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SovietOmega posted...

...although even the darker half of this show isn't afraid to get silly like this Gale music video, wtf XD

I can't hear Major Tom without thinking about that video anymore.

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Good point, you can also spend mana before playing zephyrs on a turn to try and generate a specific result based upon your remaining mana!

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Instead of salty tweet I thought I would explain calmly why I think HS has become less skill intensive

This is from the tweet you linked. Do you understand how that doesn't say the same thing you are saying?

He is saying skill matters less than it used to.

He is saying that after enough cards have been generated the game reaches a point where "using your world class skill to predict your opponents best plays and play against them" matter less and so you have to revert to the next spot down the pyramid which is "using your skill to play your own cards optimally because you can't realistically play around all your opponents outs".

It still takes skill to get to the point where you are correctly playing your own cards optimally without consideration for your opponents strategy. It's just the skill of being able to play around your opponents possibilities matters less.

Whereas your stance is an incredibly radical "Skill has absolutely 100% no effect on hearthstone".

Yes many cards have a lot of RNG effects, but you can still misplay those cards due to a lack of skill. There will be situations where you think "I can generate a lack which might give me shoot lackey or rush lacky and i'll live" or "I can generate a spell which might give me X or Y and I might live" and you still have to think critically about what your best play is, even if aspects of your play will have randomly generated effects. That's part of being skilled.

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"Hearthstone was more skill based before"
"Hearthstone is less skill based in it's current form"

These are arguments that you can make a case for and many people would probably agree with.

"Hearthstone is not skill based"

Is a flaming piece of troll garbage argument.

I hope you understand the distinction.

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No.

Your position is that skill has never and will never amount to anything in a game of hearhstone.

literally nobody shares your position.

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Parrot has such crossover value though

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Reg posted...

congratulations, you just discovered UBI.

I've been a proponent for ages and threw all my money at Andrew Yang.

But I'm pissed off the the disgusting mismanaging of unemployment is giving people a very negative impression of "money for people" policies

"Im working hard and earning less money than people on unemployment!"

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I disagree strongly with the "increase unemployment by a flat amount" strategy.

If anything it should be "increase unemployment by a percentage which cannot exceed your former wages".

Or

Give EVERYONE a flat amount, and not have it TIED to unemployment. It's the fact that it's tied to unemployment that creates incentives for people to make it seem like they can't find work. You are putting a prize at the end of the "pretend you can't find a job" scenario and then pointing to that as proof that people just dont want to work.

But if you gave everyone the money then people will realize "i can get the money AND work and have even MORE money". But when you condition the prize to not-having-a-job then you make the unemployment system worse and more likely for people to want to abuse it.

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antibody test should equal +1 total positive cases and +1 total recovered cases and +0 total active cases. Don't know how that could be up for debate.

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Peace___Frog posted...

I'm seeing an unverified report that the NYPD is terminating all plainclothes officers

Firing the officers themselves? Or terminating the process of having officers out of uniform?

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transcience posted...

check out chessnetwork on youtube. hes great for beginners and has a video series to get you to understand how to think.

This. I love watching Jerry's coverage of major events on twitch because he has a great way of explaining the action and potential lines of play in a way that's easily understood even if you're not a pro.

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Peace___Frog posted...

Another neat chart!

https://twitter.com/keithedwards/status/1272388507110178816

Is there anywhere that represents these charts in terms of "new cases per 100,000 population" or something along those lines?

Just to pre-emp the argument of "well US has more people than those 3 countries put together".

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"Yeah, the guy ran away, but we have all his shit. Send a tow truck to impound his car and we'll fill out the paperwork to charge him with a DUI and resisting arrest so we can have it served to him, oh and he stole our taser so charge him with that too."

the idea that they "needed" to stop him from running is the problem that needs to be addressed here.

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Corrik7 posted...

"If the police didn't want to escalate things they should have let a drunk driver off of his DUI".

That's a take there.

He's running away with his back turned. They have his name, license and car.

They can let him run for 10 miles still charge him with a DUI afterwards.

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Yeah it tracks pretty logically to me.

Women does X and is not fired.
Man does X as is fired.

Is a pretty logical way to look at discrimination based upon orientation, even if it is rather simplistic.

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Gravy you've got a community of people here who love you and know the world is a better place with you in it. Your life is more precious than whatever it is that's weighing on you right now and we will support you however we can.

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Corrik7 posted...

Bullshit they won't do it lol. You don't know many people with DUIs do you.

That's right, because in the circles I run in we have things called designated drivers. Or more often than not if we're having a get together (new years, etc) it's at a house instead of a bar and it's made explicitly clear that people can stay until the morning if they need to.

Wanglicious posted...

and the fact that he's not doing it now and identifies the problems of it does say he learned.

And that's great. But I would hope that if I had to learn such a lesson I would feel appropriately ashamed of myself and would not be blaming my actions on the culture around drinking and the systematic flaws to how DUIs works.

But whatever, It's not not something that will ever affect me personally and there are more important concerns in the world than Corrik's DUIs.

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Corrik7 posted...

That said, and I pointed out you would be exactly in the same place as someone who chose to drive. A DUI if found. You were the one who started babbling on about jury trials and shit.

You pointed out that they *could* book you for a DUI for sleeping in your back seat based upon the broad terminology of being "in control" of a vehicle.

They would not necessarily do so in practice, but yes, that is true.

But then it's STILL your fault for not making arrangements beforehand. And you should STILL prefer to get a DUI for sleeping in a car than ACTUALLY DRIVING A CAR WHILE DRUNK. Because one of those is a shitty way to get a DUI and the other is one of the worst things you could do full stop.

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Corrik7 posted...

. I tried to show Forceful that with his hypothetical about sleeping in the car DUI situation, but he didn't seem too interested.

My point is that if literally all else failed I would sooner sleep in the car than drive it.

But my point was ALSO that I would never get into that position in the first place.

You were only in that situation because you did not plan ahead. In short, you fucked up and did not take sufficient precautions.

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But then you obviously learned your lesson and that was the ONLY time in your life that you found yourself in such a situation. Right?
Oh..

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Corrik7 posted...

So you plan to pay an attorney probably upwards of 5k+ to have a jury trial to try and possibly beat a DUI case.

Okee dokee.

When you are at a jury trial, you are way past being arrested for a DUI.

Again i would never drink without a plan. Because I'm not a piece of garbage who is willing to risk other people's lives.

But if i did drink without a plan I would have money for a cab.

Or if I had no money I would use my phone to order a ride.

And if I couldn't do that I would embarrass myself by calling everybody I know until someone came for me.

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And then yes if drunk FD had no plan, no money and no phone (somehow) he would rather get in trouble for sleeping drunk in the car rather than drive the car a single foot.

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Corrik7 posted...

And would be given a DUI for this.
Lmfao. Man you are on fire being out of the loop. Haha.

Some Factors that Might Come Into Play

A jury will generally look at all the circumstances of a case in determining whether an impaired motorist was operating or in actual physical control of the vehicle. Typically, the closer the driver was to being able to set the car in motion, the more likely the jury is to convict. So, an impaired motorist found sleeping in the back seat with the motor shut off might have a good shot at beating the charge. But a drunk motorist whos caught draped over the steering wheel with the car running is more likely to be convicted.

Again that would be my course of action in the magical scenario where I have no money and no phone. I would not ever be in that scenario but if I were I would have my keys in the glove box while sleeping in the back. BUT because phones exist and its unthinkable that I would be in that scenario without one (or in that scenario without having first made prior arrangements) so I would do literally anything but drive.

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Apparently we live in a society in a society where taxis don't exist. Or ubers. Or lyfts.

Why is this a conversation.

Am I supposed to believe tens of thousands of people put themselves into a position where they had no cash and no cards and no phone to call anyone for help.

Hell even if the magically hypothetical situation where my phone died and my wallet was stolen and there was no human being with a phone nearby I imagine I would sleep on the back seat of my car until I wasn't inebriated.

There are a million options and opportunities before you reach the point where you put your keys in the ignition. Your deserve no sympathy if you do it and the ONLY acceptable response afterwards is "I fucked up and I will NEVER do it again and I accept any amount of punishment and I'm lucky if I didn't kill anybody or myself."

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SantaRPidgey posted...

A pb and j without j is a bland dry sandwich

A pb and j without pb is like the worlds most disgusting donut.

So peanut butter

You take out either of them and it's no longer a PBJ.

And since the question is which is more important on a PBJ...

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Ariadna reminds me a bit of Alison Brie.

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The premise presupposes already that you have both peanut butter AND jelly.

The question is what is the better ingredient in a PBJ. It isn't asking what the better ingredient is on a non-disclosed sandwich type.

So i don't care if you can make a sandwhich without jelly, we definitely have the jelly or it wouldn't be called a PBJ. And the quality of jelly is much more relevant to the sandwich experience.

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a sandwhich made with $1 peanut butter and $20 jelly will taste better than the reverse. So by that metric I would say the jelly.

Apricot > Strawberry > Grape

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Zigzagoon posted...

This never happened

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Yeah, the cognitive dissonance is too strong sometimes.

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HashtagSEP posted...

Yes, Biden wants/expects votes from the people he almost called "racist fucks."

That makes perfect sense.

Eh, this shitty logic reminds me of "deplorables".

If you are not the one being a racist piece of shit, then he isn't talking about you.

If you are offended because you THINK he's talking about you, then you are admitting that you consider yourself a racist piece of shit and you are including yourself in the targeted group.

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someone needs to teach him what a double negative is?

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JeffreyRaze posted...

I think studies have shown humans only really understand three probabilities, 0%, 50%, and 100%. So things just get pushed into one of those categories.

So there is a 33%chance that it's a 50% chance?

Sounds like 1 in 6 to me.

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Reg posted...

Reminder for certain morons who don't know what probability is.

A "five in six chance" is basically saying "roll a normal six-sided die. If the result is 6, you lose."

In the context of this situation it is:

"If the result is 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6, you lose.
If the result is exactly 6 you extra lose."

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I get so many calls each day "I got my letter from trump, but I didn't get my stimulus check".

It is infuriating.

They cared more about making sure EVERYONE in the world got a letter, whether or not anything happened that might have caused a delay on the check/debit card/direct deposit or might have caused them to not receive it at all (child support). And so these people are getting letters "signed by donald trump" about the money "he" is giving them whether or not they are actually getting the money.

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SovietOmega posted...

...ok, so he doesn't buuuut instead goes back to Jesse's place just in time to watch Jane die. RIP

This was a powerful moment and it always feels like a significant and calculated decision made by Walt.

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Corrik7 posted...

I said give police more funding. Have body cams on all police. Have a community group from the neighborhood that can volunteer to watch the feeds and write down notes of things they wished to discuss from a standpoint of what they feel wasn't done right or not.

Start with re-evaluating how the CURRENT funding is being spent. Because you can bet there are resources that are being under utilized that could have instead gone towards things like universal body cams.

And if you go the route of hiring mental health professionals to deal with the people experiencing mental health problems then that's less "standard man with a gun cop" that you would need so you're going to save on funding there as well.

And not every police department is being funded on the same scale, so where appropriate, yes, increase funding. But by and large the funding is there, and the correct utilization of funds is not.

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Be a cowboy/pirate (Seinfeld)

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LordoftheMorons posted...

In other insane news

https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/08/politics/trump-campaign-rallies/index.html

So he's trying to kill off his remaining elderly voting base? That's a bold strategy, let's see if it pays off.

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Forceful_Dragon posted...

Can have an unarmed force for enforcing traffic violations.
Can have a force trained in hand to hand or non lethal combat for handling domestic disputes and the like.
Can have a (small) SWAT force for armed tactical response in the (rare) occasion it is necessary.

Stuff like that would work I suppose?

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LordoftheMorons posted...

Okay, but do you think that there are purposes that the police are supposed to fulfill (e.g. arresting actual violent criminals) that are necessary, regardless of whether or not you want the currently existing police to be the ones doing so? If so, how do you propose that those tasks still get done? If you want to convince people to disband the police, then you need to have answers for that (or I guess alternatively convince them that those things don't need to be done, but good luck with that).

Can have an unarmed force for enforcing traffic violations.
Can have a force trained in hand to hand or non lethal combat for handling domestic disputes and the like.
Can have a (small) SWAT force for armed tactical response in the (rare) occasion it is necessary.

Stuff like that would work I suppose?

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The people who want guns already have them.

My reason for not owning a gun is not rooted in the fact the police departments exist.

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So what happens? Oversight on the county level?

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HanOfTheNekos posted...

So can most? SM64 levels are designed vertically for the most part. Almost every single one features places where you can fall and have to backtrack.

TTC and RR falls = kicked out of the level. And in TTC you can do everything right and get invisible wallD.

Top floor worst floor

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So he's nit picking the use of the word "genocide" by Floyd's lawyer and then it sounded like he said there were more unarmed suspects killed while Obama was president than there have been since, but all that's really saying is that more things happened in 8 years than have happened in less than 4, unless I understood that wrong.

And comparing raw numbers of white suspects to black suspects is disingenuous. Yeah there were more incidents with white suspects, but there are lot more white people so proportionally it's out of whack.

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You can pass from the end of one film to the beginning of the next almost effortlessly.

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Sticky fingers is much more fitting with your theme.

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That sounds like prostitution

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Top floor.

Ttc has invisible walls of death when you're speed running it.

Rr has a lengthy auto scroll section

No thanks

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Yeah things really hit their stride and don't have even a hiccup for some time.

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you probably aren't pregnant :D

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But the default action was to say "someone was injured when they tripped and fell".

Yes a suspension is a good thing, but you have to question if that only happened because it was publicized.

The world isn't going to have every wrongdoing on camera. They are going to have to do the right thing first and not in reaction to outcry.

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