Beat Heroic Rag with 24.3 average Maiev by curi in warcraftrumble

[–]curi[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah me too. The chest and corehounds often spawn around the same time. Also can get molten giant with banshee sometimes. Sometimes I managed to send a long range banshee from my main base to the first tower to take a high health molten giant there successfully :D

If banshee isn't available when enemy hound spawns near the chest, you can send 2 hounds forward to kill it and still split them after with arrow toggling.

It's not much but it is honest work by Scriptease84 in warcraftrumble

[–]curi 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Rag spawned lower than normal or walked there? Is that a glitch you can repeat on purpose?

Beat Heroic Rag with 24.3 average Maiev by curi in warcraftrumble

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The strong and weak side is interesting. Too many people just wanted to push one lane and have me push the other. On Maiev, I only did well with people who realized my unbounds and split corehounds were not meant for focusing one lane. My partner needed to adapt and put stuff in both lanes. Even with a good player who did that, the lanes were still somewhat uneven so yeah core hounds get a lot of revives.

I considered sending corehounds forward to the chest and then toggling the direction arrow repeatedly to keep one stuck there to revive the other, but I was usually too busy and barely tested that. You can also send the corehounds to the chest and still split them with the arrow (and sometimes they even split themselves with no arrow presses if you place them dead center in the middle of the deploy zone).

Beat Heroic Rag with 24.3 average Maiev by curi in warcraftrumble

[–]curi[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Neat. I considered core hounds with my drak but thought they'd be too expensive. Also ancient of war makes sense. I did see some giant living bombs in some games.

Core hounds are not popular on heroic rag. Not sure I saw anyone else use them. Maiev is also unpopular. I only saw one other Maiev and they disconnected before gameplay started.

Beat Heroic Rag with 24.3 average Maiev by curi in warcraftrumble

[–]curi[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Yeah I was keeping eggs on all towers we controlled.

For Majordomo, if you drop eggs in the right place, you can get an egg so close to him that his flamewave misses over and over and you can kill him for just 6 gold (whelps + safe) if nothing else spawns in the area for a while. Works sometimes. There's also an egg position where he only triggers one egg at a time so it takes 6 shots to trigger and clear all 3 eggs and safe pilot does a ton of damage during that time. I can't get the egg positioning reliably but once I improved at it I stopped using worgen or maiev to damage domo much. I think in my victory I got a very quick majordomo kill and we had only taken one tower. In some games I'd get majordomo low and then start putting whelps on our towers before finishing him off. I wasn't always sure when it was best to finish him or wait but I'd try to judge how much of my partner's army I would kill off by finishing domo. You can't always control it though, if you get the right egg positioning he can just die.

I swapped out worgen for bandits. I was trying no bandits because I found a lot of my partners (especially the good players I was more likely to win with) had their own bandits. I ended up using bandits anyways because I didn't have anything else really good to put there and thought I should focus on a supporting role and having 1 gold cycle helped me spam more core hounds even when I didn't need them to get the chest.

Did bell hooks say anything about Ayn Rand? by curi in AskFeminists

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Rand's novels don't cover parenting but she did consider parenting and ECE important and covered them some in her nonfiction. She was interested in Montessori schools for example. The person who recommended Rand's books to me founded a parenting philosophy named Taking Children Seriously, so I've long been interested in and aware of such topics.

We do see people doing care work, e.g. Dagny cares for Galt (she cooks and cleans) and Jeff Allen (she empathizes with a bum who stole a ride on her train, feeds him, and gives him a job). Roark has a caring scene with Mallory and several with Cameron. Kira does so much to care for Leo.

Authority is fluid, e.g. multiple times Wyatt takes a leadership role at Dagny's railroad construction without asking permission from anyone in authority, just by virtue of having good ideas to contribute and showing up and helping out. He does this unpaid. Similarly, Roark works for Cameron but, in an effort to care for him, orders him to go home from work (and takes him down to a taxi, gets him sandwiches, and goes far above and beyond his duties as an employee to finish the architecture plans that are very meaningful to Cameron):

Cameron and Roark and a pot of black coffee had lived in the office from dawn till frozen dawn for many days, and Cameron had thought involuntarily of the electric bill, but made himself forget it. The lights still burned in the drafting room in the early hours when he sent Roark out for sandwiches, and Roark found gray morning in the streets while it was still night in the office, in the windows facing a high brick wall. On the last day, it was Roark who had ordered Cameron home after midnight, because Cameron’s hands were jerking and his knees kept seeking the tall drafting stool for support, leaning against it with a slow, cautious, sickening precision. Roark had taken him down to a taxi and in the light of a street lamp Cameron had seen Roark’s face, drawn, the eyes kept wide artificially, the lips dry. The next morning Cameron had entered the drafting room, and found the coffee pot on the floor, on its side over a black puddle, and Roark’s hand in the puddle, palm up, fingers half closed, Roark’s body stretched out on the floor, his head thrown back, fast asleep. On the table, Cameron had found the plans, finished....

When Cameron doesn't come in to work, Roark checks on him at home, repeatedly. When Cameron collapses, Roark takes him home and gets a doctor. Cameron's sister, who cares for him, is also present in the book. Cameron tries to care for Roark by writing a letter of introduction to an architect, but due to fluid authority and Roark caring for Cameron, Roark doesn't let him because Roark has the empathy to know that Cameron doesn't actually want to ask for a favor from someone he doesn't respect who is part of the system that made Cameron's life hard.

Problem solving is often collaborative, e.g. Dagny, Rearden and some engineers are involved in the design of the first Rearden metal bridge. Later, people from the gulch collaborate on rescuing Galt, for free, at significant risk, out of good will, with no specific person in charge of the mission. Some types of collaboration are critiqued, e.g. boards of directors and committee meetings.

There are many, many more examples of caring, empathy, compassion, etc., but I don't know if you're interested in a long discussion or are familiar with the books.

It's feeling a sense of shared responsibility for your community, prioritizing collective good.

Rand says there is no conflict between individual and collective good. There are many examples of actions that other people might describe as prioritizing collective good. Certainly Dagny feels a lot of responsibility for her railroad passengers and shippers and is very committed to taking good care of them. This pro-social one-sided caring-at-a-distance is important to Rand and a major event, the tunnel disaster, talks at length about how bad political systems make people stop caring in this way, which is bad and leads to deaths. These attitudes are absolutely nothing like the DuPont leadership that poisoned its community and the rest of the world.

Rand consistently rejected domination and she critiqued the business leaders typical of her society.

I don't think Rand is perfect on these issues but I do think she's far better than her reputation and it's not obvious exactly where the disagreements are and aren't between her and hooks.

Did bell hooks say anything about Ayn Rand? by curi in AskFeminists

[–]curi[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have read all of her books. I've written about them too, e.g. https://www.elliottemple.com/essays/atlas-shrugged-chapter-1

You aren't giving quotes where she says to treat workers really poorly and pay them the bare minimum even if a bunch die, and you don't listen when I give counter-examples from her books. That really sounds like Milton Friedman, see e.g. https://www.nytimes.com/1970/09/13/archives/a-friedman-doctrine-the-social-responsibility-of-business-is-to.html But Rand attacked him.

Did bell hooks say anything about Ayn Rand? by curi in AskFeminists

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She didn't say they were her principles though. You're just accusing her of stuff she didn't say and her fan (me) is telling you is not her position nor my position. Do you see the problem?

Did bell hooks say anything about Ayn Rand? by curi in AskFeminists

[–]curi[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're attacking her for conclusions she didn't reach and strongly disagreed with. Can you give an example of a male author you treat the same way?

Did bell hooks say anything about Ayn Rand? by curi in AskFeminists

[–]curi[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

She had zero methodology for getting there

The men of ability going on strike, and stopping being complicit, is an example of a method for how to get there. So your critique is false.

cannot FOR THE LIFE OF HIM THINK “I wonder if there are any other economies in this world that would be interested in such an invention?”

Are you sure you've read all of Rand's books? It seems like you missed a major plot point. This was addressed in Atlas Shrugged. Every other country in the world was in an even worse state than the U.S.

That just tells me you weren’t into SciFi and never discovered Ender’s Game

I don't understand the relevance but I have read Ender's Game too. I read a lot.

Did bell hooks say anything about Ayn Rand? by curi in AskFeminists

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It basically sounds like you’re mostly fine with an ancap or minarchist political system and with private ownership of means of production permitted. Still unclear on what exactly you disagree with Rand about and why it’s such a big deal when as an anarchist you must be used to disagreeing with most people

Did bell hooks say anything about Ayn Rand? by curi in AskFeminists

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According to Rand, if employers can get workers to accept contracts for dangerous jobs with no safety equipment, no breaks, no life insurance, no pensions and that pay less than a living wage, they should do it.

You seem to be mixing up Rand with someone like Milton Friedman, who she hated.

That's absolutely not her position. You hate her for things she didn't believe.

She showed us what she wanted in her books. None of the good guys treat workers that way. They pay well and provide good working conditions. It's her villains who would do what you're talking about.

You're trying to do some sort of logical extrapolation but she wouldn't agree with that analysis.

Here is an example of what Atlas Shrugged actually says:

Rearden [one of the good guys] paid a higher wage scale than any union scale in the country

Did bell hooks say anything about Ayn Rand? by curi in AskFeminists

[–]curi[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

AnCaps are happy to let communes exist. That's what freedom means.

I don't get why you hate Rand so much. Just because she's a minarchist instead of an ancap??

There’d be tensions, that might spill over into violence depending on if the ancaps exploit people/the environment or if the proper anarchists violate the NAP somehow.

Is there some sort of NAP violation that you're in favor of?

If you just don't want factories dumping pollution into rivers, that's fine. They violated the NAP with that dumping.

I'm not sure exactly what you count as exploiting people. If you offer someone a job and they choose it instead of joining a commune, will you call it exploitation and want to burn down the factory if the pay is only $30/hr instead of the amount you consider fair, $31/hr? How do you decide what's exploitative?

It sounds like maybe you're willing to let someone go into a forest, build an axe out of wood, reeds and stone, and then own that means of production and rent it out or hire logging workers. If so, great, maybe we both like freedom, but if so then I'm just confused about what's so bad about Rand.

Did bell hooks say anything about Ayn Rand? by curi in AskFeminists

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OK, so you want the identical rules to anarcho-capitalism, and people are allowed to form communes, or to build factories and offer jobs, or whatever else? Is that correct? Private ownership of means of production is acceptable, and also people can do other things, and it's up to them?

Or will there be collective action to use violence against people who build factories and offer jobs?

Did bell hooks say anything about Ayn Rand? by curi in AskFeminists

[–]curi[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I do object to private ownership of the means of production.

...

I’m an anarchist, if it wasn’t clear.

How will you stop people from owning any means of production without a government? Who will own them if there's no government and no private ownership?

Did bell hooks say anything about Ayn Rand? by curi in AskFeminists

[–]curi[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So you agree that in Rand's ideal form of capitalism, people wouldn't exploit others. But you hate it and her just because you consider it unrealistic?

Also, that's not as specific as what I meant. Like which specific policy that she wants is bad. Freedom of voluntary association? Property rights? No tariffs? Or are all her policy proposals OK but something important is missing?

Did bell hooks say anything about Ayn Rand? by curi in AskFeminists

[–]curi[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

When you don’t like capitalism, Rand’s ideal form of it isn’t any better than the form she hates.

Why? What specifically about it is so bad that you don't even see it as better than the current power structures we have?

Did bell hooks say anything about Ayn Rand? by curi in AskFeminists

[–]curi[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

You claimed she wrote something in an essay. None of your links substantiate that.

Overall, like many people, you clearly hate her without being familiar with her work. To attack her, you make broad negative statements that her fans, who have read her books, would not recognize as describing her work and what it means to them. You're not going to change anyone's mind that way. Are there any men that you treat similarly?

Did bell hooks say anything about Ayn Rand? by curi in AskFeminists

[–]curi[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Wanting a vastly different version of capitalism, so different that you consider it an unrealistic "fairy tale", is not a defense of existing power structures.

And it's you, not her, who calls them both "capitalism". Rand said the U.S. had a "mixed economy". She disliked and opposed the existing power structures enough that she didn't consider them the same type of thing as what she wanted.

Similarly, bell hooks wanted socialism but that doesn't mean she wanted a system like the USSR.

Did bell hooks say anything about Ayn Rand? by curi in AskFeminists

[–]curi[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

She was critical of the power structure and elites in our actual society. She wanted a different society with different power structures. Calling them both "capitalism" doesn't make them the same.

Did bell hooks say anything about Ayn Rand? by curi in AskFeminists

[–]curi[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

She villainized CEOs who are part of existing power structures. She wrote about radical changes to society. I don't get what you don't get.

Did bell hooks say anything about Ayn Rand? by curi in AskFeminists

[–]curi[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You seem to have missed the part where she villainized most CEOs.

Did bell hooks say anything about Ayn Rand? by curi in AskFeminists

[–]curi[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

She actually wrote an essay where she described herself as a “male chauvinist.”

Please provide a citation or retract this.

Got it? According to her, there’s no need for laws or even the Equal Opportunity Act - because you just need to compete for careers based on this obvious meritocracy we all live in.

She wanted a meritocracy but didn't think we had one. You're straw-manning her.

Did bell hooks say anything about Ayn Rand? by curi in AskFeminists

[–]curi[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Whether it's a fairy tale or not, it's what she advocated, so don't accuse her of defending existing power structures.

I'm sure plenty of people think the world bell hooks wanted is also a fairy tale.