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Cupcake2006 posted...

Ehh... let's not get too revisionist just yet. The #1 issue for voters in 2024 was the economy. If the economy was "humming," it wouldn't have been the single most important issue that drove voters one way or the other.

No one is revising anything. Voters being fucking morons has no impact on the real state of things.

Thorn posted...

Radiant Dawn lets you have some fun with silly builds - like Alondite!Mist. Though you can also do this in Three Houses like giving Lysithea Thunderbrand.

I don't think PoR lets you do shenanigans on quite that level but it's still good times.

Three Houses is too homogenous. No matter what you do you will be fine and barely have to think.

Lopen is waiting for the lizard people to come enslave us all. Pay him no mind.

I will say I had a lot of fun playing Sea of Thieves. But it is a good game that is made frustrating and sometimes unplayable by developers attached to a vision that doesn't exist. They could easily make PvP only apply when interacting with objectives they specifically designed to try to get people to PvP around, making it opt-in.The game is fun when you have a whole crew and you are just out treasure hunting or doing some of the puzzle-like story content they've added.

But the way they created the game means most of the playerbase that remains these days are just there to grief because they don't need any of the rewards from playing the game themselves. They play only to make the lives of other players miserable.

The game is more fun with safer seas on but they limit your progress.

PvP is just players griefing which ruins the fun.

Ugh we are really hitting the "We shouldn't stop Russia from forcefully expanding" territory.

XIII_Rocks posted...

I never got the impression Cruella was trying to justify or redeem her, just explain her

The original concepts for the live action movies were not meant to be exact "how they got there" but just unique takes on villain characters from their PoV in an adjacent but different universe from the animated films. They were at the very least allowed to be creative. But audiences bitch and Disney decided to just take safe money by turning the concepts into shot for shot remakes with added songs that suck and are out of place compared to the original animation with bloated runtimes.

banananor posted...

The annoying thing is that- supposedly- you're not supposed to confront the abused partner about their bad relationship, you're just supposed to be quietly open to helping them once they realize they need to change. Otherwise they dig in their heels, or something.

Anyway this is the frustrating thing. Because people say do this, but this doesn't always work. Instead you've basically made a lifelong abusive relationship, created 2 kids with a childhood(A bit of adult life) of trauma and abuse that struggle with the real world, and still don't have any solution to actually fix any of it.

Also update, my aunt returned home and went to her house(Where she still is and has been paying for all of the bills) with her husband, leaving my little cousin in the apartment to herself. Meanwhile my little cousin picked up some sort of tonsil infection and doesn't really know how to handle it on her own(Someone took her to an urgent care, but she didn't even know where her nearest urgent care was for her insurance, so it was a bit of an ordeal).

We heard from multiple people that if they had to have Biden they would rather just have Trump(Because why have vanilla Trump when they are both the same)..

So yeah it wont stop people.

Also an approval rating of above 40% is good enough to continue doing whatever they want with no meaningful repercussions.

The American people like this shit.

FFDragon posted...

https://x.com/WhiteHouse/status/1891922058415603980

what in the fuck is this timeline

People voted for this twice.

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Johnbobb posted...

Yeah I see Rockets and Jeffs pretty consistently in competitive, often on the winning team

No Jeffs. There are a few Jeff's but the skillgap is incredibly high on the top Jeffs and average Jeffs. And he requires a team knowing you need to 3 heal with Jeff.

And bringing 3 heals creates its own problems(Meta is absolutely going back to 2 heals if these patch notes are real).

PrivateBiscuit1 posted...

Wait for end of season for Rocket/Jeff changes. But to say Rocket isn't viable is kind of nonsense considering how powerful he is right now. Lol

I was continually picking up bans in ranked for showing Rocket because my team wanted defensive ults only. Community still wont believe it.

PrivateBiscuit1 posted...

Not to be a corporate boot licker or anything, but wouldn't it make sense that they didn't have as much to work on after the release of the game if they were a secondary team helping the game launch? It seems like wishful thinking that they had a job in perpetuity, regardless of the success.

This is just reality for live service games. You are never going to be as profitable as you were at launch so they start cutting whatever they can.

Assuming these patch notes are legit, my big winners of the patch are Psylocke and Rocket.

Will be curious if this holds true.

PrivateBiscuit1 posted...

But they address a lot of immediate problems like supports and their ults, but I expect a lot more support changes later.

Yeah just minor obvious changes here. The game was too slow with healer ults outpacing everyone else. This will allow for more aggression and interesting pushes rather than constantly having to play chicken with heal ults that are always up.

Fat

I would not complain at being able to move to a movie a day pace.

I had a few days of 2-3 movies a day and have been steadily working the pace needed to under 1.5 a day.

I will strive to make the deadline either way though.

Rocket is literally everything I could ever want out of a hero shooter.

I just want Jeff to be good so team furry can be viable.

CTRL-F Jeff

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skullbone posted...

Cloak and Dagger ult got wrecked though. 3400 to 4000 ult charge required, only lasts for 8 seconds instead of 10 and the healing does not stack from multiple lanes now.

Not sure how legit these are but they got a trade-off of not being so easy to pick off mid-ult. It is a fair nerf and Luna/Mantis/Sue are eating it too.

Assuming these patch notes are legit Rocket is going to wind up in line for a nerf after this patch.

Seanchan posted...

https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/15/business/nlrb-trump-musk-workers/index.html

The NLRB is unable to function, meaning employers can now trample workers rights with no chance of reprisal.

Cannot stress enough how important the NLRB is and how fucked we all are now.

fortybelowsummer posted...

I can't find The Instructor anywhere. If someone could point me in the right direction that would be cool and message me if need be.

That one should just be on youtube.

When you lose 7 in a row and the next hand gives you 8 8 vs A.

I still have trouble getting my brain to not read it that way.

Also I advise not playing blackjack while drunk.

I have seen some really successful drunk blackjack players but they are not the norm. Most make stupid decisions, annoy everybody, and spend more money than they can probably afford.

greengravy294 posted...

Buddy I've actually probably won more in a night than you did in your career

I literally see this person all the time and they either have a resting bitch face or they lose all the time

I try not to tell people other than the dealer that people playing bad has a completely insignificant impact on their chance of winning.

The only way it impacts odds is if you know the count and they pull a card that changes the count to be ever so slightly more favorable to the dealer. But the odds of them doing that are stagnant and shouldn't impact your play. And if you really don't want others impacting your odds just sit at third base(But this will impact your own odds of playing for blackjacks as that is generally more favorable in the first seat if you are counting).

But if people are spending their money to gamble they are allowed to play the game however they want. It is their money and at the end of the day it is gambling.

I'm on movie 9. If I can keep this pace I can actually maybe make it.

MartinFF7 posted...

yeah the appeal of martingale is definitely that it's great until it's not... you've never lost like, 5 hands in a row? been burned on unrealistic roulette colour streaks more than once, will never forget the legendary 14 reds in a row. Prefer the term "gambler's ruin" nowadays. ;)

No one here has played nearly as much blackjack as you'd think because streaks like that will happen plenty if you play enough.

ChaosTonyV4 posted...

Rules are pretty standard as far as I know. Lowest table is $15 minimum, blackjack pays 3 to 2, no phones at the table, no alcohol outside of the bars, etc.

Okay if you are actually gambling, what you want to know:

Hit/Stand Soft 17, 3:2 or 6:5 blackjack, #of decks, %of deck penetration before shuffle(Just straight up avoid any autoshuffler), surrender/no surrender, double after split, rules for splitting aces, maximum # of splits, etc.

greengravy294 posted...

Also yes counting is good, but you can successfully actually camouflage yourself at a reasonably large casino. Imo. You'll get flagged on pretty obvious signs like splitting up 10s so don't do that.

The larger casinos are pretty good about protecting their profits. At the very least I've played enough blackjack to see them toss people out real quick. They pay more attention to the spread of your bets than the actual play. Since bet spread is how you actually make money counting.

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Other part I cannot stress enough is that in a game where it is hard enough to get 2 people to play healer that Jeff requires playing triple healer. And not because he sucks at healing. But because his ult specifically necessitates it. When teams are competent, if you try to 2 heal with Jeff, as soon as he presses Q Jeff's partner should die. Or parts of his team on the ground will die. The game just isn't designed to be without 2 healers for an extended period of time.

tazzyboyishere posted...

Jeff is fine, if a bit undertuned.

A bit undertuned is an understatement. The only way to play him is as a weird mobile DPS that can sometimes heal. And he basically has to add value by getting the enemy team to be distracted by his mobility. His dps isn't the highest, his heals suck but are there.

Hes not playable without an insane unintended apm.

He might be one of the few pure throw picks left in the game(The trio right now I would wager is Venom, Widow, Jeff, probably in that order best to worst).

Cheese

Fuck fandom.

Yoshi's Island

I am trying to fight the depression and see if I can watch a large amount of these in a short time but I don't know that I will be remotely successful.

PrivateBiscuit1 posted...

I honestly think his survivability is too strong right now, especially while he's ultin

Can we stop complaining about characters that have absolutely nothing going for them.

Also if Jeff misses ult he literally just dies because he has a mandatory fail animation where hes stuck above land.

ChaosTonyV4 posted...

about her immigration policy, the 2024 candidate said "We wanted to pass Trump's plan but he stopped us", lol.

And reiterating, that is what people actually wanted, which somehow you've lost track of.

People literally thought Biden was soft on imimgration. Your aunt or whatever is an outlier.

I've literally mentioned on multiple instances how many people I've talked to and how completely ass backwards most people(And those on the left) are about most conditions and situations.

Hell I literally talk to people for a living and people uninvitenly like to discuss the political things they think are actually impacting their lives.

Your perception on how the left(Especially the older crowd) actually tends to think is continually just way outside of reality.

And I guess it runs in the family because Trump's immigration policy is literally "be as inhumane as possible" and if you can't openly see the difference when one side has kids packed into a literal cage you are frankly just incapable of being informed if that is your single voting issue.

Like, you bite on every bit of left wing misinformation and outrage culture there is then wonder why people go "lol tony".

You make bad comparisons and continually misrepresent reality.

ChaosTonyV4 posted...

Its 2025 and people still take the word literally literally.

Ok boomer.

You used it multiple times, once in reference to why your Aunt(Presumably older) decided to stay home.

You have at multiple times(way too many, since like 2015) in these topics used it in the literal sense to compare Biden(Or whoever) to Trump.

ChaosTonyV4 posted...

Are they different? Sure! But not enough to place them at opposite ends of the spectrum.

That being said, Trump 2 is setting quotas and rolling back even more protections to intentionally be more evil, but Democrats had a chance to take a stand and fumbled bigly.

"Literally the same"

Sure Tony.

Oh, and this was a blanket, "Biden is the same on immigration" statement Tony is defending.

Let me remind you that during his first term, and now on his second, we have had mass detentions at workplaces across the country.

They don't care if have legal status or are a literal USc itizen, they literally profile and detain everyone, then sort it out as they can(Or don't).

But sure, Biden is the same lol.

Oh, and the other tidbit, they did not tell the families what they were doing with the children. They would take them and provide no information on where they were going, the status of their health(Some were detained while making a dangerous trip over the border and were not in the best of health, a real concern), or if they'd ever be reunited at all.

Literally cruelty for the sake of it.

I know we like to be fake angry no real investment just fake anger Tony but let me repeat what Trump did in his first term that did not happen under Biden's term:

Detained entire families/groups/workplaces/complexes.
Separated parents and minors at facilities, put kids in literal cramped cages(Think like, chain link fence) for lengthy unspecified amounts of time for the explicit purpose of being cruel.

ChaosTonyV4 posted...

I mean I was being flip by using that phrase, but the Biden administration did quite literally separate kids from parents too.

No, quite literally not the same thing that was happening at all.