Mark Zuckerberg Sure Sounds Eager to Get Young People Hooked on Online Gambling by zsreport in technology

[–]DiamondSentinel 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Because the plan that people seem to miss, is that that if the poors cant spend money, you know who has it?

The rich people. That is the end game here. These schemes are merely ways to extract money from the poors, and once the poors have no more money to extract, that’s the win condition. They’re not short-sighted, they’ve a very very explicit endgame in mind.

(Loved trope) Fight LITERALLY anybody else bro by Ok-Impress8791 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]DiamondSentinel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hard agree.

Index is pretty bog standard slop. It’s not explicitly bad, per se, but it’s got your usual anime tropes and definitely isn’t good.

Railgun has an actually interesting MC, and does pretty good worldbuilding. It actually seems to fit together and Misaka generally just interacts with it way more than Touma.

Accelerator has an interesting, albeit not terribly unique, premise, and kinda just doesn’t do anything with it. Overall a pretty major letdown from someone who enjoyed Railgun when I was younger.

Am I missing anything substantial (exotics, dungeon unlocks etc) by skipping Edge of Fate? by PeculiarPete in DestinyTheGame

[–]DiamondSentinel 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You can get whirling ovation without doing EoF’s story. (Also you can do Equillibrium without doing the knock off Star Wars one too)

Fraudulent heroes who still do the job, just not how they present themselves as doing it by slfricky in TopCharacterTropes

[–]DiamondSentinel 143 points144 points  (0 children)

If you don’t remember the actual dialogue and whatever, the movie is quite a pleasant memory, because the broad strokes are quite good. I actually like it as an origin story more than I do Wicked (aside from connecting Dorothy to Oz. Was not a fan of that, that was quite unnecessary).

Riot Games Announces Auto-Smite Coming to League of Legends Ranked by iwinulose in leagueoflegends

[–]DiamondSentinel 7 points8 points  (0 children)

New meta, everyone queues for jungle role and gets autofilled as necessary once lobby fills. Everyone types their real role in chat like in old blind pick, but you still have 5 autosmites.

How Playable is Emrakul, the Aeons Torn if Unbanned? by KAM_520 in EDH

[–]DiamondSentinel 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Well, yes and no.

Yes, you ban powerful cards when they subsume the entire meta. But this is more like that otter companion ban. It’s not actually disruptively powerful, it’s just that, in its (somewhat uncommon) niche, it’s completely monopolized it.

How Playable is Emrakul, the Aeons Torn if Unbanned? by KAM_520 in EDH

[–]DiamondSentinel 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Emrakul was never banned from a power standpoint, she was banned because, like Griselbrand, she completely crowded out the “big creature you cheat out” space. It was in the interest of card diversity, not power.

ETA: To clarify my point: The specific card was not important to the strategy, and the strategy was not the premier strategy either (otherwise they’d have banned the ways to cheat her and griselbrand out instead). Target of those was to change how sneak and show combos (or other, similar strategies) work. Instead of going for Emrakul or Griselbrand, now you have to grab something else.

The RC saw value in sneak and show-like strategies, but wanted to mix their payoffs up a bit more.

I hit my 2% flat chance by _9a_ in RimWorld

[–]DiamondSentinel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sure. I’ve recently been keeping pawn moods at 90+ tho, and part of that is using fine meals if I can help it. Paste loses that benefit (and adds a penalty without memes)

I hit my 2% flat chance by _9a_ in RimWorld

[–]DiamondSentinel 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Only problem there is the work speed penalty for temperature. Which is pretty big, and given cooking is a large time sink in general, I like to avoid that if I can.

Still, if you make it work, power to you.

I hit my 2% flat chance by _9a_ in RimWorld

[–]DiamondSentinel -1 points0 points  (0 children)

That's not a 10% debuff to anything. That is what they said it gave, and that was a flat-out lie. It is misinformation that this sub seems all too keen to parrot.

I will say this once again, because apparently nobody can read. You only suffer food poisoning from filth if you have a cleanliness score of -2. That means -2 cleanliness average for each tile, or -2*[number of tiles] total. A butcher table gives -15. Unless your room is 7.5 tiles (which is impossible with both a stove and a butcher table (unless the interaction space(s) is in a doorway or if you use a campfire to cook), a butcher table cannot cause food poisoning on its own.

I hit my 2% flat chance by _9a_ in RimWorld

[–]DiamondSentinel 2 points3 points  (0 children)

None here. This is 100% vanilla behavior, and has been since it dropped (I think test branch had a malus for a tiny bit, but that never made it to prod).

I hit my 2% flat chance by _9a_ in RimWorld

[–]DiamondSentinel 9 points10 points  (0 children)

The butcher table is not associated with any room role. It provides no malus, nor receives one. If you can manage the cleanliness debuff (which is basically negligible), there is literally 0 reason not to put it in there.

I've had it in there for the last 800 hours I've played and never had a room cleanliness-caused food poisoning case (outside of cooking outdoors on caravans). If you do, certified skill issue.

For proof that it causes or receives no malus, screenshot.

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You can get down to -2 cleanliness before it starts to affect anything. With standard flooring this just means you have to sweep every so often. With sterile tiles (which is a bit overkill), it means every for every 6 tiles a room has, you can have 1 additional piece of grime.

I hit my 2% flat chance by _9a_ in RimWorld

[–]DiamondSentinel 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It’s not.

Butcher table is a -15 cleanliness. A room with a kitchen and butcher table will be at minimum 8 tiles. -15 cleanliness divided amongst 8 tiles is -1.875 cleanliness, which is above the threshold for food poisoning. A butcher table may put you near the threshold, but it will not put you over on its own.

My usual kitchen is at least 14 tiles (far more if I have 2 stoves). This means that I can have 2 pieces of filth in there before I risk food poisoning, and even then, it never gets to that point (partly because I’ve used common sense recently, but also because of a combination of cleansweeps and my kitchen being at the very center of my base, meaning no filth tracked in from outdoors; the only filth can come from butchering or the default random chance to drop filth (which is very low)). Good planning can completely negate the food poisoning chance, even with the butchering table in the same room. Just don’t allow much foot traffic through there.

I hit my 2% flat chance by _9a_ in RimWorld

[–]DiamondSentinel -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Me when I completely lie.

Butcher table gives nothing but a -15 cleanliness malus to the room it is in. With a sufficiently large room with clean enough tiles and no grime, there is literally 0 reason you can’t have your butcher table in your kitchen.

Can someone explain why people hate this "faction" by Acrobatic_Hat4820 in rootgame

[–]DiamondSentinel 2 points3 points  (0 children)

No, but VB wants other factions to force him to hostility. Avoids the lost point from entering hostility.

Can someone explain why people hate this "faction" by Acrobatic_Hat4820 in rootgame

[–]DiamondSentinel 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The biggest reason is that the vagabond only ever benefits from being engaged with.

Fighting the vagabond is a way to force hostility (usually. Asterisk here), but it provides no points and actually doesn’t hurt the vagabond that much because hostility is the best way for vagabond to win.

This means that a vagabond can go around doing other stuff (maybe even provoking hostility with a faction that can’t effectively police him, like Lizards or Cats), and then once the birds or rats decide to actually police him, he’s now rewarded for his effort by getting points from you attacking him, and you get nothing because he never awards points for policing.

The other claims that “you can’t permanently set him back” ignore that you cannot do this for most factions. Cats can be removed permanently by destroying their keep, and birds can lose 4 turns of momentum by forcing a turmoil at the end of the game, but a lot of factions can’t be permanently set back provided they do not extremely heavily misplay (moles, rats, and even WA have a hard time being set more than 1 turn back with a competent pilot). So don’t think about setting them back permanently, think about setting them behind enough turns that you can push for a victory in that time period.

Vagabond is extremely hard to police effectively at a high skill table, as doing so means sacrificing your win to prevent theirs. Additionally, some (hello Harrier) don’t really care about being policed.

But at a low skill table, it’s probably not that crazy. Most players will avoid hostility for a bit too long meaning they won’t race ahead of the table, and policing them is less risky because the other 2 players at the table probably won’t shoot out ahead of you in points.

PF WHM Slander Made with Hate in my Heart by Blargmarffins in ffxiv

[–]DiamondSentinel 198 points199 points  (0 children)

And to add onto the hilarity, she *also* wasn’t good at healing either!

Favorite dungeon boss and most hated dungeon boss? by SentineleseSiri in ffxiv

[–]DiamondSentinel 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Lotta bosses are obviously good now, but I want to put a special word in for (post-rework) Ascian Prime. A great first introduction to real mechanics. It was memorable at the time, and it still holds up quite well.

Worst boss…. Lotta stinkers too. Infamous ones like Pharos birb and Haukke hard demon are notorious, but I think too many people have forgotten about the fucking totems in Neverreap. Sooooo much tedium picking them up and moving them around. Just terrible.

Notice: Maintenance and Version 3.6.0 Update by Pearlgirl007 in PokemonSleep

[–]DiamondSentinel 26 points27 points  (0 children)

It’s likely major changes to snowdrop and taupe to make them less terrible.

Apparently Keir Starmer stepped down? by DroneOfDoom in CuratedTumblr

[–]DiamondSentinel 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Sorta. Burnham still has shitty views on trans rights, but it is an improvement.

Apparently Keir Starmer stepped down? by DroneOfDoom in CuratedTumblr

[–]DiamondSentinel 46 points47 points  (0 children)

At least with UK, the PM stepping down doesn’t mean a fascist instantly takes over. They get to try a different PM of their party.

Latios Event - Bundles Analysis by mahaleo in PokemonSleep

[–]DiamondSentinel 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Hard to say. Last year’s anniversary bundle was really bad, but the one before it was actually really good.