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IncredibleBenefits
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leagueoflegends
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t5_2rfxx
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c4i478a
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Not particularly. It's true her skill set is great and she is still a strong champion individually. The problem is that there are many other top laners that fill her role better than she does. She gets pretty stomped on by Udyr, Lee Sin, Riven, etc. and they fill very similar roles at every point in the game. If you enjoy Irelia by all means, go for it. Like you said, she's still pretty strong - it's just not the best choice you can make in most situations.
This is coming from someone with 150 ranked games on Irelia (and at least a few hundred normals - I usually play w/ friends) @ a ~60% win rate in season 1. Certainly not god-like but I know Irelia pretty well. I switched to prioritizing Udyr when I needed to fill the bruiser/carry-killer role and my win rate on him is 72% this season while doing a job that is basically identical (smothering carries and absorbing damage). Sure, Udyr does have a few general counter picks (slows like Nunu's iceball make it hard for him to jump on carries) but you have to try pretty damn hard to lose your lane. He beats nearly every champ top lane.
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Irelia is still strong (her kit is innately powerful - it's one of the better skillsets in the game) but she's rarely the optimum choice for the job she fills. Other champions fill very similar roles better than she does. Udyr is OP as shit and does the same thing. Riot nerfs Irelia 300 times instead.
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GuntherDog
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politics
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t5_2cneq
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c4i6ohe
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It's entirely possible he's avoided acting overtly to the left on sensitive issues like that to avoid turning away any (extremely important) independent voters.
His standings among those who support coming down softer on illegal immigration and medical marijuana are high, and they are unlikely to abandon him for Romney over disagreement with these issues.
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He's a rational politician. It's about winning the next election
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ShystemSock
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Games
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t5_2qhwp
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c4joesa
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This article hit the nail on the head, in that AAA games need to have action these days and that horror is not terrifying when you can defend your self.
Dead Space 1-2, FEAR 123, RE4-5, SH Homecoming, Fallout (ghoul zones and all), Metro 2033 etc.,scares are just obstacles such that after a while you say:
"Hey its awfully quiet and nothing has jumped out for a while, better reload."
The reason why games like Amnesia is scary for the common gamer is that it has taken that weapon away and you have to outsmart the enemy.
The original SH games do give you weapons, but if you keep taking monsters head on
"You will die." -Shao Khan.
So then you have to run, which gives you that tingly feeling on your neck like someones chasing and about to grab you.
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Man (or Woman) up and play a REAL horror game. Indie devs will always make great horror titles.
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Jake999
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Fitness
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t5_2qhx4
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c4llq06
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Work conditions and ethics aside, you also have to consider that Wal-Mart has a relationship with manufacturers that is similar to a mafia-ruled state. With Wal-Mart being the biggest retailer in the world, and for a lot of manufacturers their only retail source, Wal-Mart has the power to set the bulk price. These prices are often so low that manufacturers are forced to lower quality standards.
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Shopping at Wal-Mart is a vote for sub-standard products.
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speckledspectacles
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gaming
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t5_2qh03
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c4n41o7
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Mechanically, Dead Space 2 is (unsurprisingly) superior in most ways. Controls are smoother, guns have more variety and are simply more useful (Personally I've never enjoyed any weapon in 1 as much as the plasma cutter, to the point where in most of my playthroughs I've never bought another weapon, but in 2 I routinely carry 3-4 weapons), and the necromorphs are more varied. In this regard, DS2 did exactly what a sequel should do.
And yet DS1 is a much better game.
First and foremost is the character of Isaac. In DS1, he is a blank slate, with no dialogue, and only in the opening and ending cinematics does he do something you don't have control over. And yet he is a remarkable character.
For some, he is a projection of the self-- Dead Space is incredibly immersible, and a number of fans I've known said that they feel like they are Isaac when they really get in the zone. EA had a stroke of genius here with the RIG system, allowing a necessary UI to exist, for Isaac to be aware of it, without breaking the fourth wall. And because you do have such a lion's share over the control of character, without encountering things to snap you out of the zone, it becomes easy to feel less like you're holding a controller and more like you're in a dark hallway, that a wrench was just knocked out of a toolbox and clanked against the metal floor, and that your grip on your trusty cutter is tightening.
But more than that is that Isaac's actions throughout the game tell a story of who he is, and who he becomes, as he deals with the infection of the Ishimura and the gradual realization of the implications that come with it. The first time you play through Dead Space, and you encountered a corpse, you probably left it alone. Maybe you toyed around with stomps, but even in a video game there is an uneasy feeling about desecrating the dead in such a way. But then, you learn of the infectors. Suddenly, there is no denying it. As much as you-- Isaac-- may have wished otherwise, necromorphs happen when there are dead bodies around. The only way to prevent them from being transformed, or at least to keep them relatively harmless if they are, is to sever their limbs. You take on the heavy burden of destroying these people to save them from the even worse fate of having their bodies used to kill and infect others. You realize that if you should die here, you will be in the same position as these people are, waiting to become one of those things . You find a few survivors throughout the ship, but nothing anyone is saying really makes sense. Are they trying to use you? Are they even there? You know the people of this ship have been hallucinating! It's something in the air, causing it. But, what can you do? You can go along with them, or curl up and wait to die, to become one of those things . But throughout the ship you do have one thing to go on, you slowly piece together just what exactly happened, through text and audio logs... And it's reaffirmed through these very logs that these necromorphs had people they loved, that they cared for. And they likely were forced to kill these very same people... Better be extra certain about the dismemberment, maybe take off the head too. Yeah, that should do it.
The ending, without spoiling too much, was particularly poignant. You came to the Ishimura expecting a simple repair job, and leave thinking everything you know is wrong. About the CEC, about the Unitarians, about the military, and about your own sanity. You've sunk to depths you had no idea you were capable of, or maybe you were there all along? Holding back those urges to be a respectable member of society, and the Ishimura allowed the real you to surface. Violent, ruthless... thorough. But most importantly? You came with everything, and you leave with nothing but your own flesh and blood, and you can't even be sure of that anymore. The story is the complete and total dismantling of a man, in a game that turns men into empty shells, relentless monsters bent only on creating more of their kind.
In Dead Space 2, and I will give the spoiler warning now because I simply can't talk about it otherwise, the story works in reverse. You begin locked up, strapped to a wall in a straight jacket. As the prologue progresses, you regain your physical sense of self. Your legs, your arms, telekinesis, your trusty cutter, your stasis module, and finally, your suit. In a matter of minutes, Isaac is restored physically, cementing the first step of reestablishing his identity.
Once again, he is forced by circumstance to rely on others for help and guidance. Interestingly, as each group finishes their role in restoring Isaac's mind, they are promptly discarded. Several die within moments of the completion of their role. His dementia is a special case. Every case ties back to the Ishimura, where he was stripped of his humanity. And yet, mentally, he is stuck there. As he fights to repress it, it continues to fill more and more of his mind, especially when he's forced to return to the ship. As the dementia becomes all-consuming, Isaac stops fighting. He accepts that he's been made into nothing, and from that point can begin to rebuild his mind going forward.
Ellie serves to provide a source of humanity that Isaac can believe in, to believe in something worth fighting for, and to aspire to return to. An entirely new character, yet embodying so much that he believed in-- A CEC pilot that just won't give up, representing the unflagging resolve of the human spirit. She sees the horrible abominations caused by the marker, and yet she keeps going. Near the end, he sends her off on a shuttle, intent to make sure she survives, if nothing else.
Isaac confronts the marker through his dementia, freeing himself from the hold it has over him. While heavily scarred, his mind is restored to as it was before the Ishimura. As the world literally falls apart around him, he feels at peace, and seems to accept the inevitable death awaiting him. Ellie swoops in and rescues him, and this time, he feels worth saving. He leaves Titan with a new life ahead of him. It won't be an easy one, especially with the information revealed in some late-game logs, but he can approach it as a whole human being.
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DS1 is a game about breaking down a man, and DS2 is a game about building that man back up. While both are good games, DS1 is a much better horror game.
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finalej
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gaming
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t5_2qh03
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c4nis5j
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NIIIIIIIIIICE. hehehehe very few people will know this. (and I'll elaborate here. that's an aeon, which you find out in final fantasy X is a person who gave there life for someone and became a being of great power and can be summoned once they acknowledge a summoner as someone they'd like to be summoned by.) This aeon is a secret one that had been used against you buy a guy named seymour who isn't a summoner. later you find out by getting this aeon and going back into it's chamber near the end of the game that this aeon is seymours mother who became an aeon to give him power.
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this is seymours mother.
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Rourne
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sex
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t5_2qh3p
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c4obgo8
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Actually, the article says "that the definition of 'gateway sexual activity' is akin to the definition of 'sexual contact' according to the state's criminal law [...] kissing and handholding are notably absent from the criminal definition of sexual contact."
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no it isn't.
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beager
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technology
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t5_2qh16
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c4p5dwf
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Yeah, trying to do that results in an HTTP 502 error.
After reading up about this company, I feel like they're exacerbating the privacy problems with social networks. It's good in that it might spark more discussion about how bad privacy is with social networks, but these guys seem like dicks. I can't even opt out, which requires me to OPT IN in the first place. What the purple fuck?
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Klout can get fucked
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JoeCoder
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science
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t5_mouw
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c4pyxoh
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The Committee To Revise Evolution From Textbooks petition removal of archaeopteryx from 6 textbooks.
I don't see what the big deal is, since Archeopteryx [is no longer considered]( a transition between dinosaurs and modern birds, with some doubting that [birds are even descended from dinosaurs](
> birds are found earlier in the fossil record than the dinosaurs they are supposed to have descended from. That's a pretty serious problem, and there are other inconsistencies with the bird-from-dinosaur theories.
Stephen J. Gould himself has complained about the inaccurate presentation of horse evolution in texbooks:
> Once ensconced in textbooks, misinformation becomes cocooned and effectively permanent, because, as stated above, textbooks copy from previous texts. (I have written two essays on this lamentable practice: one on the amusingly perennial description of the eohippus, or “dawn horse,” as the size of a fox terrier, even though most authors, including yours truly, have no idea of the dimensions or appearance of this breed)
As well as the paleontologist David Raup:
> some of the classic cases of Darwinian change in the fossil record, such as the evolution of the horse in North America, have had to be discarded or modified as a result of more detailed information—what appeared to be a nice, simple progression when relatively few data were available now appears to be much more complex and much less gradualistic
For whales, you have a [fully aquatic whale]( found at [the beginning]( of the transition sequence. Unfortunately, you don't find the real reason for disagreement until the last paragraph:
> The professor of genomics at Seoul National University Jang Dae-ik said "the problem is that the writers of the science textbooks have neglected the new materials on the theory of evolution over the several decades. It even contains the references to Ernst Haeckel’s recapitulation theory which has been disproven a long time ago. This kind of lapse in up-to-date knowledge invites such an attack."
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Fix your science, then people will trust it.
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sonofagunn
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science
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t5_mouw
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c4qj98x
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Here are some attempts at answering that [
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about 2.5 acres of forest.
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whitecollarvagrant
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politics
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t5_2cneq
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c4qu0eq
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The healthcare challenges are much larger than simply insurance and policy.
If all hospitals performed like the 100 Top Hospitals, expenses would decrease by $5.5 billion. According to the American Hospital Association, 60% of hospitals lose money on Medicare and Medicaid patients. Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements average 12% below the cost of care.
A 2010 Inspector General's report found that 15,000 Medicare patients DIE each MONTH due to preventable errors. What does this mean? It means we can estimate that about 400,000 people / year get sent to the morgue when it was totally avoidable. Not only was grandma killed by accident, but providing inadequate and inefficient care is expensive! Medicare inpatient expenditure equates to $4.4 billion spend on care associated with unnecessary adverse or temporary harm events, which does not include additional costs required for follow-up care.
At the end of the day, what's up? If all hospitals reduced their operating costs to be on par with the 10% most efficient hospitals (while maintaining quality care), it would save $73 billion per year. Nevertheless, most hospitals are not taking the necessary steps to decreases these costs. It should no longer be acceptable for a hospital to not be actively engaged in improvement or cost saving efforts.
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More people die from preventable medical errors each month than in 10 years of OEF / OIF. Preventable medical errors are damn expensive. Let's get working on it.
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Symphonic_Nightmare
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politics
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t5_2cneq
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c4r2c4d
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While I agree with the central point of this article, it would help the author's point if he was more focused. It doesn't serve the central argument to tack on a blurb about the GOP attack on climate science near the end of a discussion about a GOP attack on gathering demographics data. I understand the parallel the author was trying to draw, but out of place bits like this make it easier for the not-yet-swayed to throw the whole argument out on the basis of political and personal belief.
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Focused ideas have fewer edges at which to tear.
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THEMadison
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sex
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t5_2qh3p
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c4rnt8v
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I'm the OP's girlfriend, and I'm really annoyed that anyone thinks this is a marketing ploy. This is an honest and true account of our experience with this toy. The reason he gave links for the toy and the lube were just so that we could give other people our recommendation.
Both of us are frequent commenters on /r/sex. Obviously, "Madison" is an alias (and this username is therefore a throwaway), but you can see from my other account- sexinthepark -that this is true.
r/sex is a place to write about personal experiences and share them with others. My boyfriend did a spectacular job conveying the intensity of our experience with this toy, and you are discrediting his writing because it is good and because he gave links to the products we used.
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I am the OP's girlfriend, and this is not a plug (no pun intended) for Aneros, he just wanted to share our experience with it.
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criticdude
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dating_advice
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t5_2s4kl
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c4snfeb
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Yeah, as a guy I accidentally did this to a female once. I wasn't intending to hurt her or anything, and I stopped myself before anything happened. I had just got out of a relationship, and a girl I had feelings for before that relationship moved back into town from out of state. We went and got coffee, and just being my honest self basically told her that I wasn't available emotionally. I didn't ask her for sex, but I did invite her over and I did plan on trying to make a move. But I stopped myself because I did really care about this person, and I truly wasn't available emotionally and I couldn't use her as a rebound, I didn't want to hurt her or ruin our friendship so I told her I couldn't see her until I got my shit together. Then she got married and had a kid lol
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this guy might really care about you, but give it a year or two for him to get over it before going on a date or sleeping with him imo
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Girolmao
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gaming
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t5_2qh03
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c4sq8mg
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Wow, so predictable. The 1-2 sports games and the shooter(s). Like my ex girlfriend's little brother's friend. He's twelve and telling me how I have to play real games. I guessed that the only games he has are FIFA, NHL and CoD. Who the fuck was right? Me.
I played CoD, but not just for the online. I actually played through the campaign unlocking achievements first. I made sure everything was completed. I went to the online. Everyone camps with a noobtube or follows you the entire map until they stab you and then somehow the other team has 10 helicopters. I don't think there was ever a moment when someone actually used a gun. The only fun I had was campaign because the AI is much more intelligent than all the people who did my mom and who apparently can sense that I'm "gay".
I'm saying CoD is a stupid game at all. It's just as strategic as most other games. It's the "gamers" who play it that I have little to no respect for anymore.
So you only played Red/Blue. You really have not experienced the franchise at all. I've seen [a guy beat a team of 6 legendary Pokemon with a Magikarp]( I mean, if you really just think it's just
> You go get 8 badges then kill the final 4, and level up one or two pokemon. [...] you know what beats what, but you can still beat the game without ever knowing about it.
then you have no idea what you're talking about. You said it yourself
> Multiplayer > Single player I play through the story fast to get use to the game then go online.
So you obviously noticed the differences between the online and campaign. Perks, weapon customization, RPG leveling system, nukes, care packages, helicopters.
It's the same crap with Pokemon. People rush through the story and get their ideal team of 6 and compete online. Personally, I play most games for the single player value because there are a lot of douches that ruin the online, but there are exceptions.
Before you go telling people that the games they play are stupid and for children, take a second to consider what you know. You're criticizing a series you haven't played in over 14 years yet you seem to know enough to say it's not complex whatsoever. Just to give you an idea of what you're lacking in knowledge:
Attacks can be Physical, Special, or non damaging. With that said Pokemon have the Attack and Defense stat which deal with Physical attacks and Special Attack and Special Defense which deal with Special Attacks. The latter is from Generation two (Gold/Silver/Crystal), they split the Special stat from gen 1 into sp. attack and sp. defense.
Pokemon (as of Gen 2) can hold items. From berries which can heal a certain status problem like Paralysis automatic upon infliction, give them more health when they're low, help with resisting certain attack types, allow them to evolve when traded while holding said item, can help EV for certain stats (EV training is explained later) etc.
Every Pokemon has a different distribution of Base Stats. Some have higher Base Attack while others have higher Speed, etc.
Pokemon now have natures (as of Gen 3) which means they have a higher total towards one stat and a lower total towards another stat (some natures are neutral and don't affect stat totals).
Since Red/Blue (although I will only explain the mechanics as of Gen 3 because they were changed), you can EV (Effort Value) train a Pokemon so that it gains a total of 252 points / 4 (because it takes 4 of these special points to get a +1 towards a stat) and each stat can only get a total of 100 effort points. You can have a Pikachu with a really high Special attack if you trained it accordingly versus someone else who has a Pikachu with a really high Speed instead.
There are also IV points. Some Pokemon can have from 0 - 31 points towards a stat naturally from birth (yes, you can breed Pokemon as of Gen 2. I also realized you probably don't know, but there are 5 generations now). I haven't familiarized myself with this concept yet, but you can chain breed your Pokemon in order to get perfect IVs (31 points) for all their stats.
Pokemon can get PKRS (Pokerus) as of gen 2 which is a virus that helps Pokemon gain more EV points.
Also as of Gen 2, Pokemon have a 1/8192 chance of being shiny for example the Red Gyarados above. Also, Pokemon have genders. I forget if genders still affect the stat distribution. I know they do in gen 2.
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Yeah, exactly. I still have to cover quite a few things in the game. Here's one more for an idea. There's a Pokemon named Feebas which can only be found in 6 tiles on a certain route in Gen 3. These tiles change randomly. Also, to evolve it, you need to max out its Beauty stat first (in gen 3 and 4 you can enter your Pokemon in contests and they have Cool, Smart, Cute, Beauty and Tough stats along with their attacks adopting the same types instead of being elemental. Pretty lame, but they appeal to female players I guess).
Now go click the link to the Magikarp victory I put further up.
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gzcl
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Fitness
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t5_2qhx4
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c4ssskz
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It may not be for you personally, but for those who choose to take them in pursuit of of a goal physique or level of strength, it's worth it.
nb4- "They're unhealthy!" The health risks can be mitigated and minimized with appropriate use. Do some people use them incorrectly. Certainly. Is that the fault of the drug? No. If it were then we should ban most pharmaceuticals.
nb4- "They're like _ (meth, cocaine, ect.)" Lol, no they're not. Steroids and the like are used by individuals to bring them closer to a goal, whether performance or aesthetic. They use them because they want to be better at their choice activity. No one starts taking meth with the goal to be a toothless meth-head. Do some people take typical illegal drugs like meth, speed, or cocaine to enhance their performance? Sure, but really that's the exception, not the rule. Most illegal drug users take them for the purpose of getting high; not to be better at something.
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If you don't like steroids don't take them. If you don't like people who take steroids, stop watching most professional sports.
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jus1haz2
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Fitness
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t5_2qhx4
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c4utb53
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As well as, health. Diabeties, Bone density, kidneys, TEETH. No reason IMHO to drink that much sryup. Just start slowing bring it down, honestly after stopping soda syrup you will realize how gross it really is.
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Drink more water
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violentsister
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relationships
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t5_2qjvn
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c4vq65n
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She hates going out in public, and her displays of violence decrease drastically around strangers unless we're at home. In middle school we once had open gym together (Only once, thankfully) and during that time I was reading a book in the corner.
She ran over and asked me to play dodgeball with her, and I said "I can't I don't want to break my glasses". So she grabbed me around my upper arm right above my elbow and raked her nails hard.
I ended up walking to the office crying from the pain with blood running down my arm. They asked who did it and I told them "my little sister". They just said "Oh, sisters" and bandaged me up. Any other student relationship would have likely gotten a detention or trip to the principal's office for harming another student.
I'm not sure how well professional help would do if she refuses to go to the appointments. Years ago we had been sexually molested by our ex-step-brother and family tensions were running high (because no one knew and didn't believe it when I told them) my ex-step-mother suggested we go to a therapist to "straighten them up".
It was rather ironic that she planned her own ousting, since the therapist believed my side and said she'd have to call the police if I didn't tell anyone about it. (Long story there, not really related to this)
But my sister refused to go to counselling to talk to the therapist about anything. Drawing, school, family, she'd just sit there and stare the whole hour if she had to go. Eventually they stopped trying to convince her to go, and just let her stay home.
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Just in case) She's not violent in public often, because she doesn't really go out in public for anything. And she's refused counselling adamantly in the past so no one in my family would be willing to try again.
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Moriarty42
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relationships
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t5_2qjvn
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c4vt5fv
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Especially right after a breakup, you can feel very discombobulated by the sudden giant change in your life. Try to avert that by establishing new routines/goals.
Be the guy that makes the plans with all your friends, which gives you some planning to concentrate on, and then a lot of fun and sociability as well. Changing some other part of your life might help as well, so that this change in relationship isn't so glaring. By this I mean something like challenge yourself to eat better, start that hobby you are always interested in, talk to those interesting people at work who you only see there, etc...
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Keep your life eventful and moving so you don't have time to let yourself hurt.
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abaldwin360
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politics
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t5_2cneq
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c4wa4qw
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I've observed the same thing with liberal stories. Seriously, I've started hanging out in r/politics's "new" section and it's funny, it's like everything starts out (including comments) immediately getting down-voted if it holds a strong bias (be it liberal or conservative stances) until it it somehow manages to get more people's attention - stuff that makes the front page of the subreddit does have a liberal slant, but I figured the majority reddit's user base probably has a bit of a liberal slat.
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I just always figured there were more liberals here.
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Nate1492
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politics
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t5_2cneq
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c4wrg7o
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You need a secondary opportunity to compare this to. You can't just say the "opportunity cost to go to war..." and not relate to a second alternative that can be shown to be lost because of the first one.
My point was, there isn't an opportunity that we have missed out on. In fact, the war has created new opportunities for profit. Hence you cannot say that the opportunity cost of the war was anything (unless you can show, in reasonable terms, that by going to war we missed out on another opportunity).
I'm not going to touch the 'emotional' bit anymore. It was just a weak attempt to tug at emotions to advance your point. You can do just fine without saying "war is bad mmkay."
So,
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what's the opportunity we missed out on?
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mjohnson062
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politics
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t5_2cneq
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c4x8xvg
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If said public transportation did not exist, the employer would need to pay enough money (ie, significantly more) to attract employees who did not require public transportation because they owned a car. You really, really have to think this through COMPLETELY.
You have an understanding of how some of the highway system, but STATE takes are the one's you're referring to and our/my example speaks to funds that are FEDERAL and there are those that are beyond fuel tax.
This is similar to arguments I've heard from folks that are childless and feel they shouldn't have to pay taxes that go towards education, to which the answer would be: The children (that aren't your own) you're paying to educate will eventually be the tax base that provides you with benefits (above and beyond Social Security and Medicare) when you've retired.
This wouldn't typically be the source I'd necessarily chose for this, but I'm lazy and it makes the same point that I'm making:
"Lately, however, it's become fashionable to question this. Various Republican leaders have trotted out the idea of a flat tax, meaning a fixed percentage of income tax levied on everyone. And in their hearts they may be anxious to emulate Maggie Thatcher's poll tax-- a single amount that everyone must pay.
Isn't that more fair? Shouldn't everyone pay the same amount?
In a word-- no. It's not more fair; it's appallingly unfair. Why? The rich should pay more taxes, because the rich get more from the government.
Consider defense, for example, which makes up 20% of the budget. Defending the country benefits everyone; but it benefits the rich more, because they have more to defend. It's the same principle as insurance: if you have a bigger house or a fancier car, you pay more to insure it."
I'm unsure what his point is on Social Security, but this is regressive, because there's an income cap on payments (for the poor, this is the largest tax they'll pay).
This must be a bit older, so in addition to the S&L Bailout, add the TARP payments into the mix (below):
"Investments in the nation's infrastructure-- transportation, education, research & development, energy, police subsidies, the courts, etc.-- again are more useful the more you have. The interstates and airports benefit interstate commerce and people who can travel, not ghetto dwellers. Energy is used disproportionately by the rich and by industry.
As for public education, the better public schools are the ones attended by the moderately well off. The very well off ship their offspring off to private schools; but it is their companies that benefit from a well-educated public. (If you don't think that's a benefit, go start up an engineering firm, or even a factory, in El Salvador. Or Watts.)
The FDIC and the S&L bailout obviously most benefit investors and large depositors. A neat example: a smooth operator bought a failing S&L for $350 million, then received $2 billion from the government to help resurrect it.
Beyond all this, the federal budget is top-heavy with corporate welfare. Counting tax breaks and expenditures, corporations and the rich snuffle up over $400 billion a year-- compare that to the $1400 budget, or the $116 billion spent on programs for the poor.
Where's all that money go? There's direct subsidies to agribusiness ($18 billion a year), to export companies, to maritime shippers, and to various industries-- airlines, nuclear power companies, timber companies, mining companies, automakers, drug companies. There's billions of dollars in military waste and fraud. And there's untold billions in tax credits, deductions, and loopholes. Accelerated depreciation alone, for instance, is estimated to cost the Treasury $37 billion a year-- billions more than the mortgage interest deduction. (Which itself benefits the people with the biggest mortgages. But we should encourage home ownership, shouldn't we? Well, Canada has no interest deduction, but has about the same rate of home ownership.)"
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Rich benefit MORE from federal taxes, multiple examples provided
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Gohack
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politics
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t5_2cneq
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c4wcie3
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How about we go with Imperialism? ehhh? The hypocrisy and myopic views in politics today astound me. Everyone is so consumed with the fact of being "right" rather than doing something worthwhile. Why start a war when we already have debt. Neither side has it right as many can plainly see. Just like the crusades before, this will end in failure if continued. Friends, trolls, and Redditors lend me your eyes.
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Pheer my rhetoric bitches.
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Nate1492
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politics
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t5_2cneq
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c4wd4as
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That is a complex question, to be honest. It's not about 'drawing the line' it's about which social programs, government agencies, and other budget items are effective.
Many people seem to believe varying social programs are not needed, wasteful, or targeted at religious groups.
Many people think certain government agencies are not worth the investment.
I think it's pretty clear that no one is arguing against infrastructure, so can we just throw that out? Basic infrastructure such as roads, rail, and airport. Those are fine.
Social programs are probably the hardest to come to agreement on. One clear one is UHC. Reps want health care reform, but they don't want a single payer solution nor a government mandated 'option'. Honestly though, this question is about as big as politics can tackle.
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I don't want to get into it all, but the 'line' is basically what defines Dems and Reps. Asking that question isn't a short, sweet, or accurate answer.
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mjohnson062
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politics
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t5_2cneq
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c4wf0mo
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Just out of curiosity, what would you suggest? Also, I wouldn't necessarily characterize this as "dems gutting social security". A Republican controlled legislature must be bargained with because the Tea Party Fucks are perfectly willing to watch the country BURN rather than compromise. All these links concern the Debt Ceiling deal that ultimately was agreed upon by the President and the Legislature (Democrats and Republicans) stating that if $1.2 trillion in cuts couldn't be agreed upon by a certain date, automatic cuts in entitlements (Social Security and such) as well as DEFENSE would kick in. AUTO-FUCKING-MATIC. What did the Republicans do? This:
This is what the phrase "lying fucks" was designed for. Bring troops home and reduce defense spending. Redesign the entire military training regimen so that our soldiers are actually prepared for the situations they're put in (other than Seals and other special ops, this is NOT what we're training our soldiers for).
To clarify, before I'm called a pacifist hippy: I'm a veteran, Libertarian (but barely still) and have many friends who will NEVER be remotely the same again, physically or mentally, as a result of the two wars we've been in the last decade (which, incidentally, the costs of which were NOT included in the budget - don't know what kind of logic that is/was - and are a large part of our Debt predicament).
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All links refer to Super Committee failure, Republicans are lying fucks.
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Lucky75
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politics
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t5_2cneq
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c4wg454
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I think the point is, policies of the United States as a whole have ENABLED the rich to become rich. Most people didn't just get that way on their own. They were able to take advantage of economic policy which tries to maximize GDP, often at the cost of marginalizing the blue collar worker. And that's fine. One just needs to realize that, for the most part, it was the policies as a while which enabled that monetary gain, and support the people who were marginalized by those same policies.
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Rich people didn't get rich in a vacuum, they became rich at the expense of poor people. They need to realize this and correct the imbalance through social programs.
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AKA_Fart_Machine
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politics
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t5_2cneq
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c4whfqr
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History does repeat itself. But I am pretty sure that is what you meant to say.
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even though it was short
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cattailboner
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politics
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t5_2cneq
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c4wmkpk
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On the second point? Did you actually answer my question? No, you continue to deny that the tax cuts had anything to do with the growing income disparity despite the fact that even a cursory look at the history will tell you that the income gap skyrocketed after Reagan began the race to see who could cut more taxes. What is your explanation for the growing income gap? Of course, wrapped up in this question are even more questions, like why do you think some people are poor and others are rich? And using that explanation, what's changed in the past 30-40 years to make more people poor?
The problem with NCLB and Medicare Part D was that they weren't paid for and they were poorly written legislation, but just because some legislators are jackasses doesn't mean we should never again try for education reform or healthcare reform. In fact, you brought up Obamacare, which the CBO predicts will lower the deficit, proving my point, because as flawed as Obamacare is (and we would probably disagree about how it is flawed, but I digress) it still is movement in the right direction.
You bring up the 2000 recession, which is interesting. Do you think recessions are not inevitable? After 8 years of expansion, yes, there was contraction, but how is that related to the surplus? You say that the realization that government wouldn't pay down the debt was the reason for the Bush tax cuts, but how is that possible? We were paying down the debt, until Bush's tax cuts. Now, if we had payed down the debt like we were doing until the Bush tax cuts, we would have the flexibility to run deficits during this recession in order to ensure that people who lost their jobs in the private sector either found a job in the public sector or received unemployment benefits long enough to buoy demand while the private sector recovered.
This brings me back to your first two questions. Our government uses taxes to invest in the things that we as a country hold to be important, that's really it. So, if we as a society agree that poverty is more than just lazy people or dumb people who can't hack it like the rich kids, we could spend the taxes on things like education, healthcare, ensuring fair labor practices, maternity/paternity leave, and other things that benefit most citizens.
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We tax those who have more so that we can provide services that benefit the country as a whole
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Triassic_Bark
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politics
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t5_2cneq
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c4wskq5
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Yes, you DO only have the great life you do because of socialist policies. That's a fact. That is not, however, the same as claiming that we would have none of the things we have without the government. You have the great life you do, more than for any other reason, because of the social policies passed in the 20th century, including workplace safety laws, minimum wages, health care, clean water, and all of the laws that protect you from 'the man' (the list goes on and on), all of which conservatives have been trying dismantling for decades.
>"most of the services ... were provided for well before gov't provided them."
Really? Like what? And how did it compare with what we have now? Those services were terrible compared to what we have now.
>"that has a lot to do with the general improvement in the American quality of life over the last 120 years"
Yeah, and what do you think drove that general improvement? Magic? For fuck's sake, get your clown head out of your fat ass, and read a book that is more than just Republican nonsense and propaganda. You have zero facts on your side, and you can't back any of your claims with evidence.
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You are making shit up, and/or parroting the talking points/rhetoric you heard on Faux Newz.
edit: just for the record; even if we assume that every 'thing' that is available now would have been available with zero gov't investment, you would be too poor to afford any of it anyway. The middle class was born because of government rules and regulations within the capitalist markets that we all enjoy.
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antiliberal
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worldnews
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t5_2qh13
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c4xabz0
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The article has quite a few inaccuracies. Horthy didn't start serious mass persecution and deportation of Jews until the Germans invaded in 1944.
> Horthy and his government supplied 10,000 Jewish deportees for labor battalions, but otherwise refused to comply. Cautiously, the Hungarian government began to explore contacts with the Western Allies in hopes of negotiating a surrender.
It wasn't until he started trying to find a way to join the allies or surrender to them (Hitler got word of this and 'summoned' him to a meeting) that his new government was forced to deport a large number of Hungary's Jews to German camps after they invaded the country.
> Horthy was told he could only stay in office if he fired Kállay and appointed a new government that would fully cooperate with Hitler and his plenipotentiary in Budapest, Edmund Veesenmayer. Knowing the alternative was a gauleiter who would treat Hungary in the same manner as the other countries under Nazi occupation, Horthy acquiesced and appointed his ambassador to Germany, General Döme Sztójay, as prime minister. The Germans originally wanted Imrédy, but Horthy had enough influence to get Veesenmayer to accept Sztójay instead. Contrary to Horthy's hopes, Sztójay's government eagerly proceeded to participate in the Holocaust.
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> It is often argued that Hungary's "relatively mild" anti-Jewish Laws, which were passed under German pressure, appeased the Nazis enough to create a relatively safe environment for the Jews before the 1944 German invasion.[36] It seems certain that the survival of 124,000[37] Hungarian Jews in Budapest until the arrival of the Soviets would have been impossible without Horthy’s years of foot-dragging reluctance to implement German orders.[38][need quotation to verify] On 15 July 1944 Anne McCormick, a foreign correspondent for The New York Times wrote in defense of Hungary as the last refuge of Jews in Europe, declaring that “as long as they exercised any authority in their own house, the Hungarians tried to protect the Jews.”
The article deliberately fails to mention that it was only after the Nazis invaded the country and Germany asserted full control over Hungary that they started to fully comply with the Genocidal policies of Hitler. The article deliberately attempts to absolve Germany of any guilt in the crimes committed under Horthy when the truth is that almost ALL of the crimes committed against the Jews at that time were to appease Germany. The rise in nationalism and the growing acceptance of these historical figures as 'heroes' is a serious issue and Der Spiegel ruined an important piece of journalism by deliberately twisting the history to avoiding mentioning the fact that Germany played the major role in extermination of Hungary's Jews and that the Hungarian regime was a reluctant and initially unwilling participant.
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The guy was quite bad, used the Nazis to hold onto his own power and complicit in the Nazis' genocide but the most serious crimes of 'his' government didn't begin until Germany invaded his country and forced him to comply as punishment for trying to join or surrender to the allies.
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gzcl
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Fitness
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t5_2qhx4
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c4xhpg6
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Grip intensity (1RM strength, like a max effort deadlift) and endurance (holding for time, like farmers walks) are two different things for me... and for most people I believe.
Sure there is some crossover, but if you can't pick up and hold 600 pounds on a rack pull, no distance of 100 pound farmers walks or holds will increase that grip intensity.
Many people will say something along the lines of, "I've been doing farmers walks for a few weeks/months yet I still have trouble holding my 1RM deadlift." Upon further investigation, these people often have trained grip endurance and can carry "X" pounds dumbbells for "X" distance but they're forgetting that if you want to pick up heavy ass weights you have to pick up heavy ass weights ; no amount of light weight training will give you that ability.
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Do heavy rack pulls for grip intensity and farmers walks for grip endurance.
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Pharphun_The_Chown
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gaming
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t5_2qh03
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c4xol6f
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I actually just purchased a Microsoft X4 sidewinder for a friend. It's a solid keyboard that has a nice red glow to all of the keys. If you are willing to drop about $50 it is excellent. It has a few programmable keys as well. It also allows up to 3 profiles (say for 3 different games you play).
Here's a link, shop where you like.
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Microsoft X4 Sidewinder glows for about $50
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Sidwill
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politics
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t5_2cneq
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c4yoatq
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Well the important thing is that a relatively small number of people could makes a big profit, if a relatively larger number of people might potentially get hurt by it so be it.
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fuck em, I got mine.
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Brisaster
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tifu
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t5_2to41
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c4yutgd
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Sure glad I wasn't eating when I read this.... Also, love the
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Sweet face love!
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560cool
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gaming
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t5_2qh03
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c4z0zpm
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I own a 3DS, while my brother owns a Vita. I've had it since Summer 2011 (got it right before the price reduction in order to obtain the old games), and I've played it for over 800 hours since then.
The only 2 games I've played on Vita were FIFA (the only reason my brother bought the console for, which I find a little bit foolish) and Uncharted (very great action/adventure game, awesome gameplay, stunning graphics). Apart from these two, I think you can find other games that suit your gaming interest. The only thing that ticks me off about the console is the lack of software ; the hardware is excellent.
As for the 3DS, I own 10 retail titles :
Star Fox 64 3D, Kid Icarus Uprising (both shooters, but with major diferences)
Tales of the Abyss (JRPG with awesome battle system)
Tetris Axis
Super Pokemon Rumble (simplistic action game, very addicitve)
Mario Kart 7 (a shallow title in single player ; mp is where it's at)
Super Mario 3D Land (30 hour Mario platformer, very fun game)
Need for Speed the Run (impulse buy ; decent game)
Steel Diver (only title which I didn't really enjoy)
Zelda : Ocarina of Time 3D.
Out of all these retail games, you should start with the Mario titles, Zelda and Tetris, and then branch out according to your gaming interest.
The 3DS also sports backwards compatibility with DS games, opening up a huge library. They look pretty blurry, but it's still playable.
The eShop also provides a pretty limited selection of VC games, and some 3DS Ware. You should take a look.
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Vita is a console full of potential, but it lacks games, while the 3DS could keep you occupied much longer.
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Lil_Boots1
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TwoXChromosomes
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t5_2r2jt
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c50nxe4
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There's nothing wrong with wanting to be a young parent or an old parent. For my part, I want to be an old parent, partly because of the career path I've chosen and partly because I had an older mother (38) and a younger father (25) and I always got along better with my mother. I always felt like Dad wasn't quite ready for kids when we were little, but had to get ready because of Mom's age when they got married. She was 41 when my brother was born, and for both of us she's always had plenty of energy. When we were kids, she played with us all day all summer long since she was a teacher, and when we were older she never missed a game or performance. But then, she was always in pretty good shape and had generally taken care of herself her whole life.
It was also kind of cool having a parent who had been to Beatles concerts and war protests and kind of had a been there, made that mistake attitude about the crap we got into. Not to say we got away with things because she was old because we didn't, but she always had a milder reaction to things like my brother eating a bug or me putting a nail through my foot or both of us tracking mud and snow in the house. And it's not like she had any older kids, either. She was just a very mellow parent from the beginning.
I'm also not terribly worried about my fertility or my parents becoming grandparents, mostly because of our family history. I still have 3 grandparents, ages 72, 72, and 90, and two great-grandparents, ages 92 and 94. All of them are still lucid and all but the 94 year old live in their own homes and all of them have been active parts of my life. I would never want to deprive my children of that, but I can also count on my parents likely living to a ripe old age. Along the same lines, my mom was fertile into her 40's, as was her mother and my paternal great-grandmother. Come to think of it, all 4 of my great-grandmothers had children into their 40's, and all of them lived to be at least 80, with two of them getting to their 90's.
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All families are different, and what you do is dependent on what you know of your family history, your health, and your experiences, and no one should judge you for that or judge me for waiting til I approach that dangerous age of 35, because unless you know exactly all the details if the situation you're talking about, you don't get to judge their well thought out decisions.
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mattymck
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Games
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t5_2qhwp
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c50kn70
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Fear 3 has little to no scares and gameplay is OK. PLaying as fettel is pretty fun but its obvious they went for a more multiplayer oriented game. I bought fear 3 on release and i should have wated for it to go on sale, not worth 60, but worth 30 IMO. I had a lot of fun playing it, its still a really solid shooter, just less story and scares than the previous 2.
For sure worth $8 imo, played it once regualrly, then again as fettel. Its also a LOT more fun with a friend. Messing around as fettel is pretty sweet.
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not what i expected, still pretty decent.
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Weirdsauce
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AskWomen
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t5_2rxrw
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c51w6k0
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Fair question. Let me amend my original post by saying that ultimately, brains turn me on. And i'm not even talking about book smarts- but the ability to understand life, to have some critical thinking, a love for the aesthetic (art, architecture, music, etc...) and an appreciation of things sensual and sublime. So someone could be incredibly delicious eye-candy but if they don't have the brains, personality and kindness to back it up, then she can't hold my interest.
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Yes, i appreciate what she has to say if it's worth appreciating.
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tazzy531
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news
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t5_2qh3l
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c51y09v
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Over the course of the last 30 years, the world economy has become even more tightly integrated. One of the most underrated inventions with dramatic impact on the world is the [cargo container]( This allowed manufacturing to be done around the world and shipped within a reasonable time frame to the consumers. With improved telecommunication technology, like the Internet, this has further reduced the division between us and the world.
Prior to the 1970s, US manufacturing benefited from the fact that we were physically isolated from the rest of the world by two oceans. It was not to produce elsewhere to ship to the US nor was it easy to produce in the US to ship elsewhere. In addition, post-WWII, the rest of the world was too busy rebuilding their basic infrastructure while the US had all the advantages of an unscathed manufacturing industry that was primed by the war manufacturing.
With the advent of containerization and countries that are producing, we are now facing our first real competition in over 70 years. For much of this generation's manufacturing, we've never had to encounter anything like this.
What this means to manufacturing and industries is that companies are no longer limited to operating within one geographical border. With transportation costs at minimum, a company can sell to multiple markets and multiple consumers. In addition, their manufacturing supply is much greater. This means that companies do not look upon a given market in isolation but as a collective. If we take a look at the world as an unified whole, the US middle class is far richer than the median middle class of the world. It really is not sustainable. This "elimination of the middle class" that we often hear about is fundamentally a reversion to the mean.
What this also means is that the upper and lower class of the US gets pushed to the extremes. The CEO of a multi-national has significantly more responsibilities and generates much more value than when the company only operated within the US. His salary and wealth reflects this increase demand.
So, you bring up the point that we should increase the wages of manual labor so that they can become consumers. Fortunately or unfortunately corporations already do do that. Corporations are increasing the wealth of the Chinese laborers and the Chinese middle class because the developing nation economies have a much greater demand for consumption than our already developed western economy. A corporation does not care whether the consumption is coming from US or China or Ethiopia. If the growth rate is significantly higher in one of those countries, they have a fiduciary duty to supply it.
If you look at any recent reports, the growth rate of the Chinese middle class is approximately the size of the entire population of the US with estimates of the Chinese middle class growing to over 800M.)
In canonical terms, within your neighborhood, what percentage of them are buying a new washing machine or a TV or a dishwasher? The answer is very small percent. In China, you have an entire generation of people that are just entering the middle class and purchasing these luxuries. This makes China an extremely lucrative market for any manufacturer to supply. In addition, by growing the Chinese middle class, we make even more consumers of these goods. In comparison, in the US, much of the lower and middle class are not in the market for these durable goods.
In another comment on another thread, I asked, "Why should a multinational company that sells to a foreign consumer be beholden to US laborer?" In other words, why should a company, like GE, that sells durable goods to China and India be morally or ethically obligated to hire US laborers? For a multinational, what does it mean to be a "US company?" If we decide that GE has a moral or ethical obligation to hire US laborers, they would not be able to compete with the Chinese companies that have lower cost of living and lower wage costs. This basically means that in 10 years, instead of buying our appliances from GE, we will be buying it from Qingdao Haier.
So, I've presented the "problem" that we face with US manufacturing, labor, and middle class. Let's talk about solutions.
The solution is the same solution that China has embarked on in the last 15 years: move up the production value chain. Over the course of the last 60 years, we've been able to monopolize the production value chain without much effort. Over the course of the last 30 years, China has been slowly eating away at the production value chain, first with low skill, low value work and now moving into high skilled and high tech work. Years ago, "Made in China" were only seen on plastic toys and cheap products. Now, the bulk of high tech devices, like your iPhone or laptop, has the label "Made in China". Each and every year, they are inching their way up their production value chain. There is already a burgeoning industry in technology and software development in China. As they move up the production value chain, they are losing and/or giving up their low value production to other developing countries like Vietnam or Thailand.
The same needs to happen in the US. Fighting to grasp the bottom of the production value chain is a losing proposition. As I said in my original comment on this thread, the original article, while feel-good, is not sustainable. The value of manufacturing a coffee mug is not all that high. We provide no competitive advantage over out competitors in holding onto these low value industries. On the other extreme, the high production value technology industry is dominated by the US. We need to ensure that we continually grow this industry. This makes highly technical education even more important in the US.
Unfortunately, for those that are undereducated for the tech industry, they will miss out on the new economy. The other growth industry in the US is the service industry. There will be even greater demand for people to provide services that cannot be exported, such as healthcare/home care services, restaurant services, or personal services.
The recession of 2008 is not just another cyclical recession; it was the symptom of the systemic shift that has been occurring in the last 25 years. This is why we have so many on long-term unemployment. Far too many people are out waiting for their jobs to come back, but the world and the economy has changed. Those jobs are gone and we need to be prepared for the new economy.
With the practical elimination of geographical limitations, we do ourselves a great disservice to look at the US in isolation. We were fortunate enough to enjoy a couple decades of prosperity without limitations, but that is slowly coming to an end. The best of the US will be amongst the best in the world and the worst in the US will be amongst the worst of the developed nations and the middle will fall somewhere between.
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We are in the throes of a global economical shift where economies are more tightly integrated and labor is in greater competition.
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TrololoFace
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leagueoflegends
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t5_2rfxx
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c52iv2z
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very well put. the reason i mainly stay with tri-force is for the kiting and sustain that it gives him (Q proc sheen and slow from phage, auto, w, auto, q, auto etc). I usually don't mess around with PD because you alreay get the built in AS with tri-force, plus if you're hitting your Q's and initiate with ult, passive gives plenty of AS. I agree with you on the infinity edge though for sure, nothing makes an AD output quite like an IE.
I guess I just like to play him purely for his zone/kite abilities rather than using him as a straight up duelist. Seems like people who play him wanting super deeps go the PD/IE/LW route which serves their purpose well, though IMO, the sheen phage is to much utility to ignore on a great kite like ezreal. Cheers man!
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heavy deeps late game is what you're going for with IE/PD/etc. For kiting though, I feel tr-force is needed.
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WaffleMoose
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news
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t5_2qh3l
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c52z7ci
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This article is written criticizing target and provides only one incident of the false advertising allegedly happening. Oh, and we have no way to back up the claim of the consumer that accidental damage was covered. What possible reason would they make this up? A free IPod is a plausible reason.
Anyone with any skepticism won't accept this article at face value. If the article had any shred of proof other than one person's word, it could work. Hell, I'd settle for multiple similar accounts from different customers. But not, that's asking too much.
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Alleged consumer allegedly alleges... fuck it, target is bad.
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anti_gravity88
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politics
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t5_2cneq
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c52pr1d
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This sort of freedom of conscience being applied to doctors is acceptable in my mind IF AND ONLY IF
When being hired, the doctors must be required to disclose any and all legitimate medical practices they cannot in good conscience perform, and
The hospitals have every right to base their hiring decisions upon the candidates response to 1. If a doctors religion will affect his / her performance on the job then it absolutely must be a fair consideration.
I'm alright with a doctor who will refuse to perform some procedure for moral reasons, so long as they are never needed to. Going back to the story where the doctor who refused to treat the rape victim in Oklahoma a while back; the doctor should have every right to refuse to do any services he desires, so long as the hospital doesn't put him in the position where a patients well being relies on him to do so. He should never have been the doctor on call if he wouldn't be willing to perform the duties the position requires. If he has every right to claim his religion as a reason to withhold service, then the hospital should be OBLIGATED to ensure he's never the doctor relied upon to perform that service. And, these objections need to be voiced before he is offered the position.
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It's not religious discrimination if your job performance relies on it, and these doctors shouldn't be relied upon to do so
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ndw10325
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worldnews
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t5_2qh13
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c536apu
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Right. Yeah, that is generally what happens in the United States. The only times suicides are reported are when they are like, Kurt Cobain. Then, it's only because he was a cultural icon. Speaking as someone who has had a few friends and family members commit suicide, the obituary is really the only thing that is published and that is at the hands of the family, and they usually don't say it was suicide because, frankly, they usually don't believe that their loved one killed themselves. They want to believe it was murder or an accident, and sometimes self inflicted deaths genuinely are accidents, ESPECIALLY among drug users and particularly among opiate/opioid addicts who also take a benzodiazepine or several benzos.
Case and point, Heath Ledger died by his own hand but it wasn't suicide(although some people have speculated it was), this is something I can speak to myself, as someone who has had some pretty serious prescription drug abuse issues(with literally all of the drugs he overdosed on, which includes "oxycodone, hydrocodone, diazepam, temazepam, and alprazolam" according to the toxicology report performed as part of his autopsy). In cases of high profile deaths, the media is going to report it, and eventually the cause of death is going to be released somehow, perhaps the family releases information as a way to send a message to folks struggling with addiction or depression to get help, or because in this day and age, people are more concerned with getting paid or getting their 15 minutes of fame for breaking some story of a celebrity death than they are with how the family and friends of the deceased are treated by reporters and the information is "leaked".
I mean, I can only imagine going to my son, father, cousin, nephew, wife, daughter, girlfriend, sister, or any funeral, you know, of someone that I loved and having a huge crowd of people I have to basically push and shove as I'm bombarded with really inappropriate questions(considering that the media ACTS all sad and caring as they sit in the press tent covering the funeral live, when really, they are showing what kind of scum they really are, remember the Whitney Houston funeral where they asked questions about the service to people as they left the funeral? That was so shitty of them to do and really made me start questioning the integrity of not just American media but of the WORLDS media, and that whole phone hacking scandal shows it isn't just the American media who are FUBAR).
As someone who has overdosed on opiates(once on methadone and once on oxymorphone) and by overdose I mean a real overdose where I am absolutely certain I would have died if not for the fact that an ambulance was called because I was cyanotic(cyanosis is when you aren't breathing and turn blue as a result, completely unresponsive, and without naloxone, basically dead) twice, I have seen the result of my terrible decisions and how those decisions hurt my family...particularly my mom, who on both occasions, was the one who found me, and on my dad, who on both occasions, was the one who performed CPR...I just can't imagine if I was famous and my mom and dad had to answer questions that they don't need to face on what is possibly the worst day of their life(the day of my hypothetical funeral as a result of one of my previous OD's) , questions like "DID YOUR SON COMMIT SUICIDE?", "DID YOU KNOW YOUR SON WAS A DRUG ADDICT?", "WHY DID HE DO THIS? WE WERE FANS, WE WERE COWORKERS MAKING MONEY TOGETHER, HOW COULD HE LEAAAVE US, EVEN FROM THE GRAVE WE NEED TO FIND A WAY TO EXPLOIT HIM, DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW WE COULD DO THAT? MAYBE HAVE A RED CARPET FUNERAL AND ASK THESE SORTS OF QUESTIONS?", I mean just imagine that, I know my addiction is my fault, and having lived through an overdose, I know what the families went through, I've seen it, imagine the world making a media spectacle of your death or your moms death...it's just fucking terrible.
So luckily, in cases of true, 100% certain cases of suicide, the person has to be pretty famous or notorious to get media attention(the lucky part meaning that the media doesn't cover many cases as a suicide because the investigators don't tell the media it even was a suicide to avoid copy cats, unfortunately people who commit suicide and who are famous tend to have fans and after their death, a lot more fans, and a lot of those fans can be quite ill and may harm themselves). Mostly, the only media attention self inflicted deaths, accidental or intentional, receive is in the obituary.
And I know your comment really didn't need a response like this but I just needed to get these feelings off my chest,
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FUCK THE MEDIA FOR BEING MEAN TO FOLKS WHILE THEY ARE VULNERABLE. I DON'T KNOW WHY THIS LAST BIT IS IN CAPS. THE KEY IS STUCK.
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Ching_chong_parsnip
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worldnews
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t5_2qh13
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c53alxe
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Sorry for taking so long to reply to this, been at work and then out drinking (so this response is posted in a somewhat drunken state where I take no responsibility for any factual or grammatical errors).
Seeing as I cannot find any crime under article II of the original [treaty]( between the US and Sweden which would cover WikiLeaks release of classified documents, I don't really see how an extradition request would at all be possible, according to the treaty? Further, article V.2 fotbids extradition in cases where the requesting state regards the crime as political. The US would probably circumvent article V.2 though.
Article VI(b) of the [supplementary treaty]( which concerns temporarily surrendering a suspect, refers this to an extradition request , i.e. a crime which falls under article II, mentioned above.
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I can't even see how Assange would qualify for a temporary "loan" to the US. I am drunk though so I might be wrong.
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Cristal1337
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worldnews
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t5_2qh13
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c52xviw
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Are there other people who are scared of the current situation between politics and the internet? I have this bad feeling that we might be entering a pre-phase of civil war (worst case).
On the one hand, there are many people who want to have a censorship free internet. On the other hand, there are people, mostly those with power, who want to see the internet censored. However, the later is a minority.
Then we have the current internet, still relatively uncensored, allowing people to band together and form hacker groups (not talking about anonymous). These hacker groups only fight to bring forth the truth which governments try to hide.
In the middle of this is Assange as the informal representative of the uncensored internet. Prosecution of Assange will ultimately provoke "truth fighters" and lead to serious attacks on government websites. Consequently, sensitive government information will be leaked, giving an actual reason for "quick measurements" from the governments. So the witch-hunt for hackers starts.
Once in this phase, underground systems and safe-houses for hackers start to develop and the people of the internet will start public campaigns against government policies. There will be flash-mobs every day, demonstrating the power of a world united through the internet and our governments will be scared. So they can do two things: "Fight or give up."
If the governments give up, the internet becomes truly uncensored. However, and this is what I fear, if the government chooses to fight, a civil war will be inevitable.
So I wonder if I am just imagining things or is fear is justified?
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I am scared of a civil war over the internet.
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darkfaith93
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leagueoflegends
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t5_2rfxx
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c53gkyv
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I know there are many Riot employees who check Reddit and we should show them how much we appreciate their work. I'm not saying we aren't, I'm actually very satisfied with the comments on this topic about the servers being down. But it seems that The official forums are getting flooded by spoiled kids who always get what they want.
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Thank you Riot for your awesome service so far and good luck on getting the problems fixed!
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rljohn
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leagueoflegends
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t5_2rfxx
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c53mois
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His passives are great, but the mana restore is very low so many Tarics just ignore the mechanic completely. Good use of that passive is part of what defines a great Taric. You should be getting as many extra auto attacks in as possible, and play with an aggressive laner who likes to push. Keeping bottom lane under the enemy's tower is a great way to deny early CS, and proper warding of the river/tribrush allows you to do this with very little risk to yourself. Any time the enemy is able to push off their tower you have the best burst support w/ DPS like Graves/Draven who have very high physical only burst that is multiplied heavily by your shatter.
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auto attack the creeps and push your lane, gg infinite mana and lane dominance.
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Blaeniek
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leagueoflegends
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t5_2rfxx
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c53uycu
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My problem with building a new passive on Taric is that he's already quite strong. He was originally designed as a fighter type instead of a support, and while the ult didn't carry over from that idea, the passive did. It doesn't function in his primary role as a support, but any realistic change to his passive would be a buff, since it's really almost never relevant. Sans hybrid/bruiser/jungler/non-support items, he doesn't attack fast enough to get regularly relevant cdr on his heal (yes, people get clutch heals sometimes, we're talking consistent help), and the mana he gets back from the hits are kinda pathetic. The mana regen is even smaller than Kassadin's passive on his dinky little sword buff, and Taric's heal is pretty mana inefficient, considering the more popular healers like Soraka or support Kayle. Most Taric players smack people for the damage and pretty much get mana only from towers or dragon, because pushing is not worth it and champions are better killed than leeched for mana.
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can't safely change it because it may as well not exist right now. Changing his passive, imho, would require nerfs to maintain balance, since any addition would be strictly better than what he has right now.
In other news, there's a highly rated reply somewhere above that made a very fun sounding suggestion, where you gain mana back by being hit, or gain some regen buff when in combat, etc etc. Like reverse his passive, or reverse Garen's and put it on mana. That's a passive I can get behind, but it'd just be too powerful on him if the mana gain were relevant, and it'd be no different than it is now if the amount were too small
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snackies
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leagueoflegends
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t5_2rfxx
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c54070x
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I mean, the biggest issue is while his passive makes no sense on a support, he is still a competitive pick and seen as generally a good support in many situations. A useful passive could easily push taric into the OP territory. Its a bit of flawed game design to have a passive like that on a support. However anything else may make him too strong.
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if it isn't broken don't fix it.
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loondawg
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politics
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t5_2cneq
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c541jr3
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I really like the concept. But I think you need to structure it so that each lie has it's own document. Otherwise the Mitt Romney page is going to get
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pretty fast.
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Fameless
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relationships
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t5_2qjvn
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c53zxtq
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I'll be honest here I have never, ever, fucked up that hard in a one night stand. Ever. So I can't really empathize much with you there. You dug yourself a pretty big hole there pal, but enough of telling you what you already know.
If you wanna fix things, man the fuck up and find a way to reach her. She's not answering her phone? Fine. Try another means. Facebook out of the question? Try another means. There is always , a way. Get a friend to help if you have to and find a way to contact her.
The true goal here is to take that fucking ugly burden and humiliation off her shoulders (and yours), for something she didn't even do.
If you don't fix this and leave it to hang and dry, it'll probably grate on you for months if not years to come, though I'm sure you knew that already.
Oh, and even if the truth comes out and she accepts it, she still may never talk to you again. Who knows? Time will tell.
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Man up and face it straight, or wallow in shame indefinitely
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shittypantser
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relationships
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t5_2qjvn
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c5409go
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quoted for posterity:
Posting this on a throwaway account for obvious reasons and praying to god that she doesn't browse reddit herself. I've been friends with this girl since I was in elementary school. I started to have feelings for her in middle school and got friendzoned, you know the story. In high school she got a lot more popular than me and we sort of drifted apart, I resented her a lot at first but as I matured I started to realize that I was really just putting her on a pedestal and I might not have been the "nice guy" that I thought I was.
So we started talking again recently (both just graduated from the same high school class of 2012) and I went into it not really expecting a whole lot. Anyways she invited me to the end of the year party she was having at her place (her dad was out of town but knew she was having a party and is pretty cool with the drinking and whatnot) so I went. I didn't really know most of her friends so it was kind of awkward and I don't drink either but she was being really flirty with me. I wrote it off as her just being drunk rather than having a rekindled interest in me but she kept at it all night.
Now this is the important part-- I had my wisdom teeth removed right before the school year ended and the hydrocodone I was administered was giving me serious constipation, so I had been taking suppositories to relax my bowels at this point. I was starting to feel gassy and sick and so I was a little antsy to leave. The party was sort of winding down and I wanted to say goodbye before I went but a few of her friends were still there and I was a little nervous about interrupting being the outsider that I was (and even more nervous about using her toilet), so I waited around some more.
I guess I sort of was anticipating something to come out of it if I said goodbye to her alone, but I honestly would have preferred it to happen when she was sober. Once the last people were leaving she started putting her hands all over me and being really forward. She promised that she wasn't that drunk but I don't think it was true. She took me back to her bedroom and started taking her clothes off and even though I knew it was wrong I also knew we probably wouldn't see each other after this summer and I would regret missing an opportunity to finally lose my virginity to this girl I'd had feelings for for so long. We started making out on her bed and I got really flatulent at this point, but she was too loud and drunk to really notice. I finished pretty quickly and she sort of rolled over. It was an unpleasant experience, but I think that's normal for most people's first time and she really didn't make me feel too embarrassed so I felt okay about it. I ended up sleeping over- it was just something I had really wanted for a long time, to hold her in my arms through the night.
Once the night was over, that's when things got fucked up. I woke up literally covered in shit. I knew immediately it was the laxatives. There was gunky diarrhea all over the bedspread, all the way up my thighs and all over he back since we'd been spooning all night. She was still crashed out asleep at this point, and I just sat on the edge of the bed covered in my own feces crying for like five minutes. I went to her bathroom and showered myself, but after getting dressed I acknowledged that there was no way in hell I could get all the shit off of those sheets.
I know this is gonna make me look like an asshole but I fucking panicked at this point, Reddit. I did the only thing I could think of doing: I scooped up a small pile of poo with my hands, pulled the covers back, and smeared it on her bare asscheeks. I went into the kitchen, washed my hands, found a notepad and a pen and left her a little message by her bedside that read you shit yourself last night so i left. And then I booked it the fuck out of there.
I don't know what I expected to happen really. I just didn't want her to blame me for the shit, I would have felt more pathetic than I already did. But it's been five days now and I haven't heard from her at all, I tried calling twice and she hasn't responded. I'm worried as fuck, Reddit. I don't know what to say because I don't know whether she's too embarrassed to speak to me or worse if she thinks that I did it. On top of that the fact that she got drunk and had sex with me. Seriously, I need fucking help. Advice from anyone who's fucked up during a one-night stand. I want to fix things, but I don't want to embarrass her or incriminate myself. Thanks in advance, I'll keep you guys updated. Really need some support right now.
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had sex with friend when she was drunk, shit myself in her bed, blamed it on her, now she won't talk to me
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Victorys
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leagueoflegends
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t5_2rfxx
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c559ya1
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Besides the whole "snowball early, get fed hard, farm hard", and make the midgame as short as possible, other possible ways that you can prevent trist from falling behind is by having your team peel for Tristana if the enemy just rushes for her, or just avoiding engagements in the first place.
Personally, when I play with my AD carry and he plays Tristana, I try to pick a support that can either be aggressive early, or peel for him. Soraka isn't going to be able to do anything for tristana in a team fight, but alistar or janna can offer so much for the AD carry both in terms of aggression and peeling. Having champions that do better mid game, such as Cassiopeia, Nocturne, or Shen can also help cover your weaknesses.
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Farm hard and try to get fed early to make the mid game as short as possible. If that doesn't happen, avoid engagements. If THAT doesn't happen, try your best in that engagement.
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keepinithamsta
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Fitness
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t5_2qhx4
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c54yg63
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Do all the leg exercises in the world. Other people looking at your body have a different perception than you do. And that's total bullshit that you have "bulky" legs after a few months of lifting. I'm a guy that's a year into working out and I know I have above average size legs but I wouldn't even call them bulky. Stop sabotaging yourself and keep your routine going.
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my girlfriend is jealous of my ass because of all of the squats I've done.
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sleeptyping
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Fitness
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t5_2qhx4
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c555yzz
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No offense but this isn't a super reply. And it's voted to the top, which is even less helpful.
>I don't see any way that your thighs are too bulky if you've only been lifting for a couple of months.
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I don't believe you.
She's gaining muscle mass in her legs, it's not a mystery.
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DaGetz
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politics
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t5_2cneq
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c559re2
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That reply implies you are confused dude I'm sorry. They are not rewarding anyone, in fact in Ireland they did shut down all the non-profitable banks essentially they just didn't burn the debt. What they did was they absorbed the nonprofit able banks into a National Assets Management Agency or NAMA for short. The banks no longer trade and the state now owns the debt, NAMA (a bank itself) is tasked with the job of selling the debt and the have been doing quite well so far. This is the strategy that the EU and economists in general encourage.
In relation to why the people haven't been jailed, most of them knew enough to cover their own asses or hire lawyers who could do it for them. Yo don't get to the top of a bank without being an incredibly smart guy, they realised what they were doing. The way the system is set up the responsibility for the system running smoothly is actually on the central bank. In most of these situations the central bank was negligent and not auditing he banks properly. In Canada one of the reasons they were relatively sheltered is because their central bank has a huge role in auditing their banks and did so correctly.
The eurozone crisis isn't as simple as all this either, you also have to factor in the currency. They set up a currency without any form of control over it because nobody would agree to it otherwise. Germany made shit loads of money giving credit to all these countries and surprise once we hit an recession everything imploded because everybody owed huge amounts of money to Germany. Now of course it's stemmed a political crisis because Germany holds all the cards and she is not looking out for anybody interests but her own. If Germany had been mandated to refinance the other countries through a stimulus package then we wouldn't be in this mess.
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nobody is getting rewarded for bad behaviour, everybody is following the law. Should there be changes to the law? Possibly. Should there be a lo more federal oversight? Most definitely. Should we burn the debt? Of course not, that would cause a global depression and it wouldn't be pretty.
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ninety6days
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politics
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t5_2cneq
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c552973
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They were kept out of the euro as a safe haven for (largely) british bond investment in case the EU went tits up. We (yes, we, yerra few naggins be grand) were used as an experiment BY the EU to see what would happen if a government gave a blanket guarantee to the banks regardless of their level of inevitable implosion . It didn't work, so we're fuckin skint. It's also why "we" don't really like the idea of a blanket bailout for Spanish banks by the EU directly, as opposed to letting a government tank a country's kitty by doing it themselves (like they let lenihan and those other assholes do). Lower risk for bigger countries? Fuck that.
Anyway, Iceland. Population c. 300,000. For a whole host of reasons they were in a better position to say "fuck off" to the whole problem, aided in no small measure by the collective outrage at Brown trying to recoup british bondholder losses through anti-terror laws. I have no idea of the how on their emergence from catastrophic financial ruin, but i know it's to do with the following
Ability to control their own currency (because the same people that used them as a cash mattress kept them out of the common currency)
Collective responsibility by a small population
Some semblance of doing what needs to be done regardless of short term pain
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we're bigger, we're stupider, we made worse decisions, the EU doesn't give a fuck about us.
EDIT : Drunk, so if i'm wrong on some of these please let me know.
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Oldcheese
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leagueoflegends
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t5_2rfxx
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c55ply1
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support kayle works on lower elos. just Q E play agressive level 1 and zone them like hell. if they dont back off and try to farm under their turret they die to you/ad carry and you snowball. if they back off they lose farm and your carry snowballs. they dont know how to deal with that.
I did this numerous times and i had 2/3 games where I was so fed that my final build was shurelyas, black cleaver phantom dancer infinities edge berserkers greaves.
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supports can carry games really hard.
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WendyLRogers3
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science
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t5_mouw
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c56gsj6
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I'm not impressed. In the US, BPA has been used for 40 years, yet meningiomas, which have several known common causes, are not even in the top 15 cancers, with about 21,000 a year new cases, 90% of which are benign cancers. This means that even with the vast amount of BPA that has been consumed over this time, there are only 2,100 malignancies every year, from multiple causes. And 40 years is far longer than it takes to determine if a substance is ever going to create a public nuisance.
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the anti-BPA advocates are making much adieu about nothing. Again.
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Highlet
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politics
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t5_2cneq
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c56s5ll
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Because Reddit in general seems to absolutely hate cops. Videos and stories of very corrupt officers pop up and people seem to want to assume they are all bad. I sat an argued with a guy that not all Austin Police Officers are bad in another thread. He said there was overwhelming evidence that they are all bad even though there is none. Even though I live in Austin and this guy is from god knows where, I got downvoted into oblivion and then Reddit celebrated his hatred of police.
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There are bad/corrupt cops out there but not all of them are bad/corrupt.
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ducty
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politics
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t5_2cneq
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c56yfzq
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So, you're arguing that just because something is law, it makes it 'right'?
The guy is walking around in broad-daylight with a gun on his hip; maybe I'm a bit of a puss-puss, but as I said before, this is Portland, Maine we are talking about-- not the wild west.
I'm not arguing whether or not the guy was in his legal limit, I'm just saying that the guy shooting the video was so obviously fully tourqued at his chance to show the officer who's boss-- AND POST THAT SHIT ON YOUTUBE......(who, mind you, is doing a terribly shitty job that whether you'd like to admit it or not, is necessary)
As to your point about customer service-- that's a completely false statement. You can't just pin a retail mantra to a public-service position--it's too far from reality (once again, I'm not arguing against 'ideal', just stating the reality of the situation).
The cop is a person too, the (unknown) guy is holding a gun, in a place where guns are obviously not the norm, and the cameraman's dick couldnt be any wetter as he is talking AT the officer as if he was reading his notes off of a piece of paper.
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Fucking sense and sensibility, man.
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YetAnotherRandomGuy
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politics
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t5_2cneq
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c570do5
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Oh god, sorry about ranting. I could go on forever, I'll stop.
I think we both could, and I will certainly applaud your ability to remain civil and speak intelligently about the matter at hand. (I, myself, have been guilty of lapses on this at times)
That said:
>...the 200 year old Constitution...
Yes, I hear this quite a bit. The argument about the document written by a bunch of old dead guys.
The country we know of today called the United States of America only exists because of the Declaration of Independence and is allowed to function because of the Constitution (being a government of enumerated powers n' all). Without either one o these documents, we have no US. All laws must be derived from the Constitution. If the people wish to change that, it must be achieved through Revolution (peaceful or otherwise), in which case, we would have a new country all together.
And with that comes the second amendment. That "militia" language has been problematic for some time. Primarily because of the inverted structure of the military relative to what they intended.
For more than 100 years, the American military consisted of a small regular army (federal) supported primarily by larger state militia. Militia were always intended to be regulated at the state level. not the federal. This structure ensured that defense was the responsibility of the everyday man and decentralized, keeping us from waging offensive wars. But most importantly, it had an additional check-and-balance of the people on the government, a key to keeping freedom. This is why it's amendment 2 after speech. We chose to disrupt this arrangement by centralizing (and I think today, we can see the wisdom in their original configuration). However, this does not diminish the importance of their intention of keeping an armed populous.
The key to your Jefferson quote was:
> Each generation is as independent as the one preceding, as that was of all which had gone before.
Meaning, we are responsible for maintaining our liberty. The document is just a tool to that end and can be abused by anyone. They knew that the natural tendency of government was towards tyranny. In order to keep this in check, a government must fear it's people, not vice versa. And if it get's out of check, it is the right and responsibility of the people to overthrow and replace that government. Which is why Jefferson also said:
> The beauty of the Second Amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it.
Unfortunately, modern generations have become complacent, infected with normalcy bias. Just because we don't have hot tyranny today doesn't mean we wont tomorrow. And we are doing their work for them by turning the populous into little more than cattle. Disarming the people is empowering tyrants of the future.
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I rant too. lol
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Lattent
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Fitness
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t5_2qhx4
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c572rs5
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Last week while warming up at 185 I felt a twinge in my midback and for the rest of the day it was a little sore but fine the next. Then on my next workout day I warmed up at 135 and felt the same thing at the same spot. As I was going through my form checklist, I realized my shoulders were over the bar and causing my back to round a little. I reset, and successfully did my workset with no problems.
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Make sure your shoulders are behind the bar, a little soreness and stiffness is ok.
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RealityChickCheck
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politics
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t5_2cneq
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c581j2c
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RomneyCare and ObamaCare also differ in that one was a state operation and one is a federal operation. Costs, incurred and all expenses will be spread across all citizens that pay taxes, which will be the middle class because the rich have tax shelters. The middle class is gona bear the brunt of this tax. That sucks!
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If I didn't want RomneyCareTax I could move out of Mass. If I don't want ObamaTax, I'd have to leave the country.
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livinincalifornia
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politics
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t5_2cneq
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c584u13
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Here' the main points:
1: There isn't any way Romney CARES
2: False
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Romney doesn't care.
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sworeiwouldntjoin
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gaming
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t5_2qh03
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c58d7kh
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audio engineer
So... you looked at a waveform , and concluded it was someone speaking. Even though the only things represented in waveforms are lateral time and amplitude, you were able to conclude it was speaking, and were even able extract particular letters.
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ITT we have an 'audio engineer' who doesn't understand what a waveform is.
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sworeiwouldntjoin
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gaming
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t5_2qh03
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c5g1jsn
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And how do you get specific letters , do tell? Since the audio signature of one person saying an 'f' could very well look like the signature of someone else saying a 'g' or a 'z' or 'three' or any number of other things.
Also, in your example, the top could still definitely be a waveform of someone speaking, or singing, with simple volume modulation.
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Wouldn't it be easier to just admit you were bullshitting?
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deific_
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Fitness
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t5_2qhx4
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c58ezpv
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People are telling you to read the FAQ. You should, but here is an actual answer.
You really need to concentrate on the calories and protein. If you said that 2000 calories was not enough, then eat more. I know it sounds like a generic answer, but it really is the only answer. Bump it up to 2500 a day, see how that goes.
Obviously, you don't want eat 2500 calories of glazed donuts a day. You need to consider what else is in the items you eat that are high calories. Are you eating/drinking any whey protein? I suggest you do. There is a section in the FAQ that talks about how much protein you should be eating. Read it.
Develop a goal of Calories AND protein per day that you want to eat. If you continue to not gain weight, then you obviously need to intake more.
In regards to your original question. I promise that you will not see a major increase in fat if you eat right and work out. Do not half ass your workouts. Really give it all you have everytime. Once you have put on 10-15 lbs and you get a better understanding of what you can/should eat, then you can make the decision on the direction you want to go.
Here are things you should include in your daily diet that will help you:
Chicken(grilled)
Nuts(almonds, peanuts, peanut butter)
Milk
Cottage cheese
Greek yogurt
bananas
Eggs
Whey protein
Pasta
Potatoes
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Just eat man. COUNT CALORIES.
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Kirstkid
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sex
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t5_2qh3p
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c58cpeo
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If you're on top you should be able to control the depth and rhythm of te thrusting so pain boulder be an issue
That's my 2 cents anyway
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ride him
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Treefolk
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leagueoflegends
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t5_2rfxx
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c5921ht
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Whoops. Well here's what I'd recommend. Play less ARAM and more jungle. Since you seem to want to jungle, pick three champions that you like to jungle and starting jungling those champs in every normal game you can. Give it a week or two, then roll back around to ranked.
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Practice with junglers if you want to get better at jungle.
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starcraftlolz
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Fitness
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t5_2qhx4
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c58k3np
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Depends what kind of shape you are in. I did it for a month going from no form of exercise for over a year to insanity, and I ended up with a few injuries. My hip flexor is still strained but for some reason it only hurts if i stretch and I'm okay doing squats still.
I lost a lot of weight doing insanity, and it got me back in the 'mood' of working out and being healthy.
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It's great for cutting, just be careful because it's easy to injure your knees/hips/groin.
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MattTBK
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leagueoflegends
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t5_2rfxx
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c58ntva
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I like Karma as much as anyone, but she really isn't anywhere near as good as you make her out to be.
Her sustain is pretty awful. At level 1 it heals for about 65 hp, and you can only use it 2 times a minute until level 7. At level 5 it does about 180 2 times every 50 seconds.
Compare to soraka who heals for about 70 at level 1 and can do it 3 times a minute, and at 5 its 350 3 times a minute. Alistar at level 1 is 60 and its 5 times a minute and at level 5 it's 180 5 times a minute.
Soraka's heal might not be AoE but it's still much higher heals and it gives the huge armor boost which negates a ton of damage if used correctly.
So karma's sustain is far from great, the damage aspect of her Q is decent, but it's such short range that there is a good chance that if you're trying to poke with it than most of the time you're going not going to outdamage the incoming trade. Than if you try to use your shield for more poke than lose your ability to sustain.
So the problem karma has in lane is she has the choice of being an aggresive poker with maxing her shield or a mediocre sustainer by maxing Q. You can't really be both at the same time.
The only support role she plays well is aggressive poker, but still I'd put alistar and leona above her in terms of aggressive supports. She also falls off really hard lategame if you build her as a support as without items her damage and heals are pretty negligible late, and she has no utily.
So I really disagree that she can just as powerful as the more common supports, the difference between karma mid and other mids is much smaller than karma support and other supports actually in my opinion.
Although with all that said play who you want, as long as you support your AD and don't just spam Q or E and steal all his farm it doesn't really matter.
Also orianna is great, people are just sceptical that people in solo Q can play her so they don't give people the benefit of the doubt.
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Karma support is pretty mediocre. Though just pick what you want to play, play according to that role and if you do well ignore the haters. If you do poorly, think about their objections and factor that in next time you pick the hero.
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GertrudeBeerstein
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relationship_advice
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t5_2r0cn
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c59xnn3
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Ooops, I wrote a novel. This is what your post reminded me of. Your guy sounds like a lying dog anyway, and you're better off.
Alright I'm just going to throw this out here. I had a friend recently. He became a good friend that I saw several times a week (totally platonic so it's slightly different but stay with me). He has some unspecified mood and personality disorders. He's not stable, or happy more of the time. He had trouble holding down a job. He held a lot of grudges for perceived slights against him by people in his life.
But it wasn't directed at me. I was able to dodge his ire. I specifically knew how to cater to his emotional state so that I wouldn't set him off. I was walking on eggshells, but I didn't really see it that way. I was just being sensitive to his quirks, being a good friend. I don't like to upset people anyway, but I usually didn't have to be ultra-conscientious in order to not upset them. With him I did. I held my tongue a Lot, because he had many wrongheaded ideas about the nature of reality but it wasn't worth upsetting him.
I really and truly had never crossed him in our 6 month friendship. In fact, I more or less conducted our friendship entirely on his terms. I helped him out financially. I treated him. I tried to use my resources to help him find work, I tried to motivate and encourage him to follow through with leads (we're in the same field and work is fairly plentiful in it).
One day, I offered to clean up his quasi-hoarder pig sty of an apartment. He had empties and half-empties on every horizontal surface of his place and I offered to collect them and throw them in the dumpster on my way out. (I am, compared to many people, a relative clean freak and so I'd rather do it myself than remain in a gross place. For example, my SO's car accumulates paper waste that I regularly remove because it bothers me before it bothers him and it's not really any skin off my back to just take it out with me.) My friend has some odd craziness related to not feeling like he could take it out himself, nor did he want to let me take it out. He literally said that he couldn't think about taking out the trash in his place until after he had settled into his new job he had started a couple weeks prior. This is the first time I ever argued a point with him, really. I just said, I don't see how starting a new job and letting me grab these bottles and throw them away are mutually exclusive? I'm just trying to help you out and it would make me more comfortable if I didn't have to think about knocking over 20 oz of week old brass monkey when I walk to the bathroom.
My friend threw me out of his apartment. Defriended me on fb. I tried to smooth things over text and he said he was unwilling to discuss it further. It was one of the most shocking moments of my social life to date. I've never had a friend just break contact like that with me. And I knew that he had the same weird perceptions of me and is out there carrying a grudge for how things went down between us. I'm the bad guy in his eyes. His crazy eyes.
So that was like a month ago. My life has improved like 5 fold since he "dumped" me as a friend. Other friends that have weighed in on it were like "he is crazy, and he acted crazy what did you expect?" Another friend told me I was codependent and when I looked into it, it described our friendship to a T. All of my helping. All of my concern. All of my tiptoeing around him. It wasn't a real friendship. I got very little emotional support or anything satisfying on a friendship level besides sometimes humorous company. What satisfaction I did get was from "helping" and feeling like he needed me or I was improving his life with my friendship. And some of that help was exerting control, like trying to live his life because I could do it better than he was for himself. So it's not just him that's crazy, the dynamic that brought us together was sick. I didn't see it until he broke it off. And now, if he wanted to be friends again I'd tell him sorry but our friendship was never healthy and my life is better without you in it. I don't give a shit if he thinks I'm awful. I'm grateful he involuntarily freed me from our shitty friendship.
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you shouldn't care what wrongheaded beliefs someone who is so clearly unhealthy for you holds.
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BtBaM420
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politics
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t5_2cneq
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c5ap05l
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hyperbole is using the example of insane speech on the internet by some individual to prove free speech. think about organized protest movements like occupy which actually threaten the elites. some lone crazy isnt a threat but protests on the streets are. which is why they got put down violently by police and demonized in the media.
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the clash is right
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sama102
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politics
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t5_2cneq
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c5abe9k
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And "Slavery by Another Name" by an amazing ex-editor or the WSJ. He singlehandedly uncovered the systematic continuation of slavery after the civil war by criminilization of black life and resulting "penal" slavery. A black man could talk too loud in the street in Alabama in 1930 and end up dying in a prison labor camp (contracted out to a private company) 15 years later.
I think it won a Pulitzer.
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Slavery did not end in America until World War II. Read the book!
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izakk1220
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gaming
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t5_2qh03
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c5apdn8
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Dude are you serious? This is breaking like 2 rules in one.
First, the image isn't gaming related, the mods have posted like 4 times NOT to post anything where the picture isn't gaming related. Second this is a blatant repost from multiple places, [here]( and [here]( for example. That's pretty lame man, it's a pretty dick move to steal someone's idea and take all the credit.
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WHOLE REPOST IS BABIES
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mboliveira
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gaming
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t5_2qh03
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c5b2bww
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I started disliking EA after they ruined the need for speed franchise, from NFSU2 on. THen i saw how many freaking dlcs and useless expasions they made, and i just got worse and worse.
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ea ruined need for speed and tries to shove dlcs up our asses 24/7
( terrible support not included)
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Neadim
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leagueoflegends
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t5_2rfxx
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c5bhe1l
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This probbaly goes agaisnt what most people are saying but i havent had much succes with him since the buff.
I played him 3 time(which is a sample too small to says if hes viable) and i had very little succes with him
I had a great ganks, decent clear time and insane buff control but it just wasnt enought.
In the 3 games, I probbaly had something like 60% of their wraith and we went in their jungle and stole almost every single buff but i still lost 2 of them.
One game went on to long and it reached the point where i did nothing(other than a sweet Baron steal) I did no damage, they had to many ways to interupt my ult(even with banshes) and my bloodboil wasnt enought to warrant a double support.
The other game, 3 of us got caught by the tele+global combo they had and the game reverse-snowballed afer that attempt at golem
The problem is that nunu is still very high risk/low reward. You need succefully to invade to stay even with the other jungler and if you fail you can setyouserlf behind. counterjungling while behind is incredibly hard to do so you lose your main trick.
Nunu is a very team reliant jungler because even if you steal every buff your mid can still lose. You cannot directly impact in the game and you can only hope you lane will do well when you give them the advantage.
For that reason, i doupt he is viable in soloQ but i can see him behing a monster in competitive play
Champion like shyvana, udyr, mundo and skarner still clear way to fast and there are very little room to steal their stuff because they glide throught the jungle dispensing death. The only thing you can actually counterjungle is their buff and after stealing the first set they jsut grouped at the buff and denied our attempt
Other champion like Nautilus, maokai, malphite, amumu generaly get most of their gold with the gp5 ad gank. The counterjungling wont cripple them that badly and sthey still do very well with little items.
Even if they only have shurelia, Hog, boots and aegis/frozen heart at the 50min mark they still have more engadge power and you cc than you do. They will win in teamfight because their ability set is better than yours
Against jungler that are farm depending(but not ultra fast) nunu is a beast . With the help of you mid you can do insane stuff and completely denie thier jungler. i was a against a nocturne the game i won and he couldnt do anything
I feel like Nunu is very close to viability but i needs a small boost to his consume(so it has a use lategame). Maybe a debuff that amplify damage of soemthing...
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i havent had much succes with him, he does not fair well against people that clear super fast or people that arent farm dependant. All you can do is try you best to snowball the lanes because you are useless lategame and an underfarmed jungleer on the other side probably still brings more to a teamfight than you
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brilliancee
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AskWomen
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t5_2rxrw
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c5f6fk9
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Wow, and here I was thinking just women were like that. Thank you for making clear how false that was.
Here's what I make of it. You are just as bad as her. She's in the exact position you are, trying to figure out if you actually like her or not.
You think she's hot? I think people are hot, that doesn't mean I think they're dating material. Minus 1 point.
You ask her to hook you up with her friends? Well, then she will definitely be confused as to whether you like her or not. She'll be thinking that clearly she isn't the centre of your attention if you're thinking about her friends/other girls in general.
You two text? You two want to hang out? I do that with plenty of people. From your explanation, your conversation was absolutely nothing out of the ordinary/suggestive of greater interest.
From this, I can't tell what she wants. But if you hadn't said you actually liked her, I wouldn't have been able to tell you like her either. If she's now single, just ask her if she'd be interested in going on a date. If she's a decent human being, she'll either say yes or clearly tell you she only wants to be friends.
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The only way you'll find out is if you ask.
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DeCiWolf
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Games
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t5_2qhwp
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c5g2b1s
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This a million times this.
People dont seem to understand that software-emulated surround sound (all mainstream headset manufacturers) is absolutely terrible.
Having two big speakers (sometimes two addtional tweeters) in your headset (sennheisers for example) guarantees a much better and more powerful sound.
5.1 - 7.1 headsets that use software surround emulation are awful from an audio quality perspective. Sure it works for gaming. But you get the same effect and sometimes even better with a stereo headset coupled with a very good soundcard.
The human ear is absolutely amazing at locating where sounds are coming from and we only have two. :)
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Buy a good stereo headset and a good soundcard.
[This one is very good](
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tacolettucecheese
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relationships
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t5_2qjvn
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c5g4s88
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Personally, I know that as being the end. No matter how you come about it, it truly means that she has made up her mind for some time and does not want the relationship anymore.
The reason can range from falling out of love, to her finding someone else that has peaked her interest.
Unless she specifically states otherwise, and tells you without any push from you that she would like to continue the relationship then it is basically over. The thing for you to do is ask the simple question on what she does want because she does know, and when I mean to ask the question: "Do you want us to continue to be together?" If she says yes without any convincing from you then you have a chance, if she says no then leave it at that don't question it and end it on your terms. If you don't you will continue to hurt yourself if you follow her around hoping for the best.
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You can never force a person in a relationship if they don't want it.
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JALbert
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leagueoflegends
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t5_2rfxx
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c5hbwgu
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If you take a random sample of 100 players, games played will have a loose, but not absolute correlation with skill level. If you take a sample of 100 players at a specific elo with >40 ranked games, there will not really be a correlation between games played and actual skill level.
Games played (which wins is a proxy for) doesn't take into account experience with similar games or alternate accounts.
Thought experiment: You hit your true Elo, let's say 1500. You play 200 more games, but you win 100 and lose 100 against other people at the same rating. Why should the system regard you as stronger than you were before if you can't win more than 50% of the time against equally matched competition?
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If your experience makes you better, you'll win more and move up in Elo and be matched against better competition.
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Terraformation
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gaming
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t5_2qh03
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c5iep3o
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I've been a hardcore nintendo fanboy since I was a kid, but in the past three or four years I've gotten into the realm of XBOX, first person shooters, and eventually PC gaming in the past year.
PC gaming....has more potential. Some things just feel better with a controller though. and when I say some things, I mean pretty much anything that isn't a first person shooter. Bastion for example, I think, Is way better with a controller (side note, you can shield in any direction with the right analog stick.) wheras TF2 feels way better on PC, with mods and updates galore.
For L4D2 on the other hand, I do prefer the immersion of sitting in a big dark room, with a 52" plasma and getting immersed in the experience rather than playing on a 22" monitor. I'll be honest, I enjoyed the XBOX community more than the PC one, fewer ragers, you run into the same 50 people over and over, it kind of becomes a league. on PC, there are just too many people who play.
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I prefer FPS's on PC, and games that benefit from immersion on console.
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UnbiasTobias
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gaming
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t5_2qh03
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c5k5wfh
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YES.
I remember a hallway... A hallway in which I had my first
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moment.
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Sekacnap
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gaming
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t5_2qh03
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c5kf104
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Do you mean Final Fantasy 13 or actually 12? (since you put XII). I can't vouch for Lost Odyssey since I've never played it (though I hear it's pretty great) but lets see... If you like any of the other Tales games you'll love vesperia since it's just more of the same fun combat + interesting characters etc. Final Fantasy 13 was okay, not the greatest RPG but I didn't have as many problems with it as most people did, the story and cutscenes were great but a lot of the characters suck. The battle system is fun once you get to know it, but I'd say you really have to go into the game with an open mind to enjoy it. If you in fact DID mean 12, THAT ONE, GET THAT ONE. Just forget that Vaan and Penelo exist and enjoy the shit out of that game, also don't use gambits too much or it gets boring.
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version:
12 > Vesperia > 13 and I have no stance on Lost Odyssey since I haven't played it.
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fox112
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leagueoflegends
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t5_2rfxx
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c5mirug
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I know the people who hire the casters want non-stop talking.
But for what my opinion is worth, if you have nothing to say, don't talk. If you have something insiteful like "Oh wow, Morello's Evil Tome isn't a common item, let me explain why the player got this." but when it's crap like "Well Graves has built some attack damage, he's sure going to want to do some damage to people!" Yeah. No shit.
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insiteful, interesting, or uncommon stuff is really cool, but obvious or random useless crap I can do without.
side note: Stop downvoting this man, down votes are for abusive or off-topic things. Just because he's not afraid to share his opinions doesn't mean you downvote him.
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Korsaire
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leagueoflegends
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t5_2rfxx
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c5mk06f
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We can only evaluate what evidence we have. At the moment, men are the better casters, just because there might eventually maybe be one female caster who isnt shitty, doesnt mean we can't say that the ones we have at the minute are.
I was not saying that these casters are shitty because they are women (apologies if I worded it wrong and implied this) I was saying that they are shitty, and as are all female casters in the industry.
Personally I would take a Moletrap / Hatperson duo cast over any cast with Jade or Kara on. At least Moletrap and Hatperson are energetic (or try to be)
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women =/= shitty casters, but the female casters we DO have are shitty, and we don't want them casting tourneys.
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ACappella247
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relationships
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t5_2qjvn
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c5mxn96
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I went through a similar situation after high school. I started seeing a girl when I was 15, and things got rough as I began college. A lot of the circumstances were identical to what you've described. But I ended up staying with her for 8 years in total until the relationship finally crumbled.
So let me be quite frank: Yes, you did the right thing.
In your current position, it's going to be very difficult for you to see this. It will take some time -- maybe months, maybe even a year or two -- for you to understand that the decision you made was, in fact, the only real option you had.
Let me tell you how things would have progressed had you stayed the course:
1) She would have continued to pressure you about marriage. A couple things can happen here: You could have given in and married her and constantly second-guessed that decision. You could have put it off but stayed together, but she would continue to become more distant and detached because she felt like you wouldn't commit. Or you could have refused and the relationship would have ended quickly anyway.
2) If she didn't appreciate your hobbies, she would have continued to criticize you for enjoying them until you eventually felt like shit about it. You would have given up the things you love and focused on making her happy while ignoring your own happiness.
3) As your focus turned solely toward her happiness, you would have lost your sense of personal identity. Eventually, your identity would have been wrapped up in your relationship with her. You would no longer be "The guy who does X." You would simply see yourself as "her boyfriend."
4) As your identity becomes tied to the relationship, your sense of happiness and fulfillment would have constantly varied based on the state of the relationship. When things were rocky, you would feel awful about yourself, but you wouldn't know why. This leads to low self-worth, lack of confidence, and ultimate pessimism in your future.
5) Eventually, all of these issues would have weighed on your relationship enough that she would have left you. But because you've torn down so much of who you are, you simply wouldn't know how to move forward. The normal depression that follows a breakup would have been amplified, and you might have ended up withdrawing into yourself, cutting off ties with people that sincerely care about you.
I went through all of these stages. It's possible to recover from it, but it takes a long time, and it's not a process I would wish on my worst enemy.
It's difficult, especially at your age, to decide to end a relationship that has taken up a good chunk of your young life. But you did make the right choice. Don't beat yourself up about it.
She's going to try to make you feel badly about the choices you've made and about yourself. Don't let her. Don't give her that power. In all honesty, I would suggest simply cutting ties with her altogether. She won't ever stop her attacks on you, no matter how you respond to them.
Keep your head up. It takes maturity to make the call that you made. Feel good about the fact that you had the foresight to see that she wasn't right for you. You will find someone else. You will be happy again. And you will forget all about this girl. I can absolutely promise you that.
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You made the right call. Keep going and never look back.
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DollarMenuHooker
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worldnews
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t5_2qh13
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c5o6kzr
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I love hearing these stories!
I'm sure there are some Redittors that are offended and see this as censorship.
Hahahaha I even trolled this one guy that was saying that children that learn they are pedophiles at a young age are ostrisized by society and in turn become emotionally burdened.
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Think about the children, stop censoring child-porn.
HAHAHAHA I couldn't believe what the guy was saying. He kept changing accounts so I was never able to track him down. I tried. Found an old youtube account of his but he deleted it...
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discarnatex
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worldnews
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t5_2qh13
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c5o75qw
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Whether they suffer from a disease or illness or not, they are raping infants... It doesn't matter so much why they are doing it in my opinion. There is no justification for those actions and it proves that their presence on earth is in no way beneficial to anyone except for those receiving their fucked up pictures. Pack them all into a crate, put it on a canoe and let them drift off into the pacific couple miles until we hit them with a fire-bomb.
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Yes.
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MyaloMark
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worldnews
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t5_2qh13
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c5oamsa
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That's eighteen years of looking over his shoulder. When guys like this go to prison they have to be housed away from the general population who would kill them the first day there.
So, depending on which prison they're sent to, they will either spend twenty three hours in a small cell with one hour in a slightly bigger cage for exercise, or in a "unit" where he'll share a day room with junkie tranny prostitutes, informers with a price on their heads and other pervs like him. One of that crew might even decide to take him out.
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He won't stay alive that long.
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OLD_MR_WOLF
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worldnews
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t5_2qh13
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c5ocb1k
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For those of you are deeply disturbed by this (like me) and who are currently despairing at how such a sickening thing could take place (like me) and are equally despairing at the number of horrible people in the world (again like me), take heart in this.
There will always, no matter what, be people who will try and make a difference.
There will always, no matter what, be good, kind, honest people in the world.
And there will always, no matter what, be far more of those people in the world than any other kind.
People are inherently good, I think we just need to give them the oppurtunities to be. Some people are inherantly horrible people it's sadly true, but they're numbers are mind-bogglingly few compared to the number of people who are wonderful and loving.
You are a wonderful and loving person, and if I ever get the chance to meet you, I will tell you so myself.
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You're an amazing and good person, keep it up
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junkthrowawaygarbage
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worldnews
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t5_2qh13
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c5ofmtr
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This is something I need to say and I made a throwaway just because I'm sure this is going to get downvoted to oblivion.
I want to have sex with a white woman as a black man. -> "niggers should be hung" -> 50 years later [I am by no means being precise] interracial is a social norm.
I want to have sex with a man as a man. -> "homosexuals should be hung" -> 50 years later [again just being vague], homosexuality social norm.
When you hear conservatives say "Next they'll want to marry their sheep", their thought process is following the lines of how taboo / disgusting / immoral fetishes become normal and that it's just a matter of time going down that road until men with children or men with sheep is a 'social norm'.
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I guess to sum up, people say this is sick and disgusting and they should be killed, but isn't that hypocritical seeing as that's what people say/said about gays and interracial couples?
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walruz
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worldnews
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t5_2qh13
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c5okqsm
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On the other hand, for the sake of argument:
First, we assume that the point of Herpderpforensics' job is to stop or decrease child abuse, and the way he does that is that images are cataloged and examined and so on.
If so, what would be the actual harm in a real-life pedophile doing said job? Assuming that he'd do the actual job just as well as Herpderpforensics, I don't quite see how that would hurt the department's effort.
Sure, we could argue that a real-life pedophile wouldn't want to put people behind bars who supply him with child porn.
On one hand, there is the issue that pedophile != child abuser. You could very well be sexually attracted to children without doing anything, just like there are closeted gay people and celibate straights (or, hell, people who quit smoking or lose weight). What I'm saying is, just because you have a craving does not mean you have to act on it.
By this logic, a pedophile who doesn't abuse children and doesn't condone others abusing children, wouldn't seem to be a bad CP image sorter guy. On the other hand, the extra guild of actually being aroused by these images could lead to increased psychological issues (I assume).
On the other hand, that a pedophile who'd actually enjoy the work seems like he'd be a bad match. Not that his enjoying the pictures would in itself pose a problem (not as far as I can see, anyway), but rather that it could prove problematic if it turns out he begins raping children and he used the databases from his work to find suitable victims. Granted, I don't know the details of Herpderpforensics' job, so I'm not sure how this would actually be accomplished, it just seems like something that could happen.
So I'm basically arguing around myself here. I guess the
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is yeah, sure, I can see how it's probably a bad idea, but I don't think it's entirely as axiomatic or self evident as it seems when reading your post.
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DaHolk
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politics
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t5_2cneq
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c5ol7wc
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Read the article again, especially the quotes from fox new, and view the video.
It is quite obviously interlectually dishonest, but they don't lie. THey have mastered the art of saying a true thing, but in a way that literally nobody is able to actually understand it.
>“The campaign is suing to keep members of the military from having extra time to cast their ballots in one key battlegound state.”
Which is technically true, if you define "extra" as "more than other ohions", instead of "than states that don't have such laws".
The WORST quote isn't even mentioned in the article :
>"democrats are blocking a law that would allow men and women in uniform to vote up until monday before an election".
And even that is technically true. Even if that law actually prevents OTHER people from doing so and retain the already existing right for servicemen.
The law allows what they say, and the democrats are trying to block it.
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You need to understand the distinction betwenn saying something that is not true, and saying something true in the most missleading way possible.
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DaHolk
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politics
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t5_2cneq
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c5olu66
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An outright lie is something told with the intention to deceive.
No it is not.
A lie is false statment. If there is a valid interpretation in the language you use, it is not a lie.
A lie of ommission is not technically a lie. They are purposefully ommiting the context of their statements to make you believe that what they said means something different than it has to mean to be true.
It is interesting btw that they actually give the quotes of the "opposition" fully. Even if these quotes are contradictive to their narrative.
>In other words, intent is more important than content
As far as evaluating their honesty and ability to fullfill proffesional standards goes? Undoubtedly. Which is why I used the word "technically" a lot.
But I don't believe that warrants using the word "lie", because they do that aswell regulary (just not in this instance), and I find it unhelpfull to obfuscate what they are EXACTLY doing wrong by creating a counter ambivalence in words.
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Calling it what it is (as opposed to what it could be, and regulary is) is not diminishing the wrongness of their behavior.
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rockerpixie
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relationships
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t5_2qjvn
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c5ol9km
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I'm not going to sugarcoat this.
You're too jealous and paranoid for your own good. You need to get in control of your insecurities and learn how to trust your girlfriend. Snooping through her messages? Questioning her every move? If you don't stop this behavior, every romantic relationship you have will suffer and fail, unless you end up dating a stage-five clinger.
And no one wants a stage-five clinger. No one.
I understand this is probably your longest relationship, so it might begin to start feeling serious.
Maybe you really love your girlfriend? Maybe you're worried that she's too good to be true, so in order to avoid getting hurt, you're looking for a reason to end the relationship, even if that means creating your own problems?
I'm throwing out these questions to inspire some self-reflection on your part. Why do you feel so insecure?
Your whole plan to interrogate her about her past is really childish. And even if she ended up lying to you about it, it's because she knows her past is not a big deal and would just upset you for no good reason. You just not mature enough to handle it.
Based upon your post, I can state the following:
Fact: She has not cheated on you.
Fact: You have no respect or regard for her space or privacy.
Fact: You are immature. Too immature for this relationship and you're creating unnecessary problems and stress.
Fact: You need time to yourself to try to figure out why you're so insecure.
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Stop it.
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melon_89
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leagueoflegends
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t5_2rfxx
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c5p0ark
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Not this again... It is really a bad idea and you should know that if you saw other threads like this!
FOR ALL LAZY ONES!
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He wan't picking positions when joining a queue.
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jointheredditarmy
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technology
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t5_2qh16
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c5peob3
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You don't have to buy domains, what's happening is Godaddy is taking advantage of the short-term "trial" period offered through the existing infrastructure to lock up domains. I believe the lock period is only something like 3 days, so in most cases after 3 days the domain will be released, and you can take your business to another registrar (who hopefully won't steal your idea) and buy the domain name there.
HOWEVER, I've done some in depth analysis of "premium" domain names offered by godaddy in the past through various third party bulk scraping tools and found that the duration of a "lock" on certain unbought domains offered for sale through godaddy is highly variable. What I suspect is happening is that once a domain garners enough interest without a purchase Godaddy will go ahead, lock up the domain, and then use their own "premium" listings as a tool to test viability of a domain and predict how likely it is that it'll be purchased eventually. From there it's a simple matter of statistics to go ahead and register the domains that generate positive EV on their own.
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won't work, they only buy profitable domains and their formulas are harder to trick than you think.
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RegretZero
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technology
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t5_2qh16
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c5ph2zy
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Once again, you're completely off and you're clearly not reading my entire comment, who's the lazy one here?
I know exactly what Domain Tasting is and how it works, I was never saying that it didn't exist or that it wasn't what was going on here.
What I did say was that they obviously ARE NOT going to buy every god damn domain that people search on their website but don't order right away, but they are going to look for the PREMIUM ones that are either short or very memorable and perhaps buy those. HOWEVER it's more difficult to prove this then, as I or somebody else could ALSO ARGUE that they just coincidentally bought the domain name because it was so memorable or short, or it could have also been somebody buying it with WHOIS protection. You're thinking too closed mindedly and immediately making assumptions, when if you really wanted to prove your point you could have just gone and done some research, perhaps compiled a list of 20 premium domains that were available or so and then searched them through GoDaddy and then waited a few days, checked to see if they were still available and then if they weren't check to see what the WHOIS information says.
However, you decided to rage at me about how lazy I was, proving that you are a hypocrite as you were "too lazy" to go disprove me properly it seems.
You want to know why I didn't try and verify/disprove this? It's not because I'm lazy, it's simply because I don't care. Why would I care if GoDaddy is employing shady tactics such as this one? They're not my domain registrar or host, and there's plenty of other reasons to dislike that company. I use Namecheap for my domain registrations, as I prefer their services and customer support, and I simply don't care about what GoDaddy says or does as it doesn't affect me at all . I'm not going to try and drive people away from GoDaddy, how would that benefit me in any way? Sure I could yell and scream like you "I WAS RIGHT I WAS RIGHT SEE GODADDY SUX YOU R STUPID CUZ YOU UZED DEM" but that's simply immature and doesn't benefit anybody at all.
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You didn't read my entire comment so you replied in a way that made you look like an ass, you made assumptions also making you look like an ass, I don't care about GoDaddy so that's why I didn't prove/disprove the theory as it doesn't affect me at all.
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