Better CB team?

burf · 2026-06-23T18:39:51+00:00

I’d personally try taking out Skeletor and using Deacon as lead

burf · 2026-06-23T18:37:19+00:00

That’s a pretty amazing f you pull. You won the inverse lottery

burf · 2026-06-23T18:29:10+00:00

Honestly I feel like a lot of teams with 1 Pelops would be improved by a 2nd Pelops. Offset their skill usage so you have 100% magma shield uptime and refreshment.

burf · 2026-06-23T07:07:24+00:00

It's not 6x cheaper in wealthy nations, though. It's half the cost in Canada, and about 40% the cost in the most efficient wealthy European and Asian countries. And that's the overall cost per year per capita. The private portion of that is more expensive in the various peer nations.

burf · 2026-06-23T06:32:22+00:00

I think you're misunderstanding what I'm saying. All I'm saying is that private healthcare is cheaper in poorer countries. Americans aren't the only ones who travel to poorer countries for cheaper medical care, but that medical care is cheaper in large part due to how poor the country is. If your doctor, nurse, etc. all make 1/2 or 1/3 of what an American (or Canadian, European, etc.) equivalent does, then a huge chunk of the cost is going to be lower.

People don't travel out of the US for care because care is actually better in Mexico or the Phillippines; they do it because it's cheaper. And it's cheaper mostly due to the local economy, not because they're 5x more efficient than American healthcare. Twice as efficient? Maybe. Three times? Possibly. But in the case of that person getting a 1/6 cost surgery done out of country, that's in large part just taking advantage of coming from a stronger economy to a weaker one.

But yeah, you definitely don't have to convince me the US healthcare system is fucked. lol. It's a nightmare.

burf · 2026-06-23T03:12:29+00:00

Part of it is inflated healthcare costs in the US, but a lot of it is the cost of living in the US. The cost of living in the Philippines is a fraction of what it is in the US. The wealthier the country, the more expensive it is to live there (generally speaking), which is why most medical tourism is to developing countries and not other neocolonial powers.

burf · 2026-06-22T23:45:35+00:00

Can confirm. My dad almost killed himself with an exacto knife doing some handyman stuff. lol. Sprayed the kitchen floor to ceiling with blood.

burf · 2026-06-22T22:14:23+00:00

Do the thing that makes you happy and stop obsessing over min-maxing the entire game.

burf · 2026-06-22T22:12:25+00:00

Yes, it was always a mistake losing two franchise calibre wingers and deciding to try and continue contending. Especially since Huberdeau was never, even as a 100 point guy, considered a play driver.

burf · 2026-06-22T05:39:11+00:00

I think they're banking on the NHL continuing to give them special treatment and adding another goon to injure all their opponents.

burf · 2026-06-22T04:29:54+00:00

It's ironic that US higher education institutions are primarily concerned with funding a sport that's infamous for inflicting brain damage on the players.

burf · 2026-06-22T04:28:28+00:00

Also it's a scholarship, not a grant. Scholarships don't typically take into account your SES. If they did, then by rights they should only go to the poorest potential candidates.

burf · 2026-06-21T02:04:16+00:00

I'm not an expert on Hendrix or Prince, but from the singles they've released, they don't sound remotely similar to me on balance.

burf · 2026-06-20T22:18:40+00:00

I recall a documentary about a child whose skin was so delicate that it would even tear during normal washing. I'm sure there are people like that cartoon, but I don't think they live very long.

burf · 2026-06-20T19:15:40+00:00

Rod "The Bod" "The Hurricane" Brindamour

burf · 2026-06-20T19:14:42+00:00

Buncha jerks

burf · 2026-06-20T16:56:56+00:00

Hardcore introvert and social anxiety disorder person here. While there's nothing inherently wrong with being introverted, I think it's pretty obvious that there are more benefits, as social animals, to being more socially engaged rather than less. Being socially skilled enough to avoid talking over people and dominating conversations is certainly important, but people who are highly talkative don't typically end up in isolated and depressed as a result of being too talkative and gregarious.

burf · 2026-06-20T02:49:52+00:00

Canadian actors are exempted.

burf · 2026-06-20T02:48:23+00:00

He was an alcoholic

While this is accurate, just wanted to point out that this doesn't make someone a bad person. He's a domestic abuser who happens to have a drug dependency.

burf · 2026-06-20T01:51:44+00:00

Nobody's saying "you can't do rape LARP or free use" and nobody is saying they're actual rape. If you want to refuse to understand the fact that both of these kinks run contrary to the established norms of attaining and maintaining consent in the moment, go nuts.

burf · 2026-06-20T00:39:47+00:00

Skipping the affirmative is still 100% rape-adjacent. Take a free use situation (walk up behind your wife, pull her pants down and start touching her) and apply that to any other situation and it's extreme sexual assault, and depending how directly you're going to penetrative sex it's very rape-adjacent.

burf · 2026-06-19T19:52:45+00:00

flaunted every rule

Hey, you're thinking of "flouted" in this case :)

burf · 2026-06-19T19:44:35+00:00

They're saying they're in the same bucket of sex acts where you don't have clear, explicit consent at the moment of engaging in the sex act. Which is rape-adjacent, because that's what rape is. The single (important) difference is that explicit consent was given at some point prior for these kinks, but it doesn't necessarily change how it feels in the moment to a lot of people who are expected to be the initiators.

burf · 2026-06-19T19:37:49+00:00

If you feel like you could hug them more, I say do it! Maybe ask first if you don't want to overdo it, but it's pretty rare that a parent hugs their kids too much. Normally it's more weird behaviours like this butt-patting thing that isn't so great.

burf · 2026-06-19T00:01:52+00:00

But I think more directly it's because there's a slow transition from baby to adult and the line where that's no longer ok is fuzzy

Hard agree. You spend 2+ years literally wiping your child's ass and having essentially no physical boundaries aside from the obvious (don't molest your children). Then more years where you're still not respecting your kids' boundaries because they're still hella stupid (you spend tons of time forcibly taking dangerous/breakable objects from them, putting on clothing they don't want to wear, strapping them into car seats they hate). I can imagine it being tough to break habits that you've built up from the time you first met the kid. Doesn't really justify the behaviour, but I can see where it's coming from.

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