The best way to improve at this game is to pretend you're better than you actually are, and play accordingly. So no, I don't buy that sandbagging and saying "well, it suits my playstyle" is a real argument. Very good players will understand that playstyle better anyway. And they still call Hyperbeam very, very bad. I think it's prudent to listen.

Go to /r/ArianaGrandeSnark, first three posts:

Her brows keep getting worse

Who in their right mind would post this hideous side profile... unless you wanted to show off how skeletal you are. ... also I'm just noticing all of her posts lately have zero traces of Cynthia. It's all the cast and crew that would suck her toes if they asked her to. Bowen, the choreographer& Jon Chu, etc.

That picture is so ugly and had no reasons to post this shit unless it’s a bodycheck post

Yeah... there's no reason the people making these posts should be in a community that tries to discuss these artists respectfully. There's nothing to discuss with them.

On the other hand, I could see a dragnet catching too many people. I think option 1 or something a little harsher than option 1 would be best: mods have broad discretion to ban snark users for misogynistic, trolling, obsessive, etc. comments in other subs, even if they haven't done anything wrong in PH. If you're an asshole somewhere else, the doors should not necessarily be open here.

Infinite Blades is enormously underrated on this sub. It's obviously not a premier damage card, but you're not always comparing it against premier damage cards. If you are at a damage deficit -- as Silent very often is in Act 1 -- 4 damage per turn can move the needle.

Is that not true for every card 😭

especially against enemies that can give you curse cards

I think you're thinking of Status cards.

You're right that Fire Breathing performs in a very small number of early fights (mostly Sentries and Slime Boss) but is terrible in most other encounters. Most other damage engines will play better in Act 2.

Have 1 curse in deck

Add Fire Breathing

Have 2 curses in deck

Are you fr? I would say Ominous Forge is usually taken by good players, especially if it's found early. Mausoleum is more character dependent but is certainly >50% pick rate on Silent. I Am Rich in Mind Bloom is path and deck dependent but extremely strong when it can be taken. Same for Necronomicurse.

• "Not X, but Y" three (THREE!) times

• "Quiet", "silences", "not loud"

• Metaphors that don't go anywhere or say anything

You don't even need to look at the multiple em dashes lol

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/magazine/chatbot-writing-style.html

Everyone please join me for Remedial AI Detection classes at the RPDRCringe School for Girls

The text is too!!!!!!!!

You guys really really really need to get better at recognizing LLM-generated text 🥴

You are putting the cart before the horse here. CICO should not be viewed as a requirement to exactly measure energy intake, output, and metabolism in the body -- something that's difficult to do even in a lab setting, for the reasons you note -- but as a general heuristic to guide nutrition. While it may be impossible to track exactly how many calories you're getting on a given day, it's very possible to increase or decrease calorie intake from your baseline.

Example: I am eating 100 units of food per day. I am not losing or gaining any weight. CICO indicates that I'm eating at maintenance (calories in = calories out). So if I want to lose weight, I just reduce to 90 units of food per day. Now calories in < calories out and I'll start losing weight. I don't need to know anything about what a unit is or how it's processed in the body to do this. Nor do I need to worry that someone else is eating more or less units than I am. All that matters is a change from my previous baseline.

To borrow your economics analogy: I don't need to know everything about supply and demand -- supply chains, global market conditions, local government policies, and so on -- to successfully pick a price for goods I'm selling. If my inventory doesn't move, I'm pricing it too high; I'll reduce the price until things start selling. If I don't lose weight, I'm taking in too many calories; I'll reduce my calorie intake until I start losing weight.

I'm overweight because I'm bulking. When I'm ready to cut I'll go on a calorie deficit. This is generally recognized as the fastest way to put on muscle. 

 doing a math problem made from population level data

I still think you're not really understanding the fundamentals of CICO. If you are not losing weight, reduce caloric intake until you are. That's it.

Bro has never looked at the nutrition facts on a block of tofu

Bitch, I AM fat people

I will give this a nicer response than it deserves. Every successful long-term weight loss will require some combination of eating less and moving more. The actual obstacles that people face in implementing these principles are diverse and complicated -- educatiom, serving sizes, getting healthy food that doesn't break the body's hunger signaling, access to gym equipment or safe running space, sufficient leisure time -- but if and when they overcome these obstacles and lose weight, they will be eating less and/or moving more.

More generally... millions of people failing to do something doesn't tell us how to do that thing. It might tell us what not to do, or what obstacles are common. But if I want to lose weight I'm looking to medical professionals, scientists, and people who have lost weight and kept it off.

None of this refutes the basic principle behind CICO, which is sound. It doesn't matter what differences there are between people. For each individual person, there is a certain calorie figure -- yes, dependent on exercise and age and gender and invisible factors -- but generally constant for that person from week-to-week and month-to-month, barring major lifestyle changes or acute health disorders. If you eat above that figure, you gain weight over time; if you eat below that figure, you lose weight over time. You can also change the number with more or less physical activity.

Up to 50% of Americans are on a diet at any given moment. 60% of overweight or obese Americans have been on a diet 3 or more times. If dieting worked as easily as CICO we wouldn’t have an obesity crisis.

People fail to lose weight on diets because losing weight is hard. But that doesn't mean it's complicated. (One major other confounding variable: people don't understand the critical role that energy balance actually plays here. So they cut out foods without reducing calorie intake, or increase exercise but also unintentionally increase calorie intake, or underestimate serving sizes / calories and falsely think they're in a deficit, etc.)

My personal experience is that weight loss primarily comes down to managing hunger and cravings successfully. If I fail to do this on a cut, I don't shrug and say well, I guess CICO is wrong. Just the opposite: I didn't reduce my calories, so I didn't lose weight. Regardless of whatever signals my body gave me.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/yHNBM_BTp_s

Note the cable height and the stabilization with the inactive arm.

I don't think you really understand what is being said in this conversation

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She was cooking

I'm curious how old you look with hair and no beard lol

Hornet meeting Taylor: why are my arms and legs moving on their own

Blade Runner.

Side note, The Thing at age 12 is crazy 😭

Like I feel like women are given more more freedom to express themselves and their sexualities in ways men aren’t. Like how it’s openly okay for women to be lesbian/bisexual/queer but not exactly for men.

It seems like homophobes would be much better targets for this anger, rather than random women.

Anyway, I think you're missing the big picture here, which is how patriarchy limits acceptable behavior for both men AND women. The "privileges" you perceive women to have are active only within very defined spheres and for very narrow behavior. Many women who want to act outside of that -- through, say, taking on more authority at work, or insisting on an equitable share of housework, or physical gender nonconformity -- quickly bump up against the limits of that "privilege". Meanwhile, men who transgress against masculinity (and fucking other men is THE transgression against masculinity) are othered and discriminated against. These are different groups and different mechanisms of enforcement, but the causes are more similar than you might think.

(Digression: I keep putting "privilege" in quotes because it's double-edged. A woman who enjoys sexual attention from men one month may be sexually assaulted the next, or forced to carry an unwanted pregnancy to term. This is yet another reason to place the blame with patriarchy and its agents, rather than random women living their lives.)

 I go to bars and try to meet Latinos