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  1. Xequecal

    Hearthstone

    Board clears aren't underpowered. Midrange Shaman is an aberration because it generates so many minions for free it doesn't really matter what the power level of the board clears is. The board clears could all deal 10 damage, you're still trading a card for a bunch of hero power activations...
  2. Xequecal

    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    This also works through sheer exhaustion. After they do this six times and you've been sitting in the dealership five hours with nothing but stale donuts and coffee to eat and have experienced maybe 15 minutes of actual human interaction, you just want to get it over with.
  3. Xequecal

    Marriage and the Power of Divorce

    I don't get the "I don't want someone else to raise my kids" sentiment either. Maybe when they're small this is a valid concern, but once they're in school a stay at home parent only sees them for 2-3 more hours on weekdays than a working parent.
  4. Xequecal

    Hearthstone

    The biggest problem with HS is the 30 life cap, not the speed or sizing of minions. It's not difficult to build a control deck that easily blunts early aggression. The problem is if you're not playing Warrior, their deck inevitably contains some kind of combo that will basically remove 30 life...
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    Trump or Hillary - FOH Poll

    "Lies and fabrications?" The mainstream media is liberal biased but this bias mostly manifests in selective reporting, like CNN running 18 negative articles on Trump and maybe 1 on Hillary. They're not actually lying in any of those articles, they just never report the other side. As long as...
  6. Xequecal

    Trump or Hillary - FOH Poll

    "Oversight on the media?" What the fuck? What does this involve? The media has a 1st Amendment right to be liberal biased if it wants to.
  7. Xequecal

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Warrior right now is probably the most overpowered a tank has ever been. It's worse than Brewmaster in BRF and ranks very close to 3.0 DKS. M10s basically require Warrior right now. There are many mechanics where Warriors take 0 damage from things that one shot other tanks.
  8. Xequecal

    Hearthstone

    Thaurissan rotating out is a massive buff to Priest because it eliminates all the OTK decks they have 0 chance of ever beating.
  9. Xequecal

    Hearthstone

    Tuskarr is straight up a 3/8 chance to win the game. I'm primarily a Shaman player and you pretty much just don't lose if you score a premium totem from it. Even in the worst case scenario of Flametongue totem on an empty board, it still forces your opponent to remove it instead of the Totemic...
  10. Xequecal

    Hearthstone

    It's pretty hard to label FWF as that broken, considering how much of a joke Fireguard Destroyer was/is. Tuskarr Totemic is the card that makes aggro Shaman broken, it's a pretty mediocre aggro deck without it, but when you add a 3 mana card that gives you basically a 3/8 chance of winning the...
  11. Xequecal

    Hearthstone

    Flamewreathed Faceless isn't even good, the top Shaman lists don't run it anymore. It just gets Executed or Freezing Trapped or you're playing against a go-wide deck where it doesn't matter because it can only kill one thing per turn. There's nothing wrong with Doomhammer either, the major...
  12. Xequecal

    Hearthstone

    The problem with the game right now is that if aggro was even slightly worse, we'd instead have a metagame consisting of nothing but "fill hand, play Thaurissan, OTK" decks. Malygos druid is tier 1 despite aggro Shaman's existence and OTK Warrior is close. At least when you play against aggro...
  13. Xequecal

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Heroic SH also had 360 degree cleave mobs so you couldn't take any melees because they'd just instantly die with literally nothing you could do about it. Attuning them was a god damned nightmare because you basically had to 4 man it. To this day I still have never figured out how threat on the...
  14. Xequecal

    The Higher Education Thread: Justify Poor Life Choices

    For profit school students default on their loans at almost eight times the rate of not for profit school students.
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    The Higher Education Thread: Justify Poor Life Choices

    There's plenty of hourly jobs in the medical field, they're just not the six figure ones. I'm not sure how much you make now but you can make something like $60-$90k as a med tech on 40 hours a week.
  16. Xequecal

    The Higher Education Thread: Justify Poor Life Choices

    The silver lining is that a school shutting down before you finish your degree program generally discharges your student loans, so whatever credits they got that they can transfer, they get to keep those for free.
  17. Xequecal

    The Higher Education Thread: Justify Poor Life Choices

    Yeah, this. Everyone keeps telling me I should go to back to school to become a PA because I have the experience/grades to get in.....but then I see how many hours the PAs work for that salary, and I realize there's actually no reason to bother with years of PA school when I could make the same...
  18. Xequecal

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Yes and no. You can grind artifact power all you want, but the items that increase your artifact power multiplier are gated behind the "daily/weekly model." If you want to finish your weapon out early, it's gonna be a lot of grinding.
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    Ryan Lochte scandal megathread

    The article doesn't mention whether it happened at night, either. If it was during the daytime the cop is probably fucked.
  20. Xequecal

    Everquest - Live Servers

    Vanilla EQ was basically a roguelike and with that came the sense of danger that accompanies most roguelikes. No, you didn't lose your character when you died but the death penalty was so large that it still pretty much counts. They pretty much designed it along roguelike lines, where basically...
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    Ryan Lochte scandal megathread

    Uhm, 3a and 3b are incredibly broad. It would not be difficult for a gas station owner to argue that simply walking outside and confronting four vandals is both not likely to get them to stop, and that it would also endanger his life. There was recently a case in Texas where a store owner shot...
  22. Xequecal

    Ryan Lochte scandal megathread

    They threw rocks at the gas station and may also have broken down a door, they didn't just take a piss.
  23. Xequecal

    Ryan Lochte scandal megathread

    PENAL CODE CHAPTER 28. ARSON, CRIMINAL MISCHIEF, AND OTHER PROPERTY DAMAGE OR DESTRUCTION They also threw rocks, which is enough. $100 or more in damage is all it takes for it to be legal without exception, as long as it happens at night. It can be legal for less than that too but then there's...
  24. Xequecal

    Ryan Lochte scandal megathread

    Yes, yes he could. Texas Gun Law
  25. Xequecal

    Ryan Lochte scandal megathread

    It's really funny to watch everyone shitting on Brazil for this when so many people on this board have previously advocated for allowing US citizens to outright shoot people for minor property crimes. If this had happened in Texas the gas station owner could have legally shot all of them...
  26. Xequecal

    Uthgard returns! (Classic DAOC EMU with high population)

    How anal are they about the "no third party tools" thing? Trying to play a Paladin or Minstrel in old DAoC without at least a programmable keyboard button for twisting is a nightmare.
  27. Xequecal

    We the People.

    The real question is do you want to make people rich or do you want to make people happy? These are mutually exclusive to an extent, for example we could adopt the whole South Korea-style attitude towards achievement, education, and social justice. We'd get a lot richer but lots and lots of...
  28. Xequecal

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    According to the lore, because she's undead, Sylvanas' soul is guaranteed to be eternally damned to some horrifically punitive afterlife if she's ever destroyed, no matter what she does or how she acts, so running away is pretty much a first resort for her.
  29. Xequecal

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    If you have enchanting/JC you can make jewelry out of the otherwise worthless green gems you prospect and then disenchant it for enchanting mats and bloods.
  30. Xequecal

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    DH tanks are very bad for mythic raiding, that's why they're being shit on. The problem with DH is that their tanking ability is cooldown and RNG based, so when the big cooldowns are exhausted they're really squishy. Their main form of active mitigation gives 20% parry, which means that...
  31. Xequecal

    Whats rustling your jimmies?

    Goddamn fat person logic. How do you even respond to something like this?
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    Craig McGregor just replied on Rerolled. THIS IS GREAT

    To be fair, the amount of worthless cheerleading posts in like the politics or Middle East thread is a real issue. We've all seen the sarcastic "religion of peace" quips a million times already, we get it, you don't need to post that shit six times per page.
  33. Xequecal

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Mythic+ dungeons reward all the way up to ilvl 880. However, this requires you to beat Mythic 10 in 45 mins or less, which very few players will be able to accomplish in 850 gear.
  34. Xequecal

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    BrM isn't as bad as people are claiming, if you know what you're doing I'd rank them above DKs and Paladins. Prot War/Bears still kick the shit out of them, though. DH tanks are utter shit and you should absolutely stay away from them.
  35. Xequecal

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Warrior is broken and is the only real progression tank. It's not quite Monk in BRF level but it's pretty close. Ultimatum + Vengeance + Never Surrender creates giant Ignore Pains for very little cost, and Dragon Scales on the weapon buffs this even further. A Dragon Scales proc will create an...
  36. Xequecal

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    What annoys me about Brewmaster is it's going to be retardedly overpowered or useless, depending on how healing turns out and it sucks not knowing which it's going to be in advance. Right now you can get perma-90% stagger, with the drawback being that the overall damage you take is going to be...
  37. Xequecal

    Butthurt white guys, an Asian virgin and an angry lesbian walk into a bar...

    I know I'm going to get bitched at for pointing this out, but it's not just physical competitions. Women cannot compete with men in ANY kind of formal competition, regardless of how much physical activity there is. How many women have won major WSOP tournaments, for example? I know of zero...
  38. Xequecal

    Marriage and the Power of Divorce

    I don't get the child support land mine thing, to be honest. Is it actually possible for you to work out an agreement for support, pay that for 17 years, have documented proof of the agreement and that the checks you were making out were for child support, only for the court to throw all that...
  39. Xequecal

    Bootstrappers guide to being successful.

    I worked as a student assistant in college in the admissions office an d this is 100% true. We would have 4.0 GPA black kids come in, offered a full ride, and their parents would be saying that this is pointless and a waste, the white man will never let you have a degree and even if he does...
  40. Xequecal

    Hearthstone

    When I play against Warrior with midrange Shaman, I watch their mulligan. If they don't mulligan their entire hand, I ditch early drops like trogg and flame juggler. This is because control/tempo Warrior always throw away any hand without waraxe, so any partial mulligan indicates they have one...