Ginger_Warrior
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Achieving max DPS is heavily dependent on factors other than combat expertise.
I'll take the comments about PvP though, I'm probably the least qualified person to talk to about PKing.
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What exactly is difficult to master about RS combat?
If you look at most combat guides for RuneScape, the vast, vast majority of them should be easily replicable to a gamer of average talent. They're all very prescriptive and very didactic. Follow the guidelines and you cannot [bleep] up, literally.
My experience of RuneScape over the past seven years is a fairly healthy-sized proportion of people who do follow those guides very successfully, undermined by people who are unable or (more likely) unwilling to follow such guides and would rather whine about it, and blame their own incompetence on Jagex and faulty gameplay mechanics.
Which isn't exactly surprising. In general life, people are amazingly talented at blaming others for their failures and themselves for successes, even when those successes have nothing to do with them.
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Whatever constitutes your diet, though, try to keep it stable. Don't be eating dinner at 5pm one day and 11.30pm the next. Whether you're clinically depressed or not, we all feel shitty following that sort of routine. As far as diet and exercise is concerned, just eat what you'd normally eat and maybe drink a pint of water / juice before starting. There's a lot of pseudoscience around sports nutrition, you don't need to listen to it.
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My best score in Flappy Bird is an even 90, so I claim the title of TIF Flappy Bird Champion.
185. I'll settle for that. :)
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I'm in the middle of a Civ 4 game. Currently spamming Sids Sushi to all my cities and hogging all the fish and rice resources. All of my cities are hitting 20+ population.
I'm running Representation and producing like 1,500 beakers on 20% funding. The 40% culture spending is practically making my people delirious in happiness. 30 happy faces per city.
Maybe I should try harder difficulties lol
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Exercise is definitely a good idea. As well as distracting you from depressive thoughts, it also gives you confidence from a sense of accomplishment. You could set yourself specific fitness-related goals to keep you motivated. But from personal experience it's amazing how well a simple jog can take you away from that negative thinking, even if only for half an hour.
There's always going to be a loss of self-esteem when leaving a job. It must be a pretty drastic change to go from managing fifty people to having no responsibility whatsoever. That's something I think a lot of people would struggle with initially. Going to college and wanting to improve yourself is a step in the right direction though, so keep your head up with that.
If you think it's seasonal depression, see a doctor. If he gives you pills, you don't have to take them if you don't want to, but they're there if you ever do. Can't hurt, right? I say that from the viewpoint of someone who lives with free healthcare, of course; I'm not sure what charges there would be for you.
You might not feel like socialising, but force yourself anyway. It's important you maintain contact with people, otherwise you will start to become isolated and you will find yourself in a rut. I'd echo Muggi's comment about not doing anything with your life. I was in that position for a good two years and undoubtedly it's the waking up in the morning with no direction and no sense of purpose that really hurts you. Try and maintain as much of a routine as you can.
Excessive watching of porn... I don't really need to go into that, because I think you know how destructive that is in the long-term, yes? ;)
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You mentioned losing your job recently. How much has that affected you, both financially and mentally?
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CANADA CANADA CANADA
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Watched some of the slopestyle before running this morning. Never really been interested in Winter Sports but I think I'll give this a go.
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I've literally never heard that meme. Judging by the likes total, nor have a lot of people. :P
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I find your lack of numeracy skills to be 100% worrying.
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Yeah me too, but a girl I know posted a 130 score on Facebook and my best is 77.
...Challenge accepted. :)
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Does Flappy Bird count as a new game...? :unsure:
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You're probably not THAT into her, despite what you might feel like right now. People never are.
You grew a pair and had that conversation with her in the first place. I'd mark that down in the journal as progress and take heart from it.
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Isn't there a very high possibility of selection bias in your searching, there? I'm not criticising your search strategy; I'm just saying that people are far more likely to take to the Internet and pen about everything that's going wrong in a marriage and why it's breaking apart, than talk about everything that's right about it.
Furthermore, how many of those describing bad experiences take personal responsibility for those experiences and their own inability to resolve differences, and how many of them, rather uselessly, shift the responsibility elsewhere?
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Super Bowl sleeping schedule.
Stayed up last night 'til 3.30am watching Orange is the New Black. Watched four episodes with housemate, we're loving it so far. Woke at 7. Hopefully I'll crash and need a long sleep at 3pm this afternoon, to wake at 11pm in time for kickoff. Stay up all night, go to work at 5.30, leave work at 4pm, so... 17 hours awake straight following 8 hours sleep, hopefully. So far so good.
Meanwhile, this Neknominate fad's getting a bit OTT. Can't imagine it'll be long before people start getting sacked etc. I've already seen a few people shown the door for posting videos on YT and FB.
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For clarity's sake: define 'petty'.
You at least have to concede there are situations in life where being totally and completely carefree is an unnatural, even downright unhealthy, reaction.
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All those things are variable. I can care lots about somebody one day, not give a toss about them the next. I might not care as much as someone else about a certain thing; but still care more than a third person. Am I Beta or Alpha?
Example: I care about my career. I take the responsibility of it very seriously. I also refuse to do extra shifts in order to promote promotion opportunities. On the one hand I'm Alpha because I take my job seriously, but apparently not that much, although under your interpretation I can't really be "less" Alpha, so I'm Beta. But am I any less Beta than someone who lounges around and does [bleep] all? Well, no. I'm just Beta. Apparently I'm the same, unless you accept the theory doesn't allow sufficient scope to categorize people accurately.
It's not me overcomplicating things. If anything it's you doing the opposite by treating people as black boxes whose programming renders that incapable of alternative attitudes and behaviour. But as we observe everyday, people don't act one of two ways. There's a whole spectrum out there.
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Surely, it's a bit more complex than being simply "Beta" or "Alpha". If I asked a fairly simple question, such as "Do you blame yourself for past failures and successes?", a typically expected Beta response would be "I blame myself for failures and external factors for my successes", while an Alpha would be expected to state the diametric opposite. In reality, the vast majority of healthy adults would say something like "Well, I've definitely had successes in life which I've worked hard for, but I'll admit to having hard times too, some of which I brought on myself." Where would you begin to categorize the middle ground? Moreover, how would you prove either is better in the interests of a relationship, where any answer you can give would have significant problems with generalizability.
People are very different and generally want different things from different people depending on differing personal circumstances. If I'm a generously busted, attractive, nubile woman in a street bar, I'd probably be interested in vastly differing traits to a 75-year old granny suffering from terminal lung cancer, or even a middle-aged mother-of-three in a semi-detached property in a nice, leafy neighbourhood whose partner just lost their job due to redundancy. I haven't met a single person in my whole near-twenty four years of living who could simultaneously provide everything needed in all three examples. If such as person exists, my hats off to them. How can any one theory possibly account for such extremely different needs?
I think some of what the whole Alpha thing says has validity. Nobody (except psychopaths and serial abusers) likes being clung on to; for any girls reading this, that's as much as true for women obsessing over a man too. My only problem with it is that, like much of pop psychology, it seems to depend far too heavily on categorizing people into neat boxes and ignoring the middle ground, whereas in just about every other field of statistics, things generally follow a more general trend and always regress to a mean. Also, as far as I can tell, the theory seems to be based on an appallingly small amount of useful data which has been extrapolated and cherry-picked for use in men's magazines, alongside advertising space for expensive brands and 'treatments' (this isn't so unusual; it's par for the course when it comes to magazines because, after all, that's the business model, and happens quite normally with pharmaceuticals and cosmetics).
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I don't know.
I just feel like there's a middle ground somewhere between softly timid Beta and blood surging Alpha. They're both flawed in different ways, so neither side's shortcomings validate the other.
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Only if he's the type of guy who wants to date anything with a pulse. Which is an asinine approach to dating in the first place.
I'd say getting to know things from a female perspective would help with this problem of over thinking and obsessing over non-issues.
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Sid Meier's Civilization
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Yeah, combat in Civ 4 was pretty bad. He who piles most Catapults underneath a Pikeman to prevent the Knight flank inevitably wins through collateral damage.
If it's a consolation, the combat in Civ 2 was just lol-worthy. Spearman defending against Submarines...