Dispel Puns

pretty cool 2nd half 😁👍🏻 I love when magicians (of any alignment) come on and display their intelligence, wisdom and sophistication and dispell (pun intended) the stereotypes. George actually asking provoking, escalatory questions 😳 now I just hope some other magician calls during phones and challenges him in some arcane tongue and insider nomenclature

EDIT: FAQ bottom of the post

Update: 6th December 2021 Monday (Australia) - Money received in my bank, shit thats fast. Screenshot and CS transaction posted below

I hate to do this but it had to be done for the greater good, stop spewing bullshit about how hard it is to sell on Computershare, my limit order literally went through in 10 fucking minutes.

(Now I realised when I check the pending transaction the status was already on "Awaiting Settlement", at the time I wasn't sure if that meant the order was executed. So in reality it can execute instantly, however I didn't screenshot/video it so we'll just go with "10 minutes" when the confirmation email arrived)

I'm happy to provide further proof to mods if needed.

Proof:

Email notification after placing order: *NOTE: I'm from AUSTRALIA hence the time difference*

Removed reference number / account names

https://preview.redd.it/3qiowei05a381.png?width=1244&format=png&auto=webp&s=c33d456041a8ecbaec4b925ed35bf11d7becc5a1

Literally 10 minutes later:

https://preview.redd.it/9r5xz4w15a381.png?width=1355&format=png&auto=webp&s=ed5cbfaa90ed63b8c6f096cad4f358499422c587

Pending Transaction Details in CS

https://preview.redd.it/wbu2zep25a381.png?width=908&format=png&auto=webp&s=4d55c45581089450b5aa8de0e9bb405aa4a899c1

Hope this will stop the Computershare FUD, don't award me - just UPVOTE to spread the words

FAQ1. Why are you doing this?

I noticed there are still a lot of questions/uncertainty/claims on Reddit and Twitter regarding selling on Computershare. So I thought what better way than to verify it for myself and the community.

2. "Lol no1 is doubting the sell speed of CS, its about how much you can sell it for" / "wow big deal you sold 1 single share outside of MOASS"

You think your frontrunning, PFOF mf brokerages who turned off the buy button / "typo" extra 12 million shares to short would let you sell anywhere near/above Computershare's limit during the MOASS? (Which they are working to increase as per AMA) fucking lol.

*3. Where does the money go?*You have 2 options:

A. Receive the proceedings via Cheque which will be sent to you via physical mail (You can also request for courier service for a fee)

B. Direct Bank Transfer is the option I selected, I will update this post when the funds arrives in my bank account. Keep in mind it may take longer because I am from Australia.

NOTE - thank you u/Jtdesi123 **bank acc

We all come from a number of backgrounds, and I often see people saying things like:

• Motivations of Reserve Bank are X

• Politicians own property, this is a major driver in lack of action

• Real Estate agents _____ (insert numerous/uncountable assumptions here)

• Many, many, more!

I'd love to hear from anyone who's seen something that's just not true but hasn't bothered to correct it - would be good to dispel some notions that are commonly assumed to be true.

At 32 years old and 7.5 years after first beginning community college, I finally obtained my Bachelors degree (in Statistics). However, since graduating and submitting >200 applications without success, I can't help thinking that I wasted almost 8 years of my life. As a result of this experience, I'm immensely skeptical that self-teaching programming is also a false promise, and that those who post success stories here aren't representative of most people on this sub.

Please convince me that I am wrong.

EDIT: A lot of responses assume that I've already begun to "learn programming" (sort of, not really). I put 8 years into community college/university, but completing my degree got me nowhere. If a degree and high GPA from an accredited program at a highly-regarded institution didn't work out, how will self-teaching?

That's what's happening

I don't know what set it off, maybe Alec really is going to be indicted and the money train has left the station

Maybe it already left, regardless, due to fallout from Rust, but something's going on

She's never directly addressed Bellygate before, though she's known about it for ages

Everyone knows she isn't Spanish or from Spain and has average, "indulged child of wealthy, well-travelled parents" ties to the country, AT BEST

Since these are the biggest & most talked about controversies online, these are what she's trying to put to bed the hardest

So expect a lot more preggo pix, maybe we'll even get a few delivery room vids or obstetrician testimonials, and expect an ENDLESS trickle of muy Español gifs, memes, captions, and food products.

It's all coming.

Strap in.

All this time I thought you should "use it" to make it work. All those bosses while bell demon was in effect smh. After I dispel it I finally beat Lady Butterfly and Genichiro relatively easy. (F*ck you Gyoubu I beat your ass with bell demon)

Specifically with Subsaharan Africa.

Since the 10-Q was posted yesterday, I've seen a lot of FUD revolving around the following statement:

https://preview.redd.it/gs6tbe444l481.png?width=766&format=png&auto=webp&s=50a6dc2a3c3659b41b020b42edccc14dda29c77c

Based on this, there are people talking about how GME cannot issue a dividend until 2026 (the date of maturity on the new line of revolving credit)... My. That's a big ol' piece of FUD to start spreading immediately after an earnings call that directly spoke to the company's Web-3 transformation. Hmm.

Why is it FUD, you ask?

Because Gamestop can absolutely still issue a dividend and anyone who says otherwise is either ignorant of boilerplate legal contracts OR wants to deliberately trick you and new apes in to thinking a dividend isn't a possibility.

Let's take a look, shall we? The previous screenshot looks pretty scary. Restrictions on their ability to issue dividends? Oof... But, fun fact: Restrictions on dividend issuance are common in basically ALL loans to public companies.

And yet many of them issue dividends all the same. How, you ask?

Well... those restrictions only apply when the issuing company (GME) owes money to their lender and a dividend would cause issues with payment on their loans.

Easy. If you owe the lender money, you need to account for it. That's it. If you can pay your lender, you can issue a dividend.

If you're curious, you can use a free trial on the following website to get an idea of what a boilerplate loan of this type looks like: https://content.next.westlaw.com/9-501-7208

ta;dr - GME can give special banana to apes if GME has enough normal bananas to cover what they owe to their lender.

* BONUS *

Because I hear this all the fuckin' time too... Yes, a dividend can be issued with negative EPS. The only thing that matters (aside from debt obligations) for issuing a dividend is RE - Retained Earnings.

If GME has enough cash on hand from profits over the entire lifetime of the company to pay for said dividend, then they can issue it. Full stop.

Whose fault is this bad design? Paizo or Owlcat?

NOTE: I kept trying to submit this post with all sources attached for my quotes, but it continued to get automatically removed for ‘blog spam’. I couldn’t figure out which link was triggering it so I decided to just take out all of them except the ones for images. If it’s okay with the mods, I’ll post them in the comments.

It’s 2022, but even two years after Rise of Skywalker and well into a global pandemic, it continues to be a common misperception in many Star Wars fan communities that Rian Johnson chose to transform the trajectory of the movies away from Rey as a biological Skywalker and towards Rey and Kylo as a romantic pair.

And time over time again, especially in certain circles, JJ Abrams is heralded as a valiant champion of the Rey (is a biological) Skywalker movement, a creative whose post-TFA outline supposedly included pairing Rey with a particular ex-Stormtrooper or a Resistance pilot, or with no one; an outline that was then foiled by Rian.

Others may not describe JJ’s skills in the same way, but echo the sentiment that he was someone who was simply pigeonholed into a romance for TROS by TLJ or the studio, and that neither JJ (nor Kasdan) set up any romantic threads for Reylo in TFA.

Unfortunately for those people, nothing could be further from the truth. Instead of writing my own long-winded thesis out of whole cloth, I will simply redirect readers towards those receipts, with the necessary context and commentary attached…

To begin, JJ told a fan in the audience during a film festival in 2016 that Rey’s parents weren’t in the movie:

>”Rey’s parents are not in Episode VII. So I can’t possibly say in this moment who they are. But I will say it is something that Rey thinks about, too.”

Han, Leia, and Luke are all in TFA. By default, she was probably never going to be the child of any one of them, and with that in mind, even the possibility of Rey being Kylo Ren’s cousin at the time seem, narratively speaking, slim.

For the record, I personally believe that, although JJ likely didn’t have much planned past TFA, he was probably most interested in having Rey be a nobody (albeit, in a much different way than Rian ended up doing) or a descendant of Obi-Wan Kenobi, before Ep. IX. I never thought she was a Skywalker—it was way too obvious of a setup, and the story being told in TFA before TLJ or TROS came along seemed to aggressively set up any serious future threads away from a Skywalker lineage reveal, while brin

A lot of discussions around Elite include a reference to a "10 year plan", as if Braben has a clock on his desk counting down to Dec. 16, 2024 at which time development will immediately cease. I think the wiki is partly to blame for the persistence of this myth, as there is a section titled "10 Year Development Plan" on the Development Plans page. Here is the one and only source for the existence of the "10 Year Plan":

"Looking back at those (developer videos), you can see what we've done, we're executing on the plan. There's still a lot of things that are to come and those are very exciting. We do have a long plan. It would take us a long time to deliver all the things that we want to do. The great thing is the more things get added to the end of it. So it may well be never ending. I've said sort of 8 years, 10 years, but actually it could end up and I'm hoping it'll be a lot longer than that. The key point is we'll keep doing exciting things and we'll work out how best to do that." - David Braben

How people extract "10 year plan" from this quote is beyond me. Obviously Frontier is going to keep developing Elite for as long as it makes them money, be that more or fewer than 10 years (I think we all hope more). A complex software project like this just isn't planned out 10 years in advance in the way that some people seem to believe. There is constant re-evaluation and adaptation to changing factors. Let's put the "10 year plan" talking point to rest.

I know relying on a random weapon skill probably isn't the best strategy in the world, but if you can nab one, it can easily save the run for any unit lacking in dispel. Along with one or two emergency shared skills, it'd be more than enough to deal with Kai Yan or Ciella.

Maybe weapons can have other skills with dispel, but I haven't found any so far.

Having it saved my Lucretia run here. Side note: Lucretia without Gala Thor's energy feels kind of bad.

:(

https://twitter.com/APMarkLong/status/1469049503147872256

I very recently posted an update with Lupoi included in it, this would be a massive hire, and by many accounts its a done deal. Nothing official yet though, so cautious optimism.

I looking for something to prevent

DM: you try to open the door, but it seemed to magi-

Wizard: i cast dispel magic

The other day, someone posted in r/aspergirls about why guys who are into anime seem to have yellow fever, and the thread quickly became inundated with autistic women complaining about how creepy autistic men are. Like I get that we might miss social cues more often than neurotypical men, but goddamn, it was disheartening to see even autistic women having such a low opinion of us. It reinforces one of my worse fears that I’ll never be loved or appreciated for my Aspergers, but only in spite of it. Autism pride or acceptance doesn’t matter, learning social cues doesn’t matter, because even autistic women associate their male counterparts with being creepy. How can we change the narrative?

Dispel magic is probably the most underrated powerful ability in the game. Almost all of the strong enemies in WOTR come prebuffed to a ridiculous extent and it's essential to dispel those abilities in order to do any decent damage. The best part is that you can usually dispel all of those buffs with a single action through various dispel abilities.

For most bosses, it is easily worth an additional 20-30 attack bonus until the end of the fight.

As an example, being able to reliable dispel Playful Darkness gives you an effective additional +25 AB. 12 of that comes from directly removing 12 AC providing buffs (haste, barkskin, shield, foresight) and 13 comes from being able to catch Playful Darkness flatfooted after dispelling his true sight and foresight. And you can usually dispel all of those buffs in one standard action if done correctly. Dispelling true sight in particular is game changing as it allows you to use displacement and mirror image for defense, which are huge buffs and significantly decrease damage done to your character.

How to dispel:

All dispel effects involve a roll between your caster level and the level of the enemy buff. Every enemy buff level is manually assigned per enemy and is usually 20 during the later half of the game. The DC of the roll is 11 + the enemy caster level compared to a d20 + your caster level.

The generic way to dispel magic is to use Greater Dispel Magic. This will attempt to dispel every effect on an enemy, rolling for each effect. This is a level 6 abjuration spell, which will become available on wizards around level 11.

Unfortunately, Greater Dispel Magic is very inconsistent. When both you and your opponent are the same caster level, you only have a 50% chance of dispelling any particular effect. However, you are usually underleveled compared to your opponents and dispelling often only has a 30% or lower success rate.

Luckily, most of the mythic paths have ways to dispel magic more consistently.

Trickster:

• Tricksters can use Mythic Trick Trickery 2 in order to dispel more effectively. It's an infinite use standard action that dispels except with your trickery skill level - 20 as your caster level. It's rather straightforward to reach 62 trickery, so you can effectively reach a caster level of 42.

Litch/Angel:

• Both Litch and Angel let you merge spellbooks. This allows you to reach a caster level of 30 for your spells, more than enough to dispel everything. Litch also has

Sometimes the GME subreddits feel like echo chambers. I deliberately delved into FUD and tried to let it scare me.

It did.

Of course it did, that's what the purpose of creating FearUncertaintyDoubt is about. However, when you're convinced of something, you stand by your decision in following the route that potentially brings you to what convinced you in the first place.

I created this file for myself to dispel FUD. A lot of DD that has been done over the last months has been debunked and even though that's sad, when you go a certain route you discover things along the way and readjust your focus. Sometimes you take a different that you didn't intend on taking initially, but eventually you'll arrive at your destination; the place you did intend to reach.

This post won't dispel all FUD, but it's all I need to keep believing in what I invested in.

I like the stock. That's something that has been said a lot of times, but if you truly like something, you won't just give up on it.

Of course not.

First image: Mark Cuban explaining during early year AMA what it means to have a thesis and believing in it.

What follows is a list of reasons why I invested and stay invested in the stock I myself like.

• Basically, all that is happening summarised is:

1. Someone read about a stock
2. Someone goes long and buys shares of that stock because they like what they read
3. They are very interested in news and sentiment surrounding the stock they like
4. They plan on staying long on the stock they like
5. They plan on selling part when the stock’s price increases significantly
6. They plan on reinvesting in the stock they have and continue to like

Nothing wrong with the above, so why attack people on that? Let them hold what they like.

• News articles featuring sentiment to have people sell GME.
• Preventing the buying of shares of stock in January/February 2021, which would not happen if everything relating to the stocks worked properly.
• Proven correlation between GME and other media-dubbed ‘meme stocks’.
• No significant news other than new fulfillment centres, new management members added, but stock price still at heights higher in comparison to pre-2020 GME.
• Relatively low share float.
• Overhaul in online commerce platform, while also adding a lot of new product categories, not only aimed at video games and gam

Ian Kershaw is perhaps the best working English historian on the subject of the Third Reich and Holocaust. His work, particularly since 1991, has caused a revolution in academic approaches to German society between 1933-45. His detailed studies of the Holocaust do not focus exclusively on the spectacle of horror, but rather how that horror arose from state and society.

However, outside of professional history, a pre-1991 view predominates. This approach to Holocaust studies is an artifact of the Cold War, where there was a political need to create false equivalency between the Third Reich and Soviet Union. Arendt’s theory of Totalitarianism, the basis of Horseshoe Theory, starts with the premise that the USSR resembles the Third Reich, Stalin Hitler and so on, and falsifies or omits evidence to support that conclusion.

Kershaw, in the essay quoted below, does not exonerate the USSR of human suffering, or Stalin of paranoia, but simply demonstrates that rapid industrialization and heavy-handed response to cyclical famines are fundamentally rational state projects supported by violence, as opposed to the Third Reich which was guided by the principle of charismatic leadership and so pursued violence for its own sake, with no definitive goal.

> The renewed emphasis, already visible in the mid-1980s, on the intertwined fates of the Soviet Union and Germany, especially in the Stalin and Hitler eras, has become greatly intensified in the wake of the upheavals in Eastern Europe. The sharpened focus on the atrocities of Stalinism has prompted attempts to relativise Nazi barbarism—seen as wicked, but on the whole less wicked, than that of Stalinism (and by implication of communism in general). The brutal Stalinist modernising experiment is used to remove any normative links with humanising, civilising, emancipatory or democratising develop- ment from modernisation concepts and thereby to claim that Hitler’s regime, too, was—and intentionally so—a ‘modernising dictatorship’. Implicit in all this is a reversion, despite the many refinements and criticisms of the concept since the 1960s, to essentially traditional views on ‘totalitarianism’ and to views of Stalin and Hitler as ‘totalitarian dictator

> But the fundamental problem with the term ‘totalitarianism’—leaving aside its non-scholarly usage—is that it is a descriptive concept, not a theory, and has little or no explanatory power. It presumes that Stalinism and Hitlerism were more like each

We have all been there, seeing our plane's guns of choice spark like hell while those of the opponent instantly kill us. This is meant to be a simple guide to help dispel those harebrained "bias" accusations. For guns featured in several nations, they will be listed in the nation using them the most often and/or the one they originate from.

Make sure to spend quality time with the family this Christmas, and happy hunting for all the battles afterwards.

America:

• 7.7mm Browning & 12.7mm Browning .50cals do not have any explosive mass, they focused on kinetic and fire damage
• 20mm M2/M3, M3 just shoots faster, T31 cannon is identical to M3, Colt-Browning shoots faster still
  • HEF-I: 14g explosive mass, 18.34g TNT equivalent (TNTe)
  • Colt-Browning HEI: identical to the above
• 37mm M4/M10, M10 just shoots faster.
  • HEFI-T: 45.4g explosive mass, 65.83g TNTe
• 20mm T160 cannon (F-86F-2)/M24A1 cannon (Sabre-Dogs), M61 & M61A1 use same ammo but shoot faster
  • HEF-I: 10g explosive mass, 16g TNTe
• 30mm GAU-8/A
  • HEI-T: 58g explosive mass, 92.8g TNTe

Germany:

• 13mm MG131
  • IAI (Should be HEFI-T but is also ancient): 1g explosive mass, 1.7g TNTe
• 15mm MG151/15
  • AI (Should be HEFI-T but is hopelessly outdated): 1.1g explosive mass, 1.87g TNTe
• 20mm MG C/30L
  • HEFI-T: This round is so ancient, dating back to the 2012 Closed Alpha, that it doesn't even display an explosive mass when you check it on the statcard. Old code not meshing well with newer damage models explains why this sparks so much.
• 20mm MG FF
  • FI-T: Also so outdated as to have no explosive mass listed, even though fuse delay and fuse sensitivity are.
  • APHE: Same case as above, but with a 1.5m fuse delay that makes them totally useless against nearly all aircraft targets.
• 20mm MG FF/M, MG151/20 has the same ammo but shoots at higher velocity and fire rate.
  • HEI: 18.6g explosive mass, 29.75g TNTe
  • Same outdated FI-T and APHE rounds as above
• 30mm MK103
  • HEI-T: 72g explosive mass, 86.4g TNTe
  • HEI: 85g explosive mass, 102g TNTe
• 30mm MK108
  • HEI-T (normal & night tracer are identical, latter should have brighter tracers): 75g explosive mass, 90g TNTe
  • HEI: 85g explosive mass, 102g TNTe
• BK 3,7
  • HEF-T: 90g explosive mass, 108g TNTe
• 50mm HE rounds have too large of a fuse delay to be practical for killing fighters, they spark because they frequently overpen and explode harmlessly outside

Dispel Magic, RAW says: > Targeted Dispel: One object, creature, or spell is the target of the dispel magic spell. You make one dispel check (1d20 + your caster level) and compare that to the spell with highest caster level (DC = 11 + the spell’s caster level). If successful, that spell ends. If not, compare the same result to the spell with the next highest caster level. Repeat this process until you have dispelled one spell affecting the target, or you have failed to dispel every spell.

Caster Level, RAW says: > A spell’s power often depends on its caster level, which for most spellcasting characters is equal to her class level in the class she’s using to cast the spell. > > You can cast a spell at a lower caster level than normal, but the caster level you choose must be high enough for you to cast the spell in question, and all level-dependent features must be based on the same caster level. > > In the event that a class feature or other special ability provides an adjustment to your caster level, that adjustment applies not only to effects based on caster level (such as range, duration, and damage dealt), but also to your caster level check to overcome your target’s spell resistance and to the caster level used in dispel checks (both the dispel check and the DC of the check).

Then somebody ask: how to bolster the Dispel Magic DC. And the answer is: > Spell Save DCs are based on four factors: > > the base constant (10). > The Spell's Level (0–9). > The Spellcasting Ability Modifier (Int, Wis, or Cha). > Miscellaneous Modifiers

"Spellcasting Ability Modifier"? But Caster Level is not based only on class level used to cast the spell + class feature or other special ability ??? Am I missing something?

• You've read the DD (You read it, right...? Best read of your life)
• You saw it LIVE as the criminal terrorists , Vladimir Tenev aka "Vlad the Stock Impaler" of "Robbinghood" (Robinhhood Brokerage), and Ken Griffin of "Shitadel and friends" (Citadel LLC) absolutely destroyed $GME all the way down from a high of $483 down to the $40s in a matter of minutes.
• IMMEDIATELY AFTERWARDS, and sometimes before... ahem MarketWatch, CORPORATE MEDIA such as CNBC, CNN, FOX, etc.. said that the shorts have closed, but it's already been 1 year now and I ain't fucking leaving baby! "Meanwhile, SHFs be like:

https://preview.redd.it/a0sjwmr05r881.png?width=456&format=png&auto=webp&s=a7baefcab1245474cd8f98258b6fd36910bbe686

Market watch predicting $GME price drops before they happen

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• You also saw in the official court filing against Robinhood, that the official short interest at that time was 226% (not accounting for hidden shorts such as the ones in the ETF XRT)
  • You've also seen that the official reasoning for the run up was for neither a short squeeze nor a gamma squeeze. The run up was simply due to RETAIL'S BUYING PRESSURE. The SNEEZE didn't even start at that point. Shocker. /s
    • In my opinion, that was the SHFs one and only plan and chance to shake retail, but they miscalculated. They messed with the wrong jungle (I think I'll take a break here to eat my green crayon.. writing is hard oof). Also, if they could've stopped us by now, they would've already done so by now, but they can't....
• You've also seen many SHF (Short Hedge Funds) who are short $GME, bankrupting and closing up shop periodically. But, but, I thought shorts closed? /s

Let's call them as they are... say it with me, "CORPORATE MEDIA"!

https://preview.redd.it/mlls02745r881.png?width=459&format=png&auto=webp&s=c56f1762aeadc93f987c5c1f8fce666abe3490de

https://preview.redd.it/70zwxn765r881.png?width=420&format=png&auto=webp&s=c9295b1396f469adf940e1c0b3e80553ec973311

• You've also seen these criminal bastards start to backstab each other. Remember when Ken Griffin, Vlad Tenev, Steve Cohen, and the other clowns started pointing their fingers at each other during and after the official $GME congressional hearing? Absolutely hilarious

https://preview.redd.it/81imubk75r881.png?width=2

It’s 2022, but even two years after Rise of Skywalker and well into a global pandemic, it continues to be a common misperception in, and occasionally out of, Star Wars fan communities that Rian Johnson chose to transform the trajectory of the movies away from Rey as a biological Skywalker and towards Rey and Kylo as a romantic pair.

And time over time again, especially in certain circles, JJ Abrams is heralded as a valiant champion of the Rey (is a biological) Skywalker movement, a creative whose post-TFA outline supposedly included pairing Rey with a particular ex-Stormtrooper or a Resistance pilot, or with no one; an outline that was then foiled by Rian.

Others may not describe JJ’s skills in the same way, but echo the sentiment that he was someone who was simply pigeonholed into a romance for TROS by TLJ or the studio, and that neither JJ (nor Kasdan) set up any romantic threads for Reylo in TFA.

Unfortunately for those people, nothing could be further from the truth. Instead of writing my own long-winded thesis out of whole cloth, I will simply redirect readers towards those receipts, with the necessary context and commentary attached…

To begin, JJ told a fan in the audience during a film festival in 2016 that Rey’s parents weren’t in the movie:

>”Rey’s parents are not in Episode VII. So I can’t possibly say in this moment who they are. But I will say it is something that Rey thinks about, too.” (Source)

Han, Leia, and Luke are all in TFA. By default, she was probably never going to be the child of any one of them, and with that in mind, even the possibility of Rey being Kylo Ren’s cousin at the time seem, narratively speaking, slim.

For the record, I personally believe that, although JJ likely didn’t have much planned past TFA, he was probably most interested in having Rey be a nobody (albeit, in a much different way than Rian ended up doing) or a descendant of Obi-Wan Kenobi, before Ep. IX. I never thought she was a Skywalker—it was way too obvious of a setup, and the story being told in TFA before TLJ or TROS came along seemed to aggressively set up any serious future threads away from a Skywalker lineage reveal, while bringing them closer to a Nobody or (more distantly) a Kenobi one.

In June 2013, JJ was quizzed about the possibility of an on-screen ‘love story’ for the new Star Wars sequel trilogy in a French newspaper: