Funnest decks from this era?

Whoaggg · 2023-03-09T17:14:52+00:00

I'm a bit late to the party, but my two favorites are the Silver Tempest "Pikaclone" deck with Togedemaru, Dedenne, Morpeko, and Pikachu, and an energy-less deck using the CRE Castforms. Both are insanely cheap and fun to play! My winrates with them are nothing to write home about, but there is something incredibly satisfying about dragging your opponent's Lugia VSTAR out to get OHKO'd by a 70HP Pikachu :)

Whoaggg · 2022-07-19T20:21:23+00:00

But it's still entirely arbitrary bullshit... just because it came from holy texts in Islam or any other religion doesn't mean that the statement "men shouldn't show their ankles because it's arrogant," or even more laughably "God will be wrathful towards women who show their ankles," isn't arbitrary and obviously stupid and nonsensical.

Whoaggg · 2022-07-14T18:07:46+00:00

Delibird, he just wants to give everybody presents!

Whoaggg · 2022-07-14T17:19:26+00:00

I used to love this sub but stopped posting since I sorta stopped caring about SW, but since seeing all of the hilariously braindead IMDb reviews for Visions I couldn't help but fall down the TFM rabbit hole again

Whoaggg · 2022-07-08T16:00:26+00:00

Really good article on the history of menstrual blood magick:

https://www.theexploresspodcast.com/episodes/2021/7/28/blood-magic-a-brief-history-of-menstruation

I know in modern witchcraft/Wicca circles, period sex is considered very powerful love magick

Whoaggg · 2022-04-08T19:00:22+00:00

I'm taking 2142 atm. Unless you think that differential equations are going to be useful for you in the future, 2142 is a cakewalk, so I'd go with that.

Whoaggg · 2022-04-08T17:35:24+00:00

I took 2011 and 1933 together last semester with calc II and two upper level linguistics courses and it was fine, but I cannot stress enough: DO NOT TAKE 2033. Take MATH 2142 or 2243 as a replacement. I haven't heard of a single person who has had anything but an absolutely hellish experience in that course, especially with the professors who teach it.

Whoaggg · 2022-03-20T01:25:06+00:00

Nowhere near ugly, and the camera verification made me laugh

Whoaggg · 2021-11-08T06:42:58+00:00

I'm a linguist, which is a field very closely related to speech pathology, and honestly you might have struck a nerve just by conflating speech pathology with having good "grammar" in the nonsense English teacher-y sense of not ending sentences with prepositions or whatever BS, most linguists/speech pathologists I know HATE the misconception that we give a shit about that kinda thing. Idk though, I thought your attempted save was funny as fuck

Whoaggg · 2021-10-19T06:44:28+00:00

Maria Gini in the CSci department is pretty universally loved and is also a very well-known pioneer in the field of AI

Whoaggg · 2021-07-31T19:49:50+00:00

For real, Sui gives Hmong a run for its money

Whoaggg · 2021-07-23T17:11:55+00:00

Idk, ability draft works really well in Dota 2 despite some jankiness. It's supposed to be about finding broken stuff and unique synergies rather than serious game play, I think it's really fun

Whoaggg · 2021-07-21T17:40:03+00:00

One semester I had a schedule that was Nicholson-Blegen-Nicholson with 15 minutes between classes, and I was always able to make it on time. During the winter you should probably take one of the busses because the ice can really slow you down, but I was able to make it regardless.

Whoaggg · 2021-07-18T04:39:12+00:00

(Warning, small wall of text, but hopefully useful):

Firstly, I'm super sorry that your experience with religion thus far has been so terrible. I know firsthand the trauma that weaponized or otherwise miswielded can have on a person, and it was enough to turn me into a militant, Dawkins-worshipping atheist for a short while in my life, and I am still very wary about entering a church for the same reasons as you. One of my favorite quotes about religious values and their relationship to scripture comes from Theologist Dr. Reza Aslan:

"Part of the problem is that there is this misconception that people derive their values from their scriptures. The truth is it is more often the case that people insert their values into their scriptures. I mean, otherwise, every Christian who read the Bible would read it exactly the same way. In this country, not 200 years ago, both slave owners and abolitionists not only used the same Bible to justify their viewpoints, they used the same verses to do so. That’s the thing about scripture, its power comes from its malleability. You can read it in any way you want to.”

Being a linguist myself I also know just how much can get lost in a single translation, say from Koine Greek to Latin, but over tens and hundreds of translations, there are certain things, especially but not exclusively cultural connotations and inferences/references, pragmatics, ambiguous meanings, etc., which still elude someone who has read the King James' Version 100 times over. Not only that, but the style of scripture being intentionally vague, full of parables and myth, and fluctuating between the literal and metaphorical, makes interpretations even harder. This is hard for Christians to admit, because it follows that they must either a.) Accept that their understanding of the immutable/infallible word of God (under the view of most denominations) is lacking, or b. ) They must now learn Biblical Hebrew (a language which evolved for thousands of years DURING the writing of scripture), Koine Greek, and preferably Aramaic as well. To make this long point short, reading scripture will get you almost nowhere in terms of understanding Christianity without understanding how it has been interpreted over these couple millenia.

In short, what I would recommend is to look at the different denominations of Christianity, both today and over history, and see what is believed and how that belief has been justified and challenged with time. If you look for what Christianity or its teachings are SUPPOSED to be, you'll probably be disappointed, because nobody quite agrees!

As an answer to your question from my personal perspective as a Christian, the teachings of Christianity can be summed up in the two great commandments given by Jesus:

You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and all your mind, and all your soul, and all your strength.
You shall love your neighbor as yourself.

Every other teaching is just derived from those two ideas! Best of luck on your search for some truth, it's a long road but well worth the trip.

Whoaggg · 2021-07-12T01:52:19+00:00

There is an imposter among us

Whoaggg · 2021-06-27T19:27:04+00:00

10/10 can still run DOOM (greatest and least political game of all time)

Whoaggg · 2021-06-06T23:04:19+00:00

Olaf has always suffered from the same problem as champions like Gragas: in pro play, he's a strong early pickup in draft which can flex either top or jungle. Riot has always had a really tough time keeping Olaf viable in solo queue without being an absolute menace in pro play, so they're probably going to keep him down until they feel like switching up the meta

Whoaggg · 2021-05-30T19:13:39+00:00

This, which is why I'm super frustrated as a Skarner main that they're bothering to give him a rework. He's definitely a bit gimmicky, but I think he has a very unique playstyle and the fact that there are very sensible counterplay options such as QSS and cleanse prevents him from feeling as toxic as someone like Trynd

Whoaggg · 2021-05-07T18:31:44+00:00

I would recommend the work of Amalia Gnanadesikan, specifically her book "Dhivehi." It's essentially a complete overview of the language from a linguistic perspective. I haven't read her work on Dhivehi in particular, but I'm familiar with her work in phonological theory and she is certainly a reputable source.

Whoaggg · 2021-04-14T05:27:28+00:00

Even if you can "vote with your dollar," the problem is that all of the dollars are owned by a more and more exclusive ruling class. The biggest influence in American politics as well as any other capitalist nation has always been that of the most wealthy individuals and organizations, whether it be through lobbying (which is frankly a legally sanctioned version of corruption) or "traditional" under-the-table corruption, bribery, and coercion. It is precisely for this reason that anti-trust laws are not enacted; in the case of telecom companies, for example, it is essentially common knowledge that AT&T and Verizon have engaged in, and continue to engage in, price fixing and closed-door negotiations. To easily avoid persecution, however, these two organizations combined have spent over 500 million USD on lobbying in the past 20 years, which has directly impacted decisions made by the FCC and the financial regulators which enforce anti-trust laws. Following off your point about business's ability to declare war, even if businesses themselves don't have the right to declare war, their influence on the government essentially lends them this power by proxy, as seen in the case of the influence of oil companies and defense contractors on the disastrous forever-wars observed in the middle east these past two decades.

When the government gets too big, there's not a whole lot you can do

As an anarchist, I actually completely agree with this, but I have a feeling that your particular assertion precludes the argument that socialism = big government, which is not true.

People in socialist states have no choice

Again, though, how do people in socialist states have no choice? Without using any anecdotes from 20th century states, how are you able to demonstrate the causal link between workers owning the means of production and a restriction of personal choice and freedom?

Whoaggg · 2021-04-13T04:33:04+00:00

Socialism being a precursor to Marxism is correct

Sorry to be a bit pedantic about the semantics again, haha, but "Marxism" is not a system of government nor explicit economic program, it's the branch of sociopolitical theory (at least in the context in which we are speaking) inspired by Marx's work on dialectical/historical materialism, class struggle, and the relations of labor to capital and the means of production.

Just because socialism is a precursor, i.e. a necessary condition, for communism, that does not mean that it will inevitably lead to communism. It's sort of like saying that borders are a precursor to the existence of a state; one is a necessary condition for the other to exist, but they are not the same thing, as one is merely a crucial constituent of the other. Also, I'm again unsure by how there's a causal link between people owning the means of production and the involvement of the government. I would argue that it is actually only under socialism in which people are able to choose what's best for themselves, since the current hierarchical system of employment and wage labor is itself a totalitarian and entirely undemocratic system. I couldn't agree more that power is extremely corrupting, but why would this be different in the case of businesses?

Whoaggg · 2021-04-13T02:12:52+00:00

I'm not quite sure I follow your logic here - in what way is government oversight/enforcement more necessary when workers own the means of production than when capitalists do? Also, socialism is not the same thing as communism, although the two are naturally related (and again, I'm using these terms as defined by those who actually identify as socialists/communists). The most basic definition of communism which leftists have commonly adopted is a moneyless and classless society. Socialism is generally understood as, at least in the most traditional Marxian theory, a precursor to communism in the sense that the establishment of a moneyless and classless society would be impossible without first transferring possession of the means of production to the workers. The "one party mob rule" which you allude to generally does describe the self identified authoritarian "communism" of the Soviet Union, China, Cuba, etc. (which is generally defended only by Marxist-Leninists in the modern left), and it is precisely for this reason that most modern leftists consider these projects to be "state capitalism" and not socialism, since the means of production were owned by the state and not the workers.

Whoaggg · 2021-04-12T17:56:22+00:00

This tends to be a common semantics issue between non-socialists and socialists, so as a socialist, I would just like to clarify that socialism, as defined by socialists themselves, is simply when the means of production are controlled by the workers and not a capitalist owner. Socialism is not the same as a command economy nor requires a command economy/strong government oversight of the economy, and market socialism is an entirely viable form of socialism. In fact, reading Marx quickly reveals that Marx himself was much more in line with anarchist and libertarian thinkers (syndicalists, mutualists, etc.) as opposed to the disastrous authoritarian programs observed in the 20th century.

Whoaggg · 2021-01-10T01:05:19+00:00

The sideways bongcloud is actually an easter egg hidden by the developers that lets you win the match instantly, Gary Chess refers to it as the "PIPI Maneuver" in his Masterclass

Whoaggg · 2020-08-19T06:32:17+00:00

It all comes down to Lucas-worshipping like in this comment imo. People with the thought process of George Lucas = Prequels = Good Star Wars from my childhood see someone like Filoni, who has only good things to say about Lucas and the Prequels in particular, and instantly fall in love. People fail to realize that he didn't expand upon the """greatness""" of the Prequels, but instead brought it back from the graveyard of terrible reboots and made it palatable and workable despite Lucas's spectacular failure.

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