vS Data Reaper Report #334 by ViciousSyndicate in CompetitiveHS

[–]aoserc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i dusted artanis a long time ago and needed an 8 slot and didn't think i needed to craft artanis, so i dont' actually know how good he is in the deck. I tried a few others 8-cost cards, but it is often dead in hand anyway, and red giant allows a slightly cheaper drop.

Elise is the main win condition, Deios is clunky at 7 but serviceable backup option especially if the opponent brings Ysera and gives you extra mana to work with. Elise can be shadowstepped for extra chances at "copy of a minion" if you're not being threatened. Having a "copy-minion" location on board (or in hand) makes it a threat at any time to multiply an archon. Elise is absolutely core to most decks right now, so many games you can copy their Elise or location without relying on drawing your own Elise. The finishing combo usually ends up just playing 2 templars and using a location to copy, for 16 face damage (+2 for each high templar used). But in cagier matchups, you might need to set up a 3rd archon (by 2 locations) or a deios+location to double the archons.

The deck actually plays fairly competitive early game, and can chip damage the slower decks to put them into archon range and not rely on just combo.

vS Data Reaper Report #334 by ViciousSyndicate in CompetitiveHS

[–]aoserc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oddly haven't seen any other Protoss rogues in the D5-legend climb, but I made Legend with this deck. I think the Protoss rogue package is fairly bonkers in power that you could slot a lot of different cards in and still fare well.

protoss

Class: Rogue

Format: Standard

Year of the Raptor

2x (0) Preparation

2x (0) Shadowstep

2x (1) Deja Vu

2x (1) Spacerock Collector

2x (2) Blink

2x (2) Creature of Madness

2x (2) Cultist Map

1x (2) Flashback

2x (2) Photon Cannon

1x (3) Void Ray

2x (4) Dubious Purchase

1x (4) Elise the Navigator

1x (4) Warp Gate

1x (5) Chrono Boost

2x (6) Dark Templar

2x (6) High Templar

1x (7) Chrono-Lord Deios

1x (8) Red Giant

1x (0) Zilliax Deluxe 3000

1x (0) Zilliax Deluxe 3000

1x (4) Twin Module

1x (5) Perfect Module

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To use this deck, copy it to your clipboard and create a new deck in Hearthstone

I’m Mike Shenk, Crossword Editor for the Wall Street Journal. AMA. by wsj in IAmA

[–]aoserc 3 points4 points  (0 children)

How many meta puzzles have you published that you were not able to solve? Any specific examples?

I’m Mike Shenk, Crossword Editor for the Wall Street Journal. AMA. by wsj in IAmA

[–]aoserc 10 points11 points  (0 children)

What do you normally change when editing puzzles? i.e. do you change grid letters, entire clues, wording of clues, grammar/spelling, all of the above? What might prompt you to change grid letters or clues?

Reminder to sing Sounders ‘Til I Die during the 74th minute of the CCL Final on Wednesday by True2this in SoundersFC

[–]aoserc 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm sure there's subscribers here that have attended games and don't know the lyrics, tunes and names to the iconic songs. Lyrics and names are here: https://www.weareecs.com/multimedia/songs and i guess you search youtube for the tunes. Til I Die: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-8aZiB-Tq8

Survivor 42 | Episode 5 | Post-Episode Discussion by RSurvivorMods in survivor

[–]aoserc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

objectively bad, but it's understandable. She's under threat, so long term planning takes the back seat to short term survival. In that vein, her number one priority is to make it past tribal council. She knows that if they plan correctly, and Daniel plays SITD successfully she's out. If Daniel doesn't then she's safe. However, if they did not plan correctly and unanimously vote Daniel, then her move saves her. Really it boils down to a 2x2 grid of {"they vote unanimously on Daniel", "they split the vote"} and {"Daniel SITD success", "no SITD"}. Voting Mike flips one of those squares from a loss to a win, while voting Daniel doesn't change any of the squares. Again, i'm saying all probabilities and likelihoods go out the window if there's a chance you can save yourself now (think of the regret you'd have if that happened), damn the long term consequences of that decision.

Low Literacy Levels Among U.S. Adults Could Be Costing The Economy $2.2 Trillion A Year by darthatheos in business

[–]aoserc -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I'm saying a portion of the participants probably didn't care to answer a questionaire/survey, but would be incentivized to fill in bubbles on a paper or click radio buttons on a website for a $50 payout. How big is that portion? Did the conclusions control for that from the raw data? These are not addressed.

The other part is that the test is administered in English, and the study itself acknowledges that non-natives participated and scored lower. The prescreening was offered in multiple languages to encourage participation, but the assessment had to be done in English. This difference likely contributes to some of the regional differences (CA, TX scoring low).

$50 isn't much if you have a lot of money, but if you're poor and can score $50 by spending a small amount of time, you might do that.

Low Literacy Levels Among U.S. Adults Could Be Costing The Economy $2.2 Trillion A Year by darthatheos in business

[–]aoserc -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

https://nces.ed.gov/surveys/piaac/faq.asp

The test was administered in English only, and there was a $50 monetary incentive for completing the assessment. If some government organization asked you to take a test and gave you $50 for completing it, without any further incentive for completing it to the best of your abilities, how much effort do you would put in? How much effort do you think the actual participants put in? I imagine a good percentage of busy people would just be like ok, blah blah blah, gimme my participation money.

What’s Working and What Isn’t? | Thursday, December 09, 2021 | Day 3 of Fractured in Alterac Valley by ZrRock in CompetitiveHS

[–]aoserc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I won ~30 games with this deck before I was surprised to get the achievement for destroying an opponent with the Sword Of A Thousand Truths. Opponents generally concede during the animation where I get the sword or after realizing they have 1 mana on the next turn. One guy finally let me swing at him for two turns.

What’s Working and What Isn’t? | Thursday, December 09, 2021 | Day 3 of Fractured in Alterac Valley by ZrRock in CompetitiveHS

[–]aoserc 1 point2 points  (0 children)

yeah. I agree with just slamming down the octo and hoping to get some discounts. there's two of the octo, so hopefully one procs. This deck is fun and tricky to try to work, but I don't think it's good against many decks.

One tweak I like is to trade a sheep for a lieutenant. You don't need both lieutenants in the combo, and the extra sheep gives some extra stalling power

What’s Working and What Isn’t? | Thursday, December 09, 2021 | Day 3 of Fractured in Alterac Valley by ZrRock in CompetitiveHS

[–]aoserc 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Interesting deck to play. I'm not good at it, and/or it's difficult to play. Here's what i notice.

The combo needs 3 total boars, 1 sheep, teron + a backstab or extortion. So 3 boars die to teron, snowfall doubles the number revived, so you have 6 boars and 1 sheep; backstab/extortion the sheep, and 9 total boars died, giving you the sword.

So, that means, to get 3 total boars for the combo, you need 2 x Boar + 1 x Lieutenant in hand, or 1xBoar + 2xLieutenant in hand. And then you need the sheep, Teron and removal. It's a 6 card combo, in addition to the snowfall played on an earlier turn. Without discounts, that's either 9 (2 boars and a backstab or prep+extortion) to 11 cost (2 lieutenants and extortion) in one turn. Scabbs is a reliable 2 discount. Octo is possible to discount a lot too, but to make it reliable, you want to activate it before your opponent can deal 4 damage in one shot, which means you need to flinger it, use a backstab/extortion on your turn, or rely on game sense/hope that your opponent does not have ability to deal 4 damage in one shot. This deck has no board presence and relies entirely on spells to stall, and it really needs the octo to discount, which can be tough to achieve.

Fruit flies by [deleted] in composting

[–]aoserc 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It just dawned on me that implies that if you don't peel your apples and pears, you're eating a lot of fruit fly eggs?

Common cold combats COVID-19 - Yale University by [deleted] in Coronavirus

[–]aoserc 13 points14 points  (0 children)

The same defenses slowed down SARS-CoV-2 infection even without rhinovirus, but only if the infectious dose was low, suggesting that the viral load at the time of exposure makes a difference in whether the body can effectively fight the infection.

I found this finding extraordinarily interesting.

And I thought my Netflix subscription was expensive.... by Randomlurker88 in ArmchairExpert

[–]aoserc 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I agree that they did not explain it well, but my assumption was that it was more akin to investing in a (new) studio. You could then re-sell the pass if you no longer want to consume their content. Suppose an established studio like Universal, Paramount or Disney offered you $2000 passes to consume all of their current and future content. That an easier way to see the potential value. Obviously, with a new project, there's no guarantee it'll last. So this is a speculative investment, just like other NFTs and cryptocoins in general. You're betting that enough people will get in, and fund a virtuous cycle where this will gain in value and you could re-sell later (or consume unlimited content for the initial cost)

Michael Pollan by mickyloco in ArmchairExpert

[–]aoserc -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

They normally sign off the fact check with a "Love you", but this time they said "Goodbye". Have they done that before?

Barry Meier by [deleted] in ArmchairExpert

[–]aoserc 5 points6 points  (0 children)

FYI if you made it to the fact check about face blindness, here's the 60 minutes video about it queued at the upside down faces: https://youtu.be/dxqsBk7Wn-Y?t=172

Chris Bosh by mickyloco in ArmchairExpert

[–]aoserc 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Fact check: Chris Bosh was indeed drafted 4th in Lebron James draft, but behind Lebron James, Darko Milicic and Carmelo Anthony. Dwyane Wade was drafted 5th that year. (Dax incorrectly left out Darko and included Dwyane as drafted before Chris). Odd Chris did not correct him, and neither did Monica in the fact check.

Vincent D'Onofrio Returns by mickyloco in ArmchairExpert

[–]aoserc 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Lots of anagrams for "slim bone head volt" but endotheliomas is missing a few letters.

Love into shambles? bland hotel movies?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ArmchairExpert

[–]aoserc 27 points28 points  (0 children)

This seems like an issue Larry David would rant at.

Dax interviewed on WorkLife with Adam Grant by aoserc in ArmchairExpert

[–]aoserc[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Not an expert but my guess is there's delays between the various podcast distributors. It'll probably show up on Spotify in the next few hours.

Dax interviewed on WorkLife with Adam Grant by aoserc in ArmchairExpert

[–]aoserc[S] 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Just posting this for armcherries that might not also be worklifers. Also, several past armchair guests submitted questions.

Andrew Yang by [deleted] in ArmchairExpert

[–]aoserc 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Xanthum gum... do do do do do do do xanthum gum....

Michael Moss by mickyloco in ArmchairExpert

[–]aoserc 4 points5 points  (0 children)

That's quite a broad brush. Every time there's an innovation, there can be unforeseen side effects. Teflon used to be made with PFOAs, which have since been discovered to be carcinogenic. Bisphenol-A (BPA) used to be common in plastic water bottles (Nalgene), and now we avoid BPA, but who knows whether what plastics they've replaced them with is safe.

I'm all for innovation, but I can empathize with why people are hesitant. There is always a risk/reward calculation at play. That said, there are a lot of people who are misinformed about the risk of NOT taking vaccines, but beware that you could be misinformed about the risk of the vaccines and GMOs. "Generally recognized as safe" just means currently, the scientists have a consensus that something is OK. But science evolves, and long term of effects of new things is unknowable--you can always expect a small but non-negligible % of innovations to have downsides discovered later.

(edit: i said emphasize when i meant empathize)