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Arch_Radish | My worst date was coincidentally the first time I tried internet dating. I had set up an OkCupid account and gotten a few nibbles in the first few days. Eventually, I found a girl who was decent looking with an interesting profile. Messages were exchanged, dinner and a movie was set up.
On the big day, we both pulled into the parking lot of the restaurant at the same time. I recognized her face from her photo and got out of my car to meet her as she did the same. Right away, I noticed that she was a head and a half taller than I was (I'm 5'7") which was a little awkward, but hey, eye level with boobs is not a bad position to be in. I was about to introduce myself when she reached back into her car and pulled out a small jar. Her first words to me were, and this is a direct quote:
"Hey, I found this spider on my front porch when I left my house. It's a really cool spider, and I don't know what kind it is. Do you know anything about spiders?"
I looked. To be fair, it was an interesting looking spider. Some sort of crab spider with a white shell with black dots. However, this was not making the already awkward sport of internet dating any less awkward. I replied,
"No...and I'm Arch_Radish. Good to meet you."
It went downhill from there. Dinner was mostly dead air with both parties trying desperately to find some common ground to talk about. She seemed very nervous and shaky the whole time. I tried to make conversation to lighten the mood, asking open ended questions and all that, but she just replied with vague or one-word answers.
We decided to proceed with the movie, which was right across the highway. We both got in our respective cars and drove over. When we arrived, she brought the spider back out and started asking a lot of questions about it again. There was an unknown substance in the jar next to the spider. She wanted to know exactly what that was. I'm no Unidan, but I tried explaining the concept of spider shit to her. She seemed surprised that spiders could shit. But at least the damn spider started up some much-needed conversation.
We went in to see the movie and things went way downhill again. The movie was a B-movie slasher wannabe called Sorority Row, which was her choice. I was hoping for at least a few slasher-inspired jumps and fear grabs, but nothing. I did manage to get my arm around her shoulders once, but not for long as the blood quickly drained from my arm at that altitude.
Afterward, after making yet another checkup on the spider and helpfully suggesting putting air holes in the lid, we walked to the local bookshop for a coffee. We made a few more attempts at small talk before she finally confessed.
"Look, I find you very intimidating."
I stopped, made a great show of looking up at her face, and said, "Really, what makes you think so?"
"Well, you just have a very intimidating voice."
To her credit, I do have a rather deep voice for my height. But in my mind, a first-time internet dater going up against an Amazonian with a spider fetish gave her a few more points in the intimidation department. I honestly didn't know what to say to that, so, we walked quietly back to her car where we hugged goodbye, and she deleted her profile the next day.
I've had plenty of awkward internet dates since then, and lots of things have gone wrong. But no matter what I achieve in my romantic life, I don't think I'll ever reach "having to explain spider shit in my manly pipes of doom" level of bad.
EDIT: **tl;dr Blind internet date with an Amazonian spider woman, deep voiced midget, and arachnid shit.** | My worst date was coincidentally the first time I tried internet dating. I had set up an OkCupid account and gotten a few nibbles in the first few days. Eventually, I found a girl who was decent looking with an interesting profile. Messages were exchanged, dinner and a movie was set up.
On the big day, we both pulled into the parking lot of the restaurant at the same time. I recognized her face from her photo and got out of my car to meet her as she did the same. Right away, I noticed that she was a head and a half taller than I was (I'm 5'7") which was a little awkward, but hey, eye level with boobs is not a bad position to be in. I was about to introduce myself when she reached back into her car and pulled out a small jar. Her first words to me were, and this is a direct quote:
"Hey, I found this spider on my front porch when I left my house. It's a really cool spider, and I don't know what kind it is. Do you know anything about spiders?"
I looked. To be fair, it was an interesting looking spider. Some sort of crab spider with a white shell with black dots. However, this was not making the already awkward sport of internet dating any less awkward. I replied,
"No...and I'm Arch_Radish. Good to meet you."
It went downhill from there. Dinner was mostly dead air with both parties trying desperately to find some common ground to talk about. She seemed very nervous and shaky the whole time. I tried to make conversation to lighten the mood, asking open ended questions and all that, but she just replied with vague or one-word answers.
We decided to proceed with the movie, which was right across the highway. We both got in our respective cars and drove over. When we arrived, she brought the spider back out and started asking a lot of questions about it again. There was an unknown substance in the jar next to the spider. She wanted to know exactly what that was. I'm no Unidan, but I tried explaining the concept of spider shit to her. She seemed surprised that spiders could shit. But at least the damn spider started up some much-needed conversation.
We went in to see the movie and things went way downhill again. The movie was a B-movie slasher wannabe called Sorority Row, which was her choice. I was hoping for at least a few slasher-inspired jumps and fear grabs, but nothing. I did manage to get my arm around her shoulders once, but not for long as the blood quickly drained from my arm at that altitude.
Afterward, after making yet another checkup on the spider and helpfully suggesting putting air holes in the lid, we walked to the local bookshop for a coffee. We made a few more attempts at small talk before she finally confessed.
"Look, I find you very intimidating."
I stopped, made a great show of looking up at her face, and said, "Really, what makes you think so?"
"Well, you just have a very intimidating voice."
To her credit, I do have a rather deep voice for my height. But in my mind, a first-time internet dater going up against an Amazonian with a spider fetish gave her a few more points in the intimidation department. I honestly didn't know what to say to that, so, we walked quietly back to her car where we hugged goodbye, and she deleted her profile the next day.
I've had plenty of awkward internet dates since then, and lots of things have gone wrong. But no matter what I achieve in my romantic life, I don't think I'll ever reach "having to explain spider shit in my manly pipes of doom" level of bad.
EDIT: tl;dr Blind internet date with an Amazonian spider woman, deep voiced midget, and arachnid shit.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | cetf8f7 | My worst date was coincidentally the first time I tried internet dating. I had set up an OkCupid account and gotten a few nibbles in the first few days. Eventually, I found a girl who was decent looking with an interesting profile. Messages were exchanged, dinner and a movie was set up.
On the big day, we both pulled into the parking lot of the restaurant at the same time. I recognized her face from her photo and got out of my car to meet her as she did the same. Right away, I noticed that she was a head and a half taller than I was (I'm 5'7") which was a little awkward, but hey, eye level with boobs is not a bad position to be in. I was about to introduce myself when she reached back into her car and pulled out a small jar. Her first words to me were, and this is a direct quote:
"Hey, I found this spider on my front porch when I left my house. It's a really cool spider, and I don't know what kind it is. Do you know anything about spiders?"
I looked. To be fair, it was an interesting looking spider. Some sort of crab spider with a white shell with black dots. However, this was not making the already awkward sport of internet dating any less awkward. I replied,
"No...and I'm Arch_Radish. Good to meet you."
It went downhill from there. Dinner was mostly dead air with both parties trying desperately to find some common ground to talk about. She seemed very nervous and shaky the whole time. I tried to make conversation to lighten the mood, asking open ended questions and all that, but she just replied with vague or one-word answers.
We decided to proceed with the movie, which was right across the highway. We both got in our respective cars and drove over. When we arrived, she brought the spider back out and started asking a lot of questions about it again. There was an unknown substance in the jar next to the spider. She wanted to know exactly what that was. I'm no Unidan, but I tried explaining the concept of spider shit to her. She seemed surprised that spiders could shit. But at least the damn spider started up some much-needed conversation.
We went in to see the movie and things went way downhill again. The movie was a B-movie slasher wannabe called Sorority Row, which was her choice. I was hoping for at least a few slasher-inspired jumps and fear grabs, but nothing. I did manage to get my arm around her shoulders once, but not for long as the blood quickly drained from my arm at that altitude.
Afterward, after making yet another checkup on the spider and helpfully suggesting putting air holes in the lid, we walked to the local bookshop for a coffee. We made a few more attempts at small talk before she finally confessed.
"Look, I find you very intimidating."
I stopped, made a great show of looking up at her face, and said, "Really, what makes you think so?"
"Well, you just have a very intimidating voice."
To her credit, I do have a rather deep voice for my height. But in my mind, a first-time internet dater going up against an Amazonian with a spider fetish gave her a few more points in the intimidation department. I honestly didn't know what to say to that, so, we walked quietly back to her car where we hugged goodbye, and she deleted her profile the next day.
I've had plenty of awkward internet dates since then, and lots of things have gone wrong. But no matter what I achieve in my romantic life, I don't think I'll ever reach "having to explain spider shit in my manly pipes of doom" level of bad.
EDIT: | Blind internet date with an Amazonian spider woman, deep voiced midget, and arachnid shit. |
ToasterStroupel | Met a guy online and after texting and emailing for a week decided to meet him at a friends party. He got along with everyone and was very friendly and charming. He even had the grace to ignore an acquaintance of mine drunkenly hitting on him all night. Then, another friend of mine started fighting with him for turning down our drunk friend! He also handled this well but was understandably upset. I felt horrible for the way the night was going and, although the original safety plan was to spend the night there, we decided to leave. It was in the AM hours and he was just going to drop me off. Besides, after how well he had handled himself all night I felt fine with him driving me home.
We get in his car and he starts questioning me about who I'm texting. I was just letting the owner of the house know that I was bailing and told him as much. He asked me who I had been talking to earlier on my phone and I told him how my roommate had been locked out of our apartment. She called to ask if I was close or if she should head to her sisters for the night. He didn't believe me so I actually showed him my call log with the name Brandy being the only other number to have called me. He then got pissed at me for taking a call while we were at the party, convinced I had been talking to other men, and proceeded to yell at me. This lasted for almost the whole 20 minute ride home escalating all the way to *"This is why you get cheated on!!"* with my reaction going from stunned silence to "This guy is going to kill me. How am I going to get out of this?" to "Who the fuck does he think he is!?"
I finally snapped less than a mile from my apartment complex and, breaking my silence, told him exactly what I thought of his behavior. Stupidly yelling over him until he stopped yelling at me. He was quiet for a couple minutes after I finished telling him how the night went from my perspective, said something about how it was a shame my friends were going to think *he* was the jerk and then started bawling. I awkwardly comforted him both feeling bad and hoping to make it into my apartment safely. After a minute long hug in the parking lot he insisted on walking me up to my door, asked if he could come in, and totally didn't rape me for saying no. He just called me a bitch. I was so relieved when I finally got to turn the deadbolt. My roommate later called it Meeting *All* The Personalities.
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TL;DR I thought that maybe I wouldn't make it home at all. | Met a guy online and after texting and emailing for a week decided to meet him at a friends party. He got along with everyone and was very friendly and charming. He even had the grace to ignore an acquaintance of mine drunkenly hitting on him all night. Then, another friend of mine started fighting with him for turning down our drunk friend! He also handled this well but was understandably upset. I felt horrible for the way the night was going and, although the original safety plan was to spend the night there, we decided to leave. It was in the AM hours and he was just going to drop me off. Besides, after how well he had handled himself all night I felt fine with him driving me home.
We get in his car and he starts questioning me about who I'm texting. I was just letting the owner of the house know that I was bailing and told him as much. He asked me who I had been talking to earlier on my phone and I told him how my roommate had been locked out of our apartment. She called to ask if I was close or if she should head to her sisters for the night. He didn't believe me so I actually showed him my call log with the name Brandy being the only other number to have called me. He then got pissed at me for taking a call while we were at the party, convinced I had been talking to other men, and proceeded to yell at me. This lasted for almost the whole 20 minute ride home escalating all the way to "This is why you get cheated on!!" with my reaction going from stunned silence to "This guy is going to kill me. How am I going to get out of this?" to "Who the fuck does he think he is!?"
I finally snapped less than a mile from my apartment complex and, breaking my silence, told him exactly what I thought of his behavior. Stupidly yelling over him until he stopped yelling at me. He was quiet for a couple minutes after I finished telling him how the night went from my perspective, said something about how it was a shame my friends were going to think he was the jerk and then started bawling. I awkwardly comforted him both feeling bad and hoping to make it into my apartment safely. After a minute long hug in the parking lot he insisted on walking me up to my door, asked if he could come in, and totally didn't rape me for saying no. He just called me a bitch. I was so relieved when I finally got to turn the deadbolt. My roommate later called it Meeting All The Personalities.
EDIT: words
TL;DR I thought that maybe I wouldn't make it home at all.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | cetneiw | Met a guy online and after texting and emailing for a week decided to meet him at a friends party. He got along with everyone and was very friendly and charming. He even had the grace to ignore an acquaintance of mine drunkenly hitting on him all night. Then, another friend of mine started fighting with him for turning down our drunk friend! He also handled this well but was understandably upset. I felt horrible for the way the night was going and, although the original safety plan was to spend the night there, we decided to leave. It was in the AM hours and he was just going to drop me off. Besides, after how well he had handled himself all night I felt fine with him driving me home.
We get in his car and he starts questioning me about who I'm texting. I was just letting the owner of the house know that I was bailing and told him as much. He asked me who I had been talking to earlier on my phone and I told him how my roommate had been locked out of our apartment. She called to ask if I was close or if she should head to her sisters for the night. He didn't believe me so I actually showed him my call log with the name Brandy being the only other number to have called me. He then got pissed at me for taking a call while we were at the party, convinced I had been talking to other men, and proceeded to yell at me. This lasted for almost the whole 20 minute ride home escalating all the way to "This is why you get cheated on!!" with my reaction going from stunned silence to "This guy is going to kill me. How am I going to get out of this?" to "Who the fuck does he think he is!?"
I finally snapped less than a mile from my apartment complex and, breaking my silence, told him exactly what I thought of his behavior. Stupidly yelling over him until he stopped yelling at me. He was quiet for a couple minutes after I finished telling him how the night went from my perspective, said something about how it was a shame my friends were going to think he was the jerk and then started bawling. I awkwardly comforted him both feeling bad and hoping to make it into my apartment safely. After a minute long hug in the parking lot he insisted on walking me up to my door, asked if he could come in, and totally didn't rape me for saying no. He just called me a bitch. I was so relieved when I finally got to turn the deadbolt. My roommate later called it Meeting All The Personalities.
EDIT: words | I thought that maybe I wouldn't make it home at all. |
breezeblocks00 | Met this British guy online. We texted for a while then decided to meet. First date went extremely well, gave him a good night kiss and was feeling pretty positive about the night. We continued to talk after that, and about two weeks later we went out again. Our second date was going to be volunteering in our community. Of course, we had to pick the HOTTEST day in the summer. I went over to his place to pick him up and he wasn't ready, said that we needed to stop by Walmart to pick up some boots on the way. No problem, I thought; taking him to WalMart. Well, everyone in the city seemed to h ave the same idea and no boots to be found. We went to about 5 other stores searching; and finally he says, "lets just go back to my place, watch a movie and I'll make dinner". So we head back. I walk into his place, and it is filthy, with a big dirty dog. The white couch is covered in ground in dirt; and the floors had obviously not been mopped for some time. I picked the spot on the couch that seems the cleanest and awkwardly start watching a movie. His place does not have air conditioning, so we are both starting to feel the heat. He then asks me if I wanted to go downstairs because its cooler. I oblige. He said his tenants had moved out about a week ago. We get downstairs and there's a small tv, a couch that's not AS dirty (that I could tell anyways) and a coffee table with a hotplate on it. There were a mountain of dishes on this hotplate; and he blamed it on his tenants (they left a bunch of dishes behind). Movie is pretty boring, so I make the excuse to use the washroom. Washroom is probably the most disgusting thing I have ever seen, mold in the corners, mirror so dirty that you couldn't even see; toilet stained and just scary all around. I do my thing and realize there is NO toilet paper. Just my luck. Look ahead and there was a nook that had the wire storage shelves in it. I take a closer look and it is full of dirty dishes. Just piles of dirty dishes. The one pot that was right in my line of vision was half full of cooked spaghetti, that was still somewhat moist (not on display long enough to dry out). Who eats spaghetti in their dirty bathroom? Now I know this isn't from the tenants, but now realize the fact that he is an absolute pig. I get out of there as soon as I can, without it being blatantly obvious that I am horrified, but I sure didn't want to eat leftover bathroom spaghetti for lunch. Texted him the next morning saying that I didn't feel anything and it was over. By far one of the most bizarre situations I've ever been in.... (and the first date went over so well!)
**TL: DR went on a second date with an absolute slob, who had a pot of cooked spaghetti in his bathroom. I was afraid he'd try to feed it to me for lunch.** | Met this British guy online. We texted for a while then decided to meet. First date went extremely well, gave him a good night kiss and was feeling pretty positive about the night. We continued to talk after that, and about two weeks later we went out again. Our second date was going to be volunteering in our community. Of course, we had to pick the HOTTEST day in the summer. I went over to his place to pick him up and he wasn't ready, said that we needed to stop by Walmart to pick up some boots on the way. No problem, I thought; taking him to WalMart. Well, everyone in the city seemed to h ave the same idea and no boots to be found. We went to about 5 other stores searching; and finally he says, "lets just go back to my place, watch a movie and I'll make dinner". So we head back. I walk into his place, and it is filthy, with a big dirty dog. The white couch is covered in ground in dirt; and the floors had obviously not been mopped for some time. I picked the spot on the couch that seems the cleanest and awkwardly start watching a movie. His place does not have air conditioning, so we are both starting to feel the heat. He then asks me if I wanted to go downstairs because its cooler. I oblige. He said his tenants had moved out about a week ago. We get downstairs and there's a small tv, a couch that's not AS dirty (that I could tell anyways) and a coffee table with a hotplate on it. There were a mountain of dishes on this hotplate; and he blamed it on his tenants (they left a bunch of dishes behind). Movie is pretty boring, so I make the excuse to use the washroom. Washroom is probably the most disgusting thing I have ever seen, mold in the corners, mirror so dirty that you couldn't even see; toilet stained and just scary all around. I do my thing and realize there is NO toilet paper. Just my luck. Look ahead and there was a nook that had the wire storage shelves in it. I take a closer look and it is full of dirty dishes. Just piles of dirty dishes. The one pot that was right in my line of vision was half full of cooked spaghetti, that was still somewhat moist (not on display long enough to dry out). Who eats spaghetti in their dirty bathroom? Now I know this isn't from the tenants, but now realize the fact that he is an absolute pig. I get out of there as soon as I can, without it being blatantly obvious that I am horrified, but I sure didn't want to eat leftover bathroom spaghetti for lunch. Texted him the next morning saying that I didn't feel anything and it was over. By far one of the most bizarre situations I've ever been in.... (and the first date went over so well!)
TL: DR went on a second date with an absolute slob, who had a pot of cooked spaghetti in his bathroom. I was afraid he'd try to feed it to me for lunch.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | cetfrbd | Met this British guy online. We texted for a while then decided to meet. First date went extremely well, gave him a good night kiss and was feeling pretty positive about the night. We continued to talk after that, and about two weeks later we went out again. Our second date was going to be volunteering in our community. Of course, we had to pick the HOTTEST day in the summer. I went over to his place to pick him up and he wasn't ready, said that we needed to stop by Walmart to pick up some boots on the way. No problem, I thought; taking him to WalMart. Well, everyone in the city seemed to h ave the same idea and no boots to be found. We went to about 5 other stores searching; and finally he says, "lets just go back to my place, watch a movie and I'll make dinner". So we head back. I walk into his place, and it is filthy, with a big dirty dog. The white couch is covered in ground in dirt; and the floors had obviously not been mopped for some time. I picked the spot on the couch that seems the cleanest and awkwardly start watching a movie. His place does not have air conditioning, so we are both starting to feel the heat. He then asks me if I wanted to go downstairs because its cooler. I oblige. He said his tenants had moved out about a week ago. We get downstairs and there's a small tv, a couch that's not AS dirty (that I could tell anyways) and a coffee table with a hotplate on it. There were a mountain of dishes on this hotplate; and he blamed it on his tenants (they left a bunch of dishes behind). Movie is pretty boring, so I make the excuse to use the washroom. Washroom is probably the most disgusting thing I have ever seen, mold in the corners, mirror so dirty that you couldn't even see; toilet stained and just scary all around. I do my thing and realize there is NO toilet paper. Just my luck. Look ahead and there was a nook that had the wire storage shelves in it. I take a closer look and it is full of dirty dishes. Just piles of dirty dishes. The one pot that was right in my line of vision was half full of cooked spaghetti, that was still somewhat moist (not on display long enough to dry out). Who eats spaghetti in their dirty bathroom? Now I know this isn't from the tenants, but now realize the fact that he is an absolute pig. I get out of there as soon as I can, without it being blatantly obvious that I am horrified, but I sure didn't want to eat leftover bathroom spaghetti for lunch. Texted him the next morning saying that I didn't feel anything and it was over. By far one of the most bizarre situations I've ever been in.... (and the first date went over so well!) | went on a second date with an absolute slob, who had a pot of cooked spaghetti in his bathroom. I was afraid he'd try to feed it to me for lunch. |
mug3n | well... most professional schools do require more than grades. i've said this so many times but the downtown campus offers a crap load of opportunities right next to where you go to classes, it's just up to students to take advantage of them.
and if a student thinks u of t is hurting his/her chances at professional school, it's a free world - switch to another school. i hear way too many people bitching and moaning about how much torture u of t is but isn't proactive about making any changes at all. maybe it's you (using 'you' in a general sense, not aiming at /u/SgtSmackdaddy or anyone else in particular) that's the problem rather than the school? some people just need to take a deep, hard look at their studying habits and see that whatever worked for them in high school likely isn't what's going to work at u of t.
personally, i can't speak to whether or not u of t is harder than other schools, as i've been here for all of my 7 years of university education... so i think it's unfair for me to comment whether or not ryerson/york/<other school> is supposed to be cruise control vs u of t. but i can say in most cases that each grade i've got is the grade i've earned (and i deserved many of my low 60s in my first 2 years of undergrad, as much as i hate to admit it), instead of "X prof/TA/program is so fucking hard and unfair!!!"
tl;dr: stop bitching, do something about it
| well... most professional schools do require more than grades. i've said this so many times but the downtown campus offers a crap load of opportunities right next to where you go to classes, it's just up to students to take advantage of them.
and if a student thinks u of t is hurting his/her chances at professional school, it's a free world - switch to another school. i hear way too many people bitching and moaning about how much torture u of t is but isn't proactive about making any changes at all. maybe it's you (using 'you' in a general sense, not aiming at /u/SgtSmackdaddy or anyone else in particular) that's the problem rather than the school? some people just need to take a deep, hard look at their studying habits and see that whatever worked for them in high school likely isn't what's going to work at u of t.
personally, i can't speak to whether or not u of t is harder than other schools, as i've been here for all of my 7 years of university education... so i think it's unfair for me to comment whether or not ryerson/york/<other school> is supposed to be cruise control vs u of t. but i can say in most cases that each grade i've got is the grade i've earned (and i deserved many of my low 60s in my first 2 years of undergrad, as much as i hate to admit it), instead of "X prof/TA/program is so fucking hard and unfair!!!"
tl;dr: stop bitching, do something about it
| UofT | t5_2rbaq | cetn2i0 | well... most professional schools do require more than grades. i've said this so many times but the downtown campus offers a crap load of opportunities right next to where you go to classes, it's just up to students to take advantage of them.
and if a student thinks u of t is hurting his/her chances at professional school, it's a free world - switch to another school. i hear way too many people bitching and moaning about how much torture u of t is but isn't proactive about making any changes at all. maybe it's you (using 'you' in a general sense, not aiming at /u/SgtSmackdaddy or anyone else in particular) that's the problem rather than the school? some people just need to take a deep, hard look at their studying habits and see that whatever worked for them in high school likely isn't what's going to work at u of t.
personally, i can't speak to whether or not u of t is harder than other schools, as i've been here for all of my 7 years of university education... so i think it's unfair for me to comment whether or not ryerson/york/<other school> is supposed to be cruise control vs u of t. but i can say in most cases that each grade i've got is the grade i've earned (and i deserved many of my low 60s in my first 2 years of undergrad, as much as i hate to admit it), instead of "X prof/TA/program is so fucking hard and unfair!!!" | stop bitching, do something about it |
Trollonasan | I had a scaling whip from my campaign years ago. Every now and then it would grow an extra whip/tail so I could do multiple strikes with it in succession. It was the barbed whip of malice. Upon lashing someone it would release barbs into them that would cause them to bleed. Mwhahaha
Anyway you could do something like that where it could increase the utility. I'm doing something similar with my new campaign, I'm giving someone a shortsword that can effectively clone itself so they can dual wield. Upon reaching a later level they will be able to throw daggers from the blade as a standard action.
TL;DR: Utility instead of extra damage. (Thats what I prefer though) | I had a scaling whip from my campaign years ago. Every now and then it would grow an extra whip/tail so I could do multiple strikes with it in succession. It was the barbed whip of malice. Upon lashing someone it would release barbs into them that would cause them to bleed. Mwhahaha
Anyway you could do something like that where it could increase the utility. I'm doing something similar with my new campaign, I'm giving someone a shortsword that can effectively clone itself so they can dual wield. Upon reaching a later level they will be able to throw daggers from the blade as a standard action.
TL;DR: Utility instead of extra damage. (Thats what I prefer though)
| DnD | t5_2r9ei | ceti3dx | I had a scaling whip from my campaign years ago. Every now and then it would grow an extra whip/tail so I could do multiple strikes with it in succession. It was the barbed whip of malice. Upon lashing someone it would release barbs into them that would cause them to bleed. Mwhahaha
Anyway you could do something like that where it could increase the utility. I'm doing something similar with my new campaign, I'm giving someone a shortsword that can effectively clone itself so they can dual wield. Upon reaching a later level they will be able to throw daggers from the blade as a standard action. | Utility instead of extra damage. (Thats what I prefer though) |
chiropter | Mostly, the US's major mistake in post-Soviet Russia was to impose market fundamentalist "shock therapy". This lead to cronyism/oligarchs, and also widespread hardship and economic contraction. Both of these lead to Putin and the present state of authoritarian Russia.
Sources:
TL;DR Yet another way in which the US squandered the post-Cold War peace dividend. | Mostly, the US's major mistake in post-Soviet Russia was to impose market fundamentalist "shock therapy". This lead to cronyism/oligarchs, and also widespread hardship and economic contraction. Both of these lead to Putin and the present state of authoritarian Russia.
Sources:
TL;DR Yet another way in which the US squandered the post-Cold War peace dividend.
| worldnews | t5_2qh13 | cetwpdi | Mostly, the US's major mistake in post-Soviet Russia was to impose market fundamentalist "shock therapy". This lead to cronyism/oligarchs, and also widespread hardship and economic contraction. Both of these lead to Putin and the present state of authoritarian Russia.
Sources: | Yet another way in which the US squandered the post-Cold War peace dividend. |
tylerversion2 | My dad changed his cell number a while back, but because I'm smart, I added a new contact instead of updating the old one. Of course, one night, I called the old number...it went like this:
*ring ring*
Stranger: Hello?
Me: Hi...Dad? (Realizing that, while it sounded a lot like my dad, something was off)
Stranger: ...Hello?
Me: Dad?
Stranger: I never had a son...I have two daughters.
Me: Oh...I think I have the wrong number.
Stranger: That's fine...I always wanted a son! Have a good night, my boy!
Me: Hahaha...good night!
**tl;dr:** I was adopted by a phone stranger. | My dad changed his cell number a while back, but because I'm smart, I added a new contact instead of updating the old one. Of course, one night, I called the old number...it went like this:
ring ring
Stranger: Hello?
Me: Hi...Dad? (Realizing that, while it sounded a lot like my dad, something was off)
Stranger: ...Hello?
Me: Dad?
Stranger: I never had a son...I have two daughters.
Me: Oh...I think I have the wrong number.
Stranger: That's fine...I always wanted a son! Have a good night, my boy!
Me: Hahaha...good night!
tl;dr: I was adopted by a phone stranger.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | cetqaw1 | My dad changed his cell number a while back, but because I'm smart, I added a new contact instead of updating the old one. Of course, one night, I called the old number...it went like this:
ring ring
Stranger: Hello?
Me: Hi...Dad? (Realizing that, while it sounded a lot like my dad, something was off)
Stranger: ...Hello?
Me: Dad?
Stranger: I never had a son...I have two daughters.
Me: Oh...I think I have the wrong number.
Stranger: That's fine...I always wanted a son! Have a good night, my boy!
Me: Hahaha...good night! | I was adopted by a phone stranger. |
peacelovenirvana | I was making these Italian cookies called "Nacatoli" with my mom, cousin, aunt, and uncle. These cookies are native to my grandma's hometown in Italy so not many people know about them but they're a family favorite. So my cousin took a picture to send to our other uncle.
Cousin: Hey, Uncle Frank, it's Alyssa. Look what we're making for Christmas!
Stranger: Those look delicious. Only one problem: I'm not your Uncle Frank.
So a few hours later, my mom decided it would be funny to text him from her number with the same picture and say something along the same lines.
My mom: Hey, Uncle Frank! Look it's your favorite!
Stranger: Again, they look super delicious but I think you should talk to Alyssa cause I'm not Uncle Frank. Good luck finding him though!
So a few days later my mom gets a text from this guy:
Stranger: So here's what my family is making for Christmas! (insert picture of homemade wine) Hope you eventually found Uncle Frank!
Then on Christmas Eve we sent him a picture of our homemade wine and wished him a Merry Christmas.
TL;DR: Wrong text turns into weeks of Christmas food picture exchanges.
| I was making these Italian cookies called "Nacatoli" with my mom, cousin, aunt, and uncle. These cookies are native to my grandma's hometown in Italy so not many people know about them but they're a family favorite. So my cousin took a picture to send to our other uncle.
Cousin: Hey, Uncle Frank, it's Alyssa. Look what we're making for Christmas!
Stranger: Those look delicious. Only one problem: I'm not your Uncle Frank.
So a few hours later, my mom decided it would be funny to text him from her number with the same picture and say something along the same lines.
My mom: Hey, Uncle Frank! Look it's your favorite!
Stranger: Again, they look super delicious but I think you should talk to Alyssa cause I'm not Uncle Frank. Good luck finding him though!
So a few days later my mom gets a text from this guy:
Stranger: So here's what my family is making for Christmas! (insert picture of homemade wine) Hope you eventually found Uncle Frank!
Then on Christmas Eve we sent him a picture of our homemade wine and wished him a Merry Christmas.
TL;DR: Wrong text turns into weeks of Christmas food picture exchanges.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | cettk4g | I was making these Italian cookies called "Nacatoli" with my mom, cousin, aunt, and uncle. These cookies are native to my grandma's hometown in Italy so not many people know about them but they're a family favorite. So my cousin took a picture to send to our other uncle.
Cousin: Hey, Uncle Frank, it's Alyssa. Look what we're making for Christmas!
Stranger: Those look delicious. Only one problem: I'm not your Uncle Frank.
So a few hours later, my mom decided it would be funny to text him from her number with the same picture and say something along the same lines.
My mom: Hey, Uncle Frank! Look it's your favorite!
Stranger: Again, they look super delicious but I think you should talk to Alyssa cause I'm not Uncle Frank. Good luck finding him though!
So a few days later my mom gets a text from this guy:
Stranger: So here's what my family is making for Christmas! (insert picture of homemade wine) Hope you eventually found Uncle Frank!
Then on Christmas Eve we sent him a picture of our homemade wine and wished him a Merry Christmas. | Wrong text turns into weeks of Christmas food picture exchanges. |
ascherm | In the ninth grade, I got a text that said, "Hey, how's it going? It's Sam! :)" My immediate thought was that it was the cute girl named Sam from my drama class. We went on texting all night, started flirting in the disgusting way that 13 year olds do I told her I'd liked her for a while, and she said she had always had a crush on me. We decided to go on a date. I asked if we should just meet up after drama class the next day, and she told me she wasn't in drama.
* "But, I just saw you in drama yesterday!"
* "Umm, nope!"
* "... Is this not Sam Smith?"
* "...Let's never talk about this."
**TL;DR Wrong Sam.**
edit: still figuring out formatting.
| In the ninth grade, I got a text that said, "Hey, how's it going? It's Sam! :)" My immediate thought was that it was the cute girl named Sam from my drama class. We went on texting all night, started flirting in the disgusting way that 13 year olds do I told her I'd liked her for a while, and she said she had always had a crush on me. We decided to go on a date. I asked if we should just meet up after drama class the next day, and she told me she wasn't in drama.
"But, I just saw you in drama yesterday!"
"Umm, nope!"
"... Is this not Sam Smith?"
"...Let's never talk about this."
TL;DR Wrong Sam.
edit: still figuring out formatting.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | ceu00iw | In the ninth grade, I got a text that said, "Hey, how's it going? It's Sam! :)" My immediate thought was that it was the cute girl named Sam from my drama class. We went on texting all night, started flirting in the disgusting way that 13 year olds do I told her I'd liked her for a while, and she said she had always had a crush on me. We decided to go on a date. I asked if we should just meet up after drama class the next day, and she told me she wasn't in drama.
"But, I just saw you in drama yesterday!"
"Umm, nope!"
"... Is this not Sam Smith?"
"...Let's never talk about this." | Wrong Sam.
edit: still figuring out formatting. |
Definitely-a-bot | First off: go you, for being *smart*! No-contact till you're secure and having fun on your own was 100% the right choice :)
So, now here you are, an intelligent-but-heartbroken young woman; what to do? Here's a couple of day-to-day suggestions:
* **Be ok with being sad, at least for now**. You did lose something of tremendous value to you, so don't beat yourself up if you experience sudden crying-jags watching sad commercials or seeing people holding hands on the street. That's natural and it happens. Just let yourself feel the loss, then wipe your eyes and continue on with the rest of your day.
* **Use your support system!** You're in a sorority which means you should have a lot of friends and structured activities to keep you busy. I'm not talking about socials/mixers though: talk to your philanthropy chair about taking on a more active role. Join a sports club on campus. Get out and do things even when you just want to hole up in your room- *especially* when you just want to hole up in your room.
* **Tell your sisters & friends that you don't want to hear anymore talk about the ex, and that it is NOT helpful for them to suggest that y'all might get back together**. Instead, let them know if they want to help they can help you find fun new ways to fill your day.
* **Accept that his issues are his own, and you'll never really know WHY he broke it off**. You're going to want to analyze everything he did up to what he ate for breakfast before the break-up, but *resist* this urge! Maybe he's depressed, maybe he met someone else, maybe he is committment-phobic, maybe tiny green men crawled in his ear and hijacked his brain: no matter what the cause, the outcome is the same, and *the outcome is the only thing you have to work with*. So chalk this up as one of the great mysteries of life, and work on the only real route to closure: figuring out how to be happy and fulfilled on your own.
You are young, and smart, and yes, you'll likely meet someone else who you will love even more-- but the most important thing you can take from this experience is learning how to **be resilient and take charge of your own happiness**. That's going to do so much more for you that any SO ever could.
So, in tl;dr fashion: Keep up the no-contact, be ok with feeling sad for a bit, keep busy and don't dwell on the past, and take charge of your own life. I **promise**, it's going to be a great one. :) | First off: go you, for being smart ! No-contact till you're secure and having fun on your own was 100% the right choice :)
So, now here you are, an intelligent-but-heartbroken young woman; what to do? Here's a couple of day-to-day suggestions:
Be ok with being sad, at least for now . You did lose something of tremendous value to you, so don't beat yourself up if you experience sudden crying-jags watching sad commercials or seeing people holding hands on the street. That's natural and it happens. Just let yourself feel the loss, then wipe your eyes and continue on with the rest of your day.
Use your support system! You're in a sorority which means you should have a lot of friends and structured activities to keep you busy. I'm not talking about socials/mixers though: talk to your philanthropy chair about taking on a more active role. Join a sports club on campus. Get out and do things even when you just want to hole up in your room- especially when you just want to hole up in your room.
Tell your sisters & friends that you don't want to hear anymore talk about the ex, and that it is NOT helpful for them to suggest that y'all might get back together . Instead, let them know if they want to help they can help you find fun new ways to fill your day.
Accept that his issues are his own, and you'll never really know WHY he broke it off . You're going to want to analyze everything he did up to what he ate for breakfast before the break-up, but resist this urge! Maybe he's depressed, maybe he met someone else, maybe he is committment-phobic, maybe tiny green men crawled in his ear and hijacked his brain: no matter what the cause, the outcome is the same, and the outcome is the only thing you have to work with . So chalk this up as one of the great mysteries of life, and work on the only real route to closure: figuring out how to be happy and fulfilled on your own.
You are young, and smart, and yes, you'll likely meet someone else who you will love even more-- but the most important thing you can take from this experience is learning how to be resilient and take charge of your own happiness . That's going to do so much more for you that any SO ever could.
So, in tl;dr fashion: Keep up the no-contact, be ok with feeling sad for a bit, keep busy and don't dwell on the past, and take charge of your own life. I promise , it's going to be a great one. :)
| relationships | t5_2qjvn | cetshw6 | First off: go you, for being smart ! No-contact till you're secure and having fun on your own was 100% the right choice :)
So, now here you are, an intelligent-but-heartbroken young woman; what to do? Here's a couple of day-to-day suggestions:
Be ok with being sad, at least for now . You did lose something of tremendous value to you, so don't beat yourself up if you experience sudden crying-jags watching sad commercials or seeing people holding hands on the street. That's natural and it happens. Just let yourself feel the loss, then wipe your eyes and continue on with the rest of your day.
Use your support system! You're in a sorority which means you should have a lot of friends and structured activities to keep you busy. I'm not talking about socials/mixers though: talk to your philanthropy chair about taking on a more active role. Join a sports club on campus. Get out and do things even when you just want to hole up in your room- especially when you just want to hole up in your room.
Tell your sisters & friends that you don't want to hear anymore talk about the ex, and that it is NOT helpful for them to suggest that y'all might get back together . Instead, let them know if they want to help they can help you find fun new ways to fill your day.
Accept that his issues are his own, and you'll never really know WHY he broke it off . You're going to want to analyze everything he did up to what he ate for breakfast before the break-up, but resist this urge! Maybe he's depressed, maybe he met someone else, maybe he is committment-phobic, maybe tiny green men crawled in his ear and hijacked his brain: no matter what the cause, the outcome is the same, and the outcome is the only thing you have to work with . So chalk this up as one of the great mysteries of life, and work on the only real route to closure: figuring out how to be happy and fulfilled on your own.
You are young, and smart, and yes, you'll likely meet someone else who you will love even more-- but the most important thing you can take from this experience is learning how to be resilient and take charge of your own happiness . That's going to do so much more for you that any SO ever could.
So, in | fashion: Keep up the no-contact, be ok with feeling sad for a bit, keep busy and don't dwell on the past, and take charge of your own life. I promise , it's going to be a great one. :) |
marmulak | Yeah those are both excellent points. One possible Muslim view is that everything came about the same way as atheists believe it did, except God created Adam separate from everything else as a special case.
My own view is that if you pay careful attention to the way the creation of Adam is described in the Qur'an, you find two major events, which is that 1) Adam was physically formed, and 2) God breathed His soul into Adam. So my personal belief is basically that Adam was born from non-human parents that were very much like humans, but lacked human souls or a human level of consciousness, and in a miraculous event Adam became the first human when God endowed him spiritually/mentally. After Adam, other people became human, including Eve and the spouses of Adam and Eve's children (perhaps being human can be learned). The verses saying Adam was shaped from clay is an analogy for humans' physiological development which we all share (clay meaning physical matter, Earth, as opposed to fire, what jinn are made from, and whatever it is angels are made of).
I did once listen to an Islamic scholar being asked how Adam and Eve's children found spouses, or if they were allowed to marry their siblings. The scholar basically said just as God created Adam and Eve, he was able to make other humans to accompany them. This fundamentally in agreement with what I said, and even in the Torah there is the mystery of Cain's wife, which suggests that Adam and Eve and their children were not the only people around at that time.
tl;dr I think Adam belonged to a group of proto-humans, and Adam got promoted to full human status through an act of God. | Yeah those are both excellent points. One possible Muslim view is that everything came about the same way as atheists believe it did, except God created Adam separate from everything else as a special case.
My own view is that if you pay careful attention to the way the creation of Adam is described in the Qur'an, you find two major events, which is that 1) Adam was physically formed, and 2) God breathed His soul into Adam. So my personal belief is basically that Adam was born from non-human parents that were very much like humans, but lacked human souls or a human level of consciousness, and in a miraculous event Adam became the first human when God endowed him spiritually/mentally. After Adam, other people became human, including Eve and the spouses of Adam and Eve's children (perhaps being human can be learned). The verses saying Adam was shaped from clay is an analogy for humans' physiological development which we all share (clay meaning physical matter, Earth, as opposed to fire, what jinn are made from, and whatever it is angels are made of).
I did once listen to an Islamic scholar being asked how Adam and Eve's children found spouses, or if they were allowed to marry their siblings. The scholar basically said just as God created Adam and Eve, he was able to make other humans to accompany them. This fundamentally in agreement with what I said, and even in the Torah there is the mystery of Cain's wife, which suggests that Adam and Eve and their children were not the only people around at that time.
tl;dr I think Adam belonged to a group of proto-humans, and Adam got promoted to full human status through an act of God.
| islam | t5_2qhbp | cetodfu | Yeah those are both excellent points. One possible Muslim view is that everything came about the same way as atheists believe it did, except God created Adam separate from everything else as a special case.
My own view is that if you pay careful attention to the way the creation of Adam is described in the Qur'an, you find two major events, which is that 1) Adam was physically formed, and 2) God breathed His soul into Adam. So my personal belief is basically that Adam was born from non-human parents that were very much like humans, but lacked human souls or a human level of consciousness, and in a miraculous event Adam became the first human when God endowed him spiritually/mentally. After Adam, other people became human, including Eve and the spouses of Adam and Eve's children (perhaps being human can be learned). The verses saying Adam was shaped from clay is an analogy for humans' physiological development which we all share (clay meaning physical matter, Earth, as opposed to fire, what jinn are made from, and whatever it is angels are made of).
I did once listen to an Islamic scholar being asked how Adam and Eve's children found spouses, or if they were allowed to marry their siblings. The scholar basically said just as God created Adam and Eve, he was able to make other humans to accompany them. This fundamentally in agreement with what I said, and even in the Torah there is the mystery of Cain's wife, which suggests that Adam and Eve and their children were not the only people around at that time. | I think Adam belonged to a group of proto-humans, and Adam got promoted to full human status through an act of God. |
StasisNation | Meh. I googled it so I could reply. People simply won't sell bonds for lower than gold farmers, it'd be a complete waste of money.
On the other hand, now gold farmers can jack up the prices of gold, now that legit gold selling is so high. But they'll never sell higher than bonds, because then what's the point of even buying from them?
Tl;Dr Legal>Illegal in terms of how much YOU have to pay. | Meh. I googled it so I could reply. People simply won't sell bonds for lower than gold farmers, it'd be a complete waste of money.
On the other hand, now gold farmers can jack up the prices of gold, now that legit gold selling is so high. But they'll never sell higher than bonds, because then what's the point of even buying from them?
Tl;Dr Legal>Illegal in terms of how much YOU have to pay.
| runescape | t5_2qwxl | ceto3zj | Meh. I googled it so I could reply. People simply won't sell bonds for lower than gold farmers, it'd be a complete waste of money.
On the other hand, now gold farmers can jack up the prices of gold, now that legit gold selling is so high. But they'll never sell higher than bonds, because then what's the point of even buying from them? | Legal>Illegal in terms of how much YOU have to pay. |
darkeldaradvicer | Simply put: shoot something until it dies from it.
Put it this way, if you have a unit which is very dangerous to you, your priority should be to consentrate fire on it until it dies.
If you then have several enemy units of the same type or danger level, then you need to manage your fire power in a way which at least does the max damage each turn.
As a dark eldar player for example, my goal is to at least make sure I shake or stun each shooting vehicle in my oppanants army, to at least insure im not wiped out from enemy fire next turn. In this vein I must put my target priority on the most shooty unit/tank until it is at least shaken, then move on.
Target priority is asking yourself 'what needs to die or be destroyed this turn to reduce my own loses or win me the game'.
Another way of looking at it is to look at enemy close combat units . If you have a unit which you need to soften up before your cc unit charges it, then you may need to focus some fire on it to do so.
A good way to think of it is like this: every turn you have a limited amount of shots, how can you use those each turn to do as much effective damage as possible.
Tldr: target priority is using the limited amount of shooting attacks you have to your best advantage each turn
| Simply put: shoot something until it dies from it.
Put it this way, if you have a unit which is very dangerous to you, your priority should be to consentrate fire on it until it dies.
If you then have several enemy units of the same type or danger level, then you need to manage your fire power in a way which at least does the max damage each turn.
As a dark eldar player for example, my goal is to at least make sure I shake or stun each shooting vehicle in my oppanants army, to at least insure im not wiped out from enemy fire next turn. In this vein I must put my target priority on the most shooty unit/tank until it is at least shaken, then move on.
Target priority is asking yourself 'what needs to die or be destroyed this turn to reduce my own loses or win me the game'.
Another way of looking at it is to look at enemy close combat units . If you have a unit which you need to soften up before your cc unit charges it, then you may need to focus some fire on it to do so.
A good way to think of it is like this: every turn you have a limited amount of shots, how can you use those each turn to do as much effective damage as possible.
Tldr: target priority is using the limited amount of shooting attacks you have to your best advantage each turn
| Warhammer40k | t5_2rr81 | cetnqsg | Simply put: shoot something until it dies from it.
Put it this way, if you have a unit which is very dangerous to you, your priority should be to consentrate fire on it until it dies.
If you then have several enemy units of the same type or danger level, then you need to manage your fire power in a way which at least does the max damage each turn.
As a dark eldar player for example, my goal is to at least make sure I shake or stun each shooting vehicle in my oppanants army, to at least insure im not wiped out from enemy fire next turn. In this vein I must put my target priority on the most shooty unit/tank until it is at least shaken, then move on.
Target priority is asking yourself 'what needs to die or be destroyed this turn to reduce my own loses or win me the game'.
Another way of looking at it is to look at enemy close combat units . If you have a unit which you need to soften up before your cc unit charges it, then you may need to focus some fire on it to do so.
A good way to think of it is like this: every turn you have a limited amount of shots, how can you use those each turn to do as much effective damage as possible. | target priority is using the limited amount of shooting attacks you have to your best advantage each turn |
tocard2 | When I'm in towns I play in first person. Running for half an hour through the woods and I'll use third person. It's uncomfortable for me to play in first person for extended periods of time while travelling. I feel more connected to my character when I can see it while running around too.
TL;DR: For me, combat/towns/airfields = 1st person, running around = 3rd person. | When I'm in towns I play in first person. Running for half an hour through the woods and I'll use third person. It's uncomfortable for me to play in first person for extended periods of time while travelling. I feel more connected to my character when I can see it while running around too.
TL;DR: For me, combat/towns/airfields = 1st person, running around = 3rd person.
| dayz | t5_2ty3s | cetub90 | When I'm in towns I play in first person. Running for half an hour through the woods and I'll use third person. It's uncomfortable for me to play in first person for extended periods of time while travelling. I feel more connected to my character when I can see it while running around too. | For me, combat/towns/airfields = 1st person, running around = 3rd person. |
misogichan | From reading the article, I'm pretty sure an aid did make the threat to withhold the funds if they didn't approve the project. I think the question is whether Chris Christie knew about what his aids were doing?
TLDR: Chris Christie's aid threatens to withhold funds if a donor's project is not approved. | From reading the article, I'm pretty sure an aid did make the threat to withhold the funds if they didn't approve the project. I think the question is whether Chris Christie knew about what his aids were doing?
TLDR: Chris Christie's aid threatens to withhold funds if a donor's project is not approved.
| news | t5_2qh3l | ceu4a8d | From reading the article, I'm pretty sure an aid did make the threat to withhold the funds if they didn't approve the project. I think the question is whether Chris Christie knew about what his aids were doing? | Chris Christie's aid threatens to withhold funds if a donor's project is not approved. |
hayitsbacon | Hello r/motorcycles. I've been looking into getting a bike for a while and I have a few worries. I've ridden a bike before, and I've taken a friends gs500 on a careful ride with great success. I've gone back and forth on what bike I should consider getting, I was hoping you guys could help.
I'm kinda short at 5'8", I'm skinny, at 120 lbs, and I'm worried about that limiting what bikes I can ride comfortably. As a beginner, I can't stand the idea of not having my feet on the ground.
I've looked at pretty much every kind of bike, and everything tickles my fancy except big cruisers like Hareys. I'd love a dirt bike to take the Arizona trails. I'd love a street bike, because I really wouldn't get to the trails often. I'd love an adventure bike for its comfort and useability everywhere. I think the Honda NC700X is ideal, but I don't know if the size would be too much.
TL;DR What size bike would a 5'8", 120lb skinny kid be good on? And is there any certain type of bike that is better for small people, other than cruisers? | Hello r/motorcycles. I've been looking into getting a bike for a while and I have a few worries. I've ridden a bike before, and I've taken a friends gs500 on a careful ride with great success. I've gone back and forth on what bike I should consider getting, I was hoping you guys could help.
I'm kinda short at 5'8", I'm skinny, at 120 lbs, and I'm worried about that limiting what bikes I can ride comfortably. As a beginner, I can't stand the idea of not having my feet on the ground.
I've looked at pretty much every kind of bike, and everything tickles my fancy except big cruisers like Hareys. I'd love a dirt bike to take the Arizona trails. I'd love a street bike, because I really wouldn't get to the trails often. I'd love an adventure bike for its comfort and useability everywhere. I think the Honda NC700X is ideal, but I don't know if the size would be too much.
TL;DR What size bike would a 5'8", 120lb skinny kid be good on? And is there any certain type of bike that is better for small people, other than cruisers?
| motorcycles | t5_2qi6d | cev5pch | Hello r/motorcycles. I've been looking into getting a bike for a while and I have a few worries. I've ridden a bike before, and I've taken a friends gs500 on a careful ride with great success. I've gone back and forth on what bike I should consider getting, I was hoping you guys could help.
I'm kinda short at 5'8", I'm skinny, at 120 lbs, and I'm worried about that limiting what bikes I can ride comfortably. As a beginner, I can't stand the idea of not having my feet on the ground.
I've looked at pretty much every kind of bike, and everything tickles my fancy except big cruisers like Hareys. I'd love a dirt bike to take the Arizona trails. I'd love a street bike, because I really wouldn't get to the trails often. I'd love an adventure bike for its comfort and useability everywhere. I think the Honda NC700X is ideal, but I don't know if the size would be too much. | What size bike would a 5'8", 120lb skinny kid be good on? And is there any certain type of bike that is better for small people, other than cruisers? |
coffeetablesex | the reflex training reminds me a lot of a test i once took for diagnosing ADD...
i had to pull a trigger they had rigged to a computer that was randomly flashing either one white box or two white boxes. the objective was to pull only on the one box, not on the two, or something like that and they would record response times and failures and it would tell them something. i borderline passed because i "turned it into a game" so they drugged me anyways. the amphetamines the gave me literally put me to sleep in class so i didn't take them and i never finished high school.
now that i am in college i still don't take meds of any kind but i have been getting mostly A's for the last couple semesters...
i don't have any sort of evidence to support my theory, but i would like to thank counter-strike for teaching me how to focus on objectives and think clearly under pressure.
tl;dr: i think counter-strike killed my ADD and gave me A's... | the reflex training reminds me a lot of a test i once took for diagnosing ADD...
i had to pull a trigger they had rigged to a computer that was randomly flashing either one white box or two white boxes. the objective was to pull only on the one box, not on the two, or something like that and they would record response times and failures and it would tell them something. i borderline passed because i "turned it into a game" so they drugged me anyways. the amphetamines the gave me literally put me to sleep in class so i didn't take them and i never finished high school.
now that i am in college i still don't take meds of any kind but i have been getting mostly A's for the last couple semesters...
i don't have any sort of evidence to support my theory, but i would like to thank counter-strike for teaching me how to focus on objectives and think clearly under pressure.
tl;dr: i think counter-strike killed my ADD and gave me A's...
| GlobalOffensive | t5_2sqho | cev40rg | the reflex training reminds me a lot of a test i once took for diagnosing ADD...
i had to pull a trigger they had rigged to a computer that was randomly flashing either one white box or two white boxes. the objective was to pull only on the one box, not on the two, or something like that and they would record response times and failures and it would tell them something. i borderline passed because i "turned it into a game" so they drugged me anyways. the amphetamines the gave me literally put me to sleep in class so i didn't take them and i never finished high school.
now that i am in college i still don't take meds of any kind but i have been getting mostly A's for the last couple semesters...
i don't have any sort of evidence to support my theory, but i would like to thank counter-strike for teaching me how to focus on objectives and think clearly under pressure. | i think counter-strike killed my ADD and gave me A's... |
TDuffin | 1. Well you've got a good battery. That's a matter of hardware quality (which I will admit seems pretty good from Apple, but they're still designed around looks rather than function).
2. Any PC/Mac/Linux PC can boot in seconds if the OS is on an SSD. My 7200RPM HDD can boot Windows in ~10-15 seconds. It's slow compared to SSD times, but not slow enough to have time to make a cup of tea.
3. If you're just browsing the internet, you *never* need to upgrade anything. My 4+ year old laptop can handle surfing the web fine, and it's running on some pretty shit hardware. Macs are just PCs with a closed-down OS anyway. Their hardware is pretty much equal to a PC: Upgrading is a matter of hardware age, not the OS.
4. Turn off virus scanning then. And also take not that you don't need an antivirus if you use common sense and download from trusted sources. I haven't had a single virus since turning off my antivirus software. Have one installed in case, but you never really need to scan at all unless you think you've downloaded a dodgy file.
tl;dr- Mac = PC in all those arguments. You've only experienced them on Mac so you've come to the conclusion that they only exist on Mac. |
Well you've got a good battery. That's a matter of hardware quality (which I will admit seems pretty good from Apple, but they're still designed around looks rather than function).
Any PC/Mac/Linux PC can boot in seconds if the OS is on an SSD. My 7200RPM HDD can boot Windows in ~10-15 seconds. It's slow compared to SSD times, but not slow enough to have time to make a cup of tea.
If you're just browsing the internet, you never need to upgrade anything. My 4+ year old laptop can handle surfing the web fine, and it's running on some pretty shit hardware. Macs are just PCs with a closed-down OS anyway. Their hardware is pretty much equal to a PC: Upgrading is a matter of hardware age, not the OS.
Turn off virus scanning then. And also take not that you don't need an antivirus if you use common sense and download from trusted sources. I haven't had a single virus since turning off my antivirus software. Have one installed in case, but you never really need to scan at all unless you think you've downloaded a dodgy file.
tl;dr- Mac = PC in all those arguments. You've only experienced them on Mac so you've come to the conclusion that they only exist on Mac.
| apple | t5_2qh1f | cfav3zn | Well you've got a good battery. That's a matter of hardware quality (which I will admit seems pretty good from Apple, but they're still designed around looks rather than function).
Any PC/Mac/Linux PC can boot in seconds if the OS is on an SSD. My 7200RPM HDD can boot Windows in ~10-15 seconds. It's slow compared to SSD times, but not slow enough to have time to make a cup of tea.
If you're just browsing the internet, you never need to upgrade anything. My 4+ year old laptop can handle surfing the web fine, and it's running on some pretty shit hardware. Macs are just PCs with a closed-down OS anyway. Their hardware is pretty much equal to a PC: Upgrading is a matter of hardware age, not the OS.
Turn off virus scanning then. And also take not that you don't need an antivirus if you use common sense and download from trusted sources. I haven't had a single virus since turning off my antivirus software. Have one installed in case, but you never really need to scan at all unless you think you've downloaded a dodgy file. | Mac = PC in all those arguments. You've only experienced them on Mac so you've come to the conclusion that they only exist on Mac. |
MrCompletely | battlemats are the way to go unless you really want to commit to buying tons of gear over time. I have a normal size one we use 90% of the time and then one of the ginormous ones for special uber battles. They're great, you can scribble notes about temp conditions and such.
> It's a game of imagination. Unless you have endless cash, you'll eventually have to pretend that your fancy orc figure is an elven warrior anyway.
/u/Slavakion is wise in the ways of gaming.
As for tokens, [check this google images link out.]( That's a totally half-assed search and it still came up with a few printable images. Take those to a print shop and have em run some off on cardstock and boom, tokens galore. Or make your own by taking images you like and turning them into tokens in something like Photoshop. Funny/cool picture of goblin > crop to a circle shape > copy 20 times to fill a page > print, there's 20 gobs.
Also even without using glass beads or Sorry tokens or whatnot you can get tons of cheapo little figs that weren't made for RPGs that are close enough to 30mm scale that they work. Just in Toys R Us or whatever I've found $5 tubes of knights and men at arms and stuff you can use...
and some "real" plastic minis are pretty cheap - [here's another quick, half-assed search](
TL;DR you don't have to spend a bunch of money on figs and stuff.
That being said there are some really nice ones and every once in awhile I do like to spring for the real thing for effect. But save money on the little stuff by using your imagination
| battlemats are the way to go unless you really want to commit to buying tons of gear over time. I have a normal size one we use 90% of the time and then one of the ginormous ones for special uber battles. They're great, you can scribble notes about temp conditions and such.
> It's a game of imagination. Unless you have endless cash, you'll eventually have to pretend that your fancy orc figure is an elven warrior anyway.
/u/Slavakion is wise in the ways of gaming.
As for tokens, [check this google images link out.]( That's a totally half-assed search and it still came up with a few printable images. Take those to a print shop and have em run some off on cardstock and boom, tokens galore. Or make your own by taking images you like and turning them into tokens in something like Photoshop. Funny/cool picture of goblin > crop to a circle shape > copy 20 times to fill a page > print, there's 20 gobs.
Also even without using glass beads or Sorry tokens or whatnot you can get tons of cheapo little figs that weren't made for RPGs that are close enough to 30mm scale that they work. Just in Toys R Us or whatever I've found $5 tubes of knights and men at arms and stuff you can use...
and some "real" plastic minis are pretty cheap - [here's another quick, half-assed search](
TL;DR you don't have to spend a bunch of money on figs and stuff.
That being said there are some really nice ones and every once in awhile I do like to spring for the real thing for effect. But save money on the little stuff by using your imagination
| Pathfinder_RPG | t5_2trms | cev68m9 | battlemats are the way to go unless you really want to commit to buying tons of gear over time. I have a normal size one we use 90% of the time and then one of the ginormous ones for special uber battles. They're great, you can scribble notes about temp conditions and such.
> It's a game of imagination. Unless you have endless cash, you'll eventually have to pretend that your fancy orc figure is an elven warrior anyway.
/u/Slavakion is wise in the ways of gaming.
As for tokens, [check this google images link out.]( That's a totally half-assed search and it still came up with a few printable images. Take those to a print shop and have em run some off on cardstock and boom, tokens galore. Or make your own by taking images you like and turning them into tokens in something like Photoshop. Funny/cool picture of goblin > crop to a circle shape > copy 20 times to fill a page > print, there's 20 gobs.
Also even without using glass beads or Sorry tokens or whatnot you can get tons of cheapo little figs that weren't made for RPGs that are close enough to 30mm scale that they work. Just in Toys R Us or whatever I've found $5 tubes of knights and men at arms and stuff you can use...
and some "real" plastic minis are pretty cheap - [here's another quick, half-assed search]( | you don't have to spend a bunch of money on figs and stuff.
That being said there are some really nice ones and every once in awhile I do like to spring for the real thing for effect. But save money on the little stuff by using your imagination |
mostirrelephant | The reference to standard English was, I believe, with regard to written language. I agree with you that spoken language must only be coherent to the target audience to be "valid", and I suppose the same argument could be made for written language. However, writing has generally been more formal and codified than spoken language, especially in formal settings. While minor points of grammar or spelling differ between the English skating populations of the world, there is a generally agreed upon standard. As for spoken language, while I've touched on the validity of aave or any other dialect, a formal spoken dialect is generally expected in business, etc. This is why code switching is a thing.
Tl;Dr: Speak what you will, but in formal situations and in writing, there is a reasonable expectation of using standardized formal English.
Edit: Not a linguist either, just another dilettante | The reference to standard English was, I believe, with regard to written language. I agree with you that spoken language must only be coherent to the target audience to be "valid", and I suppose the same argument could be made for written language. However, writing has generally been more formal and codified than spoken language, especially in formal settings. While minor points of grammar or spelling differ between the English skating populations of the world, there is a generally agreed upon standard. As for spoken language, while I've touched on the validity of aave or any other dialect, a formal spoken dialect is generally expected in business, etc. This is why code switching is a thing.
Tl;Dr: Speak what you will, but in formal situations and in writing, there is a reasonable expectation of using standardized formal English.
Edit: Not a linguist either, just another dilettante
| TumblrInAction | t5_2vizz | cevom0u | The reference to standard English was, I believe, with regard to written language. I agree with you that spoken language must only be coherent to the target audience to be "valid", and I suppose the same argument could be made for written language. However, writing has generally been more formal and codified than spoken language, especially in formal settings. While minor points of grammar or spelling differ between the English skating populations of the world, there is a generally agreed upon standard. As for spoken language, while I've touched on the validity of aave or any other dialect, a formal spoken dialect is generally expected in business, etc. This is why code switching is a thing. | Speak what you will, but in formal situations and in writing, there is a reasonable expectation of using standardized formal English.
Edit: Not a linguist either, just another dilettante |
here_miah | More resistance needs more voltage, more voltage means more heat, more heat means better atomization of the nic and flavor.
TL;DR No, it's not just in your head | More resistance needs more voltage, more voltage means more heat, more heat means better atomization of the nic and flavor.
TL;DR No, it's not just in your head
| electronic_cigarette | t5_2qmlu | cevt0jd | More resistance needs more voltage, more voltage means more heat, more heat means better atomization of the nic and flavor. | No, it's not just in your head |
kezorN | And what have you being a fan for a long time, got to do with general 'glory-hunting' fans? We're not talking about you and me. Big clubs will ALWAYS have glory-hunting fans, that's just the way it works, and my point was just that you were being a hypocrite for saying that the guy above you are a glory hunter which *you* don't know anything about, when you could be just as much of a glory hunter yourself, which none of *us* know anything about. Also the fact that both Barcelona and Juventus have tons of these kinds of fans.
TL;DR all big clubs have glory hunting fans, but please don't call randoms on the internet glory hunters when you know knotting about them and their relations to the club they support / are a fan of. | And what have you being a fan for a long time, got to do with general 'glory-hunting' fans? We're not talking about you and me. Big clubs will ALWAYS have glory-hunting fans, that's just the way it works, and my point was just that you were being a hypocrite for saying that the guy above you are a glory hunter which you don't know anything about, when you could be just as much of a glory hunter yourself, which none of us know anything about. Also the fact that both Barcelona and Juventus have tons of these kinds of fans.
TL;DR all big clubs have glory hunting fans, but please don't call randoms on the internet glory hunters when you know knotting about them and their relations to the club they support / are a fan of.
| soccer | t5_2qi58 | cevzxow | And what have you being a fan for a long time, got to do with general 'glory-hunting' fans? We're not talking about you and me. Big clubs will ALWAYS have glory-hunting fans, that's just the way it works, and my point was just that you were being a hypocrite for saying that the guy above you are a glory hunter which you don't know anything about, when you could be just as much of a glory hunter yourself, which none of us know anything about. Also the fact that both Barcelona and Juventus have tons of these kinds of fans. | all big clubs have glory hunting fans, but please don't call randoms on the internet glory hunters when you know knotting about them and their relations to the club they support / are a fan of. |
dinosaur_train | I used to be like her. The best suggestion I have for you is to wait until a calm time and talk to her. It doesn't have to be a big production or a big sit down. And don't make this about you, at first. Casually approach this and plant the first seed. I'd go about it like this. Start talking about something you want to change about yourself. Everyone has a habit or something they want improved, eating better, more patient, things like that. When the conversation circles to what she would like to improve, get to the anger and just ask her if she is happy how she is now.
People who are quick to anger, that burn up and out like a match temper, they aren't happy that way. She's not happy that she's easily irritated. Plant a seed about trying to work on and improve that trait. That burn up shit, it is part behavioral but also part neurological. The neurological side is the impulsive anger and frustration. The behavioral side is that she recognizes it's fucked up and ends it as soon as her mind isn't on fire. However, it takes behavioral changes, over a long period of time to recondition a person's neurological response to stress. So, if you get it in your head that a sit down, ultimatum, or anything like that will get a quick change, sorry, but you will be disappointed.
If the method of changing for herself doesn't seem to plant itself, approach from the aspect of how it is hurting you. If you can make her understand that her behavior is hurting you then there is a good chance that she'll start the process of working on this. Google things, perhaps breathing techniques and meditation can help..
tl;dr there is nothing you can say to quell the Hulk, but you can motivate her to start working on tempering her responses to stress. | I used to be like her. The best suggestion I have for you is to wait until a calm time and talk to her. It doesn't have to be a big production or a big sit down. And don't make this about you, at first. Casually approach this and plant the first seed. I'd go about it like this. Start talking about something you want to change about yourself. Everyone has a habit or something they want improved, eating better, more patient, things like that. When the conversation circles to what she would like to improve, get to the anger and just ask her if she is happy how she is now.
People who are quick to anger, that burn up and out like a match temper, they aren't happy that way. She's not happy that she's easily irritated. Plant a seed about trying to work on and improve that trait. That burn up shit, it is part behavioral but also part neurological. The neurological side is the impulsive anger and frustration. The behavioral side is that she recognizes it's fucked up and ends it as soon as her mind isn't on fire. However, it takes behavioral changes, over a long period of time to recondition a person's neurological response to stress. So, if you get it in your head that a sit down, ultimatum, or anything like that will get a quick change, sorry, but you will be disappointed.
If the method of changing for herself doesn't seem to plant itself, approach from the aspect of how it is hurting you. If you can make her understand that her behavior is hurting you then there is a good chance that she'll start the process of working on this. Google things, perhaps breathing techniques and meditation can help..
tl;dr there is nothing you can say to quell the Hulk, but you can motivate her to start working on tempering her responses to stress.
| relationship_advice | t5_2r0cn | cew2ac7 | I used to be like her. The best suggestion I have for you is to wait until a calm time and talk to her. It doesn't have to be a big production or a big sit down. And don't make this about you, at first. Casually approach this and plant the first seed. I'd go about it like this. Start talking about something you want to change about yourself. Everyone has a habit or something they want improved, eating better, more patient, things like that. When the conversation circles to what she would like to improve, get to the anger and just ask her if she is happy how she is now.
People who are quick to anger, that burn up and out like a match temper, they aren't happy that way. She's not happy that she's easily irritated. Plant a seed about trying to work on and improve that trait. That burn up shit, it is part behavioral but also part neurological. The neurological side is the impulsive anger and frustration. The behavioral side is that she recognizes it's fucked up and ends it as soon as her mind isn't on fire. However, it takes behavioral changes, over a long period of time to recondition a person's neurological response to stress. So, if you get it in your head that a sit down, ultimatum, or anything like that will get a quick change, sorry, but you will be disappointed.
If the method of changing for herself doesn't seem to plant itself, approach from the aspect of how it is hurting you. If you can make her understand that her behavior is hurting you then there is a good chance that she'll start the process of working on this. Google things, perhaps breathing techniques and meditation can help.. | there is nothing you can say to quell the Hulk, but you can motivate her to start working on tempering her responses to stress. |
Pudie | Building off of this, I think Punk coming back from "leaving" was done way too early. I get that it was Summerslam and yada yada yada. They could have stretched it out to the Rumble if they really wanted. Give punk a very long leash to go to other smaller companies with the WWE belt to "defend" it then talk shit about WWE. Have him tweet about it and post YouTube videos or whatever.
At the same time have the "new" title like they did in WWE. Punk mocks this as well.
And just like he did at ComicCon(?) have him show up to an event or press conference and talk shit to Triple H, Cena, or whoever else. Then have him come back at the end of a PPV, knock out the "champ", and claim his dominance.
**TL;DR - What they did when Punk left was exciting. They should have done it for way longer.** | Building off of this, I think Punk coming back from "leaving" was done way too early. I get that it was Summerslam and yada yada yada. They could have stretched it out to the Rumble if they really wanted. Give punk a very long leash to go to other smaller companies with the WWE belt to "defend" it then talk shit about WWE. Have him tweet about it and post YouTube videos or whatever.
At the same time have the "new" title like they did in WWE. Punk mocks this as well.
And just like he did at ComicCon(?) have him show up to an event or press conference and talk shit to Triple H, Cena, or whoever else. Then have him come back at the end of a PPV, knock out the "champ", and claim his dominance.
TL;DR - What they did when Punk left was exciting. They should have done it for way longer.
| SquaredCircle | t5_2sljg | cew02bn | Building off of this, I think Punk coming back from "leaving" was done way too early. I get that it was Summerslam and yada yada yada. They could have stretched it out to the Rumble if they really wanted. Give punk a very long leash to go to other smaller companies with the WWE belt to "defend" it then talk shit about WWE. Have him tweet about it and post YouTube videos or whatever.
At the same time have the "new" title like they did in WWE. Punk mocks this as well.
And just like he did at ComicCon(?) have him show up to an event or press conference and talk shit to Triple H, Cena, or whoever else. Then have him come back at the end of a PPV, knock out the "champ", and claim his dominance. | What they did when Punk left was exciting. They should have done it for way longer. |
PattyCakes1 | Keeping Cena the top guy. I'm not hating the guy, hes a great worker and a great talent, but having him always in top feuds and the only way to beat him is by having interference or someone playing dirty. There is the odd chance he gets beaten cleanly, but theres always an excuse even then. Why not have several top guys, pit them against one another without leaning on one side more then the other.
**TL;DR** have several top stars, similar to 2002-2004 era. | Keeping Cena the top guy. I'm not hating the guy, hes a great worker and a great talent, but having him always in top feuds and the only way to beat him is by having interference or someone playing dirty. There is the odd chance he gets beaten cleanly, but theres always an excuse even then. Why not have several top guys, pit them against one another without leaning on one side more then the other.
TL;DR have several top stars, similar to 2002-2004 era.
| SquaredCircle | t5_2sljg | cewbvh8 | Keeping Cena the top guy. I'm not hating the guy, hes a great worker and a great talent, but having him always in top feuds and the only way to beat him is by having interference or someone playing dirty. There is the odd chance he gets beaten cleanly, but theres always an excuse even then. Why not have several top guys, pit them against one another without leaning on one side more then the other. | have several top stars, similar to 2002-2004 era. |
KlaytonAmory | If the business is cyclical, which WWE constantly claims it to be when people question their ratings, yeah it would. If the business were cyclical we'd be right at a nearing the new "attitude era" sometime soon.
The problem is the industry is in such a different place than the mid-90s this is complete unknown territory. The WWE is the only game in town (note: yes TNA is around, but WWE seems to not even care they exist), they're about to launch a network that almost every wrestling fan will have, and might be reworking a television deal that will make them more money than they ever have had from television revenue.
With the network, the sales they're making now, and everything else...they really have very little reason to change how they program. Want attitude? Network old PPVs. Want hardcore? Network old PPVs. As WWE buys more companies (ROH, TNA) that library grows and the need to change keeps itself away. Eventually, new kids are watching and all that thus making the need to change seem needed less.
Plus, they'll never go back to that level of violence. Studies on concussions, worries over transmittable diseases, and just personal safety will keep that stuff from coming back. Would enough be different, at that point, to even change the PG rating? You might get more swear words, but even the attitude era adult storylines could be corny and stupid: Val Venis' penis chopped off, PMS, etc.
But maybe if a million people sign up for the network and 80% of them watch ECW or attitude era material they'll change how the show goes.
Tl;Dr almost any answer pertaining to "what will happen" with the WWE has almost fundamentally changed with the WWE Network announcement and what it actually entails. | If the business is cyclical, which WWE constantly claims it to be when people question their ratings, yeah it would. If the business were cyclical we'd be right at a nearing the new "attitude era" sometime soon.
The problem is the industry is in such a different place than the mid-90s this is complete unknown territory. The WWE is the only game in town (note: yes TNA is around, but WWE seems to not even care they exist), they're about to launch a network that almost every wrestling fan will have, and might be reworking a television deal that will make them more money than they ever have had from television revenue.
With the network, the sales they're making now, and everything else...they really have very little reason to change how they program. Want attitude? Network old PPVs. Want hardcore? Network old PPVs. As WWE buys more companies (ROH, TNA) that library grows and the need to change keeps itself away. Eventually, new kids are watching and all that thus making the need to change seem needed less.
Plus, they'll never go back to that level of violence. Studies on concussions, worries over transmittable diseases, and just personal safety will keep that stuff from coming back. Would enough be different, at that point, to even change the PG rating? You might get more swear words, but even the attitude era adult storylines could be corny and stupid: Val Venis' penis chopped off, PMS, etc.
But maybe if a million people sign up for the network and 80% of them watch ECW or attitude era material they'll change how the show goes.
Tl;Dr almost any answer pertaining to "what will happen" with the WWE has almost fundamentally changed with the WWE Network announcement and what it actually entails.
| SquaredCircle | t5_2sljg | cewnp2l | If the business is cyclical, which WWE constantly claims it to be when people question their ratings, yeah it would. If the business were cyclical we'd be right at a nearing the new "attitude era" sometime soon.
The problem is the industry is in such a different place than the mid-90s this is complete unknown territory. The WWE is the only game in town (note: yes TNA is around, but WWE seems to not even care they exist), they're about to launch a network that almost every wrestling fan will have, and might be reworking a television deal that will make them more money than they ever have had from television revenue.
With the network, the sales they're making now, and everything else...they really have very little reason to change how they program. Want attitude? Network old PPVs. Want hardcore? Network old PPVs. As WWE buys more companies (ROH, TNA) that library grows and the need to change keeps itself away. Eventually, new kids are watching and all that thus making the need to change seem needed less.
Plus, they'll never go back to that level of violence. Studies on concussions, worries over transmittable diseases, and just personal safety will keep that stuff from coming back. Would enough be different, at that point, to even change the PG rating? You might get more swear words, but even the attitude era adult storylines could be corny and stupid: Val Venis' penis chopped off, PMS, etc.
But maybe if a million people sign up for the network and 80% of them watch ECW or attitude era material they'll change how the show goes. | almost any answer pertaining to "what will happen" with the WWE has almost fundamentally changed with the WWE Network announcement and what it actually entails. |
ssshypermen | Hah. I've got two stories dealing with bows.
Before I joined the group, they had a guy who couldn't understand why his characters always died. He had brought in a new character that was caught sneaking around the already paranoid about assassins group. So, the group had their three archers hold him at bowpoint as they talked to him. Said new character then drew his sword to hold it at the neck of the leader of the party. And he then was bitching at the table about why his character was killed..
Then, with my orc hunter, 2/3rds the party was dropped off the cliff. The huge wolverine Druid with a human form, then myself, then my wolf, then an Inquisitor, then it was a shield fighter and magus. Well, turns out a lot of undead were on top this plateau. Inquisitor uses a spell to teleport from the rope binding that we were using to bring the party up the cliff behind the wolverine and between the rope suddenly snapping, the undead 15 feet away and my frustration and trying to prevent the undead from attacking me, I missed by control animal roll. Wolf flipped the fuck out and crit the rope, dropping the remaining 10 members (large party) off the cliff. Took em ~40 turns of spell casting and floating slowly up to rejoin us.
Well, we finally got to that bossfight but not in time to prevent a ritual from awakening the Sleeping Tyrant (Pathfinder, cant remember his full name). Inquisitor was fucked dead (1 HP, ported in front of a giant skeleton, as an archer..), so it was down to me and the druid to fight off 20 undead. At the end, we had to break down this shield to get to the lich enacting the ritual. I couldn't do anything with no spells left so I kept holding my action for when the shield dropped. As soon as it dripped, I rolled 3 natural 20s in a row, with double shot. This was a boss fight that was going to kill at least 5 party members, that I just one shot. The way we do rolls is if you roll a natural 20, you roll again. If you roll a miss for the second roll, its just a normal hit. If you hit with the second roll, you do crit damage. When I rolled that second 20, the DM and everyone at the table just said fuck it, roll it again!. Welp, here comes the third natural 20 on a third d20.
tl;dr: dropped half the party off a cliff, made up for it by oneshotting a lich that would kill a good part of the party. | Hah. I've got two stories dealing with bows.
Before I joined the group, they had a guy who couldn't understand why his characters always died. He had brought in a new character that was caught sneaking around the already paranoid about assassins group. So, the group had their three archers hold him at bowpoint as they talked to him. Said new character then drew his sword to hold it at the neck of the leader of the party. And he then was bitching at the table about why his character was killed..
Then, with my orc hunter, 2/3rds the party was dropped off the cliff. The huge wolverine Druid with a human form, then myself, then my wolf, then an Inquisitor, then it was a shield fighter and magus. Well, turns out a lot of undead were on top this plateau. Inquisitor uses a spell to teleport from the rope binding that we were using to bring the party up the cliff behind the wolverine and between the rope suddenly snapping, the undead 15 feet away and my frustration and trying to prevent the undead from attacking me, I missed by control animal roll. Wolf flipped the fuck out and crit the rope, dropping the remaining 10 members (large party) off the cliff. Took em ~40 turns of spell casting and floating slowly up to rejoin us.
Well, we finally got to that bossfight but not in time to prevent a ritual from awakening the Sleeping Tyrant (Pathfinder, cant remember his full name). Inquisitor was fucked dead (1 HP, ported in front of a giant skeleton, as an archer..), so it was down to me and the druid to fight off 20 undead. At the end, we had to break down this shield to get to the lich enacting the ritual. I couldn't do anything with no spells left so I kept holding my action for when the shield dropped. As soon as it dripped, I rolled 3 natural 20s in a row, with double shot. This was a boss fight that was going to kill at least 5 party members, that I just one shot. The way we do rolls is if you roll a natural 20, you roll again. If you roll a miss for the second roll, its just a normal hit. If you hit with the second roll, you do crit damage. When I rolled that second 20, the DM and everyone at the table just said fuck it, roll it again!. Welp, here comes the third natural 20 on a third d20.
tl;dr: dropped half the party off a cliff, made up for it by oneshotting a lich that would kill a good part of the party.
| pics | t5_2qh0u | cewb16b | Hah. I've got two stories dealing with bows.
Before I joined the group, they had a guy who couldn't understand why his characters always died. He had brought in a new character that was caught sneaking around the already paranoid about assassins group. So, the group had their three archers hold him at bowpoint as they talked to him. Said new character then drew his sword to hold it at the neck of the leader of the party. And he then was bitching at the table about why his character was killed..
Then, with my orc hunter, 2/3rds the party was dropped off the cliff. The huge wolverine Druid with a human form, then myself, then my wolf, then an Inquisitor, then it was a shield fighter and magus. Well, turns out a lot of undead were on top this plateau. Inquisitor uses a spell to teleport from the rope binding that we were using to bring the party up the cliff behind the wolverine and between the rope suddenly snapping, the undead 15 feet away and my frustration and trying to prevent the undead from attacking me, I missed by control animal roll. Wolf flipped the fuck out and crit the rope, dropping the remaining 10 members (large party) off the cliff. Took em ~40 turns of spell casting and floating slowly up to rejoin us.
Well, we finally got to that bossfight but not in time to prevent a ritual from awakening the Sleeping Tyrant (Pathfinder, cant remember his full name). Inquisitor was fucked dead (1 HP, ported in front of a giant skeleton, as an archer..), so it was down to me and the druid to fight off 20 undead. At the end, we had to break down this shield to get to the lich enacting the ritual. I couldn't do anything with no spells left so I kept holding my action for when the shield dropped. As soon as it dripped, I rolled 3 natural 20s in a row, with double shot. This was a boss fight that was going to kill at least 5 party members, that I just one shot. The way we do rolls is if you roll a natural 20, you roll again. If you roll a miss for the second roll, its just a normal hit. If you hit with the second roll, you do crit damage. When I rolled that second 20, the DM and everyone at the table just said fuck it, roll it again!. Welp, here comes the third natural 20 on a third d20. | dropped half the party off a cliff, made up for it by oneshotting a lich that would kill a good part of the party. |
Irsh80756 | Eh, I'm not gonna tell you how to run your game. I personally don't find a little extra npc work that hard, but I also have like 60 or 70 half made characters laying around that are pretty easy to convert to cohorts. But I've always enjoyed leadership both as a player and as a dm. On one side it gives me access to other skills I might not have, but as a dm it gives me another way to fuck with the party too. Its all in how you play it, but it's not for everyone.
Tl:dr I like leadership in my games but it's not for everyone. | Eh, I'm not gonna tell you how to run your game. I personally don't find a little extra npc work that hard, but I also have like 60 or 70 half made characters laying around that are pretty easy to convert to cohorts. But I've always enjoyed leadership both as a player and as a dm. On one side it gives me access to other skills I might not have, but as a dm it gives me another way to fuck with the party too. Its all in how you play it, but it's not for everyone.
Tl:dr I like leadership in my games but it's not for everyone.
| pics | t5_2qh0u | cex5hsx | Eh, I'm not gonna tell you how to run your game. I personally don't find a little extra npc work that hard, but I also have like 60 or 70 half made characters laying around that are pretty easy to convert to cohorts. But I've always enjoyed leadership both as a player and as a dm. On one side it gives me access to other skills I might not have, but as a dm it gives me another way to fuck with the party too. Its all in how you play it, but it's not for everyone. | I like leadership in my games but it's not for everyone. |
MagicRetailer | I know i didn't have to, i just wanted to. Not so much for me, but to explain the other side to the players. I think if everyone knows all the information we can all be better consumers and create a better economy for the game.
We do make money from sheer volume of sales like you suggest, and the higher than MSRP products that I am talking about are the ones of limited quantity, where volume cannot make up more profit simply because there is no more volume to had.
I literally can only sell 2 blue decks a week because that is all I can order. I'll sell those for what i need too and make my profit on the back end selling the unwanted decks for their MSRP at $30. Eventually all of those decks will sell, and if they are already paid for, than I can let them sit and it wont cost me anything. Meanwhile all the stores that sold theirs cheaper, or gave them away, basically just gave up on that profit. Which is absolutely fine, perhaps that giveaway helped their event turnout or whatever, it's all cool.
TLDR: I'm not trying to justify, nor am I upset that people shop elsewhere. I just wanted to share my unique perspective being that I have seen alot of people who seemed to not all have all the answers in regards to the question. | I know i didn't have to, i just wanted to. Not so much for me, but to explain the other side to the players. I think if everyone knows all the information we can all be better consumers and create a better economy for the game.
We do make money from sheer volume of sales like you suggest, and the higher than MSRP products that I am talking about are the ones of limited quantity, where volume cannot make up more profit simply because there is no more volume to had.
I literally can only sell 2 blue decks a week because that is all I can order. I'll sell those for what i need too and make my profit on the back end selling the unwanted decks for their MSRP at $30. Eventually all of those decks will sell, and if they are already paid for, than I can let them sit and it wont cost me anything. Meanwhile all the stores that sold theirs cheaper, or gave them away, basically just gave up on that profit. Which is absolutely fine, perhaps that giveaway helped their event turnout or whatever, it's all cool.
TLDR: I'm not trying to justify, nor am I upset that people shop elsewhere. I just wanted to share my unique perspective being that I have seen alot of people who seemed to not all have all the answers in regards to the question.
| magicTCG | t5_2qn5f | cew8op1 | I know i didn't have to, i just wanted to. Not so much for me, but to explain the other side to the players. I think if everyone knows all the information we can all be better consumers and create a better economy for the game.
We do make money from sheer volume of sales like you suggest, and the higher than MSRP products that I am talking about are the ones of limited quantity, where volume cannot make up more profit simply because there is no more volume to had.
I literally can only sell 2 blue decks a week because that is all I can order. I'll sell those for what i need too and make my profit on the back end selling the unwanted decks for their MSRP at $30. Eventually all of those decks will sell, and if they are already paid for, than I can let them sit and it wont cost me anything. Meanwhile all the stores that sold theirs cheaper, or gave them away, basically just gave up on that profit. Which is absolutely fine, perhaps that giveaway helped their event turnout or whatever, it's all cool. | I'm not trying to justify, nor am I upset that people shop elsewhere. I just wanted to share my unique perspective being that I have seen alot of people who seemed to not all have all the answers in regards to the question. |
Blenderhead36 | The thing that basic supply and demand leaves out is dead inventory.
I run the books for a small business, and dead inventory is the bane of my existence. Say I've got 6 sets of Commander 2013. The Mind Seize and Eternal Bargain decks are going to fly off the shelves. I'm reasonably certain that I can move Evasive Maneuvers, and maybe Nature of the Beast.
But fucking Power Hungry. It's gonna take a long, long time for me to move Power Hungry.
That means that the shelf space that 6 Power Hungry decks are taking up can't be used for anything else. That's terrible. That shelf space isn't free. Even usable piece of the shop has expenses to cover--rent, utilities, staff wage/benefits, insurance, everything that's required just to keep a business open. That's what it costs to have **an empty shelf**. To put a product on it costs whatever the Vendor price is. With an MSRP of $30 a piece, those six Power Hungry decks have cost me $90 on top of the shelf space. The longer they sit there, the more they cost me. Those Mind Seize and Eternal Bargain decks? They were there for three days. They cost me three days worth of shelf maintenance money. The Power Hungrys cost months and months worth. Months that could have gone to high value, high mobility merchandise like miniatures or other Magic cards.
But wait, there's more! Commander 2013 came out at the end of the year, which means that those Power Hungrys are still in the store on December 31st. That means that, as liquidatable, active inventory (I'm in manufacturing, and I know that our inventory no longer counts as "active" if it hasn't been sold in four years; I don't know the exact timeframe for retail), meaning that they count towards the total value of my business **and I have to pay taxes on them.** Those Mind Seize and Eternal Bargains decks? I didn't have to include them in my yearly statement because they were *fucking gone.* Sure, I have to charge sales tax, but I'm gonna do the same to those Power Hungrys if they ever sell.
TL;DR: Merchandise that doesn't move is expensive from a multitude of angles that aren't immediately obvious, and becomes more expensive over time. | The thing that basic supply and demand leaves out is dead inventory.
I run the books for a small business, and dead inventory is the bane of my existence. Say I've got 6 sets of Commander 2013. The Mind Seize and Eternal Bargain decks are going to fly off the shelves. I'm reasonably certain that I can move Evasive Maneuvers, and maybe Nature of the Beast.
But fucking Power Hungry. It's gonna take a long, long time for me to move Power Hungry.
That means that the shelf space that 6 Power Hungry decks are taking up can't be used for anything else. That's terrible. That shelf space isn't free. Even usable piece of the shop has expenses to cover--rent, utilities, staff wage/benefits, insurance, everything that's required just to keep a business open. That's what it costs to have an empty shelf . To put a product on it costs whatever the Vendor price is. With an MSRP of $30 a piece, those six Power Hungry decks have cost me $90 on top of the shelf space. The longer they sit there, the more they cost me. Those Mind Seize and Eternal Bargain decks? They were there for three days. They cost me three days worth of shelf maintenance money. The Power Hungrys cost months and months worth. Months that could have gone to high value, high mobility merchandise like miniatures or other Magic cards.
But wait, there's more! Commander 2013 came out at the end of the year, which means that those Power Hungrys are still in the store on December 31st. That means that, as liquidatable, active inventory (I'm in manufacturing, and I know that our inventory no longer counts as "active" if it hasn't been sold in four years; I don't know the exact timeframe for retail), meaning that they count towards the total value of my business and I have to pay taxes on them. Those Mind Seize and Eternal Bargains decks? I didn't have to include them in my yearly statement because they were fucking gone. Sure, I have to charge sales tax, but I'm gonna do the same to those Power Hungrys if they ever sell.
TL;DR: Merchandise that doesn't move is expensive from a multitude of angles that aren't immediately obvious, and becomes more expensive over time.
| magicTCG | t5_2qn5f | cewaajl | The thing that basic supply and demand leaves out is dead inventory.
I run the books for a small business, and dead inventory is the bane of my existence. Say I've got 6 sets of Commander 2013. The Mind Seize and Eternal Bargain decks are going to fly off the shelves. I'm reasonably certain that I can move Evasive Maneuvers, and maybe Nature of the Beast.
But fucking Power Hungry. It's gonna take a long, long time for me to move Power Hungry.
That means that the shelf space that 6 Power Hungry decks are taking up can't be used for anything else. That's terrible. That shelf space isn't free. Even usable piece of the shop has expenses to cover--rent, utilities, staff wage/benefits, insurance, everything that's required just to keep a business open. That's what it costs to have an empty shelf . To put a product on it costs whatever the Vendor price is. With an MSRP of $30 a piece, those six Power Hungry decks have cost me $90 on top of the shelf space. The longer they sit there, the more they cost me. Those Mind Seize and Eternal Bargain decks? They were there for three days. They cost me three days worth of shelf maintenance money. The Power Hungrys cost months and months worth. Months that could have gone to high value, high mobility merchandise like miniatures or other Magic cards.
But wait, there's more! Commander 2013 came out at the end of the year, which means that those Power Hungrys are still in the store on December 31st. That means that, as liquidatable, active inventory (I'm in manufacturing, and I know that our inventory no longer counts as "active" if it hasn't been sold in four years; I don't know the exact timeframe for retail), meaning that they count towards the total value of my business and I have to pay taxes on them. Those Mind Seize and Eternal Bargains decks? I didn't have to include them in my yearly statement because they were fucking gone. Sure, I have to charge sales tax, but I'm gonna do the same to those Power Hungrys if they ever sell. | Merchandise that doesn't move is expensive from a multitude of angles that aren't immediately obvious, and becomes more expensive over time. |
Redarmy1917 | That's cute. I live in Cleveland, I have 8-9 card shops I can go here to play magic. If I wanted to, I could play standard and limited competitively every single day of the week, and still not visit half the stores around me.
None of the stores here sell packs for below $4. There's the rare "3 for 11" deal sometimes, but that's it. There's only one store in this area that sells booster boxes for under $100 now. Only TWO of the stores even employ people (by that I mean almost all of the stores are literally ran by the owner alone), so that expense is non-existent. Most of them have shitty prize support, and if their prize support is decent the store itself either has a crappy player base or the owners will try and fuck you over a different way, like preying on new players or gullible people.
TL;DR - Fuck you. | That's cute. I live in Cleveland, I have 8-9 card shops I can go here to play magic. If I wanted to, I could play standard and limited competitively every single day of the week, and still not visit half the stores around me.
None of the stores here sell packs for below $4. There's the rare "3 for 11" deal sometimes, but that's it. There's only one store in this area that sells booster boxes for under $100 now. Only TWO of the stores even employ people (by that I mean almost all of the stores are literally ran by the owner alone), so that expense is non-existent. Most of them have shitty prize support, and if their prize support is decent the store itself either has a crappy player base or the owners will try and fuck you over a different way, like preying on new players or gullible people.
TL;DR - Fuck you.
| magicTCG | t5_2qn5f | cewfr6i | That's cute. I live in Cleveland, I have 8-9 card shops I can go here to play magic. If I wanted to, I could play standard and limited competitively every single day of the week, and still not visit half the stores around me.
None of the stores here sell packs for below $4. There's the rare "3 for 11" deal sometimes, but that's it. There's only one store in this area that sells booster boxes for under $100 now. Only TWO of the stores even employ people (by that I mean almost all of the stores are literally ran by the owner alone), so that expense is non-existent. Most of them have shitty prize support, and if their prize support is decent the store itself either has a crappy player base or the owners will try and fuck you over a different way, like preying on new players or gullible people. | Fuck you. |
deviden | > One special item isnt paying their bills. Its a one time money grab that is disgusting to me as a consumer.
Whoa. "Disgusting"? FTV is an *extremely* limited edition product with extremely valuable cards inside, generally worth more for the buyer to pull apart and immediately sell as singles than the inflated price that it was sold at in most stores that have it. Why would anyone sell anything for $40 when it is worth at least $120?
The point of FTV and its low MSRP is to give stores a profit bump, thereby keeping them happy, trading and providing their service to magic players. The purpose is not to give loads of players a foil Jace the Mind Sculptor at 1/4 of its market value, it's just a treat for the store and the handful of per store who might be able to afford it. My local actually gave out one of their FTV:20's as top prize of Theros Pre-Release but they didn't have to, they used it as a way to draw in more customers.
*TL;DR:* WotC's primary customer is the stores, not you, because without the local stores providing the support to Wizards and the players *there is no more magic for anyone*. You are not being scammed. You are not entitled to own FTV:20 at an artificially low MSRP. | > One special item isnt paying their bills. Its a one time money grab that is disgusting to me as a consumer.
Whoa. "Disgusting"? FTV is an extremely limited edition product with extremely valuable cards inside, generally worth more for the buyer to pull apart and immediately sell as singles than the inflated price that it was sold at in most stores that have it. Why would anyone sell anything for $40 when it is worth at least $120?
The point of FTV and its low MSRP is to give stores a profit bump, thereby keeping them happy, trading and providing their service to magic players. The purpose is not to give loads of players a foil Jace the Mind Sculptor at 1/4 of its market value, it's just a treat for the store and the handful of per store who might be able to afford it. My local actually gave out one of their FTV:20's as top prize of Theros Pre-Release but they didn't have to, they used it as a way to draw in more customers.
TL;DR: WotC's primary customer is the stores, not you, because without the local stores providing the support to Wizards and the players there is no more magic for anyone . You are not being scammed. You are not entitled to own FTV:20 at an artificially low MSRP.
| magicTCG | t5_2qn5f | cewtq4t | One special item isnt paying their bills. Its a one time money grab that is disgusting to me as a consumer.
Whoa. "Disgusting"? FTV is an extremely limited edition product with extremely valuable cards inside, generally worth more for the buyer to pull apart and immediately sell as singles than the inflated price that it was sold at in most stores that have it. Why would anyone sell anything for $40 when it is worth at least $120?
The point of FTV and its low MSRP is to give stores a profit bump, thereby keeping them happy, trading and providing their service to magic players. The purpose is not to give loads of players a foil Jace the Mind Sculptor at 1/4 of its market value, it's just a treat for the store and the handful of per store who might be able to afford it. My local actually gave out one of their FTV:20's as top prize of Theros Pre-Release but they didn't have to, they used it as a way to draw in more customers. | WotC's primary customer is the stores, not you, because without the local stores providing the support to Wizards and the players there is no more magic for anyone . You are not being scammed. You are not entitled to own FTV:20 at an artificially low MSRP. |
CylonHunting | Right, but my point is mainly that in creating the "ease of access" that Hi-Rez is pushing for they are making it such that the more experienced players who have better awareness, mechanics, and knowledge are loosing their benefits as they create easy gods and hand holding devices. Let's take for example the ward pinging. Prior to that you actually had to keep an eye on the mini-map to know if someone was crossing a ward, or rely on your team to let you know. Now the game is like "hey hey hey there is someone on their way back off!" I will not even discuss the last 2 gods that they released as that is several pages of ranting.
TLDR - bring skill and mechanics back to smite! | Right, but my point is mainly that in creating the "ease of access" that Hi-Rez is pushing for they are making it such that the more experienced players who have better awareness, mechanics, and knowledge are loosing their benefits as they create easy gods and hand holding devices. Let's take for example the ward pinging. Prior to that you actually had to keep an eye on the mini-map to know if someone was crossing a ward, or rely on your team to let you know. Now the game is like "hey hey hey there is someone on their way back off!" I will not even discuss the last 2 gods that they released as that is several pages of ranting.
TLDR - bring skill and mechanics back to smite!
| Smite | t5_2stl8 | cew6ruy | Right, but my point is mainly that in creating the "ease of access" that Hi-Rez is pushing for they are making it such that the more experienced players who have better awareness, mechanics, and knowledge are loosing their benefits as they create easy gods and hand holding devices. Let's take for example the ward pinging. Prior to that you actually had to keep an eye on the mini-map to know if someone was crossing a ward, or rely on your team to let you know. Now the game is like "hey hey hey there is someone on their way back off!" I will not even discuss the last 2 gods that they released as that is several pages of ranting. | bring skill and mechanics back to smite! |
tomaspink | Isn't that much traffic going to help create perverse incentives for teammates to, you know, "disrupt" potential packs of folks? I know positioning matters less in NASCAR given the extreme levels of race randomness, but still worth fighting for position. Certainly some gamesmanship when cars are released in F1 qualifying, but there's a bit more room for cars to spread out for flying laps.
TL:DR could be messy - a lot harder to prove blocking/getting loose in nascar, right? | Isn't that much traffic going to help create perverse incentives for teammates to, you know, "disrupt" potential packs of folks? I know positioning matters less in NASCAR given the extreme levels of race randomness, but still worth fighting for position. Certainly some gamesmanship when cars are released in F1 qualifying, but there's a bit more room for cars to spread out for flying laps.
TL:DR could be messy - a lot harder to prove blocking/getting loose in nascar, right?
| formula1 | t5_2qimj | cewjgnt | Isn't that much traffic going to help create perverse incentives for teammates to, you know, "disrupt" potential packs of folks? I know positioning matters less in NASCAR given the extreme levels of race randomness, but still worth fighting for position. Certainly some gamesmanship when cars are released in F1 qualifying, but there's a bit more room for cars to spread out for flying laps. | could be messy - a lot harder to prove blocking/getting loose in nascar, right? |
Thyflesh | For me personally, I think one of the bigger issues at play here is the fact the the actual Christianity subrredit has no longer become a place for non-Christians to find out what being a Christian is truly about.
Now this subbreddit has become more of a place for them to find out, the issue is is that when I first joined the sub, it was primarily Christians helping Christians and sup[porting Christians. When we had debates it was safe in the knowledge that we where all believers, there was no ill blood, but more playful discussion.
The other issue, is that when someone asks for help or prayer and a non-Christian comes and says "hey do this" it's often in the right place, but they jsut don't get it as they are not a Christian. Sometimes Christians need support from other Christians, and when I go into a topic and see conservative views being down voted by the non-Christian members it breaks my heart.
This is obvious when most of the top up votes comments in this topic are non-christians!
SO overall I would agree with your TLDR - and also this sub needs to decide what direction it's going in. Do you want it to be a Christian teaching sub or a Christian safe haven. Maybe even have topic headers or something to indicate this? | For me personally, I think one of the bigger issues at play here is the fact the the actual Christianity subrredit has no longer become a place for non-Christians to find out what being a Christian is truly about.
Now this subbreddit has become more of a place for them to find out, the issue is is that when I first joined the sub, it was primarily Christians helping Christians and sup[porting Christians. When we had debates it was safe in the knowledge that we where all believers, there was no ill blood, but more playful discussion.
The other issue, is that when someone asks for help or prayer and a non-Christian comes and says "hey do this" it's often in the right place, but they jsut don't get it as they are not a Christian. Sometimes Christians need support from other Christians, and when I go into a topic and see conservative views being down voted by the non-Christian members it breaks my heart.
This is obvious when most of the top up votes comments in this topic are non-christians!
SO overall I would agree with your TLDR - and also this sub needs to decide what direction it's going in. Do you want it to be a Christian teaching sub or a Christian safe haven. Maybe even have topic headers or something to indicate this?
| TrueChristian | t5_2u489 | ceyvjrd | For me personally, I think one of the bigger issues at play here is the fact the the actual Christianity subrredit has no longer become a place for non-Christians to find out what being a Christian is truly about.
Now this subbreddit has become more of a place for them to find out, the issue is is that when I first joined the sub, it was primarily Christians helping Christians and sup[porting Christians. When we had debates it was safe in the knowledge that we where all believers, there was no ill blood, but more playful discussion.
The other issue, is that when someone asks for help or prayer and a non-Christian comes and says "hey do this" it's often in the right place, but they jsut don't get it as they are not a Christian. Sometimes Christians need support from other Christians, and when I go into a topic and see conservative views being down voted by the non-Christian members it breaks my heart.
This is obvious when most of the top up votes comments in this topic are non-christians!
SO overall I would agree with your | and also this sub needs to decide what direction it's going in. Do you want it to be a Christian teaching sub or a Christian safe haven. Maybe even have topic headers or something to indicate this? |
Onisake | Sorry for the late reply. was out of town for the weekend.
there are two ways to look at it
1) effective HP (eHP) per hit
2) eHP per encounter
the first one is easier to calculate. it's the amount of damage you can receive in a small time frame. usually a single blow, but really any damage within a GCD. or more correctly any damage within your healers reaction time (including the time it takes to cast the spell).
while I am a big proponent of healers actively, instead of re-actively, healing I understand that not every healer is capable of this.
it boils down to this: you start to run into problems when your eHP is lower than what your healer can react to. IE: say you get hit by death sentence and an auto-attack and take ~7k raw damage and you have 6400 HP as a pld. you only take 5600 damage (shield oath) and you have about 800 hp left. you're still alive, but if your healer cannot react in time to get you above the next AA threshold you will die. this is why eHP is just as important as raw mitigation. in a single GCD, your healer might hit you for ~2200 HP. which means you now have 3000 health. for the next hit you take, your eHP is now 3600 (again, shield oath). now, if you add 18 VIT to this, you gain about 80 hp. so you now have 3696 eHP for the next hit you take. it's easy to see where your gains are, and more important WHAT they are.
increases a parry tier, your eHP increases based on the amount of damage you receive. the more you recieve the better your gains. lets assume increasing a parry tier improves your blocked damage by 1%. let's also assume that parry is calculated before any other damage reduction modifiers (such as shield oath). it's not unheard of for mobs to hit you for upwards of 4k per hit. in a situation I mentioned earlier, you could be hit by twintania's AA and death sentence in a short time frame. so taking close to 7k damage within a single GCD isn't unheard of. but for now lets back off a bit and look at something more understood, like mountainbuster. which usually hits for around 4k damage.
improving a parry tier will then mean you take ~40 less damage.
And this is where that number comes from. if you are losing 80 HP, you are losing 80 eHP or 96 eHP if you are a pld. in order to get the same out of parry, you would need to be able to block that much more damage. but I specifically specified *between heals* because it is harder to quantify the parry gains over the course of a battle. namely because you cannot parry every attack. and furthermore parry has to actually activate for you to receive the benefit.
Taking a look at one of my old logs, in a battle I received about 120k. Even assuming I parry every single blow I took, i would recieve 1200 less damage that fight if I improved a parry tier. Which is what...a cure 2 maybe? so one less cure 2 over the duration of the fight? Comparing to the amount of over heal I recieved (around 10k) improving a parry tier does almost nothing.
This is why I always say that VIT/HP is better from a defensive perspective than str. my healer isn't going to notice 1 or even 2 less cure 2s. now, if it was 10 less cure 2s we might have something. but with a 1% gain, you're looking at (assuming 2200 per cure 2) having to take 2 *million* damage in an encounter.
TL;DR: your healer isn't going to notice you improving a parry tier. you will need a very very long fight and need to take a lot of damage for it to matter. this is again why I say, you don't really need to worry about STR outside of what you get naturally as you progress. This is also the reason I would never give up VIT for STR in the hardest content. eHP is one of the most important stats as a tank. It's not something i'm willing to give up.
| Sorry for the late reply. was out of town for the weekend.
there are two ways to look at it
1) effective HP (eHP) per hit
2) eHP per encounter
the first one is easier to calculate. it's the amount of damage you can receive in a small time frame. usually a single blow, but really any damage within a GCD. or more correctly any damage within your healers reaction time (including the time it takes to cast the spell).
while I am a big proponent of healers actively, instead of re-actively, healing I understand that not every healer is capable of this.
it boils down to this: you start to run into problems when your eHP is lower than what your healer can react to. IE: say you get hit by death sentence and an auto-attack and take ~7k raw damage and you have 6400 HP as a pld. you only take 5600 damage (shield oath) and you have about 800 hp left. you're still alive, but if your healer cannot react in time to get you above the next AA threshold you will die. this is why eHP is just as important as raw mitigation. in a single GCD, your healer might hit you for ~2200 HP. which means you now have 3000 health. for the next hit you take, your eHP is now 3600 (again, shield oath). now, if you add 18 VIT to this, you gain about 80 hp. so you now have 3696 eHP for the next hit you take. it's easy to see where your gains are, and more important WHAT they are.
increases a parry tier, your eHP increases based on the amount of damage you receive. the more you recieve the better your gains. lets assume increasing a parry tier improves your blocked damage by 1%. let's also assume that parry is calculated before any other damage reduction modifiers (such as shield oath). it's not unheard of for mobs to hit you for upwards of 4k per hit. in a situation I mentioned earlier, you could be hit by twintania's AA and death sentence in a short time frame. so taking close to 7k damage within a single GCD isn't unheard of. but for now lets back off a bit and look at something more understood, like mountainbuster. which usually hits for around 4k damage.
improving a parry tier will then mean you take ~40 less damage.
And this is where that number comes from. if you are losing 80 HP, you are losing 80 eHP or 96 eHP if you are a pld. in order to get the same out of parry, you would need to be able to block that much more damage. but I specifically specified between heals because it is harder to quantify the parry gains over the course of a battle. namely because you cannot parry every attack. and furthermore parry has to actually activate for you to receive the benefit.
Taking a look at one of my old logs, in a battle I received about 120k. Even assuming I parry every single blow I took, i would recieve 1200 less damage that fight if I improved a parry tier. Which is what...a cure 2 maybe? so one less cure 2 over the duration of the fight? Comparing to the amount of over heal I recieved (around 10k) improving a parry tier does almost nothing.
This is why I always say that VIT/HP is better from a defensive perspective than str. my healer isn't going to notice 1 or even 2 less cure 2s. now, if it was 10 less cure 2s we might have something. but with a 1% gain, you're looking at (assuming 2200 per cure 2) having to take 2 million damage in an encounter.
TL;DR: your healer isn't going to notice you improving a parry tier. you will need a very very long fight and need to take a lot of damage for it to matter. this is again why I say, you don't really need to worry about STR outside of what you get naturally as you progress. This is also the reason I would never give up VIT for STR in the hardest content. eHP is one of the most important stats as a tank. It's not something i'm willing to give up.
| ffxiv | t5_2rgs7 | cf02xj3 | Sorry for the late reply. was out of town for the weekend.
there are two ways to look at it
1) effective HP (eHP) per hit
2) eHP per encounter
the first one is easier to calculate. it's the amount of damage you can receive in a small time frame. usually a single blow, but really any damage within a GCD. or more correctly any damage within your healers reaction time (including the time it takes to cast the spell).
while I am a big proponent of healers actively, instead of re-actively, healing I understand that not every healer is capable of this.
it boils down to this: you start to run into problems when your eHP is lower than what your healer can react to. IE: say you get hit by death sentence and an auto-attack and take ~7k raw damage and you have 6400 HP as a pld. you only take 5600 damage (shield oath) and you have about 800 hp left. you're still alive, but if your healer cannot react in time to get you above the next AA threshold you will die. this is why eHP is just as important as raw mitigation. in a single GCD, your healer might hit you for ~2200 HP. which means you now have 3000 health. for the next hit you take, your eHP is now 3600 (again, shield oath). now, if you add 18 VIT to this, you gain about 80 hp. so you now have 3696 eHP for the next hit you take. it's easy to see where your gains are, and more important WHAT they are.
increases a parry tier, your eHP increases based on the amount of damage you receive. the more you recieve the better your gains. lets assume increasing a parry tier improves your blocked damage by 1%. let's also assume that parry is calculated before any other damage reduction modifiers (such as shield oath). it's not unheard of for mobs to hit you for upwards of 4k per hit. in a situation I mentioned earlier, you could be hit by twintania's AA and death sentence in a short time frame. so taking close to 7k damage within a single GCD isn't unheard of. but for now lets back off a bit and look at something more understood, like mountainbuster. which usually hits for around 4k damage.
improving a parry tier will then mean you take ~40 less damage.
And this is where that number comes from. if you are losing 80 HP, you are losing 80 eHP or 96 eHP if you are a pld. in order to get the same out of parry, you would need to be able to block that much more damage. but I specifically specified between heals because it is harder to quantify the parry gains over the course of a battle. namely because you cannot parry every attack. and furthermore parry has to actually activate for you to receive the benefit.
Taking a look at one of my old logs, in a battle I received about 120k. Even assuming I parry every single blow I took, i would recieve 1200 less damage that fight if I improved a parry tier. Which is what...a cure 2 maybe? so one less cure 2 over the duration of the fight? Comparing to the amount of over heal I recieved (around 10k) improving a parry tier does almost nothing.
This is why I always say that VIT/HP is better from a defensive perspective than str. my healer isn't going to notice 1 or even 2 less cure 2s. now, if it was 10 less cure 2s we might have something. but with a 1% gain, you're looking at (assuming 2200 per cure 2) having to take 2 million damage in an encounter. | your healer isn't going to notice you improving a parry tier. you will need a very very long fight and need to take a lot of damage for it to matter. this is again why I say, you don't really need to worry about STR outside of what you get naturally as you progress. This is also the reason I would never give up VIT for STR in the hardest content. eHP is one of the most important stats as a tank. It's not something i'm willing to give up. |
Onisake | I have always preferred HP to any other stat on a tank. like most classes get VIT as the iLvl increases, tanks get str. so I strongly feel that we don't need more str beyond what we naturally obtain through gear.
The reason I say this is because of how margin of error works for tanks. we are primarily reliant on healers. just like DPS classes rely on CDs to improve their margin of error on damage, tanks use them to increase margin of error while tanking. IE: using IB/rampart at the right time can give the healer one or even two more GCDs to react.
While I am a strong advocate of healers being active, as opposed to reactive, you rarely encounter these kinds of players outside of hardcore raiders. so while ~80hp may not seem like a lot, I can't count the number of times i've taken an unexpected crit after a big attack and had less than 100hp remaining. giving me and my healer that one GCD needed to prevent a wipe.
you may argue this is a fringe case, but what does strength really give you? increased DPS? ok. how much? .5%? maybe 1%? and as a tank i might account for 8% of the total damage? meaning I might be improving overall DPS of the raide by .4%? damage is damage, sure. but in the grand scheme of things that .4% increase in damage isn't going to prevent a wipe. I drop below 100HP FAR more often than I'm the last man standing and miraculously deal the killing blow saving the raid.
The other side of that is enmity. with the changes to defiance/shield oath i haven't had any enmity issues at all. even in turn 4, which is imo the most demanding for snap-threat, i don't have issues. the tanks I do see having issues are not using abilities appropriately (Flash on war instead of overpower/steel cyclone. etc.)
In such cases, even 18 str probably isn't goign to do much. instead i'd be bringing in a STR pot. which gives me a big boost of str right when i need it. While I also carry hi-elixers for emergencies i rarely use them. so STR pots seem a much better alternative than to giving up raw HP.
TL;DR: there's no need to change your stats. depending on what you mean by 'scenarios where more str would be nice' a STR pot may be more than sufficient to handle these. overall, more HP (even as little as 81 hp) will give you more margin for error than the minor increases STR will give you. | I have always preferred HP to any other stat on a tank. like most classes get VIT as the iLvl increases, tanks get str. so I strongly feel that we don't need more str beyond what we naturally obtain through gear.
The reason I say this is because of how margin of error works for tanks. we are primarily reliant on healers. just like DPS classes rely on CDs to improve their margin of error on damage, tanks use them to increase margin of error while tanking. IE: using IB/rampart at the right time can give the healer one or even two more GCDs to react.
While I am a strong advocate of healers being active, as opposed to reactive, you rarely encounter these kinds of players outside of hardcore raiders. so while ~80hp may not seem like a lot, I can't count the number of times i've taken an unexpected crit after a big attack and had less than 100hp remaining. giving me and my healer that one GCD needed to prevent a wipe.
you may argue this is a fringe case, but what does strength really give you? increased DPS? ok. how much? .5%? maybe 1%? and as a tank i might account for 8% of the total damage? meaning I might be improving overall DPS of the raide by .4%? damage is damage, sure. but in the grand scheme of things that .4% increase in damage isn't going to prevent a wipe. I drop below 100HP FAR more often than I'm the last man standing and miraculously deal the killing blow saving the raid.
The other side of that is enmity. with the changes to defiance/shield oath i haven't had any enmity issues at all. even in turn 4, which is imo the most demanding for snap-threat, i don't have issues. the tanks I do see having issues are not using abilities appropriately (Flash on war instead of overpower/steel cyclone. etc.)
In such cases, even 18 str probably isn't goign to do much. instead i'd be bringing in a STR pot. which gives me a big boost of str right when i need it. While I also carry hi-elixers for emergencies i rarely use them. so STR pots seem a much better alternative than to giving up raw HP.
TL;DR: there's no need to change your stats. depending on what you mean by 'scenarios where more str would be nice' a STR pot may be more than sufficient to handle these. overall, more HP (even as little as 81 hp) will give you more margin for error than the minor increases STR will give you.
| ffxiv | t5_2rgs7 | cex0n1o | I have always preferred HP to any other stat on a tank. like most classes get VIT as the iLvl increases, tanks get str. so I strongly feel that we don't need more str beyond what we naturally obtain through gear.
The reason I say this is because of how margin of error works for tanks. we are primarily reliant on healers. just like DPS classes rely on CDs to improve their margin of error on damage, tanks use them to increase margin of error while tanking. IE: using IB/rampart at the right time can give the healer one or even two more GCDs to react.
While I am a strong advocate of healers being active, as opposed to reactive, you rarely encounter these kinds of players outside of hardcore raiders. so while ~80hp may not seem like a lot, I can't count the number of times i've taken an unexpected crit after a big attack and had less than 100hp remaining. giving me and my healer that one GCD needed to prevent a wipe.
you may argue this is a fringe case, but what does strength really give you? increased DPS? ok. how much? .5%? maybe 1%? and as a tank i might account for 8% of the total damage? meaning I might be improving overall DPS of the raide by .4%? damage is damage, sure. but in the grand scheme of things that .4% increase in damage isn't going to prevent a wipe. I drop below 100HP FAR more often than I'm the last man standing and miraculously deal the killing blow saving the raid.
The other side of that is enmity. with the changes to defiance/shield oath i haven't had any enmity issues at all. even in turn 4, which is imo the most demanding for snap-threat, i don't have issues. the tanks I do see having issues are not using abilities appropriately (Flash on war instead of overpower/steel cyclone. etc.)
In such cases, even 18 str probably isn't goign to do much. instead i'd be bringing in a STR pot. which gives me a big boost of str right when i need it. While I also carry hi-elixers for emergencies i rarely use them. so STR pots seem a much better alternative than to giving up raw HP. | there's no need to change your stats. depending on what you mean by 'scenarios where more str would be nice' a STR pot may be more than sufficient to handle these. overall, more HP (even as little as 81 hp) will give you more margin for error than the minor increases STR will give you. |
MarmaladeMatt | Depends on the type of wood-glue used. There are potentially toxic formulas such as urea-formaldehyde resin which can degrade over time in the presence of heat and moisture. This would not be safe to use for something like a cutting board which is often subjected to such conditions as heat and moisture.
Non-toxic solutions like the epoxy formula used by [Titebond]( are much more resistant to heat and moisture. Not all epoxy wood-glue is safe to use for an application like this, but the specific Titebond product I linked to is rated safe for indirect contact with food by the FDA. Provided the cutting board is washed gently in the sink using regular dish-washing soap and cool/warm water is will last for, potentially, years. There are some "non-toxic" wood-glue formulations that could potentially become toxic if subjected to high heat or other harsh conditions. Thus, avoiding the dishwasher or contact with various solvents (i.e. ethanol, acetone, or similar) is a must. Acids like vinegar or those found in fruits/vegetable could also potentially break down the wood-glue if left to sit for extended periods of time, so the board should be washed soon after use.
Wood by itself is a mixture of two major ingredients: simple sugars (glucose) linked together in long chains to form cellulose, and also lignin, which is a complex of linked aromatic alcohols. Both of these types of molecules are polymeric in nature, meaning they are comprised of a specific ratio of various smaller compounds. Wood-glue is also a polymeric formulation meant to mimic the structural qualities of naturally produced wood polymers. These glue polymers can be synthetic, i.e. cyanoacrylate, or naturally derived, i.e. [animal glue]( either way, they tend to be stronger than the polymers found naturally in wood.
Glue becomes toxic when it degrades into the simpler components of its polymeric structure. The urea-formaldehyde resin I mentioned earlier is composed of urea and formaldehyde molecules arranged in a specific pattern which is not readily toxic. However, when this polymeric structure begins to break down into its component parts, the carcinogenic properties of pure formaldehyde become apparent.
**TL;DR:** Non-toxic wood-glue approved by the FDA is safe to use for an application like this provided the cutting board is taken care of by gently washing it soon after every use and avoiding the dishwasher. | Depends on the type of wood-glue used. There are potentially toxic formulas such as urea-formaldehyde resin which can degrade over time in the presence of heat and moisture. This would not be safe to use for something like a cutting board which is often subjected to such conditions as heat and moisture.
Non-toxic solutions like the epoxy formula used by Titebond is a must. Acids like vinegar or those found in fruits/vegetable could also potentially break down the wood-glue if left to sit for extended periods of time, so the board should be washed soon after use.
Wood by itself is a mixture of two major ingredients: simple sugars (glucose) linked together in long chains to form cellulose, and also lignin, which is a complex of linked aromatic alcohols. Both of these types of molecules are polymeric in nature, meaning they are comprised of a specific ratio of various smaller compounds. Wood-glue is also a polymeric formulation meant to mimic the structural qualities of naturally produced wood polymers. These glue polymers can be synthetic, i.e. cyanoacrylate, or naturally derived, i.e. [animal glue]( either way, they tend to be stronger than the polymers found naturally in wood.
Glue becomes toxic when it degrades into the simpler components of its polymeric structure. The urea-formaldehyde resin I mentioned earlier is composed of urea and formaldehyde molecules arranged in a specific pattern which is not readily toxic. However, when this polymeric structure begins to break down into its component parts, the carcinogenic properties of pure formaldehyde become apparent.
TL;DR: Non-toxic wood-glue approved by the FDA is safe to use for an application like this provided the cutting board is taken care of by gently washing it soon after every use and avoiding the dishwasher.
| ArtisanVideos | t5_2sbd9 | cf23rv5 | Depends on the type of wood-glue used. There are potentially toxic formulas such as urea-formaldehyde resin which can degrade over time in the presence of heat and moisture. This would not be safe to use for something like a cutting board which is often subjected to such conditions as heat and moisture.
Non-toxic solutions like the epoxy formula used by Titebond is a must. Acids like vinegar or those found in fruits/vegetable could also potentially break down the wood-glue if left to sit for extended periods of time, so the board should be washed soon after use.
Wood by itself is a mixture of two major ingredients: simple sugars (glucose) linked together in long chains to form cellulose, and also lignin, which is a complex of linked aromatic alcohols. Both of these types of molecules are polymeric in nature, meaning they are comprised of a specific ratio of various smaller compounds. Wood-glue is also a polymeric formulation meant to mimic the structural qualities of naturally produced wood polymers. These glue polymers can be synthetic, i.e. cyanoacrylate, or naturally derived, i.e. [animal glue]( either way, they tend to be stronger than the polymers found naturally in wood.
Glue becomes toxic when it degrades into the simpler components of its polymeric structure. The urea-formaldehyde resin I mentioned earlier is composed of urea and formaldehyde molecules arranged in a specific pattern which is not readily toxic. However, when this polymeric structure begins to break down into its component parts, the carcinogenic properties of pure formaldehyde become apparent. | Non-toxic wood-glue approved by the FDA is safe to use for an application like this provided the cutting board is taken care of by gently washing it soon after every use and avoiding the dishwasher. |
Cynner | Maybe, just MAYBE because each of the referenced authors are conservative and have conservative ideologies? Even McCorky stated that they KNEW that there were no jobs in the rural areas, they KNEW that the rural areas were going to get hit very hard with the lack of extended unemployment benefits -- but they went ahead and did it anyway. ANY report that says the new jobs here in NC are not inferior to those manufacturing jobs that were lost has not one real-world clue as to what it's like in the unemployment line. But like I said, it's okay, NC will flounder for a long time -- because WHAT company in it's right mind would want to move here with the tax, education, unemployment, and religious zealot type of state government we presently have? Name one fresh start-up company that is willing to move to the triangle or Raleigh... The state that limited ISP growth / internet sppeds wants to attract high-end companies? Not in your internet lifetime. But you keep on posting these conservative reviews, don't bother to research / explore and define it... And by golly, gee, George, you'll continue to get downvoted. Think of it as one of your professors telling you that you're on the wrong path for your thesis, but you continue anyway. TL;DR: Waste of everyone's time. P.S. Pray that you're never unemployed, disabled and/or considered "too old" to work. | Maybe, just MAYBE because each of the referenced authors are conservative and have conservative ideologies? Even McCorky stated that they KNEW that there were no jobs in the rural areas, they KNEW that the rural areas were going to get hit very hard with the lack of extended unemployment benefits -- but they went ahead and did it anyway. ANY report that says the new jobs here in NC are not inferior to those manufacturing jobs that were lost has not one real-world clue as to what it's like in the unemployment line. But like I said, it's okay, NC will flounder for a long time -- because WHAT company in it's right mind would want to move here with the tax, education, unemployment, and religious zealot type of state government we presently have? Name one fresh start-up company that is willing to move to the triangle or Raleigh... The state that limited ISP growth / internet sppeds wants to attract high-end companies? Not in your internet lifetime. But you keep on posting these conservative reviews, don't bother to research / explore and define it... And by golly, gee, George, you'll continue to get downvoted. Think of it as one of your professors telling you that you're on the wrong path for your thesis, but you continue anyway. TL;DR: Waste of everyone's time. P.S. Pray that you're never unemployed, disabled and/or considered "too old" to work.
| NorthCarolina | t5_2qhmx | cexu5fq | Maybe, just MAYBE because each of the referenced authors are conservative and have conservative ideologies? Even McCorky stated that they KNEW that there were no jobs in the rural areas, they KNEW that the rural areas were going to get hit very hard with the lack of extended unemployment benefits -- but they went ahead and did it anyway. ANY report that says the new jobs here in NC are not inferior to those manufacturing jobs that were lost has not one real-world clue as to what it's like in the unemployment line. But like I said, it's okay, NC will flounder for a long time -- because WHAT company in it's right mind would want to move here with the tax, education, unemployment, and religious zealot type of state government we presently have? Name one fresh start-up company that is willing to move to the triangle or Raleigh... The state that limited ISP growth / internet sppeds wants to attract high-end companies? Not in your internet lifetime. But you keep on posting these conservative reviews, don't bother to research / explore and define it... And by golly, gee, George, you'll continue to get downvoted. Think of it as one of your professors telling you that you're on the wrong path for your thesis, but you continue anyway. | Waste of everyone's time. P.S. Pray that you're never unemployed, disabled and/or considered "too old" to work. |
Cynner | Now this author's bio just made me laugh out loud, and you call this a "solid piece of research" -- "a more scientific approach to ascertaining the truth behind the effectiveness of NC's reduction in employment benefits" --
THIS AUTHOR IS A a PhD Candidate in the Department of Economics at the University of Pennsylvania. I am a research assistant at the National Bureau of Economic Research and New York University. My research focuses broadly on macroeconomics. I am particularly interested in household finance, default and labor markets.
Maybe you could find SOMEONE who actually has a degree, worked in the economic's field before stating that it's "scientific and qualified" research?
TL;DR -- it's from his PERSONAL webpage on his college website, FFS. | Now this author's bio just made me laugh out loud, and you call this a "solid piece of research" -- "a more scientific approach to ascertaining the truth behind the effectiveness of NC's reduction in employment benefits" --
THIS AUTHOR IS A a PhD Candidate in the Department of Economics at the University of Pennsylvania. I am a research assistant at the National Bureau of Economic Research and New York University. My research focuses broadly on macroeconomics. I am particularly interested in household finance, default and labor markets.
Maybe you could find SOMEONE who actually has a degree, worked in the economic's field before stating that it's "scientific and qualified" research?
TL;DR -- it's from his PERSONAL webpage on his college website, FFS.
| NorthCarolina | t5_2qhmx | cexujc5 | Now this author's bio just made me laugh out loud, and you call this a "solid piece of research" -- "a more scientific approach to ascertaining the truth behind the effectiveness of NC's reduction in employment benefits" --
THIS AUTHOR IS A a PhD Candidate in the Department of Economics at the University of Pennsylvania. I am a research assistant at the National Bureau of Economic Research and New York University. My research focuses broadly on macroeconomics. I am particularly interested in household finance, default and labor markets.
Maybe you could find SOMEONE who actually has a degree, worked in the economic's field before stating that it's "scientific and qualified" research? | it's from his PERSONAL webpage on his college website, FFS. |
AyeAyeCaptain | OP, please ask a question or for advice. Also, add a proper summary for your tl;dr. Message the mods for approval once you're done. Thank.s | OP, please ask a question or for advice. Also, add a proper summary for your tl;dr. Message the mods for approval once you're done. Thank.s
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redstripedcat | [Anche Princeton è in declino come dimostrato da Mike Develin](
TL;DR: Puttanate. | [Anche Princeton è in declino come dimostrato da Mike Develin](
TL;DR: Puttanate.
| italy | t5_2qkhk | cexpra4 | Anche Princeton è in declino come dimostrato da Mike Develin]( | Puttanate. |
Shadycat | I'm a collector as well, though I don't buy much anymore. I think they're worth it in the sense that I like original issues because they have more context. Cover art, letter columns, introduction, hell even advertising. They put the work in it's time and place.
A quick review of ebay will show you that the issues can be had for next to nothing. For preference, get the Double Diamond issues instead of the Antarctic Press reprints. They don't cost much more. I collected them years ago. Like, before ebay years ago. Like old issues of, say, Usagi Yojimbo, they weren't worth much, but good luck finding them digging bins. And I had access to many comic shops.
IMHO, Hepcats is an important work of anthropomorphics. There was a whole tide of "funny animal" work in the mid to late eighties, and very little of it was more than mediocre and derivative. Hepcats, with it's serious story line and (IMHO) amazing art, proved that serious work (with a contemporary, non SF story) could be done in an anthropomorphic format.
This is already too long, but one interesting thing about Hepcats is that the anthropomorphics *don't matter*. The characters are not aware that they have the heads of various animals, and their bodies are completely human.
TL;DR Yes you should. | I'm a collector as well, though I don't buy much anymore. I think they're worth it in the sense that I like original issues because they have more context. Cover art, letter columns, introduction, hell even advertising. They put the work in it's time and place.
A quick review of ebay will show you that the issues can be had for next to nothing. For preference, get the Double Diamond issues instead of the Antarctic Press reprints. They don't cost much more. I collected them years ago. Like, before ebay years ago. Like old issues of, say, Usagi Yojimbo, they weren't worth much, but good luck finding them digging bins. And I had access to many comic shops.
IMHO, Hepcats is an important work of anthropomorphics. There was a whole tide of "funny animal" work in the mid to late eighties, and very little of it was more than mediocre and derivative. Hepcats, with it's serious story line and (IMHO) amazing art, proved that serious work (with a contemporary, non SF story) could be done in an anthropomorphic format.
This is already too long, but one interesting thing about Hepcats is that the anthropomorphics don't matter . The characters are not aware that they have the heads of various animals, and their bodies are completely human.
TL;DR Yes you should.
| furry | t5_2qi2h | cez1380 | I'm a collector as well, though I don't buy much anymore. I think they're worth it in the sense that I like original issues because they have more context. Cover art, letter columns, introduction, hell even advertising. They put the work in it's time and place.
A quick review of ebay will show you that the issues can be had for next to nothing. For preference, get the Double Diamond issues instead of the Antarctic Press reprints. They don't cost much more. I collected them years ago. Like, before ebay years ago. Like old issues of, say, Usagi Yojimbo, they weren't worth much, but good luck finding them digging bins. And I had access to many comic shops.
IMHO, Hepcats is an important work of anthropomorphics. There was a whole tide of "funny animal" work in the mid to late eighties, and very little of it was more than mediocre and derivative. Hepcats, with it's serious story line and (IMHO) amazing art, proved that serious work (with a contemporary, non SF story) could be done in an anthropomorphic format.
This is already too long, but one interesting thing about Hepcats is that the anthropomorphics don't matter . The characters are not aware that they have the heads of various animals, and their bodies are completely human. | Yes you should. |
maineblackbear | Run a disadvantage arguing that condom distribution will anger the conservatives. Variety of impacts: equals increased conservative political power or better argue that when conservatives get mad they withdraw their kids from school. (See Texas). The children of non conservatives get condoms but conservative children actually get pregnant STDs at higher rate. Then you win because impact of more ignorance.
Poseidansdick has great arguments. I think CTROs arguments might be easily turnable but check out the links anyway.
Tl;dr increase condoms anger conservatives. | Run a disadvantage arguing that condom distribution will anger the conservatives. Variety of impacts: equals increased conservative political power or better argue that when conservatives get mad they withdraw their kids from school. (See Texas). The children of non conservatives get condoms but conservative children actually get pregnant STDs at higher rate. Then you win because impact of more ignorance.
Poseidansdick has great arguments. I think CTROs arguments might be easily turnable but check out the links anyway.
Tl;dr increase condoms anger conservatives.
| Debate | t5_2qja8 | cey0rz7 | Run a disadvantage arguing that condom distribution will anger the conservatives. Variety of impacts: equals increased conservative political power or better argue that when conservatives get mad they withdraw their kids from school. (See Texas). The children of non conservatives get condoms but conservative children actually get pregnant STDs at higher rate. Then you win because impact of more ignorance.
Poseidansdick has great arguments. I think CTROs arguments might be easily turnable but check out the links anyway. | increase condoms anger conservatives. |
emiririn | I too would really like some more in depth clarification. I haven't been able to find anyone who knows how the body chooses specifically from where triglycerides are converted to energy. Asking different doctors only gives me different answers, which is frustrating.
Here is my crude understanding from reading some online texts.
When your body needs energy, it goes through 2 layers of energy before your body starts using triglycerides from fat cells. ATP-PC is super readily available energy that is depleted after only a few seconds of intense exercise. The second "tank" is glucose from carbohydrates. It can be depleted after a few minutes of intense exercise, this is when you are completely worn out after a mile run or something. Finally, the third tank which over short periods of time refuels the first two tanks comes from fat cells, this is when actual adipose tissue is used as fuel. It is my (very crude) understanding that if we don't allow the first two tanks to deplete, by constantly refueling with carbs, our adipose tissue isn't ever utilized, and fat only very slowly is drained, and if we eat too much, fat is stored.
Now I think(?) in order to redistribute fat efficiently, we need to diet so that adipose tissue is used as fuel, and also eat to gain weight so that adipose tissue is added. If you are only dieting over long periods of time, adipose tissue is never added, so, supposedly, hormones will tell the body (this is the part I have poor understanding of) where to take adipose tissue from to use as fuel. My guess is that hormones somehow "prioritize" which fat cells are more important and crucial to life, and uses the least prioritized fat first. If you are on E, the male pattern fats will be the least prioritized, and should be used for energy first before the female patterned fat, which your body considers much more crucial now.
OK OK TLDR for your questions:
>However... I'm worried about where this fat is going to come off. I'm reaching a critical time for fat redistribution, so I'm worried it'll come off my boobs, my hips, and other female fat deposits, and not off the male ones like my back and my belly.
Your body now considers these fats more crucial for life, so it should not come off once it stays. This fat is now the most stubborn fat to remove from your body as long as you maintain E levels
>Also, if I'm not taking in a great deal of calories for a while, will this hinder my female fat redistribution and cause me to have a lesser end result?
Yes, in a sense, you won't build much new fat tissue, it won't hinder the "end result", it'll just take longer. The biological blueprint is there, it's just a matter of how long it takes to get there. The blueprint itself won't change.
I have heard consistently the best results from people who fluctuate weight within their healthy BMI range. If you lose 10lbs in a month, and gain 5 the next, you lost 10 lbs of male fat, and gained 5 lbs of female fat.
Again, I have to stress this is my very crude understanding from online texts. It may be completely wrong, I'm not a biologist and not a doctor. | I too would really like some more in depth clarification. I haven't been able to find anyone who knows how the body chooses specifically from where triglycerides are converted to energy. Asking different doctors only gives me different answers, which is frustrating.
Here is my crude understanding from reading some online texts.
When your body needs energy, it goes through 2 layers of energy before your body starts using triglycerides from fat cells. ATP-PC is super readily available energy that is depleted after only a few seconds of intense exercise. The second "tank" is glucose from carbohydrates. It can be depleted after a few minutes of intense exercise, this is when you are completely worn out after a mile run or something. Finally, the third tank which over short periods of time refuels the first two tanks comes from fat cells, this is when actual adipose tissue is used as fuel. It is my (very crude) understanding that if we don't allow the first two tanks to deplete, by constantly refueling with carbs, our adipose tissue isn't ever utilized, and fat only very slowly is drained, and if we eat too much, fat is stored.
Now I think(?) in order to redistribute fat efficiently, we need to diet so that adipose tissue is used as fuel, and also eat to gain weight so that adipose tissue is added. If you are only dieting over long periods of time, adipose tissue is never added, so, supposedly, hormones will tell the body (this is the part I have poor understanding of) where to take adipose tissue from to use as fuel. My guess is that hormones somehow "prioritize" which fat cells are more important and crucial to life, and uses the least prioritized fat first. If you are on E, the male pattern fats will be the least prioritized, and should be used for energy first before the female patterned fat, which your body considers much more crucial now.
OK OK TLDR for your questions:
>However... I'm worried about where this fat is going to come off. I'm reaching a critical time for fat redistribution, so I'm worried it'll come off my boobs, my hips, and other female fat deposits, and not off the male ones like my back and my belly.
Your body now considers these fats more crucial for life, so it should not come off once it stays. This fat is now the most stubborn fat to remove from your body as long as you maintain E levels
>Also, if I'm not taking in a great deal of calories for a while, will this hinder my female fat redistribution and cause me to have a lesser end result?
Yes, in a sense, you won't build much new fat tissue, it won't hinder the "end result", it'll just take longer. The biological blueprint is there, it's just a matter of how long it takes to get there. The blueprint itself won't change.
I have heard consistently the best results from people who fluctuate weight within their healthy BMI range. If you lose 10lbs in a month, and gain 5 the next, you lost 10 lbs of male fat, and gained 5 lbs of female fat.
Again, I have to stress this is my very crude understanding from online texts. It may be completely wrong, I'm not a biologist and not a doctor.
| asktransgender | t5_2r4b9 | cexvvvs | I too would really like some more in depth clarification. I haven't been able to find anyone who knows how the body chooses specifically from where triglycerides are converted to energy. Asking different doctors only gives me different answers, which is frustrating.
Here is my crude understanding from reading some online texts.
When your body needs energy, it goes through 2 layers of energy before your body starts using triglycerides from fat cells. ATP-PC is super readily available energy that is depleted after only a few seconds of intense exercise. The second "tank" is glucose from carbohydrates. It can be depleted after a few minutes of intense exercise, this is when you are completely worn out after a mile run or something. Finally, the third tank which over short periods of time refuels the first two tanks comes from fat cells, this is when actual adipose tissue is used as fuel. It is my (very crude) understanding that if we don't allow the first two tanks to deplete, by constantly refueling with carbs, our adipose tissue isn't ever utilized, and fat only very slowly is drained, and if we eat too much, fat is stored.
Now I think(?) in order to redistribute fat efficiently, we need to diet so that adipose tissue is used as fuel, and also eat to gain weight so that adipose tissue is added. If you are only dieting over long periods of time, adipose tissue is never added, so, supposedly, hormones will tell the body (this is the part I have poor understanding of) where to take adipose tissue from to use as fuel. My guess is that hormones somehow "prioritize" which fat cells are more important and crucial to life, and uses the least prioritized fat first. If you are on E, the male pattern fats will be the least prioritized, and should be used for energy first before the female patterned fat, which your body considers much more crucial now.
OK OK | for your questions:
>However... I'm worried about where this fat is going to come off. I'm reaching a critical time for fat redistribution, so I'm worried it'll come off my boobs, my hips, and other female fat deposits, and not off the male ones like my back and my belly.
Your body now considers these fats more crucial for life, so it should not come off once it stays. This fat is now the most stubborn fat to remove from your body as long as you maintain E levels
>Also, if I'm not taking in a great deal of calories for a while, will this hinder my female fat redistribution and cause me to have a lesser end result?
Yes, in a sense, you won't build much new fat tissue, it won't hinder the "end result", it'll just take longer. The biological blueprint is there, it's just a matter of how long it takes to get there. The blueprint itself won't change.
I have heard consistently the best results from people who fluctuate weight within their healthy BMI range. If you lose 10lbs in a month, and gain 5 the next, you lost 10 lbs of male fat, and gained 5 lbs of female fat.
Again, I have to stress this is my very crude understanding from online texts. It may be completely wrong, I'm not a biologist and not a doctor. |
IAmGoingToFuckThat | >I like trimmed beards/completely shaven but I think that'll land me in the minority here.... it's very nice!
I am often the unpopular opinion puffin when a ladyboner posts a clean-shaven photo and a beardy photo and asks which is best. I am not a fan of long beards like a lot of the people here seem to be.
Tl;dr: me too! | >I like trimmed beards/completely shaven but I think that'll land me in the minority here.... it's very nice!
I am often the unpopular opinion puffin when a ladyboner posts a clean-shaven photo and a beardy photo and asks which is best. I am not a fan of long beards like a lot of the people here seem to be.
Tl;dr: me too!
| ladybonersgw | t5_2t4jw | cey9ij0 | I like trimmed beards/completely shaven but I think that'll land me in the minority here.... it's very nice!
I am often the unpopular opinion puffin when a ladyboner posts a clean-shaven photo and a beardy photo and asks which is best. I am not a fan of long beards like a lot of the people here seem to be. | me too! |
Toeknee99 | Alright, let me end the discussion as my opinion is the only one that matters in this entire conversation. I don't like Macklemore, so I will label him as pop as to slander his person.
tl;dr: FUCK WHAT YOU SAY. I DON'T GIVE A FUCK. I'M RIGHT. | Alright, let me end the discussion as my opinion is the only one that matters in this entire conversation. I don't like Macklemore, so I will label him as pop as to slander his person.
tl;dr: FUCK WHAT YOU SAY. I DON'T GIVE A FUCK. I'M RIGHT.
| Hiphopcirclejerk | t5_2suwz | cey1c7i | Alright, let me end the discussion as my opinion is the only one that matters in this entire conversation. I don't like Macklemore, so I will label him as pop as to slander his person. | FUCK WHAT YOU SAY. I DON'T GIVE A FUCK. I'M RIGHT. |
bogdaniuz | Uum the original greentext I've read was kinda the same, but the father actually lived with the son. Anon just always wondered how the father got exact games he wanted, and father replied: "Just luck I guess" and then when he died he came to his room and there were all these game magazines, with fun games marked up with notes like: "Maybe Anon will like this one?"
TL;DR Don't ever believe for 100%, anything you read on 4chan | Uum the original greentext I've read was kinda the same, but the father actually lived with the son. Anon just always wondered how the father got exact games he wanted, and father replied: "Just luck I guess" and then when he died he came to his room and there were all these game magazines, with fun games marked up with notes like: "Maybe Anon will like this one?"
TL;DR Don't ever believe for 100%, anything you read on 4chan
| gaming | t5_2qh03 | cey6izw | Uum the original greentext I've read was kinda the same, but the father actually lived with the son. Anon just always wondered how the father got exact games he wanted, and father replied: "Just luck I guess" and then when he died he came to his room and there were all these game magazines, with fun games marked up with notes like: "Maybe Anon will like this one?" | Don't ever believe for 100%, anything you read on 4chan |
JMizzo | I didnt think the Lucasi cues on that price range came with a ld shaft. Almost every cue has a different feeling to it. There could be many reasons, ill briefly try to tackle a couple.
Joint pin - I do believe your new cue is a uniloc joint, and your old cue is a 5/16x18. The hit is going to feel different. The amount of energy that transfers through the joint can be different which would result in a different feel.
Deflection - Now your cue deflects less when applying spin. IT WILL STILL DEFLECT. You need to learn the amount when applying spin to the cueball. If you don't change how you aim from the action cue to the lucasi you will be off when shooting with english. You could be in your adjustment period and may have to be more aware of your aim point.
Hit - This is subjective, and can be debated for hours. Each cue has a different hit. Some people like soft, some hard, and some in between. It may take you a while to get used to a different hit, and that could be the feel you are speaking of.
Wrap - Shouldnt make much of a difference. It will dampen the hit some, but you should still feel it without a problem. From what I notice, its more of a personal preference.
Miscuing - This is usually one of two things. Your mechanics or your tip. If your mechanics aren't the issue, then it would be the shape or type of tip you have. The fact of it being low deflection and sliding off the ball is a little bit overstated, and wouldn't effect this. This is assuming chalk isn't the offender.
TL,DR- Each cue has different characteristics that make it "it". Give it time to get used to it, and it will pay off. There is an adjustment period to a change to a LD shaft. | I didnt think the Lucasi cues on that price range came with a ld shaft. Almost every cue has a different feeling to it. There could be many reasons, ill briefly try to tackle a couple.
Joint pin - I do believe your new cue is a uniloc joint, and your old cue is a 5/16x18. The hit is going to feel different. The amount of energy that transfers through the joint can be different which would result in a different feel.
Deflection - Now your cue deflects less when applying spin. IT WILL STILL DEFLECT. You need to learn the amount when applying spin to the cueball. If you don't change how you aim from the action cue to the lucasi you will be off when shooting with english. You could be in your adjustment period and may have to be more aware of your aim point.
Hit - This is subjective, and can be debated for hours. Each cue has a different hit. Some people like soft, some hard, and some in between. It may take you a while to get used to a different hit, and that could be the feel you are speaking of.
Wrap - Shouldnt make much of a difference. It will dampen the hit some, but you should still feel it without a problem. From what I notice, its more of a personal preference.
Miscuing - This is usually one of two things. Your mechanics or your tip. If your mechanics aren't the issue, then it would be the shape or type of tip you have. The fact of it being low deflection and sliding off the ball is a little bit overstated, and wouldn't effect this. This is assuming chalk isn't the offender.
TL,DR- Each cue has different characteristics that make it "it". Give it time to get used to it, and it will pay off. There is an adjustment period to a change to a LD shaft.
| billiards | t5_2r9yh | ceydkou | I didnt think the Lucasi cues on that price range came with a ld shaft. Almost every cue has a different feeling to it. There could be many reasons, ill briefly try to tackle a couple.
Joint pin - I do believe your new cue is a uniloc joint, and your old cue is a 5/16x18. The hit is going to feel different. The amount of energy that transfers through the joint can be different which would result in a different feel.
Deflection - Now your cue deflects less when applying spin. IT WILL STILL DEFLECT. You need to learn the amount when applying spin to the cueball. If you don't change how you aim from the action cue to the lucasi you will be off when shooting with english. You could be in your adjustment period and may have to be more aware of your aim point.
Hit - This is subjective, and can be debated for hours. Each cue has a different hit. Some people like soft, some hard, and some in between. It may take you a while to get used to a different hit, and that could be the feel you are speaking of.
Wrap - Shouldnt make much of a difference. It will dampen the hit some, but you should still feel it without a problem. From what I notice, its more of a personal preference.
Miscuing - This is usually one of two things. Your mechanics or your tip. If your mechanics aren't the issue, then it would be the shape or type of tip you have. The fact of it being low deflection and sliding off the ball is a little bit overstated, and wouldn't effect this. This is assuming chalk isn't the offender. | Each cue has different characteristics that make it "it". Give it time to get used to it, and it will pay off. There is an adjustment period to a change to a LD shaft. |
Link3693 | My problem with Chuuni wasn't the message, but I feel that the drama was a bit rushed at the end, ESPECIALLY in episode 10. Not 1 second after Yuuta and Rikka confess to each other big drama comes in. At least make it the next episode! Also, later in that episode we don't get to see what Yuuta said to Rikka to make her stop being chuuni, so it felt kinda lazy and rushed to me.
tl;dr Chuunibyou is a good show, but I think it would've been even better if episode 10 was split into 2 full episodes.
Of course, this is just my personal opinion and you are very much free to have your own. | My problem with Chuuni wasn't the message, but I feel that the drama was a bit rushed at the end, ESPECIALLY in episode 10. Not 1 second after Yuuta and Rikka confess to each other big drama comes in. At least make it the next episode! Also, later in that episode we don't get to see what Yuuta said to Rikka to make her stop being chuuni, so it felt kinda lazy and rushed to me.
tl;dr Chuunibyou is a good show, but I think it would've been even better if episode 10 was split into 2 full episodes.
Of course, this is just my personal opinion and you are very much free to have your own.
| anime | t5_2qh22 | ceycjsi | My problem with Chuuni wasn't the message, but I feel that the drama was a bit rushed at the end, ESPECIALLY in episode 10. Not 1 second after Yuuta and Rikka confess to each other big drama comes in. At least make it the next episode! Also, later in that episode we don't get to see what Yuuta said to Rikka to make her stop being chuuni, so it felt kinda lazy and rushed to me. | Chuunibyou is a good show, but I think it would've been even better if episode 10 was split into 2 full episodes.
Of course, this is just my personal opinion and you are very much free to have your own. |
jmauser1 | The only study I know of having to do with this observation only studied it when the two were mixed ( However, I doubt that it makes a difference when the milk is consumed. The proteins in milk (caseins) sequester the beneficial flavonoids and make it less bioavailable. I'd say if you're really concerned with it, wait a while before drinking milk.
tl;dr Probably | The only study I know of having to do with this observation only studied it when the two were mixed ( However, I doubt that it makes a difference when the milk is consumed. The proteins in milk (caseins) sequester the beneficial flavonoids and make it less bioavailable. I'd say if you're really concerned with it, wait a while before drinking milk.
tl;dr Probably
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | ceyco1s | The only study I know of having to do with this observation only studied it when the two were mixed ( However, I doubt that it makes a difference when the milk is consumed. The proteins in milk (caseins) sequester the beneficial flavonoids and make it less bioavailable. I'd say if you're really concerned with it, wait a while before drinking milk. | Probably |
lookmeat | The idea behind patterns is that there's certain ways of thinking and acting that we humans fall into. These things happen even in completely different problems. So we can find management patters in a team of 5, or a company of 10,000 and this is without even discussing what these groups want to do.
The patterns started with programming, but have slowly been creeping to other areas. In theory you could see them anywhere people have to think about how to do something.
Patterns where originally pushed as positive, things you want to do. The idea is that you could realize that a pattern applied to your situation and then you could use the collective wisdom from everyone who's used that pattern even if no one has ever dealt with your problem. But then some of these patterns where found to be bad ideas in general, they sound good, or seem attractive, but in reality leave you worse off than if you hadn't followed them at all. This began getting called anti-patterns.
An interesting thing is the following anti-pattern: putting the pattern before the horse. This is, patterns are not a magical solution, they appear in certain cases (and should appear naturally). The idea is that you should recognize patterns and anti-patterns within what you are doing and act accordingly (improving implementation and avoiding common mistakes, or trying to avoid the anti-pattern). Some people force the patterns, assuming that the more you add the better. I would say patterns are like salt, if you add what's needed towards the end you get something really good, if you add as much as you can at the beginning you'll finish with something inedible.
So in short (TL;DR):
* Anti-patterns are always bad, basically they are common mistakes and bad practices.
* Patterns are really good when used correctly. They allow you to make parts of an unknown problem into a known problem.
* Trying to always use patterns, or forcing patterns to apply is an anti-pattern in itself.
* Patterns should arise naturally and be observed, forcing them stifles creativity and promotes over-thinking. | The idea behind patterns is that there's certain ways of thinking and acting that we humans fall into. These things happen even in completely different problems. So we can find management patters in a team of 5, or a company of 10,000 and this is without even discussing what these groups want to do.
The patterns started with programming, but have slowly been creeping to other areas. In theory you could see them anywhere people have to think about how to do something.
Patterns where originally pushed as positive, things you want to do. The idea is that you could realize that a pattern applied to your situation and then you could use the collective wisdom from everyone who's used that pattern even if no one has ever dealt with your problem. But then some of these patterns where found to be bad ideas in general, they sound good, or seem attractive, but in reality leave you worse off than if you hadn't followed them at all. This began getting called anti-patterns.
An interesting thing is the following anti-pattern: putting the pattern before the horse. This is, patterns are not a magical solution, they appear in certain cases (and should appear naturally). The idea is that you should recognize patterns and anti-patterns within what you are doing and act accordingly (improving implementation and avoiding common mistakes, or trying to avoid the anti-pattern). Some people force the patterns, assuming that the more you add the better. I would say patterns are like salt, if you add what's needed towards the end you get something really good, if you add as much as you can at the beginning you'll finish with something inedible.
So in short (TL;DR):
Anti-patterns are always bad, basically they are common mistakes and bad practices.
Patterns are really good when used correctly. They allow you to make parts of an unknown problem into a known problem.
Trying to always use patterns, or forcing patterns to apply is an anti-pattern in itself.
Patterns should arise naturally and be observed, forcing them stifles creativity and promotes over-thinking.
| programming | t5_2fwo | ceyqrg0 | The idea behind patterns is that there's certain ways of thinking and acting that we humans fall into. These things happen even in completely different problems. So we can find management patters in a team of 5, or a company of 10,000 and this is without even discussing what these groups want to do.
The patterns started with programming, but have slowly been creeping to other areas. In theory you could see them anywhere people have to think about how to do something.
Patterns where originally pushed as positive, things you want to do. The idea is that you could realize that a pattern applied to your situation and then you could use the collective wisdom from everyone who's used that pattern even if no one has ever dealt with your problem. But then some of these patterns where found to be bad ideas in general, they sound good, or seem attractive, but in reality leave you worse off than if you hadn't followed them at all. This began getting called anti-patterns.
An interesting thing is the following anti-pattern: putting the pattern before the horse. This is, patterns are not a magical solution, they appear in certain cases (and should appear naturally). The idea is that you should recognize patterns and anti-patterns within what you are doing and act accordingly (improving implementation and avoiding common mistakes, or trying to avoid the anti-pattern). Some people force the patterns, assuming that the more you add the better. I would say patterns are like salt, if you add what's needed towards the end you get something really good, if you add as much as you can at the beginning you'll finish with something inedible.
So in short ( | Anti-patterns are always bad, basically they are common mistakes and bad practices.
Patterns are really good when used correctly. They allow you to make parts of an unknown problem into a known problem.
Trying to always use patterns, or forcing patterns to apply is an anti-pattern in itself.
Patterns should arise naturally and be observed, forcing them stifles creativity and promotes over-thinking. |
eDgEIN708 | > This could all be part of a cylon infiltration, but my intuition is that during all of his work with dna Dr. Hatake discovered the cylon half of our genetic code. I think he realizes that human beings are a sophisticated mix of at least two races and I think he wants to fully activate that cylon half and delete the human part in order to create a lifeform that is 100% cylon.
That's... that's even more amazing than the idea that the Cylons came back and started all this! I really hadn't thought about a scenario other than active Cylon infiltration, so this all happening because of human curiosity makes it even better, in my opinion, because it allows the series to be grounded on Earth rather than force the necessity of the return of the Centurion type of Cylons. That also means it doesn't stray into the whole FTL-drive spaceship-and-giant-killer-robots area that tends to turn a lot of people off of a science fiction television series for some reason completely alien to me.
A human discovers the Cylon DNA, wants to make it pure, ostensibly for the betterment of mankind (or even to weaponize), only to 'resurrect' (for lack of a better term) the pure-blooded Cylons. That's genius.
EDIT: And now I know how the show ends. (Or, more accurately, how I'd end it if this theory held.) | > This could all be part of a cylon infiltration, but my intuition is that during all of his work with dna Dr. Hatake discovered the cylon half of our genetic code. I think he realizes that human beings are a sophisticated mix of at least two races and I think he wants to fully activate that cylon half and delete the human part in order to create a lifeform that is 100% cylon.
That's... that's even more amazing than the idea that the Cylons came back and started all this! I really hadn't thought about a scenario other than active Cylon infiltration, so this all happening because of human curiosity makes it even better, in my opinion, because it allows the series to be grounded on Earth rather than force the necessity of the return of the Centurion type of Cylons. That also means it doesn't stray into the whole FTL-drive spaceship-and-giant-killer-robots area that tends to turn a lot of people off of a science fiction television series for some reason completely alien to me.
A human discovers the Cylon DNA, wants to make it pure, ostensibly for the betterment of mankind (or even to weaponize), only to 'resurrect' (for lack of a better term) the pure-blooded Cylons. That's genius.
EDIT: And now I know how the show ends. (Or, more accurately, how I'd end it if this theory held.)
| BSG | t5_2qlvu | cezkli6 | This could all be part of a cylon infiltration, but my intuition is that during all of his work with dna Dr. Hatake discovered the cylon half of our genetic code. I think he realizes that human beings are a sophisticated mix of at least two races and I think he wants to fully activate that cylon half and delete the human part in order to create a lifeform that is 100% cylon.
That's... that's even more amazing than the idea that the Cylons came back and started all this! I really hadn't thought about a scenario other than active Cylon infiltration, so this all happening because of human curiosity makes it even better, in my opinion, because it allows the series to be grounded on Earth rather than force the necessity of the return of the Centurion type of Cylons. That also means it doesn't stray into the whole F | ive spaceship-and-giant-killer-robots area that tends to turn a lot of people off of a science fiction television series for some reason completely alien to me.
A human discovers the Cylon DNA, wants to make it pure, ostensibly for the betterment of mankind (or even to weaponize), only to 'resurrect' (for lack of a better term) the pure-blooded Cylons. That's genius.
EDIT: And now I know how the show ends. (Or, more accurately, how I'd end it if this theory held.) |
Scunndas | Thank you! the math in your comment took me longer to figure out than I care to admit. tl;dr: can't do math | Thank you! the math in your comment took me longer to figure out than I care to admit. tl;dr: can't do math
| dogecoin | t5_2zcp2 | ceyx5t7 | Thank you! the math in your comment took me longer to figure out than I care to admit. | can't do math |
Black_Belt_Troy | Squirtle > Wartortle > Blastoise from Blue version back in the 90's.
I went through a burglaring phase in early grade school (nothing malicious - just me being a greedy little misguided youth) anyway when my parents caught on not only did I return everything and make apologies all around but most of the possessions that were rightfully mine (a la gameboy and games) were taken away by the parentals and donated to charity.
I'm sorry Blastoise. I failed you.
TL;DR If you join team rocket, your parents take your own pokemon away for good
| Squirtle > Wartortle > Blastoise from Blue version back in the 90's.
I went through a burglaring phase in early grade school (nothing malicious - just me being a greedy little misguided youth) anyway when my parents caught on not only did I return everything and make apologies all around but most of the possessions that were rightfully mine (a la gameboy and games) were taken away by the parentals and donated to charity.
I'm sorry Blastoise. I failed you.
TL;DR If you join team rocket, your parents take your own pokemon away for good
| pokemon | t5_2qmeb | cezfa26 | Squirtle > Wartortle > Blastoise from Blue version back in the 90's.
I went through a burglaring phase in early grade school (nothing malicious - just me being a greedy little misguided youth) anyway when my parents caught on not only did I return everything and make apologies all around but most of the possessions that were rightfully mine (a la gameboy and games) were taken away by the parentals and donated to charity.
I'm sorry Blastoise. I failed you. | If you join team rocket, your parents take your own pokemon away for good |
Eagle-Eye-Smith | Nope. This is not feasible at this point.
You're talking about millions (likely around 5 million) of refugees all getting Israeli citizenship at once. We don't have the economy to support this. Almost no nation **on earth** has the economy to support such large scale immigration, even if only half of the Palestinians decide to immigrate. We experienced a housing crisis when the USSR broke up and hundreds of thousands (eventually over a million) immigrants arrived to the country. There were not enough jobs to support all of them, and for a while, their economic state was abysmal. **And this happened with Jewish immigrants**, a lot of them with higher education and good job experience.
If Palestinians are given the right of return, we would literally not have enough jobs, houses or goods to support them all. And i'm not even going to mention the racism they will face, from both the establishment and the Jewish Israeli society, as well as probably racism from their side to the Jewish one. All of this animosity, which **will** emerge from the economic conditions and the already rampant racism on both sides, will unravel the country and destroy lives.
Another thing i'm not mentioning- this won't jibe with the basic concept most Israelis have about Israel. The feeling is that we want a country **of our own**, we want to live in a Jewish state, not happen to be a bunch of Jews living in a Palestinian state.
TL;DR- You want a happy marriage, but this relationship is already doomed. Let's just get a divorce. | Nope. This is not feasible at this point.
You're talking about millions (likely around 5 million) of refugees all getting Israeli citizenship at once. We don't have the economy to support this. Almost no nation on earth has the economy to support such large scale immigration, even if only half of the Palestinians decide to immigrate. We experienced a housing crisis when the USSR broke up and hundreds of thousands (eventually over a million) immigrants arrived to the country. There were not enough jobs to support all of them, and for a while, their economic state was abysmal. And this happened with Jewish immigrants , a lot of them with higher education and good job experience.
If Palestinians are given the right of return, we would literally not have enough jobs, houses or goods to support them all. And i'm not even going to mention the racism they will face, from both the establishment and the Jewish Israeli society, as well as probably racism from their side to the Jewish one. All of this animosity, which will emerge from the economic conditions and the already rampant racism on both sides, will unravel the country and destroy lives.
Another thing i'm not mentioning- this won't jibe with the basic concept most Israelis have about Israel. The feeling is that we want a country of our own , we want to live in a Jewish state, not happen to be a bunch of Jews living in a Palestinian state.
TL;DR- You want a happy marriage, but this relationship is already doomed. Let's just get a divorce.
| Israel | t5_2qhvo | cezbqo4 | Nope. This is not feasible at this point.
You're talking about millions (likely around 5 million) of refugees all getting Israeli citizenship at once. We don't have the economy to support this. Almost no nation on earth has the economy to support such large scale immigration, even if only half of the Palestinians decide to immigrate. We experienced a housing crisis when the USSR broke up and hundreds of thousands (eventually over a million) immigrants arrived to the country. There were not enough jobs to support all of them, and for a while, their economic state was abysmal. And this happened with Jewish immigrants , a lot of them with higher education and good job experience.
If Palestinians are given the right of return, we would literally not have enough jobs, houses or goods to support them all. And i'm not even going to mention the racism they will face, from both the establishment and the Jewish Israeli society, as well as probably racism from their side to the Jewish one. All of this animosity, which will emerge from the economic conditions and the already rampant racism on both sides, will unravel the country and destroy lives.
Another thing i'm not mentioning- this won't jibe with the basic concept most Israelis have about Israel. The feeling is that we want a country of our own , we want to live in a Jewish state, not happen to be a bunch of Jews living in a Palestinian state. | You want a happy marriage, but this relationship is already doomed. Let's just get a divorce. |
saargrin | 1) as i said,the recent nature of their nationhood is not a valid reason to dismiss it
2) "Palestinian" identity is not homogenious in the same way as any other nation is, like the Basques or the Catalans ,Welsh or Inuits. In fact they have NO unique food, no unique music, no unique history before 1948 , and the "accent" claim is largely arguable as well and is,moreover not the same in Ramallah as in Gaza.
3) the reason why i personally believe their nationhood claim is a sham (though,i again,this is my personal belief) is that it is evidently a product of 3rd party initiatives and meddling and was created expressly as an instrument in the cold war / panarabism power games in the 1950-1970s
4) even assuming their nationhood is fake, that is not a reason to deny them nationhood...if they want to have their own state, let them...this has already been well accepted in principle by israeli majority..
the argument currently is that the palestinians are demanding territorial consessions that would threaten security of the state of israel while having proved that they themselves are not in any form a permanent partner for any sort of long term agreement, what with there not even being single representative body .
TL;DR - the only reason they still dont have a state is because their leadership is made up of violent assholes like Arafat who were not willing to compromise reasonably | 1) as i said,the recent nature of their nationhood is not a valid reason to dismiss it
2) "Palestinian" identity is not homogenious in the same way as any other nation is, like the Basques or the Catalans ,Welsh or Inuits. In fact they have NO unique food, no unique music, no unique history before 1948 , and the "accent" claim is largely arguable as well and is,moreover not the same in Ramallah as in Gaza.
3) the reason why i personally believe their nationhood claim is a sham (though,i again,this is my personal belief) is that it is evidently a product of 3rd party initiatives and meddling and was created expressly as an instrument in the cold war / panarabism power games in the 1950-1970s
4) even assuming their nationhood is fake, that is not a reason to deny them nationhood...if they want to have their own state, let them...this has already been well accepted in principle by israeli majority..
the argument currently is that the palestinians are demanding territorial consessions that would threaten security of the state of israel while having proved that they themselves are not in any form a permanent partner for any sort of long term agreement, what with there not even being single representative body .
TL;DR - the only reason they still dont have a state is because their leadership is made up of violent assholes like Arafat who were not willing to compromise reasonably
| Israel | t5_2qhvo | cezivze | 1) as i said,the recent nature of their nationhood is not a valid reason to dismiss it
2) "Palestinian" identity is not homogenious in the same way as any other nation is, like the Basques or the Catalans ,Welsh or Inuits. In fact they have NO unique food, no unique music, no unique history before 1948 , and the "accent" claim is largely arguable as well and is,moreover not the same in Ramallah as in Gaza.
3) the reason why i personally believe their nationhood claim is a sham (though,i again,this is my personal belief) is that it is evidently a product of 3rd party initiatives and meddling and was created expressly as an instrument in the cold war / panarabism power games in the 1950-1970s
4) even assuming their nationhood is fake, that is not a reason to deny them nationhood...if they want to have their own state, let them...this has already been well accepted in principle by israeli majority..
the argument currently is that the palestinians are demanding territorial consessions that would threaten security of the state of israel while having proved that they themselves are not in any form a permanent partner for any sort of long term agreement, what with there not even being single representative body . | the only reason they still dont have a state is because their leadership is made up of violent assholes like Arafat who were not willing to compromise reasonably |
Wiljuice | The only person who has really *hurt* the coven was Madison, no? Not including Fiona, because she's not in the running for the new supreme position. I don't see how Zoe hurt the coven, although I could see one arguing against Queenie.
tl;dr it could be anyone. | The only person who has really hurt the coven was Madison, no? Not including Fiona, because she's not in the running for the new supreme position. I don't see how Zoe hurt the coven, although I could see one arguing against Queenie.
tl;dr it could be anyone.
| AmericanHorrorStory | t5_2spug | cezfbgs | The only person who has really hurt the coven was Madison, no? Not including Fiona, because she's not in the running for the new supreme position. I don't see how Zoe hurt the coven, although I could see one arguing against Queenie. | it could be anyone. |
Footy_Fanatic | Hell fucking yea I would. Crickets have great macros and I've eaten them. Delicious.
Second link is nutrition profiles. Crickets are mainly protein.
I'm a Geography B.S. student, almost done with my degree. Bugs may be what your grand children get swole from. Many credible researchers are predicting massive food shortages in the future(for grain importers and a huge increase in food prices ( for everyone else). Also a lot of crop land is being used up by farming what will eventually turn into ethonal, this will increase with the push for non fossil fuels. Water will become scarce in many places soon making farming even less viable. World population is still skyrocketing.
Tldr: Your grandkids might bulk off insects because grain prices are going to skyrocket, we feed animals we eat grain, this makes meat prices skyrocket. I'd rather eat crickets than soy. Yum.
| Hell fucking yea I would. Crickets have great macros and I've eaten them. Delicious.
Second link is nutrition profiles. Crickets are mainly protein.
I'm a Geography B.S. student, almost done with my degree. Bugs may be what your grand children get swole from. Many credible researchers are predicting massive food shortages in the future(for grain importers and a huge increase in food prices ( for everyone else). Also a lot of crop land is being used up by farming what will eventually turn into ethonal, this will increase with the push for non fossil fuels. Water will become scarce in many places soon making farming even less viable. World population is still skyrocketing.
Tldr: Your grandkids might bulk off insects because grain prices are going to skyrocket, we feed animals we eat grain, this makes meat prices skyrocket. I'd rather eat crickets than soy. Yum.
| Fitness | t5_2qhx4 | cezv1gn | Hell fucking yea I would. Crickets have great macros and I've eaten them. Delicious.
Second link is nutrition profiles. Crickets are mainly protein.
I'm a Geography B.S. student, almost done with my degree. Bugs may be what your grand children get swole from. Many credible researchers are predicting massive food shortages in the future(for grain importers and a huge increase in food prices ( for everyone else). Also a lot of crop land is being used up by farming what will eventually turn into ethonal, this will increase with the push for non fossil fuels. Water will become scarce in many places soon making farming even less viable. World population is still skyrocketing. | Your grandkids might bulk off insects because grain prices are going to skyrocket, we feed animals we eat grain, this makes meat prices skyrocket. I'd rather eat crickets than soy. Yum. |
crystalfrostfire | I have a nasty auto-immune disease called lupus and take a whole cocktail of immune suppressants to help manage it. A few weeks ago my cat bit my wrist and by the next morning my whole arm was hugely swollen, red and hot. Went to the ER and by the time they got me in (a few hours later) I had red streaks going all the way up my arm. Had to be on I.V. antibiotics for 5 days and oral antibios for 10 days. After all that, it hasn't gone away and the infection is now most likely in my bones now as a bone infection (going in for tests soon). I'm going to a new doctor tomorrow and I hope to get started on new treatment. The super fun bonus to all of this that I've had the WORST diarrhea from the antibiotics killing off my good gut flora despite the fact that I have been eating nothing but probiotics for days now and its just not getting better. Wish me luck that I don't end up loosing my arm!
TL;DR: immune-suppressed so now a cat bite means I have a chance of loosing my arm. | I have a nasty auto-immune disease called lupus and take a whole cocktail of immune suppressants to help manage it. A few weeks ago my cat bit my wrist and by the next morning my whole arm was hugely swollen, red and hot. Went to the ER and by the time they got me in (a few hours later) I had red streaks going all the way up my arm. Had to be on I.V. antibiotics for 5 days and oral antibios for 10 days. After all that, it hasn't gone away and the infection is now most likely in my bones now as a bone infection (going in for tests soon). I'm going to a new doctor tomorrow and I hope to get started on new treatment. The super fun bonus to all of this that I've had the WORST diarrhea from the antibiotics killing off my good gut flora despite the fact that I have been eating nothing but probiotics for days now and its just not getting better. Wish me luck that I don't end up loosing my arm!
TL;DR: immune-suppressed so now a cat bite means I have a chance of loosing my arm.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | cezv26l | I have a nasty auto-immune disease called lupus and take a whole cocktail of immune suppressants to help manage it. A few weeks ago my cat bit my wrist and by the next morning my whole arm was hugely swollen, red and hot. Went to the ER and by the time they got me in (a few hours later) I had red streaks going all the way up my arm. Had to be on I.V. antibiotics for 5 days and oral antibios for 10 days. After all that, it hasn't gone away and the infection is now most likely in my bones now as a bone infection (going in for tests soon). I'm going to a new doctor tomorrow and I hope to get started on new treatment. The super fun bonus to all of this that I've had the WORST diarrhea from the antibiotics killing off my good gut flora despite the fact that I have been eating nothing but probiotics for days now and its just not getting better. Wish me luck that I don't end up loosing my arm! | immune-suppressed so now a cat bite means I have a chance of loosing my arm. |
TheNoKarmaComment | I actually had a crazy experience trying to get this vinyl. This was actually a gift to my wife for Christmas. I could NOT find this record anywhere nor for a decent price (some listings out there have it for $100 and up!). I decided to not give up on it, regardless if it was a late present. I HAD to make it happen. After taking the advice from a user on /r/vinylcollectors, I called Reckless Records. They tell me that they do have a copy available but that the copy is on hold... And that they hold items for a week and that this vinyl has been on hold since December 16th. Keep in my I called in on the 18th of December. They agree to put me next on the list to buy it if the person who reserved it fails to pick it up.
I anxiously call every other day during that week to know if it's been picked up and so far I'm looking good. The copy is still there. The 24th comes around, a whole week passes and I call anxiously to buy this record. They tell me that this record is actually on hold TILL the 26th! On the inside I'm infuriated because I was SO close but I kept my cool and waited. I call the 27th, first thing in the morning, and Reckless Records tells me it's been picked up. I felt defeated, I kinda even hated FKA Twigs over this ordeal (not seriously though). The 28th comes and I get a call from Reckless Records asking if I still wanted to purchase the album. I'm confused but I don't ask any questions and just give them all my payment info. Finally here it is and my wife is ecstatic.
TL;DR: you can accomplish anything if you're determined. | I actually had a crazy experience trying to get this vinyl. This was actually a gift to my wife for Christmas. I could NOT find this record anywhere nor for a decent price (some listings out there have it for $100 and up!). I decided to not give up on it, regardless if it was a late present. I HAD to make it happen. After taking the advice from a user on /r/vinylcollectors, I called Reckless Records. They tell me that they do have a copy available but that the copy is on hold... And that they hold items for a week and that this vinyl has been on hold since December 16th. Keep in my I called in on the 18th of December. They agree to put me next on the list to buy it if the person who reserved it fails to pick it up.
I anxiously call every other day during that week to know if it's been picked up and so far I'm looking good. The copy is still there. The 24th comes around, a whole week passes and I call anxiously to buy this record. They tell me that this record is actually on hold TILL the 26th! On the inside I'm infuriated because I was SO close but I kept my cool and waited. I call the 27th, first thing in the morning, and Reckless Records tells me it's been picked up. I felt defeated, I kinda even hated FKA Twigs over this ordeal (not seriously though). The 28th comes and I get a call from Reckless Records asking if I still wanted to purchase the album. I'm confused but I don't ask any questions and just give them all my payment info. Finally here it is and my wife is ecstatic.
TL;DR: you can accomplish anything if you're determined.
| vinyl | t5_2qh7i | cf0nmmj | I actually had a crazy experience trying to get this vinyl. This was actually a gift to my wife for Christmas. I could NOT find this record anywhere nor for a decent price (some listings out there have it for $100 and up!). I decided to not give up on it, regardless if it was a late present. I HAD to make it happen. After taking the advice from a user on /r/vinylcollectors, I called Reckless Records. They tell me that they do have a copy available but that the copy is on hold... And that they hold items for a week and that this vinyl has been on hold since December 16th. Keep in my I called in on the 18th of December. They agree to put me next on the list to buy it if the person who reserved it fails to pick it up.
I anxiously call every other day during that week to know if it's been picked up and so far I'm looking good. The copy is still there. The 24th comes around, a whole week passes and I call anxiously to buy this record. They tell me that this record is actually on hold TILL the 26th! On the inside I'm infuriated because I was SO close but I kept my cool and waited. I call the 27th, first thing in the morning, and Reckless Records tells me it's been picked up. I felt defeated, I kinda even hated FKA Twigs over this ordeal (not seriously though). The 28th comes and I get a call from Reckless Records asking if I still wanted to purchase the album. I'm confused but I don't ask any questions and just give them all my payment info. Finally here it is and my wife is ecstatic. | you can accomplish anything if you're determined. |
Bullhogeley | So I bought a new 40 count herf-a-dor from the Devil Site and it came with a spiffy new 75 count humidification puck of the foam variety. The Cbid folks were even so nice as to make sure the foam was occupied with an active mold colony for me. Thankfully, it wasn't in the herf-a-dor, but in it's own sealed box and bag.
**TL;DR - DON'T USE THE FOAM BOYS AND GIRLS!** | So I bought a new 40 count herf-a-dor from the Devil Site and it came with a spiffy new 75 count humidification puck of the foam variety. The Cbid folks were even so nice as to make sure the foam was occupied with an active mold colony for me. Thankfully, it wasn't in the herf-a-dor, but in it's own sealed box and bag.
TL;DR - DON'T USE THE FOAM BOYS AND GIRLS!
| cigars | t5_2r090 | cf08va3 | So I bought a new 40 count herf-a-dor from the Devil Site and it came with a spiffy new 75 count humidification puck of the foam variety. The Cbid folks were even so nice as to make sure the foam was occupied with an active mold colony for me. Thankfully, it wasn't in the herf-a-dor, but in it's own sealed box and bag. | DON'T USE THE FOAM BOYS AND GIRLS! |
RhEEziE | Not that terrible...Use Distilled Water only and once every other fill use propylene glycol solution. I've monitored Humidors my whole life (been working at cigar shops since i was 7yrs old). Very Rarely encountered any issues and they do have self regulating models that take some of the monitoring away. Granted if you are the type to forget to monitor and not be diligent they do have beads that work well. These are cheap...cheap is usually not as easy.
TL:DR there are newer things to use...but these are nowhere near terrible. | Not that terrible...Use Distilled Water only and once every other fill use propylene glycol solution. I've monitored Humidors my whole life (been working at cigar shops since i was 7yrs old). Very Rarely encountered any issues and they do have self regulating models that take some of the monitoring away. Granted if you are the type to forget to monitor and not be diligent they do have beads that work well. These are cheap...cheap is usually not as easy.
TL:DR there are newer things to use...but these are nowhere near terrible.
| cigars | t5_2r090 | cf0umv9 | Not that terrible...Use Distilled Water only and once every other fill use propylene glycol solution. I've monitored Humidors my whole life (been working at cigar shops since i was 7yrs old). Very Rarely encountered any issues and they do have self regulating models that take some of the monitoring away. Granted if you are the type to forget to monitor and not be diligent they do have beads that work well. These are cheap...cheap is usually not as easy. | there are newer things to use...but these are nowhere near terrible. |
Kharos | I think outside of late-night comedy nobody mentioned her baby with Down Syndrome negatively in the political realm. And even then it was mentioned at most twice. I'm actually only aware of one joke, but surely there's another one out there somewhere.
Her daughter's pregnancy, however, was mentioned because Palin touts family value when she can't even get her own house in order. I think a lot of people (or Palin herself) conflated this particular attack her family together with the Down Syndrome baby joke because it made her seem more sympathetic.
EDIT - I think I know what you're referring to now. There was speculation that Palin claim that she's the mother of the newborn when it's actually her daughter's to cover up the her daughter's indiscretion. The baby happens to have Down Syndrome, which is a detail the media always mentioned for some reason. Nobody actually attacked her for having a baby with Down Syndrome. If anything the condition make the claim that it's actually her baby - and not her daughter's - more plausible since Down Syndrome is more prominent among babies of older women. She again also conflates this with an attack of her baby having Down Syndrome.
TL;DR - You're wrong. | I think outside of late-night comedy nobody mentioned her baby with Down Syndrome negatively in the political realm. And even then it was mentioned at most twice. I'm actually only aware of one joke, but surely there's another one out there somewhere.
Her daughter's pregnancy, however, was mentioned because Palin touts family value when she can't even get her own house in order. I think a lot of people (or Palin herself) conflated this particular attack her family together with the Down Syndrome baby joke because it made her seem more sympathetic.
EDIT - I think I know what you're referring to now. There was speculation that Palin claim that she's the mother of the newborn when it's actually her daughter's to cover up the her daughter's indiscretion. The baby happens to have Down Syndrome, which is a detail the media always mentioned for some reason. Nobody actually attacked her for having a baby with Down Syndrome. If anything the condition make the claim that it's actually her baby - and not her daughter's - more plausible since Down Syndrome is more prominent among babies of older women. She again also conflates this with an attack of her baby having Down Syndrome.
TL;DR - You're wrong.
| politics | t5_2cneq | cf1169w | I think outside of late-night comedy nobody mentioned her baby with Down Syndrome negatively in the political realm. And even then it was mentioned at most twice. I'm actually only aware of one joke, but surely there's another one out there somewhere.
Her daughter's pregnancy, however, was mentioned because Palin touts family value when she can't even get her own house in order. I think a lot of people (or Palin herself) conflated this particular attack her family together with the Down Syndrome baby joke because it made her seem more sympathetic.
EDIT - I think I know what you're referring to now. There was speculation that Palin claim that she's the mother of the newborn when it's actually her daughter's to cover up the her daughter's indiscretion. The baby happens to have Down Syndrome, which is a detail the media always mentioned for some reason. Nobody actually attacked her for having a baby with Down Syndrome. If anything the condition make the claim that it's actually her baby - and not her daughter's - more plausible since Down Syndrome is more prominent among babies of older women. She again also conflates this with an attack of her baby having Down Syndrome. | You're wrong. |
Tabatron | If you haven't learned how to max characters yet (4/8+), I would stay away from purchasing any coins.
If you really wish to spend money, the starter pack ($20 and you might have to e-mail WildShadow support) or new character slots will probably improve your game play experience the most. After that point, I find that Dyes (to make my long-living characters more unique) make me want to keep playing. Vault spaces are always nice, but I personally find them too expensive for what they provide. This is just my opinion though.
Also pets stay in your pet yard after death. This question makes me think you're a new player. Avoid buying gold till you reach the end-game stage (maxing characters, doing tombs).
tl;dr - I think the best gold items are character slots, dyes, and vault spaces (in that order). Try to avoid anything else. | If you haven't learned how to max characters yet (4/8+), I would stay away from purchasing any coins.
If you really wish to spend money, the starter pack ($20 and you might have to e-mail WildShadow support) or new character slots will probably improve your game play experience the most. After that point, I find that Dyes (to make my long-living characters more unique) make me want to keep playing. Vault spaces are always nice, but I personally find them too expensive for what they provide. This is just my opinion though.
Also pets stay in your pet yard after death. This question makes me think you're a new player. Avoid buying gold till you reach the end-game stage (maxing characters, doing tombs).
tl;dr - I think the best gold items are character slots, dyes, and vault spaces (in that order). Try to avoid anything else.
| RotMG | t5_2s505 | cf0ipk5 | If you haven't learned how to max characters yet (4/8+), I would stay away from purchasing any coins.
If you really wish to spend money, the starter pack ($20 and you might have to e-mail WildShadow support) or new character slots will probably improve your game play experience the most. After that point, I find that Dyes (to make my long-living characters more unique) make me want to keep playing. Vault spaces are always nice, but I personally find them too expensive for what they provide. This is just my opinion though.
Also pets stay in your pet yard after death. This question makes me think you're a new player. Avoid buying gold till you reach the end-game stage (maxing characters, doing tombs). | I think the best gold items are character slots, dyes, and vault spaces (in that order). Try to avoid anything else. |
Pip413 | It finally stopped, but my mom used to get me frogs. Frog garden ornaments, Christmas decorations, pictures, books, whatever. I was baffled by it holiday after holiday. I didn't know how to bring it up, but finally I couldn't take it anymore and asked her about it. I remember very vividly saying, "Thanks so much for the frog planter, its really cute, but I have to ask, do you think I like frogs?" She told me she knew I was collecting them. I told her I had only been collecting them since she started buying them for me. Then she insisted that I had always like them, and reminded me that I had pet frogs the first year we had lived in her new house. I pointed out that I lived in Mexico that year, and she said "oh yeah, it was your sister who liked frogs. Oh well, I guess you are collecting them now."
TLDR: my mom inadvertantly started my frog collection because she forgot that it was my sister who liked frogs. | It finally stopped, but my mom used to get me frogs. Frog garden ornaments, Christmas decorations, pictures, books, whatever. I was baffled by it holiday after holiday. I didn't know how to bring it up, but finally I couldn't take it anymore and asked her about it. I remember very vividly saying, "Thanks so much for the frog planter, its really cute, but I have to ask, do you think I like frogs?" She told me she knew I was collecting them. I told her I had only been collecting them since she started buying them for me. Then she insisted that I had always like them, and reminded me that I had pet frogs the first year we had lived in her new house. I pointed out that I lived in Mexico that year, and she said "oh yeah, it was your sister who liked frogs. Oh well, I guess you are collecting them now."
TLDR: my mom inadvertantly started my frog collection because she forgot that it was my sister who liked frogs.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | cf0eh5h | It finally stopped, but my mom used to get me frogs. Frog garden ornaments, Christmas decorations, pictures, books, whatever. I was baffled by it holiday after holiday. I didn't know how to bring it up, but finally I couldn't take it anymore and asked her about it. I remember very vividly saying, "Thanks so much for the frog planter, its really cute, but I have to ask, do you think I like frogs?" She told me she knew I was collecting them. I told her I had only been collecting them since she started buying them for me. Then she insisted that I had always like them, and reminded me that I had pet frogs the first year we had lived in her new house. I pointed out that I lived in Mexico that year, and she said "oh yeah, it was your sister who liked frogs. Oh well, I guess you are collecting them now." | my mom inadvertantly started my frog collection because she forgot that it was my sister who liked frogs. |
starryeyedsky | So he didn't allow you to use his copyrighted material in your video (he told you you would have to pay for it) but you used it anyway without permission?
That is copyright infringement. Sure, that guy infringed on the original artist, but his infringement doesn't give you the right to infringe. When someone creates a derivative work (modifying another song or copyrighted work and creating a new work) that person owns a copyright in that derivative work. They don't own the original, but they do own the work they added to it.
So in shorthand:
Artist A creates work. Guy B, creates a work and tells you (C) you need to license it. If C doesn't pay B (which he told you you needed to), B can sue C for infringement. However, A can still sue B for infringement, and C for that matter. Even if A sues B, B still has a claim against C.
TL;DR: you did infringe, move on. | So he didn't allow you to use his copyrighted material in your video (he told you you would have to pay for it) but you used it anyway without permission?
That is copyright infringement. Sure, that guy infringed on the original artist, but his infringement doesn't give you the right to infringe. When someone creates a derivative work (modifying another song or copyrighted work and creating a new work) that person owns a copyright in that derivative work. They don't own the original, but they do own the work they added to it.
So in shorthand:
Artist A creates work. Guy B, creates a work and tells you (C) you need to license it. If C doesn't pay B (which he told you you needed to), B can sue C for infringement. However, A can still sue B for infringement, and C for that matter. Even if A sues B, B still has a claim against C.
TL;DR: you did infringe, move on.
| legaladvice | t5_2rawz | cf0e8u1 | So he didn't allow you to use his copyrighted material in your video (he told you you would have to pay for it) but you used it anyway without permission?
That is copyright infringement. Sure, that guy infringed on the original artist, but his infringement doesn't give you the right to infringe. When someone creates a derivative work (modifying another song or copyrighted work and creating a new work) that person owns a copyright in that derivative work. They don't own the original, but they do own the work they added to it.
So in shorthand:
Artist A creates work. Guy B, creates a work and tells you (C) you need to license it. If C doesn't pay B (which he told you you needed to), B can sue C for infringement. However, A can still sue B for infringement, and C for that matter. Even if A sues B, B still has a claim against C. | you did infringe, move on. |
infectiousmeasle | I've noticed the difference too. I think most people are pretty smart they just might not be good at the typical "smart" things, such as math.
As for blue collar guys being different in groups, I believe they just do it to fit in and avoid being made fun of. I've met people who can figure things out on their own, but are hesitant to do so because of a fear of being wrong.
tl;dr people are good at different things and stick to their comfort zone | I've noticed the difference too. I think most people are pretty smart they just might not be good at the typical "smart" things, such as math.
As for blue collar guys being different in groups, I believe they just do it to fit in and avoid being made fun of. I've met people who can figure things out on their own, but are hesitant to do so because of a fear of being wrong.
tl;dr people are good at different things and stick to their comfort zone
| TrueAskReddit | t5_2s91q | cf0q3a9 | I've noticed the difference too. I think most people are pretty smart they just might not be good at the typical "smart" things, such as math.
As for blue collar guys being different in groups, I believe they just do it to fit in and avoid being made fun of. I've met people who can figure things out on their own, but are hesitant to do so because of a fear of being wrong. | people are good at different things and stick to their comfort zone |
rahul-modi | In those days, news took days to travel. Now everyone can see live how f'ed up situation on live television.
Outside of /r/India and few social media activist, no one knows and cares about whats going on.
How many of % your FB friends posts political status? Its like those 5-10% people who are active, and those are the people who makes difference at the end of the day.
Pro BJP will vote for BJP
Pro Congressi will vote for Congress
Anti BJP will vote for Congress or regional parties.
Anti congress will vote for BJP or regional parties.
tldr;^Ignore^my^comment | In those days, news took days to travel. Now everyone can see live how f'ed up situation on live television.
Outside of /r/India and few social media activist, no one knows and cares about whats going on.
How many of % your FB friends posts political status? Its like those 5-10% people who are active, and those are the people who makes difference at the end of the day.
Pro BJP will vote for BJP
Pro Congressi will vote for Congress
Anti BJP will vote for Congress or regional parties.
Anti congress will vote for BJP or regional parties.
tldr;^Ignore^my^comment
| india | t5_2qh1q | cf0qh1v | In those days, news took days to travel. Now everyone can see live how f'ed up situation on live television.
Outside of /r/India and few social media activist, no one knows and cares about whats going on.
How many of % your FB friends posts political status? Its like those 5-10% people who are active, and those are the people who makes difference at the end of the day.
Pro BJP will vote for BJP
Pro Congressi will vote for Congress
Anti BJP will vote for Congress or regional parties.
Anti congress will vote for BJP or regional parties. | Ignore^my^comment |
s0beit | Eh, I genuinely think that it has less to do with being weak-willed and more to do with issues that were not really relevant prior to the advancement of technology and the abundance of resources that we have now in modern western society (food, specifically).
People always had the ability to be huge fatasses if they had the resources to reach that point, which for a long time we really didn't, as a society. Food was seen as fuel for the day, not something that is mostly always around.
I don't buy into the weak-willed stuff. You either care about your appearance or you don't, those who do fall into three categories and those who don't well, generally only fall into one.
Care: Are healthy, or aren't healthy and don't know how to resolve it (genuinely have no idea how to diet), or aren't healthy and have no ability to stop it (depression, other psychological diseases, compulsion, and so on).
Don't care: You really only get mentally ill here. If you genuinely don't give a shit about your health *at all*, huge issues.
The people who would lose a bunch of weight in a structured environment and then gain it back, most likely fall into the latter of the three under 'Care' - most likely compulsion.
Eating stuff to them is like smoking a cigarette or checking their email or biting their nails or throwing up (for some people, anyway). Its something that they know they must not do consciously, but the urge is strong.
It really is exactly like craving a cigarette, good analogy me. Being that I have a few compulsive issues, I can relate a little.
Now, nobody should think people are any worse for having these issues, I mean they're just people with problems and the harm falls on them, there's just no reason to.
The main issue is with tumblrinas who advocate this lifestyle and who respond aggressively to criticism, while advocating their culture of unhealthy activity. That is messed up and can potentially harm others, some who may have lost hope.
**tl;dr** I guess the point is that there's no use on picking on the tubby, these bitches are toxic though. | Eh, I genuinely think that it has less to do with being weak-willed and more to do with issues that were not really relevant prior to the advancement of technology and the abundance of resources that we have now in modern western society (food, specifically).
People always had the ability to be huge fatasses if they had the resources to reach that point, which for a long time we really didn't, as a society. Food was seen as fuel for the day, not something that is mostly always around.
I don't buy into the weak-willed stuff. You either care about your appearance or you don't, those who do fall into three categories and those who don't well, generally only fall into one.
Care: Are healthy, or aren't healthy and don't know how to resolve it (genuinely have no idea how to diet), or aren't healthy and have no ability to stop it (depression, other psychological diseases, compulsion, and so on).
Don't care: You really only get mentally ill here. If you genuinely don't give a shit about your health at all , huge issues.
The people who would lose a bunch of weight in a structured environment and then gain it back, most likely fall into the latter of the three under 'Care' - most likely compulsion.
Eating stuff to them is like smoking a cigarette or checking their email or biting their nails or throwing up (for some people, anyway). Its something that they know they must not do consciously, but the urge is strong.
It really is exactly like craving a cigarette, good analogy me. Being that I have a few compulsive issues, I can relate a little.
Now, nobody should think people are any worse for having these issues, I mean they're just people with problems and the harm falls on them, there's just no reason to.
The main issue is with tumblrinas who advocate this lifestyle and who respond aggressively to criticism, while advocating their culture of unhealthy activity. That is messed up and can potentially harm others, some who may have lost hope.
tl;dr I guess the point is that there's no use on picking on the tubby, these bitches are toxic though.
| TumblrInAction | t5_2vizz | cf1csqt | Eh, I genuinely think that it has less to do with being weak-willed and more to do with issues that were not really relevant prior to the advancement of technology and the abundance of resources that we have now in modern western society (food, specifically).
People always had the ability to be huge fatasses if they had the resources to reach that point, which for a long time we really didn't, as a society. Food was seen as fuel for the day, not something that is mostly always around.
I don't buy into the weak-willed stuff. You either care about your appearance or you don't, those who do fall into three categories and those who don't well, generally only fall into one.
Care: Are healthy, or aren't healthy and don't know how to resolve it (genuinely have no idea how to diet), or aren't healthy and have no ability to stop it (depression, other psychological diseases, compulsion, and so on).
Don't care: You really only get mentally ill here. If you genuinely don't give a shit about your health at all , huge issues.
The people who would lose a bunch of weight in a structured environment and then gain it back, most likely fall into the latter of the three under 'Care' - most likely compulsion.
Eating stuff to them is like smoking a cigarette or checking their email or biting their nails or throwing up (for some people, anyway). Its something that they know they must not do consciously, but the urge is strong.
It really is exactly like craving a cigarette, good analogy me. Being that I have a few compulsive issues, I can relate a little.
Now, nobody should think people are any worse for having these issues, I mean they're just people with problems and the harm falls on them, there's just no reason to.
The main issue is with tumblrinas who advocate this lifestyle and who respond aggressively to criticism, while advocating their culture of unhealthy activity. That is messed up and can potentially harm others, some who may have lost hope. | I guess the point is that there's no use on picking on the tubby, these bitches are toxic though. |
justonebullet | This is the option I find myself having to take. Even this is hard to attain. The cheapest gun I can find is $1000, and requires a firearms license, and a level on top of that. Then you need to buy ammo. Need to wait for it to arrive, need to avoid suspicion if you live at home like me.
I have a severe phobia of needles, and I can't handle blood and pain, so knives and the like are out of the question. I've tried asphyxiation but cannot handle it, drowning is the same. I've looked into cyanide capsule which I have no idea to attain but can't comprehend the burning, i suffer from reflux and thats bad enough for me. I've even considered, and I know it is mad, trying to get others to kill me. For instance, death by firing squad, provoking a gang member(few around these parts), or getting a death penalty. The reason I haven't done those are because instead of death I could be disfigured, instead of a gun the gang member could pull a knife, the firing squad could just get me in a limb and then i go to jail for a long time and suffer more, or I don't get death penalty and get a life sentence instead. I've also considered explosives, that to me screams accidentally blowing off your limbs and not being able to convince someone to turn life support off for you. I've also considered signing up for military in hopes of death on the battlefield, but there's no wars going on, so it's just a bunch of guys out-manliness-ing each other and verbal abuse.
I planned on jumping off a building for the longest time, and still do, ironically, the tallest building near me is a hospital, but it seemed to work for a doctor that jumped off, the problem there is that increased security. I don't exactly want to go out in a mess either or traumatize some kid walking past or something.
This not the only route I have taken. I suffer from severe anxiety and depression, and kept it hidden for a very very long time because when it started developing the whole emo thing was starting up so yeah. I inquired with different doctors who thought I was silly. I don't do drugs. Don't drink. I looked up local chatrooms online, there are none. There are very very few support groups for either, none of them are in my city. I've barely got a relationship with my parents so they couldn't help. I've been to different therapists etc for a few years now, they all get sick of me because I struggle to tell them anything. I've been on different meds for a few years, and bigger doses. I've reached out to friends that couldn't care less.
I tried talking to my long term girlfriend about it many times and was dumped recently because she can't handle my mental health(even though her family is the most clusterfuck of sick people you have ever seen) and she thought I was projecting my issues onto her which I really really wasn't, I've tried exercise many many many times in many forms and fail fucking miserably making me feel worse than originally, as an atheist I have no religious comfort..
And it got so bad last night that I tried every single helpline available in my country, keep in mind i'm terrified to talk to people on the phone, I got no response until around 3:30am, I was then put on hold until past 4am, the woman on the line was TERRIBLE and made me feel so awful, she had my details btw since they work with people I've seen before, she criticized everything I said, she got annoyed when I couldn't talk from trying not to break down, or when I swore out of sheer frustration with everything, she then threatened me with an ambulance no matter what i did, so i hung up, she sent 2 police cars over, now all of my neighbors(including several people i know as friends of sorts) all know about it, so ultimately worse than i was before.
TL;DR Guns are the only answer for some and I would fucking love one | This is the option I find myself having to take. Even this is hard to attain. The cheapest gun I can find is $1000, and requires a firearms license, and a level on top of that. Then you need to buy ammo. Need to wait for it to arrive, need to avoid suspicion if you live at home like me.
I have a severe phobia of needles, and I can't handle blood and pain, so knives and the like are out of the question. I've tried asphyxiation but cannot handle it, drowning is the same. I've looked into cyanide capsule which I have no idea to attain but can't comprehend the burning, i suffer from reflux and thats bad enough for me. I've even considered, and I know it is mad, trying to get others to kill me. For instance, death by firing squad, provoking a gang member(few around these parts), or getting a death penalty. The reason I haven't done those are because instead of death I could be disfigured, instead of a gun the gang member could pull a knife, the firing squad could just get me in a limb and then i go to jail for a long time and suffer more, or I don't get death penalty and get a life sentence instead. I've also considered explosives, that to me screams accidentally blowing off your limbs and not being able to convince someone to turn life support off for you. I've also considered signing up for military in hopes of death on the battlefield, but there's no wars going on, so it's just a bunch of guys out-manliness-ing each other and verbal abuse.
I planned on jumping off a building for the longest time, and still do, ironically, the tallest building near me is a hospital, but it seemed to work for a doctor that jumped off, the problem there is that increased security. I don't exactly want to go out in a mess either or traumatize some kid walking past or something.
This not the only route I have taken. I suffer from severe anxiety and depression, and kept it hidden for a very very long time because when it started developing the whole emo thing was starting up so yeah. I inquired with different doctors who thought I was silly. I don't do drugs. Don't drink. I looked up local chatrooms online, there are none. There are very very few support groups for either, none of them are in my city. I've barely got a relationship with my parents so they couldn't help. I've been to different therapists etc for a few years now, they all get sick of me because I struggle to tell them anything. I've been on different meds for a few years, and bigger doses. I've reached out to friends that couldn't care less.
I tried talking to my long term girlfriend about it many times and was dumped recently because she can't handle my mental health(even though her family is the most clusterfuck of sick people you have ever seen) and she thought I was projecting my issues onto her which I really really wasn't, I've tried exercise many many many times in many forms and fail fucking miserably making me feel worse than originally, as an atheist I have no religious comfort..
And it got so bad last night that I tried every single helpline available in my country, keep in mind i'm terrified to talk to people on the phone, I got no response until around 3:30am, I was then put on hold until past 4am, the woman on the line was TERRIBLE and made me feel so awful, she had my details btw since they work with people I've seen before, she criticized everything I said, she got annoyed when I couldn't talk from trying not to break down, or when I swore out of sheer frustration with everything, she then threatened me with an ambulance no matter what i did, so i hung up, she sent 2 police cars over, now all of my neighbors(including several people i know as friends of sorts) all know about it, so ultimately worse than i was before.
TL;DR Guns are the only answer for some and I would fucking love one
| todayilearned | t5_2qqjc | cfkxyrv | This is the option I find myself having to take. Even this is hard to attain. The cheapest gun I can find is $1000, and requires a firearms license, and a level on top of that. Then you need to buy ammo. Need to wait for it to arrive, need to avoid suspicion if you live at home like me.
I have a severe phobia of needles, and I can't handle blood and pain, so knives and the like are out of the question. I've tried asphyxiation but cannot handle it, drowning is the same. I've looked into cyanide capsule which I have no idea to attain but can't comprehend the burning, i suffer from reflux and thats bad enough for me. I've even considered, and I know it is mad, trying to get others to kill me. For instance, death by firing squad, provoking a gang member(few around these parts), or getting a death penalty. The reason I haven't done those are because instead of death I could be disfigured, instead of a gun the gang member could pull a knife, the firing squad could just get me in a limb and then i go to jail for a long time and suffer more, or I don't get death penalty and get a life sentence instead. I've also considered explosives, that to me screams accidentally blowing off your limbs and not being able to convince someone to turn life support off for you. I've also considered signing up for military in hopes of death on the battlefield, but there's no wars going on, so it's just a bunch of guys out-manliness-ing each other and verbal abuse.
I planned on jumping off a building for the longest time, and still do, ironically, the tallest building near me is a hospital, but it seemed to work for a doctor that jumped off, the problem there is that increased security. I don't exactly want to go out in a mess either or traumatize some kid walking past or something.
This not the only route I have taken. I suffer from severe anxiety and depression, and kept it hidden for a very very long time because when it started developing the whole emo thing was starting up so yeah. I inquired with different doctors who thought I was silly. I don't do drugs. Don't drink. I looked up local chatrooms online, there are none. There are very very few support groups for either, none of them are in my city. I've barely got a relationship with my parents so they couldn't help. I've been to different therapists etc for a few years now, they all get sick of me because I struggle to tell them anything. I've been on different meds for a few years, and bigger doses. I've reached out to friends that couldn't care less.
I tried talking to my long term girlfriend about it many times and was dumped recently because she can't handle my mental health(even though her family is the most clusterfuck of sick people you have ever seen) and she thought I was projecting my issues onto her which I really really wasn't, I've tried exercise many many many times in many forms and fail fucking miserably making me feel worse than originally, as an atheist I have no religious comfort..
And it got so bad last night that I tried every single helpline available in my country, keep in mind i'm terrified to talk to people on the phone, I got no response until around 3:30am, I was then put on hold until past 4am, the woman on the line was TERRIBLE and made me feel so awful, she had my details btw since they work with people I've seen before, she criticized everything I said, she got annoyed when I couldn't talk from trying not to break down, or when I swore out of sheer frustration with everything, she then threatened me with an ambulance no matter what i did, so i hung up, she sent 2 police cars over, now all of my neighbors(including several people i know as friends of sorts) all know about it, so ultimately worse than i was before. | Guns are the only answer for some and I would fucking love one |
Intendant | It's alot of older players, and it's actually pretty interesting from a sociatal stand point how all of this went down. Pretty much he started the reignofgaming site, which consisted of a few tier lists. These tier list were the first real guide lines to non pro players on what to play and how strong it was. People acted like these tier lists were the bible and it ended up being a HUGE detriment to the league community. It gave people a reason to be toxic, and because a pro stood behind it there was a huge circlejerk if you picked anything considered low tier, playing then was infuriating. People really disliked him for it and bashed him REALLY hard. Like people have killed themselves over some of the things people were telling him, it got pretty out of hand. So he went on tilt (I'm assuming now) as he is an emotional guy and got kicked from team after team. Now people hate him just to hate him, kinda like teemo, and he rages alot but that has more to do with actual trolls who are actively trying to lose games they're in with him. And that's where we are now.
TL;DR Elementz greatest contribution to the LOL community (the reign of gaming site) was also indirectly the cause of his collapse as a pro player.
| It's alot of older players, and it's actually pretty interesting from a sociatal stand point how all of this went down. Pretty much he started the reignofgaming site, which consisted of a few tier lists. These tier list were the first real guide lines to non pro players on what to play and how strong it was. People acted like these tier lists were the bible and it ended up being a HUGE detriment to the league community. It gave people a reason to be toxic, and because a pro stood behind it there was a huge circlejerk if you picked anything considered low tier, playing then was infuriating. People really disliked him for it and bashed him REALLY hard. Like people have killed themselves over some of the things people were telling him, it got pretty out of hand. So he went on tilt (I'm assuming now) as he is an emotional guy and got kicked from team after team. Now people hate him just to hate him, kinda like teemo, and he rages alot but that has more to do with actual trolls who are actively trying to lose games they're in with him. And that's where we are now.
TL;DR Elementz greatest contribution to the LOL community (the reign of gaming site) was also indirectly the cause of his collapse as a pro player.
| leagueoflegends | t5_2rfxx | cf1eej6 | It's alot of older players, and it's actually pretty interesting from a sociatal stand point how all of this went down. Pretty much he started the reignofgaming site, which consisted of a few tier lists. These tier list were the first real guide lines to non pro players on what to play and how strong it was. People acted like these tier lists were the bible and it ended up being a HUGE detriment to the league community. It gave people a reason to be toxic, and because a pro stood behind it there was a huge circlejerk if you picked anything considered low tier, playing then was infuriating. People really disliked him for it and bashed him REALLY hard. Like people have killed themselves over some of the things people were telling him, it got pretty out of hand. So he went on tilt (I'm assuming now) as he is an emotional guy and got kicked from team after team. Now people hate him just to hate him, kinda like teemo, and he rages alot but that has more to do with actual trolls who are actively trying to lose games they're in with him. And that's where we are now. | Elementz greatest contribution to the LOL community (the reign of gaming site) was also indirectly the cause of his collapse as a pro player. |
spfcm17 | Is he still considered a professional? I'm genuinely curious about this. He was a professional player at one point in time, but now he isn't good enough to play for a professional team (at least in terms of LCS and such since he isn't on a team anymore), so is he still considered a professional? Or is it more like he WAS a professional LoL player?
Are people considered professionals forever if they make it to the "pros" for at least 1 season or something? Or are people only considered pro's as long as they are in the professional leagues?
Sorry for somewhat repeating myself, but yea...
TL:DR- Is elementz still considered a professional because he was a pro at one point? Or no because he isn't playing at a professional level anymore? | Is he still considered a professional? I'm genuinely curious about this. He was a professional player at one point in time, but now he isn't good enough to play for a professional team (at least in terms of LCS and such since he isn't on a team anymore), so is he still considered a professional? Or is it more like he WAS a professional LoL player?
Are people considered professionals forever if they make it to the "pros" for at least 1 season or something? Or are people only considered pro's as long as they are in the professional leagues?
Sorry for somewhat repeating myself, but yea...
TL:DR- Is elementz still considered a professional because he was a pro at one point? Or no because he isn't playing at a professional level anymore?
| leagueoflegends | t5_2rfxx | cf1fruw | Is he still considered a professional? I'm genuinely curious about this. He was a professional player at one point in time, but now he isn't good enough to play for a professional team (at least in terms of LCS and such since he isn't on a team anymore), so is he still considered a professional? Or is it more like he WAS a professional LoL player?
Are people considered professionals forever if they make it to the "pros" for at least 1 season or something? Or are people only considered pro's as long as they are in the professional leagues?
Sorry for somewhat repeating myself, but yea... | Is elementz still considered a professional because he was a pro at one point? Or no because he isn't playing at a professional level anymore? |
alleybetwixt | I've watched every game he has played since the World Cup. Since the transfer he has played better than I expected. He has integrated more of the way he plays for the German NT and is *trying* to figure out how to play more defensively, which has always been his greatest weakness. He hasn't had a dip in form from my perspective. I'll quote myself from 2 months ago...
>And I'll just go ahead and predict that someone will say he has 'disappeared' in 90% of the games he plays for the rest of the season.
All the complaints about him in here mirror the exact complaints about him at Madrid. It's unsurprising when many were expecting a highlight reel spectacle in every game. That was never going to happen. And it won't even happen once he 'settles in'. He already looks way more comfortable than I thought he would. He's a team-player and won't thrill you guys the way you want him to without the rest of the team being on the same page.
I've been spoiled, as I expected far more immediate frustration with the PL (which I'm new to watching because of Özil). I still don't think things will truly take shape for a season or two with money available and potential future signings. I don't think you guys should worry that Özil regrets his move. I haven't seen him play with this much enthusiasm in years. He's happy.
**TL;DR - Above average.** | I've watched every game he has played since the World Cup. Since the transfer he has played better than I expected. He has integrated more of the way he plays for the German NT and is trying to figure out how to play more defensively, which has always been his greatest weakness. He hasn't had a dip in form from my perspective. I'll quote myself from 2 months ago...
>And I'll just go ahead and predict that someone will say he has 'disappeared' in 90% of the games he plays for the rest of the season.
All the complaints about him in here mirror the exact complaints about him at Madrid. It's unsurprising when many were expecting a highlight reel spectacle in every game. That was never going to happen. And it won't even happen once he 'settles in'. He already looks way more comfortable than I thought he would. He's a team-player and won't thrill you guys the way you want him to without the rest of the team being on the same page.
I've been spoiled, as I expected far more immediate frustration with the PL (which I'm new to watching because of Özil). I still don't think things will truly take shape for a season or two with money available and potential future signings. I don't think you guys should worry that Özil regrets his move. I haven't seen him play with this much enthusiasm in years. He's happy.
TL;DR - Above average.
| Gunners | t5_2qhqt | cf1prqi | I've watched every game he has played since the World Cup. Since the transfer he has played better than I expected. He has integrated more of the way he plays for the German NT and is trying to figure out how to play more defensively, which has always been his greatest weakness. He hasn't had a dip in form from my perspective. I'll quote myself from 2 months ago...
>And I'll just go ahead and predict that someone will say he has 'disappeared' in 90% of the games he plays for the rest of the season.
All the complaints about him in here mirror the exact complaints about him at Madrid. It's unsurprising when many were expecting a highlight reel spectacle in every game. That was never going to happen. And it won't even happen once he 'settles in'. He already looks way more comfortable than I thought he would. He's a team-player and won't thrill you guys the way you want him to without the rest of the team being on the same page.
I've been spoiled, as I expected far more immediate frustration with the PL (which I'm new to watching because of Özil). I still don't think things will truly take shape for a season or two with money available and potential future signings. I don't think you guys should worry that Özil regrets his move. I haven't seen him play with this much enthusiasm in years. He's happy. | Above average. |
Ripptor | My fiancee is Russian, so I always play a little sub game when I meet Catherine: Be friends forever.
It's really difficult for me, as I play wider than anything, and Russia always ends up coveting my lands and wonders.
In my current game, I started on a continent right beside Catherine, with 3 other civs. We took out Rome together, but she denounced me as soon as I took his capital, cuz she must have coveted it. I wipe out and take over all the other civs across the continent, enveloping her almost entirely. I have citadels at all the mountain choke points, and armies galore keeping the border peace.
We've never been at war once, but she's been sitting n her Little mountain cage alternately begging for luxuries and denouncing me for trapping her in the relationship. So it's basically a mirror of my actual relationship.
Tl;Dr: Catherine is my fiancee IRL | My fiancee is Russian, so I always play a little sub game when I meet Catherine: Be friends forever.
It's really difficult for me, as I play wider than anything, and Russia always ends up coveting my lands and wonders.
In my current game, I started on a continent right beside Catherine, with 3 other civs. We took out Rome together, but she denounced me as soon as I took his capital, cuz she must have coveted it. I wipe out and take over all the other civs across the continent, enveloping her almost entirely. I have citadels at all the mountain choke points, and armies galore keeping the border peace.
We've never been at war once, but she's been sitting n her Little mountain cage alternately begging for luxuries and denouncing me for trapping her in the relationship. So it's basically a mirror of my actual relationship.
Tl;Dr: Catherine is my fiancee IRL
| civ | t5_2rk3b | cf2xyg5 | My fiancee is Russian, so I always play a little sub game when I meet Catherine: Be friends forever.
It's really difficult for me, as I play wider than anything, and Russia always ends up coveting my lands and wonders.
In my current game, I started on a continent right beside Catherine, with 3 other civs. We took out Rome together, but she denounced me as soon as I took his capital, cuz she must have coveted it. I wipe out and take over all the other civs across the continent, enveloping her almost entirely. I have citadels at all the mountain choke points, and armies galore keeping the border peace.
We've never been at war once, but she's been sitting n her Little mountain cage alternately begging for luxuries and denouncing me for trapping her in the relationship. So it's basically a mirror of my actual relationship. | Catherine is my fiancee IRL |
Sickwater | This reminds me of a time when, many years ago, I regularly parked my car across the street in front of the place I was renting. I had to do so because of reasons. Anyway, one day the guy across the street uses some hot asphalt to make a shitty (and illegal) ramp so he can get his car up onto his front lawn.
He already had one driveway.
He proceeds to inform me that I can't park on the street anymore because "it's his driveway now, and it's illegal to block a driveway."
So, before I was born, my dad used to work for the city planning department. He knows his shit about zoning and permitting and all that red-tape. So I ask my dad, "what does the code of our fair city have to say about arbitrary driveway declarations?"
My dad informs me that one needs to obtain the city's blessing, which is expressed in a form known as the "curb-cut permit," if one wishes to do such a thing. So I ask the asphalt-pourer if he's gotten a curb-cut permit.
"No," he says, "I need to park my car on my lawn so it's my driveway now."
[His attitude when.](
Well, it was a huge pain in the ass for me to park my car anywhere else because of reasons. It was entirely legal for me to park on the street as I did, since I moved the car at least once every 24 hours.
So, one night I got drunk, and (at about 2AM on a sunday IIRC) took a sledgehammer to that bastard's sorry excuse for a driveway: just whalloped the living shit out of that pathetic asphalt ramp. In the space of five minutes I had scattered it all to hell and back.
Fuck that guy. If he'd gotten the permit, I would have said, "fine, I'll park up the street." Due to the high density of rental homes on that street, each spilling over with slackers and their tatty vehicles, it would have been about 200 yards up the street, though.
**TL;DR** Some asshole declares 10 feet of curb his "driveway" and makes an illegal asphalt ramp; I get drunk and fuck the ramp's shit up with a sledgehammer.
**Edit:** He already had one driveway, but he felt like he needed two. | This reminds me of a time when, many years ago, I regularly parked my car across the street in front of the place I was renting. I had to do so because of reasons. Anyway, one day the guy across the street uses some hot asphalt to make a shitty (and illegal) ramp so he can get his car up onto his front lawn.
He already had one driveway.
He proceeds to inform me that I can't park on the street anymore because "it's his driveway now, and it's illegal to block a driveway."
So, before I was born, my dad used to work for the city planning department. He knows his shit about zoning and permitting and all that red-tape. So I ask my dad, "what does the code of our fair city have to say about arbitrary driveway declarations?"
My dad informs me that one needs to obtain the city's blessing, which is expressed in a form known as the "curb-cut permit," if one wishes to do such a thing. So I ask the asphalt-pourer if he's gotten a curb-cut permit.
"No," he says, "I need to park my car on my lawn so it's my driveway now."
[His attitude when.](
Well, it was a huge pain in the ass for me to park my car anywhere else because of reasons. It was entirely legal for me to park on the street as I did, since I moved the car at least once every 24 hours.
So, one night I got drunk, and (at about 2AM on a sunday IIRC) took a sledgehammer to that bastard's sorry excuse for a driveway: just whalloped the living shit out of that pathetic asphalt ramp. In the space of five minutes I had scattered it all to hell and back.
Fuck that guy. If he'd gotten the permit, I would have said, "fine, I'll park up the street." Due to the high density of rental homes on that street, each spilling over with slackers and their tatty vehicles, it would have been about 200 yards up the street, though.
TL;DR Some asshole declares 10 feet of curb his "driveway" and makes an illegal asphalt ramp; I get drunk and fuck the ramp's shit up with a sledgehammer.
Edit: He already had one driveway, but he felt like he needed two.
| AdviceAnimals | t5_2s7tt | cf2bfea | This reminds me of a time when, many years ago, I regularly parked my car across the street in front of the place I was renting. I had to do so because of reasons. Anyway, one day the guy across the street uses some hot asphalt to make a shitty (and illegal) ramp so he can get his car up onto his front lawn.
He already had one driveway.
He proceeds to inform me that I can't park on the street anymore because "it's his driveway now, and it's illegal to block a driveway."
So, before I was born, my dad used to work for the city planning department. He knows his shit about zoning and permitting and all that red-tape. So I ask my dad, "what does the code of our fair city have to say about arbitrary driveway declarations?"
My dad informs me that one needs to obtain the city's blessing, which is expressed in a form known as the "curb-cut permit," if one wishes to do such a thing. So I ask the asphalt-pourer if he's gotten a curb-cut permit.
"No," he says, "I need to park my car on my lawn so it's my driveway now."
[His attitude when.](
Well, it was a huge pain in the ass for me to park my car anywhere else because of reasons. It was entirely legal for me to park on the street as I did, since I moved the car at least once every 24 hours.
So, one night I got drunk, and (at about 2AM on a sunday IIRC) took a sledgehammer to that bastard's sorry excuse for a driveway: just whalloped the living shit out of that pathetic asphalt ramp. In the space of five minutes I had scattered it all to hell and back.
Fuck that guy. If he'd gotten the permit, I would have said, "fine, I'll park up the street." Due to the high density of rental homes on that street, each spilling over with slackers and their tatty vehicles, it would have been about 200 yards up the street, though. | Some asshole declares 10 feet of curb his "driveway" and makes an illegal asphalt ramp; I get drunk and fuck the ramp's shit up with a sledgehammer.
Edit: He already had one driveway, but he felt like he needed two. |
UnknownStory | Let's break this down.
*You* gave a group of *fact-based statements.*
*You* edited your post to add
> Edit: uh oh, Here comes the fucking loser console fan boys. Bring on the down votes for an opinion.
*I* called your bullshit out on self-labeling your post as "opinion", when instead, it is composed of *fact-based statements.*
tl;dr Don't try to shield your fact-based statements with a label of "opinion" when it is clearly not.
Also: This is where I hop off the crazy train. It cannot possibly be explained to you any clearer. | Let's break this down.
You gave a group of fact-based statements.
You edited your post to add
> Edit: uh oh, Here comes the fucking loser console fan boys. Bring on the down votes for an opinion.
I called your bullshit out on self-labeling your post as "opinion", when instead, it is composed of fact-based statements.
tl;dr Don't try to shield your fact-based statements with a label of "opinion" when it is clearly not.
Also: This is where I hop off the crazy train. It cannot possibly be explained to you any clearer.
| gaming | t5_2qh03 | cf3rkrc | Let's break this down.
You gave a group of fact-based statements.
You edited your post to add
> Edit: uh oh, Here comes the fucking loser console fan boys. Bring on the down votes for an opinion.
I called your bullshit out on self-labeling your post as "opinion", when instead, it is composed of fact-based statements. | Don't try to shield your fact-based statements with a label of "opinion" when it is clearly not.
Also: This is where I hop off the crazy train. It cannot possibly be explained to you any clearer. |
Jarhed121 | [Jaja, la casa es enfermo de muerte pues biblioteca garza perro con quesa las ropas Ramirez.] (
TL;DR just play along and disgrace the language with me | [Jaja, la casa es enfermo de muerte pues biblioteca garza perro con quesa las ropas Ramirez.] (
TL;DR just play along and disgrace the language with me
| gaming | t5_2qh03 | cf45889 | Jaja, la casa es enfermo de muerte pues biblioteca garza perro con quesa las ropas Ramirez.] ( | just play along and disgrace the language with me |
toelock | Oh, I agree. I think Aldo vs Pettis is a compelling matchup, and probably the only superfight we'd actually get to see if Aldo gets to bulk up a tad. All other superfights are more fantasy or less interesting, but these two guys could/will probably become one of the best trilogies in history if their first two bouts are as competitive as I imagine they will be. TL;DR: I'm fucking psyched for Aldo vs Pettis. | Oh, I agree. I think Aldo vs Pettis is a compelling matchup, and probably the only superfight we'd actually get to see if Aldo gets to bulk up a tad. All other superfights are more fantasy or less interesting, but these two guys could/will probably become one of the best trilogies in history if their first two bouts are as competitive as I imagine they will be. TL;DR: I'm fucking psyched for Aldo vs Pettis.
| MMA | t5_2qhj4 | cf3tl3t | Oh, I agree. I think Aldo vs Pettis is a compelling matchup, and probably the only superfight we'd actually get to see if Aldo gets to bulk up a tad. All other superfights are more fantasy or less interesting, but these two guys could/will probably become one of the best trilogies in history if their first two bouts are as competitive as I imagine they will be. | I'm fucking psyched for Aldo vs Pettis. |
wlyum3 | While I agree, OP seems to be going for the low hanging fruit making fun of the people who argue the most extreme and idiotic versions of these arguments. While there are people who argue for the most extreme versions of these statements, I think there are plenty of non virgin, non sheltered, adults who could intelligently argue the underlying sentiments behind the two issues. Such as "you should try to be financially stable before you have kids" or "regardless of the attackers gender you have a right to self defense."
TLDR: It's easy to shit on these ideas when articulated so poorly. | While I agree, OP seems to be going for the low hanging fruit making fun of the people who argue the most extreme and idiotic versions of these arguments. While there are people who argue for the most extreme versions of these statements, I think there are plenty of non virgin, non sheltered, adults who could intelligently argue the underlying sentiments behind the two issues. Such as "you should try to be financially stable before you have kids" or "regardless of the attackers gender you have a right to self defense."
TLDR: It's easy to shit on these ideas when articulated so poorly.
| AdviceAnimals | t5_2s7tt | cf3rsvs | While I agree, OP seems to be going for the low hanging fruit making fun of the people who argue the most extreme and idiotic versions of these arguments. While there are people who argue for the most extreme versions of these statements, I think there are plenty of non virgin, non sheltered, adults who could intelligently argue the underlying sentiments behind the two issues. Such as "you should try to be financially stable before you have kids" or "regardless of the attackers gender you have a right to self defense." | It's easy to shit on these ideas when articulated so poorly. |
Feriation | Thankfully my Moose doesn't eat too much. Well, he's not supposed to be anyways. He pretends he is starving, and my roommate believes him, so in Tolkein fashion he has had his share of second breakfast/dinner along with elevensies etc.
It can be super cheap, if you're willing to invest your time into it. Many people in town I know put ads in the online classifieds/facebook etc asking for people's old freezer burnt meat for free or super cheap. And then make their own raw food with the free meat and organs/bones from butcher's shops etc.
Me? I'm super lazy. And usually busy. And really, I have no desire to make my own raw food right now. Perhaps when I add another dog to my family, the extra food consumption will lead me to make my own food. But in the mean time, I buy either [Pets Go Raw!]( or [Nature's Variety Instinct]( Personally, I find Pets Go Raw! to be a little better, but they're pretty on par price wise. Natures Instinct offers a little more convenience in that they offer 1oz medallion sizes so I don't need to bother cutting and measuring patties.
The cost is indeed more than kibble, but not necessarily more than wet food costs. Also, the health benefits from feeding raw mean that you're less likely to run into costly veterinary visits down the road. Their teeth stay cleaner from the bones, and their kidney functions are better because of the high moisture content of the food, and the lack of grain improves their digestive/bowel health.
[Here is a link from a veterinarian on the benefits of raw, along with a recipe for making your own at home!](
TL;DR: For my moderately active, indoor 14 lbs cat, I feed him a 1/4lbs of raw food everyday. I average around $50 a month to feed him raw food (this includes supplemental food like chicken necks and freeze dried liver treats) And once a month his food is free because of their buy 10 get 1 free rewards program.
| Thankfully my Moose doesn't eat too much. Well, he's not supposed to be anyways. He pretends he is starving, and my roommate believes him, so in Tolkein fashion he has had his share of second breakfast/dinner along with elevensies etc.
It can be super cheap, if you're willing to invest your time into it. Many people in town I know put ads in the online classifieds/facebook etc asking for people's old freezer burnt meat for free or super cheap. And then make their own raw food with the free meat and organs/bones from butcher's shops etc.
Me? I'm super lazy. And usually busy. And really, I have no desire to make my own raw food right now. Perhaps when I add another dog to my family, the extra food consumption will lead me to make my own food. But in the mean time, I buy either [Pets Go Raw!]( or [Nature's Variety Instinct]( Personally, I find Pets Go Raw! to be a little better, but they're pretty on par price wise. Natures Instinct offers a little more convenience in that they offer 1oz medallion sizes so I don't need to bother cutting and measuring patties.
The cost is indeed more than kibble, but not necessarily more than wet food costs. Also, the health benefits from feeding raw mean that you're less likely to run into costly veterinary visits down the road. Their teeth stay cleaner from the bones, and their kidney functions are better because of the high moisture content of the food, and the lack of grain improves their digestive/bowel health.
[Here is a link from a veterinarian on the benefits of raw, along with a recipe for making your own at home!](
TL;DR: For my moderately active, indoor 14 lbs cat, I feed him a 1/4lbs of raw food everyday. I average around $50 a month to feed him raw food (this includes supplemental food like chicken necks and freeze dried liver treats) And once a month his food is free because of their buy 10 get 1 free rewards program.
| aww | t5_2qh1o | cf3wmea | Thankfully my Moose doesn't eat too much. Well, he's not supposed to be anyways. He pretends he is starving, and my roommate believes him, so in Tolkein fashion he has had his share of second breakfast/dinner along with elevensies etc.
It can be super cheap, if you're willing to invest your time into it. Many people in town I know put ads in the online classifieds/facebook etc asking for people's old freezer burnt meat for free or super cheap. And then make their own raw food with the free meat and organs/bones from butcher's shops etc.
Me? I'm super lazy. And usually busy. And really, I have no desire to make my own raw food right now. Perhaps when I add another dog to my family, the extra food consumption will lead me to make my own food. But in the mean time, I buy either [Pets Go Raw!]( or [Nature's Variety Instinct]( Personally, I find Pets Go Raw! to be a little better, but they're pretty on par price wise. Natures Instinct offers a little more convenience in that they offer 1oz medallion sizes so I don't need to bother cutting and measuring patties.
The cost is indeed more than kibble, but not necessarily more than wet food costs. Also, the health benefits from feeding raw mean that you're less likely to run into costly veterinary visits down the road. Their teeth stay cleaner from the bones, and their kidney functions are better because of the high moisture content of the food, and the lack of grain improves their digestive/bowel health.
[Here is a link from a veterinarian on the benefits of raw, along with a recipe for making your own at home!]( | For my moderately active, indoor 14 lbs cat, I feed him a 1/4lbs of raw food everyday. I average around $50 a month to feed him raw food (this includes supplemental food like chicken necks and freeze dried liver treats) And once a month his food is free because of their buy 10 get 1 free rewards program. |
creativexangst | We planned our baby to be here when we got married May 2014 but after I got pregnant a bunch of kinks were thrown into the monkey works to actually get married at the time/date/location we picked. We ended up doing a civil ceremony and then the wedding a month later (I had one day of panic before saying fuck it let's get married in three months) and I gotta say- getting married before the wedding is the best thing anyone could ever do, because no matter what, at the end of your wedding day, you're already married! So its not a big deal if things go wrong.
Anyway the tl;Dr is go for the Vegas wedding! Or even a courthouse one! And then plan a big wedding if that's what you want :D | We planned our baby to be here when we got married May 2014 but after I got pregnant a bunch of kinks were thrown into the monkey works to actually get married at the time/date/location we picked. We ended up doing a civil ceremony and then the wedding a month later (I had one day of panic before saying fuck it let's get married in three months) and I gotta say- getting married before the wedding is the best thing anyone could ever do, because no matter what, at the end of your wedding day, you're already married! So its not a big deal if things go wrong.
Anyway the tl;Dr is go for the Vegas wedding! Or even a courthouse one! And then plan a big wedding if that's what you want :D
| BabyBumps | t5_2s7cl | cf45eii | We planned our baby to be here when we got married May 2014 but after I got pregnant a bunch of kinks were thrown into the monkey works to actually get married at the time/date/location we picked. We ended up doing a civil ceremony and then the wedding a month later (I had one day of panic before saying fuck it let's get married in three months) and I gotta say- getting married before the wedding is the best thing anyone could ever do, because no matter what, at the end of your wedding day, you're already married! So its not a big deal if things go wrong.
Anyway the | is go for the Vegas wedding! Or even a courthouse one! And then plan a big wedding if that's what you want :D |
Slaich | I've had some trouble with the XFX 280x's overheating. I have two of them in a case. You might not have the same issues if you have it set up in the open.
On my cards something called vrm temperature get above 110 Celcius. When that happens the cards throttle down to 60% load until the temperature goes down. All in all this leads to the average hashrate being about 1100-1200 KHs, while on full load 100% of the time it would be about 1390 KHs.
I've solved this by removing the side cover on my case and having a table fan constantly blow at the cards. It can be quite noisy, but if you're not in the same room it doesn't matter. I'm pretty much either at work or sleeping these days, so it doesn't matter to me if it's a bit noisy in my livingroom.
TLDR: Much temperature. So throttle. Such fan. Many cooling. | I've had some trouble with the XFX 280x's overheating. I have two of them in a case. You might not have the same issues if you have it set up in the open.
On my cards something called vrm temperature get above 110 Celcius. When that happens the cards throttle down to 60% load until the temperature goes down. All in all this leads to the average hashrate being about 1100-1200 KHs, while on full load 100% of the time it would be about 1390 KHs.
I've solved this by removing the side cover on my case and having a table fan constantly blow at the cards. It can be quite noisy, but if you're not in the same room it doesn't matter. I'm pretty much either at work or sleeping these days, so it doesn't matter to me if it's a bit noisy in my livingroom.
TLDR: Much temperature. So throttle. Such fan. Many cooling.
| dogecoin | t5_2zcp2 | cf40jey | I've had some trouble with the XFX 280x's overheating. I have two of them in a case. You might not have the same issues if you have it set up in the open.
On my cards something called vrm temperature get above 110 Celcius. When that happens the cards throttle down to 60% load until the temperature goes down. All in all this leads to the average hashrate being about 1100-1200 KHs, while on full load 100% of the time it would be about 1390 KHs.
I've solved this by removing the side cover on my case and having a table fan constantly blow at the cards. It can be quite noisy, but if you're not in the same room it doesn't matter. I'm pretty much either at work or sleeping these days, so it doesn't matter to me if it's a bit noisy in my livingroom. | Much temperature. So throttle. Such fan. Many cooling. |
McBlumkin | Honestly I can't really see the difference between a 120hz monitor and a monitor with a lesser refresh rate, The Asus has a refresh rate of 56-76 Hz but honestly I have 3 of them and I personally find them amazing for gaming etc... Increasing your refresh rate allows more states (of color) to be on the screen each second. However, with this specific monitor since the response time is so low it only takes 1 ms for the color to change on your screen, resulting in extremely smooth image quality ;D
Tl;Dr- Stick with this monitor | Honestly I can't really see the difference between a 120hz monitor and a monitor with a lesser refresh rate, The Asus has a refresh rate of 56-76 Hz but honestly I have 3 of them and I personally find them amazing for gaming etc... Increasing your refresh rate allows more states (of color) to be on the screen each second. However, with this specific monitor since the response time is so low it only takes 1 ms for the color to change on your screen, resulting in extremely smooth image quality ;D
Tl;Dr- Stick with this monitor
| buildapcforme | t5_2tjcr | cf49t3v | Honestly I can't really see the difference between a 120hz monitor and a monitor with a lesser refresh rate, The Asus has a refresh rate of 56-76 Hz but honestly I have 3 of them and I personally find them amazing for gaming etc... Increasing your refresh rate allows more states (of color) to be on the screen each second. However, with this specific monitor since the response time is so low it only takes 1 ms for the color to change on your screen, resulting in extremely smooth image quality ;D | Stick with this monitor |
adrianmalacoda | They don't want to explain it. There was an [article]( about "anti-racism dog" (a twitter account that replied "woof woof woof" to posts that its operator considered racist for whatever reason) a few years back.
> Colour-blind racists feed on good-faith debate, and engaging with them, especially online, is almost always futile. But when they’re barked at by a dog, one whose only quality is anti-racism, they flip the fuck out. They demand to be engaged in debate (‘Tell me how what I said was racist!’) or appeal to objective definitions (‘The dictionary says racist means X, therefore nothing I said was racist’), but @Anti_Racism_Dog just barks.
TL;DR: accuse someone of being racist/sexist without bothering to defend your position, if they challenge your accusation this somehow proves the accusation. | They don't want to explain it. There was an article a few years back.
> Colour-blind racists feed on good-faith debate, and engaging with them, especially online, is almost always futile. But when they’re barked at by a dog, one whose only quality is anti-racism, they flip the fuck out. They demand to be engaged in debate (‘Tell me how what I said was racist!’) or appeal to objective definitions (‘The dictionary says racist means X, therefore nothing I said was racist’), but @Anti_Racism_Dog just barks.
TL;DR: accuse someone of being racist/sexist without bothering to defend your position, if they challenge your accusation this somehow proves the accusation.
| TumblrInAction | t5_2vizz | cf4zpzu | They don't want to explain it. There was an article a few years back.
> Colour-blind racists feed on good-faith debate, and engaging with them, especially online, is almost always futile. But when they’re barked at by a dog, one whose only quality is anti-racism, they flip the fuck out. They demand to be engaged in debate (‘Tell me how what I said was racist!’) or appeal to objective definitions (‘The dictionary says racist means X, therefore nothing I said was racist’), but @Anti_Racism_Dog just barks. | accuse someone of being racist/sexist without bothering to defend your position, if they challenge your accusation this somehow proves the accusation. |
Achruss | I think what people in this thread aren't realising is we are buffing/nerfing the weapons *against the most used weapons*. We aren't just buffing them, and saying "It's fine, now people will use it!" we need to be buffing them so people say 'Oh man, that might be more fun/better now/as good as X" The fact of the matter is people aren't going to use an inferior weapon just because it got it's own buff.
What do i mean? Let's take the third degree. No downsides, and hurts heal target/medic as well. A perfectly good weapon for flanking/ambushing. Logically there is no reason not to use it, as those complete both of Pyros main functions perfectly. Until we look at his other weapons. The third degree is a great choice for her, but only when not compared to other weapons, in which case it falls short (For example, the axtinguisher can do more damage than it in a quicker amount of time to two targets, the powerjack can get you out of a tight spot/better flank, the home wrecker can help protect your base, etc). So how do we 'balance' the weapon?
It's pretty simple. If you increase the attack range of the third degree, you gain additional flanking ability, at the cost of the burst damage of the backscratcher/axtinguisher. If we add in an effect such as 1.5x damage against a pocket while attacking a medic (if you attack the medic the pocket takes more damage), we have the burst damage outweighed. of course it needs a down side, which could be anything from 10% less damage on non-healing targets, no random crits, or a slower swing speed. none of these impede it's function, but at the same time make you think "maybe i shouldn't use this over this". Another good option would be keeping the same stats and adding in the ability to remove sappers, with a penalty to match (As to not over throw the homewrecker)
A really really good example of this is the backscratcher. The main options for a pyro's melee are Powerjack, axtinguisher, and homewrecker. The powerjack is used for either the speed or the extra health without a medic, while the axt is used for better burst damage while flanking. The backscratcher is the perfect middle ground, since it accomplishes the extra health and has increased damage for flanking, without usurping the other two from their viability.
TL;DR: Buffing weapons is not just a matter of making something better, it's a matter of making something equal | I think what people in this thread aren't realising is we are buffing/nerfing the weapons against the most used weapons . We aren't just buffing them, and saying "It's fine, now people will use it!" we need to be buffing them so people say 'Oh man, that might be more fun/better now/as good as X" The fact of the matter is people aren't going to use an inferior weapon just because it got it's own buff.
What do i mean? Let's take the third degree. No downsides, and hurts heal target/medic as well. A perfectly good weapon for flanking/ambushing. Logically there is no reason not to use it, as those complete both of Pyros main functions perfectly. Until we look at his other weapons. The third degree is a great choice for her, but only when not compared to other weapons, in which case it falls short (For example, the axtinguisher can do more damage than it in a quicker amount of time to two targets, the powerjack can get you out of a tight spot/better flank, the home wrecker can help protect your base, etc). So how do we 'balance' the weapon?
It's pretty simple. If you increase the attack range of the third degree, you gain additional flanking ability, at the cost of the burst damage of the backscratcher/axtinguisher. If we add in an effect such as 1.5x damage against a pocket while attacking a medic (if you attack the medic the pocket takes more damage), we have the burst damage outweighed. of course it needs a down side, which could be anything from 10% less damage on non-healing targets, no random crits, or a slower swing speed. none of these impede it's function, but at the same time make you think "maybe i shouldn't use this over this". Another good option would be keeping the same stats and adding in the ability to remove sappers, with a penalty to match (As to not over throw the homewrecker)
A really really good example of this is the backscratcher. The main options for a pyro's melee are Powerjack, axtinguisher, and homewrecker. The powerjack is used for either the speed or the extra health without a medic, while the axt is used for better burst damage while flanking. The backscratcher is the perfect middle ground, since it accomplishes the extra health and has increased damage for flanking, without usurping the other two from their viability.
TL;DR: Buffing weapons is not just a matter of making something better, it's a matter of making something equal
| tf2 | t5_2qka0 | cf4zmfs | I think what people in this thread aren't realising is we are buffing/nerfing the weapons against the most used weapons . We aren't just buffing them, and saying "It's fine, now people will use it!" we need to be buffing them so people say 'Oh man, that might be more fun/better now/as good as X" The fact of the matter is people aren't going to use an inferior weapon just because it got it's own buff.
What do i mean? Let's take the third degree. No downsides, and hurts heal target/medic as well. A perfectly good weapon for flanking/ambushing. Logically there is no reason not to use it, as those complete both of Pyros main functions perfectly. Until we look at his other weapons. The third degree is a great choice for her, but only when not compared to other weapons, in which case it falls short (For example, the axtinguisher can do more damage than it in a quicker amount of time to two targets, the powerjack can get you out of a tight spot/better flank, the home wrecker can help protect your base, etc). So how do we 'balance' the weapon?
It's pretty simple. If you increase the attack range of the third degree, you gain additional flanking ability, at the cost of the burst damage of the backscratcher/axtinguisher. If we add in an effect such as 1.5x damage against a pocket while attacking a medic (if you attack the medic the pocket takes more damage), we have the burst damage outweighed. of course it needs a down side, which could be anything from 10% less damage on non-healing targets, no random crits, or a slower swing speed. none of these impede it's function, but at the same time make you think "maybe i shouldn't use this over this". Another good option would be keeping the same stats and adding in the ability to remove sappers, with a penalty to match (As to not over throw the homewrecker)
A really really good example of this is the backscratcher. The main options for a pyro's melee are Powerjack, axtinguisher, and homewrecker. The powerjack is used for either the speed or the extra health without a medic, while the axt is used for better burst damage while flanking. The backscratcher is the perfect middle ground, since it accomplishes the extra health and has increased damage for flanking, without usurping the other two from their viability. | Buffing weapons is not just a matter of making something better, it's a matter of making something equal |
PandoraRhosyn | Oh my heck, all the time! When I was younger I went to an arcade with my family. I was enjoying myself, going around, some guy comes up to me and says "I know you and I don't remember how." Squick. So I try to be nice, say no, I doubt it. Try to discreetly get away from him. He starts following me around the arcade. He starts saying stuff like, "I used to date you. I can't believe you don't remember." Yeah. No. I was all of 14ish, pretty sure I'd remember going out with this guy, because it would have been a nippy day in hell. So I go to my dad, who is a big burly guy, hoping to scare this creep off. He introduces himself as an old friend of mine, which he absolutely was not. Ruined that day.
Then a couple years ago I was in a bookstore browsing while I tried to get the guts to apply. Started getting that vibe from a guy nearby, so I moved down the aisles casually as you please, sci-fi, then fantasy, then horror. He follows. Okay, maybe he just likes the same things I do. I go to the romance section. He still follows. Hard-core erotica? What a coincidence, me too! (I imagine that's what he thought at least.) Luckily, that was the day I was again having daddy-daughter time, so when he got there I stuck to him like glue and the guy disappeared.
Tl;dr: Creeps follow me around when I'm alone in public. So I don't stay alone for long if I can help it. | Oh my heck, all the time! When I was younger I went to an arcade with my family. I was enjoying myself, going around, some guy comes up to me and says "I know you and I don't remember how." Squick. So I try to be nice, say no, I doubt it. Try to discreetly get away from him. He starts following me around the arcade. He starts saying stuff like, "I used to date you. I can't believe you don't remember." Yeah. No. I was all of 14ish, pretty sure I'd remember going out with this guy, because it would have been a nippy day in hell. So I go to my dad, who is a big burly guy, hoping to scare this creep off. He introduces himself as an old friend of mine, which he absolutely was not. Ruined that day.
Then a couple years ago I was in a bookstore browsing while I tried to get the guts to apply. Started getting that vibe from a guy nearby, so I moved down the aisles casually as you please, sci-fi, then fantasy, then horror. He follows. Okay, maybe he just likes the same things I do. I go to the romance section. He still follows. Hard-core erotica? What a coincidence, me too! (I imagine that's what he thought at least.) Luckily, that was the day I was again having daddy-daughter time, so when he got there I stuck to him like glue and the guy disappeared.
Tl;dr: Creeps follow me around when I'm alone in public. So I don't stay alone for long if I can help it.
| AskWomen | t5_2rxrw | cf4mn58 | Oh my heck, all the time! When I was younger I went to an arcade with my family. I was enjoying myself, going around, some guy comes up to me and says "I know you and I don't remember how." Squick. So I try to be nice, say no, I doubt it. Try to discreetly get away from him. He starts following me around the arcade. He starts saying stuff like, "I used to date you. I can't believe you don't remember." Yeah. No. I was all of 14ish, pretty sure I'd remember going out with this guy, because it would have been a nippy day in hell. So I go to my dad, who is a big burly guy, hoping to scare this creep off. He introduces himself as an old friend of mine, which he absolutely was not. Ruined that day.
Then a couple years ago I was in a bookstore browsing while I tried to get the guts to apply. Started getting that vibe from a guy nearby, so I moved down the aisles casually as you please, sci-fi, then fantasy, then horror. He follows. Okay, maybe he just likes the same things I do. I go to the romance section. He still follows. Hard-core erotica? What a coincidence, me too! (I imagine that's what he thought at least.) Luckily, that was the day I was again having daddy-daughter time, so when he got there I stuck to him like glue and the guy disappeared. | Creeps follow me around when I'm alone in public. So I don't stay alone for long if I can help it. |
Grimstar3 | I JUST saw a psychiatrist for the very first time ever this very morning. So I'm probably as close to your situation (while being one step ahead of you) as humanly possible right now.
He didn't even hesitate to get started, he was instantly asking me how I am feeling, etc, what I felt brought me in. The thing though, is that he was by far the easiest person to talk to about my problems I've ever had in my life. I do NOT open up to people around me or even close to me. But he actually felt like he was there to listen *thoroughly* and relate to a degree. Not relate as in he seemed depressed, but in that when I would be trying to find the words to say or how to describe something, many times he could figure it out and would ask if I meant it a certain way, and he was always dead on.
He also asked me to describe things more in depth if I would sort of blow over something, and I actually started to realize some of the core problems I was having. Sort of like if I was in a canoe and a giant wave hit me, instead of focusing on the wave, we were looking at what caused it. If that makes sense. It very helpful and I left feeling proud of myself and a little more upbeat than I have been.
There was also a fun mini-I.Q. test, I was also being tested for anxiety though, so it made me a little anxious to sit down and feel like I was in a testing situation, but there were no time limits, no wrong answers, and I could just sit there and zone out for however long I needed before continuing, it was nice.
TL;DR: I just saw a psychiatrist today, it was one of the most beneficial things I've ever done. You'll be happy to have done it, even if you're terrified now like I was beforehand too. | I JUST saw a psychiatrist for the very first time ever this very morning. So I'm probably as close to your situation (while being one step ahead of you) as humanly possible right now.
He didn't even hesitate to get started, he was instantly asking me how I am feeling, etc, what I felt brought me in. The thing though, is that he was by far the easiest person to talk to about my problems I've ever had in my life. I do NOT open up to people around me or even close to me. But he actually felt like he was there to listen thoroughly and relate to a degree. Not relate as in he seemed depressed, but in that when I would be trying to find the words to say or how to describe something, many times he could figure it out and would ask if I meant it a certain way, and he was always dead on.
He also asked me to describe things more in depth if I would sort of blow over something, and I actually started to realize some of the core problems I was having. Sort of like if I was in a canoe and a giant wave hit me, instead of focusing on the wave, we were looking at what caused it. If that makes sense. It very helpful and I left feeling proud of myself and a little more upbeat than I have been.
There was also a fun mini-I.Q. test, I was also being tested for anxiety though, so it made me a little anxious to sit down and feel like I was in a testing situation, but there were no time limits, no wrong answers, and I could just sit there and zone out for however long I needed before continuing, it was nice.
TL;DR: I just saw a psychiatrist today, it was one of the most beneficial things I've ever done. You'll be happy to have done it, even if you're terrified now like I was beforehand too.
| depression | t5_2qqqf | cf4yflo | I JUST saw a psychiatrist for the very first time ever this very morning. So I'm probably as close to your situation (while being one step ahead of you) as humanly possible right now.
He didn't even hesitate to get started, he was instantly asking me how I am feeling, etc, what I felt brought me in. The thing though, is that he was by far the easiest person to talk to about my problems I've ever had in my life. I do NOT open up to people around me or even close to me. But he actually felt like he was there to listen thoroughly and relate to a degree. Not relate as in he seemed depressed, but in that when I would be trying to find the words to say or how to describe something, many times he could figure it out and would ask if I meant it a certain way, and he was always dead on.
He also asked me to describe things more in depth if I would sort of blow over something, and I actually started to realize some of the core problems I was having. Sort of like if I was in a canoe and a giant wave hit me, instead of focusing on the wave, we were looking at what caused it. If that makes sense. It very helpful and I left feeling proud of myself and a little more upbeat than I have been.
There was also a fun mini-I.Q. test, I was also being tested for anxiety though, so it made me a little anxious to sit down and feel like I was in a testing situation, but there were no time limits, no wrong answers, and I could just sit there and zone out for however long I needed before continuing, it was nice. | I just saw a psychiatrist today, it was one of the most beneficial things I've ever done. You'll be happy to have done it, even if you're terrified now like I was beforehand too. |
Murflaw7424 | I did cold calling up until last year. Got a few hnw and uhnw clients from it. One with $15mm in free cash flow. This method only works in this order:
1. Define a target market (I chose wall st)
2. Gather or buy only qualified leads in this market (I'll explain how you can evaluate later. Only buy ppls direct numbers. Main lines are a waste of time)
3. Define your script. (Keep it short. Goal of these cold calls is not to sell a product but to schedule a 15 min follow up call/webinar. You should be on and off the phone in 2 min maximum. Pitch delivered and time booked.)
4. This is a numbers game so get used to rejection. If you have a fear of rejection or 'call reluctance' just keep plugging away. You will become a master at this and a pretty good negotiator. At my peak I was calling 200ppl per day.
4a. Make a game out of it. My best day ever I booked 10 appointments in 1 hr. I had only called 60ppl for that day. So I went out with my work buddies and got sloshed at lunch. It was great. (200 calls can be daunting but it does work. There will be days were you will dial 300ppl and you will not book 1 appointment. You will be cursed at and hung up on. You must celebrate the tiny victories.)
4b. For your own sanity change your script every couple of weeks.
You will probably ask, "if you were so good at it why did you leave?" My boss and work environment were great. I ultimately left my job for 2 reasons, I felt that I was not getting paid for the work that I did and I was not learning the basics of fin planning. I was receiving 30% of every case I dragged in, while my mentor took home 70%. Under the guise of starting my own business, I was not learning the art of selling financial services, but being churned for a profit by someone else.
The strange part is I work as financial planner at another firm now, for the top producer in the country. (He gets 100% of his leads from referrals.) I hate working for someone else. Working my ass off for pennies (I am making more money now) to line someone else's pockets. Listening to abusive, hostile managers all day. I would go back to cold calling in a second to gain that freedom I had.
Tl;Dr cold calling works. Just be prepared to stick with it. Working for someone else in finance sucks.
Edit: I am a Financial Planner. Studied professional sales in college | I did cold calling up until last year. Got a few hnw and uhnw clients from it. One with $15mm in free cash flow. This method only works in this order:
Define a target market (I chose wall st)
Gather or buy only qualified leads in this market (I'll explain how you can evaluate later. Only buy ppls direct numbers. Main lines are a waste of time)
Define your script. (Keep it short. Goal of these cold calls is not to sell a product but to schedule a 15 min follow up call/webinar. You should be on and off the phone in 2 min maximum. Pitch delivered and time booked.)
This is a numbers game so get used to rejection. If you have a fear of rejection or 'call reluctance' just keep plugging away. You will become a master at this and a pretty good negotiator. At my peak I was calling 200ppl per day.
4a. Make a game out of it. My best day ever I booked 10 appointments in 1 hr. I had only called 60ppl for that day. So I went out with my work buddies and got sloshed at lunch. It was great. (200 calls can be daunting but it does work. There will be days were you will dial 300ppl and you will not book 1 appointment. You will be cursed at and hung up on. You must celebrate the tiny victories.)
4b. For your own sanity change your script every couple of weeks.
You will probably ask, "if you were so good at it why did you leave?" My boss and work environment were great. I ultimately left my job for 2 reasons, I felt that I was not getting paid for the work that I did and I was not learning the basics of fin planning. I was receiving 30% of every case I dragged in, while my mentor took home 70%. Under the guise of starting my own business, I was not learning the art of selling financial services, but being churned for a profit by someone else.
The strange part is I work as financial planner at another firm now, for the top producer in the country. (He gets 100% of his leads from referrals.) I hate working for someone else. Working my ass off for pennies (I am making more money now) to line someone else's pockets. Listening to abusive, hostile managers all day. I would go back to cold calling in a second to gain that freedom I had.
Tl;Dr cold calling works. Just be prepared to stick with it. Working for someone else in finance sucks.
Edit: I am a Financial Planner. Studied professional sales in college
| finance | t5_2qhfj | cf5403x | I did cold calling up until last year. Got a few hnw and uhnw clients from it. One with $15mm in free cash flow. This method only works in this order:
Define a target market (I chose wall st)
Gather or buy only qualified leads in this market (I'll explain how you can evaluate later. Only buy ppls direct numbers. Main lines are a waste of time)
Define your script. (Keep it short. Goal of these cold calls is not to sell a product but to schedule a 15 min follow up call/webinar. You should be on and off the phone in 2 min maximum. Pitch delivered and time booked.)
This is a numbers game so get used to rejection. If you have a fear of rejection or 'call reluctance' just keep plugging away. You will become a master at this and a pretty good negotiator. At my peak I was calling 200ppl per day.
4a. Make a game out of it. My best day ever I booked 10 appointments in 1 hr. I had only called 60ppl for that day. So I went out with my work buddies and got sloshed at lunch. It was great. (200 calls can be daunting but it does work. There will be days were you will dial 300ppl and you will not book 1 appointment. You will be cursed at and hung up on. You must celebrate the tiny victories.)
4b. For your own sanity change your script every couple of weeks.
You will probably ask, "if you were so good at it why did you leave?" My boss and work environment were great. I ultimately left my job for 2 reasons, I felt that I was not getting paid for the work that I did and I was not learning the basics of fin planning. I was receiving 30% of every case I dragged in, while my mentor took home 70%. Under the guise of starting my own business, I was not learning the art of selling financial services, but being churned for a profit by someone else.
The strange part is I work as financial planner at another firm now, for the top producer in the country. (He gets 100% of his leads from referrals.) I hate working for someone else. Working my ass off for pennies (I am making more money now) to line someone else's pockets. Listening to abusive, hostile managers all day. I would go back to cold calling in a second to gain that freedom I had. | cold calling works. Just be prepared to stick with it. Working for someone else in finance sucks.
Edit: I am a Financial Planner. Studied professional sales in college |
DJ_MD9 | Well, Rule #1 is not rooted in gameplay so much as it is in members' verbal interactions with one another. For a more gray-area example, I might hate being killed across the map by snipers who sit on rooftops all day, but they're not being inconsiderate of me by doing something that I don't like. A more relevant example is players who purposefully ram enemy helis/jets. Is it "inconsiderate" because it's a "cheap" and "unsportsmanlike" action? Perhaps a little bit, but it's part of the game as it was meant to be implemented by DICE, so we shy away from making rules against it as it would be against PURE's ideal of not enforcing custom rulesets.
Also, enforcement would be difficult. At what point is someone camping an enemy spawn? To be fair, the rule would need to have some quantifiable line beyond which it can be considered "broken" by a player, and that line is hard to draw without being completely arbitrary. Is someone sitting at the E flag on Seige with a Stinger breaking the rule? How about on top of the buildings near E on the side of the enemy spawn? How about on top of the buildings halfway to the D flag? Should the line be drawn instead based on the number of rockets fired? If the line beyond which rule-breaking occurs is instead drawn on a case-by-case basis, that would go against the Admin Team's commitment to objectivity, and thereby wouldn't align with PURE's ideals either.
BF4 is all about hurting and inconveniencing your enemy in the interest of winning the game. You hide SLAMs in "cheap" places to blow up tanks, you use "no-skill" lockon weapons to take down air, and so on, all to help your team maintain land or air dominance and control. Some tactics are cheaper than others, but in this case, camping the enemy spawn with a stinger squad is a ridiculously effective way of keeping their helis out of the battle. Would I do it? Probably not, because--along with actions like ramming air vehicles on purpose--I'd consider it unsportsmanlike, but that is a completely personal moral judgement. Others might consider the use of specific weapons/devices (like the V40 mini) to be unsportsmanlike, but I don't. So implementing rules against some of these things wouldn't really be fair, nor conducive to what we come to expect from playing on PURE servers.
**TL;DR: It's a really, really big gray area, and enforcing rules like this would require the sort of subjective analysis to which PURE is generally opposed.** | Well, Rule #1 is not rooted in gameplay so much as it is in members' verbal interactions with one another. For a more gray-area example, I might hate being killed across the map by snipers who sit on rooftops all day, but they're not being inconsiderate of me by doing something that I don't like. A more relevant example is players who purposefully ram enemy helis/jets. Is it "inconsiderate" because it's a "cheap" and "unsportsmanlike" action? Perhaps a little bit, but it's part of the game as it was meant to be implemented by DICE, so we shy away from making rules against it as it would be against PURE's ideal of not enforcing custom rulesets.
Also, enforcement would be difficult. At what point is someone camping an enemy spawn? To be fair, the rule would need to have some quantifiable line beyond which it can be considered "broken" by a player, and that line is hard to draw without being completely arbitrary. Is someone sitting at the E flag on Seige with a Stinger breaking the rule? How about on top of the buildings near E on the side of the enemy spawn? How about on top of the buildings halfway to the D flag? Should the line be drawn instead based on the number of rockets fired? If the line beyond which rule-breaking occurs is instead drawn on a case-by-case basis, that would go against the Admin Team's commitment to objectivity, and thereby wouldn't align with PURE's ideals either.
BF4 is all about hurting and inconveniencing your enemy in the interest of winning the game. You hide SLAMs in "cheap" places to blow up tanks, you use "no-skill" lockon weapons to take down air, and so on, all to help your team maintain land or air dominance and control. Some tactics are cheaper than others, but in this case, camping the enemy spawn with a stinger squad is a ridiculously effective way of keeping their helis out of the battle. Would I do it? Probably not, because--along with actions like ramming air vehicles on purpose--I'd consider it unsportsmanlike, but that is a completely personal moral judgement. Others might consider the use of specific weapons/devices (like the V40 mini) to be unsportsmanlike, but I don't. So implementing rules against some of these things wouldn't really be fair, nor conducive to what we come to expect from playing on PURE servers.
TL;DR: It's a really, really big gray area, and enforcing rules like this would require the sort of subjective analysis to which PURE is generally opposed.
| purebattlefield | t5_2ujr3 | cf5gndr | Well, Rule #1 is not rooted in gameplay so much as it is in members' verbal interactions with one another. For a more gray-area example, I might hate being killed across the map by snipers who sit on rooftops all day, but they're not being inconsiderate of me by doing something that I don't like. A more relevant example is players who purposefully ram enemy helis/jets. Is it "inconsiderate" because it's a "cheap" and "unsportsmanlike" action? Perhaps a little bit, but it's part of the game as it was meant to be implemented by DICE, so we shy away from making rules against it as it would be against PURE's ideal of not enforcing custom rulesets.
Also, enforcement would be difficult. At what point is someone camping an enemy spawn? To be fair, the rule would need to have some quantifiable line beyond which it can be considered "broken" by a player, and that line is hard to draw without being completely arbitrary. Is someone sitting at the E flag on Seige with a Stinger breaking the rule? How about on top of the buildings near E on the side of the enemy spawn? How about on top of the buildings halfway to the D flag? Should the line be drawn instead based on the number of rockets fired? If the line beyond which rule-breaking occurs is instead drawn on a case-by-case basis, that would go against the Admin Team's commitment to objectivity, and thereby wouldn't align with PURE's ideals either.
BF4 is all about hurting and inconveniencing your enemy in the interest of winning the game. You hide SLAMs in "cheap" places to blow up tanks, you use "no-skill" lockon weapons to take down air, and so on, all to help your team maintain land or air dominance and control. Some tactics are cheaper than others, but in this case, camping the enemy spawn with a stinger squad is a ridiculously effective way of keeping their helis out of the battle. Would I do it? Probably not, because--along with actions like ramming air vehicles on purpose--I'd consider it unsportsmanlike, but that is a completely personal moral judgement. Others might consider the use of specific weapons/devices (like the V40 mini) to be unsportsmanlike, but I don't. So implementing rules against some of these things wouldn't really be fair, nor conducive to what we come to expect from playing on PURE servers. | It's a really, really big gray area, and enforcing rules like this would require the sort of subjective analysis to which PURE is generally opposed. |
LionFists | I can't believe someone actually has any doubts of how its going to end, it's Naruto guys , we all know Naruto is going to get some ultimate power out of someone's ass and face Madara. He'll fail ofc and madara will give his final bad guy speech , then wen all hope seems lost Naruto will stand up and use the power of friendship and willpower to wreck Madara's face , then everyone lives happily everafter :p
TL;DR : Remember the Neji-Naurto fight? well swap Neji for Madara and add more flashy stuff | I can't believe someone actually has any doubts of how its going to end, it's Naruto guys , we all know Naruto is going to get some ultimate power out of someone's ass and face Madara. He'll fail ofc and madara will give his final bad guy speech , then wen all hope seems lost Naruto will stand up and use the power of friendship and willpower to wreck Madara's face , then everyone lives happily everafter :p
TL;DR : Remember the Neji-Naurto fight? well swap Neji for Madara and add more flashy stuff
| Naruto | t5_2quts | cf56bip | I can't believe someone actually has any doubts of how its going to end, it's Naruto guys , we all know Naruto is going to get some ultimate power out of someone's ass and face Madara. He'll fail ofc and madara will give his final bad guy speech , then wen all hope seems lost Naruto will stand up and use the power of friendship and willpower to wreck Madara's face , then everyone lives happily everafter :p | Remember the Neji-Naurto fight? well swap Neji for Madara and add more flashy stuff |
Mrknowitall666 | Ok, first, IANAL and I don't know where you live; but I'm an old fuck, with kids, and plenty of experiences with leases, breaking leases, and landlords.
Ok, here's your first issue. Does the lease provide for an early termination of the lease? Sometimes it says you can leave by paying 2 months or something. If not, do you have something in writing saying you're supposed to pay "half" or some other proportion? How did you determine what is "fair" and what's "overcharging"? Without that, you have a history of what you paid prior, which is going to make it look like that's what you agreed to, and now you've had a change of heart. Saying he lied to you, when you signed a lease with numbers on it and you've been paying X amount, isn't a very strong argument -- I wouldn't want to be in your shoes telling a judge "hey, i didnt know what I signed" or how much the lease was or how much i was paying (%).
More bad news. You can't break the lease (usually) without both Land lord and your co-signers agreeing (and, if one or both agrees, i'd get it in writing). Otherwise your roommate can come after you to hold you to the lease and/or (definitely) the Land Lord will hold you and roommate to the lease terms. And, either roommate and/or landlord would win, if it goes to a judge and one or the otehr want to make you pay. Roommate could probably get you to keep paying what you had. Landlord usually can make either of you liable for the entire remaining rents.
I'd be sure I have some casual pictures in my phone of my stuff, and it's condition; so if shit starts to actually turn up damaged, you can sue roommate for its replacement... and btw, his sublettors or guests are his responsibility if they break your shit, either way.
Now, ratting his extra sublettors out to the landlord, in a nice -- "hey, here's a heads up and I don't like it and can you break our lease or otherwise evict us" might be your best bet to get out of this bad deal.
tldr; Not paying your roommate what you used to pay based on your unilateral decision on what's fair, is a bad plan. | Ok, first, IANAL and I don't know where you live; but I'm an old fuck, with kids, and plenty of experiences with leases, breaking leases, and landlords.
Ok, here's your first issue. Does the lease provide for an early termination of the lease? Sometimes it says you can leave by paying 2 months or something. If not, do you have something in writing saying you're supposed to pay "half" or some other proportion? How did you determine what is "fair" and what's "overcharging"? Without that, you have a history of what you paid prior, which is going to make it look like that's what you agreed to, and now you've had a change of heart. Saying he lied to you, when you signed a lease with numbers on it and you've been paying X amount, isn't a very strong argument -- I wouldn't want to be in your shoes telling a judge "hey, i didnt know what I signed" or how much the lease was or how much i was paying (%).
More bad news. You can't break the lease (usually) without both Land lord and your co-signers agreeing (and, if one or both agrees, i'd get it in writing). Otherwise your roommate can come after you to hold you to the lease and/or (definitely) the Land Lord will hold you and roommate to the lease terms. And, either roommate and/or landlord would win, if it goes to a judge and one or the otehr want to make you pay. Roommate could probably get you to keep paying what you had. Landlord usually can make either of you liable for the entire remaining rents.
I'd be sure I have some casual pictures in my phone of my stuff, and it's condition; so if shit starts to actually turn up damaged, you can sue roommate for its replacement... and btw, his sublettors or guests are his responsibility if they break your shit, either way.
Now, ratting his extra sublettors out to the landlord, in a nice -- "hey, here's a heads up and I don't like it and can you break our lease or otherwise evict us" might be your best bet to get out of this bad deal.
tldr; Not paying your roommate what you used to pay based on your unilateral decision on what's fair, is a bad plan.
| AdviceAnimals | t5_2s7tt | cf5wna2 | Ok, first, IANAL and I don't know where you live; but I'm an old fuck, with kids, and plenty of experiences with leases, breaking leases, and landlords.
Ok, here's your first issue. Does the lease provide for an early termination of the lease? Sometimes it says you can leave by paying 2 months or something. If not, do you have something in writing saying you're supposed to pay "half" or some other proportion? How did you determine what is "fair" and what's "overcharging"? Without that, you have a history of what you paid prior, which is going to make it look like that's what you agreed to, and now you've had a change of heart. Saying he lied to you, when you signed a lease with numbers on it and you've been paying X amount, isn't a very strong argument -- I wouldn't want to be in your shoes telling a judge "hey, i didnt know what I signed" or how much the lease was or how much i was paying (%).
More bad news. You can't break the lease (usually) without both Land lord and your co-signers agreeing (and, if one or both agrees, i'd get it in writing). Otherwise your roommate can come after you to hold you to the lease and/or (definitely) the Land Lord will hold you and roommate to the lease terms. And, either roommate and/or landlord would win, if it goes to a judge and one or the otehr want to make you pay. Roommate could probably get you to keep paying what you had. Landlord usually can make either of you liable for the entire remaining rents.
I'd be sure I have some casual pictures in my phone of my stuff, and it's condition; so if shit starts to actually turn up damaged, you can sue roommate for its replacement... and btw, his sublettors or guests are his responsibility if they break your shit, either way.
Now, ratting his extra sublettors out to the landlord, in a nice -- "hey, here's a heads up and I don't like it and can you break our lease or otherwise evict us" might be your best bet to get out of this bad deal. | Not paying your roommate what you used to pay based on your unilateral decision on what's fair, is a bad plan. |
jason28 | Background: My friend met a seemingly nice and mentally stable girl. After 6 months, she mentions that they should move in together (sign one). They look at a house to rent. Due to time constraints, they need to make a decision within three days. He gets cold feet, and she gives him an ultimatum, either move in or break (sign 2). They move in together, and so starts her very erratic and bipolarish behavior. This past Friday, they meet up for happy hour. She asks, " how much do you love me?" Him, "ehhhh." In all seriousness, she asks, " is okay if I sleep with my boss to get a promotion? It's not a big deal. It's just sex."
TLDR: "I saw the sign and it opened up my mind
And I am happy now living without you
I've left you, ooohhh" - Ace of Base | Background: My friend met a seemingly nice and mentally stable girl. After 6 months, she mentions that they should move in together (sign one). They look at a house to rent. Due to time constraints, they need to make a decision within three days. He gets cold feet, and she gives him an ultimatum, either move in or break (sign 2). They move in together, and so starts her very erratic and bipolarish behavior. This past Friday, they meet up for happy hour. She asks, " how much do you love me?" Him, "ehhhh." In all seriousness, she asks, " is okay if I sleep with my boss to get a promotion? It's not a big deal. It's just sex."
TLDR: "I saw the sign and it opened up my mind
And I am happy now living without you
I've left you, ooohhh" - Ace of Base
| AdviceAnimals | t5_2s7tt | cf54jth | Background: My friend met a seemingly nice and mentally stable girl. After 6 months, she mentions that they should move in together (sign one). They look at a house to rent. Due to time constraints, they need to make a decision within three days. He gets cold feet, and she gives him an ultimatum, either move in or break (sign 2). They move in together, and so starts her very erratic and bipolarish behavior. This past Friday, they meet up for happy hour. She asks, " how much do you love me?" Him, "ehhhh." In all seriousness, she asks, " is okay if I sleep with my boss to get a promotion? It's not a big deal. It's just sex." | I saw the sign and it opened up my mind
And I am happy now living without you
I've left you, ooohhh" - Ace of Base |
rhavage | You gotta do this dude, honestly hes intimidating you to control you, and no offense, but your letting him do it by playing this powerless character. Avoiding confrontation is not the answer here. We're often told that fighting is not the answer, but this is one of those times when you gotta stand up for yourself. If you do nothing this will just continue and even worse he will do it to others as well because he now knows it works.
TL;DR Check this asshole before he wrecks you. | You gotta do this dude, honestly hes intimidating you to control you, and no offense, but your letting him do it by playing this powerless character. Avoiding confrontation is not the answer here. We're often told that fighting is not the answer, but this is one of those times when you gotta stand up for yourself. If you do nothing this will just continue and even worse he will do it to others as well because he now knows it works.
TL;DR Check this asshole before he wrecks you.
| AdviceAnimals | t5_2s7tt | cf5kvjs | You gotta do this dude, honestly hes intimidating you to control you, and no offense, but your letting him do it by playing this powerless character. Avoiding confrontation is not the answer here. We're often told that fighting is not the answer, but this is one of those times when you gotta stand up for yourself. If you do nothing this will just continue and even worse he will do it to others as well because he now knows it works. | Check this asshole before he wrecks you. |
FactualPedanticReply | Sociopath is a dated term, but it's usually used these days to describe psychopath-spectrum behaviors. These would include things like diminished empathy and remorse, and disinhibited or bold behavior. While those could be the case here, whether or not someone's a psychopath depends a lot more on their internal landscape.
TL;DR: Maybe, or she could be just plain manipulative. | Sociopath is a dated term, but it's usually used these days to describe psychopath-spectrum behaviors. These would include things like diminished empathy and remorse, and disinhibited or bold behavior. While those could be the case here, whether or not someone's a psychopath depends a lot more on their internal landscape.
TL;DR: Maybe, or she could be just plain manipulative.
| AdviceAnimals | t5_2s7tt | cf5lwwt | Sociopath is a dated term, but it's usually used these days to describe psychopath-spectrum behaviors. These would include things like diminished empathy and remorse, and disinhibited or bold behavior. While those could be the case here, whether or not someone's a psychopath depends a lot more on their internal landscape. | Maybe, or she could be just plain manipulative. |
zen_music | altunial puts it well, you need some of this energy.
In addition, a concept I've found useful is this: "Be outcome independent." In other words, possess yourself independently of the outcome of any given situation. If you have self-respect, and behave according to your highest understanding, you have nothing to reproach yourself for; and if the guy you're considering doesn't meet your profile, it doesn't mean anything about you, or about him; but you are *independent of the outcome!*
I found it very freeing. Difficult to maintain, when the whole scheme is to lean closer to the Other...but, ultimately, crucial to success.
tl, dr: Outcome independent. Be who you are. Nothing else works. | altunial puts it well, you need some of this energy.
In addition, a concept I've found useful is this: "Be outcome independent." In other words, possess yourself independently of the outcome of any given situation. If you have self-respect, and behave according to your highest understanding, you have nothing to reproach yourself for; and if the guy you're considering doesn't meet your profile, it doesn't mean anything about you, or about him; but you are independent of the outcome!
I found it very freeing. Difficult to maintain, when the whole scheme is to lean closer to the Other...but, ultimately, crucial to success.
tl, dr: Outcome independent. Be who you are. Nothing else works.
| relationships | t5_2qjvn | cf5r709 | altunial puts it well, you need some of this energy.
In addition, a concept I've found useful is this: "Be outcome independent." In other words, possess yourself independently of the outcome of any given situation. If you have self-respect, and behave according to your highest understanding, you have nothing to reproach yourself for; and if the guy you're considering doesn't meet your profile, it doesn't mean anything about you, or about him; but you are independent of the outcome!
I found it very freeing. Difficult to maintain, when the whole scheme is to lean closer to the Other...but, ultimately, crucial to success. | Outcome independent. Be who you are. Nothing else works. |
nomofica | And one cannot play with a simulator?
Alternatively, "an activity that one engages in for amusement". One cannot find amusement in simulation? Many real world pilots fly for recreation ("activity done for enjoyment when one is not working"). Would you argue that flying, real world or in simulation, cannot be enjoyed?
TL;DR: I still see no exclusivity between definitions. | And one cannot play with a simulator?
Alternatively, "an activity that one engages in for amusement". One cannot find amusement in simulation? Many real world pilots fly for recreation ("activity done for enjoyment when one is not working"). Would you argue that flying, real world or in simulation, cannot be enjoyed?
TL;DR: I still see no exclusivity between definitions.
| flightsim | t5_2qspy | cf5tkhc | And one cannot play with a simulator?
Alternatively, "an activity that one engages in for amusement". One cannot find amusement in simulation? Many real world pilots fly for recreation ("activity done for enjoyment when one is not working"). Would you argue that flying, real world or in simulation, cannot be enjoyed? | I still see no exclusivity between definitions. |
SenpaiLoL | You're taking what I said and making it sound black and white. Of course taking some steps to learn builds, meta, and overall flow of the game is needed all of which can be studied through videos and streams. Normal gives you little to go off of. AI teaches you how to play your champ and helps you calculate damage output of whatever you are playing. Although in normals you play against players who may have various play styles I have seen players who mainly play AI get the best of players who have over 1k games in normals. That being said, it might have to do with the fact that some people who play AI just push and exploit the fact that bots can't do certain things to get fed while others spend time practicing mechanics/champions within a stress free environment.
If this was me beginning of last year I would tell you bots offer you little, but after playing with many players who play bots I have come to the conclusion they honestly give you a better foundation for new players. You can learn and play the game at your own pace without teammate confrontations.
I have been playing since Season 1 and lately I have been playing lots of AI or Ranked. I'm gold on 2 smurfs and was Plat 1 last season.
TL;DR: Don't play ranked once you hit 30 until you think you have enough understanding of the game and have the tools(Runes/Champions) you need to compete with other players on equal footing. Whether you play AI to learn the game or Normals, either choice can lead you to a better understanding of the game and help become a better player. | You're taking what I said and making it sound black and white. Of course taking some steps to learn builds, meta, and overall flow of the game is needed all of which can be studied through videos and streams. Normal gives you little to go off of. AI teaches you how to play your champ and helps you calculate damage output of whatever you are playing. Although in normals you play against players who may have various play styles I have seen players who mainly play AI get the best of players who have over 1k games in normals. That being said, it might have to do with the fact that some people who play AI just push and exploit the fact that bots can't do certain things to get fed while others spend time practicing mechanics/champions within a stress free environment.
If this was me beginning of last year I would tell you bots offer you little, but after playing with many players who play bots I have come to the conclusion they honestly give you a better foundation for new players. You can learn and play the game at your own pace without teammate confrontations.
I have been playing since Season 1 and lately I have been playing lots of AI or Ranked. I'm gold on 2 smurfs and was Plat 1 last season.
TL;DR: Don't play ranked once you hit 30 until you think you have enough understanding of the game and have the tools(Runes/Champions) you need to compete with other players on equal footing. Whether you play AI to learn the game or Normals, either choice can lead you to a better understanding of the game and help become a better player.
| leagueoflegends | t5_2rfxx | cf5ybot | You're taking what I said and making it sound black and white. Of course taking some steps to learn builds, meta, and overall flow of the game is needed all of which can be studied through videos and streams. Normal gives you little to go off of. AI teaches you how to play your champ and helps you calculate damage output of whatever you are playing. Although in normals you play against players who may have various play styles I have seen players who mainly play AI get the best of players who have over 1k games in normals. That being said, it might have to do with the fact that some people who play AI just push and exploit the fact that bots can't do certain things to get fed while others spend time practicing mechanics/champions within a stress free environment.
If this was me beginning of last year I would tell you bots offer you little, but after playing with many players who play bots I have come to the conclusion they honestly give you a better foundation for new players. You can learn and play the game at your own pace without teammate confrontations.
I have been playing since Season 1 and lately I have been playing lots of AI or Ranked. I'm gold on 2 smurfs and was Plat 1 last season. | Don't play ranked once you hit 30 until you think you have enough understanding of the game and have the tools(Runes/Champions) you need to compete with other players on equal footing. Whether you play AI to learn the game or Normals, either choice can lead you to a better understanding of the game and help become a better player. |
acideath | She said along the lines of this isnt West Virginia with vigilantes and such in reference to someone saying he wanted to chase some greenies up a tree and shoot them like possums. Really there wasnt much in it, Helen was quite restrained given the abuse she got.
Tl;DR The locals were pretty upset at the time, things were said. | She said along the lines of this isnt West Virginia with vigilantes and such in reference to someone saying he wanted to chase some greenies up a tree and shoot them like possums. Really there wasnt much in it, Helen was quite restrained given the abuse she got.
Tl;DR The locals were pretty upset at the time, things were said.
| newzealand | t5_2qhma | cf6movs | She said along the lines of this isnt West Virginia with vigilantes and such in reference to someone saying he wanted to chase some greenies up a tree and shoot them like possums. Really there wasnt much in it, Helen was quite restrained given the abuse she got. | The locals were pretty upset at the time, things were said. |
blackmars0 | Umm, this guy sounds crazy, and he just happens to be gay. I live around the same area and I know of a couple of people who seem a little bit "off".
The take-away here is: the LGBT community is like any other. There are bound to be a few creepy folks who just happen to fall within the LGBT spectrum. I'm gay, and I've hung around in the village a fair amount, and it's not unheard of to get stuck talking to an older creepy guy now and again. It's particularly jarring for some straight guys because they're not used to being on the receiving end of that kind of interaction. Not to say that all straight guys are creepy or anything.
My suggestion to you is take the high road and and let him know that his attention is unwelcome. From then on, just ignore him. He's probably just doing it to get a reaction out of you.
TL;DR: The guy is probably a little bit crazy and looking for attention. Being a part of the LGBT community doesn't really factor into it, outside of some of the remarks he's making. | Umm, this guy sounds crazy, and he just happens to be gay. I live around the same area and I know of a couple of people who seem a little bit "off".
The take-away here is: the LGBT community is like any other. There are bound to be a few creepy folks who just happen to fall within the LGBT spectrum. I'm gay, and I've hung around in the village a fair amount, and it's not unheard of to get stuck talking to an older creepy guy now and again. It's particularly jarring for some straight guys because they're not used to being on the receiving end of that kind of interaction. Not to say that all straight guys are creepy or anything.
My suggestion to you is take the high road and and let him know that his attention is unwelcome. From then on, just ignore him. He's probably just doing it to get a reaction out of you.
TL;DR: The guy is probably a little bit crazy and looking for attention. Being a part of the LGBT community doesn't really factor into it, outside of some of the remarks he's making.
| toronto | t5_2qi63 | cf5yih7 | Umm, this guy sounds crazy, and he just happens to be gay. I live around the same area and I know of a couple of people who seem a little bit "off".
The take-away here is: the LGBT community is like any other. There are bound to be a few creepy folks who just happen to fall within the LGBT spectrum. I'm gay, and I've hung around in the village a fair amount, and it's not unheard of to get stuck talking to an older creepy guy now and again. It's particularly jarring for some straight guys because they're not used to being on the receiving end of that kind of interaction. Not to say that all straight guys are creepy or anything.
My suggestion to you is take the high road and and let him know that his attention is unwelcome. From then on, just ignore him. He's probably just doing it to get a reaction out of you. | The guy is probably a little bit crazy and looking for attention. Being a part of the LGBT community doesn't really factor into it, outside of some of the remarks he's making. |
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