A lot of larger cities like New York and Chicago have magnet schools. They usually take a mix of merit students and endowment students, making it easy for rich people to buy their kids into them. Smaller cities and most towns have gifted and talented programs connected to public schools instead of their own schools. Your polycule is correct that they're usually just resume builders for rich kids, but it is totally possible for a poor white kid from Queens to get accepted through the merit track.
I'm currently working with an agency in the Czech Republic to move to Prague. It's been a pain in the ass compared to China and Korea, but I'm hoping it will be worth it. I have an appointment to drop off my long term visa application in a couple weeks, so hopefully I can get out soon. Keep your fingers crossed for me.
If my application gets denied, my backup plan is to get an agency to help me find a job in either Spain or Japan.
Flesh Made Fear, Subversive Memories, and Signalis were good send-ups of the early RE games you might want to check out, though they are third person games
The idea of 'cancelling' is public relations spin to shield people who did shitty things from accountability. A few years ago people were trying to hold people like Louis CK, Harvey Weinstein, and Kevin Spacey accountable for hurting people. Their fixers pitched it to the media as an irrational mob trying to cancel anyone who doesn't agree with them. When people are like 'They tried to cancel Baby Yoda!' after there was a mild reaction to a plotpoint in the Mandalorian tv show, they're falling prey to this manipulation of public opinion. A lot of minor celebrities claim to be 'cancelled' in order to appear counter-culture, but usually they're inflating false information about themselves to make it appear like they're a target of an irrational mob, or they're trying to cover for true information about them. Think of the number of people who have claimed to have been cancelled in their Netflix specials, or the number of people who have been confirmed to have abused their partners and still get to come back for the next Marvel or DC movie. The reaction against 'cancelling' was so much greater than the reaction against abuse because people were convinced they could be cancelled at any moment for any reason, and it's made online discourse immeasurably worse.
I'm (re)watching through the Evil Dead movies in preparation to see Evil Dead Burn on Thursday night. Watched The Evil Dead, Evil Dead II, and Army of Darkness over the weekend. Moved on to Evil Dead 2013 yesterday and Evil Dead Rise tonight.
It really depends on what you're dying to. Even top level players will die to Gremlin Nob and Lagavulin in STS1 if they don't get enough damage early on and Skulking Colony or Effigy in STS2 if they don't get enough block consistency. And the higher you climb, the more RNG will start to affect your early game.
It sounds like you have a good general plan already. In general, in Act 1 you want to prioritize getting a damage plan in place, especially for Ironclad and Watcher in STS1 and Ironclad and Regent in STS2. If you can kill enemies on turn one or two, you don't have to worry about block as much. Combats are more valuable if you can end them quickly because you get to see three cards, get some money, and possibly get a potion. If you see one or two good block cards, grab them for act 2.
Act 2 is generally a mixture of AOE fights, damage checks, and block checks. Slavers and Gremlin Leader in STS1, Decimillipede and Entomancer in STS2. Try to look for solutions to these in your card rewards. Draw is almost always valuable and can mitigate card draw RNG.
Act 3 is usually a scaling check. Can your deck scale fast enough to kill the boss before it kills you? In STS1, you usually want to aim for a 20-25 card deck that has consistency, in STS2, it's not unusual to end with a 30-35 card deck that's more versatile. These are just suggestions, not hard rules, if you can make a consistent fifty card deck or a versatile five card deck, go for it.
On the turn to turn level, always take a moment to check your draw pile before doing anything else. Turn off fast mode if you're playing too fast. Check for lethal before you play cards (I lost a Regent run recently because I could have killed but missed it). Check your relics for slow plays before you end combat (like setting up Pen Nib or Nunchaku). After that it's just making choices. Do you want to get weak or vuln in place or do a bunch of damage? Do you want to play a strike over a defend to trade health or try to greed out a few HP?
Baalorlord, FrostPrime, and jorbs are my go-to YouTube channels. I've heard good things about Xecnar and Japanese Exports as well.
I know this is a shitpost, but I honestly think that was better. In the past couple years I've bought an mp3 player, and dslr camera, and a pocket sized e-reader, and a retro gaming handheld, and it feels so much better swapping between them when I'm doing something than just staring at the little hell rectangle for 12 hours a day.
Asking the solution to doomerism is asking the question backward. Doomerism is a rational response to the rich and powerful steering civilization directly into climate catastrophe. Oil companies have known for at least 60 years that they were negatively affecting the climate, but there's been a bipartisan project to not only shield them from accountability, but to actively empower them to continue the destruction. All of the most powerful state apparatuses in the world serve the same death cult.
If you want to stop doomerism, you should become a green socialist. Tear down the power structures that suppress green alternatives. Oppose oil lines, oppose AI data centers, shut down the corporations, the governments, the shills. Stop letting them steer the ship toward destruction.
The solution to that "can't find love" feeling is more complex, but it's equally as tied up in the current state of global capitalism. Basically every major government has spent the last fifty years trying to squeeze people as much as possible to the point that everything's expensive and nothing works. We're all alienated, we all have various traumas handed down to us by our boomer parents and no real way to heal from them that's not reliant on others. Our communities have been destroyed over and over again because community stands in the way of capital.
Destroying capitalism probably won't fix the entrenched ideologies that keep us miserable, but we can't start trying to fix the entrenched ideologies until we destroy capitalism.
Can we stop with these profiles of people who were holding "Mass Deportation Now" signs two years ago and maybe interview some annoying leftists who opposed the genocide in Gaza and war with Iran before gas was six dollars?
The business class has been promised they can cut workers and use AI instead, which has been their dream since forever.
AI has been shown to deskill workers. Experts lose their skills, new workers don't gain new skills. Then the owners of AI can rent skills back to people at a profit.
If businesses can deskill and fire enough workers, they can take advantage to reinstate things like scrip and slavery.
You rightfully notice that AI isn't useful enough for businesses to throw an entire civilization worth of money at because you're thinking about it as a tool, but it's not a tool, it's a weapon. A weapon pointed at you and me.
Universities and colleges are letting out now, so now's a good time to start looking for trans and neurodivergent friendly housing. I'd recommend starting outside of Seattle in Shoreline, Lynnwood, and Everett, as it will probably be less expensive to live. You can always take the Link into Seattle. Look for trans and neurodivergent friendly facebook groups, craigslist postings, discord groups. Be prepared to bounce off people until you find a good place. Reach out to Express Employment or other work placement programs to see if they can find you work. If you think your BPD is severe enough to be considered a disability, you may be able to open a state disability claim and see if you can get a case manager, maybe a therapist, maybe move into an adult family home. There's also Portland if you think the rainy weather might not be good for your mental health. Just don't give up and try not to beat yourself up too much.
Person with an English degree here.
Welcome to the speech and Berenstain timeline
This game is so pretty
A lot of larger cities like New York and Chicago have magnet schools. They usually take a mix of merit students and endowment students, making it easy for rich people to buy their kids into them. Smaller cities and most towns have gifted and talented programs connected to public schools instead of their own schools. Your polycule is correct that they're usually just resume builders for rich kids, but it is totally possible for a poor white kid from Queens to get accepted through the merit track.
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I'm currently working with an agency in the Czech Republic to move to Prague. It's been a pain in the ass compared to China and Korea, but I'm hoping it will be worth it. I have an appointment to drop off my long term visa application in a couple weeks, so hopefully I can get out soon. Keep your fingers crossed for me.
If my application gets denied, my backup plan is to get an agency to help me find a job in either Spain or Japan.
Flesh Made Fear, Subversive Memories, and Signalis were good send-ups of the early RE games you might want to check out, though they are third person games
The idea of 'cancelling' is public relations spin to shield people who did shitty things from accountability. A few years ago people were trying to hold people like Louis CK, Harvey Weinstein, and Kevin Spacey accountable for hurting people. Their fixers pitched it to the media as an irrational mob trying to cancel anyone who doesn't agree with them. When people are like 'They tried to cancel Baby Yoda!' after there was a mild reaction to a plotpoint in the Mandalorian tv show, they're falling prey to this manipulation of public opinion. A lot of minor celebrities claim to be 'cancelled' in order to appear counter-culture, but usually they're inflating false information about themselves to make it appear like they're a target of an irrational mob, or they're trying to cover for true information about them. Think of the number of people who have claimed to have been cancelled in their Netflix specials, or the number of people who have been confirmed to have abused their partners and still get to come back for the next Marvel or DC movie. The reaction against 'cancelling' was so much greater than the reaction against abuse because people were convinced they could be cancelled at any moment for any reason, and it's made online discourse immeasurably worse.
Groovy
I'm (re)watching through the Evil Dead movies in preparation to see Evil Dead Burn on Thursday night. Watched The Evil Dead, Evil Dead II, and Army of Darkness over the weekend. Moved on to Evil Dead 2013 yesterday and Evil Dead Rise tonight.
Mari, she was added in the Rebuild movies
"Vote blue no matter who!"
People are voting for blue candidates who promise to do good things and not do bad things.
"Over my dead body they are!"
That's awesome though
It really depends on what you're dying to. Even top level players will die to Gremlin Nob and Lagavulin in STS1 if they don't get enough damage early on and Skulking Colony or Effigy in STS2 if they don't get enough block consistency. And the higher you climb, the more RNG will start to affect your early game.
It sounds like you have a good general plan already. In general, in Act 1 you want to prioritize getting a damage plan in place, especially for Ironclad and Watcher in STS1 and Ironclad and Regent in STS2. If you can kill enemies on turn one or two, you don't have to worry about block as much. Combats are more valuable if you can end them quickly because you get to see three cards, get some money, and possibly get a potion. If you see one or two good block cards, grab them for act 2.
Act 2 is generally a mixture of AOE fights, damage checks, and block checks. Slavers and Gremlin Leader in STS1, Decimillipede and Entomancer in STS2. Try to look for solutions to these in your card rewards. Draw is almost always valuable and can mitigate card draw RNG.
Act 3 is usually a scaling check. Can your deck scale fast enough to kill the boss before it kills you? In STS1, you usually want to aim for a 20-25 card deck that has consistency, in STS2, it's not unusual to end with a 30-35 card deck that's more versatile. These are just suggestions, not hard rules, if you can make a consistent fifty card deck or a versatile five card deck, go for it.
On the turn to turn level, always take a moment to check your draw pile before doing anything else. Turn off fast mode if you're playing too fast. Check for lethal before you play cards (I lost a Regent run recently because I could have killed but missed it). Check your relics for slow plays before you end combat (like setting up Pen Nib or Nunchaku). After that it's just making choices. Do you want to get weak or vuln in place or do a bunch of damage? Do you want to play a strike over a defend to trade health or try to greed out a few HP?
Baalorlord, FrostPrime, and jorbs are my go-to YouTube channels. I've heard good things about Xecnar and Japanese Exports as well.
I know this is a shitpost, but I honestly think that was better. In the past couple years I've bought an mp3 player, and dslr camera, and a pocket sized e-reader, and a retro gaming handheld, and it feels so much better swapping between them when I'm doing something than just staring at the little hell rectangle for 12 hours a day.
Asking the solution to doomerism is asking the question backward. Doomerism is a rational response to the rich and powerful steering civilization directly into climate catastrophe. Oil companies have known for at least 60 years that they were negatively affecting the climate, but there's been a bipartisan project to not only shield them from accountability, but to actively empower them to continue the destruction. All of the most powerful state apparatuses in the world serve the same death cult.
If you want to stop doomerism, you should become a green socialist. Tear down the power structures that suppress green alternatives. Oppose oil lines, oppose AI data centers, shut down the corporations, the governments, the shills. Stop letting them steer the ship toward destruction.
The solution to that "can't find love" feeling is more complex, but it's equally as tied up in the current state of global capitalism. Basically every major government has spent the last fifty years trying to squeeze people as much as possible to the point that everything's expensive and nothing works. We're all alienated, we all have various traumas handed down to us by our boomer parents and no real way to heal from them that's not reliant on others. Our communities have been destroyed over and over again because community stands in the way of capital.
Destroying capitalism probably won't fix the entrenched ideologies that keep us miserable, but we can't start trying to fix the entrenched ideologies until we destroy capitalism.
Can we stop with these profiles of people who were holding "Mass Deportation Now" signs two years ago and maybe interview some annoying leftists who opposed the genocide in Gaza and war with Iran before gas was six dollars?
The business class has been promised they can cut workers and use AI instead, which has been their dream since forever.
AI has been shown to deskill workers. Experts lose their skills, new workers don't gain new skills. Then the owners of AI can rent skills back to people at a profit.
If businesses can deskill and fire enough workers, they can take advantage to reinstate things like scrip and slavery.
You rightfully notice that AI isn't useful enough for businesses to throw an entire civilization worth of money at because you're thinking about it as a tool, but it's not a tool, it's a weapon. A weapon pointed at you and me.
Hey, an actual shower thought
Universities and colleges are letting out now, so now's a good time to start looking for trans and neurodivergent friendly housing. I'd recommend starting outside of Seattle in Shoreline, Lynnwood, and Everett, as it will probably be less expensive to live. You can always take the Link into Seattle. Look for trans and neurodivergent friendly facebook groups, craigslist postings, discord groups. Be prepared to bounce off people until you find a good place. Reach out to Express Employment or other work placement programs to see if they can find you work. If you think your BPD is severe enough to be considered a disability, you may be able to open a state disability claim and see if you can get a case manager, maybe a therapist, maybe move into an adult family home. There's also Portland if you think the rainy weather might not be good for your mental health. Just don't give up and try not to beat yourself up too much.
Delightfully devilish, Seymour