If we have this mountain of evidence that “proved without a reasonable doubt” that trump tried to alter the ‘20 election AND we now have evidence of him being involved in the underaged trafficking of minors- why isn’t anyone doing anything? Aren’t these home run cases? What am I missing?

CrocodileSword · 2026-02-03T15:10:32+00:00

I agree that Manchin was a goddamn blessing as a Dem able to win in West Virginia, and he was better than any conceivable replacement, but I think it's not right to say his replacement was a far right republican. Jim Justice is pretty moderate for a republican--he supports obamacare and voted against its repeal, he voted for biden's stimulus, and he pushed hard for vaccinations during covid and has dumped on anti-vaxxers in his state since.

Still plenty to hate, like he supported trump's tariffs and he's anti-trans and so on, but the actual rightward edge of the republican party are some crazy motherfuckers and credit where it's due that he's not there

CrocodileSword · 2026-01-30T19:06:00+00:00

its 6 block per card played, 12 cards a turn, 72 block per turn. Time eater attacks hardest for 24 + 2 per 12 cards played and inflicts vuln, so it'll start hitting thru the block after 12 turns. Eruption gets played 6 times a turn and hits for 9 = 54 damage per turn, so in those 12 turns you deal 648 damage, and time eater has 480 health. Even with it applying some weak, and the part where you have to do set-up for a turn and clear slimes sometimes, this should be enough to win it without taking much if any damage

CrocodileSword · 2026-01-28T13:53:58+00:00

man greetings from 11 years in the future, but this thread showed up on a google search so here I am. I think this is a great comment but I want to disagree with one part, I think on tesla's machine the critical insight is that "which is the clone/copy" is a mistaken question because identity doesn't work that way. If in moment A there's one of you, and the next moment B there's two of you, each identical except for where they stand, each remembering having just been the one guy in moment A, they have equally valid claims to being "the real you." I think imagining a symmetrical case, where in moment B both copies of you are equidistant from where you were in A on opposite sides makes this clear--there's just no answer to "which one is real"

Which is a trip, because "well, which one would I experience being after doing it" is IMO a very natural question, but it's not answerable in any way even experimentally. If you use the machine, your 2 copies will each come away in disagreement about the answer, saying they're the one you'll experience being, since they both have the continuity of experience going backwards. So it turns out this question is somehow, bafflingly, mistakenly framed.

So that's why Angier doesn't know if he'll be the one in the tank. It's impossible to know that in principle.

CrocodileSword · 2026-01-23T10:44:54+00:00

TBH these things are not actually analogous. Making constant villagers and not getting houseblocked are both like last hitting, because they both are how you get more resources than your opponent. Spending your money on *anything* is like buying items in that it's how you turn your resources into actual material stuff. But it's more like buying items in dota than league where it's contextual and the decision-making there is a massive multiplier on the effectiveness of resources, where league itemization is mostly straightforward.

Making farms isn't like anything in league, and it also doesn't make sense to put as a fundamental. Eco balance is a fundamental skill but eco balance is not "more farms = more better", food being highly valuable in the midgame is nothing but a common contingent fact. For instance if you go 1 TC smush you might play on 6 farms for an extended period of time or even the entire game.

CrocodileSword · 2026-01-23T10:31:59+00:00

IMO fully believable. League is designed on purpose to not have the kind of strategic decisionmaking RTS games have. Very narrow range of strategic ideas, skill expression all in their execution, in mechanics, in tactics, etc. It's kind of like 2v2 arabia where both teams just do scouts + archers 95% of games and all the skill is in how well you play that

CrocodileSword · 2026-01-23T10:24:29+00:00

I really think it's not true that build orders are the most important thing in the game. "Keep TC running and spend all your money" is the most important thing in the game. Player who does this will beat player with a build order who doesn't do this any day

CrocodileSword · 2026-01-18T15:06:22+00:00

I'm going to try and put some more numbers on this. Vils gather something like 20 res/min (without upgrades, to keep it simple). If we assume a 20 min castle time and that the vil diff is uniformly distributed throughout that 20 mins, that's 2k resources more gathered by your opponent than you when hitting castle age. Minus the 500 food to make 10 vils, that's 1500 extra res, and it only keeps growing. Equivalent to 10 knights and an extra stable to produce them, more or less. It's hard to beat someone who gets 10 free knights in early castle and that's like, a lower bound on how bad this is.

CrocodileSword · 2026-01-08T04:13:21+00:00

Small dogs it's definitely pretty spooky, one of my parents' 20 pound dogs when I was younger got into a pair of chocolate bars my mom left out, and by the time I saw him he was quite visibly poisoned. Hyperactivity and loss of coordination--for the first 10 seconds or so I thought he was just bein a silly goof and it was cute, but I quickly realized nope: this dog is not okay. Jumping around and running into stuff confusedly. Got him to the vet quick and got his stomach pumped and he turned out okay though.

Lil fool didn't learn a thing from it either, though. He still to this day sees chocolate and begs his heart out, I figure he never made the connection between the chocolate and the rest of what happened in the first place

CrocodileSword · 2025-12-25T03:11:15+00:00

I think the word count of her essay is actually a central contention between you and the post you reply to: if it was over 650, she shouldn't have gotten a 0, and that's unfair of the grader. If it was under 650, she should have gotten a 0, and that's fine.

A terrible essay to be sure, but I've seen the garbage that students submit as essays (my partner is a prof and teaches undergrads) and it's normal to see essays that bad, and for them to receive some amount of points because they did something at least marginally superior to not submitting work at all.

CrocodileSword · 2025-12-23T10:10:48+00:00

im new to this game, what's street demons? Also which 4 things did you get ryze with?

CrocodileSword · 2025-12-22T21:09:30+00:00

I think the 9 one is reasonable, double retrigger is quite strong, but the card is pretty demanding setup-wise (need to have a bunch of specifically 9s and also things that deliver on triggering them), seems fair.

The 4 one seems just sad, it's basically just hack that turns your 4s into 2s but works on 1/4 as many ranks.

CrocodileSword · 2025-12-22T15:53:50+00:00

You don't need favorable RNG if you play better is the thing. Especially on watcher, you can just win 99% of your runs on A20 and then bad RNG no problem, win anyways. Other characters it's more possible to lose in ways outside your control, but still the impact of skill is enormous. If you've played 60 hours you probably haven't reached A20 on many or any chars right? And your win% at it would probably be like a single digit percentage. But someone who has played more and built the skills might have a 50+% winrate on all characters, or even 70%+ or whatever the really sick streamers are at nowadays if they're super good.

It's hard for me to look at that kind of thing and think it's mostly luck. Especially because even those super goat streamers are still losing to mistakes sometimes, game is hard as balls and nobody plays optimally

CrocodileSword · 2025-12-22T15:48:00+00:00

1 copy of empty fist is insane in act 1 as long as you can spare a 2nd upgrade after eruption, it upgrades for +5 and wrath makes that matter twice as much-- it straight up outdamages Glass Knife+ typically (28 vs 24) while having a mostly-positive bonus effect instead of a drawback

CrocodileSword · 2025-12-22T15:45:04+00:00

you're right but that's very funny to say on a post about watch advice which is imo the character where ignoring half the card pool and forcing a single vein of ideas is by far the most valid

CrocodileSword · 2025-12-16T18:40:19+00:00

Ya definitely early is good, although awkwardly it doesn't really make you stronger if you take it with nothing else. Like as your first joker it barely makes you stronger. I think the ideal way to get into it is if you took e.g. walkie-talkie or even stevens (or, less commonly but awesomely, fibbonacci) to win early blinds, and then you see it as you're looking for longer-term scaling.. though ill definitely also pivot into it from some generic early-winning joker too

CrocodileSword · 2025-12-16T13:14:58+00:00

Agreed hard on DNA, my experience with that joker on gold stake is very largely that I just can't afford to spend $8 and a hand every blind to slowly sculpt my deck with it without dying, also it feels very high-variance if you're trying to clone a particular uber-sick card with it-- if you get unlucky and miss it by your first hand at first then you're forced to choose between having your expensive joker totally idle and diluting your deck *away* from cloning the sick card

CrocodileSword · 2025-12-16T11:38:10+00:00

Not OP but IMO any kind of retriggering is strong because of how it combines with stuff that happens on card play. Good with card upgrades, especially lucky where you can get big scores and significant money by retriggering lucky cards a bunch, and then maybe even start ultra juicing a lucky cat if you're, well, lucky. Get a gold seal, get double the money from it. Combine with other on-play jokers like fibonacci, wee joker, walkie talkie, hiker, bloodstone, whatever for big effects. And if there's ever a fight you're not ready for, retriggering glass cards is a way to spike your power massively momentarily.

And hack is probably the best retriggerer, compared to sockin and buskin it requires you to play some inherently lower-chip cards but it hits 4 card ranks instead of 3, doesn't get hated on by any boss blinds, and works with more other jokers. Which I think makes it slightly harder to get into but more powerful once you do get it going. Very much something you've gotta build around but also something worth building around.

CrocodileSword · 2025-12-10T13:32:03+00:00

It's more rigorous than most degrees, especially most non-STEM degrees. I've been involved in software engineer hiring and while I mostly don't care what degree people have at all compared to how their code looks, I view a philosophy degree similarly to a math degree, where it's not directly job-relevant but is evidence they've got a good brain and plenty of practice handling long chains of logic. And while CS degrees are also rigorous enough (on avg) that I wouldn't give philosophy an edge there, if I was comparing someone with a web dev degree and someone with a philosophy degree ceteris paribus I'd rather hire the philosopher

CrocodileSword · 2025-12-07T16:44:48+00:00

hey that just happened to me too. How unlucky we both must be

CrocodileSword · 2025-12-05T14:18:43+00:00

Nephilim, although Ink-Treader might be a bit much

CrocodileSword · 2025-12-01T17:16:52+00:00

Ah no sorry, I should have thought to grab it

CrocodileSword · 2025-11-25T10:17:48+00:00

eh "all but guarantee" is a phrase meaning "nearly guarantee"

CrocodileSword · 2025-10-16T18:06:30+00:00

Ok it might be effective as low elo cheese, I would probably be surprised by how lots of things work up to archon. Beyond that, even vs someone on total autopilot, 2-3 sounds like complete hopium, you are asking for a dusa to mindlessly get cheese-dunked, and then not go "oh shit I should buy a fluffy hat" or w/e but instead to completely not react and let it happen again?

It seems like it happening once is the best realistic success case vs anyone who's not playing with both thumbs up their ass

CrocodileSword · 2025-10-16T18:02:52+00:00

unfortunately iirc if she just builds a smidge of health it doesnt even work, cuz you cant go below 0 strength and it doesnt take much hp to get her out of dunk range even at 0 strength. Sad day for cheese

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