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The stock indices have reached new records after every single crash . Because capitalism must grow. Line must go up. Because if line go down, the whole promise of return of investment goes out of the window and the thing collapses. Any money you put in the market as a whole (ETFs), will be worth more in the future than it is now. But it has to be money that you don’t need to rely on in the next 15-20 years, so it’s exclusively for people who are rich already.

Everything else, like picking a single stock like those GameStop idiots, is just straight up gambling. Betting on horse racing is equally as productive.

Bad AI anime pictures?

To everyone recommending vitamin c: there is no evidence that it does anything but making your pee slightly more expensive unless you have a deficit, which you don’t, because you’d notice your teeth falling out.

Liquids, rest, ibuprofen and wasting around for a week is all we got. Pseudoephedrine medication if it’s really bad and congested or you need to stand upright for three hours because something can not wait.

Get well soon.

When I was younger I thought being able to drink a lot was a good thing.

Turns out, consuming more of the poison that destroys your guts and liver to get into the desired state of mind is actually bad.

On the other hand, I’m usually the one getting drunk people home safely, so thats nice.

Tying carry weight to your strength stat is just wild. Oh you’re a caster? Good luck carrying that ebony cuirass out of here.

Then again, it is morrowind, so you can just cast Feather on yourself to carry more stuff OR even cast Burden on the enemy and suddenly they are overencumberd. Or drink strength potions. Or just fly. Or make a stupid amount of money in various ways, making loot kind of neglectable.

I think it’s a genre that was incredibly locked into it’s time. The sound, the vibe, the aesthetics all coagulated into this peak Y2K moment, where it looked like it’s the future… And then basically it was a musical blip, apart from a few bangers and Linkin Park as one the most successful bands of all time. Is there even a (known) band in last ten years that would call what they make “nu metal”? Even Linkin Parks music sounded nothing like their early stuff after 2007 or so.

The only thing that would follow one billion Americans is zero Americans, on account of the ocean being turned into boiling acid in like 3 years.

Fun fact: Justin Hawkins (The Darkness singer) has a neat YouTube channel that is worth checking out.

Charming, quite nerdy guy with lots of stories about music, rockstar life and it’s downsides, interviews and normal youtube-style content.

Critical support to your dad. The horny Anne Frank album is not exactly what I would call driving music.

I’m sure you can just consolidate all the people called Mike into a single guy with the “Duplicate Entry” function.

Rude.

What a miracle it was. A genuinely leftists game filled to the brim with creativity, humor, charm, absurdity, personality, world building and gut wrenching drama. A political game, in every sense of the word and an instant cult classic. So good that even the mainstream simply could not ignore it and just had to roll with the moment.

Of course it couldn’t last. Nothing good in this world ever does.

The ghost of Kiyv. We misunderstood all along.

Googling that just brought up weird ass crank pages. Not that gang, sorry.

Not that I don’t enjoy a good intelligence conspiracy, but I’ll go with Occam’s razor here. Russians poisoning a rowdy russian political activist with good old russian warcrime chemicals is as good as any explanation.

Feels like this is the only lesson from this.

The motherfucker was a real believer in… whatever variation of a liberal-fash ego trip he made up for himself. The russian state and judicial system fucked with him at every point of his attempt to stir the public or participate in politics and for some fucking reason he kept pushing his luck.

Then they poisoned him with chemical weapon grade poison and almost killed him, then he got offered one last possible exit from ANGELA MERKEL herself. And he just went back. Commited to the bit till the end.

Then why do the cops put them on tanks and shoot them at people?

Love popOS, but it did not play well with my multi monitor setup. It just couldn’t deal with different resolutions (qhd laptop, two fhd monitors) and sizes. Mint can. So I am back to Mint and stopped worrying about distro hopping.

But if a game does provide a win state, then I think that carries with it the implicit promise that the win state is reachable if the player demonstrates sufficient skill.

Almost all rougeliktes I’ve ever played, did that. An actual inevitable fail state is very very rare. It’s always about juggling odds, making decisions, balancing risks and very rarely does one play optimal. The challenge is that the difficulty curve can be all over the place. This monster was easy to beat, but you don’t know if the next one is the run killer.

Slay the Spire feels like a unforgiving game if you don’t get your good cards and relics at Ascension 1. Except of course that the best players can beat Ascension 20 (about 5 times harder I’d say) with 50+% consistency and would almost never fail at low difficulties.

DCSS is full of random bullshit, getting shafted, out of depth monsters, bad loot etc. Yet people have insane winstreaks on even weak combinations.

Listening to a good commentated run by a highly skilled player always reset my perspective on everything I thought was bullshit or inevitable. I am the problem and I can solve it by improving.

I’m not a avid league player, but as far as I know Flash has been mandatory in competitive on like 99% of champs for pretty much most of leagues existence.

Blink is just a different approach on the topic of instant movement skills.

Flash is free and has no downsides, but is rather short and has a long ass cooldown.

Blink Dagger is fairly expensive, can be disabled through player damage, gives zero stats but has long range and a reasonably short cooldown.

Both fundamentally shape their game for the better, because without them the game would be a lot slower and less spectacular. Probably 80-90% of all “greatest highlights of dota” scenes feature a blink and I presume it’s vice versa in league.

Same here for Dota 2.

An insufferable playerbase combined with thousands of obscure mechanics, details and interactions makes it basically impenetrable as a casual game for someone to try it out. I got 4k hours in it and too many of them were filled with negative emotions towards myself or others.

It’s unfortunately also the best competitive game ever made, both for playing and watching.