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'Course, the question is if anyone actually wants to...

... does anyone actually want to? Early HP seems better for, well, most dudes.

And uku, heh. I don't even remember DotA that had switchable ones, before DotA2. Stopped playing DotA before the change happened.

That's about as unfair as pubstomping.

Bit less, I'd think. If at all. Dunnit pubstomping usually involve troll alts or whatever? This case, they're high level players going against other high level players. Pre-made actually communicating should be kinda'... well, normal, right?

I'd generally call putting folks pictures on the internet without their permission immoral, yeah. Ask, first.

Honestly, the idea of Victorian erotica is pretty damn funny in and of itself, considering the mores of the era.

Confusion check: You are aware that actual victorian erotica is both a thing and... frankly, a fair bit of it is on par with the debauchery modern internet gets about with? Yes, they were largely prim and proper in public, but that didn't exactly extend on a 1:1 ratio into anywhere else. A good chunk of the victorian era folks were freaks, man, by today's general mores.

Domination and violence tend to generally be bad combinations; and on the topic itself, there are no merits to violence.

The merit bit especially, actually. Violence has been seen as basically the lowest form of conflict since ancient times. Sun Tzu and earlier, we hear that the masterful wins victory without battle, and that it is only the inept that considers violence anything but failure. There can be merit in the means to commit violence, I believe -- martial and physical mastery has its virtues -- but the actual expression of violence is a sign of failure. Failure to plan ahead, failure to out-think and outmaneuver your opponents, failure to master the self such that the former can be accomplished. One who can accomplish a thing without violence is greater than one who can only accomplish that thing with violence. Etc., so forth, so on.

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M'latest idle rumination on th'subject has been trying to apply a sort of modern-ish economic heuristic to the concept of physical violence. Way I currently see it, the primary reason that physical violence is of so little value is because it's ubiquitous. Nearly anyone who eats the right things and performs the right actions may become excellent at performing physical violence, and even those who do not can exert the maximal amount of violence (kill, in other words) with minimal effort. It does not take skill or genius or merit to brain someone with a rock, merely consistent effort, and sometimes not even that. So the supply approaches infinite, and further, quality makes little difference beyond a low threshold.

But the demand... the issue with it is that violence itself is but a tool -- the least of tools, but a tool nonetheless. As such, there is no demand for it, per se: There is demand for the things that can be accomplished by its use -- and there are other tools that can accomplish the same thing, but whose supply is much more limited. The value of a thing is determined by the amount of demand relative to supply. Violence is ubiquitous, other tools which accomplish the same ends are not, thus as a tool, violence is of less value than similar tools which can accomplish the same ends but are more scarce.

Still thinking on it, really. More generally, conflict has its place, but physical violence is a method of last resort. It means you have already failed, and have no other option.  If there is virtue in necessity, I cannot see it.

E 2: Also realized that I have to write about my sources of error.  I had 0.00% error! Why do I need to explain my non-existent sources of error!?

So they'll be able to tell you which part of the process you screwed up to come to 0.00% error, probably

And help make sure you don't bugger up later. The thought process (i.e. "showing your work" in mathematics, explaining stuff in what you're doing, etc., so forth, so on) is a lot more illuminating for a teacher than just an answer. An answer can only be right or wrong (usually), but the process to reach it is not so binary.

They kinda' are. Binaural beats can be really... something. Energizing, relaxing, half dozen other things besides. And they're basically cacophonous static and beeps and boops. Just... somewhat sciencey.

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A NASA study found that an amount of freshwater almost the size of the Dead Sea has been lost in parts of the Middle East due to poor management

I get what's being said here, but that seems like the wrong comparison to use.

I'm more curious exactly how you lose water, m'self. Where did it go? Do we have more hydrogen and/or oxygen in the air or something? Bind with something else and stuck somewhere unusable? Howzzat work, exactly?

And I now have this odd image of a several hundred mile line of slowly traveling monkeys with little tiny monkey cups full of water, carrying the Middle East's water supplies off to Africa. They get a fez hat when they receive their cup full of water, so you've got this long line of hatless monkeys with empty cups and then this other long line of fez-hat monkeys with full cups going in the other direction. Abu has formed a monkeymafia and stolen Agreba's water.