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SardinesGivePower | -Bynum was also a 7 footer, a lot harder to come by.
-Love is also better than Kidd was at that time in his career.
-Bynum also ended up with career ending injuries. He was just lucky enough to avoid those for a few years. Had Bynum gone to way of Bowie or Oden people would have ridiculed the move.
tl;dr- Hindsight bias, | -Bynum was also a 7 footer, a lot harder to come by.
-Love is also better than Kidd was at that time in his career.
-Bynum also ended up with career ending injuries. He was just lucky enough to avoid those for a few years. Had Bynum gone to way of Bowie or Oden people would have ridiculed the move.
tl;dr- Hindsight bias,
| nba | t5_2qo4s | ciwz1vh | Bynum was also a 7 footer, a lot harder to come by.
-Love is also better than Kidd was at that time in his career.
-Bynum also ended up with career ending injuries. He was just lucky enough to avoid those for a few years. Had Bynum gone to way of Bowie or Oden people would have ridiculed the move. | Hindsight bias, |
Grewdray | The issue is that my grandparents (who are quite well off and raised me) retired recently and my grandfather is no longer making his comfortable CIO/CTO salary and don't have the resources to pay for the remainder of my 6 years left in school (UG and post-grad). I have a fairly prestigious job at a soft-ware development company in the city I attend school, but being a full time student does not allow me to reap the financial benefits this company offers, as they are a M-F 9-5 and that is when I am in class. I have average credit for a college student, so no bank will give me a 40k loan every year for the next 6 years, if I can't even get accepted for a credit card. My grandparents would be accepted immediately for the loan, but my fear is that I wouldn't be able to pay them back soon enough or, if they needed the money for something else. They are already aiding me with my living expenses in college. I had tuition handled, due to my biological mother technically being "homeless" (she wasn't, she was renting a place under the table), so I received a large lump some of grants and scholarship money from the gov. Now that she has married and is filing her sugar daddy's kids on her taxes, it shows her as making more money and has screwed me out of the money I was receiving.
TL;DR: College is expensive, people get old, financial aid is confusing. | The issue is that my grandparents (who are quite well off and raised me) retired recently and my grandfather is no longer making his comfortable CIO/CTO salary and don't have the resources to pay for the remainder of my 6 years left in school (UG and post-grad). I have a fairly prestigious job at a soft-ware development company in the city I attend school, but being a full time student does not allow me to reap the financial benefits this company offers, as they are a M-F 9-5 and that is when I am in class. I have average credit for a college student, so no bank will give me a 40k loan every year for the next 6 years, if I can't even get accepted for a credit card. My grandparents would be accepted immediately for the loan, but my fear is that I wouldn't be able to pay them back soon enough or, if they needed the money for something else. They are already aiding me with my living expenses in college. I had tuition handled, due to my biological mother technically being "homeless" (she wasn't, she was renting a place under the table), so I received a large lump some of grants and scholarship money from the gov. Now that she has married and is filing her sugar daddy's kids on her taxes, it shows her as making more money and has screwed me out of the money I was receiving.
TL;DR: College is expensive, people get old, financial aid is confusing.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | cix9yr1 | The issue is that my grandparents (who are quite well off and raised me) retired recently and my grandfather is no longer making his comfortable CIO/CTO salary and don't have the resources to pay for the remainder of my 6 years left in school (UG and post-grad). I have a fairly prestigious job at a soft-ware development company in the city I attend school, but being a full time student does not allow me to reap the financial benefits this company offers, as they are a M-F 9-5 and that is when I am in class. I have average credit for a college student, so no bank will give me a 40k loan every year for the next 6 years, if I can't even get accepted for a credit card. My grandparents would be accepted immediately for the loan, but my fear is that I wouldn't be able to pay them back soon enough or, if they needed the money for something else. They are already aiding me with my living expenses in college. I had tuition handled, due to my biological mother technically being "homeless" (she wasn't, she was renting a place under the table), so I received a large lump some of grants and scholarship money from the gov. Now that she has married and is filing her sugar daddy's kids on her taxes, it shows her as making more money and has screwed me out of the money I was receiving. | College is expensive, people get old, financial aid is confusing. |
mickcube | my dog loves it there so i just go in knowing i need to never really let him out of my sight. some kids wanted to play fetch with him so i let them, but i don't really like kids so after a while i basically said "we're going over here now, don't come with us." they were fine with it. later they were all laying face down in this puddle that dogs were actively pissing and shitting in.
tl;dr don't let shitty kids ruin a great place for you and your dog | my dog loves it there so i just go in knowing i need to never really let him out of my sight. some kids wanted to play fetch with him so i let them, but i don't really like kids so after a while i basically said "we're going over here now, don't come with us." they were fine with it. later they were all laying face down in this puddle that dogs were actively pissing and shitting in.
tl;dr don't let shitty kids ruin a great place for you and your dog
| chicago | t5_2qh2t | cix7kdv | my dog loves it there so i just go in knowing i need to never really let him out of my sight. some kids wanted to play fetch with him so i let them, but i don't really like kids so after a while i basically said "we're going over here now, don't come with us." they were fine with it. later they were all laying face down in this puddle that dogs were actively pissing and shitting in. | don't let shitty kids ruin a great place for you and your dog |
iamadogforreal | Why is alcohol to blame? I'm so sick of this politically correct bullshit about "welp everyone got drunk, so free pass. These people are usually mild-mannered PhDs and doctors but once you give them a sip, all hell breaks loose!!" Sorry but a lot of people go to these events specifically to start a fight or cause some kind of trouble. You know whats really to blame? The shitty values of the types of people who throw and attend outdoor events with absolutely no sense of communal or personal responsibility. The mentality of "Oh the government will take care of this." This attitude of "why should I be a good person, fuck you man" is ingrained into many people in this town.
Trust me, I see assholes like this all the time and they're stone cold sober. I really wish more Chicagoans especially those who come from "party" cultures had some respect for the city, especially its green areas. Clearly, we can't stop them from commiting crime, but at least they don't have to destroy the nice parts of the city in the process.
I see this shit like this all the time in parks and its always the same cast of characters, "party" culture people like Mexicans and Puerto Ricans. I don't see the Russian or Ukranian or Polish kids pulling this shit. I just wish I could call these people out on their shit values without being called a racist or whatever replies and downvotes are coming my way, because the kids of these people are learning this shit from their parents and everyone is too afraid to say anything. So it goes... and goes.. and goes...this generation learns from the other to the point where trashing Montrose beach is just a day in the life, if not a thing to celebrate and brag about. Did you guys watch the fight video? Did you see the 12 year old boy holding a beer and laughing at the fighting? Do you think he's not going to continue this?
tldr; Multiculturalism has failed. Chicago is the poster boy for these failures.
| Why is alcohol to blame? I'm so sick of this politically correct bullshit about "welp everyone got drunk, so free pass. These people are usually mild-mannered PhDs and doctors but once you give them a sip, all hell breaks loose!!" Sorry but a lot of people go to these events specifically to start a fight or cause some kind of trouble. You know whats really to blame? The shitty values of the types of people who throw and attend outdoor events with absolutely no sense of communal or personal responsibility. The mentality of "Oh the government will take care of this." This attitude of "why should I be a good person, fuck you man" is ingrained into many people in this town.
Trust me, I see assholes like this all the time and they're stone cold sober. I really wish more Chicagoans especially those who come from "party" cultures had some respect for the city, especially its green areas. Clearly, we can't stop them from commiting crime, but at least they don't have to destroy the nice parts of the city in the process.
I see this shit like this all the time in parks and its always the same cast of characters, "party" culture people like Mexicans and Puerto Ricans. I don't see the Russian or Ukranian or Polish kids pulling this shit. I just wish I could call these people out on their shit values without being called a racist or whatever replies and downvotes are coming my way, because the kids of these people are learning this shit from their parents and everyone is too afraid to say anything. So it goes... and goes.. and goes...this generation learns from the other to the point where trashing Montrose beach is just a day in the life, if not a thing to celebrate and brag about. Did you guys watch the fight video? Did you see the 12 year old boy holding a beer and laughing at the fighting? Do you think he's not going to continue this?
tldr; Multiculturalism has failed. Chicago is the poster boy for these failures.
| chicago | t5_2qh2t | cix86kh | Why is alcohol to blame? I'm so sick of this politically correct bullshit about "welp everyone got drunk, so free pass. These people are usually mild-mannered PhDs and doctors but once you give them a sip, all hell breaks loose!!" Sorry but a lot of people go to these events specifically to start a fight or cause some kind of trouble. You know whats really to blame? The shitty values of the types of people who throw and attend outdoor events with absolutely no sense of communal or personal responsibility. The mentality of "Oh the government will take care of this." This attitude of "why should I be a good person, fuck you man" is ingrained into many people in this town.
Trust me, I see assholes like this all the time and they're stone cold sober. I really wish more Chicagoans especially those who come from "party" cultures had some respect for the city, especially its green areas. Clearly, we can't stop them from commiting crime, but at least they don't have to destroy the nice parts of the city in the process.
I see this shit like this all the time in parks and its always the same cast of characters, "party" culture people like Mexicans and Puerto Ricans. I don't see the Russian or Ukranian or Polish kids pulling this shit. I just wish I could call these people out on their shit values without being called a racist or whatever replies and downvotes are coming my way, because the kids of these people are learning this shit from their parents and everyone is too afraid to say anything. So it goes... and goes.. and goes...this generation learns from the other to the point where trashing Montrose beach is just a day in the life, if not a thing to celebrate and brag about. Did you guys watch the fight video? Did you see the 12 year old boy holding a beer and laughing at the fighting? Do you think he's not going to continue this? | Multiculturalism has failed. Chicago is the poster boy for these failures. |
Thadious_James | So on a dual coil build, you have 2 separate coils, but with a sleeper it's one piece of wire. You wrap your first coil, and put it in the deck like normal. Tighten everything down, and with the extra long lead in your center post, you wrap your 2nd coil. It makes them heat more even, and no more trying to trim pesky center leads! [Here's Rip Tripper's video]( on how to build it more in depth.
***Tl;Dr*** 2 coils wrapped from the same wire. | So on a dual coil build, you have 2 separate coils, but with a sleeper it's one piece of wire. You wrap your first coil, and put it in the deck like normal. Tighten everything down, and with the extra long lead in your center post, you wrap your 2nd coil. It makes them heat more even, and no more trying to trim pesky center leads! [Here's Rip Tripper's video]( on how to build it more in depth.
Tl;Dr 2 coils wrapped from the same wire.
| electronic_cigarette | t5_2qmlu | ciysdns | So on a dual coil build, you have 2 separate coils, but with a sleeper it's one piece of wire. You wrap your first coil, and put it in the deck like normal. Tighten everything down, and with the extra long lead in your center post, you wrap your 2nd coil. It makes them heat more even, and no more trying to trim pesky center leads! [Here's Rip Tripper's video]( on how to build it more in depth. | 2 coils wrapped from the same wire. |
trunksbomb | I pretty much only play Canals TDM, so I feel qualified to answer.
Basically, no. At the beginning, the spawns are randomized but almost always you'll have an enemy spawn next to you if you spawn near the crane. After the first handful of kills, each team kind of gets a certain area to spawn in. At the beginning of the match, this is usual Crane side vs Train side.Throughout the match, the spawns can shift between crane, dock/boats, train, and the main boat ramp. When you overtake an area, the enemies start spawning in a different area.
In a good round with a good team, your team will constantly be pushing forward into the new spawning area. Once you overtake train, they might start spawning crane side so the team starts pushing there. If your team doesn't push hard enough and the enemy team doesn't try flanking or parachuting in then you might get stuck with some sort of pseudo baserape. This almost only happens when your enemy is spawning at trains and your team is holding the middle of the map and not pushing forward.
In this particular round we had a good team and they had a fairly inexperienced team (it seemed like) so we kept pushing into each of their new spawn areas en masse and taking them out. I found myself winning gun fights I shouldn't have because the enemy would reload their main weapon mid-combat or be slow and inaccurate on the pistol. None of the enemies really ran in groups so it was almost one on one each time even if there were three guys near each other.
tl;dr: Not a baserape, just an unfair team balance with inexperienced vs experienced players. | I pretty much only play Canals TDM, so I feel qualified to answer.
Basically, no. At the beginning, the spawns are randomized but almost always you'll have an enemy spawn next to you if you spawn near the crane. After the first handful of kills, each team kind of gets a certain area to spawn in. At the beginning of the match, this is usual Crane side vs Train side.Throughout the match, the spawns can shift between crane, dock/boats, train, and the main boat ramp. When you overtake an area, the enemies start spawning in a different area.
In a good round with a good team, your team will constantly be pushing forward into the new spawning area. Once you overtake train, they might start spawning crane side so the team starts pushing there. If your team doesn't push hard enough and the enemy team doesn't try flanking or parachuting in then you might get stuck with some sort of pseudo baserape. This almost only happens when your enemy is spawning at trains and your team is holding the middle of the map and not pushing forward.
In this particular round we had a good team and they had a fairly inexperienced team (it seemed like) so we kept pushing into each of their new spawn areas en masse and taking them out. I found myself winning gun fights I shouldn't have because the enemy would reload their main weapon mid-combat or be slow and inaccurate on the pistol. None of the enemies really ran in groups so it was almost one on one each time even if there were three guys near each other.
tl;dr: Not a baserape, just an unfair team balance with inexperienced vs experienced players.
| battlefield3 | t5_2rlua | ciyepv2 | I pretty much only play Canals TDM, so I feel qualified to answer.
Basically, no. At the beginning, the spawns are randomized but almost always you'll have an enemy spawn next to you if you spawn near the crane. After the first handful of kills, each team kind of gets a certain area to spawn in. At the beginning of the match, this is usual Crane side vs Train side.Throughout the match, the spawns can shift between crane, dock/boats, train, and the main boat ramp. When you overtake an area, the enemies start spawning in a different area.
In a good round with a good team, your team will constantly be pushing forward into the new spawning area. Once you overtake train, they might start spawning crane side so the team starts pushing there. If your team doesn't push hard enough and the enemy team doesn't try flanking or parachuting in then you might get stuck with some sort of pseudo baserape. This almost only happens when your enemy is spawning at trains and your team is holding the middle of the map and not pushing forward.
In this particular round we had a good team and they had a fairly inexperienced team (it seemed like) so we kept pushing into each of their new spawn areas en masse and taking them out. I found myself winning gun fights I shouldn't have because the enemy would reload their main weapon mid-combat or be slow and inaccurate on the pistol. None of the enemies really ran in groups so it was almost one on one each time even if there were three guys near each other. | Not a baserape, just an unfair team balance with inexperienced vs experienced players. |
PBI325 | My $5/month instance on DO struggled to transcode the media I threw up to it. It had a decent pipe attached to it but with the limited HDD space they give you it wasnt worth it to me personally to peruse it.
**TL;DR** - Maybe one of the larger instances can cut it, but I know their $5/month instance doesn't. | My $5/month instance on DO struggled to transcode the media I threw up to it. It had a decent pipe attached to it but with the limited HDD space they give you it wasnt worth it to me personally to peruse it.
TL;DR - Maybe one of the larger instances can cut it, but I know their $5/month instance doesn't.
| PleX | t5_2ql7e | cixpjgf | My $5/month instance on DO struggled to transcode the media I threw up to it. It had a decent pipe attached to it but with the limited HDD space they give you it wasnt worth it to me personally to peruse it. | Maybe one of the larger instances can cut it, but I know their $5/month instance doesn't. |
ragermeister30 | When I was about fifteen years old (22 now) my dad took me to some land that he was given permission to hunt on so we could scout for the upcoming deer season. The land itself had not been touched in a few years and there was some pretty solid swamp land on the back side of the property that we planned on setting some trail cameras up on. My father sent me to one part of the back of the property to mark trails and try to find the back of the property line while he set trail cameras on a few choice areas.
Well, while I was setting trail makers I kept getting the feeling that I was being watched. I radioed to my dad and he said I was over reacting and told me to head back to him. I did what he said, but I still felt very uncomfortable on this land.
When I got back to where my father was he showed me where he placed the trail cameras and we headed back to the house.
Fast forward a week or so and we head back out to the property to check the cameras before opening day off primitive weapon season. After retrieving the photos we find a few hogs and a few deer in two of the areas so we decide to set up in two different spots when opening day arrives.
A week and a half or so later we head out for the opening day of primitive weapon season and begin to set up in our respective spots. After about two hours sitting in my blind I hear noise coming from my right so I freeze and wait to see what is heading my way. Within five minutes a man that I have never seen on the property or anywhere else for that matter walks straight through my sight line and up the path towards my dad.
At this point I'm completely shitting my knickers and am staying as still as I possibly can. The man does not seem to notice me and continues his journey toward my dad.
Once I think the man is out of ear shot I muster the courage to radio my dad and tell him what I saw. He tells me not to move and that he will be there as soon as he can.
Expecting my dad to meet this man on the trail, I'm expecting the worst, but he shows up within a few minutes and tells me there was no sign of some one walking the trail.
I'm completely freaking out so my dad tells me to pack up and that we'll get the photos from the cameras and head out. He also tries to calm me by telling me it was probably a friend of the property owner who was out hunting the same area.
Well we get the sd cards from the trail cameras and go to view them on my dad's computer.
The first few pictures contained the usual hog and deer and what not, but not to far into the pictures was the fucking man I saw on the trail just staring at the trail camera. Then it continued with the guy just fucking toying with us by having a God damned photo shoot on our trail camera.
We showed the photos to the man who owned the property and of course he has no idea who the man was. My father then turned the photos into the local authorities, but of course nothing was ever done about this crazy mystery man on our trail cameras.
Tl; dr
My father took me to a friend's hunting land to scout/hunt. A man walked past me while hunting on private land. Afterwards we found pictures of him doing a mini photo shoot on our trail cameras. | When I was about fifteen years old (22 now) my dad took me to some land that he was given permission to hunt on so we could scout for the upcoming deer season. The land itself had not been touched in a few years and there was some pretty solid swamp land on the back side of the property that we planned on setting some trail cameras up on. My father sent me to one part of the back of the property to mark trails and try to find the back of the property line while he set trail cameras on a few choice areas.
Well, while I was setting trail makers I kept getting the feeling that I was being watched. I radioed to my dad and he said I was over reacting and told me to head back to him. I did what he said, but I still felt very uncomfortable on this land.
When I got back to where my father was he showed me where he placed the trail cameras and we headed back to the house.
Fast forward a week or so and we head back out to the property to check the cameras before opening day off primitive weapon season. After retrieving the photos we find a few hogs and a few deer in two of the areas so we decide to set up in two different spots when opening day arrives.
A week and a half or so later we head out for the opening day of primitive weapon season and begin to set up in our respective spots. After about two hours sitting in my blind I hear noise coming from my right so I freeze and wait to see what is heading my way. Within five minutes a man that I have never seen on the property or anywhere else for that matter walks straight through my sight line and up the path towards my dad.
At this point I'm completely shitting my knickers and am staying as still as I possibly can. The man does not seem to notice me and continues his journey toward my dad.
Once I think the man is out of ear shot I muster the courage to radio my dad and tell him what I saw. He tells me not to move and that he will be there as soon as he can.
Expecting my dad to meet this man on the trail, I'm expecting the worst, but he shows up within a few minutes and tells me there was no sign of some one walking the trail.
I'm completely freaking out so my dad tells me to pack up and that we'll get the photos from the cameras and head out. He also tries to calm me by telling me it was probably a friend of the property owner who was out hunting the same area.
Well we get the sd cards from the trail cameras and go to view them on my dad's computer.
The first few pictures contained the usual hog and deer and what not, but not to far into the pictures was the fucking man I saw on the trail just staring at the trail camera. Then it continued with the guy just fucking toying with us by having a God damned photo shoot on our trail camera.
We showed the photos to the man who owned the property and of course he has no idea who the man was. My father then turned the photos into the local authorities, but of course nothing was ever done about this crazy mystery man on our trail cameras.
Tl; dr
My father took me to a friend's hunting land to scout/hunt. A man walked past me while hunting on private land. Afterwards we found pictures of him doing a mini photo shoot on our trail cameras.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | cixs1nh | When I was about fifteen years old (22 now) my dad took me to some land that he was given permission to hunt on so we could scout for the upcoming deer season. The land itself had not been touched in a few years and there was some pretty solid swamp land on the back side of the property that we planned on setting some trail cameras up on. My father sent me to one part of the back of the property to mark trails and try to find the back of the property line while he set trail cameras on a few choice areas.
Well, while I was setting trail makers I kept getting the feeling that I was being watched. I radioed to my dad and he said I was over reacting and told me to head back to him. I did what he said, but I still felt very uncomfortable on this land.
When I got back to where my father was he showed me where he placed the trail cameras and we headed back to the house.
Fast forward a week or so and we head back out to the property to check the cameras before opening day off primitive weapon season. After retrieving the photos we find a few hogs and a few deer in two of the areas so we decide to set up in two different spots when opening day arrives.
A week and a half or so later we head out for the opening day of primitive weapon season and begin to set up in our respective spots. After about two hours sitting in my blind I hear noise coming from my right so I freeze and wait to see what is heading my way. Within five minutes a man that I have never seen on the property or anywhere else for that matter walks straight through my sight line and up the path towards my dad.
At this point I'm completely shitting my knickers and am staying as still as I possibly can. The man does not seem to notice me and continues his journey toward my dad.
Once I think the man is out of ear shot I muster the courage to radio my dad and tell him what I saw. He tells me not to move and that he will be there as soon as he can.
Expecting my dad to meet this man on the trail, I'm expecting the worst, but he shows up within a few minutes and tells me there was no sign of some one walking the trail.
I'm completely freaking out so my dad tells me to pack up and that we'll get the photos from the cameras and head out. He also tries to calm me by telling me it was probably a friend of the property owner who was out hunting the same area.
Well we get the sd cards from the trail cameras and go to view them on my dad's computer.
The first few pictures contained the usual hog and deer and what not, but not to far into the pictures was the fucking man I saw on the trail just staring at the trail camera. Then it continued with the guy just fucking toying with us by having a God damned photo shoot on our trail camera.
We showed the photos to the man who owned the property and of course he has no idea who the man was. My father then turned the photos into the local authorities, but of course nothing was ever done about this crazy mystery man on our trail cameras. | My father took me to a friend's hunting land to scout/hunt. A man walked past me while hunting on private land. Afterwards we found pictures of him doing a mini photo shoot on our trail cameras. |
Squishy141 | My advice is to try to get a bachelor's degree. That isn't always as easy done as said, but for a lot of places, to even really be considered, you need the bachelors.
In my area, and as far as I know, this is pretty lax in comparison to other places, having a GED means you need something like 15 college credits as well, where as just a high school diploma is fine otherwise.
You also need to be 21 to go to academy where I am, which means most departments require you to be 21 before you can apply, so that they don't have to worry about that POST requirement. Again, as far as I know, this is par for the course. So in that regard, you have some time anyways to go to school and fill in what I mentioned above.
TL/DR: Go to college. That will help you the most.
Also, congratulations on the scoring!
| My advice is to try to get a bachelor's degree. That isn't always as easy done as said, but for a lot of places, to even really be considered, you need the bachelors.
In my area, and as far as I know, this is pretty lax in comparison to other places, having a GED means you need something like 15 college credits as well, where as just a high school diploma is fine otherwise.
You also need to be 21 to go to academy where I am, which means most departments require you to be 21 before you can apply, so that they don't have to worry about that POST requirement. Again, as far as I know, this is par for the course. So in that regard, you have some time anyways to go to school and fill in what I mentioned above.
TL/DR: Go to college. That will help you the most.
Also, congratulations on the scoring!
| ProtectAndServe | t5_2ug10 | cizzo8y | My advice is to try to get a bachelor's degree. That isn't always as easy done as said, but for a lot of places, to even really be considered, you need the bachelors.
In my area, and as far as I know, this is pretty lax in comparison to other places, having a GED means you need something like 15 college credits as well, where as just a high school diploma is fine otherwise.
You also need to be 21 to go to academy where I am, which means most departments require you to be 21 before you can apply, so that they don't have to worry about that POST requirement. Again, as far as I know, this is par for the course. So in that regard, you have some time anyways to go to school and fill in what I mentioned above. | Go to college. That will help you the most.
Also, congratulations on the scoring! |
Surfing_the_NSA | Yes and no.
The puplished plans for an attack, which where optained by Western powers after 1989, did include very specific, and agressive plans for an invasion of Western Europe. Even printed, congratulatory letters, to the Eastern European leaders, expressing the USSR's great apreciation for their victory, in their respective sectors of the European war-theatre.
The initiation of theese plans where always thought to be a, genuine, Western provocation. It is important to remember how the two sides entered the Cold War. USA entered victorius and with the A-bomb, while the USSR entered devastated and with a very real paranoia, that the Western powers would turn on the USSR at any given moment. British plans to use German POWs against the USSR where later revealed, and during the time of American, atomic hegemony, a nuclear-backed invasion was discussed among the military leadership of the USA. The Soviet anexation of Eastern Europe, as well as their paranioa-filled military planning, has to be seen in this light.
An asymetric measure of force, compared to what NATO was planning, was evident in the plans of the USSR. If a conflict erupted, NATO planned to fire a nuclear warning shot over the Atlantic, hopefully followed by negosiations.
Where as the USSR planned to nuke the Danish town of Esbjerg, followed by a full occupation of Western Europe, Yugoslavia and Sweden excluded, as their warning shot. Theese shots would have been fired two to three days into a conventional conflict on the European continent.
Both the USA and the USSR knew that an invasion of Europe was a conflict senario that might have escalated into an all out nuclear war, but didn't have to. The USSR planned on using tactical nukes on every Western European port during an invasion. In such a senario, the USA was considered, even by it's NATO allies, to be most likely to abandon Western Europe all togheter. That was one of the greatest driving factors behind Frances' and the UKs' acquisition of their own nuclear devices.
Everyone expected the Atlantic sea to be a barier that would weight stronger than NATO. If no nukes crossed it, World War III would have been short. The USA, accepting the loss of Western Europe. There where no such buffer-zone between the Eastern European SSR's and Russia. Had anyone provoced the territorial integrity of the USSR as a whole, the whole of Europe, excluding Sweden and Yugoslavia (possibly Albania to?) would have become SSRs.
My sources are primarily a lecture by a former Danish general, who was in service during the eighties and early nineties. With more information gathered at my university, since the former NATO general wasn't too keenly elaborating on anything, but the plans of the USSR.
TL;DR: If they where provoced, Yes. Very specific plans existed. Otherwise, no.
Edit: ,'s and .'s and words. | Yes and no.
The puplished plans for an attack, which where optained by Western powers after 1989, did include very specific, and agressive plans for an invasion of Western Europe. Even printed, congratulatory letters, to the Eastern European leaders, expressing the USSR's great apreciation for their victory, in their respective sectors of the European war-theatre.
The initiation of theese plans where always thought to be a, genuine, Western provocation. It is important to remember how the two sides entered the Cold War. USA entered victorius and with the A-bomb, while the USSR entered devastated and with a very real paranoia, that the Western powers would turn on the USSR at any given moment. British plans to use German POWs against the USSR where later revealed, and during the time of American, atomic hegemony, a nuclear-backed invasion was discussed among the military leadership of the USA. The Soviet anexation of Eastern Europe, as well as their paranioa-filled military planning, has to be seen in this light.
An asymetric measure of force, compared to what NATO was planning, was evident in the plans of the USSR. If a conflict erupted, NATO planned to fire a nuclear warning shot over the Atlantic, hopefully followed by negosiations.
Where as the USSR planned to nuke the Danish town of Esbjerg, followed by a full occupation of Western Europe, Yugoslavia and Sweden excluded, as their warning shot. Theese shots would have been fired two to three days into a conventional conflict on the European continent.
Both the USA and the USSR knew that an invasion of Europe was a conflict senario that might have escalated into an all out nuclear war, but didn't have to. The USSR planned on using tactical nukes on every Western European port during an invasion. In such a senario, the USA was considered, even by it's NATO allies, to be most likely to abandon Western Europe all togheter. That was one of the greatest driving factors behind Frances' and the UKs' acquisition of their own nuclear devices.
Everyone expected the Atlantic sea to be a barier that would weight stronger than NATO. If no nukes crossed it, World War III would have been short. The USA, accepting the loss of Western Europe. There where no such buffer-zone between the Eastern European SSR's and Russia. Had anyone provoced the territorial integrity of the USSR as a whole, the whole of Europe, excluding Sweden and Yugoslavia (possibly Albania to?) would have become SSRs.
My sources are primarily a lecture by a former Danish general, who was in service during the eighties and early nineties. With more information gathered at my university, since the former NATO general wasn't too keenly elaborating on anything, but the plans of the USSR.
TL;DR: If they where provoced, Yes. Very specific plans existed. Otherwise, no.
Edit: ,'s and .'s and words.
| AskHistorians | t5_2ssp3 | ciye0l8 | Yes and no.
The puplished plans for an attack, which where optained by Western powers after 1989, did include very specific, and agressive plans for an invasion of Western Europe. Even printed, congratulatory letters, to the Eastern European leaders, expressing the USSR's great apreciation for their victory, in their respective sectors of the European war-theatre.
The initiation of theese plans where always thought to be a, genuine, Western provocation. It is important to remember how the two sides entered the Cold War. USA entered victorius and with the A-bomb, while the USSR entered devastated and with a very real paranoia, that the Western powers would turn on the USSR at any given moment. British plans to use German POWs against the USSR where later revealed, and during the time of American, atomic hegemony, a nuclear-backed invasion was discussed among the military leadership of the USA. The Soviet anexation of Eastern Europe, as well as their paranioa-filled military planning, has to be seen in this light.
An asymetric measure of force, compared to what NATO was planning, was evident in the plans of the USSR. If a conflict erupted, NATO planned to fire a nuclear warning shot over the Atlantic, hopefully followed by negosiations.
Where as the USSR planned to nuke the Danish town of Esbjerg, followed by a full occupation of Western Europe, Yugoslavia and Sweden excluded, as their warning shot. Theese shots would have been fired two to three days into a conventional conflict on the European continent.
Both the USA and the USSR knew that an invasion of Europe was a conflict senario that might have escalated into an all out nuclear war, but didn't have to. The USSR planned on using tactical nukes on every Western European port during an invasion. In such a senario, the USA was considered, even by it's NATO allies, to be most likely to abandon Western Europe all togheter. That was one of the greatest driving factors behind Frances' and the UKs' acquisition of their own nuclear devices.
Everyone expected the Atlantic sea to be a barier that would weight stronger than NATO. If no nukes crossed it, World War III would have been short. The USA, accepting the loss of Western Europe. There where no such buffer-zone between the Eastern European SSR's and Russia. Had anyone provoced the territorial integrity of the USSR as a whole, the whole of Europe, excluding Sweden and Yugoslavia (possibly Albania to?) would have become SSRs.
My sources are primarily a lecture by a former Danish general, who was in service during the eighties and early nineties. With more information gathered at my university, since the former NATO general wasn't too keenly elaborating on anything, but the plans of the USSR. | If they where provoced, Yes. Very specific plans existed. Otherwise, no.
Edit: ,'s and .'s and words. |
IllogicalLogicForAll | Almost got kidnapped with my brother in West Virginia.
Basically all if my mom's side of the family lives in West Virginia. We have been going up there, for holidays and what not, all my life. It was around Christmas time when I was about 14? My brother was 17. We rollerbladed up to a nearby school to skate a rail around the back of the school. On our way around to the back of the school, we saw some creepy dude walking his dog at the front of the school. Didn't think much of it, just some dude walking his dog. We get to the rail and start skating it. About 10-15 mins later, a small shitty red car comes flying around the corner need for speed style and two guys hop out running towards us. My brother and I noped the fuck out fast as fuuuuucckkk. We booked it around the other side of the school and we skated the fastest we have ever skated before in our lives. Never looked back. We got to our grandparents house, told everyone what happened, my papaw promptly grabbed a gun, got in his car, and started searching for them. My papaw is a fucking badass. He never found them, but I guess that is for the best because he would have definitely killed them. And that's the story of how I almost got kidnapped in West Vir-fucking-gina. Not sure if its the scariest thing that has happened to me, but definitely the first one that popped in my head.
TL;dr: went to West Virginia, skated with my brother, almost got kidnapped. My papaw is a true badass mofo. | Almost got kidnapped with my brother in West Virginia.
Basically all if my mom's side of the family lives in West Virginia. We have been going up there, for holidays and what not, all my life. It was around Christmas time when I was about 14? My brother was 17. We rollerbladed up to a nearby school to skate a rail around the back of the school. On our way around to the back of the school, we saw some creepy dude walking his dog at the front of the school. Didn't think much of it, just some dude walking his dog. We get to the rail and start skating it. About 10-15 mins later, a small shitty red car comes flying around the corner need for speed style and two guys hop out running towards us. My brother and I noped the fuck out fast as fuuuuucckkk. We booked it around the other side of the school and we skated the fastest we have ever skated before in our lives. Never looked back. We got to our grandparents house, told everyone what happened, my papaw promptly grabbed a gun, got in his car, and started searching for them. My papaw is a fucking badass. He never found them, but I guess that is for the best because he would have definitely killed them. And that's the story of how I almost got kidnapped in West Vir-fucking-gina. Not sure if its the scariest thing that has happened to me, but definitely the first one that popped in my head.
TL;dr: went to West Virginia, skated with my brother, almost got kidnapped. My papaw is a true badass mofo.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | ciy5zl5 | Almost got kidnapped with my brother in West Virginia.
Basically all if my mom's side of the family lives in West Virginia. We have been going up there, for holidays and what not, all my life. It was around Christmas time when I was about 14? My brother was 17. We rollerbladed up to a nearby school to skate a rail around the back of the school. On our way around to the back of the school, we saw some creepy dude walking his dog at the front of the school. Didn't think much of it, just some dude walking his dog. We get to the rail and start skating it. About 10-15 mins later, a small shitty red car comes flying around the corner need for speed style and two guys hop out running towards us. My brother and I noped the fuck out fast as fuuuuucckkk. We booked it around the other side of the school and we skated the fastest we have ever skated before in our lives. Never looked back. We got to our grandparents house, told everyone what happened, my papaw promptly grabbed a gun, got in his car, and started searching for them. My papaw is a fucking badass. He never found them, but I guess that is for the best because he would have definitely killed them. And that's the story of how I almost got kidnapped in West Vir-fucking-gina. Not sure if its the scariest thing that has happened to me, but definitely the first one that popped in my head. | went to West Virginia, skated with my brother, almost got kidnapped. My papaw is a true badass mofo. |
karper | I love this movie to pieces, both the shorter version and the longer one. But, I like the longer version better. Were I to show this movie to someone, I'd show them the longer version. For several reasons.
* Because I ♥ so
The weakest of my arguments from your point of view and the most persuasive from mine. I want Toto (and me) to have that sense of closure. I want him to at least get to see Elena one more time. It makes me happier and sadder.
I also like that Elena gets a chance to tell her story than just appear as a footnote in Toto's. It makes me just the tiniest bit happier that Elena's now living with someone who was once Toto's rival for her affections.
* Als das Kind Kind war...
Were I to stand back and look at it, virtually every character in the movie is two-dimensional. That's not necessarily a bad thing. For one, much of the story is him reminiscing about his past and looking back across the years tends to flatten out the image. One remembers people as they were. Also, he was young then and his view of the different characters is a child's view of them.
But when he returns, he's a grown up. And the rest of the movie is him getting to see his town as an adult. Yes, the town has changed, too; but the part I want to focus on is him having grown up and reexamining his actions. The closest the movie gets to spelling it out is when he apologizes to his mom for running away like a bandit. I like that the longer version gives him a chance to see Alfredo as more than just the father figure he remembered from his childhood. He was a flawed man, and that doesn't diminish his experiences with him as a kid.
* Highs and Lows
Somewhat mixed in with the previous point, but the addition of more details adds texture to the world in the movie. It's the opportunity to see the brush strokes on a van Gogh, rather than just admire it from afar for its use of color, framing and subject. Sure, it isn't as well-paced as the shorter version, but my life wasn't well-paced either. In that, it feels more real and tad bit less cinematic. It's a subjective call, but I'm inclined to think that's something that appeals to me more.
* Authenticity
I feel like it's important to acknowledge that the longer version is closer to what the director had in mind when he crafted the movie. It's like how a straight-from-the-heart indie song feels more compelling than a perfectly produced pop song, even though the singer's voice isn't as perfect as it could be, that whole bridge section drags a bit and everything could use more cowbell. Have you seen this charming Japanese movie called [Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald]( Even if the original story is more of the author's fantasy, it's what it was supposed to be.
tl;dr: More feels; More grown up; More details; More "real".
| I love this movie to pieces, both the shorter version and the longer one. But, I like the longer version better. Were I to show this movie to someone, I'd show them the longer version. For several reasons.
Because I ♥ so
The weakest of my arguments from your point of view and the most persuasive from mine. I want Toto (and me) to have that sense of closure. I want him to at least get to see Elena one more time. It makes me happier and sadder.
I also like that Elena gets a chance to tell her story than just appear as a footnote in Toto's. It makes me just the tiniest bit happier that Elena's now living with someone who was once Toto's rival for her affections.
Als das Kind Kind war...
Were I to stand back and look at it, virtually every character in the movie is two-dimensional. That's not necessarily a bad thing. For one, much of the story is him reminiscing about his past and looking back across the years tends to flatten out the image. One remembers people as they were. Also, he was young then and his view of the different characters is a child's view of them.
But when he returns, he's a grown up. And the rest of the movie is him getting to see his town as an adult. Yes, the town has changed, too; but the part I want to focus on is him having grown up and reexamining his actions. The closest the movie gets to spelling it out is when he apologizes to his mom for running away like a bandit. I like that the longer version gives him a chance to see Alfredo as more than just the father figure he remembered from his childhood. He was a flawed man, and that doesn't diminish his experiences with him as a kid.
Highs and Lows
Somewhat mixed in with the previous point, but the addition of more details adds texture to the world in the movie. It's the opportunity to see the brush strokes on a van Gogh, rather than just admire it from afar for its use of color, framing and subject. Sure, it isn't as well-paced as the shorter version, but my life wasn't well-paced either. In that, it feels more real and tad bit less cinematic. It's a subjective call, but I'm inclined to think that's something that appeals to me more.
Authenticity
I feel like it's important to acknowledge that the longer version is closer to what the director had in mind when he crafted the movie. It's like how a straight-from-the-heart indie song feels more compelling than a perfectly produced pop song, even though the singer's voice isn't as perfect as it could be, that whole bridge section drags a bit and everything could use more cowbell. Have you seen this charming Japanese movie called [Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald]( Even if the original story is more of the author's fantasy, it's what it was supposed to be.
tl;dr: More feels; More grown up; More details; More "real".
| TrueFilm | t5_2szp0 | ciyuyzg | I love this movie to pieces, both the shorter version and the longer one. But, I like the longer version better. Were I to show this movie to someone, I'd show them the longer version. For several reasons.
Because I ♥ so
The weakest of my arguments from your point of view and the most persuasive from mine. I want Toto (and me) to have that sense of closure. I want him to at least get to see Elena one more time. It makes me happier and sadder.
I also like that Elena gets a chance to tell her story than just appear as a footnote in Toto's. It makes me just the tiniest bit happier that Elena's now living with someone who was once Toto's rival for her affections.
Als das Kind Kind war...
Were I to stand back and look at it, virtually every character in the movie is two-dimensional. That's not necessarily a bad thing. For one, much of the story is him reminiscing about his past and looking back across the years tends to flatten out the image. One remembers people as they were. Also, he was young then and his view of the different characters is a child's view of them.
But when he returns, he's a grown up. And the rest of the movie is him getting to see his town as an adult. Yes, the town has changed, too; but the part I want to focus on is him having grown up and reexamining his actions. The closest the movie gets to spelling it out is when he apologizes to his mom for running away like a bandit. I like that the longer version gives him a chance to see Alfredo as more than just the father figure he remembered from his childhood. He was a flawed man, and that doesn't diminish his experiences with him as a kid.
Highs and Lows
Somewhat mixed in with the previous point, but the addition of more details adds texture to the world in the movie. It's the opportunity to see the brush strokes on a van Gogh, rather than just admire it from afar for its use of color, framing and subject. Sure, it isn't as well-paced as the shorter version, but my life wasn't well-paced either. In that, it feels more real and tad bit less cinematic. It's a subjective call, but I'm inclined to think that's something that appeals to me more.
Authenticity
I feel like it's important to acknowledge that the longer version is closer to what the director had in mind when he crafted the movie. It's like how a straight-from-the-heart indie song feels more compelling than a perfectly produced pop song, even though the singer's voice isn't as perfect as it could be, that whole bridge section drags a bit and everything could use more cowbell. Have you seen this charming Japanese movie called [Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald]( Even if the original story is more of the author's fantasy, it's what it was supposed to be. | More feels; More grown up; More details; More "real". |
ceramichammer | I don't think it would be an official one, far too abrupt of a stylistic change and doesn't make any sense in the context of NIN. It reminds me more of the merch of 20-something pop-punk bands. I can imagine how awkward it would look next to the other shirts in the merch portion of the site. I would probably wear a shirt like that for sheer wtf factor, but the only way it would be made an official tee is if Trent was going for some wtf factor himself.
Edit: TL;DR I don't hate it but I doubt it. | I don't think it would be an official one, far too abrupt of a stylistic change and doesn't make any sense in the context of NIN. It reminds me more of the merch of 20-something pop-punk bands. I can imagine how awkward it would look next to the other shirts in the merch portion of the site. I would probably wear a shirt like that for sheer wtf factor, but the only way it would be made an official tee is if Trent was going for some wtf factor himself.
Edit: TL;DR I don't hate it but I doubt it.
| nin | t5_2qhwq | ciyqkt1 | I don't think it would be an official one, far too abrupt of a stylistic change and doesn't make any sense in the context of NIN. It reminds me more of the merch of 20-something pop-punk bands. I can imagine how awkward it would look next to the other shirts in the merch portion of the site. I would probably wear a shirt like that for sheer wtf factor, but the only way it would be made an official tee is if Trent was going for some wtf factor himself.
Edit: | I don't hate it but I doubt it. |
kenny_dewitt | Not true. We actually played our best from December to February in which we went on a mad run in La Liga and caught up to barca and atletico. You know why? Because Alonso came back from his injury and was fresh compared to the squad. We set a clean sheet record in January and didn't concede a single goal all month (friendlies, cup games, la liga). All this time Khedira was injured and our trio was Alonso Modric Di Maria.
tl;dr: Alonso was the reason for our exceptional play, not necessarily just Khedira. | Not true. We actually played our best from December to February in which we went on a mad run in La Liga and caught up to barca and atletico. You know why? Because Alonso came back from his injury and was fresh compared to the squad. We set a clean sheet record in January and didn't concede a single goal all month (friendlies, cup games, la liga). All this time Khedira was injured and our trio was Alonso Modric Di Maria.
tl;dr: Alonso was the reason for our exceptional play, not necessarily just Khedira.
| soccer | t5_2qi58 | ciyuo3o | Not true. We actually played our best from December to February in which we went on a mad run in La Liga and caught up to barca and atletico. You know why? Because Alonso came back from his injury and was fresh compared to the squad. We set a clean sheet record in January and didn't concede a single goal all month (friendlies, cup games, la liga). All this time Khedira was injured and our trio was Alonso Modric Di Maria. | Alonso was the reason for our exceptional play, not necessarily just Khedira. |
tmfq19 | Sometimes it's not the parents' fault. It's just that the kid doesn't care enough to learn basic skills for surviving in the world. For example, I have two older brothers, 31 and 29 years old and I am a 24 year old female. Some background, my parents and brothers immigrated to America in 1986. My parents both only have 5th grade educations...if you can count Sicilian schools as education in the 1960's. My mother was a stay at home mom and my dad has been in some sort of construction his whole life and built a multi-million dollar construction company while barely speaking English (he surrounded himself by all the right people).
Basically, the three of us grew up without anyone to help us with homework or teach us how to balance a checkbook. My oldest brother, 31 years old, had to be forced to get his high school degree and didn't want to go to college. My other brother, 29 years old, went to college briefly but said it wasn't for him. I am the only one with a college degree.
The oldest is in excessive amounts of debt and living in his mother-in-law's basement apartment (he and his wife lived in my parents' basement for 3 years also). He's the type of person that just wants to get rich without trying. He barely works 20 hours a week. My parent's have basically come to the conclusion that he will never change and they can't continue to help him and his wife any more.
My other brother had a few bumps in the road, some excessive debt and going from job to job, sometimes 3 at a time. Now he's out of debt and finally buying his own home and has a very stable job. He has even received awards from his company for his hard work.
I wasn't the smartest in school but I tried as hard as I could. I went to college and graduated early. I then got a full-time job in the finance industry (my major in college) six weeks after I graduated. My only "debt" is a car payment and I have enough money saved up to buy my own house. I even help my parents with their finances and major life situations so they don't have to bother friends that speak English.
Basically, what I'm getting at is that all three of us were raised by the same parents that couldn't help us because they needed help themselves. We all have completely different lives because of our differing drives.
TL:DR - It's not always the parents' fault that kids end up not knowing anything. Kids have to want to learn. | Sometimes it's not the parents' fault. It's just that the kid doesn't care enough to learn basic skills for surviving in the world. For example, I have two older brothers, 31 and 29 years old and I am a 24 year old female. Some background, my parents and brothers immigrated to America in 1986. My parents both only have 5th grade educations...if you can count Sicilian schools as education in the 1960's. My mother was a stay at home mom and my dad has been in some sort of construction his whole life and built a multi-million dollar construction company while barely speaking English (he surrounded himself by all the right people).
Basically, the three of us grew up without anyone to help us with homework or teach us how to balance a checkbook. My oldest brother, 31 years old, had to be forced to get his high school degree and didn't want to go to college. My other brother, 29 years old, went to college briefly but said it wasn't for him. I am the only one with a college degree.
The oldest is in excessive amounts of debt and living in his mother-in-law's basement apartment (he and his wife lived in my parents' basement for 3 years also). He's the type of person that just wants to get rich without trying. He barely works 20 hours a week. My parent's have basically come to the conclusion that he will never change and they can't continue to help him and his wife any more.
My other brother had a few bumps in the road, some excessive debt and going from job to job, sometimes 3 at a time. Now he's out of debt and finally buying his own home and has a very stable job. He has even received awards from his company for his hard work.
I wasn't the smartest in school but I tried as hard as I could. I went to college and graduated early. I then got a full-time job in the finance industry (my major in college) six weeks after I graduated. My only "debt" is a car payment and I have enough money saved up to buy my own house. I even help my parents with their finances and major life situations so they don't have to bother friends that speak English.
Basically, what I'm getting at is that all three of us were raised by the same parents that couldn't help us because they needed help themselves. We all have completely different lives because of our differing drives.
TL:DR - It's not always the parents' fault that kids end up not knowing anything. Kids have to want to learn.
| quotes | t5_2qhdx | ciz6vbj | Sometimes it's not the parents' fault. It's just that the kid doesn't care enough to learn basic skills for surviving in the world. For example, I have two older brothers, 31 and 29 years old and I am a 24 year old female. Some background, my parents and brothers immigrated to America in 1986. My parents both only have 5th grade educations...if you can count Sicilian schools as education in the 1960's. My mother was a stay at home mom and my dad has been in some sort of construction his whole life and built a multi-million dollar construction company while barely speaking English (he surrounded himself by all the right people).
Basically, the three of us grew up without anyone to help us with homework or teach us how to balance a checkbook. My oldest brother, 31 years old, had to be forced to get his high school degree and didn't want to go to college. My other brother, 29 years old, went to college briefly but said it wasn't for him. I am the only one with a college degree.
The oldest is in excessive amounts of debt and living in his mother-in-law's basement apartment (he and his wife lived in my parents' basement for 3 years also). He's the type of person that just wants to get rich without trying. He barely works 20 hours a week. My parent's have basically come to the conclusion that he will never change and they can't continue to help him and his wife any more.
My other brother had a few bumps in the road, some excessive debt and going from job to job, sometimes 3 at a time. Now he's out of debt and finally buying his own home and has a very stable job. He has even received awards from his company for his hard work.
I wasn't the smartest in school but I tried as hard as I could. I went to college and graduated early. I then got a full-time job in the finance industry (my major in college) six weeks after I graduated. My only "debt" is a car payment and I have enough money saved up to buy my own house. I even help my parents with their finances and major life situations so they don't have to bother friends that speak English.
Basically, what I'm getting at is that all three of us were raised by the same parents that couldn't help us because they needed help themselves. We all have completely different lives because of our differing drives. | It's not always the parents' fault that kids end up not knowing anything. Kids have to want to learn. |
Balakk911 | I understand that and I completely agree. Although that is only nice when there are as many players as we have now. Think about trying to sell an item when 100,000 people are all chatting at the same time? What if the game get 1,000,000 players? Global chat would scroll so fast that no one would ever even see your message about trying to buy or sell something. Even if they added a trade channel. So I also like the human interaction, but in a situation like that, it makes it nearly impossible to sell things. Also think of this. You want to buy yourself a new shadow item because you want to start farming for blocks so you can build an epic cornerstone. So you look for an item that is a shadow hat that has forge level 25 with Health, Lasermancy(2 astrex), and movement speed(2 astrex). There is one item in the AH that someone is trying to sell for 50,000 flux (which you find to be a little outrageous). So you try another search for the same item at forge level 20 that is only 10,000 flux. So you decide to buy it because you feel you can just upgrade it yourself for 600 flux. Now you have an awesome hat for mining and someone else was actually able to sell there item without having to scroll chat by describing the stats in a long message that is just going to be scrolled off chat by another persons lengthy message trying to do the same.
TLDR: I agree with you, but with the prospected amount of players this game will have, it just wouldn't be practical anymore. | I understand that and I completely agree. Although that is only nice when there are as many players as we have now. Think about trying to sell an item when 100,000 people are all chatting at the same time? What if the game get 1,000,000 players? Global chat would scroll so fast that no one would ever even see your message about trying to buy or sell something. Even if they added a trade channel. So I also like the human interaction, but in a situation like that, it makes it nearly impossible to sell things. Also think of this. You want to buy yourself a new shadow item because you want to start farming for blocks so you can build an epic cornerstone. So you look for an item that is a shadow hat that has forge level 25 with Health, Lasermancy(2 astrex), and movement speed(2 astrex). There is one item in the AH that someone is trying to sell for 50,000 flux (which you find to be a little outrageous). So you try another search for the same item at forge level 20 that is only 10,000 flux. So you decide to buy it because you feel you can just upgrade it yourself for 600 flux. Now you have an awesome hat for mining and someone else was actually able to sell there item without having to scroll chat by describing the stats in a long message that is just going to be scrolled off chat by another persons lengthy message trying to do the same.
TLDR: I agree with you, but with the prospected amount of players this game will have, it just wouldn't be practical anymore.
| Trove | t5_2z0i3 | cizsvlf | I understand that and I completely agree. Although that is only nice when there are as many players as we have now. Think about trying to sell an item when 100,000 people are all chatting at the same time? What if the game get 1,000,000 players? Global chat would scroll so fast that no one would ever even see your message about trying to buy or sell something. Even if they added a trade channel. So I also like the human interaction, but in a situation like that, it makes it nearly impossible to sell things. Also think of this. You want to buy yourself a new shadow item because you want to start farming for blocks so you can build an epic cornerstone. So you look for an item that is a shadow hat that has forge level 25 with Health, Lasermancy(2 astrex), and movement speed(2 astrex). There is one item in the AH that someone is trying to sell for 50,000 flux (which you find to be a little outrageous). So you try another search for the same item at forge level 20 that is only 10,000 flux. So you decide to buy it because you feel you can just upgrade it yourself for 600 flux. Now you have an awesome hat for mining and someone else was actually able to sell there item without having to scroll chat by describing the stats in a long message that is just going to be scrolled off chat by another persons lengthy message trying to do the same. | I agree with you, but with the prospected amount of players this game will have, it just wouldn't be practical anymore. |
SoHughman | "LGBTQ" is still a new concept for me; I was still under the impression that it was just "LGBT" until a few months ago. Evidently, the term is evolving to include more and more groups, but, as more and more arise, so does the term expand. On numerous occasions I find "LGBTQ______________", and it just looks ridiculous, and doesn't translate to anything without deep research. More becomes meaningless; we need a term that is "TL;DR". Infinite, confusing letters is not what this community needs or deserves, and eventually our meaning will deteriorate. Sure, "LGBTQ" encompasses many and is familiar to most, but that doesn't mean that it isn't incapable of excluding people. I'm both included and excluded by "LGBTQ", for example, and, even if it evidently has the ability to offend, "LGBTLMNOP" does actually promote "all" - you automatically understand who it's referring to, in it's entirety. | "LGBTQ" is still a new concept for me; I was still under the impression that it was just "LGBT" until a few months ago. Evidently, the term is evolving to include more and more groups, but, as more and more arise, so does the term expand. On numerous occasions I find "LGBTQ __ ", and it just looks ridiculous, and doesn't translate to anything without deep research. More becomes meaningless; we need a term that is "TL;DR". Infinite, confusing letters is not what this community needs or deserves, and eventually our meaning will deteriorate. Sure, "LGBTQ" encompasses many and is familiar to most, but that doesn't mean that it isn't incapable of excluding people. I'm both included and excluded by "LGBTQ", for example, and, even if it evidently has the ability to offend, "LGBTLMNOP" does actually promote "all" - you automatically understand who it's referring to, in it's entirety.
| smashbros | t5_2qiep | ciyw669 | LGBTQ" is still a new concept for me; I was still under the impression that it was just "LGBT" until a few months ago. Evidently, the term is evolving to include more and more groups, but, as more and more arise, so does the term expand. On numerous occasions I find "LGBTQ __ ", and it just looks ridiculous, and doesn't translate to anything without deep research. More becomes meaningless; we need a term that is " | Infinite, confusing letters is not what this community needs or deserves, and eventually our meaning will deteriorate. Sure, "LGBTQ" encompasses many and is familiar to most, but that doesn't mean that it isn't incapable of excluding people. I'm both included and excluded by "LGBTQ", for example, and, even if it evidently has the ability to offend, "LGBTLMNOP" does actually promote "all" - you automatically understand who it's referring to, in it's entirety. |
banjist | Ignoring the rapist/murder analogy (because it was pretty weak on my part), an issue I have with libertarians generally is a conflation of the ideas of being selfish and being self-interested.
Arguing that you don't like the social safety net because you don't use it and you don't care about other people's lives isn't necessarily self-interested, but it is definitely selfish. For example, unless you come from a place with enough relative privilege that you know your personal and your family's wealth will be able to allow you to weather whatever may come your way in life then you may well need the social safety net someday and being opposed the existence of something like that until you need it is impractical, short sighted and hypocritical.
Allowing yourself to wind up homeless and starving on moral principle because you stick to your guns and continue not supporting a social safety net even when you do need it is just dumb. I'm not saying you're arguing anything like that, but I've run into a few libertarians around reddit who make the claim that this is how they would react to such a situation.
Now if you do come from that place of such self-assured privilege that you don't have to ever fear you may need public assistance in any form, that means you and/or your family have quite a bit of wealth, and even then you benefit from the social safety net indirectly. Being able to maintain a solidly middle-class or higher lifestyle requires a degree of social stability. Lots of things contribute to criminality, but poverty is a strong driver of violent criminality.
A strong social safety net isn't the only thing important to maintaining social stability (and the US fails in a lot of ways to do so in my opinion), but it absolutely helps a lot of people through hard times without putting them in a position to have to potentially threaten your safety through wanton criminality. Growing masses of hopeless and desperately poor people breeds all kinds of badness, and one way our society avoids those problems is providing a robust safety net.
A lot of libertarians I've come across never get past the whole "taxes are theft" and "why should I have to pay for someone else's food" and "I was born into a relatively stable situation that didn't require public assistance, so why can't everyone else be similarly situated." It all seems very short sighted. Society is a real thing, and a stable society benefits all of us directly and indirectly. At the same time that excessive government spending can destabilize society, being unwilling to provide some security to the most poor and desperate among us can too.
tl;dr: Providing a social safety net is in the self-interest of even the wealthy, and focusing only on immediate selfish self-interest can actually work against one's long term self-interest. | Ignoring the rapist/murder analogy (because it was pretty weak on my part), an issue I have with libertarians generally is a conflation of the ideas of being selfish and being self-interested.
Arguing that you don't like the social safety net because you don't use it and you don't care about other people's lives isn't necessarily self-interested, but it is definitely selfish. For example, unless you come from a place with enough relative privilege that you know your personal and your family's wealth will be able to allow you to weather whatever may come your way in life then you may well need the social safety net someday and being opposed the existence of something like that until you need it is impractical, short sighted and hypocritical.
Allowing yourself to wind up homeless and starving on moral principle because you stick to your guns and continue not supporting a social safety net even when you do need it is just dumb. I'm not saying you're arguing anything like that, but I've run into a few libertarians around reddit who make the claim that this is how they would react to such a situation.
Now if you do come from that place of such self-assured privilege that you don't have to ever fear you may need public assistance in any form, that means you and/or your family have quite a bit of wealth, and even then you benefit from the social safety net indirectly. Being able to maintain a solidly middle-class or higher lifestyle requires a degree of social stability. Lots of things contribute to criminality, but poverty is a strong driver of violent criminality.
A strong social safety net isn't the only thing important to maintaining social stability (and the US fails in a lot of ways to do so in my opinion), but it absolutely helps a lot of people through hard times without putting them in a position to have to potentially threaten your safety through wanton criminality. Growing masses of hopeless and desperately poor people breeds all kinds of badness, and one way our society avoids those problems is providing a robust safety net.
A lot of libertarians I've come across never get past the whole "taxes are theft" and "why should I have to pay for someone else's food" and "I was born into a relatively stable situation that didn't require public assistance, so why can't everyone else be similarly situated." It all seems very short sighted. Society is a real thing, and a stable society benefits all of us directly and indirectly. At the same time that excessive government spending can destabilize society, being unwilling to provide some security to the most poor and desperate among us can too.
tl;dr: Providing a social safety net is in the self-interest of even the wealthy, and focusing only on immediate selfish self-interest can actually work against one's long term self-interest.
| cringe | t5_2r6rj | cizdx15 | Ignoring the rapist/murder analogy (because it was pretty weak on my part), an issue I have with libertarians generally is a conflation of the ideas of being selfish and being self-interested.
Arguing that you don't like the social safety net because you don't use it and you don't care about other people's lives isn't necessarily self-interested, but it is definitely selfish. For example, unless you come from a place with enough relative privilege that you know your personal and your family's wealth will be able to allow you to weather whatever may come your way in life then you may well need the social safety net someday and being opposed the existence of something like that until you need it is impractical, short sighted and hypocritical.
Allowing yourself to wind up homeless and starving on moral principle because you stick to your guns and continue not supporting a social safety net even when you do need it is just dumb. I'm not saying you're arguing anything like that, but I've run into a few libertarians around reddit who make the claim that this is how they would react to such a situation.
Now if you do come from that place of such self-assured privilege that you don't have to ever fear you may need public assistance in any form, that means you and/or your family have quite a bit of wealth, and even then you benefit from the social safety net indirectly. Being able to maintain a solidly middle-class or higher lifestyle requires a degree of social stability. Lots of things contribute to criminality, but poverty is a strong driver of violent criminality.
A strong social safety net isn't the only thing important to maintaining social stability (and the US fails in a lot of ways to do so in my opinion), but it absolutely helps a lot of people through hard times without putting them in a position to have to potentially threaten your safety through wanton criminality. Growing masses of hopeless and desperately poor people breeds all kinds of badness, and one way our society avoids those problems is providing a robust safety net.
A lot of libertarians I've come across never get past the whole "taxes are theft" and "why should I have to pay for someone else's food" and "I was born into a relatively stable situation that didn't require public assistance, so why can't everyone else be similarly situated." It all seems very short sighted. Society is a real thing, and a stable society benefits all of us directly and indirectly. At the same time that excessive government spending can destabilize society, being unwilling to provide some security to the most poor and desperate among us can too. | Providing a social safety net is in the self-interest of even the wealthy, and focusing only on immediate selfish self-interest can actually work against one's long term self-interest. |
commandar | >who listens to NPR?
On average, well-educated, relatively affluent people that are only a few percentage points more liberal as a whole than the average media viewer.
Same poll also suggests the overwhelming majority of NPR listeners do not want a media source that simply conforms to their views. Compare that to the numbers for Fox and its hosts or MSNBC and Maddow.
tl;dr - I think you're engaging in some serious false equivalency here. | >who listens to NPR?
On average, well-educated, relatively affluent people that are only a few percentage points more liberal as a whole than the average media viewer.
Same poll also suggests the overwhelming majority of NPR listeners do not want a media source that simply conforms to their views. Compare that to the numbers for Fox and its hosts or MSNBC and Maddow.
tl;dr - I think you're engaging in some serious false equivalency here.
| politics | t5_2cneq | ciz0q0o | who listens to NPR?
On average, well-educated, relatively affluent people that are only a few percentage points more liberal as a whole than the average media viewer.
Same poll also suggests the overwhelming majority of NPR listeners do not want a media source that simply conforms to their views. Compare that to the numbers for Fox and its hosts or MSNBC and Maddow. | I think you're engaging in some serious false equivalency here. |
PantWraith | I fully agree to just about everything you've said, I think.
But I'm not sure of its relevance to my point. From what I've read and heard, there are really only 2 points being argued over that politicians must pick a side and make a decision based upon. Those being 1, is there such a thing as human-induced / man-made climate change happening, and 2, should we take *any* action on it. No one said anything about full blown "let's ruin our way of life and standard of living action", but simply some form of action that at least start to reduce said human impact on global climate changes.
For the first argument, we're simply arguing a fact. One that does not immediately affect how people live nor their standard of living; it simply affects the way they think. In this regard, how anyone can even begin to listen to non-scientists on the issue and still believe they are correct is beyond me. The answer should be plain and simple, there is in fact a human factor to global climate changes and there have been for quite some time.
Now the second argument is much more relevant everyone whose lives will be affected by this man's decision. This is where the issue gets a little more complex. For this particular politician, we're talking about a state governor. Any decision on action to take he chooses will directly affect the lives of any and all Floridans. However, indirectly, he is also simultaneously affecting on a much smaller scale the rest of the globe as well as future generations.
First and foremost his directly affected population should be taken into consideration. He should make a choice based upon the wants and needs of Floridans so as to keep them happy. But he should also realize the larger picture and see if he can't find some sort of even ground to keep Floridans' standard of living unaffected while trying to make some change towards the greater good of the rest of the earth.
Again, as you said, no one is advocating ridiculous change to eliminate all man made climate changes, but **some** sort of action needs to be taken. Even if just baby steps in the right direction. Change is always easiest when done in small doses.
This man however chooses to forego all of that thinking and simply take the wrong decision at argument 1, effectively ruining any sort of opportunity to find a compromise for competing sectors. That's what makes this guy a bad politician.
**TL;DR** I agree, a compromise needs to be made and a politician with no experience will have to make that decision. However when that politician simply ignores one of the competing sectors and makes a decision based on his gut instinct, s/he is a bad politician. | I fully agree to just about everything you've said, I think.
But I'm not sure of its relevance to my point. From what I've read and heard, there are really only 2 points being argued over that politicians must pick a side and make a decision based upon. Those being 1, is there such a thing as human-induced / man-made climate change happening, and 2, should we take any action on it. No one said anything about full blown "let's ruin our way of life and standard of living action", but simply some form of action that at least start to reduce said human impact on global climate changes.
For the first argument, we're simply arguing a fact. One that does not immediately affect how people live nor their standard of living; it simply affects the way they think. In this regard, how anyone can even begin to listen to non-scientists on the issue and still believe they are correct is beyond me. The answer should be plain and simple, there is in fact a human factor to global climate changes and there have been for quite some time.
Now the second argument is much more relevant everyone whose lives will be affected by this man's decision. This is where the issue gets a little more complex. For this particular politician, we're talking about a state governor. Any decision on action to take he chooses will directly affect the lives of any and all Floridans. However, indirectly, he is also simultaneously affecting on a much smaller scale the rest of the globe as well as future generations.
First and foremost his directly affected population should be taken into consideration. He should make a choice based upon the wants and needs of Floridans so as to keep them happy. But he should also realize the larger picture and see if he can't find some sort of even ground to keep Floridans' standard of living unaffected while trying to make some change towards the greater good of the rest of the earth.
Again, as you said, no one is advocating ridiculous change to eliminate all man made climate changes, but some sort of action needs to be taken. Even if just baby steps in the right direction. Change is always easiest when done in small doses.
This man however chooses to forego all of that thinking and simply take the wrong decision at argument 1, effectively ruining any sort of opportunity to find a compromise for competing sectors. That's what makes this guy a bad politician.
TL;DR I agree, a compromise needs to be made and a politician with no experience will have to make that decision. However when that politician simply ignores one of the competing sectors and makes a decision based on his gut instinct, s/he is a bad politician.
| politics | t5_2cneq | ciz66mk | I fully agree to just about everything you've said, I think.
But I'm not sure of its relevance to my point. From what I've read and heard, there are really only 2 points being argued over that politicians must pick a side and make a decision based upon. Those being 1, is there such a thing as human-induced / man-made climate change happening, and 2, should we take any action on it. No one said anything about full blown "let's ruin our way of life and standard of living action", but simply some form of action that at least start to reduce said human impact on global climate changes.
For the first argument, we're simply arguing a fact. One that does not immediately affect how people live nor their standard of living; it simply affects the way they think. In this regard, how anyone can even begin to listen to non-scientists on the issue and still believe they are correct is beyond me. The answer should be plain and simple, there is in fact a human factor to global climate changes and there have been for quite some time.
Now the second argument is much more relevant everyone whose lives will be affected by this man's decision. This is where the issue gets a little more complex. For this particular politician, we're talking about a state governor. Any decision on action to take he chooses will directly affect the lives of any and all Floridans. However, indirectly, he is also simultaneously affecting on a much smaller scale the rest of the globe as well as future generations.
First and foremost his directly affected population should be taken into consideration. He should make a choice based upon the wants and needs of Floridans so as to keep them happy. But he should also realize the larger picture and see if he can't find some sort of even ground to keep Floridans' standard of living unaffected while trying to make some change towards the greater good of the rest of the earth.
Again, as you said, no one is advocating ridiculous change to eliminate all man made climate changes, but some sort of action needs to be taken. Even if just baby steps in the right direction. Change is always easiest when done in small doses.
This man however chooses to forego all of that thinking and simply take the wrong decision at argument 1, effectively ruining any sort of opportunity to find a compromise for competing sectors. That's what makes this guy a bad politician. | I agree, a compromise needs to be made and a politician with no experience will have to make that decision. However when that politician simply ignores one of the competing sectors and makes a decision based on his gut instinct, s/he is a bad politician. |
WashILLiams | Lol guys I'm religious and being persecuted since this guy is saying peoples faith lets them justify not having to take responsibility for what they do in the world. I am going to attack religion here and say your are way to quick to jump the gun on being persecuted and even quicker on the persecuting.
Maybe not all religions of course since it's not entirely true as you said but the Christian majority and the vocal minority everyone hears from that comes with that makes it seem like you're just a bunch of babies who have to get your way. That's just how religious people come off to me in America at least.
Maybe you believe in something different and have a good set of beliefs, I sure hope so you seem like a good person but this whole "attacking religion" thing needs to stop. I've never seen a majority act like they get the shit end of the stick so much then turn that around and act like they can control what another person does with their life, it's fucked up yo.
TL;DR: Their quick to be attacked but when a religious person tries to shit on someone else rights their still the ones being attacked. Not everything is a jab at your religion. Learn there's a difference between getting persecuted and someone complaining about how a persons "faith" allows them to refrain them from taking responsibility in this world for what they do. | Lol guys I'm religious and being persecuted since this guy is saying peoples faith lets them justify not having to take responsibility for what they do in the world. I am going to attack religion here and say your are way to quick to jump the gun on being persecuted and even quicker on the persecuting.
Maybe not all religions of course since it's not entirely true as you said but the Christian majority and the vocal minority everyone hears from that comes with that makes it seem like you're just a bunch of babies who have to get your way. That's just how religious people come off to me in America at least.
Maybe you believe in something different and have a good set of beliefs, I sure hope so you seem like a good person but this whole "attacking religion" thing needs to stop. I've never seen a majority act like they get the shit end of the stick so much then turn that around and act like they can control what another person does with their life, it's fucked up yo.
TL;DR: Their quick to be attacked but when a religious person tries to shit on someone else rights their still the ones being attacked. Not everything is a jab at your religion. Learn there's a difference between getting persecuted and someone complaining about how a persons "faith" allows them to refrain them from taking responsibility in this world for what they do.
| politics | t5_2cneq | cizab4y | Lol guys I'm religious and being persecuted since this guy is saying peoples faith lets them justify not having to take responsibility for what they do in the world. I am going to attack religion here and say your are way to quick to jump the gun on being persecuted and even quicker on the persecuting.
Maybe not all religions of course since it's not entirely true as you said but the Christian majority and the vocal minority everyone hears from that comes with that makes it seem like you're just a bunch of babies who have to get your way. That's just how religious people come off to me in America at least.
Maybe you believe in something different and have a good set of beliefs, I sure hope so you seem like a good person but this whole "attacking religion" thing needs to stop. I've never seen a majority act like they get the shit end of the stick so much then turn that around and act like they can control what another person does with their life, it's fucked up yo. | Their quick to be attacked but when a religious person tries to shit on someone else rights their still the ones being attacked. Not everything is a jab at your religion. Learn there's a difference between getting persecuted and someone complaining about how a persons "faith" allows them to refrain them from taking responsibility in this world for what they do. |
pwners5000 | Yes and no. Human beings are susceptible to coercion. It's the decades-long campaign by moneyed interests to paint climate change as a fantasy (and successfully tying that into a left vs right debate) that has made many people vote the way they do. In other words, I would consider it less about the electorate (because, sadly, we vote for the person with the most exposure), and more about convincing Rick Scott "acting on climate change benefits him personally." But I don't see that happening unless a lobbyist on the other side of the debate (do they even exist?) can match the campaign donations he gets from fossil fuel industries. And honestly, since I'm sure changing sides would guarantee a shitload of attack ads against him by those industries, he still wouldn't consider it.
tl;dr - the electorate is the solution only if they can be persuaded to view climate change as real and man-made, and I don't see that happening unless moneyed interests inexplicably stop pouring their vast resources into misinformation campaigns. | Yes and no. Human beings are susceptible to coercion. It's the decades-long campaign by moneyed interests to paint climate change as a fantasy (and successfully tying that into a left vs right debate) that has made many people vote the way they do. In other words, I would consider it less about the electorate (because, sadly, we vote for the person with the most exposure), and more about convincing Rick Scott "acting on climate change benefits him personally." But I don't see that happening unless a lobbyist on the other side of the debate (do they even exist?) can match the campaign donations he gets from fossil fuel industries. And honestly, since I'm sure changing sides would guarantee a shitload of attack ads against him by those industries, he still wouldn't consider it.
tl;dr - the electorate is the solution only if they can be persuaded to view climate change as real and man-made, and I don't see that happening unless moneyed interests inexplicably stop pouring their vast resources into misinformation campaigns.
| politics | t5_2cneq | cizdamt | Yes and no. Human beings are susceptible to coercion. It's the decades-long campaign by moneyed interests to paint climate change as a fantasy (and successfully tying that into a left vs right debate) that has made many people vote the way they do. In other words, I would consider it less about the electorate (because, sadly, we vote for the person with the most exposure), and more about convincing Rick Scott "acting on climate change benefits him personally." But I don't see that happening unless a lobbyist on the other side of the debate (do they even exist?) can match the campaign donations he gets from fossil fuel industries. And honestly, since I'm sure changing sides would guarantee a shitload of attack ads against him by those industries, he still wouldn't consider it. | the electorate is the solution only if they can be persuaded to view climate change as real and man-made, and I don't see that happening unless moneyed interests inexplicably stop pouring their vast resources into misinformation campaigns. |
zantosh | First of all, I want to encourage you to forget about it. You are American now. India is no longer your home and you might as well kiss that culture goodbye.
Along with learning Hindi, you must also learn a lot about the slang, culture and background of that language. At this stage in your life, there's literally no benefit to learning Hindi. Unless you plan on moving to India, and if that's the case, I sure hope you're getting paid really well to do so.
I went through this dilemma. I speak Hindi now. I can converse in it and frankly, I don't, because it's good enough to talk to taxi drivers and shop keepers, but not good enough to talk to Indians without totally not getting the jokes or be able to read between the lines.
TL;DR: Forget Hindi. To you, it's a dead language. You're not Indian. | First of all, I want to encourage you to forget about it. You are American now. India is no longer your home and you might as well kiss that culture goodbye.
Along with learning Hindi, you must also learn a lot about the slang, culture and background of that language. At this stage in your life, there's literally no benefit to learning Hindi. Unless you plan on moving to India, and if that's the case, I sure hope you're getting paid really well to do so.
I went through this dilemma. I speak Hindi now. I can converse in it and frankly, I don't, because it's good enough to talk to taxi drivers and shop keepers, but not good enough to talk to Indians without totally not getting the jokes or be able to read between the lines.
TL;DR: Forget Hindi. To you, it's a dead language. You're not Indian.
| india | t5_2qh1q | cizg1tg | First of all, I want to encourage you to forget about it. You are American now. India is no longer your home and you might as well kiss that culture goodbye.
Along with learning Hindi, you must also learn a lot about the slang, culture and background of that language. At this stage in your life, there's literally no benefit to learning Hindi. Unless you plan on moving to India, and if that's the case, I sure hope you're getting paid really well to do so.
I went through this dilemma. I speak Hindi now. I can converse in it and frankly, I don't, because it's good enough to talk to taxi drivers and shop keepers, but not good enough to talk to Indians without totally not getting the jokes or be able to read between the lines. | Forget Hindi. To you, it's a dead language. You're not Indian. |
gobigred3562 | I was humiliated by my sister (she announced that I was dumped) in a major city on vacation in 1989.
I root against all the sports teams from that city.
TL;DR: I'm weird and I hold grudges. | I was humiliated by my sister (she announced that I was dumped) in a major city on vacation in 1989.
I root against all the sports teams from that city.
TL;DR: I'm weird and I hold grudges.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | ciz08gl | I was humiliated by my sister (she announced that I was dumped) in a major city on vacation in 1989.
I root against all the sports teams from that city. | I'm weird and I hold grudges. |
rileyk | I was on My Strange Addiction as someone who's into regression, and I'm a transgirl, and they went after me pretty hard.
Below is a link to the post, terrible, triggering etc. Radfems have lots of friends, especially in NYC where I was living at the time. This article honestly set my transition back a year. I’d like to consider myself unfuckwithable and no other aspect of the MSA experience effected me, but this and the doxxing campaign they launched against me really messed me up for a while.
It was the first time I had noticed this group as hateful, I thought radfems were the hopeful, openminded dreadlocked girls I’d meet at Zucotti park, not a bunch of hateful fundamentalists. I was shocked that so-called allies would be so cruel. I learned through this experience that wherever you go or whatever you do, there will always be people out looking to subjugate others. Many transpeople attacked me for being into regression, where other regressionists attacked me for being trans… See the futility of all this?
If I was a sad, empty person I’d say its human nature and can’t be avoided. But it clearly can, this board is full of people treating each other with respect, many feminists, trans or otherwise “enlightened” folks support all kinds of people and even ::gasp:: occasional act altruistically. Hateful people like these radfems don’t believe those kinds of people exist. Everyone’s a pervert and they’re all out to get them. It probably makes them feel better about themselves or deal with some sort of anger/trauma inside, kinda like why people watch My Strange Addiction, to boo and hiss at the freak and feel above someone.
I couldn’t bear to read this again, the comments are terrible, pure hate, they said things that I couldn’t believe how sick and graphic they were. I was devastated, I thought my transition was sexist, Dark times, but I’ve learned from it and realize what their game is, and what a dirty game it is.
Again, I actually agreed for a while, they let out the beast which was my insecurity, my internalized transphobia, I honestly believed I was doing women in general a disservice by transitioning. I did a lot of coke that year, but I'm better now.
They read this particular Reddit, and quote from it constantly on their TERF sites, even just last month quoting me about some locker room thing, ending the comment with "yeah, that sick baby person" I would not be surprised if this was posted by one of em' (not accusing you), as their soul occupation seems to be stirring shit up on the Internet. TERFS are trolls, fundamentalists, basically a vocal hate group, any trans exclusionary groups are terrible but this one seems to stem from within the queer community, which makes it such a worrying situation.
As for the Doxxing campaign, I hide myself well but they did manage to get past some walls, messaged my brother and sent him some stuff about me on Facebook and called an old theatre I worked at to talk shit about me. Nothing too scary, they have fangs, but the poison is slow, they have done much worse to others. I'm sure i'm gong to be hearing about these people the rest of my life, and the best we can do is not draw battle lines, but simply remain inclusive and promote love for you sisters, not just your cis-sters :)
TL;DR : a bunch of bored vultures messed with my head, heads better now.
If you need an example of how bad they are, here’s this link. Really, really ugly stuff on there, so please tread lightly.
| I was on My Strange Addiction as someone who's into regression, and I'm a transgirl, and they went after me pretty hard.
Below is a link to the post, terrible, triggering etc. Radfems have lots of friends, especially in NYC where I was living at the time. This article honestly set my transition back a year. I’d like to consider myself unfuckwithable and no other aspect of the MSA experience effected me, but this and the doxxing campaign they launched against me really messed me up for a while.
It was the first time I had noticed this group as hateful, I thought radfems were the hopeful, openminded dreadlocked girls I’d meet at Zucotti park, not a bunch of hateful fundamentalists. I was shocked that so-called allies would be so cruel. I learned through this experience that wherever you go or whatever you do, there will always be people out looking to subjugate others. Many transpeople attacked me for being into regression, where other regressionists attacked me for being trans… See the futility of all this?
If I was a sad, empty person I’d say its human nature and can’t be avoided. But it clearly can, this board is full of people treating each other with respect, many feminists, trans or otherwise “enlightened” folks support all kinds of people and even ::gasp:: occasional act altruistically. Hateful people like these radfems don’t believe those kinds of people exist. Everyone’s a pervert and they’re all out to get them. It probably makes them feel better about themselves or deal with some sort of anger/trauma inside, kinda like why people watch My Strange Addiction, to boo and hiss at the freak and feel above someone.
I couldn’t bear to read this again, the comments are terrible, pure hate, they said things that I couldn’t believe how sick and graphic they were. I was devastated, I thought my transition was sexist, Dark times, but I’ve learned from it and realize what their game is, and what a dirty game it is.
Again, I actually agreed for a while, they let out the beast which was my insecurity, my internalized transphobia, I honestly believed I was doing women in general a disservice by transitioning. I did a lot of coke that year, but I'm better now.
They read this particular Reddit, and quote from it constantly on their TERF sites, even just last month quoting me about some locker room thing, ending the comment with "yeah, that sick baby person" I would not be surprised if this was posted by one of em' (not accusing you), as their soul occupation seems to be stirring shit up on the Internet. TERFS are trolls, fundamentalists, basically a vocal hate group, any trans exclusionary groups are terrible but this one seems to stem from within the queer community, which makes it such a worrying situation.
As for the Doxxing campaign, I hide myself well but they did manage to get past some walls, messaged my brother and sent him some stuff about me on Facebook and called an old theatre I worked at to talk shit about me. Nothing too scary, they have fangs, but the poison is slow, they have done much worse to others. I'm sure i'm gong to be hearing about these people the rest of my life, and the best we can do is not draw battle lines, but simply remain inclusive and promote love for you sisters, not just your cis-sters :)
TL;DR : a bunch of bored vultures messed with my head, heads better now.
If you need an example of how bad they are, here’s this link. Really, really ugly stuff on there, so please tread lightly.
| asktransgender | t5_2r4b9 | ciz62k8 | I was on My Strange Addiction as someone who's into regression, and I'm a transgirl, and they went after me pretty hard.
Below is a link to the post, terrible, triggering etc. Radfems have lots of friends, especially in NYC where I was living at the time. This article honestly set my transition back a year. I’d like to consider myself unfuckwithable and no other aspect of the MSA experience effected me, but this and the doxxing campaign they launched against me really messed me up for a while.
It was the first time I had noticed this group as hateful, I thought radfems were the hopeful, openminded dreadlocked girls I’d meet at Zucotti park, not a bunch of hateful fundamentalists. I was shocked that so-called allies would be so cruel. I learned through this experience that wherever you go or whatever you do, there will always be people out looking to subjugate others. Many transpeople attacked me for being into regression, where other regressionists attacked me for being trans… See the futility of all this?
If I was a sad, empty person I’d say its human nature and can’t be avoided. But it clearly can, this board is full of people treating each other with respect, many feminists, trans or otherwise “enlightened” folks support all kinds of people and even ::gasp:: occasional act altruistically. Hateful people like these radfems don’t believe those kinds of people exist. Everyone’s a pervert and they’re all out to get them. It probably makes them feel better about themselves or deal with some sort of anger/trauma inside, kinda like why people watch My Strange Addiction, to boo and hiss at the freak and feel above someone.
I couldn’t bear to read this again, the comments are terrible, pure hate, they said things that I couldn’t believe how sick and graphic they were. I was devastated, I thought my transition was sexist, Dark times, but I’ve learned from it and realize what their game is, and what a dirty game it is.
Again, I actually agreed for a while, they let out the beast which was my insecurity, my internalized transphobia, I honestly believed I was doing women in general a disservice by transitioning. I did a lot of coke that year, but I'm better now.
They read this particular Reddit, and quote from it constantly on their TERF sites, even just last month quoting me about some locker room thing, ending the comment with "yeah, that sick baby person" I would not be surprised if this was posted by one of em' (not accusing you), as their soul occupation seems to be stirring shit up on the Internet. TERFS are trolls, fundamentalists, basically a vocal hate group, any trans exclusionary groups are terrible but this one seems to stem from within the queer community, which makes it such a worrying situation.
As for the Doxxing campaign, I hide myself well but they did manage to get past some walls, messaged my brother and sent him some stuff about me on Facebook and called an old theatre I worked at to talk shit about me. Nothing too scary, they have fangs, but the poison is slow, they have done much worse to others. I'm sure i'm gong to be hearing about these people the rest of my life, and the best we can do is not draw battle lines, but simply remain inclusive and promote love for you sisters, not just your cis-sters :) | a bunch of bored vultures messed with my head, heads better now.
If you need an example of how bad they are, here’s this link. Really, really ugly stuff on there, so please tread lightly. |
zhrooms | Highest, literally.
Logged in and took a pic, 98% GPU Usage on all 3 GPU's (780's at 1200/7200)
Post-Processing on Very High, Ambient Occlusion Enabled, Very High Anti-Aliasing and so on, rendering resolution is set at 2880x1620
So I can actually play with this just fine, but I wouldn't want to, Post-Processing blurs 50% of your screen, so it will be a lot harder to see other players, and zombies.
Ambient Occlusion making things dark isn't helping either, it's distracting in the grass around you, and it literally requires you to have Post-Processing turned on (giving you blur), so even if you wanted to play with Ambient Occlusion you couldn't really.
ATOC (Alpha-To-Coverage)
> Alpha to coverage multisampling is based on regular multisampling, except that the alpha coverage mask is ANDed with the multisample mask. Alpha-to-coverage converts the alpha component output from the pixel shader to a coverage mask.
Easiest to just show it, both screenshots are rendered at 4K and with Very High Anti-Aliasing, rest on almost Lowest versus everything on Highest
Highest
Low
Disabling ATOC makes vegetation see-through, giving you a huge advantage over players who play with it enabled, you can see him, he can't see you. It looks terrible disabled really but it's either that or get killed.
To get the best graphics you simply turn up every setting, and to perform better for your survival, you would want to disable Ambient Occlusion, ATOC and Post-Processing, use any GPU power you had left to increase the rendering resolution to compensate for disabling ATOC, also Clouds enabled actually often darkens the environment (Lighting), so keep that disabled to see better without tampering with brightness and gamma.
Shadows can actually help you in towns, often you can see a players shadow indoors, or sitting on rooftops, but in the forests it's much harder to spot someone, so it depends on the situation, to be sure in most cases it should be disabled.
And this is a huge problem for the game, there are so many settings that makes the game much harder, giving other players that uses lower settings, a huge advantage over you, just because you have a more powerful computer capable of playing with better graphics.
This will probably be solved with the new Renderer, they will be able to force on Shadows for every player like they do Grass (Terrain Quality) right now, same with ATOC, which requires very little performance and could easily be hard-coded into the engine, then everyone would be on the same playing field regardless of computer specifications, as for the blur, that was solved in ArmA 3, what they did was simply to separate the different Post-Processing effects like Bloom, Blur and SSAO, so it will surely happen for DayZ as well.
TL;DR The game is a mess, but it will be a lot better with the new renderer. | Highest, literally.
Logged in and took a pic, 98% GPU Usage on all 3 GPU's (780's at 1200/7200)
Post-Processing on Very High, Ambient Occlusion Enabled, Very High Anti-Aliasing and so on, rendering resolution is set at 2880x1620
So I can actually play with this just fine, but I wouldn't want to, Post-Processing blurs 50% of your screen, so it will be a lot harder to see other players, and zombies.
Ambient Occlusion making things dark isn't helping either, it's distracting in the grass around you, and it literally requires you to have Post-Processing turned on (giving you blur), so even if you wanted to play with Ambient Occlusion you couldn't really.
ATOC (Alpha-To-Coverage)
> Alpha to coverage multisampling is based on regular multisampling, except that the alpha coverage mask is ANDed with the multisample mask. Alpha-to-coverage converts the alpha component output from the pixel shader to a coverage mask.
Easiest to just show it, both screenshots are rendered at 4K and with Very High Anti-Aliasing, rest on almost Lowest versus everything on Highest
Highest
Low
Disabling ATOC makes vegetation see-through, giving you a huge advantage over players who play with it enabled, you can see him, he can't see you. It looks terrible disabled really but it's either that or get killed.
To get the best graphics you simply turn up every setting, and to perform better for your survival, you would want to disable Ambient Occlusion, ATOC and Post-Processing, use any GPU power you had left to increase the rendering resolution to compensate for disabling ATOC, also Clouds enabled actually often darkens the environment (Lighting), so keep that disabled to see better without tampering with brightness and gamma.
Shadows can actually help you in towns, often you can see a players shadow indoors, or sitting on rooftops, but in the forests it's much harder to spot someone, so it depends on the situation, to be sure in most cases it should be disabled.
And this is a huge problem for the game, there are so many settings that makes the game much harder, giving other players that uses lower settings, a huge advantage over you, just because you have a more powerful computer capable of playing with better graphics.
This will probably be solved with the new Renderer, they will be able to force on Shadows for every player like they do Grass (Terrain Quality) right now, same with ATOC, which requires very little performance and could easily be hard-coded into the engine, then everyone would be on the same playing field regardless of computer specifications, as for the blur, that was solved in ArmA 3, what they did was simply to separate the different Post-Processing effects like Bloom, Blur and SSAO, so it will surely happen for DayZ as well.
TL;DR The game is a mess, but it will be a lot better with the new renderer.
| dayz | t5_2ty3s | cizbrl2 | Highest, literally.
Logged in and took a pic, 98% GPU Usage on all 3 GPU's (780's at 1200/7200)
Post-Processing on Very High, Ambient Occlusion Enabled, Very High Anti-Aliasing and so on, rendering resolution is set at 2880x1620
So I can actually play with this just fine, but I wouldn't want to, Post-Processing blurs 50% of your screen, so it will be a lot harder to see other players, and zombies.
Ambient Occlusion making things dark isn't helping either, it's distracting in the grass around you, and it literally requires you to have Post-Processing turned on (giving you blur), so even if you wanted to play with Ambient Occlusion you couldn't really.
ATOC (Alpha-To-Coverage)
> Alpha to coverage multisampling is based on regular multisampling, except that the alpha coverage mask is ANDed with the multisample mask. Alpha-to-coverage converts the alpha component output from the pixel shader to a coverage mask.
Easiest to just show it, both screenshots are rendered at 4K and with Very High Anti-Aliasing, rest on almost Lowest versus everything on Highest
Highest
Low
Disabling ATOC makes vegetation see-through, giving you a huge advantage over players who play with it enabled, you can see him, he can't see you. It looks terrible disabled really but it's either that or get killed.
To get the best graphics you simply turn up every setting, and to perform better for your survival, you would want to disable Ambient Occlusion, ATOC and Post-Processing, use any GPU power you had left to increase the rendering resolution to compensate for disabling ATOC, also Clouds enabled actually often darkens the environment (Lighting), so keep that disabled to see better without tampering with brightness and gamma.
Shadows can actually help you in towns, often you can see a players shadow indoors, or sitting on rooftops, but in the forests it's much harder to spot someone, so it depends on the situation, to be sure in most cases it should be disabled.
And this is a huge problem for the game, there are so many settings that makes the game much harder, giving other players that uses lower settings, a huge advantage over you, just because you have a more powerful computer capable of playing with better graphics.
This will probably be solved with the new Renderer, they will be able to force on Shadows for every player like they do Grass (Terrain Quality) right now, same with ATOC, which requires very little performance and could easily be hard-coded into the engine, then everyone would be on the same playing field regardless of computer specifications, as for the blur, that was solved in ArmA 3, what they did was simply to separate the different Post-Processing effects like Bloom, Blur and SSAO, so it will surely happen for DayZ as well. | The game is a mess, but it will be a lot better with the new renderer. |
FearlessBurrito | Okay so, you know how water parks sometimes have a red light/green light system to let you know when the next person can go?
When I was little I went down the slide, only to have a ham take off immediately after me. The duration of the slide was spent looking back at the wobbly, hairy blob of pasty flesh closing in.
And then, there was no more tube. We came out the end above the pool, and gravity did this funny thing where you kinda feel like you're hanging there for a minute before your lateral movement shifts more downward.
So as I'm beginning to fall, Hams McDouche is shooting out of the tube.
I'm hit with the full force of what couldn't have been less than 300 lbs, and that's generous, directly to the back of the head. My ears are ringing, I'm pretty sure I'm facing a concussion, disoriented as I land in the pool and can't find the water's surface because my bell was just thoroughly rung.
Pop above the water just in time see that fat, hairy back exit the fence around the pool.
Tl;dr: got Pacquiao-style KO'd by a hammy on the water slide. | Okay so, you know how water parks sometimes have a red light/green light system to let you know when the next person can go?
When I was little I went down the slide, only to have a ham take off immediately after me. The duration of the slide was spent looking back at the wobbly, hairy blob of pasty flesh closing in.
And then, there was no more tube. We came out the end above the pool, and gravity did this funny thing where you kinda feel like you're hanging there for a minute before your lateral movement shifts more downward.
So as I'm beginning to fall, Hams McDouche is shooting out of the tube.
I'm hit with the full force of what couldn't have been less than 300 lbs, and that's generous, directly to the back of the head. My ears are ringing, I'm pretty sure I'm facing a concussion, disoriented as I land in the pool and can't find the water's surface because my bell was just thoroughly rung.
Pop above the water just in time see that fat, hairy back exit the fence around the pool.
Tl;dr: got Pacquiao-style KO'd by a hammy on the water slide.
| fatlogic | t5_2wyxm | cizph4k | Okay so, you know how water parks sometimes have a red light/green light system to let you know when the next person can go?
When I was little I went down the slide, only to have a ham take off immediately after me. The duration of the slide was spent looking back at the wobbly, hairy blob of pasty flesh closing in.
And then, there was no more tube. We came out the end above the pool, and gravity did this funny thing where you kinda feel like you're hanging there for a minute before your lateral movement shifts more downward.
So as I'm beginning to fall, Hams McDouche is shooting out of the tube.
I'm hit with the full force of what couldn't have been less than 300 lbs, and that's generous, directly to the back of the head. My ears are ringing, I'm pretty sure I'm facing a concussion, disoriented as I land in the pool and can't find the water's surface because my bell was just thoroughly rung.
Pop above the water just in time see that fat, hairy back exit the fence around the pool. | got Pacquiao-style KO'd by a hammy on the water slide. |
animwrangler | I worked for Fry's years and years ago back when I was in high school. For every shitty person at their job there's a person there that actually cares about technology as is just as passionate as most of us here. It was a particually cool job to have while in high school where employment usually was fast food, so you're damn right I was passionate about show tech to people In fact, there's usually several that probably should be working at a higher-paying IT gig who really do know their shit. You just gotta find them.
Now on the flip side, you've got your clueless jerk customers, clueless but nice customers and your know-it-all jerk customers. The last one is seen every day where someone into tech is looking to grill an employee any employee about the tineist details. Funniest story is that I had a 'tech admin at one of the largest firms in the state' yell and curse at me for pointing him to an audio card rather than the video card he wanted (when I did in fact point him to a video card...an off-brand 6600 GT...I think it was BFG brand or something).
TL;DR retail sucks. For the employee and the customer. It just sucks. | I worked for Fry's years and years ago back when I was in high school. For every shitty person at their job there's a person there that actually cares about technology as is just as passionate as most of us here. It was a particually cool job to have while in high school where employment usually was fast food, so you're damn right I was passionate about show tech to people In fact, there's usually several that probably should be working at a higher-paying IT gig who really do know their shit. You just gotta find them.
Now on the flip side, you've got your clueless jerk customers, clueless but nice customers and your know-it-all jerk customers. The last one is seen every day where someone into tech is looking to grill an employee any employee about the tineist details. Funniest story is that I had a 'tech admin at one of the largest firms in the state' yell and curse at me for pointing him to an audio card rather than the video card he wanted (when I did in fact point him to a video card...an off-brand 6600 GT...I think it was BFG brand or something).
TL;DR retail sucks. For the employee and the customer. It just sucks.
| pcmasterrace | t5_2sgp1 | cizesr3 | I worked for Fry's years and years ago back when I was in high school. For every shitty person at their job there's a person there that actually cares about technology as is just as passionate as most of us here. It was a particually cool job to have while in high school where employment usually was fast food, so you're damn right I was passionate about show tech to people In fact, there's usually several that probably should be working at a higher-paying IT gig who really do know their shit. You just gotta find them.
Now on the flip side, you've got your clueless jerk customers, clueless but nice customers and your know-it-all jerk customers. The last one is seen every day where someone into tech is looking to grill an employee any employee about the tineist details. Funniest story is that I had a 'tech admin at one of the largest firms in the state' yell and curse at me for pointing him to an audio card rather than the video card he wanted (when I did in fact point him to a video card...an off-brand 6600 GT...I think it was BFG brand or something). | retail sucks. For the employee and the customer. It just sucks. |
aw305 | I don't really agree with that statement.
Many of these "honor societies" don't really do much and are indeed just interested in getting your money. Fine. Point taken. But it's not exactly difficult to tell which ones are active and which ones are not.
I joined an honor society at State (which I paid $85 for) that hosted meetings with speakers every semester, did service projects on a regular basis, and provided social events for members. It was not NSCS.
To OP, joining an honor society is not about the scholarships. Plenty of other organizations offer those. I can't offer an opinion on NSCS because I'm not a member, but finding those who are is the best way to find out what they do and if you think your time and money are worth it.
My personal advice is to join a departmental/college honor society or professional society instead of a university-wide one.
tl;dr: There are better organizations to join. Best way to decide is to find out if chapter actually does anything besides act as a front for "offering" scholarships. | I don't really agree with that statement.
Many of these "honor societies" don't really do much and are indeed just interested in getting your money. Fine. Point taken. But it's not exactly difficult to tell which ones are active and which ones are not.
I joined an honor society at State (which I paid $85 for) that hosted meetings with speakers every semester, did service projects on a regular basis, and provided social events for members. It was not NSCS.
To OP, joining an honor society is not about the scholarships. Plenty of other organizations offer those. I can't offer an opinion on NSCS because I'm not a member, but finding those who are is the best way to find out what they do and if you think your time and money are worth it.
My personal advice is to join a departmental/college honor society or professional society instead of a university-wide one.
tl;dr: There are better organizations to join. Best way to decide is to find out if chapter actually does anything besides act as a front for "offering" scholarships.
| NCSU | t5_2qsbo | cizpsjh | I don't really agree with that statement.
Many of these "honor societies" don't really do much and are indeed just interested in getting your money. Fine. Point taken. But it's not exactly difficult to tell which ones are active and which ones are not.
I joined an honor society at State (which I paid $85 for) that hosted meetings with speakers every semester, did service projects on a regular basis, and provided social events for members. It was not NSCS.
To OP, joining an honor society is not about the scholarships. Plenty of other organizations offer those. I can't offer an opinion on NSCS because I'm not a member, but finding those who are is the best way to find out what they do and if you think your time and money are worth it.
My personal advice is to join a departmental/college honor society or professional society instead of a university-wide one. | There are better organizations to join. Best way to decide is to find out if chapter actually does anything besides act as a front for "offering" scholarships. |
nullkraft | I fully understand. I went wayyyyyyyyyyyy outside my comfort zone and actually had to type "technical article ms-2258" into that google search thingy to find the pdf. Thanks be to the Almighty that it was the very first link at the top or I would have never found the pdf. Whew! I just don't know if I could have scrolled down even one more link.
tldr: Analog.com are getting extremely tricky at hiding their articles! | I fully understand. I went wayyyyyyyyyyyy outside my comfort zone and actually had to type "technical article ms-2258" into that google search thingy to find the pdf. Thanks be to the Almighty that it was the very first link at the top or I would have never found the pdf. Whew! I just don't know if I could have scrolled down even one more link.
tldr: Analog.com are getting extremely tricky at hiding their articles!
| electronics | t5_2qhue | cizx4wg | I fully understand. I went wayyyyyyyyyyyy outside my comfort zone and actually had to type "technical article ms-2258" into that google search thingy to find the pdf. Thanks be to the Almighty that it was the very first link at the top or I would have never found the pdf. Whew! I just don't know if I could have scrolled down even one more link. | Analog.com are getting extremely tricky at hiding their articles! |
cellardoor3 | My story is also similar to his. Brilliantly written, but I wish he hadn't referred to his ex as adulterous. True though it might be, the constant reference distracts from the more important issue: the systemic misandry fomented by decades of feminist activism. Again, I completely understand his anger, but attacking his ex in this way (no matter how much she may deserve it) only feeds the feminist MRA critics who dismiss us as bitter divorced men. In this way they frame our anger as hatred against our exes, when in fact the real outrage is the inequity feminists have built into the family and criminal courts.
tl;dr: drop the ad hominem and leave the focus on the injustice resulting from institutional and cultural misandry | My story is also similar to his. Brilliantly written, but I wish he hadn't referred to his ex as adulterous. True though it might be, the constant reference distracts from the more important issue: the systemic misandry fomented by decades of feminist activism. Again, I completely understand his anger, but attacking his ex in this way (no matter how much she may deserve it) only feeds the feminist MRA critics who dismiss us as bitter divorced men. In this way they frame our anger as hatred against our exes, when in fact the real outrage is the inequity feminists have built into the family and criminal courts.
tl;dr: drop the ad hominem and leave the focus on the injustice resulting from institutional and cultural misandry
| MensRights | t5_2qhk3 | cj0qynr | My story is also similar to his. Brilliantly written, but I wish he hadn't referred to his ex as adulterous. True though it might be, the constant reference distracts from the more important issue: the systemic misandry fomented by decades of feminist activism. Again, I completely understand his anger, but attacking his ex in this way (no matter how much she may deserve it) only feeds the feminist MRA critics who dismiss us as bitter divorced men. In this way they frame our anger as hatred against our exes, when in fact the real outrage is the inequity feminists have built into the family and criminal courts. | drop the ad hominem and leave the focus on the injustice resulting from institutional and cultural misandry |
BronwynMaye | I think I understand why you didn't get any responses last time and why you'll have trouble again. A block of text with vague queries dotted inside the narrative is not easy to parse. Why not edit your post with the following text as a TLDR:
> I need suggestions for long-sleeved tops to pair with loose, linen, trousers. For context, I'm wearing this outfit to __ and the goal is to not look frumpy. | I think I understand why you didn't get any responses last time and why you'll have trouble again. A block of text with vague queries dotted inside the narrative is not easy to parse. Why not edit your post with the following text as a TLDR:
> I need suggestions for long-sleeved tops to pair with loose, linen, trousers. For context, I'm wearing this outfit to __ and the goal is to not look frumpy.
| femalefashionadvice | t5_2s8o5 | cj0b48d | I think I understand why you didn't get any responses last time and why you'll have trouble again. A block of text with vague queries dotted inside the narrative is not easy to parse. Why not edit your post with the following text as a | I need suggestions for long-sleeved tops to pair with loose, linen, trousers. For context, I'm wearing this outfit to __ and the goal is to not look frumpy. |
Stellaaahhhh | I'm not lamamaloca, and I was brought up Baptist instead of Catholic, but my husband and I enjoy similar shenanigans, so I'll answer anyway.
Aside from the always awesome stimulation of knowing that what you're doing is driving your partner insane in a good way, there's the dominance aspect, the "this is soooo frowned upon by society but it feels so right" aspect, and the actual physical pressure on your pubic bone when thrusting.
tl/dr; You're very mistaken. Women get all sorts of stimulation out of it. | I'm not lamamaloca, and I was brought up Baptist instead of Catholic, but my husband and I enjoy similar shenanigans, so I'll answer anyway.
Aside from the always awesome stimulation of knowing that what you're doing is driving your partner insane in a good way, there's the dominance aspect, the "this is soooo frowned upon by society but it feels so right" aspect, and the actual physical pressure on your pubic bone when thrusting.
tl/dr; You're very mistaken. Women get all sorts of stimulation out of it.
| AskMen | t5_2s30g | cj0ym07 | I'm not lamamaloca, and I was brought up Baptist instead of Catholic, but my husband and I enjoy similar shenanigans, so I'll answer anyway.
Aside from the always awesome stimulation of knowing that what you're doing is driving your partner insane in a good way, there's the dominance aspect, the "this is soooo frowned upon by society but it feels so right" aspect, and the actual physical pressure on your pubic bone when thrusting. | You're very mistaken. Women get all sorts of stimulation out of it. |
Salsadips | Short answer: yes
Long answer: Yessssssss
Tldr: yes | Short answer: yes
Long answer: Yessssssss
Tldr: yes
| AskMen | t5_2s30g | cj0s9lu | Short answer: yes
Long answer: Yessssssss | yes |
dovercliff | I've said it before; the core principle of feminism - equality between the sexes - I'm totally behind. There's no rational reason to enforce an inequality, and doing so pointlessly and uselessly cripples our society (plus I'm not a monstrous raging misogynist).
The problem for me is that the actions and conduct of a great many feminists (from that [1 in 5 falsehood]( to [the insulting 10% M&Ms and #YesAllWomen]( to the [way women's groups in India campaigned to have rape a crime that only men can commit]( to [the trans issues]( to the way they treat male victims of sexual assault [including mysef]) has alienated me from the movement, and I will not go back. It's not feminism (the principle as defined by the dictionary), it's Feminism (the movement - especially the forms that are hostile towards men and/or trans people, carry a saviour complex, or are contemptuous of ethnic minorities). There are a few reactions to this when I bring it up.
The first is being accused of misogyny or sexism or the levelling of some other irrelevant attack on my character in order to shut me up or change the discussion. Often this comes with listing feminism's past achievements and implying I'm against those and want women back in the kitchen, barefoot, and pregnant (actually, as a gay man, I have very little interest in what women get up to with themselves). In a few cases it came with a side order of victim-blaming, which was charming.
The second is "No True Scotsman" - sorry, but no. Grow up and own your black sheep; the radqueer SJWs might be horrible people, but I'm not going to distance myself by saying "oh, but they're not *real* homosexuals!" No; I'll say "they're horrible people who happen to be homosexuals; please don't think we're all like that" and own the black sheep of my family. Feminists ([with some very rare exceptions]( seem allergic to this, and frankly that's contemptible. It's the same reprehensible sophistry you get from Christians who try to distance themselves from homophobic Churches by saying "they're not *real* Christians" - I'm sorry, but [yes, they are]( and the Christians who own their black sheep by saying "yeah, horrible people can be Christians; as a fellow Christian, I'm sorry about that. We're not all like that - I'm not like that" are the ones I can respect. The very occasional feminist I encounter who can do the same, is one I can respect; but the movement, no. It provides far too much shelter for the bigots (much like those Churches).
The third is an attempt to deflect criticism by talking about how bad other movements are as if I care; this isn't about them, so don't change the subject.
The fourth is going off on a tangent, by talking about the past achievements of feminism, or trying to claim that the only way to solve [major social issue here] is through feminism, and therefore feminism is a great and holy thing beyond any criticism (and by extension, so are its acolytes). Again, this isn't about that, so don't change the subject (and don't ride in on your white horse to rescue the poor little gays/ethnic minorities/men from their troubles - no-one likes a person with a saviour complex).
Rarest of all is when I encounter a feminist who does the inverse of the second response; the ones who say "yeah, we've got some nasty shit in our movement. I'm sorry. I'm not like that." I'm sorry to say that, when it comes to Feminism, that response is sadly lacking on the whole.
TL:DR; it's not *feminism* that I have a problem with - it's that too many feminists have acted in such a way that I want nothing to do with them, that label, or their movement of Feminism. Leave me out of it. | I've said it before; the core principle of feminism - equality between the sexes - I'm totally behind. There's no rational reason to enforce an inequality, and doing so pointlessly and uselessly cripples our society (plus I'm not a monstrous raging misogynist).
The problem for me is that the actions and conduct of a great many feminists (from that 1 in 5 falsehood has alienated me from the movement, and I will not go back. It's not feminism (the principle as defined by the dictionary), it's Feminism (the movement - especially the forms that are hostile towards men and/or trans people, carry a saviour complex, or are contemptuous of ethnic minorities). There are a few reactions to this when I bring it up.
The first is being accused of misogyny or sexism or the levelling of some other irrelevant attack on my character in order to shut me up or change the discussion. Often this comes with listing feminism's past achievements and implying I'm against those and want women back in the kitchen, barefoot, and pregnant (actually, as a gay man, I have very little interest in what women get up to with themselves). In a few cases it came with a side order of victim-blaming, which was charming.
The second is "No True Scotsman" - sorry, but no. Grow up and own your black sheep; the radqueer SJWs might be horrible people, but I'm not going to distance myself by saying "oh, but they're not real homosexuals!" No; I'll say "they're horrible people who happen to be homosexuals; please don't think we're all like that" and own the black sheep of my family. Feminists ( with some very rare exceptions .
The third is an attempt to deflect criticism by talking about how bad other movements are as if I care; this isn't about them, so don't change the subject.
The fourth is going off on a tangent, by talking about the past achievements of feminism, or trying to claim that the only way to solve [major social issue here] is through feminism, and therefore feminism is a great and holy thing beyond any criticism (and by extension, so are its acolytes). Again, this isn't about that, so don't change the subject (and don't ride in on your white horse to rescue the poor little gays/ethnic minorities/men from their troubles - no-one likes a person with a saviour complex).
Rarest of all is when I encounter a feminist who does the inverse of the second response; the ones who say "yeah, we've got some nasty shit in our movement. I'm sorry. I'm not like that." I'm sorry to say that, when it comes to Feminism, that response is sadly lacking on the whole.
TL:DR; it's not feminism that I have a problem with - it's that too many feminists have acted in such a way that I want nothing to do with them, that label, or their movement of Feminism. Leave me out of it.
| TiADiscussion | t5_2zsos | cj0rfmf | I've said it before; the core principle of feminism - equality between the sexes - I'm totally behind. There's no rational reason to enforce an inequality, and doing so pointlessly and uselessly cripples our society (plus I'm not a monstrous raging misogynist).
The problem for me is that the actions and conduct of a great many feminists (from that 1 in 5 falsehood has alienated me from the movement, and I will not go back. It's not feminism (the principle as defined by the dictionary), it's Feminism (the movement - especially the forms that are hostile towards men and/or trans people, carry a saviour complex, or are contemptuous of ethnic minorities). There are a few reactions to this when I bring it up.
The first is being accused of misogyny or sexism or the levelling of some other irrelevant attack on my character in order to shut me up or change the discussion. Often this comes with listing feminism's past achievements and implying I'm against those and want women back in the kitchen, barefoot, and pregnant (actually, as a gay man, I have very little interest in what women get up to with themselves). In a few cases it came with a side order of victim-blaming, which was charming.
The second is "No True Scotsman" - sorry, but no. Grow up and own your black sheep; the radqueer SJWs might be horrible people, but I'm not going to distance myself by saying "oh, but they're not real homosexuals!" No; I'll say "they're horrible people who happen to be homosexuals; please don't think we're all like that" and own the black sheep of my family. Feminists ( with some very rare exceptions .
The third is an attempt to deflect criticism by talking about how bad other movements are as if I care; this isn't about them, so don't change the subject.
The fourth is going off on a tangent, by talking about the past achievements of feminism, or trying to claim that the only way to solve [major social issue here] is through feminism, and therefore feminism is a great and holy thing beyond any criticism (and by extension, so are its acolytes). Again, this isn't about that, so don't change the subject (and don't ride in on your white horse to rescue the poor little gays/ethnic minorities/men from their troubles - no-one likes a person with a saviour complex).
Rarest of all is when I encounter a feminist who does the inverse of the second response; the ones who say "yeah, we've got some nasty shit in our movement. I'm sorry. I'm not like that." I'm sorry to say that, when it comes to Feminism, that response is sadly lacking on the whole. | it's not feminism that I have a problem with - it's that too many feminists have acted in such a way that I want nothing to do with them, that label, or their movement of Feminism. Leave me out of it. |
sdlotu | I recently (last May) stayed in a hotel in Amsterdam where the sink was rectangular in shape, almost completely flat on the bottom, and no more than 3 inches deep. The inflow pipe perched up above the sink almost a foot. In addition, there was a long narrow slot in the bottom which was completely impossible to block, and no internal stopper that could be used.
As a result, to shave I had to turn the water on and off every time I wanted to rinse my blade, and to wash my face I had to turn the water on and leave it on.
The result of the repeated cycling of the water into the flat bottom sink was splashing water in all directions even before I inserted my hands or blade. Water temperature would fluctuate from hot to cold and back again as I turned the flow off and on every time I needed more water. Waste from my shave cream and body soap collected very efficiently in the corners, and would not reliably rinse out without work.
TL;DR: Flat shallow sinks with no-stop drains and high mounted pipes are a ridiculous waste of water, inherently 'splashy', accumulate waste in the corners and create much more complex wash-up processes. They're just stupid. | I recently (last May) stayed in a hotel in Amsterdam where the sink was rectangular in shape, almost completely flat on the bottom, and no more than 3 inches deep. The inflow pipe perched up above the sink almost a foot. In addition, there was a long narrow slot in the bottom which was completely impossible to block, and no internal stopper that could be used.
As a result, to shave I had to turn the water on and off every time I wanted to rinse my blade, and to wash my face I had to turn the water on and leave it on.
The result of the repeated cycling of the water into the flat bottom sink was splashing water in all directions even before I inserted my hands or blade. Water temperature would fluctuate from hot to cold and back again as I turned the flow off and on every time I needed more water. Waste from my shave cream and body soap collected very efficiently in the corners, and would not reliably rinse out without work.
TL;DR: Flat shallow sinks with no-stop drains and high mounted pipes are a ridiculous waste of water, inherently 'splashy', accumulate waste in the corners and create much more complex wash-up processes. They're just stupid.
| pics | t5_2qh0u | cj16v2c | I recently (last May) stayed in a hotel in Amsterdam where the sink was rectangular in shape, almost completely flat on the bottom, and no more than 3 inches deep. The inflow pipe perched up above the sink almost a foot. In addition, there was a long narrow slot in the bottom which was completely impossible to block, and no internal stopper that could be used.
As a result, to shave I had to turn the water on and off every time I wanted to rinse my blade, and to wash my face I had to turn the water on and leave it on.
The result of the repeated cycling of the water into the flat bottom sink was splashing water in all directions even before I inserted my hands or blade. Water temperature would fluctuate from hot to cold and back again as I turned the flow off and on every time I needed more water. Waste from my shave cream and body soap collected very efficiently in the corners, and would not reliably rinse out without work. | Flat shallow sinks with no-stop drains and high mounted pipes are a ridiculous waste of water, inherently 'splashy', accumulate waste in the corners and create much more complex wash-up processes. They're just stupid. |
FlounderTown | Dude - congratulations, gets easier as you go but you will for sure get strong cravings for months and probably forever, they just space out more the longer you go.
Quick advice, if you want any: Been addicted to tobacco almost 10 years (holy shit...) now, mostly dip. Have quit 3 separate occasions between 6-12 months. EVERY time I get back on it is cuz I visit my old buddies at a bachelor party or wedding or some drunk fest. I get shitty, tell myself, just one for old-time sake. Then a week later I'm like, that was good and I'll try one more. Then a 2 days later, that was good. Then 2 weeks later I'm full-on again. Don't do that.
TL;DR It's a slippery fucking slope. Fight those triggers and fight 'em hard!!!!
| Dude - congratulations, gets easier as you go but you will for sure get strong cravings for months and probably forever, they just space out more the longer you go.
Quick advice, if you want any: Been addicted to tobacco almost 10 years (holy shit...) now, mostly dip. Have quit 3 separate occasions between 6-12 months. EVERY time I get back on it is cuz I visit my old buddies at a bachelor party or wedding or some drunk fest. I get shitty, tell myself, just one for old-time sake. Then a week later I'm like, that was good and I'll try one more. Then a 2 days later, that was good. Then 2 weeks later I'm full-on again. Don't do that.
TL;DR It's a slippery fucking slope. Fight those triggers and fight 'em hard!!!!
| CFB | t5_2qm9d | cj0z792 | Dude - congratulations, gets easier as you go but you will for sure get strong cravings for months and probably forever, they just space out more the longer you go.
Quick advice, if you want any: Been addicted to tobacco almost 10 years (holy shit...) now, mostly dip. Have quit 3 separate occasions between 6-12 months. EVERY time I get back on it is cuz I visit my old buddies at a bachelor party or wedding or some drunk fest. I get shitty, tell myself, just one for old-time sake. Then a week later I'm like, that was good and I'll try one more. Then a 2 days later, that was good. Then 2 weeks later I'm full-on again. Don't do that. | It's a slippery fucking slope. Fight those triggers and fight 'em hard!!!! |
XTC-FTW | It's actually on Quinpool Road which is in the city of Halifax which is in Nova Scotia which is in Canada
TL;DR: Canada | It's actually on Quinpool Road which is in the city of Halifax which is in Nova Scotia which is in Canada
TL;DR: Canada
| funny | t5_2qh33 | cj18i4x | It's actually on Quinpool Road which is in the city of Halifax which is in Nova Scotia which is in Canada | Canada |
OzaxxWashington | This was a dilemma for me as well. I started playing baseball/hockey/anything with a stick or bat left handed as a kid. My Dad's reasoning was that I was right eye dominant, so I would see a pitch coming from a pitcher better batting left handed. A few years ago, I attempted to pick up golf and decided to try right handed. I had a terrible slice, and I dropped it pretty quickly. A few years later I bought a left handed set of clubs, and really couldn't make great contact. Then about 3 months ago I got a new set of righty clubs, and I worked on my slice like any other golfer. I've found out that I get more power swinging righty then I do lefty (funny enough this goes for softball/baseball as well). I still play softball, and bat left-handed but I don't think it messes with my swing (as I play golf right-handed). That's just my story, and I think it'll be whatever feels the most comfortable for you.
tl;dr ended up playing right-handed, and just had to put in extra work. | This was a dilemma for me as well. I started playing baseball/hockey/anything with a stick or bat left handed as a kid. My Dad's reasoning was that I was right eye dominant, so I would see a pitch coming from a pitcher better batting left handed. A few years ago, I attempted to pick up golf and decided to try right handed. I had a terrible slice, and I dropped it pretty quickly. A few years later I bought a left handed set of clubs, and really couldn't make great contact. Then about 3 months ago I got a new set of righty clubs, and I worked on my slice like any other golfer. I've found out that I get more power swinging righty then I do lefty (funny enough this goes for softball/baseball as well). I still play softball, and bat left-handed but I don't think it messes with my swing (as I play golf right-handed). That's just my story, and I think it'll be whatever feels the most comfortable for you.
tl;dr ended up playing right-handed, and just had to put in extra work.
| golf | t5_2qhcs | cj19uay | This was a dilemma for me as well. I started playing baseball/hockey/anything with a stick or bat left handed as a kid. My Dad's reasoning was that I was right eye dominant, so I would see a pitch coming from a pitcher better batting left handed. A few years ago, I attempted to pick up golf and decided to try right handed. I had a terrible slice, and I dropped it pretty quickly. A few years later I bought a left handed set of clubs, and really couldn't make great contact. Then about 3 months ago I got a new set of righty clubs, and I worked on my slice like any other golfer. I've found out that I get more power swinging righty then I do lefty (funny enough this goes for softball/baseball as well). I still play softball, and bat left-handed but I don't think it messes with my swing (as I play golf right-handed). That's just my story, and I think it'll be whatever feels the most comfortable for you. | ended up playing right-handed, and just had to put in extra work. |
John_Walter_Wayland | You do realize that there are a bunch of universities in every state, right? Naming the first eight you can think of off the top of your head doesn't really prove anything. Also, private universities don't really factor into a discussion of the quality of a state's publicly funded education, so Duke, Elon, and Wake Forrest are all out. Your best argument here is UNC Chapel Hill, which US News and World Report ranked 5th among public universities (behind Virginia) and 30th overall for 2014 (I realize their methodology has some debatable flaws, but it's a commonly cited ranking and serves as an okay indicator).
Universities, mind you, are tangent to the comment on education at the high school level and lower, with completely different standards of education, hiring practices, etcetera. Furthermore, many college students attend a school out of state. Therefor, when discussing how well educated any particular state is, unless we look at a census of the population's education, I argue it would be best to look at the state's public K-12 education.
The American Legislative Exchange Council's Report Card on American Education < ranks North Carolina's K-12 education 7th nationally, behind Massachusetts, Vermont, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island (Colorado ranked above NC as well, but you only claimed that NC was one of the best educated sates on the East Coast, so it's beside the point). Moreover, the NEA's 2013-2014 study of K-12 education statistics < found that NC experienced the highest decrease in average teacher salary, plummeting 15% after inflation, which is a warning sign that the quality of education will drop going forward.
Thus, I argue that, while North Carolina is probably the best educated state in the South, it's not one of the best educated states on the East Coast (unless you broaden that category to include the top 6, which seems too large for the word "best" to act as a descriptor).
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Tl;dr. NC is possibly the best educated state in the south, but the state is by no means one of the best educated states on the East Coast | You do realize that there are a bunch of universities in every state, right? Naming the first eight you can think of off the top of your head doesn't really prove anything. Also, private universities don't really factor into a discussion of the quality of a state's publicly funded education, so Duke, Elon, and Wake Forrest are all out. Your best argument here is UNC Chapel Hill, which US News and World Report ranked 5th among public universities (behind Virginia) and 30th overall for 2014 (I realize their methodology has some debatable flaws, but it's a commonly cited ranking and serves as an okay indicator).
Universities, mind you, are tangent to the comment on education at the high school level and lower, with completely different standards of education, hiring practices, etcetera. Furthermore, many college students attend a school out of state. Therefor, when discussing how well educated any particular state is, unless we look at a census of the population's education, I argue it would be best to look at the state's public K-12 education.
The American Legislative Exchange Council's Report Card on American Education < ranks North Carolina's K-12 education 7th nationally, behind Massachusetts, Vermont, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island (Colorado ranked above NC as well, but you only claimed that NC was one of the best educated sates on the East Coast, so it's beside the point). Moreover, the NEA's 2013-2014 study of K-12 education statistics < found that NC experienced the highest decrease in average teacher salary, plummeting 15% after inflation, which is a warning sign that the quality of education will drop going forward.
Thus, I argue that, while North Carolina is probably the best educated state in the South, it's not one of the best educated states on the East Coast (unless you broaden that category to include the top 6, which seems too large for the word "best" to act as a descriptor).
Edit:
Tl;dr. NC is possibly the best educated state in the south, but the state is by no means one of the best educated states on the East Coast
| funny | t5_2qh33 | cj1evib | You do realize that there are a bunch of universities in every state, right? Naming the first eight you can think of off the top of your head doesn't really prove anything. Also, private universities don't really factor into a discussion of the quality of a state's publicly funded education, so Duke, Elon, and Wake Forrest are all out. Your best argument here is UNC Chapel Hill, which US News and World Report ranked 5th among public universities (behind Virginia) and 30th overall for 2014 (I realize their methodology has some debatable flaws, but it's a commonly cited ranking and serves as an okay indicator).
Universities, mind you, are tangent to the comment on education at the high school level and lower, with completely different standards of education, hiring practices, etcetera. Furthermore, many college students attend a school out of state. Therefor, when discussing how well educated any particular state is, unless we look at a census of the population's education, I argue it would be best to look at the state's public K-12 education.
The American Legislative Exchange Council's Report Card on American Education < ranks North Carolina's K-12 education 7th nationally, behind Massachusetts, Vermont, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island (Colorado ranked above NC as well, but you only claimed that NC was one of the best educated sates on the East Coast, so it's beside the point). Moreover, the NEA's 2013-2014 study of K-12 education statistics < found that NC experienced the highest decrease in average teacher salary, plummeting 15% after inflation, which is a warning sign that the quality of education will drop going forward.
Thus, I argue that, while North Carolina is probably the best educated state in the South, it's not one of the best educated states on the East Coast (unless you broaden that category to include the top 6, which seems too large for the word "best" to act as a descriptor).
Edit: | NC is possibly the best educated state in the south, but the state is by no means one of the best educated states on the East Coast |
egamma | Like I said, I think the real cause of a lot of violence was caused by brain damage caused by the emissions of leaded gasoline engines.
Looking at the actual murder rate, which the link I provided shows, you can see that there's absolutely no evidence that video games have increased the murder rate, since the murder rate has decreased while playing video games has increased. For video games to have even a chance of increasing the murder rate, you'd have to see the murder rate increasing. We're seeing the murder rate decreasing.
TL;DR: graph doesn't prove that video games decrease violence. graph does prove that video games don't increase violence. | Like I said, I think the real cause of a lot of violence was caused by brain damage caused by the emissions of leaded gasoline engines.
Looking at the actual murder rate, which the link I provided shows, you can see that there's absolutely no evidence that video games have increased the murder rate, since the murder rate has decreased while playing video games has increased. For video games to have even a chance of increasing the murder rate, you'd have to see the murder rate increasing. We're seeing the murder rate decreasing.
TL;DR: graph doesn't prove that video games decrease violence. graph does prove that video games don't increase violence.
| DnD | t5_2r9ei | cj1vuc8 | Like I said, I think the real cause of a lot of violence was caused by brain damage caused by the emissions of leaded gasoline engines.
Looking at the actual murder rate, which the link I provided shows, you can see that there's absolutely no evidence that video games have increased the murder rate, since the murder rate has decreased while playing video games has increased. For video games to have even a chance of increasing the murder rate, you'd have to see the murder rate increasing. We're seeing the murder rate decreasing. | graph doesn't prove that video games decrease violence. graph does prove that video games don't increase violence. |
Ciryandor | People have already completely forgotten that this is nearly the same team that fell victim to Na'vi's fountain hooks. Add Director8 the old LGD set up man and you have the team that is poised to claim what was taken from them last year.
TL;DR Casters and Analysts have not hyped NewBee as a story. | People have already completely forgotten that this is nearly the same team that fell victim to Na'vi's fountain hooks. Add Director8 the old LGD set up man and you have the team that is poised to claim what was taken from them last year.
TL;DR Casters and Analysts have not hyped NewBee as a story.
| DotA2 | t5_2s580 | cj1p988 | People have already completely forgotten that this is nearly the same team that fell victim to Na'vi's fountain hooks. Add Director8 the old LGD set up man and you have the team that is poised to claim what was taken from them last year. | Casters and Analysts have not hyped NewBee as a story. |
UnholyAngel | I think the format just needs to not have the entire upper bracket be played first. Play the round one games on the first day and then play through the lower bracket.
The big problem is that the upper bracket finals just don't feel like they have any stakes yet. You don't know who you'll face so you aren't scared of facing any specific team in the lower bracket finals. Even if you lose you're still only two matches away from the finals, and one of those is a rematch. At worst you'll end up in third place, which is still an extremely good result.
Another big factor here is preparation. The teams have a huge incentive to practice for their first match because it's so important. If you win your first match you're only one game away from the finals and even have a second chance. If you lose your first match you need to win three games in a row to reach the finals.
So this ends up resulting in teams not caring about the upper bracket finals that match, so they don't have to play with as much drive and they don't need to focus on practicing. This was very apparent in the games today because EG was clearly completely unprepared for Newbee, while they had very new strategies for beating DK.
TL;DR: Upper bracket finals don't affect much compared to other matches, and teams won't prepare for it. Leads to bad dota that doesn't even mean anything. | I think the format just needs to not have the entire upper bracket be played first. Play the round one games on the first day and then play through the lower bracket.
The big problem is that the upper bracket finals just don't feel like they have any stakes yet. You don't know who you'll face so you aren't scared of facing any specific team in the lower bracket finals. Even if you lose you're still only two matches away from the finals, and one of those is a rematch. At worst you'll end up in third place, which is still an extremely good result.
Another big factor here is preparation. The teams have a huge incentive to practice for their first match because it's so important. If you win your first match you're only one game away from the finals and even have a second chance. If you lose your first match you need to win three games in a row to reach the finals.
So this ends up resulting in teams not caring about the upper bracket finals that match, so they don't have to play with as much drive and they don't need to focus on practicing. This was very apparent in the games today because EG was clearly completely unprepared for Newbee, while they had very new strategies for beating DK.
TL;DR: Upper bracket finals don't affect much compared to other matches, and teams won't prepare for it. Leads to bad dota that doesn't even mean anything.
| DotA2 | t5_2s580 | cj1gzg1 | I think the format just needs to not have the entire upper bracket be played first. Play the round one games on the first day and then play through the lower bracket.
The big problem is that the upper bracket finals just don't feel like they have any stakes yet. You don't know who you'll face so you aren't scared of facing any specific team in the lower bracket finals. Even if you lose you're still only two matches away from the finals, and one of those is a rematch. At worst you'll end up in third place, which is still an extremely good result.
Another big factor here is preparation. The teams have a huge incentive to practice for their first match because it's so important. If you win your first match you're only one game away from the finals and even have a second chance. If you lose your first match you need to win three games in a row to reach the finals.
So this ends up resulting in teams not caring about the upper bracket finals that match, so they don't have to play with as much drive and they don't need to focus on practicing. This was very apparent in the games today because EG was clearly completely unprepared for Newbee, while they had very new strategies for beating DK. | Upper bracket finals don't affect much compared to other matches, and teams won't prepare for it. Leads to bad dota that doesn't even mean anything. |
Narayume | Just want to say - you are not alone. My boyfriend identified as asexual with an aesthetic preference for men...until an alcohol fuelled make out session with me (I'm female) left him utterly confused. He still isn't attracted to girls in general other than his girlfriend, who he is hoping to marry. In the LGBT scene I found may be 1/50 saying the same thing. A girl in friends with says she is straight - she just really lives her girlfriend of five years. Another always identified as very gay indeed and had been with her ex girlfriend for many years before they sadly broke up. To everyone's shock she emerged from the resulting crisis two years later with a boyfriend. Now that boyfriend is a husband, and they say "ogling sexy females is a hobby they share".
Anyway, what I am trying to say is you are not alone with being attracted to one member of you generally not preferred gender. No clue why it happens, but it does. I mean I am happy, because I got an awesome boyfriend out of it. :P
TL;DR: You are not alone. If you have been around the LGBT block a few times you find this story over and over again. It is rare, but by no means unique. So don't stress yourself on that score. | Just want to say - you are not alone. My boyfriend identified as asexual with an aesthetic preference for men...until an alcohol fuelled make out session with me (I'm female) left him utterly confused. He still isn't attracted to girls in general other than his girlfriend, who he is hoping to marry. In the LGBT scene I found may be 1/50 saying the same thing. A girl in friends with says she is straight - she just really lives her girlfriend of five years. Another always identified as very gay indeed and had been with her ex girlfriend for many years before they sadly broke up. To everyone's shock she emerged from the resulting crisis two years later with a boyfriend. Now that boyfriend is a husband, and they say "ogling sexy females is a hobby they share".
Anyway, what I am trying to say is you are not alone with being attracted to one member of you generally not preferred gender. No clue why it happens, but it does. I mean I am happy, because I got an awesome boyfriend out of it. :P
TL;DR: You are not alone. If you have been around the LGBT block a few times you find this story over and over again. It is rare, but by no means unique. So don't stress yourself on that score.
| sex | t5_2qh3p | cj1tx4m | Just want to say - you are not alone. My boyfriend identified as asexual with an aesthetic preference for men...until an alcohol fuelled make out session with me (I'm female) left him utterly confused. He still isn't attracted to girls in general other than his girlfriend, who he is hoping to marry. In the LGBT scene I found may be 1/50 saying the same thing. A girl in friends with says she is straight - she just really lives her girlfriend of five years. Another always identified as very gay indeed and had been with her ex girlfriend for many years before they sadly broke up. To everyone's shock she emerged from the resulting crisis two years later with a boyfriend. Now that boyfriend is a husband, and they say "ogling sexy females is a hobby they share".
Anyway, what I am trying to say is you are not alone with being attracted to one member of you generally not preferred gender. No clue why it happens, but it does. I mean I am happy, because I got an awesome boyfriend out of it. :P | You are not alone. If you have been around the LGBT block a few times you find this story over and over again. It is rare, but by no means unique. So don't stress yourself on that score. |
NoOneWhoMatters | It depends on the person, and more specifically what your definition of needing them is. I recently had braces put on again after three years without them. I wore my retainer every night, but my teeth still shifted enough through my growth that I ended up with a slight underbite, requiring me to use them again. Teeth are bound to shift *slightly* no matter what you do, but as long as it doesn't get too bad you won't need braces again. There's always a possibility that you might need them, but I wouldn't say it's too likely.
**TLDR**; Probably not. | It depends on the person, and more specifically what your definition of needing them is. I recently had braces put on again after three years without them. I wore my retainer every night, but my teeth still shifted enough through my growth that I ended up with a slight underbite, requiring me to use them again. Teeth are bound to shift slightly no matter what you do, but as long as it doesn't get too bad you won't need braces again. There's always a possibility that you might need them, but I wouldn't say it's too likely.
TLDR ; Probably not.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | cj1lvum | It depends on the person, and more specifically what your definition of needing them is. I recently had braces put on again after three years without them. I wore my retainer every night, but my teeth still shifted enough through my growth that I ended up with a slight underbite, requiring me to use them again. Teeth are bound to shift slightly no matter what you do, but as long as it doesn't get too bad you won't need braces again. There's always a possibility that you might need them, but I wouldn't say it's too likely. | Probably not. |
jrussell424 | I had mono at some point in my teens, as well. Testing in my late twenties saw high levels of Epstein-Barr antibodies, along with high levels of Cytolomegalovirus. I haven't had blood work in years, and I really should, just to find out where my levels stand now.
Anyhow, I sometimes feel overwhelmed with all the unanswered questions. I really wish I had the energy to form a group to survey CFS sufferers. I have so many questions, and I feel like mass data from the patients could really help solve this mess. Here's a list of some of the questions I often ponder:
1. If the majority of us have developed CFS from a virus, what changed? Was it an evolution in the virus?
2. Why a huge explosion of people suddenly susceptible to the virus? Viruses evolve quickly, but have scientist not been able to see any changes?
3. What about the fact that a majority of us relate our onset with EBV, but others don't? Does that mean it's not a change in the virus but a change in *us*? If so, what would cause *so many* people to suddenly have a compromised immune system?
4. Are we all genetically faulty? Or were we exposed to something toxic that messed up our ability to fight off common viruses like EBV?
5. The majority of us have sleep issues, is this the cause or the effect? Mono is known for making a person lethargic, is it continuing to alter energy levels, in turn causing the extreme fatigue we feel?
6. If poor sleep is the cause, and it's not EBV, what happened to our bodies to cause us to struggle with something so vital to normal function and health?
7. Are CFS and Fibro the same disease? I have both, but I gotta say, they feel like the same disease to me. I can look to either community, and find people in one group who have the same symptoms as the other. For me, the diagnosis is interchangeable depending on the day. Some days I hurt more, some days I'm more exhausted. The pain and fatigue are *always* there, though, one just takes a backseat to the other. What is keeping the medical community from joining the two?
I could go on and on, but my brain is starting to revolt :( Maybe as a community, we could start to gather personal anecdotes, like OP, just to get a general sense of everyone's experiences. Obviously it wouldn't be scientific, just informative and maybe comforting. I find it fascinating.
Tl;dr: Sorry, got a little out of control.
Edit: the usual uncooperative brain crap. Tried to clarify. | I had mono at some point in my teens, as well. Testing in my late twenties saw high levels of Epstein-Barr antibodies, along with high levels of Cytolomegalovirus. I haven't had blood work in years, and I really should, just to find out where my levels stand now.
Anyhow, I sometimes feel overwhelmed with all the unanswered questions. I really wish I had the energy to form a group to survey CFS sufferers. I have so many questions, and I feel like mass data from the patients could really help solve this mess. Here's a list of some of the questions I often ponder:
If the majority of us have developed CFS from a virus, what changed? Was it an evolution in the virus?
Why a huge explosion of people suddenly susceptible to the virus? Viruses evolve quickly, but have scientist not been able to see any changes?
What about the fact that a majority of us relate our onset with EBV, but others don't? Does that mean it's not a change in the virus but a change in us ? If so, what would cause so many people to suddenly have a compromised immune system?
Are we all genetically faulty? Or were we exposed to something toxic that messed up our ability to fight off common viruses like EBV?
The majority of us have sleep issues, is this the cause or the effect? Mono is known for making a person lethargic, is it continuing to alter energy levels, in turn causing the extreme fatigue we feel?
If poor sleep is the cause, and it's not EBV, what happened to our bodies to cause us to struggle with something so vital to normal function and health?
Are CFS and Fibro the same disease? I have both, but I gotta say, they feel like the same disease to me. I can look to either community, and find people in one group who have the same symptoms as the other. For me, the diagnosis is interchangeable depending on the day. Some days I hurt more, some days I'm more exhausted. The pain and fatigue are always there, though, one just takes a backseat to the other. What is keeping the medical community from joining the two?
I could go on and on, but my brain is starting to revolt :( Maybe as a community, we could start to gather personal anecdotes, like OP, just to get a general sense of everyone's experiences. Obviously it wouldn't be scientific, just informative and maybe comforting. I find it fascinating.
Tl;dr: Sorry, got a little out of control.
Edit: the usual uncooperative brain crap. Tried to clarify.
| cfs | t5_2r4lw | cj3df0y | I had mono at some point in my teens, as well. Testing in my late twenties saw high levels of Epstein-Barr antibodies, along with high levels of Cytolomegalovirus. I haven't had blood work in years, and I really should, just to find out where my levels stand now.
Anyhow, I sometimes feel overwhelmed with all the unanswered questions. I really wish I had the energy to form a group to survey CFS sufferers. I have so many questions, and I feel like mass data from the patients could really help solve this mess. Here's a list of some of the questions I often ponder:
If the majority of us have developed CFS from a virus, what changed? Was it an evolution in the virus?
Why a huge explosion of people suddenly susceptible to the virus? Viruses evolve quickly, but have scientist not been able to see any changes?
What about the fact that a majority of us relate our onset with EBV, but others don't? Does that mean it's not a change in the virus but a change in us ? If so, what would cause so many people to suddenly have a compromised immune system?
Are we all genetically faulty? Or were we exposed to something toxic that messed up our ability to fight off common viruses like EBV?
The majority of us have sleep issues, is this the cause or the effect? Mono is known for making a person lethargic, is it continuing to alter energy levels, in turn causing the extreme fatigue we feel?
If poor sleep is the cause, and it's not EBV, what happened to our bodies to cause us to struggle with something so vital to normal function and health?
Are CFS and Fibro the same disease? I have both, but I gotta say, they feel like the same disease to me. I can look to either community, and find people in one group who have the same symptoms as the other. For me, the diagnosis is interchangeable depending on the day. Some days I hurt more, some days I'm more exhausted. The pain and fatigue are always there, though, one just takes a backseat to the other. What is keeping the medical community from joining the two?
I could go on and on, but my brain is starting to revolt :( Maybe as a community, we could start to gather personal anecdotes, like OP, just to get a general sense of everyone's experiences. Obviously it wouldn't be scientific, just informative and maybe comforting. I find it fascinating. | Sorry, got a little out of control.
Edit: the usual uncooperative brain crap. Tried to clarify. |
Whoreglore | Your man/men need to feel like youre loving every minute of having them in your mouth. You have to enjoy doing it to do it right, regardless of weak jaw, or small mouth.
I use my hand like an extention of my mouth. As my head goes down, my hand goes down. To your man, it feels like youre deepthoating, without having to actually choke. Keep your hand wet, or youll pull or pinch the skin. I like to use a little lube if my mouth is dry, or try not to swallow my own spit to stop it drying too fast on the upstroke.
Give him a cheeky smile, make pleasured sounds, take your time. Its not a race. A leisurely blow job feels better than a quick gobbie, and your partner will feel better if youre enjoying yourself.
If my mouth is getting tired, I pull back and just run the head of his cock over my wet lips while stroking the shaft. To him it feels like when hes rubbing his cock on the opening of your vagina, but hes also being pleasured with your hand on his shaft. But remember, keep it wet.
As hes getting closer, youll find his balls feel tighter, and come up snuggly to rest under his shaft. If you have quite warm hands, just gently cup them. The heat from your palm will stimulate him a little more. But be careful. A lot of guys have had traumatic experiences with rough ladies and their balls. Test the waters.
Tldr; keep it wet, illusions of deeper throats, dont startle the balls | Your man/men need to feel like youre loving every minute of having them in your mouth. You have to enjoy doing it to do it right, regardless of weak jaw, or small mouth.
I use my hand like an extention of my mouth. As my head goes down, my hand goes down. To your man, it feels like youre deepthoating, without having to actually choke. Keep your hand wet, or youll pull or pinch the skin. I like to use a little lube if my mouth is dry, or try not to swallow my own spit to stop it drying too fast on the upstroke.
Give him a cheeky smile, make pleasured sounds, take your time. Its not a race. A leisurely blow job feels better than a quick gobbie, and your partner will feel better if youre enjoying yourself.
If my mouth is getting tired, I pull back and just run the head of his cock over my wet lips while stroking the shaft. To him it feels like when hes rubbing his cock on the opening of your vagina, but hes also being pleasured with your hand on his shaft. But remember, keep it wet.
As hes getting closer, youll find his balls feel tighter, and come up snuggly to rest under his shaft. If you have quite warm hands, just gently cup them. The heat from your palm will stimulate him a little more. But be careful. A lot of guys have had traumatic experiences with rough ladies and their balls. Test the waters.
Tldr; keep it wet, illusions of deeper throats, dont startle the balls
| sex | t5_2qh3p | cj24f95 | Your man/men need to feel like youre loving every minute of having them in your mouth. You have to enjoy doing it to do it right, regardless of weak jaw, or small mouth.
I use my hand like an extention of my mouth. As my head goes down, my hand goes down. To your man, it feels like youre deepthoating, without having to actually choke. Keep your hand wet, or youll pull or pinch the skin. I like to use a little lube if my mouth is dry, or try not to swallow my own spit to stop it drying too fast on the upstroke.
Give him a cheeky smile, make pleasured sounds, take your time. Its not a race. A leisurely blow job feels better than a quick gobbie, and your partner will feel better if youre enjoying yourself.
If my mouth is getting tired, I pull back and just run the head of his cock over my wet lips while stroking the shaft. To him it feels like when hes rubbing his cock on the opening of your vagina, but hes also being pleasured with your hand on his shaft. But remember, keep it wet.
As hes getting closer, youll find his balls feel tighter, and come up snuggly to rest under his shaft. If you have quite warm hands, just gently cup them. The heat from your palm will stimulate him a little more. But be careful. A lot of guys have had traumatic experiences with rough ladies and their balls. Test the waters. | keep it wet, illusions of deeper throats, dont startle the balls |
Kman3107 | Wow this coomunity is stupid as hell. Ofcourse if you invent something you want the recognition for it. Even if he/she don't deserve to get money, or the champion taken out of the game, he/she still deserves to be recognised as the inventor or whatever you call it.
I get mad reading these stupid comments about OP stealing the idea from dota, or that even if he/she came up with the idea there is no point of mentioning it. I've thought of things hundreds of times that I thought was original only to find that people have thought of it before me, it was still an original idea for me, even though someone got to it before me. If I was a part of making a movie I would be in the credits no matter how small the my part was, same with making games.
TL;DR: Stop being dum community, 2 people can have the same original idea. Give credit where credit is due. (not saying OP should be payed anything) | Wow this coomunity is stupid as hell. Ofcourse if you invent something you want the recognition for it. Even if he/she don't deserve to get money, or the champion taken out of the game, he/she still deserves to be recognised as the inventor or whatever you call it.
I get mad reading these stupid comments about OP stealing the idea from dota, or that even if he/she came up with the idea there is no point of mentioning it. I've thought of things hundreds of times that I thought was original only to find that people have thought of it before me, it was still an original idea for me, even though someone got to it before me. If I was a part of making a movie I would be in the credits no matter how small the my part was, same with making games.
TL;DR: Stop being dum community, 2 people can have the same original idea. Give credit where credit is due. (not saying OP should be payed anything)
| leagueoflegends | t5_2rfxx | cj2gxu8 | Wow this coomunity is stupid as hell. Ofcourse if you invent something you want the recognition for it. Even if he/she don't deserve to get money, or the champion taken out of the game, he/she still deserves to be recognised as the inventor or whatever you call it.
I get mad reading these stupid comments about OP stealing the idea from dota, or that even if he/she came up with the idea there is no point of mentioning it. I've thought of things hundreds of times that I thought was original only to find that people have thought of it before me, it was still an original idea for me, even though someone got to it before me. If I was a part of making a movie I would be in the credits no matter how small the my part was, same with making games. | Stop being dum community, 2 people can have the same original idea. Give credit where credit is due. (not saying OP should be payed anything) |
unlikelypirate | So, I must admit. Part of my strategy to get the phone back was this post. Scaring the employee with a loss of their job and a criminal case was the whole idea. Although, after getting the phone back, I do not think the thief uses reddit.
It was returned today, btw. I had been in good communication with Aldo's, and the management there could not help much, but they were very apt to help where they could. I also had locked the phone with the message of "I know you are an employee of Aldo's and the police are being summoned to you apartment unless you call the Owner of this phone." and of course my phone number.
Today I went to the apartment complex and went door to door talking loudly about giving the thief one chance to return the phone before the police are brought here and that the phone had been tracked here. I mentioned that the restaurant has an idea of who it is and they are waiting on me to confirm that they took the phone before they terminated the employee. No one I talked to was the suspect, but an hour I was there, they called! They said they saw me walking around and didn't know what to do then, but realized they wanted to return the phone to prevent the loss of their job and involving the police. They couldn't use the phone anyways. So, we met up, I got it back, and all is good.
TL:DR; Got the phone back. I still highly recommend the dining experience at Aldo's. I scared the phone thief. Woot! | So, I must admit. Part of my strategy to get the phone back was this post. Scaring the employee with a loss of their job and a criminal case was the whole idea. Although, after getting the phone back, I do not think the thief uses reddit.
It was returned today, btw. I had been in good communication with Aldo's, and the management there could not help much, but they were very apt to help where they could. I also had locked the phone with the message of "I know you are an employee of Aldo's and the police are being summoned to you apartment unless you call the Owner of this phone." and of course my phone number.
Today I went to the apartment complex and went door to door talking loudly about giving the thief one chance to return the phone before the police are brought here and that the phone had been tracked here. I mentioned that the restaurant has an idea of who it is and they are waiting on me to confirm that they took the phone before they terminated the employee. No one I talked to was the suspect, but an hour I was there, they called! They said they saw me walking around and didn't know what to do then, but realized they wanted to return the phone to prevent the loss of their job and involving the police. They couldn't use the phone anyways. So, we met up, I got it back, and all is good.
TL:DR; Got the phone back. I still highly recommend the dining experience at Aldo's. I scared the phone thief. Woot!
| sanantonio | t5_2qqch | cj35y7f | So, I must admit. Part of my strategy to get the phone back was this post. Scaring the employee with a loss of their job and a criminal case was the whole idea. Although, after getting the phone back, I do not think the thief uses reddit.
It was returned today, btw. I had been in good communication with Aldo's, and the management there could not help much, but they were very apt to help where they could. I also had locked the phone with the message of "I know you are an employee of Aldo's and the police are being summoned to you apartment unless you call the Owner of this phone." and of course my phone number.
Today I went to the apartment complex and went door to door talking loudly about giving the thief one chance to return the phone before the police are brought here and that the phone had been tracked here. I mentioned that the restaurant has an idea of who it is and they are waiting on me to confirm that they took the phone before they terminated the employee. No one I talked to was the suspect, but an hour I was there, they called! They said they saw me walking around and didn't know what to do then, but realized they wanted to return the phone to prevent the loss of their job and involving the police. They couldn't use the phone anyways. So, we met up, I got it back, and all is good. | Got the phone back. I still highly recommend the dining experience at Aldo's. I scared the phone thief. Woot! |
BarefootWoodworker | Not that I'm part of Mensa (thinking about joining, though), but it just illustrates that there are different facets of intelligence.
While it isn't exactly real life (though there are some similar instances), think of the move Rainman. Dustin Hoffman played an autistic (maybe savant) that had extremely rapid processing speed when it came to numbers, yet he could barely function.
Intelligence varies all over the spectrum; some people have abstract intelligence, others have logical intelligence, others have emotional intelligence. 122 still (as far as I know) puts you above average for total intelligence; you just happen to be able to process words extremely well.
tl;dr: it just means you're smarter (and gifted) at some things than others. Most people are. | Not that I'm part of Mensa (thinking about joining, though), but it just illustrates that there are different facets of intelligence.
While it isn't exactly real life (though there are some similar instances), think of the move Rainman. Dustin Hoffman played an autistic (maybe savant) that had extremely rapid processing speed when it came to numbers, yet he could barely function.
Intelligence varies all over the spectrum; some people have abstract intelligence, others have logical intelligence, others have emotional intelligence. 122 still (as far as I know) puts you above average for total intelligence; you just happen to be able to process words extremely well.
tl;dr: it just means you're smarter (and gifted) at some things than others. Most people are.
| mensa | t5_2qie6 | cj28lgt | Not that I'm part of Mensa (thinking about joining, though), but it just illustrates that there are different facets of intelligence.
While it isn't exactly real life (though there are some similar instances), think of the move Rainman. Dustin Hoffman played an autistic (maybe savant) that had extremely rapid processing speed when it came to numbers, yet he could barely function.
Intelligence varies all over the spectrum; some people have abstract intelligence, others have logical intelligence, others have emotional intelligence. 122 still (as far as I know) puts you above average for total intelligence; you just happen to be able to process words extremely well. | it just means you're smarter (and gifted) at some things than others. Most people are. |
hoppityhoppity | Hey! I'm glad you were able to be diagnosed fairly early - I was in my mid-twenties & felt so "off" for SO long!
The hair is hormonally impacted. Losing weight, whipping your insulin into shape will likely help. However, as long as your testosterone is elevated, you're going to have hair issues to some degree. Spironolactone is very helpful for many, and systemically reduces your free testosterone (I've also gained a couple cup sizes). You do need to have adequate contraception (Spiro can cause feminization of a fetus), and there are several things to monitor medically (no NSAIDS, stay hydrated, eat less potassium). Also, Spiro can take 9 to 12 months to be fully effective, so don't get discouraged if it's not awesome right off. Vaniqa is a topical cream that reduces hair, and can make laser removal/electrolysis much more effective.
Balancing your hormones is key to the hair (and many of the side effects). However, most ways to do this, including what I mentioned above, will only be effective while you are on the regimen (and the hair comes back in once you stop).
For me, it took Metformin + Birth Control Pills (systemic hormone therapy, essentially) + Mirena (crazy periods, stopped) + Spironolactone (more hair on my head, less on my face!) + low carb to make my hair/skin/everything happy.
Side note: Metformin is usually first line treatment for the insulin resistance. I resisted it initially, but it is kind of crazy what wide-ranging effects excess insulin has (fatigue, dull skin, aggressivenss, crankiness, not to mention the adverse health effects).
tl;dr Losing weight will likely help to some degree, but if you require more assistance to get your body in line (I do), that's okay! Like many chronic conditions, it'll probably take a few tries to find what works for you. | Hey! I'm glad you were able to be diagnosed fairly early - I was in my mid-twenties & felt so "off" for SO long!
The hair is hormonally impacted. Losing weight, whipping your insulin into shape will likely help. However, as long as your testosterone is elevated, you're going to have hair issues to some degree. Spironolactone is very helpful for many, and systemically reduces your free testosterone (I've also gained a couple cup sizes). You do need to have adequate contraception (Spiro can cause feminization of a fetus), and there are several things to monitor medically (no NSAIDS, stay hydrated, eat less potassium). Also, Spiro can take 9 to 12 months to be fully effective, so don't get discouraged if it's not awesome right off. Vaniqa is a topical cream that reduces hair, and can make laser removal/electrolysis much more effective.
Balancing your hormones is key to the hair (and many of the side effects). However, most ways to do this, including what I mentioned above, will only be effective while you are on the regimen (and the hair comes back in once you stop).
For me, it took Metformin + Birth Control Pills (systemic hormone therapy, essentially) + Mirena (crazy periods, stopped) + Spironolactone (more hair on my head, less on my face!) + low carb to make my hair/skin/everything happy.
Side note: Metformin is usually first line treatment for the insulin resistance. I resisted it initially, but it is kind of crazy what wide-ranging effects excess insulin has (fatigue, dull skin, aggressivenss, crankiness, not to mention the adverse health effects).
tl;dr Losing weight will likely help to some degree, but if you require more assistance to get your body in line (I do), that's okay! Like many chronic conditions, it'll probably take a few tries to find what works for you.
| PCOS | t5_2ryc6 | cj2mxi4 | Hey! I'm glad you were able to be diagnosed fairly early - I was in my mid-twenties & felt so "off" for SO long!
The hair is hormonally impacted. Losing weight, whipping your insulin into shape will likely help. However, as long as your testosterone is elevated, you're going to have hair issues to some degree. Spironolactone is very helpful for many, and systemically reduces your free testosterone (I've also gained a couple cup sizes). You do need to have adequate contraception (Spiro can cause feminization of a fetus), and there are several things to monitor medically (no NSAIDS, stay hydrated, eat less potassium). Also, Spiro can take 9 to 12 months to be fully effective, so don't get discouraged if it's not awesome right off. Vaniqa is a topical cream that reduces hair, and can make laser removal/electrolysis much more effective.
Balancing your hormones is key to the hair (and many of the side effects). However, most ways to do this, including what I mentioned above, will only be effective while you are on the regimen (and the hair comes back in once you stop).
For me, it took Metformin + Birth Control Pills (systemic hormone therapy, essentially) + Mirena (crazy periods, stopped) + Spironolactone (more hair on my head, less on my face!) + low carb to make my hair/skin/everything happy.
Side note: Metformin is usually first line treatment for the insulin resistance. I resisted it initially, but it is kind of crazy what wide-ranging effects excess insulin has (fatigue, dull skin, aggressivenss, crankiness, not to mention the adverse health effects). | Losing weight will likely help to some degree, but if you require more assistance to get your body in line (I do), that's okay! Like many chronic conditions, it'll probably take a few tries to find what works for you. |
99outofahundred | I have a 2 year old broccoli-fiend. I was doing the /r/keto diet in the first year of his life to lose the baby weight, and somehow broccoli now tops the most-desirable food list, maybe because it's what he saw on my plate all the time.
Where it is really inconvenient is that for nearly a year I didn't keep pasta in the house, and now he won't eat it. If you ever get a meal at the home of another small child, it will almost always be pasta... There have been a few times I've had to cut short our visit and take him home and feed him something else. I made a chicken broccoli and pasta bake once for us all to eat together as a family; little rascal ate all the broccoli first, then the ckicken, then threw the rest of the pasta on the floor and proudly announced "all done mummy, all done!"
TL;DR Do train yourself to cook and your child to eat pasta, the single easiest meal in the world ever. Your kid won't eat what he doesn't see at home, you need to introduce a wide range of foods and the best way to do that is prepare them yourself. | I have a 2 year old broccoli-fiend. I was doing the /r/keto diet in the first year of his life to lose the baby weight, and somehow broccoli now tops the most-desirable food list, maybe because it's what he saw on my plate all the time.
Where it is really inconvenient is that for nearly a year I didn't keep pasta in the house, and now he won't eat it. If you ever get a meal at the home of another small child, it will almost always be pasta... There have been a few times I've had to cut short our visit and take him home and feed him something else. I made a chicken broccoli and pasta bake once for us all to eat together as a family; little rascal ate all the broccoli first, then the ckicken, then threw the rest of the pasta on the floor and proudly announced "all done mummy, all done!"
TL;DR Do train yourself to cook and your child to eat pasta, the single easiest meal in the world ever. Your kid won't eat what he doesn't see at home, you need to introduce a wide range of foods and the best way to do that is prepare them yourself.
| Parenting | t5_2qhn3 | cj2kncy | I have a 2 year old broccoli-fiend. I was doing the /r/keto diet in the first year of his life to lose the baby weight, and somehow broccoli now tops the most-desirable food list, maybe because it's what he saw on my plate all the time.
Where it is really inconvenient is that for nearly a year I didn't keep pasta in the house, and now he won't eat it. If you ever get a meal at the home of another small child, it will almost always be pasta... There have been a few times I've had to cut short our visit and take him home and feed him something else. I made a chicken broccoli and pasta bake once for us all to eat together as a family; little rascal ate all the broccoli first, then the ckicken, then threw the rest of the pasta on the floor and proudly announced "all done mummy, all done!" | Do train yourself to cook and your child to eat pasta, the single easiest meal in the world ever. Your kid won't eat what he doesn't see at home, you need to introduce a wide range of foods and the best way to do that is prepare them yourself. |
FallenJoe | Not really as much as you might think.
Life sport mods for example are calculated with levels that make two way trips to far off planets possible with a moderate amount of stockpiling resources. A trip to the moon and back by comparison to say a tour of Jool takes only a tiny amount of ingame time and associated life support requirements.
Actually flying the lander around the moon collecting science, or making a few dozen orbits of the moon consumes less time and strain on the life support than even a tiny fraction of the travel time between planets.
TLDR: If they balanced life support difficulty around getting to the Mun, anywhere else would be damn near impossible. | Not really as much as you might think.
Life sport mods for example are calculated with levels that make two way trips to far off planets possible with a moderate amount of stockpiling resources. A trip to the moon and back by comparison to say a tour of Jool takes only a tiny amount of ingame time and associated life support requirements.
Actually flying the lander around the moon collecting science, or making a few dozen orbits of the moon consumes less time and strain on the life support than even a tiny fraction of the travel time between planets.
TLDR: If they balanced life support difficulty around getting to the Mun, anywhere else would be damn near impossible.
| KerbalSpaceProgram | t5_2smr1 | cj371h3 | Not really as much as you might think.
Life sport mods for example are calculated with levels that make two way trips to far off planets possible with a moderate amount of stockpiling resources. A trip to the moon and back by comparison to say a tour of Jool takes only a tiny amount of ingame time and associated life support requirements.
Actually flying the lander around the moon collecting science, or making a few dozen orbits of the moon consumes less time and strain on the life support than even a tiny fraction of the travel time between planets. | If they balanced life support difficulty around getting to the Mun, anywhere else would be damn near impossible. |
asmrtycoon | Wouldn't need the diagram, that's just the back of the panel cover that tells you how and where to set zones, if it is zone doubling capable, power polarity, ect.
Installers have a special code that they use and can bypass nearly any system (Ademco Boards). I reality very few installers use the (basic and simple) preventative measures such as EOL resistors, removing installer code, ect.
On the other hand, if the system has a BAT or CBAT, they'll get an alarm regardlessly. If the owner is just relying on a closed system with no outside communication or uses a phone line, they are just begging to be broken into.
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In reality though, most of my clients simply allow me to the panel and security system simply by telling them I'm with security and carrying my tool bag.
When we were doing a job that had the panel right behind the door to the office (where a large drop safe was located, which we were securing), we had a ladder by the door and someone with the door cracked and looking out to make sure nobody came in and knocked over the ladder.
One of my contractors joked that we came in and got access by saying "security" (commonly done by security companies), we have a person on "lookout" by the door, and we have power tools running - for all they knew we were robbing the place.
As always after the job we talked to the front counter about verifying out identity, in which they blushed and only asked for ID. Colorado ID in another state - they just said "you're good".
Sometimes the best alarm systems can be foiled by an employee not knowing to check identification.
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tldr;
Make sure your alarm panels have EOL resistors and the installers code is removed, use a BAT or CBAt over phone line or closed system, and if you own a business ask for specific company ID when your alarm guys come in. | Wouldn't need the diagram, that's just the back of the panel cover that tells you how and where to set zones, if it is zone doubling capable, power polarity, ect.
Installers have a special code that they use and can bypass nearly any system (Ademco Boards). I reality very few installers use the (basic and simple) preventative measures such as EOL resistors, removing installer code, ect.
On the other hand, if the system has a BAT or CBAT, they'll get an alarm regardlessly. If the owner is just relying on a closed system with no outside communication or uses a phone line, they are just begging to be broken into.
In reality though, most of my clients simply allow me to the panel and security system simply by telling them I'm with security and carrying my tool bag.
When we were doing a job that had the panel right behind the door to the office (where a large drop safe was located, which we were securing), we had a ladder by the door and someone with the door cracked and looking out to make sure nobody came in and knocked over the ladder.
One of my contractors joked that we came in and got access by saying "security" (commonly done by security companies), we have a person on "lookout" by the door, and we have power tools running - for all they knew we were robbing the place.
As always after the job we talked to the front counter about verifying out identity, in which they blushed and only asked for ID. Colorado ID in another state - they just said "you're good".
Sometimes the best alarm systems can be foiled by an employee not knowing to check identification.
tldr;
Make sure your alarm panels have EOL resistors and the installers code is removed, use a BAT or CBAt over phone line or closed system, and if you own a business ask for specific company ID when your alarm guys come in.
| KerbalSpaceProgram | t5_2smr1 | cj3i12e | Wouldn't need the diagram, that's just the back of the panel cover that tells you how and where to set zones, if it is zone doubling capable, power polarity, ect.
Installers have a special code that they use and can bypass nearly any system (Ademco Boards). I reality very few installers use the (basic and simple) preventative measures such as EOL resistors, removing installer code, ect.
On the other hand, if the system has a BAT or CBAT, they'll get an alarm regardlessly. If the owner is just relying on a closed system with no outside communication or uses a phone line, they are just begging to be broken into.
In reality though, most of my clients simply allow me to the panel and security system simply by telling them I'm with security and carrying my tool bag.
When we were doing a job that had the panel right behind the door to the office (where a large drop safe was located, which we were securing), we had a ladder by the door and someone with the door cracked and looking out to make sure nobody came in and knocked over the ladder.
One of my contractors joked that we came in and got access by saying "security" (commonly done by security companies), we have a person on "lookout" by the door, and we have power tools running - for all they knew we were robbing the place.
As always after the job we talked to the front counter about verifying out identity, in which they blushed and only asked for ID. Colorado ID in another state - they just said "you're good".
Sometimes the best alarm systems can be foiled by an employee not knowing to check identification. | Make sure your alarm panels have EOL resistors and the installers code is removed, use a BAT or CBAt over phone line or closed system, and if you own a business ask for specific company ID when your alarm guys come in. |
asmrtycoon | Amazing.
Now I'm not saying it's the best thing for playing games (since I can't - it's only a RT) but combining the cost ($160) and ability as well as the design, durability, and even with RT the OS stability and usefulness (I use it as a Mobile POS and media center) it's an absolute surprise for me.
I usually use a Toughbook CF-30 and CF-31 for on-site work, and a CF-U1 as a mobile POS system. I was always weary of using a slate, since when I turned to an iPad it broke within the first 3 months (screen impact). An iPad 1 Gen1, but it left me with a bias against tablets in the field.
this one is durable, the battery is decent - 5 - 7 hours with netflix streaming over wifi, 7-10 hours on full volume music. The sound is good as a music device overall, amazing for a tablet. IMO better than the iPad. It is a 4 speaker system I believe.
Charger is nice, I'm getting used to the magnetic clip types.
The pseudo-OS is still impressive, and although no ability to filter out which apps are not supported for RT on the search function basic apps work great. Compared to another Surface Pro 2 I tried out for 14 days (because Best Buys return policy is 15) it's actually more stable - the Pro had issues with correct screen orientation (got stuck several times on a specific rotation), memory issues (although because it is capable of attempting to run programs requiring more resources than available, whereas RT limits to apps designed and capable of being run for/on RT), and general operation.
Overall I prefer the RT over a Pro, because of the much lower cost and because I use it for some of the most basic functions.
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tldr: RT is great as a media device, great sound for a tablet and good sound as a media device overall, great for businesses (word, excel, POS, flash/Java/JS), pseudo-OS is limited but very stable, battery life is great due to lower power requirements | Amazing.
Now I'm not saying it's the best thing for playing games (since I can't - it's only a RT) but combining the cost ($160) and ability as well as the design, durability, and even with RT the OS stability and usefulness (I use it as a Mobile POS and media center) it's an absolute surprise for me.
I usually use a Toughbook CF-30 and CF-31 for on-site work, and a CF-U1 as a mobile POS system. I was always weary of using a slate, since when I turned to an iPad it broke within the first 3 months (screen impact). An iPad 1 Gen1, but it left me with a bias against tablets in the field.
this one is durable, the battery is decent - 5 - 7 hours with netflix streaming over wifi, 7-10 hours on full volume music. The sound is good as a music device overall, amazing for a tablet. IMO better than the iPad. It is a 4 speaker system I believe.
Charger is nice, I'm getting used to the magnetic clip types.
The pseudo-OS is still impressive, and although no ability to filter out which apps are not supported for RT on the search function basic apps work great. Compared to another Surface Pro 2 I tried out for 14 days (because Best Buys return policy is 15) it's actually more stable - the Pro had issues with correct screen orientation (got stuck several times on a specific rotation), memory issues (although because it is capable of attempting to run programs requiring more resources than available, whereas RT limits to apps designed and capable of being run for/on RT), and general operation.
Overall I prefer the RT over a Pro, because of the much lower cost and because I use it for some of the most basic functions.
tldr: RT is great as a media device, great sound for a tablet and good sound as a media device overall, great for businesses (word, excel, POS, flash/Java/JS), pseudo-OS is limited but very stable, battery life is great due to lower power requirements
| KerbalSpaceProgram | t5_2smr1 | cj2yv16 | Amazing.
Now I'm not saying it's the best thing for playing games (since I can't - it's only a RT) but combining the cost ($160) and ability as well as the design, durability, and even with RT the OS stability and usefulness (I use it as a Mobile POS and media center) it's an absolute surprise for me.
I usually use a Toughbook CF-30 and CF-31 for on-site work, and a CF-U1 as a mobile POS system. I was always weary of using a slate, since when I turned to an iPad it broke within the first 3 months (screen impact). An iPad 1 Gen1, but it left me with a bias against tablets in the field.
this one is durable, the battery is decent - 5 - 7 hours with netflix streaming over wifi, 7-10 hours on full volume music. The sound is good as a music device overall, amazing for a tablet. IMO better than the iPad. It is a 4 speaker system I believe.
Charger is nice, I'm getting used to the magnetic clip types.
The pseudo-OS is still impressive, and although no ability to filter out which apps are not supported for RT on the search function basic apps work great. Compared to another Surface Pro 2 I tried out for 14 days (because Best Buys return policy is 15) it's actually more stable - the Pro had issues with correct screen orientation (got stuck several times on a specific rotation), memory issues (although because it is capable of attempting to run programs requiring more resources than available, whereas RT limits to apps designed and capable of being run for/on RT), and general operation.
Overall I prefer the RT over a Pro, because of the much lower cost and because I use it for some of the most basic functions. | RT is great as a media device, great sound for a tablet and good sound as a media device overall, great for businesses (word, excel, POS, flash/Java/JS), pseudo-OS is limited but very stable, battery life is great due to lower power requirements |
kindasortanerdy | oh, i just didn't know what the word meant. thought it was an interesting detail that was implemented. kind of cool that now we can create a story about something as simple as items. maybe physical objects can be stored as data and called on (like a sparrow transmat). they can only be called if you have the right data code/path/engram. this explains most purchases and drops. more valuable engrams are encrypted for privacy and protection. furthermore decrypters became a new occupation kind of like blacksmith. if you disect "cryptarch" (crypt and arch) and play with words you can translate it as secret master or master of secrets. the cryptarch in the tower might be one of the most talented decrypters, thus why he works in the tower.
TL;DR
it's cool and i like words | oh, i just didn't know what the word meant. thought it was an interesting detail that was implemented. kind of cool that now we can create a story about something as simple as items. maybe physical objects can be stored as data and called on (like a sparrow transmat). they can only be called if you have the right data code/path/engram. this explains most purchases and drops. more valuable engrams are encrypted for privacy and protection. furthermore decrypters became a new occupation kind of like blacksmith. if you disect "cryptarch" (crypt and arch) and play with words you can translate it as secret master or master of secrets. the cryptarch in the tower might be one of the most talented decrypters, thus why he works in the tower.
TL;DR
it's cool and i like words
| DestinyTheGame | t5_2vq0w | cj30q5f | oh, i just didn't know what the word meant. thought it was an interesting detail that was implemented. kind of cool that now we can create a story about something as simple as items. maybe physical objects can be stored as data and called on (like a sparrow transmat). they can only be called if you have the right data code/path/engram. this explains most purchases and drops. more valuable engrams are encrypted for privacy and protection. furthermore decrypters became a new occupation kind of like blacksmith. if you disect "cryptarch" (crypt and arch) and play with words you can translate it as secret master or master of secrets. the cryptarch in the tower might be one of the most talented decrypters, thus why he works in the tower. | it's cool and i like words |
mvonballmo | Something similar happened to me a few years back, going up a hill in the late afternoon. I took a turn around a hairpin right and plowed right into a rope strung across the road.
A few feet beyond the rope was a sign with a "cow crossing" icon leaning against a hillock.
I was lucky to have been going uphill and therefore relatively slowly. Pulled one of the posts out of the ground, got yelled at by an irate farmer and had a linear bruise from one shoulder to the other for a couple of weeks. Good times.
tl;dr: ropes can be strung across roads/paths without malicious intent, but bad timing and judgment more than make up for it. | Something similar happened to me a few years back, going up a hill in the late afternoon. I took a turn around a hairpin right and plowed right into a rope strung across the road.
A few feet beyond the rope was a sign with a "cow crossing" icon leaning against a hillock.
I was lucky to have been going uphill and therefore relatively slowly. Pulled one of the posts out of the ground, got yelled at by an irate farmer and had a linear bruise from one shoulder to the other for a couple of weeks. Good times.
tl;dr: ropes can be strung across roads/paths without malicious intent, but bad timing and judgment more than make up for it.
| bicycling | t5_2qi0s | cj3bvzl | Something similar happened to me a few years back, going up a hill in the late afternoon. I took a turn around a hairpin right and plowed right into a rope strung across the road.
A few feet beyond the rope was a sign with a "cow crossing" icon leaning against a hillock.
I was lucky to have been going uphill and therefore relatively slowly. Pulled one of the posts out of the ground, got yelled at by an irate farmer and had a linear bruise from one shoulder to the other for a couple of weeks. Good times. | ropes can be strung across roads/paths without malicious intent, but bad timing and judgment more than make up for it. |
AntiVzla | Puntos mas destacados:
Bayly: "El analista politico Roberto Alonso"
Alonso: "Capriles es un gallo tapado", "Le tengo mas repudio a Capriles que a Maduro"
TL;DR: COCAINA
| Puntos mas destacados:
Bayly: "El analista politico Roberto Alonso"
Alonso: "Capriles es un gallo tapado", "Le tengo mas repudio a Capriles que a Maduro"
TL;DR: COCAINA
| vzla | t5_2sh9s | cj34e7d | Puntos mas destacados:
Bayly: "El analista politico Roberto Alonso"
Alonso: "Capriles es un gallo tapado", "Le tengo mas repudio a Capriles que a Maduro" | COCAINA |
rufustank | This stuff always pisses me off, not because of McDonalds, but because **the Chinese news is just a propaganda tool of the Gov**. What happened here is some Chinese suppliers who wanted to get a big contract with McDonalds but they won't pick local suppliers because they don't meet their standards. They leverage their guanxi to make some bad press for their supplier (which just happens to be an international company operating in China) and create an "expose" forcing McDonals to drop their supplier and get a different one that will likely be Chinese.
Looking at this footage, how in the world do we know it is really at that plant? I'm sure some of it is, but how did they even get in there? The expiration dates prove nothing. Zero. I guarantee some factory workers were getting paid off for this and they'll say or do what the "reporter" want's them to say or do. So ask this, would you trust a *Chinese* food process over an international one? Knowing what I know about the food biz here, heck no.
Why do I say this? I've seen this type of stuff happen a number of times. I have a close friend who is the GM for a large international pharma company. One of their products having to do with milk, had 70% market share. Last year, the "news" ran a story on the company based on some "academic research" from a university stating that their product caused problems in infants and babys. It was carried by all of the major news networks. Their sales dropped sharply and they flatly denied all of the claims. They investigated the claims but the academic couldn't/wouldn't turn over any of his research. They traced some contacts and back to a gov regulatory office to a person who works closely with one of their main Chinese competitors. It was just a ruse for the Chinese company to get market share. They unearthed all of this documented it, and had solid research debunking the claims, but the news stations wouldn't retract the segment or re-cover the story. To make matters worse, he had got "subpoena'd" to Beijing by the central gov five times in something equivalent to a congressional hearing. He was grilled over the "incident" and basically bullied and threatened. Fair? Nope. But that's biz in China.
**TLDR; If you're the big international company, you've got a giant target on your back.**
| This stuff always pisses me off, not because of McDonalds, but because the Chinese news is just a propaganda tool of the Gov . What happened here is some Chinese suppliers who wanted to get a big contract with McDonalds but they won't pick local suppliers because they don't meet their standards. They leverage their guanxi to make some bad press for their supplier (which just happens to be an international company operating in China) and create an "expose" forcing McDonals to drop their supplier and get a different one that will likely be Chinese.
Looking at this footage, how in the world do we know it is really at that plant? I'm sure some of it is, but how did they even get in there? The expiration dates prove nothing. Zero. I guarantee some factory workers were getting paid off for this and they'll say or do what the "reporter" want's them to say or do. So ask this, would you trust a Chinese food process over an international one? Knowing what I know about the food biz here, heck no.
Why do I say this? I've seen this type of stuff happen a number of times. I have a close friend who is the GM for a large international pharma company. One of their products having to do with milk, had 70% market share. Last year, the "news" ran a story on the company based on some "academic research" from a university stating that their product caused problems in infants and babys. It was carried by all of the major news networks. Their sales dropped sharply and they flatly denied all of the claims. They investigated the claims but the academic couldn't/wouldn't turn over any of his research. They traced some contacts and back to a gov regulatory office to a person who works closely with one of their main Chinese competitors. It was just a ruse for the Chinese company to get market share. They unearthed all of this documented it, and had solid research debunking the claims, but the news stations wouldn't retract the segment or re-cover the story. To make matters worse, he had got "subpoena'd" to Beijing by the central gov five times in something equivalent to a congressional hearing. He was grilled over the "incident" and basically bullied and threatened. Fair? Nope. But that's biz in China.
TLDR; If you're the big international company, you've got a giant target on your back.
| China | t5_2qh2v | cj3bvo2 | This stuff always pisses me off, not because of McDonalds, but because the Chinese news is just a propaganda tool of the Gov . What happened here is some Chinese suppliers who wanted to get a big contract with McDonalds but they won't pick local suppliers because they don't meet their standards. They leverage their guanxi to make some bad press for their supplier (which just happens to be an international company operating in China) and create an "expose" forcing McDonals to drop their supplier and get a different one that will likely be Chinese.
Looking at this footage, how in the world do we know it is really at that plant? I'm sure some of it is, but how did they even get in there? The expiration dates prove nothing. Zero. I guarantee some factory workers were getting paid off for this and they'll say or do what the "reporter" want's them to say or do. So ask this, would you trust a Chinese food process over an international one? Knowing what I know about the food biz here, heck no.
Why do I say this? I've seen this type of stuff happen a number of times. I have a close friend who is the GM for a large international pharma company. One of their products having to do with milk, had 70% market share. Last year, the "news" ran a story on the company based on some "academic research" from a university stating that their product caused problems in infants and babys. It was carried by all of the major news networks. Their sales dropped sharply and they flatly denied all of the claims. They investigated the claims but the academic couldn't/wouldn't turn over any of his research. They traced some contacts and back to a gov regulatory office to a person who works closely with one of their main Chinese competitors. It was just a ruse for the Chinese company to get market share. They unearthed all of this documented it, and had solid research debunking the claims, but the news stations wouldn't retract the segment or re-cover the story. To make matters worse, he had got "subpoena'd" to Beijing by the central gov five times in something equivalent to a congressional hearing. He was grilled over the "incident" and basically bullied and threatened. Fair? Nope. But that's biz in China. | If you're the big international company, you've got a giant target on your back. |
FuckYesPizza | I have a few of these.
When I was six years old I was invited to a birthday party at a Chuck-E-Cheese's. As I was leaving I started an air hockey game with someone and I had gotten really into it. I don't really remember what happened, but I remember being rushed out of the establishment wearing a plastic bag like a pair of pants.
TL;DR i was so competitive i neglected all other bodily functions to play a game of air hockey
| I have a few of these.
When I was six years old I was invited to a birthday party at a Chuck-E-Cheese's. As I was leaving I started an air hockey game with someone and I had gotten really into it. I don't really remember what happened, but I remember being rushed out of the establishment wearing a plastic bag like a pair of pants.
TL;DR i was so competitive i neglected all other bodily functions to play a game of air hockey
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | cj3dqvm | I have a few of these.
When I was six years old I was invited to a birthday party at a Chuck-E-Cheese's. As I was leaving I started an air hockey game with someone and I had gotten really into it. I don't really remember what happened, but I remember being rushed out of the establishment wearing a plastic bag like a pair of pants. | i was so competitive i neglected all other bodily functions to play a game of air hockey |
inklin | - There was no injustice done to you.
- There were some problems in the beginning (him picking pyro instead of ss), but they were resolved and he complied when you explained the rules
- Him as EU player can host the match on USE for best ping, so you shouldn't bash him for that.
- Eventually, you BOTH played Soulstealer, and you lost.
- I decided it was a beginner's mistake that you guys chose the Round 1 hero instead of the correct Round 2, and said the score stands.
- You then proceeded to take this on the Xfire channel, and tried to bash him publicly, saying he should be DQ'd for his Pyro mistake, but the game was played with BOTH players on SS. So you have no right to do this.
- I said disputes should be debated in private, not public. You started to insult us, so I silenced you.
**TL;DR**
There was no injustice done to you. You explained the rules to him, he complied, you played both on SS and you (OP) lost. You discovered that it should have been Valk instead, and asked for rematch, but Admins accepted the score from SS game, then you took the dispute on public and insulted us => silenced for insults.
**Insult screenshot (reason for silence)** |
There was no injustice done to you.
There were some problems in the beginning (him picking pyro instead of ss), but they were resolved and he complied when you explained the rules
Him as EU player can host the match on USE for best ping, so you shouldn't bash him for that.
Eventually, you BOTH played Soulstealer, and you lost.
I decided it was a beginner's mistake that you guys chose the Round 1 hero instead of the correct Round 2, and said the score stands.
You then proceeded to take this on the Xfire channel, and tried to bash him publicly, saying he should be DQ'd for his Pyro mistake, but the game was played with BOTH players on SS. So you have no right to do this.
I said disputes should be debated in private, not public. You started to insult us, so I silenced you.
TL;DR
There was no injustice done to you. You explained the rules to him, he complied, you played both on SS and you (OP) lost. You discovered that it should have been Valk instead, and asked for rematch, but Admins accepted the score from SS game, then you took the dispute on public and insulted us => silenced for insults.
Insult screenshot (reason for silence)
| HeroesofNewerth | t5_2r497 | cj3nhxp | There was no injustice done to you.
There were some problems in the beginning (him picking pyro instead of ss), but they were resolved and he complied when you explained the rules
Him as EU player can host the match on USE for best ping, so you shouldn't bash him for that.
Eventually, you BOTH played Soulstealer, and you lost.
I decided it was a beginner's mistake that you guys chose the Round 1 hero instead of the correct Round 2, and said the score stands.
You then proceeded to take this on the Xfire channel, and tried to bash him publicly, saying he should be DQ'd for his Pyro mistake, but the game was played with BOTH players on SS. So you have no right to do this.
I said disputes should be debated in private, not public. You started to insult us, so I silenced you. | There was no injustice done to you. You explained the rules to him, he complied, you played both on SS and you (OP) lost. You discovered that it should have been Valk instead, and asked for rematch, but Admins accepted the score from SS game, then you took the dispute on public and insulted us => silenced for insults.
Insult screenshot (reason for silence) |
Jabra | You need both. Fencing only people who are better than you can lead to you developing a one-sided game. Most likely you will be on the defense a lot. If you subsequently face someone who is about the same level as you are, and you need to play more aggressively you won't have practised it. Essentially you need to invent a new part of the game there and then.
TL;DR: You need to fence people who are better than you and who are below your level to develop all aspects of the game. | You need both. Fencing only people who are better than you can lead to you developing a one-sided game. Most likely you will be on the defense a lot. If you subsequently face someone who is about the same level as you are, and you need to play more aggressively you won't have practised it. Essentially you need to invent a new part of the game there and then.
TL;DR: You need to fence people who are better than you and who are below your level to develop all aspects of the game.
| Fencing | t5_2r6ai | cj4adrb | You need both. Fencing only people who are better than you can lead to you developing a one-sided game. Most likely you will be on the defense a lot. If you subsequently face someone who is about the same level as you are, and you need to play more aggressively you won't have practised it. Essentially you need to invent a new part of the game there and then. | You need to fence people who are better than you and who are below your level to develop all aspects of the game. |
Marigold12 | When I was a sophomore I decided to transfer to a public school from a private, which ended up being a pretty big life decision. Things were rough at first because I didn't know anybody, and this incident, unfortunately, coincided with that time.
For our school lunches they used to hand out these milk cartons with your meals. People would drink these, but when they were done they could be resealed, stepped on, and create a very loud popping noise.
Anyways, I had been at the school for about 3 weeks. And thankfully I brought my own lunch, as the school lunches weren't very good, but I always wanted to try stepping on one of those damn milk cartons. And one day I did. It was a beautiful milk carton, untainted by the corruption of the world, and it was mine to stomp on. So I did. Only the milk carton wasn't empty. It still popped but it just so happened to be aimed at a group of very popular girls like 15 feet in front of me. I soaked like 4 of them with milk and they all ran screaming to the bathroom. People were laughing at both of us and it was so embarrassing.
Thankfully, they were incredibly sweet about the whole thing. I apologized profusely and they just laughed it off and thanked me for being so nice about apologizing (wtf?). We all became friends throughout high school, but man was that a horrible first impression.
TL;DR: soaked 4 girls in white liquid at the same time. | When I was a sophomore I decided to transfer to a public school from a private, which ended up being a pretty big life decision. Things were rough at first because I didn't know anybody, and this incident, unfortunately, coincided with that time.
For our school lunches they used to hand out these milk cartons with your meals. People would drink these, but when they were done they could be resealed, stepped on, and create a very loud popping noise.
Anyways, I had been at the school for about 3 weeks. And thankfully I brought my own lunch, as the school lunches weren't very good, but I always wanted to try stepping on one of those damn milk cartons. And one day I did. It was a beautiful milk carton, untainted by the corruption of the world, and it was mine to stomp on. So I did. Only the milk carton wasn't empty. It still popped but it just so happened to be aimed at a group of very popular girls like 15 feet in front of me. I soaked like 4 of them with milk and they all ran screaming to the bathroom. People were laughing at both of us and it was so embarrassing.
Thankfully, they were incredibly sweet about the whole thing. I apologized profusely and they just laughed it off and thanked me for being so nice about apologizing (wtf?). We all became friends throughout high school, but man was that a horrible first impression.
TL;DR: soaked 4 girls in white liquid at the same time.
| AskMen | t5_2s30g | cj4qqpz | When I was a sophomore I decided to transfer to a public school from a private, which ended up being a pretty big life decision. Things were rough at first because I didn't know anybody, and this incident, unfortunately, coincided with that time.
For our school lunches they used to hand out these milk cartons with your meals. People would drink these, but when they were done they could be resealed, stepped on, and create a very loud popping noise.
Anyways, I had been at the school for about 3 weeks. And thankfully I brought my own lunch, as the school lunches weren't very good, but I always wanted to try stepping on one of those damn milk cartons. And one day I did. It was a beautiful milk carton, untainted by the corruption of the world, and it was mine to stomp on. So I did. Only the milk carton wasn't empty. It still popped but it just so happened to be aimed at a group of very popular girls like 15 feet in front of me. I soaked like 4 of them with milk and they all ran screaming to the bathroom. People were laughing at both of us and it was so embarrassing.
Thankfully, they were incredibly sweet about the whole thing. I apologized profusely and they just laughed it off and thanked me for being so nice about apologizing (wtf?). We all became friends throughout high school, but man was that a horrible first impression. | soaked 4 girls in white liquid at the same time. |
Orthonut | I was the weird kid in middle school. I had given up hope of ever having a horse of my own and sort of withdrawn into myself. I continued with my riding lessons and "adopted" a horse that my instructor had listed for sale. He was the weird kid of the barn-not that good looking, smart, not very good social skills, but kind hearted. I fed him, bathed him, braided his hair, took him to a few shows, and generally taught him things (supervised by an experienced instructor mind you) that made him infinitely more marketable. He turned into my best friend.
The day came in October that I feared. He had been sold :(. The good news was that the owner wouldn't be able to pick him up until January and would like me to continue caring for him. They couldn't pay me but had arranged for me to have extra riding lessons as compensation. After talking it over with my dad, I accepted this. I redoubled my efforts to teach him everything I thought he needed to know for his "new little girl (or boy)" I took him swimming in the pond, taught him to drive, taught him some tricks, socialised him, and taught him useful skills for the show ring.
Christmas eve after Mass, dad wanted to go to the barn to give the horses all carrots from "Santa." I thought he was crazy and told him so but he insisted.
I got to the barn and noticed "oh hey cool, Instructor decorated Prince's stall for the decorating contest."
Dad pointed out that Prince had left me a Christmas card.
it read something like "Dear Orthonut. Thank you so much for taking such good care of me even though you thought I didn't belong to you. I have enjoyed being your horse so much and I can't wait to see where we go from here. I promise to always try my hardest to do whatever you ask and I only ask that you continue to treat me with kindness, respect, and understanding. XOXOXO, Love YOUR HORSE PRINCE"
I was like "Oh hey Prince, thanks for the card. Would you like a carrot?"
Dad had to poke me and say, "Um, Orthonut. He's YOUR HORSE now. Merry Christmas" two or three times.
From that one Christmas pony, I learned kindness, respect, responsibility, how to stay calm in a crisis, how to do community outreach, a sense of humour, and countless other things. I had him for 13 years, spun being a crazy horse girl into a career in veterinary medicine, and leased him to a wonderful little girl who was suspiciously like me at that age. He tragically passed away due to illness but was in the best of care at the time of his passing.
Even knowing now that he would pass I would do the whole thing over again. I made so many life long friendships and learned so much from that horse.
Edit: TL;DR, my dad bought me a horse on payments and I cared for him for 3 months thinking he had been sold to someone else until Dad payed him off and gave him to me literally with a giant red bow on Christmas eve.
Edit:gold holy cow thank you kind stranger(s)! | I was the weird kid in middle school. I had given up hope of ever having a horse of my own and sort of withdrawn into myself. I continued with my riding lessons and "adopted" a horse that my instructor had listed for sale. He was the weird kid of the barn-not that good looking, smart, not very good social skills, but kind hearted. I fed him, bathed him, braided his hair, took him to a few shows, and generally taught him things (supervised by an experienced instructor mind you) that made him infinitely more marketable. He turned into my best friend.
The day came in October that I feared. He had been sold :(. The good news was that the owner wouldn't be able to pick him up until January and would like me to continue caring for him. They couldn't pay me but had arranged for me to have extra riding lessons as compensation. After talking it over with my dad, I accepted this. I redoubled my efforts to teach him everything I thought he needed to know for his "new little girl (or boy)" I took him swimming in the pond, taught him to drive, taught him some tricks, socialised him, and taught him useful skills for the show ring.
Christmas eve after Mass, dad wanted to go to the barn to give the horses all carrots from "Santa." I thought he was crazy and told him so but he insisted.
I got to the barn and noticed "oh hey cool, Instructor decorated Prince's stall for the decorating contest."
Dad pointed out that Prince had left me a Christmas card.
it read something like "Dear Orthonut. Thank you so much for taking such good care of me even though you thought I didn't belong to you. I have enjoyed being your horse so much and I can't wait to see where we go from here. I promise to always try my hardest to do whatever you ask and I only ask that you continue to treat me with kindness, respect, and understanding. XOXOXO, Love YOUR HORSE PRINCE"
I was like "Oh hey Prince, thanks for the card. Would you like a carrot?"
Dad had to poke me and say, "Um, Orthonut. He's YOUR HORSE now. Merry Christmas" two or three times.
From that one Christmas pony, I learned kindness, respect, responsibility, how to stay calm in a crisis, how to do community outreach, a sense of humour, and countless other things. I had him for 13 years, spun being a crazy horse girl into a career in veterinary medicine, and leased him to a wonderful little girl who was suspiciously like me at that age. He tragically passed away due to illness but was in the best of care at the time of his passing.
Even knowing now that he would pass I would do the whole thing over again. I made so many life long friendships and learned so much from that horse.
Edit: TL;DR, my dad bought me a horse on payments and I cared for him for 3 months thinking he had been sold to someone else until Dad payed him off and gave him to me literally with a giant red bow on Christmas eve.
Edit:gold holy cow thank you kind stranger(s)!
| promos | t5_2r4w1 | cjao91h | I was the weird kid in middle school. I had given up hope of ever having a horse of my own and sort of withdrawn into myself. I continued with my riding lessons and "adopted" a horse that my instructor had listed for sale. He was the weird kid of the barn-not that good looking, smart, not very good social skills, but kind hearted. I fed him, bathed him, braided his hair, took him to a few shows, and generally taught him things (supervised by an experienced instructor mind you) that made him infinitely more marketable. He turned into my best friend.
The day came in October that I feared. He had been sold :(. The good news was that the owner wouldn't be able to pick him up until January and would like me to continue caring for him. They couldn't pay me but had arranged for me to have extra riding lessons as compensation. After talking it over with my dad, I accepted this. I redoubled my efforts to teach him everything I thought he needed to know for his "new little girl (or boy)" I took him swimming in the pond, taught him to drive, taught him some tricks, socialised him, and taught him useful skills for the show ring.
Christmas eve after Mass, dad wanted to go to the barn to give the horses all carrots from "Santa." I thought he was crazy and told him so but he insisted.
I got to the barn and noticed "oh hey cool, Instructor decorated Prince's stall for the decorating contest."
Dad pointed out that Prince had left me a Christmas card.
it read something like "Dear Orthonut. Thank you so much for taking such good care of me even though you thought I didn't belong to you. I have enjoyed being your horse so much and I can't wait to see where we go from here. I promise to always try my hardest to do whatever you ask and I only ask that you continue to treat me with kindness, respect, and understanding. XOXOXO, Love YOUR HORSE PRINCE"
I was like "Oh hey Prince, thanks for the card. Would you like a carrot?"
Dad had to poke me and say, "Um, Orthonut. He's YOUR HORSE now. Merry Christmas" two or three times.
From that one Christmas pony, I learned kindness, respect, responsibility, how to stay calm in a crisis, how to do community outreach, a sense of humour, and countless other things. I had him for 13 years, spun being a crazy horse girl into a career in veterinary medicine, and leased him to a wonderful little girl who was suspiciously like me at that age. He tragically passed away due to illness but was in the best of care at the time of his passing.
Even knowing now that he would pass I would do the whole thing over again. I made so many life long friendships and learned so much from that horse.
Edit: | my dad bought me a horse on payments and I cared for him for 3 months thinking he had been sold to someone else until Dad payed him off and gave him to me literally with a giant red bow on Christmas eve.
Edit:gold holy cow thank you kind stranger(s)! |
gaarafan93 | A thank you from my best friend.
It sounds simple, but it made me burst into tears when he told me. My friend has always grown up with a family atmosphere that blames him for the problems that the household faces each day, and they label him as the 'black sheep' of the family, when in actuality he simply has made some mistakes in the past, and learned from them. Every day in the summer of 2012 I would travel to his house and play a few rounds of ping-pong with him in his garage, and after every 12+ rounds of the hobby, we would sit down in the garage - just us - and just talk about anything. Usually the talks revolved around how his family treats him and how they mentally try to break him down. The entire summer I would listen and give my advice, and offer every single time that if he needed help to just knock on my window (we lived close together) if he ever needed anything.
There was a night that actually happened. I was asleep in my bedroom and heard a knocking on my window. I shot out of bed originally thinking it was a burglar but saw his crying face on the other side. I headed outside and hugged him and he informed me that his parents had told him he exhibited the same tendencies a serial killer has. What kind of parent would tell their son that? And knowing him on his deepest levels, I know that he wouldn't be joking about that kind of information. We talked outside at 4 in the morning, the early cold Fall weather, and just letting him cry on my shoulder, me holding him throughout it all. I had no advice for him that night. I had never even figured how to respond to something that damaging.
A few days later I was on the phone with the him, and was saying how he was holding up. He informed me he was getting by but of course the atmosphere is still present. Out of everything I just said to him my gratitude for letting me come to his house to play ping-pong during the summer. But the comment he said to me, and meant it from every fiber of his being, was "No, thank you for changing my life." I lost it. He told me through my tears that had it not been for me talking with him every night, and giving him the company he deserved, he would not be here because he would have 'done-the-deed' this summer if it didn't ever get better for him.
TLDR - I saved a best friend from suicide and he verbally gave me the best gift I had ever received - genuine appreciation and gratitude. | A thank you from my best friend.
It sounds simple, but it made me burst into tears when he told me. My friend has always grown up with a family atmosphere that blames him for the problems that the household faces each day, and they label him as the 'black sheep' of the family, when in actuality he simply has made some mistakes in the past, and learned from them. Every day in the summer of 2012 I would travel to his house and play a few rounds of ping-pong with him in his garage, and after every 12+ rounds of the hobby, we would sit down in the garage - just us - and just talk about anything. Usually the talks revolved around how his family treats him and how they mentally try to break him down. The entire summer I would listen and give my advice, and offer every single time that if he needed help to just knock on my window (we lived close together) if he ever needed anything.
There was a night that actually happened. I was asleep in my bedroom and heard a knocking on my window. I shot out of bed originally thinking it was a burglar but saw his crying face on the other side. I headed outside and hugged him and he informed me that his parents had told him he exhibited the same tendencies a serial killer has. What kind of parent would tell their son that? And knowing him on his deepest levels, I know that he wouldn't be joking about that kind of information. We talked outside at 4 in the morning, the early cold Fall weather, and just letting him cry on my shoulder, me holding him throughout it all. I had no advice for him that night. I had never even figured how to respond to something that damaging.
A few days later I was on the phone with the him, and was saying how he was holding up. He informed me he was getting by but of course the atmosphere is still present. Out of everything I just said to him my gratitude for letting me come to his house to play ping-pong during the summer. But the comment he said to me, and meant it from every fiber of his being, was "No, thank you for changing my life." I lost it. He told me through my tears that had it not been for me talking with him every night, and giving him the company he deserved, he would not be here because he would have 'done-the-deed' this summer if it didn't ever get better for him.
TLDR - I saved a best friend from suicide and he verbally gave me the best gift I had ever received - genuine appreciation and gratitude.
| promos | t5_2r4w1 | cjfochd | A thank you from my best friend.
It sounds simple, but it made me burst into tears when he told me. My friend has always grown up with a family atmosphere that blames him for the problems that the household faces each day, and they label him as the 'black sheep' of the family, when in actuality he simply has made some mistakes in the past, and learned from them. Every day in the summer of 2012 I would travel to his house and play a few rounds of ping-pong with him in his garage, and after every 12+ rounds of the hobby, we would sit down in the garage - just us - and just talk about anything. Usually the talks revolved around how his family treats him and how they mentally try to break him down. The entire summer I would listen and give my advice, and offer every single time that if he needed help to just knock on my window (we lived close together) if he ever needed anything.
There was a night that actually happened. I was asleep in my bedroom and heard a knocking on my window. I shot out of bed originally thinking it was a burglar but saw his crying face on the other side. I headed outside and hugged him and he informed me that his parents had told him he exhibited the same tendencies a serial killer has. What kind of parent would tell their son that? And knowing him on his deepest levels, I know that he wouldn't be joking about that kind of information. We talked outside at 4 in the morning, the early cold Fall weather, and just letting him cry on my shoulder, me holding him throughout it all. I had no advice for him that night. I had never even figured how to respond to something that damaging.
A few days later I was on the phone with the him, and was saying how he was holding up. He informed me he was getting by but of course the atmosphere is still present. Out of everything I just said to him my gratitude for letting me come to his house to play ping-pong during the summer. But the comment he said to me, and meant it from every fiber of his being, was "No, thank you for changing my life." I lost it. He told me through my tears that had it not been for me talking with him every night, and giving him the company he deserved, he would not be here because he would have 'done-the-deed' this summer if it didn't ever get better for him. | I saved a best friend from suicide and he verbally gave me the best gift I had ever received - genuine appreciation and gratitude. |
Bioman2222 | On my 13th birthday, after recieving a video game, my dad told me that I would be receiving a second gift in 2 weeks. I was intrigued, but didn't think to much of it. 2 weeks passed, and my dad, my sister and I hopped in the car and started driving. After a 15 minute drive -during which I was totally confused as they didn't tell me where we were going- we arrived at a private airport in the middle of scenic no where. We filed some registration, and an Assistant Scoutmaster from the scout troop I was in. He took me to a small plane and we did a preflight check up and finished the aviation merit badge which I was missing a requirement for. He told me to get in and, surprised, I did so. After we got in the plane and taxied up and started down the runway, he told me to pullback on the steering wheel (if that's what you want to call it). We soared into the sky. I then realized, looking out the window, I was flying a plane. He asked me where my house was. After telling him, he instructed me to the plane at the direction he pointed out. We flew over my house and my middle school, and even took a picture of my house. The following week I had the greatest bragging rights ever.
tl;dr The best gift I ever had was flying a plane at 13.
| On my 13th birthday, after recieving a video game, my dad told me that I would be receiving a second gift in 2 weeks. I was intrigued, but didn't think to much of it. 2 weeks passed, and my dad, my sister and I hopped in the car and started driving. After a 15 minute drive -during which I was totally confused as they didn't tell me where we were going- we arrived at a private airport in the middle of scenic no where. We filed some registration, and an Assistant Scoutmaster from the scout troop I was in. He took me to a small plane and we did a preflight check up and finished the aviation merit badge which I was missing a requirement for. He told me to get in and, surprised, I did so. After we got in the plane and taxied up and started down the runway, he told me to pullback on the steering wheel (if that's what you want to call it). We soared into the sky. I then realized, looking out the window, I was flying a plane. He asked me where my house was. After telling him, he instructed me to the plane at the direction he pointed out. We flew over my house and my middle school, and even took a picture of my house. The following week I had the greatest bragging rights ever.
tl;dr The best gift I ever had was flying a plane at 13.
| promos | t5_2r4w1 | cjcnjoe | On my 13th birthday, after recieving a video game, my dad told me that I would be receiving a second gift in 2 weeks. I was intrigued, but didn't think to much of it. 2 weeks passed, and my dad, my sister and I hopped in the car and started driving. After a 15 minute drive -during which I was totally confused as they didn't tell me where we were going- we arrived at a private airport in the middle of scenic no where. We filed some registration, and an Assistant Scoutmaster from the scout troop I was in. He took me to a small plane and we did a preflight check up and finished the aviation merit badge which I was missing a requirement for. He told me to get in and, surprised, I did so. After we got in the plane and taxied up and started down the runway, he told me to pullback on the steering wheel (if that's what you want to call it). We soared into the sky. I then realized, looking out the window, I was flying a plane. He asked me where my house was. After telling him, he instructed me to the plane at the direction he pointed out. We flew over my house and my middle school, and even took a picture of my house. The following week I had the greatest bragging rights ever. | The best gift I ever had was flying a plane at 13. |
breedwell23 | My mother and biological father seperated when she was pregnant and so, for reasons i don't feel comfortable to share, when I was younger my biological father always sent my older brother gifts thus leaving me feeling more than often neglected. On the year that the PlayStation 2 had come out my brother had received a pretty large sum of money from all our relatives, although most of said money came from our father. I had urged my brother to buy some games for the current system that we had, the original PlayStation, but he always said that he was saving up for something. I was a little disappointed but I got over it soon enough. A couple months later my birthday came along. Me and my family were never very big into parties so we had the family together with some food and cake. Everyone seemed very excited for some reason when the time came to open presents. We didn't have a lot of money so I usually had two or three toys with which I was perfectly contempt, so my brother brought a decently large wrapped box I was more than a bit excited. When I opened the box I was completely at a loss for words as I was overwhelmed with joy. My brother had saved up his money to buy me a ps2. He was never really much into video games and would usually only play when I wanted to multiplayer with him so it really was a gift all for me. I was a huge crybaby when I was younger but that was the one and only time I cried out of happiness.
TL;DR: After years of biological father giving gifts only to my bro he saved his money to get me a ps2 bringing me to tears of happiness for the first and only time in my life. | My mother and biological father seperated when she was pregnant and so, for reasons i don't feel comfortable to share, when I was younger my biological father always sent my older brother gifts thus leaving me feeling more than often neglected. On the year that the PlayStation 2 had come out my brother had received a pretty large sum of money from all our relatives, although most of said money came from our father. I had urged my brother to buy some games for the current system that we had, the original PlayStation, but he always said that he was saving up for something. I was a little disappointed but I got over it soon enough. A couple months later my birthday came along. Me and my family were never very big into parties so we had the family together with some food and cake. Everyone seemed very excited for some reason when the time came to open presents. We didn't have a lot of money so I usually had two or three toys with which I was perfectly contempt, so my brother brought a decently large wrapped box I was more than a bit excited. When I opened the box I was completely at a loss for words as I was overwhelmed with joy. My brother had saved up his money to buy me a ps2. He was never really much into video games and would usually only play when I wanted to multiplayer with him so it really was a gift all for me. I was a huge crybaby when I was younger but that was the one and only time I cried out of happiness.
TL;DR: After years of biological father giving gifts only to my bro he saved his money to get me a ps2 bringing me to tears of happiness for the first and only time in my life.
| promos | t5_2r4w1 | cjacimj | My mother and biological father seperated when she was pregnant and so, for reasons i don't feel comfortable to share, when I was younger my biological father always sent my older brother gifts thus leaving me feeling more than often neglected. On the year that the PlayStation 2 had come out my brother had received a pretty large sum of money from all our relatives, although most of said money came from our father. I had urged my brother to buy some games for the current system that we had, the original PlayStation, but he always said that he was saving up for something. I was a little disappointed but I got over it soon enough. A couple months later my birthday came along. Me and my family were never very big into parties so we had the family together with some food and cake. Everyone seemed very excited for some reason when the time came to open presents. We didn't have a lot of money so I usually had two or three toys with which I was perfectly contempt, so my brother brought a decently large wrapped box I was more than a bit excited. When I opened the box I was completely at a loss for words as I was overwhelmed with joy. My brother had saved up his money to buy me a ps2. He was never really much into video games and would usually only play when I wanted to multiplayer with him so it really was a gift all for me. I was a huge crybaby when I was younger but that was the one and only time I cried out of happiness. | After years of biological father giving gifts only to my bro he saved his money to get me a ps2 bringing me to tears of happiness for the first and only time in my life. |
KptKrondog | > The World of Tanks community bitches a whole lot. A super duper lot. I think the main reason is because stats are a part of the vanilla client.
I wish stats were part of the vanilla client, at least in a sense that players could see it during a match. If just the Personal Rating was shown along with player name and tank name, that would be just fine. Then, when XxJoeBlowxX says "Everyone go valley, it's the best way" on Lakeville, everyone can see that this guy is a god damned moron and they might not listen to him for a change.
People like stats. We want to visualize how much we are improving, and we want something more defining than how much we win...Especially in a game where one person can only do so much to ensure a victory. I want to be able to SEE that I am 500 points better than I was a year ago or whatever.
And guess what, I play for fun too. But what is not fun is losing match after match after match because you keep getting put on a team with 10-14 players who "play for fun" and regularly accuse people of having armor hacks. If you can sit and play this game for 5, 6, 7, 10+ THOUSAND battles, how the fuck can you not figure out where common weakpoints are on virtually all tanks in this game? Or when you should turn around to reset cap, or look at your minimap and see the 7 tanks about to shoot your whole team in the ass...These "people" (I put that in quotes because I'm convinced many of the players in this game would barely qualify as human on some census reports) play game after game after game and ignore every piece of advice given to them and go on thinking they are right. because, that one time, going valley worked on lakeville, so it's obviously the best way.
**tl;dr**: Stats are a way to visualize improvement and distinguish the fucking IDIOTS that participate in this game from the normal members of society who have figured out that left clicking red guys isn't really that hard. | > The World of Tanks community bitches a whole lot. A super duper lot. I think the main reason is because stats are a part of the vanilla client.
I wish stats were part of the vanilla client, at least in a sense that players could see it during a match. If just the Personal Rating was shown along with player name and tank name, that would be just fine. Then, when XxJoeBlowxX says "Everyone go valley, it's the best way" on Lakeville, everyone can see that this guy is a god damned moron and they might not listen to him for a change.
People like stats. We want to visualize how much we are improving, and we want something more defining than how much we win...Especially in a game where one person can only do so much to ensure a victory. I want to be able to SEE that I am 500 points better than I was a year ago or whatever.
And guess what, I play for fun too. But what is not fun is losing match after match after match because you keep getting put on a team with 10-14 players who "play for fun" and regularly accuse people of having armor hacks. If you can sit and play this game for 5, 6, 7, 10+ THOUSAND battles, how the fuck can you not figure out where common weakpoints are on virtually all tanks in this game? Or when you should turn around to reset cap, or look at your minimap and see the 7 tanks about to shoot your whole team in the ass...These "people" (I put that in quotes because I'm convinced many of the players in this game would barely qualify as human on some census reports) play game after game after game and ignore every piece of advice given to them and go on thinking they are right. because, that one time, going valley worked on lakeville, so it's obviously the best way.
tl;dr : Stats are a way to visualize improvement and distinguish the fucking IDIOTS that participate in this game from the normal members of society who have figured out that left clicking red guys isn't really that hard.
| WorldofTanks | t5_2s113 | cj48p4l | The World of Tanks community bitches a whole lot. A super duper lot. I think the main reason is because stats are a part of the vanilla client.
I wish stats were part of the vanilla client, at least in a sense that players could see it during a match. If just the Personal Rating was shown along with player name and tank name, that would be just fine. Then, when XxJoeBlowxX says "Everyone go valley, it's the best way" on Lakeville, everyone can see that this guy is a god damned moron and they might not listen to him for a change.
People like stats. We want to visualize how much we are improving, and we want something more defining than how much we win...Especially in a game where one person can only do so much to ensure a victory. I want to be able to SEE that I am 500 points better than I was a year ago or whatever.
And guess what, I play for fun too. But what is not fun is losing match after match after match because you keep getting put on a team with 10-14 players who "play for fun" and regularly accuse people of having armor hacks. If you can sit and play this game for 5, 6, 7, 10+ THOUSAND battles, how the fuck can you not figure out where common weakpoints are on virtually all tanks in this game? Or when you should turn around to reset cap, or look at your minimap and see the 7 tanks about to shoot your whole team in the ass...These "people" (I put that in quotes because I'm convinced many of the players in this game would barely qualify as human on some census reports) play game after game after game and ignore every piece of advice given to them and go on thinking they are right. because, that one time, going valley worked on lakeville, so it's obviously the best way. | Stats are a way to visualize improvement and distinguish the fucking IDIOTS that participate in this game from the normal members of society who have figured out that left clicking red guys isn't really that hard. |
ZXFT | >In their defense, the maps aren't very straightforward in this game, and the tanks are pretty flexible (in general; and roles change depending on battle tier).
Sure, but after ten THOUSAND battles, it seems like you should be able to figure out the 15ish maps they have in this game. Or after 300 battles in a specific tank one should know its relative strengths and weaknesses. All I ask from pubs is to drive to the correct location and die slowly enough for my platoon to carry the other flank and make it to theirs before they colossally fuck up too hard for 3 tanks to fix, but even that is too difficult for >80% of the player base.
>Why isn't there a CW winrate? A Tourney WR?
Uhhhh.... There is and everyone that cares pays attention to it. The OTTER WoTmanager page has a list of every battle we have fought in the last 5 weeks (duration of the VILIN/RELIC war) whether it was an attack, encounter, or defense and our win ratio against each belligerent on each map. WGLNA standings are clearly published for each league including specific game win rate, not just match win rate. And finally, all other tournaments are published in the forums with each team's win rate and the group stage results and winner's bracket on the main site. If you wanted to know right now how my tournament team is doing in the current skirmish you could look it up. Or if you wanted to see how my WGLNA team was doing you could look it up too. And for CW the global map is updated every hour if you care to follow it or you could be lazy and ask for compiled win rates from clan officers.
tl;dr: winning is tracked in competitive play too (shocking!) | >In their defense, the maps aren't very straightforward in this game, and the tanks are pretty flexible (in general; and roles change depending on battle tier).
Sure, but after ten THOUSAND battles, it seems like you should be able to figure out the 15ish maps they have in this game. Or after 300 battles in a specific tank one should know its relative strengths and weaknesses. All I ask from pubs is to drive to the correct location and die slowly enough for my platoon to carry the other flank and make it to theirs before they colossally fuck up too hard for 3 tanks to fix, but even that is too difficult for >80% of the player base.
>Why isn't there a CW winrate? A Tourney WR?
Uhhhh.... There is and everyone that cares pays attention to it. The OTTER WoTmanager page has a list of every battle we have fought in the last 5 weeks (duration of the VILIN/RELIC war) whether it was an attack, encounter, or defense and our win ratio against each belligerent on each map. WGLNA standings are clearly published for each league including specific game win rate, not just match win rate. And finally, all other tournaments are published in the forums with each team's win rate and the group stage results and winner's bracket on the main site. If you wanted to know right now how my tournament team is doing in the current skirmish you could look it up. Or if you wanted to see how my WGLNA team was doing you could look it up too. And for CW the global map is updated every hour if you care to follow it or you could be lazy and ask for compiled win rates from clan officers.
tl;dr: winning is tracked in competitive play too (shocking!)
| WorldofTanks | t5_2s113 | cj4b2mr | In their defense, the maps aren't very straightforward in this game, and the tanks are pretty flexible (in general; and roles change depending on battle tier).
Sure, but after ten THOUSAND battles, it seems like you should be able to figure out the 15ish maps they have in this game. Or after 300 battles in a specific tank one should know its relative strengths and weaknesses. All I ask from pubs is to drive to the correct location and die slowly enough for my platoon to carry the other flank and make it to theirs before they colossally fuck up too hard for 3 tanks to fix, but even that is too difficult for >80% of the player base.
>Why isn't there a CW winrate? A Tourney WR?
Uhhhh.... There is and everyone that cares pays attention to it. The OTTER WoTmanager page has a list of every battle we have fought in the last 5 weeks (duration of the VILIN/RELIC war) whether it was an attack, encounter, or defense and our win ratio against each belligerent on each map. WGLNA standings are clearly published for each league including specific game win rate, not just match win rate. And finally, all other tournaments are published in the forums with each team's win rate and the group stage results and winner's bracket on the main site. If you wanted to know right now how my tournament team is doing in the current skirmish you could look it up. Or if you wanted to see how my WGLNA team was doing you could look it up too. And for CW the global map is updated every hour if you care to follow it or you could be lazy and ask for compiled win rates from clan officers. | winning is tracked in competitive play too (shocking!) |
DotHobbes | I can give you the correct grammar for this if you want. The way it is now means: star nature. This makes sense in English, but not in ancient Greek because both forms are in the nominative case. If you want it to say "astral nature" the "star" part should be in the genitive case which would specify that the "nature" is pertinent to the "stars". Hence it should be "ἄστρων φύσις".
TL;DR: Change it to "ἄστρων φύσις". You can also use the synonym "ἀστέρων φύσις". Both would be correct.
| I can give you the correct grammar for this if you want. The way it is now means: star nature. This makes sense in English, but not in ancient Greek because both forms are in the nominative case. If you want it to say "astral nature" the "star" part should be in the genitive case which would specify that the "nature" is pertinent to the "stars". Hence it should be "ἄστρων φύσις".
TL;DR: Change it to "ἄστρων φύσις". You can also use the synonym "ἀστέρων φύσις". Both would be correct.
| mindcrack | t5_2to85 | cj4ikyu | I can give you the correct grammar for this if you want. The way it is now means: star nature. This makes sense in English, but not in ancient Greek because both forms are in the nominative case. If you want it to say "astral nature" the "star" part should be in the genitive case which would specify that the "nature" is pertinent to the "stars". Hence it should be "ἄστρων φύσις". | Change it to "ἄστρων φύσις". You can also use the synonym "ἀστέρων φύσις". Both would be correct. |
Larry-Man | I have worked at McDonald's for years. As a manager I've turned a blind eye to many people on drugs or drunk as long as they could do their job. A few worked better and less annoyingly (they were much quieter) when they were high. As long as they didn't straight up tell me or stink I just ignored it even though *I knew*.
TL;DR: Your manager almost always knows if you're high, that doesn't mean they're gonna care. Just do your damn job. | I have worked at McDonald's for years. As a manager I've turned a blind eye to many people on drugs or drunk as long as they could do their job. A few worked better and less annoyingly (they were much quieter) when they were high. As long as they didn't straight up tell me or stink I just ignored it even though I knew .
TL;DR: Your manager almost always knows if you're high, that doesn't mean they're gonna care. Just do your damn job.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | cj4bkhr | I have worked at McDonald's for years. As a manager I've turned a blind eye to many people on drugs or drunk as long as they could do their job. A few worked better and less annoyingly (they were much quieter) when they were high. As long as they didn't straight up tell me or stink I just ignored it even though I knew . | Your manager almost always knows if you're high, that doesn't mean they're gonna care. Just do your damn job. |
JoeDaStudd | Do you have access to a car?
Do you have people who are willing to teach you FOC?
If you have access to a car and someone to teach you then you can massively reduce the amount of paid lessons you need.
Ideally when booking lessons book 2 hour slots as opposed to 1. Not only will you get a better rate you also get a lot more actual driving time. A 1 hour slot will be about 10 minutes prep/discussion (do today we will be doing x, drive to y to start), 40 minutes driving and 10 minutes debrief/discussion (driving back to starting position and discussing the lesson), with a 2 hour slot you still have the 20 minute without real driving, but you get 100 minutes of driving.
As for the costs it varies a lot, but for most people expect atleast £400 in lessons and £100 in tests (weekend passes costs more and tbh I would expect to fail atleast one of the tests). Speaking of tests get your theory ASAP it lasts 2 years.
Once you get driving the costs do add up quickly.
Your first year insurance is going to be £1000+, you can lower this by having additional drivers (family which will be using the car), having a black box and by taking a pass plus (tbh it didn't lower mine enough to justify the cost, but depending on your area it might).
Car wise I would recommend you aim for something halfway decent if only to reduce the running costs. While a cheap car looks good at first the cost of passing a MOT will probably end up £100+, the road tax will be £100+, the MPG will be less then a newer car and strangely enough the insurance will be higher.
A £1000 car will probably end up costing you more in maintenance and tax then a £4000 car (i10 for example), add in insurance and MPG. Your looking at a pretty big difference per year, not to mention resale value.
Even on a new car I would budget £250 for maintenance, tax and servicing/mot.
MPG your probably looking at 40mpg on an cheap old car and around the 55mpg on a newer car (the £4000 i10) at 10k miles per year your looking at £1075 and £1475 (£1.30/litre) in petrol.
TL:DR;
Learning budget for at least £500
£1000 car + £1000 insurance + £500 tax & maintenance + £1475 fuel = £3975 first year, £2975 ex. car
£4000 car + £1000 insurance + £250 tax & maintenance + £1075 fuel = £6325 first year, £2395 ex. car
The £4000 car would also be cheaper to insurance, but I doubt you'll get less then £1000 insurance after just passing.
Expect your insurance to drop by about 10% every year. If you can paying for insurance annually it drops about 10% off the cost.
These are rough figures, but should give you an idea. Its not cheap, but its one of those things its worth having and can pay for itself very quickly. | Do you have access to a car?
Do you have people who are willing to teach you FOC?
If you have access to a car and someone to teach you then you can massively reduce the amount of paid lessons you need.
Ideally when booking lessons book 2 hour slots as opposed to 1. Not only will you get a better rate you also get a lot more actual driving time. A 1 hour slot will be about 10 minutes prep/discussion (do today we will be doing x, drive to y to start), 40 minutes driving and 10 minutes debrief/discussion (driving back to starting position and discussing the lesson), with a 2 hour slot you still have the 20 minute without real driving, but you get 100 minutes of driving.
As for the costs it varies a lot, but for most people expect atleast £400 in lessons and £100 in tests (weekend passes costs more and tbh I would expect to fail atleast one of the tests). Speaking of tests get your theory ASAP it lasts 2 years.
Once you get driving the costs do add up quickly.
Your first year insurance is going to be £1000+, you can lower this by having additional drivers (family which will be using the car), having a black box and by taking a pass plus (tbh it didn't lower mine enough to justify the cost, but depending on your area it might).
Car wise I would recommend you aim for something halfway decent if only to reduce the running costs. While a cheap car looks good at first the cost of passing a MOT will probably end up £100+, the road tax will be £100+, the MPG will be less then a newer car and strangely enough the insurance will be higher.
A £1000 car will probably end up costing you more in maintenance and tax then a £4000 car (i10 for example), add in insurance and MPG. Your looking at a pretty big difference per year, not to mention resale value.
Even on a new car I would budget £250 for maintenance, tax and servicing/mot.
MPG your probably looking at 40mpg on an cheap old car and around the 55mpg on a newer car (the £4000 i10) at 10k miles per year your looking at £1075 and £1475 (£1.30/litre) in petrol.
TL:DR;
Learning budget for at least £500
£1000 car + £1000 insurance + £500 tax & maintenance + £1475 fuel = £3975 first year, £2975 ex. car
£4000 car + £1000 insurance + £250 tax & maintenance + £1075 fuel = £6325 first year, £2395 ex. car
The £4000 car would also be cheaper to insurance, but I doubt you'll get less then £1000 insurance after just passing.
Expect your insurance to drop by about 10% every year. If you can paying for insurance annually it drops about 10% off the cost.
These are rough figures, but should give you an idea. Its not cheap, but its one of those things its worth having and can pay for itself very quickly.
| unitedkingdom | t5_2qhqb | cj4gxy7 | Do you have access to a car?
Do you have people who are willing to teach you FOC?
If you have access to a car and someone to teach you then you can massively reduce the amount of paid lessons you need.
Ideally when booking lessons book 2 hour slots as opposed to 1. Not only will you get a better rate you also get a lot more actual driving time. A 1 hour slot will be about 10 minutes prep/discussion (do today we will be doing x, drive to y to start), 40 minutes driving and 10 minutes debrief/discussion (driving back to starting position and discussing the lesson), with a 2 hour slot you still have the 20 minute without real driving, but you get 100 minutes of driving.
As for the costs it varies a lot, but for most people expect atleast £400 in lessons and £100 in tests (weekend passes costs more and tbh I would expect to fail atleast one of the tests). Speaking of tests get your theory ASAP it lasts 2 years.
Once you get driving the costs do add up quickly.
Your first year insurance is going to be £1000+, you can lower this by having additional drivers (family which will be using the car), having a black box and by taking a pass plus (tbh it didn't lower mine enough to justify the cost, but depending on your area it might).
Car wise I would recommend you aim for something halfway decent if only to reduce the running costs. While a cheap car looks good at first the cost of passing a MOT will probably end up £100+, the road tax will be £100+, the MPG will be less then a newer car and strangely enough the insurance will be higher.
A £1000 car will probably end up costing you more in maintenance and tax then a £4000 car (i10 for example), add in insurance and MPG. Your looking at a pretty big difference per year, not to mention resale value.
Even on a new car I would budget £250 for maintenance, tax and servicing/mot.
MPG your probably looking at 40mpg on an cheap old car and around the 55mpg on a newer car (the £4000 i10) at 10k miles per year your looking at £1075 and £1475 (£1.30/litre) in petrol. | Learning budget for at least £500
£1000 car + £1000 insurance + £500 tax & maintenance + £1475 fuel = £3975 first year, £2975 ex. car
£4000 car + £1000 insurance + £250 tax & maintenance + £1075 fuel = £6325 first year, £2395 ex. car
The £4000 car would also be cheaper to insurance, but I doubt you'll get less then £1000 insurance after just passing.
Expect your insurance to drop by about 10% every year. If you can paying for insurance annually it drops about 10% off the cost.
These are rough figures, but should give you an idea. Its not cheap, but its one of those things its worth having and can pay for itself very quickly. |
PixelBoom | There are multiple locations a tower could be anchored on a moon, but they all appear to be on a very large grid. I have anchored towres at moons where I have previously destroyed a tower, but left some of the guns there. The new tower anchored ~350km away from where the old one was.
tl;dr towers have set locations (not always the same) | There are multiple locations a tower could be anchored on a moon, but they all appear to be on a very large grid. I have anchored towres at moons where I have previously destroyed a tower, but left some of the guns there. The new tower anchored ~350km away from where the old one was.
tl;dr towers have set locations (not always the same)
| Eve | t5_2qil9 | cj4vltr | There are multiple locations a tower could be anchored on a moon, but they all appear to be on a very large grid. I have anchored towres at moons where I have previously destroyed a tower, but left some of the guns there. The new tower anchored ~350km away from where the old one was. | towers have set locations (not always the same) |
defeatedbycables | Children go through phases, especially at younger ages, of attachment to one parent or the other.
If you are working and your wife is home, he notices you aren't there and she is, most likely. At 13 months he understands who you are and that you provide for him so he probably is attaching due to your absence for work, while he is with mom all day.
If he still fits into a Baby Bjorn or something like that I'd take him on errands during the weekend and have him ride shotgun with you (not literally). Dad time is important, too.
I work 8-15 hours a day depending on the status of my projects so I try and make sure I have time to take my son out in the stroller for at least 30 minutes a day.
TL:DR - He wants more of dad. Go for a jog, run errands, bathe him, read him a story before bed, give him the attention and contact he wants and he'll phase out sooner or later. | Children go through phases, especially at younger ages, of attachment to one parent or the other.
If you are working and your wife is home, he notices you aren't there and she is, most likely. At 13 months he understands who you are and that you provide for him so he probably is attaching due to your absence for work, while he is with mom all day.
If he still fits into a Baby Bjorn or something like that I'd take him on errands during the weekend and have him ride shotgun with you (not literally). Dad time is important, too.
I work 8-15 hours a day depending on the status of my projects so I try and make sure I have time to take my son out in the stroller for at least 30 minutes a day.
TL:DR - He wants more of dad. Go for a jog, run errands, bathe him, read him a story before bed, give him the attention and contact he wants and he'll phase out sooner or later.
| daddit | t5_2rxue | cj4kctx | Children go through phases, especially at younger ages, of attachment to one parent or the other.
If you are working and your wife is home, he notices you aren't there and she is, most likely. At 13 months he understands who you are and that you provide for him so he probably is attaching due to your absence for work, while he is with mom all day.
If he still fits into a Baby Bjorn or something like that I'd take him on errands during the weekend and have him ride shotgun with you (not literally). Dad time is important, too.
I work 8-15 hours a day depending on the status of my projects so I try and make sure I have time to take my son out in the stroller for at least 30 minutes a day. | He wants more of dad. Go for a jog, run errands, bathe him, read him a story before bed, give him the attention and contact he wants and he'll phase out sooner or later. |
RufusStJames | I'm not in a damn hurry. [Over 50% of American commuters have 1-10 miles one-way for their commute]( A ten mile commute with *no stops* at 35 mph (city driving speeds) will take 17 minutes, 8 seconds. Going 25 mph on that same drive will take 24 minutes. Again, this is with no stops. Factor in how many stops you have to make over the course of this drive, during which time everyone goes 0 mph. The <7 minute time savings means very little to me.
tl;dr 7 minutes isn't going to make or break anything for me | I'm not in a damn hurry. Over 50% of American commuters have 1-10 miles one-way for their commute will take 17 minutes, 8 seconds. Going 25 mph on that same drive will take 24 minutes. Again, this is with no stops. Factor in how many stops you have to make over the course of this drive, during which time everyone goes 0 mph. The <7 minute time savings means very little to me.
tl;dr 7 minutes isn't going to make or break anything for me
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | cj4jbcj | I'm not in a damn hurry. Over 50% of American commuters have 1-10 miles one-way for their commute will take 17 minutes, 8 seconds. Going 25 mph on that same drive will take 24 minutes. Again, this is with no stops. Factor in how many stops you have to make over the course of this drive, during which time everyone goes 0 mph. The <7 minute time savings means very little to me. | 7 minutes isn't going to make or break anything for me |
brightpork | This turned into a giant wall of text, so, sorry.
Think of it like a home - you might've spent your younger years bouncing around between apartments, like the one with the cool balcony, or the one that was super close to work, etc. But then eventually, you find a place that makes you think, yeah, I could stay here a long time, and you buy it.
It's perfect compared to all the other ones for one reason or another. The first year, it was all you could do to not be showering it with excited attention, upgrading this and that, keeping up with the gardening, feeling quite pleased with yourself as you learned which floorboards squeaked in a funny way and where to sit on the couch so the sun didn't glare out the TV. You got everything just right, and it feels like home.
After a little while, the acute joy from just thinking "house!" will go away, and there will be days where you're sitting in traffic, thinking "shit, if I'd gone for a condo in the city, I'd have been home an hour ago." Or, "if only I could swing a cottage in the middle of nowhere, I could never have to see this much traffic again." You might occasionally slip off into a daydream about what you could've done differently, how this house has been so much work, or how you hate having to keep this mediocre job in this soul-sucking city just to pay the mortgage. Or, you think back to the glory days with the wild parties and the cheap beer and the easy tail from the cool balcony place. Whatever it is, you take a break from the truths and realities of your situation (good and bad) to derive a vicarious pleasure from the version of yourself who lives off in fantasy land and does whatever he wants with no consequences.
At the end of the day, though, you pull into your driveway, walk through the front door, plop down on the couch and take a look around. It's yours - it exacts a cost, to be sure, but it's yours - you've put the work in to make it the best fit that you can, and you really don't want to imagine your life without it. After a little while of shifting around on the couch to find your favorite glare-free sweet spot, that condo in the city or cottage in the country are just about the furthest things from your mind.
So, no reasonable person (male or female) is going to expect his/her SO to be every last little thing in the realm of possible fantasies - not any more than you could expect a modest suburban Colonial with a big yard to simultaneously be on the 45th floor of something overlooking the ocean and also in a valley shaded by mountains with no view of the neighbors. By making your home somewhere, rather than bouncing around staying this place or the other, you've accepted and embraced that. Doesn't mean you're not going to think about it, though.
TL;DR - If you're in a committed relationship with someone, you've each already accepted all of the things that they are, and are not. That does not stop you from thinking about possibilities outside the realm of the present situation, and this is not a bad thing. | This turned into a giant wall of text, so, sorry.
Think of it like a home - you might've spent your younger years bouncing around between apartments, like the one with the cool balcony, or the one that was super close to work, etc. But then eventually, you find a place that makes you think, yeah, I could stay here a long time, and you buy it.
It's perfect compared to all the other ones for one reason or another. The first year, it was all you could do to not be showering it with excited attention, upgrading this and that, keeping up with the gardening, feeling quite pleased with yourself as you learned which floorboards squeaked in a funny way and where to sit on the couch so the sun didn't glare out the TV. You got everything just right, and it feels like home.
After a little while, the acute joy from just thinking "house!" will go away, and there will be days where you're sitting in traffic, thinking "shit, if I'd gone for a condo in the city, I'd have been home an hour ago." Or, "if only I could swing a cottage in the middle of nowhere, I could never have to see this much traffic again." You might occasionally slip off into a daydream about what you could've done differently, how this house has been so much work, or how you hate having to keep this mediocre job in this soul-sucking city just to pay the mortgage. Or, you think back to the glory days with the wild parties and the cheap beer and the easy tail from the cool balcony place. Whatever it is, you take a break from the truths and realities of your situation (good and bad) to derive a vicarious pleasure from the version of yourself who lives off in fantasy land and does whatever he wants with no consequences.
At the end of the day, though, you pull into your driveway, walk through the front door, plop down on the couch and take a look around. It's yours - it exacts a cost, to be sure, but it's yours - you've put the work in to make it the best fit that you can, and you really don't want to imagine your life without it. After a little while of shifting around on the couch to find your favorite glare-free sweet spot, that condo in the city or cottage in the country are just about the furthest things from your mind.
So, no reasonable person (male or female) is going to expect his/her SO to be every last little thing in the realm of possible fantasies - not any more than you could expect a modest suburban Colonial with a big yard to simultaneously be on the 45th floor of something overlooking the ocean and also in a valley shaded by mountains with no view of the neighbors. By making your home somewhere, rather than bouncing around staying this place or the other, you've accepted and embraced that. Doesn't mean you're not going to think about it, though.
TL;DR - If you're in a committed relationship with someone, you've each already accepted all of the things that they are, and are not. That does not stop you from thinking about possibilities outside the realm of the present situation, and this is not a bad thing.
| AskMen | t5_2s30g | cj4lrmn | This turned into a giant wall of text, so, sorry.
Think of it like a home - you might've spent your younger years bouncing around between apartments, like the one with the cool balcony, or the one that was super close to work, etc. But then eventually, you find a place that makes you think, yeah, I could stay here a long time, and you buy it.
It's perfect compared to all the other ones for one reason or another. The first year, it was all you could do to not be showering it with excited attention, upgrading this and that, keeping up with the gardening, feeling quite pleased with yourself as you learned which floorboards squeaked in a funny way and where to sit on the couch so the sun didn't glare out the TV. You got everything just right, and it feels like home.
After a little while, the acute joy from just thinking "house!" will go away, and there will be days where you're sitting in traffic, thinking "shit, if I'd gone for a condo in the city, I'd have been home an hour ago." Or, "if only I could swing a cottage in the middle of nowhere, I could never have to see this much traffic again." You might occasionally slip off into a daydream about what you could've done differently, how this house has been so much work, or how you hate having to keep this mediocre job in this soul-sucking city just to pay the mortgage. Or, you think back to the glory days with the wild parties and the cheap beer and the easy tail from the cool balcony place. Whatever it is, you take a break from the truths and realities of your situation (good and bad) to derive a vicarious pleasure from the version of yourself who lives off in fantasy land and does whatever he wants with no consequences.
At the end of the day, though, you pull into your driveway, walk through the front door, plop down on the couch and take a look around. It's yours - it exacts a cost, to be sure, but it's yours - you've put the work in to make it the best fit that you can, and you really don't want to imagine your life without it. After a little while of shifting around on the couch to find your favorite glare-free sweet spot, that condo in the city or cottage in the country are just about the furthest things from your mind.
So, no reasonable person (male or female) is going to expect his/her SO to be every last little thing in the realm of possible fantasies - not any more than you could expect a modest suburban Colonial with a big yard to simultaneously be on the 45th floor of something overlooking the ocean and also in a valley shaded by mountains with no view of the neighbors. By making your home somewhere, rather than bouncing around staying this place or the other, you've accepted and embraced that. Doesn't mean you're not going to think about it, though. | If you're in a committed relationship with someone, you've each already accepted all of the things that they are, and are not. That does not stop you from thinking about possibilities outside the realm of the present situation, and this is not a bad thing. |
shastle | Yes in Vegas. Buddy and I went to one of those "Sensual Massage" parlors. Young gorgeous girl comes out and takes him back. He paid $400 and said it was worth every dollar.
Some old bitch (like 50) comes to get me. No one speaks a word of English so they didn't understand what I meant when I said, "No, do you have anyone cuter?"
She takes me back, I decide I'm not going to do her, but shit I'm here. Handy cost me $150, didn't get it up, left limp and disappointed
TL:DR Paid for an old lady at a massage parlor attempted to give me a handy | Yes in Vegas. Buddy and I went to one of those "Sensual Massage" parlors. Young gorgeous girl comes out and takes him back. He paid $400 and said it was worth every dollar.
Some old bitch (like 50) comes to get me. No one speaks a word of English so they didn't understand what I meant when I said, "No, do you have anyone cuter?"
She takes me back, I decide I'm not going to do her, but shit I'm here. Handy cost me $150, didn't get it up, left limp and disappointed
TL:DR Paid for an old lady at a massage parlor attempted to give me a handy
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | cj4tfjt | Yes in Vegas. Buddy and I went to one of those "Sensual Massage" parlors. Young gorgeous girl comes out and takes him back. He paid $400 and said it was worth every dollar.
Some old bitch (like 50) comes to get me. No one speaks a word of English so they didn't understand what I meant when I said, "No, do you have anyone cuter?"
She takes me back, I decide I'm not going to do her, but shit I'm here. Handy cost me $150, didn't get it up, left limp and disappointed | Paid for an old lady at a massage parlor attempted to give me a handy |
Gummuh | Getting into college. I should say upfront that my definition of "zero effort" is probably different than most others.
Dating back to elementary school I've always been "accelerated" (Yes, I know this means practically nothing). I always did my homework and never needed extra help. Teachers would display a concept and I would usually understand it without needing anything more than basic explanation. My grades weren't stellar, but that's where the whole zero effort thing comes in. Starting my junior year, i attended a local community college through a program in my state. I routinely skipped lectures and barely listened when I did go.
I graduated with a 3.86 weighted GPA and now go to a top 25 university. Looking back, if I would have put the same amount of effort into high school as college, I would have had straight A's and probably be at the school I actually wanted to go to.
TL;DR: High school is important. Even if you don't have to, still try. It makes college a lot easier. | Getting into college. I should say upfront that my definition of "zero effort" is probably different than most others.
Dating back to elementary school I've always been "accelerated" (Yes, I know this means practically nothing). I always did my homework and never needed extra help. Teachers would display a concept and I would usually understand it without needing anything more than basic explanation. My grades weren't stellar, but that's where the whole zero effort thing comes in. Starting my junior year, i attended a local community college through a program in my state. I routinely skipped lectures and barely listened when I did go.
I graduated with a 3.86 weighted GPA and now go to a top 25 university. Looking back, if I would have put the same amount of effort into high school as college, I would have had straight A's and probably be at the school I actually wanted to go to.
TL;DR: High school is important. Even if you don't have to, still try. It makes college a lot easier.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | cj4ub9e | Getting into college. I should say upfront that my definition of "zero effort" is probably different than most others.
Dating back to elementary school I've always been "accelerated" (Yes, I know this means practically nothing). I always did my homework and never needed extra help. Teachers would display a concept and I would usually understand it without needing anything more than basic explanation. My grades weren't stellar, but that's where the whole zero effort thing comes in. Starting my junior year, i attended a local community college through a program in my state. I routinely skipped lectures and barely listened when I did go.
I graduated with a 3.86 weighted GPA and now go to a top 25 university. Looking back, if I would have put the same amount of effort into high school as college, I would have had straight A's and probably be at the school I actually wanted to go to. | High school is important. Even if you don't have to, still try. It makes college a lot easier. |
shamutrainer2b | Six years ago I was on vacation in Ireland. It was our third day there and we stayed at a bed and breakfast above a pub. My parents paid someone to carry our luggage upstairs. They were going to pay someone to bring it back down so I volunteered. I got the three huge rolling duffle bags down without a problem. The last piece was one of little roll alongs for under the plane seats. I went sailing down a flight of almost vertical, concrete steps. I landed on my elbow and twisted under on my wrist. One parent was loading the car, the other was eating in the next room and heard me fall and still didn't believe it was broken. Finally (almost 12hrs later) my arm looked like the Michelin man's so we went to the ER. They were able to tell my elbow was broken and something was wrong with my wrist so they sent me to a hand specialist and casted me until then. Three days later I met with a specialist who actually did his residency about 20mins away from where I live in NC. He said basically the same thing and to see someone when we got back to the states. I saw a general orthopedist but he didn't know so he sent me to a specialist. The first specialist looked at my wrist (my elbow had healed without a problem) and said "she's a teenager, sometimes they get little pains or say they hurt because they want attention but I'll write you a prescription for occupational therapy (OT) anyway". The therapist was baffled as to why my wrist was blowing up like a balloon whenever we tried to strengthen it. We told her which doc I was seeing (OT is in the doc office) and said "he's an asshole. He's a typical surgeon who thinks he's god. You need to see the head of the practice". After lots of politics to be able to see the new doc, I got to see him. (I shall refer to him as Dr. ) Dr. spent 6 months doing arthrograms, bone scans, nerve conduction tests, you name it before finally deciding he had to just go in and look around. A year and a half after my initial fall, I had exploratory surgery. I had a torn ligament that had folded back on itself so none of the scans were able to see it. I flew through recovery and rehab and was discharged. The pain returned about a year later though and we started the entire process over again. Last year Dr. went back in and found severe excess calcium had developed around where he had repaired the ligament. I still have been having severe pain so he went back in today and found TONS of scar tissue. Hopefully, this will take care of my wrist pain for good! But now I've got this damn finger to deal with.
TL;DR
Broke my elbow in Ireland 6yrs ago and screwed up my wrist. First surgery found a torn ligament. Second surgery found extra calcium on the wrist bones causing grinding. Third surgery found tons of scar tissue | Six years ago I was on vacation in Ireland. It was our third day there and we stayed at a bed and breakfast above a pub. My parents paid someone to carry our luggage upstairs. They were going to pay someone to bring it back down so I volunteered. I got the three huge rolling duffle bags down without a problem. The last piece was one of little roll alongs for under the plane seats. I went sailing down a flight of almost vertical, concrete steps. I landed on my elbow and twisted under on my wrist. One parent was loading the car, the other was eating in the next room and heard me fall and still didn't believe it was broken. Finally (almost 12hrs later) my arm looked like the Michelin man's so we went to the ER. They were able to tell my elbow was broken and something was wrong with my wrist so they sent me to a hand specialist and casted me until then. Three days later I met with a specialist who actually did his residency about 20mins away from where I live in NC. He said basically the same thing and to see someone when we got back to the states. I saw a general orthopedist but he didn't know so he sent me to a specialist. The first specialist looked at my wrist (my elbow had healed without a problem) and said "she's a teenager, sometimes they get little pains or say they hurt because they want attention but I'll write you a prescription for occupational therapy (OT) anyway". The therapist was baffled as to why my wrist was blowing up like a balloon whenever we tried to strengthen it. We told her which doc I was seeing (OT is in the doc office) and said "he's an asshole. He's a typical surgeon who thinks he's god. You need to see the head of the practice". After lots of politics to be able to see the new doc, I got to see him. (I shall refer to him as Dr. ) Dr. spent 6 months doing arthrograms, bone scans, nerve conduction tests, you name it before finally deciding he had to just go in and look around. A year and a half after my initial fall, I had exploratory surgery. I had a torn ligament that had folded back on itself so none of the scans were able to see it. I flew through recovery and rehab and was discharged. The pain returned about a year later though and we started the entire process over again. Last year Dr. went back in and found severe excess calcium had developed around where he had repaired the ligament. I still have been having severe pain so he went back in today and found TONS of scar tissue. Hopefully, this will take care of my wrist pain for good! But now I've got this damn finger to deal with.
TL;DR
Broke my elbow in Ireland 6yrs ago and screwed up my wrist. First surgery found a torn ligament. Second surgery found extra calcium on the wrist bones causing grinding. Third surgery found tons of scar tissue
| WTF | t5_2qh61 | cj569hy | Six years ago I was on vacation in Ireland. It was our third day there and we stayed at a bed and breakfast above a pub. My parents paid someone to carry our luggage upstairs. They were going to pay someone to bring it back down so I volunteered. I got the three huge rolling duffle bags down without a problem. The last piece was one of little roll alongs for under the plane seats. I went sailing down a flight of almost vertical, concrete steps. I landed on my elbow and twisted under on my wrist. One parent was loading the car, the other was eating in the next room and heard me fall and still didn't believe it was broken. Finally (almost 12hrs later) my arm looked like the Michelin man's so we went to the ER. They were able to tell my elbow was broken and something was wrong with my wrist so they sent me to a hand specialist and casted me until then. Three days later I met with a specialist who actually did his residency about 20mins away from where I live in NC. He said basically the same thing and to see someone when we got back to the states. I saw a general orthopedist but he didn't know so he sent me to a specialist. The first specialist looked at my wrist (my elbow had healed without a problem) and said "she's a teenager, sometimes they get little pains or say they hurt because they want attention but I'll write you a prescription for occupational therapy (OT) anyway". The therapist was baffled as to why my wrist was blowing up like a balloon whenever we tried to strengthen it. We told her which doc I was seeing (OT is in the doc office) and said "he's an asshole. He's a typical surgeon who thinks he's god. You need to see the head of the practice". After lots of politics to be able to see the new doc, I got to see him. (I shall refer to him as Dr. ) Dr. spent 6 months doing arthrograms, bone scans, nerve conduction tests, you name it before finally deciding he had to just go in and look around. A year and a half after my initial fall, I had exploratory surgery. I had a torn ligament that had folded back on itself so none of the scans were able to see it. I flew through recovery and rehab and was discharged. The pain returned about a year later though and we started the entire process over again. Last year Dr. went back in and found severe excess calcium had developed around where he had repaired the ligament. I still have been having severe pain so he went back in today and found TONS of scar tissue. Hopefully, this will take care of my wrist pain for good! But now I've got this damn finger to deal with. | Broke my elbow in Ireland 6yrs ago and screwed up my wrist. First surgery found a torn ligament. Second surgery found extra calcium on the wrist bones causing grinding. Third surgery found tons of scar tissue |
Erestyn | > "she's a teenager, sometimes they get little pains or say they hurt because they want attention
This is basically every doctor I ever saw about my knees. They claimed it was growing pains, attention, or my trying to get out of school by exaggerating the pain. Right knee was dislocated playing soccer when I was 7, and both knees were dislocated while skateboarding. I had X-Ray's and they showed nothing. After a few years of pain during cold weather and changes in temperature, the doctor I was scheduled to see (the same one who had denied this was an issue for 7 years) was away from the practice temporarily, and a young GP filled in for him. She sent me to physio and for various tests, turns out my ligaments were shot.
In the end of it, there was nothing they could do but offer me physio and ask me to keep exercising it so that I could keep that knee strengthened and told me that if it had been caught earlier, this wouldn't have been an issue.
tl;dr: Doctors are fucking stupid sometimes. | > "she's a teenager, sometimes they get little pains or say they hurt because they want attention
This is basically every doctor I ever saw about my knees. They claimed it was growing pains, attention, or my trying to get out of school by exaggerating the pain. Right knee was dislocated playing soccer when I was 7, and both knees were dislocated while skateboarding. I had X-Ray's and they showed nothing. After a few years of pain during cold weather and changes in temperature, the doctor I was scheduled to see (the same one who had denied this was an issue for 7 years) was away from the practice temporarily, and a young GP filled in for him. She sent me to physio and for various tests, turns out my ligaments were shot.
In the end of it, there was nothing they could do but offer me physio and ask me to keep exercising it so that I could keep that knee strengthened and told me that if it had been caught earlier, this wouldn't have been an issue.
tl;dr: Doctors are fucking stupid sometimes.
| WTF | t5_2qh61 | cj5hd9y | she's a teenager, sometimes they get little pains or say they hurt because they want attention
This is basically every doctor I ever saw about my knees. They claimed it was growing pains, attention, or my trying to get out of school by exaggerating the pain. Right knee was dislocated playing soccer when I was 7, and both knees were dislocated while skateboarding. I had X-Ray's and they showed nothing. After a few years of pain during cold weather and changes in temperature, the doctor I was scheduled to see (the same one who had denied this was an issue for 7 years) was away from the practice temporarily, and a young GP filled in for him. She sent me to physio and for various tests, turns out my ligaments were shot.
In the end of it, there was nothing they could do but offer me physio and ask me to keep exercising it so that I could keep that knee strengthened and told me that if it had been caught earlier, this wouldn't have been an issue. | Doctors are fucking stupid sometimes. |
doughboy011 | I am similar to you, stay in my room and play games, and my parents did not freak out when I moved for college. I only called 1 time a week at most.
TLDR: Your mom is overly possessive, set some boundaries. | I am similar to you, stay in my room and play games, and my parents did not freak out when I moved for college. I only called 1 time a week at most.
TLDR: Your mom is overly possessive, set some boundaries.
| relationships | t5_2qjvn | cj5pt4j | I am similar to you, stay in my room and play games, and my parents did not freak out when I moved for college. I only called 1 time a week at most. | Your mom is overly possessive, set some boundaries. |
shenaningeneer | You're right. I don't have hard evidence. I can't find the article I read a couple months ago, but Reynolds has always wanted to do it and they have a script (written by the Zombieland team).
Beyond that, I'm just hoping they can actually make it happen. But it's educated optimism. Super hero franchises are almost guaranteed money and Deadpool is one of the most popular untapped resources right now.
Tl;Dr take it with a grain of salt. | You're right. I don't have hard evidence. I can't find the article I read a couple months ago, but Reynolds has always wanted to do it and they have a script (written by the Zombieland team).
Beyond that, I'm just hoping they can actually make it happen. But it's educated optimism. Super hero franchises are almost guaranteed money and Deadpool is one of the most popular untapped resources right now.
Tl;Dr take it with a grain of salt.
| funny | t5_2qh33 | cj6iouv | You're right. I don't have hard evidence. I can't find the article I read a couple months ago, but Reynolds has always wanted to do it and they have a script (written by the Zombieland team).
Beyond that, I'm just hoping they can actually make it happen. But it's educated optimism. Super hero franchises are almost guaranteed money and Deadpool is one of the most popular untapped resources right now. | take it with a grain of salt. |
AdviceWithSalt | When I was a kid my parents forced me to play Little League Baseball for some odd reason which I never understood. If they wanted me to go outside and be active then why didn't they ask me "what would you like to do" instead of just forcing me to go out in skin-tight pants and swing a metal stick at a ball that a child with barely developed motor skills is hurling his absolute hardest at me. One of the main forms of protection for this is a plastic shield they give you for your balls, though It would have been preferable to have a real shield for the 16 year old pretending to be 12 to throw his fastest fast ball at me.
One day a rather attractive teenage decided to attend our little league game. She sat in the bleachers between the parents who cared far too much about the outcome of the and the parents who could barely be bothered enough to wear pants. She was wearing a white shirt and during the course of drinking a water bottle she had brought with her was bumped by a passing pedestrian. This caused the water to spill out of the bottle and down the front of her shirt.
Luckily for me I was standing near the fence where this had happened and got a great view of a tan training bra that she had long outgrown. Suddenly my skin tight pants were now tighter then that and my 12 year old self made a discovery. Growing a boner in an unyielding hard plastic cage is an incredibly uncomfortable event which will quickly become painful. Normally the pain would counteract the horniness and cause the boner to end. Except for the fact that the girl was now trying to pat her shirt dry with a nearby towel and was doing so quite unsuccessfully. She was succeding in only causing her breasts to bounce which simply made me horny again.
This was my first encounter with the 'infinite loop'. I tried to leave the field to end it however my coach was so obsessed that we beat the other 12 year olds in this game he screamed at me to stay in place. This made for the most amazing yet dreaded 5 minutes of my life up to that point.
tl'dr: Getting a boner in a cup is uncomfortable which usually ends the boner. Unless she's wearing a white shirt. | When I was a kid my parents forced me to play Little League Baseball for some odd reason which I never understood. If they wanted me to go outside and be active then why didn't they ask me "what would you like to do" instead of just forcing me to go out in skin-tight pants and swing a metal stick at a ball that a child with barely developed motor skills is hurling his absolute hardest at me. One of the main forms of protection for this is a plastic shield they give you for your balls, though It would have been preferable to have a real shield for the 16 year old pretending to be 12 to throw his fastest fast ball at me.
One day a rather attractive teenage decided to attend our little league game. She sat in the bleachers between the parents who cared far too much about the outcome of the and the parents who could barely be bothered enough to wear pants. She was wearing a white shirt and during the course of drinking a water bottle she had brought with her was bumped by a passing pedestrian. This caused the water to spill out of the bottle and down the front of her shirt.
Luckily for me I was standing near the fence where this had happened and got a great view of a tan training bra that she had long outgrown. Suddenly my skin tight pants were now tighter then that and my 12 year old self made a discovery. Growing a boner in an unyielding hard plastic cage is an incredibly uncomfortable event which will quickly become painful. Normally the pain would counteract the horniness and cause the boner to end. Except for the fact that the girl was now trying to pat her shirt dry with a nearby towel and was doing so quite unsuccessfully. She was succeding in only causing her breasts to bounce which simply made me horny again.
This was my first encounter with the 'infinite loop'. I tried to leave the field to end it however my coach was so obsessed that we beat the other 12 year olds in this game he screamed at me to stay in place. This made for the most amazing yet dreaded 5 minutes of my life up to that point.
tl'dr: Getting a boner in a cup is uncomfortable which usually ends the boner. Unless she's wearing a white shirt.
| funny | t5_2qh33 | cj5u7a5 | When I was a kid my parents forced me to play Little League Baseball for some odd reason which I never understood. If they wanted me to go outside and be active then why didn't they ask me "what would you like to do" instead of just forcing me to go out in skin-tight pants and swing a metal stick at a ball that a child with barely developed motor skills is hurling his absolute hardest at me. One of the main forms of protection for this is a plastic shield they give you for your balls, though It would have been preferable to have a real shield for the 16 year old pretending to be 12 to throw his fastest fast ball at me.
One day a rather attractive teenage decided to attend our little league game. She sat in the bleachers between the parents who cared far too much about the outcome of the and the parents who could barely be bothered enough to wear pants. She was wearing a white shirt and during the course of drinking a water bottle she had brought with her was bumped by a passing pedestrian. This caused the water to spill out of the bottle and down the front of her shirt.
Luckily for me I was standing near the fence where this had happened and got a great view of a tan training bra that she had long outgrown. Suddenly my skin tight pants were now tighter then that and my 12 year old self made a discovery. Growing a boner in an unyielding hard plastic cage is an incredibly uncomfortable event which will quickly become painful. Normally the pain would counteract the horniness and cause the boner to end. Except for the fact that the girl was now trying to pat her shirt dry with a nearby towel and was doing so quite unsuccessfully. She was succeding in only causing her breasts to bounce which simply made me horny again.
This was my first encounter with the 'infinite loop'. I tried to leave the field to end it however my coach was so obsessed that we beat the other 12 year olds in this game he screamed at me to stay in place. This made for the most amazing yet dreaded 5 minutes of my life up to that point. | Getting a boner in a cup is uncomfortable which usually ends the boner. Unless she's wearing a white shirt. |
Theliisa | Early in the friendship I told her I was in love with her. At least in our situation I feel it helped us grow closer. Not in a romantic way as she was, and still is, straight. More in a: we knew we could always be honest with each other way. Now she is happily engaged and I may or may not be in the wedding :D
TL;DR 10/10, I'd tell her again.
Edit: haha totally read your question the opposite way. Oops! | Early in the friendship I told her I was in love with her. At least in our situation I feel it helped us grow closer. Not in a romantic way as she was, and still is, straight. More in a: we knew we could always be honest with each other way. Now she is happily engaged and I may or may not be in the wedding :D
TL;DR 10/10, I'd tell her again.
Edit: haha totally read your question the opposite way. Oops!
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | cj6anjt | Early in the friendship I told her I was in love with her. At least in our situation I feel it helped us grow closer. Not in a romantic way as she was, and still is, straight. More in a: we knew we could always be honest with each other way. Now she is happily engaged and I may or may not be in the wedding :D | 10/10, I'd tell her again.
Edit: haha totally read your question the opposite way. Oops! |
intetsu | Another Indian here... so, the key piece of this you have to be aware of is that the police don't exist to protect the lay person in most of India. They are underfunded and under-resourced. Typically it is mob-rule. So, if I am person on the street confronted by "well connected" folks, I am going to just take the abuse....and hope that they go away without harming me too badly. IF, I do face a situation where I have to fight back...then I am going to go get my own group, family, relatives, fellow religious followers, and deal with it as a group...preferably. In most smaller town and cities everyone knows each other. They know who has clout, and who doesn't.
Also, you never mess with a police officer or the family of a police officer. The police basically have license to "arrest" (i.e. torture and brutally abuse) anyone that crosses them. And if your a ranking officer? Nobody touches you. It is a highly "respected" position. AKA fuck off.
That's my take on it anyway. If they had the resources to adequately fund their police and legal system it might be a different story.
TLDR: Mob-rule. Biggest mob rules. Smarter to just get out of the way. | Another Indian here... so, the key piece of this you have to be aware of is that the police don't exist to protect the lay person in most of India. They are underfunded and under-resourced. Typically it is mob-rule. So, if I am person on the street confronted by "well connected" folks, I am going to just take the abuse....and hope that they go away without harming me too badly. IF, I do face a situation where I have to fight back...then I am going to go get my own group, family, relatives, fellow religious followers, and deal with it as a group...preferably. In most smaller town and cities everyone knows each other. They know who has clout, and who doesn't.
Also, you never mess with a police officer or the family of a police officer. The police basically have license to "arrest" (i.e. torture and brutally abuse) anyone that crosses them. And if your a ranking officer? Nobody touches you. It is a highly "respected" position. AKA fuck off.
That's my take on it anyway. If they had the resources to adequately fund their police and legal system it might be a different story.
TLDR: Mob-rule. Biggest mob rules. Smarter to just get out of the way.
| videos | t5_2qh1e | cj6j25p | Another Indian here... so, the key piece of this you have to be aware of is that the police don't exist to protect the lay person in most of India. They are underfunded and under-resourced. Typically it is mob-rule. So, if I am person on the street confronted by "well connected" folks, I am going to just take the abuse....and hope that they go away without harming me too badly. IF, I do face a situation where I have to fight back...then I am going to go get my own group, family, relatives, fellow religious followers, and deal with it as a group...preferably. In most smaller town and cities everyone knows each other. They know who has clout, and who doesn't.
Also, you never mess with a police officer or the family of a police officer. The police basically have license to "arrest" (i.e. torture and brutally abuse) anyone that crosses them. And if your a ranking officer? Nobody touches you. It is a highly "respected" position. AKA fuck off.
That's my take on it anyway. If they had the resources to adequately fund their police and legal system it might be a different story. | Mob-rule. Biggest mob rules. Smarter to just get out of the way. |
choobie | No wait, you have your own CAM software already, which I assume imports STL or IGES (maybe others too), in which case you can use just about any 3D CAD software on the planet with it. For GD&T, some programs (SolidWorks) allow you to attach the symbols in the 3D view, and they are carried over into the 2D prints somehow (?), but I have always added them in manually during the 2D drafting phase, which just about every CAD software should support (or at least let you make blocks so you only have to draw them once/use other people's symbols from the internet). So try out the demos of each program and see which one best fits your needs.
TL;DR you can make professional prints from just about any CAD software, some are easier to use than others | No wait, you have your own CAM software already, which I assume imports STL or IGES (maybe others too), in which case you can use just about any 3D CAD software on the planet with it. For GD&T, some programs (SolidWorks) allow you to attach the symbols in the 3D view, and they are carried over into the 2D prints somehow (?), but I have always added them in manually during the 2D drafting phase, which just about every CAD software should support (or at least let you make blocks so you only have to draw them once/use other people's symbols from the internet). So try out the demos of each program and see which one best fits your needs.
TL;DR you can make professional prints from just about any CAD software, some are easier to use than others
| AskEngineers | t5_2sebk | cj6fpn3 | No wait, you have your own CAM software already, which I assume imports STL or IGES (maybe others too), in which case you can use just about any 3D CAD software on the planet with it. For GD&T, some programs (SolidWorks) allow you to attach the symbols in the 3D view, and they are carried over into the 2D prints somehow (?), but I have always added them in manually during the 2D drafting phase, which just about every CAD software should support (or at least let you make blocks so you only have to draw them once/use other people's symbols from the internet). So try out the demos of each program and see which one best fits your needs. | you can make professional prints from just about any CAD software, some are easier to use than others |
banon_anon | Dude! Watch out for that 'where-is-my-sex-drive' thing. I've just relapsed yesterday and IMHO it is normal, that sex drive varies over time. And I also think that it might come back as you begin to feel all secure and confident in the moment, just for enough time for you to relapse.
It's a shame you started edging, but it's great you stopped. I'm proud of you! Watch out and I wish everything good for ya!
TL;DR It is normal that sex drive varies over time. | Dude! Watch out for that 'where-is-my-sex-drive' thing. I've just relapsed yesterday and IMHO it is normal, that sex drive varies over time. And I also think that it might come back as you begin to feel all secure and confident in the moment, just for enough time for you to relapse.
It's a shame you started edging, but it's great you stopped. I'm proud of you! Watch out and I wish everything good for ya!
TL;DR It is normal that sex drive varies over time.
| NoFap | t5_2skrn | cj6dy1u | Dude! Watch out for that 'where-is-my-sex-drive' thing. I've just relapsed yesterday and IMHO it is normal, that sex drive varies over time. And I also think that it might come back as you begin to feel all secure and confident in the moment, just for enough time for you to relapse.
It's a shame you started edging, but it's great you stopped. I'm proud of you! Watch out and I wish everything good for ya! | It is normal that sex drive varies over time. |
CrisKrossed | Found the guy, and unless he doesn't want to brag about his new "beast" of a computer, he hasn't posted anything about it. He does however have a couple posts in /r/buildapc about ~300 euro builds to play some games. I Guess 4k was a lot less demanding than I thought.
TL;DR Don't feel bad about your "noob" build op. | Found the guy, and unless he doesn't want to brag about his new "beast" of a computer, he hasn't posted anything about it. He does however have a couple posts in /r/buildapc about ~300 euro builds to play some games. I Guess 4k was a lot less demanding than I thought.
TL;DR Don't feel bad about your "noob" build op.
| pcmasterrace | t5_2sgp1 | cj6jxt9 | Found the guy, and unless he doesn't want to brag about his new "beast" of a computer, he hasn't posted anything about it. He does however have a couple posts in /r/buildapc about ~300 euro builds to play some games. I Guess 4k was a lot less demanding than I thought. | Don't feel bad about your "noob" build op. |
ChronicCooper | 24 years old here. I got into the band my freshman year of college ('08/'09).
2 key factors led me to the most important discovery of my life. I used to hate Dave Matthews Band, until I caught his show at Rothbury Music Fest. Even though i went into the show with pessimism, i had so much fun, and danced "freely" for the first time in my life (wasn't concerned with how people would judge my weird moves). From that moment, i became obsessed with capturing that fun again, pretty much exactly like a drug.
So, back to Freshman year, and my RA in my dorm had DMB stuff on his door. I naturally asked him about it, and while he told me that he loved Dave, he also said that Phish was really the bee's knees and that i needed to check them out.
He gave me a list of songs to listen to, and the only ones i actually liked were Chalkdust and The Lizards. He and i would regularly go out to his car to smoke, and whenever we did he would play Phish. One evening, after a particularly long sesh, he played Bouncing Around the Room and i got shivers up and down my spine.
I started listening more and more, just to get that feeling every time Trey would peak (again, like a drug). Slave to the Traffic Light from "A Live One" pretty much sealed it for me. I cried the first time i heard it, and its been an obsession ever since. Been to 16 shows now, and all i want to do is follow them around.
TLDR: Got into DMB first, before a wise friend showed me the way.
P.S. Seeing them live for the first time made me a better person all around. It's hard to explain, it just put all the childish and unimportant things into perspective. | 24 years old here. I got into the band my freshman year of college ('08/'09).
2 key factors led me to the most important discovery of my life. I used to hate Dave Matthews Band, until I caught his show at Rothbury Music Fest. Even though i went into the show with pessimism, i had so much fun, and danced "freely" for the first time in my life (wasn't concerned with how people would judge my weird moves). From that moment, i became obsessed with capturing that fun again, pretty much exactly like a drug.
So, back to Freshman year, and my RA in my dorm had DMB stuff on his door. I naturally asked him about it, and while he told me that he loved Dave, he also said that Phish was really the bee's knees and that i needed to check them out.
He gave me a list of songs to listen to, and the only ones i actually liked were Chalkdust and The Lizards. He and i would regularly go out to his car to smoke, and whenever we did he would play Phish. One evening, after a particularly long sesh, he played Bouncing Around the Room and i got shivers up and down my spine.
I started listening more and more, just to get that feeling every time Trey would peak (again, like a drug). Slave to the Traffic Light from "A Live One" pretty much sealed it for me. I cried the first time i heard it, and its been an obsession ever since. Been to 16 shows now, and all i want to do is follow them around.
TLDR: Got into DMB first, before a wise friend showed me the way.
P.S. Seeing them live for the first time made me a better person all around. It's hard to explain, it just put all the childish and unimportant things into perspective.
| phish | t5_2ql29 | cj6gxtc | 24 years old here. I got into the band my freshman year of college ('08/'09).
2 key factors led me to the most important discovery of my life. I used to hate Dave Matthews Band, until I caught his show at Rothbury Music Fest. Even though i went into the show with pessimism, i had so much fun, and danced "freely" for the first time in my life (wasn't concerned with how people would judge my weird moves). From that moment, i became obsessed with capturing that fun again, pretty much exactly like a drug.
So, back to Freshman year, and my RA in my dorm had DMB stuff on his door. I naturally asked him about it, and while he told me that he loved Dave, he also said that Phish was really the bee's knees and that i needed to check them out.
He gave me a list of songs to listen to, and the only ones i actually liked were Chalkdust and The Lizards. He and i would regularly go out to his car to smoke, and whenever we did he would play Phish. One evening, after a particularly long sesh, he played Bouncing Around the Room and i got shivers up and down my spine.
I started listening more and more, just to get that feeling every time Trey would peak (again, like a drug). Slave to the Traffic Light from "A Live One" pretty much sealed it for me. I cried the first time i heard it, and its been an obsession ever since. Been to 16 shows now, and all i want to do is follow them around. | Got into DMB first, before a wise friend showed me the way.
P.S. Seeing them live for the first time made me a better person all around. It's hard to explain, it just put all the childish and unimportant things into perspective. |
one_mez | I'm actually 26, but I'll give it a whirl anyways...
To put simply? The Internet. My older siblings weren't into the jam thing at all, nor were any of my friends through middle school, or even really high school (hung around a lot of rave kids, being in the Chicago area). I think I was around the age of 10 or 11 when the internet found itself at my house. Damn, those were exciting times...like whole new worlds opening up before your eyes on a regular basis; subcultures you'd never knew existed were waiting to be explored...
I dug through a lot of electronic early on, especially the classic Chicago house style, UK jungle and DnB, and (slightly ashamed to say) shitty club trance and happy hardcore...But what I realized quickly was that I loved to dance, and all these different kinds of electronic music made me move in different kinds of ways. And then? Well, then I bought a guitar.....
And so I found The Phish from Vermont. I think I was about 12 when I first saw the name and listened to a few tracks I had stole from the internet through napster or the like...It was different, pulling mostly studio stuff at first, not really knowing what was what. Was honestly not that impressed immediately, but certainly intrigued. Then I found the Funk...
And the way It made me move was unlike any kind of dance music I had ever heard. There was no formula, no go-to moves to hit the dance floor with; It was alive and unpredictable, and It simply consumed my body. I remember looking at myself, while alone in my room, dancing uncontrollably and wondering what had taken over me...
The rest of their feelings came shortly after; the blissful cascades, the high speed rock, the dark psychedelic...but it was that Funk that captured me, and took me outside the box I had already found. I was, however, a bit too young to get out on tour during 2.0, and was left with an agonizing proposition that I would never see this band live...5 years of digging through the catalog, teaching myself to *really* hear the music, growing up, the passing of my father, battling depression, learning of the world...and then 2009 came...and I drove myself 14 hours solo to catch the first night of Hampton alone, releasing a 7 year tension build up between this band and myself...and It was Glorious...
**TL:DR** Internet! > Dance Music > Guitar > FUNK > The 5 Year Sadness > HAMPTON! | I'm actually 26, but I'll give it a whirl anyways...
To put simply? The Internet. My older siblings weren't into the jam thing at all, nor were any of my friends through middle school, or even really high school (hung around a lot of rave kids, being in the Chicago area). I think I was around the age of 10 or 11 when the internet found itself at my house. Damn, those were exciting times...like whole new worlds opening up before your eyes on a regular basis; subcultures you'd never knew existed were waiting to be explored...
I dug through a lot of electronic early on, especially the classic Chicago house style, UK jungle and DnB, and (slightly ashamed to say) shitty club trance and happy hardcore...But what I realized quickly was that I loved to dance, and all these different kinds of electronic music made me move in different kinds of ways. And then? Well, then I bought a guitar.....
And so I found The Phish from Vermont. I think I was about 12 when I first saw the name and listened to a few tracks I had stole from the internet through napster or the like...It was different, pulling mostly studio stuff at first, not really knowing what was what. Was honestly not that impressed immediately, but certainly intrigued. Then I found the Funk...
And the way It made me move was unlike any kind of dance music I had ever heard. There was no formula, no go-to moves to hit the dance floor with; It was alive and unpredictable, and It simply consumed my body. I remember looking at myself, while alone in my room, dancing uncontrollably and wondering what had taken over me...
The rest of their feelings came shortly after; the blissful cascades, the high speed rock, the dark psychedelic...but it was that Funk that captured me, and took me outside the box I had already found. I was, however, a bit too young to get out on tour during 2.0, and was left with an agonizing proposition that I would never see this band live...5 years of digging through the catalog, teaching myself to really hear the music, growing up, the passing of my father, battling depression, learning of the world...and then 2009 came...and I drove myself 14 hours solo to catch the first night of Hampton alone, releasing a 7 year tension build up between this band and myself...and It was Glorious...
TL:DR Internet! > Dance Music > Guitar > FUNK > The 5 Year Sadness > HAMPTON!
| phish | t5_2ql29 | cj6hc7y | I'm actually 26, but I'll give it a whirl anyways...
To put simply? The Internet. My older siblings weren't into the jam thing at all, nor were any of my friends through middle school, or even really high school (hung around a lot of rave kids, being in the Chicago area). I think I was around the age of 10 or 11 when the internet found itself at my house. Damn, those were exciting times...like whole new worlds opening up before your eyes on a regular basis; subcultures you'd never knew existed were waiting to be explored...
I dug through a lot of electronic early on, especially the classic Chicago house style, UK jungle and DnB, and (slightly ashamed to say) shitty club trance and happy hardcore...But what I realized quickly was that I loved to dance, and all these different kinds of electronic music made me move in different kinds of ways. And then? Well, then I bought a guitar.....
And so I found The Phish from Vermont. I think I was about 12 when I first saw the name and listened to a few tracks I had stole from the internet through napster or the like...It was different, pulling mostly studio stuff at first, not really knowing what was what. Was honestly not that impressed immediately, but certainly intrigued. Then I found the Funk...
And the way It made me move was unlike any kind of dance music I had ever heard. There was no formula, no go-to moves to hit the dance floor with; It was alive and unpredictable, and It simply consumed my body. I remember looking at myself, while alone in my room, dancing uncontrollably and wondering what had taken over me...
The rest of their feelings came shortly after; the blissful cascades, the high speed rock, the dark psychedelic...but it was that Funk that captured me, and took me outside the box I had already found. I was, however, a bit too young to get out on tour during 2.0, and was left with an agonizing proposition that I would never see this band live...5 years of digging through the catalog, teaching myself to really hear the music, growing up, the passing of my father, battling depression, learning of the world...and then 2009 came...and I drove myself 14 hours solo to catch the first night of Hampton alone, releasing a 7 year tension build up between this band and myself...and It was Glorious... | Internet! > Dance Music > Guitar > FUNK > The 5 Year Sadness > HAMPTON! |
BtubGin33 | I'm 26, but I think a lot of people my age got into them either at the beginning of 3.0 or from 2004-2009.
My older brother was always a dead/phish/sci fan, but when I was growing up and in high school I never took the time to actually listen to their music. The only song I knew was Wading which was on my brother's "chill" burned cd.
Flash forward to June of 2009 and I just finished my Junior year of college. In May I broke up with who I thought was the love of my life and was deep into depression. My older brother forced me to go to Bonnaroo, he said it would get me out of my depression funk.
Needless to say, that Friday night at Bonnaroo my life was changed forever. After Bonnaroo, Phish was all I could listen to. I was hooked. I went through the progression of the albums, and I found whatever live shows I could online.. but I still didn't get "it". I found myself listening to the composed parts of songs and leaving out the jams. I would get bored after the compositions, but I was still constantly listening.
My brother and I went to Chicago that August for his birthday, and that simply fueled the fire even more. We planned our trip to Miami for New Years, and those 4 nights blew my nooby mind. 12/30/09 was probably one of the most amazing nights of my life. BUT... I still didn't get it...
Here's when I did get it...
About a month or so after Miami, I was lying in bed listening to Phish through my headphones. I was sorta tired, so I laid back and closed my eyes. All of a sudden ALO Hood came on, and it was the First time I actually took the time to listen to Phish and let it completely consume me. I had goosebumps all over my body. That feeling... that is what I go to shows for.
TL/DR - Brother took me and it blew me away. ALO Hood made me actually "get it" | I'm 26, but I think a lot of people my age got into them either at the beginning of 3.0 or from 2004-2009.
My older brother was always a dead/phish/sci fan, but when I was growing up and in high school I never took the time to actually listen to their music. The only song I knew was Wading which was on my brother's "chill" burned cd.
Flash forward to June of 2009 and I just finished my Junior year of college. In May I broke up with who I thought was the love of my life and was deep into depression. My older brother forced me to go to Bonnaroo, he said it would get me out of my depression funk.
Needless to say, that Friday night at Bonnaroo my life was changed forever. After Bonnaroo, Phish was all I could listen to. I was hooked. I went through the progression of the albums, and I found whatever live shows I could online.. but I still didn't get "it". I found myself listening to the composed parts of songs and leaving out the jams. I would get bored after the compositions, but I was still constantly listening.
My brother and I went to Chicago that August for his birthday, and that simply fueled the fire even more. We planned our trip to Miami for New Years, and those 4 nights blew my nooby mind. 12/30/09 was probably one of the most amazing nights of my life. BUT... I still didn't get it...
Here's when I did get it...
About a month or so after Miami, I was lying in bed listening to Phish through my headphones. I was sorta tired, so I laid back and closed my eyes. All of a sudden ALO Hood came on, and it was the First time I actually took the time to listen to Phish and let it completely consume me. I had goosebumps all over my body. That feeling... that is what I go to shows for.
TL/DR - Brother took me and it blew me away. ALO Hood made me actually "get it"
| phish | t5_2ql29 | cj6poc4 | I'm 26, but I think a lot of people my age got into them either at the beginning of 3.0 or from 2004-2009.
My older brother was always a dead/phish/sci fan, but when I was growing up and in high school I never took the time to actually listen to their music. The only song I knew was Wading which was on my brother's "chill" burned cd.
Flash forward to June of 2009 and I just finished my Junior year of college. In May I broke up with who I thought was the love of my life and was deep into depression. My older brother forced me to go to Bonnaroo, he said it would get me out of my depression funk.
Needless to say, that Friday night at Bonnaroo my life was changed forever. After Bonnaroo, Phish was all I could listen to. I was hooked. I went through the progression of the albums, and I found whatever live shows I could online.. but I still didn't get "it". I found myself listening to the composed parts of songs and leaving out the jams. I would get bored after the compositions, but I was still constantly listening.
My brother and I went to Chicago that August for his birthday, and that simply fueled the fire even more. We planned our trip to Miami for New Years, and those 4 nights blew my nooby mind. 12/30/09 was probably one of the most amazing nights of my life. BUT... I still didn't get it...
Here's when I did get it...
About a month or so after Miami, I was lying in bed listening to Phish through my headphones. I was sorta tired, so I laid back and closed my eyes. All of a sudden ALO Hood came on, and it was the First time I actually took the time to listen to Phish and let it completely consume me. I had goosebumps all over my body. That feeling... that is what I go to shows for. | Brother took me and it blew me away. ALO Hood made me actually "get it" |
TheMaddJon | As someone who had never read the books (for obvious reasons) i was pleasantly surprised by the trailer, the cinematography was pretty good and the acting wasn't appalling. I probably won't see it but it looks better than i thought it would.
The best book to film adaptations i can think of is the Harry Potter books that, while they have their problems but they captured the feel of the books pretty well.
Now the worst adaptation i have ever seen is without a doubt World War Z, as a film it's alright, its full of cliche's and some pretty bad writing but as an adaptation of the book it's goddamn garbage. There are only 3 parts in the entire film that actually feature in the book, the wall of Israel, the fact that in Korea everyone had their teeth removed and the fact that there's a nuclear explosion. THATS IT. Fuck the geo-political narrative, fuck the assessment of the human condition and the lengths it will go to to survive, fuck the book lets make a film about Brad Pitt single-handedly saving the world from these super spooky zombies. In the book theres a great part about how Iran and Pakistan have an escalating conflict over people fleeing into Iran which ends in a nuclear war between them, in the film it's just "Oh look a mushroom cloud! Lets totally ignore that and keep going!". Apparently the original ending was somewhat closer to the book, with Brad Pitt in Moscow but they re-shot the ENTIRE THIRD ACT because they didn't want it being to overtly political. THAT WAS PART OF THE ORIGINAL BOOK YOU NUMNUTS. They completely abandoned the source material in favour of turning it into a dumb Summer blockbuster of Brad Pitt being a one man superhero and saving the world.
TL;DR- 50 Shades-Pleasantly surprised
Harry Potter-Good
World War Z-Don't bother if you've read the book or have and respect for adapting books into films. | As someone who had never read the books (for obvious reasons) i was pleasantly surprised by the trailer, the cinematography was pretty good and the acting wasn't appalling. I probably won't see it but it looks better than i thought it would.
The best book to film adaptations i can think of is the Harry Potter books that, while they have their problems but they captured the feel of the books pretty well.
Now the worst adaptation i have ever seen is without a doubt World War Z, as a film it's alright, its full of cliche's and some pretty bad writing but as an adaptation of the book it's goddamn garbage. There are only 3 parts in the entire film that actually feature in the book, the wall of Israel, the fact that in Korea everyone had their teeth removed and the fact that there's a nuclear explosion. THATS IT. Fuck the geo-political narrative, fuck the assessment of the human condition and the lengths it will go to to survive, fuck the book lets make a film about Brad Pitt single-handedly saving the world from these super spooky zombies. In the book theres a great part about how Iran and Pakistan have an escalating conflict over people fleeing into Iran which ends in a nuclear war between them, in the film it's just "Oh look a mushroom cloud! Lets totally ignore that and keep going!". Apparently the original ending was somewhat closer to the book, with Brad Pitt in Moscow but they re-shot the ENTIRE THIRD ACT because they didn't want it being to overtly political. THAT WAS PART OF THE ORIGINAL BOOK YOU NUMNUTS. They completely abandoned the source material in favour of turning it into a dumb Summer blockbuster of Brad Pitt being a one man superhero and saving the world.
TL;DR- 50 Shades-Pleasantly surprised
Harry Potter-Good
World War Z-Don't bother if you've read the book or have and respect for adapting books into films.
| Random_Acts_Of_Amazon | t5_2tx47 | cj6nrux | As someone who had never read the books (for obvious reasons) i was pleasantly surprised by the trailer, the cinematography was pretty good and the acting wasn't appalling. I probably won't see it but it looks better than i thought it would.
The best book to film adaptations i can think of is the Harry Potter books that, while they have their problems but they captured the feel of the books pretty well.
Now the worst adaptation i have ever seen is without a doubt World War Z, as a film it's alright, its full of cliche's and some pretty bad writing but as an adaptation of the book it's goddamn garbage. There are only 3 parts in the entire film that actually feature in the book, the wall of Israel, the fact that in Korea everyone had their teeth removed and the fact that there's a nuclear explosion. THATS IT. Fuck the geo-political narrative, fuck the assessment of the human condition and the lengths it will go to to survive, fuck the book lets make a film about Brad Pitt single-handedly saving the world from these super spooky zombies. In the book theres a great part about how Iran and Pakistan have an escalating conflict over people fleeing into Iran which ends in a nuclear war between them, in the film it's just "Oh look a mushroom cloud! Lets totally ignore that and keep going!". Apparently the original ending was somewhat closer to the book, with Brad Pitt in Moscow but they re-shot the ENTIRE THIRD ACT because they didn't want it being to overtly political. THAT WAS PART OF THE ORIGINAL BOOK YOU NUMNUTS. They completely abandoned the source material in favour of turning it into a dumb Summer blockbuster of Brad Pitt being a one man superhero and saving the world. | 50 Shades-Pleasantly surprised
Harry Potter-Good
World War Z-Don't bother if you've read the book or have and respect for adapting books into films. |
unpickle | As the article states, no local water agency has imposed any fines or restrictions on water use. Even though the state has OK'd restrictions the water agencies are loathe to mess with their revenue stream and alienate their customers like that.
tl;dr: In most of California you're still free to use as much water as you can pay for as if there's no tomorrow. | As the article states, no local water agency has imposed any fines or restrictions on water use. Even though the state has OK'd restrictions the water agencies are loathe to mess with their revenue stream and alienate their customers like that.
tl;dr: In most of California you're still free to use as much water as you can pay for as if there's no tomorrow.
| bayarea | t5_2qjyy | cj6vbm4 | As the article states, no local water agency has imposed any fines or restrictions on water use. Even though the state has OK'd restrictions the water agencies are loathe to mess with their revenue stream and alienate their customers like that. | In most of California you're still free to use as much water as you can pay for as if there's no tomorrow. |
A_e_A_o | For every one or two games I play where a 2 or 3 stack on the enemy team wrecks face, there's one or two games where a 2 or 3 stack on the enemy team tries to agressive tri-lane and ends up feeding, or one or two games where a 2 or 3 stack on my team wrecks face, or there's a 3 stack on the enemy team where one player is doing really well, but his 2 friends are clearly less skilled and have no impact in the game.
tl;dr It all evens out, because any good or bad stack is just as likely to be with you as against you. | For every one or two games I play where a 2 or 3 stack on the enemy team wrecks face, there's one or two games where a 2 or 3 stack on the enemy team tries to agressive tri-lane and ends up feeding, or one or two games where a 2 or 3 stack on my team wrecks face, or there's a 3 stack on the enemy team where one player is doing really well, but his 2 friends are clearly less skilled and have no impact in the game.
tl;dr It all evens out, because any good or bad stack is just as likely to be with you as against you.
| DotA2 | t5_2s580 | cj6lp3c | For every one or two games I play where a 2 or 3 stack on the enemy team wrecks face, there's one or two games where a 2 or 3 stack on the enemy team tries to agressive tri-lane and ends up feeding, or one or two games where a 2 or 3 stack on my team wrecks face, or there's a 3 stack on the enemy team where one player is doing really well, but his 2 friends are clearly less skilled and have no impact in the game. | It all evens out, because any good or bad stack is just as likely to be with you as against you. |
Heretic_Cata | Had a friend a few years ago who felt the constant need to "test his friendships". He kept "testing" our friendship for about 6 months after which i had enough. If someone needs to artificially construct situations for 6 months just to test my friendship with him then that person doesn't deserve to be my friend. I'm going out for a beer with you for fun, not to constantly pass some stupid test.
tl;dr Don't go overboard on the tests or you will find yourself abandoned even by your real friends. | Had a friend a few years ago who felt the constant need to "test his friendships". He kept "testing" our friendship for about 6 months after which i had enough. If someone needs to artificially construct situations for 6 months just to test my friendship with him then that person doesn't deserve to be my friend. I'm going out for a beer with you for fun, not to constantly pass some stupid test.
tl;dr Don't go overboard on the tests or you will find yourself abandoned even by your real friends.
| socialskills | t5_2r275 | cj6s8f6 | Had a friend a few years ago who felt the constant need to "test his friendships". He kept "testing" our friendship for about 6 months after which i had enough. If someone needs to artificially construct situations for 6 months just to test my friendship with him then that person doesn't deserve to be my friend. I'm going out for a beer with you for fun, not to constantly pass some stupid test. | Don't go overboard on the tests or you will find yourself abandoned even by your real friends. |
red7raider | Tech has a winning record over every team in the state over the last 20 years. You might have a case for recruiting, but that's just due to Baylor's recent success (with a Tech alumni and former coach guiding it) and AnM joining the SEC. In 2010 we finished a 15 year streak of housing Baylor and had a winning record over AnM in the Big XII.
TL;DR: You're out of your depth. Get to the other end of the pool. | Tech has a winning record over every team in the state over the last 20 years. You might have a case for recruiting, but that's just due to Baylor's recent success (with a Tech alumni and former coach guiding it) and AnM joining the SEC. In 2010 we finished a 15 year streak of housing Baylor and had a winning record over AnM in the Big XII.
TL;DR: You're out of your depth. Get to the other end of the pool.
| CFB | t5_2qm9d | cj76n9c | Tech has a winning record over every team in the state over the last 20 years. You might have a case for recruiting, but that's just due to Baylor's recent success (with a Tech alumni and former coach guiding it) and AnM joining the SEC. In 2010 we finished a 15 year streak of housing Baylor and had a winning record over AnM in the Big XII. | You're out of your depth. Get to the other end of the pool. |
pulley999 | Screen tearing happens when your video card's output exceeds the refresh rate of your monitor. Monitors still scan an image from top to bottom, a legacy thing from CRT days. 1080i means rows 1, 3, 5, 7, all the way through 1079 are displayed on one frame, and the next frame displays on rows 2, 4, 6, 8, all the way through 1080. A 1080p display will pass every frame through pixel rows 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 all the way through 1080. What causes screen tearing is when the monitor receives another frame from the video card before it's done displaying the first. So, a 1080p monitor might be in the middle of scanning and displaying line 979 when the computer suddenly gives it a different image to display. So lines 1 through 979 are frame one, while lines 980 through 1080 are frame two. Your average monitor can display an image 60 times a second (60hz), so if the computer feeds it images faster than that it can't finish displaying the first before it gets the order to display the next. As such, reducing graphics settings can *increase* screen tearing as it allows the video card to render at a more rapid framerate, potentially inducing multiple tears per monitor refresh if you go over double your monitor's refresh rate. Example: Monitor draws lines 1-347 based on frame 1, lines 348-900 based on frame 2 and and lines 901-1080 on frame 3. VSync forcibly caps your framerate to that which the monitor can display as well as placing the image in phase with the monitor, which introduces tangible input lag as each rendered frame based on the new input is forced to wait in the buffer a few dozen extra milliseconds. Turning up your graphics settings so stupidly high that your framerate no longer exceeds the refresh rate of your display is a way to mitigate screen tearing, though it's still possible for the image to be out of phase with the monitor, EX 60fps video always starting at line 47, drawing all the way through 1080 and then going back and being lines 1 through 46 of your monitor's next refresh cycle, with the next frame starting on line 47 again. Also, if you're playing in any sort of windowed mode then Windows has already single buffer vsynced the game through the Windows compositor (because it's impossible for two different applications to be on the same screen at the same time running different refresh rates), so turning on ingame vsync as well adds unnecessary input lag.
TLDR Screen tearing is produced when your system is outperforming what your monitor is capable of displaying, likely 60hz, or is out of phase with the monitor. Screen tearing is *solved* when you've murdered your system by turning everything up way higher than it needs to be.
EDIT: Digital standards like DVI, HDMI and DisplayPort likely make sure the two are in phase with each other, pretty sure that phase difference is only an issue with analog standards like VGA, Component and A/V. | Screen tearing happens when your video card's output exceeds the refresh rate of your monitor. Monitors still scan an image from top to bottom, a legacy thing from CRT days. 1080i means rows 1, 3, 5, 7, all the way through 1079 are displayed on one frame, and the next frame displays on rows 2, 4, 6, 8, all the way through 1080. A 1080p display will pass every frame through pixel rows 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 all the way through 1080. What causes screen tearing is when the monitor receives another frame from the video card before it's done displaying the first. So, a 1080p monitor might be in the middle of scanning and displaying line 979 when the computer suddenly gives it a different image to display. So lines 1 through 979 are frame one, while lines 980 through 1080 are frame two. Your average monitor can display an image 60 times a second (60hz), so if the computer feeds it images faster than that it can't finish displaying the first before it gets the order to display the next. As such, reducing graphics settings can increase screen tearing as it allows the video card to render at a more rapid framerate, potentially inducing multiple tears per monitor refresh if you go over double your monitor's refresh rate. Example: Monitor draws lines 1-347 based on frame 1, lines 348-900 based on frame 2 and and lines 901-1080 on frame 3. VSync forcibly caps your framerate to that which the monitor can display as well as placing the image in phase with the monitor, which introduces tangible input lag as each rendered frame based on the new input is forced to wait in the buffer a few dozen extra milliseconds. Turning up your graphics settings so stupidly high that your framerate no longer exceeds the refresh rate of your display is a way to mitigate screen tearing, though it's still possible for the image to be out of phase with the monitor, EX 60fps video always starting at line 47, drawing all the way through 1080 and then going back and being lines 1 through 46 of your monitor's next refresh cycle, with the next frame starting on line 47 again. Also, if you're playing in any sort of windowed mode then Windows has already single buffer vsynced the game through the Windows compositor (because it's impossible for two different applications to be on the same screen at the same time running different refresh rates), so turning on ingame vsync as well adds unnecessary input lag.
TLDR Screen tearing is produced when your system is outperforming what your monitor is capable of displaying, likely 60hz, or is out of phase with the monitor. Screen tearing is solved when you've murdered your system by turning everything up way higher than it needs to be.
EDIT: Digital standards like DVI, HDMI and DisplayPort likely make sure the two are in phase with each other, pretty sure that phase difference is only an issue with analog standards like VGA, Component and A/V.
| pcgaming | t5_2qhfg | cj7a7ql | Screen tearing happens when your video card's output exceeds the refresh rate of your monitor. Monitors still scan an image from top to bottom, a legacy thing from CRT days. 1080i means rows 1, 3, 5, 7, all the way through 1079 are displayed on one frame, and the next frame displays on rows 2, 4, 6, 8, all the way through 1080. A 1080p display will pass every frame through pixel rows 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 all the way through 1080. What causes screen tearing is when the monitor receives another frame from the video card before it's done displaying the first. So, a 1080p monitor might be in the middle of scanning and displaying line 979 when the computer suddenly gives it a different image to display. So lines 1 through 979 are frame one, while lines 980 through 1080 are frame two. Your average monitor can display an image 60 times a second (60hz), so if the computer feeds it images faster than that it can't finish displaying the first before it gets the order to display the next. As such, reducing graphics settings can increase screen tearing as it allows the video card to render at a more rapid framerate, potentially inducing multiple tears per monitor refresh if you go over double your monitor's refresh rate. Example: Monitor draws lines 1-347 based on frame 1, lines 348-900 based on frame 2 and and lines 901-1080 on frame 3. VSync forcibly caps your framerate to that which the monitor can display as well as placing the image in phase with the monitor, which introduces tangible input lag as each rendered frame based on the new input is forced to wait in the buffer a few dozen extra milliseconds. Turning up your graphics settings so stupidly high that your framerate no longer exceeds the refresh rate of your display is a way to mitigate screen tearing, though it's still possible for the image to be out of phase with the monitor, EX 60fps video always starting at line 47, drawing all the way through 1080 and then going back and being lines 1 through 46 of your monitor's next refresh cycle, with the next frame starting on line 47 again. Also, if you're playing in any sort of windowed mode then Windows has already single buffer vsynced the game through the Windows compositor (because it's impossible for two different applications to be on the same screen at the same time running different refresh rates), so turning on ingame vsync as well adds unnecessary input lag. | Screen tearing is produced when your system is outperforming what your monitor is capable of displaying, likely 60hz, or is out of phase with the monitor. Screen tearing is solved when you've murdered your system by turning everything up way higher than it needs to be.
EDIT: Digital standards like DVI, HDMI and DisplayPort likely make sure the two are in phase with each other, pretty sure that phase difference is only an issue with analog standards like VGA, Component and A/V. |
Axolen | Magic is completely different than hearthstone in regards to playable cards.
In hearthstone you have to worry about regular 1v1 matches and draft/arena.
In Magic however, there are a ton of formats to consider, a legendary creature may not be good in standard, but is great in commander. Maybe a common isn't playable, but it is in draft. Than you have cards that may be playable in modern, vintage, THG, Legacy, maybe in a Cube. There are a lot more, but I can't remember them all.
TL:DR: Magic has more formats there for not everything is playable in every format. | Magic is completely different than hearthstone in regards to playable cards.
In hearthstone you have to worry about regular 1v1 matches and draft/arena.
In Magic however, there are a ton of formats to consider, a legendary creature may not be good in standard, but is great in commander. Maybe a common isn't playable, but it is in draft. Than you have cards that may be playable in modern, vintage, THG, Legacy, maybe in a Cube. There are a lot more, but I can't remember them all.
TL:DR: Magic has more formats there for not everything is playable in every format.
| hearthstone | t5_2w31t | cj88rxb | Magic is completely different than hearthstone in regards to playable cards.
In hearthstone you have to worry about regular 1v1 matches and draft/arena.
In Magic however, there are a ton of formats to consider, a legendary creature may not be good in standard, but is great in commander. Maybe a common isn't playable, but it is in draft. Than you have cards that may be playable in modern, vintage, THG, Legacy, maybe in a Cube. There are a lot more, but I can't remember them all. | Magic has more formats there for not everything is playable in every format. |
all_teh_sandwiches | I think that it will be a legitimate inter-world war, with Earth fighting against her colonies in the solar system, who would be trying to improve their status as citizens.
TL;DR Asimov. | I think that it will be a legitimate inter-world war, with Earth fighting against her colonies in the solar system, who would be trying to improve their status as citizens.
TL;DR Asimov.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | cj7lskf | I think that it will be a legitimate inter-world war, with Earth fighting against her colonies in the solar system, who would be trying to improve their status as citizens. | Asimov. |
KiryuFirebane | I think it's not aroma's fault. It's just that when you finish Vesryr, you have that feeling of "quest complete", with all your team at lv 90~120, after all this journey, to practically start off again with a lv 5 starter and stuff, it makes you feel lazy and not motivated enough, even with the fact that you inherit all items from Vesryr.
It've felt the same way when I completed fire red and wanted to play emerald just to get have all 389 pokemons.
tl;dr: I wouldn't say it's a game's flaw, just something related with our minds. | I think it's not aroma's fault. It's just that when you finish Vesryr, you have that feeling of "quest complete", with all your team at lv 90~120, after all this journey, to practically start off again with a lv 5 starter and stuff, it makes you feel lazy and not motivated enough, even with the fact that you inherit all items from Vesryr.
It've felt the same way when I completed fire red and wanted to play emerald just to get have all 389 pokemons.
tl;dr: I wouldn't say it's a game's flaw, just something related with our minds.
| pokemonzetaomicron | t5_2wflg | cj88w80 | I think it's not aroma's fault. It's just that when you finish Vesryr, you have that feeling of "quest complete", with all your team at lv 90~120, after all this journey, to practically start off again with a lv 5 starter and stuff, it makes you feel lazy and not motivated enough, even with the fact that you inherit all items from Vesryr.
It've felt the same way when I completed fire red and wanted to play emerald just to get have all 389 pokemons. | I wouldn't say it's a game's flaw, just something related with our minds. |
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