(Part 3) Top products from r/hearthstone

Just out of curiosity, what is your experience with addiction?

I've been a drug and alcohol addiction counsellor for 5 years now, and "recovered" from drug addiction as well. The reason I'm asking is because what you recommended is the exact opposite of the research that I'm aware of. Much research has shown that identifying the "root problem" has abysmal rates for continuous abstinence from whatever the addictive behaviour is.

The book I last read on the subject, which agrees with my point can be found here.

The only reason I use this book as an example is because it's the one I last read (mine is an updated version I believe), but also in every course I've had to take with professionals it seems to be agreed upon.

I'm not writing this to tear you down, but I'm genuinely curious if you have any evidence of success with identifying the "root cause" of addiction, as it's been pretty much dismissed from what I can tell.

Edit: I just wanted to add that a friend of mine just completed his MA in counselling psychology, and his thesis is based in gambling addiction, specifically the pathways model, which again focuses mostly on CBT and other treatments, but certainly not finding the "root."

Not sure what kind of genius she is but i bet some nice books would be awesome if she likes reading! I have been reading the Malazan series lately, nice multiple character "Game of Thrones style" fantasy novels, they are quite good. http://www.amazon.com/Gardens-Moon-Malazan-Book-Fallen/dp/0765348780

Since you said she is intelligent, i guess she also likes books, and I will give you a small list of the books both me and my GF liked, it are quite unknown books, so the chance she has them is small:

http://www.amazon.com/Werewolf-Winter-Short-Story-ebook/dp/B007TNMAHW

http://www.amazon.com/Found-Money-Peter-Watson-Jenkins/dp/0983601631

http://www.amazon.com/After-Forever-Ends-ebook/dp/B009ODTG86/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1377478271&sr=1-1&keywords=after+forever+ends+melodie+ramone

http://www.amazon.com/Have-Nice-Weekend-Ian-Ellis/dp/1466204168/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1377478323&sr=1-1&keywords=have+a+nice+weekend

http://www.amazon.com/Reason-Breathe-Breathing-Rebecca-Donovan/dp/147781714X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1377478368&sr=1-1&keywords=reason+to+breathe
(The whole Breating series is awseome, so you can chexk them all out)

I know many more, so if you need more suggestions, feel free to PM me!
GL pleasing her bro!

http://www.amazon.com/Foragers-Harvest-Identifying-Harvesting-Preparing/dp/0976626608/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1377479697&sr=1-1

Easily the best book on the market concerning foraging. Maybe you guys could go camping or geocashing and look for edible plants. At the very least it should make for an interesting and potentially useful read for someone who likes the outdoors and food.

Along a similar vain, this book:
http://www.amazon.com/Knew-Cleaning-Made-Easy-ebook/dp/B008GWMH0K/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1377479881&sr=1-4
is an interesting read about how to clean various stains with everyday house hold objects.

I'm not sure how she feels about marine or science type stuff but I really love it. Anyway, here are my ideas.

• A sculpture of her favorite animal, just something smallish.
  
• Aquascape a small fish tank for her? Here
  
• I liked this coral reef idea Here
  
• She's a genius, so perhaps a informative book? I'd accompany this gift with something else though, I wouldn't just buy her a book... This one is pretty good
  
  If all else fails just make her a card instead of buying one from the shop.

To get addicted? I would say the War of the Ancients trilogy, it covers a period in Warcraft known as the sundering but from a different perspective from Warcraft 3 as it focuses on 3 characters 'created' by the author (technically you can say it was blizzard/knaak) which in turn heavily influence the current story and timeline in World of Warcraft (WoD excluded to a point).

If you aren't looking for a long read, as mentioned by /u/disaace, Arthas: Rise of the Lich King is fantastic and covers Arthas Menethils descent in to 'madness' as he takes up the mantle of 'The Lich King'. The internal struggle in that book was one of the best things in any of the Warcract/WoW series i've read.

If you enjoy either of those, you can go in a few directions but i'd recommend covering the history of/between Orcs and Humans which you can read in World of Warcraft: Chronicles of War which covers 4 books and gives you a really solid grounding.

Some people have issues with some of the writing styles but if you just take the story for what it is and you've grown up around the Warcraft games then it's hard to not geek out a bit!

> Here's a decks from the EU top 8 for Spring: http://www.gosugamers.net/hearthstone/news/35804-decklist-spotlight-all-decks-from-hct-eu-spring-championship Pretty good mix of combo, midrange, aggro, and control.


/u/bbrode not one priest deck. not one player even brought priest. but hey priest gets [[Power Word: Tentacles]] for 5 mana but i'm dead before I can put it on a minion. So Ben Brode that is bullshit. 5 mana we can buff they other guys 7/7 four mana [[Flamewreathed Faceless]] if i'm even alive cause bloodlust and 5 minions.


A pretty good mix is ALL players had SHAMAN, WARLOCK, WARRIOR. that's it. I think you come one here because you care and that laugh is infectious, but what you said is bullshit.


I can send you my copy:
https://www.amazon.com/Bullshit-Harry-G-Frankfurt/dp/0691122946



Druid: 1/8 line-ups.
Builds: 1x C'Thun Druid

Hunter: 6/8 line-ups
Builds: 4x Camel Hunter, 2x Midrange Hunter

Mage: 3/8 line-ups
Builds: 3x Freeze Mage

Paladin: 3/8 line-ups
Builds: 2x N'Zoth Paladin, 1x Anyfin Combo

Priest: 0/8 line-ups

Rogue: 3/8 line-ups
Builds: 3x Miracle Rogue

Shaman: 8/8 line-ups
Builds: 5x Aggro Shaman, 3x Midrange Shaman

Warlock: 8/8 line-ups
Builds: 4x Zoo, 3x RenoLock, 1x CThun Reno

Warrior: 8/8 line-ups
Builds: 3x Tempo Warrior, 3x Control Warrior, 1x CThun Warrior, 1x Patrons

Ok, so now that I'm not at work and can actually post in detail-

yes. Everything /u/evilresident said is correct. If you take the entire story itself they're all fantastic. However, I think we all have those writers we do and don't like because of their writing styles that take you out of the story.

I am a major fan of Christie Golden's books. Her word choice and close attention to detail (along with Blizzard's obvious help) kinda brings the book to life and you can just FEEL what's going on. I also recommend from her The Shattering: Prelude to Cataclysm. Equally fantastic as Arthas.

The only thing I have about Richard Knaak is that although the books he writes are usually really good, his vocabulary is limited and it kinda shows. I want to say it was Stormrage where he used the word orbs to describe eyes like six times in a single chapter. The book was really good, but it was the lore itself that kept me involved more than the writing.

I'm also tend to nitpick. Either way, no matter which book you read you're in for a good time.

> it's reassuring to know that you're validating (heh) Blizzard's decisions

Well, I validate the reasoning. I do think deck slots should have been changed sooner, especially if the final decision was just to increase them.

I think they wanted to tie deckslots to the larger overhaul of the new player experience (with basic decks), the deck recipes and the collection manager changes. I feel that is a mistake, seeing how strongly the community felt about deck slots.

There's a lot to learn from this, in terms of more reactivity to QOL changes. This patch in particular was way off their usual schedule. You can see the patch graph here:

https://github.com/HearthSim/hs-data/graphs/commit-activity

The february tick was a reverted patch that didn't go live, so the gap is even larger than it looks at first glance. Tying a bunch of QOL changes to such a late patch isn't a great idea either.

Anyway yeah. They do put a massive amount of thought on this behind the scenes. Derek Sakamoto gave a talk at last year's GDC about UI, it's worth watching if you're interested. /u/bbrode also talked about deck slots in his latest stream (vod on twitch.tv/bbrode).

If you're interested in UX, I recommend the book The Design of Everyday Things (I'll PM you a PDF if you want it but can't afford it). It will open your eyes to how a lot of people don't put any thought into what they present to their users. Has a lot of applications in UI design (or HCI in general) - when you waste your users' time, you lose customers.

Fun thing to do if you're bored: Try buying Final Fantasy XIV and time how long it takes you until you enter your card #. Then do the same thing with World of Warcraft. Took me ~45 minutes for FFXIV, vs. ~5 minutes for WoW. Blizzard doesn't fuck around.

If she loves trying to cook tasty food and is at all technical then there is nothing better than the Modernist Cuisine book. A huge tome of recipes, skills, techniques and amazing photography.

http://www.amazon.com/Modernist-Cuisine-Home-Nathan-Myhrvold/dp/0982761015

It is pricey, but worth it. Check the reviews.

Fingers crossed for the key! Liking your stuff.

The complete Calvin and Hobbes is always good for the aspiring genius. The hardcover edition is honestly beautiful.

It's not every day I get to immediately deliver, even if it's not my book. But happy days! There already is an Outlander cookbook! The author also ran a blog for a number of years, and I think the cookbook is a cute balance of some traditional dishes and some more tongue in cheek things. Personally, I'd have gone all historical, but that's just how I roll... ;)

WoWpedia has it all. Her actual story, as well as a lot of Varian's and the awesome Broll Bearmantle, can be found in World of Warcraft: the Comic.

The next book is certainly an improvement, but it doesn't really make up for having grain weevils as the main villain of book 10 (The reviews on Amazon are a great read).

http://www.amazon.com/Cake-Bible-Rose-Levy-Beranbaum/dp/0688044026

The cakes are amazing.

Its not a hearthstone book. Here it is Its one review is funny though

It's a thing.

A light read perhaps?

Idea: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07YYZW49H

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