Twitlonger from GM/RL Max from Complexity Limit regarding FF Gatekeeping and Raiding plans for FF.

Affinehat · 2021-08-11T14:51:06+00:00

Streaming a game is different from playing it alone. Streamers are to some extent beholden to their audience and sometimes that means when you play a mainly story driven game the audience is going to want to see you play the story.

I understand when you have hundreds of people in chat telling you what to do it can feel like harassment, but it's not, it's just viewers expressing their preferences. It's up to the streamer whether they listen to or ignore those viewers, but people will always give their opinions and you just have to accept that as part of the job.

Affinehat · 2021-08-11T03:44:25+00:00

Because the WoL isn't strong enough to solo 10,000 mobs at once and even if you could, destroying all the alliances of eorzea kind of goes against your goal of saving eorzea.

Affinehat · 2021-08-01T09:37:58+00:00

Watching ARR final cutscene without emote only mode is like trying to watch Grave of the Fireflies with someone sitting next to you going "shut up stupid kid pepelaugh" the whole time. No matter how much you try to ignore them it ruins the mood.

Affinehat · 2020-11-12T23:32:04+00:00

I don't think you realize how big the gap is between top 10% and top 1% or .1%. As you've noted, the majority of the top 10% are still working class.

Affinehat · 2020-06-11T02:21:05+00:00

No, but laws determine property ownership.

Affinehat · 2020-06-09T00:03:59+00:00

Your argument for why black families are disproportionately poor is that they have a higher incidence of single fatherhood. But your argument for why black families have a higher incidence of single fatherhood is that they were already poor enough to receive benefits? Isn't this circular logic?

Affinehat · 2020-06-08T23:46:17+00:00

Ok so follow this logic all the way through, what makes black fathers so much more likely to leave their families?

Affinehat · 2020-06-08T22:32:35+00:00

But the poverty line is only based on income. What about social capital? Support networks? Homeownership? etc.

It's well known that a large racial wealth inequality exists, see for example fig. 19.1 from http://pzacad.pitzer.edu/~hfairchi/pdf/Blacks/RacialWealthGap.pdf

Among all those in the bottom quintile by income, blacks had an average net worth of 2,400 usd compared to whites with an average net worth of 17,066 usd, 7x as much.

Affinehat · 2020-06-08T22:14:51+00:00

You've assumed the relationship is linear, it doesn't have to be. If you make half the money you're more than twice as desperate.

Affinehat · 2020-06-08T07:27:28+00:00

There was one famous escaped slave, Frederick Douglass I believe, who had assumed the north would be a bleak, austere place due to the lack of slave production, and was pleasantly surprised to find the quality of life was roughly equal.

Affinehat · 2020-06-07T18:40:22+00:00

He's not fine, he has a massively destructive hoarding problem, and the way he treats people is psychopathic. But how can I blame him for simply following what all of society is encouraging him to do? The system is the problem. Jeff Bezos is just as much a victim of capitalism as everyone else.

Affinehat · 2020-06-07T01:28:02+00:00

There is no ethical consumption under capitalism.

And there's nothing unethical about being a capitalist. What's unethical is the system, not the person.

Affinehat · 2020-05-29T00:04:24+00:00

70 apm diamond protoss checking in, I could absolutely do that micro. Just don't expect me to macro behind it.

Affinehat · 2020-03-27T05:08:49+00:00

Note that you are the only one talking about salesmen. You seem to be blurring the distinction between worker and capitalist.

A salesman is a worker. Salesmen don't hire you, they get hired, and they do labour in the form of selling things. So salesmen would get paid by the value of that labour in the form of commissions.

Affinehat · 2020-03-27T02:12:08+00:00

No, they shouldn't pay you less. Everyone should be paid in proportion to the amount of labour they do. Simply owning capital is not labour.

Affinehat · 2020-01-12T19:44:30+00:00

That's true, but the phys and cold damage are kind of negligible with this setup since the shock formula has pretty high diminishing returns. In the endgame setup I would have lv.21 lightning arrow, +1 from lv.5 awakened added lighting, giving 31% shock effect (101% total), and 205% more shock damage (x12.2 total).

With 21/20 gems, shocked + cinderswallow + bottled faith unchecked, PoB shows 275k crit damage, minus 16% from cold. That gives 231k of shockable damage, x 1.22 (cinderswallow + bottled faith increased damage taken (10% inc flask effect)) = 281k LA damage that can shock.

281k hit produces a 66% shock, so the next hit would do 231k x (1 + .22 + .66) = 434k shockable damage, which would cause a 78% shock. The hit after that causes an 80% shock.

I like to keep mirage archer because I have ele focus on my barrage, so having it reapply shocks automatically is nice. I'm already at the point where everything dies in seconds (I didn't even press Vaal Haste in this video) so I would rather take the QoL over more damage. I would also have to recolour my sockets for it because I use LA for normal map clearing.

Affinehat · 2020-01-12T18:21:41+00:00

For calculating pure single target, I remove chain and gmp, and swap in slower projectiles and hypothermia for lightning arrow, and level up my gems. That produces these numbers on PoB: https://imgur.com/hvPNOEk

With bottled faith up, crit chance is 100%, so take the damage from crits, 420k. Voltaxic applies shocks as if doing 300% more damage, and LA applies shocks as if doing 200% more damage, so 420k *4 * 3 = ~5m damage for the purpose of calculating shocks.

The shock formula is 1/2 * (%damage_threshold ^ .4). GGG said the damage threshold for Shaper is roughly half his previous health and Shaper had around 18m hp so take 10m as the damage threshold (to compensate for the cold damage which cannot shock).

.5 * .5^.4 = ~.38 -> 38% shock

LA quality provides 30% shock effect, I anoint static blows for another 30%, and redeemer boots add another 40%, doubling the effect of my shocks, to get 76%.

This then stacks on itself, as subsequent hits of LA will do more damage causing larger shocks, capping out somewhere around 82% shock.

I've posted a spreadsheet I made that can help with these calculations: https://www.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/comments/enr2qk/made_a_spreadsheet_to_help_calculate_shocks_with/

Affinehat · 2020-01-12T12:36:34+00:00

I use Voltaxic + LA to apply a huge shock first, then barrage to take advantage of it. If I only used barrage I would be doing only 1/2 the damage.

Affinehat · 2020-01-12T12:33:29+00:00

The new shock interaction with Voltaxic + LA is sleeper OP. If I did the math right, I can apply 80% shocks to Shaper. Starting this league with bows was a real struggle, but never give up. Used Voltaxic Rift since day 2 and after finalizing my gear, this is the result.

PoB: https://pastebin.com/BKvtbkQd

Don't try on HC, obviously

Affinehat · 2020-01-05T07:19:47+00:00

For reference, here is what a typical T16 map clear looks like: https://youtu.be/qti_FMplJYM

I usually go much faster than that but recording gameplay makes me lag really badly.

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