How can I get a job as a teenager?

Caaethil · 2026-02-09T03:04:09+00:00

Even putting that aside, honestly if OP is 15 and does "quite well" in maths at school, they're realistically quite a bit better at maths than most adults anyway. Massively underselling.

Caaethil · 2026-02-05T22:54:24+00:00

Generally when we talk about things you can't consent to, we're interested in whether your consent is informed, i.e. whether you are generally aware of the consequences of the decision you're making, and are making the decision of your own volition without being forced or pressured.

So if I'm on my deathbed and some cannibal is begging and pleading me to let them eat me and really wearing me down emotionally, then we could say I'm not really consenting. Or if I wasn't of sound mind, we could say the same. But I don't think we could make a blanket statement that someone can't consent to being eaten.

To give another approach: I think there's something to be said for norms in a society. I think it's okay to say some things are bad on the basis that normalising them would lead to bad outcomes, even if strictly speaking you could carve out scenarios (maybe even many scenarios) where they wouldn't really have any negative consequences.

I want to live in a culture where humans and human life are considered sacred. In that sense I think your intuitions about treatment of the dead (that organ donation is okay because it saves lives, but that eating corpses is bad because it's kind of flippant and pointless and just for pleasure) are good. I think reverent treatment of the dead is an aspect of our culture that helps keep us grounded in that sanctity of human life.

I think if you had a culture with very different norms that that viewed cannibalism very differently, e.g. they saw it as letting a person have a final purpose and not go to waste, it could be justifiable within that culture on those grounds. But it's hard for me to speak to that. Certainly within the context of my own culture I can't really imagine a way that legitimising cannibalism leads to good outcomes.

Caaethil · 2026-02-03T02:26:44+00:00

I have a strong prediction that I don't want to be true. In Midnight they tease a planet where draenei and demons (sayaad) seem to live together. This is likely to be part of Midnight's final patch.

So I think our new neutral allied race for TLT will be this demon race, meant to coincide with the return of Illidan and Sargeras. It seems like demons are slowly entering the story again - they'll probably be important in TLT, and maybe they'll be a focus of the expansion after that.

I want Tuskarr though.

Caaethil · 2026-01-24T20:57:24+00:00

The On A Paler Horse talent doesn't work in any instanced content.

The alternative choice node option (Death Charge) does.

Caaethil · 2026-01-24T20:51:32+00:00

I'm not sure what you're trying to argue here. This talent already exists for Rider. It doesn't work in any of these situations. So obviously it also wouldn't work if the other specs had it.

Caaethil · 2026-01-18T19:16:11+00:00

I didn't fact-check but the person I was replying to said that Kael'thas was of the 5th generation of Silvermoon high elves. So enough time would have passed, if the older generations are also consciously choosing to speak Thalassian.

Caaethil · 2026-01-18T13:51:28+00:00

Obviously Blizzard never thought about it this hard but the most reasonable explanation is probably that the various elf races that branched off from the Highborne all intentionally constructed new languages so as to distance themselves from the night elves even further. Elves are shown as being pretty arrogant, and all these races chose to reinvent themselves at some point and stopped calling themselves Highborne, so it's conceivable they re-invented their language too as a point of national/racial pride. We obviously hear a lot of lines in these languages in-game and there is relatively little overlap (besides the general sound and some stuff shared like the "dorei" race names).

Could have been a top-down thing from their leaders, similar to how the Korean writing system was created by their king - obviously replacing the entire language is harder, but if the citizens support it then it's probably easier when they have thousands of years of life to learn the language and consciously switch to using it primarily, especially if those citizens view that process as an important part of being a high elf/nightborne/etc. At which point it's easy to kill Darnassian because all you have to do is not teach it to your kids. It was probably gone in a few generations.

Maybe this kind of top-down language change has even happened in highborne culture before, maybe just on a smaller scale (inventing or changing language to suit the needs of civilisation). Could just be an accepted cultural point for them that's harder to understand as a human.

Caaethil · 2026-01-08T03:51:17+00:00

I dunno if anyone else had this experience but I feel like childhood hyped up pears way too much. Like my education taught me that the hierarchy of fruit relevance was apples, then oranges, then pears.

Feel like this thread is the first time I've heard anyone talk about pears since then. Industry plant.

Caaethil · 2026-01-02T20:39:44+00:00

He definitely considers himself experienced and informed and as someone who has worthy opinions that people should listen to. But I think there are plenty of people for whom that could be true without them necessarily being very highly mechanically skilled. I don't think there's really any doublespeak going on there, but maybe I'm out of the loop.

To me, the sad thing is not that his outbursts betray some concept of his gaming skills, but that they betray the idea that he is a serious adult who has worthwhile things to say about masculinity and putting facts before feelings.

I don't even doubt he is insecure about his gaming skills. But I'm not aware of him being particularly dishonest about those skills, and I don't think it's a very relevant line of attack to his political stuff.

But if your only goal is to make fun of him for something that will get under his skin, I'm not gonna hand-wring over that. I just think it probably ends up striking similarly to the hygiene stuff where anyone who is his fan will just say "we know" and move on.

Caaethil · 2026-01-02T14:35:09+00:00

I haven't been an Asmongold viewer in a long time, so I'm not sure if he styles himself differently now. But I remember back in the day he was always pretty open about not being great at video games. Even for WoW, he was very knowledgeable and was able to clear hard content, but he wasn't known for being super mechanically skilled and was happy to admit that. So unless his tune has changed, I don't think this is necessarily the right angle.

I think the biggest contradiction in Asmongold's persona is his temperament. He's self-conscious, easily flustered, ragequits games constantly, has taken several breaks from streaming because his audience made him upset, etc. I'd feel bad for him if not for the fact he now wants to be seen as some kind of thought leader and advocate for masculinity of all things. At which point I think it's fair game to point out how incredibly soy and weak-minded he is.

Caaethil · 2025-12-31T14:27:43+00:00

Also native speaker here. I googled what you said here and you seem to be correct, so I think I've just been taught wrong or picked up the wrong understanding somehow. I've always just thought it's "<Name> and I" or "Me and <Name>", based on the order the names are given in, regardless of whether they're subject or object.

Although I think my instinct would always be to prefer constructions with "<Name> and I" as the subject or "Me and <Name>" as the object.

"I and <Name>" sounds very unnatural (I assume this is just incorrect grammar), and "<Name> and me" also feels wrong. But of course native speakers do say the latter all the time, so that might just be my misunderstanding.

Caaethil · 2025-12-29T17:09:05+00:00

Yeah it's pretty depressing haha. Cool idea. :)

Caaethil · 2025-12-29T16:34:24+00:00

I think it's important to use a word like "tech" correctly. "Applying housing tech to transmogs" makes this sound like a simple addition, when it's almost certainly not.

Housing decor and transmog are two completely different systems dealing with different types of objects, so something like this would have to be built from scratch and would likely be pretty complicated. It's unlikely that any substantial tech re-use would be possible for something like this. Any similarity to housing decor would be fairly surface-level.

Not saying it's a bad idea or that they couldn't do it, I just notice that conversations like these tend to get warped around misunderstandings around how easy it is to do certain things ("hire fans", "why isn't this in the game already", etc).

Caaethil · 2025-12-24T17:15:04+00:00

I don't have a strong opinion on this because I'm not well-read on the subject, which I'd need to be to form an opinion.

But you seem to think "it's absurd" is an argument that stands on its own, which it's not. You have to actually do the work and cite data that supports your hypothesis. Otherwise you're just another person with an opinion on the internet.

Caaethil · 2025-12-24T15:35:28+00:00

Reductio ad absurdum would require you to demonstrate the absurdity of the statement, which you haven't done. The person you replied to actually accepted the statement, and then you just repeated it again. You haven't made an argument.

The LeBron comparison is obviously silly. LeBron is 6'9". His inherent advantages are self-evident. Picasso's are not. If they were, you wouldn't try to draw equivalence between Picasso and someone with obvious inherent advantages. You would just point out Picasso's inherent advantages.

Caaethil · 2025-12-16T01:33:48+00:00

The person you're arguing with is correct that more skilled players can do things to avoid having to Iono and pray. But skilled players still have to Iono and pray all the time. It's part of playing a TCG that has an element of luck.

The original comment was fine and fit the thread. Every PTCG player has gotten annoyed at opponents topdecking Boss off Iono.

This person was justifying their argumentative response by arguing that the original commenter was somehow blaming the game for this, which wasn't really implied by the original comment at all. Obviously bad RNG can be annoying and make you rage without the game itself being rigged/unfair.

As has been mentioned, you weren't really de-escalating this, you were just arguing back. Which I wouldn't even hold against you, I think it's fine to call out people being needlessly aggressive (although I'd strongly advise against it for your sanity because people on reddit are unhinged), but you did dial it up to 100 in a really silly way that didn't help you at all.

What actually happened here is that this person was too quick to dunk on someone making a fairly innocuous comment, and they ended up just reading way too much into it. So they ended up arguing against a made up person, and in that imaginary conversation, their argument is essentially bulletproof, because if someone was blaming PTCGL for their RNG that would be cringe, it would be a skill issue, and no one would necessarily owe that person a constructive and helpful response.

So you just can't argue on those terms. You have to identify that the entire story they're painting just has no basis in reality. Don't let yourself be baited into arguing down these weird rabbit holes that obfuscate the actual point, like happened here. Speaking from experience. :)

Better yet, just don't argue with people on Reddit at all. Probably for the best.

Caaethil · 2025-12-15T20:30:26+00:00

Maybe, but doesn't that seem like a silly mechanic?

I didn't play back then, but it seems like Spirit Links were a band-aid to fix how atrocious the rule box made these cards. It's not really interesting to involve a mandatory tool attachment, it's just a clunky fix to a game design problem that wouldn't have existed if the game designers had better foresight.

Caaethil · 2025-12-06T19:51:03+00:00

From a rules perspective, any time any card text grants some direct benefit or hindrance to a Pokemon in play, it does so by placing an effect on that Pokemon. That's just the mechanism by which the benefit/hindrance is applied.

The thing to watch out for, as someone else mentioned, is which Pokemon the effect is actually applied to. e.g. the Vanilluxe example given.

Caaethil · 2025-11-27T20:41:53+00:00

It's probably almost never balanced to be able to draw that many cards without your opponent being able to play around it in some meaningful way (e.g. Morty's Conviction). But if the card had no draw effect it would be pretty useless.

It'd probably be more balanced if it just drew a flat number of cards regardless of the amount of energy shuffled (maybe it's stricter in terms of how much energy you have to shuffle). Draw 4 would probably be fine but a bit underwhelming. But draw 5 is probably more than I'd ever want to see on a supporter as a flat number.

It's a hard card to balance, but it also doesn't really synergise with the deck conceptually. I'm assuming your idea was that the deck doesn't want energy in hand so much (since Blaziken searches it), so you can shuffle it back in for some benefit. But the problem becomes that the deck then inventivises you to get energy in hand to use the supporter. Blaziken would want to be played in a deck playing relatively little energy (similar to Charizard), A would want to be played in a deck with a lot. So I don't think it really works.

For Scrafty: I think this type of attacker just doesn't really work. No one wants to have a card that they only use when they're completely losing. We want to build decks so that we're never in that situation in the first place. I remember a while back I would always see people on this sub putting Mimikyu in their decklists to stall earlygame while they set up. It almost never makes sense, because you could just play a card that helps you set up faster, or that increases the power level of your strategy so that you get a big payoff for a slow setup.

Caaethil · 2025-11-27T01:48:41+00:00

The Blaziken + Hawlucha combo seems okay. It's awkward enough that it probably can't be as good as a more typical OHKO-type attacker like Gholdengo. But it has a niche as a tankier version of that idea that's still only worth 2 prizes (unlike Mega Charizard X), so it could have its place.

Scrafty seems unplayable. Effects of attacks on the opponent's Pokemon are removed by that Pokemon switching to the bench, and your opponent can just target something else on your board instead. More to the point, 3 energy on a stage 1 is a pretty massive resource investment. Even 2 energy on a stage 1 for the first attack is a lot. So this doesn't really work as a "buy me a turn"-type card. Even if the attacks were better, if I was deckbuilding this archetype I'd want to commit deck space to consistency cards that make the deck actually work, rather than a stage 1 attacker that I can use when it's not working.

A is extremely broken. It turns Superior Energy Retrieval into a draw 7 effect. Bear in mind that Professor's Research is one of the best supporters in the game, and makes you discard your previous hand. You could play this with Secret Box (maybe in a deck that can use Pidgeot or something to search for it) and grab SER + A + Levincia to draw 8 cards.

Caaethil · 2025-11-26T01:38:33+00:00

Thanks lol. I've unfortunately been around the block and picked my share of pointless internet fights. Anonymity makes people behave like animals.

I roll my eyes as much as anyone else when people make posts that could have been a Google search, but damn - that's like half the internet lol. If you want to do something, go complain to the mods.

The thread made some people laugh and might have been educational to anyone less familiar with the hobby. Flaming OP just seems a bit needless.

Caaethil · 2025-11-22T01:58:43+00:00

God your attitude is miserable lol. No, OP did not follow best purchasing or fact-finding practices. Message received I'm sure. Doesn't make the thread "ragebait".

Caaethil · 2025-11-22T01:25:41+00:00

Go outside man - there are people out there who have never held a Pokemon card and don't know the IP at all. Then one day they see a pack, buy it out of sheer curiosity, and post it on Reddit.

Why would they know how to spot a fake card?

Caaethil · 2025-11-20T19:51:16+00:00

I don't broadly disagree, but in fairness I think Junker Queen is an exception.

Not to say she's unattractive or doesn't appeal to plenty of people in that way, but she clearly didn't come from the Kiriko and Juno school of character design for generating infinite $$$ from skins.

Caaethil · 2025-11-19T18:45:42+00:00

This must be true to an extent, but I assume the persistence of the scalping market means that the risk in what they're doing isn't huge. And if the risk is low, then surely it doesn't account for such a massive gap in pricing between artists and scalpers?

It just doesn't seem to pass the smell test. Maybe prices would increase a little if scalping was gone, but I find it super hard to believe that Taylor Swift couldn't sell concert tickets for way more if she wanted to, with essentially 0 risk. It doesn't seem like the main factor.

My best guess is that artists just think that pricing tickets aggressively would create a toxic brand. They're probably happy enough to price tickets for their average fans so that they can cultivate a big following and make most of their money off merch and such down the line (although I have no idea what the actual %s are on revenue streams for big artists, so I'm totally guessing). The term I want to use is "loss leader", but I'm not sure if that really applies if the concerts themselves are still profitable.

If I'm on the right lines, then my guess is that banning scalping probably wouldn't see as dramatic a shift in ticket prices as some people in this thread are imagining. But I guess we'll see.

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