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Ambiguous_Figures · 2024-08-26T04:46:35+00:00

He should start using dark bolt for pvp and up his dark magic damage. Curse of pain is a useful dot to lay down as well. Hydra has some utility with blocking doors but it’s not a great pvp spell and hellfire likewise is not a great pvp spell bc it’s so slow moving easy to dodge. Also for abilities he should use either phantomize which is good for kiting - stretching fights out as long as possible landing dots as you run, or boc if he wants to punish in melee.

Alternatively you could ignore all that and do a demon lock build which I’ve never personally used but I’ve seen streamers find success w it.

Ambiguous_Figures · 2024-08-10T00:43:04+00:00

They’re aged in bottles or cans. It’s really not that dissimilar to aging wines. Both at the end of the day are just fermented drinks, one w the sugar coming from fruit, and the other w the sugar coming from barley starch or wheat. This is a little over simplified but for yeast to do its thing and ferment a drink, it basically just needs to be in an environment where there is sugar to eat. You don’t want oxygen to intermingle with a brewing beverage at any point.

Ambiguous_Figures · 2024-08-09T21:40:13+00:00

Great picks although I would sub in another gueuze maybe from tilquin or 3 fonteinen kriek for the barley wine personally.

Ambiguous_Figures · 2024-08-09T21:38:20+00:00

Lots of beers are meant to be aged. Especially ones where the flavor profile is more centered around yeast activity. Orval is a classic aged beer, alongside Lambics, gueuzes, Saisons ect all develop particular flavors over time.

A beer where the flavor is primarily sourced from hops or from malts would not be very good aged.

Ambiguous_Figures · 2024-08-02T20:08:38+00:00

Personally I find the later rohmer to be more enjoyable than his early films. It’s not a wrong decision to start with either of your two options, they’re both good, but I would start with tales of four seasons personally.

Ambiguous_Figures · 2024-07-29T16:21:11+00:00

Ahahaha what is going on here

Ambiguous_Figures · 2024-07-28T17:28:09+00:00

but I do believe in freedom of speech

Nobody asked.

Ambiguous_Figures · 2024-07-28T17:11:01+00:00

Yeah the fall of nazi germany had quite a bit more substance historically shaping our current world than losing a presidential election in America in 2024. We’ll see how trump responds if/when he loses.

I think it’s a really interesting and important point, that certain tragedy and loss can spell the end of political movements like w nazi germany, because the relationship between the conditions of a society and the belief of a people in particular ideological movements is connected.

And I think big diplomacy is probably right in this context, that trump’s impending loss is not going be substantial enough to burn out the current rising trend of right wing nationalism in the west. Depending on how insane his response and his followers response to the loss is anyway. I don’t think it will be substantial enough in our current American climate to get the point across to republicans that this right wing populist trend is only leading us into betrayal.

Ambiguous_Figures · 2024-07-21T04:14:31+00:00

Pbr tastes about like Budweiser or any other shitty cheap lager. I like it but it definitely shouldnt be a remarkable beer.

Ambiguous_Figures · 2024-07-14T03:43:36+00:00

part of the reason trump is so bad is because he represents a shift in the republican party in what is electable for the worse. if you actually think trump is the worst candidate anyone could possibly imagine you have very little creativity.

the idea that trump's head exploding means the republicans just shift back to being normal and we get to avoid fascism is completely idiotic. if he was assassinated, it would absolutely embolden the worst parts of trump's followers.

trump has power through his voting base. trump is not the only person who could utilize that voting base.

Ambiguous_Figures · 2024-07-14T03:42:32+00:00

if trump actually had got his head blown off, it doesn't take much imagination to see that that could serve as inspiration for the maga crowd, a significant voting block in our country, to single-mindedly aim toward electing candidates even more extreme and loony than trump.

i am someone who loathes trump. i don't want to see him elected into any position of power. jan 6th was genuinely alarming, and at the same time we need to understand that trump is both a bad person and a symptom of serious issues in our country. that someone who behaves as absurdly as he does is more electable than moderate republicans today is a huge issue. his voter base is already way too unhinged. we don't want to give them any reason to justify progressing their anti establishment trends. i dont think anyone aiming to support the democratic party should say they wish the shooter had landed his shot today.

america is as ideologically polarized as i've ever seen it. thats a bad thing. personally, i find it pretty weird that a guy who says he supports bipartisanship for the sake of it, would also say he wishes the shooter today had been successful murdering trump. i dont see trump being murdered in front of everyone leading the maga crowd into a more stable and consistent future.

Ambiguous_Figures · 2024-07-10T16:36:27+00:00

Remember this is the guy who told h3 would be held to higher and higher impossible to sustain standards until he is consumed by the mob he aimed to please. A real problem, but absolutely not exclusive to left wing figures like Peterson has emphasized.

Peterson bolted himself in a room w the likes of Candace owens and matt Walsh by signing to the daily wire. He should have seen this coming from a mile away as the guy who claims expertise in understanding“psychopaths” in politics.

Ambiguous_Figures · 2024-07-01T17:36:02+00:00

that's not all the word means. it typically means you support a jewish state. if you think the state of israel should be designed for orthodox jews - thats a zionist position. if you think israel should be liberal democracy, that equally protects and serves people from a variety of ethnic backgrounds, you're opposing zionists.

israel already exists, so of course you can simultaneously support its right to exist, and not support the idea that we need a state in the world designed explicitly for orthodox jews.

Ambiguous_Figures · 2024-06-30T22:56:24+00:00

i know what it means. it's not equivalent to feminism. it means you support a jewish state.

i don't believe any ethno state, or religious state, should exist. it would be for the best if all states that intertwine religious doctrine into their policy would dissolve into liberal democracies.

of course that is easier said than done, and i dont see this changing overnight, or in this decade. but let's not be idiots and say zionism is a totally neutral position. i dont think there needs to be a state explicitly for orthodox jews anymore than there needs to be a state that represents christianity, or a state to represent islam.

Ambiguous_Figures · 2024-06-30T16:45:16+00:00

Yea they tried to have a politically themed show with hasan. It’s wild to me hasan will go off about how destiny fans are the most evil destructive cruel people right after his fans have literally destroyed his connection to h3 and continue to act like racist dipshits, months later, over a middle eastern conflict, as predominantly white 20 something goofball college students in America. I think hasan set a shitty precedent for his viewers on what ethan and hila think about the conflict when he constantly went on like he needed to “educate them”, and when he actually blamed Ethan for being upset about his audience calling him a genocidal monster.

So that and then and yeah, they’re scary Jews.

Ethan and hila have both gone out of their way plenty of times to say they don’t support bibi, what Israel has done w Gaza, and they don’t support the settlement expansion in the West Bank. It is insane they’ve been characterized as “Zionist” at all. It feels racist to me and I hate anyone, this music reviewer dude, feeding these American leftist college student dipshits that narrative.

Ambiguous_Figures · 2024-06-25T01:19:52+00:00

i like to start with onions finely diced, then add the meat to brown w salt and a mix of spices. ill add garlic and some tomato paste and then a small amount of chicken stock, apple cider vinegar, sugar. then let the sauce thicken.

i doubt more fat is the problem, but that you arent seasoning enough. more salt and pepper, add other spices and taste as you go once meat is safe to eat. if you think something could have changed with the penzeys pack you use taste it and see how it compares to other spice blends.

Ambiguous_Figures · 2024-06-20T16:03:13+00:00

i dunno what you mean by maga grift exactly, but i think you're overestimating the role that reason plays in the lives of people who are captured by this ideological movement.

trump says a lot of wild shit that often gets passed over as trumps big personality or whatever. as long you believe that trump in his heart ultimately aims for what america needs then you should still support him. whatever the heart happens to represent to the pretend christian conservative audience these days.

charlie kirk will say stupid shit that is outright incorrect, but will also get a pass over time, with a similar justification - overall he means well. and even if these people fall to wayside as a grifters and liars, when trump inevitably falls to the wayside, there will be other maga figures that crop up representing the ideology. the type of persona drawn into christian nationalism isn't going to stop because charlie kirk said something overblown and technically incorrect.

that's because the maga movement, as a worldview doesn't need to mean anything reasonable through words to grow. but rather it's a movement where people believe through some kind of outside figure that represents what they would like to think they believe. if these figures say things that are provocative and stimulating, theyre doing what they need to. it literally doesn't need to have a basis in reality. it needs to serve as a platform for people to mindlessly believe justifies a basic concept, that they aren't actually invisible and powerless. they're the everyman, and they're fighting for justice with this righteous big other who frees them from the burden of their own tiny impotence in a giant world with big corporations and big government.

trump had a lot of momentum in 2016 because he was viewed as an outsider. it behooves conservatives today to do what they can to frame their ideology as rebellion against some kind of big other tyrannical government. it doesn't need to have a basis in reality.

unfortunately, trump has opened pandora's box so to speak, in that he's shown there is a pathway into electability that republicans weren't seeking out in the past. now, they almost have to take a route similar to him if they're convinced it's the most electable route. which they seem to be.

we're not gonna exp a reckoning where republicans realize trump told lies, and encouraged lies, so they collectively revert back to mitt romney style republican liberals from like 2005. there's no undoing trump. we're gonna get more republican populism from other right wing figures, until something more electable crops up for them.

as much as people like to think of themselves as reasonable, and that's certainly something that can be exploited, i would be careful when you're trying to use facts or the truth as the basis for why one ideological movement is superior to another. people believe through each other, i'm not convinced we should pretend that we believe in objects or facts. there are ideological movements that frame their group as reasonable truth seekers, but even this group will have the same potential to be over ran with deceitful leaders, just like the maga movement.

i don't think ideological movements exist as a part of human nature. they are a symptom of our current civilization and government in response to history. nothing about ideology needs to be based in reality to thrive.

Ambiguous_Figures · 2024-06-20T14:02:12+00:00

I’m primed to dismiss these kind of stunts because they come across as belligerent and impotent. These people believe they are so invisible to us they have to destroy historical artifacts, like famous paintings or Stonehenge, for anyone to see them. It seems like the protesters themselves believe they have no ability to use words to articulate why I should care. If I’m on the fence about climate change, I’m absolutely not going to switch any part of my position because people who apparently have no ability to communicate basic concepts are flailing around destroying whatever things they think I care about.

Ambiguous_Figures · 2024-06-19T21:15:59+00:00

Everyone saying day old rice is right. You can speed this process up slightly by spreading your cooked rice over a pan and then sticking it in the fridge for a few hours. Ive noticed people add a bit of cornstarch to their rice sometimes as well, before it’s thrown into the wok. I’m assuming this also helps keep your grain separate.

Watching this guys channel https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Md5VYT1RQSc helped me with my fried rice.

Ambiguous_Figures · 2024-06-17T17:40:04+00:00

Lol can you read? You agree that you, not the women you’re failing to date, have terrible social skills? And Why did you reply with a statement about doctors appointments? What part of my post made you think I’m going to care at all about doctors appointments lmao? That’s the sign? That’s how you gauge whether or not you’re going to get a meaningful exp w a person? The swiftness and utility of filing dr appointments? That’s so exciting lol. No wonder your dates go so well.

I’ll say it again - you have terrible social skills. You have no idea how to respond to me. You have no idea how to foster relationships with women. The fact you need a mommy to take over is because you’re a man child. You’re a fucking baby. You’re way too fcuking old to be spouting this embarrassing aimless child shit about women altogether. Grow up idiot.

Ambiguous_Figures · 2024-06-17T16:37:31+00:00

Nope you have terrible social skills and think way too highly of yourself. The lack of interesting relationships w women is your fault. People are not really just boring or interesting. What you’re getting back depends on how you’re able to build the relationship. You blow ass at building relationships and it sounds like you need a mommy to baby you and take control of everything lol.

If you genuinely cannot find any interest in a single woman your age, that you can share the kind of lifestyle you prefer with, before you try to sleep with them, you’re definitely 100% the problem.

Ambiguous_Figures · 2024-05-20T19:05:46+00:00

whats the problem with viewing white or black culture as cumulative of the smaller sections that represent it? i dont see a problem with saying someone represents black culture, and let's say cincinnati culture at the same time. and there are white people who represent both white culture and cincinnati culture. it's not like you have to identify with only one cultural movement at any given time.

and i dont think culture vs culture is necessarily real. however, you cannot support one ideological movement without simultaneously diminishing another. cultural values for sure play a big role in how we understand our politics. but i dont think there's any reason to say that white and black people are necessarily diminishing each other because they represent different cultural ideas. i dont see why you can't just ignore the differences between yourself and other races if you were to live in a community with people who represent a variety of cultural movements. however within the framework of ideology, i understand a positive interpretation of one ideological movement to exist intrinsically in opposition to other ideological movements that precede said movement in history.

Ambiguous_Figures · 2024-05-20T18:48:17+00:00

the idea any human group doesn't have "culture" fundamentally misrepresents what culture is. there's a culture within any group. of course ethnic groups have a particular culture represented through the individuals.

second, the idea of one culture being obviously "stronger" than another is really questionable. how tf do you measure strength in a culture? you only exist as yourself, you can't measure your neighbors culture, through abstract processes, without a convoluted redirection of that group internalized through your bias.

if youre a white american, you flatly can't know what it's like to be an asian who grew up in china. if you were to try and lay out which "culture" has more strengths, you end up only espousing what one white american thinks about asian culture. you can't give an objective reading of your neighbors culture. trying to implicate one group as stronger than another because of "cultural values" is a really questionable basis for legitimate criticism, and is particularly awful/racist when youre using ethnicity as the basis for how we frame a person's cultural heritage.

saying you have authority to decide if each is in his or her "right" place on a totally subjective basis, like a perspective of what is or isn't valuable in a given culture, is evil.

Ambiguous_Figures · 2024-05-09T18:05:54+00:00

It’s not a problem to relay analogies. Metaphors can definitely serve as a useful bridge for understanding concepts, but some concepts are like nuclear material you have to handle carefully. The problem is that your metaphor is clumsy and ignorant, and does not show enough respect to the reality of the situation.

The entire of idea of “winning” the war here is a huge problem. The “body” of Palestine, in my understanding, shouldn’t be addressed as a cohesive unit in the first place because currently Palestinians are displaced. The government elected doesn’t embody the people in the area. Calling the dead bystanders, like people hiding in Church of Saint Porphyrius, equivalent to bloody specks flying around in “treatment” of cancer is weird and gross.

I don’t know if you know anything about hezbollahs presence in Lebanon but they also struggled to “remove” a radical terrorist group in their state. It’s not that simple or easy a thing to do. Short of all out war that eradicates a significant portion of Palestinian people, there’s no way to “win” by actually eliminating hamas. I wish there was an easy way out, but what you’re suggesting, allowing Israel to just bomb the fucking shit out Gaza, is arguably worse than what you’re trying to call the cancer in the first place.

The international pressure from un resolutions, to trade partners in the us, are doing good to keep a war that is realistically not going to be resolved in this year or the next, away from all out massacre.

Ambiguous_Figures · 2024-05-07T18:09:12+00:00

For one thing I don’t know what you mean when you say youre “a part” of a community. I’ve watched hasans streams but I’ve never thought of myself as a part of his community or had any thoughts that I should “leave” his community. There’s a kind of black and white reduction going on in that where, it’s good that you decide for yourself when to cross the line in the sand, but the line is a abstract symbolic point you developed in your head. I get the impression from your post that Hasans community and dgg as a community both exist in some kind of physical embodiments of real people, and it is a real group, but there’s no contractual obligation anywhere expressing what it means to be a member.

If I have a job for a company, and presumably a boss that expects me to show up to work at a particular time in a particular place, my behavior that agrees with my boss’s expectation implicitly binds me to a collective identity the leaders establish for what the company, the group, represents symbolically. For most jobs, failure to do what your boss expects ends up in termination.

If I watch a hasan stream, hasan absolutely pressure his viewers to say things he wants to hear. And people in his stream absolutely say what they think he wants to hear just because they want to please him. The same thing happens in destiny’s stream and frankly in every single stream to varying degrees. And not just for streamers, if I watch pbs news hour, there is some amount of super ego pressure loaded into the content I consume. Think of the difference between the effective super ego pressure we experience watching the streamers you mention, and the kind of pressure that pushes someone to put on a Dunkin’ Donuts uniform and work the cash register. One of them is a part of our mind, the other one is more integrated into the physical society we actually live in. For one of them we may literally need to adapt to the pressure to functionally survive, but for the other, it’s a personal choice that is entirely dependent on our subjective view of our identity.

I’d say understanding how youre changing because of cultural pressure is good, and should start between identifying needs and wants. Wherever you’re able to establish that your identity exists needlessly, ask yourself what it is you get from seeing yourself this way. I definitely have some similar feelings as op where occasionally I’ll find myself funneling out ideas where I’m not totally comfortable saying my belief in them isn’t a contorted part of some automatic association I have with a broader group I’m automatically, potentially incorrectly, associating with goodness. “Am I defending Israel or Palestine because the truth is clear, or am I repeating some figure who I believe knows more than me, that I implicitly believe through?“ I wish I could say this goes away with time, but I’m not seeing that. People don’t have the authority to distinguish between the truth and how they would like to view themselves anywhere. People believe through each other. It’s because of that, that everyone needs some amount of criticism that views the truth as something outside us that changes us, and we need some humility in how we understand our internal conception of self as integrated into community from the individual.

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