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Tried with Tyro/Elarra/Galuf/Wedge/Red and got him down to about 25%; he murdered me right after my chain ran out and I couldn't clear his rage.

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I do, though I'm worried about the loss of buffs/extra healing if I ditched Mog for Tyro (earlier critfix would be helpful, though Galuf's sync will give me that at some point anyway).

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I wanted to get Ramuh done but I just don't have the energy to figure out how to live through all of his attacks. Guess I'll have to be content with 2/8 tickets!

(I guess some of them aren't piercing so wall would probably help, but I need the RW chain)

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More evidence for my crypto is a cult hypothesis

https://twitter.com/ne0liberal/status/1425097406245388298?s=21

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It doesnt really matter (and you can switch later). The most important difference is how convenient the location is (the Flames are right next to the aetheryte which is nice); they also give you different cosmetic rewards.

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Yeah Dun Scaith is definitely on the harder side as far as alliance raids go (possibly the hardest one, actually? It might just be that I go months between runs and forget mechanics, though).

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https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/09/politics/defense-department-vaccine-mandate/index.html

Should be sooner, but great!

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I only use discord for FF14 stuff since apparently all of the resources for current multiplayer games are there nowadays for some reason

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Forceful_Dragon posted...

Also with so much emphasis being put on Proof of Stake moving forward the whole electricity angle is going to stop holding water.

But people are fast to say 'outlaw it' rather than 'improve it'.

Im semi-joking about banning it, but I do think that as it stands it has some hugely negative externalities (both environmentally as well as facilitating illegal activity such as ransomware attacks) and I have yet to hear a convincing case that It actually does anything positive. Banning it would definitely be preferable to allowing it to exist as-is in a completely unregulated state imo.

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xp1337 posted...

I'll be the first to admit I have a tough time following the dueling amendment debate here because I'm not into crypto but my understanding is that getting this right is actually kinda important because at one point one of the amendments was written in a way that would actually favor the implementation method that is more energy-intensive (and thus environmentally harmful) over an alternate method that was less so.

I think that amendment was updated to fix that problem but yeah.

All this because the bipartisan crew has to come up with wacky ways to pay for their bill because god forbid we raise taxes on the rich, corporations, or even just enforce the actual tax code as it currently is better like the reconciliation package intends to do in order to pay for itself.

Yeah, I was reading up on it after I posted that and it sounds like the Warner amendment specifically penalizes proof of stake and not proof of work which is definitely a bad idea (I had just seen the original version that added reporting requirements for everybody involved).

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Im pretty certain I have all of the duties for it, but I still need another 250 comms or so.

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Hot take: crypto is bad enough that tech-illiterate senators accidentally functionally banning it might actually be good...!

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Hrm I think I'm gonna try to take on phys-weak Ramuh using Red for my 3rd dps since he can imperil (and with the sync I wouldn't be surprised if he was better dps than someone physical anyway, especially without multiple enearth sources).

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I'm on trial part 3 of G1-3

Kind of weird, but I'm now thinking the client is actually guilty. At minimum he seems to have tampered with the evidence; not sure what's going on here! I also really hate Furst's animation where his hat repeatedly slips off; it's heavily triggering my OCD and making me want to force it to be straightened out. His galloping animation is so dumb that it's hilarious, though.

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I might; Tactics is probably tied with I and XI for my second worst realm (worst is still II with literally zero BDLs)

I guess I also have Agriass LBO for tactics and given how lacking my DPS is the 450 fight would probably last long enough to use it at 3 bars!

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Used my 15 day ticket on Tactics... Ramza G+, Ovelia glint

Still only one BDL for the realm!

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I guess they're probably implying that all of the covid cases literally are these "missing" flu cases?

Who knows with these fucking idiots, though

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You can buy them from Kites shop if youre fine with 3% artifacts for the moment. Otherwise youll need to wait until the season to end after I think the fourth artifact set for them to start rotating every 3.5 days.

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My current team is Yuffie/Tidus/Rikku (though Rikku only has her dyad; I could replace her with Trey, but I don't know that he's good enough with just his AASB to justify giving up imperils).

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Oh the free relics are Tidus ones, huh

Glad to have a phys water chain, though it'll be hard for Tidus to spare the bars; gotta get Rikku's, I guess!

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I currently use everyone on the banner except Meia (and I would definitely use her if I got her sync!) since I have Gogos chain

Without anything else Trey is a prime candidate for replacement for all of the teams I have him on, though

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Went ahead and did it... 1/11, Trey AASB dupe ><

Only dupe on the banner for me, too

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Pretty tempted to do a pull on this water banner...

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SSJSephirothGokuX123 posted...

Or is it stat based depending on if his magic or mind is higher and not elemental based?

Yeah thats how Im reading it


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In-game it says that the attack type is based on the users stats, so I guess it can probably be either for either element?

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Nah I only have four HAs at the moment and Arc is not near the top of the list!

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Maniac64 posted...

It is in Iowa.

They passed a law that bans any vaccine passports and prohibits companies and governments from asking people for proof of vaccination.

FWIW those laws are almost certainly unconstitutional!

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Ah yeah I have all of that stuff for Lightning so I was able to farm a decent amount; got Arc from 100 to 140ish.

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How much of a pain was it to get a spot in a run? Ive been meaning to do it for a while but have been too lazy to actually deal with figuring out how to sign up...

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Lord Ephraim posted...

My job is still doing the honor system. They're too afraid to mandate vaccines because no one wears masks. There was anonymous survey and 39% of people will quit if they mandate vaccines.

Highly doubt almost any would actually quit if push came to shove. Iirc the hospital system that had the first COVID vaccine mandate I heard about ended up having less than 1% of workers actually refuse when faced with being fired.

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TBC I agree with that.

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It's definitely unlawful and will be struck down again (and I imagine the Biden admin knows that). Congress is the entity with the power to enact such a ban.

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G1-2 beated

I wouldnt be shocked if there turns out to be more to it later, but as it stands I reallllllly dont like the death being basically a coincidence, unrelated to the main plot.

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I think I'm getting close to the end of case 2

The one thing that has most surprised me so far has been how silly Sholmes is. I had assumed he would have been portrayed similarly to Layton.

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I believe recent polling on vaccine mandates has actually had them decently over 50%. With delta I think most people who are vaccinated are finally getting fed up with baseless concerns about vaccines preventing everything from returning to normal.

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I guess low level labyrinths are probably the best way to grind magia now?

Need to get Arc some more since he's on both my water and holy teams...

Kaxon posted...

Valefor I'd definitely one of the hardest 6*. It helps a lot to have AOE abilities for the tornadoes, so Celes or Squall's HA for physical and Shiva for the magical version.

Ah my ice dps would be Ayame/Snow/Cater, so I don't think I have access to any aoe. My ice magic is definitely not ready for 6*s!

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Yeah, though I wouldn't have any way to reinfuse after a diffusion.

Actually I guess in addition to her dyad Rydia's BSB infuses earth; maybe that plus her dyad would be okayish? I also have Tellah with chain + kamikaze USB.

For physical Galuf has his sync plus both awakenings so he's more than set, and Biggs has both an infusing G+ and an AASB with an infusion chase. My third dps options are Xezat (non-infusing AASB), Machina (AASB), Tifa (dyad+LBO), and Ingus (free chain, USB, G+).

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Hrm not sure I have another plausible 6* magicite team. Maaaaybe physical ice, but my understanding is that Valefor's one of the hardest ones. Wish I had a third earth physical character with access to multiple infusions + a cap break (or even a second for magic to back up Red).

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Never inside. Outside maybe a dozen times.

I might have been reconsidering around now if it wasn't for delta.

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Its almost as if Section 230 is actually good and necessary for websites with user generated content to function at all!

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Wow I actually found a shimmering painting!

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Urgency

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Did the half price pull... 1/11, Selphie proshellhaste G+

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Got back to the top myself! Definitely faster than the first time I did it.

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I actually have no idea! I think he's been trying to get up there for like 3 or 4 hours, though

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Rich is learning the true meaning of suffering trying to climb Kugane Tower

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People who won't get vaccinated are absolutely making a massively stupid and selfish decision, but that doesn't mean they deserve to get super sick or die. And that's before we get to people who either can't get vaxxed (like kids, as jakyl mentions), are immunocompromised, or are just one of the unlucky few who get sick even despite being vaccinated.

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masterplum posted...

Lurrus in vintage is a little extreme because in vintage it was more of an issue of vintage playable cards are all obscenely broken and Lurrus just let you replay obscenely broken cards for basically no cost.

The bigger problem was that in other formats you could build decks around companions like

which played basically nothing but even costed clone effects to keep spinning the wheels over and over again.

While with normal combos you could be screwed by never drawing your combo piece, companions were always virtually in your hand and completely immune to discard like thoughtseize which made the games look exactly the same every single time.

I was looking up the other companion cards and saw that there was basically identical card called Gigan, Cyberclaw Terror with Gyrudas name under it. Since Im apparently terrible at googling, I guess Ill just ask here: whats the deal with that?

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red sox 777 posted...

I believe this could actually be constitutional for states to do, because voting is not actually a right established under the U.S. Constitution (like free speech or gun ownership). States are allowed to discriminate for non-prohibited reasons against non-protected classes. For example, states could enter registered voters into a lottery and randomly select 10% of them to be eligible to vote.

There may possibly be a right to autonomy in making healthcare decisions for oneself, although it isn't expressly stated in the Constitution. I think most conservatives think the cases supporting that position were wrongly decided anyway.

Theres already SCOTUS precedent that vaccine mandates are not unconstitutional (I think from the 1918 flu?)

Oh actually it was for smallpox back in 1905:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobson_v._Massachusetts

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Never mind, got her!



Probably should have occurred to me sooner, but I switched Gogo for Vivi (for whom I have a chain... and nothing else). Had to spend a bunch of motes getting him to the point where he wasnt murdered (including accidentally buying the defense section of his board due to a misclick) and Mog had to take over dispel at the expense of Salsa, but I guess the gen 2.5 or whatever chains actually are considerably better than the RW ones and it was worth it!

(I did also buy that Papa USB; I had seen it suggested for XIVs DB and almost got it then)

Used my ticket on II since I have literally zero cap breaks there... 2/11, useless looking Emperor LMR and Leons bUSB

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