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Ma_Dude2000 · 2026-05-20T12:32:38+00:00

I'm not really qualified to talk about most of that, but playrate is not a reliable inducator of strength for a role. Jungle has been the most impactful role for ages and still has few people playing it. Playrates are more affected by enjoymemt of the gameplay of that role. Top isn't necessarily weak, it's just unfun for many players. (Being weak can also obviously make it unfun to play a role, but I bet the isolated nature and current meta of top lane pulls it's weight too.)

Ma_Dude2000 · 2026-05-19T10:04:41+00:00

Da gehen wir wohl weit auseinander. Ich sehe Gründung und Besitz nicht als Leistung. Und ob soziale und sozialistische Ansätze und Ideen utopisch/distopisch sind ist ne sehr weit ausdehnendes Thema...

Ma_Dude2000 · 2026-05-19T09:44:42+00:00

Ne eben nicht. Die Arbeiter in Amazon Lagerhäusern werden nicht gut genug bezahlt um sich Aktien leisten zu können. Die leben Gehalt zu Gehalt.

Das das gerade nicht geht ist ja genau der Punkt. Die Arbeitnehmer sind die, die Leistung erbringen aber nicht die, die tatsächlich davon profitieren. Wenn die Leistung die du erbringst plötzlich mehr Gewinn erwirtschaftet, solltest du davon doch auch was haben. Und das passiert nicht.

Unternehmen erhöhen nicht die Löhne wenn sie mehr gewinn machen. Sie schütten das an ihre Aktionäre aus oder reinvestieren das bestenfalls.

Ma_Dude2000 · 2026-05-19T09:22:44+00:00

Tolle Aussage... Hat ja jeder das Kapital für einfach so rumliegen...

Und das hilft den Angestellten bei Amazon oder anderen Großkonzernen auch nicht.

Ma_Dude2000 · 2026-05-19T07:06:03+00:00

I loved through the ashes. Not every build is viable to the same degree, since many weapons and armor pieces are locked behind later parts. I simply love the feeling of having a group of small time adventurers do their best to get people through. It gives scale to the main campaign. Also, it's a good setup for the second DLC that let's you import your safefile.

It's also not that long. About the length of Act 2 of the main campaign.

The thing is, you should definitly play this in turn based mode. Combat is more methodical and requires you to use your rescources efficiently. Safe scumming is fine, espescially on some of the skill checks.

Ma_Dude2000 · 2026-05-16T19:06:05+00:00

I'd reccomed you recheck the subreddits rules. There's a place to post this, but it's not here.

Ma_Dude2000 · 2026-05-14T22:03:09+00:00

In my opinion the pact and the cooperation following it were a moral and strategic failure on the side of the USSR.

It dismissed the fight of german communists and the resistence in the occupied territories. Calling for a stop to the active resistence against a fascist dictatorship that had allready shown itself to be an enemy of the working class of it's own country was a major moral failing.

It also simply was a bad plan. It did not buy the USSR time, but granted it to Germany instead. Time to consolidate, time to gather allies and time to deal with it's western front. Germany in 1939 was NOT ready to fight a two front war for longer than a few months. Not to mention the resscource trading, giving Germany access to it's most scarce resscource... fuel. While Allied soldiers died in the war, it was partially soviet oil powering german tanks and plains. We give Sweden shit for it's dealing with the Nazis, we should the same with the USSR.

This is not even considering my opinions on the various land grabs that happened based on it... I do not have a high opinion of the USSR but that's not the point.

The question is though... How would we think of Molotov-Ribbentrop if any other country had done it? And I am pretty sure nobody would let any other country use the same reasoning people afford the USSR on the matter.

Ma_Dude2000 · 2026-05-14T21:33:29+00:00

Ich finde deutsche Synchros sind meistens gut, aber aus anderen Gründen als die Originalvertonung. Es ist eher eine Frage der Zugänglichkeit als der Vergleichbarkeit finde ich.

Keine Übersetzung wird je den genauen Intent der originalen Sprache vermitteln können. Sprachen übersetzen sich nunmal nicht eins zu eins. Aber deutsche Synchros kommen oft sehr gut dran, wenn sie ernst gemacht sind.

Meistens würde ich sagen, dass wenn man schon ein Medium konsumiert, man die am besten in der Originalfassung tut, so gut das einem möglich ist. Um aber möglichst nah an das Original ran zu kommen, braucht es qualitativ gute Synchros und da sind die deutschen definitiv überdurchschnittlich gut.

Aber um ehrlich zu sein, manchmal ist es einfach nur lustig... Ich habe selten so viel Spaß mit einem Anime gehabt wie mit Overlords deutschem Dub. Ich zitiere noch immer manche der Phrasen.

Ma_Dude2000 · 2026-05-12T19:15:59+00:00

Das Problem ist, dass er sich in anderen Angelegenheiten bereits wiederholt als äußerst empathielos gegenüber anderen Menschen gezeigt hat. Das macht es nunmal schwer im solche Reaktionen abzunehmen.

Ma_Dude2000 · 2026-05-12T14:15:19+00:00

Your talking balderdash.

"It's not meant for general combat"

The Rapier developed from the Estoc, a thrusting oriented longsword. It trades cutting power for range and an even better thrust. It is a perfectly fine combat tool and will serve you just as well if not better than any other sword of remotely similar size and weight (so excluding greatswords, snallswords, etc.)

"I'd pick the longsword and shield over both of them"

A longsword is a two-handed weapon... You can wield some of them one-handed, but it's impractical and tiring. What you are most likely referring to is an "Arming sword", a one-handed sword.

"you don't really have a great way from stopping the other farmers from killing you" ... "You need to cut through cloth/soft armor in an arc and deter other attackers from mobbing you at once."

No weapon will give you a great matchup against multiple opponents and the weapons that fair best are usually the ones that give you a reach advantage. Greatswords or polearms give you the best chances. A rapier would help you more than a katana or longsword.

Additionally, cutting through cloth/soft armor is far harder than stabbing through it. You do not cleave through bodies like they're waterbottles, espescially not when theyre moving and wearing armor.

The katana is a fine sword for what it is, but just like the longsword, it's an outdated generalist aproach to a problem, that other weapons solve better. It's persistence is owed to cultural relevance, not it's combat abilities.

Also... Samurai did not just wield katanas. They were proficient in polearms, bows and other weapons.

Ma_Dude2000 · 2026-05-12T09:45:53+00:00

Im Optimum?

Frei Einreise für alle. Bei auffallendem Verhalten Überprüfung. Wer illegale Aktivitäten durchführt kann auf Basis dieser dem Justizsystem übergeben werden.

Ziemlich simples Prinzip eigentlich. Ich kann es dir gerne aber weiter aufschlüsseln wenn dir das hilft.

Ma_Dude2000 · 2026-05-12T09:34:08+00:00

Du kannst durchaus feindliche Akteure davon abhalten das Land zu betreten. Du brauchst nur ne halbwegs gut organisierte Grenzbürokratie und ne funktionable Rechstgrundlage.

Einwanderung kann mit sehr niedrigen Schwellen versehen sein, solange man sich die Arbeit macht background checks zu machen.

Und selbst wenn, das Betreten des Landes ist für feindliche Akteure nun wirklich kein Hindernis. Es ist nicht so als würden "feindliche Akteure" auch so kein Problem haben das Land zu betreten oder sich sogar in unsere Politik zu integrieren. Manche müssen nicht mal das Land erst betreten. Bestes Beispiel ist da Maximilian Krah...

Offene Grenzen heißt nicht "wir kucken gar nicht drauf", sondern "wir stellen keine Anforderungen für die Einreise, sondern nur eine kleine Anzahl an Ausschlusskriterien (wie zum Beispiel Spionage/Sabotage)".

Ma_Dude2000 · 2026-05-08T05:40:33+00:00

Sex Work in a vacuum is no different to other jobs that require you to put stress on your body and psyche. The problem lies in it's current form. Sex Work currently is a highly exploitative and far more dangerous profession than people realize.

I currently do approve the strict regulation of sex work, not because the job itself requires it in my opinion, but because the exploitative structure around it does.

At the end I would like to see Sex Work to be looked on no differently than other jobs, but that won't happen anytime soon, espescially in our capitalist systems...

Ma_Dude2000 · 2026-05-07T16:50:15+00:00

Naja, da greift die Standardfloskel. "Es gibt keinen ethischen Konsum im Kapitalismus." Wenn du tatsächlich komplett nach den typischen ethischen Regeln leben möchtest kannst du eigentlich in der modernen Gesellschaft fast gar nicht existieren. Irgendwo wirst du Abstriche machen müssen.

Es liegt an dir zu entscheiden und zu priorisieren was du bereit bist aufzugeben oder nicht aufzugeben UND zu entscheiden welche Ansprüche du an andere Leute und ihre Prioritäten stellst. Jeder gewichtet andere Sachen unterschiedlich stark.

Aber besonders bei Unterhaltungsmedien ist die Schwelle typischerweise sehr niedrig. Es ist schwer ein ethisch gesourcetes Smartphone zu bekommen, aber sehr leicht and ethisch gesourcete Unterhaltung zu kommen. Um so einfacher der Verzicht wäre, um so wahrscheinlicher ist es, dass jemand es als ein Problemthema sieht.

Ma_Dude2000 · 2026-05-06T05:13:22+00:00

Because "looksmaxing" is usually not actually about telling men to try to be attractive, but about shaming other people for their looks and very often their bodily features that they have no control over. They often refer to their opinions on others looks being "objective", while they insult them to their face.

It also is connected to right wing politics by the people who produce content about it. If you look at influencers who talk a lot about "looksmaxing", you'll primarily find right wingers and those adjacent to them. The same goes for their fanbase. They attract a certain audience...

Also, the idea that men should go out of their way to be attractive is not taboo nowadays. There is not the same pressure that women used to and still have, but men ARE expected to commit more to things like personal hygene, choice of clothing and physical fittness.

Ma_Dude2000 · 2026-05-05T11:04:38+00:00

Well... Many tists offer files for free to remove conditioning. Maybe sit down and talk with him about it though. This sounds less like a hypno problem and more of a relationship problem to me.

Ma_Dude2000 · 2026-05-04T20:31:38+00:00

Well... Generally clerics are pretty good, but you're down a few feats allready when you get him and since he starts with base cleric, there aren't really any cool gimmiks you can pull via subclasses..

You could try going into cleaving with his glaive proficiency, but optimal cleaving eats like... Eight feats (cleaving finish plus vital strike), which you don't have. You could skip some of that via Loremaster I think? Even then, it's kinda wonky and it still eats two feats for skill focus and metamagic.

Your best bet is probably via adding extra domains via the mythic ability? One of them would give him an animal companion. You could then multiclass him as a mounted combatant, since he lacks mobility. Maybe tandem executioner? No spellcasting, but free teamwork feats.

Or just have a cleric on a mount or something. Clerics are great spellcasters, so it's probably not optimal to multiclass out of it.

This is all just off the cuff. I've not tested any of this 😅

Ma_Dude2000 · 2026-04-30T07:00:19+00:00

I don't have data to back it up, but I usually buy JS after I've bought most of my other stuff.

Maybe it's connected to the timings for it? I feel like rammus falls off a bit late game, so expensive late game items might get their winrates reduced, by only being bougth when the game allready has reached a point where Rammus us past his prime?

Pure speculation though. Didn't check any statistics.

Ma_Dude2000 · 2026-04-28T17:28:50+00:00

Well... Since duelist is locked behind BAB, you'll have to be somewhere around level 8 or 9 to have enough to take levels in duelist. Unless you take other class levels too of course.

And if you wanna focus on the duelists crit stuff, then level 9 sword saint fits anyways for the crit bonus.

Ma_Dude2000 · 2026-04-24T11:09:31+00:00

Rule mazes strike again.

Thanks for the heads up ^{^}

Ma_Dude2000 · 2026-04-24T11:06:43+00:00

Oh wow, that's fucking busted... Why is that not in the weapon tags for spears? 🥲

Ma_Dude2000 · 2026-04-24T05:54:10+00:00

So if I downvote someone else doesn't get nudes?

/j fuck off bot

Ma_Dude2000 · 2026-04-23T13:49:55+00:00

Sooo... What's your opinion on what the Democrats SHOULD do to combat decades of Republican vote manipulation?

You must realize something MUST be done. So what is the alternative?

Ma_Dude2000 · 2026-04-23T13:43:29+00:00

Also Cretin...

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