Johann
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17 hours ago, eclipse said:
Our local paper seemed to think otherwise. But then again. . .it's my local paper.
"Fake" is kind of a vague descriptor, it's more accurate to say those groups are astroturfed.
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On 4/15/2020 at 3:49 PM, Rinco said:
So, I'm building a Silvia for AR Defense IP team. I'm in doubt about what weapon to use on her. I'm between Armorsmasher or Firesweep, pending more to the second one. Is it the best choice?
Also, what A Skill should she use? And which Seal to carry?
B Slot is on WoM, C Slot is IP, Special is Moonbow.Something to consider, though it might not be a major thing: Any combat where she can deal at least 5 damage in combat (includes doubles, but doesn't factor specials, damage reduction skills, or if she'll die first) will have her AI attack instead of Dance, so a weapon that isn't as powerful might be more ideal to your setup. Armorsmasher is worth considering for sure, but it may give some teams an edge if it pushes her damage output over 5 HP. With that in mind, I personally think her best weapon is something that makes her harder to kill like her default Barrier Blade.
I also think Fortress skills are good for her A/seal since they'll lower her Atk further, though some people also prefer HP+ to prevent Bridal Fjorm from stopping her.
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1 hour ago, PeaceRibbon said:
On a course to course basis they won't just say it in isolation, but if you press a teacher about why you need to learn something on a practical level they usually say something to the effect of "its about the thought process that goes into it." Or at least, that's what I've noticed. I did have this one math professor who I pressed to give examples of where any sane person would use certain kinds of precalculus math, and she actually gave compelling scenarios. She's awesome.
Ah, since my field deals with environmental protection (endangered species, oil spills, etc) and emergency management (stuff like COVID or a hurricane), I teach them using specific scenarios and even a bit of role playing in positions like mayor, fire chief, hospital chief, etc. It'd be harder to make the materials not relevant. Just as an example, one assignment has them model the blast radius of an overturned tanker trailer filled with explosive chemicals somewhere in their town, and determining approximately how many people and what systems would be affected.
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6 minutes ago, PeaceRibbon said:
At this point you could make a meme about how college professors emphasis the problem solving skills over the specific material. "Problem Solving™" is my nomination.
I gotta hand it to you though, that's a really thoughtful way to ease the burden on the students. Take it from a college sophomore, memorization is the last thing I want to spend time doing when I could be completing assignments or reviewing study guides.
Is it something everyone says and does? I guess I'd be surprised cuz the other professors at my college don't teach that way. I'm way more laid back than any of them and tell my students things like to just go back to bed if they're too tired to get anything done (especially since they can come to the afternoon class).
The thing about memorization is that unless your work deals with emergencies, you shouldn't be expected to memorize everything, so long as you have a way to get the information you need. So, all my tests/etc are open note, open book, open computer, and I give the long questions out a week beforehand so they can take time to think about/discuss them.
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As a college professor, I have complete freedom to teach however and whatever I want. Most people, including my department chair, don't even know a thing about my subject matter. I do stress to my students that the bottom line of every class isn't necessarily about knowing facts, but about problem solving. This is why I don't require they memorize anything, because anything they need badly enough to memorize will stick with them inevitably anyway.
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13 minutes ago, Shoblongoo said:
He didn't get the nomination. But he proved that what once once dismissed as 'radical' ideas of the fringe-left are mainstream positions that millions of people want to get behind.
And he left a mark on the political scene that's not going away anytime soon.
Well fought, Bernie. Well fought.His bringing real leftism into the spotlight has helped sow the seeds for future generations to put an end to neolibralism in the US
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23 hours ago, Interdimensional Observer said:
The main point- Governments aren't going to care about the 2nd Amendment if they become so evil force is the only solution to their removal, and not having the 2nd Amendment does not stop a people from armed rebellion. The US populace would not suddenly become spineless to government wrongs without the 2nd A. Not that it hurts to have the 2A either on this specific point.
I'd figure things like resource control/deprivation and interfering with technologically dependent systems (whether through hacking or infrastructure destruction) would play a bigger role in a rebellion than having individuals armed for direct violence.
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10 hours ago, eclipse said:
You're missing a lot of details behind that ban, and it's for the better. Besides, didn't you notice something really different between the two?
Not to say it's the same guy, but I can't help but be skeptical about someone's intentions when they join a Fire Emblem forum to overwhelmingly post in one specific serious discussion thread.
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Thought we got rid of the gun rights troll, is this a new one?
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On 4/2/2020 at 8:28 AM, XRay said:
But there is a difference between an in-combat stat/status reduction and an out-of-combat status effect label on the field.
Bonds only mask the in-combat status reduction and not the out-of-combat status effect.
Similarly, some skills only look at the status reduction and not the status effect, while others look at both. Blizzard for example, will get still get buffed against a unit utilizing Atk/Spd Bond because the Bond skill does not mask the fact that the unit is being labelled as being under the effects of Atk/Spd Penalty.
Yeah, but does anything prevent out-of-combat status effects? Legendary Chrom still has to watch out for Ophelia if he's hit with Panic and stuff, after all. I'm not sure the distinction matters because I don't think that's what's separating skills like Atk/Res Bond 4 and Fimbulvetr-- notice that the ones that ignore Blizzard, et al, negate all penalties, whereas the others only cover specific stats. I think the flags are just different between those sets of negation skills, and the Blizzard group of skills is coded to not even bother checking for penalties when the Fimbulvetr group is actively in play. I wouldn't be surprised if it's a coding oversight that skills like Atk/Res Bond 4 don't provide protection from Blizzard skills.
On 4/2/2020 at 8:59 AM, XRay said:Oh, and how should I reword things? Since there are not a lot of official terms to work with, we have to come up with our own terminology. Not sure how to get my point across that when a unit is suffering from a Penalty, they are not just suffering from one Penalty, there are actually two Penalties. There is the Penalty that happens in combat, and there is the Penalty that happens by being labelled as having a Penalty.
Dunno, I guess it comes down to you wanting to sum it up in a word or two when even you or I, who understand this stuff, need to use at least a sentence to explain it. I guess to think of the Blizzard group of skills is "penalty exploiting skills" (PESs), Atk/Res Bond 4 group as "partial penalty negating skills" (PPNSs), and Fimbulvetr group as "total penalty negating skills" (TPNSs). Then there's stuff like Gjoll which is "penalty checking skills" (PCSs). Unless we can confirm some discrepancies, what we know seems to stand as follows:
- Partial Penalty Negating Skills (PPNSs) will prevent reduction to a unit's specified stats in combat (including from Panic'd bonuses). They do not negate the stat bonuses gained by foes using Penalty Exploiting Skills (PESs).
- Total Penalty Negating Skills (TPNSs) will prevent reduction to all of a unit's stats in combat (including from Panic'd bonuses). They negate the stat bonuses gained by foes using PESs.
- PPNSs are safe from Penalty Checking Skills (PCSs) if the only penalties they are suffering from are stat penalties they negate. All other penalties or negative status effects will trigger the PCSs.
- TPNSs are safe from PCSs if they are hit by any stat penalty, but not from negative status effects (including Panic).
I'm not attached to these names, of course, feel free to come up with something better and even neaten up the bullet points.
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39 minutes ago, XRay said:
Hm... So that means Gjoll is like Spy's Dagger and only checks stat reduction, but does not check the status effect?
But since it works against Panic and Gravity, does that mean non stat Penalties have two aspects too? Panic and Gravity have a "stat reduction" component in combat on top of their status effect component on the field?
Uh, sure, if it's easier for you to understand it that way. I think your wording is making it more confusing than it is. Any bad status/penalty will flag Gjoll's effect unless the target has the ability to negate the bad status/penalty in play.
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5 hours ago, eclipse said:
I suggest taking a long, hard look at human history. Trump's antics aren't new, merely a sign that we humans suck at learning from the past.
I think it's less that he's surprised by how people act, and more that attributing it to "human nature" is vague when there are more precise ways to describe and look at why it all happens. Like, we all know companies want more money and will lobby like hell to get laws that enable exploitative practices, but saying people are greedy isn't as looking at what stimulates greed. Consider that capitalism relies on constant growth, which itself is led by the notion that left alone, everything depreciates in value and therefore if your company is not growing, it's dying. If the measures that company takes (like say, over-extracting) are exploitative and bad in the long term, they try to justify by saying that technology will inevitably grow to handle the problems of tomorrow, or that resources they're not taking advantage of today will be taken by somebody anyway, might as well be them. There's a mix of the human tendency to convince ourselves something we know is bad is actually maybe probably fine, or that it's every man for themselves, combined with the pressure of a global economic system that no one person alone can change.
@Lewyn Side note, you might enjoy reading A Civil Action. Wasn't until around the 60's that we began to understand how groundwater works, so a lot of chemical dumping was done because people didn't know it'd end up in the drinking water. They figured it was fine as long as you weren't dumping directly into a body of water.
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Playing around with the following:
- Spring Bartre (Carrot Cudgel)
- Brunnya (Fimbulvetr)
- Legendary Chrom (Randgríðr)
- Brave Micaiah (both Atk/Res Bond 4 and Light of Dawn)
- Gunnthra (Blizzard)
- Saizo (Saizo's Star special refine)
- Claude (Cunning Bow)
- Hrid (Gjoll)
- Panic and debuff combined (whether effects stack or if it picks highest value)
Based on the numbers I got, this is what I saw:
- Carrot Cudgel and Atk/Res Bond 4 did not prevent the effects from Light of Dawn, Blizzard, Saizo's Star, and Cunning Bow, and any stat bonus to those skills adds the effects of normal stat penalties with Panic (eg: Gunnthra will get +20 Atk from a unit who is suffering -10 in normal penalties and -10 in reversed bonus stats from Panic).
- Fimbulvetr and Randgríðr ignored all effects from Light of Dawn, Blizzard, Saizo's Star, and Cunning Bow, even with the effect of reversed bonus stats from Panic. Additionally, with Panic, bonus stats are simply nullified in combat instead of reversed.
- Gjoll will not work against skills that negate specific stat penalties (eg: Atk penalty on unit with Atk/Res Bond 4), but will work when those units are hit with any other bad status effect (Panic, Gravity, etc).
I'd test more but this is all I have for units with penalty related skills.
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Unless I'm mistaken, that C skill basically lets him ignore outside buffs (Drives, Goads/Wards, Lucina's lance, Yato, Peony's tome), I think a lot of people are going to be surprised how effective he is for Defense teams against common strategies.
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Go out to dinner, go on dates, hang with friends, eat free lunch at work. I'd be a couple weeks into a play I was rehearsing too, which was postponed.
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Haven't tried it yet but I did download it and will definitely share what I think when I do
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7 hours ago, Landmaster said:
I was gonna go for the troll Steady Stance 4, but Mirror Stance 3 is a pretty good pick, too. She really appreciates the Atk
I've thought about that too. I pulled two Osians in one summon session (one of which went right to Fjorm) so it's something I could do, though I'm not certain about it yet. TA3 is pretty good but potentially being able to deal with more than just green and colorless is a nice touch. My Sophia is also Astra blessed and I ought to sit down and run some numbers based on that.
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Xenoblade and Bravely Default II both looking amazing here and both had some excellent surprises for us. Can't wait for both.
ARMS for Smash is fine. Hope they do the Hero/Bowser Jr thing of multiple characters in one slot to keep people happy.
2 hours ago, Yexin said:also, Alvis's pendant
Even without the full context of what it means, it just looks way better than a generic ass house key. Always thought Alvis looked like he belonged in Kingdom Hearts and this change, while subtle, helps fix that.
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@Interdimensional Observer as far as her more grand orchestral theme stuff goes, there's stuff like this:
Here's a medley where each piece could easily fit into any FE game's most memorable moments
I could link you some more of her finest works if you want. She's easily one of the greatest composers of all time.
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35 minutes ago, XRay said:
I prefer to wait and see whether that is just the news highlighting a few cases or whether it is actually the start of systemic harassment. The stigmatization Asians experience right now is nowhere comparable to the scale of the harassment Latinos face from ICE nor the high incarceration rates faced by black people. No one is deporting us nor separating us from the rest of society into separate quarantines.
It's not gonna become systemic, it's just gonna be assholes doing awful things to Asian people. Not everything has to be the next kids in cages thing to be reprehensible, but it's obvious why he said it and where it'll go from there.
edit: Here, read an article
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21 minutes ago, XRay said:
There are some things that we should take action immediately, and some things we should not. Reacting to the virus quickly is fine. Reacting quickly to outright racism is also fine. In this case, the term is not as black and white racism as you make it out to be. Overbearing political correctness only further pushes people away. I think the risk in waiting outweighs the risk in rushing the racist label.
The impacts are observable now. Asian people are being harassed and stigmatized now. It's that simple. Wouldn't you rather push away racist and contrarian assholes over innocent Asian people?
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1 minute ago, eclipse said:
Because you've missed the point, repeatedly, and I don't think it's due to what I've explained. Nor do I think that you're trolling, which leaves the final possibility - that you truly believe your stance, to the point where thinking that far outside of it isn't possible yet. It's not something I can fault you for, since stereotypes and whatnot are convenient. But when tackling a problem such as this, you must well and truly be able to see the "why" behind the issues, which boils down to the human side. Things like Jim Crow laws and whatnot? Those are symptoms.
I'm well aware what created the systemic problems. I'm saying that addressing the human side of things directly with police doesn't resolve the systemic issues, and that even the most sincere police officers with the best intentions do things that, unfortunately, have racist impacts. Part of the issue is that when confronted with the possibility that something has racist impacts, there may be resistance, such as in the form of denial.
It's not that I'm saying you're wrong, it's that it's more than just a matter of compassion vs hatred. That's what systemic racism is; systems don't hate or love, they just function, and no matter what you feel, they'll keep happening until enough people understand the system and have the power to change it.
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8 minutes ago, eclipse said:
Your answer is "no", then, because if this is how you see things, you're not willing to change your stance. Which means that I'm wasting my time.
This is ridiculous, especially coming from a mod. What the hell do you think my stance is? I straight up told you I see them as people. The addendum that it's critical to their job that they also see everyone else as people, since they wield tremendous power over most people, doesn't contradict that, and shouldn't be a controversial thought to anybody on the whole fucking planet. What's the matter with you?
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Just now, eclipse said:
I'm going to seriously ask this question to you:
Do you see police officers as people?
Yes. But it's trivial compared to whether they, and all members of law enforcement and the judicial system, see everyone else as people.
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I hope people who are disillusioned with Biden at least go vote for whatever Senate, etc elections there are, instead of staying home thinking only the presidency matters.