Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OWn30Z3pkE -- This is really just a demonstration of how things could/should look from one end, and how things shouldn't look from the other end. This isn't for solo players or people who aren't interested in trying.
I give an overview/walkthrough between 0:39 and 7:40 to give an idea of what people should be doing from both positions, then the rest of the video is just showing actual gameplay.
TL:DR Send at least one person mid, and least one person inside doors (you have to pass the door). It's a really tight timing vs people who have a clue, but it works to convincingly win matches.
Grenades are really important. Don't waste grenades, need to have at least one person's grenade up at the start of every round.
A lot of people I run into in comp don't really seem to understand mid control on this map. I don't exactly know how to play this map, but generally teams that get control of mid tend to be the winning team. On some maps one decent player is enough to give the enemy team problems, this doesn't seem to be one of those maps. Feels like it takes the entire team making the same level of effort if the enemy also has all three players running mid.
Round 1
11:42 - This is an even round due to picks at the start. Should probably show why top mid is better, and why outside is not. Enemy player who went mid top had no support, the enemy teammate who was there to help with door ditched (20:21) for some reason even though they knew I was going there. My teammate who went mid had "support," didn't do much but it was still significantly more than enemy team player had. I think they would've won this round if Chief stayed to fight me (e.g. what happened last round of match).
20:23 - A lot of people hate having teammates like this, and a lot of people who say he shouldn't rush mid like this. It looks like stupid blind rushing, but for me personally I try figure out ways to support players like this since I'd rather play with this type of player vs a passive player. They could've won off this push, and I'd probably blame the other two before I blamed this guy. Some people fault the first person to get picked, but in a good amount of cases the last people
... keep reading on reddit ➡i've read several times about people having a "no old men" rule when drafting. but i've found this has actually led to a lot of value since these old men slide a lot in drafts. this makes it possible to get a lot of value by loading up on old men. guys like conley, horford, lowry, aldridge, rubio, etc have been having stellar years.
Pros:
-good value
-dependable, less variation game to game
-you know what to expect, these guys aren't changing their games dramatically at this point
Cons:
-more rest days
-more injury prone (no data to back this up, just an assumption)
-less upside
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- For example, who comes up with the plans for invading another country? Who decides how to mobilize and utilize the various branches of the military?
- Obviously, the President is the "Commander In Chief", but they aren't the ones to come up with the strategy and tactics to win a war.
(Maybe r/socialism101 would be a better place for this, but this subreddit is the one stop shop for anti-imperialism so I thought it would also work here)
It’s a thought that’s been going around in my head for quite a while. Ever since the first planes and balloons people have tried to win wars through the air alone. Whether through binging London with Zepplins during WW1, bombing London with planes in WW2, or strategic bombing Dresden during WW2 as well(who would’ve guess WW2 had a lot of bombing in it.) But what I want to talk about is the American Strategy and Air command from 1944 to the present.
This story starts in 1944 when Air Force General(and admitted war criminal and war monger) Curtis Lemay is put in charge of allied strategic air command. Under him, the United States started the terror bombing of Dresden and other axis aligned cities in Germany and Japan. The US military itself said that this strategy didn’t work(mainly because people in totalitarian dictatorships cant do much in the way of objecting to said totalitarian dictatorship). However, this strategy continued. When the Korean War started, the USA terror bombed it as well, Lemay himself saying that, “we killed 20% of the population.” And General Douglas MacArthur attempted to persuade president Harry Truman to use tactical nuclear weapons on the Chinese. Korea was eventually a stalemate, but the strategy continued. During the imperialist war in Vietnam, more tons of explosives were dropped than during the entirety of WW2. North Vietnam was, “bombed back to the Stone Age.” Eventually the US lost Vietnam as well, but the strategy continued(at least somewhat.) The US in Afghanistan utilized bombs to “deal with” terrorists that they didn’t want to send ground troops to deal with(which led to massive amounts of civilian casualties). In 2003, the US attempted to expand its empire into Iraq and it and its allies unleashed a shock and awe campaign(bombing was also prominent in the gulf war several years earlier.) While the US did win the war(with ground invasion forces), they attempted to use the same drone strikes in the following years all across the global south, hitting intended targets about 1/3 of the time and not really being affective at anything other than more radicalization.
Obviously this is a massive oversimplification and a Reddit post. I’m also not qualified to be talking about any of this, so it’s probably not correct. But I just wanted to bounce these ideas off some peopl
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This episode contains strong language.
Heading into deliberations in the trial of the three white men in Georgia accused of chasing down and killing Ahmaud Arbery, an unarmed Black man, it was not clear which way the jurors were leaning.
In the end, the mostly white jury found all three men guilty of murder. We look at the prosecution’s decision not to make race a central tenet of their case, and how the verdict was reached.
On today's episode:
Richard Fausset, a correspondent based in Atlanta.
Background reading:
- How a prosecutor addressed a mostly white jury and won a conviction in the Ahmaud Arbery case.
- “It’s good to see racism lose”: The murder convictions were praised by many.
You can listen to the episode here.
Tried playing as Mexico to get the achievement, but get my ass kicked by the US every single time. How did you do it?
This is an extremely important point especially today. Localized peace talks is an extremely targetive, surgical method and also much more effective plan than any put forward by Duterte.
Let me explain, the NPA/NDF leadership and its organization subsrcribes to localised version of Maoism propagated by Jose Marie Sison. This version's important parts to be noted states that "Revolution can only achieved via a People's war". In other words there are willing to send teenagers to die forever until them or every other member of the central comittee has died.
This part of JMS's ideology led the Communist Party of the Philippines to hunt and kill the members of the Partido Kommunista ng Pilipinas led by the Lavas and Luis taruc's Hukbalahap kase they wanted a peace negotiation to end their side of the war.
Cut back to modern times, you can see from impossible demands by the NDF peace process the sincerity towards their ideology and unwillingness for peace.
So how is leni's strategy going in effect?
The NPA is organised as Independent cells all across the Philippines that have minimal contact with their superiors. This is for security purposes so information is compartmentalised. This have led towards some level of command independence in their action.
By focusing on localised peace process and trying to woo individual cells rather the entirety of the NDF/NPA which cannot be wooed in the first place. Leni can with open arms lead the cells exhausted with war to peace while those more militaristic cells would be dealt with militarily.
This undermines the Central Committee's reliability on its military structure. And Undermining is really needed for peace in this. Cells have to independent, other than limited support and have a first hand view on how the wars is. The central committee will not give up and simply opt to replace loss cells with new recruits.
As first and only move, play Bo a0.
Moving the board one square towards you will make the enemy king fall, along with all its court.
Your reign will even gain some pawns!
I'm fascinated by the idea of small city-states being able to punch far above their weight class, but mostly overseas. They had a far harder time dominating their own "countries." Athens couldn't conquer the mainland Greek states, and Venice, Genoa, Pisa, etc, did poorly when they tried to dominate the other Italian city-states.
Part of the picture is clear — they had plenty of money from trade, which gave them resources they could use to conquer overseas territories.
But Look at Pisa, as an example. Pisa's fleet and army made conquests on Sicily Northern Africa, Sardinia, and the Balearic Islands, feats of logistics and manpower that even major powers like the Byzantines and Romans had failed at. Many of these places had strongly placed defenders and considerable resources. Why were the Pisans able to defeat them with relative ease, but they could make no inroads in Italy proper?
More broadly, why did this model work to an extent, but never really allowed the city-states to become larger empires?
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I could add Carthage to the list, but they seemed to hold a lot of territory in Africa, which perhaps makes them more of an empire with lots of overseas holdings and strong fleet/merchant marine rather than a "maritime city-state with imperial ambitions."
Every war the US tried to win by “winning hearts and minds” is a war the US lost. The wars the US won were the wars where we applied a “total war” strategy, which included genocide, targeting civilian infrastructure and food production.
People here talk about socialists winning the presidency, unseating moderates, and pushing the Democratic Party to the left. But at the end of the day, if you want policy to be enacted, Dems need to win the Senate, a house that is tilted towards constituencies like non-college educated whites, who currently favor Republicans and Republican priorities.
So, what should the American left do to win over Republican voters and hold the Senate?
So there is always a lot of discussion on SG scoring, especially when SG flips up the team placements being played last/late. I actually think that SG scoring cant really be fixed further, the whole point of SG are these coin differentials and a chance at dodgebolt.
Knowing that SG will definitely be played if its one of the last games, what are some strategies that can be employed by teams which are winning (top2) to not get targetted, and maintain their lead?
I decided to post this comment I wrote in response to the comment by /u/Centaurea16 as a stand alone post with some expansions.
>"Get vaccinated or lose your job, you vermin!" Not exactly a winning strategy for numerous reasons.
And provides ample opportunities to open yourself up for attack because you're threatening people's livelihood. This isn't the first time either.
When Anti-lock down protests were occurring, they focused on the asshats that "Wanted to go to Applebees" and the crazies and the rich entitled fucks and the MSM literally hid from sight the people that were protesting saying "We can't afford the lockdown because we're not getting the promised support and losing our jobs/small business, we're losing everything we have, I can't feed my kids....etc."
>A new Pew Research Center survey finds that, overall, one-in-four adults have had trouble paying their bills since the coronavirus outbreak started, a third have dipped into savings or retirement accounts to make ends meet, and about one-in-six have borrowed money from friends or family or gotten food from a food bank. As was the case earlier this year, these types of experiences continue to be more common among adults with lower incomes, those without a college degree and Black and Hispanic Americans.
>Among lower-income adults, 46% say they have had trouble paying their bills since the pandemic started and roughly one third (32%) say it’s been hard for them to make rent or mortgage payments. About one-in-five or fewer middle-income adults have faced these challenges, and the shares are substantially smaller for those in the upper-income tier.1 To be sure, some of these financial pain points may have existed even before the pandemic – particularly for lower-income adults.
>Job loss has also been more acute among certain demographic groups. Overall, 25% of U.S. adults say they or someone in their household was laid off or lost their job because of the coronavirus outbreak, with 15% saying this happened to them personally. Young adults (ages 18 to 29) and lower-income adults are among the most likely to say this has occurred in their household.
>Of those who say they personally lost a job, half
... keep reading on reddit ➡As enticing and captivating as it is to hear stories about someone turning $8k into a billion dollars, the reason it grabs your attention is that it’s an anomaly. Can you make thousands off of a $100 YOLO? Sure. Could you get rich by throwing everything you have into an “Inu” coin and retire? Yup. If you’re prepared to lose it all, go bananas. But if you want to remove emotion from your trades (which is consistently advised to make long-term gains) then set yourself up to profit from multiple scenarios.
Market dips and you’ve got stables set aside? Sweet. Buy that dip and strengthen your position. Market crabs and you’ve got coins in a LP with two assets that are strongly correlated? Sweet. You’re generating interest on your assets while the market moves sideways without any impermanent loss. Market pumps and your portfolio does a 5x? Sweet. Take some profits and wheel that capital back into stables or a riskier position when you’re playing with house money.
It ain’t sexy but it’s honest work. You don’t need to wish you bought BTC ten years ago. Profits are still there to be had and there will be more gains down the line.
According to Investopedia, A dark pool (DP) is a privately organized financial forum or exchange for trading securities. Dark pools allow institutional investors to trade without exposure until after the trade has been executed and reported. One of the reasons a dark pool is needed is to avoid the impact of very large trades on financial markets. An extremely large trade, if filled on normal exchanges such as NASDAQ/NYSE, can cause a massive effect on the stock price. This creates a need for off exchange trades and dark pools fill that role.
Although dark pool trades take place off exchange, there are still many benefits of knowing about them. Knowing when and at what price a darkpool trade occurred can provide great insights to a trader, as we will discuss in this guide.
But isn't Darkpool Data Supposed to be Private?
Before talking about anything, this is the first question that needs answering. Darkpool data is inherently secret but some efforts have been made recently to make darkpool data publicly available. A few vendors and services have emerged that can provide darkpool data feeds to retail traders. Although the data costs are huge, the strategies we can build can be worth the price. One of the most important things to know about dark pool data is that it never comes with information on the trade side. That means we never know whether a trade was a bought or a sold position. We can only make assumptions based on how price reacts afterwards.
A side note here - in Tradytics Darkpool Tools, we also consider very large Block Trades in our DP data as well. Block trades are filled on normal exchanges, which means we do know whether they were filled on the bid (Sell) or the ask (Buy).
Darkpool Trading Strategies
This section is going to be the core of this blog post. Since we do not know the direction of darkpool trades, it can be tricky to effectively use them to form trading strategies. However, as we will see in this guide, there are a few ways we can make use of this data and create winning strategies.
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A darkpool trade consi
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