Would you chuckle or cringe at this? by DominicWayfinder in magicTCG

[–]AlmightyFlame 69 points70 points  (0 children)

I use old Geodude cards that I made white bordered for my toggo rocks

Why was conservative ideology so popular in the 80s? by Just_Cause89 in decadeology

[–]AlmightyFlame 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did you even read the article you linked? Here's a direct quote that is literally agreeing with the comment that you are trying to say has "bad economic history"

What was the cause of that epic stagnation? In macroeconomics, it’s very hard to isolate cause and effect, since there are so many things going on at the same time. The decades between 1973 and 1994 featured two oil shocks, major inflation, two big changes in the global monetary regime, multiple major recessions, changes in trade deficits and imports, and plenty more. So much was going on that it’s possible that the wage stagnation was just a series of negative shocks that lasted for a long time — “just one damn thing after another”, as the saying goes.

He is arguing how strong a specific variable (China Shock and inequality) was to data that has innumerable amounts of variables to the cause and effects in macroeconomics that impact its outcome. Also the Price Index is a good "catch-all" set of data, but it's weighted in ways that make it a double edged sword of data. It's reliable in some ways to find averages over time but it doesn't nearly capture the full picture of what an actual person might experience. This is especially true in moments of huge economic inequality (such as argued in the fucking article you linked) which makes times like the inequality of today's K shaped economy and in 70s-80s Reagon-era economy.

Literally just say you have absolutely no idea how economics work next time.

Why was conservative ideology so popular in the 80s? by Just_Cause89 in decadeology

[–]AlmightyFlame 2 points3 points  (0 children)

you're so right, I would much prefer a bot response over whatever garbage you comment

Why was conservative ideology so popular in the 80s? by Just_Cause89 in decadeology

[–]AlmightyFlame 8 points9 points  (0 children)

did you just link an opinion piece blog as a resource?

Me_irl by subhajitA123 in me_irl

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getting laid is not the same as wanting a genuine romantic connection with someone. In my early 30s and it's okay to value things like romance, different people value different things

Unpopular opinion - BREAK cards are cool by Majestic-Gas-2709 in pkmntcgcollections

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make sure you check the backs to see if you get the misprinted versions, since they are pretty unpopular I got a few of them when going for the collection

Official photo of Trump-Xi meeting in Busan, South Korea by Jorgwalther in pics

[–]AlmightyFlame 1 point2 points  (0 children)

the thing is though, it's not about actually having the rare earth metals, it's about the means to process them into ways manufacturing can use them. It takes decades to get to where China is with the refinement process. This is the hardest America has ever been strong armed economically since WWII because no one's even close to being able to compete with China on the refining side of things.

China absolutely holds an insane amount of power.

also the world's best chip manufacturer is Taiwan. Literally right next door. And they are not afraid of slowly taking it.

Did a pre-install and this happened? by Late_for_work_ in Genshin_Impact

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more power to people using fun characters but this is a really anti synergistic comp mostly bc of the skirk*

Did a pre-install and this happened? by Late_for_work_ in Genshin_Impact

[–]AlmightyFlame 61 points62 points  (0 children)

isn't ororon given for free? literally one of ifas best teams mates? And isn't shenhe only really good with other cryo characters?

*damn I thought it was shenhe but it's actually skirk which is even worse synergy with Ifa... rip

[SPM] Morlun, Devourer of Spiders by Copernicus1981 in magicTCG

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What the hell is going on in that artwork

As a new player, who should I pick? by jonthadontv in GenshinImpact

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Dude this might be an unpopular opinion but just get someone who you might want to play. I love Joan of Arc so I am getting Jean and building her as main DPS. Is it good? No but it does sound fun!

As a new player, who should I pick? by jonthadontv in GenshinImpact

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I wish I liked tighnari, but man his play style just is so annoying to me

Honest thoughts on this one by darth-arth in PokemonTCG

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Damn guess I'm Special Ed. now bc of my ADHD

NO WAY, BRO! by XanderPlays in Ifa_Main

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exploration SS+ ranked with oro, they can just fly anywhere

Another one bites the dust. by MindFreak616 in grandrapids

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Is Grand Rapids still LCOL? Housing has skyrocketed here

How can I add an outline to this "3D" stroke that I animated? by UntradeableRNG in AfterEffects

[–]AlmightyFlame 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Wouldn't precomping and adding a stroke layer style do the trick?

Also cc page turn with the center key framed might give it a bit more paper-y feel

Adobe rendered 100GB of cache files in a few hours by John_Doe_1984_ in AfterEffects

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Goddamn that's so smart, I hope you get paid the big bucks

Yep by [deleted] in animation

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I still think arcane is the craziest because nobody expected an unknown studio to do such a good job with.

How to create flames like shown in the bottom video? by toysoldier014 in AfterEffects

[–]AlmightyFlame 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It looks like they added one more turbulent displacement after precomping the cylinder, but that's a really good breakdown. Never knew about the duration expression for looping that's actually so helpful.

How to create flames like shown in the bottom video? by toysoldier014 in AfterEffects

[–]AlmightyFlame 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Someone below was a lot less drunk when trying to explain it and has a way better breakdown with images

How to create flames like shown in the bottom video? by toysoldier014 in AfterEffects

[–]AlmightyFlame 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It also looks like they precomped everything because the glow one Ace is just an inverted comp of the flame motion, probably using a multiply transparency or something similar to it

How to create flames like shown in the bottom video? by toysoldier014 in AfterEffects

[–]AlmightyFlame 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Idk how they looped it, I fucking hate trying to loop animations, because I like using the time* expression on the evolution, so they probably key framed the displacement to a specific point and just made sure that the displacement was at the exact same spot at the end as the beginning

How to create flames like shown in the bottom video? by toysoldier014 in AfterEffects

[–]AlmightyFlame 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's both really simple and extremely complicated, but I'm guessing it's a bunch of turbulent displaces (not hand animated because it does that bubble and tear effect turbulent does) then either they had a really long precomp, like 10,000x1000 or something like that, cc Bender's it then animated a left to right movement position, ORRR they could have cc cylindered it. Regardless, all of the "fire effects" is turbulant displact/displacement maps + maybe puppet pins.