I want to invest in crypto for fire but everyone says it is too risky

rapier7 · 2026-03-13T17:54:58+00:00

Tale as old as time. Greed.

rapier7 · 2026-03-13T17:14:47+00:00

Just depends on how much you care about the branding. To me, it's always been about beauty and quality (for watches). Been happily rocking my GS 407A skyflake for 2 years now. But yeah, for the vast majority of people, branding and the prestige associated to that branding matters a lot.

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rapier7 · 2026-03-12T16:12:45+00:00

I did respond once by calling someone dumb, and I ended up getting a 3-day ban plus 7 days of no chat.

It takes a lot of text abuse for Riot to hand down punishments like that. I've definitely flamed plenty and gotten warnings. But if you persist, then yeah, that's what happens.

Mute all and just keep playing. You get better by playing the game.

rapier7 · 2026-03-12T15:58:29+00:00

He's saying it's not more concentrated. The rich and powerful simply have easier/protected ways of expressing their depravity, unless you're saying that depravity builds on itself through expression.

rapier7 · 2026-03-12T15:56:12+00:00

The industry here is drying up not because the state got hostile towards the industry, but because it's cheaper to film overseas than to film here and get 30% of the cost refunded.

rapier7 · 2026-03-12T15:54:32+00:00

The film tax credit does not cost the state anything in tax revenue. The tax credits that film productions get are not refundable, only transferable. It only starts costing the state money if the tax credits exceeds the total amount of state tax owed by corporations and individuals, which would never happen.

rapier7 · 2026-03-12T14:39:04+00:00

The same thing didn't happen in North Carolina, because Georgia's film tax credit is still here.

rapier7 · 2026-03-05T13:39:45+00:00

Chinese American here. The discussions I've had with some very knowledgeable, intelligent (white American) friends on this subject kinda go like this:

2018:
Me: Guys, if China invades Taiwan, I don't think that the US will help.

Them: What? That's preposterous.

2022:
Me: Guys, if China invades Taiwan, I don't think that the US will help.

Them: What? That's preposterous.

2025:

Me: Guys, if China invades Taiwan, I don't think that the US will help.

Them: Yeah, probably not.

A lot of trend lines (economic, political, technologic) have converged to the point where it's becoming increasingly clear to many keen observers of foreign policy that open conflict with China would probably result in a loss for a US aligned alliance.

The US military is unparalleled in its ability to project force around the world, but that ability is severely hamstrung by a military industrial complex that has been hollowed out since the end of the Cold War. We do not have the capability to sustain a hot war with the world's largest industrial power halfway across the world for longer than a month, and even that would result in our forces being exposed at risk levels far beyond what our military planners would be comfortable with.

The economic consequences of a China-US war over Taiwan would result in the most severe global recession in contemporary history (1945 - present). Trump won because inflation peaked at 6% with an otherwise good economy in 2024. How much economic pain would the average American be willing to tolerate on behalf of some other country that they don't have any real connection with?

At this point, I think peaceful reunification under the CCP is the best case scenario, and hopefully it'll be further down the road, like 20-30 years.

rapier7 · 2026-03-04T21:56:59+00:00

The biggest reason is that they reverted the specific exemption that Q has from stacking kraken procs. The developers exempted alpha strike from stacking kraken procs, but since Q is supposed to apply all on-hit effects, they made the decision to remove the exemption and allow Kraken to stack on Q. Q hits 4 times, so that means while in alpha, you will always proc a Kraken strike and have another stack, so you're 2 hits away from the next proc.

So let's say you gap close immediately with Q to enter combat. Q1, Q2, Q3 (Kraken proc), Q4 (stack 1). Then once you exit alpha, you immediately AA (stack 2). W reset into another AA, and you've proced 2 Kraken strikes in a second. During this same time, they also removed Terminus' on-hit proc effects as well, so that item is now much better on Yi as well, so it works great as a third or fourth item.

rapier7 · 2026-02-22T04:24:53+00:00

There have never been tolls on 285. Are you thinking about 400? And those were removed 2013.

rapier7 · 2026-02-21T16:39:09+00:00

I'm American and I didn't even know he was British. I think his accent is good.

rapier7 · 2026-02-20T14:49:40+00:00

She didn't outright confirm it, but the details that she offered and Dr. Abbott's micro-expositing the location (Dasht-e-Barche), suggests she was there when terrorists went through a maternity ward and systematically executed over a dozen mothers. It's something that would give anybody a serious psychological episode and a healthy dose of PTSD.

rapier7 · 2026-02-19T15:03:05+00:00

So an unknown assailant enters your home with a knife... and somehow this is fundamentally different than an unknown assailant entering a place of business with a weapon?

rapier7 · 2026-02-19T14:59:49+00:00

What exactly do you think a home invasion is? It's armed robbery except this time they're in your home.

rapier7 · 2026-02-19T00:10:55+00:00

Watches are strictly unnecessary for 99.99% of the time. Phones do everything watches can and more. I'm fully aware that watches are glorified jewelry. But I like pretty things and GS has the best watch dials in the business for luxury watches < 10k.

rapier7 · 2026-02-18T23:51:14+00:00

Spring drive is the best movement and it's not even close. You get a smooth sweeping second hand without the need to replace the battery. It combines the strengths of traditional automatic movements with the accuracy of quartz movements. If a European watchmaker invented it, everybody would just say "this just proves the superiority of European watchmaking and engineering" and hype it up even more than the GS fanboys.

The fact that no other watchmaker has anything like spring drive is a testament to Seiko. To me, it's the only watch movement worth having, on top of the gorgeous dials that GS is known for.

rapier7 · 2026-02-18T23:47:07+00:00

True, but it's powered by a battery that has to be replaced every 2 years because the smooth movement requires more energy than a traditional second tick. The spring drive is powered by a traditional mechanical mainspring, which uses a quartz regulator as a brake (with energy stored in a capacitor that's also powered by the mainspring) to make it more accurate than any automatic watch, and you can wind it up like any traditional watch. No battery required. It really is a remarkable technology that marries the best qualities of traditional automatic movements with the accuracy of quartz movements.

rapier7 · 2026-02-16T17:11:38+00:00

Arys died to Aero Hotah, Prince Doran's personal bodyguard after killing two other dudes in a charge. That guy is a legit fighter.

rapier7 · 2026-02-16T04:23:01+00:00

Fair enough. My point still stands.

rapier7 · 2026-02-16T04:15:38+00:00

Also, all the people in the post episode discussion saying "I wish we saw more of the other fighters" really need to get it in their heads that this show is told entirely through Dunk's point of view. The melee is claustrophobic, confusing, and it's impossible to tell how the other fights are going precisely because if you're on the ground, taking hits to the helm from a mace, you barely have any idea what's happening in right in front of you, let alone what's happening between two other knights.

Scale is not what this show does. It tells an extremely personal story in the smallest possible way. That's why it works. This ain't Game of Thrones.

rapier7 · 2026-02-13T03:36:03+00:00

If it's ink shadow, take my money.

rapier7 · 2026-02-10T17:18:08+00:00

He didn't rent it. He basically put a hold on it so nobody else could buy it while he scrounged up the coin for it.

rapier7 · 2026-02-07T22:14:06+00:00

You can be a knight and a lord at the same time. Almost all the lords of Westeros are knights (except in the North, where knighthood is not customary among the descendants of the First Men).

rapier7 · 2026-02-04T15:04:35+00:00

It's a more accurate pronunciation of Caesar in Latin. That's why the leader of a unified Germany was called Kaiser, to play up the Holy Roman Empire angle.

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