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  1. Dandain

    Destiny 2 - Clan Link 1st Post

    Its not just you, this is an objective truth about FPS gaming. In the same way SJW Postmodernists have a flawed perspective about all the details in the truth equation of reality, controller FPS defenders are not sufficiently knowledgeable or good enough to have experienced or understand what...
  2. Dandain

    DOTA 2

    Start idling in custom chat channel foh you turds, it starts with you. Channel will never get big if everyone leaves when its empty.
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    The Astronomy Thread

    Cassini: The Grand Finale: Cloud Bands Streak Across Titan
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    Pets

    You actually get to pick your dog, you don't have to give it birth. Kids on the other hand, they are stuck with your DNA. Adopting a problem child is a real life choice to be had, adopting a problem dog also the same. Birthing a problem child? Fuck.
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    Pets

    Dogs have personality tendencies like any human. To ignore the spectrum of what that can be when you chose your dog is to just be ignorant of one more feature. My most recent acquisition, when I walked up I said I wanted the meekest/smallest/girl of the litter and was completely understood by a...
  6. Dandain

    Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

    This was a good episode, should be watched.
  7. Dandain

    DOTA 2

    The quests are such that if you really don't have 5 people tryharding to get a lot of them done, they just won't get done by chance.
  8. Dandain

    DOTA 2

    Just join FOH that's what it always was, but people literally don't fucking join, you can post in this thread all day long but I'll see it when it grows again. The only time we had consistent membership was with in game guilds that forced everyone into a channel.
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    The Astronomy Thread

    Approaching Jupiter
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    The Astronomy Thread

    Cassini has thrusters, but the entire dynamics of the Saturnian system and all it's moons must be modeled accurately enough that this is even possible. Titan is 1.5 times the size of the Moon, and the moon configurations are going to be constantly changing and affecting the spacecraft...
  11. Dandain

    The Astronomy Thread

    So, I just wanted to add a little personal commentary to this video. First, is that I think its important to appreciate just how complex this spacecraft's orbits have been for its 13 years. This is not an accidental understanding of nature. This is reaching a degree of proximity to the...
  12. Dandain

    DOTA 2

    no, they sum up your teams battlepass levels at the start of the game whoever has spent more money gets more extravagant towers, the look is global and persists all game.
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    DOTA 2

    TI compendium is live Dota 2 - The International Battle Pass/
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    Pets

    So don't just accept the first puppy you see unless its the one, be picky. What I mean is, some farmer's wife has a lap dog(s). That lapdog(s) somewhere in Kansas is getting banged by other farm dogs and sometimes lapdogs if its not fixed. If you know/see the two parents when you check...
  15. Dandain

    History thread

    The social structure of Eastern society gets as much credit for Chinese stability as anything. To shame your family, lineage, expectations of your life. All these things sort of pre-programmed most individuals to exist on a path for their life. The social mobility of Ancient Chinese...
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    The Astronomy Thread

  17. Dandain

    Quake Champions

    Its Quake, a couple things I would want different. I don't think its one last hurrah, its the first modern arena shooter with the right infrastructure behind it. Namely matchmaking and dedicated servers. Any PvP only game revolving around a high skill cap is dead in the water if it doesn't...
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    Quake Champions

    The server's aren't up right now, I'm not sure if that impacts visibility or not in the launcher.
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    Pets

    I highly recommend getting a mutt of similar characteristics. A lot of pure-breed dogs suffer ultimately from whatever genetic predispositions their breed has. You really don't need to spend 1k on a puppy. I guarantee you will find a puppy mutt of your choice if you look at craigslist...
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    The Astronomy Thread

    Lots of information on Cassini's final orbits. Cassini: The Grand Finale: Orbit Guide
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    Everquest Mysteries

    Everquest made a real world in the sense that it was not a world overrun by its races and tamed, and it gave about zero fucks that anything lived there (players or NPCs). It was still largely wild. The Earth isn't very hospitable in general, its just hospitable enough. This gives the same...
  22. Dandain

    The Astronomy Thread

    If you want to end it all, just draw Mohammad on the wall of the Moon Base/Spaceship. Religion is bad for even a stable mind in closed and technology supported environment. Bad Explanations about how anything works, this is not how you thrive in Space.
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    Gardening

    House plants thread in general has turned into a bit more general plant based sharing and information. This thread is much more dead, I don't know that its a better place, but that's where the activity is.
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    The Astronomy Thread

    Space X launching Spy satellites and sticking landings all day. At 14 minutes you can see first stage tumble back to land. Quite the watch. Great footage since this was not a barge landing. Additionally, they stop the cast on the second stage because its secret sauce. So really a first...
  25. Dandain

    Cyberpunk 2077

    CDPR can launch this in 2020 and I would still buy it. Sad of course that such a masterpiece took so long, because I want many of them in my life. I don't only love CDPR, I would marry CDPR.
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    Science!! Fucking magnets, how do they work?

    Some recent studies about the Tibetan's seem to suggest that they have some very specific high altitude gene benefits that the rest of the planet doesn't have. I know at least one of these genes is suggested to be Denisovan in origin, our Asian Neanderthal species.
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    DOTA 2

    OG Dota's final boss.
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    DOTA 2

    Good teamfights by OG though, failure to kill egg, not just RP.
  29. Dandain

    DOTA 2

    Dota, the best E-sport on Earth. THE FUCKING DRAMA. Fucking people miss out not watching this stuff.
  30. Dandain

    DOTA 2

    TI7 Peru edition here we come.
  31. Dandain

    DOTA 2

    Everything is played tomorrow.
  32. Dandain

    Islands of Nyne: Battle Royale

    Its pretty damn crazy how this space is rife for tiny studios of people. They can get away with making one single map, there is zero story pressure. It allows for a $25 or less price point to launch. The infrastructure for this kind of limited dedicated server setup is cheap and easy. And the...
  33. Dandain

    DOTA 2

    Its funny, because Black's weakness - from the before time - was his absolutely passive non-participation but great farm rate. I do agree with you in associating Slark to him now, but its a remarkable change in approach when contrasted to the meme-level Black-Antimage.
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    DOTA 2

    These series have pretty big repercussions for the regions of the respective teams. IG over Liquid gives the Chinese qualifier one less T1 team, but now thunderbirds, liquid, and secret are potential quali teams, and if OG were to lose faceless, that's another in the EU quali. If Faceless...
  35. Dandain

    DOTA 2

    The matchups can be seen here. its 1-16 2-15...etc till 8-9. The tie breakers can somewhat be teased out of the rankings. The Kiev Major 2017: Group Stage - Liquipedia Dota 2 Wiki
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    DOTA 2

    TI will keep some version of its robust group stage. The fact TI's group stage is so much bigger, justifies the loser's bracket main event seeding as well. When the group stage lets you avoid the BO1 Death for bottom 4 placement, that's a really shitty way to go out of the main event, but...
  37. Dandain

    DOTA 2

    The bracket drama comebacks are very good with losers' bracket runs however too. Both have their merits, single elimination is far more volatile. If the best teams have a bad series, they don't play through the second tier teams in the losers though.
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    DOTA 2

    Most important thing about the round of 8 series is that the teams that win are likely getting auto invited to TI, which is basically 100k guaranteed based on previous years even if they bomb out. Given the hellscape is that the modern qualifiers, its a pretty big deal. If the favorites go...
  39. Dandain

    DOTA 2

    A Puppey surprise. They got out drafted so hard with the slark storm final picks, they had nothing for that shit.
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    DOTA 2

    Too slow