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I mean, Americans love to chant about America. (The United States of. I know that America refers to the whole shebang, but United Statesians is honestly the worst) ppd does have a twitch emote that's a US flag. I think an entire enculturation process that tells as that the USA is the best is hard to shake, if you want to, and most people don't know why you would want to stop thinking that USA #1. It's why we care about only the world cup and like the olympics. We want to show that the US is best at all things, so even if there's a Canadian on EG, we are like, ehhh 4/5 players living in the US is close enough. Canada is viewed as a non-threatening little sibling, so that Aui_2000's presence doesn't disrupt our view of EG as an American team.

@Badfinger, so part of the problem is that valve as a whole is super opaque with the decision making process. So EG got invited directly by valve to compete in the international. Valve doesn't really say what qualifies you for an invite, but we know what they value based on who they do and don't pick. They value roster stability, so if you kick someone from your roster in like the month leading up to the tournament you're going to get your invite de-graded (like going from a direct invite to invite to the qualifiers) They value performance in other tournaments throughout the year. (For example EG won the largest non-TI tournament of the year with their current roster) Dota fans (and valve fans in general) are always oddly zen about the lack of information, which baffles me. Also 100% of Dota knowledge comes from just pure proximity. I don't play Dota, I have no desire to play Dota. I'm comparable to a football fan who literally only watches the Super Bowl, but understands the structure of the playoffs and thinks some of the boys are cute. I don't understand plays, but I do understand rules. I don't understand move pools, but I do understand vaguely what the positions are.

http://blog.twitch.tv/2015/02/visual-mapping-of-twitch/ Twitch says yes. Also as Twig mentioned above there were teams directly invited and some wild cards. Those wildcards were one of 2 different categories: direct invite to qualifying tournaments, open qualifier tournaments. So there were tournaments for mostly 2nd tier teams that were invited to compete for an invite to TI, and then there was an open qualifier where anyone could sign up and try and play into an invite.

Luckily this deadmau5 performance will lull you straight to sleep afterward, if you did stay up.

I'm very excited for everyone who is brought into the forums through this show to be very confused by the m o b a -> lords managment replace.

I think DePaul as a population is going to skew more conservative than many other schools. On a slightly different note of 18 year olds saying absurd things, my senior year of college I heard a freshman at the bus stop claim that his friend had invented the act of drinking a beer in the shower, as if the bower has not existed for generations. (My favorite version of the bower, just from a naming perspective, is the bower in which you masturbate. You call it the 24, because it's a Jack Bauer)

http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/depaul-university-1671 ​ Judging from this + this http://www.depaul.edu/about/Pages/key-facts.aspx Here's what I can tell you about DePaul: tuition is expensive and financial aid isn't very generous. A full 2/3rds of the student body is from Illinois, and I would bet that 2/3rds of those are from the Chicago suburbs. These students likely fall into 1 of 2 camps. Either they're rich and not smart enough to get into Northwestern or University of Chicago or they may be Hispanic and the Roman Catholic affiliation is appealing to them. When I was in high school DePaul sent me a lot of mail, and while there aren't that many people involved in the Greek system there, it always came across as very upper class and very bro-y. When you pull a bunch of kids from Naperville into the city, and they go to a wealthy private college and may have to see people less privileged than them, they're probably going to say the most inane things. (Also that school in Iowa, if it is indeed Grinnell as I suspect, I got waitlisted there, I think pretty much solely because neither my teacher nor guidance counselor turned my documents in before their deadline, and since we were on Christmas break, I had no way of reminding them. YES I'M STILL BITTER. NO I DIDN'T WANT TO GO THERE. Between the time I sent out my applications and when I got acceptances back, I had made up my mind where I wanted to go, and it wasn't to the middle of nowhere.)

The Wicked + The Divine is legitimately amazing

This is another piece in a long string of pieces of "liberal college students are SJW who refuse to engage with opinions they don't agree with." I think this piece is far more favorable than most as it, I think, correctly addresses that college communities are trying to make spaces that are more welcoming to more people. It also has that "look down their nose" attitude about midwestern/plains states that always rubs me the wrong way. As soon as you use the phrase "flyover states" I instantly respect you less, as you clearly don't respect where I am from. I went to a tiny liberal arts school in St. Paul aka the other twin city with Minneapolis, and the student activities committee definitely made efforts to book non-offensive performers. They would book a hypnotist for freshman orientation for example. I'm sure my classmates went to that conference, and I'm also pretty sure the students from the Iowa school were from Grinnell (aka one of the most academically rigorous schools in the country) There are all these stories that refer, without detail to other stories about students ruining the lives of professors for them doing some misunderstood joke or something, but I've never actually heard of that happening??? Like is this something that's actually happening or just what grown ass adults are wringing their hands over because wouldn't it be terrible if I got fired for sleeping with an undergrad student?

https://www.facebook.com/bbcnewsbeat/videos/10154195124034968/?fref=nf

I totally get you Twig. I think that if you're thinking about Women as real human people, you're doing like 99% of the work, and this is not something you have to worry about as much. You'll still need to think how things will come across to women and how that may be different, but you might not make tasteless/boring/unoriginal jokes to dudes either, so there's less of a double standard there. It's natural to feel frustrated. It's valid and healthy. It's just you're fighting against generations of dudes who weren't treating ladies as people (as you know) it sucks that we have to try and work to undo that damage.

I think places like twitter facilitate a feeling of over-familiarity that can lead to easily crossing boundaries that one might not even be aware of. For instance I see a lot of women on twitter complain about a behavior that annoys them and then men will reply to that tweet thinking it's a funny joke. Doing that to a friend can be funny, but doing that to a woman you don't know on twitter, when there are 3 dozen other chuckleheads doing the same thing to her probably isn't as endearing or original as you may have thought.

I think what the article is trying, in part, to do is point out that "white feminism" ignores the impact of race on Women of Color, but also the power that White Women can wield in a society that values the purity of WW over the lives of Men of Color. Like Emmett Till is a murder that happened to protect the purity of white womanhood over the life of a Black child. I think it makes a compelling argument about how couching the justified anger of the less privileged in humor does the frustration a disservice. I mean you don't have to buy the argument that using #misandry and #killallmen isn't as useful as it might appear at first glance, but I don't think these are unreasonable arguments. ^^Also what Sarah said.

I pay full price for WoW expansions. Other than that, I'm willing to pay full price for 3DS games, but because I get super bored of combat/violence as core mechanic games, I am never really in a position where I want a $60 AAA title. Shockingly enough, there just aren't that many $60 games where you just farm vegetables!

Oh Aui_2000, I adore you & your snuggie.

Ewokskick (Cory) & I have an obligation next Saturday (the 15th) but other than that August is pretty much clear for us. This Saturday (8/8) is the last day of the International, and I know Cory will want to watch that, which will likely absorb this Saturday. If we wanted to meet earlier in the day on a Sunday or something that would work out too, or if we wanted to do Saturday the 22nd. We should probably set up another scheduling doodle.

I used to use the insert key when I was younger. My dad had a computer whose sole real purpose was word processing, so I would type out little stories or "essays" in practice. If I knew I didn't like anything I had written, I would go back to the beginning, hit the insert key, and just write over everything that was there before. Mostly I just press it on accident now. This was before I knew things like shift+home or shift+pgup or ctrl+a to highlight everything and delete it, and i would have had to sit with the delete or backspace key pressed down.

Ulduar was the first raid I was a core healer for progression 10 mans and that was so fun. I would consistently top the DPS charts in the Flame Leviathan fight and then link overall dps charts the rest of the night as real DPS worked to make up the ground that the vehicle damage did, as it looked pretty silly for a holy priest to be at the top of the charts.

I think it's easy to get hung up on details in these videos, especially as someone who has had advanced math courses. We know enough to trip up over things that those with less knowledge wouldn't even notice, like the bounds on x values for a Maclaurin series. To cover each of those things, they would have to add extended explanations that would just confuse most of their audience, so I think they often times opt to leave those extended explanations out. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1_%2B_2_%2B_3_%2B_4_%2B_%E2%8B%AF The Wikipedia article also glosses over some of those rough corners Additionally the guy in the first video wrote this after making the video: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~ppzap4/response.html

I love that OneDrive syncs with the Microsoft music players so that I don't have to try and maintain music libraries across 3 computers and a phone, and everything will be accessible everywhere.

https://www.idlethumbs.net/forums/topic/9197-consolidated-id-exchange/ There's a link in this post to the ID spreadsheet if you would like to add people that way too!

This is maybe the greatest thing I've ever read.

Mr. Robot lost me in episode 2 when they made some principled argument for the Gold Standard. I know it's super petty, but it's true, and some Ron Paul libertarian bullshit that people my age have said to me before.

There's a second video where they talk a little more about use of infinite series in physics, specifically string theory. it also talks about when Mathematicians would use infinite series, and brings up the Zeta function (that's important for the Riemann hypothesis & the distribution of prime numbers.) Real Analysis deals with infinite series, as does, I assume complex analysis.