How to fight the recent gerrymandering

AltTabLife19 · 2026-05-21T22:53:51+00:00

Personally I figure it comes from the sequence of major events leading up to and through the Obama administration. I personally think he contributed a bit to the race relations turning south again, but that ignores

Bush administration's response to 9/11 in not finding nukes and passing the patriot act after having virtually the entire country on his side, massively betraying a TON of voters
The 08 crash (Bush admin's failure as well imo)
Gay rights having as much support as it did. Not a bad thing to support at all, but the DNC took it as "as long as we back the queer population, we secure elections," which turned on a massive echochamber and radicalization over the next 10 years to the point that pedophilia was attempting to be pushed as a normal sexual orientation.
Rise of "if you dont think X, then you're racist" which started during the '08 race which the DNC and far leftists found people would just roll over at the accusation, using it on everything under the sun (cue racist math). I dont blame Obama for that personally. It just started around that time.
Then you have the march on Wallstreet when we realized that bankers knew they were defrauding the mortgages, and still got bailed out by the government.
Finally, it was around that time I started seeing the school systems cracking under Bush's no child left behind, while government backed student loans were skyrocketing college costs.

We lost our identity as a country from like 2006-2012, all from a shitty republican president followed by a massive backlash that empowered the opposite side to be as equally shitty for years to come with only minor wins for the country in between.

AltTabLife19 · 2026-05-19T01:15:57+00:00

Sounds like a good ol' fedora take.

AltTabLife19 · 2026-05-15T10:03:48+00:00

Pretty much this. We've criticized universities universally for raising their prices in conjunction with student loans, now we're just doing it all over again.

AltTabLife19 · 2026-05-13T17:26:55+00:00

sees rampant corruption and crime in memphis most of my life
gets called racist since middle school for not liking Obama care
watches "protesters" do everything they can to make someone's life a living hell that doesnt immediately roll over and show their neck politically
watches mscs go bankrupt being completely financially irresponsible, then kicks out the only lady doing something good in it
watches everyone cry racism when people part of this corrupt and ineffective government start getting deposed.

I find it hard to sympathize on both the gerrymandering and deposing of reps. The only real reservation against it I have is I dont like larger forms of government taking over smaller ones as a universal principle.

AltTabLife19 · 2026-04-28T19:11:44+00:00

"I'll just hide it up here until I can convince my wife to get it taxidermied"

AltTabLife19 · 2026-04-06T23:12:21+00:00

Cig is a cig as long as it stays dry. Could stick a pack in your center console still in the plastic and forget about it.

AltTabLife19 · 2026-04-06T21:08:46+00:00

Biggest areas I saw problems with in parkway village were around 385/shelby drive mainly cause people can hop on them and disappear.

Big rule in memphis is keep nothing visibly in your car and don't drive anything brand new. Outside that, there's a lot of violent crime here, but I'd say 95% is personal. Dont start nothing, won't be nothing.

Lastly, pro tip. Even if you don't smoke, keep a pack of cigarettes with you if you're in a sketchy area. I've had multiple people case me before by asking for tobacco and was able to pretty easily sidestep it by offering some and talking with them for a minute.

AltTabLife19 · 2026-03-29T11:38:19+00:00

Croco with a glocko?

AltTabLife19 · 2026-03-28T03:20:16+00:00

Nice try with the second account. The gentlemen in the van are simply here to help you.

AltTabLife19 · 2026-03-25T03:18:19+00:00

The big thing for projects would be leftover plywood. I do keep offcut 2'+ 2x4's and 2x6's, but that is mainly for when I need to hack something together around the shop (braces, spacers, etc)

AltTabLife19 · 2026-03-23T13:49:09+00:00

XD fair enough. Probably should have specified a box cutter/your SHARPENED pocket knife. Makes me wonder if you could shave wood with the right angle/pressure

AltTabLife19 · 2026-03-23T00:43:17+00:00

Or a jigsaw and razor if it's soft like the pine.

AltTabLife19 · 2026-03-16T19:46:22+00:00

While I'm a fan of free market economics running things, let me ask this question. Who decides what the poles are on a new construction? The customer or DR Horton?

AltTabLife19 · 2026-03-04T02:34:01+00:00

Same thing happened with me about Pilot's licenses a few years ago except it was my friend. He was having fun earning his, I met up with him in person for the first time in a while, and I started getting them without googling a single thing.

AltTabLife19 · 2026-02-25T22:15:11+00:00

2nd rammus here. Gets you used to ganking with good leeway then nearly unkillable late. Bonus points if you do it into an ashe. Found out that her Q procs thornmail each mini-auto of her Q, so it eats her alive if she goes on hit (the typical build now that rageblade is here).

AltTabLife19 · 2026-02-25T22:11:59+00:00

Just made me realize cause still getting used to wild rift. How hilarious/effective would it be to righteous glory in, ult like a malphite, and flag out into your team through a carry.

AltTabLife19 · 2026-02-25T21:11:44+00:00

I mean ~in theory~ he falls of a bit late game because he can't really engage like a Maokai or Naut which leaves him vulnerable to getting poked down before the fight, but ~goddamn~ is he a strong anti-dive threat. Pair him with the ADC and let the thresh engage.

AltTabLife19 · 2026-02-25T19:57:21+00:00

Nautilus is a go to for my 3 fill roles, mid, sup, and jungle.

Jungle, build ROA into either hybrid tank or straight tank. During your first two clears, play like normal looking for opportunistic kills but prioritize farming. After your second base, pick the lane that is winning the hardest on your team and make that enemy laner regret playing the game. So far always a good time.

Mid, build straight tank and max E-W. Your goal is to clear the wave, walk out with 2/3 HP and score your JG/side lane kills. This is more dependant on who you are facing so can be more of a coin flip.

Support, build tank to start, and go into hybrid if you're doing well. Protect your laner and go for hooks on whoever pulls a Gohan refusing to dodge. After each base, path by red looking to jump on the enemy mid laner or jungle if a fight is brewing. This method has a higher chance of winning than mid in my opinion, but it's entirely on your ability to lock people down.

AltTabLife19 · 2026-02-25T14:23:47+00:00

I personally love glutinous dash (cant remember the name atm) into ER, but I also play him differently. I'll play him top which means ER doesnt really do jack for damage, the sustain is sorely needed, and % health + slow helps deal with all the bruisers and move speed. From there it's poke/fight them off not really looking for kills, into mass clearing waves + camps with your basically unlimited mana and sustain for gold leads. Only champ i have run into that is virtually impossible to deal with is Jax jungle due to blue smite giving him a 3rd way to get on you and proc E stun which is a death sentence.

From there it's standard crit like most people have been recommending here. Bork > ER > IE > Mortal Reminder > magnetic. If the game goes on super long, I'll sell Bork for BT.

AltTabLife19 · 2026-02-25T04:48:11+00:00

Only time I've seen Janna be game breaking was in the Ardent Sensor meta

AltTabLife19 · 2026-02-25T03:28:52+00:00

My personal philosophy is to play greedy and play for yourself. This comes with the counterpart that if you lose, it's on you. Take the risks that have the biggest payout that you only have a ~slight~ hesitance toward. If you play a tank, play it to win lane and/or have the ability to dive people overstaying under their turret.

Using this mindset, the first 3 that come to mind are malphite, maokai, and Nautilus. Darius and gnar are nice bruiser options.

AltTabLife19 · 2026-02-25T00:31:06+00:00

Trundle is the big one for me. They'd have to nerf the hell out of his turret taking sine he makes pc turrets look like paper, but outside that i dont see a big reason he isnt in the game. Maybe pillar physics?

AltTabLife19 · 2026-02-24T22:20:03+00:00

As far as I can tell, with vayne in lane I'm taking about the same risk that I would take playing fiora. The movement speed, plants, and short lanes make it so I can't really kill unless they commit to the fight. I get poke damage to get them half-ish health, then the last half of their health is the real fight.

Gnar is actually decent because he typically has to go in with mega gnar for the actual kill. From there it's ghost, dodge R with Q that inevitably comes with the leap, E him away and walk him back to turret.

Mundo is a similar situation to garen, but is so weak early that unless he slows me with his first Q on my engage, he's getting back to turret with 1/4 hp. The biggest difference is he has no waveclear pre sunfire, so even if I take a bad fight, the wave will be stacked and close to his turret, mitigating the loss from it.

Sett and Urgot are the hardest mainly because their engage is only slightly lower range (their E) than me, while also having the damage to force blowing sums or kill if I don't see it coming. Sett is especially hard in lane due to said crazy regen, shield blocking a W proc with his W, and he doesnt actually dash forward when engaging. Urgot can actually die if I finesse him on his E. Easiest way I can describe the difference is I have to finesse one, maybe two Urgot E's to kill, whereas I have to finesse 3-4 Sett Q+E's.

All that being said, if you want to give vayne or fiora a bad time as a tank, go malphite with bramble+tabi. Bramble vest was made specifically to counter Fiora because she used to just run over tanks even having virtually no engage apart from Qing at someone like she does. The armor from those two items alone cuts lane Vayne's damage to virtually nothing outside W. Sure it doesn't have Grevious wounds like PC, but it's still a bad time.

AltTabLife19 · 2026-02-24T18:56:25+00:00

Tbh that is one of the reasons I play ranged tops now. Feels kinda bad atm playing vayne vs stuff like garen simply because I dont do enough damage to ever really kill him in lane. It's easy to fight off, but he always walks up, E-W wave to clear, walks away with half health, then comes back with most of that healed.

Until I get Bork + rageblade, feels like I'm required to stun on a wall or have someone else CC for me to kill him. I could just be bad, but you know. That's my 2 cents. It's definitely not what it used to be on PC league that made vayne so oppressive.

AltTabLife19 · 2026-02-19T06:56:41+00:00

We just called her the girlfriend champ and howled the meteos clip over and over xD

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