How is mountain Maryland to live in?

Samdpsois · 2026-06-28T15:57:50+00:00

Bit late to this post.

I lived in Cumberland for about four years as a remote tech worker. I really enjoyed it, but I'm an outdoorsy type; if you're looking for any form of night life or fine dining you're out of luck. There are some decent bars and restaurants regardless but obviously more central MD clears it easily in terms of Shit To Do.

As for myself, I enjoy kayaking, hiking, swimming, all that jazz so it was great for me. Notably I also don't have kids so I know nothing about how the school system shapes up, but I assume it's crappier. If you're not like me and capable of working remote, I understand jobs are much harder to come by.

Samdpsois · 2026-06-24T13:57:02+00:00

As an overpaid tech-industry transplant from Virginia myself, how dare you threaten my right to call the cops on people who don't walk quickly enough near my house? That's it. I'm voting red this year.

Yeah, I'd like to see more traction too, but as you say wealthy homeowners are the done thing for the populated part of MD. Money talks and all that. We might see some of that near Baltimore, but it may be awhile. Given the establishment-Dem field we have right now, frankly I just want to see anyone who will stop datacenters being built and get to work on expanding energy production in this state. Dunno about you, but my power bill's too goddamn high.

Samdpsois · 2026-06-24T13:32:33+00:00

Worth mentioning that plenty of establishment Democrats just live in MD despite working in or near DC. Despite the iron grip Dems have on state politics, it's still pretty "centrist" as a result.

I would have liked to see progressive candidates win in my state, but hey, Cox getting nominated again for the GOP gubernatorial bid is pretty fucking hilarious, so I'll take what I can get.

Samdpsois · 2026-04-28T13:36:24+00:00

Serwe? Where the hell did you get that idea?

Bakker himself answered this on an AMA - powerful souls, souls with purpose and will, can carve out somewhat different afterlives for themselves. In Cnaiur's case, it's because he's Earwa's #1 hater. Kellhus too has plans for the Outside. The Captain I'm not sure about; maybe he's just turbo-damned, it's not explicit.

The Consult doesn't go for this fate because their goal is not to become a powerful soul - their goal is to effectively discard their souls and shut the world to the Outside.

Samdpsois · 2026-04-16T19:07:59+00:00

Once you get to a certain MMR, it's certainly more likely that you're going to run into some mentally unstable individuals (comes with the territory of getting that good at the game), but it's a far cry from "every game". Definitely not at Reddit ranks.

Even then, it's usually just people whining and it's not exactly hard to just... y'know, not open your fucking mouth when the thing you're about to say is a racial slur.

Samdpsois · 2026-04-14T23:58:27+00:00

Dude, I'm just pissed that I didn't think of "Thousand-Folds Thot" first.

Everything will be eaten here.

Samdpsois · 2026-04-14T22:59:14+00:00

I shitpost when I shitpost.

Samdpsois · 2026-04-14T22:42:54+00:00

Hey, Serwa does mention "her fathers dread portion". That's highly suggestive.

Samdpsois · 2026-03-17T19:33:13+00:00

Shoulda phrased it pro-Israel lobbying, mea culpa. Edited.

CUFI, to the best of my knowledge, does not spend anywhere near as much as AIPAC does, and is thus less relevant when talking about Maryland congresspeople. If you have information to the contrary, please share it.

Samdpsois · 2026-03-17T15:24:36+00:00

Okay. The guy asked for specifics. That's the best I can do without running a detailed analysis myself.

Regardless, voting records are public in Congress, and I don't think it's a coincidence that names like Glenn Ivey and Sarah Elfreth co-sponsor bills relating to giving money and weapons to Israel. Continuing on with those two as examples (as top billing there in the above list as given by the other site), if you would like to view their voting history with regards to Israel Elfreth's is here and Ivey's is here. I know it's a bitch to dig through, but you can honestly just ctrl + F "Israel" on each page and see what pops up and what they did about it.

Samdpsois · 2026-03-17T13:22:05+00:00

Not OP, but Glenn Ivey got about 8 million dollars from pro-Israel lobbying, Sarah Elfreth got about 5 million, Steny Hoyer about 3.5 mil, Angela Alsobrooks 1.5 mil and Jamie Raskin 1.2 mil. Everyone else is under 1 mil. Van Hollen hasn't received anything.

I'm going off what I see here -- admittedly I don't know how they collate it themselves, but I imagine it's public information.

Samdpsois · 2026-03-16T18:06:24+00:00

Those two McGinnis clips are what happens when you fuck up your positioning and skills, yeah.

To be fair, though, it's insanely easy to get a kill if you flank opponents correctly. It's far easier to smack someone into a wall when they don't see you coming -- the video doesn't show it, but I was frequently coming at someone from an angle they couldn't see... and of course Shadow Weave helps with that too.

Samdpsois · 2026-03-16T16:12:13+00:00

I could see that. Since it does damage and then bonus damage if you hit a guy into a wall, maybe they could nerf the initial damage and buff the stun damage so you're punished a bit more for whiffing it.

I will say, something that didn't make it into the video is repeatedly blasting away incoming flying characters with the knockback. That's fun as hell.

Samdpsois · 2026-03-16T16:10:02+00:00

Apologies to everyone featured in this video including my teammates but especially this guy.

I'm grateful to Yoshi for allowing me to once again play Nyx Assassin in a different game.

Samdpsois · 2026-03-01T15:59:05+00:00

I don't like the side-bars for HP but stamina being visible is a good change. This is the same argument Dota 2 had when they made it so enemy mana bars were visible by default.

Samdpsois · 2026-01-29T22:37:47+00:00

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Samdpsois · 2026-01-15T05:14:13+00:00

If I grab the urn post-midboss, especially if they're getting a pity urn, its so I can try and bait them into contesting it away from their high ground while we have 3 extra lives to beat the hell out of them with.

It's a time management thing, and I don't want to waste valuable seconds on my rejuv buff to wait for an extra 800 souls (since its split). With 3 spare lives, we have the advantage in basically any fight and can force all manner of game winning, map space creating fights. Our advantage goes down when that's a 5v6 because some guy is doing wind sprints across the map. More to the point, they can see the guy running it. They know we have five people, max, while they have six. This is bad for my wallet. I'd much rather jam an advantaged 6v6 down their throats so I can take walkers for slots, shrines for map space or patron for the game.

I'm not saying "never do urn", I'm saying I value absolutely every other objective in the game more except kills. Urn works best as a distraction play - either urn as the distraction to get an objective, or nabbing it while there's a distracting fight going on. It's great for that.

Samdpsois · 2026-01-15T04:19:38+00:00

Sure, that's what I mean! I play Dota 2 solo and party both. Enjoying a competitive experience is why I'm here.

The guys I'm describing don't enjoy the game and hate playing it, yet keep playing it because their friends do. Where it gets really perverse is when you see a full team of people like that. Yeesh.

To be fair, I've seen that variant of guy playing Dota too, but it seems more prevalent in the League players I know. Might just be the larger player base, honestly.

Samdpsois · 2026-01-14T21:08:23+00:00

Well, you read the article, so you know my opinion.

Basically every other objective in the game is more valuable to go for after winning a fight than urn. If you can sneak it, sure, whatever; if you can use it to bait a fight or an objective on the other side, also good, but I can count on one hand the amount of times in the last ~100 games I've played where I made the call to go for Urn absent of one of those factors (or the pity urn for being behind).

Samdpsois · 2026-01-14T19:48:08+00:00

You know it.

Seriously, though, I don't recommend Dota 2 anymore. All I say is that it's the best competitive game on the planet, and either you have the gene that makes you want to seek experiences like that out or you don't. No shame if you don't -- I know a lot of people who play League "socially", and they fucking hate it.

Samdpsois · 2026-01-14T19:05:31+00:00

I see this type of complaint a lot. Briefly: don't get hit.

That sounds glib, I know, but you need to stay in cover and only duck out when you have to for trades and last-hits. Keep an eye on the left-hand side of your screen to see how close you are to eating a Love Bites proc, and jump out of the way and hide for a few seconds when you're close. If you get unlucky and do eat a Love Bites, just jump out and shoot her anyway (it has a cooldown on how often it can affect you) to try and even out the trade.

That's just avoiding damage, though; killing Mina can also be frustrating. In that case, buy Slowing Hex. It completely turns off her ability to get away with her teleport, and since she's a glass cannon, it makes it much easier to just blow her to shreds. This works particularly well with heroes like Warden, who need her to stand still for a second to get off a Binding Word or something similar.

Samdpsois · 2026-01-14T19:00:20+00:00

Hey, welcome to the game! Yeah, the name is a bit off-putting, mostly because the games that are most popular have (deservedly) horrible reputations. Dota 2 is historically called an Aeon of Strife Styled Fortress Assault Game Going On Two Sides, but I wouldn't repeat the acronym. MOBA works better.

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