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Orbonne is the best alliance raid in the game imo

Sounds like behavior a judge is gonna look super favorably on

mccheyne posted...

Lmao hold on, did the game just make us have to use MATH?! And many people in the party did not do it well lol

Edit: Also, fuck you Yiazmat!!! Why must you travel from a different game to torment me again?!

All hail mathbot

Yes

No way to stop all social engineering attacks except making it completely nontransferable (and therefore unsellable) in the first place

Oh man these PotD results

Probably not gonna work out too well for them!

xp1337 posted...

SCOTUS precedent goes back over a century that the government has the right to impose vaccination mandates in response to a pandemic and you can see the same tired anti-vax arguments knocked down in Jacobson v Massachusetts all the way back in 1905.

but stare decesis only applies when the partisan majority of this court wants it to (Or as I believe Kavanaugh had the gall to put it during one of the recent abortion cases (paraphrased) "Many of this Court's most celebrated decisions were overturning past precedent. Who can say this wouldn't be among them?")

If they did overturn it wouldn't Jacobson still be valid precedent? I thought the argument was that Congress didn't design OSHA to cover something like a pandemic, not that the federal government couldn't do a vax mandate at all.

8.5

I would definitely go back and do the whole thing. The Ivalice series are the best alliance raids imo (and unlike with the story I think many would agree with me here!)

Also I wasn't aware that join raid in progress applied even to your first time doing a piece of content... that's lame. Guess I'll continue to never turn it on!

Okay, Ted has to get off on self-abasement, right

https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1479272140625092614

This may be a new record for most pathetic thing he's done

7.5

I sympathize with that view. My big issue is with the people who are acting like there isnt a big tradeoff being made.

ChaosTonyV4 posted...

You know there was a pandemic, right?

Yes, and there were times where shutting down schools made sense (particularly early on when we didn't yet know that schools drive relatively little spread and perhaps again now when omicron is probably going to make it hard to even staff some schools for a few weeks). But it was always a very large tradeoff that was going to have very negative effects on many kids, and it's insane that as a society we didn't prioritize keeping schools open as much as possible over even stuff like bars and restaurants. Masks should be required (or even better masks+vaccines), but generally there should be a high priority placed on keeping kids in school now unless absolutely necessary.

There are people arguing not that it's a necessary tradeoff but that remote learning is a totally equivalent substitute for in person learning which is ridiculous for young kids.

Jesus

I only have RDM, MCH, and BLM to 90 so far!

(Plus all DoL, WVR, and LTW)

I don't believe the leveling trials have ilvl requirements

The Iraq example is terrible, but the kids doing remote learning for large sections of two years wasnt a big deal people are also full of shit

Dont listen to Ondores lies!

Yes, thank god

They're also requiring a booster now once eligible

Who can forget when Jesus suffered for our sins by not being able to go to a tennis tournament unless he sucked it up and got a safe and effective vaccine like everyone else entering Australia

Im also on Lamia and I think the longest queue Ive seen in the past week has been like 500

Bitcoins been around for like 13 years and blockchain has yet to present a clear non-illicit use case!

Crypto is a solution looking for a problem. Literally the only thing it seems to actually be useful for compared to existing alternatives is facilitating crime (or I guess to be more generous avoiding government oversight generally, so maybe theres a good use if you live in an authoritarian country or something).

While I'm sure he's rich enough to be able to get a fake medical exemption there's no way he actually has a legit reason not to get one. Good for Australia for not letting him sidestep their rules just because he's famous.

Oh yeah I need to get back to that too!

The minions from those boxes have largely tanked in value unfortunately

Anima/zodiac weapon materials if you care about those

Otherwise poetics are not very useful

Phew, the aphorism mats I bought rebounded a little and I was able to sell them all for over 10k each. Probably made about 3M today. Not amazing and I'm sure I could've made at least five times that if I had prepped and played all day specifically trying to make money, but 3M for minimal effort in one day is still pretty solid.

Isnt the reserve list pretty unequivocally acknowledged as a mistake by Wizards (even if theyre going to honor the promise)?

Not that I think theyd reprint Black Lotus anyway given how broken it is

That also seems like a really dumb thing for a gacha to do specifically. I don't spend any money on the one I play (FFRK) so maybe I don't understand whale psychology, but I have to imagine that a big part of the temptation is the fomo of not being able to get the new thing while it's relevant. If they know they can buy it from somebody else if they fail to get it in their pulls that motive seems like it would be undermined!

Pokemon tried that with Spinda and no one cared!

I've made about 1.4M on grade IX materia today, but mats have been a bust

Ugh

I bought 100 alchemical charcoal with my capped tomes when it was at 20k a few hours ago and only one of my 10 stacks sold. It's already down to 10k (with the drop from 12k-->10k coming because somebody listed a one stack with a 2k undercut and idiots followed it down)

Hmm Ive never healed any serious content, but I always thought the priority was Crit > DH > Det > SpS > Piety with DH doing nothing for your heals and therefore less valuable for prog

Isnt Det good for healers?

Glad I was wrong; I got SMT V for Christmas, haven't started it yet, and am hoping that it's good...!

StartTheMachine posted...

I didn't know LotM had 5 alts

I voted no!

She would be a good president, but she'd be considerably more likely to lose than Biden running for reelection.

Elizabeth > Boris > uhhh I don't fucking know

Guess: SMT V?

Yeah

DeSantis can't beat Trump in a GOP primary

None of the loser sycophants can. What's their argument? "I've spent the past four years cheerleading Trump and dismissing every criticism against him, but you should vote for me instead for some reason"?

Nobody took the "I like Trump's policies but Trump himself was ineffective" lane and it's gonna be really hard to pivot to that now if he runs. (The actually anti-Trump people are, of course, dead in the water because the GOP is beyond saving)

I put off my normal runs until like two hours before maintenance... luckily I didn't have to rerun any for tokens

Oh yeah I guess Van Zieks says that its deliberate a few lines later. Not how Id design a legal system...!

Not sure how many you need... I got them all and then died once to the boss in the last area and havent gotten around to trying again!

I did just resume GAA2-2, though... just got to the trial

Natsume is getting pretty annoying! Hes okay in small doses, but Im tired of him now. It looks like all but one of the jurors are ones weve seen before (or will see in the future chronologically? I cant remember which cases all of them were in since most of them are like half-characters); youd think the court wouldnt let someone who was on Natsumes last jury be on the current one!

DQX if it actually comes out

BotW sequel and then Kirby of the poll options

Should have vote-kicked them!

Yep

I went to see Dune in a theater a little over a month ago and felt comfortable, but that was pre-omicron, post booster and with fewer than ten other people in the theater.

Do it!

Backtracking through areas and collecting upgrades is my favorite part of any Metroid game

Yeah for combat materia afaik it's only really worth it if you're trying to get week one savage clears

Grade 9 materia are only useful for overmelding crafted gear. You can't use grade 10 (or 8) materia past the first overmeld slot.

Dumb as fuck