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The Didact has a huge backstory in the lore that is not explored that much in the game, which makes him a better character imo. I enjoyed the Halo 4 campaign though, not as good as the original Bungie games but the story wasn't bad. I also enjoyed Chief being a bit more emotional in Halo 4, and the cut scenes were great.

The gameplay was pretty meh though, and Prometheans are not fun to fight at all. Way too many quick time events, and pretty annoying how the Didact is so OP that whenever you go to fight him he just immediately force chokes you lol, you never get any proper boss fight or anything against him. Also pretty annoying you don't get like any backstory on who this faction of the Covenant is and why they are still fighting you, and then they just immediately get relegated to lackeys of the Didact when he awakens. Complete waste of them as an enemy.

Dan_Haren- posted...

Opec cutting production means gas prices are going to go up. (They cut the quota by 2mil but several countries weren't meeting quota to begin with, so the ACTUAL production cut is about 900k-1.1mil, somewhere in that range). And with the high demand in europe, that number is going to shoot up. We're going to see the highest gas prices ever this winter IMO.

Depending on how oil prices react, I would not be surprised if OPEC does another big cut in November when they meet. They want $100+ oil, and they are going to get it. No one can really stop them anymore now that US Shale has thrown in the towel.

Dat_Cracka_Jax posted...

I would have but I'm still skittish to leveraged funds. I'm riding civi though, so thank you for that one

Yeah CIVI is my long term hold, I am just sitting back and collecting the dividends. GUSH is a much shorter term, higher risk investment, I'll probably sell pretty soon again.

I thought OPEC+ cutting 2 million bpd would have a bigger immediate impact than this, especially since estimates all week were 500k to 1 million max. At least GUSH is still having a green day though, hopefully other people got in with me when it was $114 a couple weeks ago!

Yeah I always thought even in the books the way Dany got the Unsullied was a bit cheesy, how tf do the slavers not have a contingency plan...

Reach is a bit more lore intensive than the Halo games before it, it is good to know at least that Reach is the birth place of the Spartans, the military capital of humanity, and basically the last line of defense before Earth. If Reach falls, then the war is basically over and humanity will just retreat to Earth for one final stand. Also Dr. Halsey is the master mind behind the Spartan II's, and the creator of Cortana.

Halsey made the Spartan II's (what Master Chief and Jorge are) but did not make the Spartan III's, which were basically slightly weaker mass produced versions of the II's. All of Noble team except Jorge are Spartan III's, which is why Jorge is "the big guy" compared to the rest and also the only one who seems to show Halsey any respect.

AngelsNAirwav3s posted...

I just bought in a bunch of GUSH today at $114, hopefully this is the bottom!

Up to $142 today, not bad. We will see what this OPEC production cut is going to look like.

Kamen_Rider_Blade posted...

I never said they were to "Stop Hurricanes", that's fundamentally impossible. A side benefit of the massive wind farms along our coast & off-shore is to just "Reducing the Hurricanes Intensity". That's all.

The primary purpose is to generate power along the US coast line where the vast majority of people live.

Having LOTs of Wind Farms provide Green Energy for us and I think that's worth it.

Imagine how much power we can capture if the US coast line was dotted with dense Windfarms across the coast for countless miles deep into our territorial economic zone.

The amount of energy we can generate.

Sounds great, except for the reducing a hurricanes intensity part, that is just not possible, which is what the original Stanford video was about

Kamen_Rider_Blade posted...

US launches program to boost floating wind turbines
https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/09/us-launches-program-to-boost-floating-wind-turbines/
Most of the West Coast will need floating hardware to harvest offshore wind.

Too late, we're already investing ALOT of money into offshore wind turbines.

We arent investing money into wind turbines to stop hurricanes though. Which is probably why they want to put those on the WEST coast, where hurricanes are extremely rare.

Gusts of up to 128 mph? Yeah that wont last very long.

Lets see, one of the largest off shore wind farms in the world, the Hornsea Project 1, covers an area larger than Philadelphia, took 4 years to build, and cost a whopping 4.2 billion. This project has a grand total of 165 wind turbines. And definitely not the newer expensive turbines which could survive 128 mph wind.

The video says tens of thousands of turbines would be required to effect a hurricane (which I think is low probably hundreds of thousands to have any actual effect), this is going to take a very very long time and a ton of money and these would have to be stacked basically right next to each other to take up the smallest area possible, meters apart from each other to basically make a wall (hopefully the ocean floor in such a large area is flat and wants to play ball).

Then we get into maintenance on the things, which is extremely expensive, especially being in a hurricane hotspot. You keep posting things about the turbines, but the wind towers themselves can only withstand 175 mph, not the 200+ you can see in a big storm. So every big storm we see 10%-20% minimum (look how easy current off shore wind farms get damaged, that are deliberately put as far from hurricanes as possible) of these at least with minor damage to the blades, or catastrophic damage to the whole tower. Now we need to go fix tens of thousands of windmills before the next storm hits. I cant even fathom the amount of man power and capital that would take.

Yeah, just 5 minutes of thinking and you realize using a wind farm to slow down a hurricane is just pure science fiction.

Heres an idea even better though that I know you will love. Plastic Roadways!!!

https://youtu.be/IQW6j4Xhrfo

Kamen_Rider_Blade posted...

That's more of a "Side Benefit" of having thousands upon thousands of Wind Turbines off-shore.

The main purpose of the Off-shore Wind Farm is for power generation and there is plenty of real estate off the US coast to plant Wind Farms.

And hurricane alley would be the absolute worst place to put an off shore wind farm

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If the Great Northern Conspiracy theory is true, then we definitely dont know everything from Roberts Rebellion. I dont think something that complicated is actually going to turn out correct, but I do think there is a lot more to Roberts Rebellion that we dont know besides R+L=J and what the show portrayed. There is quite a bit of mystery behind Rhaegar for example. I dont trust HBO to do the story justice though, unless all 7 books were out (inb4itwillneverhappenderp)

Kamen_Rider_Blade posted...

If you actually read the article, it was never meant to "Stop the hurricane", just "reduce it's storm rating by a few tiers" to be manageable.

Current Wind Turbines are already designed to withstand hurricanes while off-shore. That's why they are already allowed to operate in area's where Hurricanes might go.

Solar Roadways is a completely different animal and is dumb as eff.

I definitely watched the video, and yes using thousands and thousands and thousands of windmills to reduce the force of a hurricane is extremely stupid. Just cause they made a little computer graphic doesnt make the idea any more realistic.

Kloe_Rinz posted...

That costs money and costing money is a cardinal sin in corporate America

Do you really think the problem is capitalism? Or maybe its that the idea of using a wall of windmills to stop a hurricane is a fucking terrible idea as soon as you put any actual thought into it, like Solar Roadways?

Heineken14 posted...

What comes out first? Cyber truck or Star Citizen?

Its a race between Cyber Truck, Semi, and Robo taxi. Which product that every year since 2017 has been promised we expect this to be fully available for everyone next year!!! will arrive first?? My guess is none of the above

We already do, look how many more people used to die 100 years ago in the US compared to today in natural disasters. I dont think anyone in the US has died in more than 30 years from a drought or famine. Those used to be devastating

I havent watched House of the Dragon yet, but I am assuming that only covers the Dance of the Dragons?

If so, Aegon the Conqueror through Maegar would be sweet. The Blackfyre rebellions would also be interesting to cover. Dunk and Egg through Aegon the Unlikelys rule and Summerhall would be good.

A totally original story set in Valyria would be epic. Or you could tell any original story you want in Westeros set during the Age of Heroes, those time periods are a blank canvas w/ familiar families that dont have to stick to any lore really.

I think a story about the Long Night would be pretty boring though.

gunplagirl posted...

We allow so many products in our foods that Europe outright criminalized. The worst thing is that by defining this stuff and doing it through policy under a Democrat means it's guaranteed to go as soon as a Republican is in office.

Europe should probably criminalize alcohol and tobacco, those are super unhealthy to consume

CreekCo posted...

That was really just for that year because we were all on lockdown and its an outlier.

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.05.23.22275458v2.full.pdf

Since we are outside again, the cause is now actually Covid. Dont just go believing the first thing you read.

Doesnt it say right at the top of that paper that COVID was #9 in causes of death?

Skinny AF: pecs are non existent, tiny arms, lats are also non existent. Arms are noodles, delts are missing, no visible abs so not that lean either

A_Good_Boy posted...

We're definitely going to see more weird food labeling shit like pizza counting as a vegetable because it's slathered in tomato sauce.

There will be "healthy" versions of everything, all they have to do is not have too much added sugar, sodium, and saturated fat. No reason everything from pizza to ice cream won't be able to easily fit under the label.

It will make things slightly more convenient for me, now I don't have to flip the package over. Not sure that this will have any impact though, simply slapping the word "healthy" on some foods because it is whole grain won't stop people from eating 4000 calories a day and not exercising.

I don't really see any obvious motives for any country to blow these up. NS 2 was never operational, and NS 1 has been shut down for a couple weeks already because of "technical problems," so Russia was already utilizing the "Remove the sanctions and we can 'fix' the glitch and gas will flow again" strategy. Causing major damage to the pipeline so now they definitely can't be brought on again anytime soon just seems to remove Russia's leverage.

Also I don't see why any NATO country or Ukraine would do this either, gas hasn't been flowing through them for weeks, you would think they would just keep ignoring Russia instead of blowing it up. And of course the idea that the US did this because Biden said "Nord 2 will be stopped one way or another" at the beginning of the year is absurd.

bigblu89 posted...

Bartolo Colon 1) is not an everyday player 2) is not considered one of the strongest players in the league, like Alonso is and 3) no one said every baseball player is in peak physical shape, jut that Alonso is.

You must be a Mets fan or something, the guy is a phenomenal ball player but he is not in "peak physical shape" lol

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/3/2/7/AANRQlAADuXH.jpg

This guy certainly has some fat to lose and room to be healthier if he wanted. Not necessary though when your job is to play first base and hit bombs

pinky0926 posted...

Yes and

Just showing that this post is factually wrong:

meestermj posted...

Muscles don't guarantee a person is healthy.
Lack of Muscles isn't inherently unhealthy or undesirable.

The Targaryen's are known for having prophetic dreams, it is how they knew the Doom of Valyria was coming and are the only ones who survived it. I highly doubt these dreams are from Bran, or that this show is even "canon" with the original series... especially because the one Aegon saw told him that a Targaryen must always be on the Iron Throne and that "all of Westeros" must be united to stand against the coming darkness. Dany wasn't even on the Iron Throne when the Night King was defeated, and the "all of Westeros" certainly wasn't united against the White Walkers.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07853890.2018.1511918

Low muscle mass is a predictor of poor morbidity and mortality and occurs in several populations. Low muscle mass is associated with outcomes such as higher surgical and post-operative complications, longer length of hospital stay, lower physical function, poorer quality of life and shorter survival.

Balon Greyjoy, Theons dad, declares himself King of the Iron Islands. He is the 5th king.

Season 1 through 3 are amazing, season 4 is still really good, but that is where I noticed the first couple cracks forming, and the show making changes that serve no logical purpose and just ruin a couple key storylines. It is all down hill from there.

I love Usopp because he represents the every man who doesnt have any outrageous haki or devil fruit powers. He has to fight all these crazy powerful people with just his mind, good aim, and a sling shot

We found him. TC is the Reddit guy who only bangs to this song:

https://youtu.be/eN6jkWxxm2Y

Getting down to low teen bodyfat % is not that hard, and you will look great on the beach. Getting into the single digit bodyfat % is definitely harder and not as healthy, and if you aren't on PEDs then in everyday life you will look sickly.

The issue is with Hollywood acting like you can get as big as Chris Hemsworth or The Rock without using steroids. But it is already too late to focus on Hollywood, Social Media has taken over. Fake natty fitness influencers have waaaaaaaay more impact on the younger generation than any movie.

https://twitter.com/business/status/1574474905323814924?s=20&t=wGgPw2TVUQJ8g2MMYYpM5w

Just the way I have dragged my friends to marvel movies with no reaction, and then the Avatar 2 trailer plays and they are like oh fuck yeah Im thinking for the 3rd time, James Cameron might save the box office

silverpine posted...

i hope it fuckin bombs dude
or i hope it's a genuinely great movie

if it's an average movie that makes a ton of money i'll be pissed dammit

I think its about time we admit Titanic and Avatar are better than just average. Yeah its cool to hate things that are popular, but no other original movie has gotten close to their box office.

They are not mind blowing, but decent movies that just connected with everyone.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0165032722010643

Damn, yet another study

I think Acemos just has some pent up hate for Avatar for some reason, havent seen anything else about it.

Avatar 2 release in December will tell us how much impact it has had

https://youtu.be/9LLZBVTid4I

I follow the oil and gas market a lot closer than the rest of the stock market, but I am thinking the market has already priced in a significantly worse recession than what will actually happen. The economy has to go to almost Great Depression levels to justify this demand destruction they are forecasting, no way oil should be below $80 right now. A lot more bad stuff than just super high inflation is needed for the recession to be that bad

Or I am wrong and we are fucked lol