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So if I'm smart, this might go up right before bed. If I'm not smart, it'll be when I get up in the morning.
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What's wrong with Vanellope's voice? It's just Sarah Silverman, right?
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Hit my ladder goal for the month and got to rank 6. Now I'll start at rank 10 tomorrow.
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The swimming pool part was easy, though.
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with jade rogue...

Win: Random garbage paladin
Win: Gadget priest deck
Loss: Cubelock
Loss: Tempo shaman
Win: Randomage
Loss: Cubelock
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cyko posted...

Second, Kefka's theme always reminds me of Pink Floyd - The Trial.

So does the trial from Chrono Trigger. Although, Mitsuda has admitted that this was intentional.
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Actually, now that you mention it, I could do that myself. Changing a constant isn't a big deal.

Although, truthfully, I'm not intensely worried. Unless people here turn out to all be dicks, honor system should be fine. I mean, this is like being in a conversation and just having the grace to let everyone have a chance to speak. If someone fails to follow this "rule", what am I going to do to punish them? Refuse to accept their songs for the rest of the nomination period? The damage is done at that point.
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WickIebee posted...

I didn't play much of it, and the one thing I'd like fixed is a simple thing.

Get rid of the "your choices will have consequences" that appears after everything. I've played Visual Novels and just seeing that appear was far more torture than LITERALLY DYING after I've made a choice before. I turned off LiS because of that thing.

At least it wasn't a Telltale game, and your choices actually do have consequences. Even if ultimately you rewind time and erase all of them.
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Robazoid posted...

Obvious spoilers for Life is Strange

At one point in time I probably could've written a book about all the changes I would make to Life is Strange. Here are a few broad ideas:

-Shorten (or cut) the nightmare sequence
-Have more than two endings, have prior choices impact them rather than one final choice, and have each ending feel meaningful
-Have a better explanation for the tornado other than a bad time travel cliche

Basically just rework episode five entirely. It still had potential to have a 20/10 ending up to that point.

Yeah, I can get behind these.
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Oh hey, I literally just played this game for the first time.

* Give us an ending that isn't a Xanatos Gambit. (I'd be more specific, but spoilers.)
* No more fucking bottles.
* Be a tiny pinch more consistent with the time-rewind rules, especially as they pertain to photographs.
* More instances where time-rewinding has an impact on the game, particularly in the Easter eggs.
* A bit more foreshadowing of the villain so he/she doesn't have to monologue throughout the final episode to establish his/her bad guy cred.
* Characters not being boneheads, like going to the lighthouse for no reason.
* But mostly give us a "true ending", even if it requires multiple playthroughs to achieve. Something like, oh, I don't know, maybe Max photographing Nathan in the bathroom as evidence?
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I also have a list, however I dunno I'll be too interested in that while nominations are open.
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bryans7 posted...

Mobilezoid posted...

Also, at what age do you move past mid-20s? 28? 29?

20-23: early 20s. You get four years of this, hooray.

24-26: mid 20s

27-29: late 20s

Agreed, except I don't count 20 as "twenties". It's just twenty. So three years of each.

And you young whippersnappers, you think where you're at is scary. I'm in my late thirties. I'm probably gonna keel over and die any minute now.
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BlueCrystalTear posted...

I'm more confused than I was before lol

The basic concept is simple.

The money in an IRA (like all investments) is going to be taxed exactly once. In traditional, you are taxed on that money after it comes out. In a Roth, you are taxed when it goes in.

So, let's pretend that you'll be taxed 28% on both ends. In the Roth, that money will be income this year, and you'll pay 28% of that amount in taxes for 2018. In the traditional, that money will be income in the year it comes out of your retirement, and you'll pay 28% of that amount in taxes for ~2050. Taking the 28% hit on either end will work out exactly the same.

So unless there are other, sneakier factors at work like the way your employer matches your investments, the only thing you have to ask is, "Will I be paying taxes at a higher or lower rate when I'm going to be taking this money out?"

Good luck guessing the tax code in thirty years, though. I can already promise you won't be in the 28% tax bracket next year.
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For a non-cynical response, Homelands from Shatter sounds like Pokerface when the guitar comes in at nearly a minute in.

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Kamekguy posted...

One that always stood out to me was Gruntilda's Lair being Teddy Bear Picnic.

Does that really count? It was obvious that the song was written with the intent to reference TBP. By that argument, any song that has a piece of a work of classical music "sounds like" the classical music it was specifically emulating.

Honor For All sounds like Moonlight Sonata.


Dungeon Fighter's Tower of Despair sounds like the classic death theme.


There are 11 tracks on the Catherine OST that are literally named for the classical work they sound like.

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Space Jam from Barkley SUAJG sounds an awful lot like Space Jam from the Space Jam soundtrack.

People seem to think Rivellon from Divinity Original Sin 2 sounds like an Offspring song that isn't even close to the same style.



I don't hear it, but maybe somebody here will.
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skullbone posted...

Well I mean it doesn't feel very good having your Barnes burned in spell hunter so they had to nerf that card. I mean could you imagine having your Barnes get milled before you can pull out your Y'Shaarj on turn 4? There's no counter play to that situation for you!

The sarcasm, it burns.
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MariaTaylor posted...

is this the first time a hearthstone card has ever been buffed? I remember this coming up a lot, relating to how they don't nerf cards often enough and they never buff cards but I don't know how literal that is. in this case it's really just undoing a nerf but that's still super interesting.

Since the game came out of beta, yes.

There's a good reason why they don't buff cards -- it isn't worth the development time. If a card is too strong, it affects the meta in a negative way and needs to be fixed. If a card is too weak, it...occasionally makes your arena picks and randomized effects less good. But it seldom actively hurts anything. OTOH, if they buff it, that requires a load of playtesting and analysis for a card that either (a) still doesn't see play or (b) will possibly be too strong and need to be tuned back down.

As such, I expect that nerf reversion is the only situation where you will see this happen, and that will be extremely rare on its own.
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Really surprised by those HoF choices. Not Ice Block, obviously. And I like the change they made to Molten Giant, albeit at least one year later than it should have been made. But I'm a little perplexed by Coldlight being the third entry, and that there weren't any other choices made.

Someone's going to have to explain what Brode means by limiting interactivity with battlecries, because I'm not really seeing it. I mean, we already have that shaman card, Murmuring Elemental, which could double up the draws if we're looking at mill. The only thing I see is that maybe they're making a deck that focuses exclusively on cheap, powerful battlecries that outright win the game for you (which would be a Really Bad Idea) and they want to ensure that deck doesn't have an easy way to fuel its draw engine.

I mean, I get why coldlight might be removed. It's a neutral Arcane Intellect (that can be run in addition to AI) to cycle a deck swiftly for combo purposes. However, the capacity to mill a control opponent is also sometimes the only way to defeat it -- look at Raza priest. Being able to force your opponent to draw...well, it's frustrating when it hits you, but it's also a very powerful counter to some dominant strategies.

Anyway, I guess there aren't too many cards that need to be ushered out, but I really expected Alexstrazsa to be on that list.
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Gatarix posted...

Is it really that important to get in the first 200 nominations? When I'm deciding what to support, I never go linearly through the topic. I either bounce around, or consult the spreadsheet to see what's on the 3/4 threshold.

Many users begin at post 1 and listen to each song in sequence. It's the only way they can be certain that they haven't overlooked anything. However, they listen much more astutely to the earlier songs, either due to patience, running out of time, or using up all their nominations before they reach post #400. Even if people don't truly go sequentially, there's still definitely an immediacy effect that comes from being high on page 1.
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All right, folks. Basically your last chance to ask. Does anyone have any reasons to suggest we should be making any changes to the nomination process? Just got a message from Ed saying how much he missed the two-phase system I tried my first year as host, and how he was hoping I'd have some new innovations. I have no real problems with the 20 + 5 method as long as I don't have to do the data entry manually, though. I will, however, make a humble request that everyone sticks to 5 nominations on the first day that we open things up so everyone has a chance to get their favorite choices in the first ~200 or so nominations even if they aren't here the second the thread goes up.
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NFUN posted...

xp1337 posted...

NFUN posted...

How long does the first stage last?

am i the only one who saw this question and thought it meant the first stage of nominations

'cuz that's "roughly two weeks". probably. according to the first post.

that's what I meant

reading is 4 nerdz

Gonna keep it up for at least two weekends.
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"No game of Hearthstone has ever been decided by skill," said nobody ever, except Ulti. However, Ulti's made it a point to say it enough to make up for the rest of the world.
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Everyone has to make that mistake once. It might not be immediately obvious the text of firelands will fully resolve before the deathrattle triggers. (There are some pretty strange interactions, and Sylvannas has been out of standard for a year.)
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If it takes 3 karma, then 3 days. (Assuming you visit the board each day.)
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Let's dance, boys.
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tazzyboyishere posted...

2-game limit really sucks for games with great soundtracks

Not if they're well-recognized by the board. Undertale's first year, it had 9 songs in a 128-song bracket. That's essentially the highest representation a game has ever had.

And yet somehow we missed Death By Glamour, Dummy! or Spear of Justice. *boggle*
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out of curiosity, do new accounts still have a trial period before they can post on the forums?
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Also, if anyone has any ideas where we might cross-post about the contest to hopefully pick up another decent voter or two, I'd love to see some fresh blood. As the board's population wanes, I'm not beneath doing a little recruiting. I'd like to see the votals stay above 25 throughout the contest.
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Team Rocket Elite posted...

Two per game is kinda rough.

Unfortunately, there's a history with this that goes back to...VGMC3, I think? I wasn't around back then, but hopefully nobody would try to nominate 20 tracks from Lunar again.

KCF0107 posted...

do you still want this to be bumped?

I do, thank you. I even looked at this a couple hours ago, saw the timestamp, and went "that's today, right? I did this earlier today?"

Sometimes I'm an idiot.
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SeabassDebeste posted...

if it's being held by one end then i don't think f=mg necessarily

Yeah, this doesn't sound right to me, but I've got nothing else to go on.

SomeKindOfJoke posted...

Convert the force from gravity to a moment by multiplying it by the distance from the supported end to the center of gravity (half the length since they're given as uniform)

Dunno what that means. I know that I = m*r^2 (times some constant based on shape, in this case 1/3) -- is that the "moment" you're referring to?

pyresword posted...

stuff

Sorry, that went over my head. It's been a long time since I've done vector-based stuff (and I don't think this kid needs to know anything about cross product,) but since when it radius a vector? Also, does your argument about center of mass apply when it's pivoted around one end? It's a caber that hit the ground, so the pivot point is at the base.

In any event, I got through the session. There was another question that gave me a bunch of trouble because my answer kept not making sense (yay for things falling faster than gravity), but ultimately he wanted help with his next section more, which was on charge and magnetism....somebody shoot me now. Think I'm gonna make the kid figure it out himself until he gets to R-C circuits. Or, in the words of my father, the electrical engineer, "What's a Coulomb?"
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When did YouTube start showing back to back ads? I've been seeing them on literally every video I looked at today, and it's freaking obnoxious. Almost like they're daring me to walk away or pay for YouTube red or something.
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Camden posted...

I hate the minions that cost 8+ quest. Rather play 1,000 murlocs, would probably be faster.

I'm not ashamed to drop an inconvenient quest. You do get one reset per day, after all.

I usually stick that one out, though. There are decks where there's a lot of 8+, or I can just play a deck I want to play that has at least 2 high-cost targets and stick around for a bit. I mean, that's like 5 games of control lock. (1 void lord and a n'zoth, np.)
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and I can't leave out Secret of Mana...

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Wait, am I supposed to calculate torque by F*m*sin(theta), and let F = mg?
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I'm a math tutor, but I just got contacted by a student who wants help with physics in less than an hour, and sent me some questions he wants to look at. Basic physics, I'm usually fine with, but this is rotational garbage. We did some torque last week, and now he has moment of inertia questions. I was able to reason through what the first few questions require, but then I hit these two, that don't compute to me:

1. In the caber toss, a contest of strength and skill that is part of Scottish games, contestants toss a heavy uniform pole, landing it on its end. A 5.9-m tall pole with a mass of 79 kg has just landed on its end. It is tipped by 25 degrees from the vertical and is starting to rotate about the end that touches the ground. Determine the angular acceleration.

2. A baseball bat has a mass of 0.82 kg and is 0.86 m long. It's held vertically and then allowed to fall. What is the bat's angular acceleration when it has reached 20 degrees from the vertical? (Model the bat as a uniform rod.)

Okay, so I know there's formulas I can use for moment of inertia. I understand that if I knew the net torque, I could use that to find angular acceleration. But I see no mention of torque anywhere. Force due to gravity, sure, but that's not rotational.

The only other way I know to find angular acceleration would require comparing rotation to time. We have rotation, I guess?, but we don't have any time component. So what am I missing?
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kateee posted...

when's the movie

No shit. This seems like the kind of thing some horror writer would have surely done by now.

And to think this all took place (or at least some of it) like 20 minutes away. Not that I pay attention to the local news, but geez.
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bah, my plan is ruined!

_ Y _ Y _ Y

Guessed: E, A

Guesses remaining: 4
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no A.

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Guessed: E, A

Guesses remaining: 4
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no E.

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Guessed: E

Guesses remaining: 5
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Robazoid posted...

I don't own a dog but my cat really hates them.

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entropy

I have to run out. If that's right, someone else can take it.
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o, then
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lol, that's kinda funny...but yeah, I think I'd just move on to the next game since he's not doing you any favors.
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a
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bump
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ClyTheCool posted...

I can usually only get to 5 or 6 on a good run. I suck at this game I guess

I've gotten to 10 wins twice though. I felt like a GOD in those runs. But no 12 yet....

Remember that every time you win, somebody else loses. You only get 3 losses, so conversely, the expectation for average number of wins should also be 3.

Obviously, talented players -- contrary to Ulti's claims, there is skill involved in Hearthstone -- will do better than 3 most of the time. However, nobody does much better than an average of 7.

However, what you're seeing that makes it feel like people do better than you is primarily two factors. One, people overrepresent their wins. Two, only people who are above the curve tend to talk about their performance.
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I guess this match shows you what B8's preferences are.

8-2
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In light of this topic, I panicked and got gas earlier than I needed to today. The meter was down to an eighth, but I had only gone 200 miles when I can usually go 250. When I went to fill the tank, it only took 8.5 gallons out of 11.
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