(Part 2) Top products from r/pathofexile

As a fan of Path of Exile, I recommend

Paradise in Chains by Diana Preston

https://www.amazon.com/Paradise-Chains-Bounty-Founding-Australia/dp/1632866102

And

For The Term of His Natural Life by Marcus Clarke

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1519465823/ref=mp_s_a_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1518773049&sr=1-4&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_QL65&keywords=Marcus+Clarke&dpPl=1&dpID=51PJ1nJ6PlL&ref=plSrch


Or in the spirit of Abyss League

Lovecraftian or SCP Foundation writings

Did a novella with Edwin McRae (former lead writer at GGG) called The Falconers that's a bit horror/thriller (physical copy is here, preview here), and I also wrote a sci-fi book with my friend Andy called Prime that's the first in a trilogy (which you can find here.)

Fair warning on Prime, it's a bit rougher than I'd like, but we've finished up the second book which turned out way better (that one's called Splice) and we're hoping to have it available soon.

I got this one https://www.amazon.com/Flagship-Acer-Predator-i7-8750H-Windows/dp/B07Y1WPWF7

It was discounted by 400 on Amazon prime day.

It still isn't a super gaming rig, but it runs excellent compared to my old laptop.

There are more expensive ones out there.

In the end you may want to consider a hardware option allowing you more than 2 buttons (regardless of onscreen keyboard).

There are standalone touchpad with 4 buttons out there like this one: https://www.amazon.com/Adesso-Button-Glidepoint-Touchpad-GP-410UB/dp/B000FVIHY0/

There are more crazy solutions out there like a hand-held trackball which may be worth checking out: https://www.amazon.com/YUMQUA-Y-01-Portable-Finger-Trackball/dp/B00X3LEJBE/

Just throwing some ideas!

I got you the value size just in case

http://www.amazon.com/Midol-Complete-Caplets-40-Count-Box/dp/B000GGFYRW

Pseudo solutions like that are nothing but a scam, read the reviews on this thing for x360 for example:

https://www.amazon.com/XFPS-3-0-Sniper-Keyboard-Mouse-Adapter/dp/B0010ZH3V8

I have yet to see something that works precisely and reliably. (I can already see the input lag in the video you linked.)

Get an SSD. It's 2019, they aren't that expensive anymore.

Edit:

If you can afford a PC, you can afford an SSD:

https://www.amazon.com/Kingston-SSDNow-2-5-Inch-Solid-State/dp/B0062IMD6S/ref=sr_1_7?qid=1555678421&refinements=p_36%3A-3000%2Cp_n_feature_three_browse-bin%3A14027456011&rnid=6797515011&s=pc&sr=1-7

20 bucks with shipping. Put POE on it.

Take 2 of those 3 foot switches from Scythe and you're set.

Or He could buy one of these. Left Click and Right Click.

People who associate lightning with purple probably do so because of plasma spheres like these.

:D

Another option - http://www.amazon.com/Travel-Wristbands-Motion-Sickness-Pair/dp/B000RH1RV2

Works for me for other types of motion sickness.

These?

If it comes to esoteric ways to make coffee Aeropress is a wonderfull way to make coffee without much of the
bitter substances

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, for those wondering.

May I recommend an Orbit mouse? All mouse movement is controlled by your fingers and your wrist does not move. It completely eliminates all wrist related RSI injury.

I used these when playing competitively in FPS games with no problem.

> while gods gained their power from the reverence of others and such many millennia ago, they are still inextricably linked to the perception others hold of them, and as this perception because more twisted so does the god in question themselves.


Interesting -- that's exactly like a recent fantasy series that starts with City of Stairs

Not implying anybody is copying anybody else, but it is interesting.

Also features a completely fucked city because it was partially built on miracles that broke when the the god that enabled those miracles died.

A lot of the themes and even specific details in POE lore remind me of The Book of the New Sun which is one of my all-time favourites. I don't know if GGG was influenced by it in general, but the unique sword Terminus Est is a direct reference.

\ Including fallen/falling Rome-esque empires, desire for immortality portrayed as evil, some humans descended to barbarism, ancient technology, mirrors, sprawling libraries, rose-like weapons, animated statues in a Roman emperor's garden, unreliable narrators, etc. (Obviously some of these are generic, but all in one thing is interesting...).

For somebody that sounds so sure of themselves, you sure are wrong.

I was referring to the 1966 Reissue Jazzmaster, JM66B, a very popular guitar made by Fender Japan that you CAN'T by in the states. That's why it wasn't at your store.

Before domestic Fender finally started responding to demand for anything other than a Classic Player JM, the 66 RI JM was the go to for an authentic Jazzmaster that didn't cause as much as its American counterpart. I believe the standard JM in USA was the 62 or 64. That's something I'm not sure on.

And one of this models defining characteristics is its BLOCK INLAYS. Which isn't common on Fenders in USA.

Here's a link to one, assuming that it's from a Japanese seller trying to bypass the Fender ban on selling these. Ebay is the usual method of getting these guitars stateside.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0016M2UO0?pc_redir=1410000835&robot_redir=1

If that doesn't work, just look up JM66B on google. And don't try backtracking saying "OH I thought you meant actual 1966 Jazzmaster!" when your average JM/jag player knows this guitar.

TL; DR - Don't talk unless you know your shit.

P.S. I'm an economics major, so we can fight about currency too, if you feel like it.

Hey! Great crit! I appreciate it a lot.


And don't worry: It's well taken. I love it when people say things like "Hey, I really like what you did here! But what about these problems? They seem quite big - how do you address them?"


I think there's a huge huge difference between this and just calling me an idiot :-).


Yes - I agree with many of the points that you're raising here. The selection bias issue is particularly important: We ran this on reddit, and the people who took part in it knew what the study was about. This could skew results.


I guess the value of the study depends on a big, holistic point: how you see progress in social science working. My view is that we need to work quickly, replicate a bunch, be open about our practices and data, and be radically honest when we're wrong.


More specifically, I think that social science research works when we repeatedly try to replicate our effects - and we're super honest when we can't do that. Because if we can't get the same result again it means that something might be wrong with our initial paper (e.g. as you pointed out - sampling methodology). Failure to do this has led to what people are calling the 'replication crisis' in psychology - essentially, it turns out that a large proportion of psychology research just doesn't work.


I really think that being honest and replicating again and again in a bunch of contexts is the only way researchers like me can produce stuff of value to society.


So, what I try to do is produce a study that shows something, publish it with all caveats attached ("look, this was a good study for these reasons... but it might be limited because of these..."), and then immediately set about trying to falsify its results by running something similar, and seeing if I get a similar result. And if I was wrong - I'll say I was wrong.


So, after running this, the first thing I did was run a new study with a sample of gamers who weren't from reddit, and didn't know what the study was about: https://psyarxiv.com/u5dmr/


It was terrifying, because if we got something else, we'd have broken our big, important-sounding result. But I think trying repeatedly to break results is the only way you evidence that they're actually any good to begin with! It's a philosophy of science I read about when I was doing my PhD in this book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Introduction-Thought-Karl-Popper/dp/0415129575 . I rate it! I think it works!


In this case, when we ran a similar study again, the results replicated: We got roughly the same thing there as we did here.


So, then I had a bit more evidence that the stuff in this study was not actively wrong. So I did something called preregistration: I essentially shouted out to the community that I thought I had a real effect, I was going to run a study that showed it, and that I would make public the results of this study even if they contradicted my previous work: https://osf.io/efa5n/register/565fb3678c5e4a66b5582f67


This, again, was super terrifying: But again, like you point out in your comment, my initial results might be incorrect - and this would only be terrifying if they were wrong. And if I was wrong, I could potentially be harming people!


So, we ran that study, and we got the same effects again - in fact, they were even a bit stronger (possibly because we'd refined our method by then): https://psyarxiv.com/6e74k/


There's still so much work to be done. To start with, all 3 of those studies work with online populations. And none of them even begin to look at which way the causal route runs: Does loot box spending cause problem gambling, or does problem gambling cause loot box spending? But I guess that my answer to your initial question is that I believe in an incremental way of doing science where we repeatedly try to break our own results, and immediately own up to things if it turns out we're wrong.