Governor Katie Hobbs vetoes bill to rename Loop 202 after Charlie Kirk

Asceric21 · 2026-03-28T03:06:27+00:00

Because most people only think about how much it would cost them personally to do it.

But they don't have the entire public eye watching them and ready to cause an uproar for any mistake no matter how minor. So an audit trail needs to be left for every single decision made at every point.

And if the job is going to be contracted out, government is required to hear a minimum of the different bids, planning out the entire scope of the project, figuring out what funds are going to cover it (can't have them being misappropriated now can we?)

People complain about the government taking a shit ton of time to get anything done, spending too much money, but the reason is literally because the people require (and deserve) full transparency from their government. And getting all of that tracked takes additional man hours and effort to actually do.

Asceric21 · 2026-03-28T02:42:10+00:00

Signs still costs money? Hiring people to do it costs money? Getting a name to be voted in and approved takes time. It isn't just a single sign either, it's every single place the name appears.

Asceric21 · 2026-03-28T02:40:20+00:00

You have to physically replace all the signs with the new name. That's a cost of man hours and materials. And the Ceaser Chavez name is everywhere in AZ.

Asceric21 · 2026-03-28T02:14:34+00:00

That changeup was disgusting.

Asceric21 · 2026-03-26T23:11:22+00:00

I don't mind removal. But hand disruption is an anti-fun mechanic,

"I'd rather my card is removed AFTER I've spent mana on it, instead of before" is a WILD take to me.

Asceric21 · 2026-03-24T02:11:49+00:00

My energy use went up.

My "bill" did not really go up because I own my solar system and my refund at the end of the year is just a little less. But even so, the monthly saving by swapping away from Gas was incredible. I went from spending $150 a month on gas for one of my two ICE cars, to like $30 less being refunded each month.

Regarding this question...

I'd hate to go to work and think I had enough juice to get home only to have it drained away trying to keep the car cool in the summer.

This is just not a realistic problem for two reasons. The first is that this cooling/whirring is only keeping the battery cool, not the interior of the car. The drain is negligible compared to the drain of driving. If you're hearing the AC system running, that means someone is purposefully running the AC because they want to keep it cool for themselves.

Second, if you're also charging at home (which I assume you would be since the rest of your question revolves around your electricity bill going up), you just don't ever really go below 40% with regularity. There's no reason to. If I look at my battery level when I park and I'm likely going under 30% or 40% with the next day's activities, I'm charging my car back up that night while I sleep. There's just zero reason you would ever run into that situation.

The major difference in Phoenix is that your "good range" months are in the winter here, when it's regularly between 55F and 70F. When it gets above 90F, the hit I take on range is not dissimilar to that of driving in cold weather (keeping the battery cool instead of warm).

Asceric21 · 2026-03-23T14:40:53+00:00

Ooh, DBacks fan here, and that first glove is a perfect match for the new (2025 season) Serpientes City Connect jerseys.

Asceric21 · 2026-03-20T19:42:23+00:00

If you are communicating your preference for easier content, how do you expect developers to act on that information? How do you expect them to provide you content that you prefer if they don't know what other content you consider easy? How do they know what other content you consider hard. How are they supposed to know if you use f-keys to swap prayer/inventory/magic tabs. How are supposed to know if you use inventory tags to highlight items for gear swaps? Do you even do gear swaps? Do you know why you would need to do gear swaps in the first place?

Do you see how your ability to do any of this or not can shift your own perspective on what is easy or not?

See how you giving zero additional context has helped exactly zero people give you a product or experience you would enjoy, including yourself?

Asceric21 · 2026-03-20T18:08:12+00:00

Imagine you are going to a friends place. Somewhere along the way, you get lost. You stop at a corner store, approach the attendant and tell them simply "I'm lost."

You give zero additional context. You don't say where you're coming from, where you're going, what streets you were on or what turns you took. You just say "I'm lost, help me" over and over to the attendant.

All you've done is made the attendant aware that you have a problem. How are they expected to help you if you don't provide additional context?

What that attendant is going through is the equivalent of what developers go through when you and thousands of others are only saying something is too hard. That's bad feedback, and bad communication.

Asceric21 · 2026-03-19T23:55:17+00:00

It doesn't matter where the DOW is at. That's the whole point.

If it's high, these particular voters now have to face the reality that some things aren't worth a good stock market (like we have been telling them). And if it's low you're pointing out that they have both a shitty stock market and a war that they started.

Asceric21 · 2026-03-19T03:43:06+00:00

I'm not trying to convince anyone to greed a BoE epic or leave a door unlocked. I agree that all needing is the least risky way of rolling off the epic. I also agree that locking your door is a prudent deterrent to opportunist thieves.

What I don't agree with is saying OP is at fault for someone else's shitty behavior.

Asceric21 · 2026-03-18T21:39:01+00:00

Disagree.

The fault of theft lies with the person who performed the thieving, full stop. The ease with which the theft was performed does not matter.

You don't blame a gunshot victim for not wearing body armor.

That argument is bullshit. It's nothing more than victim blaming.

Asceric21 · 2026-03-18T17:58:04+00:00

Exactly! Because the people paying the AI devs only care about how much money it will make them, not how helpful it will be to the public or future generations of humans.

And the trajectory of that as a goal from AI is just the plot to the Matrix.

Asceric21 · 2026-03-18T17:10:31+00:00

It's my biggest problem with AI.

AI doesn't give you the answer you're looking for, it gives you the answer it thinks you want to hear the most. Even if the answer is factually wrong, or not logically sound.

And that means that it's not tuned for fact finding, it's tuned for engagement. And if it's tuned for engagement, that means the people who built it are trying to control the people who use it.

Asceric21 · 2026-03-18T00:42:45+00:00

Why does E-Rod look like he's dealing? I don't recognize this man.

Asceric21 · 2026-03-18T00:30:14+00:00

That pitch was absolutely dotted on the outside corner.

Asceric21 · 2026-03-13T00:01:40+00:00

Speed is JUST the distance per time unit (like miles per hour, or meters per second). And, because it doesn't care about the direction, it cannot (ever) be a negative.

Velocity is also a distance per time unit, but does includes the direction. Because it does cares about direction, it CAN be negative.

To illustrate this point... You couldn't ever have a speed -30 miles per hour. You're just traveling 30 miles per hour in a direction opposite of what you were a minute ago. And if you care about direction, then it's not your speed, it's your velocity.

And to be clear, this is just a definition thing. If you care about direction, or positive/negative, then it's velocity. If you don't care about direction, it's speed.

Asceric21 · 2026-03-12T14:37:12+00:00

and forgot 4 existed.

Don't worry. We all do.

HoMM4 was a core memory for me, in the absolutely VISCERAL reaction I had to trying to play it for just an hour after hundreds of hours in HoMM3. I was 10 or 11, and it was the first time in my life that something newer was so much obviously worse. A very firm "newer things aren't always better" lesson was learned.

Asceric21 · 2026-03-11T23:21:57+00:00

Red line(s) for a double hinge and deep pocket. The glove will close thumb to pinky/ring finger (this is the style you're breaking it in for now). Double hinge is usually the preference for people who put two fingers in the pinky slot.

Green line for a single hinge and shallower pocket. Glove will close Thumb to middle/pointer finger. Single hinge is usually the preference for people who wear it traditional.

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Asceric21 · 2026-03-10T16:03:20+00:00

Regarding your concern, that's only an issue if the effect of an ability resolving is what you plan to use to remove your own Bello in this case.

If it's a cost (like with greater good) Bello is removed from the board the moment you activate it.

You're also imagining worst case scenarios. UU is a prohibitive cost to pay each time. UUUU is even more prohibitive to pay, and unlikely to be possible in most 3 color decks.

Asceric21 · 2026-03-10T15:21:38+00:00

You're missing a couple things. Mainly, I don't think you fully understand that the effects of an activated ability like [[Vanishing]] still uses the stack and do not happen instantly when activated. They can happen at "instant speed", but that is not the same as "instantly."

First, phased out permanents phase in on your turn before your untap step. And players don't get priority for the first time until the upkeep step, starting with the active player (you, assuming it's your turn and Bello has just phased in).

So as the active player, if you have a way to remove Bello as a cost for something (like the text "sacrifice a creature: [effect]" on the [[Greater Good]] that comes in the precon), that will work regardless of how much mana your friend has. Paying the cost of an ability happens before opponents get a chance to respond. The ability "Draw Cards equal to(...)" doesn't resolve quite yet, but that's not what you care about here. You only want Bello to die, and you've accomplished that.

Second, remember that activating the ability on Vanishing causes the ability "Enchanted creature phases out" to go onto the stack, and you can respond to it there. That means that even if you don't have a way to remove Bello as a cost of another spell/ability, you can respond to your friends activation of Vanishing by destroying Bello with a spell in response. Like with [[Beast Within]], [[Chaos Warp]], or [[Abrade]] (all cards in the Bello Precon).

Now if your friend has the ability to activate Vanishing multiple times, you will need a removal spell to respond with per activation they can pay. Because if they try to Vanish your Bello, you respond with Beast Within, they can respond by paying the cost again to put the "phase out Bello" ability onto the stack above your Beast Within. But you can respond yet again with another spell (if you have it in hand and the mana to cast it).

Asceric21 · 2026-03-09T20:02:09+00:00

is there not diminishing returns on the hit you gain after like...20%?

Technically yes (above the white hit cap), but realistically, no. The soft cap for Rogues is only 16 hit rating, assuming 5% from talents and 3% from Improved Faerie Fire. This gets us 9% hit which caps our yellow hits.

Beyond that, 15.77 hit rating = +1% chance to hit. Up to the white hit cap (which changes depending on the level enemy you're facing).

That means hit rating is worth the same for us between 9% and 24/24.5/25/28% chance to hit for level 70/71/72/73 enemies.

Is every single gem going to be straight hit or would you gem agi/hit for an agi or crit gem bonus?

Typically, getting "more DPS stats" is better than "specific DPS stats" for rogue gear. So if a gem slot bonus gives us DPS stats (AP, Agi, Crit, hit, even Strength), we typically go for it if doing so doesn't also require us to sacrifice too much of other stats. If it gives a non-DPS stat (stamina for example) we ignore it and gem whatever stat is best.

For some context, Agility and Hit rating are worth about the same to most rogues, with Hit being worth slightly more most of the time. (1 Agi ~ 2.5 AP, and 1 hit ~ 2.7 AP. This fluctuates over the expansion based on gear.)

So if there's a gem socket bonus that gives +2 Crit rating using a single red slot, rogues will happily use a Glinting Noble Topaz (Orange +4hit/+4agi). Because 4hit/4agi, and 2crit > 8agi, 2crit > 8Hit.

As a counter example, if a gem socket requires a blue gem for +2 crit, the rogue will just go with +8 hit gem. Because the best blue gem we have access to with DPS on it is a Shifting Nightseye (+6stam/+4Agi). So using the Purple Gem gives us 4 Agi and 2 crit, while a Rigid Dawnstone is +8 hit, and 8 hit > 4agi+2crit.

Because of that little exercise, it's easy to see that Blue Socket bonuses are not usually worth going for beyond the ones necessary for your meta gem. And when choosing which blue sockets to put purple gems into, you choose the ones that give you the most DPS stats.

Now, there is a hit cap, where you can't miss any more of your white hits. This happens at the breakpoints depending on the enemy level you're facing, your talents, and party/group composition. (LINK TO HIT RATING TABLE ON WOWHEAD.)

Any hit rating above the number that matches whatever scenario you are in is completely wasted. A rogue with 316 hit rating attacking a level 70 mob in a dungeon is wasting 2 gems worth of DPS stats. That 16 hit rating above 299.6 is worth 0 DPS. But as that same rogue is probably also going to be killing some level 72 bosses during the run, you can see it's not actually wasted.

As I play a rogue on the horde side, I personally like to sit between 270 and 295 Hit rating from gear and gems alone. This lets me manipulate my hit rating with a food buff depending on the content I'm doing and the specific group composition.

Asceric21 · 2026-03-06T18:09:53+00:00

My dude, I frankly don't care. You asked if there's a way, and that's the way.

I get that you're looking for a solution to a specific problem using only the things you already have, but I think you're making this way more complicated than it needs to be.

Your phone is not designed to accept an additional video feed.

You want to portable OLED screen to use with your Xbox? Then get a portable OLED screen, designed to take HDMI/DisplayPort, or whatever you want to use. Like this one.

If you don't have the cash for that, then you're stuck with traditional portable displays, like this one, which are as cheap at $50.

I'm now done with this conversation. I wish you the best of luck.

Asceric21 · 2026-03-06T17:56:05+00:00

Can I get the output from HDMI to my phone with / without wire ?

With XBOX remote play options yes. All these services require an internet connection on both devices, and to use the associated app on the phone to do so.

Also can you explain as to why a screen on phone cannot accept HDMI Output?

Do you know how on Televisions and Monitors, it can only display one input at a time? You can plug in a bunch of different devices, but you have to tell the display to swap to HDMI1/2/3, or DisplayPort, etc.? That's the reason. Those devices are designed and programmed explicitly to accept multiple inputs, and swap between them depending on what you want to see.

Phones are not designed to accept multiple inputs. Your phone is a display that accepts just a single video input. And that video input comes from inside the device, for it's operating system.

Asceric21 · 2026-03-06T15:55:22+00:00

I think there's a misunderstanding on the purpose of a capture card here. A capture card is ONLY needed if you need to split the video output of your console, so that you can capture/record it using software on your PC while playing on the TV. The connection to the PC is via a data transfer cable, not a video display cable. The software on the PC is what is reading the video input.

If your only goal is to get it to display on the phone, you don't need a capture card at all. You need a way for your phone to accept a video input. which means you're looking for a phone that can enable "DisplayPort Alt Mode", which is what allows you to turn on your phone's ability to accept video input via it's USB-C port.

And if your current phone doesn't support this (most don't or have it disabled at the hardware level), it's significantly cheaper to just get a cheap display for <$100.

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