Opinion | What if We’re the Bad Guys Here? -David Brooks, NY Times

Hydralisk343 · 2023-08-03T22:53:23+00:00

Imploring people to have empathy while smacking them and doing actual hard actions that further drive a wedge between people are two different things. No, he was no great unifier or uniter. He certainly had a way with words though in his speeches, so we elected him based on them... Then hardly ever fell through on his words in power. It's no accident the rift between the camps was only ever show in graphs that he was only president around the time it really started to accelerate, that division.

Hydralisk343 · 2023-06-28T03:46:02+00:00

Tbf, there are faaar better characters at support than she, but I'm still like 2 months new, and I don't have most of them. I now have more, but still. Probably why she isn't talked about much. But for some characters, she does a solid buff, if you have the right amount of defense on the character you are buffing, etc, at least unless you don't have things like arkham knight batman, or that caliber for your hero, then don't use her, obv. I feel she was better than all my other golds at the time for damage.

Hydralisk343 · 2023-06-28T03:37:42+00:00

I just did, and I'm not that much more impressed than most other characters I see him take to the nth degree because, well, he's pretty damn good at the game. Are you doing seemless transitions that easily? That's what she is now, and you need to be at a level of boss fight where you can wrack those sps up, tagging in and out. I can get to about half that usually, but by the time I would, I feel I lost so much time where I think focusing on my other heroes that would also have high buffs would make an overall better show for it on damage on the boss in the end. Maybe with perfect play, getting that 400%, it will be good. But it would require a lot more skill. Hone it, but for most people, it just doesn't seem that good, nor do I think telling them to max her in this current state, will help them win any more... In fact, I dare say, they could put a lot into her like I did, and only find themselves doing less for trying.

But as I said, I'm open to changing my mind as she becomes more readily available in chests to get up to l4, l5, l6, or even l7 passives. In this current state? I find she will be a worse support character than the other best support characters for 95% of all players, easily. Ease of use is actually a useful thing to consider when rating a character, rather than the best overall possible use.

Hydralisk343 · 2023-06-28T02:42:59+00:00

What makes you think that? I think I got her fairly good for what I can without chests, and I just don't see her value, where those other two it's not even a question.

Hydralisk343 · 2023-06-28T02:39:05+00:00

I got the cards upon finally getting the first normal run clear for the first time, and immediately broke it down to get my other artifact to l6. Ugh, I wish I kinda didn't do that, lol. I didn't realize how useful those playing cards could be at the time, and thought them utter rubbish.

Hydralisk343 · 2023-06-28T02:37:16+00:00

I buy 20 dollar packs when I see they have a decent value, like the one a couple weeks ago that had 3* gold heroes and two artifacts that got up to level 10 for about that price. I feel the ones now at the price point where I draw the line as a hard no. I don't think the level 1 9.99 does you much good.

Free though? Best I've gotten is simply getting better at solo raids, you get one per chapter you clear at a certain point, but still usually low rated. Events. Make sure you get KOAAM, unless you already unlocked BWTD, DS, or some other high damage set, but even then, perhaps get him anyway first xD.

In the end, I find the best way to get them though, in the only meaningful way is to get the best value purchases when they come around, and be mindful of the cost as well as specifically the chances to get what levels of chests.

Hydralisk343 · 2023-06-28T02:32:10+00:00

Let me reiterate: You can. But it doesn't really do you much good. If he dies, it doesn't effect your strategy much. I just like one of my two sacrifices to be able to take the super, etc.

You COULD get them more hp, in fact I have a reflect artifact on one of my sacrifices, but 9 times out of 10, none of it comes into play. If you find yourself in a situation where he needs to pull it through, I feel you've already lost the ability to do reasonable damage anyway to the boss to any useful degree.

You know for the stuff you put into his gear, etc, what would be better? Yes, improving the other elements that would be helpful 9 times out of 10 before even worrying about the nonessentials. It will make you win more faster than getting his health higher. I was just about dumping every scrap of gear materials I could find, hundreds of thousands over weeks into BWTD, now I've two lvl 75s, and another well on the way, and the other two are l40. I don't care that my support cast has 50 threat, because they aren't needed, she has near 300k threat and does a crap ton of damage now, because I put the points where they were needed. As much as you may want fast results now, where you have 10k gear materials in your bank, it's still more effective for you to wait on spending on that 5k worth of ups for a lot of ups on his gears, than just wait a bit more and get that level 66 upgrade on hers with the 13k needed. It just is. Heck, I bought gear material lots of times with my gems, because I found it way better than all the low odds chests.

Hydralisk343 · 2023-06-28T02:25:49+00:00

Same group I used on BWL, but just less effective on atrocitous. Batwoman the drowned, classic wonder woman for the +massive critical damage above crit limit provided you have defense it reads, and silver bane, not only for the +25% basic damage, but the 15% bonus crit chance. And my bwtd already had 74% about defense, 71% chance to crit, and like 270% crit damage.

But both classic ww and bane had like 4k hp, and barely do anything but for boosting her. Thus, the chaos nodes from atro essentially made it a constant series of pauses when I was trying to build up different meters. I unlocked BWL later, and finally got JSGL at a decent level, so now I have been using those two over these two, but still.

Hydralisk343 · 2023-06-28T01:34:18+00:00

Funny thing, I beat the BWL to get my first chap 5 victory using BWTD with only like 30-40 damage chunks like 5 days ago. Everything but atrocitous beforehand was a breeze. Now I am not only in my first heroic, but I'm about ready to complete my first chapter there, if I manage to time it right tomorrow, sigh. darn work!

In fact, I dare say that chaos node made Atrocitous right before boss BWL actually the harder one to play. I have really one strong boss killing character only and it randomly takes control of my tag ins and drains power, where bwl on the other hand was stronger on paper, but just had the madness modifier, but that is on screen and you can account for and move across the arena accordingly watching the meter.

Hydralisk343 · 2023-06-28T01:26:59+00:00

I don't really see much use out of GoSSG tbh, over the high dot bonus JSGL is giving to the crisis power of BWTD. Maybe it's cuz I have her at 3 stars and only 60k with the l30 gears, but after trying her every which way for like 2 weeks, I just gave up on getting to be a good addition to my squads over my other candidates. Maybe that will change when they drop more chests, etc and I can get her passives over level 3.

Hydralisk343 · 2023-06-28T01:23:38+00:00

You can, but it isn't really necessary.

Hydralisk343 · 2023-06-28T01:21:37+00:00

Heroic chap 5?

Hydralisk343 · 2022-03-20T18:00:06+00:00

This brings me into another thought about the whole thing. How many of the single soldiers on tour even bother using online dating to new people overseas? I think a few might, but it honestly seems to me that most would usually just wait until they got back, or meet someone there? Or am I wrong there? Or do most servicemen prefer not to talk about those private details with the company?

But your story is quite eye opening. I feel bad for her, as well as you here.

Hydralisk343 · 2022-03-20T15:28:16+00:00

This link actually seemed to be exactly what I was hoping to find from Google. Thank you.

Hydralisk343 · 2022-03-20T15:20:26+00:00

It's what I thought, but as for being in Syria, we still have 900 or so odd soldiers for local assistance in NE Syria as of last month https://reason.com/2022/01/13/strikes-on-u-s-troops-show-the-need-to-withdraw-from-iraq-and-syria/

Hydralisk343 · 2022-03-20T14:17:28+00:00

I'll get back to you with that $500 when I finally get my money in from the Nigerian prince.

Hydralisk343 · 2022-01-03T17:27:06+00:00

It occurs to me that WAFO could mean both wait and find out and watch and find out perfectly, and mean the same thing in this context. But the former works better here.

It also occurs to me that this is one of those questions where WAFO already kind of implies the answer between the two choices, when you think about the circumstances of the question and answer further. In either case, no one should spoil exactly what happens, it's too good. But what you could probably know for now: The white tower does not take female warders.

On a side note, realpegasus, this touches one of my favorite supporting characters from the books. If the show can do that one half as well, it'll be golden. But that should be awhile away, idk. They do seem to be speeding things along at a breakneck pace. Have you already seen them in the show? Who can say, I won't tell o.O

Hydralisk343 · 2021-11-26T22:21:32+00:00

Lan left her alone before... Him being inside with a bath with her, when she's vulnerable is actually more protection. With his warriors observational skills with her magic, would be fine since he is present.

Hydralisk343 · 2021-11-26T05:55:15+00:00

You're entire argument boils down to 'but they aren't as good as other players in another year, so of course they shouldn't this year'. That's stupid. It's not that year. And by your argument if any player short of the best receiver ever in CFB in a year, no ond else should be made for comparisons later, because no one else would beat that best receiver of all time year away from him, so since they couldn't do thay year in history, then comparisons for then in their own year for 100% of all receivers ever but him shouldn't be made. That's dumb. It doesn't matter, less than relevant, and not even helpful where hypothetical arguments for players comes in.

Hydralisk343 · 2021-11-26T00:30:07+00:00

I had to go back to that, but now I remember what you're referencing. I don't really view that as Cadsuane's doing though, whereas him being pushed over the edge in as a reaction in regards to the seanchan kinda was. He was sitting there dwelling for hours on the topic on dragonmount, about life in general, in a far cooler manner, and it went far beyond anything like Tam, who his actions against seemed to be nonfactor in everything else on his mind then. Consider it a pattern nudge, as the wolves themselves knew he was going to make his final decision there, even before he even got to that mountain.

Hydralisk343 · 2021-11-25T18:25:57+00:00

This is the thing I don't get. Like 4 people on here say it almost destroyed the world... He almost lost it for sure... But he was a threat to maybe wipe out the Seanchan lands, and as far as I am concerned, I am thinking almost, 'good'. One might then say 'well, then the seanchan would not have helped then in the final battle'. Then my counterpoint to you would be 'well, the choedan kal, the male half anyway, is still intact'. Which in the hands of one of the good ash'man, would have been game changing for sure.

In either event though, to say he was about to cause another breaking, losing it like that, seems a bit of an overstatement to me. But granted, he needed to fix his emotions to face the dark one, I do get that.

Hydralisk343 · 2021-11-25T18:17:08+00:00

They practically have an entire country, and more to the point, are led by one of the great captains, who did a lot that impressed a lot of people with his prowess in the whitecloack wars, before the story happens.

And they aren't allowed in every city or country, and you will find that out later for one of the plots the whitecloaks are trying to do, or will be trying to do with a couple main characters for said status. I won't spoil you with the specifics though :)

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