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Devidose 18 points ago +18 / -0

Probably in the same way as trying to tackle someone holding down an attacker with a knife. So going after the frog while the scorpion gets ready to sting again.

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Devidose 5 points ago +5 / -0

There's always a solution to the problem

Tell that to Solitaire 🤬

Edit:

Not all Solitaire games are winnable, but the great majority is. On average, around 80% of every Solitaire game is winnable. FreeCell is the variant with the best odds, as around 99% of all games are winnable, for instance.

This is why I started playing Freecell instead.

Edit 2:

It is estimated that 99.999% of possible deals are solvable. Deal number 11982 from the Windows version of FreeCell is an example of an unsolvable FreeCell deal, the only deal among the original "Microsoft 32,000" which is unsolvable

I was angry enough with Solitaire being unwinnable at times I ended up teaching myself how to play Freecell.

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Devidose 4 points ago +4 / -0

Swtor came up with a good way to get around weekly lockouts and dry loot runs. All gear, all of it, weapons included were shells which contained 2-4 components that have an item its stats. Wrists and waist only had 2 components IIRC while most armour had 3 and weapons had 4 where the 4th would also alter the colour of weapon fire and lightsaber blades.

Eventually BoA shells were added so that you could freely move things between alts, the only things that remained character bound were non BoA shells that came from content of which there were still many. These actual content shells also didn't usually have their appearances added to a collections tab like WoW does with transmog. While there is a similar system it's mostly limited to unlocks done with MTX currency, so raid appearances would only be something for the character present for the kill and lot.

However what the system did mean was that if you had more than one class, be it a dupe on the same faction or mirror class on the other faction, you could then gear them with BoA shells fitted with components sourced from alts, who could in turn continue gearing those shells to send back again later. This would include Tier components.

The only limits to this were the differences in primary stat some components would have so Str gear would be fine for JKG to JKS, or even SWJ and SWM, but any other class and subclasses would be using something other that Str.

Additionally the Swtor equivalent to rings and trinkets weren't BoA so those you would still need to source but in general it meant you could use alts to take care of sourcing and improving something like 10 of your 14 or so gear slots.

And I didn't always hate rogues. Its just that once Mangle was removed, and Brez was spread to multiple classes then every raid had no reason to bring a Feral over a rogue, because a bad rogue could outpace all but the best Ferals in almost every tier.

This is why I disliked Locks and Hunters from TBC onwards while maining a mage :p both ended up as literal 1 button spammer classes and with Sunwell offering a zone wide Int buff that made ArcInt redundant mages found themselves benched for what was often dogshit players but playing braindead and OP specs.

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Devidose 7 points ago +7 / -0

WoW Raiding taught me a long time ago about the importance of someone willing to "step up" and be the bitch that deals with problems, because sitting around saying "not my job" just ends up in wasting everyone's time including yours. So while you might be lower on the chart and looking worse, the job is dead and the spoils remain the same. A lesson just as relevant when it comes to soaking an orb to not wipe on a boss as it does with putting in an extra chunk of work at work before it explodes into a bigger issue that you need to clean up anyway.

Me in TBC as the dedicated mage tank during t4 and t6.

For those OOTL, there were 2 raid bosses in TBC where a mage had to be the one tanking a particular mob as only mages could grab the defensive shield the mob cast on itself with Spellsteal which was needed to survive the spam of nukes said mobs would exclusively cast. In order to do this role properly a mage would have to sacrifice both raw power and general performance to stack Stamina on gear rather than actual combat stats. Most of the time mages would just grab every green/uncommon quality item they could while still maintaining enough Spell Hit for spells to actually work. Me? I knew all the ins and outs of TBC to the point I didn't have greens for my STA stacking gear, I had blues/rares and purples/epics because I had done both the homework of learning about these better versions but also put in a time grinding them because unlike greens which were random drops from every mob in the game, the rares were from rare mobs themselves. The cloth chest came from a rare dragon named Hemathion that needed flying to even get close to. The drops from Yor needed you to be able to summon the mob which was at the very end of a very long rep grind then an even longer quest after littered with RNG if the right mob would spawn from a cage and then drop the right item with the right set of stats.

Some may ask why I bothered min/maxing this much for just the two fights but the reason was by doing so I had a set of gear that gave far better survival than "just greens" and didn't diminish my combat output nearly as much. Greens would be fine for t4 but the t6 fight needed more health so those blues and purples meant a far smoother attempt than more casual raiders would have experienced.

Also of the 3 other mages we had 1 I wouldn't trust to bring back a wet umbrella when it was raining, while the other 2 were frequently busy so couldn't provide regular attendance therefore I was far more at ease just doing the job myself.

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Devidose 8 points ago +8 / -0

Most fast food is overrated. They build for quantity, not quality.

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Devidose 9 points ago +9 / -0

Then I started thinking back and saw that the rot started a long time before that.

This is the step a lot of people miss. Sure it takes something of them and theirs being affected to finally wake up to what is going on, but not many then take it beyond that event and ask whether it's been happening beforehand. Far too many will follow the Gell-Mann amnesia effect and compartmentalise a problem which offers the leading cause too much leeway in escaping appropriate scrutiny.

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Devidose 5 points ago +5 / -0

it was sarcasm

I would hope people figured that out by the repetition at the start of your comment but then some miss the point of these things.

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Devidose 15 points ago +15 / -0

What an extremely petty and uncompromising act in the face of cultural practices for someone who preens about being so welcoming and understanding.

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Devidose 16 points ago +16 / -0

GG isn't the one flip flopping she's one race then another. Years ago she was the first "Indian American" or something to take up some political post, and now she's black instead.

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Devidose 9 points ago +9 / -0

It's a job for a very tall, very wide, yet very agile meat shield, most men still won't qualify for the task let alone anyone else crazy enough to think about putting their hat in the ring.

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Devidose 5 points ago +5 / -0

But they are practicing original American values.

Menacingly, going by the OP's sperging.

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Devidose 4 points ago +4 / -0

I miss those games, and when the companies that made them were still those companies. The second Perfect Dark did not deserve to be a sequel to the first which was itself the spiritual successor of Goldeneye, just with everything dialed up to 12 with added bots for pve multiplayer mode.

RC P120

IRRC that thing had a massive magazine but took ages to get through it. Gimme the K7 Avenger or death! Said death probably being quite soon since the K7 only had 25 shots per mag 😬

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Devidose 6 points ago +6 / -0

average female white liberal (acronym, but I haven't checked to see if that is still there).

I think "white" is before "female" so it spells out "awfl/awful".

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Devidose 5 points ago +5 / -0

Odo was more straightforward as Rene was almost 80 when he died, but Aron Eisenberg was short because he only ever had one kidney which didn't work that well in the first place, so preexisting health issues that eventually led to his early death at the age of 50 almost 5 years ago in Sept 2019, eerily only 3 months before Rene also died.

The actor was born with only one kidney, which was defective and failed when he was in his early teens. He went on dialysis at age 14 and had his first transplant at 17, from a cadaver.

The actor for Jake hit a massive growth spurt so literally towered over Nog in the end as a result despite the character originally existing to give Jake a friend "his own age" even with Aron/Nog being 6 years older than Cirroc/Jake.

It happens, actors get older, they die, but Babylon 5 feels cursed with how many actors have already gone.

Sinclair, G'Kar, Delenn, Garabaldi, Vir, Dr Franklin, Zach Allen, Zathras. That's a lot of the core cast and several of the most significant secondary cast.

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Devidose 13 points ago +13 / -0

My mind first went to the tuberculosis vaccine, Bacillus Calmette-Guérin, so this isn't a very clear initalism 🤔

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Devidose 5 points ago +5 / -0

One of the other threads about this mentions she had at least 5 children.

https://kotakuinaction2.win/p/17txfCjxuy/susan-wojcicki-has-died-of-cance/c/

On December 16, 2014, ahead of taking her fifth maternity leave

She had her fifth child at age 46

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