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Distant_Rainbow posted...

The very act of choosing Babylon itself is sinking everything into science.

Bowman advice is worthless outside of a 1vs1 tiny map situation, so it shouldn't count as a general Babylon strategy. It's not sustainable for as long a time as Assyria or Huns either; even with optimal civ placement you're not knocking out more than one rival with it. Beyond it you're just trying to wreck rivals with superior tech, which is, again, sinking everything in science, just in a military manner.

i think we have different definitions of the term

every strategy in civ v is only good for the turns in which it is viable and every civ experiences ebbs and flows of power like a sine wave. babylon is unique in that it gets two peaks--ancient era and an ever-rising one from the industrial era onward.

bowmen are viable from about turn 10 to turn 40. if babylon starts next to india, it can easily crush it. continents is probably babylon's strongest mapstyle since it can easily clear its starting continent
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Distant_Rainbow posted...

Darkman124 posted...

BUILD NUKE 10

USE NUKE 12

so funny. the solution to gandhi in civ v was play babylon and win before he nukes you

If you were not going for a domination victory there's no reason to worry about Gandhi's nukes at all, period. No reason to pick Babylon or Korea or such and sink everything in science just because of Gandhi.

Only idiots who were warmongering liberally yet decided to leave Gandhi alone until he got nuke techs were the ones to actually get nuked by him.

babylon doesnt have to sink everything in science

it's one of the faster domination civs. babylonian bowmen are basically composite bowmen for half price. easy early-game rush, works better than assyria or huns ancient era rush IMO, and walls make counter-defense super easy since they are basically arsenals in the ancient era.

for later contact, babylon can get artillery less than 25 turns after mongols/china get keshiks/chokonus.
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BUILD NUKE 10

USE NUKE 12

so funny. the solution to gandhi in civ v was play babylon and win before he nukes you
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like to be clear this isnt a "oh fuck that white piece of shit he came into my store" situation

it's a "this specific dish is designed to not be as spicy" situation

you're a victim of your own lack of adventurousness. there are other chicken dishes that are spicier, and goat dishes are very spicy.

this is like people who order palak paneer and wonder why it is so mild. paneer is cheese!
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ChainedRedone posted...

That tikka masala looks a lot like what I get. But isn't it supposed to be served in curry? I do always tell them I want it hot.

the tikka masala sauce is technically, by the broadest possible definition, a type of curry. but it is hugely inconsistent with pretty much every other variety and is suspected to not be an old indian dish but actually something invented in the 1960s in scotland specifically because white people didn't want strongly spiced dishes.

it's essentially a tomato sauce over diced chicken breast.

ask for goat if you want spicy.
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ChainedRedone posted...

Shit isn't spicy at all. What the fuck. I always get shafted because I don't like ethnically exotic enough. Fuck that.

are you confusing tikka masala for curry

or possibly masaman curry for indian food
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LethalAffinity posted...

That whole season is quite bad minus Hardhome and when Jon executes Janos Slynt.

helps that it was almost line-for-line from the book

that chapter was the high point of book v

NadYobWoc posted...

Season 5 is by far the worst the season. Still like it though.

iirc the guy who played prince doran martell was pissed that the writers decided to have ellaria sand coup dorne

like they replaced one of the dumbest plots ever from the books (quentyn's quest to die in a fire) but in so doing removed one of the most interesting characters and reduced dorne to 'random subsidiary of danerys that will be conquered by cersei #2'
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Mal_Fet posted...

every instance

sorry, would you mind posting every instance of title IX being used so we could verify that all of them are shitshows?

i don't dispute that its broad wording allows for shitshows such as this one to occur, and even the title IX director under obama had been trying to push against the manner universities started enforcing it in some cases.
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what kind of person would you recommend twilight struggle to?
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i understand why a popcorn movie/make the dog lovers cry movie would not be subtitled
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centripetal force on an object moving around a center point = v^2 / r directed at the center point of the circle

spin a space station such that v^2/r = 9.81 and the 'center point' is below the floors the astronauts walk on

viola gravity
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start as melee and play stealthy

you suck donkey cock at shooting until like the fourth mission, and that's IF you invest in rifles or pistols (don't invest in heavy weapons, there is no heavy machine gun. heavy weapons = rocket launchers, plasma launchers, etc- low ammo, high power)
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I take it he was agreeable?
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http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/349548-clintons-score-settling-frustrates-democrats

“The best thing she could do is disappear,” said one former Clinton fundraiser and surrogate who played an active role at the convention. “She’s doing harm to all of us because of her own selfishness. Honestly, I wish she’d just shut the f--- up and go away.”

I don't think this is really fair considering only the most bitter excerpts from the book have been revealed, and its marketing has made clear that a huge portion of it is going to be mea culpa.

But I do think that, more generally, the idea that being criticized for not going far enough when your opponents are ripping on each others' wives and families is a little silly as a point of blame for an election loss, and I think those sections of her book are less carefully planned evaluations and more personal venting
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GeneralKenobi85 posted...

Omega Beams are just nerfed in the DCAU. Most characters are in some form actually.

iirc in Superman:The Animated Series, during Kal-El's final confrontation with Darkseid he takes the beam to the face, emerges with minimal harm, then crushes darkseid's face when he tries to do it again and causes the beam to blast him instead

neither character suffer any permanent injuries from this

the omega beam is mostly presented as a way to kill turpin

anyway the real problem with "destroyer" is the total undermining of the great world of cardboard speech in order to have lex be the hero
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Kerred posted...

I posted a solitaire variant for TtA on board game geek, plays similar to a Stonemeier Automa factory.

i have played your solitaire variant! it helped me understand the midgame strategies
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did you save paul
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KILBOTz posted...

I think it was a rescue abused by a man that looked like me or something but that was like 15 years ago so I'm not sure on that.

yeah it is not always so cut and dry

my sister in law's dog hates all men and paws at their nuts (hard) because he doesnt want her paying attention to anyone that isnt her. she got him as a baby puppy, and though he was a rescue, he never had any trauma. that's her fault.

otoh, the husky i fostered a year ago was just afraid of men. he warmed up to me (and actually only me) through intensive effort, but i generally advised my male friends to leave him alone because of his issues.
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she wanted to understand what it was like to not have me

i cut contact and started dating someone else 48 hrs later.

she proceeded to stalk me for like two years afterward

i am kinda grateful for her stupid decisions.
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the story of the 71 year old man who used the realdoll to cope with the loss of his companion and closest friend is really sad.

error: feelings detected, clearing RAM
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Laserion posted...

This doesn't say anything about the possibility of destroying one with it. I'm sure that during your lifetime, you expend as much energy as [insert large number here] bullets, and yet a single one can kill you.

But the idea is bad anyway. Like dropping a bag of s*** on top of a helicopter. Where is all that s*** going to go when it literally hits the fan?

the point is that the energy that is being continuously expended greatly exceeds the energy release of bombs

they would do very little
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voldothegr8 posted...

*awaits spin that makes this seem bad*

it's good. the spin you'll hear won't come from the left.
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this is one of the best things trump has done as president and is a positive mark for him by almost any standard, except apparently the morally bankrupt standards that mcconnell and ryan are operating under
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happy for you.
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Yaridovich posted...

fast food places

the first part of any such podcast would be 'stop eating at fast food places entirely, it is a very bad financial deal for you not only in the moment but when you have health issues down the line'
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sauceje posted...

Then that's my point. There is more build variety at the outset, but on a competitive level very few builds remain. Diablo 3 has probably a higher variety of successful endgame builds than PoE at this point.

the favored build of the moment in PoE is league-dependent.
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the end-game of getting into board games:

ad astra
indonesia
twilight struggle
star wars rebellion
through the ages
18xx
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St0rmFury posted...

Oberyn was a cocky idiot.

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FF_Redux posted...

The difference is with PoE you made characters for different end game purposes, some do maps, some go for bosses, some farm stuff, some craft, some want to do the final boss, some want to experiment and more.

there are definitely a narrow subset of builds that can do everything, ie aura necromancers, rf flameblasters, frostbolt totems, etc
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5e is far more accessible than past dnd

it's not uncommon for people with social skills to like it
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sauceje posted...

Darkman124 posted...

good summary, though i disagree on the latter point and think poe has significantly more variety

Is everything viable at end game levels?

no but any build that narrowly focused on nodes and notables related to its primary skillset will at least finish cruel with only moderate difficulty
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in 2007 i was waking up from bad sex with a fat girl to smoke a bowl and pretend to not be asleep in classes that probably would be helping my work right now and laying the foundations for the alcoholism i finally addressed this year

i mostly disliked my social circle and just used it to make sure i had something to do.

life is better now
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punch man

punch fight
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DifferentialEquation posted...

Why no stocks assuming it's with money after 401k & IRA are maxed and it's invested companies that you believe will be good long term and you're not attempting to day trade?

because "what you believe" is probably not correlated with long term market performance at all
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The Admiral posted...

6. If you ever hire a financial advisor, make sure they commit to the fiduciary standard.

imo there is only one good kind of financial advisor and that is the kind that you pay a flat fee to for him to give you a set of ETFs and/or stocks to purchase yourself that reflect your own risk tolerance and timeline, and then you both walk away

with the fiduciary rule gone there really is no 'committing to the standard' only various degrees of not

and anyway the whole concept of paying someone to invest for you goes against the concept of indexing
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In the books, Lord Greyjoy is well-known to be insane.

You must consider this in your analysis. The guy is a fucking loon.
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I feel like hollywood kind of looked at him and went "We need a new A-list male, all our existing ones are too old."

And they just threw a ton of roles at him.
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clover ate like a quarter pound of brisket at a bbq last week and had diarrhea for 48 hrs and spent most of that time licking her butt.
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Chicken posted...

I can words, too.

your words are shit

sauceje posted...

Diablo 3 has much better combat
Path of Exile has much better build customization (but the build variety ends up being pretty similar to D3 anyway)

good summary, though i disagree on the latter point and think poe has significantly more variety
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Bad_Mojo posted...

It's cute you guys think Loras is really injured

yeah it is quite clear that cersei's small council was just lying to her continuously

DuranOfForcena posted...

i haven't seen any compelling theories that make sense in explaining exactly why he isn't

mostly that her source for that information went on to become a pirate with her new fleet at the first sign of trouble iirc, and that varys' little birds do not actually work for qyburn in the book

generally what i assumed was 'anything i heard in a cersei chapter? assume the opposite is true'

she is the true epitome of unreliable narrator.
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The Admiral posted...

No, it's stupid enough that Hillary could have plausibly done it.

in the book clinton admits to many of her mistakes in the the campaign

are you really going to make her better than you or will you admit that you goofed
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545x39 posted...

No, registration is the first step to confiscation.

remember the time the government confiscated everyone's cars

Pepperidge Farm remembers
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CarlGrimes posted...

Meh, so this time it was real.

your topic was the equivalent of a chain email forward from grandma

post better or get the fuck out of here
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Manocheese posted...

Even if the video isn't fake, does that really count as a save? The guy was doing just fine floating in that little puddle.

drive your car into a river and try to escape yourself
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close your account
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