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Oh hey you ignored another two questions you don't have an answer to. On a scale from 1 to surprised, I am up to a 16.

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OhhhJa posted...

OK just to satisfy your bs. No threats were made that I know of unless there were isolated ones. I don't think any group made any explicit threats and it was pretty clear they were just there to exercise their rights one of them being there 2nd amendment. In short, it was an obvious show of expressing their rights and not being about violence

So yes, you are going to claim that. Next question: Are you claiming that because you're really that clueless, or because you're being being deliberately obtuse and hoping you can do so convincingly enough that nobody will notice?

OhhhJa posted...

These protests are the opposite. Everyone wants to put themselves on a morality pedestal while acting like toddlers

Why shouldn't peaceful protesters feel like they have the moral high ground? The mere existence of rioters that agree with them doesn't invalidate their position, after all, and surely you wouldn't be so absurd as to generalize the misbehaviour of a violent minority to the entirety of the protests (you totally would, but patronizing sarcasm is fun).

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Because the alternative is accepting that people they don't like have a legitimate point and cognitive dissonance is hard.

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MartianManchild posted...

The incubation period for the coronavirus is 1-14 days. with the average being 5 days. The protest have been going on for over 14 days. Stfu.

And exponential growth requires a few iterations to be really noticeable, especially above a highly variable background that's already seeing spikes from other sources. It's not like you're going to see all of the protest-related Covid cases showing up within 14 days of the first one.

OhhhJa posted...

If they do blame the protesters, it will be painted in a positive light with them claiming the protests were more necessary than preventing the spreading of a pandemic.

That's a legitimate argument that can be made. At least, it can be made a whole lot more easily than the "waa I want a haircut" that prompted the anti-lockdown idiocy.

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Zeus posted...

The more powerful the gun, the more appropriate it is for home defense and protection.

You do know that real guns aren't like video games, right? Short of trying to penetrate body armour (which the vast, vast majority of home invaders aren't going to have), just about any gun is going to be adequate for inserting a bullet into the appropriate squishy bits. When dealing with home defense, you're generally going to want something with a shorter barrel to function better in close quarters and/or a shotgun so you don't have to worry as much about aiming. Stopping power (beyond the basic minimum that virtually all firearms have) doesn't affect much, and in fact a higher-powered gun is actually a terrible idea for home defense because it increases the risk of penetrating walls and causing collateral damage (potentially including the family you're supposedly so keen on defending).

OhhhJa posted...

Cool I'm glad we agree on that.

If you're going to make such a habit of avoiding questions you don't have answers to, you should probably learn to be more subtle and convincing in your deflections. As it stands, you're really not helping yourself.

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Most of the current spike is coming from Memorial Day weekend festivities and the fact that stuff is reopening. The inevitable spike related to the protests will be coming in the next week or so.

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OhhhJa posted...

Funny how the lock down protesters were considered terrorists even though no violence broke out

Are you really going to try and claim that people who stormed the capitol building with rifles weren't threatening violence? Sure, it was all legal and within their rights and blah blah blah, but are you really going to try claiming that they just happened to be heavily armed while also peacefully protesting and not trying to use the threat of violence to effect the political change they wanted in any way?

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Blast Yakety Sax on loop whenever you hear them start up. They'll get the message.

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Completely free is a bit unrealistic, but it'd be nice if costs weren't so artificially inflated for Americans because the pharmaceutical and health insurance industries effectively collude with each other.

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ChaosAzeroth posted...

If you're doing that human lives being compared to M&Ms I'm not biting...

It's more jobs than lives, specifically jobs that are being retained by people who use the job's power to literally murder people. Equating candy to human lives is obviously bad because it trivialized the refugee crisis to a thoroughly dehumanizing level, but in this case it's a lot more reasonable to suggest throwing out the poisoned bowl and replacing it with one that has more quality control going into filling it. The good cops will find new jobs in the new police force. The bad ones ideally won't, but they shouldn't, so I'm going to shed exactly zero tears for them.

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MrMelodramatic posted...

name a few foods. Can you drink them (without blending/pure/juicing)?

*snip*

now think about ice cream. Can you drink it? Yes. Its a drink.

The only way you can drink ice cream is if you melt it. If that makes ice cream a drink, then everything is a drink because everything can be melted. Melting really belongs in that "blending/pureeing/juicing" caveat, since it's another way to turn a solid food into a drink.

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madadude posted...

It's so crazy, why would we have been working at home for almost 3 months when new daily cases never reached above 400 or so, and then plan on going back when new daily cases are over 1,200?

Because the decision to reopen stuff is based on public/political pressure and economic concerns, not medical advice. Medically, it's not a very good idea in a lot of places.

BlackScythe0 posted...

It's over? I don't even recall it starting. Just a bunch of freak out.

I mean, 116,000 Americans are dead because of it, even with everything that was done to contain it. That sounds like a pretty solid start to me.

acesxhigh posted...

We only had about 40 confirmed cases total in our city of 300k. Hospitals weren't even close to capacity.

In this sort of situation, provided interstate/inter-county travel is appropriately restricted, it's pretty easy to defend the decision to reopen. There are definitely areas where the virus never really got off the ground and has been pretty much eradicated, and there's no reason not to relax local restrictions once that point has been reached. Travel restrictions, however, are still very much a good idea until other areas have reached a similar point.

acesxhigh posted...

So I feel like it was success but we maybe overreacted.

That's basically the ideal. There have been many epidemiologists saying things like "if we get this right, everyone will feel that we overreacted" since the response to the virus started. The only way anyone will feel like the reaction wasn't more than was necessary would be if a whole lot of people ended up dying, by which point it would have been far too late to fix the problem. Odds are, it was more of a response than was truly necessary, but it's better to err on the side of caution with something like this. Economies are significantly easier to resurrect than humans, after all.

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Yeah, the degree to which you have to fight to take back any semblance of control over your own computer really is a major problem with 10. Like, I get that it's going to be fine for the facebook/email/netflix crowd and limiting what people can screw up cuts down on how much money Microsoft has to spend on support staff, but it's such a colossal step backwards for more in-depth manipulation and I don't understand how they can be so completely clueless about how the rest of us want to use our computers.

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I'm kind of inclined not to use tweaker just yet simply so that I do end up with further problems and can justify nuking the drive, but I also recognize that that's kind of silly. I'll see what my options are as far as murdering the phantom files goes.

Windows 10 got me like:
https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/191/547/b66

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Based on how long this "update" is taking and the fact that the used space on this drive has increased by 30-odd GB since it started, I'm going to guess I'm just redownloading the entire game and I've got me some ghost files now. Sweet. Fortunately, there's nothing else on this drive, so I can take the nuclear option and reformat it completely if I have further problems.

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There are quite a few more than "very few" exceptions. I'd easily believe that half of all desserts are better refrigerated or at room temp, if not outright frozen, and even ones that are best hot can still be really good at room temp (e.g. brownies).

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The reset process seems to have run into some files it couldn't delete without elevation, but the launcher ran when I clicked on the shortcut and is now updating itself. That's a step in the right direction, at least. Tweaker will be my first stop the next time I run into a problem, though, since apparently multi-billion dollar software companies are less capable of making functional games than a handful of amateur fans.

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Fortifying stuff with vitamin D is my favourite.

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I'm not, but this is very much tempting me to. I'm currently waiting for the "Reset" option to complete, which will likely include a reinstall. If that fails (and potentially even if it succeeds, since I'd prefer to avoid a repeat of this), I'll look into Tweaker.

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Looks like the permissions for the WindowsApps folder may have been modified by the update. The Mutable folder doesn't seem to be there at all, which seems weird, and any attempt to modify or access the files in the game's folder is giving me an access error. I've changed myself to be the file's owner (which really shouldn't be a thing, but Windows 10), but there are still permission entries that don't have write access and are giving me an "Access Control Entry Corrupted" error that is preventing me from modifying them. What a fun time this is.

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hypnox posted...

Truly good cops wouldn't allow bad cops to stay cops.

Basically, and any system that keeps the good ones from ousting the bad ones is broken beyond repair and needs to be overhauled. There are many good cops out there, but the fact of the matter remains that there continue to be bad ones and nobody's doing enough to change that. Hiding behind sentiments like "the evil cops are just a few bad apples" and "we shouldn't hurt the good ones" to avoid taking action only serves to perpetuate the problem.

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The game seems to have stopped working for me. It worked last night after the update finished installing, and then my computer updated overnight, and now clicking the start menu shortcut does nothing. Where does the .exe hide? I'll try accessing it directly that way, then I guess I might have to try reinstalling.

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Zeus posted...

A friend doesn't carry her genes.

That's not overly relevant for surrogacy. This is just tossing an embryo in there to give it a place to go, not having her husband bang her mom.

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teddy241 posted...

its odd arizona never spiked until now.

Nationwide infection control measures came into effect before it had a chance to get bad, which helped to keep its curve nice and flat. As those measures are lifted/increasingly ignored, though, you've got a nice, big population that's had no exposure to the virus and therefore no immunity and a virus that's quite happy to take advantage of its newfound freedom.

That, or it's been this bad all along and there's just been an increase in testing as tests become more available to states that aren't obviously in bad shape. I'd be more willing to guess the former, though.

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I think usually it's an effort to add a certain degree of unpredictability to the game. That usually gets thwarted by communities tearing games apart to attain complete control over them, but for the average player who doesn't look stuff up, hidden mechanics mean a given playthrough may end up being a different experience without them needing to consciously seek such a thing out.

Now, it does often happen that such mechanics end up taking too much control away from players who don't research and effectively gating chunks of content behind the wiki. That's not great design.

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Sounds like a parade that would be improved by a doofy tuba line.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rs4P1kKK-5k

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OhhhJa posted...

Oh man we have a badass here. I like to use my own eyes and not just rely on what I read in an article alone. That said I made none of these assumptions. I'm just saying that clearly he's waving some device back and forth at the officer in a weird way that I can't really explain. And I don't think you can either. I think it's also strange that all the other officers resigned and solidarity so I think it's possible there's more to this story that just hasn't been released yet

You can try the "I'm an intellectural who likes thinking for meself!" routine as much as you want, but at the end of the day, the only important question you need to ask is this:

Do you really think that whatever you figure out about what this man might have been holding is going to justify police pushing a 75-year-old man to the ground in such a manner that he suffered a traumatic brain injury instead of restraining and arresting him properly?

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Webbernet posted...

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/

That's not just a lie, it's an easily disproved lie.

Today only so far:

Florida +1096
California +992Texas +971
Illinois +797
Georgia +752
North Carolina +699
Tennessee +631
Arizona +618
New York +607
Louisiana +562
Pennsylvania +517
Maryland +500
Alabama +497
Virginia +487
South Carolina +428
Indiana +410
Akransas +340
Ohio +327
Minnesota +299
Michigan +297
Wisconsin +270
Massachusetts +263
Nevada +244
New Jersey +241
Utah +237
Kentuckuy +232
Iowa +227
Missouri +227
Oklahoma +158

Then the rest are under a hundred, but again, this is just for TODAY SO FAR.

Over 15,000 new cases TODAY.

We're going to break a k deaths again today as well, we're already almost there.

Shhhh. Nobody likes having their world views contradicted by facts.

Sahuagin posted...

(as an aside, I wonder what affect this will all have on 'normal' viruses. theoretically there should be a huge decline in cases of colds and flu.)

In theory, but a lot of that will depend on whether or not people continue being good about hygiene when flu season rolls around. That's still several months away, and I can guarantee that a whole lot of people are going to get sick of obsessive hand-washing between now and then.

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It's an option, and it rolls off the tongue nicely, but the meaning is less morphologically self-evident, which I consider to be vital in any act of linguofabrication. If it needs to be explicitly defined for people to understand it, it's not a well-crafted word, and you aren't saving any time over using multiple words to communicate the point.

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Does "electoral system" include moving away from two-party football politics so people can vote based on actual positions and not their favourite team?

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Zeus posted...

In what way is that a corruption issue?

Because somebody who isn't very good at their job is getting paid 7-8 figures to do it. You don't pass over more qualified people when dealing with money like that unless you're acting on personal biases.

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Yes, I'm sure the entire BLM movement had a meeting and decided this statue should be defaced during the protest, and not that a small handful of rioters just defaced whatever they could get their hands on without bothering to read the attached plaque.

I appreciate the irony, but trying to read any further into it than that is foolish.

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There are few who can be needlessly pedantic faster than I. Don't feel bad.

Also, "period-havers." Probably the actual fastest option, but very much not formal/professional language.

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Zeus posted...

I don't have mentions enabled, so your trolling attempt is pointless.

Imagine thinking that having somebody ask for your opinion on a subject in which you're usually pretty interested counts as trolling.

Zeus posted...

Nor am I a part of any politician's "base" so your trolling is baseless as well. (No pun intended... or was it?)

And while protestors -- like athletes -- do sometimes take a dive to make it look like somebody hurt them, I would imagine that an elderly man wouldn't try something like that... although most elderly wouldn't show up at protests, either. Either way, I'm not bothering to scrutinize all of these alleged incidents.

Translation: "Not even I can come up with a way to defend this, so I'm just going to pretend that I never actually do such a thing and toss out a vague 'maybe he could be right' while acting too disinterested to give anyone anything concrete to scrutinize."

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Clench281 posted...

The phrase "people who menstruate" is the shortest way to express that specific subset of people. It's not politically correct, it's biologically correct.

"Menstruating people" would be slightly shorter, but does create some ambiguity because it sounds more like it's referring to people who are currently menstruating, not simply those that do so periodically. "Menstruaters" would be both shorter and less ambiguous, but it's not actually a word (though its morphology makes obvious what it's supposed to mean). But yeah, within the constraints of extant, unambiguous language, I don't think it's possible to say it any less cumbersomely.

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Basically, you end up in positions like that not because you're the best at the job, but because whoever's hiring likes you.

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Aculo posted...

i don't remember jk ever claiming anyone's existence isn't legit,

When you deny somebody's identity, you are refusing to accept that their existence is legitimate. That's the simple reality of the situation. Dismissing that reality as "a slight deviation from how most of you think" doesn't change the fact such dismissal is in direct opposition to the fundamental concept of transgenderism. Labeling that as anything other than "anti-trans" (recall that the prefix "anti-" means "in opposition to") would be dishonest.

Krazy_Kirby posted...

if someone thinks they are jesus, do you hate that person if you don't cater to them?

Are you really going to try to equivocate something as broad as gender identity to something as specific as identifying as a specific person? Because that kind of equivocation should probably have some form of practical justification behind it, which I can't help but notice you're missing.

ninja_lootz posted...

If I tell a furry that they aren't actually a wolf am I illegitimizing they're existence?

Furries are generally role-playing, rather than being a matter of personal identity. Doing that would be roughly the same as telling somebody playing Zelda that they aren't actually Link. That's not a question of de-legitimizing their existence so much as it a matter of you trying to ruin their fun for no reason. You'd still be a tool, but in a different way.

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reason posted...

And....You can't walk down the middle of the street just cause you want to?

Have we upgraded to "jaywalkers deserve death" now?

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"She's not anti-trans, she just doesn't consider trans people to be legitimate."

Riiiiight...

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reason posted...

I HIGHLY doubt that's what actually killed her.

I don't. Fatalities and serious injuries from non-lethal crowd control methods are far from unheard of, especially when you're dealing with people with preexisting respiratory problems. "Non-lethal" just means they're less likely to kill people than live ammunition would be, not that they're perfectly safe and only cause pain.

Furthermore, your post suggests that you believe there should be a causal link between protesting and being killed. Regardless of whether or not you think this particular person was killed by tear gas, that's the position you are being challenged to defend. I encourage you to stop deflecting and actually mount that defense.

reason posted...

Besides, if you're "peacefully" protesting, they ain't comin in shooting gas at you.

That would be nice, yes. Unfortunately, it's not true. There have been countless videos coming out of these protests of police firing on or otherwise assaulting (including tear gas and pepper spray) people who are not rioting nor looting nor doing anything other than peacefully protesting. Unless you want to suggest that "standing on your own front porch recording a video" is an offense that warrants being shot at (since assaulting people for collecting video evidence or otherwise conducting journalism seems to be a common thread among the police response here).

Then, of course, even if that weren't an objective truth, there's the point to consider that tear gas is not a precision weapon. Even if it were (and it's not) only being fired at rioters and looters, people who are peacefully protesting nearby are going to be affected by it. Your belief that being hit by tear gas is proof that she was doing something wrong is not only baseless, but flagrantly at odds with obvious objective reality.

In short, you have done nothing to demonstrate that your position is not "peacefully protesting means you deserve death." Your options now are as follows:

• Retract your statement, apologize for making baseless assumptions, and restate your position to clarify that you only refuse to feel sympathetic for people who are killed by police in the process of committing violent crimes while admitting that you have no way of knowing whether or not that applies to this girl
• Actually defend that position instead of using strawmen to deflect from it and hoping nobody will notice

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Far-Queue posted...

Every time I think Trump can't possibly disgrace himself any more than he already has, he goes and does something disgusting like this. Shameful. Absolutely shameful.

And the worst part is that his base will not only defend such comments, but latch onto them as truth.

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What? Billionaires are supporting the campaign of a republican president who is also a billionaire and has been very kind to his billionaire buddies for the last four years? I'm shocked! Shocked, I say!

Well, not that shocked.

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ChimeraBlue posted...

People are going to say things you don't like.

They certainly are. They just shouldn't be surprised when saying things people don't like results in those people not liking them. Freedom of speech is not freedom from consequences.

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Conclusion: We should murder more black people to stimulate the economy. Clearly.

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Aculo posted...

the trans community had a trump-style freakout because her opinions didn't exactly match theirs

There's being upset because one's opinion is that the Star Wars sequel trilogy is better than the original trilogy, and then there's being upset because one's opinion is that your existence and life experience are illegitimate and don't deserve recognition or acceptance. "Opinion" is a very broad term. Some opinions are rather meaningless in the grand scheme of things, and being upset over differences is indeed silly. Other opinions form the basis for full-on systematic oppression, and being upset over differences in those opinions is mandatory to secure passable quality of life for those affected.

Dismissing anything as "just an opinion" without putting any thought into the significance of that opinion is lazy at best and outright malicious at worst. But then thinly-veiled anti-trans posts are your thing, so nobody's really surprised.

Clench281 posted...

JK was mocking the use of specific and intentional language. Her suggestion of saying "women" instead of "people who menstruate" was, at best, medically or scientifically exclusionary and inaccurate. At worst, she was intentionally casting aside transpersons from being part of the discussion.

And given her history of insisting that transgenderism isn't legitimate, there's a pretty good chance it's the latter. Bonus points where it seems like this was purely a cry for attention because nobody had been talking about her in the wake of the more important things going on in the world.

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Revelation34 posted...

There's no way she died from that.

There are ample reports out there of fatalities resulting from tear gas use, and it's really not hard to imagine severe respiratory irritants triggering fatal respiratory distress in people with compromised breathing (e.g. asthma). Duckbear's account of it makes it sound like her death was unrelated, but Duckbear's wording shouldn't be treated as absolute truth in any case.

reason posted...

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

You really think peacefully protesting deserves to be met with death? Really?

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Yeah, I haven't spent much time in there, but I think I've seen one other person in a Blacknyack game once and that's been my entire experience of playing casino with other people (and that was on like day 2 when people were still trying everything out). Even then, I left that table because I was just looking to finishing the CO of getting 5 wins and the extra person made that process feel slower (don't know if it actually was or not).

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Casino is indeed not exactly great. I had okay returns from the high-stakes slots game, but I think that was more luck than anything, and everything else seems to have terrible returns. I managed to stay profitable well enough, but by such a tiny margin that it would take forever to get anywhere.

That said, if I actually used some strategy on the Rappy Slots, I might get somewhere. I was purely looking to get a PSE burst for the CO and didn't try to maximize it at all, but I still turned a profit betting 1 coin on every pull. Bumping that up to 5 during the burst would make a considerable difference, I would imagine.

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agesboy posted...

requeue when this happens; what probably happened was that the MPA you block switched to join ended up full and you got thrown in another by yourself

That's usually what I do, but I felt like doing something stupid. It was a reasonably entertaining time, futile though it was. It definitely would have been really good for exp/drops with a full party, so I'll be sure to try for one next time it pops up.

agesboy posted...

you can trade VH capsules up to SH ones at a 10-to-1 ratio, so 100 VH capsules is one entry of SH

Ah, excellent. Good to know. I only have like 20 of each VH capsule because I haven't been doing VHAQs (I'm honestly not sure how I made it to 59 without putting more time into them, but whatever), but that should be easy enough to remedy.

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Revelation34 posted...

I skimmed the video but don't remember him having a walker.

Is that really what you think is the most important part of that post?

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