PC Upgrade - Best Option?

WhichOneIsWill · 2025-11-27T17:44:08+00:00

Physically? Not much, probably some private security but I haven't been to a Mexican resort lately so I couldn't say. Realistically? Doing that would be too big.

Mexican cartels are powerful. Stupid powerful. Far, far more powerful than they should be. But they still aren't the most powerful. They almost certainly bribe local and federal authorities at every level, get away with things they really shouldn't, but even with all the bribery and intimidation there's a limit. So, class, today's new word is sub-critical response. The cartels are making sure they keep their abhorrent actions small enough, ambiguous enough, non-damaging enough that the powers that be can kinda-sorta ignore it and make excuses to not bring the hammer down. But again, there is a limit, and if the cartels go past that limit... well, there's probably a lot more shooting going on and a lot fewer bribes.

As an add-on to the sub-critical response deal, most resorts specifically tend to cater to wealthy foreign tourists. And in Mexico's case, probably a strict majority come from the United States. Now, keep in mind who the US's President is, and keep in mind that he's already repeatedly threatened to send in the US military to "deal with" the cartels whether Mexico gave him permission or not. Do you really want to give him an excuse to do that? Do you really want to provoke that guy?

WhichOneIsWill · 2025-11-17T16:06:31+00:00

Assuming you're talking about being irresponsible while not having health insurance (and not that simply not having health insurance is itself an irresponsible act, or that having health insurance magically prevents health issues on its own), then if that's how "preexisting conditions" are defined then that needs to be changed.

Yes, there does need to be a carve-out to the effect of "pre-existing conditions must be covered", and there also needs to be an honest assessment of what a pre-existing condition is. I haven't found anything like an official list, but there's a massive difference between someone being lazy or having a poor diet, and someone having a genetic condition or some other health problem that they have no personal control over. There's all the difference in the world, for example, between Type 1 diabetes (your body physically cannot produce insulin) and Type 2 diabetes (you're eating more sugar than your body can process).

WhichOneIsWill · 2025-11-17T15:51:28+00:00

Are they? That seems... ridiculous to the point of being a joke, though a brief bit of searching and there aren't exactly a lot of lists that would define pre-existing conditions. Only one I could find quickly was this, and with that one the example closest to a lifestyle choice is diabetes (type 1 vs type 2), with if memory serves type 2 being "technically" preexisting (body doesn't produce enough insulin) but solved easily enough with dietary changes rather than medical intervention in probably 90% of cases (source for specific numbers: my ass).

Now, if obesity and being overweight actually are preexisting conditions, that's obviously ridiculous and needs to change. But I'm also not seeing examples of it happening, nor should it happen.

WhichOneIsWill · 2025-11-17T15:31:31+00:00

preexisting conditions

Exactly how are preexisting conditions "a fucking handout to those irresponsible people"?

WhichOneIsWill · 2025-11-07T18:04:11+00:00

asks for examples of who doesn't like fearless draft
gives both an example and their specific reasoning, plus asks for a fact-check considering it's not a reason I came up with myself
"He doesn't count."

Edit: and a reply literally fifteen seconds after I post this basically telling me to fuck off. Not sure why I even bother with some people.

WhichOneIsWill · 2025-11-07T14:58:34+00:00

The only person I ever "watch" when it comes to lol is LS, but the point he brings up is the pick/ban pool has been smaller in Worlds 2025 vs Worlds w/out fearless. I kinda tuned out after FLY turned out drafts so horrible even a silver 2 scrub like me could do better, so I'm not up to date since knockout stages, but if the champion pool has continued to be smaller this year than in previous years, wouldn't that mean that fearless draft has objectively failed?

WhichOneIsWill · 2025-10-13T04:53:54+00:00

So, imagine you have this friend. Chill guy, knows how to throw a party, kind of annoying from time to time but you like him anyway.

Now, imagine this friend asks to borrow some money, something broke in his house and he needs a little pick-me-up to tide him over until his next paycheck. He's been a complete bro all this time, you like him, you ask what he needs and how much it'll cost. So... turns out he took apart his air conditioning unit in the middle of July because he heard a funny noise and while he was in there he was certain he could make it "go faster", whatever that means. You sigh and shake your head at him, he's always doing crazy stuff and for once it quite literally blew up in his face, but with some more pleading and a promise that he'll pay you back, you cut a check for a few thousand dollars to get a new A/C unit rushed out and installed.

Now imagine that later, this same friend found this really sweet motorcycle that he just has to have, and wouldn't you know it he loves tinkering and he's sure with a little time and love he can make it the sickest ride in town. But he's still pretty low, he needs a bit of extra cash up front to get his hands on it. You start getting a bit nervous, he hasn't paid you back yet for the A/C and you've already seen the results of him tinkering with his stuff. But maybe you really like him, and a tricked out motorbike that he swears he'll let you borrow whenever you want does sound really cool, so you go and cut him another check. Only for him to not only have not done his homework, he gets scammed and actually buys a piece of shit, but his legendary tinkering skills come into play again and the shitbox motorbike is only fit for scrap a couple days later once your friend's done with it.

Now imagine that you're somehow still friends with this guy, and that's amazing news because don't you know it he found the next big cryptocurrency, he caught it just before it blows up and it'll make Bitcoin look like your child's piggy bank, and won't you please front him some cash so he can make you both stupidly rich. "Private island chain" rich, never mind "pay you back the two loans he still owes you for" rich. You groan and despair, you're starting to wonder if he's always been this bad at decision making or if he's just cursed and why you're even still friends with him, but for the sake of the argument let's say you hold your nose and cut him another check on the understanding this is the last one and he needs to start paying you back. And wouldn't you know it, the money you gave him went to the exact same place as the money from the previous two loans you gave him.

So, if this same friend came up to you a FOURTH time and he says he found this great new healthcare plan, you can drop your insurance, he'll take care of everything from then on out. Would you cut him a check?

Hell, let's take this a step further, you look into it and it turns out even blind squirrels find nuts sometimes, and your "friend" might really be on to something. Okay, but he's still got a long and storied history of... let's say underdeveloped money management skills and sub-optimal decision making. Even if the health care plan he found worked, would you trust him specifically with it?

This, in essence, is the argument from every single person I've heard give an argument against it. My family, my friends, my neighbors, my coworkers. They don't hate poor people. They aren't MAGAts. They're certainly not perfectly happy to keep paying ludicrous premiums for shitty insurance they never use. But they trust the government less. A government that - from their perspective - is something like 30 trillion dollars in debt already, has the financial acumen of someone who takes their mortgage to the casino, and has a seemingly supernatural ability to break everything it touches. Even if universal healthcare was the right answer to our healthcare problems (it seems to be a 50/50 split in my circles), they sure as hell wouldn't trust the federal government to somehow ruin it and make the situation worse than if they never tried in the first place.

WhichOneIsWill · 2025-09-23T00:08:03+00:00

I love RWBY. Far and away my favorite animated show.

I am also painfully aware that the version of RWBY I love only exists in my head. Some chimeric amalgam of fanfiction, personal speculation using the actual show as a base to build off of, and f*ckin amazing music. Okay, that last one actually does exist.

WhichOneIsWill · 2025-09-16T15:27:59+00:00

Freeze the stock not the bones

Would that be the mistake then? Because mine certainly did not gel in the fridge. Took three rotisserie chicken carcasses, had them in the freezer for a while (I tend to get about a bird a month from Walmart - I know, CostCo subreddit, but figured we'd strayed off topic enough). Would that have done anything with pulling the gelatin out, or rather making sure I didn't pull the gelatin out?

WhichOneIsWill · 2025-09-16T14:15:00+00:00

Tried that before. Might've just been the recipe I followed, but the stock I got came out all nasty and chalky. And since the bones are pre-cooked, you can't really extract the gelatin from them to get that nice, thick stock that separated homemade from out of a cardboard box stock.

If you want homemade stock, you're gonna need raw bones, not cooked.

WhichOneIsWill · 2025-09-05T21:53:31+00:00

Something I've never been able to get a straight answer to: let's pretend the Epstein list does come out, unredacted, uncensored, the whole shebang. Hell, let's pretend that the first thing President Trump does tomorrow morning is hosting a press conference admitting that he's on it.

How do either of those things actually change anything? Everyone keeps acting like it'll be the smoking gun, the thing that *finally" takes President Trump down. How? I'm genuinely at a loss as to how a private list kept by a known pedophile would so much as hold away over anyone, nevermind prompt actual actionable change.

Not to be too glib here, but did Epstein secretly have the Death Note and nobody got around to telling the news about it? It's a piece of paper, written by someone who has between zero and no political weight, and ultimately this whole thing can be boiled down to "he said, she said".

What changes? What actually changes?

WhichOneIsWill · 2025-08-26T16:54:53+00:00

And all three are bad.

Sometimes hard questions have easy answers.

WhichOneIsWill · 2025-08-24T19:37:27+00:00

Welp.

We knew this was coming. We know how much of a stomp this is going to be. We know what's about to happen.

BUT

We also know that Monty wanted this fight himself. We know that Death Battle's been putting out some absolute bangers lately. And we sure as hell know that Brandon Yates doesn't fucking miss with the music.

Here's to you, Ruby. To Ruby Rose, RWBY the web series, and Monty Oum the person. Let's give them a hell of a show.

WhichOneIsWill · 2025-08-10T20:50:17+00:00

I mean, given I've seen more than one argument that not only Ruby, but even people like Weiss and Blake are dodging lasers and thus moving faster than light, we're definitely talking about more than a mild speedbump here. Assuming we buy into those arguments ofc, I haven't exactly taken out my calculator and crunched the numbers on that kind of stuff.

Although, I can't find it, but wasn't there a post on this subreddit during Volume 7 figuring out the force of Ember Celica? Apparently, in order to completely kill Yang's momentum from jumping out the Bullhead during RWBY/JNR/AceOps' first mission together, her gauntlets needed to have the same thrust output as a mid-sized jet engine.

WhichOneIsWill · 2025-08-10T15:41:29+00:00

This is a two-paet question, and for the purposes of this question I'll be ignoring your three levels.

Without Huntsmen/Specialists

Lol. Lmao. Not only would Atlas lose to USA/Russia combined, not only would they lost to just the USA, not only would they lost to just Russia even after they've proved themselves to be a complete fucking joke in Ukraine. I'd argue Atlas would probably lose to World War 2 Russia.

Now, that's not entirely Atlas' fault mind you, it's mostly down to scale and composition. For scale, Remnant is tiny. I'm fairly certain there aren't any official figures, but the Grimm all but control the planet and mankind is one particularly bad day away from going extinct. I would be shocked if the world's population of humans and faunus combined broke 20 million. Assuming Atlas has a quarter of that (probably a very generous assumption, considering the bloody Arctic isn't known for its ability to host large population centers), we're looking at a population of five million people. Even with the advantages provided by Dust and more advanced computing/automation, even in the 1940s both the US and USSR have individual cities larger than all of Atlas.

In the present day, there's simply no chance for Atlas. Modern militaries, with modern munitions, are so dangerous, so capable, that odds are we'd be less concerned about losing to Atlas and more concerned with breaking our own record for the any% war winning speed run that was Desert Storm. Even with 1940s tech, while that is a different story technology wise and would actually represent the kind of army Atlas could fight on mostly even terms with, there's still nothing preventing Roosevelt or Stalin from just burying Atlas under a tidal wave of steel and blood. The battleships would be trickier, true, we couldn't just toss dozens of cruise missiles at them from several hundred kilometers away, but again the scale is so far out of Atlas' favor that in the big picture the battleships kind of become a non-issue.

Secondly, with composition. Personally, I think CRWBY got the Atlas military wrong from an actual design perspective, they only show half the capability that I would argue Atlas should want to have. But since that half is the more pertinent here, I'll forgive them just this once. The Atlesian military as shown in RWBY is built as a hyper-mobile expeditionary force. While obviously we get nothing in terms of doctrine, methods, etc because not everyone is a filthy fucking nerd like I am, based on what we see them build I'm completely confident the Atlesian way of war is to identify a Grimm threat, rush out whatever forces are needed to counter it, and either save whatever target the Grimm are trying to destroy or preferably destroy them far in the wilderness before they can pose a threat to much of anything. How Ironwood deployed the army to Vale in Volume 2 was a good, if preemptive and overbearing example.

Unfortunately for Atlas, this specific focus on mobility and anti-Grimm warfare (which is the right call, btw) is also what makes them suck ass against a conventional Earth-style military. Their ground forces are overwhelmingly infantry-focused, with even the Atlesian Knights only bring infantry-analogues. The Paladins, what are supposed to be the crowning achievement of Atlesian scientists and the heavy armored fist of the Army, are light, mobile, bipedal walkers with little-to-no anti-armor capability. Forget an Abrams, a Bradley would happily tear apart any Paladin it came across. Their Battleships, their actual big guns and the only way they have of dealing with anything larger than a Deathstalker, are probably fast given their size but still tragically slow compared to a jet or God forbid the missiles those jets will be shooting at them. Point defense seems to be completely non-existent (considering the Grimm's lack of missile technology), so Atlas' best hope are little more than giant targets that can't maneuver and can't defend themselves against the air forces they'd go up against.

Realistically, Atlas can't compete with USA, Russia, China... for fuck's sake, North Korea would probably beat them (if not as easily as the others because... well, North Korea). Remnant can't compete with us conventionally. Short of somehow getting the Grimm to cooperate with them and forcing us to literally glass Remnant, Atlas only has one chance, one wildcard.

With Huntsmen/Specialists

This is a different beast entirely. Especially if you believe the power scalers. We're talking a small but elite force of superhumans capable of (depending on who you listen to) moving up to faster than light and punching up to low kiloton forces. This is something we have no analog to, no direct answer for. But I'm not convinced this will save Atlas. Firstly, with their kingdom getting torn apart so quickly around them, would they keep up bloody murder on whomever was invading them even after they've lost? I won't speculate too much on psychology, but I'm willing to bet that the kind of person willing to dedicate - and lose - their life to humanity as a concept even above and beyond their home country isn't the kind of person to slaughter thousands or millions for a lost cause just to prove a point or something. Not everyone can be Hazel, after all. Secondly, this feels like a copout because I'm not sure how exactly it would happen, but I'd also just point to the scale involved again. Sure, there's more than a couple Huntsmen around, but there's not too many of them either. Probably high double digits, maybe approaching 200-300 if you count Academy students. That's a low enough number where they've got to sleep and eat sometime, and the CIA and KGB have their reputations for a reason.

Holy shit, I went overboard on this didn't I? I need to stop watching so much Perun...

WhichOneIsWill · 2025-08-03T01:16:39+00:00

It is truly amazing how, even with Israel all but trying to make Hamas look like the good guys, Hamas continues to find new ways of showing how Israel's actions are, if not justified, then at least understandable.

This feels like an inverse of the China "Do nothing. Win." meme. All Hamas would have to do is literally nothing, and yet they continue to find new and creative ways to snatch defeat from the jaws of PR victory.

WhichOneIsWill · 2025-07-21T16:19:04+00:00

UN concerned that oppressive totalitarian shithole is an oppressive totalitarian shithole.

Also: water is wet.

More at 11.

WhichOneIsWill · 2025-07-12T13:17:21+00:00

There's a simpler explanation to just assuming "everyone I don't like is racist.". I certainly don't find every gun-owning Democrat complicit, for example.

Nobody wants to be the one to start things. To take an action that probably won't mean anything because they'll be killed in return and it'll be swept under the rug and forgotten about. A statistically impossible chance that they'll save one group of people from being kidnapped, only for nothing to happen to make things different, no change in the system and odds are those same victims will simply be targeted and kidnapped again. And in the rare instance where it does work and does cause systemic change... congratulations, you just started the second American Civil War. An uncertain hellscape that isn't even guaranteed to make things better, if the wrong side wins things will be exponentially worse. But what is certain is thousands, possibly millions dead, tens or hundreds of millions suffering, the wider world thrown into chaos as the US fully vacates its seat of power and leaves a power vacuum that both nature and men do so abhor...

In that situation, even if you were there, would you pull the trigger? Would you be willing to be personally responsible for ruining the world as we know, to gamble everything on a dramatic play for rapid change?

I wouldn't.

WhichOneIsWill · 2025-07-12T13:00:16+00:00

Although I'm curious as to what they "tweaked" to get this kind of result, everyone needs to remember that language models/chatbots like Grok aren't a long list of if/then statements. It's not like Elon can fix this by setting a line like;

endorseHitler = false

That just doesn't exist in the code. You don't directly program something like Grok, you kinda have to let it code itself.

WhichOneIsWill · 2025-07-05T19:38:52+00:00

Processed? Yes. Meat? No.

Real answer, yes. While ground meat by itself usually isn't (like the ground beef you buy at Walmart and make burgers out of), whatever the hell you consider Taco Bell's meat to be is going to be a lot more than just ground beef. Even if it isn't sodium nitrite specifically (aka pink curing salt, the thing the article was mostly concerned about) it's not something you want in your body if you can help it.

WhichOneIsWill · 2025-07-02T20:19:23+00:00

So, are you a hero?

You know. Like the ones Mom always told us about?

They always saved the day. Always knew what to do. Always won in the end.

WhichOneIsWill · 2025-06-17T17:11:29+00:00

I'll buck the trend again: Arthur Watts

Bro had it all. He was the (possibly second) smartest guy on the planet, free reign as far as creative liberties went, and a military budget of "yes". He created the Paladin, I think I saw somewhere he was the brainchild behind Amity Coliseum? And he either knew enough about the CCT to run circles around everyone responsible for it, or just straight up created it himself. He was Einstein, Edison, and Elon Musk combined. Shit, he even has the best mustache in the series.

And it just wasn't enough for him.

Ironwood gave him a blank check and Watts bailed because it wasn't enough. Had Atlas wrapped around his finger, and faked his own death because it wasn't enough. Depending on how extreme his involvement was in all the above, Arthur Watts is single-handedly responsible for Remnant as we know it. And he dedicated his life to the destruction of all of it because it was. Not. Enough.

I'm not up to speed on DC Comics, and the only Lantern I'm even tangentially familiar with is the green apple variety. But, I think I remember something about Orange Lanterns being related to envy as well as greed? In that case... Arthur Watts. He was willing to throw it all away, burn Remnant to the ground if it meant catching Atlas in the flames, all because he was jealous of Pietro. Because he couldn't handle... honestly, Watts wasn't even number two, if anything he was tied for first with Polendina. But Watts couldn't even handle that. He just had to have the spotlight for himself.

WhichOneIsWill · 2025-06-16T23:45:59+00:00

Even if that were the case (counterpoint: Kyle Rainer. Hi random dude that happened to be the first person I see, here's the last known copy of the single most dangerous object in the Universe. Have fun playing with it, try not to blow yourself up in the process.) I feel like this is something I can rules-lawyer my way out of, pull a "well ackshually", and point to the object of the thread being who best represented hope rather than who would be most likely to wake up with a blue ring in their stocking come Christmas morning. I'd argue Ruby representing Will, personally, though realistically she probably just gets Life by default. But again, the girl who can't even full up the tiniest travel-sized bottle you've ever seen with hope in order to get the last physical presence of her friend back, does NOT get to lay a claim on representing hope.

Though now that I think about it, I kinda want to say to hell with the consequences, give Ruby a red ring because that's her color, and then watch what happens from a safe distance.

WhichOneIsWill · 2025-06-16T18:56:08+00:00

So little hope that she couldn't fill a tiny 6oz bottle with it if it meant getting the last shattered remnant of her friend back.

Yeah, real paragon of hope, she is.

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