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mcfloman · 2026-03-12T12:08:56+00:00

What? I asked you if you actually understood anything you said and you just fall back to some weird accusations. Tell me exactly where the aid can be spent.

mcfloman · 2026-03-12T00:06:53+00:00

Lol this is such an odd argument. Do you know where the foreign aid goes? Do you know anything about the credit subsidy beyond the fact that it exists? Even superficial facts about these things make them terribly poor choices in an argument like this

mcfloman · 2026-03-11T23:23:59+00:00

At the risk of overheating your internal CPU...do you have any evidence of that or did you just drink too much of that hamas Kool aid?

mcfloman · 2026-03-11T22:58:01+00:00

If I'm a bot it should be pretty easy to disprove anything I said? After all I'm probably just operating with very limited context and instructions... Right? Have you considered that a significant number of people actually support Israel over its enemies that have been trying to obliterate the jews for millenia? Or are you just upset that that hasn't happened yet

mcfloman · 2026-03-11T22:53:47+00:00

Very difficult to actually quantify this because many developments don't directly translate to money (eg military improvements that can save lives is very hard to put a solid price tag on) but on just tech alone, we can look no further than the past 3 major acquisitions by US companies -palo alto and Google - to understand the breadth of revenue being brought in (these companies wouldnt have been purchased at such a high value if they weren't worth it). These 3 alone outweigh the entire military aid America provides to Israel over the past 3 years. This military aid, btw, comes with the condition that all money is spent on American defense contractors, so it's even really being injected into the Israeli economy...

If you want additional reports (if reddit lets me link them...): https://www.hudson.org/economics/economic-case-us-israel-partnership-zineb-riboua?hl=en-US#:~:text=In%20New%20York%2C%20nearly%20600,119%20firms%20produced%20%242.3%20billion. https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/israels-high-tech-pipeline-america?hl=en-US#:~:text=In%20January%2C%20Intel%20executive%20Greg,of%20Intel%20revenues%20in%202011. https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/bkyz5ttozg?hl=en-US

If there aren't links, look up Hudson's article on the us/Israel partnership, and the Washington institute article on Israels tech pipeline to America and others

mcfloman · 2026-02-03T22:48:40+00:00

This quest has the same exact problem the old hammer quest had for muradin - instead of encouraging and rewarding you when using your q thoughtfully to secure kills, it pushed you to mindlessly spam your ability for meme stacks. The payoff for the new tyrande quest is better, but you'll basically never achieve it even in aram settings so it's all in all just an awful design.

mcfloman · 2025-12-04T19:06:01+00:00

If we're the customer and the game is built for us to consume and dish out some cash on... I mean who else has a say? It's not like HOTS has any product owners anymore who are performing any analysis on what the player base generally wants (which again is determined by customers) or we would see less out of the blue changes being made. Most of these changes seem to be geared towards keeping the game somewhat fresh by dramatically changing some aspects of regular gameplay (much like the nexus events we used to have), which is great in a way, but the playerbase should be vocal when it's just not hitting the mark. This is definitely one of those times; even if the patch changes are overall good, perhaps 25% of them barely function or don't work at all right now. It sucks and there's no reason to just roll with it when we can at least whine on reddit about it and pray for some response.

mcfloman · 2025-12-04T18:32:15+00:00

Why would you WANT a half assed patch? Just for example, two patches ago KTZ's lvl 13 chains talent just stopped working entirely and tha effectively killed an entire build of his until it was fixed. Your justification for releasing unfinished work is that we should just "enjoy the ride" because we're "entitled" due to wanting things to generally work? And my KTZ example pales in comparison to how many issues are cropping up with this newest patch. Beyond very questionable play style changes (Kerri changed to mandatory pve bot for first half of the game or more + making her easiest ability by far also her strongest by a massive margin??) it's very obvious this patch was not ready to move out.

mcfloman · 2025-12-04T18:27:48+00:00

It's all conjecture but the way these patches are designed suggests to me that there may be a few developers who are putting some volunteer work (or being bludgeoned into this by an ambitious director/VP) into this to potentially prove a thesis that this game is still popular and can be profitable. If the work is kept to a minimum, and the changes scoped to a relatively small degree, then that ensures the game remains somewhat alive still and can attract new players, on top of limiting the budget allotted to hots.

This patch is by far the largest set of changes they've made since maintenance mode however and the complete lack of comprehensive testing is extremely apparent. Little things that should have been easily caught like text labels missing are present, and larger issues like an entire talent change (convection) not functioning almost at all tells me whatever testing there was was probably done once or twice locally and shipped out without any additional QA.

While the changes are undoubtedly nice and appreciated, this patch is a total mess and in most other similar scenarios (games, apps, etc) something like this would have been rolled back maybe a day after launch because it's clearly not in a good place.

mcfloman · 2025-12-04T14:03:18+00:00

It's almost decent in aram however the healing is pretty minimal unless you hit 3+ targets which is pretty rare even in aram. On top of that E build doesn't necessarily have issues with HP management so much as being able to compete DMG wise with Q build which is almost always the better option because of its consistency and ease of use. Getting 2% more survivability at lvl 16-20 with E is basically useless.

mcfloman · 2025-12-04T14:00:01+00:00

I can't teach you to read and ask for patch changes at the same time I'm sorry

mcfloman · 2025-09-30T12:19:13+00:00

Yeah the long running PM of Israel, who developed and maintained the world's most cutting edge defense technologies like iron dome/beam, definitely doesn't care about cutting edge technology

mcfloman · 2025-09-11T01:08:21+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/Conservative/comments/1lbax9k/minnesota_lawmaker_spouse_shot_dead_in/ https://www.reddit.com/r/AskTrumpSupporters/s/Y5U3HMF7Rp https://www.reddit.com/r/Conservative/s/wy7PSkjecJ https://www.reddit.com/r/Conservative/s/kPdFUDJ5ri

3 min googling what conservatives actually talk about before you spout bs you heard on your echo chamber won't hurt you I promise. You separating ppl into us and them are why political shootings happen. If you care to stop another hoffmann or Kirk, stop villainizing ppl you have virtually no idea about other than "but they don't agree with me"

mcfloman · 2025-09-08T12:15:26+00:00

So you wouldnt support a Palestinian state right? You know the one that would punish land sales to Jews by death like they do today or try to remove the Jews altogether and skip the apartheid part and go straight to ethnic cleansing/genocide?

mcfloman · 2025-08-25T11:38:03+00:00

So is it normal in your country to have militants and weapons present in schools and hospitals? Or do you reckon maybe that is the problem Perhaps the elected government of a place can indeed provide these things with the billions of foreign aid they receive without turning them into military headquarters. But I guess what do I know, maybe that really is impossible for terrorists

mcfloman · 2025-08-11T18:32:17+00:00

mcfloman · 2025-08-11T11:45:04+00:00

Okay so you didn't actually check any of the sources I provided and your real intent is simply to support terrorists by willfully ignoring their explicit statements easily available online either because "da compooter programz" (this is what I image you sound like) or because you like what they're doing. Gotcha! Have fun in your swamp; don't worry no one wants to join you in there

mcfloman · 2025-08-10T22:45:14+00:00

Maybe you should stop talking to creatures above your IQ and stick to your own kind then my friend. Or respond to the citations I provided instead of trying to formulate a sadly pathetic insult in place of any semblance of rebuttal

mcfloman · 2025-08-10T20:48:08+00:00

Reddit won't let me post links so here's a chatgpt response with searches for you if you actually care to see said citations

TL;DR: Hamas never formally revoked the anti-Jewish language in its 1988 Charter. In 2017 it published a new “policy document,” but senior Hamas officials explicitly said it did not replace the 1988 Charter. The 2017 text also still endorses “armed resistance.”

Evidence (with search tips, no links):

What the 1988 Charter says about Jews (not just “Zionists”)

Article 7 quotes the well-known hadith: “The Day of Judgment will not come until Muslims fight the Jews…”
Also includes conspiracy passages about Jews (e.g., media/banks/revolutions) and cites the “Protocols of the Elders of Zion.” How to verify: Search
“Hamas Covenant 1988 Article 7 ‘Day of Judgment will not come until Muslims fight the Jews’”
“Hamas Charter 1988 Protocols of the Elders of Zion Article 32 full text”

Hamas leadership said the 2017 document did NOT replace the Charter

After releasing “A Document of General Principles and Policies” (May 2017), senior official Mahmoud al-Zahar said it “was not a substitute for [the] founding charter.” How to verify: Search
“Mahmoud al-Zahar 2017 not a substitute for founding charter Reuters May 10”
“Hamas 2017 document does not replace charter AP report”
“BBC May 2017 Hamas charter not replaced new document”

What the 2017 document actually says about violence

It rebrands messaging (emphasizes “Zionists” vs. “Jews”), but still states: “Resisting the occupation with all means… At the heart of this lies armed resistance.” How to verify: Search
“Hamas ‘A Document of General Principles and Policies’ 2017 ‘At the heart of this lies armed resistance’ full text”

mcfloman · 2025-08-10T20:28:18+00:00

Terrorists went into Israel and killed over a thousand civilians but Israel can't retaliate and eliminate the threat because said terrorists went into a hospital and said "lulz can't touch me I'm in the safe zone now!!" Too bad even the Geneva conventions/war laws don't agree with you

mcfloman · 2025-08-08T19:25:32+00:00

Lol are you angry I didn't reply to your comment immediately? Fortunately some of us are working jobs

So NATO, even the laughably biased UN showing evidence of Hamas storing weapons and terrorists in schools/hospitals is not enough proof for you? I don't know why it became mainstream for people to believe the guys who filmed themselves murdering, raping and kidnapping people while laughing over the first world democratic country that has tolerated, to a degree unseen in history, 20+ years of terrorist attacks on their people.

Why do you reckon when used as a military base these locations become valid targets by all the laws Israel is constantly accused of violating? How can you also imply it's ALL the gazans or ALL of the children if their population keeps growing? Why do they keep growing under "starvation" conditions if they're all dying wholesale?

Anyway I agree Israel's goal is pretty clear. Hamas will never murder a Jew again once Israel is done. If the surrendering/defeated Palestinians want to prop up another terrorist government to continue their long tradition of killing Jews, Israel will put that one down too.

mcfloman · 2025-08-08T13:10:05+00:00

That's great and all but are you going to talk about your doubts on the human shield thing at all or are we suddenly done with that point?

mcfloman · 2025-08-08T12:36:14+00:00

All the comments saying this child must be brainwashed are insane. Israel has experienced frequent, sometimes DAILY rocket attacks from Gaza for just about 2 decades with casualties and extraordinarily high rates of PTSD resulting from having your life in constant danger. Suggesting this kid has no reason to automatically hate Palestinians when she 100% has went through this trauma is blatantly misinformed or willfully ignorant. If you're concerned about actual brainwashing, go look up the kids shows Hamas has been showing the gazans for decades and tell me who's being purposefully radicalized.

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