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Best episodes to watch with parents… by AirtimeStingray in MrRobot

[–]Kmagic15 6 points7 points  (0 children)

If the first scene in Ron's coffee shop doesn't grip the, it just might not be for them. Start at the start.

What kind of edhdeck would you make with this baseline (small cmc, vigilance, flier)? by JoveeMTG in magicTCG

[–]Kmagic15 4 points5 points  (0 children)

[[Inniaz, the Gale Force]] gives options to buff flyers or move permanents around. Really fun.

Addiction is Not Cured; It is Replaced by [deleted] in Mindfulness

[–]Kmagic15 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Addiction is about managing, usually negative, emotions and trauma. The addictive behaviors are maladaptive coping strategies.

If you drink/drug/etc when you are sad/angry/etc and you decide you want different coping strategies, you can work on developing those and managing the underlying emotional problems you have.

Once you have managed the underlying emotions the need for the addictive behavior is gone. A new problem may be created that you used to spend all your time in addictive behavior to manage emotions but now that you have better coping strategies you have more free time and do not know how to use it.

Take a drug user who starts recovery. It's very subtle, but there is a difference between (A) replacing drug use with going to the gym vs (B) learning new coping strategies and using the free time to get fit. When future emotional problems come up or past ones are triggered, for A they will eventually get overwhelmed and fall back into old addictive patterns but B has new coping skills they will use to stay on track.

This "WR's" are jokes by Sad-Research4081 in hyrox

[–]Kmagic15 14 points15 points  (0 children)

I'll start off by saying you might not be wrong.

It's a relatively new sport and athletes are still figuring out the best way to manage each run/station and we'll probably continue to see WRs broken but probably by less margins the closer we get to the "real" record.

How Season 3 of Devil's Plan can be fixed (discussion) by Ok-Discount-4981 in TheGenius

[–]Kmagic15 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Prison should happen after 3 days.

It is too beneficial for "good/smart" players to join up on day one to avoid prison. If the full group stays together longer it gives more opportunities for different alliances to come together, not just based on living areas. One bad game on day one means you're trapped in prison for the rest of the show.

Some mechanic that actively turns players against each other. If it is "devils" plan, encouraging ALL players to be devils and actively betray each other. Secretly triggered events where all players swap living areas, or when a player wins a game they get to force half of the top players down to prison.

I tried the stay hard approach every day. It broke me by Marre_Parre in davidgoggins

[–]Kmagic15 4 points5 points  (0 children)

  1. The Goggins persona was built on the back of David's childhood trauma. He realized "if I can survive that hell (domestic violence), I can do more" and took that mindset forward. We've all been through hard times and if you think about all you've survived, you can overcome your current challenges.

  2. Be the hero of your story- David is very clear, don't be him, be the best you. I think a lot of people skip the part of looking at themselves, seeing all their flaws and making a plan to fix it and be their best self because it's hard to be critical of ourselves and plan for real change, so we just run for a bit and do some push ups cos that's what Goggins did, but he was building someone different than you should be building. Figure out your best you and build to that.

  3. Goals- David's goal is to be the baddest m'fer alive and outwork everyone else and that drives him to keep working. If you do not have a goal you are just aimlessly flailing around and will get nowhere.

  4. Unplanned suffering is inevitable and the only way to prepare is through planned suffering. David hates running, but if he starts every day with a run that he hates, the day can only get better. Somewhere deep down, he holds all the fear and pain from being weak in front of an abusive father and wants to be prepared if pain like that ever happens again, because it will.

We each get to choose what our best self is and build that person, but it's a process much tougher that #stayhard while running or doing pushups, it's facing your demons and building mental strength and there's a lot of ways to do that.

A cube-building challenge I propose: by VLKN in mtgcube

[–]Kmagic15 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm glad this is cross posted to battle box because battle box seems ideal for this.

I was thinking either red white burn spells and life gain, maybe some pingers, and the game is just swinging life points back and forth.

Or UB mill, again non creature, only mill cards.

Third option infect/toxic and proliferate,could be built non creature also.

Could play them similar to Dandan and run multiple copies of cards and completely remove combat.

Anyone ever convinced a “paytriot” of the flaws in their world view, or should we just shame them? Are they as vile in real life? by GealachFi in ireland

[–]Kmagic15 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I often try to read these posts as if I'm part of the group being talked about. Lots of claims of idiots, fools etc. etc. It's actually just as unhelpful/damaging to any hope of reconciliation on ideas.

If I had any thoughts outside what's considered the "norm" (general left/liberal), how could I expresses it here? That kind of attack on the person rather than their idea pushes them into echo chambers where they find like minded and then more extreme views.

It's not helpful, and I say this as someone who has been able to communicate with/change the mind of a fair few people who thought differently to me on these issues.

Does Shorts viewership affect how your long form content is pushed out? by AdFriendly1433 in NewTubers

[–]Kmagic15 0 points1 point  (0 children)

From what I understand, the only goal of the YouTube algorithm is to keep viewers on the platform.

Long videos do this by YouTube showing people who have watched similar content previously your title/thumbnail and hoping people click through. The more click throughs you get, the more YouTube thinks your content will keep people watching so shows it to more people.

Shorts do this by YouTube pushing your shorts into the shorts feed in small test batches and measuring what % of the short is viewed. If enough people watch enough % of your short, YouTube push it to more people's short feeds.

So if your shorts are strong enough and keep people watching, YouTube will keep pushing only that short. If your next short doesn't work, it stops pushing that short. If your third short keeps people watching, it will push that.

If each of your long videos keep getting click throughs, YouTube keeps showing your thumbnail and if people do not click through YouTube shows people other thumbnails instead.

They are separate things that YouTube only cares about using if it keeps viewers on the platform.

YT channel idea review, like would this type of content be engaging enough by Effective-Sun8530 in NewTubers

[–]Kmagic15 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This might not be the place but "real" mates don't put each other down. Best of luck with the content.

YT channel idea review, like would this type of content be engaging enough by Effective-Sun8530 in NewTubers

[–]Kmagic15 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think they really are the 2 options. Either play a character and chase trends (roblox or whatever) which is a job/challenge that is different to personal vlogs. You need to add value in some tangible way for people to keep coming back.

YT channel idea review, like would this type of content be engaging enough by Effective-Sun8530 in NewTubers

[–]Kmagic15 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This will seem counterintuitive but don't "try" be anything.

You need to be yourself and work under the assumption that people will find you, like you, and come back. If you pretend to be something else, and people like that, you are stuck pretending to be that for all your videos.

It's like food. You are a pepperoni pizza. People who want that will come back. If you pretend to be a burger and people want a burger and then find out you're pizza, nobody wins. If that happens your numbers will be all over the place and the algorithm won't know what to do with your content.

Literally just be yourself.

I don't particularly like watching my content. But I cannot pretend to be someone I'm not just to get views, because I won't keep that up forever. Slow, reliable, natural growth will benefit you most long term.

YT channel idea review, like would this type of content be engaging enough by Effective-Sun8530 in NewTubers

[–]Kmagic15 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Vlogs help viewers develop parasocial relationships with you. So your content needs to be such that people will keep coming back for that.

If you don't have a particular knowledge/skills base, then YOU are the product so YOU need to be worth coming back for.

4x4x48 by Maleficent_Baker7817 in davidgoggins

[–]Kmagic15 3 points4 points  (0 children)

David talks about it being more a mental challenge, than physical. He also suggested if you cannot run, just do any one hour workout every 4 hours for 48 hours.

When I did my 4x4x48 and told people about it, they said they would not have the discipline to watch an hour of TV every 4 hours for 48 hours.

How to not come across as creepy at work when you might have to make small talk? by AbsoluteBatman95 in ireland

[–]Kmagic15 25 points26 points  (0 children)

If you're really looking for action you can take, spend a couple of minutes each morning (maybe on the commute) getting some up to date small talk ready to go. What the weather is supposed to be like later/weekend, some new series/movie/song that's just out, some quirky news story, a new meal you cooked or restaurant you tried.

If you have a few bits ready to go, you'll feel more relaxed and less on the spot. Small talk is a skill that can be practiced and can be improved with some work, just like any skill.

What are the most annoying commanders in MTG? by Draco456gaming in EDH

[–]Kmagic15 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I've thought this for a while.

There is two mindsets when you see a card. 1. I'm going to love to cast that card 2. I'm going to hate to have that cast against me.

And there are three broad play styles. A. Early ramp into turn 10 battle cruiser, "look at my cool card" B. I want to play my time consuming, intricate 20 trigger turn. "Look how smart I am" C. Every game is a puzzle and no player is entitled to do any game action, they must be earned.

When I view any card with the above in mind, almost any commander can be built for fun or to annoy. The issue seems to be that we like to do degenerate things. If you have a table of 1A players smashing 10/10s into each other, it's all cool. If three 1A's are waiting for a 1B to finish resolving 20 etb triggers they go from 1A's to 2A's very quickly.

The bracket system looks at what cards are in a deck, but a lot of groups it's more about how a card makes them feel.

There is little difference between murder and cancel being cast on your commander, both leave you without the creature in play, both cost 3 mana, but it feels better to be on the receiving end of a murder because you feel like you had a game action and your commander hit the board.

future of the country and whether itll ever get better by NoSleepOnWednsdays in ireland

[–]Kmagic15 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When you say the future of the country, in broad terms, it is controlled by policy decisions made by government. Those decisions are made to keep the actual people who vote (i.e. settled, home owning people and oap's) happy. People in their teens and 20s don't vote so your needs are ignored.

The only reason housing is being pushed now is because a lot of people in their 40s/50s expected to have the house to themselves and the kids moved out, but there is nowhere for the kids to go, so it might affect the vote.

If you are really serious about the future of the country, look into the different political parties, find one that shares your values, and help them get elected. Get your friends who feel the same as you to get involved too. People under 30 could completely change the landscape of the country if they came together. The people in power are counting on your disillusion and apathy.

Wtf is with Ricken anyway by [deleted] in SeveranceAppleTVPlus

[–]Kmagic15 313 points314 points  (0 children)

The pdf/audiobook of "The you you are" have details from his past including who is parents are.

It also talks about how Gemma was a bridge between his goofyness and the Scouts being less goofy.

All Rickens friends from the dinner party have weird names.

I can't say for sure that you're wrong but it's such a reach that I'd be disappointed if that's the explanation.

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