https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLEUD0WnTzs

This and immigrants who are here with DACA who have gotten degrees, jobs, pay our taxes, etc worried about being deported when it gets repealed seem to be pretty common sentiments as far as being anxious goes. I feel for you as little as I know that means right now. :(

Yes and Trump is against that entirely (I mean, natural gas is actually a key part of his "creating more jobs" part of his platform) and he wants to ignore the recent Paris Accords (note: he can't actually cancel it until 4 years pass, but he can just ignore it since there's no body to enforce us to actually do it. It relies on good will). He literally doesn't believe climate change actually exists at all, other than being a "hoax made by the Chinese" and thinks it is "nonsense". (note that this Chinese hoax thing makes little sense now considering China is doing much more than we are to curb climate change lol.)

The problems can still be curbed heavily with the reductions we were already current during under Obama propelled further forward, it's not like reductions aren't something we shouldn't strive towards just because they aren't instantly fixing the problem. It's not PERFECT by any means, but it's still a marked improvement we were continuing to head towards pretty decently compared to "NAH THIS IS A CONSPIRACY THEORY LOL".

Even if you look at just California, they are a major food producer for our country - as in there is many MANY products that we get 80-99% of our supply from California like walnuts, plums, carrots, and celery. Having almost all of their native fish species go extinct and having most of their land get ruined by the continuous droughts/wildfires is going to ruin our supply of a lot of shit. Severely curbing the effects of climate change there isn't as good as fixing it entirely, sure, but it also lets us keep food supply going for a much longer time until we actually do fix our effects on the climate (hopefully, it's a dream at this point).

Really, this is what pains me the most on this. Losing legal abortion is gonna be shitty and I feel for women who want to be safe while getting one, and while not every Trump support is a bigot it's disingenuous to imply there isn't a base there from rural areas that is (hell, I live in a rural area in the midwest that very much is and is all Trump/Pence) that have their views emboldened either and I hate that (I went to Subway today and there was people outside talking about how they hoped "someone would lynch the nigger in office so that Trump can save us now" (actual quote), but having parts of our nation actually getting fucked like RIGHT NOW and we're just going to wistfully ignore it for the next 4 years on the very off chance that China came up with it to give them a business advantage kills me.

To be fair, California and Florida (which, looking at how close it was, was swayed to Republican by Cuban Americans who basically vote Republican 100% of the time) are our two states actually getting raped due to climate change like in the present, so either has a pretty compelling case to GTFO of a country that just elected someone who thinks climate change is a Chinese hoax and is going to appoint David Breibart, one of the biggest climate change deniers around, to do the EPA transition. Either way they're pretty boned, succession or not.

Like, regardless of your stance on most issues, if Trump doesn't turn around on climate change (and Breibart on an EPA transition says he won't basically), we've basically just fucked Florida/California extremely bad. This is extra bad because we actually don't even have a plan currently for what we do when Florida starts going into the ocean, where those people go.

This isn't something we aren't going to see in our life times, it's already happening, they're already spending millions on a pump system to mitigate the current issues in several Florida areas due to excess flooding that is estimated to only buy them a couple decades of time. Like, by the time I'm 50 we're going to have a state that has parts out of it start going under water and just not habitable anymore very likely. California isn't much better off, with droughts/wildfires on top of sea level rise, but recent commissions say that ~82% of the native fish on the coast of it is going to be driven to extinction within our life times.

Like, even if you don't care about gender/race/sex issues or whatever and are more of just a pure nationalist, our actual country is essentially under attack by water rise that we've caused and we're not doing anything to lessen that.

e: also yes #559 this basically has no chance of happening, but it's disingenuous at best to say it's people mad just because they lost the election, as that implies that election doesn't directly affect their livelihood for the next decade or two due to how we're apparently going to tackle climate change (not at all). Every problem caused by climate change will get exacerbated in these states if we're just going full speed ahead and adding more natural gas sources and ignoring the Paris accords.

uh, SCOTUS man? SCOTUS is going to be locked up with a hard majority towards Trump-esque beliefs for the next 20-40 years so there goes legal abortion (possibly gay marriage too) for that time frame.

The echo brackets are referring to people with a Jewish background, and that's Jewish as in the ethnicity not the religion.

Two seconds of google confirms that is an anti-Semitic symbol targeted towards the Jewish ethnicity. The people who literally made it a thing describe it as:

"meant to symbolize that the historic actions of members of the Jewish ethnicity had caused their surnames to echo throughout history"

So...no. It's still not "racism", sure, if you want to be a pedant but it's extremely close and still prejudiced/bigoted.

The only way your monitor is damaging your eye sight is if you are constantly looking at it for hours and hours without end (or using a CRT / very old LCD monitor and doing this as those are worse than modern LCDs on your eyes). You should every 15-30 minutes look at something off to the distance and focus on it for a very short bit and get up and take a short walk looking around every hour or so.

Monitors don't really damage eye sight directly though, they just cause lots of short term problems (like dry eye) that if you don't fix by giving your eyes long distance things/different things to focus on add up into eye sight problems.

I know it was a post a week ago and it's a different format but the Vita-saw was also thoroughly tested in Highlander and resulted in slowing the game down because you reach the point where both Medics are uber v uber more often which is when the game is at its slowest since both teams just play passive working for picks. It's one of the few unlocks banned in HL for being too strong, which is sayin' something.

So the reason for this is because the Call of Duty games run on a branch of the Quake 3 engine which has a pretty well known engine flaw where player velocities are not normalized, they're actually fractional and then rounded up. In Call of Duty what this means is that your FPS affects your jump height, fall damage, fire rate, distance you can make before you make a footstep sound, and your ability to bounce jump off of obstacles in the map.

The original CoD4 came with a 91 FPS cap too but you could use console to unlock it. The end result is basically if you wanted to not be disadvantaged in the game you wanted to hit 125 FPS constant as 125 was a magic number in FPS with the physics calculations where your jump height would increase enough to let you go places you weren't intended to be (esp with strafe jumping), negate the lowest fall damage you could take entirely, remove ~33% of your footsteps, and most easily bounce jump off of props. 250/333 FPS is also ideal (although extremely difficult to hit consistently back when CoD4 was released obv) as all these effects just get better. You even get weird oddities like at locked 500 FPS the physics calculations in CoD actually breaks and you actually jump less higher than normal, take more fall damage, but move completely silently In every CoD except BO3 your fire rate is also affected by your FPS due to a similar Quake engine error, meaning at certain FPS values your guns will fire significantly faster/slower depending on their own RPM. This leads to silly scenarios where you might want to lock @ 85 FPS on a specific gun to give it +200 RPM and increase its ability to kill substantially if you're not going to move around a lot and play a more defensive role so the extra jump height/reduced fall damage doesn't matter as much to you.

The reason BO3 has unlimited FPS is because it's the first iteration of the series where the developer fixed the engine physics calculations and normalized velocity/fire rate. BO1/BO2 had higher FPS caps than 91 as well but you still got these advantages. As IW is using Infinity Ward's branch of the engine, it's still broken in this game though.

Also for the record, 91 FPS is an awful FPS to actually be at as you take a significant amount more fall damage than 60 FPS with a minuscule jump height increase.

It's fairly stupid this hasn't been fixed in the IW Branch of this engine though.

Your world view is not very open then.

Disabled people who can't work get screwed, I would imagine basically every disabled person is very anti-Trump.

His view on transgender rights is very poor and is basically "HOPE THE STATES MAKE THE RIGHT DECISION" and doesn't consider it a "civil rights" issue. I would imagine everyone that isn't Caitlyn Jenner and is a transgender is very anti-Trump.

He's already said he wants to set up the SCOTUS to repeal Roe v Wade basically immediately. If you're a woman who thinks you should get to choose something about your own body that is not an easy decision to make, you are probably anti-trump.

He's anti-gay marriage and wants to get rid of it. If you're homosexual and want to get married, you're probably anti-Trump.

Also there's kinda the fact that unless we magically stop improving and developing automation technology (protip: we won't), you can be anti-globalism all you want but there's literally just not going to be enough jobs for everyone we have in the future. Everyone could all magicially be geniuses and there won't be enough jobs for people, so going for anti-globalism on the pretense of creating more jobs here for the poor is very short sighted when in the not too distant future those jobs are going to go away anyways. That's veering into basic income tho which I can already tell won't fly well here so I'll end here.

Basically no one with brain cells thinks that, everyone decent/smart who plays HL understands why HL can't be the direction competitive TF2 will work towards.

i do wish if over the past few years instead of treating hl as an enemy and doing dumb shit like lolhl (same for lol6s spam from low tier hl players) the community at large would just embrace each format for what they are. At its peak NAHL had 408 teams which is 3672-8568 players that you could just try to tap into 6s, but when NAHL tried to get a prize pool going people just shit on it mostly because of Infinite and spammed lolhl a metric fuck ton and it never came close to hitting its goal (which wasn't even that high) and it just turned off people from even bothering with 6s. Highlander is like the easiest gateway drug into 6s that there is for pubbers (well, until the competitive queue I guess but idk how effective that is being), but people just focused too much on the whole "it's not super serious/joke/flawed" aspect rather than embracing that.

Highlander is already killing itself, the community that plays it is mostly anti-competitive and would rather suicide their teams than move up to fix skill disparity over time. It's the format that is the easiest for pubbers to get into because they can play anything full time and it's still hemorrhaging players an absurd amount because people would rather act retarded on the forums / elsewhere than boost the population. We're down to less teams playing NAHL now than when I first started playing NAHL 5 (soon to be 6) years ago.

Recently they needed to move a team up into Platinum and a bunch of the Gold team leaders got together and said they'd suicide their teams if they were moved up. Similar things have happened basically almost every season of Gold (just not so publicly) where Gold teams will often kill their teams if they get moved up into Plat and then reform with little punishment. The end result is there's basically no talent moving up into Platinum and actually improving because they're scared/don't want to, while talent has been leaving Platinum for a long while now.

Basically imagine if most of IM got together and said they'd suicide their teams if you moved them into Invite. That was NAHL for the past week or so. It only got fixed because Shotaway grabbed 8 random people and made a team that hasn't even scrimmed with a consistent 9 yet to fill the spot because I guess that's more prepared than all the Gold teams who wouldn't move up.

At current rates there should be very little teams (like ~40-50) left in it by late next year, assuming nothing changes ala prize pool or Valve support. I wouldn't fret about it.

OK I got more time so to expand on post #122:

I think if you look at what happened to CSGO directly and from an unbiased POV, it's pretty obvious it was not a positive influence for the game, and I feel like in time people will come to appreciate the change once they give it a chance there. The thing is, the CSGO community is pissed, but they're mostly mad because it got so far into it that Valve basically just played with people's actual paid positions and ways of life and made it seem less necessary.

Reality is, every other major e-sport does not allow live coaching, and they promptly banned it with rules before it ever reached that point, and those people are still paid and picked up by teams even if the role is less important. (We call them mentors basically, since other games coaches are just really dedicated good mentors)

Here's the negatives of live coaching as far as the health of the comp game goes:
* Teams just kick off their IGL to coach and pick up big fraggers. People who can't frag well have no place other than coach or be on bad teams in a live coach world if you want to win the game. Right now there are plenty of teams in each format that will take a bit of a DM hit to get a smarter main caller. In a live coach world there is no reason to ever do that. Why would you? Also right now players that have monster DM and are very very smart are amazing top tier players, in a post live coach world them being smart doesn't really matter as much coz you're still going to want a live coach cause it's just better to let someone focus on DM instead.

* Players don't have to think super hard for themselves, just listen to coach. This is a big deal, anyone who has EVER done a demo review with someone or mentored someone has probably heard the words "I didn't notice that" or "I didn't think about that" at least a billion times, if you have a (good) coach this won't ever happen because it's their job to notice all the shit you ever miss/don't think about and tell you to do it. It also significantly reduces the tilt effect and player fatigue because players just have to focus more on DM and just listen to the coach. But not tilting and doing well through player fatigue is good skills for players to have.

* Skill divisions get further apart, anyone with a live coach is automatically better than a team without a live coach. It's like having a live demo review on crack. Good teams can more easily get good coaches, bad teams can't get good coaches or a coach at all, making it harder for them to climb up. This is a big deal in TF2 because there are already really big skill divides going on.

* You have to fund an extra person for all travelling. Because non-live coaching is just before/after games you can correspond super easily via the internet with no hassle. Any team of another country not where the LAN is in TF2's case is getting boned if they want a live coach they can work with easily/trust.

Here's the positives of live coaching as far as the health of the comp game goes:

You can't do it in LoL, it's only allowed during the ban/pick phase and between games.

You can't do it in DotA, it's only allowed during the ban/pick phase and between games.

You can't do it in CSGO now, it's only allowed during breaks and between games.

You can't do it in SC2, it's technically only allowed between games.

Plus right now TF2 needs more people actually playing and tighter skill divides, not less people playing because they're coaching and wider skill divides between teams that can get a live coach and those who can't.

idk what there is to argue here really. It's not even like live coaching offers some super interesting dynamic, you just kick off your IGL and replace them with a braindead way better fragger who will listen to the coach.

I mean, someone COULD just make a 6CP custom map that is a 5CP with a 6th CP that caps super fast and is only open when you're contested over the mid point that gives a bonus to the team that owns it to force conflict.

Making enough of these for a whole season and then conveying it to spectators would obviously be the real problem though.

Every competitive game ever is slower/stalemates more on games with money involved.

People don't want to lose money = people play more carefully.

There's not much you can do about it.