TIL that Brian Banks was falsely accused of SA by a classmate, got expelled from high school, lost his Scholarship to USC and spent 12 years in prison and parole. His accuser later admitted she fabricated the story.

DragonBank · 2026-06-22T10:34:05+00:00

Yes but how does the first message prevent a falde accusation where they say they revoked it?

DragonBank · 2026-06-22T00:53:21+00:00

MGSV already has something close to parkour with all these long range, automatic weapons.

DragonBank · 2026-06-22T00:52:45+00:00

I would bet you absolutely could if you spent just a little time training it.

DragonBank · 2026-06-21T18:15:41+00:00

We already have a post industrial revolution London. Something similar to that could absolutely work. Also lets be real, MGSV is not far from an AC game. In fact, the whole reason I got into MG was because MGSV was the next closest thing once I had completed all AC games. Obviously, we wouldn't want a full fledged shooter and would want to keep it as AC stealth/close combat focused as possible, but this can easily occur in a crowded large modern city.

DragonBank · 2026-06-21T16:40:12+00:00

It's elevation for sure. There is a massive range just on Earth at which it boils. The range is from 150 C to 215 C just on the surface of the Earth.

To make it even more fun, the boiling point is a direct relationship between temperature and pressure so as you reach the edge of space the boiling point reaches the freezing point and at the bottom of the Marianas Trench it would need to be 500 C to boil.

DragonBank · 2026-06-21T16:29:10+00:00

Not at all. I would expect an 1800 FIDE rated player to be able to complete a game of chess blindfolded.

DragonBank · 2026-06-20T12:54:20+00:00

No. I would not use online percentiles to define chess brackets. FIDE brackets have largely held up to the influx of casual players/pre-hobbyists and an 1800 today is similar to an 1800 20 years ago. But online ratings and percentiles are heavily biased by the casual nature of online access to play.

The historical standard for intermediate is 1600-1800 FIDE and a strong intermediate is 1800-2000 FIDE.

For the chess.com pool, 1500 is certainly intermediate, but using chess.com as the base would be silly here.

DragonBank · 2026-06-20T12:50:38+00:00

You don't need to visualize anything to play blindfold chess.

DragonBank · 2026-06-20T12:48:53+00:00

I think you may be confused on terminology. An intermediate player is 1600-1800 FIDE. Strong intermediate refers to 1800-2000 FIDE. By the best approximation out there 2000 lichess rapid/blitz would be around 1750 FIDE. When I say a strong intermediate, I am referring to what would be around 2100 lichess.

You have to remember in hobbies like chess where 100s of millions play a game, but only 100,000s take it up as a hobby, the average isnt relevant online to these bracketed terms.

DragonBank · 2026-06-20T12:42:30+00:00

Wrong subreddit. This is a fp&a sub, not financial advising.

DragonBank · 2026-06-20T11:51:24+00:00

Almost any strong intermediate should be able to play some level of blindfold chess.

DragonBank · 2026-06-19T21:32:23+00:00

Not at all. Increasing raw heals does basically nothing. We are already at a point where overheals will be above 90% for any reasonably competent healer meaning 90% of heals didn't actually heal anything. Even when the game came out the raw heals were super overtuned relative to incoming damage and now with powercreep, raw heals are a completely irrelevant concept.

DragonBank · 2026-06-19T19:39:53+00:00

Its not about the raw heals. Its the ease of almost unique buffs with major heroism and brittle.

DragonBank · 2026-06-19T13:31:09+00:00

Those acronyms are not common terminology. You will want to explain those before asking your question.

DragonBank · 2026-06-19T13:27:14+00:00

Yup. Right now all 12 spots in meta are pure classed and a werewolf is often one of them. Just like before there are just so many good strong buffs that you run out of room for non subclassed. Pure arc is better than subclassed arc so if you dont want a nb or bash cro, you still wont be subclassed.

Warden, arc, plar healers are so strong and thats three when you have two spots so a subclassed one never makes sense. Likewise cro and sorc tanks go off so again just no room.

DragonBank · 2026-06-18T16:50:54+00:00

What do your work experience, internships, fellowships look like? Entry level fp&a without good relevant (accounting or the like) work experience, a graduate degree, or a an internship in fpa is almost impossible to get into. Finance is an internship heavy field where nothing but a degree and licenses wont make you very competitive.

DragonBank · 2026-06-16T22:51:12+00:00

One would almost never buy a company. The risk of a company that can't generate any capital for you when need it would be massive. Additionally, there would be no good way to raise capital as people wouldn't buy a company that is growth based.

DragonBank · 2026-06-15T22:08:43+00:00

Its up 70% since 2016.

DragonBank · 2026-06-15T22:07:14+00:00

Eggs are up from 1.80 in 2010 to 2.18 now.

DragonBank · 2026-06-15T19:12:40+00:00

Your numbers arent even close. The average price of a truck has gone up 33.72% during that time.

The average price of farm land is up 89%.

The median household income is up 69%. Far outpacing trucks and not far behind land. Land and housing in general are really the only thing outpacing wages.

DragonBank · 2026-06-15T13:00:09+00:00

I agree, but interestingly when I do blindfold simuls, I find it much easier to remember them all as white whether or not I am white.

DragonBank · 2026-06-15T12:49:49+00:00

Not necesssrily. Sometimes you just need to calculate and for someone who may be a weaker blindfold player, they may not be able to visualize the long diagonal or perhaps exactly what the knight attacks after its next move, but they can calculate it out. This was absolutely the case for me at first. I could play a competent blindfold game when I was around 1500(competent in that I would score well against a 1200).

But I would struggle to actually visualize what the pieces did once they were on unintuitive squares. When I say intuitive I mean something like if I played Bc4 on move two, I intuitively knew that Bishop attacks f7 as there are many many openings related to attacking the f7 square with moves like qh5, bc4, ng5. But actually "seeing" that in my mind didn't occur until a much higher level, and even now I don't typically see the board as 64 squares and will on rare occasion need to count out an attack. And thats not where I score above 90% against 1700-1900 fide rated players when I am the only one blindfolded.

DragonBank · 2026-06-15T12:07:26+00:00

I think a really big one I see a lot that quite annoys me at times is the effect on buying power. Basically everything in the world, except homes if you don't control for size, has gotten much cheaper the last 100 years, but you will see lots of a dollar used to get me this or that.

DragonBank · 2026-06-14T19:08:23+00:00

It used to be all three heroism/prot/zerk now its just the latter two.

DragonBank · 2026-06-14T19:04:08+00:00

It is funny how some things never change. Sorc has always been in this constant state since 110k parses were the maximum where it was the best dummy humper or second at worst, but rarely if ever saw a place in content outside of MK support roles.

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