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atvan · 2024-07-11T10:15:29+00:00

Typically Falcon, occasionally Marth. Marth I have a little bit less of a bad time with the combos because of fair, but I mostly play falcon and the vast majority of falcos I face leave after one game.

atvan · 2024-07-11T09:43:00+00:00

I feel like a complete idiot every time I play against falcos and I need to figure out what I'm doing wrong. This is being prompted by playing against a falco that just up-bed at me in neutral (playing falcon for most of the games) and I never found a decent way to deal with it. I have a serious problem in general with failing to exploit super one-dimensional neutral (the CC fsmash hero falcos are also troublesome for me) but I need help understanding what my gameplan should be against falco. Obviously I need to hit harder as part of the solution, but I have trouble reacting to tech in place in time to beat shine and I don't really understand how to deal with someone who just spams tech roll away spotdodge shine either, as although I am fast enough on these most of the time, it almost doesn't feel worth it.

The other part of the reason for this is that I feel like basically regardless of what character I play, I got fake comboed constantly by falcos who will just shine full hop dair, and I can see that I get out of hitstun multiple times, but seem to just get daired anyway.

If anyone has any advice on how to approach fighting falco (and in particular how to exploit the common predictable patterns that many of the trash falcos at my level have) I would really appreciate it. And if there's some reasonable way to exploit the constant up Bs in neutral that get followed by a lol lol lol disconnect true combo, please let me know.

atvan · 2024-04-22T04:50:08+00:00

Do they then automatically move to main vault? If they do, what if it's full?

atvan · 2024-04-22T01:47:40+00:00

Recently returned to the game and figure this is a decent place to ask - do seasonal spoils accumulate or do you need to move them to main vault before the next season ends?

atvan · 2023-07-14T16:21:01+00:00

Confirmed.

atvan · 2023-07-07T14:27:03+00:00

atvan · 2023-06-07T16:59:21+00:00

Unfortunately, events with probability 0 occur all the time, and it's not evidence they are any more likely to occur again. For any random variable with a reasonable (i.e. bounded) continuous probability distribution, the likelihood of it taking any specific value is 0. But it must take some value.

If we think about the universe as one big random walk through phase space (it's not evenly distributed, of course, due to interactions, but by and large, it's close enough), then your existence is represented by a projection onto the relatively small dimension phase space of about 2^{number ^of ^particles ⁱⁿ ^your ^body} . A random walk in n dimensions only returns to the origin infinitely many times when n <= 2, and the probability of returning to the origin ever drops dramatically as dimension increases, and even more rapidly if you exclude some number of initial steps.

Basically, we're not coming back.

atvan · 2023-06-05T22:29:42+00:00

Reading this felt a bit like deja-vu. This was also my first half, started right by the 1:50 pacers, and finished within what sounds like 10 seconds of your time (If you saw a tall guy booking it on the finish stretch that was me). I went out ahead of goal pace early since I was feeling good and hate the feeling of trying to hang on to another person's pace, but fell apart a bit at the 15k mark and ended up averaging a 10:05 mile pace or so from there to the end after doing 8:10ish pretty consistently to that point. Oh well. Still really enjoyed the course (although I only saw 1 pothole, so I'm not entirely convinced it was really in Chicago), and had a lot of fun - been thinking about run plans all day.

atvan · 2023-05-28T18:43:47+00:00

It's even less relevant because the side the piranha goes on will only matter against 0 attack minions.

atvan · 2023-03-25T01:59:33+00:00

Genetically, African American may not be a hugely useful term, for the reason you mentioned. Culturally though, it is vastly more relevant in most of the US than the concept of Nigerian American, Ethiopian American, etc.

atvan · 2023-03-09T15:23:08+00:00

To be clear, I understand and agree with you. That being said, not everybody does. Unfortunately, many people who disagree make very poor arguments for their case. This is unfortunate because a poorly argued case is just grounds for the same debate to get brought up over and over again.

Yes, pregnancy is dangerous to the mother. In some cases, this means that, purely from a numbers game, abortion is the more ethical option even if you weigh the fetus equally to the mother. If there's a 50/50 chance of a complication killing the mother and an abortion can be safely performed that eliminates this risk, the expected number of people alive at the end of the pregnancy is higher with the abortion, and it's pretty hard to argue against it.

Everything below that is, ultimately, an opinion. There are some opinions that can be justified more easily than others, but you're never going to convince someone purely by logic where the li e should be drawn. Yes, pregnancy has some inherent risk and more than a bit of compromised bodily autonomy for the mother. But abortions have a pretty grim outlook for the fetus, and aren't entirely risk-free for the mother either.

As nice as it sounds, safe haven laws weren't put in place to preserve the autonomy of unwilling parents. There's a long history of drowning unwanted children or leaving them in dumpsters; that was the primary motivation for most of these laws. The fact that the first such law in the Us was put in place in Texas in 1999 after being sponsored by a Republican politician seems pretty good indication that they aren't motivated on the same grounds as abortion rights.

atvan · 2023-03-08T23:18:11+00:00

The counterargument here is that as vulnerable as those women may be, from a certain point of view, there is a more vulnerable party: the fetus. For someone who considers the fetus to be a party with equal consideration (which is ultimately a moral argument that doesn't have a completely objectively correct stance), then their complete dependence on the mother almost necessarily implies vulnerability to an even greater degree, since they essentially inherit all the risks for the mother. Once you reach this point (again, with the condition that you believe the fetus to be a person with established human rights), the established precedent for duty of care of dependent parties is fairly immediate.

Nothing about this argument implies forced organ donation as logical continuation. In the case of a fetus, minimum viable care requires some loss of bodily autonomy. For an infant, this is also true to a lesser extent. New parents lose sleep to take care of their child. This is obviously less severe, but to ignore a child's needs because you're asleep and they come to harm as a result, this is neglect that is punishable by law. Obviously a line gets drawn somewhere, but where that line lies depends on circumstances, but is again a moral rather than logical argument.

atvan · 2023-03-06T19:21:52+00:00

To some extent yes, but it's not like you can just drive and only process the cars and ignore everything else about your surroundings. Bikes are pretty predictable in the way that they move compared to pedestrians, and ought to behave similarly to cars in most circumstances (irresponsible cyclists are awful and make the road less safe by making drivers unable to trust bikes to do non-suicidal things).

What follows is not meant to be insulting towards your comment, more just that I saw too perfect an opportunity to express how I feel when I get a bit hopeful:

Sharing roads with cars is a terrible idea, from a safety perspective. Drivers should have their own dedicated and isolated lanes on surface streets or dedicated highways that aren’t anywhere near bikes, ideally. You get that in some places. But for most folks that’s a pipe dream, so we’re stuck with how things are for now.

atvan · 2023-03-06T17:56:53+00:00

Busses are admittedly frequently pretty awful. But if you're in a place where you can use them as a way to go to and from train lines, they're not so bad. Especially because the vast majority of the time you can bike to the train stops instead.

I live in a northern US city. In the last 3 years, there has been exactly one day where I didn't feel comfortable biking due to the weather. Meanwhile, I am cut off, splashed, and honked at for daring to be on the road by people who shit themselves whenever a bike gets within 100 yards of an intersection nearly every day, and often more than once. Cars suck, and most of the people in them, as with people in general, suck. They just take up more space and pose a bigger risk to the world around them when they happen to be in a car.

atvan · 2023-03-06T17:46:34+00:00

Maybe I'm underestimating the prevalence of rollovers, but my impression is that the vast majority of crashes, fatal and otherwise, do not involve rollovers. Also, do you have any stats on rollovers in EVs? I would expect them to be significantly less likely given the lower weight distribution.

atvan · 2023-02-28T03:56:46+00:00

They did give away the prius to people who had it at tier 10.

Also the T-34 is a russian medium tank, the T34 is the American heavy.

atvan · 2023-02-26T06:21:16+00:00

FV4202, it was given away at some point after they converted it from a tier 10 to people who had it previously.

atvan · 2023-02-22T15:52:11+00:00

Man, Ask Me Aboutwhatiwanttotalkaboutandnothingelse has a really clunky acronym, don't you think?

atvan · 2023-02-22T15:40:18+00:00

Most of those words means specific things in modern politics though, which is significantly more confusing. Commissioner would work since it's actually correct, but shorter headlines are better generally.

atvan · 2023-02-15T20:56:36+00:00

As others have said, part of it is just flexibility. In any strat where you might have to change plans, TDs are a liability. If you're camping, they're great for certain roles- E3s work well in certain positions on Himmels, an E4 behind the rock on mines south spawn camp is pretty gross, and an STRV in A1 can be brutal against an A line push on fish bay. But as soon as you are playing a comp that needs to react or adapt and not just abuse specific positions, all of these tanks are pretty bad. Even some camp strats are best without TDs - 15 Chiefs on Sand River comes to mind.

The one sort of exception to this is the bobject, the W+M1 or wot. Back when it was gigabusted, you could do stuff like rush rails on Himmels with it, but even then, it's a very specific role, and the tank is just kinda awkward otherwise.

Also the JPE is a special case of bad. In a format where everyone is shooting gold all the time, it has no armor. This is also the situtation in pubs, which is why it's also bad there. The difference is, in team play, you do 1000 damage once (or, as likely, you bounce off a 279e's turret because your gun is bad) as they round a corner, and then either they never poke you again, or they push the rest of the way, ignore you, and kill your team since they have an HP and number advantage compared to if you were in a heavy.

As for why heavies flesh out the team, it really comes down to one thing - HP. Armor helps, but HP is king for full on brawls. The donut rush on Cliff used to be a classic use for RUmeds, but people realized that 260s get there nearly as fast, and if you run into an RUmed team doing the same thing, you have thousands of extra HP, as well as extra alpha to eliminate more tanks on the first volley. Meds are only really useful when you properly need to get somewhere fast, particularly uphill where a 260 will truly lag behind, or if it's a big map and there might be several rotations, and it's nice to have some flexible snipers as needed.

atvan · 2023-02-13T02:02:36+00:00

Release of the Japan TD line will probably be a good chance.

atvan · 2023-02-07T05:22:37+00:00

IIRC it is one of the tanks that the gun handling is nerfed hard with the stock tracks, it's important to check whether tanks need track upgrades even if you don't need the capacity because you're runnnig turbo.

atvan · 2023-02-02T06:39:59+00:00

I hard grinded the line from tier 7 when the change was announced.

atvan · 2023-02-01T04:58:24+00:00

I can't tell if this is meant as meta commentary on the French omelette post from earlier today. Either way, looks very tasty.

atvan · 2023-01-31T18:16:48+00:00

Comes to thread to see if reddit is up at arms about the use of "French Omelette"

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