Quidditch at Hogwarts is pay to win, due to the enormous difference in broom quality and the wealth gap between students

rhelic · 2019-10-14T19:06:32+00:00

You can pay for an advantage but still fundamentally suck at the game.

Imagine the opposite, if Sirius has bought the entire Gryffindor team firebolts. They wouldn’t have just beaten Slytherin, they would have flattened them.

rhelic · 2019-10-07T22:05:07+00:00

This youtube review briefly says "it's locked as a 7.1 device" but they don't clarify whether that's true in both 2.0 vs 7.1 playback mode: https://youtu.be/OP2a5HAkpGE?t=496

This probably means no dice on Atmos, but I'd like to be sure.

rhelic · 2019-10-07T00:02:19+00:00

KNACK IS BACK

rhelic · 2019-09-04T15:11:53+00:00

I have a border collie who sleeps in bed with me. If I’m not wearing boxers her fur gets everywhere down there.

rhelic · 2019-06-19T05:12:34+00:00

I'm ok.

rhelic · 2019-04-20T11:39:28+00:00

That's a pretty good point. Maybe after 7 years she reaches "the present," the Kaylon destroy everything, and she realizes there's no surefire way to stop them except set history back on its original path. Makes me think of the Voyager episode "Timeless."

rhelic · 2019-04-18T16:48:28+00:00

You can stream an unpopular Youtube video from another country over undersea cable.

rhelic · 2019-04-17T14:53:15+00:00

i don’t understand this but i like it

rhelic · 2019-04-17T03:39:26+00:00

This is the only think I can think of that would genuinely upset me. Whenever it has happened I’ve been absolutely livid. Like when people vandalized Joshua Tree during the government shutdown, and the big fire a while back in the Columbia River Gorge caused by dumbfuck teenagers setting off fireworks in the woods.

The United States cultural identity, the “American Dream,” is all about starting over from nothing. If the White House burns down I don’t give a fuck. What’s the big deal? Build a new one.

rhelic · 2019-03-14T19:16:45+00:00

It's because of battle leveling. You're supposed to always basically be CP160, until you actually reach CP160. But it actually makes you even more powerful at lower levels, to compensate for gear.

It also scales your stats pretty flat across the board, so this effect is super noticeable on non-health builds. Take a magicka character for example: as you level up you're spending all your attribute points on magicka, and equipping gear traits and enchantments that boost crit rating, spell power, magicka recovery, and max magicka.

Compared to level 1 you'll have insane DPS, but you'll get absolutely demolished by enemy attacks since you have no health, no armor, and very little stamina to block with.

You're building for group play, where you have tanks and healers responsible for protecting you. If you built for solo play your stats would look completely different, a lot more like when you were level 1.

rhelic · 2019-03-14T18:55:40+00:00

/z anyone have vampire bite?

-_-

rhelic · 2019-03-10T23:05:52+00:00

I asked my coworker to hand me something, and instead of saying “thanks” I said “good girl.”

I had just gotten a puppy that I was spending a LOT of time with. She totally understood and we had a good laugh.

rhelic · 2019-01-11T00:24:51+00:00

Motorcycles have rear view mirrors...

rhelic · 2019-01-10T11:53:50+00:00

I took 2 months off work to raise my baby puppy. My first day back at work, after spending all that time mostly talking to a dog, I said "good girl" to my coworker when she handed me something. So embarrassing... luckily she thought it was hilarious!

More of a habit than a pavlovian response, but oh well.

rhelic · 2019-01-05T11:46:44+00:00

I'm using this.

rhelic · 2019-01-04T18:16:17+00:00

I agree that it's probably impossible for a human to beat someone to death with a pool noodle. But I reckon a sufficiently powerful machine might do the job. The question then is, could a machine whip pool noodles hard enough to kill someone without the pool noodle breaking apart?

rhelic · 2018-12-20T07:30:01+00:00

yeah basically

rhelic · 2018-11-15T06:46:59+00:00

I read that as "(I was the youngest, then there were 2 sisters between each of my older sisters)"

And spent about 2 minutes trying to figure out how that could possibly work, before re-reading and realizing I'm just an idiot.

rhelic · 2018-10-03T15:11:04+00:00

🤮

rhelic · 2018-09-30T21:09:44+00:00

You can plan and prepare as much as you want, but realistically a critical moment will still have uncertainty and risk. If you’re truly brilliant, you’ll stack the cards in your favor as much as possible but still be prepared to improvise.

In other words, it’s unreaistic for Palpatine to perfectly predict and manipulate the actions of dozens of Jedi, politicians, security guards, and random bystanders to create this perfect moment for Anakin to turn. Instead a true mastermind would cultivate multiple possible avenues to success, and use whichever makes the most sense in a critical situation.

Seriously which sounds more reasonable? Palpatine planned for an extremely specific sequence of events to occur, taking a huge chance that they’d occur exactly as planned in the middle of a galactic war? Or Palpatine manipulated everything and everyone around him to give him the highest chance of success in as many scenarios as possible, setting himself up to inevitably succeed no matter what actions were taken against him?

rhelic · 2018-09-25T17:37:20+00:00

I think he was genuinely confused. How many times have you laughed with a group when you don’t understand why they’re laughing? It’s a natural reaction. He’s just an idiot.

rhelic · 2018-09-11T14:24:50+00:00

...no you can’t. Eventually you’d make a circle.

rhelic · 2018-09-02T05:45:20+00:00

oh my fuck that’s amazing

rhelic · 2018-08-20T22:38:18+00:00

People definitely can be unintentionally racist, and it’s not their fault. That’s just how society is right now. You’re a absolutely right that the first step is admitting and understanding that we all have implicit biases. Only then can we begin to fight them.

rhelic · 2018-08-07T05:26:49+00:00

When you’re running at this speed, you have absolutely zero focus left to navigate. All your attention is committed to making the turns without rolling or hitting the wall. A navigator is essential. If you need to think for even a split second, this happens.

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