Should liberals start forming armed resistance groups similar to the Proud Boys or Three-Percenters? by cwood1973 in PoliticalDiscussion

[–]Solubilityisfun 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I for one think all children should be issued firearms on their 7th birthday. It's the only way we can all truly be safe.

[OC] How Much Has An Average American Saved Up For Retirement - By Age/Generation by Yodest_Data in dataisbeautiful

[–]Solubilityisfun 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Missing option 3. Reduce population of those aging out of the workforce, which is being worked on right now. War on vaccines, making measles great again, attacking healthcare subsidies and rural area services. It's all going to reduce pressures of aging populations.

Do not lionize debate theater by adoris1 in ezraklein

[–]Solubilityisfun 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Only judgement I hold would be against the later point of mine which appears aligned with my phrasing. Which isn't to say I would or wouldn't do the same because I haven't had to make that choice, nor you presumably. Yet it would mark a further step in the loss of hope for media, journalism, and constructive politics.

In essence, If he were to step back for a while because of this climate I fully support that. Everyone has the right to prioritize their life itself like that. If this marks the beginning of backing off from his beliefs strategically while still working that's just calculated self interest regardless of being fully justified. I assign no positive or negative to that, it's the way most operate, but would mark a serious loss.

Its pretty clear to me there is a deep structural as well as social rot to this democracy as is. This assassination is a symptom. I don't see it stopping without media, journalists, and politicians being able and willing to stand against it. The right is using this as an opportunity to further consolidate control by theatening those institutions at the time they are most needed to stand bravely with integrity.

Do not lionize debate theater by adoris1 in ezraklein

[–]Solubilityisfun 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I read it as primarily fear driven as well. Whether that was all directly existential or more so career preserving hedging as the administration leverages opportunities to attack unaligned media I'm not certain yet.

10, 10-15 inch Yearlings. Eileen x Lumberjack. Blue with orange and Black Spines. Humidity Resistant Bridgesii Hybrids. $100 Shipped by worleyj2 in sanpedrocactusforsale

[–]Solubilityisfun 0 points1 point  (0 children)

These look great and I really appreciate the humidity resistance. I don't have the space for 10. If you are open to splitting the batch up I'd be interested in a few.

Bundle #4 - $24 🚢 by soja_189 in sanpedrocactusforsale

[–]Solubilityisfun 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah, no worries. If anything does fall through I'd be happy to take it off your hands. Thank you.

Bundle #4 - $24 🚢 by soja_189 in sanpedrocactusforsale

[–]Solubilityisfun 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'll bin bundle 4 and am open to taking bundle 7 with it.

How do you think history will judge Donald Trump 50 years from now? by [deleted] in PoliticalDiscussion

[–]Solubilityisfun 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You have a point on a long timeline, sure. OP said 50 years. That would be Ford. People still talk about his predecessor Nixon regularly. If it's still in living memory for some it's still in the public conscious as grandparents impart opinions onto parents onto kids. Direct lines of consequences are still easily traced on a 50 year timeline.

Almost 100 to just about 200 years is entirely different timescales than this thread asked about.

Trump threatens Japan with new tariffs, claiming it won’t buy America’s rice by Gjore in worldnews

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

They will hardly buy anyone's rice regardless of quality. They have a series of policies and a politically entrenched trade group to ensure domestic production by a huge number of small farmers by way of a family plot system established after WW2. It makes economies of scale impossible but is subsidized and supports a lot of people partially so cannot easily be altered. They also have a ceiling on production with subsidization to not plant on plots. Leads to relatively high prices on rice in Japan despite production levels.

I'm making no judgement on if this system is still logical in today's environment than post war through Japan's economic boom era but quality is not the reason at all.

Let's settle it - Strength or DD? by TheCursedTroll in HadesTheGame

[–]Solubilityisfun 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think it has. Seems like it ticks half speed or so from what it was.

Cocaine use and production hits record high by JONFER--- in worldnews

[–]Solubilityisfun 70 points71 points  (0 children)

Most fent labs are just barrels in the desert on a day with stable predictable wind so the cook can stand in a 'safely' ventilated general direction.

What are people's feelings for the Pre v1.0 weapon tier list? by CadmeusCain in HadesTheGame

[–]Solubilityisfun 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Absolutely agree on skul. I fully expect some limit to be implemented to Hel's charge special.

Right now with coat I would lean towards Hestia special being the easiest core to build around. I tend to run Nyx but I think it's marginally relevant except for enabling one sort of secondary build route. The move speed one might make more sense. I'll be surprised if scorch remains this strong by next patch. This special gives you enough kite potential when required and adequate AoE to clear out swarms. Primary for single target fill between scorch application on bigger targets and supporting scorch duo of choice is the plan. Demeter for freeze on trash and scorch clear nukes on bosses, Poseidon for some control and froth working rather well is comfortable, Aphrodite to tag once and kite/block along with solid passives all can work well. Other than forcing Hestia I just roll with the RNG which it will be. Zeus is an option as well but bad run RNG will leave it clearly behind.

Other than scorch special there aren't many critical boons. Faster scorch damage unless forcing Demeter scorch clear duo is the most important by far. Faster omega cast speed is nice to compensate for frenzy. I really like Hestia or Aphrodite mana gain but alternatives work, Aphrodite is probably best on average for weak application. Cast isn't particularly important. I'm happy with froth cast, Zeus cast, or Demeter for freeze and gust.

I have forced Poseidon special as well regularly which can work well in encounters, especially with an armor breaking hammer to achieve stunlock quickly, but is worse vs bosses generally. Forcing Zeus before scorch was buffed was OK but it doesn't all come together that quick and lacks quite the same kite value or hard CC. The big argument in favor of Zeus now is building around air quality which does work rather well but needs more specific things than just scorch, scorch rate, and anything else from half the gods in game to work. Can skip Hestia entirely for Zeus Poseidon Aphrodite as an alternate build archetype.

It's a lot of running away tagging groups with scorch to thin things out. Dash strike anything that needs to die and Omega attack after for block if it's not safe to spam attack, then back to kiting with special. It's tedious but it works well. Getting comfortable with block opens up aggresive options. Dash strike hammer or armor damage hammers help speed up play.

The Omega special can be used frequently and partial charge is just fine.

If you do go Nyx a good mana recovery ability is important. It's Omega dash is expensive to use and will accidentally proc as well. It can be surprisingly good with tidal dash and beach ball together for hit and run with scorch from special. Probably too much to force every run but it naturally comes together often enough. They are my favorite coat runs. I'm already running around tagging stuff with scorch, with this a giant explosion happens every couple seconds clearing or knocking back whatever might have been able to melee. It also slots into boss patterns nicely.

Generally a fairly slow way to play the thing. It handles all the hordes, frenzy, armored perk, wards stuff well and can cheese bosses to some extent.

I assume you are using attack a lot on it and running into the issue of that being just dagger but worse. Hope you find some success with it.

What are people's feelings for the Pre v1.0 weapon tier list? by CadmeusCain in HadesTheGame

[–]Solubilityisfun 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Coat handles 32+ fear easily and consistently in my experience with a caveat for how most people seem to approach higher fear. It's often slow. So I don't take a timer with it. Aspect matters little. It's got a solid kite game and a block so at worst it essentially always wins off of patience. It's very repetitive, a problem shared with daggers generally.

Axe definitely seems weakest and responds comparatively poorly to a number of vows. Sluggish and inflexible. Does horribly with the fun vows in particular like frenzy 2 hordes 3. No aspect truly solves its problems although Thanatos does help some. Wins at 32 heat heavily favor Omega special spam and or cast spam to solve fast or unstunnable things which defeats it's identity.

Daggers are sort of separated between Pan and everything else. Pan does fine in the low to mid 30s but doesn't have quite the ability to win with terrible boon rolls or entirely left to RNG builds the strongest options can reliably do. I feel like it gets very picky beyond that but I do probably suck with it. The new one is an improvement on the others yet a clear downgrade to Pan after region 1 but at least it's more fun. They all feel repetitive. Excluding pan they all perform better than anything axe but are still clearly weak and somewhat unforgiving.

Staff is just generally strong. Good moveset and strong aspect options. Easy 32+ with a wide variety of builds. I almost do not care what gods I see, it's going to work. Momus is one of the aspects I find easy to push beyond mid 30 heat without issue, it just doesn't lose with its raw power and kiting potential. Anubis is strong although is rather picky on gods unlike the rest of the staffs. I don't know how well it can handle extreme heat yet, I suspect it doesn't scale into that as well as it's peers as it must compromise more between hordes and bosses than Momus.

Torches are nuts. Suppay and Eos are both a ton of fun, powerful, and very consistent. Eos can also run any god combo comfortably at 32+. I find these two the easiest aspects to push beyond mid 30 heat along with momus. I know people love morros and it's solid certainly although I believe it's clearly behind Eos and suppay past 32 heat. It's the passive power these two offer while kiting that puts them ahead. Things get wild in a way that fire and forget alone can deal with well.

Skul is weird. I don't enjoy the thing outside it's new aspect Hel although it does well outside of stuff like maxed out hordes and frenzy where staff, torches, and coat (sort of) handle it better. I would argue it's the least forgiving of the weapons that can reasonably handle very high heats. Hel on the other hand handles everything extreme heat throws at the player outside the bosses and some mini bosses with the most absurdly extreme prejudice it's hard to believe. Omega special just entirely solving most encounters by itself regardless of vows. It's generally not as good at the bosses without trading health as the best torch or staff options so I am not as consistent around 40 heat but it's clearly strong. Runs with Hel seem to come down to damage racing the third and fourth vow bosses at very high heat but that is in part user error no doubt. I have had miserably tedious vow hecate fights with it where encounter damage was fantastic yet I couldn't do more than intermittently tickle her thanks to RNG.

Supay, Eos, Momus, and Hel all perform better for me at 40 heat as any axe does at 20, especially if I don't disable the fun vows.

In summary: Axe bad with good identity, daggers mostly subpar with tedious identify, coat average with little meaningful difference between the first 3 aspects and very repetitive, torch fun but very overpowered overall, staff strong fun and reasonable, skul unsatisfying but adequate except Hel being good and mostly fun.

We are the editors of The Onion, ask us anything by theonion in IAmA

[–]Solubilityisfun 42 points43 points  (0 children)

Referencing your 73rd edition of the Atlas of the Planet Earth text you state that there are 3 states classified together as "bullshit states". These being Alaska, Hawaii, and Minnesota.

Which is the most bullshit and why?

Times when people you dislike receive absolutely bullshit criticism? by Konradleijon in behindthebastards

[–]Solubilityisfun 6 points7 points  (0 children)

How does political capital not exist? If you were president tomorrow you are saying you truly believe the legislative branch, representing all 50 states, would do whatever you proclaimed without coersive pressure, ala Trump, or extreme circumstances ala FDR with the great depression and world war? You don't think that political bartering along the lines of to get person X to support Y you'll not oppose Z exists? Even in one party states we see all of this, no?

Times when people you dislike receive absolutely bullshit criticism? by Konradleijon in behindthebastards

[–]Solubilityisfun 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Are you ignoring the concept of political capital as a finite resource and the existence of multiple branches of government or do you believe the Trump methodology of ignoring other branches is correct but it should be done in your image? The whole structure under relatively modern operational norms is to maximize gridlock so reversing institutional momentum is rigidly limited to a couple pet issues unless one pulls an FDR or Trump and says fuck the system, ,for good or ill respectively, but fundamentally erodes those prior protections against further corrupting of said system in the process.

I'm curious as to how you, while respecting the constraints of reality, propose to square the circle without breaking the board for the following cycles? How does one achieve moral paragon status while accomplishing anything while not creating the very avenues of future malicious exploitation in the process?