u/Deus_Excellus

I cleared Kefka a couple weeks back. I haven't had very much time to PF so I haven't been able to get a reclear. I'd say I spend maybe 5-10 hours a week or so trying.

Many of my friends get reclears very quickly, sometimes on their first pull. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. I make mistakes like everyone else. I'm not saying I'm a perfect player. However, I pretty much never screw up p4, or p5. I haven't been hit by an exaflare in 20 some p5 pulls.

But my groups never clear. Many will get one p5 pull or so before disbanding. We'll wipe to something like celestriad and disband. I had an enrage pull where someone just stood in a black hole instead of moving with the party so it was an automatic wipe.

These parties probably could clear, but people leave so quickly that it just becomes an endless wait in PF.

I've heard there's an addon that lets you view people in the party you're going to join. Is that essential? Is there something on people's tomestones I should be looking for?

I am really unsure how to get a reclear of the ultimate without being forced to find a static. Do I just have to put in more hours? Are my friends just lucky?

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The suicidal empathy of "progressives" has caused unimaginable damage to Europe and they want to bring this garbage over here.

Supposedly there's a lot of new commander cards in Mystery Booster 3 or something similar. I've only recently come back to MTG after almost a 20 year break. So I have no clue about any of this stuff.

Where/when would I be able to buy these products?

In particular, I want the new Selenia, Cursed Heart print.

My understanding is this is limited, so should I expect to pay thousands for singles?

I'm told I don't have enough characters so did you know that if two quantum mechanical operators do not commute then the Heisenberg Uncertainty principle tells us that the uncertainty in the simultaneous measurement of their observables is proportional to their commutator? Okay that's enough characters.

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Hello all. I'm a PhD student at R1 university and I teach a variety of classes in a physical science. These tend to be senior-level classes for majors, not for general education.

I am depressed to report that nearly all of my students use AI in their lab reports. Often to the point that I am unconvinced that any of them actually engage with the material. Of course, it is very hard to prove any of this.

So I am unsure what to do. Obviously, I'm training to become a career researcher in this field. It seems like I am doing a disservice to my discipline by allowing these students to graduate with degrees in this field when they're not engaging with the material.

The professors of record generally dislike failing anyone, but they would with evidence of cheating.

So what is the end result here? If someone has a bachelor's in physics/chemistry with a graduation date after 2023 should I just assume they know nothing at all?

I'm sure none of the praetors were in Yawgmoth's league, but how about Yawgmoth's older servants like Gix, Crovax, Volrath, Greven etc? Are the new praetors more powerful than the old phyrexian leaders?

I'm not talking about in a straight fight. I'm just curious in terms of actual abilities. For example, Volrath's strongest ability was shapeshifting which, I guess, would make him an excellent assassin (even though he failed at it). Crovax can consume the life force of others to grow stronger somewhat indefinitely.

What can the new praetors do that make them formidable? Would any of them be strong enough to be Evincar by the older system?

I've always hated school ever since I was a kid. Nonetheless, I was always good at it, and my teachers always praised me. Naturally, I eventually went to college, and found my way into a PhD program. I love my discipline, it sits at the intersection of mathematics, physics, and chemistry. But I hate academia.

For many years of my adult life I always viewed obtaining a PhD and publishing papers as the definition of success. I thought that if I could publish papers I could contribute something to humanity, even if it was something small.

Having been in a PhD program for 3 years, I couldn't be more disillusioned. What I thought was a meritocracy is really just a combination of socioeconomic status and politics. And to be clear, I'm not bitter because I'm doing poorly. In fact, I'm doing quite well and I'm ahead of all of my department's milestones. I have work that can feasibly be turned into a first author paper. However, none of it feels meaningful to me anymore.

My department has a fairly strict 5 year graduation rate. I am a bit past the halfway mark. It seems foolish of me to leave with a master's at this point when there is a realistic path to finishing. However, I know that even if I do finish, I will no longer be satisfied.

I'm sure there are other people like me. How did you find your place in life after you became disillusioned with academia? Are places like national labs and industry research the same kind of egocentric environment for privileged individuals? I just want to solve interesting problems. I don't care about awards, citation counts, accolades, or any of the academic metrics that my peers care about so much.

I've been buying tons of singles off of Card Kingdom. While I'm not buying shit like Black Lotus or other high value cards, I frequently buy cards that are worth $100+. For example, something like alternate art Sheoldred, The Apocalypse, or Avacyn, Angel of Hope.

Do I have to be concerned at all that I might be being sent fakes?

Today I had my qualifying examination and received a conditional pass. I won't go into the reasons why other than to say that my committee felt that my interdisciplinary work may have favored one discipline too much over the other and was missing the target audience. The content of my work they seemed to think was strong.

Anyway, the examination was brutal. It was almost three hours. During this time I was asked to perform very strange tasks that I have never done before. I won't get into specifics in case this post is ever found. It was extremely adversarial and combative.

My advisor doesn't seem to be concerned about the result. She thinks that I did fine, and that I can fix what needs to be fixed.

But I can't shake it. I feel legitimately awful about the examination. The way people asked questions was completely hostile. Somebody even stopped me midway through a problem and just said WRONG WRONG WRONG almost yelling it.

Is this a normal experience? Everyone was very friendly afterwards and provided me with feedback on how to proceed. Even so it was jarring. Nothing I had heard about these examinations could have prepared me for this.

Is this what its going to be like to be an academic? I just want to solve interesting problems man.

I used to be a guy who followed MTG's story very closely. I read all of the novels up until the end of Torment many times over. I always loved the Weatherlight story and old phyrexia.

Do you think there is a way for them to write Yawgmoth back into the story? I'm not up to date on the lore anymore, but ever since the end of the Weatherlight Saga the story has seemed like it is missing something.

I've only watched UBW and Heaven's Feel and in both routes Shinji is a rapist and a scumbag. In both routes, bad things happen to him and the cast feels bad for him/saves him. Why?

Is this a culture thing? Do Japanese people not think being a rapist is unforgivable or something? It genuinely baffles me.

Let me give you some examples of things I've encountered during my time in academia:

1.) Teaching schedules emailed out less than 24 hours before classes are to be taught.

2.) Ask people if they want to meet in a particular month, but they don't mention they're leaving town for two weeks in that month.

3.) We have a process that requires a form to be filled out with students, and then the form is thrown in the trash five seconds later because nobody ever looks at or cares about the forms, but rest assured it is absolutely essential.

4.) Professors who run general education classes have no clue what their own syllabus says, and then are confused about a procedure related to absences that they wrote in their own syllabus.

5.) Some faculty members are illiterate. If you send them an email saying something they will respond without addressing what was explicitly written in the email. Sometimes you'll even get an email that is essentially a strawman response.

I want to clarify, I am very friendly to people. I don't complain. I just do my job, but it weighs on me having to work with people who are highly dysfunctional and disorganized. Will it be this bad when I leave academia too, or is this just what happens in environments where there is no accountability?

This video has been circling Reddit and most commenters are certain which party is responsible. The cop slams on his breaks to avoid an object on the road. The truck hits him at high speed. I won't say more because I don't want to provide any type of bias.

https://packaged-media.redd.it/fqhcgy1y1s0h1/pb/m2-res_480p.mp4?m=DASHPlaylist.mpd&var=sgpssan&v=1&e=1778842800&s=37cecd65af57938b5f23602dd0bac7d6e478f313

Who do you think is responsible according to the law?

Here is the original post in case that link doesn't work for you. Sorry for the additional legwork.

https://www.reddit.com/r/dashcams/comments/1tbfwd9/police_officer_stops_abruptly_in_the_middle_lane/

I found out today that a close family member of mine has late stage cancer. They discovered it unexpectedly. The disease has spread quite extensively and while treatments exist, I don't feel optimistic for their time remaining based upon what I've heard. It's not a cancer known for a high survival rate.

My family is being very optimistic. I don't think reality has hit most of them yet. Anyway, I'm rather unsure what to do. I feel quite bad for them. Does everyone just go on with their lives while someone else dies?

I don't really have anyone else to talk to about this issue. Nobody I know has gone through it. All of the deaths I've experienced in life have been unfortunate but sudden.

I love hearing from my PI that we don't have sufficient funding to allow students to have research-only appointments. I appreciate that my president who can barely read or do basic mathematics like calculating a percent gets to decide how much my group's research is worth.

It's really awesome living in a country where the dumbest people get to decide everything for everyone else. Logic? Reason? Nah, let's just go with feelings. Does it matter that funding science actually increases revenue in the US? He graduated from Wharton and claims to be a businessman, but good economic decisions? Nah, that's for them libtards.

Thank god he cut funding for woke science like cancer and dementia research too. You know who gets cancer and dementia? The god damn liberals! That'll teach em.