\" contests are false advertising because (in many cases) you actually win a set amount. \n You have a fundamental misunderstanding of what false advertising is and a lack of knowledge when it comes to common terms of giveaways. Looking up an FTC definition of false advertising doesn't change that because there are a million different qualifiers that surround that definition, and every single point in the definition can be circumvented with the proper legal agreement. \n The reality is that if you're willingly participating in a contest or giveaway where you have to agree to something (see: basically all of them) they could promise you a bleeding condo on the moon and it would not be false advertising. Because advertising for a contest that has you sign an agreement is inherently different from advertising for a product that has no such thing surrounding its purchase.","Summary: you're operating from the mindset that solo queue is a meaningful representation of tournament level play when it absolutely is not.\n\nPost: Dude I don't know why you have to be such a jerk. You need to calm down. If you want to have a conversation I'm down, but I'm not going to sit here and be get bitched at. \n Being behind does prevent you from practicing arguably the most important period of the game: the early- to mid-game transition. That's where most leads start, and that where every snowball begins. It's a waste of time in solo queue to play from behind. I will reiterate why, and then I'm done: \n \n There is no real , tournament-level team coordination. \n Comebacks in solo queue mean almost nothing because of the first point that I mentioned. Bad engages are infinitely more common in solo queue than they are in tournaments. \n Most lane wins happen in the early- to mid-game transition and anything beyond that point is much more team-oriented. Practicing that stuff without your team is pointless. \n \n If you're convinced it's a bad attitude, fine. But Koreans have been doing it for over a decade on the SC ladders (The Korean GG is not a LoL specific term). Fact of the matter is that top tier players gain almost nothing practice-wise from solo queue from an actual strategic standpoint. The only thing they're working on is their mechanical ability to dominate a lane and read players in the lane. Once you're beyond that point, if you're down, there's nothing of value for a top tier player to walk away with. \n EDIT:","Summary: if you live near where celebrities gather and make it a priority to get photos with them, it's not that hard.\n\nPost: Doubtful. He would lose his job so quickly. \n It's not that hard to get these kinds of pictures if you live in New York or LA and frequently hang around places with the intent of spotting a celebrity. It's essentially the same strategy that the paparazzi uses, just with different goals. There's some girl out there on The Internet who has many (if not more) pictures like these. Lived in LA for a couple years and there were parts of town where you could say, \"Today I am going to see a celebrity.\" Not a specific celebrity, but if your goal was only to get a picture with whatever celeb would take a picture you you almost couldn't fail.","Summary: Just being a joke doesn't immunize a commentary from the rules.\n\nPost: Parody doesn't get a free pass to all rules and regulations because it is parody. You can't drop F-bombs on daytime TV because you're parodizing people who are unnecessary foul-mouthed. You can't whip out your dick at a park because you're parodizing perverts. \n Look, there's this weird culture on the internet these days that seems to have this idea that jokes are immune to criticism because they're jokes. This idea that just by being a joke, it can't be consider tasteless, inappropriate, etc. This is simply not the case. The mods have given you reasonable, practical reasons for why they don't want this video on the subreddit -- that, while they understand the parody, not all of the users have the mental faculty to recognize it, and take it as a \"go-ahead\" to throw around slurs at will, and that they can't stop the AutoMod comment genocide that will follow without opening the floodgates to more egregious behavior.","Summary: Saint's \"best\" quality is better than any other stream I've ever watched, which tells me he his stream settings are way too HQ for most viewers.\n\nPost: I don't know about Scarra or Wings, but last I checked, Saint's \"best\" setting was actually above 1080 (Twitch listed it at 1200+). On my old connection, i could stream it, and the FPS was certainly well above the 25-30 most streamers use. Since I moved and scaled back my internet so I could afford cable, I haven't been able to stream his best at all . I'm assuming that's why.","Summary: the range complaints are a result of excessively prohibitive mana costs.\n\nPost: Her range isn't an issue. She's existed in her space alongside Ashe, Ezreal, and, to a lesser extent, Caitlyn without the range pushing her out of viability. The problem is in the mana. Her mana costs are balanced around spell shield, but spell shield puts a lot of dependency on the enemy for any meaningful returns. \n The reason her range wasn't an issue was that her kit extends her effective range significantly. However, with prohibitive mana costs, she can't afford to freely use that effective range against most modern marksmen, so her AA range is \"felt\" more. Sivir's range, in an ideal world, wouldn't be truly felt until you're all-in.","Summary: I like the minimap and the radar, but I don't like that I have to have the minimap open at all times. I would prefer to just pop it up when I want to see where something is, and then use the compass to navigate the zone.\n\nPost: I actually wasn't confused at all. I also don't think there's a very good reason to not include roads/terrain on the \"radar.\" It would make having the minimap open optional (turning it on only when you need to check where you are relative to the rest of the zone and quest objectives). I would prefer to have it off more often than not. The GUI in TERA is pretty awesome -- very sparse, leaving a lot of screen real estate to the game and not the buttons. I also don't mind the minimap. I just really don't like how I can't have roads displayed on the compass map for when I'd like to turn the minimap off. I think it was an oversight. \n Furthermore, to say that you can't have a smaller minimap in the radar, and have it still display all the information it already does (enemies, NPCs, harvesting nodes, etc.) is contrary to historical precedence. There are plenty of examples of games using the circle minimap as the primary navigation tool.","Summary: The only reason I'm \"winning\" is because you're talking out of your ass.\n\nPost: The majority of the population does not. Riot has shit customer support. \n How am I putting words in your mouth? That's exactly what you said. That the majority of players experience bad support. You claimed to have evidence (which you still haven't presented) and I gave you perfectly reasonable percentages based on my own experience in the support field.","Summary: comps don't require ADCs, they require high sustained DPS.\n\nPost: You're forgetting about Karth and Cass duos. The requirement isn't for an AD carry. The requirement is that you have a champion on your team that can deal a large amount of sustained DPS. It just so happens that there aren't a lot of AP champions that are capable of dealing reliable, sustained DPS. The reason you don't see Karth or Cass (or Ryze) duos that much is because, generally, there is a lot of magic damage already spread over the team, what with AP casters still being the norm in mid, and being somewhat popular top. \n But, if you were to run a double AD comp -- say Jayce mid and Renekton top -- it would be entirely appropriate to run a a sustain-DPS mage like Karth, Cass, or Ryze in your duo lane.","Summary: I work with an infrastructure spanning hundreds of servers (not with Riot), I have deep, intrinsic knowledge of networking, and use the same ISP as Riot. It's not as easy as you think or say, and you're wrong. \n Since I didn't see this posted by him yet and I had it saved, I'll go ahead and leave it.\n\nPost: Here is /u/Cidan's reply he gives in every thread this is posted in: \n >I'm going to repost my canned reply to this question:\nI'd like to take the chance here, assuming I don't get downvoted, to clear some things up. \n >I'm a Systems Administrator for a large company that handles a very large infrastructure. We also use Internap, just like Riot does.\nThe LoL client is essentially two things: a web browser, and a chat client that uses the XMPP chat protocol. The infrastructure LoL runs on is fairly complex; Hadoop for the storage layer, Java for the server software layer (I think!) and a number of caching systems such as memcache, terracotta, etc. The client does not know what server, or set of servers, the user will be playing on. There is no way to know which part of the infrastructure you will be hitting. \n >Ah, but I'm sure you're thinking, \"So what? All we need is ping times to their gateway device!\" Not so fast. I imagine that internally, Riot servers are stacked on MPIO and/or stacked switches. The bandwidth and usage of these switches are also subject to packet loss and degradation, along with iowait at the OS level. See where I'm going? \n >Unless the client knows the exact server you are going to end up on, the client can not test the path all the way up your ISP, to Internap, into their gateway, up their switching system, into the server. Any and all of these things matter in getting an accurate ping time. Not to mention delays in their caching system (because, lol, Java mark-and-sweep), and all their networking paths, OS iowait, etc. Even if, IF the client did know the exact server it was going to end up using, Riot would have to handle even more connections (because if I were Riot, there is no way in hell I would allow ICMP into my game servers...) on every single server figuring out the delay between packet communications. Further, even IF Riot allowed pings into their game servers, it wouldn't be indicative as to any actual delay times you would feel due to delay outside of packet delay, such as the aforementioned caching systems, storage layer, database layer, and all the networking paths in-between them. \n >","Summary: you can talk about the flaws in your strats all you want, but both Dignitas and CLG.na were hugely outclassed by their opponents, and I want to know how they got outclassed individually and what their plans are to change that.\n\nPost: Dignitas and CLG.na didn't lose because they had strategies leaked, or because they didn't get blue side. They lost because they were outclassed in nearly every stage of nearly every game. As a supporter of all the NA teams, I didn't want to hear their strategic reasons for losing. I'm sure that if their strategies had been allowed to manifest they may have done better, but better isn't best , and there's no doubt in my mind that both of those teams didn't deserve to make it past group stages. \n I wanted to hear two things: \n \n Specific things that they did wrong, and specific things that opposing players did that cause them trouble. Dignitas, if your strategies got leaked, bummer, but this was group stages... What did you think was going to happen when you made it quarterfinals or beyond? That teams were going to put on blindfolds every game you used a secret strat? Or do you expect me to believe that you had something for every game from groups to finals? If that's the case, there's no way you could have been outpicked/banned. CLG.na, all purple? Really? Yeah, bummer, you did have a disadvantage, everybody recognizes that blue side is stronger. But how do you prepare for as long as you have and not test your strategies out on purple side? What the heck? \n \n What the teams are going to change next year. And I want to hear this from the captains. I don't want to hear Chau sitting there making his excuses and saying that they can beat Frost any day. I want to see Hotshot up there talking about what CLG.na's plans are for moving forward and correcting the issues they ran into. Look at Ocelote. He came out and said, straight up, winning World's is his #1 priority with SK, and anybody who he feels is getting in the way of that on SK is gone . And Ocelote isn't one of the dudes who doesn't make dick from streams. He could live off of streaming solo-queue. And I know those are only words, and we have to wait to see if he can put his money where his mouth is, but I believe him because Ocelote strikes me as a guy who was outclassed and had it rock his world. He strikes me as somebody who cares about winning and not somebody who is happy with the mundane details of how it happened because, when you get down to brass tacks, it wouldn't have mattered . Teams CLG.na, SK, and Dignitas got rolled by in groups and regionals got beat by M5, TPA, and Azubu Frost pretty handily . \n \n \n So,","Summary: you don't know what you're talking about.\n\nPost: What are you talking about? My sister and I both put our education on hold. I did it to start my business, my sister did it for her art. I'm not going back to school because my business is going great, but she is cause her art didn't so much. She actually got into a better school than her top choice during high school. \n Lots of great schools are open to adult education. Anybody attending a state university will tell you that many majors have a large representation of late-20-somethings or older in their class. My girlfriend graduated with something like a third of her class being 25 or older. State university. Great school (for her program). \n And, even if you can't jump immediately back into a great school, a semester or two at a community college should be enough if you work hard.","Summary: The system is adjusted based on usage. It's not something they just turned on and left alone. Before you complain about something, you should actually know what you're talking about first.\n\nPost: Real bummer that this is on the front page. Not only is it misinformation, but it shows a complete lack of knowledge regarding how honor is supposed to work. The fact that you equate honor to carrying shows that you, at best, misunderstand how it's supposed to be used and, at worst, probably misuse it regularly. I also have a sneaking suspicion that somebody who thinks carry = honor probably doesn't get much honor for reasons aside from disuse. \n More importantly, this has already been addressed by Lyte. [Here]( is the link.","Summary: Get off Mako's back. He's conflicted. Conflict is what drives people, characters, and stories. There's nothing wrong with being conflicted and maybe putting \"resolving my concerns over my love life\" on hold while he, you know, helps combat a rebel army seeking to wipe bending off the planet.\n\nPost: I think people are being a little hard on Mako. I mean, yeah, he could handle things better, but let's be honest: just about everyone here who is an adult has had conflicting feelings about people that are very important to them, and it's really hard to be somebody's friend when you know there is \"something more\" there without crossing a line. \n Honestly, the line between \"friend\" and \"significant other\" is so blurry. If people would stop being so dang peeved at Mako all the time, they'd see that he's one of the only people who is remaining concerned about Korra as a person and not as The Avatar. And does he maybe let his conflicting emotions get the better of him sometimes? Yeah, he does. But let's look back: \n 1) Did Korra put him in an awkward position by throwing all her cards out on the table right after he had started dating Asami and Korra had just gone on a date with his little brother? Yes, she did. \n 2) Has Asami been being just a tad bit hard on Mako, and maybe looking a little too far into Mako and Korra's interactions: interactions that would have seemed nothing beyond friendly had she not suddenly allowed a brief moment of weakness -- one Mako did not initiate, nor has he sought to replicate -- to color the way she interpreted them? Especially given the high stress circumstances they are all under, and the inevitable intimacy that comes from being a small group against huge odds? Yeah, I think she has.","Summary: Don't feed you scrubbin' bubble.\n\nPost: A lot of people will tell you to pick a handful of champs and learn them well. This is absolutely right, but make sure that your handful of champs span more than one role. If you only know how to play 3 AD carries and you end up with 2 people insta-locking AD carries, then a few chain vests will lead to about 20-30 minutes of frownie times. If you're not willing or able to be a little flexible, you're playing the wrong game. \n \n Learn how to jungle. It's often a thankless job, but there are so many benefits. First and foremost is map awareness. It's easy for a new player to get tunnel vision when laning, and tunnel vision is a sad sight when you don't see a ganker coming down river. Jungling gets you used to paying attention to stuff besides what you're immediately doing, and that awareness translates to ever role. Second is you learn how ganking works out of necessity. If all you play is AP carry you might find yourself wondering why your jungle doesn't hang out with you more, ganking that jerk in your lane. After jungling for a while you start to realize how important wave management and lane positioning is. Lastly, new/bad players don't really like to jungle because it's not very straight-forward. There's a lot of decision making involved. Rarely will you have to bicker with people over jungling, and if somebody else wants to do it, well, time to practice other roles, right? \n \n Use the ignore button frequently and liberally. People talk a lot of shit in this game, but keep in mind that you're new and they can suck it. If you be patient, pay attention, and keep playing, you'll be better than them in no time. \n \n Watch casted games and streams. Start with casted games to get a feel for how an overall game works, then move to streams when you want to learn about specific roles. Here are a couple streams for each role: \n \n \n Top Lane: [TSM Dyrus]( [CLG HotshotGG]( \n Mid Lane: [TSM Reginald]( [chu8]( \n AD Bot: [CLG Doublelift]( [CLG.eu Yellowpete]( \n Support Bot: [EG Nhat Nguyen]( [TSM Xpecial]( \n Jungle: [CLG SaintVicious]( [CLG.eu Snoopeh]( \n Now, when mnay pro/high-elo players are playing on stream, they might not play their main role, so be sure to check [SoloMid]( and [Counter Logic Gaming]( regularly for other streamers. And disable Adblocker! Support esports! \n \n Last but not least, learn how to last hit. If you've read anything about this game, you've probably read this a million times, but it's no joke. Last hitting is the gas pedal of LoL -- you're not going anywhere without it. Without last hits you don't get gold. Without gold you don't get items. Without items you don't get stat boosts. Without stat boosts you don't get kills. Without kills you don't get fed. Without food you don't get wins. Seriously. Practice this. Whenever you can. Start a custom vs. a bot and try to get as much farm as possible in 20 minutes. Do this whenever you have 20 minutes to kill. For real. Do it. Farming well will win you an absurd amount of games in LoL. A comical amount.","Summary: Do you guys know of any good teaching streamers for ADCs?\n\nPost: I have a friend who literally just started playing the other day. After going over some general game guides and talking to me, he's decided he wants to learn the game as an ADC. I figured this was a good idea, because I main support and can help him out while he's leveling. \n However, I'm an awful teacher. I always end up going into stuff that's way too advanced for him and rambling about lane dynamics and objective control when he's still trying to figure out the very basics or MOBAs. He has experiences with RTS, so he knows how to physically play the game, but anything beyond that is all new territory. \n So, I was trying to think of good streams for him to watch. I know a lot of it won't make sense, but I think it's important for him to see what the game looks like when you play it well. Otherwise he'll end up like I was, think he's doing great in bot games, queue for PvP and get dunked because he didn't know people walked in bushes before the minions came to lane. I worry, though, that just sending him to Dbl's or Aphro's streams won't be helpful, cause he'll just be watching people play without any context of what they're doing and why they're doing it. I was hoping to find some \"teacher streamers\" for bot lane. \n Top lane has Wings. Mid lane has Scarra. Support has Nhat. But I can't think of any good teachers for bot lane. I pointed him to some helpful video guides from Chaox, but Chaox's stream isn't normally very educational, so I don't think that's what I'm looking for.","Summary: Have fun and act mature. There's a long game ahead and the only person that can stop you from having fun is you.\n\nPost: So, I'm no LoL master. I'm probably not even a LoL apprentice. But that doesn't really matter. There are a lot of things about video game communities that can be annoying. People tend to be know-it-alls, you spend more time with 13-year-old boys than should be legal for a man with a beard, and people take things way too seriously at times. But that's in every game. \n LoL has been super fun so far. Even at its worst, I find myself having to list reasons why I can't queue again at 3 AM. The champion selection is large and varied, and before I played this game I would have laughed you out of the room if you told me that a game with as many variables as LoL could be balanced, but I rarely run into a scenario (at my level, obviously) where I feel like I died because of a balance issue. All in all, my leveling process has been thoroughly enjoyable. I still have a little ways to go, but I look forward to it. \n There have been some downsides, though. Mostly from players. This is largely an effort to highlight some annoying things that people like to do that a) don't help in any way, shape, or form, b) make the game less enjoyable for everyone involved, and c) drive me fuckin' bananas. \n \n Calling \"dibs\" on mid. Come on, people. I know mid is fun, and since it's 1v1 for a big chunk of the early game, you can really flex your skillnuts, but how old are you? Just let your team know that you want to go mid. \"My germs\" wasn't cool in third grade, and it's not cool in LoL. \n \n If you already see a couple AD carries locked in, for the love of god don't pick another AD carry. I bet you are awesome with Vayne, but it doesn't matter how good you are if over half of the team's DPS can be killed within seconds of a fight starting. \n \n All you Ashes out there: The cross map arrows have to stop. I used to play Ashe a lot, and it is pretty dope when you nail somebody from approximately forever away, but you're sitting on one of the best initiates in the game. Opening a fight with a good arrow that leaves their AD helpless in the face of the coming onslaught is a shitload cooler than stunning some dude across the map for a few seconds. I promise. \n \n If the game isn't going your way, don't spam surrender. If your team doesn't want to surrender, then just keep playing. If the cause is really as hopeless as you think it is, it'll all be over soon. And who knows? You might pull out a comeback. Sure as hell won't do that if you surrender at 20. \n \n Offensive GGs are irritating and they make the whole team look stupid if things get turned around. \n \n If somebody is having a bad game, yelling at them isn't going to make them play any better. I know it's hard to sympathize when you're getting pooped on because somebody fed and the whole thing snowballed, but it's not like the person who fed is having the time of their lives. They know they fed. Berating them for the entire game isn't going to unfeed. \n \n Stop telling strangers what champions to pick. Especially under 30. This is why, when you usually play an AD carry, you wait until other people have locked in to make sure #2 doesn't happen. Some people only know how to play AD carries . I know it's dumb and that they should learn to play something else, but that doesn't change anything. This isn't the matrix. You can't plug into their brains and teach them how to play something else. If some scrubby scrub only knows how to play Graves, just let him play Graves. You're not doing yourself or your team any favors by making somebody play something they have no clue how to play. And, if you DO convince this person to play a different champ, refer to #6. If they feed, then you're as much to blame as they are. \n \n Calling people lucky when they get away with only a little HP is childish. I'm not lucky cause you missed your skill shot. You missed your skill shot. Deal with it. Lux has one of the best ranges in the game and people still get away from me sometimes. Knowing when to bail out of a fight is a big part of this game. Recognize when somebody made the right call and ran. Also, don't mock them for running. You would have ran in the same situation. \n \n \"need 3v1 lol\" and stuff like that is dumb. If you're by yourself under a turret and there are people MIA, you should know something is up. You know the other team sees you. You know that they don't want to lose the turret. You know you're not going to get the turret down in one creep wave. You know they're coming. Don't be stupid. You got ganked. Deal with it. It's part of the dangers of pushing. edit \"1v1 me\" is also equally ridiculous. \n \n Be friendly. You'd really be surprised how enjoyable this game can be when people are just nice to each other. Even in lopsided games. When the enemy team does something cool and smacks you in a team fight, say good job. Or at least have a sense of humor about it. GG when the game is over . Have friendly conversations throughout the game in /all. It'll keep you calm and off tilt, and it's amazing how much easier it is to do well when you're not tilted or pissed. \n \n \n And lastly... \n Don't be afraid to put people on ignore. If they're making the game not fun for you, there's a button to fix that. Just ignore them. So easy. Once that's done, you can relax and have a good time.","Summary: Ranting about how a feeding your ADC as a support is hella fun and wins the tits off games.\n\nPost: I've heard this a lot around here and other places. Obviously, you can't directly carry as support, but I'm finding more and more that playing support smart can certainly turn bad games good. First of all, the ward issue. I hate to rehaash \"wards win games\" but they do, and being that a lot of people still think the only person who should be buying wards after laning phase is the support and maybe the jungle. \n Obviously that is false, but \"everybody buy wards\" has never really bled over from the pro scene into the amateur scene. Being a support with decent map awareness and acceptable income from my next point, you can easily ward aggressively which, I've found, leads to a lot of indirect assists. Heck, I just got out of a game where the enemy jungler got killed 3 times in his jungle before 10 minutes because I was warding wraiths and red. That doesn't even begin to count how many ganks I saved by a) giving vision and b) helping put the jungler hugely behind. \n Second, the AD Carry. I think we can all agree that AD Carries are hella strong. They do absurd amounts of damage and are typically highly mobile (even without escapes, they usually have a PD or TF). We can't all be the AD carry for reasons I assume are obvious, but what we can do is make sure the AD carry gets fed and then protect the shit out of it. As somebody who frequently ADCs as well as supports, I'm sure you guys know how frustrating it is to be playing ADC in a team fight and see your support faffing about on a squishy while the enemy bruiser smacks you around. It's frustrating because you know, deep down, that if you had gotten a peel or two, you could have gotten that little bit of extra damage your team might have needed to win the teamfight. So what does a good support do? If you're somebody like Taric or Alistar, sure, you can make some flashy initiates. Nothing wrong with that. Stun a squishy. Go for it. Great job. But once your teammates that can actually kill somebody jump in, your job is to make sure that your ADC lives. One good peel for a Graves with BT is all he needs to melt that bruiser, and once that's done, you can resume tickling the squishies. \n I think a lot of the problem is that people don't see supports as playmakers, that they're not as fun to play. I mean, sure, you don't get the huge kill count you might get as Rengar or Diana. But you can still make plays. Flash pulvs/stuns are frickin' rad to pull off when you're on the same page as your teammate(s), and all that takes is a ping and typing \"Flash pulving.\" Takes the same amount of time as typing, \"wtf ez no followup.\" \n Not to mention, nothing feels quite as cool as man-moding in lane and zoning out the enemy ADC after you teach him a little respect for your CC by feeding your ADC first blood.","Summary: I spent longer than I care to admit writing this up, so read it you lazy ass. \n Thanks for reading! \n EDIT: Welp, I guess aimless griping is valued more here than talking about a fun solution.\n\nPost: So, I just talked about a rune system I've been daydreaming about for a long time. Instead of piggybacking on a comment and hoping people see it, I thought I'd submit a post and see what people think. \n So, Runes are currently a pretty contentious piece of League of Legends. They're seen as arbitrarily-priced, unnecessarily-level-gated, and wildly-variant with regards to their individual power. \n Now, I'm not really going to address any of that stuff, since I don't think they're the core problem with runes. I think the core problems are: \n \n Runes only create an illusion of customization. Most players lack the knowledge and IP to reasonably theorycraft an effective page, and those that have both of those things can't safely utilize the customization because a) pages cannot be changed during champion select and b) there simply aren't enough pages for how many roles and champions there are. \n Runes are very powerful, but their power is intangible. Because everybody is using runes, they don't feel like a cool tool you're utilizing. Runes should feel like putting on a tailored suit. Instead, they feel like putting on your underwear. They can be as fancy as you like, but once your pants go on, nobody is going to see or care. \n \n So that brings me to my idea. I think that, instead of runes that offer stats, runes should offer bonus effects, along with tradeoffs, for specific Champion abilities. \n The system I imagine will have your rune pages tied to your champion, and be completely editable during champion select. The way it works is that you have x runes (3 or less, I'm thinking). Total. Not for each champion. Total. These runes don't have any specific effects. A runes effect is not in what it is , but where you put it. Does anybody see where I'm going with this yet? \n Each champion has five abilities (including the passive). With this new system, you will use these three runes and pick three abilities to apply a rune to. These runes will grant a bonus effect, as well as a tradeoff, to each ability. Think of it like Kha'Zix's Evolutions, but with a negative aspect, too. During champion select, you apply your Runes to a specific empowerment, and voila. So, let's take Lux as an example (each description is with the rune applied): \n Passive: Lux's passive now grants vision of the target, but can no longer be consumed for damage.\n \n This hurts her burst rotation, but increases her utility significantly, increasing her use as a Support. \n Q: Light Binding can no longer hit minions or monsters.\n \n Her wave clear -- somewhere Lux is already weak in early -- is wounded, but her ability to make picks in lane is increased. \n W: Now grants Armor and MR, but no longer shields Lux.\n \n Increases her utility at the cost of personal durability. \n E: Slow is increased and persists for all targets hit, but the radius is reduced.\n \n Increases the power of the spell, but also puts a greater emphasis on accuracy. \n R: Champions hit by Final Spark are knocked aside (think Stand Aside but with lazers) range is reduced significantly.\n \n This decreases Lux's ability to snipe people, but gives her a powerful teamfight ult. \n Now, everybody needs to keep in mind that these are JUST EXAMPLES . I'm aware that some of what I said would probably be OP as hell in reality. I'm not posting this to quibble over a specific Runic Empowerment (yeah, I have a name for it, SO WHAT?). This is also the first time I've made a real effort to sit down and flesh out the idea. It's been floating around in my brain up until today. I'm sure there are design issues I haven't thought of. BUT, this new system accomplishes some things that I think are pretty cool: \n \n Allows an individual champion's gameplay to be more diverse. \n Riot would no longer have to balance a single kit with multiple roles in mind. Champions that can fulfill multiple roles (such as Lux) can have all of one roles power poured into the main kit, and have a lot of that power removed and replaced by runes for another role. \n Runes would not be a necessity. Since the intention is to have strong tradeoffs, a champion should be able to exist in its \"primary\" role without runes entirely. \n If Riot is worried about losing an IP sink, then fear not: Rune Slots can be sold individually for each champion. That way, we as players buy the rune slots we want for the champions we want and Riot doesn't have to worry about giving all their champions away because there's nothing else to spend IP on anymore. Also, since there are a lot of champions, and gonna be many more, the rune slots don't have to be crazy expensive, so you don't have to worry about an Empowerment getting nerfed and wanting to take a different route. \n Customizing runes can be personal and customized for the champions you like and play, instead of having to make a bunch of rune pages that can adequately service a broad spectrum of champions. \n Gameplay decisions are more clear --the uninitiated player can clearly read and feel the effects of an Empowerment on a champion. \n More \"levers\" to pull. Hey, Riot. Have a champion that you wanted to be played in the Top Lane, but he keeps being a pesky nuisance in the Jungle? Want to see him in the top lane, but you fear alienating players who enjoy him in the jungle? Never fear! Balance his primary kit around the top lane, and give him some empowerments that make his gameplay in the jungle more fun and interesting! Best of both worlds! Huzzah! \n \n Now, the major problem I see with this is that it's a huge change that's super disruptive, but I think many fans of the game, including myself, consider runes to be archaic and arcane. This system accomplishes the apparent gameplay goals of runes much more effectively that the current one (even if it might not accomplish the business goal quite so effectively).","Summary: keep your hair-brained theories on /r/conspiracy\n\nPost: Risk versus reward doesn't add up. All it takes is one guy to spill the beans -- in a modern world in which spilling the beans is easier than it's ever been, and gets easier every day -- and your whole brand implodes. Bye bye NBA. For what? An arguably more marketable Finals? Wouldn't it make more sense to dedicate all the time and resources something like this would take to, I dunno, a marketing team that can adequately hype up the clash of the two best teams in the NBA? \n \n If it's a rig, it's the most ham-fisted rig in the history of rigging. Anybody with Sportscenter within shouting distance knows that the officiating in the NBA this playoffs has been a complete joke. Why would the NBA intentionally sacrifice the credibility of the Finals to... make the Finals more interesting? \n \n There's easier, more subtle ways to rig games that don't literally have an official system in place (replay) to scrutinize every decision made by the people trying to rig. Ever heard of bribing people? \"Hey, Chris Paul! If you give up a bunch of turnovers this game we'll make sure you get a ring next year!\" Boom. Simple. Clippers lose, people yell at Chris Paul for choking, he gets to redeem himself next year. Better narrative, less risk, fewer moving parts... And I thought of that in, like, 5 minutes. \n \n \n I don't know how many people seriously think these are rigs or not, but it seems like a prevalent enough sentiment that I got sick of addressing it on a comment-to-comment basis.","Summary: Hunter matchup feels like No Consecration = No Win and that sucks. Tips?\n\nPost: Background: I'm new to the game and basically new to CCGs. I played some when I was a kid, but it was just me and a buddy and we didn't know what we were doing. \n I have a pretty low-budget [Paladin deck]( that has gotten me to Plat3 without any issue. I'm trying as hard as I can to break through into Diamond. I'm having pretty standard issues with Priests and Mages, but when I lose I can usually point to a decision I made that led to it. \n The most frustrating thing I'm experiencing right now is playing against Hunters. Two things make me feel like the matchup is completely out of my hands: \n \n If the Hunter gets The Coin, I feel like I'm playing from a very real disadvantage right from the get go that I don't really have the tools to overcome until turn 4 at the earliest, which leads me to... \n \n If I don't get Consecration by the time turn 5 rolls around, I lose. If I get it by turn 5, I win. Almost every time. In fact, I've been keeping score since I noticed this, and out of 8 games against hunters, the only one that doesn't fit that pattern is one that I lost because I made a huge mistake after getting Consecration on turn 4. Furthermore, that's the only game I've played versus a Hunter (since I've been tracking it) that went past turn 7. \n \n \n Short of completely revamping my deck to just counter aggro as best I can, I'm at a loss. I don't mind losing when I can say, \"Oh, if I had played this card instead of this card that might have turned out better,\" but when it's just me crossing my fingers hoping for Consecration before he's able to buff all his beasts over 2 HP, I can't help but get extremely frustrated at the losses. \n Anyway, maybe this is just how CCGs work -- you get the card you need or you don't. I don't know. But I was hoping maybe somebody could look over my deck and just give me something to try to alleviate this frustration I'm feeling towards one class in particular.","Summary: how the heck do you carry harder in the mid and late game when you're constantly in 4v5 scenarios?\n\nPost: So, I'm not one of those people who likes to blame his team for losses. A lot of the major mistakes that happen in low elo, from my experience, is from a lack of communication. I subscribe whole-heartedly to the philosophy of \"carry harder\". I watch enough streams to know that even the most dire situations can be saved by one person making an awesome play, and, conversely, even the biggest leads can be thrown by one person failing the same play. \n But I just played a quick two games of ranked to see how things would go (I've been playing a lot of other game modes to try and just take a step back because I was starting to rage a bit a couple nights ago). Game 1, I'm a 9-1-15 Ezreal, game 2 I'm a 10-5-11 Riven. I know those numbers don't mean much because it's not that hard to pick uip kills as either of those champions once team fights start, but I won my lanes handily and even helped other people win some fights before the laning phase was over. \n But, once the laning phase ended, we had a Talon (Game 1) who literally grouped once, and that was when they were pushing into our base (which they had gotten to because every fight was 4v5). Then, in Game 2, not only did I win my lane, get my kills, and generally do my job, we had ANOTHER Ezreal who was doing amazing. But we lost because our Cass kept getting caught out and every important fight was, once again, 4v5. \n My question is simple. You can win your lane, you can help others win their lanes, but what do you do about 4v5s in an otherwise even game? How do you carry harder ? \n I've put so much time into reading and listening to intelligent streamers and generally learning the matchups in nearly every lane (still don't have it all down, but I made a point to learn 3 champs for every lane, and know their matchups well), and I rarely lose my lane unless something terrible happens. I feel myself getting better. I know when and how to trade, my lane management makes sense and is generally timed and organized well, which often frees me up to roam and help others once I get ahead, but none of this matters once I get out of laning. \n So, you know,"],"string":"[\n \"Summary: Yes, it is arguing semantics, but semantics are important because it is part of the foundation of language and communication.\\n\\nPost: Um, yeah. It is arguing semantics. He's talking about how people use the word \\\"meta\\\" all the time and don't actually know what the word means. What you're talking about is metagaming, but there is no such thing as \\\"the\\\" meta. There is the most effective/efficient strategy/team composition as supposed by the people who do metagaming, but that is not \\\"the meta\\\". \\\"The Meta\\\" would be a compilation of every piece of knowledge of the game and how things within the game interact with one another that was not made specifically available (for instance, the dynamic between the bombs and Syndra's W would be part of The Meta). \\n Metagaming is simply doing stuff in the game, not for necessity, but for reasons that you or somebody else has supposed outside of the game itself. For instance, right clicking to move is not metagaming. Deciding between Black Cleaver and Last Whipser is metagaming. \\n Basically, this is why semantics are important, too. Because a bunch of people started using a word incorrectly, the word \\\"meta\\\" will now, probably, be used incorrectly for the life of LoL. When people who actually know what \\\"meta\\\" or \\\"metagaming\\\" means hear people discussing the LoL \\\"meta\\\" they will be confused. They will know that it is similar to what they know the word to mean, but it will be somehow different. This is why semantics are important for lucidity in communication. Because many people are semantically incorrect, there will always be a communicative barrier between \\\"us\\\" and \\\"them\\\". Being able to communicate clearly is the very foundation of language.\",\n \"Summary: It's a nerf in my eyes, but a fair and measured one.\\n\\nPost: I think it's pretty clear that it's a nerf, as you need more items to deal the same damage (even though those items are a natural part of a standard Ahri build). However, a nerf isn't always bad. Ahri is a very strong AP carry, and she brought a lot to the table as far as damage, CC, and mobility. A damage nerf was in order, and the one that they did was very measured and focused on exactly when her damage was a problem: early game.\",\n \"Summary: You don't need to be amazing to know a lot about the game, but opinions informed by experience are better than opinions informed by theory.\\n\\nPost: Being low elo doesn't prevent you from having a good working knowledge of the game, but it's certainly true that the vast majority of low and even medium elo players have no clue wtf they're talking about. Just watch a Q&A with a pro sometime. You have 1600 players coming in there and saying stuff, and the pro players being like, \\\"What? No, that's wrong.\\\" \\n So, you're right. Skill has little to do with knowledge, but high level experience has a lot to do with knowledge. Fact is that high elo and professional players play more and have more experience with people playing champions and roles correctly .\",\n \"Summary: this isn't meant to be cooked and eaten by yourself...\\n\\nPost: I think you guys are kind of missing the point. This is obviously supposed to be a fun hors-d'oeuvre. If you just cut a grilled cheese into strips, cheese is going to get everywhere, unless you wait until it's cooled, at which point you used the same amount of time. This way you can serve it as a finger food without the mess at a party.\",\n \"Summary: It's not false advertising no matter how hard you Google.\\n\\nPost: It was false advertising because Riot never intended to offer that reward to recipients. \\n First of all, no, that's not the case. As they said, they realized after the fact that it wasn't possible. They didn't make the initial promise without ever having the intent to fulfill it. \\n Second of all, there was a terms of service for Refer-A-Friend 1.0 -- something all users agreed to when they began using it -- that states that fulfillment of all rewards is up to Riot's discretion. This is a common clause in contest agreements. \\n Your assertion that this is false advertising is like saying those \\\"Lifetime supply of <blank>\\\" contests are false advertising because (in many cases) you actually win a set amount. \\n You have a fundamental misunderstanding of what false advertising is and a lack of knowledge when it comes to common terms of giveaways. Looking up an FTC definition of false advertising doesn't change that because there are a million different qualifiers that surround that definition, and every single point in the definition can be circumvented with the proper legal agreement. \\n The reality is that if you're willingly participating in a contest or giveaway where you have to agree to something (see: basically all of them) they could promise you a bleeding condo on the moon and it would not be false advertising. Because advertising for a contest that has you sign an agreement is inherently different from advertising for a product that has no such thing surrounding its purchase.\",\n \"Summary: you're operating from the mindset that solo queue is a meaningful representation of tournament level play when it absolutely is not.\\n\\nPost: Dude I don't know why you have to be such a jerk. You need to calm down. If you want to have a conversation I'm down, but I'm not going to sit here and be get bitched at. \\n Being behind does prevent you from practicing arguably the most important period of the game: the early- to mid-game transition. That's where most leads start, and that where every snowball begins. It's a waste of time in solo queue to play from behind. I will reiterate why, and then I'm done: \\n \\n There is no real , tournament-level team coordination. \\n Comebacks in solo queue mean almost nothing because of the first point that I mentioned. Bad engages are infinitely more common in solo queue than they are in tournaments. \\n Most lane wins happen in the early- to mid-game transition and anything beyond that point is much more team-oriented. Practicing that stuff without your team is pointless. \\n \\n If you're convinced it's a bad attitude, fine. But Koreans have been doing it for over a decade on the SC ladders (The Korean GG is not a LoL specific term). Fact of the matter is that top tier players gain almost nothing practice-wise from solo queue from an actual strategic standpoint. The only thing they're working on is their mechanical ability to dominate a lane and read players in the lane. Once you're beyond that point, if you're down, there's nothing of value for a top tier player to walk away with. \\n EDIT:\",\n \"Summary: if you live near where celebrities gather and make it a priority to get photos with them, it's not that hard.\\n\\nPost: Doubtful. He would lose his job so quickly. \\n It's not that hard to get these kinds of pictures if you live in New York or LA and frequently hang around places with the intent of spotting a celebrity. It's essentially the same strategy that the paparazzi uses, just with different goals. There's some girl out there on The Internet who has many (if not more) pictures like these. Lived in LA for a couple years and there were parts of town where you could say, \\\"Today I am going to see a celebrity.\\\" Not a specific celebrity, but if your goal was only to get a picture with whatever celeb would take a picture you you almost couldn't fail.\",\n \"Summary: Just being a joke doesn't immunize a commentary from the rules.\\n\\nPost: Parody doesn't get a free pass to all rules and regulations because it is parody. You can't drop F-bombs on daytime TV because you're parodizing people who are unnecessary foul-mouthed. You can't whip out your dick at a park because you're parodizing perverts. \\n Look, there's this weird culture on the internet these days that seems to have this idea that jokes are immune to criticism because they're jokes. This idea that just by being a joke, it can't be consider tasteless, inappropriate, etc. This is simply not the case. The mods have given you reasonable, practical reasons for why they don't want this video on the subreddit -- that, while they understand the parody, not all of the users have the mental faculty to recognize it, and take it as a \\\"go-ahead\\\" to throw around slurs at will, and that they can't stop the AutoMod comment genocide that will follow without opening the floodgates to more egregious behavior.\",\n \"Summary: Saint's \\\"best\\\" quality is better than any other stream I've ever watched, which tells me he his stream settings are way too HQ for most viewers.\\n\\nPost: I don't know about Scarra or Wings, but last I checked, Saint's \\\"best\\\" setting was actually above 1080 (Twitch listed it at 1200+). On my old connection, i could stream it, and the FPS was certainly well above the 25-30 most streamers use. Since I moved and scaled back my internet so I could afford cable, I haven't been able to stream his best at all . I'm assuming that's why.\",\n \"Summary: the range complaints are a result of excessively prohibitive mana costs.\\n\\nPost: Her range isn't an issue. She's existed in her space alongside Ashe, Ezreal, and, to a lesser extent, Caitlyn without the range pushing her out of viability. The problem is in the mana. Her mana costs are balanced around spell shield, but spell shield puts a lot of dependency on the enemy for any meaningful returns. \\n The reason her range wasn't an issue was that her kit extends her effective range significantly. However, with prohibitive mana costs, she can't afford to freely use that effective range against most modern marksmen, so her AA range is \\\"felt\\\" more. Sivir's range, in an ideal world, wouldn't be truly felt until you're all-in.\",\n \"Summary: I like the minimap and the radar, but I don't like that I have to have the minimap open at all times. I would prefer to just pop it up when I want to see where something is, and then use the compass to navigate the zone.\\n\\nPost: I actually wasn't confused at all. I also don't think there's a very good reason to not include roads/terrain on the \\\"radar.\\\" It would make having the minimap open optional (turning it on only when you need to check where you are relative to the rest of the zone and quest objectives). I would prefer to have it off more often than not. The GUI in TERA is pretty awesome -- very sparse, leaving a lot of screen real estate to the game and not the buttons. I also don't mind the minimap. I just really don't like how I can't have roads displayed on the compass map for when I'd like to turn the minimap off. I think it was an oversight. \\n Furthermore, to say that you can't have a smaller minimap in the radar, and have it still display all the information it already does (enemies, NPCs, harvesting nodes, etc.) is contrary to historical precedence. There are plenty of examples of games using the circle minimap as the primary navigation tool.\",\n \"Summary: The only reason I'm \\\"winning\\\" is because you're talking out of your ass.\\n\\nPost: The majority of the population does not. Riot has shit customer support. \\n How am I putting words in your mouth? That's exactly what you said. That the majority of players experience bad support. You claimed to have evidence (which you still haven't presented) and I gave you perfectly reasonable percentages based on my own experience in the support field.\",\n \"Summary: comps don't require ADCs, they require high sustained DPS.\\n\\nPost: You're forgetting about Karth and Cass duos. The requirement isn't for an AD carry. The requirement is that you have a champion on your team that can deal a large amount of sustained DPS. It just so happens that there aren't a lot of AP champions that are capable of dealing reliable, sustained DPS. The reason you don't see Karth or Cass (or Ryze) duos that much is because, generally, there is a lot of magic damage already spread over the team, what with AP casters still being the norm in mid, and being somewhat popular top. \\n But, if you were to run a double AD comp -- say Jayce mid and Renekton top -- it would be entirely appropriate to run a a sustain-DPS mage like Karth, Cass, or Ryze in your duo lane.\",\n \"Summary: I work with an infrastructure spanning hundreds of servers (not with Riot), I have deep, intrinsic knowledge of networking, and use the same ISP as Riot. It's not as easy as you think or say, and you're wrong. \\n Since I didn't see this posted by him yet and I had it saved, I'll go ahead and leave it.\\n\\nPost: Here is /u/Cidan's reply he gives in every thread this is posted in: \\n >I'm going to repost my canned reply to this question:\\nI'd like to take the chance here, assuming I don't get downvoted, to clear some things up. \\n >I'm a Systems Administrator for a large company that handles a very large infrastructure. We also use Internap, just like Riot does.\\nThe LoL client is essentially two things: a web browser, and a chat client that uses the XMPP chat protocol. The infrastructure LoL runs on is fairly complex; Hadoop for the storage layer, Java for the server software layer (I think!) and a number of caching systems such as memcache, terracotta, etc. The client does not know what server, or set of servers, the user will be playing on. There is no way to know which part of the infrastructure you will be hitting. \\n >Ah, but I'm sure you're thinking, \\\"So what? All we need is ping times to their gateway device!\\\" Not so fast. I imagine that internally, Riot servers are stacked on MPIO and/or stacked switches. The bandwidth and usage of these switches are also subject to packet loss and degradation, along with iowait at the OS level. See where I'm going? \\n >Unless the client knows the exact server you are going to end up on, the client can not test the path all the way up your ISP, to Internap, into their gateway, up their switching system, into the server. Any and all of these things matter in getting an accurate ping time. Not to mention delays in their caching system (because, lol, Java mark-and-sweep), and all their networking paths, OS iowait, etc. Even if, IF the client did know the exact server it was going to end up using, Riot would have to handle even more connections (because if I were Riot, there is no way in hell I would allow ICMP into my game servers...) on every single server figuring out the delay between packet communications. Further, even IF Riot allowed pings into their game servers, it wouldn't be indicative as to any actual delay times you would feel due to delay outside of packet delay, such as the aforementioned caching systems, storage layer, database layer, and all the networking paths in-between them. \\n >\",\n \"Summary: you can talk about the flaws in your strats all you want, but both Dignitas and CLG.na were hugely outclassed by their opponents, and I want to know how they got outclassed individually and what their plans are to change that.\\n\\nPost: Dignitas and CLG.na didn't lose because they had strategies leaked, or because they didn't get blue side. They lost because they were outclassed in nearly every stage of nearly every game. As a supporter of all the NA teams, I didn't want to hear their strategic reasons for losing. I'm sure that if their strategies had been allowed to manifest they may have done better, but better isn't best , and there's no doubt in my mind that both of those teams didn't deserve to make it past group stages. \\n I wanted to hear two things: \\n \\n Specific things that they did wrong, and specific things that opposing players did that cause them trouble. Dignitas, if your strategies got leaked, bummer, but this was group stages... What did you think was going to happen when you made it quarterfinals or beyond? That teams were going to put on blindfolds every game you used a secret strat? Or do you expect me to believe that you had something for every game from groups to finals? If that's the case, there's no way you could have been outpicked/banned. CLG.na, all purple? Really? Yeah, bummer, you did have a disadvantage, everybody recognizes that blue side is stronger. But how do you prepare for as long as you have and not test your strategies out on purple side? What the heck? \\n \\n What the teams are going to change next year. And I want to hear this from the captains. I don't want to hear Chau sitting there making his excuses and saying that they can beat Frost any day. I want to see Hotshot up there talking about what CLG.na's plans are for moving forward and correcting the issues they ran into. Look at Ocelote. He came out and said, straight up, winning World's is his #1 priority with SK, and anybody who he feels is getting in the way of that on SK is gone . And Ocelote isn't one of the dudes who doesn't make dick from streams. He could live off of streaming solo-queue. And I know those are only words, and we have to wait to see if he can put his money where his mouth is, but I believe him because Ocelote strikes me as a guy who was outclassed and had it rock his world. He strikes me as somebody who cares about winning and not somebody who is happy with the mundane details of how it happened because, when you get down to brass tacks, it wouldn't have mattered . Teams CLG.na, SK, and Dignitas got rolled by in groups and regionals got beat by M5, TPA, and Azubu Frost pretty handily . \\n \\n \\n So,\",\n \"Summary: you don't know what you're talking about.\\n\\nPost: What are you talking about? My sister and I both put our education on hold. I did it to start my business, my sister did it for her art. I'm not going back to school because my business is going great, but she is cause her art didn't so much. She actually got into a better school than her top choice during high school. \\n Lots of great schools are open to adult education. Anybody attending a state university will tell you that many majors have a large representation of late-20-somethings or older in their class. My girlfriend graduated with something like a third of her class being 25 or older. State university. Great school (for her program). \\n And, even if you can't jump immediately back into a great school, a semester or two at a community college should be enough if you work hard.\",\n \"Summary: The system is adjusted based on usage. It's not something they just turned on and left alone. Before you complain about something, you should actually know what you're talking about first.\\n\\nPost: Real bummer that this is on the front page. Not only is it misinformation, but it shows a complete lack of knowledge regarding how honor is supposed to work. The fact that you equate honor to carrying shows that you, at best, misunderstand how it's supposed to be used and, at worst, probably misuse it regularly. I also have a sneaking suspicion that somebody who thinks carry = honor probably doesn't get much honor for reasons aside from disuse. \\n More importantly, this has already been addressed by Lyte. [Here]( is the link.\",\n \"Summary: Get off Mako's back. He's conflicted. Conflict is what drives people, characters, and stories. There's nothing wrong with being conflicted and maybe putting \\\"resolving my concerns over my love life\\\" on hold while he, you know, helps combat a rebel army seeking to wipe bending off the planet.\\n\\nPost: I think people are being a little hard on Mako. I mean, yeah, he could handle things better, but let's be honest: just about everyone here who is an adult has had conflicting feelings about people that are very important to them, and it's really hard to be somebody's friend when you know there is \\\"something more\\\" there without crossing a line. \\n Honestly, the line between \\\"friend\\\" and \\\"significant other\\\" is so blurry. If people would stop being so dang peeved at Mako all the time, they'd see that he's one of the only people who is remaining concerned about Korra as a person and not as The Avatar. And does he maybe let his conflicting emotions get the better of him sometimes? Yeah, he does. But let's look back: \\n 1) Did Korra put him in an awkward position by throwing all her cards out on the table right after he had started dating Asami and Korra had just gone on a date with his little brother? Yes, she did. \\n 2) Has Asami been being just a tad bit hard on Mako, and maybe looking a little too far into Mako and Korra's interactions: interactions that would have seemed nothing beyond friendly had she not suddenly allowed a brief moment of weakness -- one Mako did not initiate, nor has he sought to replicate -- to color the way she interpreted them? Especially given the high stress circumstances they are all under, and the inevitable intimacy that comes from being a small group against huge odds? Yeah, I think she has.\",\n \"Summary: Don't feed you scrubbin' bubble.\\n\\nPost: A lot of people will tell you to pick a handful of champs and learn them well. This is absolutely right, but make sure that your handful of champs span more than one role. If you only know how to play 3 AD carries and you end up with 2 people insta-locking AD carries, then a few chain vests will lead to about 20-30 minutes of frownie times. If you're not willing or able to be a little flexible, you're playing the wrong game. \\n \\n Learn how to jungle. It's often a thankless job, but there are so many benefits. First and foremost is map awareness. It's easy for a new player to get tunnel vision when laning, and tunnel vision is a sad sight when you don't see a ganker coming down river. Jungling gets you used to paying attention to stuff besides what you're immediately doing, and that awareness translates to ever role. Second is you learn how ganking works out of necessity. If all you play is AP carry you might find yourself wondering why your jungle doesn't hang out with you more, ganking that jerk in your lane. After jungling for a while you start to realize how important wave management and lane positioning is. Lastly, new/bad players don't really like to jungle because it's not very straight-forward. There's a lot of decision making involved. Rarely will you have to bicker with people over jungling, and if somebody else wants to do it, well, time to practice other roles, right? \\n \\n Use the ignore button frequently and liberally. People talk a lot of shit in this game, but keep in mind that you're new and they can suck it. If you be patient, pay attention, and keep playing, you'll be better than them in no time. \\n \\n Watch casted games and streams. Start with casted games to get a feel for how an overall game works, then move to streams when you want to learn about specific roles. Here are a couple streams for each role: \\n \\n \\n Top Lane: [TSM Dyrus]( [CLG HotshotGG]( \\n Mid Lane: [TSM Reginald]( [chu8]( \\n AD Bot: [CLG Doublelift]( [CLG.eu Yellowpete]( \\n Support Bot: [EG Nhat Nguyen]( [TSM Xpecial]( \\n Jungle: [CLG SaintVicious]( [CLG.eu Snoopeh]( \\n Now, when mnay pro/high-elo players are playing on stream, they might not play their main role, so be sure to check [SoloMid]( and [Counter Logic Gaming]( regularly for other streamers. And disable Adblocker! Support esports! \\n \\n Last but not least, learn how to last hit. If you've read anything about this game, you've probably read this a million times, but it's no joke. Last hitting is the gas pedal of LoL -- you're not going anywhere without it. Without last hits you don't get gold. Without gold you don't get items. Without items you don't get stat boosts. Without stat boosts you don't get kills. Without kills you don't get fed. Without food you don't get wins. Seriously. Practice this. Whenever you can. Start a custom vs. a bot and try to get as much farm as possible in 20 minutes. Do this whenever you have 20 minutes to kill. For real. Do it. Farming well will win you an absurd amount of games in LoL. A comical amount.\",\n \"Summary: Do you guys know of any good teaching streamers for ADCs?\\n\\nPost: I have a friend who literally just started playing the other day. After going over some general game guides and talking to me, he's decided he wants to learn the game as an ADC. I figured this was a good idea, because I main support and can help him out while he's leveling. \\n However, I'm an awful teacher. I always end up going into stuff that's way too advanced for him and rambling about lane dynamics and objective control when he's still trying to figure out the very basics or MOBAs. He has experiences with RTS, so he knows how to physically play the game, but anything beyond that is all new territory. \\n So, I was trying to think of good streams for him to watch. I know a lot of it won't make sense, but I think it's important for him to see what the game looks like when you play it well. Otherwise he'll end up like I was, think he's doing great in bot games, queue for PvP and get dunked because he didn't know people walked in bushes before the minions came to lane. I worry, though, that just sending him to Dbl's or Aphro's streams won't be helpful, cause he'll just be watching people play without any context of what they're doing and why they're doing it. I was hoping to find some \\\"teacher streamers\\\" for bot lane. \\n Top lane has Wings. Mid lane has Scarra. Support has Nhat. But I can't think of any good teachers for bot lane. I pointed him to some helpful video guides from Chaox, but Chaox's stream isn't normally very educational, so I don't think that's what I'm looking for.\",\n \"Summary: Have fun and act mature. There's a long game ahead and the only person that can stop you from having fun is you.\\n\\nPost: So, I'm no LoL master. I'm probably not even a LoL apprentice. But that doesn't really matter. There are a lot of things about video game communities that can be annoying. People tend to be know-it-alls, you spend more time with 13-year-old boys than should be legal for a man with a beard, and people take things way too seriously at times. But that's in every game. \\n LoL has been super fun so far. Even at its worst, I find myself having to list reasons why I can't queue again at 3 AM. The champion selection is large and varied, and before I played this game I would have laughed you out of the room if you told me that a game with as many variables as LoL could be balanced, but I rarely run into a scenario (at my level, obviously) where I feel like I died because of a balance issue. All in all, my leveling process has been thoroughly enjoyable. I still have a little ways to go, but I look forward to it. \\n There have been some downsides, though. Mostly from players. This is largely an effort to highlight some annoying things that people like to do that a) don't help in any way, shape, or form, b) make the game less enjoyable for everyone involved, and c) drive me fuckin' bananas. \\n \\n Calling \\\"dibs\\\" on mid. Come on, people. I know mid is fun, and since it's 1v1 for a big chunk of the early game, you can really flex your skillnuts, but how old are you? Just let your team know that you want to go mid. \\\"My germs\\\" wasn't cool in third grade, and it's not cool in LoL. \\n \\n If you already see a couple AD carries locked in, for the love of god don't pick another AD carry. I bet you are awesome with Vayne, but it doesn't matter how good you are if over half of the team's DPS can be killed within seconds of a fight starting. \\n \\n All you Ashes out there: The cross map arrows have to stop. I used to play Ashe a lot, and it is pretty dope when you nail somebody from approximately forever away, but you're sitting on one of the best initiates in the game. Opening a fight with a good arrow that leaves their AD helpless in the face of the coming onslaught is a shitload cooler than stunning some dude across the map for a few seconds. I promise. \\n \\n If the game isn't going your way, don't spam surrender. If your team doesn't want to surrender, then just keep playing. If the cause is really as hopeless as you think it is, it'll all be over soon. And who knows? You might pull out a comeback. Sure as hell won't do that if you surrender at 20. \\n \\n Offensive GGs are irritating and they make the whole team look stupid if things get turned around. \\n \\n If somebody is having a bad game, yelling at them isn't going to make them play any better. I know it's hard to sympathize when you're getting pooped on because somebody fed and the whole thing snowballed, but it's not like the person who fed is having the time of their lives. They know they fed. Berating them for the entire game isn't going to unfeed. \\n \\n Stop telling strangers what champions to pick. Especially under 30. This is why, when you usually play an AD carry, you wait until other people have locked in to make sure #2 doesn't happen. Some people only know how to play AD carries . I know it's dumb and that they should learn to play something else, but that doesn't change anything. This isn't the matrix. You can't plug into their brains and teach them how to play something else. If some scrubby scrub only knows how to play Graves, just let him play Graves. You're not doing yourself or your team any favors by making somebody play something they have no clue how to play. And, if you DO convince this person to play a different champ, refer to #6. If they feed, then you're as much to blame as they are. \\n \\n Calling people lucky when they get away with only a little HP is childish. I'm not lucky cause you missed your skill shot. You missed your skill shot. Deal with it. Lux has one of the best ranges in the game and people still get away from me sometimes. Knowing when to bail out of a fight is a big part of this game. Recognize when somebody made the right call and ran. Also, don't mock them for running. You would have ran in the same situation. \\n \\n \\\"need 3v1 lol\\\" and stuff like that is dumb. If you're by yourself under a turret and there are people MIA, you should know something is up. You know the other team sees you. You know that they don't want to lose the turret. You know you're not going to get the turret down in one creep wave. You know they're coming. Don't be stupid. You got ganked. Deal with it. It's part of the dangers of pushing. edit \\\"1v1 me\\\" is also equally ridiculous. \\n \\n Be friendly. You'd really be surprised how enjoyable this game can be when people are just nice to each other. Even in lopsided games. When the enemy team does something cool and smacks you in a team fight, say good job. Or at least have a sense of humor about it. GG when the game is over . Have friendly conversations throughout the game in /all. It'll keep you calm and off tilt, and it's amazing how much easier it is to do well when you're not tilted or pissed. \\n \\n \\n And lastly... \\n Don't be afraid to put people on ignore. If they're making the game not fun for you, there's a button to fix that. Just ignore them. So easy. Once that's done, you can relax and have a good time.\",\n \"Summary: Ranting about how a feeding your ADC as a support is hella fun and wins the tits off games.\\n\\nPost: I've heard this a lot around here and other places. Obviously, you can't directly carry as support, but I'm finding more and more that playing support smart can certainly turn bad games good. First of all, the ward issue. I hate to rehaash \\\"wards win games\\\" but they do, and being that a lot of people still think the only person who should be buying wards after laning phase is the support and maybe the jungle. \\n Obviously that is false, but \\\"everybody buy wards\\\" has never really bled over from the pro scene into the amateur scene. Being a support with decent map awareness and acceptable income from my next point, you can easily ward aggressively which, I've found, leads to a lot of indirect assists. Heck, I just got out of a game where the enemy jungler got killed 3 times in his jungle before 10 minutes because I was warding wraiths and red. That doesn't even begin to count how many ganks I saved by a) giving vision and b) helping put the jungler hugely behind. \\n Second, the AD Carry. I think we can all agree that AD Carries are hella strong. They do absurd amounts of damage and are typically highly mobile (even without escapes, they usually have a PD or TF). We can't all be the AD carry for reasons I assume are obvious, but what we can do is make sure the AD carry gets fed and then protect the shit out of it. As somebody who frequently ADCs as well as supports, I'm sure you guys know how frustrating it is to be playing ADC in a team fight and see your support faffing about on a squishy while the enemy bruiser smacks you around. It's frustrating because you know, deep down, that if you had gotten a peel or two, you could have gotten that little bit of extra damage your team might have needed to win the teamfight. So what does a good support do? If you're somebody like Taric or Alistar, sure, you can make some flashy initiates. Nothing wrong with that. Stun a squishy. Go for it. Great job. But once your teammates that can actually kill somebody jump in, your job is to make sure that your ADC lives. One good peel for a Graves with BT is all he needs to melt that bruiser, and once that's done, you can resume tickling the squishies. \\n I think a lot of the problem is that people don't see supports as playmakers, that they're not as fun to play. I mean, sure, you don't get the huge kill count you might get as Rengar or Diana. But you can still make plays. Flash pulvs/stuns are frickin' rad to pull off when you're on the same page as your teammate(s), and all that takes is a ping and typing \\\"Flash pulving.\\\" Takes the same amount of time as typing, \\\"wtf ez no followup.\\\" \\n Not to mention, nothing feels quite as cool as man-moding in lane and zoning out the enemy ADC after you teach him a little respect for your CC by feeding your ADC first blood.\",\n \"Summary: I spent longer than I care to admit writing this up, so read it you lazy ass. \\n Thanks for reading! \\n EDIT: Welp, I guess aimless griping is valued more here than talking about a fun solution.\\n\\nPost: So, I just talked about a rune system I've been daydreaming about for a long time. Instead of piggybacking on a comment and hoping people see it, I thought I'd submit a post and see what people think. \\n So, Runes are currently a pretty contentious piece of League of Legends. They're seen as arbitrarily-priced, unnecessarily-level-gated, and wildly-variant with regards to their individual power. \\n Now, I'm not really going to address any of that stuff, since I don't think they're the core problem with runes. I think the core problems are: \\n \\n Runes only create an illusion of customization. Most players lack the knowledge and IP to reasonably theorycraft an effective page, and those that have both of those things can't safely utilize the customization because a) pages cannot be changed during champion select and b) there simply aren't enough pages for how many roles and champions there are. \\n Runes are very powerful, but their power is intangible. Because everybody is using runes, they don't feel like a cool tool you're utilizing. Runes should feel like putting on a tailored suit. Instead, they feel like putting on your underwear. They can be as fancy as you like, but once your pants go on, nobody is going to see or care. \\n \\n So that brings me to my idea. I think that, instead of runes that offer stats, runes should offer bonus effects, along with tradeoffs, for specific Champion abilities. \\n The system I imagine will have your rune pages tied to your champion, and be completely editable during champion select. The way it works is that you have x runes (3 or less, I'm thinking). Total. Not for each champion. Total. These runes don't have any specific effects. A runes effect is not in what it is , but where you put it. Does anybody see where I'm going with this yet? \\n Each champion has five abilities (including the passive). With this new system, you will use these three runes and pick three abilities to apply a rune to. These runes will grant a bonus effect, as well as a tradeoff, to each ability. Think of it like Kha'Zix's Evolutions, but with a negative aspect, too. During champion select, you apply your Runes to a specific empowerment, and voila. So, let's take Lux as an example (each description is with the rune applied): \\n Passive: Lux's passive now grants vision of the target, but can no longer be consumed for damage.\\n \\n This hurts her burst rotation, but increases her utility significantly, increasing her use as a Support. \\n Q: Light Binding can no longer hit minions or monsters.\\n \\n Her wave clear -- somewhere Lux is already weak in early -- is wounded, but her ability to make picks in lane is increased. \\n W: Now grants Armor and MR, but no longer shields Lux.\\n \\n Increases her utility at the cost of personal durability. \\n E: Slow is increased and persists for all targets hit, but the radius is reduced.\\n \\n Increases the power of the spell, but also puts a greater emphasis on accuracy. \\n R: Champions hit by Final Spark are knocked aside (think Stand Aside but with lazers) range is reduced significantly.\\n \\n This decreases Lux's ability to snipe people, but gives her a powerful teamfight ult. \\n Now, everybody needs to keep in mind that these are JUST EXAMPLES . I'm aware that some of what I said would probably be OP as hell in reality. I'm not posting this to quibble over a specific Runic Empowerment (yeah, I have a name for it, SO WHAT?). This is also the first time I've made a real effort to sit down and flesh out the idea. It's been floating around in my brain up until today. I'm sure there are design issues I haven't thought of. BUT, this new system accomplishes some things that I think are pretty cool: \\n \\n Allows an individual champion's gameplay to be more diverse. \\n Riot would no longer have to balance a single kit with multiple roles in mind. Champions that can fulfill multiple roles (such as Lux) can have all of one roles power poured into the main kit, and have a lot of that power removed and replaced by runes for another role. \\n Runes would not be a necessity. Since the intention is to have strong tradeoffs, a champion should be able to exist in its \\\"primary\\\" role without runes entirely. \\n If Riot is worried about losing an IP sink, then fear not: Rune Slots can be sold individually for each champion. That way, we as players buy the rune slots we want for the champions we want and Riot doesn't have to worry about giving all their champions away because there's nothing else to spend IP on anymore. Also, since there are a lot of champions, and gonna be many more, the rune slots don't have to be crazy expensive, so you don't have to worry about an Empowerment getting nerfed and wanting to take a different route. \\n Customizing runes can be personal and customized for the champions you like and play, instead of having to make a bunch of rune pages that can adequately service a broad spectrum of champions. \\n Gameplay decisions are more clear --the uninitiated player can clearly read and feel the effects of an Empowerment on a champion. \\n More \\\"levers\\\" to pull. Hey, Riot. Have a champion that you wanted to be played in the Top Lane, but he keeps being a pesky nuisance in the Jungle? Want to see him in the top lane, but you fear alienating players who enjoy him in the jungle? Never fear! Balance his primary kit around the top lane, and give him some empowerments that make his gameplay in the jungle more fun and interesting! Best of both worlds! Huzzah! \\n \\n Now, the major problem I see with this is that it's a huge change that's super disruptive, but I think many fans of the game, including myself, consider runes to be archaic and arcane. This system accomplishes the apparent gameplay goals of runes much more effectively that the current one (even if it might not accomplish the business goal quite so effectively).\",\n \"Summary: keep your hair-brained theories on /r/conspiracy\\n\\nPost: Risk versus reward doesn't add up. All it takes is one guy to spill the beans -- in a modern world in which spilling the beans is easier than it's ever been, and gets easier every day -- and your whole brand implodes. Bye bye NBA. For what? An arguably more marketable Finals? Wouldn't it make more sense to dedicate all the time and resources something like this would take to, I dunno, a marketing team that can adequately hype up the clash of the two best teams in the NBA? \\n \\n If it's a rig, it's the most ham-fisted rig in the history of rigging. Anybody with Sportscenter within shouting distance knows that the officiating in the NBA this playoffs has been a complete joke. Why would the NBA intentionally sacrifice the credibility of the Finals to... make the Finals more interesting? \\n \\n There's easier, more subtle ways to rig games that don't literally have an official system in place (replay) to scrutinize every decision made by the people trying to rig. Ever heard of bribing people? \\\"Hey, Chris Paul! If you give up a bunch of turnovers this game we'll make sure you get a ring next year!\\\" Boom. Simple. Clippers lose, people yell at Chris Paul for choking, he gets to redeem himself next year. Better narrative, less risk, fewer moving parts... And I thought of that in, like, 5 minutes. \\n \\n \\n I don't know how many people seriously think these are rigs or not, but it seems like a prevalent enough sentiment that I got sick of addressing it on a comment-to-comment basis.\",\n \"Summary: Hunter matchup feels like No Consecration = No Win and that sucks. Tips?\\n\\nPost: Background: I'm new to the game and basically new to CCGs. I played some when I was a kid, but it was just me and a buddy and we didn't know what we were doing. \\n I have a pretty low-budget [Paladin deck]( that has gotten me to Plat3 without any issue. I'm trying as hard as I can to break through into Diamond. I'm having pretty standard issues with Priests and Mages, but when I lose I can usually point to a decision I made that led to it. \\n The most frustrating thing I'm experiencing right now is playing against Hunters. Two things make me feel like the matchup is completely out of my hands: \\n \\n If the Hunter gets The Coin, I feel like I'm playing from a very real disadvantage right from the get go that I don't really have the tools to overcome until turn 4 at the earliest, which leads me to... \\n \\n If I don't get Consecration by the time turn 5 rolls around, I lose. If I get it by turn 5, I win. Almost every time. In fact, I've been keeping score since I noticed this, and out of 8 games against hunters, the only one that doesn't fit that pattern is one that I lost because I made a huge mistake after getting Consecration on turn 4. Furthermore, that's the only game I've played versus a Hunter (since I've been tracking it) that went past turn 7. \\n \\n \\n Short of completely revamping my deck to just counter aggro as best I can, I'm at a loss. I don't mind losing when I can say, \\\"Oh, if I had played this card instead of this card that might have turned out better,\\\" but when it's just me crossing my fingers hoping for Consecration before he's able to buff all his beasts over 2 HP, I can't help but get extremely frustrated at the losses. \\n Anyway, maybe this is just how CCGs work -- you get the card you need or you don't. I don't know. But I was hoping maybe somebody could look over my deck and just give me something to try to alleviate this frustration I'm feeling towards one class in particular.\",\n \"Summary: how the heck do you carry harder in the mid and late game when you're constantly in 4v5 scenarios?\\n\\nPost: So, I'm not one of those people who likes to blame his team for losses. A lot of the major mistakes that happen in low elo, from my experience, is from a lack of communication. I subscribe whole-heartedly to the philosophy of \\\"carry harder\\\". I watch enough streams to know that even the most dire situations can be saved by one person making an awesome play, and, conversely, even the biggest leads can be thrown by one person failing the same play. \\n But I just played a quick two games of ranked to see how things would go (I've been playing a lot of other game modes to try and just take a step back because I was starting to rage a bit a couple nights ago). Game 1, I'm a 9-1-15 Ezreal, game 2 I'm a 10-5-11 Riven. I know those numbers don't mean much because it's not that hard to pick uip kills as either of those champions once team fights start, but I won my lanes handily and even helped other people win some fights before the laning phase was over. \\n But, once the laning phase ended, we had a Talon (Game 1) who literally grouped once, and that was when they were pushing into our base (which they had gotten to because every fight was 4v5). Then, in Game 2, not only did I win my lane, get my kills, and generally do my job, we had ANOTHER Ezreal who was doing amazing. But we lost because our Cass kept getting caught out and every important fight was, once again, 4v5. \\n My question is simple. You can win your lane, you can help others win their lanes, but what do you do about 4v5s in an otherwise even game? How do you carry harder ? \\n I've put so much time into reading and listening to intelligent streamers and generally learning the matchups in nearly every lane (still don't have it all down, but I made a point to learn 3 champs for every lane, and know their matchups well), and I rarely lose my lane unless something terrible happens. I feel myself getting better. I know when and how to trade, my lane management makes sense and is generally timed and organized well, which often frees me up to roam and help others once I get ahead, but none of this matters once I get out of laning. \\n So, you know,\"\n]","isConversational":false},"profile_size":{"kind":"number","value":26,"string":"26"},"task":{"kind":"string","value":"longlamp_4"},"split_kind":{"kind":"string","value":"user_based"},"id":{"kind":"number","value":5392,"string":"5,392"}}},{"rowIdx":5393,"cells":{"question_id":{"kind":"string","value":"RikM"},"question":{"kind":"string","value":"Generate the content for a reddit post There has not been time for any other language to spread universally and people are stubborn bastards."},"answer":{"kind":"string","value":"Until very recently, all of the worlds superpowers spoke languages with the Latin script so there really hasn't been time for another to spread far enough. Until the end of the 19th century, the biggest superpower was the British Crown. At its peak, England was ruling New Zealand, Australia, India, several African countries, the majority of the colonized islands across the world and to a point, even the US. This allowed the English language to spread with the industries so it became the international language of Business. I believe that statistically English has the third largest number of native speakers after Mandarin and Spanish (or is it Portuguese?). Mandarin is spoken by a billion people but only in 1 country. Spanish (Or is it Portuguese?) is spoken in 1 European country and a lot of South America (Countries which really haven't had much of an industrial impact until recently). English is the official language of the USA, Canada, UK, Australia, New Zealans, all Common Wealth islands, South Africa and several other African countries. \n And how will you get everyone to learn this new international language? If you turn around tomorrow and tell 7.1 billion people that they now all have to become fluent in this particular language, you will have a bad time. So the only way is to introduce it into the school system. Make sure that by the age of 18 every child is fluent in this language. Then slowly make it so that this is the first spoken language in schools and English (or whatever the local language is) is only spoken at home and work. As the new generations grow they will become dependent on that language and start speaking it in their free time. Eventually businesses will use it by default and it will become the default published language... You are going to have a bad time. This will take generations, maybe centuries, and for the first three decades a lot of people will be pissed off. Who gives anyone the right to force kids to learn this new language. I would not like it if my kids were made to speak a different language to their native tongue all day at school. I think many parents will complain so people will make private native-speaking schools alongside these international-language ones. \n And I cannot see many governments pushing it because they know they will get shit from the voters and lose votes. The opposition will be clever and swear not to change language and get all the votes at the next election. They had a hard enough time pushing the Euro and that is just a currency. Imagine what shit a new language will cause."},"correct_answer":{"kind":"string","value":"Until very recently, all of the worlds superpowers spoke languages with the Latin script so there really hasn't been time for another to spread far enough. Until the end of the 19th century, the biggest superpower was the British Crown. At its peak, England was ruling New Zealand, Australia, India, several African countries, the majority of the colonized islands across the world and to a point, even the US. This allowed the English language to spread with the industries so it became the international language of Business. I believe that statistically English has the third largest number of native speakers after Mandarin and Spanish (or is it Portuguese?). Mandarin is spoken by a billion people but only in 1 country. Spanish (Or is it Portuguese?) is spoken in 1 European country and a lot of South America (Countries which really haven't had much of an industrial impact until recently). English is the official language of the USA, Canada, UK, Australia, New Zealans, all Common Wealth islands, South Africa and several other African countries. \n And how will you get everyone to learn this new international language? If you turn around tomorrow and tell 7.1 billion people that they now all have to become fluent in this particular language, you will have a bad time. So the only way is to introduce it into the school system. Make sure that by the age of 18 every child is fluent in this language. Then slowly make it so that this is the first spoken language in schools and English (or whatever the local language is) is only spoken at home and work. As the new generations grow they will become dependent on that language and start speaking it in their free time. Eventually businesses will use it by default and it will become the default published language... You are going to have a bad time. This will take generations, maybe centuries, and for the first three decades a lot of people will be pissed off. Who gives anyone the right to force kids to learn this new language. I would not like it if my kids were made to speak a different language to their native tongue all day at school. I think many parents will complain so people will make private native-speaking schools alongside these international-language ones. \n And I cannot see many governments pushing it because they know they will get shit from the voters and lose votes. The opposition will be clever and swear not to change language and get all the votes at the next election. They had a hard enough time pushing the Euro and that is just a currency. Imagine what shit a new language will cause."},"documents":{"kind":"list like","value":["Summary: From what I remember of myself before, I have definitely changed, but I was too young to know for sure.\n\nPost: When I was 10 I had a fight with a brick wall. \n I was never a musical prodigy but I could pretty much get a tune out of any musical instrument, sang in the school choir and always got decent roles in the school plays. (Although some of that may be the exaggerations of memorising childhood). But then pretty much over night, I stopped getting the big bits in the choir or plays and slowly realised I now had NO rhythm. In the knock, I must of hit whichever bit of the brain it is that affects timing and co-ordination. I also started needing glasses not too long after that. Around the same time, I started losing friends as I became extremely annoying: and that seemed to be pretty much over night. \n Now, 11 years on, and potentially unconnected (but I can't help but think it probably is connected - Occum's razor and all that) I find my memory is crap, my ears are going, I get confused easier than I should and regularly get a bad case of can't-be-arsed. My IQ is 75 but in terms of academic stuff, I fair rather well and generally get good grades. I just got a 2:1 degree in engineering.","Summary: Went scuba diving with a leaky tank. Ran out of air, got hit by a boat, got trapped underneath the boat and nearly drown.\n\nPost: July 22nd 2009. I was 17 in Mozambique. I was scuba diving with a leaky tank which had a faulty gauge. So I didn't know it was empty until I took a breath and nothing came out. I went up, and waved for the boat to come over. It wasn't the best of weather so the waves were quite big making it difficult to get a breath with the weight belt pulling me down and no air from the tank to put in to the BCD. And with the waves, it was pretty difficult to get air into it manually. So, as the boat came over and stopped, a wave picked it up and dropped it pretty much on my head. The wave covered me so it wasn't too bad of a drop but I definitely still felt it come down on my head and push me under. So I was then pretty much trapped underneath the boat with the way the current was sucking me. I did manage to drop the weight belt though I was pretty convinced that was it. \n Whilst I was still coughing up part of the Indian Ocean, all the skipper could do was yell and swear at me for losing the weight belt for which I owed him 400rand. He didn't seem too bothered about running me over. \n And about 10 minutes later, one of the girls came up a little too fast and gave herself a nose bleed. As we had seen a shark the day before she became convinced one would turn up and started to have a panic attack which set her asthma off. I imagine she was pretty terrified having an asthma attack 20 or so metres from the boat off the coast of Mozambique. Luckily a few of the others that had already come up could go and help her out. I would have but as you can imagine, I wasn't in the best state. \n I have been completely claustrophobic after that (if you know what the connection is then please ELI5) and cannot get in lifts or go on the Tube but I was determined to not stop scuba diving so when I was back in England I went Scuba Diving in an old quarry. Being England it was a little cold and I managed to get hypothermia. Still want to try scuba again though. But maybe without the whole drowning or freezing. \n EDIT.","Summary: People are dicks.\n\nPost: A couple of years ago I was cycling through Derby, U.K., and saw a bloke jogging get something out of his pocket and drop his phone. He didn't notice so I stopped and picked it up to cycle down to where he was by now. I caught him up and held it out to him. He called me a thief and offered to floor me if I ever touch his stuff again.","Summary: Those I live with, those dating those I live with and those who are friends with those I live with all massively hate me because of things the girls have said about me. And the best way to operate is to pretend to have made everything up. YAY.\n\nPost: I live with two guys. \n It got out that the girlfriend of A told me something which A was not meant to know. So she told him I made it up and everyone believes this - I am leaving them to believe this despite the shit that it is getting me into because if I do tell the truth, that will be the end of their relationship and everyone will blame me. So a lot of people are pissed at me. \n Meanwhile, a few months ago, something kicked off big time with the girl who is now dating B. She has been telling a lot of people an especially contorted version of events which is making me look especially crap (She seems to believe this version happened but does not have the best history of mental health). I have been leaving them to believe this because it is far better for her if the true version of events don't get out. Lets just say I will be able to deal with the shit far more than she could. However, I turned around yesterday after too many weeks of comments about this and just said that things didn't happen how they have been told. This was mentioned to B who mentioned it to his girlfriend. Now I am getting death threats for throwing doubt on what she says happened. And everyone else is instantly on her side of things because I really think it is better for her if I keep the true events to myself. They are that bad. \n To add to it, A and B met these girls because I almost dated one and did date the other. So now I spend my days hiding away. Fun times.","Summary: It is like falling asleep on the bus.\n\nPost: Scuba diving went tits up when my tank had an unnoticed slow leak so I went up doing the correct thing after I found the leak... by finding their was no air left in my tank. (The pressure needle had jammed as well). So as I went up, I found that the whether had turned. Strong current and the surface was pretty choppy. I signalled for the boat and that is when it landed on my head. Between that, the current and the weight of everything, I became trapped under the boat. I started to panic then I just accepted my fate. \n It was like falling asleep when you try your best not to. You feel your eyelids get heavy and they keep trying to close. You keep trying to keep them open. And then you wake up and you are not entirely sure if you did sleep or not except time has clearly past and you are in a different place or the credits are rolling of the film you were watching...","Summary: You have not ruined your life or hers. Things may seem bad now but if you are there for her, people will be there for you.\n\nPost: A friend of mine had a child at the age of 17 with his ex. From a particularly religious family and a strict church, things should have been it for him but they weren't. The love of his life who he had started dating (he didn't know about the pregnancy for about 3 months) was banned from seeing him (her family were also from the same church) and members of his family wouldn't talk to him for a while. But he muddled through, found people to talk to and worked things out. The people that had begun to disown him grew greater respect for him than before when they saw how he stood by the girl who had lied to him. He didn't ruin his life but put it on hold when she or the baby needed him. One month ago he married the love of his life, his (now 4yo) son was one of the page boys and things are only improving for him. \n Remember the old cliche - having a child is a gift. Yes, maybe you feel too young for that now but there is nothing here to stop you from having the life you have always planned. \n And as for the car stealing. I don't know the laws in the US but I understand that after a couple of years, any driving offence will not count anyway. \n (Excuse the side track) There is an old joke about Kimi Raikkonen \n \n Is there a problem? No - Then there is nothing to worry about. \n \n Yes. Is there anything you can do about it to solve it? Yes - Then there is nothing to worry about. \n \n No - Then there is no point worrying.","Summary: James Bond shit followed by a weird Psycho/Texas Chainsaw Massacre/Wrong Turn/Chucky mashup set in England.\n\nPost: I don't massively remember the first part but it features me being naked a lot and getting the girl after a bit of world saving. So we are then going for a drive (now fully clothed) and end up at a middle-of-nowhere motel. The sort where no one in the small town wants you \"city folk\" there: This is properly back woods America type stuff... except in the peak district (UK). So a group of us staying at the motel go to the pub and find no one likes our presence and we can have one drink quickly but then must leave. On the way back to the motel one out two people are caught and killed and when we get back to the motel someone else is killed in the shower. We then find that all the cars have been sabotaged with tires slashed and the fuel line cut. \n So we flee into the woods and any stragglers are picked off; by this point we have also been joined by the Chucky Doll. It turns out that two of the group are under-cover agents for the rednecks. These rednecks are also really intent on getting my iPod (Which I think was also connected to the saving the world stuff) Unfortunately, my mate decided to ring me just after I had slit the throat of one of the double agents and as I stabbed Chucky in the eye. \n EDIT I:","Summary: I need new friends. \n EDIT: To paraphrase: Apparently, if someone nearly killed themselves over something, a fun joke is to rub their face in it and remind them of it constantly so they get all depressed and go back into that same dark place they were before...\n\nPost: Well there was a break up which did not go well; for four months I drank constantly and ate the best part of nothing, I barely slept and actually tried to kill myself. I still take it hard if I hear her name and end up thinking of her when people even just mention her home country. So a popular joke is to set things up so I will have to think of her. Someone I know had a one night stand with her last week so they stole my hard drive and replaced all the documents on it with ones about her and him doing the deed. They also hacked my Facebook to post jokes about that. You know; for shits and giggles.","Summary: By me applying for a job my ex (The girl I love) gets laid.\n\nPost: I applied for a job with an agency and got a shift at a fire work display down in London. \n That day, I got chatting to a girl and we texted after. I kind of liked her but she had a boyfriend so I did nothing. \n He got pissed off that she kept talking to me, they had a massive row and broke up because of it. \n He moved out and another guy took his room as he was moving back to town. \n Well he hadn't been out in town in over a year as he was only just moving back. First night out in town he meets a girl and they start sort-of dating. \n . \n . \n . \n Now that isn't a biggy but... So me and Job-Girl are hanging out one night with her two house mates and they are talking about this girl he is dating. The description seemed familiar so I asked about her...","Summary: Drowning = not fun.\n\nPost: Scuba diving in the Indian Ocean once went very wrong when I had a faulty tank. I came up and signalled for the boat. The weight belt was dragging me down along with a bad current and swell so I couldn't get the air to inflate my BCD manually (My tank had leaked all the air out, and I hadn't noticed due to the needle being stuck, so I couldn't use that). The swell then picked the boat up as it arrived, and dropped it on my head. So between the current, the weight belt and the fact I had just been hit on the head, I ended up getting stuck underneath the boat long enough to take an unwanted drink.","Summary: When you are willing and \"happy\" to go through the worst pain and suffering imaginable if it makes them happy.\n\nPost: I hate to put the downer in here but in my experience you don't know for sure until it is too late. (Apologies for the cliche) I always knew I loved her but not by how much until it was over. When you know you will never see that person again and every thought and heart beat is accompanied by the pain of losing them. Yet strangely you don't care about how much pain you are in as long as they are happy.","Summary: It is like falling asleep in a car or on the bus. You notice you are nodding off and try pointlessly not to. Then you wake up and you are not actually sure if you did, or didn't, fall asleep until you realise you and everyone else are in a different place/position to \"a second\" earlier.\n\nPost: Granted, it isn't legally dead and my lack of a pulse cannot have been for more than a second or two; well I am told I wasn't breathing when I was pulled back into the boat. \n In my experience though, it is weirdly unnoticeable. I remember thinking \"Oh fuck...\" and things being strangely peaceful. Did my life pass before my eyes? I don't know. And then my lungs heart and I was regurgitating the Indian Ocean. Of course I noticed this pain, and the though process but I didn't notice the bit in the middle; I jumped from 1 moment to the next, sort of like falling a sleep in a car journey. It was about an hour later when I was told I hadn't been breathing and they couldn't feel a pulse until I got whacked in the chest. \n It was about 10 hours later when I had a strangely surreal moment of \"Well shit, I am damn lucky to be alive right now as I drown this morning and here I am eating garlic bread.\" But it isn't like there has been any major affect on my life, although I think I am a little more careful about my own well being... maybe.","Summary: You never know when bad shit can go good and I am always here to listen. \n Good luck to you.\n\nPost: Hi, I want to tell you a story. (If you don't want to read all that, then feel free just to skip to The Point .) \n When I was your age I hated my life, I was probably above average at school but I once had a bad head injury when I was about 12 so I am about as socially able as a broom handle (thanks to that injury, I have lost my rhythm and coordination which ruined my ability at my first love; music. Overnight, I got kicked off the school choir and orchestra). And a weak kid with zero social skill gets shit, and I am sure you know what that feels like. I found a way to get \"protection\". You see the \"prison bitch\" in films, well lets use that as a metaphor. I attached myself to a group who I felt comfortable around, the sort of people who don't give people shit, a mix of emo rockers (my kind of music) and the quiet, unassuming intellects of the year who somehow had found a way to attain popularity as well. I was not popular and only ever got pity invites but if I was with people, everyone else gave me less shit. Unfortunately, this meant I had to put up with a little too much \"banter\". This is why I always give banter back. It wasn't a great time but it reduced the bullying although I cannot possibly explain how much shit I went through, but I can assume that you will be able to take a good guess. \n As a result of this, I did once try to kill myself when I was about your age (14) but I didn't swallow enough pills and did nothing more than oversleep. I cannot possibly begin to explain how glad I am I survived. I survived but I wish I had not tried. As high school became sixth form (16-18) the worst people left and I started to learn how to act around people. I still got the pity invite but more people began to accept me.At 18, I got into university (so much doubt, even from teachers, that I would get there but I did). So, I moved away and distanced myself from the haters. I made friends and felt honestly included for the first time in my life. I met a girl and fell in love. I even got involved in a project in my dream career which has already hit the headlines. So that is something to be proud of. \n Unfortunately, the story doesn't end there. When I was 20, my heart broke and I didn't know how to cope. I tried to run away and left everyone who cares. And now, 2 weeks from my 22nd birthday I am in a bad place. I am inches from failing my masters degree (I almost failed my bachelors but good shit happened and I saved it at the last minute. I ended up being in the top 10 from my course. So shit may go good again for me). I have considered killing myself. I have stood on the edge of a bridge and held a knife to my wrists but one thought saved my life everytime. And that is the point of me telling you all this. \n THE POINT \n Kids in school are arseholes. They just want to be liked and the only way they know how is to make others suffer. It is something so many of us have to struggle with but you are not long from leaving these people behind and meeting new, like minded, people. \n When you are in school you are expected to know exactly what you want to do and be on your way to your dream career but not only is that a scary though but it is rare that A 16 year old knows what they want to do for the next 50 years. The amount of people anyone will ever see drop out of uni because they don't actually like what they thought they wanted to do is amazing. So do not worry if you haven't found your path yet. You will soon find something that you enjoy and are good at. (And if you enjoy something but are not yet good at it, then work at it.) \n THE FINAL POINT \n Most people live 'til they have passed 70 which means you are 20% through your life. Look at everything that has happened to me in the space of 7 years. Things change so quickly if you let them, sometimes for the better and sometimes for the worse. But if thins went so well for me once, then it is bound to happen again sooner or later. And if that happens to me, then why can it not happen to anyone else? It will happen but you just need to display patience. I am sure that sooner or later it will all be worth it. \n I have a crappy job pot washing and people ask why I do it and work masses of overtime to make sure everything is spotless. Well, I put the time in because I need the money to pay for my degree to get me out of here and get me where I want to be. And when I am there, every single dirty plate will have been worth it. \n They say life is short but so much can happen in even just a single year. and you are just not far enough in to experience it yet. You have only really been concious of life for maybe 5 years. This is too soon to judge what will happen. \n Analogy time: Do you watch Formula 1? Drivers turn up at the first race in the worst car on the grid. Every race, Marussia and Caterham put a car there that cannot possibly keep up with Red Bull or Mercedes... but one day the conditions will be right and they will win. There was a famous race in Canada in 2010 when Jenson Button went from last place and won. At the end of 2008, Button did not have a team or a car. Weeks before the Australian GP of 2009, he was given a drive. They turned up at the first race without having done any testing and he became the 2009 world champion. What if he had given up in 2008? You never know what will happen but you just need to keep your foot down. \n And Finally: So to finish this essay, I can definitely empathise with how you feel and if my life is anything to go by, then it is too soon to give up on yours. If you ever need anyone to talk to, I am just a PM away. I am online most days so you will get a reply pretty quickly (even if it is just to say that I have seen it and will reply properly later that day). Any issue you have, I am happy to listen. Hell, I will even try and help you with your homework if it is something I know about.","Summary: I'm still alive, must have been a miracle.\n\nPost: I know it seems silly but not being dead. \n A year ago I would have told you it was getting onto the project I had joined (I was involved in the aerodynamics for a land speed motorcycle but I ended up having to give it up for the same reasons as not being dead. \n May 2012 So 2 and a bit years ago the love of my life, J, left me and it was my fault. We tried to stay on good terms but I wasn't getting over her so she started to cut ties with me. And in time, I ended up cutting ties with mutual friends of hers so I would stop hearing about or seeing pictures of her. \n October 2012 I took a few dozen paracetamol and downed a bottle of whiskey. Drank it too fast and threw everything back up. \n December 2012 I was not doing well. I was just spending my days waking up at about 2pm and sitting in my boxers playing CoD: Zombies whilst drinking beer and eating crisps (at this point my greatest achievement was getting to round 32 on solo on Kino). My uni grades went from a first to a third. Anyways I ended up getting drunk with my house mate's friend, L, and having a one night stand. As we were both feeling pretty lonely due to losing friends (and I was also feeling quite broken and depressed) we hit it off and got pretty close but I made a point all along that I wasn't in a position for a relationship. \n March 2013 We had started dating (but also not properly dating due to my being adamant about not being over J) and L said she was in love with me. As I could not say it back she left me and got back with her ex (but didn't tell me this for a while). By the time I found out she had been cheating on him with me (and also on me with him), for quite a while so I just let it carry on because she swore it was fine (Also I was still low but had started doing a lot better at my degree grades and did not want to go back to CoD.). \n Summer 2013 L keeps having mood swings and that girl has a temper. She would be fine with me and then suddenly have a temper fit swearing that she only wanted me and would do whatever I asked. More than once she threatened to kill herself. By this point I had stopped sleeping with her due to the whole her having a boyfriend thing. On a side note I dragged my grades back up and got a 2:1, missing a first by only 2%. Also, I had been asked to join one hell of a project (the land speed thing). \n September/October 2013 Her ex/current boyfriend found out and was not happy so broke up with her. She keeps trying to get back with me but I know it is a bad idea. One night she drinks a bottle of vodka, takes a shit load of PCP, flips out and starts screaming about how no one cares. I tell her that I care but she asks why I don't love her and I said I do. She then said that I am lying because I am not in love with her so I tried to tell her that I may not be in love with her but I do love her. At this point she swipes at me with the Stanley blade she had been threatening to cut herself with but it caught on my tshirt and that stopped me having a serious cut. She then sprinted off to the bridge and I caught her as she was half way over, pulling her back. \n November 2013 She has this bright idea to start dating my new house mate in order to get back at me. As he has the same friends as me, she then befriends them (she never liked them before) and starts telling them all sorts of shit about me such as \"the time I told her that no one could ever love her and that she should just cut herself with a knife or jump off the bridge\" (and no, I definitely never said that). So they began hating me and intentionally causing me shit because of what they thought I did. Including the guy I was doing the project with. \n December 2013 My house mate, D, is truly hating me for what he thinks I did to his girlfriend so he invites her ex boyfriend and 2 of her brothers to stay for a week in my house (and these guys are rough). I got home from work and when they heard me come in they started screaming all sorts of shit about how they would break every bone in my body (and so on). (The way my house was, the front door opens straight into my bedroom so the main access was at the back) After this I left. I told people that I had slept on a sofa at work but I actually spent the next 6 nights just sleeping in the local park. \n January 2014 Things are getting worse and worse with everyone. On the bright side I met a girl through work and we were sort of seeing each other. Then her housemate was telling me about this girl he was seeing and she sounded very familiar... turns out it was J... it later turned out that it was my fault that he had gone to that particular club on that particular night and met her. When he found out I still had feelings for J he flipped out and banned me from the house. And then seeing this new girl, V, sort of went to shit; especially when the next attempt at a date involved me bumping into one of mine and J's old friends (hadn't seen him in over a year)... V is now dating him. \n February 2014 I am back to my old ways and spending as much time as possible away from anyone. I am sleeping maybe every third night, eating only when at work in order to keep up appearances (also at work I was away from the others so felt a little better) and getting wasted when not at work. I was also spending as much time as possible not in the house because D had moved L in whilst A (the other house mate) always had his friends round (the people that thoughtI had told L to kill herself). \n March 2014 I don't know how many pills I took but it wasn't enough. \n April 2014 So I was trying to make myself feel better with distraction and stuff and I sort of was because I had a new place as well as finding some new friends to hang out with (through work). I also had gotten back in touch with some friends who lived in the next city so I had somewhere to spend weekends away. The uni lot were also slowly starting to realise they had been fucked over. Except for one of them - K. This guy is an arsehole. He was in the last year of his bachelors whilst me and the other guy were on our masters and after his third year dissertation/project (with a pretty famous guy in the drag racing world) fell through (though it later turned out that K had just not bothered to do anything then fucked the famous bloke over and blamed him) we got him on to our project. He did no work then as the deadline approached he bullied me in to doing shit loads of his work for him. I pulled sickies from work and spent 12 hours a day doing it for him (it seemed logical because when I had argued I was pinned to a wall) whilst he went mountain biking or played video games. He then handed in my work with the sentence \"This project could not be completed as [RikM] did not do his share of the work\". \n 20th June 2014 I moved out. Fantastic. \n \n L moved in to my old room and is still fucking over D who is now fully supporting her. Their shared monthly bills are over £600 whilst he earns £320. \n D failed his degree \n A also failed his degree and is stuck living with L and D. Him and his friends have since realised what went on and are making a point of inconveniencing L. After I moved out the friends had served their purpose to her so L stopped talking to them and banned A from having any friends in the house. He ignored her and they are not making a point of always being there. \n V is still dating that old mate of mine but I talk to him again these days. \n J is talking to me again and is not dating that guy. \n And me? Well I am not dead, I eat every day, sleep every night, only get drunk when socialising and I am no longer severely depressed. So I have got that going for me, which is nice. \n And that folks, is why not being dead is my greatest achievement.","Summary: Hipster Yorkshireman here.\n\nPost: I know this post is old but anyway. \n I do not know how I feel about this guy steeling my thunder... for years I have been dressing up for Halloween wearing a Flat cap, wellies, marrigolds, a white T'shirt with a Y on it and a Yorkshire flag cape. \n EDIT;","Summary: This London-hating claustrophobic's favourite day of all time was spent riding the tube around London. Lend me the keys to your TARDIS please.\n\nPost: April 2012. I do not know the date but it is the most amazing day I have ever had and I spent it with my SO of the time. \n Things you need to know; I dislike big cities and get panic attacks in massive crowds or on a tube train due to my claustrophobia (which I had at the time). \n We travelled down to London early in the morning for her to attend an important meeting. We then spent the afternoon enjoying one of the first hot days of the year. We arrived in London with about £25 to our shared name and spent a fair share of that on the day pass for the tube. We went round London and visited all the usual stops in areas 1 and 2 of the tube line (Camden, Picadilly and all the rest). We spent what we had of our pennies on cheap food and drink and my favourite part of the day was spent laying buy the river at Camden Market. Just enjoy the sunshine and each others company.","Summary: I think that the phrase really means that if you cheat once everyone else will be less likely to trust you again.\n\nPost: I think that the phrase says less about you and more about peoples perception. Yeah you will change and maybe you only ever cheated once but everyone will remember the time you were caught for it. There was a guy I was at uni with, a really sound guy, and he got caught cheating in an exam in the most unfortunate way ever; for lectures he wrote equations on the lid of his calculator and accidentally took the lid into the exam. Despite it being an accident and it being caught before the exam started, so he couldn't cheat, he is forever known as that guy who cheated.","Summary: I applied for a job and everyone wants to kill me.\n\nPost: Well potentially this is actually a humongously significant decision but things still panned out massively different to expected. \n I applied for an intern-ship for Rolls Royce Motorcars. \n The fact that I would be moving away caused the love of my life to leave me. \n In an attempt to save things, I cancelled my application (which was going pretty well) and told her that I had been declined. But still we broke up. We tried to be friends but that didn't work out and she soon told me were to go. \n This tipped me into a spiral of depression, booze and anorexia. \n I had a drunken 1 night stand with a friend who actually really liked me and told me that she \"would wait til the end of time for me\". I was in a shitty place so stupidly let things go too far and we dated. \n I identified that I was only doing this for the comfort of a human being and ended things. But we continued to sleep together. \n She got back with her ex and still we slept together. \n I called the sleeping together off. Shortly before she broke up with her ex again and had a bit of a break down. \n She then spread a particularly slanderous story about me which she seems to believe and started dating my house mate. \n And now my house mate, her, her ex, her brother and a bunch of other people all like to offer me empty death threats...","Summary: I think cockblocking yourself is pretty damn impressive.\n\nPost: Whilst I was at work in December, my so-called-friends hacked my Facebook and started chatting up a friend of mine whilst pretending to be me. They even set up a date with her.... \n I checked my phone during my break to find I had messenger notifications and was apparently mid-conversation so without reading what was going on I just commented \"Um guys, if you could please get off my Facebook and stop fraping me, that'd be great. Sorry [Insert her name here].\"","Summary: By me applying for a job my ex (The girl I love) gets laid.\n\nPost: I applied for a job with an agency and got a shift at a fire work display down in London. \n That day, I got chatting to a girl and we texted after. I kind of liked her but she had a boyfriend so I did nothing. \n He got pissed off that she kept talking to me, they had a massive row and broke up because of it. \n He moved out and another guy took his room as he was moving back to town. \n Well he hadn't been out in town in over a year as he was only just moving back. First night out in town he meets a girl and they start sort-of dating. \n . \n . \n . \n Now that isn't a biggy but... So me and Job-Girl are hanging out one night with her two house mates and they are talking about this girl he is dating. The description seemed familiar so I asked about her...","Summary: Yes. She tried to kill me.\n\nPost: Guy here and I definitely do... \n I dated a girl for about 3 months but I wasn't in love with her so she left me and got back with her ex. Except we continued to sleep together when drunk... He found out and broke up with her so she tried to kill herself because of me. She then started dating my new housemate to get back at me. He moved her in to MY house without asking me. I said she had to go, she physically attacked me and was throttling me for about 30 seconds before she was pulled off.","Summary: The day before I would have killed myself, I met a girl who liked me and this saved my life. I then took advantage of her, ruined her life and saving my life nearly took hers. That is my \"We cannot have sex anymore\" moment. \n She is much better now.\n\nPost: The day I realised the details of what had happened. \n 1 - I had a bad break up that put me in a downward spiral. \n 2 - At my lowest point, I had a 1 night stand with a girl which made me feel good about myself for the first time in 6 months and let a rebound-relationship blossom. I let her fall in love with me \n 3 - I realised I had no feelings for her but still loved my ex and broke it off but we continued to sleep together. \n 4 - Her need for a relationship sent her back to her ex. My need for someone to be there other than Mr J. Daniels meant I played with her heart and we continued to sleep together. \n 5 - This made her relationship fall apart again and because of me she tried to kill herself. This is when I realised I needed to stop playing with her heart in order to save my own.","Summary: I need to move. (Which I am doing in 18 days).\n\nPost: Personally. mine is like this because I am clinically and severely depressed. I get home from work and crawl in to my bed. Only when I get too warm do I remove layers and they just get kicked out from under the covers and lie where they fall. I drink beers and I eat junk food. The empty can/bottle/packet is dropped or sometimes thrown in the direction of the bin. It lies where it falls. The smell in my room is mainly stale beer in the bottom of the empties plus the smell of sweaty clothes. If I do not have work for a few days, I will not get out of bed unless I am buying more beers. And you can drink a lot of beer and eat a lot of junk in 3 days. I do not have many pots in my room but when I do have them, they stay in my room for the same reason that I rarely cook to create pots. The same reason I don't take the bin out... My housemate always has friends round who cause me a massive amount of social anxiety due to them being a bunch of twats so I do not go into the living room or kitchen (open plan) in order to avoid them. This means I cannot cook, wash up or take the bins out (Bins are at the back). I am saved by the fact that the front door is directly into my bedroom so I always use this door.","Summary: Karma is a magnificent and beautiful bitch.\n\nPost: I was working on a large project with these two guys. Myself and one other are engineering Masters students and the third guy was a third year. He was using the project for his project/dissertation but left the work to the last minute. Me and the other guy has pulled a couple of strings to get him on the project as well. I was kind of annoyed that he did not have anything to show for the last 6 months where I had been giving him my completed sections for him to work off where needed but either way I spent a couple of weeks solid doing extra work on it to help him out and pulled a couple of sickies at work in order to make sure things were alright. In this time he took a couple of days off to go mountain biking but got pissy about the evening shifts I did at work. When he did hand it in I had a look and the first thing I noticed was that only the other guy (who had refused to help) was mentioned in the acknowledgements and not me. The thing that everyone noticed was that the only work in there was the stuff I had done. The only thing this guy had done was write it up as if it was his work. \n And as for the conclusion, well it read something like this. \n >\"Unfortunately, no further work on this project could be completed due to [RikM] failing to carry out any work on his section which meant that this part could not be started.\" \n I spoke to the lecturer about this and the third year was given the weekend to resubmit it with references or get done for plagiarism (They wanted to be lenient as it was the final submission). He was then told that there really was no point in him submitting it if the only stuff worth marking was referenced to someone on a different course.","Summary: Don't drink home brew wine.\n\nPost: I came out of a long term relationship and reacted badly. Mainly just got wankered and morose. I got drunk on home brew wine slept with the wrong girl. Repeatedly. She fell in love with me and decided we were dating even though we had agreed not to. So we dated but the love was only one way. She loved me. I did not love her. She knew this and got back with her ex whilst still dating me as she needed someone who lived her even if she didn't love them. I found out and we broke up. We carried on banging. I stopped the banging so she told him about it. He dumped her. She blamed be and tried to kill herself. Including one night where she attacked me with a razor. I saved her life. She was fine with me for a bit then decided to get back at me. She started dating my house mate and told everyone I tried to get her to jump off a bridge and a bunch of other sit that want true. Everyone believed her and focused their attention on ruining my life. A lot of my stuff got smashed. One night the house mate had the ex's brothers and the ex's ex to stay too beat me up. I slept in the park. A lot more of my stuff got broken. No one was talking to me. I became suicidally depressed and stopped eating. I wanted to die and could barely get out of bed. Ended up dropping out of my master's degree and giving up the amazing project I was on because I felt so suffocatingly broken. I barely ever slept and I didn't as much time as possible out of the house but without any friends left I spent my nights on a park bench with a crate of beer trying to read a book. House mate moved the ex in. I kicked her out. She tried to kill me again. I got worse. Finally got into a position where I could move out though and things got better.","Summary: FUCK YOU HATERS!\n\nPost: IQ of 75 after a bad head injury at the age of 11. \n Throughout school all of my \"friends\" and teachers (including the brother of a popular Mercedes F1 mechanic) said I would never get anywhere or accomplish my dream of getting a degree in engineering (motorsport to be precise). At the age of 21 I had my first (I plan on more) journal paper published and it featured in an international conference.","Summary: He is a twat and he is now fucked.\n\nPost: Okay, story time. By request. \n Myself and a friend (let's call him Jeff) have been working on a project as part of a masters degree and after a guy on the year below us (let's call him Trevor) had his final year project fall through just before Christmas, we invited him to join us. Due to what we are working on and programs that we need to use, although we each have our own sections, it is relatively intertwined. As I am the only one with experience on a particular program, I had to convert some scan data into a CAD model which happened to be the starting point for his project. He has had this model since the start of January and at the time assured me that it was exactly as required and worked in the package he needed. At the end of April (7 days before his deadline) it became apparent that he had not yet opened the model and that there was an unforeseen issue. This may have been due to him deleting files without checking what they were. At this point, he used this as an excuse to get an extension despite not having done any work until this day. \n He then decided that another analysis was necessary. Incidentally this is something I had been working on in November until we scrapped it. He demanded that I do it again and so I did. Causing me to take time away from the model I was working on (again the scan program that only I can use). This latest model is mainly unrelated to his project (although it would have been relevant if he had spent enough time on it as a final stage.) So once I had completed the analysis I went back to the model and he started demanding that it was this latest model which was holding him up. Ironically he only required the basic version I had completed before doing the analysis for him where as I then went back to get a finalised and more complex model. I even skipped days from work to get the stuff completed for him. During these days whilst I was doing this, he was playing with his mountain bike instead of working. \n So, he handed it in last Monday and later myself and \"Jeff\" had a flick through it to find it went something like this. \n \n I would like to acknowledge [lecturers] and Jeff for assistance with this project. (No mention of me.) \n \n A collection of images belonging to Jeff but unreferenced. \n \n The first model I did with unreferenced images of it. And a comment stating that this model was unsuitable as I had not done it correctly (he didn't find the issue until he opened it 5 months later.) \n \n A bullshit complaint about how I had not completed the second model (that he did not need) in time. \n \n The analysis I had carried out but described as if he had done it and the images were not referenced to me. \n \n A conclusion stating that he could not complete the assignment because I had not done any work. \n \n \n So me and Jeff went to talk to his marking tutor who has given him the following choice; reference all work not belonging to him (which means he has nothing to be marked on) or be done for plagiarism (which can be verified by checking the file properties for the author)"],"string":"[\n \"Summary: From what I remember of myself before, I have definitely changed, but I was too young to know for sure.\\n\\nPost: When I was 10 I had a fight with a brick wall. \\n I was never a musical prodigy but I could pretty much get a tune out of any musical instrument, sang in the school choir and always got decent roles in the school plays. (Although some of that may be the exaggerations of memorising childhood). But then pretty much over night, I stopped getting the big bits in the choir or plays and slowly realised I now had NO rhythm. In the knock, I must of hit whichever bit of the brain it is that affects timing and co-ordination. I also started needing glasses not too long after that. Around the same time, I started losing friends as I became extremely annoying: and that seemed to be pretty much over night. \\n Now, 11 years on, and potentially unconnected (but I can't help but think it probably is connected - Occum's razor and all that) I find my memory is crap, my ears are going, I get confused easier than I should and regularly get a bad case of can't-be-arsed. My IQ is 75 but in terms of academic stuff, I fair rather well and generally get good grades. I just got a 2:1 degree in engineering.\",\n \"Summary: Went scuba diving with a leaky tank. Ran out of air, got hit by a boat, got trapped underneath the boat and nearly drown.\\n\\nPost: July 22nd 2009. I was 17 in Mozambique. I was scuba diving with a leaky tank which had a faulty gauge. So I didn't know it was empty until I took a breath and nothing came out. I went up, and waved for the boat to come over. It wasn't the best of weather so the waves were quite big making it difficult to get a breath with the weight belt pulling me down and no air from the tank to put in to the BCD. And with the waves, it was pretty difficult to get air into it manually. So, as the boat came over and stopped, a wave picked it up and dropped it pretty much on my head. The wave covered me so it wasn't too bad of a drop but I definitely still felt it come down on my head and push me under. So I was then pretty much trapped underneath the boat with the way the current was sucking me. I did manage to drop the weight belt though I was pretty convinced that was it. \\n Whilst I was still coughing up part of the Indian Ocean, all the skipper could do was yell and swear at me for losing the weight belt for which I owed him 400rand. He didn't seem too bothered about running me over. \\n And about 10 minutes later, one of the girls came up a little too fast and gave herself a nose bleed. As we had seen a shark the day before she became convinced one would turn up and started to have a panic attack which set her asthma off. I imagine she was pretty terrified having an asthma attack 20 or so metres from the boat off the coast of Mozambique. Luckily a few of the others that had already come up could go and help her out. I would have but as you can imagine, I wasn't in the best state. \\n I have been completely claustrophobic after that (if you know what the connection is then please ELI5) and cannot get in lifts or go on the Tube but I was determined to not stop scuba diving so when I was back in England I went Scuba Diving in an old quarry. Being England it was a little cold and I managed to get hypothermia. Still want to try scuba again though. But maybe without the whole drowning or freezing. \\n EDIT.\",\n \"Summary: People are dicks.\\n\\nPost: A couple of years ago I was cycling through Derby, U.K., and saw a bloke jogging get something out of his pocket and drop his phone. He didn't notice so I stopped and picked it up to cycle down to where he was by now. I caught him up and held it out to him. He called me a thief and offered to floor me if I ever touch his stuff again.\",\n \"Summary: Those I live with, those dating those I live with and those who are friends with those I live with all massively hate me because of things the girls have said about me. And the best way to operate is to pretend to have made everything up. YAY.\\n\\nPost: I live with two guys. \\n It got out that the girlfriend of A told me something which A was not meant to know. So she told him I made it up and everyone believes this - I am leaving them to believe this despite the shit that it is getting me into because if I do tell the truth, that will be the end of their relationship and everyone will blame me. So a lot of people are pissed at me. \\n Meanwhile, a few months ago, something kicked off big time with the girl who is now dating B. She has been telling a lot of people an especially contorted version of events which is making me look especially crap (She seems to believe this version happened but does not have the best history of mental health). I have been leaving them to believe this because it is far better for her if the true version of events don't get out. Lets just say I will be able to deal with the shit far more than she could. However, I turned around yesterday after too many weeks of comments about this and just said that things didn't happen how they have been told. This was mentioned to B who mentioned it to his girlfriend. Now I am getting death threats for throwing doubt on what she says happened. And everyone else is instantly on her side of things because I really think it is better for her if I keep the true events to myself. They are that bad. \\n To add to it, A and B met these girls because I almost dated one and did date the other. So now I spend my days hiding away. Fun times.\",\n \"Summary: It is like falling asleep on the bus.\\n\\nPost: Scuba diving went tits up when my tank had an unnoticed slow leak so I went up doing the correct thing after I found the leak... by finding their was no air left in my tank. (The pressure needle had jammed as well). So as I went up, I found that the whether had turned. Strong current and the surface was pretty choppy. I signalled for the boat and that is when it landed on my head. Between that, the current and the weight of everything, I became trapped under the boat. I started to panic then I just accepted my fate. \\n It was like falling asleep when you try your best not to. You feel your eyelids get heavy and they keep trying to close. You keep trying to keep them open. And then you wake up and you are not entirely sure if you did sleep or not except time has clearly past and you are in a different place or the credits are rolling of the film you were watching...\",\n \"Summary: You have not ruined your life or hers. Things may seem bad now but if you are there for her, people will be there for you.\\n\\nPost: A friend of mine had a child at the age of 17 with his ex. From a particularly religious family and a strict church, things should have been it for him but they weren't. The love of his life who he had started dating (he didn't know about the pregnancy for about 3 months) was banned from seeing him (her family were also from the same church) and members of his family wouldn't talk to him for a while. But he muddled through, found people to talk to and worked things out. The people that had begun to disown him grew greater respect for him than before when they saw how he stood by the girl who had lied to him. He didn't ruin his life but put it on hold when she or the baby needed him. One month ago he married the love of his life, his (now 4yo) son was one of the page boys and things are only improving for him. \\n Remember the old cliche - having a child is a gift. Yes, maybe you feel too young for that now but there is nothing here to stop you from having the life you have always planned. \\n And as for the car stealing. I don't know the laws in the US but I understand that after a couple of years, any driving offence will not count anyway. \\n (Excuse the side track) There is an old joke about Kimi Raikkonen \\n \\n Is there a problem? No - Then there is nothing to worry about. \\n \\n Yes. Is there anything you can do about it to solve it? Yes - Then there is nothing to worry about. \\n \\n No - Then there is no point worrying.\",\n \"Summary: James Bond shit followed by a weird Psycho/Texas Chainsaw Massacre/Wrong Turn/Chucky mashup set in England.\\n\\nPost: I don't massively remember the first part but it features me being naked a lot and getting the girl after a bit of world saving. So we are then going for a drive (now fully clothed) and end up at a middle-of-nowhere motel. The sort where no one in the small town wants you \\\"city folk\\\" there: This is properly back woods America type stuff... except in the peak district (UK). So a group of us staying at the motel go to the pub and find no one likes our presence and we can have one drink quickly but then must leave. On the way back to the motel one out two people are caught and killed and when we get back to the motel someone else is killed in the shower. We then find that all the cars have been sabotaged with tires slashed and the fuel line cut. \\n So we flee into the woods and any stragglers are picked off; by this point we have also been joined by the Chucky Doll. It turns out that two of the group are under-cover agents for the rednecks. These rednecks are also really intent on getting my iPod (Which I think was also connected to the saving the world stuff) Unfortunately, my mate decided to ring me just after I had slit the throat of one of the double agents and as I stabbed Chucky in the eye. \\n EDIT I:\",\n \"Summary: I need new friends. \\n EDIT: To paraphrase: Apparently, if someone nearly killed themselves over something, a fun joke is to rub their face in it and remind them of it constantly so they get all depressed and go back into that same dark place they were before...\\n\\nPost: Well there was a break up which did not go well; for four months I drank constantly and ate the best part of nothing, I barely slept and actually tried to kill myself. I still take it hard if I hear her name and end up thinking of her when people even just mention her home country. So a popular joke is to set things up so I will have to think of her. Someone I know had a one night stand with her last week so they stole my hard drive and replaced all the documents on it with ones about her and him doing the deed. They also hacked my Facebook to post jokes about that. You know; for shits and giggles.\",\n \"Summary: By me applying for a job my ex (The girl I love) gets laid.\\n\\nPost: I applied for a job with an agency and got a shift at a fire work display down in London. \\n That day, I got chatting to a girl and we texted after. I kind of liked her but she had a boyfriend so I did nothing. \\n He got pissed off that she kept talking to me, they had a massive row and broke up because of it. \\n He moved out and another guy took his room as he was moving back to town. \\n Well he hadn't been out in town in over a year as he was only just moving back. First night out in town he meets a girl and they start sort-of dating. \\n . \\n . \\n . \\n Now that isn't a biggy but... So me and Job-Girl are hanging out one night with her two house mates and they are talking about this girl he is dating. The description seemed familiar so I asked about her...\",\n \"Summary: Drowning = not fun.\\n\\nPost: Scuba diving in the Indian Ocean once went very wrong when I had a faulty tank. I came up and signalled for the boat. The weight belt was dragging me down along with a bad current and swell so I couldn't get the air to inflate my BCD manually (My tank had leaked all the air out, and I hadn't noticed due to the needle being stuck, so I couldn't use that). The swell then picked the boat up as it arrived, and dropped it on my head. So between the current, the weight belt and the fact I had just been hit on the head, I ended up getting stuck underneath the boat long enough to take an unwanted drink.\",\n \"Summary: When you are willing and \\\"happy\\\" to go through the worst pain and suffering imaginable if it makes them happy.\\n\\nPost: I hate to put the downer in here but in my experience you don't know for sure until it is too late. (Apologies for the cliche) I always knew I loved her but not by how much until it was over. When you know you will never see that person again and every thought and heart beat is accompanied by the pain of losing them. Yet strangely you don't care about how much pain you are in as long as they are happy.\",\n \"Summary: It is like falling asleep in a car or on the bus. You notice you are nodding off and try pointlessly not to. Then you wake up and you are not actually sure if you did, or didn't, fall asleep until you realise you and everyone else are in a different place/position to \\\"a second\\\" earlier.\\n\\nPost: Granted, it isn't legally dead and my lack of a pulse cannot have been for more than a second or two; well I am told I wasn't breathing when I was pulled back into the boat. \\n In my experience though, it is weirdly unnoticeable. I remember thinking \\\"Oh fuck...\\\" and things being strangely peaceful. Did my life pass before my eyes? I don't know. And then my lungs heart and I was regurgitating the Indian Ocean. Of course I noticed this pain, and the though process but I didn't notice the bit in the middle; I jumped from 1 moment to the next, sort of like falling a sleep in a car journey. It was about an hour later when I was told I hadn't been breathing and they couldn't feel a pulse until I got whacked in the chest. \\n It was about 10 hours later when I had a strangely surreal moment of \\\"Well shit, I am damn lucky to be alive right now as I drown this morning and here I am eating garlic bread.\\\" But it isn't like there has been any major affect on my life, although I think I am a little more careful about my own well being... maybe.\",\n \"Summary: You never know when bad shit can go good and I am always here to listen. \\n Good luck to you.\\n\\nPost: Hi, I want to tell you a story. (If you don't want to read all that, then feel free just to skip to The Point .) \\n When I was your age I hated my life, I was probably above average at school but I once had a bad head injury when I was about 12 so I am about as socially able as a broom handle (thanks to that injury, I have lost my rhythm and coordination which ruined my ability at my first love; music. Overnight, I got kicked off the school choir and orchestra). And a weak kid with zero social skill gets shit, and I am sure you know what that feels like. I found a way to get \\\"protection\\\". You see the \\\"prison bitch\\\" in films, well lets use that as a metaphor. I attached myself to a group who I felt comfortable around, the sort of people who don't give people shit, a mix of emo rockers (my kind of music) and the quiet, unassuming intellects of the year who somehow had found a way to attain popularity as well. I was not popular and only ever got pity invites but if I was with people, everyone else gave me less shit. Unfortunately, this meant I had to put up with a little too much \\\"banter\\\". This is why I always give banter back. It wasn't a great time but it reduced the bullying although I cannot possibly explain how much shit I went through, but I can assume that you will be able to take a good guess. \\n As a result of this, I did once try to kill myself when I was about your age (14) but I didn't swallow enough pills and did nothing more than oversleep. I cannot possibly begin to explain how glad I am I survived. I survived but I wish I had not tried. As high school became sixth form (16-18) the worst people left and I started to learn how to act around people. I still got the pity invite but more people began to accept me.At 18, I got into university (so much doubt, even from teachers, that I would get there but I did). So, I moved away and distanced myself from the haters. I made friends and felt honestly included for the first time in my life. I met a girl and fell in love. I even got involved in a project in my dream career which has already hit the headlines. So that is something to be proud of. \\n Unfortunately, the story doesn't end there. When I was 20, my heart broke and I didn't know how to cope. I tried to run away and left everyone who cares. And now, 2 weeks from my 22nd birthday I am in a bad place. I am inches from failing my masters degree (I almost failed my bachelors but good shit happened and I saved it at the last minute. I ended up being in the top 10 from my course. So shit may go good again for me). I have considered killing myself. I have stood on the edge of a bridge and held a knife to my wrists but one thought saved my life everytime. And that is the point of me telling you all this. \\n THE POINT \\n Kids in school are arseholes. They just want to be liked and the only way they know how is to make others suffer. It is something so many of us have to struggle with but you are not long from leaving these people behind and meeting new, like minded, people. \\n When you are in school you are expected to know exactly what you want to do and be on your way to your dream career but not only is that a scary though but it is rare that A 16 year old knows what they want to do for the next 50 years. The amount of people anyone will ever see drop out of uni because they don't actually like what they thought they wanted to do is amazing. So do not worry if you haven't found your path yet. You will soon find something that you enjoy and are good at. (And if you enjoy something but are not yet good at it, then work at it.) \\n THE FINAL POINT \\n Most people live 'til they have passed 70 which means you are 20% through your life. Look at everything that has happened to me in the space of 7 years. Things change so quickly if you let them, sometimes for the better and sometimes for the worse. But if thins went so well for me once, then it is bound to happen again sooner or later. And if that happens to me, then why can it not happen to anyone else? It will happen but you just need to display patience. I am sure that sooner or later it will all be worth it. \\n I have a crappy job pot washing and people ask why I do it and work masses of overtime to make sure everything is spotless. Well, I put the time in because I need the money to pay for my degree to get me out of here and get me where I want to be. And when I am there, every single dirty plate will have been worth it. \\n They say life is short but so much can happen in even just a single year. and you are just not far enough in to experience it yet. You have only really been concious of life for maybe 5 years. This is too soon to judge what will happen. \\n Analogy time: Do you watch Formula 1? Drivers turn up at the first race in the worst car on the grid. Every race, Marussia and Caterham put a car there that cannot possibly keep up with Red Bull or Mercedes... but one day the conditions will be right and they will win. There was a famous race in Canada in 2010 when Jenson Button went from last place and won. At the end of 2008, Button did not have a team or a car. Weeks before the Australian GP of 2009, he was given a drive. They turned up at the first race without having done any testing and he became the 2009 world champion. What if he had given up in 2008? You never know what will happen but you just need to keep your foot down. \\n And Finally: So to finish this essay, I can definitely empathise with how you feel and if my life is anything to go by, then it is too soon to give up on yours. If you ever need anyone to talk to, I am just a PM away. I am online most days so you will get a reply pretty quickly (even if it is just to say that I have seen it and will reply properly later that day). Any issue you have, I am happy to listen. Hell, I will even try and help you with your homework if it is something I know about.\",\n \"Summary: I'm still alive, must have been a miracle.\\n\\nPost: I know it seems silly but not being dead. \\n A year ago I would have told you it was getting onto the project I had joined (I was involved in the aerodynamics for a land speed motorcycle but I ended up having to give it up for the same reasons as not being dead. \\n May 2012 So 2 and a bit years ago the love of my life, J, left me and it was my fault. We tried to stay on good terms but I wasn't getting over her so she started to cut ties with me. And in time, I ended up cutting ties with mutual friends of hers so I would stop hearing about or seeing pictures of her. \\n October 2012 I took a few dozen paracetamol and downed a bottle of whiskey. Drank it too fast and threw everything back up. \\n December 2012 I was not doing well. I was just spending my days waking up at about 2pm and sitting in my boxers playing CoD: Zombies whilst drinking beer and eating crisps (at this point my greatest achievement was getting to round 32 on solo on Kino). My uni grades went from a first to a third. Anyways I ended up getting drunk with my house mate's friend, L, and having a one night stand. As we were both feeling pretty lonely due to losing friends (and I was also feeling quite broken and depressed) we hit it off and got pretty close but I made a point all along that I wasn't in a position for a relationship. \\n March 2013 We had started dating (but also not properly dating due to my being adamant about not being over J) and L said she was in love with me. As I could not say it back she left me and got back with her ex (but didn't tell me this for a while). By the time I found out she had been cheating on him with me (and also on me with him), for quite a while so I just let it carry on because she swore it was fine (Also I was still low but had started doing a lot better at my degree grades and did not want to go back to CoD.). \\n Summer 2013 L keeps having mood swings and that girl has a temper. She would be fine with me and then suddenly have a temper fit swearing that she only wanted me and would do whatever I asked. More than once she threatened to kill herself. By this point I had stopped sleeping with her due to the whole her having a boyfriend thing. On a side note I dragged my grades back up and got a 2:1, missing a first by only 2%. Also, I had been asked to join one hell of a project (the land speed thing). \\n September/October 2013 Her ex/current boyfriend found out and was not happy so broke up with her. She keeps trying to get back with me but I know it is a bad idea. One night she drinks a bottle of vodka, takes a shit load of PCP, flips out and starts screaming about how no one cares. I tell her that I care but she asks why I don't love her and I said I do. She then said that I am lying because I am not in love with her so I tried to tell her that I may not be in love with her but I do love her. At this point she swipes at me with the Stanley blade she had been threatening to cut herself with but it caught on my tshirt and that stopped me having a serious cut. She then sprinted off to the bridge and I caught her as she was half way over, pulling her back. \\n November 2013 She has this bright idea to start dating my new house mate in order to get back at me. As he has the same friends as me, she then befriends them (she never liked them before) and starts telling them all sorts of shit about me such as \\\"the time I told her that no one could ever love her and that she should just cut herself with a knife or jump off the bridge\\\" (and no, I definitely never said that). So they began hating me and intentionally causing me shit because of what they thought I did. Including the guy I was doing the project with. \\n December 2013 My house mate, D, is truly hating me for what he thinks I did to his girlfriend so he invites her ex boyfriend and 2 of her brothers to stay for a week in my house (and these guys are rough). I got home from work and when they heard me come in they started screaming all sorts of shit about how they would break every bone in my body (and so on). (The way my house was, the front door opens straight into my bedroom so the main access was at the back) After this I left. I told people that I had slept on a sofa at work but I actually spent the next 6 nights just sleeping in the local park. \\n January 2014 Things are getting worse and worse with everyone. On the bright side I met a girl through work and we were sort of seeing each other. Then her housemate was telling me about this girl he was seeing and she sounded very familiar... turns out it was J... it later turned out that it was my fault that he had gone to that particular club on that particular night and met her. When he found out I still had feelings for J he flipped out and banned me from the house. And then seeing this new girl, V, sort of went to shit; especially when the next attempt at a date involved me bumping into one of mine and J's old friends (hadn't seen him in over a year)... V is now dating him. \\n February 2014 I am back to my old ways and spending as much time as possible away from anyone. I am sleeping maybe every third night, eating only when at work in order to keep up appearances (also at work I was away from the others so felt a little better) and getting wasted when not at work. I was also spending as much time as possible not in the house because D had moved L in whilst A (the other house mate) always had his friends round (the people that thoughtI had told L to kill herself). \\n March 2014 I don't know how many pills I took but it wasn't enough. \\n April 2014 So I was trying to make myself feel better with distraction and stuff and I sort of was because I had a new place as well as finding some new friends to hang out with (through work). I also had gotten back in touch with some friends who lived in the next city so I had somewhere to spend weekends away. The uni lot were also slowly starting to realise they had been fucked over. Except for one of them - K. This guy is an arsehole. He was in the last year of his bachelors whilst me and the other guy were on our masters and after his third year dissertation/project (with a pretty famous guy in the drag racing world) fell through (though it later turned out that K had just not bothered to do anything then fucked the famous bloke over and blamed him) we got him on to our project. He did no work then as the deadline approached he bullied me in to doing shit loads of his work for him. I pulled sickies from work and spent 12 hours a day doing it for him (it seemed logical because when I had argued I was pinned to a wall) whilst he went mountain biking or played video games. He then handed in my work with the sentence \\\"This project could not be completed as [RikM] did not do his share of the work\\\". \\n 20th June 2014 I moved out. Fantastic. \\n \\n L moved in to my old room and is still fucking over D who is now fully supporting her. Their shared monthly bills are over £600 whilst he earns £320. \\n D failed his degree \\n A also failed his degree and is stuck living with L and D. Him and his friends have since realised what went on and are making a point of inconveniencing L. After I moved out the friends had served their purpose to her so L stopped talking to them and banned A from having any friends in the house. He ignored her and they are not making a point of always being there. \\n V is still dating that old mate of mine but I talk to him again these days. \\n J is talking to me again and is not dating that guy. \\n And me? Well I am not dead, I eat every day, sleep every night, only get drunk when socialising and I am no longer severely depressed. So I have got that going for me, which is nice. \\n And that folks, is why not being dead is my greatest achievement.\",\n \"Summary: Hipster Yorkshireman here.\\n\\nPost: I know this post is old but anyway. \\n I do not know how I feel about this guy steeling my thunder... for years I have been dressing up for Halloween wearing a Flat cap, wellies, marrigolds, a white T'shirt with a Y on it and a Yorkshire flag cape. \\n EDIT;\",\n \"Summary: This London-hating claustrophobic's favourite day of all time was spent riding the tube around London. Lend me the keys to your TARDIS please.\\n\\nPost: April 2012. I do not know the date but it is the most amazing day I have ever had and I spent it with my SO of the time. \\n Things you need to know; I dislike big cities and get panic attacks in massive crowds or on a tube train due to my claustrophobia (which I had at the time). \\n We travelled down to London early in the morning for her to attend an important meeting. We then spent the afternoon enjoying one of the first hot days of the year. We arrived in London with about £25 to our shared name and spent a fair share of that on the day pass for the tube. We went round London and visited all the usual stops in areas 1 and 2 of the tube line (Camden, Picadilly and all the rest). We spent what we had of our pennies on cheap food and drink and my favourite part of the day was spent laying buy the river at Camden Market. Just enjoy the sunshine and each others company.\",\n \"Summary: I think that the phrase really means that if you cheat once everyone else will be less likely to trust you again.\\n\\nPost: I think that the phrase says less about you and more about peoples perception. Yeah you will change and maybe you only ever cheated once but everyone will remember the time you were caught for it. There was a guy I was at uni with, a really sound guy, and he got caught cheating in an exam in the most unfortunate way ever; for lectures he wrote equations on the lid of his calculator and accidentally took the lid into the exam. Despite it being an accident and it being caught before the exam started, so he couldn't cheat, he is forever known as that guy who cheated.\",\n \"Summary: I applied for a job and everyone wants to kill me.\\n\\nPost: Well potentially this is actually a humongously significant decision but things still panned out massively different to expected. \\n I applied for an intern-ship for Rolls Royce Motorcars. \\n The fact that I would be moving away caused the love of my life to leave me. \\n In an attempt to save things, I cancelled my application (which was going pretty well) and told her that I had been declined. But still we broke up. We tried to be friends but that didn't work out and she soon told me were to go. \\n This tipped me into a spiral of depression, booze and anorexia. \\n I had a drunken 1 night stand with a friend who actually really liked me and told me that she \\\"would wait til the end of time for me\\\". I was in a shitty place so stupidly let things go too far and we dated. \\n I identified that I was only doing this for the comfort of a human being and ended things. But we continued to sleep together. \\n She got back with her ex and still we slept together. \\n I called the sleeping together off. Shortly before she broke up with her ex again and had a bit of a break down. \\n She then spread a particularly slanderous story about me which she seems to believe and started dating my house mate. \\n And now my house mate, her, her ex, her brother and a bunch of other people all like to offer me empty death threats...\",\n \"Summary: I think cockblocking yourself is pretty damn impressive.\\n\\nPost: Whilst I was at work in December, my so-called-friends hacked my Facebook and started chatting up a friend of mine whilst pretending to be me. They even set up a date with her.... \\n I checked my phone during my break to find I had messenger notifications and was apparently mid-conversation so without reading what was going on I just commented \\\"Um guys, if you could please get off my Facebook and stop fraping me, that'd be great. Sorry [Insert her name here].\\\"\",\n \"Summary: By me applying for a job my ex (The girl I love) gets laid.\\n\\nPost: I applied for a job with an agency and got a shift at a fire work display down in London. \\n That day, I got chatting to a girl and we texted after. I kind of liked her but she had a boyfriend so I did nothing. \\n He got pissed off that she kept talking to me, they had a massive row and broke up because of it. \\n He moved out and another guy took his room as he was moving back to town. \\n Well he hadn't been out in town in over a year as he was only just moving back. First night out in town he meets a girl and they start sort-of dating. \\n . \\n . \\n . \\n Now that isn't a biggy but... So me and Job-Girl are hanging out one night with her two house mates and they are talking about this girl he is dating. The description seemed familiar so I asked about her...\",\n \"Summary: Yes. She tried to kill me.\\n\\nPost: Guy here and I definitely do... \\n I dated a girl for about 3 months but I wasn't in love with her so she left me and got back with her ex. Except we continued to sleep together when drunk... He found out and broke up with her so she tried to kill herself because of me. She then started dating my new housemate to get back at me. He moved her in to MY house without asking me. I said she had to go, she physically attacked me and was throttling me for about 30 seconds before she was pulled off.\",\n \"Summary: The day before I would have killed myself, I met a girl who liked me and this saved my life. I then took advantage of her, ruined her life and saving my life nearly took hers. That is my \\\"We cannot have sex anymore\\\" moment. \\n She is much better now.\\n\\nPost: The day I realised the details of what had happened. \\n 1 - I had a bad break up that put me in a downward spiral. \\n 2 - At my lowest point, I had a 1 night stand with a girl which made me feel good about myself for the first time in 6 months and let a rebound-relationship blossom. I let her fall in love with me \\n 3 - I realised I had no feelings for her but still loved my ex and broke it off but we continued to sleep together. \\n 4 - Her need for a relationship sent her back to her ex. My need for someone to be there other than Mr J. Daniels meant I played with her heart and we continued to sleep together. \\n 5 - This made her relationship fall apart again and because of me she tried to kill herself. This is when I realised I needed to stop playing with her heart in order to save my own.\",\n \"Summary: I need to move. (Which I am doing in 18 days).\\n\\nPost: Personally. mine is like this because I am clinically and severely depressed. I get home from work and crawl in to my bed. Only when I get too warm do I remove layers and they just get kicked out from under the covers and lie where they fall. I drink beers and I eat junk food. The empty can/bottle/packet is dropped or sometimes thrown in the direction of the bin. It lies where it falls. The smell in my room is mainly stale beer in the bottom of the empties plus the smell of sweaty clothes. If I do not have work for a few days, I will not get out of bed unless I am buying more beers. And you can drink a lot of beer and eat a lot of junk in 3 days. I do not have many pots in my room but when I do have them, they stay in my room for the same reason that I rarely cook to create pots. The same reason I don't take the bin out... My housemate always has friends round who cause me a massive amount of social anxiety due to them being a bunch of twats so I do not go into the living room or kitchen (open plan) in order to avoid them. This means I cannot cook, wash up or take the bins out (Bins are at the back). I am saved by the fact that the front door is directly into my bedroom so I always use this door.\",\n \"Summary: Karma is a magnificent and beautiful bitch.\\n\\nPost: I was working on a large project with these two guys. Myself and one other are engineering Masters students and the third guy was a third year. He was using the project for his project/dissertation but left the work to the last minute. Me and the other guy has pulled a couple of strings to get him on the project as well. I was kind of annoyed that he did not have anything to show for the last 6 months where I had been giving him my completed sections for him to work off where needed but either way I spent a couple of weeks solid doing extra work on it to help him out and pulled a couple of sickies at work in order to make sure things were alright. In this time he took a couple of days off to go mountain biking but got pissy about the evening shifts I did at work. When he did hand it in I had a look and the first thing I noticed was that only the other guy (who had refused to help) was mentioned in the acknowledgements and not me. The thing that everyone noticed was that the only work in there was the stuff I had done. The only thing this guy had done was write it up as if it was his work. \\n And as for the conclusion, well it read something like this. \\n >\\\"Unfortunately, no further work on this project could be completed due to [RikM] failing to carry out any work on his section which meant that this part could not be started.\\\" \\n I spoke to the lecturer about this and the third year was given the weekend to resubmit it with references or get done for plagiarism (They wanted to be lenient as it was the final submission). He was then told that there really was no point in him submitting it if the only stuff worth marking was referenced to someone on a different course.\",\n \"Summary: Don't drink home brew wine.\\n\\nPost: I came out of a long term relationship and reacted badly. Mainly just got wankered and morose. I got drunk on home brew wine slept with the wrong girl. Repeatedly. She fell in love with me and decided we were dating even though we had agreed not to. So we dated but the love was only one way. She loved me. I did not love her. She knew this and got back with her ex whilst still dating me as she needed someone who lived her even if she didn't love them. I found out and we broke up. We carried on banging. I stopped the banging so she told him about it. He dumped her. She blamed be and tried to kill herself. Including one night where she attacked me with a razor. I saved her life. She was fine with me for a bit then decided to get back at me. She started dating my house mate and told everyone I tried to get her to jump off a bridge and a bunch of other sit that want true. Everyone believed her and focused their attention on ruining my life. A lot of my stuff got smashed. One night the house mate had the ex's brothers and the ex's ex to stay too beat me up. I slept in the park. A lot more of my stuff got broken. No one was talking to me. I became suicidally depressed and stopped eating. I wanted to die and could barely get out of bed. Ended up dropping out of my master's degree and giving up the amazing project I was on because I felt so suffocatingly broken. I barely ever slept and I didn't as much time as possible out of the house but without any friends left I spent my nights on a park bench with a crate of beer trying to read a book. House mate moved the ex in. I kicked her out. She tried to kill me again. I got worse. Finally got into a position where I could move out though and things got better.\",\n \"Summary: FUCK YOU HATERS!\\n\\nPost: IQ of 75 after a bad head injury at the age of 11. \\n Throughout school all of my \\\"friends\\\" and teachers (including the brother of a popular Mercedes F1 mechanic) said I would never get anywhere or accomplish my dream of getting a degree in engineering (motorsport to be precise). At the age of 21 I had my first (I plan on more) journal paper published and it featured in an international conference.\",\n \"Summary: He is a twat and he is now fucked.\\n\\nPost: Okay, story time. By request. \\n Myself and a friend (let's call him Jeff) have been working on a project as part of a masters degree and after a guy on the year below us (let's call him Trevor) had his final year project fall through just before Christmas, we invited him to join us. Due to what we are working on and programs that we need to use, although we each have our own sections, it is relatively intertwined. As I am the only one with experience on a particular program, I had to convert some scan data into a CAD model which happened to be the starting point for his project. He has had this model since the start of January and at the time assured me that it was exactly as required and worked in the package he needed. At the end of April (7 days before his deadline) it became apparent that he had not yet opened the model and that there was an unforeseen issue. This may have been due to him deleting files without checking what they were. At this point, he used this as an excuse to get an extension despite not having done any work until this day. \\n He then decided that another analysis was necessary. Incidentally this is something I had been working on in November until we scrapped it. He demanded that I do it again and so I did. Causing me to take time away from the model I was working on (again the scan program that only I can use). This latest model is mainly unrelated to his project (although it would have been relevant if he had spent enough time on it as a final stage.) So once I had completed the analysis I went back to the model and he started demanding that it was this latest model which was holding him up. Ironically he only required the basic version I had completed before doing the analysis for him where as I then went back to get a finalised and more complex model. I even skipped days from work to get the stuff completed for him. During these days whilst I was doing this, he was playing with his mountain bike instead of working. \\n So, he handed it in last Monday and later myself and \\\"Jeff\\\" had a flick through it to find it went something like this. \\n \\n I would like to acknowledge [lecturers] and Jeff for assistance with this project. (No mention of me.) \\n \\n A collection of images belonging to Jeff but unreferenced. \\n \\n The first model I did with unreferenced images of it. And a comment stating that this model was unsuitable as I had not done it correctly (he didn't find the issue until he opened it 5 months later.) \\n \\n A bullshit complaint about how I had not completed the second model (that he did not need) in time. \\n \\n The analysis I had carried out but described as if he had done it and the images were not referenced to me. \\n \\n A conclusion stating that he could not complete the assignment because I had not done any work. \\n \\n \\n So me and Jeff went to talk to his marking tutor who has given him the following choice; reference all work not belonging to him (which means he has nothing to be marked on) or be done for plagiarism (which can be verified by checking the file properties for the author)\"\n]","isConversational":false},"profile_size":{"kind":"number","value":27,"string":"27"},"task":{"kind":"string","value":"longlamp_4"},"split_kind":{"kind":"string","value":"user_based"},"id":{"kind":"number","value":5393,"string":"5,393"}}},{"rowIdx":5394,"cells":{"question_id":{"kind":"string","value":"lovetosub"},"question":{"kind":"string","value":"Generate the content for a reddit post Lay off the booze, relax, celebrate your victories!"},"answer":{"kind":"string","value":"It sounds like you know what you need to do: cut back on the pre-coital booze. This doesn't mean you can't have any alcohol. A little buzz is fun and can add to the experience, but too much desensitizes. If you want another shot with your lady friend, let her know you had a great time and that you'd like to see her again. (Slipping in the part about waking up with her cant hurt. lol.) This time, lay off the sauce, put all your previous performance issues out of your mind, and see where it takes you. \n There is nothing wrong with enjoying alcohol and porn. I don't think it needs to cast a shadow on your whole sex life. And hey, you brought a woman to orgasm. That is no small feat."},"correct_answer":{"kind":"string","value":"It sounds like you know what you need to do: cut back on the pre-coital booze. This doesn't mean you can't have any alcohol. A little buzz is fun and can add to the experience, but too much desensitizes. If you want another shot with your lady friend, let her know you had a great time and that you'd like to see her again. (Slipping in the part about waking up with her cant hurt. lol.) This time, lay off the sauce, put all your previous performance issues out of your mind, and see where it takes you. \n There is nothing wrong with enjoying alcohol and porn. I don't think it needs to cast a shadow on your whole sex life. And hey, you brought a woman to orgasm. That is no small feat."},"documents":{"kind":"list like","value":["Summary: Communication is the key to success, most rebound relationships shouldn't last forever.\n\nPost: I have two personal experiences with rebound relationships. \n The first one was after my ex had cheated on me. I was young, had a lot of emotional baggage, and didn't know how to deal with it. I became very attached to my rebound bf and those feelings and insecurities kept me in an abusive relationship for three years. \n The second rebound experience was after getting out of the previously mentioned relationship. I have a fantastic FWB that is a mutual rebound relationship. The reason it is going so successfully is communication. We were upfront with what we wanted: sex and companionship. Not another LTR. We also decided that we would part ways as platonic friends when we move away from each other at the end of the summer, no strings attached.","Summary: You need to learn how to balance your needs and wants with your partner's needs and wants, or let him get a new partner who will- whether that means divorce or a gf. Right now the only one being satisfied is you.\n\nPost: I guess I have such a difficult time understanding why it is so if all other factors are satisfying in the relationship. \n Say you have a fancy sports car. It has top of the line parts, a sweet sound system, and a pretty coat of paint. Everything is perfect about it except there's no gas in the tank. You don't mind because you like looking at the car, talking about the car, occasionally giving it a polish. Your husband would love to tear up the highway in the car, or even just run out for milk and eggs, but he can't because there's no gas. It's perfect for you because it suits your needs, except it's not perfect because it doesn't suit his needs too. \n Just because you don't understand why he would ever want to take the sports car out of the garage does not invalidate his need to do so or give you the right to keep him driving his own sad little truck every night.","Summary: I feel your body issues pain. If you are happy without a label, you don't need one. Good luck!\n\nPost: I totally understand where you're coming from, especially the body image part. I (F 23) have a lesbian friend I'm really attracted to, but I can't bring myself to break the ice until I've lost quite a bit of weight. \nMy weight isn't a huge mental issue with my current (M) FWB because he's 5 inches taller than me and has a mature build, but my female friend is the same height as me and probably 70 lbs lighter. \n I understand your uncertainty about labels too. I've recently discovered my attraction to women, so it hasn't come up too much in conversation in a context where a label is necessary. On the few occasions I've brought the subject up with friends, I just tell them \"Hey, I'm thinking of asking xxxxx out when I'm back in town for school this fall. What do you think?\".","Summary: Don't worry about figuring out your whole life today, because it will almost certainly change. Just set a good foundation that gives you options later- do the best you can in all your classes, see a therapist about the depression, find a couple hobbies you enjoy. You're in a tough place right now but you can make something good out of it.\n\nPost: Don't stress about not knowing what you want to do when you're older. I spent all of high school convinced I'd go to college for music and only applied to a handful of music schools. I was crushed when I didn't get in and didn't have a lot of options because I had been so focused on music. A couple months after not getting in, I realized I enjoyed music more as a hobby than a career path. I stumbled into an IT class and 5 years later I'm living the dream as a software engineer. My only regret is that I limited my options straight out of high school.","Summary: skip the pills, put a positive spin on the situation until you believe it.\n\nPost: I would suggest trying therapy before jumping straight to antidepressants. They often kill one's sex drive, which probably won't make you feel much better about your situation. \n My suggestion is to look at the situation as an opportunity to explore something new. You may not feel that way, but if you try to think of it that way, it may cut some of the bitterness. Honestly, circumcised men have been enjoying sex for centuries, so barring a botched surgery, there doesn't seem to be a reason you can't learn to enjoy this new normal, even if it is different from what you're used to.","Summary: Gender expression isn't an \"either or\" option like \"cheese or pepperoni?\" It's a kickass sandwich shop where you can pick and choose whatever fits you .\n\nPost: Cultures take neutral values and warp them into caricatures of the ideal man and woman. These two imaginary, unbalanced, unrealistic personas form the extreme opposite ends of the masc/fem spectrum. People strive to be one of these two poles when either they don't think about how they want to embody their gender or when they don't realize that the ideal human is actually a blend of the best characteristics from extreme femininity and extreme masculinity. \n I think instead of focusing on the stereotypes of masculinity and femininity, you should try focusing on what characteristics you want to embody. None of these things are inherently masculine or feminine, but any of them could be part of your unique expression of masculinity. \n -loyalty\n-integrity\n-treating others with respect\n-providing for/nurturing those who depend on you\n-honesty\n-the ability to express emotion in an appropriate manner\n-responsibility\n-confidence\n-positive self esteem/self image\n-kindness\n-generosity","Summary: Tell her to wait until she finds someone she trusts and can talk to. Then, don't jump right into PIV. Explore each other's bodies and preferences slowly. The sex will come along on its own and it will be way less awkward and more enjoyable.\n\nPost: I (F 23) personally lost mine when I was 19 and don't feel like I missed out at all. From 15-19 I experimented with my ex and had a lot of fun kissing, touching, and exploring each other without PIV sex. I think it's the best way to do it because you build up communication and trust. Granted, in my case that trust was misplaced, but I don't regret the experiences we had together.","Summary: Before trying to pass without hormones, I wouldn't have understood what you meant by \"torture\". Now I do.\n\nPost: Trying to pass without hormones is frustrating. I haven't been correctly gendered by a stranger since I started to try. I blame my round face, eyebrows that are still recovering from years of waxing, and my makeshift binder. I've been reluctant to speak in public as well because if my appearance had anyone wondering about my gender, my voice would remove all doubt. \n I didn't know that you didn't have to make an attempt to pass before getting hormones. I started trying because I thought it would be expected of me when I started therapy and I wanted to make sure being male was what I wanted. It has definitely affirmed that I want to transition, but it also brought on tons of dysphoria that I'd never experienced before. Tuesday night I had a date with a friend/acquaintance whom I hadn't told about the new changes in my life, so I pulled out my female clothes and shaved my legs and underarms. Never have breasts and smooth legs felt so wrong on me. I think I actually mourned the loss of my leg hair a bit, even though I know it will be back.","Summary: Looking for a new haircut pretty much changed my life.\n\nPost: In college instead of high school, but for me it happened when I was looking for a more masculine haircut. I was looking at these photos of guys with awesome hair, beards, and tattoos. All of a sudden, I was struck with the thought, \"I want a beard!\" Upon closer examination of my feelings, I wasn't sure if I was attracted to the men in the photos, or if I wanted to BE one of them.","Summary: Your trans experience and your difficulty vocalizing your motivation to transition are completely valid and understandable. I also I don't think the therapist is a lost cause based on your first encounter. Really work on finding answers to the tough questions. You'll thank yourself later.\n\nPost: I can understand that your therapist wants to know why you want to transition. He'd kind of be a terrible therapist if he didn't ask any questions. He very well could be a terrible gate-keeper therapist like everyone else has mentioned so far, but it sounds to me like you two just had an awkward first session because you didn't know what to expect. \n I can also understand how difficult it can be to explain your gender identity and why you want to transition. I also wasn't seriously depressed and I didn't have the early childhood \"Mom, I'm a boy!\" moment. It's tough to explain gender when everything you were taught growing up isn't the fact it was presented as. \n I think your best bet is to be honest with your therapist. If you lie, your sessions won't be consistent or genuine. That is probably why he thinks there is some other issue going on or that you aren't sure this is what you want. When he asks you a question that you haven't thought of or you can't express an answer to, tell him that you aren't sure how to answer but you'll think about it for next time. And then think about it. \n I'd suggest you do some serious inflecting to be able to better communicate with your therapist and the others in your life who are going to have questions. You want to show him that you are thinking in the long term and you are willing to put in the emotional/mental effort to make this happen. \n Some questions that have helped me articulate my feelings on gender and transition: \n >>How do you imagine your life will change after transitioning? \n Don't just say \"better\" or \"happier\" because this doesn't show you've put a lot of mature thought into the matter. \n >>What problems will transitioning improve or resolve? \n Life is always going to have its inconveniences and shitty parts and transitioning isn't going to change that. Don't give him the impression that you think transitioning will solve all your problems. If you think it will, try brainstorming a list of problems that are gender related (dysphoria, constant misgendering) and things that aren't (boring job, broken car). \n >>How do you feel when someone calls you (desired pronoun)? \n >>Could you be happy just living as a more feminine man/masculine woman? Why not? \n >>If you want to have a family some day, have you thought of a plan? (Freezing sperm/eggs, using a donor, adopting,etc) \n >>Do you have a support system? \n Friends, family, teachers, supportive boss, support group, reddit, etc. \n >>Are you prepared for how your friends and family might react when you come out?","Summary: Felt all the feels.\n\nPost: How didn't I feel? \n I felt excited when I shaved off my peach fuzz, packed away all of my girly things, and went to bed in boxers and a men's undershirt. \n I felt nervous when I went to class the next day in jeans and a tshirt with my chest bound. I felt like all of my classmates and teachers (all male) were going to notice my suddenly flat-ish chest. I was afraid they would notice and I was afraid they wouldn't. \n Then came the frustration. So much frustration and anger I'm overweight which made finding properly fitting jeans infuriating. I'm a 40x30 right now and every pair of jeans I've tried has fists full of extra fabric in through the leg. Plus I can no longer wear high waisted jeans to hold in my stomach and love handles, so I have to strategically layer my clothes to hide my weight. I love skinny jeans (not skin tight, but slim cut) but I can't wear them until I lose some weight and get on T to redistribute the fat away from my hips. I feel like a slob and I don't feel attractive. I hate wearing baggy clothes. I hate wearing clothes that cling. Sometimes I'll get dressed in the morning and I'll be overwhelmed with a feeling that I usually associate with claustrophobia. My layers start to bunch and twist or I try to adjust the extra fabric hanging from my body in a more flattering way and when I can't this tightness just consumes my chest until it hits my throat. I just want to cry. I hate that I know how to dress my female body and I know how to dress the male body in my head, but I can't do either with what I'm working with now. \n So much dysphoria. I rarely had dysphoria before going the IRL route. When I did it was a small, occasional yearning for a beard or a penis that quickly passed. I never even thought of it as dysphoria. I thought it was a \"what if\" thing that everyone did. But then I learned what a bitch dysphoria can really be. After a week of binding, I couldn't bear to go anywhere or let anyone see me without my binder. I cringed at the color pink because I didn't want anyone to think I was a woman. (Fundamentally, I have no issue with pink and will wear it again once I am passing regularly.) I literally mourned the loss of my newfound leg and underarm hair when I shaved for a date with a friend I'm not out to yet. I felt like a lie in the soft butch outfit I wore for him. And that's all just the tip of the big ol' dysphoria iceburg. \n To end my word vomit on a positive note, dressing as the masculine me made me realize I really am trans. I wasn't sure at first, but the more I dressed as a man, the more I realized that this is how I have to live my life now. It feels so right and good when I can shut out the negativity in my head. I am a man. I want to be accepted and treated as a man. I feel sure of myself and ready to start taking steps to come out to more people. As difficult as it is, dressing male has been a good thing for me.","Summary: It may help you feel better and better explain your attraction if you can find a broader way of talking about what attracts you to trans folk.\n\nPost: I personally don't think there is anything wrong with being more attracted to any one group of people as long as you are respectful and treat those people the way they want to be treated. For a while I felt guilty because I am attracted to trans men/trans masculine individuals. Part of this was unknowingly identifying with them, but what I realized more recently is that I'm generally attracted to masculinity. To me, that includes cis men, trans masculine or androgynous individuals, and women who generally present butch/soft butch. Sure I am attracted to femme guys and gals too, but it's much less frequent than the opposite case.","Summary: I don't think it hurts to wait a bit, don't make a big deal out of it and she won't, and find a strategy to shrug off rejection.\n\nPost: I'm inclined to say that it isn't necessary to bring it up directly, at least during the first date. If you need to laugh off an awkward moment, give her a cute smile and a \"Sorry, I'm kind of new at this\". Then maybe after a couple dates, as you're telling her about yourself, mention it like it isn't a big deal. If she asks directly though, be honest about it. \n As a woman, the fact that a 24 guy hasn't had a steady girlfriend doesn't stand out as a red flag to me. However, his attitude about it does. Stay positive, talk about the other relationships you maintain like friends and work buddies, and give her the impression (providing it's true) that you have a generally we'll rounded and satisfying life. As long as you don't define you by your relationship past, she won't either. \n As far as finding the courage to put yourself you there, this is how I look at it: not everyone I'm interested in is going to feel the same way about me. It's just a fact. Somehow, in my convoluted thinking, it keeps me from taking rejection personally. For instance, do you feel like a failure because you aren't going to grow wings tomorrow? Nope. (I hope) Because it's just a fact that it isn't going to happen.","Summary: I have a newfound sexual interest in women, particularly my lesbian friend. Any advice to let her know I'm interested?\n\nPost: Title typo: I'm 23, not 32! \n Until recently, I would have identified myself as a straight ally. In the last couple months, I've started to have feelings for a openly lesbian friend. We're going to be apart for the summer, but I've been considering making my feelings known when we are in the same town again in the fall. I'm not sure how to go about doing this, especially because I'm new to casual, non-LTR relationships. If she were a guy I would ask her to grab a drink with me, which got me into my current [M] FWB, but we often meet up for drinks as friends, so it wouldn't indicate any further interest on my part. Honestly, I'm too chicken to say anything outright without having some idea of whether she's interested in me. Any ideas to gauge her interest, or do I just need to suck it up and and tell her I'm into her? \n A few notes: \n(1) I don't have any sexual experience with women, but I find her very attractive and the idea of intimacy with her is a turn on. \n(2) I'm also not assuming that she is equally interested in me just because she likes other women. \n(3) I'm only interested in a casual relationship as I've just gotten out of a LTR and am not looking for another. She is also not looking for anything long term at the moment, so providing she's interested in me, I think this would be agreeable to her.\n(4) I haven't been super vocal about my newfound interest in women, although I have changed my FB profile to indicate it and we've bonded over a mutual love for Dan Savage's sex positive blog & podcast. I suppose bringing up my interest in women in general might be a start to letting her know I'm interested in her?","Summary: I have a newfound sexual interest in women, particularly my lesbian friend. Any advice to let her know I'm interested?\n\nPost: In the last couple months, I've started to have feelings for a openly lesbian friend. We're going to be apart for the summer, but I've been considering making my feelings known when we are in the same town again in the fall. I'm not sure how to go about doing this, especially because I'm new to casual, non-LTR relationships. Honestly, I'm too chicken to say anything outright without having some idea of whether she's interested in me. Any ideas to gauge her interest, or do I just need to suck it up and and tell her I'm into her? \n A few notes: \n (1) I don't have any sexual experience with women, but I find her very attractive and the idea of intimacy with her is a turn on. I don't see these feelings going away, as they've actually gotten more intense since they started. \n (2) I'm also not assuming that she is equally interested in me just because she likes other women. \n (3) I'm only interested in a casual relationship as I've just gotten out of a LTR and am not looking for another. She is also not looking for anything long term at the moment, so providing she's interested in me, I think this would be agreeable to her. \n (4) I haven't been super vocal about my newfound interest in women, although I have changed my FB profile to indicate it and we've bonded over a mutual love for Dan Savage's sex positive blog & podcast. I suppose bringing up my interest in women in general might be a start to letting her know I'm interested in her?","Summary: Broke my rule about dating more than one friend, stumbled into a potential triad, then they jumped in without me. Now I'm hurt and angry and every negative feeling in the book.\n\nPost: So I [M, 23, poly] started hanging out with a new group of people about a month ago, including a flirty woman (M)[20] who I thought might be in a poly relationship and a guy (P)[19] I was really into. I have a personal rule against dating more than one person in a circle of friends, so I decided to focus on P because I was a little more into him, he was single, and he seemed interested in me. After making my interest in him known, we flirted a bit and made plans for a date. Before the date came around though, he cooled things off because he was kind of confused about my identity (I'm a trans guy, he usually digs ladies) and he was still getting over someone else. \n I began hanging out with M more because she wanted to be cuddle buddies (was allowed in her relationship) and then we ended up starting to see each other after her and her girlfriend mutually decided to transition back to being friends. It turns out M had a thing for P this past fall but things didn't turn out well and they just started being friends again before I joined the group. \n So all of that lead to a bet in a three-way game of pool last night where the winner got to kiss the person of their choice. (M's idea) I won and chose P, after making sure it was something he consented to. I had to leave early to go to a class, so they continued to play pool and decided that everyone would kiss everyone and the winner would have the right to initiate. I agreed to this since I wanted M to be able to kiss P too. I'd get to collect on my bet later in a less public setting. \n What I didn't expect was them going back to P's room, kissing, and then having sex. I was hurt and jealous when they told me after I got out of my class. I was okay with M having sex with someone else. It was something I knew would happen because we weren't exclusive. I just didn't expect it to be a surprise and for it to be someone I really liked. We talked things over and P and I hashed out the whole identity issue and he made it clear that the door was open for something to happen between us. M apologized for not considering that it might be possible for me to be jealous. I explained to her that I do get jealous sometimes, but I deal with it by talking it out rather than lashing out. Everything seemed good and we were all giddy with the excitement of new possibilities. \n It all went down hill tonight though. The three of us played pool with a couple more friends and I was overwhelmed by negative feelings about last night. I feel angry, like something was taken away from me that I can't get back. It's totally stupid, but I won the bet and M not only got to kiss him first, but also had sex with P, and I was left out of all of it. I'm even more angry that I can't rationalize these negative feelings away. All I could think about all night was P tying up M during sex (a detail I'd usually love) and I wanted to cry every time I saw the hickeys that M left on P's neck. \n I'm so frustrated. I want to be happy for them, but I'm so angry. I want to be happy too. I have a date with P tomorrow night, so I'm hoping the one-on-one time with him will appease my jealousy. I'm even feeling crappy and pressured about the kiss though since M tried to force the issue tonight by getting me to kiss P while all three of us were hanging out so we could \"just jump right in\" tomorrow night. I told her no because I want something for myself and I feel like that's the only thing I have left that I can do my way. I feel so anxious about the kiss and the date because I feel like if I botch it all up, P will slam the door shut again. Ugh. So many shitty feels.","Summary: My mom is hurt that I didn't come out in person and literally can't put together the words to talk to me. Now I feel like my transition is on hold until I can go home to see my parents in person.\n\nPost: So I hadn't planned on coming out until April, right before my college spring break, because I wanted to give my family and friends more time to start seeing me in guy mode to make the change easier on them. (been dressing male and binding for 2 months now) However, I'd become increasingly more and more uncomfortable in the closet, so I came out to my parents and grandparents in letters via Facebook on Friday. \n My dad's mom replied right away in the best possible way a person could - I love you, I'm proud of you, always wanted your father to have a son, etc. My mom's parents didn't see the message until I called them to tell them about it last night. They weren't as warm as my other grandmother, but said that they weren't angry and it's my life to make choices about- just make sure I make the right one because we only get one shot at life. \n My mom read the letter right after I sent it, but didn't reply. This was a surprise to me because my mom's typical reaction to a decision that I make that she doesn't like is to get mad or frustrated. It's also in her nature to ask a million questions about things she doesn't understand. I got silence. After a day and a half of silence, I called her and she didn't pick up. I got a FB message a little while later simply saying she was hurt that she had to read about it in a FB message and asked that I call my grandparents instead of doing that to them as well. I wrote her an apology, saying that I didn't mean to hurt her but I had too much to say to get it out in person and I didn't know how to say it on the phone. \n Then silence for another 24 hours. I figured she was angry and punishing me by shutting me out. I really wanted some kind of a response from her, even if it was \"I don't agree with this, but I still love you\" or \"I need more time\". My plan was to change my name on FB today and make a public announcement, but I didn't want to make the situation worse with my mom if she was pissed. \n So I called her again last night. This time she called me back, and she wasn't angry. She was heartbroken. She was so hurt and sad that she couldn't form a sentence between sobs. It took 10 minutes of us crying on the phone for her to say that she can't talk to me, not because she doesn't want to, but because she doesn't have any words to say. She's upset that I didn't tell them in person when I was home three weeks ago, she's upset that I'm not there for her to comfort (there was some depression stuff in the letter), she's upset that I took that away from her. I told her I would come home from school this weekend and we would talk in person, but I have no idea what to expect. \n I've never seen my mom this upset before. Like I said, she usually gets angry or frustrated when I make decisions she doesn't agree with. Angry is something I can deal with. This... This is uncharted territory. I know that in time she will get past the medium of the message and be able to tackle the root issue. I think that is what is going on- I've taken away her usual defense of denial so she's latched on to the message itself instead of the content. \n I just feel so miserable and guilty and terrible to have done this to her. I feel sick thinking about how hurt she's feeling and I keep trying to think if there was some way I could have done this better, not that it matters now. \n I'm also feeling stressed because I'm back in transition limbo. Before I had a clear cut plan- come out to roommates, come out to parents and grandparents, then come out on Facebook and to teachers, change FB name, change legal name. It seemed simple. Except now I'm out to my family and teachers and a handful of classmates, but I feel like I need to put FB and definitely the legal change on hold until I sort things out with my parents. It's unsettling to be torn between two identities. This was what I was trying to fix by coming out. \n Anyway, I'm sorry for the wall of text. If you read it, thanks. I'd really appreciate any words of advice or encouragement anyone has.","Summary: Try putting your favorite show on in the background while you prep and inject.\n\nPost: My struggle with shots isn't about pain, but some sort of mental aversion to the idea there is something in my leg. I inject with a 25g needle, so I don't feel it going in, but it does take a while to get the injection over with. I usually start feeling lightheaded, shaky and nauseous halfway through, at which point I do my best to will the T out of the syringe faster. Lol. \n Tonight I realized halfway through one of my favorite shows that I needed to do my shot, so I decided to try prepping and doing the shot while it was on. I kept my eyes on the syringe, but listening to the plot of the show kept me from overanalyzing the sensation of the injection. It was about 300x easier than without having the show on. I could still concentrate on the shot enough to get everything right, but I was distracted just enough that I wasn't dreading the shot and nausea while I was prepping and having the needle in my leg seemed to go much faster and didn't bother me at all. \n I've heard some guys listen to music to take the edge off, but this worked much better for me personally. I just wanted to share because I'm sure there's at least one other guy out there who psychs himself out when he has to do his shots. Hope this helps!","Summary: I love my sister and I couldn't ask for a more supportive ally.\n\nPost: I came out to my sister about questioning my gender and possibly being trans* (ftm) last night and this is what she sent me in response: \n \"Well I've always wanted an older brother ;) in all seriousness though: I'm of course going to support you 112% in what you want to do and what you decide to do. Your happiness is important of course and if this is what is going to make you happy then do that. I'll of course love you no matter what you look like or sound like, no matter who you decide to love. I want you to be happy and if being more male on the gender spectrum is what makes you feel happy and comfortable then go for it! There have been a lot of changes in the last year and I just want you to take your time to find what makes you happy. Also I know that you want to move to [city] but please consider the fact that if you decide to make transgender changes you're going to need a support system and I want to be there for you but you being across the country will make it difficult. Being transgender isn't easy and it's emotionally and physically taxing and I want to be there for you and to help you through it as best as possible.\" \n She's been so supportive of all of the changes I've made this year and I'm glad she'll support me when I decide to break the news to my parents. Just wanted to share the love with folks who understand. I'm only out to my best friend and sister for now and I don't want to overload them with all of the crazy happy feelings and enthusiasm that I'm experiencing now that I've started to move forward with a non-HRT transition (for now) and seeing a counselor.","Summary: Do any of you try to distinguish between feelings of attraction and identity?\n\nPost: I'm curious how other individuals separate feelings of attraction and identity. I'm FAAB and largely identify as female, probably because growing up I was never introduced to the idea that gender was a spectrum, not two discrete categories. For about 8 months now I've been exploring my sexual and gender identities. I recognize that these are two separate issues, but I sometimes have difficulty determining whether I'm drawn to certain physical or personality traits because I find them sexually appealing or I wish I had those traits. \n For example, while I find a well kept beard sexy, I've realized that I'm also more than a little jealous that I can't grow one myself. On the other hand, I've always admired certain styles rocked by butch/masc. of center individuals. About 6 months ago, I realized it wasn't just the styles I was so enamored with, I was attracted to the individuals too. \n It didn't really bother me until I started to consider whether I wanted to look into T for a less feminine appearance like the user in [this recent post]( or even completely transitioning. I'm going to check out counseling to work through these thoughts. I was just curious how other folks handle them.","Summary: Any tips on how beginners can keep the right balance of macros?\n\nPost: Does anyone have any tips for getting a good balance? I'm aiming for 5% C, 65% F, and 30% P with a daily calorie total of 1000 calories (I use MFP). Yesterday was my first day of keto and I finished the day at 11% C, 49%F, and 40% P. today is a little better at 13% C, 57% F, and 30% P. (I calculated the percentages taking fiber into account. I think I remember reading that MFP doesn't subtract fiber from total carbs.) I got my fat percentage up so far today, but I still need to work on my carbs. I wish MFP reports would break down carbs by food so I can easily see where they are all coming from! (I'm on mobile) \n Edit - One of the things I'm struggling with is staying under the 1000 net calories. I just got a keycard to my gym, so the extra exercise should help me stay under. Is running a big calorie deficit super important in the beginning, or is it mostly about keeping the carbs as low as possible? (I'm going to exercise either way. Just wondering what other people's experience has been.)","Summary: What would you do if your class was having a drag day?\n\nPost: So I'm taking a LGBT Issues class and the teacher wants to have a drag day in class. He asked me for my input before bringing it up to the class since I'm the only openly trans person. I thought the exercise might be good for the rest of the class even if it was awkward or uncomfortable for me, so I didn't veto the idea and told him to go for it. \n Now I have to figure out what I want to do. I'm early in my transition, so presenting female is going to make me look like a girl. I'm not liking that idea, but I don't want to be treated differently because I'm trans. I plan on participating, which I see going one of two ways: \n 1) I ditch my binder and packer for the class and throw on my old skinny jeans, bra, and shirt that are in the trunk of my car, waiting to go to the Goodwill. \n 2) I keep the binder and packer on and shoot for the \"man in women's clothes\" look, complete with flat-ish chest, hairy legs, and a dress. \n In scenario 1 I'd be in relatively comfy clothes that look good on my body in a feminine way, but it might leave a more feminine impression of me in my classmates' minds. In scenario 2 I'll look like a mess and probably make a fool of myself, but I'm guessing that's how the cis guys in the class will feel. \n Essentially my vanity and gender identity are duking it out and I'm not sure which will win. I don't know if I want to look like a somewhat attractive woman (successful drag), or a dude hamming it up. (typical cis male response)"],"string":"[\n \"Summary: Communication is the key to success, most rebound relationships shouldn't last forever.\\n\\nPost: I have two personal experiences with rebound relationships. \\n The first one was after my ex had cheated on me. I was young, had a lot of emotional baggage, and didn't know how to deal with it. I became very attached to my rebound bf and those feelings and insecurities kept me in an abusive relationship for three years. \\n The second rebound experience was after getting out of the previously mentioned relationship. I have a fantastic FWB that is a mutual rebound relationship. The reason it is going so successfully is communication. We were upfront with what we wanted: sex and companionship. Not another LTR. We also decided that we would part ways as platonic friends when we move away from each other at the end of the summer, no strings attached.\",\n \"Summary: You need to learn how to balance your needs and wants with your partner's needs and wants, or let him get a new partner who will- whether that means divorce or a gf. Right now the only one being satisfied is you.\\n\\nPost: I guess I have such a difficult time understanding why it is so if all other factors are satisfying in the relationship. \\n Say you have a fancy sports car. It has top of the line parts, a sweet sound system, and a pretty coat of paint. Everything is perfect about it except there's no gas in the tank. You don't mind because you like looking at the car, talking about the car, occasionally giving it a polish. Your husband would love to tear up the highway in the car, or even just run out for milk and eggs, but he can't because there's no gas. It's perfect for you because it suits your needs, except it's not perfect because it doesn't suit his needs too. \\n Just because you don't understand why he would ever want to take the sports car out of the garage does not invalidate his need to do so or give you the right to keep him driving his own sad little truck every night.\",\n \"Summary: I feel your body issues pain. If you are happy without a label, you don't need one. Good luck!\\n\\nPost: I totally understand where you're coming from, especially the body image part. I (F 23) have a lesbian friend I'm really attracted to, but I can't bring myself to break the ice until I've lost quite a bit of weight. \\nMy weight isn't a huge mental issue with my current (M) FWB because he's 5 inches taller than me and has a mature build, but my female friend is the same height as me and probably 70 lbs lighter. \\n I understand your uncertainty about labels too. I've recently discovered my attraction to women, so it hasn't come up too much in conversation in a context where a label is necessary. On the few occasions I've brought the subject up with friends, I just tell them \\\"Hey, I'm thinking of asking xxxxx out when I'm back in town for school this fall. What do you think?\\\".\",\n \"Summary: Don't worry about figuring out your whole life today, because it will almost certainly change. Just set a good foundation that gives you options later- do the best you can in all your classes, see a therapist about the depression, find a couple hobbies you enjoy. You're in a tough place right now but you can make something good out of it.\\n\\nPost: Don't stress about not knowing what you want to do when you're older. I spent all of high school convinced I'd go to college for music and only applied to a handful of music schools. I was crushed when I didn't get in and didn't have a lot of options because I had been so focused on music. A couple months after not getting in, I realized I enjoyed music more as a hobby than a career path. I stumbled into an IT class and 5 years later I'm living the dream as a software engineer. My only regret is that I limited my options straight out of high school.\",\n \"Summary: skip the pills, put a positive spin on the situation until you believe it.\\n\\nPost: I would suggest trying therapy before jumping straight to antidepressants. They often kill one's sex drive, which probably won't make you feel much better about your situation. \\n My suggestion is to look at the situation as an opportunity to explore something new. You may not feel that way, but if you try to think of it that way, it may cut some of the bitterness. Honestly, circumcised men have been enjoying sex for centuries, so barring a botched surgery, there doesn't seem to be a reason you can't learn to enjoy this new normal, even if it is different from what you're used to.\",\n \"Summary: Gender expression isn't an \\\"either or\\\" option like \\\"cheese or pepperoni?\\\" It's a kickass sandwich shop where you can pick and choose whatever fits you .\\n\\nPost: Cultures take neutral values and warp them into caricatures of the ideal man and woman. These two imaginary, unbalanced, unrealistic personas form the extreme opposite ends of the masc/fem spectrum. People strive to be one of these two poles when either they don't think about how they want to embody their gender or when they don't realize that the ideal human is actually a blend of the best characteristics from extreme femininity and extreme masculinity. \\n I think instead of focusing on the stereotypes of masculinity and femininity, you should try focusing on what characteristics you want to embody. None of these things are inherently masculine or feminine, but any of them could be part of your unique expression of masculinity. \\n -loyalty\\n-integrity\\n-treating others with respect\\n-providing for/nurturing those who depend on you\\n-honesty\\n-the ability to express emotion in an appropriate manner\\n-responsibility\\n-confidence\\n-positive self esteem/self image\\n-kindness\\n-generosity\",\n \"Summary: Tell her to wait until she finds someone she trusts and can talk to. Then, don't jump right into PIV. Explore each other's bodies and preferences slowly. The sex will come along on its own and it will be way less awkward and more enjoyable.\\n\\nPost: I (F 23) personally lost mine when I was 19 and don't feel like I missed out at all. From 15-19 I experimented with my ex and had a lot of fun kissing, touching, and exploring each other without PIV sex. I think it's the best way to do it because you build up communication and trust. Granted, in my case that trust was misplaced, but I don't regret the experiences we had together.\",\n \"Summary: Before trying to pass without hormones, I wouldn't have understood what you meant by \\\"torture\\\". Now I do.\\n\\nPost: Trying to pass without hormones is frustrating. I haven't been correctly gendered by a stranger since I started to try. I blame my round face, eyebrows that are still recovering from years of waxing, and my makeshift binder. I've been reluctant to speak in public as well because if my appearance had anyone wondering about my gender, my voice would remove all doubt. \\n I didn't know that you didn't have to make an attempt to pass before getting hormones. I started trying because I thought it would be expected of me when I started therapy and I wanted to make sure being male was what I wanted. It has definitely affirmed that I want to transition, but it also brought on tons of dysphoria that I'd never experienced before. Tuesday night I had a date with a friend/acquaintance whom I hadn't told about the new changes in my life, so I pulled out my female clothes and shaved my legs and underarms. Never have breasts and smooth legs felt so wrong on me. I think I actually mourned the loss of my leg hair a bit, even though I know it will be back.\",\n \"Summary: Looking for a new haircut pretty much changed my life.\\n\\nPost: In college instead of high school, but for me it happened when I was looking for a more masculine haircut. I was looking at these photos of guys with awesome hair, beards, and tattoos. All of a sudden, I was struck with the thought, \\\"I want a beard!\\\" Upon closer examination of my feelings, I wasn't sure if I was attracted to the men in the photos, or if I wanted to BE one of them.\",\n \"Summary: Your trans experience and your difficulty vocalizing your motivation to transition are completely valid and understandable. I also I don't think the therapist is a lost cause based on your first encounter. Really work on finding answers to the tough questions. You'll thank yourself later.\\n\\nPost: I can understand that your therapist wants to know why you want to transition. He'd kind of be a terrible therapist if he didn't ask any questions. He very well could be a terrible gate-keeper therapist like everyone else has mentioned so far, but it sounds to me like you two just had an awkward first session because you didn't know what to expect. \\n I can also understand how difficult it can be to explain your gender identity and why you want to transition. I also wasn't seriously depressed and I didn't have the early childhood \\\"Mom, I'm a boy!\\\" moment. It's tough to explain gender when everything you were taught growing up isn't the fact it was presented as. \\n I think your best bet is to be honest with your therapist. If you lie, your sessions won't be consistent or genuine. That is probably why he thinks there is some other issue going on or that you aren't sure this is what you want. When he asks you a question that you haven't thought of or you can't express an answer to, tell him that you aren't sure how to answer but you'll think about it for next time. And then think about it. \\n I'd suggest you do some serious inflecting to be able to better communicate with your therapist and the others in your life who are going to have questions. You want to show him that you are thinking in the long term and you are willing to put in the emotional/mental effort to make this happen. \\n Some questions that have helped me articulate my feelings on gender and transition: \\n >>How do you imagine your life will change after transitioning? \\n Don't just say \\\"better\\\" or \\\"happier\\\" because this doesn't show you've put a lot of mature thought into the matter. \\n >>What problems will transitioning improve or resolve? \\n Life is always going to have its inconveniences and shitty parts and transitioning isn't going to change that. Don't give him the impression that you think transitioning will solve all your problems. If you think it will, try brainstorming a list of problems that are gender related (dysphoria, constant misgendering) and things that aren't (boring job, broken car). \\n >>How do you feel when someone calls you (desired pronoun)? \\n >>Could you be happy just living as a more feminine man/masculine woman? Why not? \\n >>If you want to have a family some day, have you thought of a plan? (Freezing sperm/eggs, using a donor, adopting,etc) \\n >>Do you have a support system? \\n Friends, family, teachers, supportive boss, support group, reddit, etc. \\n >>Are you prepared for how your friends and family might react when you come out?\",\n \"Summary: Felt all the feels.\\n\\nPost: How didn't I feel? \\n I felt excited when I shaved off my peach fuzz, packed away all of my girly things, and went to bed in boxers and a men's undershirt. \\n I felt nervous when I went to class the next day in jeans and a tshirt with my chest bound. I felt like all of my classmates and teachers (all male) were going to notice my suddenly flat-ish chest. I was afraid they would notice and I was afraid they wouldn't. \\n Then came the frustration. So much frustration and anger I'm overweight which made finding properly fitting jeans infuriating. I'm a 40x30 right now and every pair of jeans I've tried has fists full of extra fabric in through the leg. Plus I can no longer wear high waisted jeans to hold in my stomach and love handles, so I have to strategically layer my clothes to hide my weight. I love skinny jeans (not skin tight, but slim cut) but I can't wear them until I lose some weight and get on T to redistribute the fat away from my hips. I feel like a slob and I don't feel attractive. I hate wearing baggy clothes. I hate wearing clothes that cling. Sometimes I'll get dressed in the morning and I'll be overwhelmed with a feeling that I usually associate with claustrophobia. My layers start to bunch and twist or I try to adjust the extra fabric hanging from my body in a more flattering way and when I can't this tightness just consumes my chest until it hits my throat. I just want to cry. I hate that I know how to dress my female body and I know how to dress the male body in my head, but I can't do either with what I'm working with now. \\n So much dysphoria. I rarely had dysphoria before going the IRL route. When I did it was a small, occasional yearning for a beard or a penis that quickly passed. I never even thought of it as dysphoria. I thought it was a \\\"what if\\\" thing that everyone did. But then I learned what a bitch dysphoria can really be. After a week of binding, I couldn't bear to go anywhere or let anyone see me without my binder. I cringed at the color pink because I didn't want anyone to think I was a woman. (Fundamentally, I have no issue with pink and will wear it again once I am passing regularly.) I literally mourned the loss of my newfound leg and underarm hair when I shaved for a date with a friend I'm not out to yet. I felt like a lie in the soft butch outfit I wore for him. And that's all just the tip of the big ol' dysphoria iceburg. \\n To end my word vomit on a positive note, dressing as the masculine me made me realize I really am trans. I wasn't sure at first, but the more I dressed as a man, the more I realized that this is how I have to live my life now. It feels so right and good when I can shut out the negativity in my head. I am a man. I want to be accepted and treated as a man. I feel sure of myself and ready to start taking steps to come out to more people. As difficult as it is, dressing male has been a good thing for me.\",\n \"Summary: It may help you feel better and better explain your attraction if you can find a broader way of talking about what attracts you to trans folk.\\n\\nPost: I personally don't think there is anything wrong with being more attracted to any one group of people as long as you are respectful and treat those people the way they want to be treated. For a while I felt guilty because I am attracted to trans men/trans masculine individuals. Part of this was unknowingly identifying with them, but what I realized more recently is that I'm generally attracted to masculinity. To me, that includes cis men, trans masculine or androgynous individuals, and women who generally present butch/soft butch. Sure I am attracted to femme guys and gals too, but it's much less frequent than the opposite case.\",\n \"Summary: I don't think it hurts to wait a bit, don't make a big deal out of it and she won't, and find a strategy to shrug off rejection.\\n\\nPost: I'm inclined to say that it isn't necessary to bring it up directly, at least during the first date. If you need to laugh off an awkward moment, give her a cute smile and a \\\"Sorry, I'm kind of new at this\\\". Then maybe after a couple dates, as you're telling her about yourself, mention it like it isn't a big deal. If she asks directly though, be honest about it. \\n As a woman, the fact that a 24 guy hasn't had a steady girlfriend doesn't stand out as a red flag to me. However, his attitude about it does. Stay positive, talk about the other relationships you maintain like friends and work buddies, and give her the impression (providing it's true) that you have a generally we'll rounded and satisfying life. As long as you don't define you by your relationship past, she won't either. \\n As far as finding the courage to put yourself you there, this is how I look at it: not everyone I'm interested in is going to feel the same way about me. It's just a fact. Somehow, in my convoluted thinking, it keeps me from taking rejection personally. For instance, do you feel like a failure because you aren't going to grow wings tomorrow? Nope. (I hope) Because it's just a fact that it isn't going to happen.\",\n \"Summary: I have a newfound sexual interest in women, particularly my lesbian friend. Any advice to let her know I'm interested?\\n\\nPost: Title typo: I'm 23, not 32! \\n Until recently, I would have identified myself as a straight ally. In the last couple months, I've started to have feelings for a openly lesbian friend. We're going to be apart for the summer, but I've been considering making my feelings known when we are in the same town again in the fall. I'm not sure how to go about doing this, especially because I'm new to casual, non-LTR relationships. If she were a guy I would ask her to grab a drink with me, which got me into my current [M] FWB, but we often meet up for drinks as friends, so it wouldn't indicate any further interest on my part. Honestly, I'm too chicken to say anything outright without having some idea of whether she's interested in me. Any ideas to gauge her interest, or do I just need to suck it up and and tell her I'm into her? \\n A few notes: \\n(1) I don't have any sexual experience with women, but I find her very attractive and the idea of intimacy with her is a turn on. \\n(2) I'm also not assuming that she is equally interested in me just because she likes other women. \\n(3) I'm only interested in a casual relationship as I've just gotten out of a LTR and am not looking for another. She is also not looking for anything long term at the moment, so providing she's interested in me, I think this would be agreeable to her.\\n(4) I haven't been super vocal about my newfound interest in women, although I have changed my FB profile to indicate it and we've bonded over a mutual love for Dan Savage's sex positive blog & podcast. I suppose bringing up my interest in women in general might be a start to letting her know I'm interested in her?\",\n \"Summary: I have a newfound sexual interest in women, particularly my lesbian friend. Any advice to let her know I'm interested?\\n\\nPost: In the last couple months, I've started to have feelings for a openly lesbian friend. We're going to be apart for the summer, but I've been considering making my feelings known when we are in the same town again in the fall. I'm not sure how to go about doing this, especially because I'm new to casual, non-LTR relationships. Honestly, I'm too chicken to say anything outright without having some idea of whether she's interested in me. Any ideas to gauge her interest, or do I just need to suck it up and and tell her I'm into her? \\n A few notes: \\n (1) I don't have any sexual experience with women, but I find her very attractive and the idea of intimacy with her is a turn on. I don't see these feelings going away, as they've actually gotten more intense since they started. \\n (2) I'm also not assuming that she is equally interested in me just because she likes other women. \\n (3) I'm only interested in a casual relationship as I've just gotten out of a LTR and am not looking for another. She is also not looking for anything long term at the moment, so providing she's interested in me, I think this would be agreeable to her. \\n (4) I haven't been super vocal about my newfound interest in women, although I have changed my FB profile to indicate it and we've bonded over a mutual love for Dan Savage's sex positive blog & podcast. I suppose bringing up my interest in women in general might be a start to letting her know I'm interested in her?\",\n \"Summary: Broke my rule about dating more than one friend, stumbled into a potential triad, then they jumped in without me. Now I'm hurt and angry and every negative feeling in the book.\\n\\nPost: So I [M, 23, poly] started hanging out with a new group of people about a month ago, including a flirty woman (M)[20] who I thought might be in a poly relationship and a guy (P)[19] I was really into. I have a personal rule against dating more than one person in a circle of friends, so I decided to focus on P because I was a little more into him, he was single, and he seemed interested in me. After making my interest in him known, we flirted a bit and made plans for a date. Before the date came around though, he cooled things off because he was kind of confused about my identity (I'm a trans guy, he usually digs ladies) and he was still getting over someone else. \\n I began hanging out with M more because she wanted to be cuddle buddies (was allowed in her relationship) and then we ended up starting to see each other after her and her girlfriend mutually decided to transition back to being friends. It turns out M had a thing for P this past fall but things didn't turn out well and they just started being friends again before I joined the group. \\n So all of that lead to a bet in a three-way game of pool last night where the winner got to kiss the person of their choice. (M's idea) I won and chose P, after making sure it was something he consented to. I had to leave early to go to a class, so they continued to play pool and decided that everyone would kiss everyone and the winner would have the right to initiate. I agreed to this since I wanted M to be able to kiss P too. I'd get to collect on my bet later in a less public setting. \\n What I didn't expect was them going back to P's room, kissing, and then having sex. I was hurt and jealous when they told me after I got out of my class. I was okay with M having sex with someone else. It was something I knew would happen because we weren't exclusive. I just didn't expect it to be a surprise and for it to be someone I really liked. We talked things over and P and I hashed out the whole identity issue and he made it clear that the door was open for something to happen between us. M apologized for not considering that it might be possible for me to be jealous. I explained to her that I do get jealous sometimes, but I deal with it by talking it out rather than lashing out. Everything seemed good and we were all giddy with the excitement of new possibilities. \\n It all went down hill tonight though. The three of us played pool with a couple more friends and I was overwhelmed by negative feelings about last night. I feel angry, like something was taken away from me that I can't get back. It's totally stupid, but I won the bet and M not only got to kiss him first, but also had sex with P, and I was left out of all of it. I'm even more angry that I can't rationalize these negative feelings away. All I could think about all night was P tying up M during sex (a detail I'd usually love) and I wanted to cry every time I saw the hickeys that M left on P's neck. \\n I'm so frustrated. I want to be happy for them, but I'm so angry. I want to be happy too. I have a date with P tomorrow night, so I'm hoping the one-on-one time with him will appease my jealousy. I'm even feeling crappy and pressured about the kiss though since M tried to force the issue tonight by getting me to kiss P while all three of us were hanging out so we could \\\"just jump right in\\\" tomorrow night. I told her no because I want something for myself and I feel like that's the only thing I have left that I can do my way. I feel so anxious about the kiss and the date because I feel like if I botch it all up, P will slam the door shut again. Ugh. So many shitty feels.\",\n \"Summary: My mom is hurt that I didn't come out in person and literally can't put together the words to talk to me. Now I feel like my transition is on hold until I can go home to see my parents in person.\\n\\nPost: So I hadn't planned on coming out until April, right before my college spring break, because I wanted to give my family and friends more time to start seeing me in guy mode to make the change easier on them. (been dressing male and binding for 2 months now) However, I'd become increasingly more and more uncomfortable in the closet, so I came out to my parents and grandparents in letters via Facebook on Friday. \\n My dad's mom replied right away in the best possible way a person could - I love you, I'm proud of you, always wanted your father to have a son, etc. My mom's parents didn't see the message until I called them to tell them about it last night. They weren't as warm as my other grandmother, but said that they weren't angry and it's my life to make choices about- just make sure I make the right one because we only get one shot at life. \\n My mom read the letter right after I sent it, but didn't reply. This was a surprise to me because my mom's typical reaction to a decision that I make that she doesn't like is to get mad or frustrated. It's also in her nature to ask a million questions about things she doesn't understand. I got silence. After a day and a half of silence, I called her and she didn't pick up. I got a FB message a little while later simply saying she was hurt that she had to read about it in a FB message and asked that I call my grandparents instead of doing that to them as well. I wrote her an apology, saying that I didn't mean to hurt her but I had too much to say to get it out in person and I didn't know how to say it on the phone. \\n Then silence for another 24 hours. I figured she was angry and punishing me by shutting me out. I really wanted some kind of a response from her, even if it was \\\"I don't agree with this, but I still love you\\\" or \\\"I need more time\\\". My plan was to change my name on FB today and make a public announcement, but I didn't want to make the situation worse with my mom if she was pissed. \\n So I called her again last night. This time she called me back, and she wasn't angry. She was heartbroken. She was so hurt and sad that she couldn't form a sentence between sobs. It took 10 minutes of us crying on the phone for her to say that she can't talk to me, not because she doesn't want to, but because she doesn't have any words to say. She's upset that I didn't tell them in person when I was home three weeks ago, she's upset that I'm not there for her to comfort (there was some depression stuff in the letter), she's upset that I took that away from her. I told her I would come home from school this weekend and we would talk in person, but I have no idea what to expect. \\n I've never seen my mom this upset before. Like I said, she usually gets angry or frustrated when I make decisions she doesn't agree with. Angry is something I can deal with. This... This is uncharted territory. I know that in time she will get past the medium of the message and be able to tackle the root issue. I think that is what is going on- I've taken away her usual defense of denial so she's latched on to the message itself instead of the content. \\n I just feel so miserable and guilty and terrible to have done this to her. I feel sick thinking about how hurt she's feeling and I keep trying to think if there was some way I could have done this better, not that it matters now. \\n I'm also feeling stressed because I'm back in transition limbo. Before I had a clear cut plan- come out to roommates, come out to parents and grandparents, then come out on Facebook and to teachers, change FB name, change legal name. It seemed simple. Except now I'm out to my family and teachers and a handful of classmates, but I feel like I need to put FB and definitely the legal change on hold until I sort things out with my parents. It's unsettling to be torn between two identities. This was what I was trying to fix by coming out. \\n Anyway, I'm sorry for the wall of text. If you read it, thanks. I'd really appreciate any words of advice or encouragement anyone has.\",\n \"Summary: Try putting your favorite show on in the background while you prep and inject.\\n\\nPost: My struggle with shots isn't about pain, but some sort of mental aversion to the idea there is something in my leg. I inject with a 25g needle, so I don't feel it going in, but it does take a while to get the injection over with. I usually start feeling lightheaded, shaky and nauseous halfway through, at which point I do my best to will the T out of the syringe faster. Lol. \\n Tonight I realized halfway through one of my favorite shows that I needed to do my shot, so I decided to try prepping and doing the shot while it was on. I kept my eyes on the syringe, but listening to the plot of the show kept me from overanalyzing the sensation of the injection. It was about 300x easier than without having the show on. I could still concentrate on the shot enough to get everything right, but I was distracted just enough that I wasn't dreading the shot and nausea while I was prepping and having the needle in my leg seemed to go much faster and didn't bother me at all. \\n I've heard some guys listen to music to take the edge off, but this worked much better for me personally. I just wanted to share because I'm sure there's at least one other guy out there who psychs himself out when he has to do his shots. Hope this helps!\",\n \"Summary: I love my sister and I couldn't ask for a more supportive ally.\\n\\nPost: I came out to my sister about questioning my gender and possibly being trans* (ftm) last night and this is what she sent me in response: \\n \\\"Well I've always wanted an older brother ;) in all seriousness though: I'm of course going to support you 112% in what you want to do and what you decide to do. Your happiness is important of course and if this is what is going to make you happy then do that. I'll of course love you no matter what you look like or sound like, no matter who you decide to love. I want you to be happy and if being more male on the gender spectrum is what makes you feel happy and comfortable then go for it! There have been a lot of changes in the last year and I just want you to take your time to find what makes you happy. Also I know that you want to move to [city] but please consider the fact that if you decide to make transgender changes you're going to need a support system and I want to be there for you but you being across the country will make it difficult. Being transgender isn't easy and it's emotionally and physically taxing and I want to be there for you and to help you through it as best as possible.\\\" \\n She's been so supportive of all of the changes I've made this year and I'm glad she'll support me when I decide to break the news to my parents. Just wanted to share the love with folks who understand. I'm only out to my best friend and sister for now and I don't want to overload them with all of the crazy happy feelings and enthusiasm that I'm experiencing now that I've started to move forward with a non-HRT transition (for now) and seeing a counselor.\",\n \"Summary: Do any of you try to distinguish between feelings of attraction and identity?\\n\\nPost: I'm curious how other individuals separate feelings of attraction and identity. I'm FAAB and largely identify as female, probably because growing up I was never introduced to the idea that gender was a spectrum, not two discrete categories. For about 8 months now I've been exploring my sexual and gender identities. I recognize that these are two separate issues, but I sometimes have difficulty determining whether I'm drawn to certain physical or personality traits because I find them sexually appealing or I wish I had those traits. \\n For example, while I find a well kept beard sexy, I've realized that I'm also more than a little jealous that I can't grow one myself. On the other hand, I've always admired certain styles rocked by butch/masc. of center individuals. About 6 months ago, I realized it wasn't just the styles I was so enamored with, I was attracted to the individuals too. \\n It didn't really bother me until I started to consider whether I wanted to look into T for a less feminine appearance like the user in [this recent post]( or even completely transitioning. I'm going to check out counseling to work through these thoughts. I was just curious how other folks handle them.\",\n \"Summary: Any tips on how beginners can keep the right balance of macros?\\n\\nPost: Does anyone have any tips for getting a good balance? I'm aiming for 5% C, 65% F, and 30% P with a daily calorie total of 1000 calories (I use MFP). Yesterday was my first day of keto and I finished the day at 11% C, 49%F, and 40% P. today is a little better at 13% C, 57% F, and 30% P. (I calculated the percentages taking fiber into account. I think I remember reading that MFP doesn't subtract fiber from total carbs.) I got my fat percentage up so far today, but I still need to work on my carbs. I wish MFP reports would break down carbs by food so I can easily see where they are all coming from! (I'm on mobile) \\n Edit - One of the things I'm struggling with is staying under the 1000 net calories. I just got a keycard to my gym, so the extra exercise should help me stay under. Is running a big calorie deficit super important in the beginning, or is it mostly about keeping the carbs as low as possible? (I'm going to exercise either way. Just wondering what other people's experience has been.)\",\n \"Summary: What would you do if your class was having a drag day?\\n\\nPost: So I'm taking a LGBT Issues class and the teacher wants to have a drag day in class. He asked me for my input before bringing it up to the class since I'm the only openly trans person. I thought the exercise might be good for the rest of the class even if it was awkward or uncomfortable for me, so I didn't veto the idea and told him to go for it. \\n Now I have to figure out what I want to do. I'm early in my transition, so presenting female is going to make me look like a girl. I'm not liking that idea, but I don't want to be treated differently because I'm trans. I plan on participating, which I see going one of two ways: \\n 1) I ditch my binder and packer for the class and throw on my old skinny jeans, bra, and shirt that are in the trunk of my car, waiting to go to the Goodwill. \\n 2) I keep the binder and packer on and shoot for the \\\"man in women's clothes\\\" look, complete with flat-ish chest, hairy legs, and a dress. \\n In scenario 1 I'd be in relatively comfy clothes that look good on my body in a feminine way, but it might leave a more feminine impression of me in my classmates' minds. In scenario 2 I'll look like a mess and probably make a fool of myself, but I'm guessing that's how the cis guys in the class will feel. \\n Essentially my vanity and gender identity are duking it out and I'm not sure which will win. I don't know if I want to look like a somewhat attractive woman (successful drag), or a dude hamming it up. (typical cis male response)\"\n]","isConversational":false},"profile_size":{"kind":"number","value":22,"string":"22"},"task":{"kind":"string","value":"longlamp_4"},"split_kind":{"kind":"string","value":"user_based"},"id":{"kind":"number","value":5394,"string":"5,394"}}},{"rowIdx":5395,"cells":{"question_id":{"kind":"string","value":"newtothelyte"},"question":{"kind":"string","value":"Generate the content for a reddit post Discussions about Cinsere are needed now for the health and integrity of this subreddit, comics and photos will come back shortly."},"answer":{"kind":"string","value":"Um, really? This is a serious issue we have here and I'm glad a lot of Cinsere stuff is making the front page of this subreddit. I know we are mostly peaceful people that just want to chill after a long day and laugh at weed-related stuff, but when something happens that fucks with our subreddit, we just can't sit back and let it fly by. That would be a win for Cinsere! We have to keep the integrity of this subreddit intact! Trust me, r/Trees will be back to its usual self soon, and you will get your rage comics, funny pics, and weed-related photos shortly. But, in the meantime its imperative that we have these discussions about this Cinsere guy so it doesn't happen again. I implore you to step up and not be an uninvolved lazy fuck. \n That is my 2 pennies. Happy toking."},"correct_answer":{"kind":"string","value":"Um, really? This is a serious issue we have here and I'm glad a lot of Cinsere stuff is making the front page of this subreddit. I know we are mostly peaceful people that just want to chill after a long day and laugh at weed-related stuff, but when something happens that fucks with our subreddit, we just can't sit back and let it fly by. That would be a win for Cinsere! We have to keep the integrity of this subreddit intact! Trust me, r/Trees will be back to its usual self soon, and you will get your rage comics, funny pics, and weed-related photos shortly. But, in the meantime its imperative that we have these discussions about this Cinsere guy so it doesn't happen again. I implore you to step up and not be an uninvolved lazy fuck. \n That is my 2 pennies. Happy toking."},"documents":{"kind":"list like","value":["Summary: The guy I have despised for my entire life, won me my fantasy league and $500\n\nPost: Well, growing up as a kid, my team, the Bucs, were in a division with the Packers. Their QB, Brett Favre, was one of the most hated dudes in the town. I grew up absolutely loathing him, and I still don't like him to this day. I don't like the way he plays, his cheesy commercials, or his indecision to retire. \n Well anyway, fast forward 18 years. I am playing my fantasy football championship game and my starting QB is injured. In a last ditch effort to win the league, I sign Brett Favre onto my team. I had no other choice but to start him. Well, turns out he had one of the best games of his career that day. He threw for 4 TDs and 300+ yards. I ended up beating my opponent by 5 points, thanks to Brett Favre. Grand Prize = $500","Summary: clubs are vastly overrated, small get togethers are perfect for introverts\n\nPost: Well of course you are going to see the great pictures. You don't see all the boring, bad, and uneventful stuff that happens. It's rare to go to a club/bar with a group of 5 or more and everyone have a good time. There is always someone that gets too drunk, gets sick, wants to go home early, wants to go home late, or wants to get into some stupid shit. And me being me, I always want to make sure everyone is okay and safe, so I always end up DDing or babysitting. \n With that being said, going can definitely be fun. I find clubs dull, but bars can be much better, especially for sports fans. I also like to have a little get togethers about once a month for my friends and my gfs friends. It's usually about 6-10 people total with weed and alcohol. You usually have the guys playing ps3 and chatting it up, while the girls gossip and drink. Then we all play Rock Band together, eat, then people start filing out. Some even go out to the club afterwards. This is an absolute blast! Everyone has a great time and its a very relaxed atmosphere.","Summary: I get drilled by a soccer ball twice in a 5 minute span, one to the berries and one to the face\n\nPost: In 2nd grade, my teacher was dating a professional soccer player. So she brought him in so he can show us his moves. Well, he was kicking the ball to is from about 30m away, pretty far. Well, the first kick he shoots at us hits me straight in the nads. Severe and sudden pain rushed through me. I am down on the ground for about 5 minutes. As soon as I get up from the ground, crying, Whapp! I got drilled in the face by another ball the soccer player kicked. Now my nose is bleeding. Shit sucked, man","Summary: don't be a fucking idiot. Stay inside during a storm\n\nPost: I too play golf. Just the other day I was with two of my buddies and the local pro joined us as the fourth leg. At the 6th hole we heard some thunder closing in. The pro booked it off the course, he didn't even say goodbye. My buddies wanted to continue playing (despite me being vehemently against it). On the 9th hole, lightning struck about 25 yards in front of us as one of ny friends was in the middle of his backswing.... He could've fucking died. \n Yeah, we laugh about it now but that shit is no joke.","Summary: CNN is not that bad. They must cut Erin Burnett, all of the CNN Newsroom anchors, and maybe Piers Morgan.\n\nPost: CNN needs to incorporate its weekend programming into its weekdays. Programs like Zakaria GPS and Sanjay Gupta MD are excellent programs, especially the former. Wolf Blitzer is also great at what he does. Anderson Cooper is also fantastic. I believe the CNN newsroom anchors that are on during the day are just god awful. Don Lemon, Fredricha Whats-her-face, and that Blonde girl are just terrible at delivering news. I cannot stand to watch them. And they seem to emphasize on lots of celebrity stories. \n I may be one of the few that enjoys Piers Morgan, I think he does great interviews with celebrities. He asks questions that people want to hear and really make celebs personable. Erin Burnett is so cute, but she is just terrible at her show. Her humor is... unhumorous. She cannot deliver a punchline or a monologue to save her life. \n When it comes to election coverage, I feel CNN is second to none.","Summary: Don't do it. Why be a bitch to your parents and get a really expensive car. Get a nice 6-7k car and be happy that you got that.\n\nPost: I know exactly what is going to happen. I can see it from here. You are going to get this tricked out beast machine as your first car, a $10k+ car I might add. You are going to feel very grown & sexy in it, leading you in a spell of overconfidence and douche baggery. You are going to push the beast too hard and you are going to end up in a serious accident. You will only be saved if there is a 5-point seatbelt system.","Summary: In fast food, if its good enough to eat by law, then sometimes its best to ignore the details of how it is made.\n\nPost: It probably shouldn't but I find myself commonly believing this idiom. For example, when you go to a \"Chinese\" restaurant, it is probable that you will come across meat that isn't held to the high standards of meats in your local grocery store. The meat is probably pre-coated in breading, then frozen, then shipped for deep frying in dirty oil. All that being said, the food is still delicious and is still good enough to consume by health code standards, it is just not the best quality.","Summary: give it time.\n\nPost: I'm not sure why they're the only ones with full press coverage but its not unusual for one news source to cover one event over the other. Eventually all news sources will cover the story once it gets closer to a conviction. \n Right now, there are other hot stories that are breaking by the minute, mainly the Arias trial and the Cleveland kidnaps.","Summary: most divisions are bat shit insane\n\nPost: Op said bat shit insane. What is more bat shit insane than the NFC South. For the longest time, the team that finished last in the division finished first the next season. \n The NFC West: a sub .500 team made it to the playoffs. Every year is a toss up for the division and now it looks stronger than ever. \n NFC North: division full of deep rivalries. The Lions, who have been shit for the longest are contenders now. Same with Vikings \n AFC west: toss up every year too. The chargers are always promising but they always find a way to screw it up. \n AFC North: with Cincinnati in the mix now, they could easily put up 3 playoff teams again \n AFC east: always a fiasco with nyj and ne. The pats will probably run away with it. This is probably the least exciting division \n AFC south: the Texans are the new king on the block now that Peyton is gone. It's going to be exciting watching them try to get to the sb for the first time","Summary: I snuck my gf out of her parents house for sexy time, my tire came off, I ended up paying over $500, and failed a class exam.\n\nPost: I think I have one. This was back in my freshman year in college. I had gone to sneak my girlfriend from her parents house so we could chill (and do sexy time). Well her parents woke up and found out she was missing, and started blasting her phone. So in a mad dash, we hop in my car to drive her back to her place. En route, I start hearing this grinding noise by my wheel. I just ignore it since we are in a rush. About half a mile later WHOOOOOOOOSSSSHHHH. My fucking wheel disconnects from the lugs, causing my axle to hit the ground and grind on the street for about 1/8 of a mile. My tire kept rolling, far beyond view. \n I had to call a tow truck, and my gf needed to get home ASAP. So she called her sister to pick her up and take her home. I, on the other hand, had to sit in my car and wait in the FREEZING COLD for the tow truck to come. The tow truck took two hours to arrive, I was sitting in my car with the engine on to stay warm. Eventually I ran out of gas and had to sit in the cold for an hour, only using a lighter to keep my hands warm. \n I had the truck tow my car to the campus parking lot. The towing was $200 bucks, which caused me to overdraft my bank account. Then I had to call my parents early that morning (around 8 AM) so they can take it to the family mechanic. After waiting for them in the campus parking lot and having the truck tow away my car again, it was 11AM. \n I got to my dorm and just knocked the fuck out. I woke up 12 hours later and realized I was supposed to take an online exam by midnight. I then failed it. \n The repairs cost me an additional $200. Not to mention I was in deep shit with her folks. Pretty shitty night overall. I did find my tire though, it was about half a mile from where the incident occurred.","Summary: Wow, I can't believe I answered all that shit\n\nPost: Go out: refers to clubbing, a comedy club, or a bar. Usually the word \"clubbing\" refers to dancing. You can go clubbing in a hip-hop place, a latin place, a jazz place, or whatever. \n Get drunk: This is all subjective. Some prefer beer, some prefer shots, and some prefer mixed drinks. It is also customary to buy others drink, it is usually a friend/group of friends or a lady you are trying to impress. There is no limit to how drunk you can get but their are 2 guidelines: You cannot be ridiculously drunk because it gives the bar a bad image. You will probably be kicked out. Also, when going out with a group, one person must remain sober by the time you guys leave. That usually means he is the babysitter for the rest of the group that night. It is normal for a group of friends to share this role in a rotation. \n Dancing: Not everyone does it. In fact, most despise it. A club is almost always overpacked, hot, and muggy. Not ideal for dance conditions. And usually it is not \"traditional\" dancing, it is just grinding on each other. Latin places really stick to the \"dancing the night away\" ideal. \n Pick up someone: Is one night stand implied? Sometimes. It really depends on the person you are with. I would say most hook-ups develop into fuck buddies for a bit. Phone numbers are usually exchanged and contact is established for a couple weeks. Then, they must decide whether they want to pursue a relationship or not. Usually not. One-nighters do happen, some people just want one night of lust. Now when it comes to conversation, this is where it gets hairy. There is not one archetypal conversation that goes on, it is usually just a bunch of drunk-talking, drunk dancing, and drunk making out. Depending on the type of person your partner is, they will either not talk to you again, give you their phone number, or go on some sexcapades. There is really no one of high value in clubs, not even those in the VIP. \n Purpose for men: Go out, get drunk, pick up bitches. \n Purpose for women: Get together, dress up & look pretty, get drunk, and have fun.","Summary: The intervention was necessary and effective, it just took too long to complete. \n Edit: Reddiquette: Don't downvote opinions just because you disagree with them. The down arrow is for comments that add little or nothing to the discussion.\n\nPost: Since many people on this thread have no idea or context about why Congress decided to intervene in the MLB, I will explain why and try to give an argument as to why it was worth the effort, at least somewhat. \n My 3 reasons why this was intervention perfectly legitimate are: 1) MLB is considered a form of interstate commerce, therefore it is subject to any government intervention, if necessary. 2) the use and distribution of steroids is illegal. 3) the MLB has no neutral third-party to punish or sanction the league. \n You can skip the next two paragraphs if you are not interested in the details . \n About 7 years ago it was determined by Congress that the MLB was incapable of policing itself. There was undeniable proof that a sizable portion of the league was taking anabolic steroids for performance enhancement. These steroids were being bought and distributed by the teams themselves . The league turned a blind eye toward it all, and the MLBPA certainly wasn't going to punish their own members. \n This forced congress to step in and do an investigation which lead to the release of the [Mitchell Report]( which named every player that was accused of using steroids, Most notably Mark McGwire, Sammy Sosa, Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens, and Rafael Palmiero. These men were brought in for a congressional hearing in which they were questioned by congress about their steroid use. Now, if there is one thing you should know about U.S congress is that if they decide to do something, they will do it to their fullest extent. What the players said in front of congress completely contradicted what congress found in their investigation. This then lead them to charge Clemens and Bonds with their respective charges, which dragged on for 3 more years. \n This leads me to my defense... \n The effort put on by congress has completely changed and revitalized the game in the past 5 years. Baseball is America's national pastime, and is a small representation of the country. If it was discovered that this sport had promoted the distribution and use of illegal drugs for decades, then the reputation of the sport would have been tarnished, and it probably would've killed the sport entirely. It is just as bad as games being fixed, cheated on, or gambled on. Imagine hearing that the English Premier League was rigged every year. We would look at that with shame. \n The sport provides thousands of jobs, produces billions of dollars in revenue, provides millions of dollars in charity and philanthropy, and it is so deeply rooted in our nations history, that it was worth the effort by congress to intervene \n My only grief with this whole thing is that it lasted 5+ years. This is an issue that could've been handled in a year, maybe less. I blame congress' very slow manner of handling things.","Summary: Mike Trout\n\nPost: I once saw Mike Trout help an old lady cross the street with her groceries on a rain day. There was a big pothole in the middle of the cross walk about the size of a pitchers mound. Inspired by his kind heart and big muscles, I laid my self across the gap of the pothole, creating a human bridge. He put all of the old lady's grocery bags in his mouth, picked her up around her hip and carried her close to his hip like a briefcase. He proceeded to use me as the bridge to help the old lady cross the street. I laid there in awe as every step he took on me caused me to squeal like a little girl. Not because of pain, but because I just could not contain my giddiness. After he set her down and they went about their ways I looked back hoping for some acknowledgement of my kind gesture. There was none. As I begin to turn around and walk away, avoiding oncoming traffic, I hear a voice. \"Hey kid!\" it said in the most deep and purposeful tone. I turned around and Mike Trout gave me a head nod. \"Good looking out\" he said. \n In shock that Mike Trout spoke to me, my knees became weak. I eventually gathered myself after about an hour. I walked a little prouder that day. I told my gf when I got home and she was in awe. Now she definitely couldn't wait to fuck Mike Trout.","Summary: they are crap.\n\nPost: They're still hard to use because the hand you use to anchor the vein is now used to hold the venoscope. Its even harder if you have a patient who has rolling veins or is prone to shaking/tremors. Then, you can also become dependent on it and your skills begin to diminish. \n The old venoscopes allow you to anchor the vein, but they're still shifty. And if you get blood on it or, even worse, in it, then you have a serious problem.","Summary: Reddit is too big to have unified opinion on anything. \n Let us take your 3rd line as an example. There are people who\n\nPost: I see it a little differently. There are over 1 million users on this site, granted many of them are throwaways and novelty accounts, but for the most part there is a solid group of people here. To make the front page, a post only needs about 2000 upvotes. If you account for the people downvoting you probably have 1000 people downvoting, so let us say 3k upvotes to 1k downvotes. To have a top comment, you only need about 500 upvotes. These numbers are miniscule compared to the number of active users. If you look at it mathematically, all of these opposing opinions, or what many call the \"hypocrisy of Reddit\", can certainly coexist among a group of a million. You have a group that is strongly against police brutality, and another part of Reddit who think that it is total BS. Most people fall in the middle of the two and upvote both posts.","Summary: Pain is purely subjective. It passes the burden onto the doctor, rather than yourself. It would be really tricky to make legal and enforce properly\n\nPost: I wrote a whole essay on euthanasia, so I am basically an expert. \n Simply, it passes the burden of killing another human unto the doctor. And doctors are sworn to do everything in their power to not harm patients. Killing someone is no easy task, even if its just an injection of some medicine. \n No one should be responsible for the decision of euthanasia on a human but that human that wishes to die. If you all of a sudden become ill, it should be your decision to end your own life. However , when you are ill you are not in the right mental capacity to make such a rash decision. \n The only way euthanasia is permissible, morally speaking, is if you arrange to be euthanized when you are fully competent for some time in the future OR you allow someone to be the ultimate decision maker in your life (relative, girlfriend). But then you have to find a doctor that is willing to cooperate, and you might have to go through some shady people to find that Dr. Some are good people like Kavorkian, but most, I imagine, are probably looney and charge crazy prices. \n It is partialy legal in Oregon if I remember correctly, and certainly legal in the Netherlands. \n Also, making euthanasia legal creates a slippery slope because pain and suffering is purely subjective. One person might feel that a pain or illness is worth dying, while another doesn't. Now imagine trying to create a law that covers all bases and trying to enforce that law. What would be the punishment for an illegal euthanasia? Blah blah. \n Its really a hairy issue, and its not important to today's society so it gets pushed to the side. I can go into more detail if you want, but this is my answer in short.","Summary: bulbouscorm is wrong\n\nPost: This guy makes an excellent point. You can't go through 4chan without seeing the word faggot at least 20x, even if its in a tone of fun, its a huge circlejerk that is absolutely annoying. Then you have to deal with the arrogance 4chan carries in its discussion. \n Liveleak is probably the worst, it seems to be a website where every member is an obnoxious racist. The ratio of racist comments to intelligent comments is about 8:1. \n Tumblr and 9gag are only a shell of what they used to be. Now it feels like it the average age of users is 15. \n And to think that one user's comment reflects the opinion of everyone on reddit is completely unfounded.","Summary: My parents were immigrants, they overcame more difficulties than most poverty level citizens today. How can a foreigner come to a country and become successful but poor people can't when they have all everything they need?\n\nPost: Here me out. \n My parents came into the U.S in the early 80s from Cuba. My dad was a chemistry teacher there, and my mother was a college student. The only English they knew was taught to them in high school. They then decided to come to the states because they didn't like the conditions over there. Unfortunately, their college credits did not transfer over from Cuba (this happens to everyone, my cousin had to go to med school again when he came over here). My dad is a handyman, so he started working as a carpenter doing cabinets and tile. My mom worked as a Spanish-speaking customer service rep for a company. Then, I was born and they divorced when I was 2. Fast forward to today, both of them are fluent in English and work for Fortune 100 companies making steady money. My dad just got his Masters a couple years ago. They both own houses and have been able to support me financially through all my college years. \n Growing up I went to schools with lots of black people and Hispanics, many of them with low income. 70% of the school received free lunch (the 30% was the IB program we had). During that time, I noticed there was a culture of failure and can't-do. There was also a lack of future planning. I've seen (and dated) people who lived off welfare checks and government aid. It is almost disgusting how people can live so lazily and unmotivated. Education is not usually a priority. I am sure this is the same thing with poor white people (trailer trash?), i can't speak about them because I don't know too many poor white people to make that generalization. \n In my opinion, my parents had it much harder than most poverty level African Americans have it. Simply having citizenship in the U.S is a big advantage. You are entitled to free public education, free school lunches (though they were fucking awful), and are allowed to work anywhere in the country. I kind of give illegal Hispanics a slide because they don't have citizenship, but there are many legal Hispanics who breed this same lifestyle. \n So why do I still see this same culture or mindset in our younger generation today (those born in 1996 and up)? Is this a case of \"ignorance breeds ignorance\"?","Summary: Gotta use up every square inch of toilet paper!\n\nPost: Save these tissues, lay them out to dry, and re-use next time you have to take a shit. \n I don't have enough money to continue supplying my family with toilet paper from these fat cat companies. This way, I get virtually double the toilet paper! \n Alternate solution: 1. buy toilet paper \n \n Unroll entire roll of toilet paper \n \n As you're unrolling, run a marker down one side of the toilet paper. \n \n Re-roll toilet paper \n \n Use marker side to blow your nose, use the unmarked side to wipe your ass."],"string":"[\n \"Summary: The guy I have despised for my entire life, won me my fantasy league and $500\\n\\nPost: Well, growing up as a kid, my team, the Bucs, were in a division with the Packers. Their QB, Brett Favre, was one of the most hated dudes in the town. I grew up absolutely loathing him, and I still don't like him to this day. I don't like the way he plays, his cheesy commercials, or his indecision to retire. \\n Well anyway, fast forward 18 years. I am playing my fantasy football championship game and my starting QB is injured. In a last ditch effort to win the league, I sign Brett Favre onto my team. I had no other choice but to start him. Well, turns out he had one of the best games of his career that day. He threw for 4 TDs and 300+ yards. I ended up beating my opponent by 5 points, thanks to Brett Favre. Grand Prize = $500\",\n \"Summary: clubs are vastly overrated, small get togethers are perfect for introverts\\n\\nPost: Well of course you are going to see the great pictures. You don't see all the boring, bad, and uneventful stuff that happens. It's rare to go to a club/bar with a group of 5 or more and everyone have a good time. There is always someone that gets too drunk, gets sick, wants to go home early, wants to go home late, or wants to get into some stupid shit. And me being me, I always want to make sure everyone is okay and safe, so I always end up DDing or babysitting. \\n With that being said, going can definitely be fun. I find clubs dull, but bars can be much better, especially for sports fans. I also like to have a little get togethers about once a month for my friends and my gfs friends. It's usually about 6-10 people total with weed and alcohol. You usually have the guys playing ps3 and chatting it up, while the girls gossip and drink. Then we all play Rock Band together, eat, then people start filing out. Some even go out to the club afterwards. This is an absolute blast! Everyone has a great time and its a very relaxed atmosphere.\",\n \"Summary: I get drilled by a soccer ball twice in a 5 minute span, one to the berries and one to the face\\n\\nPost: In 2nd grade, my teacher was dating a professional soccer player. So she brought him in so he can show us his moves. Well, he was kicking the ball to is from about 30m away, pretty far. Well, the first kick he shoots at us hits me straight in the nads. Severe and sudden pain rushed through me. I am down on the ground for about 5 minutes. As soon as I get up from the ground, crying, Whapp! I got drilled in the face by another ball the soccer player kicked. Now my nose is bleeding. Shit sucked, man\",\n \"Summary: don't be a fucking idiot. Stay inside during a storm\\n\\nPost: I too play golf. Just the other day I was with two of my buddies and the local pro joined us as the fourth leg. At the 6th hole we heard some thunder closing in. The pro booked it off the course, he didn't even say goodbye. My buddies wanted to continue playing (despite me being vehemently against it). On the 9th hole, lightning struck about 25 yards in front of us as one of ny friends was in the middle of his backswing.... He could've fucking died. \\n Yeah, we laugh about it now but that shit is no joke.\",\n \"Summary: CNN is not that bad. They must cut Erin Burnett, all of the CNN Newsroom anchors, and maybe Piers Morgan.\\n\\nPost: CNN needs to incorporate its weekend programming into its weekdays. Programs like Zakaria GPS and Sanjay Gupta MD are excellent programs, especially the former. Wolf Blitzer is also great at what he does. Anderson Cooper is also fantastic. I believe the CNN newsroom anchors that are on during the day are just god awful. Don Lemon, Fredricha Whats-her-face, and that Blonde girl are just terrible at delivering news. I cannot stand to watch them. And they seem to emphasize on lots of celebrity stories. \\n I may be one of the few that enjoys Piers Morgan, I think he does great interviews with celebrities. He asks questions that people want to hear and really make celebs personable. Erin Burnett is so cute, but she is just terrible at her show. Her humor is... unhumorous. She cannot deliver a punchline or a monologue to save her life. \\n When it comes to election coverage, I feel CNN is second to none.\",\n \"Summary: Don't do it. Why be a bitch to your parents and get a really expensive car. Get a nice 6-7k car and be happy that you got that.\\n\\nPost: I know exactly what is going to happen. I can see it from here. You are going to get this tricked out beast machine as your first car, a $10k+ car I might add. You are going to feel very grown & sexy in it, leading you in a spell of overconfidence and douche baggery. You are going to push the beast too hard and you are going to end up in a serious accident. You will only be saved if there is a 5-point seatbelt system.\",\n \"Summary: In fast food, if its good enough to eat by law, then sometimes its best to ignore the details of how it is made.\\n\\nPost: It probably shouldn't but I find myself commonly believing this idiom. For example, when you go to a \\\"Chinese\\\" restaurant, it is probable that you will come across meat that isn't held to the high standards of meats in your local grocery store. The meat is probably pre-coated in breading, then frozen, then shipped for deep frying in dirty oil. All that being said, the food is still delicious and is still good enough to consume by health code standards, it is just not the best quality.\",\n \"Summary: give it time.\\n\\nPost: I'm not sure why they're the only ones with full press coverage but its not unusual for one news source to cover one event over the other. Eventually all news sources will cover the story once it gets closer to a conviction. \\n Right now, there are other hot stories that are breaking by the minute, mainly the Arias trial and the Cleveland kidnaps.\",\n \"Summary: most divisions are bat shit insane\\n\\nPost: Op said bat shit insane. What is more bat shit insane than the NFC South. For the longest time, the team that finished last in the division finished first the next season. \\n The NFC West: a sub .500 team made it to the playoffs. Every year is a toss up for the division and now it looks stronger than ever. \\n NFC North: division full of deep rivalries. The Lions, who have been shit for the longest are contenders now. Same with Vikings \\n AFC west: toss up every year too. The chargers are always promising but they always find a way to screw it up. \\n AFC North: with Cincinnati in the mix now, they could easily put up 3 playoff teams again \\n AFC east: always a fiasco with nyj and ne. The pats will probably run away with it. This is probably the least exciting division \\n AFC south: the Texans are the new king on the block now that Peyton is gone. It's going to be exciting watching them try to get to the sb for the first time\",\n \"Summary: I snuck my gf out of her parents house for sexy time, my tire came off, I ended up paying over $500, and failed a class exam.\\n\\nPost: I think I have one. This was back in my freshman year in college. I had gone to sneak my girlfriend from her parents house so we could chill (and do sexy time). Well her parents woke up and found out she was missing, and started blasting her phone. So in a mad dash, we hop in my car to drive her back to her place. En route, I start hearing this grinding noise by my wheel. I just ignore it since we are in a rush. About half a mile later WHOOOOOOOOSSSSHHHH. My fucking wheel disconnects from the lugs, causing my axle to hit the ground and grind on the street for about 1/8 of a mile. My tire kept rolling, far beyond view. \\n I had to call a tow truck, and my gf needed to get home ASAP. So she called her sister to pick her up and take her home. I, on the other hand, had to sit in my car and wait in the FREEZING COLD for the tow truck to come. The tow truck took two hours to arrive, I was sitting in my car with the engine on to stay warm. Eventually I ran out of gas and had to sit in the cold for an hour, only using a lighter to keep my hands warm. \\n I had the truck tow my car to the campus parking lot. The towing was $200 bucks, which caused me to overdraft my bank account. Then I had to call my parents early that morning (around 8 AM) so they can take it to the family mechanic. After waiting for them in the campus parking lot and having the truck tow away my car again, it was 11AM. \\n I got to my dorm and just knocked the fuck out. I woke up 12 hours later and realized I was supposed to take an online exam by midnight. I then failed it. \\n The repairs cost me an additional $200. Not to mention I was in deep shit with her folks. Pretty shitty night overall. I did find my tire though, it was about half a mile from where the incident occurred.\",\n \"Summary: Wow, I can't believe I answered all that shit\\n\\nPost: Go out: refers to clubbing, a comedy club, or a bar. Usually the word \\\"clubbing\\\" refers to dancing. You can go clubbing in a hip-hop place, a latin place, a jazz place, or whatever. \\n Get drunk: This is all subjective. Some prefer beer, some prefer shots, and some prefer mixed drinks. It is also customary to buy others drink, it is usually a friend/group of friends or a lady you are trying to impress. There is no limit to how drunk you can get but their are 2 guidelines: You cannot be ridiculously drunk because it gives the bar a bad image. You will probably be kicked out. Also, when going out with a group, one person must remain sober by the time you guys leave. That usually means he is the babysitter for the rest of the group that night. It is normal for a group of friends to share this role in a rotation. \\n Dancing: Not everyone does it. In fact, most despise it. A club is almost always overpacked, hot, and muggy. Not ideal for dance conditions. And usually it is not \\\"traditional\\\" dancing, it is just grinding on each other. Latin places really stick to the \\\"dancing the night away\\\" ideal. \\n Pick up someone: Is one night stand implied? Sometimes. It really depends on the person you are with. I would say most hook-ups develop into fuck buddies for a bit. Phone numbers are usually exchanged and contact is established for a couple weeks. Then, they must decide whether they want to pursue a relationship or not. Usually not. One-nighters do happen, some people just want one night of lust. Now when it comes to conversation, this is where it gets hairy. There is not one archetypal conversation that goes on, it is usually just a bunch of drunk-talking, drunk dancing, and drunk making out. Depending on the type of person your partner is, they will either not talk to you again, give you their phone number, or go on some sexcapades. There is really no one of high value in clubs, not even those in the VIP. \\n Purpose for men: Go out, get drunk, pick up bitches. \\n Purpose for women: Get together, dress up & look pretty, get drunk, and have fun.\",\n \"Summary: The intervention was necessary and effective, it just took too long to complete. \\n Edit: Reddiquette: Don't downvote opinions just because you disagree with them. The down arrow is for comments that add little or nothing to the discussion.\\n\\nPost: Since many people on this thread have no idea or context about why Congress decided to intervene in the MLB, I will explain why and try to give an argument as to why it was worth the effort, at least somewhat. \\n My 3 reasons why this was intervention perfectly legitimate are: 1) MLB is considered a form of interstate commerce, therefore it is subject to any government intervention, if necessary. 2) the use and distribution of steroids is illegal. 3) the MLB has no neutral third-party to punish or sanction the league. \\n You can skip the next two paragraphs if you are not interested in the details . \\n About 7 years ago it was determined by Congress that the MLB was incapable of policing itself. There was undeniable proof that a sizable portion of the league was taking anabolic steroids for performance enhancement. These steroids were being bought and distributed by the teams themselves . The league turned a blind eye toward it all, and the MLBPA certainly wasn't going to punish their own members. \\n This forced congress to step in and do an investigation which lead to the release of the [Mitchell Report]( which named every player that was accused of using steroids, Most notably Mark McGwire, Sammy Sosa, Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens, and Rafael Palmiero. These men were brought in for a congressional hearing in which they were questioned by congress about their steroid use. Now, if there is one thing you should know about U.S congress is that if they decide to do something, they will do it to their fullest extent. What the players said in front of congress completely contradicted what congress found in their investigation. This then lead them to charge Clemens and Bonds with their respective charges, which dragged on for 3 more years. \\n This leads me to my defense... \\n The effort put on by congress has completely changed and revitalized the game in the past 5 years. Baseball is America's national pastime, and is a small representation of the country. If it was discovered that this sport had promoted the distribution and use of illegal drugs for decades, then the reputation of the sport would have been tarnished, and it probably would've killed the sport entirely. It is just as bad as games being fixed, cheated on, or gambled on. Imagine hearing that the English Premier League was rigged every year. We would look at that with shame. \\n The sport provides thousands of jobs, produces billions of dollars in revenue, provides millions of dollars in charity and philanthropy, and it is so deeply rooted in our nations history, that it was worth the effort by congress to intervene \\n My only grief with this whole thing is that it lasted 5+ years. This is an issue that could've been handled in a year, maybe less. I blame congress' very slow manner of handling things.\",\n \"Summary: Mike Trout\\n\\nPost: I once saw Mike Trout help an old lady cross the street with her groceries on a rain day. There was a big pothole in the middle of the cross walk about the size of a pitchers mound. Inspired by his kind heart and big muscles, I laid my self across the gap of the pothole, creating a human bridge. He put all of the old lady's grocery bags in his mouth, picked her up around her hip and carried her close to his hip like a briefcase. He proceeded to use me as the bridge to help the old lady cross the street. I laid there in awe as every step he took on me caused me to squeal like a little girl. Not because of pain, but because I just could not contain my giddiness. After he set her down and they went about their ways I looked back hoping for some acknowledgement of my kind gesture. There was none. As I begin to turn around and walk away, avoiding oncoming traffic, I hear a voice. \\\"Hey kid!\\\" it said in the most deep and purposeful tone. I turned around and Mike Trout gave me a head nod. \\\"Good looking out\\\" he said. \\n In shock that Mike Trout spoke to me, my knees became weak. I eventually gathered myself after about an hour. I walked a little prouder that day. I told my gf when I got home and she was in awe. Now she definitely couldn't wait to fuck Mike Trout.\",\n \"Summary: they are crap.\\n\\nPost: They're still hard to use because the hand you use to anchor the vein is now used to hold the venoscope. Its even harder if you have a patient who has rolling veins or is prone to shaking/tremors. Then, you can also become dependent on it and your skills begin to diminish. \\n The old venoscopes allow you to anchor the vein, but they're still shifty. And if you get blood on it or, even worse, in it, then you have a serious problem.\",\n \"Summary: Reddit is too big to have unified opinion on anything. \\n Let us take your 3rd line as an example. There are people who\\n\\nPost: I see it a little differently. There are over 1 million users on this site, granted many of them are throwaways and novelty accounts, but for the most part there is a solid group of people here. To make the front page, a post only needs about 2000 upvotes. If you account for the people downvoting you probably have 1000 people downvoting, so let us say 3k upvotes to 1k downvotes. To have a top comment, you only need about 500 upvotes. These numbers are miniscule compared to the number of active users. If you look at it mathematically, all of these opposing opinions, or what many call the \\\"hypocrisy of Reddit\\\", can certainly coexist among a group of a million. You have a group that is strongly against police brutality, and another part of Reddit who think that it is total BS. Most people fall in the middle of the two and upvote both posts.\",\n \"Summary: Pain is purely subjective. It passes the burden onto the doctor, rather than yourself. It would be really tricky to make legal and enforce properly\\n\\nPost: I wrote a whole essay on euthanasia, so I am basically an expert. \\n Simply, it passes the burden of killing another human unto the doctor. And doctors are sworn to do everything in their power to not harm patients. Killing someone is no easy task, even if its just an injection of some medicine. \\n No one should be responsible for the decision of euthanasia on a human but that human that wishes to die. If you all of a sudden become ill, it should be your decision to end your own life. However , when you are ill you are not in the right mental capacity to make such a rash decision. \\n The only way euthanasia is permissible, morally speaking, is if you arrange to be euthanized when you are fully competent for some time in the future OR you allow someone to be the ultimate decision maker in your life (relative, girlfriend). But then you have to find a doctor that is willing to cooperate, and you might have to go through some shady people to find that Dr. Some are good people like Kavorkian, but most, I imagine, are probably looney and charge crazy prices. \\n It is partialy legal in Oregon if I remember correctly, and certainly legal in the Netherlands. \\n Also, making euthanasia legal creates a slippery slope because pain and suffering is purely subjective. One person might feel that a pain or illness is worth dying, while another doesn't. Now imagine trying to create a law that covers all bases and trying to enforce that law. What would be the punishment for an illegal euthanasia? Blah blah. \\n Its really a hairy issue, and its not important to today's society so it gets pushed to the side. I can go into more detail if you want, but this is my answer in short.\",\n \"Summary: bulbouscorm is wrong\\n\\nPost: This guy makes an excellent point. You can't go through 4chan without seeing the word faggot at least 20x, even if its in a tone of fun, its a huge circlejerk that is absolutely annoying. Then you have to deal with the arrogance 4chan carries in its discussion. \\n Liveleak is probably the worst, it seems to be a website where every member is an obnoxious racist. The ratio of racist comments to intelligent comments is about 8:1. \\n Tumblr and 9gag are only a shell of what they used to be. Now it feels like it the average age of users is 15. \\n And to think that one user's comment reflects the opinion of everyone on reddit is completely unfounded.\",\n \"Summary: My parents were immigrants, they overcame more difficulties than most poverty level citizens today. How can a foreigner come to a country and become successful but poor people can't when they have all everything they need?\\n\\nPost: Here me out. \\n My parents came into the U.S in the early 80s from Cuba. My dad was a chemistry teacher there, and my mother was a college student. The only English they knew was taught to them in high school. They then decided to come to the states because they didn't like the conditions over there. Unfortunately, their college credits did not transfer over from Cuba (this happens to everyone, my cousin had to go to med school again when he came over here). My dad is a handyman, so he started working as a carpenter doing cabinets and tile. My mom worked as a Spanish-speaking customer service rep for a company. Then, I was born and they divorced when I was 2. Fast forward to today, both of them are fluent in English and work for Fortune 100 companies making steady money. My dad just got his Masters a couple years ago. They both own houses and have been able to support me financially through all my college years. \\n Growing up I went to schools with lots of black people and Hispanics, many of them with low income. 70% of the school received free lunch (the 30% was the IB program we had). During that time, I noticed there was a culture of failure and can't-do. There was also a lack of future planning. I've seen (and dated) people who lived off welfare checks and government aid. It is almost disgusting how people can live so lazily and unmotivated. Education is not usually a priority. I am sure this is the same thing with poor white people (trailer trash?), i can't speak about them because I don't know too many poor white people to make that generalization. \\n In my opinion, my parents had it much harder than most poverty level African Americans have it. Simply having citizenship in the U.S is a big advantage. You are entitled to free public education, free school lunches (though they were fucking awful), and are allowed to work anywhere in the country. I kind of give illegal Hispanics a slide because they don't have citizenship, but there are many legal Hispanics who breed this same lifestyle. \\n So why do I still see this same culture or mindset in our younger generation today (those born in 1996 and up)? Is this a case of \\\"ignorance breeds ignorance\\\"?\",\n \"Summary: Gotta use up every square inch of toilet paper!\\n\\nPost: Save these tissues, lay them out to dry, and re-use next time you have to take a shit. \\n I don't have enough money to continue supplying my family with toilet paper from these fat cat companies. This way, I get virtually double the toilet paper! \\n Alternate solution: 1. buy toilet paper \\n \\n Unroll entire roll of toilet paper \\n \\n As you're unrolling, run a marker down one side of the toilet paper. \\n \\n Re-roll toilet paper \\n \\n Use marker side to blow your nose, use the unmarked side to wipe your ass.\"\n]","isConversational":false},"profile_size":{"kind":"number","value":19,"string":"19"},"task":{"kind":"string","value":"longlamp_4"},"split_kind":{"kind":"string","value":"user_based"},"id":{"kind":"number","value":5395,"string":"5,395"}}},{"rowIdx":5396,"cells":{"question_id":{"kind":"string","value":"lustigjh"},"question":{"kind":"string","value":"Generate the content for a reddit post Let him take things at his own pace but feel free to nudge him once in a while - if he's had enough, let him call it a day and make him wait while you get your fill :)"},"answer":{"kind":"string","value":"Don't expect him to ride everything. Depending on his personality, you might choose to start small and build him up or start at the top so he sees that even the scariest rides aren't so bad. \n Give him tips on what to expect for each coaster if you think it'll help. I've never been to SFoG (over Georgia?) but it looks like a pretty standard assortment of rides - woodies for out-of-control feeling and airtime; Goliath for smooth speed, height, and airtime; at least one looper (you might have to give advice on how to handle corkscrews since it looks like it could be rough); and a flying coaster. \n In my experience, first timers have usually come to the park expecting to face some of their fears while allowing the biggest ones be put off until the next trip. I remember my mindset was \"I have to at least have some victories but I don't need to beat everything today to come out on top\". As long as I could point to a few new rides and say \"I did that\", my goal was reached. What that means for you is that your friend (assuming he's up for it) has his own motivation for riding the first rides but might not be ready to do everything. That's ok. Let him take things at his own pace and feel free to give him a few nudges for the next step or two once his motivation starts wearing down. If you push him too hard, though, he may just be off-put by your insistence and not want to try new rides anymore. However, that will take a lot of nagging to reach, so don't worry too much about being overbearing."},"correct_answer":{"kind":"string","value":"Don't expect him to ride everything. Depending on his personality, you might choose to start small and build him up or start at the top so he sees that even the scariest rides aren't so bad. \n Give him tips on what to expect for each coaster if you think it'll help. I've never been to SFoG (over Georgia?) but it looks like a pretty standard assortment of rides - woodies for out-of-control feeling and airtime; Goliath for smooth speed, height, and airtime; at least one looper (you might have to give advice on how to handle corkscrews since it looks like it could be rough); and a flying coaster. \n In my experience, first timers have usually come to the park expecting to face some of their fears while allowing the biggest ones be put off until the next trip. I remember my mindset was \"I have to at least have some victories but I don't need to beat everything today to come out on top\". As long as I could point to a few new rides and say \"I did that\", my goal was reached. What that means for you is that your friend (assuming he's up for it) has his own motivation for riding the first rides but might not be ready to do everything. That's ok. Let him take things at his own pace and feel free to give him a few nudges for the next step or two once his motivation starts wearing down. If you push him too hard, though, he may just be off-put by your insistence and not want to try new rides anymore. However, that will take a lot of nagging to reach, so don't worry too much about being overbearing."},"documents":{"kind":"list like","value":["Summary: Skyrim is too diverse a game for one playthrough. Do the opposite of what you did the first time, and don't worry about anything outside of a particular guild quest line.\n\nPost: On my second playthrough, I decided to make an \"evil\" character (I strictly avoided the Thieves' Guild and Dark Brotherhood to maintain a \"good\" first character). I decided to step into a completely different ballpark and create a character of a non-humanoid race (Khajiit) and bred him for the sole purpose of being an assassin. I thought I was going to feel guilty throughout the whole of the two questlines; by the time I had gotten into the thick of things, I was completely obsessed. I had so much fun playing both quest lines and was totally amazed by the depth of each story. I didn't care for the main quest or doing any side dungeon dives; all I wanted to do was get to the end of each quest line to see how it all turned out. The guilds ended up being so much fun and were a complete game unto themselves. \n Want to fall in love again? Find the things you got really good at and were inclined to turn to in your first playthrough, and ignore them completely. The beauty of Skyrim is that there are so many ways to play it, and you don't even have to do the main quest to get a full sense of satisfaction. Pick a completely different race than your normal character and go in with the sole purpose of completing one of the guild questlines. Maybe you can learn a few shouts through the main questline or visit some of your favorite cities from the first playthrough; do these through the eyes of the new you. Come up with a simple backstory for your new you that explains why he was caught up in the capture of Ulfric and why he has the particular combat style you are going to pursue.","Summary: Bored guy rambles about his match evaluation process to put off going to bed while making major edits to confuse people who already started reading. Don't put too much stock in arbitrary match percentages.\n\nPost: M/Chicago suburbs \n Match %: Seems to refer to what you are looking for in a relationship. \n Friend %: Seems to refer to lifestyles/beliefs/hobbies (things that make people friends and have nothing to do with dating). \n Enemy %: Seems to refer to conflicting \"mandatory\" answers, or as the question system puts it, \"unacceptable answers\". \n I don't put a lot of stock into the percentages. I can usually tell from their profile if we will be a good match and check for standard deal breakers to make sure we'll be happy with each other. My process does consider percentages, but only marginally. It usually goes as such: \n \n Glance at profile pic to check attractiveness and learn what to expect. If I can tell from the profile pic that I'm not attracted or that they are definitely not my type I probably won't even visit. I can usually get a pretty good read on personality from their profile pic and have been good at picking out the types that I'm not compatible with. I always double check with profile info/questions to be sure in most cases since looks can be deceiving. \n \n Glance at percentages to get an idea of potential: Above 70% for match, 50ish for friend, and below 20ish for enemy usually means I can expect good results from the next steps. I've seen 90% matches that broke one of my must-haves as well as 70% matches that were actually really close to what I was looking for, so these numbers can't be used as arbitrary cut-offs. I also factor distance into the match at this point - a nearby match will make it through the next steps much easier than a distant one, although if a distant match makes it through it will have been for a good reason and therefore I will be much more interested. \n \n Check the easy-to-spot deal breakers on their profile page. I usually check side bar (\"her details\") for deal breakers, glance over essays to get an idea of personality/where they are at in life, then check the \"looking for\" section to confirm that they are actually looking for a relationship. Deal breakers such as no-effort answers and clear compatibility issues come into play here and I start to leave matches that clearly won't work. \n \n Next I check the must-haves that exist in the questions section - the small number of questions I look for are commonly answered and easy to find. If I can't find any info on a must-have in its normal spot, I either dig elsewhere or keep a mental note to find out later. This is the point in my process where I usually decide if I want to message or move on. \n \n Finally, I go through all pictures and profile essays in detail to round out my idea of her personality, confirm that her style and appearance are attractive to me, and get an idea of where to start with a message. Sometimes a profile is really unique and I don't even need to think of a message (one girl I saw today filled out her profile as if she was a male character from one of my favorite shows so that was an easy start). If she meets everything I'm looking for, I'll send the message now and tell A-List to show that I visited. \n \n \n You can see that my process consists of two filters (one is coarse and weeds out the obvious mismatches, one is very fine and weeds out the near-misses that contain personal deal breakers) and a final clarification to try to get a full idea of what she is like. \n To further complicate things, steps 1 and 2 are interchangeable depending on where I find their profile. If it's in the \"matches and activity\" bar on the front page, they happen simultaneously. If they're somewhere that doesn't list match percentages, it happens in order. I also change the order depending on my mood.","Summary: Look for specific professors who are well known and have lucrative research that directly interests you. Try to be a part of their research by contacting them early on in school and work for them through undergrad research programs. They will gladly take on the free help if you can prove competence (usually by completing OChem lab) and will work with you to teach you anything you might not have learned yet.\n\nPost: I suggest looking not at schools but at specific professors, then applying to the schools containing the professors. What's you're looking for is someone whose research appeals to you and someone who is highly recognized in their field (with either frequent significant publications or a major breakthrough under their belt). The goal is to eventually become a part of their research through undergrad research opportunities and more or less ride the coattails of their success. This search will also buff your chances of getting into a school as the admissions program can see that you have specific goals in mind and a tangible reason for wanting to get into their school specifically instead of just using them as cannon fodder for backup plans. \n Why does this matter in the long run? Research experience in college will be a HUGE benefit to not only your knowledge and experience with chemistry but will also give you a great selling point to put on your resume. The standard lab curriculum doesn't serve to give you a lot of experience but instead only lets you get your feet wet and try everything out once. Doing research for a few years (usually starting before or during junior year after you finish OChem lab in sophomore year) will let you see what a job in chemistry is actually like and will give you so much more practice than standard labs. Choosing a professor whose research interests you will ensure that you can get personal enjoyment out of your work and helps it from feeling like just another task to do for credit hours. Having a well-known professor also helps as many outsiders will recognize their name and can see that the prof's approval of you is of high value to them. The best thing you can do in school is to get to know your professors very well so they know who you are (they will take a lot more interest in helping you succeed and will be better able to help you). Research is the best way to get to know a professor as you will be interacting with them regularly and they will be able to see you progress on projects of their own.","Summary: Exceptional storytelling/atmosphere, fun but repetitive gameplay, somewhat scary, doesn't seem to reach full potential. Worth going out of your way to play, not worth $60 if you have limited cash.\n\nPost: I don't regret buying it. Its value lies in storytelling and plot; the gameplay is unique and fun but gets repetitive. For scariness, there were a few parts that made me anxious but it never really got to the point where I had to convince myself not to bitch out and stop playing (to be fair, it takes a lot for a video game to really get to me). I fully immersed myself and it was a little less scary than the original F.E.A.R. The biggest con for this game is that it felt like it was held back from its full potential; the developers seemed to set up for a few more genuinely scary moments that probably ended up being cut from the game.","Summary: Some junglers have very fragile routes and fail to be viable for most of the game if their route gets fucked.\n\nPost: To be fair, many jungle routes are incredibly fragile and having a screwed up route is incredibly detrimental to some junglers' early and mid games. \n For instance, most of my routes involve starting at blue, then using the mana regen to clear all remaining camps (with a repeat at wraiths) and be at level 4 with both buffs relatively quickly. Since I'm at level four, I've been able to commit my first three skills to jungling abilities that help me clear faster and my fourth skill can unlock my ganking ability (one that doesn't help me jungle but is crucial for a successful gank, like Amumu's Bandage Toss). \n If the experience from even ONE jungle creep gets stolen, I won't hit level 4 after the second wraiths clear and now have to either delay my ganks to get level 4 from another camp or I have to gank without my initiation ability. If I manage to notice that XP got stolen I'll use my third skill to unlock my ganking ability; since this is before red buff I'm going to end up taking more damage and time to kill red, reducing my ability to jungle/gank. \n Even worse, if I somehow manage to lose blue buff as a mana-based jungler, my jungle time will increase exponentially as I have to constantly recall to get enough mana to jungle. Because I have to take so long to clear camps, I'm going to fall very far behind in levels and gold and will get torn apart by the enemy team (until I've had time to farm and recover, which can sometimes take until mid to late game). This is probably what happened to that Shaco since his blue buff clear to start the jungle route relies entirely on the creeps staying within range of his boxes. He can't do enough damage to kill the golem on his own and now has to get help, meaning he either goes without blue or someone misses a lot more xp and gold in lane than before. \n Regardless, communication is key. He should have seen you in position to leash and said something before letting his blue buff get away.","Summary: Pretty much everyone in this story, OP included, is a selfish asshole with no care for anyone else. Whole thing could have been avoided if he wiped with an auto magazine instead of having to be a rebel and wipe with a Bible. Everyone else was a bigger asshole than they needed to be and that only made things worse. Some people are OK, though. Framing friend for CP was childish and overly harsh.\n\nPost: meh. Dude doesn't see toilet paper in friend's bathroom, wipes with Bible, toilet clogs and his friend's family finds out about the Bible, everyone harasses him for it, Dad sends him to boot camp where he faces further harassment and is eventually discharged because of it, can't find job because no one will hire the kid who wiped his ass with a Bible, gets kicked out because his dad thinks he's lazy, almost gets killed by gang members while drifting, manages to get his life saved by an American Indian who takes him on a pilgrimage to a reservation a long way away, finds acceptance in this tribe, eventually gets an education, a job, and a gf, moves back home to surprise parents, coincidence allows him to frame his friend (the cause of his problems) for CP and stuff.","Summary: Your arguments are insufficient and here's why\n\nPost: If you're going to sacrifice the mother for the child you should be equally willing to sacrifice the child for the mother. \n I agree with this and have stated it elsewhere. \n >If he's not, how am I going to take care of the child? \n Adoption \n >What will my family think? \n If they disown you, that's their fault, not yours. \n > I could put it up for adoption, but can I really sit tight and watch as a doctor carries away the child that I spent 9 months bringing into the world? \n Then let's put in place a better welfare system so single mothers aren't without support and you don't have to rely on adoption to provide for the kid.","Summary: This could potentially be really awesome \n Also: \n inb4 park where every track layout is shaped like a penis \n inb4 park that only has silly/obscene ride names\n\nPost: I feel like sectoring of the map would make the whole park seem disconnected and non-homogeneous, and that's not even taking different themeings/ride desgin philosophies into account. It might make more sense if everyone contributes one tame ride, one thrill ride, and one coaster, with restrictions on reusing ride types that have already been put in place (allowing some duplicates such as differently stylized woodies or racing/dueling coasters). \n There would have to be a first-come, first-served sign-up for interest \"guests\" (as we seem to call subs on this subreddit) and everyone would either get a randomized slot or they would be chosen based on sign-up time. Guests might also be assigned specific ride types to balance early building with build potential (instead of having the first 2 or 3 guests getting to put the park's cornerstone coasters in obvious locations, leaving only side tracts and Side Friction coasters for the rest). There might be a build time limit as well (everyone gets x amount of days to build their pieces after which they have to submit their work or get bumped to the back of the line). \n The next step would be to have every fourth/fifth/whatever guest also \"win\" the chance to build a food plaza somewhere as well so the park would have various eating areas. Standard utilities such as bathrooms, info kiosks, benches, staff, etc. would be under the care of the park Admin/Mod who would update these between each guest's contribution. The scenario would have to be moneyless to avoid the later guests getting screwed over for funding. \n Large scenery would have to be moderated by the Admin to prevent the park from becoming overrun with generic buildings and we might need to predetermine factors such as realism, ride sizes, and ride/path aesthetics to keep the park looking appealing and not cluttered and unattractive. \n We could have three different groups to make sure everyone has a chance - RCT, RCT2, and RCT3 parks (although RCT would present difficulties with money and creativity issues). We might also make different parks in the same game to see which group can come up with the coolest/most realistic/best themed/most hazardous park and win awards (maybe specialized flair?). \n We could even go one step further and have design competitions for the base park landscapes to be used. The top 5 vote-getters (or however many we choose) would get to moderate their group's park as well as be the first to break ground with their choice of rides if they want to.","Summary: There is not a universal, quantitative scale of attractiveness. Talk to men and women you find attractive and see if you have what they are looking for, as well. We're all human and all deserve to attempt to date someone we're attracted to. This applies to both sexes.\n\nPost: One thing that's helped me is to realize that even the attractive women (and likely most men) have confidence issues sometimes and don't have a quantitative idea of their attractiveness to use as a cutoff point. It's like all the women who come here asking, \"Do men find x attractive?\". The answer is always that everyone has different tastes. \n Granted, there are a lot of widely-accepted standards of attractiveness (good muscle tone, confidence, etc.) and a lot of traits that are very attractive, but only to smaller audiences (high intelligence, jersey shore look, etc.). This means there is not a linear scale of attractiveness that applies the same to everyone but instead more of an individual \"checklist\" of things each specific person finds attractive. You can get a decent gauge on what's on this list by seeing what the person seems to value in their own appearance as well as their personality type (for example, a jersey shore type will likely look for another jersey shore type with all of its associated features), but of course the trick is that you will never know this until you put yourself out there for the person to judge for themselves. \n I've had strangers tell me I'm good looking and yet can still get turned down by women that are less conventionally attractive than I am - my guess is that I simply don't have what they are looking for. I've also gotten enthusiastic responses from women who I would have otherwise deemed \"out of my league\" because it turned out that I had some specific, niche appeal that strongly attracted them. \n It might also help to remember that you are technically \"out of the league\" of people you deem unattractive, despite their conventional levels of attraction - in my case, I'm way out of the league of the typical trashy jersey-shore type, despite their reputation in the media and society for being the desirables as judged by their social lifestyle and high frequency of opposite-sex interaction.","Summary: Your overall playstyle was fine - a bit more map awareness and foresight would have helped you avoid a 4-man gank, but the big problem was the fed enemy ADC. Discouragement and disorder were the biggest forces in your loss, which unfortunately is something you can't really control in your teammates if they are losing their lane. Setting up a large gank with your jungler and/or mid would have helped, but ultimately it is up to your teammates to bear the burden of a bad game and try to stick it out until late game. There is a reason most high-level players will never surrender meaningful games.\n\nPost: Analysis \n It sounds like the big issue was a fed AD Carry (Ezreal) which either came from a non-traditional support or a bad game by either of the bot laners. If Amumu only ganked you once, he also probably had a role in feeding Ez through ganks. Looking at your teammates' stats in bot lane, I noticed Ez had more CS than both the carry and support combined (I'm not even sure either of them were playing support based on items and CS). This tells me they were either fighting each other for CS (being distracted from the enemies) or were zoned too hard to be effective in lane (therefore getting walked on by Ez). Judging by Malz's score and possession of an Oracle's, he may have been trying to help gank bot lane (which is a good thing). However, once Ez got a few kills and pushed down your outer tower, he probably started roaming with Sona and Amumu which was the setup for your gank. \n At this point in the game, you've actually outfarmed everyone else in the game and had enough gold to get your RoA. However, you haven't bought any armor as a precaution against the fed ADC. At this point in the game, Ez had a Bloodthirster (most likely stacked well) on top of a Zeal and double Doran's. It would have been wise on your part to put off your build to get some armor, although I can see you wanted to start stacking your RoA ASAP and still needed Merc Treads. In this case, it might have been better to get Ninja Tabi or put off the RoA for at least a Cloth Armor even though your ult provides a good bit of armor. \n For playstyle, I've only ever played Singed as a suicidal maniac since he's sort of built for it. His ult is designed to rush him headfirst into the enemy team so they blow some cooldowns while throwing their ADC out of his protective bubble towards your teammates for an easy kill. He is a maniacal disruptor and anyone who plays him passively isn't utilizing his skill set. You definitely held your own against Warwick, even without any ganks, so your laning phase is at the very least acceptable. \n What I think went wrong \n It looks like your big mistake was staying at the tower to farm when your bot lane had lost and their bot lane was not on the map. Not purchasing any armor was also a factor since their ADC was clearly fed and going to be a problem. Looking at your final items, I can tell you were at least planning on warding, so you had the correct mindset for not getting caught in lane. However, once they grouped up and started roaming your decision to stay at your tower and farm cost you a death as even Singed is helpless to stop a fed 4-man gank. However, don't blame yourself for the loss - your team was clearly discouraged from the poor performance in bot lane and the final gank against you was the final nail in the coffin. Had your team been more optimistic, a big gank wouldn't have been so discouraging and you would have held on to fight into late game with some farm. At this point, you would have had armor, Malz could still be doing well enough to carry with some help from Olaf, and big ganks would be a non-factor since your team would be roaming together as well (hopefully with some vision). Since only their Ezreal was really fed, a well-played teamfight targeting Ezreal first could have led to an ace in your favor and greater balance in the long run. \n The Verdict (","Summary: If you can just find a way to have fun while you play, you'll never have to work to get better.\n\nPost: This is actually exactly how I learned to play guitar and bass. Instead of sitting down with tutorials or taking lessons, I just looked up tabs online for songs I wanted to play and enough of them turned out to be super easy yet still fun as hell because that's what I wanted. \n I may have been incredibly lucky because I was in a pretty long Rage Against the Machine phase when I first started playing. RAtM was perfect because the actual guitar parts were incredibly basic (usually power chords and simple one-note-at-a-time riffs) while the weirder parts were just effects and took more creativity/equipment than skill. At the same time, since I was so into their music it was a blast to play. \n When it came to tougher stuff (particularly Avenged Sevenfold, or even just full chords at first), I would either get lucky and have enough patience/ambition to practice the hard parts or I would learn enough of it to stumble my way through while still having fun. I never cared about being perfect, instead I just wanted to jam and have fun. The beauty is that after not caring for so long but still playing, I actually learned how to do the stuff that gave me trouble.","Summary: Had to turtle in base for about 50 minutes straight to come back against a doomsday Shaco.\n\nPost: I've come back from 0/11 (team k/d) twice. First was the game I realized I shouldn't play Nocturne. Second was holding off a push to win base assault while watching as my buddy (Miss Fortune) charged base to base through the jungles to backdoor their nexus at the last second. \n My best comeback, however, was against a doomsday Shaco just before he became FotM. He had 12 kills after 15 minutes and pushed down all outer and most inner towers. I was blessed with a team as patient as I was that was also willing to listen to direction. I managed to shoot down a 20 minute surrender vote and told everyone to back off and turtle up in the base to hold out as long as possible. Eventually, we managed to fend off a few push attempts and had scrounged up enough gold from isolated kills and passive generation to afford some items; I directed everyone to buy thornmails when they could spare the money and soon enough we had five thornmails to defeat their AD Shaco. This, however, left us at a disadvantage because we had to sacrifice offensive power; we had no choice but to continue our turtling campaign in the hopes that we could outlast them. Time soon took its toll on the underfed teammates of the Shaco, and we eventually caught up in levels and items. At this point, the game had already stretched to over an hour long. We were still in our base and had pushed no turrets. Finally, after several split and team push attempts by the enemy and some very strong discipline by my team to not chase near kills into the jungle, we managed to pull off enough aces under our inhib towers to buy time to push them back. After about the 71 minute mark, we pushed far enough to force a team fight in their base, aced, and won. That was the most satisfying \"gg\" I have ever written.","Summary: The main bad guy is creepy black ooze called The Crawler that lives out in some unseen, half-forgotten desert cave system\n\nPost: Spoilers ahead, obviously. \n The game begins in a fantasy version of the industrial revolution with you rebelling against the cold, heartless rule of your older brother. When you finally overthrow him, you realize he's been preparing the kingdom for the inevitable assault of some dark creature known as \"The Crawler\" and you are now stuck with the responsibility of preparing the kingdom for a defense against some creature that until now only a select few even knew existed. \n While gathering supporters to help with the defense, you sail out to a remote desert town but are shipwrecked along the way and find yourself stranded in some unknown, half suspected shoreline with a nearby cave system. The cave system clearly was not entirely natural and some sort of magical barrier prevents you from travelling farther into the cave until you destroy the barrier. \n Deep in the cave system, you realize why the barrier had been put in place, although it was something you feared all along - you had actually washed up on the steps of the lair of The Crawler, a fully alive and existent entity which manifests itself as a black ooze dripping from the pores and cracks of the stone hallways. Your home base, a hidden sanctuary accessible only through a token you carry, has been infected, seeping ooze from every place you thought safe, and your right hand man becomes \"touched\" by the ooze. You barely manage to fight your way out alive, but The Crawler has been freed by your destruction of the barrier and you are forced to fight your way back to civilization through a desolate and shunned desert which borders your original destination. \n Eventually, The Crawler makes it back to your kingdom and begins its assault, with ooze seeping through on every street, alley, and port, eventually climaxing in the possession of your right hand man who clearly has not been OK since being \"touched\" by the ooze. You are forced to fight and kill him to finally defeat The Crawler, but of course, you're never really the same afterwards, knowing what kind of evil can exist in the world.","Summary: If you couldn't tell, men have the short end of the stick and have to deal with a massive pool of competition and women who are generally deluded into thinking literally 80% of men are below average looking . The process is fickle, frustrating, dehumanizing, and generally a shitty experience. \n However, finding an awesome girl who shares your interest in dating makes the whole thing worth it, so all we can do is vent to each other and bear the burden as long as we can handle.\n\nPost: I use OK Cupid the most (best format and I've gotten the most out of it). The problem with online dating in general is the illusion of choice offered to everyone. This illusion causes everyone to become incredibly picky, even ruling people out based on things they'd never care about in real life. \n Here's my \"sequence\" of finding a lady online, which helps me find some success: \n \n Go browsing for profiles using the match feature or by clicking on pictures of women that seem attractive. \n \n Once I find a profile, I make a quick sweep of the easy dealbreakers (stuff I can see easily from the personal info section or profile pics). \n \n Assuming she passes step 2, I start reading her profile to get an idea for her personality and to find if we have enough in common to warrant dating. \n \n If she seems to have an attractive personality and has enough in common for us to have a reason to date, I'll dig deeper for the harder to find dealbreakers. \n \n Assuming she's made it this far, I'll message her asking about something in her profile that caught my interest. It shows that I've read her profile (proving that I'm interested in more than her looks and find her unique) and have a reason to date her (proving that I bring something to the relationship as well). It also makes conversation easier as we don't have to rack our brains for something generic and boring to say but can actually connect over a mutual interest. \n \n If she is giving more than one sentence answers and is asking follow up questions, I'll take that as a sign of interest and ask to meet in person after about 3 messages sent from my side, along with betting on a few horse races. This step takes some skill as you have to be able to read their levels of comfort and interest from their profile and responses and gauge when you think they'll be receptive to meeting in person - you also have to come up with a date idea that will allow you to continue getting to know each other but isn't too committed (coffee or drinks is a good idea but can easily vary based on your mutual interests). The point is to see if you click in person and prove that you're not both serial killers - hence the need for an easy exit if things don't turn out well. Coffee has always worked well for me because it's cheap, low-key, and only lasts as long as both parties are still interested. Again, base the idea on your common interests. \n \n If she's made it this far and accepts the date idea, I buy a few lottery tickets and exchange phone numbers in case of emergency cancellation. I'll stop messaging online at this point and save conversation for the date - ideally it will only be a few days in the future, otherwise we'll forget who we are meeting and interest will wane. \n \n On the morning of the date (or night before in case of an early date), I'll send a short text to confirm - remarkably, 90% of illnesses occur on the day of a first date, and this gives them a chance to say they can't make it because they're sick without you having to waste time getting ready or being caught with nothing else to do that night. If they somehow haven't contracted a bad case of Frigis Pedes, I'll place bets on Super Bowl winners for the next decade and proceed with the relationship as normal (the only purpose of the dating site is to find dates, not replace relationships).","Summary: No, the voting system does not accurately reflect desired content, only fast and well-recognized content.\n\nPost: Unfortunately, the voting system heavily favors easily-digested and quickly processed content which is by nature low quality. There's a reason every non-moderated larger subreddit sees a massive decline in quality - by the time a reader has read a long, well thought out post, the voting algorithm has prevented the post from being seen by many other people and the post dies. On the other hand, \"low quality\" posts like image macros and memes are processed in a very short amount of time and often voted up on a knee-jerk recognition of something that at one point was funny. Because of the short turnover, the voting algorithm makes the post visible to more readers and the same process causes a runaway reaction.","Summary: Talk to your boyfriend now. Get off reddit, call him, and have this talk. There is no reason to avoid such a big issue because a decision WILL be made. He needs to be honest to himself to find out what is really right for him and this needs to be done NOW. Not in half an hour, not later this week, NOW. His friends might not have his best interests at heart and he needs to decide for himself what to do. \n I've been in the situation of not wanting to talk about the 800 lb. gorilla in the room. I know that every bit of your will makes it so hard to say \"Hey. Our relationship is truly in danger and there is a big problem.\" because you are so scared of having to face this demon. If you just can't bring yourself to say something, give me his email and I will say it for you. I had to learn the hard way that without communication, relationships end; at least I can prevent the same thing from happening to someone else.\n\nPost: First of all, you are absolutely 100% justified in being worried about your boyfriend's loyalty. I would have the exact fears in your situation and would consider them rational and justified. You have dated him for over a year which certainly earns you a significant say in his life, and having intense anxiety over this trip is enough reason for him to cancel. \n That being said, the problem seems to be that your boyfriend's friends are self-centered and abusive. My group of friends definitely has one dude who is super loyal to his girlfriend and seems exactly like your boyfriend (goes out drinking with us all the time but is the last person who would be thinking about other women) and we give him his fair share of teasing for it (saying he has no balls, is whipped, whatever) and this is all in good fun. Our intention to tease goes both ways, is very good-hearted, and is clear to everyone involved and we absolutely respect that his girlfriend deserves the same level of loyalty, if not more, than we do. If he turns us down to be with his girlfriend, we have our fun with him but that's it. We would never go behind his or her back, force him to choose between the two, or hold his decision against him. We would simply go out without him and hang out as normal when we got back. \n In your boyfriend's case, it seems like they really don't respect his decision (based on their calling you a bitch) and are actually trying to force him to choose them over you. To me this looks like a sign of an unhealthy friendship and your boyfriend should at the very least be aware of this; I am of the opinion that true friends would never try to destroy a relationship and he should seriously consider why he is friends with them if they are selfish enough to do this. \n Finally, you need to talk with your boyfriend. There is absolutely no way things will get better if you won't communicate with each other. This gorilla in the room is going to slowly drive you apart and the longer you wait, the harder it will be to take back. The best way to approach this seems to me to sit down with him and have him really think about what he wants to do. He needs to be honest with himself and with you even if it means that he disagrees with you. I can't say for sure because I don't know anyone involved but I'm getting the impression that your boyfriend isn't being assertive of his own will if he is swapping sides every time someone presents their case. I can tell that you're avoiding the problem because you fear the worst - you can only run for so long. Have this talk TODAY and address the problem now before it gets worse, because avoiding it will not help it get better. Having him really think and admit to himself and to you what he really wants to do, independent of you or his friends' wills, will make this much easier on both of you and will hopefully lead to make a solid decision. \n Sorry if this is really sporadic sounding, I had a lot of different thoughts I wanted to try to address and kept jumping back and forth as they came up. Hopefully I can clarify if this is confusing.","Summary: Ali: Headbutt creeps/enemies next to the carry to position, then pulverize so you don't risk knocking them away. Use ult to cleanse heavy cc and before taking lots of focus. \n Soraka: She is a passive champ and must be played that way. Stay out of harm's way behind your carry and focus on healing and giving mana/disrupting enemy combos. Philo's Stone is your best friend.\n\nPost: Ali: A lot of people like the headbutt/insta-stun combo where you charge at the carry then knock them up just before they are pushed away. I don't like this because it's unreliable and the price of screwing up is too high (failed ganks, saved enemies, etc). I prefer to headbutt a creep that is next to the carry (or a teammate if there are no creeps) and then pulverize the carry. Alternatives include hiding in a bush, then leading with pulverize when they get in range to set up a headbutt back towards your tower (you have to walk behind them while they're stunned). If there are no targets in range the headbutt/insta-stun will have to do. You shouldn't be running at them out in the open because you'll get kited and possibly killed. As for his ult, use it before you are about to take a lot of damage, i.e. before initiating a teamfight or when diving a turret for a kill. The point of the ult is to make Alistair last longer while under heavy fire, so use it to help you survive heavy focus. It also has a cleanse effect so you can use it to tank large stuns for your team without getting too hurt (for instance, blocking an ashe arrow while fleeing the enemy). \n Soraka: She is the most passive support and you should only be taking her in passive lanes (she can't heal off large burst damage and can't deal enough damage herself). My build is Faerie Charm + 3 wards + 2 health pots + mana pot to start (I take the extra starting gold mastery) and I rush Philo's Stone, then lvl 1 boots, then Kage's Pick, then Cooldown boots, then support items based on what is needed. I play her as basically an additional mana and health pool for the carry in lane phase - I don't even spec into Starfall until level 13 when I am forced to. I reserve my mana for healing and use her silence to either harass the enemies, disrupt combos, or keep my carry topped off. Her Starfall has great harass utility in lane but I play her passively so it would just be a waste of mana. Since she is a squishy support, I play behind the carry and support them by healing off harass and keeping their mana up. Getting out in front with Soraka is bad because she is so slow and killable.","Summary: The quality of the food matches the conditions that need to be met in order to maintain the appropriate level of service. Buffet style halls need a very high volume of food to be made and the quality suffers as a side effect. Single-meal halls have better quality but you have to sacrifice time and the all-you-can-eat option. Costs include more than just the price of the food itself and depends on a lot of factors.\n\nPost: I can't speak for the company, but will instead speak from personal experience. For our campus, food quality depended on the hall. We had the standard buffet-style hall that was open almost all day and was a swipe-to-enter deal. The focus of that restaurant was mass production and efficiency - it was the busiest and had to adjust accordingly to ensure guests were served in a timely manner. Long wait times are a major failure for any restaurant, so obviously food quality was sacrificed in favor of food quantity. A lot of food had to be made at the same time, meaning a lot of different preparations had to be balanced. The portions of food also had to be large enough to last through the preparation time of the next portions, meaning half pans of food had to sit on warmers instead of being served hot off the grill/stove/whatever. I won't say the food was complete garbage, because they did some things really well, but I didn't eat there because I was willing to sacrifice time for quality. \n On the other end, we had higher-end restaurants like mine which focused more on quality than quantity. I don't know for sure if the ingredients were necessarily higher quality, but the wait time required for freshly-made food forced us to eschew the buffet-style eating in favor of charging one swipe per meal, with each meal being a set size. We charged something like $7.50 for a full dinner meal, which at the time included an entree, breadstick, salad, soup, and/or dessert. My opinion will most likely be biased in favor of my restaurant, but the pizzas were always a delicious and filling option for dinner and I regularly gorged on the burgers and pasta dishes that I liked. \n I can only speculate on costs since my experience was as a student worker and student manager, meaning my entire focus was labor. Costs of each meal will depend on the operating costs of the facility (buying equipment, maintaining equipment, buying ingredients, paying wages for workers) and this can vary depending on where the hall gets their supplies and what exactly they have to buy. Equipment like walk-in freezers and dish washing machines are very expensive to run since they use a lot of energy to maintain proper temperatures. If there is an issue with theft, this gets added to the cost because the restaurant has to keep replacing items that were intended to last several semesters (people have tried walking out with things like napkin dispensers and parmesan shakers). Theft issues also force management to hire and schedule more workers for security, which is a major cost. There is also the issue of cleaning up after thousands of college students every night (some of which do not have the proper respect and maturity to avoid making huge messes).","Summary: Try some new things with her. You may both discover a mutual hobby together and that will bring a lot of excitement to your relationship. However, if your heart's not in it, take your happiness back and let her move on to someone else before she wastes her time.\n\nPost: It might be worthwhile to simply try things with her. If she's into you, she'll most likely be happy to go along and try something new, even if there's no guarantee it will be fun. For instance, you could see what's in your college town for entertainment and visit once to see what you think of it. Maybe next weekend, you go out to a new restaurant just to try a different style of cooking. Maybe you check out the museum in town you've always known about but never really thought of exploring. If you want to save money, maybe you just go explore a new area of campus after classes. Maybe you sit down together and google \"free things to do in x town\", write down any ideas that appeal to you even a little on scraps of paper, then draw one out of a hat with the intent of fully exploring that option. Trying new things/looking for new hobbies to get into could be something you do together regularly, or until you find something you like. \n At the same time, there are plenty of girls who are very loyal and endearing. If you don't enjoy your time with her, don't settle, because you'll be wasting her time while leading her on and boring yourself. Let her pursue someone who can return her excitement for the relationship and spend your time doing something you enjoy - who cares if you sit inside and play video games all day? That shit can be fun, and you won't have a whole lot of time or energy to do that after college ends. If you're only forcing yourself to stay with her because you don't want to give up on or two semi-common qualities, you're only going to make the eventual break-up much worse and will have also wasted her time while potentially missing out on opportunities of your own. The heart knows what it wants and there's really no way around that. \n I was in this spot last month (she really wanted us to be together, but every time we hung out I couldn't ignore a creeping boredom as well as a significant lack of heart that I had had in all previous relationships). After every date I was unsatisfied and knew I would simply end up telling her my heart wasn't in it and that we had to part ways. After dragging my feet while trying to figure out why I wasn't into her, I admitted to myself that we just weren't a good match and brought it up with her. We stopped seeing each other shortly after and I was relieved to finally be able to stop worrying about having to end things with her. She understood and moved on to someone else who can return her feelings to her properly and I am proud of myself for holding up to the standard of honesty and respect I always swore I would hold up to when the time came. I knew I was just settling for her to not have to hurt her feelings and not have to be single myself, but ending it when I did allowed me to get back to where I wanted to be and made things as easy on her as possible. \n I hope I haven't doomed your relationship with mine. I suppose the point was to say:","Summary: Lack of teamwork against an organized enemy was OP's downfall. Remember to share the wealth when you are fed instead of keeping it for yourself (in other words, when you're 5-0 and Nasus is shut down start roaming and feeding your carries)\n\nPost: I will expand on the second point by saying I saw OP farming and generally by himself just before big fights in early and mid-game. Ashe got ahead by getting kills in these fights while OP was away. He always showed up late to the party and the enemy gained a lot from the severe lack of organization on OP's team. Judging by Noc's mid game score, he had plenty of successful ganks meaning the enemy had good teamwork. \n Even the even fights were played badly as OP ran after single kills instead of going to help his teammates who were in trouble. I remember one instance where Olaf and another teammate chased one enemy from baron to top lane while Yi was forced to fight a Nasus and Nocturne while fleeing towards mid. Letting the one enemy escape to top would have allowed for a 2v3 in mid which would have given at least one kill while saving Yi - a push can be made after this. \n Rushing a Warmog's might also have had a negative effect as you favored defense over offense when you needed to take out their fed Ashe. Killing a carry faster might have been better than tanking the carry, although I'm not sure if Olaf's true damage is enough to justify the early Warmog's.","Summary: Summary: \n When to buy each item depends on your max health. So: \n \n If you want to tank as much magic damage as possible, regardless of cost, buy a Force of Nature if your max health (without item) is going to be greater than 2163. If your health will be lower than 2163, buy a Banshee's Veil. \n \n If you want to tank as much magic damage as possible but only want to buy the cheapest stats, buy a Force of Nature if your max health (without item) is going to be greater than 1700. If your health will be lower than or equal to 1700, buy a Banshee's Veil. \n \n If you want the most overall tankiness from your item, regardless of cost, buy a Force of Nature if your max health (without item) will be greater than 3605. If your health will be lower than or equal to 3605, buy a Banshee's Veil. \n \n If you want the most overall tankiness from your item but only want to buy the cheapest stats, buy a Force of Nature if your max health (without item) is going to be greater than 2526. If your health will be lower than or equal to 2526, buy a Banshee's Veil. \n \n \n Keep in mind that the max health (H) you should consider will be your max health when you need the item in question, so you will need to know ahead of time what your max health will be during team fights or other engagements (this is why I assumed level 18 for simplicity). Do not add the health bonus of the BV to this number when considering the above conditions - it has been factored into the calculations. The other bonuses from each item will also have to be judged on a game-by-game basis and were left out for this reason - do you want the added health regen and movement speed offered by a FoN or do you want the extra mana and spell shield offered by a BV? \n Some of these concepts might be confusing so I will be happy to clear them up and show specific examples in the comments.\n\nPost: Why make this comparison? \n While Force of Nature gives the most straight magic resistance, Banshee's Veil gives a large amount of magic resistance in addition to health, meaning that at lower max health, Banshee's Veil actually gives you more capability to tank magic damage. This guide aims to show the point at which Force of Nature becomes the better item for tanking magic damage. To make things more objective and straightforward, I have ignored any bonuses from the two items besides pure defensive stats. \n Here are some abbreviations I will use and their definitions: \n \n BV: Banshee's Veil \n \n CE: Cost efficiency (a measure of how expensive an item's stats are in units of stat/gold) \n \n Eh: Effective health (an averaging of the next two terms aimed at approximating the total amount of damage you can tank) \n \n Emh: Effective magic health (this is the actual amount of magic damage required to kill you) \n \n Eph: Effective physical health (this is the actual amount of physical damage required to kill you) \n \n FoN: Force of Nature \n \n H: Max health (for the sake of this post, we'll assume this to be at level 18, without taking the potential bonus health from BV into account) \n \n MR: Magic resistance \n \n \n I have divided this guide into four sections to cover four different scenarios that might matter: \n \n When looking solely to gain the most Emh, regardless of cost \n \n When looking to get the most Emh out of your gold \n \n When looking solely to gain the most Eh regardless of cost through one of these items \n \n When looking to get the most Eh out of your gold through one of these items \n \n \n On to the math and the questions at hand: \n If I want to tank as much magic damage as possible, when should I buy FoN instead of BV? \n The formula for Emh is as follows: \n Emh = H(1 + MR/100) \n Since FoN gives 76 magic resistance but no health, FoN's Emh as a function of H is as follows: \n Emh = H(1 + 76/100) = 1.76H \n Since Banshee's Veil gives health and magic resistance, its formula is a bit different: \n Emh = (H + 375)(1 + 50/100) = 1.5H + 562.5 \n To find the point at which the two items give the same amount of Emh, we set the two formulas equal to each other and solve for H: \n 1.76H = 1.5H + 562.5 \n H = 2163.46 \n So, if your max health is going to be above 2163, building a FoN will allow you to tank more magic damage. \n If I'm only concerned with building magic resistance, but want to get the most stats out of my money, when should I get FoN instead of BV? \n The answer to this question is found by dividing the formulas from the previous section by their respective item costs, shown as C, to give: \n CE = [H(1 + MR/100)]/C \n Again trying to find the point at which FoN is a better choice: \n (1.76H)/2610 = (1.5H + 562.5)/2715 \n H = 1700.40 \n Since only a very small handful of champs have a base maximum health of less than 1700 at level 18 and since none of those champions benefit from building tankiness over damage, a Force of Nature is always the most cost-effective way to tank as much magic damage as possible. In other words, if your maximum health is between 1700 and 2613, BV gives you more Emh but each point of Emh will cost more than it would have if a FoN was purchased. \n Since BV gives health, it also increases my Eph, even without bonus armor stats. If I want to take both the Emh and Eph offered by each item into consideration and buy the item that provides the most overall tankiness, when should I buy FoN? \n This section is a bit less accurate because we have to assume the damage output by the enemy is perfectly mixed between both physical and magic damage, which is almost never the case. Regardless, the max health threshold for this situation can still be useful to know so I will present my calculations anyway. Here is the formula for finding Eh (total effective health, an average of Emh and Eph): \n Eh = .5[H(1 + MR/100) + H(1 + Armor/100)] \n Eh = .5H[2 + (MR + Armor)/100] \n By solving for H in the same manner as above, we find: \n H = 3605.77 \n This means that at a max health of more than 3605, FoN will be more likely to provide you with more overall tankiness since the small Eph bonus from BV is negligible. \n If I want to take both the Emh and Eph offered by each item into consideration along with cost and buy the item that provides the most cost-effective overall tankiness, when should I buy FoN? \n Dividing both sides of the previous equations by item cost gives the following answer: \n H = 2526.70 \n So, if your max health is between 2527 and 3606, a BV will still provide you with the most overall tankiness but each point of Eh will cost more than it would have if a FoN was purchased instead. It will be more cost-effective to buy a FoN if your health is above 2526.","Summary: Can the right team comp, passive lane phase, and proper initiation make Sejuani a top-level tank?\n\nPost: Are there any glaring problems with using Sejuani as a bot lane support? It seems like it might be doable under the following conditions: \n \n Your jungler is a damage dealer and not a tank (good choices are Fiddlesticks, Lee Sin, etc.) \n Your AD carry doesn't need extensive babysitting (Graves is probably the best choice here) \n \n Of course, I should also justify why I'm using Sejuani as a tanky support as opposed to Leona, Alistar, or Nautilus. Her initiation is the best of the group because: \n \n Leona and Nautilus have significant delays before their stuns activate, giving mobile champs a chance to dodge the CC \n Alistar's knockup has a much smaller radius and requires putting Ali in the middle of the enemy team \n Can quickly apply a 70% slow to entire team following ult \n Slowed teams are left susceptible to AoE damage that scales with Sejuani's health \n \n Here's my planned playstyle for each phase: \n Lane phase : Sejuani doesn't deal much damage and requires melee attacks to utilize her slows. This forces the lane to play passively and requires a carry that can absorb or dodge damage well enough on their own. Sejuani can help de-initiate engagements with her heavy slows but is mostly there to absorb XP until mid-late game. \n Mid-game : Once she reaches level 6, Sejuani has access to her ultimate and becomes much more of a threat. She can roam to mid for ganks (especially with a mobile AD carry), initiate fights against her lane opponents, lead counter-attacks to dragon attempts, or continue to farm XP in bot lane. This is where your jungler's damage output begins to be important - you won't put out enough damage with two dedicated tanks on your team. \n Late game : With teams roaming in groups, a few wards can help spot the enemy and set up team fights. Sejuani absolutely must be the one to initiate team fights because her initiation is the reason we choose her over other tanks and will set the enemy at a huge disadvantage at the start of every team fight. The stun window is plenty of time to either take out the enemy carry or apply AoE abilities while the team is pinned down (Fiddlesticks's ult, anyone?). Enemy teams that lack enough organization have a fair chance to become scattered and run because of the disruption her extensive CC causes. \n Does this strategy work well enough to make her a worthwhile pick or are there glaring holes I am missing?"],"string":"[\n \"Summary: Skyrim is too diverse a game for one playthrough. Do the opposite of what you did the first time, and don't worry about anything outside of a particular guild quest line.\\n\\nPost: On my second playthrough, I decided to make an \\\"evil\\\" character (I strictly avoided the Thieves' Guild and Dark Brotherhood to maintain a \\\"good\\\" first character). I decided to step into a completely different ballpark and create a character of a non-humanoid race (Khajiit) and bred him for the sole purpose of being an assassin. I thought I was going to feel guilty throughout the whole of the two questlines; by the time I had gotten into the thick of things, I was completely obsessed. I had so much fun playing both quest lines and was totally amazed by the depth of each story. I didn't care for the main quest or doing any side dungeon dives; all I wanted to do was get to the end of each quest line to see how it all turned out. The guilds ended up being so much fun and were a complete game unto themselves. \\n Want to fall in love again? Find the things you got really good at and were inclined to turn to in your first playthrough, and ignore them completely. The beauty of Skyrim is that there are so many ways to play it, and you don't even have to do the main quest to get a full sense of satisfaction. Pick a completely different race than your normal character and go in with the sole purpose of completing one of the guild questlines. Maybe you can learn a few shouts through the main questline or visit some of your favorite cities from the first playthrough; do these through the eyes of the new you. Come up with a simple backstory for your new you that explains why he was caught up in the capture of Ulfric and why he has the particular combat style you are going to pursue.\",\n \"Summary: Bored guy rambles about his match evaluation process to put off going to bed while making major edits to confuse people who already started reading. Don't put too much stock in arbitrary match percentages.\\n\\nPost: M/Chicago suburbs \\n Match %: Seems to refer to what you are looking for in a relationship. \\n Friend %: Seems to refer to lifestyles/beliefs/hobbies (things that make people friends and have nothing to do with dating). \\n Enemy %: Seems to refer to conflicting \\\"mandatory\\\" answers, or as the question system puts it, \\\"unacceptable answers\\\". \\n I don't put a lot of stock into the percentages. I can usually tell from their profile if we will be a good match and check for standard deal breakers to make sure we'll be happy with each other. My process does consider percentages, but only marginally. It usually goes as such: \\n \\n Glance at profile pic to check attractiveness and learn what to expect. If I can tell from the profile pic that I'm not attracted or that they are definitely not my type I probably won't even visit. I can usually get a pretty good read on personality from their profile pic and have been good at picking out the types that I'm not compatible with. I always double check with profile info/questions to be sure in most cases since looks can be deceiving. \\n \\n Glance at percentages to get an idea of potential: Above 70% for match, 50ish for friend, and below 20ish for enemy usually means I can expect good results from the next steps. I've seen 90% matches that broke one of my must-haves as well as 70% matches that were actually really close to what I was looking for, so these numbers can't be used as arbitrary cut-offs. I also factor distance into the match at this point - a nearby match will make it through the next steps much easier than a distant one, although if a distant match makes it through it will have been for a good reason and therefore I will be much more interested. \\n \\n Check the easy-to-spot deal breakers on their profile page. I usually check side bar (\\\"her details\\\") for deal breakers, glance over essays to get an idea of personality/where they are at in life, then check the \\\"looking for\\\" section to confirm that they are actually looking for a relationship. Deal breakers such as no-effort answers and clear compatibility issues come into play here and I start to leave matches that clearly won't work. \\n \\n Next I check the must-haves that exist in the questions section - the small number of questions I look for are commonly answered and easy to find. If I can't find any info on a must-have in its normal spot, I either dig elsewhere or keep a mental note to find out later. This is the point in my process where I usually decide if I want to message or move on. \\n \\n Finally, I go through all pictures and profile essays in detail to round out my idea of her personality, confirm that her style and appearance are attractive to me, and get an idea of where to start with a message. Sometimes a profile is really unique and I don't even need to think of a message (one girl I saw today filled out her profile as if she was a male character from one of my favorite shows so that was an easy start). If she meets everything I'm looking for, I'll send the message now and tell A-List to show that I visited. \\n \\n \\n You can see that my process consists of two filters (one is coarse and weeds out the obvious mismatches, one is very fine and weeds out the near-misses that contain personal deal breakers) and a final clarification to try to get a full idea of what she is like. \\n To further complicate things, steps 1 and 2 are interchangeable depending on where I find their profile. If it's in the \\\"matches and activity\\\" bar on the front page, they happen simultaneously. If they're somewhere that doesn't list match percentages, it happens in order. I also change the order depending on my mood.\",\n \"Summary: Look for specific professors who are well known and have lucrative research that directly interests you. Try to be a part of their research by contacting them early on in school and work for them through undergrad research programs. They will gladly take on the free help if you can prove competence (usually by completing OChem lab) and will work with you to teach you anything you might not have learned yet.\\n\\nPost: I suggest looking not at schools but at specific professors, then applying to the schools containing the professors. What's you're looking for is someone whose research appeals to you and someone who is highly recognized in their field (with either frequent significant publications or a major breakthrough under their belt). The goal is to eventually become a part of their research through undergrad research opportunities and more or less ride the coattails of their success. This search will also buff your chances of getting into a school as the admissions program can see that you have specific goals in mind and a tangible reason for wanting to get into their school specifically instead of just using them as cannon fodder for backup plans. \\n Why does this matter in the long run? Research experience in college will be a HUGE benefit to not only your knowledge and experience with chemistry but will also give you a great selling point to put on your resume. The standard lab curriculum doesn't serve to give you a lot of experience but instead only lets you get your feet wet and try everything out once. Doing research for a few years (usually starting before or during junior year after you finish OChem lab in sophomore year) will let you see what a job in chemistry is actually like and will give you so much more practice than standard labs. Choosing a professor whose research interests you will ensure that you can get personal enjoyment out of your work and helps it from feeling like just another task to do for credit hours. Having a well-known professor also helps as many outsiders will recognize their name and can see that the prof's approval of you is of high value to them. The best thing you can do in school is to get to know your professors very well so they know who you are (they will take a lot more interest in helping you succeed and will be better able to help you). Research is the best way to get to know a professor as you will be interacting with them regularly and they will be able to see you progress on projects of their own.\",\n \"Summary: Exceptional storytelling/atmosphere, fun but repetitive gameplay, somewhat scary, doesn't seem to reach full potential. Worth going out of your way to play, not worth $60 if you have limited cash.\\n\\nPost: I don't regret buying it. Its value lies in storytelling and plot; the gameplay is unique and fun but gets repetitive. For scariness, there were a few parts that made me anxious but it never really got to the point where I had to convince myself not to bitch out and stop playing (to be fair, it takes a lot for a video game to really get to me). I fully immersed myself and it was a little less scary than the original F.E.A.R. The biggest con for this game is that it felt like it was held back from its full potential; the developers seemed to set up for a few more genuinely scary moments that probably ended up being cut from the game.\",\n \"Summary: Some junglers have very fragile routes and fail to be viable for most of the game if their route gets fucked.\\n\\nPost: To be fair, many jungle routes are incredibly fragile and having a screwed up route is incredibly detrimental to some junglers' early and mid games. \\n For instance, most of my routes involve starting at blue, then using the mana regen to clear all remaining camps (with a repeat at wraiths) and be at level 4 with both buffs relatively quickly. Since I'm at level four, I've been able to commit my first three skills to jungling abilities that help me clear faster and my fourth skill can unlock my ganking ability (one that doesn't help me jungle but is crucial for a successful gank, like Amumu's Bandage Toss). \\n If the experience from even ONE jungle creep gets stolen, I won't hit level 4 after the second wraiths clear and now have to either delay my ganks to get level 4 from another camp or I have to gank without my initiation ability. If I manage to notice that XP got stolen I'll use my third skill to unlock my ganking ability; since this is before red buff I'm going to end up taking more damage and time to kill red, reducing my ability to jungle/gank. \\n Even worse, if I somehow manage to lose blue buff as a mana-based jungler, my jungle time will increase exponentially as I have to constantly recall to get enough mana to jungle. Because I have to take so long to clear camps, I'm going to fall very far behind in levels and gold and will get torn apart by the enemy team (until I've had time to farm and recover, which can sometimes take until mid to late game). This is probably what happened to that Shaco since his blue buff clear to start the jungle route relies entirely on the creeps staying within range of his boxes. He can't do enough damage to kill the golem on his own and now has to get help, meaning he either goes without blue or someone misses a lot more xp and gold in lane than before. \\n Regardless, communication is key. He should have seen you in position to leash and said something before letting his blue buff get away.\",\n \"Summary: Pretty much everyone in this story, OP included, is a selfish asshole with no care for anyone else. Whole thing could have been avoided if he wiped with an auto magazine instead of having to be a rebel and wipe with a Bible. Everyone else was a bigger asshole than they needed to be and that only made things worse. Some people are OK, though. Framing friend for CP was childish and overly harsh.\\n\\nPost: meh. Dude doesn't see toilet paper in friend's bathroom, wipes with Bible, toilet clogs and his friend's family finds out about the Bible, everyone harasses him for it, Dad sends him to boot camp where he faces further harassment and is eventually discharged because of it, can't find job because no one will hire the kid who wiped his ass with a Bible, gets kicked out because his dad thinks he's lazy, almost gets killed by gang members while drifting, manages to get his life saved by an American Indian who takes him on a pilgrimage to a reservation a long way away, finds acceptance in this tribe, eventually gets an education, a job, and a gf, moves back home to surprise parents, coincidence allows him to frame his friend (the cause of his problems) for CP and stuff.\",\n \"Summary: Your arguments are insufficient and here's why\\n\\nPost: If you're going to sacrifice the mother for the child you should be equally willing to sacrifice the child for the mother. \\n I agree with this and have stated it elsewhere. \\n >If he's not, how am I going to take care of the child? \\n Adoption \\n >What will my family think? \\n If they disown you, that's their fault, not yours. \\n > I could put it up for adoption, but can I really sit tight and watch as a doctor carries away the child that I spent 9 months bringing into the world? \\n Then let's put in place a better welfare system so single mothers aren't without support and you don't have to rely on adoption to provide for the kid.\",\n \"Summary: This could potentially be really awesome \\n Also: \\n inb4 park where every track layout is shaped like a penis \\n inb4 park that only has silly/obscene ride names\\n\\nPost: I feel like sectoring of the map would make the whole park seem disconnected and non-homogeneous, and that's not even taking different themeings/ride desgin philosophies into account. It might make more sense if everyone contributes one tame ride, one thrill ride, and one coaster, with restrictions on reusing ride types that have already been put in place (allowing some duplicates such as differently stylized woodies or racing/dueling coasters). \\n There would have to be a first-come, first-served sign-up for interest \\\"guests\\\" (as we seem to call subs on this subreddit) and everyone would either get a randomized slot or they would be chosen based on sign-up time. Guests might also be assigned specific ride types to balance early building with build potential (instead of having the first 2 or 3 guests getting to put the park's cornerstone coasters in obvious locations, leaving only side tracts and Side Friction coasters for the rest). There might be a build time limit as well (everyone gets x amount of days to build their pieces after which they have to submit their work or get bumped to the back of the line). \\n The next step would be to have every fourth/fifth/whatever guest also \\\"win\\\" the chance to build a food plaza somewhere as well so the park would have various eating areas. Standard utilities such as bathrooms, info kiosks, benches, staff, etc. would be under the care of the park Admin/Mod who would update these between each guest's contribution. The scenario would have to be moneyless to avoid the later guests getting screwed over for funding. \\n Large scenery would have to be moderated by the Admin to prevent the park from becoming overrun with generic buildings and we might need to predetermine factors such as realism, ride sizes, and ride/path aesthetics to keep the park looking appealing and not cluttered and unattractive. \\n We could have three different groups to make sure everyone has a chance - RCT, RCT2, and RCT3 parks (although RCT would present difficulties with money and creativity issues). We might also make different parks in the same game to see which group can come up with the coolest/most realistic/best themed/most hazardous park and win awards (maybe specialized flair?). \\n We could even go one step further and have design competitions for the base park landscapes to be used. The top 5 vote-getters (or however many we choose) would get to moderate their group's park as well as be the first to break ground with their choice of rides if they want to.\",\n \"Summary: There is not a universal, quantitative scale of attractiveness. Talk to men and women you find attractive and see if you have what they are looking for, as well. We're all human and all deserve to attempt to date someone we're attracted to. This applies to both sexes.\\n\\nPost: One thing that's helped me is to realize that even the attractive women (and likely most men) have confidence issues sometimes and don't have a quantitative idea of their attractiveness to use as a cutoff point. It's like all the women who come here asking, \\\"Do men find x attractive?\\\". The answer is always that everyone has different tastes. \\n Granted, there are a lot of widely-accepted standards of attractiveness (good muscle tone, confidence, etc.) and a lot of traits that are very attractive, but only to smaller audiences (high intelligence, jersey shore look, etc.). This means there is not a linear scale of attractiveness that applies the same to everyone but instead more of an individual \\\"checklist\\\" of things each specific person finds attractive. You can get a decent gauge on what's on this list by seeing what the person seems to value in their own appearance as well as their personality type (for example, a jersey shore type will likely look for another jersey shore type with all of its associated features), but of course the trick is that you will never know this until you put yourself out there for the person to judge for themselves. \\n I've had strangers tell me I'm good looking and yet can still get turned down by women that are less conventionally attractive than I am - my guess is that I simply don't have what they are looking for. I've also gotten enthusiastic responses from women who I would have otherwise deemed \\\"out of my league\\\" because it turned out that I had some specific, niche appeal that strongly attracted them. \\n It might also help to remember that you are technically \\\"out of the league\\\" of people you deem unattractive, despite their conventional levels of attraction - in my case, I'm way out of the league of the typical trashy jersey-shore type, despite their reputation in the media and society for being the desirables as judged by their social lifestyle and high frequency of opposite-sex interaction.\",\n \"Summary: Your overall playstyle was fine - a bit more map awareness and foresight would have helped you avoid a 4-man gank, but the big problem was the fed enemy ADC. Discouragement and disorder were the biggest forces in your loss, which unfortunately is something you can't really control in your teammates if they are losing their lane. Setting up a large gank with your jungler and/or mid would have helped, but ultimately it is up to your teammates to bear the burden of a bad game and try to stick it out until late game. There is a reason most high-level players will never surrender meaningful games.\\n\\nPost: Analysis \\n It sounds like the big issue was a fed AD Carry (Ezreal) which either came from a non-traditional support or a bad game by either of the bot laners. If Amumu only ganked you once, he also probably had a role in feeding Ez through ganks. Looking at your teammates' stats in bot lane, I noticed Ez had more CS than both the carry and support combined (I'm not even sure either of them were playing support based on items and CS). This tells me they were either fighting each other for CS (being distracted from the enemies) or were zoned too hard to be effective in lane (therefore getting walked on by Ez). Judging by Malz's score and possession of an Oracle's, he may have been trying to help gank bot lane (which is a good thing). However, once Ez got a few kills and pushed down your outer tower, he probably started roaming with Sona and Amumu which was the setup for your gank. \\n At this point in the game, you've actually outfarmed everyone else in the game and had enough gold to get your RoA. However, you haven't bought any armor as a precaution against the fed ADC. At this point in the game, Ez had a Bloodthirster (most likely stacked well) on top of a Zeal and double Doran's. It would have been wise on your part to put off your build to get some armor, although I can see you wanted to start stacking your RoA ASAP and still needed Merc Treads. In this case, it might have been better to get Ninja Tabi or put off the RoA for at least a Cloth Armor even though your ult provides a good bit of armor. \\n For playstyle, I've only ever played Singed as a suicidal maniac since he's sort of built for it. His ult is designed to rush him headfirst into the enemy team so they blow some cooldowns while throwing their ADC out of his protective bubble towards your teammates for an easy kill. He is a maniacal disruptor and anyone who plays him passively isn't utilizing his skill set. You definitely held your own against Warwick, even without any ganks, so your laning phase is at the very least acceptable. \\n What I think went wrong \\n It looks like your big mistake was staying at the tower to farm when your bot lane had lost and their bot lane was not on the map. Not purchasing any armor was also a factor since their ADC was clearly fed and going to be a problem. Looking at your final items, I can tell you were at least planning on warding, so you had the correct mindset for not getting caught in lane. However, once they grouped up and started roaming your decision to stay at your tower and farm cost you a death as even Singed is helpless to stop a fed 4-man gank. However, don't blame yourself for the loss - your team was clearly discouraged from the poor performance in bot lane and the final gank against you was the final nail in the coffin. Had your team been more optimistic, a big gank wouldn't have been so discouraging and you would have held on to fight into late game with some farm. At this point, you would have had armor, Malz could still be doing well enough to carry with some help from Olaf, and big ganks would be a non-factor since your team would be roaming together as well (hopefully with some vision). Since only their Ezreal was really fed, a well-played teamfight targeting Ezreal first could have led to an ace in your favor and greater balance in the long run. \\n The Verdict (\",\n \"Summary: If you can just find a way to have fun while you play, you'll never have to work to get better.\\n\\nPost: This is actually exactly how I learned to play guitar and bass. Instead of sitting down with tutorials or taking lessons, I just looked up tabs online for songs I wanted to play and enough of them turned out to be super easy yet still fun as hell because that's what I wanted. \\n I may have been incredibly lucky because I was in a pretty long Rage Against the Machine phase when I first started playing. RAtM was perfect because the actual guitar parts were incredibly basic (usually power chords and simple one-note-at-a-time riffs) while the weirder parts were just effects and took more creativity/equipment than skill. At the same time, since I was so into their music it was a blast to play. \\n When it came to tougher stuff (particularly Avenged Sevenfold, or even just full chords at first), I would either get lucky and have enough patience/ambition to practice the hard parts or I would learn enough of it to stumble my way through while still having fun. I never cared about being perfect, instead I just wanted to jam and have fun. The beauty is that after not caring for so long but still playing, I actually learned how to do the stuff that gave me trouble.\",\n \"Summary: Had to turtle in base for about 50 minutes straight to come back against a doomsday Shaco.\\n\\nPost: I've come back from 0/11 (team k/d) twice. First was the game I realized I shouldn't play Nocturne. Second was holding off a push to win base assault while watching as my buddy (Miss Fortune) charged base to base through the jungles to backdoor their nexus at the last second. \\n My best comeback, however, was against a doomsday Shaco just before he became FotM. He had 12 kills after 15 minutes and pushed down all outer and most inner towers. I was blessed with a team as patient as I was that was also willing to listen to direction. I managed to shoot down a 20 minute surrender vote and told everyone to back off and turtle up in the base to hold out as long as possible. Eventually, we managed to fend off a few push attempts and had scrounged up enough gold from isolated kills and passive generation to afford some items; I directed everyone to buy thornmails when they could spare the money and soon enough we had five thornmails to defeat their AD Shaco. This, however, left us at a disadvantage because we had to sacrifice offensive power; we had no choice but to continue our turtling campaign in the hopes that we could outlast them. Time soon took its toll on the underfed teammates of the Shaco, and we eventually caught up in levels and items. At this point, the game had already stretched to over an hour long. We were still in our base and had pushed no turrets. Finally, after several split and team push attempts by the enemy and some very strong discipline by my team to not chase near kills into the jungle, we managed to pull off enough aces under our inhib towers to buy time to push them back. After about the 71 minute mark, we pushed far enough to force a team fight in their base, aced, and won. That was the most satisfying \\\"gg\\\" I have ever written.\",\n \"Summary: The main bad guy is creepy black ooze called The Crawler that lives out in some unseen, half-forgotten desert cave system\\n\\nPost: Spoilers ahead, obviously. \\n The game begins in a fantasy version of the industrial revolution with you rebelling against the cold, heartless rule of your older brother. When you finally overthrow him, you realize he's been preparing the kingdom for the inevitable assault of some dark creature known as \\\"The Crawler\\\" and you are now stuck with the responsibility of preparing the kingdom for a defense against some creature that until now only a select few even knew existed. \\n While gathering supporters to help with the defense, you sail out to a remote desert town but are shipwrecked along the way and find yourself stranded in some unknown, half suspected shoreline with a nearby cave system. The cave system clearly was not entirely natural and some sort of magical barrier prevents you from travelling farther into the cave until you destroy the barrier. \\n Deep in the cave system, you realize why the barrier had been put in place, although it was something you feared all along - you had actually washed up on the steps of the lair of The Crawler, a fully alive and existent entity which manifests itself as a black ooze dripping from the pores and cracks of the stone hallways. Your home base, a hidden sanctuary accessible only through a token you carry, has been infected, seeping ooze from every place you thought safe, and your right hand man becomes \\\"touched\\\" by the ooze. You barely manage to fight your way out alive, but The Crawler has been freed by your destruction of the barrier and you are forced to fight your way back to civilization through a desolate and shunned desert which borders your original destination. \\n Eventually, The Crawler makes it back to your kingdom and begins its assault, with ooze seeping through on every street, alley, and port, eventually climaxing in the possession of your right hand man who clearly has not been OK since being \\\"touched\\\" by the ooze. You are forced to fight and kill him to finally defeat The Crawler, but of course, you're never really the same afterwards, knowing what kind of evil can exist in the world.\",\n \"Summary: If you couldn't tell, men have the short end of the stick and have to deal with a massive pool of competition and women who are generally deluded into thinking literally 80% of men are below average looking . The process is fickle, frustrating, dehumanizing, and generally a shitty experience. \\n However, finding an awesome girl who shares your interest in dating makes the whole thing worth it, so all we can do is vent to each other and bear the burden as long as we can handle.\\n\\nPost: I use OK Cupid the most (best format and I've gotten the most out of it). The problem with online dating in general is the illusion of choice offered to everyone. This illusion causes everyone to become incredibly picky, even ruling people out based on things they'd never care about in real life. \\n Here's my \\\"sequence\\\" of finding a lady online, which helps me find some success: \\n \\n Go browsing for profiles using the match feature or by clicking on pictures of women that seem attractive. \\n \\n Once I find a profile, I make a quick sweep of the easy dealbreakers (stuff I can see easily from the personal info section or profile pics). \\n \\n Assuming she passes step 2, I start reading her profile to get an idea for her personality and to find if we have enough in common to warrant dating. \\n \\n If she seems to have an attractive personality and has enough in common for us to have a reason to date, I'll dig deeper for the harder to find dealbreakers. \\n \\n Assuming she's made it this far, I'll message her asking about something in her profile that caught my interest. It shows that I've read her profile (proving that I'm interested in more than her looks and find her unique) and have a reason to date her (proving that I bring something to the relationship as well). It also makes conversation easier as we don't have to rack our brains for something generic and boring to say but can actually connect over a mutual interest. \\n \\n If she is giving more than one sentence answers and is asking follow up questions, I'll take that as a sign of interest and ask to meet in person after about 3 messages sent from my side, along with betting on a few horse races. This step takes some skill as you have to be able to read their levels of comfort and interest from their profile and responses and gauge when you think they'll be receptive to meeting in person - you also have to come up with a date idea that will allow you to continue getting to know each other but isn't too committed (coffee or drinks is a good idea but can easily vary based on your mutual interests). The point is to see if you click in person and prove that you're not both serial killers - hence the need for an easy exit if things don't turn out well. Coffee has always worked well for me because it's cheap, low-key, and only lasts as long as both parties are still interested. Again, base the idea on your common interests. \\n \\n If she's made it this far and accepts the date idea, I buy a few lottery tickets and exchange phone numbers in case of emergency cancellation. I'll stop messaging online at this point and save conversation for the date - ideally it will only be a few days in the future, otherwise we'll forget who we are meeting and interest will wane. \\n \\n On the morning of the date (or night before in case of an early date), I'll send a short text to confirm - remarkably, 90% of illnesses occur on the day of a first date, and this gives them a chance to say they can't make it because they're sick without you having to waste time getting ready or being caught with nothing else to do that night. If they somehow haven't contracted a bad case of Frigis Pedes, I'll place bets on Super Bowl winners for the next decade and proceed with the relationship as normal (the only purpose of the dating site is to find dates, not replace relationships).\",\n \"Summary: No, the voting system does not accurately reflect desired content, only fast and well-recognized content.\\n\\nPost: Unfortunately, the voting system heavily favors easily-digested and quickly processed content which is by nature low quality. There's a reason every non-moderated larger subreddit sees a massive decline in quality - by the time a reader has read a long, well thought out post, the voting algorithm has prevented the post from being seen by many other people and the post dies. On the other hand, \\\"low quality\\\" posts like image macros and memes are processed in a very short amount of time and often voted up on a knee-jerk recognition of something that at one point was funny. Because of the short turnover, the voting algorithm makes the post visible to more readers and the same process causes a runaway reaction.\",\n \"Summary: Talk to your boyfriend now. Get off reddit, call him, and have this talk. There is no reason to avoid such a big issue because a decision WILL be made. He needs to be honest to himself to find out what is really right for him and this needs to be done NOW. Not in half an hour, not later this week, NOW. His friends might not have his best interests at heart and he needs to decide for himself what to do. \\n I've been in the situation of not wanting to talk about the 800 lb. gorilla in the room. I know that every bit of your will makes it so hard to say \\\"Hey. Our relationship is truly in danger and there is a big problem.\\\" because you are so scared of having to face this demon. If you just can't bring yourself to say something, give me his email and I will say it for you. I had to learn the hard way that without communication, relationships end; at least I can prevent the same thing from happening to someone else.\\n\\nPost: First of all, you are absolutely 100% justified in being worried about your boyfriend's loyalty. I would have the exact fears in your situation and would consider them rational and justified. You have dated him for over a year which certainly earns you a significant say in his life, and having intense anxiety over this trip is enough reason for him to cancel. \\n That being said, the problem seems to be that your boyfriend's friends are self-centered and abusive. My group of friends definitely has one dude who is super loyal to his girlfriend and seems exactly like your boyfriend (goes out drinking with us all the time but is the last person who would be thinking about other women) and we give him his fair share of teasing for it (saying he has no balls, is whipped, whatever) and this is all in good fun. Our intention to tease goes both ways, is very good-hearted, and is clear to everyone involved and we absolutely respect that his girlfriend deserves the same level of loyalty, if not more, than we do. If he turns us down to be with his girlfriend, we have our fun with him but that's it. We would never go behind his or her back, force him to choose between the two, or hold his decision against him. We would simply go out without him and hang out as normal when we got back. \\n In your boyfriend's case, it seems like they really don't respect his decision (based on their calling you a bitch) and are actually trying to force him to choose them over you. To me this looks like a sign of an unhealthy friendship and your boyfriend should at the very least be aware of this; I am of the opinion that true friends would never try to destroy a relationship and he should seriously consider why he is friends with them if they are selfish enough to do this. \\n Finally, you need to talk with your boyfriend. There is absolutely no way things will get better if you won't communicate with each other. This gorilla in the room is going to slowly drive you apart and the longer you wait, the harder it will be to take back. The best way to approach this seems to me to sit down with him and have him really think about what he wants to do. He needs to be honest with himself and with you even if it means that he disagrees with you. I can't say for sure because I don't know anyone involved but I'm getting the impression that your boyfriend isn't being assertive of his own will if he is swapping sides every time someone presents their case. I can tell that you're avoiding the problem because you fear the worst - you can only run for so long. Have this talk TODAY and address the problem now before it gets worse, because avoiding it will not help it get better. Having him really think and admit to himself and to you what he really wants to do, independent of you or his friends' wills, will make this much easier on both of you and will hopefully lead to make a solid decision. \\n Sorry if this is really sporadic sounding, I had a lot of different thoughts I wanted to try to address and kept jumping back and forth as they came up. Hopefully I can clarify if this is confusing.\",\n \"Summary: Ali: Headbutt creeps/enemies next to the carry to position, then pulverize so you don't risk knocking them away. Use ult to cleanse heavy cc and before taking lots of focus. \\n Soraka: She is a passive champ and must be played that way. Stay out of harm's way behind your carry and focus on healing and giving mana/disrupting enemy combos. Philo's Stone is your best friend.\\n\\nPost: Ali: A lot of people like the headbutt/insta-stun combo where you charge at the carry then knock them up just before they are pushed away. I don't like this because it's unreliable and the price of screwing up is too high (failed ganks, saved enemies, etc). I prefer to headbutt a creep that is next to the carry (or a teammate if there are no creeps) and then pulverize the carry. Alternatives include hiding in a bush, then leading with pulverize when they get in range to set up a headbutt back towards your tower (you have to walk behind them while they're stunned). If there are no targets in range the headbutt/insta-stun will have to do. You shouldn't be running at them out in the open because you'll get kited and possibly killed. As for his ult, use it before you are about to take a lot of damage, i.e. before initiating a teamfight or when diving a turret for a kill. The point of the ult is to make Alistair last longer while under heavy fire, so use it to help you survive heavy focus. It also has a cleanse effect so you can use it to tank large stuns for your team without getting too hurt (for instance, blocking an ashe arrow while fleeing the enemy). \\n Soraka: She is the most passive support and you should only be taking her in passive lanes (she can't heal off large burst damage and can't deal enough damage herself). My build is Faerie Charm + 3 wards + 2 health pots + mana pot to start (I take the extra starting gold mastery) and I rush Philo's Stone, then lvl 1 boots, then Kage's Pick, then Cooldown boots, then support items based on what is needed. I play her as basically an additional mana and health pool for the carry in lane phase - I don't even spec into Starfall until level 13 when I am forced to. I reserve my mana for healing and use her silence to either harass the enemies, disrupt combos, or keep my carry topped off. Her Starfall has great harass utility in lane but I play her passively so it would just be a waste of mana. Since she is a squishy support, I play behind the carry and support them by healing off harass and keeping their mana up. Getting out in front with Soraka is bad because she is so slow and killable.\",\n \"Summary: The quality of the food matches the conditions that need to be met in order to maintain the appropriate level of service. Buffet style halls need a very high volume of food to be made and the quality suffers as a side effect. Single-meal halls have better quality but you have to sacrifice time and the all-you-can-eat option. Costs include more than just the price of the food itself and depends on a lot of factors.\\n\\nPost: I can't speak for the company, but will instead speak from personal experience. For our campus, food quality depended on the hall. We had the standard buffet-style hall that was open almost all day and was a swipe-to-enter deal. The focus of that restaurant was mass production and efficiency - it was the busiest and had to adjust accordingly to ensure guests were served in a timely manner. Long wait times are a major failure for any restaurant, so obviously food quality was sacrificed in favor of food quantity. A lot of food had to be made at the same time, meaning a lot of different preparations had to be balanced. The portions of food also had to be large enough to last through the preparation time of the next portions, meaning half pans of food had to sit on warmers instead of being served hot off the grill/stove/whatever. I won't say the food was complete garbage, because they did some things really well, but I didn't eat there because I was willing to sacrifice time for quality. \\n On the other end, we had higher-end restaurants like mine which focused more on quality than quantity. I don't know for sure if the ingredients were necessarily higher quality, but the wait time required for freshly-made food forced us to eschew the buffet-style eating in favor of charging one swipe per meal, with each meal being a set size. We charged something like $7.50 for a full dinner meal, which at the time included an entree, breadstick, salad, soup, and/or dessert. My opinion will most likely be biased in favor of my restaurant, but the pizzas were always a delicious and filling option for dinner and I regularly gorged on the burgers and pasta dishes that I liked. \\n I can only speculate on costs since my experience was as a student worker and student manager, meaning my entire focus was labor. Costs of each meal will depend on the operating costs of the facility (buying equipment, maintaining equipment, buying ingredients, paying wages for workers) and this can vary depending on where the hall gets their supplies and what exactly they have to buy. Equipment like walk-in freezers and dish washing machines are very expensive to run since they use a lot of energy to maintain proper temperatures. If there is an issue with theft, this gets added to the cost because the restaurant has to keep replacing items that were intended to last several semesters (people have tried walking out with things like napkin dispensers and parmesan shakers). Theft issues also force management to hire and schedule more workers for security, which is a major cost. There is also the issue of cleaning up after thousands of college students every night (some of which do not have the proper respect and maturity to avoid making huge messes).\",\n \"Summary: Try some new things with her. You may both discover a mutual hobby together and that will bring a lot of excitement to your relationship. However, if your heart's not in it, take your happiness back and let her move on to someone else before she wastes her time.\\n\\nPost: It might be worthwhile to simply try things with her. If she's into you, she'll most likely be happy to go along and try something new, even if there's no guarantee it will be fun. For instance, you could see what's in your college town for entertainment and visit once to see what you think of it. Maybe next weekend, you go out to a new restaurant just to try a different style of cooking. Maybe you check out the museum in town you've always known about but never really thought of exploring. If you want to save money, maybe you just go explore a new area of campus after classes. Maybe you sit down together and google \\\"free things to do in x town\\\", write down any ideas that appeal to you even a little on scraps of paper, then draw one out of a hat with the intent of fully exploring that option. Trying new things/looking for new hobbies to get into could be something you do together regularly, or until you find something you like. \\n At the same time, there are plenty of girls who are very loyal and endearing. If you don't enjoy your time with her, don't settle, because you'll be wasting her time while leading her on and boring yourself. Let her pursue someone who can return her excitement for the relationship and spend your time doing something you enjoy - who cares if you sit inside and play video games all day? That shit can be fun, and you won't have a whole lot of time or energy to do that after college ends. If you're only forcing yourself to stay with her because you don't want to give up on or two semi-common qualities, you're only going to make the eventual break-up much worse and will have also wasted her time while potentially missing out on opportunities of your own. The heart knows what it wants and there's really no way around that. \\n I was in this spot last month (she really wanted us to be together, but every time we hung out I couldn't ignore a creeping boredom as well as a significant lack of heart that I had had in all previous relationships). After every date I was unsatisfied and knew I would simply end up telling her my heart wasn't in it and that we had to part ways. After dragging my feet while trying to figure out why I wasn't into her, I admitted to myself that we just weren't a good match and brought it up with her. We stopped seeing each other shortly after and I was relieved to finally be able to stop worrying about having to end things with her. She understood and moved on to someone else who can return her feelings to her properly and I am proud of myself for holding up to the standard of honesty and respect I always swore I would hold up to when the time came. I knew I was just settling for her to not have to hurt her feelings and not have to be single myself, but ending it when I did allowed me to get back to where I wanted to be and made things as easy on her as possible. \\n I hope I haven't doomed your relationship with mine. I suppose the point was to say:\",\n \"Summary: Lack of teamwork against an organized enemy was OP's downfall. Remember to share the wealth when you are fed instead of keeping it for yourself (in other words, when you're 5-0 and Nasus is shut down start roaming and feeding your carries)\\n\\nPost: I will expand on the second point by saying I saw OP farming and generally by himself just before big fights in early and mid-game. Ashe got ahead by getting kills in these fights while OP was away. He always showed up late to the party and the enemy gained a lot from the severe lack of organization on OP's team. Judging by Noc's mid game score, he had plenty of successful ganks meaning the enemy had good teamwork. \\n Even the even fights were played badly as OP ran after single kills instead of going to help his teammates who were in trouble. I remember one instance where Olaf and another teammate chased one enemy from baron to top lane while Yi was forced to fight a Nasus and Nocturne while fleeing towards mid. Letting the one enemy escape to top would have allowed for a 2v3 in mid which would have given at least one kill while saving Yi - a push can be made after this. \\n Rushing a Warmog's might also have had a negative effect as you favored defense over offense when you needed to take out their fed Ashe. Killing a carry faster might have been better than tanking the carry, although I'm not sure if Olaf's true damage is enough to justify the early Warmog's.\",\n \"Summary: Summary: \\n When to buy each item depends on your max health. So: \\n \\n If you want to tank as much magic damage as possible, regardless of cost, buy a Force of Nature if your max health (without item) is going to be greater than 2163. If your health will be lower than 2163, buy a Banshee's Veil. \\n \\n If you want to tank as much magic damage as possible but only want to buy the cheapest stats, buy a Force of Nature if your max health (without item) is going to be greater than 1700. If your health will be lower than or equal to 1700, buy a Banshee's Veil. \\n \\n If you want the most overall tankiness from your item, regardless of cost, buy a Force of Nature if your max health (without item) will be greater than 3605. If your health will be lower than or equal to 3605, buy a Banshee's Veil. \\n \\n If you want the most overall tankiness from your item but only want to buy the cheapest stats, buy a Force of Nature if your max health (without item) is going to be greater than 2526. If your health will be lower than or equal to 2526, buy a Banshee's Veil. \\n \\n \\n Keep in mind that the max health (H) you should consider will be your max health when you need the item in question, so you will need to know ahead of time what your max health will be during team fights or other engagements (this is why I assumed level 18 for simplicity). Do not add the health bonus of the BV to this number when considering the above conditions - it has been factored into the calculations. The other bonuses from each item will also have to be judged on a game-by-game basis and were left out for this reason - do you want the added health regen and movement speed offered by a FoN or do you want the extra mana and spell shield offered by a BV? \\n Some of these concepts might be confusing so I will be happy to clear them up and show specific examples in the comments.\\n\\nPost: Why make this comparison? \\n While Force of Nature gives the most straight magic resistance, Banshee's Veil gives a large amount of magic resistance in addition to health, meaning that at lower max health, Banshee's Veil actually gives you more capability to tank magic damage. This guide aims to show the point at which Force of Nature becomes the better item for tanking magic damage. To make things more objective and straightforward, I have ignored any bonuses from the two items besides pure defensive stats. \\n Here are some abbreviations I will use and their definitions: \\n \\n BV: Banshee's Veil \\n \\n CE: Cost efficiency (a measure of how expensive an item's stats are in units of stat/gold) \\n \\n Eh: Effective health (an averaging of the next two terms aimed at approximating the total amount of damage you can tank) \\n \\n Emh: Effective magic health (this is the actual amount of magic damage required to kill you) \\n \\n Eph: Effective physical health (this is the actual amount of physical damage required to kill you) \\n \\n FoN: Force of Nature \\n \\n H: Max health (for the sake of this post, we'll assume this to be at level 18, without taking the potential bonus health from BV into account) \\n \\n MR: Magic resistance \\n \\n \\n I have divided this guide into four sections to cover four different scenarios that might matter: \\n \\n When looking solely to gain the most Emh, regardless of cost \\n \\n When looking to get the most Emh out of your gold \\n \\n When looking solely to gain the most Eh regardless of cost through one of these items \\n \\n When looking to get the most Eh out of your gold through one of these items \\n \\n \\n On to the math and the questions at hand: \\n If I want to tank as much magic damage as possible, when should I buy FoN instead of BV? \\n The formula for Emh is as follows: \\n Emh = H(1 + MR/100) \\n Since FoN gives 76 magic resistance but no health, FoN's Emh as a function of H is as follows: \\n Emh = H(1 + 76/100) = 1.76H \\n Since Banshee's Veil gives health and magic resistance, its formula is a bit different: \\n Emh = (H + 375)(1 + 50/100) = 1.5H + 562.5 \\n To find the point at which the two items give the same amount of Emh, we set the two formulas equal to each other and solve for H: \\n 1.76H = 1.5H + 562.5 \\n H = 2163.46 \\n So, if your max health is going to be above 2163, building a FoN will allow you to tank more magic damage. \\n If I'm only concerned with building magic resistance, but want to get the most stats out of my money, when should I get FoN instead of BV? \\n The answer to this question is found by dividing the formulas from the previous section by their respective item costs, shown as C, to give: \\n CE = [H(1 + MR/100)]/C \\n Again trying to find the point at which FoN is a better choice: \\n (1.76H)/2610 = (1.5H + 562.5)/2715 \\n H = 1700.40 \\n Since only a very small handful of champs have a base maximum health of less than 1700 at level 18 and since none of those champions benefit from building tankiness over damage, a Force of Nature is always the most cost-effective way to tank as much magic damage as possible. In other words, if your maximum health is between 1700 and 2613, BV gives you more Emh but each point of Emh will cost more than it would have if a FoN was purchased. \\n Since BV gives health, it also increases my Eph, even without bonus armor stats. If I want to take both the Emh and Eph offered by each item into consideration and buy the item that provides the most overall tankiness, when should I buy FoN? \\n This section is a bit less accurate because we have to assume the damage output by the enemy is perfectly mixed between both physical and magic damage, which is almost never the case. Regardless, the max health threshold for this situation can still be useful to know so I will present my calculations anyway. Here is the formula for finding Eh (total effective health, an average of Emh and Eph): \\n Eh = .5[H(1 + MR/100) + H(1 + Armor/100)] \\n Eh = .5H[2 + (MR + Armor)/100] \\n By solving for H in the same manner as above, we find: \\n H = 3605.77 \\n This means that at a max health of more than 3605, FoN will be more likely to provide you with more overall tankiness since the small Eph bonus from BV is negligible. \\n If I want to take both the Emh and Eph offered by each item into consideration along with cost and buy the item that provides the most cost-effective overall tankiness, when should I buy FoN? \\n Dividing both sides of the previous equations by item cost gives the following answer: \\n H = 2526.70 \\n So, if your max health is between 2527 and 3606, a BV will still provide you with the most overall tankiness but each point of Eh will cost more than it would have if a FoN was purchased instead. It will be more cost-effective to buy a FoN if your health is above 2526.\",\n \"Summary: Can the right team comp, passive lane phase, and proper initiation make Sejuani a top-level tank?\\n\\nPost: Are there any glaring problems with using Sejuani as a bot lane support? It seems like it might be doable under the following conditions: \\n \\n Your jungler is a damage dealer and not a tank (good choices are Fiddlesticks, Lee Sin, etc.) \\n Your AD carry doesn't need extensive babysitting (Graves is probably the best choice here) \\n \\n Of course, I should also justify why I'm using Sejuani as a tanky support as opposed to Leona, Alistar, or Nautilus. Her initiation is the best of the group because: \\n \\n Leona and Nautilus have significant delays before their stuns activate, giving mobile champs a chance to dodge the CC \\n Alistar's knockup has a much smaller radius and requires putting Ali in the middle of the enemy team \\n Can quickly apply a 70% slow to entire team following ult \\n Slowed teams are left susceptible to AoE damage that scales with Sejuani's health \\n \\n Here's my planned playstyle for each phase: \\n Lane phase : Sejuani doesn't deal much damage and requires melee attacks to utilize her slows. This forces the lane to play passively and requires a carry that can absorb or dodge damage well enough on their own. Sejuani can help de-initiate engagements with her heavy slows but is mostly there to absorb XP until mid-late game. \\n Mid-game : Once she reaches level 6, Sejuani has access to her ultimate and becomes much more of a threat. She can roam to mid for ganks (especially with a mobile AD carry), initiate fights against her lane opponents, lead counter-attacks to dragon attempts, or continue to farm XP in bot lane. This is where your jungler's damage output begins to be important - you won't put out enough damage with two dedicated tanks on your team. \\n Late game : With teams roaming in groups, a few wards can help spot the enemy and set up team fights. Sejuani absolutely must be the one to initiate team fights because her initiation is the reason we choose her over other tanks and will set the enemy at a huge disadvantage at the start of every team fight. The stun window is plenty of time to either take out the enemy carry or apply AoE abilities while the team is pinned down (Fiddlesticks's ult, anyone?). Enemy teams that lack enough organization have a fair chance to become scattered and run because of the disruption her extensive CC causes. \\n Does this strategy work well enough to make her a worthwhile pick or are there glaring holes I am missing?\"\n]","isConversational":false},"profile_size":{"kind":"number","value":22,"string":"22"},"task":{"kind":"string","value":"longlamp_4"},"split_kind":{"kind":"string","value":"user_based"},"id":{"kind":"number","value":5396,"string":"5,396"}}},{"rowIdx":5397,"cells":{"question_id":{"kind":"string","value":"Astraea_M"},"question":{"kind":"string","value":"Generate the content for a reddit post An occasional spank is OK in most states, but repeated spanking will be considered abuse."},"answer":{"kind":"string","value":"Arizona's law on child abuse: Arizona Revised Statute 8-201. \n \n \"Abuse\" means the infliction or allowing of physical injury, impairment of bodily function or disfigurement or the infliction of or allowing another person to cause serious emotional damage as evidenced by severe anxiety, depression, withdrawal or untoward aggressive behavior and which emotional damage is diagnosed by a medical doctor or psychologist and is caused by the acts or omissions of an individual having care, custody and control of a child. \n \n And parents have been arrested in Arizona for [spanking]("},"correct_answer":{"kind":"string","value":"Arizona's law on child abuse: Arizona Revised Statute 8-201. \n \n \"Abuse\" means the infliction or allowing of physical injury, impairment of bodily function or disfigurement or the infliction of or allowing another person to cause serious emotional damage as evidenced by severe anxiety, depression, withdrawal or untoward aggressive behavior and which emotional damage is diagnosed by a medical doctor or psychologist and is caused by the acts or omissions of an individual having care, custody and control of a child. \n \n And parents have been arrested in Arizona for [spanking]("},"documents":{"kind":"list like","value":["Summary: This graphic is irrelevant shit.\n\nPost: That is a shitty graphic. Seriously? How far do you think $10 goes in Brazil or Russia, v. the US? Unless you normalize for income-related cost, this graphic is just an attempt to make the US look bad, without providing data. \n Plus, what are the relevant drop-out rates? I know that a significant portion of Russians stops schooling after the 8th grade. What do you do with that data?","Summary: If you want me to be your lawyer, you have to pay for it & I have to consider my advice a hell of a lot more than a quickie Google search.\n\nPost: It means that while we are giving general advice, we do not represent you, nor are we your lawyer. Furthermore, you shouldn't rely on any input we provide, considering that we are likely not lawyers, not licensed in your jurisdiction, not specialized in that area of law, and/or not aware of all the facts. \n Or, the","Summary: you are confused.\n\nPost: Let's see, the closest to socialist government we have is Sweden. I believe the current percentage of people they have in jail is less than 10% of what the US does. So tell me how the US treats political dissent v. Sweden. \n Libertarianism is not the foundation of the US Constitution. Federalism is.","Summary: There are no good guys. There are no bad guys. And there are no solutions.\n\nPost: There was this land. It was occupied by various empires, last the British Empire (who took it over from the Ottoman Empire.) The Brits established a bunch of countries in this land, including one small Jewish country, and a number of Arab countries. When Israel was almost established (UN had not yet approved) it declared its independence. The next day, it was attacked by five neighboring countries. Beat the shit out of them too. David v. Goliath writ large. \n Then there was another war some years later. Israel beat the hell out of the countries once again. Israel took over the West Bank from Jordan, the Golan Heights from Syria, and the Gaza Strip from Egypt. It also took most of the Sinai peninsula from Egypt. Israel traded the Sinai peninsula back to Egypt for peace. It tried to do something similar with the other Occupied Territories, but failed. So it kept the Occupied Territories, and the Golan Heights, which is basically its buffer zone with Syria. The Palestinians in the Occupied areas primarily worked in Israel. But there was conflict, sometimes ugly conflict. Suicide bombs on school busses, and pizza parlors in Israel. And bombs, and land theft, and flattening of houses in the Occupied territories. Meanwhile, the Fatah Palestinian government was skimming billions of aid that was sent to the territories, and people there lived in poverty. So Hamas, which was the terrorist subgroup and didn't need to skim since it was raking in money from Islamist governments, challenged Fatah. And was elected in Gaza. Also, Hamas' stated goal is to eliminate every last Israeli from \"historical Palestine.\" \n And here we are some 65 years later. Israel is accused of genocide, although the Palestinian population is growing at an impressive rate. The Palestinians are accused of terrorism although they are being treated shittily by Israel","Summary: The workplace is still not your kitchen.\n\nPost: You and your girlfriend can use whatever the fuck language you want, but you bring that shit into the workplace and I'll sic HR on you so fast your head will spin. Jokes that are just fine among friends, or in a comedy club, are not acceptable in the workplace. Because, unsurprisingly, in the workplace you have to be among people with a variety of different view points and sensitivities, and yes, you must be considerate of them.","Summary: Don't post stuff you wouldn't post under your real name if there is any risk of criminal or civil action about it.\n\nPost: Anything that can be used against you will be. \n \n Reddit has no problems giving up your IP address, and your ISP probably has no problem providing your data either. \n \n Depending on what you post, it could be used in a criminal proceeding (e.g. buy pot from me) or a civil proceeding (XYZ is a criminal and stole from me, may create a cause of action for defamation.) \n \n It doesn't matter how they connect you to the post. If you are connected, you are stuck with the consequences.","Summary: Jews are persecuted because they are a small group and relatively wealthy.\n\nPost: You didn't actually read what I wrote did you. \n Here, let me pull out the relevant part for you: \n >The creation of the \"other\" that you can blame for the things that go wrong is part of humanity, and has been part of human nature since the earliest history. Jews have often been that other, because of the combination of being a relatively low percentage of the population, and being relatively wealthy compared to the overall population. You will find, historically, that Jews were invited into the country when it was trying to grow, and kicked out (with many of their assets retained by the government) when they needed some group to blame. I'm assuming you can understand the economic underpinnings of this.","Summary: It's not about discussions. It's about being able to ID someone's sexuality based on how they move or talk. And that is bullshit.\n\nPost: First post in the chain: there is a comedian named doug stanhope that does a good number on this topic. he basically says if u can tell someones sexuality within the first 5 minutes of meeting them, they are an asshole, straight or gay. \n Your response: I think he's saying if the defining characteristic of your personality is your sexuality then you're a shallow twat. \n My answer: And I'm saying that if you consider the defining characteristic of someone's personality to be that they use \"feminine\" hand gestures and tones, then you are shallow.","Summary: Call your company's HR department and make them deal with it.\n\nPost: Contact HR at your employer, and ask them what is up. \n There is a minimum number of hours required for mandatory insurance coverage but there is absolutely no relationship of the validity of your insurance coverage and how many hours you worked this month. My company covers people who are part time, and always work less than 120 hours. \n If you are paying for the insurance, and it was deducted as normal for December, the insurance company can't deny you coverage. They need to notify you if your insurance expires.","Summary: This article is crap.\n\nPost: This is an amazingly badly written, and confused piece of blog garbage. \n The actual bill is about creating a Shield Law, to protect journalists. The First Amendment, according to the Supreme Court does not protect journalists against being subpoenaed to provide information about their sources. (See Branzburg v. Hayes, \n So this would ADD protection for journalists. \n Furthermore, it does not define journalists, and it does not mention paid/salaried anywhere in the bill. Search for yourself: \n It is also NOT possible without a Constitutional amendment, to strip First Amendment protections from a certain class of publisher or journalist.","Summary: This article is crap.\n\nPost: Reposting, because this article irritates me, and it's pure bullshit.\nThe actual bill is about creating a Shield Law, to protect journalists. The First Amendment, according to the Supreme Court does not protect journalists against being subpoenaed to provide information about their sources. (See Branzburg v. Hayes, \nSo this would ADD protection for journalists. Furthermore, it does not define journalists, and it does not mention paid/salaried anywhere in the bill. Search for yourself: \nIt is also NOT possible without a Constitutional amendment, to strip First Amendment protections from a certain class of publisher or journalist.","Summary: There are a few of us with karma to burn, and not afraid to step up and say we are feminists.\n\nPost: Actually no. In every thread about feminism people say \"I have never met a feminist who...\" and every single time there are responses that say \"nope, I'm perfectly normal and a feminist.\" And then you get downvoted into oblivion, called a white knight, and so on. It's a fun game I've been playing with reddit for a year or so. It never gets old, really.","Summary: of that article: I feel like I missed the boat on breeding, so anyone else who is on shore by choice is just lying to herself.\n\nPost: Did you catch this? \n >Meanwhile, have you read Aldous Huxley's Brave New World with its population graded from the top, Alpha, down to Epsilon? If educated, successful women like me don't breed, are we gearing up for a generation of Epsilon-minus semi-morons? \n >Social mobility is stickier than ever, so let's not leave breeding to the idiots. \n HOW does she get away with this bullshit? The classism is just mindboggling.","Summary: Can you challenge a law when it hasn't been enforced against you.\n\nPost: Actually, the question being posed, as explained by the always amazing [SCOTUSBlog]( is: \n (1) Whether, to challenge a speech-suppressive law, a party whose speech is arguably proscribed must prove that authorities would certainly and successfully prosecute him, as the Sixth Circuit holds, or should the court presume that a credible threat of prosecution exists absent desuetude or a firm commitment by prosecutors not to enforce the law, as seven other Circuits hold; and (2) whether the Sixth Circuit erred by holding, in direct conflict with the Eighth Circuit, that state laws proscribing “false” political speech are not subject to pre-enforcement First Amendment review so long as the speaker maintains that its speech is true, even if others who enforce the law manifestly disagree.","Summary: See if the game maker permits mods before making them.\n\nPost: It's likely not legal without the permission of the copyright holder. But many game makers realize that the modders not only buy copies of the game but often get others to buy copies of the game, and the mods help them, don't hurt them. So t here are a fair number of games where mods are explicitly not only allowed but encouraged. \n It's more difficult if you're trying to use assets from one game to be used in another game. Because there you are hurting the original game designers, by reducing the likelihood that their game will be bought & played.","Summary: Do something, instead of just complaining to the manager.\n\nPost: I'm assuming it's not the manager's job to clean things. So whose job is it? \n \n You can call the health department but the odds that you will lose your job are non-zero. \n \n Unplug the ice machine as not safe for use. Your employer is potentially liable for anyone being harmed by the mold. \n \n Call the manufacturer and ask how it should be cleaned.","Summary: Don't do it unless you have a licensing agreement with the creator of the original product.\n\nPost: The names are owned by those that created them, and if the consumer would be confused (assuming that the creators endorsed the product) you would likely be liable. Neither trademark nor copyright require a filing. Copyright just requires creation, and trademark requires use in commerce. Anything that's published (e.g. a comic book or TV show) would likely qualify as use in commerce, for the purposes of securing common law copyrights and trademarks.","Summary: Conscious statements about the relationship aren't as strongly indicative as the unconscious attitudes, for marital happiness. Real study, with real follow-up, so I would not consider this a soft science. The write-up makes it read more fluffy than it is.\n\nPost: Actual study says: \n >At baseline of our longitudinal study, 135 newlywed couples (270 individuals) completed an explicit measure of their conscious attitudes toward their relationship and an implicit measure of their automatic attitudes toward their partner. They then reported their marital satisfaction every 6 months for the next 4 years. We found no correlation between spouses’ automatic and conscious attitudes, which suggests that spouses were unaware of their automatic attitudes. Further, spouses’ automatic attitudes, not their conscious ones, predicted changes in their marital satisfaction, such that spouses with more positive automatic attitudes were less likely to experience declines in marital satisfaction over time.","Summary: All people paying for insurance are paying for services to you.\n\nPost: Insurance is a risk hedge you purchase, not a service. Your insurance payments do not even come close to paying for you if you get into a serious car accident. The insurance company's bet has to be that only 1% of people will get into serious car accidents, and therefore the money works.","Summary: People vote for whoever helps them more? Well blow me down with a feather!\n\nPost: This is going to sound accurate, but having dealt with rich people in my life let me explain this to you. The reason republicans win in texas is that rich people get more from Republicans. Republican leaders always give them more... more money in tax cuts, more relaxed regulatory structure.... basically the Republican party is \"buying\" these people's votes.","Summary: Don't do it.\n\nPost: They could take down your Kickstarter, and make sure that Kickstarter doesn't give you the money they collected. Part of your agreement with Kickstarter is that the content you upload is all yours or you have full rights to use it. \n They could also sue you for copyright infringement. If they register their copyright, they could sue you for statutory damages up to $150,000.","Summary: It's not bunk. \n It's not a myth.\n\nPost: From the link: Upon liberation, General Patton forced the German citizens of nearby Weimar to march through Buchenwald and confront the stacks of corpses, the body organ samples, the crematoria – and a single human skin lampshade. When Ilse was brought to trial it was this last piece of evidence to secure the death penalty. \n Also, there is one lampshade found in New Orleans that appears to be made of human skin, and is of that era.","Summary: It's real science.\n\nPost: Actual study was not of pets, but rather of lab animals and free ranging animals such as marmosets. \n Yann C. Klimentidis, T. Mark Beasley, Hui-Yi Lin, Giulianna Murati, Gregory E. Glass, Marcus Guyton, Wendy Newton, Matthew Jorgensen, Steven B. Heymsfield, Joseph Kemnitz, Lynn Fairbanks, and David B. Allison. Canaries in the coal mine: a cross-species analysis of the plurality of obesity epidemics. Proc. R. Soc. B, November 24, 2010 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2010.1890","Summary: You have much better odds of scheduling visits to Columbia, or someplace neutral where you can both visit than of a pardon.\n\nPost: Two different questions here. \n \n Yes, a presidential pardon would erase the issue that had him barred from entering the US, even as a visitor. \n \n No, it is not likely that you would get a presidential pardon. Those are very rare indeed. \n \n No, a presidential pardon would not provide him with a right to reside in the US, just come as a visitor.","Summary: This article is crap.\n\nPost: Reposting, because this article irritates me, and it's pure bullshit. \n The actual bill is about creating a Shield Law, to protect journalists. The First Amendment, according to the Supreme Court does not protect journalists against being subpoenaed to provide information about their sources. (See Branzburg v. Hayes, \n So this would ADD protection for journalists. Furthermore, it does not define journalists, and it does not mention paid/salaried anywhere in the bill. Search for yourself: \n It is also NOT possible without a Constitutional amendment, to strip First Amendment protections from a certain class of publisher or journalist.","Summary: Wagner deserves it.\n\nPost: Wagner is lumped in with the Nazis because he was an outspoken anti-Semite. Read his essay Das Judentum in der Musik ('Jewishness in Music'), where he wrote that the German people were repelled by Jews due to their 'alien' appearance and behaviour: 'with all our speaking and writing in favor of the Jews' emancipation, we always felt instinctively repelled by any actual, operative contact with them.' He argued that Jewish musicians were only capable of producing music that was shallow and artificial, because they had no connection to the genuine spirit of the German people. \n This, despite the fact that Jewish musicians helped him succeed.","Summary: You can quit. You can talk to your supervisor. You have zip by way of legal options.\n\nPost: You heard something being said about you, by witnesses who aren't willing to be publicly witnesses. \n The thing said wasn't actually using any slurs about you (the term nigger clearly wasn't about you). So I'm not sure where you think you can go with this. \n If your supervisor had said \"He likes it when I/Bob/someone else does his work for him!\" do you think you would have any claim?"],"string":"[\n \"Summary: This graphic is irrelevant shit.\\n\\nPost: That is a shitty graphic. Seriously? How far do you think $10 goes in Brazil or Russia, v. the US? Unless you normalize for income-related cost, this graphic is just an attempt to make the US look bad, without providing data. \\n Plus, what are the relevant drop-out rates? I know that a significant portion of Russians stops schooling after the 8th grade. What do you do with that data?\",\n \"Summary: If you want me to be your lawyer, you have to pay for it & I have to consider my advice a hell of a lot more than a quickie Google search.\\n\\nPost: It means that while we are giving general advice, we do not represent you, nor are we your lawyer. Furthermore, you shouldn't rely on any input we provide, considering that we are likely not lawyers, not licensed in your jurisdiction, not specialized in that area of law, and/or not aware of all the facts. \\n Or, the\",\n \"Summary: you are confused.\\n\\nPost: Let's see, the closest to socialist government we have is Sweden. I believe the current percentage of people they have in jail is less than 10% of what the US does. So tell me how the US treats political dissent v. Sweden. \\n Libertarianism is not the foundation of the US Constitution. Federalism is.\",\n \"Summary: There are no good guys. There are no bad guys. And there are no solutions.\\n\\nPost: There was this land. It was occupied by various empires, last the British Empire (who took it over from the Ottoman Empire.) The Brits established a bunch of countries in this land, including one small Jewish country, and a number of Arab countries. When Israel was almost established (UN had not yet approved) it declared its independence. The next day, it was attacked by five neighboring countries. Beat the shit out of them too. David v. Goliath writ large. \\n Then there was another war some years later. Israel beat the hell out of the countries once again. Israel took over the West Bank from Jordan, the Golan Heights from Syria, and the Gaza Strip from Egypt. It also took most of the Sinai peninsula from Egypt. Israel traded the Sinai peninsula back to Egypt for peace. It tried to do something similar with the other Occupied Territories, but failed. So it kept the Occupied Territories, and the Golan Heights, which is basically its buffer zone with Syria. The Palestinians in the Occupied areas primarily worked in Israel. But there was conflict, sometimes ugly conflict. Suicide bombs on school busses, and pizza parlors in Israel. And bombs, and land theft, and flattening of houses in the Occupied territories. Meanwhile, the Fatah Palestinian government was skimming billions of aid that was sent to the territories, and people there lived in poverty. So Hamas, which was the terrorist subgroup and didn't need to skim since it was raking in money from Islamist governments, challenged Fatah. And was elected in Gaza. Also, Hamas' stated goal is to eliminate every last Israeli from \\\"historical Palestine.\\\" \\n And here we are some 65 years later. Israel is accused of genocide, although the Palestinian population is growing at an impressive rate. The Palestinians are accused of terrorism although they are being treated shittily by Israel\",\n \"Summary: The workplace is still not your kitchen.\\n\\nPost: You and your girlfriend can use whatever the fuck language you want, but you bring that shit into the workplace and I'll sic HR on you so fast your head will spin. Jokes that are just fine among friends, or in a comedy club, are not acceptable in the workplace. Because, unsurprisingly, in the workplace you have to be among people with a variety of different view points and sensitivities, and yes, you must be considerate of them.\",\n \"Summary: Don't post stuff you wouldn't post under your real name if there is any risk of criminal or civil action about it.\\n\\nPost: Anything that can be used against you will be. \\n \\n Reddit has no problems giving up your IP address, and your ISP probably has no problem providing your data either. \\n \\n Depending on what you post, it could be used in a criminal proceeding (e.g. buy pot from me) or a civil proceeding (XYZ is a criminal and stole from me, may create a cause of action for defamation.) \\n \\n It doesn't matter how they connect you to the post. If you are connected, you are stuck with the consequences.\",\n \"Summary: Jews are persecuted because they are a small group and relatively wealthy.\\n\\nPost: You didn't actually read what I wrote did you. \\n Here, let me pull out the relevant part for you: \\n >The creation of the \\\"other\\\" that you can blame for the things that go wrong is part of humanity, and has been part of human nature since the earliest history. Jews have often been that other, because of the combination of being a relatively low percentage of the population, and being relatively wealthy compared to the overall population. You will find, historically, that Jews were invited into the country when it was trying to grow, and kicked out (with many of their assets retained by the government) when they needed some group to blame. I'm assuming you can understand the economic underpinnings of this.\",\n \"Summary: It's not about discussions. It's about being able to ID someone's sexuality based on how they move or talk. And that is bullshit.\\n\\nPost: First post in the chain: there is a comedian named doug stanhope that does a good number on this topic. he basically says if u can tell someones sexuality within the first 5 minutes of meeting them, they are an asshole, straight or gay. \\n Your response: I think he's saying if the defining characteristic of your personality is your sexuality then you're a shallow twat. \\n My answer: And I'm saying that if you consider the defining characteristic of someone's personality to be that they use \\\"feminine\\\" hand gestures and tones, then you are shallow.\",\n \"Summary: Call your company's HR department and make them deal with it.\\n\\nPost: Contact HR at your employer, and ask them what is up. \\n There is a minimum number of hours required for mandatory insurance coverage but there is absolutely no relationship of the validity of your insurance coverage and how many hours you worked this month. My company covers people who are part time, and always work less than 120 hours. \\n If you are paying for the insurance, and it was deducted as normal for December, the insurance company can't deny you coverage. They need to notify you if your insurance expires.\",\n \"Summary: This article is crap.\\n\\nPost: This is an amazingly badly written, and confused piece of blog garbage. \\n The actual bill is about creating a Shield Law, to protect journalists. The First Amendment, according to the Supreme Court does not protect journalists against being subpoenaed to provide information about their sources. (See Branzburg v. Hayes, \\n So this would ADD protection for journalists. \\n Furthermore, it does not define journalists, and it does not mention paid/salaried anywhere in the bill. Search for yourself: \\n It is also NOT possible without a Constitutional amendment, to strip First Amendment protections from a certain class of publisher or journalist.\",\n \"Summary: This article is crap.\\n\\nPost: Reposting, because this article irritates me, and it's pure bullshit.\\nThe actual bill is about creating a Shield Law, to protect journalists. The First Amendment, according to the Supreme Court does not protect journalists against being subpoenaed to provide information about their sources. (See Branzburg v. Hayes, \\nSo this would ADD protection for journalists. Furthermore, it does not define journalists, and it does not mention paid/salaried anywhere in the bill. Search for yourself: \\nIt is also NOT possible without a Constitutional amendment, to strip First Amendment protections from a certain class of publisher or journalist.\",\n \"Summary: There are a few of us with karma to burn, and not afraid to step up and say we are feminists.\\n\\nPost: Actually no. In every thread about feminism people say \\\"I have never met a feminist who...\\\" and every single time there are responses that say \\\"nope, I'm perfectly normal and a feminist.\\\" And then you get downvoted into oblivion, called a white knight, and so on. It's a fun game I've been playing with reddit for a year or so. It never gets old, really.\",\n \"Summary: of that article: I feel like I missed the boat on breeding, so anyone else who is on shore by choice is just lying to herself.\\n\\nPost: Did you catch this? \\n >Meanwhile, have you read Aldous Huxley's Brave New World with its population graded from the top, Alpha, down to Epsilon? If educated, successful women like me don't breed, are we gearing up for a generation of Epsilon-minus semi-morons? \\n >Social mobility is stickier than ever, so let's not leave breeding to the idiots. \\n HOW does she get away with this bullshit? The classism is just mindboggling.\",\n \"Summary: Can you challenge a law when it hasn't been enforced against you.\\n\\nPost: Actually, the question being posed, as explained by the always amazing [SCOTUSBlog]( is: \\n (1) Whether, to challenge a speech-suppressive law, a party whose speech is arguably proscribed must prove that authorities would certainly and successfully prosecute him, as the Sixth Circuit holds, or should the court presume that a credible threat of prosecution exists absent desuetude or a firm commitment by prosecutors not to enforce the law, as seven other Circuits hold; and (2) whether the Sixth Circuit erred by holding, in direct conflict with the Eighth Circuit, that state laws proscribing “false” political speech are not subject to pre-enforcement First Amendment review so long as the speaker maintains that its speech is true, even if others who enforce the law manifestly disagree.\",\n \"Summary: See if the game maker permits mods before making them.\\n\\nPost: It's likely not legal without the permission of the copyright holder. But many game makers realize that the modders not only buy copies of the game but often get others to buy copies of the game, and the mods help them, don't hurt them. So t here are a fair number of games where mods are explicitly not only allowed but encouraged. \\n It's more difficult if you're trying to use assets from one game to be used in another game. Because there you are hurting the original game designers, by reducing the likelihood that their game will be bought & played.\",\n \"Summary: Do something, instead of just complaining to the manager.\\n\\nPost: I'm assuming it's not the manager's job to clean things. So whose job is it? \\n \\n You can call the health department but the odds that you will lose your job are non-zero. \\n \\n Unplug the ice machine as not safe for use. Your employer is potentially liable for anyone being harmed by the mold. \\n \\n Call the manufacturer and ask how it should be cleaned.\",\n \"Summary: Don't do it unless you have a licensing agreement with the creator of the original product.\\n\\nPost: The names are owned by those that created them, and if the consumer would be confused (assuming that the creators endorsed the product) you would likely be liable. Neither trademark nor copyright require a filing. Copyright just requires creation, and trademark requires use in commerce. Anything that's published (e.g. a comic book or TV show) would likely qualify as use in commerce, for the purposes of securing common law copyrights and trademarks.\",\n \"Summary: Conscious statements about the relationship aren't as strongly indicative as the unconscious attitudes, for marital happiness. Real study, with real follow-up, so I would not consider this a soft science. The write-up makes it read more fluffy than it is.\\n\\nPost: Actual study says: \\n >At baseline of our longitudinal study, 135 newlywed couples (270 individuals) completed an explicit measure of their conscious attitudes toward their relationship and an implicit measure of their automatic attitudes toward their partner. They then reported their marital satisfaction every 6 months for the next 4 years. We found no correlation between spouses’ automatic and conscious attitudes, which suggests that spouses were unaware of their automatic attitudes. Further, spouses’ automatic attitudes, not their conscious ones, predicted changes in their marital satisfaction, such that spouses with more positive automatic attitudes were less likely to experience declines in marital satisfaction over time.\",\n \"Summary: All people paying for insurance are paying for services to you.\\n\\nPost: Insurance is a risk hedge you purchase, not a service. Your insurance payments do not even come close to paying for you if you get into a serious car accident. The insurance company's bet has to be that only 1% of people will get into serious car accidents, and therefore the money works.\",\n \"Summary: People vote for whoever helps them more? Well blow me down with a feather!\\n\\nPost: This is going to sound accurate, but having dealt with rich people in my life let me explain this to you. The reason republicans win in texas is that rich people get more from Republicans. Republican leaders always give them more... more money in tax cuts, more relaxed regulatory structure.... basically the Republican party is \\\"buying\\\" these people's votes.\",\n \"Summary: Don't do it.\\n\\nPost: They could take down your Kickstarter, and make sure that Kickstarter doesn't give you the money they collected. Part of your agreement with Kickstarter is that the content you upload is all yours or you have full rights to use it. \\n They could also sue you for copyright infringement. If they register their copyright, they could sue you for statutory damages up to $150,000.\",\n \"Summary: It's not bunk. \\n It's not a myth.\\n\\nPost: From the link: Upon liberation, General Patton forced the German citizens of nearby Weimar to march through Buchenwald and confront the stacks of corpses, the body organ samples, the crematoria – and a single human skin lampshade. When Ilse was brought to trial it was this last piece of evidence to secure the death penalty. \\n Also, there is one lampshade found in New Orleans that appears to be made of human skin, and is of that era.\",\n \"Summary: It's real science.\\n\\nPost: Actual study was not of pets, but rather of lab animals and free ranging animals such as marmosets. \\n Yann C. Klimentidis, T. Mark Beasley, Hui-Yi Lin, Giulianna Murati, Gregory E. Glass, Marcus Guyton, Wendy Newton, Matthew Jorgensen, Steven B. Heymsfield, Joseph Kemnitz, Lynn Fairbanks, and David B. Allison. Canaries in the coal mine: a cross-species analysis of the plurality of obesity epidemics. Proc. R. Soc. B, November 24, 2010 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2010.1890\",\n \"Summary: You have much better odds of scheduling visits to Columbia, or someplace neutral where you can both visit than of a pardon.\\n\\nPost: Two different questions here. \\n \\n Yes, a presidential pardon would erase the issue that had him barred from entering the US, even as a visitor. \\n \\n No, it is not likely that you would get a presidential pardon. Those are very rare indeed. \\n \\n No, a presidential pardon would not provide him with a right to reside in the US, just come as a visitor.\",\n \"Summary: This article is crap.\\n\\nPost: Reposting, because this article irritates me, and it's pure bullshit. \\n The actual bill is about creating a Shield Law, to protect journalists. The First Amendment, according to the Supreme Court does not protect journalists against being subpoenaed to provide information about their sources. (See Branzburg v. Hayes, \\n So this would ADD protection for journalists. Furthermore, it does not define journalists, and it does not mention paid/salaried anywhere in the bill. Search for yourself: \\n It is also NOT possible without a Constitutional amendment, to strip First Amendment protections from a certain class of publisher or journalist.\",\n \"Summary: Wagner deserves it.\\n\\nPost: Wagner is lumped in with the Nazis because he was an outspoken anti-Semite. Read his essay Das Judentum in der Musik ('Jewishness in Music'), where he wrote that the German people were repelled by Jews due to their 'alien' appearance and behaviour: 'with all our speaking and writing in favor of the Jews' emancipation, we always felt instinctively repelled by any actual, operative contact with them.' He argued that Jewish musicians were only capable of producing music that was shallow and artificial, because they had no connection to the genuine spirit of the German people. \\n This, despite the fact that Jewish musicians helped him succeed.\",\n \"Summary: You can quit. You can talk to your supervisor. You have zip by way of legal options.\\n\\nPost: You heard something being said about you, by witnesses who aren't willing to be publicly witnesses. \\n The thing said wasn't actually using any slurs about you (the term nigger clearly wasn't about you). So I'm not sure where you think you can go with this. \\n If your supervisor had said \\\"He likes it when I/Bob/someone else does his work for him!\\\" do you think you would have any claim?\"\n]","isConversational":false},"profile_size":{"kind":"number","value":27,"string":"27"},"task":{"kind":"string","value":"longlamp_4"},"split_kind":{"kind":"string","value":"user_based"},"id":{"kind":"number","value":5397,"string":"5,397"}}},{"rowIdx":5398,"cells":{"question_id":{"kind":"string","value":"Kyllenios"},"question":{"kind":"string","value":"Generate the content for a reddit post There is nothing like RottenTomatoes for books, sadly. \n To clarify: RT does not have a \"best\" list, but rather a list of films with 100% rating."},"answer":{"kind":"string","value":"I disagree with putting GoodReads on par with Rotten Tomatoes. RT has actual critics who give it a yes or no, with no point system given by the critics themselves. If it sucks, splat. If it's good, fresh. \n This seems like a simple idea but it goes very far in maintaining RT as a credible source of critique. The best part is that you can see how critical reviews match that of hoi polloi. As someone who finds my own tastes closer to that of critics, this is huge. This also protects lists from being inundated by popularity: a flaw GoodReads suffers from extensively. \n On GR however, everyone and their mother, regardless of experience, skill or literacy, can leave a rating between one and five. This is terrible because every teenybopper ever gives Twilight five stars. \n Go ahead and look at the \"best\" lists on GR and RT. On Rotten Tomatoes we have films like Citizen Kane and the Godfather and Toy Story 2 and Battleship Potemkin and Nostalgia for the Light, which are critically and/or publicly lauded and generally considered to be \"worth watching.\" And on GoodReads we have \"Best Books Ever\" based on votes. Hunger Games, two Harry Potter books, and Twilight. One must beg to differ, I should hope."},"correct_answer":{"kind":"string","value":"I disagree with putting GoodReads on par with Rotten Tomatoes. RT has actual critics who give it a yes or no, with no point system given by the critics themselves. If it sucks, splat. If it's good, fresh. \n This seems like a simple idea but it goes very far in maintaining RT as a credible source of critique. The best part is that you can see how critical reviews match that of hoi polloi. As someone who finds my own tastes closer to that of critics, this is huge. This also protects lists from being inundated by popularity: a flaw GoodReads suffers from extensively. \n On GR however, everyone and their mother, regardless of experience, skill or literacy, can leave a rating between one and five. This is terrible because every teenybopper ever gives Twilight five stars. \n Go ahead and look at the \"best\" lists on GR and RT. On Rotten Tomatoes we have films like Citizen Kane and the Godfather and Toy Story 2 and Battleship Potemkin and Nostalgia for the Light, which are critically and/or publicly lauded and generally considered to be \"worth watching.\" And on GoodReads we have \"Best Books Ever\" based on votes. Hunger Games, two Harry Potter books, and Twilight. One must beg to differ, I should hope."},"documents":{"kind":"list like","value":["Summary: Be excellent to one another, don't judge, and I still think you're awesome.\n\nPost: Alright, soap box time. \n We are pagan because that's who we are . This isn't a choice. This isn't some whim. This isn't \"acting out\". This isn't \"being different.\" This isn'ta phase. We aren't the kids in the Craft . We aren't goths that, like, totally don't conform, man. \n That being said, I honestly and intensely believe we get what we give. The Golden Rule, the Wiccan Rede, whatever. To me it's all the same. Bill and Ted style. Be excellent to one another. \n Long story short: No one has the right to tell you that their beliefs are right and yours are wrong. No one. Ever. If they tell you you're wrong, they're wrong. If they tell you they're right, they're wrong. If they tell you there's only one road, they're wrong. \n I worship a god who fell out of favor millenia ago . And I choose to not tell anyone and everyone this, because I know not everyone is excellent to one another. So just because your path isn't mine, doesn't mean yours isn't awesome. You sound like you have your shit together, you know what you're doing, and you are doing something that resonates with you and makes you feel fulfilled. That anyone could tell you that that's wrong is abomination.","Summary: If you care even the slightest bit about this girl, and you don't want to be a complete asshole, break up with her now.\n\nPost: I'm going to tell you what I've told others in the same situation. \n So listen carefully. This is complicated. \n You are making things 100% worse for her by staying in a relationship under a pretense of doing something that's \"better\" for her. If you stay, as you are right now, knowing that you don't want to be with her but being with her out of \"wanting her to not regress\", you are going to make things so much worse for her when you finally man up and break up with her. \n Do it now . Don't wait. Don't do anything. If you really care about this girl, break up with her as soon as possible. Tell her family, friends, whoever, what you're doing, and tell them that you are worried that she might hurt herself. And then break up with her. \n Don't communicate with her. Don't message her or poke her on facebook. Don't fucking text her. Walk the fuck away and don't look back. \n If you don't break up with her, you are being a coward because you are more concerned with your own feelings of \"maybe making things worse for her by breaking up with her\" rather than the fact tht no one wants to be in a relationship with someone who doesn't love them.","Summary: Always check. Then check again. Then go with your gut and eat elsewhere. :(\n\nPost: I was at a restaurant. They had a \"vegetarian\" plate, which was actually vegan. Rice, beans, \"salad\" (read: a few leaves of lettuce and slices of tomato). Asked the server, made sure there was no meat in it, ordered, we're eating and... \n There was pork in the beans. As in, they cooked the beans with pork in it. We had eaten the entire thing before we saw this little shred of pork beneath it all. \n When we confronted them, the manager said, (I'll never forget this) \"What do you want me to do? You ate it! You liked it!\"","Summary: I don't think it's right to say we shouldn't complain about our low wage.\n\nPost: When you say, \"What I also support is people not crying about having a job,\" you should realize how hurtful of a statement that is. Because \"not crying about having a job\" means not complaining when working conditions are unfair, or the pay is offensively out of touch with the attempt to have a livelihood, or that any one of us should have the opportunity to have gainful employment, meaning literally employment that is worth our while. \n We sling coffee, for ridiculously little. Shouldn't we get a fair wage, even if it's \"bottom tier customer service?\" Most of us are not high schoolers living at home on our parents' insurance. We are college students, young professionals, etc. \n Yeah, we have a job. Woo. But that phrasing doesn't mean half of what it meant years ago. You cannot live on what we get paid. \n I'll repeat that. \n You cannot live on what we get paid. \n So what isn't there to complain about? Working 40 hours a week at $8+ an hour doesn't cut it by any means.","Summary: nine year old self pretends to know the meaning of a word.\n\nPost: In elementary school, a group of girls were talking about a new girl who had just transferred in. She was from the city, cultured (for a nine year old) and had been in clothing catalogs as a model and even in a commercial for a popular toy. She had told everyone that she had already had sex, and practiced having sex by... having sex with her pillow. ಠ_ಠ \n So these girls are talking. I'm barely paying attention, and one girl leans in and sneer at me, \"Do you think she had sex with her pillow? Do you think she's a slut?\" I shrug. She laughs, then says, \"I bet Kyllenios is a virgin!\" \n I had no idea what virgin meant, but I was certain it was bad based on how this girl said it. I shouted, to the whole crowded cafeteria, \"I am not a virgin!\"","Summary: Fitbit has wonderful support.\n\nPost: I've had a fitbit flex for about six months. \n Pros: Like everyone else has said, it's really nice to be able to set a steps-per-day goal and check it regularly through the day. \n Cons: I had my flex for two weeks and the smaller wristband broke. I have super tiny wrists, and I wear the smaller band on its tightest setting. After six months my replacement band broke in exactly the same way, and the wireless dongle (which I almost never use) fell apart. \n As a side note, I contacted fitbit and they offered to replace the broken band and dongle at no charge. I'm overseas for the next six months though, and after a small confusion, they managed to send my replacements to me here overseas! So fitbit support is fantastic.","Summary: former best friend was a two-faced thieving cunt.\n\nPost: My family took her in when her family got evicted and her mom moved away without her. \n My father took her under his wing, gave her money while she was searching for a job, talked to her and welcomed her. \n She moved out when her mom found a new apartment, giving her a gift card to a local grocery for food. \n A few weeks before my father died, I found her MySpace linked from her Facebook. In it she trash-talked my family in general, called my Korean War vet father a coward who lied about his service, and bragged about stealing things no one would notice. \n I wanted to strangle her. But instead I just cut her off. Later I realized she was a really toxic person who was miserable and wanted everyone else to be miserable too.","Summary: My Prius died that I might live.\n\nPost: I hit a full size 18 wheeler spare in the middle of a highway with a tractor trailer to my right and a civic to my left. My little 2008 Prius (blue like the one in the picture) was destroyed. The entire frame was decimated. \n No one in the car was hurt. At all. Side airbags went off, front airbags, everything. The smell was terrible. \n I loved that car. More than I do some people. And the worst was listening to it die as the horn (which would not shut off) slowly faded until the car was silent and the batteries were dead.","Summary: My cat, a suave motherfucker, thinks he's my boyfriend.\n\nPost: My cat Sharpie thinks he's my boyfriend. \n -I have not once, in this house, gone to the bathroom without him. He screams, literally screams if I try. Once he's in the bathroom with me, he purrs and climbs in my lap and rolls around on the floor. When it's time to leave the bathroom, he stands on his hind legs and scratches at the door knob. \n -Anytime in holding him he wraps his paws around my arm and snuggles me, or he puts his paw in my hand and looks into my eyes, or he wiggles around until he's on his back holding his head up. He purrs nonstop, refuses to leave, and if I put him down he climbs back up or glares at me. \n -If he's laying down somewhere and I'm walking towards him, he sits up and yawns and then puts on his handsome face. Then he moves over if he on a chair, to make room for me to sit alongside. \n -He licks me. On my face, my hands, my neck. I won't let him lick anywhere else, the creeper. Sometimes if he's licking my fingers he holds my hand with both arms so I can't move.","Summary: It isn't right to call someone an idiot just because you don't agree with what they do with their life.\n\nPost: There is a difference between cultural beliefs and the \"fringe\" beliefs of microcultures. A huge difference. Cultural values, cultural ideas and ideals, come from a variety of sources, not just religion. \n That being said, it's like this. I don't care if you like it. I really don't. But you have to respect that for some people, it's valid. These guys aren't hurting anyone, and it's something that works for them. There's no reason to resort to name calling.","Summary: make a WarioWare style minigame that's either 5 or 10 seconds\nlong. We will put them together and it'll be awesome. \n Currently accepting HTML5 + JS, GM:Studio and Construct 2 only.\n(Hopefully flash if we can figure it out.)\n\nPost: Hey r/javascript! I wanted to let you guys know about a new jam. Name of the jam is BDAYBASH. \n The idea is that we're going to each make a little game (5-10 seconds! each) and string them together into a greater game. Right now we just need the games: once they're together we will make the title screen, etc. \n Here's the address: bdaybash.aetherarcade.com \n The deadline is in four days!","Summary: make a WarioWare style minigame that's either 5 or 10 seconds\nlong. We will put them together and it'll be awesome. \n Currently accepting HTML5 + JS, GM:Studio and Construct 2 only.\n(Hopefully flash if we can figure it out.)\n\nPost: Hey r/gamedev! I wanted to let you guys know about a new jam. Name of the jam is BDAYBASH. \n The idea is that we're going to each make a little game (5-10 seconds! each) and string them together into a greater game. Right now we just need the games: once they're together we will make the title screen, etc. \n Here's the address: bdaybash.aetherarcade.com \n The deadline is in four days!","Summary: make a WarioWare style minigame that's either 5 or 10 seconds\nlong. We will put them together and it'll be awesome. \n Currently accepting HTML5 + JS, GM:Studio and Construct 2 only.\n(Hopefully flash if we can figure it out.)\n\nPost: Hey r/HTML5games! I wanted to let you guys know about a new jam. Name of the jam is BDAYBASH. \n The idea is that we're going to each make a little game (5-10 seconds! each) and string them together into a greater game. Right now we just need the games: once they're together we will make the title screen, etc. \n Here's the address: bdaybash.aetherarcade.com \n The deadline is in four days!","Summary: New boss doesn't give any respect and I don't know what to do.\n\nPost: I've been working at a retail establishment for a few years. I'd like to believe I'm generally well liked, and I am good at my job and am an asset to the store and the company as a whole. \n My old boss left, for her own reasons. She was amazing. Scheduling, interpersonal conflicts, actually working: she did everything. Our new boss was brought in, and everything seemed okay for about a week. \n Since then there has been nothing but conflict after conflict. She said no one does anything right but her, despite the fact that everyone in the store has worked for the company longer than she. She came in and brought a lot of changes, not all of which were unwarranted: a lot of the friction resulted from the way she talked about them, and how they related to us. \n I've been (for the most part) removed from this situation. I've had my moments with her (such as when she told me no one I ever worked for before knew what they were doing) but for the most part it's been as smooth as possible. \n This morning I got a missent text from her to one of my coworkers, suggesting I had done something yesterday that I hadn't. I replied and eventually I came to understand that she does this often: talk to everyone else about a problem, rather than the person themselves. I'm at my rope's end. \n I don't know how much longer I can deal with this mess. Half my coworkers are leaving, while the other half are done respecting her. I was put in this position by the old boss, who trusted me, and this new one trusts no one.","Summary: Target commercials ruin Hannibal on TV.\n\nPost: Hey y'all. I've been watching Hannibal since it started, but always on a delay (until it shows up online). My SO and I are huge fans of the show. Which is why when yesterday, we found ourselves somewhere with an actual working TV, we decided to watch Hannibal as it aired, rather than wait. \n Watching later means watching uninterrupted, where the tone and play of the show are able to develop as the showmakers intend. \n The commercials were terrible, not just because commercials nowadays are invariably terrible, but because they were loud and bright and obnoxious. And repetitive. I used to watch SVU, but it's overkill to run the same \"#saveBenson\" thing six times. \n They're loud when the show is quiet; they're bright when the show is dark. They're everything Hannibal isn't, intentionally so. \n I really felt like the commercial breaks (some of which were actually longer than the segments they were interrupting) really detracted from the show. I'm now a firm believer that the best thing that can happen to Hannibal is for it to be taken to HBO or Netflix. \n Can you imagine Game of Thrones with commercial breaks?! Or Girls? Or, for Chrissakes, the Sopranos? Or, for the love of everything holy, True Detective? I sincerely believe Hannibal deserves much more than the dreck spacing it's segments on network TV.","Summary: Make sure you are explicit in what you want if you want longer, natural looking nails, and don't accept someone's word when they say pink gel dries white.\n\nPost: I had [asked before]( about gel tips, having read about them online. Wanted to update with my experience. \n I called around, and only two of the nail places near me even knew what gel tips were. I went to the one better rated on yelp. \n They asked what I wanted, and why I wanted gel, which was nice. I said because the appearance of my hands is an important part of my work and my nails keep breaking and have uneven length. They asked if I wanted pink or white gel, and I said white, and that I wanted my nails to look as natural as possible, since I very rarely wear polish. They recommended against just gel, since my nails would still be uneven, and said that with tips, the nails would be immediately the same length, and that they would be able to be buffed off later if I wanted to have just my natural nails. So I decided to go for it. \n They gave me silk wraps first, then applied pink gel. I had specifically said I wanted white, but the woman assured me the pink would dry white. (Spoiler: it didn't.) I left with very pink, very bubbly, very obviously fake nails that resembled acrylics, which was exactly what I didn't want. I waited a whole three days before deciding to buff them off. \n I buffed off a good 1/4cm of the pink goo (it was hard, just looked very much like goo) until I got down to a very thin layer that's very close in appearance to my natural nail, which I wanted. I can see the edge of my nail growing in, but what's important is that now there's a clearish line between my nail bed and the white, which makes my nails look real. I've had people in my family who know my nails are fragile ask if they're my real nails, which also felt nice. \n So"],"string":"[\n \"Summary: Be excellent to one another, don't judge, and I still think you're awesome.\\n\\nPost: Alright, soap box time. \\n We are pagan because that's who we are . This isn't a choice. This isn't some whim. This isn't \\\"acting out\\\". This isn't \\\"being different.\\\" This isn'ta phase. We aren't the kids in the Craft . We aren't goths that, like, totally don't conform, man. \\n That being said, I honestly and intensely believe we get what we give. The Golden Rule, the Wiccan Rede, whatever. To me it's all the same. Bill and Ted style. Be excellent to one another. \\n Long story short: No one has the right to tell you that their beliefs are right and yours are wrong. No one. Ever. If they tell you you're wrong, they're wrong. If they tell you they're right, they're wrong. If they tell you there's only one road, they're wrong. \\n I worship a god who fell out of favor millenia ago . And I choose to not tell anyone and everyone this, because I know not everyone is excellent to one another. So just because your path isn't mine, doesn't mean yours isn't awesome. You sound like you have your shit together, you know what you're doing, and you are doing something that resonates with you and makes you feel fulfilled. That anyone could tell you that that's wrong is abomination.\",\n \"Summary: If you care even the slightest bit about this girl, and you don't want to be a complete asshole, break up with her now.\\n\\nPost: I'm going to tell you what I've told others in the same situation. \\n So listen carefully. This is complicated. \\n You are making things 100% worse for her by staying in a relationship under a pretense of doing something that's \\\"better\\\" for her. If you stay, as you are right now, knowing that you don't want to be with her but being with her out of \\\"wanting her to not regress\\\", you are going to make things so much worse for her when you finally man up and break up with her. \\n Do it now . Don't wait. Don't do anything. If you really care about this girl, break up with her as soon as possible. Tell her family, friends, whoever, what you're doing, and tell them that you are worried that she might hurt herself. And then break up with her. \\n Don't communicate with her. Don't message her or poke her on facebook. Don't fucking text her. Walk the fuck away and don't look back. \\n If you don't break up with her, you are being a coward because you are more concerned with your own feelings of \\\"maybe making things worse for her by breaking up with her\\\" rather than the fact tht no one wants to be in a relationship with someone who doesn't love them.\",\n \"Summary: Always check. Then check again. Then go with your gut and eat elsewhere. :(\\n\\nPost: I was at a restaurant. They had a \\\"vegetarian\\\" plate, which was actually vegan. Rice, beans, \\\"salad\\\" (read: a few leaves of lettuce and slices of tomato). Asked the server, made sure there was no meat in it, ordered, we're eating and... \\n There was pork in the beans. As in, they cooked the beans with pork in it. We had eaten the entire thing before we saw this little shred of pork beneath it all. \\n When we confronted them, the manager said, (I'll never forget this) \\\"What do you want me to do? You ate it! You liked it!\\\"\",\n \"Summary: I don't think it's right to say we shouldn't complain about our low wage.\\n\\nPost: When you say, \\\"What I also support is people not crying about having a job,\\\" you should realize how hurtful of a statement that is. Because \\\"not crying about having a job\\\" means not complaining when working conditions are unfair, or the pay is offensively out of touch with the attempt to have a livelihood, or that any one of us should have the opportunity to have gainful employment, meaning literally employment that is worth our while. \\n We sling coffee, for ridiculously little. Shouldn't we get a fair wage, even if it's \\\"bottom tier customer service?\\\" Most of us are not high schoolers living at home on our parents' insurance. We are college students, young professionals, etc. \\n Yeah, we have a job. Woo. But that phrasing doesn't mean half of what it meant years ago. You cannot live on what we get paid. \\n I'll repeat that. \\n You cannot live on what we get paid. \\n So what isn't there to complain about? Working 40 hours a week at $8+ an hour doesn't cut it by any means.\",\n \"Summary: nine year old self pretends to know the meaning of a word.\\n\\nPost: In elementary school, a group of girls were talking about a new girl who had just transferred in. She was from the city, cultured (for a nine year old) and had been in clothing catalogs as a model and even in a commercial for a popular toy. She had told everyone that she had already had sex, and practiced having sex by... having sex with her pillow. ಠ_ಠ \\n So these girls are talking. I'm barely paying attention, and one girl leans in and sneer at me, \\\"Do you think she had sex with her pillow? Do you think she's a slut?\\\" I shrug. She laughs, then says, \\\"I bet Kyllenios is a virgin!\\\" \\n I had no idea what virgin meant, but I was certain it was bad based on how this girl said it. I shouted, to the whole crowded cafeteria, \\\"I am not a virgin!\\\"\",\n \"Summary: Fitbit has wonderful support.\\n\\nPost: I've had a fitbit flex for about six months. \\n Pros: Like everyone else has said, it's really nice to be able to set a steps-per-day goal and check it regularly through the day. \\n Cons: I had my flex for two weeks and the smaller wristband broke. I have super tiny wrists, and I wear the smaller band on its tightest setting. After six months my replacement band broke in exactly the same way, and the wireless dongle (which I almost never use) fell apart. \\n As a side note, I contacted fitbit and they offered to replace the broken band and dongle at no charge. I'm overseas for the next six months though, and after a small confusion, they managed to send my replacements to me here overseas! So fitbit support is fantastic.\",\n \"Summary: former best friend was a two-faced thieving cunt.\\n\\nPost: My family took her in when her family got evicted and her mom moved away without her. \\n My father took her under his wing, gave her money while she was searching for a job, talked to her and welcomed her. \\n She moved out when her mom found a new apartment, giving her a gift card to a local grocery for food. \\n A few weeks before my father died, I found her MySpace linked from her Facebook. In it she trash-talked my family in general, called my Korean War vet father a coward who lied about his service, and bragged about stealing things no one would notice. \\n I wanted to strangle her. But instead I just cut her off. Later I realized she was a really toxic person who was miserable and wanted everyone else to be miserable too.\",\n \"Summary: My Prius died that I might live.\\n\\nPost: I hit a full size 18 wheeler spare in the middle of a highway with a tractor trailer to my right and a civic to my left. My little 2008 Prius (blue like the one in the picture) was destroyed. The entire frame was decimated. \\n No one in the car was hurt. At all. Side airbags went off, front airbags, everything. The smell was terrible. \\n I loved that car. More than I do some people. And the worst was listening to it die as the horn (which would not shut off) slowly faded until the car was silent and the batteries were dead.\",\n \"Summary: My cat, a suave motherfucker, thinks he's my boyfriend.\\n\\nPost: My cat Sharpie thinks he's my boyfriend. \\n -I have not once, in this house, gone to the bathroom without him. He screams, literally screams if I try. Once he's in the bathroom with me, he purrs and climbs in my lap and rolls around on the floor. When it's time to leave the bathroom, he stands on his hind legs and scratches at the door knob. \\n -Anytime in holding him he wraps his paws around my arm and snuggles me, or he puts his paw in my hand and looks into my eyes, or he wiggles around until he's on his back holding his head up. He purrs nonstop, refuses to leave, and if I put him down he climbs back up or glares at me. \\n -If he's laying down somewhere and I'm walking towards him, he sits up and yawns and then puts on his handsome face. Then he moves over if he on a chair, to make room for me to sit alongside. \\n -He licks me. On my face, my hands, my neck. I won't let him lick anywhere else, the creeper. Sometimes if he's licking my fingers he holds my hand with both arms so I can't move.\",\n \"Summary: It isn't right to call someone an idiot just because you don't agree with what they do with their life.\\n\\nPost: There is a difference between cultural beliefs and the \\\"fringe\\\" beliefs of microcultures. A huge difference. Cultural values, cultural ideas and ideals, come from a variety of sources, not just religion. \\n That being said, it's like this. I don't care if you like it. I really don't. But you have to respect that for some people, it's valid. These guys aren't hurting anyone, and it's something that works for them. There's no reason to resort to name calling.\",\n \"Summary: make a WarioWare style minigame that's either 5 or 10 seconds\\nlong. We will put them together and it'll be awesome. \\n Currently accepting HTML5 + JS, GM:Studio and Construct 2 only.\\n(Hopefully flash if we can figure it out.)\\n\\nPost: Hey r/javascript! I wanted to let you guys know about a new jam. Name of the jam is BDAYBASH. \\n The idea is that we're going to each make a little game (5-10 seconds! each) and string them together into a greater game. Right now we just need the games: once they're together we will make the title screen, etc. \\n Here's the address: bdaybash.aetherarcade.com \\n The deadline is in four days!\",\n \"Summary: make a WarioWare style minigame that's either 5 or 10 seconds\\nlong. We will put them together and it'll be awesome. \\n Currently accepting HTML5 + JS, GM:Studio and Construct 2 only.\\n(Hopefully flash if we can figure it out.)\\n\\nPost: Hey r/gamedev! I wanted to let you guys know about a new jam. Name of the jam is BDAYBASH. \\n The idea is that we're going to each make a little game (5-10 seconds! each) and string them together into a greater game. Right now we just need the games: once they're together we will make the title screen, etc. \\n Here's the address: bdaybash.aetherarcade.com \\n The deadline is in four days!\",\n \"Summary: make a WarioWare style minigame that's either 5 or 10 seconds\\nlong. We will put them together and it'll be awesome. \\n Currently accepting HTML5 + JS, GM:Studio and Construct 2 only.\\n(Hopefully flash if we can figure it out.)\\n\\nPost: Hey r/HTML5games! I wanted to let you guys know about a new jam. Name of the jam is BDAYBASH. \\n The idea is that we're going to each make a little game (5-10 seconds! each) and string them together into a greater game. Right now we just need the games: once they're together we will make the title screen, etc. \\n Here's the address: bdaybash.aetherarcade.com \\n The deadline is in four days!\",\n \"Summary: New boss doesn't give any respect and I don't know what to do.\\n\\nPost: I've been working at a retail establishment for a few years. I'd like to believe I'm generally well liked, and I am good at my job and am an asset to the store and the company as a whole. \\n My old boss left, for her own reasons. She was amazing. Scheduling, interpersonal conflicts, actually working: she did everything. Our new boss was brought in, and everything seemed okay for about a week. \\n Since then there has been nothing but conflict after conflict. She said no one does anything right but her, despite the fact that everyone in the store has worked for the company longer than she. She came in and brought a lot of changes, not all of which were unwarranted: a lot of the friction resulted from the way she talked about them, and how they related to us. \\n I've been (for the most part) removed from this situation. I've had my moments with her (such as when she told me no one I ever worked for before knew what they were doing) but for the most part it's been as smooth as possible. \\n This morning I got a missent text from her to one of my coworkers, suggesting I had done something yesterday that I hadn't. I replied and eventually I came to understand that she does this often: talk to everyone else about a problem, rather than the person themselves. I'm at my rope's end. \\n I don't know how much longer I can deal with this mess. Half my coworkers are leaving, while the other half are done respecting her. I was put in this position by the old boss, who trusted me, and this new one trusts no one.\",\n \"Summary: Target commercials ruin Hannibal on TV.\\n\\nPost: Hey y'all. I've been watching Hannibal since it started, but always on a delay (until it shows up online). My SO and I are huge fans of the show. Which is why when yesterday, we found ourselves somewhere with an actual working TV, we decided to watch Hannibal as it aired, rather than wait. \\n Watching later means watching uninterrupted, where the tone and play of the show are able to develop as the showmakers intend. \\n The commercials were terrible, not just because commercials nowadays are invariably terrible, but because they were loud and bright and obnoxious. And repetitive. I used to watch SVU, but it's overkill to run the same \\\"#saveBenson\\\" thing six times. \\n They're loud when the show is quiet; they're bright when the show is dark. They're everything Hannibal isn't, intentionally so. \\n I really felt like the commercial breaks (some of which were actually longer than the segments they were interrupting) really detracted from the show. I'm now a firm believer that the best thing that can happen to Hannibal is for it to be taken to HBO or Netflix. \\n Can you imagine Game of Thrones with commercial breaks?! Or Girls? Or, for Chrissakes, the Sopranos? Or, for the love of everything holy, True Detective? I sincerely believe Hannibal deserves much more than the dreck spacing it's segments on network TV.\",\n \"Summary: Make sure you are explicit in what you want if you want longer, natural looking nails, and don't accept someone's word when they say pink gel dries white.\\n\\nPost: I had [asked before]( about gel tips, having read about them online. Wanted to update with my experience. \\n I called around, and only two of the nail places near me even knew what gel tips were. I went to the one better rated on yelp. \\n They asked what I wanted, and why I wanted gel, which was nice. I said because the appearance of my hands is an important part of my work and my nails keep breaking and have uneven length. They asked if I wanted pink or white gel, and I said white, and that I wanted my nails to look as natural as possible, since I very rarely wear polish. They recommended against just gel, since my nails would still be uneven, and said that with tips, the nails would be immediately the same length, and that they would be able to be buffed off later if I wanted to have just my natural nails. So I decided to go for it. \\n They gave me silk wraps first, then applied pink gel. I had specifically said I wanted white, but the woman assured me the pink would dry white. (Spoiler: it didn't.) I left with very pink, very bubbly, very obviously fake nails that resembled acrylics, which was exactly what I didn't want. I waited a whole three days before deciding to buff them off. \\n I buffed off a good 1/4cm of the pink goo (it was hard, just looked very much like goo) until I got down to a very thin layer that's very close in appearance to my natural nail, which I wanted. I can see the edge of my nail growing in, but what's important is that now there's a clearish line between my nail bed and the white, which makes my nails look real. I've had people in my family who know my nails are fragile ask if they're my real nails, which also felt nice. \\n So\"\n]","isConversational":false},"profile_size":{"kind":"number","value":16,"string":"16"},"task":{"kind":"string","value":"longlamp_4"},"split_kind":{"kind":"string","value":"user_based"},"id":{"kind":"number","value":5398,"string":"5,398"}}},{"rowIdx":5399,"cells":{"question_id":{"kind":"string","value":"Cerce_Tentones"},"question":{"kind":"string","value":"Generate the content for a reddit post I am spending 1093.81 on upping my mil-mod to 4, and 410.18 on upping Industrial and Commercial Goods by 1."},"answer":{"kind":"string","value":"The defense of Arkona was now paramount. Though the Caitan Federation had withdrawn and formed peaceful relations, there are other nations throughout the galaxy that may not respond in such a manner. \n Because of this, the Cabinet has seen fit within the budget to allow the Department of Arkonan Technology in association with the Arkonan Space Secretariat to modify and extend the virtual reality technology already present to allow for more in-depth military training accompanied with further genetic modifications to enable for a stronger physique and quicker response times to external stimuli. This new VR, known as the Virtual Arkonan Garrison Interface Technology, or VAGITech, goes into effect as soon as developments are completed. \n Modifications of this technology are provided for the general public to use for better education in the classroom, leading to a surge in industrial knowledge and commercial sales from public sales of modified VAGI-Tech, known as the Virtual Arkonan Public Education Technology, or VAPE-Tech. A quick resurgence of \"We get it, you VAPE\" is seen within the Arkonan populace, but is generally applied to those who hold themselves to be too smart or engrossed in a singular topic, similar to a know-it-all."},"correct_answer":{"kind":"string","value":"The defense of Arkona was now paramount. Though the Caitan Federation had withdrawn and formed peaceful relations, there are other nations throughout the galaxy that may not respond in such a manner. \n Because of this, the Cabinet has seen fit within the budget to allow the Department of Arkonan Technology in association with the Arkonan Space Secretariat to modify and extend the virtual reality technology already present to allow for more in-depth military training accompanied with further genetic modifications to enable for a stronger physique and quicker response times to external stimuli. This new VR, known as the Virtual Arkonan Garrison Interface Technology, or VAGITech, goes into effect as soon as developments are completed. \n Modifications of this technology are provided for the general public to use for better education in the classroom, leading to a surge in industrial knowledge and commercial sales from public sales of modified VAGI-Tech, known as the Virtual Arkonan Public Education Technology, or VAPE-Tech. A quick resurgence of \"We get it, you VAPE\" is seen within the Arkonan populace, but is generally applied to those who hold themselves to be too smart or engrossed in a singular topic, similar to a know-it-all."},"documents":{"kind":"list like","value":["Summary: elective is good if you want greater control over who is elected; tanistry is good if you want safety in succession and if you want to elect pretty much anyone with your last name; high relations=less revolts\n\nPost: Elective is awesome, just like /u/I_want_fun pointed out, though for Empire-tier elective I believe you can hold two duchies - however, as he pointed out, for a king/emperor the duchy titles are pretty much moot other than a minor prestige bonus (that can be multiplied by tech - though, again, it's rather minor and only really applies for prestige hoarders like me :P). Prestige can impact relations in a positive way, remember, and sometimes 100 prestige bonus in the heat of a possible uprising can turn that +59 into a +60, and have them drop from the faction. But such specific events are kind of, well, specific and far between. \n Another election that you have as an Irish person is Tanistry. This is, honestly, the absolute safest way to play - a very close friend of mine is in love with this succession in my current game, as it allow you to pick essentially any family member, last I checked. This means that if you put someone on the throne of Scotland, but if he is, say, your mother's uncle's adopted grandson, you can elect him as leader. On the flipside, this means that just about /every/ landed noble can vote in the election - including that awkward posessed incapable brother-in-law that you shoved a county in Egypt onto. This usually results in far-flung weak-claim-to-the-kingdom nieces and nephews getting elected. But no matter what, you - essentially - will never run the risk of losing the crown through succession. \n Neither of these really hugely impact if people revolt or not. I think Tanistry/Elective give a 5 opinion boost, unless it's your son or something - again, I think. The main issues of revolting lordlings are as follows, from order of greatest to least impact from my perspective. \n \n Religion group. If you put a Sunni in catholic Wessex, the guy is bound to cause you trouble. \n Culture group. As a fan of Poland, it doesn't exactly help when I have Russian vassals. They tend to try to form their own country in the name of Russia. How silly of them. In the same way, those pesky English want to form England and steal your potatoes. Don't let the English steal your potatoes. Show them the true superiority of Ireland by placing an Irish leader in Kent. Hah! \n Troop numbers. If you have more troops than they do, they are more likely to not revolt. \n Owning land that they covet. Make sure that the duke of Ulster controls everything in Ulster, or else they will always hate you if you control it. \n Traits. Seriously. Traits. An ambitious proud cruel impaler with the elusive shadow training is going to try and kill you, probably. Give the humble content diligent guy the duchy, and he'll love you 'till the day his demon-spawn son usurps the throne with the help of various witches and the Cathar heresy. \n Level of the primary holding. If you hope to form an Empire, NEVER give a kingdom-tier title out. Please. Seriously. Destroy all the kingdom titles or they will almost always be a member of an independence faction. Kings are more likely to revolt than Dukes, who are more likely to revolt than Counts. \n Type of government. Republics hate you, generally, even if they are of the same dynasty. However, bishoprics usually are quite passive. Holy orders are a bit tricky, but usually loyal in my experience, as are landed/vassalized mercenary groups. \n Dynasty. Members of your dynasty are more likely to be friendly towards you. \n Diplomatic skill. High diplomacy = high relations. \n Quick edit: How long you have ruled. The longer you rule, the more people feel loyal to you.","Summary: Pro's: Free pizza, Cons: Disorganization.\n\nPost: 20, male, Michigan, INFJ. Currently working on Mackinac Island, taking prerequisite classes at Mott online (because: island), though I live near Lansing. I enjoy strategy games, reading (Dean Koontz at the moment, catching up on Odd Thomas), devout Christian, and generally easy-going. I give free pizza to those who ask for it and are on Mackinac Island, or plan on staying there this year or next, though so far only three have yet taken up my offer, so even if you just want a decent pizza, I got you covered. \n Other stuff. Hmm. I collect Star Wars books, or at least did before they retconned everything. I like pets, we generally get along decently enough, or at least agree to keep out of each other's hair. I'm generally disorganized and horrible with names, but I never forget a face or a date. I want to get into some kind of orchestra, or marching band, be it with some college or some local city, not out of some idea that I can make it big but simply because I enjoy playing, as I miss playing percussion.","Summary: Yea, there's someone, but a lot of people are scared of making a commitment and then finding out the spouse doesn't want much/specific sex, so keep that in mind when approaching the subject.\n\nPost: I don't understand why there are 130 comments and 35 upvotes, honestly. And yes, there's somebody out there for you. I'm trying to wait as well. Just keep in mind that the husband you will have in the future may want more or less sex, or some specific kind of sex, that you don't want; same thing for him as well. This is what scares a lot of people into having sex before marriage; a sort of 'testing the water' to make sure people are compatible. They don't want to run the risk of finding someone who they are really, really good friends and life-partners with but then not enjoy sexual relations. I'd absolutely hate that, having pledged yourself - for life (and beyond life according to your beliefs) - and then finding out that you're trapped in a relationship where your feelings and physical desires aren't met and/or enjoyed by your partner. Almost soul-crushing to think about. The only thing I fear more is devaluing sex. I want my love to be with one person, and one person only, yet at the same time I want that love to be desired, longed for, and meaningful.","Summary: sum up: There's dozens of different ways to play with the feudal system when giving out land, and advocates for each and every way, from forming massive theocracies to only giving family landed to forming all the duchies and playing with de jure duchy holdings to make sure your vassals are always fighting each other and not you - it all just boils down to what feels best to you personally. \n Baronies/cities/bishoprics - I don't usually play with them unless I'm being ultra-isolationist and only really caring about my own borders. Baronies are always a nice thing to give to far-fetched family members or to the count that already holds the top level holding of the area in question (as it lets you draw from that pool for levies as he is your direct vassal, rather than a vassal of a vassal, if that makes sense). Cities are fine as they are - however, if you want to form a merchant republic, I would recommend giving the city to the family member with highest stewardship that isn't landed, and then giving that said family member the ducal title of the duchy that the city is in (OR a titular duchy). Bishoprics are good for making someone unable to inherit. Say, for example, the King of Wales' heir is really bad, and he is your vassal in the Empire of Brittania. You can pick the really bad heir, give him a bishopric, and now the Kingdom of Wales goes to the next guy in line. Works for your kids as well, though I don't think you can do it in gavelkind - don't quote me on it though. Also it's generally held in high regard that bishops are really easy vassals. If you can't find a good person to give land to, just give land to a bishop in the area - theocracies generally don't want independence, and they generally don't scheme. \n For laws - it's up to personal preference again. I personally would never put crown authority above Medium, because after you put it above medium your vassals start switching out of Gavelkind, and thus making it harder to control your vassals. For taxes, I generally raise vassal taxes once and lower their levies to the second-lowest possible, and also raise taxes on everyone else (theocracies and cities) to the highest possible and reduce their levies to the absolute lowest. I'm a very mercenary/retinue-oriented person, though, so that's just my view.\n\nPost: Alright. \n Your first question is honestly a matter of preference. There is no one 'right' way to hand out land after you reach your holding limit. \n I personally prefer to only expand when a member of my family is old enough to hold land and get married, and when I take over that land, I give it to that person. They then make more children of my dynasty who I later give land to, or the father gives land to. Eventually, you'll have so many family members inside your own borders that they will be able to literally take on Empires with their string of alliances (so long as there is a valid claim for them to press). Example being, if you take over all of the British Isles and all of your vassals are all your family, and one of your family members has a claim to the kingdom of France, they may very well just invade France for you - and with far more troops than you have, in some cases (because they'll all raise from their personal levies, rather than you only using say 10% of their levies for them being your vassal). Post-1300's, I've seen doomstacks of 180,000+ on some of my more successful games go up against the Byzantine Empire and curbstomp them something awful - makes those decadence revolts look like skirmishes. Combine this family-only landed strategy with Elective succession and you'll never lose once you gain momentum. \n However, there's a lot of problems with the above strategy. Say you have a rebellious vassal that is far removed from the main line - like your father's second uncle's grandchild's half-brother or something, I dunno. If you kill him to prevent a massive rebellion, you get the Kinslayer trait. And if you get the Kinslayer trait with only your family as vassals - ohhhhh boy are you going to have a short life, trust me. Also, the long string of alliances works both ways - say you don't have Interal Kings Peace. That means that your vassals can wage massive - and I mean truly massive late game - internal wars over a single county, leaving their castles less defended if someone else attacks you, and makes it possible for super-dukes to rise up within your own borders without you doing a single thing. Also, they could all allign against you if you are a particularly poor ruler, or if there's simply some random ambitious duke on the fringes of your empire that likes to cause trouble. \n Giving land to random courtiers is perfectly fine in some's books, so long as they are of your culture and religion, though I personally don't like it. Pro's are that it makes the kinslayer trait only give less diplomatic skill, there is less chance of internal alliances against you because nobody is related, and they are super easy to control if you never make anybody a duke (say you only make two duchies in Ireland and the Kingdom of Ireland, NEVER make another duchy title, and only give 1 person a county, so you have hundreds of counts but you're the only duke/king/emperor). But it takes a lot of micromanaging in wars - instead of giving someone the Kingdom of Scotland and having a large mass of troops forming in the capital, it's more like a few hundred per county - not something you want if you want to form a large army in a short time with Vikings landing all over your shores wiping out your small county vassal levies on the shores. Also, you don't have the bonus relations for people being of your dynasty this way.","Summary: Diplofuckery in Sweden, hopefully causes revolts.\n\nPost: The Clan Ostoja was not normally a secritive bunch. They were rather loyal servants of the Crown, having partaken in nearly every endeavor of the Polish crown since somewhere around the twelfth century. They were an organization nearly as old as Poland itself, and unashamedly placed on the front lines of duty in virtually every war. \n Yet this was not the front lines that the Clan was used to. Here they sat, meeting behind closed doors in Wawel Castle, the five of them. A strange assortment to an outsider - two calvanists, two counter-reformers, and an alchemist. Almost like the beginning of a bar joke - but such differences didn't matter here. Here, loyalty and the furtherance of the clan came before faith. \n \"Estonia has been promised; and Estonia we will have!\" [Krzysztof Słuszka]( thumped the table before him emphatically. His brother, [Aleksander Słuszka]( nodded beside him. They had won favor with the King in the past, with Krzysztof becoming voivode and Aleksander looking to receive one as well. The Słuszka family had only recently risen to power, however, having proven themselves loyal to the crown and capable of management... but they were not about to stop with mere voivodeships. \"This is our chance - a landed duchy of Livonia, one to surpass Courland. A bastion of Ostoja, rather than these simple starostas and voivodeships. We must put our every effort forward to ensure victory for the Commonwealth.\" \n [Sendivogius]( smiled. \"I have the King's ear - so long as we make a show of force, we should be justly compensated. I do not know if a duchy is so much that he would give it to us, but the land itself and another voivodeship - more likely than not. Yet, how do we go about ensuring our victory?\" \n \"Through intrigue, and destabilization.\" \n *The group then turned their head to the two clergy seated at the table. [Marcin Szyszkowski]( a powerful intelectual and chancellor of the bishop of Krakow. He smirked, and motioned to his compatriot, [Abraham 'Bzovius']( \"We have been talking for some time on this matter, and have come in agreement - a kingdom falls when it's vassals are turned against itself. Tell them, Abraham.\" \n Bzovius cleared his throat, before starting. \"It is clear throughout the course of history that a state falls when not supported within itself. I have recorded such events, and even witnessed it within the church - this division we find ourselves in is a direct result of it, as we can all agree. Sweden is no different - already they have turned against one monarch. So, let us turn them against another.\" \n He opened before him a leatherbound book, reading from it after clearing his throat once more. \"I would propose that we appeal to those wronged by this new King, who has no right in the first place to this crown he holds, and move from there... I've, uh, written a few of them down, helps with the memory... Ah, yes. Firstly among them. [Sofia Gyllenhielm]( bast- I mean, illegitimate daughter of late John III Vasa, father of our own beloved king, was in turn beloved as well. Between herself and her sister, Lucretia Gyllenhielm, they did not live long lives - one could propose that their short lives were the machinations of the now current 'king', Charles IX. Now, let me piece together this puzzle I have laid out before you, and how one man's love out of wedlock will bring forth the downfall of a nation...\" \n \"Sofia, God rest her soul, had married one [Pontus De la Gardie]( - you know of the man, for he is the reason the Swedes have the land called Finland. Yet this Frenchman's offspring lives on; his child is a [baron in Finland]( on account of his father's efforts. The poor, late Sofia died supposedly in childbirth, but her sister as well died at an early age due to suspected witchcraft - something we all can agree is a little far fetched in this day and age.\" \n Aleksander looked like he was going to awkwardly protest at this, but left the matter silent. The table chuckled at his slight showing of his belief in the supernatural, but moved on regardless. Bzovius continued. \"There are others, of course; like I said, the sister of poor Sofia, [Lucretia]( died shortly after having become betrothed to [Karl Gustavsson]( - who has indeed remarried, but that's not important. What is important is that Karl and Charles have had greviences in the past - just mere months ago, the man had to escape certain death from prison. With him, there is certainly a friend - especially if we can convince him that Charles was complicit in Lucretia's death. He is governor of Kalmar, and a count of Oland at that, too - not to mention he fought on Sigismund's side in the first portion of this war. There is no doubt in my mind that he will come to our aid once more.\" \n \"There is also the matter of Sofia and Lucretia's mother, that is John III's lover, [Karin Hansdotter]( She was killed suspiciously during the [Finnish Peasant Uprising]( that cudgel war they talk about, right before her estate was sacked. Interestingly enough, Charles supported the side that sacked her holdings. Make no mistake - Charles is not a man without blood on his hands. All we need to do is shed a little light on the subject.\" \n He chuckled lightly. \"And, to make matters wonderfully more interesting, it would seem that Charles has usurped not only our good king Sigismund, but also the next in line - [John, duke of Finland]( He's a mere adolescent, but one that can be used to our advantage. It is interesting to me that Charles has usurped his regency outright and placed the crown upon his own head... this may prove to be his undoing. And, last but not least, there's always the possibility of throwing around presumptions that the Catholic vote was discarded in a sense of 'verbal defenestration'. We can propose if nothing else that if Sigismund may leave the Kingdom with his lands, so too can the Catholic and loyal vassals should they wish it.\" \n Krzysztof smirked devilishly. \"Beautiful, wonderful, glorious plans, my friends! Clan Ostoja will have a dukedom - better yet, a grand dukedom - perhaps within our lifetime! Charles be damned, Estonia is ours, and Sweden our king's!\" \n \n The Clan Ostoja is going to stir up the pot of Sweden by labeling Charles as a usurper and a murderer - Not only against Sigismund, but against his own brother John III, and against his own vassals. The steps that I am hoping to take are as follows. \n Step 1: Getting There \n I will be getting there by using contacts with [Karin Månsdotter]( someone who has housed supporters of Sigismund in the past and who has connections with the aristocracy and is well respected by the local Finns. A former queen can work wonders for someone's travel visa, after all. In return for her help if she is reluctant, the Clan Ostoja will promise to make every effort to find and re-unite her son [Gustav]( with her after the war is over. We will also attempt to use her influence with the local Finns to get the Finnish on our side, and to re-ignite the Cudgel War if possible. \n Step 2: Goals \n Locate the following and perform these actions: \n \n Baron Johan de la Gardie of Ekholmen Castle \n \n Inform him that Charles assassinated his mother, poisoning her and weakening her during the birthing process in a string of events that would lead to Charles assuming the throne unopposed. Remind him that Charles fought on the side of the peasants that killed his grandmother Karin Hansdotter and looted her estate, too, and that he imprisoned and had planned to execute Karl Gustavsson, his sister-in-law's husband; not to mention his sister-in-law died suspiciously of \"witchcraft\". Tell him all these things, and incite him to work with us as needed; however, we do not want him to rebel unless the Duke of Finland does. \n \n Count Karl Gustavsson of Kalmar and Osel \n \n Tell him essentially the same thing as above; he shouldn't need convincing, he already fought on Sigismund's side once and the King has tried to have him killed within just a few month's timeframe. However, due to his simply geographic location, the clan Ostoja would advise against him rising in open revolt; instead, just have him help us when the time comes. \n \n Duke John of Finland \n \n Tell him everything that we've told the other two, and then tell him this. Charles has obviously had no problem with killing or removing whoever might have even a hint at a claim to the throne - why would he not do the same to him, the duke of Finland? He, John, was in line for the throne, after all. Charles was supposed to only be his regent. Instead, Charles has usurped the crown without his say-so. This is grounds for war - and his bloody history only serves to re-enforce the emphasis that he will go to any lengths to secure his throne - including killing a 12 year old. \n Step 3: Lies and Slander \n Begin to regurgitate this same basic message to anyone and everyone who will listen. Obviously, the clan Ostoja themselves will not be there; instead, servents, merchants, freemen, or whoever we can get to spread the word is going to be used. The intent will be to get the Catholic minority of Sweden in open revolt, and with Sweden battling internal issues due to a corrupt, murderous, impatient usurper with no respect for the line of succession, an easy victory will be had for the Commonwealth. Sigismund will appear like a liberator, and the Clan Ostoja will hopefully get a landed duchy instead of an appointed office of voivode.","Summary: Polish expedition arrives at Tobago with some basic things to help with the smallpox epidemic, but mostly can only make them more comfortable; this is not a colonial venture, but instead, is paving the way for future action on the island in return for support as long as the Poles are on the island.\n\nPost: Nearly six months ago]( the Duke of Mazovia purchased 2 carracks from the Livonian Order, and sent them on an exploration mission to these famed 'West Indies' that the Spanish have heard of. Seeking knowledge of these lands, the two ships, headed jointly by the Livonian Order and Mazovia, have mapped out the southeastern islands of the West Indies for their own charts, and now land at Tobago. \n A small detachment arrives at the shore, looking for a glimpse of one of the many natives they had heard tale of. They had also heard tale of the diseases that now swept across these isles, but seemed to only effect the native population. As such, they had brought some few physicians from the University of Krakow, one of which studied Spanish in his time there, trained in what knowledge of the medical arts that Eastern Europe had, as well as some eastern comforts - blankets, cots, clothing, and the like... and for those that could not be saved, clear, strong Polish vodka. \n Contact is attempted to be made with the natives, with relief and learning in mind. The crew and expedition from the two carracks are also available to provide more modern housing, should lumber be present on the island. Few, if any, weapons are present with the expedition - only what few cannons from the carrack remain after stripping the ship to make room for food and house the various members of the expedition, and what weapons the crew brought with them. The expedition asks only one thing in return from this support, and promises continued support should it be granted - a trade outpost (and should after a time the natives wish it, perhaps, a colony) would be established on the island. If any aggressive action would ever be taken against the natives, the members of said outpost would leave, and never again bother the natives of this island or others affiliated with it. \n [m]","Summary: Moles are being actively placed in key locations within the post-war administration so that we will have better information, and new recruits are being actively screened so that there aren't any infiltrators as best we can. See the first link for a far more in-depth description of just how far the leaks go; additionally, [this is a good read](\n\nPost: Though already the Home Army and Freedom and Independence [have infiltrated the NKVD and UB already]( the Home Army has seen fit to consolidate it's organizations intent on infiltrating the secret services of the Soviet Union in Poland. With [Marian Bernaciak's]( intelligence services, [Wacław Micuta's]( employment in the Ministry of Central Planning, and [Henryk Cybulski's]( loyal informants, as well as others, they have under orders of [Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski]( begun an active and concerted effort to place loyal partisan members who are currently living throughout their daily lives within the NKVD, UB, and military. \n Major Wilhelm Szczepaniewicz \"Kogut\" of the the Lublin District Inspectorate makes this statement known (under the pen-name of Kogut) in the underground press. \n \"Under the guise of desertion, [the members from the] Berling's units are attempting to establish contacts with AK units, in order to penetrate our ranks, and to obtain materials for future prosecution, and arrests. I forbid any contacts with the escapees, and additionally inform [you] that regardless of the character of their service, the Soviet soldiers [...] received secret orders to penetrate our private life's, and to surveil our movement in the area. Those suspected, [are to be] detained and frisked. Under the guise of making purchases [of food], they were also ordered to visit local homes in order to find out what takes place [in those homes], and who is present [there]. They are very much aware that our [conspiratorial] net is very much alive, and utilizes rural farms [for our activities]. In some instances, they [the Soviets] forcibly enter [premises] in order to catch [the conspirators] red handed.\" \n Moles within the Soviet administration reveal the following. \n \"Capt. Wojciusz, \"Opal\" reported as follows: \n 1) In the city of Warsaw, lives a Home Army female currier who delivers [underground] literature to the Lublin district of AK (Home Army). The above mentioned currier, has contact with the London's representatives of the Government in Exile in Warsaw. \"Opal\" knows this currier personally, and can hand her over to the security apparatus. \n 2) He also personally knows [another] AK female currier who lives in Lodz, and who is in contact with the Krasnik and Pulawy Inspectorates of the AK, and [also has a contact(s)] in Pulawy. \n 3) \"Opal\" personally knows the commandant of AK [unit, nom de guerre] \"Bolek\" operating around Urzedow, and can hand him over to the Office [of the Public Security, the UB]. \n 4) He can recognize currier from the Lublin Inspectorate, and the Home Army District, through whose arrest [... it might be] possible to detain the commandant of the [Home Army] District [nom de guerre] \"Boruta\". \"Opal\" is able to contact him. \n 5) \"Opal\" is able to intiate contact with the commandant[s] of the NSZ (pol. Narodowe Siły Zbrojne - National Armed Forces) \"Cichy\" and \"Orzel\" operating in the area of Gdynia-Sopot, and in Sopot [itself]. \n 6) He also promised to hand over \"Zapora\", that is, Dekukowski Henryk, born in Tranobrzeg, Rzeszów Voivodeship, whose family lives in Tarnobrzeg, at 67 Kolewa Street. According to \"Opal\", \"Zapora\" is to be on leave at his sister's place, in January of this year. \n 7) \"Opal\" can establish contact with many commandants of diversionary units in the Pulawy county. \n January 3, 1946\" \n All operatives with the codename \"Opal\" are then placed under suspicion, and [Hieronim Dekutowski]( is told that his family and location is compromised, and that he should move accordingly. It is suspected that Stanisław Wnuk, \"Opal\", is Hieronim's second in command, and he is immediately placed in the home army's personal 'custody'. \n (M:","Summary: The Sejm and the Senate are approving funds for the furthering of the population. I will be spending $ 196.14 on advancing agricultural goods by 1. I am also hosting a mass wedding since everyone's been stuck in virtual reality and too busy setting up society and it's foundations to really settle down and start a family in an attempt to get a jump-start on the population. Tax cuts are also being offered to those who bear children and who take up agrarianism and it's associated jobs.\n\nPost: happy to report a growth of 485,760 citizens within the Republic of Arkona since the inception of the settlement of Dobrzyn.\" Borys Zientara, head of the Polish Cabinet, addressed the President and the general Sejm and Senate at one of the first meetings of the Republic after it's inception. President Kniaziewicz had been voted in through a free and fair election, though now his power was rather unmatched by any other man, as was intended by the voters themselves. \n Borys continued. \"Furthermore, the state has seen growth in many sectors leading to a 71.47% increase various regions of the economy and gross national product. Based on equivalency with the OP-3 Commonwealth and Caitan production levels and assumptions, we can assume that economically we are on par or advancing in a superior manner to that of our contemporaries to the galactic north; however, in matters of population, we are severely lacking. It is estimated that the Caitans alone contain roughly 60 million civilians on a single planet, not counting military personnel or planets which have not yet been revealed to us. Additionally, the OP-3 Commonwealth's population is well over 100,000. With singular entities such as this having a population of more than ten times our own, it is no doubt that such an entity may, at any given time, determine us to no longer be beneficial to their continued existence. As a state serves the state and nothing more, realpolitik must be taken into account, and assumed that entities even such as the OP-3 Commonwealth may yet down the road determine that the Republic of Arkona and its citizens are no longer needed on a galactic scale, be it in diplomacy or trade or otherwise.\" \n \"Because of this, I motion before the Senate and the Sejm to allocate funds necessary to spur on incentives and measures that will encourage our citizens to reproduce at a rate that will allow us to compete, both in the possible battlefield and in the workplace, with such forces as these.\" \n Prendota Kniaziewicz nodded to Borys, standing to respond. \"I wholeheartedly agree. We must act to provide and defend our citizens, both in the present and in the future. For the time being those around us are speakers of peace; yet there may come a time, be it near or far, that they turn to show themselves as harbingers of war. I approve of these calls for action, and will sign in agreement with legislation passed. To my fellow friends in the Sejm and the Senate, the task now falls to you to permit such legislation. Make it so, and so shall it be.\" \n A long debate is held within the Sejm, and after a few hours of debate and subsequent approval of the Senate, Borys steps forth once more as speaker to address the general assembly. \n \"It is by the ruling of the Sejm and the Senate and approval of the President and his Cabinet that the following is to take place.\" \n \n The further settlement of Dobrzyn shall be focused on establishing an agrarian society, utilizing the vast swaths of land to provide as much food and goods for the population as a whole \n Funds shall be given to incentivize further settlement of Dobrzyn in such an agrarian measure, with tax cuts and 'free' land given to those who would establish settlements in such a way as to benefit the whole, and to impose slowly harsher taxes on more densely populated areas \n The State shall host a mass wedding within the next month so as to help ease the populace into the establishment of families and homesteads, and will allow for increased tax cuts for married couples rather than singular couples. \n \n \"With this stance taken, and with subsequent laws which shall remain under further review being passed, this general assembly is adjourned.\"","Summary: Anna is asking the Emperor to tell Brandenburg to concede defeat, but if the Emperor joins the war then it legitimizes Hungarian claims on Vienna and other Austrian titles, and Anna will wage war to recover these claims.\n\nPost: After Joachim's refusal to answer to her in a court of law, she hereby writes to the Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire. \n \"To the grand Emperor, Maximilian I von Hapsburg, I write; \n Greetings and good health to you. [As you have been made well aware in the past]( the Elector of Brandenburg has wronged us in many ways of the most heinous manner, and has made a mockery of both your declarations and the Imperial laws established during the 1495 Diet of Worms stipulating an eternal Internal Peace. We have since occupied the Electorate and his puppet in Pomerania, and are providing every possible aid to the peoples and subjects therein. We have imprisoned the Electorate and his puppet in Pomerania, who we have attempted to hold accountable in a court of law, both in the Saxon Circle Court and in the court of Bohemia, both of which are subjects to your most prestigious of Empires. Our war was not one born of ill will towards the Empire, but one towards those two men aforementioned who would dare impose their rulings upon those who could not defend themselves. \n Because of this, however, they have refused to partake in dealings with us. We have acted according to Imperial law with the Saxon Circle Court, and they have held that court in contempt. We have then acted upon the ruling of the Saxon Circle Court and imposed order in the region, with due diligence towards the preservation of human life, with only two battles taking place throughout the course of the war, and with delegations sent before said battles with offers of peace provided. \n We ask that you see our cause as legitimate, as the Brandenburgian armies and Elector has continuously provoked the Commonwealth through aggressive action; has subjugated an ally of the Commonwealth and a crown Prince of the Empire; has made a mockery of the internal peace of the Empire; has prevented a Crown Prince from attending the Diet of Worms; has intercepted an Imperial messenger and confiscated his message, has failed to deliver the confiscated message to it's intended recipient, and as a result of the lack of the attendance of the crown Prince of Pomerania has tricked you, most holy Emperor, into giving the title of the Duchy of Pomerania to one that was not the given Duke of Pomerania; has been sanctioned by the Pope for his actions; has gone against your will in the past; and even now will draw our two nations into war by demanding you take back what is rightfully the Teutonic Order's and the Pomeranian's. \n I would ask that you keep the peace, and that you see the actions put in place in Berlin as legitimate. However, should you rush to Brandenburg's aid, the very Elector who has gone against your wishes and against the establishment of the Empire, this is seen as a breach of the peace of Pressburg, and I will not rest until such a breach of the peace is restored in favorable terms. \n I hope that war will be avoided, and that you will uphold the duty you have been given as the Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire. \n Sincerely; \n Anna Radziwiłł, Lider Sejmu Rzeczypospolitej\"","Summary: The War for Pomeranian Liberation ends, Pomerania is freed and given Uckermark which used to be theirs, Neumark is given to the Teutonic Order which used to be theirs, and both places are held under martial law until a court can decide the fate of the Electorate of Brandenburg and the Duke of Pomerania. Map should be updated [like this](\n\nPost: Jun 20th, 1508]( \n The dust had settled on the battlegrounds of Berlin and Stettin. The outcome never truly was in favor of the Brandenburgians, and none had come to their aid since the onset of the war. Aleksander Kniaziewikz, leader of the Order of Dobrzyn, looked over the now ruined walls of Berlin, as the duke of Pomerania and the electorate of Brandenburg were then brought before him. \n He looked down on them - simply because he was a large man, not out of disrespect between one or another. \"By order of the Sejm Liderem, the general assembly of the Grand Sejm of all nobles of the Commonwealth, the Saxon Circle, and the Electorates of Saxony and Bohemia, as well as with due respect to internal Imperial laws and with universal morality, both shared in humanity and in Christendom, you are hereby charged as a complacent and willing member of the Brandenburgian annexation, exploitation, subjugation, and subsequent mismanagement of Pomerania, as well as former actions taken against the Crown of the Commonwealth in league with the Heretic Russians to the east, whom we have been forced to make peace with as a direct result of your actions, the actions of the former holders of your current title, and the actions of your unlawful liege, whom you have failed to hold in contempt of aforementioned rulings in laws under Imperial, Commonwealth, and Saxon Circle rulings.\" \n He then pulls out a slightly crumpled, yet neatly folded, piece of parchment. A single raindrop fell upon it, as clouds overhead looked over the scene of the recent battle from their cold, uncaring vantage point. \"With these things in mind, and with Pomerania and Brandenburg wholly and justly occupied by joint members of the Commonwealth and the Electorate of Bohemia, with support from the Saxon Circle Court, we will impose these just and fair rulings upon the Electorate of Saxony, and upon yourself. These actions are non-negotiable and will be carried out immediately, with regards to all laws and enactments put in place before the wanton Brandenburgian aggression.\" \n He cleared his throat, looking down upon the parchment as more droplets of water began to fall upon the ground around them. \"The Electorate of Brandenburg and the Duke of Pomerania shall be handed over to the Commonwealth for their personal sentencing to commence in Prague, in the lands of the Holy Roman Empire, and in respect to their laws with all actions taken against fellow members of the Empire, and in respect to our laws in all actions taken against members of the Commonwealth, with laws of the Empire taking precedence in occurrences where a nation is a member of both states.\" \n \"In respect to the nations and crown holdings themselves, the following will take place. Neumark is to be granted to the Teutonic Order, as is their just and righteous holding and claim on the land. Pomerania is to return under the control of the House Gryffin. Uckermark is to be returned to the control of the Pomeranian crown, as it was unjustly taken from them by the Brandenburg electorate not some 60 years ago with threat of military force. The House Hohenzollern will disregard all claims they have to any land held by the lineage of the House Gryffin, and they will additionally not hold claim to their inheritance, as they have already invalidated their claim by making war on the House Pomerania while the Treaty of Pyritz was in effect. This will be respected by all members of said house, as I have stated clearly with the backing of the Saxon Circle Court, the Commonwealth as a whole, and with the Electorate of Bohemia, as well as by comments of the Emperor himself in earlier Diets of the Empire. Furthermore, it will be established, as is fact already, that the House Gryffins is already of the same blood as House Gryfici (also known as House Świebodzice), House of Branicki, House of Mielecki, House of Sobiesław, and lastly House Piast, and they are to inherit by line of seniority in accordance with the closeness of relation to Bolesław III of Poland, a close cousin to the founder of the House Gryffins, and form whence the cadet branch of House Gryffins had originated from. These actions are taken place henceforth to prevent any further aggression by Brandenburg against the crown of the Commonwealth, Pomerania, and any and all unsuspecting members of the Holy Roman Empire who would think their sovereignty guaranteed by the internal laws of the Empire.\" \n He placed the parchment back under his tabard, again looking to the both of them. \"Such is the will of God, of Man, of the Empire, of the Commonwealth, of the Grand Sejm and Sejm Liderem, of the Emperor himself, of the Saxon Court which you have held in contempt, and such will shall be carried out immediately.\" \n He nodded to two guardsmen, one bearing the crest of the Commonwealth and the other the crest of the kingdom of Bohemia. \"Escort them to their wagon; we make haste for Prague, and this may be done with.\" He then addressed a young man to his right, bearing the crest of the Order of Dobrzyn \"Ensure that the people of Pomerania and Brandenburg are taken care of, and that plague does not spread. You have been instructed previously on how infected peoples are to be dealt with, and I would expect to see each and ever soldier in good health upon my swift return.\"","Summary: I am spending 1/8th of my income, in accordance with the Code of Ethics, to begin raising my military mod by 1 until it reaches 1.25, though it may be raised farther in the future, and I am buying 8,000 infantry form Switzerland.\n\nPost: Meta Notice: Although there is a roleplay at the moment that places her in Vilnius, her trip there should have only taken a month or three at most; by this time, she has returned to Krakow.) \n Anna looked over the recent casualty list from the siege of Stettin and Berlin. 5,300 infantry and 2,300 cavalry had been lost in the siege of Brandenburg's capital, and against a significantly smaller force. Truly, the forces were not trained as well as they aught to be... She had an idea. [The Black Army of Hungary]( was famed for their conquests of Austria and Bohemia, and their tactics and methods were easily available to her. \n She drew together her chief advisers, and began to implement the Black Army's tactics into the training regimen, using the war college in Driesen that was now under control of the Teutons to educate these troops. For every 4 infantry, 1 would be given an arquebus.. yes, that seemed in line with the doctrine. Heavy, armor-clad infantry would be in support, with Swiss mercenaries trained in the way of the pike forming the rear line of infantry. \n These men shall be re-inforced by Polish Hussars, which have proven their worth in taking the city of Berlin. Trained under Hungarian and Serbian tutelage, their massive forward charge has broken even the most stalwart of lines, held in city fortifications, and with the knowledge that this was their last stand. With all of these things combined, this new army will form the bulk of the Polish and Mazovian military. \n She then sends this message henceforth into Switzerland. \n \"To the most prestigious of military organizations, those in Switzerland, I write; \n Many blessings upon you. I have heard of your stalwart defense of your homeland in the alps against Austrian incursions, and of your actions during the previous Italian Wars, with the shot and the pike. We have heard, also, of your previous works in Hungary during their expansion and wars into Austria and Bohemia. It is my goal and aim that we would re-create the Black Army which you had once been a part of, should you wish it. We request 8,000 pikemen of the finest quality, quality which are present in your kin since birth if the tales of your deeds are true, and would gladly pay 840,000 for their presence among our ranks. Rest assured, insolvency does not loom over the Commonwealth, and millions lay in storage should any nation run into financial troubles; you need not worry that your men would go unpaid. \n With all of these things in mind, will you agree to this contract? It will be renewed yearly for an indefinite period of time, and we would allow your troops to return home so as to defend their countrymen and their honor. \n Sincerely; \n Anna Radziwiłł, Lider Sejmu Rzeczypospolitej\"","Summary: Jan wants to create a proto-\"Marine\" force using the Obrona Potoczna, or by using it as a template to create a new force. If the Genoans want to use the Obrona Potoczna, it would be in use under the Polish crown but with Jan's personal funding. If the Genoans want to use a template, Jan would organize and help train it as he did the original force, but the Genoese would fund it instead and control it. He wishes to do this so that the 'establishment' (read: conquering) of new colonies may go smoother, with one specific force constantly being used to 'establish' the colony, and with a bulk portion of the army being moved in as follows to replace the Obrona Potoczna or it's template troop. The \"marines\" would then extract after having been replaced, and move on to the next colony that they wish to 'establish'.\n\nPost: The [Obrona Potoczna]( - or Permanent Defense - force of the Polish-Lithuanian union was established in 1479 under the direct supervision of Jan Olbrecht, who honed his administration skills with the funding, establishment, organization, and hiring of the men within this elite army. Based mostly on the Black Army of Hungary, this semi-mercenary force used seasonal shifts to help bolster the number of readily-available recruits; after all, if four men are trained, equipped, and put on the front lines over a course of four seasons, all four could be called at the same time in the event of an emergency. \n But now, Jan was Doge of Genoa, and his was the defense and establishment of the Republic, rather than his father's lands. Yet why couldn't he do both? A theory cropped into his mind, in an effort to cut costs for both nations. The 1,200 infantry and 900 cavalrymen sworn to the Obrona Potoczna could be placed within the southern lands of the Genoese Colonies, ready as ever to face a Turkish or Tatar assault. As such, he called together the head merchants of Genoa, and explained his plan. \n \"As it is known, the revolts that struck Genoa not two years ago in the last days of the last Doge were felt throughout the Republic. In addition, the Ottoman Sultanate during one of the various crisis in the area threatened to evict our traders and men from Constantinople itself, despite the close ties we have made there. Why, then, should the Black Sea colonies be left to defend themselves? Poland ran to it's defense in light of the upheaval, even with the soured relations of the previous Doge, but one cannot rely on the presence of a single ally for all eternity. Therefore, it is with sound mind that I propose that either the Obrona Potoczna be allowed to police the area under my funding, or a similar standing army in the area be put in place to ensure the efforts in the region to not stand unguarded and forced to defend themselves. This similar standing army would be funded also by me, but would not carry the same tactics nor experience as the Polish detachment under my control, and would need to be trained from scratch, or from whatever experience these men that would form this detachment may be.\" \n \"Additionally, I would propose that this outfit be trained in such a way as to specialize in a form of 'shock battle'; that is, not with the intent of waging a long, protracted war of attrition, or of one with large battles of agonizingly numerous casualties, but instead acting as an elite force which moves ahead of the main armies, and establishes a forward position from which the main army will advance to and defend. This is much what the Obrona Potoczna already do, in that they are the best of the best, and defend the frontiers with all due diligence. In contrast, however, this force would be used extensively to secure a potential colony, police it, and defend it until a more permanent garrison can be provided. What do you say, good merchants and families of Genoa? Is this an endeavor which intrigues you?\"","Summary: You give Wallachia and Bulgaria to Moldavia, and Poland-Lithuania will peace out separately. Poles in exchange recognize that the Ottoman Sultan is truly in charge of Anatolia and is not simply holding it with troops over an extended period of time, and they also condemn religious-based warfare - though they hint that you should probably stop enslaving your own people and using them as a slave army, because religious-based warfare to protect someone who can't protect themselves is totally OK. Poland then agrees to never again go to war (read: Perpetual Peace) so long as they keep to these stipulations, and eventually abolish the slave army, though they may be drawn in on a defensive war if you declare war on someone they are allied to.)\n\nPost: Exactly 4 days after the Battle of Subotica \n A messenger is sent to the Sultan of the Ottomans, the very same rider who had approached them at the start of the battle. \n \"Greetings, honorable adversaries! Peace be upon you. For it is peace we bring! My liege, though he marches north to secure peace within his own land, brings this document which I am asked to present to you. It entails this peace between the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, as those are the only parties which he remains a speaker of.\" \n He hands whatever dignitary is there to accept him a piece of parchment, written and signed by a great host of nobles. It entails the following. \n In this year of Our Lord 1477, we, the Nobles and Dignitaries of the Most Serene Republic of Nobles, that Kingdom of Poland and Grand Duchy of Lithuania, of all marshals and burghers, of all good counts and dukes and barons alike, do hereby propose a peace between the peoples of the Sultan of the Turks and the Kingdom of Poland and Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Such a peace shall be long lasting, now and forevermore. This peace shall establish now and forever the [exchange of lands of Wallachia and Bulgaria to that of Moldavia]( as is their right by jure uxoris and by right of Vlad Dracul, just and righteous leader of Wallachia, who shall be sworn in the service of Moldavia. Because of this, peace shall once more reign between our two kingdoms. Woe to the man, be he serf or Sultan, King or cretin, lord or lady, who breaks this peace! \n We establish henceforth that the Sultan of Turkey is the just ruler of the lands of Anatolia, and that his claim to such lands cannot be taken from him so long as the peoples within support him as they do. For it is the power from the Heavens which dictates who will rule the realm of Man, and not Man himself. It is with good consciousness that we also shall refuse to partake in a crusade against one faith or another, so long as that faith does not harm its own citizens. We furthermore encourage, yet do not demand, that the [enslavement of the dhimmi]( should well and justly be abolished, as it is indeed detrimental to those within of one faith or another. We hold steadfast and resolute in our standpoint that [the beliefs of a man does not render unto him mortal condemnation]( but rather the condemnation of the spirit, and utterly disregard the pretense of religious warfare where there is not a defenseless man to be defended. Additionally, it is known as sound doctrine that free will must remain foremost in our lives, and that the Turk cannot be put to the sword with threat of conversion - just as the Christian cannot be put to the sword for this same threat. \n With these stipulations in place, we the prelates, dignitaries, clergy, nobles, burghers, counts, marshals, knights, dukes, and other such men of importance, with what titles and names they may hold, do now and forevermore establish a [perpetual peace]( between our two peoples. This is in the will of the King, the will of the Nobles, the will of the People, and the will of God Himself, who does not wish to see the wholesale slaughter of a people in His name or any other name. \n These things are stated without evil duplicity, so that none may say one thing or another about the intentions therein. May God rest his soul the man who breaks this peace. \n Various signatures, including Kazimierz IV Andrzej Jagiellończyk, are listed at the bottom. \n (M:","Summary: all nations embargoing the 4th Reich receive a 4.4 Embargo penalty, and anyone who is both trading with me and embargoing the 4th Reich has their trade severed. 4th Reich receives 1 Industrial and 1 Consumer Good trade from me. Arkona condemns La Republique Fer and asks all others to also condemn them and place sanctions upon them.\n\nPost: October 3rd, 2162 \n A national and international broadcast is sent forth on Arkonan news channels, in all forms of media, containing the following broadcast. \n \"Good people of Arkona. Nations of the galaxy. Sentients and AI alike, I speak freely to all.\" \n \"Recent happenings among the galactic community have been brought to my attention in regards to the Fourth Reich. Through humanitarian efforts, they stand as a grand beacon of humanity in saving 1.5 million civilians from a war zone. Though ancient history has marred the ideology of national socialism, it is ever apparent that as of today their efforts have saved nearly countless lives from a nuclear holocaust.\" \n \"Yet that is not all. Even today, they have rightfully [protected themselves and their borders]( from insurgents originating in the Iron Republic. Though the government in question claims that these AI were \"tourists\", I find it hard to believe that a populace well aware of the lacking AI rights in the Fourth Reich would willingly travel in large quantities to such a state. I think it more likely that these human-thinking, human-acting robots were sent as a matter of subterfuge and clandestine information gathering on a potential \"enemy\", even though the Fourth Reich has done nothing but further the goals of the galaxy in keeping the peace and sanctity of life. It would be similar to an entrepreneur seeking to make a business within the \"Iron Republic\"; an utterly laughable notion, considering that this so-called Republic [does not represent the views of it's people, and actively suppresses those who speak out against them]( driving them out of the nation, seeking refuge from those humanitarians who willingly take them and shield them from their plight - those being the members of the Fourth Reich.\" \n \"Let me be clear. Those AI present within the Republic of Arkona are rightful members of our grand state, and actively receive many liberties and assurances to their quality of life. But simply because AI and their respective entities are protected in one state does not guarantee their protection within another. Does La Republique Fer seek to impose their will on another state? Do they dictate the terms by which a state is run? Is it by their words that laws are written, or is it by the words of the government and the government's constituents that laws are made? I would argue the ladder, good friends; the Fourth Reich must not bow to the wishes of those outside of it's state, just as our good Republic of Arkona must never bend the knee to another in any matter. The State is for the State. La Republique Fer should keep well enough alone to it's own business, and caution its people from entering lands which are unwelcoming to their kind.\" \n \"By all means, however, we welcome La Republique Fer and their \"Pinochio's\" into our good Republic, as they are entitled to certain rights within our lands. Yet again I say simply because we support one measure does not mean that that measure must receive universal support from all nations. I would advise the Fourth Reich to do what is best for the Fourth Reich, and ask that all would let our good Republic of Arkona do what is best for Arkona. Anything less is gunboat diplomacy and international finagling, something we know all to well in the recent near-conflict over BD-05.\" \n \"I call upon the international community to condemn La Republique Fer for imposing sanctions on a nation which has clearly made their stance known, and who's stance is best for the state itself, for oppressing the humans and other sentients within its own borders, and for attempting to infiltrate the Fourth Reich via clandestine insertion of semi-humanoid AI units. Therefore, I hereby join our friends in the Fourth Reich in their struggle against this rampant trade war that their antagonists have started, and will sever any and all trade rights with those who would impose similar sanctions upon the Fourth Reich. Such sanctions will continue until the former sanctions are lifted on the Fourth Reich. We will also begin open trading of industrial and consumer goods with the Fourth Reich so as to keep the balance of trade open and viable within the galactic community. Any imposition of this established trade, or any halting of their movement, will be seen as an inherent attack against state-owned and operated vehicles of the Arkonan Republic and a declaration of war. This is done after consultation of the Senate, Sejm, and Cabinet of the Republic.\" \n \"Long live Arkona! Long live democracy! And may autonomy reign supreme in this increasingly intergalactic community. Far be it from me to hand over my or any others' sovereignty by inaction in this matter.\"","Summary: version of my current problem, but does anyone have any advice here? Would it be better to be the horrible tyrant and kill off the first son and win Silesia by conquest later, or convert to Catholicism and gift/hand out titles (both honorary and landed) to get the pesky Pomeranians off my back? And should releasing the Pomeranians as independent be considered an option at this point, or should I risk Gavelkind as a helpless 10 military 0 everything else duke who ends up splitting the kingdom with his brother?\n\nPost: Alright. Long story short, it's 889 AD, I'm running out of time for Piast the Wheelwright (who is both stressed and sick at the moment) in my traditional Poland ironman runthrough, my military genius of a son got clubbed in the head and is now incapable, and his son is far too young to take the throne when he dies. My son's younger brother is a pretty decent steward, but lackluster in the rest of his abilities. I have a Catholic concubine so I can convert to Catholicism and switch succession laws before making the kingdom of Poland and having said laws carry over before I die (I still am just a duke at this point). Problem is, the recently conquered Pomeranians have negative opinions on me (apparently people don't like getting invaded), so I'm afraid that the different religion penalty is going to be far too much to overcome in order to switch the succession to ultimogeniture or elective. I /could/ imprison and execute my eldest son and grandson, but the grandson is in line to inherit the duchy of Silesia, and I'd rather win Silesia through diplomacy rather than conquest because Great Moravia is allied to East Francia. Also, I try to avoid being a bit of an ahistoric jerk to my own children. \n So, I know I kinda just rambled off a brief"],"string":"[\n \"Summary: elective is good if you want greater control over who is elected; tanistry is good if you want safety in succession and if you want to elect pretty much anyone with your last name; high relations=less revolts\\n\\nPost: Elective is awesome, just like /u/I_want_fun pointed out, though for Empire-tier elective I believe you can hold two duchies - however, as he pointed out, for a king/emperor the duchy titles are pretty much moot other than a minor prestige bonus (that can be multiplied by tech - though, again, it's rather minor and only really applies for prestige hoarders like me :P). Prestige can impact relations in a positive way, remember, and sometimes 100 prestige bonus in the heat of a possible uprising can turn that +59 into a +60, and have them drop from the faction. But such specific events are kind of, well, specific and far between. \\n Another election that you have as an Irish person is Tanistry. This is, honestly, the absolute safest way to play - a very close friend of mine is in love with this succession in my current game, as it allow you to pick essentially any family member, last I checked. This means that if you put someone on the throne of Scotland, but if he is, say, your mother's uncle's adopted grandson, you can elect him as leader. On the flipside, this means that just about /every/ landed noble can vote in the election - including that awkward posessed incapable brother-in-law that you shoved a county in Egypt onto. This usually results in far-flung weak-claim-to-the-kingdom nieces and nephews getting elected. But no matter what, you - essentially - will never run the risk of losing the crown through succession. \\n Neither of these really hugely impact if people revolt or not. I think Tanistry/Elective give a 5 opinion boost, unless it's your son or something - again, I think. The main issues of revolting lordlings are as follows, from order of greatest to least impact from my perspective. \\n \\n Religion group. If you put a Sunni in catholic Wessex, the guy is bound to cause you trouble. \\n Culture group. As a fan of Poland, it doesn't exactly help when I have Russian vassals. They tend to try to form their own country in the name of Russia. How silly of them. In the same way, those pesky English want to form England and steal your potatoes. Don't let the English steal your potatoes. Show them the true superiority of Ireland by placing an Irish leader in Kent. Hah! \\n Troop numbers. If you have more troops than they do, they are more likely to not revolt. \\n Owning land that they covet. Make sure that the duke of Ulster controls everything in Ulster, or else they will always hate you if you control it. \\n Traits. Seriously. Traits. An ambitious proud cruel impaler with the elusive shadow training is going to try and kill you, probably. Give the humble content diligent guy the duchy, and he'll love you 'till the day his demon-spawn son usurps the throne with the help of various witches and the Cathar heresy. \\n Level of the primary holding. If you hope to form an Empire, NEVER give a kingdom-tier title out. Please. Seriously. Destroy all the kingdom titles or they will almost always be a member of an independence faction. Kings are more likely to revolt than Dukes, who are more likely to revolt than Counts. \\n Type of government. Republics hate you, generally, even if they are of the same dynasty. However, bishoprics usually are quite passive. Holy orders are a bit tricky, but usually loyal in my experience, as are landed/vassalized mercenary groups. \\n Dynasty. Members of your dynasty are more likely to be friendly towards you. \\n Diplomatic skill. High diplomacy = high relations. \\n Quick edit: How long you have ruled. The longer you rule, the more people feel loyal to you.\",\n \"Summary: Pro's: Free pizza, Cons: Disorganization.\\n\\nPost: 20, male, Michigan, INFJ. Currently working on Mackinac Island, taking prerequisite classes at Mott online (because: island), though I live near Lansing. I enjoy strategy games, reading (Dean Koontz at the moment, catching up on Odd Thomas), devout Christian, and generally easy-going. I give free pizza to those who ask for it and are on Mackinac Island, or plan on staying there this year or next, though so far only three have yet taken up my offer, so even if you just want a decent pizza, I got you covered. \\n Other stuff. Hmm. I collect Star Wars books, or at least did before they retconned everything. I like pets, we generally get along decently enough, or at least agree to keep out of each other's hair. I'm generally disorganized and horrible with names, but I never forget a face or a date. I want to get into some kind of orchestra, or marching band, be it with some college or some local city, not out of some idea that I can make it big but simply because I enjoy playing, as I miss playing percussion.\",\n \"Summary: Yea, there's someone, but a lot of people are scared of making a commitment and then finding out the spouse doesn't want much/specific sex, so keep that in mind when approaching the subject.\\n\\nPost: I don't understand why there are 130 comments and 35 upvotes, honestly. And yes, there's somebody out there for you. I'm trying to wait as well. Just keep in mind that the husband you will have in the future may want more or less sex, or some specific kind of sex, that you don't want; same thing for him as well. This is what scares a lot of people into having sex before marriage; a sort of 'testing the water' to make sure people are compatible. They don't want to run the risk of finding someone who they are really, really good friends and life-partners with but then not enjoy sexual relations. I'd absolutely hate that, having pledged yourself - for life (and beyond life according to your beliefs) - and then finding out that you're trapped in a relationship where your feelings and physical desires aren't met and/or enjoyed by your partner. Almost soul-crushing to think about. The only thing I fear more is devaluing sex. I want my love to be with one person, and one person only, yet at the same time I want that love to be desired, longed for, and meaningful.\",\n \"Summary: sum up: There's dozens of different ways to play with the feudal system when giving out land, and advocates for each and every way, from forming massive theocracies to only giving family landed to forming all the duchies and playing with de jure duchy holdings to make sure your vassals are always fighting each other and not you - it all just boils down to what feels best to you personally. \\n Baronies/cities/bishoprics - I don't usually play with them unless I'm being ultra-isolationist and only really caring about my own borders. Baronies are always a nice thing to give to far-fetched family members or to the count that already holds the top level holding of the area in question (as it lets you draw from that pool for levies as he is your direct vassal, rather than a vassal of a vassal, if that makes sense). Cities are fine as they are - however, if you want to form a merchant republic, I would recommend giving the city to the family member with highest stewardship that isn't landed, and then giving that said family member the ducal title of the duchy that the city is in (OR a titular duchy). Bishoprics are good for making someone unable to inherit. Say, for example, the King of Wales' heir is really bad, and he is your vassal in the Empire of Brittania. You can pick the really bad heir, give him a bishopric, and now the Kingdom of Wales goes to the next guy in line. Works for your kids as well, though I don't think you can do it in gavelkind - don't quote me on it though. Also it's generally held in high regard that bishops are really easy vassals. If you can't find a good person to give land to, just give land to a bishop in the area - theocracies generally don't want independence, and they generally don't scheme. \\n For laws - it's up to personal preference again. I personally would never put crown authority above Medium, because after you put it above medium your vassals start switching out of Gavelkind, and thus making it harder to control your vassals. For taxes, I generally raise vassal taxes once and lower their levies to the second-lowest possible, and also raise taxes on everyone else (theocracies and cities) to the highest possible and reduce their levies to the absolute lowest. I'm a very mercenary/retinue-oriented person, though, so that's just my view.\\n\\nPost: Alright. \\n Your first question is honestly a matter of preference. There is no one 'right' way to hand out land after you reach your holding limit. \\n I personally prefer to only expand when a member of my family is old enough to hold land and get married, and when I take over that land, I give it to that person. They then make more children of my dynasty who I later give land to, or the father gives land to. Eventually, you'll have so many family members inside your own borders that they will be able to literally take on Empires with their string of alliances (so long as there is a valid claim for them to press). Example being, if you take over all of the British Isles and all of your vassals are all your family, and one of your family members has a claim to the kingdom of France, they may very well just invade France for you - and with far more troops than you have, in some cases (because they'll all raise from their personal levies, rather than you only using say 10% of their levies for them being your vassal). Post-1300's, I've seen doomstacks of 180,000+ on some of my more successful games go up against the Byzantine Empire and curbstomp them something awful - makes those decadence revolts look like skirmishes. Combine this family-only landed strategy with Elective succession and you'll never lose once you gain momentum. \\n However, there's a lot of problems with the above strategy. Say you have a rebellious vassal that is far removed from the main line - like your father's second uncle's grandchild's half-brother or something, I dunno. If you kill him to prevent a massive rebellion, you get the Kinslayer trait. And if you get the Kinslayer trait with only your family as vassals - ohhhhh boy are you going to have a short life, trust me. Also, the long string of alliances works both ways - say you don't have Interal Kings Peace. That means that your vassals can wage massive - and I mean truly massive late game - internal wars over a single county, leaving their castles less defended if someone else attacks you, and makes it possible for super-dukes to rise up within your own borders without you doing a single thing. Also, they could all allign against you if you are a particularly poor ruler, or if there's simply some random ambitious duke on the fringes of your empire that likes to cause trouble. \\n Giving land to random courtiers is perfectly fine in some's books, so long as they are of your culture and religion, though I personally don't like it. Pro's are that it makes the kinslayer trait only give less diplomatic skill, there is less chance of internal alliances against you because nobody is related, and they are super easy to control if you never make anybody a duke (say you only make two duchies in Ireland and the Kingdom of Ireland, NEVER make another duchy title, and only give 1 person a county, so you have hundreds of counts but you're the only duke/king/emperor). But it takes a lot of micromanaging in wars - instead of giving someone the Kingdom of Scotland and having a large mass of troops forming in the capital, it's more like a few hundred per county - not something you want if you want to form a large army in a short time with Vikings landing all over your shores wiping out your small county vassal levies on the shores. Also, you don't have the bonus relations for people being of your dynasty this way.\",\n \"Summary: Diplofuckery in Sweden, hopefully causes revolts.\\n\\nPost: The Clan Ostoja was not normally a secritive bunch. They were rather loyal servants of the Crown, having partaken in nearly every endeavor of the Polish crown since somewhere around the twelfth century. They were an organization nearly as old as Poland itself, and unashamedly placed on the front lines of duty in virtually every war. \\n Yet this was not the front lines that the Clan was used to. Here they sat, meeting behind closed doors in Wawel Castle, the five of them. A strange assortment to an outsider - two calvanists, two counter-reformers, and an alchemist. Almost like the beginning of a bar joke - but such differences didn't matter here. Here, loyalty and the furtherance of the clan came before faith. \\n \\\"Estonia has been promised; and Estonia we will have!\\\" [Krzysztof Słuszka]( thumped the table before him emphatically. His brother, [Aleksander Słuszka]( nodded beside him. They had won favor with the King in the past, with Krzysztof becoming voivode and Aleksander looking to receive one as well. The Słuszka family had only recently risen to power, however, having proven themselves loyal to the crown and capable of management... but they were not about to stop with mere voivodeships. \\\"This is our chance - a landed duchy of Livonia, one to surpass Courland. A bastion of Ostoja, rather than these simple starostas and voivodeships. We must put our every effort forward to ensure victory for the Commonwealth.\\\" \\n [Sendivogius]( smiled. \\\"I have the King's ear - so long as we make a show of force, we should be justly compensated. I do not know if a duchy is so much that he would give it to us, but the land itself and another voivodeship - more likely than not. Yet, how do we go about ensuring our victory?\\\" \\n \\\"Through intrigue, and destabilization.\\\" \\n *The group then turned their head to the two clergy seated at the table. [Marcin Szyszkowski]( a powerful intelectual and chancellor of the bishop of Krakow. He smirked, and motioned to his compatriot, [Abraham 'Bzovius']( \\\"We have been talking for some time on this matter, and have come in agreement - a kingdom falls when it's vassals are turned against itself. Tell them, Abraham.\\\" \\n Bzovius cleared his throat, before starting. \\\"It is clear throughout the course of history that a state falls when not supported within itself. I have recorded such events, and even witnessed it within the church - this division we find ourselves in is a direct result of it, as we can all agree. Sweden is no different - already they have turned against one monarch. So, let us turn them against another.\\\" \\n He opened before him a leatherbound book, reading from it after clearing his throat once more. \\\"I would propose that we appeal to those wronged by this new King, who has no right in the first place to this crown he holds, and move from there... I've, uh, written a few of them down, helps with the memory... Ah, yes. Firstly among them. [Sofia Gyllenhielm]( bast- I mean, illegitimate daughter of late John III Vasa, father of our own beloved king, was in turn beloved as well. Between herself and her sister, Lucretia Gyllenhielm, they did not live long lives - one could propose that their short lives were the machinations of the now current 'king', Charles IX. Now, let me piece together this puzzle I have laid out before you, and how one man's love out of wedlock will bring forth the downfall of a nation...\\\" \\n \\\"Sofia, God rest her soul, had married one [Pontus De la Gardie]( - you know of the man, for he is the reason the Swedes have the land called Finland. Yet this Frenchman's offspring lives on; his child is a [baron in Finland]( on account of his father's efforts. The poor, late Sofia died supposedly in childbirth, but her sister as well died at an early age due to suspected witchcraft - something we all can agree is a little far fetched in this day and age.\\\" \\n Aleksander looked like he was going to awkwardly protest at this, but left the matter silent. The table chuckled at his slight showing of his belief in the supernatural, but moved on regardless. Bzovius continued. \\\"There are others, of course; like I said, the sister of poor Sofia, [Lucretia]( died shortly after having become betrothed to [Karl Gustavsson]( - who has indeed remarried, but that's not important. What is important is that Karl and Charles have had greviences in the past - just mere months ago, the man had to escape certain death from prison. With him, there is certainly a friend - especially if we can convince him that Charles was complicit in Lucretia's death. He is governor of Kalmar, and a count of Oland at that, too - not to mention he fought on Sigismund's side in the first portion of this war. There is no doubt in my mind that he will come to our aid once more.\\\" \\n \\\"There is also the matter of Sofia and Lucretia's mother, that is John III's lover, [Karin Hansdotter]( She was killed suspiciously during the [Finnish Peasant Uprising]( that cudgel war they talk about, right before her estate was sacked. Interestingly enough, Charles supported the side that sacked her holdings. Make no mistake - Charles is not a man without blood on his hands. All we need to do is shed a little light on the subject.\\\" \\n He chuckled lightly. \\\"And, to make matters wonderfully more interesting, it would seem that Charles has usurped not only our good king Sigismund, but also the next in line - [John, duke of Finland]( He's a mere adolescent, but one that can be used to our advantage. It is interesting to me that Charles has usurped his regency outright and placed the crown upon his own head... this may prove to be his undoing. And, last but not least, there's always the possibility of throwing around presumptions that the Catholic vote was discarded in a sense of 'verbal defenestration'. We can propose if nothing else that if Sigismund may leave the Kingdom with his lands, so too can the Catholic and loyal vassals should they wish it.\\\" \\n Krzysztof smirked devilishly. \\\"Beautiful, wonderful, glorious plans, my friends! Clan Ostoja will have a dukedom - better yet, a grand dukedom - perhaps within our lifetime! Charles be damned, Estonia is ours, and Sweden our king's!\\\" \\n \\n The Clan Ostoja is going to stir up the pot of Sweden by labeling Charles as a usurper and a murderer - Not only against Sigismund, but against his own brother John III, and against his own vassals. The steps that I am hoping to take are as follows. \\n Step 1: Getting There \\n I will be getting there by using contacts with [Karin Månsdotter]( someone who has housed supporters of Sigismund in the past and who has connections with the aristocracy and is well respected by the local Finns. A former queen can work wonders for someone's travel visa, after all. In return for her help if she is reluctant, the Clan Ostoja will promise to make every effort to find and re-unite her son [Gustav]( with her after the war is over. We will also attempt to use her influence with the local Finns to get the Finnish on our side, and to re-ignite the Cudgel War if possible. \\n Step 2: Goals \\n Locate the following and perform these actions: \\n \\n Baron Johan de la Gardie of Ekholmen Castle \\n \\n Inform him that Charles assassinated his mother, poisoning her and weakening her during the birthing process in a string of events that would lead to Charles assuming the throne unopposed. Remind him that Charles fought on the side of the peasants that killed his grandmother Karin Hansdotter and looted her estate, too, and that he imprisoned and had planned to execute Karl Gustavsson, his sister-in-law's husband; not to mention his sister-in-law died suspiciously of \\\"witchcraft\\\". Tell him all these things, and incite him to work with us as needed; however, we do not want him to rebel unless the Duke of Finland does. \\n \\n Count Karl Gustavsson of Kalmar and Osel \\n \\n Tell him essentially the same thing as above; he shouldn't need convincing, he already fought on Sigismund's side once and the King has tried to have him killed within just a few month's timeframe. However, due to his simply geographic location, the clan Ostoja would advise against him rising in open revolt; instead, just have him help us when the time comes. \\n \\n Duke John of Finland \\n \\n Tell him everything that we've told the other two, and then tell him this. Charles has obviously had no problem with killing or removing whoever might have even a hint at a claim to the throne - why would he not do the same to him, the duke of Finland? He, John, was in line for the throne, after all. Charles was supposed to only be his regent. Instead, Charles has usurped the crown without his say-so. This is grounds for war - and his bloody history only serves to re-enforce the emphasis that he will go to any lengths to secure his throne - including killing a 12 year old. \\n Step 3: Lies and Slander \\n Begin to regurgitate this same basic message to anyone and everyone who will listen. Obviously, the clan Ostoja themselves will not be there; instead, servents, merchants, freemen, or whoever we can get to spread the word is going to be used. The intent will be to get the Catholic minority of Sweden in open revolt, and with Sweden battling internal issues due to a corrupt, murderous, impatient usurper with no respect for the line of succession, an easy victory will be had for the Commonwealth. Sigismund will appear like a liberator, and the Clan Ostoja will hopefully get a landed duchy instead of an appointed office of voivode.\",\n \"Summary: Polish expedition arrives at Tobago with some basic things to help with the smallpox epidemic, but mostly can only make them more comfortable; this is not a colonial venture, but instead, is paving the way for future action on the island in return for support as long as the Poles are on the island.\\n\\nPost: Nearly six months ago]( the Duke of Mazovia purchased 2 carracks from the Livonian Order, and sent them on an exploration mission to these famed 'West Indies' that the Spanish have heard of. Seeking knowledge of these lands, the two ships, headed jointly by the Livonian Order and Mazovia, have mapped out the southeastern islands of the West Indies for their own charts, and now land at Tobago. \\n A small detachment arrives at the shore, looking for a glimpse of one of the many natives they had heard tale of. They had also heard tale of the diseases that now swept across these isles, but seemed to only effect the native population. As such, they had brought some few physicians from the University of Krakow, one of which studied Spanish in his time there, trained in what knowledge of the medical arts that Eastern Europe had, as well as some eastern comforts - blankets, cots, clothing, and the like... and for those that could not be saved, clear, strong Polish vodka. \\n Contact is attempted to be made with the natives, with relief and learning in mind. The crew and expedition from the two carracks are also available to provide more modern housing, should lumber be present on the island. Few, if any, weapons are present with the expedition - only what few cannons from the carrack remain after stripping the ship to make room for food and house the various members of the expedition, and what weapons the crew brought with them. The expedition asks only one thing in return from this support, and promises continued support should it be granted - a trade outpost (and should after a time the natives wish it, perhaps, a colony) would be established on the island. If any aggressive action would ever be taken against the natives, the members of said outpost would leave, and never again bother the natives of this island or others affiliated with it. \\n [m]\",\n \"Summary: Moles are being actively placed in key locations within the post-war administration so that we will have better information, and new recruits are being actively screened so that there aren't any infiltrators as best we can. See the first link for a far more in-depth description of just how far the leaks go; additionally, [this is a good read](\\n\\nPost: Though already the Home Army and Freedom and Independence [have infiltrated the NKVD and UB already]( the Home Army has seen fit to consolidate it's organizations intent on infiltrating the secret services of the Soviet Union in Poland. With [Marian Bernaciak's]( intelligence services, [Wacław Micuta's]( employment in the Ministry of Central Planning, and [Henryk Cybulski's]( loyal informants, as well as others, they have under orders of [Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski]( begun an active and concerted effort to place loyal partisan members who are currently living throughout their daily lives within the NKVD, UB, and military. \\n Major Wilhelm Szczepaniewicz \\\"Kogut\\\" of the the Lublin District Inspectorate makes this statement known (under the pen-name of Kogut) in the underground press. \\n \\\"Under the guise of desertion, [the members from the] Berling's units are attempting to establish contacts with AK units, in order to penetrate our ranks, and to obtain materials for future prosecution, and arrests. I forbid any contacts with the escapees, and additionally inform [you] that regardless of the character of their service, the Soviet soldiers [...] received secret orders to penetrate our private life's, and to surveil our movement in the area. Those suspected, [are to be] detained and frisked. Under the guise of making purchases [of food], they were also ordered to visit local homes in order to find out what takes place [in those homes], and who is present [there]. They are very much aware that our [conspiratorial] net is very much alive, and utilizes rural farms [for our activities]. In some instances, they [the Soviets] forcibly enter [premises] in order to catch [the conspirators] red handed.\\\" \\n Moles within the Soviet administration reveal the following. \\n \\\"Capt. Wojciusz, \\\"Opal\\\" reported as follows: \\n 1) In the city of Warsaw, lives a Home Army female currier who delivers [underground] literature to the Lublin district of AK (Home Army). The above mentioned currier, has contact with the London's representatives of the Government in Exile in Warsaw. \\\"Opal\\\" knows this currier personally, and can hand her over to the security apparatus. \\n 2) He also personally knows [another] AK female currier who lives in Lodz, and who is in contact with the Krasnik and Pulawy Inspectorates of the AK, and [also has a contact(s)] in Pulawy. \\n 3) \\\"Opal\\\" personally knows the commandant of AK [unit, nom de guerre] \\\"Bolek\\\" operating around Urzedow, and can hand him over to the Office [of the Public Security, the UB]. \\n 4) He can recognize currier from the Lublin Inspectorate, and the Home Army District, through whose arrest [... it might be] possible to detain the commandant of the [Home Army] District [nom de guerre] \\\"Boruta\\\". \\\"Opal\\\" is able to contact him. \\n 5) \\\"Opal\\\" is able to intiate contact with the commandant[s] of the NSZ (pol. Narodowe Siły Zbrojne - National Armed Forces) \\\"Cichy\\\" and \\\"Orzel\\\" operating in the area of Gdynia-Sopot, and in Sopot [itself]. \\n 6) He also promised to hand over \\\"Zapora\\\", that is, Dekukowski Henryk, born in Tranobrzeg, Rzeszów Voivodeship, whose family lives in Tarnobrzeg, at 67 Kolewa Street. According to \\\"Opal\\\", \\\"Zapora\\\" is to be on leave at his sister's place, in January of this year. \\n 7) \\\"Opal\\\" can establish contact with many commandants of diversionary units in the Pulawy county. \\n January 3, 1946\\\" \\n All operatives with the codename \\\"Opal\\\" are then placed under suspicion, and [Hieronim Dekutowski]( is told that his family and location is compromised, and that he should move accordingly. It is suspected that Stanisław Wnuk, \\\"Opal\\\", is Hieronim's second in command, and he is immediately placed in the home army's personal 'custody'. \\n (M:\",\n \"Summary: The Sejm and the Senate are approving funds for the furthering of the population. I will be spending $ 196.14 on advancing agricultural goods by 1. I am also hosting a mass wedding since everyone's been stuck in virtual reality and too busy setting up society and it's foundations to really settle down and start a family in an attempt to get a jump-start on the population. Tax cuts are also being offered to those who bear children and who take up agrarianism and it's associated jobs.\\n\\nPost: happy to report a growth of 485,760 citizens within the Republic of Arkona since the inception of the settlement of Dobrzyn.\\\" Borys Zientara, head of the Polish Cabinet, addressed the President and the general Sejm and Senate at one of the first meetings of the Republic after it's inception. President Kniaziewicz had been voted in through a free and fair election, though now his power was rather unmatched by any other man, as was intended by the voters themselves. \\n Borys continued. \\\"Furthermore, the state has seen growth in many sectors leading to a 71.47% increase various regions of the economy and gross national product. Based on equivalency with the OP-3 Commonwealth and Caitan production levels and assumptions, we can assume that economically we are on par or advancing in a superior manner to that of our contemporaries to the galactic north; however, in matters of population, we are severely lacking. It is estimated that the Caitans alone contain roughly 60 million civilians on a single planet, not counting military personnel or planets which have not yet been revealed to us. Additionally, the OP-3 Commonwealth's population is well over 100,000. With singular entities such as this having a population of more than ten times our own, it is no doubt that such an entity may, at any given time, determine us to no longer be beneficial to their continued existence. As a state serves the state and nothing more, realpolitik must be taken into account, and assumed that entities even such as the OP-3 Commonwealth may yet down the road determine that the Republic of Arkona and its citizens are no longer needed on a galactic scale, be it in diplomacy or trade or otherwise.\\\" \\n \\\"Because of this, I motion before the Senate and the Sejm to allocate funds necessary to spur on incentives and measures that will encourage our citizens to reproduce at a rate that will allow us to compete, both in the possible battlefield and in the workplace, with such forces as these.\\\" \\n Prendota Kniaziewicz nodded to Borys, standing to respond. \\\"I wholeheartedly agree. We must act to provide and defend our citizens, both in the present and in the future. For the time being those around us are speakers of peace; yet there may come a time, be it near or far, that they turn to show themselves as harbingers of war. I approve of these calls for action, and will sign in agreement with legislation passed. To my fellow friends in the Sejm and the Senate, the task now falls to you to permit such legislation. Make it so, and so shall it be.\\\" \\n A long debate is held within the Sejm, and after a few hours of debate and subsequent approval of the Senate, Borys steps forth once more as speaker to address the general assembly. \\n \\\"It is by the ruling of the Sejm and the Senate and approval of the President and his Cabinet that the following is to take place.\\\" \\n \\n The further settlement of Dobrzyn shall be focused on establishing an agrarian society, utilizing the vast swaths of land to provide as much food and goods for the population as a whole \\n Funds shall be given to incentivize further settlement of Dobrzyn in such an agrarian measure, with tax cuts and 'free' land given to those who would establish settlements in such a way as to benefit the whole, and to impose slowly harsher taxes on more densely populated areas \\n The State shall host a mass wedding within the next month so as to help ease the populace into the establishment of families and homesteads, and will allow for increased tax cuts for married couples rather than singular couples. \\n \\n \\\"With this stance taken, and with subsequent laws which shall remain under further review being passed, this general assembly is adjourned.\\\"\",\n \"Summary: Anna is asking the Emperor to tell Brandenburg to concede defeat, but if the Emperor joins the war then it legitimizes Hungarian claims on Vienna and other Austrian titles, and Anna will wage war to recover these claims.\\n\\nPost: After Joachim's refusal to answer to her in a court of law, she hereby writes to the Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire. \\n \\\"To the grand Emperor, Maximilian I von Hapsburg, I write; \\n Greetings and good health to you. [As you have been made well aware in the past]( the Elector of Brandenburg has wronged us in many ways of the most heinous manner, and has made a mockery of both your declarations and the Imperial laws established during the 1495 Diet of Worms stipulating an eternal Internal Peace. We have since occupied the Electorate and his puppet in Pomerania, and are providing every possible aid to the peoples and subjects therein. We have imprisoned the Electorate and his puppet in Pomerania, who we have attempted to hold accountable in a court of law, both in the Saxon Circle Court and in the court of Bohemia, both of which are subjects to your most prestigious of Empires. Our war was not one born of ill will towards the Empire, but one towards those two men aforementioned who would dare impose their rulings upon those who could not defend themselves. \\n Because of this, however, they have refused to partake in dealings with us. We have acted according to Imperial law with the Saxon Circle Court, and they have held that court in contempt. We have then acted upon the ruling of the Saxon Circle Court and imposed order in the region, with due diligence towards the preservation of human life, with only two battles taking place throughout the course of the war, and with delegations sent before said battles with offers of peace provided. \\n We ask that you see our cause as legitimate, as the Brandenburgian armies and Elector has continuously provoked the Commonwealth through aggressive action; has subjugated an ally of the Commonwealth and a crown Prince of the Empire; has made a mockery of the internal peace of the Empire; has prevented a Crown Prince from attending the Diet of Worms; has intercepted an Imperial messenger and confiscated his message, has failed to deliver the confiscated message to it's intended recipient, and as a result of the lack of the attendance of the crown Prince of Pomerania has tricked you, most holy Emperor, into giving the title of the Duchy of Pomerania to one that was not the given Duke of Pomerania; has been sanctioned by the Pope for his actions; has gone against your will in the past; and even now will draw our two nations into war by demanding you take back what is rightfully the Teutonic Order's and the Pomeranian's. \\n I would ask that you keep the peace, and that you see the actions put in place in Berlin as legitimate. However, should you rush to Brandenburg's aid, the very Elector who has gone against your wishes and against the establishment of the Empire, this is seen as a breach of the peace of Pressburg, and I will not rest until such a breach of the peace is restored in favorable terms. \\n I hope that war will be avoided, and that you will uphold the duty you have been given as the Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire. \\n Sincerely; \\n Anna Radziwiłł, Lider Sejmu Rzeczypospolitej\\\"\",\n \"Summary: The War for Pomeranian Liberation ends, Pomerania is freed and given Uckermark which used to be theirs, Neumark is given to the Teutonic Order which used to be theirs, and both places are held under martial law until a court can decide the fate of the Electorate of Brandenburg and the Duke of Pomerania. Map should be updated [like this](\\n\\nPost: Jun 20th, 1508]( \\n The dust had settled on the battlegrounds of Berlin and Stettin. The outcome never truly was in favor of the Brandenburgians, and none had come to their aid since the onset of the war. Aleksander Kniaziewikz, leader of the Order of Dobrzyn, looked over the now ruined walls of Berlin, as the duke of Pomerania and the electorate of Brandenburg were then brought before him. \\n He looked down on them - simply because he was a large man, not out of disrespect between one or another. \\\"By order of the Sejm Liderem, the general assembly of the Grand Sejm of all nobles of the Commonwealth, the Saxon Circle, and the Electorates of Saxony and Bohemia, as well as with due respect to internal Imperial laws and with universal morality, both shared in humanity and in Christendom, you are hereby charged as a complacent and willing member of the Brandenburgian annexation, exploitation, subjugation, and subsequent mismanagement of Pomerania, as well as former actions taken against the Crown of the Commonwealth in league with the Heretic Russians to the east, whom we have been forced to make peace with as a direct result of your actions, the actions of the former holders of your current title, and the actions of your unlawful liege, whom you have failed to hold in contempt of aforementioned rulings in laws under Imperial, Commonwealth, and Saxon Circle rulings.\\\" \\n He then pulls out a slightly crumpled, yet neatly folded, piece of parchment. A single raindrop fell upon it, as clouds overhead looked over the scene of the recent battle from their cold, uncaring vantage point. \\\"With these things in mind, and with Pomerania and Brandenburg wholly and justly occupied by joint members of the Commonwealth and the Electorate of Bohemia, with support from the Saxon Circle Court, we will impose these just and fair rulings upon the Electorate of Saxony, and upon yourself. These actions are non-negotiable and will be carried out immediately, with regards to all laws and enactments put in place before the wanton Brandenburgian aggression.\\\" \\n He cleared his throat, looking down upon the parchment as more droplets of water began to fall upon the ground around them. \\\"The Electorate of Brandenburg and the Duke of Pomerania shall be handed over to the Commonwealth for their personal sentencing to commence in Prague, in the lands of the Holy Roman Empire, and in respect to their laws with all actions taken against fellow members of the Empire, and in respect to our laws in all actions taken against members of the Commonwealth, with laws of the Empire taking precedence in occurrences where a nation is a member of both states.\\\" \\n \\\"In respect to the nations and crown holdings themselves, the following will take place. Neumark is to be granted to the Teutonic Order, as is their just and righteous holding and claim on the land. Pomerania is to return under the control of the House Gryffin. Uckermark is to be returned to the control of the Pomeranian crown, as it was unjustly taken from them by the Brandenburg electorate not some 60 years ago with threat of military force. The House Hohenzollern will disregard all claims they have to any land held by the lineage of the House Gryffin, and they will additionally not hold claim to their inheritance, as they have already invalidated their claim by making war on the House Pomerania while the Treaty of Pyritz was in effect. This will be respected by all members of said house, as I have stated clearly with the backing of the Saxon Circle Court, the Commonwealth as a whole, and with the Electorate of Bohemia, as well as by comments of the Emperor himself in earlier Diets of the Empire. Furthermore, it will be established, as is fact already, that the House Gryffins is already of the same blood as House Gryfici (also known as House Świebodzice), House of Branicki, House of Mielecki, House of Sobiesław, and lastly House Piast, and they are to inherit by line of seniority in accordance with the closeness of relation to Bolesław III of Poland, a close cousin to the founder of the House Gryffins, and form whence the cadet branch of House Gryffins had originated from. These actions are taken place henceforth to prevent any further aggression by Brandenburg against the crown of the Commonwealth, Pomerania, and any and all unsuspecting members of the Holy Roman Empire who would think their sovereignty guaranteed by the internal laws of the Empire.\\\" \\n He placed the parchment back under his tabard, again looking to the both of them. \\\"Such is the will of God, of Man, of the Empire, of the Commonwealth, of the Grand Sejm and Sejm Liderem, of the Emperor himself, of the Saxon Court which you have held in contempt, and such will shall be carried out immediately.\\\" \\n He nodded to two guardsmen, one bearing the crest of the Commonwealth and the other the crest of the kingdom of Bohemia. \\\"Escort them to their wagon; we make haste for Prague, and this may be done with.\\\" He then addressed a young man to his right, bearing the crest of the Order of Dobrzyn \\\"Ensure that the people of Pomerania and Brandenburg are taken care of, and that plague does not spread. You have been instructed previously on how infected peoples are to be dealt with, and I would expect to see each and ever soldier in good health upon my swift return.\\\"\",\n \"Summary: I am spending 1/8th of my income, in accordance with the Code of Ethics, to begin raising my military mod by 1 until it reaches 1.25, though it may be raised farther in the future, and I am buying 8,000 infantry form Switzerland.\\n\\nPost: Meta Notice: Although there is a roleplay at the moment that places her in Vilnius, her trip there should have only taken a month or three at most; by this time, she has returned to Krakow.) \\n Anna looked over the recent casualty list from the siege of Stettin and Berlin. 5,300 infantry and 2,300 cavalry had been lost in the siege of Brandenburg's capital, and against a significantly smaller force. Truly, the forces were not trained as well as they aught to be... She had an idea. [The Black Army of Hungary]( was famed for their conquests of Austria and Bohemia, and their tactics and methods were easily available to her. \\n She drew together her chief advisers, and began to implement the Black Army's tactics into the training regimen, using the war college in Driesen that was now under control of the Teutons to educate these troops. For every 4 infantry, 1 would be given an arquebus.. yes, that seemed in line with the doctrine. Heavy, armor-clad infantry would be in support, with Swiss mercenaries trained in the way of the pike forming the rear line of infantry. \\n These men shall be re-inforced by Polish Hussars, which have proven their worth in taking the city of Berlin. Trained under Hungarian and Serbian tutelage, their massive forward charge has broken even the most stalwart of lines, held in city fortifications, and with the knowledge that this was their last stand. With all of these things combined, this new army will form the bulk of the Polish and Mazovian military. \\n She then sends this message henceforth into Switzerland. \\n \\\"To the most prestigious of military organizations, those in Switzerland, I write; \\n Many blessings upon you. I have heard of your stalwart defense of your homeland in the alps against Austrian incursions, and of your actions during the previous Italian Wars, with the shot and the pike. We have heard, also, of your previous works in Hungary during their expansion and wars into Austria and Bohemia. It is my goal and aim that we would re-create the Black Army which you had once been a part of, should you wish it. We request 8,000 pikemen of the finest quality, quality which are present in your kin since birth if the tales of your deeds are true, and would gladly pay 840,000 for their presence among our ranks. Rest assured, insolvency does not loom over the Commonwealth, and millions lay in storage should any nation run into financial troubles; you need not worry that your men would go unpaid. \\n With all of these things in mind, will you agree to this contract? It will be renewed yearly for an indefinite period of time, and we would allow your troops to return home so as to defend their countrymen and their honor. \\n Sincerely; \\n Anna Radziwiłł, Lider Sejmu Rzeczypospolitej\\\"\",\n \"Summary: Jan wants to create a proto-\\\"Marine\\\" force using the Obrona Potoczna, or by using it as a template to create a new force. If the Genoans want to use the Obrona Potoczna, it would be in use under the Polish crown but with Jan's personal funding. If the Genoans want to use a template, Jan would organize and help train it as he did the original force, but the Genoese would fund it instead and control it. He wishes to do this so that the 'establishment' (read: conquering) of new colonies may go smoother, with one specific force constantly being used to 'establish' the colony, and with a bulk portion of the army being moved in as follows to replace the Obrona Potoczna or it's template troop. The \\\"marines\\\" would then extract after having been replaced, and move on to the next colony that they wish to 'establish'.\\n\\nPost: The [Obrona Potoczna]( - or Permanent Defense - force of the Polish-Lithuanian union was established in 1479 under the direct supervision of Jan Olbrecht, who honed his administration skills with the funding, establishment, organization, and hiring of the men within this elite army. Based mostly on the Black Army of Hungary, this semi-mercenary force used seasonal shifts to help bolster the number of readily-available recruits; after all, if four men are trained, equipped, and put on the front lines over a course of four seasons, all four could be called at the same time in the event of an emergency. \\n But now, Jan was Doge of Genoa, and his was the defense and establishment of the Republic, rather than his father's lands. Yet why couldn't he do both? A theory cropped into his mind, in an effort to cut costs for both nations. The 1,200 infantry and 900 cavalrymen sworn to the Obrona Potoczna could be placed within the southern lands of the Genoese Colonies, ready as ever to face a Turkish or Tatar assault. As such, he called together the head merchants of Genoa, and explained his plan. \\n \\\"As it is known, the revolts that struck Genoa not two years ago in the last days of the last Doge were felt throughout the Republic. In addition, the Ottoman Sultanate during one of the various crisis in the area threatened to evict our traders and men from Constantinople itself, despite the close ties we have made there. Why, then, should the Black Sea colonies be left to defend themselves? Poland ran to it's defense in light of the upheaval, even with the soured relations of the previous Doge, but one cannot rely on the presence of a single ally for all eternity. Therefore, it is with sound mind that I propose that either the Obrona Potoczna be allowed to police the area under my funding, or a similar standing army in the area be put in place to ensure the efforts in the region to not stand unguarded and forced to defend themselves. This similar standing army would be funded also by me, but would not carry the same tactics nor experience as the Polish detachment under my control, and would need to be trained from scratch, or from whatever experience these men that would form this detachment may be.\\\" \\n \\\"Additionally, I would propose that this outfit be trained in such a way as to specialize in a form of 'shock battle'; that is, not with the intent of waging a long, protracted war of attrition, or of one with large battles of agonizingly numerous casualties, but instead acting as an elite force which moves ahead of the main armies, and establishes a forward position from which the main army will advance to and defend. This is much what the Obrona Potoczna already do, in that they are the best of the best, and defend the frontiers with all due diligence. In contrast, however, this force would be used extensively to secure a potential colony, police it, and defend it until a more permanent garrison can be provided. What do you say, good merchants and families of Genoa? Is this an endeavor which intrigues you?\\\"\",\n \"Summary: You give Wallachia and Bulgaria to Moldavia, and Poland-Lithuania will peace out separately. Poles in exchange recognize that the Ottoman Sultan is truly in charge of Anatolia and is not simply holding it with troops over an extended period of time, and they also condemn religious-based warfare - though they hint that you should probably stop enslaving your own people and using them as a slave army, because religious-based warfare to protect someone who can't protect themselves is totally OK. Poland then agrees to never again go to war (read: Perpetual Peace) so long as they keep to these stipulations, and eventually abolish the slave army, though they may be drawn in on a defensive war if you declare war on someone they are allied to.)\\n\\nPost: Exactly 4 days after the Battle of Subotica \\n A messenger is sent to the Sultan of the Ottomans, the very same rider who had approached them at the start of the battle. \\n \\\"Greetings, honorable adversaries! Peace be upon you. For it is peace we bring! My liege, though he marches north to secure peace within his own land, brings this document which I am asked to present to you. It entails this peace between the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, as those are the only parties which he remains a speaker of.\\\" \\n He hands whatever dignitary is there to accept him a piece of parchment, written and signed by a great host of nobles. It entails the following. \\n In this year of Our Lord 1477, we, the Nobles and Dignitaries of the Most Serene Republic of Nobles, that Kingdom of Poland and Grand Duchy of Lithuania, of all marshals and burghers, of all good counts and dukes and barons alike, do hereby propose a peace between the peoples of the Sultan of the Turks and the Kingdom of Poland and Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Such a peace shall be long lasting, now and forevermore. This peace shall establish now and forever the [exchange of lands of Wallachia and Bulgaria to that of Moldavia]( as is their right by jure uxoris and by right of Vlad Dracul, just and righteous leader of Wallachia, who shall be sworn in the service of Moldavia. Because of this, peace shall once more reign between our two kingdoms. Woe to the man, be he serf or Sultan, King or cretin, lord or lady, who breaks this peace! \\n We establish henceforth that the Sultan of Turkey is the just ruler of the lands of Anatolia, and that his claim to such lands cannot be taken from him so long as the peoples within support him as they do. For it is the power from the Heavens which dictates who will rule the realm of Man, and not Man himself. It is with good consciousness that we also shall refuse to partake in a crusade against one faith or another, so long as that faith does not harm its own citizens. We furthermore encourage, yet do not demand, that the [enslavement of the dhimmi]( should well and justly be abolished, as it is indeed detrimental to those within of one faith or another. We hold steadfast and resolute in our standpoint that [the beliefs of a man does not render unto him mortal condemnation]( but rather the condemnation of the spirit, and utterly disregard the pretense of religious warfare where there is not a defenseless man to be defended. Additionally, it is known as sound doctrine that free will must remain foremost in our lives, and that the Turk cannot be put to the sword with threat of conversion - just as the Christian cannot be put to the sword for this same threat. \\n With these stipulations in place, we the prelates, dignitaries, clergy, nobles, burghers, counts, marshals, knights, dukes, and other such men of importance, with what titles and names they may hold, do now and forevermore establish a [perpetual peace]( between our two peoples. This is in the will of the King, the will of the Nobles, the will of the People, and the will of God Himself, who does not wish to see the wholesale slaughter of a people in His name or any other name. \\n These things are stated without evil duplicity, so that none may say one thing or another about the intentions therein. May God rest his soul the man who breaks this peace. \\n Various signatures, including Kazimierz IV Andrzej Jagiellończyk, are listed at the bottom. \\n (M:\",\n \"Summary: all nations embargoing the 4th Reich receive a 4.4 Embargo penalty, and anyone who is both trading with me and embargoing the 4th Reich has their trade severed. 4th Reich receives 1 Industrial and 1 Consumer Good trade from me. Arkona condemns La Republique Fer and asks all others to also condemn them and place sanctions upon them.\\n\\nPost: October 3rd, 2162 \\n A national and international broadcast is sent forth on Arkonan news channels, in all forms of media, containing the following broadcast. \\n \\\"Good people of Arkona. Nations of the galaxy. Sentients and AI alike, I speak freely to all.\\\" \\n \\\"Recent happenings among the galactic community have been brought to my attention in regards to the Fourth Reich. Through humanitarian efforts, they stand as a grand beacon of humanity in saving 1.5 million civilians from a war zone. Though ancient history has marred the ideology of national socialism, it is ever apparent that as of today their efforts have saved nearly countless lives from a nuclear holocaust.\\\" \\n \\\"Yet that is not all. Even today, they have rightfully [protected themselves and their borders]( from insurgents originating in the Iron Republic. Though the government in question claims that these AI were \\\"tourists\\\", I find it hard to believe that a populace well aware of the lacking AI rights in the Fourth Reich would willingly travel in large quantities to such a state. I think it more likely that these human-thinking, human-acting robots were sent as a matter of subterfuge and clandestine information gathering on a potential \\\"enemy\\\", even though the Fourth Reich has done nothing but further the goals of the galaxy in keeping the peace and sanctity of life. It would be similar to an entrepreneur seeking to make a business within the \\\"Iron Republic\\\"; an utterly laughable notion, considering that this so-called Republic [does not represent the views of it's people, and actively suppresses those who speak out against them]( driving them out of the nation, seeking refuge from those humanitarians who willingly take them and shield them from their plight - those being the members of the Fourth Reich.\\\" \\n \\\"Let me be clear. Those AI present within the Republic of Arkona are rightful members of our grand state, and actively receive many liberties and assurances to their quality of life. But simply because AI and their respective entities are protected in one state does not guarantee their protection within another. Does La Republique Fer seek to impose their will on another state? Do they dictate the terms by which a state is run? Is it by their words that laws are written, or is it by the words of the government and the government's constituents that laws are made? I would argue the ladder, good friends; the Fourth Reich must not bow to the wishes of those outside of it's state, just as our good Republic of Arkona must never bend the knee to another in any matter. The State is for the State. La Republique Fer should keep well enough alone to it's own business, and caution its people from entering lands which are unwelcoming to their kind.\\\" \\n \\\"By all means, however, we welcome La Republique Fer and their \\\"Pinochio's\\\" into our good Republic, as they are entitled to certain rights within our lands. Yet again I say simply because we support one measure does not mean that that measure must receive universal support from all nations. I would advise the Fourth Reich to do what is best for the Fourth Reich, and ask that all would let our good Republic of Arkona do what is best for Arkona. Anything less is gunboat diplomacy and international finagling, something we know all to well in the recent near-conflict over BD-05.\\\" \\n \\\"I call upon the international community to condemn La Republique Fer for imposing sanctions on a nation which has clearly made their stance known, and who's stance is best for the state itself, for oppressing the humans and other sentients within its own borders, and for attempting to infiltrate the Fourth Reich via clandestine insertion of semi-humanoid AI units. Therefore, I hereby join our friends in the Fourth Reich in their struggle against this rampant trade war that their antagonists have started, and will sever any and all trade rights with those who would impose similar sanctions upon the Fourth Reich. Such sanctions will continue until the former sanctions are lifted on the Fourth Reich. We will also begin open trading of industrial and consumer goods with the Fourth Reich so as to keep the balance of trade open and viable within the galactic community. Any imposition of this established trade, or any halting of their movement, will be seen as an inherent attack against state-owned and operated vehicles of the Arkonan Republic and a declaration of war. This is done after consultation of the Senate, Sejm, and Cabinet of the Republic.\\\" \\n \\\"Long live Arkona! Long live democracy! And may autonomy reign supreme in this increasingly intergalactic community. Far be it from me to hand over my or any others' sovereignty by inaction in this matter.\\\"\",\n \"Summary: version of my current problem, but does anyone have any advice here? Would it be better to be the horrible tyrant and kill off the first son and win Silesia by conquest later, or convert to Catholicism and gift/hand out titles (both honorary and landed) to get the pesky Pomeranians off my back? And should releasing the Pomeranians as independent be considered an option at this point, or should I risk Gavelkind as a helpless 10 military 0 everything else duke who ends up splitting the kingdom with his brother?\\n\\nPost: Alright. Long story short, it's 889 AD, I'm running out of time for Piast the Wheelwright (who is both stressed and sick at the moment) in my traditional Poland ironman runthrough, my military genius of a son got clubbed in the head and is now incapable, and his son is far too young to take the throne when he dies. My son's younger brother is a pretty decent steward, but lackluster in the rest of his abilities. I have a Catholic concubine so I can convert to Catholicism and switch succession laws before making the kingdom of Poland and having said laws carry over before I die (I still am just a duke at this point). Problem is, the recently conquered Pomeranians have negative opinions on me (apparently people don't like getting invaded), so I'm afraid that the different religion penalty is going to be far too much to overcome in order to switch the succession to ultimogeniture or elective. I /could/ imprison and execute my eldest son and grandson, but the grandson is in line to inherit the duchy of Silesia, and I'd rather win Silesia through diplomacy rather than conquest because Great Moravia is allied to East Francia. 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cicero8 | Generate the content for a reddit post Media makes perceived crime rate higher then actual crime rate, also makes it seem more violent, this causes cops to be quicker on the trigger, in their eyes they are protecting themselves... | Look at it this way, the crime rate has been on the decline for a while...but the media keeps showing the worse crimes every night and has been making it look like its on the rise. Police pay rates are going up, because the job seems more and more dangerous. Look at how the job is portrayed, it has not been described a... | Look at it this way, the crime rate has been on the decline for a while...but the media keeps showing the worse crimes every night and has been making it look like its on the rise. Police pay rates are going up, because the job seems more and more dangerous. Look at how the job is portrayed, it has not been described a... | [
"Summary: absolutely need somebody that can pull aggro and has some damage mitigation. How much of a \"traditional' tank is required. i dont know yet.\n\nPost: Bosses are imune to CC, and switch targets periodically. However a good tank will build himself to pull agro with one of the 2 agro skills, and have some hi... | 57 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 5,300 |
i_literally_died | Generate the content for a reddit post What is the difference between an Aero Press and a French Press in terms of the coffee that comes out the other end? (I'm already aware the Aero is more portable and easier to clean up). Am I going to get anything 'extra' out of using an Aeropress? | I started up my 'proper coffee' habit a couple of months ago and I now have two French Presses (I bought a large one to try cold brewing), a Hario Slim Grinder, and a bunch of Mason Jars full of different fresh beans from the local roasting place.
I currently have a water filter, an aero press and a re-usable filter ... | I started up my 'proper coffee' habit a couple of months ago and I now have two French Presses (I bought a large one to try cold brewing), a Hario Slim Grinder, and a bunch of Mason Jars full of different fresh beans from the local roasting place.
I currently have a water filter, an aero press and a re-usable filter ... | [
"Summary: what (other than heat) can cause a GPU to limit its maximum core clock to ~400mhz?\n\nPost: What can cause a GPU to underclock or force the maximum clock to be ~405mhz (which I think is standard 2D gaming clock speed) during games that isn't heat related ? \n I have my MSI 980 at +200 core/+300 mem/+50mV... | 17 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 5,301 |
orangetiem | Generate the content for a reddit post Science' or people interpreting 'science' are often wrong. | Because 'science' doesn't have an opinion or a fact book. It just points to the most likely scenario with the information we have available.
Since we often lack information the scenarios which science deems most likely are often wrong. Obviously more studied and concrete fields will have better accuracy though. (mat... | Because 'science' doesn't have an opinion or a fact book. It just points to the most likely scenario with the information we have available.
Since we often lack information the scenarios which science deems most likely are often wrong. Obviously more studied and concrete fields will have better accuracy though. (mat... | [
"Summary: You are a conspiracy theorist. (Or a well researched troll and I applaud you)\n\nPost: EHHHH............ \n You are either a very, very good troll or a conspiracy theorist. \n >To believe it's just some bonding ritual is a bit naive, \n Let's consult Occam. Which is more likely? \n That high strung offici... | 70 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 5,302 |
Field-K | Generate the content for a reddit post Fuck "consent to sex is not consent to pregnancy". If you consent to an action, and are aware of the possible consequences, you consent to the consequences. | But people know contraception can fail. They know pregnancy is a possible consequence of sex regardless of the precautions taken (disclaimer: barring same-sex or literally breaking one of the participants reproductive systems).
Just like you know a hangover is a possible consequence of getting wasted. No matter... | But people know contraception can fail. They know pregnancy is a possible consequence of sex regardless of the precautions taken (disclaimer: barring same-sex or literally breaking one of the participants reproductive systems).
Just like you know a hangover is a possible consequence of getting wasted. No matter... | [
"Summary: I disagree that it was \"clearly\" an issue of semantics, OP seemed to me to actually not understand what he was saying.\n\nPost: It's a question of whether it was actually semantics or a fundamental misunderstanding of the mathematics behind the issue. In my experience, people who use the phrase \"you ca... | 19 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 5,303 |
random_dent | Generate the content for a reddit post It's legal stuff, this is as short as I can reasonably make it. Sorry. | Actual bill analysis/outline and reference guide:
This bill is difficult to summarize, because it's not a straightforward document. It mostly removes or adds to existing law, so there's a lot of "remove x line" and "add this paragraph" with only mediocre context provided.
Short version: The biggest issue will be m... | Actual bill analysis/outline and reference guide:
This bill is difficult to summarize, because it's not a straightforward document. It mostly removes or adds to existing law, so there's a lot of "remove x line" and "add this paragraph" with only mediocre context provided.
Short version: The biggest issue will be m... | [
"Summary: Parkways connect state parks.\n\nPost: Actually, parkways are called that because they connect the state parks or go through them. In NY/NJ, Palisades Parkway passes through the length of Palisades State Park. The Wantagh and Meadowbrook Parkways terminate at Jones Beach State park. Bethpage Parkway termi... | 19 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 5,304 |
Bushwacker3000 | Generate the content for a reddit post Sports fans aren't athletes but video game players have a good chance of being able to play competetively. | I love how sports fans yell at the TV saying that they would play completely different from the way the highly trained athlete plays whereas most of us here will see a top-level smash player and realize that 1) mistakes happen 2) We're not as good as the best players in the world so we can't really say that we could've... | I love how sports fans yell at the TV saying that they would play completely different from the way the highly trained athlete plays whereas most of us here will see a top-level smash player and realize that 1) mistakes happen 2) We're not as good as the best players in the world so we can't really say that we could've... | [
"Summary: It can be done in double battles in other gens.\n\nPost: In generation five it is actually the easiest, just enter wild double battle which is available at nearly any time and sketch the move your other Pokemon uses, which allows you to learn most moves used by extremely powerful Pokemon. This is possible... | 30 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 5,305 |
SoCalDan | Generate the content for a reddit post Thanks MMA for all the memories. | So many memories.
UFC 1 Every fight because was so new and it was like a real life bloodsport. All these "great" fighters from around the world to see what style was best.
UFC 4 Severn vs Macias No weight classes, rounds or judges. Seeing a huge wrestler vs a tiny wrestler and the full nelson suplex over and ... | So many memories.
UFC 1 Every fight because was so new and it was like a real life bloodsport. All these "great" fighters from around the world to see what style was best.
UFC 4 Severn vs Macias No weight classes, rounds or judges. Seeing a huge wrestler vs a tiny wrestler and the full nelson suplex over and ... | [
"Summary: I didn't choke guys in the sense that most people think of when they think of choking. I put them in a 'rear naked choke' position and just held them without applying 'choking' pressure.\n\nPost: Okay, so maybe I didn't differentiate the nuance here well enough or maybe I got lazy with the terminology. ... | 17 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 5,306 |
raydude | Generate the content for a reddit post Feelings don't have to resolve quickly. Its okay for them to linger. Let the feelings come and go and pay attention. There is a message there and sooner or later you'll know it. | My advice: Don't try to feel some way about this information. Just accept how you feel and let it go. Everyone feels differently about different things. There are no right or wrong feelings. They are what they are.
If you feel your feelings about his past activities are unhealthy, then letting them go is the best opt... | My advice: Don't try to feel some way about this information. Just accept how you feel and let it go. Everyone feels differently about different things. There are no right or wrong feelings. They are what they are.
If you feel your feelings about his past activities are unhealthy, then letting them go is the best opt... | [
"Summary: Its time you both grow up and that just means learning to communicate and compromise.\n\nPost: You guys need to sit down and talk to some old fogeys. \n The thing she needs to understand is: MEN WANT SEX ALL THE TIME. And if she doesn't want sex, then porn browsing will be had for mental material by the m... | 92 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 5,307 |
zugi | Generate the content for a reddit post We can't let the theists redefine terms at will - we have to hold on to the common meanings that everyone understands about words like know , prove , and gods . | I know there are no leprechauns." Counter is "prove it."
What do you mean by prove ? I already explained how much we understand about the history of god-beliefs, how they get created by humans to explain unanswerable questions, how they're spread mostly through military conquest, how what god you believe in is highl... | I know there are no leprechauns." Counter is "prove it."
What do you mean by prove ? I already explained how much we understand about the history of god-beliefs, how they get created by humans to explain unanswerable questions, how they're spread mostly through military conquest, how what god you believe in is highl... | [
"Summary: 2.5% for defense\" would be a good motto.\n\nPost: I have no problem with saying the U.S. should have the best military in the world. \n I have no problem with saying that defense is one of the top federal government priorities. \n But knowing how much defense we have and need comes down to numbers. Take ... | 55 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 5,308 |
Zytran | Generate the content for a reddit post Not everyone has a Gaming PC Rig and I assume this applies more-so to the casual SC2 player. So increasing map size and encouraging more macro/late game play can end up being a negative experience for people who don't have good computers. | The only issue with having massive team game maps and encouraging late game macro play with different maps is that it starts to alienate the user-base that does not have the sufficient hardware to play endgame 4v4 max army situations. I know that my casual SC2 friends that prefer team games to 1v1 all have mediocre sys... | The only issue with having massive team game maps and encouraging late game macro play with different maps is that it starts to alienate the user-base that does not have the sufficient hardware to play endgame 4v4 max army situations. I know that my casual SC2 friends that prefer team games to 1v1 all have mediocre sys... | [
"Summary: An unstrung guitar is at no more risk for damage than an unmounted guitar neck.\n\nPost: The purpose of the truss rod is to stabilize the relief (curvature) of the neck. Because wood is not a fully rigid object, it is to a minor extend malleable as it is a porous material that is also affected by external... | 29 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 5,309 |
mdragon13 | Generate the content for a reddit post had to drop a huge load on a NYC public subway bathroom toilet. no tp. stranger passes me napkins to wipe. i do it, thank him tons, leave. that was an awkward and pretty dirty shit. | a few years ago, about a year or 2 after my dad married my stepmom, me, my stepmom, and her dad (her parents were visiting for a couple of weeks) were riding on an nyc train going back up to washington heights where we lived at the time. my stomach decided that i needed to take a monster shit immediately. im pressing m... | a few years ago, about a year or 2 after my dad married my stepmom, me, my stepmom, and her dad (her parents were visiting for a couple of weeks) were riding on an nyc train going back up to washington heights where we lived at the time. my stomach decided that i needed to take a monster shit immediately. im pressing m... | [
"Summary: wait wait wait. you come on reddit, especially askreddit, a subreddit entirely based around answering in comment form, and expect an abridged version? no. go read it.\n\nPost: my aunts, your sisters, are shit at raising their kids. the kids want a bit more independence, but they wont give it to them. for ... | 23 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 5,310 |
punwick | Generate the content for a reddit post body/light weight exercises and exercises that mimic swimming strokes are going to do more for you than body building. | I can't provide any links just now but the trick would be to find exercises that mimic specific swimming movements.
So chin ups (overhand grip) activating your lats is an obvious one. Consider how this is better for your stroke than the similar pull up (underhand grip) which uses different muscle groups.
Another I ... | I can't provide any links just now but the trick would be to find exercises that mimic specific swimming movements.
So chin ups (overhand grip) activating your lats is an obvious one. Consider how this is better for your stroke than the similar pull up (underhand grip) which uses different muscle groups.
Another I ... | [
"Summary: you can spend a whole lot of time being a full-time, dedicated swimmer without being \"professional\".\n\nPost: There really isn't an answer to this other than to say, 'a lot'. \"Professionally\" also implies the athlete is making money, which in swimming isn't often the case. I trained with 6 Olympic/wor... | 15 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 5,311 |
proggR | Generate the content for a reddit post We as a community can affect change by remaining vigilant on issues. I propose a Lean Society that seeks to eliminate waste quickly through experimentation and validated learning. This society could start right here with the implementation of a Reddit Kanban board where we can foc... | Discuss this topic further [here]( All feedback/thoughts welcome
We as a species are far too myopic. Any sleight of hand can derail focus on important issues in favor of other issues with relative ease. Repetition is how issues are driven home, and its why on news outlets you'll see the same stories and talking point... | Discuss this topic further [here]( All feedback/thoughts welcome
We as a species are far too myopic. Any sleight of hand can derail focus on important issues in favor of other issues with relative ease. Repetition is how issues are driven home, and its why on news outlets you'll see the same stories and talking point... | [
"Summary: I think politics are broken because the system has two few single points of failure due to the party system, and because there is no equal gender representation meaning all decisions are made from the perspective of primarily old rich white dudes.\n\nPost: When you really dig into the root of the problem ... | 17 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 5,312 |
dwellerofabyss | Generate the content for a reddit post Want to buy Tangiers but it's the most expensive brand here in Brazil. Does it live up to its reputation?
Thanks for your attention fellas :D | Hello guys, I've been off the sub for a while but that's just because we're doing some massive importation of products here in Brazil.
Well, nevermind the reason XD, I have a quick question for you.
So, I've already smoked Tangiers with a friend and it tasted great, it was a sweet flavor I can't recall right now. A... | Hello guys, I've been off the sub for a while but that's just because we're doing some massive importation of products here in Brazil.
Well, nevermind the reason XD, I have a quick question for you.
So, I've already smoked Tangiers with a friend and it tasted great, it was a sweet flavor I can't recall right now. A... | [
"Summary: 0/10 wouldn't buy AF. \n It's complicated to say something like that here because in the US there seems lots of people like the AF brand. Here in Brazil, the US brands like Fumari and Starbuzz, Fantasia, Tangiers etc. are more expensive, but I'd rather spend more cash and smoke something I do like. AF is ... | 17 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 5,313 |
localcasestudy | Generate the content for a reddit post Elements that are typically associated with sophisticated e-commerce sites can also go a long way in helping boost margins and growth at the local level. Oh and no one else is doing it!
EDIT: Thanks to the Anonymous Redditor who got me 3 months of Reddit Gold. Thank you so muc... | So I have to skip around a bit and go through a few things that are not exactly chronological in nature. While I’m waiting for my designer to return with my design I’m not actually working on my site (and plus the main infrastructure of my site is done since I’m reusing the MIB platform).
Thus, for the next few days... | So I have to skip around a bit and go through a few things that are not exactly chronological in nature. While I’m waiting for my designer to return with my design I’m not actually working on my site (and plus the main infrastructure of my site is done since I’m reusing the MIB platform).
Thus, for the next few days... | [
"Summary: Twitter is awesome. Facebook might as well not exist. \n edit: just realized I didn't answer your second question. I use either discount codes or unique affiliate links for each place I advertise. That way I know about 75% of the time where the client came from as soon as they book. If I have no idea, I... | 27 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 5,314 |
nexusheli | Generate the content for a reddit post Disappointed with Midwest Supply's service, tell me your positive or negative with them. | Hey all; snagged the Groupon for the Midwest Supply starter kit a little more than a week back and after figuring out a few other needs, I put together an order with them on Monday 4/9. Being in NC, I figured I'd have my stuff before the end of the week.
Wednesday 4/11 rolls around and I haven't received a tracking ... | Hey all; snagged the Groupon for the Midwest Supply starter kit a little more than a week back and after figuring out a few other needs, I put together an order with them on Monday 4/9. Being in NC, I figured I'd have my stuff before the end of the week.
Wednesday 4/11 rolls around and I haven't received a tracking ... | [
"Summary: you may be able to convince a girl to give you head and it looks longer.\n\nPost: Get yourself a trimmer/clipper. You don't have to go hairless everywhere, but you can use a guard and clean yourself up in all the right places. \n On a completely serious note; trimming things up around your junk also adds... | 16 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 5,315 |
BroBroBroYourBoat | Generate the content for a reddit post Had a crush on a girl, but had a girlfriend. Finally broke up with girlfriend, and talked to girl I had a crush on tonight. She liked me. But now she has a boyfriend.
When was the biggest moment in your life when you've wanted to scream Fuck My Life? | Rewind about two years. There was this girl in my class, and she was beautiful. She was brilliant. I've never crushed on a girl this hard in my life. My girlfriend found out about this crush, and poked fun at this girl one night, and I told her that the thing she was poking fun at was something I found to be sexy. She ... | Rewind about two years. There was this girl in my class, and she was beautiful. She was brilliant. I've never crushed on a girl this hard in my life. My girlfriend found out about this crush, and poked fun at this girl one night, and I told her that the thing she was poking fun at was something I found to be sexy. She ... | [
"Summary: Moral of the story. Smile. Girls love smiles. \n Disclaimer: Don't be creepy. That's creepy.\n\nPost: There was a thread about a month or two ago in AskReddit where people were giving tips on how to be more attractive with minimal work. One of the tips was to smile more. \n I had a crush on a girl I alway... | 16 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 5,316 |
Vikosus | Generate the content for a reddit post It's anachronistic to state that the titans were gods. | They tend to use the default term 'god' to describe a being of such power, but the ancients Greeks separated the two because they were not the same.
As I said, calling titans gods is a misnomer as they were not gods, and didn't represent the same thing that the gods did.
The gods were classified as such because they ... | They tend to use the default term 'god' to describe a being of such power, but the ancients Greeks separated the two because they were not the same.
As I said, calling titans gods is a misnomer as they were not gods, and didn't represent the same thing that the gods did.
The gods were classified as such because they ... | [
"Summary: One does not need to be uncivilized to do bad/harmful things, nor does one need to be civilized to go good/helpful things.\n\nPost: I still feel that you misunderstand the concept of civility. \nOne does not require civility to perform good deeds, while one does not need to throw civility to wind in order... | 23 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 5,317 |
stickerartist | Generate the content for a reddit post Want to date coworker, wondering to ask her through facebook or in person and when and how | We both work for the same company known as Kmart. I mean its just Kmart, not really that big of a deal. I might quit soon. One of my other coworkers is already in a relationship with someone in the store and its no big deal.
We don't really talk. However she has reached out to me quite a few times. First asking for h... | We both work for the same company known as Kmart. I mean its just Kmart, not really that big of a deal. I might quit soon. One of my other coworkers is already in a relationship with someone in the store and its no big deal.
We don't really talk. However she has reached out to me quite a few times. First asking for h... | [
"Summary: Sort of confused about whether or not I should date this girl and don't want the friendship to go away\n\nPost: I've never been in a relationship before. Never really had friends before either. \n Met this girl through Okcupid/Facebook. We hung out one night and had a good time. I wasn't sure if she was i... | 19 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 5,318 |
UsaIvanDrago | Generate the content for a reddit post Keep your current job, pay down your student loans as fast as you freakin can, THEN follow your dreams. It'll be much easier to do with 0 debt, and the whole "feeling like you need to settle by 30" is a foolish notion. You'll settle when you're ready to settle. | For someone in such a high paying position your evaluations of relative value are pretty disillusioned...
"Part of the huge appeal of moving to Europe is vacation time. I don't have a lot here and that which I do involves traveling to metal festivals - that's what I spend my entertainment money on. Being in Europe el... | For someone in such a high paying position your evaluations of relative value are pretty disillusioned...
"Part of the huge appeal of moving to Europe is vacation time. I don't have a lot here and that which I do involves traveling to metal festivals - that's what I spend my entertainment money on. Being in Europe el... | [
"Summary: You aren't in that bad a spot, start looking at houses and talking to banks immediately. Don't look a gift horse in the mouth.\n\nPost: 900 a month left over after tax/expenses? \n Not sure the area you live in, but this is NOT a bad situation to be in. If houses are 110k where you're at, and your fathe... | 23 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 5,319 |
darien_gap | Generate the content for a reddit post Paid advertising funds the founders hobbies. | No, read "Into the Plex." There's a long documented history of how Larry and Sergey fervently believe that technology is humanity's savior, that nobody else is attempting big things, and that they plan to use Google to fund these aspirations. It was codified into their IPO filing papers to protect them from shareholder... | No, read "Into the Plex." There's a long documented history of how Larry and Sergey fervently believe that technology is humanity's savior, that nobody else is attempting big things, and that they plan to use Google to fund these aspirations. It was codified into their IPO filing papers to protect them from shareholder... | [
"Summary: Spielberg was not contacted by aliens.\n\nPost: The world seems to have largely forgotten one of Spielberg's greatest films, Close Encounters of the Third Kind. It depicted aliens as benign and friendly. This was in the seventies when New Ageism was in full swing. Later overshadowed by ET's kid friendly s... | 16 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 5,320 |
taterbizkit | Generate the content for a reddit post would be "value never had any cosmic or universal meaning. Nihilists are people who can't see past this."
Edit: On the third or fourth read through of this, I want to clarify, if only for my own benefit. A "proper nihilist" is perhaps someone who arrives at the failure of value... | We agree substantively. I simply reserve the term "nihilist" to describe someone who believes value does not exist at all, subjectively or objectively.
I make the distinction for good reasons (IMO). Nihilism is a "waypoint", if you will, on the path from the platonic world view most people (theist or atheist alike) ... | We agree substantively. I simply reserve the term "nihilist" to describe someone who believes value does not exist at all, subjectively or objectively.
I make the distinction for good reasons (IMO). Nihilism is a "waypoint", if you will, on the path from the platonic world view most people (theist or atheist alike) ... | [
"Summary: don't open that door and you won't get a beatdown.\n\nPost: If the conversation comes up between us in a social setting, I'll get as far as explaining what I do/don't believe and what my reasons are. That's fair game as far as I'm concerned. \n Once I hear someone tell me that I should believe in god, th... | 117 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 5,321 |
Pewpewpwnj00 | Generate the content for a reddit post Question is for legal reasons, not cause the bride is a cheating whore. | I just got married this past weekend. It was lovely and everyone was super supportive. While we were doing the rehearsal I asked the minister if he's ever had that happen, he said no; he does however know of other situations where it has happened.
The purpose of that question is for legal reasons... not really "oh he... | I just got married this past weekend. It was lovely and everyone was super supportive. While we were doing the rehearsal I asked the minister if he's ever had that happen, he said no; he does however know of other situations where it has happened.
The purpose of that question is for legal reasons... not really "oh he... | [
"Summary: Movember is about increasing awareness of men's health issues through the brotherhood of letting your mustache grow!\n\nPost: Movember is not just about having facial hair. It's about raising awareness for men's health and also fundraising for mens health. \n 1/7 men will be diagnosed with some form of pr... | 22 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 5,322 |
somethingcleverer | Generate the content for a reddit post Don't take Unisom | So yeah... I was at the bar last night with some out of town friends. We weren't very drunk, just middling. I had probably 4 or five beers and a couple of shots over a three hour period. I was drunk, but by no means loaded. My buddy offers me a Unisom (over the counter sleeping pill) on the way out of the bar, which I ... | So yeah... I was at the bar last night with some out of town friends. We weren't very drunk, just middling. I had probably 4 or five beers and a couple of shots over a three hour period. I was drunk, but by no means loaded. My buddy offers me a Unisom (over the counter sleeping pill) on the way out of the bar, which I ... | [
"Summary: You've got trust issues, and while his behavior on the whole seems pretty normal, the way he reacts to your fairly legitimate concerns with denigration doesn't seem to be the most helpful.\n\nPost: The band thing... well you knew he was in a band going in presumably. \n The strip club thing is nothing to ... | 20 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 5,323 |
cypher_zero | Generate the content for a reddit post Group of all GMs on a rotating game schedule is recruiting; join in the fun by posting here or PMing me!
EDIT: Added day of week; sorry! | We are looking for up to 4 additional players for online games. The current game schedule is 12:30 pm to ~4:30 pm Eastern US time, Saturdays. We play via Skype, Roll20 and occasionally other VTTs.
So what is the "Legion of GMs?"
We're a small group of RPG gamers. All of us are GMs and the group was formed with the i... | We are looking for up to 4 additional players for online games. The current game schedule is 12:30 pm to ~4:30 pm Eastern US time, Saturdays. We play via Skype, Roll20 and occasionally other VTTs.
So what is the "Legion of GMs?"
We're a small group of RPG gamers. All of us are GMs and the group was formed with the i... | [
"Summary: Judas did what he did of his own will.\n\nPost: One of the core tenants of the belief is that Mankind has free will. Technically, Judas didn't have to do what he did; it was always his choice. \n I also, as a thinking man and a christian, wonder how much of what transpired was documented properly. Most ... | 41 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 5,324 |
ShaneL79 | Generate the content for a reddit post We played prank on abusive manager. Abusive manager snapped and checked himself into hospital. | One of my first serving jobs was at a large 200 seat restaurant. This place was horribly managed and because of that it was empty most of the time, especially weekend afternoons.
We had a manager who was a server for only a couple of months before that and didn't know shit about the business. When I say manager, I am... | One of my first serving jobs was at a large 200 seat restaurant. This place was horribly managed and because of that it was empty most of the time, especially weekend afternoons.
We had a manager who was a server for only a couple of months before that and didn't know shit about the business. When I say manager, I am... | [
"Summary: I seriously hate unsolicited calls and door-to-door sales.\n\nPost: I was three times unlucky - stupid. \n 1. Took a \"Direct Marketing\" job for an insurance company. The first week of training was unpaid and didn't even provide lunch. We spent the week learning about the products and day 5 they taught u... | 18 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 5,325 |
grim98765222 | Generate the content for a reddit post Encounter got derailed by an evil character and a player that refused to break character and devolved into pvp with almost the entire party and the only thing that stopped it was a god
EDIT: We are now looking for new characters for our group if you're interested comment or mess... | Ok so me and my party (consisting of our tank Eldon, Healer Kreshicus, striker Sephri, controller Alvyn [me] and Dorrin ) were doing Thunderspire Labyrinth and we were in a dungeon and in it was a room with 3 pits of slaves 2 demons, 2 orcish things, and a dwarven caster. We killed them (barely) whilst Eldon the tank (... | Ok so me and my party (consisting of our tank Eldon, Healer Kreshicus, striker Sephri, controller Alvyn [me] and Dorrin ) were doing Thunderspire Labyrinth and we were in a dungeon and in it was a room with 3 pits of slaves 2 demons, 2 orcish things, and a dwarven caster. We killed them (barely) whilst Eldon the tank (... | [
"Summary: not as OP as autism said :P\n\nPost: The Team changed after you left Ipwn lol. New demo was steel ish (I'm not impressed with him) solly that night was a low silver Demo with a guy that doesn't play pyro playing pyro, and our scout is roster riding, he's an iron scout. Med, spy, engie, were in their first... | 25 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 5,326 |
sfacets | Generate the content for a reddit post collective house, low buy in, high occupancy.
Reddit house? | It's becoming harder and harder for young people to buy property. Some people band together in small groups and co-buy housing, but even then it is expensive and requires a large loan (which the banks are increasingly reluctant to give out).
Enter the large-group-house-buying, where a large group pools money and owns... | It's becoming harder and harder for young people to buy property. Some people band together in small groups and co-buy housing, but even then it is expensive and requires a large loan (which the banks are increasingly reluctant to give out).
Enter the large-group-house-buying, where a large group pools money and owns... | [
"Summary: it takes two to Tango.\n\nPost: Why is it that when a girl wants a guy to make a move she asks for help with something, be it fixing something (TV, Computer, Kitchen sink) or just an opinion on what she's wearing... \"does this itty-bitty bikini make my boobs look small\"? It isn't that we're idiots or ne... | 19 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 5,327 |
pumpkinrum | Generate the content for a reddit post Be fucking glad I'm in no condition to run after you | Hi childfree. Hope you guys are feeling alright.
I'm currently under the weather, so I'm more or less living in my bed at the moment. My dad is at the moment not home, my dog is however.
We live in a house.Everytime someone walks up the stairs to our door my dog will perk up his ears. If they ring or knock on it he... | Hi childfree. Hope you guys are feeling alright.
I'm currently under the weather, so I'm more or less living in my bed at the moment. My dad is at the moment not home, my dog is however.
We live in a house.Everytime someone walks up the stairs to our door my dog will perk up his ears. If they ring or knock on it he... | [
"Summary: It's not nescessarily bad, but it's not really interesting\n\nPost: I agree. \n HoN is very teenage-esque and \"cool\". The language they use is very easy and modern. The characters are all very flat in a Mary Sue type of way. They have their teenage problems (with a twist of vampire), and.. I don't know.... | 26 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 5,328 |
BrawndoTTM | Generate the content for a reddit post Not all people who do this are judging you for buying weed. | I'm like that, although I ALWAYS offer to contribute either money or to buy a pizza to share with whoever provided the trees which generally amounts to more than the cost of the weed itself. I can't speak for others, but for me it's never a question of disrespect or judgement for those who do buy, but rather a matter o... | I'm like that, although I ALWAYS offer to contribute either money or to buy a pizza to share with whoever provided the trees which generally amounts to more than the cost of the weed itself. I can't speak for others, but for me it's never a question of disrespect or judgement for those who do buy, but rather a matter o... | [
"Summary: Privilege exists, but you can't easily tell how much privilege a person has by their gender or the color of their skin.\n\nPost: I'd say that privilege as a concept exists. Certain people are born with societal advantages over others. It would be foolish to assert that a kid growing up in the ghettos or t... | 15 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 5,329 |
k1ngk0ngwl | Generate the content for a reddit post I don't treat objects like women, man | A lot of guys are like you. They call them beta. I was raised by a single mother and I have nothing but respect for women. I treat them kindly, I am honest with them, but I don't treat them like equals unless they earn it. Why? Because I am better than most people at a lot of things. I have worked hard, become well-rea... | A lot of guys are like you. They call them beta. I was raised by a single mother and I have nothing but respect for women. I treat them kindly, I am honest with them, but I don't treat them like equals unless they earn it. Why? Because I am better than most people at a lot of things. I have worked hard, become well-rea... | [
"Summary: My dick is bigger and, while I get exactly what you are saying, understand that you have a very primitive understanding of what cognitive dissonance really is and what its implications really are.\n\nPost: Well, I'm glad we can both agree my penis is larger. \n You have the dictionary version of cognitive... | 19 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 5,330 |
Scooby_Doobie_Dude | Generate the content for a reddit post buy for quality, not for quantity & price, and you'll live a happier life with more disposable income. | Yeah, a lot of people think that higher minimum wage is great. But then the cost of living goes up, the value of the dollar goes down, and we end up with the same situation, but with more dollars involved.
It's about a lower cost of living for a higher quality of life - not higher wages. If everyone makes more money,... | Yeah, a lot of people think that higher minimum wage is great. But then the cost of living goes up, the value of the dollar goes down, and we end up with the same situation, but with more dollars involved.
It's about a lower cost of living for a higher quality of life - not higher wages. If everyone makes more money,... | [
"Summary: pick your battles. Like it or not, they're going to view you as a SJW for this.\n\nPost: I think it's great that you want to be sensitive of possibly offensive language, but I'd like to suggest that it might not be a good idea to suggest that your coworkers change their behavior, especially if you're new.... | 15 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 5,331 |
mcanerin | Generate the content for a reddit post it's about society as a whole, not individual worthiness or life choices. | The problem is that you are looking at this as an agreement between individuals, rather than a obligation of the state to care for those who need it.
What about the doctor who is looking at a patient about to die, and a suitable donor is available, and who is under both oath and moral obligation to provide medical ca... | The problem is that you are looking at this as an agreement between individuals, rather than a obligation of the state to care for those who need it.
What about the doctor who is looking at a patient about to die, and a suitable donor is available, and who is under both oath and moral obligation to provide medical ca... | [
"Summary: the Communist Party isn't a political party, it's a workers union. You don't vote for different unions, you just vote for who does what within the union.\n\nPost: Here is an analogy I've used before and might help a 5 year old. \n Imagine a private company owned by a single family (Imperial Dynasty). The ... | 41 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 5,332 |
Tre_Day | Generate the content for a reddit post catch a flight and tell her in person you're for real. | Well, I have a long distance girlfriend right now; my situation is admittedly drastically different than yours. We went to college together, have been together for 2 years before I graduated, she's currently on the east coast and I'm on the west coast. I haven't seen her in months, and our relationship has become reall... | Well, I have a long distance girlfriend right now; my situation is admittedly drastically different than yours. We went to college together, have been together for 2 years before I graduated, she's currently on the east coast and I'm on the west coast. I haven't seen her in months, and our relationship has become reall... | [
"Summary: Only took me 47 minutes to make it across.\n\nPost: Oh heights, for sure. I'm not sure what it is, I can't even be on the third floor of an outdoor parking structure and look over the edge without getting jelly-legged. Totally terrifying. But there's one time that stands out above the rest. \n See, when I... | 18 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 5,333 |
ishkabibbel2000 | Generate the content for a reddit post Cats'r'cunts. | We have a baby gate in front of our stairs and I swear to Christ that the cat knows precisely when I'm going to step over them. I often have to choose whether to step on her or risk a header down the stairs. Problem is that the bitch knows my split second decision making is terrible and that stepping on the cat is ... | We have a baby gate in front of our stairs and I swear to Christ that the cat knows precisely when I'm going to step over them. I often have to choose whether to step on her or risk a header down the stairs. Problem is that the bitch knows my split second decision making is terrible and that stepping on the cat is ... | [
"Summary: stop being a fucking turd. Get better at life. Realize that the people you are \"laughing at\" and \"making fun of\" are really just people like yourself. Simply because your interactions are behind a veil of anonymity doesn't mean you should be a prick. Especially to a kid. You must be proud when yo... | 15 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 5,334 |
stupidlyugly | Generate the content for a reddit post A cop thought I was a thief and put a gun to my head while I was taking a shit. | Been held up at gunpoint once. Oddly it was not a traumatic experience, and I was calm the whole time. The fun story is when I got a gun pointed at me by the police.
Was the summer of 1993. I went out with this girl on a Friday night, dropped her off after a lovely evening and came home about midnight. I found my... | Been held up at gunpoint once. Oddly it was not a traumatic experience, and I was calm the whole time. The fun story is when I got a gun pointed at me by the police.
Was the summer of 1993. I went out with this girl on a Friday night, dropped her off after a lovely evening and came home about midnight. I found my... | [
"Summary: So, yes. A huuuge thank you to bars that do this. Were it not for bars like you, I'd either be in jail, dead, or a killer.\n\nPost: I had a neighborhood bar that would do this, but only if you asked for it. I can't count the number of times a busboy drove me home. Unfortunately, they weren't tloo proa... | 48 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 5,335 |
graffiti81 | Generate the content for a reddit post Be the change you want to see in the world. | Certainly. I'd be happy to explain.
The comment I replied to said:
>I think that, in the long run, a time will come when we don't need feminism anymore. When people will respect each other on the basis of their behavior and the quality of their character rather than on what is between their legs or who they choose ... | Certainly. I'd be happy to explain.
The comment I replied to said:
>I think that, in the long run, a time will come when we don't need feminism anymore. When people will respect each other on the basis of their behavior and the quality of their character rather than on what is between their legs or who they choose ... | [
"Summary: Composition is important, too.\n\nPost: Yes, but photography is different from other art forms in that sometimes one must make tradeoffs between, for example, depth of field and proper exposure. \n Plus, unless you're talking about macro photography depth of field is more lenient than you're giving credit... | 23 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 5,336 |
themeatbridge | Generate the content for a reddit post Google and Microsoft are too big to shut down on principle. | Do you know what happens when a big ship is moving full steam and suddenly drops anchor?
Lavabit was tiny compared to Google, or Microsoft. Shutting down isn't the decision of one man. They have obligations to clients and stockholders that would make shutting down disatsterous, to the point of impossiblilty.
Even i... | Do you know what happens when a big ship is moving full steam and suddenly drops anchor?
Lavabit was tiny compared to Google, or Microsoft. Shutting down isn't the decision of one man. They have obligations to clients and stockholders that would make shutting down disatsterous, to the point of impossiblilty.
Even i... | [
"Summary: The mobile share savings don't take into account the reduced data caps. If you don't use the data, the plans will save you money.\n\nPost: Without sharing all the details on our business plan (because I'm not certain I'm allowed to \"publish\" our pricing) I can say that our numbers were similar. We hav... | 45 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 5,337 |
continous | Generate the content for a reddit post Our legal system doesn't work AT ALL. Not just in regards to equality of race. | To be fair our legal system doesn't favor race, it favors restriction of class. For example, if you are a poor white man you're more likely to receive a false sentence, the same can be said for any poor man. People of color just happen to be more impoverish than whites, probably for a number of reasons. | To be fair our legal system doesn't favor race, it favors restriction of class. For example, if you are a poor white man you're more likely to receive a false sentence, the same can be said for any poor man. People of color just happen to be more impoverish than whites, probably for a number of reasons. | [
"Summary: Minecraft's PvP is a joke. There is nothing special nor redeeming. The fact that someone would actually compare it to games who sell themselves using PvP as the gimmick is a joke itself.\n\nPost: Er, basically every MMORPG has this, and they are specifically designed for PVP. There is nothing unique about... | 15 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 5,338 |
FluffyWof | Generate the content for a reddit post Due to upbringing (Asian parents) and my own ego, I never really learnt how to not only act kind, but actually be kind. I am aware but often I end up regressing to a 'stubborn anger and bitterness' that alienates me from the people around me. I don't know how to improve because it... | These are really unsavoury aspects of my personality that have cost me friendships and relationships. Part of it comes from my family being very volatile and me never really learning how to be socially well behaved. They are Chinese immigrants to Australia and had a tough start here after a really illustrious one overs... | These are really unsavoury aspects of my personality that have cost me friendships and relationships. Part of it comes from my family being very volatile and me never really learning how to be socially well behaved. They are Chinese immigrants to Australia and had a tough start here after a really illustrious one overs... | [
"Summary: 21, never given birth. Considering Mirena IUD as first choice of contraception without having tried others due to worries about stronger hormones and various side effects. Good idea or bad?\n\nPost: I am 21, in a stable relationship and have never been pregnant or given birth. \n I've never taken oral con... | 20 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 5,339 |
joker515 | Generate the content for a reddit post providing cable, phone, and internet service is not all profit, there is a lot of expenditure to provide a service anyone wants.
if you still think they are nowhere near justified in raising their prices once in awhile, you are either mentally deficient or too stubborn to see an... | they are not terrible at providing a service people want and are willing to pay for, or they would no longer be in business, it everyone got shitty service from them then dish/directtv would have a much larger customer base. just because you dont want to pay a few extra dollars a month, and have had problems with your ... | they are not terrible at providing a service people want and are willing to pay for, or they would no longer be in business, it everyone got shitty service from them then dish/directtv would have a much larger customer base. just because you dont want to pay a few extra dollars a month, and have had problems with your ... | [
"Summary: don't look over the fence and bitch about the brown grass\n\nPost: as a smoker, here are a few things that would help us get along with non-smokers \n if you are standing by an ashtray outside, don't bitch about the smoke \n stop telling us about the health risks or how expensive ciggarettes are WE FUCKIN... | 25 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 5,340 |
AddictedSon | Generate the content for a reddit post Setting: Because of the whole humanoid robot thing the setting is meant to be somewhat modernistic but could also be adapted into a more futuristic environment if wanted and discussed.
Roles: Faux mother/son (because robits).
Kinks included (not all required) but not limited t... | MOOD MUSIC :
MAYA INDUSTRIES is a robotic manufacture of life-like androids for the extended colonies of the Terra Galactic Union. The company prides itself on creating long lasting, durable androids for a variety of industrial jobs needed across the Union. The company had found itself in a position of some critic... | MOOD MUSIC :
MAYA INDUSTRIES is a robotic manufacture of life-like androids for the extended colonies of the Terra Galactic Union. The company prides itself on creating long lasting, durable androids for a variety of industrial jobs needed across the Union. The company had found itself in a position of some critic... | [
"Summary: Roles: Mother/Son (other incest pairings up for discussion) \n Kinks included but not limited to: oral, vaginal, anal, romance, flirting/teasing, abuse, humiliation, con/non-con/faux-rape, breaking, excessive bodily fluids, lactation, watersports, cumplay, breeding, edging and many others. \n Preferred pl... | 61 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 5,341 |
Yoshanuikabundi | Generate the content for a reddit post Yes my position changed, eh, discussion is infinitely better than dogma, both sides are responsible for making the discussion worthwhile and have failed in the past to some extent. | 1) Yeah I have, from "homosexual activity is inherently sinful and homosexual marriage is an oxymoron" to... whatever I am now, which is some sort of weird blend of "I don't know", planks and mites, "Jesus came to liberate people not condemn them", "[this sort]( of argument makes a lot of sense", libertarian, "I wish t... | 1) Yeah I have, from "homosexual activity is inherently sinful and homosexual marriage is an oxymoron" to... whatever I am now, which is some sort of weird blend of "I don't know", planks and mites, "Jesus came to liberate people not condemn them", "[this sort]( of argument makes a lot of sense", libertarian, "I wish t... | [
"Summary: Lawful Evil. Alignment is about motivation; Dexter's motivations are evil.\n\nPost: You can (and other commenters have) make an argument that killing bad people is a good thing, and from there argue that Dexter is LG, but that seems dodgy to me. No one thinks that Batman is less good because he doesn't ki... | 18 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 5,342 |
JohnFest | Generate the content for a reddit post I need EEG for dummies so I can look at wave prevalence, intending to learn more about EEG as I go forward.
Thanks in advance! | So I'm a psychology grad student and my research has taken me in a direction that requires a fairly basic understanding of EEGs. I'm looking at EEG as a tool to validate ADHD rating scales and, ultimately, as a component of ADHD diagnosis. I've got access to a 14-lead EEG via the biology department. Unfortunately, no o... | So I'm a psychology grad student and my research has taken me in a direction that requires a fairly basic understanding of EEGs. I'm looking at EEG as a tool to validate ADHD rating scales and, ultimately, as a component of ADHD diagnosis. I've got access to a 14-lead EEG via the biology department. Unfortunately, no o... | [
"Summary: scientifically smart kids can be poor and socially impressionable, too\n\nPost: The next scientific great is not serving in the sand killing another human. (S)he is working in a research lab getting less money and benefits than a vet blowing his wad on a tricked out F150 and beer. \n The sad thing is, you... | 28 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 5,343 |
2th | Generate the content for a reddit post Ancient golem, mobility boots, giants belt/wardens mail/glacial shroud -> frozen heart, kindlegem/negatron cloak -> Locket or spirit visage, omen, thornmail/veil/warmogs.
Remember: You are not there to deal damage, you are there to be a CC machine. CDR allows you to pump out mor... | I posted this in a thread about the big guy before....
Plat 1-3 former Naut main here (I have recently gone on tilt and am down to plat 3 :( )
Runes: Generic Jungle
AS reds
Armor yellows
MR per level blues
MS quints
This is pretty much the best setup you can get for the big man. He absolutely needs the AS... | I posted this in a thread about the big guy before....
Plat 1-3 former Naut main here (I have recently gone on tilt and am down to plat 3 :( )
Runes: Generic Jungle
AS reds
Armor yellows
MR per level blues
MS quints
This is pretty much the best setup you can get for the big man. He absolutely needs the AS... | [
"Summary: We need a better reporting system.\n\nPost: The problem is there is no way to report someone for being just retarded that will end up with something actually happening. I mean you can report someone for being unskilled, but what happens there? NOTHING. \n To further elaborate let me use an example from on... | 20 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 5,344 |
say592 | Generate the content for a reddit post Chase will go after the accounts of everyone you have shared an account with, and anyone they have shared an account with. They will also close all investment accounts, credit cards, loans, and mortgages. | Be warned, they are also closing all associated accounts, as well as any accounts you have ever been a signer on, and any accounts of anyone who has shared an account with you, as well as anyone who has shared an account with them. Thankfully, that is as far as it goes.
Here is how I know:
Shortly after I received ... | Be warned, they are also closing all associated accounts, as well as any accounts you have ever been a signer on, and any accounts of anyone who has shared an account with you, as well as anyone who has shared an account with them. Thankfully, that is as far as it goes.
Here is how I know:
Shortly after I received ... | [
"Summary: I won't repost my comment there, and I would discourage anyone from doing so.\n\nPost: Sadly, I won't and I would discourage anyone from doing so. It's good to point out journalistic (or editorial) bias, but my comments come off as fanatical. They are fine for here, since most of us think the same way, bu... | 20 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 5,345 |
omgsus | Generate the content for a reddit post Japanese Giant Hornet tried to murder me my first time up the Dragon but we became bros. | My first time riding up the Dragon, we are just chilling down at Deals Gap and gearing up to ride up. A few people just came down letting us know it was pretty clear and it should be fun. "Not a law man in sight". I wasn't worried about it really but it was one less thing to worry about I guess. My buddy and I gear up ... | My first time riding up the Dragon, we are just chilling down at Deals Gap and gearing up to ride up. A few people just came down letting us know it was pretty clear and it should be fun. "Not a law man in sight". I wasn't worried about it really but it was one less thing to worry about I guess. My buddy and I gear up ... | [
"Summary: his wife is giving him a headache. \n Typed from mobile walking from a train station. Sorry for the dump of text that may not make sense....\n\nPost: It was a joke dexter (from dexter's lab) told deedee which seemed to be random nonsensical science terms to make a different kind of joke, but ends up being... | 25 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 5,346 |
meshugga | Generate the content for a reddit post I would like to disrupt the abuse spiral by creating a "I can get help!" environment for adults with broken sexuality, | The question is, if you want to push people with deviant sexuality where the exercise of it is not tolerated by society (unlike homo/trans/... sexuality, fetishes etc) into illegality when they consume child porn after the fact.
I know that the whole pedophile thing is emotionally charged to the top, and I'm pretty s... | The question is, if you want to push people with deviant sexuality where the exercise of it is not tolerated by society (unlike homo/trans/... sexuality, fetishes etc) into illegality when they consume child porn after the fact.
I know that the whole pedophile thing is emotionally charged to the top, and I'm pretty s... | [
"Summary: everyone and their grandma has huntington's \"pre-symptoms\" if they believe it is so. \n btw; do you know your \"trinucleotide repeat\"?\n\nPost: I'm a bit of an hypochondriac, and I can tell you with certainty, that you'll find any symptoms that you expect to find. \n I managed to produce actual muscle ... | 41 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 5,347 |
GreenEggsAndBacon | Generate the content for a reddit post Donorschoose but for regular people would be cool and I'd be happy to donate. | Someone needs to set up a website like donorschoose but for regular people as well. Sure, it would be easy to game, but just like there are school kids who need to go online to get things like toilet paper, I'm sure people have those same issues too. I do donate both $$$ and items to local pantries, but sometimes I f... | Someone needs to set up a website like donorschoose but for regular people as well. Sure, it would be easy to game, but just like there are school kids who need to go online to get things like toilet paper, I'm sure people have those same issues too. I do donate both $$$ and items to local pantries, but sometimes I f... | [
"Summary: Cable Comapny says AJE are terrorists and won't carry it, but put FOX News on broadcast basic.\n\nPost: Well in their defense, AJE is not on any cable systems (when I emailed mine to ask if they would add it I didn't get the form letter back, I was told that my cable company does not support terrorists an... | 23 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 5,348 |
snoozieboi | Generate the content for a reddit post I killed an unborn baby turning out to be mine, though I now own the movie rights \o/ | I think (edit: know) I ruined an afterparty once:
I was at my friends afterparty, not too drunk and I thought everyone were having a good time. There was this local girl at the party that I had seen on a dating site and hence already knew alittle about. She was still living where I come from and I was back home for a... | I think (edit: know) I ruined an afterparty once:
I was at my friends afterparty, not too drunk and I thought everyone were having a good time. There was this local girl at the party that I had seen on a dating site and hence already knew alittle about. She was still living where I come from and I was back home for a... | [
"Summary: keep your lungs clean.\n\nPost: I work with products that replace mineral wool, which also is harmless as glass, but when made into micro strands of glass wool can go deep into your lungs and never come out. Hence your body will absorb it into tissue and you can get chronic lung irritation seemingly witho... | 43 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 5,349 |
Astrokiwi | Generate the content for a reddit post A gif only has 256 colours, and this gif uses a narrow range of colours on its focus-point (the kitty) to make the best of that limitation. | Also, it's a good choice of colour palettes. You only have 256 colours per frame in a gif. The cat has a fairly small range of colours - various shades of greyish brown, even its eyes - so you can make sure most of the colours are in that range, and not get the really clear jumps between colours you often get in a gif... | Also, it's a good choice of colour palettes. You only have 256 colours per frame in a gif. The cat has a fairly small range of colours - various shades of greyish brown, even its eyes - so you can make sure most of the colours are in that range, and not get the really clear jumps between colours you often get in a gif... | [
"Summary: As galaxies age, they have more heavy elements, less gas, and more red stars.\n\nPost: Galaxies evolve over time, but there's no \"end-point\" really. We can definitely measure the abundances of heavy elements - we call this the \"metallicity\". We can also work out the typical age of the stars - when sta... | 26 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 5,350 |
itzjamesftw | Generate the content for a reddit post If you want to die, live recklessly and try new things. Who cares anyway then, right?
EDIT: Sorry I am not here for the 'hold your hand' advice. | I really hope you're not a troll, because that would be shitty, just noticed it's a new account.
Anyway, don't do it. I've been there, the thought has consumed me before, but use your mental will power to look past it and realize that that is not the solution. The best advice I ever heard or could give on this was... | I really hope you're not a troll, because that would be shitty, just noticed it's a new account.
Anyway, don't do it. I've been there, the thought has consumed me before, but use your mental will power to look past it and realize that that is not the solution. The best advice I ever heard or could give on this was... | [
"Summary: Braun is the bad guy in this situation, stop trying to make Rodgers it too.\n\nPost: I'm not even disagreeing with you, but it's so easy to sit back and say these things when they're not your team or your guy . It's the media, it's a top NFL player, what did you expect? Did he do it slightly too aggr... | 17 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 5,351 |
girlintheYODAshirt | Generate the content for a reddit post tried to troll my friends pretending to make ghost sounds, but was ultimately trolled myself by whatever force that could make a very heavy antique iron gumball machine shake. | I was 16 and staying at the historic Hotel Colorado in Glenwood Springs, Colorado for a conference. One night some of the attendees decided to go check out the basement since that's where the old town morgue used to be. We walked around randomly taking pictures hoping to see a ghost but nothing was happening, so natura... | I was 16 and staying at the historic Hotel Colorado in Glenwood Springs, Colorado for a conference. One night some of the attendees decided to go check out the basement since that's where the old town morgue used to be. We walked around randomly taking pictures hoping to see a ghost but nothing was happening, so natura... | [
"Summary: Men and women cannot be friends. \n Fin.\n\nPost: The way your statement is written I immediately put you in the \"insecure angry chick\" group. There's nothing ignorant about it, kid. It's the truth. Accept it. \n Men are superficial creatures who want to sleep with women, and even worse they desire the ... | 15 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 5,352 |
reeses4brkfst | Generate the content for a reddit post Money ruins people and people suck at grading (I think...) | Why don't teachers just give you the grade you earned? If I get a 70/100 then my grade should reflect that alone, not so class avg BS. What if i am a complete dumbass but some smart kid in this class does well enough that my stupid ass somehow passes a class in a subject I know nothing about. A few years later I end up... | Why don't teachers just give you the grade you earned? If I get a 70/100 then my grade should reflect that alone, not so class avg BS. What if i am a complete dumbass but some smart kid in this class does well enough that my stupid ass somehow passes a class in a subject I know nothing about. A few years later I end up... | [
"Summary: Being honest: 9/10 would do it again, just be careful.\n\nPost: I am glad this worked out for you bu you should be aware that not everyone is this kind. Allow me to share a story with you. \n My feshmen year of college I went to a private school. I accidentaly had brought a pocket knife with me and when I... | 17 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 5,353 |
smokeinhiseyes | Generate the content for a reddit post This got way longer than I thought it would. Evidence is good. | Just a couple points I think are worth adding to the conversation here and can be pointed at via information in your response to owl-stretcher:
"The second form of evidence was the boundary, human-made. The animals encountered the evidence, but were not sufficiently advanced enough to recognize it as evidence, nor to... | Just a couple points I think are worth adding to the conversation here and can be pointed at via information in your response to owl-stretcher:
"The second form of evidence was the boundary, human-made. The animals encountered the evidence, but were not sufficiently advanced enough to recognize it as evidence, nor to... | [
"Summary: I guess I'm just saying you're not alone.\n\nPost: Honestly, it was this line of reasoning that first lead me to trueatheism and some of the other related subreddits. I think I wanted to hear about other people's confrontation with the emptiness related to our own existence and see how others have come to... | 40 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 5,354 |
missjolie | Generate the content for a reddit post I made friends with a bear. (It's not that long, go back and read it, lazy bum c: ) | Yes! I actually had this happen with someone who is now a really close friend of mine.
Freshman year, we didn't know each other at all, and sophomore year, we had a few classes together, but still didn't talk much. He started getting on my nerves, because whenever we had in-class discussions, all he would contribute ... | Yes! I actually had this happen with someone who is now a really close friend of mine.
Freshman year, we didn't know each other at all, and sophomore year, we had a few classes together, but still didn't talk much. He started getting on my nerves, because whenever we had in-class discussions, all he would contribute ... | [
"Summary: Drop the perfect girl bullshit, get into something, let life happen.\n\nPost: What the fuck sort of silly nonsense is this about a perfect girl ? \n JGL said so himself that he hates his character in (500) Days of Summer because he's in love with an idea and refuses to let that change. So first things ... | 28 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 5,355 |
katiekatums | Generate the content for a reddit post If you’re interested, subscribe to /r/90daysgoal. Day 1 is June 16th. There will be informational posts throughout the first couple weeks to get everyone started toward their goals. We'll have a progress/recovery week at the end of each month. The final day will be September 23rd.... | About three years ago, a group of Redditors decided to change their lives at /r/90daysgoal. We just wrapped up Round 13!
With thirteen successful rounds under our (much) smaller belts, we’re excited to start Round 14 and we’re hoping others will join in.
What 90days is and what it isn’t
This isn’t a set diet or e... | About three years ago, a group of Redditors decided to change their lives at /r/90daysgoal. We just wrapped up Round 13!
With thirteen successful rounds under our (much) smaller belts, we’re excited to start Round 14 and we’re hoping others will join in.
What 90days is and what it isn’t
This isn’t a set diet or e... | [
"Summary: I read Tom Venuto's Body Fat Solution, started doing things for me , stopped beating myself up when I slipped, and found lots of online support.\n\nPost: Woohoo! Mike and I ran w5d3 this morning! We were both worried going into it. Mike thought he was going to die. But we took it slow and kept pushing fo... | 66 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 5,356 |
Kelset | Generate the content for a reddit post Rode a motorcycle for a few days & became an instant stunt pro to get a girl's number. | I had been riding my friend's GSXR on lunch break in the parking lot (I worked third shift) for a little less than a week. Some hot girls pulled in to buy something but we were closed so they stood & watched me driving in circles while talking to one of the other guys. For those of you who don't know, driving slowly in... | I had been riding my friend's GSXR on lunch break in the parking lot (I worked third shift) for a little less than a week. Some hot girls pulled in to buy something but we were closed so they stood & watched me driving in circles while talking to one of the other guys. For those of you who don't know, driving slowly in... | [
"Summary: Creepy. As. Fuck.\n\nPost: Girl I recently dated for less than three weeks is currently stalking me. Creepy as fuck. Shows up at my work and tells my coworkers how horrible I am one minute and asks them to try to get us back together the next. Stops by my house and leaves letters on my door a few times an... | 29 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 5,357 |
TJ_McWeaksauce | Generate the content for a reddit post Captain Picard and crew win, because the Enterprise makes the Chimera look like a tugboat. | There was another "Enterprise vs. Star Destroyer" match-up on WWW maybe 2-3 weeks ago. My answer to this match-up will be similar to the one I used there:
I think Captain Picard and the Enterprise D would win because Star Trek tech is superior to Star Wars tech. Also, because star destroyers are designed so poorly ... | There was another "Enterprise vs. Star Destroyer" match-up on WWW maybe 2-3 weeks ago. My answer to this match-up will be similar to the one I used there:
I think Captain Picard and the Enterprise D would win because Star Trek tech is superior to Star Wars tech. Also, because star destroyers are designed so poorly ... | [
"Summary: Lan wins scenario 1 because of skill. Geralt wins scenario 2 because of alchemy.\n\nPost: This is one of the better match-ups I've seen posted here. \n I think these two are evenly matched, meaning that one would win Scenario 1, and the other would win Scenario 2. \n Al'Lan Mandragoran likely has the swo... | 53 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 5,358 |
DreadPiratesRobert | Generate the content for a reddit post It depends on what you want to do | I feel like it depends on what you do and how much portability you need
I'm a casual gamer but besides that I mostly just use the basic stuff like word and internet browsers.
I built myself a desktop because it was cheap and I could satisfy both my needs for not much cost
Just recently I also got a laptop, and I ... | I feel like it depends on what you do and how much portability you need
I'm a casual gamer but besides that I mostly just use the basic stuff like word and internet browsers.
I built myself a desktop because it was cheap and I could satisfy both my needs for not much cost
Just recently I also got a laptop, and I ... | [
"Summary: This nurse is more concerned with the wellbeing of OP than money, fuck her, right?\n\nPost: Alright, everyone is making fun of this nurse, but I just want to say Nurses don't have anything to do with pricing. Many times they have no idea what the base ER cost even is, and it's designed that way. \n Anyone... | 18 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 5,359 |
blobber109 | Generate the content for a reddit post GabeN is secretly the Riddler | Does anyone else think that when we finally finish all these riddles hidden within TF2, Valve will class TF2 as being 'finished' and start production on TF3? Imagine if this was right for all valve games, like L4D! Follow the writing on the wall all through the two games and try and piece them together and bam; L4D 3. ... | Does anyone else think that when we finally finish all these riddles hidden within TF2, Valve will class TF2 as being 'finished' and start production on TF3? Imagine if this was right for all valve games, like L4D! Follow the writing on the wall all through the two games and try and piece them together and bam; L4D 3. ... | [
"Summary: why should I swap from Chrome to Firefox\n\nPost: I don't mean to sound dickish by this but; could you give me some reasons to swap from Chrome to Firefox? \n I use chrome because of all the bad press that Firefox got about memory usage and what not but from this thread it's easy to see that you guys supp... | 23 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 5,360 |
xixoxixa | Generate the content for a reddit post it depends. | I would say it depends on the relationship between the parents and the kid. My wife had a seizure shortly after our daughter was born, and spent the next three days gorked out on anti-seizure meds, thus missing most of the initial days of our daughter's life. To this day, she has an order of magnitude less patience w... | I would say it depends on the relationship between the parents and the kid. My wife had a seizure shortly after our daughter was born, and spent the next three days gorked out on anti-seizure meds, thus missing most of the initial days of our daughter's life. To this day, she has an order of magnitude less patience w... | [
"Summary: You'll be fine.\n\nPost: Kids are much more resilient than we are led to believe. \n You and mom are there to ensure your child enters society as a productive human being - you are not there to be their best friend and give them everything they ask for. \n Starting the day they are born, read to your chil... | 16 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 5,361 |
recyclablebantha | Generate the content for a reddit post Your motives are a symptom of a part of you that is the whole problem here. The part of you that attracted those girls into your life, the part of you that is angry now..... that part of you represents your true quest here. It's not so much about channeling your "anger and bitt... | Maybe my motives are messed up, but I want to channel the anger and bitterness from my previous breakup into becoming the most awesome guy ever as a sort of "revenge", to make her realize how leaving me was the biggest mistake ever.
Your motives aren't "messed up". They're natural. Are they productive? Hmmm. Ques... | Maybe my motives are messed up, but I want to channel the anger and bitterness from my previous breakup into becoming the most awesome guy ever as a sort of "revenge", to make her realize how leaving me was the biggest mistake ever.
Your motives aren't "messed up". They're natural. Are they productive? Hmmm. Ques... | [
"Summary: If you do a thing for someone, don't expect anything. And if you like people who go for kind gestures, screen out people from your life if they don't do that.\n\nPost: I'm a pretty generous guy - it's not uncommon that if it's a female friend's birthday or a special occasion I would sometimes take them o... | 52 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 5,362 |
Pluckerpluck | Generate the content for a reddit post For a few unlucky people the current league system sucks. Something would have to be done to promotion series to fix this. For most people the system is pretty good. | Why I'm writing this
I recently read the ["In defense of the league system"]( and thought to share my facts about why the league system isn't a good system. I think it's a good post, though I found the tone a little aggressive.
How the League System works Currently
Let me begin by saying that for the majority of ... | Why I'm writing this
I recently read the ["In defense of the league system"]( and thought to share my facts about why the league system isn't a good system. I think it's a good post, though I found the tone a little aggressive.
How the League System works Currently
Let me begin by saying that for the majority of ... | [
"Summary: They need to see it in person or have video evidence.\n\nPost: The issue is that hacking/botting requires a GM to see it in person (or have very good video evidence). \n The issue with this is that I've seen a GM all of twice (maybe three times) on EU servers. Two of those were near the games launch, ... | 35 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 5,363 |
step1makeart | Generate the content for a reddit post I'm ok taking the position that a lack of belief in god is less of an instigator for violence than a belief in religion, and in the case of Stalin, evil will as evil does. Hitler differs a bit for me because he actively used religion as justification. | a lack of belief is different than a belief in something much more structured as far as I'm concerned, especially when that structure has a history of condoning violence to meet it's ends. I'm more comfortable saying religion leads people to violence, because there is a proven track record of killing in the name of, to... | a lack of belief is different than a belief in something much more structured as far as I'm concerned, especially when that structure has a history of condoning violence to meet it's ends. I'm more comfortable saying religion leads people to violence, because there is a proven track record of killing in the name of, to... | [
"Summary: If you overfill your tank trying to get that extra 8 cents worth of gas, you're going to be polluting as a result. \n Edit: [one example]( of the thousands of sites and efforts aimed at stopping exactly what OP is suggesting.\n\nPost: People have mentioned that the gas in the pump is always there at the s... | 25 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 5,364 |
moby323 | Generate the content for a reddit post The government might have real reason to worry, and not simple because they oppose freedom of the press. | Let me start by saying I support what Wikileaks is doing in general.
I may have gotten the link in the middle wrong (Natural Gas Intelligence), and obviously there is no way to find out who in Sterling is googling what. But the outcome, and the overall point is the same:
Not everything in the Wikileaks is "journa... | Let me start by saying I support what Wikileaks is doing in general.
I may have gotten the link in the middle wrong (Natural Gas Intelligence), and obviously there is no way to find out who in Sterling is googling what. But the outcome, and the overall point is the same:
Not everything in the Wikileaks is "journa... | [
"Summary: The Government is bad because our populace is stupid. Not the other way around.\n\nPost: If by, \"It could be argued\" you mean, \"It is a total certainty\", then I completely agree. \n People act like George Bush and Dick Cheney elected themselves. \n I know the system is fucked, but it only takes mode... | 26 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 5,365 |
gegc | Generate the content for a reddit post Not much. | I would immediately question what the hell a stranger is doing in my room; given their promiscuous nature, what number of STDs they are carrying; and, given that number, whether I need to treat my sheets and mattress as a biohazard. I would then contact the proper authorities about a home intrusion. | I would immediately question what the hell a stranger is doing in my room; given their promiscuous nature, what number of STDs they are carrying; and, given that number, whether I need to treat my sheets and mattress as a biohazard. I would then contact the proper authorities about a home intrusion. | [
"Summary: random dorm placement + living in double blew, but then met cool people and blocked with them in singles for awesomeness.\n\nPost: Went from terrible to fantastic. \n Background: Large general university. I'm a CS major (AI/Game design), with all accompanying stereotypes (except glasses). \n Freshman year... | 34 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 5,366 |
hamlet9000 | Generate the content for a reddit post Use guides to avoid rage-quitting. Don't use guides prematurely, for that way lies boredom through spoilers and lack of challenge. | The first walk-thru I ever used was for Willy Beamish. This was a dreadful and impossible game with really amazing animation work that was worth going the distance to see. (This also marked the last adventure game I ever played and pretty much exemplifies why that genre died a horrible, but well-deserved death.)
In g... | The first walk-thru I ever used was for Willy Beamish. This was a dreadful and impossible game with really amazing animation work that was worth going the distance to see. (This also marked the last adventure game I ever played and pretty much exemplifies why that genre died a horrible, but well-deserved death.)
In g... | [
"Summary: A real comparison won't be possible until 2016.\n\nPost: Early in their career, the enormous success of the Beatles launched the British Invasion and transformed American pop music. Has Bieber launched a similar \"YouTube Invasion\" and transformed American pop music? (No.) \n Over the course of their car... | 34 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 5,367 |
FizzPig | Generate the content for a reddit post guy who works at walgreens thinks I'm practicing safe sex with my dad | So I (25m) was in walgreens earlier today and I picked up the following items: a bar of soap, a bottle of gatorade, a box of condoms and a birthday card for my dad. When the clerk was ringing me up (not paying much attention as he pulled the stuff outta the basket) he asked me how I was doing, just smalltalk. And I sai... | So I (25m) was in walgreens earlier today and I picked up the following items: a bar of soap, a bottle of gatorade, a box of condoms and a birthday card for my dad. When the clerk was ringing me up (not paying much attention as he pulled the stuff outta the basket) he asked me how I was doing, just smalltalk. And I sai... | [
"Summary: My family's fucked up\n\nPost: My dad got his girlfriend pregnant when they were 18, she got an abortion and he never saw her again. My mother on the other hand (many years later) quit taking her birth control pill and had me. When I was a kid it took me many years before I understood what it meant when s... | 25 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 5,368 |
sharilynj | Generate the content for a reddit post 100% positive, don't ever hesitate to approach any of them. | Yes, all positive.
Colin is not just one of the kindest performers I've ever met, but one of the kindest people period. I'm even comfortable being drunk around him. Patience of a saint. ;)
Ryan I only interacted with for the photo (I'd been talking to Brad, who pulled him in for me before he could make his escape... | Yes, all positive.
Colin is not just one of the kindest performers I've ever met, but one of the kindest people period. I'm even comfortable being drunk around him. Patience of a saint. ;)
Ryan I only interacted with for the photo (I'd been talking to Brad, who pulled him in for me before he could make his escape... | [
"Summary: Don't call me fat.\n\nPost: This is the one that my friends can't believe was actually me. \n Walking home in the middle of the night and a woman asked me for spare change. Said \"I'm sorry, I can't\" and kept walking. \n She followed me, and I heard her 20 feet behind me call me a \"fat ass fucking bitc... | 35 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 5,369 |
MrConventional | Generate the content for a reddit post Think consumer fraud should be left unchecked? Share your philosophy with the FTC. That should provide some entertainment value. | I guess you think I care about your posts despite my continued admittance that I haven't bothered to read a single one of your posts . When I realized you aren't familiar with the subject matter you're talking about, I just lost all interest in what you have to say and I've repeatedly admitted this to you . From your... | I guess you think I care about your posts despite my continued admittance that I haven't bothered to read a single one of your posts . When I realized you aren't familiar with the subject matter you're talking about, I just lost all interest in what you have to say and I've repeatedly admitted this to you . From your... | [
"Summary: Learning to learn, dedication to learning, and drive to truly understand are what college/undergrad offer you the most. I would be interested to see statistics on the number of those who gain a degree and actually work in their field for more than 5-7 years. Retention rates for many careers tend to be tro... | 18 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 5,370 |
apothekari | Generate the content for a reddit post I like Netflix but this awful roll out with poor understanding of their customer base, then silence on all fronts is bullshit and is a good way to drive off a LOT of customers. | I don't hate Netflix...I really don't.
Having worked @ Blockbuster as a store manager then Hollywood Video I speak with a bit of sympathy with the company having to be in a business supplied by greedy and often clueless studio assholes.
However...
Netflix really dropped the ball rolling this out. They really misunder... | I don't hate Netflix...I really don't.
Having worked @ Blockbuster as a store manager then Hollywood Video I speak with a bit of sympathy with the company having to be in a business supplied by greedy and often clueless studio assholes.
However...
Netflix really dropped the ball rolling this out. They really misunder... | [
"Summary: Fatherhood is about Love, Don't botch it thinking it's about anything else cause it isn't.\n\nPost: You are NEVER \"ready\" for a kid dude.\nYou'll do fine, just remember your number one job from this point forward will not have a goddamn thing to do with payroll, IT management or slingin' fries at McDo... | 27 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 5,371 |
food_bag | Generate the content for a reddit post Do you even lift Trek? | You can't break the prime directive.
No no, it was a rule, a real rule, issued by Star Fleet. It was mentioned quite often. I'm not sure how you managed to watch any number of Star Trek: TNG episodes and come away with your opinion. Now that I say it, have you ever even seen an episode of Star Trek? | You can't break the prime directive.
No no, it was a rule, a real rule, issued by Star Fleet. It was mentioned quite often. I'm not sure how you managed to watch any number of Star Trek: TNG episodes and come away with your opinion. Now that I say it, have you ever even seen an episode of Star Trek? | [
"Summary: I wanna fuck an alien.\n\nPost: I played all three games, then learned at the very end that there were romance options and sex scenes. How the hell did I miss every last damn one, in three games? And I was Male Shep, the sleaziest guy this side of the veil. I love romance! I love sex! I love games! I coul... | 28 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 5,372 |
BluShine | Generate the content for a reddit post if you buy something without doing a tiny bit of research, you're gonna have a bad time. | I've got AT&T. iPhone and a 256mb /month data plan. I reddit, tweet, download apps, browse the web, etc. The only thing I avoid while on 3G is YouTube, and any apps over 20mb or so (most are around 5 or 10). I get good data speed, better coverage than most, and a decent price.
I know what I'm getting, and I'm wil... | I've got AT&T. iPhone and a 256mb /month data plan. I reddit, tweet, download apps, browse the web, etc. The only thing I avoid while on 3G is YouTube, and any apps over 20mb or so (most are around 5 or 10). I get good data speed, better coverage than most, and a decent price.
I know what I'm getting, and I'm wil... | [
"Summary: Yogscast doesn't care enough about modders to allow them to use ad-supported links to get paid for their work. Miclee disagreed and got banned from their forums and modpack.\n\nPost: Miclee is a well-known modder who also runs the @EvilNotch parody twitter account, and has an EvilNotch Minecraft account.... | 31 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 5,373 |
derkrieger | Generate the content for a reddit post Crusader Kings you are a Lord. EU3 you are a country. | You can buy the first crusader kings for rather cheap now a days. Crusader Kings focuses more on characters and their relationships. Land can very easily be gained and lost through marriages and assassinations. You control a Lord (can be the king if you want) and must manage your bloodline and make sure your heirs have... | You can buy the first crusader kings for rather cheap now a days. Crusader Kings focuses more on characters and their relationships. Land can very easily be gained and lost through marriages and assassinations. You control a Lord (can be the king if you want) and must manage your bloodline and make sure your heirs have... | [
"Summary: People need to learn to stop being pissed at rich people for being rich, don't punish success.\n\nPost: actually not only do they pay more because of the percentage, but they actually pay a higher percentage too. The income tax percentage are very different from that of my family and someone in the top 1%... | 15 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 5,374 |
payne6 | Generate the content for a reddit post long server queues, hackers, Trion's silence, no more room for housing, p2w elements, bots, make a shitty game experience. | Its a long history of hope, love, betrayal and money. There is a decent amount to cover but I will just do the basics to get you into the loop.
First few betas happen everyone loves the game calling it a great sandbox MMO its pretty, the F2P model doesn't interfere this will be the next big MMO. Then the second to la... | Its a long history of hope, love, betrayal and money. There is a decent amount to cover but I will just do the basics to get you into the loop.
First few betas happen everyone loves the game calling it a great sandbox MMO its pretty, the F2P model doesn't interfere this will be the next big MMO. Then the second to la... | [
"Summary: on a dayz custom map accidentally damaged the helicopter took a truck to find a replacement part. Found out the truck had the part when we returned we saw the helicopter taking off by another player.\n\nPost: Okay funny Dayz story time. So my friend and I are playing a custom map on Dayz(I forgot the map ... | 55 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 5,375 |
CustosClavium | Generate the content for a reddit post shut up and do what bullies want, it's better for your health. | When I was 13, this boy (I am female) who was 15 told me to get out of my seat on the bus, because it was his seat. Said boy was a notorious bully, and overall piece of shit. I protested, and an argument ensued. I played the red-button "your mother" line, and he shoved me. So I threw my (empty) bookbag at him.
He th... | When I was 13, this boy (I am female) who was 15 told me to get out of my seat on the bus, because it was his seat. Said boy was a notorious bully, and overall piece of shit. I protested, and an argument ensued. I played the red-button "your mother" line, and he shoved me. So I threw my (empty) bookbag at him.
He th... | [
"Summary: Stay until the final blessing. Politely suffer through the closing hymn.\n\nPost: Unfortunately, it is common. \n While the Eucharist is the Source and Summit of our faith, and our lives, it is easy to objectify it. \n What I mean is, people think that it is OK to come to mass, \"get my Jesus\" and leav... | 35 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 5,376 |
Stereo_Panic | Generate the content for a reddit post Guns don't kill people, the rapid transfer of kinetic energy into soft tissues kills people. | Most of the damage a bullet deals is related to the kinetic energy it's carrying. I mean, I can pick up a bullet and throw it at you and it may hurt but it'll hardly be life threatening.
Have you seen high speed camera shots of bullets hitting ballistics gelatin? [Here's one]( of a 22 long rifle hitting a gelatin blo... | Most of the damage a bullet deals is related to the kinetic energy it's carrying. I mean, I can pick up a bullet and throw it at you and it may hurt but it'll hardly be life threatening.
Have you seen high speed camera shots of bullets hitting ballistics gelatin? [Here's one]( of a 22 long rifle hitting a gelatin blo... | [
"Summary: United ruined my weekend and cost me money in lost deposits and tickets. Then they made the refund process painful. Finally, the voucher they gave me was designed to be unusable. Delta gave me free miles for a minor inconvenience.\n\nPost: Personally I've had way more problems and delays with United than ... | 22 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 5,377 |
DarkMio | Generate the content for a reddit post Setting World_Bounds smaller and set some blocker-entities at the right spot just stops a Mommy from being ridiculous broken. | It's a bit frustrating and I was playing around with blocking walls and filter logics for Hammer and Dota 2, so that only one team can pass certain areas and discovered a simple and easy fix for Broodmother.
[See this video.](
I've set up an example scene with all values set. [On the first case, there is an invisib... | It's a bit frustrating and I was playing around with blocking walls and filter logics for Hammer and Dota 2, so that only one team can pass certain areas and discovered a simple and easy fix for Broodmother.
[See this video.](
I've set up an example scene with all values set. [On the first case, there is an invisib... | [
"Summary: Everything is negotiable. \n Shoutout to: \n \n /u/icyassasin who flairs for a while now content. Good stuff. \n /u/Lemon30 who helps with the Tutorials-Section in the wiki! \n /u/RoyAwesome for being awesome and helping out with moderation. \n /u/PenguinWizzard. \n The entire community for adapting to th... | 20 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 5,378 |
SammichParade | Generate the content for a reddit post persistent color accuracy problems despite many tweaks | Canon 60D, EF-S 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6, with pro studio strobes
I am doing product photography and frequently run into color accuracy issues. I will custom white balance with a card under the light source I'm using to shoot, I'll readjust white balance as needed in Camera RAW, as well as exposure, saturation, and I'll ev... | Canon 60D, EF-S 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6, with pro studio strobes
I am doing product photography and frequently run into color accuracy issues. I will custom white balance with a card under the light source I'm using to shoot, I'll readjust white balance as needed in Camera RAW, as well as exposure, saturation, and I'll ev... | [
"Summary: it's a way of fucking up your rhythm creatively or getting alternative sounds. \n [edit] what /u/coranns said makes a lot of sense too :p\n\nPost: I'm not sure what \"every swing algorithm is different\" means, since I haven't worked with many different sequencers. \n However, swing itself, as a musical p... | 15 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 5,379 |
Kierik | Generate the content for a reddit post arrogance, and general asshattery is what keeps woman from tech jobs. It only takes one asshat to poison at any one point in a woman's career choice path. | My wife describes it as a culture issue. Woman are nurtured in a way that it promotes certain traits. Empathy, relationships and teamwork are not very well supported in Computer Science/software engineering and it makes it hard to recruit people with these traits as other career paths are a better fit. As a empathetic,... | My wife describes it as a culture issue. Woman are nurtured in a way that it promotes certain traits. Empathy, relationships and teamwork are not very well supported in Computer Science/software engineering and it makes it hard to recruit people with these traits as other career paths are a better fit. As a empathetic,... | [
"Summary: Russia controls the population, the news, the government, and gives the population less than a month to consider if they want to succeed from Ukraine. There is little likelihood that the population or the international community will find the vote legitimate.\n\nPost: This is the reported conditions on th... | 21 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 5,380 |
biggreenfan | Generate the content for a reddit post Be there and be a friend. | If this is your best friend, or a very close one, just be there. At the viewing, at the funeral, at the graveside, at the wake. Be there as often as you can and stay as long as possible. Talk when they want to; listen when they need someone to listen to. Call or visit and check on them the next day and the next and... | If this is your best friend, or a very close one, just be there. At the viewing, at the funeral, at the graveside, at the wake. Be there as often as you can and stay as long as possible. Talk when they want to; listen when they need someone to listen to. Call or visit and check on them the next day and the next and... | [
"Summary: Yes. Most of them (in my limited experience) write back personally and are really awesome to fans.\n\nPost: I wrote Jack McDevitt and Julie Czerneda on separate occasions. Both wrote back personally. I have corresponded with Julie a few times now. Extremely nice people, both of them. Julie offered ad... | 30 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 5,381 |
mediaboy | Generate the content for a reddit post Incompetent salesman offers deal that doesn't exist, then suggests I burn more money on his services. Customer retention people then realise that he offered me broadband in an area where they don't offer it. Customer service at it's finest! | I went into a ISP provider. They offered me a deal that matched everything I wanted. I signed, paid a deposit, left feeling chuffed that they were so easily able to help me, tailoring all their plans to be exactly what I wanted from them.
I got halfway home, I got a phone call. "Sorry, we can't offer you that, we hav... | I went into a ISP provider. They offered me a deal that matched everything I wanted. I signed, paid a deposit, left feeling chuffed that they were so easily able to help me, tailoring all their plans to be exactly what I wanted from them.
I got halfway home, I got a phone call. "Sorry, we can't offer you that, we hav... | [
"Summary: Trying out a couple of new ideas as owners of the accounts being impersonated didn't complain anywhere that we saw. They weren't an improvement, so we're sticking with what we have.\n\nPost: Report anything you see that is rulebreaking. If I load a thread before they post, I don't see it and I don't read ... | 142 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 5,382 |
L_I_A_V | Generate the content for a reddit post I believe "love your neighbor as yourself" is simply a result of humans' empathic nature, but obviously an atheistic perspective doesn't believe that it is necessarily a divine concept. | Well, empathy very specifically refers to the ability to recognize and understand others' emotions. I'm fairly certain that if you see someone trip and hurt themselves, you cringe. This is empathy. Unless you're a sociopath (not accusatory!), everyone experiences this to an extent.
"Love your neighbor as yourself" is... | Well, empathy very specifically refers to the ability to recognize and understand others' emotions. I'm fairly certain that if you see someone trip and hurt themselves, you cringe. This is empathy. Unless you're a sociopath (not accusatory!), everyone experiences this to an extent.
"Love your neighbor as yourself" is... | [
"Summary: Religion is an artifact of an earlier time that people still allow themselves to fall in to, and it's no surprise that it seems to crop up most heavily under the same situations that I believe led to its invention.\n\nPost: Right, that safety net of rejecting the idea that the universe is a completely pa... | 27 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 5,383 |
nadipity | Generate the content for a reddit post Don't even bother reading this. It's mostly for the OP, who will probably just downvote it anyway cause they're angry. | Okay, let's try this - but only because you asked.
First of all, "Why weren't you with the team" isn't criticism. It's a question. If you felt strongly about your positioning at top, you could simply respond with your reasoning. Second of all, team fights don't always appear out of midair. Sometimes they take minut... | Okay, let's try this - but only because you asked.
First of all, "Why weren't you with the team" isn't criticism. It's a question. If you felt strongly about your positioning at top, you could simply respond with your reasoning. Second of all, team fights don't always appear out of midair. Sometimes they take minut... | [
"Summary: The Tribunal bans for repeat offenses, and since you only see a single game with said \"troll,\" its hard for you to see any kind of results. Have some faith in the system.\n\nPost: First off, IP bans aren't a solution. It's not difficult at all to circumvent. \n Making a new account isn't exactly simple ... | 15 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 5,384 |
TheButcherInOrange | Generate the content for a reddit post In order to keep reader interest, you need to make good on your promises. Your story needs to follow up on the initial hook of the dead body in a quick and satisfying manner: we want to experience the corpse. | The Secret Broker ... I'm not sure how I feel about that as the title for a fantasy book; it feels a bit gritty and serious to me. That's not to say that fantasy can't be gritty and serious, but the feeling I get when I read that title isn't one that I tend to associate with fantasy. It feels more like a mystery book, ... | The Secret Broker ... I'm not sure how I feel about that as the title for a fantasy book; it feels a bit gritty and serious to me. That's not to say that fantasy can't be gritty and serious, but the feeling I get when I read that title isn't one that I tend to associate with fantasy. It feels more like a mystery book, ... | [
"Summary: Beware 'show, don't tell.' Focus on what's necessary for your story. Give us a hook.\n\nPost: On day seven, God created human life. On day eight, he created suicide and then Crosberry Avenue; things do have to be balanced, after all. \n Is this another attempt at humor? There was no mention of religion be... | 18 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 5,385 |
rageingnonsense | Generate the content for a reddit post If you make fire spread uncontrollably, you need to add game mechanics to balance it. | I think un-nerfing fire is a very bad move without introducing better fire control mechanisms, and altering the way it works in forests.
Buckets of water do not work that well if the fire starts above you. It is not always easy to get to the source and snuff it out before it spreads out of control. We need a better w... | I think un-nerfing fire is a very bad move without introducing better fire control mechanisms, and altering the way it works in forests.
Buckets of water do not work that well if the fire starts above you. It is not always easy to get to the source and snuff it out before it spreads out of control. We need a better w... | [
"Summary: Color doesn't mean shit when you are just as poor.\n\nPost: When I was 18 I got my first real job as a messenger. When I went into the \"office\", it was like the UN. Everybody there was of some different race. A big melting pot. We also had stark cultural differences too. However, what made us all get al... | 17 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 5,386 |
Blizzaldo | Generate the content for a reddit post Always keep a large amount of money invested in your building. It reduces mistakes from forgetting to build something and sets you up to begin spending your pants off on an army because you don't have to worry about new buildings. | Spend all your money on your infrastructure and avoid attacking for a while. In Rome and M2, fill up your building queues then go to work on developing an army. In other games, get all available upgrades before you start going to war. You can generally have multiple units at the same time so units are produced much fas... | Spend all your money on your infrastructure and avoid attacking for a while. In Rome and M2, fill up your building queues then go to work on developing an army. In other games, get all available upgrades before you start going to war. You can generally have multiple units at the same time so units are produced much fas... | [
"Summary: All companies are having an expense increase because of Obamacare. This will result in an increase of expenses down the supplier line to Papa John's, Ford, etc.\n\nPost: That's blatantly unfair. He could be getting a raise in inventory costs from his supplier. If a bunch of companies are increasing their ... | 20 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 5,387 |
sooverwhelmed49 | Generate the content for a reddit post Should I block my ex's family on Facebook so I don't end up looking them up when I'm having a really bad day? | I have been doing fine with NC, have met new people, talked to new girls, and not checked her Facebook/talked to her in a long time. I just remembered that I haven't blocked her family though, and I don't want windows into her life. I'm not friends with any of them, but am afraid I may try searching if I have a weak mo... | I have been doing fine with NC, have met new people, talked to new girls, and not checked her Facebook/talked to her in a long time. I just remembered that I haven't blocked her family though, and I don't want windows into her life. I'm not friends with any of them, but am afraid I may try searching if I have a weak mo... | [
"Summary: I want to check on my ex's Facebook. I know it will hurt me. For some reason I want to hurt myself that way anyway. I need to be talked out of doing this, and have nowhere else to turn.\n\nPost: Backstory: On/off for 3 years. Was left for someone else when she left me the second time 4 months ago. She mad... | 16 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 5,388 |
Lawlta | Generate the content for a reddit post I love you OP, you are so right, have my babies. | For the most part, I agree with you (as does at the current moment, 54% of the "community" that some people are defending and saying 'it's this community's culture, gtfo'). However, it's pretty much [Sturgeon's Law]( in that 90% of the people involved in anything are going to be stupid and terrible. Just gotta deal w... | For the most part, I agree with you (as does at the current moment, 54% of the "community" that some people are defending and saying 'it's this community's culture, gtfo'). However, it's pretty much [Sturgeon's Law]( in that 90% of the people involved in anything are going to be stupid and terrible. Just gotta deal w... | [
"Summary: People get too hung up on dps and KBs, and don't play as a team.\n\nPost: That's because a lot of people are all about having the most kb's, and don't think of it as a team game. It's really popular in a lot of mission based FPS. A lot of people are clouded that in order to win, they have to get the mos... | 39 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 5,389 |
No1callsMeThat | Generate the content for a reddit post best friend's accidental death made me a person. | I am 42 now, but when I was 24 I lost my best friend to a car accident. She was a big stick of dynamite in a tiny bundle!
I have to say, from that day on, at some point everyday, especially when I feel lethargic or unmotivated, I think of the fact that in her death, I was really shown how fleeting life is.
For someone... | I am 42 now, but when I was 24 I lost my best friend to a car accident. She was a big stick of dynamite in a tiny bundle!
I have to say, from that day on, at some point everyday, especially when I feel lethargic or unmotivated, I think of the fact that in her death, I was really shown how fleeting life is.
For someone... | [
"Summary: stripping only seems easy to men.\n\nPost: Just want to comment that many girls accidentally get into drugs because the atmosphere in a strip club is \"party' and \"fantasy\". This two mindsets do not encourage sobriety. Most people in the club are buzzed or beyond, or strait up self medicated. \n My sist... | 16 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 5,390 |
thorrising | Generate the content for a reddit post Necromancers in GW1 and GW2 are an attrition class, without a resource like energy, they can't force enemies to blow all their resource and win battles of attrition as easily. | Spiteful Spirit for days, I probably have 100 saved builds with spiteful spirit.
Thought I think the true problem with the Necro in GW2 is that they are a pressure class (Doesn't have high burst, but has consistent damage) and there is no resource for them to pressure out of the enemy.
In GW1 the majority of my pv... | Spiteful Spirit for days, I probably have 100 saved builds with spiteful spirit.
Thought I think the true problem with the Necro in GW2 is that they are a pressure class (Doesn't have high burst, but has consistent damage) and there is no resource for them to pressure out of the enemy.
In GW1 the majority of my pv... | [
"Summary: Between natural high base hp and death shroud, necromancers are very durable if traited and played correctly. Also, they have a huge amount of support skills and potential support builds.\n\nPost: My Necro is usually more durable than the heavy armor classes I run with in dungeons. I compared stats with a... | 25 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 5,391 |
freeogy | Generate the content for a reddit post is sort of tacked on. I know what you're doing -- trying to fill the space -- but it's so dark and heavy that it pulls the eye away from the copy. Not only that, it's not placed well. It doesn't reach the margin on the right. The offset makes it even more distracting.
This who... | Content aside, I have a few notes for your design:
Font in Gangplank's Kit is not ideal for the scale you have it at. Kerning, width, and weight is inconsistent at best. Unpleasant to look at. I'd recommend using something more consistent. A great font for that situation that's free to use is Open Sans. It's avai... | Content aside, I have a few notes for your design:
Font in Gangplank's Kit is not ideal for the scale you have it at. Kerning, width, and weight is inconsistent at best. Unpleasant to look at. I'd recommend using something more consistent. A great font for that situation that's free to use is Open Sans. It's avai... | [
"Summary: Yes, it is arguing semantics, but semantics are important because it is part of the foundation of language and communication.\n\nPost: Um, yeah. It is arguing semantics. He's talking about how people use the word \"meta\" all the time and don't actually know what the word means. What you're talking about ... | 26 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 5,392 |
RikM | Generate the content for a reddit post There has not been time for any other language to spread universally and people are stubborn bastards. | Until very recently, all of the worlds superpowers spoke languages with the Latin script so there really hasn't been time for another to spread far enough. Until the end of the 19th century, the biggest superpower was the British Crown. At its peak, England was ruling New Zealand, Australia, India, several African coun... | Until very recently, all of the worlds superpowers spoke languages with the Latin script so there really hasn't been time for another to spread far enough. Until the end of the 19th century, the biggest superpower was the British Crown. At its peak, England was ruling New Zealand, Australia, India, several African coun... | [
"Summary: From what I remember of myself before, I have definitely changed, but I was too young to know for sure.\n\nPost: When I was 10 I had a fight with a brick wall. \n I was never a musical prodigy but I could pretty much get a tune out of any musical instrument, sang in the school choir and always got decent ... | 27 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 5,393 |
lovetosub | Generate the content for a reddit post Lay off the booze, relax, celebrate your victories! | It sounds like you know what you need to do: cut back on the pre-coital booze. This doesn't mean you can't have any alcohol. A little buzz is fun and can add to the experience, but too much desensitizes. If you want another shot with your lady friend, let her know you had a great time and that you'd like to see her aga... | It sounds like you know what you need to do: cut back on the pre-coital booze. This doesn't mean you can't have any alcohol. A little buzz is fun and can add to the experience, but too much desensitizes. If you want another shot with your lady friend, let her know you had a great time and that you'd like to see her aga... | [
"Summary: Communication is the key to success, most rebound relationships shouldn't last forever.\n\nPost: I have two personal experiences with rebound relationships. \n The first one was after my ex had cheated on me. I was young, had a lot of emotional baggage, and didn't know how to deal with it. I became very... | 22 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 5,394 |
newtothelyte | Generate the content for a reddit post Discussions about Cinsere are needed now for the health and integrity of this subreddit, comics and photos will come back shortly. | Um, really? This is a serious issue we have here and I'm glad a lot of Cinsere stuff is making the front page of this subreddit. I know we are mostly peaceful people that just want to chill after a long day and laugh at weed-related stuff, but when something happens that fucks with our subreddit, we just can't sit back... | Um, really? This is a serious issue we have here and I'm glad a lot of Cinsere stuff is making the front page of this subreddit. I know we are mostly peaceful people that just want to chill after a long day and laugh at weed-related stuff, but when something happens that fucks with our subreddit, we just can't sit back... | [
"Summary: The guy I have despised for my entire life, won me my fantasy league and $500\n\nPost: Well, growing up as a kid, my team, the Bucs, were in a division with the Packers. Their QB, Brett Favre, was one of the most hated dudes in the town. I grew up absolutely loathing him, and I still don't like him to thi... | 19 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 5,395 |
lustigjh | Generate the content for a reddit post Let him take things at his own pace but feel free to nudge him once in a while - if he's had enough, let him call it a day and make him wait while you get your fill :) | Don't expect him to ride everything. Depending on his personality, you might choose to start small and build him up or start at the top so he sees that even the scariest rides aren't so bad.
Give him tips on what to expect for each coaster if you think it'll help. I've never been to SFoG (over Georgia?) but it look... | Don't expect him to ride everything. Depending on his personality, you might choose to start small and build him up or start at the top so he sees that even the scariest rides aren't so bad.
Give him tips on what to expect for each coaster if you think it'll help. I've never been to SFoG (over Georgia?) but it look... | [
"Summary: Skyrim is too diverse a game for one playthrough. Do the opposite of what you did the first time, and don't worry about anything outside of a particular guild quest line.\n\nPost: On my second playthrough, I decided to make an \"evil\" character (I strictly avoided the Thieves' Guild and Dark Brotherhood... | 22 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 5,396 |
Astraea_M | Generate the content for a reddit post An occasional spank is OK in most states, but repeated spanking will be considered abuse. | Arizona's law on child abuse: Arizona Revised Statute 8-201.
"Abuse" means the infliction or allowing of physical injury, impairment of bodily function or disfigurement or the infliction of or allowing another person to cause serious emotional damage as evidenced by severe anxiety, depression, withdrawal or untowa... | Arizona's law on child abuse: Arizona Revised Statute 8-201.
"Abuse" means the infliction or allowing of physical injury, impairment of bodily function or disfigurement or the infliction of or allowing another person to cause serious emotional damage as evidenced by severe anxiety, depression, withdrawal or untowa... | [
"Summary: This graphic is irrelevant shit.\n\nPost: That is a shitty graphic. Seriously? How far do you think $10 goes in Brazil or Russia, v. the US? Unless you normalize for income-related cost, this graphic is just an attempt to make the US look bad, without providing data. \n Plus, what are the relevant drop... | 27 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 5,397 |
Kyllenios | Generate the content for a reddit post There is nothing like RottenTomatoes for books, sadly.
To clarify: RT does not have a "best" list, but rather a list of films with 100% rating. | I disagree with putting GoodReads on par with Rotten Tomatoes. RT has actual critics who give it a yes or no, with no point system given by the critics themselves. If it sucks, splat. If it's good, fresh.
This seems like a simple idea but it goes very far in maintaining RT as a credible source of critique. The best p... | I disagree with putting GoodReads on par with Rotten Tomatoes. RT has actual critics who give it a yes or no, with no point system given by the critics themselves. If it sucks, splat. If it's good, fresh.
This seems like a simple idea but it goes very far in maintaining RT as a credible source of critique. The best p... | [
"Summary: Be excellent to one another, don't judge, and I still think you're awesome.\n\nPost: Alright, soap box time. \n We are pagan because that's who we are . This isn't a choice. This isn't some whim. This isn't \"acting out\". This isn't \"being different.\" This isn'ta phase. We aren't the kids in the Cra... | 16 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 5,398 |
Cerce_Tentones | Generate the content for a reddit post I am spending 1093.81 on upping my mil-mod to 4, and 410.18 on upping Industrial and Commercial Goods by 1. | The defense of Arkona was now paramount. Though the Caitan Federation had withdrawn and formed peaceful relations, there are other nations throughout the galaxy that may not respond in such a manner.
Because of this, the Cabinet has seen fit within the budget to allow the Department of Arkonan Technology in associat... | The defense of Arkona was now paramount. Though the Caitan Federation had withdrawn and formed peaceful relations, there are other nations throughout the galaxy that may not respond in such a manner.
Because of this, the Cabinet has seen fit within the budget to allow the Department of Arkonan Technology in associat... | [
"Summary: elective is good if you want greater control over who is elected; tanistry is good if you want safety in succession and if you want to elect pretty much anyone with your last name; high relations=less revolts\n\nPost: Elective is awesome, just like /u/I_want_fun pointed out, though for Empire-tier electiv... | 15 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 5,399 |
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