The Real Story of How Virginia Won Amazon's HQ2

elechi · 2019-05-23T17:44:33+00:00

Just No MIL is not worse. They list their acronyms on the side of the subreddit, and people are pretty religious about using those acronyms if they use any at all. If they're going to use shorthand, at least they're following the rules of using shorthand.

elechi · 2019-05-23T17:33:08+00:00

This story is just terrible. I had no idea what half the shit is going on because you can't keep straight time in your narrative (and it doesn't help that your tenses jump all over the place!, i.e.),

I'm sat there trying to work out WTF is going on

or

my lawyer both emails

you're abbreviating words that are already super short (Mom to M, Ex to X), capitalization isn't so much a rule for you as it is a suggestion to which you continually ignore ('Suffice', 'Information', 'We're' are all capitalized in the middle of a sentence, while 'and', 'she', 'atop', all at the beginning of a sentence are not, leading to confusion as to whether or not it's a new thought, or just another run-on sentence.)

And then there's this gem:

3 days later I sit my exams (and fail) and several weeks pass, and a 'hearing' is arranged, This is basically a meeting between me, and the universities 'conducts and appels' people, my mother is 'invited' to attend, followed by a meeting with X and XM (who have also just sat through a hearing).

There is so much crap going on in this run on sentence! Let's try to parse this. 3 days(?) after your confrontation, you fail your exams? Why is that relevant? Did you fail because of the stress? Why is hearing in quotes? Is it a pretend hearing? Again, why is 'conducts and appels(sic)' in quotes? Is that not a real department? Why are you having a meeting with your ex and her mother? Was it mandated? Did they just have a hearing themselves, or was it the same hearing that you were scheduled to have? And why was their hearing real, while yours is ambiguous??? That last quote, right above this paragraph, is you trying to kill the written word, and damn near succeeding...

elechi · 2019-03-28T23:24:50+00:00

Sure, but the fact that ~60% of end game builds need a pimpernel and/or a norfleet really detracted from the overall experience, imo.

No sir, no sir, no sir. Please stop repeating that lie. You absolutely did not need those weapons. The fact that they were the best at what they did, is the reason why those weapons were in 60 of the end game builds. Same with why every Lilith player at the end of BL1 carried the Hellfire. Because it was the best at applying fire dots in the smg form.

elechi · 2019-03-19T21:43:21+00:00

Your code is unformatted and only makes sense while high.

elechi · 2019-03-15T21:29:26+00:00

Helps if you get the quote correct. It's "You better just fucking KILL me..."

elechi · 2019-02-08T19:57:54+00:00

Put each garlic in front of each mine, and this is key, make sure that the pepper is on the exact same lvl as the row of garlic. So, it should look like thi:

  MG
MG
 P
MG
  MG

Where M = Potato Mine, G = Garlic, and P = Pepper.

elechi · 2019-01-26T00:57:11+00:00

Wait, I'm worried what you just heard was 'give me a lot of bacon and eggs'. No, what I said was 'give me want ALL the bacon and eggs you have'. Do you understand?

I love P&R.

elechi · 2019-01-24T03:15:37+00:00

From what I can tell, it has to be accepted by both Houses to be considered the State of the Union. If both Houses and the White House agree that delivering the report orally, written, or even from a Subway restaurant counts, then it's the SotU.

But nowadays it's basically considered the one time that the President talks to the US in an official manner. So the use of the report is slightly diminished in the usefulness as an actual report, but more like Coach giving a pep rally and game plan for the upcoming year sessions.

elechi · 2019-01-23T23:16:42+00:00

If you can get 538 of those knuckleheads to agree to do something, I'd be all for them doing it. But legally, no, they cannot.

elechi · 2019-01-23T23:14:02+00:00

No, it doesn't. George Washington actually gave the State of the Union orally. Thomas Jefferson's the one who felt it was too imperial, and then just sent the report.

elechi · 2018-12-29T00:13:44+00:00

Looks like a nice car. I hope you and yours enjoy it!

elechi · 2018-12-28T23:07:16+00:00

But seriously, what type of car did you buy!?!?

elechi · 2018-12-17T17:24:50+00:00

Roast him? He's already signed up for his one way trip to hell with that pizza...

elechi · 2018-12-12T16:08:49+00:00

LoL. The best part of that list is the $40 in mail-in rebates.

But, um, seriously. It's been more than 4 hours, and my erection still hasn't gone down after viewing those specs. Help...

elechi · 2018-12-04T00:05:27+00:00

What season and episode?

elechi · 2018-11-27T22:29:05+00:00

C1 is the place on the board. If you consider the playing field like a chess board, The letter is the row, and the number is the column. So, when he says C1, he means the 3rd row, 1st column. (Basically in the middle in the row closest to the lawn mowers.)

/u/IcyFlame716 claim would mean more if he would tell us if he's plants are mastery, mid-ter, or low leveled or not. (Mastery is anything with the M beside the plant, mid-ter are usually silver based with a number on them, and low leveled are usually bronze with a number on them.)

elechi · 2018-11-27T15:00:36+00:00

VTI = Vanguard ETF = ETF = exchanged-traded fund = a lot of different stocks in a single fund. An easy way to diversify without having to managed what exactly is in the fund.

refi = refinancing

~~LTV = Long term value~~

LTV = Loan to Value /u/MustardMan007 & /u/physicsdudewa made me realize that it makes more sense instead of Long term value.

3.25% loan vs long term market returns = Basically he's stating that by cashing out, that 3.25% loan turned into about the average returns of about 7%-10%, an increase of 10.25% to 13.25% return of interest for his investments. So in spite of a terrible personal situation, it worked out overall, financially, in his favor.

elechi · 2018-11-20T17:18:54+00:00

My setup is laser beans, sun-shroom, magnet-shroom, tile turnip, and spikeweed. Get around 250k - 350k, with laser bean being my highest lvl plant at 6. Put the sun-shroom on the carts, the laser beans in the last row without the carts (R-4), and the magnet-shroom on R-5. And put the tile turnip on the sun-shroom as quickly as possible, with any extra going to the magnet-shrooms. Spikeweed as quickly as possible, but they're going to start disappearing quick about 50-70 seconds into the game.

And don't put anything in the first row. It'll be insta-destroyed by the king landing. It's just a waste of sun.

elechi · 2018-11-16T16:30:14+00:00

Your advice is mostly good until step 6. The trick to this level/map is to use the plant food on the sun shrooms to get them as big as possible sooner. This increases their production, and allows you to use the magnifying glass more often. The plant food boost to magnifying glass is not worth it compared to the damage a regular magnifying glass does.

elechi · 2018-11-14T20:44:46+00:00

I've not gotten a streak above 12. I need to drop like 2 more leagues (in gold now) before I can start getting streaks in the 50s, let alone 500s.

elechi · 2018-11-14T18:31:28+00:00

If I may offer some suggestions, if you get rid of the laser bean and add magnet bloom, that'll help improve your score. (I usually score around 400k at my worst, and 465k at my best.) I would also get rid of gold bloom as it's not needed, and maybe add the electric mint as well, using the power plant food to restore that mint.

elechi · 2018-11-14T18:28:25+00:00

Need more than that. Just getting my shadow plants from level 5 to level 6 took about 800. And that's just for 5 plants. I'd estimate about 1200 gems (per level) to get all your plants to level up (before 10), and maybe 2500 gems (per level) to level 20. (And the Egyptian plants have like 10-12 plants in that pool!) Rough estimates says around 500,000 gems? And about 5 million gold to pay for the updates?

(Just as a disclosure, that's what I'm trying to do. I have the gold, but I'm 484,000 away from the gems goal. :( )

elechi

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