't think that's unreasonably overpowered, but the card becomes infinitely more interesting and worthy of its rarity (possibly Mythic-worthy). Even if you have your mana rainbow, you might not feel safe paying 5 life (or 5 mana) so you might cast it for 3 instead. Now, it's a great example of both #1 and #2 above."},"correct_answer":{"kind":"string","value":"I felt that Converge was a mechanic that has TONS of potential, but the execution of it was kind of hit and miss. \n The way I see it, there are two different avenues to make Converge into a cool mechanic: \n \n Using Converge as a means to reward/encourage multicolor decks . \n \n Using Converge as a means to select different modes . \n \n \n An example of #1 in limited would be ** Skyrider Elf to splash a third (or fourth) color, it gets significantly better. Either half of this card is splashable, and Converge makes it extra rewarding since you're already playing another color in addition to UG. One of my opponents splashed G into his WU fliers deck to play two copies of this guy and a Woodland Wanderer. Additionally, if you have Lifespring Druid/Beastcaller Savant/Ally Encampment, you can even add mana of colors that you're not even playing to make an bigger flying Elf. It is a well-designed card, and I attribute that to having the X in the mana cost. More on that later... \n An example of #1 in constructed would be **[Bring to Light]( which I believe is the most powerful constructed card in the set. It's going to be great in Standard because the combination of Fetch Lands and BFZ Lands allows for 4-5 color decks to be played with excellent consistency. It is a very compelling reason to want to play 4-5 colors. Prepare yourselves for 8rhino.dec! \n An example of #2 is **[Radiant Flames]( I like the fact that you can choose the value of X, depending on what is on the board. X=1 clears Hangarback tokens while leaving your Jace, Seekers, and SGMs intact. X=2 is a strong anti-aggro play that lets your Mantis Rider live, something Anger of the Gods can't do. X=3 kills things that Seismic Rupture/Pyroclasm can't, provided that you have three different colors to cast it. \n These three cards are among the Converge designs that I like. However, the majority of Converge cards, are poor/uninteresting design. \n When is **[Brilliant Spectrum]( ever useful? Anything lower than X=3 is card disadvantage. Even then, it's a 4 mana Sorcery. If you're playing a 3-color deck in Limited, you're doing it to improve your card quality at the cost of mana consistency. So why the hell would would this be in your deck? \n **[United Front]( on a good day, is Captain's Call with Allies. You get multiple Ally triggers, but the vast majority of them are binary anyway. 99% of the time, I'd rather just have a 4cmc Ally that doesn't require all these colors or Tajuru Warcallers to be good \n My absolute least favorite is **[Painful Truths]( Is it a bad card? Not really. Some argue that the Scry 2 and 1 life from Read the Bones outweighs the extra card from Painful Truths. In any case, the fact that it's extremely similar and arguably worse than a COMMON in the format is atrocious. On top of that, unlike Bring to Light, this doesn't feel like it's rewarding you for playing multiple colors; this only feels like it's punishing you for not having your three colors available. However, the thing that bugs me the most is that it they missed a glorious opportunity to make this card cooler by simply adding an X to its mana cost: \n > Painful Truths \n > X2B \n > Converge — You draw X cards and you lose X life, where X is the number of colors of mana spent to cast Painful Truths. \n It still costs a minimum 3 mana (no Sign in Blood) and paying three different-colored mana will still draw 3 cards and lose 3 life. However, you could also cast it for as much as WUBRG to draw 5 and lose 5 life. I don't think that's unreasonably overpowered, but the card becomes infinitely more interesting and worthy of its rarity (possibly Mythic-worthy). Even if you have your mana rainbow, you might not feel safe paying 5 life (or 5 mana) so you might cast it for 3 instead. Now, it's a great example of both #1 and #2 above."},"documents":{"kind":"list like","value":["Summary: Boys have a penis. Girls have a vagina.\n\nPost: Men and Women are just hardwired differently. \n Men have competitive urges that need to be satisfied. The concept of competition is interesting to us: two (or more) sides with an ultimate goal that directly conflicts with the opponent's goal and a battle of wills and wits to see who comes out on top. Whether it's playing sports, watching sports, playing video games, or Magic: the Gathering, we need our competitive fix or else we will go crazy. \n This is not to say that women don't enjoy competition. Men just take it to the next level. We study, we analyze, we practice, and we strive to improve. We take competition much more seriously than women do, even if we know deep down that it's just for fun. \n While I don't doubt that there are girls out there who appreciate competition just as much as any guy, you might not get very much interest. \n I don't necessarily agree with any of the points that you have quoted there. How a player treats other players, male or female, depends entirely on how considerate and respectful that particular player is. Your main obstacle is attracting interest and maintaining interest.","Summary: Rashad Miller is the MTGO of people.\n\nPost: It's one thing to be not very good at what you're trying to do, but he obviously has done no research and very little effort to understand the subject that he's commentating. \n People have been complaining about Rashad Miller for years. They HAVE been constructive about it. They've been VERY clear on what he needs to improve on. They've been VERY clear on what they want from a commentator. They've been VERY objective and fair. \n Nothing has changed. \n I used to be on the same boat as you. \"Why are they being so mean to this guy? He's probably trying his best. He'll get better at this.\" Now, I've realized that he just wants to be in the limelight and doesn't actually put forth any effort towards being a good commentator. And Wizards just keeps giving him what he wants, despite what everybody else wants.","Summary: btw. Thanks!\n\nPost: The \"Pick Order > Call Order\" rule is only in place if players reach an impasse. \n This is an excellent point and I wish more people would realize this simple concept. It's simply a last resort for when the team has failed to reach an agreement. \n I used your quote as the","Summary: If you're going to push 52.0% early, do it before Rage of Bahamut occurs. Otherwise, hold DPS or else you're gonna get the \"BAD\" push.\n\nPost: The push into Phase 3 occurs at exactly 52.0%. Even if Phase 2 has ended early, the Shadow of Meracydia still spawns at set intervals, so it will spawn into Phase 3. \n Here are the different scenarios that can happen (from earliest to latest): \n \n Before Megaflare : The Shadow spawns while Divebombs are occurring. The tank needs to keep track of where the Shadow spawns (Southeast) since he's probably getting spun around by divebombs. You can fight this Shadow while the Pain/Blood spawn. Have the Paladin pick up the Pain/Blood while the Warrior deals with the Shadow. \n \n After Megaflare but before Rage of Bahamut : The Shadow spawns just as Gigaflare is about to finish casting. The main challenge here is aggro since the White Mage is probably healing off the damage from Gigaflare just as the add spawns. The best solution is to have the Paladin pre-emptively cover the White Mage and either tank can do a late Provoke to overtake the White Mage's enmity. Kill the Shadow while doing Divebombs. I like this push the most. \n \n After Rage of Bahamut : BAD BAD BAD!!! The Shadow spawns just as Gigaflare happens. It's problematic because the OT is taking damage from the Shadow at the same time as the group is taking damage from Gigaflare. Also, if Bahamut is tanked at the Shadow's spawn location, the two will tether just as Gigaflare is happening. The Shadow has to be taken away from Bahamut ASAP. That means the group is spread out and therefore not stacked for group heals and Sacred Soil. It's doable, but this is definitely the worst push. \n \n After the Shadow Dies : Probably what most groups are used to. It's super easy because the Shadow is already dead when the transition occurs.","Summary: Choosing one class over the other won't make you more likely to be MT or OT. OT is more challenging and more fun than MT anyway.\n\nPost: Regardless, I need to ask whether WAR gets stuck offtanking more often than PLD even now? \n Not really. In many of the fights, the tanking role is shared equally between the two classes, often due to a tank swap mechanic. There is no true Main Tank or Off Tank in these fights. \n In the rest of the fights, it varies and it completely depends on the nature of the fight. Warrior is usually considered the ideal MT for Turn 5, Leviathan, Turn 8, and arguably Turn 7. Paladin is probably the ideal MT for Garuda, Turn 4 and Turn 9. \n Even if one is better than the other, they are still more-or-less interchangable for most fights. We use PLD MT for Turn 7 and 8, even though Warrior is widely considered to be better than Paladin in both fights. \n > I think any tank player agrees that offtanking is not nearly as fun as main tanking. \n I disagree. Some do, some don't. Generally speaking, off-tanking is usually more demanding and interactive than main-tanking in this game. It varies from fight to fight but to say that all tanks aspire to be Main Tank rather than Off Tank is incorrect. \n Take Turn 4 for example. The MT stands in one spot and tanks the Dreadnaught. Meanwhile, the OT runs around and grabs everything else, which is considerably more difficult. The same goes with Leviathan. The MT stands there and tanks the head while watching TV. The OT has to tank the tail, tank and stun the adds when they spawn, pull Wave Spumes away from the group, and has the freedom to run around DPSing Gyre Spumes.","Summary: Enchantments are naturally way more interactive than land, and there is way more design space. Vote Enchantments! Down with Land!\n\nPost: I voted for Enchantment. Here are my reasons: \n I like interaction. \n Magic is an interactive game. When I say \"interaction\", I'm referring to each player's actions and decisions affecting the state of the game. The most basic interaction is to add stuff to your board by casting permanents. The levels beyond that are the interactions between multiple cards: Creatures colliding in combat, combos and synergies created by mutliple spells, destroying or hindering your opponent's spells, outright preventing your opponent's action with countermagic, etc... \n Lately, I feel that Magic has been moving in a direction towards limiting interaction. The introduction and popularization of Hexproof. Countermagic weakened with the removal of Mana Leak, introduction of Cavern of Souls and other uncounterable spells. Cards like Thragtusk and Boros Reckoner that are just too difficult to favorably interact with. \n Personally, I'd like to see a push towards more interaction instead of less interaction. \n Why not Land? \n Lands are naturally difficult to interact with. They can't be countered. You can't force the opponent to discard it with cards like Duress, Thoughtseize and Inquisition of Kozilek. Land destruction is generally weak because they don't want players to mess with each others' natural mana production. \n If a land's effect is too powerful, the card easily becomes toxic to a format because it's really not that easy to deal with land. As a result, Land design space is very limited. Even if we do make a really cool land, I feel that we'd waste a YMTC on a card that restricts interaction rather than one that encourages it. \n Why Enchantments? \n I'm particularly interested in seeing good Auras being printed, and most particuarly interested in seeing a cool and creative beneficial Enchant Creature. One of the simplest forms of multi-card interaction is to bestow a buff onto an existing permanent with an enchantment, but it also has virtually infinite design space and can be kept under control with enchantment destruction. Unfortunately, creature auras haven't gotten much love lately. \n Beneficial Creature Auras have historically been pretty underwhelming. Unless an aura had some sort of recursion ([Rancor]( or [Angelic Destiny]( players are discouraged from using them since it's so easy for your opponent to 2-for-1 you, even with sorcery speed removal. A lot can be done to make Creature Auras good for once. For example, if a Creature Enchantment had Flash, it can double as a combat trick. Auras with \"enters/leaves the battlefield\" effects grant value even if the enchanted creature eventually gets removed. \n I'd like to see this design space actually get used and this element of the game take a bigger role in constructed formats.","Summary: PLD MT WAR OT\n\nPost: WAR in Defiance out-DPSes PLD in Shield, but PLD in Sword out-DPSes WAR out of Defiance, so this setup tends to be more optimal unless you really need Hallowed like in T13) \n Definitely not optimal. \n Theoretically, a PLD beating on a dummy in Sword Oath will outdps a WAR w/o Defiance while WAR in Defiance will outdps a PLD in Shield Oath. This is true. \n However, don't jump to the conclusion that you should tailor your strategy towards WAR spending more time in Defiance and PLD spending more time in Sword Oath. There are several other factors to take into account here. \n \n Sword Oath PLD's advantage over non-Defiance WAR is very tiny. And that's WITH the PLD getting the SE slashing debuff. This is important when weighing in the other factors \n \n WAR switching in and out of Defiance does not cost him a GCD and does not reset his combo. So, if you're fighting a boss where the OT is required to swap in and out of tank stance (ie. every fight that needs 2 tanks), the WAR is better suited for this role. \n \n Defiance WAR's advantage over Shield Oath PLD is largely due to Unchained. In a hypothetical situation where the MT tanks 100% of the time and OT tanks 0% of the time, it's better to go WAR MT, PLD OT because WAR OT can't make use of Unchained anyway. However, in a situation where the MT tanks 75% of the time and OT tanks 25% of the time, moving WAR to OT still retains the advantage of Unchained because it's being put to maximum use during that 25%. Your damage will be significantly higher with PLD MT and WAR OT. \n \n Factor in gear in the above example. What if the OT requires much less VIT to perform his role. Equipping more STR gear is magnified by the advantage of Vengeance. Unless you're tanking 0% of the time, Warrior will scale better with Ruby accessories, giving you more reason to have your WAR as the DD tank. Especially in T13. \n \n Factor in aggro. Can a Defiance Warrior cycling SE/SP keep aggro off of a Sword Oath Paladin smashing Halone? Especially if the Paladin is wearing Ruby accessories and the Warrior is wearing Fending? Probably not. Butcher's Block will have to be used more frequently and that comes at a compromise to SE/SP. Is your NIN maintaining Dancing Edge uptime for you? That's a DPS loss too. Our NIN knows when I have to BB and puts up DE at the appropriate times, but most of the time, I'm keeping SE/SP up while our Paladin has the boss. \n \n Factor in defense. Warrior naturally takes more damage than Paladin because of Blocking. Warrior requires 4.1% more healing than Paladin because Defiance only boosts healing by 20%. You want your Paladin taking more autoattacks. \n \n \n Combine all of the above factors. It's a DPS loss from tanks and a loss in other departments as well.","Summary: Removing downvotes solves absolutely nothing. It only makes it slightly more inconvenient to downvote things. \n Downvoting is important. It allows us to help filter incorrect information, stuff that doesn't contribute to the discussion, and overall useless fluff. \n The root of the problem is that players of different demographics don't respect each other. This is a community-wide problem. Removing downvotes does not remove negativity. \n \n EDIT:\n\nPost: My feedback: This is pointless. \n The downvote button is important. The problem with this subreddit isn't the existence of a downvote button. I realize it's just a \"trial\" but the entire idea is pointless to begin with. \n The beauty of MMOs is that they appeal to gamers of many different unique tastes and preferences. Players can get satisfaction from different things. \n \n Some players play to collect gear/mounts/minions/titles/achievements, etc... \n Some players play to simply become their in-game persona and escape from reality for a little bit. \n Some players play to take on the hardest content, and love the intellectual challenge of raiding and min-maxing to push themselves to the limits. \n \n These are just a few common examples from an infinite list of reasons to play FFXIV. \n The REAL problem with the people on this subreddit (and MMO communities general) is a lack of respect for players who play this game for different reasons than their own . People will upvote content that appeals to THEIR specific tastes and they will downvote content that doesn't. \n Casual players don't give a shit about hardcores min-maxing their Turn 13 strategy and don't want to see this kind of discussion taking over the subreddit. Meanwhile, hardcore players don't give a shit about commissioned artwork of your scantily clad Miqote. \n As a result, content appealing to the smaller demographics get buried, even though it's a very thought-provoking and insightful discussion. Less popular demographics get neglected. \n It has become an \"us vs them\" mentality. People see players of other demographics as an enemy who threatens THEIR enjoyment of the game, instead of friends who share a common interest. That is the REAL problem. It can't be fixed by tweaking subreddit configurations. \n Taking away downvotes doesn't change anything. Popular content rises to the top. Unpopular content sinks to the bottom. Nothing changes except now people can't downvote the TRULY shitty threads like \"Plz tell me y I should buy this game lol\" that truly pollute this subreddit. \n Besides, if you really want to downvote someone, you can just click their username and downvote stuff from there. Not very difficult to circumvent. \n Leave the downvote alone. The ability to upvote/downvote is what makes Reddit unique and awesome. It allows people to express approval/disapproval. You're attempting to take away people's freedom to express disapproval in an attempt to serve the greater good. You don't have to read very far into your history books to realize why this is a dumb idea. If you want to take the downvote button away from all of us just to silence a few trolls, the trolls have already won.","Summary: Ignore \"Best-in-Slot\". Spend Myth on the pieces that you're least likely to get from Coil. Stay Accuracy capped if tanking Coil.\n\nPost: I'm gonna go against some of the advice that is being offered in this thread. Warrior is my main and I've been clearing all content for a few months now. \n Here is what I think about gearing a Warrior in this game: \n \n If you intend on doing Coil on Warrior, cap your Accuracy. 473 for T1-4, 482 for T5 (after food). This should be pretty easy to do with a Dual Haken. If you won't be tanking Coil, this isn't a huge concern. \n \n Other than Accuracy, the consensus \"Best-in-Slot\" is generally based around maximizing your Parry, and states that Determination > Skill Speed > Critical Hit Rate. While I somewhat agree with this, the difference between getting BiS pieces and other non-BiS equivalents is very trivial and barely worth thinking about. \n \n To put it into perspective, 13 Parry increases your chance to Parry by ~1%. When you Parry an attack, you reduce the damage done by about 25%. Therefore, it takes a little over 50 Parry to mitigate an extra 1% of damage and that's only against physical attacks that can be Parried. Hardly exciting. \n \n Also, consider the nature of the damage bosses deal to tanks. Boss melee attacks barely hurt. The big damage comes in the form of huge bursts, namely: Wicked Wheels, Mountain Busters, Incinerates (can't be parried anyway), Rotoswipes, and Death Sentences. You simply cannot rely on your Parry stat to mitigate and survive these. A properly played Warrior assumes that he won't get the Parry and will plan out his cooldowns and Inner Beasts accordingly. Because of the unpredictability of Parries, increasing your Damage Reduction via Parry does not truly increase your Effective HP. This concept further trivializes the value of the Parry stat. \n \n Besides hitting your Accuracy Cap, the actually important stats are: Vitality and Strength. You get the same amount of these stats from any two pieces of i90 pieces of the same slot. \n \n \n Given the above, the best advice I can give to you for gearing up your Warrior is this: \n Don't overthink your secondary stats and don't follow Best-in-Slot lists. The difference between the supposed BiS vs a random assortment of i90 is probably a matter of mitigating 1% damage in an unpredictable fashion vs dealing 2% more damage. These differences are trivial, especially for someone like you whose Warrior is their alternate job and you don't have access to Allagan pieces from Coil. People think WAY too much about Best-in-Slot for tanks. We are splitting hairs here. \n Instead, plan your Myth purchases based on which pieces (if any) you are most likely to get from Coil. If you are next in line behind your tanks to get tanking pieces in Coil, purchase pieces that you know you have no chance of getting in Coil. For example, if both of your tanks need Allagan Helm and you won't be getting one for a while, buy a Warrior's Burgeonet. If both of your tanks bought Myth Gloves and aren't interested in Allagan Gauntlets, maybe get different pieces first on the chance that Gloves drop from T4. \n Basically, spend your Myth in such a way that you don't waste Myth points or Coil drops. This is much more important and efficient than chasing an extra 10 points of Parry.","Summary: Cool idea, very good presentation, but the data does not hold any more weight than any other random guy on the internet. \n BTW, Blitzcrank countering Sona and Sona countering Blitzcrank... If this matchup could really \"go either way\", shouldn't neither of them be on each others' respective Top 3 counters lists? Doesn't make sense at all.\n\nPost: Cool chart. It's very well-organized and easy to read... \n BUT \n ...the problem lies within the logic behind the data. We can debate for days and days about who counters what and not come up with anything conclusive, so this chart can be pretty misleading. I'm afraid it's not this simple, and as well-organized as this chart is, if the content is in question, the chart becomes useless. \n I'm sorry but I can't get behind this \"guide\". A million different people can have a million different opinions on bot lane matchups, but having better presentation doesn't make it any more credible than the next random guy who says X counters Y. This guide will turn out more harmful than helpful because some people will flock to this guide because it is easy to read, not because it is any more insightful or truthful than anyone else's opinion. \n What would be awesome is if the data could be subject to public vote (like championselect.net) so the data reflects the opinion and experience of the consensus rather than the opinion and experience of a single person. It's still not perfect, but it's better than what we have now.","Summary: I'm at work. Can't believe I get paid to do this.\n\nPost: When we cleared SCoB, our highest geared member was our Scholar at i100. The idea of single-tanking it was not even conceived. We didn't even know that Stardusts expldoded if they were too close to each other. The three divebomb formations wasn't discovered until the week we killed it. The sheer difference in gear level and information available to us made our Turn 9 experiences very different. \n For that reason, our perception of the difficulty gap between T9 and T13 is also very different. \n About T6, we didn't know that Honey caused additional Hornets to spawn. We fought a new Hornet every rotation and fed multiple Honeys before the transition into the final phase. We didn't know wtf the slugs and slimes were for. We didn't know that Rotten Stench was split damage. We spent the first few hours of learning tanking Rafflesia against the wall FFS.","Summary: Determination all damn day.\n\nPost: I disagree. \n People rationalize their preference for Parry by saying \"it mitigates damage!\" but don't realize the pitfalls of Parry: 1) The returns are extremely low. 2) The damage mitigation comes in the form of a proc, making it much less useful in this game. \n To say that survival is more useful when progressing and damage is more useful for farm content is also fallacious. It depends on the fight. \n In any case, I would almost always side with Determination over Parry for Paladin and Warrior. The nature of how Parry works plus the way that bosses deal damage in this game puts Parry in an awkward spot.","Summary: Who cares?\n\nPost: If you don't like the question, you're more than welcome to ignore it. Hell, you can even downvote it if you want. For every 100 people who can't be bothered to answer the guy's question, there is at least 1 who will. That's usually enough. \n The way I see it, who cares if people make threads you don't like? It's not like it takes the place of what would have been a thought-provoking discussion. Personally, I don't like \"Please help me improve my deck without changing the budget, strategy, or the cards in the deck\" threads, but their existence doesn't negatively effect my life. \n If a topic is good enough, it will get upvoted to the top. If it's a simple/silly question, somebody else will answer it and the thread will eventually get buried. Reddit is a place where the community governs its own content with upvotes and downvotes. If you don't like what you see, cast your vote and move on with your life.","Summary: Champion select unreliable. Ranged > No Gap Closer > Gap Closer > Ranged.\n\nPost: Champion Select isn't bad but it is unreliable. Its best feature is also its worst feature: it is based on consensus opinion. While consensus opinion combines the knowledge and experience of many people, it also leaves it vulnerable to a \"circle jerk\" mentality. Some people will agree and upvote a popular opinion just for the sake of joining the majority and making themselves feeling knowledgable and correct. A pro will publically say X counters Y, and hundreds of fans will believe it and cast their votes accordingly. Basically, all votes carry equal value, no matter how experienced/intelligent or inexperienced/unintelligent the voters may be. That's not necessarily a good thing. \n Also, the counterpick votes are rarely given context. Champion X might have an advantage over Champion Y in lane, but Champion Y is able to contain him in team fights. Moreover, if a champion can stop Shen's ultimate with hard CC, people might jump to the conclusion that he counters Shen and ignore all other aspects of the matchup. People also automatically assume that all AP champions are advantageous vs Malphite and all AD champions are disadvantageous vs Malphite when the matchup is much more complicated than that. \n Personally, I try to categorize top lane champions into three categories: \n \n X: Melee champions without gap closers. (eg. Darius, Olaf, Garen, Malphite, Udyr) \n Y: Melee champions with gap closers. (eg. Jax, Talon, Xin Zhao, Riven, Irelia) \n Z: Champions with ranged harass. (eg. Jayce, Teemo, Elise, Yorick, Vladimir) \n \n X > Y > Z > X \n The logic is that champions without gap closers are generally designed so that they are naturally stronger duelists than champions who do have gap closers, thus somewhat trivializing their ability to engage. They are more likely to win trades and push their opponent out of lane. \n Champions with gap closers can deal with ranged harass due to their ability to easily engage and fight at melee range where they have an advantage over the much squishier ranged champs and will generally come ahead in trades or all-in fights. \n Champions with ranged harass can kite champions without gap closers and deal damage to them while staying relatively safe from any counter attack, essentially nickel-and-diming them out of lane. \n Of course, it's often not this simple. Some champions have characteristics of more than one category. Irelia and Jax have gap closers, but possess the dueling ability of a champion with no gap closer. Jayce and Elise have ranged harass but are able to close gaps and fight at melee range. Darius has a pseudo gap closer with Apprehend. These champions are particularly strong against other champs in the same category and still capable of beating champions in the category that counters them. I guess that's why they're so good. \n Anyway, just my two cents.","Summary: Don't fault people who refuse to admit you to their group because you don't meet their gear standards. They're doing the right thing.\n\nPost: It's true that someone with better gear might not necessarily be more of as asset to a team than someone with lesser gear. I've seen some decked out players who sucked at ther job and I've seen others players do more with less. However, any time you invite a stranger to a group, you know nothing about him other than what gear he's wearing. It's a crapshoot either way. Given the choice, of course I'm going to take the guy with the better gear. This isn't because I don't trust that you're capable, but because I have a duty to my team to make sure that I'm choosing the best possible people for whatever their job is. \n If I shout \"LF Geared DPS for XYZ\", people join on the basis that I have set a gear standard for that particular group. Other well-geared players are attracted to my group because they know that the other members will also be well-geared, thus ensuring that the run will be fast and the risk of failure is very low. OF COURSE, a lesser-geared player would LOVE to get into that group because they know that there is a much higher chance of success. However, by declining to invite him, I'm simply upholding the gear standard that I promised to the rest of the team. It has nothing to do with elitism or being a dick. \n So, when people get angry at the above and cry \"Elitism!\", my first reaction is going to be \"This guy thinks he deserves to be in groups that are better geared than him. Why isn't he content with being in groups with people of similar gear quality? I have very little sympathy for him.\"","Summary: Parry is trash.\n\nPost: Conventional MMO wisdom leads tanks to believe that damage mitigation is everything. In other games that may be true, but we're not playing other games. We're playing this one. And in this game, the way items are designed, the way calculations are made, and the way bosses behave, Damage Mitigation from gear is pretty much insignificant, and this is especially true of Parry. \n Why Parry is bad... \n 1) The returns on Parry are low... \n Really really low. ~13 Parry = 1% Parry x ~25-27% Mitigation = 0.25% to 0.27% Mitigation. \n This is the biggest pitfall of Parry. The benefits are simply crap. While the same can be said about many secondary stats, the low returns on Parry are magnified by the following points of this post. \n 2) The benefits of Parry occur randomly and therefore cannot be considered an increase to your Effective HP. \n Effective HP can be defined as the maximum amount of unmitigated damage you can take without a heal before dying. \n How does the tank increase his effective HP? By increasing his HP (Vitality) or by increasing his damage reduction. \n Parry/Block gives damage reduction. Does that mean that Parry/Block increases effective HP? The answer is no. That is because Parry/Block relies on a proc. \n When it comes to that burst that's going to kill you, the X% Parry that you get from gear may or may not occur during this period. It MIGHT save you. There is a chance that it will and there is a chance that it won't. As a tank and as a healer, you simply have to assume that the life-saving parry is not going to come, and play accordingly. So, from a practical perspective, Parry essentially does nothing. \n The bottom line is that Parry/Block does NOT increase the maximum amount of damage you can take without a heal before dying. The damage that would have killed you can still potentially kill you even if you added a ton of Parry (and nothing else) to your character's stats. Your Effective HP remains the same. \n Remember, this is a game where bosses tickle you with auto attacks and occasionally unleash big bursts on the tank. Parry is much less valuable in these situations and the bursty nature of bosses further trivializes the value of Parry. \n 3) Not all attacks can be parried. \n The value of parry varies from fight to fight. In some fights, all attacks are Parryable (MT Melusine). In others, Parry is completely worthless (MT Leviathan, Ramuh). Every fight falls somewhere in this spectrum, but the point is that the value of Parry fluctuates. Meanwhile, Vitality and damage stats on your tank are always valuable. \n 4) You're not tanking all of the time. \n The tanking responsibility in end-game raids is typically split between two tanks. The times when you are not tanking are times when Parry is wasted. Especially as Off-Tank. Parry is only valuable when you're taking hits. Meanwhile, DPS is valuable all the time. Again, this varies from fight to fight. \n 5) Tanks aren't taking all of the damage. \n In fact, the percentage of the damage dealt to the tank is relatively low in this game compared to other similar games. \n Okay, so you loaded up on Parry. Your healers MP pools are gonna love you because of all the damage you're mitigating for them, right? \n Well, Parry might lighten the load for heals on you specifically, but what about the spot-heals and AoE heals required by the party? \n \n Thorn Whips, Spits, Leaf Storms, Acid Clouds, Rotten Stench in T6. \n \n Fireballs on ranged DPS, arrows from the second set of adds in T7. \n \n T8 has AoE heals for Defensive Reactions, Gaseous Bomb and Critical Surge. SS and Adloq on Allagan Field targets. Plus heals on the Homing Missiles target. \n \n T9 has Thermionic Beam, Meteor Stream, Meteor Impact, Fireballs, etc... \n \n \n Loading up on Parry only helps with heals on yourself, which barely puts a dent in the stress put on the healers. You know what helps healers on all fronts? Building for damage so you can kill adds quickly and end the fight earlier.","Summary: Bad card disguised as a good card.\n\nPost: IMO, it's just not a really good card. It's certainly powerful and versatile, but none of the modes are particularly appealing in the current Standard environment. \n \n To deal with one creature, you're paying five mana to have the same effect as a Searing Spear. To burn the opponent out, you're paying six mana to have the same effect as Boros Charm. Sure, Aurelia's Fury is versatile, but so are Searing Spear and Boros Charm. The difference is, Searing Spear and Boros Charm will only ever cost two mana. \n To deal with multiple creatures, you'll probably only be able to tap them because of the mana requirement to kill. If you're spending a card and all of your mana only to tap down your opponent's creatures, you'd better have lethal on the board. Midrange decks would rather use Bonfire of the Damned or Mizzium Mortars to fulfill this purpose. \n If you're using this as a Silence, in Standard, there isn't a ton of instant speed disruption that the opponent is casting on your turn that can't just simply be cast with Aurelia's Fury on the stack. Azorius Charm on an attacker is probably the only thing. Plus, it doesn't prevent Restoration Angel from being cast in combat. I can see it being used to delay a board sweeper by casting it during the opponent's upkeep, but I'd rather just Boros Charm to outright stuff the sweeper. \n \n Basically, the stars must align for this card to be better than its alternatives. It's not even a matter of this card being underexplored. There's not much else to explore here. I realize that hindsight is 20/20 but I see why this card is not being played.","Summary: Drafting reactively and keeping your options open will yield the most consistent results.\n\nPost: To do consistently well at drafts, I'd try to remove variance as much as possible. The best way to do that is to draft reactively . \n I find that novice drafters choose their colors very early and commit to them pretty hard. The problem with that is if you're sitting beside someone who is doing the same thing with same color(s) and won't budge, the two of you will be splitting cards for the entirety of the draft. \n For the first 8 Picks, I will draft the best card available, paying close attention to the good cards that I receive and pass, in order to get a feel on what signals I'm getting and sending. \n By P1P9, you get to see which cards wheeled, which gives a lot of information about the table. At this point, I've probably narrowed down to 3 possible main colors (or two possible guilds), but keep my options open to splash the one of the other two. \n The first few picks in the second pack are potentially huge and are the reasons I don't want to commit too hard in the first pack. At this point, I'm looking to settle down with two main colors and potentially splash a third. \n I will almost never lock into my two main colors until at least early second pack. I'm willing to change my splash(es) for almost any huge bomb as late as Pack 3, unless it's way too hard to splash.","Summary: PUGs: I prefer that we're on voice comms. If you can't talk, at least be able to listen. If you can't be bothered to hop on, that's fine but I'll probably be less patient about screw-ups due to breakdowns in communication. \n Static: Be able to listen AND talk or find a new static. Nothing personal.\n\nPost: Different people play the game at different levels of intensity. I find that the higher level you play at, the more demanding groups will be and the more adamant the group will be that you are able to communicate via voice chat. \n I'll be completely honest: I don't like playing with people without voice chat. I like to be able to talk to them and I like for them to be able to talk to me. Not all players can comply, which is perfectly fine if I'm in a PUG or something. Especially if it's for something easy. \n If it's a FCoB PF, I'll volunteer my own FC's TeamSpeak and invite everyone to join. If not everybody wants to talk, at least they can listen to everyone else. If you don't want to join us, you better not screw up because of it. If someone screws up due to inexperience or clumsiness, that's cool because nobody's perfect. If someone screws up because they can't be bothered to join the other 7 members of thea team on TS/Mumble, it's annoying. I don't speak for anyone else but I probably won't want to group with you again. \n If it's for a competitive static, I don't want to be in a group with someone who refused to talk on TS. Two-way communication is essential for the purpose of teamwork. People say \"I'm a good player so I don't need voice comms\". Sorry, but all players become even better when they can talk to each other. \n If I had to choose between two applicants for my static, both of whom are equally capable and equally qualified, but only one of them was able to speak on TS/Mumble, I would choose him 100% of the time. \n Moreover, I also don't want to be in a static group who had no interest in socializing with each other. I've been in groups where people don't care about things like friendship. They don't last because players are simply using each other as stepping stones to access high-level content/rewards. Most of all, they're also not as fun. \n This is probably not what you wanted to hear, and while teammates should be accommodating to each other, not being able to communicate by voice isn't something I would personally want to compromise on. \n I don't think me and you would be very good teammates. Haha.","Summary: Be wary when it comes to DPS numbers. Apples aren't always compared to apples. Context is everything. \n \n Truly exceptional DPS is extremely rare. There are players who can follow guides and rotations and then there are players who truly understand their class inside out.\n\nPost: DPS numbers you hear on the internet should be taken with a grain of salt... \n DPS results vary depending on encounter and depends on class. An i108 Dragoon dealing 330 DPS on a T9 clear and a Dragoon dealing 330 DPS in T8 mean totally different things (one is good and one is bad). An i108 Dragoon dealing 330 DPS on T8 and an i108 Monk dealing 330 DPS on T8 mean totally different things too (one is bad and one is really bad). \n People also measure them differently. For example, someone might have their T9 parses split between pre-Megaflare and post-Megaflare, and then merge the results after. Meanwhile, someone else might have one full parse for the entire fight. The latter would have lower numbers because you have a long period of downtime where nobody is dealing any damage. \n Basically, apples aren't always being compared to apples. So, depending on context, 360 DPS @ i108 might mean you're the best Dragoon on the planet or it could mean that you're not very good at Turn 8. In other words, without context, \"I do 360 DPS\" doesn't mean anything. \n However, that's not to say that the numbers don't matter. If a similarly geared Dragoon is dealing significantly more damage than you in a fight, this could possibly mean that there is another level above you that you still haven't reached. \n This may sound elitist but a lot of groups out there think their DPS is good when it is actually not. Most people don't realize what exceptional DPS actually looks like. \n People have been doing burn method in T6 since Week 1, wearing i90 gear with i95 weapon. People have been pushing one Drake in T9 with two tanks and sub-i100 gear. If you struggled to do these things without vastly superior gear, your DPS ain't exceptional.","Summary: 225 Potency attack that can't crit is, on average, the same as a ~205 Potency attack that crits 20% of the time.\n\nPost: At 20% crit rate, all of your attacks will do an average of 10% more damage than if you had a 0% crit rate. \n \n Therefore, a 150 Potency attack now becomes an average of 165 Potency. A 180 Potency attack now becomes an average of 198 Potency, etc... \n \n Bootshine will always crit and therefore does not benefit from this 20% crit rate. \n \n Treating Bootshine as a 225 Potency attack compared to Dragon Kick at 150 Potency would be inaccurate because Dragon Kick benefits from crit while Bootshine does not. \n \n Instead of scaling Dragon Kick up to 165 Potency (x 110%) to account for Crit, you arrive at the same results if you scaled Bootshine down to 205 Potency (x 90.9%), which is what I used instead. It was just simpler to apply math to one ability (Bootshine) rather than every other ability (all non Bootshine)","Summary: 100 damage is just better than 40 healing.\n\nPost: I level R>Q>W>E and I usually strictly adhere to this from 1-18. Even if forced to play passively, Q is always a priority. I don't want to not have Q maxed in the mid/late game. \n There are odd times where I would get a second rank of W at level 4 and getting my first rank of E at level 8 instead, but only if we're low on health and pushed to tower. \n The reason Q is prioritized over W: Each additional rank of Q is an additional 50 damage per target and 4 AD/AP aura bonus. Each additional rank of W is an additional 20 heal per target and 3 AR/MR aura bonus. Each rank of Q is mathematically more valuable than each rank of W. Sona's job in lane is to provide an incremental advantage to your lane and hinder her opponent's ability to sustain. The opponent either has to set up a kill or get nickel-and-dimed through harrass and trades.","Summary: Who cares?\n\nPost: I don't see the problem. If you don't like them, don't click on them. Scroll past them. Hell, if you want, you can even downvote them. The fact that these threads exist don't take away from the other threads that you actually like. If you have nothing to say about them, say nothing and move on. \n I don't care for custom playmats either and I'll usually glance at them (if even that) and move on. However, I'm totally okay with them existing. They are related enough to MTG to belong on this sub-reddit. If they're getting upvoted, somebody must like them. Who am I to tell people what they should or shouldn't post or upvote on this subreddit?","Summary: You're not losing to bad RNG. Only pilot error. Instead of overanalyzing and trying to get the \"good\" timing, learn how to reliably beat the \"bad\" timing.\n\nPost: Tbh, you're overanalyizing an aspect of this fight that can be easily dealt with through better planning and execution. \n Instead of trying to control a mechanic, learning how to reliably beat what you consider the \"bad\" timing would make all timings \"good\". \n We almost always get the \"bad\" timing. Our solution was to have two people trigger one AoE tower (A) and one person trigger another AoE tower (B) . Then, after the first Allagan Field detonates, during the ten seconds of downtime where there is no active Allagan Field, our tank runs into the AoE tower (A) to give it its fourth and final stack and forcing the AoE to go off while nobody has Allagan Field. \n Aside from that, we find that adequately shielding (SS and Adloq) the Allagan Field target and AoE healing accordingly easily deals with an AoE going off while there is an active Allagan Field. \n It's not as easy as the \"good\" timing, but it's still reasonably easy. Bear in mind that we beat this fight for our first time this way (\"bad\" timing) at about i93-i94 average. I'm assuming nowadays, everyone has i100+ from Soldiery, ST, and Sands/Oils from Hunts. Everyone has more HP and heals hit harder.","Summary: Skill Speed is not useless. It a very underrated and very misunderstood stat amongst the FFXIV community. I'm not going to say it's a great stat because it isn't, but it's a lot better than most people give it credit for. I value Skill Speed over Critical Hit Rate for Monk and Warrior.\n\nPost: I'm going to go against what everyone else is already saying here, and say that this is an incorrect analysis of Skill Speed. \n With Weapon A, you will squeeze 15 weapon skills in before the enemy jumps. With Weapon B, despite the increase to skill speed, you will still squeeze only 15 weapon skills in before the enemy jumps. In this case, yes, you were completely unable to take advantage of the skill speed and there was no benefit. \n However, what if the timing of the jump allowed you to get a 16th attack in with Weapon B, where you'd only be able to get a 15th attack with weapon A? All of a sudden, the benefit of the seemingly small Skill Speed boost equated to a damage increase equal to 1/15. (It's obviously more complicated than this depending on what that 16th attack is, but the sake of the argument let's treat all Weapon Skills attacks as equal) \n If we were to give a numerical example... \n \n Your Recast on your Weaponskills is 2.40 with Weapon A and 2.37 with Weapon B. \n \n The boss jumps into the next phase after 37 seconds. Both weapons would get 15 weapon skills in, so the 28 Skill Speed was deemed worthless here. \n \n What if the boss jumped into the next phase after 38 seconds? Weapon A would get 15 Weapon Skills in, while Weapon B would get a 16th Weapon Skill. That's a whopping 6.67% DPS increase from a measly 28 Skill Speed. \n \n \n It all depends on the timing of the jump, but there are theoretical \"sweet spots\" where a Skill Speed increase would net you an extra attack. The greater the Skill Speed increase, the bigger the \"sweet spot\". \n Keep in mind that a boss jumping to the next phase is sometimes triggered by time, but usually triggered by reaching a certain percentage HP point. It should more-or-less be treated by RNG because you never know exactly how much DPS your group is doing and how fast you're pushing phases. But as I said earlier, you might get an extra attack or you might not. So I guess you can say that the probability of you getting an extra attack are greater when the Skill Speed increase is greater . \n It is an RNG thing, but the point is that it's incorrect to view Skill Speed as useless in situations where bosses jump and/or become invulnerable. \n If anything, Skill Speed becomes MORE valuable in those situations. Skill Speed actually grants you a bigger DPS increase than the same amount of Critical Hit Rate (for melee classes), but the drawback is that it also increases the rate at which you consume TP. If you're likely to run out of TP in the fight, Skill Speed becomes less valuable. If the boss occasionally jumps and/or becomes invulnerable, you're probably less likely to run out of TP in that fight.","Summary: The Paladin on stun duty should stun every Eruption and nothing else. Nobody else should be using any stuns. Summoners should not use Ifrit-Egi. Monks should not use Shoulder Tackle. Etc etc..\n\nPost: Stun is subject to something called \"Diminishing Returns\" or \"DR\". It's a bit of a misnomer (this is not what \"Diminishing Returns\" actually means) but that's what people have been calling it for lack of a better term. \n If a target is stunned, that target gains a resistance to stun for 15 seconds from the time that the stun wears off. During this 15 seconds, the next stun will only stun for half its duration. If he is stunned yet again within 15 seconds, the next stun will only be for a quarter of its duration. After three stuns with less than 15 seconds between each stun, the target will be completely immune to stuns for 15 seconds. \n Specifically to Ifrit, the Paladin's job is to stun the Eruption. Ifrit typically leaves 15 seconds between some of his Eruptions, so Diminishing Returns immunity shouldn't happen if stuns are only being used for Eruptions. However, if other players are also stunning, it triggers the Diminishing Returns eventually to the point where Ifrit is immune to stuns for 15 seconds. Any Eruption during this period is thus interruptable. \n The Paladin on stun duty will usually get mad if this happens. If someone else is using stuns, it prevents him from being able to do his job. Moreover, when stuns are completely resisted, it reflects poorly on the Paladin because everyone assumes that he just derped and missed the stun, when the resisted stun was actually caused by someone else stunning when they're not supposed to. They don't want to be blamed for someone else's mistake so they're gonna be pretty vocal about it when someone is stunning over them. \n So when someone screams \"use stun!\", they're referring to the Paladin whose job it is to stun the eruptions. When someone screams \"don't use stun!\", they're referring to everyone else to NOT push the Paladin's stun into Diminishing Returns.","Summary: The \"Pick Order > Call Order\" rule is only in place if players reach an impasse.](\n\nPost: The Scenario \n Five players solo-queue for a match in Summoner’s Rift. Their names, in order of their draft position, are Adam, Bryan, Colleen, Desmond and Edward. \n As Adam makes his bans, they each call out their role preferences. \n \n Bryan: \"MID PLZ\" \n Adam: \"Sry. I’m going mid\" \n Colleen: \"Top pref\" \n Desmond: \"Support.\" \n Edward: \"Top\" \n \n -After a brief argument about draft order > call order, Bryan concedes Mid to Adam and says, “Fine. I’m top then”. \n -Colleen goes Support. \n -Edward says, “I’m really bad at Jungle but I’m pretty good at ADC.” \n -Desmond, the only other player who hasn’t picked yet responds, “I’m also bad at jungle. I'm not doing it.” And picks Ezreal. \n -Edward says, “Okay, I’ll try my best.” And chooses Jungle Lee Sin. \n Adam goes mid and wins his lane. Same with Bryan, who went top. Colleen and Desmond struggle at bot lane. Edward attempts to help them with a gank but fails miserably and they give the enemy AD Carry a double kill. The enemy bot lane gains an insurmountable lead, taking a tower and a dragon in the process. The enemy jungler focuses his attention on top and turns that lane around in their favor. The team eventually loses the game. \n Adam complains that he's the only one who won his lane and that his team is too heavy for him to carry. Bryan says he was winning top, but got camped and got zero help from Edward. Edward says he was too busy trying to help bot lane and criticizes Desmond for not letting him go AD Carry instead of Jungle. Colleen says she and Desmond were doing fine until Edward's failed gank resulted in an enemy double kill. \n What went wrong? \n A Closer Look \n Let's examine each individual player's profile from the above example. Here are each players picks, in order of preference/proficiency: \n \n Adam: Mid, Jungle, ADC, Top, Support \n Bryan: Mid, Top, Jungle, ADC, Support \n Colleen: Top, Mid, Support, Jungle, ADC \n Desmond: Support, Mid, Top, ADC, Jungle \n Edward: Top, ADC, Support, Mid, Jungle \n \n Let's just say a player is \"happy\" if he gets his first or second preference. In the first example, Adam got his first choice, Bryan got his second choice. They were the only ones who are \"happy\". Colleen/Desmond/Edward all get their respective 3rd/4th/5th choices. Mathematically, 1st/2nd/3rd/4th/5th is the worst possible outcome in champ select. But hey, it's really nobody's fault because Draft Order > Call Order right? I mean, each player simply followed the rules and chose their best role out of what was still available. \n The Scenario Revisited \n Now, let's go back to champion select, take the exact same scenario but making one minor change to it... \n \n Bryan: \"MID OR TOP PLZ\" \n Adam: \"I was gonna go mid but I can also jungle\" \n Colleen: \"Top or mid pref\" \n Desmond: \"Support/Mid.\" \n Edward: \"Top or ADC. Just don't let me jungle.\" \n \n Bryan goes mid, and with Adam's help from the jungle, wins his lane. Colleen gets top, her best role, and wins her lane. Desmond and Edward hold their own at bot lane, but get some pressure from Adam and Bryan allowing them to outright win their lane. They take the first tower and dragon. They eventually win the game. \n At champ select, they each gave two preferences instead of one and found a way for everyone to get one of their two preferences. As a result, the outcome of the game was totally different. In this example, three players got their first choice, and two players got their second choice. 1st/1st/1st/2nd/2nd seems much better. Everyone is \"happy\". I know this example seems like a fairytale scenario and I know how rare it is for five players to actually cooperate like this but the point still stands: There are better options than simply following the draft order. \n It Only Takes One \n According to the player profiles, nobody wanted to jungle. What if only one person was willing to make a compromise and jungle for Edward's sake? Assume that the rest of the players are selfish and will simply take their favorite role out of whatever's remaining. \n \n Adam Jungle: Adam get his 2nd choice, Bryan 1st, Colleen 1st, Desmond 1st, Edward 2nd. \n Bryan Jungle: 1st/3rd/1st/1st/2nd \n Colleen Jungle: 1st/2nd/4th/1st/2nd \n Desmond Jungle: 1st/2nd/3rd/5th/2nd \n \n You'll notice that even with only one person willing to bite the bullet for the team, the entire team's position improves considerably, even if the rest of the team is selfish. \n Morals of the Story \n \n Mutual compromise for the betterment of the team > Draft Order > Call Order. The Summoner's Code might bestow upon you pick priority over your teammates but that doesn't absolve you from being a detriment to your team if you're unwilling to compromise. From the first example, Adam got the role he wanted and won his lane, but his unwillingness to compromise actually resulted in his team's downfall. He may not realize it, but he is just as responsible for the team's defeat as any of his teammates. Good teamwork should start even before the game does. \n \n Get good at more than one role. Be willing/able to play more than just your best/favorite role. It will improve your win percentage and people will have more fun playing with you. Besides, learning a new role will only make you better at all other roles that you're already good at. Too many people look at the pro gamers who each specialize in one role and always get it in solo queue (due to their reputation) and assume that specializing in only one role is the key to success. This is so far from the truth. The truth is that nobody gives a flying fuck that you're unbeatable at mid. You're not always going to get the role that you want. Sometimes, getting your preferred role isn't necessarily the best thing for your team. The sooner you realize that, the better player you'll be. \n \n Communicate with your team. What if everyone was willing to compromise but nobody said a single word? Everyone may have had the best intentions for the team, but without giving/getting more information about everyone's pick preferences, they end up in the same shithole. Sometimes, all it takes is for one person to say, \"Hey, who here can jungle?\" If your team is able to communicate well at champion select, your chances of winning will greatly improve, especially if this communication continues into the game itself. \n \n One person makes a difference. When it comes to online gaming, you sometimes have to take the bad with the good. You're gonna be grouped with trolls, assholes and idiots. The reality of it is, you still need them to win the game. If you're willing to swallow your pride, even for someone who probably doesn't deserve it, your chances of winning can only get better. When faced with this situation, you have to ask yourself: Which are you more committed to? Winning? Or showing this retard who's boss?","Summary: Another card vastly overrated due to \"new spoiler\" excitement.\n\nPost: Council of the Absolute]( \n Everyone's saying it's so great in Sphinx's Revelation mirrors. I don't even think that's the case. \n So, you tap four mana on your own turn to cast Council of the Absolute. Here are the plays you've left yourself wide open to... \n \n I counter it. You're in trouble because you've tapped four mana on your turn. You're already down four mana so you're more likely to lose the ensuing counter war. Having all your lands tapped on your own turn is not a place where Control decks want to be. \n \n At the end of your turn, I kill it. It's the same situation as before. You're tapped out on your own turn, and even if you have countermagic for my removal, I may have countermagic for your countermagic. Whatever the case, I have the advantage in the counter war because you've tapped four mana.. \n \n With Council on the stack, I cast Sphinx's Revelation. If it resolves, I untap on my turn with a full grip of cards, probably including a means to kill your Council (if I even need to). \n \n Even if you win the counter wars and successfully resolve Council of the Absolute, you're tapped out when I untap. I can still take this opportunity to kill your Council, and we're back to square one. \n \n \n I know what you're thinking: \"It dies to removal. Countered by countermagic.\" is a shitty argument, and I agree. However, it's not a matter of dying to removal or countered by countermagic. It's a matter of getting absolutely blown out when it inevitably happens in the control mirror. The nature of the matchup is that the ratio between answers : threats is very high. So in this case, \"Dies to removal. Countered by countermagic.\" is an actually very valid argument. \n While I agree that it's a must-counter in the control mirror, the deal-breaker is that it's four mana at sorcery speed that is also vulnerable to creature removal. That's not the kind of card you want to play in control decks. \n The cards that you SHOULD be sideboarding in the UWx mirror: [Dispel]( [Negate]( and/or [Duress]( Oh, and Planeswalkers.","Summary: Based on the clues, my prediction is as follows: \n > 50 Monocolored : 10 of each color \n > 70 Gold : 7 of each guild \n > 20 15 Split : 10 color pairings at Uncommon, 10 5 guild pairings at Rare \n > 0 Hybrid \n > ~~5~~ 10 Artifacts \n > 11 Land : 10 Guildgates, Maze's End\n\nPost: Here's a follow-up to a [previous thread]( from a few days ago on this topic. \n (In case you haven't noticed, I've kept the original typo in the title. Just for funsies.) \n Since then... \n A handful of new cards were spoiled... \n Luckily for us, some of their Collector's Numbers are barely visible. \n > 051: Advent of the Wurm \n > 065: Deputy of Acquittals \n > 082: Master of Cruelties \n > 084: Melek, Izzet Paragon \n > 094: Ral Zarek \n > 103: Sin Collector \n > 115: Vorel of the Hull Clade \n From comparing their Collector's Numbers to their relative alphabetical positioning, we can now say with some degree of certainty that my initial prediction was right on the money (I'm totally bragging btw): \n \n 50 Monocolored cards \n 70 Gold cards \n \n We already know that there are at least 11 Non-basic Land cards: the ten Guildgates plus Maze's End. That leaves us with 25 remaining cards which is some combination of non-traditional Multicolored cards, Artifacts, and other Non-basic Land. Twenty-five... Remember this number because we'll refer back to it again many times in this speculation. \n \n The return of Split Cards, with Fuse! \n Unfortunately, unless someone has a keener eye than mine, their collector's numbers are a complete blur. So, how does this fit into our numbers analysis? \n As evidenced in Dissension, Split Cards are ordered after Gold & Hybrid Cards but before Artifacts & Non-Basic land. Otherwise, like Gold and Hybrid cards, their colors are ignored and they are ordered alphabetically. I would assume it would work the same way in Dragon's Maze. However, it's a bit of a unique case because some of the Split Cards are single-color pairings, and some are pairings of Multicolor combinations. Will Beck//Call be prioritized after Wear//Tear and Toil//Trouble by virtue of being \"multi-multi-colored\"? Until we actually know their Collector's Numbers, we can't know for sure. To be honest, it's neither important nor interesting. The important and interesting stuff will come later in this post. \n All we need to know for now is that the Split Cards will make up some part of the aforementioned remaining 25 cards. \n \n What about Hybrid Cards? \n Take a look at the [Return to Ravnica Mechanics Article]( and the [Gatecrash Mechanics Article]( Both articles have clear mention of \"Multicolored: Gold and Hybrid\" cards, and then go on to describe Gold and Hybrid specifically. Now take a look at [The Mechanics of Dragon's Maze]( There is absolutely no mention of Hybrid cards. To me, this is a very strong indication that Hybrid cards will be excluded from Dragon's Maze . \n Let's go back to the 25 mystery cards that could be Hybrid, Split, Artifact or unknown Non-basic Lands. If Hybrid cards are truly excluded, that leaves a lot more room for the other categories: Split cards, Artifact and unknown Non-basic Lands. My gut tells me that there won't be any more non-basic Lands outside of the ones we already know about (maybe 1 more, at most), and while there will be some Artifacts, there won't be Keyrunes taking up any card slots anymore. This gives even more room to Split Cards... \n \n Back to Split Cards \n One thing I've noticed about Wizards of the Coast is that they sure love symmetry. Return to Ravnica and Gatecrash each have 28 Monocolored cards of each color, totaling 56 Monocolored cards per color . In their respective sets, each guild has 14 Gold cards , 3 Hybrid cards , a Keyrune , a Guildgate , and a Shock Land . See what I mean? They are obsessed with color/guild symmetry. \n In Dragon's Maze, we (kinda) already know that there are 50 Monocolored cards, presumably 10 of each color. There are also (probably) 70 Gold cards, presumably 7 of each guild. One can only assume that Wizards will continue their obsession with symmetry when it comes to Split Cards. \n Let's take a closer look at the three Split Cards already revealed and see what information we can find.... \n \n Two of the Split Cards are pairings between two colors. Wear//Tear is represents Red and White (Boros). Toil//Trouble represents Black and Red (Rakdos). They're also both uncommon. From this, we can assume that there are ten uncommon Split Cards, each representing one of ten color pairings . It would be uncharacteristic of Wizards to do otherwise. \n \n The third Split Card, Beck//Call, is a pairing between two guilds: Simic and Azorius. It is a rare. The two-guild pairing also happens to share a color with each other: Blue. Again, on the assumption the Wizards continues the trend of color/guild balance, Beck//Call will part of a series consisting of two-guild combinations that share a common color. There are 30 such combinations. For each guild to be proportionately represented, it must be a 5, 10 or 15 card series. 15 doesn't make sense because it would bring the total number of Split Cards to 25, leaving zero room for Artifacts. Moreover, the Rare Split Cards would outnumber the Uncommons. It must be either 5 or 10. My guess is that there will be ten Rare Split Cards, each representing ten different guild pairings that share a common color. All ten three-color combinations would be equally represented, and it leaves room for 5 artifacts. I think five is still very feasible though, but ten is slightly more likely . Some might be Mythic too. \n \n \n EDIT: If Wear and Tear is indeed 135/156, there are 15 Split Cards. 10 Artifacts, 11 Non-basic Land"],"string":"[\n \"Summary: Boys have a penis. Girls have a vagina.\\n\\nPost: Men and Women are just hardwired differently. \\n Men have competitive urges that need to be satisfied. The concept of competition is interesting to us: two (or more) sides with an ultimate goal that directly conflicts with the opponent's goal and a battle of wills and wits to see who comes out on top. Whether it's playing sports, watching sports, playing video games, or Magic: the Gathering, we need our competitive fix or else we will go crazy. \\n This is not to say that women don't enjoy competition. Men just take it to the next level. We study, we analyze, we practice, and we strive to improve. We take competition much more seriously than women do, even if we know deep down that it's just for fun. \\n While I don't doubt that there are girls out there who appreciate competition just as much as any guy, you might not get very much interest. \\n I don't necessarily agree with any of the points that you have quoted there. How a player treats other players, male or female, depends entirely on how considerate and respectful that particular player is. Your main obstacle is attracting interest and maintaining interest.\",\n \"Summary: Rashad Miller is the MTGO of people.\\n\\nPost: It's one thing to be not very good at what you're trying to do, but he obviously has done no research and very little effort to understand the subject that he's commentating. \\n People have been complaining about Rashad Miller for years. They HAVE been constructive about it. They've been VERY clear on what he needs to improve on. They've been VERY clear on what they want from a commentator. They've been VERY objective and fair. \\n Nothing has changed. \\n I used to be on the same boat as you. \\\"Why are they being so mean to this guy? He's probably trying his best. He'll get better at this.\\\" Now, I've realized that he just wants to be in the limelight and doesn't actually put forth any effort towards being a good commentator. And Wizards just keeps giving him what he wants, despite what everybody else wants.\",\n \"Summary: btw. Thanks!\\n\\nPost: The \\\"Pick Order > Call Order\\\" rule is only in place if players reach an impasse. \\n This is an excellent point and I wish more people would realize this simple concept. It's simply a last resort for when the team has failed to reach an agreement. \\n I used your quote as the\",\n \"Summary: If you're going to push 52.0% early, do it before Rage of Bahamut occurs. Otherwise, hold DPS or else you're gonna get the \\\"BAD\\\" push.\\n\\nPost: The push into Phase 3 occurs at exactly 52.0%. Even if Phase 2 has ended early, the Shadow of Meracydia still spawns at set intervals, so it will spawn into Phase 3. \\n Here are the different scenarios that can happen (from earliest to latest): \\n \\n Before Megaflare : The Shadow spawns while Divebombs are occurring. The tank needs to keep track of where the Shadow spawns (Southeast) since he's probably getting spun around by divebombs. You can fight this Shadow while the Pain/Blood spawn. Have the Paladin pick up the Pain/Blood while the Warrior deals with the Shadow. \\n \\n After Megaflare but before Rage of Bahamut : The Shadow spawns just as Gigaflare is about to finish casting. The main challenge here is aggro since the White Mage is probably healing off the damage from Gigaflare just as the add spawns. The best solution is to have the Paladin pre-emptively cover the White Mage and either tank can do a late Provoke to overtake the White Mage's enmity. Kill the Shadow while doing Divebombs. I like this push the most. \\n \\n After Rage of Bahamut : BAD BAD BAD!!! The Shadow spawns just as Gigaflare happens. It's problematic because the OT is taking damage from the Shadow at the same time as the group is taking damage from Gigaflare. Also, if Bahamut is tanked at the Shadow's spawn location, the two will tether just as Gigaflare is happening. The Shadow has to be taken away from Bahamut ASAP. That means the group is spread out and therefore not stacked for group heals and Sacred Soil. It's doable, but this is definitely the worst push. \\n \\n After the Shadow Dies : Probably what most groups are used to. It's super easy because the Shadow is already dead when the transition occurs.\",\n \"Summary: Choosing one class over the other won't make you more likely to be MT or OT. OT is more challenging and more fun than MT anyway.\\n\\nPost: Regardless, I need to ask whether WAR gets stuck offtanking more often than PLD even now? \\n Not really. In many of the fights, the tanking role is shared equally between the two classes, often due to a tank swap mechanic. There is no true Main Tank or Off Tank in these fights. \\n In the rest of the fights, it varies and it completely depends on the nature of the fight. Warrior is usually considered the ideal MT for Turn 5, Leviathan, Turn 8, and arguably Turn 7. Paladin is probably the ideal MT for Garuda, Turn 4 and Turn 9. \\n Even if one is better than the other, they are still more-or-less interchangable for most fights. We use PLD MT for Turn 7 and 8, even though Warrior is widely considered to be better than Paladin in both fights. \\n > I think any tank player agrees that offtanking is not nearly as fun as main tanking. \\n I disagree. Some do, some don't. Generally speaking, off-tanking is usually more demanding and interactive than main-tanking in this game. It varies from fight to fight but to say that all tanks aspire to be Main Tank rather than Off Tank is incorrect. \\n Take Turn 4 for example. The MT stands in one spot and tanks the Dreadnaught. Meanwhile, the OT runs around and grabs everything else, which is considerably more difficult. The same goes with Leviathan. The MT stands there and tanks the head while watching TV. The OT has to tank the tail, tank and stun the adds when they spawn, pull Wave Spumes away from the group, and has the freedom to run around DPSing Gyre Spumes.\",\n \"Summary: Enchantments are naturally way more interactive than land, and there is way more design space. Vote Enchantments! Down with Land!\\n\\nPost: I voted for Enchantment. Here are my reasons: \\n I like interaction. \\n Magic is an interactive game. When I say \\\"interaction\\\", I'm referring to each player's actions and decisions affecting the state of the game. The most basic interaction is to add stuff to your board by casting permanents. The levels beyond that are the interactions between multiple cards: Creatures colliding in combat, combos and synergies created by mutliple spells, destroying or hindering your opponent's spells, outright preventing your opponent's action with countermagic, etc... \\n Lately, I feel that Magic has been moving in a direction towards limiting interaction. The introduction and popularization of Hexproof. Countermagic weakened with the removal of Mana Leak, introduction of Cavern of Souls and other uncounterable spells. Cards like Thragtusk and Boros Reckoner that are just too difficult to favorably interact with. \\n Personally, I'd like to see a push towards more interaction instead of less interaction. \\n Why not Land? \\n Lands are naturally difficult to interact with. They can't be countered. You can't force the opponent to discard it with cards like Duress, Thoughtseize and Inquisition of Kozilek. Land destruction is generally weak because they don't want players to mess with each others' natural mana production. \\n If a land's effect is too powerful, the card easily becomes toxic to a format because it's really not that easy to deal with land. As a result, Land design space is very limited. Even if we do make a really cool land, I feel that we'd waste a YMTC on a card that restricts interaction rather than one that encourages it. \\n Why Enchantments? \\n I'm particularly interested in seeing good Auras being printed, and most particuarly interested in seeing a cool and creative beneficial Enchant Creature. One of the simplest forms of multi-card interaction is to bestow a buff onto an existing permanent with an enchantment, but it also has virtually infinite design space and can be kept under control with enchantment destruction. Unfortunately, creature auras haven't gotten much love lately. \\n Beneficial Creature Auras have historically been pretty underwhelming. Unless an aura had some sort of recursion ([Rancor]( or [Angelic Destiny]( players are discouraged from using them since it's so easy for your opponent to 2-for-1 you, even with sorcery speed removal. A lot can be done to make Creature Auras good for once. For example, if a Creature Enchantment had Flash, it can double as a combat trick. Auras with \\\"enters/leaves the battlefield\\\" effects grant value even if the enchanted creature eventually gets removed. \\n I'd like to see this design space actually get used and this element of the game take a bigger role in constructed formats.\",\n \"Summary: PLD MT WAR OT\\n\\nPost: WAR in Defiance out-DPSes PLD in Shield, but PLD in Sword out-DPSes WAR out of Defiance, so this setup tends to be more optimal unless you really need Hallowed like in T13) \\n Definitely not optimal. \\n Theoretically, a PLD beating on a dummy in Sword Oath will outdps a WAR w/o Defiance while WAR in Defiance will outdps a PLD in Shield Oath. This is true. \\n However, don't jump to the conclusion that you should tailor your strategy towards WAR spending more time in Defiance and PLD spending more time in Sword Oath. There are several other factors to take into account here. \\n \\n Sword Oath PLD's advantage over non-Defiance WAR is very tiny. And that's WITH the PLD getting the SE slashing debuff. This is important when weighing in the other factors \\n \\n WAR switching in and out of Defiance does not cost him a GCD and does not reset his combo. So, if you're fighting a boss where the OT is required to swap in and out of tank stance (ie. every fight that needs 2 tanks), the WAR is better suited for this role. \\n \\n Defiance WAR's advantage over Shield Oath PLD is largely due to Unchained. In a hypothetical situation where the MT tanks 100% of the time and OT tanks 0% of the time, it's better to go WAR MT, PLD OT because WAR OT can't make use of Unchained anyway. However, in a situation where the MT tanks 75% of the time and OT tanks 25% of the time, moving WAR to OT still retains the advantage of Unchained because it's being put to maximum use during that 25%. Your damage will be significantly higher with PLD MT and WAR OT. \\n \\n Factor in gear in the above example. What if the OT requires much less VIT to perform his role. Equipping more STR gear is magnified by the advantage of Vengeance. Unless you're tanking 0% of the time, Warrior will scale better with Ruby accessories, giving you more reason to have your WAR as the DD tank. Especially in T13. \\n \\n Factor in aggro. Can a Defiance Warrior cycling SE/SP keep aggro off of a Sword Oath Paladin smashing Halone? Especially if the Paladin is wearing Ruby accessories and the Warrior is wearing Fending? Probably not. Butcher's Block will have to be used more frequently and that comes at a compromise to SE/SP. Is your NIN maintaining Dancing Edge uptime for you? That's a DPS loss too. Our NIN knows when I have to BB and puts up DE at the appropriate times, but most of the time, I'm keeping SE/SP up while our Paladin has the boss. \\n \\n Factor in defense. Warrior naturally takes more damage than Paladin because of Blocking. Warrior requires 4.1% more healing than Paladin because Defiance only boosts healing by 20%. You want your Paladin taking more autoattacks. \\n \\n \\n Combine all of the above factors. It's a DPS loss from tanks and a loss in other departments as well.\",\n \"Summary: Removing downvotes solves absolutely nothing. It only makes it slightly more inconvenient to downvote things. \\n Downvoting is important. It allows us to help filter incorrect information, stuff that doesn't contribute to the discussion, and overall useless fluff. \\n The root of the problem is that players of different demographics don't respect each other. This is a community-wide problem. Removing downvotes does not remove negativity. \\n \\n EDIT:\\n\\nPost: My feedback: This is pointless. \\n The downvote button is important. The problem with this subreddit isn't the existence of a downvote button. I realize it's just a \\\"trial\\\" but the entire idea is pointless to begin with. \\n The beauty of MMOs is that they appeal to gamers of many different unique tastes and preferences. Players can get satisfaction from different things. \\n \\n Some players play to collect gear/mounts/minions/titles/achievements, etc... \\n Some players play to simply become their in-game persona and escape from reality for a little bit. \\n Some players play to take on the hardest content, and love the intellectual challenge of raiding and min-maxing to push themselves to the limits. \\n \\n These are just a few common examples from an infinite list of reasons to play FFXIV. \\n The REAL problem with the people on this subreddit (and MMO communities general) is a lack of respect for players who play this game for different reasons than their own . People will upvote content that appeals to THEIR specific tastes and they will downvote content that doesn't. \\n Casual players don't give a shit about hardcores min-maxing their Turn 13 strategy and don't want to see this kind of discussion taking over the subreddit. Meanwhile, hardcore players don't give a shit about commissioned artwork of your scantily clad Miqote. \\n As a result, content appealing to the smaller demographics get buried, even though it's a very thought-provoking and insightful discussion. Less popular demographics get neglected. \\n It has become an \\\"us vs them\\\" mentality. People see players of other demographics as an enemy who threatens THEIR enjoyment of the game, instead of friends who share a common interest. That is the REAL problem. It can't be fixed by tweaking subreddit configurations. \\n Taking away downvotes doesn't change anything. Popular content rises to the top. Unpopular content sinks to the bottom. Nothing changes except now people can't downvote the TRULY shitty threads like \\\"Plz tell me y I should buy this game lol\\\" that truly pollute this subreddit. \\n Besides, if you really want to downvote someone, you can just click their username and downvote stuff from there. Not very difficult to circumvent. \\n Leave the downvote alone. The ability to upvote/downvote is what makes Reddit unique and awesome. It allows people to express approval/disapproval. You're attempting to take away people's freedom to express disapproval in an attempt to serve the greater good. You don't have to read very far into your history books to realize why this is a dumb idea. If you want to take the downvote button away from all of us just to silence a few trolls, the trolls have already won.\",\n \"Summary: Ignore \\\"Best-in-Slot\\\". Spend Myth on the pieces that you're least likely to get from Coil. Stay Accuracy capped if tanking Coil.\\n\\nPost: I'm gonna go against some of the advice that is being offered in this thread. Warrior is my main and I've been clearing all content for a few months now. \\n Here is what I think about gearing a Warrior in this game: \\n \\n If you intend on doing Coil on Warrior, cap your Accuracy. 473 for T1-4, 482 for T5 (after food). This should be pretty easy to do with a Dual Haken. If you won't be tanking Coil, this isn't a huge concern. \\n \\n Other than Accuracy, the consensus \\\"Best-in-Slot\\\" is generally based around maximizing your Parry, and states that Determination > Skill Speed > Critical Hit Rate. While I somewhat agree with this, the difference between getting BiS pieces and other non-BiS equivalents is very trivial and barely worth thinking about. \\n \\n To put it into perspective, 13 Parry increases your chance to Parry by ~1%. When you Parry an attack, you reduce the damage done by about 25%. Therefore, it takes a little over 50 Parry to mitigate an extra 1% of damage and that's only against physical attacks that can be Parried. Hardly exciting. \\n \\n Also, consider the nature of the damage bosses deal to tanks. Boss melee attacks barely hurt. The big damage comes in the form of huge bursts, namely: Wicked Wheels, Mountain Busters, Incinerates (can't be parried anyway), Rotoswipes, and Death Sentences. You simply cannot rely on your Parry stat to mitigate and survive these. A properly played Warrior assumes that he won't get the Parry and will plan out his cooldowns and Inner Beasts accordingly. Because of the unpredictability of Parries, increasing your Damage Reduction via Parry does not truly increase your Effective HP. This concept further trivializes the value of the Parry stat. \\n \\n Besides hitting your Accuracy Cap, the actually important stats are: Vitality and Strength. You get the same amount of these stats from any two pieces of i90 pieces of the same slot. \\n \\n \\n Given the above, the best advice I can give to you for gearing up your Warrior is this: \\n Don't overthink your secondary stats and don't follow Best-in-Slot lists. The difference between the supposed BiS vs a random assortment of i90 is probably a matter of mitigating 1% damage in an unpredictable fashion vs dealing 2% more damage. These differences are trivial, especially for someone like you whose Warrior is their alternate job and you don't have access to Allagan pieces from Coil. People think WAY too much about Best-in-Slot for tanks. We are splitting hairs here. \\n Instead, plan your Myth purchases based on which pieces (if any) you are most likely to get from Coil. If you are next in line behind your tanks to get tanking pieces in Coil, purchase pieces that you know you have no chance of getting in Coil. For example, if both of your tanks need Allagan Helm and you won't be getting one for a while, buy a Warrior's Burgeonet. If both of your tanks bought Myth Gloves and aren't interested in Allagan Gauntlets, maybe get different pieces first on the chance that Gloves drop from T4. \\n Basically, spend your Myth in such a way that you don't waste Myth points or Coil drops. This is much more important and efficient than chasing an extra 10 points of Parry.\",\n \"Summary: Cool idea, very good presentation, but the data does not hold any more weight than any other random guy on the internet. \\n BTW, Blitzcrank countering Sona and Sona countering Blitzcrank... If this matchup could really \\\"go either way\\\", shouldn't neither of them be on each others' respective Top 3 counters lists? Doesn't make sense at all.\\n\\nPost: Cool chart. It's very well-organized and easy to read... \\n BUT \\n ...the problem lies within the logic behind the data. We can debate for days and days about who counters what and not come up with anything conclusive, so this chart can be pretty misleading. I'm afraid it's not this simple, and as well-organized as this chart is, if the content is in question, the chart becomes useless. \\n I'm sorry but I can't get behind this \\\"guide\\\". A million different people can have a million different opinions on bot lane matchups, but having better presentation doesn't make it any more credible than the next random guy who says X counters Y. This guide will turn out more harmful than helpful because some people will flock to this guide because it is easy to read, not because it is any more insightful or truthful than anyone else's opinion. \\n What would be awesome is if the data could be subject to public vote (like championselect.net) so the data reflects the opinion and experience of the consensus rather than the opinion and experience of a single person. It's still not perfect, but it's better than what we have now.\",\n \"Summary: I'm at work. Can't believe I get paid to do this.\\n\\nPost: When we cleared SCoB, our highest geared member was our Scholar at i100. The idea of single-tanking it was not even conceived. We didn't even know that Stardusts expldoded if they were too close to each other. The three divebomb formations wasn't discovered until the week we killed it. The sheer difference in gear level and information available to us made our Turn 9 experiences very different. \\n For that reason, our perception of the difficulty gap between T9 and T13 is also very different. \\n About T6, we didn't know that Honey caused additional Hornets to spawn. We fought a new Hornet every rotation and fed multiple Honeys before the transition into the final phase. We didn't know wtf the slugs and slimes were for. We didn't know that Rotten Stench was split damage. We spent the first few hours of learning tanking Rafflesia against the wall FFS.\",\n \"Summary: Determination all damn day.\\n\\nPost: I disagree. \\n People rationalize their preference for Parry by saying \\\"it mitigates damage!\\\" but don't realize the pitfalls of Parry: 1) The returns are extremely low. 2) The damage mitigation comes in the form of a proc, making it much less useful in this game. \\n To say that survival is more useful when progressing and damage is more useful for farm content is also fallacious. It depends on the fight. \\n In any case, I would almost always side with Determination over Parry for Paladin and Warrior. The nature of how Parry works plus the way that bosses deal damage in this game puts Parry in an awkward spot.\",\n \"Summary: Who cares?\\n\\nPost: If you don't like the question, you're more than welcome to ignore it. Hell, you can even downvote it if you want. For every 100 people who can't be bothered to answer the guy's question, there is at least 1 who will. That's usually enough. \\n The way I see it, who cares if people make threads you don't like? It's not like it takes the place of what would have been a thought-provoking discussion. Personally, I don't like \\\"Please help me improve my deck without changing the budget, strategy, or the cards in the deck\\\" threads, but their existence doesn't negatively effect my life. \\n If a topic is good enough, it will get upvoted to the top. If it's a simple/silly question, somebody else will answer it and the thread will eventually get buried. Reddit is a place where the community governs its own content with upvotes and downvotes. If you don't like what you see, cast your vote and move on with your life.\",\n \"Summary: Champion select unreliable. Ranged > No Gap Closer > Gap Closer > Ranged.\\n\\nPost: Champion Select isn't bad but it is unreliable. Its best feature is also its worst feature: it is based on consensus opinion. While consensus opinion combines the knowledge and experience of many people, it also leaves it vulnerable to a \\\"circle jerk\\\" mentality. Some people will agree and upvote a popular opinion just for the sake of joining the majority and making themselves feeling knowledgable and correct. A pro will publically say X counters Y, and hundreds of fans will believe it and cast their votes accordingly. Basically, all votes carry equal value, no matter how experienced/intelligent or inexperienced/unintelligent the voters may be. That's not necessarily a good thing. \\n Also, the counterpick votes are rarely given context. Champion X might have an advantage over Champion Y in lane, but Champion Y is able to contain him in team fights. Moreover, if a champion can stop Shen's ultimate with hard CC, people might jump to the conclusion that he counters Shen and ignore all other aspects of the matchup. People also automatically assume that all AP champions are advantageous vs Malphite and all AD champions are disadvantageous vs Malphite when the matchup is much more complicated than that. \\n Personally, I try to categorize top lane champions into three categories: \\n \\n X: Melee champions without gap closers. (eg. Darius, Olaf, Garen, Malphite, Udyr) \\n Y: Melee champions with gap closers. (eg. Jax, Talon, Xin Zhao, Riven, Irelia) \\n Z: Champions with ranged harass. (eg. Jayce, Teemo, Elise, Yorick, Vladimir) \\n \\n X > Y > Z > X \\n The logic is that champions without gap closers are generally designed so that they are naturally stronger duelists than champions who do have gap closers, thus somewhat trivializing their ability to engage. They are more likely to win trades and push their opponent out of lane. \\n Champions with gap closers can deal with ranged harass due to their ability to easily engage and fight at melee range where they have an advantage over the much squishier ranged champs and will generally come ahead in trades or all-in fights. \\n Champions with ranged harass can kite champions without gap closers and deal damage to them while staying relatively safe from any counter attack, essentially nickel-and-diming them out of lane. \\n Of course, it's often not this simple. Some champions have characteristics of more than one category. Irelia and Jax have gap closers, but possess the dueling ability of a champion with no gap closer. Jayce and Elise have ranged harass but are able to close gaps and fight at melee range. Darius has a pseudo gap closer with Apprehend. These champions are particularly strong against other champs in the same category and still capable of beating champions in the category that counters them. I guess that's why they're so good. \\n Anyway, just my two cents.\",\n \"Summary: Don't fault people who refuse to admit you to their group because you don't meet their gear standards. They're doing the right thing.\\n\\nPost: It's true that someone with better gear might not necessarily be more of as asset to a team than someone with lesser gear. I've seen some decked out players who sucked at ther job and I've seen others players do more with less. However, any time you invite a stranger to a group, you know nothing about him other than what gear he's wearing. It's a crapshoot either way. Given the choice, of course I'm going to take the guy with the better gear. This isn't because I don't trust that you're capable, but because I have a duty to my team to make sure that I'm choosing the best possible people for whatever their job is. \\n If I shout \\\"LF Geared DPS for XYZ\\\", people join on the basis that I have set a gear standard for that particular group. Other well-geared players are attracted to my group because they know that the other members will also be well-geared, thus ensuring that the run will be fast and the risk of failure is very low. OF COURSE, a lesser-geared player would LOVE to get into that group because they know that there is a much higher chance of success. However, by declining to invite him, I'm simply upholding the gear standard that I promised to the rest of the team. It has nothing to do with elitism or being a dick. \\n So, when people get angry at the above and cry \\\"Elitism!\\\", my first reaction is going to be \\\"This guy thinks he deserves to be in groups that are better geared than him. Why isn't he content with being in groups with people of similar gear quality? I have very little sympathy for him.\\\"\",\n \"Summary: Parry is trash.\\n\\nPost: Conventional MMO wisdom leads tanks to believe that damage mitigation is everything. In other games that may be true, but we're not playing other games. We're playing this one. And in this game, the way items are designed, the way calculations are made, and the way bosses behave, Damage Mitigation from gear is pretty much insignificant, and this is especially true of Parry. \\n Why Parry is bad... \\n 1) The returns on Parry are low... \\n Really really low. ~13 Parry = 1% Parry x ~25-27% Mitigation = 0.25% to 0.27% Mitigation. \\n This is the biggest pitfall of Parry. The benefits are simply crap. While the same can be said about many secondary stats, the low returns on Parry are magnified by the following points of this post. \\n 2) The benefits of Parry occur randomly and therefore cannot be considered an increase to your Effective HP. \\n Effective HP can be defined as the maximum amount of unmitigated damage you can take without a heal before dying. \\n How does the tank increase his effective HP? By increasing his HP (Vitality) or by increasing his damage reduction. \\n Parry/Block gives damage reduction. Does that mean that Parry/Block increases effective HP? The answer is no. That is because Parry/Block relies on a proc. \\n When it comes to that burst that's going to kill you, the X% Parry that you get from gear may or may not occur during this period. It MIGHT save you. There is a chance that it will and there is a chance that it won't. As a tank and as a healer, you simply have to assume that the life-saving parry is not going to come, and play accordingly. So, from a practical perspective, Parry essentially does nothing. \\n The bottom line is that Parry/Block does NOT increase the maximum amount of damage you can take without a heal before dying. The damage that would have killed you can still potentially kill you even if you added a ton of Parry (and nothing else) to your character's stats. Your Effective HP remains the same. \\n Remember, this is a game where bosses tickle you with auto attacks and occasionally unleash big bursts on the tank. Parry is much less valuable in these situations and the bursty nature of bosses further trivializes the value of Parry. \\n 3) Not all attacks can be parried. \\n The value of parry varies from fight to fight. In some fights, all attacks are Parryable (MT Melusine). In others, Parry is completely worthless (MT Leviathan, Ramuh). Every fight falls somewhere in this spectrum, but the point is that the value of Parry fluctuates. Meanwhile, Vitality and damage stats on your tank are always valuable. \\n 4) You're not tanking all of the time. \\n The tanking responsibility in end-game raids is typically split between two tanks. The times when you are not tanking are times when Parry is wasted. Especially as Off-Tank. Parry is only valuable when you're taking hits. Meanwhile, DPS is valuable all the time. Again, this varies from fight to fight. \\n 5) Tanks aren't taking all of the damage. \\n In fact, the percentage of the damage dealt to the tank is relatively low in this game compared to other similar games. \\n Okay, so you loaded up on Parry. Your healers MP pools are gonna love you because of all the damage you're mitigating for them, right? \\n Well, Parry might lighten the load for heals on you specifically, but what about the spot-heals and AoE heals required by the party? \\n \\n Thorn Whips, Spits, Leaf Storms, Acid Clouds, Rotten Stench in T6. \\n \\n Fireballs on ranged DPS, arrows from the second set of adds in T7. \\n \\n T8 has AoE heals for Defensive Reactions, Gaseous Bomb and Critical Surge. SS and Adloq on Allagan Field targets. Plus heals on the Homing Missiles target. \\n \\n T9 has Thermionic Beam, Meteor Stream, Meteor Impact, Fireballs, etc... \\n \\n \\n Loading up on Parry only helps with heals on yourself, which barely puts a dent in the stress put on the healers. You know what helps healers on all fronts? Building for damage so you can kill adds quickly and end the fight earlier.\",\n \"Summary: Bad card disguised as a good card.\\n\\nPost: IMO, it's just not a really good card. It's certainly powerful and versatile, but none of the modes are particularly appealing in the current Standard environment. \\n \\n To deal with one creature, you're paying five mana to have the same effect as a Searing Spear. To burn the opponent out, you're paying six mana to have the same effect as Boros Charm. Sure, Aurelia's Fury is versatile, but so are Searing Spear and Boros Charm. The difference is, Searing Spear and Boros Charm will only ever cost two mana. \\n To deal with multiple creatures, you'll probably only be able to tap them because of the mana requirement to kill. If you're spending a card and all of your mana only to tap down your opponent's creatures, you'd better have lethal on the board. Midrange decks would rather use Bonfire of the Damned or Mizzium Mortars to fulfill this purpose. \\n If you're using this as a Silence, in Standard, there isn't a ton of instant speed disruption that the opponent is casting on your turn that can't just simply be cast with Aurelia's Fury on the stack. Azorius Charm on an attacker is probably the only thing. Plus, it doesn't prevent Restoration Angel from being cast in combat. I can see it being used to delay a board sweeper by casting it during the opponent's upkeep, but I'd rather just Boros Charm to outright stuff the sweeper. \\n \\n Basically, the stars must align for this card to be better than its alternatives. It's not even a matter of this card being underexplored. There's not much else to explore here. I realize that hindsight is 20/20 but I see why this card is not being played.\",\n \"Summary: Drafting reactively and keeping your options open will yield the most consistent results.\\n\\nPost: To do consistently well at drafts, I'd try to remove variance as much as possible. The best way to do that is to draft reactively . \\n I find that novice drafters choose their colors very early and commit to them pretty hard. The problem with that is if you're sitting beside someone who is doing the same thing with same color(s) and won't budge, the two of you will be splitting cards for the entirety of the draft. \\n For the first 8 Picks, I will draft the best card available, paying close attention to the good cards that I receive and pass, in order to get a feel on what signals I'm getting and sending. \\n By P1P9, you get to see which cards wheeled, which gives a lot of information about the table. At this point, I've probably narrowed down to 3 possible main colors (or two possible guilds), but keep my options open to splash the one of the other two. \\n The first few picks in the second pack are potentially huge and are the reasons I don't want to commit too hard in the first pack. At this point, I'm looking to settle down with two main colors and potentially splash a third. \\n I will almost never lock into my two main colors until at least early second pack. I'm willing to change my splash(es) for almost any huge bomb as late as Pack 3, unless it's way too hard to splash.\",\n \"Summary: PUGs: I prefer that we're on voice comms. If you can't talk, at least be able to listen. If you can't be bothered to hop on, that's fine but I'll probably be less patient about screw-ups due to breakdowns in communication. \\n Static: Be able to listen AND talk or find a new static. Nothing personal.\\n\\nPost: Different people play the game at different levels of intensity. I find that the higher level you play at, the more demanding groups will be and the more adamant the group will be that you are able to communicate via voice chat. \\n I'll be completely honest: I don't like playing with people without voice chat. I like to be able to talk to them and I like for them to be able to talk to me. Not all players can comply, which is perfectly fine if I'm in a PUG or something. Especially if it's for something easy. \\n If it's a FCoB PF, I'll volunteer my own FC's TeamSpeak and invite everyone to join. If not everybody wants to talk, at least they can listen to everyone else. If you don't want to join us, you better not screw up because of it. If someone screws up due to inexperience or clumsiness, that's cool because nobody's perfect. If someone screws up because they can't be bothered to join the other 7 members of thea team on TS/Mumble, it's annoying. I don't speak for anyone else but I probably won't want to group with you again. \\n If it's for a competitive static, I don't want to be in a group with someone who refused to talk on TS. Two-way communication is essential for the purpose of teamwork. People say \\\"I'm a good player so I don't need voice comms\\\". Sorry, but all players become even better when they can talk to each other. \\n If I had to choose between two applicants for my static, both of whom are equally capable and equally qualified, but only one of them was able to speak on TS/Mumble, I would choose him 100% of the time. \\n Moreover, I also don't want to be in a static group who had no interest in socializing with each other. I've been in groups where people don't care about things like friendship. They don't last because players are simply using each other as stepping stones to access high-level content/rewards. Most of all, they're also not as fun. \\n This is probably not what you wanted to hear, and while teammates should be accommodating to each other, not being able to communicate by voice isn't something I would personally want to compromise on. \\n I don't think me and you would be very good teammates. Haha.\",\n \"Summary: Be wary when it comes to DPS numbers. Apples aren't always compared to apples. Context is everything. \\n \\n Truly exceptional DPS is extremely rare. There are players who can follow guides and rotations and then there are players who truly understand their class inside out.\\n\\nPost: DPS numbers you hear on the internet should be taken with a grain of salt... \\n DPS results vary depending on encounter and depends on class. An i108 Dragoon dealing 330 DPS on a T9 clear and a Dragoon dealing 330 DPS in T8 mean totally different things (one is good and one is bad). An i108 Dragoon dealing 330 DPS on T8 and an i108 Monk dealing 330 DPS on T8 mean totally different things too (one is bad and one is really bad). \\n People also measure them differently. For example, someone might have their T9 parses split between pre-Megaflare and post-Megaflare, and then merge the results after. Meanwhile, someone else might have one full parse for the entire fight. The latter would have lower numbers because you have a long period of downtime where nobody is dealing any damage. \\n Basically, apples aren't always being compared to apples. So, depending on context, 360 DPS @ i108 might mean you're the best Dragoon on the planet or it could mean that you're not very good at Turn 8. In other words, without context, \\\"I do 360 DPS\\\" doesn't mean anything. \\n However, that's not to say that the numbers don't matter. If a similarly geared Dragoon is dealing significantly more damage than you in a fight, this could possibly mean that there is another level above you that you still haven't reached. \\n This may sound elitist but a lot of groups out there think their DPS is good when it is actually not. Most people don't realize what exceptional DPS actually looks like. \\n People have been doing burn method in T6 since Week 1, wearing i90 gear with i95 weapon. People have been pushing one Drake in T9 with two tanks and sub-i100 gear. If you struggled to do these things without vastly superior gear, your DPS ain't exceptional.\",\n \"Summary: 225 Potency attack that can't crit is, on average, the same as a ~205 Potency attack that crits 20% of the time.\\n\\nPost: At 20% crit rate, all of your attacks will do an average of 10% more damage than if you had a 0% crit rate. \\n \\n Therefore, a 150 Potency attack now becomes an average of 165 Potency. A 180 Potency attack now becomes an average of 198 Potency, etc... \\n \\n Bootshine will always crit and therefore does not benefit from this 20% crit rate. \\n \\n Treating Bootshine as a 225 Potency attack compared to Dragon Kick at 150 Potency would be inaccurate because Dragon Kick benefits from crit while Bootshine does not. \\n \\n Instead of scaling Dragon Kick up to 165 Potency (x 110%) to account for Crit, you arrive at the same results if you scaled Bootshine down to 205 Potency (x 90.9%), which is what I used instead. It was just simpler to apply math to one ability (Bootshine) rather than every other ability (all non Bootshine)\",\n \"Summary: 100 damage is just better than 40 healing.\\n\\nPost: I level R>Q>W>E and I usually strictly adhere to this from 1-18. Even if forced to play passively, Q is always a priority. I don't want to not have Q maxed in the mid/late game. \\n There are odd times where I would get a second rank of W at level 4 and getting my first rank of E at level 8 instead, but only if we're low on health and pushed to tower. \\n The reason Q is prioritized over W: Each additional rank of Q is an additional 50 damage per target and 4 AD/AP aura bonus. Each additional rank of W is an additional 20 heal per target and 3 AR/MR aura bonus. Each rank of Q is mathematically more valuable than each rank of W. Sona's job in lane is to provide an incremental advantage to your lane and hinder her opponent's ability to sustain. The opponent either has to set up a kill or get nickel-and-dimed through harrass and trades.\",\n \"Summary: Who cares?\\n\\nPost: I don't see the problem. If you don't like them, don't click on them. Scroll past them. Hell, if you want, you can even downvote them. The fact that these threads exist don't take away from the other threads that you actually like. If you have nothing to say about them, say nothing and move on. \\n I don't care for custom playmats either and I'll usually glance at them (if even that) and move on. However, I'm totally okay with them existing. They are related enough to MTG to belong on this sub-reddit. If they're getting upvoted, somebody must like them. Who am I to tell people what they should or shouldn't post or upvote on this subreddit?\",\n \"Summary: You're not losing to bad RNG. Only pilot error. Instead of overanalyzing and trying to get the \\\"good\\\" timing, learn how to reliably beat the \\\"bad\\\" timing.\\n\\nPost: Tbh, you're overanalyizing an aspect of this fight that can be easily dealt with through better planning and execution. \\n Instead of trying to control a mechanic, learning how to reliably beat what you consider the \\\"bad\\\" timing would make all timings \\\"good\\\". \\n We almost always get the \\\"bad\\\" timing. Our solution was to have two people trigger one AoE tower (A) and one person trigger another AoE tower (B) . Then, after the first Allagan Field detonates, during the ten seconds of downtime where there is no active Allagan Field, our tank runs into the AoE tower (A) to give it its fourth and final stack and forcing the AoE to go off while nobody has Allagan Field. \\n Aside from that, we find that adequately shielding (SS and Adloq) the Allagan Field target and AoE healing accordingly easily deals with an AoE going off while there is an active Allagan Field. \\n It's not as easy as the \\\"good\\\" timing, but it's still reasonably easy. Bear in mind that we beat this fight for our first time this way (\\\"bad\\\" timing) at about i93-i94 average. I'm assuming nowadays, everyone has i100+ from Soldiery, ST, and Sands/Oils from Hunts. Everyone has more HP and heals hit harder.\",\n \"Summary: Skill Speed is not useless. It a very underrated and very misunderstood stat amongst the FFXIV community. I'm not going to say it's a great stat because it isn't, but it's a lot better than most people give it credit for. I value Skill Speed over Critical Hit Rate for Monk and Warrior.\\n\\nPost: I'm going to go against what everyone else is already saying here, and say that this is an incorrect analysis of Skill Speed. \\n With Weapon A, you will squeeze 15 weapon skills in before the enemy jumps. With Weapon B, despite the increase to skill speed, you will still squeeze only 15 weapon skills in before the enemy jumps. In this case, yes, you were completely unable to take advantage of the skill speed and there was no benefit. \\n However, what if the timing of the jump allowed you to get a 16th attack in with Weapon B, where you'd only be able to get a 15th attack with weapon A? All of a sudden, the benefit of the seemingly small Skill Speed boost equated to a damage increase equal to 1/15. (It's obviously more complicated than this depending on what that 16th attack is, but the sake of the argument let's treat all Weapon Skills attacks as equal) \\n If we were to give a numerical example... \\n \\n Your Recast on your Weaponskills is 2.40 with Weapon A and 2.37 with Weapon B. \\n \\n The boss jumps into the next phase after 37 seconds. Both weapons would get 15 weapon skills in, so the 28 Skill Speed was deemed worthless here. \\n \\n What if the boss jumped into the next phase after 38 seconds? Weapon A would get 15 Weapon Skills in, while Weapon B would get a 16th Weapon Skill. That's a whopping 6.67% DPS increase from a measly 28 Skill Speed. \\n \\n \\n It all depends on the timing of the jump, but there are theoretical \\\"sweet spots\\\" where a Skill Speed increase would net you an extra attack. The greater the Skill Speed increase, the bigger the \\\"sweet spot\\\". \\n Keep in mind that a boss jumping to the next phase is sometimes triggered by time, but usually triggered by reaching a certain percentage HP point. It should more-or-less be treated by RNG because you never know exactly how much DPS your group is doing and how fast you're pushing phases. But as I said earlier, you might get an extra attack or you might not. So I guess you can say that the probability of you getting an extra attack are greater when the Skill Speed increase is greater . \\n It is an RNG thing, but the point is that it's incorrect to view Skill Speed as useless in situations where bosses jump and/or become invulnerable. \\n If anything, Skill Speed becomes MORE valuable in those situations. Skill Speed actually grants you a bigger DPS increase than the same amount of Critical Hit Rate (for melee classes), but the drawback is that it also increases the rate at which you consume TP. If you're likely to run out of TP in the fight, Skill Speed becomes less valuable. If the boss occasionally jumps and/or becomes invulnerable, you're probably less likely to run out of TP in that fight.\",\n \"Summary: The Paladin on stun duty should stun every Eruption and nothing else. Nobody else should be using any stuns. Summoners should not use Ifrit-Egi. Monks should not use Shoulder Tackle. Etc etc..\\n\\nPost: Stun is subject to something called \\\"Diminishing Returns\\\" or \\\"DR\\\". It's a bit of a misnomer (this is not what \\\"Diminishing Returns\\\" actually means) but that's what people have been calling it for lack of a better term. \\n If a target is stunned, that target gains a resistance to stun for 15 seconds from the time that the stun wears off. During this 15 seconds, the next stun will only stun for half its duration. If he is stunned yet again within 15 seconds, the next stun will only be for a quarter of its duration. After three stuns with less than 15 seconds between each stun, the target will be completely immune to stuns for 15 seconds. \\n Specifically to Ifrit, the Paladin's job is to stun the Eruption. Ifrit typically leaves 15 seconds between some of his Eruptions, so Diminishing Returns immunity shouldn't happen if stuns are only being used for Eruptions. However, if other players are also stunning, it triggers the Diminishing Returns eventually to the point where Ifrit is immune to stuns for 15 seconds. Any Eruption during this period is thus interruptable. \\n The Paladin on stun duty will usually get mad if this happens. If someone else is using stuns, it prevents him from being able to do his job. Moreover, when stuns are completely resisted, it reflects poorly on the Paladin because everyone assumes that he just derped and missed the stun, when the resisted stun was actually caused by someone else stunning when they're not supposed to. They don't want to be blamed for someone else's mistake so they're gonna be pretty vocal about it when someone is stunning over them. \\n So when someone screams \\\"use stun!\\\", they're referring to the Paladin whose job it is to stun the eruptions. When someone screams \\\"don't use stun!\\\", they're referring to everyone else to NOT push the Paladin's stun into Diminishing Returns.\",\n \"Summary: The \\\"Pick Order > Call Order\\\" rule is only in place if players reach an impasse.](\\n\\nPost: The Scenario \\n Five players solo-queue for a match in Summoner’s Rift. Their names, in order of their draft position, are Adam, Bryan, Colleen, Desmond and Edward. \\n As Adam makes his bans, they each call out their role preferences. \\n \\n Bryan: \\\"MID PLZ\\\" \\n Adam: \\\"Sry. I’m going mid\\\" \\n Colleen: \\\"Top pref\\\" \\n Desmond: \\\"Support.\\\" \\n Edward: \\\"Top\\\" \\n \\n -After a brief argument about draft order > call order, Bryan concedes Mid to Adam and says, “Fine. I’m top then”. \\n -Colleen goes Support. \\n -Edward says, “I’m really bad at Jungle but I’m pretty good at ADC.” \\n -Desmond, the only other player who hasn’t picked yet responds, “I’m also bad at jungle. I'm not doing it.” And picks Ezreal. \\n -Edward says, “Okay, I’ll try my best.” And chooses Jungle Lee Sin. \\n Adam goes mid and wins his lane. Same with Bryan, who went top. Colleen and Desmond struggle at bot lane. Edward attempts to help them with a gank but fails miserably and they give the enemy AD Carry a double kill. The enemy bot lane gains an insurmountable lead, taking a tower and a dragon in the process. The enemy jungler focuses his attention on top and turns that lane around in their favor. The team eventually loses the game. \\n Adam complains that he's the only one who won his lane and that his team is too heavy for him to carry. Bryan says he was winning top, but got camped and got zero help from Edward. Edward says he was too busy trying to help bot lane and criticizes Desmond for not letting him go AD Carry instead of Jungle. Colleen says she and Desmond were doing fine until Edward's failed gank resulted in an enemy double kill. \\n What went wrong? \\n A Closer Look \\n Let's examine each individual player's profile from the above example. Here are each players picks, in order of preference/proficiency: \\n \\n Adam: Mid, Jungle, ADC, Top, Support \\n Bryan: Mid, Top, Jungle, ADC, Support \\n Colleen: Top, Mid, Support, Jungle, ADC \\n Desmond: Support, Mid, Top, ADC, Jungle \\n Edward: Top, ADC, Support, Mid, Jungle \\n \\n Let's just say a player is \\\"happy\\\" if he gets his first or second preference. In the first example, Adam got his first choice, Bryan got his second choice. They were the only ones who are \\\"happy\\\". Colleen/Desmond/Edward all get their respective 3rd/4th/5th choices. Mathematically, 1st/2nd/3rd/4th/5th is the worst possible outcome in champ select. But hey, it's really nobody's fault because Draft Order > Call Order right? I mean, each player simply followed the rules and chose their best role out of what was still available. \\n The Scenario Revisited \\n Now, let's go back to champion select, take the exact same scenario but making one minor change to it... \\n \\n Bryan: \\\"MID OR TOP PLZ\\\" \\n Adam: \\\"I was gonna go mid but I can also jungle\\\" \\n Colleen: \\\"Top or mid pref\\\" \\n Desmond: \\\"Support/Mid.\\\" \\n Edward: \\\"Top or ADC. Just don't let me jungle.\\\" \\n \\n Bryan goes mid, and with Adam's help from the jungle, wins his lane. Colleen gets top, her best role, and wins her lane. Desmond and Edward hold their own at bot lane, but get some pressure from Adam and Bryan allowing them to outright win their lane. They take the first tower and dragon. They eventually win the game. \\n At champ select, they each gave two preferences instead of one and found a way for everyone to get one of their two preferences. As a result, the outcome of the game was totally different. In this example, three players got their first choice, and two players got their second choice. 1st/1st/1st/2nd/2nd seems much better. Everyone is \\\"happy\\\". I know this example seems like a fairytale scenario and I know how rare it is for five players to actually cooperate like this but the point still stands: There are better options than simply following the draft order. \\n It Only Takes One \\n According to the player profiles, nobody wanted to jungle. What if only one person was willing to make a compromise and jungle for Edward's sake? Assume that the rest of the players are selfish and will simply take their favorite role out of whatever's remaining. \\n \\n Adam Jungle: Adam get his 2nd choice, Bryan 1st, Colleen 1st, Desmond 1st, Edward 2nd. \\n Bryan Jungle: 1st/3rd/1st/1st/2nd \\n Colleen Jungle: 1st/2nd/4th/1st/2nd \\n Desmond Jungle: 1st/2nd/3rd/5th/2nd \\n \\n You'll notice that even with only one person willing to bite the bullet for the team, the entire team's position improves considerably, even if the rest of the team is selfish. \\n Morals of the Story \\n \\n Mutual compromise for the betterment of the team > Draft Order > Call Order. The Summoner's Code might bestow upon you pick priority over your teammates but that doesn't absolve you from being a detriment to your team if you're unwilling to compromise. From the first example, Adam got the role he wanted and won his lane, but his unwillingness to compromise actually resulted in his team's downfall. He may not realize it, but he is just as responsible for the team's defeat as any of his teammates. Good teamwork should start even before the game does. \\n \\n Get good at more than one role. Be willing/able to play more than just your best/favorite role. It will improve your win percentage and people will have more fun playing with you. Besides, learning a new role will only make you better at all other roles that you're already good at. Too many people look at the pro gamers who each specialize in one role and always get it in solo queue (due to their reputation) and assume that specializing in only one role is the key to success. This is so far from the truth. The truth is that nobody gives a flying fuck that you're unbeatable at mid. You're not always going to get the role that you want. Sometimes, getting your preferred role isn't necessarily the best thing for your team. The sooner you realize that, the better player you'll be. \\n \\n Communicate with your team. What if everyone was willing to compromise but nobody said a single word? Everyone may have had the best intentions for the team, but without giving/getting more information about everyone's pick preferences, they end up in the same shithole. Sometimes, all it takes is for one person to say, \\\"Hey, who here can jungle?\\\" If your team is able to communicate well at champion select, your chances of winning will greatly improve, especially if this communication continues into the game itself. \\n \\n One person makes a difference. When it comes to online gaming, you sometimes have to take the bad with the good. You're gonna be grouped with trolls, assholes and idiots. The reality of it is, you still need them to win the game. If you're willing to swallow your pride, even for someone who probably doesn't deserve it, your chances of winning can only get better. When faced with this situation, you have to ask yourself: Which are you more committed to? Winning? Or showing this retard who's boss?\",\n \"Summary: Another card vastly overrated due to \\\"new spoiler\\\" excitement.\\n\\nPost: Council of the Absolute]( \\n Everyone's saying it's so great in Sphinx's Revelation mirrors. I don't even think that's the case. \\n So, you tap four mana on your own turn to cast Council of the Absolute. Here are the plays you've left yourself wide open to... \\n \\n I counter it. You're in trouble because you've tapped four mana on your turn. You're already down four mana so you're more likely to lose the ensuing counter war. Having all your lands tapped on your own turn is not a place where Control decks want to be. \\n \\n At the end of your turn, I kill it. It's the same situation as before. You're tapped out on your own turn, and even if you have countermagic for my removal, I may have countermagic for your countermagic. Whatever the case, I have the advantage in the counter war because you've tapped four mana.. \\n \\n With Council on the stack, I cast Sphinx's Revelation. If it resolves, I untap on my turn with a full grip of cards, probably including a means to kill your Council (if I even need to). \\n \\n Even if you win the counter wars and successfully resolve Council of the Absolute, you're tapped out when I untap. I can still take this opportunity to kill your Council, and we're back to square one. \\n \\n \\n I know what you're thinking: \\\"It dies to removal. Countered by countermagic.\\\" is a shitty argument, and I agree. However, it's not a matter of dying to removal or countered by countermagic. It's a matter of getting absolutely blown out when it inevitably happens in the control mirror. The nature of the matchup is that the ratio between answers : threats is very high. So in this case, \\\"Dies to removal. Countered by countermagic.\\\" is an actually very valid argument. \\n While I agree that it's a must-counter in the control mirror, the deal-breaker is that it's four mana at sorcery speed that is also vulnerable to creature removal. That's not the kind of card you want to play in control decks. \\n The cards that you SHOULD be sideboarding in the UWx mirror: [Dispel]( [Negate]( and/or [Duress]( Oh, and Planeswalkers.\",\n \"Summary: Based on the clues, my prediction is as follows: \\n > 50 Monocolored : 10 of each color \\n > 70 Gold : 7 of each guild \\n > 20 15 Split : 10 color pairings at Uncommon, 10 5 guild pairings at Rare \\n > 0 Hybrid \\n > ~~5~~ 10 Artifacts \\n > 11 Land : 10 Guildgates, Maze's End\\n\\nPost: Here's a follow-up to a [previous thread]( from a few days ago on this topic. \\n (In case you haven't noticed, I've kept the original typo in the title. Just for funsies.) \\n Since then... \\n A handful of new cards were spoiled... \\n Luckily for us, some of their Collector's Numbers are barely visible. \\n > 051: Advent of the Wurm \\n > 065: Deputy of Acquittals \\n > 082: Master of Cruelties \\n > 084: Melek, Izzet Paragon \\n > 094: Ral Zarek \\n > 103: Sin Collector \\n > 115: Vorel of the Hull Clade \\n From comparing their Collector's Numbers to their relative alphabetical positioning, we can now say with some degree of certainty that my initial prediction was right on the money (I'm totally bragging btw): \\n \\n 50 Monocolored cards \\n 70 Gold cards \\n \\n We already know that there are at least 11 Non-basic Land cards: the ten Guildgates plus Maze's End. That leaves us with 25 remaining cards which is some combination of non-traditional Multicolored cards, Artifacts, and other Non-basic Land. Twenty-five... Remember this number because we'll refer back to it again many times in this speculation. \\n \\n The return of Split Cards, with Fuse! \\n Unfortunately, unless someone has a keener eye than mine, their collector's numbers are a complete blur. So, how does this fit into our numbers analysis? \\n As evidenced in Dissension, Split Cards are ordered after Gold & Hybrid Cards but before Artifacts & Non-Basic land. Otherwise, like Gold and Hybrid cards, their colors are ignored and they are ordered alphabetically. I would assume it would work the same way in Dragon's Maze. However, it's a bit of a unique case because some of the Split Cards are single-color pairings, and some are pairings of Multicolor combinations. Will Beck//Call be prioritized after Wear//Tear and Toil//Trouble by virtue of being \\\"multi-multi-colored\\\"? Until we actually know their Collector's Numbers, we can't know for sure. To be honest, it's neither important nor interesting. The important and interesting stuff will come later in this post. \\n All we need to know for now is that the Split Cards will make up some part of the aforementioned remaining 25 cards. \\n \\n What about Hybrid Cards? \\n Take a look at the [Return to Ravnica Mechanics Article]( and the [Gatecrash Mechanics Article]( Both articles have clear mention of \\\"Multicolored: Gold and Hybrid\\\" cards, and then go on to describe Gold and Hybrid specifically. Now take a look at [The Mechanics of Dragon's Maze]( There is absolutely no mention of Hybrid cards. To me, this is a very strong indication that Hybrid cards will be excluded from Dragon's Maze . \\n Let's go back to the 25 mystery cards that could be Hybrid, Split, Artifact or unknown Non-basic Lands. If Hybrid cards are truly excluded, that leaves a lot more room for the other categories: Split cards, Artifact and unknown Non-basic Lands. My gut tells me that there won't be any more non-basic Lands outside of the ones we already know about (maybe 1 more, at most), and while there will be some Artifacts, there won't be Keyrunes taking up any card slots anymore. This gives even more room to Split Cards... \\n \\n Back to Split Cards \\n One thing I've noticed about Wizards of the Coast is that they sure love symmetry. Return to Ravnica and Gatecrash each have 28 Monocolored cards of each color, totaling 56 Monocolored cards per color . In their respective sets, each guild has 14 Gold cards , 3 Hybrid cards , a Keyrune , a Guildgate , and a Shock Land . See what I mean? They are obsessed with color/guild symmetry. \\n In Dragon's Maze, we (kinda) already know that there are 50 Monocolored cards, presumably 10 of each color. There are also (probably) 70 Gold cards, presumably 7 of each guild. One can only assume that Wizards will continue their obsession with symmetry when it comes to Split Cards. \\n Let's take a closer look at the three Split Cards already revealed and see what information we can find.... \\n \\n Two of the Split Cards are pairings between two colors. Wear//Tear is represents Red and White (Boros). Toil//Trouble represents Black and Red (Rakdos). They're also both uncommon. From this, we can assume that there are ten uncommon Split Cards, each representing one of ten color pairings . It would be uncharacteristic of Wizards to do otherwise. \\n \\n The third Split Card, Beck//Call, is a pairing between two guilds: Simic and Azorius. It is a rare. The two-guild pairing also happens to share a color with each other: Blue. Again, on the assumption the Wizards continues the trend of color/guild balance, Beck//Call will part of a series consisting of two-guild combinations that share a common color. There are 30 such combinations. For each guild to be proportionately represented, it must be a 5, 10 or 15 card series. 15 doesn't make sense because it would bring the total number of Split Cards to 25, leaving zero room for Artifacts. Moreover, the Rare Split Cards would outnumber the Uncommons. It must be either 5 or 10. My guess is that there will be ten Rare Split Cards, each representing ten different guild pairings that share a common color. All ten three-color combinations would be equally represented, and it leaves room for 5 artifacts. I think five is still very feasible though, but ten is slightly more likely . Some might be Mythic too. \\n \\n \\n EDIT: If Wear and Tear is indeed 135/156, there are 15 Split Cards. 10 Artifacts, 11 Non-basic Land\"\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":1390,"string":"1,390"}}},{"rowIdx":1391,"cells":{"question_id":{"kind":"string","value":"redlandmover"},"question":{"kind":"string","value":"Generate the content for a reddit post they could probably figure out that the traffic was usnet related. not much after that. \n ps: sorry about being bored nerd-nazi lol. but i figured that someone else might read this and benefit."},"answer":{"kind":"string","value":"so, because my server is down at work, im going to be a nerd-nazi and correct your post just a bit (once again, im very bored work and actually have nothing better do to). \n >your ISP has no way of knowing what you're doing \n not entirely true. now the following assumes that your ISP actually a rat's ass and was actively trying to come after you (very unlikely). however, they could very quickly figure out what server you are connecting to (since the IP of a SSL packet is not encrypted). so they could do a reverse lookup and see very quickly that you are connecting to a usenet server (assuming once again, that your ISP gave half a shit (which they dont)). Also, with some very basic packet shaping, they could figure out that the traffic was probably usenet related. but thats about it."},"correct_answer":{"kind":"string","value":"so, because my server is down at work, im going to be a nerd-nazi and correct your post just a bit (once again, im very bored work and actually have nothing better do to). \n >your ISP has no way of knowing what you're doing \n not entirely true. now the following assumes that your ISP actually a rat's ass and was actively trying to come after you (very unlikely). however, they could very quickly figure out what server you are connecting to (since the IP of a SSL packet is not encrypted). so they could do a reverse lookup and see very quickly that you are connecting to a usenet server (assuming once again, that your ISP gave half a shit (which they dont)). Also, with some very basic packet shaping, they could figure out that the traffic was probably usenet related. but thats about it."},"documents":{"kind":"list like","value":["Summary: great phone, but wait to see what happens with the upcoming nexus phone s\n\nPost: personally speaking, yes its a great phone. however, like others have said: the rumors of the next (several?) nexus phones have started to trickle out. the one by LG (aka optimus nexus) specs have leaked out (assuming they are correct) and also the rumored HTC nexus had a rumor about it as well (which would line up with google pushing multiple nexus phones to multiple different ODMs). \n the interesting thing about LG making a nexus (their first time getting the nod from google) is that it could mean that most of the major ODMs could each have a(nother) nexus. which could mean a galaxy nexus 2 (for lack of a better name). in that case, you might want to wait off as long as possible. \n someone already said it, but when the original GNexus launched, it was somewhat underpowered both from the CPU and especially the GPU (which was very similar to the Nexus S; which makes the GPU almost a year old when the GNexus launched).","Summary: pavel is not human.\n\nPost: 2nd the \"strong on skates\". i play adult rec hockey, but am friends with an ex-NHLer who runs camps and such. one day we were talking and playing the body came up. forget who/how pavel came up in this discussion, but the ending quote was \"f%$& that crazy russian\". aparently he went to play the body, but didnt account for pavel's strength, and bounced off of him.","Summary: kodi != gotham. kodi = xbmc. helix > gotham.\n\nPost: ok, need to fix a couple of inaccuracies. \n kodi is not a rebrand of gotham at all. gotham is a code name of a release (aka 13.0). kodi is the re-name of xbmc going forward ( \n helix is the next major release after gotham (note the letter increment). if kodi was the name of a release, that would mean they would have skipped H, I, J, which is not in keeping with standard *nix naming conventions (see android, ubuntu, etc). \n helix (14.0) just hit feature freeze, so you should see beta's/RC's soon.","Summary: KEEP THE EFFING TRACKING NUMBER FOREVER!!!!!\n\nPost: KEEP THE TRACKING NUMBER!!! \n i had to RMA my old tbolt (sidenote: god that phone was a POS) 3 times. the last time, verizon lost the phone (i sent it in via fedex, just like they asked) and verizon tried to blame it on me (since they said they didnt get it). according to verzion, since i didnt keep the tracking number, i must not have sent in the phone. eventually they figured it out (after blaming me and putting a ~$500 charge on my account).","Summary: my preference is the harmony smart control. great little box, gets you best of both worlds (app based and a physical remote), remote is bluetooth based (works with AFTV).\n\nPost: one thing that doesnt get advertised well with the smart control is that it DOES come with a remote (which i adore). throw in a phone control and its a steal. \n also, not sure if the touch does bluetooth (which is needed for AFTV). \n ive owned at least 5 harmony remotes over the years, and found the touch based ones to be gimmicky. ive had the one, and a 900 (two of the top of line remotes at their time), and the 900 (with RF) was slower than the one, even though it was newer (not in transmission, but in speed of button presses on touch screen). \n also, the touch seems to be laid out horribly (imho). why are the play/pause/ff/rr buttons ABOVE the touch area?","Summary: why do we have to talk about this. shouldnt it already be done!? if not, quite sad about our profession (or society in general)\n\nPost: so, im going to say something, but hopefully not in the usual way its used. \"why are we still talking about this\"? \n i do not mean it to be a \"why are we talking about equality\" in a respect of women not deserving it (becuase they should), but more of \"how is it in the 21st century do we still have these problems\"? seriously. if a female engineer is better at her job than me (or other people) THEN PAY HER MORE MONEY ALREADY DAMNIT! she deserves it. end of story. when i read this post, i tried to remove all the 'gender' nouns as best i could, and i could think of serveral of these that applied to male engineers as much as female engineers.","Summary: sympathy for dealing with a tbolt for 2 years.\n\nPost: oh my. still on the tbolt? i was lucky to get off the tbolt after my 1 year contract ended. but, i have a friend just like you and can i say to the both of you, im sorry. god that tbolt just loved to suck battery. it was like the gf in clerks 1 who sucked 37 dicks of battery life.","Summary: I AGREE. UPVOTES FOR ALL!\n\nPost: i hope that everyone in this comment thread could read this but: YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES. I really wish i could copy and paste all of these responses in every \"i want JB but im too lazy to figure out how things work\" post. \n >ie the point of buying a Nexus in the first place. \n EXACTLY. if you wanted to wait for the manufactor+carrier to push out an update, why not just buy a motorola phone (i pick on them in particular for their update lamness) and wait for them?","Summary: you dont have to make amazing skill plays. play hockey the smart way with lots of energy and eventually your skill will improve.\n\nPost: one tip i have is to simply make better hockey plays. i dont mean \"magically overnight make yourself an amazing player\" (but if you do, tell me your secret), but rather make the smart hockey play. \n winger example: i was playing wing on a team that was WAY too high for me at the time. i told my line mates that my skill level wasnt up to theirs and that it would take some time for me to adjust. i told them that i would probably not be able to make the plays to get them the puck directly. so i started making smart hockey plays. dump the puck into the zone and chase it down. forechecking extra hard to make up for my lack of puck skills.","Summary: agree. this is a sport with rules. missing a call is one thing and you cant change the way the game turned out if the refs missed the call; BUT this is the EXACT reason why we have supplemental discipline. to keep the game from turning into a beer league.\n\nPost: even as a sharks fan i agree. this is definite colin cambell territory (as that loser is in charge of player conduct). if a player is goign to start hitting the puck from the bench, whats next? sending your goon on on the ice from the bench to attack the other teams best player (IE having 6 skaters on the ice)? why not just throw away rule book?","Summary: buying a ps3 just for the game, your call. is the show worth it, personally, yes.\n\nPost: personally, yes. the only time my ps3 has been used was mgs4 (game i got from launch) and EVERY SINGLE MLB The Show. \n if you are asking if the show is worth a $200-$300 (or whatever the price is), only you can make that decision. but if you are asking if the show is the best baseball game out, i can answer that as YES.","Summary: soon\"\n\nPost: to quote all the devs (and the first rule of ROMing): it will be ready when its ready. \n believe me, im as excited as you are, but try to resist these types of questions. it doesnt help the devs (they get pissy for obvious reasons), or the rest of us (people staring making shit up, rumors become belived, etc). in the mean time, some of the AOKP roms are pretty close to perfect, IMHO.","Summary: you can always go back to 'completly stock'\n\nPost: so, by simply sideloading xbmc, you arent doing anything with the 'firetv' besides installing an android app. nothing changes. except, if you dig into the installed apps, you can launch xbmc. when you exit xbmc, back into firetv. \n if you get into rooting and xposed and all that jazz (which, is HIGHLY recommended), you will be doing a bit of 'changing', but you can always factory reset.","Summary: GO SHARKS, outside material.\n\nPost: GO SHARKS!!!! \n ok, now that's over with; sharks are a good choice. id recommend some outside reading/listening to help you get into the mood. dudesonhockey is a great podcast with two normal guys talking hockey. really recommend. also, fearthefin does a good job if you want to really get in depth. finally battleofcalifornia is good if you want a more lighthearted and funny readup. either way. lots of outside sources to get you more into hockey.","Summary: its a way to letter home games, without having to know/care about standings, etc.\n\nPost: The numbering for games (1-2-3-4) etc is done by letters for home games. IE the first home game (WQF) is game A, second home game is game B. first home game of WSF is game E. This makes it easy to print all the tickets (A-B-C-D, E-F-G-H, I-J-K-L, M-N-O-P) without having to know standings, rankings etc. IE, since sharks played nucks (grrrrrrrrrrr) in the WCF, there would have been no game L (since nucks had home ice), but the tickets were printed before playoffs.","Summary: wait for CES, and check the mod community\n\nPost: def wait until janurary and CES. anything could change by then. if you look at it, outside the hallucinate (my name for the fascinate) and the droid pro, the newest phones were really released back in july (the x and the d2). so i would recommend waiting, and seeing what has happened. \n i would also second the idea about checking the dev/mod community behind the phone. having the droid x with its locked bootloader is a big pain when trying to get updates. otherwise you have to wait till the \"official releases' from moto/etc. to give you an example, on my d1, i had froyo running in july (from modders). my dx didnt get froyo until it was officially released in august/september-ish.","Summary: DW is a champ at re-signings\n\nPost: pretty much. as much as i'd love to start the rebuild now, all players but burns over 5m have some form of NMC. so either buy 2 of them out this summer (very doubtful), or try to trade boyle either this deadline or next (personally, id rather keep him). but there's not much you can do to the rest. \n one thing to note, DW has done an excellent job keeping the sharks as contenders for so long. yes, the depth isnt great now, and yes we have only a few prospects; but thats what happends when you keep a team contending for near a decade. also, when you look at what DW has been able to do contract wise (resignings) he really does deserve an award. valssic at 4.25 and couture at 2.85 are monster deals. even the pavs deal at 4 was a great deal. any of those contracts on the open market would have been much more expensive. vlassic could have easily gotten wideman/Wisniewski type money on the open market.","Summary: vpn for usenet (specific) not needed. wont help \n edit: does you VPN charge by amount? if not, then i guess it cant hurt to shunt your usenet over VPN, but you wont be seeing any benifit\n\nPost: first off, assumption: this response will only focus on usenet related info. \n by shunting all your usenet traffic over your VPN, you really arent getting any more \"security\" than if you just used an SSL proxy. the reason is, is that you should/will be connecting to your usenet sever over SSL. thus, the only thing your ISP (aka college) will see is that you are hitting xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx (IP-address of your usenet server). whats the difference between this and in VPN-Land? its virtually the exact same, except your traffic will be going to you->VPN->usenet->VPN->you. \n sure, they could block access to the usenet server's IP, but then all you really need is a proxy (not that i would recommend it). i havent seen too many colleges that know the IP addresses of usenet severs (remember, you are only going to connect to 1 address (2 if you have a backup server), so unless the college is really up to date, i doubt you will have any problem.","Summary: i still trust him, but will now be more suspicious\n\nPost: idk, im glad that you pointed out his past [trys to find correct word] alleged hypocrisies [for last of better word]. \n although, right now im still inclinded to believe him, since he has produced so much in the past. but time will only tell if his predictions are correct. \n however, i will take your point into my consideration. there appears to be a large following of people who don't take him at his word. and the topic of him not being on XDA has \"irk'ed\" me for some time.","Summary: the pax is better, but also more expensive\n\nPost: as someone who has both, heres my thoughts. \n the pax is definitley a better device. it really is an amazing product. i like to tell friends that its the 2007 iphone vs everything else. of course, its also at that price point :P \n the MFLB is a superb starter vape. if you arent sure about dropping the money on a pax, or are just getting into vaping, i would recommend the MFLB. you can always sell your MFLB to a buddy if you want to upgrade later to the PAX. \n also, there are TONS of video reviews on youtube about both (and comparisons).","Summary: possibly undead\n\nPost: as me and my dad have theorized, roger more can't die. he is like dick (forget his last name but always does the new years eve stuff). he will be 120 and still will be alive. i think hes just waiting until craig dies and the franchise actually starts making movies again, so he can be bond.","Summary: port forwarding = look at the plugin's help page. comcast throttle = no.\n\nPost: it think you might be a bit confused regarding \"streaming\" and xbmc. the first thing to note is that xbmc has nothing (directly) to do with streaming. xbmc is a local media application. it has an open plugin system. anyone can write a plugin to work with xbmc. several users have released plugins that allow for streaming over \n if you have a problem, go find that specific plugin's support page/thread. its not an xbmc issue.","Summary: thanks for killing nucks.\n\nPost: i know we have had our differences (last years playoffs, clowe-gate, this years end of season game). HOWEVER, you did beat the dreaded canucks. and for this, i thank you. i hate them, more than i dislike you guys right now. \n personally: i picked the kings as the team to beat this year (over my loved sharks). so, i am quite looking forward a nashville (as they might be the best team today) vs kings (as they have the most potential); and not my sharks (as we have sucked it up.... again).","Summary: need help getting rid of joint smell.\n\nPost: hey all, got an age old question. i recently found my love for joint/cones. only problem is they reek. i have no problem with the smell (and since i own my house, i dont have to care about anything else) HOWEVER, i'd like to find something that would help with the smell in case guests come over. i have fans, glade plugins, etc, but my place still has that distinctive smell. any help? \n ps: i have a vap (mflb) but im starting to enjoy j's more.","Summary: new place. potential roommate smokes alot. want to control smell in case of other roommates/sell place in future. ideas/suggestions welcome\n\nPost: This is more of an askreddit, but i didnt want to deal with all the anti-tree people. \n I am buying a new house in the next few months (short sales take FOREVER btws). I smoke occasionally (2-3 times a week, only ~[6].) I'd like to have a roommate. One of the potential room mates is a good friend who really loves his trees (almost every night, goes through alot of weight). I dont mind the amount (to each their own). I'm more worried about the smell sticking to the room, and possibly hurting/impacting future tenants (if he decides to move, etc). \n I am not against providing a cool place to smoke (we have a pretty small patio that i would like to use as a smoke place) or something along those lines (as im a fellow ent as well). I just don't want to have a room have that smell that i was unable to remove. \n So, what are you experiences/suggestions. We both love our trees, but he loves them a bit more. I want to create an awesome place that we can smoke, but also not impact the future (aka stink up the whole house).","Summary: should I move for personal reasons? Or stay in a better job climate/area?\n\nPost: Reddit, I need some help. I need some advice on trying to decide to move from San Jose (born and raised, currently living) to Dallas (went to university). Moved back to SJ for a well-paying, computer programming job. I’ve been at that job for 2.5 years, and frankly have been less than impressed. Not really the job I thought I was getting into (aka my skills have been wasting away) and is not a job with a lot of stability (layoffs are VERY common, but have been able to avoid because I have been rated highly). Not only that, but my social life is less than stellar here in SJ. Not very many friends, and finding ladies is quite difficult. So, I thought about moving back to Dallas (where a lot of my friends still are who I talk to everyday). Before leaving for holiday break, I talked to my boss about seeing if my company would allow me to keep my job AND move to Dallas. He said he was not opposed to it, and it made no difference to him. He would be fine with me moving, but I would have to pay (I expected this and have already set aside necessary money). \n Which leaves me the question: should I do it. I’m starting to have second thoughts. Most of my thoughts revolve around: am I making the right decision. When I moved back to SJ after college, I was doing it knowing that a long term job was in my future. However, knowing that moving to Dallas is for personal reasons, I’m wondering if I’m making the right decisions. Is it wrong to move out of silicon valley (born and raised, tech capital of the world, etc) to move to Dallas for personal reasons(friends, cheaper standard of living, chance to own a home before 40)."],"string":"[\n \"Summary: great phone, but wait to see what happens with the upcoming nexus phone s\\n\\nPost: personally speaking, yes its a great phone. however, like others have said: the rumors of the next (several?) nexus phones have started to trickle out. the one by LG (aka optimus nexus) specs have leaked out (assuming they are correct) and also the rumored HTC nexus had a rumor about it as well (which would line up with google pushing multiple nexus phones to multiple different ODMs). \\n the interesting thing about LG making a nexus (their first time getting the nod from google) is that it could mean that most of the major ODMs could each have a(nother) nexus. which could mean a galaxy nexus 2 (for lack of a better name). in that case, you might want to wait off as long as possible. \\n someone already said it, but when the original GNexus launched, it was somewhat underpowered both from the CPU and especially the GPU (which was very similar to the Nexus S; which makes the GPU almost a year old when the GNexus launched).\",\n \"Summary: pavel is not human.\\n\\nPost: 2nd the \\\"strong on skates\\\". i play adult rec hockey, but am friends with an ex-NHLer who runs camps and such. one day we were talking and playing the body came up. forget who/how pavel came up in this discussion, but the ending quote was \\\"f%$& that crazy russian\\\". aparently he went to play the body, but didnt account for pavel's strength, and bounced off of him.\",\n \"Summary: kodi != gotham. kodi = xbmc. helix > gotham.\\n\\nPost: ok, need to fix a couple of inaccuracies. \\n kodi is not a rebrand of gotham at all. gotham is a code name of a release (aka 13.0). kodi is the re-name of xbmc going forward ( \\n helix is the next major release after gotham (note the letter increment). if kodi was the name of a release, that would mean they would have skipped H, I, J, which is not in keeping with standard *nix naming conventions (see android, ubuntu, etc). \\n helix (14.0) just hit feature freeze, so you should see beta's/RC's soon.\",\n \"Summary: KEEP THE EFFING TRACKING NUMBER FOREVER!!!!!\\n\\nPost: KEEP THE TRACKING NUMBER!!! \\n i had to RMA my old tbolt (sidenote: god that phone was a POS) 3 times. the last time, verizon lost the phone (i sent it in via fedex, just like they asked) and verizon tried to blame it on me (since they said they didnt get it). according to verzion, since i didnt keep the tracking number, i must not have sent in the phone. eventually they figured it out (after blaming me and putting a ~$500 charge on my account).\",\n \"Summary: my preference is the harmony smart control. great little box, gets you best of both worlds (app based and a physical remote), remote is bluetooth based (works with AFTV).\\n\\nPost: one thing that doesnt get advertised well with the smart control is that it DOES come with a remote (which i adore). throw in a phone control and its a steal. \\n also, not sure if the touch does bluetooth (which is needed for AFTV). \\n ive owned at least 5 harmony remotes over the years, and found the touch based ones to be gimmicky. ive had the one, and a 900 (two of the top of line remotes at their time), and the 900 (with RF) was slower than the one, even though it was newer (not in transmission, but in speed of button presses on touch screen). \\n also, the touch seems to be laid out horribly (imho). why are the play/pause/ff/rr buttons ABOVE the touch area?\",\n \"Summary: why do we have to talk about this. shouldnt it already be done!? if not, quite sad about our profession (or society in general)\\n\\nPost: so, im going to say something, but hopefully not in the usual way its used. \\\"why are we still talking about this\\\"? \\n i do not mean it to be a \\\"why are we talking about equality\\\" in a respect of women not deserving it (becuase they should), but more of \\\"how is it in the 21st century do we still have these problems\\\"? seriously. if a female engineer is better at her job than me (or other people) THEN PAY HER MORE MONEY ALREADY DAMNIT! she deserves it. end of story. when i read this post, i tried to remove all the 'gender' nouns as best i could, and i could think of serveral of these that applied to male engineers as much as female engineers.\",\n \"Summary: sympathy for dealing with a tbolt for 2 years.\\n\\nPost: oh my. still on the tbolt? i was lucky to get off the tbolt after my 1 year contract ended. but, i have a friend just like you and can i say to the both of you, im sorry. god that tbolt just loved to suck battery. it was like the gf in clerks 1 who sucked 37 dicks of battery life.\",\n \"Summary: I AGREE. UPVOTES FOR ALL!\\n\\nPost: i hope that everyone in this comment thread could read this but: YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES. I really wish i could copy and paste all of these responses in every \\\"i want JB but im too lazy to figure out how things work\\\" post. \\n >ie the point of buying a Nexus in the first place. \\n EXACTLY. if you wanted to wait for the manufactor+carrier to push out an update, why not just buy a motorola phone (i pick on them in particular for their update lamness) and wait for them?\",\n \"Summary: you dont have to make amazing skill plays. play hockey the smart way with lots of energy and eventually your skill will improve.\\n\\nPost: one tip i have is to simply make better hockey plays. i dont mean \\\"magically overnight make yourself an amazing player\\\" (but if you do, tell me your secret), but rather make the smart hockey play. \\n winger example: i was playing wing on a team that was WAY too high for me at the time. i told my line mates that my skill level wasnt up to theirs and that it would take some time for me to adjust. i told them that i would probably not be able to make the plays to get them the puck directly. so i started making smart hockey plays. dump the puck into the zone and chase it down. forechecking extra hard to make up for my lack of puck skills.\",\n \"Summary: agree. this is a sport with rules. missing a call is one thing and you cant change the way the game turned out if the refs missed the call; BUT this is the EXACT reason why we have supplemental discipline. to keep the game from turning into a beer league.\\n\\nPost: even as a sharks fan i agree. this is definite colin cambell territory (as that loser is in charge of player conduct). if a player is goign to start hitting the puck from the bench, whats next? sending your goon on on the ice from the bench to attack the other teams best player (IE having 6 skaters on the ice)? why not just throw away rule book?\",\n \"Summary: buying a ps3 just for the game, your call. is the show worth it, personally, yes.\\n\\nPost: personally, yes. the only time my ps3 has been used was mgs4 (game i got from launch) and EVERY SINGLE MLB The Show. \\n if you are asking if the show is worth a $200-$300 (or whatever the price is), only you can make that decision. but if you are asking if the show is the best baseball game out, i can answer that as YES.\",\n \"Summary: soon\\\"\\n\\nPost: to quote all the devs (and the first rule of ROMing): it will be ready when its ready. \\n believe me, im as excited as you are, but try to resist these types of questions. it doesnt help the devs (they get pissy for obvious reasons), or the rest of us (people staring making shit up, rumors become belived, etc). in the mean time, some of the AOKP roms are pretty close to perfect, IMHO.\",\n \"Summary: you can always go back to 'completly stock'\\n\\nPost: so, by simply sideloading xbmc, you arent doing anything with the 'firetv' besides installing an android app. nothing changes. except, if you dig into the installed apps, you can launch xbmc. when you exit xbmc, back into firetv. \\n if you get into rooting and xposed and all that jazz (which, is HIGHLY recommended), you will be doing a bit of 'changing', but you can always factory reset.\",\n \"Summary: GO SHARKS, outside material.\\n\\nPost: GO SHARKS!!!! \\n ok, now that's over with; sharks are a good choice. id recommend some outside reading/listening to help you get into the mood. dudesonhockey is a great podcast with two normal guys talking hockey. really recommend. also, fearthefin does a good job if you want to really get in depth. finally battleofcalifornia is good if you want a more lighthearted and funny readup. either way. lots of outside sources to get you more into hockey.\",\n \"Summary: its a way to letter home games, without having to know/care about standings, etc.\\n\\nPost: The numbering for games (1-2-3-4) etc is done by letters for home games. IE the first home game (WQF) is game A, second home game is game B. first home game of WSF is game E. This makes it easy to print all the tickets (A-B-C-D, E-F-G-H, I-J-K-L, M-N-O-P) without having to know standings, rankings etc. IE, since sharks played nucks (grrrrrrrrrrr) in the WCF, there would have been no game L (since nucks had home ice), but the tickets were printed before playoffs.\",\n \"Summary: wait for CES, and check the mod community\\n\\nPost: def wait until janurary and CES. anything could change by then. if you look at it, outside the hallucinate (my name for the fascinate) and the droid pro, the newest phones were really released back in july (the x and the d2). so i would recommend waiting, and seeing what has happened. \\n i would also second the idea about checking the dev/mod community behind the phone. having the droid x with its locked bootloader is a big pain when trying to get updates. otherwise you have to wait till the \\\"official releases' from moto/etc. to give you an example, on my d1, i had froyo running in july (from modders). my dx didnt get froyo until it was officially released in august/september-ish.\",\n \"Summary: DW is a champ at re-signings\\n\\nPost: pretty much. as much as i'd love to start the rebuild now, all players but burns over 5m have some form of NMC. so either buy 2 of them out this summer (very doubtful), or try to trade boyle either this deadline or next (personally, id rather keep him). but there's not much you can do to the rest. \\n one thing to note, DW has done an excellent job keeping the sharks as contenders for so long. yes, the depth isnt great now, and yes we have only a few prospects; but thats what happends when you keep a team contending for near a decade. also, when you look at what DW has been able to do contract wise (resignings) he really does deserve an award. valssic at 4.25 and couture at 2.85 are monster deals. even the pavs deal at 4 was a great deal. any of those contracts on the open market would have been much more expensive. vlassic could have easily gotten wideman/Wisniewski type money on the open market.\",\n \"Summary: vpn for usenet (specific) not needed. wont help \\n edit: does you VPN charge by amount? if not, then i guess it cant hurt to shunt your usenet over VPN, but you wont be seeing any benifit\\n\\nPost: first off, assumption: this response will only focus on usenet related info. \\n by shunting all your usenet traffic over your VPN, you really arent getting any more \\\"security\\\" than if you just used an SSL proxy. the reason is, is that you should/will be connecting to your usenet sever over SSL. thus, the only thing your ISP (aka college) will see is that you are hitting xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx (IP-address of your usenet server). whats the difference between this and in VPN-Land? its virtually the exact same, except your traffic will be going to you->VPN->usenet->VPN->you. \\n sure, they could block access to the usenet server's IP, but then all you really need is a proxy (not that i would recommend it). i havent seen too many colleges that know the IP addresses of usenet severs (remember, you are only going to connect to 1 address (2 if you have a backup server), so unless the college is really up to date, i doubt you will have any problem.\",\n \"Summary: i still trust him, but will now be more suspicious\\n\\nPost: idk, im glad that you pointed out his past [trys to find correct word] alleged hypocrisies [for last of better word]. \\n although, right now im still inclinded to believe him, since he has produced so much in the past. but time will only tell if his predictions are correct. \\n however, i will take your point into my consideration. there appears to be a large following of people who don't take him at his word. and the topic of him not being on XDA has \\\"irk'ed\\\" me for some time.\",\n \"Summary: the pax is better, but also more expensive\\n\\nPost: as someone who has both, heres my thoughts. \\n the pax is definitley a better device. it really is an amazing product. i like to tell friends that its the 2007 iphone vs everything else. of course, its also at that price point :P \\n the MFLB is a superb starter vape. if you arent sure about dropping the money on a pax, or are just getting into vaping, i would recommend the MFLB. you can always sell your MFLB to a buddy if you want to upgrade later to the PAX. \\n also, there are TONS of video reviews on youtube about both (and comparisons).\",\n \"Summary: possibly undead\\n\\nPost: as me and my dad have theorized, roger more can't die. he is like dick (forget his last name but always does the new years eve stuff). he will be 120 and still will be alive. i think hes just waiting until craig dies and the franchise actually starts making movies again, so he can be bond.\",\n \"Summary: port forwarding = look at the plugin's help page. comcast throttle = no.\\n\\nPost: it think you might be a bit confused regarding \\\"streaming\\\" and xbmc. the first thing to note is that xbmc has nothing (directly) to do with streaming. xbmc is a local media application. it has an open plugin system. anyone can write a plugin to work with xbmc. several users have released plugins that allow for streaming over \\n if you have a problem, go find that specific plugin's support page/thread. its not an xbmc issue.\",\n \"Summary: thanks for killing nucks.\\n\\nPost: i know we have had our differences (last years playoffs, clowe-gate, this years end of season game). HOWEVER, you did beat the dreaded canucks. and for this, i thank you. i hate them, more than i dislike you guys right now. \\n personally: i picked the kings as the team to beat this year (over my loved sharks). so, i am quite looking forward a nashville (as they might be the best team today) vs kings (as they have the most potential); and not my sharks (as we have sucked it up.... again).\",\n \"Summary: need help getting rid of joint smell.\\n\\nPost: hey all, got an age old question. i recently found my love for joint/cones. only problem is they reek. i have no problem with the smell (and since i own my house, i dont have to care about anything else) HOWEVER, i'd like to find something that would help with the smell in case guests come over. i have fans, glade plugins, etc, but my place still has that distinctive smell. any help? \\n ps: i have a vap (mflb) but im starting to enjoy j's more.\",\n \"Summary: new place. potential roommate smokes alot. want to control smell in case of other roommates/sell place in future. ideas/suggestions welcome\\n\\nPost: This is more of an askreddit, but i didnt want to deal with all the anti-tree people. \\n I am buying a new house in the next few months (short sales take FOREVER btws). I smoke occasionally (2-3 times a week, only ~[6].) I'd like to have a roommate. One of the potential room mates is a good friend who really loves his trees (almost every night, goes through alot of weight). I dont mind the amount (to each their own). I'm more worried about the smell sticking to the room, and possibly hurting/impacting future tenants (if he decides to move, etc). \\n I am not against providing a cool place to smoke (we have a pretty small patio that i would like to use as a smoke place) or something along those lines (as im a fellow ent as well). I just don't want to have a room have that smell that i was unable to remove. \\n So, what are you experiences/suggestions. We both love our trees, but he loves them a bit more. I want to create an awesome place that we can smoke, but also not impact the future (aka stink up the whole house).\",\n \"Summary: should I move for personal reasons? Or stay in a better job climate/area?\\n\\nPost: Reddit, I need some help. I need some advice on trying to decide to move from San Jose (born and raised, currently living) to Dallas (went to university). Moved back to SJ for a well-paying, computer programming job. I’ve been at that job for 2.5 years, and frankly have been less than impressed. Not really the job I thought I was getting into (aka my skills have been wasting away) and is not a job with a lot of stability (layoffs are VERY common, but have been able to avoid because I have been rated highly). Not only that, but my social life is less than stellar here in SJ. Not very many friends, and finding ladies is quite difficult. So, I thought about moving back to Dallas (where a lot of my friends still are who I talk to everyday). Before leaving for holiday break, I talked to my boss about seeing if my company would allow me to keep my job AND move to Dallas. He said he was not opposed to it, and it made no difference to him. He would be fine with me moving, but I would have to pay (I expected this and have already set aside necessary money). \\n Which leaves me the question: should I do it. I’m starting to have second thoughts. Most of my thoughts revolve around: am I making the right decision. When I moved back to SJ after college, I was doing it knowing that a long term job was in my future. However, knowing that moving to Dallas is for personal reasons, I’m wondering if I’m making the right decisions. Is it wrong to move out of silicon valley (born and raised, tech capital of the world, etc) to move to Dallas for personal reasons(friends, cheaper standard of living, chance to own a home before 40).\"\n]","isConversational":false},"profile_size":{"kind":"number","value":26,"string":"26"},"task":{"kind":"string","value":"longlamp_4"},"split_kind":{"kind":"string","value":"user_based"},"id":{"kind":"number","value":1391,"string":"1,391"}}},{"rowIdx":1392,"cells":{"question_id":{"kind":"string","value":"helloiisclay"},"question":{"kind":"string","value":"Generate the content for a reddit post Vroom Vroom"},"answer":{"kind":"string","value":"The best analogy I've ever heard is this: think of it in terms of cars. A Lexus is manufactured by the same company as a Toyota and a Scion. \n The Scion will usually be the no frills, gets you from point A to point B. This would equate to a low-end marker (Proto - Dye, Etek & Etha - PE, etc.) It's not going to have the bells and whistles, but it will get you on the field. \n The Toyota is going to have some extras: leather seats and whatnot, while still getting you from point A to point B. It will be a little bit of a status symbol compared to your friends with the Scions. This would equate to an older high-end, or the midrange market (DM9-12, Ego 11, Geo 2, etc.) It's going to be extremely competitive on the field, but maybe not quite as good as this years guns - the Lexus'. \n The Lexus is going to be the no-expense-spared luxury experience. It's not going to get you from point A to point B any better than they Toyota probably could, but it will do it in style . It is a status symbol, but it also pays the manufacturer to innovate. If I can get the exact same features in a Toyota as a Lexus, why buy the Lexus? Answer: looks and the bells and whistles. Your Lexus is going to have the heated leather seats, voice recognition and everything standard. You may be able to pay for upgrades to a Toyota for this, but why upgrade when you can show everyone outright that you can afford the best straight up. This is the high-end markers (LV1, DM14, Luxe, etc.) You can possibly upgrade other markers to reach comparable performance, but why do that when you can buy a new one and have everyone droll over how pretty it is. \n As with cars, there is overlap in markers too. A decked out Scion will be nicer than the cheap Toyota. A top of the line Toyota will be nicer than a low-end Lexus. An Axe is a prime example of this - they sell for dirt cheap, but have the performance of some high-ends. DM13's, and Geo 3's, and are still extremely competitive exen though their last year's models. \n The one thing to keep in mind when buying a marker is this: what can you afford and what do you need? If you're able to tech your own gear, then get a used marker. If you've never tech'd a gun, you're probably better off going with new so that you have some manufacturer support. The tradeoff to the support is that you're not going to have all the bells and whistles. To keep with the analogy, can you work on a pre-owned Lexus yourself, or are you better off going for the Toyota with the 100K mile warranty? If you're a mechanic, get the Lexus. If you don't know cars, go with the Toyota. The Toyota isn't going to have all of the extras, but the trade-off is that you don't have to worry about working on it yourself."},"correct_answer":{"kind":"string","value":"The best analogy I've ever heard is this: think of it in terms of cars. A Lexus is manufactured by the same company as a Toyota and a Scion. \n The Scion will usually be the no frills, gets you from point A to point B. This would equate to a low-end marker (Proto - Dye, Etek & Etha - PE, etc.) It's not going to have the bells and whistles, but it will get you on the field. \n The Toyota is going to have some extras: leather seats and whatnot, while still getting you from point A to point B. It will be a little bit of a status symbol compared to your friends with the Scions. This would equate to an older high-end, or the midrange market (DM9-12, Ego 11, Geo 2, etc.) It's going to be extremely competitive on the field, but maybe not quite as good as this years guns - the Lexus'. \n The Lexus is going to be the no-expense-spared luxury experience. It's not going to get you from point A to point B any better than they Toyota probably could, but it will do it in style . It is a status symbol, but it also pays the manufacturer to innovate. If I can get the exact same features in a Toyota as a Lexus, why buy the Lexus? Answer: looks and the bells and whistles. Your Lexus is going to have the heated leather seats, voice recognition and everything standard. You may be able to pay for upgrades to a Toyota for this, but why upgrade when you can show everyone outright that you can afford the best straight up. This is the high-end markers (LV1, DM14, Luxe, etc.) You can possibly upgrade other markers to reach comparable performance, but why do that when you can buy a new one and have everyone droll over how pretty it is. \n As with cars, there is overlap in markers too. A decked out Scion will be nicer than the cheap Toyota. A top of the line Toyota will be nicer than a low-end Lexus. An Axe is a prime example of this - they sell for dirt cheap, but have the performance of some high-ends. DM13's, and Geo 3's, and are still extremely competitive exen though their last year's models. \n The one thing to keep in mind when buying a marker is this: what can you afford and what do you need? If you're able to tech your own gear, then get a used marker. If you've never tech'd a gun, you're probably better off going with new so that you have some manufacturer support. The tradeoff to the support is that you're not going to have all the bells and whistles. To keep with the analogy, can you work on a pre-owned Lexus yourself, or are you better off going for the Toyota with the 100K mile warranty? If you're a mechanic, get the Lexus. If you don't know cars, go with the Toyota. The Toyota isn't going to have all of the extras, but the trade-off is that you don't have to worry about working on it yourself."},"documents":{"kind":"list like","value":["Summary: Most Occupy protesters didn't know shit about the world other than protests are like going camping.\n\nPost: Went to the 9/11 memorial just after it opened, and while the Occupy protests were still going on. I saw a guy with a sign that said something like \"all soldiers are baby killers\" on one side and \"shoot our soldiers\" on the other (his signs were a little more creative and rhymed, but this was the gist.) I was active duty at the time and it pissed me off, so I called him out on it. Another guy walked up at the same time for the same reason. The protester then goes on to tell us how we need to convert this country to socialism because capitalism isn't working, and how we need to disband the military. Now, I agree that we shouldn't have been in Iraq, and Afghanistan may have been handled poorly in some ways, but disbanding the military entirely is not a reasonable option. When confronted with the flaws in his plans (socialism just doesn't work, and we can't not have a military), apparently we just didn't understand the way the world works like he did. Yea, he was an 18yo college freshman that had never been outside of the US, and had learned all he knew in freshman PoliSci classes.","Summary: All people are different and like different things. Communication is the single largest key or hurdle to having good sex.\n\nPost: Came to say this. I can't read your mind. If I need to move a little, or go slower or faster to get the right rhythm, tell me. If what I'm doing isn't working, communicate that to me. It's not going to hurt my feelings, and if I say something to you, it shouldn't hurt yours either. I have had some women that think they are the modern day Aphrodite, but couldn't give a blowjob to save their lives, or lay in bed limp, not doing anything. Some take direction, but a lot get offended that you're trying to alter their amazing technique. That's not good. It doesn't give me pleasure to have you gagging on my cock. A little rhythm and coordination make a much better blowjob or sex than gagging and drooling and all that. Some guys are into that...I'm not. At least not without some discussion first, and probably some familiarity with the woman. If I say faster or slower, or say keep a rhythm, it's because you're doing something good, and it'll get me off. \n The same is true the other way. I've also gone down on girls or fucked and they just not say anything to me. I'll ask, but they either don't say anything, or just agree that I should keep doing what I'm doing. I like to think I'm pretty good in the sack, but I know damn well I'm not perfect the first time down. Tell me what will make it better for you. The goal is to get you off, not to torture you for an hour until we're both worn out without reaching the goal. If it feels good, tell me and I'll keep doing it. If it doesn't, tell me and I'll do something different. The best sex I could ever have is when my partner is having a great time and getting off too. If it's going to only be about one of us, masturbation is less work.","Summary: The mind and body are insane when your brain doesn't get in the way by thinking.\n\nPost: I have a similar experience. About 7 years ago I had just moved to NJ from NC, and was driving up in my busted-ass '89 Buick Century with bald tires (I loved that car more than any other I've ever owned). Well it rained on me the entire way up, and I'd hydroplaned a little here and there, but nothing serious. I finally get to my exit off the Parkway, and my car decides to go ape shit. I'm starting to hit the exit, then the car starts to spin. I swear to FSM that I was thinking this during the spin: \n >\"This exit ramp is curved, so I'm going to hit a guard rail at some point. It's better to remain loose and not tense up when it happens, so I won't get hurt as bad. I remember seeing somewhere that race drivers are taught to look where they want to go, so I'll keep my eyes on the road ahead of me and just hope for the best.\" \n This was not a thought like a thought out sentence, but more of an all at once instinctive reaction. No freaking out or any real reaction other than the thought and actions that went along with it. I took my foot off the gas, never touched the brake, and let the car do it's thing. I kept my eyes on the road where I wanted to be, and let myself instinctively steer. When I finally stopped, I'd spun a little more than a complete 360, and was facing the right direction. I was stopped about 3 feet from the guard rail and never touched anything but road. Somehow, I'd spun around the curve of the exit ramp without hitting. I turned the steering wheel, drove back into the road, and went home.","Summary: I saw them cutting the gash.\n\nPost: Not OP, but my story: When my son was born, I did see the gash, but it was only by chance (and not at all by choice.) \n Wife went into the operating room and they had to start cutting before I could go in. The door to the room was on the \"business end\" of the curtain, so my first shot once inside the room was of the doctor cutting into my wife. They had to walk me around to the other side of the room to get to where I was allowed to be. \n I expressed the possibility of problems upon seeing my wife cut open to the nurse before going in, and she basically had me in an arm bar (holding my upper arm near my shoulder, and by my wrist) and rushed me through. I think she had me by the arm and had leverage on me in case anything happened, but she never mentioned that being the specific reason. She also walked me basically against the wall until around the curtain. I imagine it wasn't the first time a husband had expressed the same thoughts in the same situation, so it was probably routine for them. \n I still remember the operating doctor holding my son over the curtain so that we could see him and cracking a joke to relieve the tension. I don't think my wife remembers any of this, but I remember being the happiest person in the world, and scared to death all at the same time. I literally had tears of joy and fear running down my face all at once. Seeing my wife shivering on the table, and being completely out of it was very surreal (I think the nurse said her body had gone into shock due to her being awake for the surgery.) Seeing my son didn't ease my fear for my wife, but alongside it was this feeling of intense happiness. It was a very weird sensation. \n I'm sorry I turned this into a wall of text. It's the first time I've actually talked about.","Summary: A lawyer will best be able to help you protect your interests as you go through this.\n\nPost: I would recommend speaking to legal counsel first. Whistleblower laws can protect you, but a lot of people play dirty. There's a chance that you get fired on the spot, then the company claims that you did this as retaliation for being fired (they could even claim you were trying to blackmail them or some such.) That would open a huge can of worms for you, with the potential that you lose any unemployment or other benefits that you would be entitled to, as well as encountering some legal fallback directed at you. Speaking to legal ahead of time gives them a chance to defend you if it takes that route, and you are on record somewhere with your intentions. Also, document everything. Speak to a lawyer about any wiretap laws that are applicable, and if your state allows it, record the entire conversation with the owner. Also, be aware of the \"boys club\" mentality. I don't know if this would be applicable in this situation, but in my experience, some powerful men (eg: managers, business owners, supervisors) stick together, and view an outsider (in this case, you) coming in as a threat. If other people are aware of what's going on and are okay with it, they won't hesitate to drag your name through the mud to clear someone that view as \"one of their own\".","Summary: all you new guys, check out /r/DestinyTheGame for some similar stories and info about the game.\n\nPost: Probably playing Destiny a month or so back. Was playing the Atheon hard-mode raid. For the non-Destiny players, it was until recently the hardest thing to do in the game. You can go in with a 6 person fireteam, and during the fight, 3 random players get teleported. To bring the teleported people back, the non-teleported people have to open a portal and the teleported people have to kill stuff and get back to the portal. If one of the groups all dies, both groups die. \n Well the teleported group started getting wiped out, but we had Atheon down to a sliver of health left. I went all Leroy Jenkins, jumped up, and started unloading. As the screen is fading to black, Atheon goes down. It was glorious, and our entire team was in disbelief. Crazy and funny at the same time.","Summary: What you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone on Reddit is now dumber for having read it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.\n\nPost: It shouldn't but it does because of the threat of litigation. \n But the threat of litigation should not cause a doctor to discriminate. I can say that I'm going to sue my wife's doctor because she got her IUD without informing me or getting my consent. Do you think that threat will cause the doctor to change her practice? Do you think I could win that lawsuit? No on both accounts, because it's my wife's body and not mine; thus her choice and not mine. Now, that exact same situation in reverse is what we are talking about. \n >Just like private hospitals should treat you if you don't sign their waiver, right? Except that doesn't happen unless you're dying. \n Actually, all hospitals do that, not just private. All doctors require paperwork before they will treat you. That paperwork is not discriminatory as it is given to everyone, and, in fact, informs the patient of their rights under HIPPA law as well. You also aren't required to get that form signed by your spouse, so is completely different. That paper isn't actually a waiver either, but is actually an information form for your medical background, family history, and insurance and whatnot.","Summary: You're right on both counts...there is an unchanged copy, and there is an easy way to demodulate the voice.\n\nPost: You are correct: The original audio will stay on the recorder for the duration of a set retention period and that copy can't be altered (software prevents any changes in the original audio file, and will give checksums through the recording software to prove that it is unedited). Usually the pitch change is done by copying the file and editing that copy through a third party program like Audacity. \n Calls usually remain on the recorder anywhere from 30 days to a year, depending on the agency's policy. After the set retention period, the calls get deleted from the call recorder. For court cases, the person in charge of pulling calls will save and retain an unaltered copy from the recorder, and send altered copies out to third parties (press, lawyers, DA's office - yes, even the DA's copy is usually altered until a court order from a judge says otherwise). \n Currently, it is also pretty easy to change the audio file back to it's original, but I don't want to share that info here, for fear of my job and any possible legal issues (not sure if there are any, but better safe than sorry). I will say that with newer call recorders that have redaction and pitch change software included, it is getting more difficult. Newer recorders use a dynamic pitch change, so without the formula used to determine the waveform used for the change, it's almost impossible to change it back to it's original (this sentence gives a huge hint on how easy it is to change the audio back if you're really looking).","Summary: I have mixed feeling about about laws surrounding \"brandishing\" weapons, but agree 100% with what you said about police.\n\nPost: I have somewhat mixed feelings about it. I do think that a normal citizen should not have the right to make another fear for their life without cause. In that sense, I agree with the law and think a jury of peers would find a person in a legitimate situation innocent of any wrongdoing. \n On the flip side, there has been a time or two where I have found that moving to an open carry from concealed with my hand strategically placed on my hip has defused some situations easier than anything else would have (of course, I'd never touch my gun intentionally, because that is illegal...but I can't be responsible if I accidentally brush it or something). I work for different public safety agencies around the SE US, and don't always end up in the nicest areas at the most favorable times of day. I did that exact move a few months back at some gas station on the west side of Atlanta. Stopped for gas at around 11-12 at night, and had some guys hassle me (younger white guy in a nice car in a not so nice neighborhood). Took my jacket that was covering my holster off and threw it in the car while standing at the pump, and they moved on. No extra words, no confrontation, no real threats, just a defensive posture that completely defused the situation without extra drama. \n As far as cops go...yea. There are some serious issues on the training and accountability fronts. I have posted this before, but my background before my current job was serving in the US Coast Guard. We used to joke that it would be less hassle to take a bullet than it would to justify a discharge of a weapon. Of course it was only a joke, and had the situation presented itself, we would have worked to protect our lives, but that gives you a glimpse into the mindset we had. Drawing was a last resort. Always. Discharging (and sometimes even drawing) a weapon was considered an \"incident\" and was followed with mandatory team coordination training (TCT). TCT consisted of the boat crew and entire station examining ways that the incident could have been avoided/deescalated. There was also mandatory TCT each year where units would examine incidents at other units to learn from different incidents. During my time in, I only ever experienced the mandatory yearly TCT, and never the post-incident TCT. I 100% believe it was because of the mindset I mentioned earlier, and think that is a mindset that should be instilled into police. As it stands now though, PDs are getting more militaristic, and less accountable for incidents. Sorry for the novel.","Summary: Sorry for the novel, but basically, even though it sucks for the students, there is a good reason to stop students from adding their own devices to the computers.\n\nPost: Say each student brings their own mouse in (I'm assuming you share computers with other classes...) Each new mouse that gets plugged in adds it's own drivers to the machine. Drivers in Windows are loaded per USB port, so unless you plug the mouse into the exact same port every day, there are now multiple copies of your drivers on the machine. An average high school has either 4 or 8 classes in a day, correct? Now, that means, best case scenario that 4-8 new drivers (minimum) are on that machine. Average scenario would be probably 20 or so drivers added (8 classes, and all mice get plugged into two USB ports on the front of the machine throughout the course of the semester.) Worst case scenario would be that there is free seating in the class, and students swap spots each day. Now you're looking at potentially hundreds of drivers added to a given machine. \n Drivers in Windows are sometimes horrible. Every once in a while, an IT will run into a specific driver that seems to break everything. Easy enough to troubleshoot when there are only a few active drivers on a system, and the person doing the troubleshooting is aware of everything that's been introduced to the system. When there are potentially hundeds of new things added to a system, it gets a lot harder to troubleshoot. Sometimes, it's not a single driver that causes a problem, but a combination of drivers. \n Your buddy sitting in the same spot last class had a brand new $200 Razer mouse that his parents bought him, and you're using your trusty Logitech that you bought with your weekly paycheck 2 years ago. Your mouse is solid, and you've been using it on the school's machine for a year without any problems. Your boy's Razer mouse just loaded a shitty driver because it's a brand new mouse just released basically still running on Alpha drivers. Now you sit down and plug your mouse in, and the curser is jumping like a grasshopper on meth. You try the school's mouse and it's no better. Next day, Razer boy sits down and his mouse works perfectly. Turns out that the Razer drivers worked for that mouse, but hosed up every other mouse driver loaded on the system. \n These are just examples on one computer. Now imagine IT working on the 300 computers in the school, and you can see how that could get unbelievably crazy really quick. Add more devices in (keyboards, phones, etc) and it gets exponentially more difficult. Now consider if that IT person or department is shared between 2-3 schools, or (god forbid) an entire school district. \n I understand the desire to want to add your own equipment, but hopefully you can see some of this through IT's eyes, and understand why it is a necessary evil. Also, check out /r/talesfromtechsupport sometime. You'll see quickly that the reason your teacher doesn't want you using Chrome over RDP is most likely that she has no idea what the hell you are doing. She's probably the kind of person that knows how to do her job on a computer, but not much else. \n I haven't even touched on the reason for the MAC bans. If you're interested, PM me and I can go into some detail about it. Sorry for the wall of text, but hopefully it's somewhat informative.","Summary: Attention to detail is important. Sounds are details.\n\nPost: I work for a company that installs and maintains call recorders. I end up troubleshooting a ton of problems by ear. I've blown people away by listening to a problem and telling them exactly what it is. Static caused by lights or electrical is different from static caused by a bad punchdown, which is different than static from water intrusion, different than a bad handsets/headsets ....etc. Each telephone problem has it's own distinct sound, and once you learn the sounds, analog phone lines become a piece of cake. \n It's also amazing how many old techs that have been working for phone companies for 30+ years still don't know how to troubleshoot problems by ear. I've had instances where they ignore the punk kid (mid 20's but I look like I'm about 16 when I shave) walking to their demarc, clipping in with a buttset, and telling them what the problem is. They pull out their testers, start going apeshit testing everything the whole way through, then 2 hours later tell me that it's the handset cord that I told them about 2 hours ago.","Summary: Gun control is good, but the implementation in the US would have to take place over time and not just be a copy of another country's\n\nPost: I do agree that the US needs to be more strict about gun control as a whole. It's far too easy here to get a handgun in places, and you can pretty much, anywhere in the country, walk out with a rifle or shotgun the same day. I think mandatory classes (which should include range time, as well as psychological screening included in it) should be required for any weapons that could potentially be concealed, and in depth training should be required for a concealed carry permit to actually be granted. I also think the US should be better about tracking firearms. If someone buys a long gun (shotgun or rifle), they shouldn't be able to turn around the same day and sell it to a convicted felon without any consequences (completely legal in a lot of places in the US, believe it or not). I don't think completely banning weapons (as some would suggest) is the answer though, but instead, better screening, training, and accountability. \n I do think that your example of comparing it to nationalized health care applies though. Take, for example, British socialized medicine. My grandfather (mother is an immigrant and I am a dual national) came to the US and was diagnosed with cataracts. He went back to the UK to have them removed and the doctors there told him that the US doctors were mistaken. 3 years later, the cataracts were \"discovered\" by his doctor, but had progressed too much to be removed. He was eventually declared legally blind because of it. The medical system there does not do much for the elderly because the cost-to-gains is to high. I hear the Canadian health care system is amazing though (correct me if I'm wrong...). It all depends on the implementation and oversight of the system. \n With that said, I will relate that back to gun control laws. There are far too many firearms in circulation in the US for it to be feasible to suddenly enact strict laws like other countries have. Our implementation would have to be more gradual, to slowly shift the public opinions over time instead of forcing laws quickly, which could result in violence. Either way, guns should still be accessible to law abiding citizens, but more controlled and monitored. The easier path would be laws requiring certain training or such to be completed before carrying in public places. People should be required to carry firearms in their car trunks, unloaded, and with the ammunition separate, unless they complete the required training. The next step would be starting to monitor sales of guns, and track where they are and who is owning them. Private sales should have to meet most of the conditions of a public sale - anyone not following these rules should be punished. Slowly, over time, the guns would find their way out of criminal hands, and only in qualified hands that have gone through appropriate training.","Summary: ANS gear sent a friend a defective gun and wouldn't replace it, then sent me the wrong size shorts and refused to replace them.\n\nPost: I'm also on the boycott ANS bandwagon. A couple of stories: \n A friend of mine bought an Azodin Blitz as her first gun. Came in the mail, and she unboxed it at the field Saturday morning. as soon as she aired it up, it blew a macro fitting. After replacing the fitting, it started leaking. When she tried to RMA it, ANS told her that she was SOL and would have to take it up with the manufacturer. Fair enough, I thought. Paintballers do some stupid stuff sometimes, so have the manufacturer take responsibility for a defective product. \n Then, a couple of weeks later, I had my own personal experience. I bought a few shirts and a pair of shorts. When they arrived, the shirts were fine, but the shorts were 3 sizes smaller than I ordered (ordered a 38 and was sent a 32.) When I contacted ANS, they gave me an RMA number, I sent the shorts back, and I chalked it all up to a mistake in packaging. \n The shorts were delivered for a week with nothing notifying me of return shipping, so I shot them an email to find out what's going on. Another 3 days without a response, so I jumped on the phone to call them. The response I got was that the package was never delivered. I provided the tracking number confirming the delivery 10 days before, but they assured me that they hadn't received my package. Later that same day, they give me a call back letting me know that the package had been delivered, but had not been processed because it had been \"misplaced\". I informed the representative that I expected some kind of expedited shipping due to the delays caused by them misplacing the returned items (it had, at that point, been over 3 weeks since my original order.) The guy from ANS let me know that he would note that, and let me know once they had been processed. Another 3 days later, I get an email saying that ANS wouldn't accept the shorts because they had been worn and had sweat stains and dirt all over them. So, I call again. I calmly try to explain that 1. The shorts were sent back in the original packaging with the tags still on, so unless I was wearing them around with the tags hanging off, they couldn't have been worn, and 2. I wear a size 38, so there's no way in hell my fat ass is going to fit into a size 32. ANS tells me that they can either send the shorts back to me at my expense, or I can \"abandon\" them. I asked what happened if I abandoned them and was informed that ANS gets credit for the shorts. At that point, I gave up, cut my losses, and filed a complaint with the BBB. \n All in all, those 2 bad experiences were enough to cause me to never want to do business with ANS Gear again.There's a problem with a company that doesn't accept returns when they are at fault, and also gets money from the manufacturer for items, but doesn't give that money to the customer who paid for the item.","Summary: It could be staged or real, but either way it's a cool video.\n\nPost: I would say there's also the possibility that they'd already scouted it out or at least done some research. I wouldn't expect them to do something that could easily get them arrested without at least first spending some time scouting out the areas that you wouldn't get arrested for being in. They had probably already been to where the roof access was, or even all the way to the roof before the video was made, especially if they were planning on publishing it like this. Some easy social engineering would tell you the manufacturer of the sign, the software it uses, and file formats it accepts. If it accepts common file formats, problem solved. If it requires a proprietary format, there's a chance that the company would give it away, or you could score a copy through some further social engineering (\"I'm an intern at insert building here and lost the copy of software...and I don't want to get in trouble with my boss. Can you help me out?\"). Most of the proprietary software is useless without a sign to use it on, so it's no big deal to just send out a copy. As for the drone, my 350QX and GoPro sitting on my shelf next to me would easily do similar quality. \n As far as security not being alerted, honestly, that's not at all difficult to believe. A lot of the buildings don't have much security for roof access - usually just a padlock if anything at all (source: I've been on a lot of roofs mounting antennas and such). They wouldn't have been alerted until someone from outside reported it. By that time, the guys from the roof could've easily gone down a few floors, switched shirts, and hopped an elevator down, blending into the crowd (what the video implies). \n Or they could have had permission. To me, either explanation is believable. The only way we'll know for sure is if the building management releases that info, or if the guys get arrested a la the 1 World Trade Center BASE jumpers.","Summary: It wasn't performance, but the difficulty in maintaining that performance that hurt APS.\n\nPost: Their prices weren't out of line compared to other high-end markers. When the A1 Fly SB came out, it was cheaper than most any other high-end marker out there. Unfortunately, it was too little, too late. As far as support, everything I've heard has been overall positive. I never had to deal with Angel personally, but everyone I've spoken to had nothing but good things to say. I don't think it's was tied to their performance in the conventional sense, but more tied to the difficulty of maintaining that performance. \n Ultimately, the single largest contributing factor was probably that no big teams (besides Joy Division - read: non-US team) were sponsored by them, so they lost the \"cool\" factor. Also, they didn't have the yearly release cycle that DM's and Ego's had, so there was no rush to go out and buy the latest and greatest. They were built to mass produce a marker, and were unable to scale-down that production. For a lot of companies, it is easier to scale-up than to scale-down. \n A1's were very similar to G6R's in the end - as far as being great for tinkerers, but a lot of people stay away from them due to the learning curve and difficulty of maintenance. Both are great shooting guns, and they are IMO the #1 and #2 poppits out there. Both are able to be smoother than most spoolies, while still maintaining incredible air efficiency. The problem is: to get those results, you have to put in the time. Pros want to pick up their gun Friday morning heading to a tournament and have it shoot the same as last week or last month. If it doesn't, they want an easy fix. Angels and G6R's don't have that easy fix. Bob Long's solution is stay small enough that it doesn't hurt his business if sales drop off. He makes everything in-house and doesn't sponsor a pro team. The trade-off is that he's never going to get Smart Parts rich, or be able to mass produce on a huge level. Angel, on the other hand, got Smart Parts rich (not quite, but they did some business.) Then, when simpler guns came out, they stuck to their tested platforms, but were unable to keep up the sales. They ended up getting themselves into a money hole because they were too big and unable to scale-down. They were built to produce guns on the scale PE or Dye does (Angel had moved production to China to produce on a huge scale), but selling on the scale Bob Long does. When it came time to move production back to the UK, they most likely didn't still have the equipment or expertise to pick back up. \n This is speculation based off some of what I've read on PBNation and TechPB, but it's also been said that teams didn't want to use A1's due to the problems and hassle of using them compared to other guns. An example: the mini reg piston had an o-ring that could cause FPS to jump to ~4-500 if it came off. That situation is killer for a team, as evidenced by the TonTons last season. Disassembly required the special tools, which made teching in the pits more difficult. To adjust velocity more than a slight adjustment, both LPR and HPR needed to be adjusted, meaning you needed to disassemble the gun and connect the pressure testers. Compare that to an Ego, Shocker/Luxe, or a DM. These guns can be adjusted with just an allen wrench, anytime. If that o-ring from the reg piston made it into the body (happened to me the 2 times the o-ring came off on my A1 before I went to the D-Lite reg piston), you're going to have to take the entire back plate, solenoid, grip frame, and LPR assembly apart, using a standard set of metric allen keys as well as the special Angel extraction tools, to get the o-ring out. That's not ideal for a team in the pits during a tournament. \n My apologies for this wall of text, or if this wall of text was incoherent or doesn't make sense. I do think A1's are some of the best shooting and best performing guns out there if tuned and treated right, but it does require some time. The Magna and D-Lite upgrades to the A1 platform made the gun a dream. Unfortunately, again, I think it was too little, too late for them. This is pretty much all my opinion, as nobody from APS has spoken out on why they closed their doors, but from what I've seen, read, and personally experienced, I think it's pretty close to the truth.","Summary: Patches the cat brought me a full size copper head/\n\nPost: I had a cat with a similar hit list. His name was Patches. I'd never seen him hunting/killing but would always find dead animals on the hood of my car, or on the door step. One day, I went outside and saw him in the yard jumping around. He was bouncing in kind of a circle batting at something. I went over to get a better look, and immediately backed the fuck off. Patches had found a full size copper head and was playing with it. He would jump in, swipe at the snake, then jump back when the snake struck at him. I went and sat on my porch watching him for almost an hour, the whole time he was beating up on the snake. Finally, he moved in, picked it up, and brought it over to me. I, needless to say, made a hasty retreat. I went into the house and watched him drop the snake on the door step. He then backed up a ways and sat there watching me through the door. I worked up the nerve, found a broom handle and went to check the snake. It was dead, and Patches was rubbing against my legs purring.","Summary: An officer should be required to clearly show an attempted use of all of the levels of the use of force continuum before using deadly force, or they should be fired and arrested.\n\nPost: I would slightly disagree, and say that in many cases the real issue is that local officers are never properly trained on the use of force continuum. \n On the federal level, officers are trained, and retrained continuously on this until it is completely instinct. Use of deadly force should only EVER be used when you fear for your life and ALL other options have been exhausted. My background was the US Coast Guard. After any unplanned discharge (i.e. any time a firearm was discharged anywhere other than the range), the personnel involved had to justify it and demonstrate that they carried out all other options before hand, as well as go through TCT (team coordination training) to explore any possible way that the situation could have been avoided or deescalated. We, as a unit, had to go through TCT twice a year, where we went over mishaps from other units that may apply to us (discharges were considered mishaps). \n We used to joke that with everything we would have to go through after a discharge, it would almost be better to just forget the gun was there and hope for the best while trying to get the hell out of dodge. It was only a joke, but it had it's roots in truth, and shows what our mindset was about even considering using deadly force. I, personally, think this is the correct mindset for any LEO. Deadly force shouldn't even come to mind unless you're either 1) looking at someone with a gun and obviously going for it and have no way of retreat, or 2) all other possible options (the entire use of force continuum, as well as calling in backup) have been exhausted and you have a completely justifiable and articulable fear for your life or someone else's (just a feeling isn't enough). \n This officer (and a lot of others I've seen in videos) went straight from level 1 to level 6 on the use of force continuum. He issued a verbal command (level 2 - level 1 is simply officer presence). Once he saw that the man was doing something unexpected (reaching towards the vehicle), he should have issued a new verbal command (STOP!!! - still at level 2 and still in the communication levels) and possibly began moving to a defensive position. If the guy complied, issue resolved. Once the officer saw the guy was complying, the issue can be sorted out through more clear communication. \n At that point, if the guy didn't comply, the officer has no choice than to escalate to a new level. In this hypothetical, since the officer doesn't have a clear view of the contents of the vehicle, he should retreat to a defensive position/location, call in support (typically support is slow so has no physical effect on the situation, but this is also an intimidation tactic as the suspect doesn't know the response times - level 2 again), and begin exploring less-than-lethal options and better surveying the situation (moving to level 5 - levels 3 and 4 deal with physical control techniques, so wouldn't be applicable in this hypothetical). The officer should have then attempted to employ pepper spray and/or a taser to get the guy under control (first step is warning of use, second set is presenting it for use, and third step is actually using it). He's now, more than likely, gotten the guy under control, and can move back to levels 3 and 4 (handcuffs). In the event that the guy is crazy, after hearing that backup is on it's way and being pepper sprayed/tazed, and still doesn't comply, there is still no justifiable reason for the officer to move to deadly force. \n Moving to level 6 (deadly force) would be warranted if at any time during all of this, the guy managed to pull a weapon from his vehicle. In the event of the guy pulling a knife, the officer's move to a defensive position earlier negates the immediate necessity for actually shooting, and gives time for the officer to issue both verbal warnings (\"stop or I will shoot\") and physical warnings (drawing and pointing the gun). If a gun was pulled or if the guy advances with the knife, then and only then should actual use of deadly force be justified.","Summary: killed Atheon with maybe one second to spare before a wipe. Legendary\n\nPost: So we're playing through, wipe a few times, lose a couple of negative members, pick up a couple of more positive people, then go back to have some more fun. We're running HM with 4x29's and 2x30's. Get Atheon to barely a sliver, and the teleport happens. All 29's go through. Two drop pretty quick, and we know it's a wipe. I have no idea who said it, but someone in the party chat yelled for the 30's to just unload on Atheon and see if we could get him down before the wipe. \n My screen's starting to go red when I hear this, but I bellow a lengthy \"LEEEEEEEEEROOOOOOOYYYYY\" and jump into action. I jump up on the platform and start unloading. My VoC isn't doing enough, so I finally switch over to my heavy. My trusty void Swarm with high stability never disappoints. With a throaty \"JENKINS!\" Atheon begins to dissolve. Just in time too. I jump down towards his lifeless corpse and succomb to the Oracles. Rewards start popping up, and we know that we have one of our personal greatest Atheon clears ever. The Guardians may have perished in the fray, but they became legends. Stories will be shared in the Tower and told over cook fires on the battlefield. The Vex may have control of time, but they have no cojones. We Guardians do. \n [Here's the rough edit of the video uploaded straight from my PS4 if you're interested in witnessing the legend (sorry for all the extra in there).]( I believe the fight starts around 5:00-5:30ish, with the epic last stand at around 9:20-9:30ish.","Summary: Tonight, I experienced the social aspect of Destiny at it's finest.\n\nPost: So I was thinking about calling it a night around 8:30, then got an invite in the tower. I looked and it was a group of 25's to 26's that were trying to do the VoG. I didn't think we'd make it very far, but went with it anyways. \n We had some trouble raising the spire, but who doesn't sometimes? Once we got the groups worked out and figured out who worked best where, it was cake. Get to the first chest and I got some much needed shards. Continued on, and walked through the confluxes and oracles without a single wipe. We cheesed the Templar (I know...bad form for taking them through their first raid, but we had some close calls before, so figured it was the best way to do that part.) \n The most fun came at the Gorgon's Labyrinth and the jumping puzzle. It probably took us two hours to get through these parts, but I'll be damned if my jaw doesn't hurt from us laughing our asses off. It didn't help any that I couldn't find my way around - I've always relied on the guidance of others, so only knew definitively where the first chest was in the labyrinth. We tried our hand at killing a Gorgon or two, with little success, but it made for an excellent light show. We split up and explored different areas. We played hide and seek with a couple of Gorgons. Then we continued on to the jumping puzzle. Once the guys figured out they could knock each other off, shenanigans ensued. \n Finally, we tried our hand at the gatekeeper. Unfortunately, it was difficult when they were getting one-shotted and not able to do enough damage to the praetorians, so we had to call it quits there. We did manage to get the Mars relic out a time or two, but couldn't get both. A couple of them have enough shards now to get to 27-28, so we're going to try again tomorrow night after they level up a bit. \n I got to see and experience the whole range of human emotion tonight. There was a lot of laughing, and we may have been close to crying during one or two points. There was plenty of excitement, as well as some fear thrown in. The joy in their voices from them receiving the first pieces of raid gear was awesome. I've had a lot of frustration with this game (the frustrations of a 29 hunter that just needs my damn boots!), but tonight was the complete opposite end of the spectrum. Pure, unadulterated fun. A good group that decided it was time to venture into the Vault, and wanted a sherpa. I consider myself lucky to have been their guide."],"string":"[\n \"Summary: Most Occupy protesters didn't know shit about the world other than protests are like going camping.\\n\\nPost: Went to the 9/11 memorial just after it opened, and while the Occupy protests were still going on. I saw a guy with a sign that said something like \\\"all soldiers are baby killers\\\" on one side and \\\"shoot our soldiers\\\" on the other (his signs were a little more creative and rhymed, but this was the gist.) I was active duty at the time and it pissed me off, so I called him out on it. Another guy walked up at the same time for the same reason. The protester then goes on to tell us how we need to convert this country to socialism because capitalism isn't working, and how we need to disband the military. Now, I agree that we shouldn't have been in Iraq, and Afghanistan may have been handled poorly in some ways, but disbanding the military entirely is not a reasonable option. When confronted with the flaws in his plans (socialism just doesn't work, and we can't not have a military), apparently we just didn't understand the way the world works like he did. Yea, he was an 18yo college freshman that had never been outside of the US, and had learned all he knew in freshman PoliSci classes.\",\n \"Summary: All people are different and like different things. Communication is the single largest key or hurdle to having good sex.\\n\\nPost: Came to say this. I can't read your mind. If I need to move a little, or go slower or faster to get the right rhythm, tell me. If what I'm doing isn't working, communicate that to me. It's not going to hurt my feelings, and if I say something to you, it shouldn't hurt yours either. I have had some women that think they are the modern day Aphrodite, but couldn't give a blowjob to save their lives, or lay in bed limp, not doing anything. Some take direction, but a lot get offended that you're trying to alter their amazing technique. That's not good. It doesn't give me pleasure to have you gagging on my cock. A little rhythm and coordination make a much better blowjob or sex than gagging and drooling and all that. Some guys are into that...I'm not. At least not without some discussion first, and probably some familiarity with the woman. If I say faster or slower, or say keep a rhythm, it's because you're doing something good, and it'll get me off. \\n The same is true the other way. I've also gone down on girls or fucked and they just not say anything to me. I'll ask, but they either don't say anything, or just agree that I should keep doing what I'm doing. I like to think I'm pretty good in the sack, but I know damn well I'm not perfect the first time down. Tell me what will make it better for you. The goal is to get you off, not to torture you for an hour until we're both worn out without reaching the goal. If it feels good, tell me and I'll keep doing it. If it doesn't, tell me and I'll do something different. The best sex I could ever have is when my partner is having a great time and getting off too. If it's going to only be about one of us, masturbation is less work.\",\n \"Summary: The mind and body are insane when your brain doesn't get in the way by thinking.\\n\\nPost: I have a similar experience. About 7 years ago I had just moved to NJ from NC, and was driving up in my busted-ass '89 Buick Century with bald tires (I loved that car more than any other I've ever owned). Well it rained on me the entire way up, and I'd hydroplaned a little here and there, but nothing serious. I finally get to my exit off the Parkway, and my car decides to go ape shit. I'm starting to hit the exit, then the car starts to spin. I swear to FSM that I was thinking this during the spin: \\n >\\\"This exit ramp is curved, so I'm going to hit a guard rail at some point. It's better to remain loose and not tense up when it happens, so I won't get hurt as bad. I remember seeing somewhere that race drivers are taught to look where they want to go, so I'll keep my eyes on the road ahead of me and just hope for the best.\\\" \\n This was not a thought like a thought out sentence, but more of an all at once instinctive reaction. No freaking out or any real reaction other than the thought and actions that went along with it. I took my foot off the gas, never touched the brake, and let the car do it's thing. I kept my eyes on the road where I wanted to be, and let myself instinctively steer. When I finally stopped, I'd spun a little more than a complete 360, and was facing the right direction. I was stopped about 3 feet from the guard rail and never touched anything but road. Somehow, I'd spun around the curve of the exit ramp without hitting. I turned the steering wheel, drove back into the road, and went home.\",\n \"Summary: I saw them cutting the gash.\\n\\nPost: Not OP, but my story: When my son was born, I did see the gash, but it was only by chance (and not at all by choice.) \\n Wife went into the operating room and they had to start cutting before I could go in. The door to the room was on the \\\"business end\\\" of the curtain, so my first shot once inside the room was of the doctor cutting into my wife. They had to walk me around to the other side of the room to get to where I was allowed to be. \\n I expressed the possibility of problems upon seeing my wife cut open to the nurse before going in, and she basically had me in an arm bar (holding my upper arm near my shoulder, and by my wrist) and rushed me through. I think she had me by the arm and had leverage on me in case anything happened, but she never mentioned that being the specific reason. She also walked me basically against the wall until around the curtain. I imagine it wasn't the first time a husband had expressed the same thoughts in the same situation, so it was probably routine for them. \\n I still remember the operating doctor holding my son over the curtain so that we could see him and cracking a joke to relieve the tension. I don't think my wife remembers any of this, but I remember being the happiest person in the world, and scared to death all at the same time. I literally had tears of joy and fear running down my face all at once. Seeing my wife shivering on the table, and being completely out of it was very surreal (I think the nurse said her body had gone into shock due to her being awake for the surgery.) Seeing my son didn't ease my fear for my wife, but alongside it was this feeling of intense happiness. It was a very weird sensation. \\n I'm sorry I turned this into a wall of text. It's the first time I've actually talked about.\",\n \"Summary: A lawyer will best be able to help you protect your interests as you go through this.\\n\\nPost: I would recommend speaking to legal counsel first. Whistleblower laws can protect you, but a lot of people play dirty. There's a chance that you get fired on the spot, then the company claims that you did this as retaliation for being fired (they could even claim you were trying to blackmail them or some such.) That would open a huge can of worms for you, with the potential that you lose any unemployment or other benefits that you would be entitled to, as well as encountering some legal fallback directed at you. Speaking to legal ahead of time gives them a chance to defend you if it takes that route, and you are on record somewhere with your intentions. Also, document everything. Speak to a lawyer about any wiretap laws that are applicable, and if your state allows it, record the entire conversation with the owner. Also, be aware of the \\\"boys club\\\" mentality. I don't know if this would be applicable in this situation, but in my experience, some powerful men (eg: managers, business owners, supervisors) stick together, and view an outsider (in this case, you) coming in as a threat. If other people are aware of what's going on and are okay with it, they won't hesitate to drag your name through the mud to clear someone that view as \\\"one of their own\\\".\",\n \"Summary: all you new guys, check out /r/DestinyTheGame for some similar stories and info about the game.\\n\\nPost: Probably playing Destiny a month or so back. Was playing the Atheon hard-mode raid. For the non-Destiny players, it was until recently the hardest thing to do in the game. You can go in with a 6 person fireteam, and during the fight, 3 random players get teleported. To bring the teleported people back, the non-teleported people have to open a portal and the teleported people have to kill stuff and get back to the portal. If one of the groups all dies, both groups die. \\n Well the teleported group started getting wiped out, but we had Atheon down to a sliver of health left. I went all Leroy Jenkins, jumped up, and started unloading. As the screen is fading to black, Atheon goes down. It was glorious, and our entire team was in disbelief. Crazy and funny at the same time.\",\n \"Summary: What you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone on Reddit is now dumber for having read it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.\\n\\nPost: It shouldn't but it does because of the threat of litigation. \\n But the threat of litigation should not cause a doctor to discriminate. I can say that I'm going to sue my wife's doctor because she got her IUD without informing me or getting my consent. Do you think that threat will cause the doctor to change her practice? Do you think I could win that lawsuit? No on both accounts, because it's my wife's body and not mine; thus her choice and not mine. Now, that exact same situation in reverse is what we are talking about. \\n >Just like private hospitals should treat you if you don't sign their waiver, right? Except that doesn't happen unless you're dying. \\n Actually, all hospitals do that, not just private. All doctors require paperwork before they will treat you. That paperwork is not discriminatory as it is given to everyone, and, in fact, informs the patient of their rights under HIPPA law as well. You also aren't required to get that form signed by your spouse, so is completely different. That paper isn't actually a waiver either, but is actually an information form for your medical background, family history, and insurance and whatnot.\",\n \"Summary: You're right on both counts...there is an unchanged copy, and there is an easy way to demodulate the voice.\\n\\nPost: You are correct: The original audio will stay on the recorder for the duration of a set retention period and that copy can't be altered (software prevents any changes in the original audio file, and will give checksums through the recording software to prove that it is unedited). Usually the pitch change is done by copying the file and editing that copy through a third party program like Audacity. \\n Calls usually remain on the recorder anywhere from 30 days to a year, depending on the agency's policy. After the set retention period, the calls get deleted from the call recorder. For court cases, the person in charge of pulling calls will save and retain an unaltered copy from the recorder, and send altered copies out to third parties (press, lawyers, DA's office - yes, even the DA's copy is usually altered until a court order from a judge says otherwise). \\n Currently, it is also pretty easy to change the audio file back to it's original, but I don't want to share that info here, for fear of my job and any possible legal issues (not sure if there are any, but better safe than sorry). I will say that with newer call recorders that have redaction and pitch change software included, it is getting more difficult. Newer recorders use a dynamic pitch change, so without the formula used to determine the waveform used for the change, it's almost impossible to change it back to it's original (this sentence gives a huge hint on how easy it is to change the audio back if you're really looking).\",\n \"Summary: I have mixed feeling about about laws surrounding \\\"brandishing\\\" weapons, but agree 100% with what you said about police.\\n\\nPost: I have somewhat mixed feelings about it. I do think that a normal citizen should not have the right to make another fear for their life without cause. In that sense, I agree with the law and think a jury of peers would find a person in a legitimate situation innocent of any wrongdoing. \\n On the flip side, there has been a time or two where I have found that moving to an open carry from concealed with my hand strategically placed on my hip has defused some situations easier than anything else would have (of course, I'd never touch my gun intentionally, because that is illegal...but I can't be responsible if I accidentally brush it or something). I work for different public safety agencies around the SE US, and don't always end up in the nicest areas at the most favorable times of day. I did that exact move a few months back at some gas station on the west side of Atlanta. Stopped for gas at around 11-12 at night, and had some guys hassle me (younger white guy in a nice car in a not so nice neighborhood). Took my jacket that was covering my holster off and threw it in the car while standing at the pump, and they moved on. No extra words, no confrontation, no real threats, just a defensive posture that completely defused the situation without extra drama. \\n As far as cops go...yea. There are some serious issues on the training and accountability fronts. I have posted this before, but my background before my current job was serving in the US Coast Guard. We used to joke that it would be less hassle to take a bullet than it would to justify a discharge of a weapon. Of course it was only a joke, and had the situation presented itself, we would have worked to protect our lives, but that gives you a glimpse into the mindset we had. Drawing was a last resort. Always. Discharging (and sometimes even drawing) a weapon was considered an \\\"incident\\\" and was followed with mandatory team coordination training (TCT). TCT consisted of the boat crew and entire station examining ways that the incident could have been avoided/deescalated. There was also mandatory TCT each year where units would examine incidents at other units to learn from different incidents. During my time in, I only ever experienced the mandatory yearly TCT, and never the post-incident TCT. I 100% believe it was because of the mindset I mentioned earlier, and think that is a mindset that should be instilled into police. As it stands now though, PDs are getting more militaristic, and less accountable for incidents. Sorry for the novel.\",\n \"Summary: Sorry for the novel, but basically, even though it sucks for the students, there is a good reason to stop students from adding their own devices to the computers.\\n\\nPost: Say each student brings their own mouse in (I'm assuming you share computers with other classes...) Each new mouse that gets plugged in adds it's own drivers to the machine. Drivers in Windows are loaded per USB port, so unless you plug the mouse into the exact same port every day, there are now multiple copies of your drivers on the machine. An average high school has either 4 or 8 classes in a day, correct? Now, that means, best case scenario that 4-8 new drivers (minimum) are on that machine. Average scenario would be probably 20 or so drivers added (8 classes, and all mice get plugged into two USB ports on the front of the machine throughout the course of the semester.) Worst case scenario would be that there is free seating in the class, and students swap spots each day. Now you're looking at potentially hundreds of drivers added to a given machine. \\n Drivers in Windows are sometimes horrible. Every once in a while, an IT will run into a specific driver that seems to break everything. Easy enough to troubleshoot when there are only a few active drivers on a system, and the person doing the troubleshooting is aware of everything that's been introduced to the system. When there are potentially hundeds of new things added to a system, it gets a lot harder to troubleshoot. Sometimes, it's not a single driver that causes a problem, but a combination of drivers. \\n Your buddy sitting in the same spot last class had a brand new $200 Razer mouse that his parents bought him, and you're using your trusty Logitech that you bought with your weekly paycheck 2 years ago. Your mouse is solid, and you've been using it on the school's machine for a year without any problems. Your boy's Razer mouse just loaded a shitty driver because it's a brand new mouse just released basically still running on Alpha drivers. Now you sit down and plug your mouse in, and the curser is jumping like a grasshopper on meth. You try the school's mouse and it's no better. Next day, Razer boy sits down and his mouse works perfectly. Turns out that the Razer drivers worked for that mouse, but hosed up every other mouse driver loaded on the system. \\n These are just examples on one computer. Now imagine IT working on the 300 computers in the school, and you can see how that could get unbelievably crazy really quick. Add more devices in (keyboards, phones, etc) and it gets exponentially more difficult. Now consider if that IT person or department is shared between 2-3 schools, or (god forbid) an entire school district. \\n I understand the desire to want to add your own equipment, but hopefully you can see some of this through IT's eyes, and understand why it is a necessary evil. Also, check out /r/talesfromtechsupport sometime. You'll see quickly that the reason your teacher doesn't want you using Chrome over RDP is most likely that she has no idea what the hell you are doing. She's probably the kind of person that knows how to do her job on a computer, but not much else. \\n I haven't even touched on the reason for the MAC bans. If you're interested, PM me and I can go into some detail about it. Sorry for the wall of text, but hopefully it's somewhat informative.\",\n \"Summary: Attention to detail is important. Sounds are details.\\n\\nPost: I work for a company that installs and maintains call recorders. I end up troubleshooting a ton of problems by ear. I've blown people away by listening to a problem and telling them exactly what it is. Static caused by lights or electrical is different from static caused by a bad punchdown, which is different than static from water intrusion, different than a bad handsets/headsets ....etc. Each telephone problem has it's own distinct sound, and once you learn the sounds, analog phone lines become a piece of cake. \\n It's also amazing how many old techs that have been working for phone companies for 30+ years still don't know how to troubleshoot problems by ear. I've had instances where they ignore the punk kid (mid 20's but I look like I'm about 16 when I shave) walking to their demarc, clipping in with a buttset, and telling them what the problem is. They pull out their testers, start going apeshit testing everything the whole way through, then 2 hours later tell me that it's the handset cord that I told them about 2 hours ago.\",\n \"Summary: Gun control is good, but the implementation in the US would have to take place over time and not just be a copy of another country's\\n\\nPost: I do agree that the US needs to be more strict about gun control as a whole. It's far too easy here to get a handgun in places, and you can pretty much, anywhere in the country, walk out with a rifle or shotgun the same day. I think mandatory classes (which should include range time, as well as psychological screening included in it) should be required for any weapons that could potentially be concealed, and in depth training should be required for a concealed carry permit to actually be granted. I also think the US should be better about tracking firearms. If someone buys a long gun (shotgun or rifle), they shouldn't be able to turn around the same day and sell it to a convicted felon without any consequences (completely legal in a lot of places in the US, believe it or not). I don't think completely banning weapons (as some would suggest) is the answer though, but instead, better screening, training, and accountability. \\n I do think that your example of comparing it to nationalized health care applies though. Take, for example, British socialized medicine. My grandfather (mother is an immigrant and I am a dual national) came to the US and was diagnosed with cataracts. He went back to the UK to have them removed and the doctors there told him that the US doctors were mistaken. 3 years later, the cataracts were \\\"discovered\\\" by his doctor, but had progressed too much to be removed. He was eventually declared legally blind because of it. The medical system there does not do much for the elderly because the cost-to-gains is to high. I hear the Canadian health care system is amazing though (correct me if I'm wrong...). It all depends on the implementation and oversight of the system. \\n With that said, I will relate that back to gun control laws. There are far too many firearms in circulation in the US for it to be feasible to suddenly enact strict laws like other countries have. Our implementation would have to be more gradual, to slowly shift the public opinions over time instead of forcing laws quickly, which could result in violence. Either way, guns should still be accessible to law abiding citizens, but more controlled and monitored. The easier path would be laws requiring certain training or such to be completed before carrying in public places. People should be required to carry firearms in their car trunks, unloaded, and with the ammunition separate, unless they complete the required training. The next step would be starting to monitor sales of guns, and track where they are and who is owning them. Private sales should have to meet most of the conditions of a public sale - anyone not following these rules should be punished. Slowly, over time, the guns would find their way out of criminal hands, and only in qualified hands that have gone through appropriate training.\",\n \"Summary: ANS gear sent a friend a defective gun and wouldn't replace it, then sent me the wrong size shorts and refused to replace them.\\n\\nPost: I'm also on the boycott ANS bandwagon. A couple of stories: \\n A friend of mine bought an Azodin Blitz as her first gun. Came in the mail, and she unboxed it at the field Saturday morning. as soon as she aired it up, it blew a macro fitting. After replacing the fitting, it started leaking. When she tried to RMA it, ANS told her that she was SOL and would have to take it up with the manufacturer. Fair enough, I thought. Paintballers do some stupid stuff sometimes, so have the manufacturer take responsibility for a defective product. \\n Then, a couple of weeks later, I had my own personal experience. I bought a few shirts and a pair of shorts. When they arrived, the shirts were fine, but the shorts were 3 sizes smaller than I ordered (ordered a 38 and was sent a 32.) When I contacted ANS, they gave me an RMA number, I sent the shorts back, and I chalked it all up to a mistake in packaging. \\n The shorts were delivered for a week with nothing notifying me of return shipping, so I shot them an email to find out what's going on. Another 3 days without a response, so I jumped on the phone to call them. The response I got was that the package was never delivered. I provided the tracking number confirming the delivery 10 days before, but they assured me that they hadn't received my package. Later that same day, they give me a call back letting me know that the package had been delivered, but had not been processed because it had been \\\"misplaced\\\". I informed the representative that I expected some kind of expedited shipping due to the delays caused by them misplacing the returned items (it had, at that point, been over 3 weeks since my original order.) The guy from ANS let me know that he would note that, and let me know once they had been processed. Another 3 days later, I get an email saying that ANS wouldn't accept the shorts because they had been worn and had sweat stains and dirt all over them. So, I call again. I calmly try to explain that 1. The shorts were sent back in the original packaging with the tags still on, so unless I was wearing them around with the tags hanging off, they couldn't have been worn, and 2. I wear a size 38, so there's no way in hell my fat ass is going to fit into a size 32. ANS tells me that they can either send the shorts back to me at my expense, or I can \\\"abandon\\\" them. I asked what happened if I abandoned them and was informed that ANS gets credit for the shorts. At that point, I gave up, cut my losses, and filed a complaint with the BBB. \\n All in all, those 2 bad experiences were enough to cause me to never want to do business with ANS Gear again.There's a problem with a company that doesn't accept returns when they are at fault, and also gets money from the manufacturer for items, but doesn't give that money to the customer who paid for the item.\",\n \"Summary: It could be staged or real, but either way it's a cool video.\\n\\nPost: I would say there's also the possibility that they'd already scouted it out or at least done some research. I wouldn't expect them to do something that could easily get them arrested without at least first spending some time scouting out the areas that you wouldn't get arrested for being in. They had probably already been to where the roof access was, or even all the way to the roof before the video was made, especially if they were planning on publishing it like this. Some easy social engineering would tell you the manufacturer of the sign, the software it uses, and file formats it accepts. If it accepts common file formats, problem solved. If it requires a proprietary format, there's a chance that the company would give it away, or you could score a copy through some further social engineering (\\\"I'm an intern at insert building here and lost the copy of software...and I don't want to get in trouble with my boss. Can you help me out?\\\"). Most of the proprietary software is useless without a sign to use it on, so it's no big deal to just send out a copy. As for the drone, my 350QX and GoPro sitting on my shelf next to me would easily do similar quality. \\n As far as security not being alerted, honestly, that's not at all difficult to believe. A lot of the buildings don't have much security for roof access - usually just a padlock if anything at all (source: I've been on a lot of roofs mounting antennas and such). They wouldn't have been alerted until someone from outside reported it. By that time, the guys from the roof could've easily gone down a few floors, switched shirts, and hopped an elevator down, blending into the crowd (what the video implies). \\n Or they could have had permission. To me, either explanation is believable. The only way we'll know for sure is if the building management releases that info, or if the guys get arrested a la the 1 World Trade Center BASE jumpers.\",\n \"Summary: It wasn't performance, but the difficulty in maintaining that performance that hurt APS.\\n\\nPost: Their prices weren't out of line compared to other high-end markers. When the A1 Fly SB came out, it was cheaper than most any other high-end marker out there. Unfortunately, it was too little, too late. As far as support, everything I've heard has been overall positive. I never had to deal with Angel personally, but everyone I've spoken to had nothing but good things to say. I don't think it's was tied to their performance in the conventional sense, but more tied to the difficulty of maintaining that performance. \\n Ultimately, the single largest contributing factor was probably that no big teams (besides Joy Division - read: non-US team) were sponsored by them, so they lost the \\\"cool\\\" factor. Also, they didn't have the yearly release cycle that DM's and Ego's had, so there was no rush to go out and buy the latest and greatest. They were built to mass produce a marker, and were unable to scale-down that production. For a lot of companies, it is easier to scale-up than to scale-down. \\n A1's were very similar to G6R's in the end - as far as being great for tinkerers, but a lot of people stay away from them due to the learning curve and difficulty of maintenance. Both are great shooting guns, and they are IMO the #1 and #2 poppits out there. Both are able to be smoother than most spoolies, while still maintaining incredible air efficiency. The problem is: to get those results, you have to put in the time. Pros want to pick up their gun Friday morning heading to a tournament and have it shoot the same as last week or last month. If it doesn't, they want an easy fix. Angels and G6R's don't have that easy fix. Bob Long's solution is stay small enough that it doesn't hurt his business if sales drop off. He makes everything in-house and doesn't sponsor a pro team. The trade-off is that he's never going to get Smart Parts rich, or be able to mass produce on a huge level. Angel, on the other hand, got Smart Parts rich (not quite, but they did some business.) Then, when simpler guns came out, they stuck to their tested platforms, but were unable to keep up the sales. They ended up getting themselves into a money hole because they were too big and unable to scale-down. They were built to produce guns on the scale PE or Dye does (Angel had moved production to China to produce on a huge scale), but selling on the scale Bob Long does. When it came time to move production back to the UK, they most likely didn't still have the equipment or expertise to pick back up. \\n This is speculation based off some of what I've read on PBNation and TechPB, but it's also been said that teams didn't want to use A1's due to the problems and hassle of using them compared to other guns. An example: the mini reg piston had an o-ring that could cause FPS to jump to ~4-500 if it came off. That situation is killer for a team, as evidenced by the TonTons last season. Disassembly required the special tools, which made teching in the pits more difficult. To adjust velocity more than a slight adjustment, both LPR and HPR needed to be adjusted, meaning you needed to disassemble the gun and connect the pressure testers. Compare that to an Ego, Shocker/Luxe, or a DM. These guns can be adjusted with just an allen wrench, anytime. If that o-ring from the reg piston made it into the body (happened to me the 2 times the o-ring came off on my A1 before I went to the D-Lite reg piston), you're going to have to take the entire back plate, solenoid, grip frame, and LPR assembly apart, using a standard set of metric allen keys as well as the special Angel extraction tools, to get the o-ring out. That's not ideal for a team in the pits during a tournament. \\n My apologies for this wall of text, or if this wall of text was incoherent or doesn't make sense. I do think A1's are some of the best shooting and best performing guns out there if tuned and treated right, but it does require some time. The Magna and D-Lite upgrades to the A1 platform made the gun a dream. Unfortunately, again, I think it was too little, too late for them. This is pretty much all my opinion, as nobody from APS has spoken out on why they closed their doors, but from what I've seen, read, and personally experienced, I think it's pretty close to the truth.\",\n \"Summary: Patches the cat brought me a full size copper head/\\n\\nPost: I had a cat with a similar hit list. His name was Patches. I'd never seen him hunting/killing but would always find dead animals on the hood of my car, or on the door step. One day, I went outside and saw him in the yard jumping around. He was bouncing in kind of a circle batting at something. I went over to get a better look, and immediately backed the fuck off. Patches had found a full size copper head and was playing with it. He would jump in, swipe at the snake, then jump back when the snake struck at him. I went and sat on my porch watching him for almost an hour, the whole time he was beating up on the snake. Finally, he moved in, picked it up, and brought it over to me. I, needless to say, made a hasty retreat. I went into the house and watched him drop the snake on the door step. He then backed up a ways and sat there watching me through the door. I worked up the nerve, found a broom handle and went to check the snake. It was dead, and Patches was rubbing against my legs purring.\",\n \"Summary: An officer should be required to clearly show an attempted use of all of the levels of the use of force continuum before using deadly force, or they should be fired and arrested.\\n\\nPost: I would slightly disagree, and say that in many cases the real issue is that local officers are never properly trained on the use of force continuum. \\n On the federal level, officers are trained, and retrained continuously on this until it is completely instinct. Use of deadly force should only EVER be used when you fear for your life and ALL other options have been exhausted. My background was the US Coast Guard. After any unplanned discharge (i.e. any time a firearm was discharged anywhere other than the range), the personnel involved had to justify it and demonstrate that they carried out all other options before hand, as well as go through TCT (team coordination training) to explore any possible way that the situation could have been avoided or deescalated. We, as a unit, had to go through TCT twice a year, where we went over mishaps from other units that may apply to us (discharges were considered mishaps). \\n We used to joke that with everything we would have to go through after a discharge, it would almost be better to just forget the gun was there and hope for the best while trying to get the hell out of dodge. It was only a joke, but it had it's roots in truth, and shows what our mindset was about even considering using deadly force. I, personally, think this is the correct mindset for any LEO. Deadly force shouldn't even come to mind unless you're either 1) looking at someone with a gun and obviously going for it and have no way of retreat, or 2) all other possible options (the entire use of force continuum, as well as calling in backup) have been exhausted and you have a completely justifiable and articulable fear for your life or someone else's (just a feeling isn't enough). \\n This officer (and a lot of others I've seen in videos) went straight from level 1 to level 6 on the use of force continuum. He issued a verbal command (level 2 - level 1 is simply officer presence). Once he saw that the man was doing something unexpected (reaching towards the vehicle), he should have issued a new verbal command (STOP!!! - still at level 2 and still in the communication levels) and possibly began moving to a defensive position. If the guy complied, issue resolved. Once the officer saw the guy was complying, the issue can be sorted out through more clear communication. \\n At that point, if the guy didn't comply, the officer has no choice than to escalate to a new level. In this hypothetical, since the officer doesn't have a clear view of the contents of the vehicle, he should retreat to a defensive position/location, call in support (typically support is slow so has no physical effect on the situation, but this is also an intimidation tactic as the suspect doesn't know the response times - level 2 again), and begin exploring less-than-lethal options and better surveying the situation (moving to level 5 - levels 3 and 4 deal with physical control techniques, so wouldn't be applicable in this hypothetical). The officer should have then attempted to employ pepper spray and/or a taser to get the guy under control (first step is warning of use, second set is presenting it for use, and third step is actually using it). He's now, more than likely, gotten the guy under control, and can move back to levels 3 and 4 (handcuffs). In the event that the guy is crazy, after hearing that backup is on it's way and being pepper sprayed/tazed, and still doesn't comply, there is still no justifiable reason for the officer to move to deadly force. \\n Moving to level 6 (deadly force) would be warranted if at any time during all of this, the guy managed to pull a weapon from his vehicle. In the event of the guy pulling a knife, the officer's move to a defensive position earlier negates the immediate necessity for actually shooting, and gives time for the officer to issue both verbal warnings (\\\"stop or I will shoot\\\") and physical warnings (drawing and pointing the gun). If a gun was pulled or if the guy advances with the knife, then and only then should actual use of deadly force be justified.\",\n \"Summary: killed Atheon with maybe one second to spare before a wipe. Legendary\\n\\nPost: So we're playing through, wipe a few times, lose a couple of negative members, pick up a couple of more positive people, then go back to have some more fun. We're running HM with 4x29's and 2x30's. Get Atheon to barely a sliver, and the teleport happens. All 29's go through. Two drop pretty quick, and we know it's a wipe. I have no idea who said it, but someone in the party chat yelled for the 30's to just unload on Atheon and see if we could get him down before the wipe. \\n My screen's starting to go red when I hear this, but I bellow a lengthy \\\"LEEEEEEEEEROOOOOOOYYYYY\\\" and jump into action. I jump up on the platform and start unloading. My VoC isn't doing enough, so I finally switch over to my heavy. My trusty void Swarm with high stability never disappoints. With a throaty \\\"JENKINS!\\\" Atheon begins to dissolve. Just in time too. I jump down towards his lifeless corpse and succomb to the Oracles. Rewards start popping up, and we know that we have one of our personal greatest Atheon clears ever. The Guardians may have perished in the fray, but they became legends. Stories will be shared in the Tower and told over cook fires on the battlefield. The Vex may have control of time, but they have no cojones. We Guardians do. \\n [Here's the rough edit of the video uploaded straight from my PS4 if you're interested in witnessing the legend (sorry for all the extra in there).]( I believe the fight starts around 5:00-5:30ish, with the epic last stand at around 9:20-9:30ish.\",\n \"Summary: Tonight, I experienced the social aspect of Destiny at it's finest.\\n\\nPost: So I was thinking about calling it a night around 8:30, then got an invite in the tower. I looked and it was a group of 25's to 26's that were trying to do the VoG. I didn't think we'd make it very far, but went with it anyways. \\n We had some trouble raising the spire, but who doesn't sometimes? Once we got the groups worked out and figured out who worked best where, it was cake. Get to the first chest and I got some much needed shards. Continued on, and walked through the confluxes and oracles without a single wipe. We cheesed the Templar (I know...bad form for taking them through their first raid, but we had some close calls before, so figured it was the best way to do that part.) \\n The most fun came at the Gorgon's Labyrinth and the jumping puzzle. It probably took us two hours to get through these parts, but I'll be damned if my jaw doesn't hurt from us laughing our asses off. It didn't help any that I couldn't find my way around - I've always relied on the guidance of others, so only knew definitively where the first chest was in the labyrinth. We tried our hand at killing a Gorgon or two, with little success, but it made for an excellent light show. We split up and explored different areas. We played hide and seek with a couple of Gorgons. Then we continued on to the jumping puzzle. Once the guys figured out they could knock each other off, shenanigans ensued. \\n Finally, we tried our hand at the gatekeeper. Unfortunately, it was difficult when they were getting one-shotted and not able to do enough damage to the praetorians, so we had to call it quits there. We did manage to get the Mars relic out a time or two, but couldn't get both. A couple of them have enough shards now to get to 27-28, so we're going to try again tomorrow night after they level up a bit. \\n I got to see and experience the whole range of human emotion tonight. There was a lot of laughing, and we may have been close to crying during one or two points. There was plenty of excitement, as well as some fear thrown in. The joy in their voices from them receiving the first pieces of raid gear was awesome. I've had a lot of frustration with this game (the frustrations of a 29 hunter that just needs my damn boots!), but tonight was the complete opposite end of the spectrum. Pure, unadulterated fun. A good group that decided it was time to venture into the Vault, and wanted a sherpa. I consider myself lucky to have been their guide.\"\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":1392,"string":"1,392"}}},{"rowIdx":1393,"cells":{"question_id":{"kind":"string","value":"meeper88"},"question":{"kind":"string","value":"Generate the content for a reddit post at age 20, I had the eyes of a 65-year-old."},"answer":{"kind":"string","value":"I used to work as a receptionist at a nursing home and I got to know the doctor who was associated with the home fairly well as he frequently had to get messages / paperwork / etc from me. He was a somewhat elderly gentleman himself, and he wore glasses with a fairly heavy prescription. \n He stopped by my desk one evening for something-or-other and, joking, said, \"I bet you my astigmatism is worse than your astigmatism!\" My immediate response was, \"Bet you it's not!!\" We had the obligatory exchange of glasses and shared confused looks as we realised our prescriptions were damn near identical."},"correct_answer":{"kind":"string","value":"I used to work as a receptionist at a nursing home and I got to know the doctor who was associated with the home fairly well as he frequently had to get messages / paperwork / etc from me. He was a somewhat elderly gentleman himself, and he wore glasses with a fairly heavy prescription. \n He stopped by my desk one evening for something-or-other and, joking, said, \"I bet you my astigmatism is worse than your astigmatism!\" My immediate response was, \"Bet you it's not!!\" We had the obligatory exchange of glasses and shared confused looks as we realised our prescriptions were damn near identical."},"documents":{"kind":"list like","value":["Summary: my left eye is functionally illiterate.\n\nPost: I have a Coca-Cola t-shirt that I used to wear. Sometimes I'd look at it and think that it was getting a bit dingy and orange-ish and might need to be retired; other times I'd look at it and think it was fine. \n Turns out my right eye sees colors as slightly brighter than my left. When I realised that, I went to the ophthalmologist in a panic; she perked right up and very excitedly asked, \"Have you ever been diagnosed with optical neuritis?!!\" like it was the best thing she'd heard all week. \n We eventually worked out that it's probably due to me having one of my eyes patched for a fairly long time as a kid, that the rods probably developed slightly differently. \n Due to amblyopia and patching, I also usually have primary vision out of only one eye at a time; my right eye does most of the reading and my left eye does most of the shape / spatial / artistic stuff. It's not a problem most of the time, except for the folks at Motor Vehicles, who generally think I'm trying to cheat when I explain that my left eye can see the shapes on the eye chart but has no idea what they actually mean .","Summary: originally, for the same reason people aren't supposed to send you spam text messages: it costs the recipient time, money, bandwidth fees and counts toward your messages cap.\n\nPost: Besides the other answers: this originally goes back to speed and price structuring when the internet started getting popular. \n My first internet connect was a 2400bps modem. That's 2400 bytes per second. In modern terms, if I wanted to download a 350mb video, it would take about 40 hours -- assuming that my connection didn't get cut off. During that 40 hours, I couldn't use my sole telephone line for anything else, I'd be desperately hoping that there wouldn't be any static/interference on the line (which would cause it to drop the connection and I'd have to start over again), I'd be paying the phone company for hourly use of the telephone line and also hoping that I wasn't exceeding my ISPs bandwidth cap. And this is for something that I decided that I explicitly wanted to download. \n When the internet started getting popular, most folks on home connections were subject to restrictions like that -- and the people who were using the internet at work weren't aware of the problems that they were causing when they decided to forward their vacation pictures or one of those \"cute\" image stories. \n So someone at work would decide to send an email about the new baby; they descibe the entire thing, including name and weight, and attach several megabytes of photos. The recipient logs on to their email and starts downloading it. You want to read the baby message, but it literally takes a couple hours to download. But you've no idea that it's going to take that long, so you're sitting there in front of the PC for two hours waiting for your email, wasting your time, spending money for the phone line and worrying if you're exceeding your bandwidth cap. \n And maybe you're okay doing that for the baby pictures, but then you get on some business' email list and they start hogging your connection the same way. You spend three hours waiting for your mail to download, only to find that its an ad for a sale at the local grocery store. And since you only check your email once or twice a month, there're usually two or three three of these ads in your inbox. \n There were also some bad user interface decisions. Some email systems wouldn't let you delete unread mail, so you had to download them to get rid of them (that's why the \"mark as read\" option is still there in most email systems today, even though you can delete straight to the trashbin now). And with some ISPs, mostly those who had been selling business use and branched out into home use, you had to download messages to your system in the order they're received; that meant you had to download three weeks of 'sale' ads to get to email that you actually want to read. \n You can see why people really didn't like have images mailed to them, and why they complained to their ISPs about having the option to read a (fast-downloading) message without necessarily having to view the associated images.","Summary: welcome to my Ignore User list.\n\nPost: If you look back through my comments, you'll see that I agree that simply telling folks to leave IPT without offering alternatives won't have a lot of effect beyond small batches of users. I agree with the basic premise. However, I think you're hurting your cause more than you're helping. \n Everyone wants different things from their trackers, everyone has different reasons for staying with their current trackers or looking beyond them. Yet you seem to want one \"perfect\" one-size-fits-all tracker. Every time someone suggests something that might work for some IPT refugees (because it does work for some people), you shoot it down because it doesn't meet this vision of a \"perfect tracker\" that you have in your head. \n Yet, from your comments, it's pretty clear that you haven't been out in the torrenting world all that much and are mostly basing your preconceptions of that \"perfect tracker\" on the tracker that you've spent the most time with and are most comfortable with. I honestly find it hard to take your arguments seriously when you think that it's hard to find back seasons of \"Lost\" and \"Supernatural\", when you think that only IPT has bonus points and freeleech when damn near every other tracker on the planet has some version of one or both, when you argue that peer-stealing isn't particularly wrong when you don't know what it is. In the end, you're incredibly judgmental for someone who doesn't know what the world looks like.","Summary: while insurance is nice to have for the minor fender-bender, it's really important to have when you're hit by lightning or a drunk driver.\n\nPost: Because it's a way to insure (insurance) that you're not left injured and destitute. Let's say your house is hit by lightning, catches fire and you're seriously burnt. You have no place to live, no job (you're injured, remember?), nothing to borrow money against, and you suddenly have overwhelming medical expenses that are going to leave you in debt for the rest of your life. You get insurance and the same thing happens then, depending on your coverage, they'll pay to partially or fully repair/rebuild the house (which gives you something you can borrow money against) and some (most?) of your hospital bills are covered as well. There are also policies that can cover some of your lost income or for putting you up in a hotel for a time while you're homeless. \n Or car insurance: It doesn't matter what causes the situation, what matters is not having to cover the entire cost of the accident myself. Some drunk driver without insurance and with no assets rips through a light and sends me to the hospital for a couple months? I'm gonna owe the hospital money and the drunk driver doesn't have any. I'm not working so I don't have any income, so how do I keep up with my rent or mortgage? Do I have to sell my house or go into my retirement fund to pay my hospital bills because some asshole can't act responsibly? \n Regardless of where you live, you should be aware of your local laws. There are places, for example, where people are required to have car insurance, but that may not protect you (or you may have limited coverage) if someone decides to drive uninsured. If you lease a car, you may be required to have a certain amount of car insurance. If you're renting you're probably required to have renter's insurance, and if you owe more than a certain percentage on your house you're probably required to have homeowner's insurance. \n (Re: renter's/homeowner's insurance: Note that flood insurance is typically a separate item than water damage and often carries a hefty premium. And a lot depends on exactly what the insurance company determines causes the damage. Let's say there's a huge storm that rips the roof off your house, pouring lots of rainwater in, while the creek out back floods the ground floor. The insurance company may decide that 70% of the damage was caused by the creek and only 30% by wind and rain, so they'll only cover 1/3 of the cost of repairs ... ) \n The two ways insurance companies make money are by taking all the premiums that are paid and investing them; this is actually where most of their money comes from. If local/regional laws prevent insurance companies from raising premiums by more than a certain amount, you'll notice that they start agitating to be allowed larger premium rises during periods where the stock market does badly. \n The other way they make money is by denying or limiting claims. Yes, they have to pay out when something goes wrong, but some companies have policies or practices that make it harder for you to get that money (you need to follow this procedure exactly, and you're only allowed to use these specific contractors and you have to document everything and do extra paperwork and meet certain deadlines, etc), while other companies \"play fair\". (I'll also note that insurance companies buy insurance themselves, to protect themselves and their assets in case of large payouts or mass events like hurricanes.) \n I'd check into your local laws and see if there's any insurance you're required to have (car, medical, renter's/house), then look for a company that has a good reputation and good policies and see what you can afford (note that if you get multiple policies from the same place, they'll usually give you a discount). Because","Summary: the Consumer Product Safety Commission\n\nPost: I had a floor lamp that a couple friends gave me for my birthday. I loved that lamp. Two years after I got it (and with no mistreatment on my part), one night I reached under the shade to turn it off. My finger hit the knob, it sparked, shorted out and caught fire. Middle of the night, I'm jogging through the house holding aloft a flaming floor lamp like the Olympic flame so that I can put it outside on the patio in the middle of a snowstorm, hopefully before the exquisitely sensitive fire alarm goes off. \n But I loved that lamp, and one of the people who'd given it to me had died. I wanted it fixed or replaced. The store where it'd been bought had closed, so I had to go through corporate. I contacted the company's customer service who said the warranty only lasted one year. I pointed out that this isn't like the knob broke off or something cosmetic; I have lamps from my great-grand-aunts that are 90 years old and have never caught fire. They took a report and said they'd get back to me. Didn't hear from them for a few weeks, contacted them again and they had no record of me ever contacting them. Went around this circus every couple weeks for 18 months . Started keeping records of who I talked with and what they said and they still kept losing my records. \n Finally, after 18 months, they said the lamp was out of stock and they couldn't help me replace it, but they offered me a $50 gift certificate to their stores. By this time, I'd paid $60 to a local lamp company to refinish/refurbish the lamp, so I accepted. [Customer service then sent me a $50 gift certificate to a different company of their corporate conglomerate. When I reported this, they told me to keep and use that certificate and promptly sent me another $50 certificate to the appropriate store. Their CS is really fucked up.] \n Anyway!! I get the certificates and everything's cool and I mention the whole thing to a friend who notes that I should report the faulty lamp to the Consumer Product Safety Commission in case this happens to other people and maybe there are enough cases to force a recall. It's optional to include your contact info (or maybe it's optional that you let the originating company see your contact info? I forget), but I figured what the hell, why not? and put my info in there. \n Swear to god, ten days later, I had lawyers from that company calling me, checking that I wasn't injured in the fire and nothing was damaged and what would I accept in compensation. It was like a freaking miracle! I explained that everything had been taken care of and politely declined recompense, but it was pretty clear that the lawyers were trying to make me very happy very quickly. And, unlike the customer service folks, they don't lose records and they can move close to immediately. \n Anyway,","Summary: all weather (and expectations) is local.\n\nPost: Yes. Right now it's early fall (plants will start to die / animals are preparing for winter) in the mainland US and early spring (plants are starting to bloom) in Australia. \n Besides looking at the actual seasons , you'll also have different weather expectations in different regions. For example, right now it's a mild fall day in the mid-Atlantic states. Going by stereotypes (I'm not bothering to actually look up the weather reports right now), it's much hotter and humid in Florida, cooler and dryer in Colorado, and fairly cold in Alaska. But if you live in those regions, that's pretty much what you'd expect for a late September afternoon and you wouldn't think twice about it.","Summary: 1) Hourlong programmes didn't do well in syndication until recently and cost more for stations to air. (2) Dramas reflect the time they're made in as well as the time they're set in. If you don't have the skills to read the underlying assumptions, you won't get the full benefit and the show becomes less interesting. And for various reasons comedies tend to age better than dramas.\n\nPost: There are a lot of dramas that were done during that period, including a lot of serious westerns. This is just a guess, but I think that it comes down to syndication issues and relevance/interest. \n Re: syndication issues: up until comparatively recently, it was hard for hour-long programmes to survive in syndication. Hell, the reason Law and Order was created the way it was was because Dick Wolf wanted to be able to syndicate it, so he created it to be cut in half to create two different programmes with an overlapping cast. \n There's also the cost issue. Most comedies back then were filmed on one or two sets, and were relatively cheap to produce. Many dramas shot in multiple locations and were more expensive. Higher production costs means that went programmes were ready to go into syndication, the production companies charged higher prices. \n As to relevance: In the half hour or so I've spent thinking about this, it seems to me that a lot of drama tends not to age as well as comedies. The problems that society faced back then and which were reflected in the programmes, those have changed. Along with that, every era has it's own conventions that it adopts as a kind of shorthand for the social expectations of the day. Since the modern viewer isn't from that time period, they're not going to recognise those tropes, so nuances are easy to overlook. Finally, directing and writing style conventions for drama have changed a lot over the years, so drama programmes tend to look and feel more dated than they otherwise would. All of this makes older drama in general less accessible to the modern viewer. \n Historical programmes have another problem to overcome: each programme is reflective not only of the period that it's created in, but of the period that they're set in as well. So in the 70's, a period where things were changing and a lot of people were hugely stressed and worrying about the breakdown of the family and society and general, CBS produced The Waltons , about a family living in a world where things were changing and most people were stressed and worrying about the breakdown of society -- and surviving everything with the help of their family. Some channel could re-run The Waltons today, but since the situations that made the programme relevant and comforting are no longer present, it's going to be harder for the show to attract a new audience. \n In contrast, comedies are (a) usually set in some sort of timeless world and (b) generally reflect a world that's slightly out of sync anyway. Because the world of The Dick Van Dyke show is timeless, it's survived into today much better than, say, The Mod Squad . And because The Brady Bunch family lives in a world that's not really intended to be a true reflection of reality, the differences between now and then aren't as jarring. \n And, as a final note, comedies tend to have less complex plotlines than dramas, so there are less differences between programmes produced then and produced now.","Summary: don't diss my favourite comic site, man!\n\nPost: their selection is thin \n If you're interested in something that isn't on-site, I'd suggest putting in a request for it. I've done so quite a few times, and all my requests have been filled within 24 hours. \n > don't allow collections of comics that aren't of one series \n The staff are extremely friendly and approachable, and are open to suggestions that might improve the site. A way of handling collections of non-single-titles is something that's been brought up several times with no current resolution, but the staff are aware that this is something desired by quite a few fans. I've no doubt something will be developed at some point in time. \n > their carat system, while really good, is problematic since you need the carats required to download a file. I have to seed 50 torrents while earning 250 carats/hour for over a day to download the comic I want. \n a) It's ridiculously to earn carats on site and seeding is only one of many ways. \n b) there are literally thousands of torrents on-site that won't cost you anything to download, and (AFAIK) you still get credit for seeding them. Download a few of the larger ones. \n c) they have threads where people will gift you torrents just for asking. If you haven't found them, you should spend more time on site before complaining. \n AFAIK, CBT has the best comic collection around and it certainly has one of the best communities I've been involved in. I'd suggest being a little patient and spend some time on the site and with the community instead of complaining about having to wait a day until you can afford the torrent you want.","Summary: Best friend acts like a self-centered douche, wrecks my plans, a weekend, and quite probably our friendship.\n\nPost: God, my best friend Jay did all of this to me on a single weekend a couple months ago. We live in NJ; I had to run some errands in Virginia and suggested we meet up and stay the weekend at a mutual friend's (Leo) place in Maryland. Jay spent the three weeks beforehand re-arranging the entire schedule to suit herself, meaning that all my plans to run errands and visit people in Virginia had to get re-scheduled, and eventually cancelled. I kept arranging and re-arranging plans to better suit Jay; the only thing I asked Jay to do was to call Leo, because I didn't have Leo's new number; Jay said she would. \n Come the night we're supposed to leave, she calls half an hour after she's supposed to show up, says she'll be there later, finally shows up the following morning. We get to Leo's house; turns out Jay hasn't called Leo (Jay says her cell phone completely died the day before and she has to buy a replacement). Because Leo's a hoarder and hasn't had time to clear places for us, literally the only place for me to sleep is a love seat that would be the perfect size for me (if I had no legs at all). \n On Sunday we go to this event and as we're walking in Jay tells me that another friend Mort will be meeting us. Later we're wandering around and Jay pulls me aside to say Mort's trying to call but her batteries are dying, can she use my cell phone to call him back. \n At this point, I saw red: \n \n she re-arranged the entire weekend to suit herself; \n she was 15 hours late; \n she didn't do the one thing I asked her to do; \n she had us show up at someone's house to stay the weekend completely uninvited and unannounced; \n she invited someone without telling me; \n and she obviously lied about the reason for not calling Leo because the fucking cell phone can't be dead if fucking Mort is fucking calling her on it two days later. \n \n Bitch.","Summary: in sex or out of it, if one side feels like they're being used and the other side feels no need to try to figure out what's wrong and come to some agreement on it, that's a pretty shitty relationship.\n\nPost: I'd say that anyone that complains they feel pressure to please their partner during sex has either (a) a bad relationship that could use some open communication; (b) a poor attitude toward / appreciation of their partner; or (c) bad relationship skills in general. \n I totally understand that not everyone will get off every time you have sex; that's okay. But if a man doesn't care whether his partner is having a good time or feels that ensuring that their partner's good time is a tedious chore that one \"has\" to do, like washing dishes or paying bills, the woman is going to pick up on that attitude. And if a man is consistently treating his partner's sexual pleasure with so little regard, he's almost certainly not paying attention to his partner in other ways as well. So the woman is standing there in this relationship that's supposedly one of the best things in her life (and it's not), not having her sexual or relationship needs filled in any meaningful way. Why shouldn't she feel like she's being used for sex and whatever else the man is getting out of the relationship?","Summary: with your current attitude, you'd last less than a day on a private tracker. No-one in their right minds will put their account at risk to invite you.\n\nPost: If you'd rather not do the minimal work to get on a private tracker, then you're not going to be willing to do the minimal work to keep your ratio up. And if you're this impatient to just get on with it, then you're not going to have the restraint to restrict your downloads to the minimum levels.","Summary: is the campaign hasn't even started yet and its a lot closer than you think. \n As a total aside, as a long-time liberal / progressive, I'm switching my efforts to Bernie Sanders this election. Not because I expect him to win, but because the things he's talking about are important things that I'd like to have more exposure / consideration in mainstream political discourse and simply having Sanders campaigning forces the other candidates to at least acknowledge and pledge to address those issues during their campaigns.\n\nPost: You discount the right-wing spin machine and echo chamber. Republicans have a year and a half to find someone and continue smearing her - that hasn't really started yet because it'll be up to the nominee to decide. Expect lots of hammering about Bengazi, bitching about a \"Clinton III\" term, lots of circle-jerking on any campaign missteps / mis-statements that occur, with not-so-hidden bits of misogyny scattered throughout, all twisted up and warped by the right-wing echo chamber. Which will, of course, be declaring how their candidate is the Second Coming. \n Expect the Republicans to start with at least 40% of the vote - that's the ~30% who'll vote Republican no matter who the Republican candidate is, plus a bunch of self-proclaimed independents / undecideds that almost inevitably vote Republican anyway. \n And the voters may be ready for a change: in the past 60 years, only once has either party held the White House for the consecutive terms (Reagan-Reagan-Bush I). \n Finally, if Hilary is the Democratic nominee, quite honestly, I'd expect to see a somewhat lower turnout among older (65+) Democratic voters. Those are folks who were born 1950 or earlier, who were raised when women were considered less competent than men and who may have lingering biases to contend with. It doesn't even have to be anything that they overtly acknowledge, just enough discomfort to keep them too busy or too tired or not interested enough to get to the polls. \n This isn't my most organised list of issues with the upcoming campaign but the","Summary: was invited on a long luxury (for my family) vacation, accepted; was later kicked off in favour of a tent and then taunted with photos of everything I was missing.\n\nPost: I have Asperger's and (at the time this happened) I didn't have a lot of spare money. My mom and my sister were planning a five-week vacation to the Canadian Rockies. I had no expectation of going; it was their trip, after all, and I couldn't afford to pay my share of the costs. Nevertheless, I'd had a really good friend of over a decade who'd grown up in Alberta so, when I found them discussing what they should do there, I stopped by and rattled off a bunch of different things to do/see in the area that I thought would appeal to them specifically. Maybe not anything they couldn't've found in tour books, but with a local's perspective and their interests in mind. \n When they saw my interest, they invited me to go with them. I really would've liked to have gone -- it's a gorgeous area that I've never been to, I could probably never afford to visit in such detail, and it'd be a chance to hook my with my friend -- but I declined because I thought the stress of the trip would be too much for my Asperger's. My mom said they were planning on taking a motor home (something my family's pretty much never done), at which I perked up; if I were having problems or a bad day, a motor home meant that it would be easy to reduce the strain on my senses without increasing the strain on anyone else. I asked for time to think it over, then agreed. The trip was tentatively scheduled for a year later in August. \n It's the first week of May, the trip's still scheduled for August and there hasn't been any change in anyone's financial or personal situation, when my mom mentions over dinner one night (my sister's not around) that she doesn't think I'll be able to handle the trip out west. I protest that I should be able to handle it; the motor home idea is pretty much perfectly tailored to me! She continues to insist that I can't and essentially kicks me off the trip. \n A week later, I find out that, prior to my being kicked off the trip, my mom and sister had switched planning to a camping trip, without the motor home. And they were planning on doing it in my mom's car, which is a hatchback and has nowhere near enough room for three people, a full set of camping gear, and enough luggage for a five-week trip. It is , however, perfectly sized for two people on a five-week camping trip. I was still trying to figure out WTF had happened and how to convince them to re-include me (I'd really been counting on the break from my normal life), when my mom told me they'd be leaving in a few days, which meant that I didn't have enough time to convince anyone of anything. They left without me and had five glorious weeks touring the Northwestern US national parks and the Canadian Rockies, complete with daily photo updates to me from my sister telling me all the wonderful things they were doing.","Summary: go to site for freeleech, torrent descriptions, IRC keys, and to check announcements, PMs and forums for replacement sites and invite offers. Get screenshot of website (live or cached) or an active torrent. Also stop by IRC channel to find out about replacement sites and invite offers. \n edited for words and clarity\n\nPost: In future, my suggestions for when you hear that a site you're on has closed: \n Go to the site and verify that it's closing or closed. \n If you catch it before the site itself disappears: check for the fairly common it's-the-sad-sad-end freeleech and grab anything that looks like it might be of interest. Remember that, even after the tracker itself has disappeared, you can keep exchanging data with people provided you either (a) were connected when the tracker went down or (b) either one of you wrote down the IP address and port of the person you want to connect to (while this assumes the other person is connectible, it's definitely worth a try). So even after the tracker goes down, keep seeding and leeching as long as possible, to help those last lone straggler leeches -- and remember that some folk need to turn their computer off during work or sleep, so just because the site's gone and you don't see activity when you're on the PC doesn't mean someone isn't trying to grab the files from you. \n Pro tip: for any torrents that you grab in these last days, for anything that you're currently seeding and for anything that's in your snatched list, open the torrent description page and save it to your hard drive. This makes it much easier for anyone who wants to upload the torrent to a new site. Even if you yourself don't want to upload, the torrent descriptions may be very useful to other people. There are browser addons that let you open/save multiple tabs at once; I use Multiple Tab Handler, a Firefox addon. \n While you're on the site, check the announcements and any new PMs to see if there're any plans for resurrection and to see if anyone's sent out refugee offers. Check the forums to see see where people are talking about as good replacement sites and whether anyone's offering invites or refugee signup codes; TB kept the PMs and forums open for four months after the tracker itself went down primarily for this reason. And note the replacement sites may not be the ones you expect folk to head to (after TB closed, quite a few folk headed over to TVV). \n Also, while you're on the site, take a screenshot of your account stats: even though the site itself is gone, you can still use your screenshot as a ratio proof -- and if another site offers shelter to refugees, they may give you extra starter credit for your account on the old site. Starter credit may be 2 or 10 or 25 or even 50GB upload; if you're very lucky and the new site very generous, they may even give you full credit for your old account's upload/download. \n If you don't get to your site before the website is no longer accessible, see if your browser still has a copy of the website cached. If it does, take a screenshot of that. If those fail, take a screenshot of your torrent client, showing a torrent that you're seeding to the old site; make sure that the tracker tab is visible and shows the tracker for your old site. It won't act as a ratio proof, but it will act as proof you were on the tracker and gets you eligible for refugee offers. \n Listed above are a few of the reasons you should always visit the website itself when you hear something is closing/closed. Besides the site itself, you should also visit the site's IRC channel, which usually remains open for a while after the site itself has disappeared. (Note that this is one of a few good reasons to spend going through whatever hoops are necessary to set up IRC access when you join a new site so that you can ensure your access later on; some sites have special instructions or IRC keys that are only listed on the website but that you can set to automatically run in your IRC client.) \n Your old site's IRC channel is actually probably one of the best places to find out about replacement sites and getting invites/refugee codes: the folks on IRC are generally the people more familiar with and active in the p2p scene and there's usually one or two people from potential alternate sites actively recruiting in the IRC channel.","Summary: Get the exact dimensions of all the space you'll have. List all the functions of your room, how much space is required for each, and how important that item is to you -- maybe you don't need a wardrobe, or a bookcase, or a desk. Remember that each piece of furniture will take up space that you could be living in. Think creatively and decide how you want things to work in your room, then go looking for the furniture/other items to make your vision work. And don't be afraid to make changes if something isn't working for you. Good luck!\n\nPost: The first thing you need are more details about the dimensions of the room. I mean, knowing it's 4m^2 is okay information, but knowing the length of each wall would be more useful. Also, is 4m^2 the entire size of the room, or does it come with a closet as well? If there is a closet, what are the dimensions there? Is this room solely for you, or is this your half of a larger room? So, yeah, the first thing is to find out the exact dimensions of all the space you'll have. \n (I'm doing the below in English units; sorry about that, I'm American, and that's what my brain thinks in. Since you'll be measuring your own space for your own needs, you'll be doing your own measurements in what's comfortable for you.) \n Assuming that there's no closet, and the room is entirely yours: the first thing I would do is make a list of the functions you actually need , as well as the space you actually need for that function. \n Bed . You need a bed, so that's a 6x3 foot square (though you can get by with a 6x2 foot square). You probably really want to be able to sit up in bed. When sitting, most people need less than three feet from the base of the torso to the top of their head. \n Desk. You want a desk, that's fine too. Seated, most people need slightly less than four feet of height from the floor to clear the top of their head. Hey, look at that: four feet high for a desk, three feet high to be able to sit upright on your bed: seven feet tall. Get a loft bed, and you have a few inches left over for a very comfy mattress. Or get a slightly thinner mattress and have a little more headroom at your desk or in your bed. \n Dresser. Now, there's still unused space under the loftbed. Most people are comfortable with a desk about 3.5 feet wide. If that holds true for you, then you'll have space free under the bed on one side of the desk; that space should be about 2.5 feet wide by about 4 feet high, which is a nice size for a dresser. \n If doing this, get a bed where the ladder is on rails, so you can slide it back and forth to allow free access to the desk or dresser as needed. Also, when looking at/putting together your desk, try to make sure that the drawers are on whatever side is going to be next to the wall. That'll put your body more into the center of the room and make you feel less closed off. \n Wardrobe. Do you need a wardrobe? You should know that hanging stuff up takes more room than folding it into a drawer, and things like bluejeans and sweatpants, etc, can all be put in dresser drawers. If you definitely have stuff that needs to be hung up, how much of it do you have? Can you get away with those over-the-door hooks that let you put hangers on them? If so, go with those and skip the wardrobe entirely. If you do need a wardrobe, that's where the dimensions of the room come into play. \n If the room is, say, 8 feet by 5 feet, you can get a 2-foot-wide wardrobe that fits between the bottom of the bed and the wall. You could get a wardrobe that's 7 feet tall and have two rods of clothes hanging comfortably inside. \n Or, in that same space, you can get something shorter and have one rod of clothes hanging across the top, with a couple drawers below. One benefit of a shorter wardrobe is that you can now use the top of it as a side table while you're in bed, someplace to put a lamp, food and drink, alarm clock, etc. \n If your room is sized more like 7 feet by 6 feet, then there's no room for a wardrobe at the foot of the bed. In this case, I'd put the loftbed across the 6-foot-long wall, which gives you more space in the main area of the room. If you definitely need a wardrobe for this shorter+wider 7x6 room, then I'd replace the dresser under the bed with a short wardrobe, then look at the (remaining) main area for places to store your socks, folded clothes, etc. \n Storage/end table. If you need dresser space at this point, you can get a small dresser, maybe 2-to-2.5 feet tall, 2.5 feet wide, eighteen inches deep. Put that in the unused corner; you can store your clothes in it and also use it as an end table. (If you don't need a dresser in that corner, I'd get a dorm-room-sized fridge instead.) \n Bookcase. You may well need more space for stuff, and you'll definitely want something easier to access than a drawer, so get a bookcase that's maybe 3-to-4 feet tall and maybe 8 inches deep; width should be long enough to fit on top of (but not extend over the edges of) the dresser/fridge in the corner. Place the bookcase on top of the dresser/fridge and you now have plenty of shelf space as well. \n Guest chair. You already have a chair at your desk, but since you're not sharing this hypothetical room I'm working from, maybe you want a guest chair. You can get one that doesn't really move around and store stuff underneath it; or if your hypothetical guests may be collaborating with you on a project, I'd definitely get one that rolls. \n Television. I don't know whether you want a tv or not. A lot of folks I know watch tv on their computers, so you can do that. If you have a flatscreen, it can get hung on the unused wall opposite the loftbed. If you have an older-style tv, maybe you can put it on one of the shelves. \n Lamps. Make sure to put in plenty of lighting, which can help things feel less claustrophobic. Don't get one big light that just glares into all the corners; look into lamps that clip onto bedframes/the sides of bookcases, can easily be mounted on the wall, or maybe those artsy pole-lamps with 3 or 4 lights on it that can each be pointed in a different direction. \n You'll want at least one lamp in your bed, one or two to light up your desk space (depends on the type of light they cast; something that can be mounted on the underside of your bed is a bonus), plus one or two in the 'main' living area. Try to get lamps that have multiple strength settings, so you can adjust the amount of light you're getting to your needs. \n There you go: bed, desk, dresser, bookcase, guest chair, wardrobe or fridge, tv, lamps. \n Using/perceiving space. One nice thing about the set-up I've described is that pretty much everything is stacked on something else. Making the most of your vertical space gives you a more 'open' center area that you can easily move around in. If you choose not to use the vertical space, you can either give up one of the functions described or have furniture cluttering the area and making it harder to navigate. \n The other nice thing about this set-up is that most of the furniture is on one side of the room. IME, that means that you'll usually be on that side of the room and can look out into the 'clear' area, so it's not as claustrophobic as you might think. And if you're not looking into the 'clear' area, you'll usually be focussing close-up on something where you are (working at the desk, reading in bed). \n Closet? So far, I've mostly been describing a room with no closet and no shared living space. If your room comes with a closet, look into ways of using that space more effectively. At one point in my life, when I didn't really have clothes that needed to be hung up, I removed the doors and put part of my bed inside the closet, which opened up more space in the room itself. Another time, I put my dresser in the closet, which again opened up space for me to use in the main room. \n Room-mate? If you're sharing the room with someone else and the 4m^2 is just your half, see if there are things that you can share. Like maybe you don't each need a guest chair and can share one, or you don't both need a wastebin, that sort of thing.","Summary: life would be horrible for people in both the NYC and DC regions, the side effects would be terrible for both cities themselves, and both the US government and the UN would lose some legitimacy in the eyes of some of the groups that they serve. No-one would even consider doing it.\n\nPost: I've lived in NYC. The city is crowded and traffic is horrible because of all the people who live, work and visit there. That extends out into the suburbs as well. I've also lived in Washington, DC. The city is crowded and traffic is horrible because of all the people who live, work and visit there. And that extends out into the suburbs as well. \n Thing is, the majority of work and traffic in DC is oriented around the government - executive, legislative and judicial branches are all based there, as well as all their support departments. And all of the federal agencies are based there or in their immediate environs - FBI, CIA, NSA, DoD, HHS, Interior, Commerce, Agriculture, State, Treasury, Labor, HUD, Energy, etc, etc, etc, as well as all their support departments and contractors. And all of the lobbyists and lawyers and non-profits and everyone else who is trying to influence the government is also there. Then there's everyone who works for or provides services for those people - daycares, lawn care, grocery stores, gas stations, thousands and thousands of businesses. \n To move the functions of government to NYC would require finding someplace for an additional ... I dunno, 2-3 million people to live, plus space for them to shop and entertain themselves, plus upgrading infrastructure (roads, police, fire, hospitals, electric, gas, etc) to support them, plus basic infrastructure upgrades such as increasing the \"bandwidth\" of the power lines and adding transformers and generator stations to supply the electricity. Plus finding a place to put all the buildings needed for the functions of government. Space is at a premium in the NYC region already; there's simply no place to put all the stuff needed for the people who'd be moving in. \n Plus, they'd have to try to do all that without disturbing the current residents, nor overly disturb the third busiest port in the United States. I'd also note that the northeast air corridor is one of the most congested in the world, and both New York City (LaGuardia, JFK and Newark) and DC (Dulles, National and BWI) are served by three fairly major airports. There's simply no way the airspace around NYC would be able to handle the additional traffic, and residents would loathe the increased noise. \n Finally, NYC is where the UN is located as well as the main US financial district. Some people inside the US would view the US government being in NYC as enabling easy access to / influence of the US government by either corporations or outside governments. And some people outside the US would view the move as enabling the US to influence the UN, so both sets of institutions would lose credibility. \n The characters of both cities would change tremendously. Overall, the NYC area would be almost unsustainably overpopulated, horribly expensive and difficult to move around in. And, in the meantime, DC would become a ghost town, as anyone who's been in DC when Congress is out of session can attest. For lack of employment, DC's population would flee like Detroit's, and it's main remaining industry would be tourism based on the museums and parks. But financing for those places would probably be increasingly difficult to sustain :(","Summary: that \"narrative\" of profligate poor people isn't always true. And if you're poor, being \"responsible\" can mean handling your money in a completely different way, otherwise you can get fucked over pretty harshly.\n\nPost: a narrative of profligate poor people who can't manage their own money ripping off \"hard-working taxpayers\" \n I've a friend who's been hard-working her entire life. College-educated, worked multiple jobs through college, always a hard worker. Her entire family's that way, she's never (knowlngly) known anyone on welfare - not because she thinks less of them, simply because she was middle-class and worked hard and never ended up befriending anyone who happened to be on welfare. She's also very sensible, and doesn't drink or do drugs or waste money on frivolous things: her sole clothing purchases last year were two shirts and a pair of pants, her computer's about six years old, she has a 14-inch tv and a 23-year-old car. \n Well, anyway; a few years ago she had a extended massive breakdown, attempted suicide multiple times, spent time in a psych ward, etc. She was put on disability a little over a year ago. \n Now, while she's on disability, she's not allowed to have more than $2k in assets. But they're also give her back payments for the disability she would've received while they were determining her case. She got one of those payments, a little over $3k, last fall, and she has six months to spend it without being penalized for being over the $2k limit. She's heard all the stuff about folks irresponsibly blowing through their arrears money as soon as it comes in, etc, and she's being sensible, saving it for when it's needed for car repairs and stuff. \n In January, Social Security did one of their periodic reviews, including finances. She explains that she's over the $2k limit due solely to the arrears and that she still has a couple months to spend it down. They agree and send her on her way. A month later, she gets a letter saying they were cancelling her disability because she was over the limit in October. Next day she starts getting letters saying her Medicaid and food stamps and everything else is being cancelled as well. \n She goes to Social Security, waits in line a couple hours, they hear her, agree they've fucked up, and start reversing their process. Only she has to go to all the other agencies to make sure everything else gets started up as well. For someone who can't handle stress or bureaucracy, having to deal with multiple arcane government agencies in a short period of time, each with their own bizarre rules, this is hell, but in the end everything's back where it should be. \n Middle of March, she gets impaired vision in her left eye - turns out her left retina's torn and she needs emergency surgery or she's going to go blind in that eye. She tries to go to the eye doctor she saw for this back in December, but it turns out that that visit is only covered under Medicaid's supplementary coverage, and that the supplementary coverage got cancelled because Social Security fucked up. And, while the paperwork to get the supplementary insurance restored was submitted on 2 March, the company only processes applications on the first of the month. So she was without supplementary insurance the entire month of March. Medicaid would only pay for her eye surgery if she went to the nearest ER (which wasn't qualified to perform it particularly well); if she went to the previously-covered (and competent) eye doctor to have it done, she'd have to pay out of pocket. Between that and the drugs that were no longer covered, she's now a couple grand poorer. \n The good news is that she's now no longer over the $2k limit they set on her; the bad news is she now has permanently impaired eyesight and no longer has any monetary reserves at all. She says she's taking the next arrears payment out of the bank as soon as it comes in.","Summary: I'm sitting here trying to come with something witty, but the best I can do is \"FU, UPS management and thieves!\"\n\nPost: I used to work in a major amusement park's advance ticket sales office. If you were bringing a group of people to the park, we could mail you discounted tickets before you came to the park so no-one would have to stand in the ticket sales line (it could get pretty long at times). \n We shipped our tickets through UPS. One year, we started getting a bunch of reports about empty envelopes being delivered; short slits were cut in the envelopes with a knife and some or all of the tickets removed, but the invoice and promotional material stayed inside so there was still some bulk to the envelopes. \n After a couple months of me having to emergency-issue replacement tickets and of UPS denying that there was any problem at all, I got really pissed. I ran a bunch of reports and discovered the stolen tickets were being redeemed on certain days of the week, and that way more tickets were being used than could be accounted for by some guy handing them out to his friends. I figured the thief was selling the tickets, pegged his next likely 'sales' date and notified Security. They found him selling tickets about twenty yards from the ticket sales booths, got him arrested and convicted on some felony charge (forget exactly what). \n Now, normally each year, we'd total up any lost packages and submit a $100 claim to UPS for each one. And the packages had always before been lost (no tickets redeemed), and we never had any trouble getting our claims processed. This particular year, though, even though we'd caught their warehouse guy red-handed with stolen goods, UPS balked and denied our claims. \n They refused to admit the thefts were their problem and said we should've been warning the people receiving the tickets to check the contents before accepting them, even though the envelopes looked undamaged. Okay, fine. We changed our normal clear shipping tape for tape with big red writing that said \"STOP! Check contents of package before signing!\" \n A couple years later, the same thing happens again . This time, UPS again denied our claims, saying that it wasn't their fault because the STOP tape clearly indicated that the contents of the envelope were valuable and made the packages a prime target for thieves. They said we shouldn't've been using the tape, even though it was their idea in the first place. \n Also, even though authorised signatures were required, they'd leave them without signatures and at unapproved alternate locations. My favorite response to a question about delivery: \"Well, there was no-one there at the church, so we left it at the crack-house next door.\" Thanks, UPS.","Summary: apply your writing lessons when reading.\n\nPost: don't even take notes, just fucking read it. \n Yes, read the chapter, but do take notes. Then, when it's time to for the test, you can re-read your notes as a refresher. \n Also: remember when you were learning to write essays and stuff in school, and they taught you to have one 'main thought' sentence in each paragraph? When you're writing up notes while reading, that's the sentence you want to summarise in just a few words. When you're done reading the chapter, you should have something resembling the outlines that they taught you to create before you wrote up your essay.","Summary: it doesn't provide you with any actual security and it can prevent you from connecting to peers and websites that you actually want to connect with.\n\nPost: a) Peerblock prevents you from exchanging data with ranges of IP addresses. Some of the ranges it blocks are those of hosting companies, meaning that it can (and does) block some seedbox providers as well as preventing you from getting to websites that have nothing to do with torrenting but that are hosted on those company's servers. \n b) When you connect to a torrent, you're given the IP addresses of the other people in the swarm. If there's a MIAA/RIAA mole on the torrent, once you join it's already too late, regardless of whether you actually exchange data or not. \n c) Even if they did have to catch you transferring data, TPTB generally outsource their enforcement work, so the people actually doing the harvesting probably don't have IP address in the affected ranges. Even if they do have IP addresses in the affected ranges, they're almost certainly willing the spend the absolutely trivial amount of money for a VPN to obscure their actual IP address.","Summary: you have to trust the company creating, conducting and interpreting the survey to actually collect and present the data correctly. And even then it's all out the window if the end organisation has ulterior motives or is just looking to justify a decision they've already made. Also? Fuck you, Manassas Cablevision.\n\nPost: Years ago, I got a call from my cable company asking to take a survey and I agreed. Before we begin, it's important to know that, at the time, the two big broadcast \"superstations\" were WGN and WOR. At the time, WGN didn't carry a lot of old television (something I collect), while WOR did (even if they weren't actually broadcasting any shows I was interested at the time). The survey went something like this (numbers are made up): \n Cable company (cc): WGN out of Chicago carries 30 hours of news a week, while WOR out of New York only has 10. Which station would you prefer? \nMe (previous passionate New Jersey resident, and not caring about news - and less news will mean more time for my old tv shows!): WOR is out of Secaucus, New Jersey. And I'd prefer WOR. \nCc: WGN out of Chicago carries 40 hours of sports every week, plus all Chicago Cubs home games; WOR out of New York only carries 12 hours of sports per week. Which would you prefer? \nMe (hate sports): It's Secaucus. And WOR. \nCc (pause, slightly annoyed): WGN out of Chicago carries 25 hours of children's programming a week, WOR out of New York only carries 12. Which would you prefer? \nMe (no kids): They're still in Secaucus. And WOR. \n This continued for about fifteen minutes, with them notably getting increasingly irritated with me, trying to get just one WGN out of me - which I totally would've agreed to if they'd listed a single category of television that I actually cared about. Movies, soaps, game shows, local programming, documentaries, women's programmes - nope, sorry, give me old tv reruns! All I could think was that WOR sounded better and better for not carrying all this stuff I didn't care about. \n They finally got to the end of the survey, and there wasn't been a single WGN out of me. They sounded pretty disgruntled with me, and from their increasingly unhappy responses I'm pretty certain that they were only doing the survey to justify some decision that they'd already reached anyway. I'm also fairly certain I got included in the statistics as some minority opinion to prove that the survey was cough \"completely unbiased\". \n They asked me if I had any feedback for them in general; I said WOR out of Secaucus sounded like an awesome station, and they should carry it and BBC-America. I was completely unsurprised when, two months later, they added WGN to our channel line-up. We never did get WOR or BBC-A, nor did I ever convince them that WOR was broadcasting out of Secaucus.","Summary: was terrified new printer was going to rape and kill me :/\n\nPost: I was alone in the house around 3am. I'd finished studying and writing, printed out my paper on the house printer, taken a shower. Was lying in bed air-drying when I very clearly heard a door close inside the house. \n I was petrified. I was in my bedroom, my cellphone was in my backpack downstairs, the house phone was two doors down the hallway and I had no idea which door had closed, no idea whether the person who closed the door was closing the door into the house, one of the downstairs doors or the door next to my bedroom, and I couldn't find anything that made even a half-way decent weapon (while heavy, A Compendium of Western Literature wasn't going to be very damaging). \n I froze in fear for a few seconds, then very quietly tugged on a oversize tee and grabbed the sharpest pen I could find. Crept out of my room, saying in a very loud voice, \"Hello? Hello?! \". Covered the entire house and every single door and window was still closed and locked, no-one hiding anywhere at all. Yet I know what I heard and I definitely heard a door close! Inside the house!! \n I grabbed my cellphone and went back to my room. I didn't get much sleep that night, despite barracading the door to my room. Heard a similar sound a couple afternoons later, realised it was the new printer switching into standby mode.","Summary: is: ebola kills a high percentage of it's victims. Of those who survive, at least 50% won't be able to work in ebola wards helping other victims; in reality, that's probably at least 75% unavailable.\n\nPost: To parse this out a bit more: I have no idea what the numbers would be, so let's use /u/MostlyDisappointing's numbers, and let's assume there are 10,000 survivors you could potentially train (I like round numbers). And let's also assume that the distribution of ebola follows the population curve: everyone has an equal chance of infection and recovery/death, regardless of age or gender. I hop over to the [CIA Factbook entry]( for Liberia's age structure: \n > 0-14 years: 43.2% (male 891,002/female 876,655) \n> 15-24 years: 17.9% (male 357,952/female 375,708) \n> 25-54 years: 31.5% (male 642,835/female 646,104) \n> 55-64 years: 4.3% (male 85,906/female 89,943) \n> 65 years and over: 3% (male 62,475/female 63,730) (2014 est.) \n Let's assume anyone under 14 or over 64 is not physically able to care for others (yes, some will be, but the CIA Factbook gives me nice percentages for those age groups). That's 4620 out of the 10,000 that are automatically taken out of the running; 5380 left. \n The sex ratio between 25-54 is 1:1. The estimate is 4.81 children born to every woman in the country, and the infant mortality rate is 69.19 deaths out of every 1,000 live births but let's just round that down to 4 kids. If each woman is raising 4 kids (let's say up to age 6), that's 10 years the woman is unable to work sometime between 15 and 65, so expect 20% of the women to be unavailable due to family commitments. 5280 / 2 (half population is women) * .20 is another 538 people unavailable; 4742 left. \n That 4742 represents the best guess scenario: 10,000 survivors, minimum family commitments, and you now have only 4742 people who might be able to work. Some of those people are already working other jobs and risk losing them if they work in ebola wards, some of them almost certainly aren't up to the challenges of working in PPE (average max PPE time in healthy workers is about 40 minutes), some of them probably aren't up to the mental strain of taking care of such seriously ill people, some of them simply won't be willing to do the work ... \n I'd try to figure out the numbers, but the situation is too unstable and (even it it weren't) I'm not sure we have that data for Liberia anyway. Anyway, the","Summary: to minimise risk, don't download big-name, popular items (or porn) from public trackers without some way to protect your identity. If your torrenting is going to be more than a one-time thing, you might want to check out private trackers, seedboxes, vpns, or any combination thereof. \n Obligatory shout-outs to /r/piracy, /r/trackers, /r/torrents, /r/seedboxes and /r/vpn. \n edit: forgot a 'not'.\n\nPost: I've no idea what percentage of folks get in trouble for pirating; a lot of your chances depend on what you're downloading and how you're doing it. There are also different ways of pirating material: most of complaints you hear about pirating focus around torrenting, but there are download sites like MegaUpload.com and you can also download from binary newsgroups. While I've used newsgroups in the past and occasionally use download sites, I'll mostly focus on torrents in this reply. \n Pretty much everyone moving into the torrenting world does so cautiously, because the RIAA/MPAA/etc have done a good job of scaring folks. The thing is to be aware of the risks, decide what level of risk you're willing to take, and do what you can to minimise them. \n As a general rule, TPTB focus more on things that they can directly charge you for. So this means that, in general , they're more interested in policing new movies and music, and television from premium cable channels. If your interest is old episodes of Ozzie and Harriet and films from the silent era, you're at much less risk. Not no risk (there's never no risk), but less risk. \n One additional thing that tends to get policed is porn. Most of the folks involved in this are shady firms that specialise in identifying and targeting people who have downloaded porn, with the intent of extorting them. It's probably not extortion in the legal sense, but folks generally get a letter saying \"We're going to take you to court and publicise that you've downloaded Nude Nuns with Big Guns and Ass-Cracking vols 1-5 unless you pay us $1500 to settle out of court\". \n Also as a general rule, TPTB mostly focus on the rich and easy pickings of public trackers, which have millions of users, and spend less effort on private trackers, which are much smaller, can be more difficult to get into, and can take effort to establish themselves on. So if you are interested in the latest movies and haven't taken any steps to disguise yourself, you're generally better off on private trackers than, say, ThePirateBay. \n Another level of security are seedboxes and VPNs, which provide some anonimity to the person torrenting. You can generally use seedboxes on both public and private sites; some private sites ban VPNs or restrict their use to certain classes of users. Seedboxes also provide fast upload speeds, so maintaining your ratio on private sites is much easier. (Ratio is how much you've uploaded vs how much you've downloaded. A 1-to-1 ratio is good.) \n Note that not all seedbox or VPN companies are the same; some take user privacy more seriously than others. Folks who are more concerned about privacy will tend to the more user-protection-oriented companies. If you want to take your security that extra step, you can pay for your VPN or seedbox with an anonymous pre-paid credit card or with bitcoins."],"string":"[\n \"Summary: my left eye is functionally illiterate.\\n\\nPost: I have a Coca-Cola t-shirt that I used to wear. Sometimes I'd look at it and think that it was getting a bit dingy and orange-ish and might need to be retired; other times I'd look at it and think it was fine. \\n Turns out my right eye sees colors as slightly brighter than my left. When I realised that, I went to the ophthalmologist in a panic; she perked right up and very excitedly asked, \\\"Have you ever been diagnosed with optical neuritis?!!\\\" like it was the best thing she'd heard all week. \\n We eventually worked out that it's probably due to me having one of my eyes patched for a fairly long time as a kid, that the rods probably developed slightly differently. \\n Due to amblyopia and patching, I also usually have primary vision out of only one eye at a time; my right eye does most of the reading and my left eye does most of the shape / spatial / artistic stuff. It's not a problem most of the time, except for the folks at Motor Vehicles, who generally think I'm trying to cheat when I explain that my left eye can see the shapes on the eye chart but has no idea what they actually mean .\",\n \"Summary: originally, for the same reason people aren't supposed to send you spam text messages: it costs the recipient time, money, bandwidth fees and counts toward your messages cap.\\n\\nPost: Besides the other answers: this originally goes back to speed and price structuring when the internet started getting popular. \\n My first internet connect was a 2400bps modem. That's 2400 bytes per second. In modern terms, if I wanted to download a 350mb video, it would take about 40 hours -- assuming that my connection didn't get cut off. During that 40 hours, I couldn't use my sole telephone line for anything else, I'd be desperately hoping that there wouldn't be any static/interference on the line (which would cause it to drop the connection and I'd have to start over again), I'd be paying the phone company for hourly use of the telephone line and also hoping that I wasn't exceeding my ISPs bandwidth cap. And this is for something that I decided that I explicitly wanted to download. \\n When the internet started getting popular, most folks on home connections were subject to restrictions like that -- and the people who were using the internet at work weren't aware of the problems that they were causing when they decided to forward their vacation pictures or one of those \\\"cute\\\" image stories. \\n So someone at work would decide to send an email about the new baby; they descibe the entire thing, including name and weight, and attach several megabytes of photos. The recipient logs on to their email and starts downloading it. You want to read the baby message, but it literally takes a couple hours to download. But you've no idea that it's going to take that long, so you're sitting there in front of the PC for two hours waiting for your email, wasting your time, spending money for the phone line and worrying if you're exceeding your bandwidth cap. \\n And maybe you're okay doing that for the baby pictures, but then you get on some business' email list and they start hogging your connection the same way. You spend three hours waiting for your mail to download, only to find that its an ad for a sale at the local grocery store. And since you only check your email once or twice a month, there're usually two or three three of these ads in your inbox. \\n There were also some bad user interface decisions. Some email systems wouldn't let you delete unread mail, so you had to download them to get rid of them (that's why the \\\"mark as read\\\" option is still there in most email systems today, even though you can delete straight to the trashbin now). And with some ISPs, mostly those who had been selling business use and branched out into home use, you had to download messages to your system in the order they're received; that meant you had to download three weeks of 'sale' ads to get to email that you actually want to read. \\n You can see why people really didn't like have images mailed to them, and why they complained to their ISPs about having the option to read a (fast-downloading) message without necessarily having to view the associated images.\",\n \"Summary: welcome to my Ignore User list.\\n\\nPost: If you look back through my comments, you'll see that I agree that simply telling folks to leave IPT without offering alternatives won't have a lot of effect beyond small batches of users. I agree with the basic premise. However, I think you're hurting your cause more than you're helping. \\n Everyone wants different things from their trackers, everyone has different reasons for staying with their current trackers or looking beyond them. Yet you seem to want one \\\"perfect\\\" one-size-fits-all tracker. Every time someone suggests something that might work for some IPT refugees (because it does work for some people), you shoot it down because it doesn't meet this vision of a \\\"perfect tracker\\\" that you have in your head. \\n Yet, from your comments, it's pretty clear that you haven't been out in the torrenting world all that much and are mostly basing your preconceptions of that \\\"perfect tracker\\\" on the tracker that you've spent the most time with and are most comfortable with. I honestly find it hard to take your arguments seriously when you think that it's hard to find back seasons of \\\"Lost\\\" and \\\"Supernatural\\\", when you think that only IPT has bonus points and freeleech when damn near every other tracker on the planet has some version of one or both, when you argue that peer-stealing isn't particularly wrong when you don't know what it is. In the end, you're incredibly judgmental for someone who doesn't know what the world looks like.\",\n \"Summary: while insurance is nice to have for the minor fender-bender, it's really important to have when you're hit by lightning or a drunk driver.\\n\\nPost: Because it's a way to insure (insurance) that you're not left injured and destitute. Let's say your house is hit by lightning, catches fire and you're seriously burnt. You have no place to live, no job (you're injured, remember?), nothing to borrow money against, and you suddenly have overwhelming medical expenses that are going to leave you in debt for the rest of your life. You get insurance and the same thing happens then, depending on your coverage, they'll pay to partially or fully repair/rebuild the house (which gives you something you can borrow money against) and some (most?) of your hospital bills are covered as well. There are also policies that can cover some of your lost income or for putting you up in a hotel for a time while you're homeless. \\n Or car insurance: It doesn't matter what causes the situation, what matters is not having to cover the entire cost of the accident myself. Some drunk driver without insurance and with no assets rips through a light and sends me to the hospital for a couple months? I'm gonna owe the hospital money and the drunk driver doesn't have any. I'm not working so I don't have any income, so how do I keep up with my rent or mortgage? Do I have to sell my house or go into my retirement fund to pay my hospital bills because some asshole can't act responsibly? \\n Regardless of where you live, you should be aware of your local laws. There are places, for example, where people are required to have car insurance, but that may not protect you (or you may have limited coverage) if someone decides to drive uninsured. If you lease a car, you may be required to have a certain amount of car insurance. If you're renting you're probably required to have renter's insurance, and if you owe more than a certain percentage on your house you're probably required to have homeowner's insurance. \\n (Re: renter's/homeowner's insurance: Note that flood insurance is typically a separate item than water damage and often carries a hefty premium. And a lot depends on exactly what the insurance company determines causes the damage. Let's say there's a huge storm that rips the roof off your house, pouring lots of rainwater in, while the creek out back floods the ground floor. The insurance company may decide that 70% of the damage was caused by the creek and only 30% by wind and rain, so they'll only cover 1/3 of the cost of repairs ... ) \\n The two ways insurance companies make money are by taking all the premiums that are paid and investing them; this is actually where most of their money comes from. If local/regional laws prevent insurance companies from raising premiums by more than a certain amount, you'll notice that they start agitating to be allowed larger premium rises during periods where the stock market does badly. \\n The other way they make money is by denying or limiting claims. Yes, they have to pay out when something goes wrong, but some companies have policies or practices that make it harder for you to get that money (you need to follow this procedure exactly, and you're only allowed to use these specific contractors and you have to document everything and do extra paperwork and meet certain deadlines, etc), while other companies \\\"play fair\\\". (I'll also note that insurance companies buy insurance themselves, to protect themselves and their assets in case of large payouts or mass events like hurricanes.) \\n I'd check into your local laws and see if there's any insurance you're required to have (car, medical, renter's/house), then look for a company that has a good reputation and good policies and see what you can afford (note that if you get multiple policies from the same place, they'll usually give you a discount). Because\",\n \"Summary: the Consumer Product Safety Commission\\n\\nPost: I had a floor lamp that a couple friends gave me for my birthday. I loved that lamp. Two years after I got it (and with no mistreatment on my part), one night I reached under the shade to turn it off. My finger hit the knob, it sparked, shorted out and caught fire. Middle of the night, I'm jogging through the house holding aloft a flaming floor lamp like the Olympic flame so that I can put it outside on the patio in the middle of a snowstorm, hopefully before the exquisitely sensitive fire alarm goes off. \\n But I loved that lamp, and one of the people who'd given it to me had died. I wanted it fixed or replaced. The store where it'd been bought had closed, so I had to go through corporate. I contacted the company's customer service who said the warranty only lasted one year. I pointed out that this isn't like the knob broke off or something cosmetic; I have lamps from my great-grand-aunts that are 90 years old and have never caught fire. They took a report and said they'd get back to me. Didn't hear from them for a few weeks, contacted them again and they had no record of me ever contacting them. Went around this circus every couple weeks for 18 months . Started keeping records of who I talked with and what they said and they still kept losing my records. \\n Finally, after 18 months, they said the lamp was out of stock and they couldn't help me replace it, but they offered me a $50 gift certificate to their stores. By this time, I'd paid $60 to a local lamp company to refinish/refurbish the lamp, so I accepted. [Customer service then sent me a $50 gift certificate to a different company of their corporate conglomerate. When I reported this, they told me to keep and use that certificate and promptly sent me another $50 certificate to the appropriate store. Their CS is really fucked up.] \\n Anyway!! I get the certificates and everything's cool and I mention the whole thing to a friend who notes that I should report the faulty lamp to the Consumer Product Safety Commission in case this happens to other people and maybe there are enough cases to force a recall. It's optional to include your contact info (or maybe it's optional that you let the originating company see your contact info? I forget), but I figured what the hell, why not? and put my info in there. \\n Swear to god, ten days later, I had lawyers from that company calling me, checking that I wasn't injured in the fire and nothing was damaged and what would I accept in compensation. It was like a freaking miracle! I explained that everything had been taken care of and politely declined recompense, but it was pretty clear that the lawyers were trying to make me very happy very quickly. And, unlike the customer service folks, they don't lose records and they can move close to immediately. \\n Anyway,\",\n \"Summary: all weather (and expectations) is local.\\n\\nPost: Yes. Right now it's early fall (plants will start to die / animals are preparing for winter) in the mainland US and early spring (plants are starting to bloom) in Australia. \\n Besides looking at the actual seasons , you'll also have different weather expectations in different regions. For example, right now it's a mild fall day in the mid-Atlantic states. Going by stereotypes (I'm not bothering to actually look up the weather reports right now), it's much hotter and humid in Florida, cooler and dryer in Colorado, and fairly cold in Alaska. But if you live in those regions, that's pretty much what you'd expect for a late September afternoon and you wouldn't think twice about it.\",\n \"Summary: 1) Hourlong programmes didn't do well in syndication until recently and cost more for stations to air. (2) Dramas reflect the time they're made in as well as the time they're set in. If you don't have the skills to read the underlying assumptions, you won't get the full benefit and the show becomes less interesting. And for various reasons comedies tend to age better than dramas.\\n\\nPost: There are a lot of dramas that were done during that period, including a lot of serious westerns. This is just a guess, but I think that it comes down to syndication issues and relevance/interest. \\n Re: syndication issues: up until comparatively recently, it was hard for hour-long programmes to survive in syndication. Hell, the reason Law and Order was created the way it was was because Dick Wolf wanted to be able to syndicate it, so he created it to be cut in half to create two different programmes with an overlapping cast. \\n There's also the cost issue. Most comedies back then were filmed on one or two sets, and were relatively cheap to produce. Many dramas shot in multiple locations and were more expensive. Higher production costs means that went programmes were ready to go into syndication, the production companies charged higher prices. \\n As to relevance: In the half hour or so I've spent thinking about this, it seems to me that a lot of drama tends not to age as well as comedies. The problems that society faced back then and which were reflected in the programmes, those have changed. Along with that, every era has it's own conventions that it adopts as a kind of shorthand for the social expectations of the day. Since the modern viewer isn't from that time period, they're not going to recognise those tropes, so nuances are easy to overlook. Finally, directing and writing style conventions for drama have changed a lot over the years, so drama programmes tend to look and feel more dated than they otherwise would. All of this makes older drama in general less accessible to the modern viewer. \\n Historical programmes have another problem to overcome: each programme is reflective not only of the period that it's created in, but of the period that they're set in as well. So in the 70's, a period where things were changing and a lot of people were hugely stressed and worrying about the breakdown of the family and society and general, CBS produced The Waltons , about a family living in a world where things were changing and most people were stressed and worrying about the breakdown of society -- and surviving everything with the help of their family. Some channel could re-run The Waltons today, but since the situations that made the programme relevant and comforting are no longer present, it's going to be harder for the show to attract a new audience. \\n In contrast, comedies are (a) usually set in some sort of timeless world and (b) generally reflect a world that's slightly out of sync anyway. Because the world of The Dick Van Dyke show is timeless, it's survived into today much better than, say, The Mod Squad . And because The Brady Bunch family lives in a world that's not really intended to be a true reflection of reality, the differences between now and then aren't as jarring. \\n And, as a final note, comedies tend to have less complex plotlines than dramas, so there are less differences between programmes produced then and produced now.\",\n \"Summary: don't diss my favourite comic site, man!\\n\\nPost: their selection is thin \\n If you're interested in something that isn't on-site, I'd suggest putting in a request for it. I've done so quite a few times, and all my requests have been filled within 24 hours. \\n > don't allow collections of comics that aren't of one series \\n The staff are extremely friendly and approachable, and are open to suggestions that might improve the site. A way of handling collections of non-single-titles is something that's been brought up several times with no current resolution, but the staff are aware that this is something desired by quite a few fans. I've no doubt something will be developed at some point in time. \\n > their carat system, while really good, is problematic since you need the carats required to download a file. I have to seed 50 torrents while earning 250 carats/hour for over a day to download the comic I want. \\n a) It's ridiculously to earn carats on site and seeding is only one of many ways. \\n b) there are literally thousands of torrents on-site that won't cost you anything to download, and (AFAIK) you still get credit for seeding them. Download a few of the larger ones. \\n c) they have threads where people will gift you torrents just for asking. If you haven't found them, you should spend more time on site before complaining. \\n AFAIK, CBT has the best comic collection around and it certainly has one of the best communities I've been involved in. I'd suggest being a little patient and spend some time on the site and with the community instead of complaining about having to wait a day until you can afford the torrent you want.\",\n \"Summary: Best friend acts like a self-centered douche, wrecks my plans, a weekend, and quite probably our friendship.\\n\\nPost: God, my best friend Jay did all of this to me on a single weekend a couple months ago. We live in NJ; I had to run some errands in Virginia and suggested we meet up and stay the weekend at a mutual friend's (Leo) place in Maryland. Jay spent the three weeks beforehand re-arranging the entire schedule to suit herself, meaning that all my plans to run errands and visit people in Virginia had to get re-scheduled, and eventually cancelled. I kept arranging and re-arranging plans to better suit Jay; the only thing I asked Jay to do was to call Leo, because I didn't have Leo's new number; Jay said she would. \\n Come the night we're supposed to leave, she calls half an hour after she's supposed to show up, says she'll be there later, finally shows up the following morning. We get to Leo's house; turns out Jay hasn't called Leo (Jay says her cell phone completely died the day before and she has to buy a replacement). Because Leo's a hoarder and hasn't had time to clear places for us, literally the only place for me to sleep is a love seat that would be the perfect size for me (if I had no legs at all). \\n On Sunday we go to this event and as we're walking in Jay tells me that another friend Mort will be meeting us. Later we're wandering around and Jay pulls me aside to say Mort's trying to call but her batteries are dying, can she use my cell phone to call him back. \\n At this point, I saw red: \\n \\n she re-arranged the entire weekend to suit herself; \\n she was 15 hours late; \\n she didn't do the one thing I asked her to do; \\n she had us show up at someone's house to stay the weekend completely uninvited and unannounced; \\n she invited someone without telling me; \\n and she obviously lied about the reason for not calling Leo because the fucking cell phone can't be dead if fucking Mort is fucking calling her on it two days later. \\n \\n Bitch.\",\n \"Summary: in sex or out of it, if one side feels like they're being used and the other side feels no need to try to figure out what's wrong and come to some agreement on it, that's a pretty shitty relationship.\\n\\nPost: I'd say that anyone that complains they feel pressure to please their partner during sex has either (a) a bad relationship that could use some open communication; (b) a poor attitude toward / appreciation of their partner; or (c) bad relationship skills in general. \\n I totally understand that not everyone will get off every time you have sex; that's okay. But if a man doesn't care whether his partner is having a good time or feels that ensuring that their partner's good time is a tedious chore that one \\\"has\\\" to do, like washing dishes or paying bills, the woman is going to pick up on that attitude. And if a man is consistently treating his partner's sexual pleasure with so little regard, he's almost certainly not paying attention to his partner in other ways as well. So the woman is standing there in this relationship that's supposedly one of the best things in her life (and it's not), not having her sexual or relationship needs filled in any meaningful way. Why shouldn't she feel like she's being used for sex and whatever else the man is getting out of the relationship?\",\n \"Summary: with your current attitude, you'd last less than a day on a private tracker. No-one in their right minds will put their account at risk to invite you.\\n\\nPost: If you'd rather not do the minimal work to get on a private tracker, then you're not going to be willing to do the minimal work to keep your ratio up. And if you're this impatient to just get on with it, then you're not going to have the restraint to restrict your downloads to the minimum levels.\",\n \"Summary: is the campaign hasn't even started yet and its a lot closer than you think. \\n As a total aside, as a long-time liberal / progressive, I'm switching my efforts to Bernie Sanders this election. Not because I expect him to win, but because the things he's talking about are important things that I'd like to have more exposure / consideration in mainstream political discourse and simply having Sanders campaigning forces the other candidates to at least acknowledge and pledge to address those issues during their campaigns.\\n\\nPost: You discount the right-wing spin machine and echo chamber. Republicans have a year and a half to find someone and continue smearing her - that hasn't really started yet because it'll be up to the nominee to decide. Expect lots of hammering about Bengazi, bitching about a \\\"Clinton III\\\" term, lots of circle-jerking on any campaign missteps / mis-statements that occur, with not-so-hidden bits of misogyny scattered throughout, all twisted up and warped by the right-wing echo chamber. Which will, of course, be declaring how their candidate is the Second Coming. \\n Expect the Republicans to start with at least 40% of the vote - that's the ~30% who'll vote Republican no matter who the Republican candidate is, plus a bunch of self-proclaimed independents / undecideds that almost inevitably vote Republican anyway. \\n And the voters may be ready for a change: in the past 60 years, only once has either party held the White House for the consecutive terms (Reagan-Reagan-Bush I). \\n Finally, if Hilary is the Democratic nominee, quite honestly, I'd expect to see a somewhat lower turnout among older (65+) Democratic voters. Those are folks who were born 1950 or earlier, who were raised when women were considered less competent than men and who may have lingering biases to contend with. It doesn't even have to be anything that they overtly acknowledge, just enough discomfort to keep them too busy or too tired or not interested enough to get to the polls. \\n This isn't my most organised list of issues with the upcoming campaign but the\",\n \"Summary: was invited on a long luxury (for my family) vacation, accepted; was later kicked off in favour of a tent and then taunted with photos of everything I was missing.\\n\\nPost: I have Asperger's and (at the time this happened) I didn't have a lot of spare money. My mom and my sister were planning a five-week vacation to the Canadian Rockies. I had no expectation of going; it was their trip, after all, and I couldn't afford to pay my share of the costs. Nevertheless, I'd had a really good friend of over a decade who'd grown up in Alberta so, when I found them discussing what they should do there, I stopped by and rattled off a bunch of different things to do/see in the area that I thought would appeal to them specifically. Maybe not anything they couldn't've found in tour books, but with a local's perspective and their interests in mind. \\n When they saw my interest, they invited me to go with them. I really would've liked to have gone -- it's a gorgeous area that I've never been to, I could probably never afford to visit in such detail, and it'd be a chance to hook my with my friend -- but I declined because I thought the stress of the trip would be too much for my Asperger's. My mom said they were planning on taking a motor home (something my family's pretty much never done), at which I perked up; if I were having problems or a bad day, a motor home meant that it would be easy to reduce the strain on my senses without increasing the strain on anyone else. I asked for time to think it over, then agreed. The trip was tentatively scheduled for a year later in August. \\n It's the first week of May, the trip's still scheduled for August and there hasn't been any change in anyone's financial or personal situation, when my mom mentions over dinner one night (my sister's not around) that she doesn't think I'll be able to handle the trip out west. I protest that I should be able to handle it; the motor home idea is pretty much perfectly tailored to me! She continues to insist that I can't and essentially kicks me off the trip. \\n A week later, I find out that, prior to my being kicked off the trip, my mom and sister had switched planning to a camping trip, without the motor home. And they were planning on doing it in my mom's car, which is a hatchback and has nowhere near enough room for three people, a full set of camping gear, and enough luggage for a five-week trip. It is , however, perfectly sized for two people on a five-week camping trip. I was still trying to figure out WTF had happened and how to convince them to re-include me (I'd really been counting on the break from my normal life), when my mom told me they'd be leaving in a few days, which meant that I didn't have enough time to convince anyone of anything. They left without me and had five glorious weeks touring the Northwestern US national parks and the Canadian Rockies, complete with daily photo updates to me from my sister telling me all the wonderful things they were doing.\",\n \"Summary: go to site for freeleech, torrent descriptions, IRC keys, and to check announcements, PMs and forums for replacement sites and invite offers. Get screenshot of website (live or cached) or an active torrent. Also stop by IRC channel to find out about replacement sites and invite offers. \\n edited for words and clarity\\n\\nPost: In future, my suggestions for when you hear that a site you're on has closed: \\n Go to the site and verify that it's closing or closed. \\n If you catch it before the site itself disappears: check for the fairly common it's-the-sad-sad-end freeleech and grab anything that looks like it might be of interest. Remember that, even after the tracker itself has disappeared, you can keep exchanging data with people provided you either (a) were connected when the tracker went down or (b) either one of you wrote down the IP address and port of the person you want to connect to (while this assumes the other person is connectible, it's definitely worth a try). So even after the tracker goes down, keep seeding and leeching as long as possible, to help those last lone straggler leeches -- and remember that some folk need to turn their computer off during work or sleep, so just because the site's gone and you don't see activity when you're on the PC doesn't mean someone isn't trying to grab the files from you. \\n Pro tip: for any torrents that you grab in these last days, for anything that you're currently seeding and for anything that's in your snatched list, open the torrent description page and save it to your hard drive. This makes it much easier for anyone who wants to upload the torrent to a new site. Even if you yourself don't want to upload, the torrent descriptions may be very useful to other people. There are browser addons that let you open/save multiple tabs at once; I use Multiple Tab Handler, a Firefox addon. \\n While you're on the site, check the announcements and any new PMs to see if there're any plans for resurrection and to see if anyone's sent out refugee offers. Check the forums to see see where people are talking about as good replacement sites and whether anyone's offering invites or refugee signup codes; TB kept the PMs and forums open for four months after the tracker itself went down primarily for this reason. And note the replacement sites may not be the ones you expect folk to head to (after TB closed, quite a few folk headed over to TVV). \\n Also, while you're on the site, take a screenshot of your account stats: even though the site itself is gone, you can still use your screenshot as a ratio proof -- and if another site offers shelter to refugees, they may give you extra starter credit for your account on the old site. Starter credit may be 2 or 10 or 25 or even 50GB upload; if you're very lucky and the new site very generous, they may even give you full credit for your old account's upload/download. \\n If you don't get to your site before the website is no longer accessible, see if your browser still has a copy of the website cached. If it does, take a screenshot of that. If those fail, take a screenshot of your torrent client, showing a torrent that you're seeding to the old site; make sure that the tracker tab is visible and shows the tracker for your old site. It won't act as a ratio proof, but it will act as proof you were on the tracker and gets you eligible for refugee offers. \\n Listed above are a few of the reasons you should always visit the website itself when you hear something is closing/closed. Besides the site itself, you should also visit the site's IRC channel, which usually remains open for a while after the site itself has disappeared. (Note that this is one of a few good reasons to spend going through whatever hoops are necessary to set up IRC access when you join a new site so that you can ensure your access later on; some sites have special instructions or IRC keys that are only listed on the website but that you can set to automatically run in your IRC client.) \\n Your old site's IRC channel is actually probably one of the best places to find out about replacement sites and getting invites/refugee codes: the folks on IRC are generally the people more familiar with and active in the p2p scene and there's usually one or two people from potential alternate sites actively recruiting in the IRC channel.\",\n \"Summary: Get the exact dimensions of all the space you'll have. List all the functions of your room, how much space is required for each, and how important that item is to you -- maybe you don't need a wardrobe, or a bookcase, or a desk. Remember that each piece of furniture will take up space that you could be living in. Think creatively and decide how you want things to work in your room, then go looking for the furniture/other items to make your vision work. And don't be afraid to make changes if something isn't working for you. Good luck!\\n\\nPost: The first thing you need are more details about the dimensions of the room. I mean, knowing it's 4m^2 is okay information, but knowing the length of each wall would be more useful. Also, is 4m^2 the entire size of the room, or does it come with a closet as well? If there is a closet, what are the dimensions there? Is this room solely for you, or is this your half of a larger room? So, yeah, the first thing is to find out the exact dimensions of all the space you'll have. \\n (I'm doing the below in English units; sorry about that, I'm American, and that's what my brain thinks in. Since you'll be measuring your own space for your own needs, you'll be doing your own measurements in what's comfortable for you.) \\n Assuming that there's no closet, and the room is entirely yours: the first thing I would do is make a list of the functions you actually need , as well as the space you actually need for that function. \\n Bed . You need a bed, so that's a 6x3 foot square (though you can get by with a 6x2 foot square). You probably really want to be able to sit up in bed. When sitting, most people need less than three feet from the base of the torso to the top of their head. \\n Desk. You want a desk, that's fine too. Seated, most people need slightly less than four feet of height from the floor to clear the top of their head. Hey, look at that: four feet high for a desk, three feet high to be able to sit upright on your bed: seven feet tall. Get a loft bed, and you have a few inches left over for a very comfy mattress. Or get a slightly thinner mattress and have a little more headroom at your desk or in your bed. \\n Dresser. Now, there's still unused space under the loftbed. Most people are comfortable with a desk about 3.5 feet wide. If that holds true for you, then you'll have space free under the bed on one side of the desk; that space should be about 2.5 feet wide by about 4 feet high, which is a nice size for a dresser. \\n If doing this, get a bed where the ladder is on rails, so you can slide it back and forth to allow free access to the desk or dresser as needed. Also, when looking at/putting together your desk, try to make sure that the drawers are on whatever side is going to be next to the wall. That'll put your body more into the center of the room and make you feel less closed off. \\n Wardrobe. Do you need a wardrobe? You should know that hanging stuff up takes more room than folding it into a drawer, and things like bluejeans and sweatpants, etc, can all be put in dresser drawers. If you definitely have stuff that needs to be hung up, how much of it do you have? Can you get away with those over-the-door hooks that let you put hangers on them? If so, go with those and skip the wardrobe entirely. If you do need a wardrobe, that's where the dimensions of the room come into play. \\n If the room is, say, 8 feet by 5 feet, you can get a 2-foot-wide wardrobe that fits between the bottom of the bed and the wall. You could get a wardrobe that's 7 feet tall and have two rods of clothes hanging comfortably inside. \\n Or, in that same space, you can get something shorter and have one rod of clothes hanging across the top, with a couple drawers below. One benefit of a shorter wardrobe is that you can now use the top of it as a side table while you're in bed, someplace to put a lamp, food and drink, alarm clock, etc. \\n If your room is sized more like 7 feet by 6 feet, then there's no room for a wardrobe at the foot of the bed. In this case, I'd put the loftbed across the 6-foot-long wall, which gives you more space in the main area of the room. If you definitely need a wardrobe for this shorter+wider 7x6 room, then I'd replace the dresser under the bed with a short wardrobe, then look at the (remaining) main area for places to store your socks, folded clothes, etc. \\n Storage/end table. If you need dresser space at this point, you can get a small dresser, maybe 2-to-2.5 feet tall, 2.5 feet wide, eighteen inches deep. Put that in the unused corner; you can store your clothes in it and also use it as an end table. (If you don't need a dresser in that corner, I'd get a dorm-room-sized fridge instead.) \\n Bookcase. You may well need more space for stuff, and you'll definitely want something easier to access than a drawer, so get a bookcase that's maybe 3-to-4 feet tall and maybe 8 inches deep; width should be long enough to fit on top of (but not extend over the edges of) the dresser/fridge in the corner. Place the bookcase on top of the dresser/fridge and you now have plenty of shelf space as well. \\n Guest chair. You already have a chair at your desk, but since you're not sharing this hypothetical room I'm working from, maybe you want a guest chair. You can get one that doesn't really move around and store stuff underneath it; or if your hypothetical guests may be collaborating with you on a project, I'd definitely get one that rolls. \\n Television. I don't know whether you want a tv or not. A lot of folks I know watch tv on their computers, so you can do that. If you have a flatscreen, it can get hung on the unused wall opposite the loftbed. If you have an older-style tv, maybe you can put it on one of the shelves. \\n Lamps. Make sure to put in plenty of lighting, which can help things feel less claustrophobic. Don't get one big light that just glares into all the corners; look into lamps that clip onto bedframes/the sides of bookcases, can easily be mounted on the wall, or maybe those artsy pole-lamps with 3 or 4 lights on it that can each be pointed in a different direction. \\n You'll want at least one lamp in your bed, one or two to light up your desk space (depends on the type of light they cast; something that can be mounted on the underside of your bed is a bonus), plus one or two in the 'main' living area. Try to get lamps that have multiple strength settings, so you can adjust the amount of light you're getting to your needs. \\n There you go: bed, desk, dresser, bookcase, guest chair, wardrobe or fridge, tv, lamps. \\n Using/perceiving space. One nice thing about the set-up I've described is that pretty much everything is stacked on something else. Making the most of your vertical space gives you a more 'open' center area that you can easily move around in. If you choose not to use the vertical space, you can either give up one of the functions described or have furniture cluttering the area and making it harder to navigate. \\n The other nice thing about this set-up is that most of the furniture is on one side of the room. IME, that means that you'll usually be on that side of the room and can look out into the 'clear' area, so it's not as claustrophobic as you might think. And if you're not looking into the 'clear' area, you'll usually be focussing close-up on something where you are (working at the desk, reading in bed). \\n Closet? So far, I've mostly been describing a room with no closet and no shared living space. If your room comes with a closet, look into ways of using that space more effectively. At one point in my life, when I didn't really have clothes that needed to be hung up, I removed the doors and put part of my bed inside the closet, which opened up more space in the room itself. Another time, I put my dresser in the closet, which again opened up space for me to use in the main room. \\n Room-mate? If you're sharing the room with someone else and the 4m^2 is just your half, see if there are things that you can share. Like maybe you don't each need a guest chair and can share one, or you don't both need a wastebin, that sort of thing.\",\n \"Summary: life would be horrible for people in both the NYC and DC regions, the side effects would be terrible for both cities themselves, and both the US government and the UN would lose some legitimacy in the eyes of some of the groups that they serve. No-one would even consider doing it.\\n\\nPost: I've lived in NYC. The city is crowded and traffic is horrible because of all the people who live, work and visit there. That extends out into the suburbs as well. I've also lived in Washington, DC. The city is crowded and traffic is horrible because of all the people who live, work and visit there. And that extends out into the suburbs as well. \\n Thing is, the majority of work and traffic in DC is oriented around the government - executive, legislative and judicial branches are all based there, as well as all their support departments. And all of the federal agencies are based there or in their immediate environs - FBI, CIA, NSA, DoD, HHS, Interior, Commerce, Agriculture, State, Treasury, Labor, HUD, Energy, etc, etc, etc, as well as all their support departments and contractors. And all of the lobbyists and lawyers and non-profits and everyone else who is trying to influence the government is also there. Then there's everyone who works for or provides services for those people - daycares, lawn care, grocery stores, gas stations, thousands and thousands of businesses. \\n To move the functions of government to NYC would require finding someplace for an additional ... I dunno, 2-3 million people to live, plus space for them to shop and entertain themselves, plus upgrading infrastructure (roads, police, fire, hospitals, electric, gas, etc) to support them, plus basic infrastructure upgrades such as increasing the \\\"bandwidth\\\" of the power lines and adding transformers and generator stations to supply the electricity. Plus finding a place to put all the buildings needed for the functions of government. Space is at a premium in the NYC region already; there's simply no place to put all the stuff needed for the people who'd be moving in. \\n Plus, they'd have to try to do all that without disturbing the current residents, nor overly disturb the third busiest port in the United States. I'd also note that the northeast air corridor is one of the most congested in the world, and both New York City (LaGuardia, JFK and Newark) and DC (Dulles, National and BWI) are served by three fairly major airports. There's simply no way the airspace around NYC would be able to handle the additional traffic, and residents would loathe the increased noise. \\n Finally, NYC is where the UN is located as well as the main US financial district. Some people inside the US would view the US government being in NYC as enabling easy access to / influence of the US government by either corporations or outside governments. And some people outside the US would view the move as enabling the US to influence the UN, so both sets of institutions would lose credibility. \\n The characters of both cities would change tremendously. Overall, the NYC area would be almost unsustainably overpopulated, horribly expensive and difficult to move around in. And, in the meantime, DC would become a ghost town, as anyone who's been in DC when Congress is out of session can attest. For lack of employment, DC's population would flee like Detroit's, and it's main remaining industry would be tourism based on the museums and parks. But financing for those places would probably be increasingly difficult to sustain :(\",\n \"Summary: that \\\"narrative\\\" of profligate poor people isn't always true. And if you're poor, being \\\"responsible\\\" can mean handling your money in a completely different way, otherwise you can get fucked over pretty harshly.\\n\\nPost: a narrative of profligate poor people who can't manage their own money ripping off \\\"hard-working taxpayers\\\" \\n I've a friend who's been hard-working her entire life. College-educated, worked multiple jobs through college, always a hard worker. Her entire family's that way, she's never (knowlngly) known anyone on welfare - not because she thinks less of them, simply because she was middle-class and worked hard and never ended up befriending anyone who happened to be on welfare. She's also very sensible, and doesn't drink or do drugs or waste money on frivolous things: her sole clothing purchases last year were two shirts and a pair of pants, her computer's about six years old, she has a 14-inch tv and a 23-year-old car. \\n Well, anyway; a few years ago she had a extended massive breakdown, attempted suicide multiple times, spent time in a psych ward, etc. She was put on disability a little over a year ago. \\n Now, while she's on disability, she's not allowed to have more than $2k in assets. But they're also give her back payments for the disability she would've received while they were determining her case. She got one of those payments, a little over $3k, last fall, and she has six months to spend it without being penalized for being over the $2k limit. She's heard all the stuff about folks irresponsibly blowing through their arrears money as soon as it comes in, etc, and she's being sensible, saving it for when it's needed for car repairs and stuff. \\n In January, Social Security did one of their periodic reviews, including finances. She explains that she's over the $2k limit due solely to the arrears and that she still has a couple months to spend it down. They agree and send her on her way. A month later, she gets a letter saying they were cancelling her disability because she was over the limit in October. Next day she starts getting letters saying her Medicaid and food stamps and everything else is being cancelled as well. \\n She goes to Social Security, waits in line a couple hours, they hear her, agree they've fucked up, and start reversing their process. Only she has to go to all the other agencies to make sure everything else gets started up as well. For someone who can't handle stress or bureaucracy, having to deal with multiple arcane government agencies in a short period of time, each with their own bizarre rules, this is hell, but in the end everything's back where it should be. \\n Middle of March, she gets impaired vision in her left eye - turns out her left retina's torn and she needs emergency surgery or she's going to go blind in that eye. She tries to go to the eye doctor she saw for this back in December, but it turns out that that visit is only covered under Medicaid's supplementary coverage, and that the supplementary coverage got cancelled because Social Security fucked up. And, while the paperwork to get the supplementary insurance restored was submitted on 2 March, the company only processes applications on the first of the month. So she was without supplementary insurance the entire month of March. Medicaid would only pay for her eye surgery if she went to the nearest ER (which wasn't qualified to perform it particularly well); if she went to the previously-covered (and competent) eye doctor to have it done, she'd have to pay out of pocket. Between that and the drugs that were no longer covered, she's now a couple grand poorer. \\n The good news is that she's now no longer over the $2k limit they set on her; the bad news is she now has permanently impaired eyesight and no longer has any monetary reserves at all. She says she's taking the next arrears payment out of the bank as soon as it comes in.\",\n \"Summary: I'm sitting here trying to come with something witty, but the best I can do is \\\"FU, UPS management and thieves!\\\"\\n\\nPost: I used to work in a major amusement park's advance ticket sales office. If you were bringing a group of people to the park, we could mail you discounted tickets before you came to the park so no-one would have to stand in the ticket sales line (it could get pretty long at times). \\n We shipped our tickets through UPS. One year, we started getting a bunch of reports about empty envelopes being delivered; short slits were cut in the envelopes with a knife and some or all of the tickets removed, but the invoice and promotional material stayed inside so there was still some bulk to the envelopes. \\n After a couple months of me having to emergency-issue replacement tickets and of UPS denying that there was any problem at all, I got really pissed. I ran a bunch of reports and discovered the stolen tickets were being redeemed on certain days of the week, and that way more tickets were being used than could be accounted for by some guy handing them out to his friends. I figured the thief was selling the tickets, pegged his next likely 'sales' date and notified Security. They found him selling tickets about twenty yards from the ticket sales booths, got him arrested and convicted on some felony charge (forget exactly what). \\n Now, normally each year, we'd total up any lost packages and submit a $100 claim to UPS for each one. And the packages had always before been lost (no tickets redeemed), and we never had any trouble getting our claims processed. This particular year, though, even though we'd caught their warehouse guy red-handed with stolen goods, UPS balked and denied our claims. \\n They refused to admit the thefts were their problem and said we should've been warning the people receiving the tickets to check the contents before accepting them, even though the envelopes looked undamaged. Okay, fine. We changed our normal clear shipping tape for tape with big red writing that said \\\"STOP! Check contents of package before signing!\\\" \\n A couple years later, the same thing happens again . This time, UPS again denied our claims, saying that it wasn't their fault because the STOP tape clearly indicated that the contents of the envelope were valuable and made the packages a prime target for thieves. They said we shouldn't've been using the tape, even though it was their idea in the first place. \\n Also, even though authorised signatures were required, they'd leave them without signatures and at unapproved alternate locations. My favorite response to a question about delivery: \\\"Well, there was no-one there at the church, so we left it at the crack-house next door.\\\" Thanks, UPS.\",\n \"Summary: apply your writing lessons when reading.\\n\\nPost: don't even take notes, just fucking read it. \\n Yes, read the chapter, but do take notes. Then, when it's time to for the test, you can re-read your notes as a refresher. \\n Also: remember when you were learning to write essays and stuff in school, and they taught you to have one 'main thought' sentence in each paragraph? When you're writing up notes while reading, that's the sentence you want to summarise in just a few words. When you're done reading the chapter, you should have something resembling the outlines that they taught you to create before you wrote up your essay.\",\n \"Summary: it doesn't provide you with any actual security and it can prevent you from connecting to peers and websites that you actually want to connect with.\\n\\nPost: a) Peerblock prevents you from exchanging data with ranges of IP addresses. Some of the ranges it blocks are those of hosting companies, meaning that it can (and does) block some seedbox providers as well as preventing you from getting to websites that have nothing to do with torrenting but that are hosted on those company's servers. \\n b) When you connect to a torrent, you're given the IP addresses of the other people in the swarm. If there's a MIAA/RIAA mole on the torrent, once you join it's already too late, regardless of whether you actually exchange data or not. \\n c) Even if they did have to catch you transferring data, TPTB generally outsource their enforcement work, so the people actually doing the harvesting probably don't have IP address in the affected ranges. Even if they do have IP addresses in the affected ranges, they're almost certainly willing the spend the absolutely trivial amount of money for a VPN to obscure their actual IP address.\",\n \"Summary: you have to trust the company creating, conducting and interpreting the survey to actually collect and present the data correctly. And even then it's all out the window if the end organisation has ulterior motives or is just looking to justify a decision they've already made. Also? Fuck you, Manassas Cablevision.\\n\\nPost: Years ago, I got a call from my cable company asking to take a survey and I agreed. Before we begin, it's important to know that, at the time, the two big broadcast \\\"superstations\\\" were WGN and WOR. At the time, WGN didn't carry a lot of old television (something I collect), while WOR did (even if they weren't actually broadcasting any shows I was interested at the time). The survey went something like this (numbers are made up): \\n Cable company (cc): WGN out of Chicago carries 30 hours of news a week, while WOR out of New York only has 10. Which station would you prefer? \\nMe (previous passionate New Jersey resident, and not caring about news - and less news will mean more time for my old tv shows!): WOR is out of Secaucus, New Jersey. And I'd prefer WOR. \\nCc: WGN out of Chicago carries 40 hours of sports every week, plus all Chicago Cubs home games; WOR out of New York only carries 12 hours of sports per week. Which would you prefer? \\nMe (hate sports): It's Secaucus. And WOR. \\nCc (pause, slightly annoyed): WGN out of Chicago carries 25 hours of children's programming a week, WOR out of New York only carries 12. Which would you prefer? \\nMe (no kids): They're still in Secaucus. And WOR. \\n This continued for about fifteen minutes, with them notably getting increasingly irritated with me, trying to get just one WGN out of me - which I totally would've agreed to if they'd listed a single category of television that I actually cared about. Movies, soaps, game shows, local programming, documentaries, women's programmes - nope, sorry, give me old tv reruns! All I could think was that WOR sounded better and better for not carrying all this stuff I didn't care about. \\n They finally got to the end of the survey, and there wasn't been a single WGN out of me. They sounded pretty disgruntled with me, and from their increasingly unhappy responses I'm pretty certain that they were only doing the survey to justify some decision that they'd already reached anyway. I'm also fairly certain I got included in the statistics as some minority opinion to prove that the survey was cough \\\"completely unbiased\\\". \\n They asked me if I had any feedback for them in general; I said WOR out of Secaucus sounded like an awesome station, and they should carry it and BBC-America. I was completely unsurprised when, two months later, they added WGN to our channel line-up. We never did get WOR or BBC-A, nor did I ever convince them that WOR was broadcasting out of Secaucus.\",\n \"Summary: was terrified new printer was going to rape and kill me :/\\n\\nPost: I was alone in the house around 3am. I'd finished studying and writing, printed out my paper on the house printer, taken a shower. Was lying in bed air-drying when I very clearly heard a door close inside the house. \\n I was petrified. I was in my bedroom, my cellphone was in my backpack downstairs, the house phone was two doors down the hallway and I had no idea which door had closed, no idea whether the person who closed the door was closing the door into the house, one of the downstairs doors or the door next to my bedroom, and I couldn't find anything that made even a half-way decent weapon (while heavy, A Compendium of Western Literature wasn't going to be very damaging). \\n I froze in fear for a few seconds, then very quietly tugged on a oversize tee and grabbed the sharpest pen I could find. Crept out of my room, saying in a very loud voice, \\\"Hello? Hello?! \\\". Covered the entire house and every single door and window was still closed and locked, no-one hiding anywhere at all. Yet I know what I heard and I definitely heard a door close! Inside the house!! \\n I grabbed my cellphone and went back to my room. I didn't get much sleep that night, despite barracading the door to my room. Heard a similar sound a couple afternoons later, realised it was the new printer switching into standby mode.\",\n \"Summary: is: ebola kills a high percentage of it's victims. Of those who survive, at least 50% won't be able to work in ebola wards helping other victims; in reality, that's probably at least 75% unavailable.\\n\\nPost: To parse this out a bit more: I have no idea what the numbers would be, so let's use /u/MostlyDisappointing's numbers, and let's assume there are 10,000 survivors you could potentially train (I like round numbers). And let's also assume that the distribution of ebola follows the population curve: everyone has an equal chance of infection and recovery/death, regardless of age or gender. I hop over to the [CIA Factbook entry]( for Liberia's age structure: \\n > 0-14 years: 43.2% (male 891,002/female 876,655) \\n> 15-24 years: 17.9% (male 357,952/female 375,708) \\n> 25-54 years: 31.5% (male 642,835/female 646,104) \\n> 55-64 years: 4.3% (male 85,906/female 89,943) \\n> 65 years and over: 3% (male 62,475/female 63,730) (2014 est.) \\n Let's assume anyone under 14 or over 64 is not physically able to care for others (yes, some will be, but the CIA Factbook gives me nice percentages for those age groups). That's 4620 out of the 10,000 that are automatically taken out of the running; 5380 left. \\n The sex ratio between 25-54 is 1:1. The estimate is 4.81 children born to every woman in the country, and the infant mortality rate is 69.19 deaths out of every 1,000 live births but let's just round that down to 4 kids. If each woman is raising 4 kids (let's say up to age 6), that's 10 years the woman is unable to work sometime between 15 and 65, so expect 20% of the women to be unavailable due to family commitments. 5280 / 2 (half population is women) * .20 is another 538 people unavailable; 4742 left. \\n That 4742 represents the best guess scenario: 10,000 survivors, minimum family commitments, and you now have only 4742 people who might be able to work. Some of those people are already working other jobs and risk losing them if they work in ebola wards, some of them almost certainly aren't up to the challenges of working in PPE (average max PPE time in healthy workers is about 40 minutes), some of them probably aren't up to the mental strain of taking care of such seriously ill people, some of them simply won't be willing to do the work ... \\n I'd try to figure out the numbers, but the situation is too unstable and (even it it weren't) I'm not sure we have that data for Liberia anyway. Anyway, the\",\n \"Summary: to minimise risk, don't download big-name, popular items (or porn) from public trackers without some way to protect your identity. If your torrenting is going to be more than a one-time thing, you might want to check out private trackers, seedboxes, vpns, or any combination thereof. \\n Obligatory shout-outs to /r/piracy, /r/trackers, /r/torrents, /r/seedboxes and /r/vpn. \\n edit: forgot a 'not'.\\n\\nPost: I've no idea what percentage of folks get in trouble for pirating; a lot of your chances depend on what you're downloading and how you're doing it. There are also different ways of pirating material: most of complaints you hear about pirating focus around torrenting, but there are download sites like MegaUpload.com and you can also download from binary newsgroups. While I've used newsgroups in the past and occasionally use download sites, I'll mostly focus on torrents in this reply. \\n Pretty much everyone moving into the torrenting world does so cautiously, because the RIAA/MPAA/etc have done a good job of scaring folks. The thing is to be aware of the risks, decide what level of risk you're willing to take, and do what you can to minimise them. \\n As a general rule, TPTB focus more on things that they can directly charge you for. So this means that, in general , they're more interested in policing new movies and music, and television from premium cable channels. If your interest is old episodes of Ozzie and Harriet and films from the silent era, you're at much less risk. Not no risk (there's never no risk), but less risk. \\n One additional thing that tends to get policed is porn. Most of the folks involved in this are shady firms that specialise in identifying and targeting people who have downloaded porn, with the intent of extorting them. It's probably not extortion in the legal sense, but folks generally get a letter saying \\\"We're going to take you to court and publicise that you've downloaded Nude Nuns with Big Guns and Ass-Cracking vols 1-5 unless you pay us $1500 to settle out of court\\\". \\n Also as a general rule, TPTB mostly focus on the rich and easy pickings of public trackers, which have millions of users, and spend less effort on private trackers, which are much smaller, can be more difficult to get into, and can take effort to establish themselves on. So if you are interested in the latest movies and haven't taken any steps to disguise yourself, you're generally better off on private trackers than, say, ThePirateBay. \\n Another level of security are seedboxes and VPNs, which provide some anonimity to the person torrenting. You can generally use seedboxes on both public and private sites; some private sites ban VPNs or restrict their use to certain classes of users. Seedboxes also provide fast upload speeds, so maintaining your ratio on private sites is much easier. (Ratio is how much you've uploaded vs how much you've downloaded. A 1-to-1 ratio is good.) \\n Note that not all seedbox or VPN companies are the same; some take user privacy more seriously than others. Folks who are more concerned about privacy will tend to the more user-protection-oriented companies. If you want to take your security that extra step, you can pay for your VPN or seedbox with an anonymous pre-paid credit card or with bitcoins.\"\n]","isConversational":false},"profile_size":{"kind":"number","value":24,"string":"24"},"task":{"kind":"string","value":"longlamp_4"},"split_kind":{"kind":"string","value":"user_based"},"id":{"kind":"number","value":1393,"string":"1,393"}}},{"rowIdx":1394,"cells":{"question_id":{"kind":"string","value":"streetmitch"},"question":{"kind":"string","value":"Generate the content for a reddit post got killed on sniper hill. spawn on other side of electro. ran to firehouse dodging bullets. found a double barrel shotgun only had one shot. see a guy on other side of wall. he yells hes friendly and tries to lie to me. he tries to flank. spin around and kill him with my only shot. grabbed his gear and took refuge in forest. notice hes the one that killed me and had all my old gear plus extra."},"answer":{"kind":"string","value":"so about a week ago i was in stary just looted a downed chopper. found a m14 and a bizon with a decent amount of ammo. was going to give the bizon to a friend, but he just went on vacation. didnt play for a while because i dont want to lose my decent gear and cant do much looting with a gun in my back pack. then i see a post to come meet up on a server in this subreddit. decided what the heck might as well play for a couple minutes. spawned on the middle of sniper hill(i logged off near stary). start to run and then shots ring out. he was a horrible shot so i figured ill get up and just run. stood up and it wouldnt let me run. just walking through the forest bashing my keyboard to get it to run. then thats it one quick shot and im dead. figured screw it maybe ill spawn close enough. with luck i spawned on the other side of electro! running on the northern outskirts shots wizz pass me as i zig zag all the way to the firehouse. desperately looking for a gun yes a gun. a double barrel with 2 shots. i guess it will have to do. accidently fire a shot in the ground while looting a map. fuck me right, down to my last shot. run out of firehouse still dodging bullets. get to a wall and noticed a guy on the other side. he yells dont shoot its not me shooting its my buddy up on the hill. i watch him on the other side of the wall in 3rd person. he walks behind me where there is a whole that you can crawl under. he lays down and takes aim. i spin around and fire my last remaining shot straight into his head. hes dead, my hearts racing. i grab his m24, and the alice pack. i run for the forest where i catch my breath and check out my spoils. look in the back pack and theres all my old gear and some extras. thanks again for bringing my gear back to me and adding to it."},"correct_answer":{"kind":"string","value":"so about a week ago i was in stary just looted a downed chopper. found a m14 and a bizon with a decent amount of ammo. was going to give the bizon to a friend, but he just went on vacation. didnt play for a while because i dont want to lose my decent gear and cant do much looting with a gun in my back pack. then i see a post to come meet up on a server in this subreddit. decided what the heck might as well play for a couple minutes. spawned on the middle of sniper hill(i logged off near stary). start to run and then shots ring out. he was a horrible shot so i figured ill get up and just run. stood up and it wouldnt let me run. just walking through the forest bashing my keyboard to get it to run. then thats it one quick shot and im dead. figured screw it maybe ill spawn close enough. with luck i spawned on the other side of electro! running on the northern outskirts shots wizz pass me as i zig zag all the way to the firehouse. desperately looking for a gun yes a gun. a double barrel with 2 shots. i guess it will have to do. accidently fire a shot in the ground while looting a map. fuck me right, down to my last shot. run out of firehouse still dodging bullets. get to a wall and noticed a guy on the other side. he yells dont shoot its not me shooting its my buddy up on the hill. i watch him on the other side of the wall in 3rd person. he walks behind me where there is a whole that you can crawl under. he lays down and takes aim. i spin around and fire my last remaining shot straight into his head. hes dead, my hearts racing. i grab his m24, and the alice pack. i run for the forest where i catch my breath and check out my spoils. look in the back pack and theres all my old gear and some extras. thanks again for bringing my gear back to me and adding to it."},"documents":{"kind":"list like","value":["Summary: Get the 7970.\n\nPost: Here is a [benchmark]( for the 7970 vs the 770. It looks like they perform about the same. For me i would choose the 7970 say performance for 100 dollars less. My experience with radeon has been nothing, but good things. I know 2 people with crossfire 7970s that i suggested and they love them and have had no problems with them. one of those friend has 2 different 7970s power color and sapphire. he rmad both cards at different times and they took care of him. the sapphire one was even out of warranty and they repaired it for free. Also you could get a 7970 ghz edition for 350 and it improve the performance a little.","Summary: comcast setup and appointment on a sunday they dont work and had to reschedual a week later after already waiting a week.\n\nPost: i just moved into a new place and it took comcast for ever to get me an appointment. so they finally set one up. as i was talking to my friend i told him i will be online sunday night. He tells me that hes pretty sure they dont work on sunday. i wait all day and finally call them. they confirmed they dont work that day and set up an appointment for the next week. they setup the first appointment and somehow forgot they dont work that day.","Summary: Man moved next door with lawnmower business. Tormented neighborhood with noise and fumes and wasn't even living there.\n\nPost: I had a neighbor move into the house next door. He was fine for the first week or so. Then he started moving in at least 40 lawn mowers into the garage. Over the next 6 months he would be outside running lawnmowers from 7 a.m to 9 p.m everyday. We found out that he bought/fixed/sold lawn mowers out of this house. It got to the point were we couldnt go outside or open our windows without listening to running lawn mowers and inhaling all the fumes. after a while the neighbor hood started complaining. We found out he wasnt even living there he would come in the morning to work on his lawn mowers and leave at night. We complained enough to get the city to look into it. He filed for a business license to run his shop out of his house. It passed so for the next 2 months he continued. eventually we got him kicked out he left a mountain of broken lawnmowers in his back yard that you could see from the street and adjacent properties.","Summary: 6 preteens destroy someones shed/shop for enjoyment.\n\nPost: When i was about 10 there was a house that sat vacant in my neighbor hood for a couple of months. All my friends and me found the big shed in the back yard was unlocked. we used it as our hang out for a couple of weeks then one day someone came up with the idea to destroy the inside. the next day 5 or so of us took hammers to anything we found inside. this was a big shed basically a 3 car garage with out big doors. one day later one of the kids told his parents and everyone was found out. that was the first and only time i was grounded. 3 months of my life was school and the inside of my room only. overall it was about 2k worth of damages.","Summary: Had a sub that was at my moms uncle's, grenade accident almost half a decade earlier.\n\nPost: My moms uncle was in the military during the Vietnam war. He was training recruits on how to properly through grenades. well one of the grenades was faulty and as soon as he pulled the pin it exploded. Fast forward i dont know 40 years or so. I was in highschool and we had a substitute teacher. He was a really old veteran who told war stories during the entire class. Someone asked him along the lines of what his most vivid memory was. He told the story about how he was being trained by someone on how to use grenades, when it blew up in his hand. I later asked him and it turned out to be my moms uncle. So over the course of 40 years and multiple states. I ran into someone who knew the story.","Summary: bought a 1700 dollar gold coin from goodwill for 2 dollars.\n\nPost: i was just digging through all the junk one day at my local good will. out of the corner of my eye i spot a small black square. i flip it over and there is a golden coin underneath a protective glass. after looking at it more closely i realized it was a 1 ounce gold coin.[This] ( on to be exact. I buy it for 2 dollars and take it home to find out more information. i ended up selling it for about 1500 dollars 2 years later to have money for Christmas.","Summary: grandpa fist fights two guys as they are dine and dashing. One ends up through a window. Grandpa gets a free meal.\n\nPost: My grandpa and grandma have a story of there first date. They went to a restaurant and while eating two guys were trying to dine and dash. The owner an older guy was yelling at them and couldnt do anything. My grandpa being the bad ass he was got up and got into a fist fight with them. eventually one of the guys got thrown through a window. After it was done my grandpa sat down and finished the meal. Breaking the window costed way more money then them just leaving. The owner was just happy that he stood up for him and gave him the meal on the house. This was probably in the late 60's.","Summary: stole best friends game while moving convinced him someone in the neighborhood stole it and left never to speak to him again. have to avoid closest 7 11 because he works there.\n\nPost: When i was around 9 i moved to a different town, but right before i left i went to say good bye to my best friend. as i walked into his house(the door was open) i say his gameboy and a yugioh game that we played every day for months. i stole the game right out of the gameboy. came back later and he was tearing up his house looking for it. i helped him search for it for at least an hour and then planted in his mind that maybe someone from the neighbor hood stole it. then i went home and left to my new house and never saw him again for 10 years. we are now 20 years old and he works at the 7 11 down the street. once i found out it was him i cant go there any more i cant look him in the eyes knowing i stole the game from him and he never found out. till this day i still have to drive an extra couple blocks to go the 7 11 farther down the street.","Summary: thief stole friends xbox live account. bought 20 dollars worth of points. friend canceled card. thief account as his own. ended up getting account back with 200 dollars worth of microsoft points on the thiefs credit card.\n\nPost: once my friends xbox live account got hacked. the thief used his card on it to buy like 20 dollars worth of microsoft points. when my friend noticed he canceled the card and reported it to microsoft. then about a month later he got his account back. since the card was canceled the thief ended up putting his card on it and kept it as his account. when my friend got it back it had like 200 dollars worth of microsoft points that the thief bought with his money.","Summary: guy rents house next door. doesnt live there spend long hours fixing lawn mowers and selling them. constant noise keeps us from enjoying our backyard and keeping windows open. cops dont seem to be doing anything.\n\nPost: so about 2 months ago the house next to us got sold or rented or something. anyway the guy that \"lives\" there fixes,cleans, and sells lawn mowers out of his backyard. hes is there at least 4 hours a day with either a lawnmower, pressure washer, or air compresser on the entire time. constant noise keeps us from enjoying our backyard and keeping windows open. the entire neighbor hood have called the cops and complained. they just come out and tell the guy and he leaves for the day. then comes back the next day and does it all over again. we have taken pictures of his back yard with about 30 different lawn mowers piled up. the guy doesnt even live there he just sells and fixes his lawn mowers there. the police now tell us hes trying to get a license to do it. we live in a quite neighbor hood no industrial stuff near us in the suburbs of portland, Oregon if that helps. what can i do reddit?","Summary: while out of towns gpu runs at full speed and gets 55-65 fps. in towns my gpu drops down to 20-40 percent usage and i get 10-20 fps.\n\nPost: not sure if right place to post. if so tell me and i will delete. so i have a gtx 570 and while in the forests and roads and stuff it will be going along at 99% gpu usage. as soon as i hit any town bam gpu usage drops to about 20 percent. which causes it to only run at 405 mhz instead of the 970 or whatever it is. in towns i get around 10-20 fps. in forests i get around 65. normally i would say its just because im in town and it has to work more, but knowing that its hardly using my gpu i think somethings wrong. does any one know how to fix it or have heard of other people with the same problem?","Summary: when running a virus scan causes my system to blue screen and ssd wont show up till i do a manual restart.\n\nPost: so i switched motherboards about 2 weeks ago. the new motherboard is a asrock 970 extreme 3. did a clean install on my ssd. one day it blue screened and auto restared. my ssd wasnt showing up in bios. turned my computer off and got a new sata cable it showed up fine. so i figured the cable just went bad. now ten minutes ago i was doing a virus scan and it blue screened. it did the auto restart and the ssd wasnt showing up. i turned it off and back on and it was fine. now that i remember the first time it did it i was doing a virus scan. does anyone know whats wrong?","Summary: got a new setup. one of my gtx 570 is making a loud noise while under load. its not the fans.\n\nPost: so i got a new motherboard and cpu today. the 3570k and a biostar tz77xe4. they work flawlessly and putting it together was a breeze. they are not the problem just a little back story. i have 2 gtx 570s one is almost a year old and one is about a month old. they worked fine and made no noise in my other build. now the newer card is making a lot of noise that doesnt sound healthy. it only does it while under load. i have tried to trouble shoot this and its not the fans or motherboard. what could it be? i seriously doubt its a driver problem, since my other card doesnt do it.","Summary: computer is red and black. ram is blue need a way to change the color. buying new ram is out of the question.\n\nPost: Hey everyone so im big into modding my computer to look the best it can. ive just recently did all new cable sleeving and some paint as well as a side window. my only problem now is my entire computer is red and black. everything except my ram. Its blue corsair vengeance it sticks out like a soar thumb. i was thinking of taking the heatspreaders off and sand blasting them to try to make them silver, but thats only slightly better. i was wondering if anyone knows of some good thermal paint that would work to change them to black or red? i know its a dumb thing to attempt, but i thought at least i would ask. i dont want to take the spreaders off completely and i have 32 gigs of ram so buying new ram would cost me around 150. If anyone has any suggestions please let me know.","Summary: bad idle and rpm jumps at certain speeds. replaced a lot of parts.\n\nPost: so i got my blazer about 6 months ago. when i first got it i noticed a slight idle problem, but it wasnt that big of a deal. over time it has gotten worse and worse. it ran fine when it was cold, but tried to die when hot and stopped. the rpms jump up and down while going certain speeds. Took it to DEQ and it emmiting 9 times the normal amount of gas emmisions. i have replaced the iacv, fuel filter, cap and rotor, plugs, wires, ignition coil, map sensor, o2 sensor, temp sensor, and fuel injector(im sure theres more just cant think of it all). nothing helped except the fuel injector. i just replaced it last week and it seemed to help a lot. i still had a little bad idle when cold, but ran perfect when hot. after driving it around for 3 days the rpm jumping came back. i have no idea what else it could be. Please help! if you need any more details just ask.","Summary: motherboard wont use more than 1 stick of ram.\n\nPost: hi i have 4 4gb modules of crucial balistix tactical tracer ram and a asus x79 sabertooth mobo. everything ran fine up until last night when i downloaded crucials ram utility. 2 sticks just stoped working. they show up in the motherboard just as abnormal. call crucial they say rma them ok thats fine. take the 2 sticks out reboot and now only 1 sticks shows. 2 of the sticks refuse to work in the main build the other 2 work by them selves, but not together. ive tried all slots and combinations nothing works with them all in each slot works fine with just 1 stick. ive tried all 4 sticks in another build and they work fine. i even tried the ram from that build in the main one and they work fine in dual channel. \n Things ive tried. \n bios update \n custom timing and voltage \n different ram(they work fine) \n clear cmos \n memtest(no errors) \n reseating cpu \n reinstalling all drivers \n Does anyone have any ideas or other things i could try."],"string":"[\n \"Summary: Get the 7970.\\n\\nPost: Here is a [benchmark]( for the 7970 vs the 770. It looks like they perform about the same. For me i would choose the 7970 say performance for 100 dollars less. My experience with radeon has been nothing, but good things. I know 2 people with crossfire 7970s that i suggested and they love them and have had no problems with them. one of those friend has 2 different 7970s power color and sapphire. he rmad both cards at different times and they took care of him. the sapphire one was even out of warranty and they repaired it for free. Also you could get a 7970 ghz edition for 350 and it improve the performance a little.\",\n \"Summary: comcast setup and appointment on a sunday they dont work and had to reschedual a week later after already waiting a week.\\n\\nPost: i just moved into a new place and it took comcast for ever to get me an appointment. so they finally set one up. as i was talking to my friend i told him i will be online sunday night. He tells me that hes pretty sure they dont work on sunday. i wait all day and finally call them. they confirmed they dont work that day and set up an appointment for the next week. they setup the first appointment and somehow forgot they dont work that day.\",\n \"Summary: Man moved next door with lawnmower business. Tormented neighborhood with noise and fumes and wasn't even living there.\\n\\nPost: I had a neighbor move into the house next door. He was fine for the first week or so. Then he started moving in at least 40 lawn mowers into the garage. Over the next 6 months he would be outside running lawnmowers from 7 a.m to 9 p.m everyday. We found out that he bought/fixed/sold lawn mowers out of this house. It got to the point were we couldnt go outside or open our windows without listening to running lawn mowers and inhaling all the fumes. after a while the neighbor hood started complaining. We found out he wasnt even living there he would come in the morning to work on his lawn mowers and leave at night. We complained enough to get the city to look into it. He filed for a business license to run his shop out of his house. It passed so for the next 2 months he continued. eventually we got him kicked out he left a mountain of broken lawnmowers in his back yard that you could see from the street and adjacent properties.\",\n \"Summary: 6 preteens destroy someones shed/shop for enjoyment.\\n\\nPost: When i was about 10 there was a house that sat vacant in my neighbor hood for a couple of months. All my friends and me found the big shed in the back yard was unlocked. we used it as our hang out for a couple of weeks then one day someone came up with the idea to destroy the inside. the next day 5 or so of us took hammers to anything we found inside. this was a big shed basically a 3 car garage with out big doors. one day later one of the kids told his parents and everyone was found out. that was the first and only time i was grounded. 3 months of my life was school and the inside of my room only. overall it was about 2k worth of damages.\",\n \"Summary: Had a sub that was at my moms uncle's, grenade accident almost half a decade earlier.\\n\\nPost: My moms uncle was in the military during the Vietnam war. He was training recruits on how to properly through grenades. well one of the grenades was faulty and as soon as he pulled the pin it exploded. Fast forward i dont know 40 years or so. I was in highschool and we had a substitute teacher. He was a really old veteran who told war stories during the entire class. Someone asked him along the lines of what his most vivid memory was. He told the story about how he was being trained by someone on how to use grenades, when it blew up in his hand. I later asked him and it turned out to be my moms uncle. So over the course of 40 years and multiple states. I ran into someone who knew the story.\",\n \"Summary: bought a 1700 dollar gold coin from goodwill for 2 dollars.\\n\\nPost: i was just digging through all the junk one day at my local good will. out of the corner of my eye i spot a small black square. i flip it over and there is a golden coin underneath a protective glass. after looking at it more closely i realized it was a 1 ounce gold coin.[This] ( on to be exact. I buy it for 2 dollars and take it home to find out more information. i ended up selling it for about 1500 dollars 2 years later to have money for Christmas.\",\n \"Summary: grandpa fist fights two guys as they are dine and dashing. One ends up through a window. Grandpa gets a free meal.\\n\\nPost: My grandpa and grandma have a story of there first date. They went to a restaurant and while eating two guys were trying to dine and dash. The owner an older guy was yelling at them and couldnt do anything. My grandpa being the bad ass he was got up and got into a fist fight with them. eventually one of the guys got thrown through a window. After it was done my grandpa sat down and finished the meal. Breaking the window costed way more money then them just leaving. The owner was just happy that he stood up for him and gave him the meal on the house. This was probably in the late 60's.\",\n \"Summary: stole best friends game while moving convinced him someone in the neighborhood stole it and left never to speak to him again. have to avoid closest 7 11 because he works there.\\n\\nPost: When i was around 9 i moved to a different town, but right before i left i went to say good bye to my best friend. as i walked into his house(the door was open) i say his gameboy and a yugioh game that we played every day for months. i stole the game right out of the gameboy. came back later and he was tearing up his house looking for it. i helped him search for it for at least an hour and then planted in his mind that maybe someone from the neighbor hood stole it. then i went home and left to my new house and never saw him again for 10 years. we are now 20 years old and he works at the 7 11 down the street. once i found out it was him i cant go there any more i cant look him in the eyes knowing i stole the game from him and he never found out. till this day i still have to drive an extra couple blocks to go the 7 11 farther down the street.\",\n \"Summary: thief stole friends xbox live account. bought 20 dollars worth of points. friend canceled card. thief account as his own. ended up getting account back with 200 dollars worth of microsoft points on the thiefs credit card.\\n\\nPost: once my friends xbox live account got hacked. the thief used his card on it to buy like 20 dollars worth of microsoft points. when my friend noticed he canceled the card and reported it to microsoft. then about a month later he got his account back. since the card was canceled the thief ended up putting his card on it and kept it as his account. when my friend got it back it had like 200 dollars worth of microsoft points that the thief bought with his money.\",\n \"Summary: guy rents house next door. doesnt live there spend long hours fixing lawn mowers and selling them. constant noise keeps us from enjoying our backyard and keeping windows open. cops dont seem to be doing anything.\\n\\nPost: so about 2 months ago the house next to us got sold or rented or something. anyway the guy that \\\"lives\\\" there fixes,cleans, and sells lawn mowers out of his backyard. hes is there at least 4 hours a day with either a lawnmower, pressure washer, or air compresser on the entire time. constant noise keeps us from enjoying our backyard and keeping windows open. the entire neighbor hood have called the cops and complained. they just come out and tell the guy and he leaves for the day. then comes back the next day and does it all over again. we have taken pictures of his back yard with about 30 different lawn mowers piled up. the guy doesnt even live there he just sells and fixes his lawn mowers there. the police now tell us hes trying to get a license to do it. we live in a quite neighbor hood no industrial stuff near us in the suburbs of portland, Oregon if that helps. what can i do reddit?\",\n \"Summary: while out of towns gpu runs at full speed and gets 55-65 fps. in towns my gpu drops down to 20-40 percent usage and i get 10-20 fps.\\n\\nPost: not sure if right place to post. if so tell me and i will delete. so i have a gtx 570 and while in the forests and roads and stuff it will be going along at 99% gpu usage. as soon as i hit any town bam gpu usage drops to about 20 percent. which causes it to only run at 405 mhz instead of the 970 or whatever it is. in towns i get around 10-20 fps. in forests i get around 65. normally i would say its just because im in town and it has to work more, but knowing that its hardly using my gpu i think somethings wrong. does any one know how to fix it or have heard of other people with the same problem?\",\n \"Summary: when running a virus scan causes my system to blue screen and ssd wont show up till i do a manual restart.\\n\\nPost: so i switched motherboards about 2 weeks ago. the new motherboard is a asrock 970 extreme 3. did a clean install on my ssd. one day it blue screened and auto restared. my ssd wasnt showing up in bios. turned my computer off and got a new sata cable it showed up fine. so i figured the cable just went bad. now ten minutes ago i was doing a virus scan and it blue screened. it did the auto restart and the ssd wasnt showing up. i turned it off and back on and it was fine. now that i remember the first time it did it i was doing a virus scan. does anyone know whats wrong?\",\n \"Summary: got a new setup. one of my gtx 570 is making a loud noise while under load. its not the fans.\\n\\nPost: so i got a new motherboard and cpu today. the 3570k and a biostar tz77xe4. they work flawlessly and putting it together was a breeze. they are not the problem just a little back story. i have 2 gtx 570s one is almost a year old and one is about a month old. they worked fine and made no noise in my other build. now the newer card is making a lot of noise that doesnt sound healthy. it only does it while under load. i have tried to trouble shoot this and its not the fans or motherboard. what could it be? i seriously doubt its a driver problem, since my other card doesnt do it.\",\n \"Summary: computer is red and black. ram is blue need a way to change the color. buying new ram is out of the question.\\n\\nPost: Hey everyone so im big into modding my computer to look the best it can. ive just recently did all new cable sleeving and some paint as well as a side window. my only problem now is my entire computer is red and black. everything except my ram. Its blue corsair vengeance it sticks out like a soar thumb. i was thinking of taking the heatspreaders off and sand blasting them to try to make them silver, but thats only slightly better. i was wondering if anyone knows of some good thermal paint that would work to change them to black or red? i know its a dumb thing to attempt, but i thought at least i would ask. i dont want to take the spreaders off completely and i have 32 gigs of ram so buying new ram would cost me around 150. If anyone has any suggestions please let me know.\",\n \"Summary: bad idle and rpm jumps at certain speeds. replaced a lot of parts.\\n\\nPost: so i got my blazer about 6 months ago. when i first got it i noticed a slight idle problem, but it wasnt that big of a deal. over time it has gotten worse and worse. it ran fine when it was cold, but tried to die when hot and stopped. the rpms jump up and down while going certain speeds. Took it to DEQ and it emmiting 9 times the normal amount of gas emmisions. i have replaced the iacv, fuel filter, cap and rotor, plugs, wires, ignition coil, map sensor, o2 sensor, temp sensor, and fuel injector(im sure theres more just cant think of it all). nothing helped except the fuel injector. i just replaced it last week and it seemed to help a lot. i still had a little bad idle when cold, but ran perfect when hot. after driving it around for 3 days the rpm jumping came back. i have no idea what else it could be. Please help! if you need any more details just ask.\",\n \"Summary: motherboard wont use more than 1 stick of ram.\\n\\nPost: hi i have 4 4gb modules of crucial balistix tactical tracer ram and a asus x79 sabertooth mobo. everything ran fine up until last night when i downloaded crucials ram utility. 2 sticks just stoped working. they show up in the motherboard just as abnormal. call crucial they say rma them ok thats fine. take the 2 sticks out reboot and now only 1 sticks shows. 2 of the sticks refuse to work in the main build the other 2 work by them selves, but not together. ive tried all slots and combinations nothing works with them all in each slot works fine with just 1 stick. ive tried all 4 sticks in another build and they work fine. i even tried the ram from that build in the main one and they work fine in dual channel. \\n Things ive tried. \\n bios update \\n custom timing and voltage \\n different ram(they work fine) \\n clear cmos \\n memtest(no errors) \\n reseating cpu \\n reinstalling all drivers \\n Does anyone have any ideas or other things i could try.\"\n]","isConversational":false},"profile_size":{"kind":"number","value":16,"string":"16"},"task":{"kind":"string","value":"longlamp_4"},"split_kind":{"kind":"string","value":"user_based"},"id":{"kind":"number","value":1394,"string":"1,394"}}},{"rowIdx":1395,"cells":{"question_id":{"kind":"string","value":"Ildona"},"question":{"kind":"string","value":"Generate the content for a reddit post Lots of ways to still get mad at dying out of nowhere!"},"answer":{"kind":"string","value":"The original Miracle combo was 22 damage in one turn from 3x Leeroy -> Eviscerate. 22 damage, 6 cards, from nothing on board. \n There are current decks that outdo that. Some... don't get played for various (good) reasons, others actually do get played. A few of these actually have the control to live long enough to see the combo, and the draw to speed that up. That's all you need. \n Decks arranged by commonality. Only decks that can exceed 20 damage are listed. \n \n Oil Rogue can do up to 34 damage off no board for 9 cards in hand. \n(Hero Power, Deck Hand, 2x Prep, 2x Oil, 2x Deadly Poison, 1x Cold Blood, 1x Blade Flurry) \nYou're more likely to see a smaller combo because that one is ludicrous. But it's possible. (And I've done it!) \n \n Double Roar druid can do 23 damage off no board for 5 cards in hand. \n(2x Innervate, 1x Force of Nature, 2x Savage Roar, Hero Power) \n \n Combo Warlock can do 24 damage off no board for 4 cards in hand. \n(Arcane Golem, 2x Power Overwhelming, Faceless Manipulator) \n \n Malygos Shaman can do up to 38 damage off no board for 6 cards in hand. \n(Ancestor's Call, Malygos, 2x Lightning Bolt, 2x Crackle)\nI have actually landed that 38 damage on a control warrior. Feels good, man. \n \n Freeze Mage can do up to 20 damage off no board for 1 cards in hand. \n(2x Ice Lance, 2x Frost Bolt, 1x Fireball) \nNotably, if you run Sorcerer's Apprentice and Thalnos, you can get this up to 32 for 9 cards. \n \n Midrange Shaman can do 25 damage off no board for 5 cards in hand. \n(Doomhammer, 2x Rockbiter, Crackle, Lightning Bolt) \n \n Math Warrior can do 24 damage off no board for 5 cards in hand. \n(Warsong Commander, 2x Raging Worgen, 2x Inner Rage) \n \n Shadow Priest can do 20 damage off no board for 6 cards in hand. \n(Auchenai, 2x Zombie Chow, 2x Mind Blast, Circle of Healing) \n \n \n There's others... but these are the decks I've seen people try, or have personally tried, in the past. Others include a Tundra Rhino Hunter (23), Wrath Giants Paladin (40 on super RNG), Inner Fire Priest (32), a Stonetusk Boar Shaman combo (28), Leeroy Shaman (27), Arcane Golem Shaman (20), Arcane Golem Paladin (20), Arcane Golem Rogue (24), Arcane Golem Druid (24). Also the minion-dependent decks like Shadowboxer and Frothing Berserker. \n Basically, the better decks have more draw, more control, and smaller combos. Alternatively, they have more than just the one win condition. Or, another class does it better (See: All the arcane golem decks that are not Warlock). But Malygos Shaman is by far the king of killing people out of nowhere."},"correct_answer":{"kind":"string","value":"The original Miracle combo was 22 damage in one turn from 3x Leeroy -> Eviscerate. 22 damage, 6 cards, from nothing on board. \n There are current decks that outdo that. Some... don't get played for various (good) reasons, others actually do get played. A few of these actually have the control to live long enough to see the combo, and the draw to speed that up. That's all you need. \n Decks arranged by commonality. Only decks that can exceed 20 damage are listed. \n \n Oil Rogue can do up to 34 damage off no board for 9 cards in hand. \n(Hero Power, Deck Hand, 2x Prep, 2x Oil, 2x Deadly Poison, 1x Cold Blood, 1x Blade Flurry) \nYou're more likely to see a smaller combo because that one is ludicrous. But it's possible. (And I've done it!) \n \n Double Roar druid can do 23 damage off no board for 5 cards in hand. \n(2x Innervate, 1x Force of Nature, 2x Savage Roar, Hero Power) \n \n Combo Warlock can do 24 damage off no board for 4 cards in hand. \n(Arcane Golem, 2x Power Overwhelming, Faceless Manipulator) \n \n Malygos Shaman can do up to 38 damage off no board for 6 cards in hand. \n(Ancestor's Call, Malygos, 2x Lightning Bolt, 2x Crackle)\nI have actually landed that 38 damage on a control warrior. Feels good, man. \n \n Freeze Mage can do up to 20 damage off no board for 1 cards in hand. \n(2x Ice Lance, 2x Frost Bolt, 1x Fireball) \nNotably, if you run Sorcerer's Apprentice and Thalnos, you can get this up to 32 for 9 cards. \n \n Midrange Shaman can do 25 damage off no board for 5 cards in hand. \n(Doomhammer, 2x Rockbiter, Crackle, Lightning Bolt) \n \n Math Warrior can do 24 damage off no board for 5 cards in hand. \n(Warsong Commander, 2x Raging Worgen, 2x Inner Rage) \n \n Shadow Priest can do 20 damage off no board for 6 cards in hand. \n(Auchenai, 2x Zombie Chow, 2x Mind Blast, Circle of Healing) \n \n \n There's others... but these are the decks I've seen people try, or have personally tried, in the past. Others include a Tundra Rhino Hunter (23), Wrath Giants Paladin (40 on super RNG), Inner Fire Priest (32), a Stonetusk Boar Shaman combo (28), Leeroy Shaman (27), Arcane Golem Shaman (20), Arcane Golem Paladin (20), Arcane Golem Rogue (24), Arcane Golem Druid (24). Also the minion-dependent decks like Shadowboxer and Frothing Berserker. \n Basically, the better decks have more draw, more control, and smaller combos. Alternatively, they have more than just the one win condition. Or, another class does it better (See: All the arcane golem decks that are not Warlock). But Malygos Shaman is by far the king of killing people out of nowhere."},"documents":{"kind":"list like","value":["Summary: Eastern wildcard is a pity system for teams that could otherwise play on EUW with better ping than the NA East Coast. Either make a wildcard spot in each group, or none at all. \n I'd like to see a Latin American, Brazilian, Oceanian, and one other wildcard for next year's world. The other 20 slots would be 3 from NA/EU/KR/CN/SEA, with the final 3 slots chosen by winners of an early all-stars tourney after the Spring splits are done, with one team from each region showing up for a massive round robin. This also gives more power to the spring split. Bigger total tourney size matches up with the extra teams per EU/NA LCS as well.\n\nPost: LMQ and SK showed up and beat heavy hitters, though. Hell, LMQ is arguably the strongest NA team. SK likely would have made it through groups if not for Svenracist. LMQ still might make it through, Group C is a total toss up. \n My problem is that the wildcards are split in two. Eastern, and Western. \n Western is totally awesome. Latin America and Brazil are otherwise totally unrepresented, and this gives them some air time, publicity, etc. Kabum isn't winning games, but they've been ahead against C9; they totally have the potential to get there, and this is going to help them. I can see Latin America becoming a 2-team spot in the future, not unlike SEA. And that'd be just awesome. \n Eastern is a joke. Dark Passage is a team that didn't qualify for the EU LCS, but were able to attempt to enter. This is a team that literally is not good enough to play with the big boys, and were shown as such. \n \"But they play on a different server!\" Yeah, sure. EU LCS totally is just EUW. The EUNE players and Russian players (Russia being another Eastern Wildcard slot) play on EUW because the competition is better there. Did I mention that Turkish players get about 60-70 ping on EUW (save occasional spikes that may last days)? I get 70-80 on NA from Chicago (save occasional spikes that may last days). Sorry, East Coast, but you don't get a wildcard spot. \n This does show a problem, though. If we give Latin America a guaranteed wildcard spot, why wouldn't East Coast NA teams play on the Latin American servers for an easier ride to worlds? Then it's no actual Latin American inclusion. And also the exact same problem that is the Eastern Wildcard. \n The real problem with wildcards is that they are only in half the groups. If every group has an actual wildcard, that's one thing. But from what we've seen, NA3 > CN3/EU2, EU3>NA1/SEA1, so those teams are actually damned competitive. Group 3 is so interesting because all 4 teams are solid. Group 2 would have been, except for a certain racist jungler. Everyone has a wildcard, then it's just show matches to give certain regions some attention.","Summary: Nidalee as a support for a poke comp is like pulling the goalie in a hockey game... for the whole game.\n\nPost: In which case you should run Janna because of the disengage, not Nidalee for additional poke. \n Push/poke comps come in three flavors: \n1) Full siege \n2) 1-4 split \n3) 1-3-1 split \n The 1-3-1 is less pokey than the others, and mostly relies on strong duelists. 1-4 is the most likely to find, running a strong split pusher to pull threat while giving your team stronger sieging capabilities. \n In the 1-4 or full siege comps, the issue most teams have is that they go TOO poke heavy, and then are hard countered by hard engage. Janna alleviates that by resetting the status quo by pushing that Malphite/Alistar/Leona/etc away as soon as they get in, denying their engagement and allowing your team to continue to siege. Her movement speed also further facilitates the split pusher's escape, and her AD steroid further helps kill towers. \n Now, Nidalee helps the carry kill the tower faster. But usually it's someone like Caitlyn or Jinx who is going to be getting only a single attack in every once in a while. Nidalee helps when you get to SIT on the tower, which is rarely the case unless you've already won a fight, which a poke comp is not looking to have just done. Janna helps with those single tower attacks by adding an extra BF sword to them. \n Basically, there is no strong reason to run Nidalee as your support for a poke composition. Janna is by far the preferred choice, with Sona being a solid second. Alistar is actually pretty good as well for denying engages, and Lulu for the additional wave clear and hard CC. Nami is strong for the massive disengage, but is below Janna/Sona.","Summary: Some carries have itemization issues (Urgot), some have safety issues (MF/Ashe/Kog), some are just unpopular (Kennen), some are buggy (Trist), and some were forcibly sterilized (Graves). Caitlyn, Ezreal, and Vayne have kits that always keep them relevant, so they never fall off. Lucian is big because numbers, Sivir because her numbers/ultimate, Jinx is just broken in general.\n\nPost: I was actually thinking about these the other day, specifically in the ADC sense. \n There's that big rant about there's the \"big three ADCs\" right now (Sivir, Jinx, Lucian in no specific order). But you still see competitive Caitlyn, Ezreal, and Vayne because of their specific roles being so powerful (Push, Safety, Duel) for the role. \n In the same way, it's why Renekton is always \"in season\" for toplaners, and why you aren't going to see Jarvan or Lee Sin fall off from the jungle entirely. These are champions that are versatile and do their job well. \n If you just look at Graves' kit, he's a fantastic carry. His problem is simply that he cannot do his damned job. He's a lane bully that gets... outbullied. A point-blank Buckshot is less than satisfying at the moment. If Graves is in your face and you don't do something about it, you SHOULD feel threatened. \n Kennen and Tristana are underutilized in my opinion. Although, Trist Jump really needs some love as far as how it works; it feels buggy as hell. Kennen as an ADC though has fantastic self peel and dueling, while being a great laner. I'm really expecting him to pick up steam sometime soon, specifically in the Coke Zero league. Kennen's just a boss. \n Most ADCs that aren't used are because of \"safety issues.\" When you watch the LCS, start looking at team compositions and count the \"wall jumps.\" You can usually guess which team wins by the number of champions that can blink away from things. Thresh makes up for this very often, of course. But there's a reason Gragas never falls off in the competitive scene. (It's more than the dash, but that keeps him relevant) \n But the lack of blinks are what hold Ashe, Kog, MF, etc back. Some of these for great reasons (Imagine Ashe with a dash...), but it still makes them easy assassination targets. Sivir gets around this with her Spell Shield, negating a lot of crazy stuff. Jinx gets around it simply by being broken. Jinx is essentially Kog'maw 2.0. Her snowball lets her reposition well enough to bypass a lot of the bullshit, and she has crazy range on Zap/SMDR to stay relevant on the outskirts. She also kites exceptionally well due to her high attack speed. \n Twitch has his stealth, but the delay keeps him from being constantly relevant. He mostly shows up as a counter from time to time. \n Urgot just... pls help ): He's too reliant on bonus AD/ArP, mana, CDR, and durability. If you've ever played D&D, Urgot has some crazy MAD going on. MAD = bad, SAD = good. An example of a marksman with strong SAD is Varus, who really just builds raw AD for his Q; this makes him great for poking but poor against tanks. But he's fortunate that he still has the BoRK->IE build to destroy tanks (expect this to emerge again, it's pretty much the best anti-tank build for any carry when thrown on Varus). \n Anyways this was mostly just me ranting, so take from it what you will.","Summary: I'm messing around with the various units and seeing what flows the best for me. Spellpower is the best if you're just starting out though by far, since you get most of the big units for free.\n\nPost: I've been tweaking it as I've unlocked cards. Current implementation is pirates and bandits. It will undoubtedly be tweaked more in the future. \n There's some tweaks I have in mind though. The only real use of Shadowstep in the current deck is for either Scrub or SI7, and Scrub is very susceptible to board clear if you do that. So I'm likely going to be removing that. Lord of the Arena is just a temp thing, he'll be replaced eventually. \n I need to pickup Conceal soon, as Bloodsail without Conceal is kind of fragile. But it feels great to drop a 9/3 for 2 mana (or a 17/3 for 4 mana!). Dread Corsair is way too good to pass up for a Rogue, being a 3/3 taunt for 0-4 mana. Really you'll at least have your \"passive\" dagger, so at \"worst\" he's a Grizzly. \n I've won on turn 5 in the past. Sprint has also won me the game before, and I really do not see how you can run a consistent rogue deck without one copy. Two is just... unnecessary. But one copy can save the game. \n The Auctioneer is great when he goes off, but he hasn't been going off consistently enough for my tastes. \n Without any spellpower units anymore, Shiv feels underwhelming. \n I'm likely going to be picking up Perdition's Blade and Blade Flurry eventually.","Summary: Cloud is using a weapon that is designed for cleaving charging horses from a stationary, grounded position to try to fight people. It is entirely unwieldy, and impossible to use with any sense of dexterity. He and Sephiroth hold the titles for most overrated characters in video games. /:\n\nPost: Because Cloud makes no sense? He was a late-in-development add-in, Zack was originally slated as the main character. That's why a lot of stuff just doesn't make sense in FFVII. \n As for the \"but the Buster Sword is awesome!\" argument, if you've ever watched Kenshin, he actually fully explains why a weapon like Cloud's has no place in an actual fight. Sure, it has some Anime-over-the-top to it (at least for Kenshin, which isn't all that much), but the idea is still completely sound.","Summary: If Stannis dies, and his daughter dies, the throne would go to some as-of-yet-likely-unnamed Dornishman/woman, or will cause civil war or the dissociation of the seven kingdoms. \n I could totally be wrong on this, as I haven't read through everything to date yet. This is just what I'm picking up and piecing together as I go, and based on the show thus far as well. So yeah, if I'm messing this up, let me know.\n\nPost: I don't think many houses would actually follow Stannis... yet (as of the current plot in show, at least, as he's actively trying to make stuff happen). He's described as a cold, overly lawful person who isn't much for his own opinions. As Mellisandre shows, he's incredibly easily swayed and manipulated. With Stannis on the throne, more than ever, it's a game between the Small Council. But yes, if both children die, he has the undisputed greatest claim to the throne (save Dany and Gendry). Many houses would back that simply to avoid conflict in general, because another massive rebellion would not be in many's interests. \n If he dies while on the throne though, it'll follow the blood. From my understanding, it has nothing to do with Baratheon blood... And everything to do with Targaryen blood. \n Outside of the Aemon (oath preventing) and Dany (fled), all the other Targaryens are dead. Tywin ordered the Mountain to kill Rhaegar's wife and children (Elia Martell), Robert killed Rhaegar, and Jaime killed Aerys (the mad king), with the bonuses of Viserys dying to Drogo and Rhaella (Aerys' sister-wife, the queen) dying in Daenerys' birth, so there are no other remaining Targaryens. \n So, they go up the line to find the next successor. The rebellion was run by Robert, Ned, and Jon, but Robert had the most Targaryen blood. Ned confirms this multiple times by insisting that Robert had the greatest claim to the throne. Keep in mind that the Targaryens did the whole brother-sister thing to keep the bloodline pure thing, so having any Targaryen blood is rare enough and likely through a bastard. So it's easy to assume that Robert and his brothers have the most Targaryen blood among all other peoples of the realm (if not the only), where Robert, the eldest, then succeeds the crown. \n Robert's children should have the crown after his death unless someone with greater Targaryen blood (such as Dany) makes claim. Cersei ordered the death of all of Robert's bastards, although Gendry escaped for the moment. If Robert has no children, then it goes to his brother Stannis; if he dies and also has no children, it goes to Renly. If not him, it moves back up the line to find the next closest inheritor. \n Why the Targaryens? They united the seven kingdoms under their seal. Before them, there is no \"royal bloodline,\" only for the individual realms within (such as Stark, Lannister, etc). Until Robert, every king of the seven kingdoms was of house Targaryen itself. \n Anyways, current list of actual claim to the throne by blood: \nDany (daughter of Targaryen king) -> Gendry (only son by blood of eldest with greatest Targaryen blood) -> Stannis (second eldest of most Targaryen blood) -> Shireen (only child) -> ??? \n There's a solid chance all of the above die. If so... then there's no actual claim to the throne, and civil war is inevitable to fill the power vacuum. If I'm not mistaken, there are some in Dorne with Targaryen blood due to political marriage. So that'd probably be the next place to check. But, solid likelihood those political marriages kept children on Dragonstone / Kings Landing, and were taken out during the rebellion. So GRRM has plenty to play with there to increase chaos.","Summary: 5.4 was wrought with infinite CC chains. 2 minutes is short for these comps.\n\nPost: Now? They are not. Before? \n CC has a 20 second timer before it goes off diminishing returns (technically 15-20 seconds, but assume worst case scenario at 20). It also technically begins when the CC is applied, not when it ends, but I'm going to count everything from the end just to show how absurd some of this shit is. The idea is to setup a 34 second repeating system if you can. \n Also, yes. A lot of this can be interrupted. This is \"in a vacuum.\" Also consider that it's possible to isolate one person to be CC'd while keeping the other away via knockbacks and roots, which are not considered for the main portion of these chains. \n Hunter and Priest: \n Dominate Mind (8s) (8s) Charm \nDominate Mind (4s) (12s) Charm x.5 \nDominate Mind (2s) (14s) Charm x.25 \nPsychic Scream (7s) (21s) Fear \nScatter Shot (4s) (25s) Short Mesmerize \nFreezing Trap (8s) (33s) Long Mesmerize \n Worst case scenario, Dominate Mind is up one second later. Likely scenario, you go directly into the loop of those 6 casts. If trinketed, Wyvern Sting and Lullaby are great to fill in the gap. If you use Wyvern Sting and Lullaby, this literally is an infinite loop combo... in the worst case scenario. Adding Chastise to the mix gives bonus time, despite sharing diminish with Scatter Shot. Bonus points for abusing Entrapment as Survival with Snake Trap after a Dominate Mind or Psychic Scream out of allied LOS (such as off the bridge in Blade's Edge). I have played this comp, it works pretty well. \n Druid and Warlock: \n Cyclone (6s) (6s) Cyclone \nCyclone (3s) (9s) Cyclone x.5 \nCyclone (1.5s) (10.5s) Cyclone x.25 \nSeduction (8s) (18.5s) Fear \nSeduction (4s) (22.5s) Fear x.5 \nSeduction (2s) (24.5s) Fear x.25 \nShadowfury (3s) (27.5s) Stun \nDisorienting Roar (3s) (30.5s) Short Mesmerize \n Needs 3s to be a true loop. Entangling Roots, Pounce, Maim, Bear Hug, Whiplash, and Typhoon help delay there. Plenty of options. And man is this shit a bitch. \n Priest and Mage: \nDominate Mind (8s) (8s) Charm \nDominate Mind (4s) (12s) Charm x.5 \nDominate Mind (2s) (14s) Charm x.25 \nPsychic Scream (7s) (21s) Fear \nPolymorph (8s) (29s) Long Mesmerize \nPolymorph (4s) (33s) Long Mesmerize x.5 \nPolymorph (2s) (35s) Long Mesmerize x.25 \n Fire, Frost, Arcane... Holy, Disc, Shadow... Doesn't matter. Just need the priest to pick up Dominate Mind, any leftover CC (Lockjaw, Deep Freeze, Dragon's Breath, Psychic Horror, Chastise) is just a bonus in case of trinket. \n Druid and Frost Mage: \nCyclone (6s) (6s) Cyclone \nCyclone (3s) (9s) Cyclone x.5 \nCyclone (1.5s) (10.5s) Cyclone x.25 \nDisorienting Roar (3s) (13.5s) Short Mesmerize \nPolymorph (8s) (21.5s) Long Mesmerize \nPolymorph (4s) (25.5s) Long Mesmerize x.5 \nPolymorph (2s) (27.5s) Long Mesmerize x.25 \nDeep Freeze (5s) (32.5s) Stun \n Needs 2 seconds to complete. Options are Roots and Lockjaw, really. Lockjaw being the stronger choice, obviously. But during the Deep Freeze the druid can go kitty and build up 4cp Maim for a 2s stun. \n Paladin and Hunter: \nTurn Evil (8s) (8s) Fear \nTurn Evil (4s) (12s) Fear x.5 \nTurn Evil (2s) (14s) Fear x.25 \nScatter Shot (4s) (18s) Short Mesmerize \nFreezing Trap (8s) (26s) Long Mesmerize \n Remaining time can be cycled between Blinding Light, Lullaby, Wyvern Sting, and Hammer of Justice. Adds up to a full 2 minute looping cycle if I mathed right. \n Paladin and Mage: \nTurn Evil (8s) (8s) Fear \nTurn Evil (4s) (12s) Fear x.5 \nTurn Evil (2s) (14s) Fear x.25 \nPolymorph (8s) (22s) Long Mesmerize \nPolymorph (4s) (26s) Long Mesmerize x.5 \nPolymorph (2s) (28s) Long Mesmerize x.25 \nDeep Freeze (5s) (33s) Stun \n Leaves 1s short of a perfect loop in the worst case scenario. Meaning... this is an actual loop. Blinding Light, Hammer of Justice, and Lock Jaw can fill it out fully if you want. \n Destro Warlock and Fire Mage: \nPolymorph (8s) (8s) Long Mesmerize \nPolymorph (4s) (12s) Long Mesmerize x.5 \nPolymorph (2s) (14s) Long Mesmerize x.25 \nDragon's Breath (4s) (18s) Short Mesmerize \nSeduction (8s) (26s) Fear \nSeduction (4s) (30s) Fear x.5 \nSeduction (2s) (34s) Fear x.25 \nShadowfury (3s) (37s) Stun \n Burn the world and hold someone off on the side doing nothing while you're at it. Easy loop, actually has fallback options, too. Swapping to Frost only decreases total CC duration by .5s, so also has a full loop. \n And the worst offender of all... \n Holy Priest and Feral Druid: \n Dominate Mind (8s) (8s) Charm \nDominate Mind (4s) (12s) Charm x.5 \nDominate Mind (2s) (14s) Charm x.25 \nPsychic Scream (7s) (21s) Fear \nSymbiosis Cyclone (6s) (27s) Cyclone \nSymbiosis Cyclone (3s) (30s) Cyclone x.5 \nSymbiosis Cyclone (1.5s) (31.5s) Cyclone x.25 \nChastise (3s) (34.5s) Short Mesmerize \n That's right. The priest, ALONE, isolates a target for the full fight. Dominate Mind is available at latest at 34.0s, just in time to loop. If they trinket, you still have Mighty Bash, Bear Hug, Maim, Entangling Roots, Typhoon, and Pounce to play with to delay them if need be until you can loop ad nauseum again. As priest focuses on CC, druid can basically just 1v1 with Guardian Angel available. Good luck out dueling that.","Summary: I really don't want to see Xmithie and Mancloud get relegated. ):\n\nPost: Sorry, quick rant here. \n XDG is Vulcun, who came from FeaR, which was essentially the combination of mMe.Ferus and CLG Black. From mMe.Ferus you got your Xmithie and Mancloud, and from CLG Black you got your Zuna, Benny, and Bloodwater. \n In Season 3, Vulcun was undeniably carried by their mid/jungle combo (mMe.Ferus), with their toplane (CLG Black) generally being mediocre in the larger picture, and the botlane (CLG Black) being the major issue. Keep in mind that on CLG Black, Bloodwater and Zuna did not lane together, and that Bloodwater hopped several times before joining Vulcun, so there was no earlier bot-lane synergy of note. \n I feel that if mMe.Ferus stuck around as they were, they would be a damned force. BalIs toplane, Xmithie jangle, Mancloud mid, Aphromoo and Muffinqt botlane was the lineup. On that lineup, the only person I would even consider swapping for someone else is Muffinqt, and even then he was never bad. He just got a bit hotheaded and quit the team, if I recall (and now refuses to return to professional LoL). So take that lineup and throw on Bloodwater, poof you have a contender. \n I feel like Benny has been rather \"silent\" since S3. He excelled in safe play during 1v2 lanes, but he never really seems to win 1v1 lanes. He's gotten better at his actual laning lately, but he still doesn't carry. He's not a play maker. He is consistent and is never the reason XDG loses, but he's also never the reason they win. \n Mancloud needs to choose different champions. This season he's played Gragas 4x, Kayle 3x, Nidalee 1x, LeBlanc 1x, Ziggs 1x, Yasuo 1x, Riven 1x. They won with him on... LeBlanc, Riven, and 1x on Kayle. I think there's some trend with him picking Gragas and it just not working, but I'm not sure on that one. \n Compare that to his list last season: Kha'zix, Zed, Ahri, TF, Diana, Ezreal, Karthus, Jayce, Ryze, Lissandra, Xerath, Orianna. You'll note that there is zero overlap between this season and last. Why? O_o; He's won as every champion on that list. It's not like that whole entire roster has been nerfed to oblivion.","Summary: It's easier to carry as a Marksman when your team is all on the same page and coordinated because people don't protect in solo queue. Maybe you protect, but from well over a thousand games in the ADC role, that makes you a sparkly unique butterfly.\n\nPost: Pretty much this. In solo queue, people are focused around getting themselves to carry the game. \n In team fights, there's generally two priorities: \n \n Dive their carry \n Protect your carry \n \n It sounds very linear, but only because it really is. This is why people constantly whine about priority targets: \"Omg, why are you focusing the tank instead of the Caitlyn?\" \n In solo queue, because of the \"I have to carry these noobs\" mentality, and how you cannot rely on your teammates, the \"Dive\" fight priority takes extreme precedence over the \"Protect\" priority. \n As an ADC main, it is unreal the number of times that I have been fed and easily able to carry if someone just gets this bruiser off me, only to have everyone hopelessly chase down the opposing carry who is already zoned out of the fight. It's really easy to lose teamfights that way, and it happens quite often. \n I recall specifically one game where I was up 27 kills as Ezreal at 40 minutes, full 6 items with a GA, and the opposing carry was worthless. My full team chased down there carry, allowing the opposing Kha'zix to jump on me, kill me before I could kill him, and then Q me as I came out of GA without any team retaliation. With a simple stun on Kha, that fight would have been cleaned up exceptionally easily. \n But because of the lack of \"Protect\" in solo-queue, certain carries are used more. Sivir is pretty safe despite the range, and her ultimate actually helps your team dive. Caitlyn is always an easy pick because she is so long ranged she doesn't need much protect as long as you have vision. Ezreal's blink and Lucian's blink/slowbreak are golden usually. But other champions like Varus and Kog'maw, although very strong, do not get any protection, and so are usually rough choices. Ashe also falls into this category; although C9 made excellent use of her last split, that is not in part because Lemonation's Zyra was always hugging his side to peel. (I will mention that Varus is much less screwed than the others simply because his poke is pristine, so he can still be played pretty well most games.) \n The problem here is simply that although there's a variety of carries, most just have no place in a solo-queue environment because they just aren't safe enough without coordination. So although you see escapeless Jinx going to town in the LCS, she's fodder for many assassins. Unless you are getting supported, or your dive is just that fed/terrifying, she's going to get focused, she is going to die, and there goes your damage. \n So, playing with a full team of friends, it is by far easier to carry than with randoms. Priorities are different. In teams, it's \"We need to win.\" but in soloqueue, it's \"I need to win.\" \n This is why I personally refuse to play champions without hard CC in non-ADC positions. It's why I hate Shyvana as a jungler, Tryndamere as a toplaner, Shaco as a jungler, Teemo as a toplaner, Gangplank anywhere, Nidalee anywhere, Vladimir anywhere, etc. Yes, most of the above can carry games. But where's the exit plan? What happens if you don't get fed? Lots of them can bolster the carry's damage, but if they lose lane, how the hell are they preventing the opponent from killing your fed carry? \n It's a real issue with champions like Riven who, if they win lane, remove two champions from the map by default. Your team's top/mid who fed Riven (and therefore are pretty worthless), and your team's carry, who is dead the moment 4-dash-2-stun-AoErangedExecute Riven shows up.","Summary: Memorizing some things is useful, but many classes require you to memorize things that will have no applicable use, except in scenarios where you'll still have to look up more stuff about it anyways.\n\nPost: You can memorize generalities, and often build off those to understand the more specific stuff without actually memorizing the specific stuff. And things you use constantly you end up memorizing by default. \n But there are things you will not be using constantly or even semi-regularly, that do not really build into anything else, that you do not need to memorize. \n I've taken a lot of biochem coursework, yeah. In particular, we were told to memorize all of the steps for the breakdown of glucose in our bodies, including all the enzymes. Thought it was bullshit, at first. \n But eventually we went into how our bodies produce amino acids, and how a lot of those processes start from intermediates of the citric acid cycle. Example; if you take alpha-ketoglutarate, a CAC intermediate, you can eventually produce glutamine. This is important because, besides being an amino acid, it's actually one of the few ways our body can transfer ammonia through our systems. So, it's important for producing urea, and messing this up can cause various kidney problems of course. This overgeneralization I just gave is honestly enough in most cases, and if more specific information is needed... you'd be double-checking it anyways. \n There's a lot of stuff you can build up on, but in so many cases, it's unnecessary. A lot of things you don't need to have every step memorized, and just need the general idea. \n A good example of this is the organic synthesis course I took (grad level). Teacher wanted us to memorize a bunch of equations for the tests, but you could easily compile a well organized folder of reactions from A to B, and use that for your syntheses just by searching through it for the right one. In fact, that's what most people who actually do that for a living do (at least from whom I've spoken to). There's so many little specific one-time-it-may-be-useful reactions. \n Obviously there's some big ones that you should know, like Fischer Esterification, or like, PCC or DIBAL for redox stuff. Since those actually get used pretty often. But so many of those reactions were \"Okay, if I ever had this scenario, I would spend less time looking it up than trying to scan through my memory for this one guy, and even then, I'd still have to look up the specific conditions for it.\"","Summary: I think you'll be surprised. (:\n\nPost: For the record, it has a lot in common with the DAO trailers. \n [DAO E3 trailer]( contains no actual look at strategy, only action. No UI. \n [Warden's Calling trailer]( \n [Sacred Ashes trailer]( is just full of action. \n [This is War]( came out right after release for DAO, and is basically a compilation of the previous three. Still... where's the tactical RPG elements being shown off? \n [Grey Wardens trailer]( still no actual tactics shown off... \n [Still...]( \n [The Gamescon Trailer]( was strictly story. \n [Nope.]( \n [Not even the DLC]( trailers have it. \n [Seriously!]( \n [Even Awakening's Trailer.]( \n Basically, BioWare tends to emphasize the story, world, and looking badass in their trailers, but not actual gameplay. So the reason you became a fan of the series, it seems, was not in the original trailers (You could easily guess DAO is more action than tactics!). The only major complaint to have is the lack of seeing party combat here (We see the Inquisitor alone), although we have absolute confirmation that exists. \n [Skip to 7 minutes.]( This is 5 months old, but should still be relevant. He goes through a fight, and talks about the strategy that he's going to use to get through it, including bouncing between party members to synch skills and positioning. \n Skip further ahead to 18 minutes and he goes through overhead tactical views that are available, and proceeds to talk more about strategy. This fight feels very much like DAO.","Summary: Don't let someone be an officer who thinks this is a good idea. Period. Recruit slow and steady, and work hardest to keep the active members happy and together. If they aren't up to par, make sure you help them up. Sit down with them and explain how to get better DPS, and make sure you aren't being pedantic. You can get people better at the game, you can't get people better at life/relationships.\n\nPost: Ugh, tell me about it. Warning, bit of a sob story. But it's relevant! \n In early WotLK, I was an officer (one of 3 plus the GM) in one of the faster progressing guilds on my server. We had just passed Mimiron on normal Ulduar, and were the third guild on the server to have done so, so we were doing pretty well. \n GM just got a new job and had to take a couple weeks off WoW as he trained for it. Another officer was in the hospital if I recall, and my family was heading to California for our first real vacation ever (I was 18... Yeah. Lower middle class, gogo!). In the week I was out of town, the third officer decided to do a guild merger out of the blue without consulting the rest of us. When I got back, half the original guild had left because their raid spots were being denied for new people who we didn't even know. \n The guild fell apart. Hard. \n This was a guild that was comprised of people I had known through BC. We had formed about a month before WotLK had started. The GM and second officer were tanks in my \"hardcore\" raiding guild in T5 content, and the third officer was a healer in that guild. I had known the second officer from my \"casual\" raiding guild prior to that one. \n Our healers included two of my IRL friends, two friends from another casual guild I was in, one friend-of-a-friend, and two awesome guys who simply kicked ass at their role. \n Our tanks aside the GM/officer were myself, and another IRL friend. When I stepped down as a tank to go back to my hunter for Ulduar progression (friend and I tanked for my 10man group, guild requested I go smash some deeps for progression). \n Our top DPS were friends from that early casual guild, who we had stuck with for ages. A couple were friends of friends, who became friends on their own. I lived with one of them for a year recently, he's a cool guy. Kinda hard to live with, but he's 100% a friend I can count on. Others in that group I talked with quite a bit one on one about random shit. Amongst the main raid group, I still am in contact with about 8 or 9 of them, discounting my IRL friends (mostly my 10man group!). There are another 4 or 5 who I wish I were still in contact with. The ones I talk to, I play League, WoW, or other games with. \n And because this one bastard decided that, because for two weeks we had problems getting a 25man together, he should do a full merger. \n Honestly, I have never done hardcore raiding again. I haven't tried to get involved in a guild. It just won't be the same. Losing something like that hurts, a lot. \n If you were part of <Genesis> on Dethecus, this is Cudgel. I still am in contact with Waka, Bob, Deathkar, Llynn, Suti, Ftl, and Arth, but I miss the rest of you fantastic bastards. Send me a line.","Summary: You lose hard to aggro, which is most of the meta. Midrange GvG style handles it better, but is still pretty pooped on. It's like asking if the guy with a broken ankle or a broken knee will win a race. At least they're both beating midrange shaman right now.\n\nPost: Dragon Pally is very, very good against control because it has among the best lategames out there. \n But aggro and midrange kind of beat it up. You can win midrange sometimes depending on draws, but aggro is pretty futile. This is with a decklist including: \n \n Two Zombie Chow \n Two Shielded Minibot \n Two Muster \n Two Peacekeepers \n Two Consecrate \n Two Truesilver \n Two Argus \n At least one Blackwing Tech \n \n That's a huge anti-aggro portion of the deck, and it just isn't enough. \n I haven't tried Coghammers personally because I don't have them, but I feel any dragon paladin deck would require them. \n Volcanic Drake isn't that great because your opponent can kill off your Muster, so you don't get them out fast enough. That's basically a Hunter card. \n Chromaggus is too slow to really be used, and Solemn Vigil doesn't get much use with it because of the mana. \n You need so many 5 drops. Belcher can't be run, either use Taz or Argus instead. Corrupter is too good to pass on. Oh, you need two Consorts. Azure is your best bet against Patron for an actual full clear (save equality), but you don't have space. Healbot? Nope. And because you play Muster, you probably want a Quartermaster in there somewhere. \n Also Hungry Drake sucks against non-control.","Summary: What kinds of cards are actually worth throwing into a werewolf themed deck?\n\nPost: NOTE: A lot of the new cards are unavailable on tappedout to my knowledge as of writing, so I'm just talking about theoretical support options. What kinds of stuff I should be looking for. This post is going to be predominantly talking about effects that could be used in this deck, and looking to see if my logic is sound, etc. \n Hey, guys. So I'm currently looking into building my first custom EDH deck. I have the 2014 Green and White precons, and they're both pretty fun, but I'm trying to convert to something more me. \n With SOI coming out, opted to do that as a werewolf tribal deck in Gruul colors. Specifically, though, I'm trying to make the deck at least mostly thematic. One restriction I've placed on that is every creature must be either a werewolf, wolf, or human. I'm also trying to avoid using artifacts if I can, just because. \n Looking at their direct support cards ([[Howlpack Resurgence]], [[Full Moon's Rise]]) it's pretty clear that they would rather slam a ton of werewolves down than just super pump one of them. So if we're going wide instead of tall, there's a good suite of cards in [[Beastmaster Ascension]], [[Overrun]], [[Overwhelming Stampede]], etc. Slamming a few of those into the deck can't be bad. [[Champion of Lambholt]] also sounds really solid if you're going to be going wide, with a bonus for being from Innistrad. [[Kamahl, Fist of Krosa]] seems like a no-brainer. \n If we're going wide, a good subtheme is wolf tokens. [[Wolfcaller's Howl]] seems... okay? [[Feed the Pack]] seems better. But [[Kessig Cagebreakers]] and [[Cult of the Waxing Moon]] seem like solid money cards to just broaden the field. [[Predator's Howl]] just seems too weak, imho, as it's a one-and-done generator. [[Raised By Wolves]] also actually feels like it'd be weak? I'm really not sure. It sounds like it's win-more. I suppose it's a minimum 6/6 for 5, which is good, and as it's three bodied it splits the removal cost. On an added note, [[Ezuri's Predation]] sounds like the only board clear worth considering... but is it really worth it? \n The day/night cycle leads to wanting to limit spells cast during the player to your left's turn, and otherwise keep players at one spell per turn max. Honestly, artifact and land hate seems to be the best way to limit spells cast. Cards like [[Creeping Corrosion]] and [[Fiery Confluence]] are cheap enough and broad enough that I can probably justify them; EDH is big effects, so cards like [[Ancient Grudge]] don't seem as solid. I really dislike the idea of MLD, though, but I could justify some targeted removal like [[Mwonvuli Acid-Moss]], [[Reap and Sow]], and [[Frenzied Tilling]]. Plus some land-hate-lands like [[Ghost Quarter]], [[Encroaching Wastes]], and [[Tectonic Edge]]. Would [[Wave of Vitriol]] be worth considering? I suppose I could throw MLD in there (Namely [[Boom/Bust]], [[Decree of Annihilation]], [[Ruination]], [[From the Ashes]]) anyways, because it does work specifically with the theme. [[Blood Moon]] and [[Magus of the Moon]] are so juicy, but so expensive... \n Cards like [[Scab-Clan Berserker]] also seem right up the deck's alley, offering punishment for playing spells as is. [[Ruric Thar, the Unbowed]] is the commander I'm thinking of using until the next set (hopefully) releases a legendary, as he's cheap enough to be disposable basically, and still fits the strategy. [[Xenagos, God of Revels]] is a really solid option, but I think is actually less thematic here. [[Stonebrow, Krosan Hero]] could definitely work. \n Because you only want to play one spell on your turn, too, cards that give 2+ for 1 bodies are good. [[Howl of the Night Pack]] could be really strong if the deck is predominantly green (Which, from what I've seen so far, it should be)). [[Primal Surge]] and [[See the Unwritten]] actually sound really useful in this kind of deck. [[Hibernation's End]] gives you a way to keep filling bodies on board without casting spells. \n Speaking of draw engines, I'm really leaning toward [[Hunter's Prowess]], [[Hunter's Insight]], and [[Creeping Renaissance]] as the big draw spells. The first two really play into the aggressive nature of the deck, and the last one is both visually thematic with Innistrad as well as a two-time-use card. I don't think [[Harmonize]] is actually that great in this kind of deck, and I'm leaning away from [[Shamanic Revelation]] because, even though it'd be great with a wide playstyle, it doesn't fix the problem of getting your board wiped. Again, it feels win-more. \n I know a lot of people really dislike tutors in EDH. But cards like [[Chord of Calling]], [[Primal Command]], etc are really useful. I'm also considering [[Signal the Clans]], not in part because there's so many solid 3 drops that could follow it up. [[Immerwolf]], [[Geier Reach Bandit]], [[Somberwald Sage]], [[Kruin Outlaw]], etc. \n How about ramp? Ramp will let cards like [[Crater's Claws]] and [[Kessig Wolf Run]] add up to a lot of damage, but I'm not sure if the X spells are even worth considering, as they're so linear. Wolf Run is in for sure, of course. How much ramp should I consider? Werewolves cap out at 5 mana cost, so they're pretty cheap across the board. Honestly, it sounds more like I'd want to destroy my opponent's stuff than build up my own. Ramp helps cards like Howl of the Night Pack, but it's kind of counter productive with Primal Surge. What kind of ramp would I use, and how much? Somberwald Sage and [[Shaman of Forgotten Ways]] sound awesome, but only apply on creatures. [[Whisperer of the Wilds]] sounds really good, though. How about [[Explosive Vegetation]] and friends, or [[Cultivate]]? I know a lot of people love Cultivate, but the 4 cost place two sound much stronger overall. [[Verdant Confluence]]? I intend to use the snow lands suite, so [[Into the North]] is a no brainer. Basically is just 2 mana to throw [[Highland Weald]] into play. \n How important is haste? [[Fires of Yavimaya]] and [[Fervor]] sound good, but I'm not sure if it's really worth investing deck slots into. I know trample is pretty boss, especially if you use Stonebrow. And there's plenty of ways to get trample on everything. But how about [[Gruul War Chant]]? Is it worth a deck slot? [[Archetype of Aggression]] could be good. \n What should the ratio be? I'm ignoring Ruric Thar for this, as he's ultimately temporary. From what I've heard/seen, you want about 36-38 lands (\"40 minus one per two ramp sources?\"), with no more than 35 creatures. How high should the average CMC be? I've been told to aim for 3, but I'm not sure how necessary that is, and I've also been told that green kind of just ignores that rule. \n Are the one drops like [[Reckless Waif]] and [[Village Messenger]] even worth considering? [[Ulvenwald Tracker]] sounds awesome for consistent removal, at least.","Summary: Mother was born in Northern Ireland, I was born in 1991 in the USA while she was a British subject, am I a British citizen by descent? May I acquire British citizenship without forgoing my USA citizenship? \n ^( There are myriad reasons I would like to maintain multiple citizenships if possible. From my mother's siblings living across Britannica and the dozens of cousins I barely know and would love to meet, to job market expansion, to simple travel, there's no real downsides aside the paperwork and minor costs now, as far as I'm aware. )\n\nPost: Hey folks! \n So, with St. Paddy's day here, I find myself asking some questions. My mother was born in Northern Ireland, and as such was born as both an Irish citizen, and a British subject. She moved out of Britain in the 70s, and carried a British passport until 1999 when she became an American Citizen and (apparently) British laws required she denounce her British citizenship. She still maintains Irish citizenship, so she is an Irish-American dual citizen now. AFAIK, Britain passed some law in 2004 (?) that allows you to maintain your citizenship if becoming a citizenship of another nation, assuming you do not wish to relinquish your UK citizenship. (Same law America passed in like 1981, give or take) \n I was born in 1991, before she relinquished her British citizenship, but I was born in America, not in the UK. \n I know 100% for certain I am a citizen of the RoI by descent, and may go out and acquire a passport at any given time, assuming I do the paperwork and whatnot. But I'd like to know if I also can do the same for the UK. I scanned the FAQs on gov.uk, but it's... not quite specific. I figured someone here might know better. \n I keep stressing \"British subject\" because that's how she specifies her UK citizenship at the time, and I'm unsure if that's just \"lingo\" in general (all are subjects of the crown), or more specifically a type of citizenship that may impair my \"claim.\""],"string":"[\n \"Summary: Eastern wildcard is a pity system for teams that could otherwise play on EUW with better ping than the NA East Coast. Either make a wildcard spot in each group, or none at all. \\n I'd like to see a Latin American, Brazilian, Oceanian, and one other wildcard for next year's world. The other 20 slots would be 3 from NA/EU/KR/CN/SEA, with the final 3 slots chosen by winners of an early all-stars tourney after the Spring splits are done, with one team from each region showing up for a massive round robin. This also gives more power to the spring split. Bigger total tourney size matches up with the extra teams per EU/NA LCS as well.\\n\\nPost: LMQ and SK showed up and beat heavy hitters, though. Hell, LMQ is arguably the strongest NA team. SK likely would have made it through groups if not for Svenracist. LMQ still might make it through, Group C is a total toss up. \\n My problem is that the wildcards are split in two. Eastern, and Western. \\n Western is totally awesome. Latin America and Brazil are otherwise totally unrepresented, and this gives them some air time, publicity, etc. Kabum isn't winning games, but they've been ahead against C9; they totally have the potential to get there, and this is going to help them. I can see Latin America becoming a 2-team spot in the future, not unlike SEA. And that'd be just awesome. \\n Eastern is a joke. Dark Passage is a team that didn't qualify for the EU LCS, but were able to attempt to enter. This is a team that literally is not good enough to play with the big boys, and were shown as such. \\n \\\"But they play on a different server!\\\" Yeah, sure. EU LCS totally is just EUW. The EUNE players and Russian players (Russia being another Eastern Wildcard slot) play on EUW because the competition is better there. Did I mention that Turkish players get about 60-70 ping on EUW (save occasional spikes that may last days)? I get 70-80 on NA from Chicago (save occasional spikes that may last days). Sorry, East Coast, but you don't get a wildcard spot. \\n This does show a problem, though. If we give Latin America a guaranteed wildcard spot, why wouldn't East Coast NA teams play on the Latin American servers for an easier ride to worlds? Then it's no actual Latin American inclusion. And also the exact same problem that is the Eastern Wildcard. \\n The real problem with wildcards is that they are only in half the groups. If every group has an actual wildcard, that's one thing. But from what we've seen, NA3 > CN3/EU2, EU3>NA1/SEA1, so those teams are actually damned competitive. Group 3 is so interesting because all 4 teams are solid. Group 2 would have been, except for a certain racist jungler. Everyone has a wildcard, then it's just show matches to give certain regions some attention.\",\n \"Summary: Nidalee as a support for a poke comp is like pulling the goalie in a hockey game... for the whole game.\\n\\nPost: In which case you should run Janna because of the disengage, not Nidalee for additional poke. \\n Push/poke comps come in three flavors: \\n1) Full siege \\n2) 1-4 split \\n3) 1-3-1 split \\n The 1-3-1 is less pokey than the others, and mostly relies on strong duelists. 1-4 is the most likely to find, running a strong split pusher to pull threat while giving your team stronger sieging capabilities. \\n In the 1-4 or full siege comps, the issue most teams have is that they go TOO poke heavy, and then are hard countered by hard engage. Janna alleviates that by resetting the status quo by pushing that Malphite/Alistar/Leona/etc away as soon as they get in, denying their engagement and allowing your team to continue to siege. Her movement speed also further facilitates the split pusher's escape, and her AD steroid further helps kill towers. \\n Now, Nidalee helps the carry kill the tower faster. But usually it's someone like Caitlyn or Jinx who is going to be getting only a single attack in every once in a while. Nidalee helps when you get to SIT on the tower, which is rarely the case unless you've already won a fight, which a poke comp is not looking to have just done. Janna helps with those single tower attacks by adding an extra BF sword to them. \\n Basically, there is no strong reason to run Nidalee as your support for a poke composition. Janna is by far the preferred choice, with Sona being a solid second. Alistar is actually pretty good as well for denying engages, and Lulu for the additional wave clear and hard CC. Nami is strong for the massive disengage, but is below Janna/Sona.\",\n \"Summary: Some carries have itemization issues (Urgot), some have safety issues (MF/Ashe/Kog), some are just unpopular (Kennen), some are buggy (Trist), and some were forcibly sterilized (Graves). Caitlyn, Ezreal, and Vayne have kits that always keep them relevant, so they never fall off. Lucian is big because numbers, Sivir because her numbers/ultimate, Jinx is just broken in general.\\n\\nPost: I was actually thinking about these the other day, specifically in the ADC sense. \\n There's that big rant about there's the \\\"big three ADCs\\\" right now (Sivir, Jinx, Lucian in no specific order). But you still see competitive Caitlyn, Ezreal, and Vayne because of their specific roles being so powerful (Push, Safety, Duel) for the role. \\n In the same way, it's why Renekton is always \\\"in season\\\" for toplaners, and why you aren't going to see Jarvan or Lee Sin fall off from the jungle entirely. These are champions that are versatile and do their job well. \\n If you just look at Graves' kit, he's a fantastic carry. His problem is simply that he cannot do his damned job. He's a lane bully that gets... outbullied. A point-blank Buckshot is less than satisfying at the moment. If Graves is in your face and you don't do something about it, you SHOULD feel threatened. \\n Kennen and Tristana are underutilized in my opinion. Although, Trist Jump really needs some love as far as how it works; it feels buggy as hell. Kennen as an ADC though has fantastic self peel and dueling, while being a great laner. I'm really expecting him to pick up steam sometime soon, specifically in the Coke Zero league. Kennen's just a boss. \\n Most ADCs that aren't used are because of \\\"safety issues.\\\" When you watch the LCS, start looking at team compositions and count the \\\"wall jumps.\\\" You can usually guess which team wins by the number of champions that can blink away from things. Thresh makes up for this very often, of course. But there's a reason Gragas never falls off in the competitive scene. (It's more than the dash, but that keeps him relevant) \\n But the lack of blinks are what hold Ashe, Kog, MF, etc back. Some of these for great reasons (Imagine Ashe with a dash...), but it still makes them easy assassination targets. Sivir gets around this with her Spell Shield, negating a lot of crazy stuff. Jinx gets around it simply by being broken. Jinx is essentially Kog'maw 2.0. Her snowball lets her reposition well enough to bypass a lot of the bullshit, and she has crazy range on Zap/SMDR to stay relevant on the outskirts. She also kites exceptionally well due to her high attack speed. \\n Twitch has his stealth, but the delay keeps him from being constantly relevant. He mostly shows up as a counter from time to time. \\n Urgot just... pls help ): He's too reliant on bonus AD/ArP, mana, CDR, and durability. If you've ever played D&D, Urgot has some crazy MAD going on. MAD = bad, SAD = good. An example of a marksman with strong SAD is Varus, who really just builds raw AD for his Q; this makes him great for poking but poor against tanks. But he's fortunate that he still has the BoRK->IE build to destroy tanks (expect this to emerge again, it's pretty much the best anti-tank build for any carry when thrown on Varus). \\n Anyways this was mostly just me ranting, so take from it what you will.\",\n \"Summary: I'm messing around with the various units and seeing what flows the best for me. Spellpower is the best if you're just starting out though by far, since you get most of the big units for free.\\n\\nPost: I've been tweaking it as I've unlocked cards. Current implementation is pirates and bandits. It will undoubtedly be tweaked more in the future. \\n There's some tweaks I have in mind though. The only real use of Shadowstep in the current deck is for either Scrub or SI7, and Scrub is very susceptible to board clear if you do that. So I'm likely going to be removing that. Lord of the Arena is just a temp thing, he'll be replaced eventually. \\n I need to pickup Conceal soon, as Bloodsail without Conceal is kind of fragile. But it feels great to drop a 9/3 for 2 mana (or a 17/3 for 4 mana!). Dread Corsair is way too good to pass up for a Rogue, being a 3/3 taunt for 0-4 mana. Really you'll at least have your \\\"passive\\\" dagger, so at \\\"worst\\\" he's a Grizzly. \\n I've won on turn 5 in the past. Sprint has also won me the game before, and I really do not see how you can run a consistent rogue deck without one copy. Two is just... unnecessary. But one copy can save the game. \\n The Auctioneer is great when he goes off, but he hasn't been going off consistently enough for my tastes. \\n Without any spellpower units anymore, Shiv feels underwhelming. \\n I'm likely going to be picking up Perdition's Blade and Blade Flurry eventually.\",\n \"Summary: Cloud is using a weapon that is designed for cleaving charging horses from a stationary, grounded position to try to fight people. It is entirely unwieldy, and impossible to use with any sense of dexterity. He and Sephiroth hold the titles for most overrated characters in video games. /:\\n\\nPost: Because Cloud makes no sense? He was a late-in-development add-in, Zack was originally slated as the main character. That's why a lot of stuff just doesn't make sense in FFVII. \\n As for the \\\"but the Buster Sword is awesome!\\\" argument, if you've ever watched Kenshin, he actually fully explains why a weapon like Cloud's has no place in an actual fight. Sure, it has some Anime-over-the-top to it (at least for Kenshin, which isn't all that much), but the idea is still completely sound.\",\n \"Summary: If Stannis dies, and his daughter dies, the throne would go to some as-of-yet-likely-unnamed Dornishman/woman, or will cause civil war or the dissociation of the seven kingdoms. \\n I could totally be wrong on this, as I haven't read through everything to date yet. This is just what I'm picking up and piecing together as I go, and based on the show thus far as well. So yeah, if I'm messing this up, let me know.\\n\\nPost: I don't think many houses would actually follow Stannis... yet (as of the current plot in show, at least, as he's actively trying to make stuff happen). He's described as a cold, overly lawful person who isn't much for his own opinions. As Mellisandre shows, he's incredibly easily swayed and manipulated. With Stannis on the throne, more than ever, it's a game between the Small Council. But yes, if both children die, he has the undisputed greatest claim to the throne (save Dany and Gendry). Many houses would back that simply to avoid conflict in general, because another massive rebellion would not be in many's interests. \\n If he dies while on the throne though, it'll follow the blood. From my understanding, it has nothing to do with Baratheon blood... And everything to do with Targaryen blood. \\n Outside of the Aemon (oath preventing) and Dany (fled), all the other Targaryens are dead. Tywin ordered the Mountain to kill Rhaegar's wife and children (Elia Martell), Robert killed Rhaegar, and Jaime killed Aerys (the mad king), with the bonuses of Viserys dying to Drogo and Rhaella (Aerys' sister-wife, the queen) dying in Daenerys' birth, so there are no other remaining Targaryens. \\n So, they go up the line to find the next successor. The rebellion was run by Robert, Ned, and Jon, but Robert had the most Targaryen blood. Ned confirms this multiple times by insisting that Robert had the greatest claim to the throne. Keep in mind that the Targaryens did the whole brother-sister thing to keep the bloodline pure thing, so having any Targaryen blood is rare enough and likely through a bastard. So it's easy to assume that Robert and his brothers have the most Targaryen blood among all other peoples of the realm (if not the only), where Robert, the eldest, then succeeds the crown. \\n Robert's children should have the crown after his death unless someone with greater Targaryen blood (such as Dany) makes claim. Cersei ordered the death of all of Robert's bastards, although Gendry escaped for the moment. If Robert has no children, then it goes to his brother Stannis; if he dies and also has no children, it goes to Renly. If not him, it moves back up the line to find the next closest inheritor. \\n Why the Targaryens? They united the seven kingdoms under their seal. Before them, there is no \\\"royal bloodline,\\\" only for the individual realms within (such as Stark, Lannister, etc). Until Robert, every king of the seven kingdoms was of house Targaryen itself. \\n Anyways, current list of actual claim to the throne by blood: \\nDany (daughter of Targaryen king) -> Gendry (only son by blood of eldest with greatest Targaryen blood) -> Stannis (second eldest of most Targaryen blood) -> Shireen (only child) -> ??? \\n There's a solid chance all of the above die. If so... then there's no actual claim to the throne, and civil war is inevitable to fill the power vacuum. If I'm not mistaken, there are some in Dorne with Targaryen blood due to political marriage. So that'd probably be the next place to check. But, solid likelihood those political marriages kept children on Dragonstone / Kings Landing, and were taken out during the rebellion. So GRRM has plenty to play with there to increase chaos.\",\n \"Summary: 5.4 was wrought with infinite CC chains. 2 minutes is short for these comps.\\n\\nPost: Now? They are not. Before? \\n CC has a 20 second timer before it goes off diminishing returns (technically 15-20 seconds, but assume worst case scenario at 20). It also technically begins when the CC is applied, not when it ends, but I'm going to count everything from the end just to show how absurd some of this shit is. The idea is to setup a 34 second repeating system if you can. \\n Also, yes. A lot of this can be interrupted. This is \\\"in a vacuum.\\\" Also consider that it's possible to isolate one person to be CC'd while keeping the other away via knockbacks and roots, which are not considered for the main portion of these chains. \\n Hunter and Priest: \\n Dominate Mind (8s) (8s) Charm \\nDominate Mind (4s) (12s) Charm x.5 \\nDominate Mind (2s) (14s) Charm x.25 \\nPsychic Scream (7s) (21s) Fear \\nScatter Shot (4s) (25s) Short Mesmerize \\nFreezing Trap (8s) (33s) Long Mesmerize \\n Worst case scenario, Dominate Mind is up one second later. Likely scenario, you go directly into the loop of those 6 casts. If trinketed, Wyvern Sting and Lullaby are great to fill in the gap. If you use Wyvern Sting and Lullaby, this literally is an infinite loop combo... in the worst case scenario. Adding Chastise to the mix gives bonus time, despite sharing diminish with Scatter Shot. Bonus points for abusing Entrapment as Survival with Snake Trap after a Dominate Mind or Psychic Scream out of allied LOS (such as off the bridge in Blade's Edge). I have played this comp, it works pretty well. \\n Druid and Warlock: \\n Cyclone (6s) (6s) Cyclone \\nCyclone (3s) (9s) Cyclone x.5 \\nCyclone (1.5s) (10.5s) Cyclone x.25 \\nSeduction (8s) (18.5s) Fear \\nSeduction (4s) (22.5s) Fear x.5 \\nSeduction (2s) (24.5s) Fear x.25 \\nShadowfury (3s) (27.5s) Stun \\nDisorienting Roar (3s) (30.5s) Short Mesmerize \\n Needs 3s to be a true loop. Entangling Roots, Pounce, Maim, Bear Hug, Whiplash, and Typhoon help delay there. Plenty of options. And man is this shit a bitch. \\n Priest and Mage: \\nDominate Mind (8s) (8s) Charm \\nDominate Mind (4s) (12s) Charm x.5 \\nDominate Mind (2s) (14s) Charm x.25 \\nPsychic Scream (7s) (21s) Fear \\nPolymorph (8s) (29s) Long Mesmerize \\nPolymorph (4s) (33s) Long Mesmerize x.5 \\nPolymorph (2s) (35s) Long Mesmerize x.25 \\n Fire, Frost, Arcane... Holy, Disc, Shadow... Doesn't matter. Just need the priest to pick up Dominate Mind, any leftover CC (Lockjaw, Deep Freeze, Dragon's Breath, Psychic Horror, Chastise) is just a bonus in case of trinket. \\n Druid and Frost Mage: \\nCyclone (6s) (6s) Cyclone \\nCyclone (3s) (9s) Cyclone x.5 \\nCyclone (1.5s) (10.5s) Cyclone x.25 \\nDisorienting Roar (3s) (13.5s) Short Mesmerize \\nPolymorph (8s) (21.5s) Long Mesmerize \\nPolymorph (4s) (25.5s) Long Mesmerize x.5 \\nPolymorph (2s) (27.5s) Long Mesmerize x.25 \\nDeep Freeze (5s) (32.5s) Stun \\n Needs 2 seconds to complete. Options are Roots and Lockjaw, really. Lockjaw being the stronger choice, obviously. But during the Deep Freeze the druid can go kitty and build up 4cp Maim for a 2s stun. \\n Paladin and Hunter: \\nTurn Evil (8s) (8s) Fear \\nTurn Evil (4s) (12s) Fear x.5 \\nTurn Evil (2s) (14s) Fear x.25 \\nScatter Shot (4s) (18s) Short Mesmerize \\nFreezing Trap (8s) (26s) Long Mesmerize \\n Remaining time can be cycled between Blinding Light, Lullaby, Wyvern Sting, and Hammer of Justice. Adds up to a full 2 minute looping cycle if I mathed right. \\n Paladin and Mage: \\nTurn Evil (8s) (8s) Fear \\nTurn Evil (4s) (12s) Fear x.5 \\nTurn Evil (2s) (14s) Fear x.25 \\nPolymorph (8s) (22s) Long Mesmerize \\nPolymorph (4s) (26s) Long Mesmerize x.5 \\nPolymorph (2s) (28s) Long Mesmerize x.25 \\nDeep Freeze (5s) (33s) Stun \\n Leaves 1s short of a perfect loop in the worst case scenario. Meaning... this is an actual loop. Blinding Light, Hammer of Justice, and Lock Jaw can fill it out fully if you want. \\n Destro Warlock and Fire Mage: \\nPolymorph (8s) (8s) Long Mesmerize \\nPolymorph (4s) (12s) Long Mesmerize x.5 \\nPolymorph (2s) (14s) Long Mesmerize x.25 \\nDragon's Breath (4s) (18s) Short Mesmerize \\nSeduction (8s) (26s) Fear \\nSeduction (4s) (30s) Fear x.5 \\nSeduction (2s) (34s) Fear x.25 \\nShadowfury (3s) (37s) Stun \\n Burn the world and hold someone off on the side doing nothing while you're at it. Easy loop, actually has fallback options, too. Swapping to Frost only decreases total CC duration by .5s, so also has a full loop. \\n And the worst offender of all... \\n Holy Priest and Feral Druid: \\n Dominate Mind (8s) (8s) Charm \\nDominate Mind (4s) (12s) Charm x.5 \\nDominate Mind (2s) (14s) Charm x.25 \\nPsychic Scream (7s) (21s) Fear \\nSymbiosis Cyclone (6s) (27s) Cyclone \\nSymbiosis Cyclone (3s) (30s) Cyclone x.5 \\nSymbiosis Cyclone (1.5s) (31.5s) Cyclone x.25 \\nChastise (3s) (34.5s) Short Mesmerize \\n That's right. The priest, ALONE, isolates a target for the full fight. Dominate Mind is available at latest at 34.0s, just in time to loop. If they trinket, you still have Mighty Bash, Bear Hug, Maim, Entangling Roots, Typhoon, and Pounce to play with to delay them if need be until you can loop ad nauseum again. As priest focuses on CC, druid can basically just 1v1 with Guardian Angel available. Good luck out dueling that.\",\n \"Summary: I really don't want to see Xmithie and Mancloud get relegated. ):\\n\\nPost: Sorry, quick rant here. \\n XDG is Vulcun, who came from FeaR, which was essentially the combination of mMe.Ferus and CLG Black. From mMe.Ferus you got your Xmithie and Mancloud, and from CLG Black you got your Zuna, Benny, and Bloodwater. \\n In Season 3, Vulcun was undeniably carried by their mid/jungle combo (mMe.Ferus), with their toplane (CLG Black) generally being mediocre in the larger picture, and the botlane (CLG Black) being the major issue. Keep in mind that on CLG Black, Bloodwater and Zuna did not lane together, and that Bloodwater hopped several times before joining Vulcun, so there was no earlier bot-lane synergy of note. \\n I feel that if mMe.Ferus stuck around as they were, they would be a damned force. BalIs toplane, Xmithie jangle, Mancloud mid, Aphromoo and Muffinqt botlane was the lineup. On that lineup, the only person I would even consider swapping for someone else is Muffinqt, and even then he was never bad. He just got a bit hotheaded and quit the team, if I recall (and now refuses to return to professional LoL). So take that lineup and throw on Bloodwater, poof you have a contender. \\n I feel like Benny has been rather \\\"silent\\\" since S3. He excelled in safe play during 1v2 lanes, but he never really seems to win 1v1 lanes. He's gotten better at his actual laning lately, but he still doesn't carry. He's not a play maker. He is consistent and is never the reason XDG loses, but he's also never the reason they win. \\n Mancloud needs to choose different champions. This season he's played Gragas 4x, Kayle 3x, Nidalee 1x, LeBlanc 1x, Ziggs 1x, Yasuo 1x, Riven 1x. They won with him on... LeBlanc, Riven, and 1x on Kayle. I think there's some trend with him picking Gragas and it just not working, but I'm not sure on that one. \\n Compare that to his list last season: Kha'zix, Zed, Ahri, TF, Diana, Ezreal, Karthus, Jayce, Ryze, Lissandra, Xerath, Orianna. You'll note that there is zero overlap between this season and last. Why? O_o; He's won as every champion on that list. It's not like that whole entire roster has been nerfed to oblivion.\",\n \"Summary: It's easier to carry as a Marksman when your team is all on the same page and coordinated because people don't protect in solo queue. Maybe you protect, but from well over a thousand games in the ADC role, that makes you a sparkly unique butterfly.\\n\\nPost: Pretty much this. In solo queue, people are focused around getting themselves to carry the game. \\n In team fights, there's generally two priorities: \\n \\n Dive their carry \\n Protect your carry \\n \\n It sounds very linear, but only because it really is. This is why people constantly whine about priority targets: \\\"Omg, why are you focusing the tank instead of the Caitlyn?\\\" \\n In solo queue, because of the \\\"I have to carry these noobs\\\" mentality, and how you cannot rely on your teammates, the \\\"Dive\\\" fight priority takes extreme precedence over the \\\"Protect\\\" priority. \\n As an ADC main, it is unreal the number of times that I have been fed and easily able to carry if someone just gets this bruiser off me, only to have everyone hopelessly chase down the opposing carry who is already zoned out of the fight. It's really easy to lose teamfights that way, and it happens quite often. \\n I recall specifically one game where I was up 27 kills as Ezreal at 40 minutes, full 6 items with a GA, and the opposing carry was worthless. My full team chased down there carry, allowing the opposing Kha'zix to jump on me, kill me before I could kill him, and then Q me as I came out of GA without any team retaliation. With a simple stun on Kha, that fight would have been cleaned up exceptionally easily. \\n But because of the lack of \\\"Protect\\\" in solo-queue, certain carries are used more. Sivir is pretty safe despite the range, and her ultimate actually helps your team dive. Caitlyn is always an easy pick because she is so long ranged she doesn't need much protect as long as you have vision. Ezreal's blink and Lucian's blink/slowbreak are golden usually. But other champions like Varus and Kog'maw, although very strong, do not get any protection, and so are usually rough choices. Ashe also falls into this category; although C9 made excellent use of her last split, that is not in part because Lemonation's Zyra was always hugging his side to peel. (I will mention that Varus is much less screwed than the others simply because his poke is pristine, so he can still be played pretty well most games.) \\n The problem here is simply that although there's a variety of carries, most just have no place in a solo-queue environment because they just aren't safe enough without coordination. So although you see escapeless Jinx going to town in the LCS, she's fodder for many assassins. Unless you are getting supported, or your dive is just that fed/terrifying, she's going to get focused, she is going to die, and there goes your damage. \\n So, playing with a full team of friends, it is by far easier to carry than with randoms. Priorities are different. In teams, it's \\\"We need to win.\\\" but in soloqueue, it's \\\"I need to win.\\\" \\n This is why I personally refuse to play champions without hard CC in non-ADC positions. It's why I hate Shyvana as a jungler, Tryndamere as a toplaner, Shaco as a jungler, Teemo as a toplaner, Gangplank anywhere, Nidalee anywhere, Vladimir anywhere, etc. Yes, most of the above can carry games. But where's the exit plan? What happens if you don't get fed? Lots of them can bolster the carry's damage, but if they lose lane, how the hell are they preventing the opponent from killing your fed carry? \\n It's a real issue with champions like Riven who, if they win lane, remove two champions from the map by default. Your team's top/mid who fed Riven (and therefore are pretty worthless), and your team's carry, who is dead the moment 4-dash-2-stun-AoErangedExecute Riven shows up.\",\n \"Summary: Memorizing some things is useful, but many classes require you to memorize things that will have no applicable use, except in scenarios where you'll still have to look up more stuff about it anyways.\\n\\nPost: You can memorize generalities, and often build off those to understand the more specific stuff without actually memorizing the specific stuff. And things you use constantly you end up memorizing by default. \\n But there are things you will not be using constantly or even semi-regularly, that do not really build into anything else, that you do not need to memorize. \\n I've taken a lot of biochem coursework, yeah. In particular, we were told to memorize all of the steps for the breakdown of glucose in our bodies, including all the enzymes. Thought it was bullshit, at first. \\n But eventually we went into how our bodies produce amino acids, and how a lot of those processes start from intermediates of the citric acid cycle. Example; if you take alpha-ketoglutarate, a CAC intermediate, you can eventually produce glutamine. This is important because, besides being an amino acid, it's actually one of the few ways our body can transfer ammonia through our systems. So, it's important for producing urea, and messing this up can cause various kidney problems of course. This overgeneralization I just gave is honestly enough in most cases, and if more specific information is needed... you'd be double-checking it anyways. \\n There's a lot of stuff you can build up on, but in so many cases, it's unnecessary. A lot of things you don't need to have every step memorized, and just need the general idea. \\n A good example of this is the organic synthesis course I took (grad level). Teacher wanted us to memorize a bunch of equations for the tests, but you could easily compile a well organized folder of reactions from A to B, and use that for your syntheses just by searching through it for the right one. In fact, that's what most people who actually do that for a living do (at least from whom I've spoken to). There's so many little specific one-time-it-may-be-useful reactions. \\n Obviously there's some big ones that you should know, like Fischer Esterification, or like, PCC or DIBAL for redox stuff. Since those actually get used pretty often. But so many of those reactions were \\\"Okay, if I ever had this scenario, I would spend less time looking it up than trying to scan through my memory for this one guy, and even then, I'd still have to look up the specific conditions for it.\\\"\",\n \"Summary: I think you'll be surprised. (:\\n\\nPost: For the record, it has a lot in common with the DAO trailers. \\n [DAO E3 trailer]( contains no actual look at strategy, only action. No UI. \\n [Warden's Calling trailer]( \\n [Sacred Ashes trailer]( is just full of action. \\n [This is War]( came out right after release for DAO, and is basically a compilation of the previous three. Still... where's the tactical RPG elements being shown off? \\n [Grey Wardens trailer]( still no actual tactics shown off... \\n [Still...]( \\n [The Gamescon Trailer]( was strictly story. \\n [Nope.]( \\n [Not even the DLC]( trailers have it. \\n [Seriously!]( \\n [Even Awakening's Trailer.]( \\n Basically, BioWare tends to emphasize the story, world, and looking badass in their trailers, but not actual gameplay. So the reason you became a fan of the series, it seems, was not in the original trailers (You could easily guess DAO is more action than tactics!). The only major complaint to have is the lack of seeing party combat here (We see the Inquisitor alone), although we have absolute confirmation that exists. \\n [Skip to 7 minutes.]( This is 5 months old, but should still be relevant. He goes through a fight, and talks about the strategy that he's going to use to get through it, including bouncing between party members to synch skills and positioning. \\n Skip further ahead to 18 minutes and he goes through overhead tactical views that are available, and proceeds to talk more about strategy. This fight feels very much like DAO.\",\n \"Summary: Don't let someone be an officer who thinks this is a good idea. Period. Recruit slow and steady, and work hardest to keep the active members happy and together. If they aren't up to par, make sure you help them up. Sit down with them and explain how to get better DPS, and make sure you aren't being pedantic. You can get people better at the game, you can't get people better at life/relationships.\\n\\nPost: Ugh, tell me about it. Warning, bit of a sob story. But it's relevant! \\n In early WotLK, I was an officer (one of 3 plus the GM) in one of the faster progressing guilds on my server. We had just passed Mimiron on normal Ulduar, and were the third guild on the server to have done so, so we were doing pretty well. \\n GM just got a new job and had to take a couple weeks off WoW as he trained for it. Another officer was in the hospital if I recall, and my family was heading to California for our first real vacation ever (I was 18... Yeah. Lower middle class, gogo!). In the week I was out of town, the third officer decided to do a guild merger out of the blue without consulting the rest of us. When I got back, half the original guild had left because their raid spots were being denied for new people who we didn't even know. \\n The guild fell apart. Hard. \\n This was a guild that was comprised of people I had known through BC. We had formed about a month before WotLK had started. The GM and second officer were tanks in my \\\"hardcore\\\" raiding guild in T5 content, and the third officer was a healer in that guild. I had known the second officer from my \\\"casual\\\" raiding guild prior to that one. \\n Our healers included two of my IRL friends, two friends from another casual guild I was in, one friend-of-a-friend, and two awesome guys who simply kicked ass at their role. \\n Our tanks aside the GM/officer were myself, and another IRL friend. When I stepped down as a tank to go back to my hunter for Ulduar progression (friend and I tanked for my 10man group, guild requested I go smash some deeps for progression). \\n Our top DPS were friends from that early casual guild, who we had stuck with for ages. A couple were friends of friends, who became friends on their own. I lived with one of them for a year recently, he's a cool guy. Kinda hard to live with, but he's 100% a friend I can count on. Others in that group I talked with quite a bit one on one about random shit. Amongst the main raid group, I still am in contact with about 8 or 9 of them, discounting my IRL friends (mostly my 10man group!). There are another 4 or 5 who I wish I were still in contact with. The ones I talk to, I play League, WoW, or other games with. \\n And because this one bastard decided that, because for two weeks we had problems getting a 25man together, he should do a full merger. \\n Honestly, I have never done hardcore raiding again. I haven't tried to get involved in a guild. It just won't be the same. Losing something like that hurts, a lot. \\n If you were part of <Genesis> on Dethecus, this is Cudgel. I still am in contact with Waka, Bob, Deathkar, Llynn, Suti, Ftl, and Arth, but I miss the rest of you fantastic bastards. Send me a line.\",\n \"Summary: You lose hard to aggro, which is most of the meta. Midrange GvG style handles it better, but is still pretty pooped on. It's like asking if the guy with a broken ankle or a broken knee will win a race. At least they're both beating midrange shaman right now.\\n\\nPost: Dragon Pally is very, very good against control because it has among the best lategames out there. \\n But aggro and midrange kind of beat it up. You can win midrange sometimes depending on draws, but aggro is pretty futile. This is with a decklist including: \\n \\n Two Zombie Chow \\n Two Shielded Minibot \\n Two Muster \\n Two Peacekeepers \\n Two Consecrate \\n Two Truesilver \\n Two Argus \\n At least one Blackwing Tech \\n \\n That's a huge anti-aggro portion of the deck, and it just isn't enough. \\n I haven't tried Coghammers personally because I don't have them, but I feel any dragon paladin deck would require them. \\n Volcanic Drake isn't that great because your opponent can kill off your Muster, so you don't get them out fast enough. That's basically a Hunter card. \\n Chromaggus is too slow to really be used, and Solemn Vigil doesn't get much use with it because of the mana. \\n You need so many 5 drops. Belcher can't be run, either use Taz or Argus instead. Corrupter is too good to pass on. Oh, you need two Consorts. Azure is your best bet against Patron for an actual full clear (save equality), but you don't have space. Healbot? Nope. And because you play Muster, you probably want a Quartermaster in there somewhere. \\n Also Hungry Drake sucks against non-control.\",\n \"Summary: What kinds of cards are actually worth throwing into a werewolf themed deck?\\n\\nPost: NOTE: A lot of the new cards are unavailable on tappedout to my knowledge as of writing, so I'm just talking about theoretical support options. What kinds of stuff I should be looking for. This post is going to be predominantly talking about effects that could be used in this deck, and looking to see if my logic is sound, etc. \\n Hey, guys. So I'm currently looking into building my first custom EDH deck. I have the 2014 Green and White precons, and they're both pretty fun, but I'm trying to convert to something more me. \\n With SOI coming out, opted to do that as a werewolf tribal deck in Gruul colors. Specifically, though, I'm trying to make the deck at least mostly thematic. One restriction I've placed on that is every creature must be either a werewolf, wolf, or human. I'm also trying to avoid using artifacts if I can, just because. \\n Looking at their direct support cards ([[Howlpack Resurgence]], [[Full Moon's Rise]]) it's pretty clear that they would rather slam a ton of werewolves down than just super pump one of them. So if we're going wide instead of tall, there's a good suite of cards in [[Beastmaster Ascension]], [[Overrun]], [[Overwhelming Stampede]], etc. Slamming a few of those into the deck can't be bad. [[Champion of Lambholt]] also sounds really solid if you're going to be going wide, with a bonus for being from Innistrad. [[Kamahl, Fist of Krosa]] seems like a no-brainer. \\n If we're going wide, a good subtheme is wolf tokens. [[Wolfcaller's Howl]] seems... okay? [[Feed the Pack]] seems better. But [[Kessig Cagebreakers]] and [[Cult of the Waxing Moon]] seem like solid money cards to just broaden the field. [[Predator's Howl]] just seems too weak, imho, as it's a one-and-done generator. [[Raised By Wolves]] also actually feels like it'd be weak? I'm really not sure. It sounds like it's win-more. I suppose it's a minimum 6/6 for 5, which is good, and as it's three bodied it splits the removal cost. On an added note, [[Ezuri's Predation]] sounds like the only board clear worth considering... but is it really worth it? \\n The day/night cycle leads to wanting to limit spells cast during the player to your left's turn, and otherwise keep players at one spell per turn max. Honestly, artifact and land hate seems to be the best way to limit spells cast. Cards like [[Creeping Corrosion]] and [[Fiery Confluence]] are cheap enough and broad enough that I can probably justify them; EDH is big effects, so cards like [[Ancient Grudge]] don't seem as solid. I really dislike the idea of MLD, though, but I could justify some targeted removal like [[Mwonvuli Acid-Moss]], [[Reap and Sow]], and [[Frenzied Tilling]]. Plus some land-hate-lands like [[Ghost Quarter]], [[Encroaching Wastes]], and [[Tectonic Edge]]. Would [[Wave of Vitriol]] be worth considering? I suppose I could throw MLD in there (Namely [[Boom/Bust]], [[Decree of Annihilation]], [[Ruination]], [[From the Ashes]]) anyways, because it does work specifically with the theme. [[Blood Moon]] and [[Magus of the Moon]] are so juicy, but so expensive... \\n Cards like [[Scab-Clan Berserker]] also seem right up the deck's alley, offering punishment for playing spells as is. [[Ruric Thar, the Unbowed]] is the commander I'm thinking of using until the next set (hopefully) releases a legendary, as he's cheap enough to be disposable basically, and still fits the strategy. [[Xenagos, God of Revels]] is a really solid option, but I think is actually less thematic here. [[Stonebrow, Krosan Hero]] could definitely work. \\n Because you only want to play one spell on your turn, too, cards that give 2+ for 1 bodies are good. [[Howl of the Night Pack]] could be really strong if the deck is predominantly green (Which, from what I've seen so far, it should be)). [[Primal Surge]] and [[See the Unwritten]] actually sound really useful in this kind of deck. [[Hibernation's End]] gives you a way to keep filling bodies on board without casting spells. \\n Speaking of draw engines, I'm really leaning toward [[Hunter's Prowess]], [[Hunter's Insight]], and [[Creeping Renaissance]] as the big draw spells. The first two really play into the aggressive nature of the deck, and the last one is both visually thematic with Innistrad as well as a two-time-use card. I don't think [[Harmonize]] is actually that great in this kind of deck, and I'm leaning away from [[Shamanic Revelation]] because, even though it'd be great with a wide playstyle, it doesn't fix the problem of getting your board wiped. Again, it feels win-more. \\n I know a lot of people really dislike tutors in EDH. But cards like [[Chord of Calling]], [[Primal Command]], etc are really useful. I'm also considering [[Signal the Clans]], not in part because there's so many solid 3 drops that could follow it up. [[Immerwolf]], [[Geier Reach Bandit]], [[Somberwald Sage]], [[Kruin Outlaw]], etc. \\n How about ramp? Ramp will let cards like [[Crater's Claws]] and [[Kessig Wolf Run]] add up to a lot of damage, but I'm not sure if the X spells are even worth considering, as they're so linear. Wolf Run is in for sure, of course. How much ramp should I consider? Werewolves cap out at 5 mana cost, so they're pretty cheap across the board. Honestly, it sounds more like I'd want to destroy my opponent's stuff than build up my own. Ramp helps cards like Howl of the Night Pack, but it's kind of counter productive with Primal Surge. What kind of ramp would I use, and how much? Somberwald Sage and [[Shaman of Forgotten Ways]] sound awesome, but only apply on creatures. [[Whisperer of the Wilds]] sounds really good, though. How about [[Explosive Vegetation]] and friends, or [[Cultivate]]? I know a lot of people love Cultivate, but the 4 cost place two sound much stronger overall. [[Verdant Confluence]]? I intend to use the snow lands suite, so [[Into the North]] is a no brainer. Basically is just 2 mana to throw [[Highland Weald]] into play. \\n How important is haste? [[Fires of Yavimaya]] and [[Fervor]] sound good, but I'm not sure if it's really worth investing deck slots into. I know trample is pretty boss, especially if you use Stonebrow. And there's plenty of ways to get trample on everything. But how about [[Gruul War Chant]]? Is it worth a deck slot? [[Archetype of Aggression]] could be good. \\n What should the ratio be? I'm ignoring Ruric Thar for this, as he's ultimately temporary. From what I've heard/seen, you want about 36-38 lands (\\\"40 minus one per two ramp sources?\\\"), with no more than 35 creatures. How high should the average CMC be? I've been told to aim for 3, but I'm not sure how necessary that is, and I've also been told that green kind of just ignores that rule. \\n Are the one drops like [[Reckless Waif]] and [[Village Messenger]] even worth considering? [[Ulvenwald Tracker]] sounds awesome for consistent removal, at least.\",\n \"Summary: Mother was born in Northern Ireland, I was born in 1991 in the USA while she was a British subject, am I a British citizen by descent? May I acquire British citizenship without forgoing my USA citizenship? \\n ^( There are myriad reasons I would like to maintain multiple citizenships if possible. From my mother's siblings living across Britannica and the dozens of cousins I barely know and would love to meet, to job market expansion, to simple travel, there's no real downsides aside the paperwork and minor costs now, as far as I'm aware. )\\n\\nPost: Hey folks! \\n So, with St. Paddy's day here, I find myself asking some questions. My mother was born in Northern Ireland, and as such was born as both an Irish citizen, and a British subject. She moved out of Britain in the 70s, and carried a British passport until 1999 when she became an American Citizen and (apparently) British laws required she denounce her British citizenship. She still maintains Irish citizenship, so she is an Irish-American dual citizen now. AFAIK, Britain passed some law in 2004 (?) that allows you to maintain your citizenship if becoming a citizenship of another nation, assuming you do not wish to relinquish your UK citizenship. (Same law America passed in like 1981, give or take) \\n I was born in 1991, before she relinquished her British citizenship, but I was born in America, not in the UK. \\n I know 100% for certain I am a citizen of the RoI by descent, and may go out and acquire a passport at any given time, assuming I do the paperwork and whatnot. But I'd like to know if I also can do the same for the UK. I scanned the FAQs on gov.uk, but it's... not quite specific. I figured someone here might know better. \\n I keep stressing \\\"British subject\\\" because that's how she specifies her UK citizenship at the time, and I'm unsure if that's just \\\"lingo\\\" in general (all are subjects of the crown), or more specifically a type of citizenship that may impair my \\\"claim.\\\"\"\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":1395,"string":"1,395"}}},{"rowIdx":1396,"cells":{"question_id":{"kind":"string","value":"Varianz"},"question":{"kind":"string","value":"Generate the content for a reddit post low dose, maybe ask for non-traditional antibiotics (amoxicillin works for acne but isn't often used) to clear you up before starting."},"answer":{"kind":"string","value":"Consider trying low dose- like 10mg a day. It'll probably take longer for you to clear up, but studies indicate that eventually it will work. Downside is, you'll have to be on it a looooooooong time. Like, over a year. Upside is, far far fewer side effects. If your derm doesn't want to consider it (some of the old ones don't) find a new derm, because you clearly don't tolerate Accutane well. Plus, you've been on it twice before. A normal/high dose a third time sounds risky."},"correct_answer":{"kind":"string","value":"Consider trying low dose- like 10mg a day. It'll probably take longer for you to clear up, but studies indicate that eventually it will work. Downside is, you'll have to be on it a looooooooong time. Like, over a year. Upside is, far far fewer side effects. If your derm doesn't want to consider it (some of the old ones don't) find a new derm, because you clearly don't tolerate Accutane well. Plus, you've been on it twice before. A normal/high dose a third time sounds risky."},"documents":{"kind":"list like","value":["Summary: lots of people are going to get knocks on the door like this, please be educated consumers.\n\nPost: If this happens and you have questions, call the MA AGO or Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulations and speak to someone about it (they are the proper regulatory oversight). You might also consider giving the Department of Public Utilities a call. MA AGO: (617) 727-2200 MA OCABR: (617) 973-8700 MA DPU: (617)-305-3500 \n A note for anyone who reads this because I'd rather get you now than see more posts like this: companies like this are going to be ALL OVER this fall/winter. The rate hikes announced by National Grid and probably to be announced by the others are being used by them as an opportunity to drum up business. They are usually legitimate alternative energy suppliers who sell the electricity to your utility company- say you have National Grid, Sparks would be responsible for selling National Grid the electricity. National grid would still deliver it/charge delivery and infrastructure fees. Usually these companies offer a low introductory rate to entice customers to sign up. Unlike the Big 4 utility providers in MA, these are almost always variable rates that WILL go up. You will end up paying a LOT of money for these companies services. They will use tactics like the OP described- presenting themselves as being from or associated with your utility company, as well as the usual tactics \"one day only offer\" \"bonus introductory rate\" \"rewards points at X if you sign up\" etc. 99% of the time, you'll lose money signing up for this. The big utility companies have all sorts of built in perks- winter moratorium, good repayment plans, discount rates for low income, etc. Buyer beware.","Summary: American insurance companies have done a great job indocrtinating people into thinking that socialized medicine will leave them dying on the streets of the common cold\n\nPost: Oh fucking god this so much. My mother went through the most fucking awful period of illness last year. My family has superb insurance, and we're definitely upper middle class. She goes to a doctor, who diagnoses her and schedules her for surgery. Removes her gallbladder- couple days later we get a call, whoops, we didn't need to do that, that wasn't the problem, we don't know what the problem is. 3 months later and 3 specialists later (one of whom did some tests, no diagnosis, and then just literally never contacted us again except to bill) she still doesn't have a diagnosis, ends up going to a regional hospital where after two weeks in care there she gets surgery that might fix the problem- they won't know for a year, in the meantime, take all these pills and just hope it goes away. We pay out the fucking ass for this shit, and the goddamn problem is still there and no one has any fucking idea what to do . Insurance? Hahahaha. Oh god that's funny you're a funny guy, that got exhausted quickly. Again, my dad does very well so it's manageable, but my mother is still convinced single payer healthcare would have killed her, despite the fact that our current fucked up system is doing it's very goddamn best to do it first.","Summary: I mad\n\nPost: Theres a truckton of stuff we need to do, and I can't claim to be an expert (I've taken some econ classes at college, that's it) but here is what I see as problems that need addressed. \n \n Too big to fail. It was true in 2008, it's even truer now. Sure, Elizabeth Warren is making noise, but she's one senator. We need to have some real banking reform. \n \n Energy. Depending on who you ask, oil peaked in 2010-now/will peak in the next couple years. Either way, energy literally runs our economy. Prices are only going to rise, as supply shrinks. Emerging economies are just making this worse by hugely growing demand. Sure, we have fracking (ignoring the environmental cost, which is a serious negative externality) but it's expensive. It only works because oil is at a high price. Coal is just awful, and it's limited too. Go look at a chart of our energy sources- renewable is tiny. Growing maybe, but tiny. We need more of it, which means it needs to be more efficient. It's only going to get there with serious government investment in R&D. Cheap energy=faster growth (obviously simplified). \n \n Tax reform. Our tax code is a mess of loopholes and incentives. It distorts the market horribly. It encourages certain behaviors that we know aren't necessarily good. It creates weird incentives for companies to take counter-productive actions. Simplify it and lower rates (corporate tax rates here are very high). Electoral reform sort of feeds into this- we need to get lobbying and campaign finance under control, right fucking now. Lobbyists, backed by massive campaign contributions, get lawmakers to craft laws for the benefit of certain companies/interests, at the expense of the rest of the country. \n \n Education reform. This one seriously gets me fucking mad and it's deeply tied to economic performance/jobs. Our current primary education is glorified babysitting. It's a fucking joke. We spend more per capita per shitty returns. We have 3 month breaks each fucking year for summer. We don't teach for a modern economy. Why the fuck don't schools teach personal finance? Why aren't kids learning how to use computers and software products instead of the fucking planets? My school didn't offer anything more than a typing course. What. The. Fuck. How about maybe some health and nutrition course? Something like \"no, five soda's a day is not good and you should get exercise a few times a week\" instead of \"here's a condom, if you don't use it you will get AIDS and die, here are some pictures of tombstones to reinforce the fact that sex=death\". What about career counseling and vocational opportunity classes? Why aren't we exposing kids to a huge range of jobs and industries, and helping them find ones they're interested in that can also, you know, support them (leads into the college rant up next). Why do we, as a country, look down on trade schools? They're fucking amazing! Another thing: we rely on local communities to finance education, and then wonder why inner city schools suck. WELL GEE WHY THE FUCK WOULD THEY? Fuck states rights, get the federal government involved in education reform. Basically, we need 21st century schools, not 19th century babystitting centers. \n \n College. It's the big elephant in the room. We've ignored it. Well, it's time to fucking deal with the college problem. The cold hard truth is that maybe 1 in 5 current college students should be there. And they should all be getting way more financial support than they are. I'll use myself as an example. We don't need 4 years to teach people non STEM skills (and I say this as a poli-sci major so no, not STEM circlejerking, you fellow social sciences know it's true). I'm not even convinced all STEM programs should take 4 years. Why do lawyers have to get undergrad degrees that usually have nothing to do with their eventual JD? Why not just go straight to law school, or maybe have a 1 year pre-law training program? Why aren't teachers in dedicated teaching programs (some are, I'm generalizing I know). Why don't we have more \"hands on\" education? And why, WHY, are we as a society actively pushing people to take insane amounts of debt out for a degree they usually don't need? We're crippling them at the start of their lives. It's almost criminally retarded. The current student loan crisis (yes it is a crisis) is going to drag down growth for decades. Half of what college teaches is getting automated anyways. \n \n Medical costs. Another big one. We as a country fucking suck at preventative care. We're fat, lazy, and unhealthy. It's an intersection of personal and government responsibility. Americans, hit the treadmill once in a while and put down the Big Gulp. Government, stop subsidizing cheap corn that gets turned into corn syrup. We subsidize the wrong foods- crappy empty calories that make us fat and unhealthy. The government is paying for us to get diabetes and high blood pressure. We also pay more for health care per capita than any other country, and we get poorer results. Medical bankruptcy destroys people's lives and economic futures because costs are so damn high. I don't know if single-payer is the answer, but we need to have a national conversation about this because it's only getting worse. \n \n Infrastructure. Our national infrastructure was designed for when oil based energy was cheap and abundant, resulting in suburban sprawl. Well, those days are gone. Time to start planning for denser population centers where people can live in smaller homes, maybe not own a car. This won't happen as long as the housing market stays shitty though. \n \n National budget. What the fuck guys. Congress, get your fucking asses together and do your jobs before we drag you all out back and shoot you. Yeah, I'm serious. This last ~2 years of shennanigans? No. You're done. This is fucking humiliating as a country. Put together a serious long term plan that brings spending under control without destroying our economy with short term austerity like Greece. Your actions are having a measurable fucking effect and it's negative. \n \n Corporate obsession with short term profit is a problem. Yes, I embrace the fact that corporations should deliver a profit to shareholders. But this obsession with quarterly growth and oh god how are they doing right now cut all the jobs so this months numbers look good is unhealthy. I have no answers, but there are smarter people out there who might.","Summary: World Tribune is a lying sack of shit looking for page views by making up numbers and Reddit eats it up because it fits the narrative they want to believe\n\nPost: You were unable to read the NATO report because there was no NATO report . The World Tribune provides no source, no evidence to back their claim. What they did, in essence, was make up a statistic, and claim that a \"source familiar with the data\" told them. Even if we take their made up bullshit at face value, their own article admits \"no formal polling\" was done to support the number they came up with.","Summary: lots of people are going to get knocks on the door like this, please be educated consumers.\n\nPost: Door to door sales in MA are one of the few times you have a 3 day right to cancel the contract. You might want to send a letter through certified mail stating your intent to void the contract- just calling them isn't enough, although it doesn't hurt (be aware when you call them they may tell you you can't cancel/pressure you into not cancelling). \n Call the MA AGO or Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulations and speak to someone about it (they are the proper regulatory oversight). You might also consider giving the Department of Public Utilities a call. \nMA AGO: (617) 727-2200\nMA OCABR: (617) 973-8700\nMA DPU: (617)-305-3500 \n A note for anyone who reads this because I'd rather get you now than see more posts like this: companies like this are going to be ALL OVER this fall/winter. The rate hikes announced by National Grid and probably to be announced by the others are being used by them as an opportunity to drum up business. They are usually legitimate alternative energy suppliers who sell the electricity to your utility company- say you have National Grid, Sparks would be responsible for selling National Grid the electricity. National grid would still deliver it/charge delivery and infrastructure fees. Usually these companies offer a low introductory rate to entice customers to sign up. Unlike the Big 4 utility providers in MA, these are almost always variable rates that WILL go up. You will end up paying a LOT of money for these companies services. They will use tactics like the OP described- presenting themselves as being from or associated with your utility company, as well as the usual tactics \"one day only offer\" \"bonus introductory rate\" \"rewards points at X if you sign up\" etc. 99% of the time, you'll lose money signing up for this. The big utility companies have all sorts of built in perks- winter moratorium, good repayment plans, discount rates for low income, etc. Buyer beware.","Summary: we;re so fucked short term\n\nPost: I don't think we're going to see a single event that triggers a \"crisis\". I envision it as more of a slow motion train wreck. The 2008 financial crisis is just masking it for a while- people keep asking when the jobs are coming back from that. The answer is that they aren't, companies used the last 4 years to start really pushing automation in white-collar industry. Our unemployment rate is not going to recover (the unemployment rate the news often talks about is deceptive, it ignores underemployment and those who've been out of the job market for a while, true unemployment is much higher). What happens now is we spend the next 20 years automating. Even retail isn't safe. One more crash will wipe out a lot of retail companies who are just hanging on against internet shopping. Automated cars will wipe out even more (automated trucking and taxis will destroy millions of jobs).","Summary: no, no, no.\n\nPost: Oh yeah, Syrian state TV. They'd definitely never fake anything, no sir. But let's assume what you just posted is 100% true (it isn't). \n \n \"Blue and green plastic storage drums\". Ok? So what? Did they show anything inside them? I can go to Lowes and buy some myself. \n \"Rusty mortar bombs\" irrelevant to chemical weapons accusations. \n \"Grenades\" irrelevant to chemical weapons accusations. \n \"domestic gas canisters\" what the hell does this even mean, and again, did they provide any evidence of chemical weapons inside them? This could be freaking tear gas. \n \"vials labeled atropine\" yeah no shit, if I was the rebels fighting a government that had nerve gas I'd want some atropine around too.","Summary: of the paper is that none of the programs I looked at are/were doing well (overbudget, behind schedule).\n\nPost: This came up a little while ago, here's what I said: \n There are two major issues with the F-35 program, ignoring the technical aspects, which I'm not really qualified to comment on. \n First, partner nations are inevitable going to reduce their orders for F-35's. Most major partners are European NATO allies. All of them are going through serious defense austerity, with more to come. Couple that with weakness in the European economy and signs of a further slowdown, and, well, the Pentagon needs to (and probably is) planning for the Europeans to cut back on procurement. Of the other partners, as the article pointed out, Australia and Canada are considering cutting back. That leaves Turkey, who wasn't planning on buying many anyways, and not until 2016 (unless the date changed since I last read, which is entirely possible). That leaves Israel, who need the F-35 to sustain their aerial dominance that is the cornerstone of Israeli military doctrine. That said, US aid will pay for a lot of Israeli procurement anyways, and they want a special version that isn't likely to bring down general cost. \n Second, this program is old. Joint Strike Fighter, JSF, which is where this program originated, began in 1996. That was a different world- a pre-9/11 world, before our new pivot to \"the Pacific\" (read that as China whenever you see it), before austerity, before the rise of the drones. Drones have been sexified by the media lately, but they are the future. Drones have the same benefits as unmanned spacecraft and probes- when you don't have to support human life, you can make it lighter, faster, and cheaper. You can use it for more dangerous operations (like flying in Pakistani airspace) because the cost of losing one, in financial and human terms, is relatively cheap. Stealth isn't as much of a factor. Training operators is simpler and faster. Drones are going to become a zerg-like tool. We'll just spam them out in mass quantity. \n The long and short of this is that the F-35 is symbolic of the problem with our modern military-industrial complex. It's still predicated on preparing for wars that won't happen- mass conflict between powerful state actors. It hasn't adapted, not enough anyways. But it has such powerful political influence via lobbying and its stranglehold over the economy that I don't see much change coming anytime soon. \n Source is my paper on next generation warfighting procurement (JSF, LCS, LW) I did for a class two years ago (I minor in security studies). The","Summary: I don't give a shit about the company because they don't give a shit about me. That's not entitlement.\n\nPost: Well...yeah. What can the company do for me? I have no loyalty to \"the company\" when these mega-corps have decided to treat workers like shit and crap all over them. Subjective experience, but where I'm interning right now they're closing offices left and right...after hugely profitable quarters. People are getting laid off who've been there for decades, because it's cheaper to hire brand new associates for a third the pay. Or they just aren't hiring replacements and shift the responsibilities to the rest of us. It's not like the work goes away, those of us left just have to do more, and it's reaching a breaking point. People haven't seen a raise that matches inflation in years. My friends, by and large, say it's the same where they are. Why would we have any desire to go that extra mile for the company when the company won't do the same? That's the attitude I see in my generation. We're not going to care about \"the company\" because we're going to be there for a couple years tops.","Summary: of the paper is that none of the programs I looked at are/were doing well (overbudget, behind schedule).\n\nPost: There are two major issues with the F-35 program, ignoring the technical aspects, which I'm not really qualified to comment on. \n First, partner nations are inevitable going to reduce their orders for F-35's. Most major partners are European NATO allies. All of them are going through serious defense austerity, with more to come. Couple that with weakness in the European economy and signs of a further slowdown, and, well, the Pentagon needs to (and probably is) planning for the Europeans to cut back on procurement. Of the other partners, as the article pointed out, Australia and Canada are considering cutting back. That leaves Turkey, who wasn't planning on buying many anyways, and not until 2016 (unless the date changed since I last read, which is entirely possible). That leaves Israel, who need the F-35 to sustain their aerial dominance that is the cornerstone of Israeli military doctrine. That said, US aid will pay for a lot of Israeli procurement anyways, and they want a special version that isn't likely to bring down general cost. \n Second, this program is old . Joint Strike Fighter, JSF, which is where this program originated, began in 1996. That was a different world- a pre-9/11 world, before our new pivot to \"the Pacific\" (read that as China whenever you see it), before austerity, before the rise of the drones. Drones have been sexified by the media lately, but they are the future. Drones have the same benefits as unmanned spacecraft and probes- when you don't have to support human life, you can make it lighter, faster, and cheaper. You can use it for more dangerous operations (like flying in Pakistani airspace) because the cost of losing one, in financial and human terms, is relatively cheap. Stealth isn't as much of a factor. Training operators is simpler and faster. Drones are going to become a zerg-like tool. We'll just spam them out in mass quantity. \n The long and short of this is that the F-35 is symbolic of the problem with our modern military-industrial complex. It's still predicated on preparing for wars that won't happen- mass conflict between powerful state actors. It hasn't adapted, not enough anyways. But it has such powerful political influence via lobbying and its stranglehold over the economy that I don't see much change coming anytime soon. \n edit: source is my paper on next generation warfighting procurement (JSF, LCS, LW) I did for a class two years ago. The","Summary: unpaid internships are the fucking devil\n\nPost: Yeah seriously. \"Just get an internship\" pisses me the fuck off. Not everyone can afford to work unpaid for 3-6 months full time. As in, 95% of the population can't afford it. As much as I'd love to just pick up and move a thousand miles away, live and work there full time, well I just fucking can't. Instead I stayed local and did co-ops in something entirely unrelated to what I want to do because it's what I could afford.","Summary: Congress blows\n\nPost: The military definitely has provided huge ROI; however, I think it's important to differentiate between useful programs (i.e. half the shit that comes out of DARPA) and stupid, wasteful projects that only exist because of the Iron Triangle and congresspeople protecting local pork spending (fucking M1 still being in production, F-35 fuckery, Zumwalt destroyers oh jesus). A lot of wasteful spending occurs not because the military wants it, but because Congress mandates dumb shit. Come to think of it, Congress fucked up the other programs you mentioned as well.","Summary: Assad wants to know exactly where the line is and how close he can get\n\nPost: Yes he did. This is clearly Assad testing how much he can get away with, not just in terms of chemical weapons, but in indiscriminate attacks on civilians/more brutal use of force. He wants to know what will trigger a \"hard\" response from the US, and now he knows he can probably get away with a lot (assuming we don't respond to this incident, which I don't believe we will).","Summary: no \n edit: also the professional consequences for you, if this is real, would be enormous. You'd be hotter water than the student would be for this post. So, student, if you're reading this, your professor just gave you a gift. Screenshot the thread, print it out. If he punishes you, bring it to the dean of the department.\n\nPost: Calling bullshit. As a political science student, none of us are retarded enough to literally copy things from the internet. 9/10 times our submissions (at least at my university) are due via Turnitin, and if we pulled this we'd easily get caught, and we know that. And the odds someone would bother to plagiarize something for a one page paper? Yeah no. Also, you read the papers that quickly AND noticed and double-checked Reddit comments? Lol. \n If this isn't bullshit (unlikely), and you fail him for a one page paper, you're a dick. One page papers are retarded. It's academia's version of diarrhea.","Summary: if you're under 40 you're fucked and democracy kinda blows sometimes\n\nPost: I started typing a reply to this and realized it needed to be more organized. So let's go through this shall we? \n Medicare: There is strong support for \"requiring drug companies give government lower rates\". Awesome, so people on Medicare get lower drug costs, and the companies shift the loss onto the rest of us with higher prescription costs. Cool. There's solid support for increasing premiums on high income seniors, because only the rich should pay for anything amirite? The idea of requiring higher premiums for all seniors gets smashed down in this poll. I get mine, who cares about anyone else? Increasing the age people are eligible to retire at? Fuck no, who cares that we live longer? Except if I'm already on Medicare, then 64% are totally fine with raising the age. But they definitely don't want to pay more. Other people can do that. So basically, they only want \"reform\" in the sense that other people should pay for and shoulder the burden of such reform. \n Social Security? Nah, it's all good. We don't need to reform that. Who cares that it's running a deficit and is projected to exhaust the trust in the early 2030's? We'll just like, raise payroll taxes or something on the rich. \n And according to the poll, people are fine with the following cuts: \n Defense spending? Maybe we'll take minor cuts. Nothing too serious though, and yeah cut the spending in Afghanistan. Nevermind that that doesn't do really anything since we're leaving in 2014, it sounds good! \n Foreign aid? Fuck that shit. We don't need to spend money on other countries when MURICA needs that money here at home. So what that it's a key part of our foreign policy? Who cares that a lot of developing countries use that money for really great development programs? If we just cut aid to brown people we'll totally balance the budget! What, it's only like a tenth of one percent of federal spending? Close enough! \n Salaries and benefits for already underpaid government employees? Yeah, like fuck those people. Brb, I've gotta go to the DMV and then bitch about how awful the service was and how I had to wait three hours for any kind of help. God, does anyone know why government services are so awful? I mean jesus, it makes no sense! \n Food stamps? Unemployment insurance? Umm, hello, they should just go get jobs or something. Yeah definitely cut that! \n What's great about this is it demonstrates how little understanding there is of the US budget. We've got three main drivers of deficit spending: defense spending, payment on the debt, and Medicare/Medicaid/Social Security (could be their own categories). Of those, there's some modest support for moderate cuts to one of the categories (defense) which isn't even the biggest. We can't do anything about interest on the debt, except maybe stop piling up more debt. But entitlement programs? DON'T YOU FUCKING TOUCH MY FUCKING MEDICARE/SOCIAL SECURITY YOU FACIST TEATHUGLICANS. And so help any politician who suggests raising taxes on anyone but the top 1% or uses anything but vague \"close loopholes\" type language. It's a pathetic state of affairs, and it's only going to get worse as a sputtering recovery holds more young people in un/underemployment. And as technology keeps replacing workers in white-collar positions. Bottom line: we keep putting off structural changes because it's uncomfortable. Well, tough shit. We've lived off the credit card and ignored any kind of sustainable growth and development or planning for the future for 50 fucking years, and now we're going to pay for it.","Summary: best case scenario, Jon is given command of the foot when the Northern army splits at the Twins, worst case Red Wedding still happens and Jon ends up King of a broken kingdom.\n\nPost: Assuming he'd never ridden north with Benjen/joined the Nights Watch, I think his presence would have changed a lot of things. One of three things would have changed. First, Robb may have given Jon command of the army when they split at the Twins. Jon wouldn't have been stupid enough to engage Tywin, and this would have presented Roose Bolton from having the opportunity to betray Robb. This one's kind of unlikely though, giving a bastard (even a Stark bastard) who's 15/16 command of the army probably wouldn't sit well with the Northern lords. Jon would have probably ridden with Robb at Riverrun. If he did, he'd have gone west with Robb, and been present at the Crag. With Jon there, I doubt Robb seeks comfort with Jeyne Westerling, preventing the Frey split. If for whatever reason he doesn't go west and Robb marries Jeyne, then we're on track for the Red Wedding, except Robb straight up legitimizes Jon on the way to the Twins and names him his heir. Robb would have probably sent Jon to Greywater Watch in preparation for the attack on Moat Cailin, meaning Jon Stark survives the Red Wedding, and the Northern/River lords have someone to rally to. At that point, it gets hard to predict what King Jon does.","Summary: even enlisting is a crapshoot right now\n\nPost: Yeah I'm about a semester out from my degree and I started the process of enlisting. It's fucking hard these days, the air force where I am isn't taking anyone except a few very specific demographic groups (think engineers and linguists) and the coast guard literally no one (though tbh I had no interest in either so meh). All branches are literally looking for ways to keep people out, I got disqualified for having acne (yes). Getting a waiver is a bitch."],"string":"[\n \"Summary: lots of people are going to get knocks on the door like this, please be educated consumers.\\n\\nPost: If this happens and you have questions, call the MA AGO or Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulations and speak to someone about it (they are the proper regulatory oversight). You might also consider giving the Department of Public Utilities a call. MA AGO: (617) 727-2200 MA OCABR: (617) 973-8700 MA DPU: (617)-305-3500 \\n A note for anyone who reads this because I'd rather get you now than see more posts like this: companies like this are going to be ALL OVER this fall/winter. The rate hikes announced by National Grid and probably to be announced by the others are being used by them as an opportunity to drum up business. They are usually legitimate alternative energy suppliers who sell the electricity to your utility company- say you have National Grid, Sparks would be responsible for selling National Grid the electricity. National grid would still deliver it/charge delivery and infrastructure fees. Usually these companies offer a low introductory rate to entice customers to sign up. Unlike the Big 4 utility providers in MA, these are almost always variable rates that WILL go up. You will end up paying a LOT of money for these companies services. They will use tactics like the OP described- presenting themselves as being from or associated with your utility company, as well as the usual tactics \\\"one day only offer\\\" \\\"bonus introductory rate\\\" \\\"rewards points at X if you sign up\\\" etc. 99% of the time, you'll lose money signing up for this. The big utility companies have all sorts of built in perks- winter moratorium, good repayment plans, discount rates for low income, etc. Buyer beware.\",\n \"Summary: American insurance companies have done a great job indocrtinating people into thinking that socialized medicine will leave them dying on the streets of the common cold\\n\\nPost: Oh fucking god this so much. My mother went through the most fucking awful period of illness last year. My family has superb insurance, and we're definitely upper middle class. She goes to a doctor, who diagnoses her and schedules her for surgery. Removes her gallbladder- couple days later we get a call, whoops, we didn't need to do that, that wasn't the problem, we don't know what the problem is. 3 months later and 3 specialists later (one of whom did some tests, no diagnosis, and then just literally never contacted us again except to bill) she still doesn't have a diagnosis, ends up going to a regional hospital where after two weeks in care there she gets surgery that might fix the problem- they won't know for a year, in the meantime, take all these pills and just hope it goes away. We pay out the fucking ass for this shit, and the goddamn problem is still there and no one has any fucking idea what to do . Insurance? Hahahaha. Oh god that's funny you're a funny guy, that got exhausted quickly. Again, my dad does very well so it's manageable, but my mother is still convinced single payer healthcare would have killed her, despite the fact that our current fucked up system is doing it's very goddamn best to do it first.\",\n \"Summary: I mad\\n\\nPost: Theres a truckton of stuff we need to do, and I can't claim to be an expert (I've taken some econ classes at college, that's it) but here is what I see as problems that need addressed. \\n \\n Too big to fail. It was true in 2008, it's even truer now. Sure, Elizabeth Warren is making noise, but she's one senator. We need to have some real banking reform. \\n \\n Energy. Depending on who you ask, oil peaked in 2010-now/will peak in the next couple years. Either way, energy literally runs our economy. Prices are only going to rise, as supply shrinks. Emerging economies are just making this worse by hugely growing demand. Sure, we have fracking (ignoring the environmental cost, which is a serious negative externality) but it's expensive. It only works because oil is at a high price. Coal is just awful, and it's limited too. Go look at a chart of our energy sources- renewable is tiny. Growing maybe, but tiny. We need more of it, which means it needs to be more efficient. It's only going to get there with serious government investment in R&D. Cheap energy=faster growth (obviously simplified). \\n \\n Tax reform. Our tax code is a mess of loopholes and incentives. It distorts the market horribly. It encourages certain behaviors that we know aren't necessarily good. It creates weird incentives for companies to take counter-productive actions. Simplify it and lower rates (corporate tax rates here are very high). Electoral reform sort of feeds into this- we need to get lobbying and campaign finance under control, right fucking now. Lobbyists, backed by massive campaign contributions, get lawmakers to craft laws for the benefit of certain companies/interests, at the expense of the rest of the country. \\n \\n Education reform. This one seriously gets me fucking mad and it's deeply tied to economic performance/jobs. Our current primary education is glorified babysitting. It's a fucking joke. We spend more per capita per shitty returns. We have 3 month breaks each fucking year for summer. We don't teach for a modern economy. Why the fuck don't schools teach personal finance? Why aren't kids learning how to use computers and software products instead of the fucking planets? My school didn't offer anything more than a typing course. What. The. Fuck. How about maybe some health and nutrition course? Something like \\\"no, five soda's a day is not good and you should get exercise a few times a week\\\" instead of \\\"here's a condom, if you don't use it you will get AIDS and die, here are some pictures of tombstones to reinforce the fact that sex=death\\\". What about career counseling and vocational opportunity classes? Why aren't we exposing kids to a huge range of jobs and industries, and helping them find ones they're interested in that can also, you know, support them (leads into the college rant up next). Why do we, as a country, look down on trade schools? They're fucking amazing! Another thing: we rely on local communities to finance education, and then wonder why inner city schools suck. WELL GEE WHY THE FUCK WOULD THEY? Fuck states rights, get the federal government involved in education reform. Basically, we need 21st century schools, not 19th century babystitting centers. \\n \\n College. It's the big elephant in the room. We've ignored it. Well, it's time to fucking deal with the college problem. The cold hard truth is that maybe 1 in 5 current college students should be there. And they should all be getting way more financial support than they are. I'll use myself as an example. We don't need 4 years to teach people non STEM skills (and I say this as a poli-sci major so no, not STEM circlejerking, you fellow social sciences know it's true). I'm not even convinced all STEM programs should take 4 years. Why do lawyers have to get undergrad degrees that usually have nothing to do with their eventual JD? Why not just go straight to law school, or maybe have a 1 year pre-law training program? Why aren't teachers in dedicated teaching programs (some are, I'm generalizing I know). Why don't we have more \\\"hands on\\\" education? And why, WHY, are we as a society actively pushing people to take insane amounts of debt out for a degree they usually don't need? We're crippling them at the start of their lives. It's almost criminally retarded. The current student loan crisis (yes it is a crisis) is going to drag down growth for decades. Half of what college teaches is getting automated anyways. \\n \\n Medical costs. Another big one. We as a country fucking suck at preventative care. We're fat, lazy, and unhealthy. It's an intersection of personal and government responsibility. Americans, hit the treadmill once in a while and put down the Big Gulp. Government, stop subsidizing cheap corn that gets turned into corn syrup. We subsidize the wrong foods- crappy empty calories that make us fat and unhealthy. The government is paying for us to get diabetes and high blood pressure. We also pay more for health care per capita than any other country, and we get poorer results. Medical bankruptcy destroys people's lives and economic futures because costs are so damn high. I don't know if single-payer is the answer, but we need to have a national conversation about this because it's only getting worse. \\n \\n Infrastructure. Our national infrastructure was designed for when oil based energy was cheap and abundant, resulting in suburban sprawl. Well, those days are gone. Time to start planning for denser population centers where people can live in smaller homes, maybe not own a car. This won't happen as long as the housing market stays shitty though. \\n \\n National budget. What the fuck guys. Congress, get your fucking asses together and do your jobs before we drag you all out back and shoot you. Yeah, I'm serious. This last ~2 years of shennanigans? No. You're done. This is fucking humiliating as a country. Put together a serious long term plan that brings spending under control without destroying our economy with short term austerity like Greece. Your actions are having a measurable fucking effect and it's negative. \\n \\n Corporate obsession with short term profit is a problem. Yes, I embrace the fact that corporations should deliver a profit to shareholders. But this obsession with quarterly growth and oh god how are they doing right now cut all the jobs so this months numbers look good is unhealthy. I have no answers, but there are smarter people out there who might.\",\n \"Summary: World Tribune is a lying sack of shit looking for page views by making up numbers and Reddit eats it up because it fits the narrative they want to believe\\n\\nPost: You were unable to read the NATO report because there was no NATO report . The World Tribune provides no source, no evidence to back their claim. What they did, in essence, was make up a statistic, and claim that a \\\"source familiar with the data\\\" told them. Even if we take their made up bullshit at face value, their own article admits \\\"no formal polling\\\" was done to support the number they came up with.\",\n \"Summary: lots of people are going to get knocks on the door like this, please be educated consumers.\\n\\nPost: Door to door sales in MA are one of the few times you have a 3 day right to cancel the contract. You might want to send a letter through certified mail stating your intent to void the contract- just calling them isn't enough, although it doesn't hurt (be aware when you call them they may tell you you can't cancel/pressure you into not cancelling). \\n Call the MA AGO or Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulations and speak to someone about it (they are the proper regulatory oversight). You might also consider giving the Department of Public Utilities a call. \\nMA AGO: (617) 727-2200\\nMA OCABR: (617) 973-8700\\nMA DPU: (617)-305-3500 \\n A note for anyone who reads this because I'd rather get you now than see more posts like this: companies like this are going to be ALL OVER this fall/winter. The rate hikes announced by National Grid and probably to be announced by the others are being used by them as an opportunity to drum up business. They are usually legitimate alternative energy suppliers who sell the electricity to your utility company- say you have National Grid, Sparks would be responsible for selling National Grid the electricity. National grid would still deliver it/charge delivery and infrastructure fees. Usually these companies offer a low introductory rate to entice customers to sign up. Unlike the Big 4 utility providers in MA, these are almost always variable rates that WILL go up. You will end up paying a LOT of money for these companies services. They will use tactics like the OP described- presenting themselves as being from or associated with your utility company, as well as the usual tactics \\\"one day only offer\\\" \\\"bonus introductory rate\\\" \\\"rewards points at X if you sign up\\\" etc. 99% of the time, you'll lose money signing up for this. The big utility companies have all sorts of built in perks- winter moratorium, good repayment plans, discount rates for low income, etc. Buyer beware.\",\n \"Summary: we;re so fucked short term\\n\\nPost: I don't think we're going to see a single event that triggers a \\\"crisis\\\". I envision it as more of a slow motion train wreck. The 2008 financial crisis is just masking it for a while- people keep asking when the jobs are coming back from that. The answer is that they aren't, companies used the last 4 years to start really pushing automation in white-collar industry. Our unemployment rate is not going to recover (the unemployment rate the news often talks about is deceptive, it ignores underemployment and those who've been out of the job market for a while, true unemployment is much higher). What happens now is we spend the next 20 years automating. Even retail isn't safe. One more crash will wipe out a lot of retail companies who are just hanging on against internet shopping. Automated cars will wipe out even more (automated trucking and taxis will destroy millions of jobs).\",\n \"Summary: no, no, no.\\n\\nPost: Oh yeah, Syrian state TV. They'd definitely never fake anything, no sir. But let's assume what you just posted is 100% true (it isn't). \\n \\n \\\"Blue and green plastic storage drums\\\". Ok? So what? Did they show anything inside them? I can go to Lowes and buy some myself. \\n \\\"Rusty mortar bombs\\\" irrelevant to chemical weapons accusations. \\n \\\"Grenades\\\" irrelevant to chemical weapons accusations. \\n \\\"domestic gas canisters\\\" what the hell does this even mean, and again, did they provide any evidence of chemical weapons inside them? This could be freaking tear gas. \\n \\\"vials labeled atropine\\\" yeah no shit, if I was the rebels fighting a government that had nerve gas I'd want some atropine around too.\",\n \"Summary: of the paper is that none of the programs I looked at are/were doing well (overbudget, behind schedule).\\n\\nPost: This came up a little while ago, here's what I said: \\n There are two major issues with the F-35 program, ignoring the technical aspects, which I'm not really qualified to comment on. \\n First, partner nations are inevitable going to reduce their orders for F-35's. Most major partners are European NATO allies. All of them are going through serious defense austerity, with more to come. Couple that with weakness in the European economy and signs of a further slowdown, and, well, the Pentagon needs to (and probably is) planning for the Europeans to cut back on procurement. Of the other partners, as the article pointed out, Australia and Canada are considering cutting back. That leaves Turkey, who wasn't planning on buying many anyways, and not until 2016 (unless the date changed since I last read, which is entirely possible). That leaves Israel, who need the F-35 to sustain their aerial dominance that is the cornerstone of Israeli military doctrine. That said, US aid will pay for a lot of Israeli procurement anyways, and they want a special version that isn't likely to bring down general cost. \\n Second, this program is old. Joint Strike Fighter, JSF, which is where this program originated, began in 1996. That was a different world- a pre-9/11 world, before our new pivot to \\\"the Pacific\\\" (read that as China whenever you see it), before austerity, before the rise of the drones. Drones have been sexified by the media lately, but they are the future. Drones have the same benefits as unmanned spacecraft and probes- when you don't have to support human life, you can make it lighter, faster, and cheaper. You can use it for more dangerous operations (like flying in Pakistani airspace) because the cost of losing one, in financial and human terms, is relatively cheap. Stealth isn't as much of a factor. Training operators is simpler and faster. Drones are going to become a zerg-like tool. We'll just spam them out in mass quantity. \\n The long and short of this is that the F-35 is symbolic of the problem with our modern military-industrial complex. It's still predicated on preparing for wars that won't happen- mass conflict between powerful state actors. It hasn't adapted, not enough anyways. But it has such powerful political influence via lobbying and its stranglehold over the economy that I don't see much change coming anytime soon. \\n Source is my paper on next generation warfighting procurement (JSF, LCS, LW) I did for a class two years ago (I minor in security studies). The\",\n \"Summary: I don't give a shit about the company because they don't give a shit about me. That's not entitlement.\\n\\nPost: Well...yeah. What can the company do for me? I have no loyalty to \\\"the company\\\" when these mega-corps have decided to treat workers like shit and crap all over them. Subjective experience, but where I'm interning right now they're closing offices left and right...after hugely profitable quarters. People are getting laid off who've been there for decades, because it's cheaper to hire brand new associates for a third the pay. Or they just aren't hiring replacements and shift the responsibilities to the rest of us. It's not like the work goes away, those of us left just have to do more, and it's reaching a breaking point. People haven't seen a raise that matches inflation in years. My friends, by and large, say it's the same where they are. Why would we have any desire to go that extra mile for the company when the company won't do the same? That's the attitude I see in my generation. We're not going to care about \\\"the company\\\" because we're going to be there for a couple years tops.\",\n \"Summary: of the paper is that none of the programs I looked at are/were doing well (overbudget, behind schedule).\\n\\nPost: There are two major issues with the F-35 program, ignoring the technical aspects, which I'm not really qualified to comment on. \\n First, partner nations are inevitable going to reduce their orders for F-35's. Most major partners are European NATO allies. All of them are going through serious defense austerity, with more to come. Couple that with weakness in the European economy and signs of a further slowdown, and, well, the Pentagon needs to (and probably is) planning for the Europeans to cut back on procurement. Of the other partners, as the article pointed out, Australia and Canada are considering cutting back. That leaves Turkey, who wasn't planning on buying many anyways, and not until 2016 (unless the date changed since I last read, which is entirely possible). That leaves Israel, who need the F-35 to sustain their aerial dominance that is the cornerstone of Israeli military doctrine. That said, US aid will pay for a lot of Israeli procurement anyways, and they want a special version that isn't likely to bring down general cost. \\n Second, this program is old . Joint Strike Fighter, JSF, which is where this program originated, began in 1996. That was a different world- a pre-9/11 world, before our new pivot to \\\"the Pacific\\\" (read that as China whenever you see it), before austerity, before the rise of the drones. Drones have been sexified by the media lately, but they are the future. Drones have the same benefits as unmanned spacecraft and probes- when you don't have to support human life, you can make it lighter, faster, and cheaper. You can use it for more dangerous operations (like flying in Pakistani airspace) because the cost of losing one, in financial and human terms, is relatively cheap. Stealth isn't as much of a factor. Training operators is simpler and faster. Drones are going to become a zerg-like tool. We'll just spam them out in mass quantity. \\n The long and short of this is that the F-35 is symbolic of the problem with our modern military-industrial complex. It's still predicated on preparing for wars that won't happen- mass conflict between powerful state actors. It hasn't adapted, not enough anyways. But it has such powerful political influence via lobbying and its stranglehold over the economy that I don't see much change coming anytime soon. \\n edit: source is my paper on next generation warfighting procurement (JSF, LCS, LW) I did for a class two years ago. The\",\n \"Summary: unpaid internships are the fucking devil\\n\\nPost: Yeah seriously. \\\"Just get an internship\\\" pisses me the fuck off. Not everyone can afford to work unpaid for 3-6 months full time. As in, 95% of the population can't afford it. As much as I'd love to just pick up and move a thousand miles away, live and work there full time, well I just fucking can't. Instead I stayed local and did co-ops in something entirely unrelated to what I want to do because it's what I could afford.\",\n \"Summary: Congress blows\\n\\nPost: The military definitely has provided huge ROI; however, I think it's important to differentiate between useful programs (i.e. half the shit that comes out of DARPA) and stupid, wasteful projects that only exist because of the Iron Triangle and congresspeople protecting local pork spending (fucking M1 still being in production, F-35 fuckery, Zumwalt destroyers oh jesus). A lot of wasteful spending occurs not because the military wants it, but because Congress mandates dumb shit. Come to think of it, Congress fucked up the other programs you mentioned as well.\",\n \"Summary: Assad wants to know exactly where the line is and how close he can get\\n\\nPost: Yes he did. This is clearly Assad testing how much he can get away with, not just in terms of chemical weapons, but in indiscriminate attacks on civilians/more brutal use of force. He wants to know what will trigger a \\\"hard\\\" response from the US, and now he knows he can probably get away with a lot (assuming we don't respond to this incident, which I don't believe we will).\",\n \"Summary: no \\n edit: also the professional consequences for you, if this is real, would be enormous. You'd be hotter water than the student would be for this post. So, student, if you're reading this, your professor just gave you a gift. Screenshot the thread, print it out. If he punishes you, bring it to the dean of the department.\\n\\nPost: Calling bullshit. As a political science student, none of us are retarded enough to literally copy things from the internet. 9/10 times our submissions (at least at my university) are due via Turnitin, and if we pulled this we'd easily get caught, and we know that. And the odds someone would bother to plagiarize something for a one page paper? Yeah no. Also, you read the papers that quickly AND noticed and double-checked Reddit comments? Lol. \\n If this isn't bullshit (unlikely), and you fail him for a one page paper, you're a dick. One page papers are retarded. It's academia's version of diarrhea.\",\n \"Summary: if you're under 40 you're fucked and democracy kinda blows sometimes\\n\\nPost: I started typing a reply to this and realized it needed to be more organized. So let's go through this shall we? \\n Medicare: There is strong support for \\\"requiring drug companies give government lower rates\\\". Awesome, so people on Medicare get lower drug costs, and the companies shift the loss onto the rest of us with higher prescription costs. Cool. There's solid support for increasing premiums on high income seniors, because only the rich should pay for anything amirite? The idea of requiring higher premiums for all seniors gets smashed down in this poll. I get mine, who cares about anyone else? Increasing the age people are eligible to retire at? Fuck no, who cares that we live longer? Except if I'm already on Medicare, then 64% are totally fine with raising the age. But they definitely don't want to pay more. Other people can do that. So basically, they only want \\\"reform\\\" in the sense that other people should pay for and shoulder the burden of such reform. \\n Social Security? Nah, it's all good. We don't need to reform that. Who cares that it's running a deficit and is projected to exhaust the trust in the early 2030's? We'll just like, raise payroll taxes or something on the rich. \\n And according to the poll, people are fine with the following cuts: \\n Defense spending? Maybe we'll take minor cuts. Nothing too serious though, and yeah cut the spending in Afghanistan. Nevermind that that doesn't do really anything since we're leaving in 2014, it sounds good! \\n Foreign aid? Fuck that shit. We don't need to spend money on other countries when MURICA needs that money here at home. So what that it's a key part of our foreign policy? Who cares that a lot of developing countries use that money for really great development programs? If we just cut aid to brown people we'll totally balance the budget! What, it's only like a tenth of one percent of federal spending? Close enough! \\n Salaries and benefits for already underpaid government employees? Yeah, like fuck those people. Brb, I've gotta go to the DMV and then bitch about how awful the service was and how I had to wait three hours for any kind of help. God, does anyone know why government services are so awful? I mean jesus, it makes no sense! \\n Food stamps? Unemployment insurance? Umm, hello, they should just go get jobs or something. Yeah definitely cut that! \\n What's great about this is it demonstrates how little understanding there is of the US budget. We've got three main drivers of deficit spending: defense spending, payment on the debt, and Medicare/Medicaid/Social Security (could be their own categories). Of those, there's some modest support for moderate cuts to one of the categories (defense) which isn't even the biggest. We can't do anything about interest on the debt, except maybe stop piling up more debt. But entitlement programs? DON'T YOU FUCKING TOUCH MY FUCKING MEDICARE/SOCIAL SECURITY YOU FACIST TEATHUGLICANS. And so help any politician who suggests raising taxes on anyone but the top 1% or uses anything but vague \\\"close loopholes\\\" type language. It's a pathetic state of affairs, and it's only going to get worse as a sputtering recovery holds more young people in un/underemployment. And as technology keeps replacing workers in white-collar positions. Bottom line: we keep putting off structural changes because it's uncomfortable. Well, tough shit. We've lived off the credit card and ignored any kind of sustainable growth and development or planning for the future for 50 fucking years, and now we're going to pay for it.\",\n \"Summary: best case scenario, Jon is given command of the foot when the Northern army splits at the Twins, worst case Red Wedding still happens and Jon ends up King of a broken kingdom.\\n\\nPost: Assuming he'd never ridden north with Benjen/joined the Nights Watch, I think his presence would have changed a lot of things. One of three things would have changed. First, Robb may have given Jon command of the army when they split at the Twins. Jon wouldn't have been stupid enough to engage Tywin, and this would have presented Roose Bolton from having the opportunity to betray Robb. This one's kind of unlikely though, giving a bastard (even a Stark bastard) who's 15/16 command of the army probably wouldn't sit well with the Northern lords. Jon would have probably ridden with Robb at Riverrun. If he did, he'd have gone west with Robb, and been present at the Crag. With Jon there, I doubt Robb seeks comfort with Jeyne Westerling, preventing the Frey split. If for whatever reason he doesn't go west and Robb marries Jeyne, then we're on track for the Red Wedding, except Robb straight up legitimizes Jon on the way to the Twins and names him his heir. Robb would have probably sent Jon to Greywater Watch in preparation for the attack on Moat Cailin, meaning Jon Stark survives the Red Wedding, and the Northern/River lords have someone to rally to. At that point, it gets hard to predict what King Jon does.\",\n \"Summary: even enlisting is a crapshoot right now\\n\\nPost: Yeah I'm about a semester out from my degree and I started the process of enlisting. It's fucking hard these days, the air force where I am isn't taking anyone except a few very specific demographic groups (think engineers and linguists) and the coast guard literally no one (though tbh I had no interest in either so meh). All branches are literally looking for ways to keep people out, I got disqualified for having acne (yes). Getting a waiver is a bitch.\"\n]","isConversational":false},"profile_size":{"kind":"number","value":17,"string":"17"},"task":{"kind":"string","value":"longlamp_4"},"split_kind":{"kind":"string","value":"user_based"},"id":{"kind":"number","value":1396,"string":"1,396"}}},{"rowIdx":1397,"cells":{"question_id":{"kind":"string","value":"TexasLiving"},"question":{"kind":"string","value":"Generate the content for a reddit post I disagree with others on this. Your #1 priority is finding a better paying/more hour job. This might be a spending problem, but you are provided much more leverage by upping that income."},"answer":{"kind":"string","value":"Everybody is skirting around the main issue: earn more money. There is no way somebody with a bachelor's should not be working 40 hours+ a week at some job and pulling in around $30k annually. $13k annually will be tough to budget/account/distribute for no matter how good you are at expense management. I see that you are studying for your teacher certification. This needs to come secondary to actually earning money in the meantime."},"correct_answer":{"kind":"string","value":"Everybody is skirting around the main issue: earn more money. There is no way somebody with a bachelor's should not be working 40 hours+ a week at some job and pulling in around $30k annually. $13k annually will be tough to budget/account/distribute for no matter how good you are at expense management. I see that you are studying for your teacher certification. This needs to come secondary to actually earning money in the meantime."},"documents":{"kind":"list like","value":["Summary: Not contributing up to match is giving up free money, solution to cash flow lies elsewhere; there are low-low-risk options in many 401ks\n\nPost: What is most important about the 401k is the extra income it can provide (if an employer matches) and the tax benefits. The tax benefits aside (which is huge, huge, huge), if you have a match on your contributions you are giving up free money for no good reason. Let's take an example where you contribute 6% of your paycheck and receive a 3% match, that 3% match is essentially a tax-free bonus that you are forgoing. \n If you don't make enough that you feel you can handle a 6% cushion in your paycheck, that is a separate issue that is resolved outside of your 401k options. For example, this subreddit can provide critiques and advice about how to turn your weekends into more income or perhaps shed some parts of your budget. In other words, if the 6% of your cash (in this example) is so valuable, then your solution lies elsewhere. \n As for your second question, I can't speak specifically to how worried you can/should be, but there are options within funds for risk tolerances. You can go 100% bonds or even 100% money market which will primarily save the money that you put in. Others on this subreddit (myself included) would say your bigger risk is inflation, meaning you need to take some risk in equities for retirement funding, but that is a separate issue.","Summary: Not contributing up to match is giving up free money, solution to cash flow lies elsewhere; there are low-low-risk options in many 401ks\n\nPost: What is most important about the 401k is the extra income it can provide (if an employer matches) and the tax benefits. The tax benefits aside (which is huge, huge, huge), if you have a match on your contributions you are giving up free money for no good reason. Let's take an example where you contribute 6% of your paycheck and receive a 3% match, that 3% match is essentially a tax-free bonus that you are forgoing. \n If you don't make enough that you feel you can handle a 6% cushion in your paycheck, that is a separate issue that is resolved outside of your 401k options. For example, this subreddit can provide critiques and advice about how to turn your weekends into more income or perhaps shed some parts of your budget. In other words, if the 6% of your cash (in this example) is so valuable, then your solution lies elsewhere. \n As for your second question, I can't speak specifically to how worried you can/should be, but there are options within funds for risk tolerances. You can go 100% bonds or even 100% money market which will primarily save the money that you put in. Others on this subreddit (myself included) would say your bigger risk is inflation, meaning you need to take some risk in equities for retirement funding, but that is a separate issue.","Summary: There is no \"line\" per se, it is a broad spectrum. America is a \"capitalist\" society but we have public education, social security, Federal Interstate System, etc.\n\nPost: Yes. So long as nobody else claims 'ownership' to the factory, that would be pure capitalism. \n Workforce meaning employees of the company or entire workforce? The idea of 'investment' or class/state/currency do not exist in pure communism. State socialism means the investment can either come from the state or that the factory is automatically assumed to be owned by the state. \n This is why some make the argument that taxes in and of itself make pure capitalism impossible. If you own a house, it is automatically assumed that the state owns certain rights to it (watch what happens when you don't pay property taxes), same with income / corporations, etc.","Summary: Fix that insurance cost, somehow.\n\nPost: I would echo the other comments here. The most difficult situation with your vehicle is the insurance, not necessarily the payment. Paying down the loan does not impact the sell or not decision. Look at it that you have an asset and a liability. Do you want to hold onto the asset is the only question you should have (depreciating one at that). Consider your alternatives too: if you move to LA, you're going to need a car anyway so it really is just the tradeoff between the asset vs. alternatives.","Summary: Highest interest first always saves the most money.\n\nPost: This is 100% incorrect. You are comparing apples and oranges. If you put $1000 toward the loan it is best served at the highest interest no matter what . Your comparison is would I rather pay down $14,000 on one loan vs. $1,000 on the next. \n Example:\nPaying down $1,000 on loan 1 reduces your interest by that $21.61. \n Paying down $1,000 on loan 4 reduces your interest by $2.50. That is the comparison you need to make.","Summary: 5.99% is not end of the world, possible that refi will be disallowed due to higher loan-to-value of the vehicle than when you purchased\n\nPost: In short, many lenders do not price solely on FICO. In your situation, due to the thinness of your file (we haven't seen enough history), we trust the FICO estimation less so it is possible that rate was very in line with the market. Also, rates last summer are still about 0.50% higher than they are now, market is getting crazy. \n I think your down payment is perfectly fine. If you are new to auto loans, I am assuming you bought a vehicle right after you graduated college (or immigrated or something). I assume you needed that vehicle. I would value the fact that you got the car earlier (assuming you needed it) versus the higher down payment. I'd be willing to bet the extra 3-6 month inconvenience of not having the car was worth more than whatever APR it would decrease. \n As for next steps, it depends on your competing priorities. Overall (and, again, /r/pf disagrees with me on this), 5.99% APR isn't that bad. You have a shot of refinancing the vehicle for less, but since it may have depreciated faster than the amortization, it is possible you would either not be approved or be given a similar APR. You could try to pay it down aggressively, but all of this is advice that would need to see your budget, etc.","Summary: Do not refinance unless there is $0 upfront cost\n\nPost: Not sure what you mean by re-amortizing in this context, do you mean the fact that it will now push the end date out X number of years so the paydown is slower? To avoid this, you can just get the same term as the number of years left. For example, 20 years left on your loan you refinance into a 20-year loan (lower interest rate than 30-year). \n The main costs you have to consider when refinancing is the actual oringinations costs. There are usually a lot of costs associated with actually refinancing the loan. Moving from 4.875% to 4.6% (most recent I've seen) 30-year fixed will take a long long long time to pay back the refinance on a $60k loan. Also, consider that you are planning on moving, so the upfront cost will be wasted if you move within 1-2 years.","Summary: Don't worry about it, getting a good CC does more good things for your credit than the bad from the few inquiries. And, they go away.\n\nPost: What this is referring to is that hard inquiries generally are a sign of credit \"hunger\", your need to search for credit, which is a negative indicator. The advice given on this subreddit is usually to just don't take hard inquiries casually but also to recognize that in the grand scheme of credit management, this is #9 on the 10 point list. (Others beings make your payments, don't overextend, manage your utilization, etc.).","Summary: You can work two jobs. If it becomes too difficult to do that, then, yes, I would suggest leaving the theatre artist position\n\nPost: Depending on the hours you are working at your current job, I would sincerely consider your choice as not exactly one or the other. If you are working 30 hours/week earning the ~$10,000/year then I would seriously consider a second position working 24 hours/week or more. This is a reasonable middle ground that allows you to both earn money and funnel time into your passion. \n If this becomes too intrusive on your time, however, I would look at it as your passion is the part that is taking up a lot of your time (since it is not paying the bills) and that is what you would have to optimize around.","Summary: Gap Insurance is one of the most profitable insurance products out there for a reason\n\nPost: As someone who has worked in finance in the past, I would suggest not getting gap insurance. $250 is on the very low-end of what it costs (think $650 - $900) and it only covers total losses, not repossessions, etc. The chance this happens while you are underwater does not outweigh the likelihood of it happening in the first place where you are only on the hook for ~$3,000 in the first place (only about 4x the cost of the policy in the first place).","Summary: It sucks but the short end of getting out of this is to up that income. It would feel quite different if you were in the ~$60k range.\n\nPost: 7 days a week work. I am going to do some simple math (ton of assumptions going into this that could be wrong): 56 hour work-week, 50 weeks worked a year = 2,800 hours of work per year. $45,000/year income = ~$16/hour a job. \n In short, I would really try to find a way to up your income, potentially by asking for a raise, shopping around for offers or looking in other locations. In short, $75,000 in student loan debt for $45,000 a year will very rarely net yourself ahead. \n BUT, there's more. At $45,000/year you should be able to afford a modest lifestyle. Break-out what your expenses are. Basic ones are food, utilities, student loan payments, rent, insurance, gas/vehicle registration, taxes. This way you can see exactly where the money is going and best prioritize how to pay it back.","Summary: It really depends on what your ultimate goal is but 6.48% interest means you can almost guarantee yourself a lower payment.\n\nPost: Like another poster this might be more of a ELI12 so forgive me. \n Think of your current payment as part \"expense\" (negative income) and part \"neutral\". Your interest, taxes, insurance, maintenance, all those are expenses. Your principal is neutral; it's considered a transfer. For example you lose $300 from your bank account but that $300 is now that much less you owe. It actually doesn't impact your net worth. \n When you refinance there are a few goals to go for. If you go same term, same principal and lower interest, you will lower both your interest expense monthly and your monthly payment which is good. Or, you could go lower term, same principal, lower interest. This could be neutral (or maybe even a little higher on your monthly payment) but pay down your mortgage much faster and pay a lot less in interest. The other option is to go same term, lower interest, higher principal. What this means is that you are taking out a mortgage greater than your current mortgage. So if your current mortgage is $47,000, you can take a mortgage up to for example $60,000. Then you have to pay a payment on the higher balance, but you get that $13,000 difference. There are usually limits to how much you can do and as mentioned above, it is usually 80% of the value of your home. So look at the current market value of your house (you will need an appraisal in any refi) and take 80% of that. That is the upper end (very often you can only get approved for less than that) of what you can be approved for.","Summary: I would pay down the 7.25% but prioritize the Roth IRA over the others. I am also more risk-seeking than the average /r/personalfinance fellow and I love leverage.\n\nPost: This is a tough one with a bit of nuance. I would not expect to beat 7.25% return in a tax advantaged account but think about the taxes (compare this to the interest) that you will save if you put it in a Roth IRA. For example, $5,500 at 7.25% for a year is $398.75 in interest (25% tax bracket and deductible makes this closer to ~$300). If you earn 6% on your Roth IRA, that is $330 in gains. This also builds up year over year.","Summary: List on this board your current monthly income (if it's inconsistent, use your past 3-6 months' average) and monthly expenses by category. We can give advice on increasing income and lowering expenses as that is really the only way to get out of this situation. \n Also, timelines and salary expectations of your husband's situation would help our understanding.\n\nPost: You're focusing correctly on your expenses. I'm not certain there's much you can do in that regard without seeing 100% of your budget listed out. $100 for a cell phone contract seems a bit high and others might mention the Chipotle, but to me I really wouldn't care about this. \n Your situation is an income problem. \n In other words, there's not much you can do to fix a budget in an expensive city without finding more income. That could mean you find a job in a different field with steadier hours or consider a career change. Eventually, your husband's income will kick in in this regard. What is the timeframe for his graduation? What will his expected income on graduation be? How able are you to budget the future income vs. the $150k+ in student debt that is accumulating? It may sound tough, but I honestly think you can't consider starting a family without answering these basic income-related questions. \n To some more of your points: \n List out all your expenses and income and we will better be able to give advice and you will have the added benefit of seeing where your money is going. \n Your husband's savings from previous employer's can't get \"lost\" in the traditional sense of the term but it may be easiest from a peace of mind standpoint to consolidate it. It will be easier to track. This is your last priority right now. \n Many on this board will disagree with me, but I consider high APR CC debt an emergency, meaning that is what an emergency fund should be going to. If an emergency comes up, you can just put the money right back on the CC debt, but in the meantime that money is \"earning\" 19.9% or whatever the CC debt is at. Having a car totaled and needing to purchase a new one is 100% the purpose of an EF in the first place. At this point I'd argue it's too late to focus on EF strategies. \n For where to put your expenses if you don't have a choice, low APR is all that matters. As your CC debt stays there it will become some of the most expensive money you can borrow. $20,000 in CC debt becomes a $4,000 annual ($300 monthly) expense. This can add up.","Summary: Look at playing good players and losing as a compliment that the ladder system is judging your ability.\n\nPost: For me, I can easily see myself getting caught up in a bit of the ladder anxiety and ranking-focus as well as being frustrated with what (to me, at least) appears as every loss being a stupid mistake. In that sense, I relate with your feelings regarding the cocktail of knowledge and information that needs to compete. Every loss I have seems to be attributable to something I already know that I simply forget. \n Lately, however, I have been having more fun with the ladder. (NA Zerg, Diamond) Perhaps it is the new maps or meta that fits my playstyle but I have tried to focus solely on my own play and builds and ignore the results. I know this is easier said than done but if I focus on two builds per matchup I can have more fun simply executing my build as opposed to becoming dependent on the results. \n Example:\nProtoss -> Yeonsu -> I am going 15p 16h into fast 3 base if he forge or nexus firsts or a 6:00 3 base after ling speed if he gate expands. As long as I execute on that opening and scout at 7:00 I have fun with how it turns out. A lot of times I misread the build and drop roaches into an immortal build or he has phoenixes to my muta choice or I simply mess up the engagement/timing. There are many ways I lose but so long as I am sticking with my gameplan I take solace in losing to a better player (at least for that game).","Summary: It may not be front of mind but there will be always be some incremental response to change in prices (however small).\n\nPost: The end idea is that it causes some change in incremental behavior, not in an entire population. I don't honestly believe there is anybody out there who is saying \"I will go to college because education is cheap and rates are low!\" I do think, however, that if you take 10,000 students and apply a higher interest rate, that may reduce the number demanding education by 20-30 people (depending on elasticity). \n The question is more about how quickly people react to the price or whether they are more elastic on tuition price about where the incentives are driving students.","Summary: Managing cashflows and expenses makes dealing with emergencies using CCs much easier than is touted on this sub\n\nPost: Pretty much the exact opposite of the point posted by /u/lukertin higher up (originally /u/zonination ). I think most of the prescription of emergency funds are for those who budget poorly or have spending issues. I use my CCs as an \"emergency fund\" since I have a lot of funds outside of savings accounts. I would much, much rather take the expected value over the risk. I still haven't paid interest rates on credit cards.","Summary: There is a distinction between credit bureaus, FICO and lenders and very often the distinctions allow consumers to know where they should best focus their personal finance goals.\n\nPost: Wanted to post this because I see it confused a lot on this sub (this will be very USA-specific). \n Credit bureaus generally refer to the three major reporting agencies in the United States: TransUnion, Experian and Equifax. Each is required to provide you a free view of your credit bureau report once a year. It is often advertised on this sub to try to time your annual report every 4 months (TU in January, EQ in May, EX in Sep, etc.) to allow regular checking. \n IMPORTANT: Not all institutions report to every single bureau so the reports may differ, and, thus, your credit scores using these bureaus may eventually differ as well. \n ALSO IMPORTANT: Credit bureaus are a snapshot in time (some alternative data sources and credit bureaus are offering \"trending variables\" but FICO09 does not as yet use them). This means that companies do not see utilization history or credit limit history. What they do see is your delinquency statuses in the past, current payment amounts, current balances, current limits as well as past collection accounts/chargeoffs and bankruptcies. \n FICO: \nFICO is a product offered by Fair Isaac Corporation that uses credit bureaus to deliver their proprietary scoring mechanism. This means that your FICO depends on the information contained in the credit bureau but the scoring mechanism is entirely separate from the credit bureaus themselves. If you contest something on your bureau, they have no personal say in what that will do for your \"score\". This is not guaranteed to be delivered free annually but there are products that offer this, such as the Discover IT card and I believe a Barclays card (forgive me for currently forgetting). \n CreditKarma uses the TransUnion bureau and uses a separate FICO calculation (often referred to as FAKO) which attempts to imitate the FICO calculation Fair Isaac uses. Due to them only using one (of the three) bureaus and a separate calculation, this is what causes discrepancies in your final score. \n Of note: There are many different FICO \"products\" as Fair Isaac continually hones their score. It changes year over year sometimes (FICO4 to FICO9) and can be targeted to specific industries (auto industry uses a different FICO \"calculation\" than the CC industry). In short, don't worry about the distinctions, just focus on payment history. \n Credit-worthiness: \n For credit-worthiness, lenders are a very mixed bag and this is where a lot of the confusion sets in. Many lenders simply look at the FICO that they pull (using the product they select from the bureau they select) to determine credit-worthiness. For larger purchases, other factors are often used, such as LTV (for auto or home loans, this is the ratio of the loan to the value of the car; higher being riskier for the lender) as well as income. \n NOTE: \n Many companies use proprietary scoring models as well as rule overrides for lending purposes. This means you will find people with $10,000 income and 740 FICO rejected for a credit card while a $5,000 income and 680 FICO accepted for it. It may not make sense to the end consumer, but either models or rules in place for the particular lenders (and, by proxy, investors) are determining the second one more credit-worthy."],"string":"[\n \"Summary: Not contributing up to match is giving up free money, solution to cash flow lies elsewhere; there are low-low-risk options in many 401ks\\n\\nPost: What is most important about the 401k is the extra income it can provide (if an employer matches) and the tax benefits. The tax benefits aside (which is huge, huge, huge), if you have a match on your contributions you are giving up free money for no good reason. Let's take an example where you contribute 6% of your paycheck and receive a 3% match, that 3% match is essentially a tax-free bonus that you are forgoing. \\n If you don't make enough that you feel you can handle a 6% cushion in your paycheck, that is a separate issue that is resolved outside of your 401k options. For example, this subreddit can provide critiques and advice about how to turn your weekends into more income or perhaps shed some parts of your budget. In other words, if the 6% of your cash (in this example) is so valuable, then your solution lies elsewhere. \\n As for your second question, I can't speak specifically to how worried you can/should be, but there are options within funds for risk tolerances. You can go 100% bonds or even 100% money market which will primarily save the money that you put in. Others on this subreddit (myself included) would say your bigger risk is inflation, meaning you need to take some risk in equities for retirement funding, but that is a separate issue.\",\n \"Summary: Not contributing up to match is giving up free money, solution to cash flow lies elsewhere; there are low-low-risk options in many 401ks\\n\\nPost: What is most important about the 401k is the extra income it can provide (if an employer matches) and the tax benefits. The tax benefits aside (which is huge, huge, huge), if you have a match on your contributions you are giving up free money for no good reason. Let's take an example where you contribute 6% of your paycheck and receive a 3% match, that 3% match is essentially a tax-free bonus that you are forgoing. \\n If you don't make enough that you feel you can handle a 6% cushion in your paycheck, that is a separate issue that is resolved outside of your 401k options. For example, this subreddit can provide critiques and advice about how to turn your weekends into more income or perhaps shed some parts of your budget. In other words, if the 6% of your cash (in this example) is so valuable, then your solution lies elsewhere. \\n As for your second question, I can't speak specifically to how worried you can/should be, but there are options within funds for risk tolerances. You can go 100% bonds or even 100% money market which will primarily save the money that you put in. Others on this subreddit (myself included) would say your bigger risk is inflation, meaning you need to take some risk in equities for retirement funding, but that is a separate issue.\",\n \"Summary: There is no \\\"line\\\" per se, it is a broad spectrum. America is a \\\"capitalist\\\" society but we have public education, social security, Federal Interstate System, etc.\\n\\nPost: Yes. So long as nobody else claims 'ownership' to the factory, that would be pure capitalism. \\n Workforce meaning employees of the company or entire workforce? The idea of 'investment' or class/state/currency do not exist in pure communism. State socialism means the investment can either come from the state or that the factory is automatically assumed to be owned by the state. \\n This is why some make the argument that taxes in and of itself make pure capitalism impossible. If you own a house, it is automatically assumed that the state owns certain rights to it (watch what happens when you don't pay property taxes), same with income / corporations, etc.\",\n \"Summary: Fix that insurance cost, somehow.\\n\\nPost: I would echo the other comments here. The most difficult situation with your vehicle is the insurance, not necessarily the payment. Paying down the loan does not impact the sell or not decision. Look at it that you have an asset and a liability. Do you want to hold onto the asset is the only question you should have (depreciating one at that). Consider your alternatives too: if you move to LA, you're going to need a car anyway so it really is just the tradeoff between the asset vs. alternatives.\",\n \"Summary: Highest interest first always saves the most money.\\n\\nPost: This is 100% incorrect. You are comparing apples and oranges. If you put $1000 toward the loan it is best served at the highest interest no matter what . Your comparison is would I rather pay down $14,000 on one loan vs. $1,000 on the next. \\n Example:\\nPaying down $1,000 on loan 1 reduces your interest by that $21.61. \\n Paying down $1,000 on loan 4 reduces your interest by $2.50. That is the comparison you need to make.\",\n \"Summary: 5.99% is not end of the world, possible that refi will be disallowed due to higher loan-to-value of the vehicle than when you purchased\\n\\nPost: In short, many lenders do not price solely on FICO. In your situation, due to the thinness of your file (we haven't seen enough history), we trust the FICO estimation less so it is possible that rate was very in line with the market. Also, rates last summer are still about 0.50% higher than they are now, market is getting crazy. \\n I think your down payment is perfectly fine. If you are new to auto loans, I am assuming you bought a vehicle right after you graduated college (or immigrated or something). I assume you needed that vehicle. I would value the fact that you got the car earlier (assuming you needed it) versus the higher down payment. I'd be willing to bet the extra 3-6 month inconvenience of not having the car was worth more than whatever APR it would decrease. \\n As for next steps, it depends on your competing priorities. Overall (and, again, /r/pf disagrees with me on this), 5.99% APR isn't that bad. You have a shot of refinancing the vehicle for less, but since it may have depreciated faster than the amortization, it is possible you would either not be approved or be given a similar APR. You could try to pay it down aggressively, but all of this is advice that would need to see your budget, etc.\",\n \"Summary: Do not refinance unless there is $0 upfront cost\\n\\nPost: Not sure what you mean by re-amortizing in this context, do you mean the fact that it will now push the end date out X number of years so the paydown is slower? To avoid this, you can just get the same term as the number of years left. For example, 20 years left on your loan you refinance into a 20-year loan (lower interest rate than 30-year). \\n The main costs you have to consider when refinancing is the actual oringinations costs. There are usually a lot of costs associated with actually refinancing the loan. Moving from 4.875% to 4.6% (most recent I've seen) 30-year fixed will take a long long long time to pay back the refinance on a $60k loan. Also, consider that you are planning on moving, so the upfront cost will be wasted if you move within 1-2 years.\",\n \"Summary: Don't worry about it, getting a good CC does more good things for your credit than the bad from the few inquiries. And, they go away.\\n\\nPost: What this is referring to is that hard inquiries generally are a sign of credit \\\"hunger\\\", your need to search for credit, which is a negative indicator. The advice given on this subreddit is usually to just don't take hard inquiries casually but also to recognize that in the grand scheme of credit management, this is #9 on the 10 point list. (Others beings make your payments, don't overextend, manage your utilization, etc.).\",\n \"Summary: You can work two jobs. If it becomes too difficult to do that, then, yes, I would suggest leaving the theatre artist position\\n\\nPost: Depending on the hours you are working at your current job, I would sincerely consider your choice as not exactly one or the other. If you are working 30 hours/week earning the ~$10,000/year then I would seriously consider a second position working 24 hours/week or more. This is a reasonable middle ground that allows you to both earn money and funnel time into your passion. \\n If this becomes too intrusive on your time, however, I would look at it as your passion is the part that is taking up a lot of your time (since it is not paying the bills) and that is what you would have to optimize around.\",\n \"Summary: Gap Insurance is one of the most profitable insurance products out there for a reason\\n\\nPost: As someone who has worked in finance in the past, I would suggest not getting gap insurance. $250 is on the very low-end of what it costs (think $650 - $900) and it only covers total losses, not repossessions, etc. The chance this happens while you are underwater does not outweigh the likelihood of it happening in the first place where you are only on the hook for ~$3,000 in the first place (only about 4x the cost of the policy in the first place).\",\n \"Summary: It sucks but the short end of getting out of this is to up that income. It would feel quite different if you were in the ~$60k range.\\n\\nPost: 7 days a week work. I am going to do some simple math (ton of assumptions going into this that could be wrong): 56 hour work-week, 50 weeks worked a year = 2,800 hours of work per year. $45,000/year income = ~$16/hour a job. \\n In short, I would really try to find a way to up your income, potentially by asking for a raise, shopping around for offers or looking in other locations. In short, $75,000 in student loan debt for $45,000 a year will very rarely net yourself ahead. \\n BUT, there's more. At $45,000/year you should be able to afford a modest lifestyle. Break-out what your expenses are. Basic ones are food, utilities, student loan payments, rent, insurance, gas/vehicle registration, taxes. This way you can see exactly where the money is going and best prioritize how to pay it back.\",\n \"Summary: It really depends on what your ultimate goal is but 6.48% interest means you can almost guarantee yourself a lower payment.\\n\\nPost: Like another poster this might be more of a ELI12 so forgive me. \\n Think of your current payment as part \\\"expense\\\" (negative income) and part \\\"neutral\\\". Your interest, taxes, insurance, maintenance, all those are expenses. Your principal is neutral; it's considered a transfer. For example you lose $300 from your bank account but that $300 is now that much less you owe. It actually doesn't impact your net worth. \\n When you refinance there are a few goals to go for. If you go same term, same principal and lower interest, you will lower both your interest expense monthly and your monthly payment which is good. Or, you could go lower term, same principal, lower interest. This could be neutral (or maybe even a little higher on your monthly payment) but pay down your mortgage much faster and pay a lot less in interest. The other option is to go same term, lower interest, higher principal. What this means is that you are taking out a mortgage greater than your current mortgage. So if your current mortgage is $47,000, you can take a mortgage up to for example $60,000. Then you have to pay a payment on the higher balance, but you get that $13,000 difference. There are usually limits to how much you can do and as mentioned above, it is usually 80% of the value of your home. So look at the current market value of your house (you will need an appraisal in any refi) and take 80% of that. That is the upper end (very often you can only get approved for less than that) of what you can be approved for.\",\n \"Summary: I would pay down the 7.25% but prioritize the Roth IRA over the others. I am also more risk-seeking than the average /r/personalfinance fellow and I love leverage.\\n\\nPost: This is a tough one with a bit of nuance. I would not expect to beat 7.25% return in a tax advantaged account but think about the taxes (compare this to the interest) that you will save if you put it in a Roth IRA. For example, $5,500 at 7.25% for a year is $398.75 in interest (25% tax bracket and deductible makes this closer to ~$300). If you earn 6% on your Roth IRA, that is $330 in gains. This also builds up year over year.\",\n \"Summary: List on this board your current monthly income (if it's inconsistent, use your past 3-6 months' average) and monthly expenses by category. We can give advice on increasing income and lowering expenses as that is really the only way to get out of this situation. \\n Also, timelines and salary expectations of your husband's situation would help our understanding.\\n\\nPost: You're focusing correctly on your expenses. I'm not certain there's much you can do in that regard without seeing 100% of your budget listed out. $100 for a cell phone contract seems a bit high and others might mention the Chipotle, but to me I really wouldn't care about this. \\n Your situation is an income problem. \\n In other words, there's not much you can do to fix a budget in an expensive city without finding more income. That could mean you find a job in a different field with steadier hours or consider a career change. Eventually, your husband's income will kick in in this regard. What is the timeframe for his graduation? What will his expected income on graduation be? How able are you to budget the future income vs. the $150k+ in student debt that is accumulating? It may sound tough, but I honestly think you can't consider starting a family without answering these basic income-related questions. \\n To some more of your points: \\n List out all your expenses and income and we will better be able to give advice and you will have the added benefit of seeing where your money is going. \\n Your husband's savings from previous employer's can't get \\\"lost\\\" in the traditional sense of the term but it may be easiest from a peace of mind standpoint to consolidate it. It will be easier to track. This is your last priority right now. \\n Many on this board will disagree with me, but I consider high APR CC debt an emergency, meaning that is what an emergency fund should be going to. If an emergency comes up, you can just put the money right back on the CC debt, but in the meantime that money is \\\"earning\\\" 19.9% or whatever the CC debt is at. Having a car totaled and needing to purchase a new one is 100% the purpose of an EF in the first place. At this point I'd argue it's too late to focus on EF strategies. \\n For where to put your expenses if you don't have a choice, low APR is all that matters. As your CC debt stays there it will become some of the most expensive money you can borrow. $20,000 in CC debt becomes a $4,000 annual ($300 monthly) expense. This can add up.\",\n \"Summary: Look at playing good players and losing as a compliment that the ladder system is judging your ability.\\n\\nPost: For me, I can easily see myself getting caught up in a bit of the ladder anxiety and ranking-focus as well as being frustrated with what (to me, at least) appears as every loss being a stupid mistake. In that sense, I relate with your feelings regarding the cocktail of knowledge and information that needs to compete. Every loss I have seems to be attributable to something I already know that I simply forget. \\n Lately, however, I have been having more fun with the ladder. (NA Zerg, Diamond) Perhaps it is the new maps or meta that fits my playstyle but I have tried to focus solely on my own play and builds and ignore the results. I know this is easier said than done but if I focus on two builds per matchup I can have more fun simply executing my build as opposed to becoming dependent on the results. \\n Example:\\nProtoss -> Yeonsu -> I am going 15p 16h into fast 3 base if he forge or nexus firsts or a 6:00 3 base after ling speed if he gate expands. As long as I execute on that opening and scout at 7:00 I have fun with how it turns out. A lot of times I misread the build and drop roaches into an immortal build or he has phoenixes to my muta choice or I simply mess up the engagement/timing. There are many ways I lose but so long as I am sticking with my gameplan I take solace in losing to a better player (at least for that game).\",\n \"Summary: It may not be front of mind but there will be always be some incremental response to change in prices (however small).\\n\\nPost: The end idea is that it causes some change in incremental behavior, not in an entire population. I don't honestly believe there is anybody out there who is saying \\\"I will go to college because education is cheap and rates are low!\\\" I do think, however, that if you take 10,000 students and apply a higher interest rate, that may reduce the number demanding education by 20-30 people (depending on elasticity). \\n The question is more about how quickly people react to the price or whether they are more elastic on tuition price about where the incentives are driving students.\",\n \"Summary: Managing cashflows and expenses makes dealing with emergencies using CCs much easier than is touted on this sub\\n\\nPost: Pretty much the exact opposite of the point posted by /u/lukertin higher up (originally /u/zonination ). I think most of the prescription of emergency funds are for those who budget poorly or have spending issues. I use my CCs as an \\\"emergency fund\\\" since I have a lot of funds outside of savings accounts. I would much, much rather take the expected value over the risk. I still haven't paid interest rates on credit cards.\",\n \"Summary: There is a distinction between credit bureaus, FICO and lenders and very often the distinctions allow consumers to know where they should best focus their personal finance goals.\\n\\nPost: Wanted to post this because I see it confused a lot on this sub (this will be very USA-specific). \\n Credit bureaus generally refer to the three major reporting agencies in the United States: TransUnion, Experian and Equifax. Each is required to provide you a free view of your credit bureau report once a year. It is often advertised on this sub to try to time your annual report every 4 months (TU in January, EQ in May, EX in Sep, etc.) to allow regular checking. \\n IMPORTANT: Not all institutions report to every single bureau so the reports may differ, and, thus, your credit scores using these bureaus may eventually differ as well. \\n ALSO IMPORTANT: Credit bureaus are a snapshot in time (some alternative data sources and credit bureaus are offering \\\"trending variables\\\" but FICO09 does not as yet use them). This means that companies do not see utilization history or credit limit history. What they do see is your delinquency statuses in the past, current payment amounts, current balances, current limits as well as past collection accounts/chargeoffs and bankruptcies. \\n FICO: \\nFICO is a product offered by Fair Isaac Corporation that uses credit bureaus to deliver their proprietary scoring mechanism. This means that your FICO depends on the information contained in the credit bureau but the scoring mechanism is entirely separate from the credit bureaus themselves. If you contest something on your bureau, they have no personal say in what that will do for your \\\"score\\\". This is not guaranteed to be delivered free annually but there are products that offer this, such as the Discover IT card and I believe a Barclays card (forgive me for currently forgetting). \\n CreditKarma uses the TransUnion bureau and uses a separate FICO calculation (often referred to as FAKO) which attempts to imitate the FICO calculation Fair Isaac uses. Due to them only using one (of the three) bureaus and a separate calculation, this is what causes discrepancies in your final score. \\n Of note: There are many different FICO \\\"products\\\" as Fair Isaac continually hones their score. It changes year over year sometimes (FICO4 to FICO9) and can be targeted to specific industries (auto industry uses a different FICO \\\"calculation\\\" than the CC industry). In short, don't worry about the distinctions, just focus on payment history. \\n Credit-worthiness: \\n For credit-worthiness, lenders are a very mixed bag and this is where a lot of the confusion sets in. Many lenders simply look at the FICO that they pull (using the product they select from the bureau they select) to determine credit-worthiness. For larger purchases, other factors are often used, such as LTV (for auto or home loans, this is the ratio of the loan to the value of the car; higher being riskier for the lender) as well as income. \\n NOTE: \\n Many companies use proprietary scoring models as well as rule overrides for lending purposes. This means you will find people with $10,000 income and 740 FICO rejected for a credit card while a $5,000 income and 680 FICO accepted for it. It may not make sense to the end consumer, but either models or rules in place for the particular lenders (and, by proxy, investors) are determining the second one more credit-worthy.\"\n]","isConversational":false},"profile_size":{"kind":"number","value":18,"string":"18"},"task":{"kind":"string","value":"longlamp_4"},"split_kind":{"kind":"string","value":"user_based"},"id":{"kind":"number","value":1397,"string":"1,397"}}},{"rowIdx":1398,"cells":{"question_id":{"kind":"string","value":"Skrp"},"question":{"kind":"string","value":"Generate the content for a reddit post Treat people as individuals, I wouldn't want to be judged by the actions of other people, so I'll extend the same courtesy to others."},"answer":{"kind":"string","value":"A disproportionally large number of them do turn to scamming and stealing, but there's quite a lot that seem quite nice and just want to make a life for themselves. \n I think it's perfectly okay to recognize that a disproportionate amount of them are unwanted to say the least, but I think to take that and turn it into \"romas are all thieves\" is a bad thing to do. It seems no different to me than how 1930s germany talked about slavs, jews, roma, gays, and generally non-aryans. \n I've seen people here in Norway try to demand the army massacre the Romas throw their corpses in the ocean. Why? Because apparently they littered her favorite jogging path with garbage and human feces. That apparently should be answered with genocide, according to her, and a frighteningly large amount of people like her."},"correct_answer":{"kind":"string","value":"A disproportionally large number of them do turn to scamming and stealing, but there's quite a lot that seem quite nice and just want to make a life for themselves. \n I think it's perfectly okay to recognize that a disproportionate amount of them are unwanted to say the least, but I think to take that and turn it into \"romas are all thieves\" is a bad thing to do. It seems no different to me than how 1930s germany talked about slavs, jews, roma, gays, and generally non-aryans. \n I've seen people here in Norway try to demand the army massacre the Romas throw their corpses in the ocean. Why? Because apparently they littered her favorite jogging path with garbage and human feces. That apparently should be answered with genocide, according to her, and a frighteningly large amount of people like her."},"documents":{"kind":"list like","value":["Summary: Everyone has their own opinions, and it's situational.\n\nPost: Depends on the book / author in question to be honest. \n It's important to note that when people use terms like 'overrated' or 'sucks' to describe a book, they at least usually don't mean that to be an objective thing, but is of course an opinion put forward by that one person. \n Reasons for holding such opinions needn't be that they found the book challenging, but it might be for any reason. For example, I really didn't like The Catcher in the Rye. It's a classic for good reason, and has inspired a ton of other works across various disciplines since it was written, but I don't think it stands very well on it's own anymore. To me it's just an interesting historical item that has had great influence and was a very edgy read once upon a time. In the time and culture I live in today, it seems fairly quaint and I wouldn't praise it's use of language. It's largely irrelevant except as an anchor to a different time and culture, or as research in order to better understand the things it has inspired, in other words, it's not a book I would read for it's own sake, and for that reason I think it's overrated. \n When you find a book you have trouble understanding, it's quite right that you shouldn't immediately jump to \"I don't understand this. What's wrong with the author?\" but sometimes it really is okay to go there, just not immediately. Take Deepak Chopra for example. He makes a living hocking his pseudoscientific garbage to people who don't know enough about medicine or physics to see how extraordinarily vapid his books are. He's intentionally fleecing stupid people. \n And some times you do have people who insist a book is bad because they found it too hard, as you say. Some times it's a legitimate complaint to say that the author is kind of bad, when he or she could have communicated something in a more accessible manner. Needlessly complicating a book in order to impress the easily impressed, isn't something I think is the mark of a good writer, but that's once again subjective, as opinion always is. \n And finally, some times you do find a book that's simply too dense, too complicated, too boring or whatever, to really strike a chord with you as a reader, I know it's happened to me on several occasions. Does that mean that the book is bad? No. It might be that I gave up too fast, or that the challenge was simply too great for me to tackle. I think I would be justified in saying I think it's overrated even in that situation, because it's just an opinion, and opinions can change as time goes by, and is only rooted in perception, which changes over time. Of course I can say it's overrated, it doesn't mean I demand everyone else agree with me, I'm sure as hell not going to agree with everyone else when they say something is overrated, not unless I actually do agree.","Summary: it's not a new concept to me, so I wouldn't say I had no idea. More that I don't trust the idea.\n\nPost: Because I have heard this before, and I didn't really trust it then, and I don't trust it now. Even less now than then, in fact. Of course, my understanding of statistics is lamentably rather limited, but statistics was indeed part of my early education, but it's not a college level topic here, at least not normally. It's something you go through in 8th grade where I live. \n Since then I've gone on to learn more about information theory - at least certain aspects of it - in the course of studying for IT topics like cryptography, random number generation and things like that, and well, there I know there's a lot to learn about statistical inference that I haven't yet covered, and maybe that will provide a justification for how we can accurately extrapolate data about a larger data set, from a smaller sample size. \n A lot seems to hinge on the randomness of the selection process. I'm not sure what process they used to randomly select, if indeed it truly was random, or if they only thought it was random. \n It also hangs on what to me seems to be an axiom - that as long as you pick your examples randomly from the entire set, they are always representative of the whole. Has this been proven mathematically, and has it been demonstrated repeatably, and what were the conditions for this? \n For me one of the harder things to accept without knowing more about the topic is that it doesn't matter whether you use a set of 500 to extrapolate information about a set of 1000, or if you use a set of 500 to extrapolate information about a set of three million, or even greater than that. Or maybe again my knowledge is just too limited to even comment on this part of it. \n All of that is of course besides other possible objections to statistics, such as whether the answers were honest or not, but that's not to do with inference. \n Anyway,","Summary: Long journey full of stupid beliefs, culminating in atheism after learning more about skepticism and science, while looking for something else entirely.\n\nPost: For me it was a gradual de-conversion process from christianity that went through different stages. \n I was raised into a vague sort of lutheran christian \n The first element of my faith that vanished was my faith in the power of prayer, at an early age. Either God wasn't willing to help, or he couldn't, and either way prayer was no longer something I could believe in. \n I later realized that the origins of life, and the vast biodiversity on the planet can be explained entirely without reference to the old testament, so that further weakened my belief. \n The next one to go was the belief in Yahweh as an author of morality. It started when I found out what the bible had to say about gay people, and was horrified at the thought of my aunt burning in hell for being a lesbian. \n It was shortly after this that I was going through confirmation, that I started wondering what else might be in the bible. The youth pastor that guided us towards the confirmation ritual never brought up some of the more uncomfortable bible passages I knew about, so I decided to read more than the passages we were told to read and found out about a lot of the truly horrifying things the god of the israelites was up to, and I concluded that I could no longer worship him. \n I still believed in his existence, but I opposed him, as a theistic satanist for a while. I think it was a few months. I spent a lot of this time listening to music, I had been into metal for a couple years, introduced mostly through my stepbrother, and I remember some musician say that he was a satanist because it didn't make sense to him that a god would create humans with a brain, and then expect them not to use it to think for themselves. \n Some of my peers were already atheists/humanists and a childhood friend of mine accused me of having gone through Christian confirmation just to get more money from relatives. That wasn't actually the case, but he made me think about how it was inconceivable to him that I actually believed this stuff. And at school around this time we were studying comparative religions, and I started realizing that what you believe tends to be tied to where you're raised. I began to notice silly elements of other religions and folklore, and started seeing Christianity in the same light I saw other religions, and realized I thought this whole yahweh thing was getting too silly for me. \n At this point, I still lacked the knowledge about cosmology required to completely eliminate god from my belief system, but I was no longer a theist. I could only justify a sort of deist position, believing in a creative force that must have set everything in motion. \n After a couple years as a deist, I had a really bad episode of insomnia, followed by a psychotic break, during which I got really into new agey stuff for some reason. Conspiracy theories and all sorts of stupid shit. Well, it was during the course of getting back in touch with reality, seeking out people debunking this stuff that I came across the knowledge required to finally drop deism as well, because I could then at least see potential explanations for the origins of the universe, without invoking a god of any kind. \n From that point on I was an atheist, and I've only gotten more sure of this as time has gone by and I've learned more about the world and the things in it.","Summary: I think we need a bit more Robert Peel, and a bit less Dirty Harry, and that all starts at home and at school, and takes decades of as many people as possible setting a good example - particularly parents.\n\nPost: Please, feel free to add to this list anything that you believe can make the St. Louis police department treat people with respect and equality. \n A time machine and a series of coat-hanger abortions? \n No but seriously, I think it's a very long term project, and there's quite a lot of steps that can be taken to help fix the situation. \n There's a culture of corruption that's fairly widespread amongst US police officers, and I think that's a much more important problem than the systemic racism problem, because not only does it impact more people, but it also makes the impact harder on those who are impacted - and systemic racism being a thing means that people of a particular skin tone will be hit harder as a consequence. \n I think the key piece is to understand that cops and criminals are just people like everyone else, and that they usually come from normal households, they go to school like everyone else, have friends and family, and whatever. So I think useful steps can be taken to prevent future corruption by raising kids right, and steer them to seeing people as people, no matter who they are or what they've done or not done. That might help those kids who grow up to become police officers be more empathic towards the public that they're policing. Furthermore, instilling children with a strong moral core (not talking religious morality here, like 'gays are icky' or whatever), building character in them from a young age, and teaching them important civic subjects in school as well as at home is important. This way you tend to get better people, and those people grow up to take jobs like prisonguards, police officers, judges, lawyers, and politicians to name a few key roles that are interesting to look at here. \n The second step would be to start looking at police as a utility to serve the public, rather than an attack dog for the state. Obviously they need a certain level of authority, but don't give them a level of authority that compromises the ability to serve the public, such as with civil asset forfeiture. \n There also needs to be a re-evaluation of laws. I think there may be laws that no longer serve a meaningful purpose, if it ever did (like the law banning gay marriage in some states, or certain drug laws for example). I think laws should also be grounded in freedom, equality and empathy. That the laws should be compared with these three core values to see whether they are meaningful or not anymore. Likewise with sentencing. Is it really productive to be able to give someone seven life sentences and four death sentences for example? It seems draconian and quite frankly archaic. Perhaps settle for at most one life sentence? And while in custody, prisoners should still be guaranteed certain protections, to prevent them being beaten by guards who hold a grudge, be blackmailed, raped in prison, etc. Some inmates may be complete psychopaths who should be locked up for life, but I don't think beating them with wet towels at night is something a prisonguard should stoop to doing in a civilized country. \n I think you could elevate the standards by which a police officer can graduate. I think encouraging them to read moral philosophy and fiction literature might have positive effects, as fiction has been shown to increase empathy towards people, and moral philsophy makes you think about the nature of right and wrong, and how they're not the same as legal and illegal necessarily. \n I think instilling people with a sense of responsibility and self-policing is the single most important thing you can do, however. Give public servants like police, judges, prisonguards, etc a reason to feel proud of themselves, and foster a culture of keeping one another on the straight and narrow. Reward good behavior, and punish corrupt behavior. \n From a top-down level, legislation could be passed to prevent things like civil asset forfeiture as I mentioned above, as well as prevent them from getting a hold of so much second-hand military grade hardware. \n I think this is possible, but not plausible, frankly I don't think America is ready for that sort of widespread change of mindset just yet.","Summary: I'm technically a highschool dropout, I guess.\n\nPost: Once i failed a graduating high school in a class I was a straight A student in for 3 years. I failed because I didn't fulfill one of the criteria, which it turns out they hadn't actually specified on the test. So I had no way of knowing I was meant to do it that way. \n \n I scheduled re-doing the test six months later (earliest time I could try) and my mom decided I couldn't be trusted to remember the day, so she stored the letter confirming the date in a locked cupboard with some of her personal documents ... and so after a while I started trusting she knew the date, and it turns out she was off by a day. I got ready to go and found out that, no, the exam had been the day before.\n-When I finally passed the exam, the next year, a new reform had come into play, that meant that even though I had passed every class and every exam, I now had to pass the criteria for the new reform, by retaking several classes that had their curriculum updated, in order to have technically graduated from high school. \n \n I decided I had enough. I'm not going to do those classes over again, and then potentially being screwed again. I've had it. Fuck this.","Summary: Religion at least some times provides an opportunity for people to claim their actions are licensed by a higher power. I'm not convinced that all this evil was done because of religion, but I think the form this evil took, was shaped at least in part by faith. The people responsible could have justified their sick immorality in other ways if they didn't have the religious motivation, and if they were good people, they wouldn't have indulged in this even if that's what they were commanded to do. \n Edit: Tidied up a bit.\n\nPost: I try to make it a rule not to post on this sub (it's gotten better since the somewhat recent reform, but i still prefer other subs), and usually to not even browse it, but I occasionally make the exception, and I felt this was one place where I could do that. \n As much as I am happy to lay atrocities at the religious door - when it's deserved - I think extremism isn't a problem of religion specifically, but is certainly capable of providing a vessel for extremism. A way of shaping the hatred and the destructive nature inherent in human beings. \n I have to question just how much of this is political, how much of this is religious, and how much is something else. \n Now, it's entirely possible that absent of religion, these extremists would have gone on to become decent people who used their words to solve their differences, but I think it just as possible that they would simply find another excuse to unleash their hatred. For example they could have joined a politically motivated terrorist cell, or whatever. \n I'm not convinced that religion makes good people evil. I think there are no good people and no bad people. Only people, and that some will seek out what we consider evil behavior, while others will not. And I think it's a very comfortable thing for people on either side to have a security blanket of \"but god wants me to do this\", to help motivate and justify their actions. \n But understanding - or a lack thereof - will influence how we act on our sense of morality, and I definitely think taking things on faith, especially dogmatic information, can and often will bend understanding in ways that make the immoral seem moral. \n So I'm in two minds about this stuff. On the one hand I question to what extent religion motivated all of this, and I sure am not about to go research it all, at least not right now. But on the other hand, I know first hand how actions are informed by beliefs. \n To me it seems like a complicated subject, trying to sort out which influences lead to what behavior. Especially when conflicting influences have to be given uneven weighting in order to arrive at an action. And because it is that complicated, I understand why some people take the easy way out and just leave it up to some external authority, that they convince themselves they're not even allowed to question, but yet somehow tell themselves they know exactly what this authority wants. \n In my opinion, what people think this authority wants (such as a god) is simply an echo chamber for their own thoughts and opinions to be reflected back at them, reinforced as the will of a supreme authority.","Summary: Depression = numbness or emptiness. Anxiety = it's basically dread, or being frightened, but usually over something irrational. Essentially the physical symptoms of facing something you're phobic about.\n\nPost: For me depression has been a kind of numbness. You're sort of unable to enjoy a lot of things, and struggle to find the will to get out of bed. It's not like sadness, the way some people think. It's just a kind of demotivating emptiness. \n As for anxiety, well, practically anything can trigger anxiety. It's basically the body's \"fight or flight\" impulse triggering where it doesn't make sense. For me it was with small crowds (not big enough to blend in and feel anonymous, but more than just close friends), for example restaurants, public transport, some stores, etc. I've been taught to use a scale of 0-100 where 0 is no anxiety at all, 100 is full on heartstopping panic. At 20 you start to feel mildly uncomfortable, 40 is rather uncomfortable, at 70 you stop thinking rationally and feel an intense urge for fight or flight, and so on. Anyway, the idea is to score myself somewhere on that scale in various situations, over time, so that I can track my progress after repeat experiences. It's been trending down. I'm not completely over anxiety, and I'm not sure I ever get over it, but the trick seems to be to expose myself to situations that trigger an anxiety level of ca 40, for some time, without using any strategies for calming myself down, and then removing myself from that situation. Over time I feel less and less anxious, something that might have put me into the 60-70 range might no longer be a problem (I have noticed that happening), and I find my limits have been pushed wider. \n Take going to the store for example. Some people might freak out just stepping outside their house. Other people might make it to the door of the store, but not have the courage to go inside. Some people can go inside just fine, but are self-conscious about actually buying something, because it's revealing. Some people can buy stuff just fine, but hope not to meet people they know at the store, etc. \n By methodically exposing oneself to the right level of difficulty, one might find that stuff that was a problem is no longer a problem, and stuff that'd put you into 70+ are now 40ish, and before long, they too may be no problem. \n Okay, so I gave you more than you asked for here, not just what it feels like, but how I've come to deal with it as well.","Summary: Was christian, through incremental steps i became a satanist, then a deist, then an atheist. \n As for what sort of atheist I am, that'd technically be an agnostic atheist, however, I think the likelyhood of there being a god seems vanishingly small.\n\nPost: Not religious anymore, though I was raised a Christian, in a household that was very relaxed about religion. \n This is going to be quite long, but it explains my process in detail. \n From a very early age I was sent to Sunday school, but my parents saw it mostly as a social thing, and I think I was allowed to quit, either that or they pulled me out, or something. \n I used to pray that things would be better, my mom was often sick, both physically and mentally, and I was bullied a lot at school, prayed for it to stop, for me not to get the shit kicked out of me, stuff like that. There were nights I'd cry myself to sleep, and wondering why God wouldn't help me out, what had I done wrong to deserve what was happening to me? I was too little to understand that the universe isn't fair. \n Having a gay aunt, and parents who weren't married, and there being a fair amount of swearing at home, and all sorts of little things like that, it shaped a religious view where I believed in a personal God, but not a very strict one. Of course, I hadn't ever read the bible, at least not understood any of it, so I had no idea about the mythology, and what demands it makes, nor how up to interpretation it is in many places. \n I knew very little about Christianity, but I still consider myself to have been a Christian, mind you. Hell, I was so ignorant about the matter that for a long time I didn't even know that unbelievers existed, or that other religions, or even other denominations of the same religion existed, at least until a few years into elementary school. \n Fast forward to my confirmation. By now I knew there were agnostics, atheists, various religions etc, and knew a bit about many of them. We attended bible studies and we were told to read certain chapters and verses, and I wondered why we were told to read certain things, while other things were not even given mention, so I decided to read as much of the bible as I could be bothered with. I ended up reading most of it. Some time during all this I was confirmed, but the digestion of all this information kept churning around in my head for a long time after that day, and bit by bit I realized how much I detested God, based on what's written about him in the bible. \n So: Eventually I realized that while I believed God existed, I simply couldn't find it in me to worship said entity. I thought him a cruel tyrannical fuck, not to put too fine a point on it. On top of this I had also gotten into listening to Metal and I had noticed that in the bible, there's very little about Satan, certainly very little negative is said about him. To me, it started to look like he was someone brave enough to stand up to the ultimate tyrant, on principle, despite having no hope of winning at all. I saw him as being a maligned being, essentially being called evil and all of that as a sort of propaganda effort. \n So for a while I was a theistic satanist. That didn't entail anything like sacrifice and doing evil, I carried on living pretty much as I did before, it was just my attitude to god that had changed. \n After some months of this, I realized that this too was wrong for me. It started to seem incredibly silly, again partly thanks to me listening a lot to metal, it just opened me to a more critical point of view somehow. \n At this point I became a deist, because I believed in a creator god, but not a personal one at all. I thought there must have been something that at least put together the laws of nature to create this universe. It didn't make sense to me that there could be any other possibilities. \n This was the case for many years, until in 2008 I had a nervous breakdown due to extreme sleep deprivation, and during my recovery time after that, I read a lot of everything. I became convinced of practically every conspiracy theory out there. But being someone who likes to subject myself to the contrary point of view to see if my ideas hold up to scrutiny, I looked up resources that debunked these theories. \n After a lot of that, I evaluated the theories against the debunkings, and one by one, the conspiracy theories fell, and I learned more and more about skepticism, and I became a lot more interested in science, philosophy, discussion, etc. I watched debates, read books, scientifically themed news articles, like at phys.org and other places, and the more I exposed myself to this stuff, the more I started to learn and understand the arguments that the universe may not have been created. \n Once I realized that this is the case, I became an atheist, not because I'm dead certain the universe doesn't have a creator, but because I think the burden of proof is on people who try to convince me that there is a creator. And that burden of proof has yet to be met as far as I'm concerned. \n So","Summary: I think if anything's sexist in this whole situation, it's not his shirt, but rather the people saying it's going to keep people out of STEM fields because they can't handle that sort of thing, and that's an entirely separate discussion from the discussion about how proper and professional his outfit was.\n\nPost: My problem isn't with people saying he didn't dress professionally, but rather with people who make the asinine claim that his shirt is driving women out of STEM. \n Though I think the shirt was hideous, I still like it better than any combination of suit and tie imaginable. \n The absurdity of people saying women are are going to be kept away from the career of their dreams (if indeed it is the career of their dreams) because someone somewhere wore a shirt that they didn't like - first of all, it says that women are less interested in research, engineering and actual merit, than they are in being fashion police, and secondly it says that they wouldn't be suitable for that line of work in the first place, because peer review can be so brutal that if someone wearing a shirt you don't like can make you stay out of a career, then the kinds of criticism you get during peer review is probably going to drive them to suicide. Fortunately, I think the people making such claims are making mountains out of molehills. I don't think women are particularly sensitive to that sort of thing, and that they're not so thin-skinned and stupid as these people make them out to be.","Summary: War doesn't have to be that costly, neither fiscally or in human impact. I never said I thought it was the US that should have deposed Saddam Hussein, and I think Afghanistan was also grossly mishandled.\n\nPost: Saddam certainly toyed with mustard gas and other chemical weapons. As an American, I know this for certain, because we gave them to him! \n Yes, I know. \n >The whole idea of \"WMD\" is an attempt to conflate chemical weapons with nuclear weapons. UN inspectors were all over Iraq, and confirmed that there was no WMD. \n I prefer the term ABC weapon for clarification, but even so, I don't think WMD is a term constructed to conflate nuclear with chemical or biological weaponry. I think it's a term constructed to describe a weapon that is capable of absolutely catastrophic kill rates. A chemical or a bio-weapon can often do as much damage as a nuke, some times even more. So they do deserve to be called weapons of mass-destruction. \n >Nobody informed ever disputed the fact that there could be some 20 year old remnants of decaying mustard gas shells somewhere in Iraq, but among informed people, it was universally accepted that there was absolutely no active nuclear, chemical, or biological program in Iraq. \n Possibly, but there was also a consensus amongst informed people that Saddam really wanted them, and did try to get some, and for all we know, he could have obtained them somewhere down the road. Not to say this is good enough a justification to depose him purely on the hypothetical grounds that he may get what he wants, of course. \n >You say, \"you think he had to be deposed\". What makes you think that we have the right to go around invading countries, killing hundreds of thousands of people, and deposing their governments? \n I didn't say that. I said he had to be removed. Nowhere in there does it say the US had the right to do it, or that it would have to take an invasion, or that hundreds of thousands of people would have to be killed. But as you were so eager to point out, the US helped prop up Saddam in the first place, and I think it was about time they atoned for that sin. It's just a shame they decided to do it by committing a much worse one. That one was avoidable, there was no need to cause hundreds of thousands of deaths to accomplish the goal of deposing Saddam Hussein. It might not even have required a full scale invasion for that matter. \n >Every single one of our hundreds of invasions and occupations has ended poorly for everyone involved except the politicians, the military-industrial complex, and the banks. \n If it wasn't for US involvement, there's an excellent chance Hitler would have succeeded during WW2. But apart from that, yes as a nation you do have a fairly spectacular failure rate. Sure, there was the war of independence, and the civil war, which were both massively bloody, but both worth fighting. And there was WW2, and to some extent WW1 as well. \n I don't deny that war is ugly and bloody and should generally be avoided. But every now and then you're either going to have to stop some maniac with an army in his back, or you're going to let that motherfucker run roughshod over everyone. \n In a perfect world there would be no violence against one another. But we don't live in a perfect world, and while I would not be the first to draw blood, I do think defense, and war for humanitarian reasons (as oxymoronic as that sounds) can be preferable to the alternative from time to time. \n >You might not like how a country is run on the other side of the world, but that doesn't mean you should go over there and kill scores of people in a fruitless attempt to make things better, even if you have the military power and financial power (we don't, we are $17.5 trillion dollars in debt due to these wars as of last year). \n The warfare itself needn't be anywhere near that expensive. I think America has been systematically looted by the richest of the rich, and the corporations they own. Call me a liberal, but I think the decision to rely so heavily on mercenaries, and on developing useless airplanes and having a classical ground army, and people stationed all over the world, and giant black budgets that spy on everyone all the time, and secret prisons for secret prisoners, run by secret agents who need secret planes and secret electricity and secret food and water and god knows what else secret - well, those bills stack up pretty fucking quickly, but it is possible to shave down those costs a lot, and end up with a sleeker and more effective armed services. \n The Afghanistan conflict was also prolonged for far too long. Wasn't Bin Laden spotted once or twice pretty early on in the war, and could have been popped then and there? Also, why send a whole army, when it's really all about assassinations. That's what the CIA, or possibly Navy Seals are for.","Summary: he's great when he can have food and snuggles and relax, but put him in a situation he feels he can't control, and he turns into a clawed velociraptor demon.\n\nPost: My cat [Python]( is the coziest little snugglebug at home, but once we wanted to take him to the vet, to check him out, because I'm pretty sure he has ear mites in the left ear, or a yeast infection. \n We got a cage, put him in it. And took him to the vet. He was furious in the cage and kept ramming the door so hard that it came off, and he was loose in the car, just after we had parked. \n I tried restraining him, but he was surprisingly strong, and I didn't have a blanket or towel or anything, and he climbed out of my grip with sheer force, ripping into me with his claws, leapt off my shoulder and bolted into some woods nearby. \n I thought for sure I had lost him that day. I spent a good hour and a half looking for him, but to no success. \n Two weeks later, he showed up at the door, having found his way home across town. \n Edit:","Summary: I say God Jul, and eat and drink absurd quantities of stuff, and hang out with family, talking, listening to music, playing board games, maybe watching a movie, whatever we feel like doing, on december 25th, as our \"julaften\" celebration. Nothing Christian in it for me.\n\nPost: Yes and no. Here in Norway, the word \"christ\" has never been part of our winter solstice rituals. \n We call it Jul. The main day we celebrate is December 24th, or \"Julaften\" (aften means evening), and while most people associate it with Christianity at this point (decorating their trees with angels and things like that) there's still some pagan elements in it all. The holiday greeting isn't \"Merry Christmas\" but \"God Jul\". The word Jul is derived from the Norse Jól, which was originally celebrated on January 12th, so it was moved for Christianity, by \"Håkon the Good\", some time in the 900's, and banned the old 12th of January celebration, as part of the process to convert Norway to Christianity, a job that wouldn't really be fully completed before the Black Plague had it's way with the country, killing anyone who could read or write, and we had to import scholars and \"nobles\" from places like Denmark, that had already been completely Christened. \n So yeah,","Summary: Except for one small point, (historicity of Jesus) I have to agree with Cracked.com on this one.\n\nPost: Well, Religulous seems to be more of a comedy mockumentary than anything, really. And Bill Maher isn't a particularly skeptical person, based on earlier views on health and dieting for example. He seems to have gotten better, but I don't know. \n It's unimportant to me whether those claims are legitimate or not. I don't take Maher seriously as anything other than a comedian, and I therefore take everything he says with a truckload of salt as far as facts go. I can laugh at it, but then again he seems to do that for me, so I don't have to. \n About the criticisms found at cracked, I don't know all that much about the particulars of the sixteen crucified saviors that Surfeit6 writes about, but I do know that the sources for Jesus are basically the bible + a halfhearted mention by Josephus. Which to me doesn't sound like strong evidence. \n It makes it sort of likely that there was a Jew named Yeshua that spoke on matters of religion, in those days, but it's my impression that mad prophets were a growth industry in that region back then, so it's not surprising if true, and it doesn't verify any of Jesus' supposed claims, not that he ever said any of the things attributed to him, not the story of his life, and least of all, the veracity of his claims, should they indeed have been uttered by him in the first place. \n I think we have a formidable enough arsenal of facts and arguments on our side that we don't need to make shit up, which I think Maher did too much in that video.","Summary: Chinese restaurant' chop suey recipe - knowing full well that people in China don't usually eat stuff like that, because it's an American invention by immigrants, rather like tikka masala is in the UK. \n EDIT: I would also recommend this one if you want something a bit more authentic: but it's quite spicy. \n EDIT2: Fixed some things. Looks right now.\n\nPost: A decent chop suey recipe I like to do is: \n Boil some water and dissolve a knorr chicken stock cube in it. The stock takes time to dissolve. You can use your own stock too, but for this, I actually think the knorr one is best, if you want to mimic chinese restaurant results. \n Get some broccoli florettes, and blanch them until they soften a bit, then put them aside for later. \n Julienne some carrots, onion, red and green bell peppers and squash \n Slice white button mushroom and water chestnuts, and very thinly slice some red chilipepper \n Finely chop some ginger and garlic \n Cut chicken thigh meat into strips, pepper them, and sear them at very high temperature, constantly moving them around until they're just very slightly undercooked. They'll do some cooking later on, so you'll want them slightly undercooked now, to prevent them from being overcooked later, so transfer the cooked chicken to a bowl. \n Next you cook the vegetables in the pan. Start by cooking at high temperature for a short while the onion, pepper, carrot, broccoli and water chestnut, when they start to get a bit of color on them, and soften slightly, you transfer them out to another bowl, Then you lower the temperature and cook the mushroom and squash together for a little bit, and transfer in with the other cooked vegetables, drizzle over some oyster sauce and toss it around so it's coated relatively evenly. \n Now mix in a bowl a teaspoon of fish sauce, a tablespoon of dark soy sauce, and a tablespoon or two of oyster sauce, and pour it over the chicken. \n Make cornstarch slurry using the chicken stock and corn starch. \n Make sure the heat is low on the pan, add the garlic, ginger and chili, stir a bit until it softens, crank up the heat a bit and add the other vegetables, when the heat is up a bit, add the chicken again, and the fish / soy / oyster sauce mix, stir, let cook for a short time, then add the cornstarch slurry to thicken it. \n Just make sure you don't over do the cooking time, because you want the vegetables to have some bite to them, and the chicken not to be overcooked, so you gotta work fast. \n I like to serve this with jasmine rice. For that I measure up 2dl uncooked jasmine rice and I wash it in cold water in a glass bowl until the water is cloudy enough that I can't even see the rice, I discard the water, add fresh cold water, stir until it's cloudy, repeat until the water no longer goes cloudy. Then I boil about 4dl water in a cooking pot, add some salt or home made chicken stock, or both, add the rice, turn down the heat and let it simmer for a couple of minutes. Once it simmers nicely on low temperature, I stir to loosen it from the bottom, and put a lid on, and let it sit for about 15 minutes. Then I turn off the heat, remove the cooking pot from the heat, and leave it sitting for at least five minutes with the lid still on. The steam will make the rice fragrant and fluffy, but that won't happen if you lift the lid before the time is right.","Summary: Not convinced by Frank Turek's lack of - and simultaneously overactive - imagination.\n\nPost: I wonder what exactly he means by an infinite universe. The only universe he can be referring to must be an universe with an infinite past, but I don't know of any scientists that claim that. To the contrary, I always hear the claim that time itself began with the big bang, so if that's true, there must have been a first moment in our finite past, near as I can figure. \n That doesn't mean that time wouldn't keep going for infinity into the future. \n It's like imagining a column of numbers, which start with the number 1. At each next step, add 1. This can be done an infinite amount of times, but even though it'll grow infinitely, it only does so in one direction. \n And if the universe keeps expanding as long as there is time in which it can expand, the universe will at any given point in time be of finite size, but in the framework of passing time, it'd be infinitely big in one direction, but would still have a finite size at a specific moment, such as for example ten minutes after the big bang. \n So, if time itself is infinitely long (but with a fixed starting point), and the universe is infinitely big (as a function of time), the universe would be fully justifiable as being considered infinite in size, and duration, without requiring an infinite amount of moments into the past. \n But let's suppose he'd be right, suppose it did require an infinite amount of moments into the past. Well, there is the theory that the universe is a series of big bangs and crunches. Expansion and contraction, every time the universe \"reboots\" for a lack of a better word, and it all starts anew. My sleepy brain seems to think that this most logically would be a form of circularity. And in a circle you can keep going in either direction as much as you want. The circle might be in a finite size, but if you keep tracing it, you can trace it infinitely. Much like you may be able to with big bang-and-crunch cycles. I don't know. I have the distinct impression that I'm rambling at this point, so I'll round it off.","Summary: icompetent millionaire executive uses the understaffed IT department to fix his personal laptop, after he'd been too much of a cheapskate to buy his own music legally.\n\nPost: Probably one of the executives at the business where I worked. He's making millions a year and still used the IT department at the business he worked as his personal tech support (then again it seemed like everyone at that business did). We were understaffed and several of us were working ourselves to the bone. I was an unpaid intern, and got a lot of those jobs as they came along. \n The guy is filthy rich and still pirated music via shit like LimeWire, this was about 9 months ago, by the way. \n His PC was \"protected\" by an unupdated, expired copy of norton antivirus 2009, he had never installed anything off of windows update, and I think some sort of malware had destroyed large portions of his windows registry, to the point where windows update, and a large series of other services and utilities simply didn't work anymore."],"string":"[\n \"Summary: Everyone has their own opinions, and it's situational.\\n\\nPost: Depends on the book / author in question to be honest. \\n It's important to note that when people use terms like 'overrated' or 'sucks' to describe a book, they at least usually don't mean that to be an objective thing, but is of course an opinion put forward by that one person. \\n Reasons for holding such opinions needn't be that they found the book challenging, but it might be for any reason. For example, I really didn't like The Catcher in the Rye. It's a classic for good reason, and has inspired a ton of other works across various disciplines since it was written, but I don't think it stands very well on it's own anymore. To me it's just an interesting historical item that has had great influence and was a very edgy read once upon a time. In the time and culture I live in today, it seems fairly quaint and I wouldn't praise it's use of language. It's largely irrelevant except as an anchor to a different time and culture, or as research in order to better understand the things it has inspired, in other words, it's not a book I would read for it's own sake, and for that reason I think it's overrated. \\n When you find a book you have trouble understanding, it's quite right that you shouldn't immediately jump to \\\"I don't understand this. What's wrong with the author?\\\" but sometimes it really is okay to go there, just not immediately. Take Deepak Chopra for example. He makes a living hocking his pseudoscientific garbage to people who don't know enough about medicine or physics to see how extraordinarily vapid his books are. He's intentionally fleecing stupid people. \\n And some times you do have people who insist a book is bad because they found it too hard, as you say. Some times it's a legitimate complaint to say that the author is kind of bad, when he or she could have communicated something in a more accessible manner. Needlessly complicating a book in order to impress the easily impressed, isn't something I think is the mark of a good writer, but that's once again subjective, as opinion always is. \\n And finally, some times you do find a book that's simply too dense, too complicated, too boring or whatever, to really strike a chord with you as a reader, I know it's happened to me on several occasions. Does that mean that the book is bad? No. It might be that I gave up too fast, or that the challenge was simply too great for me to tackle. I think I would be justified in saying I think it's overrated even in that situation, because it's just an opinion, and opinions can change as time goes by, and is only rooted in perception, which changes over time. Of course I can say it's overrated, it doesn't mean I demand everyone else agree with me, I'm sure as hell not going to agree with everyone else when they say something is overrated, not unless I actually do agree.\",\n \"Summary: it's not a new concept to me, so I wouldn't say I had no idea. More that I don't trust the idea.\\n\\nPost: Because I have heard this before, and I didn't really trust it then, and I don't trust it now. Even less now than then, in fact. Of course, my understanding of statistics is lamentably rather limited, but statistics was indeed part of my early education, but it's not a college level topic here, at least not normally. It's something you go through in 8th grade where I live. \\n Since then I've gone on to learn more about information theory - at least certain aspects of it - in the course of studying for IT topics like cryptography, random number generation and things like that, and well, there I know there's a lot to learn about statistical inference that I haven't yet covered, and maybe that will provide a justification for how we can accurately extrapolate data about a larger data set, from a smaller sample size. \\n A lot seems to hinge on the randomness of the selection process. I'm not sure what process they used to randomly select, if indeed it truly was random, or if they only thought it was random. \\n It also hangs on what to me seems to be an axiom - that as long as you pick your examples randomly from the entire set, they are always representative of the whole. Has this been proven mathematically, and has it been demonstrated repeatably, and what were the conditions for this? \\n For me one of the harder things to accept without knowing more about the topic is that it doesn't matter whether you use a set of 500 to extrapolate information about a set of 1000, or if you use a set of 500 to extrapolate information about a set of three million, or even greater than that. Or maybe again my knowledge is just too limited to even comment on this part of it. \\n All of that is of course besides other possible objections to statistics, such as whether the answers were honest or not, but that's not to do with inference. \\n Anyway,\",\n \"Summary: Long journey full of stupid beliefs, culminating in atheism after learning more about skepticism and science, while looking for something else entirely.\\n\\nPost: For me it was a gradual de-conversion process from christianity that went through different stages. \\n I was raised into a vague sort of lutheran christian \\n The first element of my faith that vanished was my faith in the power of prayer, at an early age. Either God wasn't willing to help, or he couldn't, and either way prayer was no longer something I could believe in. \\n I later realized that the origins of life, and the vast biodiversity on the planet can be explained entirely without reference to the old testament, so that further weakened my belief. \\n The next one to go was the belief in Yahweh as an author of morality. It started when I found out what the bible had to say about gay people, and was horrified at the thought of my aunt burning in hell for being a lesbian. \\n It was shortly after this that I was going through confirmation, that I started wondering what else might be in the bible. The youth pastor that guided us towards the confirmation ritual never brought up some of the more uncomfortable bible passages I knew about, so I decided to read more than the passages we were told to read and found out about a lot of the truly horrifying things the god of the israelites was up to, and I concluded that I could no longer worship him. \\n I still believed in his existence, but I opposed him, as a theistic satanist for a while. I think it was a few months. I spent a lot of this time listening to music, I had been into metal for a couple years, introduced mostly through my stepbrother, and I remember some musician say that he was a satanist because it didn't make sense to him that a god would create humans with a brain, and then expect them not to use it to think for themselves. \\n Some of my peers were already atheists/humanists and a childhood friend of mine accused me of having gone through Christian confirmation just to get more money from relatives. That wasn't actually the case, but he made me think about how it was inconceivable to him that I actually believed this stuff. And at school around this time we were studying comparative religions, and I started realizing that what you believe tends to be tied to where you're raised. I began to notice silly elements of other religions and folklore, and started seeing Christianity in the same light I saw other religions, and realized I thought this whole yahweh thing was getting too silly for me. \\n At this point, I still lacked the knowledge about cosmology required to completely eliminate god from my belief system, but I was no longer a theist. I could only justify a sort of deist position, believing in a creative force that must have set everything in motion. \\n After a couple years as a deist, I had a really bad episode of insomnia, followed by a psychotic break, during which I got really into new agey stuff for some reason. Conspiracy theories and all sorts of stupid shit. Well, it was during the course of getting back in touch with reality, seeking out people debunking this stuff that I came across the knowledge required to finally drop deism as well, because I could then at least see potential explanations for the origins of the universe, without invoking a god of any kind. \\n From that point on I was an atheist, and I've only gotten more sure of this as time has gone by and I've learned more about the world and the things in it.\",\n \"Summary: I think we need a bit more Robert Peel, and a bit less Dirty Harry, and that all starts at home and at school, and takes decades of as many people as possible setting a good example - particularly parents.\\n\\nPost: Please, feel free to add to this list anything that you believe can make the St. Louis police department treat people with respect and equality. \\n A time machine and a series of coat-hanger abortions? \\n No but seriously, I think it's a very long term project, and there's quite a lot of steps that can be taken to help fix the situation. \\n There's a culture of corruption that's fairly widespread amongst US police officers, and I think that's a much more important problem than the systemic racism problem, because not only does it impact more people, but it also makes the impact harder on those who are impacted - and systemic racism being a thing means that people of a particular skin tone will be hit harder as a consequence. \\n I think the key piece is to understand that cops and criminals are just people like everyone else, and that they usually come from normal households, they go to school like everyone else, have friends and family, and whatever. So I think useful steps can be taken to prevent future corruption by raising kids right, and steer them to seeing people as people, no matter who they are or what they've done or not done. That might help those kids who grow up to become police officers be more empathic towards the public that they're policing. Furthermore, instilling children with a strong moral core (not talking religious morality here, like 'gays are icky' or whatever), building character in them from a young age, and teaching them important civic subjects in school as well as at home is important. This way you tend to get better people, and those people grow up to take jobs like prisonguards, police officers, judges, lawyers, and politicians to name a few key roles that are interesting to look at here. \\n The second step would be to start looking at police as a utility to serve the public, rather than an attack dog for the state. Obviously they need a certain level of authority, but don't give them a level of authority that compromises the ability to serve the public, such as with civil asset forfeiture. \\n There also needs to be a re-evaluation of laws. I think there may be laws that no longer serve a meaningful purpose, if it ever did (like the law banning gay marriage in some states, or certain drug laws for example). I think laws should also be grounded in freedom, equality and empathy. That the laws should be compared with these three core values to see whether they are meaningful or not anymore. Likewise with sentencing. Is it really productive to be able to give someone seven life sentences and four death sentences for example? It seems draconian and quite frankly archaic. Perhaps settle for at most one life sentence? And while in custody, prisoners should still be guaranteed certain protections, to prevent them being beaten by guards who hold a grudge, be blackmailed, raped in prison, etc. Some inmates may be complete psychopaths who should be locked up for life, but I don't think beating them with wet towels at night is something a prisonguard should stoop to doing in a civilized country. \\n I think you could elevate the standards by which a police officer can graduate. I think encouraging them to read moral philosophy and fiction literature might have positive effects, as fiction has been shown to increase empathy towards people, and moral philsophy makes you think about the nature of right and wrong, and how they're not the same as legal and illegal necessarily. \\n I think instilling people with a sense of responsibility and self-policing is the single most important thing you can do, however. Give public servants like police, judges, prisonguards, etc a reason to feel proud of themselves, and foster a culture of keeping one another on the straight and narrow. Reward good behavior, and punish corrupt behavior. \\n From a top-down level, legislation could be passed to prevent things like civil asset forfeiture as I mentioned above, as well as prevent them from getting a hold of so much second-hand military grade hardware. \\n I think this is possible, but not plausible, frankly I don't think America is ready for that sort of widespread change of mindset just yet.\",\n \"Summary: I'm technically a highschool dropout, I guess.\\n\\nPost: Once i failed a graduating high school in a class I was a straight A student in for 3 years. I failed because I didn't fulfill one of the criteria, which it turns out they hadn't actually specified on the test. So I had no way of knowing I was meant to do it that way. \\n \\n I scheduled re-doing the test six months later (earliest time I could try) and my mom decided I couldn't be trusted to remember the day, so she stored the letter confirming the date in a locked cupboard with some of her personal documents ... and so after a while I started trusting she knew the date, and it turns out she was off by a day. I got ready to go and found out that, no, the exam had been the day before.\\n-When I finally passed the exam, the next year, a new reform had come into play, that meant that even though I had passed every class and every exam, I now had to pass the criteria for the new reform, by retaking several classes that had their curriculum updated, in order to have technically graduated from high school. \\n \\n I decided I had enough. I'm not going to do those classes over again, and then potentially being screwed again. I've had it. Fuck this.\",\n \"Summary: Religion at least some times provides an opportunity for people to claim their actions are licensed by a higher power. I'm not convinced that all this evil was done because of religion, but I think the form this evil took, was shaped at least in part by faith. The people responsible could have justified their sick immorality in other ways if they didn't have the religious motivation, and if they were good people, they wouldn't have indulged in this even if that's what they were commanded to do. \\n Edit: Tidied up a bit.\\n\\nPost: I try to make it a rule not to post on this sub (it's gotten better since the somewhat recent reform, but i still prefer other subs), and usually to not even browse it, but I occasionally make the exception, and I felt this was one place where I could do that. \\n As much as I am happy to lay atrocities at the religious door - when it's deserved - I think extremism isn't a problem of religion specifically, but is certainly capable of providing a vessel for extremism. A way of shaping the hatred and the destructive nature inherent in human beings. \\n I have to question just how much of this is political, how much of this is religious, and how much is something else. \\n Now, it's entirely possible that absent of religion, these extremists would have gone on to become decent people who used their words to solve their differences, but I think it just as possible that they would simply find another excuse to unleash their hatred. For example they could have joined a politically motivated terrorist cell, or whatever. \\n I'm not convinced that religion makes good people evil. I think there are no good people and no bad people. Only people, and that some will seek out what we consider evil behavior, while others will not. And I think it's a very comfortable thing for people on either side to have a security blanket of \\\"but god wants me to do this\\\", to help motivate and justify their actions. \\n But understanding - or a lack thereof - will influence how we act on our sense of morality, and I definitely think taking things on faith, especially dogmatic information, can and often will bend understanding in ways that make the immoral seem moral. \\n So I'm in two minds about this stuff. On the one hand I question to what extent religion motivated all of this, and I sure am not about to go research it all, at least not right now. But on the other hand, I know first hand how actions are informed by beliefs. \\n To me it seems like a complicated subject, trying to sort out which influences lead to what behavior. Especially when conflicting influences have to be given uneven weighting in order to arrive at an action. And because it is that complicated, I understand why some people take the easy way out and just leave it up to some external authority, that they convince themselves they're not even allowed to question, but yet somehow tell themselves they know exactly what this authority wants. \\n In my opinion, what people think this authority wants (such as a god) is simply an echo chamber for their own thoughts and opinions to be reflected back at them, reinforced as the will of a supreme authority.\",\n \"Summary: Depression = numbness or emptiness. Anxiety = it's basically dread, or being frightened, but usually over something irrational. Essentially the physical symptoms of facing something you're phobic about.\\n\\nPost: For me depression has been a kind of numbness. You're sort of unable to enjoy a lot of things, and struggle to find the will to get out of bed. It's not like sadness, the way some people think. It's just a kind of demotivating emptiness. \\n As for anxiety, well, practically anything can trigger anxiety. It's basically the body's \\\"fight or flight\\\" impulse triggering where it doesn't make sense. For me it was with small crowds (not big enough to blend in and feel anonymous, but more than just close friends), for example restaurants, public transport, some stores, etc. I've been taught to use a scale of 0-100 where 0 is no anxiety at all, 100 is full on heartstopping panic. At 20 you start to feel mildly uncomfortable, 40 is rather uncomfortable, at 70 you stop thinking rationally and feel an intense urge for fight or flight, and so on. Anyway, the idea is to score myself somewhere on that scale in various situations, over time, so that I can track my progress after repeat experiences. It's been trending down. I'm not completely over anxiety, and I'm not sure I ever get over it, but the trick seems to be to expose myself to situations that trigger an anxiety level of ca 40, for some time, without using any strategies for calming myself down, and then removing myself from that situation. Over time I feel less and less anxious, something that might have put me into the 60-70 range might no longer be a problem (I have noticed that happening), and I find my limits have been pushed wider. \\n Take going to the store for example. Some people might freak out just stepping outside their house. Other people might make it to the door of the store, but not have the courage to go inside. Some people can go inside just fine, but are self-conscious about actually buying something, because it's revealing. Some people can buy stuff just fine, but hope not to meet people they know at the store, etc. \\n By methodically exposing oneself to the right level of difficulty, one might find that stuff that was a problem is no longer a problem, and stuff that'd put you into 70+ are now 40ish, and before long, they too may be no problem. \\n Okay, so I gave you more than you asked for here, not just what it feels like, but how I've come to deal with it as well.\",\n \"Summary: Was christian, through incremental steps i became a satanist, then a deist, then an atheist. \\n As for what sort of atheist I am, that'd technically be an agnostic atheist, however, I think the likelyhood of there being a god seems vanishingly small.\\n\\nPost: Not religious anymore, though I was raised a Christian, in a household that was very relaxed about religion. \\n This is going to be quite long, but it explains my process in detail. \\n From a very early age I was sent to Sunday school, but my parents saw it mostly as a social thing, and I think I was allowed to quit, either that or they pulled me out, or something. \\n I used to pray that things would be better, my mom was often sick, both physically and mentally, and I was bullied a lot at school, prayed for it to stop, for me not to get the shit kicked out of me, stuff like that. There were nights I'd cry myself to sleep, and wondering why God wouldn't help me out, what had I done wrong to deserve what was happening to me? I was too little to understand that the universe isn't fair. \\n Having a gay aunt, and parents who weren't married, and there being a fair amount of swearing at home, and all sorts of little things like that, it shaped a religious view where I believed in a personal God, but not a very strict one. Of course, I hadn't ever read the bible, at least not understood any of it, so I had no idea about the mythology, and what demands it makes, nor how up to interpretation it is in many places. \\n I knew very little about Christianity, but I still consider myself to have been a Christian, mind you. Hell, I was so ignorant about the matter that for a long time I didn't even know that unbelievers existed, or that other religions, or even other denominations of the same religion existed, at least until a few years into elementary school. \\n Fast forward to my confirmation. By now I knew there were agnostics, atheists, various religions etc, and knew a bit about many of them. We attended bible studies and we were told to read certain chapters and verses, and I wondered why we were told to read certain things, while other things were not even given mention, so I decided to read as much of the bible as I could be bothered with. I ended up reading most of it. Some time during all this I was confirmed, but the digestion of all this information kept churning around in my head for a long time after that day, and bit by bit I realized how much I detested God, based on what's written about him in the bible. \\n So: Eventually I realized that while I believed God existed, I simply couldn't find it in me to worship said entity. I thought him a cruel tyrannical fuck, not to put too fine a point on it. On top of this I had also gotten into listening to Metal and I had noticed that in the bible, there's very little about Satan, certainly very little negative is said about him. To me, it started to look like he was someone brave enough to stand up to the ultimate tyrant, on principle, despite having no hope of winning at all. I saw him as being a maligned being, essentially being called evil and all of that as a sort of propaganda effort. \\n So for a while I was a theistic satanist. That didn't entail anything like sacrifice and doing evil, I carried on living pretty much as I did before, it was just my attitude to god that had changed. \\n After some months of this, I realized that this too was wrong for me. It started to seem incredibly silly, again partly thanks to me listening a lot to metal, it just opened me to a more critical point of view somehow. \\n At this point I became a deist, because I believed in a creator god, but not a personal one at all. I thought there must have been something that at least put together the laws of nature to create this universe. It didn't make sense to me that there could be any other possibilities. \\n This was the case for many years, until in 2008 I had a nervous breakdown due to extreme sleep deprivation, and during my recovery time after that, I read a lot of everything. I became convinced of practically every conspiracy theory out there. But being someone who likes to subject myself to the contrary point of view to see if my ideas hold up to scrutiny, I looked up resources that debunked these theories. \\n After a lot of that, I evaluated the theories against the debunkings, and one by one, the conspiracy theories fell, and I learned more and more about skepticism, and I became a lot more interested in science, philosophy, discussion, etc. I watched debates, read books, scientifically themed news articles, like at phys.org and other places, and the more I exposed myself to this stuff, the more I started to learn and understand the arguments that the universe may not have been created. \\n Once I realized that this is the case, I became an atheist, not because I'm dead certain the universe doesn't have a creator, but because I think the burden of proof is on people who try to convince me that there is a creator. And that burden of proof has yet to be met as far as I'm concerned. \\n So\",\n \"Summary: I think if anything's sexist in this whole situation, it's not his shirt, but rather the people saying it's going to keep people out of STEM fields because they can't handle that sort of thing, and that's an entirely separate discussion from the discussion about how proper and professional his outfit was.\\n\\nPost: My problem isn't with people saying he didn't dress professionally, but rather with people who make the asinine claim that his shirt is driving women out of STEM. \\n Though I think the shirt was hideous, I still like it better than any combination of suit and tie imaginable. \\n The absurdity of people saying women are are going to be kept away from the career of their dreams (if indeed it is the career of their dreams) because someone somewhere wore a shirt that they didn't like - first of all, it says that women are less interested in research, engineering and actual merit, than they are in being fashion police, and secondly it says that they wouldn't be suitable for that line of work in the first place, because peer review can be so brutal that if someone wearing a shirt you don't like can make you stay out of a career, then the kinds of criticism you get during peer review is probably going to drive them to suicide. Fortunately, I think the people making such claims are making mountains out of molehills. I don't think women are particularly sensitive to that sort of thing, and that they're not so thin-skinned and stupid as these people make them out to be.\",\n \"Summary: War doesn't have to be that costly, neither fiscally or in human impact. I never said I thought it was the US that should have deposed Saddam Hussein, and I think Afghanistan was also grossly mishandled.\\n\\nPost: Saddam certainly toyed with mustard gas and other chemical weapons. As an American, I know this for certain, because we gave them to him! \\n Yes, I know. \\n >The whole idea of \\\"WMD\\\" is an attempt to conflate chemical weapons with nuclear weapons. UN inspectors were all over Iraq, and confirmed that there was no WMD. \\n I prefer the term ABC weapon for clarification, but even so, I don't think WMD is a term constructed to conflate nuclear with chemical or biological weaponry. I think it's a term constructed to describe a weapon that is capable of absolutely catastrophic kill rates. A chemical or a bio-weapon can often do as much damage as a nuke, some times even more. So they do deserve to be called weapons of mass-destruction. \\n >Nobody informed ever disputed the fact that there could be some 20 year old remnants of decaying mustard gas shells somewhere in Iraq, but among informed people, it was universally accepted that there was absolutely no active nuclear, chemical, or biological program in Iraq. \\n Possibly, but there was also a consensus amongst informed people that Saddam really wanted them, and did try to get some, and for all we know, he could have obtained them somewhere down the road. Not to say this is good enough a justification to depose him purely on the hypothetical grounds that he may get what he wants, of course. \\n >You say, \\\"you think he had to be deposed\\\". What makes you think that we have the right to go around invading countries, killing hundreds of thousands of people, and deposing their governments? \\n I didn't say that. I said he had to be removed. Nowhere in there does it say the US had the right to do it, or that it would have to take an invasion, or that hundreds of thousands of people would have to be killed. But as you were so eager to point out, the US helped prop up Saddam in the first place, and I think it was about time they atoned for that sin. It's just a shame they decided to do it by committing a much worse one. That one was avoidable, there was no need to cause hundreds of thousands of deaths to accomplish the goal of deposing Saddam Hussein. It might not even have required a full scale invasion for that matter. \\n >Every single one of our hundreds of invasions and occupations has ended poorly for everyone involved except the politicians, the military-industrial complex, and the banks. \\n If it wasn't for US involvement, there's an excellent chance Hitler would have succeeded during WW2. But apart from that, yes as a nation you do have a fairly spectacular failure rate. Sure, there was the war of independence, and the civil war, which were both massively bloody, but both worth fighting. And there was WW2, and to some extent WW1 as well. \\n I don't deny that war is ugly and bloody and should generally be avoided. But every now and then you're either going to have to stop some maniac with an army in his back, or you're going to let that motherfucker run roughshod over everyone. \\n In a perfect world there would be no violence against one another. But we don't live in a perfect world, and while I would not be the first to draw blood, I do think defense, and war for humanitarian reasons (as oxymoronic as that sounds) can be preferable to the alternative from time to time. \\n >You might not like how a country is run on the other side of the world, but that doesn't mean you should go over there and kill scores of people in a fruitless attempt to make things better, even if you have the military power and financial power (we don't, we are $17.5 trillion dollars in debt due to these wars as of last year). \\n The warfare itself needn't be anywhere near that expensive. I think America has been systematically looted by the richest of the rich, and the corporations they own. Call me a liberal, but I think the decision to rely so heavily on mercenaries, and on developing useless airplanes and having a classical ground army, and people stationed all over the world, and giant black budgets that spy on everyone all the time, and secret prisons for secret prisoners, run by secret agents who need secret planes and secret electricity and secret food and water and god knows what else secret - well, those bills stack up pretty fucking quickly, but it is possible to shave down those costs a lot, and end up with a sleeker and more effective armed services. \\n The Afghanistan conflict was also prolonged for far too long. Wasn't Bin Laden spotted once or twice pretty early on in the war, and could have been popped then and there? Also, why send a whole army, when it's really all about assassinations. That's what the CIA, or possibly Navy Seals are for.\",\n \"Summary: he's great when he can have food and snuggles and relax, but put him in a situation he feels he can't control, and he turns into a clawed velociraptor demon.\\n\\nPost: My cat [Python]( is the coziest little snugglebug at home, but once we wanted to take him to the vet, to check him out, because I'm pretty sure he has ear mites in the left ear, or a yeast infection. \\n We got a cage, put him in it. And took him to the vet. He was furious in the cage and kept ramming the door so hard that it came off, and he was loose in the car, just after we had parked. \\n I tried restraining him, but he was surprisingly strong, and I didn't have a blanket or towel or anything, and he climbed out of my grip with sheer force, ripping into me with his claws, leapt off my shoulder and bolted into some woods nearby. \\n I thought for sure I had lost him that day. I spent a good hour and a half looking for him, but to no success. \\n Two weeks later, he showed up at the door, having found his way home across town. \\n Edit:\",\n \"Summary: I say God Jul, and eat and drink absurd quantities of stuff, and hang out with family, talking, listening to music, playing board games, maybe watching a movie, whatever we feel like doing, on december 25th, as our \\\"julaften\\\" celebration. Nothing Christian in it for me.\\n\\nPost: Yes and no. Here in Norway, the word \\\"christ\\\" has never been part of our winter solstice rituals. \\n We call it Jul. The main day we celebrate is December 24th, or \\\"Julaften\\\" (aften means evening), and while most people associate it with Christianity at this point (decorating their trees with angels and things like that) there's still some pagan elements in it all. The holiday greeting isn't \\\"Merry Christmas\\\" but \\\"God Jul\\\". The word Jul is derived from the Norse Jól, which was originally celebrated on January 12th, so it was moved for Christianity, by \\\"Håkon the Good\\\", some time in the 900's, and banned the old 12th of January celebration, as part of the process to convert Norway to Christianity, a job that wouldn't really be fully completed before the Black Plague had it's way with the country, killing anyone who could read or write, and we had to import scholars and \\\"nobles\\\" from places like Denmark, that had already been completely Christened. \\n So yeah,\",\n \"Summary: Except for one small point, (historicity of Jesus) I have to agree with Cracked.com on this one.\\n\\nPost: Well, Religulous seems to be more of a comedy mockumentary than anything, really. And Bill Maher isn't a particularly skeptical person, based on earlier views on health and dieting for example. He seems to have gotten better, but I don't know. \\n It's unimportant to me whether those claims are legitimate or not. I don't take Maher seriously as anything other than a comedian, and I therefore take everything he says with a truckload of salt as far as facts go. I can laugh at it, but then again he seems to do that for me, so I don't have to. \\n About the criticisms found at cracked, I don't know all that much about the particulars of the sixteen crucified saviors that Surfeit6 writes about, but I do know that the sources for Jesus are basically the bible + a halfhearted mention by Josephus. Which to me doesn't sound like strong evidence. \\n It makes it sort of likely that there was a Jew named Yeshua that spoke on matters of religion, in those days, but it's my impression that mad prophets were a growth industry in that region back then, so it's not surprising if true, and it doesn't verify any of Jesus' supposed claims, not that he ever said any of the things attributed to him, not the story of his life, and least of all, the veracity of his claims, should they indeed have been uttered by him in the first place. \\n I think we have a formidable enough arsenal of facts and arguments on our side that we don't need to make shit up, which I think Maher did too much in that video.\",\n \"Summary: Chinese restaurant' chop suey recipe - knowing full well that people in China don't usually eat stuff like that, because it's an American invention by immigrants, rather like tikka masala is in the UK. \\n EDIT: I would also recommend this one if you want something a bit more authentic: but it's quite spicy. \\n EDIT2: Fixed some things. Looks right now.\\n\\nPost: A decent chop suey recipe I like to do is: \\n Boil some water and dissolve a knorr chicken stock cube in it. The stock takes time to dissolve. You can use your own stock too, but for this, I actually think the knorr one is best, if you want to mimic chinese restaurant results. \\n Get some broccoli florettes, and blanch them until they soften a bit, then put them aside for later. \\n Julienne some carrots, onion, red and green bell peppers and squash \\n Slice white button mushroom and water chestnuts, and very thinly slice some red chilipepper \\n Finely chop some ginger and garlic \\n Cut chicken thigh meat into strips, pepper them, and sear them at very high temperature, constantly moving them around until they're just very slightly undercooked. They'll do some cooking later on, so you'll want them slightly undercooked now, to prevent them from being overcooked later, so transfer the cooked chicken to a bowl. \\n Next you cook the vegetables in the pan. Start by cooking at high temperature for a short while the onion, pepper, carrot, broccoli and water chestnut, when they start to get a bit of color on them, and soften slightly, you transfer them out to another bowl, Then you lower the temperature and cook the mushroom and squash together for a little bit, and transfer in with the other cooked vegetables, drizzle over some oyster sauce and toss it around so it's coated relatively evenly. \\n Now mix in a bowl a teaspoon of fish sauce, a tablespoon of dark soy sauce, and a tablespoon or two of oyster sauce, and pour it over the chicken. \\n Make cornstarch slurry using the chicken stock and corn starch. \\n Make sure the heat is low on the pan, add the garlic, ginger and chili, stir a bit until it softens, crank up the heat a bit and add the other vegetables, when the heat is up a bit, add the chicken again, and the fish / soy / oyster sauce mix, stir, let cook for a short time, then add the cornstarch slurry to thicken it. \\n Just make sure you don't over do the cooking time, because you want the vegetables to have some bite to them, and the chicken not to be overcooked, so you gotta work fast. \\n I like to serve this with jasmine rice. For that I measure up 2dl uncooked jasmine rice and I wash it in cold water in a glass bowl until the water is cloudy enough that I can't even see the rice, I discard the water, add fresh cold water, stir until it's cloudy, repeat until the water no longer goes cloudy. Then I boil about 4dl water in a cooking pot, add some salt or home made chicken stock, or both, add the rice, turn down the heat and let it simmer for a couple of minutes. Once it simmers nicely on low temperature, I stir to loosen it from the bottom, and put a lid on, and let it sit for about 15 minutes. Then I turn off the heat, remove the cooking pot from the heat, and leave it sitting for at least five minutes with the lid still on. The steam will make the rice fragrant and fluffy, but that won't happen if you lift the lid before the time is right.\",\n \"Summary: Not convinced by Frank Turek's lack of - and simultaneously overactive - imagination.\\n\\nPost: I wonder what exactly he means by an infinite universe. The only universe he can be referring to must be an universe with an infinite past, but I don't know of any scientists that claim that. To the contrary, I always hear the claim that time itself began with the big bang, so if that's true, there must have been a first moment in our finite past, near as I can figure. \\n That doesn't mean that time wouldn't keep going for infinity into the future. \\n It's like imagining a column of numbers, which start with the number 1. At each next step, add 1. This can be done an infinite amount of times, but even though it'll grow infinitely, it only does so in one direction. \\n And if the universe keeps expanding as long as there is time in which it can expand, the universe will at any given point in time be of finite size, but in the framework of passing time, it'd be infinitely big in one direction, but would still have a finite size at a specific moment, such as for example ten minutes after the big bang. \\n So, if time itself is infinitely long (but with a fixed starting point), and the universe is infinitely big (as a function of time), the universe would be fully justifiable as being considered infinite in size, and duration, without requiring an infinite amount of moments into the past. \\n But let's suppose he'd be right, suppose it did require an infinite amount of moments into the past. Well, there is the theory that the universe is a series of big bangs and crunches. Expansion and contraction, every time the universe \\\"reboots\\\" for a lack of a better word, and it all starts anew. My sleepy brain seems to think that this most logically would be a form of circularity. And in a circle you can keep going in either direction as much as you want. The circle might be in a finite size, but if you keep tracing it, you can trace it infinitely. Much like you may be able to with big bang-and-crunch cycles. I don't know. I have the distinct impression that I'm rambling at this point, so I'll round it off.\",\n \"Summary: icompetent millionaire executive uses the understaffed IT department to fix his personal laptop, after he'd been too much of a cheapskate to buy his own music legally.\\n\\nPost: Probably one of the executives at the business where I worked. He's making millions a year and still used the IT department at the business he worked as his personal tech support (then again it seemed like everyone at that business did). We were understaffed and several of us were working ourselves to the bone. I was an unpaid intern, and got a lot of those jobs as they came along. \\n The guy is filthy rich and still pirated music via shit like LimeWire, this was about 9 months ago, by the way. \\n His PC was \\\"protected\\\" by an unupdated, expired copy of norton antivirus 2009, he had never installed anything off of windows update, and I think some sort of malware had destroyed large portions of his windows registry, to the point where windows update, and a large series of other services and utilities simply didn't work anymore.\"\n]","isConversational":false},"profile_size":{"kind":"number","value":16,"string":"16"},"task":{"kind":"string","value":"longlamp_4"},"split_kind":{"kind":"string","value":"user_based"},"id":{"kind":"number","value":1398,"string":"1,398"}}},{"rowIdx":1399,"cells":{"question_id":{"kind":"string","value":"carbonmonoxide"},"question":{"kind":"string","value":"Generate the content for a reddit post version: Is an MFA in Theatrical Production worth the debt and time?"},"answer":{"kind":"string","value":"So I'm about to graduate from UC Berkeley this Spring with a degree in Theater, Dance, and Performance studies with a focus on lighting design, and two new interests: stage management and directing. I tend to have my hands in everything, and while I occasionally act, I really plan to pursue prodution as a career. \n My main struggle right now is what to do after this year. I do not think I would bother with an MFA in Lighting Design. I'm very self-taught, I have a lot of practical work experience and I just don't feel I can justify paying a lot of money to continue learning in that field. I'm sure it'd be a nice luxury to have more CAD classes and the like, but for my experience level I feel like I might as well apply for internships. \n Stage management on the other hand, I have very little experience in and am more curious about pursuing an MFA. But I always wonder what a MFA is really worth? It's a lot of money for experience you could theoretially be getting through internships. And my professors seem to be very encouraging and telling me that I pick things up really quickly and that an MFA might not be worth the debt. \n Thoughts from professionals? Thoughts from people making their way in the field? Regrets from getting one with a baggage of debt? Regrets from wishing you went and got one when you didn't? I have my hands in so many shows this semestes, with a Technial Directing Internship Position at a local middle school, and medical issues that keep putting me behind on paperwork. I've just been terrible about planning life after college and am trying to get a wide range of advice."},"correct_answer":{"kind":"string","value":"So I'm about to graduate from UC Berkeley this Spring with a degree in Theater, Dance, and Performance studies with a focus on lighting design, and two new interests: stage management and directing. I tend to have my hands in everything, and while I occasionally act, I really plan to pursue prodution as a career. \n My main struggle right now is what to do after this year. I do not think I would bother with an MFA in Lighting Design. I'm very self-taught, I have a lot of practical work experience and I just don't feel I can justify paying a lot of money to continue learning in that field. I'm sure it'd be a nice luxury to have more CAD classes and the like, but for my experience level I feel like I might as well apply for internships. \n Stage management on the other hand, I have very little experience in and am more curious about pursuing an MFA. But I always wonder what a MFA is really worth? It's a lot of money for experience you could theoretially be getting through internships. And my professors seem to be very encouraging and telling me that I pick things up really quickly and that an MFA might not be worth the debt. \n Thoughts from professionals? Thoughts from people making their way in the field? Regrets from getting one with a baggage of debt? Regrets from wishing you went and got one when you didn't? I have my hands in so many shows this semestes, with a Technial Directing Internship Position at a local middle school, and medical issues that keep putting me behind on paperwork. I've just been terrible about planning life after college and am trying to get a wide range of advice."},"documents":{"kind":"list like","value":["Summary: Lupus has changed my life very little. Prognosis is usually good.\n\nPost: I was diagnosed with Lupus when I was 17. I'm 23 now. I went in with extremely inflamed joints that was causing me to move around like I was arthritic. A shot of steroids and not only was I walking straight but I felt like I could do laps around the house. We thought it could've been a fluke. About a month later the same thing happened. Went in to see a rheumetologist, had some tests done. Looked like Lupus. I had also previously been diagnosed with epilepsy and had really bad acne which seem to have some connection to Lupus. I've been on anti-inflammatories and pain medication as needed since and I haven't had any flare ups or needed to make any major life changes. \n It can also be noted that about 20% of the population will test positive for Lupus genetically. But often times the disease lies dormant and can be triggered by stress or other causes. So it's only diagnosed if symptoms are present.","Summary: San Francisco has a deceptively large amount of AEA venues and I know lots of folks who get regular work, but it's one of the most expensive cities in the world to live in so you're still going to need a day job.\n\nPost: I'm graduating in the San Francisco area and am on the technical side of things, so I can't speak to actors pay much. What I will say though is that I've been compiling an excel document of all of AEA's theaters to see what cities might prove to be hot spots for Equity Stage Management work. San Francisco doesn't necessarily have more equity theaters downtown than other cities, but it does have a buttload of equity theaters within commuting distance of San Francisco including Walnut Creek, Berkeley, Oakland, San Jose, etc. (although San Jose would be a kind of long commute and require a car). Why am I moving do you ask? Renting in San Francisco and taking stipends with a part-time day job is impossible for me right now without going into debt or sharing a room. I'd consider coming back in a few years or staying if I had family to help me through the transition, but I'm gonna fly the coop for a few years and possibly return with a better resume and equity card.","Summary: Men and women's issues are two sides of the same coin. Feminism should reflect that, but historically women have had more obvious problems. After women have made up all that ground, we can focus on balancing out more nuanced gender issues.\n\nPost: Feminism is not necessarily a united front, really. As terrible as in-fighting over what is \"the right way to be a feminist\" is, I would definitely argue that it is definitely essential to include men's issues as well. And often times the problems that men face are complimentary to the problems women face. For example, I was reading up on this analysis of the \"expendable male\". While women have historically been pigeon-holed into domestic roles without a lot of social power because we were thought to be the fairer sex, men were often forced to fight in wars or step aside in evacuation situations to observe the women and children first rule, also because men were the tougher sex. Women who are more dominant, or professional, or demanding are sometimes jeered at for not conforming to this subservient supporting role (think Hillary Clinton insults). While men often feel pressured to be domineering or \"manly\" and can be jeered at for not living up to the notions of what it means to be a man (think penis size, think notches in bedposts, think fraternities). \n These issues both stem from the ways in which gender impacts society's expectations of us. To me, feminism means looking at all gender issues, not just women's gendered issues. You complain that a lot of feminist literature seems to place a disproportionate amount of attention on women. I hope to see us move in a direction where feminism is no longer equated with gender battles, but critical gender analysis of both sexes, and there is definitely literature out there that agrees with this sentiment. As Atai has said though. While men have certainly been victims of societal gender norms, women have historically had potentially more obvious problems. As we progress, and things get more nuanced, we'll hopefully not just be looking at women's issues, but gender issues and how they connect to each other. \n Why did I become a feminist? I believe in gender equality. End of story.","Summary: It was a life saver for me when I had medical issues and couldn't attend public school. There are advantages and disadvantages.\n\nPost: I did private christian school, public school, and then finally charter school/independent studies. In general I really liked public school but I had health complications that made it nearly impossible for me to succeed towards the end of high school. Charter school helped me continue my education and graduate on time, doing nearly all my work from home. I did enroll in extracurriculars during the periods where I was doing better, and that was really therapeutic for me and good for my recovery. Because I had to help design my own curriculum, I learned to take a more active role in my education and I tended to be more prone to petition things once I got to college. I suppose you get used to making arguments and advocating for your education and interests. If you do it right and you're working with a good specialist.","Summary: It's not plausible to do it in 4. Depending on your health you might be able to shave off a couple weeks and do it in 6 or 7. But it's really best to do it in 8 or 9.\n\nPost: Depending on your starting level of fitness, you could probably skip week 1. Maybe week 2. I was debating doing that since I was running 4 minute intervals no sweat earlier this year and ran/walked a 10K. But I took the summer off and so I did the program week for week and I found it useful. If you really are out of shape though, I wouldn't recommend doing that. \n I also use an alternative plan through my 10K Runner app which is mostly identical to the C25K plan but does it in 8 weeks instead of 9. Although I took some extended weekends so I will be finishing in close to 9 weeks. So if you used that app, and if you cut the first two weeks (which I don't recommend), you would be looking at 6 weeks instead of 9 weeks. \n Once you get into Week 4, it can really start to kick your ass even if you follow the original plan. Do not condense it any further that what I've recommended and really do consider sticking with the 9 (or 8) week plan. Occasionally people will post on here and talk about how they tacked on an extra five minutes or skipped forward a day but they don't plan for that. They're pumped up, they have the energy to spare, and they make the judgement call while they're running. They make the call that it's a healthy decision. \n Do take care of yourself. The last thing you want to do is burn out during basic.","Summary: I have both PTSD with dissociative episodes and epilepsy. If you start having episodes again, an ambulatory EEG will help doctors monitor what your brain activity looks like during your episodes.\n\nPost: First of all, an MRI and blood tests don't have a lot to do with an epilepsy diagnosis. Those tests are mainly used to rule out other causes of seizures such as tumors, etc. They might have been looking for mesial temporal sclerosis which would indicate Temporal Lobe Epilepsy, but it's easy to have epilepsy and have everything come back normal. \n I would suggest an ambulatory EEG. I was absolutely an epileptic, I had multiple grand mal seizures at a very young age. In my teens I started suffering from dissociative episodes which we reasonably assumed were seizures. I spent a week in the hospital reporting my dissociative episodes and the doctors looked at my brain activity. \n Turns out my EEG was 100% normal during my dissociative episodes. However, I would have tiny twitches or eye fluttering episodes which I wasn't aware of and so I wasn't reporting them. So I was having seizures but I was also having dissociative episodes. They kept me on medication and referred me to a psychiatrist. I was already being treated for severe depression. After that I was also diagnosed with PTSD.","Summary: warm up stretching helps with the first five minutes of my run. Cool down stretching helps with the two days after.\n\nPost: I really like stretching because I used to do a lot of intense ballet and it makes me nostalgic. But I've heard that the benefits have been \"debunked\" so I've experimented. If I don't stretch before I run I find the first five minutes to be especially difficult on my legs. Even after a 5 minute warm up walk, I feel tight. On colder days this sometimes happens even with warm up stretches. \n If I don't stretch afterwards, I regret it for the next 36 hours or so. Everything is so sore and miserable. But it's easy enough to avoid if I just foam roll things out and do some stretches.","Summary: To impress an old triathlete boss.\n\nPost: I got a pretty cool job in Hollywood when I first moved down here. ^cough Oscars ^cough. \n My supervisor was a triathlete. I mentioned off-hand that I once-upon-a-time power- walked shuffled a half marathon with my Mom. He invited me to his running club one evening. I made an earnest determined fool of myself for a few weeks. I did get to the point where I could run 4 blocks walk 2 blocks for the length of a 10K, but then I had to take the summer off due to medical problems. \n I'm going to complete the C25K program and then just casually show up to his running club one week and run the entire three mile neighborhood course with him. I won't be able to keep up with his 7 minute pace, but he won't be expecting me to run more than five minutes straight and I'm really looking forward to seeing the look on his face. \n The lengths we go to network in this town... \"What's that? You love running? I love running!\" Shit. Now I need to start running. \n But then I learned to actually have fun doing it. It feels empowering. Now I do it for myself.","Summary: What Honda certified mechanics in the East Bay do you trust? Would they be willing to do a pre-purchase inspection on a rebuilt salvage title?\n\nPost: I'm looking at this Accord up in Richmond. My budget isn't much but I found a Honda with 100K miles on it that is only in my price range because it's a rebuilt salvaged vehicle. I'm perfectly fine with rebuilt salvage vehicles as long as the collision was minor and quality repair was done. It seems to have had quality repairs and I had a very good rapport with the seller, but I'm not mechanically knowledgeable enough to be sure. (I do good research so most sellers think I'm much more knowledgeable than I appear, but it's all temporary big purchase advice and nothing actually relevant.) \n I called a shop to ask for a pre-purchase inspection and explained the situation. They told me that they refused to do pre-purchase inspections on salvage vehicles because if they didn't find something and there was a problem down the line, then they might be held liable. He explained that this was pretty customary for most respected mechanics and he'd doubt I'd find one willing to do it. Even though plenty of people (and the mechanics I'm more familiar with in Santa Cruz) say that that's the best way to buy a rebuilt salvage vehicle and that just about anyone who's certified to work with honda's should do it for $100. \n I'm actually looking at the car in Richmond but does anyone have trusted mechanics that might not be so uptight about avoiding salvage vehicles? It looks like the bumper and right rear fender were replaced but the guy says there's no frame damage. And as long as there's no frame damage and the collision was a rear fender bender, I feel like I can trust all the crucial elements to work. I just like doing things by the book.","Summary: What pills do you gals take? Bonus points if your pill treats acne and depression. \n Edit : What on earth? Why the down vote? \n Update : The doctor is putting me back on Yaz and is comfortable just adding Spirnolactone on top of the Yaz. We'll monitor the potassium levels with blood tests and re-evaluate if the combined medications are ever a problem. She was rather surprised to learn that lower estrogen pills tend to have a bad effect on me but the amount of estrogen in Yaz seems to sit okay with me and now we just need to add more anti-androgen agents.\n\nPost: I recently went off of my birth control pill, Yaz, in favor of a copper IUD in part so that I could go on another medication which could not be combined with Yaz and in part because my OBGYN wanted me off of a birth control pill so that my Lupus might get better and my Bipolar medications might be more effective. \n Well that backfired. My flares have gotten worse for 33% of the month and my moods have been swinging way more than usual, erring on the side of major depression and irritability. Upping my Naproxen dose wasn't really working for my flares and so I want to go back on the pill but ideally I'd rather not go back on Yaz (it worked almost perfectly but it wasn't treating my acne and I'd rather keep my new acne-treating pill). \n My rheumy (and the internet) recommended trying pills that rely on progesterone but are low in estrogen. That said the main symptoms that I need help with are acne and moods/depression. Because lupus, PCOS, and bipolar disorder. \n So I was wondering what pills you guys take and have success with? The last time I tried Loestrin was bad. And I was on ortho-tri-cyclen many many years ago but I don't remember why we took me off of it.","Summary: Just moved to town. Have been applying to PA/Development/Assistant jobs. Had a seizure. Will likely lose my license temporarily. What are my options?\n\nPost: So I moved to Los Angeles with some savings in February with the intention of landing a foot in the industry. I worked as a Press Guide for the Oscars this year which was really cool. Unfortunately that was a temporary position and I’ve been looking for my next job. I have a background in stage management and theatrical design but have been applying to various PA jobs, development office internships, talent agency jobs, and administrative assistant jobs with the end goal of working in production somehow. (AD, production coordinator, and producer all seem to be good end goals considering my skill set. I like logistics but I also like being in the thick of things, solving problems, managing chaos, and getting my hands dirty.) A cornerstone job qualification for all of those jobs being, “You must have a valid drivers license and your own car.” Great! \n Unfortunately I just had a seizure this week. And I expect to have my license be put on probation for anywhere between three months and two years. Talk about a wrench in the works. \n Back to the drawing board. My Mom suggested going back to school whether it be a grad program or a technical school with some postproduction classes. I’ve always believed that it’s more practical to gain experience on the job rather than through expensive schools, and most grad programs have stopped accepting applications for Fall 2014 anyways. \n What are my options here? Being able to drive seems to be a very vital requirement for most entry-level jobs/internships in this town. Are there any technical school classes that might be worth investing in until my license is reinstated? I really don’t want to sit back and twiddle my thumbs in the meantime. What strategies can I use or what alternative track can I take to making this work?","Summary: How do you explain that prescribed sleep medications are different than self-medicating with alcohol?\n\nPost: I’m a bit of at a loss as to where to post this. I don’t want to give my Mom’s whole story so I’ll try to be as brief as possible. \n After coming home from college I noticed some red flags in my Mom’s drinking behavior and I brought them to her attention. While dismissive at first, it seems I sowed some seeds and it’s a reoccurring topic that comes up from time to time. Tonight she was the one to pause the television and bring up that she recognized that she wanted to come home and get really drunk tonight in response to her stress at work earlier this week; and that that was really unhealthy. And I engaged her but the question came up, “Well…you take Trazodone to sleep when you’ve had a hard day. Why can’t I have a drink so that I can sleep at night?” \n I’ve been taking Trazodone for about ten years (since I was 15). I had sleep troubles dating back to eight years old but it wasn’t until I was in the hospital from a severe depression episode that the doctors gave me something to treat me for it. I started on 150mg but these days I usually only have to take 50mg. A lot of my friends point to it and say that I’m addicted and that it’s a pharmaceutical scam and nobody in the world should ever take sleep medication for their entire life. But honestly…I lived off of four hours of restless sleep every night for six years before I was on it. If I don’t take it today, I experience the exact same thing. I have Epilepsy, Lupus, PTSD, and Bipolar Disorder. Sleep is incredibly critical to those conditions not rearing their ugly heads. \n Anyways. My doctors have been happy to prescribe them and I’m constantly testing to see what the minimum effective dose is. My Mom has never made me defend my use of sleep aids. But tonight she did. And I didn’t have an answer. “They’re prescribed rather than self-medicated.” \"I take trazodone whether I've had a hard day or not. Even on great days, sleep is a problem.\" “They don’t have anything to do with my emotional well-being, it's a biological inability to wind down and stay asleep.” She seemed confused. Don’t I take them because I’m anxious? They were prescribed to me when I was at the height of my anxiety problem, but I had poor sleep without anxiety before then and if I go off the medication currently, I have poor sleep without anxiety now. \n If an acquaintance goes off on some tirade about the evil pharmaceutical conspiracy of sleep aids followed by how pot would be better for me, I can quietly give them the finger and write them off as ignorant. The thirty doctors or so that I’ve been to in the last ten years are going to outweigh their pedestrian advice any day. But here I was with my Mom and I actually did want to engage her. I wanted to actually explain my drug usage because it might benefit HER well-being. It’s just a conversation I haven’t engaged in for like seven years. \n I recognize that her putting me on the defensive like that is also a flag. But it didn’t seem to be purely for the purposes of flipping the tables. A part of her seemed to really want to play devil’s advocate so that she could better put the puzzle together that would explain why her behavior might need addressing. She seemed to want the excuse to confront the problem head on. And I felt like we were SO close to putting the puzzle together tonight, except for the “Well my doctor said it’s okay, so it must be fine” line of logic seemed really insufficient. I know it’s more than that, but I haven’t had to articulate it in a long time. Any help?","Summary: How have other medically high-maintenance folks fared with medi-cal? I have an insanely complicated web of medical problems and I've only had PPOs before. I'm concerned medi-cal will not be equipped to give me proper care.\n\nPost: Change of plans, I guess. \n I moved to Los Angeles earlier this year as a 25-year old who had one more year on my Mom's insurance plan. As someone with lupus, epilepsy, bipolar disorder, and a bunch of other things, I have been following the Obamacare plans since 2012 creating excel sheets and trying to figure out which Covered CA plan would be best to purchase. I decided over a year ago that the Platinum Blue Cross PPO would be most cost-effective for me. Yes, the premiums were higher but it would save me money in the long run and I was sure I'd be eligible for the full subsidy. \n Keep in mind, when I moved down to Los Angeles I was careful to pick all of my doctors so that they would stay in network when I transferred from my Mom's plan to the state exchange plan. \n But it turns out I'm eligible for medi-cal. And I honestly have no idea how this shit works. I know that there aren't premiums or co-pays but I have no idea if I'll be able to keep my current doctors or not. If it could save me the estimated $200 a month that I would have paid in premiums and co-pays, then that might be worth it. But I am in a position where my Grandma floats my Mom money so that she can float me some money to help with expenses like this. If Medi-Cal means losing my doctors and having severely limited choices, losing my one brand name medication coverage, or even worse red tape when it comes to my healthcare, it might be worth it to say thanks but no thanks and turn to family for help. \n Would love advice.","Summary: How have other medically high-maintenance folks fared with medi-cal? I have an insanely complicated web of medical problems and I've only had PPOs before. I'm concerned medi-cal will not be equipped to give me proper care.\n\nPost: Change of plans, I guess. \n I moved to Los Angeles earlier this year as a 25-year old who had one more year on my Mom's insurance plan. As someone with lupus, epilepsy, bipolar disorder, and a bunch of other things, I have been following the Obamacare plans since 2012 creating excel sheets and trying to figure out which Covered CA plan would be best to purchase. I decided over a year ago that the Platinum Blue Cross PPO would be most cost-effective for me. Yes, the premiums were higher but it would save me money in the long run and I was sure I'd be eligible for the full subsidy. \n Keep in mind, when I moved down to Los Angeles I was careful to pick all of my doctors so that they would stay in network when I transferred from my Mom's plan to the state exchange plan.\nBut it turns out I'm eligible for medi-cal. And I honestly have no idea how this shit works. I know that there aren't premiums or co-pays but I have no idea if I'll be able to keep my current doctors or not. If it could save me the estimated $200 a month that I would have paid in premiums and co-pays, then that might be worth it. But I am in a position where my Grandma floats my Mom money so that she can float me some money to help with expenses like this. If Medi-Cal means losing my doctors and having severely limited choices, losing my one brand name medication coverage, or even worse red tape when it comes to my healthcare, it might be worth it to say thanks but no thanks and turn to family for help. \n Would love advice.","Summary: MRI came back with mescal temporal sclerosis for first time in 17 years of epilepsy. How worried should I be?\n\nPost: My MRI results came back today with Mesial Temporal Sclerosis and I'm having a hard time not freaking out over it. \n I was diagnosed with epilepsy 17 years ago and the medication controlled it for years, but seems to be less effective in recent years. My MRIs have always come back normal (as recently as two years ago). But 7 years ago I was diagnosed with Lupus and then last year I had a manic episode and was diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder. \n If this was something that had always been there, I think I'd be less worried. But I've been extra depressed and foggy lately (Lamictal dose raised perhaps) and now we find this. \n I know it's common with Temporal Lobe Epilepsy but what are people's experiences with it? Has it not affected you at all? Did it progress at all? Was surgery necessary and successful?","Summary: Doctor thinks I have pinched nerves in S-1, S-2, or S-3 on my right leg. My lumbar/sacral discs look healthy so he thinks that lupus may be causing inflammation somewhere else in the region. Has anyone else had similar problems with inflammation causing nerve pain or simply having inflamed nerves?\n\nPost: I've been seeing a chiropractor since the new year for some very strange leg pain that originally seemed rooted in my right groin/hip but has dulled up top and instead just created this dull pain/tightness/weakness down my right leg. My gait became abnormal and there's now some extra stress on the left ankle and left knee from compensating. I'm not in terrible pain as long as I remain sedentary, but a few weeks prior I was training for a marathon. I took Christmas off to visit family. And then when I came back I was suddenly unable to do anything without feeling a lot of pain. \n I finally saw an orthopedist today after having zero luck with a chiropractor. I herniated three discs (S-1, L-5, L4) in my spine back in 2011 so looking at my symptoms and my history he bet that I had a pinched S-1 nerve. You know. Except that he could thump my lumbar area without me complaining of any pain. The X-Rays came back and my discs looked awesome! And my core looked nice and strong. Which has him guessing that the nerve is pinched or inflamed further down. He's not sure if the nerve itself is taking damage or if it's the surrounding tissue that's becoming inflamed and irritating the nerve. But he seemed convinced that my lupus must be causing inflammation somewhere. There is kind of a precedent for this back from 2013 where I had weird nerve pain in my right shoulder, but they just seemed to blame it on fibromyalgia back then. \n Has anyone had this before? It kind of makes sense, because it's similar to how I would have described my sciatica four years ago, albeit much duller/quieter. I feel like I'm not in \"true pain\". But I was keeping up with exercises really well in December and now I can't even do my ten minutes of planking in the morning without aggravating my glute muscle and walking funny the rest of the day. \n Did physical therapy help? I'm already on my 500 mg of Naproxen twice a day and I really don't feel like I can justify further pain medication. I just want to resume normal activity."],"string":"[\n \"Summary: Lupus has changed my life very little. Prognosis is usually good.\\n\\nPost: I was diagnosed with Lupus when I was 17. I'm 23 now. I went in with extremely inflamed joints that was causing me to move around like I was arthritic. A shot of steroids and not only was I walking straight but I felt like I could do laps around the house. We thought it could've been a fluke. About a month later the same thing happened. Went in to see a rheumetologist, had some tests done. Looked like Lupus. I had also previously been diagnosed with epilepsy and had really bad acne which seem to have some connection to Lupus. I've been on anti-inflammatories and pain medication as needed since and I haven't had any flare ups or needed to make any major life changes. \\n It can also be noted that about 20% of the population will test positive for Lupus genetically. But often times the disease lies dormant and can be triggered by stress or other causes. So it's only diagnosed if symptoms are present.\",\n \"Summary: San Francisco has a deceptively large amount of AEA venues and I know lots of folks who get regular work, but it's one of the most expensive cities in the world to live in so you're still going to need a day job.\\n\\nPost: I'm graduating in the San Francisco area and am on the technical side of things, so I can't speak to actors pay much. What I will say though is that I've been compiling an excel document of all of AEA's theaters to see what cities might prove to be hot spots for Equity Stage Management work. San Francisco doesn't necessarily have more equity theaters downtown than other cities, but it does have a buttload of equity theaters within commuting distance of San Francisco including Walnut Creek, Berkeley, Oakland, San Jose, etc. (although San Jose would be a kind of long commute and require a car). Why am I moving do you ask? Renting in San Francisco and taking stipends with a part-time day job is impossible for me right now without going into debt or sharing a room. I'd consider coming back in a few years or staying if I had family to help me through the transition, but I'm gonna fly the coop for a few years and possibly return with a better resume and equity card.\",\n \"Summary: Men and women's issues are two sides of the same coin. Feminism should reflect that, but historically women have had more obvious problems. After women have made up all that ground, we can focus on balancing out more nuanced gender issues.\\n\\nPost: Feminism is not necessarily a united front, really. As terrible as in-fighting over what is \\\"the right way to be a feminist\\\" is, I would definitely argue that it is definitely essential to include men's issues as well. And often times the problems that men face are complimentary to the problems women face. For example, I was reading up on this analysis of the \\\"expendable male\\\". While women have historically been pigeon-holed into domestic roles without a lot of social power because we were thought to be the fairer sex, men were often forced to fight in wars or step aside in evacuation situations to observe the women and children first rule, also because men were the tougher sex. Women who are more dominant, or professional, or demanding are sometimes jeered at for not conforming to this subservient supporting role (think Hillary Clinton insults). While men often feel pressured to be domineering or \\\"manly\\\" and can be jeered at for not living up to the notions of what it means to be a man (think penis size, think notches in bedposts, think fraternities). \\n These issues both stem from the ways in which gender impacts society's expectations of us. To me, feminism means looking at all gender issues, not just women's gendered issues. You complain that a lot of feminist literature seems to place a disproportionate amount of attention on women. I hope to see us move in a direction where feminism is no longer equated with gender battles, but critical gender analysis of both sexes, and there is definitely literature out there that agrees with this sentiment. As Atai has said though. While men have certainly been victims of societal gender norms, women have historically had potentially more obvious problems. As we progress, and things get more nuanced, we'll hopefully not just be looking at women's issues, but gender issues and how they connect to each other. \\n Why did I become a feminist? I believe in gender equality. End of story.\",\n \"Summary: It was a life saver for me when I had medical issues and couldn't attend public school. There are advantages and disadvantages.\\n\\nPost: I did private christian school, public school, and then finally charter school/independent studies. In general I really liked public school but I had health complications that made it nearly impossible for me to succeed towards the end of high school. Charter school helped me continue my education and graduate on time, doing nearly all my work from home. I did enroll in extracurriculars during the periods where I was doing better, and that was really therapeutic for me and good for my recovery. Because I had to help design my own curriculum, I learned to take a more active role in my education and I tended to be more prone to petition things once I got to college. I suppose you get used to making arguments and advocating for your education and interests. If you do it right and you're working with a good specialist.\",\n \"Summary: It's not plausible to do it in 4. Depending on your health you might be able to shave off a couple weeks and do it in 6 or 7. But it's really best to do it in 8 or 9.\\n\\nPost: Depending on your starting level of fitness, you could probably skip week 1. Maybe week 2. I was debating doing that since I was running 4 minute intervals no sweat earlier this year and ran/walked a 10K. But I took the summer off and so I did the program week for week and I found it useful. If you really are out of shape though, I wouldn't recommend doing that. \\n I also use an alternative plan through my 10K Runner app which is mostly identical to the C25K plan but does it in 8 weeks instead of 9. Although I took some extended weekends so I will be finishing in close to 9 weeks. So if you used that app, and if you cut the first two weeks (which I don't recommend), you would be looking at 6 weeks instead of 9 weeks. \\n Once you get into Week 4, it can really start to kick your ass even if you follow the original plan. Do not condense it any further that what I've recommended and really do consider sticking with the 9 (or 8) week plan. Occasionally people will post on here and talk about how they tacked on an extra five minutes or skipped forward a day but they don't plan for that. They're pumped up, they have the energy to spare, and they make the judgement call while they're running. They make the call that it's a healthy decision. \\n Do take care of yourself. The last thing you want to do is burn out during basic.\",\n \"Summary: I have both PTSD with dissociative episodes and epilepsy. If you start having episodes again, an ambulatory EEG will help doctors monitor what your brain activity looks like during your episodes.\\n\\nPost: First of all, an MRI and blood tests don't have a lot to do with an epilepsy diagnosis. Those tests are mainly used to rule out other causes of seizures such as tumors, etc. They might have been looking for mesial temporal sclerosis which would indicate Temporal Lobe Epilepsy, but it's easy to have epilepsy and have everything come back normal. \\n I would suggest an ambulatory EEG. I was absolutely an epileptic, I had multiple grand mal seizures at a very young age. In my teens I started suffering from dissociative episodes which we reasonably assumed were seizures. I spent a week in the hospital reporting my dissociative episodes and the doctors looked at my brain activity. \\n Turns out my EEG was 100% normal during my dissociative episodes. However, I would have tiny twitches or eye fluttering episodes which I wasn't aware of and so I wasn't reporting them. So I was having seizures but I was also having dissociative episodes. They kept me on medication and referred me to a psychiatrist. I was already being treated for severe depression. After that I was also diagnosed with PTSD.\",\n \"Summary: warm up stretching helps with the first five minutes of my run. Cool down stretching helps with the two days after.\\n\\nPost: I really like stretching because I used to do a lot of intense ballet and it makes me nostalgic. But I've heard that the benefits have been \\\"debunked\\\" so I've experimented. If I don't stretch before I run I find the first five minutes to be especially difficult on my legs. Even after a 5 minute warm up walk, I feel tight. On colder days this sometimes happens even with warm up stretches. \\n If I don't stretch afterwards, I regret it for the next 36 hours or so. Everything is so sore and miserable. But it's easy enough to avoid if I just foam roll things out and do some stretches.\",\n \"Summary: To impress an old triathlete boss.\\n\\nPost: I got a pretty cool job in Hollywood when I first moved down here. ^cough Oscars ^cough. \\n My supervisor was a triathlete. I mentioned off-hand that I once-upon-a-time power- walked shuffled a half marathon with my Mom. He invited me to his running club one evening. I made an earnest determined fool of myself for a few weeks. I did get to the point where I could run 4 blocks walk 2 blocks for the length of a 10K, but then I had to take the summer off due to medical problems. \\n I'm going to complete the C25K program and then just casually show up to his running club one week and run the entire three mile neighborhood course with him. I won't be able to keep up with his 7 minute pace, but he won't be expecting me to run more than five minutes straight and I'm really looking forward to seeing the look on his face. \\n The lengths we go to network in this town... \\\"What's that? You love running? I love running!\\\" Shit. Now I need to start running. \\n But then I learned to actually have fun doing it. It feels empowering. Now I do it for myself.\",\n \"Summary: What Honda certified mechanics in the East Bay do you trust? Would they be willing to do a pre-purchase inspection on a rebuilt salvage title?\\n\\nPost: I'm looking at this Accord up in Richmond. My budget isn't much but I found a Honda with 100K miles on it that is only in my price range because it's a rebuilt salvaged vehicle. I'm perfectly fine with rebuilt salvage vehicles as long as the collision was minor and quality repair was done. It seems to have had quality repairs and I had a very good rapport with the seller, but I'm not mechanically knowledgeable enough to be sure. (I do good research so most sellers think I'm much more knowledgeable than I appear, but it's all temporary big purchase advice and nothing actually relevant.) \\n I called a shop to ask for a pre-purchase inspection and explained the situation. They told me that they refused to do pre-purchase inspections on salvage vehicles because if they didn't find something and there was a problem down the line, then they might be held liable. He explained that this was pretty customary for most respected mechanics and he'd doubt I'd find one willing to do it. Even though plenty of people (and the mechanics I'm more familiar with in Santa Cruz) say that that's the best way to buy a rebuilt salvage vehicle and that just about anyone who's certified to work with honda's should do it for $100. \\n I'm actually looking at the car in Richmond but does anyone have trusted mechanics that might not be so uptight about avoiding salvage vehicles? It looks like the bumper and right rear fender were replaced but the guy says there's no frame damage. And as long as there's no frame damage and the collision was a rear fender bender, I feel like I can trust all the crucial elements to work. I just like doing things by the book.\",\n \"Summary: What pills do you gals take? Bonus points if your pill treats acne and depression. \\n Edit : What on earth? Why the down vote? \\n Update : The doctor is putting me back on Yaz and is comfortable just adding Spirnolactone on top of the Yaz. We'll monitor the potassium levels with blood tests and re-evaluate if the combined medications are ever a problem. She was rather surprised to learn that lower estrogen pills tend to have a bad effect on me but the amount of estrogen in Yaz seems to sit okay with me and now we just need to add more anti-androgen agents.\\n\\nPost: I recently went off of my birth control pill, Yaz, in favor of a copper IUD in part so that I could go on another medication which could not be combined with Yaz and in part because my OBGYN wanted me off of a birth control pill so that my Lupus might get better and my Bipolar medications might be more effective. \\n Well that backfired. My flares have gotten worse for 33% of the month and my moods have been swinging way more than usual, erring on the side of major depression and irritability. Upping my Naproxen dose wasn't really working for my flares and so I want to go back on the pill but ideally I'd rather not go back on Yaz (it worked almost perfectly but it wasn't treating my acne and I'd rather keep my new acne-treating pill). \\n My rheumy (and the internet) recommended trying pills that rely on progesterone but are low in estrogen. That said the main symptoms that I need help with are acne and moods/depression. Because lupus, PCOS, and bipolar disorder. \\n So I was wondering what pills you guys take and have success with? The last time I tried Loestrin was bad. And I was on ortho-tri-cyclen many many years ago but I don't remember why we took me off of it.\",\n \"Summary: Just moved to town. Have been applying to PA/Development/Assistant jobs. Had a seizure. Will likely lose my license temporarily. What are my options?\\n\\nPost: So I moved to Los Angeles with some savings in February with the intention of landing a foot in the industry. I worked as a Press Guide for the Oscars this year which was really cool. Unfortunately that was a temporary position and I’ve been looking for my next job. I have a background in stage management and theatrical design but have been applying to various PA jobs, development office internships, talent agency jobs, and administrative assistant jobs with the end goal of working in production somehow. (AD, production coordinator, and producer all seem to be good end goals considering my skill set. I like logistics but I also like being in the thick of things, solving problems, managing chaos, and getting my hands dirty.) A cornerstone job qualification for all of those jobs being, “You must have a valid drivers license and your own car.” Great! \\n Unfortunately I just had a seizure this week. And I expect to have my license be put on probation for anywhere between three months and two years. Talk about a wrench in the works. \\n Back to the drawing board. My Mom suggested going back to school whether it be a grad program or a technical school with some postproduction classes. I’ve always believed that it’s more practical to gain experience on the job rather than through expensive schools, and most grad programs have stopped accepting applications for Fall 2014 anyways. \\n What are my options here? Being able to drive seems to be a very vital requirement for most entry-level jobs/internships in this town. Are there any technical school classes that might be worth investing in until my license is reinstated? I really don’t want to sit back and twiddle my thumbs in the meantime. What strategies can I use or what alternative track can I take to making this work?\",\n \"Summary: How do you explain that prescribed sleep medications are different than self-medicating with alcohol?\\n\\nPost: I’m a bit of at a loss as to where to post this. I don’t want to give my Mom’s whole story so I’ll try to be as brief as possible. \\n After coming home from college I noticed some red flags in my Mom’s drinking behavior and I brought them to her attention. While dismissive at first, it seems I sowed some seeds and it’s a reoccurring topic that comes up from time to time. Tonight she was the one to pause the television and bring up that she recognized that she wanted to come home and get really drunk tonight in response to her stress at work earlier this week; and that that was really unhealthy. And I engaged her but the question came up, “Well…you take Trazodone to sleep when you’ve had a hard day. Why can’t I have a drink so that I can sleep at night?” \\n I’ve been taking Trazodone for about ten years (since I was 15). I had sleep troubles dating back to eight years old but it wasn’t until I was in the hospital from a severe depression episode that the doctors gave me something to treat me for it. I started on 150mg but these days I usually only have to take 50mg. A lot of my friends point to it and say that I’m addicted and that it’s a pharmaceutical scam and nobody in the world should ever take sleep medication for their entire life. But honestly…I lived off of four hours of restless sleep every night for six years before I was on it. If I don’t take it today, I experience the exact same thing. I have Epilepsy, Lupus, PTSD, and Bipolar Disorder. Sleep is incredibly critical to those conditions not rearing their ugly heads. \\n Anyways. My doctors have been happy to prescribe them and I’m constantly testing to see what the minimum effective dose is. My Mom has never made me defend my use of sleep aids. But tonight she did. And I didn’t have an answer. “They’re prescribed rather than self-medicated.” \\\"I take trazodone whether I've had a hard day or not. Even on great days, sleep is a problem.\\\" “They don’t have anything to do with my emotional well-being, it's a biological inability to wind down and stay asleep.” She seemed confused. Don’t I take them because I’m anxious? They were prescribed to me when I was at the height of my anxiety problem, but I had poor sleep without anxiety before then and if I go off the medication currently, I have poor sleep without anxiety now. \\n If an acquaintance goes off on some tirade about the evil pharmaceutical conspiracy of sleep aids followed by how pot would be better for me, I can quietly give them the finger and write them off as ignorant. The thirty doctors or so that I’ve been to in the last ten years are going to outweigh their pedestrian advice any day. But here I was with my Mom and I actually did want to engage her. I wanted to actually explain my drug usage because it might benefit HER well-being. It’s just a conversation I haven’t engaged in for like seven years. \\n I recognize that her putting me on the defensive like that is also a flag. But it didn’t seem to be purely for the purposes of flipping the tables. A part of her seemed to really want to play devil’s advocate so that she could better put the puzzle together that would explain why her behavior might need addressing. She seemed to want the excuse to confront the problem head on. And I felt like we were SO close to putting the puzzle together tonight, except for the “Well my doctor said it’s okay, so it must be fine” line of logic seemed really insufficient. I know it’s more than that, but I haven’t had to articulate it in a long time. Any help?\",\n \"Summary: How have other medically high-maintenance folks fared with medi-cal? I have an insanely complicated web of medical problems and I've only had PPOs before. I'm concerned medi-cal will not be equipped to give me proper care.\\n\\nPost: Change of plans, I guess. \\n I moved to Los Angeles earlier this year as a 25-year old who had one more year on my Mom's insurance plan. As someone with lupus, epilepsy, bipolar disorder, and a bunch of other things, I have been following the Obamacare plans since 2012 creating excel sheets and trying to figure out which Covered CA plan would be best to purchase. I decided over a year ago that the Platinum Blue Cross PPO would be most cost-effective for me. Yes, the premiums were higher but it would save me money in the long run and I was sure I'd be eligible for the full subsidy. \\n Keep in mind, when I moved down to Los Angeles I was careful to pick all of my doctors so that they would stay in network when I transferred from my Mom's plan to the state exchange plan. \\n But it turns out I'm eligible for medi-cal. And I honestly have no idea how this shit works. I know that there aren't premiums or co-pays but I have no idea if I'll be able to keep my current doctors or not. If it could save me the estimated $200 a month that I would have paid in premiums and co-pays, then that might be worth it. But I am in a position where my Grandma floats my Mom money so that she can float me some money to help with expenses like this. If Medi-Cal means losing my doctors and having severely limited choices, losing my one brand name medication coverage, or even worse red tape when it comes to my healthcare, it might be worth it to say thanks but no thanks and turn to family for help. \\n Would love advice.\",\n \"Summary: How have other medically high-maintenance folks fared with medi-cal? I have an insanely complicated web of medical problems and I've only had PPOs before. I'm concerned medi-cal will not be equipped to give me proper care.\\n\\nPost: Change of plans, I guess. \\n I moved to Los Angeles earlier this year as a 25-year old who had one more year on my Mom's insurance plan. As someone with lupus, epilepsy, bipolar disorder, and a bunch of other things, I have been following the Obamacare plans since 2012 creating excel sheets and trying to figure out which Covered CA plan would be best to purchase. I decided over a year ago that the Platinum Blue Cross PPO would be most cost-effective for me. Yes, the premiums were higher but it would save me money in the long run and I was sure I'd be eligible for the full subsidy. \\n Keep in mind, when I moved down to Los Angeles I was careful to pick all of my doctors so that they would stay in network when I transferred from my Mom's plan to the state exchange plan.\\nBut it turns out I'm eligible for medi-cal. And I honestly have no idea how this shit works. I know that there aren't premiums or co-pays but I have no idea if I'll be able to keep my current doctors or not. If it could save me the estimated $200 a month that I would have paid in premiums and co-pays, then that might be worth it. But I am in a position where my Grandma floats my Mom money so that she can float me some money to help with expenses like this. If Medi-Cal means losing my doctors and having severely limited choices, losing my one brand name medication coverage, or even worse red tape when it comes to my healthcare, it might be worth it to say thanks but no thanks and turn to family for help. \\n Would love advice.\",\n \"Summary: MRI came back with mescal temporal sclerosis for first time in 17 years of epilepsy. How worried should I be?\\n\\nPost: My MRI results came back today with Mesial Temporal Sclerosis and I'm having a hard time not freaking out over it. \\n I was diagnosed with epilepsy 17 years ago and the medication controlled it for years, but seems to be less effective in recent years. My MRIs have always come back normal (as recently as two years ago). But 7 years ago I was diagnosed with Lupus and then last year I had a manic episode and was diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder. \\n If this was something that had always been there, I think I'd be less worried. But I've been extra depressed and foggy lately (Lamictal dose raised perhaps) and now we find this. \\n I know it's common with Temporal Lobe Epilepsy but what are people's experiences with it? Has it not affected you at all? Did it progress at all? Was surgery necessary and successful?\",\n \"Summary: Doctor thinks I have pinched nerves in S-1, S-2, or S-3 on my right leg. My lumbar/sacral discs look healthy so he thinks that lupus may be causing inflammation somewhere else in the region. Has anyone else had similar problems with inflammation causing nerve pain or simply having inflamed nerves?\\n\\nPost: I've been seeing a chiropractor since the new year for some very strange leg pain that originally seemed rooted in my right groin/hip but has dulled up top and instead just created this dull pain/tightness/weakness down my right leg. My gait became abnormal and there's now some extra stress on the left ankle and left knee from compensating. I'm not in terrible pain as long as I remain sedentary, but a few weeks prior I was training for a marathon. I took Christmas off to visit family. And then when I came back I was suddenly unable to do anything without feeling a lot of pain. \\n I finally saw an orthopedist today after having zero luck with a chiropractor. I herniated three discs (S-1, L-5, L4) in my spine back in 2011 so looking at my symptoms and my history he bet that I had a pinched S-1 nerve. You know. Except that he could thump my lumbar area without me complaining of any pain. The X-Rays came back and my discs looked awesome! And my core looked nice and strong. Which has him guessing that the nerve is pinched or inflamed further down. He's not sure if the nerve itself is taking damage or if it's the surrounding tissue that's becoming inflamed and irritating the nerve. But he seemed convinced that my lupus must be causing inflammation somewhere. There is kind of a precedent for this back from 2013 where I had weird nerve pain in my right shoulder, but they just seemed to blame it on fibromyalgia back then. \\n Has anyone had this before? It kind of makes sense, because it's similar to how I would have described my sciatica four years ago, albeit much duller/quieter. I feel like I'm not in \\\"true pain\\\". But I was keeping up with exercises really well in December and now I can't even do my ten minutes of planking in the morning without aggravating my glute muscle and walking funny the rest of the day. \\n Did physical therapy help? I'm already on my 500 mg of Naproxen twice a day and I really don't feel like I can justify further pain medication. 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dcousineau | Generate the content for a reddit post MOBILITY | When I was in school (05-09), I had a Lenovo Thinkpad T61p. The pros of the Thinkpad were:
It's super rugged without being bulky; it stood up to a tonne of abuse
It had power where it was needed (processor and ram) and not where I could get distracted (no discrete graphics)
The major downsides were:
Batte... | When I was in school (05-09), I had a Lenovo Thinkpad T61p. The pros of the Thinkpad were:
It's super rugged without being bulky; it stood up to a tonne of abuse
It had power where it was needed (processor and ram) and not where I could get distracted (no discrete graphics)
The major downsides were:
Batte... | [
"Summary: Over qualification is a very very real thing.\n\nPost: There's still a lot of prejudice against post-grad degrees in the industry, and listing a PHD on your resume may actively harm your chances at landing a job. The one exception to this rule is if your PHD is extremely focused and you're looking for a... | 61 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,300 |
Quickloot | Generate the content for a reddit post In efforts to making their game more "watchable" Riot has made their game less playable. | Longer games tuned to late game are better for LCS / esports viewership, instead of snowbally early games, where the victor was mostly decided in the first 15min. I think that is why Riot is nerfing early all the time. Thats literally the only reason that makes sense to me. | Longer games tuned to late game are better for LCS / esports viewership, instead of snowbally early games, where the victor was mostly decided in the first 15min. I think that is why Riot is nerfing early all the time. Thats literally the only reason that makes sense to me. | [
"Summary: PvE meta isn't balanced, not for a slight chance. Defiant needs redesign, healing power is too weak, dodge/reflec is too good of a mitigation to require other aspects like going tankier/support, bosses mechanics are terrible, there are tons of sugestions, look at these at the Dungeon subforum for example:... | 32 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,301 |
needsomehelp3211 | Generate the content for a reddit post Women are bad for empathizing with. If you have a problem, go to a male friend because he will likely understand and try to help you. Women will just compare you with their own situations, then shame you for not quietly accepting your lot in life. | Summary: AskWomen is offended when a guy says that he feels bad when his dates constantly talk about their former FWBs and maintain ties with them. RedPill moral: never expect empathy or understanding from women. They are like horses with blinders, they only understand the world from a female lens and can't even imagin... | Summary: AskWomen is offended when a guy says that he feels bad when his dates constantly talk about their former FWBs and maintain ties with them. RedPill moral: never expect empathy or understanding from women. They are like horses with blinders, they only understand the world from a female lens and can't even imagin... | [
"Summary: This is what happens when you try to explain reality to a postwall woman who's sinking fast. She will remain in denial all the way to her last breath, hoping that feminism will rescue her and provide her with a docile beta male who doesn't care about her past.\n\nPost: Summary: Don't bother trying to expl... | 50 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,302 |
paperclip1213 | Generate the content for a reddit post it ended with me deciding to become a relatively 'high class' escort after realising that the relationship probably reached its end. Of course, he doesn't know that I've broken the relationship off because he hasn't bothered to speak to me in about 11 weeks. | Boyfriend left for Australia. He didn't bother messaging me after I specifically told him to message me when he got there because I worry about him. 8/9 weeks later I realised he wasn't going to message me and that our relationship was falling apart before he even left for Australia. Now it's been just over 10 or 11 we... | Boyfriend left for Australia. He didn't bother messaging me after I specifically told him to message me when he got there because I worry about him. 8/9 weeks later I realised he wasn't going to message me and that our relationship was falling apart before he even left for Australia. Now it's been just over 10 or 11 we... | [
"Summary: Islam isn't very nice.\n\nPost: There's a LONG explanation which I'm too tired to write atm. The short explanation is that my friend (catholic turned atheist) and I used to have these long conversations about religion and our views. One day he mentioned to me \"you don't need religion to be a good person\... | 38 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,303 |
eagleeyesm | Generate the content for a reddit post Fat butts on females. yum. | if they are both the same class there is no difference between an main and an alt. except their vanguard etc. ranks. they are both mains especially if you are just swapping gear over from one to another. I have 2 20+ hunters (one exo....one human...and working on an awoken hunter) but i just swap my 30 light gear betwe... | if they are both the same class there is no difference between an main and an alt. except their vanguard etc. ranks. they are both mains especially if you are just swapping gear over from one to another. I have 2 20+ hunters (one exo....one human...and working on an awoken hunter) but i just swap my 30 light gear betwe... | [
"Summary: 3x the XP for everything.\n\nPost: I do this with my hunter. I have two at the 20+ stage which enables me to move all my level 30 gear from one character to the next (just be sure to keep a full spare set of armor to replace it with for each character.) Instead of grinding all 3 to level 30 through VoG an... | 20 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,304 |
Shockum | Generate the content for a reddit post I'm considering dropping Eng for Enchanting. Worth it? What addons are out there, outside of Auctioneer. | As the title states, I'm wanting to find out ways to make some gold. I'm sitting at 23k with JC and Engineering maxxed on my Paladin.
I don't have alts with maxxed profs. The only other 90 I have is only maxed in BS...but is on another server.
I'm generally growing plants for gems, and occasionally leather as I've ... | As the title states, I'm wanting to find out ways to make some gold. I'm sitting at 23k with JC and Engineering maxxed on my Paladin.
I don't have alts with maxxed profs. The only other 90 I have is only maxed in BS...but is on another server.
I'm generally growing plants for gems, and occasionally leather as I've ... | [
"Summary: To answer your question; it was simply just having people to play the game with again.\n\nPost: I'll say it like this, and it's been said by some friends of mine who I'm in a guild with from another game (SW:TOR). \n I played WoW from Feb 2005 - Feb 2011. There were some breaks here and there. But, in 201... | 18 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,305 |
bowhunter_fta | Generate the content for a reddit post I knocked myself out mooning my wife and her old college roommate and lay on the floor unconscious, bleeding from my head with my junk hanging out for the whole world to see.....and they could do was laugh at me. | My wife was visiting in the kitchen with her old college roommate (who had ironically married my college roommate).
Even though I was in my early 30's, I was evil and immature....especially when it came to these old college friends. So naturally, I decided to moon them.....and do it with flair.
So I ran down the ha... | My wife was visiting in the kitchen with her old college roommate (who had ironically married my college roommate).
Even though I was in my early 30's, I was evil and immature....especially when it came to these old college friends. So naturally, I decided to moon them.....and do it with flair.
So I ran down the ha... | [
"Summary: took the blame for my girlfriends very public, very loud satanic a$$-blast DM;HS\n\nPost: My girlfriend and I were sitting around visiting with a bunch of friends. She was sitting on my lap and someone else was talking, so no one was looking at us. \n All of a sudden I felt my girlfriend \"seize up\" as s... | 104 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,306 |
HexR_6 | Generate the content for a reddit post most any DDR2 will do, but it is not going to make a big difference in game. lower your graphics settings instead. | in systems that use DDR2, most SODIMM DDR2 is going to work, assuming you do not exceed the chipset's maximum memory. how much memory are you running, and how much are you thinking of upgrading to?
If the idea here is to increase the FPS of your TF2, it is very possible that memory is not going to make any differenc... | in systems that use DDR2, most SODIMM DDR2 is going to work, assuming you do not exceed the chipset's maximum memory. how much memory are you running, and how much are you thinking of upgrading to?
If the idea here is to increase the FPS of your TF2, it is very possible that memory is not going to make any differenc... | [
"Summary: RAID on ssds for general consumers is overrated.\n\nPost: to add a bit to what others have said here, in most cases SSDs in RAID lose TRIM support. trim is a garbage collection method that is built in to most SSDs and windows 7, newer MAC os, and newer linux distros. the basic 101 level description of t... | 17 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,307 |
withstereosound | Generate the content for a reddit post Oak Customs
I think they're extremely dynamic and very versatile, and with the right heads and good tuning they'll do what you want. They aren't as forgiving with poor tuning as Maple Absolute's, but they're great and I wish I could buy a set.
DIFFERENT MAPLE CONVERSATION
I ... | I just graduated from a university that had two brand new Oak Customs (of which I un-boxed and tuned for the studio) and a slew of Maple and Birch Absolutes as well as one of the discontinued Maple Absolute Nouveau. I played on the Oak Customs for two years, and the Maple and Birch Absolute's for four years. The school... | I just graduated from a university that had two brand new Oak Customs (of which I un-boxed and tuned for the studio) and a slew of Maple and Birch Absolutes as well as one of the discontinued Maple Absolute Nouveau. I played on the Oak Customs for two years, and the Maple and Birch Absolute's for four years. The school... | [
"Summary: Skinny guy gets wasted then tries to surreptitiously salvage a hook up by acting like I hadn't/wasn't/wouldn't puke.\n\nPost: I hadn't eaten all day. I was three large, dark, high abv beers deep when I get a text. \n \"Hey, I'm at X (the bar across the street from me.) I know we just swapped numbers but c... | 19 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,308 |
Jibodeah | Generate the content for a reddit post version: Hater friend converts and brings another friend with him. | Well I don't have an epic life changing story like that but I do have a little story.
A short time after I became a brony and 'let slip' to my friend who was at that time a hater, I when on holiday, away from the internet for a week.
Anyway I came back and a different friend wanted me to come on the Minecraft serve... | Well I don't have an epic life changing story like that but I do have a little story.
A short time after I became a brony and 'let slip' to my friend who was at that time a hater, I when on holiday, away from the internet for a week.
Anyway I came back and a different friend wanted me to come on the Minecraft serve... | [
"Summary: VAHARAS, ARCHMAGELUDICROUS, AND JIBODEAH ARE THE MAFIA IF KOSS IS TELLING THE TRUTH AND NOTHING MESED UP THE PLAN! Also, Koss's role seems kind of OP since it's unblockable due to taking place in the first phase of the night. This all seems too easy, but I'm going with Occam's Razor here. \n > Also, sorr... | 24 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,309 |
Incalite | Generate the content for a reddit post This wasn't an act against the American people -- on the contrary, it protects us from our rights being stripped from us. It's just arguably unfortunate that to protect us, the Bill of Rights is forced also to protect corporations.
God forbid me for a post of this length, I just... | To be clear, the same reasoning that makes corporations "people" also makes the Occupy protesters "people." How it goes down in Citizens United v. FEC:
The First Amendment allows free expression to both individuals and assemblies of individuals,
Use of money is a form of expression,
Corporations are assembl... | To be clear, the same reasoning that makes corporations "people" also makes the Occupy protesters "people." How it goes down in Citizens United v. FEC:
The First Amendment allows free expression to both individuals and assemblies of individuals,
Use of money is a form of expression,
Corporations are assembl... | [
"Summary: Galileo wasn't shunned necessarily for his heliocentric theory as much as his opinion of the Church (government); the theory gave that opinion much more weight, and in a time where the Church was already unstable, it couldn't allow this to happen for fear of the potential repercussions.\n\nPost: It was a ... | 23 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,310 |
WDC312 | Generate the content for a reddit post I'd rather Arsenal nick the fourth spot over Spurs. | Just to get one thing straight: this post is not about Liverpool's top four chances. This is a post about which teams we would most like to see in the top four this season, with a view to the long term.
Manchester Fucking United seem pretty much guaranteed the title, so I won't talk much about them, except to say... | Just to get one thing straight: this post is not about Liverpool's top four chances. This is a post about which teams we would most like to see in the top four this season, with a view to the long term.
Manchester Fucking United seem pretty much guaranteed the title, so I won't talk much about them, except to say... | [
"Summary: Coutinho isn't exactly the player his highlight reels make him out to be. People overrate the skills they see in the highlight reels, and underrate the other parts of his game.\n\nPost: Since I can't say anyone not on Liverpool (ie, not matching my crest) without being crucified, I'll go with Coutinho. ... | 22 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,311 |
man2010 | Generate the content for a reddit post Every team in the NFL is a private business that is taxed individually (with the exception of the Packers who have their own unique situation). The NFL itself doesn't take in any profits and distributes them to the teams, so it is considered a nonprofit organization. | The NFL has a somewhat unique model in the sports industry in that the league itself doesn't keep its profits but rather distributes them between its 32 teams which are all for profit businesses (actually the Packers are another unique situation in terms of their ownership and profits, but that's a separate discussion)... | The NFL has a somewhat unique model in the sports industry in that the league itself doesn't keep its profits but rather distributes them between its 32 teams which are all for profit businesses (actually the Packers are another unique situation in terms of their ownership and profits, but that's a separate discussion)... | [
"Summary: Toast is to breakfast what rolls are to dinner.\n\nPost: Toast is not good if you're expecting it to act as a full size meal. Toast is good as a side part of breakfast or if you want to get something in your stomach in the morning without taking the time or effort to cook something like eggs, pancakes, et... | 15 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,312 |
let_the_monkey_go | Generate the content for a reddit post Smart, great games that changed the genre. | In short, the games are amazing.
The first one blew everyone away. It was a revolutionary First Person shooter (FPS). Loads of basic game mechanics that are standard now came from HL1. For example instead of cut scenes, it had NPCs (Non Player Characters) talking to you while you had control and could walk around etc... | In short, the games are amazing.
The first one blew everyone away. It was a revolutionary First Person shooter (FPS). Loads of basic game mechanics that are standard now came from HL1. For example instead of cut scenes, it had NPCs (Non Player Characters) talking to you while you had control and could walk around etc... | [
"Summary: China was the victim of horrific abuse before and during WW2 by Japan and Japan didn't do enough to apologise. The Chinese government is now exploiting this and milking anti-Japanese sentiment to distract from its own failings. \n EDIT = I con't speel for stih\n\nPost: A lot of reasons and lots of people.... | 15 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,313 |
wheeldog | Generate the content for a reddit post even when it's someone else's car, I now check the spare & jack before a road trip. | No, I would not be annoyed or offended in any way. And if I needed their help I'd be very grateful if they did not rob or rape me.
I was in Alaska once on the McCarthy road. It's a long dirt road known for flattening tires. Unfortunately my friend, the owner/driver of the van, was not prepared. We had a flat and th... | No, I would not be annoyed or offended in any way. And if I needed their help I'd be very grateful if they did not rob or rape me.
I was in Alaska once on the McCarthy road. It's a long dirt road known for flattening tires. Unfortunately my friend, the owner/driver of the van, was not prepared. We had a flat and th... | [
"Summary: fuck Arizona.\n\nPost: My mom spent a few months in Bumblebee, Arizona. When it came time to move her back to Flagstaff, I was packing her dishes when I realized... there was a scorpion under, like, every other dish. One in this pot... one in that frying pan... oh hey there's one in that drawer. Oh and...... | 17 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,314 |
rhiever | Generate the content for a reddit post IMO, entitlement welfare programs are a probable root cause. | I see this in America as well. I currently live in a 95% black, low-income community. (Moving out this weekend - thank goodness!) Most of the people living here live off of government welfare. And sadly, most of the people here don't give a damn about their children.
They let their children wander around all hours of... | I see this in America as well. I currently live in a 95% black, low-income community. (Moving out this weekend - thank goodness!) Most of the people living here live off of government welfare. And sadly, most of the people here don't give a damn about their children.
They let their children wander around all hours of... | [
"Summary: Went out on a second date with a gorgeous brunette. Got played into paying for her night on the town and “babysitting” her sister while the brunette flirted with some other guy the whole night. For revenge, I slept with her sister that night and “reclaimed” my money from her purse the next morning.\n\nPos... | 17 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,315 |
StutMoleFeet | Generate the content for a reddit post Blew past a trooper taking radar at 110, Andy Dufresne'd the fuck out of some other guy | Setup for this one:
I was 17, visiting colleges in the Southern US with my father. We were driving a rented 2009 Hyundai Sonata, silver paint job, through Alabama on our way to Auburn. My father had been behind the wheel for a while, so we stopped at a rest area and switched (keep in mind, car rental agencies do not ... | Setup for this one:
I was 17, visiting colleges in the Southern US with my father. We were driving a rented 2009 Hyundai Sonata, silver paint job, through Alabama on our way to Auburn. My father had been behind the wheel for a while, so we stopped at a rest area and switched (keep in mind, car rental agencies do not ... | [
"Summary: Stupid people fuck shit up for everyone\n\nPost: That stupid people are the cause of most of the world's problems. And I'm not talking about stupid as in IQ, I mean stupid like takes a dump in a public toilet and leaves shit-smeared toilet paper on the floor. If you can't drop the Cosby kids off at the po... | 15 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,316 |
sunamumaya | Generate the content for a reddit post Wood craftsmanship (including neck job, neck joint, binding), fret job, other mechanical/physical stuff is defining for the instrument, and having to repair it to the point of redoing it is not worthy. Electronics are paramount, but can very easily be fixed/improved. Don't buy a... | Pickups are crucial, everyone agrees. But pickups can be switched with post-market ones. A pair of Seymour Duncan JB - '59 won't cost you more than $160 nowadays. Those are top notch pro humbuckers that are the stuff on legend. If you have imagination, you can choose any other combo. Add that to the price of a well cra... | Pickups are crucial, everyone agrees. But pickups can be switched with post-market ones. A pair of Seymour Duncan JB - '59 won't cost you more than $160 nowadays. Those are top notch pro humbuckers that are the stuff on legend. If you have imagination, you can choose any other combo. Add that to the price of a well cra... | [
"Summary: record a background track of yourself playing a major chord for a few bars, say C major, then play all the modes of the C major scale (build them using the pattern above, starting on C every time) using that track as harmony. You will now get a taste of the \"flavor\" of each mode, and you'll sound very... | 19 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,317 |
GrandmaGos | Generate the content for a reddit post it's just lawn grass. No miracles. | Grassology is an ordinary lawn grass blend, with an emphasis on fescues, and just a little Kentucky bluegrass.
>creeping red fescue, hard fescue, tall fescue, Kentucky bluegrass, Chewings fescue, sheep fescue and perennial ryegrass.
Fescues require little fertilizer or water.
This is classic Consumerism 101. Yo... | Grassology is an ordinary lawn grass blend, with an emphasis on fescues, and just a little Kentucky bluegrass.
>creeping red fescue, hard fescue, tall fescue, Kentucky bluegrass, Chewings fescue, sheep fescue and perennial ryegrass.
Fescues require little fertilizer or water.
This is classic Consumerism 101. Yo... | [
"Summary: if it a sunny back deck, yes. If it's a shady back deck, no.\n\nPost: They will all grow where you are. \nThey will all grow from seed. Plants are faster but more expensive. \n They will all grow in containers. \n They each need their own container, because they each have their own watering requirements. ... | 17 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,318 |
tagsrdumb | Generate the content for a reddit post Accept invites from Tags da Boss if you would like to participate in /r/TheTerminal game nights.
See you guys on XBL | I tried sending out invites the other day but only got 2 people to join, one of which promptly left without saying anything...
So I'd like to introduce myself. Hi, I'm tagsrdumb. I've been around the Halo community since late 2005. I played halo 2 via split screen with friends for a while, eventually learned I could ... | I tried sending out invites the other day but only got 2 people to join, one of which promptly left without saying anything...
So I'd like to introduce myself. Hi, I'm tagsrdumb. I've been around the Halo community since late 2005. I played halo 2 via split screen with friends for a while, eventually learned I could ... | [
"Summary: dont fuck with mom, she'll get you\n\nPost: well I have a pretty funny relationship with my mom, and I was ragging her for banging this salesman one time trying to be funny in front of my brothers. She told me to watch it, she knew things about me that would make me cringe. This was one of the suppressed ... | 16 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,319 |
EnterTheStory | Generate the content for a reddit post progress as society needs to be measured in millennia, not decades. | if that's true, how have we ever made progress as a society?
Is it progress? It looks good in the short term (500 years of improvement). But lots of things look good in the short term, to the person who benefits.
Society operates on a much longer scale than a human life. Society benefiting for 500 years is like a r... | if that's true, how have we ever made progress as a society?
Is it progress? It looks good in the short term (500 years of improvement). But lots of things look good in the short term, to the person who benefits.
Society operates on a much longer scale than a human life. Society benefiting for 500 years is like a r... | [
"Summary: fight economics with better economics. \n EDIT: just re-read it, and it might sound like I'm a Marxist. I'm not. I'm talking about Adam Smith's rules. Let's just take one of his principles: taxing ground rents instead of taxing work. Even that single change would go a long way. I am a Georgist.\n\nPost: W... | 29 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,320 |
iamPause | Generate the content for a reddit post This game is hard. QQ. | I'm a Silver 2 support main and I don't care what anyone says, at this ELO bot lane farming is hard. We have a lot to think about:
Where is the enemy ADC positioned?
Where is their support? Is he warding on in a bush?
What abilities have they used lately?
How many minions are in lane?
Thresh just missed ... | I'm a Silver 2 support main and I don't care what anyone says, at this ELO bot lane farming is hard. We have a lot to think about:
Where is the enemy ADC positioned?
Where is their support? Is he warding on in a bush?
What abilities have they used lately?
How many minions are in lane?
Thresh just missed ... | [
"Summary: No.\n\nPost: That would be connecting an unauthorized peripheral device to my work station which, if discovered, could result in disciplinary action up to and including termination. \n Unauthorized peripheral devices are defined as any devise/s that connect or interact with your work station that is not e... | 45 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,321 |
versusgorilla | Generate the content for a reddit post It is a nice looking product, but they need to get over form and think about the function. | I love the design, reminds me of a classic 1940's style kitchen appliance and I think would look nice in a kitchen instead of needing to be stashed away in an office somewhere.
That said, if you were intent on leaving it out on a countertop, then why does it need to be a portable battery? If your coffee shop was int... | I love the design, reminds me of a classic 1940's style kitchen appliance and I think would look nice in a kitchen instead of needing to be stashed away in an office somewhere.
That said, if you were intent on leaving it out on a countertop, then why does it need to be a portable battery? If your coffee shop was int... | [
"Summary: Ant Holocaust. \n EDIT: His name is Walter Tschinkel and he studies bugs. An entomologist, or \"bug doctor\" as it is known colloquially. [LINK](\n\nPost: I believe this is actually made from pewter or some other metal with a low melting point. He would have poured the molten metal into the mouth of th... | 41 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,322 |
pincpleasure | Generate the content for a reddit post Sister is VERY ungrateful. Spoiled as a kid and now 20 with no job, doesnt know how to drive, failing out of school, and just expects everyone to do everything for her with very little thanks. Asked her to be my bridesmaid, she had done nothing to help and I have had to buy her ev... | Brief background:
I am the oldest out of 4 kids, was first grand baby and spoiled by my grandparents. When my sister came along 4.5 years after me my parents spoiled her to make up for what my grandparents did with me. She grew up feeling very entitled because my parents always told her how unfair it was she had to d... | Brief background:
I am the oldest out of 4 kids, was first grand baby and spoiled by my grandparents. When my sister came along 4.5 years after me my parents spoiled her to make up for what my grandparents did with me. She grew up feeling very entitled because my parents always told her how unfair it was she had to d... | [
"Summary: You are BOTH looking at this the wrong way and need to refocus past your own wants. You need to stop mentioning your family, he is most certainly well aware of their financial issues. He needs to put the past behind him and look at this as a chance to help people out. Maybe not you and him or your family,... | 18 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,323 |
IAmAN00bie | Generate the content for a reddit post I LOVE YOU ANDROID POLICE! THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING! <3
This was an actual post here. | Because it's not AndroidPolice!
Yep, this place has a hard on for them.
>>Seriously. AP has shown themselves to be the only Android news blog that takes itself seriously. They consistently produce new, useful, substantiated content. I don't see many other android journalists (or even other journalists in other fi... | Because it's not AndroidPolice!
Yep, this place has a hard on for them.
>>Seriously. AP has shown themselves to be the only Android news blog that takes itself seriously. They consistently produce new, useful, substantiated content. I don't see many other android journalists (or even other journalists in other fi... | [
"Summary: I LOVE YOU ANDROID POLICE! THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING! <3\n\nPost: Seriously. AP has shown themselves to be the only Android news blog that takes itself seriously. They consistently produce new, useful, substantiated content. I don't see many other android journalists (or even other journalists in other f... | 67 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,324 |
TurretOpera | Generate the content for a reddit post Rabbits are wonderful pets, but think it through first. They're not gifts, they're big responsibilities. | I agree with OP, but I want to share this story of a time when it all worked out. When I was 6, I went to an Easter egg hunt with my parents, they had a raffle, and a number of prizes, one of which was a dutch rabbit. Wouldn't you know it, I won first place so I could pick any prize I wanted. My parents and I talked it... | I agree with OP, but I want to share this story of a time when it all worked out. When I was 6, I went to an Easter egg hunt with my parents, they had a raffle, and a number of prizes, one of which was a dutch rabbit. Wouldn't you know it, I won first place so I could pick any prize I wanted. My parents and I talked it... | [
"Summary: As I originally said, modern Orthodox Jewish thought and 1st Century Jewish thought are not synonymous in any way.\n\nPost: There is independent verification that what is in the Talmud predates its compilation by hundreds of years. Before Christianity. \n That was never at issue. What I'm saying is that t... | 41 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,325 |
danosaur | Generate the content for a reddit post 99 problems but a nervous system ain't one. | Thanks for that.
I usually feel sorry for Mr Hawking when I see videos of his awkward physical state but at the same time, I ponder whether he would have as marvellous a mind and capacity for such intelligence and concentration if he weren't so inclined.
I mean, surely there are a LOT of activities that would just ... | Thanks for that.
I usually feel sorry for Mr Hawking when I see videos of his awkward physical state but at the same time, I ponder whether he would have as marvellous a mind and capacity for such intelligence and concentration if he weren't so inclined.
I mean, surely there are a LOT of activities that would just ... | [
"Summary: Sphere = a Directorial Wanksplash meets Production-al Clusterfuck.\n\nPost: It was the first and only movie that I've walked out of a theatre from, not to mention I was only 14 at the time... my movie tastes were much more lenient than they are now. easily one of the Top 3 worst films of all time in my bo... | 21 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,326 |
diewhitegirls | Generate the content for a reddit post lactic acid does not cause problems, nor does it exist in humans | Oh lord, this lactic acid build-up thing needs to die. This is really similar to seeing smoke coming from a fire and attempting to figure out ways to dispel the smoke, without paying any attention to the fire. Lactic acid has nothing to do with the burn, nor does it cause fatigue. The only reason that this myth hasn't ... | Oh lord, this lactic acid build-up thing needs to die. This is really similar to seeing smoke coming from a fire and attempting to figure out ways to dispel the smoke, without paying any attention to the fire. Lactic acid has nothing to do with the burn, nor does it cause fatigue. The only reason that this myth hasn't ... | [
"Summary: doesn't matter, just improve. You've got a minimum of 7:40 to finish the bike, so...shoot for that an improve from there.\n\nPost: Don't worry about what's good...worry about constantly improving yourself. When I first started doing tri's, the bike training for 112-ish miles would be 7-8 hours and now I c... | 49 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,327 |
RobotRollCall | Generate the content for a reddit post Hard drives are just ridiculously cheap these days. Dedicate the whole volume to Time Machine. If you need more space to store files, spend a few bucks and buy an additional drive. | The way Time Machine works is actually quite clever. It goes like this:
Every hour, Time Machine makes a backup of your system. (This is actually a bit loose. Each backup kicks off at the scheduled time, then schedules the next backup for one hour after the current backup task finishes. If your Mac is asleep, or the ... | The way Time Machine works is actually quite clever. It goes like this:
Every hour, Time Machine makes a backup of your system. (This is actually a bit loose. Each backup kicks off at the scheduled time, then schedules the next backup for one hour after the current backup task finishes. If your Mac is asleep, or the ... | [
"Summary: The whole \"planet on a rubber sheet\" thing is useful, but only up to a point. In reality, the universe is much, much cooler — and really, much simpler — than that illustration suggests.\n\nPost: Yeah, that illustration is very common, and only helpful up to a certain point. \n It may be easier — or it m... | 16 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,328 |
ManWithYourPlan | Generate the content for a reddit post Drove through falling rocks with a desire to hike a mountain. Turns out we were driving in a Cyclone and decided that we would not in fact like to go down in legend. | I've got one.
Backstory: I served a 2 year mission on the island of La Réunion .
So on the island, the tallest mountain is called Piton des Neiges, 10,070 feet above sea level.
Me and 4 other guys wanted to hike it on our "prepration day" (semi day off),so we plan to do it the coming week.
Now one thing to not... | I've got one.
Backstory: I served a 2 year mission on the island of La Réunion .
So on the island, the tallest mountain is called Piton des Neiges, 10,070 feet above sea level.
Me and 4 other guys wanted to hike it on our "prepration day" (semi day off),so we plan to do it the coming week.
Now one thing to not... | [
"Summary: It appears that I was exactly right when I said: \"I feel like a lot of people who main Akali seem to think that she should be the best champion, rather than just another good champion.\" \n Feel free to be self-righteous and assume shit about people all you want dude. Apparently I main Akali now.\n\nPost... | 23 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,329 |
acenarteco | Generate the content for a reddit post Unexplained footsteps in an old house while neighbors are out of town. House is locked, nothing is missing. | Okay, so I posted this before on one of those "creepiest, unexplainable...etc" threads on AskReddit, so if someone is reading this for a second time, I apologize. This story did happen to me, and it's not something that necessarily creeps me out, but I don't really have an explanation for it. I'm going to copy/paste it... | Okay, so I posted this before on one of those "creepiest, unexplainable...etc" threads on AskReddit, so if someone is reading this for a second time, I apologize. This story did happen to me, and it's not something that necessarily creeps me out, but I don't really have an explanation for it. I'm going to copy/paste it... | [
"Summary: Ghetto ass kids run out on a bill, instant karma makes me laugh out loud on a late night shift.\n\nPost: I worked the overnight shift at a diner; it was my second shift of the day. I worked 6am to 3pm at another restaurant owned by the same guy, and then 10pm to 6am at his diner in the middle of downtown ... | 25 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,330 |
EUPRAXIA1 | Generate the content for a reddit post NoApollonia is an asshole or a 15 year old take your pick. | So if you are in a 6 month relationship with a girl having sex and she withdraws the birth control she's been on because she is secretly an unstable person and is worried that you are going to leave her unless she gets pregnant with a baby that can make you stay; you are the bad guy in all that? | So if you are in a 6 month relationship with a girl having sex and she withdraws the birth control she's been on because she is secretly an unstable person and is worried that you are going to leave her unless she gets pregnant with a baby that can make you stay; you are the bad guy in all that? | [
"Summary: Believing in Economics (which is a science by the way) is not the same thing as wrongly figuring that the world would be a better place without governments. But is the same as thinking that those countries that have governments that understand economics are better places.\n\nPost: Shit I guess I'll have ... | 20 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,331 |
Omnilatent | Generate the content for a reddit post Thank you for your positive feedback! | Ah, I see! And only from this answer I can tell that you are a very positive person :) Most people (me included) would've told me something like "Play it - you missed something until now if you didn't play it!" and you put the cart before the horse and say that you're jealous of people who didn't play until now for the... | Ah, I see! And only from this answer I can tell that you are a very positive person :) Most people (me included) would've told me something like "Play it - you missed something until now if you didn't play it!" and you put the cart before the horse and say that you're jealous of people who didn't play until now for the... | [
"Summary: use a script \n \n come straight to the point/tighten the amount of time for the videos \n \n If you want to show a playstyle, comment on it\n\nPost: If I may voice some constructive criticism: \n The first three minutes of the video were basically wasted time. You could've told right from the beginning t... | 21 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,332 |
fluffybunnies | Generate the content for a reddit post shooting innocent civilians is not "bad" but it's not part of the game. choosing to leave it out is not denial of choice. if you're mad go play gta. | but he's right. the writer somehow can't seem to grasp there are different types of games - ones made for action (battlefield, cod), ones made for story (dead space, bioshock), and ones made for exploration (ME, assassin's creed).
the action games don't rely on or use morality as ANY type of feature, it's inherently... | but he's right. the writer somehow can't seem to grasp there are different types of games - ones made for action (battlefield, cod), ones made for story (dead space, bioshock), and ones made for exploration (ME, assassin's creed).
the action games don't rely on or use morality as ANY type of feature, it's inherently... | [
"Summary: sorry i rambled. sex-trafficking is tied to the sex-slave industry, which is a different from of the larger sex industry. trafficking is funded (with money and women) by demand from the lower economic classes. the solution is not simple.\n\nPost: the exchange of money for sex will always exist. there ... | 19 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,333 |
m3g0wnz | Generate the content for a reddit post stepwise motion | What /u/Submediant says is very good; I'm just adding on to that.
I would say that one thing that is definitely natural in regards to music is the preference for stepwise motion in melodies. As far as I know, there is not a music culture for whom stepwise motion does not comprise the majority of melodic motion.
Thi... | What /u/Submediant says is very good; I'm just adding on to that.
I would say that one thing that is definitely natural in regards to music is the preference for stepwise motion in melodies. As far as I know, there is not a music culture for whom stepwise motion does not comprise the majority of melodic motion.
Thi... | [
"Summary: version of this chapter is basically: presentism is bad, because it assumes a teleology of knowledge and ignores context; historicism is also bad because it ignores the possibility that we understand things better once we have more perspective; therefore, we should not rule something out just because it's... | 23 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,334 |
LadyPancake | Generate the content for a reddit post I drank an AMP energy drink and couldn't fall asleep physically. I was so exhausted my mind fell asleep and when I opened my eyes I saw a hallucination.
EDIT: I ACCIDENTALLY A EVERYTHING | I wasn't alone per say, but it was at night when I was trying to sleep so it counts.
I used to buy Redbull after school to drink during theatre club/improv. These were the smaller cans that didn't really do much to anybody. Sometimes I'd have trouble drinking all of it (I have a really small appetite so a Redbull and... | I wasn't alone per say, but it was at night when I was trying to sleep so it counts.
I used to buy Redbull after school to drink during theatre club/improv. These were the smaller cans that didn't really do much to anybody. Sometimes I'd have trouble drinking all of it (I have a really small appetite so a Redbull and... | [
"Summary: The average joe hasn't heard of Zombie Squad and the CDC has a wider audience.\n\nPost: Borrowing\" their info is a bit sketch, I agree with you there (though it might be a little much to call it a direct ripoff, there are only so many ways you can tell people to make preparedness plans and the CDC did us... | 32 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,335 |
mr_fishy | Generate the content for a reddit post read the article I linked to at the top of my post if you don't wanna hear my life story or opinions. | I know what post you're talking about because I'm the OP of that thread. Just to clear a few things up, I'm not a guy first off - I'm a woman. And what I was referring to (which now that I think about it might not have been entirely clear) was the sort of oppression that various GSM groups face because of their sexual ... | I know what post you're talking about because I'm the OP of that thread. Just to clear a few things up, I'm not a guy first off - I'm a woman. And what I was referring to (which now that I think about it might not have been entirely clear) was the sort of oppression that various GSM groups face because of their sexual ... | [
"Summary: After deciding not to date anyone in high school, a series of coincidences led to a boy I barely knew asking me out and on a whim I said yes. We are currently living together and will be celebrating our 5 year anniversary this August.\n\nPost: This happened to me whenever I ended up with my current SO. I ... | 25 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,336 |
HidekaValheim | Generate the content for a reddit post Chill out; go outside, see your family, take some time off of the game, play less, get a SO; or keep playing and go enjoy things like tetramaster(in 5 weeks or so), gardening, chocobo training, housing, glamoring, ect ect. there is a boat load of content that ISNT raid related to ... | I don't consider myself bleeding edge, my group only recently beat T12.
did you know that less than 5% of the game has even beaten T10 according to the most recent achievement scrape? you need to understand that this game has alot of players who cant handle the difficulty of coil, and their enjoyment comes from runni... | I don't consider myself bleeding edge, my group only recently beat T12.
did you know that less than 5% of the game has even beaten T10 according to the most recent achievement scrape? you need to understand that this game has alot of players who cant handle the difficulty of coil, and their enjoyment comes from runni... | [
"Summary: If they can use a VOIP, Deal good DPS, Avoid trash, meet our scheduling needs and don't have copious amounts of nerd rage they are in.\n\nPost: i do an interview to determine several things \n \n are they E-shy or make retarded reasons for not wanting to get on a VOIP. \n If they cant use a VOIP (or lie a... | 28 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,337 |
That_Guy_At_Work | Generate the content for a reddit post 2-2 We're better than the Knicks and Kings. OKC still has our number | Date
Opponent
Time
Tuesday Dec. 8th
@SAC
8:00 PM
Wednesday Dec. 9th
NYK
7:00 PM
Friday Dec. 11th
OKC
7:00 PM
Sunday Dec. 13th
@OKC
5:00 PM
A healthy 4 games this week split right down the middle with two and home and two away. We also have our first home-and-home ... | Date
Opponent
Time
Tuesday Dec. 8th
@SAC
8:00 PM
Wednesday Dec. 9th
NYK
7:00 PM
Friday Dec. 11th
OKC
7:00 PM
Sunday Dec. 13th
@OKC
5:00 PM
A healthy 4 games this week split right down the middle with two and home and two away. We also have our first home-and-home ... | [
"Summary: A mix of \"These guys are going to be great\" and \"These guys suck\" moments with a similar record to last year. Finish worst in the West again.\n\nPost: For this first I'll look at what went wrong and what went right last year and what we've done to get better. \n Last year, We ran a small ball lineup w... | 19 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,338 |
nostalgicBadger | Generate the content for a reddit post Call me old fashioned, but given the choice between buying a tangible and a purely digital product, I'll usually choose the tangible option (which is also why I still buy books -- I'd rather buy something I can pass along to my kids). | In his defense (although I'm reluctant to defend him, because of the way he phrased his comment), given that MTGO can easily cost as much as paper magic, I would much rather play the latter, because at least I'm paying for a tangible (note that I didn't say "real") product. The reason I'm able to justify how much I'v... | In his defense (although I'm reluctant to defend him, because of the way he phrased his comment), given that MTGO can easily cost as much as paper magic, I would much rather play the latter, because at least I'm paying for a tangible (note that I didn't say "real") product. The reason I'm able to justify how much I'v... | [
"Summary: People who refer to others who disagree with them as \"idiots\" tend to be idiots.\n\nPost: Any generalized use of the word \"idiot\" is a pretty enormous turn-off for me. My guess is, this girl is not especially intelligent, is self-conscious about that fact and, consequently, compensates by writing off ... | 23 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,339 |
MrHankScorpio | Generate the content for a reddit post More colors on screen = more intricate design elements; too many pokemon means your designs have to get crazier. | The sprites aren't actually that much larger, the Gameboy sprites were ~65px square and the newer ones are only ~80-85px square.
The big difference is the amount of colors available. First gen had 4 greyscale colors to choose from. Current gen uses 16 per pokemon but those 16 can be chose out of hundreds of color p... | The sprites aren't actually that much larger, the Gameboy sprites were ~65px square and the newer ones are only ~80-85px square.
The big difference is the amount of colors available. First gen had 4 greyscale colors to choose from. Current gen uses 16 per pokemon but those 16 can be chose out of hundreds of color p... | [
"Summary: You don't put Halo 4 on the xbox to sell Halo; you put it on the xbox to sell games in addition to Halo .\n\nPost: This presumption ignores some very vital information. At the beginning of the console generation MS lost money on the sale of each piece Xbox 360 hardware. Their idea being carried forward ... | 136 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,340 |
bloodfyr | Generate the content for a reddit post Probably a little, but the fact that I have no reason to care about the fights are more of a reason why I don't like them. | Honestly? No. I don't think so. That might be part of it, but I think there's a bigger issue at play. Take the final fight between Anakin and Obi-Wan for example:
One of the things that the original trilogy succeeds at is that it shows us a character arc. We meet Luke, a naive farmboy with dreams of running off and f... | Honestly? No. I don't think so. That might be part of it, but I think there's a bigger issue at play. Take the final fight between Anakin and Obi-Wan for example:
One of the things that the original trilogy succeeds at is that it shows us a character arc. We meet Luke, a naive farmboy with dreams of running off and f... | [
"Summary: You're not going to get your door kicked down if you look at cub porn.\n\nPost: I can't speak for Australia, but usually it's not specifically cartoon porn (including shota and lolicon) that gets people locked up but rather the real stuff. Like, a few years ago, there was a big kerfluffle over someone who... | 28 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,341 |
IndigenousOres | Generate the content for a reddit post I am still learning the basics of the game (destroy towers with your minions, kill the minotaur/phoenix thing to win), but I need some tips! | After watching Bart's stream, I decided to give SMITE a try. I am an old T:A player and I have no experience in any MOBA type game. I do have some experience with StarCraft and RTS games, so I played a novice match today.
I played as Ymir and I died a lot. The closest thing to kills I had were a couple of assists. Ev... | After watching Bart's stream, I decided to give SMITE a try. I am an old T:A player and I have no experience in any MOBA type game. I do have some experience with StarCraft and RTS games, so I played a novice match today.
I played as Ymir and I died a lot. The closest thing to kills I had were a couple of assists. Ev... | [
"Summary: The Internet has all sorts of people, some enjoy making money by scamming/sharking, others like to play fair and trade their way up. The Flair system sets a guideline for all sorts of traders, and Blue Flair is just a way to eliminate people from getting scammed too easily. However, we can't say everybody... | 15 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,342 |
Favre99 | Generate the content for a reddit post What he just said, but I came up with it first. | Holy shit, this just reminded me of a theory I came up with a couple of months ago. Since BBC America was doing a Classic Who thing every month for the Doctor, I guessed that September will have the Ninth Doctor, October will have the Tenth Doctor, and November will have the Eleventh Doctor, which is the 50th Anniversa... | Holy shit, this just reminded me of a theory I came up with a couple of months ago. Since BBC America was doing a Classic Who thing every month for the Doctor, I guessed that September will have the Ninth Doctor, October will have the Tenth Doctor, and November will have the Eleventh Doctor, which is the 50th Anniversa... | [
"Summary: Impressive.\n\nPost: Let me do the math for this one: \n Runaway is a whopping 9 minutes and 8 seconds long song. You've listened to it 1124 times. That's about 10266 minutes. That translates to: \n 171.1 hours. \n 7.129 days. \n 1.018 weeks. \n 21 workdays. \n If you had listened to it all in a row right... | 17 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,343 |
drakfyre | Generate the content for a reddit post Passion is more important than paper. | As an employer (Well, when I WAS an employer), I do not place any great emphasis on schooling. I care much more about whether someone is interested in the job and displays a desire to learn than someone who has a piece of paper that proves that they went into debt $20k, and not much else. I work in game development a... | As an employer (Well, when I WAS an employer), I do not place any great emphasis on schooling. I care much more about whether someone is interested in the job and displays a desire to learn than someone who has a piece of paper that proves that they went into debt $20k, and not much else. I work in game development a... | [
"Summary: Small studios need generalists, large studios need specialists. What do you want to be?\n\nPost: This depends on your dreams. \n Do you dream about making your own small games, do you dream about owning your own small company, or do you dream about working on larger games at a game development studio? \n... | 23 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,344 |
melonzipper | Generate the content for a reddit post met a lot of kid actors back when I was a kid back in the mid-90's.
Edit: Also, my uncle is Aaron Brown, who was ABC then CNN anchor. He's quiet, reserved, nice to his family but a bit of douche....in a way that's acceptable? Hard to explain. One of those "not-totally-nice, but ... | Since it would give away my identity I'm gonna be vague (yes, my name google'd pulls up IMDB) - I'm related to an actress (child, not well known) who starred in a movie with Joshua Jackson and Mark Harmon. Josh was super nice to me and really cool for a teenager, Mark was a loner, but his son had a crush on me.
Also,... | Since it would give away my identity I'm gonna be vague (yes, my name google'd pulls up IMDB) - I'm related to an actress (child, not well known) who starred in a movie with Joshua Jackson and Mark Harmon. Josh was super nice to me and really cool for a teenager, Mark was a loner, but his son had a crush on me.
Also,... | [
"Summary: What OP is saying is not improbable, but it is the internet and who the fuck knows.\n\nPost: Here's the thing: when one becomes more steadily wealthy, one tends to surround themselves with like-people. Typically, their like-people group of friends will have connections to \"an excellent lawyer\" (his quot... | 16 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,345 |
Randolpho | Generate the content for a reddit post ive but hopefully I have a post about that soon.
Maybe we have different definitions of "hard" scifi, but I don't consider FTL to be "hard" scifi. I mean, it's almost absolutely necessary for any form of non-generational extrasolar fiction, but... it's just not plausible using c... | Thanks for your post.
No worries, I hope I didn't come across too harshly. I find the basic idea intriguing, which is why I'm pushing for more details. :)
>The game will be adventure will a constant pressure from wildlife.
So adventure meaning primarily exploration and investigation? Puzzle oriented? Survival, ma... | Thanks for your post.
No worries, I hope I didn't come across too harshly. I find the basic idea intriguing, which is why I'm pushing for more details. :)
>The game will be adventure will a constant pressure from wildlife.
So adventure meaning primarily exploration and investigation? Puzzle oriented? Survival, ma... | [
"Summary: If your PCs are overpowered, they probably want an overpowered, epic campaign. Give it to them. Hard.\n\nPost: Sometimes what you want from the campaign and what the PCs want from the campaign diverge. Maybe you want gritty noir, and they want epic splatterfest. When that happens, it's almost always best ... | 16 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,346 |
micultra8 | Generate the content for a reddit post Boss has stick up bum, ipso facto: post title | My boss is being all, "Blah, blah, blah productivity , blah, blah, blah, don't make a mess she needs to clean up !" But my office mate is at King's Dominion today and felt the need to remind us multiple times she'd be out of the office today. So I thought I'd terrify her and let her think she'd be coming back to a bo... | My boss is being all, "Blah, blah, blah productivity , blah, blah, blah, don't make a mess she needs to clean up !" But my office mate is at King's Dominion today and felt the need to remind us multiple times she'd be out of the office today. So I thought I'd terrify her and let her think she'd be coming back to a bo... | [
"Summary: Nope that was not 3 people across the hall, that was one lady who did impressions of the voices in her head.\n\nPost: Previous neighborhood, I thought the apartment across the hall had 2 roommates living together, one of them had an abusive boyfriend who came over frequently and they had a lot of loud con... | 47 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,347 |
Andygoesrawr | Generate the content for a reddit post Think air pressure in the atmosphere!
Thanks for reading! :D
Here's some Bleach Wiki articles to read through for more information on everything I've spoken about:
(specifically | Hi everyone :)
I've noticed recently that a LOT of people have been confusing Reishi, Reiryoku and Reiatsu, and sometimes using Reiatsu as a catchall term for all three. I thought that I better make a post about the difference between the three, and provide examples for them.
Reishi
Reishi means "spirit particl... | Hi everyone :)
I've noticed recently that a LOT of people have been confusing Reishi, Reiryoku and Reiatsu, and sometimes using Reiatsu as a catchall term for all three. I thought that I better make a post about the difference between the three, and provide examples for them.
Reishi
Reishi means "spirit particl... | [
"Summary: his insane Reiatsu is most likely not to do with his Quincy powers.\n\nPost: There's a huge difference between Reiryoku, Reiatsu and Reishi. \n Quincies take Reishi from the environment and combine it with their own Reiryoku to create weapons. Quincies never actually gain the Reishi that they absorb, as i... | 28 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,348 |
Sandwichy | Generate the content for a reddit post R/firearms needs to forget about /r/guns and 4/2/11, /r/guns needs to stop whining about the good old days. | Well, some people got upset enough about that to come to /r/firearms and swear off /r/guns completely. Those people, as the easily offended type usually are, are very vocal whenever /r/guns is brought up. To them this is like a safe haven where never shall a disparaging word be spoken about their firearms. To others, ... | Well, some people got upset enough about that to come to /r/firearms and swear off /r/guns completely. Those people, as the easily offended type usually are, are very vocal whenever /r/guns is brought up. To them this is like a safe haven where never shall a disparaging word be spoken about their firearms. To others, ... | [
"Summary: sks laughs at your concerns about \"wear and tear\"\n\nPost: Sorry I don't think I know that much about firearms \n lol In that case please do not question Simonov's design. \n There's a /k/ image where someone found a rusted to shit, and I mean rusted to shit sks action in the woods and they replaced the... | 17 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,349 |
pythor | Generate the content for a reddit post It's not just her loyalty, it's your feelings at stake. Talk about it, and it will lead to a better understanding of your relationship (for better or worse). | If you trust her, it shouldn't be an issue. On the other hand, it is never good in a relationship for you to feel uncomfortable with her actions. You should discuss it with her, let her know that you trust her, but you've been hurt before and it makes you uncomfortable. Then it's up to her to make any changes so tha... | If you trust her, it shouldn't be an issue. On the other hand, it is never good in a relationship for you to feel uncomfortable with her actions. You should discuss it with her, let her know that you trust her, but you've been hurt before and it makes you uncomfortable. Then it's up to her to make any changes so tha... | [
"Summary: Leave her alone. She's not doing anything worth worrying about.\n\nPost: I never encountered Saydrah before this little tempest in our teapot, so you can take what I say with some salt if you wish. \n Her links seem legitimate to the subreddits she posts to. \n Her mod actions seem appropriate to the beha... | 21 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,350 |
not-a-jerk | Generate the content for a reddit post Yes, lots. | Yes. Dozens of them. Artists, software developers, jewellers, kinksters, circus-folk, scientists; so many people that I've lost track. OKC is like this amazing fountain of cool people for me to meet and befriend.
FWIW, I live in a large city (it helps), travel a lot (so I get to meet people in other cities), and s... | Yes. Dozens of them. Artists, software developers, jewellers, kinksters, circus-folk, scientists; so many people that I've lost track. OKC is like this amazing fountain of cool people for me to meet and befriend.
FWIW, I live in a large city (it helps), travel a lot (so I get to meet people in other cities), and s... | [
"Summary: She has a life, there's nothing to worry about. Sounds like you've got a great thing going!\n\nPost: Yup, you're freaking out about nothing. How much contact one has with a partner depends on many factors, including personalty, relationship stage, and most importantly—what else is going on. If she's wor... | 22 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,351 |
mellowgreen | Generate the content for a reddit post Students can pray silently, or organize their own prayer before or after graduation, but when the school designates one religious prayer which is acceptable to be read aloud at graduation, that is school sponsored prayer and should be against the law. | The appeals court "has affirmed our belief that no citizen has the right to go to the government to restrict or prohibit the speech of another citizen,"
The ruling means the school can still lead the students in a school sponsored prayer. It doesn't specify that students must lead the prayer as opposed to teachers. ... | The appeals court "has affirmed our belief that no citizen has the right to go to the government to restrict or prohibit the speech of another citizen,"
The ruling means the school can still lead the students in a school sponsored prayer. It doesn't specify that students must lead the prayer as opposed to teachers. ... | [
"Summary: The 5.56 is a great round for under 150 meters when barrier penetration is not needed, such as a home defense scenario.\n\nPost: The 5.56 is only underpowered at ranges of greater than 150 meters. If that's what your likely going to be engaging at, then trade up to a bigger caliber. This is because the ... | 27 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,352 |
MrXBob | Generate the content for a reddit post wait until you're old enough to own more than one system, and ditch the fanboy attitude. Thanks. | A really damn good rental service that still gives an amazing amount of great games and exclusives.
You're clearly blind with fanboy rage so let's put it this way. Let's say you subscribe to Netflix. Randomly every month, Netflix say "ok hey guys, here's a handful of movies you almost certainly won't like, a bunch th... | A really damn good rental service that still gives an amazing amount of great games and exclusives.
You're clearly blind with fanboy rage so let's put it this way. Let's say you subscribe to Netflix. Randomly every month, Netflix say "ok hey guys, here's a handful of movies you almost certainly won't like, a bunch th... | [
"Summary: get a fucking backbone and stop jerking off to Gabe. It's getting ridiculous.\n\nPost: So... PC gamers often hate on consoles for being closed systems. \n And... Gabe himself said Windows 8 was \"awful for gaming\" because it was a closed system. \n Yet.... PC gamers are going apeshit for this news of a c... | 16 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,353 |
slynnc | Generate the content for a reddit post There's nothing wrong with not using condoms in established, trusting relationships. I'm 99.999% certain I have a 0% chance of risk, haven't used a condom with my SO in 2+ years. | I know you said you " guess " you could see if they were dating... But I just wanted to chime in here.
There's nothing wrong with not using condoms if you're in a stable and trusting relationship, where you and your partner(s) get tested regularly and are loyal to you or the group. I haven't used a condom in over 2 y... | I know you said you " guess " you could see if they were dating... But I just wanted to chime in here.
There's nothing wrong with not using condoms if you're in a stable and trusting relationship, where you and your partner(s) get tested regularly and are loyal to you or the group. I haven't used a condom in over 2 y... | [
"Summary: PUZZLES EVERYWHERE!\n\nPost: Eh.. It's not really a \"holiday\" gift but it's still my favorite (and happened in December, so just pretend) \n I'm a nanny, and had been in the position for a short 2 months at the time. Loved the girls and the family. Well, I talked to mom about random stuff, and one day i... | 28 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,354 |
SantiagoGT | Generate the content for a reddit post Radiation = bad , Dead animals + mutations = Bad | It's very real, remember Chernobyl? well... there are faint effects still showing up on people and animals, and just until recently some parts of the city have been opened to tourists, even tho the landscape has been scarred after long exposure to radiation... now back onto fukushima; The locals have been affected qu... | It's very real, remember Chernobyl? well... there are faint effects still showing up on people and animals, and just until recently some parts of the city have been opened to tourists, even tho the landscape has been scarred after long exposure to radiation... now back onto fukushima; The locals have been affected qu... | [
"Summary: I bought semi functioning motorcycles, I'm stuck restoring them, I still don't have experience riding them, only fixing this an that\n\nPost: I sometimes regret buying project/restore motorcycles (I have two) I have spent more time making them to function correctly than actually mastering riding, I have o... | 27 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,355 |
HollowImage | Generate the content for a reddit post your MBR is most likely fucked up. repair it using winsys tools.
option 2: your ubuntu isntalled fucked up your partition tables. this is scarier. i would boot with a live ubuntu cd and see if you can mount the volumes. if you can, see option 1 if you cant, i hope you had bac... | option 1: My guess is what happened is your MBR (master boot record) got corrupted.
This frequently happens when you isntall GRUB (as linux does) AFTER windows MBR has been written. the latter is extremely touchy. I learned that the hard way.
anyway, when you boot from the windows installer util, dont "repair" win... | option 1: My guess is what happened is your MBR (master boot record) got corrupted.
This frequently happens when you isntall GRUB (as linux does) AFTER windows MBR has been written. the latter is extremely touchy. I learned that the hard way.
anyway, when you boot from the windows installer util, dont "repair" win... | [
"Summary: its dangerous to go outside. classes are not canceled. people are stranded in the library and other places (including myself)\n\nPost: UofC Update: \n just got this email \n >To: All students\n>From: Marlon Lynch, Associate Vice President for Safety and Security and Chief of Police\n>Subject: Weather emer... | 15 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,356 |
otakuman | Generate the content for a reddit post Mexicans in the 80's and 90's think homosexuality is either devilish or a psychiatric problem. Today, nobody gives a fuck.
EDIT: Fixed details, spelling. | I think people sometimes forget that extreme anti-LGBT laws and attitudes were considered to be perfectly acceptable only a few years ago in most Western countries.
Mexican here. I was born in the mid 70's, so I can say I've experienced the generational shift in mentality.
In the 80's and 90's, peyorative expressio... | I think people sometimes forget that extreme anti-LGBT laws and attitudes were considered to be perfectly acceptable only a few years ago in most Western countries.
Mexican here. I was born in the mid 70's, so I can say I've experienced the generational shift in mentality.
In the 80's and 90's, peyorative expressio... | [
"Summary: Protestant: Doctrine = Bible + ?; Catholic: Doctrine = Bible + Tradition + Magisterium. It's a whole different way of understanding.\n\nPost: I suppose my issue is then, what actually drives you to believe in this specific deity when the stories are not inherently accurate of reality? \n I imagine God th... | 89 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,357 |
CaskironPan | Generate the content for a reddit post Split LS and SV, Combine late game masteries, Switch Safe Guard and Defender.
Well that was my initial reaction, do with it what you will: this was just observations and suggestions. | I apologize, wall of text inc.
I don't like the Vamp and lifesteal in the defensive masteries. (I didn't like them before either, but they were better spent than on 3hp5 for every 400 mana)
You can get 2% LS or Spell vamp for 1 quint, but you can only get 2.7 hp/level for 1 quint. More than likely, you're not going... | I apologize, wall of text inc.
I don't like the Vamp and lifesteal in the defensive masteries. (I didn't like them before either, but they were better spent than on 3hp5 for every 400 mana)
You can get 2% LS or Spell vamp for 1 quint, but you can only get 2.7 hp/level for 1 quint. More than likely, you're not going... | [
"Summary: Atma's is cost efficient, it is not slot efficient.\n\nPost: Actually it's very cost efficient. it's exactly worth its stats if you have 1083 health, and you'd probably buy this on a high health champion, so it's insanely cost effective then (if you have 3000 hp you get 3450 g worth of stats for only 2300... | 15 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,358 |
tokisushi | Generate the content for a reddit post If you are concerned, bring it up with your vet. She is at the age where she needs to have a hip dysplasia screening if she hasn't had one, anyway. | It is likely nothing, but have the vet check her out the next time she is in. She is about the age where vets perform the hip dysplasia screening which could reveal any potential issues with her joints. (usually preformed between 6 - 12mo)
If you know her parents health history, that should be a good indication of wh... | It is likely nothing, but have the vet check her out the next time she is in. She is about the age where vets perform the hip dysplasia screening which could reveal any potential issues with her joints. (usually preformed between 6 - 12mo)
If you know her parents health history, that should be a good indication of wh... | [
"Summary: Research local play groups/training clubs in your area. Find new parks and trails to explore. Obedience training starts as soon as he gets home. \n Good luck!\n\nPost: If your puppy has not completed his puppy shots (which will depend on his age), avoid taking him to places overly populated with strange d... | 23 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,359 |
G8kpr | Generate the content for a reddit post spiking food/drinks with drugs may seem funny, but can seriously hurt someone, or even kill them | Agreed, in College, I met a guy who told me a story.. Now this is hearsay, and I have no way of knowing if it's true, but it sounds believable.
He said that in last year of highschool, he was at a party, and people were doing some sort of drugs (i can't recall what exactly because I'm not into that sort of thing, and... | Agreed, in College, I met a guy who told me a story.. Now this is hearsay, and I have no way of knowing if it's true, but it sounds believable.
He said that in last year of highschool, he was at a party, and people were doing some sort of drugs (i can't recall what exactly because I'm not into that sort of thing, and... | [
"Summary: tried to offer my wife a nice Valentines, got stomped on at every turn until.\n\nPost: I think I may have a game winner: \n Last year.. I thought I'd do something nice. My wife is constantly complaining that I don't help her out, she usually notes that I never have dinner ready. \n FYI: I hate cooking and... | 104 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,360 |
ImAStruwwelPeter | Generate the content for a reddit post Peppery, creamy, enjoyable.
Thoughts? Opinions? Critiques? | Before the polar vortex hits and ends civilization as we know it, I decided that a smoke was in order. And what better smoke than the Nat Sherman Timeless Hermoso? The vitola is what drew me to this cigar tonight (and the cigar happened to be from a bomb courtesy of /u/ricroce).
First third:
The first few puffs we... | Before the polar vortex hits and ends civilization as we know it, I decided that a smoke was in order. And what better smoke than the Nat Sherman Timeless Hermoso? The vitola is what drew me to this cigar tonight (and the cigar happened to be from a bomb courtesy of /u/ricroce).
First third:
The first few puffs we... | [
"Summary: r/cigars corrupted me. :)\n\nPost: I started back in high school. My friend lived in a house that had a roof with flat balcony-like section, so we'd climb up the wall with folding chairs and cigars in hand and smoke while watching the night sky (and maybe or maybe not drinking copious amounts of alcohol... | 16 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,361 |
Gravity13 | Generate the content for a reddit post Toss out Dawkins, pick up Nietzsche | I really think this is more common than many of us would like to believe. The truth is that there are many reasons for somebody to go over to religion and an obsession with the truth I think leads to it. Honestly, I really feel that in 20-30 years, if religion is still around, quite a few people who frequent /r/athei... | I really think this is more common than many of us would like to believe. The truth is that there are many reasons for somebody to go over to religion and an obsession with the truth I think leads to it. Honestly, I really feel that in 20-30 years, if religion is still around, quite a few people who frequent /r/athei... | [
"Summary: If you've got bully problems, try my solution and jump head-on onto a moving car.\n\nPost: So I was pretty much a dumbass in high school. \n I owned a Trans Am - first thing I did with it was primer it black with gray primered racing stripes. It actually looked pretty cool, but that's beside the point. \n... | 15 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,362 |
anonymous7 | Generate the content for a reddit post It's best to start by being a profitable play money player;
Expect to lose more than $20 before you start winning;
Strict and careful bankroll management is more important than I can express. | I started with play money on a now-retired poker room called PokerRoom.com. I was playing single table sit-and-go tournaments. I played with sensible bankroll management (this is very important), and won (play) money.
Eventually I deposited $20 there, and I lost that and about $200 more before I started making a prof... | I started with play money on a now-retired poker room called PokerRoom.com. I was playing single table sit-and-go tournaments. I played with sensible bankroll management (this is very important), and won (play) money.
Eventually I deposited $20 there, and I lost that and about $200 more before I started making a prof... | [
"Summary: That's mostly luck and a correspondingly big downswing is coming.\n\nPost: I've had this after moving up a stake too. You have to accept that you're not playing that well. At NL10 if your EV BB/100 is more than about 10 it's very likely that you've just been lucky, either in the cards you've got or in d... | 17 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,363 |
achmedclaus | Generate the content for a reddit post Who gives a shit what race he was? An unarmed teenager was shot by some dumb cop who should've never been given a badge. | No it is not relevant to anything. People like you are the reason racism exists.
It makes absolutely no difference whether the kid was white, black, yellow, red, or brown, he was an unarmed teenager. As soon as the pricks in the media realize that his race should have nothing to do with it and that the white kids who... | No it is not relevant to anything. People like you are the reason racism exists.
It makes absolutely no difference whether the kid was white, black, yellow, red, or brown, he was an unarmed teenager. As soon as the pricks in the media realize that his race should have nothing to do with it and that the white kids who... | [
"Summary: fuck the media, is turned my mom into a paranoid crazy person\n\nPost: Precisely why I ask mymom why she watches the news\nShe's convinced that the world is c becoming the world of demolition man and we will have to live in the sewers if we want to be free. Nothing joyful every happens on the news, only '... | 17 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,364 |
happyscrappy | Generate the content for a reddit post classic rigged demo. It's happened before and be prepared to see it again later. It's not useful in the real world so it won't replace techniques that are. | The story is bullshit, it always was. This kind [edit: said kid] of thing has been shown since PixelPlanes at Siggraph '89 (at least).
It's all part of the idea that you can somehow reproduce any scene using iterated fractals of a trivial size. This is either not true or at least no one has figured out how to find th... | The story is bullshit, it always was. This kind [edit: said kid] of thing has been shown since PixelPlanes at Siggraph '89 (at least).
It's all part of the idea that you can somehow reproduce any scene using iterated fractals of a trivial size. This is either not true or at least no one has figured out how to find th... | [
"Summary: Nice try, Comcast. \n Back to the same problem as I originally complained about. Actually working on these problems will require not resorting to flip comments like calling others shills. \n When you discount someone else's opinion by saying they must be paid to think that way, you are selling yourself ... | 22 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,365 |
GermanPanda | Generate the content for a reddit post if you have crohns or UC smoke pot | I have UC, I've been receiving treatment from the Mayo Clinic for the past 9 years for this. Recently Mayo hired on a doctor from the University of Chicago for a lot of money, she told me they doubled her previous salary so I listened intently to what she had to say.
She asked me if I get high. Before I could answer... | I have UC, I've been receiving treatment from the Mayo Clinic for the past 9 years for this. Recently Mayo hired on a doctor from the University of Chicago for a lot of money, she told me they doubled her previous salary so I listened intently to what she had to say.
She asked me if I get high. Before I could answer... | [
"Summary: Met Kenny Florian and Joe Stevenson before they were famous\n\nPost: Story for anyone interested. \nMy friends and my dad were out drinking and talking when someone came up to our large friend Chris (white Met Rx shirt) and says something like, hey big guy, I could take you at arm wrestling. This was unp... | 20 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,366 |
Loop_Within_A_Loop | Generate the content for a reddit post The absolute earliest the patch could be is Wenesday for NA, and Thursday for EU, but it oculd be delayed later. | The absolute earliest it could be is Wednesday. Downtimes never occur the day after a holiday (Monday/today is Labor Day in the States, if you didn't know), so there will be no patch tomorrow since Riot needs to do some more testing to the next patch, if there is one. | The absolute earliest it could be is Wednesday. Downtimes never occur the day after a holiday (Monday/today is Labor Day in the States, if you didn't know), so there will be no patch tomorrow since Riot needs to do some more testing to the next patch, if there is one. | [
"Summary: Right now, I feel that Riven is one of the strongest champions in the League, one of the hardest champions in the League, and also one of the most fun, in my honest opinion. I would HIGHLY recommend her to ANYONE.\n\nPost: Riven, on paper, is one of the most OP heroes in the game right now. Period. Analyz... | 26 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,367 |
ilikedonuts42 | Generate the content for a reddit post My PD2Stats page is a totally false mess, why? | I was looking through my PD2stats page today out of curiosity ( link if it's relevant , it has heists marked as "completed on deathwish" that I haven't even tried on deathwish (I don't own armored transport, and have only done one of them in a random lobby). My weapon stats are all screwed up (I hardly use brass knuckl... | I was looking through my PD2stats page today out of curiosity ( link if it's relevant , it has heists marked as "completed on deathwish" that I haven't even tried on deathwish (I don't own armored transport, and have only done one of them in a random lobby). My weapon stats are all screwed up (I hardly use brass knuckl... | [
"Summary: roomate got drunk, vomited all over room, passed out. Older brother stepped in a lake of vomit late at night. Not good for anybody.\n\nPost: Not super interesting but I'd like to share. Not me but my older brother, freshman year of college, had a dorm roommate who I will call pikachu for the sake of anony... | 17 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,368 |
e-jammer | Generate the content for a reddit post Know any good online bong shops :)? Thanks for your help :) | Hello ents :) I live in a state in Australia who just made it illegal to sell bongs. I'm not complaining, we have very relaxed laws regarding possession, but it does mean that Its time to find an online source for equipment. Does anyone have any tried and tested online shops that make nice class pieces?
Also does any... | Hello ents :) I live in a state in Australia who just made it illegal to sell bongs. I'm not complaining, we have very relaxed laws regarding possession, but it does mean that Its time to find an online source for equipment. Does anyone have any tried and tested online shops that make nice class pieces?
Also does any... | [
"Summary: Like has nothing to do with it. It is not a thing. If you have examples that show it is a unique genre all unto itself please post them.\n\nPost: Like has nothing to do with it. Brogressive House is not distinct from any other Progressive House. \n Identify how it is specifically different from Progressiv... | 60 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,369 |
Error400BadRequest | Generate the content for a reddit post LCDs are Inherently slower than CRTs, but not slow enough to make a difference in most cases, especially in video game modes. | Time for some CRT science. A CRT is "lagless" in the sense that there is no frame delay, but technically, it draws a frame over the "width" of the frame. I.E. it takes 16ms to draw a frame(at 60fps) on a CRT. Now, an LCD must wait for that frame to be completely received before it can draw it(must convert to digital). ... | Time for some CRT science. A CRT is "lagless" in the sense that there is no frame delay, but technically, it draws a frame over the "width" of the frame. I.E. it takes 16ms to draw a frame(at 60fps) on a CRT. Now, an LCD must wait for that frame to be completely received before it can draw it(must convert to digital). ... | [
"Summary: People can't afford to start competing services.\n\nPost: What's going on, Americans? \n Low population density makes for a relatively high cost of entry as lots of cable must be run for few(er) customers. It's cost prohibitive to enter the internet market due to equipment, and running cable isn't easy ei... | 17 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,370 |
Frippety | Generate the content for a reddit post The devs have been listening, and I hope they keep doing so. Fantastic game. | Better than I thought. I decided to create my own guild and I've made friends in it who I love to play with. Launch was quite possibly the smoothest MMO launch ever. It's a bit buggy at the moment but that's to be expected, plus there'll be over 1000 bugfixes in the 1.1 patch early next month.
My connection to the se... | Better than I thought. I decided to create my own guild and I've made friends in it who I love to play with. Launch was quite possibly the smoothest MMO launch ever. It's a bit buggy at the moment but that's to be expected, plus there'll be over 1000 bugfixes in the 1.1 patch early next month.
My connection to the se... | [
"Summary: your region is based on the currency you're prompted to subscribe to WildStar with. Don't use a VPN/proxy if you want to play in the same region as you currently live in\n\nPost: Also, for people not buying from the official website, I'm pretty sure (but not 100%) that all codes are region free until they... | 20 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,371 |
TheRealQwade | Generate the content for a reddit post I wouldn't give up either. Giving up any right invalidates all of them, and I would rather die than lose my freedom. | If you're talking abstractly, I'd probably give up the right to vote. I mean, we literally just had an election yesterday that I didn't vote in nor really care about the outcome, so my voting right is one that clearly doesn't impact me on any meaningful level. The right to bear arms, though, certainly can have a powerf... | If you're talking abstractly, I'd probably give up the right to vote. I mean, we literally just had an election yesterday that I didn't vote in nor really care about the outcome, so my voting right is one that clearly doesn't impact me on any meaningful level. The right to bear arms, though, certainly can have a powerf... | [
"Summary: Bugs still exists as the primary connection between the audience and the show because he's the most relatable. Daffy drives a lot of the plots because Bugs' character has been simplified to suit his more suburban lifestyle and, unfortunately, has become more boring because of it.\n\nPost: I think the reas... | 17 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,372 |
zahlman | Generate the content for a reddit post everyone can see you are full of shit. | Okay, but like... was anyone trying to get anyone prosecuted?
No?
Well why the fuck not ?
I mean if you legitimately believed that such a terrible thing was happening, then you'd be morally obligated, right?
I'm forced to conclude that you don't actually believe it, and didn't believe it at the time, and nei... | Okay, but like... was anyone trying to get anyone prosecuted?
No?
Well why the fuck not ?
I mean if you legitimately believed that such a terrible thing was happening, then you'd be morally obligated, right?
I'm forced to conclude that you don't actually believe it, and didn't believe it at the time, and nei... | [
"Summary: fuck off.\n\nPost: Right. And nobody weaves that; it just shows up in the factory one day, gifted by the seatbelt elves, who picked it from the woven fabric trees. \n Oh, FFS. \n >You're arguing with somethign very different than what I was talking about. \n I was the one who initially described a context... | 99 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,373 |
harrytrumanprimate | Generate the content for a reddit post If the uniques are actually good I could see the exclusives easily being worth much more than shavronnes or kaom's. | IIRC, they will also be extremely super expensive. From my experiences in D2, the prices of legacy or league only-esque items will be extremely costly. In D2 the ladder only high level uniques (tyrael chest or whatever it was called) was easily 24 high runes (from memory) compared to the average end game item being wor... | IIRC, they will also be extremely super expensive. From my experiences in D2, the prices of legacy or league only-esque items will be extremely costly. In D2 the ladder only high level uniques (tyrael chest or whatever it was called) was easily 24 high runes (from memory) compared to the average end game item being wor... | [
"Summary: all of my hard work was meaningless because I was too prideful to apply for backup schools. I lost about $10,000 and a year of my life. I also struggle with depression, and have difficulty making friends because of my arrogance.\n\nPost: So, I was in the gifted program all throughout school. Graduated wit... | 20 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,374 |
appropriate-username | Generate the content for a reddit post people spend money on weird shit. | This is like the 3rd time this has come up. Responses were, yes, you probably spend a lot of money on what you are interested in and people who like model trains and playing with them spend a ton of money on these games. IIRC there was even an IAMA by someone who was interested in the things. | This is like the 3rd time this has come up. Responses were, yes, you probably spend a lot of money on what you are interested in and people who like model trains and playing with them spend a ton of money on these games. IIRC there was even an IAMA by someone who was interested in the things. | [
"Summary: Fatcat alert--this guy is running an entire bio lab somewhere using the latest in brain manipulation technology and completely wastes delicious rat brains\n\nPost: Urine has no effect on reception of any signals \n \n Brains (especially rat brains) don't tend to be too useful for computations, that's the ... | 88 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,375 |
JustCallMeBen | Generate the content for a reddit post The had an unsafe brak distance and willingly made the decision to try passing the car dangerously. This cyclist is a fucking idiot and inbred fuckwits like this are the reason some people are starting to hate cyclists. | Came here to say this. This cyclist is a fucking suicidal idiotic bitch. Looking at the road, I'd estimate he was riding at around 35-40 kmph, and you'll notice his braking distance is extremely terrible: he was braking for 10 meters or more and then still ran at a high speed into the car. If you can't stop within 10 ... | Came here to say this. This cyclist is a fucking suicidal idiotic bitch. Looking at the road, I'd estimate he was riding at around 35-40 kmph, and you'll notice his braking distance is extremely terrible: he was braking for 10 meters or more and then still ran at a high speed into the car. If you can't stop within 10 ... | [
"Summary: the source does appear to be of decent quality, it doesn't look like a blown up SD video. \n turns out I'm wrong? TIL!\n\nPost: The source is an analogue camera. It has no resolution. It has a certain quality, and it appears to be good, as most camera's being used in professional environments. \n The vide... | 48 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,376 |
AlphaVictor87 | Generate the content for a reddit post Sorry for the possibly whiny rant, but god damn all i want to do is run my lvl 31 warlock through the new -blam!-ing raid and i can't find any groups to do it as a fresh run without requiring specific exotic weapons and of course CE experience | I still have yet to do the entire raid because the only thing that i can find on LFG is the Crota CP or Bridge CP.
My first attempt at the raid was a blind run. We finally made it past the lanterns and i was having a blast, but it took way too long and i had to get to bed by the time we were done.
Every attempt sin... | I still have yet to do the entire raid because the only thing that i can find on LFG is the Crota CP or Bridge CP.
My first attempt at the raid was a blind run. We finally made it past the lanterns and i was having a blast, but it took way too long and i had to get to bed by the time we were done.
Every attempt sin... | [
"Summary: So what about you, Does mood even affect how you play? \nEDIT: Also how does gameplay affect your mood?\n\nPost: I've noticed that when playing with friends I tend to play a lot better. Always gets me in a good mood. I'm. Having fun and just don't seem to worry about the 1 or 2 bad games I may have. If I'... | 16 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,377 |
glimmer27 | Generate the content for a reddit post Your post is clear, I jut don' t think you understand the depth of what you're asking. You're being linked superhero supplements because really you're going to have to homebrew practically an entire system up yourself. | Your question is much more complex than you're asking. there's not a simple class/race combo to convert over a fantasy system to super hero. That's the reason they both exist.
(I'm not super familiar with 4th, so I'm going to have to use 3rd for the example) For example If you wanted to do Wolverine, you would need a... | Your question is much more complex than you're asking. there's not a simple class/race combo to convert over a fantasy system to super hero. That's the reason they both exist.
(I'm not super familiar with 4th, so I'm going to have to use 3rd for the example) For example If you wanted to do Wolverine, you would need a... | [
"Summary: Racist grandma made me look at everyone differently.\n\nPost: Some nigger trash just shouldn't be allowed in here\" - My grandmother \n Context: \n I was 10ish and walking into church with family when a black kid I knew and liked from school rode his bike up to the bike rack, locked it, and went inside we... | 25 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,378 |
TangibleTurian | Generate the content for a reddit post He would fare better than Kakashi, but wouldn't win like Naruto. | I believe he would certainly fare better, but opening and using the gates is very taxing on the user. He probably wouldn't be able to beat them all. Naruto has monstrous chakra reserves, and he still had to use a clone to gain chakra to continue fighting. He would've lost if he hadn't transformed into the nine tails, a... | I believe he would certainly fare better, but opening and using the gates is very taxing on the user. He probably wouldn't be able to beat them all. Naruto has monstrous chakra reserves, and he still had to use a clone to gain chakra to continue fighting. He would've lost if he hadn't transformed into the nine tails, a... | [
"Summary: You are being a blind fanboy, and need to see the facts.\n\nPost: First of all, you can't say \"full strength\" Itachi, because that would be basing your argument off something we've never seen and only assumed. That's like saying Hiruzen would steam roll everyone in his prime because he was the \"God of ... | 16 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,379 |
kazneus | Generate the content for a reddit post Being a cheapskate is no excuse for being an asshole.
Good use of the meme, though. | uh.. if you're patronizing the business, then yes it is your responsibility. You accept the business model. You give the business your money. That means you're siding with the management, who say that the paycheck is your responsibility. If salaries were higher, prices would be, too. Hell, it'll probably work out to ... | uh.. if you're patronizing the business, then yes it is your responsibility. You accept the business model. You give the business your money. That means you're siding with the management, who say that the paycheck is your responsibility. If salaries were higher, prices would be, too. Hell, it'll probably work out to ... | [
"Summary: There's a shocking amount of comments on this thread in support of the professor. The reality is the concept of grading is not only more subjective, but also more grounded in ones opinions about 'where it came from' then anybody would like to admit. \n In fact, I'm willing to bet if you took a bunch of p... | 49 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,380 |
Sn1pe | Generate the content for a reddit post Me going in-depth on some of 4chan's boards and comparing reddit to 4chan in some ways, while visiting both equally from day to day. | pol/ is fun to lurk in during big political events, natural disasters, stuff that goes horribly wrong, etc. Right now besides the occasional Jew/racist threads, there should be one dedicated to Crimea and one floating around that's dedicated to the plane search. I'm surprised that the "redpill" trademark is basically ... | pol/ is fun to lurk in during big political events, natural disasters, stuff that goes horribly wrong, etc. Right now besides the occasional Jew/racist threads, there should be one dedicated to Crimea and one floating around that's dedicated to the plane search. I'm surprised that the "redpill" trademark is basically ... | [
"Summary: I had trouble getting the seatbelt on for this really intense rollercoaster, and after I got help to fix it, the thought of it snapping overtook me the whole ride, especially the halfway point as you can see in this other [video](\n\nPost: I don't know if this really counts as a near death experience, but... | 25 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,381 |
ephemeron0 | Generate the content for a reddit post you seem to be waiting for this magic moment when you've finally "made it"...when you can put your feet up and say, " OK. Now I'm ready. All my pieces are in place ". That moment will NEVER come. Everything in life is a moving target and you need to decide if you want to take a sh... | 1) length of relationship
Only the two of you can decide when you're ready. But, after two years, you ought to have a feel for which way the wind is blowing. If you love her and you're not planning to break up with her today... then, maybe there is nothing to be afraid of. If you're not headed toward marriage (if eit... | 1) length of relationship
Only the two of you can decide when you're ready. But, after two years, you ought to have a feel for which way the wind is blowing. If you love her and you're not planning to break up with her today... then, maybe there is nothing to be afraid of. If you're not headed toward marriage (if eit... | [
"Summary: OWS aren't protesting against unemployment, directly. And a technical degree won't protect you from the selfishness and failings of others.\n\nPost: I'd disagree (in part). This post seems to me to be rife with condescension. Paraphrasing, by saying \"occupy the lab; occupy the library\", lmc6d9 is saying... | 74 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,382 |
Chubbstock | Generate the content for a reddit post Anyone been deployed and figure out a good diet? | Carbs, carbs everywhere, and everything is fried. High fat, really high sodium, and even the meats are breaded or glazed in a sugar based something-or-other.
I'm personally trying to lose my belly and lovehandles. The advantage of being out here is the gym time, which I'm taking as much advantage of as I can. insert... | Carbs, carbs everywhere, and everything is fried. High fat, really high sodium, and even the meats are breaded or glazed in a sugar based something-or-other.
I'm personally trying to lose my belly and lovehandles. The advantage of being out here is the gym time, which I'm taking as much advantage of as I can. insert... | [
"Summary: u so mad, bro](\n\nPost: Honestly you are getting really spun up over basically nothing. The joke in this thread was \"The fridge?\" which is a very simple, light hearted joke which is hardly even about the subject matter. It derives it's comedy through misunderstanding, which is one of the oldest forms o... | 24 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,383 |
Iacoizumi | Generate the content for a reddit post I believe so, but take note that vapor cones do not only occur in cases where a vehicle breaks the sound barrier. Also, ask [Bandalo.]( | Ehh... [Bandalo]( would probably be the better person to ask about this, but if I remember correctly vapor cones generally appear around an airplane when it is traveling at some high speed through an area with high humidity.
One thing I do remember, however, is that vapor cones are not the same thing as breaking the ... | Ehh... [Bandalo]( would probably be the better person to ask about this, but if I remember correctly vapor cones generally appear around an airplane when it is traveling at some high speed through an area with high humidity.
One thing I do remember, however, is that vapor cones are not the same thing as breaking the ... | [
"Summary: A long response warrants a long response!\n\nPost: Yeah. The linux version of PCSX2 has sucked hard, big-time, for a while now. need to be rewritten from the bottom-up in order to accept and utilize 64-bit variables when emulating the PS2's hardware. They'll do it eventually, but for now they'd rather... | 27 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,384 |
DrinkVictoryGin | Generate the content for a reddit post the bullshit keeps on going | I always thought that school was just a game where you had to complete mostly bullshit tasks as evidence that you were doing something, playing along, but that when I got into the "real world" that would be over.
Turns out all jobs require loads of bullshit you just have to do so your supervisor can prove they are mak... | I always thought that school was just a game where you had to complete mostly bullshit tasks as evidence that you were doing something, playing along, but that when I got into the "real world" that would be over.
Turns out all jobs require loads of bullshit you just have to do so your supervisor can prove they are mak... | [
"Summary: you clearly didn't know each other well enough to have a baby if you didn't know each other well enough to talk about what to do about a pregnancy\n\nPost: I suspect she knew didn't know you well enough to risk your potential interference with the abortion. \n The woman is the one who is pregnant, being j... | 19 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,385 |
AnxietyAttack2013 | Generate the content for a reddit post accidental racism | So this happened yesterday. Myself and fellow band mates were chilling on the front steps of a library (we later got kicked out because two of them were loudly arguing over who was blacker) and we were talking about what we should name ourselves. After about 10 minutes I said "let's call ourselves the stoop kids, becau... | So this happened yesterday. Myself and fellow band mates were chilling on the front steps of a library (we later got kicked out because two of them were loudly arguing over who was blacker) and we were talking about what we should name ourselves. After about 10 minutes I said "let's call ourselves the stoop kids, becau... | [
"Summary: got drunk, got lost, got home, got raped\n\nPost: Got drunk off of a few bottles of JD. Danced like an idiot outside for a bit. Decided to walk around for some reason. Got lost. Middle of winter with no shoes or coat in NJ. Told my ex girlfriends best friend id rather have been with her. A drug dealer hel... | 32 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,386 |
goosiegirl | Generate the content for a reddit post but if you are severely out of shape or have health (especially heart or joint) issues no, I would not recommend this, it will be too overwhelming and possibly unsafe. But if you're like a lot of us, just needing to get your butt into gear, it will be hard, but you can probably do... | I've never done P90X, but from what I understand it's more about muscle building (so the use of weights and such). Insanity seems to be more about conditioning, fat burning, and toning. I've heard that people think it's similar to some of the sports drills they may have done in high school. I've been working out somewh... | I've never done P90X, but from what I understand it's more about muscle building (so the use of weights and such). Insanity seems to be more about conditioning, fat burning, and toning. I've heard that people think it's similar to some of the sports drills they may have done in high school. I've been working out somewh... | [
"Summary: welcome and looking forward to seeing you around!\n\nPost: Congratulations on your new son - I'm sure he is great motivation to want to focus on your health. \n I think your goals look great - the only thing I would suggest is working your overall goals into sprint 1. So if you want to complete C25K, wher... | 38 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,387 |
asator | Generate the content for a reddit post I disagree. | Well, considering that Ed Greenwood created the Forgotten Realms, if he liked the idea of a good aligned drow, then I don't see how it should never have happened. That's like telling Tolkien "a hobbit would never do that!" or telling George Lucus, "A Jedi would never do that!" I mean, these guys CREATED the Realms, t... | Well, considering that Ed Greenwood created the Forgotten Realms, if he liked the idea of a good aligned drow, then I don't see how it should never have happened. That's like telling Tolkien "a hobbit would never do that!" or telling George Lucus, "A Jedi would never do that!" I mean, these guys CREATED the Realms, t... | [
"Summary: I agree completely.\n\nPost: To be honest, when I first looked at it I was like, \"WTF?! This shit should all be on one page.\" I absolutely hate having to go through page after page to see a 'top ___\" list. But, my curiosity got the better of me and I found the rest of the list after a search that wa... | 16 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,388 |
Belial88 | Generate the content for a reddit post Outsourcing hurts a few people (those couple us workers), but helps way more (the poor as shit people in another country who benefit from the job way more, the many american customers who get the good for significantly cheaper, the market by making it much more competitive) | I don't see anything wrong in Sensata outsourcing jobs...
Yes, if you are, say, that Sensata employee, you are screwed. But a lot more people get a gain from it, as prices drop. For example, an Iphone would cost over twice as much if [made in America, source.](
I would strongly urge you to watch this video, Morgan ... | I don't see anything wrong in Sensata outsourcing jobs...
Yes, if you are, say, that Sensata employee, you are screwed. But a lot more people get a gain from it, as prices drop. For example, an Iphone would cost over twice as much if [made in America, source.](
I would strongly urge you to watch this video, Morgan ... | [
"Summary: You can easily use too much, ie more than a small rice grain, of thermal paste and end up with 5C+ higher temps, but it's nearly impossible to use too little paste. Use a small dot to small, dry rice grain size of thermal paste. \n Again, Bad: \n Good:\n\nPost: Hey, I actually have a lot of experience... | 62 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,389 |
bokchoykn | Generate the content for a reddit post Converge was hit and miss, but I think it was more "miss" than it was "hit". It's a cool mechanic with a lot design space, but only a few cards in BFZ made good use of it. | I felt that Converge was a mechanic that has TONS of potential, but the execution of it was kind of hit and miss.
The way I see it, there are two different avenues to make Converge into a cool mechanic:
Using Converge as a means to reward/encourage multicolor decks .
Using Converge as a means to select diff... | I felt that Converge was a mechanic that has TONS of potential, but the execution of it was kind of hit and miss.
The way I see it, there are two different avenues to make Converge into a cool mechanic:
Using Converge as a means to reward/encourage multicolor decks .
Using Converge as a means to select diff... | [
"Summary: Boys have a penis. Girls have a vagina.\n\nPost: Men and Women are just hardwired differently. \n Men have competitive urges that need to be satisfied. The concept of competition is interesting to us: two (or more) sides with an ultimate goal that directly conflicts with the opponent's goal and a battle o... | 29 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,390 |
redlandmover | Generate the content for a reddit post they could probably figure out that the traffic was usnet related. not much after that.
ps: sorry about being bored nerd-nazi lol. but i figured that someone else might read this and benefit. | so, because my server is down at work, im going to be a nerd-nazi and correct your post just a bit (once again, im very bored work and actually have nothing better do to).
>your ISP has no way of knowing what you're doing
not entirely true. now the following assumes that your ISP actually a rat's ass and was active... | so, because my server is down at work, im going to be a nerd-nazi and correct your post just a bit (once again, im very bored work and actually have nothing better do to).
>your ISP has no way of knowing what you're doing
not entirely true. now the following assumes that your ISP actually a rat's ass and was active... | [
"Summary: great phone, but wait to see what happens with the upcoming nexus phone s\n\nPost: personally speaking, yes its a great phone. however, like others have said: the rumors of the next (several?) nexus phones have started to trickle out. the one by LG (aka optimus nexus) specs have leaked out (assuming they ... | 26 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,391 |
helloiisclay | Generate the content for a reddit post Vroom Vroom | The best analogy I've ever heard is this: think of it in terms of cars. A Lexus is manufactured by the same company as a Toyota and a Scion.
The Scion will usually be the no frills, gets you from point A to point B. This would equate to a low-end marker (Proto - Dye, Etek & Etha - PE, etc.) It's not going to have the... | The best analogy I've ever heard is this: think of it in terms of cars. A Lexus is manufactured by the same company as a Toyota and a Scion.
The Scion will usually be the no frills, gets you from point A to point B. This would equate to a low-end marker (Proto - Dye, Etek & Etha - PE, etc.) It's not going to have the... | [
"Summary: Most Occupy protesters didn't know shit about the world other than protests are like going camping.\n\nPost: Went to the 9/11 memorial just after it opened, and while the Occupy protests were still going on. I saw a guy with a sign that said something like \"all soldiers are baby killers\" on one side and... | 19 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,392 |
meeper88 | Generate the content for a reddit post at age 20, I had the eyes of a 65-year-old. | I used to work as a receptionist at a nursing home and I got to know the doctor who was associated with the home fairly well as he frequently had to get messages / paperwork / etc from me. He was a somewhat elderly gentleman himself, and he wore glasses with a fairly heavy prescription.
He stopped by my desk one eve... | I used to work as a receptionist at a nursing home and I got to know the doctor who was associated with the home fairly well as he frequently had to get messages / paperwork / etc from me. He was a somewhat elderly gentleman himself, and he wore glasses with a fairly heavy prescription.
He stopped by my desk one eve... | [
"Summary: my left eye is functionally illiterate.\n\nPost: I have a Coca-Cola t-shirt that I used to wear. Sometimes I'd look at it and think that it was getting a bit dingy and orange-ish and might need to be retired; other times I'd look at it and think it was fine. \n Turns out my right eye sees colors as sligh... | 24 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,393 |
streetmitch | Generate the content for a reddit post got killed on sniper hill. spawn on other side of electro. ran to firehouse dodging bullets. found a double barrel shotgun only had one shot. see a guy on other side of wall. he yells hes friendly and tries to lie to me. he tries to flank. spin around and kill him with my only sho... | so about a week ago i was in stary just looted a downed chopper. found a m14 and a bizon with a decent amount of ammo. was going to give the bizon to a friend, but he just went on vacation. didnt play for a while because i dont want to lose my decent gear and cant do much looting with a gun in my back pack. then i see ... | so about a week ago i was in stary just looted a downed chopper. found a m14 and a bizon with a decent amount of ammo. was going to give the bizon to a friend, but he just went on vacation. didnt play for a while because i dont want to lose my decent gear and cant do much looting with a gun in my back pack. then i see ... | [
"Summary: Get the 7970.\n\nPost: Here is a [benchmark]( for the 7970 vs the 770. It looks like they perform about the same. For me i would choose the 7970 say performance for 100 dollars less. My experience with radeon has been nothing, but good things. I know 2 people with crossfire 7970s that i suggested and they... | 16 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,394 |
Ildona | Generate the content for a reddit post Lots of ways to still get mad at dying out of nowhere! | The original Miracle combo was 22 damage in one turn from 3x Leeroy -> Eviscerate. 22 damage, 6 cards, from nothing on board.
There are current decks that outdo that. Some... don't get played for various (good) reasons, others actually do get played. A few of these actually have the control to live long enough to see... | The original Miracle combo was 22 damage in one turn from 3x Leeroy -> Eviscerate. 22 damage, 6 cards, from nothing on board.
There are current decks that outdo that. Some... don't get played for various (good) reasons, others actually do get played. A few of these actually have the control to live long enough to see... | [
"Summary: Eastern wildcard is a pity system for teams that could otherwise play on EUW with better ping than the NA East Coast. Either make a wildcard spot in each group, or none at all. \n I'd like to see a Latin American, Brazilian, Oceanian, and one other wildcard for next year's world. The other 20 slots would ... | 15 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,395 |
Varianz | Generate the content for a reddit post low dose, maybe ask for non-traditional antibiotics (amoxicillin works for acne but isn't often used) to clear you up before starting. | Consider trying low dose- like 10mg a day. It'll probably take longer for you to clear up, but studies indicate that eventually it will work. Downside is, you'll have to be on it a looooooooong time. Like, over a year. Upside is, far far fewer side effects. If your derm doesn't want to consider it (some of the old ones... | Consider trying low dose- like 10mg a day. It'll probably take longer for you to clear up, but studies indicate that eventually it will work. Downside is, you'll have to be on it a looooooooong time. Like, over a year. Upside is, far far fewer side effects. If your derm doesn't want to consider it (some of the old ones... | [
"Summary: lots of people are going to get knocks on the door like this, please be educated consumers.\n\nPost: If this happens and you have questions, call the MA AGO or Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulations and speak to someone about it (they are the proper regulatory oversight). You might also consi... | 17 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,396 |
TexasLiving | Generate the content for a reddit post I disagree with others on this. Your #1 priority is finding a better paying/more hour job. This might be a spending problem, but you are provided much more leverage by upping that income. | Everybody is skirting around the main issue: earn more money. There is no way somebody with a bachelor's should not be working 40 hours+ a week at some job and pulling in around $30k annually. $13k annually will be tough to budget/account/distribute for no matter how good you are at expense management. I see that you a... | Everybody is skirting around the main issue: earn more money. There is no way somebody with a bachelor's should not be working 40 hours+ a week at some job and pulling in around $30k annually. $13k annually will be tough to budget/account/distribute for no matter how good you are at expense management. I see that you a... | [
"Summary: Not contributing up to match is giving up free money, solution to cash flow lies elsewhere; there are low-low-risk options in many 401ks\n\nPost: What is most important about the 401k is the extra income it can provide (if an employer matches) and the tax benefits. The tax benefits aside (which is huge, h... | 18 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,397 |
Skrp | Generate the content for a reddit post Treat people as individuals, I wouldn't want to be judged by the actions of other people, so I'll extend the same courtesy to others. | A disproportionally large number of them do turn to scamming and stealing, but there's quite a lot that seem quite nice and just want to make a life for themselves.
I think it's perfectly okay to recognize that a disproportionate amount of them are unwanted to say the least, but I think to take that and turn it into ... | A disproportionally large number of them do turn to scamming and stealing, but there's quite a lot that seem quite nice and just want to make a life for themselves.
I think it's perfectly okay to recognize that a disproportionate amount of them are unwanted to say the least, but I think to take that and turn it into ... | [
"Summary: Everyone has their own opinions, and it's situational.\n\nPost: Depends on the book / author in question to be honest. \n It's important to note that when people use terms like 'overrated' or 'sucks' to describe a book, they at least usually don't mean that to be an objective thing, but is of course an op... | 16 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,398 |
carbonmonoxide | Generate the content for a reddit post version: Is an MFA in Theatrical Production worth the debt and time? | So I'm about to graduate from UC Berkeley this Spring with a degree in Theater, Dance, and Performance studies with a focus on lighting design, and two new interests: stage management and directing. I tend to have my hands in everything, and while I occasionally act, I really plan to pursue prodution as a career.
M... | So I'm about to graduate from UC Berkeley this Spring with a degree in Theater, Dance, and Performance studies with a focus on lighting design, and two new interests: stage management and directing. I tend to have my hands in everything, and while I occasionally act, I really plan to pursue prodution as a career.
M... | [
"Summary: Lupus has changed my life very little. Prognosis is usually good.\n\nPost: I was diagnosed with Lupus when I was 17. I'm 23 now. I went in with extremely inflamed joints that was causing me to move around like I was arthritic. A shot of steroids and not only was I walking straight but I felt like I co... | 16 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 1,399 |
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