u/Magehunter_Skassi

https://x.com/TimRiceDC/status/2060858222882308263

As a zoomer, I so many other people in my generation who knew about Kik back in the day knew exactly what that app was getting used for. I'll be honest, cheating on his wife disturbs me far less than the fact this guy was on Kik at 31 years old.

Instead of thinking "fuck, I still have another two hours to go and I'm tired as hell and only making $16 an hour"

Think "holy fuck... this job is a 350g an hour goldfarm!"

Coworker wants me to cover a shift? I'll spend 8 hours making 2800g. Can put in a buy order for the greatsword Eternity.

Take half a lunchbreak? Worth it for 175G. I'll buy one of my e-girls some Vinebloom skins.

A customer kept you busy for an extra five minutes after you were about to clock out? You just made more gold than you would have farming the Silverwastes for an hour.

It's so easy dude. You should always be picking up more hours. You should always be converting your savings into gems into gold.

Ross Ulbricht created the Silk Road, where you could use BitCoin to purchase theoretically normal things. Mostly, it was used for drugs and stolen credit cards and illegal pornography. He was handed down two life sentences for his operation of this platform, and it was pretty obvious he was guilty of attempting to hire assassins (though no murders were committed, and he wasn't convicted of this). That bit was a factor in his sentencing.

This pardoning was a move that understandably upset a lot of conservatives. However, freeing Ross Ulbricht was something constantly advocated for by Libertarians, and this was seen as an olive branch to win over Libertarians in the general election. It was something that MAGA hated given Trump's whole anti-drug trafficking, tough-on-crime thing. I'm a MAGA cultist, and I hated it! But I understood that some concessions had to be made to keep this tenuous alliance, for however small of the electorate is represented here.

Has the Libertarian response to Massie's ousting, including many calls to vote for Democrats in '26 and '28 to punish Trump, made this seem like a tactical error in hindsight?

A fact that isn't often discussed when Karl Popper or this idea that he coined is invoked, is that Karl Popper was a former Marxist. He became disillusioned with the violence and chaos caused by the left, and started to perceive Marxist-derived philosophy as antithetical to an open society.

In the modern day, people have attempted to solve this paradox by redefining tolerance into a social contract. If you see tolerance as a contract, then those who violate it would no longer be bound by the protections of this contract.

This makes a lot of sense to me. You can still be a principled 2A supporter, but for example, object to left-wingers owning firearms. This is because Marxists believe they are a useful tool to obtain power, but then heavily regulate ownership after seizing power to keep them in the hands of party members. There's no hypocrisy in this under the "contract" theory.

The same applies to the principle of free speech. Someone who celebrates Charlie Kirk's assassination because of his words is not someone who believes in free speech. They are in violation of the social contract. Would you agree with this interpretation of Popper's idea?

EDIT: This got more traction than I expected, so to summarize: I don't think 7 million Karma is a great bottleneck for a Legendary for the reason that players seem to either have infinite Karma or make barely any, based on the type of activities they play. It would make sense to add Karmic Retribution to VoE maps to compensate, so you can more naturally progress to this VoE Legendary by doing VoE content.

The biggest sources of Karma-per-hour by a significant margin are Living Story Season 4 maps with Karmic Enrichment maxed out, and raids. Then annually you can get around 2 million karma during Wintersday from orphans with boosters. EDIT: Ignore the prior estimate. You can now get 200K a day off Wintersday with good booster timing.

Early GW2 ktraining in EOTM aside, unless you've done the above activities pretty often, you're unlikely to have a significant sum of Karma accumulated. You might not even know how to farm 7 million Karma because of how sharp the difference is between the above methods and everything else.

It's small enough in quantity from other sources that you can easily run out just by buying PSNA materials daily and converting Eternal Ice + Karma into LS4 mats for Volatile Magic.

It's a good thing for there to be more Karma sinks. EoD added the first significant one in the form of Aurene Legendary variant skins, and now we have a Legendary that requires 7 million. But if they're going to tie a Legendary to 7 mil Karma, it would be a good thing to add new Karma farm sources to the game. LS4 E6 was 7 years ago at this point, and most players don't raid.