ultra corruptor is forgoing any sort of support. \n The best analogy, IMO, is that this is like going marine maruader, not getting medivacs, and planning to end up with BC/bio. \n Roach/Hydra is good up until they get colosi/templar/ any sort of tech past immortals. You need something else to challenge their own support tech. Infestors can work as they lock down armies and deal damage, mutas work because they are great for harass, Swarm host is great because it allows constant pressure AND extra stuff in afight."},"correct_answer":{"kind":"string","value":"I absolutely think Swarm Hosts should be a staple. Basically what you are doing by going roach/hydra ---> ultra corruptor is forgoing any sort of support. \n The best analogy, IMO, is that this is like going marine maruader, not getting medivacs, and planning to end up with BC/bio. \n Roach/Hydra is good up until they get colosi/templar/ any sort of tech past immortals. You need something else to challenge their own support tech. Infestors can work as they lock down armies and deal damage, mutas work because they are great for harass, Swarm host is great because it allows constant pressure AND extra stuff in afight."},"documents":{"kind":"list like","value":["Summary: Don't run a custom game. Run a pre-written module first. Walk before you run\n\nPost: Okay, I am sure you really want to do your own dungeon. I am gonna ask you to step back a moment. \n Don't run a custom game yet. You are likely not ready for it if you have never DM'd before. There are a lot of intricacies and things that need planned for in every room and encounter. \n I would advise you to buy/print out a pre made adventure. There should be a couple of free ones hanging around. \n You need to see and feel what it is like to DM. Don't run before you walk. \n I too love creating my own content and only do that exclusively. I have been DMing for quite some time though.","Summary: Confessions of a Sion fan boy\n\nPost: I love the new sion. He is played jungle and top, but I prefer him top lane. \n I max W first, then Q, then E. I max W because it allows him to accept a lot of abuse from other top laners, even ranged ones. \n Use your Q sparingly and intelligently. Wait until the opponent I close enough they won't be able to run. This will stun and chunk them. If your shield is up, any retaliation is ineffective. \n I generally avoid fighting in lane until the jungle shows up. Pop your ultimate then. If you land ultimate, charge up your Q all the way on them. This guarantees 4-6 seconds of stun with 500-650 damage from you alone. During this time, the jungle is going ham. \n I build him full tank, as his CC can win team fights. When a fight breaks out, find the carry and Q over them. They will either run or hope to deal damage before you cc lock them. \n I'm still trying to figure out his ult. Engaging with it can work if the enemy team is immobile. However, I prefer to save it until the fight starts and I can find a clump of 3 or something, I'll pop ult on them. It will stun for the full duration regardless of distance.","Summary: Yes , in SA it will be MUCH better.\n\nPost: From what I have heard about DayZ as it is: hackers and bandits dominate pub servers. Only private hives can guarantee a good mixed balance of players. \n On SA: I have heard from multiple people that the VAC servers that steam provides along with some code rewrites will make hacking VERY hard to do and easy to report. Overall SA will deal with hacking very well. Private servers for SA will be not as safe but still good.","Summary: Magical Holocaust kills nation and renders capital city ruined. \n Not sure if this helps but it sounded to close to pass over.\n\nPost: This reminds me of a city I have in my current world. \n The Kingdom of Edda was the magical center of the world. A territory under the larger Valoran Empire, it's people began to yearn for independence. Looking to another territory that had just freed itself, they began to create Organas. By synthesizing their magics into semi-senitient beings (Living Spells, MM III) they prepared for a war to come. The Valoran Crown saw this rebellion growing and quickly killed the movement's leaders and confiscated or dispelled all Organas. They locked them away in a vault under Edda's capital city, whose name is lost to history. 400 years passed and again the people of Edda felt uneasy under the Crown's boot. A small group of rebels sought to release the long lost Organas. Fighting their way to the vault they found an abandoned and discarded ruin. The vault door was secure, but appeared to not have been properly tended to in centuries. \n Little did they know, in the 400 years since their imprisonment, deprived of the natural magical energies of the world they turned on each other in Cannibalistic mania. The slaughter ended with a single Organa consuming the others. After it ran out of energy itself, it died. From it's essence rose a Vasuthaunt (MM III) of unknown power. The rebels unleashed a magical holocaust the rent the nation of Edda apart. The nation was left dead and the city was turned into a ruin. The city center is a flat wasted expanse surrounded by the ruined and desolate city scape that remains. It's name is lost to the ages and is now only known as The Shell. The Vasuthaunt still lives at the city's core.","Summary: Blizzard made sure the game was 100% balanced, but that resulted in the game being very un-fun to play at a competitive level. When the community asked Blizz to change it for the better, they ignored the community.\n\nPost: I played SC2 for a long time and my opinion of what happened goes like this. \n It came out. Yay! So fun! However, the more people played it they found out that the meta was quickly becoming 1-2 strategies. After HotS came out, the same thing happened. Most of the community came to the opinion that SC2 is not fun to play because of a couple of things. \n 1) Protoss. The larger issue being that they could warp in units almost anywhere very quickly and was the only race that could \"modify\" the terrain with force fields. Imagine Anivia's wall on a 1-2sec cooldown and lasting for like 15 seconds. This was not \"over-powered\" in a sense, but it forced the devs to only make certain kinds of maps and warped the balance of everything else in the game around these 2 mechanics. Right now, it is balanced around this. However, this inhibits many other fun strategies and maps from ever coming to the game. \n 2) Economy. The way that resource collection was built in SC2, there is no reason to above 3 mining bases at any one time. This lead to 3 base, deathball strategies becoming powerful and not many other ways to beat it. \n 3) Last reason is a little controversial, but pro represenation. Koreans were allowed into every region of the competitive scene, leading to Kespa-bots who were not to expressive or possessing noticeable personalities. Whereas LoL developed cool personalities and teams that were each unique to every region, SC2 became Koreans and irrelevant players across the board. Really boring in the championships when every player is from \"one region\" (Korea). \n What really killed it though is that after a lot of effort and struggle from the SC2 community to try and fix the game, Blizzard came out and said \"We know you think these things, but we are not going to change them.\" \n Ignoring the community and then moving development assets to other games (Heroes of the Storm, Hearthstone, WoW). \n Blizz has basicaly given up on making SC2 good and fun.","Summary: Your excuses are shit. Your main issue is you give WAY too many fucks. You are going to fail a few times, accept it. That is how we learn. \n Best of luck pal\n\nPost: Reading through these posts and your comments I have two pieces of advice. \n 1) Shut the Fuck Up. These are the worst excuses I have EVER heard. You have been working on your body? Okay cool. You have been developing social skills? Really? And you still have these issues? Either realize how awesome you are really are and get out there or be a chode for the rest of forever. \n 2) Find friends who will go out. Does not matter if they sarge or not. Having some people to fall back on for light conversation and companionship is SOO great for state while in a club. I feel awkward going out alone, luckily I have a group of sedditors I hang with. Find friends who will go out with you and put all that studying and 'development' to work.","Summary: Stop obsessing NOW and learn to be comfortable around women before you start thinking romantically/sexually about them again.\n\nPost: First off, chill the fuck out. Take a big step back and breathe. \n As a rAFC I understand some of that. Only very recently have I been able to master the art of \"Not giving a fuck about her\". As much as we like to doubt it, every person on this planet is replaceable in just about every situation. So why should you hinge yourself so squarely upon this single person who is not even single (in some cases you've discussed)? \n I know it is not as easy as thinking it, but STOP THINKING ABOUT HER. Just Stop. She is not interested in you, move on. This sounds because you need to step back and realize what is going on. As wonderful as you might think she is, she isn't. Period. \n You are obsessed and I am glad you realize it. Now stop it! Get every woman you think about out of your mind TONIGHT! If you remain friends after tonight that is great, but as friends only. \n What you are saying reminds me of myself a year and a half ago. Your first step is to not even worry about your game, getting laid, or even getting number closes or anything involved. You need to get used to just being around people without being obsessed. I want you to go out and talk to 5 girls between today and Wednesday. Only talk to them. Nice, friendly conversation. Do not attempt kino, no game shit. Just learn to be comfortable around women without your mind switching to \"Oh she is pretty I wonder if she likes me\" thoughts because I know I had those. \n I hope this helps man. Keep in touch if you need.","Summary: I think the map should remain as is, but see a lobby to group spawn system in SA.\n\nPost: Most everything is good, except I disagree about the map. I like that you do not immeadietly have a good idea of where you are. I love that isloted and disoriented feeling it gives. Really in vein with the overall mood of the game. \n I agree that this makes it VERY hard to play with friends. However, I feel like I read somewhere that they are throwing around ideas of spawning with other people. You would enter a lobby and then spawn with others. I do not think this was sidrectly from Rocket but someone involved.","Summary: I would stay away from it. People come for scares and laughs, not statements about the world they are distracting themselves from.\n\nPost: I think if you are to do something like tjat, it would have to be fleeting and humorous. \n People come to haunted houses for entertainment and thrills. If they are suddenly subjected to what is a serious and sobering reminder of some injustice, you have disturbed 1) the suspension of disbelief and 2) their intent to come for laughs and thrills. \n I think something like one of your zombies being Obama or Boehner would be perfectly acceptable and would be a great way to lighten the tension before the next scare.","Summary: Since a horror setting can be SO different from a normal RPG setting (D&D mainly) using a dream sequence/hallucination scenario is a great way to get the right tone without altering the campaign setting too drastically.\n\nPost: I cannot really contribute anyhting but I have to leak this to someone. \n So I am a HUGE Halloween fan and am planning a Halloween special for my PCs. I have a demi-god in my campaigns known as Jack O' Lantern, Lord of the Harvest. Locked away in an artifact known as Jack's Flute for decades, 3 weeks ago the PCs were sent by their benefactor to retrieve it from a hag that guarded it from the rest of the world. Playing the flute releases the spirits that will initiate the Lord of the Harvest's return. Instead, they befriend her and gain her as a guardian in their keep over Jack's Flute. \n However, as (in game) weeks passed they felt the draw of Jack's Flute. Each of them suddenly recalling a tune from some time in the past. The party's fighter succumbed. He approached the hag one night and threatened her life. A successful Intimidate check and she gave it to him. Playing it released a spirit that is preparing for Jack's Return. \n The adventure that day will begin with them dealing with the fighter (who is semi possessed by a spirit that gives him buffs in exchange for partial control). In the process Jack's Flute will be played and the Lord of the Harvest will be released, plunging the PCs into a nightmarish dream world that is a horrific parody of their own. Only after fighting through this waking nightmare and sealing Jack O' Lantern back in the flute will their reality be returned to normal.","Summary: It takes whatever you are already good at and makes you amazing at it. This power would be underwritten with evil intentions, greed, and a lust for power.\n\nPost: The rings augment the inherent powers of the individual, while breeding an addiction to this power and a lust for more. \n For example, what if the fellowship decided to give the ring to Gondor as a weapon, entrusted with Boromier(spelling?). He is a hero of the people and a great captain. The ring would turn him into a juggernaut of war and a shining beacon of inspiration for men. So much so it would lead him and the armies of Gondor to the Black gate. \n The ring's desire is still to reunite with sauron. Once it was in a position where it could be taken, it would turn on Boromier and rob him of that strength and valor and fall right into the hands of an army of orcs as the armies of men scatter, their captain so fallen. \n Another example, what if the ring was given to Galadriel or Gandalf? They freely admit that the ring would twist them into a dark force too powerful to be reckoned against. It would take their already considerable strength and power and make them gods.","Summary: It wasnt the hellbats and the mules, it was Diamaga's decision making that killed him\n\nPost: I see it as bad decision making by Diamaga. He played very well for 45 minutes. Finally we got to the point where there was 1 base for MVP ^with ^alot ^of ^mules. MVP had THE defensive set up. Very few Zerg armies can break that sort of set up. So many chockes and excellent tank position. Diamage SHOULD have gone after MVP production, but instead he ran his head into that meat grinder twice.","Summary: If you have the time to play 3-6 hours a day, dont. If you might maybe play it 3-5 hours a week, there will be things for you to do. \n Also I like Tripwire as a company so I'm happy to support them.\n\nPost: I think it's absolutely worth it right now. \n It is certainly not finished, and more content is coming, but unless you marathon play it 4-6 hours every couple of days, you won't level up fast enough to max out fast. \n I have maybe a few hours to play every now and then and it is a blast. Love it 100% as is.","Summary: Don't be concerned with stupid little numbers. Your league is what matters. People who talk trash based on position in a league need to get laid and get that bug out of their ass while they are at it.\n\nPost: You know what I never pay attention to? My bonus pool and ladder points. I don't stress it being #1 of my league. I am in that league and I should be proud of it (no matter how low). Do you think MKP is intimidated because he is not the best in the pro scene? Probably not. Flash, Life, MVP, all those guys are probably better than him, but he is still awesome.","Summary: 5th edition brings D&D up to date with modern rpgs\n\nPost: I would recommend it. I've only had good impressions so far. \n Another thing I like is it is very hard for PCs to min max and get crazy strong. AC is harder to get but hp is much higher. Enchanted weapons are harder to get (ex: a +1 weapon enhancement is expected around lvls 5-7) \n I could go on all day.","Summary: Remove the Marauder, Put Warhound back in, buff Medivac healing and maybe that would help in the long run :D\n\nPost: It is such an awful position. I do not wish that upon anyone. Bio is very powerful. So much so it works in all match ups (with a few qualifiers obviously) and when done correctly it is SO powerful. \n However, Bio done correctly is hella hard. They have to find a way to keep bio competetive, while also making mech competitive, without disrupting the meta too hard. \n As someone who has watched the scene for four years, I think a large problem with Terran is the Marauder. It is SO good. So good. A cheap and mobile unit that counters ALOT of T3 units. It is a great answer to anything armored and is the sole reason why Terran can fight against ground heavy T3 compositions. \n The problem is it is SO good against armored that adding in more anti-armor (along with the siegetank) is insane. My solution would be to do what Blizzard intended originally: Remove the Marauder and put in the Warhound (I also think a buff to medivac healing would have to be done to comensate for losing the maruader to keep bio good). \n Now instead of a mass producible good vs armor unit that fuckers all chance of buffing Terran T3 (and making Terran oh so good) you have a bio composition that needs a little tank/warhound support in some cases, but can still wreck zerg with pure medivac, marine, mine (as a lot of high level Terran have demonstrated. They also now have the Warhound! And that is certainly more capable against Protoss than most other Terran units.","Summary: You will never be able to anticipate everything your players will do.\n\nPost: I've been GMing for 5 years. If there is one thing I've learned, it's that you cannot predict what your players will do. \n Three years ago I was GMing for a group that was fairly unimaginative. I had to force every plot line and non-combat interaction because they just didn't know how to do things on their own I guess. \n Prep and adventure and I am running it. They learn the goal of the quest they are seeking. Some form of plant fungus that can zombify people (yellow musk creeper). \n The barbarian (a luchadore really) raises his hand and says, \"is there a library nearby where we can research what this thing might be?\" \n What?? This group was taking charge? I adlibbed a trip to an Allip infested, abandoned library. That kick started a solid hour of play that I never planned for. \n There are many, many, many more stories like this that I've experienced.","Summary: The Vong would need a one hit punch weapon/virus that would kill vast amounts of Tyranid to win. Otherwise, Tyranid out-adapt the biological Vong.\n\nPost: Regrettably, I do not have a deep knowledge of the Yuuzan Vong. \n However, after reading over the wookiepedia page I would guess that they could fight a Tyrannid fleet for some time, but would eventually cave. \n The largest problem is that all of the Vong's weaponry is biological. Tyranid are known for fast adaptation after souping a planet or even ingesting enemies. \n I will say this, if the Vong had knowledge of the Tyranid for a few decades before the invasion, they may be able to craft a virus that can kill off a Tyranid fleet or at least damage it severely. And it would have to act fast enough for the Tyranid to be unable to adapt to it. \n HOWEVER, that is it. The second fleet that emerges will have disease resistance out the ass and very ready to take on the Vong. \n For the purposes of this challenge though, they would win as they had fought off AN invasion .","Summary: Friend of mine tries to rape a servant only to have the tables turn and get the raped by the servant (at the players behest) and almost contracts a magical STD pulled from the Book of Erotic Fantasy. Easily my weirdest group of players ever\n\nPost: k guys. story time \n I have never looked at players the same way after this and realize if it means a player get s fucked over in a hilarious way there is no bottom of the barrel to hit. \n D&D 3.5 \n Freshman year of college. So i used to play with a friend of mine. Lets just call him Shitlord. Shitlord is still my best friend to this day. Great guy. He is unrelentingly and searingly descriptive about terrible terrible things and has some of the strangest motivations I cannot understand. He spent ALOT of time on /b/ over the years. I blame that partially. \n Anyway, so he was the party rogue. He drops into the group mid way through the campaign (one of the other players died and let Shitlord take his place so he could focus on class and the like). \n The PCs have a fort they have built by this point and have two or three servants who do housekeeping. They have their own servant's quarters. Shitlord stays up until everyone is asleep. Using his rogue skills he sneaks into the servant's bedroom and crawls into one of the beds. It is dark and he has no light and he cannot tell the gender of the person until he is in (1 woman, 2 male servants). He crawled into one of the guys bed. \n Shitlord always does silly shit like this. However, then he said, \"I want to rape him.\" Oh god. As serious and controversial an issue as it is, my players had no qualms and wanted to kind of see what happened once the guy woke up (Shitlord was unarmed and had a shit Strength score). Well he fucked up his rolls and the guy wakes up. \n We roll randomly and guess what, the servant was okay with this and turns the tables on Shitlord. They roll grapple checks and the servant pins Shitlord to the bed. He then goes to rape Shitlord (my pplayers were really egging this on, wanting Shitlord's shenans to blow up in his face). \n For some reason we deemed that the servant had an STD. %d determined it was a magical one. So we turned to the Book of Erotic Fantasy. The ONLY time I have even acknowledged it's existence. I have the core books, but all PDFs. It sits in its corner and I ignore it mostly. \n Shitlord lucked out and almost contracted Whore's Curse or something of equally foul nature. Shitlord gathers himself up afterward and shuffles back to his room. Shitlord was a bit more careful in that campaign with his shenanigans. \n For context this is the same guy who, the year after in PC creation, would ask if he could be a Garden Snake. Not a magical Garden Snake, or a Yuan-ti or anything. No. Just a fucking snake. \n God DAMNIT Shitlord","Summary: One chick is pretty hot but I am still developing that. Second chick, if I moved in, is a fairly certain thing but she is not as good looking as has more possible emotional booby traps.\n\nPost: Well Seddit here is the problem. \n Lately I have been working on my inner game (talking to people, flirting a bit more,etc.). There is one girl (HB7-8, I'm horrible at estimating this) who I have been talking to. That is still developing and is not a sure thing. Things seem to be going well though. \n Then there is another girl. She is obviously into me but is not as good looking (not terrible though) and if I really made a move I am fairly certain I would have success. The big problem though is I suspect she is \"crazy\". \n When I say this I do not mean she is schizophrenic or like's to knit sweater murals of her BFs. I mean she can get really emotional about poetry (she writes poetry, in my experience that is good and bad) and shows other things that could suggest many headaches and worries in the near future. \n I do not know which one to go after fully. I could keep playing the field and see what develops, but I have no idea what to do with the second chick.","Summary: North dnd is best dnd. How can a fantasy kingdom use magic and force to completely control a population's thoughts, knowledge, and allegiance?\n\nPost: Hey guys! \n Working on my setting and decided to add a remote kingdom that has unwavering support for its leaders, believes everything they say, and knows nothing of the larger world. \n An apocalypse threw the world into chaos and a charismatic leader seized a remote kingdom as his own. After 500 years the crown has been able to brainwash or purge anyone who could throw his professed world view into question. \n They heavily utilize magic to control I nformation and monitor things. They have now started accepting travelers from other lands, but usually take action if they start giving out information that might jeopardize the throne's control. \n The right to rule has been kept inside the ruling family. Using a \"King's Second Body\" divine to rule for the centuries. \n So I come to you, I need specific practices that a fantasy kingdom could use to control the flow of information in a kingdom. \n Feel free to ask questions for clarification or details. \n Thanks!!","Summary: North dnd is best dnd. How can a fantasy kingdom use magic and force to completely control a population's thoughts, knowledge, and allegiance?\n\nPost: I am on mobile and don't know how to flair from here!! D: \n Hey guys! \n Working on my setting and decided to add a remote kingdom that has unwavering support for its leaders, believes everything they say, and knows nothing of the larger world. \n An apocalypse threw the world into chaos and a charismatic leader seized a remote kingdom as his own. After 500 years the crown has been able to brainwash or purge anyone who could throw his professed world view into question. \n They heavily utilize magic to control I nformation and monitor things. They have now started accepting travelers from other lands, but usually take action if they start giving out information that might jeopardize the throne's control. \n The right to rule has been kept inside the ruling family. Using a \"King's Second Body\" divine to rule for the centuries. \n So I come to you, I need specific practices that a fantasy kingdom could use to control the flow of information in a kingdom. \n Feel free to ask questions for clarification or details. \n Thanks!!","Summary: First f close made me realize how much ive changed and damn does it feel great.\n\nPost: I was an AFC really bad for awhile. Had a LTR that ended 4 months ago and went full steam ahead with PUA material after reading The Game. \n HB7 in my english class. Never really talked and didnt think about opening her (really busy around then). Class goes to art museum one day and HB7 and I walk in almost the same time. We share a moment of confusion about where to go. Afterwards im talking to a few other class mates when HB7 and I catch each others eyes for a good 5 seconds. Once we start going through I open about how she doesn't talk alot in class. She answers then immeadietly starts asking me questions and keeps conversation going. This continues over class. She is waiting for me after we get our bags and instead of talking I pull out my phone set to the add contact page and i walk away to the door. She follows. We small talk about stuff and i tell her i will hit her up over the weekend. \n Text her a few hours later. More small talk a comfort and rapport building. Next day I text her and set up a date. We go to a local bar for drinks and a game of pool Night starts well and we get a table. Talking i pull out my phone. My one mistale that night. My \"just in case\" condom i carry sometimes falls out. O_O. Completely embarrsed. I give her the best smile I can muster and carry on. She doesnt seem tpo concerned. We play a game of pool. We both suck bad but im better. I offer her tips by standing near her, chest facing her, and an hand oon her arm. Im usimg my pool cue to point to certain balls and angles. She does not back away. We joke around and talk. I take another step in kino. Her pool form is awgul. At one point she has to hit a ball over another. I stop her with an almost snobbish \"No no no. Stop it. Put it down. You are doing it wrong. Here.\" I move behind her and place my hand on hers and put my other hand around her waist. She doesnt back away. \n After the game we sit down and talk more. On bar stools we are side by side. My body language is directly towards her. Her chest and face is turned to me but legs away. We get closer and eventually she is facing me directly. I cant think of any other way to escalate so i say. \"I really want to kiss you right now. Lets try that.\" She agrees and we kiss. We pull away and i say that was nice. Her face is still forward, eyes closed, smiling. I tell her she isn't getting all of it right now. One pf the hardest things ive ever done i pull away entirely. \n I had never seen the \"Doggie-bowl look\" until that night. Casually at one point i say \"Despite what fell out of my pocket you are not getting any tonight.\" She smiled and gave a \"Damn!\"She is mine and I can see it. We get around to movies eventually and i invite her back to my place after. She agrees. More kino and a make out later we leave. We get back to my place, forget the movie and make out more. We both have stuff early tomorrow so she tells me to call her tomorrow. She was butter in my hands and I could see it. So weird for me being the AFC i usually am. \n We meet up the next day and make outmore. The day after that she comes over fo hang and watch a movie. Make out and talk. As she is getting ready to leave we start kissing again and i pushher against a wall. Suddenly its back on. I keep remunding her she has to go, i at one point have to put my hands against the wall to try to convey she can go but she isnt. She says she cant leave \"like this\". Fuck it. I throw her on the bed and TA-DA! F-close. \n Afterward she asked me if i was seeing other women. Blew me out of the water. Never before had I actually seen and felt the progress ive made so concretely. Thanks you guys! Another life changed. Any criticisms or reccomendations would be great.","Summary: No idea how to flirt with women I do not know. Help!\n\nPost: Well this is the thing. I am 20 years old and single. I have no idea how to flirt with women effectively. My last 3 girlfriends I knew well before I dated them so we just got to know each other and I had no need to act the part of Rico Suave. But when it comes to someone I do not know I am at a loss at how to get their attention. \n I particular, there is a girl in my psychology lecture who I think is pretty hot, but I have no idea how to talk to her without coming off as a total creep. Part of me just wants to be very direct as I am getting very tired of \"playing the game\" and the afore mentioned problem. \n So, in short, I need advice on how to hit on women.","Summary: Read the last paragraph\n\nPost: Hello everyone! \n Im a screenwriting student working on my first script. Its in the vein of most Todd Phillips movies and involves Vegas (its a practice scrit and will be terrible until ive revised it) There is only one scene I don't have down and I was hoping you could help me. \n I've been to Vegas but not long enough to get anything past the tourist experience f. At one point the characters (after a long drive) decide to stop and gamble for afor a few minutes. Something is going to go wrong inside. \n As I do not have a ton of experience in casinos I was looking to tap your thoughts. What kinds of conflicts/bad things have you seen happen inside a casino that did not need a 911 call but still led to people being forced out of a casino.","Summary: What genetic defects can be expected to appear in a human population ~200, if self-contained for 300 some years? \n Thanks guys!\n\nPost: Hey guys! \n I am currently writing an RPG setting set in the future. \n Don't ask how we got here, but one of the things I am including is a colony that lost contact with all civilization. The colony had an advanced bio-engineering and next-gen energy system that would allow this colony to exist independently, but only for around ~200 people. \n Let us say this colony lost touch for 300-odd years. They have enough food to keep 200 people healthy and fed, enough air to keep them alive, and enough energy to keep the place lit. \n 1) Is it even possible to maintain a human population in this scenario? \n 2) If they can survive, what genetic defects are likely to appear? \n 3) Factoring cannibalism into the equation, what is your guesstimate for the population size with that factored in?","Summary: Need an adventure for a world set in a Lawful Evil Kingdom. Lvl 10 one shot that will effect the world for centuries to come.\n\nPost: Hey guys! \n So I have been DMing awhile and I am now facing something that has left me stumped. \n I am doing a one shot for a friend coming into town. He wants it around lvl 10 (slightly at my behest after he rejected epic lvl ideas). It is going to be set in a world where an evil warlord and his regime have been in power for about 100 years. Everyone who isn't them is kinda in the shitter. Slavery, oppression, the earth itself seems weaker. Not. Good. Stuff. \n So I go to the drawing board and wonder how I can inject them into this world and do something memorable. Were this a normal campaign I would build them from slaves and rebels into heroes of the world. However, I have only one adventure to do this. We are planning for a longer adventure (6-9 hours) so I do have some room to work with. \n I am picking your brains after much frustration. These are the ideas I have had thus far. \n \n A child prophesied to overthrow this warlord has been born. Called upon by Angels the PCs are gathered together to find the child and carry him to the safety of the resistance's mountain home. \n \n A dying race formerly conquered by this same Warlord have reached out to the PCs to meet in a ruined city. They carry a key. This key will unlock the Elder Prime. A force that would tear down the Warlord's regime and free the world. They are charged to escort their last priestess and the key to unleash it. Little do they know this force will tear down the regime by ending the world, killing millions of innocents and creating a Dark Age in the process. What will they do when confronted with this problem? \n \n One of the Warlord's high level cronies is scheming against him. He recruits the PCs to begin working against the warlord. He claims he has grown weary of the slavery and bloodshed. In secret, he needs the warlord out of the way to assert his own tyranny across the land. Once the PCs have done the deed he intends to dispose of them as loose ends. \n \n The last leader of the Resistance is soon to be executed, threatening to end all hope for freedom. \n \n \n This adventure will set events into action that will effect the campaigns in this world for centuries to come. I want to hit tones of desperation and a last hope/stand of sorts in the face of unimaginable evil.","Summary: I am asking for your suggestions on how best to turn Amnesia: The Dark Descent into a horror tabletop \n Thanks!\n\nPost: Hey guys! \n I am a huge fan of both the Amnesia franchise and the rpg Dread. \n I've been toying with the idea of a mega-dungeon in the same vein as Amnesia, with roaming monsters and puzzles, while using Dread as a base system. \n I have been having a hard time deciding how I should handle the map itself though. Should I do room by room detail? Vague room descriptions and make up the details on the fly? \n As for puzzles, I have been thinking of suggestions, most of them involving clearing paths, opening doors, etc. Any other ideas?","Summary: Give me your ideas to fill up a major port city in my sandbox campaign.\n\nPost: Hey guys! \n I've slowly been fleshing out a sandbox campaign I'm running for D&D 5e and now I would like your guys help. \n To the PC's south there is a huge port city that is the regional trading hub. Sitting near a river and a bay, it is one of the few \"civil\" places in this part of the world. However, crime is rampant and the city doesn't do much to curb it as long as said criminality doesn't hurt trade. \n This world is \"middle earth-ish\" where outside of cities or fortresses there is no real law and bandits/monsters are frequent dangers. \n I am turning to you guys to fill up the city with your ideas. I have found that while I could create a few landmarks and businesses, there are people with many more ideas than I have. \n If you have an idea for a business, a street cart, certain NPCs, factions, monuments, neighborhoods, anything that I can use, I will use it to make the city breathe. \n Also I do not have a name for the city yet, so I will be deciding on that. \n If you have any questions, post them and I will answer. \n Thanks a ton!","Summary: Looking for a system that embraces over-the-top action in a quasi-non serious toned setting\n\nPost: Hey guys! \n I am a long time D&D player. I love 5th edition and if I am not running D&D I'm running a zombie apocalypse system or Dread. \n This is all fairly serious in tone and grounded for the most part. I love that, but something has given me an itch for something lighter. \n I saw an ad on Steam for Zombie Army Trilogy and thought \"haha wouldn't a nazi zombie overrun Europe be fun to run a game in\" \n This might sound vague but I'm looking for a system that aims for over top, pulpy action preferably with a modern or futuristic bent. Nazi Zombies are optional. \n Any advice or reccomendations? \n Thanks again guys!"],"string":"[\n \"Summary: Don't run a custom game. Run a pre-written module first. Walk before you run\\n\\nPost: Okay, I am sure you really want to do your own dungeon. I am gonna ask you to step back a moment. \\n Don't run a custom game yet. You are likely not ready for it if you have never DM'd before. There are a lot of intricacies and things that need planned for in every room and encounter. \\n I would advise you to buy/print out a pre made adventure. There should be a couple of free ones hanging around. \\n You need to see and feel what it is like to DM. Don't run before you walk. \\n I too love creating my own content and only do that exclusively. I have been DMing for quite some time though.\",\n \"Summary: Confessions of a Sion fan boy\\n\\nPost: I love the new sion. He is played jungle and top, but I prefer him top lane. \\n I max W first, then Q, then E. I max W because it allows him to accept a lot of abuse from other top laners, even ranged ones. \\n Use your Q sparingly and intelligently. Wait until the opponent I close enough they won't be able to run. This will stun and chunk them. If your shield is up, any retaliation is ineffective. \\n I generally avoid fighting in lane until the jungle shows up. Pop your ultimate then. If you land ultimate, charge up your Q all the way on them. This guarantees 4-6 seconds of stun with 500-650 damage from you alone. During this time, the jungle is going ham. \\n I build him full tank, as his CC can win team fights. When a fight breaks out, find the carry and Q over them. They will either run or hope to deal damage before you cc lock them. \\n I'm still trying to figure out his ult. Engaging with it can work if the enemy team is immobile. However, I prefer to save it until the fight starts and I can find a clump of 3 or something, I'll pop ult on them. It will stun for the full duration regardless of distance.\",\n \"Summary: Yes , in SA it will be MUCH better.\\n\\nPost: From what I have heard about DayZ as it is: hackers and bandits dominate pub servers. Only private hives can guarantee a good mixed balance of players. \\n On SA: I have heard from multiple people that the VAC servers that steam provides along with some code rewrites will make hacking VERY hard to do and easy to report. Overall SA will deal with hacking very well. Private servers for SA will be not as safe but still good.\",\n \"Summary: Magical Holocaust kills nation and renders capital city ruined. \\n Not sure if this helps but it sounded to close to pass over.\\n\\nPost: This reminds me of a city I have in my current world. \\n The Kingdom of Edda was the magical center of the world. A territory under the larger Valoran Empire, it's people began to yearn for independence. Looking to another territory that had just freed itself, they began to create Organas. By synthesizing their magics into semi-senitient beings (Living Spells, MM III) they prepared for a war to come. The Valoran Crown saw this rebellion growing and quickly killed the movement's leaders and confiscated or dispelled all Organas. They locked them away in a vault under Edda's capital city, whose name is lost to history. 400 years passed and again the people of Edda felt uneasy under the Crown's boot. A small group of rebels sought to release the long lost Organas. Fighting their way to the vault they found an abandoned and discarded ruin. The vault door was secure, but appeared to not have been properly tended to in centuries. \\n Little did they know, in the 400 years since their imprisonment, deprived of the natural magical energies of the world they turned on each other in Cannibalistic mania. The slaughter ended with a single Organa consuming the others. After it ran out of energy itself, it died. From it's essence rose a Vasuthaunt (MM III) of unknown power. The rebels unleashed a magical holocaust the rent the nation of Edda apart. The nation was left dead and the city was turned into a ruin. The city center is a flat wasted expanse surrounded by the ruined and desolate city scape that remains. It's name is lost to the ages and is now only known as The Shell. The Vasuthaunt still lives at the city's core.\",\n \"Summary: Blizzard made sure the game was 100% balanced, but that resulted in the game being very un-fun to play at a competitive level. When the community asked Blizz to change it for the better, they ignored the community.\\n\\nPost: I played SC2 for a long time and my opinion of what happened goes like this. \\n It came out. Yay! So fun! However, the more people played it they found out that the meta was quickly becoming 1-2 strategies. After HotS came out, the same thing happened. Most of the community came to the opinion that SC2 is not fun to play because of a couple of things. \\n 1) Protoss. The larger issue being that they could warp in units almost anywhere very quickly and was the only race that could \\\"modify\\\" the terrain with force fields. Imagine Anivia's wall on a 1-2sec cooldown and lasting for like 15 seconds. This was not \\\"over-powered\\\" in a sense, but it forced the devs to only make certain kinds of maps and warped the balance of everything else in the game around these 2 mechanics. Right now, it is balanced around this. However, this inhibits many other fun strategies and maps from ever coming to the game. \\n 2) Economy. The way that resource collection was built in SC2, there is no reason to above 3 mining bases at any one time. This lead to 3 base, deathball strategies becoming powerful and not many other ways to beat it. \\n 3) Last reason is a little controversial, but pro represenation. Koreans were allowed into every region of the competitive scene, leading to Kespa-bots who were not to expressive or possessing noticeable personalities. Whereas LoL developed cool personalities and teams that were each unique to every region, SC2 became Koreans and irrelevant players across the board. Really boring in the championships when every player is from \\\"one region\\\" (Korea). \\n What really killed it though is that after a lot of effort and struggle from the SC2 community to try and fix the game, Blizzard came out and said \\\"We know you think these things, but we are not going to change them.\\\" \\n Ignoring the community and then moving development assets to other games (Heroes of the Storm, Hearthstone, WoW). \\n Blizz has basicaly given up on making SC2 good and fun.\",\n \"Summary: Your excuses are shit. Your main issue is you give WAY too many fucks. You are going to fail a few times, accept it. That is how we learn. \\n Best of luck pal\\n\\nPost: Reading through these posts and your comments I have two pieces of advice. \\n 1) Shut the Fuck Up. These are the worst excuses I have EVER heard. You have been working on your body? Okay cool. You have been developing social skills? Really? And you still have these issues? Either realize how awesome you are really are and get out there or be a chode for the rest of forever. \\n 2) Find friends who will go out. Does not matter if they sarge or not. Having some people to fall back on for light conversation and companionship is SOO great for state while in a club. I feel awkward going out alone, luckily I have a group of sedditors I hang with. Find friends who will go out with you and put all that studying and 'development' to work.\",\n \"Summary: Stop obsessing NOW and learn to be comfortable around women before you start thinking romantically/sexually about them again.\\n\\nPost: First off, chill the fuck out. Take a big step back and breathe. \\n As a rAFC I understand some of that. Only very recently have I been able to master the art of \\\"Not giving a fuck about her\\\". As much as we like to doubt it, every person on this planet is replaceable in just about every situation. So why should you hinge yourself so squarely upon this single person who is not even single (in some cases you've discussed)? \\n I know it is not as easy as thinking it, but STOP THINKING ABOUT HER. Just Stop. She is not interested in you, move on. This sounds because you need to step back and realize what is going on. As wonderful as you might think she is, she isn't. Period. \\n You are obsessed and I am glad you realize it. Now stop it! Get every woman you think about out of your mind TONIGHT! If you remain friends after tonight that is great, but as friends only. \\n What you are saying reminds me of myself a year and a half ago. Your first step is to not even worry about your game, getting laid, or even getting number closes or anything involved. You need to get used to just being around people without being obsessed. I want you to go out and talk to 5 girls between today and Wednesday. Only talk to them. Nice, friendly conversation. Do not attempt kino, no game shit. Just learn to be comfortable around women without your mind switching to \\\"Oh she is pretty I wonder if she likes me\\\" thoughts because I know I had those. \\n I hope this helps man. Keep in touch if you need.\",\n \"Summary: I think the map should remain as is, but see a lobby to group spawn system in SA.\\n\\nPost: Most everything is good, except I disagree about the map. I like that you do not immeadietly have a good idea of where you are. I love that isloted and disoriented feeling it gives. Really in vein with the overall mood of the game. \\n I agree that this makes it VERY hard to play with friends. However, I feel like I read somewhere that they are throwing around ideas of spawning with other people. You would enter a lobby and then spawn with others. I do not think this was sidrectly from Rocket but someone involved.\",\n \"Summary: I would stay away from it. People come for scares and laughs, not statements about the world they are distracting themselves from.\\n\\nPost: I think if you are to do something like tjat, it would have to be fleeting and humorous. \\n People come to haunted houses for entertainment and thrills. If they are suddenly subjected to what is a serious and sobering reminder of some injustice, you have disturbed 1) the suspension of disbelief and 2) their intent to come for laughs and thrills. \\n I think something like one of your zombies being Obama or Boehner would be perfectly acceptable and would be a great way to lighten the tension before the next scare.\",\n \"Summary: Since a horror setting can be SO different from a normal RPG setting (D&D mainly) using a dream sequence/hallucination scenario is a great way to get the right tone without altering the campaign setting too drastically.\\n\\nPost: I cannot really contribute anyhting but I have to leak this to someone. \\n So I am a HUGE Halloween fan and am planning a Halloween special for my PCs. I have a demi-god in my campaigns known as Jack O' Lantern, Lord of the Harvest. Locked away in an artifact known as Jack's Flute for decades, 3 weeks ago the PCs were sent by their benefactor to retrieve it from a hag that guarded it from the rest of the world. Playing the flute releases the spirits that will initiate the Lord of the Harvest's return. Instead, they befriend her and gain her as a guardian in their keep over Jack's Flute. \\n However, as (in game) weeks passed they felt the draw of Jack's Flute. Each of them suddenly recalling a tune from some time in the past. The party's fighter succumbed. He approached the hag one night and threatened her life. A successful Intimidate check and she gave it to him. Playing it released a spirit that is preparing for Jack's Return. \\n The adventure that day will begin with them dealing with the fighter (who is semi possessed by a spirit that gives him buffs in exchange for partial control). In the process Jack's Flute will be played and the Lord of the Harvest will be released, plunging the PCs into a nightmarish dream world that is a horrific parody of their own. Only after fighting through this waking nightmare and sealing Jack O' Lantern back in the flute will their reality be returned to normal.\",\n \"Summary: It takes whatever you are already good at and makes you amazing at it. This power would be underwritten with evil intentions, greed, and a lust for power.\\n\\nPost: The rings augment the inherent powers of the individual, while breeding an addiction to this power and a lust for more. \\n For example, what if the fellowship decided to give the ring to Gondor as a weapon, entrusted with Boromier(spelling?). He is a hero of the people and a great captain. The ring would turn him into a juggernaut of war and a shining beacon of inspiration for men. So much so it would lead him and the armies of Gondor to the Black gate. \\n The ring's desire is still to reunite with sauron. Once it was in a position where it could be taken, it would turn on Boromier and rob him of that strength and valor and fall right into the hands of an army of orcs as the armies of men scatter, their captain so fallen. \\n Another example, what if the ring was given to Galadriel or Gandalf? They freely admit that the ring would twist them into a dark force too powerful to be reckoned against. It would take their already considerable strength and power and make them gods.\",\n \"Summary: It wasnt the hellbats and the mules, it was Diamaga's decision making that killed him\\n\\nPost: I see it as bad decision making by Diamaga. He played very well for 45 minutes. Finally we got to the point where there was 1 base for MVP ^with ^alot ^of ^mules. MVP had THE defensive set up. Very few Zerg armies can break that sort of set up. So many chockes and excellent tank position. Diamage SHOULD have gone after MVP production, but instead he ran his head into that meat grinder twice.\",\n \"Summary: If you have the time to play 3-6 hours a day, dont. If you might maybe play it 3-5 hours a week, there will be things for you to do. \\n Also I like Tripwire as a company so I'm happy to support them.\\n\\nPost: I think it's absolutely worth it right now. \\n It is certainly not finished, and more content is coming, but unless you marathon play it 4-6 hours every couple of days, you won't level up fast enough to max out fast. \\n I have maybe a few hours to play every now and then and it is a blast. Love it 100% as is.\",\n \"Summary: Don't be concerned with stupid little numbers. Your league is what matters. People who talk trash based on position in a league need to get laid and get that bug out of their ass while they are at it.\\n\\nPost: You know what I never pay attention to? My bonus pool and ladder points. I don't stress it being #1 of my league. I am in that league and I should be proud of it (no matter how low). Do you think MKP is intimidated because he is not the best in the pro scene? Probably not. Flash, Life, MVP, all those guys are probably better than him, but he is still awesome.\",\n \"Summary: 5th edition brings D&D up to date with modern rpgs\\n\\nPost: I would recommend it. I've only had good impressions so far. \\n Another thing I like is it is very hard for PCs to min max and get crazy strong. AC is harder to get but hp is much higher. Enchanted weapons are harder to get (ex: a +1 weapon enhancement is expected around lvls 5-7) \\n I could go on all day.\",\n \"Summary: Remove the Marauder, Put Warhound back in, buff Medivac healing and maybe that would help in the long run :D\\n\\nPost: It is such an awful position. I do not wish that upon anyone. Bio is very powerful. So much so it works in all match ups (with a few qualifiers obviously) and when done correctly it is SO powerful. \\n However, Bio done correctly is hella hard. They have to find a way to keep bio competetive, while also making mech competitive, without disrupting the meta too hard. \\n As someone who has watched the scene for four years, I think a large problem with Terran is the Marauder. It is SO good. So good. A cheap and mobile unit that counters ALOT of T3 units. It is a great answer to anything armored and is the sole reason why Terran can fight against ground heavy T3 compositions. \\n The problem is it is SO good against armored that adding in more anti-armor (along with the siegetank) is insane. My solution would be to do what Blizzard intended originally: Remove the Marauder and put in the Warhound (I also think a buff to medivac healing would have to be done to comensate for losing the maruader to keep bio good). \\n Now instead of a mass producible good vs armor unit that fuckers all chance of buffing Terran T3 (and making Terran oh so good) you have a bio composition that needs a little tank/warhound support in some cases, but can still wreck zerg with pure medivac, marine, mine (as a lot of high level Terran have demonstrated. They also now have the Warhound! And that is certainly more capable against Protoss than most other Terran units.\",\n \"Summary: You will never be able to anticipate everything your players will do.\\n\\nPost: I've been GMing for 5 years. If there is one thing I've learned, it's that you cannot predict what your players will do. \\n Three years ago I was GMing for a group that was fairly unimaginative. I had to force every plot line and non-combat interaction because they just didn't know how to do things on their own I guess. \\n Prep and adventure and I am running it. They learn the goal of the quest they are seeking. Some form of plant fungus that can zombify people (yellow musk creeper). \\n The barbarian (a luchadore really) raises his hand and says, \\\"is there a library nearby where we can research what this thing might be?\\\" \\n What?? This group was taking charge? I adlibbed a trip to an Allip infested, abandoned library. That kick started a solid hour of play that I never planned for. \\n There are many, many, many more stories like this that I've experienced.\",\n \"Summary: The Vong would need a one hit punch weapon/virus that would kill vast amounts of Tyranid to win. Otherwise, Tyranid out-adapt the biological Vong.\\n\\nPost: Regrettably, I do not have a deep knowledge of the Yuuzan Vong. \\n However, after reading over the wookiepedia page I would guess that they could fight a Tyrannid fleet for some time, but would eventually cave. \\n The largest problem is that all of the Vong's weaponry is biological. Tyranid are known for fast adaptation after souping a planet or even ingesting enemies. \\n I will say this, if the Vong had knowledge of the Tyranid for a few decades before the invasion, they may be able to craft a virus that can kill off a Tyranid fleet or at least damage it severely. And it would have to act fast enough for the Tyranid to be unable to adapt to it. \\n HOWEVER, that is it. The second fleet that emerges will have disease resistance out the ass and very ready to take on the Vong. \\n For the purposes of this challenge though, they would win as they had fought off AN invasion .\",\n \"Summary: Friend of mine tries to rape a servant only to have the tables turn and get the raped by the servant (at the players behest) and almost contracts a magical STD pulled from the Book of Erotic Fantasy. Easily my weirdest group of players ever\\n\\nPost: k guys. story time \\n I have never looked at players the same way after this and realize if it means a player get s fucked over in a hilarious way there is no bottom of the barrel to hit. \\n D&D 3.5 \\n Freshman year of college. So i used to play with a friend of mine. Lets just call him Shitlord. Shitlord is still my best friend to this day. Great guy. He is unrelentingly and searingly descriptive about terrible terrible things and has some of the strangest motivations I cannot understand. He spent ALOT of time on /b/ over the years. I blame that partially. \\n Anyway, so he was the party rogue. He drops into the group mid way through the campaign (one of the other players died and let Shitlord take his place so he could focus on class and the like). \\n The PCs have a fort they have built by this point and have two or three servants who do housekeeping. They have their own servant's quarters. Shitlord stays up until everyone is asleep. Using his rogue skills he sneaks into the servant's bedroom and crawls into one of the beds. It is dark and he has no light and he cannot tell the gender of the person until he is in (1 woman, 2 male servants). He crawled into one of the guys bed. \\n Shitlord always does silly shit like this. However, then he said, \\\"I want to rape him.\\\" Oh god. As serious and controversial an issue as it is, my players had no qualms and wanted to kind of see what happened once the guy woke up (Shitlord was unarmed and had a shit Strength score). Well he fucked up his rolls and the guy wakes up. \\n We roll randomly and guess what, the servant was okay with this and turns the tables on Shitlord. They roll grapple checks and the servant pins Shitlord to the bed. He then goes to rape Shitlord (my pplayers were really egging this on, wanting Shitlord's shenans to blow up in his face). \\n For some reason we deemed that the servant had an STD. %d determined it was a magical one. So we turned to the Book of Erotic Fantasy. The ONLY time I have even acknowledged it's existence. I have the core books, but all PDFs. It sits in its corner and I ignore it mostly. \\n Shitlord lucked out and almost contracted Whore's Curse or something of equally foul nature. Shitlord gathers himself up afterward and shuffles back to his room. Shitlord was a bit more careful in that campaign with his shenanigans. \\n For context this is the same guy who, the year after in PC creation, would ask if he could be a Garden Snake. Not a magical Garden Snake, or a Yuan-ti or anything. No. Just a fucking snake. \\n God DAMNIT Shitlord\",\n \"Summary: One chick is pretty hot but I am still developing that. Second chick, if I moved in, is a fairly certain thing but she is not as good looking as has more possible emotional booby traps.\\n\\nPost: Well Seddit here is the problem. \\n Lately I have been working on my inner game (talking to people, flirting a bit more,etc.). There is one girl (HB7-8, I'm horrible at estimating this) who I have been talking to. That is still developing and is not a sure thing. Things seem to be going well though. \\n Then there is another girl. She is obviously into me but is not as good looking (not terrible though) and if I really made a move I am fairly certain I would have success. The big problem though is I suspect she is \\\"crazy\\\". \\n When I say this I do not mean she is schizophrenic or like's to knit sweater murals of her BFs. I mean she can get really emotional about poetry (she writes poetry, in my experience that is good and bad) and shows other things that could suggest many headaches and worries in the near future. \\n I do not know which one to go after fully. I could keep playing the field and see what develops, but I have no idea what to do with the second chick.\",\n \"Summary: North dnd is best dnd. How can a fantasy kingdom use magic and force to completely control a population's thoughts, knowledge, and allegiance?\\n\\nPost: Hey guys! \\n Working on my setting and decided to add a remote kingdom that has unwavering support for its leaders, believes everything they say, and knows nothing of the larger world. \\n An apocalypse threw the world into chaos and a charismatic leader seized a remote kingdom as his own. After 500 years the crown has been able to brainwash or purge anyone who could throw his professed world view into question. \\n They heavily utilize magic to control I nformation and monitor things. They have now started accepting travelers from other lands, but usually take action if they start giving out information that might jeopardize the throne's control. \\n The right to rule has been kept inside the ruling family. Using a \\\"King's Second Body\\\" divine to rule for the centuries. \\n So I come to you, I need specific practices that a fantasy kingdom could use to control the flow of information in a kingdom. \\n Feel free to ask questions for clarification or details. \\n Thanks!!\",\n \"Summary: North dnd is best dnd. How can a fantasy kingdom use magic and force to completely control a population's thoughts, knowledge, and allegiance?\\n\\nPost: I am on mobile and don't know how to flair from here!! D: \\n Hey guys! \\n Working on my setting and decided to add a remote kingdom that has unwavering support for its leaders, believes everything they say, and knows nothing of the larger world. \\n An apocalypse threw the world into chaos and a charismatic leader seized a remote kingdom as his own. After 500 years the crown has been able to brainwash or purge anyone who could throw his professed world view into question. \\n They heavily utilize magic to control I nformation and monitor things. They have now started accepting travelers from other lands, but usually take action if they start giving out information that might jeopardize the throne's control. \\n The right to rule has been kept inside the ruling family. Using a \\\"King's Second Body\\\" divine to rule for the centuries. \\n So I come to you, I need specific practices that a fantasy kingdom could use to control the flow of information in a kingdom. \\n Feel free to ask questions for clarification or details. \\n Thanks!!\",\n \"Summary: First f close made me realize how much ive changed and damn does it feel great.\\n\\nPost: I was an AFC really bad for awhile. Had a LTR that ended 4 months ago and went full steam ahead with PUA material after reading The Game. \\n HB7 in my english class. Never really talked and didnt think about opening her (really busy around then). Class goes to art museum one day and HB7 and I walk in almost the same time. We share a moment of confusion about where to go. Afterwards im talking to a few other class mates when HB7 and I catch each others eyes for a good 5 seconds. Once we start going through I open about how she doesn't talk alot in class. She answers then immeadietly starts asking me questions and keeps conversation going. This continues over class. She is waiting for me after we get our bags and instead of talking I pull out my phone set to the add contact page and i walk away to the door. She follows. We small talk about stuff and i tell her i will hit her up over the weekend. \\n Text her a few hours later. More small talk a comfort and rapport building. Next day I text her and set up a date. We go to a local bar for drinks and a game of pool Night starts well and we get a table. Talking i pull out my phone. My one mistale that night. My \\\"just in case\\\" condom i carry sometimes falls out. O_O. Completely embarrsed. I give her the best smile I can muster and carry on. She doesnt seem tpo concerned. We play a game of pool. We both suck bad but im better. I offer her tips by standing near her, chest facing her, and an hand oon her arm. Im usimg my pool cue to point to certain balls and angles. She does not back away. We joke around and talk. I take another step in kino. Her pool form is awgul. At one point she has to hit a ball over another. I stop her with an almost snobbish \\\"No no no. Stop it. Put it down. You are doing it wrong. Here.\\\" I move behind her and place my hand on hers and put my other hand around her waist. She doesnt back away. \\n After the game we sit down and talk more. On bar stools we are side by side. My body language is directly towards her. Her chest and face is turned to me but legs away. We get closer and eventually she is facing me directly. I cant think of any other way to escalate so i say. \\\"I really want to kiss you right now. Lets try that.\\\" She agrees and we kiss. We pull away and i say that was nice. Her face is still forward, eyes closed, smiling. I tell her she isn't getting all of it right now. One pf the hardest things ive ever done i pull away entirely. \\n I had never seen the \\\"Doggie-bowl look\\\" until that night. Casually at one point i say \\\"Despite what fell out of my pocket you are not getting any tonight.\\\" She smiled and gave a \\\"Damn!\\\"She is mine and I can see it. We get around to movies eventually and i invite her back to my place after. She agrees. More kino and a make out later we leave. We get back to my place, forget the movie and make out more. We both have stuff early tomorrow so she tells me to call her tomorrow. She was butter in my hands and I could see it. So weird for me being the AFC i usually am. \\n We meet up the next day and make outmore. The day after that she comes over fo hang and watch a movie. Make out and talk. As she is getting ready to leave we start kissing again and i pushher against a wall. Suddenly its back on. I keep remunding her she has to go, i at one point have to put my hands against the wall to try to convey she can go but she isnt. She says she cant leave \\\"like this\\\". Fuck it. I throw her on the bed and TA-DA! F-close. \\n Afterward she asked me if i was seeing other women. Blew me out of the water. Never before had I actually seen and felt the progress ive made so concretely. Thanks you guys! Another life changed. Any criticisms or reccomendations would be great.\",\n \"Summary: No idea how to flirt with women I do not know. Help!\\n\\nPost: Well this is the thing. I am 20 years old and single. I have no idea how to flirt with women effectively. My last 3 girlfriends I knew well before I dated them so we just got to know each other and I had no need to act the part of Rico Suave. But when it comes to someone I do not know I am at a loss at how to get their attention. \\n I particular, there is a girl in my psychology lecture who I think is pretty hot, but I have no idea how to talk to her without coming off as a total creep. Part of me just wants to be very direct as I am getting very tired of \\\"playing the game\\\" and the afore mentioned problem. \\n So, in short, I need advice on how to hit on women.\",\n \"Summary: Read the last paragraph\\n\\nPost: Hello everyone! \\n Im a screenwriting student working on my first script. Its in the vein of most Todd Phillips movies and involves Vegas (its a practice scrit and will be terrible until ive revised it) There is only one scene I don't have down and I was hoping you could help me. \\n I've been to Vegas but not long enough to get anything past the tourist experience f. At one point the characters (after a long drive) decide to stop and gamble for afor a few minutes. Something is going to go wrong inside. \\n As I do not have a ton of experience in casinos I was looking to tap your thoughts. What kinds of conflicts/bad things have you seen happen inside a casino that did not need a 911 call but still led to people being forced out of a casino.\",\n \"Summary: What genetic defects can be expected to appear in a human population ~200, if self-contained for 300 some years? \\n Thanks guys!\\n\\nPost: Hey guys! \\n I am currently writing an RPG setting set in the future. \\n Don't ask how we got here, but one of the things I am including is a colony that lost contact with all civilization. The colony had an advanced bio-engineering and next-gen energy system that would allow this colony to exist independently, but only for around ~200 people. \\n Let us say this colony lost touch for 300-odd years. They have enough food to keep 200 people healthy and fed, enough air to keep them alive, and enough energy to keep the place lit. \\n 1) Is it even possible to maintain a human population in this scenario? \\n 2) If they can survive, what genetic defects are likely to appear? \\n 3) Factoring cannibalism into the equation, what is your guesstimate for the population size with that factored in?\",\n \"Summary: Need an adventure for a world set in a Lawful Evil Kingdom. Lvl 10 one shot that will effect the world for centuries to come.\\n\\nPost: Hey guys! \\n So I have been DMing awhile and I am now facing something that has left me stumped. \\n I am doing a one shot for a friend coming into town. He wants it around lvl 10 (slightly at my behest after he rejected epic lvl ideas). It is going to be set in a world where an evil warlord and his regime have been in power for about 100 years. Everyone who isn't them is kinda in the shitter. Slavery, oppression, the earth itself seems weaker. Not. Good. Stuff. \\n So I go to the drawing board and wonder how I can inject them into this world and do something memorable. Were this a normal campaign I would build them from slaves and rebels into heroes of the world. However, I have only one adventure to do this. We are planning for a longer adventure (6-9 hours) so I do have some room to work with. \\n I am picking your brains after much frustration. These are the ideas I have had thus far. \\n \\n A child prophesied to overthrow this warlord has been born. Called upon by Angels the PCs are gathered together to find the child and carry him to the safety of the resistance's mountain home. \\n \\n A dying race formerly conquered by this same Warlord have reached out to the PCs to meet in a ruined city. They carry a key. This key will unlock the Elder Prime. A force that would tear down the Warlord's regime and free the world. They are charged to escort their last priestess and the key to unleash it. Little do they know this force will tear down the regime by ending the world, killing millions of innocents and creating a Dark Age in the process. What will they do when confronted with this problem? \\n \\n One of the Warlord's high level cronies is scheming against him. He recruits the PCs to begin working against the warlord. He claims he has grown weary of the slavery and bloodshed. In secret, he needs the warlord out of the way to assert his own tyranny across the land. Once the PCs have done the deed he intends to dispose of them as loose ends. \\n \\n The last leader of the Resistance is soon to be executed, threatening to end all hope for freedom. \\n \\n \\n This adventure will set events into action that will effect the campaigns in this world for centuries to come. I want to hit tones of desperation and a last hope/stand of sorts in the face of unimaginable evil.\",\n \"Summary: I am asking for your suggestions on how best to turn Amnesia: The Dark Descent into a horror tabletop \\n Thanks!\\n\\nPost: Hey guys! \\n I am a huge fan of both the Amnesia franchise and the rpg Dread. \\n I've been toying with the idea of a mega-dungeon in the same vein as Amnesia, with roaming monsters and puzzles, while using Dread as a base system. \\n I have been having a hard time deciding how I should handle the map itself though. Should I do room by room detail? Vague room descriptions and make up the details on the fly? \\n As for puzzles, I have been thinking of suggestions, most of them involving clearing paths, opening doors, etc. Any other ideas?\",\n \"Summary: Give me your ideas to fill up a major port city in my sandbox campaign.\\n\\nPost: Hey guys! \\n I've slowly been fleshing out a sandbox campaign I'm running for D&D 5e and now I would like your guys help. \\n To the PC's south there is a huge port city that is the regional trading hub. Sitting near a river and a bay, it is one of the few \\\"civil\\\" places in this part of the world. However, crime is rampant and the city doesn't do much to curb it as long as said criminality doesn't hurt trade. \\n This world is \\\"middle earth-ish\\\" where outside of cities or fortresses there is no real law and bandits/monsters are frequent dangers. \\n I am turning to you guys to fill up the city with your ideas. I have found that while I could create a few landmarks and businesses, there are people with many more ideas than I have. \\n If you have an idea for a business, a street cart, certain NPCs, factions, monuments, neighborhoods, anything that I can use, I will use it to make the city breathe. \\n Also I do not have a name for the city yet, so I will be deciding on that. \\n If you have any questions, post them and I will answer. \\n Thanks a ton!\",\n \"Summary: Looking for a system that embraces over-the-top action in a quasi-non serious toned setting\\n\\nPost: Hey guys! \\n I am a long time D&D player. I love 5th edition and if I am not running D&D I'm running a zombie apocalypse system or Dread. \\n This is all fairly serious in tone and grounded for the most part. I love that, but something has given me an itch for something lighter. \\n I saw an ad on Steam for Zombie Army Trilogy and thought \\\"haha wouldn't a nazi zombie overrun Europe be fun to run a game in\\\" \\n This might sound vague but I'm looking for a system that aims for over top, pulpy action preferably with a modern or futuristic bent. Nazi Zombies are optional. \\n Any advice or reccomendations? \\n Thanks again guys!\"\n]","isConversational":false},"profile_size":{"kind":"number","value":30,"string":"30"},"task":{"kind":"string","value":"longlamp_4"},"split_kind":{"kind":"string","value":"user_based"},"id":{"kind":"number","value":4597,"string":"4,597"}}},{"rowIdx":4598,"cells":{"question_id":{"kind":"string","value":"SkzChaotic"},"question":{"kind":"string","value":"Generate the content for a reddit post I don't think so and I think it's impossible."},"answer":{"kind":"string","value":"I'm not sure if they talked about it or not but it's pretty much impossible. \n They would need Skynet level AI in order to actually match people of the same skill level. Like think about it, how can a system know how skilled I am and how much knowledge do I posses from a mere win / loss record and other stats like CS or XP/min. It would require a very complex algorithm, that would take in consideration every hero on the board and how the game went. The system can't classify you as a shitty carry with 200 gpm when the enemy team wrecked you completely with a team that's specialized in ganks (for example) where your team is made of complete thrash picks & players. Put DK.Burning with 4 pubbies and let's see if he can get 900 GPM anymore.\nAlso from the fact that this game is a 5 man game and not a 1v1, it's always going to be inaccurate to judge a player's own skill. There's 4 potential other players that could either wreck your game or carry your noob ass. I easily remember my first game in Dota 2 (which was after a long Dota 1 break) where I went like 3-15 with Huskar but all 4 of my teammates played strong and saved the game. Then I remember a game from yesterday where I was Luna in mid with 3-0 by the 5th minute when my team were all 0-5 and lower. They lost a decent lane like WISP + DK to a fucking Riki. It's the standard example of a complete stomp or being completely stomped. \n How can a system know how good my reflexes are, my reactions and my clicking around. How can a system know how good my map awareness is. How can a system know how well do I know the game, if I still call skills by Q and E, if I still don't know what everyone does or if I know the game so well that I know the exact damage to every skill and the after-effects, what counters it, what stacks with it and what can dodge it, purge it etc.\nHow can a system know how well I can apply my knowledge in the game, how many times I am serious and how often I am screwing around. \n It's too much to take into consideration for a mere matchmaking system to figure out. Dota 1 was more balanced because it was LAN. It was complete randomness, you could be in a team with a pro player as a 1 day old scrub. And you know what ? It actually worked better. I had better games because I knew I could try and win them. On the other hand, I can easily spot when I am entering in a losing streak in Dota 2 and I already know how it's going to turn out, I already know the chances of winning are going to be almost 0. And you know what, it's not just the players on the enemy team are going to be a lot better than the players in your team. It's also the picks, somehow the picks become shittier and shittier and everything starts to go wrong, like no wards and no couriers. On the other hand, opposite effect when I am on a winning streak. Wards, flying courier and 2 supports from the start while I already won 3 games before that one, I instantly know it's going to be a win cause I'm on a winstreak.\nIt removes everything this game is supposed to be about."},"correct_answer":{"kind":"string","value":"I'm not sure if they talked about it or not but it's pretty much impossible. \n They would need Skynet level AI in order to actually match people of the same skill level. Like think about it, how can a system know how skilled I am and how much knowledge do I posses from a mere win / loss record and other stats like CS or XP/min. It would require a very complex algorithm, that would take in consideration every hero on the board and how the game went. The system can't classify you as a shitty carry with 200 gpm when the enemy team wrecked you completely with a team that's specialized in ganks (for example) where your team is made of complete thrash picks & players. Put DK.Burning with 4 pubbies and let's see if he can get 900 GPM anymore.\nAlso from the fact that this game is a 5 man game and not a 1v1, it's always going to be inaccurate to judge a player's own skill. There's 4 potential other players that could either wreck your game or carry your noob ass. I easily remember my first game in Dota 2 (which was after a long Dota 1 break) where I went like 3-15 with Huskar but all 4 of my teammates played strong and saved the game. Then I remember a game from yesterday where I was Luna in mid with 3-0 by the 5th minute when my team were all 0-5 and lower. They lost a decent lane like WISP + DK to a fucking Riki. It's the standard example of a complete stomp or being completely stomped. \n How can a system know how good my reflexes are, my reactions and my clicking around. How can a system know how good my map awareness is. How can a system know how well do I know the game, if I still call skills by Q and E, if I still don't know what everyone does or if I know the game so well that I know the exact damage to every skill and the after-effects, what counters it, what stacks with it and what can dodge it, purge it etc.\nHow can a system know how well I can apply my knowledge in the game, how many times I am serious and how often I am screwing around. \n It's too much to take into consideration for a mere matchmaking system to figure out. Dota 1 was more balanced because it was LAN. It was complete randomness, you could be in a team with a pro player as a 1 day old scrub. And you know what ? It actually worked better. I had better games because I knew I could try and win them. On the other hand, I can easily spot when I am entering in a losing streak in Dota 2 and I already know how it's going to turn out, I already know the chances of winning are going to be almost 0. And you know what, it's not just the players on the enemy team are going to be a lot better than the players in your team. It's also the picks, somehow the picks become shittier and shittier and everything starts to go wrong, like no wards and no couriers. On the other hand, opposite effect when I am on a winning streak. Wards, flying courier and 2 supports from the start while I already won 3 games before that one, I instantly know it's going to be a win cause I'm on a winstreak.\nIt removes everything this game is supposed to be about."},"documents":{"kind":"list like","value":["Summary: you're half right, winning in solo pubs holds more complexity than one might think\n\nPost: Supports are the easiest to play at almost every level. If you think about it, you can afford to die the most out of all the roles (not to say you are allowed to feed) you can do the most with no gold early to mid game, you sometimes have abilities that help your entire team by doing nothing (like CM's Arcane Aura)\nWinrates don't really mean much, though in your case they might be accurate and it's just that your strongest role is support. Having a 52% winrate (for example) doesn't mean you are better than a player that has 50% or less. That player might be playing in a skill bracket thousands of mmr points above you. This counts for both game wins and hero winrates. \n Sometimes people just don't deserve their rank and not too many players want to admit it. I will admit that my rank in CS:GO is way too big for my skill level and I wish the system would properly place me in a lower league cause where I am right now I can rarely do something that won't get me stomped.\nI wish I could admit the same for Dota 2 but it's flat out not true. The last player that completely owned me in lane had a 4.7k rating. That's 700 mmr above my original placing. And it's not like I fed or anything, I just lost the lane in every aspect : CS, Rune control, ganks. The fact that I can hold my own or even carry in games where the mmr difference is that big just proves you need a different skillset for solo queue. \n And if you actually try to look at the situation from a different perspective it's true. Is it the same thing to play with 4 random people or a stack of friends ? You don't have to insist or actually resort to yelling to get wards out of your friends, you don't have to die 3 times before they actually start calling mias, you do not end up with 4 carries 1 support team comp. This assuming your friends are not bad and or drunk, in which case the match is balanced in ways solo isn't. For example, my most often premade is made of friends that are all below 3k, which puts me as their best player. And as you might imagine, the opposition for every game I play with them is the same. 3 or 4 players in their team will suck and 1 or sometimes none of the players will stand out. That 1 player is supposed to have the same mmr as me just like Valve explained their system and it works in that regard because almost always there is a player that is way better than the rest of his team. When that happens, if I am upset at my friends for playing badly or not listening to what I ask, I can just take advantage of their newbies and try to take the game into my own hands. However, that is not exactly possible in a solo queue where everyone has about the same rating because although they may be weaker than me skill wise, they're not dumb enough to fall 5 times into the same sunstrike or never back off from dangerous positions. Where I'm trying to get at is, making something out of nothing becomes A LOT harder. This assuming you do not have team cooperation and we're talking about solo queue so when do you ? Maybe one day you will reach my MMR or even get past that and see how devastating is to play mid against someone that has both river spots warded when you have nothing, not even a courier. Yes, that actually happens a lot when I play mid. Something that is super avoidable if you have friends, btw.\nBonus salt to the wound points if the enemy already is countering you in mid with the hero alone. You could say \"buy your own wards\" and that in itself shows how broken can solo queue be. And I did that a bunch of times, and it put me behind in gold. My bottled was delayed and the enemy started rune controlling faster, was pooling more HP and mana and gained an adge in both CS and harassment. All so I can know what comes from the jungle and have a chance at taking the next rune. And all this assuming the support didn't already buy the wards and used them in shitty spots that don't help me at all. THEN you are fucked cause the laning phase is over by the time the cooldown's back up.\nAll these small things do not happen in 2.5k. Well, I imagine they try to replicate proper play but I've seen how that goes... trust me. So my point is playing mid with no wards in 2.5k won't have even 30% of the impact it has on me. \n If you can understand all this, you start seeing how solo queue is different. Other factors start appearing like who is leading the team ? Does he / she do a good job ? If nobody else is doing it, do you have the nerve and patience do to it yourself ? Do you have the willpower to go through that russian thickhead and try making him do something useful or communicate ?\nThese are all very important factors in deciding the outcome of a match. I've seen people that are good at it. I have also seen the exact opposite happen but it took place in LoL not in Dota. LoL's ranking system was different a while ago, that's how ELO hell got it's infamous name. Basically if you lost your very first matches you'd be dropped close or directly into ELO hell where it was incredibly hard to climb up. Cause unlike Dota 2, LoL didn't use your previous normal matchmaking rank to place you accordingly into the qualification matches. So what happened was, you either carry the game like a motherfucker and hope for the best or get super lucky or just lose and drop to ELO hell. What my friend did (he's even worse than me at communicating, he's basically a ghost) was instead of trying to get out of ELO hell, he just remade 3 or 4 accounts to level 30 and re-did the qualification process. On one of them, he succeded and was maintaining a solid 1500 rating without dropping or raising much. All this while he couldn't climb from 900-1000. So my question is, did he deserve the 1k rating ? Possibly. Was it because of his skill level ? Not really. It was exactly the same fenomena I described above, with 0 leadership skills or will you do not conquer the solo pubs. You need a different skillset and the willpower to do it, which is something I or other people do not have. I played the game for 7 years, I'm beyond trying my best to win. Fun doesn't come as easily anymore. Sorry for the long post.","Summary: I absolutely hate PvP in any game yet Eve, a PvP based game became my favourite. If you want to know in details how and why and get some good insight from my perspective the story is that way ^\n\nPost: Huge post incoming: \n I've been playing Eve for 8 months now and I played the most in the first days because, well it was a completely new game. And not just any new game, a pretty unique game. But here it gets interesting:\nYou see I'm the type of player that hates PvP not because I'm bad at it, but because I just don't like to treat a game as just a game, I want to treat it like a whole world so I tend to role play a lot, and by that I mean that I love PvE because it has a story to tell, a world I can be a part of as a character with a background, not some guy that grinds duels every day. The game I played the most at this point is WoW because I've played it since 2006 (stopped at Cataclysm) and the most I PvP'd was like 10 battlegrounds, some duels every now and then and ... faction warfare. That's right, killing people that are considered my enemies by default game mechanic is different, it creates a certain atmosphere. I don't care if they are 50 levels lower than me, I'm the bad enemy and they should expect me and be prepared. I don't care if I was a rogue and I one shot a low HP guy from the shadows and it wasn't real PvP. I dont care, in the real world no enemy that wants you dead and likes to live will ever fight you fair and square, especially an \"assasin class\"\nNot to mention other games, the most \"real\" PvP I had could be all summed up in an hour because, I just don't see it fun.\nHell, I already lost interest in Diablo III because I'm not exactly keen on the ideea of finishing the game 3 times (or 4 if you go for Inferno) just because the minions are stronger, even worse if you plan to get multiple characters to max level. What am I seeing new, what am I experiencing ? Leveling up for the thing that I dislike the most ? \n But in Eve... damn it. The PvP it can be a DRUG. I did mention at start that I was playing the most at the beginning and that's because I was expecting this game to have a very strong PvE part, especially when I saw that every god damn station had at least one agent. So I though hey, if there are that many agents imagine how many quests are out there to discover, in such a huge world. I was really excited especially because I was just finishing the Sisters of Eve arc and I figured there were limitless \"quests\" out there for me to discover, to explore the universe and discover and fight pirates or even become one. Yes I heard this game had pirates but I thought you could become one as like, a faction not profession.\nTo cut this shorter, after I discovered that missions were repeating pretty often and it was the same with ALL the agents I was disappointed. All my planning and all the dreams I had for hoping into my ship and fly away were broken.\nSo what there was out there for me to do now, after finding out that this game is completely PvP based, the thing I dislike the most...\nI decided to make a ship and pickup a fight with a can in Amarr. Ship of choice was a Slicer because I love frigates and I could only fly Amarr and it was the best choice with the money and skillpoints I had. Hearing of it's \"staying out of range\" capabilities instantly won me over, and it's also a sexy ship. I forgot to mention there were instances I refused to fly ships because they look ugly (Minmatar I'm looking at you, good thing I don't have any Min skillpoints though I have to change that in the future because they seem to have the strongest ships)\nI got myself a partner, he convo'd me before and asked if we should fight to structure or to the death. I gained hope because at least I knew in the worst case scenario I won't be losing the ship I spent almost all my ISK I had so I picked structure. I lost first time (he had a kiting Kestrel) cause I was a moron and I tried to orbit 500 with the MWD ON (lol) and also had Multifrequency loaded and lost horribly. I think I only hit him once...\nNext fight I did the same shit but with Scorch and no MWD and he lost horribly. Still a retarded move but hey, who cared back then as long as it won me the fight !\nAfter that we started talking because he was a nice guy (I figured from the start because of that deal) and joined his corp after 1 hour. And that's how my PvP adventures began... \n Well then, to reduce the amount of boring stories and ask : why is Eve PvP so much different, why a PvP hater like me loves Eve PvP ?\nThe first and foremost thing should be obvious: your losses are real, you can't just respawn with your shinny-ass bling bling ship after you lose, if your ship goes boom ,it goes boom for real. For anyone whoever played Lineage, it's like enchanting weapons. If you didn't, well you could make your weapons more powerful with scrolls but it came at a cost: a chance for the weapon to break the longer you tried to enchant it. Thinking back, my friends were all butthurt when they lost their weapons while enchanting and rage quited many times, one of them did this quite recently and it was on a shitty 1000x server where you get that shit back in 10 minutes of farming. I figured in my head, if this guy is so pissed after such a pitiful loss then I would love to see him lose a faction fit Machariel in Eve just to see his reaction, or any other shinny ship for that matter.\nIt made me realize, or rather made me remember that this game is not for pussies, this game is for men. And either they embrace their losses and come back for even more or they shed a lot of tears which is ... perfect from the killer's perspective. It can give PvP one purpose, griefing. But not just that, it makes so you can actually feel PvP. it makes you know which are the pilots you should fly with and which are the ones you avoid. \n Other reason: the sandbox. If you take part of a big fleet, a big event, you know that you're there in the same place at the same time with 2000 other people and you can say the famous phrase after it's done \"I was there\"\nExactly, you were there. You were part of a historic moment. It's not just some 25 group boss grind, it's history in the making. \n And I'm sure there are many more reasons out there that makes the game totally worth it and special, this comes from just a guy that only cares about one thing so far in this game: fighting. \n For me? Why do I love PvP and Eve in general so much ? A combination of the above reasons plus the fact that I love space sci-fi more than anything else. If there's a place where I can run into and forget about the world, it's a space game, or story or movie or anything related to that. It's the reason why I gave PvP a try in the first place because I could not part with the game, just like that. Only after some time I discovered the marvel of it. \n So, what can YOU DO? If a picky bastard like me managed to love this game then I'm sure anyone can with the right choices. Whatever you do, do not try to play it out alone. I am totally 100% an alone guy in games and this didn't work out in Eve. This is the only game where I'm trying to be a part of something bigger.\nJoin Eve University, join RvB, join the CFC or a WH group. Whichever you pick, you will get a completely different experience from. The harder part is to find out what makes you tick.\nEve isn't only about PvP, one of the most well known and influential figures in Eve (The Mittani) doesn't even play the game. Relatively speaking. So how does he do it ? You can find out by yourself.\nAlas, all I know is that this game is the only thing I paid with my own money so far and it's the best money I ever spent. Every other game was either a present or a pirate. \n So, good luck with your progress capsuleer ;)","Summary: I agree with that but mechanics alone can get you preeetty far...\nSame goes for the other races but you're gonna need a lot more practice.\n\nPost: Hey ! Have I denied that fact ? I never mentioned why Protoss was easier and you could somehow deduce that from the fact that I specified I only built stuff and went it.\nBut that's what I'm getting at, I only played mechanically and Protoss got me back into diamond in a very short amount of time considering the games I played as Zerg to even survive it ... somewhere around 700 at the very least. \n Now, I did mention I had no ideea about build orders and timings cause I hate to copy other players. I just play after my own rules. True I'll never say that it's wrong to copy other players, and I am aware that just my own \"intelligence\" didn't get me past diamond but that's just me.\nAnyway: after I stopped playing Protoss on the ladder one friend of mine wanted me to try a specific build order from A to Z so he can see how powerful it can be (he was silver, so you can imagine he was not mechanically ready for tight builds)\nThat build was JYP's +1 sentry pressure into +2 blink stalkers. Needless to say that once I got the timing on it decently, I was absolutely DESTROYING zergs. \nAfter a couple of games made me wonder how far I could have gotten as Protoss if I learned every build order and timing possible that fits the current meta-game.\nThat was the reason for almost every loss I had as Zerg. Not knowing those things I could never defend them if I was against a potent player.\nAnyway I'll never find out cause I'm too much against that and besides Protoss got boring. Dropped the game and 2 months later (now) I'm playing as Terran.\nI gotta admit they are pretty hard, especially in TvZ. I was a big \"Terran easy\" yeller in the past and I gotta say I changed my opinion. The one for Protoss still stands though.","Summary: I don´t get complete newbies anymore, I still get people I´m not supposed to get, not sure how ´improving´ will remove the winrate pattern that´s obviously happening to me and a lot of people.\n\nPost: OH no. Getting complete newbies in my team was a thing of the past.\nIt doesn´t happen anymore and like I said I´ve been having stable winrate for a while now. \n The thing is, they don´t have to be complete newbies in order for the game to go wrong.\nYou are right that you can´t deduce the accuracy of what I am saying or my own skill from just words but bare in mind that this thing happens to a lot of people, where they feel like they are playing alone and getting teams that are supposed to play better.\nDon´t tell me that everynow and then you´re not getting that guy in your team that despite being support, is not doing anything a support is supposed to do and just leeching XP / CS.\nAnd it´s ok, in this same thread I was sort of complaining that this game takes a turn towards playing the right meta instead of playing however you want and I don´t like that. In fact I want to be a guy that´s considered support and build items and have fun with them.\nBut in the end I don´t do it because I know the enemy is going to stomp us if I do that. So I play my role in the end, I am forced to. But other people don´t.\nAnd the biggest issue right now despite being very high and no longer getting complete newbies is that, people STILL DON´T properly react to miss calls and vision. Like I said before I made a habit of calling a single miss call 3 times with the wheel and my team mates often still fall for it. \n What could be wrong with my play ? I already know that I´m (obviously) not playing perfectly and I could be doing things better.\nLike, I refuse to communicate because most of the times it´s just going to end up in retarded argument exchanges that I don´t want to be a part of.\nI also am very selfish when I play in mid and rarely gank, unless I get something like QoP or Puck or get a haste rune. Generally something that moves really fast.\nI mentioned in another post that Invoker is my best hero so I play him often when I don´t random and that´s one of the guys that I never gank with.\nAnd that´s an issue, you could say.\nBut in my opinion, not really. I also get a lot of CS and XP/min and end up levels ahead of everyone while getting a kill everynow and then with sunstrikes.\nIn fact, if they have a wombo combo lane with CC I can just help with a sunstrike and that´s 225 extra damage by level 5 without even being there.\nIf I get my force staff, I very often catch 3 or 4 people in wombo combos and completely wreck the game a lot of the times.\nThe whole jist of this is that, if I am selfish and not gank, I do it for a reason. In this case, Invoker is a bad ganker because he´s slow and if the enemy has the river warded, they will fall back (assuming) and you´re just going to lose xp. Which is why I said I only do it with heroes like QoP because you can bypass that problem.\nBut when I do it, I do it for a reason. And in this case, the reason is that I snowball pretty fast once I get my force staff and influence teamfights a lot better than usual. \n Just because you midlane is not ganking, it doesn´t give you the excuse to die in your lane. And that´s another problem that I see in my games. They die once to a gank that I already called miss for 3 times and instead of trying to pay attention, they blame it on me for not doing the same. Right, so the logic is that, rather than falling back and NOT die, the mid should follow their mid wherever he does. Even if it´s an enemy QoP that can reach any lane in no time and kill everyone by the time you get there.\nI love it especially when my team has shitty lanes with no CC and expect me to gank someone like AM. Ok, yea keep waiting for that to happen guys. I´m sure it will.\nIt´s that type of logic and overpinionated behaviour I don´t want to deal with.\nThat´s the type of player I´m often getting in my team, the type of player that I AM NOT. I look over my games a lot and criticize my play but rather than the occasional selfishness, I never do what those guys are doing.\nI tried improving but to no avail. For a long while I tried to fill the holes in our team, if we already have two carries I´d be going support or vice versa. Most of my games I randomed so that in itself is participating to the team. Because most of the times I´d get something I could support with anyway. And I´d do it from the very first second so that the rest of my team can pick accordingly. But this whole pattern keeps repeating anyway so I don´t see how improving, whatever improvement I can make, make me win games where my whole team is feeding, say. \n Sorry for the wall of text.","Summary: if you are below Platinum I suggest NOT FFE'ing against Terran.\n\nPost: Unless you are at a pretty decent level (say AT THE VERY LEAST platinum) then you will die. \n And to give myself as an example, I'm top diamond with my main but recently I've been playing only Terran from bronze league because it's fun and I learn without getting completely crushed. I'm not THAT overpowered cause to my surprise, I lost to 4 bronze players so far (in out of a total of 60 games) and I wasn't screwing around. \n Anyway to cut it shorter, I encountered a lot of Protoss that tried to FFE against me and each and every single one of them died painfully horrible, from up to Bronze to Gold level opponents. Haven't encountered anything higher than that yet which is why I'm assuming plat+ could do it properly. So if you're not Platinum at the very least, DO NOT DO IT. I do not recommend it. It's not just reapers, there are a lot of things that can make your life hell. But that's just my opinion...","Summary: it is in fact pay2win\n\nPost: I don´t know why Elchtoeter hasn´t said anything but the premium shells ARE in fact pretty much pay2win.\nYou can buy them with ingame currency that you can earn after every game but they are much too expensive and you will never progress to higher tiers. \n The difference is pretty major really. You have two standard shells that are really cheap, one is made for penetration and the other one for explosive damage that is obviously shit against armor in general. Works well against light tanks if you are shooting from a class above. \n And then you have the premium shell which is both combined at the same time. More penetration that the penetration shell, more damage than the explosive shell.\nI got to a tier 4 tank destroyer, Hetzer. It´s a good tank, it hits like a truck and it´s very good for it´s tier and hits above it´s weight especially considering the fact that german tanks suck the most in this game.\nHowever, I was still unable to penetrate stuff as much as I wanted to, even light tanks were tanking my hits sometimes despite aiming for their weak spots.\nI use all my silvers and buy premium ammo, lo and behold. I start one shotting everything I´m my tier and 1 level above like there´s no tomorrow. Light tanks, tank destroyers and SPGs all die from 1 hit if you penetrate, which you will PRETTY often. Even medium tanks can take up to 60/70 % damage per hit if you aim for the weak spots. And you can actually damage heavy tanks.\nThen you go back to the standard ammo and see hit after hit doing nothing or ricocheting. \n Hey maybe my life was harder because I was playing with German tanks, which are known to be quite shit and we even have citations of wargame employees discriminating. It is also known that the company doesn´t give a single fuck about the community. If you think Blizzard can be bad, Wargaming makes them look like angels.\nSo , you can just play Russian tanks and have an easier time, the morale of the story is that the premium shell will always win\n against you. I´ve seen it with my own eyes from using them and them being used against me.","Summary: voice acting is not necessarily better but more fitting\n\nPost: So people often make the mistake of asociating good voice acting with the effort and especially, the emotion put into the lines. So good that you can feel the genuineness (if that's a word) of the character on your skin. This speaking from a deep critic's perspective. And I agree, in order to have good voice acting you need all of those elements. \n However, this shouldn't matter when it comes to acting that's not based on narative and / or story progression. It should't matter if you don't even have a protagonist or an antagonist. \n This is where Dota comes in. You only have a bunch of hero characters in an arena throwing shit at each other. The voice acting doesn't have to be an epic oscar winning masterpiece, it just has to fit in the realm of the world. \nSo by this I mean, you don't put a normal human sounding voice on an ogre, you modulate that and adapt accordingly.\nAnd Warcraft (or even better, Starcraft) unit responses nailed it. The dwarven sniper (for ex) might sound shoddy but how is he supposed to sound ? How do you sound when you just tell your friends or SO about your day ? Do you voice act ? Do you put effort into sounding emotionally involved ? Probably not. Most of what you are going to talk about is going to sound normal, just a random dude (or girl) voice. \n Same applies to Dota. Why should a hero aknowledgement or confirmation sound \"genuine\" ? It should just sound normal while still remaining in the theme of the game and the skin of the character. \n In my opinion Blizzard nailed that perfectly.\nAnd, altough I'm not complaining about Valve's work on their voice work (I think it's great actually) some of them simply don't fit like Luna's accent or Lich. Lich for example could sound more like an undead creature and less like an old man with parkinson's disease. It's good voice acting don't get me wrong, it just doesn't fit a Lich. \n These are just my two cents on how I see things so take them with a grain of salt.","Summary: of the explanation is. And honestly I agree, I trully believe they shouldn't open the borders to eastern europeans because you'll end up with 10 gypsies for every legit Romanian , Bulgarian, Serbian etc. \n Sucks for these small exceptions like holidays, sport or media events but overall it's for the better and your constitution seems to agree as well.\n\nPost: Like /u/ppsp said, we're just seen differently by a lot of countries including the US. \n If you want this specific example, Romania is part of the EU but the passport is not as powerful if you compare it to say... Germany's or UK. There's around 25-30 less countries you can access compared to the western european passport. Even though, you know - we've been in the EU for years.... \n Even inside the EU itself some things are different like working rights in the UK and rights to welfare in the west, policies and god knows what else. \n All western european countries and some central - eastern have a visa waiver program that allows them to enter the US with no fuss. Not Romania though... and if you read the wikipedia page for the US visa-approval program it's literally because opening the borders to eastern european countries would do the country more bad than good --- or that's how the","Summary: summarized to this \"Game has some issues, wait for more patches or a sale\" instead of using something so strong as steaming pile of shit\n\nPost: I'll agree 100% when it comes to Skyrim and Bioshock Infinite, especially on the latter. Anyone that watched Twilight Zone saw that ending coming from miles away. \n But that's the thing I was trying to argue from the very beginning, besides the mechanical issues you described, Dennaton really did nail HM2 as a sequel. The music is better or at the very least up to par (subjective preference but it really can't be worse, it's in the same tier) the story is a lot better because it ties in with the first and lets you experience the game from different perspectives. There's less variation in level design but more in character and story progression.\nIf you ignore the mechanical issues (that will probably be fixed at some point) you were having, the game is literally identical in how it plays, minus the difference in level design that doesn't reward rushy gameplay as much anymore. The bugs it has are not game-breaking, game breaking would mean save-games disappearing or corrupting, game crashing often or sufficient enough to ruin key moments, internet connection DRM, FPS drops, so on and so forth... \n If you take it like that, there's very few games that came out perfect on launch and with the trend we have lately, seemingly the bigger they come the harder they fall cough Watchdogs cough A:C Unity cough \n So if I were in your shoes right now, annoyed by the cursor glitch and the other bugs you were experiencing, I'd make a review that would be","Summary: fuck Romania\n\nPost: Ai primit cel putin 2 raspunsuri pasiv agresive la o selectie de intrebari inofensive adresate politicos. After all, nu ai pornit o discutie legata de sclavism, genocid, probleme rasiale si alte subiecte unde intervine simtul moral prea mult ca sa mai ramana obiective. \n Asta in sine, pentru mine cel putin, este un eye-opener (ai mei sunt des chisi de mult doar ca acum incerc sa ma pun in cizmele tale) la natura romanului si cultura cu care a fost crescut. \n Vrei exemple ? Stau de 5 ani in Spania, pana si cand locuiam in Romania eram detasat de tara si indivizii care o inhabiteaza. Nu am nici un fel de interes catre nimic care se asociaza in mod direct cu 'Romania' (except internetul, I really miss that shit) si simplific ce vreau sa spun cu asta ; am 0 interes in muzica romaneasca, filme romanesti, in general orice productie RO si MAI ALES politici. Daca nu frecventam /r/Romania din cand in cand nici nu aflam de existenta alegerilor electorale sau numele candidatilor. Pana si asa stiu doar \"Ponta, Iohanis, Macovei' fara context si atat. \n Si asta nu ar fi nimic... Dar hai sa incepem cu 'the big picture'. Problemele socio-psihologice si coruptia de care se loveste absolut orice cetatean. \n Lumea e mai crunta si mai obosita. On average. Ai mentionat si tu si restul din thread - cum ti se adreseaza functionarii publici in RO vs oriunde in vest. Ai dat si exemplul tau de la Londra.\nCe coincidenta, si eu am fost la Londra anul asta prin Aprilie si am ramas socat --- pozitiv. Eram imbracat in tracksuit si aveam o freza ciufulita, borderline hobo (7 ore de asteptat in aeroport didn't help) si am fost tratat ca un rege la nu mai putin de 3 localuri in span de 2 ore. Mi s-a adresat lumea cu 'sir', erau foarte atentivi si punctuali si spre deosebire de ce s-a vorbit in thread mai sus depre mastile din retail si fake genuiness, in situatia mea am avut ocazia sa incep un small banter cu un ospatar (chit ca nu e in natura mea antisociala) si again, placut surprins. Nu a fost nimic fortat, doar suficient de satisfacator cat sa ramana pur profesional, fara sa depaseasca extreme. Si repet, nu eram imbracat la costum. \n Crezi ca doar in Londra am intalnit fenomenul ? Am fost in Islanda tot atunci (Londra a fost doar zborul de conexiune) si a fost, din punct de vedere social si cultural, cea mai placuta experienta din viata mea as of yet.\nToata lumea vorbeste engleza (somewhow, adults included) nivelele de politete si profesionalism la fel de mari, strazi curate, pana si mâţele vagaboande erau mai bine ingrijite ca multe animale cu owneri din alte tari. \n Dezavantajul la ambele (si Londra si Islanda) e ca sunt foarte scumpe.\nS-au tras deja paralele in thread legat de buget si costuri. \n Ce nu a mentionat nimeni (mai ales tipu' cu preturile de taxi chilipir) e ca nu te muti la Londra sau in Danemarca ca sa lucrezi pe RON si salariile din Romania. Un software ingineer in vest face 2000-3000 de euro brut in medie nu 16-20 de mil. Si dau exemplu asta specific pentru ca s-a discutat tot aici pe /r/romania. Morala e ca daca matur strazile in Londra, fac mai mult ca maturatorul din Bucuresti si poate mai mult si ca cei cu joburi mai 'ridicate' \n Plus ca suficient de multe comoditati sunt mai scumpe in Romania mai ales electronicele si obiecte de uz casnic. \n Sa mai vorbim de coruptie? MAI ARE ROST ? Sau de birocratie ? \n Anul trecut am cumparat haine de pe un website din USA pentru mine si o luna mai tarziu pentru o prietena din Ro. Al meu a venit intr-o saptamana (chit ca punea 2 minim) livrat personal acasa fara costuri extra (nici nu am platit pentru transport express) la tipa a venit dupa 3 saptamani, nici nu s-au stresat sa dea un telefon si as a result a mai stat o saptamana acolo (best part e ca s-a dus ea la posta sa intrebe daca e venit si i-au spus ca nu era) si PE DEASUPRA a trebuit sa plateasca taxa 20% din valoarea produsului. 1 mil. Pentru niste tricouri de rahat cu pret in dolari. \n Da domnule. Romania e mai ieftina indeed. Poate daca traiesti cu paine si apa. Exceptie internetul. \n Mai zicea unu ceva legat de transport in comun ieftin. O fi ma. Pentru buzunarele romanului cred si eu.\nDar eu prefer un autobuz cu aer conditionat care este obligat prin lege sa refuze pasageri cand se ocupa toate locurile decat un cuptor plin ca o gaura de sobolani. \n Healthcare si educatie ? Doar daca compari tara cu America o sa castigi vreodata argumentul, mai ales la cate probleme are si America, oricat de buna e.\nPentru mine in Spania ca muncitor legal vizitele medicale sunt gratuite si actioneaza si ca o asigurare in acelasi timp. Ca si in Romania la urma urmelor. Da totusi, parca mai bine sa ajung pe un pat de spital aici decat in Romania, ultima mea experienta de spital in tara (de acum 10 ani but still) a rezultat cu o gramada de timp irosit pe un pat degeaba, dupa ce eram sanatos si ; gandaci de bucatarie roaming around. What can I say... nu era Romania daca ceva rau nu se intampla. \n Puah... Pot sa continui pana imi cad degetele jos dar ma opresc aici. Am facut o crima deja cu acest zid de rant. \n Morala finala e ca oricat de multe 'pros' ai in Romania, niciodata nu o sa merite sa o alegi pentru o alta tara din vest daca ai posibilitatea...after all-- nu o comparam cu Bulgaria sau Ukraina ca atunci nici nu mai exista discutia. \n Daca vrei sa pleci si ai posibilitatea, do it. Cel mai mare dezavantaj o sa rezulte in pierderea internetului ala fantastic si eventual (dupa caz) pe cine lasi in urma. Prieteni, familie, cunostinte etc.","Summary: it's not that easy, sometimes things don't make sense. maybe beamdog screwed with the AI... I didn't play the originals so I couldn't tell you\n\nPost: I have all of those and complete immunity to a school of my choice on my casters (I usually go with Alteration cause that's where most of the CC stands) and still get caught a lot of the times. And I'm like lvl 22, I'm 52 hours in and would have beat the game if I wasn't exploring the extra content. \n It doesn't appear that I'm doing anything wrong but more like the AI is consistently overpowered for no reason. And sometimes I find targets that are virtually immune to everything and I'm not even joking. For example, I am doing Watcher's Keep at the moment and I encountered a lich in one of the maze rooms that was almost indestructible for no apparent reason. I used everything I had (I have both Aerie and Jaheera so I have a strong arsenal of spells) Breach, Doom, Pierce Magic, Greater Malison, Spellstrike and the list goes on. Nothing worked. I won't even mention damage spells. Not even weapons. Well weapons did, sometimes. That's how I killed the lich in the end. You see, for some god forsaken reason I could only damage it in melee but only SOMETIMES. Imagine a berserked Minsc in full Balduran set with every buff in my arsenal which is also under improved haste... and he was only doing damage like every 15 or 20 hits. I even had to resort to my last ace which is my main, which is a dragon disciple with lots and I mean lots of harmful spells and Improved Alacrity. That's right. I used my final solution on the Lich which is to cast the Alracrity, Drop all my 5 spider webs (1 from Aerie and 1 from Imoen too so it turns into 7) then a bunch of incendiary clouds, dragon breaths and spheres of chaos, ALL IN THE SPAN OF A COUPLE OF SECONDS because I have an almost instant cast time and the alacrity removes the cooldown between spells. IT. DIDN'T. DO. SHIT. WHY, I HAVE NO IDEA. Eventually it died because fuck logic but I was just glad it was over. [This]( is my team and as you can see they're chilling over a dead Firkraag. That setup downed the dragon in something like 15 seconds but I had to save whore against a single Lich and a bunch of rooms countless times. \n Is it the EE ? I'm not sure if they officially or unofficially fucked with the AI's capabilities but some things do not make sense, I'm looking at playthroughs of other people of the same areas and they don't seem that brutal but they're also playing on the original game. Also I read something on a forum about Imprisonment only being available to a very reduced number of NPCs (like 2 or 3) but in my game Beholders were casting it left and right. (it wasn't maze) \n And the most infuriating thing that doesn't make sense are the save rolls. If I use finger of death or disintegrate on any of my own characters they work 8/10 times, rarely do they save-roll. I do the same against the AI and the majority save almost always and end up wasting all my fingers on one target without bringing it down. And this was on high level characters (20+) that were fully buffed and nicely geared. \n If all this shit was coming from Irenicus or other boss-like figures I would be ok with it. But most of the times I have to pass my engagements with really cheesy shit like the area of death I mentioned above. And sometimes even that doesn't work. I beat Sarevok in BG1 like that and he dropped like a pleb but then I start BG2 and random villans and wanderers put up a better fight. \n It is entirely possible I could do better (maybe changing my team comp altogether could help) but like I said, it shouldn't be this hard no matter how you played it. Especially on the easiest difficulty. I would have beat the game months ago but right now I am genuinely afraid to face the last two levels of the Keep and then move on towards the ending...","Summary: there is a compilation of the exact same kind but with ingame chat quotes.\n\nPost: I know this might be a bit unrelated but does anyone remember the compilation of the best ingame chat moments that happened so far ? It was shown at MLG Raleigh (I think) during pause breaks to cover the downtime and it was also made with MLG content only, exactly in the same style as this video. Basically the same thing but with chat moments. At least a handful of people should recall it. I remember that one of the scenes was with Incontrol's proxy against TLO and after he spoted that too late he started to say that he will have nightmares of that pylon, or the Huk and Idra hallucination one. There were many of them and they were all funny. Point being, I need to see it again so if anyone put it on Youtube or knows if it was included in the MLG vods then it needs to be posted.","Summary: blinding cloud is nice but it won't even come close to the power of the dark swarm.\n\nPost: It won't be as dangerous. Dark swarm was so effective because you also had consume to use in conjuction with it, also the radius of the blinding cloud and the duration seem so much shorter.\nI can easily imagine some vipers casting multiple clouds to cover a large area and terran micro'ing out of the zone each time and eventually you run out of energy. It will probably be very effective to force the terran abandon the position but it will come with its downsides.\nI remember Savior forgot to research consume one time and simply lost the game after that.\nI imagine you won't just be able to make 10 vipers like you do with infestors, you don't deal real damage with those spells like you do with fungal growths and infested terrans.\nSo imho I don't think that spell will have major use like Dark swarm had, I am more inclined to think that the hook ability will be more eficient.","Summary: make a song market app spotify-style with literally every song in existence (possible if you let anyone upload their works for sale and are willing to) and I'm pretty sure lots of people would be sold. \n >Off topic, SC2 is much more frustrating in terms of personal improvement. Mobas are much more frustrating in terms of improving through the ladder as a random. The actual amount of individual skill required in SC2 is leaps and bounds beyond that of mobas, it's just that in mobas you can lose because no teamwork, bad teammate, trolls, etc. Apples to oranges. \n I'm very aware, I had C+ in Broodwar and Top Diamond in SC2 and I didn't progress further because I proved to myself the game was just too broken in comparison to Broodwar with a simple experiment that I won't bother to mention, it will just come off as standard complaint, elitism and Q.Q and whatnot.\nDespite that I still find SC2 as the hardest game after BW out of all, I know what it takes to become good. \n But when I compared it to Dota 2 I was referring to something else. So you start playing SC2, you're horrible. It's ok, welcome to Bronze League, enjoy playing with people the same level as you.\nYou start playing Dota 2 and unless you play at least 100 hours, you will die and you won't know why. Because you have no learned all the abilities of other heroes yet and how they interact with each other. That's it. We are ignoring the team factor here and how much of a bitch it is to progress afterwards. Only after you learn what everyone you face does the serious learning stage becomes. Dying a lot is the most unfun thing that can happen in a moba.\n\nPost: Well ok, piracy is in fact illegal and somewhat immoral but there CAN be a middle ground. I'll give myself as an example; I pirated everything up until 2 years ago when I started working in a different country and earned enough to not only end up with savings but also justify digital purchases. I went from 0 to 100+ games in Steam in a span of 1 year, a decent chunk of those are games that I already played and beat a long time ago just to pay back the money. I even bought older games on full price instead of waiting for sales as a result of this. It felt oddly right and refreshing. \n What I'm trying to say is that, I am a gamer today because I was able to play anything I wanted for a decade as long as I got a CD copy from someone (pre-internet period) or a torrent after I had an internet connection. Had I been limited from the very beginning, my mom raising 2 kids alone on a wage of 300 bucks would have never bought me any games even if I was diagnosed with cancer. \n And this is not just me, this applies to literally everyone from Eastern Europe and a large chuck of the western countries, South America, Russia and asian countries, especially China.\nThere would be gamers, sure. But not like today. \n Piracy didn't necessarily enable CS 1.6 and Dota Allstars, it generally gave an opportunity to literally anyone to try video games and if they liked it, well, depending on how much they were attracted it can range from casual gaming to addiction.\nI know it's not the greatest example but you know how drug dealers let you test a substance first for free or at a very reduced price so you can get the \"taste\" of it ? That's what piracy did for people, rather than forcing them to pay 60$ on average for something they never had the opportunity to try and only saw on TV or internet, it gave us an unlimited demo . \n I am aware Americans pirate too but I can tell you with my google and eyes closed there is no way in seven hells America has a higher piracy rate than Europe, for a simple and true fact: paying for a 60$ game becomes easier when you make 3k a month (or even 1k if you're on minimum wage) as opposed to 200-300$.\nSo in the eventuality where there would be a way to enforce piracy-prevention with 100% success, of course your demographic in mostly any game is going to be American for the most part because out of all the people in the world, you could afford it the most. \n If we're talking about prices, I wouldn't be opposed to a world where piracy is impossible so long the price tags are regional and not flat, like the price tags would be a certain percent of the country's minimum wage. But I can already feel the bloodrush of greedy investors and possibly raged first world-ers so I don't think that's going to happen anytime soon. \n >You don't know this. The thing about pre-SC2 Blizzard games was that the only thing anyone played was UMS, as competitive gaming was still extremely niche. The original DotA could very well have still been made and been enough of a success for Valve to invest in DotA 2. LoL is the same thing. \n I don't know this because it would require a time machine into an alternate universe where piracy-blocking won. That's the problem. But neither do you. By empirical evidence it should be clear that would have been the outcome, LoL was based off of Dota, Dota was based off of Aeon of Strife. Why don't we have Aeon of Strife 2 from Valve as a major IP instead of Dota 2 ? Because it was basic and shallow garbage in comparison to Dota Allstars, also running on an older engine. But let me ask you this, would Eul, Guinsoo and then Icefrog develop a Warcraft 3 map for more than a decade, constantly with balance patches and polish for a very reduced audience of North Americans ? Cause that's exactly what the playerbase would be made of, I told you mostly everyone in Europe and South America were running on pirate copies and they had the majority of the players.\nI don't want to say Dota is alive ONLY because of pirates but I'm willing to go on a limb that they played the main role in this. \n There could have been other mobas that looked different and had a different name but are you sure they'd have the same amount of success ? \nThe fact that there's also no other example of a single map that had that level of popularity (and even better, turn into a major IP) is proof enough ideas alone are not enough. Maps did help create the Tower Defense genre but there's tons of them of every type imaginable for every platform but not one stands out on top, they're like a pile of marbles. \n People did play a lot of UMS but that's all there was to them, casual fun with tons of diversity. \n So I do beg to differ. \n My favorite example when it comes to games and culture diversity is Broodwar. It was the better Starcraft, both objectively in every way and factually from the success it had for more than a decade. And yet it died in NA first for no apparent reason. The Koreans proved the game wasn't broken and that it was perfectly viable competitively but it died. I think the last WCG of note was in 2006 and that was also the only major tournament in the whole country. The game generally died everywhere except Korea, although Europe did have more casual players and pros than NA at some point. Why ? There is no reason except either people got lazy and quit trying to be good at it, since it was insanely difficult above C+/B- or they just found other games and moved on. It's understandable don't get me wrong, since the difficulty was too much and the curve too steep for the average joe, no wonder the majority stuck with the UMS's. But look how long that lasted... \n You know what I can gather from all of this ? Do you think something like Dota would have survived on a NA only scene ? And no, don't think of modern, fresh, Dota 2. Think of Dota Allstars with W3 interface and 99.99% less ways to learn the game on the internet. Less guides, less videos, less pro footage. Less everything. \nFuck me in the ass if Broodwar managed to die despite the success it showed in Korea and equal UMS and B.Net support, I don't see how can something so fickle like a single map could have survived. \n You are free to disagree but we're just going to go in circles since there is no way to prove each other wrong unless we do find an alternate reality where either X or Y happened. I do choose to go for the logical answer though. \n >And going into the $60 game territory, this is where the hypocrisy begins. Everyone wants the best graphics, the best game play, and these studios are meeting those demands with what amounts to hundreds of millions of dollars in sunk cost just to get the game out. \n Obviously I can't speak for everyone here but I never gave a crap about AAA quality and when I did, I paid the full price. If I make a personal top 5 or even a top 30 there won't be a single genuine AAA title on that list, it's going to be mostly made of indies / kickstarter projects. Even with the ability to pirate anything with no consequences, I was still avoiding EA and Ubisoft like the plague. Tells you enough when someone doesn't even want to TRY their games for free. \n >And like I brought up for Spotify, guess who loses? Spotify loses. \n I had no idea they were losing money, thanks for clarifying this I guess. I figured since they were still alive it was going well. I wouldn't mind paying for music if a) they'd let you listen to each song from the album first and b) buy each one individually. I heard you can do that with iTunes but I doubt iTunes has the dubious and obscure OSTs I tend to listen to. I could probably buy half the songs I listen with no issues but then the other half would require an entire album purchase just because I happen to like 1 song. So","Summary: not everyone can afford to buy games, another reason why this guy is right.\n\nPost: This.\nAlso for the fact that not everyone lives in a first world country so they can afford buying games. I know people say this specific line every time someone talks about money \"instead of going to McDonalds or getting drunk, buy the fucking game\" but from where I come from things don't work that way. We don't even have McDonalds and the average income per month is 200 bucks. You have to live for 1 month with those 200 bucks. How can you affort to spend 60 bucks on a single computer game ? Unlike food and other consumer goods, electronics and software (games included of course) have the same price everywhere. So when people (and corporations) spite piracy, they should think first that not everyone lives in America. And going to your exact same point, better to have some people that pirate the game and play it for free raising it's popularity than not playing at all. Cause let me tell you, if any sort of ridiculous bill passes and piracy will no longer be possible, people won't eat once every two days just so they can use the computer. If you're curios what countries I'm talking about, it's Eastern Europe (not something as extreme as Africa) specifically Romania in my case. Sure there are a handful of people that live well and afford it (including myself and that's only because right now I live in another country) but most of the population does not have that luxury. Same goes for other countries like Serbia, Bulgaria, Ukraine and so on.\nWhen people earn 300 bucks at best after finishing college with a master's degree it's a pretty much self-explanatory. I know my friends do..."],"string":"[\n \"Summary: you're half right, winning in solo pubs holds more complexity than one might think\\n\\nPost: Supports are the easiest to play at almost every level. If you think about it, you can afford to die the most out of all the roles (not to say you are allowed to feed) you can do the most with no gold early to mid game, you sometimes have abilities that help your entire team by doing nothing (like CM's Arcane Aura)\\nWinrates don't really mean much, though in your case they might be accurate and it's just that your strongest role is support. Having a 52% winrate (for example) doesn't mean you are better than a player that has 50% or less. That player might be playing in a skill bracket thousands of mmr points above you. This counts for both game wins and hero winrates. \\n Sometimes people just don't deserve their rank and not too many players want to admit it. I will admit that my rank in CS:GO is way too big for my skill level and I wish the system would properly place me in a lower league cause where I am right now I can rarely do something that won't get me stomped.\\nI wish I could admit the same for Dota 2 but it's flat out not true. The last player that completely owned me in lane had a 4.7k rating. That's 700 mmr above my original placing. And it's not like I fed or anything, I just lost the lane in every aspect : CS, Rune control, ganks. The fact that I can hold my own or even carry in games where the mmr difference is that big just proves you need a different skillset for solo queue. \\n And if you actually try to look at the situation from a different perspective it's true. Is it the same thing to play with 4 random people or a stack of friends ? You don't have to insist or actually resort to yelling to get wards out of your friends, you don't have to die 3 times before they actually start calling mias, you do not end up with 4 carries 1 support team comp. This assuming your friends are not bad and or drunk, in which case the match is balanced in ways solo isn't. For example, my most often premade is made of friends that are all below 3k, which puts me as their best player. And as you might imagine, the opposition for every game I play with them is the same. 3 or 4 players in their team will suck and 1 or sometimes none of the players will stand out. That 1 player is supposed to have the same mmr as me just like Valve explained their system and it works in that regard because almost always there is a player that is way better than the rest of his team. When that happens, if I am upset at my friends for playing badly or not listening to what I ask, I can just take advantage of their newbies and try to take the game into my own hands. However, that is not exactly possible in a solo queue where everyone has about the same rating because although they may be weaker than me skill wise, they're not dumb enough to fall 5 times into the same sunstrike or never back off from dangerous positions. Where I'm trying to get at is, making something out of nothing becomes A LOT harder. This assuming you do not have team cooperation and we're talking about solo queue so when do you ? Maybe one day you will reach my MMR or even get past that and see how devastating is to play mid against someone that has both river spots warded when you have nothing, not even a courier. Yes, that actually happens a lot when I play mid. Something that is super avoidable if you have friends, btw.\\nBonus salt to the wound points if the enemy already is countering you in mid with the hero alone. You could say \\\"buy your own wards\\\" and that in itself shows how broken can solo queue be. And I did that a bunch of times, and it put me behind in gold. My bottled was delayed and the enemy started rune controlling faster, was pooling more HP and mana and gained an adge in both CS and harassment. All so I can know what comes from the jungle and have a chance at taking the next rune. And all this assuming the support didn't already buy the wards and used them in shitty spots that don't help me at all. THEN you are fucked cause the laning phase is over by the time the cooldown's back up.\\nAll these small things do not happen in 2.5k. Well, I imagine they try to replicate proper play but I've seen how that goes... trust me. So my point is playing mid with no wards in 2.5k won't have even 30% of the impact it has on me. \\n If you can understand all this, you start seeing how solo queue is different. Other factors start appearing like who is leading the team ? Does he / she do a good job ? If nobody else is doing it, do you have the nerve and patience do to it yourself ? Do you have the willpower to go through that russian thickhead and try making him do something useful or communicate ?\\nThese are all very important factors in deciding the outcome of a match. I've seen people that are good at it. I have also seen the exact opposite happen but it took place in LoL not in Dota. LoL's ranking system was different a while ago, that's how ELO hell got it's infamous name. Basically if you lost your very first matches you'd be dropped close or directly into ELO hell where it was incredibly hard to climb up. Cause unlike Dota 2, LoL didn't use your previous normal matchmaking rank to place you accordingly into the qualification matches. So what happened was, you either carry the game like a motherfucker and hope for the best or get super lucky or just lose and drop to ELO hell. What my friend did (he's even worse than me at communicating, he's basically a ghost) was instead of trying to get out of ELO hell, he just remade 3 or 4 accounts to level 30 and re-did the qualification process. On one of them, he succeded and was maintaining a solid 1500 rating without dropping or raising much. All this while he couldn't climb from 900-1000. So my question is, did he deserve the 1k rating ? Possibly. Was it because of his skill level ? Not really. It was exactly the same fenomena I described above, with 0 leadership skills or will you do not conquer the solo pubs. You need a different skillset and the willpower to do it, which is something I or other people do not have. I played the game for 7 years, I'm beyond trying my best to win. Fun doesn't come as easily anymore. Sorry for the long post.\",\n \"Summary: I absolutely hate PvP in any game yet Eve, a PvP based game became my favourite. If you want to know in details how and why and get some good insight from my perspective the story is that way ^\\n\\nPost: Huge post incoming: \\n I've been playing Eve for 8 months now and I played the most in the first days because, well it was a completely new game. And not just any new game, a pretty unique game. But here it gets interesting:\\nYou see I'm the type of player that hates PvP not because I'm bad at it, but because I just don't like to treat a game as just a game, I want to treat it like a whole world so I tend to role play a lot, and by that I mean that I love PvE because it has a story to tell, a world I can be a part of as a character with a background, not some guy that grinds duels every day. The game I played the most at this point is WoW because I've played it since 2006 (stopped at Cataclysm) and the most I PvP'd was like 10 battlegrounds, some duels every now and then and ... faction warfare. That's right, killing people that are considered my enemies by default game mechanic is different, it creates a certain atmosphere. I don't care if they are 50 levels lower than me, I'm the bad enemy and they should expect me and be prepared. I don't care if I was a rogue and I one shot a low HP guy from the shadows and it wasn't real PvP. I dont care, in the real world no enemy that wants you dead and likes to live will ever fight you fair and square, especially an \\\"assasin class\\\"\\nNot to mention other games, the most \\\"real\\\" PvP I had could be all summed up in an hour because, I just don't see it fun.\\nHell, I already lost interest in Diablo III because I'm not exactly keen on the ideea of finishing the game 3 times (or 4 if you go for Inferno) just because the minions are stronger, even worse if you plan to get multiple characters to max level. What am I seeing new, what am I experiencing ? Leveling up for the thing that I dislike the most ? \\n But in Eve... damn it. The PvP it can be a DRUG. I did mention at start that I was playing the most at the beginning and that's because I was expecting this game to have a very strong PvE part, especially when I saw that every god damn station had at least one agent. So I though hey, if there are that many agents imagine how many quests are out there to discover, in such a huge world. I was really excited especially because I was just finishing the Sisters of Eve arc and I figured there were limitless \\\"quests\\\" out there for me to discover, to explore the universe and discover and fight pirates or even become one. Yes I heard this game had pirates but I thought you could become one as like, a faction not profession.\\nTo cut this shorter, after I discovered that missions were repeating pretty often and it was the same with ALL the agents I was disappointed. All my planning and all the dreams I had for hoping into my ship and fly away were broken.\\nSo what there was out there for me to do now, after finding out that this game is completely PvP based, the thing I dislike the most...\\nI decided to make a ship and pickup a fight with a can in Amarr. Ship of choice was a Slicer because I love frigates and I could only fly Amarr and it was the best choice with the money and skillpoints I had. Hearing of it's \\\"staying out of range\\\" capabilities instantly won me over, and it's also a sexy ship. I forgot to mention there were instances I refused to fly ships because they look ugly (Minmatar I'm looking at you, good thing I don't have any Min skillpoints though I have to change that in the future because they seem to have the strongest ships)\\nI got myself a partner, he convo'd me before and asked if we should fight to structure or to the death. I gained hope because at least I knew in the worst case scenario I won't be losing the ship I spent almost all my ISK I had so I picked structure. I lost first time (he had a kiting Kestrel) cause I was a moron and I tried to orbit 500 with the MWD ON (lol) and also had Multifrequency loaded and lost horribly. I think I only hit him once...\\nNext fight I did the same shit but with Scorch and no MWD and he lost horribly. Still a retarded move but hey, who cared back then as long as it won me the fight !\\nAfter that we started talking because he was a nice guy (I figured from the start because of that deal) and joined his corp after 1 hour. And that's how my PvP adventures began... \\n Well then, to reduce the amount of boring stories and ask : why is Eve PvP so much different, why a PvP hater like me loves Eve PvP ?\\nThe first and foremost thing should be obvious: your losses are real, you can't just respawn with your shinny-ass bling bling ship after you lose, if your ship goes boom ,it goes boom for real. For anyone whoever played Lineage, it's like enchanting weapons. If you didn't, well you could make your weapons more powerful with scrolls but it came at a cost: a chance for the weapon to break the longer you tried to enchant it. Thinking back, my friends were all butthurt when they lost their weapons while enchanting and rage quited many times, one of them did this quite recently and it was on a shitty 1000x server where you get that shit back in 10 minutes of farming. I figured in my head, if this guy is so pissed after such a pitiful loss then I would love to see him lose a faction fit Machariel in Eve just to see his reaction, or any other shinny ship for that matter.\\nIt made me realize, or rather made me remember that this game is not for pussies, this game is for men. And either they embrace their losses and come back for even more or they shed a lot of tears which is ... perfect from the killer's perspective. It can give PvP one purpose, griefing. But not just that, it makes so you can actually feel PvP. it makes you know which are the pilots you should fly with and which are the ones you avoid. \\n Other reason: the sandbox. If you take part of a big fleet, a big event, you know that you're there in the same place at the same time with 2000 other people and you can say the famous phrase after it's done \\\"I was there\\\"\\nExactly, you were there. You were part of a historic moment. It's not just some 25 group boss grind, it's history in the making. \\n And I'm sure there are many more reasons out there that makes the game totally worth it and special, this comes from just a guy that only cares about one thing so far in this game: fighting. \\n For me? Why do I love PvP and Eve in general so much ? A combination of the above reasons plus the fact that I love space sci-fi more than anything else. If there's a place where I can run into and forget about the world, it's a space game, or story or movie or anything related to that. It's the reason why I gave PvP a try in the first place because I could not part with the game, just like that. Only after some time I discovered the marvel of it. \\n So, what can YOU DO? If a picky bastard like me managed to love this game then I'm sure anyone can with the right choices. Whatever you do, do not try to play it out alone. I am totally 100% an alone guy in games and this didn't work out in Eve. This is the only game where I'm trying to be a part of something bigger.\\nJoin Eve University, join RvB, join the CFC or a WH group. Whichever you pick, you will get a completely different experience from. The harder part is to find out what makes you tick.\\nEve isn't only about PvP, one of the most well known and influential figures in Eve (The Mittani) doesn't even play the game. Relatively speaking. So how does he do it ? You can find out by yourself.\\nAlas, all I know is that this game is the only thing I paid with my own money so far and it's the best money I ever spent. Every other game was either a present or a pirate. \\n So, good luck with your progress capsuleer ;)\",\n \"Summary: I agree with that but mechanics alone can get you preeetty far...\\nSame goes for the other races but you're gonna need a lot more practice.\\n\\nPost: Hey ! Have I denied that fact ? I never mentioned why Protoss was easier and you could somehow deduce that from the fact that I specified I only built stuff and went it.\\nBut that's what I'm getting at, I only played mechanically and Protoss got me back into diamond in a very short amount of time considering the games I played as Zerg to even survive it ... somewhere around 700 at the very least. \\n Now, I did mention I had no ideea about build orders and timings cause I hate to copy other players. I just play after my own rules. True I'll never say that it's wrong to copy other players, and I am aware that just my own \\\"intelligence\\\" didn't get me past diamond but that's just me.\\nAnyway: after I stopped playing Protoss on the ladder one friend of mine wanted me to try a specific build order from A to Z so he can see how powerful it can be (he was silver, so you can imagine he was not mechanically ready for tight builds)\\nThat build was JYP's +1 sentry pressure into +2 blink stalkers. Needless to say that once I got the timing on it decently, I was absolutely DESTROYING zergs. \\nAfter a couple of games made me wonder how far I could have gotten as Protoss if I learned every build order and timing possible that fits the current meta-game.\\nThat was the reason for almost every loss I had as Zerg. Not knowing those things I could never defend them if I was against a potent player.\\nAnyway I'll never find out cause I'm too much against that and besides Protoss got boring. Dropped the game and 2 months later (now) I'm playing as Terran.\\nI gotta admit they are pretty hard, especially in TvZ. I was a big \\\"Terran easy\\\" yeller in the past and I gotta say I changed my opinion. The one for Protoss still stands though.\",\n \"Summary: I don´t get complete newbies anymore, I still get people I´m not supposed to get, not sure how ´improving´ will remove the winrate pattern that´s obviously happening to me and a lot of people.\\n\\nPost: OH no. Getting complete newbies in my team was a thing of the past.\\nIt doesn´t happen anymore and like I said I´ve been having stable winrate for a while now. \\n The thing is, they don´t have to be complete newbies in order for the game to go wrong.\\nYou are right that you can´t deduce the accuracy of what I am saying or my own skill from just words but bare in mind that this thing happens to a lot of people, where they feel like they are playing alone and getting teams that are supposed to play better.\\nDon´t tell me that everynow and then you´re not getting that guy in your team that despite being support, is not doing anything a support is supposed to do and just leeching XP / CS.\\nAnd it´s ok, in this same thread I was sort of complaining that this game takes a turn towards playing the right meta instead of playing however you want and I don´t like that. In fact I want to be a guy that´s considered support and build items and have fun with them.\\nBut in the end I don´t do it because I know the enemy is going to stomp us if I do that. So I play my role in the end, I am forced to. But other people don´t.\\nAnd the biggest issue right now despite being very high and no longer getting complete newbies is that, people STILL DON´T properly react to miss calls and vision. Like I said before I made a habit of calling a single miss call 3 times with the wheel and my team mates often still fall for it. \\n What could be wrong with my play ? I already know that I´m (obviously) not playing perfectly and I could be doing things better.\\nLike, I refuse to communicate because most of the times it´s just going to end up in retarded argument exchanges that I don´t want to be a part of.\\nI also am very selfish when I play in mid and rarely gank, unless I get something like QoP or Puck or get a haste rune. Generally something that moves really fast.\\nI mentioned in another post that Invoker is my best hero so I play him often when I don´t random and that´s one of the guys that I never gank with.\\nAnd that´s an issue, you could say.\\nBut in my opinion, not really. I also get a lot of CS and XP/min and end up levels ahead of everyone while getting a kill everynow and then with sunstrikes.\\nIn fact, if they have a wombo combo lane with CC I can just help with a sunstrike and that´s 225 extra damage by level 5 without even being there.\\nIf I get my force staff, I very often catch 3 or 4 people in wombo combos and completely wreck the game a lot of the times.\\nThe whole jist of this is that, if I am selfish and not gank, I do it for a reason. In this case, Invoker is a bad ganker because he´s slow and if the enemy has the river warded, they will fall back (assuming) and you´re just going to lose xp. Which is why I said I only do it with heroes like QoP because you can bypass that problem.\\nBut when I do it, I do it for a reason. And in this case, the reason is that I snowball pretty fast once I get my force staff and influence teamfights a lot better than usual. \\n Just because you midlane is not ganking, it doesn´t give you the excuse to die in your lane. And that´s another problem that I see in my games. They die once to a gank that I already called miss for 3 times and instead of trying to pay attention, they blame it on me for not doing the same. Right, so the logic is that, rather than falling back and NOT die, the mid should follow their mid wherever he does. Even if it´s an enemy QoP that can reach any lane in no time and kill everyone by the time you get there.\\nI love it especially when my team has shitty lanes with no CC and expect me to gank someone like AM. Ok, yea keep waiting for that to happen guys. I´m sure it will.\\nIt´s that type of logic and overpinionated behaviour I don´t want to deal with.\\nThat´s the type of player I´m often getting in my team, the type of player that I AM NOT. I look over my games a lot and criticize my play but rather than the occasional selfishness, I never do what those guys are doing.\\nI tried improving but to no avail. For a long while I tried to fill the holes in our team, if we already have two carries I´d be going support or vice versa. Most of my games I randomed so that in itself is participating to the team. Because most of the times I´d get something I could support with anyway. And I´d do it from the very first second so that the rest of my team can pick accordingly. But this whole pattern keeps repeating anyway so I don´t see how improving, whatever improvement I can make, make me win games where my whole team is feeding, say. \\n Sorry for the wall of text.\",\n \"Summary: if you are below Platinum I suggest NOT FFE'ing against Terran.\\n\\nPost: Unless you are at a pretty decent level (say AT THE VERY LEAST platinum) then you will die. \\n And to give myself as an example, I'm top diamond with my main but recently I've been playing only Terran from bronze league because it's fun and I learn without getting completely crushed. I'm not THAT overpowered cause to my surprise, I lost to 4 bronze players so far (in out of a total of 60 games) and I wasn't screwing around. \\n Anyway to cut it shorter, I encountered a lot of Protoss that tried to FFE against me and each and every single one of them died painfully horrible, from up to Bronze to Gold level opponents. Haven't encountered anything higher than that yet which is why I'm assuming plat+ could do it properly. So if you're not Platinum at the very least, DO NOT DO IT. I do not recommend it. It's not just reapers, there are a lot of things that can make your life hell. But that's just my opinion...\",\n \"Summary: it is in fact pay2win\\n\\nPost: I don´t know why Elchtoeter hasn´t said anything but the premium shells ARE in fact pretty much pay2win.\\nYou can buy them with ingame currency that you can earn after every game but they are much too expensive and you will never progress to higher tiers. \\n The difference is pretty major really. You have two standard shells that are really cheap, one is made for penetration and the other one for explosive damage that is obviously shit against armor in general. Works well against light tanks if you are shooting from a class above. \\n And then you have the premium shell which is both combined at the same time. More penetration that the penetration shell, more damage than the explosive shell.\\nI got to a tier 4 tank destroyer, Hetzer. It´s a good tank, it hits like a truck and it´s very good for it´s tier and hits above it´s weight especially considering the fact that german tanks suck the most in this game.\\nHowever, I was still unable to penetrate stuff as much as I wanted to, even light tanks were tanking my hits sometimes despite aiming for their weak spots.\\nI use all my silvers and buy premium ammo, lo and behold. I start one shotting everything I´m my tier and 1 level above like there´s no tomorrow. Light tanks, tank destroyers and SPGs all die from 1 hit if you penetrate, which you will PRETTY often. Even medium tanks can take up to 60/70 % damage per hit if you aim for the weak spots. And you can actually damage heavy tanks.\\nThen you go back to the standard ammo and see hit after hit doing nothing or ricocheting. \\n Hey maybe my life was harder because I was playing with German tanks, which are known to be quite shit and we even have citations of wargame employees discriminating. It is also known that the company doesn´t give a single fuck about the community. If you think Blizzard can be bad, Wargaming makes them look like angels.\\nSo , you can just play Russian tanks and have an easier time, the morale of the story is that the premium shell will always win\\n against you. I´ve seen it with my own eyes from using them and them being used against me.\",\n \"Summary: voice acting is not necessarily better but more fitting\\n\\nPost: So people often make the mistake of asociating good voice acting with the effort and especially, the emotion put into the lines. So good that you can feel the genuineness (if that's a word) of the character on your skin. This speaking from a deep critic's perspective. And I agree, in order to have good voice acting you need all of those elements. \\n However, this shouldn't matter when it comes to acting that's not based on narative and / or story progression. It should't matter if you don't even have a protagonist or an antagonist. \\n This is where Dota comes in. You only have a bunch of hero characters in an arena throwing shit at each other. The voice acting doesn't have to be an epic oscar winning masterpiece, it just has to fit in the realm of the world. \\nSo by this I mean, you don't put a normal human sounding voice on an ogre, you modulate that and adapt accordingly.\\nAnd Warcraft (or even better, Starcraft) unit responses nailed it. The dwarven sniper (for ex) might sound shoddy but how is he supposed to sound ? How do you sound when you just tell your friends or SO about your day ? Do you voice act ? Do you put effort into sounding emotionally involved ? Probably not. Most of what you are going to talk about is going to sound normal, just a random dude (or girl) voice. \\n Same applies to Dota. Why should a hero aknowledgement or confirmation sound \\\"genuine\\\" ? It should just sound normal while still remaining in the theme of the game and the skin of the character. \\n In my opinion Blizzard nailed that perfectly.\\nAnd, altough I'm not complaining about Valve's work on their voice work (I think it's great actually) some of them simply don't fit like Luna's accent or Lich. Lich for example could sound more like an undead creature and less like an old man with parkinson's disease. It's good voice acting don't get me wrong, it just doesn't fit a Lich. \\n These are just my two cents on how I see things so take them with a grain of salt.\",\n \"Summary: of the explanation is. And honestly I agree, I trully believe they shouldn't open the borders to eastern europeans because you'll end up with 10 gypsies for every legit Romanian , Bulgarian, Serbian etc. \\n Sucks for these small exceptions like holidays, sport or media events but overall it's for the better and your constitution seems to agree as well.\\n\\nPost: Like /u/ppsp said, we're just seen differently by a lot of countries including the US. \\n If you want this specific example, Romania is part of the EU but the passport is not as powerful if you compare it to say... Germany's or UK. There's around 25-30 less countries you can access compared to the western european passport. Even though, you know - we've been in the EU for years.... \\n Even inside the EU itself some things are different like working rights in the UK and rights to welfare in the west, policies and god knows what else. \\n All western european countries and some central - eastern have a visa waiver program that allows them to enter the US with no fuss. Not Romania though... and if you read the wikipedia page for the US visa-approval program it's literally because opening the borders to eastern european countries would do the country more bad than good --- or that's how the\",\n \"Summary: summarized to this \\\"Game has some issues, wait for more patches or a sale\\\" instead of using something so strong as steaming pile of shit\\n\\nPost: I'll agree 100% when it comes to Skyrim and Bioshock Infinite, especially on the latter. Anyone that watched Twilight Zone saw that ending coming from miles away. \\n But that's the thing I was trying to argue from the very beginning, besides the mechanical issues you described, Dennaton really did nail HM2 as a sequel. The music is better or at the very least up to par (subjective preference but it really can't be worse, it's in the same tier) the story is a lot better because it ties in with the first and lets you experience the game from different perspectives. There's less variation in level design but more in character and story progression.\\nIf you ignore the mechanical issues (that will probably be fixed at some point) you were having, the game is literally identical in how it plays, minus the difference in level design that doesn't reward rushy gameplay as much anymore. The bugs it has are not game-breaking, game breaking would mean save-games disappearing or corrupting, game crashing often or sufficient enough to ruin key moments, internet connection DRM, FPS drops, so on and so forth... \\n If you take it like that, there's very few games that came out perfect on launch and with the trend we have lately, seemingly the bigger they come the harder they fall cough Watchdogs cough A:C Unity cough \\n So if I were in your shoes right now, annoyed by the cursor glitch and the other bugs you were experiencing, I'd make a review that would be\",\n \"Summary: fuck Romania\\n\\nPost: Ai primit cel putin 2 raspunsuri pasiv agresive la o selectie de intrebari inofensive adresate politicos. After all, nu ai pornit o discutie legata de sclavism, genocid, probleme rasiale si alte subiecte unde intervine simtul moral prea mult ca sa mai ramana obiective. \\n Asta in sine, pentru mine cel putin, este un eye-opener (ai mei sunt des chisi de mult doar ca acum incerc sa ma pun in cizmele tale) la natura romanului si cultura cu care a fost crescut. \\n Vrei exemple ? Stau de 5 ani in Spania, pana si cand locuiam in Romania eram detasat de tara si indivizii care o inhabiteaza. Nu am nici un fel de interes catre nimic care se asociaza in mod direct cu 'Romania' (except internetul, I really miss that shit) si simplific ce vreau sa spun cu asta ; am 0 interes in muzica romaneasca, filme romanesti, in general orice productie RO si MAI ALES politici. Daca nu frecventam /r/Romania din cand in cand nici nu aflam de existenta alegerilor electorale sau numele candidatilor. Pana si asa stiu doar \\\"Ponta, Iohanis, Macovei' fara context si atat. \\n Si asta nu ar fi nimic... Dar hai sa incepem cu 'the big picture'. Problemele socio-psihologice si coruptia de care se loveste absolut orice cetatean. \\n Lumea e mai crunta si mai obosita. On average. Ai mentionat si tu si restul din thread - cum ti se adreseaza functionarii publici in RO vs oriunde in vest. Ai dat si exemplul tau de la Londra.\\nCe coincidenta, si eu am fost la Londra anul asta prin Aprilie si am ramas socat --- pozitiv. Eram imbracat in tracksuit si aveam o freza ciufulita, borderline hobo (7 ore de asteptat in aeroport didn't help) si am fost tratat ca un rege la nu mai putin de 3 localuri in span de 2 ore. Mi s-a adresat lumea cu 'sir', erau foarte atentivi si punctuali si spre deosebire de ce s-a vorbit in thread mai sus depre mastile din retail si fake genuiness, in situatia mea am avut ocazia sa incep un small banter cu un ospatar (chit ca nu e in natura mea antisociala) si again, placut surprins. Nu a fost nimic fortat, doar suficient de satisfacator cat sa ramana pur profesional, fara sa depaseasca extreme. Si repet, nu eram imbracat la costum. \\n Crezi ca doar in Londra am intalnit fenomenul ? Am fost in Islanda tot atunci (Londra a fost doar zborul de conexiune) si a fost, din punct de vedere social si cultural, cea mai placuta experienta din viata mea as of yet.\\nToata lumea vorbeste engleza (somewhow, adults included) nivelele de politete si profesionalism la fel de mari, strazi curate, pana si mâţele vagaboande erau mai bine ingrijite ca multe animale cu owneri din alte tari. \\n Dezavantajul la ambele (si Londra si Islanda) e ca sunt foarte scumpe.\\nS-au tras deja paralele in thread legat de buget si costuri. \\n Ce nu a mentionat nimeni (mai ales tipu' cu preturile de taxi chilipir) e ca nu te muti la Londra sau in Danemarca ca sa lucrezi pe RON si salariile din Romania. Un software ingineer in vest face 2000-3000 de euro brut in medie nu 16-20 de mil. Si dau exemplu asta specific pentru ca s-a discutat tot aici pe /r/romania. Morala e ca daca matur strazile in Londra, fac mai mult ca maturatorul din Bucuresti si poate mai mult si ca cei cu joburi mai 'ridicate' \\n Plus ca suficient de multe comoditati sunt mai scumpe in Romania mai ales electronicele si obiecte de uz casnic. \\n Sa mai vorbim de coruptie? MAI ARE ROST ? Sau de birocratie ? \\n Anul trecut am cumparat haine de pe un website din USA pentru mine si o luna mai tarziu pentru o prietena din Ro. Al meu a venit intr-o saptamana (chit ca punea 2 minim) livrat personal acasa fara costuri extra (nici nu am platit pentru transport express) la tipa a venit dupa 3 saptamani, nici nu s-au stresat sa dea un telefon si as a result a mai stat o saptamana acolo (best part e ca s-a dus ea la posta sa intrebe daca e venit si i-au spus ca nu era) si PE DEASUPRA a trebuit sa plateasca taxa 20% din valoarea produsului. 1 mil. Pentru niste tricouri de rahat cu pret in dolari. \\n Da domnule. Romania e mai ieftina indeed. Poate daca traiesti cu paine si apa. Exceptie internetul. \\n Mai zicea unu ceva legat de transport in comun ieftin. O fi ma. Pentru buzunarele romanului cred si eu.\\nDar eu prefer un autobuz cu aer conditionat care este obligat prin lege sa refuze pasageri cand se ocupa toate locurile decat un cuptor plin ca o gaura de sobolani. \\n Healthcare si educatie ? Doar daca compari tara cu America o sa castigi vreodata argumentul, mai ales la cate probleme are si America, oricat de buna e.\\nPentru mine in Spania ca muncitor legal vizitele medicale sunt gratuite si actioneaza si ca o asigurare in acelasi timp. Ca si in Romania la urma urmelor. Da totusi, parca mai bine sa ajung pe un pat de spital aici decat in Romania, ultima mea experienta de spital in tara (de acum 10 ani but still) a rezultat cu o gramada de timp irosit pe un pat degeaba, dupa ce eram sanatos si ; gandaci de bucatarie roaming around. What can I say... nu era Romania daca ceva rau nu se intampla. \\n Puah... Pot sa continui pana imi cad degetele jos dar ma opresc aici. Am facut o crima deja cu acest zid de rant. \\n Morala finala e ca oricat de multe 'pros' ai in Romania, niciodata nu o sa merite sa o alegi pentru o alta tara din vest daca ai posibilitatea...after all-- nu o comparam cu Bulgaria sau Ukraina ca atunci nici nu mai exista discutia. \\n Daca vrei sa pleci si ai posibilitatea, do it. Cel mai mare dezavantaj o sa rezulte in pierderea internetului ala fantastic si eventual (dupa caz) pe cine lasi in urma. Prieteni, familie, cunostinte etc.\",\n \"Summary: it's not that easy, sometimes things don't make sense. maybe beamdog screwed with the AI... I didn't play the originals so I couldn't tell you\\n\\nPost: I have all of those and complete immunity to a school of my choice on my casters (I usually go with Alteration cause that's where most of the CC stands) and still get caught a lot of the times. And I'm like lvl 22, I'm 52 hours in and would have beat the game if I wasn't exploring the extra content. \\n It doesn't appear that I'm doing anything wrong but more like the AI is consistently overpowered for no reason. And sometimes I find targets that are virtually immune to everything and I'm not even joking. For example, I am doing Watcher's Keep at the moment and I encountered a lich in one of the maze rooms that was almost indestructible for no apparent reason. I used everything I had (I have both Aerie and Jaheera so I have a strong arsenal of spells) Breach, Doom, Pierce Magic, Greater Malison, Spellstrike and the list goes on. Nothing worked. I won't even mention damage spells. Not even weapons. Well weapons did, sometimes. That's how I killed the lich in the end. You see, for some god forsaken reason I could only damage it in melee but only SOMETIMES. Imagine a berserked Minsc in full Balduran set with every buff in my arsenal which is also under improved haste... and he was only doing damage like every 15 or 20 hits. I even had to resort to my last ace which is my main, which is a dragon disciple with lots and I mean lots of harmful spells and Improved Alacrity. That's right. I used my final solution on the Lich which is to cast the Alracrity, Drop all my 5 spider webs (1 from Aerie and 1 from Imoen too so it turns into 7) then a bunch of incendiary clouds, dragon breaths and spheres of chaos, ALL IN THE SPAN OF A COUPLE OF SECONDS because I have an almost instant cast time and the alacrity removes the cooldown between spells. IT. DIDN'T. DO. SHIT. WHY, I HAVE NO IDEA. Eventually it died because fuck logic but I was just glad it was over. [This]( is my team and as you can see they're chilling over a dead Firkraag. That setup downed the dragon in something like 15 seconds but I had to save whore against a single Lich and a bunch of rooms countless times. \\n Is it the EE ? I'm not sure if they officially or unofficially fucked with the AI's capabilities but some things do not make sense, I'm looking at playthroughs of other people of the same areas and they don't seem that brutal but they're also playing on the original game. Also I read something on a forum about Imprisonment only being available to a very reduced number of NPCs (like 2 or 3) but in my game Beholders were casting it left and right. (it wasn't maze) \\n And the most infuriating thing that doesn't make sense are the save rolls. If I use finger of death or disintegrate on any of my own characters they work 8/10 times, rarely do they save-roll. I do the same against the AI and the majority save almost always and end up wasting all my fingers on one target without bringing it down. And this was on high level characters (20+) that were fully buffed and nicely geared. \\n If all this shit was coming from Irenicus or other boss-like figures I would be ok with it. But most of the times I have to pass my engagements with really cheesy shit like the area of death I mentioned above. And sometimes even that doesn't work. I beat Sarevok in BG1 like that and he dropped like a pleb but then I start BG2 and random villans and wanderers put up a better fight. \\n It is entirely possible I could do better (maybe changing my team comp altogether could help) but like I said, it shouldn't be this hard no matter how you played it. Especially on the easiest difficulty. I would have beat the game months ago but right now I am genuinely afraid to face the last two levels of the Keep and then move on towards the ending...\",\n \"Summary: there is a compilation of the exact same kind but with ingame chat quotes.\\n\\nPost: I know this might be a bit unrelated but does anyone remember the compilation of the best ingame chat moments that happened so far ? It was shown at MLG Raleigh (I think) during pause breaks to cover the downtime and it was also made with MLG content only, exactly in the same style as this video. Basically the same thing but with chat moments. At least a handful of people should recall it. I remember that one of the scenes was with Incontrol's proxy against TLO and after he spoted that too late he started to say that he will have nightmares of that pylon, or the Huk and Idra hallucination one. There were many of them and they were all funny. Point being, I need to see it again so if anyone put it on Youtube or knows if it was included in the MLG vods then it needs to be posted.\",\n \"Summary: blinding cloud is nice but it won't even come close to the power of the dark swarm.\\n\\nPost: It won't be as dangerous. Dark swarm was so effective because you also had consume to use in conjuction with it, also the radius of the blinding cloud and the duration seem so much shorter.\\nI can easily imagine some vipers casting multiple clouds to cover a large area and terran micro'ing out of the zone each time and eventually you run out of energy. It will probably be very effective to force the terran abandon the position but it will come with its downsides.\\nI remember Savior forgot to research consume one time and simply lost the game after that.\\nI imagine you won't just be able to make 10 vipers like you do with infestors, you don't deal real damage with those spells like you do with fungal growths and infested terrans.\\nSo imho I don't think that spell will have major use like Dark swarm had, I am more inclined to think that the hook ability will be more eficient.\",\n \"Summary: make a song market app spotify-style with literally every song in existence (possible if you let anyone upload their works for sale and are willing to) and I'm pretty sure lots of people would be sold. \\n >Off topic, SC2 is much more frustrating in terms of personal improvement. Mobas are much more frustrating in terms of improving through the ladder as a random. The actual amount of individual skill required in SC2 is leaps and bounds beyond that of mobas, it's just that in mobas you can lose because no teamwork, bad teammate, trolls, etc. Apples to oranges. \\n I'm very aware, I had C+ in Broodwar and Top Diamond in SC2 and I didn't progress further because I proved to myself the game was just too broken in comparison to Broodwar with a simple experiment that I won't bother to mention, it will just come off as standard complaint, elitism and Q.Q and whatnot.\\nDespite that I still find SC2 as the hardest game after BW out of all, I know what it takes to become good. \\n But when I compared it to Dota 2 I was referring to something else. So you start playing SC2, you're horrible. It's ok, welcome to Bronze League, enjoy playing with people the same level as you.\\nYou start playing Dota 2 and unless you play at least 100 hours, you will die and you won't know why. Because you have no learned all the abilities of other heroes yet and how they interact with each other. That's it. We are ignoring the team factor here and how much of a bitch it is to progress afterwards. Only after you learn what everyone you face does the serious learning stage becomes. Dying a lot is the most unfun thing that can happen in a moba.\\n\\nPost: Well ok, piracy is in fact illegal and somewhat immoral but there CAN be a middle ground. I'll give myself as an example; I pirated everything up until 2 years ago when I started working in a different country and earned enough to not only end up with savings but also justify digital purchases. I went from 0 to 100+ games in Steam in a span of 1 year, a decent chunk of those are games that I already played and beat a long time ago just to pay back the money. I even bought older games on full price instead of waiting for sales as a result of this. It felt oddly right and refreshing. \\n What I'm trying to say is that, I am a gamer today because I was able to play anything I wanted for a decade as long as I got a CD copy from someone (pre-internet period) or a torrent after I had an internet connection. Had I been limited from the very beginning, my mom raising 2 kids alone on a wage of 300 bucks would have never bought me any games even if I was diagnosed with cancer. \\n And this is not just me, this applies to literally everyone from Eastern Europe and a large chuck of the western countries, South America, Russia and asian countries, especially China.\\nThere would be gamers, sure. But not like today. \\n Piracy didn't necessarily enable CS 1.6 and Dota Allstars, it generally gave an opportunity to literally anyone to try video games and if they liked it, well, depending on how much they were attracted it can range from casual gaming to addiction.\\nI know it's not the greatest example but you know how drug dealers let you test a substance first for free or at a very reduced price so you can get the \\\"taste\\\" of it ? That's what piracy did for people, rather than forcing them to pay 60$ on average for something they never had the opportunity to try and only saw on TV or internet, it gave us an unlimited demo . \\n I am aware Americans pirate too but I can tell you with my google and eyes closed there is no way in seven hells America has a higher piracy rate than Europe, for a simple and true fact: paying for a 60$ game becomes easier when you make 3k a month (or even 1k if you're on minimum wage) as opposed to 200-300$.\\nSo in the eventuality where there would be a way to enforce piracy-prevention with 100% success, of course your demographic in mostly any game is going to be American for the most part because out of all the people in the world, you could afford it the most. \\n If we're talking about prices, I wouldn't be opposed to a world where piracy is impossible so long the price tags are regional and not flat, like the price tags would be a certain percent of the country's minimum wage. But I can already feel the bloodrush of greedy investors and possibly raged first world-ers so I don't think that's going to happen anytime soon. \\n >You don't know this. The thing about pre-SC2 Blizzard games was that the only thing anyone played was UMS, as competitive gaming was still extremely niche. The original DotA could very well have still been made and been enough of a success for Valve to invest in DotA 2. LoL is the same thing. \\n I don't know this because it would require a time machine into an alternate universe where piracy-blocking won. That's the problem. But neither do you. By empirical evidence it should be clear that would have been the outcome, LoL was based off of Dota, Dota was based off of Aeon of Strife. Why don't we have Aeon of Strife 2 from Valve as a major IP instead of Dota 2 ? Because it was basic and shallow garbage in comparison to Dota Allstars, also running on an older engine. But let me ask you this, would Eul, Guinsoo and then Icefrog develop a Warcraft 3 map for more than a decade, constantly with balance patches and polish for a very reduced audience of North Americans ? Cause that's exactly what the playerbase would be made of, I told you mostly everyone in Europe and South America were running on pirate copies and they had the majority of the players.\\nI don't want to say Dota is alive ONLY because of pirates but I'm willing to go on a limb that they played the main role in this. \\n There could have been other mobas that looked different and had a different name but are you sure they'd have the same amount of success ? \\nThe fact that there's also no other example of a single map that had that level of popularity (and even better, turn into a major IP) is proof enough ideas alone are not enough. Maps did help create the Tower Defense genre but there's tons of them of every type imaginable for every platform but not one stands out on top, they're like a pile of marbles. \\n People did play a lot of UMS but that's all there was to them, casual fun with tons of diversity. \\n So I do beg to differ. \\n My favorite example when it comes to games and culture diversity is Broodwar. It was the better Starcraft, both objectively in every way and factually from the success it had for more than a decade. And yet it died in NA first for no apparent reason. The Koreans proved the game wasn't broken and that it was perfectly viable competitively but it died. I think the last WCG of note was in 2006 and that was also the only major tournament in the whole country. The game generally died everywhere except Korea, although Europe did have more casual players and pros than NA at some point. Why ? There is no reason except either people got lazy and quit trying to be good at it, since it was insanely difficult above C+/B- or they just found other games and moved on. It's understandable don't get me wrong, since the difficulty was too much and the curve too steep for the average joe, no wonder the majority stuck with the UMS's. But look how long that lasted... \\n You know what I can gather from all of this ? Do you think something like Dota would have survived on a NA only scene ? And no, don't think of modern, fresh, Dota 2. Think of Dota Allstars with W3 interface and 99.99% less ways to learn the game on the internet. Less guides, less videos, less pro footage. Less everything. \\nFuck me in the ass if Broodwar managed to die despite the success it showed in Korea and equal UMS and B.Net support, I don't see how can something so fickle like a single map could have survived. \\n You are free to disagree but we're just going to go in circles since there is no way to prove each other wrong unless we do find an alternate reality where either X or Y happened. I do choose to go for the logical answer though. \\n >And going into the $60 game territory, this is where the hypocrisy begins. Everyone wants the best graphics, the best game play, and these studios are meeting those demands with what amounts to hundreds of millions of dollars in sunk cost just to get the game out. \\n Obviously I can't speak for everyone here but I never gave a crap about AAA quality and when I did, I paid the full price. If I make a personal top 5 or even a top 30 there won't be a single genuine AAA title on that list, it's going to be mostly made of indies / kickstarter projects. Even with the ability to pirate anything with no consequences, I was still avoiding EA and Ubisoft like the plague. Tells you enough when someone doesn't even want to TRY their games for free. \\n >And like I brought up for Spotify, guess who loses? Spotify loses. \\n I had no idea they were losing money, thanks for clarifying this I guess. I figured since they were still alive it was going well. I wouldn't mind paying for music if a) they'd let you listen to each song from the album first and b) buy each one individually. I heard you can do that with iTunes but I doubt iTunes has the dubious and obscure OSTs I tend to listen to. I could probably buy half the songs I listen with no issues but then the other half would require an entire album purchase just because I happen to like 1 song. So\",\n \"Summary: not everyone can afford to buy games, another reason why this guy is right.\\n\\nPost: This.\\nAlso for the fact that not everyone lives in a first world country so they can afford buying games. I know people say this specific line every time someone talks about money \\\"instead of going to McDonalds or getting drunk, buy the fucking game\\\" but from where I come from things don't work that way. We don't even have McDonalds and the average income per month is 200 bucks. You have to live for 1 month with those 200 bucks. How can you affort to spend 60 bucks on a single computer game ? Unlike food and other consumer goods, electronics and software (games included of course) have the same price everywhere. So when people (and corporations) spite piracy, they should think first that not everyone lives in America. And going to your exact same point, better to have some people that pirate the game and play it for free raising it's popularity than not playing at all. Cause let me tell you, if any sort of ridiculous bill passes and piracy will no longer be possible, people won't eat once every two days just so they can use the computer. If you're curios what countries I'm talking about, it's Eastern Europe (not something as extreme as Africa) specifically Romania in my case. Sure there are a handful of people that live well and afford it (including myself and that's only because right now I live in another country) but most of the population does not have that luxury. Same goes for other countries like Serbia, Bulgaria, Ukraine and so on.\\nWhen people earn 300 bucks at best after finishing college with a master's degree it's a pretty much self-explanatory. I know my friends do...\"\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":4598,"string":"4,598"}}},{"rowIdx":4599,"cells":{"question_id":{"kind":"string","value":"cdcox"},"question":{"kind":"string","value":"Generate the content for a reddit post Biochemistry is sometimes stupid, it's sometimes hard to figure anything out from names. Ubiquitin should really be renamed Targetin or Markin or Destructin or MarkOfDestructin. \n (Though some names are OK, this one is kind of a crapshoot)."},"answer":{"kind":"string","value":"Ubiquitin does have some uses in cells, but primarily it's used to mark other proteins for destruction. You have to remember these things were named generally off of how they were found not off of what they do. The reason it's everywhere is because marking proteins for destruction is a hugely important. Unfortunately the TA is clearly asking for one of the small non-typical uses in cell cycle regulation. Googlling it appears he wanted something to do with cleaving a stop factor allowing the cell cycle to move forward, which at the end of the day is marking something for destruction."},"correct_answer":{"kind":"string","value":"Ubiquitin does have some uses in cells, but primarily it's used to mark other proteins for destruction. You have to remember these things were named generally off of how they were found not off of what they do. The reason it's everywhere is because marking proteins for destruction is a hugely important. Unfortunately the TA is clearly asking for one of the small non-typical uses in cell cycle regulation. Googlling it appears he wanted something to do with cleaving a stop factor allowing the cell cycle to move forward, which at the end of the day is marking something for destruction."},"documents":{"kind":"list like","value":["Summary: Evolve or die. \n (I don't pirate much. I just wanted to explain why you are getting down-voted.)\n\nPost: See the thing is most people who pirate are ALSO the people who buy things. People see piracy as a second market for things they want, but not at the value they are charging. They also see it as a chance to 'playtest' a product before they buy it. (eg downloading an album to see if the other songs don't suck, then going in and buying the ones that are good.) Or they think, I like comic books, but I really don't want a collectible I want a reading item, as there is no way for me to meet my needs, I'll buy a few 'collectibles' and then just read the rest. Or 'I have to have this book for class as a requirement, but I'm not interesting in paying $150 for a requirement'. People rarely consider ethical reasoning, reasons have to do with convenience and need. Look at Spotify, Pandora, Steam, GoG, Netflix, all of these managed to dramatically reduce piracy by offering a service that people wanted at a price they wanted to pay. Of course you could go on blovating all day that ethics should drive the market, but honestly ethics say that alcohol should be illegal. Simply put, applying ethics to a market problem like this will not work. (Indeed, when the ability to capture musicians music into a disk and sell it came about, many musicians and music writers correctly reasoned, that 'hey, it's my music I want people to come see me play.' Those who persisted in that line of reasoning died out. Those who adapted, survived. Or consider the typist who was driven out of business as everyone started using word processors, it's hardly fair for all of us to her job, and yet. Or consider the monks who used to write out boos for a living. How unfair the printing price innovated them to death by dropping the price of books to 10's of dollars instead of thousands. Or consider the millions of people now unemployed who did jobs that can be handled by automation. Or the video game retailers/book retailers/movie retailers slowly going out of business because of Amazon. Or the postal workers who no longer have jobs thanks to e-mail. None of these innovations were 'fair' to the people they replaced.) \n As to the rest of your complaint. I would add, music today is too loud, pants are too low, and kids won't stay off my lawn.","Summary: The movie relies on classist assumptions combined with a loose understanding of evolution. The growth of education/nutrition/lack of wars well outpaces any almost impossible to perceive genetic shift in 500 or 50000 years.\n\nPost: Here's how I see it. Some of this is supported, some isn't. \n Because it confuses poverty and intelligence. Poor people do breed more, but poor people are not stupid. Usually poor people are poor because their parents are poor. Making a between group comparison is unfair. Making a within group comparison on the other hand, makes sense. Within groups we find the people who are breeding are those that are charismatic, have money, and have traits that indicate stability. Does your poor catholic half cousin twice removed have twelve kids? Yes, but he is also probably a pillar of the community, has a stable job, a house, and a wife. Another note is, religious people, like poor people, are not stupid by default. Making this assumption is silly. \n The second major point is intelligence is not all that genetic. (or rather we don't know how genetic it is) In middle class families they might cite that it is 50 percent heritable, but that is ONLY in a limited very specific context. To say that this incredibly complex trait is somehow being selected for or against, is difficult or impossible to say in current society. It is also worth noting, people below a 50 IQ(which is a terrible measure) aren't reproducing much. As AmericanChE and bobzor said below, other factors are much more important. \n Also AmericanChE is absolutely right in his assessment, education/nutrition/etc is really pushing us forward much more rapidly than a rate than evolution could ever work out, the curve is moving forward.","Summary: Netflix and piracy means more quality, complex, adult programming.\n\nPost: I've heard it said that television is becoming the modern adult medium (and indeed has been for several years now, see Sopranos and BSG) where complex morally difficult characters engage in interactions spanning multiple seasons. \n Unfortunately, television is really ill suited to this kind of story. It's hard to tell where a given episodes 'fits' in a story and unless you have kept up with a show from the beginning (as many shows grow in popularity over time most of the audience will not have kept up.) This should make long form story telling nearly impossible and should lead to endless piles of easily syndicated single serving shows. (In the past it certainly has lead to that) \n But, as mentioned above this is not the case, we are getting more and more shows that span many episodes if not whole seasons and are nearly unwatchable if watched out of order. I think piracy (and later Netflix, hulu, and tv stations posting up new episodes on the internet) has allowed this. There is almost a new type of syndication emerging, where shows that could never have been syndicated can have a long tail of profitability where Netflix etc picks them up for continued re-watching. I think this is a good thing.","Summary: To simulate a universe you need a universe, this is impractical and unlikely. \n [(and of course Wikipedia beat me to it)](\n\nPost: I may not be a physicist, but I'm not convinced. It feels like this would only work in linear deterministic world. As our world is anything but, this feels incorrect. \n Let's start with the assumption that the computer is 'faking it' for us. To do so, the computer would have to accurately generate information about objects only when we viewed them. To do this, it would have to 'back calculate' all information about interactions an object has gone through whenever we observed it. As one object interacts with another with another and so forth, it would basically have to rerun everything every time we interacted with objects. This is impractical (except maybe for very very far away things).\nIf the computer is running it real time, then we come up with the issue that (using the rules of our universe at least) to store one piece of information you need one information containing object (I argue one bit per atom.) As an atom in our universe has at least three pieces of information (momentum, position, charge) (excluding quantum which I will get to), you would need at least three information containing bits per atom. Since atoms also have uncertainty in these quantities, you would need significantly more. \n You might argue that a real simulation of the universe doesn't need to simulate every single atom, just their general flow. This is incorrect. Many things in this world depend on molecular interactions (life for instance, the weather for another, the sun for a third). You would need to simulate everything to the atomic level. The problem then becomes that to simulate the universe you need a computer the size of the universe.\nYou might argue that they run the surface of the earth simulation at full power with a big computer, but then they fake the stars and inside of the earth. This would be incorrect as well. Stars, the inside of the earth, and other planets all act as if they are made of atoms, if they were just simplified, certain things (spectra, end explosions) would likely come out wrong. CitizenPremier addressed this. Many of these things are affected by quantum mechanics. \n So basically, to simulate a universe you need a universe. This breaks the argument down to, if you believe humans can become omnipotent, then god exists. I doubt we will ever succeed at making a universe.","Summary: EEG on dying people and rats is a relatively common idea, people like arguing about what it means.\n\nPost: As other's have pointed out MRI would be too slow. But what researchers have done is record from multiple sites in a rat's brain while killing it. Source . \n [Discussion of results and more citations here]( \n [Aaaannndd someone calling the first study bullshit]( \n [And the first study's authors saying why that is wrong]( \n [Here's a slightly less interesting looking one they did in humans]( People were wearing EEG caps when 'care was withdrawn'. \n [Here's a paper where they monitored brains of rats during decapitation]( Found the firing was the same in both awake and anesthetized animals. \n [More humans having EEG recordings while dying]( \n [The authors of the first study on why the rest of the studies are shit]( \n Honestly, this is all pretty questionable because neurons start to depolarize pretty badly without oxygen, so these results are kind of up on the air. It's cool that it's kind of synchronous, but again, neurons fire synchronously with very little inducement.","Summary: Yes, indirectly and mostly through protein biochemistry techniques. \n EDIT: Feel free to ask me to go into depth about any of the above techniques.\n\nPost: Ex-biochemist here. (Now a neuroscientist) Yes, but not to do what you want to do, directly. \n One such way is X-ray crystallography, if you can find a nice inhibitor that will freeze your molecule in nice middle range of motion, and then pray to the gods of crystallization, you might be able to see binding pockets etc. This is often how people 'solve' ion channels, by freezing them in open and closed configurations and determining the difference. Of course this requires pure protein, crystallization and a lot of work, but you do get some amazing results. \n Another way is NMR. If you tag your molecule of interest with H^2 you can see how its behavior changes when binding occurs, in real time, in a cell. This is nice because it's so very in vivo (a lab I know is getting ready to try it in spider spinnerets), and if you have some ideas about what parts of what molecules will be interacting, you can actually get a remarkably good picture of what is happening. Of course the problem is NMR takes a lot of work and you get out a bunch of magnetic peaks that you then have to interpret into activity. \n Another good way is tagging of molecules. You can add things like FRET pairs to molecules (FRET is basically using one fluorescence protein to stimulate another through a physics phenomena). You can use FRET to determine when sites close, when molecules bind, and even what sites are binding. This takes creation of hundreds of molecules with tags. (A similar method, not FRET exactly was used to image how the proton-ATP pump works.) \n Another way is mass spectroscopy. Essentially if you freeze interactions at certain time points using cross-linkers of varying lengths and masses you can use mass spec to determine what is binding what and how. (You can also do pull down assays, binding assays, proteomic assays etc, that all essentially end with a version of mass spectroscopy.) \n Another way is modelling, once you know enough about your binding sites you can model their interactions in a number of programs to determine if the dynamics you have determined are correct.","Summary: Sitting on super patents is unlikely or impossible. \n EDIT: also other countries love ignoring patents and enforcing protectionism on US markets is very hard.\n\nPost: Technically speaking, that is actually illegal not allowed. Patent law generally acknowledges that someone who fails to develop or license their patent loses it. In this way patent rights are actually fairly similar to property rights. Now a company could charge exorbitant licensing fees, but then they face litigation for cutting off competitor access. I mean the threat of litigation from the company holding the patent (a potentially costly battle) might be enough to stop small companies from developing on an existing patent, and the lack to clear right to a product might stop larger companies, but if the technology was really promising enough, companies would make a legal move on someone 'sitting on' a patent. \n Also, the people making patents tend to be small inventors, big labs working on the problem, or university professors. If the patent is amazing enough, no company could pay enough to buy the patent and not develop it. If the patent was not amazing, then chances are there are thousands of accomplish the exactly same thing. While a company might own one, or even several, it would not be the end of the world. (It should be noted that patents involve sharing the idea with the community so making a modification or improvement on a patent to move around it would not be impossible or even difficult.) \n A much better strategy would be to fund a group of university professors or researchers and then force them NOT to patent their technologies but to either A. publish them in the public sphere, making them unappealing to develop as there would be no future protection. Or B. Pay the professors enough to not publish so that you can hold amazing technology internally as a trade secret. This puts the technology in a nice position where you don't have to tell people what you made, but if someone makes the same thing in the future you can undercut their patent with prior art. Of course with the recent change in patent law where patents are 'first to file' instead of 'first to invent' this trick might not work anymore. \n In addition, I seriously doubt any company is sitting pretty enough, especially in the currently volatile world, to make/buy amazing breakthroughs then sit on them.","Summary: Peak oil will happen, it won't be the end of the world, it will probably just mean we need to retool our lifestyles.\n\nPost: Some accuracy some inaccuracy. A few points from the article \n \n [Peak oil]( is going to happen, maybe in 5 years maybe 10 maybe even 20. But it's going to happen. This won't represent a loss of all things oil, it will just represent a point where oil prices are going to began increasing much faster than we have seen because of sinking supply and rising demand. \n \n Peak Oil is not likely to be the end of the world. Alternative energy fixes don't exist for most things (the electricity production required to fuel every car in existence today, if they all magically became electric, just doesn't exist right now.) There are ways to convert other fossil fuels, [such as coal]( into liquid fuel. As peak oil is not peak coal, these measures will stabilize oil at a much higher, but still acceptable price for farming, food transport, and industrial purposes. \n \n There are not too many people. That statement is nonsense. You could say there are too many Americans/Europeans, as each American/European consumes 10 X the energy of world average But more accurately, we have too many inefficient European/Americans. With even minor increases in efficiency, say mandating 40 MPH speed limits, tripling each individuals food budget to allow for closer growing, eliminating most processed food, and enacting laws to extend the lives of electronic products, we could probably reduce our energy use by a factor greater than the increase in energy cost. \n \n The whole food thing is much more confusing than they make it seem. We used to spend a much bigger proportion of our money on food but then thanks to increases in farming tech, we were able to spend a lot less. But we spend a lot more energy to do it. A portion of this energy comes from making the fertilizer which needs natural gas \n \n Many people have already said it, but alternative technology is not as far away as it seems, it's just very expensive. As energy costs go up, alternative energy implementation will also go up. As peak oil doesn't mean the end of energy, just the beginning of the end of cheap energy, we can implement a lot of these systems as shit happens. \n \n Global warming is much scarier. \n \n Who uses blogspot for comics? The navigation is difficult and I have to scroll through comments to get to the next page.","Summary: This is not how the world works, OP phrased a question to get an answer and got the answer he expected. Situations are important. Even without those, hypotheticals tell us very little.\n\nPost: See my problem with things like this is that the situation will never exist. This doesn't tell you something about who you are, it just tells you how you envision the variables and how the problem is set up. In a real situation like this, your decision making process would depend entirely on variables OP failed to present. For instance, is there a light source? What is the light source? Is the air moving or still? Is the room clearly man made or does it look like someone is winging it here? Do I feel druggy? Injured? Did I get knocked out and brought here? Did I just wake up here? What am I wearing? Do I see recording or monitoring equipment? The fine details of a situation like this mean everything. Also, what is this designed to test? This is like asking if you prefer to go feet first into a wood chipper or be put into a box with a ton of poisonous spiders for a day. It doesn't explain anything. This would be a pointless experiment from a scientific perspective. \n There is actually a large amount of research done on how situational variables control things like this. Take the \"Good Samaratin Experiment\" where a number of people walked past a dying person if they were busy or stopped and helped if they had some free time. Who they were meant basically nothing. Watch [this]( video where people decide things like organ donation and money based off ordering effect or irrelevant third options. \n The reason why most people chose to crawl in this set up is because you made staying completely unreasonable, only crippling fear would make someone stay and die in a room that clearly has no exit or no other distinguishing features as they choke to death on poo gas. Add a light fixture, a camera, and a hole to poop in, say the air into the tunnel seems still, and the majority of people would be like, \"Eh? why risk it, it seems like the tunnel doesn't lead anywhere and someone knows I'm here\" \n Even if we assume OP really worked it out and cleaned up all the situational variable problems, it would still be like the old moral question where someone puts a gun to your head and says, \"Kill person X or you die.\" In the moral situation there are two answers but in the real world there are an infinite number. Answering it with one or the other just tells the asker what you want people to think of you and nothing about how you actually think. (Someone who says they kill the other person wants people to think they are hard or a pragmatist. Someone who says they would die wants people to think they are sensitive or an altruist. Someone who comes up with a lenghty response about trying to fight back or convince the person to let them go, is trying to seem clever but is coming off as a dick.) Also, as Abu Gharib and related situations (and studies) have shown us, who we are hypothetically and who we are in the real world are two very different things","Summary: SCIENCE, FUCK YEAH. \n Pre-Edit: I am running on like 3 hours sleep sorry if this sounds kind of crazy. Also this amuses me \n To belle77: keep pushing! (Unless your professor has you washing glass ware or working as his secretary and has not involved you in real research and has no plans to; then leave that situation as nicely as possible and find a PI who respects undergrads.)\n\nPost: Grad student here, don't listen to him. Science fucking rocks. In undergraduate you sometimes get stuck with shit work but shop around before joining a lab. Find a professor who will respect you and who has a project in mind for you; email them with a brief about who you are freshman or sophmore year, they will be impressed. You often will start with grunt work (slicing brains, running westerns, doing impossible synthesises; I spent my first year trying to optimize a wash cycle for a microscope, half the time it failed, half the time I failed.) but stick with it, ask questions, read as much literature as you can understand, talk to anyone who will explain more about the project, and learn as many details as you can. Eventually, you'll get competent and fast at the easy shit and you'll begin to see where you fit in a project, and you'll get to join in on the harder parts of the project. Along the way, hang with science kids from your class, join the club for your major if there is one, hang in the study room for your major, join study circles, and go to talks. (your department has these, talk to secretaries and grad students, we know. You won't get what is being said, but it gives you something to chat with grad students about and when you become a senior you'll be amazed how knowledgeable about the breadth of the field you are.) Then it all comes to fruition when you apply to grad schools, and here is the awesome part, THEY PAY YOU TO GO GRAD SCHOOL in almost every hard science field from physics to neuroscience. I'm pulling down 27k a year while doing what I love. Once in grad school you are working side by side with some of the most intelligent people you'll meet. It's hard work, and some days shit sucks, for the first two years everything will probably go wrong and you will get practically no usable information. But just like undergrad, pay attention, synthesize info, figure out what needs to be done. Then at some point you realize: there are an infinite number of directions your research can go and you can do just about anything while in grad school as long as you can sell it. \n Grad school isn't for everyone, it takes dedication to do the best things (I put in 12 hour days regularly and most of my lab works weekends. This isn't true of all labs, but in some it is the expectation, ask grad students about this before you get there so you know if you fit the lab culture.) You have to be passionate about the research (I think one postdoc in my lab has 'read' around 8000 papers from his grad through postdoc career) and you have to be able to work on your own, with a group, with unlimited resources, and with no resources. But you are basically your own manager at 22. Your PI has funds to research an area, but you control where those funds go and help them write grants to get funds to do what you want. And you get to see things THAT NO ONE IN THE WORLD SEES BEFORE YOU DO. You literally make knowledge. And when you are done, BAM, you can go to industry and make tons of money, (above 100000 within a few years), go be a professor which while hard is basically the next best thing to being independently wealthy, or go be an editor, writer, buisnessman, whatever with the knowledge and PhD that says you can handle just about any project. \n Science is hands down the best job in the world, everything that makes people happy at jobs: like self-direction, new challenges, feedback from peers, freely creative environment, and smart creative coworkers who enjoy socializing and like their jobs, are the norm in science. Shitty PIs and professors are really the exception. You will forget how awesome this job is sometimes but at the end of the day, you basically get to do magic and they pay you for it.","Summary: Cheap oil could run out in the near future, there are alternatives. These alternatives have a higher cost, but do not represent the end of the world. \n EDIT: Fixed awkward phrasing.\n\nPost: I am as much a fan of clean energy as the next guy, but you are incorrect for several reasons. \n \n Yes, conventional oil reserves are depleting, which is is to say the amount of energy in per unit oil out is increasing. (Currently 4.7 out for one in) but this doesn't mean oil is running out. Oil shale, with becomes viable at 1.2 can help to replace this. (You are correct that the 1300 bn includes oil sands and shale) \n \n Oil can be made in large quantities through several processes. These include but are not limited to coal gasification followed by synfuel conversion, or coal liquefication (1.5 and 1.4 ratios). Coal is very abundant. \n \n Biofuels that currently exist can outdo oil and in some countries do, most notably ethanol from sugar cane which has an 8.0 and ethanol from switchgrass which has a 5.4. At a certain point even ethanol from corn with a 1.1 becomes sensible. (As mentioned elsewhere 3rd generation biofuels can do even better) \n \n Natural gas, while no good for airplanes, already produces the majority of our fertilizer and can be used to power cars with some effort. There is a lot of it around. \n \n \n Basically, peak oil is totally real, running out of oil is total nonsense. Things based off oil will become more expensive as energy returns for oil production goes down, but most of these have already become so cheap (food, shipping, plastics) that increasing their prices will only set us back to how we were spending before the fifties (as a consumer culture this would be devastating, but as a species surviving, not actually that big of a deal.) Also, most of these options (like gasification and oil shale) are environmentally devastating. We need to find solutions to deal with the oil addiction, but only because it is environmentally crippling and holding us back as a country and as a species. The oil age isn't going to stop because we run out of oil.","Summary: Chinese room argument was made before artificial neural networks, which strengthen and weaken nodes based off inputs. It is no longer a super functional analogy.\n\nPost: Right but in the Chinese room argument, you aren't communicating with the person you are communicating with the writer of the program, the person is merely transcribing. Your phone doesn't understand English it just transduces. \n In the case of Watson, the machine is developing answers that the humans inputting the data could not get. It has begun developing higher order effects. Moreover these effects gain and change weighting with training meaning the machine's network begins to 'trust' certain effects over others. This is beyond the capabilities of the Chinese room argument. \n This would be like you starting in the Chinese room and then having people shock you when you send out the incorrect response so you begin to trust certain rules over others. Then you would begin to trust certain sub rules within those rules in those rules for certain types of Chinese characters. You then begin to train for a task (like Chinese Jeopardy). You begin to see that certain clusters of characters are better handled by certain sets of rules than other sets of characters. (At this point you have developed context?) You then begin to 'recognize' individual characters that specific cabinets happen to be really good at dealing with but not when paired with other characters. At which point do you actually begin 'understanding' Chinese. When you can sight recognize a character? When you know how arrays of characters work together? When you know how to strengthen and weaken your actions based off arrays of characters that are recent versus constant? When you can optimize your interpretations for a task? The Chinese Room argument clearly breaks down for this type of discussion.","Summary: 4chan is a site on the internet. Tumblr is a bin on the internet. Reddit is a subnet on the internet. They have all their own ways with dealing with new members.\n\nPost: Actually, this is really interesting because these three sites all contain fundamentally different structures. 4chan, digg, HackNews, MetaFilter, and Stumbleupon are all owner defined structures, the boards that exist, are the ones the mods and owners have decided are going to exist. All 4 of these sites are vulnerable to and have faced down the 'noob rush' (so called- Eternal September were new members never learn the culture because they are learning from other new members) 4chan has done it by making /b/ the noob focus, /b/ has fallen into trash, but it works as a breaker for the other boards. HN and MeFi both use hard moderation, which forces new members to learn the culture or constantly have posts deleted. Digg has kind of failed to handle the Eternal September actually. (maybe scaring all the new members away with the v4 nonsensene) Stumbleupon was based around Eternal September \n Tumblr on the other hand is more like twitter and DeviantArt. There is very little structure, which makes it incredibly difficult for anything to form, but it also makes it harder for a 'culture' to form. These sites give you exactly what you want out of them. If you sign up for trash posts, you get trash posts, if you sign up for clever you get clever. The nice thing about this model is it's basically infinitely scalable, as long as new members don't abuse the system, they can't ruin the system, only it's reputation. \n Sites like reddit and Quora (and perhaps pinterest?) contain user defined structures. This is interesting because the site is no longer a site, but a network framework. Every other site named, could fit into reddit's framework without much modification. To an even greater extent the users run each subsection by their own rules. This is why we've seen the /r/science subnet shift to hard moderation to maintain it's culture. This is how raid boards like /r/ShitRedditSays can stop from being raided and how stuff like /r/4chan can actually get a look and feel of 4chan inside reddit. \n We've also seen the rise of subnetworks, something not originally planned as part of the system. There is the SFW porn net, the science net, the trees net, etc. The only moderater defined part of the site is the front page, (which contains subs that weren't origianlly on the front page). Unfortunately, their way of dealing with the Eternal September is to sacrifice the front page subs. Rage comics, Advice Animals, funny, atheism etc are all easy to post in and easy to browse so they end up developing the 'reddit culture' which has influences on the other subs but not a massive one. However, the underlying culture of parts like /r/TrueReddit and /r/DepthHub has manged to stay the same. (Though truereddit has started leaking the last 6 months). I guess when people say 'reddit is full of image macros, cats, and reposts' they mean the front page or /r/all (images are simply too easy to view and upvote). However, as long as this doesn't stop new members from joining, it's really not so bad as members can build their own front page once they have learned more about what reddit is about. But here is the interesting part. \n In addition, each subreddit has had to deal with the 'noob rush'. Some have buckled and only have a hint of rules to stop them from anarchy (funny, WTF, politics, worldnews, and atheism). Some have started semi-moderating as way to slow down cultural change (f7u12, pics, and others). Some have started hardline moderation to keep things the same (askscience, nosleep, science, etc). That's what is kind of fantastic about reddit. Actually, the biggest thread to the reddit structure is leak from the front page, (memes, racism, sexism, political laziness, and fires like SOPA/PIPA) and raid or 'mocking' boards (circlejerk, shitredditsays, etc [though raid and mocking boards can be good, circlejerk, before it went stupid, used to be good at lampooning and putting out reddit fires. ShitRedditSays, when it's not trying to raise chaos for some quixotic political goal and working as a bury brigade, is a good way to help stop frontpage leak.])","Summary: SSRIs suck and take too long and maybe use BDNF. Lazy scientists link ketamine to BDNF with mTOR, and are probably wrong. We don't know shit, depression is confusing and hard. Ketamine seems to work but not super well.\n\nPost: This is actually my field. So let's do a quick review (and partially explain why these researchers are wrong and why cough syrup won't cure your depression) \n So there was a few papers way back in the day (2006-2007 I think) that basically showed that a patient presenting with depression could be cured with a (let me emphasize this) SUBHYPNOTIC dose of ketamine. This result seemed to last out to a week (at least that's when they stopped checking, turns out MDs are not very good at science, huge surprise that.) Later studies showed that ketamine lasts for about 10 days (this was in the article). \n Of course researchers, loving patented drugs, immediately came to believe that ketamine was working through NMDA receptor antagonism. (we have a ton of these from when we were trying to cure stroke) NMDA receptors are the receptors that let in calcium when stimulated. Oddly, they are suggesting that blocking these receptors treat depression. The mechanism, some researchers claim, is that NMDA blockade causes compensation which leads to glutamate enhancement which kicks off increases in mTOR (which makes more synapses and stuff, synapses decrease with stress and depressed folks have less PSD95 which is in excitatory (glutamate using) synapses). Unfortunately, when they actually tested this mechanism (in 2010 in Science or was it Nature? using a rat model of depression, forced swim, where you guess it they forced a rat to swim and saw how long it took for the rat to give up) ketamine worked for 7 days (at least, they failed to test longer, turns out PhDs aren't great at science either), other NMDA receptor antagonists (like MK801) did not work for more than a day. (Also, MK801 and other NMDA receptor antagonists notably cause psychosis and have a nasty potential for abuse. DXM which is in cough syrup falls into the same category as MK801) \n So this leaves us in an awkward situation. SSRIs take a week to start working (and don't work in 50% of cases, though this number is reducing as we realized many depressed people are actually bipolar, oops our bad). Ketamine treats people for 10 days, but needs redosing (probably loses efficacy over time), has massive abuse potential, and leads to psychosis. Other NMDA receptor antagonists don't work for shit. Sleep deprivation works (surprisingly) but only lasts until we go to sleep. (If you ever want anti-depressants say you are suicidal or not sleeping and depressed, though the suicidal one will end in a 48 hour hospital stay, depending on what state you are in.) Basically, we don't know shit. (Though I would suspect that it's an off target effect of ketamine, though presumably it's too low dose to stimulate those off target effects.) \n I can (probably tomorrow) provide sources for any of this if you care.","Summary: There are lots of reasons to be poor, people who are poor know exactly how much the banks are screwing them, but being poor is expensive so you pick the least shitty option which still sucks. Have more money is not a viable option.\n\nPost: Being poor is surprisingly expensive. This is a classic example of the poverty trap. Poor people know exactly how badly they are getting fucked they just choose the option that fucks them the least and hope to eventually have a month where they don't get fucked too badly. Let's set up an example, you are living paycheck to paycheck (not that unreasonable, you maybe a major medical emergency, got busted for doing something stupid or being in the wrong place at the wrong time, maybe your parents are sick, maybe you are supporting a spouse who has come on hard times, maybe they closed your plant and you are happy to get whatever labor you can, maybe you just like alcohol a little too much, maybe someone jacked your car and you are forced to make payments on it, maybe you ran into someone with money and your financially clever minimum payment insurance didn't cover it there are a lot of reasons to be poor) and suddenly, your car breaks down. \n Well that sucks, you go to the auto mechanic and he can fix it for $300. You only have $290 in your account which you have been trying to save. You can either face an overdraft now, and continue to overdraft the rest of the month as you pay rent, electricity, gas, car payments, and food costs, or you can scrap/impound the car (a $1000 dollar cost) and hope the bus can get you to your job (which if you are late 3 times you are fired). In addition, paying gas or electricity late incurs $150 shut off and shut on fees, skipping car payments can lead to repo or having to declare bankruptcy, and food tends to be non-negotiable. Which incredibly large fee do you choose? $150 in overdrafts? $300 dollar shut off fees? Scrap your car? Lose your job? Or do you go to a payday loan and get money at the low low rate of 20% a week. \n All the options suck when you don't have money, you just try to pick the one that sucks the least. No matter how disciplined or 'saavy' you are, shit hits the fan sometimes and then you end up in a poverty trap, where small problems cost big money that just piles up. This Cracked article summarizes it nicely","Summary: The state of the art is complicated, there are lots of promising compounds from lots of directions. It's not clear what is and is not possible. We can't even agree on definitions of what intelligence or cognition means. People make themselves smarter all the time by incorporating tools in their life.\n\nPost: This thread has clearly evolved far beyond your question but this is a thing I work on, so I'll say what I think is the state of the art. \n \n Some state that it's impossible to cognitively enhance an individual. They point to studies on the failure of Modafinil in intelligent individuals [1] and (mostly anecdotal) research on individuals with incredibly memories who are nonfunctional in other ways. [2] There is also some psuedo-mathematics they apply for optimal decision time to make good calls on tasks. This part of the research is questionable in my opinion. But the idea that 'there is no such thing as a free lunch' certainly seems to hold true with most of the current 'cognitive enhancement' drugs. \n \n Others hold that we not only can cognitively enhance individuals, but that we possess the drugs today to do so. They blame an inefficient and ineffective FDA for the reason these drugs have not come to the market. They point to above species capability enhancement in chimps and rats. These drugs include ampakines[3], 7,8-dihydroxyflavone [4], mGluR antagonists [5], L-dopa [6], Memantine [7], and epigenetic enhancers [8]. \n \n There are some who say not only do the drugs exist, but they are available on the open market. They will often say with a good 'stack' [9], one can enhance one's intelligence with minimal cost. While there are anecdotal claims of awesome gains, most of the gains in studies are minimal or nonexistent. \n \n Obviously, we have been using cognitive enhancers for years, amphetamines, nicotine, caffeine, books, the internet, and even writing. All of these things can supplement normal individuals beyond their capabilities. It's weird to think, but a human with a piece of paper has an infinite memory compared to a human without. A human with excel can perform a series of calculations that could leave the best mental math expert in the dust. There is some argument, along this line, that cognitive enhancement is not very relevant, because the addition and integration of tools are already making us so much will make it irrelevant. \n \n There is some belief that meditation, learning other languages, practicing mental games, and exercising can make you smarter. Unfortunately, this literature suffers from positive effect bias and it's extremely difficult to tell the effects of these behaviors on cognition (if any). Indeed, mental games have recently found to be basically useless at any but the most directed of tasks. \n \n To make matters worse, there is no agreed upon definition of cognition. G is sort of the 'go-to' intelligence metric [10]. But what it means is unclear. There has also been a number of drugs which have showed improvement in 'cognition tasks' but have shown basically no effect in any meaningful 'life metric'. We can often address cognition by it's 'lack'. [11] But it's hard to define what a gain would mean. \n \n \n \n Modafinil was a wakefulness agent developed to keep pilots awake for a long time. It works impressively though long term effects are unclear. You can buy low quality doses of it from India on the cheap. It also has cognitive enhancing effects. Interestingly, studies have shown that these effects only occur in people of below average intelligence. Those with above average intelligence are unaffected or even harmed by Modafinil. (There is also a genotype effect you can get tested at 23andme, but this is just to see if you are responsive at all). \n \n Anecdotally, there are people who can remember thousands of random objects thrown at them in order. There are competitions around memorizing hundreds of cards in a row. Individuals who do this naturally without tricks are often cognitively odd. Some of them have information processing difficulties, it appears their amazing memories gets in the way of their functioning. \n \n Ampakines were an AMPA receptor allosteric modulator developed by Dr. Gary Lynch. They show interesting effects in rats and chimps, even recruiting unique brain areas for tasks. They also allow species to perform better on some cognitive tasks than species normal. They have shown an effect in a number of disorders, and some forms cause an increase in BDNF. They also up seizure threshold and have had a number of issues with FDA approval. \n \n 7,8 dihyroxyflavone, is the current miracle drug. It's a TrkB agonist (mimics BDNF) that crosses the blood-brain barrier. It cures freaking everything from depression to stress to major cognitive impairment. It's still very new and it's future is unclear. \n \n mGluR antagonists were developed (or popularized IDK) by Dr. Bear. They show good effect in fragile-X and some other disorders. It's pretty unclear what they (or indeed mGluR receptors) do. Theories have evolved a lot since their inception. I'm not sure this is even a cognitive enhancer. \n \n L-dopa is curious, it has been shown to enhance (at least muscle memory) memory in individuals given it. It's completely unclear why this happens (L-dopa increases dopamine). This effect is obviously large in Parkinson's individuals, but also appears to exist in some healthy individuals. (this might be controlled by genotype). L-dopa may suffer from the 'inverted U' drug effect, where low L-dopa individuals can be made smarter but high L-dopa individuals are made less smart. This is still a topic of active research. L-dopa has a ton of side effects and is extremely unlikely to ever be used in healthy individuals (though perhaps a mimic?). \n \n Memantine has been approved for people with Alziheimer's. How it works is a real interesting question. Surprisingly it is an NMDA receptor antagonist and a AchR agonist. It's totally unclear why this makes individuals smarter. It's effects might be enhanced by nicotine oddly enough. \n \n HDAC inhibitors are being investigated as cognitive enhancement compounds. Papers have shown an enhancement from these drugs in mice that were really mentally screwed up. (and had basically no memory). I think this area of research is incredibly fruitless, so I'm not really doing to explain the complexity of how these might work. If you are curious, you can ask me. \n \n Common stacks include, piracetem, choline, l-theanine, and caffeine. See /r/Nootropics for a take different from mine on this issue. There is also a Russian drug, noopept which might show effects of 100x piracetem, if you can get a clean batch, which is hard. \n \n G was pulled out by some complicated mathematics by Spearmen. Basically it seems to influence any activity we do, and seems to be correlated with wealth. G has lead to a lot of bad science so many people just kind of ignore it, especially since no good correlate in animals has been found, it's very difficult to test for without cultural biasing, and it's totally unclear what 'mediates' G. \n \n Attention deficit disorder for instance, we know what an individual with bad attention looks like, it's harder to imagine what someone with amazing attention would look like, or if that would be desirable. \n \n \n Last Note: Also, some people think sticking wires to your head and zapping it can make you go into the state of 'flow'. While there is some research supporting it, I would not advice sticking wires to your head if you don't have many years experience with EE and neuroscience. \n I'm sure I got something wrong, please tell me if I missed something or misstated something. Most of this is in my field, but much of it is not.","Summary: My quick and dirty study says you probably aren't right.\n\nPost: I'm curious, it's science time, I'll leave out non-humans even though they have human features: \n [The Wicked Queen]( 3/7, sharp jaw, eye makeup, and I'll give you narrow skull. \n [Stromboli-Pinnochio, though arguable not the primary antagonist]( 3/7- Nose, head, beady eyes. \n [Ringmaster-Dumbo]( 1/7 small eyes only. \n [Mr. Winkie (the fuck)-The Wind in the Willows]( 1/7 Lady lips? I can't really tell and I didn't see this one. \n [Wicked Stepmother- Cinderella]( 2/7 Sharp Jaw and bags. \n [Queen of Hearts]( 3/7 Thin skull, small eyes, lady lips. \n Captain hook , jaw, skull, pupils? \n [Aunt Sarah-Lady and Tramp]( 2/7- eyes and lips. \n [Maleficent (who is supposed to be more or less the devil)]( 5/7-Jaw, makeup, small pupils, thin skull, lady lips. \n Cruella De Vil (also the devil) \n [Madam Mim]( Pupils, skull, bags under eyes. \n [Balthazar-Aristocrats]( 5/7 Nose, pupils, skull, bags, lips?. \n [Madame Medusa-Resucers]( 4/7 Makeup, pupils, lips, bags \n Amos Slade-Fox and hound \n [Bill Sykes-Oliver and company]( 2/7 Nose, skull \n [Ursula]( 2/7 Makeup, skull. \n [Percival-Rescuers Down Under]( 4/7-pupils, bags, nose,skull. \n [Gaston]( 0/7 \n [Jafar]( Nose, Jaw, head, pupils, makeup, lady lips. \n [Governer Ratcliffe]( 3/7, Pupils, head, bags. \n Frollo . \n Hades \n Shan Yu (best villain by far) \n [Clayton-Tarzan]( 5/7 Pupils, bags, nose, chin, skull \n [Yzma]( 6/7 Pupils, Jaw, head, makeup, bags, lips \n Lyle Tiberius Rourke-Atlantis \n Dr Facilier \n Average: 3.6/7 \n My method isn't terrifically unbiased, and it would be nice to get a list of heroes and do a t-test, but it honestly looks like you are mostly wrong. There are many traits (the skull and the pupils) which appear a lot but that has a lot more to do with archetypical villain traits than anything Disney is pulling. (and honestly, it's LONG skull, and out of proportion eyes not beady eyes and small skull). Also my analysis says the Jewish nose thing is incorrect. 8/27 had something like what you are talking about, hardly consistent. (and again, any feature out of proportion, including small ears is a common feature of villains). There is an interesting discussion of Disney's possible Nazi links but they don't play out to anything more to the fact that he was just kind of racist in general (Anyone who has seen Peter Pan could tell you that) \n Summary: There is too little evidence to reject your hypothesis outright. Except for the requirement part. (A more thorough analysis using all characters as a control and performed by a less biased and more consistent judge, I was tired, would work better) But the perliminary evidence seems to suggest that you are confounding a number of artistic styles (lack of lips != lady lips, though I occasionally called it so) and standard villain archetypes into a generalization about Disney.","Summary: No in theory, but we can't yet look at the synaptic level dynamically (in a before and after way, or even really at all) so we don't know perfectly.\n\nPost: Neuroscience grad student studying learning and memory. \n No one knows the answer to your question per-se. This is because we lack the power to look at a brain before and after learning and examine what the change is. (The change happens at synapses which are even smaller than neurons). \n That being said, we do know that people store things in similar regions of their brains. For instance we have a pretty good idea where sense memories, place memories, and factual memory is stored. And we know that the storage of memories (in rats at least) is NOT stereotyped at the cellular level (to say nothing of the synaptic level). For instance place cell learning, where a rat learns a location in space, happens in many separate cells in the hippocampus, but not in the same cells in each rat. (indeed rats don't have the same number or even a stereotyped number of cells, so this would not be likely). In humans, one of the problems with MRI studies is that left handed and right handed people use the space in their brain slightly differently. Also MRI studies tend to need huge numbers of subjects because each person has a slightly different patten of activation (at the multicellular level of analysis). \n From a psychological perspective, we would not think that memories are stored in the same way exactly in each person. As far as we know, most memory builds off connections and perceptions from previous memory. (Why you learn a subject better if you tie it to things you know). Also recall of memories differ based off how people are instructed to store them. (told to look for a pattern vs learning a pattern, explained the rules of task vs figuring it out). In addition, preexisting knowledge helps you gain new knowledge.(Think of how easy it is to learn a new language when you know 2, or how quickly you pick up one video game after playing a similar one. You are probably learning the game by generalizing your previous skill not by relearning it). This implies the memories are not stored in the same way.","Summary: People don't fear death, they dislike it.\n\nPost: I respectfully disagree, accepting death is part of growing up. There is no point in keeping people alive forever. You aren't who you were ten years ago and you aren't who you are going to be in 100 years. Realistically, we can make a better (and cheaper) human in 100 years than we can by keeping you or me around an extra 40. At some point, our software is old, there is no reason to keep pressing to keep us around. Don't get me wrong, I would probably use radical life extension technology if it existed, but this doesn't mean I'm terrified of death it just means I enjoy life. In a similar vein I attempt to not drown. Living is better than dying but that doesn't mean death has to be feared. As to all world religions, that's nonsense. Some world religions and the currently popular three, Christianity, Hinduism, and Islam have immoral life in them. However, Taoism, Judaism, sects of Buddhism, Stoicism, and atheism all have the concept of permanent death in them. \n In a lot of ways, our culture has a broken death culture compared with many others. People will get terribly sick and instead of accepting death they will cling to the last remnants of life until they are long past the point where they should have died. In fact there is a 'new' movement about dying with dignity and not trying to be saved when what you will save will live on in pain for 6 months then die.","Summary: This chart is mostly lies and misrepresentations.~~ Even correcting for those lies, it's still wrong.~~ \n EDIT: Strike throughs are edits. Also, this is the first result that comes up if you type in \"US budget breakdown\", so this is unlikely to be an intentional deception by the person who posted this above me.\n\nPost: If you roll Social Security into welfare, which is completely nonsensical unless you are trying to deceive people into thinking welfare is a larger portion of the budget than it is. And oh look, the site is made by [Chistopher Chantrill, writer and conservative]( Of course you could, in theory, include Medicaid and Medicare into 'welfare' numbers, but that would be an uphill battle and most people would disagree with you. \n Also, I'm not sure if you are conflating healthcare and \"obamacare\", but let me just make it clear, these are not the same thing. (though some people would include the relatively minor cost of \"obamacare\" into the healthcare numbers) \n Also, this chart leaves out the cost of the Iraq and Afghanistan war. ~~ Also, even given all these mistakes, the chart is still low-balling the defense numbers A LOT compared to~~ [official budget page.]( EDIT: Actually it is not low-balling it that much, it's presenting these numbers a percent of GDP instead as a percent of the budget, my bad, and the official website does not have numbers.","Summary: Tattoos, sociopathy, patents, fat, and data-mining of public data\n\nPost: Obviously the usual fights will continue and the question of what discrimination over race/religion/gender means will continue. But new three areas I see: \n Mental health issues. \n The mentally ill are not in a good place right now. They are basically the scapegoat for every issue in America and the current strategy is 'lock em up until they are sane enough to medicate.' For some disorders, like borderline personality disorder, sociopathy (1 in 25 people have it) etc the consensus is basically 'take them out back and shoot them or put them in a hole they can never crawl out of' (not that we do the former). I suspect a move towards more complex drug/behavioral regimes will lead to a well spring of mental health debate similar to what you saw for people with depression/schizophrenia/autism over the last 50 years (and also restart the debate about optimal treatment for those disorders). I suspect the conditions for people with all those disorders and perhaps the definition of disorder in general will become a major battle. \n Body rights/body mod rights/body image rights. \n Enough people are getting tattoos that I can see a pretty big fight coming over whether someone can fire you for having visible tats, piercings, inserts etc. People with these mods (which obviously they brought on themselves, perhaps decades ago) are pretty marginalized. As the complexity of these go up I suspect there will be a small fight over this. \n Similarly, enough fat people are coming into visibility that I suspect some form of fat rights will happen. \n Similarly the fight over cognitive enhancers, sports enhancement, etc is all happening right now, it's just mostly academics and rich people arguing about it, but the whole 'what can you put in your body and what is a drug' will probably hit the mainstream. \nI suspect we will see gene injections for 'doing cool shit on your body like making it glow or turn blue' long before we see useful injectables and I suspect I won't see 'superior embeddable cybernetics' for a long time, for a number of reasons. This sort of 'gene modding' or whatever will lead to some fights over whether you are allowed to alter your genome and if your boss has to allow you to work for them. Add in that there is a huge blow back over what magazines can show in advertisements and you might see some major 'anti-photoshop/enhanced people in ads' stuff coming out \n Finally, piracy/patent/copyright/information war fights have been brewing for a long time. I suspect the fight over this has only just begun. \n Copyright laws have basically been fought to a standstill to the benefit of the anti-IP groups (yes the DMCA exists and is stupid, but honestly pirates have won this round). The anti-IP group will probably fall back and 'redraw the copyright line so it seems sane like 10 years with doubling renewal fees every 10' or something like that. Then the real fight of what ownership in an increasingly fast moving digital world means will become a big issue. I barely understand the issue right now. (copyright is currently crazy, but I feel like it should exist, I suspect my children might not) \n Advertisers will increasingly begin weaponizing psychology (like they have been for 20 years and increasingly what Google does now, look into A/B testing, now include mass personal info mining and you have ads that can get inside you pretty easily) and you will have a slew of laws fighting over 'what is an ad', 'where can an ad be', 'how personalized can an ad be', 'what levels of psychological trickery is allowed'. I honestly don't give a shit. But, Bloomberg is not a dumb man and he is fighting about fucking cup sizes right now because he gets it on some level I barely do. Add in that government agencies will begin running hundreds of predictive models to control/benefit voters and suddenly information (even without the privacy fight) becomes a huge battleground. (I dig datamining/targetted ads, but a lot of people don't) \n Patent law starts hitting a wall with products anyone can produce if they can steal. Plant patents only stand if you can enforce them and the DIY movement's irrational fear of GMOs is the only thing that has stopped the mass piracy of plants. Add in 3-D printer prices dropping and the difficulties that creates in enforcing physical patents and you have one messy situation. Once DIYers really get good at biologically based chemical synth, maintaining drug patents will also become a clusterfuck. I'm pretty pro patent, but I'm not sure how my kids will feel.","Summary: New games are good, but unless you dig graphics they aren't necessarily better. I suspect there is some nostalgizing going on but not as much as people say.\n\nPost: I think what you're asking is, can anything released in the last 4 years replace the games released in the past 20. (most people's favorite is probably somewhere after 1990) \n I think it really depends on what you care about in games. Different things have evolved at different rates. Graphics of modern games are miles ahead of anything we could have dreamed of 20 years. Gameplay got a lot better initially but is now improving much more slowly. Stories and decision driven narratives have stayed about the same (or gone backward, voice acting is great but it shreds player decision). World building has gotten better in a lot of ways and more limited in a lot of ways. \n If you love glorious looking games with tight, fun, realistic, open world gameplay, it's easy for a modern game to replace an old favorite. I loved far cry 3/red dead redemption. If you love story and deep open worlds, then you are comparing 20 years of games to the last 4. Have a lot of great games come out in the last 4? Absolutely, but there is a lot to compare against for a game to become a personal favorite. For instance, I hadn't played a game that tickled the same bones that Super Metroid did until I played Dark Souls. (not that either is my favorite ever) The depth and complexity of exploration was just at a level that graphics and gameplay couldn't easily replace. Nothing I've played has yet brought the same feelings that Morrowind did. On the other hand, Alpha Protocol was like nothing I'd ever played before and I was sad to see it finish. Terraria did things I'd never seen done as well. \n For a good example, check out the RPG codex top 70 (while they do have a bias for less mainstream titles) . The distribution is pretty even across the last 20 years (including a fair amount of new/modern games).","Summary: In little kids yes. In adults, no more than if you just focused on training one sense really hard, and it might reduce 'noise' from other senses.\n\nPost: Lot of misinformation here. It depends on when you lose the sense. If you are a little kid, you can remap part of our cortex for other use giving you a slightly sharper than normal acuity. (Indeed when people who were blind from an early age 'read' we see activation in their previously visual cortex) \n If you lose it later in life your senses DO NOT SHARPEN OR ENHANCE. However, you become more reliant on your other senses. For instance you can read read braille when blind because you learned to read braille, not because you gained sensitivity. For another example, if I wiped out your eyes and your hearing was shitty, your hearing wouldn't become better, however you would become better at using what you had. You would be able to recognize more sounds as your memories became more sound based and you practiced recognizing sounds. It's even possible (there is debate about this) that some senses when activated, activate other parts of the brain (the so called 'McGurk' effect where watching a video like this So with your eyes eliminated, you might get a more 'clean' signal from the ears. \n It should also be noted that senses can be trained far more than we would expect. Visual, auditory, and touch acuity can be trained to fairly high levels in lab settings and there is growing evidence of people in specific fields gaining higher than normal sensitivity. This might play a role. \n There is also a little evidence of cortex remapping (almost exclusively from studies using devices to simulate sensory modalities like tongue cameras, where you have a visual world simulated by touch pixels on the tongue), but it seems that cortex remapping, at very least, requires a similar signal in adults.","Summary: Artificial organs will only offer short term lifespan increases, stem cells are expensive and require clean DNA to avoid donor rejection problems and cancer, and Nanobots are awesome though so far in the future to not really be practical for modern day man.\n\nPost: Lot's of things.\nLet's take artificial hearts for example. Hearts, in our bodies have a number of solid advantages for being alive. They have a running span greater than almost any machine (find me a machine that can run all day every day for 80 years compressing 60 times a second). They can heal, almost no machine can do that (some materials 'heal' but their capacity is incredibly limited compared to what your heart can do). They can to a great degree self-clean. Also, and most importantly they can regulate based of signals of your body. While having a heart that runs at a solid 60 BPM sounds awesome, it's much less awesome when trying to run. \n Similar problems emerge in the discussion of kidneys (actually the easiest organ to replace, it's just a filter, though an absolutely magical one), the liver (which is essentially a structure that creates incredible proteins to break down and dissolve practically any compound, wihtout also breaking down your body), and your bones (which create many of the red blood cells in your body). This doesn't even touch on the complexity of the immune system which is as complex as the nervous system and is entirely 'designed' to protect your body from outside assault. \n So then the obvious solution is to grow REAL organs from your own DNA using stem cells or the like.(Crazy expensive) The problem is that finding 'clean' DNA in your body is actually difficult. One of the reasons cancer takes so long to go is that it has to break down multiple check points, many cells in your body have already had many of these checkpoints broken down by various environmental and internal assaults (your mitochondria does more damage than you would expect.) \n So it might be possible to take some of your germ-line progenitor cells (from your balls, your body likes to keep these cleaner than the rest) and using them. There are still problems. First, neural tissue is nearly impossible to replace accurately (deep long innervations that are hard to make a new cell line track especially in the brain, easier elsewhere in the body, neural tissue will continue to break down over time as damage accumulates. It's hard to keep intelligence 'fluid' as you get older.) Second, those cells begin running out (older sperm has more mutations, and less of it exists, this is because the progenitor cells have gotten mutated.) \n There is a solution: nanobots. As the cells in your body are each essentially a super-evolved, brilliantly programmed nanobot, you could replace them with a better nanobot. One that could learn the location of all the cells in your brain and begin mimicking them and their function as they die. Or ones that could be trained how to pump for 80 years, repair, or work together to defend your body. All you would need is fuel (you could even build them to run on ATP, glucose etc) and a way to get more nano-bots (they could even self replicate, maybe). With this method you could in theory live forever as every cell in your body is slowly replaced by a tougher, smarter, longer lasting microcomputer. (They could even reshape in theory, want to look like a fucking elephant? You can look like a fucking elephant!) .","Summary: Y'all getting the wool pulled over your eyes.\n\nPost: A few thoughts. \n PDFs can be used to hide weak data, there is a reason no journal accepts a PDF without binning or at least a mean analysis. They are incredibly vulnerable to population size and they say nothing about the significance of the data. They can also be used to make small differences seem larger than they are, as one bin off from another group can look like a major deviation. \n Failure to report n's in his group is an unforgivable omission. Some of these are clearly from small groups. \n This data is uselessly vulnerable to underlying subcorrelation. We have no idea how these variables hold up when these subcorrelations are not present. \n This author is clearly pushing an agenda, look through his previous posts, he is clearly selling a 'genetics are super important' agenda. It should also be noted he does not have a PhD and his analysis is not published in a peer reviewed journal. \n This leads us to the fact that he picked his groups with a specific objective. A quality researcher or writer (like the NYT or a real researcher in this field) would have presented useful things like say \"Hispanics without a high school degree vs whites without a high school degree\" or \"Religious people in the lower income bracket vs religious people in higher income brackets\" this would help us get around the problem of [Simpson's Paradox]( Of course a real researcher would have done a PCA to figure out underlying correlations of his data and divided it in a logical manner. \n His use of one metric is laughable. No one would accept a publication with one metric. \n Conclusion: \n Biased blogger pushing his own 'genetics first' view. No formal education or publication. Misleading graph type. No underlying analysis of the data. Reliance on single metric. This isn't science, this is opinion with a coat of science paint.","Summary: Banks are secure, any site big enough to aggregate this type of information has too much to lose to pull something like this.\n\nPost: Like most structures in the modern world the defense is litigation and reputation. Let's say google, reddit, facebook, slashdot, or whatever does clean out a handful of users bank accounts. Let's say they make their IPs untraceable. How many accounts of repeat crimes could they really get away with before the pattern became clear? 100? 150? 200? 300? 1000? Compared with the amount of money building a company successful enough to accumulate weak bank account passwords and user names (most bank accounts have protections from this, I know mine does), you would have either gained or lost a lot more money than you could ever gain. And if you tried to make a big move and ripped off 10,000 people, what then? Your company is liable for millions in damages, you are going to jail, and your company is ruined. Consider the number of these sites that fail. This is simply not an economical game to play. This is especially true when compared to how much all of those users marketing is worth to advertisers. \n An admin is even more at risk because the other admins and the company would help take them down if something like this happened. Then they would be alone, bankrupt, in prison, and unhireable. Though an admin could clean out a bank account or ten under the radar, the odds of this being you are about as small as anyone else you talk to in day to day life commuting fraud against you. (Especially if you use small companies which often lack the checks against fraud like larger companies have)","Summary: Some people hate cats, she doesn't look like she gets off on pain. Psychopath is the wrong word. Grow up, hivemind.\n\nPost: Alright seriously. Why is this psychopathic behavior? Would it have been psychopathic if she had killed it quickly? Would it have been psychopathic if she had grabbed it and taken it to the pound and they had killed it more slowly? Would it have been psychopathic if it was a rat? A mouse? Rats are smarter by most metrics, we just view them as pests because we don't like them. Would this have been psychopathic 20 years ago? 50? 300? Torturing cats was pretty acceptable even a hundred years ago and was an even only 200-300 ago, where they all psychopaths? Were the scientists who sewed cats eyes shut psychopathic? Are the scientists that fuck with cats for science today psychopathic? \n What I'm saying is taking an action you have a squick factor for (killing a cat) and calling it psychopathic is not reasonable. If she had taken it home and set it on fire or had actually stayed and listened to its pain then it might have had more of a hint of psychopathy. (though only by very current societal standards). She didn't cut it, break it, bleed it, burn it, bite it, throw something in afterwards, or even shake the bin afterwards to cause it more duress. This lady just disposed of it in the fastest means she could see, the fact she didn't have the stones to snap its neck first should push away from the psychopathic argument. It looks like she is just sick of stray cats, not some person who likes watching others hurt. Seriously cat owners, dog owners, etc stop being so sensitive, just because you like cats and dogs doesn't mean everyone has to. (Unless you are some kind of compassionate vegan who only eats food you have grown to make sure no mammals or other animal died or suffered in its production and doesn't take any medicine; then you can go to town.)","Summary: Probably evolutionary artifact, also it works well enough and isn't a limiting factor so it never 'fixed'.\n\nPost: Ignore tag, not my field. \n and Seem to cover it petty well. \n Basically, it's not totally clear, but might have something to do with evolution. (cyanobacteria absorb the green part of the spectrum which means anything coming after has to use other parts of the spectrum, especially in the ocean.) Also, sunlight is not really the limiting factor in plant growth (gas diffiusion/water and slow enzymes like rubisco are major limiting factors) while overheating is a concern. So producing more pigments causes harm (by overheating the plant and costing sugar and water) while not giving a benefit (more energy that will be used) so they haven't evolved. Also, the machinery behind photosynthesis is fairly sensitive (requires very tight energy level transfers) so 'fixing' it would be difficult.","Summary: They are seen as evil because they don't care what the public thinks.\n\nPost: They have terrible media relations because they don't need them. They don't sell to consumers, they sell to people, who sell to people, who sell to people, who sell to the consumers. They are heavily insulated from public opinion. (Also, their products are more or less essential to compete at cost). \n Similarly, they don't need to win lawsuits (at least in country) by the press because they are good at winning them in the court room. If anything they like the fact that people are vaguely afraid of being sued if they try to save seeds. They want to be known as a little evil and overly litigious, regardless of the reality. \n As to hiring, they are really the big game in town when it comes to non-human/non-academic biotech. If you want to help feed the world, and you want your effects to have meaning, you work for them. They don't need to be seen as good guys to hire the best biologists.","Summary: Patents of discoveries aren't new, and they encourage disclosure instead of secrecy. In this case, the company was being a dick and had it coming.\n\nPost: Because discoveries aren't easy. Many discoveries have been patented and still are. The point is the discoveries patented aren't obvious. \n Look at the situation reversed, let's say a brilliant scientist spent his whole life working to discover this gene. After millions of government and school dollars he finally succeeds. Would it be wrong if a company could come in, scoop up his unpatentable gene and make millions of dollars on it without any reimbursement? Or consider someone who discovers an organic reaction that no one else has. Does he have the right to the order of his molecules? Does a company that makes millions off the reaction have to pay him? \n More important than all that is disclosure. Patents are designed for people to disclose their inventions and discoveries so that there is more incentive to reveal them then hide them. If you remove patents from all genes, the environment gene scientists work in would change. If you find a valuable gene, it would no longer benefit you to tell the world if you can instead offer it to a company which will develop a drug and patent the drug. It would force huge amounts of redundancy and waste. \n However, the judge was probably correct (ethically if not legally) in this context, as the company that held the patent was refusing to allow others to use it. This goes against the nature of discovery patents.","Summary: We can't really define the question in a useful way.\n\nPost: The truth is boring and people don't like it: We have no idea and defining the question in neurobiological terms is practically impossible \n A brain is made out of neurons. Some neurons fire a ton, some almost never fire. Some can fire really, really fast 100 times per second. some can fire 3-5 times per second. Some get activated and stay active for seconds, some fire once and go refractory. Some are inhibitory meaning they stop others from firing. For every neuron there are 1 or so supporting cells called glia. Glia supply nutrients, eat up garbage, and insulate. Sometimes these cells engage in strange mostly not well understood long range communication using waves of calcium. \n The neocortex is thought to be broken into little modules, say a visual module, an auditory module, a touch module etc. Each of these modules was thought, at one time to only respond to their given stimulus. It turns out, this might not be true and in most rodent studies, waves of activation are seen throughout the cortex in response to any stimuli. Whether these waves are cells activating or axons/dendrites (the highways that connect cells) is up to debate. \n So that brings us to the question what does 10% of our brain mean? \n Does it mean 10% of cells firing at a given frozen moment in time? This is nearly impossible to estimate and as I've mentioned doesn't make sense in context of how the cells work. Some people (probably if I scroll down on this thread) will repeat the common, and incorrect, idea that a seizure is 100% of your cells firing at once. This isn't really a correct description of a seizure at all. \n Does it mean 10% of cells during a time frame, say 1s? This is also really hard to estimate and as most regions of the brain are firing along at one of the many background rhythms, most of your cells will show some activity over a time frame. \n Does it mean 10% of your brain is used over background for a given task? This is kind of what fMRI measures (kind of). It's hard to say if this is meaningful, as the time scales are so long. Depending on how you read MRI/how you set thresholds wildly different amounts of brain will be 'used' on any given task, this isn't to say MRI is BS just that it's not useful for this metric. Wildly, there is a drug study in monkeys that used fMRI to show a class of drugs can bring regions of a brain not used for the task into use for the task. (but it was like a very tiny region) \n Does it mean you can remove 90% of the brain and not have problems? Weirdly, someone (Karl Lashley) did do this and found rats don't have memory issues until you've removed quite a bit of cortex >50%!. Of course by modern standards his work is considered flawed and we now know that there are parts of the cortex that if removed will fuck you up big time. (The speech regions for instance). \n Historically, it looks like the idea was made up by some magazine. \n I can provide citations for or expand on any of the above bits if you'd like to know more.","Summary: Ice crystals aren't a problem, dynamic and static networks of the brain and body are. It's unclear if information is lost, if it is you cannot be brought back ever. Live a good life, make scientific progress, get rich, and freeze yourself at death if you really want to do it, if science can bring you back from frozen, they can probably fix the aging problem. It's not like you'll notice any time pass once your frozen you'll either wake up after death or you won't. \n Edit: [Wikipedia page on cryonics (different from above link on cryopreservation)turned out to be awesome and beat my response](\n\nPost: There is some misinformation being spread here. We absolutely can freeze and restore cells. (Goodness knows we do it on a regular basis, frozen cell IVF does exist and functions fairly effectively. Mouse banks and fruit fly banks store dozens of cell lines/embryos more or less indefinitely. These can then be 'brought to life' with little difficulty.) There is NOT currently a huge problem with ice crystal formation due both to slow freezing (which allows a match between the diffusion rate of water out of the cell and the growth of ice in the cell) and cryoprotectants (which reduce ice formation outside the cell, these are poisonous which is an issue with bigger creatures.) If you were just a small mass of tissue we could bring you back. Edit: [Cryopreservation wikipedia]( \n However, the problems begin to mount the moment we begin talking about something big and something with a brain. If you are big, it probably means all your cells are working together in some highly organized manner (and thus you are not a mass of goo). Unfortunately, this also makes you vulnerable to toxicity of compounds. It also means that just stopping all the processes in your body then 'starting them back up' is a tricky process. \n A more important matter (to you at least) is restoring the brain. Currently, no one will freeze you until you have been dead for at least a few minutes, this is a problem as the brain gets badly damaged after a few minutes of death. (Edit: There is some flexibility in this number. The colder and younger you are the better your chances of survival are, if you were hooked up to a machine and decided to 'pull the plug' then get cryofrozen you might be able to fend off a majority of ischemic damage. Also a few minutes almost immediately becomes 10-15 min if you are under proper medical care. The much bigger difficulty is that you rarely will get to the hospital this quickly post mortem and you might suffer some fairly significant neurological damage, such as low level chronic ischemia, leading up to your death. Thanks eleitl . This problem is only amplified when freezing and storing the brain which takes some time. Also your 'thought process' is a dynamic process. To restart the brain would be a tricky process and as far as I have heard it has never been accomplished. (The debate about when 'information death' of the brain occurs is still ongoing. From what I have personally heard, after 14 hours of death, all the dendrites have broken down and you are left with a sea of cells and synapses, which are quite durable, where there was once a network.) \n Of course, the big hope is that the future can fix all these problems (toxicity is the smallest of these problems honestly) and bring you back. The problem is, if there is no network left in the brain, or the brain is seriously damaged there is nothing to 'bring back'. This is why freezing a live person would be tantamount to killing them.","Summary: Markram wants to pull neuro research into one umbrella and simulate the brain using some simple principles. He ignores a lot of complexity in doing so and has done it in a celebrity way that is not appealing to many in the scientific community. \n I apologize for typos and inaccuracies (this really isn't exactly my area, but I've been following as much as I can) and offer that anyone more knowledgeable than me or with better references should correct me.\n\nPost: Neuroscientist here. Let's talk about what is and is not true here. First, this article is bad a much better article (with links to criticism and discussions of feasibility is [here]( The previous article on this topic, [found here]( is the best if you really want to understand. \n Let me start by saying, I don't much like Markram, I think he is acting in a fundamentally non-scientific way and his refusal to contribute to the databases he is using in his project is annoying. His stuff at SfN was showy and set up in a way to be flashy more than readable. He's playing celebrity science and that often ends poorly. But I'll try to give him the benefit of the doubt here. \n The Problem \n Neuroscience has a number of discoveries about kinases, channels, organizational principles, spiking properties, anatomical builds of cells, anatomical lay out of the brain, but these insights are disconnected. The literature is essentially the 'elephant problem' but with 30000 blind men instead of seven. The theory is that it's impossible to draw a fundamental theory out of such disorganized and disparate data. Previous attempts to draw this insight out (like artificial neural networks) usually came from one direction and ignored swaths of actual neuronal properties. Due to this, they usually produced useful techniques and insights but they failed to model anything but the most gross properties of neurons. \n Other labs have developed software [Neuron]( for making 'empirically-based simulations of neurons and networks of neurons'. Basically it lets you simulate neurons without oversimplifying it. There have been several paper published with this in the Dentate gyrus and other regions and they have been OK but not amazing. \n The Solution \n So what Markram wants to do (at least as far as I understand) is to scale this software a lot. He wants to include A LOT more data and even invent a new way of codifying data into data banks so that new data can be rapidly added to databanks. (of course he has yet to post his simulations in an accessible area, a fact several of my friends who do models in neuron have bemoaned) He has many labs that are all doing mass hunts of properties of cells to try to help flesh this database out. (I personally don't think this is a bad idea, one of science's big problems is that findings are hard to incorporate a data bank would be nice, BUT it will run into the 'data quality' problem that bioinformatics runs into). \n So using these massive databanks he will simulate a little bit of the cortex (called a microcolumn). The cool thing about the cortex is that it does freaking everything with very similar machinery. Vision, hearing, speaking, predicting, object segmentation, representation etc are all done on the same type of architecture. As far as we know (and we really don't) the microcolumn (a collection of 100 or so neurons organized across all six cortical layers) is the smallest unit of information processing in the cortex. The theory then becomes, 'simulate one microcolumn, make it work exactly like it works in nature then just multiply this by a million and you have a rat, multiply it by a few billion and you have a human'. \n **[Why this won't work.]( \n I (and many others) don't think this will work for a few reasons. First, statistical models of neurological processes fail 99 out of 100 times. Statistical modelling of language failed, statistical modelling of categorization failed, statistical modelling of neuronal firing failed. The reason is that the brain is an organized structure. The connections are not probabilistic, they have 20+ years of development in the body resting on top of a couple hundred million years of evolutionary development. The organization may look random, but it's not. So modelling a handful of neurons and their connection then hitting copy paste a billion times won't produce something meaningful, it will be lucky to produce anything useful. \n Second, he will run face first into the same problem every brain simulation runs into, 'the synapse problem'. It turns out that the brain has a bunch of cells connected by these little things called synapses. We can easily simulate a bunch of cells, simulating 10k that number synapses with largely unknown connections and properties is very hard. Many have tried, all have failed. There are labs working on simulating individual synapses just to parse out how the hell they work. To imagine you can just say 'well the rest of the model works, we can ignore the fundamental information storing structure in the brain and go on with out lives' is short-sighted. \n Third, big Science sold to the media is often plagued with problems. There have been some scathing reviews written about the California institute for Regenerative medicine written lately explaining why selling science to the public is bad. I'd advise anyone curious to read [those]( Basically it tends to generate massive conflicts of interest where people and buddies get funded over good science."],"string":"[\n \"Summary: Evolve or die. \\n (I don't pirate much. I just wanted to explain why you are getting down-voted.)\\n\\nPost: See the thing is most people who pirate are ALSO the people who buy things. People see piracy as a second market for things they want, but not at the value they are charging. They also see it as a chance to 'playtest' a product before they buy it. (eg downloading an album to see if the other songs don't suck, then going in and buying the ones that are good.) Or they think, I like comic books, but I really don't want a collectible I want a reading item, as there is no way for me to meet my needs, I'll buy a few 'collectibles' and then just read the rest. Or 'I have to have this book for class as a requirement, but I'm not interesting in paying $150 for a requirement'. People rarely consider ethical reasoning, reasons have to do with convenience and need. Look at Spotify, Pandora, Steam, GoG, Netflix, all of these managed to dramatically reduce piracy by offering a service that people wanted at a price they wanted to pay. Of course you could go on blovating all day that ethics should drive the market, but honestly ethics say that alcohol should be illegal. Simply put, applying ethics to a market problem like this will not work. (Indeed, when the ability to capture musicians music into a disk and sell it came about, many musicians and music writers correctly reasoned, that 'hey, it's my music I want people to come see me play.' Those who persisted in that line of reasoning died out. Those who adapted, survived. Or consider the typist who was driven out of business as everyone started using word processors, it's hardly fair for all of us to her job, and yet. Or consider the monks who used to write out boos for a living. How unfair the printing price innovated them to death by dropping the price of books to 10's of dollars instead of thousands. Or consider the millions of people now unemployed who did jobs that can be handled by automation. Or the video game retailers/book retailers/movie retailers slowly going out of business because of Amazon. Or the postal workers who no longer have jobs thanks to e-mail. None of these innovations were 'fair' to the people they replaced.) \\n As to the rest of your complaint. I would add, music today is too loud, pants are too low, and kids won't stay off my lawn.\",\n \"Summary: The movie relies on classist assumptions combined with a loose understanding of evolution. The growth of education/nutrition/lack of wars well outpaces any almost impossible to perceive genetic shift in 500 or 50000 years.\\n\\nPost: Here's how I see it. Some of this is supported, some isn't. \\n Because it confuses poverty and intelligence. Poor people do breed more, but poor people are not stupid. Usually poor people are poor because their parents are poor. Making a between group comparison is unfair. Making a within group comparison on the other hand, makes sense. Within groups we find the people who are breeding are those that are charismatic, have money, and have traits that indicate stability. Does your poor catholic half cousin twice removed have twelve kids? Yes, but he is also probably a pillar of the community, has a stable job, a house, and a wife. Another note is, religious people, like poor people, are not stupid by default. Making this assumption is silly. \\n The second major point is intelligence is not all that genetic. (or rather we don't know how genetic it is) In middle class families they might cite that it is 50 percent heritable, but that is ONLY in a limited very specific context. To say that this incredibly complex trait is somehow being selected for or against, is difficult or impossible to say in current society. It is also worth noting, people below a 50 IQ(which is a terrible measure) aren't reproducing much. As AmericanChE and bobzor said below, other factors are much more important. \\n Also AmericanChE is absolutely right in his assessment, education/nutrition/etc is really pushing us forward much more rapidly than a rate than evolution could ever work out, the curve is moving forward.\",\n \"Summary: Netflix and piracy means more quality, complex, adult programming.\\n\\nPost: I've heard it said that television is becoming the modern adult medium (and indeed has been for several years now, see Sopranos and BSG) where complex morally difficult characters engage in interactions spanning multiple seasons. \\n Unfortunately, television is really ill suited to this kind of story. It's hard to tell where a given episodes 'fits' in a story and unless you have kept up with a show from the beginning (as many shows grow in popularity over time most of the audience will not have kept up.) This should make long form story telling nearly impossible and should lead to endless piles of easily syndicated single serving shows. (In the past it certainly has lead to that) \\n But, as mentioned above this is not the case, we are getting more and more shows that span many episodes if not whole seasons and are nearly unwatchable if watched out of order. I think piracy (and later Netflix, hulu, and tv stations posting up new episodes on the internet) has allowed this. There is almost a new type of syndication emerging, where shows that could never have been syndicated can have a long tail of profitability where Netflix etc picks them up for continued re-watching. I think this is a good thing.\",\n \"Summary: To simulate a universe you need a universe, this is impractical and unlikely. \\n [(and of course Wikipedia beat me to it)](\\n\\nPost: I may not be a physicist, but I'm not convinced. It feels like this would only work in linear deterministic world. As our world is anything but, this feels incorrect. \\n Let's start with the assumption that the computer is 'faking it' for us. To do so, the computer would have to accurately generate information about objects only when we viewed them. To do this, it would have to 'back calculate' all information about interactions an object has gone through whenever we observed it. As one object interacts with another with another and so forth, it would basically have to rerun everything every time we interacted with objects. This is impractical (except maybe for very very far away things).\\nIf the computer is running it real time, then we come up with the issue that (using the rules of our universe at least) to store one piece of information you need one information containing object (I argue one bit per atom.) As an atom in our universe has at least three pieces of information (momentum, position, charge) (excluding quantum which I will get to), you would need at least three information containing bits per atom. Since atoms also have uncertainty in these quantities, you would need significantly more. \\n You might argue that a real simulation of the universe doesn't need to simulate every single atom, just their general flow. This is incorrect. Many things in this world depend on molecular interactions (life for instance, the weather for another, the sun for a third). You would need to simulate everything to the atomic level. The problem then becomes that to simulate the universe you need a computer the size of the universe.\\nYou might argue that they run the surface of the earth simulation at full power with a big computer, but then they fake the stars and inside of the earth. This would be incorrect as well. Stars, the inside of the earth, and other planets all act as if they are made of atoms, if they were just simplified, certain things (spectra, end explosions) would likely come out wrong. CitizenPremier addressed this. Many of these things are affected by quantum mechanics. \\n So basically, to simulate a universe you need a universe. This breaks the argument down to, if you believe humans can become omnipotent, then god exists. I doubt we will ever succeed at making a universe.\",\n \"Summary: EEG on dying people and rats is a relatively common idea, people like arguing about what it means.\\n\\nPost: As other's have pointed out MRI would be too slow. But what researchers have done is record from multiple sites in a rat's brain while killing it. Source . \\n [Discussion of results and more citations here]( \\n [Aaaannndd someone calling the first study bullshit]( \\n [And the first study's authors saying why that is wrong]( \\n [Here's a slightly less interesting looking one they did in humans]( People were wearing EEG caps when 'care was withdrawn'. \\n [Here's a paper where they monitored brains of rats during decapitation]( Found the firing was the same in both awake and anesthetized animals. \\n [More humans having EEG recordings while dying]( \\n [The authors of the first study on why the rest of the studies are shit]( \\n Honestly, this is all pretty questionable because neurons start to depolarize pretty badly without oxygen, so these results are kind of up on the air. It's cool that it's kind of synchronous, but again, neurons fire synchronously with very little inducement.\",\n \"Summary: Yes, indirectly and mostly through protein biochemistry techniques. \\n EDIT: Feel free to ask me to go into depth about any of the above techniques.\\n\\nPost: Ex-biochemist here. (Now a neuroscientist) Yes, but not to do what you want to do, directly. \\n One such way is X-ray crystallography, if you can find a nice inhibitor that will freeze your molecule in nice middle range of motion, and then pray to the gods of crystallization, you might be able to see binding pockets etc. This is often how people 'solve' ion channels, by freezing them in open and closed configurations and determining the difference. Of course this requires pure protein, crystallization and a lot of work, but you do get some amazing results. \\n Another way is NMR. If you tag your molecule of interest with H^2 you can see how its behavior changes when binding occurs, in real time, in a cell. This is nice because it's so very in vivo (a lab I know is getting ready to try it in spider spinnerets), and if you have some ideas about what parts of what molecules will be interacting, you can actually get a remarkably good picture of what is happening. Of course the problem is NMR takes a lot of work and you get out a bunch of magnetic peaks that you then have to interpret into activity. \\n Another good way is tagging of molecules. You can add things like FRET pairs to molecules (FRET is basically using one fluorescence protein to stimulate another through a physics phenomena). You can use FRET to determine when sites close, when molecules bind, and even what sites are binding. This takes creation of hundreds of molecules with tags. (A similar method, not FRET exactly was used to image how the proton-ATP pump works.) \\n Another way is mass spectroscopy. Essentially if you freeze interactions at certain time points using cross-linkers of varying lengths and masses you can use mass spec to determine what is binding what and how. (You can also do pull down assays, binding assays, proteomic assays etc, that all essentially end with a version of mass spectroscopy.) \\n Another way is modelling, once you know enough about your binding sites you can model their interactions in a number of programs to determine if the dynamics you have determined are correct.\",\n \"Summary: Sitting on super patents is unlikely or impossible. \\n EDIT: also other countries love ignoring patents and enforcing protectionism on US markets is very hard.\\n\\nPost: Technically speaking, that is actually illegal not allowed. Patent law generally acknowledges that someone who fails to develop or license their patent loses it. In this way patent rights are actually fairly similar to property rights. Now a company could charge exorbitant licensing fees, but then they face litigation for cutting off competitor access. I mean the threat of litigation from the company holding the patent (a potentially costly battle) might be enough to stop small companies from developing on an existing patent, and the lack to clear right to a product might stop larger companies, but if the technology was really promising enough, companies would make a legal move on someone 'sitting on' a patent. \\n Also, the people making patents tend to be small inventors, big labs working on the problem, or university professors. If the patent is amazing enough, no company could pay enough to buy the patent and not develop it. If the patent was not amazing, then chances are there are thousands of accomplish the exactly same thing. While a company might own one, or even several, it would not be the end of the world. (It should be noted that patents involve sharing the idea with the community so making a modification or improvement on a patent to move around it would not be impossible or even difficult.) \\n A much better strategy would be to fund a group of university professors or researchers and then force them NOT to patent their technologies but to either A. publish them in the public sphere, making them unappealing to develop as there would be no future protection. Or B. Pay the professors enough to not publish so that you can hold amazing technology internally as a trade secret. This puts the technology in a nice position where you don't have to tell people what you made, but if someone makes the same thing in the future you can undercut their patent with prior art. Of course with the recent change in patent law where patents are 'first to file' instead of 'first to invent' this trick might not work anymore. \\n In addition, I seriously doubt any company is sitting pretty enough, especially in the currently volatile world, to make/buy amazing breakthroughs then sit on them.\",\n \"Summary: Peak oil will happen, it won't be the end of the world, it will probably just mean we need to retool our lifestyles.\\n\\nPost: Some accuracy some inaccuracy. A few points from the article \\n \\n [Peak oil]( is going to happen, maybe in 5 years maybe 10 maybe even 20. But it's going to happen. This won't represent a loss of all things oil, it will just represent a point where oil prices are going to began increasing much faster than we have seen because of sinking supply and rising demand. \\n \\n Peak Oil is not likely to be the end of the world. Alternative energy fixes don't exist for most things (the electricity production required to fuel every car in existence today, if they all magically became electric, just doesn't exist right now.) There are ways to convert other fossil fuels, [such as coal]( into liquid fuel. As peak oil is not peak coal, these measures will stabilize oil at a much higher, but still acceptable price for farming, food transport, and industrial purposes. \\n \\n There are not too many people. That statement is nonsense. You could say there are too many Americans/Europeans, as each American/European consumes 10 X the energy of world average But more accurately, we have too many inefficient European/Americans. With even minor increases in efficiency, say mandating 40 MPH speed limits, tripling each individuals food budget to allow for closer growing, eliminating most processed food, and enacting laws to extend the lives of electronic products, we could probably reduce our energy use by a factor greater than the increase in energy cost. \\n \\n The whole food thing is much more confusing than they make it seem. We used to spend a much bigger proportion of our money on food but then thanks to increases in farming tech, we were able to spend a lot less. But we spend a lot more energy to do it. A portion of this energy comes from making the fertilizer which needs natural gas \\n \\n Many people have already said it, but alternative technology is not as far away as it seems, it's just very expensive. As energy costs go up, alternative energy implementation will also go up. As peak oil doesn't mean the end of energy, just the beginning of the end of cheap energy, we can implement a lot of these systems as shit happens. \\n \\n Global warming is much scarier. \\n \\n Who uses blogspot for comics? The navigation is difficult and I have to scroll through comments to get to the next page.\",\n \"Summary: This is not how the world works, OP phrased a question to get an answer and got the answer he expected. Situations are important. Even without those, hypotheticals tell us very little.\\n\\nPost: See my problem with things like this is that the situation will never exist. This doesn't tell you something about who you are, it just tells you how you envision the variables and how the problem is set up. In a real situation like this, your decision making process would depend entirely on variables OP failed to present. For instance, is there a light source? What is the light source? Is the air moving or still? Is the room clearly man made or does it look like someone is winging it here? Do I feel druggy? Injured? Did I get knocked out and brought here? Did I just wake up here? What am I wearing? Do I see recording or monitoring equipment? The fine details of a situation like this mean everything. Also, what is this designed to test? This is like asking if you prefer to go feet first into a wood chipper or be put into a box with a ton of poisonous spiders for a day. It doesn't explain anything. This would be a pointless experiment from a scientific perspective. \\n There is actually a large amount of research done on how situational variables control things like this. Take the \\\"Good Samaratin Experiment\\\" where a number of people walked past a dying person if they were busy or stopped and helped if they had some free time. Who they were meant basically nothing. Watch [this]( video where people decide things like organ donation and money based off ordering effect or irrelevant third options. \\n The reason why most people chose to crawl in this set up is because you made staying completely unreasonable, only crippling fear would make someone stay and die in a room that clearly has no exit or no other distinguishing features as they choke to death on poo gas. Add a light fixture, a camera, and a hole to poop in, say the air into the tunnel seems still, and the majority of people would be like, \\\"Eh? why risk it, it seems like the tunnel doesn't lead anywhere and someone knows I'm here\\\" \\n Even if we assume OP really worked it out and cleaned up all the situational variable problems, it would still be like the old moral question where someone puts a gun to your head and says, \\\"Kill person X or you die.\\\" In the moral situation there are two answers but in the real world there are an infinite number. Answering it with one or the other just tells the asker what you want people to think of you and nothing about how you actually think. (Someone who says they kill the other person wants people to think they are hard or a pragmatist. Someone who says they would die wants people to think they are sensitive or an altruist. Someone who comes up with a lenghty response about trying to fight back or convince the person to let them go, is trying to seem clever but is coming off as a dick.) Also, as Abu Gharib and related situations (and studies) have shown us, who we are hypothetically and who we are in the real world are two very different things\",\n \"Summary: SCIENCE, FUCK YEAH. \\n Pre-Edit: I am running on like 3 hours sleep sorry if this sounds kind of crazy. Also this amuses me \\n To belle77: keep pushing! (Unless your professor has you washing glass ware or working as his secretary and has not involved you in real research and has no plans to; then leave that situation as nicely as possible and find a PI who respects undergrads.)\\n\\nPost: Grad student here, don't listen to him. Science fucking rocks. In undergraduate you sometimes get stuck with shit work but shop around before joining a lab. Find a professor who will respect you and who has a project in mind for you; email them with a brief about who you are freshman or sophmore year, they will be impressed. You often will start with grunt work (slicing brains, running westerns, doing impossible synthesises; I spent my first year trying to optimize a wash cycle for a microscope, half the time it failed, half the time I failed.) but stick with it, ask questions, read as much literature as you can understand, talk to anyone who will explain more about the project, and learn as many details as you can. Eventually, you'll get competent and fast at the easy shit and you'll begin to see where you fit in a project, and you'll get to join in on the harder parts of the project. Along the way, hang with science kids from your class, join the club for your major if there is one, hang in the study room for your major, join study circles, and go to talks. (your department has these, talk to secretaries and grad students, we know. You won't get what is being said, but it gives you something to chat with grad students about and when you become a senior you'll be amazed how knowledgeable about the breadth of the field you are.) Then it all comes to fruition when you apply to grad schools, and here is the awesome part, THEY PAY YOU TO GO GRAD SCHOOL in almost every hard science field from physics to neuroscience. I'm pulling down 27k a year while doing what I love. Once in grad school you are working side by side with some of the most intelligent people you'll meet. It's hard work, and some days shit sucks, for the first two years everything will probably go wrong and you will get practically no usable information. But just like undergrad, pay attention, synthesize info, figure out what needs to be done. Then at some point you realize: there are an infinite number of directions your research can go and you can do just about anything while in grad school as long as you can sell it. \\n Grad school isn't for everyone, it takes dedication to do the best things (I put in 12 hour days regularly and most of my lab works weekends. This isn't true of all labs, but in some it is the expectation, ask grad students about this before you get there so you know if you fit the lab culture.) You have to be passionate about the research (I think one postdoc in my lab has 'read' around 8000 papers from his grad through postdoc career) and you have to be able to work on your own, with a group, with unlimited resources, and with no resources. But you are basically your own manager at 22. Your PI has funds to research an area, but you control where those funds go and help them write grants to get funds to do what you want. And you get to see things THAT NO ONE IN THE WORLD SEES BEFORE YOU DO. You literally make knowledge. And when you are done, BAM, you can go to industry and make tons of money, (above 100000 within a few years), go be a professor which while hard is basically the next best thing to being independently wealthy, or go be an editor, writer, buisnessman, whatever with the knowledge and PhD that says you can handle just about any project. \\n Science is hands down the best job in the world, everything that makes people happy at jobs: like self-direction, new challenges, feedback from peers, freely creative environment, and smart creative coworkers who enjoy socializing and like their jobs, are the norm in science. Shitty PIs and professors are really the exception. You will forget how awesome this job is sometimes but at the end of the day, you basically get to do magic and they pay you for it.\",\n \"Summary: Cheap oil could run out in the near future, there are alternatives. These alternatives have a higher cost, but do not represent the end of the world. \\n EDIT: Fixed awkward phrasing.\\n\\nPost: I am as much a fan of clean energy as the next guy, but you are incorrect for several reasons. \\n \\n Yes, conventional oil reserves are depleting, which is is to say the amount of energy in per unit oil out is increasing. (Currently 4.7 out for one in) but this doesn't mean oil is running out. Oil shale, with becomes viable at 1.2 can help to replace this. (You are correct that the 1300 bn includes oil sands and shale) \\n \\n Oil can be made in large quantities through several processes. These include but are not limited to coal gasification followed by synfuel conversion, or coal liquefication (1.5 and 1.4 ratios). Coal is very abundant. \\n \\n Biofuels that currently exist can outdo oil and in some countries do, most notably ethanol from sugar cane which has an 8.0 and ethanol from switchgrass which has a 5.4. At a certain point even ethanol from corn with a 1.1 becomes sensible. (As mentioned elsewhere 3rd generation biofuels can do even better) \\n \\n Natural gas, while no good for airplanes, already produces the majority of our fertilizer and can be used to power cars with some effort. There is a lot of it around. \\n \\n \\n Basically, peak oil is totally real, running out of oil is total nonsense. Things based off oil will become more expensive as energy returns for oil production goes down, but most of these have already become so cheap (food, shipping, plastics) that increasing their prices will only set us back to how we were spending before the fifties (as a consumer culture this would be devastating, but as a species surviving, not actually that big of a deal.) Also, most of these options (like gasification and oil shale) are environmentally devastating. We need to find solutions to deal with the oil addiction, but only because it is environmentally crippling and holding us back as a country and as a species. The oil age isn't going to stop because we run out of oil.\",\n \"Summary: Chinese room argument was made before artificial neural networks, which strengthen and weaken nodes based off inputs. It is no longer a super functional analogy.\\n\\nPost: Right but in the Chinese room argument, you aren't communicating with the person you are communicating with the writer of the program, the person is merely transcribing. Your phone doesn't understand English it just transduces. \\n In the case of Watson, the machine is developing answers that the humans inputting the data could not get. It has begun developing higher order effects. Moreover these effects gain and change weighting with training meaning the machine's network begins to 'trust' certain effects over others. This is beyond the capabilities of the Chinese room argument. \\n This would be like you starting in the Chinese room and then having people shock you when you send out the incorrect response so you begin to trust certain rules over others. Then you would begin to trust certain sub rules within those rules in those rules for certain types of Chinese characters. You then begin to train for a task (like Chinese Jeopardy). You begin to see that certain clusters of characters are better handled by certain sets of rules than other sets of characters. (At this point you have developed context?) You then begin to 'recognize' individual characters that specific cabinets happen to be really good at dealing with but not when paired with other characters. At which point do you actually begin 'understanding' Chinese. When you can sight recognize a character? When you know how arrays of characters work together? When you know how to strengthen and weaken your actions based off arrays of characters that are recent versus constant? When you can optimize your interpretations for a task? The Chinese Room argument clearly breaks down for this type of discussion.\",\n \"Summary: 4chan is a site on the internet. Tumblr is a bin on the internet. Reddit is a subnet on the internet. They have all their own ways with dealing with new members.\\n\\nPost: Actually, this is really interesting because these three sites all contain fundamentally different structures. 4chan, digg, HackNews, MetaFilter, and Stumbleupon are all owner defined structures, the boards that exist, are the ones the mods and owners have decided are going to exist. All 4 of these sites are vulnerable to and have faced down the 'noob rush' (so called- Eternal September were new members never learn the culture because they are learning from other new members) 4chan has done it by making /b/ the noob focus, /b/ has fallen into trash, but it works as a breaker for the other boards. HN and MeFi both use hard moderation, which forces new members to learn the culture or constantly have posts deleted. Digg has kind of failed to handle the Eternal September actually. (maybe scaring all the new members away with the v4 nonsensene) Stumbleupon was based around Eternal September \\n Tumblr on the other hand is more like twitter and DeviantArt. There is very little structure, which makes it incredibly difficult for anything to form, but it also makes it harder for a 'culture' to form. These sites give you exactly what you want out of them. If you sign up for trash posts, you get trash posts, if you sign up for clever you get clever. The nice thing about this model is it's basically infinitely scalable, as long as new members don't abuse the system, they can't ruin the system, only it's reputation. \\n Sites like reddit and Quora (and perhaps pinterest?) contain user defined structures. This is interesting because the site is no longer a site, but a network framework. Every other site named, could fit into reddit's framework without much modification. To an even greater extent the users run each subsection by their own rules. This is why we've seen the /r/science subnet shift to hard moderation to maintain it's culture. This is how raid boards like /r/ShitRedditSays can stop from being raided and how stuff like /r/4chan can actually get a look and feel of 4chan inside reddit. \\n We've also seen the rise of subnetworks, something not originally planned as part of the system. There is the SFW porn net, the science net, the trees net, etc. The only moderater defined part of the site is the front page, (which contains subs that weren't origianlly on the front page). Unfortunately, their way of dealing with the Eternal September is to sacrifice the front page subs. Rage comics, Advice Animals, funny, atheism etc are all easy to post in and easy to browse so they end up developing the 'reddit culture' which has influences on the other subs but not a massive one. However, the underlying culture of parts like /r/TrueReddit and /r/DepthHub has manged to stay the same. (Though truereddit has started leaking the last 6 months). I guess when people say 'reddit is full of image macros, cats, and reposts' they mean the front page or /r/all (images are simply too easy to view and upvote). However, as long as this doesn't stop new members from joining, it's really not so bad as members can build their own front page once they have learned more about what reddit is about. But here is the interesting part. \\n In addition, each subreddit has had to deal with the 'noob rush'. Some have buckled and only have a hint of rules to stop them from anarchy (funny, WTF, politics, worldnews, and atheism). Some have started semi-moderating as way to slow down cultural change (f7u12, pics, and others). Some have started hardline moderation to keep things the same (askscience, nosleep, science, etc). That's what is kind of fantastic about reddit. Actually, the biggest thread to the reddit structure is leak from the front page, (memes, racism, sexism, political laziness, and fires like SOPA/PIPA) and raid or 'mocking' boards (circlejerk, shitredditsays, etc [though raid and mocking boards can be good, circlejerk, before it went stupid, used to be good at lampooning and putting out reddit fires. ShitRedditSays, when it's not trying to raise chaos for some quixotic political goal and working as a bury brigade, is a good way to help stop frontpage leak.])\",\n \"Summary: SSRIs suck and take too long and maybe use BDNF. Lazy scientists link ketamine to BDNF with mTOR, and are probably wrong. We don't know shit, depression is confusing and hard. Ketamine seems to work but not super well.\\n\\nPost: This is actually my field. So let's do a quick review (and partially explain why these researchers are wrong and why cough syrup won't cure your depression) \\n So there was a few papers way back in the day (2006-2007 I think) that basically showed that a patient presenting with depression could be cured with a (let me emphasize this) SUBHYPNOTIC dose of ketamine. This result seemed to last out to a week (at least that's when they stopped checking, turns out MDs are not very good at science, huge surprise that.) Later studies showed that ketamine lasts for about 10 days (this was in the article). \\n Of course researchers, loving patented drugs, immediately came to believe that ketamine was working through NMDA receptor antagonism. (we have a ton of these from when we were trying to cure stroke) NMDA receptors are the receptors that let in calcium when stimulated. Oddly, they are suggesting that blocking these receptors treat depression. The mechanism, some researchers claim, is that NMDA blockade causes compensation which leads to glutamate enhancement which kicks off increases in mTOR (which makes more synapses and stuff, synapses decrease with stress and depressed folks have less PSD95 which is in excitatory (glutamate using) synapses). Unfortunately, when they actually tested this mechanism (in 2010 in Science or was it Nature? using a rat model of depression, forced swim, where you guess it they forced a rat to swim and saw how long it took for the rat to give up) ketamine worked for 7 days (at least, they failed to test longer, turns out PhDs aren't great at science either), other NMDA receptor antagonists (like MK801) did not work for more than a day. (Also, MK801 and other NMDA receptor antagonists notably cause psychosis and have a nasty potential for abuse. DXM which is in cough syrup falls into the same category as MK801) \\n So this leaves us in an awkward situation. SSRIs take a week to start working (and don't work in 50% of cases, though this number is reducing as we realized many depressed people are actually bipolar, oops our bad). Ketamine treats people for 10 days, but needs redosing (probably loses efficacy over time), has massive abuse potential, and leads to psychosis. Other NMDA receptor antagonists don't work for shit. Sleep deprivation works (surprisingly) but only lasts until we go to sleep. (If you ever want anti-depressants say you are suicidal or not sleeping and depressed, though the suicidal one will end in a 48 hour hospital stay, depending on what state you are in.) Basically, we don't know shit. (Though I would suspect that it's an off target effect of ketamine, though presumably it's too low dose to stimulate those off target effects.) \\n I can (probably tomorrow) provide sources for any of this if you care.\",\n \"Summary: There are lots of reasons to be poor, people who are poor know exactly how much the banks are screwing them, but being poor is expensive so you pick the least shitty option which still sucks. Have more money is not a viable option.\\n\\nPost: Being poor is surprisingly expensive. This is a classic example of the poverty trap. Poor people know exactly how badly they are getting fucked they just choose the option that fucks them the least and hope to eventually have a month where they don't get fucked too badly. Let's set up an example, you are living paycheck to paycheck (not that unreasonable, you maybe a major medical emergency, got busted for doing something stupid or being in the wrong place at the wrong time, maybe your parents are sick, maybe you are supporting a spouse who has come on hard times, maybe they closed your plant and you are happy to get whatever labor you can, maybe you just like alcohol a little too much, maybe someone jacked your car and you are forced to make payments on it, maybe you ran into someone with money and your financially clever minimum payment insurance didn't cover it there are a lot of reasons to be poor) and suddenly, your car breaks down. \\n Well that sucks, you go to the auto mechanic and he can fix it for $300. You only have $290 in your account which you have been trying to save. You can either face an overdraft now, and continue to overdraft the rest of the month as you pay rent, electricity, gas, car payments, and food costs, or you can scrap/impound the car (a $1000 dollar cost) and hope the bus can get you to your job (which if you are late 3 times you are fired). In addition, paying gas or electricity late incurs $150 shut off and shut on fees, skipping car payments can lead to repo or having to declare bankruptcy, and food tends to be non-negotiable. Which incredibly large fee do you choose? $150 in overdrafts? $300 dollar shut off fees? Scrap your car? Lose your job? Or do you go to a payday loan and get money at the low low rate of 20% a week. \\n All the options suck when you don't have money, you just try to pick the one that sucks the least. No matter how disciplined or 'saavy' you are, shit hits the fan sometimes and then you end up in a poverty trap, where small problems cost big money that just piles up. This Cracked article summarizes it nicely\",\n \"Summary: The state of the art is complicated, there are lots of promising compounds from lots of directions. It's not clear what is and is not possible. We can't even agree on definitions of what intelligence or cognition means. People make themselves smarter all the time by incorporating tools in their life.\\n\\nPost: This thread has clearly evolved far beyond your question but this is a thing I work on, so I'll say what I think is the state of the art. \\n \\n Some state that it's impossible to cognitively enhance an individual. They point to studies on the failure of Modafinil in intelligent individuals [1] and (mostly anecdotal) research on individuals with incredibly memories who are nonfunctional in other ways. [2] There is also some psuedo-mathematics they apply for optimal decision time to make good calls on tasks. This part of the research is questionable in my opinion. But the idea that 'there is no such thing as a free lunch' certainly seems to hold true with most of the current 'cognitive enhancement' drugs. \\n \\n Others hold that we not only can cognitively enhance individuals, but that we possess the drugs today to do so. They blame an inefficient and ineffective FDA for the reason these drugs have not come to the market. They point to above species capability enhancement in chimps and rats. These drugs include ampakines[3], 7,8-dihydroxyflavone [4], mGluR antagonists [5], L-dopa [6], Memantine [7], and epigenetic enhancers [8]. \\n \\n There are some who say not only do the drugs exist, but they are available on the open market. They will often say with a good 'stack' [9], one can enhance one's intelligence with minimal cost. While there are anecdotal claims of awesome gains, most of the gains in studies are minimal or nonexistent. \\n \\n Obviously, we have been using cognitive enhancers for years, amphetamines, nicotine, caffeine, books, the internet, and even writing. All of these things can supplement normal individuals beyond their capabilities. It's weird to think, but a human with a piece of paper has an infinite memory compared to a human without. A human with excel can perform a series of calculations that could leave the best mental math expert in the dust. There is some argument, along this line, that cognitive enhancement is not very relevant, because the addition and integration of tools are already making us so much will make it irrelevant. \\n \\n There is some belief that meditation, learning other languages, practicing mental games, and exercising can make you smarter. Unfortunately, this literature suffers from positive effect bias and it's extremely difficult to tell the effects of these behaviors on cognition (if any). Indeed, mental games have recently found to be basically useless at any but the most directed of tasks. \\n \\n To make matters worse, there is no agreed upon definition of cognition. G is sort of the 'go-to' intelligence metric [10]. But what it means is unclear. There has also been a number of drugs which have showed improvement in 'cognition tasks' but have shown basically no effect in any meaningful 'life metric'. We can often address cognition by it's 'lack'. [11] But it's hard to define what a gain would mean. \\n \\n \\n \\n Modafinil was a wakefulness agent developed to keep pilots awake for a long time. It works impressively though long term effects are unclear. You can buy low quality doses of it from India on the cheap. It also has cognitive enhancing effects. Interestingly, studies have shown that these effects only occur in people of below average intelligence. Those with above average intelligence are unaffected or even harmed by Modafinil. (There is also a genotype effect you can get tested at 23andme, but this is just to see if you are responsive at all). \\n \\n Anecdotally, there are people who can remember thousands of random objects thrown at them in order. There are competitions around memorizing hundreds of cards in a row. Individuals who do this naturally without tricks are often cognitively odd. Some of them have information processing difficulties, it appears their amazing memories gets in the way of their functioning. \\n \\n Ampakines were an AMPA receptor allosteric modulator developed by Dr. Gary Lynch. They show interesting effects in rats and chimps, even recruiting unique brain areas for tasks. They also allow species to perform better on some cognitive tasks than species normal. They have shown an effect in a number of disorders, and some forms cause an increase in BDNF. They also up seizure threshold and have had a number of issues with FDA approval. \\n \\n 7,8 dihyroxyflavone, is the current miracle drug. It's a TrkB agonist (mimics BDNF) that crosses the blood-brain barrier. It cures freaking everything from depression to stress to major cognitive impairment. It's still very new and it's future is unclear. \\n \\n mGluR antagonists were developed (or popularized IDK) by Dr. Bear. They show good effect in fragile-X and some other disorders. It's pretty unclear what they (or indeed mGluR receptors) do. Theories have evolved a lot since their inception. I'm not sure this is even a cognitive enhancer. \\n \\n L-dopa is curious, it has been shown to enhance (at least muscle memory) memory in individuals given it. It's completely unclear why this happens (L-dopa increases dopamine). This effect is obviously large in Parkinson's individuals, but also appears to exist in some healthy individuals. (this might be controlled by genotype). L-dopa may suffer from the 'inverted U' drug effect, where low L-dopa individuals can be made smarter but high L-dopa individuals are made less smart. This is still a topic of active research. L-dopa has a ton of side effects and is extremely unlikely to ever be used in healthy individuals (though perhaps a mimic?). \\n \\n Memantine has been approved for people with Alziheimer's. How it works is a real interesting question. Surprisingly it is an NMDA receptor antagonist and a AchR agonist. It's totally unclear why this makes individuals smarter. It's effects might be enhanced by nicotine oddly enough. \\n \\n HDAC inhibitors are being investigated as cognitive enhancement compounds. Papers have shown an enhancement from these drugs in mice that were really mentally screwed up. (and had basically no memory). I think this area of research is incredibly fruitless, so I'm not really doing to explain the complexity of how these might work. If you are curious, you can ask me. \\n \\n Common stacks include, piracetem, choline, l-theanine, and caffeine. See /r/Nootropics for a take different from mine on this issue. There is also a Russian drug, noopept which might show effects of 100x piracetem, if you can get a clean batch, which is hard. \\n \\n G was pulled out by some complicated mathematics by Spearmen. Basically it seems to influence any activity we do, and seems to be correlated with wealth. G has lead to a lot of bad science so many people just kind of ignore it, especially since no good correlate in animals has been found, it's very difficult to test for without cultural biasing, and it's totally unclear what 'mediates' G. \\n \\n Attention deficit disorder for instance, we know what an individual with bad attention looks like, it's harder to imagine what someone with amazing attention would look like, or if that would be desirable. \\n \\n \\n Last Note: Also, some people think sticking wires to your head and zapping it can make you go into the state of 'flow'. While there is some research supporting it, I would not advice sticking wires to your head if you don't have many years experience with EE and neuroscience. \\n I'm sure I got something wrong, please tell me if I missed something or misstated something. Most of this is in my field, but much of it is not.\",\n \"Summary: My quick and dirty study says you probably aren't right.\\n\\nPost: I'm curious, it's science time, I'll leave out non-humans even though they have human features: \\n [The Wicked Queen]( 3/7, sharp jaw, eye makeup, and I'll give you narrow skull. \\n [Stromboli-Pinnochio, though arguable not the primary antagonist]( 3/7- Nose, head, beady eyes. \\n [Ringmaster-Dumbo]( 1/7 small eyes only. \\n [Mr. Winkie (the fuck)-The Wind in the Willows]( 1/7 Lady lips? I can't really tell and I didn't see this one. \\n [Wicked Stepmother- Cinderella]( 2/7 Sharp Jaw and bags. \\n [Queen of Hearts]( 3/7 Thin skull, small eyes, lady lips. \\n Captain hook , jaw, skull, pupils? \\n [Aunt Sarah-Lady and Tramp]( 2/7- eyes and lips. \\n [Maleficent (who is supposed to be more or less the devil)]( 5/7-Jaw, makeup, small pupils, thin skull, lady lips. \\n Cruella De Vil (also the devil) \\n [Madam Mim]( Pupils, skull, bags under eyes. \\n [Balthazar-Aristocrats]( 5/7 Nose, pupils, skull, bags, lips?. \\n [Madame Medusa-Resucers]( 4/7 Makeup, pupils, lips, bags \\n Amos Slade-Fox and hound \\n [Bill Sykes-Oliver and company]( 2/7 Nose, skull \\n [Ursula]( 2/7 Makeup, skull. \\n [Percival-Rescuers Down Under]( 4/7-pupils, bags, nose,skull. \\n [Gaston]( 0/7 \\n [Jafar]( Nose, Jaw, head, pupils, makeup, lady lips. \\n [Governer Ratcliffe]( 3/7, Pupils, head, bags. \\n Frollo . \\n Hades \\n Shan Yu (best villain by far) \\n [Clayton-Tarzan]( 5/7 Pupils, bags, nose, chin, skull \\n [Yzma]( 6/7 Pupils, Jaw, head, makeup, bags, lips \\n Lyle Tiberius Rourke-Atlantis \\n Dr Facilier \\n Average: 3.6/7 \\n My method isn't terrifically unbiased, and it would be nice to get a list of heroes and do a t-test, but it honestly looks like you are mostly wrong. There are many traits (the skull and the pupils) which appear a lot but that has a lot more to do with archetypical villain traits than anything Disney is pulling. (and honestly, it's LONG skull, and out of proportion eyes not beady eyes and small skull). Also my analysis says the Jewish nose thing is incorrect. 8/27 had something like what you are talking about, hardly consistent. (and again, any feature out of proportion, including small ears is a common feature of villains). There is an interesting discussion of Disney's possible Nazi links but they don't play out to anything more to the fact that he was just kind of racist in general (Anyone who has seen Peter Pan could tell you that) \\n Summary: There is too little evidence to reject your hypothesis outright. Except for the requirement part. (A more thorough analysis using all characters as a control and performed by a less biased and more consistent judge, I was tired, would work better) But the perliminary evidence seems to suggest that you are confounding a number of artistic styles (lack of lips != lady lips, though I occasionally called it so) and standard villain archetypes into a generalization about Disney.\",\n \"Summary: No in theory, but we can't yet look at the synaptic level dynamically (in a before and after way, or even really at all) so we don't know perfectly.\\n\\nPost: Neuroscience grad student studying learning and memory. \\n No one knows the answer to your question per-se. This is because we lack the power to look at a brain before and after learning and examine what the change is. (The change happens at synapses which are even smaller than neurons). \\n That being said, we do know that people store things in similar regions of their brains. For instance we have a pretty good idea where sense memories, place memories, and factual memory is stored. And we know that the storage of memories (in rats at least) is NOT stereotyped at the cellular level (to say nothing of the synaptic level). For instance place cell learning, where a rat learns a location in space, happens in many separate cells in the hippocampus, but not in the same cells in each rat. (indeed rats don't have the same number or even a stereotyped number of cells, so this would not be likely). In humans, one of the problems with MRI studies is that left handed and right handed people use the space in their brain slightly differently. Also MRI studies tend to need huge numbers of subjects because each person has a slightly different patten of activation (at the multicellular level of analysis). \\n From a psychological perspective, we would not think that memories are stored in the same way exactly in each person. As far as we know, most memory builds off connections and perceptions from previous memory. (Why you learn a subject better if you tie it to things you know). Also recall of memories differ based off how people are instructed to store them. (told to look for a pattern vs learning a pattern, explained the rules of task vs figuring it out). In addition, preexisting knowledge helps you gain new knowledge.(Think of how easy it is to learn a new language when you know 2, or how quickly you pick up one video game after playing a similar one. You are probably learning the game by generalizing your previous skill not by relearning it). This implies the memories are not stored in the same way.\",\n \"Summary: People don't fear death, they dislike it.\\n\\nPost: I respectfully disagree, accepting death is part of growing up. There is no point in keeping people alive forever. You aren't who you were ten years ago and you aren't who you are going to be in 100 years. Realistically, we can make a better (and cheaper) human in 100 years than we can by keeping you or me around an extra 40. At some point, our software is old, there is no reason to keep pressing to keep us around. Don't get me wrong, I would probably use radical life extension technology if it existed, but this doesn't mean I'm terrified of death it just means I enjoy life. In a similar vein I attempt to not drown. Living is better than dying but that doesn't mean death has to be feared. As to all world religions, that's nonsense. Some world religions and the currently popular three, Christianity, Hinduism, and Islam have immoral life in them. However, Taoism, Judaism, sects of Buddhism, Stoicism, and atheism all have the concept of permanent death in them. \\n In a lot of ways, our culture has a broken death culture compared with many others. People will get terribly sick and instead of accepting death they will cling to the last remnants of life until they are long past the point where they should have died. In fact there is a 'new' movement about dying with dignity and not trying to be saved when what you will save will live on in pain for 6 months then die.\",\n \"Summary: This chart is mostly lies and misrepresentations.~~ Even correcting for those lies, it's still wrong.~~ \\n EDIT: Strike throughs are edits. Also, this is the first result that comes up if you type in \\\"US budget breakdown\\\", so this is unlikely to be an intentional deception by the person who posted this above me.\\n\\nPost: If you roll Social Security into welfare, which is completely nonsensical unless you are trying to deceive people into thinking welfare is a larger portion of the budget than it is. And oh look, the site is made by [Chistopher Chantrill, writer and conservative]( Of course you could, in theory, include Medicaid and Medicare into 'welfare' numbers, but that would be an uphill battle and most people would disagree with you. \\n Also, I'm not sure if you are conflating healthcare and \\\"obamacare\\\", but let me just make it clear, these are not the same thing. (though some people would include the relatively minor cost of \\\"obamacare\\\" into the healthcare numbers) \\n Also, this chart leaves out the cost of the Iraq and Afghanistan war. ~~ Also, even given all these mistakes, the chart is still low-balling the defense numbers A LOT compared to~~ [official budget page.]( EDIT: Actually it is not low-balling it that much, it's presenting these numbers a percent of GDP instead as a percent of the budget, my bad, and the official website does not have numbers.\",\n \"Summary: Tattoos, sociopathy, patents, fat, and data-mining of public data\\n\\nPost: Obviously the usual fights will continue and the question of what discrimination over race/religion/gender means will continue. But new three areas I see: \\n Mental health issues. \\n The mentally ill are not in a good place right now. They are basically the scapegoat for every issue in America and the current strategy is 'lock em up until they are sane enough to medicate.' For some disorders, like borderline personality disorder, sociopathy (1 in 25 people have it) etc the consensus is basically 'take them out back and shoot them or put them in a hole they can never crawl out of' (not that we do the former). I suspect a move towards more complex drug/behavioral regimes will lead to a well spring of mental health debate similar to what you saw for people with depression/schizophrenia/autism over the last 50 years (and also restart the debate about optimal treatment for those disorders). I suspect the conditions for people with all those disorders and perhaps the definition of disorder in general will become a major battle. \\n Body rights/body mod rights/body image rights. \\n Enough people are getting tattoos that I can see a pretty big fight coming over whether someone can fire you for having visible tats, piercings, inserts etc. People with these mods (which obviously they brought on themselves, perhaps decades ago) are pretty marginalized. As the complexity of these go up I suspect there will be a small fight over this. \\n Similarly, enough fat people are coming into visibility that I suspect some form of fat rights will happen. \\n Similarly the fight over cognitive enhancers, sports enhancement, etc is all happening right now, it's just mostly academics and rich people arguing about it, but the whole 'what can you put in your body and what is a drug' will probably hit the mainstream. \\nI suspect we will see gene injections for 'doing cool shit on your body like making it glow or turn blue' long before we see useful injectables and I suspect I won't see 'superior embeddable cybernetics' for a long time, for a number of reasons. This sort of 'gene modding' or whatever will lead to some fights over whether you are allowed to alter your genome and if your boss has to allow you to work for them. Add in that there is a huge blow back over what magazines can show in advertisements and you might see some major 'anti-photoshop/enhanced people in ads' stuff coming out \\n Finally, piracy/patent/copyright/information war fights have been brewing for a long time. I suspect the fight over this has only just begun. \\n Copyright laws have basically been fought to a standstill to the benefit of the anti-IP groups (yes the DMCA exists and is stupid, but honestly pirates have won this round). The anti-IP group will probably fall back and 'redraw the copyright line so it seems sane like 10 years with doubling renewal fees every 10' or something like that. Then the real fight of what ownership in an increasingly fast moving digital world means will become a big issue. I barely understand the issue right now. (copyright is currently crazy, but I feel like it should exist, I suspect my children might not) \\n Advertisers will increasingly begin weaponizing psychology (like they have been for 20 years and increasingly what Google does now, look into A/B testing, now include mass personal info mining and you have ads that can get inside you pretty easily) and you will have a slew of laws fighting over 'what is an ad', 'where can an ad be', 'how personalized can an ad be', 'what levels of psychological trickery is allowed'. I honestly don't give a shit. But, Bloomberg is not a dumb man and he is fighting about fucking cup sizes right now because he gets it on some level I barely do. Add in that government agencies will begin running hundreds of predictive models to control/benefit voters and suddenly information (even without the privacy fight) becomes a huge battleground. (I dig datamining/targetted ads, but a lot of people don't) \\n Patent law starts hitting a wall with products anyone can produce if they can steal. Plant patents only stand if you can enforce them and the DIY movement's irrational fear of GMOs is the only thing that has stopped the mass piracy of plants. Add in 3-D printer prices dropping and the difficulties that creates in enforcing physical patents and you have one messy situation. Once DIYers really get good at biologically based chemical synth, maintaining drug patents will also become a clusterfuck. I'm pretty pro patent, but I'm not sure how my kids will feel.\",\n \"Summary: New games are good, but unless you dig graphics they aren't necessarily better. I suspect there is some nostalgizing going on but not as much as people say.\\n\\nPost: I think what you're asking is, can anything released in the last 4 years replace the games released in the past 20. (most people's favorite is probably somewhere after 1990) \\n I think it really depends on what you care about in games. Different things have evolved at different rates. Graphics of modern games are miles ahead of anything we could have dreamed of 20 years. Gameplay got a lot better initially but is now improving much more slowly. Stories and decision driven narratives have stayed about the same (or gone backward, voice acting is great but it shreds player decision). World building has gotten better in a lot of ways and more limited in a lot of ways. \\n If you love glorious looking games with tight, fun, realistic, open world gameplay, it's easy for a modern game to replace an old favorite. I loved far cry 3/red dead redemption. If you love story and deep open worlds, then you are comparing 20 years of games to the last 4. Have a lot of great games come out in the last 4? Absolutely, but there is a lot to compare against for a game to become a personal favorite. For instance, I hadn't played a game that tickled the same bones that Super Metroid did until I played Dark Souls. (not that either is my favorite ever) The depth and complexity of exploration was just at a level that graphics and gameplay couldn't easily replace. Nothing I've played has yet brought the same feelings that Morrowind did. On the other hand, Alpha Protocol was like nothing I'd ever played before and I was sad to see it finish. Terraria did things I'd never seen done as well. \\n For a good example, check out the RPG codex top 70 (while they do have a bias for less mainstream titles) . The distribution is pretty even across the last 20 years (including a fair amount of new/modern games).\",\n \"Summary: In little kids yes. In adults, no more than if you just focused on training one sense really hard, and it might reduce 'noise' from other senses.\\n\\nPost: Lot of misinformation here. It depends on when you lose the sense. If you are a little kid, you can remap part of our cortex for other use giving you a slightly sharper than normal acuity. (Indeed when people who were blind from an early age 'read' we see activation in their previously visual cortex) \\n If you lose it later in life your senses DO NOT SHARPEN OR ENHANCE. However, you become more reliant on your other senses. For instance you can read read braille when blind because you learned to read braille, not because you gained sensitivity. For another example, if I wiped out your eyes and your hearing was shitty, your hearing wouldn't become better, however you would become better at using what you had. You would be able to recognize more sounds as your memories became more sound based and you practiced recognizing sounds. It's even possible (there is debate about this) that some senses when activated, activate other parts of the brain (the so called 'McGurk' effect where watching a video like this So with your eyes eliminated, you might get a more 'clean' signal from the ears. \\n It should also be noted that senses can be trained far more than we would expect. Visual, auditory, and touch acuity can be trained to fairly high levels in lab settings and there is growing evidence of people in specific fields gaining higher than normal sensitivity. This might play a role. \\n There is also a little evidence of cortex remapping (almost exclusively from studies using devices to simulate sensory modalities like tongue cameras, where you have a visual world simulated by touch pixels on the tongue), but it seems that cortex remapping, at very least, requires a similar signal in adults.\",\n \"Summary: Artificial organs will only offer short term lifespan increases, stem cells are expensive and require clean DNA to avoid donor rejection problems and cancer, and Nanobots are awesome though so far in the future to not really be practical for modern day man.\\n\\nPost: Lot's of things.\\nLet's take artificial hearts for example. Hearts, in our bodies have a number of solid advantages for being alive. They have a running span greater than almost any machine (find me a machine that can run all day every day for 80 years compressing 60 times a second). They can heal, almost no machine can do that (some materials 'heal' but their capacity is incredibly limited compared to what your heart can do). They can to a great degree self-clean. Also, and most importantly they can regulate based of signals of your body. While having a heart that runs at a solid 60 BPM sounds awesome, it's much less awesome when trying to run. \\n Similar problems emerge in the discussion of kidneys (actually the easiest organ to replace, it's just a filter, though an absolutely magical one), the liver (which is essentially a structure that creates incredible proteins to break down and dissolve practically any compound, wihtout also breaking down your body), and your bones (which create many of the red blood cells in your body). This doesn't even touch on the complexity of the immune system which is as complex as the nervous system and is entirely 'designed' to protect your body from outside assault. \\n So then the obvious solution is to grow REAL organs from your own DNA using stem cells or the like.(Crazy expensive) The problem is that finding 'clean' DNA in your body is actually difficult. One of the reasons cancer takes so long to go is that it has to break down multiple check points, many cells in your body have already had many of these checkpoints broken down by various environmental and internal assaults (your mitochondria does more damage than you would expect.) \\n So it might be possible to take some of your germ-line progenitor cells (from your balls, your body likes to keep these cleaner than the rest) and using them. There are still problems. First, neural tissue is nearly impossible to replace accurately (deep long innervations that are hard to make a new cell line track especially in the brain, easier elsewhere in the body, neural tissue will continue to break down over time as damage accumulates. It's hard to keep intelligence 'fluid' as you get older.) Second, those cells begin running out (older sperm has more mutations, and less of it exists, this is because the progenitor cells have gotten mutated.) \\n There is a solution: nanobots. As the cells in your body are each essentially a super-evolved, brilliantly programmed nanobot, you could replace them with a better nanobot. One that could learn the location of all the cells in your brain and begin mimicking them and their function as they die. Or ones that could be trained how to pump for 80 years, repair, or work together to defend your body. All you would need is fuel (you could even build them to run on ATP, glucose etc) and a way to get more nano-bots (they could even self replicate, maybe). With this method you could in theory live forever as every cell in your body is slowly replaced by a tougher, smarter, longer lasting microcomputer. (They could even reshape in theory, want to look like a fucking elephant? You can look like a fucking elephant!) .\",\n \"Summary: Y'all getting the wool pulled over your eyes.\\n\\nPost: A few thoughts. \\n PDFs can be used to hide weak data, there is a reason no journal accepts a PDF without binning or at least a mean analysis. They are incredibly vulnerable to population size and they say nothing about the significance of the data. They can also be used to make small differences seem larger than they are, as one bin off from another group can look like a major deviation. \\n Failure to report n's in his group is an unforgivable omission. Some of these are clearly from small groups. \\n This data is uselessly vulnerable to underlying subcorrelation. We have no idea how these variables hold up when these subcorrelations are not present. \\n This author is clearly pushing an agenda, look through his previous posts, he is clearly selling a 'genetics are super important' agenda. It should also be noted he does not have a PhD and his analysis is not published in a peer reviewed journal. \\n This leads us to the fact that he picked his groups with a specific objective. A quality researcher or writer (like the NYT or a real researcher in this field) would have presented useful things like say \\\"Hispanics without a high school degree vs whites without a high school degree\\\" or \\\"Religious people in the lower income bracket vs religious people in higher income brackets\\\" this would help us get around the problem of [Simpson's Paradox]( Of course a real researcher would have done a PCA to figure out underlying correlations of his data and divided it in a logical manner. \\n His use of one metric is laughable. No one would accept a publication with one metric. \\n Conclusion: \\n Biased blogger pushing his own 'genetics first' view. No formal education or publication. Misleading graph type. No underlying analysis of the data. Reliance on single metric. This isn't science, this is opinion with a coat of science paint.\",\n \"Summary: Banks are secure, any site big enough to aggregate this type of information has too much to lose to pull something like this.\\n\\nPost: Like most structures in the modern world the defense is litigation and reputation. Let's say google, reddit, facebook, slashdot, or whatever does clean out a handful of users bank accounts. Let's say they make their IPs untraceable. How many accounts of repeat crimes could they really get away with before the pattern became clear? 100? 150? 200? 300? 1000? Compared with the amount of money building a company successful enough to accumulate weak bank account passwords and user names (most bank accounts have protections from this, I know mine does), you would have either gained or lost a lot more money than you could ever gain. And if you tried to make a big move and ripped off 10,000 people, what then? Your company is liable for millions in damages, you are going to jail, and your company is ruined. Consider the number of these sites that fail. This is simply not an economical game to play. This is especially true when compared to how much all of those users marketing is worth to advertisers. \\n An admin is even more at risk because the other admins and the company would help take them down if something like this happened. Then they would be alone, bankrupt, in prison, and unhireable. Though an admin could clean out a bank account or ten under the radar, the odds of this being you are about as small as anyone else you talk to in day to day life commuting fraud against you. (Especially if you use small companies which often lack the checks against fraud like larger companies have)\",\n \"Summary: Some people hate cats, she doesn't look like she gets off on pain. Psychopath is the wrong word. Grow up, hivemind.\\n\\nPost: Alright seriously. Why is this psychopathic behavior? Would it have been psychopathic if she had killed it quickly? Would it have been psychopathic if she had grabbed it and taken it to the pound and they had killed it more slowly? Would it have been psychopathic if it was a rat? A mouse? Rats are smarter by most metrics, we just view them as pests because we don't like them. Would this have been psychopathic 20 years ago? 50? 300? Torturing cats was pretty acceptable even a hundred years ago and was an even only 200-300 ago, where they all psychopaths? Were the scientists who sewed cats eyes shut psychopathic? Are the scientists that fuck with cats for science today psychopathic? \\n What I'm saying is taking an action you have a squick factor for (killing a cat) and calling it psychopathic is not reasonable. If she had taken it home and set it on fire or had actually stayed and listened to its pain then it might have had more of a hint of psychopathy. (though only by very current societal standards). She didn't cut it, break it, bleed it, burn it, bite it, throw something in afterwards, or even shake the bin afterwards to cause it more duress. This lady just disposed of it in the fastest means she could see, the fact she didn't have the stones to snap its neck first should push away from the psychopathic argument. It looks like she is just sick of stray cats, not some person who likes watching others hurt. Seriously cat owners, dog owners, etc stop being so sensitive, just because you like cats and dogs doesn't mean everyone has to. (Unless you are some kind of compassionate vegan who only eats food you have grown to make sure no mammals or other animal died or suffered in its production and doesn't take any medicine; then you can go to town.)\",\n \"Summary: Probably evolutionary artifact, also it works well enough and isn't a limiting factor so it never 'fixed'.\\n\\nPost: Ignore tag, not my field. \\n and Seem to cover it petty well. \\n Basically, it's not totally clear, but might have something to do with evolution. (cyanobacteria absorb the green part of the spectrum which means anything coming after has to use other parts of the spectrum, especially in the ocean.) Also, sunlight is not really the limiting factor in plant growth (gas diffiusion/water and slow enzymes like rubisco are major limiting factors) while overheating is a concern. So producing more pigments causes harm (by overheating the plant and costing sugar and water) while not giving a benefit (more energy that will be used) so they haven't evolved. Also, the machinery behind photosynthesis is fairly sensitive (requires very tight energy level transfers) so 'fixing' it would be difficult.\",\n \"Summary: They are seen as evil because they don't care what the public thinks.\\n\\nPost: They have terrible media relations because they don't need them. They don't sell to consumers, they sell to people, who sell to people, who sell to people, who sell to the consumers. They are heavily insulated from public opinion. (Also, their products are more or less essential to compete at cost). \\n Similarly, they don't need to win lawsuits (at least in country) by the press because they are good at winning them in the court room. If anything they like the fact that people are vaguely afraid of being sued if they try to save seeds. They want to be known as a little evil and overly litigious, regardless of the reality. \\n As to hiring, they are really the big game in town when it comes to non-human/non-academic biotech. If you want to help feed the world, and you want your effects to have meaning, you work for them. They don't need to be seen as good guys to hire the best biologists.\",\n \"Summary: Patents of discoveries aren't new, and they encourage disclosure instead of secrecy. In this case, the company was being a dick and had it coming.\\n\\nPost: Because discoveries aren't easy. Many discoveries have been patented and still are. The point is the discoveries patented aren't obvious. \\n Look at the situation reversed, let's say a brilliant scientist spent his whole life working to discover this gene. After millions of government and school dollars he finally succeeds. Would it be wrong if a company could come in, scoop up his unpatentable gene and make millions of dollars on it without any reimbursement? Or consider someone who discovers an organic reaction that no one else has. Does he have the right to the order of his molecules? Does a company that makes millions off the reaction have to pay him? \\n More important than all that is disclosure. Patents are designed for people to disclose their inventions and discoveries so that there is more incentive to reveal them then hide them. If you remove patents from all genes, the environment gene scientists work in would change. If you find a valuable gene, it would no longer benefit you to tell the world if you can instead offer it to a company which will develop a drug and patent the drug. It would force huge amounts of redundancy and waste. \\n However, the judge was probably correct (ethically if not legally) in this context, as the company that held the patent was refusing to allow others to use it. This goes against the nature of discovery patents.\",\n \"Summary: We can't really define the question in a useful way.\\n\\nPost: The truth is boring and people don't like it: We have no idea and defining the question in neurobiological terms is practically impossible \\n A brain is made out of neurons. Some neurons fire a ton, some almost never fire. Some can fire really, really fast 100 times per second. some can fire 3-5 times per second. Some get activated and stay active for seconds, some fire once and go refractory. Some are inhibitory meaning they stop others from firing. For every neuron there are 1 or so supporting cells called glia. Glia supply nutrients, eat up garbage, and insulate. Sometimes these cells engage in strange mostly not well understood long range communication using waves of calcium. \\n The neocortex is thought to be broken into little modules, say a visual module, an auditory module, a touch module etc. Each of these modules was thought, at one time to only respond to their given stimulus. It turns out, this might not be true and in most rodent studies, waves of activation are seen throughout the cortex in response to any stimuli. Whether these waves are cells activating or axons/dendrites (the highways that connect cells) is up to debate. \\n So that brings us to the question what does 10% of our brain mean? \\n Does it mean 10% of cells firing at a given frozen moment in time? This is nearly impossible to estimate and as I've mentioned doesn't make sense in context of how the cells work. Some people (probably if I scroll down on this thread) will repeat the common, and incorrect, idea that a seizure is 100% of your cells firing at once. This isn't really a correct description of a seizure at all. \\n Does it mean 10% of cells during a time frame, say 1s? This is also really hard to estimate and as most regions of the brain are firing along at one of the many background rhythms, most of your cells will show some activity over a time frame. \\n Does it mean 10% of your brain is used over background for a given task? This is kind of what fMRI measures (kind of). It's hard to say if this is meaningful, as the time scales are so long. Depending on how you read MRI/how you set thresholds wildly different amounts of brain will be 'used' on any given task, this isn't to say MRI is BS just that it's not useful for this metric. Wildly, there is a drug study in monkeys that used fMRI to show a class of drugs can bring regions of a brain not used for the task into use for the task. (but it was like a very tiny region) \\n Does it mean you can remove 90% of the brain and not have problems? Weirdly, someone (Karl Lashley) did do this and found rats don't have memory issues until you've removed quite a bit of cortex >50%!. Of course by modern standards his work is considered flawed and we now know that there are parts of the cortex that if removed will fuck you up big time. (The speech regions for instance). \\n Historically, it looks like the idea was made up by some magazine. \\n I can provide citations for or expand on any of the above bits if you'd like to know more.\",\n \"Summary: Ice crystals aren't a problem, dynamic and static networks of the brain and body are. It's unclear if information is lost, if it is you cannot be brought back ever. Live a good life, make scientific progress, get rich, and freeze yourself at death if you really want to do it, if science can bring you back from frozen, they can probably fix the aging problem. It's not like you'll notice any time pass once your frozen you'll either wake up after death or you won't. \\n Edit: [Wikipedia page on cryonics (different from above link on cryopreservation)turned out to be awesome and beat my response](\\n\\nPost: There is some misinformation being spread here. We absolutely can freeze and restore cells. (Goodness knows we do it on a regular basis, frozen cell IVF does exist and functions fairly effectively. Mouse banks and fruit fly banks store dozens of cell lines/embryos more or less indefinitely. These can then be 'brought to life' with little difficulty.) There is NOT currently a huge problem with ice crystal formation due both to slow freezing (which allows a match between the diffusion rate of water out of the cell and the growth of ice in the cell) and cryoprotectants (which reduce ice formation outside the cell, these are poisonous which is an issue with bigger creatures.) If you were just a small mass of tissue we could bring you back. Edit: [Cryopreservation wikipedia]( \\n However, the problems begin to mount the moment we begin talking about something big and something with a brain. If you are big, it probably means all your cells are working together in some highly organized manner (and thus you are not a mass of goo). Unfortunately, this also makes you vulnerable to toxicity of compounds. It also means that just stopping all the processes in your body then 'starting them back up' is a tricky process. \\n A more important matter (to you at least) is restoring the brain. Currently, no one will freeze you until you have been dead for at least a few minutes, this is a problem as the brain gets badly damaged after a few minutes of death. (Edit: There is some flexibility in this number. The colder and younger you are the better your chances of survival are, if you were hooked up to a machine and decided to 'pull the plug' then get cryofrozen you might be able to fend off a majority of ischemic damage. Also a few minutes almost immediately becomes 10-15 min if you are under proper medical care. The much bigger difficulty is that you rarely will get to the hospital this quickly post mortem and you might suffer some fairly significant neurological damage, such as low level chronic ischemia, leading up to your death. Thanks eleitl . This problem is only amplified when freezing and storing the brain which takes some time. Also your 'thought process' is a dynamic process. To restart the brain would be a tricky process and as far as I have heard it has never been accomplished. (The debate about when 'information death' of the brain occurs is still ongoing. From what I have personally heard, after 14 hours of death, all the dendrites have broken down and you are left with a sea of cells and synapses, which are quite durable, where there was once a network.) \\n Of course, the big hope is that the future can fix all these problems (toxicity is the smallest of these problems honestly) and bring you back. The problem is, if there is no network left in the brain, or the brain is seriously damaged there is nothing to 'bring back'. This is why freezing a live person would be tantamount to killing them.\",\n \"Summary: Markram wants to pull neuro research into one umbrella and simulate the brain using some simple principles. He ignores a lot of complexity in doing so and has done it in a celebrity way that is not appealing to many in the scientific community. \\n I apologize for typos and inaccuracies (this really isn't exactly my area, but I've been following as much as I can) and offer that anyone more knowledgeable than me or with better references should correct me.\\n\\nPost: Neuroscientist here. Let's talk about what is and is not true here. First, this article is bad a much better article (with links to criticism and discussions of feasibility is [here]( The previous article on this topic, [found here]( is the best if you really want to understand. \\n Let me start by saying, I don't much like Markram, I think he is acting in a fundamentally non-scientific way and his refusal to contribute to the databases he is using in his project is annoying. His stuff at SfN was showy and set up in a way to be flashy more than readable. He's playing celebrity science and that often ends poorly. But I'll try to give him the benefit of the doubt here. \\n The Problem \\n Neuroscience has a number of discoveries about kinases, channels, organizational principles, spiking properties, anatomical builds of cells, anatomical lay out of the brain, but these insights are disconnected. The literature is essentially the 'elephant problem' but with 30000 blind men instead of seven. The theory is that it's impossible to draw a fundamental theory out of such disorganized and disparate data. Previous attempts to draw this insight out (like artificial neural networks) usually came from one direction and ignored swaths of actual neuronal properties. Due to this, they usually produced useful techniques and insights but they failed to model anything but the most gross properties of neurons. \\n Other labs have developed software [Neuron]( for making 'empirically-based simulations of neurons and networks of neurons'. Basically it lets you simulate neurons without oversimplifying it. There have been several paper published with this in the Dentate gyrus and other regions and they have been OK but not amazing. \\n The Solution \\n So what Markram wants to do (at least as far as I understand) is to scale this software a lot. He wants to include A LOT more data and even invent a new way of codifying data into data banks so that new data can be rapidly added to databanks. (of course he has yet to post his simulations in an accessible area, a fact several of my friends who do models in neuron have bemoaned) He has many labs that are all doing mass hunts of properties of cells to try to help flesh this database out. (I personally don't think this is a bad idea, one of science's big problems is that findings are hard to incorporate a data bank would be nice, BUT it will run into the 'data quality' problem that bioinformatics runs into). \\n So using these massive databanks he will simulate a little bit of the cortex (called a microcolumn). The cool thing about the cortex is that it does freaking everything with very similar machinery. Vision, hearing, speaking, predicting, object segmentation, representation etc are all done on the same type of architecture. As far as we know (and we really don't) the microcolumn (a collection of 100 or so neurons organized across all six cortical layers) is the smallest unit of information processing in the cortex. The theory then becomes, 'simulate one microcolumn, make it work exactly like it works in nature then just multiply this by a million and you have a rat, multiply it by a few billion and you have a human'. \\n **[Why this won't work.]( \\n I (and many others) don't think this will work for a few reasons. First, statistical models of neurological processes fail 99 out of 100 times. Statistical modelling of language failed, statistical modelling of categorization failed, statistical modelling of neuronal firing failed. The reason is that the brain is an organized structure. The connections are not probabilistic, they have 20+ years of development in the body resting on top of a couple hundred million years of evolutionary development. The organization may look random, but it's not. So modelling a handful of neurons and their connection then hitting copy paste a billion times won't produce something meaningful, it will be lucky to produce anything useful. \\n Second, he will run face first into the same problem every brain simulation runs into, 'the synapse problem'. It turns out that the brain has a bunch of cells connected by these little things called synapses. We can easily simulate a bunch of cells, simulating 10k that number synapses with largely unknown connections and properties is very hard. Many have tried, all have failed. There are labs working on simulating individual synapses just to parse out how the hell they work. To imagine you can just say 'well the rest of the model works, we can ignore the fundamental information storing structure in the brain and go on with out lives' is short-sighted. \\n Third, big Science sold to the media is often plagued with problems. There have been some scathing reviews written about the California institute for Regenerative medicine written lately explaining why selling science to the public is bad. 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paingawd | Generate the content for a reddit post M.I.L. is going through chemo and won't eat. Malnutrition is starting to kill her quicker than the cancer. | I'm hoping this is the right sub for this, I couldn't decide between here and /r/EatingDisorders/. Here's our problem:
I know that one of the side effects of the chemotherapy is a loss of appetite and nausea. But with the added effect of the anorexia, we're afraid that we'll lose her to malnutrition before the cancer... | I'm hoping this is the right sub for this, I couldn't decide between here and /r/EatingDisorders/. Here's our problem:
I know that one of the side effects of the chemotherapy is a loss of appetite and nausea. But with the added effect of the anorexia, we're afraid that we'll lose her to malnutrition before the cancer... | [
"Summary: Haters gonna hate & obvious trolls are obvious.\n\nPost: The first time I posted a comment to Reddit, I got blasted for my comment, and with every try I made to rectify the situation, the person that I was in exchange with would just blast me more. It sucked. Then I remembered- it's the internet . There a... | 21 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 4,500 |
damontoo | Generate the content for a reddit post Retarded dealer puts drugs in box that says "top secret". | When I was about 5 I was riding in the car with my mom and we stop at a traffic light. On the sidewalk there's a glossy white box about 16"x16"x16", that says "TOP SECRET" on all sides in red letters. I of course thought that was awesome and asked my mom if I could get it. She says sure but to hurry up before the light... | When I was about 5 I was riding in the car with my mom and we stop at a traffic light. On the sidewalk there's a glossy white box about 16"x16"x16", that says "TOP SECRET" on all sides in red letters. I of course thought that was awesome and asked my mom if I could get it. She says sure but to hurry up before the light... | [
"Summary: Home now. Still no definitive answers. Will write script for people to stay updated (if they want to).\n\nPost: I'm posting this one comment until I can write a script to PM everyone my updates. \n I went to UCSF today and they looked at my brain scans. They said there's definitely something there but t... | 26 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 4,501 |
TarekIshmal | Generate the content for a reddit post It's not worth it to be a CP-demanding sick fuck because you will get fucked up by the law, because it is illegal, and makes me cringe to think that we even need to have this conversation. | Judging people for fucking children is not silly, in my view, so you and your disturbing point of view can skedaddle back to whatever dark recess of the internet you crawled out of.
It's ok though, sick kid fuckers get prosecuted harshly here - my own mother even takes part in the prosecution process - so you can kee... | Judging people for fucking children is not silly, in my view, so you and your disturbing point of view can skedaddle back to whatever dark recess of the internet you crawled out of.
It's ok though, sick kid fuckers get prosecuted harshly here - my own mother even takes part in the prosecution process - so you can kee... | [
"Summary: Stop being so lazy and read it.\n\nPost: They're kids. This won't affect them too much in the long run because when they turn 18 it won't matter on their record as much. \n Frankly I'm not sure how you can justify taking the kids home and punishing them for breaking the jaw of a 13 year old (age differen... | 53 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 4,502 |
BrutalReckoning | Generate the content for a reddit post Asked a girl out during a presentation, she didn't bat an eye at me. | The best way that I've ever asked a girl out was during a class presentation.
We had chosen "Sexual Selection" as the topic for our group presentation. My partner had picked the Adelie penguin as her subtopic. (Those are the penguins who find rocks to build a nest in order to court a female.)
I dressed up as metaph... | The best way that I've ever asked a girl out was during a class presentation.
We had chosen "Sexual Selection" as the topic for our group presentation. My partner had picked the Adelie penguin as her subtopic. (Those are the penguins who find rocks to build a nest in order to court a female.)
I dressed up as metaph... | [
"Summary: I fell down and punched them in the dicks.\n\nPost: I remember getting jumped by two guys way back. They pushed me on the ground, expecting me not to get up, but I did a spectacular tumble. They ran towards me, but as I was getting up, I kicked them in their balls. I got up quickly. Then I ran to a wall,... | 20 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 4,503 |
edmantes | Generate the content for a reddit post life is more like the wire than a Dan Brown novel and that's kinda scarier in some ways. There is no 'man' to fight. | It can be fairly comforting from what I hear. So the world is totally fucked in a lot of ways. In the time it takes me to write and post this comment somewhere in the world a child dies from something largely preventable in the developed world. Yet it is happening daily. And climate is a whole other mess of crap. There... | It can be fairly comforting from what I hear. So the world is totally fucked in a lot of ways. In the time it takes me to write and post this comment somewhere in the world a child dies from something largely preventable in the developed world. Yet it is happening daily. And climate is a whole other mess of crap. There... | [
"Summary: If you're a teenager considering joining the army to change your circumstances remember this means signing up to kill people, usually poorer than you, sacrificing your own moral judgements to those of a commanding officer... for money. If you're still OK with this, you don't get to complain should the oth... | 18 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 4,504 |
GEBnaman | Generate the content for a reddit post I love Pandemic for how balanced and interesting the game is. | 2 players with 1 character each means you can get sets of cards easily and so cure diseases faster. The trade off is that outbreaks can occur more frequently because you can't travel across the map fast enough to prevent them (Since there are only two pawns/characters on the map).
2 players with 2 characters each (i.... | 2 players with 1 character each means you can get sets of cards easily and so cure diseases faster. The trade off is that outbreaks can occur more frequently because you can't travel across the map fast enough to prevent them (Since there are only two pawns/characters on the map).
2 players with 2 characters each (i.... | [
"Summary: Intuitive F2L allows you the freedom of doing 'cases' in any given scenario; algorithms restrict you to a single position before completing the alg. which also restrict look ahead.\n\nPost: u/filthyGrappe said it all, but to add: \n Having to remember more algorithms, especially during F2L where there are... | 17 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 4,505 |
CraftyIntentions | Generate the content for a reddit post everything smells like poop | I'm not at the end of my rope, but I'd rather not explore how far I can go.
I'm tired. I have a 3.5 year old son with a severe communication delay and he's not yet potty trained. To be honest, we haven't tried to train him yet. I would rather change diapers for another year till he can start telling me he has to g... | I'm not at the end of my rope, but I'd rather not explore how far I can go.
I'm tired. I have a 3.5 year old son with a severe communication delay and he's not yet potty trained. To be honest, we haven't tried to train him yet. I would rather change diapers for another year till he can start telling me he has to g... | [
"Summary: Pregnancy is no joke. Either plan it, or Use a condom.\n\nPost: The first time I was pregnant and suffering from HG, I developed pneumonia and fainted for the first time in my life while the nice xray lady tried to take a picture of my lungs. Also, I threw up in snow a bunch. The second time I was pregn... | 17 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 4,506 |
SecondTalon | Generate the content for a reddit post Magnus is a god and the exit-wound he left when he fled creation is the Sun. | yeah, I know who Magnus is and no. You're not a descendant. At all.
The god of sorcery, Magnus withdrew from the creation of the world at the last second, though it cost him dearly. What is left of him on the world is felt and controlled by mortals as magic. One story says that, while the idea was thought up by Lor... | yeah, I know who Magnus is and no. You're not a descendant. At all.
The god of sorcery, Magnus withdrew from the creation of the world at the last second, though it cost him dearly. What is left of him on the world is felt and controlled by mortals as magic. One story says that, while the idea was thought up by Lor... | [
"Summary: It's got more words than War and Peace. Skip if you are an unreading heathen. Go read some books and stuff, learn to love readin' words.. THEN buy it. Because it's a fucking good game.\n\nPost: Do you like Fallout, Icewind Dale and Baldur's Gate? \n Do you think those games are too combat focused and t... | 40 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 4,507 |
kernelhappy | Generate the content for a reddit post Motorola puts a smaller battery in the Droid X to save 1/16th of an inch, wring and extra $50 (list) out of you and make sure that your only choice of a case is a silicone cover | I haven't looked at the extended battery options for other Android phones, but the extended battery for the Droid X is an absolute insult. IIRC the stock battery is 1500mah and the extended battery is 1850mah (or 1880 depending on the source). But that's not the insulting part. You have to swap out the battery cover... | I haven't looked at the extended battery options for other Android phones, but the extended battery for the Droid X is an absolute insult. IIRC the stock battery is 1500mah and the extended battery is 1850mah (or 1880 depending on the source). But that's not the insulting part. You have to swap out the battery cover... | [
"Summary: common sense says your password is stronger, but from a pure brute force sense - in theory at least it's not. \n Edit: I think your secondary symbols are confusing the site or, # and ⇔ both cause the site to assume the same extended symbol set. N0tsecu#⇔ works out to 275 days, same as N0tsecur#.\n\nPost:... | 77 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 4,508 |
Theriskyclick | Generate the content for a reddit post Craigslist has gotten me laid not just once, but for the rest of my life. | I'm a woman who once went on a Craigslist date and unfortunately my answer is completely boring. I met the guy at a bar, he was cute, we went back to my place, drank some more, then banged. He left in the morning and I never saw him again.
It was exactly what both of us wanted, nothing that we didn't. 10/10, would... | I'm a woman who once went on a Craigslist date and unfortunately my answer is completely boring. I met the guy at a bar, he was cute, we went back to my place, drank some more, then banged. He left in the morning and I never saw him again.
It was exactly what both of us wanted, nothing that we didn't. 10/10, would... | [
"Summary: Don't have that second drink. It's not worth it. \n Edit: clarity\n\nPost: Considering all the posting you do on gone wild, I have to give you some important marriage advice that I've learned in my old age: \n You can develop connections with anyone, anytime, so long as you're open to it. The key to a ha... | 15 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 4,509 |
RantCurmudgeon | Generate the content for a reddit post If you're willing to risk it, take advantage of your youth and leave your SO so you can ethically pursue R. | Which will you regret more, not going for R, or breaking up with your SO permanently but things never work out with R?
Unlike most of the other people in this thread I'm inclined to say go for it, provided you understand the risks . You'd be giving up a solid relationship with a known good person for something undef... | Which will you regret more, not going for R, or breaking up with your SO permanently but things never work out with R?
Unlike most of the other people in this thread I'm inclined to say go for it, provided you understand the risks . You'd be giving up a solid relationship with a known good person for something undef... | [
"Summary: BF is a narcissist— RUN!\n\nPost: I found the intensity and unanimity of the opinions your family, friends, and father have about your BF to be alarming. Now that you've told us they think he's narcissistic, I can understand their reaction. \n >…only uses me for sex. \n It's actually worse than that. Narc... | 15 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 4,510 |
tuffstough | Generate the content for a reddit post It is a bit of making out all the time, but the emotional and and mental aspects of our "romantic' relationship are what sets it apart the most. | We have gotten a lot closer physically(making out and sich), but that's not the biggest/best part at all. Our conversations have gotten a lot deeper, our loves and interests have joined/warped/changed(she is sort of annoyed with me right now because she finally broke down and started using reddit), the time and attenti... | We have gotten a lot closer physically(making out and sich), but that's not the biggest/best part at all. Our conversations have gotten a lot deeper, our loves and interests have joined/warped/changed(she is sort of annoyed with me right now because she finally broke down and started using reddit), the time and attenti... | [
"Summary: be a fucking adult and respect others and the outdoors when you go camping, even if its free camping.\n\nPost: there was [this post]( a few months ago that answers your question. I feel the need to mention a few things: \n \n anywhere you are going to try and camp for free(especially with a car), its more... | 37 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 4,511 |
user1492 | Generate the content for a reddit post Read the thread title | Rhode Island was settled by an Irish native, Patrick Rhodes, who had been fairly successful in England before immigrating to the United States. He was given a grant of land and rented it out to another wealthy English family, the Plymouths. The official name was "Rhode Island and the Plymouth Plantations."
The "Isl... | Rhode Island was settled by an Irish native, Patrick Rhodes, who had been fairly successful in England before immigrating to the United States. He was given a grant of land and rented it out to another wealthy English family, the Plymouths. The official name was "Rhode Island and the Plymouth Plantations."
The "Isl... | [
"Summary: It could have been just gas.\n\nPost: You'd be surprised. \n When my then-girlfriend and I were visiting my parents, she had a similar problem. Severe abdominal pain, no relief, wasn't sure what was going on. Even worse, she had a family history of ovarian cysts, so we were worried that it could be some... | 22 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 4,512 |
aflamp | Generate the content for a reddit post I could gush about how awesome my church is for a long time; the church is using the money well and the pastor has never asked for money. | I go to a large church, and I absolutely think the money is going to valuable things.
1) The last time my pastor preached on tithing, the gist of the sermon was that a tithing requirement is falling into legalism and God will never love you less if you never gave a penny to the church. The pastor also says that if yo... | I go to a large church, and I absolutely think the money is going to valuable things.
1) The last time my pastor preached on tithing, the gist of the sermon was that a tithing requirement is falling into legalism and God will never love you less if you never gave a penny to the church. The pastor also says that if yo... | [
"Summary: There are better things to criticize about the Bible, and if the guy who wrote this list spent 1/2 the time researching his claims, the list would be much shorter.\n\nPost: Well, based on that link, maybe I can help. \n 1) The Passion is based off of what we know about crucifixions of that time period. Th... | 21 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 4,513 |
asherp | Generate the content for a reddit post the free market will "solve" the identity crisis | I think they reserved it for Gavin Andreessen because someone registered it to make a point about how anyone can register any name...
I registered a few names on twister out of respect for their real-world counterparts. Then I realized that in the long run it won't matter what string we use to represent ourselves in ... | I think they reserved it for Gavin Andreessen because someone registered it to make a point about how anyone can register any name...
I registered a few names on twister out of respect for their real-world counterparts. Then I realized that in the long run it won't matter what string we use to represent ourselves in ... | [
"Summary: In the event of the apocalypse, bitcoin will survive!\n\nPost: I've been in the space physics field for 7 years and my PhD thesis is on a certain simulation of the Earth's magnetic field in response to solar activity. What the OP is referring to is a definite possibility: if there were another storm like ... | 16 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 4,514 |
Priapulid | Generate the content for a reddit post It's the Circlejerk of life
And it moves us all
Through despair and hope
Through faith and love
Till we find our place
On the path unwinding
In the Circle
The Circlejerk of Life | Nants ingonyama bagithi Baba](
From the day we derp on the Reddit
And blinking, step into r/politics
There's more to see than can ever be seen
More to do than can ever be downvoted
There's far too much to take in here
More to find than can ever be found
But the trolls trolling high
Through the sapphire ... | Nants ingonyama bagithi Baba](
From the day we derp on the Reddit
And blinking, step into r/politics
There's more to see than can ever be seen
More to do than can ever be downvoted
There's far too much to take in here
More to find than can ever be found
But the trolls trolling high
Through the sapphire ... | [
"Summary: before your lecture someone, get your facts straight. \n Edit: I would agree with the hand washing. A shower or penis washing wouldn't hurt, to remove some of the external bacterial\n\nPost: UTI's are typically STD's \n That is incorrect. The vast majority of UTIs are from [E. coli]( and [Salmonella sapro... | 35 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 4,515 |
ComputerJerk | Generate the content for a reddit post Don't stick your dick in or around crazy | A girl I slept with once but very clearly did not identify as being in a relationship with filed a harassment complaint with the police to the effect of "My ex-boyfriend is sending me abusive messages and images".
I of course did no such thing, she was actually stalking my reddit account and taking posts out of conte... | A girl I slept with once but very clearly did not identify as being in a relationship with filed a harassment complaint with the police to the effect of "My ex-boyfriend is sending me abusive messages and images".
I of course did no such thing, she was actually stalking my reddit account and taking posts out of conte... | [
"Summary: People are assholes but more often than not they have a damn point. Address the point, not the asshole.\n\nPost: News at Eleven: People are assholes \n Seriously, don't you realize just how unconstructive telling people they're assholes ad infinitum actually is? \n And no, your advice is actually awful. Y... | 25 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 4,516 |
Xubble | Generate the content for a reddit post Battle Network was good. BN2 and BN3 were the best. BN4 can go fall into a pit of spikes. | Battle Network was a wonderful experience for me. I played through BN2 first, and it's still my favorite of the series.
BN1: 9/10 Was good, but since it was a new MegaMan, some things weren't fully developed as far as the series goes. Thankfully, that's where BN2 picks up the slack...
BN2: 10/10 This was the top ga... | Battle Network was a wonderful experience for me. I played through BN2 first, and it's still my favorite of the series.
BN1: 9/10 Was good, but since it was a new MegaMan, some things weren't fully developed as far as the series goes. Thankfully, that's where BN2 picks up the slack...
BN2: 10/10 This was the top ga... | [
"Summary: High school slut made me a Valentine's Day card in class, all the while checking me out.\n\nPost: Sophomore year of high school. Valentine's Day. \n I was in Spanish class, and my seat happened to be next to the school slut. Our teacher had us make Valentine's Day cards in Spanish. Nothing else, just make... | 22 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 4,517 |
Dicktremain | Generate the content for a reddit post We would kick their ass, but going to war against human's primary food source would be devastating in the long run. | Would we stand a chance? Yes and no.
Human's would easily win the "war". Large animals are easy to bring down with guns, and smaller animals like birds, rodents, insects and spiders would be killed in large areas using chemicals and gas.
The end result however would be massive ecological deconstructions and the dec... | Would we stand a chance? Yes and no.
Human's would easily win the "war". Large animals are easy to bring down with guns, and smaller animals like birds, rodents, insects and spiders would be killed in large areas using chemicals and gas.
The end result however would be massive ecological deconstructions and the dec... | [
"Summary: You are having a very carefully planned out type of fun. So carefully planned out you have a hard time understand why you are having fun or even if you are having fun.\n\nPost: The reason you can do this is because you are indeed having fun while grinding in video games. \n Marc Leblanc released a paper i... | 20 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 4,518 |
opolaski | Generate the content for a reddit post A lot of Americans are never taught to think critically and are told what to believe by the money behind media. | Americans have a couple problems in this regard.
First, there is a lot of money being spent to discredit anything about this bill. Insurance companies obviously don't want it, I doubt medical companies want it, and there's ideologues who oppose anything government-funded. With so much money against the bill, there ha... | Americans have a couple problems in this regard.
First, there is a lot of money being spent to discredit anything about this bill. Insurance companies obviously don't want it, I doubt medical companies want it, and there's ideologues who oppose anything government-funded. With so much money against the bill, there ha... | [
"Summary: This legislation needs WAY, WAY, WAY better oversight. Like judicial review, and every time a person's info is obtained, they should receive a letter 6 months later, so they can change IP addresses or something.\n\nPost: But you have to understand it from the point of view of a skeptical citizen. \n I do ... | 17 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 4,519 |
The_Original_Gronkie | Generate the content for a reddit post Rick Scott is fucking crook who belongs in prison. And he looks like a penis with ears. | Sorry, I'm going to hijack the top comment because there is a major issue with Rick Scott that wasn't addressed in the article or any of the comments that I read, and it needs to be heard. It is one of the most blatant conflicts of interest I have ever witnessed.
One of Rick Scott's first moves (after killing the po... | Sorry, I'm going to hijack the top comment because there is a major issue with Rick Scott that wasn't addressed in the article or any of the comments that I read, and it needs to be heard. It is one of the most blatant conflicts of interest I have ever witnessed.
One of Rick Scott's first moves (after killing the po... | [
"Summary: Charlie Crist is the kind of independently thinking politician that we need in this country.\n\nPost: Crist got my attention back when he was attorney general under Jeb Bush. When the hurricanes of 2004 and 2005 devastated the state, the insurance companies started crying about how damaged they were and ... | 37 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 4,520 |
mariamus | Generate the content for a reddit post I'm in a relationship with my right hand by choice. | I'm single because I don't feel the need to be in a relationship right now. I have a daughter, I have a great family. I have personal freedom to do pretty much whatever I want (as long as I can get a babysitter.)
I do get tired of the way people say "Oh, we really should find a guy for you! How about a one-night sta... | I'm single because I don't feel the need to be in a relationship right now. I have a daughter, I have a great family. I have personal freedom to do pretty much whatever I want (as long as I can get a babysitter.)
I do get tired of the way people say "Oh, we really should find a guy for you! How about a one-night sta... | [
"Summary: men will not like to read the tales of a woman's monthly tide.\n\nPost: I agree so much. I hate having my period. My cramps incapacitate me, I get migraines, incredible back pain... It sometimes feels like someone kicked me so hard in the crotch that the whole area feels like a fat lip. And it can bleed s... | 18 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 4,521 |
TooManyInLitter | Generate the content for a reddit post In a hurry and not proofread. Good luck and have an interesting conversation. | This pastor is also bringing along a professor that specializes in the old testament. I'm not sure what I can do to prepare for such a meeting.
It would be reasonable to assume that these people have spent years/decades studying their religion and apologetics. The appeal to authority is a powerful tool to use.
So t... | This pastor is also bringing along a professor that specializes in the old testament. I'm not sure what I can do to prepare for such a meeting.
It would be reasonable to assume that these people have spent years/decades studying their religion and apologetics. The appeal to authority is a powerful tool to use.
So t... | [
"Summary: The concept of the Trinity is the result of the inherent polytheistic origins of Yahweh/Allah, and Yahweh/Allah worship morphed/evolved into a monotheism.\n\nPost: Where in the Bible does it mention that? There is a scripture in the Quran that denies this claim: \n Let me see if I understand this argument... | 200 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 4,522 |
MoreWhiskeyPls | Generate the content for a reddit post Imagine standing in a pool and trying to fuck the water. Yes, you're doing it, but in the end, you're just fucking water. | As funny as that is, it can be an issue regardless of size. Some girls produce more, some less, regardless of how turned on they are. I was with a girl who would literally soak the sheets (not in the squirting kind of way) and it'd be difficult for me to feel anything if she was too wet. If this happens, towel her and ... | As funny as that is, it can be an issue regardless of size. Some girls produce more, some less, regardless of how turned on they are. I was with a girl who would literally soak the sheets (not in the squirting kind of way) and it'd be difficult for me to feel anything if she was too wet. If this happens, towel her and ... | [
"Summary: Go to your local bar, pound some shots and race home before you feel the effects. If you get home before you do. you win!\n\nPost: The key is to drink smart, make sure you're hydrated and have food in your stomach. Then pace yourself and know your limits. After shots, sip on your beer and let the shot hit... | 21 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 4,523 |
freelanced | Generate the content for a reddit post There are valid reasons to question the recommended vaccine schedule in the US. Why does the majority of reddit fail to even consider them? | The autism link is bullshit. The evidence was falsified to begin with, Jenny McCarthy is an idiot, etc, etc. Vaccines have also, on the whole, been an enormous boon to the health of humanity, saving more lives than anything else ever (probably). The evidence here is overwhelming.
And yet, the "vaccines are good and e... | The autism link is bullshit. The evidence was falsified to begin with, Jenny McCarthy is an idiot, etc, etc. Vaccines have also, on the whole, been an enormous boon to the health of humanity, saving more lives than anything else ever (probably). The evidence here is overwhelming.
And yet, the "vaccines are good and e... | [
"Summary: pregnancy makes things complicated.\n\nPost: I agree with you in terms of actually innate sexual desire, but I don't think we'll ever reach social/cultural level you describe because, in the end (no pun intended), there are biological pressures/complications for the universally-approved penis-in-vagina ... | 20 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 4,524 |
Nate1492 | Generate the content for a reddit post Gene Simmons had more money than NPR in 2009. | NPR's Operating Income
NPR had a net income of about 19 million last year.
So let's not try to to misuse words here.
NPR didn't make 238.4 million last year, you can't just ignore expenses.
According to their own document, in 2013, they had $462 million dollars in net assets. They earned about $24 million.
Ah... | NPR's Operating Income
NPR had a net income of about 19 million last year.
So let's not try to to misuse words here.
NPR didn't make 238.4 million last year, you can't just ignore expenses.
According to their own document, in 2013, they had $462 million dollars in net assets. They earned about $24 million.
Ah... | [
"Summary: what's the opportunity we missed out on?\n\nPost: You need a secondary opportunity to compare this to. You can't just say the \"opportunity cost to go to war...\" and not relate to a second alternative that can be shown to be lost because of the first one. \n My point was, there isn't an opportunity that ... | 39 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 4,525 |
Aaron215 | Generate the content for a reddit post This ain't baseball." or "I don't blame you for scrolling here first." | I kind of feel the opposite of butter churn.. I think it measures individual skill better than an individual's team value. Most people seem to hate my thoughts on the current emphasis on stats as a measure of skill, so before I start explaining why I feel the opposite, let me say that I LOVE reading the stats and taki... | I kind of feel the opposite of butter churn.. I think it measures individual skill better than an individual's team value. Most people seem to hate my thoughts on the current emphasis on stats as a measure of skill, so before I start explaining why I feel the opposite, let me say that I LOVE reading the stats and taki... | [
"Summary: Hit my future wife in the head with a volleyball, found out years later. \n Also, a friend of mine played soccer in college. Went to Africa for a foreign service trip, found a kid wearing our school's soccer shirt in some small village in the middle of nowhere.\n\nPost: This doesn't really count, but I'll... | 22 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 4,526 |
plato1123 | Generate the content for a reddit post If you have a fast internet connection you can watch all the major networks and a bunch of really fantastic movie channels on your pc | TVU player has thousands of free tv stations from around the world streaming live tv. The streams can actually be really good quality. After digging through them here are my favorites:
10018 CBS
10112 Hollywood Movie : Older hollywood movies... movies are in English, commercials are in Chinese
48779 WCPS HDTV ... | TVU player has thousands of free tv stations from around the world streaming live tv. The streams can actually be really good quality. After digging through them here are my favorites:
10018 CBS
10112 Hollywood Movie : Older hollywood movies... movies are in English, commercials are in Chinese
48779 WCPS HDTV ... | [
"Summary: I agree with you \n edit: we should be able to agree that emergency-room socialism, the old system, is by far the worst and most expensive\n\nPost: man, let's just figure out the system that gives us the best healthcare for the least amount of GDP and copy it! we have examples all over the world to look ... | 57 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 4,527 |
diabolical-sun | Generate the content for a reddit post Fill Harden's void somewhat | While that may be true, I think the team has lost too much to go the distance this year. They need one more star player. Whether that will be an off season pick up or a rookie stepping up to the plate is yet to be seen, but I don't see the dynamic Duo making it out with out a piece to make them the terrific trio. | While that may be true, I think the team has lost too much to go the distance this year. They need one more star player. Whether that will be an off season pick up or a rookie stepping up to the plate is yet to be seen, but I don't see the dynamic Duo making it out with out a piece to make them the terrific trio. | [
"Summary: I just find it interesting how two conflicting groups can look at the same situation and turn in against each other in a rather innocent manner (I'm not excluding myself. i fell victim to it, too.)\n\nPost: WOW! This has to be one of the most interesting things I've ever seen. It's crazy how the meaning o... | 33 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 4,528 |
FooHentai | Generate the content for a reddit post 2 dumbs can't smart. | USB devices operate on a master/slave basis. So in any USB connection you need a master device (usually a PC) and a slave device (usually your peripheral).
The key point here is the slave device is pretty dumb (and, hence, cheap!). It doesn't know how to operate without the master device driving it.
In your case, y... | USB devices operate on a master/slave basis. So in any USB connection you need a master device (usually a PC) and a slave device (usually your peripheral).
The key point here is the slave device is pretty dumb (and, hence, cheap!). It doesn't know how to operate without the master device driving it.
In your case, y... | [
"Summary: it's about making the best use of existing producton abilities and making things consistently available at each franchise location.\n\nPost: McDonalds is always interesting to study because they're a shining example of having tuned their product to absolute perfection in the pursuit of profit. No other bu... | 19 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 4,529 |
Maddoktor2 | Generate the content for a reddit post 2 years ater 1098 passes, everyone will be paying a state Income Tax in Washington State, if not sooner.
It is what it. Deal with it. Vote accordingly:
Vote HELL NO on 1098! | FTA:
> The state constitution says state lawmakers, with a two-thirds vote in both the House and Senate, can change an initiative in the first two years after it is approved by voters.
> After two years, however, lawmakers could change the initiative as they saw fit with a simple majority vote. | FTA:
> The state constitution says state lawmakers, with a two-thirds vote in both the House and Senate, can change an initiative in the first two years after it is approved by voters.
> After two years, however, lawmakers could change the initiative as they saw fit with a simple majority vote. | [
"Summary: Once the government gets involved, one way or another the shit always hits the fan. We'll end up losing the relatively brief period of freedom we once had, so enjoy it while you still can.\n\nPost: I'd rather the industry be regulated than juice or hardware being banned. \n Realistically speaking, we'll p... | 32 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 4,530 |
mattrmac | Generate the content for a reddit post the Joker gave the ferries their own trigger..... | Rewatching the dark knight and I think I found a new fucked up thing the Joker did..... Now consider how whenever he says something he's guiding the characters/populous to heed his warning thus guiding them into a trap OR doing the opposite of what he actually said ( i.e.- he warned of people of the tunnel and bridge c... | Rewatching the dark knight and I think I found a new fucked up thing the Joker did..... Now consider how whenever he says something he's guiding the characters/populous to heed his warning thus guiding them into a trap OR doing the opposite of what he actually said ( i.e.- he warned of people of the tunnel and bridge c... | [
"Summary: I nailed a 35-40 year old woman that is close friends and neightbour to my Grandmother.\n\nPost: Closest thing that I have to that was when my grandmother who decided to visit for a couple weeks vacation brought her neighbour that lives above her. Just a 35-40 year old woman with a couple of kids. The wom... | 16 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 4,531 |
thorneyinak | Generate the content for a reddit post Everyone gets lost traveling down life's road. A boulder on a path can make a trail appear to be a dead-end. Sometimes you need someone to guide you around the boulder in order to realize what it is (merely an obstacle, a stumbling block); in order to avoid deciding to abandon you... | There is a reason she ( and possibly you) are unhappy. We are all human beings with hearts who deserve emotional warmth and comfort. You speak of human instinct. Can't you feel it calling out to you? Almost demanding your attention? Consuming your thoughts? The desire to be happy, the desire to be free of sadness, and ... | There is a reason she ( and possibly you) are unhappy. We are all human beings with hearts who deserve emotional warmth and comfort. You speak of human instinct. Can't you feel it calling out to you? Almost demanding your attention? Consuming your thoughts? The desire to be happy, the desire to be free of sadness, and ... | [
"Summary: I wanted to participate but dont know athletes.\n\nPost: Takeru Kobayashi - World Champion Eater. \n \n Snoop Dogg - Current day smoking champion of the world ( weed aint \nnothin but a race baby! ) \n \n Buzz Aldrin - because fuck you I don't keep up with sports, so don't hate on me. I rather smoke with ... | 16 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 4,532 |
probablytoomuch | Generate the content for a reddit post Recent graduate. Get close to job offers but can't seal the deal. Lot of companies straight up ignore my applications, even with three years of experience. Any advice? | Greetings, all.
I'm a relatively recent graduate with a BS in CS, but I've spent the last three and a half years working- for most of that period, as a full-time employee. I wanted to get enough experience to be able to get a decent job in San Francisco after graduating. I've largely done work as a backend developer,... | Greetings, all.
I'm a relatively recent graduate with a BS in CS, but I've spent the last three and a half years working- for most of that period, as a full-time employee. I wanted to get enough experience to be able to get a decent job in San Francisco after graduating. I've largely done work as a backend developer,... | [
"Summary: It's a hindrance.\n\nPost: They exist in healthy, normal vision, but they are removed during the part of visual processing that creates the sensation of smooth motion. As in, the \"artifacts\" are kind of like little snapshots that the brain can use to extrapolate the probable motion of the object. It fil... | 28 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 4,533 |
SmartassStrongNThis1 | Generate the content for a reddit post Eventually, you will get your shit together, and then you may well come to regret this. Nobody is a perfect parent, but you will improve with time. And while sometimes child support is expensive, remember happiness isn't measured in dollars, but relationships. | I know you're in the moment right now, but let me give you a longer term perspective. I got my girlfriend pregnant when I was in grad school. My daughter's name could have been "Opps", but we thought that would be tacky. I manned up and married her, but it didn't work out (majority of it was me, I was too immature at... | I know you're in the moment right now, but let me give you a longer term perspective. I got my girlfriend pregnant when I was in grad school. My daughter's name could have been "Opps", but we thought that would be tacky. I manned up and married her, but it didn't work out (majority of it was me, I was too immature at... | [
"Summary: Get some buddies, pool your $$$s and get some really high end scotch. It will rock your world!\n\nPost: Let me tell you about the best thing ever. Four of us used to get each other $40-$50 bottles of single malt scotch for Christmas. A few years ago one of them got an idea. Lets pool all the $$s we wo... | 18 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 4,534 |
endeavourOV-105 | Generate the content for a reddit post tank build + being played as a tank + dealing damage != tanky DPS | You said that Jarvan does damage whether or not you build him as a tanky DPS, making him a tanky DPS no matter what. I responded with Rammus, who deals damage whether he builds tank or tanky DPS, yet is rarely, if ever, considered tanky DPS. If dealing damage makes a tanky champion a tanky DPS no matter the build, why ... | You said that Jarvan does damage whether or not you build him as a tanky DPS, making him a tanky DPS no matter what. I responded with Rammus, who deals damage whether he builds tank or tanky DPS, yet is rarely, if ever, considered tanky DPS. If dealing damage makes a tanky champion a tanky DPS no matter the build, why ... | [
"Summary: remember that you're building defensively and build items that counter the majority of the enemy team's damage type. don't build thornmail if the other team doesn't have an autoattacker; don't build FoN if the other team has no AP, etc. \n GL and HF playing Jarvan! :)\n\nPost: Look at your death recaps. C... | 18 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 4,535 |
saxman76 | Generate the content for a reddit post stfu and stop perpetuating the smn bashing | This past week our group wiped a number of times soon after the second phase ended. A couple members in the group cut off the parse at dive bombs and the mnk and I were neck and neck at 550+. Granted as a smn I got the extra numbers from having dots on boss and each add in phase two (something blm can't do). On the bet... | This past week our group wiped a number of times soon after the second phase ended. A couple members in the group cut off the parse at dive bombs and the mnk and I were neck and neck at 550+. Granted as a smn I got the extra numbers from having dots on boss and each add in phase two (something blm can't do). On the bet... | [
"Summary: player skill vastly trumps ilvl to the point where being full i110 from hunts alone does absolutely nothing aside from let others know how much of a massive grind whore that person is. So chill out and don't take gear so seriously I promise you'll enjoy the game more :D\n\nPost: Soooooo much emphasis on g... | 26 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 4,536 |
Qwertysapiens | Generate the content for a reddit post Humans were all white and all black at various points in the past.
See further:
[Jablonski, N. & Chaplin, G. 2010. Human skin pigmentation as an adaptation to UV radiation. PNAS 107(Suppl. 2):8962–8968.](
[Wilson et al. , 2011. Genetic Ancestry, Skin Reflectance and... | Out of the ~20,000 genes in the human genome, only ~20 are known to have been involved in the evolution of pigmentation, and much of that can be attributed to four genes skin to be driven to fixation in European populations. This happened because levels of UV exposure dropped to the point where increasing vitamin D p... | Out of the ~20,000 genes in the human genome, only ~20 are known to have been involved in the evolution of pigmentation, and much of that can be attributed to four genes skin to be driven to fixation in European populations. This happened because levels of UV exposure dropped to the point where increasing vitamin D p... | [
"Summary: Lemurs are a group worth saving. \n Edit: spelling\n\nPost: That statement can apply to hundreds of thousands of species, and completely sidesteps the moral and ecological issues involved - but I'll just address the more egregious factual errors. Madagascar is not a little island, it is in fact the world'... | 21 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 4,537 |
stevexc | Generate the content for a reddit post Play any and all of them. LoZ 2: Adventure of Link is the only one I wouldn't wholeheartedly recommend, as it plays very differently from the rest. But it's not bad, it just doesn't feel (to me) like a Zelda game. | All of the 2D ones still look alright if not straight-up good. Link to the Past looks excellent, so do Link's Awakening and the two Oracle games (those would be my 4 favorites). Even the original still looks more than good enough to play, although it is a relatively simpler game, design-wise.
It almost goes without s... | All of the 2D ones still look alright if not straight-up good. Link to the Past looks excellent, so do Link's Awakening and the two Oracle games (those would be my 4 favorites). Even the original still looks more than good enough to play, although it is a relatively simpler game, design-wise.
It almost goes without s... | [
"Summary: If you can swing $400ish, I'd say grab the Rumble 200 combo. If you want to stick to $300, grab the Rumble 100 combo. either way you're getting more power in a package comparable to the Orange 50 watt in both size, weight, and cost.\n\nPost: I'd probably grab a smaller Rumble then, honestly. The Rumble 20... | 19 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 4,538 |
newDilly99 | Generate the content for a reddit post Ladies (and gentleman), DO NOT have sex with [EtriganZ]( Doing so could result in painful and incurable STI's, but the primary purpose of steering clear of this crusty-dick is to prevent pregnancy. | You've never fucked without a condom, have you? Or at all?
Ohhhh,,, implying I've never had sex before. Nice one, bro. However, you'd be better off making a wisecrack about my infrequent sexlife, as I'm married with kid(s), to a biologist who wrote her thesis on a STI. I've seen pictures, but if you're (un)lucky, ... | You've never fucked without a condom, have you? Or at all?
Ohhhh,,, implying I've never had sex before. Nice one, bro. However, you'd be better off making a wisecrack about my infrequent sexlife, as I'm married with kid(s), to a biologist who wrote her thesis on a STI. I've seen pictures, but if you're (un)lucky, ... | [
"Summary: It's all Gemma, she was, and still is, the leader of SOA, even if by proxy. Many queens throughout history have rules that way.\n\nPost: I don't think Tig is his father, but it's not like Gemma could be called a faithful spouse. Tig briefly fucked her while she was she still with Clay, but I don't think... | 16 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 4,539 |
Zerowantuthri | Generate the content for a reddit post AMD/Intel do not design games. They design the hardware that games run on and it is good they keep making that better. | You are thinking about this the wrong way.
Liken a game dev to a chef. AMD and Intel are equivalent to the people selling the chef produce and meat and whatnot. The AMD/Intel team is providing ever better quality ingredients and that is a good thing. It is then up to the chef (game dev) to make something of it. | You are thinking about this the wrong way.
Liken a game dev to a chef. AMD and Intel are equivalent to the people selling the chef produce and meat and whatnot. The AMD/Intel team is providing ever better quality ingredients and that is a good thing. It is then up to the chef (game dev) to make something of it. | [
"Summary: Comcast wants to get out ahead of people using the internet for entertainment and make sure they can charge for it one way or another.\n\nPost: The video is very good and thorough but it does miss one point. \n Why is Comcast (and other ISPs in the US) doing this? \n Simple... \n Comcast has been losing s... | 29 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 4,540 |
swimmingpooloflife | Generate the content for a reddit post Most teenagers should get some experience with alcohol and sex/relationships before college or they will be way over their head and potentially get into really bad situations. | After I went to college my parents told me they wanted me to try drinking and they wanted me to have a boyfriend and go through a break up while I was in high school so that I could learn how to handle those situations while I still had them close by to help me if I majorly fucked up or got myself into a really bad sit... | After I went to college my parents told me they wanted me to try drinking and they wanted me to have a boyfriend and go through a break up while I was in high school so that I could learn how to handle those situations while I still had them close by to help me if I majorly fucked up or got myself into a really bad sit... | [
"Summary: few people understand eating disorders...\n\nPost: Whenever people talk about eating disorders. Or make sarcastic jokes about my weight. I'm skinny, I don't think I'm all that skinny but other people do apparently (I'm anorexic), and I get \"right, cause you're sooooo fat\" or other sarcastic comments l... | 18 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 4,541 |
HGWingless | Generate the content for a reddit post HIS PENIS WAS MOSTLY REPRESENTED, BUT STILL HAD NO ACTUAL SAY IN THINGS. | Prior to the abolition of slavery in the states, a compromise was made between the south, who wanted to continue to use slaves, and the north, which was less keen on the whole idea. They decided to count slaves as 3/5ths of a person for population counts, and therefore political power purposes. | Prior to the abolition of slavery in the states, a compromise was made between the south, who wanted to continue to use slaves, and the north, which was less keen on the whole idea. They decided to count slaves as 3/5ths of a person for population counts, and therefore political power purposes. | [
"Summary: Shit happens, but you're expected to handle your problems like an adult 99% of the time.\n\nPost: The difference is that you're expected to have your family shit squared away after you come back from pat/maternity leave. They only people that really need special consideration for punctuality are dual-mili... | 17 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 4,542 |
DakezO | Generate the content for a reddit post I'm looking for a gaming laptop, don't want to spend wads of cash, and want your opinions. | So I'm looking to get back in to PC gaming, but I'd like to have a mobile option for travel and LANs. I'm looking at pricing between USD $ 800-1000. Of course, if I can get something cheaper that will perform, I'll always take that.
This is also going to serve as a desktop replacement for the Dell Terminal PC we're u... | So I'm looking to get back in to PC gaming, but I'd like to have a mobile option for travel and LANs. I'm looking at pricing between USD $ 800-1000. Of course, if I can get something cheaper that will perform, I'll always take that.
This is also going to serve as a desktop replacement for the Dell Terminal PC we're u... | [
"Summary: There is more truth to stereotypes of sports fanbases than most members, like the author of this article, want to readily admit.\n\nPost: Every time i read one of these counterpoint articles, all i can think is that the author knows, deep down, that more of what the original article said is true that they... | 18 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 4,543 |
dcunited | Generate the content for a reddit post the Kleenex people don't like 'Kleenex' being a universal term. Or so they say. | Saw an interesting ad for Kleenex on the back of some marketing magazine, was mostly text and said something along the lines of "Please don't use the term 'Kleenex' for anything but Kleenex brand tissues, it cheapens our brand." I was a little surprised, hadn't heard that angle before. I just figured it meant you had t... | Saw an interesting ad for Kleenex on the back of some marketing magazine, was mostly text and said something along the lines of "Please don't use the term 'Kleenex' for anything but Kleenex brand tissues, it cheapens our brand." I was a little surprised, hadn't heard that angle before. I just figured it meant you had t... | [
"Summary: How can you have such conviction when we have so little hard information? We are trending upward, that's what counts. You can choose to be depressed Rick Smith wasn't fired at your whim, or you can be happy we're improving and getting contributions from guys like Merc. edit; and if you're depressed about ... | 23 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 4,544 |
STFUandLOVE | Generate the content for a reddit post While I agree with most of what you say, even that the "angry" atheists may have had poor upbringings, there are definitely examples of religious people making life miserable for atheists. I have a firsthand account and actually consider myself more agnostic than anything (in tha... | It could be that I've just never been confronted with what you are calling an angry atheist. In actuality, I rarely know if somebody is an atheist. So for me, the whole notion is somewhat moot. However, I think you hit the internet brawling right on the head.
I can see where the two ideologies would clash rather ... | It could be that I've just never been confronted with what you are calling an angry atheist. In actuality, I rarely know if somebody is an atheist. So for me, the whole notion is somewhat moot. However, I think you hit the internet brawling right on the head.
I can see where the two ideologies would clash rather ... | [
"Summary: Used to be awkward, now I'm awesome!! This one simple trick will make you awesome too!!...but seriously, it will at least make your social life great.\n\nPost: Probably the best bit of information I can give you when starting off in college is that college is a fresh start, use it as a fresh start. \n So... | 28 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 4,545 |
BlueNoseReindeer | Generate the content for a reddit post General conclusion is that Riot did almost everything wrong that they could this patch, for specific points see bolded sections.
For more of my thoughts on League, check out my [Facebook] ( and [Twitter](
edit: removed some stuff to make things shorter | I know criticizing Riot's balance team (especially after a new patch breaks) is horrendously cliche, but its an old sore subject with me, since I come from a Broodwar background where near perfect balance is the norm. So when I saw a pro comment positively on some of the changes coming, then saw the actual changes toda... | I know criticizing Riot's balance team (especially after a new patch breaks) is horrendously cliche, but its an old sore subject with me, since I come from a Broodwar background where near perfect balance is the norm. So when I saw a pro comment positively on some of the changes coming, then saw the actual changes toda... | [
"Summary: Ahri is OP due to risk/reward, and so using her as an example isnt fair. Other examples that don't have to be \"hit or miss\" probably aren't a true Assassins, so I still assert that balanced Assassins are \"hit or miss.\"\n\nPost: I would not define champions like Annie or Veigar as Assassins, but rather... | 19 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 4,546 |
mastigia | Generate the content for a reddit post Go to Dr., learn to breathe | Definitely go to the doctor first.
But, that really sounds just like normal diaphragm cramping (stitching) people experience when they are first getting into hard aerobic exercise. This goes away once the diaphragm gets in better shape and can be helped by learning to breathe more rhythmically. When I run, I take 2 s... | Definitely go to the doctor first.
But, that really sounds just like normal diaphragm cramping (stitching) people experience when they are first getting into hard aerobic exercise. This goes away once the diaphragm gets in better shape and can be helped by learning to breathe more rhythmically. When I run, I take 2 s... | [
"Summary: Noise cancellation headphones with ear clips \n iPod nano (phone too bulky) \n Make her some playlists \n Underarmor underwear \n [Nathan hydration systems](\n\nPost: Prob with the bluetooth is your ears sweat and it falls out. Getting noise cancellation headphones with ear clips to keep the cord from tug... | 24 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 4,547 |
troyanonymous1 | Generate the content for a reddit post Game made me feel like a pedo, maintained eye contact and finished it like a boss, then deleted forever. | Ha ha ha
I played Katawa Shoujo and felt like a filthy pedophile and deleted it.
Also, it took like 2 whole days to play (since I have a job I can't marathon for more than like 6 hours a day)
So it was a huge waste of time.
I guess it was just the free trial, but I was not impressed with the VN genre. | Ha ha ha
I played Katawa Shoujo and felt like a filthy pedophile and deleted it.
Also, it took like 2 whole days to play (since I have a job I can't marathon for more than like 6 hours a day)
So it was a huge waste of time.
I guess it was just the free trial, but I was not impressed with the VN genre. | [
"Summary: Forever alone, but I think with some Wikipedia understanding of psychology, and some willpower, I could fix it.\n\nPost: The following tenets / questions: \n \"Be yourself\" \n \"Be several different people, because most people just won't understand / give a shit about your hobbies.\" \n \"I don't give a ... | 20 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 4,548 |
Exocist | Generate the content for a reddit post Don't come back to Yu-Gi-Oh if you thought Inzektors were bad, it got a whole lot worse. | Inzektors no longer a thing. Dragonfly and Hornet got limited. 1 year later they were unlimited and Inzektors aren't played any more. Want to know why?
They made something more broken: Shadolls
These are absolutely fucking ridiculos. I usually don't swear when describing this stuff but thats the only way to describ... | Inzektors no longer a thing. Dragonfly and Hornet got limited. 1 year later they were unlimited and Inzektors aren't played any more. Want to know why?
They made something more broken: Shadolls
These are absolutely fucking ridiculos. I usually don't swear when describing this stuff but thats the only way to describ... | [
"Summary: 0/1 stealth Soul Sister sucks because it doesn't do enough. No one would run it. A 4 mana 3/5 Soul Sister with 2/3 life instead of 1 would probably end up as a better option. Good against aggro and although sub-par vs control, doesn't suck like the 0/1 variant.\n\nPost: Card does literally nothing like th... | 18 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 4,549 |
dakboy | Generate the content for a reddit post Less media exposure + shitty scheduling = fewer great interviews. | I think they're having a really hard time getting A-list interviews now. Fewer listeners than they had on terrestrial radio means less exposure, so potential interviewees are going to prioritize more traditional outlets over Howard.
And it's a damn shame, because Howard can be an outstanding interviewer. Except for... | I think they're having a really hard time getting A-list interviews now. Fewer listeners than they had on terrestrial radio means less exposure, so potential interviewees are going to prioritize more traditional outlets over Howard.
And it's a damn shame, because Howard can be an outstanding interviewer. Except for... | [
"Summary: stop looking at your phone and look in the hemisphere around you.\n\nPost: Unless it's included in the cache description itself by the owner, there is no \"height\" listed anywhere in a standard geocache listing. The people who \"seem to have that information\" have either read something into the descript... | 24 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 4,550 |
architimmy | Generate the content for a reddit post every firm is a little different and they all look for different things, just present yourself well with passion and be professional at your interview (dress appropriately and be confident). | The OP must work at a small firm. The idea of hiring someone fresh from college to work on detail drawings or be responsible for code compliance is frightening. The typical expectation for new interns at most firms is that you know how to use photoshop, autocad, and some type of modeling program (these days Revit or so... | The OP must work at a small firm. The idea of hiring someone fresh from college to work on detail drawings or be responsible for code compliance is frightening. The typical expectation for new interns at most firms is that you know how to use photoshop, autocad, and some type of modeling program (these days Revit or so... | [
"Summary: I did design but I'm not the designer\n\nPost: I wouldn't say that I designed it, but I did wear the designer hat (on top of others) through most of the project. Given that we were short staffed at the time I drew probably somewhere between 90% to 95% of the details. I did design a lot of the project, but... | 19 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 4,551 |
dialMARK4acti0n | Generate the content for a reddit post I think that changing Tahm's Devour so that the person inside Tahm takes a portion of the damage Tahm takes would make the ability healthier and more fair to other players while keeping it from losing its identity for Tahm players.
Anyway, that's my two cents. What do you think,... | For such an overloaded basic ability, that is so flexible and rarely risky to use, Tahm Kench's Devour can be pretty annoying at times, and feels quite unfair, at least in my opinion. Even so, I think most people would agree that making everything harder to kill is very annoying.
Watching Worlds, with all the Tahm Ke... | For such an overloaded basic ability, that is so flexible and rarely risky to use, Tahm Kench's Devour can be pretty annoying at times, and feels quite unfair, at least in my opinion. Even so, I think most people would agree that making everything harder to kill is very annoying.
Watching Worlds, with all the Tahm Ke... | [
"Summary: Digital Event 2015 was lackluster because we've been getting tons of news throughout the year with all the Directs. Better than waiting for the next E3 with a year without news.\n\nPost: It's comprehensible to have had a lackluster Digital Event when we have been getting HUGE NEWS through Directs througho... | 17 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 4,552 |
ctskifreak | Generate the content for a reddit post Internal stuff really hasn't changed - external ports are the bigger issue. | The ATX standard has been around for a while, and it doesn't look to be going anywhere anytime soon. The biggest issue is with the external ports. USB 3.0 is coming into use more and more - audio ports haven't changed, and sometimes you'll see eSATA and Firewire(not much though anymore.) | The ATX standard has been around for a while, and it doesn't look to be going anywhere anytime soon. The biggest issue is with the external ports. USB 3.0 is coming into use more and more - audio ports haven't changed, and sometimes you'll see eSATA and Firewire(not much though anymore.) | [
"Summary: Soda tasted weird two different times at the same McDonald's - I have a free meal for that location.\n\nPost: McDonald's surprisingly: I sent the following to their customer service email: \n >I was in the area delivering for my job and I stopped in. The first time was via the drive through, and the secon... | 16 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 4,553 |
purrfectpurling | Generate the content for a reddit post husband feels that his is wanting open relationship, I don't - any thoughts/feelings? | Hi,
My husband of 5 years (known 7), has essentially decided that he is the kind of person that wants an open relationship. I am not that type of person, and believe that sex only complicates things when you bring other people into the mix.
He cheated on me about 2 years ago - like blatantly hid it from me and lied... | Hi,
My husband of 5 years (known 7), has essentially decided that he is the kind of person that wants an open relationship. I am not that type of person, and believe that sex only complicates things when you bring other people into the mix.
He cheated on me about 2 years ago - like blatantly hid it from me and lied... | [
"Summary: I've lived with a roommate who caused damage to apartment and needed to be asked to clean or bathe .... He also did drugs and screwed us over - people like this just exist and feel like they are doing nothing wrong.\n\nPost: I lived with a person like this for a month- my husband had knew this person, as ... | 15 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 4,554 |
lankira | Generate the content for a reddit post Florists who work with you are awesome, and listening to them get you great results at a decent price. Work with your florist rather than demanding things from her/him. It'll result in something truly perfect for you and your wedding, even if it's not exactly what you had initiall... | I changed up the flowers in my bouquets, like, six or seven times in an effort to work with my florist to find the right combination of price and look. [This]( was my inspiration. Initially, to bring down the price, I wanted to do ranunculus or peonies instead of roses. Then, my florist told me that they couldn't get j... | I changed up the flowers in my bouquets, like, six or seven times in an effort to work with my florist to find the right combination of price and look. [This]( was my inspiration. Initially, to bring down the price, I wanted to do ranunculus or peonies instead of roses. Then, my florist told me that they couldn't get j... | [
"Summary: Parents made lots of money together; when they divorced, Dad worked 14+ hours a day at a business he owned but often couldn't afford mortgage payments. Mom told us it was just that Dad didn't care about family. I was lucky by international standards, but it still sucked and taught me valuable lessons.\n\n... | 40 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 4,555 |
Super_Bad_64 | Generate the content for a reddit post Last PC I built was using an ATI card. I have no idea how HDMI works. I have a dual GTX 970s, and some kind of HDMI 1080p monitor, and those things should hook up, but I don't know how. Help appreciated ! | Alright, so as the title says, I'm building a brand new shiny machine for christmas. It's not really a matter of specs - I kinda know my way around PC hardware, I know what I want to put in, I know I'm going way overboard for what I'm going to use it for, and I know cramming as much Corsair and/or MSI hardware as I c... | Alright, so as the title says, I'm building a brand new shiny machine for christmas. It's not really a matter of specs - I kinda know my way around PC hardware, I know what I want to put in, I know I'm going way overboard for what I'm going to use it for, and I know cramming as much Corsair and/or MSI hardware as I c... | [
"Summary: The copyright law doesn't work like that ofc; the digital piracy one, however, does, and was the one I was talking about. Sorry for the confusion !\n\nPost: There is nowhere in the world where that's how copyright infringement laws work. \n It's not really a copyright infringement ground though. Here in F... | 15 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 4,556 |
mynamesafad | Generate the content for a reddit post My friend avoided the herpes | Not mine but a friend. He was dancing with a girl and went back to her dorm afterwards. They are making out, and she goes "I have something to tell you", he says "what". She replies back with "I have herpes..." My friend then proceeds to run out of the room, sprint back to his dorm, and this entire time he is crying. B... | Not mine but a friend. He was dancing with a girl and went back to her dorm afterwards. They are making out, and she goes "I have something to tell you", he says "what". She replies back with "I have herpes..." My friend then proceeds to run out of the room, sprint back to his dorm, and this entire time he is crying. B... | [
"Summary: Neighbors son rode off on a bike. She called police and assumed he was dead.\n\nPost: Context before I start the story, I live in a relatively safe suburb. Crime rate is pretty low and we got rated in Forbes \"top 50 small towns in America\". Hopefully this gives a sense to my town. \n One day my neighbor... | 53 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 4,557 |
ThirstyOne | Generate the content for a reddit post Please try to play nice with the other kids in the sandbox. | Fair arguments. I suppose two wrongs don't make a right. Allow me to rephrase:
Pointing out that someone who's regarded highly in the survival/bushcraft world is a 'tool' doesn't teach anyone anything about gluing birch bark. Listing techniques or alternatives does. I've seen Ray Mears videos where he makes and uses ... | Fair arguments. I suppose two wrongs don't make a right. Allow me to rephrase:
Pointing out that someone who's regarded highly in the survival/bushcraft world is a 'tool' doesn't teach anyone anything about gluing birch bark. Listing techniques or alternatives does. I've seen Ray Mears videos where he makes and uses ... | [
"Summary: Teaching principals creates critical thinkers who can apply what they've learned to whatever is thrown at them. Repeating parlor tricks does not. Start survival training with human physiology, branch from there with everything tying back to it. \n Edit: Formatting, grammar, other stuff.\n\nPost: I'm going... | 29 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 4,558 |
Futurames | Generate the content for a reddit post A lot of people who say that they don't like roller coasters have probably never been on one. | Millennium Force was my very first roller coaster. My friend insisted on a baptism by fire type of deal (I was 21 and had never been on one). It was one of the best moments of my life. Now, I love roller coasters.
I wouldn't go on Dragster though because I didn't like the fact that it didn't have an overhead thing to... | Millennium Force was my very first roller coaster. My friend insisted on a baptism by fire type of deal (I was 21 and had never been on one). It was one of the best moments of my life. Now, I love roller coasters.
I wouldn't go on Dragster though because I didn't like the fact that it didn't have an overhead thing to... | [
"Summary: ex boyfriend makes upba heart condition as an excuse for why he's so skinny.\n\nPost: My ex boyfriend was very skinny. I didn't care but for some reason he was really self conscious about it. So he decided to tell me that the reason he's so skinny is because he has a heart condition that causes his heart ... | 29 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 4,559 |
YouShallKnow | Generate the content for a reddit post NDDA isn't bad for the reasons you think it is, and now it's fine. | You misunderstand the NDAA. The power to indefinitely detain terror suspects (captured abroad by the military) as enemy combatants has existed since 2001 when the AUMF was passed by Congress. Shortly thereafter the power was used against two Americans, Padilla and Hamdi. They eventually made it to the Supreme Court,... | You misunderstand the NDAA. The power to indefinitely detain terror suspects (captured abroad by the military) as enemy combatants has existed since 2001 when the AUMF was passed by Congress. Shortly thereafter the power was used against two Americans, Padilla and Hamdi. They eventually made it to the Supreme Court,... | [
"Summary: don't trust any member of the Paul family, they are all hucksters of some variety.\n\nPost: The NDAA doesn't have power in the United States. It's a military power, the military is not allowed to act as law enforcement. In the entire war on terror, there has been one American captured on American soil w... | 15 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 4,560 |
tomyownrhythm | Generate the content for a reddit post Alcohol solves my problems for me. | So I'm writing notes to myself at work with my Pilot Metropolitan inked with BSB. I set the pen down a little too hard and got a nice Jackson Pollock-style splatter on the white laminate desk. "No problem," I think as I pour a bit of water and start to wipe it up with a napkin. Uh-oh. BSB isn't going anywhere. Am ... | So I'm writing notes to myself at work with my Pilot Metropolitan inked with BSB. I set the pen down a little too hard and got a nice Jackson Pollock-style splatter on the white laminate desk. "No problem," I think as I pour a bit of water and start to wipe it up with a napkin. Uh-oh. BSB isn't going anywhere. Am ... | [
"Summary: listen to plokk and shinknk if you have outstanding debt.\n\nPost: I just got an $8k tax credit from buying my home and this is what I did: \n -$6k to paying off 2 credit cards and paying down another (average about $15% APR)\n-$1.5k to bolster my emergency fund (it's a house, something will go wrong)\n-$... | 15 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 4,561 |
leelem0n | Generate the content for a reddit post Fatlogic is just another form of science-hating dumbfuckery. Never allow anyone to attempt to quell fatlogic with more science-hating dumbfuckery. Always ask for research. | Different pills have different hormonal concentrations so you need to find one best for you. I was on a concentration that made me feel like I was going crazy and was switched back to a low dose and everything's fine. It did not make me gain weight. I have been taking the pill for over a decade now to manage a health i... | Different pills have different hormonal concentrations so you need to find one best for you. I was on a concentration that made me feel like I was going crazy and was switched back to a low dose and everything's fine. It did not make me gain weight. I have been taking the pill for over a decade now to manage a health i... | [
"Summary: You used your personal biases to completely misunderstand how hypothetical questions work, but somehow insist you're making relevant comments.\n\nPost: I mean, you even said: \"I assume by your capital G you're talking about the Christian God.\" \n You forgot about Judaism, Islam, Bahá'í, Zoroastrianism..... | 36 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 4,562 |
xinu | Generate the content for a reddit post Yes | Roasts are supposed to be funny. Your friends stand up there and lovingly making as much fun of you as they can get away with. Thats the point.
Then here comes Norm. As a comedian, what's the one thing you can do at a roast that people won't expect? Not be funny. It's not easy to craft things that sound like a go... | Roasts are supposed to be funny. Your friends stand up there and lovingly making as much fun of you as they can get away with. Thats the point.
Then here comes Norm. As a comedian, what's the one thing you can do at a roast that people won't expect? Not be funny. It's not easy to craft things that sound like a go... | [
"Summary: The mods on both sides are using arguments that do nothing but add to the problem.\n\nPost: Yeah, I'm not really impressed by any of the mods on either side of the argument. Saying that there is nothing we do as a culture to rationalize rape is stupid. I agree there are often more specific terms that ca... | 15 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 4,563 |
g1i | Generate the content for a reddit post everyone's hot. You just have to know how to see it. | All of the things we do to be pretty are so fragile. Makeup smears, or comes off, hair gets messed up in humidity. Wigs come askew. Our bodies aren't always perfect (in fact, they rarely are). But there's this unending march towards perfection, like we may somehow grasp the ideal, if only for a fleeting moment. And the... | All of the things we do to be pretty are so fragile. Makeup smears, or comes off, hair gets messed up in humidity. Wigs come askew. Our bodies aren't always perfect (in fact, they rarely are). But there's this unending march towards perfection, like we may somehow grasp the ideal, if only for a fleeting moment. And the... | [
"Summary: While I certainly suspect that a lot of subscribers are NOT INTJs (knowingly or unknowingly), I don't think it really matters beyond just sort of acknowledging it. Since it isn't really a problem, no solution is needed. \n Edit: I realize your post was probably very tongue-in-cheek, but I thought it raise... | 24 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 4,564 |
ekolis | Generate the content for a reddit post made another student miss graduation, he handled it quite gracefully though! | In my junior year of college, I was working on a team assignment with another student, who was a senior. Well, wouldn't you know, I forgot to turn in the assignment, and didn't realize for several days after the due date. OK, no big deal, email the professor... oh, he's out of town for the next three months on a resear... | In my junior year of college, I was working on a team assignment with another student, who was a senior. Well, wouldn't you know, I forgot to turn in the assignment, and didn't realize for several days after the due date. OK, no big deal, email the professor... oh, he's out of town for the next three months on a resear... | [
"Summary: don't do this, unless you're trying to destroy the entire solar system!\n\nPost: Actually, the sun is already green; it just looks yellow because it's also a bit reddish, too. So if you poured water on it, that would make it cyan. And cyan stars are freaking huge ! So the sun would swallow up the entire ... | 17 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 4,565 |
Palpz | Generate the content for a reddit post Your analogy is stupid. | Well, the difference being that we're not building a government registry of all computers, we're not making it illegal to let that registration lapse (with jail time for the owner and seizure of the computers in question if that lapse occurs), and there's no provisions in the law for certain types of computers to be pe... | Well, the difference being that we're not building a government registry of all computers, we're not making it illegal to let that registration lapse (with jail time for the owner and seizure of the computers in question if that lapse occurs), and there's no provisions in the law for certain types of computers to be pe... | [
"Summary: No, he's still just a mayor.\n\nPost: I'll go out on a limb here and say no. It's not. Sure, it's a really important local election, but it's still a local election. Rob Ford can't do shit that can affect me in B.C. The fact that his city is a really big city doesn't mean that it's still not just a city. ... | 67 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 4,566 |
BScatterplot | Generate the content for a reddit post 1) The rubber band isn't launching the squirrel anywhere close to 70 mph 2) A human could withstand that acceleration, a squirrel could handle it no sweat. | Yeah because those rubber cords are totally going to get the squirrel up to 70 mph. Even if it could get the squirrel up to 70 mph:
70mph = 31 m/s
Acceleration = change in velocity/change in time = (31m/s)/(0.1s) = 310 m/s^2
Converting to g's for simplicity: 310 m/s^2 / 9.8 m/s^2 = 31.6 g's
According to this link ... | Yeah because those rubber cords are totally going to get the squirrel up to 70 mph. Even if it could get the squirrel up to 70 mph:
70mph = 31 m/s
Acceleration = change in velocity/change in time = (31m/s)/(0.1s) = 310 m/s^2
Converting to g's for simplicity: 310 m/s^2 / 9.8 m/s^2 = 31.6 g's
According to this link ... | [
"Summary: Twisted my ankle because I hated Bridesmaids. \n Girlfriend thought it was hilarious though, so your mileage may vary.\n\nPost: Horrible Bosses was hilarious. I tried to watch Bridesmaids with my girlfriend, and about halfway through I decided I had to leave to \"go to the bathroom.\" I actually just want... | 19 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 4,567 |
the_superfantastic | Generate the content for a reddit post why not fire everyone involved if you're worried about lawsuits at all? | Explain then, why ALL parties involved weren't fired? Just one?
I can get they'd "make an example" out of one guy, but it's not like anyone was clamoring for his firing/PH to do something after it happened. It happened quietly (as it should have) and PH only commented after he allegedly said as much on HN.
I work... | Explain then, why ALL parties involved weren't fired? Just one?
I can get they'd "make an example" out of one guy, but it's not like anyone was clamoring for his firing/PH to do something after it happened. It happened quietly (as it should have) and PH only commented after he allegedly said as much on HN.
I work... | [
"Summary: yeah, I feel you. Don't apologize for being bitter - it's hard out there, and it freaking sucks. You should be able to vent if you want!\n\nPost: I'm in the job market, too (my first big gig out of grad school, been looking for...7 months? And still nothing? Ick.), and I'm always irritated by this shit. E... | 30 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 4,568 |
ILarryILegend | Generate the content for a reddit post Shouldn't have mouthed off | I had turned 13, had a bunch of friends over for a birthday party. It was going to be a sleepover, and the plan was to stay up late watching movies ... Revenge of the NERDS!
Well, I, being the little smart assed teen I was, mouthed off to my dad. Or had an attitude or something in regards to something he said or aske... | I had turned 13, had a bunch of friends over for a birthday party. It was going to be a sleepover, and the plan was to stay up late watching movies ... Revenge of the NERDS!
Well, I, being the little smart assed teen I was, mouthed off to my dad. Or had an attitude or something in regards to something he said or aske... | [
"Summary: Doc touches my junk with no gloves; proceeds to touch everything. In essence, I dragged my balls all over the office.\n\nPost: Behind the power curve here ... but I'm scheduled to go in for a hernia \"repair\" in short while. \n A few weeks ago, I went in for a \"pre-pre\" exam I guess, and the doc tells ... | 23 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 4,569 |
mattzach84 | Generate the content for a reddit post Friend looted a level 30 legendary in Inferno Whimsy. Is this normal? | After much convincing, my friend finally logged into D3 after a month. He recently quit WoW, and had access to D3 through the annual pass. He since purchased a digital copy of D3 (about a week ago) through his battle.net account.
However, when we played, it was clear his account was under some kind of review due to... | After much convincing, my friend finally logged into D3 after a month. He recently quit WoW, and had access to D3 through the annual pass. He since purchased a digital copy of D3 (about a week ago) through his battle.net account.
However, when we played, it was clear his account was under some kind of review due to... | [
"Summary: This really should not happen to you, do one of those things I said.\n\nPost: I do think that the 1 second ID time will fix some of this, but in the meantime: \n 1) Always check your DPS numbers. I can't change a piece of gear without that number changing, so it's a reliable indicator that I'm wearing t... | 16 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 4,570 |
HeelsDownEyesUp | Generate the content for a reddit post 21yo cousin rode a 200lb, furious war-pig around our 4th of July family reunion. | Once upon a time, my cousin came to a family reunion, 4th of July party with beer. Twas his 21st year. Men in my family are exceedingly obnoxious when drunk, the types you can dare to do anything. Cousin re-notices that he's on a farm; I have livestock. None of my family members are farm-people, so to see horses, chick... | Once upon a time, my cousin came to a family reunion, 4th of July party with beer. Twas his 21st year. Men in my family are exceedingly obnoxious when drunk, the types you can dare to do anything. Cousin re-notices that he's on a farm; I have livestock. None of my family members are farm-people, so to see horses, chick... | [
"Summary: yeah, you're not full of shit. \n Thaaaat was more than you asked for but it got me thinking out loud.\n\nPost: Nah, you're right, I stated that above, \"instead of violence, they often just have sex.\" \n They evolved that way because they needed something to really tone down violence within in their gro... | 17 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 4,571 |
NihiloZero | Generate the content for a reddit post r/Anarchism is not an adequate forum for anarchist discourse. A new subreddit ( r/AnarchistNews . | This post is about intellectual honesty. As some of you may know, there has been a great amount of dissatisfaction with the style of moderation displayed in the r/anarchism subreddit. This has been a simmering issue for several months. Unfortunately, up til now, there has been little that could be done about it sinc... | This post is about intellectual honesty. As some of you may know, there has been a great amount of dissatisfaction with the style of moderation displayed in the r/anarchism subreddit. This has been a simmering issue for several months. Unfortunately, up til now, there has been little that could be done about it sinc... | [
"Summary: Unsolicited wall of text because I was bored. It should also be noted that I didn't even begin to bring up the increased pace of environmental degradation which is having many severe effects in the United States and around the world.\n\nPost: The USA earned a lot of admiration for its role, and victory, ... | 26 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 4,572 |
DigitalChocobo | Generate the content for a reddit post It was stupid. | I don't think it was ever meant to be a picture of the dog. I looks like the girl took a picture of herself, then somebody noticed the dog and posted it on Reddit. In that case, the comic about females blocking objects wasn't really relevant.
On the other hand, the response to it wasn't relevant either. I only clicke... | I don't think it was ever meant to be a picture of the dog. I looks like the girl took a picture of herself, then somebody noticed the dog and posted it on Reddit. In that case, the comic about females blocking objects wasn't really relevant.
On the other hand, the response to it wasn't relevant either. I only clicke... | [
"Summary: Would guardrails make the subway safer? Probably. Should we put them in every station? No.\n\nPost: You could still get something caught in the guardrail, plus it would be hella expensive. \n Edit: A guardrail would make the subway safer, but if you think a guardrail is so obvious that it's stupid to ques... | 22 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 4,573 |
count_schemula | Generate the content for a reddit post I vote for the Gen 3 G26 and spend your time learning to handle, shoot and carry a gun. You want to change it up later, you'll have options.
Only my opinions. | I have a G26 Gen 3 and a G27 Gen 4. Both have been flawless to this point. I really enjoy both of them. My hands are either average or small. I'm 5'11".
I do consider adding a G42 mostly due to its smaller size. I have not shot one, but, have definitely heard about how it's finicky with ammo and that does seem like c... | I have a G26 Gen 3 and a G27 Gen 4. Both have been flawless to this point. I really enjoy both of them. My hands are either average or small. I'm 5'11".
I do consider adding a G42 mostly due to its smaller size. I have not shot one, but, have definitely heard about how it's finicky with ammo and that does seem like c... | [
"Summary: don't hit other cars.\n\nPost: Without going to court all you can do is plead guilty and pay on the website or over the phone. \n I just paid about $180 for a left turn (pulling out of the Majestic/Righteous Room, I guess you can't go left there, it was 2am, no traffic). I thought that was excessive, but,... | 21 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 4,574 |
Doctursea | Generate the content for a reddit post You don't mess with Texas. | I've never heard it said as a you're better than others outside of a joke. What is actually for is irrelevant, it is the funniest state slogan I've ever heard. A lot of presumably Texans on the internet revolve around those jokes its almost like you're insecure about it. The whole country knows you don't mess with Texa... | I've never heard it said as a you're better than others outside of a joke. What is actually for is irrelevant, it is the funniest state slogan I've ever heard. A lot of presumably Texans on the internet revolve around those jokes its almost like you're insecure about it. The whole country knows you don't mess with Texa... | [
"Summary: fuck you too.\n\nPost: TBH we just missed an opportunity to make this thread the answer OP was looking for because of people like you. It's not like this couldn't be reposted with the right tag or anything. I'm not saying that these are the best threads, but everyone going one ways is better than the half... | 23 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 4,575 |
InferiousX | Generate the content for a reddit post date someone you want too now. Not someone who might improve later. | It makes sense on paper.
Until that person doesn't subscribe to the imaginary timetable to change or realize their potential that one imagines in their own brain. Then the relationship just breeds resentment on the part of the one who expected change, and confusion on the one who's being shamed for not meeting some u... | It makes sense on paper.
Until that person doesn't subscribe to the imaginary timetable to change or realize their potential that one imagines in their own brain. Then the relationship just breeds resentment on the part of the one who expected change, and confusion on the one who's being shamed for not meeting some u... | [
"Summary: Jesus, take the wheel.\n\nPost: Fuck, who knows. \n NYG: There are still fresh corpses laying in the path of those who underestimate Mini-Manning and Coughlin \n Dallas: The Cowboys were really good last year. And even without Murray, I think Randle, Dunbar and McFadden will RBBC very well with that OLi... | 37 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 4,576 |
Jeten_Gesfakke | Generate the content for a reddit post I'm a support player with horrible farm mechanics at 2.8k MMR and I average over 120 cs if I'm the most farmed hero on my team, even in a lost game. I don't see how this would be very rare. | I think you're overstating it. I mainly play supports and in my latest games as the player with most cs in my team I got
129 in 30 (riki). Lost
128 in 30 (juggernaut). this one is horrible. Lost
113 in 30 (troll). we were 15k xp behind because of awful lanes. Win
163 in 30 (tinker). Lost
120 in 30 (Ember). ... | I think you're overstating it. I mainly play supports and in my latest games as the player with most cs in my team I got
129 in 30 (riki). Lost
128 in 30 (juggernaut). this one is horrible. Lost
113 in 30 (troll). we were 15k xp behind because of awful lanes. Win
163 in 30 (tinker). Lost
120 in 30 (Ember). ... | [
"Summary: In any case, this is nitpicking about something that doesn't matter.\n\nPost: Here's some differences between a glitch and a bug from different web sites: \n >Bugs, when found, usually mean having to correct the hardware or software so that it works properly. \n >A glitch, however, can be something interm... | 36 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 4,577 |
RosieMuffysticks | Generate the content for a reddit post find out for yourself, because the doctors don't give a shit. | Knowing my blood type saved my fetus' life, and possibly mine, too.
Having a late-in-life pregnancy causes the medical establishment a pain in the crawdad. So they draw sixteen gazillion tubes of blood for "prenatal testing" (but it is really just to get back at you for the aforementioned pain in the crawdad).
The... | Knowing my blood type saved my fetus' life, and possibly mine, too.
Having a late-in-life pregnancy causes the medical establishment a pain in the crawdad. So they draw sixteen gazillion tubes of blood for "prenatal testing" (but it is really just to get back at you for the aforementioned pain in the crawdad).
The... | [
"Summary: Do some research on my suggestions, I do not expect you to take my word for any of this.\n\nPost: I have a couple suggestions for you. \n One, start using xylitol. Xylitol will kill bacteria, and make your membranes inhospitable to them. You can eat it, and it will destroy helicobacter pilorii. You can... | 18 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 4,578 |
KarmaAndLies | Generate the content for a reddit post It won't break your phone, but it won't fix it either. | I don't think making that change will do any particular harm (not least of all because that used to be the old default) but I also suspect it won't do a lot of good either.
What heapgrowthlimit appears to do (from my cursory checking) is allow an app's heap to expand up to that size freely before the garbage collecto... | I don't think making that change will do any particular harm (not least of all because that used to be the old default) but I also suspect it won't do a lot of good either.
What heapgrowthlimit appears to do (from my cursory checking) is allow an app's heap to expand up to that size freely before the garbage collecto... | [
"Summary: Modest performance improvements to updated apps. No performance improvements to legacy apps. And the potential for more total RAM and also for Google to increase the per app allotment.\n\nPost: Minor performance increases and the ability to build a phone with more RAM than 4 GB (without horribly inefficie... | 36 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 4,579 |
Anzereke | Generate the content for a reddit post the dude was an asshole who seemed more like a troll then anything else, he was also either fake entirely or just out of basic training (the latter was mentioned but I ma unsure if he gave proof of it) and seemed completely unwilling to actually discuss anything other then how he ... | Not sure what AMA you read but I don;t recall that at all.
Initial series of questions were polite and reasonable for the most part, this despite a lack of proof for the AMA and him talking like a recruitment channel for psychopathic glory hounds.
It was only after he became rude and obnoxious that things really we... | Not sure what AMA you read but I don;t recall that at all.
Initial series of questions were polite and reasonable for the most part, this despite a lack of proof for the AMA and him talking like a recruitment channel for psychopathic glory hounds.
It was only after he became rude and obnoxious that things really we... | [
"Summary: America is a jock. Focusing on being big and strong while everyone else prepares for the future and makes their lives better.\n\nPost: Um...hate to break it you but other countries (first world countries that is) would consider it the other way around. \n It's easy to be powerful when no-one else wants to... | 31 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 4,580 |
Railboy | Generate the content for a reddit post This kind of optimization isn't always premature. | This sub gets all sorts of experience levels and one of the most common posts is people over-optimizing in early stages of development.
>we should write good code first, then profile, and only then optimize actual observed hot spots, because each optimization reduces flexibility.
I agree with what you & the author ... | This sub gets all sorts of experience levels and one of the most common posts is people over-optimizing in early stages of development.
>we should write good code first, then profile, and only then optimize actual observed hot spots, because each optimization reduces flexibility.
I agree with what you & the author ... | [
"Summary: Of course, but your friend also had a point, even if he did a poor job of articulating it.\n\nPost: I responded to the exact same question ages ago in this post.]( I'm going to C&V that response here. \n 'Is it ever acceptable to hit a woman in self defense?' \n You're asking the wrong question. \n When d... | 25 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 4,581 |
CaptSnap | Generate the content for a reddit post As I have maintained feminism is not concerned with equality. Youre a feminist. How did you respond? You trivialized the sexism of men compared to your own, insisted on some vaporous as yet uncitable "overwhelming privilege" men enjoy, ignored my evidence to the contrary and th... | I appreciate your insight. However, I wouldnt in a million years volunteer with Big Brothers simply because of the liability. Like most men Ive contemplated the risks and they are far too great to be around children, other than my own. In fact Reddit has a thread about this very phenomenon, which you mention (here i... | I appreciate your insight. However, I wouldnt in a million years volunteer with Big Brothers simply because of the liability. Like most men Ive contemplated the risks and they are far too great to be around children, other than my own. In fact Reddit has a thread about this very phenomenon, which you mention (here i... | [
"Summary: The state cares for the rights of the child (actually it wants to make sure its not the one thats going to pay for it bc it actually has a federal incentive to catch \"deadbeats\", even if they arent actually \"proven\" to be the real dad) and doesnt give a rat's flying fuck about your rights. You surren... | 74 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 4,582 |
CircleJerkAmbassador | Generate the content for a reddit post My uncle toked up with Carl Sagan when he delivered a pizza to his house. | My uncle and I were smoking in his garage one day and were talking about the universe and science and stuff when all of a sudden he says, "You know whats funny, I remember meeting a famous ENT scientist once," Then he tells me this story.
>So back when I was just a young adult (early 80s) I got my first job as a pizz... | My uncle and I were smoking in his garage one day and were talking about the universe and science and stuff when all of a sudden he says, "You know whats funny, I remember meeting a famous ENT scientist once," Then he tells me this story.
>So back when I was just a young adult (early 80s) I got my first job as a pizz... | [
"Summary: My uncle toked up with Carl Sagan when he delivered a pizza to his house.\n\nPost: Mary-J has fueled the imagination of many of our greatest scientists even, why make it illegal? Probably the same reason they're de-funding NASA. Because it doesn't benefit bankers with their cocks in the mouths of our poli... | 19 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 4,583 |
Notmiefault | Generate the content for a reddit post SHC is the only team besides LMQ playing only teams with worse records than themselves this week
Based on all this, it seems a solid bet that SHC and its players are excellent roster choices for this week. What are your thoughts on their play, and what I've said here? | I've been looking through different teams and their schedules, and am starting to suspect that, besides LMQ, SHC may have the easiest schedule this week.
This week, SHC plays Gambit and CHW, both of whom went 1-3 the first week. Not only that, but SHC only lost week 1 to Mill and SK, both of whom are fairly strong. I... | I've been looking through different teams and their schedules, and am starting to suspect that, besides LMQ, SHC may have the easiest schedule this week.
This week, SHC plays Gambit and CHW, both of whom went 1-3 the first week. Not only that, but SHC only lost week 1 to Mill and SK, both of whom are fairly strong. I... | [
"Summary: Different fights are hard for different classes. Titan just happens to be pretty basic for the tank\n\nPost: I don't really have that much of an issue with it. Different fights have different levels of difficulty for different classes. \n Garuda is all about the tank/offtank; they need to be constantly mo... | 29 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 4,584 |
Avenkal19 | Generate the content for a reddit post varying regions, items spawn in specific locations, something hunts you | World
Mine would be to have a large city area and a large country area. Also for there to be a variation in what types of land masses there are. I would like there to be a mountain region and a beach region for players to explore. For dungeons type areas have the set storyline dungeons that are mapped out and never... | World
Mine would be to have a large city area and a large country area. Also for there to be a variation in what types of land masses there are. I would like there to be a mountain region and a beach region for players to explore. For dungeons type areas have the set storyline dungeons that are mapped out and never... | [
"Summary: Dawn Dish Soap = Raw nutsack.\n\nPost: My family would do that when we were little. We would get the huge sheet of painters plastic that covers like a damn football field in length. Then run a hose on it and use dawn dish soap. The dawn dish soap would eat the skin off our nutsacks. Hurt like hell but you... | 17 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 4,585 |
MynameisBubba | Generate the content for a reddit post Disregard bitches, ride bicycles | haha messenger grade shenanigan...like that buddy!! I'm right there with you! Except I was never ballsy enough to skitch (tho I did do it on rollerblades once haha). I did run in two alleycats though, and boy oh boy, I was in good cycling shape, had lots of traffic experience and fairly large balls, but I could not h... | haha messenger grade shenanigan...like that buddy!! I'm right there with you! Except I was never ballsy enough to skitch (tho I did do it on rollerblades once haha). I did run in two alleycats though, and boy oh boy, I was in good cycling shape, had lots of traffic experience and fairly large balls, but I could not h... | [
"Summary: the best self defense weapon is often between your ears\n\nPost: I often tuck it in my waistband. \n When it's in my pack I have envisioned myself telling a would be robber that I'm getting them my wallet or computer or something and then come out swinging. \n But to be honest getting assulted while out r... | 17 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 4,586 |
illdoitnextweek | Generate the content for a reddit post spent 10 minutes in a speaking test speaking about retarded students and their retarded needs and methods instead of different students and their different needs and methods.
T | I was studying Arabic and taking a speaking test. The topic was education. I spent ten minutes talking about how "different students need different methods of learning" as in visual or aural or kinistetic (I think that I am spelling this wrong but my phone is only offering me "kinks testicles" :/ ) .
Ten minutes o... | I was studying Arabic and taking a speaking test. The topic was education. I spent ten minutes talking about how "different students need different methods of learning" as in visual or aural or kinistetic (I think that I am spelling this wrong but my phone is only offering me "kinks testicles" :/ ) .
Ten minutes o... | [
"Summary: I came up with a hypothesis that each parent interacts differently with baby and even young babies have preferences. This calmed my fears of my baby hating me and led to some guilt-free \"free\" time. Now verbal, my son still expresses a varied preference of parent at specific moments.\n\nPost: Don't fr... | 16 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 4,587 |
mawnck | Generate the content for a reddit post As we like to say around here, you can have cheap, you can have new, and you can have good ... PICK TWO. | Here comes more real talk. Please don't get offended:
"I can't think of any other electronic market where old is better than new."
First of all, how many electronic markets involve resurrecting a "dead" technology that hasn't changed significantly since 1958?
Second, do you know why you rarely see used cheap crap... | Here comes more real talk. Please don't get offended:
"I can't think of any other electronic market where old is better than new."
First of all, how many electronic markets involve resurrecting a "dead" technology that hasn't changed significantly since 1958?
Second, do you know why you rarely see used cheap crap... | [
"Summary: American record companies were cheap bastards.\n\nPost: Welllllll … \n The two main problems with today's pressings are quality control and \"gimmick vinyl\", but that was not the case when records were being pressed in the millions. Actually, there are three scenarios in which your comments don't work. \... | 27 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 4,588 |
knowhatimsayin | Generate the content for a reddit post Prank wars end bad for everyone. | I had a similar war in my freshman dorms that ended with a trash can filled with piss and shit leaned up against my door one night. The enemy did not expect me to be gone. When I returned to said shit pale, I threw it all over the wrong persons door in a fit of fury filled rage. | I had a similar war in my freshman dorms that ended with a trash can filled with piss and shit leaned up against my door one night. The enemy did not expect me to be gone. When I returned to said shit pale, I threw it all over the wrong persons door in a fit of fury filled rage. | [
"Summary: Mobius made the disk perc's for easier mass production. They wanna take advantage of their hype.\n\nPost: I believe they did this so they are easier to produce. I have no knowledge on the varying difficulties of making glass percs, but for some reason I feel like these are a lot easier to make, than say..... | 20 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 4,589 |
LukaCola | Generate the content for a reddit post If anything the K/D/A scoreboard is favorable to supports and gankers (there's significant overlap between the two of course) as opposed to hard carries. But most players are pretty shitty at supporting (which is NOT an easy role) so they see carries as generally getting more kill... | It seems to me the general idea is that supports die more and get less kills or do less damage in fights so end up with lower scores, I disagree, I'd say that this is not role specific. Except for maybe a handful of heroes. Honestly I'd wager that as a support you should generally have a HIGHER kill and assist score th... | It seems to me the general idea is that supports die more and get less kills or do less damage in fights so end up with lower scores, I disagree, I'd say that this is not role specific. Except for maybe a handful of heroes. Honestly I'd wager that as a support you should generally have a HIGHER kill and assist score th... | [
"Summary: Earth changes occasionally over a huge amount of time but we don't really know details, the current changes are far too erratic to be compared to previous ones.\n\nPost: There was a medieval warm period (A smooth and minor change) and of course the ice age. The Earth is hypothesized to have regular period... | 23 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 4,590 |
ohgr4213 | Generate the content for a reddit post If you described your preconditions correctly, i'm not sure how often or to what degree ANY known system or mechanism can satisfy them. | You can't have actual free association without economic and opportunity equality.
Given that is your standard, and that people today have different personalities, skills, experiences,physical attributes and abilities when would this ever be the case?
If you mind me asking, what exactly would be necessary to fulfill... | You can't have actual free association without economic and opportunity equality.
Given that is your standard, and that people today have different personalities, skills, experiences,physical attributes and abilities when would this ever be the case?
If you mind me asking, what exactly would be necessary to fulfill... | [
"Summary: If you adopt an economic organization which increases efficiency significantly over virtually every other existing paradigm used in your industry, you don't want to use, nor do you need to try to set your prices artificially low. The normal price you can offer simply because of the advantages of how you a... | 50 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 4,591 |
mvlazysusan | Generate the content for a reddit post The war must be conducted in such a way that Islam (the Moslem Arabic World) and political Zionism (the State of Israel) mutually destroy each other.
Q: If you had not one racist bone in your body, what would a "race" have to do to you, for you to want to kill that "race"?
A: ... | I'm gonna describe someone, and you stop me when you know who he is and why it's important...
He was a Brigadier General and a States Attorney General.
In the war with Mexico he fought a pistol duel with his commanding officer.
He manged to kill thousands of Indians by hurling them against Lincolns' army, after h... | I'm gonna describe someone, and you stop me when you know who he is and why it's important...
He was a Brigadier General and a States Attorney General.
In the war with Mexico he fought a pistol duel with his commanding officer.
He manged to kill thousands of Indians by hurling them against Lincolns' army, after h... | [
"Summary: NO .\n\nPost: I sat behind the wheel of a 1966 Oldsmobile Cutlass stationwagon and said to myself \"we can build this and we can go almost 300,000 miles to the moon\". then I sat behind the wheel of a 2010 Cadillac Escolade and said to myself \"we can build this and we can NOT go 300 miles in space to the... | 18 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 4,592 |
HSoup | Generate the content for a reddit post Lots. Check out TheEroticReview.com | People who regularly visit prostitutes and escorts call themselves "Hobbyists". They have a couple of review sites you can browse, though you have to be a Hobbyist yourself to read the full reviews, you can get a taste on those. I seem to remember TheEroticReview.com, but I imagine you can find more. I, asking a sim... | People who regularly visit prostitutes and escorts call themselves "Hobbyists". They have a couple of review sites you can browse, though you have to be a Hobbyist yourself to read the full reviews, you can get a taste on those. I seem to remember TheEroticReview.com, but I imagine you can find more. I, asking a sim... | [
"Summary: Hot lady asks for my advice, I oblige using an example where I'm having violent sex with her. \n Edit: Well, gosh. Reddit Gold. Thank you kind stranger!\n\nPost: I'll retell this old chestnut: \n I was in my office when one of my very attractive co-workers came into my office to ask some advice. Her hu... | 21 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 4,593 |
bloodofdew | Generate the content for a reddit post its not as simple as production costs, it's actually very much involved. I'd guess electronics. | There's every thing just_bob said AND you can recycle paper more efficiently than electronics. AND the process of recycling paper is more "green" than the process of recycling electronics. AND I'm not sure if the difference in efficiency, energy, and environmental damage per unit is large enough to counteract the fact ... | There's every thing just_bob said AND you can recycle paper more efficiently than electronics. AND the process of recycling paper is more "green" than the process of recycling electronics. AND I'm not sure if the difference in efficiency, energy, and environmental damage per unit is large enough to counteract the fact ... | [
"Summary: you can learn to play the game better at the higher levels, its very hard to get better when you are bronze/silver/lowergold, even if you are a bit better than your peers.\n\nPost: I've found something else he said though is true. Its very difficult to learn how to play any better when you can only practi... | 33 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 4,594 |
MisogynistLesbian | Generate the content for a reddit post I'm walkin' here | One time I saw a guy walking across the street. There's just me and a Jeep stopped at the light, and he's stopped on top of the crosswalk. The pedestrian is this older-looking guy with a majestic full white beard, and he stops right in front of the Jeep and begins waving and yelling "HELLO!" aggressively until the dud... | One time I saw a guy walking across the street. There's just me and a Jeep stopped at the light, and he's stopped on top of the crosswalk. The pedestrian is this older-looking guy with a majestic full white beard, and he stops right in front of the Jeep and begins waving and yelling "HELLO!" aggressively until the dud... | [
"Summary: His remains were never exactly \"unknown.\" The military knew they were probably this guy but never took the time to find out for sure or tell his family. A green beret (I think someone who served with the soldier) tipped the family off 2 decades later and a journalist encouraged them to lobby for DNA... | 16 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 4,595 |
josiahpapaya | Generate the content for a reddit post If you happen to be someone who gets anxious about what happens online, either remind yourself that you are relatively insignificant to the trolls/haters and/or simply find something else to do instead of throwing yourself to the wolves. | I used to get a lot of anxiety about posting online.
Especially on reddit. I'd even lose sleep, afraid to check my messages and downvotes in the morning because of what people might say.
This was remedied in 3 ways:
1 - stop posting long-winded, polemic opinions and by leaving certain groups or disassociating with c... | I used to get a lot of anxiety about posting online.
Especially on reddit. I'd even lose sleep, afraid to check my messages and downvotes in the morning because of what people might say.
This was remedied in 3 ways:
1 - stop posting long-winded, polemic opinions and by leaving certain groups or disassociating with c... | [
"Summary: Too old to care about making friends anymore. I've learned the laws of nature will organically draw kindred spirits together.\n\nPost: As an expatriate who has lived here for 3 years... I'm too old for the meet-and-greets and social functions that \"bring the community together\". \nYou get to a point whe... | 200 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 4,596 |
StarBarbershop | Generate the content for a reddit post staying roach hydra until the late game is a death sentence. You need that mid game support unit, be it Infestors OR Swarm Hosts. | I absolutely think Swarm Hosts should be a staple. Basically what you are doing by going roach/hydra ---> ultra corruptor is forgoing any sort of support.
The best analogy, IMO, is that this is like going marine maruader, not getting medivacs, and planning to end up with BC/bio.
Roach/Hydra is good up until they ge... | I absolutely think Swarm Hosts should be a staple. Basically what you are doing by going roach/hydra ---> ultra corruptor is forgoing any sort of support.
The best analogy, IMO, is that this is like going marine maruader, not getting medivacs, and planning to end up with BC/bio.
Roach/Hydra is good up until they ge... | [
"Summary: Don't run a custom game. Run a pre-written module first. Walk before you run\n\nPost: Okay, I am sure you really want to do your own dungeon. I am gonna ask you to step back a moment. \n Don't run a custom game yet. You are likely not ready for it if you have never DM'd before. There are a lot of intricac... | 30 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 4,597 |
SkzChaotic | Generate the content for a reddit post I don't think so and I think it's impossible. | I'm not sure if they talked about it or not but it's pretty much impossible.
They would need Skynet level AI in order to actually match people of the same skill level. Like think about it, how can a system know how skilled I am and how much knowledge do I posses from a mere win / loss record and other stats like CS o... | I'm not sure if they talked about it or not but it's pretty much impossible.
They would need Skynet level AI in order to actually match people of the same skill level. Like think about it, how can a system know how skilled I am and how much knowledge do I posses from a mere win / loss record and other stats like CS o... | [
"Summary: you're half right, winning in solo pubs holds more complexity than one might think\n\nPost: Supports are the easiest to play at almost every level. If you think about it, you can afford to die the most out of all the roles (not to say you are allowed to feed) you can do the most with no gold early to mid ... | 15 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 4,598 |
cdcox | Generate the content for a reddit post Biochemistry is sometimes stupid, it's sometimes hard to figure anything out from names. Ubiquitin should really be renamed Targetin or Markin or Destructin or MarkOfDestructin.
(Though some names are OK, this one is kind of a crapshoot). | Ubiquitin does have some uses in cells, but primarily it's used to mark other proteins for destruction. You have to remember these things were named generally off of how they were found not off of what they do. The reason it's everywhere is because marking proteins for destruction is a hugely important. Unfortunately t... | Ubiquitin does have some uses in cells, but primarily it's used to mark other proteins for destruction. You have to remember these things were named generally off of how they were found not off of what they do. The reason it's everywhere is because marking proteins for destruction is a hugely important. Unfortunately t... | [
"Summary: Evolve or die. \n (I don't pirate much. I just wanted to explain why you are getting down-voted.)\n\nPost: See the thing is most people who pirate are ALSO the people who buy things. People see piracy as a second market for things they want, but not at the value they are charging. They also see it as a ch... | 33 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 4,599 |
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