Lurker > LordoftheMorons

While better than S2, I remember thinking he was pretty annoying in S1 as well.

(Of course, he did go out strong in S3)

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Probably my most controversial LOST opinion: I actual dislike Charlie quite a bit until like S3 (can't remember when he turned it around for me, but the low point was Fire + Water, the second worst episode of the show)

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Well I was gonna comment on S6 tanking Sayid when he came up, but I see thats been well covered...!

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I would be shocked if a list had my #1 (Desmond) outside their top 10...!

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Pretty certain Juliet would be in my top 10 as well

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I've cleared HoH a few times, but I've never been past floor 100 of PotD.

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Finally got all of the jobs up to at least 60!

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Another weird thing about this contest is that they presumably distort it themselves by having writeups above the matches and following up with rally tweets for underdogs:

https://twitter.com/ringer/status/1365377011548520449

(Also in general twitter polls are gonna be weird since the group of people seeing them will likely shift considerably from match to match based on what Twitter's algorithm is showing in peoples' feeds)

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Oh huh, didnt realize how long Id put off continuing the new AoT season. Quite a few episodes for me to watch now!


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Patches X.4 and X.5 set up the next expansion. 3.3 is the end of the Ishgard arc.

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Stormblood SMN quests: the constant flapping sound effect for Prin drove me crazy; don't know how they decided that was a good idea

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Jack was probably the character whose stock went up the most for me after rewatching the series

(The character who fell the most was Locke)

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The class I always forget has a raise is SMN

Guess that goes along with my complete confusion about how to play the class in the first place!

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I really wish stat priorities for RDM and BLM weren't so different (or better yet that you could switch between multiple sets of melds on the same piece of gear)

Realistically I should meld for RDM since I actually use that more nowadays, but I keep pretending BLM is still my main and end up playing RDM with way too much SpS (I don't do current savages so it's not hugely problematic, but definitely not ideal).

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red sox 777 posted...

Of course they were offensive. They were intended to offend and they did offend. Is it possible they weren't as bad as Trump? Sure, that could be possible, but he's not exactly someone who should be a standard. He did lose the election, after all. In Trump admin 2.0, she would be a great fit.

i mean, in the sense that any insult is offensive to it's target, sure, but it's a pretty weak reason to tank a nomination. If you were talking to your friends about politics and they offered similar opinions on politicians you probably wouldn't even bat an eye (and certainly wouldn't tell prospective employers that they better avoid hiring them).

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Tanden's tweets were maybe unprofessional for someone in her position but they were not actually offensive (oh no, she called Ted Cruz a vampire and used the name "Moscow Mitch", the horror). They're not comparable to Trump's tweets or constant targeted harassment.

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Wow, the historically extremely NIMBY Berkeley City Council voted unanimously to move forward with eliminating single-family zoning:

https://twitter.com/berkeleyside/status/1364727096195522563?s=21

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Companies could make vaccination a condition to do certain activities (e.g. going to a concert, dining in person at a restaurant) or employers could make it a condition of employment which would get most hesitant people get it (and they should once were demand-limited). This is already whats done to make kids get their vaccines before attending school.

I also dont think that the government mandating the vaccine would be at all unacceptable. If you can get to herd immunity without doing so it would probably be better not to (and I think we probably can), but if at the end of the day not enough people will get it their unfounded fears should not be prioritized over other peoples lives.

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That is actually very important! (Not because of gaming consoles, but a semiconductor shortage will affect the supply chains of almost all electronics)

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Ah I guess that would make sense. Probably a better solution than my exile of Return to a usually inactive bar!

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I'm including all abilities (though I don't think any seem totally useless?) plus sprint, teleport, return, and a mount (not the end of the world if those are on another hotbar, but it's annoying since you use them all of the time outside of instances).

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Welp looks like GNB is in the same club as PLD of having one too many buttons to fit everything into three hotbars at level 80...!

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I like Widmore and Richard, but man is Jacob bad (particularly in Across the Sea, by far the worst episode of the show)

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Lightning Strikes posted...

I got stuck in to Stormblood last night, and Im curious about when the story gets bad because it seems really interesting so far!

IMO Stormblood is actually pretty good!

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Pretty sure Cape Westwind is faster!

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https://twitter.com/mattgertz/status/1363872721646596099?s=21

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/feb/22/trump-cpac-republican-presumptive-2024-nominee

Wonder when Mitch is going to realize he made a huge mistake by assuming Trump would just fade away on his own

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I think it's actually a bit slower than a Syrcus PF group counting the waiting time between Castrums (pretty sure you can beat 18 minutes per Syrcus run + party refill), but it's definitely more fun (and is definitely more efficient if you're gonna be in Bozja anyway so the time between Castrums isn't wasted).

As for Bozja itself I much prefer Eureka, and yeah the reason probably does boil down to "soullessness"

(Also they really need to find a better way to do FATE scaling; if you miss Castrum and are left doing skirmishes scaled as if the zone was full it's absolutely miserable having everything take four times longer to die than it should)

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Luigi is also only 60/40ing a character I've never heard of!

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KamikazePotato posted...

Feelings regarding Stormblood are all over the place, but I've literally never seen anyone say they prefer to 3.0 or 5.0.

I actually prefer SB to HW overall (HW's MSQ is better, but I prefer SB's raids enough to make up for it)

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Hope this can get through Congress

https://twitter.com/doug_rand/status/1362588305708249090?s=21

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English article on that:

https://twitter.com/scottlincicome/status/1363485667083366404

Great news

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X_Dante_X posted...

hey, once you get to the light step, you can dual purpose syrcus tower!

Oh right that actually does give a bunch of light

I actually hated light farming even more than books just because it was exactly the same thing over and over. Not sure I could take another 40 Tam-Taras in a row!


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Because I must hate myself I've been working on the book step of another Zodiac weapon

7 down, kill me now

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Man, I have a bunch of classes in the 60s that I'm trying to level and I'm so sick of HoH

Wish I could level in Eureka...!

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ChaosTonyV4 posted...

Setting aside I literally laughed out loud at the but usually accurate part, her tweeting four times more than Trump is not the issue hereshes a bad person.

I mean did you think that the tweets about Ted Cruz or whoever that they showcased were unfair?

I disagree that shes a bad person, but even if she was that would be beside the point because the tweets are the cited reason for Manchins opposition which is just ridiculous considering other people hes voted to confirm

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ChaosTonyV4 posted...

Neera Tanden sucks that bad

Yeah making mean (but usually accurate) tweets is pretty much the worst thing something can possibly do

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Manchin voted to confirm Jeff Sessions

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There are plenty of people who do full time work as independent contractors too in other fields.

I do agree that working full time for a ridesharing company is probably not a great gig, but at the same time I both dont think theres anything wrong with their business model as it applies to people in the part-time scenario, and mandating employee status at X hours would make the obvious choice for Uber to cap hours below that, which also helps no one.

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CaptainOfCrush posted...

I thought the focal argument re: Uber was in the classification of employee vs independent contractor. A part-time employee is still an employee (this is what Uber fought against).

Yeah, you're right (though I think the full-timers are the ones more likely to want to be classified as employees and more of the part timers want to remain contractors)

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MoogleKupo141 posted...

Intended by whom?

I dont buy that the creators didnt realize a service that basically replaces taxis would have full time drivers.

By Uber etc. And I don't mean they that they didn't think they'd have any full time drivers, but if you're a taxi driver you need to buy a medallion (which it wouldn't make any sense to do if you're only driving part time) whereas driving for Uber for like 10 hours a week to make some extra cash does make sense and I believe was how they originally pitched the job.

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I really don't think Uber was intended to be a full time job either

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Esuriat posted...

I'm not totally convinced that COVID is here forever. Yes we have several identified variants right now but only a couple of them have shown any evasion of antibody neutralization. And none of them have evaded them completely. On top of that you have memory T and B cells which could further protect people from the severity and you still have a general reduction of viral loads, and therefore lower reproduction numbers, caused by these other actors of the adaptive immune system.

On top of this, it doesn't mutate nearly as easily as influenza does. We've seen these variants but those variants exist because of the sheer number of people infected at a given time versus what exists in a typical season for influenza. I firmly believe that with some vigilance and a period of a few waves of vaccinations, it may be eradicated after a decade. That's still a decent length of time, but it isn't forever.

On the issue of mask wearing, I expect medical facilities will keep the policies around. It's honestly not a bad idea even if you were just protecting against the flu. Maybe also with public transportation as well during the winter. But for the rest of the general public? I doubt they'll return even in the winter unless we draw some massively unlucky card with a new mutation somewhere down the road.

Well I think it's certain to be here forever in the sense that it is almost certainly not going to be eradicated (a feat I believe we've only accomplished with smallpox?). I do think it's possible (likely, even) that it will become much less problematic for society over time (which I believe is what happened for things like the 1918 flu? It certainly didn't go extinct) due to the partial immunity I mentioned in my last post from having had/been vaccinated against any of its ancestors.

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I think you get the heat gauge at 35 and the battery gauge at 40?

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Seanchan posted...

I have a sinking feeling that COVID is basically here to stay and will end up being like the seasonal flu, as it continues to mutate and those strains are less effected by the vaccines we develop.

It will be, though I think that prior exposure/vaccination to old strains should probably still reduce the lethality of future mutations. So we will eventually get back to normal-ish, but theres a good chance that well need to get yearly vaccines updated for new mutations.

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There are a total of 29 classes I believe (not counting unpromoted ones) so with all jobs you have 6 extra slots

Were getting 15 more weapon (and ring) slots next expansion in exchange for the death of belts, though

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I also cant get over Im just trying to be a good dad taking my kids on vacation during a pandemic

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https://twitter.com/ditzkoff/status/1362465690389798914?s=21

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Uglyface2 posted...

Bobby Darin - Mack the Knife

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https://twitter.com/ndrew_lawrence/status/1362212347868286980?s=21

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