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Don't confuse proper planning with precise execution. Many people know what they ought to do; but many also repeatedly fail to achieve it. You're correct that our understanding of nutrition is evolving; but how many people do you think genuinely believe that sugar is good for them? In my...

Bad sugar or bad journalism? An expert review of “The Case Against Sugar”. Alan Aragon also got into it with him; they had a debate which I think is available on Youtube. His post-debate comment: My perspective on this: you can't launch a new product/brand/book and sell it to fat people if...

Trying to be charitable here, but it's entirely possible he gave off the "I live in a basement with my mother, hence why I don't have to work" vibe. Unless the guy was clearly wealthy via ostentatious behavior, my prior would be that A) someone else takes care of him and B) he's ashamed of it...

I want VP and Bisco's nerfed into oblivion. JK -- but... yea... VP is so strong yet makes gameplay so boolean.

People in that poor of health have no basis for comparison... they can't even remember waking up sober, alert, healthy.

This went on sale today.

@iMaple , how will the game accommodate players who wish to play with friends? I'm assuming you'd have some mechanism to let people start relatively close if they start together; what about if your game is amazing and people spread it via word-of-mouth... how would late-comers get to play with...

The point I'm (attempting) to articulate is that I don't care how someone developed an advantage over me: CC or basement dweller, its functionally the same. If I'm getting curbstomped so much that I'm not having fun, then I'll leave.

If that happened frequently, then I wouldn't have fun, and I'd quit. My point is that the P2W aspect will, to some degree, expand the pool of people that can shit-stomp me. I don't particularly care how the player goes about doing it -- the functional question is how often am I assbeat by...

I've never been that particularly concerned about P2W because I've never once deluded myself that I'd be competing in that top percentile regardless. Getting shit-stomped by someone on disability playing 18 hours a day feels functionally the same to me as someone playing 2 hours a day spending...

Tuco my 135lb wife squats 185 so... yea. Hope springs eternal. edit: I'd also nitpick the range of motion in the two images. Note that he doesn't drop below parallel. My understanding is this puts a great deal extra force on the knees since they're "catching" the weight as opposed to the...

Upper body, DBs can take you pretty far -- dips and a weight belt + incline db press + row variants... Lower body, fuck no. How are you going to properly squat 200+lbs? Hold a 100lb dumbell in each hand up against your chest? Probably not...

@Tuco Is there any reason you can't get a power rack? Power rack and bench, barbell, dumbells, and plates are really the only things you need. For home gym tryharding, a cable machine would really round it all off.

This works.

Me. I have 22 ex @ $1.25 per.

Graduating with a CS degree in a year -- busy hunting around for part-time work or internships right now. If anyone has any advice or potential job hookups, shoot me a PM please. I'm in VA.

Well, that's more a factor of how most people don't like it and the speed-clear meta which produces an overabundance of everything except enchants. Baron SRS is a pretty shit lab runner, too... but I put about 30 ex of gear on it and it made it fine.

Baron SRS.

First of all, who cares if you die in the lab. A key costs a few chaos and the opportunity cost of 15 minutes... but it's a learning process so consider it an investment. For comparison, I spent 400 chaos learning Uber Atziri this league. Once you scale your character up to some appropriate...

Reddit produces gallons of salt daily about this, but I love it. It's never been easier to get anything done in PoE -- can buy 1000 fus at 3 am in 5 minutes... etc etc. The thing is, people who suck at PoE market would suck regardless of people using bots... major mistake new players make is...

Wisdom for newer players: Uber Lab is the most profitable thing you can do at this point in the league. You're probably not saavy enough to beat this on the market, and you might not have a character than can speed-run bisco+breach sextant blocked maps. I did about 130 uber lab runs this...

Same. I have a buddy that complains constantly about trading but he's spending way too much time trying to find perfect deals rather than getting the shit he needs and back out farming. When I need to swap 500 jewelers into chaos I offer a very favorable ratio and near-instantly some flipper...

I'm about done with Harbinger and my friends will be done shortly thereafter. If anyone here is interested in buying some PoE currency, shoot me a PM.

1) No idea about LC except that it's out of meta. In-meta chests are Kaom's and Belly of the Beast. If you're life-based, Belly just gives so much goddamn health that its hard to beat. 2) Couple of different philosophies on EC, end charges, and IC. Self-casting EC to keep charges up and...

Pretty common complaint and some well written arguments by popular streamers. I expect to see Bisco go legacy.

Starkonja's has been my favorite enchanting helm so far.

Just bought my 8th Doctor card for my first Headhunter. League bucket-list well-nigh complete. Looks like the breach+bisco meta is cratering the cost of Headhunter, but I didn't buy it for a value investment.

Just FYI, my buddies still have tons of krono for sale at $9 per if you need any for Kunark.

The gist of it is that for Softcore, it's really not that damn hard to chug along at a decent rate, kill shit in a medium tier easy map, and accumulate currency. Depending on how much one sucks at video games, you'd trade tankiness for dps and avoid builds that require more player input...

I don't do SSF if I have friends playing... but if I'm alone in a league I'd rather just "explore" and treat it more as an adventure game as opposed to a market sim where my friends and I measure dick size in exalts.

edit: To clarify, I think GGG is balancing difficulty towards minimal interaction with the market. Good players who trade will "beat" the league within a few days. First: examine the drop rate math -- my understanding is that you could play this game for years and still be under 50 percent...

No. I think what has emerged from GGG's, essentially, stab in the dark, is a decent system. D3's initial implementation was an abomination and it's current state without trading has, essentially, ruined the game from my perspective. I want to build a dragon's horde of wealth and be able to...

This is an eternal argument within the PoE community. It isn't supposed to be challenging and some tedium is necessary. Why? Well, without it, you get the catastrophe that was D3 on launch. If you're gonna hit the PoE community up for niche items to flesh out your build, you oughta be...

I don't know how to fix it but hands down my biggest gripe about the game is how fucked the risk vs reward is. I wish skill was rewarded by profit in some manner but these days it really feels like just zoning the fuck out and slamming easy maps x100 is the best way to farm.

Doesn't Golemancer need a bunch of expensive jewels to get it online? Sounds like a poor choice for a league starter.

It's worthwhile to point out that leveling on Agnarr is easy as fuck no matter what class you are -- exp is fast and the ruleset is EQ Lite.

Been a while since I played but the math here is pretty clear. Consider the likely outcome if you're a team of 4 playing 24 other evenly-matched teams. Against one other team you have a 50 percent edge. Against 24 other teams, all of whom you have a 50 percent edge against, your real-world...

Both of my buddies bought the Predator IPS and love it. What monitor did you end up getting?

I've got a Legendary Founder account that I haven't logged into since last year if anyone wants to buy.

We still have a ton of Kronebones for sale.