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Libertarian1986
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t5_2qjvn
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c6wr82y
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We were in a similar situation a few years back. We'd inherited his Dad's house. Everything was in shambles as his Mom (who had died a few years earlier was a hoarder). My initial gut reaction was to knock down the house and put a new one up (it also came with 10 acres of land). I didn't want to suggest such a thing, so instead I went to the house with him. I asked him if there was anything that was really really special to him that I could help box up.
Seeing him go through this trash, well I thought it was trash, made me see how important it was to him. We are married and were in a tough spot at the time, we really didn't have the time to waste going through this, but if it's important to HIM them it's important to ME.
We ended up having to sell the house, in the end I tried to convince him not to. I hated the fuck out of that house, it was a dilapidated money pit, but it was more important that he was happy. We spent over $20k on that house, but I looked at it as spending $20k towards his happiness.
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YOU might not value the gun, but HE does. Let his happiness be your happiness.
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Shattershift
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relationships
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t5_2qjvn
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c6wqyg8
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She has struggles with depression, borderline personality disorder, addiction, and eating disorders. I have been with her through suicide attempts and seen her at her absolute worse.
Fucking christ here we go.
>This obviously means I love her very, very much and I wouldn't trade her for anybody in the world.
No. None of these things. You're still around because of a different reason entirely...
> I'm pretty sure if I would call things off, she would kill herself.
There it is. I knew you had a reason for sticking around.
I'll be clear, this is not healthy. More specifically, your relationship is not doing either of you any good: she's developing severe attachment issues, and you're fueling her broken needs. My first instinct was to concede that you could keep this relationship going if you both did massive work to change things. Then I re-read:
> She has struggles with depression, borderline personality disorder, addiction, and eating disorders.
Get out. I'm not going to mince words with you, and I'm not going to spare your feelings at the cost of your well-being. There is nothing for you there. This is not something you can fix, nor should it be. You can't help her, at best you can remember to help yourself. And one last thing:
>She moved a few states away from her home with me and in no way can she support herself financially.
That's gonna fucking end well. Just... why? Why would you do this?
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End it, and quickly.
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Morghus
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Fitness
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t5_2qhx4
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c6xpgl0
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Every time I tried using it I fell asleep like usual, and kept waking up with drenched sheets. Had to sleep without blankets and end up freezing to get some modicum of sleep. Had no idea what did it since no one ever mentioned ZMA and night sweats. Started eliminating stuff one by one for a few nights. Accidentally forgot to take it one night while I just crashed to bed, not eliminating something else. Voila, no issues.
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Gave me the most horrendous night sweats that drenched the entire bed.
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1_MOUTH_2_EARS
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relationships
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t5_2qjvn
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c6y03gw
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If this is to work out between you and your partner, you're going to have to be patient - not only with him, but with your circumstances in general.
As you say, he is in a very difficult position. Plenty of people have a hard time understanding how someone could "forgive a cheater". There is also the added complication that as a man (and a young one at that, with young friends I imagine) there will be a "machismo" factor. The pressure your boyfriend is feeling is very real, and he does stand to lose something with regard to respect from his friends.
That said, if he really does want to stay with you, he will eventually have to confront his friends if they don't pipe down. It needn't be an ugly affair, but he will have to let them know that they're going to have to accept his decision, and have enough respect for him and yourself to just let the matter go. If they cannot, he will be at an impasse with them.
That said, if they (his friends) are not inclined to let this go, your boyfriend may just decide a relationship with you is not worth alienating them. He may decide that on the balance, he values those friendships more than his relationship with you. Just be aware this is a real possibility.
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The only thing to do now is eat some humble pie and wait. Your boyfriend deserves this much (time to work out his priorities in this matter.)
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Mowarth
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leagueoflegends
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t5_2rfxx
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c6yt9ya
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Played together in a custom game with 2 friends of mine, me + 1 friend against the 2nd friend (who introduced us both.) This is the story.
While I was downloading and installing League I was looking at all the champions, read lores etc to see if any champion interested me (there was 40 champions out at the time) I decided to play either Teemo or Nunu, I finally decided to play Nunu when I entered champion select (back then all champions were free and there was no shop system or IP as the game just had been released officially)
I didn't change my summoner spells or anything so I had Revive + Heal and I didn't know about masteries either so I couldn't put my 1 point into the page.
Anyways, I am feeling pumped to play this game as my friends say it's pretty darn fun and I had been skyping with them for a few hours before they convinced me to actually play it so I was pretty darn excited to try it myself, pvp.net minimizes and the League of Legends logo pops up but nothing else, I ask my friends if this is intended and they tell me to be patient, I wait for 2 minutes and my friend finally realizes that you have to install Adobe Air manually to actually play the game. Great to know, thanks. So I hurry and try to get the right version of Adobe air and after a few tries I get it right, but it takes a long time for me to fix it properly.
25 Minutes later I get into the loading screen and I am pumped to play, get into the game and I see our base (it was on Twisted treeline) overflowing with blue minions, including a few bigger ones. I kind of know what my abilities already does as I read about it before so I level up my Consume and get to business, I take agro of one of the big blue guys and actually use my heal just to kill it (with the help of my minions) and I am thrilled so I yell out "I killled you!!" thinking it was my friend who was the big blue dude, turns out it was just a super creep and I had just used 20 seconds to kill it. I get a bit demoralized from this first experience and a few minutes later we lose the game.
Needless to say I am a bit disappointed of the first 5 minutes of playing the game but I say I'll give it 1 more try.
3 years later, over 7000 games and here I am. My second game was obviously much more thrilling than my first was but it's still a good memory. I am very happy to still be a part of this.
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First game was with Nunu and I was dc the first 25 minutes so I only got to play 5 minutes of the game, killed a super minion then I lost.
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Oreden
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leagueoflegends
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t5_2rfxx
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c6yutxp
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I remember my first game vividly. It was a custom game with two of my friends. I had absolutely no idea what I was doing and my friends really didn't explain anything about anything to me. Out of the free week champions that were available at the time I picked Veigar because I thought it was a good idea at the time. He looked all magical and stuff, why not?
So as the game is loading, I open up a wiki page on Veigar on my second monitor, so I can see details about him while I am in game. This is something I did a lot while I was learning the game. We get in game, I pick up my Doran's ring first and get a point in my Q. I go bottom lane because they told me too, and they go off somewhere else. I didn't know where, because you know, what is map awareness?
I'm sitting there for a bit and then here comes Soraka Bot down the lane. I'm thinking I can take her straight up 1v1 at level 1. I click on my Q and then click on Soraka Bot. PSHEUUW, TAKE THAT SORAKA! But now she starts throwing terror bananas at me, and there's some...like...star things...coming from the sky! I strike back with my own attacks, but suddenly these weird little creatures are throwing sparkles at me from nearby. Odds were not in my favor, and I quickly died to Soraka Bots unrelenting banana assault.
"Guys...I think I just died to that thing. What happened? Why did I lose that?"
AH HA HA HA LOL DUDE X, DID YOU SEE THAT? HE DIED TO SORAKA, FUCKING SORAKA MAN!
OH MY GOD HA HA HA MY FUCKING SIDES HOW CAN YOU DIE TO A HEALER? HA HA HA YOU DIED TO A HEALER!
"I don't understand, what is she-"
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
(¬_¬)
So I'm back alive now and I get back to bottom lane, where the banana monster and the sparkle creatures live, and I decide to just auto attack minions because I have no idea what I should be doing at the moment. I'm pushing and pushing, but I have to recall sometimes because of damage from the banana monster and the sparkle creatures, and I didn't know what I was supposed to do about them.
I tried throwing my Event Horizon on the banana monster, but she stood perfectly in the center auto attacking minions, even though I had just thrown up a huge cage...thing! And the cage did nothing! It was at this point I realized that my attacks were useless against the powerful banana monster, and my best chance was to try to level up and pray that my friends were strong enough to defeat this demon, because I couldn't do a damn thing.
I have about one or two thousand gold now, but I haven't bought any items. I still got my Doran's ring and that was it. I recall and go back to lane when I get asked a question.
Why didn't you buy anything at the base?
"What do you mean?"
You have money right? You buy more stuff with it, obviously.
Well if I didn't do that, it must not be so obvious. "Are items really that important?"
Uh yeah, they are kinda a huge deal. Really important actually. One of them chuckles in the background.
"Okay, well I'll go back then. What do I even get?"
After a discussion, I get boots and a Tear of the Goddess. Feeling more powerful (even though I don't actually have any more damage), I go back to bottom lane, but something is wrong. My tower is missing! It was just here a second ago...where did it go? Did the banana monster steal it? Because if she stole it, I was going to need more help than I thought before.
Wow, you lost the tower to Soraka? Oh my god you're so bad...
Yeah no kidding. But they said I lost it, so that demon probably didn't steal it. Had to be my fault. But if I lost it, maybe I can go find it again? I knew what I was going to do next.
One of my friends mentions that they just hit a level. I don't remember which, but I do remember that the level they just reached was higher than mine. I question this.
"How are you leveling up so fast? I'm not even close to your level."
Oh he's jungling. Has been the whole time.
"Jungling? What's that?"
It's a thing where instead of being in a lane like you are, you go into this jungle area here and kill the monsters in there.
"Oh ok...can I do that?"
LOL HA HA HA HEY DUDE X, HE SAYS HE WANTS TO JUNGLE VEIGAR! HA HA HA
OH AH HA HA HA HA! I HAVEN'T LAUGHED THAT HARD IN A LONG TIME!
"I don't get it why can't I-"
AH HA HA HA HA
ｏ( > <)o
To be fair, this was back before the new, easier jungle we have in season two. Still though, I didn't understand what the problem was. I decided it was probably best to just stay in my lane and find my tower again.
Then here comes this green dog thing from no where. It gets really big and kills the banana monster in no time. Wow! So powerful! What is that? Who was that?
Ha ha how were you having trouble against that?
"I don't know."
It's a healer! And you're Veigar!
"Yeah, but-"
But nothing!
At this point I pretty much realized that they were not going to explain anything, so I just asked them what things were, and then looked them up on the [Wiki.](
We did eventually win, and while I never found my tower and got neglected pretty much the whole game, the banana monster lost. That made it all worth it. We beat the banana monster! Yes! And almost two years and over 2k games later, I'm still playing.
And I still hate Soraka.
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Soraka = banana terror.
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CronusKiller
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relationships
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t5_2qjvn
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c6z8g5a
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Every fight ends in a breakup you don't take seriously? Neither of you are taking the relationship seriously. That is grade school shit.
Talk it out with him, this could go anywhere. Might've been revenge for the fight, maybe he only wants fuckbuddies not a gf, maybe he's tired of the situation and sabotaging it to make it stay ended? The other girl was foolish to bareback him, while some people want that risk/thrill, most are just dumb. That issue is between her and her primary.
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end it for real as he broke the safety rules. You can't trust him for open relationships.
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red-dit
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Fitness
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t5_2qhx4
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c6zsc3g
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I hurt my wrist a few months ago. I benched the bar and it hurt. I narrowed my grip and it only hurt at lockout. I avoided locking out for over a month. I slowly added weight and hit a PR in 2 months. The wrist is 90% healed now but I kept the narrow grip. For pulls, deadlifts were fine but rows weren't. Again, I found this out by starting with the bar and adding weight slowly. Lat pull downs started feeling fine after a couple of weeks with a loose hook grip and in another week or two pullups became possible.
For accessories, I used the machines often. I did machine OHP which I transitioned into dumbell OHP and am now transitioning back onto barbell.
To expand on the adding weight part, I tried to not add more than 20lbs in one session even if it was painless. 60lbs per week is still plenty of progress and reduces the risk of hurting yourself without noticing it (which I am prone to).
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trial and error. Be creative. Start at <30% if possible and see if it hurts. If it doesn't add weight very slowly.
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motley3
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leagueoflegends
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t5_2rfxx
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c70pbzj
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Once upon a time, in the summer of this year, I was 2223 Elo. Magically, after a long vacation, I dropped over 300 Elo in a single week. Then, Riot reset the highest ratings. Struggled to get my play back in shape, and finally got diamond last week.
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diamond :D
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Haywood_Jafukmi
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politics
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t5_2cneq
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c714epz
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There are two things that get me with the $250K+ extra taxation model. Rather than closing loopholes or limiting deductions it seems like the idea is to have the "wealthy pay their fair share" which while well I tensioned ignores things. First, ignoring loopholes and deductions which are abused by the wealthy which are the real culprits in diverting finds that should be going into our coffers, this number fails to take adjusted cost of living into account. $250,000 a year in NYC, for example, doesn't mean nearly as much as that same in Akron, Ohio, where everything is much, much cheaper. Doesn't seem fair to have both individuals taxed the same. Second we're talking about a progressive percentage based system where (again, assuming loopholes are closed and deductions limited for the highest earners) the highest bracket is already paying a higher percentage on a larger pot of income. I would suggest that paying an equal percentage on a higher amount is still a fair share.
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closing loopholes and limiting deductions for the "wealthy" is IMHO the most equitable and efficient way of raising tax monies.
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SockofBadKarma
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politics
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t5_2cneq
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c714l4j
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Well, from their choice of words, they're apparently not an American citizen. And most people don't have any grasp of their own country's political history, let alone the history of other countries. And given the age trends of this site, it's unlikely that they're over 30. Is it to be expected for a random non-American under-30 redditor to know the qualities of the famous presidents like Lincoln, FDR, or Jefferson, compare them to poor presidents like Harding, Carter, or Johnson, and then accurately place the incumbent President on the list, especially when the only Presidents they likely have lived to see and remember are Obama, W Bush, and possibly Clinton?
If I was some dude in Spain or Germany or France at my same age (23), all I would be able to legitimately compare Obama to would be his predecessor, and I'd possibly have a very cursory knowledge of a handful of other American Presidents. Given that Barack Obama is leaps and bounds better than George W. Bush, it's hardly surprising that the average non-American redditor would think of him as one of our greatest Presidents. They literally have no frame of reference. It would be like me trying to comment on the intricacies of British politics based on nothing but knowledge of Brown and Blair and some history classes about Churchhill and maybe Thatcher. I actually happen to know quite a lot more about European history than the average American, and I'd still probably look like a naïve fool to a British redditor.
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Take into account a few fair assumptions about Melalee's age, education, and geographical location, and it's perfectly understandable that they would hold an inaccurate appraisal of Obama's current quality as a President.
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thesorrow312
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politics
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t5_2cneq
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c7173ad
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The difference here is that your friend is not actually serving a purpose, you don't need his services. You are paying him to sit around, not to create anything, or do tangible work. His being there doesn't actually matter other than that you just want him to be there.
I think your analogy doesn't work well in the context of the owner / worker relationship.
This is the way we need to look at it. There is much research (and TED talks you can look up) which show objectively that inequality leads to bad things across all countries in the world. The more inequality, the worse health, education, crime and so many other factors are.
What kind of world do we want to live in? Would we rather one where the mass of people are practically slaves to a few who have accumulated so much wealth and continue to do so? Because we do know that when you have massive wealth, you can easily get more; and when you have so little, your upward mobility is almost not existent.
We need to start thinking about the world's resources and thus economy as a zero sum game, especially now. Resources are finite and the rich desire to take them all for themselves. The consequences of this psychopathic need for wealth brings us to things like rejection and opposition to green and anti climate change movements because that would get in the way of profits.
A better world to live in would be one in which people were more or less equal, at least relatively. We do not need a few owning means of production, land and an extremely hierarchical system in order to have human prosperity. Cooperation is how our early ancestors survived and thrived, and the results are much better than competition. Imagine a world where people came together for the common good, instead of one where everyone wanted to beat our everyone else.
When people like Mitt Romney can have car elevators, while in no state can someone afford the cheapest 2 bedroom apartment on a 40 hour minimum wage hard working job, something is not fair. This is not the optimal system of human interaction and society.
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The people who actually produce and make things in this country are robbed of their worth, by those who merely own the means of production and resources.
Imagine if we got rid of those who run away with the profits, and just allowed the workers to democratically control what they make, how much to sell it for, and how to redistribute their profits among themselves and reinvestment.
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thrilldigger
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politics
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t5_2cneq
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c7192fk
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Can we get some sources in here? With the numbers jk13 posted, it is impossible for the Republicans to outsupport the Democrats - if the % approval from the party is higher in each region than the % approval from the other party, there is no distribution of senators or congressman that could allow the latter party to out-approve the former.
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either jk13's numbers are wrong or yours are, so we need some citations please (from both of you)...
Edit: I just realized that I made some poor assumptions about what 'approval' means in this context. It looks like jk13's right that there was higher support from the Republican party than the Democratic party, based on his source.
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cabalamat
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politics
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t5_2cneq
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c71ddmw
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Because at the heart of this issue is the fact that Republicans don't believe they have an obligation to help anyone else.
Republicans are also too stupid to understand that by helping others they may help themselves too. If you're an employee and pay some taxes that go to pay for unemployment benefits for others, then you're making other workers less desperate for their jobs which means that employers have to treat them better. Treating threm better includes paying higher wages, so you're indirectly causing them (and yourself) to have higher wages.
How big might that effect be and at what cost? I'll use figures for the UK in my analysis -- US ones are probably not enormously different.
UK government spending is £700bn/yr of which £7bn goes on Job Seekers Allowance (JSA). Assume each unemployed person gets the same amount in other benefits (e.g. housing benefit), the total cost is £14bn which is 2% of gov spending.
An employee might pay 30% of their wages in tax 2% of 30% is 0.6%, so if the existance of ememployment benefits raises their wages by more than 0.6%, they gain from the deal.
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If you're a worker, paying tax to help the unemployed is in your interests, because it means that employers will have to pay you a decent wage.
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Cacanny
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leagueoflegends
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t5_2rfxx
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c71s207
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I think duo-ing greatly increase your chance of winning. You get at least 2 solid players that can play decently.
I'm currently trying to get higher by playing duo as much as possible
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Duo-ing is good!
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dolphinastronaut
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TwoXChromosomes
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t5_2r2jt
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c725i33
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She said the soldiers chose to go over there and die, and it's different because a child is innocent and has done nothing wrong.
So when an innocent child is killed in a war, it's okay? I'm sure there were some innocent German three-year-olds during World War II who weren't responsible for the Holocaust who died from misfiring and such. Wars aren't just "both sides get a bunch of volunteers to die and whoever has the most soldiers at the end wins, and both sides make sure they don't kill anyone who isn't a soldier," at least not anymore.
And what happens when a soldier is drafted (which is actually the case with most soldiers, historically speaking)? They didn't choose to go to Vietnam or WWI or WWII or the Civil War. The overwhelming majority of soldiers throughout recorded history were men who were forced against their will by their government to fight in a war.
The roll-their-eyes-and-laugh-at-your-dead-friend thing is just disgusting. I'm not sure I would have been able to stop myself from punching them, and I've literally never punched anyone before . Laughing at a death of a friend by suicide is just too damn far. My condolences to you, OP. I don't know you, but I'm proud of you for not releasing your anger on them and just using facts.
The fact of the matter is that these people aren't going to have their minds changed in five minutes. Showing them an ACS/NCI study about abortion not having a link to breast cancer on your cell phone won't change their mind, even if 100 people do it. They filter out any opinion and any person that doesn't agree with them and their opinions. I've had to deal with these people on my campus before (and the ones on my campus weren't nearly as bad as yours--most of the pro-lifers there acknowledged that abortion should be legal in rape/incest/life-of-the-mother situations, and they were all open to polite, no-laughing-at-your-dead-friend discussion and debate of serious issues; they were actually pretty nice people), and you won't be able to convince them.
It's best to ignore them and know that you're right. It's really tempting to argue with them, but trying to argue with them will, at minimum, frustrate you and, more likely, deeply anger you. I've been there, and it's tempting to argue, but... just don't.
Still, props to you for at least attempting to make a difference. You're still cool.
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The person OP mentioned who said that war is okay is an imbecile. Also, anti-abortion folks can't be reasoned with, even polite ones. They're very often open to calm, polite discussion, but you're not going to change their mind. If they're hardcore enough to try to convince others that they're wrong, they're not suddenly going to change their mind. But OP is still cool for trying.
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rescuerabbit
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relationships
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t5_2qjvn
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c72bbpo
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I was in the exact same situation as you about 2 months ago, except I'm the lazy boyfriend. Here's what happened:
I am a double Major, English and Philosophy, and I'm a huge procrastinator, I was always a smart guy, and as a result coasted on my intellect while being quite lazy. This year i started with a full course load (5 classes) and was doing fairly well, except for my habit of skimming over or even skipping readings for my classes. This so far has resulted in me dropping a course the day before a midterm because the textbook I needed didn't arrive in the mail on time, and after a day of feeling completely anxious and upset i made the decision to drop it. This only helped a little as I had not really been working terribly hard on my other classes either (I recently picked up a Dungeons and Dragons hobby and it got in the way of my schoolwork)
Fast forward to two weeks left in the term, my student loans are coming in very late due to procrastination, I stressed myself out writing a 15 page paper in one weekend, having to read an entire book that same weekend because I was behind on the reading. In my other classes my grades are not what i want them to be. I will be lucky to pull out of this semester with a C average.
Normally stress doesn't affect me too much, but this semester I've felt a lot of pressure, and have experienced anxiety like never before. I've learned my lesson and am proud to say that I'm turning things around, and should do well on my finals. after having entire days where I couldn't eat or sleep, or felt nauseous to the point of vomiting (all from stress) I've learned my lesson, and when i needed someone to talk to/cry with (yes, men can cry) my wonderful gf of 4 years was with me all along.
Advice? Pretty much the same as level8deathknight, don't baby him, let him take the hit for his laziness, and when he starts to feel the pressure (which will come, he might be taking it in stride now but trust me he'll feel it eventually) be there for him and offer to help. It sounds like you really care about this guy, and part of that is letting him make his own mistakes, just make sure that if the chips are down, at the end of the day he knows that you care about him.
Advice was the same but i just wanted to let you know that you aren't the first girl to have this kind of boyfriend, and typing this out was pretty cathartic.
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let him make his own mistakes, everyone grows out of that laziness eventually
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RationalMonkey
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technology
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t5_2qh16
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c72px3n
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I was fully planning on it...but then the OP of this thread did it for me in his edit. Honestly he did it in a far more humorous way than I could have done it.
My point was that it's not black and white. It's not simply a matter of losing a civil war. It's probably one of the most complex land disputes in modern history and it can be viewed through a myriad of different historical lenses, resulting in various conclusions. Summarizing it with THAT
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as if the Palestinians are simply being petulant, is misleading and offensive.
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santakelev
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technology
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t5_2qh16
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c72nquk
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Starving"? Israel gives the Gaza strip truckloads of food and medicine on a daily basis. Do you understand the absurdity? Hamas bombs Israeli civilian centers on a regular basis, for more than 12 years, and Israel send humanitarian aid in return.
"Dehumanizing"? There is not a single Israeli soldier in Gaza since the Israeli retreat in 2005. Hams could have used that period to rebuild the Gaza Strip as a flourishing land, but instead they chose to pile up on their missile stock. More than 500 of these missiles have been launched on Israeli cities in the last 3 days.
It's not Israel's fault it has a strong military. If you want to go with the WW2 comparisons, the US had a much stronger military than Nazi Germany. Did that make them the bad guys?
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Get your facts right.
Sorry for my english.
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zorba1994
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technology
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t5_2qh16
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c72ntxd
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That's actually not the case in this conflict right now. Without going into the whole 100-odd year history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, I'll try to explain what's going on here.
Israel took Gaza from Egypt during the [6-Day War in 1967]( Egypt eventually renounced their claim to the land, but that didn't change the fact that the land was almost exclusively populated by Arabs.
Fast forward a few decades, and Israel is pulling out of Gaza in 2005. Gaza is no longer considered to be a part of Israel in any sense. Unfortunately, Hamas, a radical militant Palestinian political party sets up shop in Gaza and becomes the government for the region. Since then, Hamas has used the area as a staging ground for terrorist attacks, particularly rocket strikes at southern Israeli cities such as Sderot. Israel has had conflicts with Hamas since then, not so much to control Gaza as to remove Hamas's capability to attack Israeli citizens.
This recent spate of violence can be traced as the culmination of a fairly bad year, violence-wise. Hamas fired several hundred rockets at Israel between January and November of 2012. In retaliation for these rocket attacks, Israel assassinated the head al-Qassam (Hamas's military wing), al-Jabari on Wednesday, and this has caused Hamas to declare "all out war" and attack even more vigorously, pouring out over 400 rockets in the past few days.
Israel's intent in this most recent conflict has been almost exclusively to remove Hamas's rocket-firing capabilities. A simple glance at casualty statistics proves this: Israel has bombed over 500 targets in the past few days, but has only caused ~20 casualties (of which 9 have been confirmed to have been Hamas operatives). Israel's goal here is to destroy missile launching platforms and munitions storages. Taking Palestinian land isn't part of the game plan in Gaza.
In all fairness, "taking Palestinian land" is an accusation that can be thrown at Israel, but that's more to do with the West Bank, where Israel has a vested interest because despite being primarily Arab, the West Bank contains sites that are religiously and historically important to Jews (Jerusalem, Hebron). This is where the whole "settlement" issue comes in and is a whole different issue.
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Israel's conflicts with Gaza have little to do with land--Israel doesn't want Gaza and pulled out 7 years ago, and is only fighting Hamas now to reduce Hamas's capability of performing terrorist attacks against Israeli cities like Sderot.
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plurality
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technology
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t5_2qh16
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c72o025
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The current borders of Palestine and Israel were made through good old-fashioned civil war occurring in a mandate previously held by the British. The UN proposed separate Jewish and Arab States, which the Jews accepted and the Arabs didn't. Civil war broke out when Arabs attacked Jews and when the dust settled they were left with the borders we see today. The Six-Day War happened later on and Israel was left with Egypt (up the Suez Canal) and all of the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, Jerusalem, and Golan Heights. Israel gave it all back on the condition they stop being harassed in the region.
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Palestinians are angry about getting in a fight, losing, and wanting things to be the way they were beforehand.
Sources: 1. [Israel/Palestine map over time]( 2. [Who started the initial fight.](
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brotha_z
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technology
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t5_2qh16
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c72ot52
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Osama himself stated that if the U.S. were to withdraw its military from the middle east then they would no longer have beef with us, and i concur. The U.S. should avoid entanglements with foreign powers, and for good reason. The more you fuck with other people, the more likely they will start to fuck with you. Sure, they will probably still hate us, but so what? They know that if they try to engage us we can and will bomb the shit out of them, and in that case I wouldnt give a damn. But there really isnt any reason for the U.S. to get involved with anything over there, we already have good trade relations with many Arab states, and dumping Israel will free up 30 billion dollars(or w.e maybe they are extorting more this time) every year, money that would be better spent to improving the U.S. Israel should be left to their own devices. IDGAF about Palestine, and neither do a lot of other Arab countries.
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passive/aggressive should be our foreign policy. Dont fuck with me/I wont fuck with you type of policy. Everyone is well aware of the supremacy of the U.S. military, and anyways, just because we completely destroy countries that we go to war with doesnt necessarily mean we have to stick around to "rebuild". Fuck those countries, fuck Iraq, fuck Afghanistan, fuck all those people. We shouldnt have to "help them" for whatever misguided reasons of morality. Same with Israel, screw them, and screw all those lobbyists who make the U.S. stick with Israel.
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tishtok
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technology
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t5_2qh16
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c72pi4t
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I basically agree with you. I'm bad at politics because I can see both sides and just sort of go around and around in circles and can never make up my mind. I'm just saying that's the obvious response to make; note that I said I didn't necessarily agree with it (because when I think about it, all that's doing is justifying killing, which is sad and disgusting).
Let me ask this: if equal numbers of Israeli and Palestinian noncombatants had died, would that make it better? Isn't what Hamas doing "targeting civilians and civilian infrastructure..,[to] coerc[e] the population through violence"? And while it's true that more Palestinian noncombatants than Israelis have died in this conflict, it's not for lack of trying on Hamas' side; if Israel didn't have the Iron Dome technology I guarantee it would be in MUCH worse shape than it is now. I'm not saying that violence justifies violence justifies violence. But at the same time I'm not sure what an appropriate response would be, from EITHER side. What is the appropriate response to the assassination of one of your citizens? What is the appropriate response to thousands of rockets being launched into your country every year by an organization whose goal is to destroy you?
When I think about the situation, I get stuck with the question of "what should be done?" and I can never think of something that would help (something that doesn't include either all the Israelis or all the Palestinians leaving or dying, which is clearly not what most people want to happen).
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I go around and around on this issue. I understand what you're saying about "justifying" violence. But I also can't imagine what an appropriate response to these circumstances would be from either side, both Israeli and Palestinian.
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EMartinez86
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technology
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t5_2qh16
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c72r2nx
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Israeli forces, which represent a Democratic "westernized country" should be showing some type of proportional restraint and a measured response. Their Rules of Engagement do not need to include the line "If it isn't Israeli it is a target."
Just as the US learned in Iraq the hard way, because your bases are receiving indirect fire everyday, going out of said freshly cratered base and shooting up your neighbors civilian district without rhyme or reason under the pretense of "deter by force" does not solve a damn thing.
But no, let's go Cold War era tactics, that has proven to be the solution for this conflict.
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Their military needs to focus on a new tactic that doesn't involve pissing 10 more people off for every one militant they kill (and in the process off a couple dozen other people).
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dinosaur_train
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relationship_advice
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t5_2r0cn
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c74ikzu
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edit: deleted my comment about cross posting because im an idiot and didn't see you already did that!
you are still upbeat and positive. nobody in /r/deadbedrooms will have anything nice to say. it will all be doom and gloom and even through they will speak the truth you don't sound like you would be ready to hear it because you are still in the love phase.
> why he is this way
he has a low libido. this will never change not now and not 80 years from now. Can you make a gay person straight? No, peoples sexual desires, including frequency can never change.
So you can bring it up over a beer.. he might try to change for a minuite but he will revert back to his old ways.
Here is what is to come:
You will start to feel rejected. You will deal with it, once, twice, fifty times, but the fifty first, you will get angry. You will also start to feel unattractive. Your self esteem will plummet, he'll be the one slowly poisoning you but you'll still think he's a great guy with a minor problem.
Eventually the rejection and frustration will compound. Your mood will decline and you'll be all around less social. He'll need you for something and while you are there for him you'll have moments where pure hatred run through your veins. Here you are helping him when he can't be bothered to meet you very simple needs. you aren't asking for much. You will feel guilty, because you are angry at inappropriate times. You'll feel like shit that you didn't listen to this post and wasted so much time with him...
being denied affection from the one you love is absolutely soul destroying. he will never understand that. he'll die before he understands that.
But you are in the phase where you are gonna try to work it out. Frankly, it breaks my heart because I know your future too well.
god forbid you get trapped in this situation with a kid.....
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RUN. i know you won't listen, but keep this in the back of your mind and read /r/deadbedrooms often... there is 0 chance that he will change and in the long run it won't just ruin this relationship it will change, hurt, and suck everything beautiful out of you.
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AbsoluteZeroD
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leagueoflegends
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t5_2rfxx
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c74scqo
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I finished season 2 with a shitty rating (~700)
I am now approaching silver with around 1050 rating right now. I for one am looking forward to playing with them, because if they abuse me for my lack of a border, it just makes it even more fun to beat them and watch the whine. and if I get to gold this season, and I end up getting abused for not having a border, it will just motivate me to play better.
the way I see it. If you don't had a lower rating than them last season, but earned your place amongst them this season, then fair play. You earned your right to be up there playing with them, if they abuse you for it, then more fool them.
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Don't get disheartened, if they abuse you, ignore it. You've earned your elo, just the same as they did, they just did it a couple of weeks earlier.
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yamidudes
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leagueoflegends
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t5_2rfxx
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c74vp2h
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As a plat who is currently sitting in the middle of golds and occasionally silvers (and actually unrankeds too)...
If you live up to the ELO bracket that you are at, we won't complain.
Usually the first thing I call out a silver bracket player for is their attitude in game. The amount of complaining on average. When somebody suggests trundle support, instant complaining. Gold players might say that it's stupid, and plat players might say "no" or just not anything at all, but silver players will cry about it instantly.
The next thing is map awareness and throws and the like. At higher ELOs, we expect big macro game decisions to be obvious (and tbh, this is the most identifying factor of elo brackets last season), and when a game is thrown because your silver player keeps getting caught with his pants down late game or seen bot lane when baron's up or refuses to back/heal/buy before the other team rushes baron because he wants to farm jungle, it is actually the silver player's fault and this type of inconsistency in the games irks us to the greatest degree.
The same shit also applies to mechanics that should have been learned (a move is the main one here, but stuff like poorly timed (read impatient) AoE ults count too). If we lose a teamfight because your silver player who belongs in silver doesn't know how to teamfight....
To me, at least for the first few weeks, I will judge you by your badge first, then your s3 elo. Last season I climbed to plat twice, and the elo reset didn't magically make silver or gold players better.
so yea
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if you are noticeably worse and silver rating you'll get a beating. if you did magically become better and end up in between gold/plat players, don't give them a reason to shit on you and you'll be fine.
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Makalol
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leagueoflegends
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t5_2rfxx
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c753kfp
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Yes, but I'm kinda worried about getting banned because I get reported as someone who is 'refusing to communicate', which is probably what would happen after a while.
And if I leave the chat the way it is, I have to somehow participate in it at one point in the game.
So, either way, bans are a 100% sure thing to get, no matter what. huehuehe
No, seriously now, I have made very good experiences with at least trying to lead by good example and make the players come down from their tilt/rage and tell them to stop worrying and flaming and that we still have a chance (obviously doesn't work if we get stomped hard for 20 minutes straight).
If it wouldn't be so darn tiring to keep up with those kids I'd do it in every game.
Oh, and making calls if you are doing well is good too and most people will listen to you if you are the best player in the team of any given match.
Also complimenting by saying gj or wp to people who make a comeback after they've died a few times can work wonders too.
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Be a man, be the captain and lead your soldiers, instead of abandoning them!
It's a team game after all.
PS: Sorry for the shitty formatting, but I don't know how to do it properly on the AlienBlue app.
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tasteofflames
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science
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t5_mouw
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c758u4e
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First and foremost, hydroelectric power only provides ~7% of the nation's energy budget, Granted, this would be one of the larger hydrodams in the nation, which would screw a whole bunch of people. Second, blowing up the dam would actually be considerably more ecologically damaging than managing the river with the dam in place. Straight demolition has a couple of issues:
1) Dams collect a bunch of sediment. Blowing the dam would quickly release the vast majority of sediment built up behind the dam, flowing downstream and smothering all kinds of spawning habitat (for fish, aquatic insect larvae, crustaceans, most everything) as well as burying much of the river's underwater features. This would devastate the food web for miles down stream.
2) Fish need an array of underwater features to complete their life cycle. Proper spawning and nursery habitat, well formed stream reaches (pool, riffle, run), and cover (among other things). An uncontrolled release of water (re:demolition) would release millions of gallons of water per second, carrying enough force to move boulder and downed trees, clearing out fish habitat and scouring out the river channel.
3) Demolition would create a very large amount of small, sharp bits of concrete that could (likely would) abate any aquatic organisms gills (they are very sensitive/easy to damage) potentially causing a large fish kill.
4)The humpback chub ( Gila cypha ) is a federally endangered species. Blowing up that dam would never get approval. There are only a few populations left in the wild, and blowing the dam could potentially wipe out a large chunk of the population.
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blowing up a damn would remove the streams "natural" features and substrate, deposit an abundance of substrate, choking nay potential spawning habitat for fish and their prey, could be acutely deadly to organisms, and it heads off the habitat a federally endangered species. bad idea and not happening. That's not going into the economics of proper dam removal (hint: It's not [cheap](
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Crudelita5
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leagueoflegends
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t5_2rfxx
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c75k7m4
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Well, I guess then Sundance should take a look @ tales of the lane (which had better production value, atleast in my opinion) and other bigger tourneys which probably run at a fraction of the costs MLG has.
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Sundance should try to cut costs for huge convention centers if the main revenue of MLG isn't the BYOC area.
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Chazzelstien
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relationships
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t5_2qjvn
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c76yneu
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He is being honest with you, so he truly cares about you. Almost every guy has/has tried to tap dance between girls without the other knowing. He is legitimately confused and what you do is your decision. If you feel like he is the one wait, and if not then do not. I cannot give advice on how to wait, be it continue in a relationship and be understanding, let him have his free space, or be aloof and wait away from him (though this one has the best chance of separating you two, if you stay together it is something special). How you handle it is your call.
Please DO NOT do the following
Listen to your girlfriends too much, well listen to them but be logical. You will have a few types to deal with but only two to worry about. Ones who want him and want you to break up so they can swoop in, and the "honey you deserve better than him." I caution you because this guys sounds like an upstanding dude compared to a lot of guys, he was honest, he hasn't done anything yet, and he is confused. They will be there for you, they have your back, they have the best intentions, but they may give the wrong advice and steer you astray from reality. Girlfriends are great at making their friends feel better and putting them on top of the world, often putting down the guy. This is not a bad break up, this is not he fucked another girl, it is not as serious as that. It could become a break up, but this guy is straight forward. I urge caution is all
Just because you are confused as well does not mean you should turn that confusion into "Gung-ho-G.I.-Jane-this-guys-sucks-i'm-gonna-go-find-me-a-better-man Syndrome." Chances are, you will not. Most likely in such a mind set you will want to take home the hot piece of man ass as "revenge" which will fuck up your relationship even more. Now if you just go out you don't have to feel so tied down and if you meet a guy and start talking, that is fine, but don't go out with the intention landing revenge ass.
Also don't cheat, if you find someone else you kind of like too try to at least make it like the way he has his thing. Just talk to the guy and set up a later encounter, if the guy doesnt go for it he is looking for a one night stand If you cheat you are the bad one.
That being said yes you are young you have a lot of time ahead of you but...
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Just because you have your whole life ahead of you and can find someone new, do not make it your goal to find someone new because you have come to a issue in your relationship
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garandx
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gaming
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t5_2qh03
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c77bknj
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Good work. I've seen this shit before. Somebody goes: look at what I just wired. Only to come home a few days later and find all that's left is some ashes and a Nokia cell phone.
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OP knows his shit.
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HistoryLessens
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Games
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t5_2qhwp
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c77pro2
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Yeah, I love Mirror's Edge, but the story/characters were the weakest link imo. The background for the story (totalitarian government, spying on citizens, runners for secret messages, someone killed at a protest) had potential. Haven't played it in quite some time and that's mostly because i don't care at all about the story or the characters. All the memorable moments I have of ME are gameplay moments, what I remember of the plot is sister is being set up for a murder of a guy that I think wanted to get elected to get the government to change, blonde runner chick is a traitor, no idea why, something about a good cop helping to free sister, that's prettys much it. If the gameplay hadn't been as innovative/challenging/fun, I'm pretty sure I wouldn't have finished the game.
And let me assure you that this has nothing to do with either the writer (which I didn't know until reading it above) or the characters being female. It's just that they gave you no reason to care about the characters. You pretty much get dropped into the situation, don't get to see any prior interaction between the protagonist and the other characters (as far as I remember), you pretty much do an intro level and then it's "shots fired where your sister is, better go there, she's being set up for murder, you have to care . If you want me to care about something like that, you have to introduce the sister, maybe show one or more situations, where she saves my ass, maybe show a little conflict between the two because one works for the police of a totalitarian government and the other is a criminal, things like that (let me admit right now that it could be that something like that is in the game and I'm just not remembering it).
Don't get me wrong, in that regard many if not most games fail, great - memorable - video game characters - for me those that I care are about - are mostly written by Obsidian, Valve and Bioware. Mirror's Edge was at most slightly above average in that regard.
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I don't think the story or characters or protagonist of Mirror's Edge were memorable, I loved the art style and gameplay and didn't care about the rest.
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Nk-Inc
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leagueoflegends
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t5_2rfxx
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c77t1v5
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It really depends. Sometimes you should camp a lane, sometimes you should just stand in a lane and push with your laner, and other times you should be everywhere on the map. It really depends on the lane match up and the jungler you picked.
I don't want to type too much but I'll give two examples to show how you need to adapt to your character and the game.
Say you are olaf jungle. Your other lanes are getting destroyed. Not so much that they instadie to the other laner, but so much that they cant leave tower. Now sometimes it might be helpful to gank for them. But in this particular situation the lanes were so far gone that me trying to help them was pointless. What I did was went top lane with our nidalee who was doing alright and I basically laned with her. We just kept shoving down top and they couldnt stop us without sending 3+ people. We destroyed them in a 2v2 top/jungler vs top/jungler since our combo was so strong. This forced their mid to leave and basically let ours kill tower and roam. We caught up in gold and won the game even though the enemy bot lane was up 4-5 kills and tower diving ours.
The next example is a nunu game. Basically your goal is to make their jungler non-existant. If he ganks you counter gank. If he does something you screw him over hard for it. You make it so he cant move. If somehow via the enemy team out playing your laners or you letting their jungler gank end up with you and your team being behind, you won't be able to pull the same cheeky push top and win strategy that olaf/nid used to win in the earlier game. So in this situation how you tackle the game is totally different. You need to look for opportunities to give your team an advantage. Sneaking early dragons or stealing blue from the enemy are all things you can do to try and come back. However the biggest thing you can do to change the game is buy lots of wards for everyone and counter gank their jungler. This will take a lot of effort on your part to explain to your team. But basically if you are still close enough in the game to win a 2v2 when they overextend for a kill then this will work and is your best bet to win in a situation like this. Ward up and have your laner bait a gank. Then show up to counter gank and generally you will get a double kill or a spree and sometimes a dragon out of it.
Each of these situations is totally different because of the champions that are being used in the jungle and in other lanes. It's not something you can just say do x or do y, but in a detailed description of something/replay you can usually work out the correct answer to winning or to camping.
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There is no yes or no. Think about it in every situation because its always different depending on champion match ups and whats happening in the game.
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Treskol
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leagueoflegends
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t5_2rfxx
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c77ribh
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I think this comes down to matchup - helping out a 2/0 Jayce is not worth it if they have a 2/0 Vayne
But if it is a Jax? Then yea, go for it.
Also this comes down to lanes - top is very snowbally, so if you get them two kills they should nearly always win their lane; there isn't much reason to go back after that unless it is for a countergank
For mid you have to understand who you can gank and who you can't - it's rarely worth trying to gank a Morgana, for instance, but a Morde is a must gank in the early levels. It's rarely worth ganking for a Karthus, as he can just farm, but an Ahri may really need them kills early to 100-0 someone in a teamfight
Bot lane depends on the matchup, but it is always worth going down there a few times. Ultimately, the AD is the most important person on your team, and getting him ahead is always getting your team ahead. You should especially help out when your support has an easy set up for you - Zyra ult, Taric stun, Vayne condemn etc. Also remember that whenever you are bot you are near dragon, and any clean kill can be converted into 1k gold for your team, which benefits everyone
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First few ganks look top, then bot, then mid, then go bot again
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NitsujTPU
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summonerschool
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t5_2t9x3
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c789x9k
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I play a lot of Morde. Morde has a few weak points.
First, he doesn't use mana. I know this doesn't sound like a weak point, but your attacks are actually slightly stronger. He has the ability to sustain well, but this comes at that trade-off. If you get him low, nuke the hell out of him and he dies.
Second, his attacks are all basically in melee range, except for creeping death. AP carries with longer-ranged attacks can harass him without getting inside his attack radius. If he uses creeping death on a creep, simply kill the creep. Additionally, if you have a carry with CC (such as Lux or Morg), you can limit his damage that way, and get a free few pops on him.
Third, Morde will often farm with Siphon of Destruction in order to charge his shield. Doing so pushes the lane. This exposes him to your jungler. Smart Mordes will back off after pushing the lane like this, or save their ult so they can kind of recharge while they run away, but if you let him push, the creeps will come to your tower where you can farm safely, and if the player is dumb, your jungler gets a free gank.
Fourth, don't get low. Morde can wear you down and stay high. If he looks low, he may have his ultie ready. With a bunch of AP + revolver he can recharge faster than you can knock him down without dying. Mordes will often take flash to hammer in a Siphon of Destruction + Ult + Ignite, which will be enough to knock you down several hundred HP. Idiots dive the tower by running across it. A smart Morde can hit you at the tower and then run off into the jungle or back out quickly.
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Pick a ranged AP carry with a snare or a stun, like Lux, Morg, or Annie. This controls his attacks since he's practically melee range. You do more damage per attack than he does, so use this to your advantage. Don't get low, since his ult refills him and can knock you down in nothing flat.
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Hiazm
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gaming
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t5_2qh03
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c78co7k
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8 core FX
This had nothing to do with how well your fps improved, the number of cores doesn't affect gaming performance. Most games are made to only utilize 2 cores. Some games, like bf3, can use up to 4. The extra cores you have only helped if you had gta IV, a browser and youtube open at the same time.
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More cores =/= more fps
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MadeOfTwoFaces
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leagueoflegends
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t5_2rfxx
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c7911s1
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If you shut down anybody and stop their gold income they're useless. This is no different when it comes to Rengar. Yes he's strong, yes once you get a Trinity Force on him (just like Jax and Poppy) he gets Tanky. Get over it.
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Learn how to play against him and shut him down.
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Blayer32
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leagueoflegends
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t5_2rfxx
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c7914ci
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Scenario: you win your lane against Irelia. You have a few kills on her, taken her tower and about 60 minions more than her. Now you decide to take that advantage to your team - gank mid/bot and take a dragon, you might even push down some more towers for the gold advantage. Skip 10 minutes ahead : team fights. Now Irelia have gotten some farm while you were off helping your team, which means she has become the tank with high damage. You said she doesn't do a lot of damage, but she really does. 75 truedamage + sustain is one of the best abilities in the game. Build tanky and melt the enemy away with next to none damage items.
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you can win your lane against Irelia, but you can't shut her down. She will become an unstoppable force unless you manage to win the game before late game
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dragon_toes
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TwoXChromosomes
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t5_2r2jt
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c79f7pj
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You're being downvoted because you're making a comment on something that's been disproven, and are perpetuating the idea that there is somehow some blame to be put on the victim. By saying they could have helped it at all, or "lowered their risk" it's perpetuating rape culture.
Men are more likely than women to rape. So let's lock men up. Or, I guess that's kind of harsh, lets make a device that works essentially as a chastity belt, and only a woman gets to have the key. If you're married, it's your wife, if you have a girlfriend, it's her, if neither oooh, let's say your mom or some other trusted woman. She can give it to whoever you need to date.
But you say this isn't fair, because it restricts your freedom. You are not a rapist, why should you have to wear this? Why should your life be changed because others are doing wrong?
Welcome to being a woman. Society is in the wrong by interpreting how a woman dresses to what it means. But still the women who are the victims are expected to change all their behaviors.
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you're being downvoted because yes, what you are saying is inherently disrespectful.
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Nivardica
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TwoXChromosomes
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t5_2r2jt
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c79vlfy
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naked body yes both male and female.
Thats not what the picture is and thats not what was being talked about or addressed at all. If you dont think that a womens breasts and body can be compared to literally shitting in front of people then do clairfy that and say it. Its pretty easy.
>You are the one who is equating breast and shitting nobody else. Troll on
Except for you who kept asking rhetorically why they weren't the same. seriously. Just say "breasts are in no way the same thing as shitting in public". Seriously, if its not an issue and you dont actually believe that then you should apologies for giving that impression. I wasn't the only one who commented on your original post who thought you comparing the two was ridiculous and a bit offensive.
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be a nice person
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miyakohouou
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TwoXChromosomes
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t5_2r2jt
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c79fp6d
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Is it a reasonable precaution to always live in fear? To not be able to wear what you want or go where you want when you want? Because that's what people seem to expect of women.
I wouldn't say that you should live in fear per-se, more that it's perfectly reasonable to expect people to be aware of the fact that the world isn't safe and that they should try to be aware of the risks their actions pose to themselves and others, and to try to reasonably balance the potential risks against living their lives.
> You yourself said that most rapes happen by people known to you, and clothing is not relevant: so what would make walking alone dressed nicely less risky than haning ou with your friends in conservative clothes?
I actually never said that clothing is not relevant; I said that many people argue that it's irrelevant, that I think their logic seems reasonable, and that I hadn't read enough information to draw any conclusions. I just think that it's not too much to expect of people to make rational decisions to try to mitigate their own risks, when the evidence is there to support the fact that a behavior is in fact risky. As far as rape goes, even if cloths do increase your risk, it's probably by such a minuscule amount that you shouldn't worry about it; I suspect that for rape, location does not increase the odds very much, if at all, of being victimized.
On the other hand, walking through the ghetto in the middle of the night probably does greatly increase your chances of being mugged. Because of the increased risk of that, someone should think twice before they walk through the ghetto in the middle of the night, and if for whatever reason someone is in a position where they need to walk through the ghetto in the middle of the night they should be afraid.
I guess the
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of my point is "There is probably not much within a persons control that affects their risk of being raped; if there were though I don't think it's unreasonable to say that they should try to mitigate those risks, and that really goes for anything, not just rape. People shouldn't do bad things, but they do. Society should try to keep people safe. People should also try to keep themselves safe."
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BirdysWord
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leagueoflegends
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t5_2rfxx
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c79kie3
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Focus the one that is easier to attack for you and your support meaning when you are laning your focus should be
CS
Poke Enemy ADC
Poke Enemy Support
Now when you take these decisions it is up to you and your support should be ready to support you with these.
About the tanky support's its much better when you peel them off that means when their initate can't be covered up or its hardly being covered and you move back while hitting the support in the back, though you can also think about the enemy ADC if he goes full in you rather fight them or peel off.
Taking an example of an enemy lane of Leona & Corki, if Corki uses his Valkyrie to join the Leona's Burst its better when you Peel Off and Attack the Corki when he is going back, if Corki doesn't use Valkyrie you Peel off And Hit the Leona, of course these should happen if you peel off good and you are healthy enough to fight them back.
About exhaust a support should never use it on the other support unless the enemy support is running under his turret w/o flash and it is for securing a kill.
Me as an ADC can say this much but the time of exhaust is up to support though ADC Champs are based on burst or on their DPS damage, aka if a Corki dives in its better to exhaust him directly to not proc Leonas Passives for Full Damage in between his auto attacks.
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It's based on your Decision Making and your Support Skills
Hope you understand that
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RheingoldRiver
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leagueoflegends
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t5_2rfxx
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c79kv9o
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When you play support, you're trying to be as aggressive as possible without getting out of position. This means that you will likely be positioned slightly in front of your ADC, especially if you're ranged and they're not Blitz/Leona. Note that this goes for both sides, so the supports will be closer to each other than to the ADCs, and so they will be focusing a lot of their harass on each other. This does not mean that Lulu should burn her W on the enemy Sona, but it definitely does mean that Sona should burn her Q + Qchord on the enemy Janna, even if a lot of that damage is reduced by the shield (at early levels; later, she stops being able to 1shot the shield). Yes, of course you would rather attack the enemy ADC, but the only way that you will be able to is if either you are running up with your support to allin (or to push them off, but remember that running up can easily result in an allin so make sure you're ready for that) or if the enemy support sucks.
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your support is probably doing the right thing if the ADCs are farming, the wrong thing if the ADCs are fighting.
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KobeGriffin
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politics
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t5_2cneq
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c79zdhg
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The only premise that you need to accept is the following:
P1: 'Rights are a collective obligation shared by everyone in society toward everyone else.'
Everything follows from this. Here it is.
Rights exist in the most basic human society, and the right to life is maybe the most basic. As a thought experiment, let's setup the basic society and that is you and me, and we've got the right to life: United States of GTdspDude and KobeGriffin, or USGK.
As things are now: I am observing your right to life by not attacking your person, and you are doing the same to me. (and, of course, if we don't do this we call it murder). You and me both, we are fulfilling our obligation to each other passively ; I am just sitting here at my comp, you're living, and vice versa . Both of us living, and promoting human rights. Awesome. That is the right to life.
Now, to elevate "healthcare" to the status of right to life. Or, base the right to healthcare on the right to life, as you suggested. In this case, if you became sick, I would have an obligation to save you. Even if it would hurt me, or if it would cost our society dearly, or literally anything. In fact, if I didn't save you it wouldn't just be "well, I tried", it would be a HUGE deal, the biggest deal impossible in fact. To not provide you lifesaving healthcare for any reason would be a violation of your fundamental human rights, and there is literally nothing worse that I could do in our society than that. But I am not a doctor. Do you see the problem that we have? I owe you something which I cannot possibly deliver without severely limiting my freedom as a person: just to fulfill your basic rights requires special skills, years of dedication and training, and if I don't do those things, and you get sick, I am literally Hitler.
But thankfully, (since I don't want to be a doctor), this is not how the right to life works. The right to life is the right not to be attacked, murdered, or otherwise deprived of life. It is not a requirement that all people do everything in their power to save you from death. If it were that way, everyone would be in jail for every death, ever. That is, the right to life is a right to not be killed, and it is not a right to be kept living .
The key is: Making healthcare a right confers an duty onto EVERY member of society, for which they must actively prepare, and I can't charge a fee, or trade with you, I simply owe this to you, at any cost. While healthcare requires another person to actively treat you, all human rights require no such active treatment to fulfill the obligations they create. And, yes, all rights have this nature: rights do not require specific activity of the part of others, but are promoted passively through inaction on the part of others .
Active v. Passive is the key. Pick any example you'd like, and all rights are passively observed. Here are some common ones (Note: these are ideal; I am not saying these are perfectly enacted, I am just showing they are passive in nature).
Right to Expression (speech) = let others talk, and != government gives people bullhorns and makes everyone listen.
Freedom of the Press = let people publish their ideas, and != ensure everyone a column in the NY Times.
Freedom of Association = can hang or not hang with anyone you like, != have to hang with people
Right to Privacy = let people be in their homes, != forceable alone time for everyone.
Right to Bear Arms = you can possess the means to defend yourself, != government buys you an arsenal.
Property Rights = theft is against the law, != people have to buy/give you stuff.
Religious Freedom = the government won't tell you anything about religion, != government will force you to evaluate all religions and choose one.
Please stay with this line of reasoning and see for yourself. It is incorrect to think of healthcare as a right. I am for universal healthcare, but it is a privilege of an advanced society, while rights exist in even the most basic social setting.
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Rights exist in a vacuum, totally irrespective of who is in the society, or it's development. They're always there, they are non-contingent on the active behavior of others, but are always observed passively by all members of society/humanity. Therefore, healthcare doesn't meet the requirements to be a right, but that doesn't mean that it shouldn't be promoted and implemented by the government (in fact, I think it should).
Edit: I would love to hear more thoughts on this!
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vamub
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politics
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t5_2cneq
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c7a4gal
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Um, there seems to be some real disconnect in your knowledge of how this actually works. The money gets taken because a ceo convinces the union that hostess needs the capital to survive not realizing that that is not the case at all. The businesses plan is no longer to build a successful business but to fleece the company for everything its worth because after all that's what these people do. The republicans in government are trying to do the same thing. We paid into that money with taxes because social security and medicare are the two parts of the american pension. That money just sits there and does nothing same that makes money grubbing assholes like the bankers so angry because they want to play with that money, just like they did a few years back. They get rich, we lose everything and their money is federally insured. Congress votes in representation if us, america. So when they vote its actually the country voting, so congress can't just go do what it wanted because its responsible to the people and the constitution. While corporations are only responsible to their share holders, while they use their billions in profits by taking advantage of the system to write the laws that we try and build to regulate then and protect us. But since we arnt all lawyers, we get screwed.
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the money is ours not the governments, they just hold and distribute it. Of course the person handling its going to try and change the deal after the fact, especially when we change people. Don't fall for it!
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Le_Dark_Flower
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sex
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t5_2qh3p
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c7ayoba
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1.) I think celestialism hit it on the head. I think your examples of "unwarranted downvoting" all deserved the downvotes they got for their own individual reasons. I also agree with fui765 who said that this is your personal criteria of posting, and I don't think it's fair to be pushing it on others. Frankly, I dislike it very much, and I reserve my right to downvote whoever I please for whatever reason is suitable to me and my criteria for posting. You may do the same for you.
2.) I don't see why the big fuss in the first place. Downvotes and upvotes are a non-verbal way for people to communicate if they like that person's comment or not instead of replying to every comment they agree or disagree with (which, by the way, people occasionally get downvoted for saying that they agree with someone's post, or for disagreeing with someone's post so apparently there is no winning here, is there)? The thing you seem to be advising in your earlier discussion with irnec is not to jump to conclusions on seeing someone's post that you want to downvote. You seem to be advising us to stick around a look for the context in which the comment was written if it isn't clear. Part of Reddit is about communication skills. People get downvoted for bad spelling or grammar, so if someone does not adequately communicate the context of their post, why shouldn't they be downvoted for not communicating clearly? If you miscommunicate in a normal conversation, there is usually some kind of social consequence as a result. That's when you go back and explain what you meant more clearly, just as some Reddit users do when they see they are being downvoted. This action sometimes turns their downvotes into upvotes. But it's not the rest of our jobs to interpret a potential miscommunication that may not actually be there in the first place. It is up to those of us that post to get our point across as clearly and helpfully as we can before hitting the "save" button. A faux pas results in downvotes. It's part of life. Oh well. It's a little blue down arrow next to your comment. Not life changing, and it really shouldn't be this big of a deal.
With that being said, I don't think downvoting is rude. In fact, I personally think downvoting is nicer than commenting on why you have to agree or disagree, because some people can't take criticism and get butthurt or lash out when someone has a different opinion from theirs. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, so why cause the drama of fighting about yours or mine? I downvote instead of starting an argument or a debate, because if the downvoted "victim" stands back and analyzes his comment again as compared to other upvoted comments, he should be able to guess why enough people don't like or disagree with his statement to put him into the negative points. That isn't going to change his feelings on the subject if he truly believes in his opinion, right? So what does it matter? He believes one thing, and others disagree, and downvoted to say so. Life goes on.
Now, If he says something outlandishly wrong or offensive, or if I have helpful information to contribute, I will. But if I have nothing to say on the matter other than that I do not like or disagree with their post, I won't waste my time saying so. I will downvote and be on my way. Some people are nicer when they choose to keep their mouths shut and pick their battles wisely. I can bet that if people did what you want them to and started saying why they disagreed with someone else instead of downvoting, there would be more disagreements and more aggressive, rude exchanges, because people don't like being contradicted, and it only takes one thing being said for someone to get offended and cause the discussion to escalate into a fight.
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I disagree for a few reasons. I will continue to downvote as I have been according to my own criteria of what is good and bad, and you can downvote according to yours, but please don't push it on me. Because the rules of this subreddit give no criteria for upvoting and downvoting, it is up to each individual to decide how they will vote and for what reasons, and I reserve that ability.
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RLutz
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wow
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t5_2qio8
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c7cdhl5
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First, I'd like to say it's currently a lot harder to get to 2200 than it was previously. When I achieved Arena Master in WotLK on my ret paladin, 2200 was the mark of a pretty damn good player, but it was no where near gladiator. Now, on my battlegroup, 2250 or so is gladiator in 3's. This is due to several things, one being lower participation, the other being lack of inflation because it's so early still.
To your specific questions:
>Do dks still have a place in rbgs and arenas?
In RBG's, yes. Last week, before the demo lock nerf, almost every 2200+ RBG team was running something similar to 3 heals, 1 FC, 2 mage, 2 lock, 1/2 FDK, 0/1 spriest. After the nerf, you see shadow priests becoming more common, but a target calling DK will have no trouble finding his way into an RBG group. High damage + best initiator in the game = DK's will always have a spot in RBG.
In arenas, DK's are currently pretty bad. They pump out a lot of damage, but have very little control and pretty much no peals (lolgnaw). It's still possible to TSG to 2200, but if you're not glad-caliber, it probably won't happen.
Since you mention you have a ret paladin, I'd say that ret is much better in arena currently than a DK. We have a handful of comps all viable at 2200, ret/feral/rsham being the best, ret/enhance/rdruid is good too, ret/spriest/X, ret/mage/X, even ret/warrior/rdruid works. We have a good bit of offhealing, good burst, and good utility, which means we can do okay in arena.
In RBG, ret is pretty undesirable currently. I find I'm able to easily float around 2100 rating as ret running with 3 heals, 1 FC, me as ret, 2 mage, 1 spriest, 1 lock, 1 FDK, but getting to 2200 was a lot harder (I actually did it early in the season as holy lol).
Finding arena teams is tough, especially if you don't have credentials. I can link things like arena master and stuff and get tons of whispers even on a medium pop server, but if you don't even have 3's company 2k, not many people will want to take a chance on you.
RBG's are a little easier to get into, especially as a DK. You should try making level 1 alts on large servers (Tich if horde, KT if alliance) and spamming. Pugging is not very fun, but if you do it for long enough you'll slowly be able to build up a list of competent players and move together as a group.
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2200 is a lot harder to get than it used to be. Whereas it used to represent a highly skilled player, it currently represents almost glad cutoff in 3's. 2200 in RBG is currently a lot easier to get than in arenas, but can be all but impossible if you aren't running a desired spec (thankfully FDK's are in demand).
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Chaipod
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leagueoflegends
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t5_2rfxx
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c7cw1sb
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In regards to Diana, although her clear times are top notch and her potential is amazing, her potential is being wasted in the jungle. She's much better at trading, scales better with good farm and items, and, overall, belongs in mid lane more than jungle. She doesn't fit the meta of a "tanky DPS bruiser" in the jungle that really defines the jungle role atm.
I use a custom rune page on her (Armor marks, Mana Regen seals, Flat AP Quints, Flat MR Glyphs) when I tried jungling her.
When comparing her to Lee Sin and Nocturne, the biggest issue I see with her is dueling. Nocturne and Lee Sin are both AMAZING duelists in the jungle, able to 1v1 almost any champion in the game succesfully; whereas, champions like Diana and Darius, who have amazing clear times and base damage, are not duelists and more traders who belong in lane.
Lee Sin, Skarner, and Maokai are all amazing picks. If I would recommend a jungler for S3 right now, it would be Nocturne. Farm till 6 and abuse new jungle farm after 11 minutes, then get free kills with your ultimate as you hit 6 before anyone else in the game.
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Diana trades better than she duels and does better in mid lane where she can maximize her roam potential and itemization.
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Chaipod
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leagueoflegends
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t5_2rfxx
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c7d1leo
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Let's go through some basic assumptions then. Let's assume the following things.
Games are different with different champions and different abilities on either sides.
You can't control how much specific damage your team will do to the buff, vice-versa with the enemy buff, with 100% predictability.
Under those two assumptions, it's safe to say that by getting damage on early buff and wolves; it would create irregular data. Irregular data is pointless and unreliable.
So, the only way we can get standardized data which can be used to compare junglers would be to get it without any other factors. This way junglers' ability, albeit not entirely practical, will be compared with another junglers' ability on an equal level.
In regards to how the data can be interpreted effectively, it can be used to address how changes to jungle can effect clear times, or which junglers use the least amount of health to do camps, or which junglers deal the most damage, or which junglers can be the most reliable even when occasions where you don't get a leash arise.
Of course, you can make an argument that the data can't be used to address viability; however, there are often times that junglers may have to do buffs themselves without the team in the case of a jungle defence / scout / late invade (often done by pro teams). In these cases, knowing which junglers can successfully clear a jungle safely without dieing to camps is extremely helpful.
Moreover, the data can be used to compare how junglers fair against other junglers in terms of clear time. Assuming junglers get the SAME leash, then junglers should be able to clear JUST as fast or faster than without a leash. Clear times can just be subtracted from how much time was reduced from the leash on both sides. If the argument is made that one jungler gets a really strong pull and the other jungler gets a really weak pull, then that's an uncontrollable factor in the equation that's incalculable.
If you have good understanding of clear times, even with a leash you can use it to your advantage. Although you won't get an ABSOLUTE time (which is impossible due to initial assumptions), you'll be able to get an approximate time.
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Common Sense + Data = No Leash Clear Times.
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compengineerbarbie
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nfl
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t5_2qmg3
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c7dj78m
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I KNOW I'm not allowed to complain in /r/nfl, or in general, because I'm a Patriots fan, but the 3 games we lost were by 2, 1, and 1. Okay, that sounded douchier than I intended...just saying they were close, and I don't feel confident.
You are right, technically. I should feel less heart attacks than you. I kind of accumulate all of my Celtics/Patriots/Red Sox current and previous seasons into my sensations, though.
I like Romo, more than most (I'd gather), and I think he really shows up sometimes. I will say, however, that once in a while, I see this look in Brady's eyes, and I feel like...he is about to charge down that mother fucking field, and it's probable that no one will stop him. And that feels pretty good...except when it doesn't happen. :(
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Sorry for complaining about heart attacks. Still, I think this will be a tough game, and I am scared.
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umybrobro
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nfl
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t5_2qmg3
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c7dlvaz
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I grew up not understanding or caring for football at all despite my family being die-hard Giants fans. I liked the energy they put into watching big games when I'd go and visit my cousins, but my dad was more of a passive fan and I think his lethargy passed onto me.
I'm from Philadelphia, and growing up I was given an amazing amount of shit for not liking the Eagles. Not because I liked the Giants, because I didn't give a fuck about the Eagles . I'd watch the Eagles play and find myself rooting for them, but I was torn when I'd watch them play the Giants - I couldn't tell which team I wanted to win. As I got older and started understanding and enjoying the game more, however, the Giants got better and better, whereas the Eagles sort of stagnated. This did not go over well with my school at whole and close group friends alike.
I know not every Eagles fan is like this, especially not on this forum, but the fan base at whole has left a bad taste in my mouth concerning the franchise. I empathize with Andy Reid for taking a relatively bad team to a top 5 franchise and I can't say that I dislike the team itself, but god damn it I hate the majority of Eagles fans.
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Philadelphia ruined the Eagles for me, Giants through family
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RedditAntelope
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relationships
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t5_2qjvn
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c7emzpp
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And this is kind of a happy update so its a bit of a change for this subreddit.
Emphasis on kind of .
> I talked to Cooper, guy to guy and I relayed what everyone here said about how it was legally child porn and the risks he was taking. He was a little bit in denial but I chewed him out and told him to wake up and stop fucking around. Which he did after a couple days. He hasn't talked to either of the girls in two weeks and he is ashamed of what he did now.
This guy has a girlfriend but he is there is something in him that is going to pick up on immature 16 year olds? Legal issues aside, this speaks to a bit of a problem with this guy, to say the least.
But back to the legal issues, does this idiot realize that [the statute of limitations has been removed for the acts he has been committing]( If either of those girls chooses to report him, it doesn't matter when, his life could be destroyed. From now until the day he dies, he'll be living with this hanging over his head.
What's more, this douchebag involved you in that mess. You committed crimes to by making out a legal child, intentionally or not. (I have a friend who sat on a jury where they threw a twenty-something guy into prison for kissing a legal child, following that girl deciding to screw him over.) Though I have no idea what the statute of limitations is on what you did. He's pretty screwed, though: He's in an unbelievably precarious position.
> He just got carried away and he was having jittery feet because his girlfriend is expecting a proposal and he is sort of unsure. He just snapped and things got out of control. He regrets the cheating so much and he says its behind him. He asked me not to talk about it with Anna, and i'm going to respect that request.
Look, when people have jittery feet, they may break up with people or freak out, but not before they've even ASKED. And they definitely don't usually run off and commit several crimes by furnishing drugs to minors, making child pornography, and having sex with legal children.
This guy has problems that go waaaaay beyond simple jittery feet and any attempt to over-simplify this issue as such, is ignoring those real issues. This guy needs therapy, stat. F-ck, IDK. Or a walkabout in Australia. Or time meditating with Buddhist monks in the Himalayas. Seriously though, these problems he has will NOT go away unless he identifies them and fixes them. He will just channel his negative energy into another inappropriate outlet,guaranteed.
And YOU, OP.... you need to get the f--k away from this guy. He's already tricked you into committing crimes for which there may not be any statute of limitations..... He's not your best friend. He's a damn time bomb.
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Shit. Your "best friend" is a guy with internal problems that has led him to act in incredibly inappropriate ways. He is in a race to the bottom and needs help. What's worse, he has shown that he's going to take you along for the ride: he's committed crimes for which there is no statute of limitations and you may have, too. Get away from him before he ruins your life.
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Erithom
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politics
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t5_2cneq
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c7ftuqo
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If you know what an order of magnitude is, then you should know that an increasingly large number of increasingly small things adds up to something tangible. Or did you learn those big words in general science and not make it to calculus because you were proud enough of yourself already?
Words from the article that you didn't read:
>Well, maybe not a way out. But definitely a way forward. [...] A policy shift that would not only save cash, but also act as a trust-building, goodwill-generating building block toward larger, harder and more essential partisan compromise.
From what you said, you actually did make it that far, but I guess you just ignored it because you wanted something to complain about. Try the next paragraph:
>A fantastic interactive map at Deadspin estimates that the total cost to the public of the 78 pro stadiums built or renovated between 1991 and 2004 was nearly $16 billion. That’s enough to build three Nimitz-class nuclear-powered aircraft carriers. Or fund, in today’s dollars, 15 Saturn V moon rocket launches -- three more than the number of launches in the entire Apollo/Skylab program. It’s also more than what Chrysler received in the Great Recession-triggered auto industry bailout ($10.5 billion), and bigger than the 2010 GDP of 84 different nations.
See that? Our scale has moved up into the billions. Yes, with a B.
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If you're not going to bother to read the article, don't bother to comment on it and then be a little bitch when people don't take your shit
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Guru6969
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relationships
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t5_2qjvn
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c7gns2c
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I know for a fact that women can be sneaky bitches and "forget" to take their birth control intentionally. Maybe the first time was a mistake if you broke up and she was depressed or whatever and figured "what's the point" and stopped taking it, but the second time sounds ridiculous. The doctors explicitly explain how it works, and talk about period irregularity and all of that.
I have a good friend who's now stuck with 3 children because of a similar situation as yours. He conveyed to his wife that he wanted to remain childless at least until later in life when they were both extremely well established in their careers, and perhaps indefinitely - basically the point was that having children was a very low priority for him. She agreed to respect his wishes, but it was no secret that she really wanted kids.
Anyway about a year after they married my friend tells me she was pregnant somehow even though she was on the pill, and he had to relocate for a new job to afford the new mouth to feed. About a year after that she's pregnant again, and once again he tells me she was on the pill so he had no idea how this happened, and she apparently didn't either and just kept saying "it must have been the 0.01%!!!" (LOL) anyway eventually it comes out from a mutual friend of a friend that my buddies wife had told one of her girlfriends in confidence that she went off the pill to have a baby both times. My buddy ended up finding out after the first two were born and he was pretty furious about the whole thing but stayed with her. Now they have a third, which I believe he said was planned (he has given up his old views at this point.)
I feel really bad for him in a lot of ways. He's an intelligent guy for the most part, extremely career driven. He had a tough childhood and he struggled to try and build his future despite coming from a poor uneducated family (had to work full-time while going to college, no free rides or anything.) He got his degree and found a pretty good job with a fairly big company, he married a pretty girl who he seemed to truly love, basically everything was working out for him. Then his wife decided the best course of action was to be selfish and do what she wanted despite her significant others wishes - she didn't talk it over with him or get approval for it, she just did it. I mean don't get me wrong, he loves his kids, but he has also told me that it's not the life he imagined and he regrets the direction things went for him.
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friend now has 3 children at age 28 when he didn't intend to have any until age ~35-40 if ever at all due to wife pretending to be on the pill when she had actually stopped taking it.
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GrahamNorthman
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leagueoflegends
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t5_2rfxx
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c7i8wk8
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Enjoyed the TSM invitational immensly (enough to subscribe), due in no small part to the incredibly entertaining casting crew that kept it running so smoothly. The ARAM's that filled the time between matches were often as entertaining and fun to watch (and listen to) as the matches themselves. So I'm glad that you wrote a post here where I could conveniently express my thanks.
I understand that things are changing up a bit in S3, but I can only hope that there will be events where you and the rest of the invitational crew will be able to contribute to the game.
Without trying to feed the trolls, I don't understand why this thread is being downvoted at all. If you didn't watch the invitational and don't know the casters, you can just leave this thread be, having a variety of announcers beyond Phreak, Deman, Joe "Joe Miller" Miller, Jatt, and Rivington should not be threatening. These guys brought a style to the game that was unique and fun, whether or not you watch much of the NA scene. I don't take a steaming pile on posts about Arenaea's recent casting or Fnatic roster change posts simply because I don't follow their scene and feel they don't deserve to clutter up my front page.
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Solomid Series was great, casting was fantastic, Wombat and crew please cast more in S3. Haters gonna hate, especially if their hate stems from admitted ignorance.
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illadelph13
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leagueoflegends
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t5_2rfxx
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c7iix8j
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Ok are you guys actually serious in saying he talks too much? People troll 10 times harder then this, and I think it's funny personally. Ok yeah I get people who troll and suck, but this guy isn't a toxic player. Since when was it smart or efficient to be anti-social in league? Especially when /all chat is bumping with hilarious jokes. The point of the game is to have fun, and if you lose focus because other people are typing in chat... bad player is bad.
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not guilty, typing a lot is fine, if you can't focus because of pings you are a scrub.
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bender0877
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nfl
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t5_2qmg3
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c7kseh6
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The problem with our TE coverage is the issue that needs the most attention. The other things I mentioned were more for the future. Obviously, our number 1 rival in the AFC is the Pats. Realistically, we need 3 good coverage guys to be on Hernandez and Gronk. Also, Brandon Lloyd has been killer for them when they need him. I think Champ will do his job keeping him locked down, but he is still a threat.
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you're right, but damn the Pats are scary on the offensive side of the ball
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fourth_down_surprise
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nfl
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t5_2qmg3
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c7kkd47
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Efficiency doesn't scale linearly with attempts. The reason is that yards gained and attempts are not independent variables, and even worse, averages are skewed by outliers in the data points. I wouldn't make any decisions based on averages for this reason. Let's look deeper.
First you have to consider that 10% of his total rushing yardage occurred on his top 2 plays, both against the Jets in week 1, who apparently hadn't implemented tackling that early in the season.
Look at his top 5 plays, and that's 22% of his rushing yards for the season.
The reason I'm looking at the Top 5 and not the Top 3 or Top 6 is because those 5 plays are respectively 3.5, 3.8, 4.1, 4.7, and 5.4 standard deviations away from his mean, which doesn't give me much confidence that they are easily repeatable.
In a season with 160 carries I would expect to see less than 1% of carries outside of 3 std. deviations, not around 3% of his carries.
When I can explain that odd situation by the fact that the other 3 plays occurred against the #28, #29, and #31 rushing defenses (DVOA), the picture becomes more clear.
His "Most efficient of all time" Yards Per Carry statistic is much more likely a function of bad defenses and outliers in small sample sizes than his skill. But even without those his YPC of 5.2 is still very good and that is definitely reflective of his skill.
The statistical argument for Spiller based on YPC is overstated. That being said, it's not overstated enough to stop him being Buffalo's best option on the ground.
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Buffalo should give him more touches, but they should also not expect his YPC to stay anywhere near as high as it is.
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GAIL_CINDER
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leagueoflegends
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t5_2rfxx
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c7n5xp8
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False the first thing i did after seeing the login queue time was come to this site and look for other people having the same issue as well as try to gain knowledge on why the time was so long. Whole also learning that ranked queue is down after making it through the queue. ](
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yes there is a point
edit: format
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MagmaGuy
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gaming
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t5_2qh03
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c7paqrv
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How did WoW kill the company? As far as money goes, it's probably one of the most profitable games ever. As far as audience goes, they quite literally had over 9 million players paying 10+$ (or whatever the price is, I can't be bothered to remember exactly) for YEARS. It didn't stop them from developing Starcraft II and it's expansion, it didn't stop them from developing Diablo III (and it's expansion), and it most likely won't stop them from developing WC4 and it's expansion. If anything, it probably helped them - a lot - to finance those projects that quite literally take years and untold millions to develop.
I am glad WoW exists - I played it for a few years during bc-lk then moved on to other games, such as scII and diablo 3. I am currently waiting for the starcraft II expansion to come out, if the campaign is halfway as good as the terran's campaign, I am probably going to spend a few dozen hours trying to beat it on brutal and doing challenges.
I really fail to understand what you tried to insinuate there. If you dislike a game, don't play it. If you want a new game from Blizzard, keep in mind that it takes year to develop, they have several different games to focus on and it's not exactly free.
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WoW helps, Blizzard still develops all games, if you want quality wait for it, stop hating on games you don't like and whining.
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alkapwnee
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gaming
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t5_2qh03
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c7pavkb
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But that isn't the case. As far as an RTS goes, BW is VASTLY superior in balance/fun to watch. The unbeatable build of last week was only one gosu player away from being today's refuse. I still play the fuck out of WoL, though, and got invited very early into the HotS beta. Though, I agree d3 was pretty crappy for being 6 years in development. In any case, I fear the old blizzard we knew and loved...died...somewhere in the decade between then and now they changed, and I feel both a great deal of anticipation and fear of the atrocity that WC4 could be.
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metzen-esque.
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sexyhamster89
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gaming
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t5_2qh03
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c7pd8vg
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do you realize that i'm playing LoL constantly and don't have time to read what you type?
i mean, it's strange to me that you take this so seriously... i browse reddit literally 15-30 second at a time. you seem to treat this like a job
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i don't care what you have to say
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Sdonai
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gaming
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t5_2qh03
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c7pn8ks
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I'm doing a video game a month and I've never played this game. Give me the
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on it
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asianwaste
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gaming
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t5_2qh03
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c7rv6bt
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Okay it all depends on what you are looking for in a game.
If you are expecting GTA style elements but on the other side of the law, then forget it. While they are there, these are the weakest elements of the game. In fact I would dare say that the way the game is structured, they would have done better simply making it a closed instanced environment with menu based traveling over the persistent world.
If you like story, the game has it in great spades. The performance of the voice actors and the writing is well delivered.
The mystery solving elements are a tad off. Some of the areas are somewhat deus ex machina and some areas are just really vague. The interview mechanic is the prime part of the game. It is great and greatly flawed at the same time. You have 3 choices to make that are poorly labeled: TRUTH, DOUBT, and LIE.
These are not actions are they are how you should respond to the recent testimony. The point is to look at the facial expressions, mannerisms, etc. and compare it to what was said. If you feel someone is telling the truth, you would give the TRUE choice and ride with that testimony and encourage they continue with what they just said. If you feel they are telling only a half truth, you use the DOUBT choice. Now caution this is not a gentle urge to tell more, but a forceful press on the person often making threats of jail time and even injury. It can be explosive and comes out of nowhere. When you know the person is lying and you have evidence to prove, you choose LIE and provide proof based on evidence you have thus far collected.
The problem is that it's sometimes very difficult to tell which is the right answer. It's often easier to detect a truthful testimony but it's far more difficult at times to determine whether to doubt or use your evidence on a lie. Half the time when you are supposed to use doubt, the testimony is a flat out lie and you have the evidence to prove it and yet it would still be the wrong answer because you were supposed to use doubt in this part first.
The game was still fun, it was refreshing to have a detective mystery game but they could have perfected the crime solving elements better. I would have personally used a preview dialog system similar to Deus Ex or Mass Effect over their vague interview system. If they are to use a persistent world, I would have not cut the series up into an episodic format and more of a character perspective narrative.
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Get the game on sale. Pay no more than $10 but shoot for $5.
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absurdamerica
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politics
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t5_2cneq
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c7sns7e
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in 2004 131,113,969 tax returns were filed in the USA. If each one used the 15$-30$ tax software BAM big NUMBER = $1,966,709,535 to $3,933,419,070
Don't quit your day job. Go look up the difference between and above the line and below the line deduction and then realize that most households don't have enough in below the line deductions to actually make it worth itemizing this kind of deduction.
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Your example is awful, it would only cost a fraction of the amount specified if everyone took this deduction below the line, and most people wouldn't because it would cost them more to itemize than to take the standard deduction anyway.
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GiveItHere
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politics
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t5_2cneq
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c7spm44
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The main problem in Washington can be boiled down to two things: Lobbyists and campaign contributions. They are further corrupting an already corrupt system. Lobbyists are paid to influence our elected officials and help influence the design of laws which benefit their clients often at the expenses of the American People. Certain unnecessary subsidies and the design of laws like SOPA which reward big business/special interest groups and run counter to the benefit of the people would never even be attempted were it not for the influencing of lobbyists and huge corporate/special interest group campaign contributions. How can we expect our elected officials to do the will of the people when these groups, more or less, bribe politicians to make sure they put their clients desires ahead of the electorates? There needs to be serious campaign reform and dissolving of the lobbys.
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Lobby groups and out of control contributions are the main problems in Washington and need to be addressed at their core
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fingurdar
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politics
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t5_2cneq
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c7t2o6l
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According to the original proposal, one can only assume that stocks and bonds would both be taxed. But let's assume that the author of the article is misinformed, and that equity transactions will be the only thing taxed.
First of all, I agree that a financial transaction tax that excludes bonds is not nearly as egregious. But think about the effect this will have on the markets.
Companies have to make the decision between raising money for operations via equity (stock) versus debt (bonds). A tax on stock transactions will lead to a decrease in the quantity demanded of equity, causing decreases in the price of equity across the board. The DOW and S&P would take a nasty hit, which could adversely affect investor confidence. On the other hand, investors will turn to bonds as an alternative, leading to an increase in quantity demanded of bonds and an increase in price. This increase in price of bonds will hurt the middle class, not just savvy rich hedge fund investors.
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My point is, the tax (just like any other tax) will be passed on to the investor - you and me. Will a tax on equity only send the market into a tail-spin? No, of course not. But it will put additional financial strain on everybody, most definitely including the middle class.
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marw1n
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leagueoflegends
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t5_2rfxx
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c7trict
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Ok, I might get downvoted for this, seeing as I posted earlier but it's so far down so it feels like it won't get noticed, apologies Aristite for using your comment to make it shown. But here it goes:
First off, I have not played Jungle Shyvana s3 so I have nothing to add and/or complain about there, I will just have to take your word for it.
Secondly, I mildly disagree with you about the top lane weakness. After around 10 games (not a great number for empirical data, but bare with me please, I haven't played her since s2 until last week) against various champs, I have over 12 kills, less than 5 deaths and over 15 assists on a game average, haven't lost lane once. I do not intend to boast, just putting it out there for some data. Loads of times(not all) you can adapt to the lane by items, especially now with the new items, and don't hesitate to ask for an early gank if you feel that the enemy champion will counter you.
>W pushes the lane SUPER hard
3 things to take into account:
Wards wards wards. I cannot emphasize this enough, wards saves lives.
Whole point of W is just that, pushing. By putting pressure on their top laner, he must either sacrifice turret or ask for help (a lot like Singed's purpose). Once enemy toplaner get enough sustain, the lane will just become a null state which makes your worry fade.
*By pushing it up to their turret, you're free to either steal some jungle or gank mid by going through their jungle. By doing this enough times you're forcing them to either ward both tribush and river (if you're blue side), or they will be forced to act by going to golem (if you're purple side). That's not a lot I know, but every ward costs gold (unless jungler with Sightstone puts ward for the top laner). Just make sure you have escape options ready (such as Dragonform, 100 seconds ain't that long cd, especially when you can reduce it by fighting).
>No sustain, terrible ranged poke
Although this is true, hitting the E is a lot like Lee's Q, maybe not have smartcast toggled? (assuming you have it on) Anyway, she's a fighter, she's meant to be up their ass, fisting as much as possible with her Claw(too brute?). With her mixed set of damage she should be able to somewhat trade, if you can calculate when it is worth it or not, many people tend to ignore the fact that minions also hurt for quite much early stage. W can help with that as it also drops the minions around. But alas! You had a legit arguement for this as well!:
>and enemies can easily punish Shyvana by running away while W is on and then jumping on her as soon as it ends.
Simply put: know your limits. When it's around 2 seconds left of W, turn around from your "chase", you will be back behind your minions by this time so if they jump you, you should have some coverage by minions. If they run back everytime you run towards them and using W, they will lose gold from minions if you execute it well i.e. when they're going to your minions to get the cs, which either forces them to take a few blows or they fall back and lose the cs.
>Allow Shyvana's E to hit every unit in a straight line/a cone in dragon form
Gonna assume you meant Human Form, as the dragon form already does it in a cone, which is the purpose of dragon form; to enhance the spell making it much more worth than being in human form.
Your third point about the impenetrable armor, I like it a lot.
How I start most of the times with her (toplane):
Masteries: 21/9/0
Runes: ArP reds, Armor yellows, mr/level blues, lifesteal quints.
Items: x2 Rejuvenation beads, 1 pot, 1 ward (CANNOT afford to die early game with her, unless enemy laner does too).
Items in general per game: Ravenous hydra(I actually rush this because it fits my playstyle to push then roam), boots varies depending on enemy team, Black Cleaver, Maw of malmortius/Wit's End, Trinity Force/Frozen mallet, Zephyr/Last Whisper/GA. Note: Yes, I do realize that I lack attack speed, I just value raw damage before quick hits, that way it doesn't matter if you can't catch up to people all the time in the chases, as long as you dish out more damage at once.
Item order: x2 Rejuvenation beads -> Vamp scepter -> level 1 boots -> Ravenous Hydra/level 2 boots, depending on what you face top, sometimes you need that ninja tabi -> Boots lvl 2 or Hydra, depending what you built before -> hexdrinker if you lane vs magic, brutalizer if you're against another bruiser -> Hexdrinker/brutalizer -> Black Cleaver -> Phage -> Maw of Malmortius/sell Hexdrinker buy Wit's End -> Last Whisper/Zephyr/GA -> Trinity Force/Frozen Mallet.
Youmuu's Ghostblade can be bought instead of Black Cleaver, I just prefer the extra health but definitely Ghostblade is a valid item, seeing its activation provides attack speed and its passive gives +10 more ArP than BC. 20 less damage though, personal preference what to pick in my opinion.
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Top lane should be ok. Don't fully agree to OP's arguements. Play smart. Adapt the game to the champ, don't adapt the champ to the game. You are not alone in this game; ask for help if help is needed. Wards.
Edit: I understand 10 games is very little amount of games and it's mostly normals (even worse I know, but around 1700 hidden elo, gotta count for something, right?). I wish I could've provided more games or statistics but at this point it is not possible, sorry.
Edit 2: Spelling, thanks Eldis.
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bleachlover20053
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leagueoflegends
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t5_2rfxx
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c7trqd9
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While on paper what you say sounds okay, but Shyvana is such a niche champion that will get countered hard if she goes top lane. Champions like Jayce will shut her down by out trading/kiting her. Shyv's strong point is her high damage, AOE quick clears with burnout and the movement speed. You are able to bully most top laners in the early level but by the time they turn lvl 6, shyvana will began to fall off b.c. even though shyv has the ability to bully, she lacks the method to zone them or set up ganks.
also the part i want to really pick on is how u compared landing Shyvana's E with Lee Sin's Q. While the same can be said about any skills that act as a linear missile, Lee Sin's Q i think has a bigger hit box due to the size of the orb and the animation adding 50units from its center (someone correct me if i'm wrong), making it much easier to hit. Even if u miss the enemy, u can use it as a gap closer if it hit a nearby enemy. And let's not forget the difference in damage out put.
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Shyvana in lane has early lane bully ability, but is cannot maintain her lead b/c of lack ability to zone or set up ganks, leading her to fall off quicker than her jungle counter part
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bluntCube
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leagueoflegends
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t5_2rfxx
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c7tj8h8
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People who get angry at their teammates for no identifiable, logical reason. I was playing recently as a top lane Zed against Vi and Kayle, eventually Vi left for bot and Darius left to follow them, of course, I lost my lane to Kayle because of her superior range and poke. I was going 3/0/3 at the time, not terrible, I reckoned, then our 0/8/1 Sejuani, who's been wandering into enemy territory all game and feeding, comments on how it's "2v1 top and lost your lane, patetic top" (written just like that too). Normally, I don't listen to flamers, but for some reason, this really annoyed me.
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players who do exceptionally bad and blame their teammates, ignoring logic.
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Noelicious
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leagueoflegends
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t5_2rfxx
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c7to7kv
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Not participating in team chat during champ select. Okay, so you're second pick and I'm #5. If you want top, just say so. Don't be a dick and insta lock whatever you want. Also be respectful to you possibly forcing someone in to a role they're really bad at. I mean we were all just chatting about roles for at least 30 seconds during bans.
I've had too many games where I asked for top, no response. Excellent, it's mine. Wait.. This guy just locked Darius. Jungle? But #4 asked for jungle. So... what's happening? We ask what role.
Pick#2> top
Me> But I called top
Pick#2> First pick, you can adc
Well, thanks you your inability to chat during all this, I'm now forced in to my possibly second to worst role, only behind AP mids. I can almost promise you we'll lose botunless our support is Xpecial caliber.
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Just use the chat. If you want top, say so. Let us talk it out. If you say you're first pick (before me) and want it, at least I can maybe trade "up" to a role I'm more comfortable and beneficial in.
And no, I didn't "feed their adc because I was mad I didn't get top". I'm a baddie and I know it. At least I know this.
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uria13
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leagueoflegends
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t5_2rfxx
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c7tq1na
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Being a top lane main and seeing other people on my team trying to top with ghost plus exhaust which ONLY/or never works with SPECIFIC champions (nobody used exhaust top because escaping from ganks with flash so you don't feed is more important and ignite is a must because even if your champ sucks in lane vs their's, you at least have a chance to kill them if they go full retard) and my ad carry bitch at me for teaching someone to play better. My top was obviously feeding for real while the enemy top was being the ultimate raid boss due to lane dominance in summoners.
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If you're top(and blind pick) and you're not Singed, Vlad, Volibear,Olaf...etc (someone who has real synergy)etc , always take flash and ignite.
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Baconpwner
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leagueoflegends
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t5_2rfxx
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c7tqwj6
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I had a game where I was Ashe and playing a defensive lane because the enemy miss fortune killed me for first blood. Anyway I want to back, so I push the lane and go to bush to recall. I type in "shopping brb". After I get to the base the jungler comes into the bot river bush. He said nothing about coming bot, so I figure he just wants to wait till I get back. Nope he just jumps in after the enemy comes back to the lane. I fire my enchanted arrow towards the ruckus, because I'm way to far away to do anything else and I wanted to help. Our taric goes in and stuns the enemy soraka while the retreating miss fortune is being chased down by our jungler. The arrow comes and hits soraka (fuck yeah noscope) but taric doesn't have the damage to finish her. Our jungler takes 2 tower hits before coming back to try to secure soraka's kill, but the enemy shaco comes bot and helps soraka escape after soraka ults. Miss fortune comes back and taric and our yi get caught in her ultimate. By this time I'm back in the lane, but theres not much I can do. I shoot a volley of frost arrows towards them while my team runs away, but Miss fortune picks up a kill on our jungler. Yi rages and says that I wasn't there for the gank. Swears that I fed miss fortune because she got first blood, and he swears at me for not being in the fight, and tells everyone on the team that he will never gank bot again.
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Master Yi goes in for a gank when I'm not there and complains that I didn't help him when he dies
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Dark_magician_girl
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leagueoflegends
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t5_2rfxx
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c7tpa6z
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1) My biggest pet peeve HAS to be when someone does terrible (enemy or ally) and they blame their team.
examples:
"Maybe if [jungler] ganked more, id do better"
"Gg bot fed thats why i went 0/10"
"Support didnt shield me wtf"
I mean, take responsibility for yourself. It's no ones job to baby sit you, don't play game if you can't lane without being babysat. I pretty much only go mid lane, and I usually do really well without junglers help, so when enemy mid laner blames their jungler for why they did bad themselves, it pisses me off.
2) I also hate assholes on that game in general. Work with your team, dont insult them and throw the game because they gave a few kills.
and 3) when you CALL A ROLE IN TEAM SELECT AND SOMEONE INSTALOCKS IT ANYWAY AND SAYS "TOO BAD"
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i hate when 1) people blame others for their own feeding, 2) people are assholes, 3) instalockers
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BlackKnighter
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dating_advice
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t5_2s4kl
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c7u8tmb
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First, well done on your gym and nofap commitments. It really puts you on a good path.
When you talk about trust issues, you've got it framed through the lens of the behaviour of the women. What I think it really means is a lack of trust in two other areas:
1) You've lost confidence in your ability to choose 'good' women from the 'bad' ones.
2) You don't trust that if any particular woman works out that you will be happy and move on, perhaps to find a better woman.
It also shows a bit of insecurity that you might not be worth liking. For a person with strong self-esteem, when someone says 'I like you', your immediate thought isn't 'Why would you like me? Are you lying to me?', its 'Of course you do..' or 'Great'.
Looking at your age, this isn't uncommon at all. I was a foreveralone until I was 24 and I had similar problems (in particular accepting compliments, which I always thought were an attempt to manipulate me).
The good news is that you're already doing what you should be doing; working on yourself. Smashing the gym and doing other activities is where internal esteem comes from. You can reinforce this by surrounding yourself with good friends and family who genuinely care about you and who you can talk about your problems with.
I wish /u/tothecore was here, because he can explain these things much better than I can. To get down into psychology, people generally choose people with matching security levels for relationships. So insecure people will end up with insecure people. Insecure people are more likely to cheat, be unstable in their affections and a whole bunch of other things that relate to what you've said you don't like about these women's behaviour.
With luck, by working on yourself and making yourself more grounded, confident and secure you will not only attract more secure women, you will also give less fucks when you come across insecure women who breach your trust. You will not see their flaky behaviour as a reflection of your worth and you will not 'need' them or their approval of you to complete yourself. Frankly you'll just see the games, shrug your shoulders and go off to smash the gym with your mates and prowl for a new girl.
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Keep working on yourself, surround yourself with good friends and your thinking will change.
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candidlol
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leagueoflegends
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t5_2rfxx
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c7tzmrx
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Scarra played like shit in a game with TheRainMan and scapegoated TRMs nonstandard build.
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in solo queue its never your own fault.
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TheComboBreaker
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Games
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t5_2qhwp
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c7uso2b
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He interrupts too much, simple as that. Gives a fake laugh when he's attempting a joke, then repeats the "punchline" at least 3 times before someone gets the discussion back. Add to this asinine arguements (He complained that Zombie U didn't deserve a game of the year award for "IT'S CALLED ZOMIBE U GUYS! ZOMBIE U").
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He cuts down in Vinny/Jeff time.
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Darkjediben
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nfl
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t5_2qmg3
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c7vo9p3
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Let me ask you THIS: When was the last time Brady put millions of Americans out of a job? MAYBE IF PEYTON WOULD LISTEN TO PAPA JOHN, HE WOULDN'T HAVE TO SEND OUT THE EXTRA MILLION FREE PIZZAS AND COULD AFFORD TO EMPLOY ALL THOSE PEOPLE FULL TIME WITH HEALTHCARE!!!!
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Peyton Manning destroys American jobs.
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Shockum
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wow
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t5_2qio8
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c7vdnk6
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I'll say it like this, and it's been said by some friends of mine who I'm in a guild with from another game (SW:TOR).
I played WoW from Feb 2005 - Feb 2011. There were some breaks here and there. But, in 2011 I had it. I had my moments that made the game the best...still can remember A LOT of them. But slowly the game was just becoming more and more boring. Friends I had made over the years in WoW had moved on. I might log on to raid and that would be it. The community aspect of the game was falling by the wayside.
And that brings me to now, almost 2 years since I quit. A few guys in my guild had been expressing interest in the game. All were sharing stories and so on. So, before Christmas we slowly started making our way back.
Found a high pop server, and started leveling and gearing up for 10 man. WoW is fun again. For us, it was just about the community. The game isn't that great alone.
But, I'm not too sold on the way they handle talents. I loved experimenting with the tress. The way of grinding faction rep, is almost too painful. Revered with 1 to open up 2 others? It's nice to see the idea of tabards is out the window...that was annoyingly easy. I haven't tried LFR and hate the server community aspect is next to nothing with group finder.
I'm not going back onto a subscription with the game. I'll just buy timecards and go from there.
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To answer your question; it was simply just having people to play the game with again.
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Jmperea86
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wow
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t5_2qio8
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c7ve5l7
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Wow I didn't realize I missed all this stuff until I read your post. You are 100% right there is no feeling of danger in exploring an unknown area. It all seems the same fight, rinse, repeat.
Now on to reason I quit on a few occasions and also the reason I keep coming back. The people. It be the same every xpac. People would get all excited for the new stuff and I would have friends to play with. As time went on people slowly started dropping out until I was left alone. So since it was easier to stop playing than to find a new group to play with (especially on Khadgar) I would just walk away. But then I would start talking with friends a few months down the road and we would get the itch to play again.
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people or lack thereof are the reason I would quit.
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wcgaming
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wow
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t5_2qio8
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c7vghk3
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I agree with mostly everything everyone else has said, mainly re-balance pvp, make dailies not as important and stuff like that, but I really wish they had a like 24 hour pass or something (weekend pass sounds better), or pay for how long you played (up to 15 dollars (get an average of how long players actually play and find out the hourly cost)) sure there would be people playing a lot more, but it would still average out to about the same. And for things like the weekend pass I believe it should be cheap... like 2-3 bucks or something and it works friday night-sunday night for people who can only play on those days (they would still make almost the same amount of money from people who would only be playing like 8 days out of the month.
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A new payment method that is cheaper for people who can't play everyday of the month.
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ClassicFenton
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leagueoflegends
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t5_2rfxx
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c7wc1n3
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They implemented it a while ago but the forum was basicly flooded with threads to bring it back. So I'm afraid it won't happen.
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AHEHUEHUEHUHEUAH
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Indyaner
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gaming
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t5_2qh03
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c7yjtsp
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I'm with you.
Amazing how reddit really thinks that you could learn in depth historical facts from a videogame, right? Further up, someone said ["I actually felt very educated about colonial life because of AC3"]( I believe that he felt like this. In the same way people get the feeling of knowledge by watching TV where something is "explained". It's a common strategy to give people the reward of accomplishment.
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Hurdur, you don't need to study history or economics, just play AC3 and SimCity 3
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lolmanac
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leagueoflegends
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t5_2rfxx
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c7zb686
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so telling the truth is "witch hunting"?
and stating your very own opinion is "pitchforking"?
i don't think so.
imho this subreddit should follow the rules of democracy.
two very important characteristics of modern democracies are "freedom of speech" and "freedom of opinion".
by removing a legit post like destiny's (which just states facts), you clearly violate the rules of democracy. you violate such important rights like "freedom of speech" and "freedom of opinion".
it seems like this subreddit's mods do like to create their own "reality". by removing posts like destiny's you are clearly trying to control and manipulate the collective opinion of this subreddit's community.
this is a very dangerous thing you do here - and i can't believe you also try to justify what you did.
it seems like this subreddit's mods rather like to lead it like an aristocracy than like a democracy - with the mods themselves being the aristocrats who decide which opinion is legit for the community.
and if they decide that someone's opinion or post about a real experience is not legit, they are just gonna remove it.
"who controls the past, controls the future. who controls the present, controls the past......"
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this subreddit's mods like to handle it rather like an aristocracy than like a modern democracy. mods are clearly violating common rights like the "freedom of speech" and "freedom of opinion".
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SimplyClouded
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leagueoflegends
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t5_2rfxx
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c7zfjfv
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Here's an idea. How about we stop having a subreddit controlled by the mods, but by users. The users are the ones that post the content that is relevant to the subreddit. This is totally relevant to League of Legends. League of Legends is the most popular streamed game EVER.
Now that there are only 2 platforms upon which a new player can stream on, Destiny's article provides a very real world example. Not only the users streaming themselves but supporting their favourite streamers, how do they know that the subscription money they're giving is actually going to the streamer?
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Too many subreddits are 'run by the mods'. This is relevant content, let the users of the subreddit determine what we want on the front page by the upvote downvote system that's in place for that very reason.
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saece
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leagueoflegends
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t5_2rfxx
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c7z498p
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Can't we just get rid of these mods and get some new one's in make a rule that we are allowed to talk about stuff and never look back?!
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fuck these mods (ps in before being removed like seemingly all my comment replies end up recently)
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Slaughterfest
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leagueoflegends
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t5_2rfxx
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c7z4en2
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Gonna have to very much agree with Destiny on this one. He didn't ask for anyone to do anything towards Own3d.tv in his thread. All he did was post a cited page detailing how he wasn't paid for the work he did while in service of the streaming provider.
The fact that "Witch hunting" and "pitchforks" appeared in the thread is a result of other people, not Destiny himself. The correct response for the mods would be to actively watch the post, and delete anything that would be taken as "Witch hunting" (If you really want to delete anything at all).
I understand the desire to keep people from being doxxd, but this is a case where Destiny wasn't paid for months of work by a well-known streaming service, and he wanted all of /r/League to know about it. I imagine his motives were as simple as "Look at how awful these guys are screwing us!"
The people at own3d.tv are going to be harassed, one way or another. Probably more-so with the removal of Destiny's post, because now everyone who has been riled up has a reason to think that the Moderator's are defending own3d. If the fire gets bigger than it was before, it's on your heads.
In conclusion, i sincerely believe the mods made the wrong choice here. Not only does the /r/League community now have a "witch hunt" for own3d.tv, a few bad apples now have one for the Moderators of this subreddit. It wasn't a tactful move to broad-stroke the delete brush on the entire thread, because now its another problem completely.
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The mods made a tactfully woeful decision and have made themselves looking like they're defending own3d.tv, and now are reaping the consequences.
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Bonesie85
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leagueoflegends
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t5_2rfxx
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c7z4xor
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This is not setting a precedent to perform a witch hunt. This was a post to warn people about own3d. Both future streamers and viewers. Future streamers would like to be payed as well. And their lives, like Destiny's, depend on it. If a company is knowingly destroying people's lives, by not paying money that they own them, they deserve to get a public warning against them. Even more so, as a viewer I'll pay money and subscribe to a person's stream to support the streamer. I don't do that because I support own3d.
This means it's not solely in Destiny's interest to warn people about own3d. It's the entire community's interest. This means it's not a witch hunt. Destiny also provided sufficient data and evidence to back up his claims (skype logs, contract quotes etc). Can this evidence be falsified? Yes. But if so, it would only take 1 post from ow3d with their logs to undermine it. Own3d can provide a statement as well, just as much as Destiny can.
It doesn't matter whether this sets a precedent if it's something that's in the best interest of the community to know. It would be a witch hunt if Destiny posted this to pursue his own goals and his goal was to pressure them into doing something. It's not. It's about warning future streamers and viewers to be very careful with own3d. Destiny is trying to look out for the community, not for himself. therefor this should be widely known. Reddit is one of the ways to warn a giant portion of this community. It's not like Destiny is the first one warning about own3d. This stuff has been going on for quite a while now. It's been out there before, yet still nothing has changed.
This means it's fine if this sets a precedent. Because it's our interest at stake here. It's not like own3d can't defend themselves. They can. and the fact that they don't, says a lot.
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The Mods don't want to set a precedent for a witch hunt? That's fine. But this is not a witch hunt. It's the comunity's best interest at stake here.
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KingMJE
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leagueoflegends
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t5_2rfxx
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c7z6k77
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Let's start a witch hunt against triggs390 he's obviously being paid off by own3d.tv
The destiny thing is obviously not a witch hunt also with other streamers like dyrus, husky, and other prolific streamers confirming that this happens. It's a call to action to help stop this since the streamers themselves can't do anything since they don't have the money to take them to court. We need justice.
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Fight criminal companies, not justice.
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snackies
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leagueoflegends
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t5_2rfxx
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c7zc60d
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This subreddit has the worst moderation a subreddit can really have. Its not a new trend that the subreddit mods are completely isolated from the community. Occasionally it will get attention with the destiny post and when clakeydeeeeeeeeeee's AMA + stream promotion thread was removed with 1.2k upvotes...
But it just gets really frusturating that the moderators see this as THEIR community. Thats really the problem. Good moderators see their subreddit or community as someone elses community, and their job isn't to make the community what they want, but to allow the community to make itself (IE: with reddit we have the upvote and downvote buttons which determines generally speaking the content we like and don't like).
Occasionally if something gets out of hand and someone makes a thread about it, then maybe they can rule on that. Like back several months ago there was a comic contest that resulted in like 10/25 posts on the frontpage being comic contest fan art and stuff. But whether or not thats allowed, there were also complaint threads about it, which informed the moderators that maybe they should make some sort of rule or decision regarding that. But on these matters they start to make unilateral decisions based on solely their own opinions, and actually against the community will at the time.
If ClakeyDeeeeee makes an ama then his friend asks people to upvote it on his stream. You should probably not delete the ama unless someone posts a thread that gets attention calling him out for upvoting it. Thats how a reddit community can shape itself. Not by an oligarchy of mods who decide what is and isn't ok, but by community members who can join together and make mods aware of issues.
In this case the moderators decided that this was a "witch hunt" and based on the community reaction with this thread and the other thread re: "can I make a post saying "destiny" without it being removed?" thread. The moderators are DEAD wrong about what the community considers to be witch hunting. Whether they still believe that they are correct in saying its a witch hunt or not, the community disagrees. Whether or not they care now... thats the issue.
In my opinion they should care what we think. But they don't.
I know the community has gotten huge and hard to handle, but I honestly believe that the worst aspects of this community is the over-moderation.
I started to not really like this subreddit when it really did start turning into General Discussion. Its decisions like this that the moderators make that are ultimatly doing that.
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Moderators are making the subreddit into what they want rather than what the community wants, even when the community is incredibly vocal and determined by this issue. A moderator post explaining "why" they decided something is essentially telling us "We know the community overwhelmingly believes one thing... but we are the moderators and we're going to do what we want."
This is why the subreddit is and will continue to get worse.
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Mekiah
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leagueoflegends
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t5_2rfxx
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c7z48vk
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Hey guys, there's this company that says they sell cereal. Well I've bought 10 boxes over the course of 6 months and they never had any cereal in them, just full of roaches. Be careful, do NOT get scammed by these people!"
You: "Lol fuck u where not gonna try and take them down for you im from forechun heheheheh not your personal army and
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me-me h4h4h4h4h"
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Aurori
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leagueoflegends
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t5_2rfxx
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c7z4pr1
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Take a moment and think where all this leads, there are more then a few comments out there that are PURE threats. We see them and delete them, while you guys hopefully sees less of them.
However this whole story has lead to some crazy shit just because we stand by our rule, does this mean we should change the rule, no, to me this just shows exactly WHY we have this rule, there has been death-threats aimed towards us in mod-mail and there are pitchforked raised out here in the community.
>The problem with above example is that the bully is /was vastly unknown and anonymous' named someone (assuming, with some evidence) in part of legal proceedings /news of the case.
What we have here, is essentially the bully in broad daylight
The problem is the fact that even if the "bully" is known, people still tend to take rash decisions and I wouldn't think that one person alone is responsible for this mess, and even if there are evidence, we wont support the internet rage to spew up and end up in death-threats.
We have many reasonable members that can discuss and debate but there are always others lurking in the shadows. For YOU it might be a huge step to take from being angry to actually threaten people and then to actually DO something, for others the steps might not be that big. After all we are all humans and we act and behave diffrently.
>It is witch hunting to say "hey, these guys are assholes, let find where they live and burn his house down" which is totally out of context of "hey guys, own3d have been screwing me over, please dont fall to the same mistakes i made"
I agree on you there to some extent, you see, the comments escalated quite quickly and the main reason that the original thread got taken down wasn't based on the witch hunt part, it was based on personal information. Then when that was deleted it went totally mayhem, witch hunts for own3d and for us mods started to appear and the pitchforks turned to us.
Another thread to keep in mind when all this comes up:
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The rules are there for a reason and to prevent any major harm to people out in the internet world, I do agree on the fact that Destiny has "evidence" for his case and I do agree that own3d could have done this better, that doesn't mean we can bend the rules tho. If you have any concerns about our rules feel free to create a debate thread later (I would not recommend doing it now while feelings are hot)
Have a nice day.
With regards, Aurori
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zephiel
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leagueoflegends
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t5_2rfxx
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c8263uy
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if in a draft situation: (such as ranked) try to pick your adc later/last and if you see olaf, pick a champion with a solid escape/gap closer (Tristana, cait, ezreal, vayne) and consider playing a champ with hard peel (such as alistar with his knockback) while you don't get a stun you can still make him back off for awhile. then of course their is flash.
In a blind pick situation: Always prepare for olaf in some capacity. Make sure your adc isn't being forced into the role because nobody else likes it (this can be hard/impossible sometimes unfortunately) and make sure you are playing a support who has some form of hard peel (i'm not sure if olaf's ulti prevents him from being knocked up or not as i don't play him, so janna might work) and pack exhaust, because that 30% damage reduction should be applied to his true damage (unless it's bugged).
Ultimately, the best way to protect your adc is to make sure that you and your adc play smart in teamfights/lane, and if olaf is top, hope he loses lane.
If all else fails, flash
Counter play: (depending on olaf's place on the team, results may vary) a big problem with the adc diving olaf is it leaves the enemy team without a top lane tank (or jungle tank) to protect their adc (he's to busy diving yours), forcing their support/jungler/top laner to build tanky (or possible their mid). meaning their only form of big damage outside olaf is their adc/mid/top lane. If you have a bursty mid or jungler on your team you may be able to snipe their adc/mid and stop a lot of their damage in teamfights.
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Peel, exhaust, flash.
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fitzhughman
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leagueoflegends
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t5_2rfxx
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c82aido
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Also, as a support there isn't much you can personally do as an individual to stop an Olaf other than trying to grab his attention and direct him towards you as a freebie to pick up, allowing time for your team to take a 4v4 against theirs without their major anti-carry involved. If they don't even want to fight, it still gives them room to try to recover and defend under a turret with his ult down.
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In short, position correctly as a team and wait for Olaf to misplay his positioning and go for the 4v5 and pick a kill up before he can be too effective or give yourself as a sacrificial lamb to Olaf so that your team can fight 4v4 without having to deal with him diving early.
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reddit_god
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news
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t5_2qh3l
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c83nyfb
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Eh, it's a band-aid.
I'm a federal employee. In the entire time I've worked at my present position, I've only seen one guy get fired. This was after he threatened to kill a bunch of people during a negative peer review. He got several months paid time off while they decided what to do with him.
The underachievers don't get sent home. They just slowly get assigned less and less responsibilities until finally there is nothing left for them to mess up. Eventually they might be transferred to a different department. In fact, we love it when a bunch of people in a different squadron quit and need "experienced personnel" quickly. This is how we shed the worst of the worst. They still get paid, but they become someone else's problem.
Also, the engineers have a guaranteed raise system now. You get hired as a GS-7 (49k or so) assuming you had a decent GPA. In 6 months, you become a GS-9. Another year, GS-11. And another, GS-12 (69k). So in 2.5 years, you get a 20 thousand dollar raise. This is guaranteed and has nothing to do with your performance or lack thereof. Unless you threaten to kill a bunch of people working on a classified system, you've got a job for life (and even then, you're only able to be fired because your clearance was revoked).
And get this - during the last rounds of the debt ceiling talk, we had a couple hundred people moved to different locations receiving different funding. This caused the total number of hours worked to plummet (though productivity was not really affected since we got rid of the weakest performers). We got an email last week from the base commander saying "our numbers are down", and we have to work mandatory (paid) overtime. "Our numbers" have no correlation with productivity. It only relates to time, and is used as a metric to compare against other squadrons. We have no extra work, nothing else to do, but now we have to stay later so it looks like we're capable of working more hours than the other guy.
So yeah, this is a bandaid. Give it a few years and we'll be right back where we were. I can confidently say that we could shed about a third of the thousands of employees where I work, and our output would not suffer in the least.
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Just a rant. If you get bored reading it, stop.
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99trumpets
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news
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t5_2qh3l
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c83pe17
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This is the most ineffective way to do it. All programs including the good ones start to come apart at the seams when a government shutdown is looming. I've been through 2 of these shutdowns and it is the most colossal waste of money you can imagine. Virtually the entire fiscal year is wasted. No project requiring any advance planning can move forward. No orders can be placed. No seasonal work can occur at all (we already got notice to cancel all winter/spring work regardless of whether or not it's necessary work ) All the best people start looking for other jobs. I'm partly on Navy money now and, whether or not they decide my program should be cut, I can think immediately of 25 brilliant people in my program (all Navy research) who are all top of their field and who are all abandoning all their military plans (many of which had been planned, budgeted and scheduled up to 2 years ago) and all are looking for other jobs.
My lab had been about to hire a brilliant girl from Australia who's literally the best in her field. Now we can't tell her if she has a job or not, so she's looking elsewhere. We are not going to be able to replace her. I just emailed her about this, and she can wait till April till she literally runs out of money and I'm just praying we have a budget by then.
I'm also ramping up contingency plans myself; if the Navy funding isn't here by June I have to a abandon ship (har, har) and go to my backup job. Which I am totally fine with, but If the feds later decide they do want to keep our lab going, tough luck, I'll be locked into other plans by then. I've got to pay the rent.
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With no budget there is no way to plan anything and you hemorrhage money a d lose all the best people. Anybody good enough to be hired elsewhere will leave.
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Monto82
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gaming
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t5_2qh03
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c83va96
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when i walked in my bedroom home early from work. one black guy had a fist in her cunt, the other had his dick shoved so far down her throat that I saw it in her throat.
That's when I was like, this probably isn't going to work.
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she cheated on me with black dudes.
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jaynay1
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leagueoflegends
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t5_2rfxx
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c84axgm
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Statistically speaking, the word "Report" is among the most commonly used by toxic players.
However, it's used almost as frequently by non-toxic players in games alongside a toxic player.
It is not reportable to ask for others to report people who you believe are acting in a toxic manner. It never should be, since the system heavily favors those who have multiple reports per game, and if you only troll 1 person per game once every so often, you get off scott free if no one else reports.
But harassing a player for poor play is always reportable. And if the manner by which you choose to do so is to ask people to report them, then you should be banned.
Does that make sense?
As a better example, in a game yesterday, I said 3 separate times in chat to report my support. The first time was when he refused to quit attacking creeps after being asked to (He was gold-Elo season 2. He knew better and was doing it to troll me. Since he was playing Thresh his q passive made it impossible for me to last-hit over him in lane). The second time was at the end of the game when people were saying gg, I said "gg, Please report Thresh". The third time was in the end-game screen. My actions were not reportable. His were. That's about where the line occurs. If I had asked to report him for the 3 times we lost trades because he had no clue what he was doing on Thresh, however, it would've been reportable.
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if you believe them a troll, it shouldn't be reportable to ask for others to report them. However, if they're just playing poorly and you're saying "report" to harass them, go screw yourself.
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m30taway
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sex
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t5_2qh3p
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c86m97t
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It's not like in porn. Don't be too tired, add lots of foreplay, a bit of patience, and you'll get there.
Regarding his own hand jobs ... well, he's been perfecting them for years, so there's no wonder he's got the hang of those. You just need to realize PIV is a different thing.
Have fun!
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Lots of foreplay. And if at first you don't succeed, try try again! ;-)
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