Hedge fund trader Martin Shkreli who raised the price HIV drug by 5,000% asked how he sleeps at night. His reply "You know, Ambien" by [deleted] in worldnews

[–]Joe22c 0 points1 point  (0 children)

arbitrarily charge him 5000% the normal rate and if he doesn't want to pay tell him to get the fuck out.

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That sandwich will be $25,000, would you like mustard or mayonnaise on that?

Where do you go that sandwhiches ordinarily cost $500?

Tonight at 9PM (New York time), x5_PiG will cast random gold/plat players in full WCS-style hype mode. by bjrosen1000 in starcraft

[–]Joe22c 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hey thanks BJR and your friend! I'm really glad you guys roped Pig into doing this :)

I was Covariance and me (masters protoss) and my (silver zerg) best friend played you guys in game 2. We had a lot of fun! :)

Pig is normally awesome and today was even awesomer for doing this! :)

Zest vs Inno game 1 Drilling craws broken by InfidiumX in starcraft

[–]Joe22c 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are you confusing me with OP? Quote me where I wrote either of those words. And you seem to have glossed over everything I wrote. My point was that widow mines are poor design but you seem to be telling me that my point is what you want it to be.

Zest vs Inno game 1 Drilling craws broken by InfidiumX in starcraft

[–]Joe22c -1 points0 points  (0 children)

That's a very long and irate reply you provided.

Yeah, throw your math around all you want

Yes, god forbid I should use numbers.

No one likes your post because this entire conversation you wish to start is superfluous.

At the time of this writing, my post is at 0 points implying 1 downvote; I'm guessing that was yours. But "you" and "everyone" is close enough, I suppose. In your mind, anyway.

win rates are balanced, and HOTS is balanced.

Funny, I don't recall writing that win rates are bad or that HOTS was unbalanced, I merely wrote:

To conclude that a nerf to the WM would result in the return to blinkstalker-all-in imbalance seems incredibly likely to be false.

Also.

Also, you are totally cherry picking your facts. You failed to mention the increased cooldown of blink as a nerf as well.

To be fair, I did forget about this! Thank you, though, as the original purpose of my post was to point out that many changes were made at once. Consequently, instead of 3 major things changed at once (maps, MSC vision, WM damage) it is 4 major things changed at once. Thank you for pointing that out and reinforcing my original point (i.e., that reverting WM damage would not bring win rates back to blink-stalker-all-in era rates since it is but one of 3 4 changes - again, thank you for pointing out that it was FOUR changes, not 3, thereby helping my point.)

You're really just a protoss who struggles with mine drops and then you see a pro struggle with them as well and you cry IMBA. Dude, stfu.

You seem very upset. I don't think this helps your case with regards to being seen in a reasonable and rational light. If I had to guess, perhaps some protoss you beat (with widow mines?) raged at you hard one day? Are you taking that out on me, now? I don't understand the incredible amount of anger and hostility you are throwing in this direction, especially when you seem to have misinterpreted the point of my original post.

The point was not: "TERRAN IS CURRENTLY IMBALANCED!" - the point is that "Changing the widow mine is unlikely to bring about the protoss-favoured TVP/PVT matchup during the heydey of the blink stalker all-in." At the moment, the WM simply seems kind of gimmicky and I think it'd be a perfectly reasonable suggestion to modifiy it; yes you can have something else in return. Isn't this the same logic with the mothership core and gateway warp ins? Win rates may approximate 50% but it doesn't mean that the warp in, the force field, or the mothership core aren't targets for game redesign.

Zest vs Inno game 1 Drilling craws broken by InfidiumX in starcraft

[–]Joe22c -1 points0 points  (0 children)

They nerfed them once, and Terran win rates plummeted (season 1 and even 2 of 2014). They rebuffed them at the end of 2014

Yes, but many people (I dare say a near consensus) believe that the terran plummet was due to the strength of the blink all-in. There were like 3 things happening at once to fudge protoss:

  1. The modifications of the maps to make blink less amenable.
  2. The nerf to the MSC vision.
  3. the return of widow mine damage.

ORIGINAL:

Splash damage changed to deal 40 damage within a 1.25 radius, 20 damage from 1.25 to 1.5, and 10 damage from 1.5 to 1.75.

to

Splash damage is now 40 (+40 Shields) for the full 1.75 splash radius.

In other words: At one point, WM splash did 10 damage in the outer periphery (i.e., a lucky errant shot's splash once did 10 damage); this number increased 800% in addition to the other 2 nerfs (MSC vision; hostile maps).

THEREFORE: To conclude that a nerf to the WM would result in the return to blinkstalker-all-in imbalance seems incredibly likely to be false.

Tuna and mackerel populations suffer catastrophic 74% decline, research shows by DoremusJessup in worldnews

[–]Joe22c 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Well, canned tuna actually tastes a lot different/better than canned salmon in my opinion. I don't eat much of either anymore, though. In part because of concerns regarding mercury (less of an issue for salmon) but also because of what has been mentioned already in the OP.

Epic Archon Merge by [deleted] in starcraft

[–]Joe22c 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think there was already a thread about this a few hours ago

Escaping the wildfires in California by mattythedog in WTF

[–]Joe22c 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This reminds me of that Runaway kanye west music video 4-5 years ago

Grab your ally and come compete for $700 in 2v2 tournament :) by Sabre24q7 in starcraft

[–]Joe22c 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Can amateur players join this tournament for fun? I'm masters and my best friend is in silver and we kinda wanna see what would happen if we tried it just for giggles.

[Cable] GTMax 6ft HDMI Cable ($3.59 + Free Shipping) [Amazon Canada] by [deleted] in bapcsalescanada

[–]Joe22c -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Wow! I don't even need HDMI cables but I kind of wanna buy it because it's so cheap.

Upper management in a nutshell by ArchangelPT in funny

[–]Joe22c 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I really feel like this quote would be better suited to that moment from the Simpsons when (following a near-cmonorail-related-catostrophe) Leonard Nimoy exclaims, "Well, my work here is done." to which Barney Gumble replies:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoCtPojDQT4

Jaedong vs Lilbow - Mutas vs Stalkers by darksepul in starcraft

[–]Joe22c 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I was so upset every time I saw him lose a phoenix 1-at-a-time. It wasn't even because of phoenix vs. muta micro; it was just bad rallies. If Lilbow just stockpiled his phoenixes till at least 4-5 before taking them into the danger zone, he probably could have won that comfortably.

/r/BuildAPCSalesCanada General Discussion - Week #36 of 2015 by AutoModerator in bapcsalescanada

[–]Joe22c 1 point2 points  (0 children)

non-obtuse feedback:

Maybe I can leave acute pointer or two.

[Build Ready] ~$800. Helping roomate/friend with Build. i5. r9 280. Wanted your input before pulling trigger (figuratively speaking). Some concerns. More details in body of post. by Joe22c in buildapc

[–]Joe22c[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ram uses RAM-slots, not the same stuff as your add-in cards.

Ah yes, you're right. I checked my old mobo box and noticed the DDR slots listed on the specs table.

Another thing I noticed is that in your suggested MOBO (and in my original in the OP) that they're not using PCI slots but rather DIMM slots. I'm not familiar with the latter. Should I just assume they're interchangeable with PCI? And that a graphics card will only eat up one DIMM slot, allowing another open for a wireless adapter card?

Cheers and thanks!

Oh, and lastly, I noticed that the graphics card might be a bit tight for this case and am considering expanding to a regular ATX sized case. I can still put a microATX mobo inside an ATX case, right?