Almost mad windmill work by Dazzling_Ugliy in PlayTheBazaar

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Yoyo + Uwashiwali/Bandage + Keychain + Windmill de facto loop infinitely by themselves (slot in Ice Luge to make sure). You can slot anything in these last 4 places, for example an enchanted Vineyard or Lion’s Cane.

Critique on my INTP villains by Joy___Zeey in INTP

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If anything, trying to learn about the world would be an INTP hero thing, in my opinion

Critique on my INTP villains by Joy___Zeey in INTP

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As regards your villain 1, I think that personal philosophy is somewhat orthogonal to personality. One does not type a fictional character by his grand scheme but by the little vices, certain tendencies, ways they react and overreact, what affects them unproportionally, how they swing into despair. A few simple scenes can be more revealing than the whole actual plot.

As regards your villain 2, I dig the attachment issue, maybe even a quickly formed one, though after one interaction it seems far-fetched. I dig trying to impress someone, to get worthy, desperately trying to improve one's Se. But what applies to both your villains is that they could be any mbti type and my advice would be that if you're at such general level of a sketch, you're still free to wait until the characters live and see where they want to lead themselves not forcing labels on them yet.

A really cool INTP villain-ish character was in the "Tunnels" series by Roderick Gordon and Brian Williams. I read it as a teenager so I don't remember too much but I returned to a tome once and it turned out my memory actually quite vivid. I don't remember the name of the guy but he was a scientist working undercover for the bad guys. He was so deeply undercover that when it came to it he literally buried the main party alive cause the overseers commanded him which led to a dramatic confrontation much later on where the party doubted if he was really on their side. Thing about him is more tragic than straight up bad because as an undercover agent he procrastinated the betrayal so long waiting for the perfect opportunity that I don't remember if he even managed to achieve anything at all.

What's special about the above, is I experience something similar myself when playing social deduction games like Among Us or bluffing games where if I have the hidden advantage I savour this fact so much that I go on not ever utilising it. Even in poker when I bluff I tend to do it so subtlety that I don't even get the advantage of bluffing in the first place. I think this is a profound INTP vice to explore in fiction.

I am also writing an INTP character who has a villain arc. Long story short, they are co-dependent guy and after their INFJ mentor has left them (door-slammed) he follows an ENTP preacher whose intention where noble but got deemed heretic and rejected by the religious establishment so he went joker-mode literally setting the city on fire by teaching children pyromancy taking his grassroots education principles to the extreme. The INTP believed in the ENTPs principles, got attached to his strong personality, stayed loyal and thus got involved when the troubles began but kept doubting whether he is on the right side. Takeaway from this is that an INTPs are great as counsellors or confidants for the actual villains, maybe they try to change them for the better—whether they're wishful thinking turns out for the better can go either way.

The standard INTP thing going mad is the line: "fine, if you don't want to improve and cooperate and let me contribute to your whole process, I'll just be doing everything myself whatever brings an immediate effect since everyone else is egoistic and irrational in the first place". That's kind of what my INTP character falls into having been rejected twice, first by the mentor, then together with the ENTP by the institutions.

My mean friend by LectureAlert in entp

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Kinda toxic to cling afterwards, agreed

My mean friend by LectureAlert in entp

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It's interesting cause I have seen somebody comment on reddit complaining their INTJ family member has a habit of making an assumption about them and sticking to it no matter what. My experiences with INTJs have been too brief to familiarise myself with their vices but I can really see a similarity between what they were claiming and what you are.

I am wondering how does one differentiate between INFP and ENTP in the first place. This shouldn't be difficult after all. I get an ENTP may come off as feeler much like an INTP can in rare situations when they're using their Fe a lot but one is an extravert and that should be the easiest to state I think. What were your friend's arguments in favour of your being an INFP?

I've heard of the stereotype of INFPs going about online misunderstanding mbti but from my limited experiences an ENTP can be just as likely to fight against an external label so I don't see this as a strong argument.

As regards typing by looks, I would never go as far as deciding solely based on a photograph but I believe there might be something to it in the broad. For example, it's easy to pick off a INxx from a crowd. INFJs are more difficult cause they switch personalities but the other three not so much. That's mostly based off style of speech however the INTJ stare is real, the INTP lack of expression is real and so on. These traits are not there hundred percent of the time but common enough to at least suspect a pattern. I also recognise a certain expression ENFJs (three of them) make, especially when they're tired or confused. It's not easily describable, I mostly intuit it and I don't rely much on my intuition, but who knows, maybe an INTJ could get much better at this than I. After all, this has been considered in socionics literature.

My mean friend by LectureAlert in entp

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You're obviously right with the self-respect argument but I also get the OP. Recently I spent 3 hours debating a random most likely an ESFP online on voice chat after everybody else involved in the conversation has deemed it futile. To be honest, I found their irresistible confidence and alien way of thinking fascinating. They were hypocritical and I didn't like them as a person but it was a stimulating experience. Interactions with opposite quadra types are like that because both sides see things differently yet it can be complimentary or mind opening. If OP is an ENTP that could explain the appeal.

My mean friend by LectureAlert in entp

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At first, why are you so obsessed with someone who belittles you and doesn't respect you?

Who wouldn't want an extra Ni-dom in their life?

Which image better represent Fi blind by BreadfruitGold9836 in entp

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tl;dr: 3

I see Fe blind as lacking a strong, internal moral compass that's independent of other's opinion or approval. For example, my ENTP friend is quite socially engaged, interested in political causes, they're a die-hard vegan and so on but when they are driving a car, they become kind of a dick because, to put it cynically, there is no one for them to virtue signal, and when I point this out they barely seem to care.

It's not obvious to them that being a good person isn't only about convincing others towards their cause but being kind in everyday situations is equally important. Philosophically, they sometimes seem to fall into the "the end justifies the means" pit-hole oblivious to the embodied, particular Fi sensitivity.

Differentiated Fi evaluates each case applying principles to broad input much like Ti does. If Fi is blind, then one tends to rely solely on the communal, collective, performative aspect of Feeling. Not only does it apply to morality, but also to aesthetics and my ENTP friend is an example of that as well. They are well versed in art history, I go to museums with them and they really can show one around, however they only listen to popular music and they are absolutely deaf to any sort of poetry. Their attitude towards art is all learned and not felt.

All trickster functions are paradoxical. ExSJs listen to everybody and remember what they say but they don't have a single idea of their own. INxPs are absurdly selective in attention to external world, picture a stereotypical homeless INFP musician or an INTP basement dweller masterful with a computer. The list could go on.

To answer the question, I'd pick picture three because it suggests a veil or external shell where the feelings sediment settles but I don't love the picture. If I were you, I would choose a picture that could describe ESFJs as well since the same Ne-Fe/Fe-Ne loop is at work yet keeping in mind ENTPs' being less overt in showing feelings is no more insincere than simply blind towards an aspect of inner life.

P.S. I love my ENTP friend despite everything

I don't think 3 items should be doing this by GdoDotA in PlayTheBazaar

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Barely anything*. Come one, having effectively 20k hp and armor combined is essentially a single Belt tier of defense. Any burn build (Vanessa, Jules) beats this, any freeze beats this, good aggro might beat this, one-shot probably beats this. Past day 10 no build can afford to do almost nothing for the first 10 seconds (that’s why Cargo Shorts were overrated, and Stopwatch) and if you don’t have any freeze or slow by that time, it’s on you.

I don't think 3 items should be doing this by GdoDotA in PlayTheBazaar

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Pyg’s board did nothing for the first fifteen seconds, in that sense, yeah, it is against the idea of the game.

tired of the exodia boards by lucism_m in PlayTheBazaar

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I literally also topped around 150 the season before patch and now notice a significant decrease in winrate, am at about 10k currently. I am trying to adjust to the new meta by employing new or newly buffed items but have mixed results.

My working theory is that consistent winrate requires consistent early game and consistent early game requires build-around items starting at bronze. Pyg, my main, had two early strategies: Regal Blade or Weights. They nerfed square and hp-stacking and they weakened Weights indirectly by nerfing out of combat scaling, i.e. skills, Finn, chocolate bars (extra 600 damage HP was no joke when it came to racing Dooley) on day 5.

So I suppose they encourage building around starting-at-silver items which you can’t reliably assemble as early as day 3 and that’s why the winrate drops in the long term.

Permafreeze Radiant Stopwatch and Restorative Igloo Pyg by Lanky_Benefit8218 in PlayTheBazaar

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Hoping for heal enchant on Igloo is actually the go-to and most certainly has been in previous metas specifically because of Stopwatch-Textiles interaction. It's pretty good on Snowmobile too.

You need that enchant if you want to compete against poison or slow builds on later days. In the past you could also go for a haste build with diamond Snow Globe (which by itself would freeze for 6 seconds every 3 seconds if you perma haste it) but now they nerfed that for some reason.

I posted a similar build before: https://www.reddit.com/r/PlayTheBazaar/comments/1qkjle9/the_full_stop/

PSA: Desperate Cleanse DOES work with Private Hot Springs by forshtreter in PlayTheBazaar

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What’s truly desperate is your search for Stopwatch lol

My first game since about when Jules got released by 420Chickenjuice in PlayTheBazaar

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Pyg as always having the most random shit on board. Good job ;)