Bret Max

I don't think anyone ever said it doesn't take more skill. Just that parsing high does take time and effort and skill also. If you say it doesn't, then you have >5000 hrs played in WoW and your opinion is not reflective of 95% of the player base anyway. As a multi glad PvPer orange parser, I think you qualify as the top 5% of players in terms of investment, so you would be among the best players of the game and your opinions shouldn't be used as a barometer of reality. Of course it would feel easy to someone like you. Tbh, you'd have issues if it didn't with that level of commitment.

@iStevoo2k @Lichmouorne @bigpapa0_0 @bretmax @ballistic2k3 @N_Tys26 As a multi glad pvper and an orange parser PvP takes Much more skill. These fights are against 20 year old AI.. lmao

𝐑𝐀𝐈𝐃 𝐋𝐄𝐀𝐃𝐄𝐑 𝐂𝐑𝐀𝐒𝐇𝐄𝐒 𝐎𝐔𝐓 𝐈𝐍 𝐌𝐀𝐆𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐑𝐈𝐃𝐎𝐍'𝐒 𝐋𝐀𝐈𝐑 While some players enjoy World of Warcraft's competitive raiding scene, there are those who take it a little too far. The raid leader completely crashes out on his team after missing out on a rank 1 parse...

I didn't move the goal post, it's just easier to believe that someone says it's not skill when they have the results to prove it. I exclusively mentioned >90 parsing. If you've locked in 99's for a phase and still say it requires no skill, I'd still disagree, but you'd have more weight in your opinion.

@bretmax @iStevoo2k @ballistic2k3 @N_Tys26 You moved the goalpost from 'we create strategy' to 'show your 99 parses and perfect memorization'. Memorizing solved boss patterns + copying spreadsheets isn't high skill. It's just good memory and execution. Real skill is adapting vs thinking players in PvP. i was a pve player.

So you're saying there is no strategy while explaining that we copy strategy developed by other players? Post all of your 99's and a SS of you logged in as the character in your log link to confirm that you're perfectly executing the highest performing strategies and I'll concede that there is no skill. I'm not saying it's hard, but I will stand by the fact that many people fail to execute well or even try to perform in the >90 parse bracket.

@bretmax @iStevoo2k @ballistic2k3 @N_Tys26 actually i don't and most guild master copy top guilds strategy. i played pve don't act like we do shit. we watch a 10 minuets video on mechanics and strategy and we move according to that while pressing keys rotation correctly.

@iStevoo2k @ballistic2k3 @N_Tys26 This makes no sense. Everyone hitting 99s is impossible on a rating system based on performance statistics. It's essentially a leaderboard, like when you play an arcade game.

@bretmax @ballistic2k3 @N_Tys26 Not difficult to do in Classic WoW 😂 Everyone hitting 99s are doing the same shit what someone else did 20 years ago. It’s all predictable AI. Nowhere near PvP level

There is tremendous trade off and planning that goes in to >90 parsing. People are constantly optimizing strategy to squeeze out a better performance. Doing your rotation is just a 50 and the minimum imo. I understand you are not killing other player's characters, but you are out strategizing them and working as a team to do it.

@ballistic2k3 @N_Tys26 No, what it is mate is you pressing the same rotation as everyone else. You do the same shit over again, pray for crits and hope your gear drops. Nothing you do takes skill. Every boss in classic has been discovered and it’s predictable. You know when mechanics take place

@mukki01204303 @N_Tys26 Truth

@N_Tys26 In 2007 raid leaders crashing out sounded x1000 more masculine than that.

@AdamAdamator @CoachDanGo Running and doing a bunch of cardio to lose weight, especially if you are overweight, will pump your body full of cortisol and make losing visceral fat that much harder. Walking burns calories and doesn't inflame or stress the body. It's very different.

@CoachDanGo “Don’t need to do cardio” “Get 7-10k steps a day” ⁉️

I got my abs back at 46 and I didn't use GLP-1's, TRT, or peptides. Here's what I wish I knew before getting lean again: 1. You don't need to do cardio to lose weight. In fact, your focus needs to be on weight training so you can keep muscle and maintain a healthy metabolism.

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@MLGW Ia there anywhere we can find an update on why water is being cut off on Covington Pike? Is it related to the water main break? We can't call the offices and have no water.

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Well, you have a lot more confidence and faith in the government than I do. If they were tracking people, they wouldn't need to use the dark web. I have been browsing it since the mid 2000's. It sounds like a scary thing you can tell non-technical people that don't understand it to make them believe they're doing it. My point is more that there is no way they could track millions of people that took it unless something were injected with the vaccine, which would be nano sized. So you'd have to believe in a wifi capable biologic reading nano spec being injected into humans when the technological capability of human beings is no where near being able to accomplish such a thing. That's miracle level technology and we are a long from that. My conclusion from listening to doctors talk about it was that a small minority of people taking the vaccine experienced negative side effects like myocarditis and that, ultimately, it was just not very effective in fighting COVID. I've listened to all of the Joe Rogan's and read RFK's books as well as Turtles all the way down and Suzanne's book that I forget the name of right now. This event was much more than about making billions of dollars than it was about killing billions of people, but yes, people died in the process. It's all sad. But it's really easy to believe that they wanted to make billions and billions of dollars with no need to do anything you're describing.

@bretmax @harryfisherEMTP Oh, and someone did discover that they are tracking these people on the dark web.

Someone I really care about. That I truly respect. A fellow paramedic. Looked at me and said yesterday, “I’ve got cancer in my liver and it’s moved through my body, this will be my last shift with you.” Then he looked really sad and said “yes Harry, I know it was from the Covid shot.” Needless to say, I’m fighting depression at the moment. Please pray for my friend. God bless

I appreciate that. My wife is in the same boat as I am and a couple years younger than I. I think you're giving a lot of credit to science to assume that they could develop a vaccine that has a staggered effect that could impact people 4-5 years later. If it were a placebo, they would also have to track every single person or control group which would be an INCREDIBLE logistical task. These are people that can't even get your license plate to you on time or keep a budget. You're really giving them a ton of credit with no real evidence to support that any of this is happening. I'm not trying to argue, but I am also saying that you shouldn't live in fear and anxiety. Your daughter taking off work and coming to stay with her parents believing she is going to die is not a good place to be in life. Especially not in your mid-30's. Cortisol kills more people than vaccines ever will. Not to mention the impact it can have on relationships and responsibilities of all kinds.

I hope you'll be ok Bret. A lot of people do fine after - for a while - and then it gets them. It's staggered so that people will not catch on and there is a placebo - because it is an experiment. I think my husband got the placebo. Our neighbors who were also following it said if his card ended in a 1 he got the placebo and it did. I'm glad you are ok now...I hope it continues.

@Becky7pd @harryfisherEMTP That's the one I took and I am your daughter's age. I just ran my first marathon and I'm also about to enter the 1000 pound lifting club and am generally in the best shape and health of my life. No adverse effects and never got COVID once. She's fine.

It's so sad!! Horrible how many people now know. Right when it came out, everyone I wanted to warn had already taken it. Sometimes I would ask someone "have you had the shot" and when they said yes I couldn't say anything back - they said "why...what? what do you know about it?" and all I could say is "well, I don't think it's really healthy. Don't take any more". My own daughter went into a meltdown, because she took a Pfizer behind my back (she's 34 now, so...her choice) - and when it came out she said "who told mom!", but when she found out what they were she actually went into the stratasphere and had to come home for a few days while her husband watched the kids. She was terrified she was really a walking dead person.

@poneilexpress @CoachDanGo Most people aren't athletes and many people haven't been fit their whole lives, so it makes sense to communicate things like this to the majority.

@CoachDanGo You'll continue to get massive pushback from athletes. I never had a care in the world to diet at all when I was racing bicycles and I had sub 15% body fat all the way through my 50s. You're simply never going to get away with this argument. And cardio makes you FEEL GREAT.

Cardio is a terrible primary fat loss strategy. First off, you don't know if you're burning 400 cals in a 45 minute run. Also, extrapolate that over a full week and you're committed to 225 minutes of JUST cardio. Exercise trials show diet (or diet+exercise) drives most weight loss, not cardio alone. Jogging when overweight is high‑impact and injury‑prone vs lifting + walking being low‑impact and muscle‑sparing. Cardio is amazing for heart health and VO2 max, but that’s a different argument than what’s best for fat loss. Use diet, lifting, and walking as your base for fat loss. Cardio is optional. If you love doing it great. If not, skip it and learn how to control the foods that go in your mouth.

@TatabusaR @Rainmaker1973 Yes he did. Him and PM bought a van and sold hair care products from the back of it and turned it into a 700 million dollar empire. He also owns patron tequila.

@bretmax @Rainmaker1973 Guy climbed his way from the dirt

It was 2005, the company still exists today: it's called "tree T pee", and is now worth 100M$.

@BalkanManic11 @newstart_2024 My point was about doublethink. This was a concept coined and defined in 1984 by George Orwell. You're debating semantics and missing the point entirely. I would expect that with someone that has a bicep for a profile picture, so that's fine.

@bretmax @newstart_2024 Both are true. For example h1b visas from india are not lazy, but they do screw over white collars by undercutting citizens for jobs which lowers the salary across the board. On the flip side you have immigrants from somalia of which 80% are on welfare. Youre low iq, try again

Whitney Cummings just shredded the contradictions in 25 seconds of pure fire: - “We don’t believe in gender… but we need a female president.” - “My body, my choice… unless it’s a baby that needs a hep B vaccine (which comes from butt sex or sharing needles).” - “The seas are rising because of climate change… but we live on the coast and bought beachfront property.” Logic? Nowhere to be found. 25-sec clip — savage roast of modern hypocrisy 👇 Which contradiction hits you hardest? Drop it below.

@glannsberg @newstart_2024 The example was not about hypocrisy. It was about double think. It was a word defined and coined in 1984 by George Orwell.

There’s plenty of hypocrisy on the right, but these are horrible examples. Americans use public welfare and compete for jobs. Immigrants use public welfare and compete for jobs. These are not mutually exclusive. You will also struggle to find Trump voters who would have told you America was the greatest country in the world the day before Election Day 2016 and the day before Election Day 2024.

@mtaibbi How did I scroll so far and not see anyone point out that an act of war is different than war? An event vs a broader state of being. It can be an act of war while also not being a war.

If someone took away our president we would consider that an act of war.

@InForTheFun_ @jack_schroder_ @bryan_johnson Your doctor's words accurately capture the thinking of modern medicine. It's reactive, not preventative. Which word would you like used to describe your own health care? It's interesting to think about. Outlive by Dr. Peter Attia is a great book about this if you are interested.

@jack_schroder_ @bryan_johnson He feels good and looks good. And doesn't have known problems. As my doctor says we're not gonna worry until something causes problems. They are situations and situations. Sometimes you manage the lesser evil, sometimes like him you optimize for a goal. He's doing an experiment.

There is so much wrong with @bryan_johnson's blood test results - that if you told me that it was just a regular individual who doesn't do any health interventions (let alone spending millions of dollars a year), I'd honestly believe it. I'll unpack it all below: