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OneManArmy77 | Well to play devil's advocate, i will use an analogy with a cake. If i order a cake from bakery one and its perfect everywhere (like the frosting and the cake itself and the decorations are all perfect) then the cake is perfect. If i order a cake from bakery 2 and its terrible (just for the sake of the analogy), but the frosting is mediocre, then the frosting is the best part. Does that mean though, that just because the frosting on cake 2 is better than everything else about the cake that it's as good as cake 1's?
tl:dr star player just refers to best player when best players of one region may not even stack up against non star players in another region. | Well to play devil's advocate, i will use an analogy with a cake. If i order a cake from bakery one and its perfect everywhere (like the frosting and the cake itself and the decorations are all perfect) then the cake is perfect. If i order a cake from bakery 2 and its terrible (just for the sake of the analogy), but the frosting is mediocre, then the frosting is the best part. Does that mean though, that just because the frosting on cake 2 is better than everything else about the cake that it's as good as cake 1's?
tl:dr star player just refers to best player when best players of one region may not even stack up against non star players in another region.
| leagueoflegends | t5_2rfxx | cb6quov | Well to play devil's advocate, i will use an analogy with a cake. If i order a cake from bakery one and its perfect everywhere (like the frosting and the cake itself and the decorations are all perfect) then the cake is perfect. If i order a cake from bakery 2 and its terrible (just for the sake of the analogy), but the frosting is mediocre, then the frosting is the best part. Does that mean though, that just because the frosting on cake 2 is better than everything else about the cake that it's as good as cake 1's? | star player just refers to best player when best players of one region may not even stack up against non star players in another region. |
DrummermanMike | I am 23.
In my first and only long-term relationship, I was away at college and my then girlfriend was in my hometown, about 3-4 hours away. We still saw a lot of each other and things were alright for the first 6 months to a year of the relationship.
The relationship ended after a year and a half. She had wanted out for a while, doing things like applying to be a stripper after I told her I wasnt comfortable with it. She told me she wasn't going to apply and did anyway which I later found out.
Then she had lunch with a guy who worked in the mall she worked at. She started to be friends with him and talk to him a lot. When she was over at my place once she asked me to get her phone and when I did I saw a text from him replying to her telling him that she was coming to my place tonight instead of his because I told her I would pay her gas money to come see me. Yeah I did the shitty thing and snooped, but I had the feeling. She downplayed it, said it was for his attention and that nothing had happened.
Stupid me, I believed her. She promised to break contact with him and I still dated her.
About 6 months later she started hanging out with my best friend who also still lived in my hometown. They became quick friends, and since my trust in her was shattered I didn't like it. They hung out a lot, late at night. She told me when they hung out but the extent of it I will probably never know.
At this point it was pretty unbearable. They both knew I distrusted them and made me feel like shit for it. After she told me she had feelings for him I dumped her on the spot. Whether I was cheated on I don't know, but I feel like it is most likely the truth.
It has been two years since that happened and it still feels like it happened only a month ago. Needless to say I'm still fucked up from it. I haven't had a serious relationship since and I'm afraid I will not have an easy time trusting future partners.
TLDR: Girlfriend likely cheated on me with best friend, in effect breaking up with me without having to do it herself. | I am 23.
In my first and only long-term relationship, I was away at college and my then girlfriend was in my hometown, about 3-4 hours away. We still saw a lot of each other and things were alright for the first 6 months to a year of the relationship.
The relationship ended after a year and a half. She had wanted out for a while, doing things like applying to be a stripper after I told her I wasnt comfortable with it. She told me she wasn't going to apply and did anyway which I later found out.
Then she had lunch with a guy who worked in the mall she worked at. She started to be friends with him and talk to him a lot. When she was over at my place once she asked me to get her phone and when I did I saw a text from him replying to her telling him that she was coming to my place tonight instead of his because I told her I would pay her gas money to come see me. Yeah I did the shitty thing and snooped, but I had the feeling. She downplayed it, said it was for his attention and that nothing had happened.
Stupid me, I believed her. She promised to break contact with him and I still dated her.
About 6 months later she started hanging out with my best friend who also still lived in my hometown. They became quick friends, and since my trust in her was shattered I didn't like it. They hung out a lot, late at night. She told me when they hung out but the extent of it I will probably never know.
At this point it was pretty unbearable. They both knew I distrusted them and made me feel like shit for it. After she told me she had feelings for him I dumped her on the spot. Whether I was cheated on I don't know, but I feel like it is most likely the truth.
It has been two years since that happened and it still feels like it happened only a month ago. Needless to say I'm still fucked up from it. I haven't had a serious relationship since and I'm afraid I will not have an easy time trusting future partners.
TLDR: Girlfriend likely cheated on me with best friend, in effect breaking up with me without having to do it herself.
| AskMen | t5_2s30g | cb766fm | I am 23.
In my first and only long-term relationship, I was away at college and my then girlfriend was in my hometown, about 3-4 hours away. We still saw a lot of each other and things were alright for the first 6 months to a year of the relationship.
The relationship ended after a year and a half. She had wanted out for a while, doing things like applying to be a stripper after I told her I wasnt comfortable with it. She told me she wasn't going to apply and did anyway which I later found out.
Then she had lunch with a guy who worked in the mall she worked at. She started to be friends with him and talk to him a lot. When she was over at my place once she asked me to get her phone and when I did I saw a text from him replying to her telling him that she was coming to my place tonight instead of his because I told her I would pay her gas money to come see me. Yeah I did the shitty thing and snooped, but I had the feeling. She downplayed it, said it was for his attention and that nothing had happened.
Stupid me, I believed her. She promised to break contact with him and I still dated her.
About 6 months later she started hanging out with my best friend who also still lived in my hometown. They became quick friends, and since my trust in her was shattered I didn't like it. They hung out a lot, late at night. She told me when they hung out but the extent of it I will probably never know.
At this point it was pretty unbearable. They both knew I distrusted them and made me feel like shit for it. After she told me she had feelings for him I dumped her on the spot. Whether I was cheated on I don't know, but I feel like it is most likely the truth.
It has been two years since that happened and it still feels like it happened only a month ago. Needless to say I'm still fucked up from it. I haven't had a serious relationship since and I'm afraid I will not have an easy time trusting future partners. | Girlfriend likely cheated on me with best friend, in effect breaking up with me without having to do it herself. |
faceplanted | All of the horcruxes were in fact well guarded, gringotts, an island surrounded by zombies where you can't get to without drinking pure depression and self-loathing, one was destroyed in the process of being used to resurrect himself, namely the diary, so he was taking a chance on that anyway, The Diadem was hidden in a room designed for hiding things in, Dumbledore destroyed the ring, so that wasn't Harry anyway, Ron even destroyed the Locket, in fact.
And Harry was in fact a horcrux himself, so Voldemort's own ability to kill Harry is what killed him also.
**TL;DR** you're not wrong, just over simplifying. | All of the horcruxes were in fact well guarded, gringotts, an island surrounded by zombies where you can't get to without drinking pure depression and self-loathing, one was destroyed in the process of being used to resurrect himself, namely the diary, so he was taking a chance on that anyway, The Diadem was hidden in a room designed for hiding things in, Dumbledore destroyed the ring, so that wasn't Harry anyway, Ron even destroyed the Locket, in fact.
And Harry was in fact a horcrux himself, so Voldemort's own ability to kill Harry is what killed him also.
TL;DR you're not wrong, just over simplifying.
| geek | t5_2qh17 | cb77uz8 | All of the horcruxes were in fact well guarded, gringotts, an island surrounded by zombies where you can't get to without drinking pure depression and self-loathing, one was destroyed in the process of being used to resurrect himself, namely the diary, so he was taking a chance on that anyway, The Diadem was hidden in a room designed for hiding things in, Dumbledore destroyed the ring, so that wasn't Harry anyway, Ron even destroyed the Locket, in fact.
And Harry was in fact a horcrux himself, so Voldemort's own ability to kill Harry is what killed him also. | you're not wrong, just over simplifying. |
RoflCopter4 | Mainly minor issues, like extreme lack of appetite (I ate two pieces of sushi and some chips yesterday and am not particularly hungry), fastish heart beat, and any long term cardiac issues. Also there's the whole issue of addiction, which I have almost certainly failed to avoid considering it's 9am after another night of "eh, just one more pill, I've got things to do..."
The dose of Concerta wasn't big, but I don't remember the exact dose. Is there any way that you could tl;dr the way in which these kinds of drugs actually effect dopamine? As far as I could glean from wikipedia, amphetamine bonds to something or other on some cell somewhere in the brain somehow, which does something that ends up in causing other parts of that cell to do something involving phosphorus which blocks dopamine re-uptake... somehow. | Mainly minor issues, like extreme lack of appetite (I ate two pieces of sushi and some chips yesterday and am not particularly hungry), fastish heart beat, and any long term cardiac issues. Also there's the whole issue of addiction, which I have almost certainly failed to avoid considering it's 9am after another night of "eh, just one more pill, I've got things to do..."
The dose of Concerta wasn't big, but I don't remember the exact dose. Is there any way that you could tl;dr the way in which these kinds of drugs actually effect dopamine? As far as I could glean from wikipedia, amphetamine bonds to something or other on some cell somewhere in the brain somehow, which does something that ends up in causing other parts of that cell to do something involving phosphorus which blocks dopamine re-uptake... somehow.
| askscience | t5_2qm4e | cb7721g | Mainly minor issues, like extreme lack of appetite (I ate two pieces of sushi and some chips yesterday and am not particularly hungry), fastish heart beat, and any long term cardiac issues. Also there's the whole issue of addiction, which I have almost certainly failed to avoid considering it's 9am after another night of "eh, just one more pill, I've got things to do..."
The dose of Concerta wasn't big, but I don't remember the exact dose. Is there any way that you could | the way in which these kinds of drugs actually effect dopamine? As far as I could glean from wikipedia, amphetamine bonds to something or other on some cell somewhere in the brain somehow, which does something that ends up in causing other parts of that cell to do something involving phosphorus which blocks dopamine re-uptake... somehow. |
Herecomestheburn | Normally, when jumping off high ledges, the impact of the water can be pretty severe, often hurting and sometimes even breaking ankles, What shoes do is absorb the impact and break the surface tension allowing the rest of the body to follow suit without being injured.
As for the reason why he is choosing to go head first and wear his shoes on his hands, That is beyond me. I'll be honest, this cliff isn't that high and he probably could have dived in with no repercussions as breaking the surface tension really isn't necessary unless you've accelerated to a point where striking the water can be similar to hitting solid material causing a temporary impact as the surface tension of the water hasn't had time to disperse the force being applied too it.
TL;DR Surface Tension is a bitch. | Normally, when jumping off high ledges, the impact of the water can be pretty severe, often hurting and sometimes even breaking ankles, What shoes do is absorb the impact and break the surface tension allowing the rest of the body to follow suit without being injured.
As for the reason why he is choosing to go head first and wear his shoes on his hands, That is beyond me. I'll be honest, this cliff isn't that high and he probably could have dived in with no repercussions as breaking the surface tension really isn't necessary unless you've accelerated to a point where striking the water can be similar to hitting solid material causing a temporary impact as the surface tension of the water hasn't had time to disperse the force being applied too it.
TL;DR Surface Tension is a bitch.
| pics | t5_2qh0u | cb75bm2 | Normally, when jumping off high ledges, the impact of the water can be pretty severe, often hurting and sometimes even breaking ankles, What shoes do is absorb the impact and break the surface tension allowing the rest of the body to follow suit without being injured.
As for the reason why he is choosing to go head first and wear his shoes on his hands, That is beyond me. I'll be honest, this cliff isn't that high and he probably could have dived in with no repercussions as breaking the surface tension really isn't necessary unless you've accelerated to a point where striking the water can be similar to hitting solid material causing a temporary impact as the surface tension of the water hasn't had time to disperse the force being applied too it. | Surface Tension is a bitch. |
spiffingly | I've worked in nursing homes/assisted living/in-home senior care for the past few years so I've seen quite a few. It's really hard when it's someone I've worked with closely. They always say not to get attached, keep distance, etc. but especially when I was at the nursing home, the people working with the residents became their only family. It's really hard not to care.
The worst one for me was a few months after I started at the first nursing home I worked in. A woman was brought in on hospice basically just so she had a place to lay and die. She had been estranged from her family for years because of severe alcoholism and had been living alone in hoarding conditions. She went into a diabetic coma at home and wasn't found until 3 or 4 days later from what I understand. While she certainly wasn't with it any more, she WAS awake at times. She would usually stare off toward the wall or window, talking to what I assume were her children. Whenever we tried to get her to eat she would decline it, saying she had to make sure the babies ate first.
I have no idea how she survived as long as she did. She had been refusing to eat since she got there and had virtually no output. Since she was on hospice, she didn't get a feed tube or anything like that. The best we could do was offer her pudding or ice cream, but it was a miracle if she took more than a bite. I think it was close to two weeks after she came in that she started really declining.
I don't know the exact terms (lol 1 week training course for aides) but she had gotten to the point where all the fluid was shifting and her skin was mottling, had that rattling breathing, all the signs she was about to go. Me and one of the other girls went in to try to clean her up a little and change her. At this point she was on roxanol pretty much around the clock and really it was lights were on, nobody home. When we went to turn and change her though (she was still hanging in at this point), skin was literally sloughing off her body. She let out this moan that I still can't forget.
I refused to do anything else with her, I really just couldn't handle it and the nurse agreed that it was better not to move her any more in that state. When we went back in to get her another dose, she was dead. Just knowing about her past though, that's what really got to me. There wasn't any chance to get to know her, but it sounds like the last years for her were just all so awful. I think it hit me harder than even losing some of the people I was closest with. Apparently her family showed up within hours after she passed...go figure. I just still can't shake it.
tl;dr: working in a nursing home sucks. | I've worked in nursing homes/assisted living/in-home senior care for the past few years so I've seen quite a few. It's really hard when it's someone I've worked with closely. They always say not to get attached, keep distance, etc. but especially when I was at the nursing home, the people working with the residents became their only family. It's really hard not to care.
The worst one for me was a few months after I started at the first nursing home I worked in. A woman was brought in on hospice basically just so she had a place to lay and die. She had been estranged from her family for years because of severe alcoholism and had been living alone in hoarding conditions. She went into a diabetic coma at home and wasn't found until 3 or 4 days later from what I understand. While she certainly wasn't with it any more, she WAS awake at times. She would usually stare off toward the wall or window, talking to what I assume were her children. Whenever we tried to get her to eat she would decline it, saying she had to make sure the babies ate first.
I have no idea how she survived as long as she did. She had been refusing to eat since she got there and had virtually no output. Since she was on hospice, she didn't get a feed tube or anything like that. The best we could do was offer her pudding or ice cream, but it was a miracle if she took more than a bite. I think it was close to two weeks after she came in that she started really declining.
I don't know the exact terms (lol 1 week training course for aides) but she had gotten to the point where all the fluid was shifting and her skin was mottling, had that rattling breathing, all the signs she was about to go. Me and one of the other girls went in to try to clean her up a little and change her. At this point she was on roxanol pretty much around the clock and really it was lights were on, nobody home. When we went to turn and change her though (she was still hanging in at this point), skin was literally sloughing off her body. She let out this moan that I still can't forget.
I refused to do anything else with her, I really just couldn't handle it and the nurse agreed that it was better not to move her any more in that state. When we went back in to get her another dose, she was dead. Just knowing about her past though, that's what really got to me. There wasn't any chance to get to know her, but it sounds like the last years for her were just all so awful. I think it hit me harder than even losing some of the people I was closest with. Apparently her family showed up within hours after she passed...go figure. I just still can't shake it.
tl;dr: working in a nursing home sucks.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | cb74ny4 | I've worked in nursing homes/assisted living/in-home senior care for the past few years so I've seen quite a few. It's really hard when it's someone I've worked with closely. They always say not to get attached, keep distance, etc. but especially when I was at the nursing home, the people working with the residents became their only family. It's really hard not to care.
The worst one for me was a few months after I started at the first nursing home I worked in. A woman was brought in on hospice basically just so she had a place to lay and die. She had been estranged from her family for years because of severe alcoholism and had been living alone in hoarding conditions. She went into a diabetic coma at home and wasn't found until 3 or 4 days later from what I understand. While she certainly wasn't with it any more, she WAS awake at times. She would usually stare off toward the wall or window, talking to what I assume were her children. Whenever we tried to get her to eat she would decline it, saying she had to make sure the babies ate first.
I have no idea how she survived as long as she did. She had been refusing to eat since she got there and had virtually no output. Since she was on hospice, she didn't get a feed tube or anything like that. The best we could do was offer her pudding or ice cream, but it was a miracle if she took more than a bite. I think it was close to two weeks after she came in that she started really declining.
I don't know the exact terms (lol 1 week training course for aides) but she had gotten to the point where all the fluid was shifting and her skin was mottling, had that rattling breathing, all the signs she was about to go. Me and one of the other girls went in to try to clean her up a little and change her. At this point she was on roxanol pretty much around the clock and really it was lights were on, nobody home. When we went to turn and change her though (she was still hanging in at this point), skin was literally sloughing off her body. She let out this moan that I still can't forget.
I refused to do anything else with her, I really just couldn't handle it and the nurse agreed that it was better not to move her any more in that state. When we went back in to get her another dose, she was dead. Just knowing about her past though, that's what really got to me. There wasn't any chance to get to know her, but it sounds like the last years for her were just all so awful. I think it hit me harder than even losing some of the people I was closest with. Apparently her family showed up within hours after she passed...go figure. I just still can't shake it. | working in a nursing home sucks. |
skeptical_smiles | I'm a Licensed Massage Therapist. Gentle massage and stretching is considered to be very beneficial post-workout. Since you've taxed your muscle tissue and probably torn some fascia (the layer of connective tissue that surrounds your muscles), massage can help minutely speed the recovery process by increasing your circulation and moving lymph fluid. The stretching can help keep your joints mobilized since you've probably been doing some repetitive motion lifting. Just don't ask for Deep Tissue; since you've already broken down a lot of your muscle tissues, it might take longer to recover if you get deep work done.
TLDR: Massage is awesome post-workout. Don't get deep tissue. | I'm a Licensed Massage Therapist. Gentle massage and stretching is considered to be very beneficial post-workout. Since you've taxed your muscle tissue and probably torn some fascia (the layer of connective tissue that surrounds your muscles), massage can help minutely speed the recovery process by increasing your circulation and moving lymph fluid. The stretching can help keep your joints mobilized since you've probably been doing some repetitive motion lifting. Just don't ask for Deep Tissue; since you've already broken down a lot of your muscle tissues, it might take longer to recover if you get deep work done.
TLDR: Massage is awesome post-workout. Don't get deep tissue.
| Fitness | t5_2qhx4 | cb78974 | I'm a Licensed Massage Therapist. Gentle massage and stretching is considered to be very beneficial post-workout. Since you've taxed your muscle tissue and probably torn some fascia (the layer of connective tissue that surrounds your muscles), massage can help minutely speed the recovery process by increasing your circulation and moving lymph fluid. The stretching can help keep your joints mobilized since you've probably been doing some repetitive motion lifting. Just don't ask for Deep Tissue; since you've already broken down a lot of your muscle tissues, it might take longer to recover if you get deep work done. | Massage is awesome post-workout. Don't get deep tissue. |
Throwingintocoverage | October 2012. Just turned 22 about a month ago. A close friend crashes my car. Turns out he had alcohol in his system. Not a lot to be totally wasted, just under the limit. He hit someone coming from the opposite direction who was making a left hand turn. Guy misjudged the time he had to make turn and it turned into a head on collision with my friend driving my car. Because my friend had alcohol in his system he was automatically in the wrong and now has a bunch of charges against him. Car is impounded and case is still pending so my insurance can't even look at the car so i cant get anything from the insurance yet. 2 weeks after that, I had to break up with my then girlfriend. Not a good way to start the age 22.
Tl;dr friend crashes my car and 2 weeks later girlfriend breaks up with me | October 2012. Just turned 22 about a month ago. A close friend crashes my car. Turns out he had alcohol in his system. Not a lot to be totally wasted, just under the limit. He hit someone coming from the opposite direction who was making a left hand turn. Guy misjudged the time he had to make turn and it turned into a head on collision with my friend driving my car. Because my friend had alcohol in his system he was automatically in the wrong and now has a bunch of charges against him. Car is impounded and case is still pending so my insurance can't even look at the car so i cant get anything from the insurance yet. 2 weeks after that, I had to break up with my then girlfriend. Not a good way to start the age 22.
Tl;dr friend crashes my car and 2 weeks later girlfriend breaks up with me
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | cb79fvl | October 2012. Just turned 22 about a month ago. A close friend crashes my car. Turns out he had alcohol in his system. Not a lot to be totally wasted, just under the limit. He hit someone coming from the opposite direction who was making a left hand turn. Guy misjudged the time he had to make turn and it turned into a head on collision with my friend driving my car. Because my friend had alcohol in his system he was automatically in the wrong and now has a bunch of charges against him. Car is impounded and case is still pending so my insurance can't even look at the car so i cant get anything from the insurance yet. 2 weeks after that, I had to break up with my then girlfriend. Not a good way to start the age 22. | friend crashes my car and 2 weeks later girlfriend breaks up with me |
wouldnt_it_be_nice | My cousin recently got married on the beach. There was a girl at the wedding who was wearing a pretty inappropriate dress (very low cut and short). She was running around with her tits nearly falling out of her dress throughout the whole ceremony taking pictures. She'd run up and stand where the groomsmen were standing and take some pictures. Then she'd run around behind the bride and groom and take some more pictures. At one point she sat down in the sand behind the groom with her legs spread out so everyone could see up her dress as she snapped pictures. She also ended up getting really drunk at the reception and needed to be escorted out.
TL;DR wedding guest revealed various inappropriate body parts throughout the ceremony | My cousin recently got married on the beach. There was a girl at the wedding who was wearing a pretty inappropriate dress (very low cut and short). She was running around with her tits nearly falling out of her dress throughout the whole ceremony taking pictures. She'd run up and stand where the groomsmen were standing and take some pictures. Then she'd run around behind the bride and groom and take some more pictures. At one point she sat down in the sand behind the groom with her legs spread out so everyone could see up her dress as she snapped pictures. She also ended up getting really drunk at the reception and needed to be escorted out.
TL;DR wedding guest revealed various inappropriate body parts throughout the ceremony
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | cb7mcwu | My cousin recently got married on the beach. There was a girl at the wedding who was wearing a pretty inappropriate dress (very low cut and short). She was running around with her tits nearly falling out of her dress throughout the whole ceremony taking pictures. She'd run up and stand where the groomsmen were standing and take some pictures. Then she'd run around behind the bride and groom and take some more pictures. At one point she sat down in the sand behind the groom with her legs spread out so everyone could see up her dress as she snapped pictures. She also ended up getting really drunk at the reception and needed to be escorted out. | wedding guest revealed various inappropriate body parts throughout the ceremony |
chipsahoy36 | As many of you many know, I'm infatuated with Junk Aristocrats. As such, with the inclusion of M14, I've been trying to figure out the best way in which to improve the deck. Most notably, I've been trying to incorporate Xathrid Necromancer and Archangel of Thune into the deck. I tested Shadowborne Demon, but while he acts as tutorable removal which is sweet, I often just wanted Obzedat or Archangel more. While Ghost Daddy seems like it is easily replaced by Archangel of Thune, the Necromancer requires a little more thought. For reference, here is Brad Nelson's [GP Miami list](
The options: 1) Blood Artist for Necromancer. This has been proposed by a writer for ChannelFireball and it merits some discussion. Often, BA feels like an 0/1 for 2 that does nothing when it comes into play as it requires other cards to optimize its utility. As a result, Necromancer would be a step up in getting value, albeit through a different means, by providing even greater wrath resistance. However, I am awfully greedy and can't help but see why these two can't live in harmony with each other, since their synergy together is quite impressive (A sac outlet with a Necromancer, Blood Artist, and a Traveler yields a Spirit and a Zambie as well as a point of damage/lifegain, and potentially five more if the Necromancer, its undead counterpart, the Spirit and Zombie generated from Traveler, and BA are sacced.) So onto option two:
2) Skirsdag High Priest for Necromancer. This makes me equally uneasy because while I preserve the synergy between BA and XN, I won't be able to outright steal games with the T3 Demon that is so vexing to deal with.
3) Removing a land and two Young Wolfs. I am vehemently opposed to this option because although Young Wolf is not a human, the recurrence of the Wolf is what makes this deck so good, both in terms of getting a T3 Demon as well as abusing him with a sac outlet to give cartel protection or Varolz regeneration. Dropping a land to go down to 24, however, is perfectly fine. This leads me to option four: Shaving.
4) Shaving other cards allows for the incorporation of Necromancer at the expense of reducing the consistency of the deck. Cards that could potentially be shaved: A land, which is perfectly fine. A Garruk, which is unfortunate as he is often removal. Also, his tutoring ability is devastating with this deck being so reliant upon synergy. He gets flipped quite often since the deck is great at chump blocking, and once you -1 him, you can go and find either the last piece of the puzzle you are missing, or just search up an Archangel of Thune and unleash mayhem. A Blood Artist. While I hate playing less than a playset of BA, it may be necessary since there are already only 3 SHP. Finally, I could just play two Necromancers, which might be okay but from testing, having multiple Necromancers out (unlikely with only two in the deck) at the same time is simply laughable, but I guess it functions similarly with a single Necromancer and two BA's. Lastly, I could exclude playing a 5 drop and go down to 23 lands in exchange for playing more BA's, SHP, and Necromancers, but the deck doesn't feel as strong without that big-game top end.
5) Don't play Necromancer. Just because he was printed doesn't mean you need to play it in your deck. You have enough interactions in the deck, and the extra synergy you gain from him takes away too much of this deck's core. Change isn't always good. But still swap Obzedat for Archangel, that guy's the tits.
As you can tell, there are a multitude of avenues this deck can go, and while I'm inclined to go with a variant which stems from option 4 (shaving a land, a garruk, and a BA for three Necromancers, or just play two and leave in the 4th BA), option 5 might just be the best version of the deck. Anyways, with that said, thoughts?
tl;dr: What's the best way to incorporate Necromancer into Junk 'Crats? | As many of you many know, I'm infatuated with Junk Aristocrats. As such, with the inclusion of M14, I've been trying to figure out the best way in which to improve the deck. Most notably, I've been trying to incorporate Xathrid Necromancer and Archangel of Thune into the deck. I tested Shadowborne Demon, but while he acts as tutorable removal which is sweet, I often just wanted Obzedat or Archangel more. While Ghost Daddy seems like it is easily replaced by Archangel of Thune, the Necromancer requires a little more thought. For reference, here is Brad Nelson's [GP Miami list](
The options: 1) Blood Artist for Necromancer. This has been proposed by a writer for ChannelFireball and it merits some discussion. Often, BA feels like an 0/1 for 2 that does nothing when it comes into play as it requires other cards to optimize its utility. As a result, Necromancer would be a step up in getting value, albeit through a different means, by providing even greater wrath resistance. However, I am awfully greedy and can't help but see why these two can't live in harmony with each other, since their synergy together is quite impressive (A sac outlet with a Necromancer, Blood Artist, and a Traveler yields a Spirit and a Zambie as well as a point of damage/lifegain, and potentially five more if the Necromancer, its undead counterpart, the Spirit and Zombie generated from Traveler, and BA are sacced.) So onto option two:
2) Skirsdag High Priest for Necromancer. This makes me equally uneasy because while I preserve the synergy between BA and XN, I won't be able to outright steal games with the T3 Demon that is so vexing to deal with.
3) Removing a land and two Young Wolfs. I am vehemently opposed to this option because although Young Wolf is not a human, the recurrence of the Wolf is what makes this deck so good, both in terms of getting a T3 Demon as well as abusing him with a sac outlet to give cartel protection or Varolz regeneration. Dropping a land to go down to 24, however, is perfectly fine. This leads me to option four: Shaving.
4) Shaving other cards allows for the incorporation of Necromancer at the expense of reducing the consistency of the deck. Cards that could potentially be shaved: A land, which is perfectly fine. A Garruk, which is unfortunate as he is often removal. Also, his tutoring ability is devastating with this deck being so reliant upon synergy. He gets flipped quite often since the deck is great at chump blocking, and once you -1 him, you can go and find either the last piece of the puzzle you are missing, or just search up an Archangel of Thune and unleash mayhem. A Blood Artist. While I hate playing less than a playset of BA, it may be necessary since there are already only 3 SHP. Finally, I could just play two Necromancers, which might be okay but from testing, having multiple Necromancers out (unlikely with only two in the deck) at the same time is simply laughable, but I guess it functions similarly with a single Necromancer and two BA's. Lastly, I could exclude playing a 5 drop and go down to 23 lands in exchange for playing more BA's, SHP, and Necromancers, but the deck doesn't feel as strong without that big-game top end.
5) Don't play Necromancer. Just because he was printed doesn't mean you need to play it in your deck. You have enough interactions in the deck, and the extra synergy you gain from him takes away too much of this deck's core. Change isn't always good. But still swap Obzedat for Archangel, that guy's the tits.
As you can tell, there are a multitude of avenues this deck can go, and while I'm inclined to go with a variant which stems from option 4 (shaving a land, a garruk, and a BA for three Necromancers, or just play two and leave in the 4th BA), option 5 might just be the best version of the deck. Anyways, with that said, thoughts?
tl;dr: What's the best way to incorporate Necromancer into Junk 'Crats?
| Cockatrice | t5_2vk8b | cb7ue4s | As many of you many know, I'm infatuated with Junk Aristocrats. As such, with the inclusion of M14, I've been trying to figure out the best way in which to improve the deck. Most notably, I've been trying to incorporate Xathrid Necromancer and Archangel of Thune into the deck. I tested Shadowborne Demon, but while he acts as tutorable removal which is sweet, I often just wanted Obzedat or Archangel more. While Ghost Daddy seems like it is easily replaced by Archangel of Thune, the Necromancer requires a little more thought. For reference, here is Brad Nelson's [GP Miami list](
The options: 1) Blood Artist for Necromancer. This has been proposed by a writer for ChannelFireball and it merits some discussion. Often, BA feels like an 0/1 for 2 that does nothing when it comes into play as it requires other cards to optimize its utility. As a result, Necromancer would be a step up in getting value, albeit through a different means, by providing even greater wrath resistance. However, I am awfully greedy and can't help but see why these two can't live in harmony with each other, since their synergy together is quite impressive (A sac outlet with a Necromancer, Blood Artist, and a Traveler yields a Spirit and a Zambie as well as a point of damage/lifegain, and potentially five more if the Necromancer, its undead counterpart, the Spirit and Zombie generated from Traveler, and BA are sacced.) So onto option two:
2) Skirsdag High Priest for Necromancer. This makes me equally uneasy because while I preserve the synergy between BA and XN, I won't be able to outright steal games with the T3 Demon that is so vexing to deal with.
3) Removing a land and two Young Wolfs. I am vehemently opposed to this option because although Young Wolf is not a human, the recurrence of the Wolf is what makes this deck so good, both in terms of getting a T3 Demon as well as abusing him with a sac outlet to give cartel protection or Varolz regeneration. Dropping a land to go down to 24, however, is perfectly fine. This leads me to option four: Shaving.
4) Shaving other cards allows for the incorporation of Necromancer at the expense of reducing the consistency of the deck. Cards that could potentially be shaved: A land, which is perfectly fine. A Garruk, which is unfortunate as he is often removal. Also, his tutoring ability is devastating with this deck being so reliant upon synergy. He gets flipped quite often since the deck is great at chump blocking, and once you -1 him, you can go and find either the last piece of the puzzle you are missing, or just search up an Archangel of Thune and unleash mayhem. A Blood Artist. While I hate playing less than a playset of BA, it may be necessary since there are already only 3 SHP. Finally, I could just play two Necromancers, which might be okay but from testing, having multiple Necromancers out (unlikely with only two in the deck) at the same time is simply laughable, but I guess it functions similarly with a single Necromancer and two BA's. Lastly, I could exclude playing a 5 drop and go down to 23 lands in exchange for playing more BA's, SHP, and Necromancers, but the deck doesn't feel as strong without that big-game top end.
5) Don't play Necromancer. Just because he was printed doesn't mean you need to play it in your deck. You have enough interactions in the deck, and the extra synergy you gain from him takes away too much of this deck's core. Change isn't always good. But still swap Obzedat for Archangel, that guy's the tits.
As you can tell, there are a multitude of avenues this deck can go, and while I'm inclined to go with a variant which stems from option 4 (shaving a land, a garruk, and a BA for three Necromancers, or just play two and leave in the 4th BA), option 5 might just be the best version of the deck. Anyways, with that said, thoughts? | What's the best way to incorporate Necromancer into Junk 'Crats? |
PraggyD | Here's something that took me 1,5 years to learn. Although you meet lots of players in game, you dont have to interact with all of them. You should mainly focus on your own mistakes and improving your play (which includes teamplay ofc). It's a choice to communicate with someone. You dont even have to mute people. You should just realise that you dont have to respond to chat. Especialy pre 30 it's not as important to win. Much rather you want to learn the game. So focus on learning the game, instead of trying to win. Make mistakes, try out stuff, learn from it, get better. This is also the case with games post 30, and ranked games.
TL;DR: You dont have to interact with everyone. Focus on improving, much rather than winning in order to become a better player (ultimately winning more.) The outcome of a game is not as important as what you learn from it in the grand scheme of things. | Here's something that took me 1,5 years to learn. Although you meet lots of players in game, you dont have to interact with all of them. You should mainly focus on your own mistakes and improving your play (which includes teamplay ofc). It's a choice to communicate with someone. You dont even have to mute people. You should just realise that you dont have to respond to chat. Especialy pre 30 it's not as important to win. Much rather you want to learn the game. So focus on learning the game, instead of trying to win. Make mistakes, try out stuff, learn from it, get better. This is also the case with games post 30, and ranked games.
TL;DR: You dont have to interact with everyone. Focus on improving, much rather than winning in order to become a better player (ultimately winning more.) The outcome of a game is not as important as what you learn from it in the grand scheme of things.
| leagueoflegends | t5_2rfxx | cb7tk3q | Here's something that took me 1,5 years to learn. Although you meet lots of players in game, you dont have to interact with all of them. You should mainly focus on your own mistakes and improving your play (which includes teamplay ofc). It's a choice to communicate with someone. You dont even have to mute people. You should just realise that you dont have to respond to chat. Especialy pre 30 it's not as important to win. Much rather you want to learn the game. So focus on learning the game, instead of trying to win. Make mistakes, try out stuff, learn from it, get better. This is also the case with games post 30, and ranked games. | You dont have to interact with everyone. Focus on improving, much rather than winning in order to become a better player (ultimately winning more.) The outcome of a game is not as important as what you learn from it in the grand scheme of things. |
WumboPhD | I had the same problem.
I owned a Nyko and eForCity Wii charge base before, and the batteries and covers were very quick to discharge or break. All I wanted to do is buy new batteries, but all replacements cost far more then the original cost. After researching new Wii remote chargers, I found that all of them gave similar or worse issues.
I instead bought an awesome [battery charger](
This charges AA's in 15 minutes, so it's multitudes faster than anything else made for the Wii. That means that you can get back to playing sooner. This is also the most cost effective solution because unlike Wii remote chargers you can easily purchase new batteries at a reasonable costs. Yes, you may have to take off the covers every once in a while, but consider the amount of positives.
TL;DR It may not be as pretty, but rechargeable AA's offer the best value, convenience and longevity. | I had the same problem.
I owned a Nyko and eForCity Wii charge base before, and the batteries and covers were very quick to discharge or break. All I wanted to do is buy new batteries, but all replacements cost far more then the original cost. After researching new Wii remote chargers, I found that all of them gave similar or worse issues.
I instead bought an awesome [battery charger](
This charges AA's in 15 minutes, so it's multitudes faster than anything else made for the Wii. That means that you can get back to playing sooner. This is also the most cost effective solution because unlike Wii remote chargers you can easily purchase new batteries at a reasonable costs. Yes, you may have to take off the covers every once in a while, but consider the amount of positives.
TL;DR It may not be as pretty, but rechargeable AA's offer the best value, convenience and longevity.
| wii | t5_2qi9g | cb87d1m | I had the same problem.
I owned a Nyko and eForCity Wii charge base before, and the batteries and covers were very quick to discharge or break. All I wanted to do is buy new batteries, but all replacements cost far more then the original cost. After researching new Wii remote chargers, I found that all of them gave similar or worse issues.
I instead bought an awesome [battery charger](
This charges AA's in 15 minutes, so it's multitudes faster than anything else made for the Wii. That means that you can get back to playing sooner. This is also the most cost effective solution because unlike Wii remote chargers you can easily purchase new batteries at a reasonable costs. Yes, you may have to take off the covers every once in a while, but consider the amount of positives. | It may not be as pretty, but rechargeable AA's offer the best value, convenience and longevity. |
Siray | I bought a house a year and a half ago and it's been a nightmare. I knew buying a home built in '25 would be a project but holy fuck. There was apparently a "handy" homeowner at some point and if I could go back in time and punch anyone, it'd be him. As an example, I'm remodeling my bathroom. It's a wood frame house and the putz poured, yes, poured concrete into the shower walls and then liquid nailed the tiles to it (he did a good job grouting and I had no clue when I bought the place). It took my buddy and I four days to get the concrete out and the remodel went from a couple thousand to well over three. There are days I don't even want to get out of bed because I'm so overwhelmed by all of the repairs. Oh, and I'm single so I'm going at it alone.
TL;DR: Bought a house. Previous owner "handy". Can of worms. | I bought a house a year and a half ago and it's been a nightmare. I knew buying a home built in '25 would be a project but holy fuck. There was apparently a "handy" homeowner at some point and if I could go back in time and punch anyone, it'd be him. As an example, I'm remodeling my bathroom. It's a wood frame house and the putz poured, yes, poured concrete into the shower walls and then liquid nailed the tiles to it (he did a good job grouting and I had no clue when I bought the place). It took my buddy and I four days to get the concrete out and the remodel went from a couple thousand to well over three. There are days I don't even want to get out of bed because I'm so overwhelmed by all of the repairs. Oh, and I'm single so I'm going at it alone.
TL;DR: Bought a house. Previous owner "handy". Can of worms.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | cb8jd13 | I bought a house a year and a half ago and it's been a nightmare. I knew buying a home built in '25 would be a project but holy fuck. There was apparently a "handy" homeowner at some point and if I could go back in time and punch anyone, it'd be him. As an example, I'm remodeling my bathroom. It's a wood frame house and the putz poured, yes, poured concrete into the shower walls and then liquid nailed the tiles to it (he did a good job grouting and I had no clue when I bought the place). It took my buddy and I four days to get the concrete out and the remodel went from a couple thousand to well over three. There are days I don't even want to get out of bed because I'm so overwhelmed by all of the repairs. Oh, and I'm single so I'm going at it alone. | Bought a house. Previous owner "handy". Can of worms. |
Koooooj | This also works as a fun trick to cause [cognitive dissonance]( and is particularly reminiscent of the [Ben Franklin Effect]( An offer like this is posed to new hires who have likely just invested a lot of time and effort into a job hunt and have finally gotten to the point of getting to go to work, when suddenly they are offered what appears to be quite a nice chunk of cash (is it *really* more than that potential employee would make in the time between accepting the money and completing *another* job search?).
Now, on the surface, it seems like it would be nice to just take the money and run. $3,000 just for making it through the interview and training seems like a good deal. However, most people do not take the money, likely largely for the reasons listed above. However, if it is sold as "If you don't *really* want to work here then take the money," then someone continuing to work there has to rationalize why they didn't take the money. Thus, subconsciously they will assume that they *did* really want to work for the company, and will likely be happier and therefore more productive, *without the company having to actually pay them anything extra.* Sure, some people will take the money, but I'm sure that they have figured out the sweet spot of when to offer the money and how much to offer (and how short of a deadline that you have to accept the offer) such that it works out for the best for Zappos.
**TL;DR** Unsuspecting people are surprisingly easy to manipulate, and this is just one of the ways that it can be done. | This also works as a fun trick to cause cognitive dissonance .
Now, on the surface, it seems like it would be nice to just take the money and run. $3,000 just for making it through the interview and training seems like a good deal. However, most people do not take the money, likely largely for the reasons listed above. However, if it is sold as "If you don't really want to work here then take the money," then someone continuing to work there has to rationalize why they didn't take the money. Thus, subconsciously they will assume that they did really want to work for the company, and will likely be happier and therefore more productive, without the company having to actually pay them anything extra. Sure, some people will take the money, but I'm sure that they have figured out the sweet spot of when to offer the money and how much to offer (and how short of a deadline that you have to accept the offer) such that it works out for the best for Zappos.
TL;DR Unsuspecting people are surprisingly easy to manipulate, and this is just one of the ways that it can be done.
| todayilearned | t5_2qqjc | cb8vnx5 | This also works as a fun trick to cause cognitive dissonance .
Now, on the surface, it seems like it would be nice to just take the money and run. $3,000 just for making it through the interview and training seems like a good deal. However, most people do not take the money, likely largely for the reasons listed above. However, if it is sold as "If you don't really want to work here then take the money," then someone continuing to work there has to rationalize why they didn't take the money. Thus, subconsciously they will assume that they did really want to work for the company, and will likely be happier and therefore more productive, without the company having to actually pay them anything extra. Sure, some people will take the money, but I'm sure that they have figured out the sweet spot of when to offer the money and how much to offer (and how short of a deadline that you have to accept the offer) such that it works out for the best for Zappos. | Unsuspecting people are surprisingly easy to manipulate, and this is just one of the ways that it can be done. |
Zawesomeness | I love this company. A good friend of mines SO other passed away shortly after he had placed a order at Zappos for two pairs of shoes. When the shoes showed up she called the company and they did everything you would expect, gave her a credit and provided shipping costs back. What was amazing was that they also delivered flowers to her and a hand written note giving their condolences.
TL;DR Zappos sent flowers to the widow of a person that ordered shoes and passed away before they were delivered.
EDIT: Spelling | I love this company. A good friend of mines SO other passed away shortly after he had placed a order at Zappos for two pairs of shoes. When the shoes showed up she called the company and they did everything you would expect, gave her a credit and provided shipping costs back. What was amazing was that they also delivered flowers to her and a hand written note giving their condolences.
TL;DR Zappos sent flowers to the widow of a person that ordered shoes and passed away before they were delivered.
EDIT: Spelling
| todayilearned | t5_2qqjc | cb97f1b | I love this company. A good friend of mines SO other passed away shortly after he had placed a order at Zappos for two pairs of shoes. When the shoes showed up she called the company and they did everything you would expect, gave her a credit and provided shipping costs back. What was amazing was that they also delivered flowers to her and a hand written note giving their condolences. | Zappos sent flowers to the widow of a person that ordered shoes and passed away before they were delivered.
EDIT: Spelling |
Antimoneyyy | The national-rebel axis is only one to view this conflict, and it is very biased towards the western point of view. This conflict should be analysed as a conflict between different tribes that have different etnicites and religions. The Alawites are in control but they are a very small minority. They are supported by Shiite Iran and Hizbullah. On the other hands, the "rebels" are mostly different Sunni extremists that want claim their own. In the north, the Kurds want their own autonomy. You can decide which "tribe" to support, but if the Sunni win they might (likely) massacare the Alawite minority.
TL:DR: it's not democrats against a dictator, it's different, quite murderous, sects. | The national-rebel axis is only one to view this conflict, and it is very biased towards the western point of view. This conflict should be analysed as a conflict between different tribes that have different etnicites and religions. The Alawites are in control but they are a very small minority. They are supported by Shiite Iran and Hizbullah. On the other hands, the "rebels" are mostly different Sunni extremists that want claim their own. In the north, the Kurds want their own autonomy. You can decide which "tribe" to support, but if the Sunni win they might (likely) massacare the Alawite minority.
TL:DR: it's not democrats against a dictator, it's different, quite murderous, sects.
| explainlikeimfive | t5_2sokd | cb8r0ka | The national-rebel axis is only one to view this conflict, and it is very biased towards the western point of view. This conflict should be analysed as a conflict between different tribes that have different etnicites and religions. The Alawites are in control but they are a very small minority. They are supported by Shiite Iran and Hizbullah. On the other hands, the "rebels" are mostly different Sunni extremists that want claim their own. In the north, the Kurds want their own autonomy. You can decide which "tribe" to support, but if the Sunni win they might (likely) massacare the Alawite minority. | it's not democrats against a dictator, it's different, quite murderous, sects. |
PalmCat | One of the best things I learned, that my friends can't do, is to use the mirrors. You shouldn't have to turn your head/neck to back up into a parking space, merge, or anything else. Your mirrors, when set to the right spot, will allow you to see all around you. There is a small blind spot but if you are merging into a lane, if you keep your eyes on the mirror, as you move, you'll see anything that was in the blind spot before you really get very far. Everyone I know has to strain their heads around to back up or merge and it looks like magic that I effortlessly do these things all the time without moving at all. I learned how to effectively use the mirrors when I first started driving and it really makes things easier and is a lot safer.
Tl;dr Use your mirrors | One of the best things I learned, that my friends can't do, is to use the mirrors. You shouldn't have to turn your head/neck to back up into a parking space, merge, or anything else. Your mirrors, when set to the right spot, will allow you to see all around you. There is a small blind spot but if you are merging into a lane, if you keep your eyes on the mirror, as you move, you'll see anything that was in the blind spot before you really get very far. Everyone I know has to strain their heads around to back up or merge and it looks like magic that I effortlessly do these things all the time without moving at all. I learned how to effectively use the mirrors when I first started driving and it really makes things easier and is a lot safer.
Tl;dr Use your mirrors
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | cb8svfu | One of the best things I learned, that my friends can't do, is to use the mirrors. You shouldn't have to turn your head/neck to back up into a parking space, merge, or anything else. Your mirrors, when set to the right spot, will allow you to see all around you. There is a small blind spot but if you are merging into a lane, if you keep your eyes on the mirror, as you move, you'll see anything that was in the blind spot before you really get very far. Everyone I know has to strain their heads around to back up or merge and it looks like magic that I effortlessly do these things all the time without moving at all. I learned how to effectively use the mirrors when I first started driving and it really makes things easier and is a lot safer. | Use your mirrors |
r10d10 | You know Jermaine Paul? That guy that won The Voice. My private music instructor has enough students that he is able to from an orchestra. Now Jermaine Paul has a daughter and he wanted/wants her to get into the whole music-media thing. Jermaine Paul contacted my private music instructor and asked if he and his orchestra would like to play an instrumental of "Set Fire to the Rain", and "Turning Tables" by Adele, and have his daughter sing the lyrics.
Tl;DR My private music instructor was contacted by Jermaine Paul to see if my instructor's orchestra wanted to play music with his daughter (trying to get her interest into music-media), he of course accepted his offer. | You know Jermaine Paul? That guy that won The Voice. My private music instructor has enough students that he is able to from an orchestra. Now Jermaine Paul has a daughter and he wanted/wants her to get into the whole music-media thing. Jermaine Paul contacted my private music instructor and asked if he and his orchestra would like to play an instrumental of "Set Fire to the Rain", and "Turning Tables" by Adele, and have his daughter sing the lyrics.
Tl;DR My private music instructor was contacted by Jermaine Paul to see if my instructor's orchestra wanted to play music with his daughter (trying to get her interest into music-media), he of course accepted his offer.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | cb8vki6 | You know Jermaine Paul? That guy that won The Voice. My private music instructor has enough students that he is able to from an orchestra. Now Jermaine Paul has a daughter and he wanted/wants her to get into the whole music-media thing. Jermaine Paul contacted my private music instructor and asked if he and his orchestra would like to play an instrumental of "Set Fire to the Rain", and "Turning Tables" by Adele, and have his daughter sing the lyrics. | My private music instructor was contacted by Jermaine Paul to see if my instructor's orchestra wanted to play music with his daughter (trying to get her interest into music-media), he of course accepted his offer. |
Thiswhatyawanted | Than you haven't seen many tl;dr's. | Than you haven't seen many tl;dr's.
| 4chan | t5_2qh4w | cb95rdr | Than you haven't seen many | s. |
chaosmass2 | I've written this before, so I'm just pasting it in:
I use dexcom, and it's been very reliable for 2 weeks at a time. My problem is I can't get the sticky stuff to stay on for more than 1 week without skintac. With Skintac it'll last 2 weeks. I really think the limits on how long you can use one are just for the company to be absolutely safe legally. Realistically they can last for 2 weeks. I hate the medtronic one with a passion. Never have a seen such a horrible execution of product. Let me enumerate...
* Sync range is about one foot. Seriously, one fucking foot. It gets disconnected constantly, pretty much every time you sleep, it'll wander more than a foot away and you'll be woken up by the alarm. If it's too far away in your pocket, alarm. Set it on your desk after a bolus, alarm. Considering the dexcom can sync ACROSS ROOMS, through walls, and floors, there is absolutely no excuse for a 1 foot sync range. And your graphs will have constant breaks in them from all the disconnecting. This forces you to have the infusion site and cgm site on the same side of your torso. It will constantly disconnect if they are on differing sides, and the pump is in your pocket It gets even worse if you are taller.
* 3 day lifespan - Not too much to say here, means a lot of changing in general when combined with changing a pump tube as well. Dexcom lasts a week, and almost everyone reports you can go 2 weeks without losing accuracy.
* For whatever reason, it hurts - About 1 out of 3 times, if I touched the sensor site, it would hurt. Sometimes it would hurt if I was leaning down. I don't know if the thing going under your skin is thicker than the dexcom one, but dexcom never hurt like the medtronic one. Maybe it's the spring loaded harpoon applicator. Check it out, it's hilariously horrifying.
* Inaccurate as hell - Seriously, it's been off more than 150 points before. That's an outlier, but it is regularly very far away from the mark. That leads to the next one...
* Must sync while blood sugar is "stable". This one alone is enough to completely fuck the product. It doesn't sound like that bad of a requirement, but when you actually think about the consequences, it's a huge pain. So you have to sync twice a day minimum. So if your blood sugar must be stable, that means.. cant sync after eating anything, snack, meal, whatever (even longer if you ate complex carbs), cant sync after exercising, can't sync when you have a random liver spike, or random hypoglycemic attack. You are basically forced to sync before eating a meal, which is a typical time your sugar will be stable. However, if you have an irregular schedule, go out a lot, are on the road, lead a somewhat active varying lifestyle, there is NO GOOD TIME TO SYNC IT. This leads it to be even farther off the mark than usual. Also, how do you really know if it's stable? It's a constant guessing game. Such a crap product. The dexcom doesn't have this insane requirement.
TL;DR Get a dexcom. | I've written this before, so I'm just pasting it in:
I use dexcom, and it's been very reliable for 2 weeks at a time. My problem is I can't get the sticky stuff to stay on for more than 1 week without skintac. With Skintac it'll last 2 weeks. I really think the limits on how long you can use one are just for the company to be absolutely safe legally. Realistically they can last for 2 weeks. I hate the medtronic one with a passion. Never have a seen such a horrible execution of product. Let me enumerate...
Sync range is about one foot. Seriously, one fucking foot. It gets disconnected constantly, pretty much every time you sleep, it'll wander more than a foot away and you'll be woken up by the alarm. If it's too far away in your pocket, alarm. Set it on your desk after a bolus, alarm. Considering the dexcom can sync ACROSS ROOMS, through walls, and floors, there is absolutely no excuse for a 1 foot sync range. And your graphs will have constant breaks in them from all the disconnecting. This forces you to have the infusion site and cgm site on the same side of your torso. It will constantly disconnect if they are on differing sides, and the pump is in your pocket It gets even worse if you are taller.
3 day lifespan - Not too much to say here, means a lot of changing in general when combined with changing a pump tube as well. Dexcom lasts a week, and almost everyone reports you can go 2 weeks without losing accuracy.
For whatever reason, it hurts - About 1 out of 3 times, if I touched the sensor site, it would hurt. Sometimes it would hurt if I was leaning down. I don't know if the thing going under your skin is thicker than the dexcom one, but dexcom never hurt like the medtronic one. Maybe it's the spring loaded harpoon applicator. Check it out, it's hilariously horrifying.
Inaccurate as hell - Seriously, it's been off more than 150 points before. That's an outlier, but it is regularly very far away from the mark. That leads to the next one...
Must sync while blood sugar is "stable". This one alone is enough to completely fuck the product. It doesn't sound like that bad of a requirement, but when you actually think about the consequences, it's a huge pain. So you have to sync twice a day minimum. So if your blood sugar must be stable, that means.. cant sync after eating anything, snack, meal, whatever (even longer if you ate complex carbs), cant sync after exercising, can't sync when you have a random liver spike, or random hypoglycemic attack. You are basically forced to sync before eating a meal, which is a typical time your sugar will be stable. However, if you have an irregular schedule, go out a lot, are on the road, lead a somewhat active varying lifestyle, there is NO GOOD TIME TO SYNC IT. This leads it to be even farther off the mark than usual. Also, how do you really know if it's stable? It's a constant guessing game. Such a crap product. The dexcom doesn't have this insane requirement.
TL;DR Get a dexcom.
| diabetes | t5_2qhsj | cb9dkkx | I've written this before, so I'm just pasting it in:
I use dexcom, and it's been very reliable for 2 weeks at a time. My problem is I can't get the sticky stuff to stay on for more than 1 week without skintac. With Skintac it'll last 2 weeks. I really think the limits on how long you can use one are just for the company to be absolutely safe legally. Realistically they can last for 2 weeks. I hate the medtronic one with a passion. Never have a seen such a horrible execution of product. Let me enumerate...
Sync range is about one foot. Seriously, one fucking foot. It gets disconnected constantly, pretty much every time you sleep, it'll wander more than a foot away and you'll be woken up by the alarm. If it's too far away in your pocket, alarm. Set it on your desk after a bolus, alarm. Considering the dexcom can sync ACROSS ROOMS, through walls, and floors, there is absolutely no excuse for a 1 foot sync range. And your graphs will have constant breaks in them from all the disconnecting. This forces you to have the infusion site and cgm site on the same side of your torso. It will constantly disconnect if they are on differing sides, and the pump is in your pocket It gets even worse if you are taller.
3 day lifespan - Not too much to say here, means a lot of changing in general when combined with changing a pump tube as well. Dexcom lasts a week, and almost everyone reports you can go 2 weeks without losing accuracy.
For whatever reason, it hurts - About 1 out of 3 times, if I touched the sensor site, it would hurt. Sometimes it would hurt if I was leaning down. I don't know if the thing going under your skin is thicker than the dexcom one, but dexcom never hurt like the medtronic one. Maybe it's the spring loaded harpoon applicator. Check it out, it's hilariously horrifying.
Inaccurate as hell - Seriously, it's been off more than 150 points before. That's an outlier, but it is regularly very far away from the mark. That leads to the next one...
Must sync while blood sugar is "stable". This one alone is enough to completely fuck the product. It doesn't sound like that bad of a requirement, but when you actually think about the consequences, it's a huge pain. So you have to sync twice a day minimum. So if your blood sugar must be stable, that means.. cant sync after eating anything, snack, meal, whatever (even longer if you ate complex carbs), cant sync after exercising, can't sync when you have a random liver spike, or random hypoglycemic attack. You are basically forced to sync before eating a meal, which is a typical time your sugar will be stable. However, if you have an irregular schedule, go out a lot, are on the road, lead a somewhat active varying lifestyle, there is NO GOOD TIME TO SYNC IT. This leads it to be even farther off the mark than usual. Also, how do you really know if it's stable? It's a constant guessing game. Such a crap product. The dexcom doesn't have this insane requirement. | Get a dexcom. |
plisar | This obviously didn't happen to me if you see which subs I follow, but a friend's husband told her that he thought he was bi because he was having fantasies about men. She started to freak out, but he told her, "Look, it's just in my head. I love you, and if you don't want me to act on it, then I won't. I just want you to always know my deepest thoughts because you are my life." She was instantly relieved, and their marriage hasn't changed.
TL;DR Consider telling him about the fantasy. If he freaks out tell him it's *just* a fantasy, and you won't act on it (again) if he doesn't want you to. Remind him that you want to be completely honest with him. | This obviously didn't happen to me if you see which subs I follow, but a friend's husband told her that he thought he was bi because he was having fantasies about men. She started to freak out, but he told her, "Look, it's just in my head. I love you, and if you don't want me to act on it, then I won't. I just want you to always know my deepest thoughts because you are my life." She was instantly relieved, and their marriage hasn't changed.
TL;DR Consider telling him about the fantasy. If he freaks out tell him it's just a fantasy, and you won't act on it (again) if he doesn't want you to. Remind him that you want to be completely honest with him.
| SexWithDogs | t5_2u527 | cb9mohi | This obviously didn't happen to me if you see which subs I follow, but a friend's husband told her that he thought he was bi because he was having fantasies about men. She started to freak out, but he told her, "Look, it's just in my head. I love you, and if you don't want me to act on it, then I won't. I just want you to always know my deepest thoughts because you are my life." She was instantly relieved, and their marriage hasn't changed. | Consider telling him about the fantasy. If he freaks out tell him it's just a fantasy, and you won't act on it (again) if he doesn't want you to. Remind him that you want to be completely honest with him. |
skyguygethigh | Just spent over an hour writing and formatting this. OP I hope this helps.
Despite the draft clearly being a little nonsensical for both sides, let me offer some advice in the form of a couple tweaks that would have made the main idea of your draft viable.
1) Spec, CM, and CW don't accomplish too much.
- Spectre is a highly defensive carry. She needs to be turtled pretty hard for the first 10-15 minutes to ensure that she gets at least decent farm, as she is incredibly item dependent. When you want to pick a specter, you want a defensive trilane that can keep spectre alive and able to farm as freely as possible, as well as possible. Good defensive supports include SD, jakiro, KOTL, nyx, and lion, amongst others. Notice the trend of long range spells that can hit multiple heroes. These are useful for keeping your carry safe while also maintaining a safe distance themselves.
- CM is super vulnerable in that lane, and would likely be consistent food for a good team. She is also better geared towards offense, with a very long duration slow as well as a decent freeze that not only stuns but maintains sight of invis units.
- CW is very level dependent, and somewhat farm dependent. A support role for him, especially in a defensive trilane that won't be producing kill and assist gold to supplement him, will make him pretty useless in the early game. CW is best with a good amount of early experience and a little farm to initiate, disrupt teamfights, catch free kills on their way out, and tank effectively and early on. In a trilane, he has some offensive potential with cogs, especially paired with something like SD or rubick. Using him to isolate single targets away from help often yields easy kills.
**Conclusion** If you want spectre, CM isn't awful, as in the mid game CM finding a lone support can easily turn into a quick pickoff for spec using haunt. To make it that far successfully, replace the clockwork with something more defensive, I'll say KOTL. This way, KOTL can charge a nuke while CM slows/freezes some enemies, ensuring 1 or more gets nuked for what can be half their HP when everyone is level 3. Spectre can then hunt down kills with dagger, or farm while throwing harassment daggers using the mana pool that is KOTL. If you're against a solo offlaner, maybe replace CW with a chen. With the offensive potential of CM, an early chen gank will all but certainly be awarded by first blood. If he ganks again/for the first time around 3:30, they may be able to take the tier 1 tower off the back of the kill.
2) The mid solo
- If your warlock did fine in the offlane, I guess that's fine, but my first piece of advice would be to lane warlock solo mid. He is pretty susceptible to early ganks, as his heal over time won't be enough to keep him alive during a well-coordinated 3-man gank. He has the same problem mid, but against a trilane these ganks will come early and often, keeping him away from both experience and gold.
**Conclusion** Warlock is a fine pick, but move him to mid
3) Offlane
- If you want spectre, you are definitely going to want an offlane hero that can either put a lot of pressure on the enemy solo safe laner in the case of an aggresive trilane, or contest the lane enough to warrant their constant attention. If you choose a hero that has no pushing or killing potential early on, the enemy can plop down a semi-carry farmer to soak up what is going to be comparable, if not better than, solo mid farm and experience. You do *not* want this. If you choose a jungler, nothing good can happen. They will either push the lane super hard early, to get a map control advantage along with a gold advantage which will give them a passive headstart in keeping spectre down. In the other case, they leave a very hard farmer up there to get 100% freefarm while pressuring your spectre lane.
**Conclusion** You need someone who has some means of pressuring their hero enough to harass them out of lane, kill them, or take towers early. Move that CW from the trilane up to the offlane. He will beat almost any melee hero in a 1v1 matchup, eliminating almost all of what I consider the hardest carries in the game (AM, PL, Alch, void, spec, tiny, gyro being the only one left due to range). This will force them to take resources away from your safe lane, giving spectre the room she needs to farm.
4) The Replacement for Drow
- Drow offers little to your team. The silence is nice, her damage (when left unhindered) is great, but other than that, she has no synergy with her team. Someone with a blink dagger and bkb would be hindered only by the warlock ult (really short stun) in their slaughter of drow. If we're assuming spectre has good farm, it's fair to say the enemy carry has good farm as well, and a solo drow, when facing a strong laning opponent, probably loses that lane. This results in her being not much more than a glass machine gun, not even a cannon. The enemy carry will get to her during magic immunity and kill her instantly. In addition, drow's aura only benefits ranged heroes. She may be effective on an all range team, or at least a team with a couple of ranged heroes that include the hard carry.
**Conclusion** With CW, warlock, CM, and spec, there is excellent AOE and mid-late game teamfight potential. The main thing lacking is another support, and maybe some more disable to help spectre find kills. Throw in a sand king! Defensively, when spectre gets jumped y their trilane, he can likely line up a 2 man stun, especially with CM's freeze. In addition, if someone is caught behind their retreating team, CM and SK could easily secure a kill for the spectre. Lastly, sandking is highly likely to be able to blink into a team, stun at least 2 heroes, and cast his ult for a sweet epicenter. How? Because warlock ult following that burrowstrike will certainly give him enough time to channel. Any pushing the enemy may do will be very difficult in the mid-late game, as an epicenter followed by a rock golem, fatal bonds, freezing field, and 6 spectres running around would make any enemy wary of overextending or grouping too much to push.
**TL/DR; Move CW from trilane to offlane, Warlock from offlane to mid, and replace Drow with Sandking** | Just spent over an hour writing and formatting this. OP I hope this helps.
Despite the draft clearly being a little nonsensical for both sides, let me offer some advice in the form of a couple tweaks that would have made the main idea of your draft viable.
1) Spec, CM, and CW don't accomplish too much.
Spectre is a highly defensive carry. She needs to be turtled pretty hard for the first 10-15 minutes to ensure that she gets at least decent farm, as she is incredibly item dependent. When you want to pick a specter, you want a defensive trilane that can keep spectre alive and able to farm as freely as possible, as well as possible. Good defensive supports include SD, jakiro, KOTL, nyx, and lion, amongst others. Notice the trend of long range spells that can hit multiple heroes. These are useful for keeping your carry safe while also maintaining a safe distance themselves.
CM is super vulnerable in that lane, and would likely be consistent food for a good team. She is also better geared towards offense, with a very long duration slow as well as a decent freeze that not only stuns but maintains sight of invis units.
CW is very level dependent, and somewhat farm dependent. A support role for him, especially in a defensive trilane that won't be producing kill and assist gold to supplement him, will make him pretty useless in the early game. CW is best with a good amount of early experience and a little farm to initiate, disrupt teamfights, catch free kills on their way out, and tank effectively and early on. In a trilane, he has some offensive potential with cogs, especially paired with something like SD or rubick. Using him to isolate single targets away from help often yields easy kills.
Conclusion If you want spectre, CM isn't awful, as in the mid game CM finding a lone support can easily turn into a quick pickoff for spec using haunt. To make it that far successfully, replace the clockwork with something more defensive, I'll say KOTL. This way, KOTL can charge a nuke while CM slows/freezes some enemies, ensuring 1 or more gets nuked for what can be half their HP when everyone is level 3. Spectre can then hunt down kills with dagger, or farm while throwing harassment daggers using the mana pool that is KOTL. If you're against a solo offlaner, maybe replace CW with a chen. With the offensive potential of CM, an early chen gank will all but certainly be awarded by first blood. If he ganks again/for the first time around 3:30, they may be able to take the tier 1 tower off the back of the kill.
2) The mid solo
If your warlock did fine in the offlane, I guess that's fine, but my first piece of advice would be to lane warlock solo mid. He is pretty susceptible to early ganks, as his heal over time won't be enough to keep him alive during a well-coordinated 3-man gank. He has the same problem mid, but against a trilane these ganks will come early and often, keeping him away from both experience and gold.
Conclusion Warlock is a fine pick, but move him to mid
3) Offlane
If you want spectre, you are definitely going to want an offlane hero that can either put a lot of pressure on the enemy solo safe laner in the case of an aggresive trilane, or contest the lane enough to warrant their constant attention. If you choose a hero that has no pushing or killing potential early on, the enemy can plop down a semi-carry farmer to soak up what is going to be comparable, if not better than, solo mid farm and experience. You do not want this. If you choose a jungler, nothing good can happen. They will either push the lane super hard early, to get a map control advantage along with a gold advantage which will give them a passive headstart in keeping spectre down. In the other case, they leave a very hard farmer up there to get 100% freefarm while pressuring your spectre lane.
Conclusion You need someone who has some means of pressuring their hero enough to harass them out of lane, kill them, or take towers early. Move that CW from the trilane up to the offlane. He will beat almost any melee hero in a 1v1 matchup, eliminating almost all of what I consider the hardest carries in the game (AM, PL, Alch, void, spec, tiny, gyro being the only one left due to range). This will force them to take resources away from your safe lane, giving spectre the room she needs to farm.
4) The Replacement for Drow
Drow offers little to your team. The silence is nice, her damage (when left unhindered) is great, but other than that, she has no synergy with her team. Someone with a blink dagger and bkb would be hindered only by the warlock ult (really short stun) in their slaughter of drow. If we're assuming spectre has good farm, it's fair to say the enemy carry has good farm as well, and a solo drow, when facing a strong laning opponent, probably loses that lane. This results in her being not much more than a glass machine gun, not even a cannon. The enemy carry will get to her during magic immunity and kill her instantly. In addition, drow's aura only benefits ranged heroes. She may be effective on an all range team, or at least a team with a couple of ranged heroes that include the hard carry.
Conclusion With CW, warlock, CM, and spec, there is excellent AOE and mid-late game teamfight potential. The main thing lacking is another support, and maybe some more disable to help spectre find kills. Throw in a sand king! Defensively, when spectre gets jumped y their trilane, he can likely line up a 2 man stun, especially with CM's freeze. In addition, if someone is caught behind their retreating team, CM and SK could easily secure a kill for the spectre. Lastly, sandking is highly likely to be able to blink into a team, stun at least 2 heroes, and cast his ult for a sweet epicenter. How? Because warlock ult following that burrowstrike will certainly give him enough time to channel. Any pushing the enemy may do will be very difficult in the mid-late game, as an epicenter followed by a rock golem, fatal bonds, freezing field, and 6 spectres running around would make any enemy wary of overextending or grouping too much to push.
TL/DR; Move CW from trilane to offlane, Warlock from offlane to mid, and replace Drow with Sandking
| DotA2 | t5_2s580 | cb96mo8 | Just spent over an hour writing and formatting this. OP I hope this helps.
Despite the draft clearly being a little nonsensical for both sides, let me offer some advice in the form of a couple tweaks that would have made the main idea of your draft viable.
1) Spec, CM, and CW don't accomplish too much.
Spectre is a highly defensive carry. She needs to be turtled pretty hard for the first 10-15 minutes to ensure that she gets at least decent farm, as she is incredibly item dependent. When you want to pick a specter, you want a defensive trilane that can keep spectre alive and able to farm as freely as possible, as well as possible. Good defensive supports include SD, jakiro, KOTL, nyx, and lion, amongst others. Notice the trend of long range spells that can hit multiple heroes. These are useful for keeping your carry safe while also maintaining a safe distance themselves.
CM is super vulnerable in that lane, and would likely be consistent food for a good team. She is also better geared towards offense, with a very long duration slow as well as a decent freeze that not only stuns but maintains sight of invis units.
CW is very level dependent, and somewhat farm dependent. A support role for him, especially in a defensive trilane that won't be producing kill and assist gold to supplement him, will make him pretty useless in the early game. CW is best with a good amount of early experience and a little farm to initiate, disrupt teamfights, catch free kills on their way out, and tank effectively and early on. In a trilane, he has some offensive potential with cogs, especially paired with something like SD or rubick. Using him to isolate single targets away from help often yields easy kills.
Conclusion If you want spectre, CM isn't awful, as in the mid game CM finding a lone support can easily turn into a quick pickoff for spec using haunt. To make it that far successfully, replace the clockwork with something more defensive, I'll say KOTL. This way, KOTL can charge a nuke while CM slows/freezes some enemies, ensuring 1 or more gets nuked for what can be half their HP when everyone is level 3. Spectre can then hunt down kills with dagger, or farm while throwing harassment daggers using the mana pool that is KOTL. If you're against a solo offlaner, maybe replace CW with a chen. With the offensive potential of CM, an early chen gank will all but certainly be awarded by first blood. If he ganks again/for the first time around 3:30, they may be able to take the tier 1 tower off the back of the kill.
2) The mid solo
If your warlock did fine in the offlane, I guess that's fine, but my first piece of advice would be to lane warlock solo mid. He is pretty susceptible to early ganks, as his heal over time won't be enough to keep him alive during a well-coordinated 3-man gank. He has the same problem mid, but against a trilane these ganks will come early and often, keeping him away from both experience and gold.
Conclusion Warlock is a fine pick, but move him to mid
3) Offlane
If you want spectre, you are definitely going to want an offlane hero that can either put a lot of pressure on the enemy solo safe laner in the case of an aggresive trilane, or contest the lane enough to warrant their constant attention. If you choose a hero that has no pushing or killing potential early on, the enemy can plop down a semi-carry farmer to soak up what is going to be comparable, if not better than, solo mid farm and experience. You do not want this. If you choose a jungler, nothing good can happen. They will either push the lane super hard early, to get a map control advantage along with a gold advantage which will give them a passive headstart in keeping spectre down. In the other case, they leave a very hard farmer up there to get 100% freefarm while pressuring your spectre lane.
Conclusion You need someone who has some means of pressuring their hero enough to harass them out of lane, kill them, or take towers early. Move that CW from the trilane up to the offlane. He will beat almost any melee hero in a 1v1 matchup, eliminating almost all of what I consider the hardest carries in the game (AM, PL, Alch, void, spec, tiny, gyro being the only one left due to range). This will force them to take resources away from your safe lane, giving spectre the room she needs to farm.
4) The Replacement for Drow
Drow offers little to your team. The silence is nice, her damage (when left unhindered) is great, but other than that, she has no synergy with her team. Someone with a blink dagger and bkb would be hindered only by the warlock ult (really short stun) in their slaughter of drow. If we're assuming spectre has good farm, it's fair to say the enemy carry has good farm as well, and a solo drow, when facing a strong laning opponent, probably loses that lane. This results in her being not much more than a glass machine gun, not even a cannon. The enemy carry will get to her during magic immunity and kill her instantly. In addition, drow's aura only benefits ranged heroes. She may be effective on an all range team, or at least a team with a couple of ranged heroes that include the hard carry.
Conclusion With CW, warlock, CM, and spec, there is excellent AOE and mid-late game teamfight potential. The main thing lacking is another support, and maybe some more disable to help spectre find kills. Throw in a sand king! Defensively, when spectre gets jumped y their trilane, he can likely line up a 2 man stun, especially with CM's freeze. In addition, if someone is caught behind their retreating team, CM and SK could easily secure a kill for the spectre. Lastly, sandking is highly likely to be able to blink into a team, stun at least 2 heroes, and cast his ult for a sweet epicenter. How? Because warlock ult following that burrowstrike will certainly give him enough time to channel. Any pushing the enemy may do will be very difficult in the mid-late game, as an epicenter followed by a rock golem, fatal bonds, freezing field, and 6 spectres running around would make any enemy wary of overextending or grouping too much to push. | Move CW from trilane to offlane, Warlock from offlane to mid, and replace Drow with Sandking |
insertWittyNameHere3 | i know why you do it (I did it myself when i was 17) however I dont think grindr is a great place for a 16 year old. Im sure you think your mature enough and what-not but emotionally a place that glorifies no-strings-attached sex is an awful first experience into being gay. Maybe you need to come out of the closet to meet new gay people (thats what I did and at a party I met a new friend who knew a closeted kid at my school and told me he was gay). Other then that your dealing with people bigger and stronger then you who are looking to meet up with younger boys (Stranger Danger!!) and risking statutory rape charges if you use grindr for what everyone else does.
**TL;DR** you need to understand the risks behind grindr and their are other ways of meeting people more suited to you. | i know why you do it (I did it myself when i was 17) however I dont think grindr is a great place for a 16 year old. Im sure you think your mature enough and what-not but emotionally a place that glorifies no-strings-attached sex is an awful first experience into being gay. Maybe you need to come out of the closet to meet new gay people (thats what I did and at a party I met a new friend who knew a closeted kid at my school and told me he was gay). Other then that your dealing with people bigger and stronger then you who are looking to meet up with younger boys (Stranger Danger!!) and risking statutory rape charges if you use grindr for what everyone else does.
TL;DR you need to understand the risks behind grindr and their are other ways of meeting people more suited to you.
| gay | t5_2qhef | cb96pkc | i know why you do it (I did it myself when i was 17) however I dont think grindr is a great place for a 16 year old. Im sure you think your mature enough and what-not but emotionally a place that glorifies no-strings-attached sex is an awful first experience into being gay. Maybe you need to come out of the closet to meet new gay people (thats what I did and at a party I met a new friend who knew a closeted kid at my school and told me he was gay). Other then that your dealing with people bigger and stronger then you who are looking to meet up with younger boys (Stranger Danger!!) and risking statutory rape charges if you use grindr for what everyone else does. | you need to understand the risks behind grindr and their are other ways of meeting people more suited to you. |
TheNicestMonkey | >We know you are anti-materialistic.
Whoa whoa whoa. Reddit is *extremely* materialistic. Every day there is some dumbass posting his gaming "collection" on /r/gaming and a hundred odd comments swooning over it. Similarly you have subs dedicated to outlandish computer build and "battlestation" set up, rampant fanboyism for or against one companies products, etc.
Further more let's not pretend like Reddit's materialistic tendencies are significantly less detrimental than the purchase of a diamond. I mean we seemingly have no issue buying lots of gadgets with rare earth elements mined from China and Africa by god know who and then assembled in factories where people live in basically indentured servitude before offing themselves by jumping off the roof.
TL;DR the anti-diamond echo chamber annoys me because of absurd levels of hypocrisy. | >We know you are anti-materialistic.
Whoa whoa whoa. Reddit is extremely materialistic. Every day there is some dumbass posting his gaming "collection" on /r/gaming and a hundred odd comments swooning over it. Similarly you have subs dedicated to outlandish computer build and "battlestation" set up, rampant fanboyism for or against one companies products, etc.
Further more let's not pretend like Reddit's materialistic tendencies are significantly less detrimental than the purchase of a diamond. I mean we seemingly have no issue buying lots of gadgets with rare earth elements mined from China and Africa by god know who and then assembled in factories where people live in basically indentured servitude before offing themselves by jumping off the roof.
TL;DR the anti-diamond echo chamber annoys me because of absurd levels of hypocrisy.
| pics | t5_2qh0u | cb9klp6 | We know you are anti-materialistic.
Whoa whoa whoa. Reddit is extremely materialistic. Every day there is some dumbass posting his gaming "collection" on /r/gaming and a hundred odd comments swooning over it. Similarly you have subs dedicated to outlandish computer build and "battlestation" set up, rampant fanboyism for or against one companies products, etc.
Further more let's not pretend like Reddit's materialistic tendencies are significantly less detrimental than the purchase of a diamond. I mean we seemingly have no issue buying lots of gadgets with rare earth elements mined from China and Africa by god know who and then assembled in factories where people live in basically indentured servitude before offing themselves by jumping off the roof. | the anti-diamond echo chamber annoys me because of absurd levels of hypocrisy. |
theotherduke | I designedmy wife's engagement ring and had a jeweler make it. It is white gold with a pretty blue aquamarine in it and some rose gold accents. I didn't think ahead, though, and it was very hard to find a wedding band that could match it well (it has a unique profile.) One day we got lucky and found a small white gold band that had tiny sapphires in every color of the rainbow all the way around. It was the only ring we tried that didn't look silly next to the one I made for her - in fact, they look like they were made to go together.
tl;dr Sapphire bands are beautiful and they come in every color you could imagine. | I designedmy wife's engagement ring and had a jeweler make it. It is white gold with a pretty blue aquamarine in it and some rose gold accents. I didn't think ahead, though, and it was very hard to find a wedding band that could match it well (it has a unique profile.) One day we got lucky and found a small white gold band that had tiny sapphires in every color of the rainbow all the way around. It was the only ring we tried that didn't look silly next to the one I made for her - in fact, they look like they were made to go together.
tl;dr Sapphire bands are beautiful and they come in every color you could imagine.
| pics | t5_2qh0u | cb9rrnt | I designedmy wife's engagement ring and had a jeweler make it. It is white gold with a pretty blue aquamarine in it and some rose gold accents. I didn't think ahead, though, and it was very hard to find a wedding band that could match it well (it has a unique profile.) One day we got lucky and found a small white gold band that had tiny sapphires in every color of the rainbow all the way around. It was the only ring we tried that didn't look silly next to the one I made for her - in fact, they look like they were made to go together. | Sapphire bands are beautiful and they come in every color you could imagine. |
BaconSux_iHateYouAll | overlayed text isn't allowed here, so your argument is invalid. read rule number 1, ya dummy
besides, the mods would probably make this bullshit against the rules too, but they're scared because this site's become overrun with so many sad, sappy dorks who want /r/pics to be facebook 2.0, so they allow it because they want to appeal to the masses.
i know that reddit is user generated blah blah blah, but look at it this way: you know that bar you always liked to go to, the one with no sweaty, floral boardshort-wearing bros to wade through, where conversations occur instead of dry humping? In a sea of cookie-cutter d-bag bars, this one divey spot was yours, because it was the last place with any dignity (and I use this term loosely, obviously); that's what /r/pics used to be. Then, word gets out, more and more people like the bar you like and before you know it, you walk in on a saturday night to find out it's 18+ night and the owner has added rascal flatts to the jukebox. You look over at him like, "dude, wtf?" and all you see in his eyes are dollar signs.
he doesn't care; these people are bringing him business. he probably realizes they're all idiots, but he can't ostracize them by stifling their asshattery, because then they might be turned off of the place and not return. now you're left outnumbered, surrounded by entitled attention whores and woo-girls, who look at you like you're the outcast because you don't care for the direction your hangout spot is going and you realize, you are alone...you *are* the outcast.
at this point, you can join them and act like fools (not happening), gracefully step aside and find a new place to hang out (likely in the future, minus the graceful part), or attempt a final death-rattle of a ploy to discourage the change for the worst (currently, with this username). you know it's unlikely to influence anyone, as they're already sucked too far into the feeling of mob-mentality acceptance, but you can't help but want to try.
but really, whenever someone questions why someone's lame "OC" belongs here, there's always someone like you. The difference is, usually they say something almost as stupid like, "oh yea, let's just go back to upvoting pictures of cats." As stupid and empty as that defense is, at least there are, in fact, sometimes cats on the front page of /r/pics. yours is the worst i've ever seen, because you literally suggested that this is a nice break from the shit that is clearly not tolerated here. long story short, you're an idiot, you'll like it here, welcome to the hip new joint in town, facebook 2.0.
TL;DR - no...you know what? read it you lazy fucks. | overlayed text isn't allowed here, so your argument is invalid. read rule number 1, ya dummy
besides, the mods would probably make this bullshit against the rules too, but they're scared because this site's become overrun with so many sad, sappy dorks who want /r/pics to be facebook 2.0, so they allow it because they want to appeal to the masses.
i know that reddit is user generated blah blah blah, but look at it this way: you know that bar you always liked to go to, the one with no sweaty, floral boardshort-wearing bros to wade through, where conversations occur instead of dry humping? In a sea of cookie-cutter d-bag bars, this one divey spot was yours, because it was the last place with any dignity (and I use this term loosely, obviously); that's what /r/pics used to be. Then, word gets out, more and more people like the bar you like and before you know it, you walk in on a saturday night to find out it's 18+ night and the owner has added rascal flatts to the jukebox. You look over at him like, "dude, wtf?" and all you see in his eyes are dollar signs.
he doesn't care; these people are bringing him business. he probably realizes they're all idiots, but he can't ostracize them by stifling their asshattery, because then they might be turned off of the place and not return. now you're left outnumbered, surrounded by entitled attention whores and woo-girls, who look at you like you're the outcast because you don't care for the direction your hangout spot is going and you realize, you are alone...you are the outcast.
at this point, you can join them and act like fools (not happening), gracefully step aside and find a new place to hang out (likely in the future, minus the graceful part), or attempt a final death-rattle of a ploy to discourage the change for the worst (currently, with this username). you know it's unlikely to influence anyone, as they're already sucked too far into the feeling of mob-mentality acceptance, but you can't help but want to try.
but really, whenever someone questions why someone's lame "OC" belongs here, there's always someone like you. The difference is, usually they say something almost as stupid like, "oh yea, let's just go back to upvoting pictures of cats." As stupid and empty as that defense is, at least there are, in fact, sometimes cats on the front page of /r/pics. yours is the worst i've ever seen, because you literally suggested that this is a nice break from the shit that is clearly not tolerated here. long story short, you're an idiot, you'll like it here, welcome to the hip new joint in town, facebook 2.0.
TL;DR - no...you know what? read it you lazy fucks.
| pics | t5_2qh0u | cb9h5wq | overlayed text isn't allowed here, so your argument is invalid. read rule number 1, ya dummy
besides, the mods would probably make this bullshit against the rules too, but they're scared because this site's become overrun with so many sad, sappy dorks who want /r/pics to be facebook 2.0, so they allow it because they want to appeal to the masses.
i know that reddit is user generated blah blah blah, but look at it this way: you know that bar you always liked to go to, the one with no sweaty, floral boardshort-wearing bros to wade through, where conversations occur instead of dry humping? In a sea of cookie-cutter d-bag bars, this one divey spot was yours, because it was the last place with any dignity (and I use this term loosely, obviously); that's what /r/pics used to be. Then, word gets out, more and more people like the bar you like and before you know it, you walk in on a saturday night to find out it's 18+ night and the owner has added rascal flatts to the jukebox. You look over at him like, "dude, wtf?" and all you see in his eyes are dollar signs.
he doesn't care; these people are bringing him business. he probably realizes they're all idiots, but he can't ostracize them by stifling their asshattery, because then they might be turned off of the place and not return. now you're left outnumbered, surrounded by entitled attention whores and woo-girls, who look at you like you're the outcast because you don't care for the direction your hangout spot is going and you realize, you are alone...you are the outcast.
at this point, you can join them and act like fools (not happening), gracefully step aside and find a new place to hang out (likely in the future, minus the graceful part), or attempt a final death-rattle of a ploy to discourage the change for the worst (currently, with this username). you know it's unlikely to influence anyone, as they're already sucked too far into the feeling of mob-mentality acceptance, but you can't help but want to try.
but really, whenever someone questions why someone's lame "OC" belongs here, there's always someone like you. The difference is, usually they say something almost as stupid like, "oh yea, let's just go back to upvoting pictures of cats." As stupid and empty as that defense is, at least there are, in fact, sometimes cats on the front page of /r/pics. yours is the worst i've ever seen, because you literally suggested that this is a nice break from the shit that is clearly not tolerated here. long story short, you're an idiot, you'll like it here, welcome to the hip new joint in town, facebook 2.0. | no...you know what? read it you lazy fucks. |
gaupare | Hi there,
I'm currently at my second week of deadlifting ever. I'm also new to fitness altogether. Today I DL 150lbx5x2 (with warmup sets before) doing SS (working my way up, adding 15lb every workout). Obviously I'm no expert but I'll just tell you what worked for me.
The first day, I set my DL at 95lb because I was afraid of them (I have weak lumbar spine, so I felt at a disadvantage). It's extremely light and I was mostly working on form, which was sloppy as hell at first and would leave my back aching after a workout (also got some weird looks for lifting so light with such a shitty form but who the hell cares, let 'em do their curlz). But those low weights DL certainly helped me get the form down and today, I could do 150lb all in proper form and no back pain at all... and I'm confident I can do 165lb next time and 180lb the one after that, and so on until I get diminishing returns.
IIRC In the SS book, Rip mentions that a trainee's starting weight should not be above 135lb.
TL;DR IMHO drop your weight, get a good form and learn to get the hams and glutes to do their part, and then when you work your way back up I'm certain you'll nail 'em with a straight back. | Hi there,
I'm currently at my second week of deadlifting ever. I'm also new to fitness altogether. Today I DL 150lbx5x2 (with warmup sets before) doing SS (working my way up, adding 15lb every workout). Obviously I'm no expert but I'll just tell you what worked for me.
The first day, I set my DL at 95lb because I was afraid of them (I have weak lumbar spine, so I felt at a disadvantage). It's extremely light and I was mostly working on form, which was sloppy as hell at first and would leave my back aching after a workout (also got some weird looks for lifting so light with such a shitty form but who the hell cares, let 'em do their curlz). But those low weights DL certainly helped me get the form down and today, I could do 150lb all in proper form and no back pain at all... and I'm confident I can do 165lb next time and 180lb the one after that, and so on until I get diminishing returns.
IIRC In the SS book, Rip mentions that a trainee's starting weight should not be above 135lb.
TL;DR IMHO drop your weight, get a good form and learn to get the hams and glutes to do their part, and then when you work your way back up I'm certain you'll nail 'em with a straight back.
| Fitness | t5_2qhx4 | cb9of3z | Hi there,
I'm currently at my second week of deadlifting ever. I'm also new to fitness altogether. Today I DL 150lbx5x2 (with warmup sets before) doing SS (working my way up, adding 15lb every workout). Obviously I'm no expert but I'll just tell you what worked for me.
The first day, I set my DL at 95lb because I was afraid of them (I have weak lumbar spine, so I felt at a disadvantage). It's extremely light and I was mostly working on form, which was sloppy as hell at first and would leave my back aching after a workout (also got some weird looks for lifting so light with such a shitty form but who the hell cares, let 'em do their curlz). But those low weights DL certainly helped me get the form down and today, I could do 150lb all in proper form and no back pain at all... and I'm confident I can do 165lb next time and 180lb the one after that, and so on until I get diminishing returns.
IIRC In the SS book, Rip mentions that a trainee's starting weight should not be above 135lb. | IMHO drop your weight, get a good form and learn to get the hams and glutes to do their part, and then when you work your way back up I'm certain you'll nail 'em with a straight back. |
Tom_Foolery1993 | Definitely change your locks and get a deadbolt if you don't have one. Idk if you ever gave her a key but it is totally possible that she stole one and made a copy. Keep a very close eye on your keys at all times. And never leave your car or apartment unlocked even for a minute. Restraining order is up to you, for immediate protection from her trying to hurt you it won't help but if she is stalking you it would give you some legal aid. Idk if its an option, but contact her family maybe? They might have a way to reach out to her that you don't and maybe could talk her into getting help. I know you said they are unbalanced but you never know. They also sell these telescopic batons for self defense. They collapse and can usually fit in your pocket or purse. (Not sure you ever said you were a boy or not) and you can get a good one for about 40 bucks. Even less if you live in a city with a specialty store like white elephant or an army surplus. I would suggest picking one up, and probably taking a self defense course. I'm not saying you gotta beat her to death if she comes close, but all it takes is one slice from her to kill you.
TL;DR Do your best to get her help, but your safety is of the utmost importance. Don't take any chances. | Definitely change your locks and get a deadbolt if you don't have one. Idk if you ever gave her a key but it is totally possible that she stole one and made a copy. Keep a very close eye on your keys at all times. And never leave your car or apartment unlocked even for a minute. Restraining order is up to you, for immediate protection from her trying to hurt you it won't help but if she is stalking you it would give you some legal aid. Idk if its an option, but contact her family maybe? They might have a way to reach out to her that you don't and maybe could talk her into getting help. I know you said they are unbalanced but you never know. They also sell these telescopic batons for self defense. They collapse and can usually fit in your pocket or purse. (Not sure you ever said you were a boy or not) and you can get a good one for about 40 bucks. Even less if you live in a city with a specialty store like white elephant or an army surplus. I would suggest picking one up, and probably taking a self defense course. I'm not saying you gotta beat her to death if she comes close, but all it takes is one slice from her to kill you.
TL;DR Do your best to get her help, but your safety is of the utmost importance. Don't take any chances.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | cb9emsx | Definitely change your locks and get a deadbolt if you don't have one. Idk if you ever gave her a key but it is totally possible that she stole one and made a copy. Keep a very close eye on your keys at all times. And never leave your car or apartment unlocked even for a minute. Restraining order is up to you, for immediate protection from her trying to hurt you it won't help but if she is stalking you it would give you some legal aid. Idk if its an option, but contact her family maybe? They might have a way to reach out to her that you don't and maybe could talk her into getting help. I know you said they are unbalanced but you never know. They also sell these telescopic batons for self defense. They collapse and can usually fit in your pocket or purse. (Not sure you ever said you were a boy or not) and you can get a good one for about 40 bucks. Even less if you live in a city with a specialty store like white elephant or an army surplus. I would suggest picking one up, and probably taking a self defense course. I'm not saying you gotta beat her to death if she comes close, but all it takes is one slice from her to kill you. | Do your best to get her help, but your safety is of the utmost importance. Don't take any chances. |
Pazzi | I wish more information was given in this article.
Quotes from the administrator *may* have been taking out of context.
For example: If the sexual intercourse only had just began and the women said "No, I don't want to have sex with you"(or something along those lines) and the man instantly stopped having sexual intercourse with her, then it isn't rape. This is because he stopped as soon as body language and/or verbal language signified no consent.
However on the other hand if body language and/or verbal language was used to signify no consent and then the man continued to have sexual intercourse with her and just decided not to orgasm (for whatever reason) then it is rape.
TL;DR I wish that this article provided more information. | I wish more information was given in this article.
Quotes from the administrator may have been taking out of context.
For example: If the sexual intercourse only had just began and the women said "No, I don't want to have sex with you"(or something along those lines) and the man instantly stopped having sexual intercourse with her, then it isn't rape. This is because he stopped as soon as body language and/or verbal language signified no consent.
However on the other hand if body language and/or verbal language was used to signify no consent and then the man continued to have sexual intercourse with her and just decided not to orgasm (for whatever reason) then it is rape.
TL;DR I wish that this article provided more information.
| Feminism | t5_2qr7i | cba2tag | I wish more information was given in this article.
Quotes from the administrator may have been taking out of context.
For example: If the sexual intercourse only had just began and the women said "No, I don't want to have sex with you"(or something along those lines) and the man instantly stopped having sexual intercourse with her, then it isn't rape. This is because he stopped as soon as body language and/or verbal language signified no consent.
However on the other hand if body language and/or verbal language was used to signify no consent and then the man continued to have sexual intercourse with her and just decided not to orgasm (for whatever reason) then it is rape. | I wish that this article provided more information. |
Westboro_Fap_Tits | The same post with near identical titles was posted ~5, ~10, ~20, ~25, ~30, and ~35 minutes before yours and the two first posts were the first and second highest voted for that hour as well.
Tl;dr You're full of shit. | The same post with near identical titles was posted ~5, ~10, ~20, ~25, ~30, and ~35 minutes before yours and the two first posts were the first and second highest voted for that hour as well.
Tl;dr You're full of shit.
| pics | t5_2qh0u | cb9jpaw | The same post with near identical titles was posted ~5, ~10, ~20, ~25, ~30, and ~35 minutes before yours and the two first posts were the first and second highest voted for that hour as well. | You're full of shit. |
DejaBoo | I have been watching this thread waiting for someone to bring up diet. She does mention [Vitamin D and how important is to Health]( but does not mention how this plays an important role to why we see varied differences in color of pigmentation that duncastibs mentions of only 80% correlation in latitude. She of course is keeping in mind *her* audience (i.e., keeping it simple for the huge difference).
So people reading may be confused with two different posing views. My understanding is adaption to how *easy* and *constant* access was to a vitamin D rich diet. The most obvious are Fishing communities in higher latitudes were darker skin. Where often Anthropologist Professors bring up such isolated ethnic groups (races) as the [Inuits](
I hazard other points to be discussed is Cultural sexual selection for adaptability. That skin cancer is a serious health concern for all groups and that lighter skin tones are therefore an adaption of health to get more vitamin D. That in the end it is all about "what looks healthy" for the given geography our ancestors faced for selecting a mate.
This is my understanding and welcome other's input, Cheers.
TL;DR This topic can't be discussed without someone bringing up [Rickets!]( | I have been watching this thread waiting for someone to bring up diet. She does mention Vitamin D and how important is to Health .
So people reading may be confused with two different posing views. My understanding is adaption to how easy and constant access was to a vitamin D rich diet. The most obvious are Fishing communities in higher latitudes were darker skin. Where often Anthropologist Professors bring up such isolated ethnic groups (races) as the [Inuits](
I hazard other points to be discussed is Cultural sexual selection for adaptability. That skin cancer is a serious health concern for all groups and that lighter skin tones are therefore an adaption of health to get more vitamin D. That in the end it is all about "what looks healthy" for the given geography our ancestors faced for selecting a mate.
This is my understanding and welcome other's input, Cheers.
TL;DR This topic can't be discussed without someone bringing up [Rickets!](
| AskAnthropology | t5_2wl4u | cb9wi9g | I have been watching this thread waiting for someone to bring up diet. She does mention Vitamin D and how important is to Health .
So people reading may be confused with two different posing views. My understanding is adaption to how easy and constant access was to a vitamin D rich diet. The most obvious are Fishing communities in higher latitudes were darker skin. Where often Anthropologist Professors bring up such isolated ethnic groups (races) as the [Inuits](
I hazard other points to be discussed is Cultural sexual selection for adaptability. That skin cancer is a serious health concern for all groups and that lighter skin tones are therefore an adaption of health to get more vitamin D. That in the end it is all about "what looks healthy" for the given geography our ancestors faced for selecting a mate.
This is my understanding and welcome other's input, Cheers. | This topic can't be discussed without someone bringing up [Rickets!]( |
Vote4Gardner | Ground ball that bounced off of Freeman, Hudson goes to cover first base, Freeman recovers, throws to Hudson whose foot is on the front-foul side of the first base bag. EYJ's ends up landing hard on Huddy's ankle and snaps his shit up. Not going to go too deep into details because there are no words to accurately describe how bad it looked.
tl;dr EYJ stepped on his ankle causing it to collapse. | Ground ball that bounced off of Freeman, Hudson goes to cover first base, Freeman recovers, throws to Hudson whose foot is on the front-foul side of the first base bag. EYJ's ends up landing hard on Huddy's ankle and snaps his shit up. Not going to go too deep into details because there are no words to accurately describe how bad it looked.
tl;dr EYJ stepped on his ankle causing it to collapse.
| baseball | t5_2qm7u | cb9pjsk | Ground ball that bounced off of Freeman, Hudson goes to cover first base, Freeman recovers, throws to Hudson whose foot is on the front-foul side of the first base bag. EYJ's ends up landing hard on Huddy's ankle and snaps his shit up. Not going to go too deep into details because there are no words to accurately describe how bad it looked. | EYJ stepped on his ankle causing it to collapse. |
Xeno4494 | He did it to get the out. The way the play occurred, not to mention the pace with which it developed, made it so that Tim was focusing on trying to salvage a broken play and get the out. What that means in any ball player's head is "get the ball in your glove and your foot on the bag as fast as humanly possible", especially considering the situation (men on 1st and 2nd, fast runner coming into 1st on the hit, no outs). In the process of trying to make this bang-bang play, Hudson gets his foot down on the bag the only way he can while trying to stop himself, catch the ball, and not overrun the bag into the baseline.
Now, if anyone thinks that Tim Hudson doesn't know how to step on 1st to make an out and avoid injury, they have no idea what they're talking about or who Tim Hudson is. A veteran, especially one of his caliber, knows very well. Even if he hadn't gotten hurt, he'd tell you "no, you don't put your foot on top of the bag". He knows, but the play worked out so that his foot ended up there. Hence, accident.
My take on it is that he was just trying to get his foot down, but it also seemed to be that he was trying to move his foot to the correct side. His foot started on the home plate side of first, and it seemed to get hung up as he was trying to bring it over to the second base side, in the process ending up on top of the bag. Once that happened, it was all down to timing and the fact that at that moment, Tim's foot was where Young's foot was already going. Neither guy did anything egregiously wrong, the play just worked out in a way that Tim's foot was in the worst possible position. There are folks out there acting like he put his foot there on purpose. Like "yes, please crush the living fuck out of my ankle during my best start in recent memory".
TL;DR - Yeah, it was a freak accident, and they do happen. | He did it to get the out. The way the play occurred, not to mention the pace with which it developed, made it so that Tim was focusing on trying to salvage a broken play and get the out. What that means in any ball player's head is "get the ball in your glove and your foot on the bag as fast as humanly possible", especially considering the situation (men on 1st and 2nd, fast runner coming into 1st on the hit, no outs). In the process of trying to make this bang-bang play, Hudson gets his foot down on the bag the only way he can while trying to stop himself, catch the ball, and not overrun the bag into the baseline.
Now, if anyone thinks that Tim Hudson doesn't know how to step on 1st to make an out and avoid injury, they have no idea what they're talking about or who Tim Hudson is. A veteran, especially one of his caliber, knows very well. Even if he hadn't gotten hurt, he'd tell you "no, you don't put your foot on top of the bag". He knows, but the play worked out so that his foot ended up there. Hence, accident.
My take on it is that he was just trying to get his foot down, but it also seemed to be that he was trying to move his foot to the correct side. His foot started on the home plate side of first, and it seemed to get hung up as he was trying to bring it over to the second base side, in the process ending up on top of the bag. Once that happened, it was all down to timing and the fact that at that moment, Tim's foot was where Young's foot was already going. Neither guy did anything egregiously wrong, the play just worked out in a way that Tim's foot was in the worst possible position. There are folks out there acting like he put his foot there on purpose. Like "yes, please crush the living fuck out of my ankle during my best start in recent memory".
TL;DR - Yeah, it was a freak accident, and they do happen.
| baseball | t5_2qm7u | cb9uysx | He did it to get the out. The way the play occurred, not to mention the pace with which it developed, made it so that Tim was focusing on trying to salvage a broken play and get the out. What that means in any ball player's head is "get the ball in your glove and your foot on the bag as fast as humanly possible", especially considering the situation (men on 1st and 2nd, fast runner coming into 1st on the hit, no outs). In the process of trying to make this bang-bang play, Hudson gets his foot down on the bag the only way he can while trying to stop himself, catch the ball, and not overrun the bag into the baseline.
Now, if anyone thinks that Tim Hudson doesn't know how to step on 1st to make an out and avoid injury, they have no idea what they're talking about or who Tim Hudson is. A veteran, especially one of his caliber, knows very well. Even if he hadn't gotten hurt, he'd tell you "no, you don't put your foot on top of the bag". He knows, but the play worked out so that his foot ended up there. Hence, accident.
My take on it is that he was just trying to get his foot down, but it also seemed to be that he was trying to move his foot to the correct side. His foot started on the home plate side of first, and it seemed to get hung up as he was trying to bring it over to the second base side, in the process ending up on top of the bag. Once that happened, it was all down to timing and the fact that at that moment, Tim's foot was where Young's foot was already going. Neither guy did anything egregiously wrong, the play just worked out in a way that Tim's foot was in the worst possible position. There are folks out there acting like he put his foot there on purpose. Like "yes, please crush the living fuck out of my ankle during my best start in recent memory". | Yeah, it was a freak accident, and they do happen. |
pabben1 | While I was going to the post I was watching myself playing tons of teemo games just to get the icon and /flexing it to my friends that literally hates teemo which makes it funnier to play.
tldr, yes, would be cool | While I was going to the post I was watching myself playing tons of teemo games just to get the icon and /flexing it to my friends that literally hates teemo which makes it funnier to play.
tldr, yes, would be cool
| leagueoflegends | t5_2rfxx | cba0o5y | While I was going to the post I was watching myself playing tons of teemo games just to get the icon and /flexing it to my friends that literally hates teemo which makes it funnier to play. | yes, would be cool |
Funkenwagnels | Just because someone does not believe in 100% o what you believe in, does not make them a liberal. And just because someone wants to discuss something doesn't mean they're trolling you. A liberal troll here wouldn't be arguing issues with you, they'd be tricking you into admitting you agree with fundamental tenets of Marxism, without telling you they're central tenets of Marxism. Or they'd be egging you into saying something racist. They wouldn't be pointing out flaws in arguments, as this is something that should really make your argument stronger, once you've addressed said issue.
tl;dr: It's 5 sentences, please tell me you actually read it and didn't try to get the Cliff notes version at the end. | Just because someone does not believe in 100% o what you believe in, does not make them a liberal. And just because someone wants to discuss something doesn't mean they're trolling you. A liberal troll here wouldn't be arguing issues with you, they'd be tricking you into admitting you agree with fundamental tenets of Marxism, without telling you they're central tenets of Marxism. Or they'd be egging you into saying something racist. They wouldn't be pointing out flaws in arguments, as this is something that should really make your argument stronger, once you've addressed said issue.
tl;dr: It's 5 sentences, please tell me you actually read it and didn't try to get the Cliff notes version at the end.
| conservatives | t5_2qj2e | cbdq0pi | Just because someone does not believe in 100% o what you believe in, does not make them a liberal. And just because someone wants to discuss something doesn't mean they're trolling you. A liberal troll here wouldn't be arguing issues with you, they'd be tricking you into admitting you agree with fundamental tenets of Marxism, without telling you they're central tenets of Marxism. Or they'd be egging you into saying something racist. They wouldn't be pointing out flaws in arguments, as this is something that should really make your argument stronger, once you've addressed said issue. | It's 5 sentences, please tell me you actually read it and didn't try to get the Cliff notes version at the end. |
SealxJordan | I see where this is coming from, and I agree, but this statement does have what could be a flaw. I mean sure, there is great kicks for around $75-$100, but what if, like me or others, you dont like those shoes? The reason I dont have a problem with the replica market is because it will give people a chance to own something they truly love, rather than just bum out and pay your money on a substitute that would most likely be an excuse to spend money rather than something you'd actually truly want. But like my other comment on here, these are my opinions. I have no intent to bother this community with negativity and only wish to state my opinions.
TL;DR: Rock what you love and feel comfortable in. | I see where this is coming from, and I agree, but this statement does have what could be a flaw. I mean sure, there is great kicks for around $75-$100, but what if, like me or others, you dont like those shoes? The reason I dont have a problem with the replica market is because it will give people a chance to own something they truly love, rather than just bum out and pay your money on a substitute that would most likely be an excuse to spend money rather than something you'd actually truly want. But like my other comment on here, these are my opinions. I have no intent to bother this community with negativity and only wish to state my opinions.
TL;DR: Rock what you love and feel comfortable in.
| Sneakers | t5_2qrtt | cbdcdc2 | I see where this is coming from, and I agree, but this statement does have what could be a flaw. I mean sure, there is great kicks for around $75-$100, but what if, like me or others, you dont like those shoes? The reason I dont have a problem with the replica market is because it will give people a chance to own something they truly love, rather than just bum out and pay your money on a substitute that would most likely be an excuse to spend money rather than something you'd actually truly want. But like my other comment on here, these are my opinions. I have no intent to bother this community with negativity and only wish to state my opinions. | Rock what you love and feel comfortable in. |
FuzzBuket | im running a 7850 2gb 1ghz, which does max out everything. (crysis 2 with extreme graphics mods is running at 50-60fps) and its the same chipset being used in the PS4.
and a 650ti boost performs at a simmilar level. its a tad cheaper, but a tiny bit less powerful.
anyways price breakdown: (Averages due to vendors price variations and exchange rates)
CPU+cooler £75
Mobo: £50
HDD: £30
GPU: £130
PSU £30
RAM: £35 (ram prices have gone up a little)
Case: £20
so thats £370 for the base system
add a extra £20 for a 7850 2gb instead of a 650ti and your at £390.
for a PC that has roughly the same spec as a PS4.
throw in a cheap mouse and keyboard for a tenner each and your total is £410.
plug it in the TV with a £5 HDMI cable and ta-da £415 PC tha has performance simmilar to a PS4. OC the 7850 and it will perform better for quite some time
as for the OS ask around, if anyone works in any sort of office IT, tech support or goverment building they will often have tons of spare copies of Windows 7 (64 bit). or you could pirate it, or pay £80.
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TL:DR yes it would max out pretty much everything, and it is easy to build a powerful PC for < £500 | im running a 7850 2gb 1ghz, which does max out everything. (crysis 2 with extreme graphics mods is running at 50-60fps) and its the same chipset being used in the PS4.
and a 650ti boost performs at a simmilar level. its a tad cheaper, but a tiny bit less powerful.
anyways price breakdown: (Averages due to vendors price variations and exchange rates)
CPU+cooler £75
Mobo: £50
HDD: £30
GPU: £130
PSU £30
RAM: £35 (ram prices have gone up a little)
Case: £20
so thats £370 for the base system
add a extra £20 for a 7850 2gb instead of a 650ti and your at £390.
for a PC that has roughly the same spec as a PS4.
throw in a cheap mouse and keyboard for a tenner each and your total is £410.
plug it in the TV with a £5 HDMI cable and ta-da £415 PC tha has performance simmilar to a PS4. OC the 7850 and it will perform better for quite some time
as for the OS ask around, if anyone works in any sort of office IT, tech support or goverment building they will often have tons of spare copies of Windows 7 (64 bit). or you could pirate it, or pay £80.
TL:DR yes it would max out pretty much everything, and it is easy to build a powerful PC for < £500
| gaming | t5_2qh03 | cbbcm4t | im running a 7850 2gb 1ghz, which does max out everything. (crysis 2 with extreme graphics mods is running at 50-60fps) and its the same chipset being used in the PS4.
and a 650ti boost performs at a simmilar level. its a tad cheaper, but a tiny bit less powerful.
anyways price breakdown: (Averages due to vendors price variations and exchange rates)
CPU+cooler £75
Mobo: £50
HDD: £30
GPU: £130
PSU £30
RAM: £35 (ram prices have gone up a little)
Case: £20
so thats £370 for the base system
add a extra £20 for a 7850 2gb instead of a 650ti and your at £390.
for a PC that has roughly the same spec as a PS4.
throw in a cheap mouse and keyboard for a tenner each and your total is £410.
plug it in the TV with a £5 HDMI cable and ta-da £415 PC tha has performance simmilar to a PS4. OC the 7850 and it will perform better for quite some time
as for the OS ask around, if anyone works in any sort of office IT, tech support or goverment building they will often have tons of spare copies of Windows 7 (64 bit). or you could pirate it, or pay £80. | yes it would max out pretty much everything, and it is easy to build a powerful PC for < £500 |
ByahhByahh | As soon as someone that **does not** deserve to be punished is the moment that the system is a complete disgrace. You're deterring the action, sure, but you're not fixing anything.
Murderers will get thrown into prison for a damn long period of time, some of which get executed as well, where they are in a cramped area with other murderers. People get beaten and killed in jail as well. That's already not a big enough deterrent as it is, so what makes you think "maybe more pain" will make the difference?
Lots of murders don't even happen because the person thought it through. Maybe there was an argument and a guy just shot someone in the heat of the moment. Maybe that person was a white-collar business type. Making $80,000 a year living in a 4 bedroom house in the suburbs of a nice city with a wife and children.
Now, that guy gets thrown into jail for 15, 20 years. He is living in a cold cell being served mediocre food surrounded by hardened criminals. Let's say this guy gets through his sentence and gets released after 10 years. His wife and kids have more than likely left him. He won't get his old job back, if any decent job, since he has to check the box that says "convicted of a felony". Any money he has has gone with his family or the survivors of the victim. This is just a guy that didn't even mean to kill someone, but did, and now his life is ruined.
In your world you just want this guy to also be shot dead? But I digress, let's move onto someone that meant to kill someone.
A guy carries out a murder on the man that stole his wife, or the boss that fired him, or the guy that sort of looked at him funny in high school. Premeditated murder, that's looking at life with a possible death sentence. That's someone that knew that "If I get caught killing this person I'll be locked in a cage for the rest of my life, dying of old age, a shiv, an injection, or something else" ... Oh well, worth the risk. Locking someone up and taking away the life they've come to know is a really serious punishment, once you think about it. No matter the punishment, barring execution, it's one that you learn to live with. Whether chopping off a thief's hand or locking that thief up for a few years, it's something that you'd adjust to. Lose a hand and it affects a lot of things you can do and you'll need assistance. Put someone in a box then they have to completely change the way they live and learn to adapt while surrounded by people doing the same that are also on edge 24/7 because they might get beat up or killed by someone at any given moment.
TL;DR not everything is black and white, and a post on reddit doesn't solve a serious issue that has plagued mankind for decades.
I'm getting off now. | As soon as someone that does not deserve to be punished is the moment that the system is a complete disgrace. You're deterring the action, sure, but you're not fixing anything.
Murderers will get thrown into prison for a damn long period of time, some of which get executed as well, where they are in a cramped area with other murderers. People get beaten and killed in jail as well. That's already not a big enough deterrent as it is, so what makes you think "maybe more pain" will make the difference?
Lots of murders don't even happen because the person thought it through. Maybe there was an argument and a guy just shot someone in the heat of the moment. Maybe that person was a white-collar business type. Making $80,000 a year living in a 4 bedroom house in the suburbs of a nice city with a wife and children.
Now, that guy gets thrown into jail for 15, 20 years. He is living in a cold cell being served mediocre food surrounded by hardened criminals. Let's say this guy gets through his sentence and gets released after 10 years. His wife and kids have more than likely left him. He won't get his old job back, if any decent job, since he has to check the box that says "convicted of a felony". Any money he has has gone with his family or the survivors of the victim. This is just a guy that didn't even mean to kill someone, but did, and now his life is ruined.
In your world you just want this guy to also be shot dead? But I digress, let's move onto someone that meant to kill someone.
A guy carries out a murder on the man that stole his wife, or the boss that fired him, or the guy that sort of looked at him funny in high school. Premeditated murder, that's looking at life with a possible death sentence. That's someone that knew that "If I get caught killing this person I'll be locked in a cage for the rest of my life, dying of old age, a shiv, an injection, or something else" ... Oh well, worth the risk. Locking someone up and taking away the life they've come to know is a really serious punishment, once you think about it. No matter the punishment, barring execution, it's one that you learn to live with. Whether chopping off a thief's hand or locking that thief up for a few years, it's something that you'd adjust to. Lose a hand and it affects a lot of things you can do and you'll need assistance. Put someone in a box then they have to completely change the way they live and learn to adapt while surrounded by people doing the same that are also on edge 24/7 because they might get beat up or killed by someone at any given moment.
TL;DR not everything is black and white, and a post on reddit doesn't solve a serious issue that has plagued mankind for decades.
I'm getting off now.
| WTF | t5_2qh61 | cbb5uxx | As soon as someone that does not deserve to be punished is the moment that the system is a complete disgrace. You're deterring the action, sure, but you're not fixing anything.
Murderers will get thrown into prison for a damn long period of time, some of which get executed as well, where they are in a cramped area with other murderers. People get beaten and killed in jail as well. That's already not a big enough deterrent as it is, so what makes you think "maybe more pain" will make the difference?
Lots of murders don't even happen because the person thought it through. Maybe there was an argument and a guy just shot someone in the heat of the moment. Maybe that person was a white-collar business type. Making $80,000 a year living in a 4 bedroom house in the suburbs of a nice city with a wife and children.
Now, that guy gets thrown into jail for 15, 20 years. He is living in a cold cell being served mediocre food surrounded by hardened criminals. Let's say this guy gets through his sentence and gets released after 10 years. His wife and kids have more than likely left him. He won't get his old job back, if any decent job, since he has to check the box that says "convicted of a felony". Any money he has has gone with his family or the survivors of the victim. This is just a guy that didn't even mean to kill someone, but did, and now his life is ruined.
In your world you just want this guy to also be shot dead? But I digress, let's move onto someone that meant to kill someone.
A guy carries out a murder on the man that stole his wife, or the boss that fired him, or the guy that sort of looked at him funny in high school. Premeditated murder, that's looking at life with a possible death sentence. That's someone that knew that "If I get caught killing this person I'll be locked in a cage for the rest of my life, dying of old age, a shiv, an injection, or something else" ... Oh well, worth the risk. Locking someone up and taking away the life they've come to know is a really serious punishment, once you think about it. No matter the punishment, barring execution, it's one that you learn to live with. Whether chopping off a thief's hand or locking that thief up for a few years, it's something that you'd adjust to. Lose a hand and it affects a lot of things you can do and you'll need assistance. Put someone in a box then they have to completely change the way they live and learn to adapt while surrounded by people doing the same that are also on edge 24/7 because they might get beat up or killed by someone at any given moment. | not everything is black and white, and a post on reddit doesn't solve a serious issue that has plagued mankind for decades.
I'm getting off now. |
Piratehunterzoro | I think you are 100 % right about crocodile. However, who says Ace needs oxygen to create fire? This guy has a good point:
[–]spadingo 30 poeng 6 dager siden
Actually, I think Ace wouldn't necessarily need oxygen in order to burn. And let me try to explain why.
Logia fruits allow a person to turn into their element, in seemingly infinite volumes. Take Akainu for example, he never ran out of lava.
If you look at Smoker, he doesn't exactly follow the typical conventions of science. There's no fire that produces the smoke, his body produces it. Let's think of combustion as the conversion of oxygen -> fire. If Smoker's case isn't a fire -> smoke process, why should Ace's be an oxygen -> fire process?
Of course, having the oxygen around would make Ace more powerful because he would ignite the oxygen and create fire that isn't made up of his own body.
TL;DR: Maybe Ace's fruit doesn't need oxygen, but a lack of oxygen would greatly weaken him | I think you are 100 % right about crocodile. However, who says Ace needs oxygen to create fire? This guy has a good point:
[–]spadingo 30 poeng 6 dager siden
Actually, I think Ace wouldn't necessarily need oxygen in order to burn. And let me try to explain why.
Logia fruits allow a person to turn into their element, in seemingly infinite volumes. Take Akainu for example, he never ran out of lava.
If you look at Smoker, he doesn't exactly follow the typical conventions of science. There's no fire that produces the smoke, his body produces it. Let's think of combustion as the conversion of oxygen -> fire. If Smoker's case isn't a fire -> smoke process, why should Ace's be an oxygen -> fire process?
Of course, having the oxygen around would make Ace more powerful because he would ignite the oxygen and create fire that isn't made up of his own body.
TL;DR: Maybe Ace's fruit doesn't need oxygen, but a lack of oxygen would greatly weaken him
| OnePiece | t5_2rfz5 | cbbgxhl | I think you are 100 % right about crocodile. However, who says Ace needs oxygen to create fire? This guy has a good point:
[–]spadingo 30 poeng 6 dager siden
Actually, I think Ace wouldn't necessarily need oxygen in order to burn. And let me try to explain why.
Logia fruits allow a person to turn into their element, in seemingly infinite volumes. Take Akainu for example, he never ran out of lava.
If you look at Smoker, he doesn't exactly follow the typical conventions of science. There's no fire that produces the smoke, his body produces it. Let's think of combustion as the conversion of oxygen -> fire. If Smoker's case isn't a fire -> smoke process, why should Ace's be an oxygen -> fire process?
Of course, having the oxygen around would make Ace more powerful because he would ignite the oxygen and create fire that isn't made up of his own body. | Maybe Ace's fruit doesn't need oxygen, but a lack of oxygen would greatly weaken him |
gretchenx7 | Sholas is right, this is gaslighting. A form of psychological abuse.
It would be a very smart idea to have little contact with your mother-in-law. ESPECIALLY after the baby comes. I would worry that your child would have to deal with this very thing from her. And please, don't subject your child to that. Or at least make sure the child is supervised at all times. While she might not be violent, someone who engages in gaslighting is dangerous in one way or another.
Don't expect this to be the end of her fabrications, either, they can get quite elaborate. And if they can get a professional on their side? You're basically fucked.
I hope your experience does not go the way of my gaslighting experience in my own family. Long story short, they ended up going to a counsellor complaining that I did x,y, and z. I denied it. They then claimed I took benzodiazepines, which have the convenient side effect of amnesia. Said I wouldn't remember ever taking them because of this side effect. And that I was under the influence of the drugs when I did x, y, and z, and that I was a danger to myself and others. On the counsellor's advice, I get admitted to a mental hospital despite numerous clean blood tests at the hospital. Got let out after my first visit with the psychiatrist, when she repeated what all the other nurses had asked: "why the fuck are you in here?"
tl;dr - **Gaslighting can get much worse. Run. Now.** | Sholas is right, this is gaslighting. A form of psychological abuse.
It would be a very smart idea to have little contact with your mother-in-law. ESPECIALLY after the baby comes. I would worry that your child would have to deal with this very thing from her. And please, don't subject your child to that. Or at least make sure the child is supervised at all times. While she might not be violent, someone who engages in gaslighting is dangerous in one way or another.
Don't expect this to be the end of her fabrications, either, they can get quite elaborate. And if they can get a professional on their side? You're basically fucked.
I hope your experience does not go the way of my gaslighting experience in my own family. Long story short, they ended up going to a counsellor complaining that I did x,y, and z. I denied it. They then claimed I took benzodiazepines, which have the convenient side effect of amnesia. Said I wouldn't remember ever taking them because of this side effect. And that I was under the influence of the drugs when I did x, y, and z, and that I was a danger to myself and others. On the counsellor's advice, I get admitted to a mental hospital despite numerous clean blood tests at the hospital. Got let out after my first visit with the psychiatrist, when she repeated what all the other nurses had asked: "why the fuck are you in here?"
tl;dr - Gaslighting can get much worse. Run. Now.
| relationship_advice | t5_2r0cn | cbbsysq | Sholas is right, this is gaslighting. A form of psychological abuse.
It would be a very smart idea to have little contact with your mother-in-law. ESPECIALLY after the baby comes. I would worry that your child would have to deal with this very thing from her. And please, don't subject your child to that. Or at least make sure the child is supervised at all times. While she might not be violent, someone who engages in gaslighting is dangerous in one way or another.
Don't expect this to be the end of her fabrications, either, they can get quite elaborate. And if they can get a professional on their side? You're basically fucked.
I hope your experience does not go the way of my gaslighting experience in my own family. Long story short, they ended up going to a counsellor complaining that I did x,y, and z. I denied it. They then claimed I took benzodiazepines, which have the convenient side effect of amnesia. Said I wouldn't remember ever taking them because of this side effect. And that I was under the influence of the drugs when I did x, y, and z, and that I was a danger to myself and others. On the counsellor's advice, I get admitted to a mental hospital despite numerous clean blood tests at the hospital. Got let out after my first visit with the psychiatrist, when she repeated what all the other nurses had asked: "why the fuck are you in here?" | Gaslighting can get much worse. Run. Now. |
Mickyladd | I still do not understand why I was so impressed (and still am) with the static backgrounds. I'm currently replaying 8 and soon 9 and once I got over how much I had viewed the character models with rose tinted glasses I began to appreciate it again.
But my oh my do the backgrounds still impress me. As well as the cutscenes. I simply forgot how 'Top of their game' square used to be. I mean okay they still are pretty great but nothing like they used to be, they put their all in those games and lately that effort had been dwindling somewhat.
Tl;dr I agree, the graphical style of 7 8 and 9 is one I would love to see again | I still do not understand why I was so impressed (and still am) with the static backgrounds. I'm currently replaying 8 and soon 9 and once I got over how much I had viewed the character models with rose tinted glasses I began to appreciate it again.
But my oh my do the backgrounds still impress me. As well as the cutscenes. I simply forgot how 'Top of their game' square used to be. I mean okay they still are pretty great but nothing like they used to be, they put their all in those games and lately that effort had been dwindling somewhat.
Tl;dr I agree, the graphical style of 7 8 and 9 is one I would love to see again
| iosgaming | t5_2sc2s | cbdxe3j | I still do not understand why I was so impressed (and still am) with the static backgrounds. I'm currently replaying 8 and soon 9 and once I got over how much I had viewed the character models with rose tinted glasses I began to appreciate it again.
But my oh my do the backgrounds still impress me. As well as the cutscenes. I simply forgot how 'Top of their game' square used to be. I mean okay they still are pretty great but nothing like they used to be, they put their all in those games and lately that effort had been dwindling somewhat. | I agree, the graphical style of 7 8 and 9 is one I would love to see again |
FashionablyFake | I think they probably check it out if they hear of it, but I doubt they go through much trouble just to find small-time users. Also, I always feel better when I'm only buying something as opposed to hooking it up, because busting a user isn't going to net as much as busting a dealer would.
However. There was a thread when I was still a toddler here about what slang everyone is used to in their parts. I commented that we had slang for a reason, and asked if anyone else felt like it was safer to not spread our codes across reddit in case of LEO. I was downvoted and picked on.... but I still agree with myself, just to be safe. Why else have slang?
TL;DR: Better safe than sorry, suckers!!! | I think they probably check it out if they hear of it, but I doubt they go through much trouble just to find small-time users. Also, I always feel better when I'm only buying something as opposed to hooking it up, because busting a user isn't going to net as much as busting a dealer would.
However. There was a thread when I was still a toddler here about what slang everyone is used to in their parts. I commented that we had slang for a reason, and asked if anyone else felt like it was safer to not spread our codes across reddit in case of LEO. I was downvoted and picked on.... but I still agree with myself, just to be safe. Why else have slang?
TL;DR: Better safe than sorry, suckers!!!
| opiates | t5_2r0y3 | cbbjvsn | I think they probably check it out if they hear of it, but I doubt they go through much trouble just to find small-time users. Also, I always feel better when I'm only buying something as opposed to hooking it up, because busting a user isn't going to net as much as busting a dealer would.
However. There was a thread when I was still a toddler here about what slang everyone is used to in their parts. I commented that we had slang for a reason, and asked if anyone else felt like it was safer to not spread our codes across reddit in case of LEO. I was downvoted and picked on.... but I still agree with myself, just to be safe. Why else have slang? | Better safe than sorry, suckers!!! |
YetzerHaHa | Go to a Tully's coffee shop and try to get a normal sized straw. I'll bet you can't.
FUCK YOU TULLY'S!
I DON'T WANT A BIG ASS CLOWN STRAW. I WANT A STRAW THAT MATCHES THE DRINK SIZE I ORDERED.
HOW MUCH ARE YOU SAVING TO MAKE MY LIFE MISERABLE, CHEAP BASTARDS?
FIRE YOUR (financial) BEAN COUNTER TWATS!
Tl;dr: Tully's saves money by only having one giant straw size. | Go to a Tully's coffee shop and try to get a normal sized straw. I'll bet you can't.
FUCK YOU TULLY'S!
I DON'T WANT A BIG ASS CLOWN STRAW. I WANT A STRAW THAT MATCHES THE DRINK SIZE I ORDERED.
HOW MUCH ARE YOU SAVING TO MAKE MY LIFE MISERABLE, CHEAP BASTARDS?
FIRE YOUR (financial) BEAN COUNTER TWATS!
Tl;dr: Tully's saves money by only having one giant straw size.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | cbbyhee | Go to a Tully's coffee shop and try to get a normal sized straw. I'll bet you can't.
FUCK YOU TULLY'S!
I DON'T WANT A BIG ASS CLOWN STRAW. I WANT A STRAW THAT MATCHES THE DRINK SIZE I ORDERED.
HOW MUCH ARE YOU SAVING TO MAKE MY LIFE MISERABLE, CHEAP BASTARDS?
FIRE YOUR (financial) BEAN COUNTER TWATS! | Tully's saves money by only having one giant straw size. |
Mjolnirium | Food companies do this all the time. Update the packaging with a new look, and a smaller size. Price stays the same though. Recent changes: jars of cheese whiz, bags of kraft shredded cheese, generic brand bricks of cheese. Happens every few months.
TL;DR: dont buy groceries not on sale unless you need to. | Food companies do this all the time. Update the packaging with a new look, and a smaller size. Price stays the same though. Recent changes: jars of cheese whiz, bags of kraft shredded cheese, generic brand bricks of cheese. Happens every few months.
TL;DR: dont buy groceries not on sale unless you need to.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | cbc0u7r | Food companies do this all the time. Update the packaging with a new look, and a smaller size. Price stays the same though. Recent changes: jars of cheese whiz, bags of kraft shredded cheese, generic brand bricks of cheese. Happens every few months. | dont buy groceries not on sale unless you need to. |
DiggingNoMore | My Samsung T309 had to be charged every night, just like my current smartphone. But I talk *a lot* and drain the battery every day. I had my T309 flip phone for six years before I dropped it and it got a crack on the side. Still wors fine, though. But I got a smartphone 1.5 years ago and haven't dropped it yet.
TL;DR - Don't drop your phone. | My Samsung T309 had to be charged every night, just like my current smartphone. But I talk a lot and drain the battery every day. I had my T309 flip phone for six years before I dropped it and it got a crack on the side. Still wors fine, though. But I got a smartphone 1.5 years ago and haven't dropped it yet.
TL;DR - Don't drop your phone.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | cbc6hex | My Samsung T309 had to be charged every night, just like my current smartphone. But I talk a lot and drain the battery every day. I had my T309 flip phone for six years before I dropped it and it got a crack on the side. Still wors fine, though. But I got a smartphone 1.5 years ago and haven't dropped it yet. | Don't drop your phone. |
elljaysa | Ikea have sold an item called the [Bekvam Step Stool]( for as long as I can remember. I have 2 from probably 7 or 8 years ago. You can walk into any Ikea today and purchase said item but the wood is about 1/2 as thick as the one I have.
tl;dr Ikea use thinner wood for same item 7-8 years on. | Ikea have sold an item called the [Bekvam Step Stool]( for as long as I can remember. I have 2 from probably 7 or 8 years ago. You can walk into any Ikea today and purchase said item but the wood is about 1/2 as thick as the one I have.
tl;dr Ikea use thinner wood for same item 7-8 years on.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | cbc7a4b | Ikea have sold an item called the [Bekvam Step Stool]( for as long as I can remember. I have 2 from probably 7 or 8 years ago. You can walk into any Ikea today and purchase said item but the wood is about 1/2 as thick as the one I have. | Ikea use thinner wood for same item 7-8 years on. |
openminder | laptop cases and briefcases...are being lined and structurally reinforced with hard cardboard and STYROFOAM. no more durable plastic, wood or even hardened leather. I am talking $150-$200 book bags backpacks and briefcases, reinforced with foam plastic. plus side of things It makes it a hell of a lot lighter but i shouldn't be able to immediately break a briefcase with my bare hands.
Tldr: Briefcases and book bags are being made with cardboard and Styrofoam.
Bonus: Cereal boxes, whether its general mills/kellogg/Kraft get smaller almost annually. | laptop cases and briefcases...are being lined and structurally reinforced with hard cardboard and STYROFOAM. no more durable plastic, wood or even hardened leather. I am talking $150-$200 book bags backpacks and briefcases, reinforced with foam plastic. plus side of things It makes it a hell of a lot lighter but i shouldn't be able to immediately break a briefcase with my bare hands.
Tldr: Briefcases and book bags are being made with cardboard and Styrofoam.
Bonus: Cereal boxes, whether its general mills/kellogg/Kraft get smaller almost annually.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | cbc86cr | laptop cases and briefcases...are being lined and structurally reinforced with hard cardboard and STYROFOAM. no more durable plastic, wood or even hardened leather. I am talking $150-$200 book bags backpacks and briefcases, reinforced with foam plastic. plus side of things It makes it a hell of a lot lighter but i shouldn't be able to immediately break a briefcase with my bare hands. | Briefcases and book bags are being made with cardboard and Styrofoam.
Bonus: Cereal boxes, whether its general mills/kellogg/Kraft get smaller almost annually. |
CosmikJ | I remember an old Roald Dahl trick where he would buy a load of expensive wine, drink it, then fill the empty bottles with cheap wine and invite a load of guests over. Then laugh as they all praise it.
Another good one is this: When people try to show off how much they know about wine by sniffing the cork after they take out of the bottle, they are in fact proving their ignorance as the actual practice is to look at the base of the cork to check that the date stamped on it matches the date on the side of the bottle.
tl;dr Roald Dahl looks with his eyes not with his nose. | I remember an old Roald Dahl trick where he would buy a load of expensive wine, drink it, then fill the empty bottles with cheap wine and invite a load of guests over. Then laugh as they all praise it.
Another good one is this: When people try to show off how much they know about wine by sniffing the cork after they take out of the bottle, they are in fact proving their ignorance as the actual practice is to look at the base of the cork to check that the date stamped on it matches the date on the side of the bottle.
tl;dr Roald Dahl looks with his eyes not with his nose.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | cbc8or3 | I remember an old Roald Dahl trick where he would buy a load of expensive wine, drink it, then fill the empty bottles with cheap wine and invite a load of guests over. Then laugh as they all praise it.
Another good one is this: When people try to show off how much they know about wine by sniffing the cork after they take out of the bottle, they are in fact proving their ignorance as the actual practice is to look at the base of the cork to check that the date stamped on it matches the date on the side of the bottle. | Roald Dahl looks with his eyes not with his nose. |
BradleySigma | I was told by a marketing lecturer that, for "basic" products, there's almost no difference between generic and name brand products, but for fancier products there is.
Her example was potato crisps. Plain, unflavoured crisps are more or less the same across brands, because there's almost no way for the generic brand to cut corners. However, for the flavoured crisps, the generic brand can use cheaper flavourings, use less flavourings etc to cut costs.
TL;DR if there's no way to cut corners, the generic brand is much the same as the name brand. | I was told by a marketing lecturer that, for "basic" products, there's almost no difference between generic and name brand products, but for fancier products there is.
Her example was potato crisps. Plain, unflavoured crisps are more or less the same across brands, because there's almost no way for the generic brand to cut corners. However, for the flavoured crisps, the generic brand can use cheaper flavourings, use less flavourings etc to cut costs.
TL;DR if there's no way to cut corners, the generic brand is much the same as the name brand.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | cbc9id9 | I was told by a marketing lecturer that, for "basic" products, there's almost no difference between generic and name brand products, but for fancier products there is.
Her example was potato crisps. Plain, unflavoured crisps are more or less the same across brands, because there's almost no way for the generic brand to cut corners. However, for the flavoured crisps, the generic brand can use cheaper flavourings, use less flavourings etc to cut costs. | if there's no way to cut corners, the generic brand is much the same as the name brand. |
FifthOfJameson | Slightly unrelated, but I've worked in the restaurant business for a while and much fuckery occurs. A lot of food gets microwaved, and (at my current place at least) a substantial percentage of our ingredients that should be fresh (various fruits, vegetables, and sauces) are canned. Salmon burgers are made of the pieces of salmon not fit for the regular salmon dish, mixed with brine. Every soup, as well as our rice and taco meat, sit in steam wells all day.
tl;dr: Restaurants suck. | Slightly unrelated, but I've worked in the restaurant business for a while and much fuckery occurs. A lot of food gets microwaved, and (at my current place at least) a substantial percentage of our ingredients that should be fresh (various fruits, vegetables, and sauces) are canned. Salmon burgers are made of the pieces of salmon not fit for the regular salmon dish, mixed with brine. Every soup, as well as our rice and taco meat, sit in steam wells all day.
tl;dr: Restaurants suck.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | cbc9sp2 | Slightly unrelated, but I've worked in the restaurant business for a while and much fuckery occurs. A lot of food gets microwaved, and (at my current place at least) a substantial percentage of our ingredients that should be fresh (various fruits, vegetables, and sauces) are canned. Salmon burgers are made of the pieces of salmon not fit for the regular salmon dish, mixed with brine. Every soup, as well as our rice and taco meat, sit in steam wells all day. | Restaurants suck. |
AjMilliron | In the early 2000s BMW switched from a timing belt to a chain (which wore out much slower than a belt, if at all) because they wanted to make some quality goddamn cars. Several years later dealers were protesting that they weren't receiving as many belt jobs because the timing chains weren't wearing out. BMW quickly switched back to the timing belt.
TL;DR Car manufacturers using shittier parts to force people to have work done on their cars, increasing parts sales and dealership revenue. | In the early 2000s BMW switched from a timing belt to a chain (which wore out much slower than a belt, if at all) because they wanted to make some quality goddamn cars. Several years later dealers were protesting that they weren't receiving as many belt jobs because the timing chains weren't wearing out. BMW quickly switched back to the timing belt.
TL;DR Car manufacturers using shittier parts to force people to have work done on their cars, increasing parts sales and dealership revenue.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | cbcb8c0 | In the early 2000s BMW switched from a timing belt to a chain (which wore out much slower than a belt, if at all) because they wanted to make some quality goddamn cars. Several years later dealers were protesting that they weren't receiving as many belt jobs because the timing chains weren't wearing out. BMW quickly switched back to the timing belt. | Car manufacturers using shittier parts to force people to have work done on their cars, increasing parts sales and dealership revenue. |
poloman12345 | As a fellow mcslave I can shed light on this too, the biggest thing for me is if you come in within 5 min of breakfast to lung changeover odds are your food quality will not be the best due to the kitchen being slammed and trying to coordinate setting up lunch while dealing with your order of five big breakfasts.
TL;DR If you come to McDonald's at changeover and order a shit ton of food FUCK YOU. | As a fellow mcslave I can shed light on this too, the biggest thing for me is if you come in within 5 min of breakfast to lung changeover odds are your food quality will not be the best due to the kitchen being slammed and trying to coordinate setting up lunch while dealing with your order of five big breakfasts.
TL;DR If you come to McDonald's at changeover and order a shit ton of food FUCK YOU.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | cbcc6he | As a fellow mcslave I can shed light on this too, the biggest thing for me is if you come in within 5 min of breakfast to lung changeover odds are your food quality will not be the best due to the kitchen being slammed and trying to coordinate setting up lunch while dealing with your order of five big breakfasts. | If you come to McDonald's at changeover and order a shit ton of food FUCK YOU. |
MrWalkingTarget | Here, let's go over some of your replies to my initial comment, from the bottom up.
"you have caller ID, you can automatically track who is having which problems"
Damn straight we do, but we don't use caller ID. In most areas of the world it's illegal to use caller ID to track customers; using any data that they don't give you directly is a no-no, privacy laws protect you. That's why even if you call from your mobile they'll ask you for your number, because legally they have to ask.
What callcenters do use is your account, call log, service number or reservation code to track your issue. That time you called your mobile provider and yelled at a rep for 10 minutes about a charge then demanded a supervisor? yeah, they'll have notes on it. You had an issue with your iCrap and demanded the supervisor send you an immediate replacement? yep, that's noted too. I've never been at a center or heard of one where agents will outright state you've been a jerk. But a lot of information can be inferred from remarks. "customer immediately asked for supervisor" is one you never want on your account.
"if you treat me like an idiot i'm going to think you're some halfwit moron reading from a script and not listening to someone who is trying to explain to you what the actual problem is."
Yeah. About that. at least half of issues on technical support calls are on the damn script. You wouldn't believe the number of people who will call to complain because their computer or cellphone won't turn on, or if it just needs to be power cycled. Beyond that, for tech support there is almost always a checklist you have to go over before moving on to the next issue. Doesn't matter if you're an IT genius, the checklist is still there, and the agent will be reprimanded if they did not go over it.
They're not treating you like a moron, they're trying to get the most common issues out of the way on their 'checklist' ASAP so they can get to actually helping you. That's not to say that all callcenter employees are geniuses, but if you at least get that shit out of the way and you're still not getting satisfaction, then asking for a supervisor is warranted.
Also, in my own personal experience the call "it doesn't work" is resolved 70% or more of the time by restarting, resetting or making sure it's plugged in or unplugging and plugging back in. It's not you, it's just most people.
" it doesnt change the fact that after arguing with the first line of defense for 15 minutes doesn't get you anywere."
This is your issue right here. You're taking an adversarial stance towards the whole thing. It's not you against them. They're just another person working a long damn shift. If you go out of your way to make their day harder by immediately demanding a supervisor, they're gonna note your file as such and they're gonna tell the supervisor before you get to talk to them. I've never been at, nor heard of a callcenter in north america where supervisors take 'blind' calls. The agent gives them a headsup on the situation before you ever get to talk to them. Act the tool, and everyone you speak to will know it before they talk to you.
All in all, your posts sum up the very worst way to deal with callcenter employees. Swearing or being threatening gets you hung up on. Immediately demanding a supervisor may work in some cases, but it sets you up for having a harder time the next time you call in.
The best advice I can give is threefold
1. Keep calm and respectful. Respect is a two way street, as you said, but the second you loose your cool or be disrespectful towards the person you've called, you're gonna have a bad time. If a callcenter agent is rude or disrespectful, call them on it and ask for their supervisor, that's legit. Asking for one because they're going through their checklist or taking a few minutes to do something is a sure way to aggravate the situation and get you labeled a dbag.
2. Treat the agent like a professional. Here's the logic behind this. You're calling somebody who's had weeks or months of training on a "product" and months or years of experience dealing with it. You have an issue, you explain the issue. The agent will then begin trying to solve your issue ASAP. This may involve the dreaded 'script', it may not. If you sit back, relax and let the agent steer the call, you'll generally get things done faster and with less stress all around. In short, treat the person on the phone like any other professional and you'll get them on your side. They may need to take some of your time to do this, but if they're on your side they're gonna be actively looking to solve your problem, not just responding to you.
3. Know when to ask for a supervisor. Most callcenters have a policy where if you ask for a supervisor, you get one. This isn't necessarily a good thing for you. At north american callcenters very few people who understand the business want to become a 'tier 2' or 'supervisor' because it's harder to get raises and you deal with a lot more crap. This means that middle management tries to promote people as soon as they have enough experience, generally around the 6-10 month mark, before they figure out that the extra dollar an hour jump isn't worth it in the long run.
In short, most call center supervisors almost always have twice to three times the turnover rate of regular agents. Within a year and a half I was making the same amount as a supervisor at 10 months. I've been at the job 4 1/2 years and currently make more than all but one of the tier 2 agents. There's only one supervisor that's been there longer than me; trust me you'd rather talk to one of the new ones or me.
Unless the agent is being a useless dick or actually being rude to you, you're better off letting them work through the problem and decide if or when a supervisor needs to get involved. With very few exceptions and agent who has been allowed to do their job will get a supervisor if needed; they know better than you do what a supervisor can and cannot do.
TL:DR
If you treat the person on the end of the line like a decent human being and your ally, they'll actually go out of their way and take extra time to help you.
If you're a screaming bag of dicks that immediately demands a supervisor, you're probably not gonna get what you want, or if you do, it'll take you a long damn time.
People on the end of the customer service line are *people* folks. Don't be a bag of dicks. | Here, let's go over some of your replies to my initial comment, from the bottom up.
"you have caller ID, you can automatically track who is having which problems"
Damn straight we do, but we don't use caller ID. In most areas of the world it's illegal to use caller ID to track customers; using any data that they don't give you directly is a no-no, privacy laws protect you. That's why even if you call from your mobile they'll ask you for your number, because legally they have to ask.
What callcenters do use is your account, call log, service number or reservation code to track your issue. That time you called your mobile provider and yelled at a rep for 10 minutes about a charge then demanded a supervisor? yeah, they'll have notes on it. You had an issue with your iCrap and demanded the supervisor send you an immediate replacement? yep, that's noted too. I've never been at a center or heard of one where agents will outright state you've been a jerk. But a lot of information can be inferred from remarks. "customer immediately asked for supervisor" is one you never want on your account.
"if you treat me like an idiot i'm going to think you're some halfwit moron reading from a script and not listening to someone who is trying to explain to you what the actual problem is."
Yeah. About that. at least half of issues on technical support calls are on the damn script. You wouldn't believe the number of people who will call to complain because their computer or cellphone won't turn on, or if it just needs to be power cycled. Beyond that, for tech support there is almost always a checklist you have to go over before moving on to the next issue. Doesn't matter if you're an IT genius, the checklist is still there, and the agent will be reprimanded if they did not go over it.
They're not treating you like a moron, they're trying to get the most common issues out of the way on their 'checklist' ASAP so they can get to actually helping you. That's not to say that all callcenter employees are geniuses, but if you at least get that shit out of the way and you're still not getting satisfaction, then asking for a supervisor is warranted.
Also, in my own personal experience the call "it doesn't work" is resolved 70% or more of the time by restarting, resetting or making sure it's plugged in or unplugging and plugging back in. It's not you, it's just most people.
" it doesnt change the fact that after arguing with the first line of defense for 15 minutes doesn't get you anywere."
This is your issue right here. You're taking an adversarial stance towards the whole thing. It's not you against them. They're just another person working a long damn shift. If you go out of your way to make their day harder by immediately demanding a supervisor, they're gonna note your file as such and they're gonna tell the supervisor before you get to talk to them. I've never been at, nor heard of a callcenter in north america where supervisors take 'blind' calls. The agent gives them a headsup on the situation before you ever get to talk to them. Act the tool, and everyone you speak to will know it before they talk to you.
All in all, your posts sum up the very worst way to deal with callcenter employees. Swearing or being threatening gets you hung up on. Immediately demanding a supervisor may work in some cases, but it sets you up for having a harder time the next time you call in.
The best advice I can give is threefold
Keep calm and respectful. Respect is a two way street, as you said, but the second you loose your cool or be disrespectful towards the person you've called, you're gonna have a bad time. If a callcenter agent is rude or disrespectful, call them on it and ask for their supervisor, that's legit. Asking for one because they're going through their checklist or taking a few minutes to do something is a sure way to aggravate the situation and get you labeled a dbag.
Treat the agent like a professional. Here's the logic behind this. You're calling somebody who's had weeks or months of training on a "product" and months or years of experience dealing with it. You have an issue, you explain the issue. The agent will then begin trying to solve your issue ASAP. This may involve the dreaded 'script', it may not. If you sit back, relax and let the agent steer the call, you'll generally get things done faster and with less stress all around. In short, treat the person on the phone like any other professional and you'll get them on your side. They may need to take some of your time to do this, but if they're on your side they're gonna be actively looking to solve your problem, not just responding to you.
Know when to ask for a supervisor. Most callcenters have a policy where if you ask for a supervisor, you get one. This isn't necessarily a good thing for you. At north american callcenters very few people who understand the business want to become a 'tier 2' or 'supervisor' because it's harder to get raises and you deal with a lot more crap. This means that middle management tries to promote people as soon as they have enough experience, generally around the 6-10 month mark, before they figure out that the extra dollar an hour jump isn't worth it in the long run.
In short, most call center supervisors almost always have twice to three times the turnover rate of regular agents. Within a year and a half I was making the same amount as a supervisor at 10 months. I've been at the job 4 1/2 years and currently make more than all but one of the tier 2 agents. There's only one supervisor that's been there longer than me; trust me you'd rather talk to one of the new ones or me.
Unless the agent is being a useless dick or actually being rude to you, you're better off letting them work through the problem and decide if or when a supervisor needs to get involved. With very few exceptions and agent who has been allowed to do their job will get a supervisor if needed; they know better than you do what a supervisor can and cannot do.
TL:DR
If you treat the person on the end of the line like a decent human being and your ally, they'll actually go out of their way and take extra time to help you.
If you're a screaming bag of dicks that immediately demands a supervisor, you're probably not gonna get what you want, or if you do, it'll take you a long damn time.
People on the end of the customer service line are people folks. Don't be a bag of dicks.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | cbcefn9 | Here, let's go over some of your replies to my initial comment, from the bottom up.
"you have caller ID, you can automatically track who is having which problems"
Damn straight we do, but we don't use caller ID. In most areas of the world it's illegal to use caller ID to track customers; using any data that they don't give you directly is a no-no, privacy laws protect you. That's why even if you call from your mobile they'll ask you for your number, because legally they have to ask.
What callcenters do use is your account, call log, service number or reservation code to track your issue. That time you called your mobile provider and yelled at a rep for 10 minutes about a charge then demanded a supervisor? yeah, they'll have notes on it. You had an issue with your iCrap and demanded the supervisor send you an immediate replacement? yep, that's noted too. I've never been at a center or heard of one where agents will outright state you've been a jerk. But a lot of information can be inferred from remarks. "customer immediately asked for supervisor" is one you never want on your account.
"if you treat me like an idiot i'm going to think you're some halfwit moron reading from a script and not listening to someone who is trying to explain to you what the actual problem is."
Yeah. About that. at least half of issues on technical support calls are on the damn script. You wouldn't believe the number of people who will call to complain because their computer or cellphone won't turn on, or if it just needs to be power cycled. Beyond that, for tech support there is almost always a checklist you have to go over before moving on to the next issue. Doesn't matter if you're an IT genius, the checklist is still there, and the agent will be reprimanded if they did not go over it.
They're not treating you like a moron, they're trying to get the most common issues out of the way on their 'checklist' ASAP so they can get to actually helping you. That's not to say that all callcenter employees are geniuses, but if you at least get that shit out of the way and you're still not getting satisfaction, then asking for a supervisor is warranted.
Also, in my own personal experience the call "it doesn't work" is resolved 70% or more of the time by restarting, resetting or making sure it's plugged in or unplugging and plugging back in. It's not you, it's just most people.
" it doesnt change the fact that after arguing with the first line of defense for 15 minutes doesn't get you anywere."
This is your issue right here. You're taking an adversarial stance towards the whole thing. It's not you against them. They're just another person working a long damn shift. If you go out of your way to make their day harder by immediately demanding a supervisor, they're gonna note your file as such and they're gonna tell the supervisor before you get to talk to them. I've never been at, nor heard of a callcenter in north america where supervisors take 'blind' calls. The agent gives them a headsup on the situation before you ever get to talk to them. Act the tool, and everyone you speak to will know it before they talk to you.
All in all, your posts sum up the very worst way to deal with callcenter employees. Swearing or being threatening gets you hung up on. Immediately demanding a supervisor may work in some cases, but it sets you up for having a harder time the next time you call in.
The best advice I can give is threefold
Keep calm and respectful. Respect is a two way street, as you said, but the second you loose your cool or be disrespectful towards the person you've called, you're gonna have a bad time. If a callcenter agent is rude or disrespectful, call them on it and ask for their supervisor, that's legit. Asking for one because they're going through their checklist or taking a few minutes to do something is a sure way to aggravate the situation and get you labeled a dbag.
Treat the agent like a professional. Here's the logic behind this. You're calling somebody who's had weeks or months of training on a "product" and months or years of experience dealing with it. You have an issue, you explain the issue. The agent will then begin trying to solve your issue ASAP. This may involve the dreaded 'script', it may not. If you sit back, relax and let the agent steer the call, you'll generally get things done faster and with less stress all around. In short, treat the person on the phone like any other professional and you'll get them on your side. They may need to take some of your time to do this, but if they're on your side they're gonna be actively looking to solve your problem, not just responding to you.
Know when to ask for a supervisor. Most callcenters have a policy where if you ask for a supervisor, you get one. This isn't necessarily a good thing for you. At north american callcenters very few people who understand the business want to become a 'tier 2' or 'supervisor' because it's harder to get raises and you deal with a lot more crap. This means that middle management tries to promote people as soon as they have enough experience, generally around the 6-10 month mark, before they figure out that the extra dollar an hour jump isn't worth it in the long run.
In short, most call center supervisors almost always have twice to three times the turnover rate of regular agents. Within a year and a half I was making the same amount as a supervisor at 10 months. I've been at the job 4 1/2 years and currently make more than all but one of the tier 2 agents. There's only one supervisor that's been there longer than me; trust me you'd rather talk to one of the new ones or me.
Unless the agent is being a useless dick or actually being rude to you, you're better off letting them work through the problem and decide if or when a supervisor needs to get involved. With very few exceptions and agent who has been allowed to do their job will get a supervisor if needed; they know better than you do what a supervisor can and cannot do. | If you treat the person on the end of the line like a decent human being and your ally, they'll actually go out of their way and take extra time to help you.
If you're a screaming bag of dicks that immediately demands a supervisor, you're probably not gonna get what you want, or if you do, it'll take you a long damn time.
People on the end of the customer service line are people folks. Don't be a bag of dicks. |
okaysian | I finally get to tell this story!
I explicitly told the person taking my order that I didn't want any ice. She even repeated back to me that I didn't want ice. The order came back and there was ice in it. I didn't pull any of that, "I'M THE CUSTOMER U DO WUT I SAY" BS and I just asked the guy to take it back (I was gonna tip him $3 on a small order anyways).
I look inside and I see his friend dump my drink, spit in the cup, and then refill it. He came back, he got no tip, and I threw the cup at the window as I drove by. As a retail worker as well, I would never do this to someone especially if it was a fuck up on my part.
I haven't been back to that Sonic in a few months. I refuse to go back there during lunch time because I'd want to punch the guy in the face for being a waste of space. And I agree with your sentiment about prices. Including a tip, I would have to pay $11 just for myself. I'll stick with Taco Bell, McDonalds, or Wendys if I have to go out. For $11, I can go to a Red Robin, get infinite refills on fries and drinks, and enjoy myself with my friends.
**tl;dr - Some shitty worker at Sonic spit in my drink because they screwed up my order.** | I finally get to tell this story!
I explicitly told the person taking my order that I didn't want any ice. She even repeated back to me that I didn't want ice. The order came back and there was ice in it. I didn't pull any of that, "I'M THE CUSTOMER U DO WUT I SAY" BS and I just asked the guy to take it back (I was gonna tip him $3 on a small order anyways).
I look inside and I see his friend dump my drink, spit in the cup, and then refill it. He came back, he got no tip, and I threw the cup at the window as I drove by. As a retail worker as well, I would never do this to someone especially if it was a fuck up on my part.
I haven't been back to that Sonic in a few months. I refuse to go back there during lunch time because I'd want to punch the guy in the face for being a waste of space. And I agree with your sentiment about prices. Including a tip, I would have to pay $11 just for myself. I'll stick with Taco Bell, McDonalds, or Wendys if I have to go out. For $11, I can go to a Red Robin, get infinite refills on fries and drinks, and enjoy myself with my friends.
tl;dr - Some shitty worker at Sonic spit in my drink because they screwed up my order.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | cbci4rj | I finally get to tell this story!
I explicitly told the person taking my order that I didn't want any ice. She even repeated back to me that I didn't want ice. The order came back and there was ice in it. I didn't pull any of that, "I'M THE CUSTOMER U DO WUT I SAY" BS and I just asked the guy to take it back (I was gonna tip him $3 on a small order anyways).
I look inside and I see his friend dump my drink, spit in the cup, and then refill it. He came back, he got no tip, and I threw the cup at the window as I drove by. As a retail worker as well, I would never do this to someone especially if it was a fuck up on my part.
I haven't been back to that Sonic in a few months. I refuse to go back there during lunch time because I'd want to punch the guy in the face for being a waste of space. And I agree with your sentiment about prices. Including a tip, I would have to pay $11 just for myself. I'll stick with Taco Bell, McDonalds, or Wendys if I have to go out. For $11, I can go to a Red Robin, get infinite refills on fries and drinks, and enjoy myself with my friends. | Some shitty worker at Sonic spit in my drink because they screwed up my order. |
nybbas | Someone got in an argument with a guy on SRD the other day about the way kickstarter is ran. The guy used Sarks kickstarter as an example to kind of a flaw in the system. The person arguing with him after that could do nothing but try to defend Sark, despite the other dude doing everything in his power to explain that hers was just one example, and he was not purposely singling hers out. (I can't tell if what I just said makes any sense)
TL;DR - criticism of Sark causes certain people to rage so hard, that they become retarded. | Someone got in an argument with a guy on SRD the other day about the way kickstarter is ran. The guy used Sarks kickstarter as an example to kind of a flaw in the system. The person arguing with him after that could do nothing but try to defend Sark, despite the other dude doing everything in his power to explain that hers was just one example, and he was not purposely singling hers out. (I can't tell if what I just said makes any sense)
TL;DR - criticism of Sark causes certain people to rage so hard, that they become retarded.
| TumblrInAction | t5_2vizz | cbc6uhc | Someone got in an argument with a guy on SRD the other day about the way kickstarter is ran. The guy used Sarks kickstarter as an example to kind of a flaw in the system. The person arguing with him after that could do nothing but try to defend Sark, despite the other dude doing everything in his power to explain that hers was just one example, and he was not purposely singling hers out. (I can't tell if what I just said makes any sense) | criticism of Sark causes certain people to rage so hard, that they become retarded. |
Ellyidol | >Hello /r/razer, this is my first post on this subreddit and I'm posting because I need help clearing up a few things. I'm a huge fan of Razer and own many of their products ranging from the Naga to the Deathstalker. I live abroad and because of that aren't able to obtain a Razer Blade 14" to replace my old laptop as it has seen better days. I am also starting another semester of schooling at the end of august and need a portable laptop that is also powerful enough to run hardcore games. The Razer Blade 14" is perfect for my case, and money isn't a problem. I am going to be in Dubai for a week or so and have found a bunch of articles listing the stores that exclusively have Razer products although when I contacted said stores they said that they didn't have the Blade. So, without further ado, here are my questions:
>1) Is the blade available in countries outside of the US/Canada (not shipping, just resellers)
>2) What has been your experience using it day to day?
>3) If it isn't available outside the US/Canada, does anyone know when it will be?
>4) If it is available outside the US/Canada, where? I am also able to purchase it from England.
_____________________________________________________
Thanks reddit! <3
>TL;DR Questions about Razer Blade (see above)
1. The only country outside the US/Canada I know so far that the new Blades have been officially launched in is China. Just resellers.
2. I'm actually a Pro user, so I can't comment on this. Might I suggest the Notebook Review forum to find more user reviews and comments about the unit.
3. I wish I knew as well, but I'm confident that when it's available, we'll hear it from Razer first. So I'd keep up to date with them.
4. China, if I'm not mistaken. I wouldn't risk unofficial resellers.
Speaking as someone who has a Blade Pro outside the US, it took quite a bit of coordination and cost to get my unit to me. Not to mention that it needed a repair so I had to ship it back to them and back to me at my expense. I'm situated all the way in the philippines.
Best of luck! Let us know if you have anything else in mind. | >Hello /r/razer, this is my first post on this subreddit and I'm posting because I need help clearing up a few things. I'm a huge fan of Razer and own many of their products ranging from the Naga to the Deathstalker. I live abroad and because of that aren't able to obtain a Razer Blade 14" to replace my old laptop as it has seen better days. I am also starting another semester of schooling at the end of august and need a portable laptop that is also powerful enough to run hardcore games. The Razer Blade 14" is perfect for my case, and money isn't a problem. I am going to be in Dubai for a week or so and have found a bunch of articles listing the stores that exclusively have Razer products although when I contacted said stores they said that they didn't have the Blade. So, without further ado, here are my questions:
>1) Is the blade available in countries outside of the US/Canada (not shipping, just resellers)
>2) What has been your experience using it day to day?
>3) If it isn't available outside the US/Canada, does anyone know when it will be?
>4) If it is available outside the US/Canada, where? I am also able to purchase it from England.
Thanks reddit! <3
>TL;DR Questions about Razer Blade (see above)
The only country outside the US/Canada I know so far that the new Blades have been officially launched in is China. Just resellers.
I'm actually a Pro user, so I can't comment on this. Might I suggest the Notebook Review forum to find more user reviews and comments about the unit.
I wish I knew as well, but I'm confident that when it's available, we'll hear it from Razer first. So I'd keep up to date with them.
China, if I'm not mistaken. I wouldn't risk unofficial resellers.
Speaking as someone who has a Blade Pro outside the US, it took quite a bit of coordination and cost to get my unit to me. Not to mention that it needed a repair so I had to ship it back to them and back to me at my expense. I'm situated all the way in the philippines.
Best of luck! Let us know if you have anything else in mind.
| razer | t5_2ssha | cbc2eel | Hello /r/razer, this is my first post on this subreddit and I'm posting because I need help clearing up a few things. I'm a huge fan of Razer and own many of their products ranging from the Naga to the Deathstalker. I live abroad and because of that aren't able to obtain a Razer Blade 14" to replace my old laptop as it has seen better days. I am also starting another semester of schooling at the end of august and need a portable laptop that is also powerful enough to run hardcore games. The Razer Blade 14" is perfect for my case, and money isn't a problem. I am going to be in Dubai for a week or so and have found a bunch of articles listing the stores that exclusively have Razer products although when I contacted said stores they said that they didn't have the Blade. So, without further ado, here are my questions:
>1) Is the blade available in countries outside of the US/Canada (not shipping, just resellers)
>2) What has been your experience using it day to day?
>3) If it isn't available outside the US/Canada, does anyone know when it will be?
>4) If it is available outside the US/Canada, where? I am also able to purchase it from England.
Thanks reddit! <3
> | Questions about Razer Blade (see above)
The only country outside the US/Canada I know so far that the new Blades have been officially launched in is China. Just resellers.
I'm actually a Pro user, so I can't comment on this. Might I suggest the Notebook Review forum to find more user reviews and comments about the unit.
I wish I knew as well, but I'm confident that when it's available, we'll hear it from Razer first. So I'd keep up to date with them.
China, if I'm not mistaken. I wouldn't risk unofficial resellers.
Speaking as someone who has a Blade Pro outside the US, it took quite a bit of coordination and cost to get my unit to me. Not to mention that it needed a repair so I had to ship it back to them and back to me at my expense. I'm situated all the way in the philippines.
Best of luck! Let us know if you have anything else in mind. |
Stormlander | A Dothraki invasion would be devastating, but only on a local level, and it would likely be broken fairly quickly.
Consider the logistical challenges inherent in moving any large number of troops across the sea, especially an army comprised mostly of cavalry. They'd need hundreds of ships specifically designed to carry horses in order to move a proper khalasar, and even then they'd probably lose thousands of horses. Unlike the Mongols, the Dothraki have no aptitude for infantry or siege engineering, so these dismounted screamers wouldn't be good for much besides soaking up arrows.
In addition, there's the issue of actually staging a landing. Aegon I's genius was disembarking in a lightly peopled area contested by several powers who couldn't coordinate an effective counterattack until it was too late. Drogo, in this situation, would have no such luck with the bulk of the Royal Navy parked in and around Blackwater Bay and a fairly urbanized Crownlands. And without an easy and defensible landing zone in the Crownlands, there's no suitable place anywhere on the eastern coast of Westeros for a host of that size:
* The sheer size of **The North** wouldn't pose as much of a challenge to a highly mobile khalasar, but every other aspect of the geography would. Dothraki cavalry would have to deal with rolling hills, mountains, thick forests, and swamps to subdue the North, in addition to many strong castles (Winterfell, Karhold, the Dreadfort, etc). Plus, they'd all freeze to death when winter came.
* Landing in **The Vale** may prove to be more feasible at first, but not very. Though Gulltown would fall soon enough, the full strength of the khalasar would probably be scattered around the jagged coastline, disorganized and lost while the lords of the Vale prepare for siege or counterattack. Going further inland, Dothraki numbers would count for little in the high mountain passes, where they would also freeze to death during the winter.
* As of *Dance*, we've seen a successful coastal invasion of **The Stormlands**, though that's hardly applicable to this situation. Connington's forces were much smaller, much more disciplined, and comprised primarily of heavy infantry and cavalry suited to Westerosi warfare. Discipline is the operative characteristic here, as individual Golden Company captains had to account for the likelihood that they would have to take their individual targets independently and stealthily. Sneaking a khalasar of over 40,000 shirtless cavalrymen throughout the Rainwood while assuming that most of them don't sink to the bottom of the ocean beforehand is about as possible as Ramsay Bolton identifying as a feminist.
* Short of time-traveling the khalasar to before Aegon's Conquest, landing in **Dorne** would probably be one's best bet, both geographically and politically. However, even assuming that the administration in Sunspear is sympathetic, you have to consider the difficulty of transporting tens of thousands of men through weeks of desert. The Dothraki would drink the rivers and wells dry, which considering how they'd also be raping and slaving their way through the local peasantry, would doubly screw Dorne over.
* Sailing around Westeros is always an option, though that brings its own challenges, such as the fact that the better part of Westeros's naval strength is invested in the western kingdoms (Redwynes, Hightowers, Shield Islands, Lannisters, Iron Fleet, etc.) and that no sizable force from Essos would be able to bypass all these actors unseen.
Even if the Dothraki could easily defeat their Westerosi counterparts in the field (which the text really doesn't seem to support), they'd be killed by logistics. The only way to make this kind of conquest stick is to enlist tens of thousands of Westerosi troops to augment the Dothraki cavalry. In addition to compensating for their tactical weaknesses, any conqueror would need to co-opt a good portion of the local nobility, lest they break themselves over and over putting down rebellions. That said, even the Martells lack to motivation or manpower necessary to adequately serve this role.
**tl;dr:** They'd lay waste to one or two kingdoms, but they'd starve or freeze or rout before being able to conquer all 7/8. | A Dothraki invasion would be devastating, but only on a local level, and it would likely be broken fairly quickly.
Consider the logistical challenges inherent in moving any large number of troops across the sea, especially an army comprised mostly of cavalry. They'd need hundreds of ships specifically designed to carry horses in order to move a proper khalasar, and even then they'd probably lose thousands of horses. Unlike the Mongols, the Dothraki have no aptitude for infantry or siege engineering, so these dismounted screamers wouldn't be good for much besides soaking up arrows.
In addition, there's the issue of actually staging a landing. Aegon I's genius was disembarking in a lightly peopled area contested by several powers who couldn't coordinate an effective counterattack until it was too late. Drogo, in this situation, would have no such luck with the bulk of the Royal Navy parked in and around Blackwater Bay and a fairly urbanized Crownlands. And without an easy and defensible landing zone in the Crownlands, there's no suitable place anywhere on the eastern coast of Westeros for a host of that size:
The sheer size of The North wouldn't pose as much of a challenge to a highly mobile khalasar, but every other aspect of the geography would. Dothraki cavalry would have to deal with rolling hills, mountains, thick forests, and swamps to subdue the North, in addition to many strong castles (Winterfell, Karhold, the Dreadfort, etc). Plus, they'd all freeze to death when winter came.
Landing in The Vale may prove to be more feasible at first, but not very. Though Gulltown would fall soon enough, the full strength of the khalasar would probably be scattered around the jagged coastline, disorganized and lost while the lords of the Vale prepare for siege or counterattack. Going further inland, Dothraki numbers would count for little in the high mountain passes, where they would also freeze to death during the winter.
As of Dance , we've seen a successful coastal invasion of The Stormlands , though that's hardly applicable to this situation. Connington's forces were much smaller, much more disciplined, and comprised primarily of heavy infantry and cavalry suited to Westerosi warfare. Discipline is the operative characteristic here, as individual Golden Company captains had to account for the likelihood that they would have to take their individual targets independently and stealthily. Sneaking a khalasar of over 40,000 shirtless cavalrymen throughout the Rainwood while assuming that most of them don't sink to the bottom of the ocean beforehand is about as possible as Ramsay Bolton identifying as a feminist.
Short of time-traveling the khalasar to before Aegon's Conquest, landing in Dorne would probably be one's best bet, both geographically and politically. However, even assuming that the administration in Sunspear is sympathetic, you have to consider the difficulty of transporting tens of thousands of men through weeks of desert. The Dothraki would drink the rivers and wells dry, which considering how they'd also be raping and slaving their way through the local peasantry, would doubly screw Dorne over.
Sailing around Westeros is always an option, though that brings its own challenges, such as the fact that the better part of Westeros's naval strength is invested in the western kingdoms (Redwynes, Hightowers, Shield Islands, Lannisters, Iron Fleet, etc.) and that no sizable force from Essos would be able to bypass all these actors unseen.
Even if the Dothraki could easily defeat their Westerosi counterparts in the field (which the text really doesn't seem to support), they'd be killed by logistics. The only way to make this kind of conquest stick is to enlist tens of thousands of Westerosi troops to augment the Dothraki cavalry. In addition to compensating for their tactical weaknesses, any conqueror would need to co-opt a good portion of the local nobility, lest they break themselves over and over putting down rebellions. That said, even the Martells lack to motivation or manpower necessary to adequately serve this role.
tl;dr: They'd lay waste to one or two kingdoms, but they'd starve or freeze or rout before being able to conquer all 7/8.
| asoiaf | t5_2r2o9 | cbcc90v | A Dothraki invasion would be devastating, but only on a local level, and it would likely be broken fairly quickly.
Consider the logistical challenges inherent in moving any large number of troops across the sea, especially an army comprised mostly of cavalry. They'd need hundreds of ships specifically designed to carry horses in order to move a proper khalasar, and even then they'd probably lose thousands of horses. Unlike the Mongols, the Dothraki have no aptitude for infantry or siege engineering, so these dismounted screamers wouldn't be good for much besides soaking up arrows.
In addition, there's the issue of actually staging a landing. Aegon I's genius was disembarking in a lightly peopled area contested by several powers who couldn't coordinate an effective counterattack until it was too late. Drogo, in this situation, would have no such luck with the bulk of the Royal Navy parked in and around Blackwater Bay and a fairly urbanized Crownlands. And without an easy and defensible landing zone in the Crownlands, there's no suitable place anywhere on the eastern coast of Westeros for a host of that size:
The sheer size of The North wouldn't pose as much of a challenge to a highly mobile khalasar, but every other aspect of the geography would. Dothraki cavalry would have to deal with rolling hills, mountains, thick forests, and swamps to subdue the North, in addition to many strong castles (Winterfell, Karhold, the Dreadfort, etc). Plus, they'd all freeze to death when winter came.
Landing in The Vale may prove to be more feasible at first, but not very. Though Gulltown would fall soon enough, the full strength of the khalasar would probably be scattered around the jagged coastline, disorganized and lost while the lords of the Vale prepare for siege or counterattack. Going further inland, Dothraki numbers would count for little in the high mountain passes, where they would also freeze to death during the winter.
As of Dance , we've seen a successful coastal invasion of The Stormlands , though that's hardly applicable to this situation. Connington's forces were much smaller, much more disciplined, and comprised primarily of heavy infantry and cavalry suited to Westerosi warfare. Discipline is the operative characteristic here, as individual Golden Company captains had to account for the likelihood that they would have to take their individual targets independently and stealthily. Sneaking a khalasar of over 40,000 shirtless cavalrymen throughout the Rainwood while assuming that most of them don't sink to the bottom of the ocean beforehand is about as possible as Ramsay Bolton identifying as a feminist.
Short of time-traveling the khalasar to before Aegon's Conquest, landing in Dorne would probably be one's best bet, both geographically and politically. However, even assuming that the administration in Sunspear is sympathetic, you have to consider the difficulty of transporting tens of thousands of men through weeks of desert. The Dothraki would drink the rivers and wells dry, which considering how they'd also be raping and slaving their way through the local peasantry, would doubly screw Dorne over.
Sailing around Westeros is always an option, though that brings its own challenges, such as the fact that the better part of Westeros's naval strength is invested in the western kingdoms (Redwynes, Hightowers, Shield Islands, Lannisters, Iron Fleet, etc.) and that no sizable force from Essos would be able to bypass all these actors unseen.
Even if the Dothraki could easily defeat their Westerosi counterparts in the field (which the text really doesn't seem to support), they'd be killed by logistics. The only way to make this kind of conquest stick is to enlist tens of thousands of Westerosi troops to augment the Dothraki cavalry. In addition to compensating for their tactical weaknesses, any conqueror would need to co-opt a good portion of the local nobility, lest they break themselves over and over putting down rebellions. That said, even the Martells lack to motivation or manpower necessary to adequately serve this role. | They'd lay waste to one or two kingdoms, but they'd starve or freeze or rout before being able to conquer all 7/8. |
accidental_editor | I dunno - the process of losing weight for me has made me more sympathetic (down ~35lbs, from overweight to normal range). Because life is difficult for most people and we all make poor choices in one area or another. And let's be honest, losing is hard work, and realistically in the States at least, we're setting people up to fail on obesity. People come from different backgrounds and places, haven't learned much about nutrition or exercise, have acquired a lifetime of eating habits that are hard to break, and then, we've made bad food cheap and easy and good food expensive. Some people live in food deserts or with families that make good choices harder, or don't have easy access to a good gym, etc.
I deeply admire people starting with a lot to lose who take the enormous step of changing their life styles, not just crash dieting, and I'm especially moved by some of the younger people I see on loseit who are learning on their own that the way most people around them live is not healthy.
There's been a lot of talk on here lately about judgment at gyms - the only thing I think when I see someone out of shape/overweight/obese at the gym is 'go, go, go, good for you. It's a step in the direction of health and well-being and respecting/taking care of yourself. Thinking of this is positive terms is best.
My guess is that many people who do become more critical and judgmental and motivated deep down by some sort of fear - that they won't be able to maintain their new lifestyle without the psychological change of rejecting (violently even) the patterns of behavior that lead them to a place they were unhappy with. When I feel the critical/judgmental itch, I think of the people in my life who I love who struggle with their weight, and imagine the kind of support I want them to have. I also try to remember that I'm far from perfect in many many areas, including fitness, and let the efforts of others inspire me to strive to be better.
Whew. (Longtime lurker dusting off old reddit account to respond.) TL;DR loseit is inspirational, life is tough, be charitable and positive. | I dunno - the process of losing weight for me has made me more sympathetic (down ~35lbs, from overweight to normal range). Because life is difficult for most people and we all make poor choices in one area or another. And let's be honest, losing is hard work, and realistically in the States at least, we're setting people up to fail on obesity. People come from different backgrounds and places, haven't learned much about nutrition or exercise, have acquired a lifetime of eating habits that are hard to break, and then, we've made bad food cheap and easy and good food expensive. Some people live in food deserts or with families that make good choices harder, or don't have easy access to a good gym, etc.
I deeply admire people starting with a lot to lose who take the enormous step of changing their life styles, not just crash dieting, and I'm especially moved by some of the younger people I see on loseit who are learning on their own that the way most people around them live is not healthy.
There's been a lot of talk on here lately about judgment at gyms - the only thing I think when I see someone out of shape/overweight/obese at the gym is 'go, go, go, good for you. It's a step in the direction of health and well-being and respecting/taking care of yourself. Thinking of this is positive terms is best.
My guess is that many people who do become more critical and judgmental and motivated deep down by some sort of fear - that they won't be able to maintain their new lifestyle without the psychological change of rejecting (violently even) the patterns of behavior that lead them to a place they were unhappy with. When I feel the critical/judgmental itch, I think of the people in my life who I love who struggle with their weight, and imagine the kind of support I want them to have. I also try to remember that I'm far from perfect in many many areas, including fitness, and let the efforts of others inspire me to strive to be better.
Whew. (Longtime lurker dusting off old reddit account to respond.) TL;DR loseit is inspirational, life is tough, be charitable and positive.
| loseit | t5_2rz8w | cbc5bn2 | I dunno - the process of losing weight for me has made me more sympathetic (down ~35lbs, from overweight to normal range). Because life is difficult for most people and we all make poor choices in one area or another. And let's be honest, losing is hard work, and realistically in the States at least, we're setting people up to fail on obesity. People come from different backgrounds and places, haven't learned much about nutrition or exercise, have acquired a lifetime of eating habits that are hard to break, and then, we've made bad food cheap and easy and good food expensive. Some people live in food deserts or with families that make good choices harder, or don't have easy access to a good gym, etc.
I deeply admire people starting with a lot to lose who take the enormous step of changing their life styles, not just crash dieting, and I'm especially moved by some of the younger people I see on loseit who are learning on their own that the way most people around them live is not healthy.
There's been a lot of talk on here lately about judgment at gyms - the only thing I think when I see someone out of shape/overweight/obese at the gym is 'go, go, go, good for you. It's a step in the direction of health and well-being and respecting/taking care of yourself. Thinking of this is positive terms is best.
My guess is that many people who do become more critical and judgmental and motivated deep down by some sort of fear - that they won't be able to maintain their new lifestyle without the psychological change of rejecting (violently even) the patterns of behavior that lead them to a place they were unhappy with. When I feel the critical/judgmental itch, I think of the people in my life who I love who struggle with their weight, and imagine the kind of support I want them to have. I also try to remember that I'm far from perfect in many many areas, including fitness, and let the efforts of others inspire me to strive to be better.
Whew. (Longtime lurker dusting off old reddit account to respond.) | loseit is inspirational, life is tough, be charitable and positive. |
sleet01 | Well, from looking at your design, it appears that your Center of Mass is indeed too far forward compared to your Center of Lift. This will be compounded as you burn jet fuel because the jet fuel is relatively light but positioned well to the rear: as you burn it off your CoM will shift even farther forward but the total mass of the craft won't be reduced by very much, causing even more unbalance.
I suspect that the radial intakes you have are not actually increasing your intake air at high altitude/velocity as much as you might think, either. As I understand it (although I haven't tested it in 0.21.x) the radial intakes are low-speed-only intakes, despite their shapes, and only the ram intakes are useful for upper-atmosphere flying. I could be mistaken, but nevertheless I would recommend using ram intakes because you can close them to reduce drag when you switch over to rockets.
I've flown a design similar to yours, with a similar amount of wing surface but with only one rocket fuel tank instead of two, into orbit. I think your primary issue is definitely nose-heaviness. The second tank has brought your CoM very far forward, and added a significant amount of additional mass, so I would suggest enlarging both your main wing and your canard. Possibly use a delta wing with a small control surface attached to it as your canard. The goal should be to have your wet (full-of-fuel) Center of Mass marker touching the Center of Lift marker; I like to have the CoL marker half-submerged in the CoM marker.
You may also need to increase your main wingspan by one or two sections. What's the mass of the rocket fuel, 11 tons total? And then the other components are, what, about 13 tons? I'd add at least one more span or delta section to each main wing so that your lift is about equal to your wet mass; this'll make take-offs a little less hair-raising. :)
As far as drag, I'd suggest dropping all the radial intakes and adding at least two more ram intakes and see how that goes. Also, I'm not sure how much drag wings produce in practice but it appears the center of drag for the wings themselves will be below the Center of Mass, possible causing unnecessary torque. If possible, try to arrange the main wings symmetrically above and below the centerline to eliminate any possible drag asymmetry there.
A final concern I would have is that you've only got one rocket trying to push over 20 tons of fuel and plane into orbit. It might be beneficial to increase the number of nozzles you're using, even at the cost of increased mass, to get you out of the atmosphere and into space faster. I'm not certain that your plane will be able to lift itself up to orbit and circularize before running out of rocket fuel given that it loses some efficiency while in the upper atmosphere.
tl;dr: you should add some main wing breadth and increase the size of your canards in order to bring your CoL much closer to your CoM. You should also remove the radial intakes and look at adding a couple more ram intakes somewhere. Finally, you may need an additional rocket engine to get out of the atmosphere in a quick and efficient fashion.
No matter what, though, you've got a great-*looking* plane, and that counts for a lot! :D | Well, from looking at your design, it appears that your Center of Mass is indeed too far forward compared to your Center of Lift. This will be compounded as you burn jet fuel because the jet fuel is relatively light but positioned well to the rear: as you burn it off your CoM will shift even farther forward but the total mass of the craft won't be reduced by very much, causing even more unbalance.
I suspect that the radial intakes you have are not actually increasing your intake air at high altitude/velocity as much as you might think, either. As I understand it (although I haven't tested it in 0.21.x) the radial intakes are low-speed-only intakes, despite their shapes, and only the ram intakes are useful for upper-atmosphere flying. I could be mistaken, but nevertheless I would recommend using ram intakes because you can close them to reduce drag when you switch over to rockets.
I've flown a design similar to yours, with a similar amount of wing surface but with only one rocket fuel tank instead of two, into orbit. I think your primary issue is definitely nose-heaviness. The second tank has brought your CoM very far forward, and added a significant amount of additional mass, so I would suggest enlarging both your main wing and your canard. Possibly use a delta wing with a small control surface attached to it as your canard. The goal should be to have your wet (full-of-fuel) Center of Mass marker touching the Center of Lift marker; I like to have the CoL marker half-submerged in the CoM marker.
You may also need to increase your main wingspan by one or two sections. What's the mass of the rocket fuel, 11 tons total? And then the other components are, what, about 13 tons? I'd add at least one more span or delta section to each main wing so that your lift is about equal to your wet mass; this'll make take-offs a little less hair-raising. :)
As far as drag, I'd suggest dropping all the radial intakes and adding at least two more ram intakes and see how that goes. Also, I'm not sure how much drag wings produce in practice but it appears the center of drag for the wings themselves will be below the Center of Mass, possible causing unnecessary torque. If possible, try to arrange the main wings symmetrically above and below the centerline to eliminate any possible drag asymmetry there.
A final concern I would have is that you've only got one rocket trying to push over 20 tons of fuel and plane into orbit. It might be beneficial to increase the number of nozzles you're using, even at the cost of increased mass, to get you out of the atmosphere and into space faster. I'm not certain that your plane will be able to lift itself up to orbit and circularize before running out of rocket fuel given that it loses some efficiency while in the upper atmosphere.
tl;dr: you should add some main wing breadth and increase the size of your canards in order to bring your CoL much closer to your CoM. You should also remove the radial intakes and look at adding a couple more ram intakes somewhere. Finally, you may need an additional rocket engine to get out of the atmosphere in a quick and efficient fashion.
No matter what, though, you've got a great- looking plane, and that counts for a lot! :D
| KerbalSpaceProgram | t5_2smr1 | cbcevz4 | Well, from looking at your design, it appears that your Center of Mass is indeed too far forward compared to your Center of Lift. This will be compounded as you burn jet fuel because the jet fuel is relatively light but positioned well to the rear: as you burn it off your CoM will shift even farther forward but the total mass of the craft won't be reduced by very much, causing even more unbalance.
I suspect that the radial intakes you have are not actually increasing your intake air at high altitude/velocity as much as you might think, either. As I understand it (although I haven't tested it in 0.21.x) the radial intakes are low-speed-only intakes, despite their shapes, and only the ram intakes are useful for upper-atmosphere flying. I could be mistaken, but nevertheless I would recommend using ram intakes because you can close them to reduce drag when you switch over to rockets.
I've flown a design similar to yours, with a similar amount of wing surface but with only one rocket fuel tank instead of two, into orbit. I think your primary issue is definitely nose-heaviness. The second tank has brought your CoM very far forward, and added a significant amount of additional mass, so I would suggest enlarging both your main wing and your canard. Possibly use a delta wing with a small control surface attached to it as your canard. The goal should be to have your wet (full-of-fuel) Center of Mass marker touching the Center of Lift marker; I like to have the CoL marker half-submerged in the CoM marker.
You may also need to increase your main wingspan by one or two sections. What's the mass of the rocket fuel, 11 tons total? And then the other components are, what, about 13 tons? I'd add at least one more span or delta section to each main wing so that your lift is about equal to your wet mass; this'll make take-offs a little less hair-raising. :)
As far as drag, I'd suggest dropping all the radial intakes and adding at least two more ram intakes and see how that goes. Also, I'm not sure how much drag wings produce in practice but it appears the center of drag for the wings themselves will be below the Center of Mass, possible causing unnecessary torque. If possible, try to arrange the main wings symmetrically above and below the centerline to eliminate any possible drag asymmetry there.
A final concern I would have is that you've only got one rocket trying to push over 20 tons of fuel and plane into orbit. It might be beneficial to increase the number of nozzles you're using, even at the cost of increased mass, to get you out of the atmosphere and into space faster. I'm not certain that your plane will be able to lift itself up to orbit and circularize before running out of rocket fuel given that it loses some efficiency while in the upper atmosphere. | you should add some main wing breadth and increase the size of your canards in order to bring your CoL much closer to your CoM. You should also remove the radial intakes and look at adding a couple more ram intakes somewhere. Finally, you may need an additional rocket engine to get out of the atmosphere in a quick and efficient fashion.
No matter what, though, you've got a great- looking plane, and that counts for a lot! :D |
futureNFlegend | This is a great post. On a lot of levels says all the things you need to know. For example that it took 6 months to recover completely - that's a pretty long time, but when you think about how long you've been fapping to porn, we're kinda lucky it might only take 6 months.
Further, I posted just a bit ago here that you should tell her. My unofficial SO was really understanding and it's helped me stick to it.
I did look through gonewild on two or three occasions but turned away pretty quickly... but this past weekend I had a success and a failure, so it's possible I messed myself up just with a peek. REMEMBER HOW SHITTY THE FEELING IS! Not only that, but push as far along as you can before a success and then REMEMBER HOW AWESOME THAT FEELING IS. The success I had at the end of week 2 made me feel like a fucking CHAMPION and the inconsistency I had even on week 5 brought me back to that disappointing anxiety and concern that my girl took it personally.
TL;DR - Great post by Nofappin2013, definitely worth heeding. | This is a great post. On a lot of levels says all the things you need to know. For example that it took 6 months to recover completely - that's a pretty long time, but when you think about how long you've been fapping to porn, we're kinda lucky it might only take 6 months.
Further, I posted just a bit ago here that you should tell her. My unofficial SO was really understanding and it's helped me stick to it.
I did look through gonewild on two or three occasions but turned away pretty quickly... but this past weekend I had a success and a failure, so it's possible I messed myself up just with a peek. REMEMBER HOW SHITTY THE FEELING IS! Not only that, but push as far along as you can before a success and then REMEMBER HOW AWESOME THAT FEELING IS. The success I had at the end of week 2 made me feel like a fucking CHAMPION and the inconsistency I had even on week 5 brought me back to that disappointing anxiety and concern that my girl took it personally.
TL;DR - Great post by Nofappin2013, definitely worth heeding.
| NoFap | t5_2skrn | cbcxvgf | This is a great post. On a lot of levels says all the things you need to know. For example that it took 6 months to recover completely - that's a pretty long time, but when you think about how long you've been fapping to porn, we're kinda lucky it might only take 6 months.
Further, I posted just a bit ago here that you should tell her. My unofficial SO was really understanding and it's helped me stick to it.
I did look through gonewild on two or three occasions but turned away pretty quickly... but this past weekend I had a success and a failure, so it's possible I messed myself up just with a peek. REMEMBER HOW SHITTY THE FEELING IS! Not only that, but push as far along as you can before a success and then REMEMBER HOW AWESOME THAT FEELING IS. The success I had at the end of week 2 made me feel like a fucking CHAMPION and the inconsistency I had even on week 5 brought me back to that disappointing anxiety and concern that my girl took it personally. | Great post by Nofappin2013, definitely worth heeding. |
Ehmanda | I feel like GenerikB right now, I'm sure I could program my watch over how consistent these posts are nowadays.
*Cultish* is a very interrogative word, considering this subreddit is running as *every other subreddit* is. This is the basis of Reddit. When people are given control over what they can submit and disagree/agree with, they will exercise that right whenever they can. It may not always be right in some cases, but that's the nature of the beast. BTC happened to have said something that people didn't like. They downvoted it.
That's what happens. That is what always will happen. That is Reddit.
One reason Mindcracker comments are given inflationary comment scores is because they're entertainers giving *their time* to interact with their viewers. I've never seen this dynamic before. It's amazing, it's new, and it's a very technologically driven way of portraying the viewer/presenter dynamic. It's still a gift, and if every Mindcracker were to stop these lines of communication, I believe we'd be losing a very good thing. Unfortunately that's happened already to a few guys, and it's damn unfortunate.
I mean, imagine watching your favourite TV show and being able to *personally interact* with the actors *a few minutes* after the show has aired. I mean, how fucking cool is that? You can make fanart and have it *personally seen by them*, you can *have discussions with them*. I mean, if you don't think that's awesome you can just get out of my face right now for real.
tl;dr: These guys are opening lines of communication I've never seen before. It's something we should be grateful of, and should try to respect that in the end, it could be taken away in an instant. | I feel like GenerikB right now, I'm sure I could program my watch over how consistent these posts are nowadays.
Cultish is a very interrogative word, considering this subreddit is running as every other subreddit is. This is the basis of Reddit. When people are given control over what they can submit and disagree/agree with, they will exercise that right whenever they can. It may not always be right in some cases, but that's the nature of the beast. BTC happened to have said something that people didn't like. They downvoted it.
That's what happens. That is what always will happen. That is Reddit.
One reason Mindcracker comments are given inflationary comment scores is because they're entertainers giving their time to interact with their viewers. I've never seen this dynamic before. It's amazing, it's new, and it's a very technologically driven way of portraying the viewer/presenter dynamic. It's still a gift, and if every Mindcracker were to stop these lines of communication, I believe we'd be losing a very good thing. Unfortunately that's happened already to a few guys, and it's damn unfortunate.
I mean, imagine watching your favourite TV show and being able to personally interact with the actors a few minutes after the show has aired. I mean, how fucking cool is that? You can make fanart and have it personally seen by them , you can have discussions with them . I mean, if you don't think that's awesome you can just get out of my face right now for real.
tl;dr: These guys are opening lines of communication I've never seen before. It's something we should be grateful of, and should try to respect that in the end, it could be taken away in an instant.
| mindcrack | t5_2to85 | cbcof14 | I feel like GenerikB right now, I'm sure I could program my watch over how consistent these posts are nowadays.
Cultish is a very interrogative word, considering this subreddit is running as every other subreddit is. This is the basis of Reddit. When people are given control over what they can submit and disagree/agree with, they will exercise that right whenever they can. It may not always be right in some cases, but that's the nature of the beast. BTC happened to have said something that people didn't like. They downvoted it.
That's what happens. That is what always will happen. That is Reddit.
One reason Mindcracker comments are given inflationary comment scores is because they're entertainers giving their time to interact with their viewers. I've never seen this dynamic before. It's amazing, it's new, and it's a very technologically driven way of portraying the viewer/presenter dynamic. It's still a gift, and if every Mindcracker were to stop these lines of communication, I believe we'd be losing a very good thing. Unfortunately that's happened already to a few guys, and it's damn unfortunate.
I mean, imagine watching your favourite TV show and being able to personally interact with the actors a few minutes after the show has aired. I mean, how fucking cool is that? You can make fanart and have it personally seen by them , you can have discussions with them . I mean, if you don't think that's awesome you can just get out of my face right now for real. | These guys are opening lines of communication I've never seen before. It's something we should be grateful of, and should try to respect that in the end, it could be taken away in an instant. |
SDG3 | The point of this subreddit is to allow us to obsess over the Mindcrackers without the immaturity of YouTube. As such, we are naturally inclined to value Mindcrackers' opinions over others', besides our own. When a Mindcracker disagrees, some folks go full lemming mode and disagree as well, in the form of upvotes and downvotes. It's the lesser of two evils, the YouTube community would downvote any disagreements into oblivion. Still, the subreddit seems to be undergoing some nasty mob behavior as a byproduct of our status as Mindcrack fans. It's an awful thing, but quite frankly it's the natural order of things and rants won't solve much.
TLDR: Lemmings will be lemmings, just make sure you aren't a lemming. | The point of this subreddit is to allow us to obsess over the Mindcrackers without the immaturity of YouTube. As such, we are naturally inclined to value Mindcrackers' opinions over others', besides our own. When a Mindcracker disagrees, some folks go full lemming mode and disagree as well, in the form of upvotes and downvotes. It's the lesser of two evils, the YouTube community would downvote any disagreements into oblivion. Still, the subreddit seems to be undergoing some nasty mob behavior as a byproduct of our status as Mindcrack fans. It's an awful thing, but quite frankly it's the natural order of things and rants won't solve much.
TLDR: Lemmings will be lemmings, just make sure you aren't a lemming.
| mindcrack | t5_2to85 | cbcqj9c | The point of this subreddit is to allow us to obsess over the Mindcrackers without the immaturity of YouTube. As such, we are naturally inclined to value Mindcrackers' opinions over others', besides our own. When a Mindcracker disagrees, some folks go full lemming mode and disagree as well, in the form of upvotes and downvotes. It's the lesser of two evils, the YouTube community would downvote any disagreements into oblivion. Still, the subreddit seems to be undergoing some nasty mob behavior as a byproduct of our status as Mindcrack fans. It's an awful thing, but quite frankly it's the natural order of things and rants won't solve much. | Lemmings will be lemmings, just make sure you aren't a lemming. |
Szyve | Honestly I've thought about making a thread similar to this several times but decided against it due to me not being able to word it correctly. Usually mediocre comments by a mindcracker get more upvotes than they would receive if they were posted by another, non-mindcracker. I'm sure Pause gets sad about this. However, everytime I've seen an extremely poor comment by a mindcrack account, it has received a negative vote total.
The point I'm trying to make is that although many users on this subreddit will not use the reddiquette to downvote comments by mindcrackers appropriately, they will use their own morals. Fortunately, harsh or inappropriate comments seem to get downvoted here, regardless of who posts them.
TL;DR: People should read the reddiquette | Honestly I've thought about making a thread similar to this several times but decided against it due to me not being able to word it correctly. Usually mediocre comments by a mindcracker get more upvotes than they would receive if they were posted by another, non-mindcracker. I'm sure Pause gets sad about this. However, everytime I've seen an extremely poor comment by a mindcrack account, it has received a negative vote total.
The point I'm trying to make is that although many users on this subreddit will not use the reddiquette to downvote comments by mindcrackers appropriately, they will use their own morals. Fortunately, harsh or inappropriate comments seem to get downvoted here, regardless of who posts them.
TL;DR: People should read the reddiquette
| mindcrack | t5_2to85 | cbcqkk6 | Honestly I've thought about making a thread similar to this several times but decided against it due to me not being able to word it correctly. Usually mediocre comments by a mindcracker get more upvotes than they would receive if they were posted by another, non-mindcracker. I'm sure Pause gets sad about this. However, everytime I've seen an extremely poor comment by a mindcrack account, it has received a negative vote total.
The point I'm trying to make is that although many users on this subreddit will not use the reddiquette to downvote comments by mindcrackers appropriately, they will use their own morals. Fortunately, harsh or inappropriate comments seem to get downvoted here, regardless of who posts them. | People should read the reddiquette |
hadleyr | Calling this subreddit a cult is pretty hyperbolic - on the right lines may be an overstatement - but that is not my reason for commenting.
There are two bits of psychology that apply here, humo*u*r me for a moment, and pay attention.
First is of mob dehumanisation - if we are part of a large group, we stop acting like rational human beings, and we lose our sense of accountability for our own actions. The 'anonymity' of the Internet does little but worsen this.
The second is that when we invest large a amounts of our time and effort into something, its reception effects our self-esteem. *Especially when the faults you see glaring out are beyond your control.*
Now, let's apply both of those to what we have here now:
BTC, ever the dedicated YouTuber, has spent ages editing his footage to make it the best he can; We all know the faults of Season 12, so do they (that's why they were considering not uploading the footage). There's little they could do partway through the series, apart from abandon it, which would be a total waste of time and effort; Commenters, both here and on YouTube, put useless and valueless derisive comments about the video, free behind the dehumanising screen of numbers and the Internet itself; Eventually, they get to the point of being too annoying to ignore, and he loses it, and as far as I am concerned, understandably.
**And before anyone tells me that BTC is thin-skinned:** *just think about his previous occupation.* It takes a special kind of person to cope in a place like a war zone, and no doubt it hardens a person.
This is a case of the 'straw breaking the camel's back', as the saying goes. The Mindcrackers have been putting up with such comments for ages, so I can't fault the reaction *(but I can, and will say that maybe swearing wasn't the best of options in hindsight)*.
As for him getting a 'free pass' to do this, has he my arse. He's been hounded for this far more than you or I would be for telling someone to 'shut the fuck up', all under the guise of us saying he should be more respectful with his larger reach.
Here's a ground breaking suggestion - we all (yes, **all**) put this behind us, but learn from the mistakes that have been made here.
*As for the racist comments AnderZ made being used as 'evidence' of what the Mindcrackers are allowed to 'get away with', knock it the hell off. Those comments were made **two years ago**, and since then, AnderZ has changed his channel, possibly to reduce the backlash they caused. Xenophobia, while wrong - is a natural thing. The use of groups is integral to the way our mind processes the world around us, and we are hostile to groups which are similar yet different to us. Also, those comments were most likely from before anyone even knew who AnderZel was - and certainly before his days as a Mindcracker, so them being dragged up as evidence seems more like an attempt to slander him and his channel.*
Sorry for the text wall, it's over.
*TL;DR: Put the high horse back in the stable, forgive, forget, and go watch Don't Worry, Be Happy a few times.* | Calling this subreddit a cult is pretty hyperbolic - on the right lines may be an overstatement - but that is not my reason for commenting.
There are two bits of psychology that apply here, humo u r me for a moment, and pay attention.
First is of mob dehumanisation - if we are part of a large group, we stop acting like rational human beings, and we lose our sense of accountability for our own actions. The 'anonymity' of the Internet does little but worsen this.
The second is that when we invest large a amounts of our time and effort into something, its reception effects our self-esteem. Especially when the faults you see glaring out are beyond your control.
Now, let's apply both of those to what we have here now:
BTC, ever the dedicated YouTuber, has spent ages editing his footage to make it the best he can; We all know the faults of Season 12, so do they (that's why they were considering not uploading the footage). There's little they could do partway through the series, apart from abandon it, which would be a total waste of time and effort; Commenters, both here and on YouTube, put useless and valueless derisive comments about the video, free behind the dehumanising screen of numbers and the Internet itself; Eventually, they get to the point of being too annoying to ignore, and he loses it, and as far as I am concerned, understandably.
And before anyone tells me that BTC is thin-skinned: just think about his previous occupation. It takes a special kind of person to cope in a place like a war zone, and no doubt it hardens a person.
This is a case of the 'straw breaking the camel's back', as the saying goes. The Mindcrackers have been putting up with such comments for ages, so I can't fault the reaction (but I can, and will say that maybe swearing wasn't the best of options in hindsight) .
As for him getting a 'free pass' to do this, has he my arse. He's been hounded for this far more than you or I would be for telling someone to 'shut the fuck up', all under the guise of us saying he should be more respectful with his larger reach.
Here's a ground breaking suggestion - we all (yes, all ) put this behind us, but learn from the mistakes that have been made here.
As for the racist comments AnderZ made being used as 'evidence' of what the Mindcrackers are allowed to 'get away with', knock it the hell off. Those comments were made two years ago , and since then, AnderZ has changed his channel, possibly to reduce the backlash they caused. Xenophobia, while wrong - is a natural thing. The use of groups is integral to the way our mind processes the world around us, and we are hostile to groups which are similar yet different to us. Also, those comments were most likely from before anyone even knew who AnderZel was - and certainly before his days as a Mindcracker, so them being dragged up as evidence seems more like an attempt to slander him and his channel.
Sorry for the text wall, it's over.
TL;DR: Put the high horse back in the stable, forgive, forget, and go watch Don't Worry, Be Happy a few times.
| mindcrack | t5_2to85 | cbczgyq | Calling this subreddit a cult is pretty hyperbolic - on the right lines may be an overstatement - but that is not my reason for commenting.
There are two bits of psychology that apply here, humo u r me for a moment, and pay attention.
First is of mob dehumanisation - if we are part of a large group, we stop acting like rational human beings, and we lose our sense of accountability for our own actions. The 'anonymity' of the Internet does little but worsen this.
The second is that when we invest large a amounts of our time and effort into something, its reception effects our self-esteem. Especially when the faults you see glaring out are beyond your control.
Now, let's apply both of those to what we have here now:
BTC, ever the dedicated YouTuber, has spent ages editing his footage to make it the best he can; We all know the faults of Season 12, so do they (that's why they were considering not uploading the footage). There's little they could do partway through the series, apart from abandon it, which would be a total waste of time and effort; Commenters, both here and on YouTube, put useless and valueless derisive comments about the video, free behind the dehumanising screen of numbers and the Internet itself; Eventually, they get to the point of being too annoying to ignore, and he loses it, and as far as I am concerned, understandably.
And before anyone tells me that BTC is thin-skinned: just think about his previous occupation. It takes a special kind of person to cope in a place like a war zone, and no doubt it hardens a person.
This is a case of the 'straw breaking the camel's back', as the saying goes. The Mindcrackers have been putting up with such comments for ages, so I can't fault the reaction (but I can, and will say that maybe swearing wasn't the best of options in hindsight) .
As for him getting a 'free pass' to do this, has he my arse. He's been hounded for this far more than you or I would be for telling someone to 'shut the fuck up', all under the guise of us saying he should be more respectful with his larger reach.
Here's a ground breaking suggestion - we all (yes, all ) put this behind us, but learn from the mistakes that have been made here.
As for the racist comments AnderZ made being used as 'evidence' of what the Mindcrackers are allowed to 'get away with', knock it the hell off. Those comments were made two years ago , and since then, AnderZ has changed his channel, possibly to reduce the backlash they caused. Xenophobia, while wrong - is a natural thing. The use of groups is integral to the way our mind processes the world around us, and we are hostile to groups which are similar yet different to us. Also, those comments were most likely from before anyone even knew who AnderZel was - and certainly before his days as a Mindcracker, so them being dragged up as evidence seems more like an attempt to slander him and his channel.
Sorry for the text wall, it's over. | Put the high horse back in the stable, forgive, forget, and go watch Don't Worry, Be Happy a few times. |
nonobots | Mindcrackers participating in the subreddit is a really nice part of the community and past the fanboy/fangirl reaction and the automatic up votes, there's actually a constructive dialog going on.
There's almost 30,000 subscribers, I think the subreddit is doing rather fine given that number. Yes, there's some drama, and some voting abuses. But discussions are mostly civil, when someone blatantly breaks a rule the answers are civil reminders of the rules, à la "please refrain to do that again, for these reasons, here's how to go about it."
TL/DR: normal behaviour for a subreddit this size, I think it's actually going pretty fine. | Mindcrackers participating in the subreddit is a really nice part of the community and past the fanboy/fangirl reaction and the automatic up votes, there's actually a constructive dialog going on.
There's almost 30,000 subscribers, I think the subreddit is doing rather fine given that number. Yes, there's some drama, and some voting abuses. But discussions are mostly civil, when someone blatantly breaks a rule the answers are civil reminders of the rules, à la "please refrain to do that again, for these reasons, here's how to go about it."
TL/DR: normal behaviour for a subreddit this size, I think it's actually going pretty fine.
| mindcrack | t5_2to85 | cbcobtl | Mindcrackers participating in the subreddit is a really nice part of the community and past the fanboy/fangirl reaction and the automatic up votes, there's actually a constructive dialog going on.
There's almost 30,000 subscribers, I think the subreddit is doing rather fine given that number. Yes, there's some drama, and some voting abuses. But discussions are mostly civil, when someone blatantly breaks a rule the answers are civil reminders of the rules, à la "please refrain to do that again, for these reasons, here's how to go about it." | normal behaviour for a subreddit this size, I think it's actually going pretty fine. |
Soof49 | Everytime I see a post like this, POINTING out drama, it's quite hypocritical to see the person want the drama to end, yet stir up even more drama from that.
Besides, why is everyone so fucking appalled that this subreddit has drama? What were you expecting? Every community I've been in has had even worse situations before, and it's caused them to completely dissolve. I don't understand why we are constantly expecting 30,000 people to agree with eachother all the time. It's ridiculous, and we should be expecting drama and not making threads like this getting mad over it.
I've actually noticed that there is a lot less drama than other subreddits/places I've been. Once every week/2 weeks is very little, and we should be proud of that. Stop pointing out the bad things so often, is what I'm trying to get at here.
*Edit: See Avidya's video he just posted for a TL;DR
*Edit #2: To the people going to BTC's comment and downvoting it, stop. There is literally no point in doing it. Have you guys forgot that the mindcrackers have feelings too? | Everytime I see a post like this, POINTING out drama, it's quite hypocritical to see the person want the drama to end, yet stir up even more drama from that.
Besides, why is everyone so fucking appalled that this subreddit has drama? What were you expecting? Every community I've been in has had even worse situations before, and it's caused them to completely dissolve. I don't understand why we are constantly expecting 30,000 people to agree with eachother all the time. It's ridiculous, and we should be expecting drama and not making threads like this getting mad over it.
I've actually noticed that there is a lot less drama than other subreddits/places I've been. Once every week/2 weeks is very little, and we should be proud of that. Stop pointing out the bad things so often, is what I'm trying to get at here.
*Edit: See Avidya's video he just posted for a TL;DR
*Edit #2: To the people going to BTC's comment and downvoting it, stop. There is literally no point in doing it. Have you guys forgot that the mindcrackers have feelings too?
| mindcrack | t5_2to85 | cbcqxh5 | Everytime I see a post like this, POINTING out drama, it's quite hypocritical to see the person want the drama to end, yet stir up even more drama from that.
Besides, why is everyone so fucking appalled that this subreddit has drama? What were you expecting? Every community I've been in has had even worse situations before, and it's caused them to completely dissolve. I don't understand why we are constantly expecting 30,000 people to agree with eachother all the time. It's ridiculous, and we should be expecting drama and not making threads like this getting mad over it.
I've actually noticed that there is a lot less drama than other subreddits/places I've been. Once every week/2 weeks is very little, and we should be proud of that. Stop pointing out the bad things so often, is what I'm trying to get at here.
*Edit: See Avidya's video he just posted for a | Edit #2: To the people going to BTC's comment and downvoting it, stop. There is literally no point in doing it. Have you guys forgot that the mindcrackers have feelings too? |
ryanvango | I did this a couple years ago to drive my wife insane. I had been watching Naruto relentlessly for like 3 days, and she wanted it to stop. while she was at work I gave myself a ninja mask, then made a headband, wrapped tinfoil around the front and drew the little leaf village symbol on it. then right before she came home I stripped down to my underpants and sat cross-legged on the couch intently watching naruto with only some boxers and my cool naruto ninja headband/ninja mask thing. I pretended not to hear her come home, and when she opened the door to the room I was in I looked at her, she looked at me, she turned, and walked back downstairs. I thought she was gonna leave me. but i put on some pants really quick and got rid of my mask and she was in the kitchen trying to get my digital camera to work, but couldn't because she was in tears. goooood times.
tl;dr ninja mask + naruto headband - other clothes = my marriage | I did this a couple years ago to drive my wife insane. I had been watching Naruto relentlessly for like 3 days, and she wanted it to stop. while she was at work I gave myself a ninja mask, then made a headband, wrapped tinfoil around the front and drew the little leaf village symbol on it. then right before she came home I stripped down to my underpants and sat cross-legged on the couch intently watching naruto with only some boxers and my cool naruto ninja headband/ninja mask thing. I pretended not to hear her come home, and when she opened the door to the room I was in I looked at her, she looked at me, she turned, and walked back downstairs. I thought she was gonna leave me. but i put on some pants really quick and got rid of my mask and she was in the kitchen trying to get my digital camera to work, but couldn't because she was in tears. goooood times.
tl;dr ninja mask + naruto headband - other clothes = my marriage
| LearnUselessTalents | t5_2u8qf | cbd6icv | I did this a couple years ago to drive my wife insane. I had been watching Naruto relentlessly for like 3 days, and she wanted it to stop. while she was at work I gave myself a ninja mask, then made a headband, wrapped tinfoil around the front and drew the little leaf village symbol on it. then right before she came home I stripped down to my underpants and sat cross-legged on the couch intently watching naruto with only some boxers and my cool naruto ninja headband/ninja mask thing. I pretended not to hear her come home, and when she opened the door to the room I was in I looked at her, she looked at me, she turned, and walked back downstairs. I thought she was gonna leave me. but i put on some pants really quick and got rid of my mask and she was in the kitchen trying to get my digital camera to work, but couldn't because she was in tears. goooood times. | ninja mask + naruto headband - other clothes = my marriage |
nokken | I discovered Magic back in the Future Sight days and I loved it. As we all know, FS set was not a very good set for a newcomer (I was also just starting my graduation). I restarted playing mtg about six months ago and I'm trying MTGO now, bought it this weekend (it took almost three days, since, for some ridiculous reason, they have problems with paypal).
So, I'll say my impressions about MTGO beta version; the only experience I have with the Current version is because some videos I watch.
I don't know how Wizards is doing such a clunky old-fashioned program in 2013. Not only their online program, but their whole approach towards marketing seems old. Their client has absolute no community integration (twitter, facebook, google+, icq, orkut, whatever); I can not see spells' targets without having to navigate the mouse over the stack; I can not put my hand (my cards rectangle) wherever I want, same with pretty much everything. I can not have the cards in the board in the size I want without having to make the cards in my hand minuscle. I can not choose a place in the board to be my 'enchantments place' or my 'planeswalkers place', they will always be together. I mean, the whole space in my screen does not look very well optimized and I can't change the configuration of anything. Please, make a graveyard (or exiled cards, reavealed cards, etc) hotkey, so I can just get rid of that lost space and open the graveyard with the hotkey when I need; it would be so much cleaner!...
I have a lot more complainments to make, not only about mtgo, but about wizards approach to their community. Concerning mtgo, I realize the number of features I'm asking for is big, but none of them should be too hard for a good computer games company to make (specially for the price we pay in this thing: $10 just for the account + a lot to be able to play even any of the worse formats (10 for momir lol). I know the basics of Magic, but any new person to it would just throw it away in the first 15 mins of staring at the client).
About Wizards: I come from the Dota2 community. Maybe that is too much to ask for, but Valve does A LOT to make their community happy with the game. I mean, things we say in reddit about how this or that feature would be good for the game or for the viewers in twitch streams, for example, are implemented in the next Thursday! I am not asking for a weekly update like that, I know things can take more time, but look at the the Magic coverage in the streams: it is terrible. The mtgo client is terrible. I am sorry to say this, but for the PRICE and time put into MTG to get such a ridiculous game is laughable. I also completely agree with this video
I really want to love this game, but Wizards some times makes it difficult.
**tl;dr**
the client looks like a 2000-ish average game, costs a lot; wizards seems to ignore the community opinions, suggestions and modern marketing. | I discovered Magic back in the Future Sight days and I loved it. As we all know, FS set was not a very good set for a newcomer (I was also just starting my graduation). I restarted playing mtg about six months ago and I'm trying MTGO now, bought it this weekend (it took almost three days, since, for some ridiculous reason, they have problems with paypal).
So, I'll say my impressions about MTGO beta version; the only experience I have with the Current version is because some videos I watch.
I don't know how Wizards is doing such a clunky old-fashioned program in 2013. Not only their online program, but their whole approach towards marketing seems old. Their client has absolute no community integration (twitter, facebook, google+, icq, orkut, whatever); I can not see spells' targets without having to navigate the mouse over the stack; I can not put my hand (my cards rectangle) wherever I want, same with pretty much everything. I can not have the cards in the board in the size I want without having to make the cards in my hand minuscle. I can not choose a place in the board to be my 'enchantments place' or my 'planeswalkers place', they will always be together. I mean, the whole space in my screen does not look very well optimized and I can't change the configuration of anything. Please, make a graveyard (or exiled cards, reavealed cards, etc) hotkey, so I can just get rid of that lost space and open the graveyard with the hotkey when I need; it would be so much cleaner!...
I have a lot more complainments to make, not only about mtgo, but about wizards approach to their community. Concerning mtgo, I realize the number of features I'm asking for is big, but none of them should be too hard for a good computer games company to make (specially for the price we pay in this thing: $10 just for the account + a lot to be able to play even any of the worse formats (10 for momir lol). I know the basics of Magic, but any new person to it would just throw it away in the first 15 mins of staring at the client).
About Wizards: I come from the Dota2 community. Maybe that is too much to ask for, but Valve does A LOT to make their community happy with the game. I mean, things we say in reddit about how this or that feature would be good for the game or for the viewers in twitch streams, for example, are implemented in the next Thursday! I am not asking for a weekly update like that, I know things can take more time, but look at the the Magic coverage in the streams: it is terrible. The mtgo client is terrible. I am sorry to say this, but for the PRICE and time put into MTG to get such a ridiculous game is laughable. I also completely agree with this video
I really want to love this game, but Wizards some times makes it difficult.
tl;dr
the client looks like a 2000-ish average game, costs a lot; wizards seems to ignore the community opinions, suggestions and modern marketing.
| magicTCG | t5_2qn5f | cbd4j4m | I discovered Magic back in the Future Sight days and I loved it. As we all know, FS set was not a very good set for a newcomer (I was also just starting my graduation). I restarted playing mtg about six months ago and I'm trying MTGO now, bought it this weekend (it took almost three days, since, for some ridiculous reason, they have problems with paypal).
So, I'll say my impressions about MTGO beta version; the only experience I have with the Current version is because some videos I watch.
I don't know how Wizards is doing such a clunky old-fashioned program in 2013. Not only their online program, but their whole approach towards marketing seems old. Their client has absolute no community integration (twitter, facebook, google+, icq, orkut, whatever); I can not see spells' targets without having to navigate the mouse over the stack; I can not put my hand (my cards rectangle) wherever I want, same with pretty much everything. I can not have the cards in the board in the size I want without having to make the cards in my hand minuscle. I can not choose a place in the board to be my 'enchantments place' or my 'planeswalkers place', they will always be together. I mean, the whole space in my screen does not look very well optimized and I can't change the configuration of anything. Please, make a graveyard (or exiled cards, reavealed cards, etc) hotkey, so I can just get rid of that lost space and open the graveyard with the hotkey when I need; it would be so much cleaner!...
I have a lot more complainments to make, not only about mtgo, but about wizards approach to their community. Concerning mtgo, I realize the number of features I'm asking for is big, but none of them should be too hard for a good computer games company to make (specially for the price we pay in this thing: $10 just for the account + a lot to be able to play even any of the worse formats (10 for momir lol). I know the basics of Magic, but any new person to it would just throw it away in the first 15 mins of staring at the client).
About Wizards: I come from the Dota2 community. Maybe that is too much to ask for, but Valve does A LOT to make their community happy with the game. I mean, things we say in reddit about how this or that feature would be good for the game or for the viewers in twitch streams, for example, are implemented in the next Thursday! I am not asking for a weekly update like that, I know things can take more time, but look at the the Magic coverage in the streams: it is terrible. The mtgo client is terrible. I am sorry to say this, but for the PRICE and time put into MTG to get such a ridiculous game is laughable. I also completely agree with this video
I really want to love this game, but Wizards some times makes it difficult. | the client looks like a 2000-ish average game, costs a lot; wizards seems to ignore the community opinions, suggestions and modern marketing. |
Firestorm13 | Why not all of them? If you're doing different alien races, maybe they could each have their own quirks.
For example, the humans might not have a highly developed FTL system, so they would have the "vastness of space" theme. Conversely, the Martians might have had FTL drives for centuries, and would be able to have the "cyber" theme. | Why not all of them? If you're doing different alien races, maybe they could each have their own quirks.
For example, the humans might not have a highly developed FTL system, so they would have the "vastness of space" theme. Conversely, the Martians might have had FTL drives for centuries, and would be able to have the "cyber" theme.
| worldbuilding | t5_2rd6n | cbd5mbv | Why not all of them? If you're doing different alien races, maybe they could each have their own quirks.
For example, the humans might not have a highly developed FTL system, so they would have the "vastness of space" theme. Conversely, the Martians might have had F | ives for centuries, and would be able to have the "cyber" theme. |
Abqu | The way it's presented, it looks like a guide on how to level up Pugilist.
Unfortunately, once you get beyond the L25 tier, it's all subjective. Some could argue the whole thing is subjective.
Leatherworking is going to be tough to level with a only a L25 DoW/M, plus not every Pugilist needs to be a leatherworker, Botany isn't required for LW's or PUG's, and so forth.
TL;DR: It's the OP's own personal leveling path, not a definitive PUG guide. | The way it's presented, it looks like a guide on how to level up Pugilist.
Unfortunately, once you get beyond the L25 tier, it's all subjective. Some could argue the whole thing is subjective.
Leatherworking is going to be tough to level with a only a L25 DoW/M, plus not every Pugilist needs to be a leatherworker, Botany isn't required for LW's or PUG's, and so forth.
TL;DR: It's the OP's own personal leveling path, not a definitive PUG guide.
| ffxiv | t5_2rgs7 | cbddd1z | The way it's presented, it looks like a guide on how to level up Pugilist.
Unfortunately, once you get beyond the L25 tier, it's all subjective. Some could argue the whole thing is subjective.
Leatherworking is going to be tough to level with a only a L25 DoW/M, plus not every Pugilist needs to be a leatherworker, Botany isn't required for LW's or PUG's, and so forth. | It's the OP's own personal leveling path, not a definitive PUG guide. |
HellStandsStill | I wouldn't say they are the best, but they are perhaps the best in a reasonable price range. They are one of the nicest I've used, and are quite reasonable for their high quality sound. Most in-ears that are better cost substantially more, and that sort of money is better spent on Professional grade over-ears.
Tl;dr : Overall 8/10. For their cost, 9.5/10. | I wouldn't say they are the best, but they are perhaps the best in a reasonable price range. They are one of the nicest I've used, and are quite reasonable for their high quality sound. Most in-ears that are better cost substantially more, and that sort of money is better spent on Professional grade over-ears.
Tl;dr : Overall 8/10. For their cost, 9.5/10.
| AdviceAnimals | t5_2s7tt | cbdk1yn | I wouldn't say they are the best, but they are perhaps the best in a reasonable price range. They are one of the nicest I've used, and are quite reasonable for their high quality sound. Most in-ears that are better cost substantially more, and that sort of money is better spent on Professional grade over-ears. | Overall 8/10. For their cost, 9.5/10. |
3n7 | None taken, dude. I'm a believer as well, but more of the spiritual aspect of it. Every system of belief essentially promotes enlightenment, in whatever subjective manner it presents itself within the individual. There are many paths to it, be It mind altering substances, meditation, exercise, fasting, whatever it may be. For example, I come from a Muslim background. Although I don't pray 5 times a day, I do practice meditative yoga. The idea (in my personal life as I practice it) is to come to terms with the infiniteness of existence and humble myself to the fact that although I may grasp the concept of infinity and eternity, I will never be able to comprehend it with a brain made of finite matter. This is my way to peace. My family's way is to practice what they're taught and not question it. It's fundamentally similar, just a different approach. It also allows me to love them, and every human being for their own individual way.
TL;DR: This has nothing to do with anything, but I happen to be lifted at the moment as well so I couldn't help it lol. Enjoy your [8], frient. And thank you for taking time out of your day to advise a fellow human being. =] | None taken, dude. I'm a believer as well, but more of the spiritual aspect of it. Every system of belief essentially promotes enlightenment, in whatever subjective manner it presents itself within the individual. There are many paths to it, be It mind altering substances, meditation, exercise, fasting, whatever it may be. For example, I come from a Muslim background. Although I don't pray 5 times a day, I do practice meditative yoga. The idea (in my personal life as I practice it) is to come to terms with the infiniteness of existence and humble myself to the fact that although I may grasp the concept of infinity and eternity, I will never be able to comprehend it with a brain made of finite matter. This is my way to peace. My family's way is to practice what they're taught and not question it. It's fundamentally similar, just a different approach. It also allows me to love them, and every human being for their own individual way.
TL;DR: This has nothing to do with anything, but I happen to be lifted at the moment as well so I couldn't help it lol. Enjoy your [8], frient. And thank you for taking time out of your day to advise a fellow human being. =]
| trees | t5_2r9vp | cbdj3kl | None taken, dude. I'm a believer as well, but more of the spiritual aspect of it. Every system of belief essentially promotes enlightenment, in whatever subjective manner it presents itself within the individual. There are many paths to it, be It mind altering substances, meditation, exercise, fasting, whatever it may be. For example, I come from a Muslim background. Although I don't pray 5 times a day, I do practice meditative yoga. The idea (in my personal life as I practice it) is to come to terms with the infiniteness of existence and humble myself to the fact that although I may grasp the concept of infinity and eternity, I will never be able to comprehend it with a brain made of finite matter. This is my way to peace. My family's way is to practice what they're taught and not question it. It's fundamentally similar, just a different approach. It also allows me to love them, and every human being for their own individual way. | This has nothing to do with anything, but I happen to be lifted at the moment as well so I couldn't help it lol. Enjoy your [8], frient. And thank you for taking time out of your day to advise a fellow human being. =] |
HtownTradio | Honestly, I like the way you're thinking, but the team you've drafted is probably not very good. I tried doing Calvin/Jimmy for my first 2 picks in a mock the other day, and I got a similar result. You can get away with getting someone like Calvin or Jimmy, but take both and you're in a bad spot. In rounds 3 and 4, you'll be stuck staring and tier 3 running backs (Wilson, Ball, etc), and you'll also be seeing extremely solid wideouts like Andre Johnson and Roddy White, which you can't take because you need to reach for a risky running back.
tl;dr Taking 2 receivers pick 1 and 2 leaves you with bullshit committee running backs. | Honestly, I like the way you're thinking, but the team you've drafted is probably not very good. I tried doing Calvin/Jimmy for my first 2 picks in a mock the other day, and I got a similar result. You can get away with getting someone like Calvin or Jimmy, but take both and you're in a bad spot. In rounds 3 and 4, you'll be stuck staring and tier 3 running backs (Wilson, Ball, etc), and you'll also be seeing extremely solid wideouts like Andre Johnson and Roddy White, which you can't take because you need to reach for a risky running back.
tl;dr Taking 2 receivers pick 1 and 2 leaves you with bullshit committee running backs.
| fantasyfootball | t5_2qlqq | cbdfrrk | Honestly, I like the way you're thinking, but the team you've drafted is probably not very good. I tried doing Calvin/Jimmy for my first 2 picks in a mock the other day, and I got a similar result. You can get away with getting someone like Calvin or Jimmy, but take both and you're in a bad spot. In rounds 3 and 4, you'll be stuck staring and tier 3 running backs (Wilson, Ball, etc), and you'll also be seeing extremely solid wideouts like Andre Johnson and Roddy White, which you can't take because you need to reach for a risky running back. | Taking 2 receivers pick 1 and 2 leaves you with bullshit committee running backs. |
iSuck_5 | the website that it brings me to, missingmoney is asking for an SSN in order to see how much i can claim. how am i to be sure this isnt an identity theft scam?
EDIT: i did some research to see how true missingmoney is, as a .com site asking for an SSN# is often suspicious.
this is just an average ask the internet and not one of them says its a scam
this is a blog-like site where they try to do a mythbusters type of deal with scam-like websites (kinda like snopes, but for scams)
ABC news story, they say its legit
they had talked about it on their show, and are just confirming that its legit
**TL;DR: all these sites say that its totally ok to use and that it is not a scam. i have yet to find anything that says its a scam.**
let me know what you guys can come up with, and i hope this helped | the website that it brings me to, missingmoney is asking for an SSN in order to see how much i can claim. how am i to be sure this isnt an identity theft scam?
EDIT: i did some research to see how true missingmoney is, as a .com site asking for an SSN# is often suspicious.
this is just an average ask the internet and not one of them says its a scam
this is a blog-like site where they try to do a mythbusters type of deal with scam-like websites (kinda like snopes, but for scams)
ABC news story, they say its legit
they had talked about it on their show, and are just confirming that its legit
TL;DR: all these sites say that its totally ok to use and that it is not a scam. i have yet to find anything that says its a scam.
let me know what you guys can come up with, and i hope this helped
| Frugal | t5_2qhbe | cbdm7na | the website that it brings me to, missingmoney is asking for an SSN in order to see how much i can claim. how am i to be sure this isnt an identity theft scam?
EDIT: i did some research to see how true missingmoney is, as a .com site asking for an SSN# is often suspicious.
this is just an average ask the internet and not one of them says its a scam
this is a blog-like site where they try to do a mythbusters type of deal with scam-like websites (kinda like snopes, but for scams)
ABC news story, they say its legit
they had talked about it on their show, and are just confirming that its legit | all these sites say that its totally ok to use and that it is not a scam. i have yet to find anything that says its a scam.
let me know what you guys can come up with, and i hope this helped |
kemindim | Complete shot in the dark, but do you know if there's something similar for Euro countries? Like France... ?
Thanks.
Edit : found it : ~~ fucking useless, better check here (2 fucking hours to find it)
But basicaly, in France, there's no such things as an unclaimed.org website. The bank sends your money to the CDC, which does not have a public list of the accounts. The owner of the funds has to send them a letter proving his rights. It seems easy, but there's always a trick during the procedure, and many steps before the end of it. That is, if the bank didn't charged you for the open account before closing it 10 years later.
**TL;DR** : French people better don't loose sight of their bank account. | Complete shot in the dark, but do you know if there's something similar for Euro countries? Like France... ?
Thanks.
Edit : found it : ~~ fucking useless, better check here (2 fucking hours to find it)
But basicaly, in France, there's no such things as an unclaimed.org website. The bank sends your money to the CDC, which does not have a public list of the accounts. The owner of the funds has to send them a letter proving his rights. It seems easy, but there's always a trick during the procedure, and many steps before the end of it. That is, if the bank didn't charged you for the open account before closing it 10 years later.
TL;DR : French people better don't loose sight of their bank account.
| Frugal | t5_2qhbe | cbdyk5y | Complete shot in the dark, but do you know if there's something similar for Euro countries? Like France... ?
Thanks.
Edit : found it : ~~ fucking useless, better check here (2 fucking hours to find it)
But basicaly, in France, there's no such things as an unclaimed.org website. The bank sends your money to the CDC, which does not have a public list of the accounts. The owner of the funds has to send them a letter proving his rights. It seems easy, but there's always a trick during the procedure, and many steps before the end of it. That is, if the bank didn't charged you for the open account before closing it 10 years later. | French people better don't loose sight of their bank account. |
pee_diddy | Ok. Lemme 'splain.
"Fattening" is a function of calories . If you eat more calories than you burn you gain weight. All foods - those that are "fatty" like an avocado and those that are "non-fat" or not "fatty" like fruits and vegetables - can be fattening if you eat too much. Foods that are "fatty" tend to have more calories than other foods so you could say that fatty foods are more "fattening" in general. But too many calories from any food will get converted to fat in your body. And fats consumed in moderate quantities do not become fat in your body.
Some fatty foods like avocado, olives and olive oil, fish oil, many types of nuts and seeds, and other "good fats" have such strong health benefits that they should be part of a healthy diet and consumed in reasonable quantities on a regular basis.
TL;DR fatty foods don't automatically make you fat. | Ok. Lemme 'splain.
"Fattening" is a function of calories . If you eat more calories than you burn you gain weight. All foods - those that are "fatty" like an avocado and those that are "non-fat" or not "fatty" like fruits and vegetables - can be fattening if you eat too much. Foods that are "fatty" tend to have more calories than other foods so you could say that fatty foods are more "fattening" in general. But too many calories from any food will get converted to fat in your body. And fats consumed in moderate quantities do not become fat in your body.
Some fatty foods like avocado, olives and olive oil, fish oil, many types of nuts and seeds, and other "good fats" have such strong health benefits that they should be part of a healthy diet and consumed in reasonable quantities on a regular basis.
TL;DR fatty foods don't automatically make you fat.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | cbdts7b | Ok. Lemme 'splain.
"Fattening" is a function of calories . If you eat more calories than you burn you gain weight. All foods - those that are "fatty" like an avocado and those that are "non-fat" or not "fatty" like fruits and vegetables - can be fattening if you eat too much. Foods that are "fatty" tend to have more calories than other foods so you could say that fatty foods are more "fattening" in general. But too many calories from any food will get converted to fat in your body. And fats consumed in moderate quantities do not become fat in your body.
Some fatty foods like avocado, olives and olive oil, fish oil, many types of nuts and seeds, and other "good fats" have such strong health benefits that they should be part of a healthy diet and consumed in reasonable quantities on a regular basis. | fatty foods don't automatically make you fat. |
GeoAspect | Yeah, well explain why Shinra is looking for that huge materia before they even know of the meteor summon.
I am coming up to that point in the game, so I will pay extra attention to what is going on and see if I can help you out with it. Your TL;DR sound accurate from the last time I played it though. | Yeah, well explain why Shinra is looking for that huge materia before they even know of the meteor summon.
I am coming up to that point in the game, so I will pay extra attention to what is going on and see if I can help you out with it. Your TL;DR sound accurate from the last time I played it though.
| FinalFantasy | t5_2qhdi | cbe23k5 | Yeah, well explain why Shinra is looking for that huge materia before they even know of the meteor summon.
I am coming up to that point in the game, so I will pay extra attention to what is going on and see if I can help you out with it. Your | sound accurate from the last time I played it though. |
SpiralEnergy | ... he just explained it?
I like comedy/action movies, you could like horror, someone else romance, etc. It's about personal preference. What I like is not necessarily something you like. I find PL funny and entertaining, doesn't mean you have to. He's just an entertainer, and you're entitled to not like his form of entertainment, just don't expect others to feel the same way you do (read: if you don't like his stuff, you don't have to bother looking at it).
TL;DR to each their own | ... he just explained it?
I like comedy/action movies, you could like horror, someone else romance, etc. It's about personal preference. What I like is not necessarily something you like. I find PL funny and entertaining, doesn't mean you have to. He's just an entertainer, and you're entitled to not like his form of entertainment, just don't expect others to feel the same way you do (read: if you don't like his stuff, you don't have to bother looking at it).
TL;DR to each their own
| leagueoflegends | t5_2rfxx | cbea5c1 | he just explained it?
I like comedy/action movies, you could like horror, someone else romance, etc. It's about personal preference. What I like is not necessarily something you like. I find PL funny and entertaining, doesn't mean you have to. He's just an entertainer, and you're entitled to not like his form of entertainment, just don't expect others to feel the same way you do (read: if you don't like his stuff, you don't have to bother looking at it). | to each their own |
now_stop_that | Both of those other tl:dr are accurate. | Both of those other tl:dr are accurate.
| nba | t5_2qo4s | cbeprfo | Both of those other | are accurate. |
quest_5692 | well....he was somehow right. i dont know why i bother to find graphs to support him. lets talk about GSL only ok? because for the past 12 months, if anything, gsl is the most stable (there werent OSL back then, SPL was crappy at start, too lazy to find WCS).
2012 season 4 was the one Life won MVP, which started in AUG 2012, yay, it was actually 12 months ago! then TvZ started to get ugly. 46.4% to 38.1% to 39%. season 5 to season 1 was october to march which means over 5 months, zergs got more than 60% win rate.
graph : (TLDR version)
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source : | well....he was somehow right. i dont know why i bother to find graphs to support him. lets talk about GSL only ok? because for the past 12 months, if anything, gsl is the most stable (there werent OSL back then, SPL was crappy at start, too lazy to find WCS).
2012 season 4 was the one Life won MVP, which started in AUG 2012, yay, it was actually 12 months ago! then TvZ started to get ugly. 46.4% to 38.1% to 39%. season 5 to season 1 was october to march which means over 5 months, zergs got more than 60% win rate.
graph : (TLDR version)
lengthy version
source :
| starcraft | t5_2qpp6 | cbehd8j | well....he was somehow right. i dont know why i bother to find graphs to support him. lets talk about GSL only ok? because for the past 12 months, if anything, gsl is the most stable (there werent OSL back then, SPL was crappy at start, too lazy to find WCS).
2012 season 4 was the one Life won MVP, which started in AUG 2012, yay, it was actually 12 months ago! then TvZ started to get ugly. 46.4% to 38.1% to 39%. season 5 to season 1 was october to march which means over 5 months, zergs got more than 60% win rate.
graph : ( | version)
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bloorondo | Similar story here. After a concert in about 1990, I took [this album]( backstage to Dave's dressing room. As he signed it, he told me the story of the photoshoot. The lady in red was the top model of the day, Suzy Parker, and that red dress was nothing more than a long piece of fabric. According to Dave, "...the photo crew brought her out there where we were rehearsing and 'dressed her' right in front of us." Of his sidemen he said, "You should have seen those cats! They went wild."
tl; dr: One time Dave Brubeck chatted me up backstage and used the word "cats" in a sentence. | Similar story here. After a concert in about 1990, I took [this album]( backstage to Dave's dressing room. As he signed it, he told me the story of the photoshoot. The lady in red was the top model of the day, Suzy Parker, and that red dress was nothing more than a long piece of fabric. According to Dave, "...the photo crew brought her out there where we were rehearsing and 'dressed her' right in front of us." Of his sidemen he said, "You should have seen those cats! They went wild."
tl; dr: One time Dave Brubeck chatted me up backstage and used the word "cats" in a sentence.
| Jazz | t5_2qmm6 | cbesj1t | Similar story here. After a concert in about 1990, I took [this album]( backstage to Dave's dressing room. As he signed it, he told me the story of the photoshoot. The lady in red was the top model of the day, Suzy Parker, and that red dress was nothing more than a long piece of fabric. According to Dave, "...the photo crew brought her out there where we were rehearsing and 'dressed her' right in front of us." Of his sidemen he said, "You should have seen those cats! They went wild." | One time Dave Brubeck chatted me up backstage and used the word "cats" in a sentence. |
Taksoko | Well, to start off, organizing shelves or as we call "zoning" is one of the worst and most tedious tasks to do. It is mostly left up to the overnight associates who are some of the strangest and most incompetent people I've ever meet.
But all that aside, there is too much merchandise on the shelf to have every last item checked regularly. We are normal people and plenty of other things that we try to get done in a work day.
As to how items like the pecans got on the shelf like this, it is because they are tampered with by costumers. All items are checked in the backroom before being brought out to the sales floor and are again checked before they are shelved.
Things in the wrong spot, don't get me started either. Costumers will put items they decide the don't want in the closest possible place that isn't their cart. I've found LEGOs in our garden center, Women's Underwear in Sporting goods, and my personal favorite a half drunken 2-liter soda in electronics.
TL;DR Walmart employees are human too and can't do everything at once. Shoppers mess with everything. | Well, to start off, organizing shelves or as we call "zoning" is one of the worst and most tedious tasks to do. It is mostly left up to the overnight associates who are some of the strangest and most incompetent people I've ever meet.
But all that aside, there is too much merchandise on the shelf to have every last item checked regularly. We are normal people and plenty of other things that we try to get done in a work day.
As to how items like the pecans got on the shelf like this, it is because they are tampered with by costumers. All items are checked in the backroom before being brought out to the sales floor and are again checked before they are shelved.
Things in the wrong spot, don't get me started either. Costumers will put items they decide the don't want in the closest possible place that isn't their cart. I've found LEGOs in our garden center, Women's Underwear in Sporting goods, and my personal favorite a half drunken 2-liter soda in electronics.
TL;DR Walmart employees are human too and can't do everything at once. Shoppers mess with everything.
| IAmA | t5_2qzb6 | cbelsor | Well, to start off, organizing shelves or as we call "zoning" is one of the worst and most tedious tasks to do. It is mostly left up to the overnight associates who are some of the strangest and most incompetent people I've ever meet.
But all that aside, there is too much merchandise on the shelf to have every last item checked regularly. We are normal people and plenty of other things that we try to get done in a work day.
As to how items like the pecans got on the shelf like this, it is because they are tampered with by costumers. All items are checked in the backroom before being brought out to the sales floor and are again checked before they are shelved.
Things in the wrong spot, don't get me started either. Costumers will put items they decide the don't want in the closest possible place that isn't their cart. I've found LEGOs in our garden center, Women's Underwear in Sporting goods, and my personal favorite a half drunken 2-liter soda in electronics. | Walmart employees are human too and can't do everything at once. Shoppers mess with everything. |
mando777 | there are many ways to modify a blue switch, (different springs and such). But one of the well known mod is the Jailhouse Blues. You modify the switch by putting a piece of plastic in between the little gap that separate the stem and the little clear piece, this will make the entire switch depress at the same time and eliminate the click. Essentially this turns the Blue into a Brown. I was actually a lucky candidate to test-run a Jailhouse blue keyboard, my TL;DR review of the board: feels very close to mx brown, with quieter bottoming out sound. It requires a lot of work, so not really worth doing unless you enjoy modding things. | there are many ways to modify a blue switch, (different springs and such). But one of the well known mod is the Jailhouse Blues. You modify the switch by putting a piece of plastic in between the little gap that separate the stem and the little clear piece, this will make the entire switch depress at the same time and eliminate the click. Essentially this turns the Blue into a Brown. I was actually a lucky candidate to test-run a Jailhouse blue keyboard, my TL;DR review of the board: feels very close to mx brown, with quieter bottoming out sound. It requires a lot of work, so not really worth doing unless you enjoy modding things.
| MechanicalKeyboards | t5_2ugo7 | cbessrm | there are many ways to modify a blue switch, (different springs and such). But one of the well known mod is the Jailhouse Blues. You modify the switch by putting a piece of plastic in between the little gap that separate the stem and the little clear piece, this will make the entire switch depress at the same time and eliminate the click. Essentially this turns the Blue into a Brown. I was actually a lucky candidate to test-run a Jailhouse blue keyboard, my | review of the board: feels very close to mx brown, with quieter bottoming out sound. It requires a lot of work, so not really worth doing unless you enjoy modding things. |
o2fill | In technical scuba diving we are trained to treat everything as an 'incident' then backtrack to a cause. Sometimes it's just horrible luck, as you suggest, but most of the time there's a lesson to be learned. For the tree example, the lesson might be to never risk a head-on, combined speed collision to avoid a static collision. This would be discussed and the merits shared along with the 'lesson' in future training.
TL;DR There may be true accidents but they're rare. | In technical scuba diving we are trained to treat everything as an 'incident' then backtrack to a cause. Sometimes it's just horrible luck, as you suggest, but most of the time there's a lesson to be learned. For the tree example, the lesson might be to never risk a head-on, combined speed collision to avoid a static collision. This would be discussed and the merits shared along with the 'lesson' in future training.
TL;DR There may be true accidents but they're rare.
| WTF | t5_2qh61 | cbezvlt | In technical scuba diving we are trained to treat everything as an 'incident' then backtrack to a cause. Sometimes it's just horrible luck, as you suggest, but most of the time there's a lesson to be learned. For the tree example, the lesson might be to never risk a head-on, combined speed collision to avoid a static collision. This would be discussed and the merits shared along with the 'lesson' in future training. | There may be true accidents but they're rare. |
DaftProdigy | If your wife wants to go the civilian route (which, for the purposes of this reply, is non-military and non-pilot mill), then she will need at least enough time to earn 250+ hours of flight time, plus the tests required to get the commercial rating. There are about 7 tests she needs to take to get to that point that will be spaced out (an instructor will help her prep for tests, tell her when to take them, etc.) She will first take the private written exam, and then after about 40+ hours of flight time, she'll take the Private Pilot checkride. Then the next hurdle is the Instrument rating. She'll need to take the instrument written exam, and then the instrument checkride after around 115 hours of flight time. Then next is the 250 hours of flight time needed to get the commercial rating. She'll need to take the commercial written test/checkride (which is one of the easier tests and checkrides) at around 250 hours.
Now, from there, is where most people differ in what to do. My dad has been a pilot for Continental (United) for around 20 years, so this is advice straight from him. But she may want to become a flight instructor (CFI, CFII, etc) so she can earn enough flight time to be hired on by a commuter like United Express (The official ruling now is 1500 hours, however that will be lowered within the next couple of years due to pilot retirements in the majors).
I apologize that I'm just rambling, but if you have any specific questions you can ask.
TL;DR - Expect a couple of years of flight training, and even longer if she's only occasionally able to fly. Start at a local FBO at a local airport and ask for an instructor to help guide you.
Best of luck! | If your wife wants to go the civilian route (which, for the purposes of this reply, is non-military and non-pilot mill), then she will need at least enough time to earn 250+ hours of flight time, plus the tests required to get the commercial rating. There are about 7 tests she needs to take to get to that point that will be spaced out (an instructor will help her prep for tests, tell her when to take them, etc.) She will first take the private written exam, and then after about 40+ hours of flight time, she'll take the Private Pilot checkride. Then the next hurdle is the Instrument rating. She'll need to take the instrument written exam, and then the instrument checkride after around 115 hours of flight time. Then next is the 250 hours of flight time needed to get the commercial rating. She'll need to take the commercial written test/checkride (which is one of the easier tests and checkrides) at around 250 hours.
Now, from there, is where most people differ in what to do. My dad has been a pilot for Continental (United) for around 20 years, so this is advice straight from him. But she may want to become a flight instructor (CFI, CFII, etc) so she can earn enough flight time to be hired on by a commuter like United Express (The official ruling now is 1500 hours, however that will be lowered within the next couple of years due to pilot retirements in the majors).
I apologize that I'm just rambling, but if you have any specific questions you can ask.
TL;DR - Expect a couple of years of flight training, and even longer if she's only occasionally able to fly. Start at a local FBO at a local airport and ask for an instructor to help guide you.
Best of luck!
| flying | t5_2qm1t | cbetr9s | If your wife wants to go the civilian route (which, for the purposes of this reply, is non-military and non-pilot mill), then she will need at least enough time to earn 250+ hours of flight time, plus the tests required to get the commercial rating. There are about 7 tests she needs to take to get to that point that will be spaced out (an instructor will help her prep for tests, tell her when to take them, etc.) She will first take the private written exam, and then after about 40+ hours of flight time, she'll take the Private Pilot checkride. Then the next hurdle is the Instrument rating. She'll need to take the instrument written exam, and then the instrument checkride after around 115 hours of flight time. Then next is the 250 hours of flight time needed to get the commercial rating. She'll need to take the commercial written test/checkride (which is one of the easier tests and checkrides) at around 250 hours.
Now, from there, is where most people differ in what to do. My dad has been a pilot for Continental (United) for around 20 years, so this is advice straight from him. But she may want to become a flight instructor (CFI, CFII, etc) so she can earn enough flight time to be hired on by a commuter like United Express (The official ruling now is 1500 hours, however that will be lowered within the next couple of years due to pilot retirements in the majors).
I apologize that I'm just rambling, but if you have any specific questions you can ask. | Expect a couple of years of flight training, and even longer if she's only occasionally able to fly. Start at a local FBO at a local airport and ask for an instructor to help guide you.
Best of luck! |
throwaway23954 | > white males
well, while something around [41%]( of all homeless people in america are white, and about 60% of them are male, only approximately **15**% of chronically homeless people are white.
and while a majority of homeless people are male, a 60% proportion of the total homeless population compared to a ~49% proportion of the overall population doesn't suggest the same kind of prevalence as, say, queer youth. with a homelessness rate somewhere between [20% and 45%]( compared to a 5% to 10% rate in the overall population, homelessness is much more of a queer/youth issue than it is a men's issue, at least in terms of disproportionate representation in the homeless population.
I think that this is more of a case where both the SJW and 'talking fedora' are wrong, or at least misunderstand the concept of privilege: while men might be privileged as a general, statistical group, homeless gay youth, or middle-age, mentally ill men who can't work or function in society are *disprivileged* in comparison to the general population, male *and* female, because class (wealth) and sexuality convey far, *far* more privilege than gender ever could.
tl:dr; anyone who calls a homeless person privileged doesn't understand how privilege or homelessness works | > white males
well, while something around [41%]( of all homeless people in america are white, and about 60% of them are male, only approximately 15 % of chronically homeless people are white.
and while a majority of homeless people are male, a 60% proportion of the total homeless population compared to a ~49% proportion of the overall population doesn't suggest the same kind of prevalence as, say, queer youth. with a homelessness rate somewhere between [20% and 45%]( compared to a 5% to 10% rate in the overall population, homelessness is much more of a queer/youth issue than it is a men's issue, at least in terms of disproportionate representation in the homeless population.
I think that this is more of a case where both the SJW and 'talking fedora' are wrong, or at least misunderstand the concept of privilege: while men might be privileged as a general, statistical group, homeless gay youth, or middle-age, mentally ill men who can't work or function in society are disprivileged in comparison to the general population, male and female, because class (wealth) and sexuality convey far, far more privilege than gender ever could.
tl:dr; anyone who calls a homeless person privileged doesn't understand how privilege or homelessness works
| TumblrInAction | t5_2vizz | cbexwrd | white males
well, while something around [41%]( of all homeless people in america are white, and about 60% of them are male, only approximately 15 % of chronically homeless people are white.
and while a majority of homeless people are male, a 60% proportion of the total homeless population compared to a ~49% proportion of the overall population doesn't suggest the same kind of prevalence as, say, queer youth. with a homelessness rate somewhere between [20% and 45%]( compared to a 5% to 10% rate in the overall population, homelessness is much more of a queer/youth issue than it is a men's issue, at least in terms of disproportionate representation in the homeless population.
I think that this is more of a case where both the SJW and 'talking fedora' are wrong, or at least misunderstand the concept of privilege: while men might be privileged as a general, statistical group, homeless gay youth, or middle-age, mentally ill men who can't work or function in society are disprivileged in comparison to the general population, male and female, because class (wealth) and sexuality convey far, far more privilege than gender ever could. | anyone who calls a homeless person privileged doesn't understand how privilege or homelessness works |
ScotchAndLeather | Starting with the "beer" category, you have two kinds: Ales and Lagers, which are the two types of fermenting yeast. Ales are fermented warm, the yeast sits on top, and it happens in a matter of days; Lagers are a relatively new (past couple hundred years) type of yeast that ferments cold, on the bottom of the fermenter, and takes weeks.
Lagers are typically (though not always!) a lighter style, like Budweiser, Carlsberg (the scientific name for lager yeast is actually "Saccharomyces carlsbergensis"), and so on while Ales have a more complex range of outcomes.
Now getting to the next categorizations, you have a few within each Lager and Ale. Lager has fewer - generally you're looking at a pale lager like a Budweiser, but there are also black lagers and a bunch of pale types like Helles. Within ales, you have stouts, porters, amber ales, golden ales, list goes on.
To help explain these categorizations, it's helpful to understand what makes one beer taste different from another. There are generally 4 or 5 ingredients to beer: Water, Malt (Barley, wheat, etc.), yeast, hops, and in some other beers a cheap source of fermentable sugar like Rice or Corn (e.g., in Budweiser it's rice).
Malt gives the beer its color. Caramel and Crystal malt, the pale kinds, aren't roasted very long and end up with golden and amber colored beer. More roasting means darker, which end up in ruby, brown, black beers. Malt gives beer flavors like chocolate, coffee, sweetness. Hops are what gives beer its bitterness and much of its aroma, and flavors like citrus. It's the combination of malts and hops that end up dictating style.
Stouts, as you can probably guess, are ales, dark malts, and the hops vary depending on what sweet/bitter balance the brewer is going for. Pale lagers are lagers, light malts, light hops. Amber ale is medium roasted, often lots of hops. Hefeweizen is wheat malt, an ale, a bit of hopping. So, you can see where this is going. Some other brews will have other ingredients like fruit, and some brews like Lambics will have weird wild yeast, but this should help you distinguish when you're at a pub.
tl;dr: The "ale / lager" distinction is settled by the type of yeast, the style within ale / lager is dictated by malt type/treatment and the hop character. | Starting with the "beer" category, you have two kinds: Ales and Lagers, which are the two types of fermenting yeast. Ales are fermented warm, the yeast sits on top, and it happens in a matter of days; Lagers are a relatively new (past couple hundred years) type of yeast that ferments cold, on the bottom of the fermenter, and takes weeks.
Lagers are typically (though not always!) a lighter style, like Budweiser, Carlsberg (the scientific name for lager yeast is actually "Saccharomyces carlsbergensis"), and so on while Ales have a more complex range of outcomes.
Now getting to the next categorizations, you have a few within each Lager and Ale. Lager has fewer - generally you're looking at a pale lager like a Budweiser, but there are also black lagers and a bunch of pale types like Helles. Within ales, you have stouts, porters, amber ales, golden ales, list goes on.
To help explain these categorizations, it's helpful to understand what makes one beer taste different from another. There are generally 4 or 5 ingredients to beer: Water, Malt (Barley, wheat, etc.), yeast, hops, and in some other beers a cheap source of fermentable sugar like Rice or Corn (e.g., in Budweiser it's rice).
Malt gives the beer its color. Caramel and Crystal malt, the pale kinds, aren't roasted very long and end up with golden and amber colored beer. More roasting means darker, which end up in ruby, brown, black beers. Malt gives beer flavors like chocolate, coffee, sweetness. Hops are what gives beer its bitterness and much of its aroma, and flavors like citrus. It's the combination of malts and hops that end up dictating style.
Stouts, as you can probably guess, are ales, dark malts, and the hops vary depending on what sweet/bitter balance the brewer is going for. Pale lagers are lagers, light malts, light hops. Amber ale is medium roasted, often lots of hops. Hefeweizen is wheat malt, an ale, a bit of hopping. So, you can see where this is going. Some other brews will have other ingredients like fruit, and some brews like Lambics will have weird wild yeast, but this should help you distinguish when you're at a pub.
tl;dr: The "ale / lager" distinction is settled by the type of yeast, the style within ale / lager is dictated by malt type/treatment and the hop character.
| explainlikeimfive | t5_2sokd | cbezsde | Starting with the "beer" category, you have two kinds: Ales and Lagers, which are the two types of fermenting yeast. Ales are fermented warm, the yeast sits on top, and it happens in a matter of days; Lagers are a relatively new (past couple hundred years) type of yeast that ferments cold, on the bottom of the fermenter, and takes weeks.
Lagers are typically (though not always!) a lighter style, like Budweiser, Carlsberg (the scientific name for lager yeast is actually "Saccharomyces carlsbergensis"), and so on while Ales have a more complex range of outcomes.
Now getting to the next categorizations, you have a few within each Lager and Ale. Lager has fewer - generally you're looking at a pale lager like a Budweiser, but there are also black lagers and a bunch of pale types like Helles. Within ales, you have stouts, porters, amber ales, golden ales, list goes on.
To help explain these categorizations, it's helpful to understand what makes one beer taste different from another. There are generally 4 or 5 ingredients to beer: Water, Malt (Barley, wheat, etc.), yeast, hops, and in some other beers a cheap source of fermentable sugar like Rice or Corn (e.g., in Budweiser it's rice).
Malt gives the beer its color. Caramel and Crystal malt, the pale kinds, aren't roasted very long and end up with golden and amber colored beer. More roasting means darker, which end up in ruby, brown, black beers. Malt gives beer flavors like chocolate, coffee, sweetness. Hops are what gives beer its bitterness and much of its aroma, and flavors like citrus. It's the combination of malts and hops that end up dictating style.
Stouts, as you can probably guess, are ales, dark malts, and the hops vary depending on what sweet/bitter balance the brewer is going for. Pale lagers are lagers, light malts, light hops. Amber ale is medium roasted, often lots of hops. Hefeweizen is wheat malt, an ale, a bit of hopping. So, you can see where this is going. Some other brews will have other ingredients like fruit, and some brews like Lambics will have weird wild yeast, but this should help you distinguish when you're at a pub. | The "ale / lager" distinction is settled by the type of yeast, the style within ale / lager is dictated by malt type/treatment and the hop character. |
InformationStaysFREE | And that's not a receipe for another bin laden nooo, sounds nothing at all like what happened in Afghan in the 90s. I'm sure our government supplied AK-47s are not currently being used against us today.
TL;DR: WTF? | And that's not a receipe for another bin laden nooo, sounds nothing at all like what happened in Afghan in the 90s. I'm sure our government supplied AK-47s are not currently being used against us today.
TL;DR: WTF?
| worldnews | t5_2qh13 | cbf7zyb | And that's not a receipe for another bin laden nooo, sounds nothing at all like what happened in Afghan in the 90s. I'm sure our government supplied AK-47s are not currently being used against us today. | WTF? |
tsk05 | "Unnamed sources" are bad when there is no reason to hide those sources: like when CNN was reporting about how evil Gaddafi was, there is no reason to hide those sources - who is going to punish them for giving the official government line? When you report about something the government or elsewhere doesn't want people to know, there is a clear reason for keeping sources anonymous.
tl;dr: Anonymity is bad when granted for bad reasons. If anonymity was bad altogether, investigative journalism wouldn't exist. | "Unnamed sources" are bad when there is no reason to hide those sources: like when CNN was reporting about how evil Gaddafi was, there is no reason to hide those sources - who is going to punish them for giving the official government line? When you report about something the government or elsewhere doesn't want people to know, there is a clear reason for keeping sources anonymous.
tl;dr: Anonymity is bad when granted for bad reasons. If anonymity was bad altogether, investigative journalism wouldn't exist.
| worldnews | t5_2qh13 | cbf96ff | Unnamed sources" are bad when there is no reason to hide those sources: like when CNN was reporting about how evil Gaddafi was, there is no reason to hide those sources - who is going to punish them for giving the official government line? When you report about something the government or elsewhere doesn't want people to know, there is a clear reason for keeping sources anonymous. | Anonymity is bad when granted for bad reasons. If anonymity was bad altogether, investigative journalism wouldn't exist. |
Mortons_Spork | WoW has been one of the only MMO's that ever offered anything remotely close to challenging content in terms of end game. I feel a lot of the success of that came from a sub-based model stemmed from the amount of time some of the mechanics of the game took to master. Much of heroic raiding for the average guild were somewhat difficult and took a decently long time to get down. For the avid PvPer climbing the ladder in Arena was simple enough but maintaining a certain high rating to stay competitive was also a bit time consuming.
It was usually all worth it to shell out $15 bucks a month especially if you never played any other game. But if they're going to a B2P or worse a F2P model, then I can see their next game hardly offering much if any of that same challenging type of end game content.
Why? Because every time I've played a B2P like GW2 or F2P like Neverwinter, it's always the same story. The leveling is fun enough, the mechanics of the game fun (if not a bit shallow) but once you get to end game there isn't a god damn thing to do.
"Well you're a 'content locus'!" This is the poorest excuse I hear all the time that always comes from the ultra casual extremist corner. The kind of player who has little time on their hands but more of it than actual skill. if anyone's played an MMO seriously enough you'll know the type. They stand in fire all the damn time, they consistently lose in any 1v1 pvp scenario, etc.. Might be nice people, but are generally pretty terrible at these games.
Those are what MMO's are shifting their attentions to and why cash shops are so lucrative these days. Why level, gear up and master your class so that you can test your mettle against some truly challenging content and actually earn those cool mounts, sweet skins, silly mini pets etc ..when you can just whip out that wallet and pay for it! That's what pretty much every cash shop in these games.
TL;DR Someone else said it best in another MMO-related threat but basically cash shops in these games will always be an opportunity cost to devs who will either produce content for players to earn by you know, actually playing or.. view it as another way to just make some more money by letting them buy it. | WoW has been one of the only MMO's that ever offered anything remotely close to challenging content in terms of end game. I feel a lot of the success of that came from a sub-based model stemmed from the amount of time some of the mechanics of the game took to master. Much of heroic raiding for the average guild were somewhat difficult and took a decently long time to get down. For the avid PvPer climbing the ladder in Arena was simple enough but maintaining a certain high rating to stay competitive was also a bit time consuming.
It was usually all worth it to shell out $15 bucks a month especially if you never played any other game. But if they're going to a B2P or worse a F2P model, then I can see their next game hardly offering much if any of that same challenging type of end game content.
Why? Because every time I've played a B2P like GW2 or F2P like Neverwinter, it's always the same story. The leveling is fun enough, the mechanics of the game fun (if not a bit shallow) but once you get to end game there isn't a god damn thing to do.
"Well you're a 'content locus'!" This is the poorest excuse I hear all the time that always comes from the ultra casual extremist corner. The kind of player who has little time on their hands but more of it than actual skill. if anyone's played an MMO seriously enough you'll know the type. They stand in fire all the damn time, they consistently lose in any 1v1 pvp scenario, etc.. Might be nice people, but are generally pretty terrible at these games.
Those are what MMO's are shifting their attentions to and why cash shops are so lucrative these days. Why level, gear up and master your class so that you can test your mettle against some truly challenging content and actually earn those cool mounts, sweet skins, silly mini pets etc ..when you can just whip out that wallet and pay for it! That's what pretty much every cash shop in these games.
TL;DR Someone else said it best in another MMO-related threat but basically cash shops in these games will always be an opportunity cost to devs who will either produce content for players to earn by you know, actually playing or.. view it as another way to just make some more money by letting them buy it.
| Games | t5_2qhwp | cbf7aip | WoW has been one of the only MMO's that ever offered anything remotely close to challenging content in terms of end game. I feel a lot of the success of that came from a sub-based model stemmed from the amount of time some of the mechanics of the game took to master. Much of heroic raiding for the average guild were somewhat difficult and took a decently long time to get down. For the avid PvPer climbing the ladder in Arena was simple enough but maintaining a certain high rating to stay competitive was also a bit time consuming.
It was usually all worth it to shell out $15 bucks a month especially if you never played any other game. But if they're going to a B2P or worse a F2P model, then I can see their next game hardly offering much if any of that same challenging type of end game content.
Why? Because every time I've played a B2P like GW2 or F2P like Neverwinter, it's always the same story. The leveling is fun enough, the mechanics of the game fun (if not a bit shallow) but once you get to end game there isn't a god damn thing to do.
"Well you're a 'content locus'!" This is the poorest excuse I hear all the time that always comes from the ultra casual extremist corner. The kind of player who has little time on their hands but more of it than actual skill. if anyone's played an MMO seriously enough you'll know the type. They stand in fire all the damn time, they consistently lose in any 1v1 pvp scenario, etc.. Might be nice people, but are generally pretty terrible at these games.
Those are what MMO's are shifting their attentions to and why cash shops are so lucrative these days. Why level, gear up and master your class so that you can test your mettle against some truly challenging content and actually earn those cool mounts, sweet skins, silly mini pets etc ..when you can just whip out that wallet and pay for it! That's what pretty much every cash shop in these games. | Someone else said it best in another MMO-related threat but basically cash shops in these games will always be an opportunity cost to devs who will either produce content for players to earn by you know, actually playing or.. view it as another way to just make some more money by letting them buy it. |
TheCodexx | Well, there's always been two types of MMOs, EverQuest (PvE) and Ultima (PvP) games. Right now, the latter only has EVE to carry the torch, and someday maybe World of Darkness. It's disappointing that the MMO market as it originally was (and is best utilized) is being carried by one lone company. But that's better than it being totally dead.
Still, it's super disappointing that the genre has become so predictable, yet so well-known and "popular", but only from one game and one subgenre of copycats. This has led to a lot of people assuming anything WoW and its clones does is "standard", when that is not the case. People don't even question the concept of a Raid, or how inventory works, or... you get the idea. And now games like GW2 are trying to reinvent the subgenre of EverQuest clones and PvE-focused MMOs, but your interaction is still so limited because nobody questions stuff like that.
**TL;DR:** If I can't craft and drop a trapped chest in a central location where players gather and let some poor sap lockpick it and have it blow up in his face in Titan, the MMO genre is dead and Blizzard killed it. | Well, there's always been two types of MMOs, EverQuest (PvE) and Ultima (PvP) games. Right now, the latter only has EVE to carry the torch, and someday maybe World of Darkness. It's disappointing that the MMO market as it originally was (and is best utilized) is being carried by one lone company. But that's better than it being totally dead.
Still, it's super disappointing that the genre has become so predictable, yet so well-known and "popular", but only from one game and one subgenre of copycats. This has led to a lot of people assuming anything WoW and its clones does is "standard", when that is not the case. People don't even question the concept of a Raid, or how inventory works, or... you get the idea. And now games like GW2 are trying to reinvent the subgenre of EverQuest clones and PvE-focused MMOs, but your interaction is still so limited because nobody questions stuff like that.
TL;DR: If I can't craft and drop a trapped chest in a central location where players gather and let some poor sap lockpick it and have it blow up in his face in Titan, the MMO genre is dead and Blizzard killed it.
| Games | t5_2qhwp | cbf8i74 | Well, there's always been two types of MMOs, EverQuest (PvE) and Ultima (PvP) games. Right now, the latter only has EVE to carry the torch, and someday maybe World of Darkness. It's disappointing that the MMO market as it originally was (and is best utilized) is being carried by one lone company. But that's better than it being totally dead.
Still, it's super disappointing that the genre has become so predictable, yet so well-known and "popular", but only from one game and one subgenre of copycats. This has led to a lot of people assuming anything WoW and its clones does is "standard", when that is not the case. People don't even question the concept of a Raid, or how inventory works, or... you get the idea. And now games like GW2 are trying to reinvent the subgenre of EverQuest clones and PvE-focused MMOs, but your interaction is still so limited because nobody questions stuff like that. | If I can't craft and drop a trapped chest in a central location where players gather and let some poor sap lockpick it and have it blow up in his face in Titan, the MMO genre is dead and Blizzard killed it. |
ehoney | Make use of Nair's range. Alot of your nairs are right on top of the enemy, which is dangerous. the closer to max range you land your nair, the safer it will be.
Use falcon's speed. Vs a real opponent, you won't be able to just shffl in place and spam attacks, or your opponent will shield and punish. Use the entire stage and falcon's speed for hit-and-run-tactics. Falcon's crossup game is important: mix in short hop aerial attacks that will have you land behind your opponent.
TLDR: show us your moves. | Make use of Nair's range. Alot of your nairs are right on top of the enemy, which is dangerous. the closer to max range you land your nair, the safer it will be.
Use falcon's speed. Vs a real opponent, you won't be able to just shffl in place and spam attacks, or your opponent will shield and punish. Use the entire stage and falcon's speed for hit-and-run-tactics. Falcon's crossup game is important: mix in short hop aerial attacks that will have you land behind your opponent.
TLDR: show us your moves.
| smashbros | t5_2qiep | cbfi3yk | Make use of Nair's range. Alot of your nairs are right on top of the enemy, which is dangerous. the closer to max range you land your nair, the safer it will be.
Use falcon's speed. Vs a real opponent, you won't be able to just shffl in place and spam attacks, or your opponent will shield and punish. Use the entire stage and falcon's speed for hit-and-run-tactics. Falcon's crossup game is important: mix in short hop aerial attacks that will have you land behind your opponent. | show us your moves. |
RoosterThe | If memory serves, graphene was discovered in 2004, in 2012 they've finally hashed out a solid way of producing these things. They reduce Graphene oxide with an excitation laser (orignially done with a lightscribe dvd writer!) these configurations are as thick as the substrate they're deposited on. The limiting factor now, next to GO pricing, is finding a smooth and flat (remember graphene is 1 atom thick so if you put it on a relatively uneven surface, your introducing impurotoes and reducing efficency.) the issue they're having now is finding a good surface. theres some work being done with thin nickel sheets. sorry for the shit grammer. hammerong this out on a broken phone with a lunch cooling off i front of me TL;DR given its been only 4-10 years since material discovery, poc, and viable prototype this is vety relavent. they're power to weihht ratio makes them the ideal solution for all battery restricted inventions. solar and wind power come to mi d. | If memory serves, graphene was discovered in 2004, in 2012 they've finally hashed out a solid way of producing these things. They reduce Graphene oxide with an excitation laser (orignially done with a lightscribe dvd writer!) these configurations are as thick as the substrate they're deposited on. The limiting factor now, next to GO pricing, is finding a smooth and flat (remember graphene is 1 atom thick so if you put it on a relatively uneven surface, your introducing impurotoes and reducing efficency.) the issue they're having now is finding a good surface. theres some work being done with thin nickel sheets. sorry for the shit grammer. hammerong this out on a broken phone with a lunch cooling off i front of me TL;DR given its been only 4-10 years since material discovery, poc, and viable prototype this is vety relavent. they're power to weihht ratio makes them the ideal solution for all battery restricted inventions. solar and wind power come to mi d.
| energy | t5_2qhkd | cbfs853 | If memory serves, graphene was discovered in 2004, in 2012 they've finally hashed out a solid way of producing these things. They reduce Graphene oxide with an excitation laser (orignially done with a lightscribe dvd writer!) these configurations are as thick as the substrate they're deposited on. The limiting factor now, next to GO pricing, is finding a smooth and flat (remember graphene is 1 atom thick so if you put it on a relatively uneven surface, your introducing impurotoes and reducing efficency.) the issue they're having now is finding a good surface. theres some work being done with thin nickel sheets. sorry for the shit grammer. hammerong this out on a broken phone with a lunch cooling off i front of me | given its been only 4-10 years since material discovery, poc, and viable prototype this is vety relavent. they're power to weihht ratio makes them the ideal solution for all battery restricted inventions. solar and wind power come to mi d. |
Greygooseandice | For some reason the picture looked like food to me and I got excited. Then I saw it wasn't and was let down. I read the article and was excited again. This is pretty sweet.
tldr; A roller coaster of emotions. | For some reason the picture looked like food to me and I got excited. Then I saw it wasn't and was let down. I read the article and was excited again. This is pretty sweet.
tldr; A roller coaster of emotions.
| energy | t5_2qhkd | cbfnldq | For some reason the picture looked like food to me and I got excited. Then I saw it wasn't and was let down. I read the article and was excited again. This is pretty sweet. | A roller coaster of emotions. |
DrDrai | The trouble is that the MLB watched the Steroid Era unfold and made tons of money and Selig loved it. Then he went, "ya know what? This might not be a good idea." So he went all Old Testament on their asses. He fucked over the guys who turned the sport around and thrust it back into the spotlight; all while Selig turned a blind eye. Selig needs to stop acting like these guys are the most awful people to ever play the game. Yes, A Rod and Braun are egotistical assholes who think they are untouchable, but are they worse than the other HOF egotistical uassholes who think they are untouchable? I don't think that Braun and A Rod should get crucified because Selig changed his tune recently and hung them out to dry. Anyone who gets caught after the Biogenesis case though is on their own have no defense whatsoever. Right now though? Bud Selig is to blame for this batch of steroid users. He enabled them and they made him a ton of money, as they got huge salaries as well. It is horseshit that he changes his tune all of the sudden.
TL;DR: Fuck Bud Selig | The trouble is that the MLB watched the Steroid Era unfold and made tons of money and Selig loved it. Then he went, "ya know what? This might not be a good idea." So he went all Old Testament on their asses. He fucked over the guys who turned the sport around and thrust it back into the spotlight; all while Selig turned a blind eye. Selig needs to stop acting like these guys are the most awful people to ever play the game. Yes, A Rod and Braun are egotistical assholes who think they are untouchable, but are they worse than the other HOF egotistical uassholes who think they are untouchable? I don't think that Braun and A Rod should get crucified because Selig changed his tune recently and hung them out to dry. Anyone who gets caught after the Biogenesis case though is on their own have no defense whatsoever. Right now though? Bud Selig is to blame for this batch of steroid users. He enabled them and they made him a ton of money, as they got huge salaries as well. It is horseshit that he changes his tune all of the sudden.
TL;DR: Fuck Bud Selig
| mlb | t5_2qrrr | cbfnvpt | The trouble is that the MLB watched the Steroid Era unfold and made tons of money and Selig loved it. Then he went, "ya know what? This might not be a good idea." So he went all Old Testament on their asses. He fucked over the guys who turned the sport around and thrust it back into the spotlight; all while Selig turned a blind eye. Selig needs to stop acting like these guys are the most awful people to ever play the game. Yes, A Rod and Braun are egotistical assholes who think they are untouchable, but are they worse than the other HOF egotistical uassholes who think they are untouchable? I don't think that Braun and A Rod should get crucified because Selig changed his tune recently and hung them out to dry. Anyone who gets caught after the Biogenesis case though is on their own have no defense whatsoever. Right now though? Bud Selig is to blame for this batch of steroid users. He enabled them and they made him a ton of money, as they got huge salaries as well. It is horseshit that he changes his tune all of the sudden. | Fuck Bud Selig |
CrushinItForClooney | He's right. Bit of a long story but pretty BA-- about a year ago, some punk stole my iPhone right out of my hand on the Blue Line (I know, I know, I was super into the bitchin' playlist I was making) and ran off smirking at me through the glass.
Well, about a week later I've already gotten a replacement Bobo phone, one of those super fun $20 bricks from Target that basically dial out and that's it. I get a phonecall from my friend and she asks if I was drunk the other day, I said no, why? She informs me I was sending some pretty weird texts (we joke-flirt in a 'lulz we're besties' kind of way, not a 'send me a naked pic' kind of way). I said no, I haven't even gotten any texts from or sent any texts to her since my phone was stolen. Then it clicked.
Turns out when your iPhone gets stolen, you can get a new phone, you can change your number, but your iMessage stays active. That means this asshole went through my entire phonebook and was iMessaging ALL my female friends with iPhones and creeping them the fuck out. More and more girls called/Facebooked me telling me it happened to them, too.
Well, his friends apparently didn't know the game he was playing, because one of them called my number, which he apparently gave them thinking he would get the incoming call if they dialed it. Nope. He got the iMessages, but I got any and all phone calls/SMS. Soon I'm getting calls and texts from his idiot friends asking for him by name. I tell the police, who I filed a report with the minute I got off the train. The detective admitted they couldn't do much with what they had, but was very sympathetic, so I decided to take matters into my own hands.
My roommate at the time had an iPhone and we hadn't texted in a long time, so on my phone there was no history of who she was to me-- just an unsuspecting, very white bread name. I text my phone from hers and, as my roommate, say that "The family heard you just moved into a new apartment, grandma wants to send you some money for furniture. Where should we send it?" It was a longshot, but I figured if he's dumb enough to sext my friends, he might be dumb enough to steal my money. Sure enough, he says "I been workin allot, can u just hav somebody drop it off outside my spot n ill get it wen i get home"
Oh, you. I tell the detective and we set up a full-on sting. He gives us an address, we play dumb and this kid thinks he's hitting the jackpot. The LAPD got a plainclothes, young detective (who the kid thought was a family friend) to drop off $500 in an envelope in a mailbox of an apartment complex in Compton. The police legit sat in an unmarked van and waited for him to show. Sure enough, as soon as the cop leaves, a different guy bikes up, takes the envelope and takes off. The police lost him, but it was a valiant effort. I could not believe the LAPD put that much effort into my little ol' iPhone.
Four months later, I get a subpoena in the mail with the same name on it that all his friends were calling me and asking for. Turns out he got cocky and stole some more phones, ended up getting caught and they remembered my case. I never got my phone back but he's in jail for a few years and justice has been served.
TL;DR: Helped the LAPD set up a sting using iMessage and a fake wad of cash from 'grandma' after the thief sexted all my girl friends. Got him thrown in jail months later.
| He's right. Bit of a long story but pretty BA-- about a year ago, some punk stole my iPhone right out of my hand on the Blue Line (I know, I know, I was super into the bitchin' playlist I was making) and ran off smirking at me through the glass.
Well, about a week later I've already gotten a replacement Bobo phone, one of those super fun $20 bricks from Target that basically dial out and that's it. I get a phonecall from my friend and she asks if I was drunk the other day, I said no, why? She informs me I was sending some pretty weird texts (we joke-flirt in a 'lulz we're besties' kind of way, not a 'send me a naked pic' kind of way). I said no, I haven't even gotten any texts from or sent any texts to her since my phone was stolen. Then it clicked.
Turns out when your iPhone gets stolen, you can get a new phone, you can change your number, but your iMessage stays active. That means this asshole went through my entire phonebook and was iMessaging ALL my female friends with iPhones and creeping them the fuck out. More and more girls called/Facebooked me telling me it happened to them, too.
Well, his friends apparently didn't know the game he was playing, because one of them called my number, which he apparently gave them thinking he would get the incoming call if they dialed it. Nope. He got the iMessages, but I got any and all phone calls/SMS. Soon I'm getting calls and texts from his idiot friends asking for him by name. I tell the police, who I filed a report with the minute I got off the train. The detective admitted they couldn't do much with what they had, but was very sympathetic, so I decided to take matters into my own hands.
My roommate at the time had an iPhone and we hadn't texted in a long time, so on my phone there was no history of who she was to me-- just an unsuspecting, very white bread name. I text my phone from hers and, as my roommate, say that "The family heard you just moved into a new apartment, grandma wants to send you some money for furniture. Where should we send it?" It was a longshot, but I figured if he's dumb enough to sext my friends, he might be dumb enough to steal my money. Sure enough, he says "I been workin allot, can u just hav somebody drop it off outside my spot n ill get it wen i get home"
Oh, you. I tell the detective and we set up a full-on sting. He gives us an address, we play dumb and this kid thinks he's hitting the jackpot. The LAPD got a plainclothes, young detective (who the kid thought was a family friend) to drop off $500 in an envelope in a mailbox of an apartment complex in Compton. The police legit sat in an unmarked van and waited for him to show. Sure enough, as soon as the cop leaves, a different guy bikes up, takes the envelope and takes off. The police lost him, but it was a valiant effort. I could not believe the LAPD put that much effort into my little ol' iPhone.
Four months later, I get a subpoena in the mail with the same name on it that all his friends were calling me and asking for. Turns out he got cocky and stole some more phones, ended up getting caught and they remembered my case. I never got my phone back but he's in jail for a few years and justice has been served.
TL;DR: Helped the LAPD set up a sting using iMessage and a fake wad of cash from 'grandma' after the thief sexted all my girl friends. Got him thrown in jail months later.
| LosAngeles | t5_2qht0 | cbg0swq | He's right. Bit of a long story but pretty BA-- about a year ago, some punk stole my iPhone right out of my hand on the Blue Line (I know, I know, I was super into the bitchin' playlist I was making) and ran off smirking at me through the glass.
Well, about a week later I've already gotten a replacement Bobo phone, one of those super fun $20 bricks from Target that basically dial out and that's it. I get a phonecall from my friend and she asks if I was drunk the other day, I said no, why? She informs me I was sending some pretty weird texts (we joke-flirt in a 'lulz we're besties' kind of way, not a 'send me a naked pic' kind of way). I said no, I haven't even gotten any texts from or sent any texts to her since my phone was stolen. Then it clicked.
Turns out when your iPhone gets stolen, you can get a new phone, you can change your number, but your iMessage stays active. That means this asshole went through my entire phonebook and was iMessaging ALL my female friends with iPhones and creeping them the fuck out. More and more girls called/Facebooked me telling me it happened to them, too.
Well, his friends apparently didn't know the game he was playing, because one of them called my number, which he apparently gave them thinking he would get the incoming call if they dialed it. Nope. He got the iMessages, but I got any and all phone calls/SMS. Soon I'm getting calls and texts from his idiot friends asking for him by name. I tell the police, who I filed a report with the minute I got off the train. The detective admitted they couldn't do much with what they had, but was very sympathetic, so I decided to take matters into my own hands.
My roommate at the time had an iPhone and we hadn't texted in a long time, so on my phone there was no history of who she was to me-- just an unsuspecting, very white bread name. I text my phone from hers and, as my roommate, say that "The family heard you just moved into a new apartment, grandma wants to send you some money for furniture. Where should we send it?" It was a longshot, but I figured if he's dumb enough to sext my friends, he might be dumb enough to steal my money. Sure enough, he says "I been workin allot, can u just hav somebody drop it off outside my spot n ill get it wen i get home"
Oh, you. I tell the detective and we set up a full-on sting. He gives us an address, we play dumb and this kid thinks he's hitting the jackpot. The LAPD got a plainclothes, young detective (who the kid thought was a family friend) to drop off $500 in an envelope in a mailbox of an apartment complex in Compton. The police legit sat in an unmarked van and waited for him to show. Sure enough, as soon as the cop leaves, a different guy bikes up, takes the envelope and takes off. The police lost him, but it was a valiant effort. I could not believe the LAPD put that much effort into my little ol' iPhone.
Four months later, I get a subpoena in the mail with the same name on it that all his friends were calling me and asking for. Turns out he got cocky and stole some more phones, ended up getting caught and they remembered my case. I never got my phone back but he's in jail for a few years and justice has been served. | Helped the LAPD set up a sting using iMessage and a fake wad of cash from 'grandma' after the thief sexted all my girl friends. Got him thrown in jail months later. |
Zombiz | [–]Nuttyfarts 4 points 1 day ago(+6/-1)
A year ago I was a loner with no friends and I wasn't invited to any parties, and my mum would always brag about how she was a cool kid and was always at parties and telling me how I'm an uncool loner and how I need to go to parties. My dad was sick of seeing this and took me to the gym and I started to get in quite good shape for my age and I met some of the "cool kids" there and they start inviting me to places and I become a sociable person and spend a lot of time with these friends and they invite me too their parties at this point my mum decides I'm not allowed to go to parties and tries to cut me off from my friends this made me rebel against her and go to parties.
TL;dr mum complains I'm a loner, when I get friends I'm not allowed to go out with them
Thanks for the Lulz | [–]Nuttyfarts 4 points 1 day ago(+6/-1)
A year ago I was a loner with no friends and I wasn't invited to any parties, and my mum would always brag about how she was a cool kid and was always at parties and telling me how I'm an uncool loner and how I need to go to parties. My dad was sick of seeing this and took me to the gym and I started to get in quite good shape for my age and I met some of the "cool kids" there and they start inviting me to places and I become a sociable person and spend a lot of time with these friends and they invite me too their parties at this point my mum decides I'm not allowed to go to parties and tries to cut me off from my friends this made me rebel against her and go to parties.
TL;dr mum complains I'm a loner, when I get friends I'm not allowed to go out with them
Thanks for the Lulz
| lifehacks | t5_2qj5n | cbfx63a | Nuttyfarts 4 points 1 day ago(+6/-1)
A year ago I was a loner with no friends and I wasn't invited to any parties, and my mum would always brag about how she was a cool kid and was always at parties and telling me how I'm an uncool loner and how I need to go to parties. My dad was sick of seeing this and took me to the gym and I started to get in quite good shape for my age and I met some of the "cool kids" there and they start inviting me to places and I become a sociable person and spend a lot of time with these friends and they invite me too their parties at this point my mum decides I'm not allowed to go to parties and tries to cut me off from my friends this made me rebel against her and go to parties. | mum complains I'm a loner, when I get friends I'm not allowed to go out with them
Thanks for the Lulz |
br0kensins | The best way to go about it would be to go to a salon and get a stylist to help you. Red is the hardest color to strip from your hair, and to get it to blonde (and keep it that way!) is a bit of a struggle. You might only need to bleach it once though, because you have so little hair - I went from red to blonde recently, and had to bleach it three times, but I have long hair.
When I got my hair bleached to take the red out, they mixed it with a shampoo so as not to damage my hair too much. Then, the second bleaching was combined with a toner to get the orange out. Third was just for hilights.
If you leave in a conditioning mask after bleaching, you should be fine! :) My favorite is [It's a 10 miracle hair mask]( It IS a bit on the pricey side, but it works wonders! You can also probably find it on amazon for cheaper, or maybe a local beauty supply store, like Sally's.
You'll have to get your hair pretty light, almost white, to get to a pastel pink color. The best way to do that would be to get a vegetable/vegan-based dye (Manic Panic, SFX), and mixed a tiny TINY bit with conditioner, apply, and leave for an hour or so. :) Vegetable-based dyes aren't really damaging at all, because it's more natural, and less chemical, as opposed to semi/demi/etc-permanent dyes.
If your hair has some yellow or orange tones in it, mix a dark blue with the pink dye into the conditioner before you apply. BUT JUST A LITTLE BIT! It'll help to cancel out the yellow tones so your hair will take the pink. :)
Good luck! :)
Source: Mom's the head-honcho of a regional hair salon chain. And, I dye my hair... Alot.
TL/DR: Go to a salon! Get your hair bleached, toned, and put on a leave-in mask (It's a 10 hair mask is amazing)! Mix vegetable-based hair dye (Manic Panic, SFX) in color of your choice with conditioner to achieve a more subtle, pastel color. Mix TINY, TINY! bit of blue with the ALREADY TINY BIT of pink dye into the conditioner to cancel out yellow tones. (ONLY IF YOU NEED TONING! Or else your hair will turn out purple. If it's an ashy color/white, then using just pink is fine.)
Hope I helped! :) | The best way to go about it would be to go to a salon and get a stylist to help you. Red is the hardest color to strip from your hair, and to get it to blonde (and keep it that way!) is a bit of a struggle. You might only need to bleach it once though, because you have so little hair - I went from red to blonde recently, and had to bleach it three times, but I have long hair.
When I got my hair bleached to take the red out, they mixed it with a shampoo so as not to damage my hair too much. Then, the second bleaching was combined with a toner to get the orange out. Third was just for hilights.
If you leave in a conditioning mask after bleaching, you should be fine! :) My favorite is [It's a 10 miracle hair mask]( It IS a bit on the pricey side, but it works wonders! You can also probably find it on amazon for cheaper, or maybe a local beauty supply store, like Sally's.
You'll have to get your hair pretty light, almost white, to get to a pastel pink color. The best way to do that would be to get a vegetable/vegan-based dye (Manic Panic, SFX), and mixed a tiny TINY bit with conditioner, apply, and leave for an hour or so. :) Vegetable-based dyes aren't really damaging at all, because it's more natural, and less chemical, as opposed to semi/demi/etc-permanent dyes.
If your hair has some yellow or orange tones in it, mix a dark blue with the pink dye into the conditioner before you apply. BUT JUST A LITTLE BIT! It'll help to cancel out the yellow tones so your hair will take the pink. :)
Good luck! :)
Source: Mom's the head-honcho of a regional hair salon chain. And, I dye my hair... Alot.
TL/DR: Go to a salon! Get your hair bleached, toned, and put on a leave-in mask (It's a 10 hair mask is amazing)! Mix vegetable-based hair dye (Manic Panic, SFX) in color of your choice with conditioner to achieve a more subtle, pastel color. Mix TINY, TINY! bit of blue with the ALREADY TINY BIT of pink dye into the conditioner to cancel out yellow tones. (ONLY IF YOU NEED TONING! Or else your hair will turn out purple. If it's an ashy color/white, then using just pink is fine.)
Hope I helped! :)
| FancyFollicles | t5_2sa9a | cbgxkin | The best way to go about it would be to go to a salon and get a stylist to help you. Red is the hardest color to strip from your hair, and to get it to blonde (and keep it that way!) is a bit of a struggle. You might only need to bleach it once though, because you have so little hair - I went from red to blonde recently, and had to bleach it three times, but I have long hair.
When I got my hair bleached to take the red out, they mixed it with a shampoo so as not to damage my hair too much. Then, the second bleaching was combined with a toner to get the orange out. Third was just for hilights.
If you leave in a conditioning mask after bleaching, you should be fine! :) My favorite is [It's a 10 miracle hair mask]( It IS a bit on the pricey side, but it works wonders! You can also probably find it on amazon for cheaper, or maybe a local beauty supply store, like Sally's.
You'll have to get your hair pretty light, almost white, to get to a pastel pink color. The best way to do that would be to get a vegetable/vegan-based dye (Manic Panic, SFX), and mixed a tiny TINY bit with conditioner, apply, and leave for an hour or so. :) Vegetable-based dyes aren't really damaging at all, because it's more natural, and less chemical, as opposed to semi/demi/etc-permanent dyes.
If your hair has some yellow or orange tones in it, mix a dark blue with the pink dye into the conditioner before you apply. BUT JUST A LITTLE BIT! It'll help to cancel out the yellow tones so your hair will take the pink. :)
Good luck! :)
Source: Mom's the head-honcho of a regional hair salon chain. And, I dye my hair... Alot. | Go to a salon! Get your hair bleached, toned, and put on a leave-in mask (It's a 10 hair mask is amazing)! Mix vegetable-based hair dye (Manic Panic, SFX) in color of your choice with conditioner to achieve a more subtle, pastel color. Mix TINY, TINY! bit of blue with the ALREADY TINY BIT of pink dye into the conditioner to cancel out yellow tones. (ONLY IF YOU NEED TONING! Or else your hair will turn out purple. If it's an ashy color/white, then using just pink is fine.)
Hope I helped! :) |
Othellion | If you're to believe all the conspiracy theories its more likely that Ner'zhul is dead. Throughout the quests in Northrend the lich king refers to himself as a shaman. Which could mean rather than overpowering Ner'zhul, Arthas' mind simply fused to it. Meaning that with Arthas dead either Ner'zhul and Arthas are dead, or neither are really dead. Also some suggest that perhaps ner'zhul is behind Garrosh's Headstrong attitude given that the lich king essentially set all his army up and garrosh repeatedly shit all over them. Coupled by the fact that Garrosh really only ever tolerated the Tauren because of how useful they were in the Northrend War.
TLDR Arthas and Ner'zhul are most likely fused and either theyre both dead or both alive inside the Helm of Domination. | If you're to believe all the conspiracy theories its more likely that Ner'zhul is dead. Throughout the quests in Northrend the lich king refers to himself as a shaman. Which could mean rather than overpowering Ner'zhul, Arthas' mind simply fused to it. Meaning that with Arthas dead either Ner'zhul and Arthas are dead, or neither are really dead. Also some suggest that perhaps ner'zhul is behind Garrosh's Headstrong attitude given that the lich king essentially set all his army up and garrosh repeatedly shit all over them. Coupled by the fact that Garrosh really only ever tolerated the Tauren because of how useful they were in the Northrend War.
TLDR Arthas and Ner'zhul are most likely fused and either theyre both dead or both alive inside the Helm of Domination.
| wow | t5_2qio8 | cbghulo | If you're to believe all the conspiracy theories its more likely that Ner'zhul is dead. Throughout the quests in Northrend the lich king refers to himself as a shaman. Which could mean rather than overpowering Ner'zhul, Arthas' mind simply fused to it. Meaning that with Arthas dead either Ner'zhul and Arthas are dead, or neither are really dead. Also some suggest that perhaps ner'zhul is behind Garrosh's Headstrong attitude given that the lich king essentially set all his army up and garrosh repeatedly shit all over them. Coupled by the fact that Garrosh really only ever tolerated the Tauren because of how useful they were in the Northrend War. | Arthas and Ner'zhul are most likely fused and either theyre both dead or both alive inside the Helm of Domination. |
Othellion | The Shards of Frostmourne were likely collected by whoever got rid of Arthas' body, which would be Tirion. It was also speculated that Sylvanas has them (She goes to the top of the frozen throne in her short story) however in the same story the shards/body are already gone. Most likely either the Argent Dawn or the Ebon Blade are holding them (or both have pieces).
Also Jaina is just going banana's over Garrosh being Villainous dictator that her (and blizzards) Green Jesus aka Thrall put in charge.
TLDR Jaina is pissy because of Garrosh shitting on everyone and no longer having thrall to have sneaky wanks over. | The Shards of Frostmourne were likely collected by whoever got rid of Arthas' body, which would be Tirion. It was also speculated that Sylvanas has them (She goes to the top of the frozen throne in her short story) however in the same story the shards/body are already gone. Most likely either the Argent Dawn or the Ebon Blade are holding them (or both have pieces).
Also Jaina is just going banana's over Garrosh being Villainous dictator that her (and blizzards) Green Jesus aka Thrall put in charge.
TLDR Jaina is pissy because of Garrosh shitting on everyone and no longer having thrall to have sneaky wanks over.
| wow | t5_2qio8 | cbg3xxq | The Shards of Frostmourne were likely collected by whoever got rid of Arthas' body, which would be Tirion. It was also speculated that Sylvanas has them (She goes to the top of the frozen throne in her short story) however in the same story the shards/body are already gone. Most likely either the Argent Dawn or the Ebon Blade are holding them (or both have pieces).
Also Jaina is just going banana's over Garrosh being Villainous dictator that her (and blizzards) Green Jesus aka Thrall put in charge. | Jaina is pissy because of Garrosh shitting on everyone and no longer having thrall to have sneaky wanks over. |
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