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Netgear CM700 - I needed a new modem because I think the ancient hunk of machinery im losing currently is resulting in an unstable connection.

Kaytee Silent Spinner Wheel 12" - my hedgehog needed a new wheel because her current one is starting to crack. She's average a new wheel every 6 or 7 months currently.

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Tag.

Always love watching someone experience this show for the first time.

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Corrik I feel like you are trying to prove that it's possible for good cops to exist. That isn't the issue.

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Remember when someone said something shitty before?

But now they are saying something NOT shitty?

Fuck them for improving.

That's you.

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same thing if you are facing derryl when he's on 3. Just level up and take the relatively low damage.

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Tornado Lasers?
That sounds awesome.

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I'm interested!

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I ran into evolve shaman twice today. Haven't seen the token variant in awhile

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Just had the god luck with a late game demon build in battlegrounds.

Top 3 was:

My Demons (gold mal'ganis, 2x imp mama, gold voidlord, juggler, other crap)
Late game Mackerel
Late game Deathrattle/Cleave

And I felt absurdly unfavored.
Because the numbers on the screen told me that I was absurdly unfavored. I won a 17% round to stay alive against the cleave comp. (dealt minimal damage because only a single token survived). Then I hit a sub 30% tie to stay alive against the mackerel comp. (it was still a divine shield/mech comp, it became mackerel the following fight). Then I hit the 13% win against the cleave comp but the imp mamas did major work and so I got the kill. Then I hit the about 20% win against the mackerel comp to take 1st.

Taken as a set my chance to not-die was around 1.3%.

Granted I was feeling pretty miserable as it was progressing because I kept seeing the low% chances AND it NEVER LET ME FIGHT THE GHOST. We were on 3 players for awhile and they were just taking turns against the ghost while I had to alternate fighting each of them. Consequently they both took the first opportunity to go to 6 and I was stuck rolling on 5 because I never got a reprieve.

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I like the simplicity of Vanilla Civ 6.

I played a lot more of vanilla than i have since expansions have come out so I feel a lot less comfortable with my decision making.

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FFDragon posted...

Daily dose of TCT:

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/593321095027150848?s=20

And he's never once stopped to wonder about what the rest of the world thinks about all the disgusting stuff HE does?

I don't condone riots, but god damn has one man made us look awful on the global stage and it's ridiculous that he would comment on how the actions of others make us look on that same stage.

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Regarding Noz vs Rafaam though, I will take Rafaam if i'm offered both.

I think I'm more likely to take 1st with Rafaam, but I'm more likely to top 4 with Rafaam. Noz is fantastic for consistency because seeing more rolls is going to help you, but you are still limited to buying the same power level things as everyone else. Rafaam is providing you 1 gold minions starting on turn 2 and those minions are going to help you finish triples, especially triples of either spawn or common taunts. So you end up getting 7 on board the fastest and just generally being in a position where it would be very difficult to bottom 4.

I think I take KT over Noz these days as well for a similar reason. KT's 5, 7 and 8 gold turns are just super nutty unless you super low roll your windows.

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skullbone posted...

Noz can level on 7 gold and potentially get a 3 drop earlier than everyone else. Same with 9 gold and 4 drops.

Elise says "hi"

Also she can Discover the 3 and 4 drop which increases it's likelihood to be a premium minion of that tier.

Noz is better than elise overall because his hero power is valued at like 10+ gold over the course of the game, but Elise is strong for that same reason.

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Tag.

can you post your whole list again FFD?

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Ulti you are broken-recording again.

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Hibernian
hooliganism
Nigerian
Nigerian
Hibernian
Hibernian

Still nothing

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I've gotten:

Hibernian
Boogeyman
Bogeyman
Nigerian
Bowman
Burnham

I typed "Freddie Mercury" as a lead in to see if the context would help but nope.

How is Google incapable of recognizing that word being swiped?

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I ended up taking second that game to a guy who had the absolute nuts at a VERY early turn.

He had double mackerel with 4 other murlocs. All had divine shield and poisonous and the mackerel were taunted so they got the DS resets after every hit.

I tried to transition after that loss but ran out of time. I should have tried the thing where I exited the game and rejoined to get more time. Either that or stuck with beasts and hard rolled for a ghoul and a second cleave.

Hindsight!

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some games you love the build you have, but you are prepared to switch just in case :D

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One thing I think i was better at before we knowing when I should be playing for 3rd place. Taking the win is great but sometimes it just isn't in the cards and you end up snatching a 60 point loss from the jaws of breaking even.

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pyresword posted...

probably Fletchling? It also feels like I'm picking that because it has better evos

this definitely influenced my fletchling pick as well.

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We told her family yesterday and mine today.

Her family was a lot of "have patience, keep trying", but that's difficult to hear because we're both 34 and we know that from a purely biological standpoint we're on the precipice of the stark dropoff in pregnancy viability. There's really no "right" way to react to the news though I guess.

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It's kinda embarassing, but over the past week i had been steadily losing around 1000 MMR, bottoming out at 7300 yesterday.

..

Today I'm up 800 MMR and i'm back to 8100

I feel better about it now <_<

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Keep us posted!

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I love Civ 6. I only own it on the switch and so I'll pick up the base on the PC for free then and would be down to play some multiplayer if there is interest.

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thank you, everyone. As with last time your support really means a lot.

And I'm sorry if I came off too angry in the opening post, that's the anger I was feeling at the time. We got a couple weeks further into the pregnancy this time (still less than 2 months) and we thought this one was going to be different.

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Snrkiko posted...

Are you guys seeing a therapist?

No but it's something I'll look into.

UltimaterializerX posted...

That is the worst. Im sorry man. Youre a good guy, so she has a good guy to support her in this.

Has adoption ever been considered here or are you guys determined to have your own kid? I dont know a better term to use there.

We wanted them to test and find out what's wrong first.

So we'll either look into that or we'll commit to being the fun aunt/uncle that travel the world in lieu of children.

Idk

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scarletspeed7 posted...

My family has dealt with a similar situation before, and I just wish you all of the strength to push forward. I'm so terribly sorry.

I'm going to have a good cry for the next week or more, but I'll be okay.

My wife blames herself and I'm not sure what I can do to help her deal with it.

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FDWife is devastated
FD is devastated

We have to wait until the hormones drop to zero which could take 4-6 weeks and then they will finally start running tests to figure out what is wrong because apparently that isn't something they were allowed to do after two miscarriages despite our asking.

Oh and the Facebook feed full of fuckwits having children too early and on accident doesn't help with morale.

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was your trap still representing possible freezing trap or had he already tested for everything but explosive?

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the gold works out perfectly to level on 6 gold and 7 gold and your chance of hitting a triple on a 1 star unit is fairly high at that point. Throw in the fact that you will almost certainly NOT drop a round during that stretch and you are in great shape. I am very hard pressed to want to level on 4gold when you consider all that.

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If I am playing Rafaam and there is an AFKay in the lobby i WILL run into her on round 2 and it WILL fuck up my normal rafaam playstyle.

These are simply facts. I need to plot out a play order for VS AFKay on 2 because it happens too damn much for me to try and figure it out on the fly each time.

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darn =P

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That should be going live a little bit later today.

Now correct me if I'm wrong, but couldn't we dust the commons/rares in the group and be guaranteed to get those same cards if we open more packs provided we already have 2 copies of each common and rare? If so I'm going to get a lot of dust before the end of the month =P

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The 8 cards below will be eligible for a full dust refund until June 1.

Priestess of Fury:
Old: 6 Attack, 7 Health New: 6 Attack, 5 Health.

Crimson Sigil Runner:
Old: 2 Attack, 1 Health New: 1 Attack, 1 Health.

Scavenger's Ingenuity:
Old: Draw a Beast. Give it +3/+3. New: Draw a Beast. Give it +2/+2.

Shadowjeweler Hanar:
Old: 1 Attack, 5 Health New: 1 Attack, 4 Health.

Blackjack Stunner:
Old: Battlecry: If you control a Secret, return a minion to its owners hand. It costs (2) more. New: Battlecry: If you control a Secret, return a minion to its owners hand. It costs (1) more.

Imprisoned Scrap Imp
:
Old: Dormant for 2 turns. When this awakens, give all minions in your hand +2/+2. New: Dormant for 2 turns. When this awakens, give all minions in your hand +2/+1.

Bloodboil Brute:
Old: 6 Attack, 8 Health New: 5 Attack, 8 Health.

Bloodsworn Mercenary:
Old: 3 Attack, 3 Health New: 2 Attack, 2 Health.

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Because It removed 3x divine shields?

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I have not encountered anyone else doing it in my games yet. But I think as long as you are offered 1 on turn 1 or 2 it's fine to force it, there are few enough minions on 1 that it would take extraordinary levels of bad luck to not find at least one contributing minion each turn.

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Just had another strong Tier1 Saurolisk game! It turned into a marathon of a game where I only got second because the last guy was able to full pivot from divine shield mechs to poison mackerel over a single turn. It forced a tie on the turn I would have killed him, and then the following turn he had added a SECOND poison mackerel so it was over for me.

I ended up tiering up to 2 as soon as I had 2 gold saurolisk and 1 gold wrathweaver, and then eventually tiered up to 3 when it cost 0 gold. The game ran 21 turns because I typically only dealt 2-4 damage when I won lol, but I basically didn't lose from turn 3 to 18 so it was just a matter of waiting until everyone else killed each other. At one point on two I discovered a zerus from a triple which gave me Foe-Reaper so I had a cleave to lead off for awhile, but eventually I had to trade it so I could tech ghoul and give myself a chance to beat the last guy.



This just feels like the legitimate safest way to play and top 4 with certain heroes. And because the games run so long I think Noz can definitely be one of those heroes. My hero power ended up being worth 20 gold by the end of the game.

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"you can't lose stars at this rank"

FeelsBadMan

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did you lose to control warlock or tempo?

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I've done it 6x now and I've gained MMR all but 1 time. I think it's a legit strategy, particularly with some heroes.

1) While you are doing this you can ALSO get a golden wrathweaver. In these situations the 2/1 demon will buff your saurolisks AND give your wrathweaver +4/+4.

2) Once you are receiving +4/+4 for every deathrattle (either 2 golden saurolisks or 1 golden and 2 regular) it is definitely correct to level up. Especially combined with the wrathweaver stuff because that gives you plenty of extra demons to take, AND it gives you another demon WITH deathrattle.

3) I thought this strat would be good with millhouse because I thought I would just buy out every window and keep crap in my hand to remove things from the pool, but it's not. Don't do it with millhouse.

4) ALWAYS do this strat with George. I just had a round where I would have gotten first if someone hadn't highrolled double mackerel poison divine shield. It wasn't just that they got the complete late game murloc build, it was how EARLY they landed on it. The starting divine shields + the re-shields from the likely gold selfless hero are just amazing.

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I think I was probably favored in the round I lost as well.

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lol, I was just posting a picture of my warband where I got 3rd place at tier 1 with Saurolisk.

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Also how much life did he have? in some cases that is strictly the correct play to get 8 extra healing provided he did both netherbreath on the same turn and didn't let you chunk him for 9.

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UltimaterializerX posted...

The latest in anyone who thinks Hearthstone is skill based is a fucking idiot.

When you are calling everyone but yourself an idiot you might need to reconsider

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I think especially on 2 gold it's valuable compared to a freeze and floating 2 gold. You end up with the thing that you wanted AND you get a reroll to see 3 or 4 choices that might be worth freezing.

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metroid composite posted...

Maiev does indeed lock a spot in the shop (you can reroll but the dormant minion stays and occupies a slot). It'll take some time for people to learn how to play this right--the one streamer I saw was hero powering into the lategame, and I'm pretty sure that's just the wrong play. You want to hero power early when you want more buys, and not hero power late when you want more rolls.

I feel like there are some turns where this will just naturally make sense to do.

Turn 5 without a token can be a solid buy/reroll/dormant turn and turns where you are expecting to level the following turn you can squeeze in the 1 mana buy and know that you weren't going to reroll much (if at all) on the following turn so you mitigate the number of rerolled units you are passing on seeing.

Turn 8 comes to mind for this as well bedcause turn 9 is such a common Upgrade for 6 and Buy 1 thing turn.

Or if you see a pair and you aren't sure you can justify throwing 3 gold at a unit that you might not ever triple it can be a good investment there as well and so the buffed copy might just sit in your hand all game but you only paid 1 gold for it and you'll end up hitting more triples overall?

Just some thoughts.

I'm excited to get into BGs later and play around with them.

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you'll have them again next month and they'll take you to legend in a heartbeat with a decent record

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welcome back!


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AND THEN I WAS RECOVERING IN THE MID GAME BUT IT HAPPENED AGAIN ON TURN 10 AND 11 WHEN I WAS MAKING MULTIPLE BUYS AND SELLS.

That was a completely UNDESERVED 8th place.

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