Perhaps now there's a change in pedagogy. But during Wikipedia's early years it was a constant refrain from any teacher I had, through middle school, high school, and even a bit of undergrad, that it could not be cited or even trusted. That was ~2001 to 2011.

(I ignored them and used it anyway, especially to collect secondary sources and use them as springboards for additional research.)

Perhaps so. But the typical terminology in arpgs is to describe something that double-dips into damage modifiers as quadratic, and has been for a long time. It may be more accurate to simply describe such behaviors as exponential instead, but I'm going with the customary argot.

Improved Fireball, for a clear example. The burning damage ramps up and allows for enormous damage ticks that can spread to other mobs, which is why the highest current Pit clear is from an Immortal Fireball Sorcerer build.

An indirect example is that of the Holy Bolt Elixir scaling; it scales with enemy HP, which itself scales exponentially with Pit level, which is why most high Pit clears use HBE to create cascading damage explosions on large mob groups and allow for trillion-damage ticks on big elites when a single small mob dies.

Bosses already have trillions of HP at 140 and only a handful of quadratic-scaling ramping attacks can hope to kill a specific subset of the ones that have a lot of trash mobs.

At 200, with the way scaling currently works in the Pit, you'd be looking at bosses with a few quintillion HP, since each 10 levels increases mob HP by a factor of 10.

OP, your link is broken on old.reddit.

For anyone wanting to access it without editing the url, here it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aV_xB4gsKWo

I've seen this character in Morrowind.

This has major "Agent Jay shooting the little girl cutout in MiB" vibes.

https://www.benjaminlcorey.com/could-american-evangelicals-spot-the-antichrist-heres-the-biblical-predictions/

Try 30* years.

Well, hopefully we can fire them at their next performance reviews in November.

Sure, but as a general practice you shorten the full regal title to their most notable peerage. You know, like Charles, Duke of Cornwall. Or in this case Convicted Felon Donald Trump. He has a great many lesser titles, but it's only proper to place central honor on his grandest achievement.

Highly doubtful as to that second point. The cultists can scream all they want: actual polling shows that it's already a poison pill for a large number of independents, who are going to decide the election as usual, and that it's also shaved off 5-10% of Trump's more wishy-washy voters.

"I'm just gonna vote for him harder" is the battlecry of a desperate lunatic.

If he's actually sentenced to prison, that'll be (obviously) even worse for his waning influence on non-cultists. But we'll have to see in a month and change as to whether that happens.

How many chests are you actually opening? The non-orange chests despawn and respawn at regular intervals in a Helltide, and you usually have around 10-12 chests on each of the two sides (three sections in Kehjistan). If you kill and move fast enough you can get every single chest plus a few respawns.

That is so disrespectful.

...You're supposed to capitalize titles and honorifics. It's Convicted Felon Donald Trump, okay?

What don't you understand? The premise is very simple, and oft-repeated: All Democrats are criminals, and no Republicans are.

Therefore, if a Republican is punished by the criminal justice system, it's because the criminal Democrats corrupted the system. And if a Democrat is punished, that's because the law is just and wise.

Welcome to deontology. The duty is to be Republican and the intent is to do Republican things, and therefore anyone Republican is necessarily moral and anyone not Republican is necessarily immoral.

Frankly, your stats are pretty bad, you're using PA, and Jean doesn't have the shredding buff powers of Kazuha or even Sucrose. The numbers look fine given those circumstances. Get better artifacts if you want a meaningfully higher throughput without getting his sig.

Mierdas*

He just tells it like it is!

And you get more shards, which means more chests, which means more loot and more hearts.

You need to open more chests.

You can get 20 in a given Helltide by opening chests in the last ~20 minutes after amassing 1500+ shards, with plenty of shards left over. Or of course open chests sporadically throughout, but the point is, you get hearts from chests, and a person only getting 6 per Helltide is not opening a sufficient number of them.

You've clearly never played PoE before.

And D3 had similar scaling issues with GRifts, except that the scaling was built into sets instead, and thus tunnel visioned builds into specific broken scaling that Blizzard had expressly approved via set bonuses.

Because that's how infinite scaling works. If a system has an infinite difficulty cap, the only way to reach the highest cap is to do the most broken thing to overcome the scaling, which invariably—in an arpg like Diablo—means some combination of abilities and gear that leads to absurd scaling of damage and survivability. If your absurd scaling is far beyond the norm, it is reflexively referred to as "cheese" by people with average power builds that cannot do the same thing. Whatever has the highest threshold of damage and survivability happens to be that cheese to others. If that specific highest power build were nerfed or removed, then the next highest one would become the highest one and that one would be referred to as cheese.

And it just so happens that if the system scaling in question involves monster HP and monster damage, there will be a point somewhere where the HP is too great to clear without broken mechanics within a period of time, and the damage is too great to survive without immunity, so therefore the best builds are immunity-spamming builds that have broken scaling interactions (and in this case, also manage to abuse the Holy Bolts elixir, which is intrinsically fucked because it scales based on monster HP).

"Cheese" is an emergent term. There aren't builds that are objectively "cheese"; just builds that by virtue of their power are accused of being cheese by people running other, less powerful builds. It's like if you were in a race with the rules "you can use any vehicle of your choosing," and 20% of people chose bicycles, and 20% chose motorcycles, and 40% chose cars, 10% chose sportcars, and 10% chose multi-million-dollar top-of-the-line customized racecars. Most people didn't choose the racecars because they didn't have the money to do so, or the skill, or just the personal taste. They liked something else. But when the race starts, the sportcars pull ahead of everything else pretty fast, and the racecars just absolutely blitz the competition. The people riding bicycles quickly decide they'll get a car or a motorcycle instead because they just can't compete. The people in cars and motorcycles are being trounced by the racecar drivers specifically, but also by the sportcar drivers. But the racecar drivers are the ones that really stick out. So the people in cars say, "Hey, those racecars aren't fair! They're way too much better than everything else!"

So the tournament organizers say "okay, racecars with these features can no longer compete." That kicks out 1 and 2. Now there are 8 racecar drivers left, and people still accuse them. So the organizers ban more racecars, and now there are only 3 left. They can no longer achieve the historical fastest speed, but they're still ahead of everyone else. Now the organizers ban all racecars. The sportcars couldn't compete at all against the racecars, but now they're the fastest ones. So now they're the cheese, even though the fastest speed is far lower than it was when the racecar drivers were in play. And complaints still pour in.

The only solutions to stop the complaints for even a little while are: 1. ban everything that is better than average, 2. make the average better somehow, or 3. make it so that the race has a flat difficulty cap and average can clear with the same reward as best. Of course, complaints will still arise in the future: under 1, it's because average becomes best, so now worse than average is envious of average; under 2, the same thing happens as 1, because someone wasn't buffed enough; and under 3, the people who really wanted to prove how fast and cool they were feel like they're stuck in a kiddy sandbox because everyone gets the same participation trophies.

tl;dr Systems create stratification. If the system has an infinite difficulty curve, then only the most broken techniques can reach the highest on that curve. Complaints will always happen from people who for whatever reason are not willing or able to engage in those broken techniques, and accusations of "cheese" will occur when one build can intrinsically get further than another.

https://www.reddit.com/r/TrumpCriticizesTrump/

Enjoy. Unfortunately it's been defunct for a while, but there's a lot of good historical posts in there.

I actually fully retract that. I conflated Cohen with Steve Bannon. That was the Trump associate who Merchan presided over. You're 100% correct.

I still stick with my general sentencing prediction as a matter of standard NY sentencing for this type of crime, but you're right, Merchan did not preside over Cohen's case.