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On September 14 2015 01:28 WaveofShadow wrote:Show nested quote +On September 14 2015 01:22 Holyflare wrote:
holy shit do you guys really not realise that Katie Hopkins is a character played by this woman and makes facetious remarks all the time just to antagonise and troll the masses? Possibly like sonnington himself? Who by the way is probably wei tier atm Asmo I told you your collection was gonna be worth. Too rich for my blood unfortunately, and I doubt it's worth it for you effortwise to ship me a bunch of lesser shit.
When is this new set coming out? I need to figure when I have to not spend my money.
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On September 14 2015 01:33 Numy wrote:Show nested quote +On September 14 2015 01:28 WaveofShadow wrote:On September 14 2015 01:22 Holyflare wrote:
holy shit do you guys really not realise that Katie Hopkins is a character played by this woman and makes facetious remarks all the time just to antagonise and troll the masses? Possibly like sonnington himself? Who by the way is probably wei tier atm Asmo I told you your collection was gonna be worth. Too rich for my blood unfortunately, and I doubt it's worth it for you effortwise to ship me a bunch of lesser shit. When is this new set coming out? I need to figure when I have to not spend my money.
Two weeks from this coming Friday is the prerelease (the 26th)
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On September 14 2015 01:33 Numy wrote:Show nested quote +On September 14 2015 01:28 WaveofShadow wrote:On September 14 2015 01:22 Holyflare wrote:
holy shit do you guys really not realise that Katie Hopkins is a character played by this woman and makes facetious remarks all the time just to antagonise and troll the masses? Possibly like sonnington himself? Who by the way is probably wei tier atm Asmo I told you your collection was gonna be worth. Too rich for my blood unfortunately, and I doubt it's worth it for you effortwise to ship me a bunch of lesser shit. When is this new set coming out? I need to figure when I have to not spend my money.
Prerelease is in 3 weeks.
Full spoilers on Friday and the set reviews begin.
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What exactly is prerelease? The place by me will prob have one of those things but it all sounds too mysterious when you people talk about it.
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Pls let's not throw wei's name lightly he's a legend in his own right
wei2polishgulags never forget
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On September 14 2015 01:36 Numy wrote:
What exactly is prerelease? The place by me will prob have one of those things but it all sounds too mysterious when you people talk about it.
Usually a sealed event with the new products. Its pretty fun, plus you get some promos that collectors want. I'm missing promo ugin. Rip wallet.
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On September 14 2015 01:38 AlterKot wrote:
Pls let's not throw wei's name lightly he's a legend in his own right
wei2polishgulags never forget
Don't you have a song to sing.
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On September 14 2015 01:29 Slayer91 wrote:Show nested quote +On September 14 2015 01:26 Holyflare wrote:On September 14 2015 01:24 Slayer91 wrote:On September 14 2015 01:22 Holyflare wrote:
holy shit do you guys really not realise that Katie Hopkins is a character played by this woman and makes facetious remarks all the time just to antagonise and troll the masses? looking briefly at her wikipedia it seems she's a upper/middle-class private school overachiever I'm not sure she's playing a character any more than we all are. Her wikipedia says she is a personality, she literally puts on a persona for television and media because it keeps her in the limelight and paid so she'll say whatever she can that makes people spread her name around, any publicity is good publicity for her personality. neil degrasse tyson is a tv personality doesn't mean he isn't also a scientist albeit not a highly distinguished one. everyone puts on a persona to some extent. i'm not saying katie hopkins walks around the house hating immigrants all day but they get her on because she has those views and obviously enough people agree with them that she still gets put in front of the camera.
Yes that's exactly what I just said? She panders to the unintelligent The Sun/Daily Mail readers who are fed racist diatribe 24/7 and believe it because they aren't the type of people to educate themselves to find out the truths of the matter. She's a clever character that fills in her niche very well and hence why people continue to tolerate her. Presumably this is why far right politics seems to be taking a hold in the UK.
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On September 14 2015 01:38 Cixah wrote:Show nested quote +On September 14 2015 01:36 Numy wrote:
What exactly is prerelease? The place by me will prob have one of those things but it all sounds too mysterious when you people talk about it. Usually a sealed event with the new products. Its pretty fun, plus you get some promos that collectors want. I'm missing promo ugin. Rip wallet.
I'm pretty excited for full spoilers because it'll only be a day or two before the set is fully out on xmage and I can practice sealed deck building. I think it really helped me for prerelease last time.
Numy you should totes practice with me and learn the set alongside me
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Yeah I'd never heard about judging children based on their name before. Being from the states I don't think it applies as much, but it makes sense in a long established culture like Britain. It simply makes more sense that successful people will raise their kids better than unsuccessful people. It's not a magic bullet and there are outliers, but you're playing the numbers when you do that.
Anyway, where does 'fat shaming' end? Could you apply this to 'hygiene shaming'. What if I tell you I'm unable to wash myself properly due to having a condition with my joints. That's why I smell terrible. How about 'smoker shaming?' It's perfectly acceptable to shame people for smoking and there dozens of commercials that do just this, sponsored by the government. Why are overweight individuals coddled in this way while smokers and things aren't? I think it has something to do with the food industry.
Oh, I also find it kinda strange when people say these opinions aren't actually held by people. It's quite clear, when I talk to people in their own homes most of them will express the same opinions I do. The problem is, we're so concerned about making sure no one feels bad about anything ever that we allow people to do destructive things to themselves.
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I there's one interesting point that Ms Hopkins made in that dumb interview it was that why would employers hire a 400lb person when there are a ton of fit and equally qualified people running for the same job. If being fat affected your health even in the slightest way they are making the right business decision. I'm not saying that's what's happening because if people think you deserve not to get a job because you didn't show up to the interview in a suit then the same mentality is going to apply to job interviewers when they see a fat person walk in.
Anyway on to my main point it's that let's say you're an american company and you have an open position and you can hire a 30 year old man or a slightly better qualified 30 year old woman. Statistics might tell you that she has a 36% chance (number made up) of having a baby and taking months off work delaying crucial projects or forcing you to hire and train a new person to replace them temporarily, and then you might see that the 30 year old man has less chance of having a kid and less chance of taking time off to look after it. On paper hiring the man would be sexist but as a business decision it's just EV and in reality you don't have to disclose your reasons for hiring so you can get away with it.
Now some people would argue its a sexism problem, but I'm just thinking that if they sorted out parental leave properly then playing ground would be much more even.
Thing is I never hear people talking about this they just talk about sexist old white fogies which they don't have to be to make sexist decisions.
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In other esports related news,
Mana and ForGG just played to a draw in sc2. Like bases mined out neither player could break statics. Game was a draw.
Apparently they're just going to remake.
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reminds of that game what was it GGPlay vs Stork?
I think stork closed it out in the end but shit was so close to a draw.
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On September 14 2015 01:43 Sonnington wrote:
The problem is, we're so concerned about making sure no one feels bad about anything ever that we allow people to do destructive things to themselves.
Well the libertarian view is just to let people do what they want as long as they aren't hurting people. The more conservative view is that people are dumb and they sometimes don't know what's best for themselves and you know better.
The problem is when you start policing peoples actions you need to have a strong argument if you don't want to start getting hitlerish. (eat it godwin)
The issue is even if you can improve some peoples lives by interfering with them you also start persecuting people who are happy with how they live.
@Sonnington
here's another decent video, I thought both sides got their point across. The job interview woman was hard pressed because of how much job interviews are based on first impressions and sort of just had to blame society, this is more of a fair fight.
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On September 14 2015 01:41 WaveofShadow wrote:
Numy you should totes practice with me and learn the set alongside me
If the spoiler goes up on xmage we should do a lounge fake prerelease to help prep the people going to the real one.
On September 14 2015 01:43 Sonnington wrote:
Yeah I'd never heard about judging children based on their name before. Being from the states I don't think it applies as much, but it makes sense in a long established culture like Britain. It simply makes more sense that successful people will raise their kids better than unsuccessful people. It's not a magic bullet and there are outliers, but you're playing the numbers when you do that.
In the US it's pretty much just the college application process for anyone not white.
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On September 14 2015 01:58 TheYango wrote:Show nested quote +On September 14 2015 01:41 WaveofShadow wrote:
Numy you should totes practice with me and learn the set alongside me If the spoiler goes up on xmage we should do a lounge fake prerelease to help prep the people going to the real one.
Except it'd be like...me
Plus you know how organizing anyone to do that would be.
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On September 14 2015 01:41 WaveofShadow wrote:Show nested quote +On September 14 2015 01:38 Cixah wrote:On September 14 2015 01:36 Numy wrote:
What exactly is prerelease? The place by me will prob have one of those things but it all sounds too mysterious when you people talk about it. Usually a sealed event with the new products. Its pretty fun, plus you get some promos that collectors want. I'm missing promo ugin. Rip wallet. I'm pretty excited for full spoilers because it'll only be a day or two before the set is fully out on xmage and I can practice sealed deck building. I think it really helped me for prerelease last time. Numy you should totes practice with me and learn the set alongside me
I'll be around like always. Did you post about that Planeswalker?
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On September 13 2015 17:49 TheYango wrote:
Yeah, you'll need to explain what makes FFT's ending "shitty".
Obvious FFT spoilers:
+ Show Spoiler +Only giving a short summary for now:
1. Delita, as a character and as a foil to Ramza, is a failure. His "I want to revenge my sister" path is very bland and lacks struggle.
2. In continuation of 1., the way Ovelia tried to kill Delita can only be called unsatisfactory. Not only were that no signs of Ovelia betraying Delita up until the ending, it seems contradictory to Delita's brilliance to not be able to placate Ovelia whose marriage he derived his throne from
3. Ramza isn't too great either. For the most part, we see that the plot is about "how Ramza reacts to the shit that is thrown at him".
4. I don't like "kill them all" endings without closure. In fact I feel the ending is highly questionable, since he doomed his entire party to save Alma but it wasn't even clear if Alma needed to be saved since she could eject herself from Ultima.
5. I believe the game probably planned for a confrontation between Ramza and Delita, possibly over issues with Ovelia. But this never took place and Ramza got killed off in a highly questionable manner instead.
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Blizzard were just gonna reveal the lotv cinematic and the stream died rofl
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