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Interesting interview on PvP in Guild Wars 2:
Interesting interview on PvP in Guild Wars 2:
Just finished listening to it. Seems siege suits are bigger versions of asura golems.
Also some nice info on the thief and the Mesmer.
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I'm delighted that the Mesmer is retaining it's "Harassment" style. I love it even more that the Illusions can actually confuse people. Without a doubt I'm rolling Mesmer; I love fucking with people's minds in games.
Thanks for this.
You know its a good sign when most of the interview the game designers were talking about how much fun they were having playing their own game.
I have read better interviews, the AMA for example... to less specific for my taste, I'm looking forward to the WvWvW News this week.
After this I feel that keeps in WvWvW are similar to Battle-of-Kyhlo-like-maps. Man that would be awsome. Did anyone else understand it this way?
Excellent interview - thanks! :-)
Oh....oh....OHHHHHHHHH OOOOHHHOGHWOJHWEOIJHGWIGJWGIEJ.One of the most amazing matches, that I've had, was I was actually playing as my Mesmer and we were down 300 to 480; It was just not looking good. So I called out "Stall, stall, stall!" which just meant, "stop all the control points and don't die", because we didn't want them to get anymore points.
It actually came down to us stopping all the 3 control points at 499, and we were at 300. We were able to come back and won 500 to 499, and a lot of that was the Mesmer bouncing around and creating chaos. People thought they would be fighting me at a certain point but those were just my illusions. Then they would kill those and I would be back capping another point. I was using portals and running around taking two different points at once; bouncing back and forth between them creating a lot of chaos. I couldn't stand there and take it like the other classes can, like the Warrior or a Guardian; the Mesmer is not nearly as strong, but creating all that chaos allowed us to come back in the game. It was a really fun game.
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Good interview, great info on PVP and balance. The discussion on the capability for mesmers is a bit worrisome though. I understand that Mesmers are supposed to be powerful in tricking their opponents, but it seems they have a bit too much leeway the way they describe em. I just hope they don't become the class symbol for Griefers in PVP settings.
Other than That I think I might make a Mesmer as my second character.
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Oh this is beautiful. I seriously can not wait for this game.
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Erik Larson has been widely acclaimed as a master of narrative non-fiction, and in his new book, the best-selling author of Devil in the White City turns his hand to a remarkable story set during Hitler's rise to power.
The time is 1933, the place, Berlin, when William E. Dodd becomes America's first ambassador to Hitler's Germany in a year that proved to be a turning point in history.
A mild-mannered professor from Chicago, Dodd brings along his wife, son, and flamboyant daughter, Martha. At first, Martha is entranced by the parties and pomp, and the handsome young men of the Third Reich with their infectious enthusiasm for restoring Germany to a position of world prominence. Enamored of the "New Germany", she has one affair after another, including with the suprisingly honorable first chief of the Gestapo, Rudolf Diels. But as evidence of Jewish persecution mounts, confirmed by chilling first-person testimony, her father telegraphs his concerns to a largely indifferent State Department back home. Dodd watches with alarm as Jews are attacked, the press is censored, and drafts of frightening new laws begin to circulate.
As that first year unfolds and the shadows deepen, the Dodds experience days full of excitement, intrigue, romance - and ultimately, horror, when a climactic spasm of violence and murder reveals Hitler's true character and ruthless ambition.
Suffused with the tense atmosphere of the period, and with unforgettable portraits of the bizarre Göring and the expectedly charming - yet wholly sinister - Goebbels, In the Garden of Beasts lends a stunning, eyewitness perspective on events as they unfold in real time, revealing an era of surprising nuance and complexity. The result is a dazzling, addictively listenable work that speaks volumes about why the world did not recognize the grave threat posed by Hitler until Berlin, and Europe, were awash in blood and terror.
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"In this mesmerizing portrait of the Nazi capital, Larson plumbs a far more diabolical urban cauldron than in his bestselling The Devil in the White City... a vivid, atmospheric panorama of the Third Reich and its leaders, including murderous Nazi factional infighting, through the accretion of small crimes and petty thuggery." (Publishers Weekly)
"By far his best and most enthralling work of novelistic history….Powerful, poignant…a transportingly true story." (The New York Times)
"[L]ike slipping slowly into a nightmare, with logic perverted and morality upended….It all makes for a powerful, unsettling immediacy." (Bruce Handy, Vanity Fair)
"compelling father-daughter story"
Very nicely read, this book makes for compelling listening. The book covers a period (1933-37) in which the monster that was Germany grew into something truly awful. William Dodd, the American ambassador in Berlin is nicely drawn. He's a kind and decent man. We are told he is witty, although the evidence is scanty. If this is true, then the book is quite tragic as it traces a man's descent from a joyful state into one of stress, ending with major job dissatisfaction and depression. He ends up a sad old drudge, but along the way he runs into some of German history's strange cast. In fact, the book's best bits are on the Night of the Long Knives. His daughter, Martha, is a piece of work. She's a combination of fun-loving, manipulative, sensual and self-righteous that seems to drive all sorts of men to distraction. And she does go through a lot of men. Eventually, she goes off in a direction that would have deeply saddened her ambassador father, I imagine. From Mata Hari to Stalinist in three easy years. The Dodd family members, who are as different as can be, seem to get along very well with one another during a difficult time. It's a very memorable book.
"Frightening, Powerful, Deeply Thought-provoking."
What an incredible view of a pivotal moment in history. Perhaps this book is not as powerful if you have middling knowledge of 20th century history, but I found this portrait of Germany and the birth of the Third Reich chilling.
If you have ever asked, "how could THAT have happened?" read this book, and you'll know. Watching Berlin, one of the world's most important cultural centers, dissolve into barbaric, paranoid madness is very disturbing, particularly because of how easily it happened. Its also quite sad to know that there were a few moments at the beginning, here and there, when maybe it all could have been stopped.
I'm still thinking about it all days later. Very worth reading.
"I loved it ... and hated it ... simultaneously"
I have rarely been more conflicted about a book than I am about this one. In many ways it was gripping and sometimes mesmerizing and then again, it was also annoying and at the same time, utterly appalling.
The indifference and callously entrenched anti-Semitism of US State Department officials and their consequent tolerance for the atrocities of the Nazi government is hard to stomach.This is not an image of our government that could make anyone proud to be an American.
The failure of all the western nations to do anything to stop Hitler while they could -- with relative ease -- have done so is difficult to fathom. The feather-headed self-absorption of Dodd's daughter is like a case of hives: the more you scratch, the more you itch.
Most of the people in the book are awful in one way or another. Dodd, the ambassador, ultimately grows to become, in his way, heroic. He, at least, saw what was happening and tried -- within the scope of his position -- to do what he could. That no one listened to him is part of the heartbreak.
Worse is that those who failed to act more often than not did so NOT because they didn't believe him (although some really didn't), but because the majority of them were hardened anti-Semites and/or because they thought Hitler was going to rid Europe of the menace of Communism. Hitler as the lesser of two evils? How revolting is that? And all of this led to the bloodiest war in human history, a conflict wherein more than 30 million people died.
The banality of evil has never been more obvious or more terrifying. Read it and weep.
I am an avid listener. I listen between 75-100 hours per month on my iPhone: 60% fiction to 40% non-fiction.
"An interesting backstory -- but unimpressive"
This is the story of Ambassador Dodd and his appointment to Germany in the early thirties to Hitler's Germany; his appointment lasted lasted four years. Although there is a family of four: Dodd his wife and two adult children; the story centers around Ambassador Dodd and his daughter Martha (24). I am of two minds in this story: 1) I admire what Ambassador Dodd did; how he approached problems; I was able to connect with his thinking; and 2) I did not think much of his daughter. I recognize Dodd's great difficulties and appreciate the way he dealt with those difficulties. Had men like Dodd been listened to by out administration, instead of filtered by the "Old Boy Club" in the state department, perhaps there might have been a different outcome. Although, if the prevailing sentiment in US was indeed as portrayed, then perhaps he was just a "poop player full of sound and fury signifying nothing."
His daughter Martha however is a completely different story. It appears she slept with every man she met, our allies, our enemies, any man that crossed her path. There were so many trysts that I became desensitized -- an eclectic woman with even more eclectic views. What tragic historical figures her and her brother ultimately become and in such contrast to her fathers contributions.
I enjoyed the book but I think there are better works out there. The "Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" by William Shirer is a great read back by primary documents which is excellent. If you'd like a more fictionalized account of WWII: I suggest the "Winds of War" and "War and Remembrance" by Herman Woulk (one of my all time favorite reads). The Woulk novels are long and even the TV series spans many DVDs.
On the whole, I think this is worth the listen but think of it as a back-story.
"great story of a crazy time"
loved this book. good narration of a great new book from a brilliant writer. One of the best audios I had yet in my ~2 years of audible. If you're interested in the folly of the 3rd Reich and the chaos of pre-war Berlin this is a very good way to learn through the authors narrative of the Dodd family.
"Chilling account of the rise to power of Hitler!"
Some have panned this book as having main characters who reader's didn't care about. I can only say that those readers must be looking for heroes. For those seeking to understand HOW Nazi Germany could have happened, this is a perfect addition to the lexicon as a glimpse into America's inertia, latent if not overt anti-semitism, lack of foresight, and even investment driven foreign policy (sound familiar 2011 America???).
There are no Shindlers in this book, just complicated human beings. Additionally, Hitler, Goehring, Goebels, etc. are humans.... flawed, monstrous, paranoid, etc..... yet human, not the PBS or History Channel bad guys we've come to loathe. This is a great book.
One downside.. the narrator is only a B-minus.
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"captivating but incomplete"
The book is well-written and well read by the narrator but seems to concentrate almost exclusively on the first two years of Dodd's residence as the US ambassador in Nazi Berlin. Dodd had memories of an earlier Germany as he had studied for his doctorate at Leipzig at the turn of the century, and with his liberal academic training as a historian, his dry wit, and his total lack of sympathy for the rich boy milieu of the then US diplomatic service, he was not long coming to the conclusion that he had been set among a gang of liars, thieves and murderers passing themselves off as the legitimate government of a New Germany. He made his opinions known using historical analogy as a veiled criticism of the Nazi regime. His German audiences understood him perfectly and reacted with thunderous applause: by then they were too frightened to speak out for themselves. The reaction in the State Department was entirely different and a movement got under way to get rid of him before he alienated Hitler, since his main job was to get the German government to pay the 1.2 billion dollars they still owed American investors. The main drama of this story concerns the Night of the Long Knives, June 30 1934, when Hitler, Goebbels and Goering took the law into their own hands and simply assassinated their enemies.
After that the story tails off. What, we want to know, happened in 1935 (open rearmament); 1936 (the military reoccupation of the Rhineland); 1937 (the Hossbach memorandum in which Hitler told his generals to prepare for war).
Not a peep. Was Dodd still in Berlin? Well, yes, he was.
The amorous and rather flighty adventures of his 20-something daughter Martha act as a sidebar to the main story. At first taken up with the glamour and the uniforms and the apparent youthful energy of the Third Reich she underwent her own change of heart and it is suggested she may have become a Soviet agent.
It's a good story. I enjoyed it.. But after 1934 we get only little scraps and tidbits.
history buff
"very interesting perspective on the rise of Hitler"
This book focuses almost entirely on the first year of Hitler's leadership of Germany, told from the perspective of some "ordinary" folks, principally the US ambassador to Germany and his 20-something daughter. The book is written beautifully, with much interweaving of such primary sources as letters, diaries and recollections (including a book written by the daughter in 1939). It also includes details on the lives of the two principals, the bumbling but well-meaning ambassador & his fights with the snobby suits at the State Department. And the loves and partying of the daughter. I thought the book was very well narrated too.
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"An Eye-Opening Memoir"
This is a memoir of an American family living in Berlin during the years Hitler came to power. It is 1933, and William E. Dodd is sent to Berlin as the American Ambassador to Germany. What he and his family saw that year and the ensuing years defies description. It is harrowing. Nevertheless, I am grateful for this remembrance because we must never forget what happened and what led to it being able to happen. Everyone should be educated about this period of time. Otherwise, something similar could sneak up on us even here in America. In fact, check your back from time to time.
Well written and researched. Great narrator.
"Takes You Back to Hitler's Berlin of 1933"
This book well recounts the eye-opening experience of a rather naive American history professor who arrives in 1933 Berlin as the new US Ambassador. We see Mr. Dodd as a reflection of the best (and sometimes less than best) qualities of a middle American of that period: critical of the snobbish attitudes of his wealthier professional State Department subordinates in the Embassy; seeking to provide well-intentioned advice and a good example to the Nazi leaders so as to improve their behavior and relations with other countries; and expressing on occasion his own anti-Semitic views that were common in the US at that time. A gradual transformation in his attitude toward the Hitler government occurs, culminating in the shocking ???Night of Long Knives??? purge in July, 1934 when Hitler approved the arrest and murder of 100???s of suspect party members (including his long-time comrade Kurt Roehm, head of the SA) and political opponents, including a few army generals whose loyalty to Hitler was questioned. From that point it was fully clear to Ambassador Dodd that the Nazi government was a criminal regime that constituted a serious danger that could not be trusted nor dealt with under normal terms of civilized relations.
Unfortunately for everyone, the US, Britain and France???the key countries in a position to stop Hitler???were slow to recognize or confront the true depravity and dangers of the Nazi regime until it was too strong to stop short of a major war. The West was mired in the Great Depression and guided by public opinion that greatly feared another major war, both of which Hitler recognized and used to his advantage to move forward until he was too powerful to stop without such a war.
The book offers a sub-plot of the Ambassador???s daughter, Martha, who in her mid-20???s made a point of fully enjoying Berlin, with numerous friends and love affairs. She also changed her attitude toward the Nazi regime as she saw its true horrors over time.
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Mike McDonald is proud of his green home—and justifiably so. The stunning 4,600-square-foot Margarido House is the first custom home in northern California to achieve the highest "Platinum" rating in the LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) green homes program, and it exceeds California's energy-efficiency Title 24 requirements by 55 percent.
It has all the green amenities: 4.2 kilowatts of solar panels, a solar thermal system that provides domestic hot water and that for a radiant-floor heating system, and all kinds of green building materials. But what's the one green technology McDonald likes best?
That would be a home control system that helps him and his family of four operate all the heating and ventilation equipment, plus an energy-saving LED (light-emitting diode) lighting system, motorized shades, as well as some energy-efficient audio/video components.
"I love how easy it is to control everything in the house, and to control every light in the house from a couple of different locations," he says. "I can dial in the HVAC more easily than using standard programmable thermostats. And it's really easy for my whole family to use."
The Colorado vNet home control system features several touchpads and a couple of in-wall touchpanels. It operates over Category 5 network wiring, which made it simple to install and to maintain, says McDonald's electrician and electronics installer, Jean-Paul "Dusty" Fisher of JPFisher Electric of Martinez, Calif.
"It can do about 95 percent of what larger systems do, but it's more affordable and programmer-easy," says Fisher. "It can control anything and make it simplified, and you don't need special [bus] wiring for it."
Along with the solar array and passive solar features, such as optimal siting of the house to increase solar gain for heat and light, the control system helps the McDonalds pay less than $70 a month on electricity bills.
Passive solar features are an important part of the design. For example, a striking metal awning mesh that supports a patio above blocks a great deal of light and heat from the high sun in the summer, precluding the need for cooling. Yet the position of the same awning allows that light and warmth to enter the house in the winter, when the sun is lower. When the glare gets to be a little too much, motorized Lutron shades automatically descend to block the light.
In addition, the house is built into a hill, so the back of it is below ground and effectively cooled by the earth. Fans positioned at the back wall help circulate the cool air, while exhaust fans expel warm, stale air. The fans are designed to be activated by the Colorado vNet system.
"My take is that the passive stuff makes a big difference in the energy efficiency of the home," says McDonald. "When there is too much natural light, the technology kicks in with things like the motorized shades. The technology can make it more convenient to be green, and if it's more convenient, it will be used more."
McDonald estimates that the electronics systems in his home have probably helped shave another 20 percent from his electricity bill.
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Seriously though its a massive hurricane heading towards the east coast, it is going to collide with a cold front meaning we might get up to 2 feet of snow by some crazy estimates.
I really hope we don't loose power, I have an essay due on Wednesday.
i have 3 midterms of monday so i would be great if this was terrible and school was cancelled. no electricity would suck though.
i have 3 midterms next week but 3 on the same day is harsh
it's not really, only one was scheduled for monday, the others were supposed to be on different days at the end of last week but got pushed back.
closed monday and tuesday, all right
I wonder how this will affect the ELECTION
The only battleground state that's really going to be bothered by this and is a real battle ground is Virgina. Currently, Obama is up in Virgina. So because of the hurricane that opinion might be 'stuck' and Romney won't have time to come in and campaign like he wanted to. This can really hurt the Romney plan for victory if this happens because winning Virgina was suppose to be a stepping stone to sweeping other states. There are actually ways for Obama to still win even if Romney wins Florida and Ohio if he looses Virgina.
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This product is exactly as described. The eurotop mattress is perfect and offers firm support for us 40+ year old backs! It's firm, but really comfy, no need to buy an extra mattress topper! This is an excellent mattress for anyone who does alot of physical work and wants the support for a good night's sleep. We tried others in showrooms and nothing compares to this! Kinda nervous about that online purchase? Rest assured (pun intended) you will love this mattress!
I ordered this as a bed for a spare bedroom, but I have been sleeping on it for the past week. So far it is outstanding, but it is definitely very firm. I was blown away by how quickly it was delivered. The deleivery process was smooth and professional.
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For the money~~~~ Good rug. Don't expect the highest quality, but is is adequate. The black and white is not truly a crisp white. It is off white. So id your expectation is for crisp white~~~~ this is not for you. But if you'r okay with black and off white, adequate for the price quality, and love the design of the rug~~~ this rug is for you!
My husband and I LOVE this rug! I was a little hesitant to order it because of the mixed reviews, but I am so glad I did! The rug is a little thin, but for the price I am not sure what people were really expecting. The color is fantastic, very vibrant and absolutely beautiful! Everyone that comes over raves about the style... it makes a huge statement, especially against our neutral furniture. I haven't had any problems with shedding, like others mentioned. The rug is a great addition to our home, I am so glad we got it!
I wanted to put some style into my sad-looking living room, and I have a very tight budget. If you have transitional furniture and a more informal space, this is a GREAT rug. I plan to keep this rug for the next 2-4 years only, so for me, it wasn't important to find a rug that would last forever, though it certainly seems durable. I looked in Marshalls, Ross, Kohls (during their sale), Walmart, Target, HomeDepot, Lowes, Tuesday Morning, Ebay and Craigslist for a rug. This was the absolute best deal I found on a larger area rug (I was looking for an 8 x 11). Additionally, most of the rugs I saw "in person" were anywhere from 50-150 dollars more for this size and the rug was (a) usually in a pattern that would've been more difficult to incorporate into an existing design, and (b) the quality was not as good as the rug I just got. No complaints.
Got this rug a couple weeks ago, and I'm mostly pleased with it. It arrived quickly and well-packaged. It's HUGE, and totally fills up our living room, which is what I wanted. In terms of quality, it's totally fine for the price, but not great. The rug we received had a couple visible snags, and it doesn't feel quite as nice underfoot as a more expensive rug. My boyfriend thinks it's too busy -- he says the zig-zags hurt his eyes, since they're quite narrow. I think we expected them to be a bit wider. I like the way it really pops in the room, though. I'd buy this again.
Absolutely love this rug. Wasn't sure at first about the color (I got the brown one) but its perfect. For the price and size it's a steal. Looks great in my living room.
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I received my rug in a reasonable amount of time after purchasing it. They even left it on my back porch instead of the front because I was unavailable. No complaints for the free shipping. The size and look of my rug goes great with my small living room. I purchased the black and white one. After searching in stores and online for rugs this size, I am grateful that I found it cheaper on here and the quality matches the price. I was skeptical about the comfort/feel of the rug before I received it but I can honestly say it's not bad. It is definitely not super plush or fluffy but very tolerable to lay or sit on.
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The Palestinian solidarity movement in South Africa (through BDS South Africa and the Palestine Solidarity Alliance) have taken out over 12 billboards (large outdoor displays) across the country graphically explaining the Israeli Occupation of Palestinian lands and the dispossession of the Palestinian people. More than five billboards have already gone up with more to follow in coming weeks.
A local black businessman from Johannesburg was inspired by a similar campaign initiated by Henry Clifford in the USA and decided to embark on the same initiative in South Africa. Earlier on this year Clifford personally backed a campaign with more than $25 000 of his own money to have adverts explaining the Israeli Occupation put up in New York metro stations. The ads stirred much controversy in the USA (see this CBS New York news clip:
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Has anyone wrote any code to find the optimal balance(given a set of constraints) for stam, def, avoidance, etc...?
What I'm suggesting is for someone to write an algorithm that tries various combination of gems, enchants, and possibly other things(gear, buffs, etc...) to maximize survivability or other such things.
The idea is that given a set of parameters such as hps, boss_dps, spike damage, etc... one can somewhat easily find a maximium set of parameters that will maximize survivability.
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loss_hpps = hps - boss_dps.
boss_dps is modified by avoidance and block. We can see here that stam gems are useless for this if boss_dps is average. Hence stam gems only provide a buffer for healers to heal you or for spike damage.
e.g., Suppose you have 30k hp and your fighting a boss that every once in a while does 29k unmitigated damage to you, the tank, and does 90% damage to each person in the raid. In a situation like this it would be wise to have more hp to allow the healers to heal the raid. If you had 60k hp then it might not be an issue for the spike damage since the healers can easily heal up the raid without worrying about the tank.
OTOH, if you can survive all spike damage well then the extra def will increase survivability mitigating most damage. In the example above, if you have 30k hp but the 29k is mitigated to 10k because of the high def then you effectively have about 90k health. (just an example, obvious stam stacking will have some mitigation too)
So the idea is to find the effective health one has. Stam stacking is easy as that just adds to the base hp. Def stacking is more complex because of diminishing returns(hence there is a point when adding def is worthless and the idea is to find that point(which depends on how much stam you can add)).
It's obvious that not all scenarios are identical and in some cases one would want stam stacking while others one wants def. In the above example if the damage is unmitigated and it is now 35k then 30k hp is not enough no matter how much def you have and you must increase your hp by at least 5k for any chance of survivability.
So a basic algorithm for finding the best gems given a set of conditions(such as boss damage, spike damage, hps, etc..) would be quite easy to implement. I'm not quite sure how effectively it would be without decent approximations to different scenarios. One, of course, could mine the data needed by monitoring boss encounters.
In any case if anyone is interested in discussing and potentially developing a useful addon/algorithm feel free to comment. Maybe eventually I'll have the time to explore this more. Obviously it is a very complex issue because of all the variables involved but it should not be difficult to get some approximation to maximizing survivability for most encounters.
(and a similar procedure could be used for healing and dps)
It sounds to me like you're talking about Effective Health and Time to Live, but adding in avoidance. In general, we don't like to keep avoidance in these calculations, because the situations that will kill a tank are often situations where avoidance fails. Even if you have 60+% avoidance, you're still quite likely to take 3+ hits in a row at some point during an encounter. Given that, Effective Health and Time to Live calculations generally assume you are being hit on every swing.
There's some info in my guide about this, and here are two great links that may help you out:
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If tank health were much larger compared to the size of mob swings, avoidance would be a legitimate stat to examine in time to live calculations. RNG isn't always irrelevant. It just doesn't make sense to look at in today's world of tanking.


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dude me and my friend got so high last night we started to feel special
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noun; cannabis-skunk soaked in 40% proof whiskey/vodka, etc, for a year, drunk in shot quantities with friends.
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b) 'Never mind the quantity, feel the spaceship'.
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