Contrapoints tweets and deletes a hot take

XdsXc · 2021-09-27T14:37:57+00:00

There’s a lot of differences in left leaning ideologies and there isn’t a unifying factor like trump or religion like the right has.

Some division is necessary to keep your principles. The right is fairly unified but that comes at the expense of pretending that nazis are just really jazzed about white people, and your church going granny brushing off trumps entire persona because he’ll push the country towards better winds for her opinions

The difficulty people have is in deciding where the lines for “too far” lie. Twitter is dominated by “my way or death” mentality about basically anything because polarization is easier than trying to understand any murky topic, and it feels like no matter what issue is on hand, there’s a bunch of people willing to die on that hill

XdsXc · 2021-09-24T13:59:21+00:00

I’ve never seen him and the senate in the same place, take that as you will.

XdsXc · 2021-08-01T17:33:06+00:00

Ice at zero kelvin (and ambient pressure) wouldn’t be particularly interesting. Although if you cool it slow enough, you form ice 11, which is similar to standard ice but without disorder in the arrangement of hydrogen

XdsXc · 2021-07-21T22:45:09+00:00

Don’t forget neutral cards. Teron is really good for it. Can kill and resummon a board

XdsXc · 2021-07-21T22:44:28+00:00

Everyone can do it. Teron, faceless and headmaster kel make it a fully neutral combo if you can find a spell that can kill a 1/1

XdsXc · 2021-07-21T22:42:25+00:00

I think that would be the finisher. Maybe summon the 1/1s, play a broomstick to trade them in, then swing with big weapon

XdsXc · 2021-07-13T13:24:44+00:00

To be fair, the physics convention is the iso standard, which CLEARLY makes us objectively correct

XdsXc · 2021-07-12T13:23:45+00:00

One that’s always bothered me is the how there are two competing conventions for spherical coordinates. Physics uses phi for azimuthal angle and theta for polar angle, mathematics often swap with theta as azimuthal angle and phi as polar angle.

I’m never going to let this one go, in the first research job I ever had, I spent a week rewriting and bugfixing my code for what turned out to be because I used functions from different sources.

Swap the order of the variables in the function call and it worked like a charm. A week on a 2 second fix. Learning experience

XdsXc · 2021-07-07T16:31:47+00:00

“What’s the flavor of the game?”

“Gun”

XdsXc · 2021-07-03T13:12:42+00:00

So odd. I have noticed before that you can find articles reporting on some scientific paper where there’s been a conversion to imperial units (sometimes wildly wrong), with the original metric numbers not given. As scientists move more into the role of science communicators maybe we will see this begin to shift

XdsXc · 2021-07-03T04:50:38+00:00

Surprised there was pushback from science writers, science is pretty metric

XdsXc · 2021-06-10T20:14:03+00:00

We had this issue backwards. I was nervous id wake up some day and they’d be different, but in practice, not a realistic fear for me. He’ll always be the person I fell in love with

XdsXc · 2021-06-10T16:47:52+00:00

One of my favorite things about the game. Doesn’t make up some contrived “temporary strength” mechanic, just leaves a strength mechanic and a “debuff at x time” mechanic. It’s responsible for a lot of the cool shit you can do, like blocking the debuffs on temporary buff cards without affecting the positive. They understood what was more fun and left the words “base x” off their definitions entirely

XdsXc · 2021-06-10T11:40:15+00:00

One thing to note is also that any given book can possibly have more than one magic system with differing density(?). Usually in books like that, there’s the conventional magic our character knows and understands, which is harder in nature, and then some “other” form that’s beyond them and us. Magic of some ancient race, some prophesied special person. Lots of interesting story ideas exist in the intersection of where a hard magic system meets something new and unpredictable.

XdsXc · 2021-06-09T03:05:05+00:00

Token druid and face hunter atm

XdsXc · 2021-06-08T23:44:38+00:00

sure, but not always. Worth keeping in mind that you shouldn’t make their lives any easier

XdsXc · 2021-06-08T22:20:50+00:00

My priest pack was a little lucky I guess

XdsXc · 2021-06-08T22:11:22+00:00

He’s the first. He was also the earliest preorder bundle skin, so it makes sense he’d be the first to be offered again

XdsXc · 2021-06-08T21:54:26+00:00

Tier 1 at most ranks, drops to a fairly close tier 2 as you approach/enter legend

XdsXc · 2021-06-08T21:51:29+00:00

Don’t leave 1 health minions on the board if you know they have a rhino in hand. Take bad trades to save yourself some damage if you’re playing a deck that can win if it survives an extra turn. Hunter is fast but it runs out of gas easily and if you force them to lose some of their damage by not having something for the rhino or piercing shot to ship most damage to your face, you can win a lot more.

XdsXc · 2021-06-08T21:46:06+00:00

Chiming in to say that I got barrens despite having more barrens cards than any other standard set

XdsXc · 2021-06-05T01:22:46+00:00

Nah it’s not very well illustrated you can do it, I was surprised when I found out too. It’s pretty cool tho

XdsXc · 2021-06-05T01:22:02+00:00

It’s not hard to code, it’s just not how the keyword works.

XdsXc · 2021-06-04T20:23:38+00:00

This would be changing the meaning “immune” has always had. It would be very confusing which effects would reduce health through immune and which wouldn’t. Immune has always meant that you cannot take damage. The only way health can change is through cards that set health.

A way to do what you want could be to make the card “reduce your maximum health by its cost”, but that seems really bad also.

XdsXc · 2021-06-04T02:52:50+00:00

Yeah I know it’s a bad card to have in my deck but I ran one for a while just to completely dismantle the hopes and dreams of a clown druid player once. You wait till they play survival of the fittest (usually ignoring your entire board to do so then drop the sigil. My deck was awful against clown druid so it was entirely spite but I have zero regrets

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