Lurker > GildedFool

Mega Mana posted...

Not the first time Trump said he's never heard of a Category 5

Trump has previously indicated several other times that Category 5 hurricanes are unprecedented weather events that either he or others had never heard of or witnessed.

In the days between the landfalls of Hurricane Irma and Maria, he said he "never even knew" they existed and said days later that "people (in Puerto Rico) had never seen anything like" the storm.

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UItimaterializer posted...

Get Steiner and Gilded to let me in the server for one day so I can screenshot it then.

That's the real reason they won't allow me back, btw. They know full well I said or did nothing remotely banworthy last month.

Steiner didn't know you had been kicked and still disagrees that you should be banned and Gilded has literally 0 control over that process beyond having an opinion on it.

You're still banned from the discord because no-one else wants you there.

And your repeated pedalling of the lie that discord users are en masse laughing at you for being mentally ill or whatever it is you're trying to make people believe isn't going to get you in any faster.
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BotW
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Forceful_Dragon posted...

ExThaNemesis posted...

have a good sunday m8

It is Friday going on Saturday at the moment., isn't it?

Sports
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What I read:

"How would they do in a contest? 91 ft Tingle"

Holy fuck a Tingle that's 91 ft. tall? WTF is wrong with you people's brai- Oh. Never mind.
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There are sites where you can generate code you can ping.
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They must become a slave of the law.
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ChaosTonyV4 posted...

Jakyl25 posted...

The Queen has agreed to suspend Parliament

Wait, so is this the legal equivalent of taking a knee to run out the clock?

Why is this a thing?

That is precisely what is happening because the unelected prime minister knows parliament will fight him to stop a no-deal Brexit so he is removing them from the equation. There is still around a week before this is actually implemented and there's a chance there's an attempt to topple the government before it goes through.

Additionally the decision is being challenged in the courts.
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Normally you end up with the Spongebob Squarepants Theme.

You got off lightly.
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Yeah, you can definitely get done for statutory rape even if the other party tells you their over the age of consent.
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CoolCly posted...

I'm not saying somebody shouldn't be brought to content because they don't have a brez. I'm saying I don't like that so many people have battle rez. To me, the ideal balance is that somebody is brought because they have something else just as useful as brez.

My ideal vision for balance is the way dota 2 does it - which is perfectly illustrated by this comic. In dota 2, there are no bad heroes. In fact, every single hero is overpowered in it's own way. Every hero is played, every hero is good, they are just all good for their own unique reason.

So there is nothing as good as a brez, beyond just making a characters dps/hps significantly higher, which brings (obviously) it's own issues.

And the dota 2 thing is a really cute statement and if it was possible for game balance to achieve that, it would be great. But it's actually objectively false.

https://www.dotabuff.com/heroes/winning
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CoolCly posted...

Like true not every single class can battle rez but at this point it's not a unique trait. If you make a raid of random classes you are gonna end up with some battle rezzes.

And you think that's worse than 80% of the specs in the game not getting to do lategame 5-man content because they don't bring a brez?
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CoolCly posted...

But when Blizz went about trying to fix this - they went with a method called "homogenization." What this means is that most classes play similarly to eachother and have similar abilities. Every class has Kick. Every class does good burst damage, every class does good aoe damage, every class does good sustained damage. Every class brings a buff. Every buff is brought by like 6 different specs. There's no uniqueness.

This is factually untrue.

Every class has a kick (except Warlocks) because doing single player content without it is miserable. Does that mean the Rogue kick on an 8 second timer is the same value as the DH's 12 second 20 yard range interrupt or the Mage's kick on a 20 second 40 yard range? Absolfuckinglutely not.

Nothing in the game except a Demon Hunter brings a 5% magic debuff.

Nothing in the game except a Monk beings a 5% physcial debuff.

Mages/Priests and Warriors bring a unique 10% buff each that you can replace with a 7% consumable buff, but at the cutting edge that is a big deal.

Everything in the game having good AOE is so laughable it's not worth commenting on, they definitely don't all bring buffs, and while they can all hit a big CD and burst, those bursts are not equal by any definition.
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v_charon posted...

turbopuns3 posted...

Like is there depth to modern retail class selection?

Or are the "classes" just:

Tank
Healer
Melee DPS
Ranged DPS

?

That's my question in a nutshell.

No, there's not, because no one wants to play a "support" class because you feel like a worthless idiot that isn't really doing anything. There's a reason why classes like that don't exist much in MMOs these days. They aren't popular, and the devs know it. No one wants to be the guy who keeps buffs up on other people. Blizzard did away with it because it wasn't popular.

That's not what he means.

And, yes there are. You have multidot ranged, AOE/ST/cleave melee, raid/tank healers.

You need monk/warrior/mage/DH/priest for their unique buff/debuffs but can use any of their specs.

Druids, DKs and Warlocks bring in-combat ressurection.

Some classes have good target swapping, some have on-demand burst, good mobility. Rogues for example are the best melee dps for survivability with Cheat Death, Cloak of Shadows and Feint as excellent defensive options.

You need one of the classes bringing the Lust effect.

You probably want at least a couple of people who have good execute damage for when the boss gets low.

You can't just grab 2 tanks, 4 heals and 14 dps without regard for what class they are and expect to do ok in a raid. Can you beat a normal raid like that? Sure. But once you move into Heroic and *definitely* for Mythic, it's just not realistic.

Additionally, I didn't pay attention to when you said you stopped, but you can swap between any of your classes specs incredibly easily now if you want to move from heal to dps, or from one dps spec to another for different fights. I know there's one dungeon which priests almost always prefer to heal as Holy instead of Discipline because of the structure of one of the fights and the different playstyles they have.
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ChaosTonyV4 posted...

But what are his strengths? His only redeeming quality seems to be he can beat Trump, but why? What makes him stronger than Hillary?

The idea here is that people are way more willing to come out to vote against Trump now when they know what he's like as President than they were 4 years ago.
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Have a retail account, not interested in Classic at all.
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LordoftheMorons posted...

This makes me so mad:

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/brazilian-farmers-believe-they-have-the-right-to-burn-the-amazon-875879/

Serious question, what about this article makes you mad?
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Drink_With_Me
GildedFool (previous name, this account)
Redacted
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Battle Beast - We Will Fight
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What I'm hearing is that you also think that Octopath's story sucks and that it's way worse than sitting in a white walled room for eternity.
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GLOW
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I came in to say strawberries.

Y'all can carry on your dumb argument now.
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But I still haven't bought TitS 2 yet.
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I think the Lucio @Shaduln got me is a Funko Pop vinyl?
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Cuphead
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Honestly, I think it depends on how many cinemas drop it for this weekend.
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XIII_rocks posted...

About 7 million away now

So close yet so far?

It made just under $4 mil in the US last week, I'm pretty sure it'll squeeze over the line, especially once "Endgame is only $1 million away from being the biggest movie of all time" pops up on twitter and people decide to push it over the edge.
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Zachnorn posted...

OrangeCrush980 posted...

CJayC

siege a sea

Capture an Ocean
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Non-American kids don't go to college?
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It's not a musical, it's a chinese historical military epic. If that's not what you want, you're welcome to go watch the original.

The rest of us who actually want new content will enjoy what will surely be a good film.
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First one still has the best onscreen kiss in cinematic history.
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Alita was a gorgeous film with incredible worldbuilding and a plot that is good enough.

Definitely worth seeing.
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Describing that as "drinking out of the toilet" even if it's disingenuous, it's not a lie.
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UltimaterializerX posted...

KamikazePotato posted...

There's not much difference between a sufficiently advanced AI and a human being.

One has a soul. Pretty big difference.

As soon as you can prove or detect it, I'll consider this an argument.
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Whatever discussion it is you're all having now is 1000x more pointless than talking to either of them.
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Does Two-Handed increase the damage my Spellblade attacks do?
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I don't know anything about FF5.

Knight/Mystic Knight/White Mage/Ranger

Advice me?
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I mean, America is not going to war with Iran over a drone being down.

They're going to war with Iran because they want to change the balance of power in the Middle East, which may be related to Iran's nuclear development.

Drones are not in and around the airspace of Iran for no reason.
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LordoftheMorons posted...

I mean, yeah

But a competent president would not have issued an order in which they weren't confident enough to not change their mind in a few hours

Strong disagree. These sorts of things are time critical. You can call off a sniper shot before he takes the shot, but if he's not in position, you can't make it happen after the fact.
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So to avoid hypocrisy, I imagine military operations are called off by many people for a wide variety of reasons across the world incredibly regularly.

Without being in the room and having access to the information and communication at the time, both calling AND cancelling the mission could have been completely reasonable and to say otherwise is just attacking someone you hate because you can.
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Suprak the Stud posted...

LordoftheMorons posted...

Wow at Inslee:

https://twitter.com/kellyweill/status/1141355651924406272?s=21

Hahaha did Beto only get one attempt at a photo and then they kicked him out or what happened there?

I imagine it's a frame from a video.
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I called the shit out of this and was told I was a fool and that Disney owned them both so they wouldn't care.
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foolm0r0n posted...

Since you thought that reversal was a killer argument, that means you liked my original argument too, so we're done. You can keep trying to come up with gotchas I guess, but I've said enough here.

This is the exact opposite of what happened. I reversed your bad arguement as a tool to point out that your argument is biased, one-sided and built entirely on your personal unsubstantiated beliefs about devs.
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Hey fool, take everything you've just said and reverse the position of Steam and the devs.

Steam got created to improve the system, which ultimately benefits gamers.

I think the confusion is that you can't let go of the notion that Steam are some greedy villains standing in between devs and easy money (which is made by fairies or something). Or that the dev AND the gamer (and even Steam) can all benefit from an improved industry.

Well, if you do need to think of it from a greedy Steam perspective, try this: Would Steam prefer to make $200 today and $200 tomorrow, or $100 today and $1000 tomorrow?
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foolm0r0n posted...

GildedFool posted...

ignores the idea that if Steam is getting a flat percentage at full price or at sale and has sales in order to make more money, the sale price must also be earning the devs more money.

You guys literally repeated my arguments back at me, so uh... I guess you understand my point

I literally don't know which point you're trying to claim now.

A) Steam sales are good
B) Epic is worse than Steam
C) It's better to have games be sold for cheaper because that makes devs more money
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foolm0r0n posted...

GildedFool posted...

trying to make more money

Wow Muffin AND Gilded dropping epic bombs of economic knowledge. What would we do without them?

Except none of those methods make the dev more money. It's a huge risk, and it might work but RARELY. Why would Steam wants devs to keep putting their games on sale if they would sell more (and thus Steam would get more cut) at higher prices? People need to think for 5 seconds before posting this shit.

In which Fool tries to explain that the economic concept of the curve of elasticity applies to all video games and devs identically and also ignores the idea that if Steam is getting a flat percentage at full price or at sale and has sales in order to make more money, the sale price must also be earning the devs more money.
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foolm0r0n posted...

But when a dev refuses to put a game on sale, or sells a game for $20 or $30 instead of the standard $15, or only sells on Itch & Epic instead of Steam, know that they are trying to make more money, which may or may not benefit you.

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Corrik7 posted...

GildedFool posted...

I haven't bought a microsoft or sony console since my 360 red ringed in 2009.

Guess no kingdom hearts 4 for u then. Too bad it was your most anticipated game and you played all the prior ones beforehand on your PS4. In this scenario.

If it was my most anticipated game, maybe I should have bought the console it was announced for?
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