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  1. Xequecal

    If you could make any one law legal.

    This doesn't actually work. If you put them in a job that there is demand for, you've just created another welfare case. (They took the job someone else was getting paid for.) The alternative is to assign them to a job for which there is no demand (Digging holes and filling them, rolling a rock...
  2. Xequecal

    WWYD if your girlfriend said she was on birth control but wasnt and got preggo?

    If you compound the actual amount amount spent by 7% over the remaining time period it probably comes out to a million.
  3. Xequecal

    Whats rustling your jimmies?

    People who use God as an excuse for their own laziness or incompetence, because they know you can't come up with any rebuttal that doesn't make you look like an anti-theist. "It's in God's hands now." "It wasn't God's will that this would get there in time." "God willing, I'll finish this...
  4. Xequecal

    StarCraft 2

    Half the power of econ harass in BW was because even if you killed nothing, the opponent still had to spend a billion APM cloning all his workers back on to seperate mineral patches. We don't have that in SC2.
  5. Xequecal

    StarCraft 2

    All the harass units are very bullshit right now. Oracle is almost as bad as Mutas and Hellbats, it kills combat shield-less Marines in two hits so you can beat like 6 Marines with 1 Oracle. The high DPS also lets you easily destroy any kind of early game attack using Zealots to tank for them...
  6. Xequecal

    EQ F2P- Returning Players & Current Content

    Well, when VoA came out, people were used to having to key/attune for the final group zones. VoA had no attunement unlike HoT and Underfoot, so some people went straight for the T4 zones at level 91, and at that point, yeah named took 15 minutes to kill and could one-shot you.
  7. Xequecal

    StarCraft 2

    Assuming a standard opening, 9pylon/13gate, mothership core before warpgates, he has four units out when you move out. Zealot/Stalker/Sentry/MsC. And some Protoss skip the zealot. He can't stop anything. If he chain chrono boosts he can finish warpgates just before you arrive and deny the drop...
  8. Xequecal

    StarCraft 2

    There's some ridiculously strong timing attacks being enabled by the fact that Terran can traverse their entire tech tree on a single gas. Remember that build I posted? There's actually a much stronger one that was pointed out to me, basically: 12 Refinery 14 Barracks Factory and immediate...
  9. Xequecal

    StarCraft 2

    Gas first openings still work exceptionally well in beating 1 gate FE builds. Protoss think MsC will keep them safe from early aggression, and tend to build very greedy. Do something like: 12 Refinery 14 Barracks Factory, Marine when Barracks finishes. Reactor on Barracks when you have 1...
  10. Xequecal

    StarCraft 2

    I'm guessing that was prior to the patch change that made them attack at 0.5 speed. A +1 void ray does 14 DPS and beats two hydralisks, which means Hydra/Roach can't really break an expansion, especially with overcharge, because hydras are so awful slow and take forever to cross the map. Void...
  11. Xequecal

    StarCraft 2

    The problem with HotS Protoss is Stargate units are overpowered, but at the same time opening on Stargate tech is also mandatory, at least vs. Zerg. You just can't beat the regenerating mutalisks without fast Stargate. Heavy Stargate unit nerfs will just leave the Protoss player with a dead-end...
  12. Xequecal

    EQ F2P- Returning Players & Current Content

    The difficulty has severely ramped up with the VoA expansion. They brought back zones with heavy see invis and no safe spots so unlike in HoT and SoD you can't just go to a camp, you have to clear to the camp, and then you have to keep up with the spawn at the camp. RoF introduced group...
  13. Xequecal

    What do you do?

    Surprisingly, the lab scrubs are also very good for this. I would certainly have thought that going to Panera Bread or the grocery store wearing these after work, smelling faintly of sweat and xylene, would turn chicks off, but nope.
  14. Xequecal

    What do you do?

    Entry level pay. I haven't been doing it for a year yet.
  15. Xequecal

    Gun control

    The problem is not guns. The problem is a fucked up property-worshipping culture that teaches people that it's OK to use lethal force to avenge small slights. A majority of Americans will say that it's perfectly acceptable to shoot a shoplifter, someone who tries to drive off without paying for...
  16. Xequecal

    Do you have health insurance?

    Tort reform is not simple. The underlying problem is a jury of laypeople is totally unqualified to judge complex medical situations, but you can't change that as you have a right to a jury trial. A jury of laypeople is unlikely to find in favor of a doctor when presented with a truly suffering...
  17. Xequecal

    What do you do?

    Where do you work? Hospital laboratory What do you do? Histotechnologist What field/industry? Healthcare Wages? $24/hour base pay, can't really predict annual salary because there's a lot of overtime. Benefits? Very good health care, $32 per pay period (every two...
  18. Xequecal

    Do you have health insurance?

    The biggest problem is the "equal pay for equal service" Medicare provisions, which I'm sure Big Pharma paid out billions to get passed. Basically, if you sell a specific medicine or procedure to one person for $100, you have to sell it toeveryonefor $100. Unlike basically every other industry...
  19. Xequecal

    Do you have health insurance?

    I've posted this several times before, but the profit margin in the health insurance industry averages out to about 3%. Insurance companies are not the reason things are expensive. Who you're actually getting screwed by depends on your perspective. It's either Big Pharma's (Pharmaceutical...
  20. Xequecal

    StarCraft 2

    I don't mean, like, a 7 gate allin. I mean 200/200 pure blink stalker. Zerg can do nothing about it without fungal root as zerglings are not effective and nothing else can touch them. Fungal root was added very early in WoL, before fungal did damage, specifically to address the fact that blink...
  21. Xequecal

    StarCraft 2

    Zerg can't beat mass blink stalker at all without the infestor. Sadly, the infestor is barely strong enough right now to prevent ZvZ from being mutalisks only. They just recently had to buff infestors again in the beta exactly because of this, ZvZ was nothing but mass mutalisks, nothing else was...