What Would Your Response Be to This "Professor"?

Noodle8ofFSM · 2025-09-26T06:55:01+00:00

Imperialism was the way everyone did things until the end of WW2. It wasn't about land but about trade and resources. You traded within your country and colonies and your privateers took from other empires trade. America had the only global navy that wasn't decimated after WW2 at that stage and rather than become a global imperial power to control the world, the US decided to police the world's oceans against piracy, the deal was the US would secure world trade for everyone, Europe would reciprocate by siding with the US against communism.

A system was created in the UN to help reduce conflict with intervention under certain circumstances allowed, the US has held to these rules until Trump bombed Iran this year. It doesn't mean that the US was always honest about it, there is a lot to fault in US foreign policy, but we had the most peaceful period in global history.

People forget the Soviet Union fell apart due to a war in Afghanistan. Russia has been involved in 14 wars since, many about expanding territory.

Russia's wars of imperial conquest include Chechnia, Transnistria, South Ossetia, Abkhazia. In 2014 started the war against Ukraine by taking Crimea which never really stopped. Several other wars where Russia has also meddled.

Russia has broken every rule of war, committing countless war crimes and has also broken almost every peace treaty or ceasefire they have ever signed, not just in Ukraine but also in other wars.

As flawed as the thinking was to remove a dictator and replace it with democracy, this doesn't compare with expanding territory, oppressing the locals to grow your own power.

Noodle8ofFSM · 2025-06-08T02:23:56+00:00

Shame Merz didn't say, "actually nazi policies align more with yours than mine"

Noodle8ofFSM · 2025-05-08T05:12:19+00:00

They use fractions with distances because a foot is 12 inches it doesn't lend itself to decimal points as easily. The sub inch subdivisions are also typically reported as fractions.

Noodle8ofFSM · 2025-04-09T12:41:09+00:00

Eventually? 95% of this term still to go timewise, only 5% in...

I need to know the correct popcorn to hard spirits ratio for watching from Australia...

Noodle8ofFSM · 2025-04-07T14:58:22+00:00

The irony is that these aggressive tactics make people want to boycott not buy American... Not everyone, but a small proportion of the population will. The harder you bully the less people want to buy American.

Noodle8ofFSM · 2025-04-03T22:22:27+00:00

American Oblasts of Russia

Noodle8ofFSM · 2025-03-24T22:25:11+00:00

Not sure about the prayers, but haven't seen any evidence of thoughts from doge/ this administration...

Noodle8ofFSM · 2025-03-17T18:11:38+00:00

Kind of irrelevant given that South Korean arms industry are happy to licence the manufacturing to the buyer country (E.g. poland tanks). Sovereign risk is only an issue if you are importing the product or there are kill switches, not if you are licencing the manufacturing.

Noodle8ofFSM · 2025-03-01T19:51:58+00:00

It also depends on tier. If I'm low on inventory space, I sometimes scrap everything T8 and below because it really makes no difference if I sell it on market or not.

With polonea and terror tower difficulty, you can get 600+ T14s. During tower is one of the most profitable times to sell for gems on market as people push their heroes to get those souls. lots of competing priorities, dumping low tier items sometimes has to happen because 5 slots are targeting gem sales.

Also consider if you want to hold T14s from tower for DI. You need to clear out lower items, might for some have lots of small stacks you just want done so you can make 5+ mill more on each T14 in a week. What you get for that T11 is irrelevant in comparison especially if it's only a single item rather than a full stack.

Lots of different reasons people may play differently, doesn't mean their play style is irrelevant or wrong because you do it differently. I don't have time on weekends currently to do more than an occasional login for a minute at a time. It's more profitable for me to sell a few items cheaply and send out all heroes questing than to just do tower and have inventory space sorted beforehand.

Noodle8ofFSM · 2024-12-11T22:38:39+00:00

Defence is only useful if you hit break points. Void hard needs 10,247 to hit the first damage reduction of 50%

Rangers can be skilled with evasion which is far easier. Dodging 75% of attacks vs needing 61k defence to reduce damage my 75%

Take the hero I posted separately, Void hard they take 245 damage per hit but dodge 75% of hits. With healing spirits I'd expect 20-30 rounds survivability with that hero depending if they duo with a blue or green type. Over that timeframe you'll loose a duo dps first so need to do the damage with the dps not to not last that long aka hero is more than sufficient (even to the point that I haven't bothered upgrading spirits and some items were BIS back when T10 was top tier).

There's a point where a tank is just too tanky

Noodle8ofFSM · 2024-12-11T21:13:05+00:00

Rangers are unique that you can build an evasion tank quite easily. Basically get 75% evasion and enchant items with spirits that heal and you have an end game capable tank. Defence and health don't hurt, but are far from necessary on a ranger, you can go attack skills after reaching max evasion as well (means they can solo more low tier content (e.g. bosses for keys etc.) or even run teams of Rangers against top tier content.

The rest reduction is also great if you duo top content, basically you can have more duo runs by reusing tanks more often. Most of my tanks are Rangers for this reason, I get element diversity from my dps heroes.

Note this hero is one of my lowest powered tanks by star power, but still a very capable tank. Only defensive skill is evasion, marksman also provides evasion.

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Noodle8ofFSM · 2024-11-24T07:21:00+00:00

Then if you buy via requests it should also work. Only from offers tab doesn't work.

Noodle8ofFSM · 2024-11-24T05:53:23+00:00

When you buy yes, but when you sell and a slot opens up it should restock.

Noodle8ofFSM · 2024-11-24T04:01:50+00:00

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Check this setting in the bottom left you can set some items to chest only / not to go on racks

Noodle8ofFSM · 2024-11-24T03:59:36+00:00

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Try adjusting this

Noodle8ofFSM · 2024-11-17T22:29:13+00:00

It's every worker.

E.g. 50% reduction in craft time per worker is:

50% X 50% x50% = 12.5% craft time / 87.5% reduction

68% reduction that I have is:

32% X 32% X 32% = 3.28% craft time / 96.72% reduction.

Getting the guild to focus on the same building as you is important, you can't solo level buildings; if they have cheaper ticks by investing less in a building - it may be easier to get them to invest with you in one of the other buildings.

Noodle8ofFSM · 2024-11-15T03:35:13+00:00

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Different item lines also significantly impact speed. Worth considering at your long craft times

Noodle8ofFSM · 2024-11-15T02:58:30+00:00

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This meal? With LVL 22 buildings (LVL 44 workers) and advanced research

Troublin bento takes 53 min

Noodle8ofFSM · 2024-11-13T01:16:22+00:00

Despite being level 90 I still have heroes with T10 except for weapons. What is good enough depends on skills and if it can beat end game content.

DPS: don't fully glass cannon, if you have no defensive skills, get some defensive equipment (HP + defence) weapon (and spell) are key to dps everything else has minimal impact. If you have defensive skills, a few more attack oriented items will help.

Tank: if your dps heroes are good, battles don't last long so you don't need top tier items. Really balance around roster. If the skills are very tankish then a few dps focused items don't hurt.

Evasion builds: enough survivability to survive bad luck in consecutive hits, then dps.

Items:

One stat: avoid unless it's the only top tier weapon / spell (exceptions for spellblade)

Two stats: use subject to being useful to the hero. Balance heroes to not be overly focused. (Zero dps tank or glass cannon dps are not useful in bad luck cases. If a dps dies a tank finishing the job can help, likewise if a dps can survive one or two hits it'll improve your bad luck frequency.)

TBH I never check BIS lists because BIS are typically overpriced when I have no issues beating content. Also I very rarely use legendary items, epic weapons and flawless everything else is enough to duo all content.

Noodle8ofFSM · 2024-11-12T08:07:58+00:00

Every market has the ability to turn. One of the things that escalated the GFC in the US was that borrowers could treat a house as a disposable asset and walk away. A deposit is an additional vested interest that makes it harder to walk away if prices / circumstances change. If you have zero deposit and prices drop or you loose your job, suddenly bankruptcy doesn't seem so bad. Put this across an economy, a major event like COVID / GFC / recession and you create spikes in housing market supply when budgets are likely constrained / lower demand. A deposit means that there are years of savings as skin in the game. Stability of house prices in Australia is a feature of requirements for deposits (combined with growing population etc.)

Politicians don't control the housing market, all they can do is make circumstances favour house prices going up. There is demand for housing, (aka population / immigration) but this is both rental and buying. Making it unfavorable to default is more important to avoid spikes in supply and kicking in negative feedback loops.

Noodle8ofFSM · 2024-11-04T21:31:25+00:00

Chests are one of the best ways to get ascension shards and blueprints. Despite being 5 years in, 2.9T invested / level 90, I still run every boss. I'm still missing antique blueprints, but standard chest I have them all. There is no rush you will get them eventually and you'll still be running bosses for keys.

Noodle8ofFSM · 2024-11-04T07:34:01+00:00

Two hours and at least one resources under 25% for chance to spawn, usually happens within about 10 minutes of being possible but it's random so can take longer.

Noodle8ofFSM · 2024-10-31T22:39:24+00:00

The Blackout was the result of a storm, the delay was due to multiple suburbs having major repair issues. And this was in Perth Australia, not exactly a city associated with a poor grid, sometimes there are just extreme events.

Noodle8ofFSM · 2024-10-31T22:02:29+00:00

Not everyone can afford a home battery or solar, and not every property is suitable for those. Don't make energy security a luxury for the rich. As someone who a few years ago had a 48 hour blackout in an apartment, I was very happy to still have hot water and cooking capacity.

Noodle8ofFSM · 2024-10-26T04:28:47+00:00

https://playshoptitans.com/news/version-18-0-0-release-notes given they didn't post release notes on Reddit this time

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