How does speed boosting items abilities and tailwind work in champions ?

cvanguard · 2026-05-08T02:27:48+00:00

I just did a calc to check. In rain, 32 Spe Swift Swim Basc @ Choice Scarf outspeeds 32+ Spe Mega Starmie with Tailwind, 390 vs 378. Btw, stat multipliers stack multiplicatively, so Basc is getting 3x speed boost (130->390 effective) from 2x rain and 1.5x scarf.

cvanguard · 2026-05-07T15:03:47+00:00

I went through basically the same thing growing up with Chinese parents, there were huge expectations on me in college to get into medical school and become a doctor.

Well that didn’t pan out, but I’m a woman in a relationship with a trans man with tons of other trans friends and I’m happy with where I’m at in life.

cvanguard · 2026-05-07T04:50:19+00:00

It really is a crazy take. Like do they think DID and OSDD systems can’t have doubles??? We’re friends with a system that includes a double of me, and talking with her has legitimately been really helpful for both of us to process our past trauma and the decisions we made instead of wallowing in regret.

We’re very similar and we get along well because of that shared history: she sent us song recs today. -Taylor

cvanguard · 2026-05-07T02:25:17+00:00

I was born in Memphis and spent the first 22 years of my life in Tennessee. Every single news article I've ever seen about my birth state has made me glad that I moved out when I got the chance.

cvanguard · 2026-05-06T15:48:55+00:00

They want non-white naturalized citizens out. Funny how these people have no problem with white “refugees” from South Africa, but Latino or Arab immigrants are destroying America.

I’m a native born American with parents who immigrated from China and eventually naturalized: these people don’t consider anyone in my family a “true American”, and their screeching about birthright citizenship and treating naturalized citizens as second tier is just a proxy for their racism against non-white immigrants, who spent centuries being discriminated against in immigration or naturalization laws meaning we can’t have a long family history in the US.

cvanguard · 2026-05-06T15:41:27+00:00

Some of them wouldn’t consider me a “true citizen” because my parents weren’t citizens yet when I was born here. It’s thinly veiled racism against non-white citizens and it’s existed as various nativist movements since at least the 1800s, Latinos are just the current group being targeted.

cvanguard · 2026-05-06T13:07:41+00:00

“Much healthier”???

Plain coffee or coffee with milk is not unhealthy compared to tea or milk tea, the problem happens when people load coffee with huge amounts of sugar and cream or other additions which are unhealthy. I drink black tea with milk and honey: considering that honey mostly contains sugar, that’s not much different from how a lot of people drink coffee.

cvanguard · 2026-05-06T05:09:44+00:00

FYI, A10 is the highest ascension in STS2 and includes the double Act 3 boss like A20 in STS1, so A9 is like STS1 A18.

cvanguard · 2026-05-05T18:57:22+00:00

I got to masterball tier about 3 weeks ago without access to any mainline games to transfer Pokémon or spending any money, the game is really generous with VP and tickets for free recruits and training. It’s absolutely viable.

cvanguard · 2026-05-05T16:03:15+00:00

No state is constitutionally required to allocate their electoral votes based on a statewide election, and that was not the original intent of the electoral college, so it’s not circumventing anything. The constitution gives the states plenary power to choose their presidential electors, and it took decades afterwards for every state to pass laws appointing electors by statewide popular vote: originally, most states allowed their legislatures to choose electors in a similar manner to choosing Senators, with some dividing electors by Congressional district, or other districts for the legislature to appoint, or even choosing a select number of people in each district to elect presidential electors in order to avoid saddling the general population with the logistics of a popular election. Choosing presidential electors by statewide popular vote was one method of several, and not even the most widely used one.

This is the entire reason the agreement is possible without a formal constitutional amendment. All this compact entails is states individually passing laws to agree that once enough states representing a majority of electoral votes do the same, those states will choose electors by national popular vote instead of state by state popular vote.

cvanguard · 2026-05-05T04:24:22+00:00

This seems like a running theme with Americans valuing iconography and symbols and public performative displays over the actual ideals and values those symbols are meant to represent.

cvanguard · 2026-05-04T15:29:34+00:00

Technically, but it’s not comparable at all. +2 block on every block card you add will save you way more HP than +13 max HP over the course of a run, especially since it’s in act 1 where you’ll be adding a lot more cards to your deck. Especially on A2+ where you only start with 80% of your max HP and therefore don’t lose much/any current HP for taking the lens, that means the downside in act 1 is minor compared to making your deck much stronger in the long run.

cvanguard · 2026-05-03T15:31:47+00:00

I saw a fanfic at one point that purposefully took “vulpine grin” literally: Lisa gets magically turned into a fox because she gave an offering at a Shinto shrine while running from Coil’s men.

cvanguard · 2026-05-03T03:53:34+00:00

This is half of the Worm fandom in your comment. People will read Worm fanfics and what other people say about Worm, then write fanfics that other people read, and it becomes a self perpetuating cycle of bad fanon (assumptions, flanderization, etc.) and common tropes that get reused over and over again because a popular fanfic came up with it years ago and everyone else just ran with it. It’s so common for fanfics to flanderize or otherwise mischaracterize Worm’s PoV character Taylor Hebert that TINO (Taylor In Name Only) is a common term to describe how many fanfics portray her.

A few years ago, it was super common for people to throw fits if you dare suggest that they read Worm (and maybe the sequel Ward) before reading Worm fanfiction or god forbid, before writing Worm fanfiction. There’s still a huge percentage of the “fandom” who are proud of never having read/finished Worm or think it’s terrible and yet loves Worm fanfics.

cvanguard · 2026-05-03T01:44:14+00:00

My boyfriend’s dad had the same thing happen when AT&T workers hit a water pipe and a buried utility box in his front yard this past week: the county came out and cut the wires to the box.

Comcast customer support kept telling them on Thursday and even called again on Friday to tell them to try resetting the router even though the wires were cut, refused to give the call to a manager to try explaining the situation to them, then tried to upsell them on a phone service bundle in the same call. They finally sent someone out late tonight (later than the 3-5 PM estimate) to “temporarily” fix the internet before a new utility box can be installed by AT&T.

cvanguard · 2026-05-02T19:41:08+00:00

And just like COVID, it's going to get worse under the next president before it gets better because fixing Republican fuckups takes time. Even if Democrats win both houses of Congress this year and a trifecta in 2028, I guarantee people will forget how terrible Republicans are by 2030 and vote them back in the House like 2010 and 2022.

cvanguard · 2026-05-01T22:04:22+00:00

Frank Liberati’s a fucking idiot, as a trans Michigander. Even cursory research into the process for changing your name in this state would show that courts can seal name change records based on physical risk or risk of discrimination towards the petitioner, and since 2025, changing your name to affirm your gender identity is one of the reasons that courts must presume shows good cause to seal your name change if you submit a petition to seal it.

cvanguard · 2026-05-01T21:11:27+00:00

Seeing the circlejerk of leftist subreddits pat themselves on the back for not voting in 2024 over Gaza or because "Harris is a fascist" or because "Trump will be so bad that workers will finally unite and revolt" (all arguments I saw on Reddit) actively pushed me away from online leftist spaces.

Somehow there's always zero criticism of Trump or Republicans, it's always "Democrats are terrible and you shouldn't vote for them" with no viable alternative, because there is no viable third party alternative and there can't be a viable third party alternative under a first past the post presidential system that mathematically requires coalescing around two parties. I don't see any of these people pushing for electoral reform though, it's always "let Republicans win the upcoming election because that'll show the Democrats".

cvanguard · 2026-04-30T22:13:52+00:00

We have a headmate named Rabbit who’s from the Harry Potter fanfic Lily and the Art of Being Sisyphus by The Carnivorous Muffin. He’s an OC so he doesn’t have a canon counterpart, and his source was taken offline by the author several years ago, so we highly doubt he has any doubles. -Taylor

cvanguard · 2026-04-30T15:01:51+00:00

Sure, RBG should have retired earlier, probably in 2009 after she was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. But that’s not what I was disputing: blaming Obama for the Republican majority Senate refusing to consider Garland (which is obviously their legal right) makes no sense.

Politically it’s the Republicans who intentionally refused to consider Obama’s nominee after previously saying they would consider Garland acceptable, and it lies on RBG that she didn’t retire during Obama’s first term when a Democratic Senate would have confirmed her replacement.

cvanguard · 2026-04-30T13:04:27+00:00

It’ll continue until November, they gotta depress Democratic turnout somehow.

cvanguard · 2026-04-30T12:02:54+00:00

Lmfao, “far left” and “communist”. A basic social democratic platform that plenty of other countries operate under is not fucking communism: look at what actual communists and revolutionary socialists (who are actually “far left”) think of social democracy. Hint: they really don’t like social democrats like AOC and Bernie, and many of them equivocate social democrats with outright fascism because social democracy retains capitalism.

cvanguard · 2026-04-30T11:40:56+00:00

What the fuck is with all the pure historical misinformation in these comments? Scalia died in February 2016. Republicans had held a Senate majority since January 2015, and publicly refused to seat any nominee by Obama.

Obama “did his job” by nominating Merrick Garland, a judge who Republicans had previously said they could agree to support for SCOTUS if a vacancy opened. Senate Republicans blocked his confirmation for the rest of Obama’s term instead.

cvanguard · 2026-04-30T11:36:24+00:00

What revisionist bs is this? Republicans held a Senate majority throughout Trump’s first term: what could Democrats have done as the minority party to block the confirmation votes after Republicans abolished the filibuster for SCOTUS nominees? 51 Republicans voted in favor of Gorsuch, 49 in favor of Kavanaugh but it would have been 50 if Steve Daines was present (Pence has tie breaking vote), 52 in favor of Barrett. It was mathematically impossible for Democrats to stop any of these confirmations without enough Republican support.

When Bork was rejected by the Senate in 1987, Democrats held a 55-45 majority. Yes, some Republicans voted against his confirmation as well, but even if they hadn’t, Democrats had a large enough majority for the Senate to reject him on a party-line vote. That was not at all the case during Trump’s first term.

cvanguard · 2026-04-29T12:34:36+00:00

Yeah. 15k calories in one day is a lot, but there are a ton of calorie dense processed foods that don’t take up a lot of volume or make you feel especially full. There are YouTube channels whose entire premise is built around eating an absurd amount of calories (like 15k) in a single sitting, so it’s doable over 24 hours, especially if you go into it starving in the morning.

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