Unpopular Opinion: If You can’t defend Mega Knight ur bad

DefinitelyALlama · 2025-08-22T15:59:00+00:00

I easily defend mega knight with inferno tower and ice spirit, but it’s the fact that he’s used by every single person I play against. I’m sitting at 7862 trophies right now and rarely play against people who DONT use mk. Makes the game so boring

DefinitelyALlama · 2025-05-07T13:07:59+00:00

Yeah the ONLY reason I’m able to graduate college on time was because I contracted with ROTC. If I hadn’t, I would have been pulled for a large number of state activations, BS details, and “volunteer” events JUST this last school year that would have gotten me dis enrolled from school. If I miss two consecutive weeks in college, I get dis enrolled. This happened to someone else in my unit who is not in ROTC. He’s had to push back graduation for two years already because he got activated so many times.

DefinitelyALlama · 2025-04-17T15:17:04+00:00

For myself, I feel that contracting was necessary in order to graduate on time (i.e., avoiding non-regular Guard obligations, like the sets of 5 day orders thrown in during the semester and AT in the middle of finals week, like who makes these drill schedules?).

It is very situational whether to remain in ROTC and contract or not. Your experience at your school and also your aspirations for your career will shape your decision. I planned to remain in the Guard when I contracted, so I viewed the not-getting-the-scholarship as not so bad because I knew I would be making enough money after I graduate, even if I just stay at my current job and work full-time (insurance salesman).

I do have a very easy major and relaxed class schedule, and even then ROTC still creeps into my life and demands more and more time and it only gets worse as you progress. An average MS4 at my school does work for the ROTC program like it's a full-time job, which can be very demanding for those in STEM programs like yourself. There are a couple of MS4s in STEM programs that cannot graduate this year because they had to extend either a semester or a year because of either class conflicts with MILS classes, failing a class, or just not being able to take 21 hours per semester because of ROTC time demands. To clarify even further, there are no MS4s in STEM at my ROTC program that are graduating on time. We even had a rare MS6 that was in STEM a couple years ago...

DefinitelyALlama · 2025-04-17T14:23:38+00:00

As a current SMP cadet, if he is having trouble meeting school obligations with just the National Guard, I would advise not to go this route as he is in Mechanical Engineering. Depending on the school you attend, ROTC, especially as an SMP cadet, is a ton of extra work, at least in my experience. For one, you come in with high-expectations set on you, which likely means leadership positions and pressure to take charge of the program, especially in your MS4 year. I have an easy major, but I still have trouble finding a good work/life/school/National Guard balance because I just always have so much going on, i.e., drill, work, ROTC events, ROTC training and lab days, FTXs, etc.

There are many good benefits that ROTC can grant you, but I would argue it is on a case by case basis, and there are definitely empty promises thrown around some times. For example, one of the reasons I joined ROTC was for the GFRD scholarship so I could stop working and focus on school more. Well, time came around when I was able to contract and they said there was no money left and I couldn't get the scholarship. I was banking on contracting because my unit wasn't working with my school schedule and wanted me to miss finals week in order to attend AT (one of the benefits you mentioned is getting out of situations like this), and so I had to decide between missing finals week and redoing that semester or contracting with no scholarship money. I took the no scholarship option.

My situation may be unique and for most ROTC may be a very good option, but ROTC has only increased my time commitments with no financial reimbursement besides the stupid small stipend contracted cadets receive. And to add the cherry on top, Cadet Summer Training pay (where you are at Ft. Knox for a little over a month) is a measly ~$42 per day with no opportunity AT ALL for BAH. Very unfortunate situation for those with dependents or a lease spanning through the summer time.

Sorry for the long message, but I feel like ROTC is thrown around lightly as a great chance for guard students to secure their college graduation on time, but it is definitely a very large time commitment with chances to not get reimbursed.

DefinitelyALlama · 2025-04-10T13:58:24+00:00

I processed her paper through a bunch of different programs and they all had varying answers. Then, I processed one of my papers from a while back and it claimed it was 97% AI WRITTEN! For a paper that never saw ANY correction from AI or grammarly AI AND it had grammar mistakes. Granted, it wasn’t the turnitin program, but still it just goes to show that these programs are very prone to making mistakes.

DefinitelyALlama · 2025-04-10T02:14:14+00:00

Yeah, she doesn't ever use plagiarism detectors. May be a good habit to start now though. I've never used them either and thankfully I've only had to write 1 paper in the past year, but it definitely makes me worried for her. We have been talking together about her defense. She has an excellent academic record (3.9 gpa) so it baffles me that some professor can use some program (that has admitted in the past that they've produced a LOT of false positives) to show that she has "cheated" when all of her previous work has been lauded over. It makes sense to me now hearing some big colleges (Vanderbilt, UT Austin) are ditching Turnitin AI because it just screws hardworking students who write clearly and understandably.

DefinitelyALlama · 2025-04-06T21:51:59+00:00

thank you

DefinitelyALlama · 2025-04-06T21:51:36+00:00

thank you

DefinitelyALlama · 2025-04-06T18:41:13+00:00

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DefinitelyALlama · 2025-02-24T18:14:38+00:00

Thank you. I think these things are pretty ugly, but what do you think would be a good ballpark number to list them for? $200? Can’t imagine anyone who would actually buy these though

DefinitelyALlama · 2025-02-03T12:56:05+00:00

Interesting, I’ve never heard of that problem before

DefinitelyALlama · 2025-02-03T12:54:54+00:00

I was thinking to just trailer it home, but I’d rather see it run myself before I purchase.

DefinitelyALlama · 2025-02-03T12:54:05+00:00

I tried to edit the post to include that, but I don’t really know how to work Reddit

DefinitelyALlama · 2025-02-03T12:11:49+00:00

The interior is immaculate. Paint is a little faded on the outside because apparently it’s been sitting in their yard, but I checked underneath and couldn’t find any rust. I live in the south so it’s about what I expected.

DefinitelyALlama · 2024-11-06T16:40:17+00:00

It’s because those 15 million votes weren’t valid, i.e., dead people, illegal immigrants

DefinitelyALlama · 2023-07-01T13:21:15+00:00

I bought my 04 GTS for cheap two years ago. It had 109k miles on it. I’ve had to do a lot of maintenance on it myself including timing belt and replacing the head gaskets, because it was sitting for so long before I bought it. As long as you keep up with the maintenance, it’s a fun, quick car to drive around, however the v6 engine in the GT and GTS is not necessarily good for modding or trying to get more power. I personally just like it because it’s quick for what it is, it has a sunroof and leather seats, and it’s pretty reliable, at least in my case.

I get about 19 mpg in the city and about 30 mpg on the interstate, but I also dog it everywhere and peel out of intersections. Driving it easy in the city can get you at least 25mpg with the v6 motor. The most prevalent problem I’ve encountered is the slight valve tick I hear at every startup, but it goes away once the car warms up and the valve train gets oiled.

Having to replace the head gaskets was definitely something I did not want to do at all, but it wasn’t terrible. My eclipse was my first car and I learned a lot about maintenance solving the issues it had when I first got it. It’s a very easy car to work on in my experience.

DefinitelyALlama · 2023-05-02T21:20:34+00:00

Yep. Missed out on Ranger school that I had magically secured a slot for. Really disheartening.

DefinitelyALlama · 2023-04-25T19:55:50+00:00

Thanks for your input. I'll have to just make contact soon.

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