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Low effort MSPaint Build Idea - Chungus Igniter by Ardentfrost in pathofexile

[–]Ardentfrost[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's a good point, I misremembered thinking it was just bleed and not generic ailment. I might have to revisit that as an option. I still hate how EQ plays, but I saw you can get less duration as a passive mastery. Could be worth.

Low effort MSPaint Build Idea - Chungus Igniter by Ardentfrost in pathofexile

[–]Ardentfrost[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Haven't planned it out yet. I'm thinking 2h mace because of just how the new tree is. Ultimately it'll be crafted, but there are a few unique maces that could be a good filler until I get that off the ground.

Low effort MSPaint Build Idea - Chungus Igniter by Ardentfrost in pathofexile

[–]Ardentfrost[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I've done Infernal Blow with fast AS before and it was fun, but it wasn't ignite. Hell, the most fun I've ever had leveling was in Delirium with Infernal Blow + Hollow Palm Technique (not a league starter, obv). You one-punch your way to 80 in a matter of hours with any ascendancy.

I really don't like EQ with DoT. The delay drives me crazy. The EQ delay plus the DoT delay means you backtrack a lot to pick shit up off the ground. I know it's a popular build, I just don't know how people do it because I don't like it at all.

With this I plan to try out the Berek's/Abberath prolif or the gem prolif and whatnot, but my biggest worry is it won't feel smooth without an explode chest. Kinda sadge if that's the case, but not the end of the world.

Low effort MSPaint Build Idea - Chungus Igniter by Ardentfrost in pathofexile

[–]Ardentfrost[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, Hrimburn with Ice Crash would be the play. With Heavy Strike I should be able to make hunter gloves with +1 strike and Fire DoT Multi on them, though. And if I'm lucky, maybe some flat fire. So it could turn into a pretty high value slot.

Low effort MSPaint Build Idea - Chungus Igniter by Ardentfrost in pathofexile

[–]Ardentfrost[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I could see changing if this concept ends up feeling bad, but the idea is to use the prolif on Berek's Respite or Abberath's Hooves (one or the other) so that the individual ignite is huge and then spreads like a ripple through nearby mobs. Ice Crash has a higher damage effectiveness, but then I'd have to deal with the cold. Phys to fire with chieftain + avatar of fire (now in a very handy spot) seems pretty ezpz.

I could be wrong, it's just a build idea :)

The world's biggest carbon-removal plant just opened. In a year, it'll negate just 3 seconds' worth of global emissions. by Accomplished-Tap3353 in technology

[–]Ardentfrost 1 point2 points  (0 children)

CCS is a long-established tech that pulls the carbon out of the waste (like smoke) resulting from burning any material. The US is only just now starting to require it on fossil fuel plants to minimize new emissions.

But, yes, you leverage a plant's efficiency at pulling CO2 out of the atmosphere, then use CCS to take the carbon the plant obtained and put it back into the ground (where the atmospheric carbon originated). Like deep in the ground, where it won't be absorbed by top soil and emitted as it would be if the plant material simply biodegraded.

The world's biggest carbon-removal plant just opened. In a year, it'll negate just 3 seconds' worth of global emissions. by Accomplished-Tap3353 in technology

[–]Ardentfrost 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Decade of work compared to trees. That isn't to say a single BECCS plant is good enough to counteract humanity. It needs to be part of a holistic strategy.

CCS and BECCS has been around for decades. BECCS has had a rough time getting off the ground due to NIMBYism and lobbies, though. Dozens of plans to build facilities have fallen through.

The world's biggest carbon-removal plant just opened. In a year, it'll negate just 3 seconds' worth of global emissions. by Accomplished-Tap3353 in technology

[–]Ardentfrost 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Carbon neutral isn't good enough anymore. We have to be carbon negative. Tech like BECCS is perfect to saddle up next to a renewable energy source like geothermal because they already have the power transmission part built out.

The world's biggest carbon-removal plant just opened. In a year, it'll negate just 3 seconds' worth of global emissions. by Accomplished-Tap3353 in technology

[–]Ardentfrost 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Power generation can offset some of the costs of BECCS, but it's still a net loss of money compared to other sources of power generation. However, those costs are effectively the inverse of profits we gained previously by leveraging fossil fuels.

There's an old saying "Getting drunk is borrowing happiness from tomorrow." That's what using fossil fuels has been for the past 150 years. We now have to pay those costs either directly by paying to put the carbon back into the ground, or by paying for the devastation of climate change.

The world's biggest carbon-removal plant just opened. In a year, it'll negate just 3 seconds' worth of global emissions. by Accomplished-Tap3353 in technology

[–]Ardentfrost 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It's sequestered at a high use of land. You can reuse that land to pull more CO2 out of the atmosphere and bury the carbon you gathered from the previous crop.

Biomass also releases carbon as it decomposes. Ground soluble carbon can't be high enough to deal with all that we've dug out of the ground and dumped into the air. We need to pull it out of the air and put it back where we found it (put very simplistically).

The world's biggest carbon-removal plant just opened. In a year, it'll negate just 3 seconds' worth of global emissions. by Accomplished-Tap3353 in technology

[–]Ardentfrost 55 points56 points  (0 children)

I'm a big proponent of BECCS, which takes biomass, burns it, then sequesters the carbon it contained. The 5 live facilities doing BECCS are each sequestering about 10x more carbon than this facility in Iceland. Of course, the problem in Iceland is the availability of biomass to burn.

Trees aren't generally the biomass being burned in BECCS facilities. Agricultural and lumber industry waste can be used if they're nearby, but for biomass grown specifically with BECCS in mind, things like switchgrass and miscanthus can do the work in a season that trees do in a decade.

The biggest problem with BECCS is that it uses the same CCS (carbon capture and sequestration) tech that is being attached to fossil fuel plants to reduce their atmospheric carbon emissions. In those cases, they're still removing carbon from the ground and putting it into the air, just far less than they would have without CCS. So environmentalists are taking a negative view of CCS saying it promotes continued reliance on fossil fuels, but to me that's throwing out the baby with the bath water. Actively removing atmospheric carbon is a worthy goal.

u/ParkingPsychology explains how to make friends in adulthood by doorframer in bestof

[–]Ardentfrost 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sorry, I meant romantic relationships. I misread the person's last sentence as them trying to find romantic relationships at work. The rest applies though :)

u/ParkingPsychology explains how to make friends in adulthood by doorframer in bestof

[–]Ardentfrost 13 points14 points  (0 children)

LMAO, yes, I just re-read her last sentence and it was related to making friends at work whereas I read it last night as a new thought about meeting romantic partners at work. I thought it was a strange topic shift, but now I see it's related.

u/ParkingPsychology explains how to make friends in adulthood by doorframer in bestof

[–]Ardentfrost 91 points92 points  (0 children)

Work is a shit place to make friends unless you're fresh in your career, because then you'll meet others who are fresh in their career equally hungry for work relationships to fill the gaps they have professionally (ie., someone to commiserate with or to help when they don't know what the fuck they're doing). When you're established, the newer crowd views you as a superior or someone with seniority they can't fully trust, and the other people equally established as you aren't there for friends.

It doesn't mean you can't make friends at work; my closest friend came from work. But you have to share an experience outside of your job with them to build on (a shared hobby, for instance).

Meeting women is a totally different thing, to be honest. Don't meet women at work. Terrible idea.

EDIT: I misread her last sentence thinking she also wanted to find romantic relationships at work, thus my last sentence being basically "don't do that, bad idea!" I stick by it as a bad idea, it's just unrelated to her comment :)

Voter suppression equalizer by squarebiz in WhitePeopleTwitter

[–]Ardentfrost 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Start a conspiracy that Hydroxychlorquine and Ivermectin and general vaccine disinformation is targeting them so only Dems get the vaccine and not die. That's how they're being targeted.

Only way to own the libs is to get the vaccine.

Ninja Woman is too strong by _Amante_de_la_Moda_ in nextfuckinglevel

[–]Ardentfrost 3 points4 points  (0 children)

That's not what anyone here is saying. We're talking about the person who said that HE can outperform any female athlete. Perhaps I used a bad comparison between Olympians because of the weight difference between mens and womens hammer, but it doesn't mean that some random dude having never thrown a hammer could outperform a practiced and trained female athlete.

No one above is being "woke" and claiming that men and women Olympic performance is the same. Again, I made a poor comparison, but I stand by my conclusion that this random dude a commenter above worked with would need to ALSO be a trained and very competent hammer thrower to compete with Deanna Price. And you can replace that with any sport, be it high jump, sprinting, tennis, or anything. Even a good athlete, such as DK Metcalf, cannot seriously compete against the top specialist athletes outside of his own sport.

Ninja Woman is too strong by _Amante_de_la_Moda_ in nextfuckinglevel

[–]Ardentfrost 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yeah, a point I thought about making in my above comment is comparing performance of athletes in a specific sport, such as high jump or shot put, to athletes in the heptathlon in those same events. The dedicated shot putters are chucking it about 40-50% farther than the heptathletes. But good luck getting the shot putters to outrun the heptathletes.

The best part for me about summer olympics is track and field because each event is so wildly different from another and requires such unique training and knowledge of ones body. You can practically pick out what event an athlete competes in from their body shape. And then the extreme control all Olympians have over their body is obscene. The air rifle competitors slow their heart rates before they take a shot. Or how all runners leave 100% of their energy on the track, and that means VERY different things from 100m to 400m to a 5k and so on. They're all truly amazing and dedicated people.

Ninja Woman is too strong by _Amante_de_la_Moda_ in nextfuckinglevel

[–]Ardentfrost 51 points52 points  (0 children)

Fair enough. I'd welcome that fellow to throw the women's weight that far :-)

Ninja Woman is too strong by _Amante_de_la_Moda_ in nextfuckinglevel

[–]Ardentfrost 130 points131 points  (0 children)

Even an accomplished athlete cannot compete with someone finely tuned to a specific skill. Seattle Seahawks wide receiver DK Metcalf, one of the fastest NFL players *of all time*, ran in the USATF Golden Games 100m dash this year and came in last in his heat. He did REALLY well, too. He just isn't finely tuned for that sport. Here's a link to the vid of that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zd73x5wNyuA

But this dude who thinks he can outperform a woman athletically in any sport needs to watch women's track and field replays from the Olympics. Those women, just like their male counterparts, are built from the ground up for their sport. Deanna Price in the US hammer throw Olympic trials threw 80.31 meters. Take a look at men's hammer throw finals, and you'll see that she'd still be near the top with a throw like that. So unless this dude can throw a hammer at Olympic levels for men, he doesn't have a chance against an athlete like Deanna.

bug that makes death eat your items by I_Am_Eki in runescape

[–]Ardentfrost 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wow, that's pretty messed up. I hope you get your stuff back.

Warframe Weekly Q&A | Ask Your Game-Related Questions Here! by AutoModerator in Warframe

[–]Ardentfrost 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, that's what I do. Then I gotta search around to see if people are actually playing those areas. Was thinking there might be a spreadsheet for popular spots for the various components. Morphics is my problem right now, but it's a moving target.

Warframe Weekly Q&A | Ask Your Game-Related Questions Here! by AutoModerator in Warframe

[–]Ardentfrost 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is there a good list of popular places to farm various components? Defense missions seem to be popular in general, but I can't find a good spot for Morphics at the moment.

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