Recent content by Papashlapa

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    NBA 2017-2018 Season Thread

    There's no Best of series in football because you'd have to wheel the players off in a stretcher. NBA season is like 90 games, NFL is 16, and that's no accident. The level of physicality between the sports is not even comparable.
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    Arkk's Weight Lifting / Fitness Thread

    Or just squat in a power rack with pins set slightly below your ideal depth...
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    Arkk's Weight Lifting / Fitness Thread

    Get chalk. You've never felt forearm soreness until after your first deadlift workout with chalk. If your gym won't let you use chalk, get straps. But chalk is strictly superior. Edit: also nothing wrong with a belt, and is still considered a "raw" lift with belt. EliteFTS has good products, if...
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    Avengers: Infinity War (2018)

    This is untrue. People get tax returns because the government proactively deducts taxes throughout the year based on an estimation of your yearly income. If they overestimate your income, they overtax you and you get it back at the end of the year. You pay continuously rather than lump-sum at...
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    The Higher Education Thread: Justify Poor Life Choices

    I dropped out of high school when I was 17. When I was 26 I decided to go back to school, and enrolled in a business-type program at a local community college. I quickly learned that college was not a good fit for me, and thanks to good grades was able to transfer to university (Toronto). Now...
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    The Higher Education Thread: Justify Poor Life Choices

    When you're a genius, everyone around you seems "not-very-smart". Maybe this friend of your just lacked perspective.
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    Arkk's Weight Lifting / Fitness Thread

    Consider this. Perhaps the goal is to have an effective workout, not to be sore, but soreness is a useful indicator of an effective workout. Derp derp indeed.
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    Smite

    I still play all the time. Anyone from here can feel free to add me, in game name is Papashlapa.
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    Smite

    Mid is nearly always a mage. Must have good lane clear, preferably with some sort of escape/gank potential since mid is probably most ganked lane. Solo is sometimes a warrior, sometimes a mage and occasionally something else. Most frequent is a warrior but you can run two mages (one in mid...
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    Smite

    Since there's a lot of new players on the board I figured I'd write a quick intro to smite (conquest at least for now), at least for the roles (mid and jungle) that I tend to play a lot of. If you're jungling, you buy bumbas, power potion and hog1 for every god unless you're someone with...
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    Smite

    tiermonster has builds. r/smite has some good stuff in the l2p section from time to time. Most important beginning lesson: in the early game, creeps hit HARD. Do NOT try to tank them or attack through them. You will die.
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    Smite

    I've been playing this game pretty regularly for a year or so maybe. Great game. Feel free to add me, I love playing with a team. Ingame name is Papashlapa.
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    Political Philosophy Thread

    An amazing lecture/Q&A on this topic. I especially like, in the Q&A, the fourth question regarding the good samaritan problem (starting at 15:00) and the second question regarding government's role in the relief of poverty (starting at 5:15). Hits my beliefs pretty well. Milton Friedman - The...
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    Your Political Party

    That's like saying a heroin addict is "healthier" than a meth addict. The entire problem is that neither party has been anywhere even close to fiscally responsible for decades. The last truly fiscally responsible President was Eisenhower, though Clinton was actually pretty good too. The entire...
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    poll: will the us dollar be replaced as the world's reserve currency?

    You assume they could sell those assets for the same price they bought them for. What do you think would happen to the market if they tried to sell off the 3 trillion dollars in financial assets they've accumulated over the last 5 years, in order to get back down to their more manageable...