[The Pleasure Principle]
Namesake: Song by Janet Jackson
User: Monte Moir, once a quiet and intelligent man from Memphis, Tennessee who was depressed by his state of life. He started getting into hardcore drugs, and lived only for the feeling of ecstasy. One day, he was kidnapped by a mysterious organization and was pierced with a stand arrow. His newfound power gave him a superiority complex, driving him insane with a belief he should be worshipped as a god. He kidnapped nearly a hundred people and brainwash them to create a cult in his name.
Appearance: A light green humanoid whose body is illuminated and shaped with rough polygons. It wears glasses with shutters, a green suit and bracelets and necklaces adorned with emeralds. It also has polygon-shaped shoulder pads. This stand is surrounded by floating shapes like cubes, pyramids and 3D rhombuses.
Stats:
- Power: B
- Speed: C
- Range: C
- Durability: C->A
- Precision: B
- Potential: C
Abilities:
Shape Creation: [The Pleasure Principle] has the ability to solidify photons and create geometric shapes out of light. Moir can use this to create many different forms which can be used offensively or defensively. He can create relatively simple shapes to complex, 3-dimensional polygons, his true limit is his imagination. Some of his attacks include:
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A 2-dimensional, circular blade which can be thrown like a frisbee. It can cut nearly anything, but is also rather slow and easy to dodge. It can be used as a shield or a close-range weapon. The major downside is that it takes a lot of energy to create, and can only be used several times in a moment.
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A barrage of small, triangle shaped blades which can be used at a long range. It involves a hundred tiny blades hitting a target at breakneck speeds. While it does not deal a lot of damage, it leaves lots of small cuts on an opponent.
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The third is a dimensional barrier which takes the form of a dodecahedron. The user can shape it around himself or an opponent, as it is almost invulnerable. When the barrier is around an enemy, he can slowly compress it until the person inside is crushed to death. However, this barrier takes a very large amount of energy and focus to create and maintain it.
http://twitter.com/PeteThamel/status/1201014997326979073
NJ.com article: https://www.nj.com/rutgersfootball/2019/12/this-time-its-real-greg-schiano-returns-as-rutgers-coach-after-miraculous-reversal.html
Site link: https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/product/the-talos-principle/home
Twitter announcement: https://twitter.com/EpicGames/status/1211315941814022146
Mankiw is the 11th most cited economist and the 9th most productive research economist in the world. His “Principles of Macroeconomic“ textbook is the best selling macroeconomics book in the world by far.
This man’s book writes the definitions of macroeconomics. The same way Campbell‘s book does for Biology and Halliday, Resnick, Walker do for physics.
If you think you understand inflation more than this guy, you technically can’t. His book is the reference for the first and second paragraph on the wikipedia page for “Inflation”.
EDIT: Timestamped link: https://youtu.be/HDKfdmbCuvw?t=31615
Edited with more direct link: https://247sports.com/Article/NCAA-working-on-new-image-and-likeness-policy-for-images-137661019/
https://twitter.com/247Sports/status/1188880177981464577?s=19
Maps designed primarily for Breakthrough. Famous battles, not that "unknown battles" crap. Epic atmosphere and action. Perfect in-game music (start of round, end of round etc), unlike most the of the other maps where the in-game music feels kind of random. Even war cries at the beginning of the match exactly like Bf1, which the other maps dont have.
If DICE from the begining had combined the new gameplay elements with Battlefield 1's design principles, Battlefield 5 would have been the greatest WW2 game ever made. All that was needed was Battlefield 1 + WW2 theme + some improvements. What a damn shame.
It hit me today how I got to where I am now, and why you have to hire 3 or 4 guys to replace one skilled person when they leave. It's a similar concept to the Peter Principle where people get promoted to the level where they are incompetent, except without the promotion and extra money. It's this:
Skilled IT people will be given additional responsibilities until they are spread so thin they can no longer perform any of them skillfully.
Here's the link of her saying that, which was previously posted on this sub today
The relationship between production capacity, efficiency, cost margins, and profit is a basic tenant of math and business, and I'm not disputing that. But I am disputing that you can run schools like factories. I really dispute that quite a lot. I did not have my accountant parents raise me, take extra econ electives in high school and college, and run my own business for years for this woman to try to pull one over on teachers. Nah. Hell nah.
Here's another website Mrs. Devos might find useful. If she would like to reach out to me for other resources or worksheets to practice citing sources, she can email me or message me on Google Classroom.
