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The North Carolina Melee Power Rankings! Updated 8/14/14!

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RaphaelRobo said:
That's awesome. I'm looking forward to meeting you, and doing some Ganon dittos.

I might use Kirby against you a bit, though. I intend to beat PP in our MM, which means I need practice.
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I don't have any fun playing Kirby. I will destroy any Kirby. We should Ganon ditto, I'll be sure to teach you my tricks. You can watch what I do vs PP's Ganon for ideas too if you want.

Bryan!!! Mad friendlies!
 
Ocean

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dave coming to ncsu?!

if I offer you a hug there will you accept it

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it's all good.

i thought the same thing when i first read it. there was the initial "wtf HELL YEAH" then the subsiding "oh...duh...well hell yeah!"
 
Lightsyde

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The more I think about it, the price tag of decent colleges seems like class warfare.

Got money? We'll educate you and you'll come out ahead for our arbitrary standards.

Got some money? We'll educate you, but you're gonna be in debt for a huge chunk of your life and it'll probably end up driving you into a lower class of living until you get anywhere with that degree.

Got no money? Unless you take out serious loans (possibility of dept forever) or get major scholarships, you just straight up are not going to college or are going to community college. Either way, enjoy your low paying jobs unless you catch a lucky break or are amazing at networking.

Clearly there are outliers and exceptions, but generally, these are the situations I have observed.
 
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Yeah... Waiting till tax day then paying off the rest of my ****. Only about 10k left from 26k originally. Some have it so much worse than I too, I cant even imagine.
 
Lightsyde

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Yeah, I think I've got around 10-11K from ECU and that's with my Mom having been amazing and tried to pay on the interest some while I was in school. My sorta step sister Erica just finished law school at Campbell after already having debt from going to State. She owes like...200K. As soon as she got a job working at a law firm they wanted $2000 a month...which is insane for anyone. haha

I remember having seen various signs at different Occupy Protests saying "I will never be able to pay off my student loans ever" or things of that nature.
 
Dorsey

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Money wins everything. See romney outspending republican nominees 10:1... What's going to happen when obama starts outspending him 10:1? D:

Money may not buy happiness, but it buys/dictates everything else, including things that may make you happy...


..like hookers.

I had 7 scholarships, lost all but one, Lol.

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RaphaelRobo

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We should all move to New Zealand. It's socialist, which means that colleges are a lot cheaper, and the elections take place in one month, instead of the two years it takes Americans.
 
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The military pays select few to go to college....then again that probably just falls under "scholarships"

@Dorsey- Yeah, reminds me of FFVII: When the president of shinra says " These days, all it takes for your dreams to come true is money and power. " (obviously taken from another source and put into the game, but I was like 8 when I figured this one to be true)
 
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Thought I'd share this...
Mew2King said:
Melee is so... deep... there's so many combinations of good options you can use because of the way the game is. I come up with new ideas, randomly, all the time because of the amount of different options there are. Especially when you do something people don't expect, it works out really good (cuz they aren't ready for it and they DI bad/panic/do something dumb/etc.), which is why having new random ideas is so awesome. Melee ***** cuz of it's depth and how powerful creativity and originality are. There's MANY different good ways to approach and handle <insert random situation> for most all situations in my experience. Being innovative and coming up with new ideas are SO powerful in this game, and I think that has a huge impact on it's high replay value.
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THO

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Yeah college is expensive as ****. The problem is most degrees don't teach you to do anything, which means the degree basically just says you can put but in a starting position one place higher in responsibility than people with just a high school degree (starting) and the same goes for those with/without a high school degree. The same is true with B.S./B.A. versus Masters versus PhD (for the sciences at least).

You really gotta look at expected values and know (at least) what you don't want to do for the rest of your life before you commit to paying anywhere from 20k-50k a year. Basically, if you aren't in engineering or get a luck starting job you will probs be making 20-30k per year after graduation. It would be hard to spend less than 20k per year to live (including everything). If you are 80k in dept (you pay for your entire degree at an instate school), you will be paying around $800 a month = 9.6k per year. So yeah, if you make 30k you will pay that dept off in 10 years and have no spending money or savings. This is worst case.

Of course, you can make more than that and will surely get raises, so this will get better over the ten years. Plus after five years most people will move jobs, which means about a 10k increase in salary due to the experience. Also, even doing a whatever job will eventually lead to a manager position which can pay between 50-90k +++ depending on your experience. So if you work hard you don't have this glass ceiling holding you down, with a degree you have the ability to rise in your company through various roles. Without the piece of paper, it is a lot harder to do this because people won't trust you with responsibility ( I would have to get into company promotion pathways to really explain why you are so heavily judged by your incoming position versus your merit at work, but that would take longer).

The point is a degree can do a lot for you if you are willing to take certain jobs you may not like. But, at the same time they are a huge waste of money if you view them as goal in themselves. What do you expect to do getting an English degree? Do English??? Write books, know about books? You either can go into editing, go on to grad school to become a prof, or do something completely unrelated. Only by doing something different can most people find financial success. They are called liberal arts schools/degrees not because they teach you to do art (you have a better getting into Harvard law than becoming a professional artist), but because they teach you to think critically and require upper level problem solving skills to accomplish (usually). There are of course many other reasons to go to college (like beer and *****es) that I won't get into, but that is why LA colleges exist.

So yeah, you gotta have the right goal going in and be able to think 20 years down the line for when that diploma will really pay off, and it can, but you have to be ready for low income first 10 years after graduation until that debt is payed off. But wait. WTF am I even talking about. Who am I talking too? Is lightside the opposite of darkside? Was there character development??? Why am I not on the PR? PP...**** you ****!
 
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