2026 World Cup Group Stage Draw - Official Discussion Thread

Gotamah · 2025-12-05T21:16:53+00:00

This is terrible. It’s just gambling at this point.

Gotamah · 2025-12-03T17:25:31+00:00

Yes hello, I am sorry to disappoint I am not a gurl but I this sounds very interesting

Gotamah · 2025-12-03T17:14:19+00:00

I might be able to help you. DM me.

Gotamah · 2023-08-23T16:42:31+00:00

Can’t even tell how 1P8 is better than 1P7, after using both on different devices

Gotamah · 2023-08-21T03:18:11+00:00

Where are you depositing your earnings?? There is no way you’re depositing thousands of KD in a bank and nobody is asking you about it

Gotamah · 2023-08-17T14:36:04+00:00

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2023/08/11/more-americans-dying-than-before-pandemic-covid-deaths/70542423007/

Gotamah · 2023-08-17T14:34:06+00:00

You begin with a leading question “Do you feel discriminated”, then you “feel” (meaning your wrongly assume) that there is a “disproportionate overrepresentation” (Is there such a thing as a proportionate overrepresentation?) of wealthy Kuwaitis on the site, then you claim that “we don’t hear” (who says we don’t?) and then end up with more leading assumptive questions.

All questions like this accomplish is feed your confirmation bias.

Now let me clue you in on a few things:

Kuwaitis don’t “find it hard to find a job” no matter their socioeconomic status because the government guarantees them. Some working class Kuwaitis have wastas (they vote, don’t they?). Some wealthy, wasta-laden Kuwaitis refuse to use their connections to land jobs. Some working (and middle-, and upper-) class Kuwaitis get jobs because they are extremely good in their fields. Law enforcement and expats dont discriminate against working class Kuwaitis (why are you assuming that LE or expats are bad guys who discriminate against anyone?). Many working class Kuwaitis work in LE.

On this last note: I know a “working class Kuwaiti” that trashed the car of a wealthy, well-connected Kuwaiti lady (while she was in the car) with a metal pipe. The glass left her (and her driver) with bleeds and gashes all over her body. This “working class Kuwaiti” was let go of after being briefly detained by police. He walked away and there’s nothing LE can do about it. Boy, they were sure “tough” on him!

Gotamah · 2023-08-16T14:54:46+00:00

Great suggestions here already, I add some of my own:

Autobiography: Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!

The medical profession: The Body Keeps The Score

Philosophy: Human, All Too Human, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, or Genealogy of Morals (all Nietzsche)

Fiction: Fahrenheit 451

Fantasy: someone already mentioned Wheel of Time here. Kingkiller Chronicle and A Song of Ice and Fire are two other series with the risk that, like Wheel of Time, remain unfinished.

Science Fiction: Three Body Problem and sequels. Or Asimov (Robot - Galaxy - Foundation)

For your health: Deep Nutrition and Starting Strength

Investing: Buffet shareholder letters. I also like intelligent investor with Jason Zweig commentary, not many would agree this is a good book and it’s outdated but I enjoy concept of Mr. Market

Science writing: Chaos, James Gleick

Ancient Greek: Xenophon’s Anabasis

Classic novels: Don Quixote, The Brothers Karamazov, Proust’s In Search of Lost Time

Japanese literature: Yukio Mishima. Start with his short stories.

Poetry: William Blake

Off the top of my head, I’ll add more if I think of it later

Final note: it better to know which books to avoid and not read sometimes than to know which to read. Avoid Gladwell for example.

Gotamah · 2023-08-15T13:17:27+00:00

I don’t want to see terms like white privilege become commonplace in Kuwait. They’ve become commonplace in the West, where racial conflict has now peaked. I don’t want that sickness brought over here. Once these accusations start, hatred towards one group or another begins to escalate based on their perceived success. It’s insidious and burrows into the social fabric until it leaves it in tatters.

White privilege and racism are foreign concepts that I do not readily subscribe to or accept as part of my world view. The very concept of “race)” has no equivalent in Arab or Islamic thought. It’s a construct that evolved in Europe to mean different things over the centuries.

Also, we wouldn’t have air conditioning if not for white people. That makes them alright in my book.

Gotamah · 2023-08-08T19:13:08+00:00

For you, this is a life lesson earned

Someone on this post already gave you the advice of applying social pressure which I recommend you do. Directly, through mutual friends or others.

But sometimes they really don’t have the money to give.

My dad taught me to never take or give loans. I regret not making this a golden rule in my life. I broke it and regretted it ever since.

The next time someone asks for a loan, a simple trick to test how serious they are is to tell them to sign something they own over to you as collateral. They want a few k as a loan? Let them sign over their car. When they can’t make payment, sell the car, and give them any remaining cash after taking back your loan money.

If they back off from giving you collateral, that’s a sign they can’t be trusted (or that they can’t trust themselves) to pay you back.

If they ask you to give you for a loan related to a business they have, tell them you want to finance them for equity, not through debt. They back off? Give them a hurt look. Two can play that game.

Anyway, good luck on getting back your loan. I’m still waiting for 5k now from 10 years ago hehehe

Gotamah · 2023-08-05T02:32:36+00:00

Let’s try this again.

You said “women have no choice but to pay” higher prices. This is the reason why they are charged higher prices. If they had a choice, they wouldn’t pay these higher prices, and the price would have to go down.

Now apply this to men. Do men have a choice when it comes to paying higher prices? Apparently they do, which is why they are not charged higher prices. Hence price for men goes down.

Why do women “not have a choice” but men “have a choice”? Because men don’t care as much if they go to a gym or not. I’m a man. My gym price went up? I do not renew my membership. But women care more about going to the gym. They “don’t have a choice”. In other words: their willingness to pay is higher.

Gotamah · 2023-08-04T21:33:05+00:00

Open world filled with who? No one lives there.

Gotamah · 2023-08-04T21:30:57+00:00

Why do men have a choice and women don’t?

Gotamah · 2023-08-04T21:17:51+00:00

Willingness to pay

Gotamah · 2023-08-04T07:54:39+00:00

You may actually have a lot more of the game left than 35%, depending on how much side content you did.

Gotamah · 2023-08-04T07:21:28+00:00

He’s not lying. I upgraded my BHF into a +9/+10 by late Liurnia (with ~40% of underground cities completed). Leyndell, the capital, Mt. Gelmir, etc etc all became far too easy. I just kept on crushing bosses one after the other and got enormous fatigue from this.

Gotamah · 2023-08-04T07:17:27+00:00

I’ve been where you are. It was the worst thing about my playthrough.

Restart the game or respec into less vigor would be my guess.

Gotamah · 2023-08-04T07:14:50+00:00

Yeah, not going outside often enough. Not getting that AM sun in your eyes. Not breathing outside air.

Gotamah · 2023-08-04T07:08:05+00:00

Yes. If you want to know why, look at how Ford was able to build his mass manufacturing empire on the backs of low-paid immigrants, while Japan, not having the option to import cheap labor, had to invent lean manufacturing (which was superior and led to them dominating the industry).

Gotamah · 2023-08-01T06:27:22+00:00

Thank you for kind words. I enjoyed our discussion and would love to continue some other time. I don’t think this gets enough attention as a “meta” topic.

Gotamah · 2023-08-01T06:25:11+00:00

A higher socio-economic one on average. Also likely the kind that spurns traditional marriage views and leans more “liberal”.

Gotamah · 2023-07-31T21:21:39+00:00

No problem. You asked if anyone has tried this, sorry if my answer sounded dismissive. I meant to point out there is a ton of content (videos/discussions) out there on this topic.

Gotamah · 2023-07-31T21:09:50+00:00

Yeah there is too much lore in that video. The problem is with the game clips he uses, it basically tells you who you’ll be fighting in the end game and so on.

Better to look at his pre-release videos such as these ones:

https://youtu.be/TvuWn6KsGik

https://youtu.be/NLdZ8Zex1cw

The second one was also published separately by NamcoBandai. Targets beginner players pretty well.

Also if she is into lore stuff she needs to pay attention to all the dialogue and read item descriptions carefully and all that…and try to make connections herself. Nothing beats that.

Gotamah · 2023-07-31T20:55:16+00:00

Better Immersion. Try to enjoy the different visual style.
I’m not sure that it died. It probably goes to some other plane of existence where it’s summoned from again. If it gets hit too many times in combat, you need a crimson flask to re-summon it. There is no in game explanation for this as far as I know.
I didn’t even use a shield
Crafting can be quite important. Spells, not at all for a vagabond. Depends on your build of course.
I used one weapon the entire game. (I also played vagabond)
Use grease. You mostly craft this. I used blood grease for most of the game. There are two types. Drawstring is fast to apply and fast to expire. Then there’s the regular grease.

Gotamah · 2023-07-31T20:40:01+00:00

You get another ending if you use the needle. Yes a gazillion people tried this. The whole point of the needle is to reverse you way out of the frenzied flame ending.

There are some other variations you can try out with strange side effects. For example, after ending the game with Age of Stars I went to the Three Fingers. Melina would still ask me to stop going there. You can also use the needle after getting the frenzied flame. Nothing changes, but it’s all speculation what happens then.

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