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Irony posted...

All I got from this post is you're saying killing innocent people is ok because someone else did it

Yes. Yes I am. Fucking quote me on it. You do not get to be a pathetic naive child with absolutely no stakes on the issue but to whine about "how DARE a nation attack a bunch of terrorists hell-bent on total genocide that kill thousands of people unendingly and kill CIVIILIANS on the way1!11!!" (that said terrorists are intentionally setting up to die). The only way to improve the situation is to hit Hamas so hard into the ground that they cease to function, not play wishy-washy games of ethics so we can play this all out again in a year or two.

SaikyoStyle posted...

What are they even trying to prove with this?

They killed a senior Hamas commander and collapsed underground infrastructure under the camp.

Stop asking "why does this war against an enemy that intentionally puts as many civilians in harm's way as possible keep harming civilians?".

Kami_no_Kami posted...

No. So the people get to pick each President.

* Cities arent 100% Democrat. Rural areas arent 100% Republican. It only seems like they are because of our current system which paints them with one of two brushes and thereby disincentivizes dissenters from voting because, why would they? Its a waste of time.
* The current system of people in Wyoming matter 3 times more than people in California and lets let a handful of low-population swing states decide the election is far worse than lets have everyone vote equally and pick who wins.
* If Republican policies arent popular enough for them to win without cheating (EC), then they need to adopt better policies.

While I think the EC system is broken, I would like to point out that people in low-density areas deserve representation too, and direct voting means that any actions taken to favor urban areas count for thousands of times more. It would remove all incentive to care about low-density areas that are already lacking in infrastructure and opportunities.

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"Those assholes" being the media, in this case, since absolutely no one gave a shit about POGGERS and PepeHands until it was reported on as being "their" symbol instead of what actually happened, them taking an existing meme and using it in their tiny, pathetic corners of the internet.

Fuck this shit. All the BTTV emotes with Pepe are fantastic. Stuff like FeelsBadMan and other Feels_Man variants, POGGERS and its million variants, PepeGun, PepeLaugh, monkaS and all its variants... like there's actually hundreds of them, and they're staples of many of my favorite channels like Linkus7 and TheOddOne, which are lighthearted places that absolutely do not in any way relate to right-wing politics.

Similarly, Gigachad isn't toxic, it's obviously satirical and tons of people have made equally satirical variants of it like putting their own scrawny selves in a similar gif, or Kiryu/Majima, that sort of thing.

I mean, look at BL1 where you have the basically invincible siren, the hunter that hits like a truck and has ridiculous mob clear on autopilot, the soldier that is pretty solid, and the berserker who is funny.

Or look at BL2 where you have the basically invincible gunzerker who does a billion damage, the much more fragile mechromancer who does a billion damage without aiming, the siren who does a ton of damage when mobbing but doesn't have great boss killing, the assassin who can one-shot bosses with multiple hitboxes with a level 1 starter pistol and has situationally good mobbing but scales a little more poorly in that regard, the psycho who can hit the damage cap as soon as you start UVHM mode as long as he gets a few trash mobs together and has basically zero gear dependency until endgame (but has a ton of viable builds that range from invincible with weaker DPS to silly bullet hose builds that can burn 1800 SMG ammo in three seconds or cram 30 rockets into one launcher and throw it at an enemy's face with a 900%-ish damage multiplier), and the soldier, who, uh, isn't as awful as Brick was.

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The letters are in alphabetical order, so it's actually just all of US history trolling us.

NittanyLions23 posted...

If Israel didnt exist, we would have to invent it.

What exactly does he mean by this?

My guess is he means that, if there was no haven for Jews, we would have to create one. (Since without Israel, the Jewish people would probably be eradicated in that region of the world.)

Tyranthraxus posted...

No this is a normal thing. RNG is deterministic and only advanced based on if a number has to be generated. Different moves generate different amounts of numbers causing the RNG to advance differently based on the move.

It amazes me how there are actually people who don't immediately see this when they look at this situation and instead think the game was programmed to cheat.

The number of RPGs where you can play most to all of the entire game while taking advantage of this to manipulate every single AI attack, every crit or miss on either side, every damage roll, every random drop, etc. is not even all that small. Pokemon RBY is even among them.

Doomed to be one of the Mario games of all time.

"Plastic" is not a single material, and different plastics require different facilities to break them down. In a country as large as the US, most areas are not going to have a local facility that can break down anything other than the two most common plastics (the type in water bottles and the type in milk jugs), if that.

From there, you also have to consider that many services just dump the whole bin as waste if it's not sorted properly, without most people knowing how to sort plastics.

Aluminum recycling is pretty real everywhere, to my knowledge. Paper recycling I know less about.

I can understand being camera shy and not wanting to show yourself.

What I don't understand is why people are so stupid that they treat these avatars like they're the person they're interacting with.

Also, every single vtuber or Twitch streamer with an virtual avatar that I've seen later got invited to stream on the GamesDoneQuick channel and showed their normal self, and they looked completely normal, or even on the attractive side, presented themselves normally, and in general had no reason to afraid of being on camera. Like, I'll be able to relate to seeing another person much more easily than a weird, animated avatar, and I've never seen bullying on Twitch that would even target these people. (I've seen occasional bullying or misconduct towards women, fat people, based on their opinions, based on race, etc., but the avatar would either not hide these, or they were not in a group that would be targeted to begin with. Point being, I'm not sure what it's actually for.)

Not entirely sure what "worth it" would be. It wraps up the story. It has a cheesy, over-the-top resolution. It continues making the good guys purely good and Amon plainly black-and-white irredeemable comic book villain evil so everyone can feel good about joining against him. There is no double-crossing or anything particularly unexpected other than just how cheesy the cheesiness gets.

John de Lancie does get a really fun part as a minor character who attempts to at least keep things interesting for the Protoss campaign, though. I honestly didn't hate the Protoss campaign for what was going on with the Protoss so much (even if Artanis is a pretty boring character compared to Raynor and Kerrigan). It was just the greater big-picture story that was far too simple so they could do a WC3 again. (It's possible that they did it with co-op mode in mind as well, where you can have different races under different commanders allying against Amon's plot-of-the-day.)

Also, the campaign is fun gameplay-wise. You get to use all these cool variants of Protoss units with pretty wildly different abilities, and the varied objectives and level gimmicks keep it interesting and fun. There isn't all the HotS "Kerrigan solos" nonsense going on anymore.

Mii Brawler is too low. Has zero-death true combos (which require specific stage position/layout, but not uncommonly specific) or DI mixups on a ton of characters and no glaring weaknesses other than a lack of disjoints. Probably better than Mario.

Cloud is very significantly too high. Just because Spargo is really good with him doesn't make him a top 10 character. He should be down around where Shulk is (and Shulk should be at least a few spots higher, assuming this is about character potential; Shulk is just even more technical than Peach to play perfectly, but has a lot of the same cheater-level stuff that Steve does like on-demand invincibility, combo-breaking, cancelling all endlag of any aerial, etc.). Cloud has some counterplay to camping in "charge limit hurr durr", but it doesn't actually get him through gyro or block wall or all the other campy BS in the game. He has pretty limited options in neutral and kind of just spams nair and bair a bunch, and he has an exploitable recovery.

PAC-MAN seems several spots low and should probably be around where Cloud is now. Oppressive and safe gameplan that is very hard for a ton of characters to deal with, almost impossible to stop recovery, and a slightly weaker version of Steve's BS "random diamond sword fsmash lul" with his absurdly strong and fairly fast smash attacks.

There are a few other small tweaks I'd make, but those are the ones that come to mind first.

Metroid_Food posted...

Israel is a settler colonial occupation and the purest form of violence against the other. Again. They created this situation. They can also choose not create situations like this. They are the ones in control.

The genocide, and calling Palestinians animals, and gathering with the US and EU baying for the blood of people who witness your "israeli 9/11" on a daily basis for SEVENTY YEARS... it shows that they prefer yesterday's outcome to peace.

Get off your high horse. There is nothing Israel could do that would ever get Iran, Hamas, or any of the opposed powers in play to stop trying to wipe it off the map. Hamas has been using civilians as shields for as long as it has existed. There is LITERALLY no possibility for peace while Hamas exists.

HudGard posted...

Thats why I like low num-value systems like Paper Mario and Bug Fables. Investing in even +1 to something seriously changes your character and strategy.

I've yet to see anyone actually balance small numbers combat without restricting the player's options for increasing strength to effectively nothing at all, though. Like Bug Fables HARDEST mode throws 120-ish HP bosses with 2 defense at you, and they still just die in about three turns because you have like +9 attack and sometimes 3 charge on a four or five hit attack that you can use about twice a turn. There's this nice balance early game where you can hit a lot harder than normal but also have to use a bunch of status effects and damage mitigation strats to survive, but as soon as the player gets a few more options, everything starts melting so fast that it doesn't get to do anything. Paper Mario does this to an even greater extreme by also throwing in some ludicrously undercosted options like the Mega Rush badges and making multihit moves cheaper than heavy-hitting single hits for some reason.

Because the game is bad other than the visuals. Boring story, terrible protagonists, Garl is the perfect mouthpiece who can do no wrong, combat is boring, slow, and lacks any variety, etc.

Solar_Crimson posted...

Aren't those games very, very long?

If you do the thing where you read all the NPC dialogue every time it changes, most of them are over 100 hours long. If you don't, probably a bit over half that. Less for Sky FC which is only like 20-30 hours long. And even less if you're not doing all the sidequests (why though).

Back in college, I was able to engage a media literacy professor about the ethics of simulated child porn as an outlet to reduce demand for the real thing, for the sake of having a debate about something that most people would not entertain. (I have literally no personal interest in the topic, but I am eternally frustrated at how childishly single-minded people are towards this subject and other similarly uncomfortable ones, not even looking at the current system for failings.)

The article I found unfortunately does not include more than the preface of his argument, in which he says that he will argue why one cannot say it is always wrong for an adult and a 12-year-old girl to have sex to which the girl consents, and examine the morality around this judgment. I personally think this is a pretty extreme example, but I don't get to see his actual argument; it could be something like "This person hypothetically has an unusually developed brain and makes judgments as if she is 25 years old," (leading into "okay, if you don't accept this, at what age do you and why then?" or something like that), or "In this theoretical scenario, her development is not negatively affected, she enjoys the experience, and she goes on to live a happy life. Can we say this was still morally wrong?" or something really out there, for the sake of asking questions about the nature of morality.

If all this man is doing is making controversial arguments about morality as a philosophy professor, and he's facing punitive action for that, something is wrong. But I don't get to see his argument and if it was something really weird.

Neoconkers posted...

probably a new RNG manip. move at certain times, press certain buttons at certain times, can guarantee the RNG to either not have encounters or to get the right pokemon with perfect stats

This is glitchless (Classic) which bans hard resetting, meaning you can't RNG manipulate. Regular glitchless is 10 minutes faster.

Revelation34 posted...

How is it a glitchless run if there's absolutely no way of having done that legitimately?

I mean, you can watch the previous record or wait for this one to be uploaded...

Mussurana posted...

IIRC you can trade the female (not certain about the gender) one for NidoKing in either Red or Blue (again don't remember details).

And Nidoking can learn almost everything you need to wreck the game.

You just level Nidoran (male) to 16 when it evolves, then use a moon stone on it immediately. You end up with a Nidoking in Mt. Moon just before the fossil guy.

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It's fun to learn the tech like muta micro, and practice build orders and stuff.

But you have to accept that ladder has tons of people who only do all-in cheese strats and people who have played the game for many many years. The game is incredibly execution-based, and you will lose games because you didn't know that two buildings don't form a ling-tight wall on one side despite your zealot not fitting between them (look at this https://liquipedia.net/starcraft/Protoss_Fast_Expand_Forge_Walling for how ridiculous complicated building sizes are in Brood War), or because you didn't memorize the wall setups for one of the spawns on a particular map correctly, or because you failed to respond to a bunker rush with the correct number of drones or push the marines back from the bunker enough.

This is the largest RTS period and has people studying and optimizing it for almost 25 years. It is just fundamentally different at this point from learning a new RTS where people are figuring out the meta.

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Mutas in midgame are exciting, though. Will they pick off Templar, will Protoss hide a Dark Archon, will Zerg actually kill the Corsairs and win air control, etc. Normal Scourge vs Corsair midgame where nothing actually fights except for some Zealot pressure (that may not even be more than a feint) for a few minutes and both races are sitting on like ten supply of attacking units is a lot tamer.

-Unowninator- posted...

It wasn't even alive. They should be allowed to do what they want with it.

There are many things you could argue it was or wasn't, but arguing that it wasn't alive is either blatantly wrong (if you're talking about before the abortion) or completely vacuous (if you're just talking about burying the body after they killed it).

IDK, late-term abortions are definitely a pretty gray area morally. Almost all the defenses of abortion related to whether you're killing a human being start to fall apart this late into a pregnancy. But making it illegal is also effectively just making a law that generally results in only making bad outcomes worse in situations like this, and sticks legal inflexibility in the way of health decisions.

Tenlaar posted...

Yeah, the meat eaters had to grow the biggest. You can see this in action by looking at the largest animals alive today, like whaleswait, no, elephantsshit, I meant rhinosactually if you look at hipposfuck.

Are you saying whales aren't meat eaters? I'm pretty sure whales are primarily, if not exclusively, carnivorous, including the Blue Whale. Just the animals they are eating are often extremely small. Hippos are omnivorous, as well, even though they eat mostly plants.

AceMos posted...

why

that money could have gone to their employees

It's most likely under their marketing budget anyway, and intended to be profitable.

HudGard posted...

Forget the Pokemon. I straight up dont understand why all the human characters are sexualized.

I also see literally zero appeal in anime children, but you could probably just make a mathematical argument that there's enough people that interact with it, and interest comes proportionally. I imagine the people who are into that stuff actually interact with the property directly much more often than in the case of the pokemon, where exposure is often just through furry sites.

Pikachuchupika posted...

Found the weirdo.

Are you really so absolutely mind-numbingly stupid that you think Pokemon is a kid's show and not a video game property that sells 25+ million copies each generation and has hundreds of successful people in their late 20s and 30s making content from it?

Anyone who played Pokemon Red when it released is now a minimum of about 30 years old btw (assuming we say you had to be 5 or so to play it, which is arguably still too young).

Pikachuchupika posted...

It's very weird. It's a kids show. Not only they're sexualizing the trainers, but the pokemon too? What the heck.

what the heck are you even talking about with the "it's a kid's show" nonsense
like have you been under a rock for the last 20 years?'

A lot of the designs are just really appealing for the same reasons other furry stuff is appealing. I don't give a shit about Pokemon in general, but I absolutely love how Decidueye, Talonflame, Corviknight, Noivern, etc. look when artists draw them.

What I do absolutely hate is the creepy-as-fuck thing in the porn where every Pokemon calls the person they're banging "master" as if they're a will-less sex slave. I don't care if you make a character use a feral body as long as they're a fully sapient and equal being, but if you add in the whole Pokemon "trainer = master" thing, it doesn't matter how humanoid or animalistic they are, it's just creepy to me.

EthanSilver posted...

Probably the same as being straight, except for the obvious, like the amount of bigotry thrown your way.

As I tried to allude to earlier... it really is different in a lot more ways than just that. The effects of hookup culture and the lasting effects of the delegitimization of gay couples as a family, the much, much smaller pool of potential partners, and the passive, invisible fear from having an identity that is not the "default"... well, it all really takes a toll, to say the least. I don't even live in a super-conservative area, either, but I still don't feel comfortable being openly gay and never discuss my preference with anyone, and I haven't felt like I could actually express my real self since college.

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Depends on the game and the era. Flash (T) and Serral (Z) were/are basically untouchable as the best in their respective games. Flash isn't really back to form after military service, though.

As long as you don't pick Protoss, we can still be friends.

Zerg is the best until you have to play ZvZ though.

specialkid8 posted...

Sounds like they had some real hack surgeons that didn't know what they were doing.

Not sure if you make this statement knowing this or not, but Neuralink is implanted by a robot, as the precision required is not possible with human hands.

Imagine if you started out with a normal sized group of people your age, eliminating half for being the wrong sex as you would if you were straight, but then you eliminate another 90-95% of people for being straight, another 95% of what's left for people who only want to hook up and have no interest in a real relationship, and another 75% of what's left because they only want super dominant/submissive types or are otherwise incompatible with your interests, and you're not allowed to ask out anyone without the use an intermediary online app in the first place outside of very specific settings.

Imagine every time anyone you encounter talks about how hot some woman is or their family at home, you just kind of have to nod and say nothing.

Imagine walking on eggshells for virtually everything related to romance and relationships around your family.

Imagine it being infinitely harder to find positive role models and places to learn about how to present oneself and impress people if you want to try dating.

IDK, my experience with it has been pretty miserable outside of the time I was living on a college campus.

voldothegr8 posted...

I don't know about you, but if I were paralyzed and this were a chance to move again I would be all over it, as much as I distrust Musk. Won't catch me dead in a Tesla.

There's certainly considerations for "robotic brain surgery into previously untested implant" vs "get chip that may allow me to do things normally for free instead of for amount of money I can literally never afford".

You do have to worry about stuff like this, though:
https://www.reuters.com/technology/musks-neuralink-faces-federal-probe-employee-backlash-over-animal-tests-2022-12-05/

EmilyTheCEman posted...

Good for her. Smiling, clapping, walking, and letter flipping is hard work.

I mean, I imagine staying in character, keeping her body in condition, and constantly working on the details of her appearance are the difficult parts of the job. Celebrity TV money isn't like a traditional job, though; the amount you're worth isn't really based on what you do so much as how much your show is worth and how integral your identity is to that show, since that's your bargaining power.

I'm actually confused about this part:

Following the meeting, Grant Public Schools said in a statement that, at the student artists request, the mural will be returned to its original form as originally submitted and approved by the Administration, which meant the demon video game character and the Hand of Fatima would be removed, NBCs TODAY.com reported at the time.

Not sure what this means at all. Everything else seems to talk about the mural being removed entirely. Was this an earlier, separate revision?

Edit: Seems it was. There was this separate controversy around it back in 2022.
https://www.wzzm13.com/article/news/local/mural-at-grant-public-schools-will-remain-with-some-adjustments/69-401aff4a-6b44-4015-a52c-287983f07806

Also, the community launched a petition in response to get the people who cancelled the clinic contract removed from the board. It's not entirely clear what the actual reasons for cancelling the contract were, though.

thronedfire2 posted...

What could possibly go wrong with the richest man on the planet having control of peoples brains?

Well, that would require Neuralink to have functionality allowing it to do something which it would not be tested for in trials, which is orders of magnitude more complicated. It's an interface designed to allow the brain to control a computer; allowing the reverse is something we are not even close to doing. I could see a dystopia where, some day in the near future, an interface like this could be used to provide hormonal encouragement for certain behaviors in a way that benefitted a party's interests, but just casually controlling someone's body, speech, or thoughts is not even remotely close to possible right now.

Realistically speaking, as long as there are other minds working on this who have safety as their priority rather than rushing something out, this sort of technology has the potential for an extraordinary amount of good for disabled people. This is the sort of thing we want to succeed for the sake of humanity's welfare more than we want it to fail because Musk is an asshole.

For those crying about "subscription service" woes... you're kind of missing the point from every angle. Having anything available is better than nothing. And the cost isn't going to be a sneaky subscription, it's going to be staggering, insurmountable upfront money, plus mandatory ongoing costs for maintenance care. Costs will eventually go down if the technology works, but it will take until the patent expires plus another decade or two, at the least.

Presumably, the name would have continued to be used, so there would forever be that awkwardness when a Hitler campaigned for office in any nation, or a Hitler was brought in to manage in your company.

It's not a fantasy RPG at all btw. It's a 1v4 competitive battle game where four players have to accomplish an objective as mice (something with moving cheese and escaping?) while the cat chases them. There's just a bunch of skins, and OP highlighted weird ones.

https://www.tomandjerrychaseasia.com/

I'm full-on furry and would have just called those designs "generic animu" rather than "waifus" but OK. Adding overdone outfits in a universe where the protagonists are normally naked is a weird contrast, though.

I looked at a little more about the game, and there are a lot of other outfits that are much more fitting for the characters, like a musketeer outfit, or even plenty of characters that are just mostly/entirely nude (in the same style as the actual show). The ones in the OP video are very out of place compared to the others.

ai123 posted...

Just get rid of school boards. Let the teachers run the school.

Parents can do volunteer fundraising on the side.

I'm sick of seeing school boards just being a platform for bigoted lunatics to yell 'Trump won!' and whine about CRT and 'The Woke'.

I have never known anyone that served on a school board to give me an impression of what it's like when it works in a way that doesn't make the news, so I'm not sure if this is a reasonable take or not. But from what you tend to hear about them, it sure feels like they exist just to give the absolute worst people a foothold in education that they absolutely should not have.

MuscleRobo posted...

The girl with braids and the Band-Aids on her knees on the far right is cute.

Pretty much every character in it is cute tbh. It's just full of happy energy and positivity.
Ironically the rabbit is probably the least cute character because of the blank expression (or the pig with the giant needle, but there's some humor in it).

Will_VIII posted...

I never understood this mentality.

I disable push notifications and don't opt in for emails. If you were that concerned about your data you wouldn't be using the Internet

Disregarding everything else for a second, if I need to register a freaking account to order "fast" food, including providing billing information (and, for many businesses, also registering a second account with a service that handles their ordering and payments), with the absolutely fucking horrible mobile UIs I've regularly seen and unbelievably buggy sites that fail to find your order immediately after placing it/send you a text with an invalid confirmation link, it often takes an extra 20-30 minutes just to order the damn food (took me 45 once with a local place that forced me to go through two-step verification to set up with their payment provider which involved manually switching back and forth to my email several times).

I refuse the practice on principle at this point. You are not so special that you get permanent storage on my phone and get to place all this extra burden on me just to say "I want a double cheeseburger, that's all please", a process that could be handled in under ten seconds in person. I also should not have to deals shop through your app just to get a remotely decent price.

Nosferatu_Zodd posted...

Use the app. They almost always have deals for free fries.

Nope, fuck that. If they think I'm going to download an app, make an account, enter my information, and give them a line to market directly to me and metrics to sell, just for their food to be a normal price for fast food, they can fuck right off. Haven't eaten there in over five years now.

Businesses need to get the idea of making it mandatory to use their own individual app right the fuck out the door. Absolute insanity.

Guide posted...

Can't tell if this is a very longform joke or not, but I still laughed.

It's a completely practical example. You sketch these things out before you buy materials since you want to know lengths, and you absolutely need some form of trig to make the angles and lengths match up. The exact lengths I used are pretty uncommon, but building pretty much literally anything other than "exactly a rectangle" requires this sort of thing.

I would bet that you have looked up statistics when writing papers or presentations and turned numbers like 249,700 into "almost a quarter million" or similar many times, which means you computed the intermediate steps of dividing by 1,000,000 to get 0.2497 and comparing to 0.2500, while knowing this is equal to 1/4, all probably without even thinking about it. Having number sense like this is ridiculously common, and anyone who doesn't should not be getting a high school degree.

zado19 posted...

But the question you have as an example is literally pointless. There is zero meaning to that question... The other two would at least be trivia

Talk to anyone who deals in math, they are always looking at patterns or things that connect. The reason people are bad with math is because they dont see those patterns likely because they werent taught to think about it that way.

I mean really, who is going to look at something 0.142 is closest to which of these fractions - 1/3, 1/5, 1/7 or 1/9? and think anything other than "who gives a shit?" I mean really...?

Estimating a fraction from a value is something people do all the damn time. Say you're building something and you want to build the hypotenuse of a right triangle to reinforce a corner. You plug in either the Pythagorean Theorem or something with a sine function (depending on whether you want to work with side lengths or angles) and get the side length as a decimal. You'll probably intuitively want to convert that back to inches, and you decide you want to go with the nearest quarter of an inch (so you know what length to start with -- you'll cut it exactly once you have the materials together). Almost everyone can look at a value like 10.421 and say "that's a bit under ten and a half", "that's a bit over ten and four tenths", or other commonly used values. Knowing eighths is pretty common as well.

I highly doubt many people have sevenths memorized, but the question doesn't ask you what 1/7 is, it asks if the answer is closer to 1/5 (exactly .2) or 1/9 (.1111 repeating) than it is 1/7 (which you know is somewhere roughly in the middle). Being able to have any fucking common sense is a skill, too.