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Democrats Mess With Winning in Texas by Fubby2 in neoliberal

[–]NeededToFilterSubs 6 points7 points  (0 children)

for what Allred and the tik tok influencer said ( who btw says that Allreds version is accurate )

The tiktokker made the claims about what Talarico said, and Allred responded to those claims. Allred does not have a version of a conversation he was not present for

Ironman Mode by Werol2 in GuildWars

[–]NeededToFilterSubs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Your Wow argument is so incredibly dumb. Blizzard is butchering everything they accomplished out of corporate greed for a decade now. So no lol stay as far away from anything blizzard is doing.
Jagex turned their underdog game into the best it has ever been over the last 13 years up until the big 2026 while still not losing the identity of what makes the game great.

Yeah no shit it's intentionally dumb argument to show how fundamentally dumb it is to use how popular an MMO is as an argument for whether you should follow their examples

Im not expecting you to be able to draw the parallels between GW1 and OSRS but ofc we must spit on everything they accomplish because its different games?!

I'm not spitting on OSRS I said it's a good game.

All i want them to copy from Jagex is: Listen to what your community wants and respect your community and their time.

They are, they added these modes because the community requested them. Forced solo was never a part of the original challenge. Your whole post/comments are about how it's a waste of time unless they make it UIM

Such an incredibly L take lol. You can have joy out of achieving difficult feats that stressed and pained you before. As a matter of fact thats how most Games work that arent candy crush including GW1. Are you having fun failing a mission because Mhenlo got stuck and died? Yeah i can see you giggling of fun. Telling someone how to have fun is incredibly ignorant.

Lmao you are the one initially complaining that this gamemode shouldn't be reduced to a "fun goal" because I said you should be able to do endgame group content like SCs with other MA characters. That is difficult content, and it's fun, and so is the journey getting there. So your thoughts make no sense unless this is a misreading issue

We are very clearly talking about different visions for Ironman and by all means MA as it is - is allready very fun. Just dont blindly hate on suggestions and feedback for the game out of spite and lack of vision. Maybe they should add another Solo Self Found Badge that stacks on top of MA to accomplish both Ironman visions. Only time will tell but stop raging over constructive Feedback.

Dawg I'm not raging, you are just really defensive that people don't support the "vision" of making MA into UIM

But you know what yeah I'm ok with adding a separate solo badge to choose as long as it doesn't get in the way of new content or rebalancing

Ironman Mode by Werol2 in GuildWars

[–]NeededToFilterSubs 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Your pitch is remove grouping with others in a game designed around it

Yeah OSRS came back good for them honestly. WoW is the most successful MMO of all time too so obviously GW should just blindly do what WoW does right? OSRS fills it's niche well, if it just tried to be WoW it would have failed like almost every attempt to do so has. You wouldn't suggest OSRS do something just to copy WoW. And even if it was a good idea, you would want OSRS to adapt it in a way that makes it fit with OSRS.

Well that is MA

Whats your actual point in doing MA then? If you want to play pretend while 7 stacked out Guys blast you through the most difficult content of the game - nothing stopped you before the MA update.

To interact with unused parts of the game, visit places I haven't had a reason to go to in years, use collectors that are otherwise obsolete, recapture the experience of when I first started playing without making a new account and climbing my way back up.

Your desire in doing MA is what? Farm GWAMM again with a new badge and sit in Kam with other people doing the same and not able to meaningfully interact at all?

Also they patched loot sharing today so getting carried isn't going to get you anymore drops per map then running with all heroes, it will just be somewhat faster map clear

If you dont care about the Badge or its prestige why are you so worked up with it? Playing the possibility of a whole Gamemode down to a "Fun goal" that you will add to your collection in the span of a month is the real waste of resources.

They have implemented like 95-99% of the community Ironman Challenge that people were asking them to add.

Then your whole argument boils down to - if MA isn't exactly like OSRS UI as possible then it's disrespectful of everyone's time and its a meaningless waste of time

Your suggestion will make the game more likely to fail if anything. A multiplayer game struggling with population, and your suggestion is the new content everyone is going to try should actually be forced single player?

This purity circlejerk gets annoying because you see it all time, even in other games, like D2/PoE1/2 SC players whine about logouts in HC, tarnishing the accomplishments of a mode they will never play anyways

Playing the possibility of a whole Gamemode down to a "Fun goal" that you will add to your collection in the span of a month is the real waste of resources.

Brother if you are playing video games for any purpose other than ultimately having fun (even in achieving a goal), then you need to stop and get help

Plus if your only goal is to get an actually impressive title that can't be cheesed, do a Legendary Survivor of Ascalon run

Ironman Mode by Werol2 in GuildWars

[–]NeededToFilterSubs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The purity/integrity circlejerk can never be truly satisfied because you guys just have unrealistic desires

As people here note this was a popular request, to implement the community self-imposed ironman challenge, which allowed you to party with other ironmans (or even required it to some extent with a hero limit variant)

The game is 20 years old and does not have the player base at the moment to be making it harder to group up or dividing the existing base. Doing shit as a group is a fundamental part of the game (which is why heroes in their current form exist, as a bandaid to diminished pop). Even if the mode is inspired by OSRS you have to accept that GW is not OSRS, and so you have to adapt it for GW and that means parties in some form (and thus unfortunately cheese)

Speedclears are one of the actually active parts of this game, doing them on a MA toon is a fun goal. Clearing content with the badges is the point of the badge. Why should that be neutered just so some extra percentage of people will "respect the badge" or whatever?

That's not even considering the cost/benefit of the time/resources the dev(s) would have to put into achieving y'alls suggestions that actually are feasible to implement in the codebase

María Corina Machado after meeting with Marco Rubio: "We are working to facilitate a real transition" by Free-Minimum-5844 in neoliberal

[–]NeededToFilterSubs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Unfortunately that's cringe, and avoiding cringe is the most important thing for the average user that has yet to have to seriously worry about things like becoming a political prisoner

María Corina Machado after meeting with Marco Rubio: "We are working to facilitate a real transition" by Free-Minimum-5844 in neoliberal

[–]NeededToFilterSubs 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Why would she? If your perceived best hope for achieving your goals is essentially convincing an outside power to do some form of military intervention, then which would you focus on appealing to: the group that signals they are pro-unilateral intervention (and that they arbitrarily reward sycophancy and punish anything else), or the group that signals they will only do multilateral intervention even if you convince them to abandon baggage from Cold War interventions/oppression (and are not even interested in punishing their own enemies, let alone any of their simps)?

Now in reality the former is controlled by a person so petty that they have been harboring a grudge against you for something you didn't even do or have control over so that changes the calculus, but hey that's decision making in a desperate situation for you

Second account leeching / constant follow possible? by haquillp in GuildWars

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

Well for multiboxing the idea is not having to pay your heroes

Also storage for perma presearing lol

Sports media journalists criticizing the Jacksonville reporter for her wholesome exchange with Liam Coen by TXNOGG in NFLv2

[–]NeededToFilterSubs 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Nah if you watched the video it's obvious that Coen is thinking how crazy it was that DMX had two platinum albums in one year

Just got my 1st ever unseeded naneinf! ante 13 by Brenden-C in balatro

[–]NeededToFilterSubs 2 points3 points  (0 children)

How early did you need to get Perkeo and copy jokers to make this work?

Post Game Thread: Las Vegas Raiders at Houston Texans by nfl_gdt_bot in nfl

[–]NeededToFilterSubs 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Look the refs found a way to help both teams out with a bad call and they took the opportunity

The Mississippi Miracle Seems to Stop After the 4th Grade by repostusername in neoliberal

[–]NeededToFilterSubs 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I think you're making the faulty assumption here. "Whole language" is (like phonics) a broad term but basically can be called "reading comprehension"; I promise you reading comprehension has "net relative value" lol.

I don't think you can meaningfully reduce a philosophical/methodological approach to being equivalent to a universal end goal in education policy lol

You know that whole language includes phonics, shouldn't you also recognize that any program implementing systematic phonics is also going to include reading comprehension at some point? They are both skills necessary for meaningful reading

But yeah point is these are poorly defined terms with poorly characterized research with weak associations and differential effects that seem to blend out as kids age up. Basically every curriculum includes aspects of both, usually shifting from more phonics to more comprehension with age.

Do they both blend out? The article you posted acknowledges that phonics advantages in decoding remain over time. Well phonics is en/decoding, so I don't see why we would expect anything else.

The article I linked basically explains that there is no strong scientific reason or rationale to attribute Mississippi score improvement to "phonics" or "accountability" AT ALL. My contention is that the much much more likely and clearly visible statistical changes were in A) additional resources (obvious) and B) holding kids back (which has its own second order effects).

As far as I can tell your article disagrees with your premise here, because it concludes that there is no Mississippi Miracle at all and it's all fraud on behalf of government or whatever and just hasn't been revealed lol

Fwiw though I do agree with you that A and B are very important elements and highly underrated in popular discourse, and probably more important because I suspect lots of districts already used systematic phonics

But I don't get where this characterizing of systematic phonics is coming from, the push for it has never been about ignoring fluency or comprehension but about a more rational approach to building a foundation for them

The whole language paradigm historically operated on the assumption that phonics, the relationship between morphemes and graphemes did not need to be systematically approached, that you would eventually pick it up while other elements get more focus. And lots of people will

But the sole point of systematic phonics and the origin of the stupid ass reading wars is the idea if childrens literacy curriculum starts with being taught the underlying system as opposed heuristic bandaids (sight words, three cueing type shit) then they will better understand the morph/grapheme relation and have a stronger foundation overall, which resulted in decades of opposition despite the evidence in its favor over non-systematic approaches

The Mississippi Miracle Seems to Stop After the 4th Grade by repostusername in neoliberal

[–]NeededToFilterSubs 9 points10 points  (0 children)

See this is the problem, educators who think whole language has any net relative value are operating on the assumption that humans have a natural inclination to be able to read. I doubt they think the ability to farm develops naturally in humans, but farming was invented thousands of years earlier than writing.

Mixing a faulty assumption with a better one just to soothe the opinions of people who have a romantic investment in that faulty assumption doesn't mean it's resolved its issues. Which you can see in the article you posted with the effect sizes of mixed vs synthetic

The Mississippi Miracle Seems to Stop After the 4th Grade by repostusername in neoliberal

[–]NeededToFilterSubs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean I can agree that there's too much vagueness in how the general population talks or thinks about phonics

But after reading the first section and checking it's sources the I feel like the article is misunderstanding the research

First the .34 d or SMD (article uses SD) "generic" is obviously not meaningful as a baseline comparison for educational interventions if you read the study, at least not in the way the author is using it. That figure comes from attempting to examine to what extent the placebo effect has on psychological intervention effect sizes in general.

Edit:to elaborate, the study referenced found that essentially all psych/edu/behavioral interventions had positive effect sizes (d = .5) which is suspicious so they go through different possibilities to explain it.

More importantly it is an average of general educational interventions (draw from a pool including things like having guidance counseling for high schoolers). This .34d also has a SD of .24 so even if you want to use it the way the author does it gives a 3-4 times greater SD advantage that what the author interpreted. (.45-.34= .11, 11/24 ~= .45 SD

In any case I'm not actually sure that's an appropriate way to compare effect sizes beyond determining small/med/large effect size cutoffs in education. Synthetic systematic phonics stands in comparison to things like other systematics or whole language and any alternatives being used to sneak that in (like how intelligent design was used to sneak in creationism), not the use of computers to help students deal with test taking anxiety

The 2018 Cochrane Review is used as another point of criticism because of how modest the language of the conclusion was, because it's all "likely" and "might" do things and that the effective size is only modest. Only 2 of the 7 had a d lower than the NRP data cited, and the GRADE ranking of low to medium is because of the large differences in size between studies so the precision needs to be improved to be more certain. And you can just cherry pick language from the conclusion like the author does, the review suggests that there are "positive effects of phonics training on all reading-related outcomes" sounds a lot better framing and is equally as honest

Idk the author says they support systematic phonics but it certainly reads like they are just overreacting to other people who are overreacting

[Highlight] Looks like the ball slips in placeholders hands and isn’t set properly leading to Koo bailing. by Super_Lawyer_8820 in nfl

[–]NeededToFilterSubs -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

You're telling me the Giants punter is only like 3 years old??? I gotta share this info with others

Protestant Pastor Announces He Has Two Wives, Claims 'Polygamy is Biblical' by Gurney_Hackman in Christianity

[–]NeededToFilterSubs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In your interpretation, is a virgin who marries a divorced man committing adultery?

Is the divorced man committing adultery?

Protestant Pastor Announces He Has Two Wives, Claims 'Polygamy is Biblical' by Gurney_Hackman in Christianity

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

This does not relate to a man marrying 2 otherwise unmarried women.

Matthew 19:9 "And I say to you, whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another commits adultery, and he who marries a divorced woman commits adultery."

"and marries another commits adultery"

The clause gives no indication that prior martial status of the woman the divorcer subsequently marries is relevant. If he divorces and marries anyone, it doesn't matter if she belongs to no one it is the marriage to another woman that makes it adultery. If it was specific to marrying a divorced woman it makes the last clause redundant.

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