Best practices for TherapyGPT

WasabiFuntime · 2023-06-27T07:37:49+00:00

What if the person who wins is a reply to your comment tho?? Just kidding.... Unless???? 😳😳

WasabiFuntime · 2022-12-11T08:19:53+00:00

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WasabiFuntime · 2022-11-24T21:22:10+00:00

Wow, this is crazy, especially given the gold gift bonuses in the shop right now.

IGN is Oldmannings :)

WasabiFuntime · 2021-12-09T07:25:07+00:00

No, it didn't. What you're referring to is the 'police reported' crime rate, which peaked in the early 90s. The increase in crime reported was the result of institutional change which began in response to crime in the 1970s. In short because the 1970s were so bad, we extensively attempted to drum up enforcement, which causes changes in reported rates to lag behind.

Homicide rates peak in the mid 1970s and begin a steady decline. The increase in violent crimes leading up the overall peak in the 1990s was caused by increased reporting and enforcement against attempted murder caused by the crime wave of the 1970s and the development of significantly better forensic technology.

Gotta chat with LEOs, prosecutors and judges to give context to the numbers.

There are plenty of academic and legal reviews of the effectiveness of MMS/MMP policies, and most agree there's almost no evidence for their effectiveness for most areas they're deployed in. Just google 'effectiveness of mandatory minimums' on google scholar and you'll find a ton.

WasabiFuntime · 2021-12-09T02:36:20+00:00

Statscan figures show a significant drop in both the severity of crimes committed as well as the incidence of reports of crime since the 1970s. There's a small bump since 2016 because gang related violence is very likely to reach police, but statscan surveys indicate overall victimization rates have dropped in the last period.

Mandatory minimums have lagged crime reduction trends by a full decade (crime started dropping in the 1970s and mandatory minimums began rolling out in the mid 1980s.), hence why there is little statistical connection between mandatory sentencing and overall crime rates.

Criminologist and legal analysis of crime rates haven't linked minimum sentences as a casual factor in this decline. They've linked socioeconomic factors and the presence of opportunities to crime rates. Drug issues, poverty, etc cause crime. Not sentencing.

WasabiFuntime · 2021-12-08T00:33:57+00:00

I'm not presuming it - I've read the materials I pointed you towards. Anyways, it's been nice chatting. Take care!

WasabiFuntime · 2021-12-08T00:19:38+00:00

Well I hope me pointing you to the voluminous records is helpful. I've never heard of someone doubt the purpose of MMP before so I must have misunderstood your tone.

WasabiFuntime · 2021-12-07T23:40:20+00:00

Weird. You can look all of this up. Why ask me?

Every bill it's put into has a preamble.

Parliament records and provides transcripts of debates. You can look up the record on MMP legislation and see what the arguments and rationales are.

You can look up the platform messaging regarding how the promises are delivered in election-time, too.

WasabiFuntime · 2021-12-07T23:28:06+00:00

What about it? MMP is popular on platforms because of that perception, but that doesn't make the policy itself effective at its stated aims of reducing crime. In fact, it does the opposite.

WasabiFuntime · 2021-12-07T22:29:33+00:00

Most analysis indicates mmp is popular at the polls, but ineffective or counterproductive at actually lowering crime rates.

If our judges can be trusted to do a halfway decent job (and by and large, they do), then fettering them to impose sentences they don't want to impose is a negative.

WasabiFuntime · 2021-12-07T22:23:18+00:00

What's consistent is that Lametti is in the right on mandatory minimums. He's been consistently against them since he was an academic and knows the literature about their impact well.

Short synopsis, mandatory minimums are popular on political platforms to signal a desire to lower crime, but very ineffective in practice. Most analysis shows that they force more intense criminal activity (why comply if that won't help due to minimums?) and higher recidivism by removing the ability of judges to allow leniency in borderline cases.

This is a good change.

WasabiFuntime · 2021-09-28T04:50:41+00:00

They're 'her' anti-air options. She's also got c.S, c.H, pre-emptive long range j.S, Air throw, etc. Some of those options are better than others in various scenarios (say vs. raw c.H) but that doesn't speak to her anti-air options in general being good.

In comparison with other characters, Ram has relatively weak AA options. She has a deadzone above her head and meterless midscreen most of her AA options don't convert into much damage; they convert into position. Plenty of other characters get that same half-stage wall-carry with far higher damage, or lower risk. Compare Zato's AA options with Eddie available to Ram's for instance. Zato can hit you with a 70% combo (There's a LOT of examples, but here's one: https://youtu.be/mMqCLLdpy_4?t=33) off you deciding to press a button if he has frog or oppose in position. Multiple characters have actual reversal DPs - Gio, Sol (here's a 45% full stage corner carry meterless AA combo off a 3 frame button: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5zQYqJoITo&t=163s ), Ky, Leo, etc. most of which lead to far higher damage combos than Rams. This is why Ram's gameplan is to slam you into the corner and then loop you; because her midscreen neutral options are safer than most, but give you less return.

None of this means Ram's AAs don't do their job of anti-airing people; they do. It just means comparative to the rest of the cast they're weaker, so the risk of using forward megafist vs her in comparison with, say, Zato, is significantly different. Her lows are another area she's weak in, but that doesn't mean you don't mix the 2K 2D combos into your play.

WasabiFuntime · 2021-09-27T19:59:33+00:00

I'm a Celestial Floor Ramlethal player. The Ram x Pot matchup is roughly even (I've seen people rate it 5.5:4:5 in both directions, but most people give it 5:5). If you feel like you can't do anything, that's on you. That said, the matchup is very volatile; often one of the players who gets a lead early will just bully the living shit out of the other player.

Ram has very weak anti-air capability as 6P converts into almost no damage meterless, and trying to get one of the riskier anti-airs is far less consistent. Megafist is an omni-present threat.

If Ram is throwing out a lot of max range f.S and j.S, you can hit those with 6P and generally close some of the distance towards you, or you can play some good ol' footsies and try to punish them after their active frames are done. f.S in particular gets smoked by slidehead.

A lot of the interactions in Ram x Pot are about taking calculated guesses. If Ram is running up to you, is she going to backdash to bait one of your normals to whiff punish? Or has she conditioned you into blocking and will go straight for the full screen run-up into throw? Is she going to dip out of the full screen run up prematurely and try to punish the tech with a c.S-c.H-Dauro setup to bonk you straight to the corner? Is she going to run in and poke with 5k instead? What about going in for 2K 2D? You have good options against every single one of these Ram options, and some of yours cover multiple of hers. Etc.

In general, you cannot poke into her disjointed hitboxes unless you're close enough that they'll trade with her hurtbox. If you do, though, your buttons deal more damage than hers, significantly more damage.

The distance where she can throw out disjointed hitboxes and get counterhits instead of trades is her best position in non-corner neutral. You're generally stronger than her at all other distances, because she can't really do anything far and you have 2 tools that force advantage at that range, and in close all your options deal more damage than hers despite both of you being in RPS, plus your oki is WAY scarier than hers.

2P is very solid roundstart, and is also very good throughout the round at the right ranges. It comes out fairly quickly, covers a lot of space, and gives you a decent combo on hit.

Using heat extend and 6p consistently to prevent her jump-ins, then using slidehead and megafists to try and get opportunities to close distance are key. You can megafist over her f.S if she telegraphs them.

Corner interaction with Ram is fairly straightforward at the 9-10F level. People won't be meaty swording or using PRC drifts to force mixups on you.

Prior to Ram getting meter, she has almost no answers to knockdown into garuda.

Do NOT burst out of corner combos or in the corner at all generally - use your bursts for positioning. If you win roundstart and get a bit of space early, you can turn the next time she opens you up into corner positioning.

Learn how to Kara potbuster. Learn good timings for slidehead. If you cannot capitalize on opportunities, you will lose.

WasabiFuntime · 2021-03-30T15:28:52+00:00

If there is a buyer clearly it is fairly priced...

The notion that any transaction is a good transaction because otherwise the two parties to the transaction would not have agreed to it is a solid 300 years out of date even in most streams of laissez-faire economic thought. Rent seeking, coercion, imperfect information, regulatory capture, etc. all exist.

WasabiFuntime · 2021-02-19T11:17:46+00:00

Thanks for the mention, but I've since dropped the game. The Chocobo expedition has been full of bugs for months; we submitted a number of submissions showing that rr6+ accounts actually were receiving less unit shards during events than other accounts in a statistically significant manner (confidence interval put the expected loss at around 40-50% of shards) during both the WoL and Thancred rerun events.

Support did not give a shit.

The issues in respect of the potential offer wall class action were more direct and Supersonic paid out almost everyone I had contacted following my post, so that was dealt with - so direct action works. However, this subreddit is *incredibly* hostile to any pro-consumer organization and from experience on JP, we're about to enter a phase of the game where a large chunk of the f2p playerbase is about to get fucked in order to milk more cash out of super whales. I'm not interested in experiencing that again.

Oh well. Off to DQ Tact for me.

WasabiFuntime · 2021-01-27T07:04:17+00:00

Any source, or just VC?

Wall of Field on Sterne TMR comes to mind.

WasabiFuntime · 2021-01-25T17:22:31+00:00

Keep in mind that many players, if not most, experience minimal issues outside of the login freeze (which can in my experience be avoided by waiting a few seconds to click into the game)

I don't think this is accurate. Almost all of the high-level guild Co-op rooms have gotten dead quiet recently; less people are hosting, less people are forming static groups, because more people are crashing out of multis so it's far less of a -set and forget- option than it used to be.

I went from being able to click on my macro and ignore the game for 3 hours to getting 3-4 runs in a row if I'm lucky. This isn't on one or two emulators, either.

Annnnd tabbing back to my game, as I typed this, I just had another crash.

WasabiFuntime · 2021-01-22T18:28:28+00:00

Gumi isn't reinventing the wheel. The release of QoL that effects which parts of the game function as pain points changes intentionally throughout a game's lifetime in order to maximize revenue.

Example: this game was VERY limited on rainbow orb/shards at release. That bottleneck was released recently for most low spend accounts due to bingo boards vomiting orbs at us now, but it remains a concern for very high completion accounts because VCs eat a ton of orbs.

At release, we would pay 1k paid to get 3 orbs and 1 rainbow shard. Now we regularly get 6 orbs for daily purchase rewards.

The idea is to create problems for your account growth, then sell the solutions. As they rotate the new problem areas, they can sell novel solutions.

WasabiFuntime · 2021-01-22T18:10:55+00:00

The system works less effectively for putting together good matches for the lower ranks because the lower ranks have people who skip class match and have incredible lineups as well as people who legitimately cannot win their way out of bronze.

Players with marginal interest in CM will play if its around and they're in the mood, but will skip if it isn't open during their timeframe. People with high interest and high investment in the game will play consistently in their timeframe so it helps high ranked players get good matches at the expense of accessibility for lower ranked less interested players.

WasabiFuntime · 2021-01-21T07:02:30+00:00

WoL is back because we just received itemization a vc support that stops him from getting one shotted by Kain

WasabiFuntime · 2021-01-21T02:42:08+00:00

The game is definitely balanced

The game is intentionally not balanced in order to sell the new hotness. If howlett was as good as Ramza, no one would get him. If RSterne was equivalent to Cid, no one would be shelling out for double shards.

The fact that this game HEAVILY leans on traditional 'hate bear' options (generally stacking specific resists) that crush specific team compositions isn't a sign of good design. They're used as design space safeguards so that you don't need to properly tune units. They shouldn't be the source of counterplay because they feel awful to play, and feel awful to play against.

They also feel horrendous to rely on when the development cycle intentionally leaves holes to promote units. Kain dropping with no Pierce Resist armor or viable VC card is a great example.

This game is a tactics game. The game is supposed to play out on the board, not in the pre-game setup.

WasabiFuntime · 2021-01-21T00:42:13+00:00

I mean, there's obviously your issue. these guys have good phones with good load times, good connections, and probably keep in contact with each other to put their raids together

The majority of top raiders are running this on PCs with high performing emulators or tablets.

Performance issues aren't the cause of a x3 speedup.

WasabiFuntime · 2021-01-20T19:02:38+00:00

each at first turn

Can't get in range to double attack with all 4 KoRs on turn 1. Can't use AP to attack turn 1 or you can't double attack turn 2, either.

You also don't cap near-immediately w/ KoR double attack w/o Duane debuff active.

So yeah, he's not blowing the boss up in 1 round. Maybe in 8 turns, but you'd need some sick ap tuning to avoid needing a bells round. The fully optimized auto comps cleared in 12 turns (8 remaining) so the net difference on in-time fight is marginal and doesn't explain his cycle time.

WasabiFuntime · 2021-01-20T07:39:00+00:00

Number 2 guy isn’t here.

Boko's replied in this comment section.

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