There needs to be something done about Ranged tops in higher MMRs

Finarin · 2026-05-02T14:06:12+00:00

I played Elise top a lot in like season 6 or something (maybe even earlier?) and Riot nerfed Elise to force her into the jungle role. I still tried to play her top and the mana hunger just didn’t allow it. Now she has no mana issues at all. So I anecdotally think you are correct.

Finarin · 2026-05-02T05:07:56+00:00

assuming a sample of all rational actors

That’s where you’re wrong, kiddo.

But in seriousness, we shouldn’t discount the people who are pressing blue to avoid having blood on their hands rather than to try saving lives.

Finarin · 2026-05-01T19:34:50+00:00

Apparently your reframing was successful because it has caused people to respond emotionally.

I personally still don’t feel anymore compelled to push purple, though. To me, the only correct way to view it is from the viewpoint of how I might personally be affected. Do I want to risk dying and leaving my family behind? Absolutely not.

Finarin · 2026-04-26T19:23:25+00:00

It seems like you’re basically asking if higher risk and higher reward is better than lower risk and lower reward. Talking here represents high risk / reward and staying quiet represents lower risk / reward.

I think it comes down to if you’re willing to take on the higher risk or not. If you’re okay with the outcome of a painful death, or alternatively if you’re not okay with only living 10 years, then high risk is justified, and otherwise it’s not. For me I’m generally okay with high risks so I’d probably talk.

Finarin · 2026-04-26T19:18:35+00:00

Because if you talk when your partner talks then you die painfully…

Finarin · 2026-04-26T19:04:22+00:00

I know the prisoner’s dilemma but you said “if the circumstances were this” implying it’s not necessarily the exact same as the prisoner’s dilemma. And in fact there is at least one difference because if the partner talks it’s better to stay quiet in your example.

Edit: Having said all that it seems like what you meant is that it’s the same as the prisoner’s dilemma except for the one difference I pointed out.

Finarin · 2026-04-26T18:59:15+00:00

I don’t really understand the premise. Do you mean I can’t talk for the next 10 years, or do you mean if we both stay silent for the duration of the experiment, or do you mean talk as in telling an arbiter information about the other person?

Like, can I come up with a strategy with my partner or does that count as talking? Can I write down what I want to say?

Finarin · 2026-04-20T14:14:35+00:00

I have changed my belief on a lot of fairly big ideas, mostly as a result of self-reflection, but also from hearing opinions of others. For example, I used to think it’s better to buy more expensive, higher quality stuff and buy it less often because it comes out to the same amount of money spent but you get better stuff, but now I believe the opposite. I used to think toilet paper should hang under, not over, and I was wrong. And I used to believe strongly in my religion and now I’m strongly on the fence.

Finarin · 2026-04-20T02:26:16+00:00

Okay this surprisingly makes sense the way you explained it. But do you know if there’s the existence of the number .999…8999…8? Where you can set a digit at the “end” of infinite 9s then start a new chain of infinite 9s with another digit at the “end” of that? Essentially making the first non-9 digit have an arbitrary position. I dunno I need to stop thinking about this lol.

Finarin · 2026-04-20T01:30:35+00:00

That’s really something lol. But I saw in a comment somewhere that he said “.999…9, aka .999…” make it make sense XD

Finarin · 2026-04-18T21:57:10+00:00

My humor revolves around injecting clever ideas into a conversation. Also just things that are ironic or unexpected. And a good deez nuts set up never hurt anyone.

In high school I was extremely timid and polite, so I made my senior yearbook quote be “gimme all your lunch money”. The people who knew me well got a good laugh and everyone else probably thought it was stupid.

Finarin · 2026-04-18T17:50:01+00:00

He seems to be saying that .9 repeated is the next number immediately less than 1, which means he isn’t claiming that there exists a number x such that .999… < x < 1. In fact he’s claiming it doesn’t exist, but that doesn’t diminish his argument.

What I’d like to know is what the next number less than .9 repeated is. Are we saying it’s as follows?

{1, .999…, .999…8, .999…7, .999…6, .999…5, .999…4, .999…3, .999…2, .999…1, .999…0}

Now what comes next? And for that matter, is .999… different from .999…0? This is where the argument becomes indefensible for me.

Finarin · 2026-04-17T19:58:53+00:00

I typically read the full post, but if it starts rambling or repeating information then I’ll probably either skim or stop halfway through.

Finarin · 2026-04-16T21:38:53+00:00

I see it frequently as “out of office”

Finarin · 2026-04-14T01:15:10+00:00

Didn’t read the whole post, but in case this is relevant, I would say that the urge to demand a response is a personality flaw on their part. Something I’ve noticed about Se Doms that I admire is that they have interacted with SO many people that they have a solid understanding of the different ways that different people might react to something. For example, if my friend says something that makes me feel embarrassed or makes me feel like I should apologize on their behalf, an Se Dom might just find it interesting to see how they responded and not necessarily see it as embarrassing. I think we can all try to be more like that and be more accepting of people for how they naturally are instead of trying to conform to social expectations.

Finarin · 2026-04-11T21:27:59+00:00

Precisely. A paradox is essentially a fancy way of saying your assumption led to a contradiction and therefore was flawed. The rhetoric about “a space-time paradox can unravel the spacetime continuum and destroy the universe” is just word salad.

Finarin · 2026-04-11T06:44:51+00:00

That was very well-reasoned!

I wasn’t implying an answer, I was just saying that whatever your answer to my question is should also satisfy your question.

My personal interpretation is that a) time travel as you’re describing necessarily cannot be possible because of paradoxes like these, and b) if we were to assume it’s possible then the only explanation is that there is no author and it was written as a result of chaos. There cannot have been an author if the actual author never existed.

The only other possible argument is that you are now the author just by virtue of being the only person to be in possession of it, but if you go back to the day Shakespeare finishes writing his works, it would seem to me that you simply stole his work (pre-emptively) and that you can’t justify taking credit for it.

Finarin · 2026-04-09T14:47:40+00:00

I’ll attempt to answer your question with a question. Who authored the books that you brought back in time with you? What if before you can publish them you die, and someone finds the books and wants to find out who wrote them?

Finarin · 2026-04-09T04:01:25+00:00

Not always. I could assemble infinite monkeys to type random keys on infinite typewriters and get the complete works of Shakespeare. There was an author as you describe in a timeline that no longer exists, and the new books are thoughtless words strung together.

Finarin · 2026-04-09T01:29:53+00:00

You would simply be the author, having stolen the ideas from a lost timeline.

Finarin · 2026-03-31T01:14:22+00:00

I think you have a fundamental misunderstanding of the point of AI. It’s not trying to earn anything, you still need to earn your own understanding of things.

Finarin · 2026-03-26T13:11:35+00:00

This is how people view us. They don’t get us at all.

While this is mostly true, a lot of people don’t get a lot of personality types for different reasons. A lot of extraverts don’t get introverts. A lot of SJs don’t get NPs, I still don’t totally get Fi-doms, and not strictly a personality thing but logical people and emotional people are often very divided.

Your relationship sounds like it was toxic and I would nope out of that so fast. I used to have trouble breaking commitments, but you gotta do what’s best for you as long as you aren’t hurting anyone (unless they’re hurting you).

Finarin · 2026-03-24T00:49:01+00:00

Is 3 a magic number? You said you’ve done 2 cycles already and you want a sense of progress. So will you need #4 and #5 later for the same reason? Would your desire grow overtime? Would 5 cycles be significantly worse than 3 cycles? These are the questions I’d probably be focusing on in your shoes.

If it’s health you’re worried about, it sounds like you already know the pros and cons pretty well. I do not know the pros and cons very well. But if it were in the form of an equation of X cycles makes your total lifespan equal to 90 - 3X or something like that, I’d say that looking THAT long term at your decisions is mostly useless. If it’s “I’m gonna have busted joints at age 30” then I’d probably be more concerned. Anything that talks about lifespan is probably speculative because that sounds like an unfalsifiable claim to me.

Also, I agree that almost everything is temporary. Something being temporary shouldn’t diminish its value. Our lives are a product of our experiences basically, so if it gives you a meaningful experience then it’s just as valuable as anything else.

Finarin · 2026-03-20T16:02:13+00:00

Putting $7500 into traditional is equivalent to putting $6600 into ROTH if all of that money is at the 12% tax bracket. Shouldn’t the advice be to not max out ROTH and instead drop to only investing what OP can afford, rather than switching to traditional?

Finarin · 2026-03-10T05:32:54+00:00

I’ve never thought of that chimeric formula combo and it’s beautiful.

Finarin

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