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shuttl3s | we need to don a new nickname...
like julius randle is "stella" just bc i want someone to have the nickname stella
.
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TLDR: J.Randle is stella pls
| we need to don a new nickname...
like julius randle is "stella" just bc i want someone to have the nickname stella
.
.
TLDR: J.Randle is stella pls
| nba | t5_2qo4s | cjwnpp0 | we need to don a new nickname...
like julius randle is "stella" just bc i want someone to have the nickname stella
.
. | J.Randle is stella pls |
unbrokenstreams | ~~translation: people who experience certain things are more likely to read books in which things similar to those things are described.~~
**edit:** I decided that this was worth a deeper look and I was none to happy with what I found:
I'm just looking at the [table of results]( which is pretty odd and not consistent with the hypothesis that reading 50SoG causes risky behaviors.
For reading just 1 book, these are the behaviors/events that have a significant increase in risk (i.e., that confidence interval for the estimate does not span 1, which would indicate no difference in risk):
* "Partner Shouted, yelled, swore, etc."
* "Partner sent Unwanted phone calls, text"
* "Fasted 24+ hours to lose weight"
* "Taken diet aids to lose weight"
But what about the people who read more of the books? You'd expect them to have a higher relative risk, right -- or at least the same level of risk? But in the group that read all three books there was *no significant difference* in their risk for "Partner Shouted, yelled, swore, etc.", "Partner sent Unwanted phone calls, text", "Fasted 24+ hours to lose weight" -- only the risk for "Taken diet aids to lose weight" remained significantly elevated. So, basically, don't stop at book 1!
What were the significant risks for the high dose (3 book) group? Diet aids, as I mentioned, binge drinking (5+ drinks on 6 or more days in past 30 day), and having 5 or more intercourse partners during their lifetime. I've only read bits and pieces of these books, and don't remember any binge drinking, but maybe this is a legitimate problem with them. But, is it really surprising that women who read erotica have had sex with more people (and is this even a good item for assessing risky sexual practices in 2014)?
So there's no consistent pattern of results, and in the group you'd expect to be most at risk for problematic behaviors (given that your hypothesis is reading book causes things), you have risk for self harm via drink and drug, but no risk of abusive relationships. Oh yeah, and risk of having had more sex.
But beyond the results, the analytic process is pretty suspicious. If I were looking at this data, and thought there was some causal connection between the book and these risks, I'd look at a linear relationship between these items and the number of books someone's read. I'd have more power to detect an effect, and I wouldn't have to explain to my readers why I only looked at folks who read 1 and 3 books, omitting those who read 2 books. If they had some reason to look at this categorically, why break it out into 1 book and 3 books? Maybe they had their reasons, but it looks to me like they tried it one way and it didn't work, so they tried it another. Also, is "people who didn't read any 50 shades of grey" really the best control group? Better to compare readers of one (set of) book(s) to readers of another (set of) book(s). Maybe non-readers just have less risky lives compared to readers of any books (I don't think that's likely, but it's a possibility not addressed at all in this article).
TL;DR: Check out the [table of results]( and notice how they're not what you'd expect if reading these books consistently leads to increase risk of these things.
| translation: people who experience certain things are more likely to read books in which things similar to those things are described.
edit: I decided that this was worth a deeper look and I was none to happy with what I found:
I'm just looking at the [table of results]( which is pretty odd and not consistent with the hypothesis that reading 50SoG causes risky behaviors.
For reading just 1 book, these are the behaviors/events that have a significant increase in risk (i.e., that confidence interval for the estimate does not span 1, which would indicate no difference in risk):
"Partner Shouted, yelled, swore, etc."
"Partner sent Unwanted phone calls, text"
"Fasted 24+ hours to lose weight"
"Taken diet aids to lose weight"
But what about the people who read more of the books? You'd expect them to have a higher relative risk, right -- or at least the same level of risk? But in the group that read all three books there was no significant difference in their risk for "Partner Shouted, yelled, swore, etc.", "Partner sent Unwanted phone calls, text", "Fasted 24+ hours to lose weight" -- only the risk for "Taken diet aids to lose weight" remained significantly elevated. So, basically, don't stop at book 1!
What were the significant risks for the high dose (3 book) group? Diet aids, as I mentioned, binge drinking (5+ drinks on 6 or more days in past 30 day), and having 5 or more intercourse partners during their lifetime. I've only read bits and pieces of these books, and don't remember any binge drinking, but maybe this is a legitimate problem with them. But, is it really surprising that women who read erotica have had sex with more people (and is this even a good item for assessing risky sexual practices in 2014)?
So there's no consistent pattern of results, and in the group you'd expect to be most at risk for problematic behaviors (given that your hypothesis is reading book causes things), you have risk for self harm via drink and drug, but no risk of abusive relationships. Oh yeah, and risk of having had more sex.
But beyond the results, the analytic process is pretty suspicious. If I were looking at this data, and thought there was some causal connection between the book and these risks, I'd look at a linear relationship between these items and the number of books someone's read. I'd have more power to detect an effect, and I wouldn't have to explain to my readers why I only looked at folks who read 1 and 3 books, omitting those who read 2 books. If they had some reason to look at this categorically, why break it out into 1 book and 3 books? Maybe they had their reasons, but it looks to me like they tried it one way and it didn't work, so they tried it another. Also, is "people who didn't read any 50 shades of grey" really the best control group? Better to compare readers of one (set of) book(s) to readers of another (set of) book(s). Maybe non-readers just have less risky lives compared to readers of any books (I don't think that's likely, but it's a possibility not addressed at all in this article).
TL;DR: Check out the [table of results]( and notice how they're not what you'd expect if reading these books consistently leads to increase risk of these things.
| psychology | t5_2qhcz | cjwy5dg | translation: people who experience certain things are more likely to read books in which things similar to those things are described.
edit: I decided that this was worth a deeper look and I was none to happy with what I found:
I'm just looking at the [table of results]( which is pretty odd and not consistent with the hypothesis that reading 50SoG causes risky behaviors.
For reading just 1 book, these are the behaviors/events that have a significant increase in risk (i.e., that confidence interval for the estimate does not span 1, which would indicate no difference in risk):
"Partner Shouted, yelled, swore, etc."
"Partner sent Unwanted phone calls, text"
"Fasted 24+ hours to lose weight"
"Taken diet aids to lose weight"
But what about the people who read more of the books? You'd expect them to have a higher relative risk, right -- or at least the same level of risk? But in the group that read all three books there was no significant difference in their risk for "Partner Shouted, yelled, swore, etc.", "Partner sent Unwanted phone calls, text", "Fasted 24+ hours to lose weight" -- only the risk for "Taken diet aids to lose weight" remained significantly elevated. So, basically, don't stop at book 1!
What were the significant risks for the high dose (3 book) group? Diet aids, as I mentioned, binge drinking (5+ drinks on 6 or more days in past 30 day), and having 5 or more intercourse partners during their lifetime. I've only read bits and pieces of these books, and don't remember any binge drinking, but maybe this is a legitimate problem with them. But, is it really surprising that women who read erotica have had sex with more people (and is this even a good item for assessing risky sexual practices in 2014)?
So there's no consistent pattern of results, and in the group you'd expect to be most at risk for problematic behaviors (given that your hypothesis is reading book causes things), you have risk for self harm via drink and drug, but no risk of abusive relationships. Oh yeah, and risk of having had more sex.
But beyond the results, the analytic process is pretty suspicious. If I were looking at this data, and thought there was some causal connection between the book and these risks, I'd look at a linear relationship between these items and the number of books someone's read. I'd have more power to detect an effect, and I wouldn't have to explain to my readers why I only looked at folks who read 1 and 3 books, omitting those who read 2 books. If they had some reason to look at this categorically, why break it out into 1 book and 3 books? Maybe they had their reasons, but it looks to me like they tried it one way and it didn't work, so they tried it another. Also, is "people who didn't read any 50 shades of grey" really the best control group? Better to compare readers of one (set of) book(s) to readers of another (set of) book(s). Maybe non-readers just have less risky lives compared to readers of any books (I don't think that's likely, but it's a possibility not addressed at all in this article). | Check out the [table of results]( and notice how they're not what you'd expect if reading these books consistently leads to increase risk of these things. |
AdmiralMudkip | I think it might be possible, if the planet/large body was a separate instance.
I guess you would have to load into a different world once you get close enough, and only have the planetoid in that instance.
The devs might be able to get away with small proto-planets, or stray moons that got flung away from their captive planet.
Now that I'm thinking about it, as long as it isn't a physics object, and like a static surface it might be feasible. Mining it might not be an option.
However, doing large scale fleet combat around a Jupiter-like body and a bunch of moons would be baller as fuck.
Sorry for the distractions, got too many ideas.
Tldr; maybe. If the planets are small and in a separate instance, I think it might be able to work. | I think it might be possible, if the planet/large body was a separate instance.
I guess you would have to load into a different world once you get close enough, and only have the planetoid in that instance.
The devs might be able to get away with small proto-planets, or stray moons that got flung away from their captive planet.
Now that I'm thinking about it, as long as it isn't a physics object, and like a static surface it might be feasible. Mining it might not be an option.
However, doing large scale fleet combat around a Jupiter-like body and a bunch of moons would be baller as fuck.
Sorry for the distractions, got too many ideas.
Tldr; maybe. If the planets are small and in a separate instance, I think it might be able to work.
| spaceengineers | t5_2ygas | cjx1oh9 | I think it might be possible, if the planet/large body was a separate instance.
I guess you would have to load into a different world once you get close enough, and only have the planetoid in that instance.
The devs might be able to get away with small proto-planets, or stray moons that got flung away from their captive planet.
Now that I'm thinking about it, as long as it isn't a physics object, and like a static surface it might be feasible. Mining it might not be an option.
However, doing large scale fleet combat around a Jupiter-like body and a bunch of moons would be baller as fuck.
Sorry for the distractions, got too many ideas. | maybe. If the planets are small and in a separate instance, I think it might be able to work. |
bottlecap_King | Hi - I'm newer at this too. My first buys where split between safe and 'fun' as well.
I bought NOK at $3 because I thought there was a market for a phone that could drop 3+ feet and not break. Everyone I talked to said I was crazy so when it got to $5 I took my profits (which was nearly nothing because I just started and fees where high). I got to watch as it rose to $8. It was a good lesson in following through on your convictions, Microsoft saw the same value that I did in Nokia phones. I had other safer investments at the same time, so if my fun investments failed I would be okay with it.
tl;dr had a fun investment, learnt a lesson with minimal gains
/u/JakeSmithsPhone is %100 on target about experience but /u/jarrodz is right about the fees too. I would suggest picking 4-5 stocks and only one out of TRUP or NDLS. People go crazy for their pets, so in a downturn they may do better than expected. I can't speak for noodles though. | Hi - I'm newer at this too. My first buys where split between safe and 'fun' as well.
I bought NOK at $3 because I thought there was a market for a phone that could drop 3+ feet and not break. Everyone I talked to said I was crazy so when it got to $5 I took my profits (which was nearly nothing because I just started and fees where high). I got to watch as it rose to $8. It was a good lesson in following through on your convictions, Microsoft saw the same value that I did in Nokia phones. I had other safer investments at the same time, so if my fun investments failed I would be okay with it.
tl;dr had a fun investment, learnt a lesson with minimal gains
/u/JakeSmithsPhone is %100 on target about experience but /u/jarrodz is right about the fees too. I would suggest picking 4-5 stocks and only one out of TRUP or NDLS. People go crazy for their pets, so in a downturn they may do better than expected. I can't speak for noodles though.
| investing | t5_2qhhq | cjxh9kd | Hi - I'm newer at this too. My first buys where split between safe and 'fun' as well.
I bought NOK at $3 because I thought there was a market for a phone that could drop 3+ feet and not break. Everyone I talked to said I was crazy so when it got to $5 I took my profits (which was nearly nothing because I just started and fees where high). I got to watch as it rose to $8. It was a good lesson in following through on your convictions, Microsoft saw the same value that I did in Nokia phones. I had other safer investments at the same time, so if my fun investments failed I would be okay with it. | had a fun investment, learnt a lesson with minimal gains
/u/JakeSmithsPhone is %100 on target about experience but /u/jarrodz is right about the fees too. I would suggest picking 4-5 stocks and only one out of TRUP or NDLS. People go crazy for their pets, so in a downturn they may do better than expected. I can't speak for noodles though. |
rightn0w_ | Apparently she did this because, according to the girl, her mom loved more the cat than her.
tl;dr this bitch is bonkers. | Apparently she did this because, according to the girl, her mom loved more the cat than her.
tl;dr this bitch is bonkers.
| WTF | t5_2qh61 | cjx726t | Apparently she did this because, according to the girl, her mom loved more the cat than her. | this bitch is bonkers. |
EvanYork | In 80% of circumstances, we argue because the source material really just isn't that clear. Whether we like it or not, we won't get anywhere as a group if we refuse to accept that scripture can be used to make both the argument for and against most important doctrinal issues. Even our most beloved and near-universal doctrine, the Holy Trinity, is simply not totally clear from scripture.
From that point, people tend to fall into camps based on whether they interpret the vagueness in scripture using tradition and church authority or whether they interpret it using more individualized methods.
It is, however, extremely important to note that there's simply no justification for certain doctrines. Like almost all Christians, I would arrogantly place several extremely common doctrines in that camp (memorialism, for example). Yet, no matter how much I think that memorialists are wrong, thousands of people remain totally convinced using the same scriptures I use and I'm probably not going to change that.
But, of that thin sliver without justification (and even some ideas that actually can be justified, if we're honest with ourselves), there are some ideas that most people would agree are extremely dangerous for people to hold. These are the ideas we have to oppose. We cannot allow Christians to believe that Christians have a duty to drink snake poison, or stone gays, or what have you. Sometimes the most loving thing we can do in the face of disagreement is to oppose ideas that make people a danger to themselves and others.
As an afterthought, this is almost all directed at lay people. The circumstances are very different in the case of pastors and teachers. If your pastor is teaching something that doesn't make sense, it's probably a good idea to (respectfully and without causing a scene) call them out on it and at least hear their justification for it.
**TL;DR: Discussing different viewpoints within Christianity is fun. Debate is sometimes necessary. Bashing on other views is almost always a wrong move. Opposing dangerous ideas is mandatory.**
| In 80% of circumstances, we argue because the source material really just isn't that clear. Whether we like it or not, we won't get anywhere as a group if we refuse to accept that scripture can be used to make both the argument for and against most important doctrinal issues. Even our most beloved and near-universal doctrine, the Holy Trinity, is simply not totally clear from scripture.
From that point, people tend to fall into camps based on whether they interpret the vagueness in scripture using tradition and church authority or whether they interpret it using more individualized methods.
It is, however, extremely important to note that there's simply no justification for certain doctrines. Like almost all Christians, I would arrogantly place several extremely common doctrines in that camp (memorialism, for example). Yet, no matter how much I think that memorialists are wrong, thousands of people remain totally convinced using the same scriptures I use and I'm probably not going to change that.
But, of that thin sliver without justification (and even some ideas that actually can be justified, if we're honest with ourselves), there are some ideas that most people would agree are extremely dangerous for people to hold. These are the ideas we have to oppose. We cannot allow Christians to believe that Christians have a duty to drink snake poison, or stone gays, or what have you. Sometimes the most loving thing we can do in the face of disagreement is to oppose ideas that make people a danger to themselves and others.
As an afterthought, this is almost all directed at lay people. The circumstances are very different in the case of pastors and teachers. If your pastor is teaching something that doesn't make sense, it's probably a good idea to (respectfully and without causing a scene) call them out on it and at least hear their justification for it.
TL;DR: Discussing different viewpoints within Christianity is fun. Debate is sometimes necessary. Bashing on other views is almost always a wrong move. Opposing dangerous ideas is mandatory.
| TrueChristian | t5_2u489 | cjxu8wo | In 80% of circumstances, we argue because the source material really just isn't that clear. Whether we like it or not, we won't get anywhere as a group if we refuse to accept that scripture can be used to make both the argument for and against most important doctrinal issues. Even our most beloved and near-universal doctrine, the Holy Trinity, is simply not totally clear from scripture.
From that point, people tend to fall into camps based on whether they interpret the vagueness in scripture using tradition and church authority or whether they interpret it using more individualized methods.
It is, however, extremely important to note that there's simply no justification for certain doctrines. Like almost all Christians, I would arrogantly place several extremely common doctrines in that camp (memorialism, for example). Yet, no matter how much I think that memorialists are wrong, thousands of people remain totally convinced using the same scriptures I use and I'm probably not going to change that.
But, of that thin sliver without justification (and even some ideas that actually can be justified, if we're honest with ourselves), there are some ideas that most people would agree are extremely dangerous for people to hold. These are the ideas we have to oppose. We cannot allow Christians to believe that Christians have a duty to drink snake poison, or stone gays, or what have you. Sometimes the most loving thing we can do in the face of disagreement is to oppose ideas that make people a danger to themselves and others.
As an afterthought, this is almost all directed at lay people. The circumstances are very different in the case of pastors and teachers. If your pastor is teaching something that doesn't make sense, it's probably a good idea to (respectfully and without causing a scene) call them out on it and at least hear their justification for it. | Discussing different viewpoints within Christianity is fun. Debate is sometimes necessary. Bashing on other views is almost always a wrong move. Opposing dangerous ideas is mandatory. |
HeartOfTheSkittles | Ok, so before I start, two differences. There's getting better, and there's climbing the ranks. Neither necessarily reflects the other, but getting better does tend to lead to an increase ranks. If you're just looking to get up to gold, the advise I'd give, while similar, would be different. I'm going to focus on improving though, cause that's a better goal, and will be less frustrating than trying to directly improve rank.
Let's start mid. Don't play Fizz, and though I like Brand, I'm not so good with him. So let's go with Ziggs. Now usually I'd say try to never miss CS, and you shouldn't, but at this level, it's not a bad idea to always use your Q and passive to harass. Q especially since it's so safe. Once they fall to about 50%, they can't do much or risk you going all in. They have to play very safe. If they back, you get to farm. You are at risk of getting ganked, but that's what wards are for. You get the farm, possibly kills, you are good to go. Save your ult, but not for too long. Think how likely you'll need it, is there a team fight about to happen? Is a lane fighting? Ult that lane to help get a kill. Ward their buffs, see it getting low, did he smite early? Steal it with that ult. These ults can help you pull ahead without having to really leave lane, but you do lower your personal kill potential which can hurt you if the cooldown is still going.
Based on who you listed, I'm suspecting you like generally safe champions that poke and then go all in. Morgana. I don't care what people say, I like Morgana in mid and support before she was cool, and then before that too. You max W for farming and poking. Save that shield for going all in or escaping ganks. Your Q you save for when you want to go for a kill, or you know it's an easy hit. Followed up with a pool and an AA, you can easily get them down to half health in that one combo. Fantastic natural sustain, you are very safe. Once you hit six, your roams are practically a guaranteed kill with a decent team. Walk in, ult, wait for them to dash (or your ult finishes), follow up with the Q and pool. Shield whoever is getting CC'd. Easy stuff. Not many people at this level have a good guage for the amount of DoT damage champs can do. You can easily kill with Morgana because people don't expect the all in. Walk in to ult, land the Q and pool plus ignite while AA.
I honestly don't do top much, so I won't bother to say too much here. I would say I recommend learning someone who can jungle well (Trundle or Xin Zhao) since their general fighting tactics are still the same laning or jungling, so when you do need to jungle, you've already got half the learning done. Granted you have to learn better jungling, but more on that later. Top tends to have the least general impact, and yet a lot of times I lose games because top (at this level) typically ends up being one complete winner and one complete loser. If you can be the winner, you are so far ahead for you team assuming you are a bruiser. You personally can shut down carries, and you've pre-emptively protected yours by shutting down their laner. If the lane goes even, you still can, it's just harder.
Jungler really will have the most impact in my opinion. I know people say mid, and I can see what they're saying, but these are my thoughts. Without the jungler, you've got 4 laners, who may or may not win their lanes. When you gank, you essentially make that solo lane a 1.2 lane as you are there and gone. Your presence can win lanes. Now if you learn to counter jungle, you shut down their jungler while making yourself strong. Now think about lanes. Without junglers it might have been 1v1, with junglers let's say 1.2v1.2 You've shut down their jungler and made yourself better. It's more like 1.4 v 1 now. I don't know if this makes much sense how I'm saying it, but I feel by shutting down their jungler, you help your entire team tremendously. If you want help on jungling, I'll talk about that in another post.
Support you've got some solid picks. I won't bother with the typical laning stuff. If you want more about that, just ask, otherwise I'm going to skip it for now. So first, you don't want to leave lane to ward river without making sure your ADC understands they have to play safe. It doesn't matter if you are pushed or pushing, leaving your ADC in a 1v2 is a horrible situation if they don't back up and play safe. On the other hand, go in on them if they do that. It's 1v2. Math that shit. 1 < 2. Wards. Start with the free ward trinket, make sure you swap it out for a scanner once you get sightstone. Also pinks. Forever and only 100. Buy early, place somewhere safe, but useful in your jungle. Warding buffs isn't a bad idea. Maybe you won't see much, but you know they AREN'T there and the one time you see it could save your life. Very much worth, very unappreciated in lower tiers.
Again I'm going to say, picking up Morgana mid is a wonderful choice. She's a similar style of poke and engage, though less tanky. You could build her tanky, but I think that's a less favorable option in most cases. Her shield is great of protecting your ADC and if you hit them with a Q W combo when they walk into lane you practically kill them early game. I could go on for ages about her, so if you want that, I will, otherwise I'll just end with the repeated suggestion of playing More-gana :D :D:D :D:D:D:D
In terms of ADC, you don't have to learn this if you don't want. However, for the same reason I believe you should try every champion when they are free, I do recommend you ADC every now and then in normals. It just gives you a better sense of what to expect and what they are trying to do. It helps you synergize with your ADC and predict what theirs will do. Also, protect the ADC. It's so important, I can't emphasize this enough. Like....even if they fall behind and only have like one item besides boots. Odds are, they still do more damage than support, top or jungler. The damage they do is important, and especially when they are even, YOU HAVE TO HELP THEM. They are little babies that you have to keep close. They will win the game if you keep them alive.
Mmmmm.....I could go on longer on random bits, but those are some good things to keep in mind. I suppose if I had to pick the best things to think about, I would saying buying pink wards early (in any and every role), protecting the ADC, and, well I didn't actually put this earlier, but thinking about items. When the game loads (and even while champions are being picked), think about how much CC they have, who has the most damage, etc. Do you need more armor this game? More MR? Maybe it's safe for you to go for more damage. Don't be playing and then suddenly realize, oh I should have gotten so and so. Think about it before hand so you can switch up your build order. Same with skills though it's less common. Only certain heroes would you really switch the order up a ton. So yeah, I like to ramble and I can't even say it's all useful, but if you want me to go on about anything else, just let me know. I skipped the obvious stuff, last hit, win fights, etc. That's stuff you should know to do and just need to practice.
tl;dr - Play to improve, not to rise in ranks. Buy pink wards early as every role for your own jungle or the river. Protect your damn ADC, no exceptions. Think ahead.
| Ok, so before I start, two differences. There's getting better, and there's climbing the ranks. Neither necessarily reflects the other, but getting better does tend to lead to an increase ranks. If you're just looking to get up to gold, the advise I'd give, while similar, would be different. I'm going to focus on improving though, cause that's a better goal, and will be less frustrating than trying to directly improve rank.
Let's start mid. Don't play Fizz, and though I like Brand, I'm not so good with him. So let's go with Ziggs. Now usually I'd say try to never miss CS, and you shouldn't, but at this level, it's not a bad idea to always use your Q and passive to harass. Q especially since it's so safe. Once they fall to about 50%, they can't do much or risk you going all in. They have to play very safe. If they back, you get to farm. You are at risk of getting ganked, but that's what wards are for. You get the farm, possibly kills, you are good to go. Save your ult, but not for too long. Think how likely you'll need it, is there a team fight about to happen? Is a lane fighting? Ult that lane to help get a kill. Ward their buffs, see it getting low, did he smite early? Steal it with that ult. These ults can help you pull ahead without having to really leave lane, but you do lower your personal kill potential which can hurt you if the cooldown is still going.
Based on who you listed, I'm suspecting you like generally safe champions that poke and then go all in. Morgana. I don't care what people say, I like Morgana in mid and support before she was cool, and then before that too. You max W for farming and poking. Save that shield for going all in or escaping ganks. Your Q you save for when you want to go for a kill, or you know it's an easy hit. Followed up with a pool and an AA, you can easily get them down to half health in that one combo. Fantastic natural sustain, you are very safe. Once you hit six, your roams are practically a guaranteed kill with a decent team. Walk in, ult, wait for them to dash (or your ult finishes), follow up with the Q and pool. Shield whoever is getting CC'd. Easy stuff. Not many people at this level have a good guage for the amount of DoT damage champs can do. You can easily kill with Morgana because people don't expect the all in. Walk in to ult, land the Q and pool plus ignite while AA.
I honestly don't do top much, so I won't bother to say too much here. I would say I recommend learning someone who can jungle well (Trundle or Xin Zhao) since their general fighting tactics are still the same laning or jungling, so when you do need to jungle, you've already got half the learning done. Granted you have to learn better jungling, but more on that later. Top tends to have the least general impact, and yet a lot of times I lose games because top (at this level) typically ends up being one complete winner and one complete loser. If you can be the winner, you are so far ahead for you team assuming you are a bruiser. You personally can shut down carries, and you've pre-emptively protected yours by shutting down their laner. If the lane goes even, you still can, it's just harder.
Jungler really will have the most impact in my opinion. I know people say mid, and I can see what they're saying, but these are my thoughts. Without the jungler, you've got 4 laners, who may or may not win their lanes. When you gank, you essentially make that solo lane a 1.2 lane as you are there and gone. Your presence can win lanes. Now if you learn to counter jungle, you shut down their jungler while making yourself strong. Now think about lanes. Without junglers it might have been 1v1, with junglers let's say 1.2v1.2 You've shut down their jungler and made yourself better. It's more like 1.4 v 1 now. I don't know if this makes much sense how I'm saying it, but I feel by shutting down their jungler, you help your entire team tremendously. If you want help on jungling, I'll talk about that in another post.
Support you've got some solid picks. I won't bother with the typical laning stuff. If you want more about that, just ask, otherwise I'm going to skip it for now. So first, you don't want to leave lane to ward river without making sure your ADC understands they have to play safe. It doesn't matter if you are pushed or pushing, leaving your ADC in a 1v2 is a horrible situation if they don't back up and play safe. On the other hand, go in on them if they do that. It's 1v2. Math that shit. 1 < 2. Wards. Start with the free ward trinket, make sure you swap it out for a scanner once you get sightstone. Also pinks. Forever and only 100. Buy early, place somewhere safe, but useful in your jungle. Warding buffs isn't a bad idea. Maybe you won't see much, but you know they AREN'T there and the one time you see it could save your life. Very much worth, very unappreciated in lower tiers.
Again I'm going to say, picking up Morgana mid is a wonderful choice. She's a similar style of poke and engage, though less tanky. You could build her tanky, but I think that's a less favorable option in most cases. Her shield is great of protecting your ADC and if you hit them with a Q W combo when they walk into lane you practically kill them early game. I could go on for ages about her, so if you want that, I will, otherwise I'll just end with the repeated suggestion of playing More-gana :D :D:D :D:D:D:D
In terms of ADC, you don't have to learn this if you don't want. However, for the same reason I believe you should try every champion when they are free, I do recommend you ADC every now and then in normals. It just gives you a better sense of what to expect and what they are trying to do. It helps you synergize with your ADC and predict what theirs will do. Also, protect the ADC. It's so important, I can't emphasize this enough. Like....even if they fall behind and only have like one item besides boots. Odds are, they still do more damage than support, top or jungler. The damage they do is important, and especially when they are even, YOU HAVE TO HELP THEM. They are little babies that you have to keep close. They will win the game if you keep them alive.
Mmmmm.....I could go on longer on random bits, but those are some good things to keep in mind. I suppose if I had to pick the best things to think about, I would saying buying pink wards early (in any and every role), protecting the ADC, and, well I didn't actually put this earlier, but thinking about items. When the game loads (and even while champions are being picked), think about how much CC they have, who has the most damage, etc. Do you need more armor this game? More MR? Maybe it's safe for you to go for more damage. Don't be playing and then suddenly realize, oh I should have gotten so and so. Think about it before hand so you can switch up your build order. Same with skills though it's less common. Only certain heroes would you really switch the order up a ton. So yeah, I like to ramble and I can't even say it's all useful, but if you want me to go on about anything else, just let me know. I skipped the obvious stuff, last hit, win fights, etc. That's stuff you should know to do and just need to practice.
tl;dr - Play to improve, not to rise in ranks. Buy pink wards early as every role for your own jungle or the river. Protect your damn ADC, no exceptions. Think ahead.
| summonerschool | t5_2t9x3 | cjy75db | Ok, so before I start, two differences. There's getting better, and there's climbing the ranks. Neither necessarily reflects the other, but getting better does tend to lead to an increase ranks. If you're just looking to get up to gold, the advise I'd give, while similar, would be different. I'm going to focus on improving though, cause that's a better goal, and will be less frustrating than trying to directly improve rank.
Let's start mid. Don't play Fizz, and though I like Brand, I'm not so good with him. So let's go with Ziggs. Now usually I'd say try to never miss CS, and you shouldn't, but at this level, it's not a bad idea to always use your Q and passive to harass. Q especially since it's so safe. Once they fall to about 50%, they can't do much or risk you going all in. They have to play very safe. If they back, you get to farm. You are at risk of getting ganked, but that's what wards are for. You get the farm, possibly kills, you are good to go. Save your ult, but not for too long. Think how likely you'll need it, is there a team fight about to happen? Is a lane fighting? Ult that lane to help get a kill. Ward their buffs, see it getting low, did he smite early? Steal it with that ult. These ults can help you pull ahead without having to really leave lane, but you do lower your personal kill potential which can hurt you if the cooldown is still going.
Based on who you listed, I'm suspecting you like generally safe champions that poke and then go all in. Morgana. I don't care what people say, I like Morgana in mid and support before she was cool, and then before that too. You max W for farming and poking. Save that shield for going all in or escaping ganks. Your Q you save for when you want to go for a kill, or you know it's an easy hit. Followed up with a pool and an AA, you can easily get them down to half health in that one combo. Fantastic natural sustain, you are very safe. Once you hit six, your roams are practically a guaranteed kill with a decent team. Walk in, ult, wait for them to dash (or your ult finishes), follow up with the Q and pool. Shield whoever is getting CC'd. Easy stuff. Not many people at this level have a good guage for the amount of DoT damage champs can do. You can easily kill with Morgana because people don't expect the all in. Walk in to ult, land the Q and pool plus ignite while AA.
I honestly don't do top much, so I won't bother to say too much here. I would say I recommend learning someone who can jungle well (Trundle or Xin Zhao) since their general fighting tactics are still the same laning or jungling, so when you do need to jungle, you've already got half the learning done. Granted you have to learn better jungling, but more on that later. Top tends to have the least general impact, and yet a lot of times I lose games because top (at this level) typically ends up being one complete winner and one complete loser. If you can be the winner, you are so far ahead for you team assuming you are a bruiser. You personally can shut down carries, and you've pre-emptively protected yours by shutting down their laner. If the lane goes even, you still can, it's just harder.
Jungler really will have the most impact in my opinion. I know people say mid, and I can see what they're saying, but these are my thoughts. Without the jungler, you've got 4 laners, who may or may not win their lanes. When you gank, you essentially make that solo lane a 1.2 lane as you are there and gone. Your presence can win lanes. Now if you learn to counter jungle, you shut down their jungler while making yourself strong. Now think about lanes. Without junglers it might have been 1v1, with junglers let's say 1.2v1.2 You've shut down their jungler and made yourself better. It's more like 1.4 v 1 now. I don't know if this makes much sense how I'm saying it, but I feel by shutting down their jungler, you help your entire team tremendously. If you want help on jungling, I'll talk about that in another post.
Support you've got some solid picks. I won't bother with the typical laning stuff. If you want more about that, just ask, otherwise I'm going to skip it for now. So first, you don't want to leave lane to ward river without making sure your ADC understands they have to play safe. It doesn't matter if you are pushed or pushing, leaving your ADC in a 1v2 is a horrible situation if they don't back up and play safe. On the other hand, go in on them if they do that. It's 1v2. Math that shit. 1 < 2. Wards. Start with the free ward trinket, make sure you swap it out for a scanner once you get sightstone. Also pinks. Forever and only 100. Buy early, place somewhere safe, but useful in your jungle. Warding buffs isn't a bad idea. Maybe you won't see much, but you know they AREN'T there and the one time you see it could save your life. Very much worth, very unappreciated in lower tiers.
Again I'm going to say, picking up Morgana mid is a wonderful choice. She's a similar style of poke and engage, though less tanky. You could build her tanky, but I think that's a less favorable option in most cases. Her shield is great of protecting your ADC and if you hit them with a Q W combo when they walk into lane you practically kill them early game. I could go on for ages about her, so if you want that, I will, otherwise I'll just end with the repeated suggestion of playing More-gana :D :D:D :D:D:D:D
In terms of ADC, you don't have to learn this if you don't want. However, for the same reason I believe you should try every champion when they are free, I do recommend you ADC every now and then in normals. It just gives you a better sense of what to expect and what they are trying to do. It helps you synergize with your ADC and predict what theirs will do. Also, protect the ADC. It's so important, I can't emphasize this enough. Like....even if they fall behind and only have like one item besides boots. Odds are, they still do more damage than support, top or jungler. The damage they do is important, and especially when they are even, YOU HAVE TO HELP THEM. They are little babies that you have to keep close. They will win the game if you keep them alive.
Mmmmm.....I could go on longer on random bits, but those are some good things to keep in mind. I suppose if I had to pick the best things to think about, I would saying buying pink wards early (in any and every role), protecting the ADC, and, well I didn't actually put this earlier, but thinking about items. When the game loads (and even while champions are being picked), think about how much CC they have, who has the most damage, etc. Do you need more armor this game? More MR? Maybe it's safe for you to go for more damage. Don't be playing and then suddenly realize, oh I should have gotten so and so. Think about it before hand so you can switch up your build order. Same with skills though it's less common. Only certain heroes would you really switch the order up a ton. So yeah, I like to ramble and I can't even say it's all useful, but if you want me to go on about anything else, just let me know. I skipped the obvious stuff, last hit, win fights, etc. That's stuff you should know to do and just need to practice. | Play to improve, not to rise in ranks. Buy pink wards early as every role for your own jungle or the river. Protect your damn ADC, no exceptions. Think ahead. |
faceplanted | All emails are likely normalised to their minimum required information and then compared, eg [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]
Would all be put through a function that makes everything lower case, removes any dots before the @ and anything after a + symbol is deleted
`[email protected] > [email protected]`
`[email protected] > [email protected] > [email protected]`
`[email protected] > [email protected] > [email protected] > [email protected]`
And other domains that also point to the same domain also get equated as the same domain, eg
`@googlemail.com == @gmail.com`
or
`@yahoo.co.uk == @yahoo.com == yahoomail.com`
**TL;DR** Your dots don't disqualify you, but you can't use them to make it seem you have two different personalities. | All emails are likely normalised to their minimum required information and then compared, eg [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]
Would all be put through a function that makes everything lower case, removes any dots before the @ and anything after a + symbol is deleted
[email protected] > [email protected]
[email protected] > [email protected] > [email protected]
[email protected] > [email protected] > [email protected] > [email protected]
And other domains that also point to the same domain also get equated as the same domain, eg
@googlemail.com == @gmail.com
or
@yahoo.co.uk == @yahoo.com == yahoomail.com
TL;DR Your dots don't disqualify you, but you can't use them to make it seem you have two different personalities.
| Android | t5_2qlqh | ck1plgi | All emails are likely normalised to their minimum required information and then compared, eg [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]
Would all be put through a function that makes everything lower case, removes any dots before the @ and anything after a + symbol is deleted
[email protected] > [email protected]
[email protected] > [email protected] > [email protected]
[email protected] > [email protected] > [email protected] > [email protected]
And other domains that also point to the same domain also get equated as the same domain, eg
@googlemail.com == @gmail.com
or
@yahoo.co.uk == @yahoo.com == yahoomail.com | Your dots don't disqualify you, but you can't use them to make it seem you have two different personalities. |
rhoffman12 | It's a lot more complicated than that... based on how you do on your first quant section (for example), it adapts the second quant section to more closely match your skills from the first section. So every question is "weighted" equally, but based on how you do early on, it changes which questions you're given.
tl;dr it probably wasn't just one answer | It's a lot more complicated than that... based on how you do on your first quant section (for example), it adapts the second quant section to more closely match your skills from the first section. So every question is "weighted" equally, but based on how you do early on, it changes which questions you're given.
tl;dr it probably wasn't just one answer
| GradSchool | t5_2r4r8 | cjxj7at | It's a lot more complicated than that... based on how you do on your first quant section (for example), it adapts the second quant section to more closely match your skills from the first section. So every question is "weighted" equally, but based on how you do early on, it changes which questions you're given. | it probably wasn't just one answer |
twentythree12 | When I was in high school, a group of our girlfriends went out one night tipping garbage cans like annoying high school kids do. They only did a couple, and at the last house, a gentleman in the apartment across the street saw and came outside. The girls took off to the local Mac's convenience store to get a few snacks before they headed home. Lo and behold the guy from the apartment pulls in to the parking spot beside them. My friend in the passenger seat went to exit her side, when he pushed the door closed on her leg, and was overly physical and threatening to phone police. The girls managed to get away.
School the next day, she recounts the story to myself and a couple of friends. Thinking we are tough shit, we decide to go back to his apartment, armed with eggs, to seek revenge (even though our friends were the buttheads in the first place). We arrive (with 3 of the original girls with us), and opt for a two-pronged attack. Half of us would go to the car park and lob eggs from the garage gate at the suspects car, the others would hit his apartment unit (he was ground floor). My unit approaches the bushes about 30 feet from his apartment, and whispering through our final strategy we hear.....
"I've phoned the police, they will be here in 1 minute"
Like a shot we abort mission and take for the apartments across the street. We dive in to a bush, planning our next move. For a second we debated climbing the balcony to the second floor of the adjacent apartment, but figure that could get us in only more trouble. As we sit there, one of the young ladies we are with begins weeping uncontrollably, wishing she had never come back to this battlefield.
The police then show up, beginning walking up and down the street, flashlights drawn. One officer begins to encroach on where myself and my comrades are hidden. Still whimpering, the young lady has become too much of a giveaway of our position. With no other option left, I stand from the bush and present myself to the officer. He asks where my friends are.
"They've left" I say.
The officer places me in the back of the car. Tells me that our target has informed them that we were attempting to break in to the underground of the apartment. I suddenly begin to squirt pee in my Joe Boxers. I'm 17 years old. I wont last a night in jail, let alone the 25 to life my immature brain presumes I'll get.
I asked the officer if I may have a moment to explain my side of the story, letting him know that I am gravely sorry for my actions.
He drove me home. Apparently it was mom I had to worry about all along.
Obligatory tl;dr
A group of 17 year old bandits tries to rescue their high school maidens from an ornery old dragon who outwits them, self-proclaimed hero falls on his sword to free his friends. | When I was in high school, a group of our girlfriends went out one night tipping garbage cans like annoying high school kids do. They only did a couple, and at the last house, a gentleman in the apartment across the street saw and came outside. The girls took off to the local Mac's convenience store to get a few snacks before they headed home. Lo and behold the guy from the apartment pulls in to the parking spot beside them. My friend in the passenger seat went to exit her side, when he pushed the door closed on her leg, and was overly physical and threatening to phone police. The girls managed to get away.
School the next day, she recounts the story to myself and a couple of friends. Thinking we are tough shit, we decide to go back to his apartment, armed with eggs, to seek revenge (even though our friends were the buttheads in the first place). We arrive (with 3 of the original girls with us), and opt for a two-pronged attack. Half of us would go to the car park and lob eggs from the garage gate at the suspects car, the others would hit his apartment unit (he was ground floor). My unit approaches the bushes about 30 feet from his apartment, and whispering through our final strategy we hear.....
"I've phoned the police, they will be here in 1 minute"
Like a shot we abort mission and take for the apartments across the street. We dive in to a bush, planning our next move. For a second we debated climbing the balcony to the second floor of the adjacent apartment, but figure that could get us in only more trouble. As we sit there, one of the young ladies we are with begins weeping uncontrollably, wishing she had never come back to this battlefield.
The police then show up, beginning walking up and down the street, flashlights drawn. One officer begins to encroach on where myself and my comrades are hidden. Still whimpering, the young lady has become too much of a giveaway of our position. With no other option left, I stand from the bush and present myself to the officer. He asks where my friends are.
"They've left" I say.
The officer places me in the back of the car. Tells me that our target has informed them that we were attempting to break in to the underground of the apartment. I suddenly begin to squirt pee in my Joe Boxers. I'm 17 years old. I wont last a night in jail, let alone the 25 to life my immature brain presumes I'll get.
I asked the officer if I may have a moment to explain my side of the story, letting him know that I am gravely sorry for my actions.
He drove me home. Apparently it was mom I had to worry about all along.
Obligatory tl;dr
A group of 17 year old bandits tries to rescue their high school maidens from an ornery old dragon who outwits them, self-proclaimed hero falls on his sword to free his friends.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | cjxnken | When I was in high school, a group of our girlfriends went out one night tipping garbage cans like annoying high school kids do. They only did a couple, and at the last house, a gentleman in the apartment across the street saw and came outside. The girls took off to the local Mac's convenience store to get a few snacks before they headed home. Lo and behold the guy from the apartment pulls in to the parking spot beside them. My friend in the passenger seat went to exit her side, when he pushed the door closed on her leg, and was overly physical and threatening to phone police. The girls managed to get away.
School the next day, she recounts the story to myself and a couple of friends. Thinking we are tough shit, we decide to go back to his apartment, armed with eggs, to seek revenge (even though our friends were the buttheads in the first place). We arrive (with 3 of the original girls with us), and opt for a two-pronged attack. Half of us would go to the car park and lob eggs from the garage gate at the suspects car, the others would hit his apartment unit (he was ground floor). My unit approaches the bushes about 30 feet from his apartment, and whispering through our final strategy we hear.....
"I've phoned the police, they will be here in 1 minute"
Like a shot we abort mission and take for the apartments across the street. We dive in to a bush, planning our next move. For a second we debated climbing the balcony to the second floor of the adjacent apartment, but figure that could get us in only more trouble. As we sit there, one of the young ladies we are with begins weeping uncontrollably, wishing she had never come back to this battlefield.
The police then show up, beginning walking up and down the street, flashlights drawn. One officer begins to encroach on where myself and my comrades are hidden. Still whimpering, the young lady has become too much of a giveaway of our position. With no other option left, I stand from the bush and present myself to the officer. He asks where my friends are.
"They've left" I say.
The officer places me in the back of the car. Tells me that our target has informed them that we were attempting to break in to the underground of the apartment. I suddenly begin to squirt pee in my Joe Boxers. I'm 17 years old. I wont last a night in jail, let alone the 25 to life my immature brain presumes I'll get.
I asked the officer if I may have a moment to explain my side of the story, letting him know that I am gravely sorry for my actions.
He drove me home. Apparently it was mom I had to worry about all along.
Obligatory | A group of 17 year old bandits tries to rescue their high school maidens from an ornery old dragon who outwits them, self-proclaimed hero falls on his sword to free his friends. |
hrbuchanan | * Anyone saying the R9 290X sucks for $500 is an NVidia fanboy who can't stand that AMD has better performance for the price these days.
* WoW is one of the least graphics intense games we get asked about frequently on this subreddit. At 1080p, it takes the graphics power of a toaster to play WoW at a decent framerate. At 1440p, an R9 290X will still get over 100 FPS, literally.
* If you're not going to be pushing your i5 past 4.4GHz (give or take), the Hyper 212 EVO will be fine, trust me.
* Sure, you can get something cheaper than the i5, but if it's in your budget, why not?
* Right now the i5-4690K is less expensive than the i5-4670K, and getting the i5-3670K won't save you any money at all.
**TL;DR:** They're dumb.
I mean, there are *tiny* things I would do differently, but if you bought this rig and put it together, you would be more than happy. |
Anyone saying the R9 290X sucks for $500 is an NVidia fanboy who can't stand that AMD has better performance for the price these days.
WoW is one of the least graphics intense games we get asked about frequently on this subreddit. At 1080p, it takes the graphics power of a toaster to play WoW at a decent framerate. At 1440p, an R9 290X will still get over 100 FPS, literally.
If you're not going to be pushing your i5 past 4.4GHz (give or take), the Hyper 212 EVO will be fine, trust me.
Sure, you can get something cheaper than the i5, but if it's in your budget, why not?
Right now the i5-4690K is less expensive than the i5-4670K, and getting the i5-3670K won't save you any money at all.
TL;DR: They're dumb.
I mean, there are tiny things I would do differently, but if you bought this rig and put it together, you would be more than happy.
| buildapc | t5_2rnve | cjxqr9o | Anyone saying the R9 290X sucks for $500 is an NVidia fanboy who can't stand that AMD has better performance for the price these days.
WoW is one of the least graphics intense games we get asked about frequently on this subreddit. At 1080p, it takes the graphics power of a toaster to play WoW at a decent framerate. At 1440p, an R9 290X will still get over 100 FPS, literally.
If you're not going to be pushing your i5 past 4.4GHz (give or take), the Hyper 212 EVO will be fine, trust me.
Sure, you can get something cheaper than the i5, but if it's in your budget, why not?
Right now the i5-4690K is less expensive than the i5-4670K, and getting the i5-3670K won't save you any money at all. | They're dumb.
I mean, there are tiny things I would do differently, but if you bought this rig and put it together, you would be more than happy. |
circuitology | You know what?
Let's just have no campaigns.
Seriously, campaigns that tell people not to rape don't work, because it's just a fucking poster and a rapist is gonna rape anyway.
Campaigns that tell people that it's a good idea to protect yourself by being responsible for your own safety, because the world is not perfect, and there are bad people in it, which might actually help to reduce rapes, are met with complaints about victim blaming.
There is no way to win. Rapists gon' rape, if people want to drink so much that they don't know even where they are, they can do that, but the ones that don't do that are not going to be the victims of the rapists that are gon' rape anyway, no matter what campaign you decide is best for everyone.
**TL;DR: These campaigns are good because they target the variable that *can* change: you. Rapists are not going to not rape because they saw a poster telling them not to rape.** | You know what?
Let's just have no campaigns.
Seriously, campaigns that tell people not to rape don't work, because it's just a fucking poster and a rapist is gonna rape anyway.
Campaigns that tell people that it's a good idea to protect yourself by being responsible for your own safety, because the world is not perfect, and there are bad people in it, which might actually help to reduce rapes, are met with complaints about victim blaming.
There is no way to win. Rapists gon' rape, if people want to drink so much that they don't know even where they are, they can do that, but the ones that don't do that are not going to be the victims of the rapists that are gon' rape anyway, no matter what campaign you decide is best for everyone.
TL;DR: These campaigns are good because they target the variable that can change: you. Rapists are not going to not rape because they saw a poster telling them not to rape.
| MensRights | t5_2qhk3 | cjybhp1 | You know what?
Let's just have no campaigns.
Seriously, campaigns that tell people not to rape don't work, because it's just a fucking poster and a rapist is gonna rape anyway.
Campaigns that tell people that it's a good idea to protect yourself by being responsible for your own safety, because the world is not perfect, and there are bad people in it, which might actually help to reduce rapes, are met with complaints about victim blaming.
There is no way to win. Rapists gon' rape, if people want to drink so much that they don't know even where they are, they can do that, but the ones that don't do that are not going to be the victims of the rapists that are gon' rape anyway, no matter what campaign you decide is best for everyone. | These campaigns are good because they target the variable that can change: you. Rapists are not going to not rape because they saw a poster telling them not to rape. |
osiriarose | It just occurred to me while thinking of a response to this question that as a child I used to dry hump every object I could think of, in public or in private. It felt so good, I loved that shit. Holy crap I used to lie down on my stomach on the ground and proceed to grind the heck out of it. What the fuck were the adults doing letting me go on with this?
TL;DR: I dry humped the Earth as a child | It just occurred to me while thinking of a response to this question that as a child I used to dry hump every object I could think of, in public or in private. It felt so good, I loved that shit. Holy crap I used to lie down on my stomach on the ground and proceed to grind the heck out of it. What the fuck were the adults doing letting me go on with this?
TL;DR: I dry humped the Earth as a child
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | cjydlgw | It just occurred to me while thinking of a response to this question that as a child I used to dry hump every object I could think of, in public or in private. It felt so good, I loved that shit. Holy crap I used to lie down on my stomach on the ground and proceed to grind the heck out of it. What the fuck were the adults doing letting me go on with this? | I dry humped the Earth as a child |
saceria | Don't bother with anything but cranking to 70 first off. You're not likely to use the mystic all that much before 70 since you swap out gear so often, and the blacksmith is no good for the same reason. I do recommend leveling the Jeweler, as you will likely want to up some gems as you go. Its very nice while leveling to have a socket in the helm and the largest ruby you can craft (for the bonus xp), but generally the ruby you find is good enough.
You can get by just fine with the drops you get in game and appropriate skill setups to match the gear you have.
I would sell everything below 60 and then just about everything not legendary after 60, just to amass gold, as you will eventually be spending millions on crafting Gems and a pittance more on re-rolls.
The crafting mats you care about are those from 61-70, since they get used in everything craft-ably useful.
**TLDR; Get close to 70 then worry about everything else.**
| Don't bother with anything but cranking to 70 first off. You're not likely to use the mystic all that much before 70 since you swap out gear so often, and the blacksmith is no good for the same reason. I do recommend leveling the Jeweler, as you will likely want to up some gems as you go. Its very nice while leveling to have a socket in the helm and the largest ruby you can craft (for the bonus xp), but generally the ruby you find is good enough.
You can get by just fine with the drops you get in game and appropriate skill setups to match the gear you have.
I would sell everything below 60 and then just about everything not legendary after 60, just to amass gold, as you will eventually be spending millions on crafting Gems and a pittance more on re-rolls.
The crafting mats you care about are those from 61-70, since they get used in everything craft-ably useful.
TLDR; Get close to 70 then worry about everything else.
| diablo3 | t5_2qjhk | cjyffpa | Don't bother with anything but cranking to 70 first off. You're not likely to use the mystic all that much before 70 since you swap out gear so often, and the blacksmith is no good for the same reason. I do recommend leveling the Jeweler, as you will likely want to up some gems as you go. Its very nice while leveling to have a socket in the helm and the largest ruby you can craft (for the bonus xp), but generally the ruby you find is good enough.
You can get by just fine with the drops you get in game and appropriate skill setups to match the gear you have.
I would sell everything below 60 and then just about everything not legendary after 60, just to amass gold, as you will eventually be spending millions on crafting Gems and a pittance more on re-rolls.
The crafting mats you care about are those from 61-70, since they get used in everything craft-ably useful. | Get close to 70 then worry about everything else. |
purplesuit | My Leroy's story I re-post every time I see a Leroy's reference or a suit buying question:
Long story.
Way back in high school in the mid 1980's someone told me an urban legend about Roger Mosley (aka TC on Magnum PI & had a bit part in McQ). The legend was that he was on the gameshow $25,000 pyramid. He and his partner got to the last stage where he would give clues and the partner/contestant would answer "Things that are ____." If the partner could guess enough right answers she would win the $25,000 prize.
Things are going swimmingly until they got to a clue and the conversation went like this:
Roger Mosley (calm): "Purple Suit"
Contestant: "Things that are odd?"
Roger Mosley (patient):"Purple Suit."
Contestant: "Things that are colorful."
Roger Mosley (less patient): "Purple Suit!, Purple Suit!"
Contestant: "I don't know. Ummm... Things that men wear?"
Time is now almost out.
Roger Mosley (exasperated and almost yelling): "Purple Suit!, Purple Suit! PURPLE SUIT!!"
Contestant: "I don't know, I don't know. Things that are bright?"
Buzzer sounds. The contestant doesn't win. The host comes over and decides to give the contestant a couple of clues just to see if the contestant could get the answer even though the money was lost.
Host: "A new car. A new house. A fur coat."
Contestant: "Things that are nice?"
Host: "Correct."
The host looks oddly at Roger and says: "Purple suit?"
Roger Mosley: "Where I come from there is nothing nicer than a purple suit."
Fast forward about ten years. The place that I work had a very successful year. Big year end party and it is made clear to me that I have to do "something very nice for the occasion."
So I spend about a week trying to figure out what to do. And then into my head the answer pops: "Well there is nothing nicer than a purple suit."
So off I go to find a purple suit in Seattle. I try Nordstrom, The Bon, The Men's Wearhouse. Not only does no one have a purple suit, but they all look at my like I'm an idiot for asking.
A couple nights after giving up my search and knowing that all is lost, I am rolling into the BP Gas Station right next to the Space Needle at 4AM after a Saturday night of having fun.
While I am gassing up my car a guy rolls up in a big Caddy. He is wearing a gray shiny shark skin suit and has three of his "ladies" in the car with him. He is obviously a player.
Me (Excitedly yelling like a dork at 4 in the morning): "Oh man I love that suit!"
Player (Jazz cool): "Thanks man."
Me: "You wouldn't happen to know where I could get a purple suit? I've been looking all over the city and all the shops just laugh at me when I ask them."
Player (Still Jazz Cool): "Oh yeah man. Go over to Lee-Roy Menswear over on Pike and 2nd."
Me: (Way too excited by the good news): "Oh hey thanks man. I really appreciate it."
That next Monday I go down to Leroy's (La-Roy's) Menswear. I walk in and look at the guy behind the counter and say: Me (very cautiously): "Would you happen to have a purple suit?"
Leroy (looking at me like it is a silly question. The exact same look as the other stores): "Well of course. We have several. And you have a body like a black guy. They will fit you great."
I then tell the story of the guy in the Caddy and the shiny sharkskin suit. Leroy says: "Oh yeah that is Willy T. Good customer. Big player."
The other thing I remember when trying on my grimace colored Nehru cut purple suit, was when I asked if should have purple shoes.
Leroy: "No way. That would make you look gaudy."
The suit was a huge hit. I was walking down the street in it and a lady slammed on her brakes, rolled down her window and yelled: "Damn white boy! You look great!" Without another word she drove off.
I went back and bought another one two years later. I'm still looking for that elusive shark skin dark purple suit.
My friends would invite me to their weddings with the stipulation that I could only show up if I wore one of my purple suits.
tl;dr. There is nothing nicer than a purple suit. Shop at Leroy's Menswear. It is awesome!
| My Leroy's story I re-post every time I see a Leroy's reference or a suit buying question:
Long story.
Way back in high school in the mid 1980's someone told me an urban legend about Roger Mosley (aka TC on Magnum PI & had a bit part in McQ). The legend was that he was on the gameshow $25,000 pyramid. He and his partner got to the last stage where he would give clues and the partner/contestant would answer "Things that are __ ." If the partner could guess enough right answers she would win the $25,000 prize.
Things are going swimmingly until they got to a clue and the conversation went like this:
Roger Mosley (calm): "Purple Suit"
Contestant: "Things that are odd?"
Roger Mosley (patient):"Purple Suit."
Contestant: "Things that are colorful."
Roger Mosley (less patient): "Purple Suit!, Purple Suit!"
Contestant: "I don't know. Ummm... Things that men wear?"
Time is now almost out.
Roger Mosley (exasperated and almost yelling): "Purple Suit!, Purple Suit! PURPLE SUIT!!"
Contestant: "I don't know, I don't know. Things that are bright?"
Buzzer sounds. The contestant doesn't win. The host comes over and decides to give the contestant a couple of clues just to see if the contestant could get the answer even though the money was lost.
Host: "A new car. A new house. A fur coat."
Contestant: "Things that are nice?"
Host: "Correct."
The host looks oddly at Roger and says: "Purple suit?"
Roger Mosley: "Where I come from there is nothing nicer than a purple suit."
Fast forward about ten years. The place that I work had a very successful year. Big year end party and it is made clear to me that I have to do "something very nice for the occasion."
So I spend about a week trying to figure out what to do. And then into my head the answer pops: "Well there is nothing nicer than a purple suit."
So off I go to find a purple suit in Seattle. I try Nordstrom, The Bon, The Men's Wearhouse. Not only does no one have a purple suit, but they all look at my like I'm an idiot for asking.
A couple nights after giving up my search and knowing that all is lost, I am rolling into the BP Gas Station right next to the Space Needle at 4AM after a Saturday night of having fun.
While I am gassing up my car a guy rolls up in a big Caddy. He is wearing a gray shiny shark skin suit and has three of his "ladies" in the car with him. He is obviously a player.
Me (Excitedly yelling like a dork at 4 in the morning): "Oh man I love that suit!"
Player (Jazz cool): "Thanks man."
Me: "You wouldn't happen to know where I could get a purple suit? I've been looking all over the city and all the shops just laugh at me when I ask them."
Player (Still Jazz Cool): "Oh yeah man. Go over to Lee-Roy Menswear over on Pike and 2nd."
Me: (Way too excited by the good news): "Oh hey thanks man. I really appreciate it."
That next Monday I go down to Leroy's (La-Roy's) Menswear. I walk in and look at the guy behind the counter and say: Me (very cautiously): "Would you happen to have a purple suit?"
Leroy (looking at me like it is a silly question. The exact same look as the other stores): "Well of course. We have several. And you have a body like a black guy. They will fit you great."
I then tell the story of the guy in the Caddy and the shiny sharkskin suit. Leroy says: "Oh yeah that is Willy T. Good customer. Big player."
The other thing I remember when trying on my grimace colored Nehru cut purple suit, was when I asked if should have purple shoes.
Leroy: "No way. That would make you look gaudy."
The suit was a huge hit. I was walking down the street in it and a lady slammed on her brakes, rolled down her window and yelled: "Damn white boy! You look great!" Without another word she drove off.
I went back and bought another one two years later. I'm still looking for that elusive shark skin dark purple suit.
My friends would invite me to their weddings with the stipulation that I could only show up if I wore one of my purple suits.
tl;dr. There is nothing nicer than a purple suit. Shop at Leroy's Menswear. It is awesome!
| Seattle | t5_2qhad | cjyyc9e | My Leroy's story I re-post every time I see a Leroy's reference or a suit buying question:
Long story.
Way back in high school in the mid 1980's someone told me an urban legend about Roger Mosley (aka TC on Magnum PI & had a bit part in McQ). The legend was that he was on the gameshow $25,000 pyramid. He and his partner got to the last stage where he would give clues and the partner/contestant would answer "Things that are __ ." If the partner could guess enough right answers she would win the $25,000 prize.
Things are going swimmingly until they got to a clue and the conversation went like this:
Roger Mosley (calm): "Purple Suit"
Contestant: "Things that are odd?"
Roger Mosley (patient):"Purple Suit."
Contestant: "Things that are colorful."
Roger Mosley (less patient): "Purple Suit!, Purple Suit!"
Contestant: "I don't know. Ummm... Things that men wear?"
Time is now almost out.
Roger Mosley (exasperated and almost yelling): "Purple Suit!, Purple Suit! PURPLE SUIT!!"
Contestant: "I don't know, I don't know. Things that are bright?"
Buzzer sounds. The contestant doesn't win. The host comes over and decides to give the contestant a couple of clues just to see if the contestant could get the answer even though the money was lost.
Host: "A new car. A new house. A fur coat."
Contestant: "Things that are nice?"
Host: "Correct."
The host looks oddly at Roger and says: "Purple suit?"
Roger Mosley: "Where I come from there is nothing nicer than a purple suit."
Fast forward about ten years. The place that I work had a very successful year. Big year end party and it is made clear to me that I have to do "something very nice for the occasion."
So I spend about a week trying to figure out what to do. And then into my head the answer pops: "Well there is nothing nicer than a purple suit."
So off I go to find a purple suit in Seattle. I try Nordstrom, The Bon, The Men's Wearhouse. Not only does no one have a purple suit, but they all look at my like I'm an idiot for asking.
A couple nights after giving up my search and knowing that all is lost, I am rolling into the BP Gas Station right next to the Space Needle at 4AM after a Saturday night of having fun.
While I am gassing up my car a guy rolls up in a big Caddy. He is wearing a gray shiny shark skin suit and has three of his "ladies" in the car with him. He is obviously a player.
Me (Excitedly yelling like a dork at 4 in the morning): "Oh man I love that suit!"
Player (Jazz cool): "Thanks man."
Me: "You wouldn't happen to know where I could get a purple suit? I've been looking all over the city and all the shops just laugh at me when I ask them."
Player (Still Jazz Cool): "Oh yeah man. Go over to Lee-Roy Menswear over on Pike and 2nd."
Me: (Way too excited by the good news): "Oh hey thanks man. I really appreciate it."
That next Monday I go down to Leroy's (La-Roy's) Menswear. I walk in and look at the guy behind the counter and say: Me (very cautiously): "Would you happen to have a purple suit?"
Leroy (looking at me like it is a silly question. The exact same look as the other stores): "Well of course. We have several. And you have a body like a black guy. They will fit you great."
I then tell the story of the guy in the Caddy and the shiny sharkskin suit. Leroy says: "Oh yeah that is Willy T. Good customer. Big player."
The other thing I remember when trying on my grimace colored Nehru cut purple suit, was when I asked if should have purple shoes.
Leroy: "No way. That would make you look gaudy."
The suit was a huge hit. I was walking down the street in it and a lady slammed on her brakes, rolled down her window and yelled: "Damn white boy! You look great!" Without another word she drove off.
I went back and bought another one two years later. I'm still looking for that elusive shark skin dark purple suit.
My friends would invite me to their weddings with the stipulation that I could only show up if I wore one of my purple suits. | There is nothing nicer than a purple suit. Shop at Leroy's Menswear. It is awesome! |
Im_Ready_I_Am | I think I'm gonna take a break from caring about dating. I'm tired of meeting new people and agonizing whether it's going to go anywhere, juggling my free time between friends and potential dates, debating whether I'm interested because "Who knows when the next girl will come along?" (I had a few year dry spell in college so this is a concern for me), and the kick in the teeth when girls just ice me out as if it's a good enough way to say they're not interested.
Instead, I'm going to enjoy fall with it's college football, pumpkin flavored things, and wildly fluctuating temperatures. If I happen to meet someone though friends or at a bar, neat. I'll still casually check my OKC account, but I'm done worrying over whether someone's going to reply to what I send. If I meet up with someone, First Date Me won't show. Instead, I'll talk about all the weird shit I talk to everyone else about and if they don't like it, fuck'em.
TL;DR - I'm gonna let my weird flag fly. | I think I'm gonna take a break from caring about dating. I'm tired of meeting new people and agonizing whether it's going to go anywhere, juggling my free time between friends and potential dates, debating whether I'm interested because "Who knows when the next girl will come along?" (I had a few year dry spell in college so this is a concern for me), and the kick in the teeth when girls just ice me out as if it's a good enough way to say they're not interested.
Instead, I'm going to enjoy fall with it's college football, pumpkin flavored things, and wildly fluctuating temperatures. If I happen to meet someone though friends or at a bar, neat. I'll still casually check my OKC account, but I'm done worrying over whether someone's going to reply to what I send. If I meet up with someone, First Date Me won't show. Instead, I'll talk about all the weird shit I talk to everyone else about and if they don't like it, fuck'em.
TL;DR - I'm gonna let my weird flag fly.
| OkCupid | t5_2rct2 | cjz7xnj | I think I'm gonna take a break from caring about dating. I'm tired of meeting new people and agonizing whether it's going to go anywhere, juggling my free time between friends and potential dates, debating whether I'm interested because "Who knows when the next girl will come along?" (I had a few year dry spell in college so this is a concern for me), and the kick in the teeth when girls just ice me out as if it's a good enough way to say they're not interested.
Instead, I'm going to enjoy fall with it's college football, pumpkin flavored things, and wildly fluctuating temperatures. If I happen to meet someone though friends or at a bar, neat. I'll still casually check my OKC account, but I'm done worrying over whether someone's going to reply to what I send. If I meet up with someone, First Date Me won't show. Instead, I'll talk about all the weird shit I talk to everyone else about and if they don't like it, fuck'em. | I'm gonna let my weird flag fly. |
heyfgt | I'm currently very much in love with myself. Professionally, I am kicking ass. Taking that month off of drinking seems to have perfused my circuits. The depression from my friends not being able to make it out seems to have lifted a bit and I have met a few girls that I don't hate yet. Although, I can't help but feel every one of them I meet is too normal for me and it's only a matter of time for the other shoe to drop and I'll say something that offends them or their sense of being. And then I immediately begin to lose interest.
I have no interest in changing anything about myself, which means I'll probably always be alone. I don't think I am capable of being comfortable in a relationship with another person. I'm inching my way towards being a spinster and oddly enough, it doesn't make me as sad as it should. That kind of upsets me, though.
You spend enough time joking about being a misanthrope and then one day you wake up and realize you've become self-fulfilling prophecy. Things were so much simpler before I had any clarity whatsoever. I miss it.
Edit: tl;dr Turns out I am happy for the first time in a while and I kind of miss my misery. | I'm currently very much in love with myself. Professionally, I am kicking ass. Taking that month off of drinking seems to have perfused my circuits. The depression from my friends not being able to make it out seems to have lifted a bit and I have met a few girls that I don't hate yet. Although, I can't help but feel every one of them I meet is too normal for me and it's only a matter of time for the other shoe to drop and I'll say something that offends them or their sense of being. And then I immediately begin to lose interest.
I have no interest in changing anything about myself, which means I'll probably always be alone. I don't think I am capable of being comfortable in a relationship with another person. I'm inching my way towards being a spinster and oddly enough, it doesn't make me as sad as it should. That kind of upsets me, though.
You spend enough time joking about being a misanthrope and then one day you wake up and realize you've become self-fulfilling prophecy. Things were so much simpler before I had any clarity whatsoever. I miss it.
Edit: tl;dr Turns out I am happy for the first time in a while and I kind of miss my misery.
| OkCupid | t5_2rct2 | cjz9qg2 | I'm currently very much in love with myself. Professionally, I am kicking ass. Taking that month off of drinking seems to have perfused my circuits. The depression from my friends not being able to make it out seems to have lifted a bit and I have met a few girls that I don't hate yet. Although, I can't help but feel every one of them I meet is too normal for me and it's only a matter of time for the other shoe to drop and I'll say something that offends them or their sense of being. And then I immediately begin to lose interest.
I have no interest in changing anything about myself, which means I'll probably always be alone. I don't think I am capable of being comfortable in a relationship with another person. I'm inching my way towards being a spinster and oddly enough, it doesn't make me as sad as it should. That kind of upsets me, though.
You spend enough time joking about being a misanthrope and then one day you wake up and realize you've become self-fulfilling prophecy. Things were so much simpler before I had any clarity whatsoever. I miss it.
Edit: | Turns out I am happy for the first time in a while and I kind of miss my misery. |
TheDrag0n | On a crazy Friday night, I heard some commotion out in the seating area. People started yelling and running around to corner to see what had happened. Turns out this drunken asshole undid a woman's bra...right in front on her boyfriend. She freaks out and a brawl breaks out. 6 or 7 guys all throwing punches. Myself and two other bartenders rush over to break it up. Jerry and I get the two main guys outside while Jon and a few regulars control the other brawlers.
Finally, we are able to separate the two outside. Keeping the drunk douche at arms length, I tell him he has to pay his tab and leave. He doesn't take kindly to this, shoves me, and turns away only to be greeted by HIS girlfriend who is obviously furious. She starts beating him with her purse, screaming all the while. So he turns back around and rushes me, crushing his left shoulder into my stomach. This was a mistake. I now had him in a headlock. So I give him a quick knee to the stomach to knock the wind from his lungs and shove him away. Thinking it's over, I start to walk back toward the bar. Sure enough, I hear heavy footsteps behind me getting closer and closer. So I turn around and deliver a jab to the bridge of his nose. Nothing powerful, just enough to end this ridiculous fight. They took off and I never saw him again.
The very next week, the drunk's girlfriend came into the bar, newly single. I congratulated her and bought her a drink. Turns out I bruised a few of his ribs and busted his nose.
tl;dr Guy undoes bra of woman, gets into fight. Ends up fighting me and I broke his nose. | On a crazy Friday night, I heard some commotion out in the seating area. People started yelling and running around to corner to see what had happened. Turns out this drunken asshole undid a woman's bra...right in front on her boyfriend. She freaks out and a brawl breaks out. 6 or 7 guys all throwing punches. Myself and two other bartenders rush over to break it up. Jerry and I get the two main guys outside while Jon and a few regulars control the other brawlers.
Finally, we are able to separate the two outside. Keeping the drunk douche at arms length, I tell him he has to pay his tab and leave. He doesn't take kindly to this, shoves me, and turns away only to be greeted by HIS girlfriend who is obviously furious. She starts beating him with her purse, screaming all the while. So he turns back around and rushes me, crushing his left shoulder into my stomach. This was a mistake. I now had him in a headlock. So I give him a quick knee to the stomach to knock the wind from his lungs and shove him away. Thinking it's over, I start to walk back toward the bar. Sure enough, I hear heavy footsteps behind me getting closer and closer. So I turn around and deliver a jab to the bridge of his nose. Nothing powerful, just enough to end this ridiculous fight. They took off and I never saw him again.
The very next week, the drunk's girlfriend came into the bar, newly single. I congratulated her and bought her a drink. Turns out I bruised a few of his ribs and busted his nose.
tl;dr Guy undoes bra of woman, gets into fight. Ends up fighting me and I broke his nose.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | cjzhdku | On a crazy Friday night, I heard some commotion out in the seating area. People started yelling and running around to corner to see what had happened. Turns out this drunken asshole undid a woman's bra...right in front on her boyfriend. She freaks out and a brawl breaks out. 6 or 7 guys all throwing punches. Myself and two other bartenders rush over to break it up. Jerry and I get the two main guys outside while Jon and a few regulars control the other brawlers.
Finally, we are able to separate the two outside. Keeping the drunk douche at arms length, I tell him he has to pay his tab and leave. He doesn't take kindly to this, shoves me, and turns away only to be greeted by HIS girlfriend who is obviously furious. She starts beating him with her purse, screaming all the while. So he turns back around and rushes me, crushing his left shoulder into my stomach. This was a mistake. I now had him in a headlock. So I give him a quick knee to the stomach to knock the wind from his lungs and shove him away. Thinking it's over, I start to walk back toward the bar. Sure enough, I hear heavy footsteps behind me getting closer and closer. So I turn around and deliver a jab to the bridge of his nose. Nothing powerful, just enough to end this ridiculous fight. They took off and I never saw him again.
The very next week, the drunk's girlfriend came into the bar, newly single. I congratulated her and bought her a drink. Turns out I bruised a few of his ribs and busted his nose. | Guy undoes bra of woman, gets into fight. Ends up fighting me and I broke his nose. |
dimensionargentina | Contexto: Mis viejos cuando se jubilaron hace ya muchos años decidieron mudarse a Paraguay en una zona hermosa, selvática y llena de cerros. Fue una buena decisión.
El año pasado a mi mamá la internaron porque estaba anemica y con una infección pulmonar (aparte de tener cancer) así que me quedaba a cuidarla con mi hermana en el hospital. Una vez me quede durmiendo tipo croto arriba de un cartón pero con frazadita en un pasillo del hospital. Al día siguiente mi hermana me dijo que me vaya a dormir a la casa de mis viejos por el tema de que asi veia si estaba todo bien, limpiaba un poco y de paso descansaba bien. Me tome el [colectivo]( en la ruta, viaje como una hora y ya era noche. Pasa el tiempo y no me ubico donde bajar. Le pregunto al chofer y me dice que me habia pasado y que me bajara total solo tenia que esperar en la parada...
Me bajo en medio de una ruta sin luz, a la noche, en una "parada" (4 cañas de bambú con un plástico de techo y una lamparita conectada a un cable que se perdía en la oscuridad)
Pasan 30 minutos nada. 1 hora y nada. Cada tanto pasaba algún camión brazuca a toda velocidad. Mientras tanto no se veia nada en la ruta (sin iluminación) a los costados de la ruta cerros selvático.
2 horas y nada. Yo agotadisimo de estar días en el hospital cuidando a mi mamá.
Empieza a llover.
La temperatura baja aun mas. (En paraguay el "invierno" dura un par de horas. El resto del año hace 50° a la sombra)
Pasa el tiempo y me empiezo a congelar. Mi método de poner las manos a 1 cm de la lamparita ya no alcanza.
Empiezo a hacer dedo a los camiones brasileños que cada tanto pasan so riesgo de terminar como novia de camionero. Me pongo a cantar esto mientras me doy cuenta que los camiones no van a parar nunca ya que justo estoy en una parte baja y los camiones esos necesitan mucho envion para subir el cerro. No iban a parar ni a ganchos por un argentino medio congelado.
Decido caminar hasta encontrar algun poblado. Me pongo a caminar y luego de un km me cruzo con un paraguayo. Me habla en guaraní y no entiendo un soto. Me habla en castellano y me doy cuenta que el tipo estaba re mamado. Le explico mi situación y le pregunto por el poblado mas cercano ya que el colectivo no pasa mas.
_Nahhh. Venite conmigo que vamos hasta lo de mi amigo asi le digo que te lleve.
_Eh... (me van a violar)
_Venite te digo así nos tomamos unas cañas, curepí.
_OK. (Recuerdo a Crispin el de PNP ¿Vivira por aca?)
_Nos pusimos a caminar y el choborra me empieza a contar como odia a los argentinos ya que una vez uno le había robado un celular. El tipo se empieza a enojar conmigo por ser argentino. Al rato me adora, después me odia de nuevo...
En un momento me dice mientras me apunta con su mano envuelta en una bolsa:
_Sabes lo que tengo acá?
_Eh... un arma?
_Si.
_En serio?
_ No curepa tarado. El arma la tengo guardada.
Seguimos caminando en medio de la nada y pienso en la idea de revolearlo al caú por el puente que estamos cruzando. Meh... Mejor no lo hago ya que lo único que me falta es terminar en una cárcel paragua siendo porteño.
El borracho me invita a tomar de nuevo caña en su casa que esta a una distancia desconocida por el mismo... mientras le explico que no tomo veo unas luces de la policía a la distancia, se acerca mi salvación! En cuanto esta a unos 200 metros empiezo a hacerle señas a lo loco. La camioneta de la policía dobla y se mete en el monte.
_Que haces argentino tarado? Sos boludo? Me van a fajar si me agarran.
Me despido del borrachin que milagrosamente decide irse vaya uno a saber donde.
De pronto de un camino de tierra al costado de la ruta aparece un gordo en una moto Yamazuki (si, esa marca existe. No es ni yamaha ni suzuki, es una marca paraguaya)
Lo paro y le explico mi situación. Le pido si me lleva a cambio de plata y me dice que si.
SALVADO!
Me subo a la moto del gordo y me doy cuenta que yo soy mas grandote que el. Casi en willy vamos como a 100 en bajada por los cerros paraguayos de noche, a 1 cm de la banquina mientras me congelo aun mas por el viento y la lluvia. Como deporte extremo eso de andar esquivando camiones no es lo mio.
Luego de 10 kms llegamos a destino. Yo al borde de la hipotermia, sin poder pensar claramente, me doy cuenta que no tengo plata paraguaya solo billetes argentos. Le explico que el peso argentino tiene un valor re groso, que cotiza fuerte y iba a poder cambiar esa plata en el banco sin problemas. Le doy como para comprarse 4 cervezas. Me dio ternura como inocentemente me creyó cada una de mis palabras mientras yo me sentía un poco como Kicillof.
Cual si fuera la tierra prometida logro llegar a la casa de mi vieja para por fin tirarme en un colchon y dormir sin que me importen los insectos gigantes que me empiezan a golpear la cara.
Creo que mas o menos termine por aca:
TL; DR :
Me perdí en Paraguay, casi me congelo, casi mato un borracho, me salvo un gordo en yamazuki, me atacaron insectos gigantes, mi vieja se murió y mi papá también. | Contexto: Mis viejos cuando se jubilaron hace ya muchos años decidieron mudarse a Paraguay en una zona hermosa, selvática y llena de cerros. Fue una buena decisión.
El año pasado a mi mamá la internaron porque estaba anemica y con una infección pulmonar (aparte de tener cancer) así que me quedaba a cuidarla con mi hermana en el hospital. Una vez me quede durmiendo tipo croto arriba de un cartón pero con frazadita en un pasillo del hospital. Al día siguiente mi hermana me dijo que me vaya a dormir a la casa de mis viejos por el tema de que asi veia si estaba todo bien, limpiaba un poco y de paso descansaba bien. Me tome el colectivo
Pasan 30 minutos nada. 1 hora y nada. Cada tanto pasaba algún camión brazuca a toda velocidad. Mientras tanto no se veia nada en la ruta (sin iluminación) a los costados de la ruta cerros selvático.
2 horas y nada. Yo agotadisimo de estar días en el hospital cuidando a mi mamá.
Empieza a llover.
La temperatura baja aun mas. (En paraguay el "invierno" dura un par de horas. El resto del año hace 50° a la sombra)
Pasa el tiempo y me empiezo a congelar. Mi método de poner las manos a 1 cm de la lamparita ya no alcanza.
Empiezo a hacer dedo a los camiones brasileños que cada tanto pasan so riesgo de terminar como novia de camionero. Me pongo a cantar esto mientras me doy cuenta que los camiones no van a parar nunca ya que justo estoy en una parte baja y los camiones esos necesitan mucho envion para subir el cerro. No iban a parar ni a ganchos por un argentino medio congelado.
Decido caminar hasta encontrar algun poblado. Me pongo a caminar y luego de un km me cruzo con un paraguayo. Me habla en guaraní y no entiendo un soto. Me habla en castellano y me doy cuenta que el tipo estaba re mamado. Le explico mi situación y le pregunto por el poblado mas cercano ya que el colectivo no pasa mas.
_Nahhh. Venite conmigo que vamos hasta lo de mi amigo asi le digo que te lleve.
_Eh... (me van a violar)
_Venite te digo así nos tomamos unas cañas, curepí.
_OK. (Recuerdo a Crispin el de PNP ¿Vivira por aca?)
_Nos pusimos a caminar y el choborra me empieza a contar como odia a los argentinos ya que una vez uno le había robado un celular. El tipo se empieza a enojar conmigo por ser argentino. Al rato me adora, después me odia de nuevo...
En un momento me dice mientras me apunta con su mano envuelta en una bolsa:
_Sabes lo que tengo acá?
_Eh... un arma?
_Si.
_En serio?
_ No curepa tarado. El arma la tengo guardada.
Seguimos caminando en medio de la nada y pienso en la idea de revolearlo al caú por el puente que estamos cruzando. Meh... Mejor no lo hago ya que lo único que me falta es terminar en una cárcel paragua siendo porteño.
El borracho me invita a tomar de nuevo caña en su casa que esta a una distancia desconocida por el mismo... mientras le explico que no tomo veo unas luces de la policía a la distancia, se acerca mi salvación! En cuanto esta a unos 200 metros empiezo a hacerle señas a lo loco. La camioneta de la policía dobla y se mete en el monte.
_Que haces argentino tarado? Sos boludo? Me van a fajar si me agarran.
Me despido del borrachin que milagrosamente decide irse vaya uno a saber donde.
De pronto de un camino de tierra al costado de la ruta aparece un gordo en una moto Yamazuki (si, esa marca existe. No es ni yamaha ni suzuki, es una marca paraguaya)
Lo paro y le explico mi situación. Le pido si me lleva a cambio de plata y me dice que si.
SALVADO!
Me subo a la moto del gordo y me doy cuenta que yo soy mas grandote que el. Casi en willy vamos como a 100 en bajada por los cerros paraguayos de noche, a 1 cm de la banquina mientras me congelo aun mas por el viento y la lluvia. Como deporte extremo eso de andar esquivando camiones no es lo mio.
Luego de 10 kms llegamos a destino. Yo al borde de la hipotermia, sin poder pensar claramente, me doy cuenta que no tengo plata paraguaya solo billetes argentos. Le explico que el peso argentino tiene un valor re groso, que cotiza fuerte y iba a poder cambiar esa plata en el banco sin problemas. Le doy como para comprarse 4 cervezas. Me dio ternura como inocentemente me creyó cada una de mis palabras mientras yo me sentía un poco como Kicillof.
Cual si fuera la tierra prometida logro llegar a la casa de mi vieja para por fin tirarme en un colchon y dormir sin que me importen los insectos gigantes que me empiezan a golpear la cara.
Creo que mas o menos termine por aca:
TL; DR :
Me perdí en Paraguay, casi me congelo, casi mato un borracho, me salvo un gordo en yamazuki, me atacaron insectos gigantes, mi vieja se murió y mi papá también.
| argentina | t5_2qlht | cjznr5r | Contexto: Mis viejos cuando se jubilaron hace ya muchos años decidieron mudarse a Paraguay en una zona hermosa, selvática y llena de cerros. Fue una buena decisión.
El año pasado a mi mamá la internaron porque estaba anemica y con una infección pulmonar (aparte de tener cancer) así que me quedaba a cuidarla con mi hermana en el hospital. Una vez me quede durmiendo tipo croto arriba de un cartón pero con frazadita en un pasillo del hospital. Al día siguiente mi hermana me dijo que me vaya a dormir a la casa de mis viejos por el tema de que asi veia si estaba todo bien, limpiaba un poco y de paso descansaba bien. Me tome el colectivo
Pasan 30 minutos nada. 1 hora y nada. Cada tanto pasaba algún camión brazuca a toda velocidad. Mientras tanto no se veia nada en la ruta (sin iluminación) a los costados de la ruta cerros selvático.
2 horas y nada. Yo agotadisimo de estar días en el hospital cuidando a mi mamá.
Empieza a llover.
La temperatura baja aun mas. (En paraguay el "invierno" dura un par de horas. El resto del año hace 50° a la sombra)
Pasa el tiempo y me empiezo a congelar. Mi método de poner las manos a 1 cm de la lamparita ya no alcanza.
Empiezo a hacer dedo a los camiones brasileños que cada tanto pasan so riesgo de terminar como novia de camionero. Me pongo a cantar esto mientras me doy cuenta que los camiones no van a parar nunca ya que justo estoy en una parte baja y los camiones esos necesitan mucho envion para subir el cerro. No iban a parar ni a ganchos por un argentino medio congelado.
Decido caminar hasta encontrar algun poblado. Me pongo a caminar y luego de un km me cruzo con un paraguayo. Me habla en guaraní y no entiendo un soto. Me habla en castellano y me doy cuenta que el tipo estaba re mamado. Le explico mi situación y le pregunto por el poblado mas cercano ya que el colectivo no pasa mas.
_Nahhh. Venite conmigo que vamos hasta lo de mi amigo asi le digo que te lleve.
_Eh... (me van a violar)
_Venite te digo así nos tomamos unas cañas, curepí.
_OK. (Recuerdo a Crispin el de PNP ¿Vivira por aca?)
_Nos pusimos a caminar y el choborra me empieza a contar como odia a los argentinos ya que una vez uno le había robado un celular. El tipo se empieza a enojar conmigo por ser argentino. Al rato me adora, después me odia de nuevo...
En un momento me dice mientras me apunta con su mano envuelta en una bolsa:
_Sabes lo que tengo acá?
_Eh... un arma?
_Si.
_En serio?
_ No curepa tarado. El arma la tengo guardada.
Seguimos caminando en medio de la nada y pienso en la idea de revolearlo al caú por el puente que estamos cruzando. Meh... Mejor no lo hago ya que lo único que me falta es terminar en una cárcel paragua siendo porteño.
El borracho me invita a tomar de nuevo caña en su casa que esta a una distancia desconocida por el mismo... mientras le explico que no tomo veo unas luces de la policía a la distancia, se acerca mi salvación! En cuanto esta a unos 200 metros empiezo a hacerle señas a lo loco. La camioneta de la policía dobla y se mete en el monte.
_Que haces argentino tarado? Sos boludo? Me van a fajar si me agarran.
Me despido del borrachin que milagrosamente decide irse vaya uno a saber donde.
De pronto de un camino de tierra al costado de la ruta aparece un gordo en una moto Yamazuki (si, esa marca existe. No es ni yamaha ni suzuki, es una marca paraguaya)
Lo paro y le explico mi situación. Le pido si me lleva a cambio de plata y me dice que si.
SALVADO!
Me subo a la moto del gordo y me doy cuenta que yo soy mas grandote que el. Casi en willy vamos como a 100 en bajada por los cerros paraguayos de noche, a 1 cm de la banquina mientras me congelo aun mas por el viento y la lluvia. Como deporte extremo eso de andar esquivando camiones no es lo mio.
Luego de 10 kms llegamos a destino. Yo al borde de la hipotermia, sin poder pensar claramente, me doy cuenta que no tengo plata paraguaya solo billetes argentos. Le explico que el peso argentino tiene un valor re groso, que cotiza fuerte y iba a poder cambiar esa plata en el banco sin problemas. Le doy como para comprarse 4 cervezas. Me dio ternura como inocentemente me creyó cada una de mis palabras mientras yo me sentía un poco como Kicillof.
Cual si fuera la tierra prometida logro llegar a la casa de mi vieja para por fin tirarme en un colchon y dormir sin que me importen los insectos gigantes que me empiezan a golpear la cara.
Creo que mas o menos termine por aca: | Me perdí en Paraguay, casi me congelo, casi mato un borracho, me salvo un gordo en yamazuki, me atacaron insectos gigantes, mi vieja se murió y mi papá también. |
MissPicklesMeow | Was linked [this]( information over in /r/DIYBeauty
TL;DR - no | Was linked [this]( information over in /r/DIYBeauty
TL;DR - no
| AsianBeauty | t5_2w0u7 | ck16hbf | Was linked [this]( information over in /r/DIYBeauty | no |
greatcaffeine | The Ducky boards I've used have all been great, and I haven't heard anyone complaining about anything like the problems I saw with my old Das Keyboard. I feel like Das was *the* option for mechanical keyboards about 6-7 years ago, but since then, there have been so many more companies stepping up with better quality options.
I personally own four different keyboards. My overall favorite is the KBParadise V60 Mini with MX Green switches, although this keyboard definitely isn't for everyone. If you've ever considered a 60% layout, it's definitely the board to get though. You basically get your choice of switches, and the function layer is a huge improvement over the Poker II that's been very popular here. I also have a CODE Keyboard with Clears, and it's a very solid, cleanly designed keyboard. No complaints, and it's great to use at work because it's not too loud like the others. My Unicomp Ultra Classic is just fun to type on; my only gripes are its hulking size and the noise. The sheer volume doesn't really bother me, but it definitely prevents me from using it at work. Last but not least, I have an old Dell AT101W with Black ALPS switches. It's a totally different feel, but it's even larger than the Unicomp, so you really need a large desk to accommodate it.
TL;DR, there are tons of awesome options out there, and you can probably find something that's exactly suited to what you want. Also, be sure to prepare your wallet; keyboards may be addictive. | The Ducky boards I've used have all been great, and I haven't heard anyone complaining about anything like the problems I saw with my old Das Keyboard. I feel like Das was the option for mechanical keyboards about 6-7 years ago, but since then, there have been so many more companies stepping up with better quality options.
I personally own four different keyboards. My overall favorite is the KBParadise V60 Mini with MX Green switches, although this keyboard definitely isn't for everyone. If you've ever considered a 60% layout, it's definitely the board to get though. You basically get your choice of switches, and the function layer is a huge improvement over the Poker II that's been very popular here. I also have a CODE Keyboard with Clears, and it's a very solid, cleanly designed keyboard. No complaints, and it's great to use at work because it's not too loud like the others. My Unicomp Ultra Classic is just fun to type on; my only gripes are its hulking size and the noise. The sheer volume doesn't really bother me, but it definitely prevents me from using it at work. Last but not least, I have an old Dell AT101W with Black ALPS switches. It's a totally different feel, but it's even larger than the Unicomp, so you really need a large desk to accommodate it.
TL;DR, there are tons of awesome options out there, and you can probably find something that's exactly suited to what you want. Also, be sure to prepare your wallet; keyboards may be addictive.
| MechanicalKeyboards | t5_2ugo7 | ck1h5nh | The Ducky boards I've used have all been great, and I haven't heard anyone complaining about anything like the problems I saw with my old Das Keyboard. I feel like Das was the option for mechanical keyboards about 6-7 years ago, but since then, there have been so many more companies stepping up with better quality options.
I personally own four different keyboards. My overall favorite is the KBParadise V60 Mini with MX Green switches, although this keyboard definitely isn't for everyone. If you've ever considered a 60% layout, it's definitely the board to get though. You basically get your choice of switches, and the function layer is a huge improvement over the Poker II that's been very popular here. I also have a CODE Keyboard with Clears, and it's a very solid, cleanly designed keyboard. No complaints, and it's great to use at work because it's not too loud like the others. My Unicomp Ultra Classic is just fun to type on; my only gripes are its hulking size and the noise. The sheer volume doesn't really bother me, but it definitely prevents me from using it at work. Last but not least, I have an old Dell AT101W with Black ALPS switches. It's a totally different feel, but it's even larger than the Unicomp, so you really need a large desk to accommodate it. | there are tons of awesome options out there, and you can probably find something that's exactly suited to what you want. Also, be sure to prepare your wallet; keyboards may be addictive. |
lamaface21 | I was torn. But I honestly thought Southern had a strong chance to beat the Gators after the Miami game (first game of the season). By the time *that* game came around the Florida season was a complete disaster, so I really just wanted it as this huge, historical win for Southern's program. TL/DR: I cheered for Southern. | I was torn. But I honestly thought Southern had a strong chance to beat the Gators after the Miami game (first game of the season). By the time that game came around the Florida season was a complete disaster, so I really just wanted it as this huge, historical win for Southern's program. TL/DR: I cheered for Southern.
| CFB | t5_2qm9d | ck1tl57 | I was torn. But I honestly thought Southern had a strong chance to beat the Gators after the Miami game (first game of the season). By the time that game came around the Florida season was a complete disaster, so I really just wanted it as this huge, historical win for Southern's program. | I cheered for Southern. |
WLCdude | Very true. I lived in China for a year and my wife and I took a trip to the zoo. People were taking pictures of US! That being said...there were dogs, not special dogs, just dogs in pens, eating rice...so I guess all-in-all it was pretty lame zoo.
tl;dr, white people are the most exotic thing in a Chinese zoo.
| Very true. I lived in China for a year and my wife and I took a trip to the zoo. People were taking pictures of US! That being said...there were dogs, not special dogs, just dogs in pens, eating rice...so I guess all-in-all it was pretty lame zoo.
tl;dr, white people are the most exotic thing in a Chinese zoo.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | ck1i8d1 | Very true. I lived in China for a year and my wife and I took a trip to the zoo. People were taking pictures of US! That being said...there were dogs, not special dogs, just dogs in pens, eating rice...so I guess all-in-all it was pretty lame zoo. | white people are the most exotic thing in a Chinese zoo. |
nmoyer12 | I love playing mid. The champ to fit all your criteria is ahri. I enjoy all the greats, zed, akali, talon (for you pesky kassadins), but ahri is who you're looking for. She has pre 6 kill potential which is hard to come by with assasins (even tho she's assasin/Mage) when you hit level six you have very strong map pressure. Her ult and charms allows you to position yourself almost anywhere you need to be in lane and land your charm. If you land charm that enemy is dead if you want them too so you don't have to be afraid of burning one dash to set up the charm making her incredibly versatile her kit can but used in team fights to: pick off a target wth charm, add damage across the whole team with e/r and even a well placed q. You can 100-0 almost anyone on the field post 6 with dfg. On top of that her wave clear is crazy strong however she can't take turrets that quickly which is in my opinion her really only major downside.
Tl:dr ahri, you'll like her mobility transition coming from kassadin. Potent all over the map does everything you want | I love playing mid. The champ to fit all your criteria is ahri. I enjoy all the greats, zed, akali, talon (for you pesky kassadins), but ahri is who you're looking for. She has pre 6 kill potential which is hard to come by with assasins (even tho she's assasin/Mage) when you hit level six you have very strong map pressure. Her ult and charms allows you to position yourself almost anywhere you need to be in lane and land your charm. If you land charm that enemy is dead if you want them too so you don't have to be afraid of burning one dash to set up the charm making her incredibly versatile her kit can but used in team fights to: pick off a target wth charm, add damage across the whole team with e/r and even a well placed q. You can 100-0 almost anyone on the field post 6 with dfg. On top of that her wave clear is crazy strong however she can't take turrets that quickly which is in my opinion her really only major downside.
Tl:dr ahri, you'll like her mobility transition coming from kassadin. Potent all over the map does everything you want
| summonerschool | t5_2t9x3 | ck1vxg1 | I love playing mid. The champ to fit all your criteria is ahri. I enjoy all the greats, zed, akali, talon (for you pesky kassadins), but ahri is who you're looking for. She has pre 6 kill potential which is hard to come by with assasins (even tho she's assasin/Mage) when you hit level six you have very strong map pressure. Her ult and charms allows you to position yourself almost anywhere you need to be in lane and land your charm. If you land charm that enemy is dead if you want them too so you don't have to be afraid of burning one dash to set up the charm making her incredibly versatile her kit can but used in team fights to: pick off a target wth charm, add damage across the whole team with e/r and even a well placed q. You can 100-0 almost anyone on the field post 6 with dfg. On top of that her wave clear is crazy strong however she can't take turrets that quickly which is in my opinion her really only major downside. | ahri, you'll like her mobility transition coming from kassadin. Potent all over the map does everything you want |
happy_fart_man | I like how granpop and the SHUT IT! Is included in the tl; dr. Wish I could have witnessed that moment. :D | I like how granpop and the SHUT IT! Is included in the tl; dr. Wish I could have witnessed that moment. :D
| fatpeoplestories | t5_2vzax | ck1zt4z | I like how granpop and the SHUT IT! Is included in the | Wish I could have witnessed that moment. :D |
raperapethrowaway | **For anyone lurking who is looking for advice, I'll give some follow up information:**
If your situation matches mine, I'd suggest looking at yourself critically and how you usually deal with difficult situations. Then knock your ability to handle hard things down a couple notches. I'm usually very good at "numbing" myself to situations that I find are hard to deal with emotionally, typically to the point that I don't have to think about them until someone brings it up.
**Given the background on me, this is how things progressed in the month after I posted this:**
At a large party (where he was), I got super drunk and hugged him and told him I forgave him. He looked like he was going to cry out of happiness and was like "seriously?" and then hugged me back. On one hand, I regret that my drunken, emotionally stoic (because I was in a public area) self got to make the decision for me to tell him that I was okay. On the other hand, it was bothering me that I couldn't see his guilt all over his face (he had to act as normal as I had to, if we didn't want people asking questions) and seeing that relief confirmed to me that it WAS on his mind. He didn't just *stop* feeling like shit.
I can now handle him in group settings. I definitely have to make a conscious decision to sit down where he is, whereas before, it wouldn't take a second for me to think. If he's sitting down with one other person, I typically won't sit down because if the other person leaves, then I'm stuck. It's become more of a "person you try to avoid, but will deal with if your friends are the glue in a situation" relationship. Our one on one situations are still weird though. Quiet, we avoid each other, leave when in each others' presence alone.
**How I feel right now:**
It makes me incredibly sad to know we will never be the friends we used to be. I wish we were. Some nights, I imagine curled up alone in a blanket, sitting in the same room as him and just crying. It comforts me to know that he knows how I'm affected, and I think that this situation I keep imagining is partially because I want him to feel bad, and partially because I want him to be my friend again.
I don't feel like a rape victim, I feel like a victim of trust breach. That definitely helps *FOR ME.* It may not be the case for all (or probably most) of y'all. My sexual life is as healthy and active as I want it to be.
**TLDR; Sexual life is a-OK. I just feel like I lost a friend (haven't we all?) but instead of getting over it, I have to see the friend I lost every day.** | For anyone lurking who is looking for advice, I'll give some follow up information:
If your situation matches mine, I'd suggest looking at yourself critically and how you usually deal with difficult situations. Then knock your ability to handle hard things down a couple notches. I'm usually very good at "numbing" myself to situations that I find are hard to deal with emotionally, typically to the point that I don't have to think about them until someone brings it up.
Given the background on me, this is how things progressed in the month after I posted this:
At a large party (where he was), I got super drunk and hugged him and told him I forgave him. He looked like he was going to cry out of happiness and was like "seriously?" and then hugged me back. On one hand, I regret that my drunken, emotionally stoic (because I was in a public area) self got to make the decision for me to tell him that I was okay. On the other hand, it was bothering me that I couldn't see his guilt all over his face (he had to act as normal as I had to, if we didn't want people asking questions) and seeing that relief confirmed to me that it WAS on his mind. He didn't just stop feeling like shit.
I can now handle him in group settings. I definitely have to make a conscious decision to sit down where he is, whereas before, it wouldn't take a second for me to think. If he's sitting down with one other person, I typically won't sit down because if the other person leaves, then I'm stuck. It's become more of a "person you try to avoid, but will deal with if your friends are the glue in a situation" relationship. Our one on one situations are still weird though. Quiet, we avoid each other, leave when in each others' presence alone.
How I feel right now:
It makes me incredibly sad to know we will never be the friends we used to be. I wish we were. Some nights, I imagine curled up alone in a blanket, sitting in the same room as him and just crying. It comforts me to know that he knows how I'm affected, and I think that this situation I keep imagining is partially because I want him to feel bad, and partially because I want him to be my friend again.
I don't feel like a rape victim, I feel like a victim of trust breach. That definitely helps FOR ME. It may not be the case for all (or probably most) of y'all. My sexual life is as healthy and active as I want it to be.
TLDR; Sexual life is a-OK. I just feel like I lost a friend (haven't we all?) but instead of getting over it, I have to see the friend I lost every day.
| rape | t5_2qosw | ckx3bol | For anyone lurking who is looking for advice, I'll give some follow up information:
If your situation matches mine, I'd suggest looking at yourself critically and how you usually deal with difficult situations. Then knock your ability to handle hard things down a couple notches. I'm usually very good at "numbing" myself to situations that I find are hard to deal with emotionally, typically to the point that I don't have to think about them until someone brings it up.
Given the background on me, this is how things progressed in the month after I posted this:
At a large party (where he was), I got super drunk and hugged him and told him I forgave him. He looked like he was going to cry out of happiness and was like "seriously?" and then hugged me back. On one hand, I regret that my drunken, emotionally stoic (because I was in a public area) self got to make the decision for me to tell him that I was okay. On the other hand, it was bothering me that I couldn't see his guilt all over his face (he had to act as normal as I had to, if we didn't want people asking questions) and seeing that relief confirmed to me that it WAS on his mind. He didn't just stop feeling like shit.
I can now handle him in group settings. I definitely have to make a conscious decision to sit down where he is, whereas before, it wouldn't take a second for me to think. If he's sitting down with one other person, I typically won't sit down because if the other person leaves, then I'm stuck. It's become more of a "person you try to avoid, but will deal with if your friends are the glue in a situation" relationship. Our one on one situations are still weird though. Quiet, we avoid each other, leave when in each others' presence alone.
How I feel right now:
It makes me incredibly sad to know we will never be the friends we used to be. I wish we were. Some nights, I imagine curled up alone in a blanket, sitting in the same room as him and just crying. It comforts me to know that he knows how I'm affected, and I think that this situation I keep imagining is partially because I want him to feel bad, and partially because I want him to be my friend again.
I don't feel like a rape victim, I feel like a victim of trust breach. That definitely helps FOR ME. It may not be the case for all (or probably most) of y'all. My sexual life is as healthy and active as I want it to be. | Sexual life is a-OK. I just feel like I lost a friend (haven't we all?) but instead of getting over it, I have to see the friend I lost every day. |
optomas | I have experimented with the beautiful black and green wolf spiders in my yard. They have at least four smaller eyes, which seem to detect motion from about 50 cm. Motion detected at this distance makes the spider move toward the object. In this case, a small stick.
The two larger eyes I observed are wired up a bit differently. If any motion is detected within about 5cm, it runs away.
I suspect the correct motion within 5cm will result in an attack. I couldn't think of a way to test this. Not matter how bug-like I wiggled the stick the spider would not attack. It consistently ran away.
Smell and hearing may also be involved, but both senses seem awfully complicated for the spider's size and what it does.
tldr; Spiders are very cool. | I have experimented with the beautiful black and green wolf spiders in my yard. They have at least four smaller eyes, which seem to detect motion from about 50 cm. Motion detected at this distance makes the spider move toward the object. In this case, a small stick.
The two larger eyes I observed are wired up a bit differently. If any motion is detected within about 5cm, it runs away.
I suspect the correct motion within 5cm will result in an attack. I couldn't think of a way to test this. Not matter how bug-like I wiggled the stick the spider would not attack. It consistently ran away.
Smell and hearing may also be involved, but both senses seem awfully complicated for the spider's size and what it does.
tldr; Spiders are very cool.
| biology | t5_2qhn7 | ck34n85 | I have experimented with the beautiful black and green wolf spiders in my yard. They have at least four smaller eyes, which seem to detect motion from about 50 cm. Motion detected at this distance makes the spider move toward the object. In this case, a small stick.
The two larger eyes I observed are wired up a bit differently. If any motion is detected within about 5cm, it runs away.
I suspect the correct motion within 5cm will result in an attack. I couldn't think of a way to test this. Not matter how bug-like I wiggled the stick the spider would not attack. It consistently ran away.
Smell and hearing may also be involved, but both senses seem awfully complicated for the spider's size and what it does. | Spiders are very cool. |
Chromium2222 | Oh... I see. What does TL;DR mean? | Oh... I see. What does TL;DR mean?
| buildapc | t5_2rnve | ck2u2cy | Oh... I see. What does | mean? |
serg06 | Yeah, the i5 gives about a 20% improvement in cpu-heavy games. The improvement is usually less than 10% though.
The only difference between the G3258 and an i5 is that the i5s have much higher multi-core scores - about twice as high. Most games are terribly optimized for multi-core so single-core scores are all that matter. That's where the G3258 comes in.
Oh and the stock cooler that comes with the G3258 is the one that's used with the i5s and i7s, and the G3258 releases way less heat, so it's very safe.
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TL;DR i5 is only useful for multi-core (10-20% FPS boost) so upgrading your graphics card is much more important. Also the stock cooler goes up to 4.4-4.5 GHz for most, and liquid cooling goes to 4.7-4.8 GHz, so it's not much of a difference. | Yeah, the i5 gives about a 20% improvement in cpu-heavy games. The improvement is usually less than 10% though.
The only difference between the G3258 and an i5 is that the i5s have much higher multi-core scores - about twice as high. Most games are terribly optimized for multi-core so single-core scores are all that matter. That's where the G3258 comes in.
Oh and the stock cooler that comes with the G3258 is the one that's used with the i5s and i7s, and the G3258 releases way less heat, so it's very safe.
TL;DR i5 is only useful for multi-core (10-20% FPS boost) so upgrading your graphics card is much more important. Also the stock cooler goes up to 4.4-4.5 GHz for most, and liquid cooling goes to 4.7-4.8 GHz, so it's not much of a difference.
| buildapc | t5_2rnve | ck2pozq | Yeah, the i5 gives about a 20% improvement in cpu-heavy games. The improvement is usually less than 10% though.
The only difference between the G3258 and an i5 is that the i5s have much higher multi-core scores - about twice as high. Most games are terribly optimized for multi-core so single-core scores are all that matter. That's where the G3258 comes in.
Oh and the stock cooler that comes with the G3258 is the one that's used with the i5s and i7s, and the G3258 releases way less heat, so it's very safe. | i5 is only useful for multi-core (10-20% FPS boost) so upgrading your graphics card is much more important. Also the stock cooler goes up to 4.4-4.5 GHz for most, and liquid cooling goes to 4.7-4.8 GHz, so it's not much of a difference. |
serg06 | Look at these user-submitted benchmarks:
[G3258](
[760k](
As you can see, the 760k not only has a worse multi-core score, but its single-core score is nearly ***half*** of Intel's.
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TL;DR Intel is OP. | Look at these user-submitted benchmarks:
[G3258](
[760k](
As you can see, the 760k not only has a worse multi-core score, but its single-core score is nearly half of Intel's.
TL;DR Intel is OP.
| buildapc | t5_2rnve | ck2tz4j | Look at these user-submitted benchmarks:
[G3258](
[760k](
As you can see, the 760k not only has a worse multi-core score, but its single-core score is nearly half of Intel's. | Intel is OP. |
Haeuslebauer | I was in Hamburg this year.
Slow as I am I found myself in the 4:15+ corral as well. Try to be as far back as possible to avoid the troubles in the actual starting grid.
I was in the back of the corral.
Then, after the group starts, wait for it to strech out a little and take your time. I think overtaking an additional couple of people is outweighing the trouble you'd have to go through at the front of the corral. Everyone is kind of pushing... try to avoid to be where this happens. The field will already have kind of streched out and scattered by the time you reach the start line. After all it is your net-time that counts. Don't worry what happens before the startline and let others push and shove. Then overtake through an already more open field...
Also try to get in the 3:45 or 4:00 corral on race day. Might be less of a problem than you think now. At least I did not experience that going into a "wrong" corral was not heavily policed/enforced. Trying won't hurt.
Tl.dr: don't worry, take your time. Relax | I was in Hamburg this year.
Slow as I am I found myself in the 4:15+ corral as well. Try to be as far back as possible to avoid the troubles in the actual starting grid.
I was in the back of the corral.
Then, after the group starts, wait for it to strech out a little and take your time. I think overtaking an additional couple of people is outweighing the trouble you'd have to go through at the front of the corral. Everyone is kind of pushing... try to avoid to be where this happens. The field will already have kind of streched out and scattered by the time you reach the start line. After all it is your net-time that counts. Don't worry what happens before the startline and let others push and shove. Then overtake through an already more open field...
Also try to get in the 3:45 or 4:00 corral on race day. Might be less of a problem than you think now. At least I did not experience that going into a "wrong" corral was not heavily policed/enforced. Trying won't hurt.
Tl.dr: don't worry, take your time. Relax
| running | t5_2qlit | ck2tkz1 | I was in Hamburg this year.
Slow as I am I found myself in the 4:15+ corral as well. Try to be as far back as possible to avoid the troubles in the actual starting grid.
I was in the back of the corral.
Then, after the group starts, wait for it to strech out a little and take your time. I think overtaking an additional couple of people is outweighing the trouble you'd have to go through at the front of the corral. Everyone is kind of pushing... try to avoid to be where this happens. The field will already have kind of streched out and scattered by the time you reach the start line. After all it is your net-time that counts. Don't worry what happens before the startline and let others push and shove. Then overtake through an already more open field...
Also try to get in the 3:45 or 4:00 corral on race day. Might be less of a problem than you think now. At least I did not experience that going into a "wrong" corral was not heavily policed/enforced. Trying won't hurt. | don't worry, take your time. Relax |
Clay_Statue | I saw her on some TV show when she was 45+ talking about how horrible it is that young actresses' careers are based on their looks. When she was young and hot and received opportunities over other girls based on her attractiveness, that was all fine and good. So it's okay that doors opened for her based of her youthful looks, but now that other girls are getting ahead based off those same prerequisites instead of her, she blames Hollywood for being shallow and too obsessed with beauty. She didn't seem to complain much when she was riding that wave of high-esteem. Only now that it is over does she have a problem with it.
TL;DR Cybill Shepherd is a hypocrite. | I saw her on some TV show when she was 45+ talking about how horrible it is that young actresses' careers are based on their looks. When she was young and hot and received opportunities over other girls based on her attractiveness, that was all fine and good. So it's okay that doors opened for her based of her youthful looks, but now that other girls are getting ahead based off those same prerequisites instead of her, she blames Hollywood for being shallow and too obsessed with beauty. She didn't seem to complain much when she was riding that wave of high-esteem. Only now that it is over does she have a problem with it.
TL;DR Cybill Shepherd is a hypocrite.
| OldSchoolCool | t5_2tycb | ck2wxag | I saw her on some TV show when she was 45+ talking about how horrible it is that young actresses' careers are based on their looks. When she was young and hot and received opportunities over other girls based on her attractiveness, that was all fine and good. So it's okay that doors opened for her based of her youthful looks, but now that other girls are getting ahead based off those same prerequisites instead of her, she blames Hollywood for being shallow and too obsessed with beauty. She didn't seem to complain much when she was riding that wave of high-esteem. Only now that it is over does she have a problem with it. | Cybill Shepherd is a hypocrite. |
Sklz711 | No. Naw man. Nawwwwwwwww man. Not a chance.
Why? The split will probably end up more like 225/150/50 in rushes, but Gio is probably going to get 70-100 targets in the passing game to go with it where I would be surprised if Hill gets 10.
TLDR: Gio is going to end up closer to 300 TOUCHES than Hill is to 200 TOUCHES. | No. Naw man. Nawwwwwwwww man. Not a chance.
Why? The split will probably end up more like 225/150/50 in rushes, but Gio is probably going to get 70-100 targets in the passing game to go with it where I would be surprised if Hill gets 10.
TLDR: Gio is going to end up closer to 300 TOUCHES than Hill is to 200 TOUCHES.
| fantasyfootball | t5_2qlqq | ck32bjj | No. Naw man. Nawwwwwwwww man. Not a chance.
Why? The split will probably end up more like 225/150/50 in rushes, but Gio is probably going to get 70-100 targets in the passing game to go with it where I would be surprised if Hill gets 10. | Gio is going to end up closer to 300 TOUCHES than Hill is to 200 TOUCHES. |
BelchSpawn | Essentially, use abilities right after one another and see how you can fit in auto-attacks to get out the most damage in the least amount of time. Experience is what taught me, but a good streamer to watch is Boxbox.
tldr; mash buttons and pay attention which direction rolling your forehead on the keyboard does the damage faster. | Essentially, use abilities right after one another and see how you can fit in auto-attacks to get out the most damage in the least amount of time. Experience is what taught me, but a good streamer to watch is Boxbox.
tldr; mash buttons and pay attention which direction rolling your forehead on the keyboard does the damage faster.
| summonerschool | t5_2t9x3 | ck33hoo | Essentially, use abilities right after one another and see how you can fit in auto-attacks to get out the most damage in the least amount of time. Experience is what taught me, but a good streamer to watch is Boxbox. | mash buttons and pay attention which direction rolling your forehead on the keyboard does the damage faster. |
MicMan42 | If you really want to play this game you can get by till tier 6 easily without spending any real money on it. Tier 6 is one of the most fun tiers in the game so that is not at all a problem.
The advancement "speeds up" considerably the better you get at playing. A good player can easily do two to even three times as much base exp/credits witht he same tank than a bad player/beginner.
So, yes, unless you are very resistant to playing tanks well, you should notice an increased income over time.
Additionally the net credits income for non-prem tanks is best around tier 5.
That gives you a lot of room to experiment, learn the game, and find the lines you like (if any) before you really should consider spending money on the game.
If you want to advance to tier 10 prem account helps a lot. Without it it is still very possible but advancement slows down considerably after tier 6 and gets very slow for non prem accounts at tier 9.
tl;dr
Yes, the game speed up, play several line to tier 5 or tier 6 which should occupy you for some time then consider investing in a prem account. | If you really want to play this game you can get by till tier 6 easily without spending any real money on it. Tier 6 is one of the most fun tiers in the game so that is not at all a problem.
The advancement "speeds up" considerably the better you get at playing. A good player can easily do two to even three times as much base exp/credits witht he same tank than a bad player/beginner.
So, yes, unless you are very resistant to playing tanks well, you should notice an increased income over time.
Additionally the net credits income for non-prem tanks is best around tier 5.
That gives you a lot of room to experiment, learn the game, and find the lines you like (if any) before you really should consider spending money on the game.
If you want to advance to tier 10 prem account helps a lot. Without it it is still very possible but advancement slows down considerably after tier 6 and gets very slow for non prem accounts at tier 9.
tl;dr
Yes, the game speed up, play several line to tier 5 or tier 6 which should occupy you for some time then consider investing in a prem account.
| WorldofTanks | t5_2s113 | ck3o3z6 | If you really want to play this game you can get by till tier 6 easily without spending any real money on it. Tier 6 is one of the most fun tiers in the game so that is not at all a problem.
The advancement "speeds up" considerably the better you get at playing. A good player can easily do two to even three times as much base exp/credits witht he same tank than a bad player/beginner.
So, yes, unless you are very resistant to playing tanks well, you should notice an increased income over time.
Additionally the net credits income for non-prem tanks is best around tier 5.
That gives you a lot of room to experiment, learn the game, and find the lines you like (if any) before you really should consider spending money on the game.
If you want to advance to tier 10 prem account helps a lot. Without it it is still very possible but advancement slows down considerably after tier 6 and gets very slow for non prem accounts at tier 9. | Yes, the game speed up, play several line to tier 5 or tier 6 which should occupy you for some time then consider investing in a prem account. |
Serwyn | One of my problems with the theory is the one you acknowledged yourself: burning weirwood.
I believe he'll try to please most of his army by pleasing both religions. I believe he'll burn the Karstark traitors and behead Theon himself.
Supporting evidence:
**1:**
> "Half my army is made up of unbelievers. I will have no burnings. Pray harder."
This was during the march, but he acknowledged the important of both groups there. It would be wise to please both, and it could improve morale before the batte.
**2:** The northerners are asking for it.
> "I know what he wants." The king indicated Theon. **"Him. Wull wants him dead. Flint, Norrey... all of them will want him dead. For the boys he slew. Vengeance for their precious Ned."**
Another important bit is how bitter Stannis sounds about how loyal they are to Ned's memory. He could use that, just like he tried to use it when he made his offer to Jon. I'll touch that subject again below.
**3:** After pleasing the northerners, he won't be as forgiving with the Karstarks:
> "Only the manner of your dying remains to be determined.You would be well advised
not to waste my time with denials. **Confess, and you shall have the same swift end that the Young Wolf gave Lord Rickard. Lie, and you will burn.** Choose."
I doubt they'll tell him much, hoping Stannis will lose before they're killed. Even if some cooperate, they'll lie about one thing or the other, so at least one of them will burn.
**4:** He brings up the importance of the pre-battle morale and religion:
> **Men like to know their god is with them when they go to battle.** "
"Not all your men worship the same god."
"**I am aware of this.** I am not the fool my brother was."
**5:**
> "**Take him out across the lake to the islet where the weirwood grows, and strike his head off with that sorcerous sword you bear.That is how Eddard Stark would have done it.** Theon slew Lord Eddard's sons.Give him to Lord Eddard's gods.The old gods of the north. Give him to the tree."
IMO that's GRRM practically telling us what will happen.
**6:**
**Alfie Allen said in an interview that he looks forward to a scene where Theon talks to a tree.** I think this is it. He'll spill his guts, cry while confessing everything in front of the tree (Bran) and say his farewell to his sister. This means the power of a king's blood won't be shown to us once more, since he won't be burned, but that will probably happen at the Wall anyway.
Once Theon dies, we'll see the battle from Bran's perspective, where perhaps he could even help Stannis.
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**TL;DR:** Stannis will burn some Karstarks to please the Queen's Men and behead Theon in front of the tree to please the northerners. | One of my problems with the theory is the one you acknowledged yourself: burning weirwood.
I believe he'll try to please most of his army by pleasing both religions. I believe he'll burn the Karstark traitors and behead Theon himself.
Supporting evidence:
1:
> "Half my army is made up of unbelievers. I will have no burnings. Pray harder."
This was during the march, but he acknowledged the important of both groups there. It would be wise to please both, and it could improve morale before the batte.
2: The northerners are asking for it.
> "I know what he wants." The king indicated Theon. "Him. Wull wants him dead. Flint, Norrey... all of them will want him dead. For the boys he slew. Vengeance for their precious Ned."
Another important bit is how bitter Stannis sounds about how loyal they are to Ned's memory. He could use that, just like he tried to use it when he made his offer to Jon. I'll touch that subject again below.
3: After pleasing the northerners, he won't be as forgiving with the Karstarks:
> "Only the manner of your dying remains to be determined.You would be well advised
not to waste my time with denials. Confess, and you shall have the same swift end that the Young Wolf gave Lord Rickard. Lie, and you will burn. Choose."
I doubt they'll tell him much, hoping Stannis will lose before they're killed. Even if some cooperate, they'll lie about one thing or the other, so at least one of them will burn.
4: He brings up the importance of the pre-battle morale and religion:
> Men like to know their god is with them when they go to battle. "
"Not all your men worship the same god."
" I am aware of this. I am not the fool my brother was."
5:
> " Take him out across the lake to the islet where the weirwood grows, and strike his head off with that sorcerous sword you bear.That is how Eddard Stark would have done it. Theon slew Lord Eddard's sons.Give him to Lord Eddard's gods.The old gods of the north. Give him to the tree."
IMO that's GRRM practically telling us what will happen.
6:
Alfie Allen said in an interview that he looks forward to a scene where Theon talks to a tree. I think this is it. He'll spill his guts, cry while confessing everything in front of the tree (Bran) and say his farewell to his sister. This means the power of a king's blood won't be shown to us once more, since he won't be burned, but that will probably happen at the Wall anyway.
Once Theon dies, we'll see the battle from Bran's perspective, where perhaps he could even help Stannis.
TL;DR: Stannis will burn some Karstarks to please the Queen's Men and behead Theon in front of the tree to please the northerners.
| asoiaf | t5_2r2o9 | ck3ljtc | One of my problems with the theory is the one you acknowledged yourself: burning weirwood.
I believe he'll try to please most of his army by pleasing both religions. I believe he'll burn the Karstark traitors and behead Theon himself.
Supporting evidence:
1:
> "Half my army is made up of unbelievers. I will have no burnings. Pray harder."
This was during the march, but he acknowledged the important of both groups there. It would be wise to please both, and it could improve morale before the batte.
2: The northerners are asking for it.
> "I know what he wants." The king indicated Theon. "Him. Wull wants him dead. Flint, Norrey... all of them will want him dead. For the boys he slew. Vengeance for their precious Ned."
Another important bit is how bitter Stannis sounds about how loyal they are to Ned's memory. He could use that, just like he tried to use it when he made his offer to Jon. I'll touch that subject again below.
3: After pleasing the northerners, he won't be as forgiving with the Karstarks:
> "Only the manner of your dying remains to be determined.You would be well advised
not to waste my time with denials. Confess, and you shall have the same swift end that the Young Wolf gave Lord Rickard. Lie, and you will burn. Choose."
I doubt they'll tell him much, hoping Stannis will lose before they're killed. Even if some cooperate, they'll lie about one thing or the other, so at least one of them will burn.
4: He brings up the importance of the pre-battle morale and religion:
> Men like to know their god is with them when they go to battle. "
"Not all your men worship the same god."
" I am aware of this. I am not the fool my brother was."
5:
> " Take him out across the lake to the islet where the weirwood grows, and strike his head off with that sorcerous sword you bear.That is how Eddard Stark would have done it. Theon slew Lord Eddard's sons.Give him to Lord Eddard's gods.The old gods of the north. Give him to the tree."
IMO that's GRRM practically telling us what will happen.
6:
Alfie Allen said in an interview that he looks forward to a scene where Theon talks to a tree. I think this is it. He'll spill his guts, cry while confessing everything in front of the tree (Bran) and say his farewell to his sister. This means the power of a king's blood won't be shown to us once more, since he won't be burned, but that will probably happen at the Wall anyway.
Once Theon dies, we'll see the battle from Bran's perspective, where perhaps he could even help Stannis. | Stannis will burn some Karstarks to please the Queen's Men and behead Theon in front of the tree to please the northerners. |
mycabbagecorp | There's a bit of a story associated with this, but bear with me. It makes the item itself infinitely more special to me.
About 5 years ago, I participated in a summer program that was essentially six weeks of classes in an academic field, philosophy, and philanthropy. Sounds a little weird, but I absolutely loved being around a lot of really intelligent kids (we were all 17-18 at the time) and getting to spend time learning.
One of my good friends at this camp was blind, and I was one of the few people who interacted pretty naturally with him. Everyone was nice and tried to be helpful, but it always struck me how stilted their interactions sometimes were and how many people treated him like a curiosity instead of just another human being.
At one point, I tried to organize a day where people recognized that beauty is only skin deep and really remember that appearance is only a very minor facet of another person. I failed to realize the impact this would have on my blind friend until he took me aside that day and told me that though he'd never see my face, he could tell I was a beautiful person. Tears were had.
Fast forward several months, I get a package in the mail from my friend. My birthday had passed over the summer, and he wanted to send me a present. Inside was a bracelet with braille lettering on one side of the charms. On the other, the letters spelled out "True Beauty". More tears. I still value his opinion, optimism, and gentle spirit.
TL;DR A blind friend gave me a charm bracelet that reminds me of what it means to not be a judgmental dick. | There's a bit of a story associated with this, but bear with me. It makes the item itself infinitely more special to me.
About 5 years ago, I participated in a summer program that was essentially six weeks of classes in an academic field, philosophy, and philanthropy. Sounds a little weird, but I absolutely loved being around a lot of really intelligent kids (we were all 17-18 at the time) and getting to spend time learning.
One of my good friends at this camp was blind, and I was one of the few people who interacted pretty naturally with him. Everyone was nice and tried to be helpful, but it always struck me how stilted their interactions sometimes were and how many people treated him like a curiosity instead of just another human being.
At one point, I tried to organize a day where people recognized that beauty is only skin deep and really remember that appearance is only a very minor facet of another person. I failed to realize the impact this would have on my blind friend until he took me aside that day and told me that though he'd never see my face, he could tell I was a beautiful person. Tears were had.
Fast forward several months, I get a package in the mail from my friend. My birthday had passed over the summer, and he wanted to send me a present. Inside was a bracelet with braille lettering on one side of the charms. On the other, the letters spelled out "True Beauty". More tears. I still value his opinion, optimism, and gentle spirit.
TL;DR A blind friend gave me a charm bracelet that reminds me of what it means to not be a judgmental dick.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | ck3eek9 | There's a bit of a story associated with this, but bear with me. It makes the item itself infinitely more special to me.
About 5 years ago, I participated in a summer program that was essentially six weeks of classes in an academic field, philosophy, and philanthropy. Sounds a little weird, but I absolutely loved being around a lot of really intelligent kids (we were all 17-18 at the time) and getting to spend time learning.
One of my good friends at this camp was blind, and I was one of the few people who interacted pretty naturally with him. Everyone was nice and tried to be helpful, but it always struck me how stilted their interactions sometimes were and how many people treated him like a curiosity instead of just another human being.
At one point, I tried to organize a day where people recognized that beauty is only skin deep and really remember that appearance is only a very minor facet of another person. I failed to realize the impact this would have on my blind friend until he took me aside that day and told me that though he'd never see my face, he could tell I was a beautiful person. Tears were had.
Fast forward several months, I get a package in the mail from my friend. My birthday had passed over the summer, and he wanted to send me a present. Inside was a bracelet with braille lettering on one side of the charms. On the other, the letters spelled out "True Beauty". More tears. I still value his opinion, optimism, and gentle spirit. | A blind friend gave me a charm bracelet that reminds me of what it means to not be a judgmental dick. |
wontbelievethis | I too had a truly awful experience with a cardiologist that was completely uninformed about things as mundane as common side effects of the drugs he prescribed. I spent 6 weeks mostly in bed because he couldn't be bothered even responding to repeated calls about those side effects. I tried to discuss diet with him and he completely blew me off and handed me a copy of the AHA diet. That was after I had informed him that it wasn't a diet that would work for me. Ultimately it became clear that he had no interest in treating the patient he had sitting in front of him and I might as well have not been in the room. He only wanted to treat an average patient - one that required no interaction, no thinking and absolutely no variation in treatment.
After some venting here I did a couple of hours of research and selected a new cardiologist. The difference between the two doctors was actually startling.
My new doctor looked at my records and immediately pulled me off the blood pressure and beta blockers meds. He said they wouldn't benefit someone with my history so there was no point in taking them. He was well aware of the side effects of the other drugs I'm taking and has worked with me to reduce (but not eliminate) those side effects. I discussed diet with him and he made some suggestions for changes but was very receptive about what actually works for me.
I saw a comedy routine pointing out that somewhere on earth is the world's worst doctor and there is some poor patient seeing him right now. I nominate my old cardiologist for that title. I should have switched far more quickly than I did.
TL;DR - There are some truly awful doctors out there, but there are also some great ones. There is no reason to visit a substandard doctor more than once.
| I too had a truly awful experience with a cardiologist that was completely uninformed about things as mundane as common side effects of the drugs he prescribed. I spent 6 weeks mostly in bed because he couldn't be bothered even responding to repeated calls about those side effects. I tried to discuss diet with him and he completely blew me off and handed me a copy of the AHA diet. That was after I had informed him that it wasn't a diet that would work for me. Ultimately it became clear that he had no interest in treating the patient he had sitting in front of him and I might as well have not been in the room. He only wanted to treat an average patient - one that required no interaction, no thinking and absolutely no variation in treatment.
After some venting here I did a couple of hours of research and selected a new cardiologist. The difference between the two doctors was actually startling.
My new doctor looked at my records and immediately pulled me off the blood pressure and beta blockers meds. He said they wouldn't benefit someone with my history so there was no point in taking them. He was well aware of the side effects of the other drugs I'm taking and has worked with me to reduce (but not eliminate) those side effects. I discussed diet with him and he made some suggestions for changes but was very receptive about what actually works for me.
I saw a comedy routine pointing out that somewhere on earth is the world's worst doctor and there is some poor patient seeing him right now. I nominate my old cardiologist for that title. I should have switched far more quickly than I did.
TL;DR - There are some truly awful doctors out there, but there are also some great ones. There is no reason to visit a substandard doctor more than once.
| Cardiology | t5_2ujix | ck8hxgk | I too had a truly awful experience with a cardiologist that was completely uninformed about things as mundane as common side effects of the drugs he prescribed. I spent 6 weeks mostly in bed because he couldn't be bothered even responding to repeated calls about those side effects. I tried to discuss diet with him and he completely blew me off and handed me a copy of the AHA diet. That was after I had informed him that it wasn't a diet that would work for me. Ultimately it became clear that he had no interest in treating the patient he had sitting in front of him and I might as well have not been in the room. He only wanted to treat an average patient - one that required no interaction, no thinking and absolutely no variation in treatment.
After some venting here I did a couple of hours of research and selected a new cardiologist. The difference between the two doctors was actually startling.
My new doctor looked at my records and immediately pulled me off the blood pressure and beta blockers meds. He said they wouldn't benefit someone with my history so there was no point in taking them. He was well aware of the side effects of the other drugs I'm taking and has worked with me to reduce (but not eliminate) those side effects. I discussed diet with him and he made some suggestions for changes but was very receptive about what actually works for me.
I saw a comedy routine pointing out that somewhere on earth is the world's worst doctor and there is some poor patient seeing him right now. I nominate my old cardiologist for that title. I should have switched far more quickly than I did. | There are some truly awful doctors out there, but there are also some great ones. There is no reason to visit a substandard doctor more than once. |
Gami_Lon | The reason that people read Jezebel is to find excuses for their own personal failure.
For instance, I have a friend who's a 27 year old single woman that's half Hispanic. She loves all the SJW ideas:
* The idea that minimum wage laws are why she's poor, not the fact that's she's lazy, irresponsible and uneducated. (OK, technically she's "educated" but I don't know what she's going to do with that bachelor's degree in pottery.)
* The idea that men are always trying to rape her, not the fact that she's in the habit of getting drunk and throwing herself at strangers
* The idea that her poverty is due to the fact that's she a female and she's a minority, not the fact that she has a degree in pottery and she's a lazy irresponsible drunk.
TLDR: **There's nothing about Rotherham that will make my friend feel better about herself.** So you're not going to read about it on Jezebel | The reason that people read Jezebel is to find excuses for their own personal failure.
For instance, I have a friend who's a 27 year old single woman that's half Hispanic. She loves all the SJW ideas:
The idea that minimum wage laws are why she's poor, not the fact that's she's lazy, irresponsible and uneducated. (OK, technically she's "educated" but I don't know what she's going to do with that bachelor's degree in pottery.)
The idea that men are always trying to rape her, not the fact that she's in the habit of getting drunk and throwing herself at strangers
The idea that her poverty is due to the fact that's she a female and she's a minority, not the fact that she has a degree in pottery and she's a lazy irresponsible drunk.
TLDR: There's nothing about Rotherham that will make my friend feel better about herself. So you're not going to read about it on Jezebel
| TheRedPill | t5_2ve1u | ck432rh | The reason that people read Jezebel is to find excuses for their own personal failure.
For instance, I have a friend who's a 27 year old single woman that's half Hispanic. She loves all the SJW ideas:
The idea that minimum wage laws are why she's poor, not the fact that's she's lazy, irresponsible and uneducated. (OK, technically she's "educated" but I don't know what she's going to do with that bachelor's degree in pottery.)
The idea that men are always trying to rape her, not the fact that she's in the habit of getting drunk and throwing herself at strangers
The idea that her poverty is due to the fact that's she a female and she's a minority, not the fact that she has a degree in pottery and she's a lazy irresponsible drunk. | There's nothing about Rotherham that will make my friend feel better about herself. So you're not going to read about it on Jezebel |
nigrplz | They are a reference to how much money has been bet on a certain outcome. I will use a horse race for example.
Horse AlwaysWins tends to win a lot, so many people bet on him. As such, the total money in the pot is heavily split to AlwaysWins so the odds are small because the chance of winning is high.
Horse NeverRacedBefore is new, and nobody knows much about him, so he is a risky bet. Say only 4 people bet on him winning, his odds are very high because out of a large number of people, very few bet on him.
TL;DR high odds means a big payoff because it is risky, like 89/1 where a low odds bet is more likely to win, so many people safely bet and thus the odds are 1.25/1 with a smaller payoff. | They are a reference to how much money has been bet on a certain outcome. I will use a horse race for example.
Horse AlwaysWins tends to win a lot, so many people bet on him. As such, the total money in the pot is heavily split to AlwaysWins so the odds are small because the chance of winning is high.
Horse NeverRacedBefore is new, and nobody knows much about him, so he is a risky bet. Say only 4 people bet on him winning, his odds are very high because out of a large number of people, very few bet on him.
TL;DR high odds means a big payoff because it is risky, like 89/1 where a low odds bet is more likely to win, so many people safely bet and thus the odds are 1.25/1 with a smaller payoff.
| explainlikeimfive | t5_2sokd | ck3w5kf | They are a reference to how much money has been bet on a certain outcome. I will use a horse race for example.
Horse AlwaysWins tends to win a lot, so many people bet on him. As such, the total money in the pot is heavily split to AlwaysWins so the odds are small because the chance of winning is high.
Horse NeverRacedBefore is new, and nobody knows much about him, so he is a risky bet. Say only 4 people bet on him winning, his odds are very high because out of a large number of people, very few bet on him. | high odds means a big payoff because it is risky, like 89/1 where a low odds bet is more likely to win, so many people safely bet and thus the odds are 1.25/1 with a smaller payoff. |
straightfowardNObs | Ok so its 3am and i'm up playing day z with friends in my game room. Now mind you my game room is far away from the other three bedrooms in my house its more like by the kitchen while everyone else is asleep on the other side of the house. So anyways out of the corner of my eye i see something move past my window really fast. I felt these goosebumps that i've never felt before and i silently tell everyone through the mic that i saw something. I guess my friend felt the fear in my voice cause he said "what was it ?" . So i tell them i'm gonna check it out and head to the kitchen which is where whatever i saw would of headed . Mind you the kitchen is by backyard and the room i was at is before the kitchen so what ever passed by the window would of kept going to the backyard by the kitchen. At this point i thought i might of imagined it considering it was 3 am but i know what i saw. I had seen maybe a man in my backyard. So as i go to the kitchen and look at the windows i shit you not there's what looks like a guy staring back at me with something in his hand. I almost shit my pants and screamed so loud that im pretty sure the guy got more scared then i did . I ran to wake up everyone in the house which they where half awake now by my scream and tell them what happened. Before were even done calling the police theres a knock on the door. WTF the robber is trying to knock on the door now? Is he an idiot? My dad gets a machete and my old brother gets his trusty .45 , as we open the door its the same guy who was in the backyard. My brother with a gun pointed at him asks what the hell he was doing in our back yard at 3am. Turns out the guy was drunk and was going through our backyard to jump the fence and get to his house quicker as a shortcut. He apologizes and says sorry for all the trouble , my family doesn't call the cops or anything and i go back to playing day z. The funny part was my friends thought i was getting robbed the whole time with all the screaming that THEY called the cops. So when they show up we explain what happened and thats that. Might not be that scary of a story but the fear i experienced when i saw a guy run past my window and then seeing a guy starting at me back at 3am is a very scary feeling i haven't gotten before.
TL;DR Playing day z at 3am when i see something run past my window. Go to check out and see guy in my backyard staring at me . Thinking im gonna die wake up whole family screaming. About to call cops when guy in backyard knocks on door and says he was drunk and trying to take a shortcut to his house. | Ok so its 3am and i'm up playing day z with friends in my game room. Now mind you my game room is far away from the other three bedrooms in my house its more like by the kitchen while everyone else is asleep on the other side of the house. So anyways out of the corner of my eye i see something move past my window really fast. I felt these goosebumps that i've never felt before and i silently tell everyone through the mic that i saw something. I guess my friend felt the fear in my voice cause he said "what was it ?" . So i tell them i'm gonna check it out and head to the kitchen which is where whatever i saw would of headed . Mind you the kitchen is by backyard and the room i was at is before the kitchen so what ever passed by the window would of kept going to the backyard by the kitchen. At this point i thought i might of imagined it considering it was 3 am but i know what i saw. I had seen maybe a man in my backyard. So as i go to the kitchen and look at the windows i shit you not there's what looks like a guy staring back at me with something in his hand. I almost shit my pants and screamed so loud that im pretty sure the guy got more scared then i did . I ran to wake up everyone in the house which they where half awake now by my scream and tell them what happened. Before were even done calling the police theres a knock on the door. WTF the robber is trying to knock on the door now? Is he an idiot? My dad gets a machete and my old brother gets his trusty .45 , as we open the door its the same guy who was in the backyard. My brother with a gun pointed at him asks what the hell he was doing in our back yard at 3am. Turns out the guy was drunk and was going through our backyard to jump the fence and get to his house quicker as a shortcut. He apologizes and says sorry for all the trouble , my family doesn't call the cops or anything and i go back to playing day z. The funny part was my friends thought i was getting robbed the whole time with all the screaming that THEY called the cops. So when they show up we explain what happened and thats that. Might not be that scary of a story but the fear i experienced when i saw a guy run past my window and then seeing a guy starting at me back at 3am is a very scary feeling i haven't gotten before.
TL;DR Playing day z at 3am when i see something run past my window. Go to check out and see guy in my backyard staring at me . Thinking im gonna die wake up whole family screaming. About to call cops when guy in backyard knocks on door and says he was drunk and trying to take a shortcut to his house.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | ck3zzff | Ok so its 3am and i'm up playing day z with friends in my game room. Now mind you my game room is far away from the other three bedrooms in my house its more like by the kitchen while everyone else is asleep on the other side of the house. So anyways out of the corner of my eye i see something move past my window really fast. I felt these goosebumps that i've never felt before and i silently tell everyone through the mic that i saw something. I guess my friend felt the fear in my voice cause he said "what was it ?" . So i tell them i'm gonna check it out and head to the kitchen which is where whatever i saw would of headed . Mind you the kitchen is by backyard and the room i was at is before the kitchen so what ever passed by the window would of kept going to the backyard by the kitchen. At this point i thought i might of imagined it considering it was 3 am but i know what i saw. I had seen maybe a man in my backyard. So as i go to the kitchen and look at the windows i shit you not there's what looks like a guy staring back at me with something in his hand. I almost shit my pants and screamed so loud that im pretty sure the guy got more scared then i did . I ran to wake up everyone in the house which they where half awake now by my scream and tell them what happened. Before were even done calling the police theres a knock on the door. WTF the robber is trying to knock on the door now? Is he an idiot? My dad gets a machete and my old brother gets his trusty .45 , as we open the door its the same guy who was in the backyard. My brother with a gun pointed at him asks what the hell he was doing in our back yard at 3am. Turns out the guy was drunk and was going through our backyard to jump the fence and get to his house quicker as a shortcut. He apologizes and says sorry for all the trouble , my family doesn't call the cops or anything and i go back to playing day z. The funny part was my friends thought i was getting robbed the whole time with all the screaming that THEY called the cops. So when they show up we explain what happened and thats that. Might not be that scary of a story but the fear i experienced when i saw a guy run past my window and then seeing a guy starting at me back at 3am is a very scary feeling i haven't gotten before. | Playing day z at 3am when i see something run past my window. Go to check out and see guy in my backyard staring at me . Thinking im gonna die wake up whole family screaming. About to call cops when guy in backyard knocks on door and says he was drunk and trying to take a shortcut to his house. |
Zemedelphos | Don't misrepresent this OP: they weren't "getting a pass" for stealing with kids. The guy said nothing before the tapout tool chased them down to physically assault them. Before that, he and the male in the orange shirt were just preserving their assets, when the woman assaulted him. The other male, who I also figured was an employee or something, was following them, probably to report them to police or make sure they don't come back. I'm not saying it wasn't understandable that he got pissed, but he ran at least twenty feet to assault a group that contained young children.
TL;DR - Women with children attempt to steal from a store; one assaults presumed employee attempting to preserve assets. They leave, another male assumed employee follows them, presumably to call police. First male runs up trying to assault them. They did not get a pass, he just got his ass whipped for assaulting women and children who had already disengaged aggression and left the scene. | Don't misrepresent this OP: they weren't "getting a pass" for stealing with kids. The guy said nothing before the tapout tool chased them down to physically assault them. Before that, he and the male in the orange shirt were just preserving their assets, when the woman assaulted him. The other male, who I also figured was an employee or something, was following them, probably to report them to police or make sure they don't come back. I'm not saying it wasn't understandable that he got pissed, but he ran at least twenty feet to assault a group that contained young children.
TL;DR - Women with children attempt to steal from a store; one assaults presumed employee attempting to preserve assets. They leave, another male assumed employee follows them, presumably to call police. First male runs up trying to assault them. They did not get a pass, he just got his ass whipped for assaulting women and children who had already disengaged aggression and left the scene.
| videos | t5_2qh1e | ck4ibcn | Don't misrepresent this OP: they weren't "getting a pass" for stealing with kids. The guy said nothing before the tapout tool chased them down to physically assault them. Before that, he and the male in the orange shirt were just preserving their assets, when the woman assaulted him. The other male, who I also figured was an employee or something, was following them, probably to report them to police or make sure they don't come back. I'm not saying it wasn't understandable that he got pissed, but he ran at least twenty feet to assault a group that contained young children. | Women with children attempt to steal from a store; one assaults presumed employee attempting to preserve assets. They leave, another male assumed employee follows them, presumably to call police. First male runs up trying to assault them. They did not get a pass, he just got his ass whipped for assaulting women and children who had already disengaged aggression and left the scene. |
MorbidandCreepifying | When I worked at BG theme park some lady came up to the stand with her 4 kids. She claimed to have bought 6 hot dog baskets and left them on the table for a minute when someone took them.
1. We had only been open for 45 minutes.
2. I did not recognize the lady (or her kids) and I was the only one dealing directly with the guests. We hadn't even serviced more than 10 orders. I would remember her and that large order.
3. I sold a total of 4 hot dog baskets thus far, individually.
4. She didn't have a receipt.
I told her option 4 meant she can't get a refund or replacement and she started going ballistic until the person in the back came up front to talk with her.
This was the day the Head of Culinary was making some rounds and had been in the back trying to help.
Well, he definitely didn't make 6 hot dog baskets for one order and told her to kindly take her lies elsewhere.
To this day I am disgusted she tried to blatantly steal like this in front of her children.
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TL;DR: Lady tried to get replacement food for food she never bought thinking that since her pouting kids were there I wouldn't say no.
------------------------------------- | When I worked at BG theme park some lady came up to the stand with her 4 kids. She claimed to have bought 6 hot dog baskets and left them on the table for a minute when someone took them.
We had only been open for 45 minutes.
I did not recognize the lady (or her kids) and I was the only one dealing directly with the guests. We hadn't even serviced more than 10 orders. I would remember her and that large order.
I sold a total of 4 hot dog baskets thus far, individually.
She didn't have a receipt.
I told her option 4 meant she can't get a refund or replacement and she started going ballistic until the person in the back came up front to talk with her.
This was the day the Head of Culinary was making some rounds and had been in the back trying to help.
Well, he definitely didn't make 6 hot dog baskets for one order and told her to kindly take her lies elsewhere.
To this day I am disgusted she tried to blatantly steal like this in front of her children.
TL;DR: Lady tried to get replacement food for food she never bought thinking that since her pouting kids were there I wouldn't say no.
| videos | t5_2qh1e | ck4rszy | When I worked at BG theme park some lady came up to the stand with her 4 kids. She claimed to have bought 6 hot dog baskets and left them on the table for a minute when someone took them.
We had only been open for 45 minutes.
I did not recognize the lady (or her kids) and I was the only one dealing directly with the guests. We hadn't even serviced more than 10 orders. I would remember her and that large order.
I sold a total of 4 hot dog baskets thus far, individually.
She didn't have a receipt.
I told her option 4 meant she can't get a refund or replacement and she started going ballistic until the person in the back came up front to talk with her.
This was the day the Head of Culinary was making some rounds and had been in the back trying to help.
Well, he definitely didn't make 6 hot dog baskets for one order and told her to kindly take her lies elsewhere.
To this day I am disgusted she tried to blatantly steal like this in front of her children. | Lady tried to get replacement food for food she never bought thinking that since her pouting kids were there I wouldn't say no. |
Spivak | [This]( is the real article.
Here are the main points:
> By Courtney Kirby, Brandon Marianne Lee and Ashley Williams
> But for the basics, the stuff that's going to help you feel confident enough to sign up, then eventually win ... we can help you there. So now you're wondering, Why should I trust these three sisters?
This isn't ESPN's male executives on a misguided attempt to appeal to women. This is a family of women who are obsessed with football and seemly honestly trying to get more women in the game.
> We started a podcast dedicated to the female fantasy football experience. We called it Her Fantasy Football, and we specifically aimed it at the people -- oftentimes women -- who feel intimidated by the sheer volume and presumed complexity of the game.
> But sometimes it feels like fantasy analysts end up competing over who can apply the most obscure stat to each player's projections. Seriously, no one cares if a quarterback has the fifth-best completion percentage on balls thrown 38 or more yards down the field.
They're presenting a novice friendly analysis of players and teams so they have something to go on when choosing their team -- not really all that different than other analysts.
> LeSean McCoy and Calvin Johnson are two of the very best players in the game, so we consider them "Marriage Material" (elite players). Arian Foster and Andre Johnson? "Boyfriend Potential" (terrific catches). Wes Welker and Vernon Davis -- "It's Complicated" (pretty good placeholders until you find something better). And so on.
But really though, [it's actually pretty through]( It might not be correct, this is ESPN we're talking about, but it's something. This isn't some "isn't he dreeeammy -- you should pick himmmm." Here's an except.
>
> 2. Chiefs RB Jamaal Charles
> There's some nervousness about Charles. Can he have another enormous year behind an overhauled offensive line? Charles doesn't seem worried about it, though he did suffer the old dorm-room box-moving foot injury this preseason. But if he's not worried, neither are we. What makes Charles so special is that he is a true double threat as a runner and receiver. He is the real deal and worth a top-three overall draft pick.
>
> 3. Vikings RB Adrian Peterson
> He might be a 29-year-old running back who just hit the dreaded 2,000-carry threshold. But Peterson is a freak athlete that will deliver for your fantasy team. With Norv Turner as his new offensive coordinator, Peterson should only improve this year. If you have the third pick and Peterson is still there, take him.
>
> 4. Bears RB Matt Forte
> Mr. Dependable. After six years in the NFL, Forte has still never missed 900-plus rushing yards or 300-plus receiving yards. At his worst, he was the 20th highest scoring fantasy back in 2013. He's one of the safest picks you can make.
tl;dr Despite the silly rank names they genuinely seem like they're trying to do something good. | [This]( is the real article.
Here are the main points:
> By Courtney Kirby, Brandon Marianne Lee and Ashley Williams
> But for the basics, the stuff that's going to help you feel confident enough to sign up, then eventually win ... we can help you there. So now you're wondering, Why should I trust these three sisters?
This isn't ESPN's male executives on a misguided attempt to appeal to women. This is a family of women who are obsessed with football and seemly honestly trying to get more women in the game.
> We started a podcast dedicated to the female fantasy football experience. We called it Her Fantasy Football, and we specifically aimed it at the people -- oftentimes women -- who feel intimidated by the sheer volume and presumed complexity of the game.
> But sometimes it feels like fantasy analysts end up competing over who can apply the most obscure stat to each player's projections. Seriously, no one cares if a quarterback has the fifth-best completion percentage on balls thrown 38 or more yards down the field.
They're presenting a novice friendly analysis of players and teams so they have something to go on when choosing their team -- not really all that different than other analysts.
> LeSean McCoy and Calvin Johnson are two of the very best players in the game, so we consider them "Marriage Material" (elite players). Arian Foster and Andre Johnson? "Boyfriend Potential" (terrific catches). Wes Welker and Vernon Davis -- "It's Complicated" (pretty good placeholders until you find something better). And so on.
But really though, [it's actually pretty through]( It might not be correct, this is ESPN we're talking about, but it's something. This isn't some "isn't he dreeeammy -- you should pick himmmm." Here's an except.
>
> 2. Chiefs RB Jamaal Charles
> There's some nervousness about Charles. Can he have another enormous year behind an overhauled offensive line? Charles doesn't seem worried about it, though he did suffer the old dorm-room box-moving foot injury this preseason. But if he's not worried, neither are we. What makes Charles so special is that he is a true double threat as a runner and receiver. He is the real deal and worth a top-three overall draft pick.
>
> 3. Vikings RB Adrian Peterson
> He might be a 29-year-old running back who just hit the dreaded 2,000-carry threshold. But Peterson is a freak athlete that will deliver for your fantasy team. With Norv Turner as his new offensive coordinator, Peterson should only improve this year. If you have the third pick and Peterson is still there, take him.
>
> 4. Bears RB Matt Forte
> Mr. Dependable. After six years in the NFL, Forte has still never missed 900-plus rushing yards or 300-plus receiving yards. At his worst, he was the 20th highest scoring fantasy back in 2013. He's one of the safest picks you can make.
tl;dr Despite the silly rank names they genuinely seem like they're trying to do something good.
| nottheonion | t5_2qnts | ck4gu03 | This]( is the real article.
Here are the main points:
> By Courtney Kirby, Brandon Marianne Lee and Ashley Williams
> But for the basics, the stuff that's going to help you feel confident enough to sign up, then eventually win ... we can help you there. So now you're wondering, Why should I trust these three sisters?
This isn't ESPN's male executives on a misguided attempt to appeal to women. This is a family of women who are obsessed with football and seemly honestly trying to get more women in the game.
> We started a podcast dedicated to the female fantasy football experience. We called it Her Fantasy Football, and we specifically aimed it at the people -- oftentimes women -- who feel intimidated by the sheer volume and presumed complexity of the game.
> But sometimes it feels like fantasy analysts end up competing over who can apply the most obscure stat to each player's projections. Seriously, no one cares if a quarterback has the fifth-best completion percentage on balls thrown 38 or more yards down the field.
They're presenting a novice friendly analysis of players and teams so they have something to go on when choosing their team -- not really all that different than other analysts.
> LeSean McCoy and Calvin Johnson are two of the very best players in the game, so we consider them "Marriage Material" (elite players). Arian Foster and Andre Johnson? "Boyfriend Potential" (terrific catches). Wes Welker and Vernon Davis -- "It's Complicated" (pretty good placeholders until you find something better). And so on.
But really though, [it's actually pretty through]( It might not be correct, this is ESPN we're talking about, but it's something. This isn't some "isn't he dreeeammy -- you should pick himmmm." Here's an except.
>
> 2. Chiefs RB Jamaal Charles
> There's some nervousness about Charles. Can he have another enormous year behind an overhauled offensive line? Charles doesn't seem worried about it, though he did suffer the old dorm-room box-moving foot injury this preseason. But if he's not worried, neither are we. What makes Charles so special is that he is a true double threat as a runner and receiver. He is the real deal and worth a top-three overall draft pick.
>
> 3. Vikings RB Adrian Peterson
> He might be a 29-year-old running back who just hit the dreaded 2,000-carry threshold. But Peterson is a freak athlete that will deliver for your fantasy team. With Norv Turner as his new offensive coordinator, Peterson should only improve this year. If you have the third pick and Peterson is still there, take him.
>
> 4. Bears RB Matt Forte
> Mr. Dependable. After six years in the NFL, Forte has still never missed 900-plus rushing yards or 300-plus receiving yards. At his worst, he was the 20th highest scoring fantasy back in 2013. He's one of the safest picks you can make. | Despite the silly rank names they genuinely seem like they're trying to do something good. |
bakingcpa | ITT: In This Thread
I think you mean tl;dr which means To Long;Didn't Read. | ITT: In This Thread
I think you mean tl;dr which means To Long;Didn't Read.
| soccer | t5_2qi58 | ck4hnx9 | ITT: In This Thread
I think you mean | which means To Long;Didn't Read. |
chickenlover1 | ITT: In this thread, TL;DR: Too long;didn't read | ITT: In this thread, TL;DR: Too long;didn't read
| soccer | t5_2qi58 | ck4hlsn | ITT: In this thread, | Too long;didn't read |
KisaruBandit | The Latron Wraith is a more damage per second based weapon than damage per shot as the Prime is. It's got a lot less puncture, but it compensates (arguably more than compensates, some calculations put it at higher DPS than the Latron Prime) by having a significant buff to both firerate and crit chance and a recoil reduction, meaning it behaves less like a light sniper rifle, more like a heavy assault rifle that can also snipe. I just bind the scroll wheel as a secondary fire button and use that to get its full firerate as the scroll wheel sends signals a lot faster than the mouse button.
TL_DR: The Latron Wraith is a battle rifle that pretends it's an assault rifle. Higher DPS, but lower damage per shot than the Prime. Wraith is time efficient, Prime is ammo efficient. | The Latron Wraith is a more damage per second based weapon than damage per shot as the Prime is. It's got a lot less puncture, but it compensates (arguably more than compensates, some calculations put it at higher DPS than the Latron Prime) by having a significant buff to both firerate and crit chance and a recoil reduction, meaning it behaves less like a light sniper rifle, more like a heavy assault rifle that can also snipe. I just bind the scroll wheel as a secondary fire button and use that to get its full firerate as the scroll wheel sends signals a lot faster than the mouse button.
TL_DR: The Latron Wraith is a battle rifle that pretends it's an assault rifle. Higher DPS, but lower damage per shot than the Prime. Wraith is time efficient, Prime is ammo efficient.
| Warframe | t5_2urg0 | ck4e9xm | The Latron Wraith is a more damage per second based weapon than damage per shot as the Prime is. It's got a lot less puncture, but it compensates (arguably more than compensates, some calculations put it at higher DPS than the Latron Prime) by having a significant buff to both firerate and crit chance and a recoil reduction, meaning it behaves less like a light sniper rifle, more like a heavy assault rifle that can also snipe. I just bind the scroll wheel as a secondary fire button and use that to get its full firerate as the scroll wheel sends signals a lot faster than the mouse button. | The Latron Wraith is a battle rifle that pretends it's an assault rifle. Higher DPS, but lower damage per shot than the Prime. Wraith is time efficient, Prime is ammo efficient. |
PajamaGeneral | I did for a while, but with the huge amounts of driftwood in my tank, I needed a lot, and then I went away which I do quite a bit, the PH would then drop hard when I would come back and do a water change, and stay low for the next few days. I had much better luck at keeping the PH stable when I used a combination of chemicals and coral. But as my job has since progressed I go away for a week or 2 at a time quite regularly that I would rather not deal with any of that or more then one tank.
Also as it seems most of the cold water fish I want a PH of 5-6.5, I feel a drop from 6 to 5 when I do a water change is much less drastic then a drop from 7.5 to 5.
TL;DR: I feel it's easier to not deal with it at all. | I did for a while, but with the huge amounts of driftwood in my tank, I needed a lot, and then I went away which I do quite a bit, the PH would then drop hard when I would come back and do a water change, and stay low for the next few days. I had much better luck at keeping the PH stable when I used a combination of chemicals and coral. But as my job has since progressed I go away for a week or 2 at a time quite regularly that I would rather not deal with any of that or more then one tank.
Also as it seems most of the cold water fish I want a PH of 5-6.5, I feel a drop from 6 to 5 when I do a water change is much less drastic then a drop from 7.5 to 5.
TL;DR: I feel it's easier to not deal with it at all.
| Aquariums | t5_2rc6i | ck4fi6j | I did for a while, but with the huge amounts of driftwood in my tank, I needed a lot, and then I went away which I do quite a bit, the PH would then drop hard when I would come back and do a water change, and stay low for the next few days. I had much better luck at keeping the PH stable when I used a combination of chemicals and coral. But as my job has since progressed I go away for a week or 2 at a time quite regularly that I would rather not deal with any of that or more then one tank.
Also as it seems most of the cold water fish I want a PH of 5-6.5, I feel a drop from 6 to 5 when I do a water change is much less drastic then a drop from 7.5 to 5. | I feel it's easier to not deal with it at all. |
nearnerfromo | The asthmatics bit reminds me of one of the best instant karma moments I've ever seen. I was walking to class with a friend of mine who was a pretty bad asthmatic. Along with having asthma he was also kind of a bad person. Not in an endearing funny way but in a "wow why are we friends" kind of way. So we were walking to class and as we were passing a flight of stairs a freshman lost his footing and took a really bad fall down the stairs. He had turned the corner at the landing of the first flight and lost his footing at the top falling headlong. To make it worse he was rolling sonic style because he had a giant backpack. So he comes to a stop at the bottom and my asthmatic friend starts laughing his ass off, like literally rofling. It bears mentioning he was the only one laughing. About 10 seconds later he starts wheezing and it becomes clear he's having an asthma attack. Being an all around asshat he was stupid enough to leave his inhaler in his locker so he was just on his knees in the hallway suffocating. The best part was, everybody was so busy helping the poor kid who fell that it took awhile for anybody to notice him. He ended up being fine after somebody noticed him and loaned him their inhaler. I remember thinking it would be funny to hold it just out of his grasp and make him suffer a bit before giving it to him. Also now that I think about it when I got to class and realized how ironic the situation was that was probably the hardest I ever laughed.
Tl;dr: Asthmatic asshole friend laughs at kid who falls, almost dies from asthma, I laugh at him. | The asthmatics bit reminds me of one of the best instant karma moments I've ever seen. I was walking to class with a friend of mine who was a pretty bad asthmatic. Along with having asthma he was also kind of a bad person. Not in an endearing funny way but in a "wow why are we friends" kind of way. So we were walking to class and as we were passing a flight of stairs a freshman lost his footing and took a really bad fall down the stairs. He had turned the corner at the landing of the first flight and lost his footing at the top falling headlong. To make it worse he was rolling sonic style because he had a giant backpack. So he comes to a stop at the bottom and my asthmatic friend starts laughing his ass off, like literally rofling. It bears mentioning he was the only one laughing. About 10 seconds later he starts wheezing and it becomes clear he's having an asthma attack. Being an all around asshat he was stupid enough to leave his inhaler in his locker so he was just on his knees in the hallway suffocating. The best part was, everybody was so busy helping the poor kid who fell that it took awhile for anybody to notice him. He ended up being fine after somebody noticed him and loaned him their inhaler. I remember thinking it would be funny to hold it just out of his grasp and make him suffer a bit before giving it to him. Also now that I think about it when I got to class and realized how ironic the situation was that was probably the hardest I ever laughed.
Tl;dr: Asthmatic asshole friend laughs at kid who falls, almost dies from asthma, I laugh at him.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | ck4dzco | The asthmatics bit reminds me of one of the best instant karma moments I've ever seen. I was walking to class with a friend of mine who was a pretty bad asthmatic. Along with having asthma he was also kind of a bad person. Not in an endearing funny way but in a "wow why are we friends" kind of way. So we were walking to class and as we were passing a flight of stairs a freshman lost his footing and took a really bad fall down the stairs. He had turned the corner at the landing of the first flight and lost his footing at the top falling headlong. To make it worse he was rolling sonic style because he had a giant backpack. So he comes to a stop at the bottom and my asthmatic friend starts laughing his ass off, like literally rofling. It bears mentioning he was the only one laughing. About 10 seconds later he starts wheezing and it becomes clear he's having an asthma attack. Being an all around asshat he was stupid enough to leave his inhaler in his locker so he was just on his knees in the hallway suffocating. The best part was, everybody was so busy helping the poor kid who fell that it took awhile for anybody to notice him. He ended up being fine after somebody noticed him and loaned him their inhaler. I remember thinking it would be funny to hold it just out of his grasp and make him suffer a bit before giving it to him. Also now that I think about it when I got to class and realized how ironic the situation was that was probably the hardest I ever laughed. | Asthmatic asshole friend laughs at kid who falls, almost dies from asthma, I laugh at him. |
_redbeard1 | Some things I have learned:
1. You will hate your Vita. It will look like Sony is ignoring you as a customer. You will be sad to see Vita exclusives get ported to other systems, and games that should be Vita exclusives will be released to all of Sony's platforms. Memory cards will be expensive and you will have trouble finding games and accessories at retailers. And every so often you may find yourself getting sucked into the /r/vita circlejerk of Sony's abandonment of the system.
2. You will love your vita. A lot of the games you mentioned feel really nice on the vita. It's a different experience than a console, I would describe it as more private and personal. I have a PS4 and a Vita. I love both and use both. With PS+ I have more games on my vita than I can play. Some I don't really want to play but I give them all an honest effort because...free. This allows me to enjoy and experience games I would not have otherwise because I'm a stingy bastard. Remote play can be great. I don't use it at home but just the other day I was playing on my PS4 from over 1000 miles away and I was enjoying the game and not merely the novelty of the feature.
so...tl;dr: the Vita can be great if you love free games, indie games and the form factor of a handheld device.
| Some things I have learned:
You will hate your Vita. It will look like Sony is ignoring you as a customer. You will be sad to see Vita exclusives get ported to other systems, and games that should be Vita exclusives will be released to all of Sony's platforms. Memory cards will be expensive and you will have trouble finding games and accessories at retailers. And every so often you may find yourself getting sucked into the /r/vita circlejerk of Sony's abandonment of the system.
You will love your vita. A lot of the games you mentioned feel really nice on the vita. It's a different experience than a console, I would describe it as more private and personal. I have a PS4 and a Vita. I love both and use both. With PS+ I have more games on my vita than I can play. Some I don't really want to play but I give them all an honest effort because...free. This allows me to enjoy and experience games I would not have otherwise because I'm a stingy bastard. Remote play can be great. I don't use it at home but just the other day I was playing on my PS4 from over 1000 miles away and I was enjoying the game and not merely the novelty of the feature.
so...tl;dr: the Vita can be great if you love free games, indie games and the form factor of a handheld device.
| vita | t5_2sjmv | ck4srco | Some things I have learned:
You will hate your Vita. It will look like Sony is ignoring you as a customer. You will be sad to see Vita exclusives get ported to other systems, and games that should be Vita exclusives will be released to all of Sony's platforms. Memory cards will be expensive and you will have trouble finding games and accessories at retailers. And every so often you may find yourself getting sucked into the /r/vita circlejerk of Sony's abandonment of the system.
You will love your vita. A lot of the games you mentioned feel really nice on the vita. It's a different experience than a console, I would describe it as more private and personal. I have a PS4 and a Vita. I love both and use both. With PS+ I have more games on my vita than I can play. Some I don't really want to play but I give them all an honest effort because...free. This allows me to enjoy and experience games I would not have otherwise because I'm a stingy bastard. Remote play can be great. I don't use it at home but just the other day I was playing on my PS4 from over 1000 miles away and I was enjoying the game and not merely the novelty of the feature.
so... | the Vita can be great if you love free games, indie games and the form factor of a handheld device. |
PooYaPants | I assumed every OSU student and alumni signed off on this before it was made. Guess I assumed incorrectly.
You sure everyone didn't agree to this ahead of time and it represents the entire state? I could have sworn that it was voted on in the last election and every citizen of voting age voted "Yes".
TLDR: You don't need to defend yourself on this one. | I assumed every OSU student and alumni signed off on this before it was made. Guess I assumed incorrectly.
You sure everyone didn't agree to this ahead of time and it represents the entire state? I could have sworn that it was voted on in the last election and every citizen of voting age voted "Yes".
TLDR: You don't need to defend yourself on this one.
| CFB | t5_2qm9d | ck4snyy | I assumed every OSU student and alumni signed off on this before it was made. Guess I assumed incorrectly.
You sure everyone didn't agree to this ahead of time and it represents the entire state? I could have sworn that it was voted on in the last election and every citizen of voting age voted "Yes". | You don't need to defend yourself on this one. |
actjr71 | Thornton has hardly looked good this preseason. He reminds me of a gap stuffing nose tackle in a 4-3. When he does get penetration he either gets too deep in the backfield or he lacks the speed to properly pursue the ball carrier.
TL;DR: doesn't seem like a system fit and he's mediocre | Thornton has hardly looked good this preseason. He reminds me of a gap stuffing nose tackle in a 4-3. When he does get penetration he either gets too deep in the backfield or he lacks the speed to properly pursue the ball carrier.
TL;DR: doesn't seem like a system fit and he's mediocre
| GreenBayPackers | t5_2qqd2 | ck4r3no | Thornton has hardly looked good this preseason. He reminds me of a gap stuffing nose tackle in a 4-3. When he does get penetration he either gets too deep in the backfield or he lacks the speed to properly pursue the ball carrier. | doesn't seem like a system fit and he's mediocre |
guisar | As a Vermonter who also worked for the Dartmouth Art department on a book of the art in the State House, there was and is plenty of venom or at least snideness on both sides. Vermont lost more people (per capita) it seems, any another state (in the North perhaps, probably a contender for the South), whole villages like the abandoned town in the woods behind my school, lost to Civil War casualties and fevers brought back by soldiers or gotten from a random epidemic.
My grandfather always used matches to light his cigarettes. We lived down south (Kentucky, North Carolina and Georgia). He said he was going to come visit us (would NEVER happen) but come down in a bus like those protestors (mid 60s) except in a Vermonter bus, handing out matchbook advertisements for "Sherman's Vacation"- a term my grandfather made up for a tour of the towns and cities ravaged by him. I'm sure you get the slam.
His grandfather had fought at Gettysburg. My house was built by an abolitionist and in the next town over the house our family's first US ancestor built is an historical landmark. So, in the scheme of things it wasn't that long ago and it was our bloodiest war; there are bound to be animosities.
Myself, having lived and experienced both, I think both would be FAR better off separately. The south would likely be entirely latin influenced- kind of a cool place and the issue of immigration would be much less tiresome. The north on the other hand, would have a much healthier economy, be extremely euro and asian centric and would like represent and 'east" and a 'west" since they are so similar in some ways and so distant in others.
TLDR: Would be better if they separated. | As a Vermonter who also worked for the Dartmouth Art department on a book of the art in the State House, there was and is plenty of venom or at least snideness on both sides. Vermont lost more people (per capita) it seems, any another state (in the North perhaps, probably a contender for the South), whole villages like the abandoned town in the woods behind my school, lost to Civil War casualties and fevers brought back by soldiers or gotten from a random epidemic.
My grandfather always used matches to light his cigarettes. We lived down south (Kentucky, North Carolina and Georgia). He said he was going to come visit us (would NEVER happen) but come down in a bus like those protestors (mid 60s) except in a Vermonter bus, handing out matchbook advertisements for "Sherman's Vacation"- a term my grandfather made up for a tour of the towns and cities ravaged by him. I'm sure you get the slam.
His grandfather had fought at Gettysburg. My house was built by an abolitionist and in the next town over the house our family's first US ancestor built is an historical landmark. So, in the scheme of things it wasn't that long ago and it was our bloodiest war; there are bound to be animosities.
Myself, having lived and experienced both, I think both would be FAR better off separately. The south would likely be entirely latin influenced- kind of a cool place and the issue of immigration would be much less tiresome. The north on the other hand, would have a much healthier economy, be extremely euro and asian centric and would like represent and 'east" and a 'west" since they are so similar in some ways and so distant in others.
TLDR: Would be better if they separated.
| HistoryPorn | t5_2skqi | ck6084c | As a Vermonter who also worked for the Dartmouth Art department on a book of the art in the State House, there was and is plenty of venom or at least snideness on both sides. Vermont lost more people (per capita) it seems, any another state (in the North perhaps, probably a contender for the South), whole villages like the abandoned town in the woods behind my school, lost to Civil War casualties and fevers brought back by soldiers or gotten from a random epidemic.
My grandfather always used matches to light his cigarettes. We lived down south (Kentucky, North Carolina and Georgia). He said he was going to come visit us (would NEVER happen) but come down in a bus like those protestors (mid 60s) except in a Vermonter bus, handing out matchbook advertisements for "Sherman's Vacation"- a term my grandfather made up for a tour of the towns and cities ravaged by him. I'm sure you get the slam.
His grandfather had fought at Gettysburg. My house was built by an abolitionist and in the next town over the house our family's first US ancestor built is an historical landmark. So, in the scheme of things it wasn't that long ago and it was our bloodiest war; there are bound to be animosities.
Myself, having lived and experienced both, I think both would be FAR better off separately. The south would likely be entirely latin influenced- kind of a cool place and the issue of immigration would be much less tiresome. The north on the other hand, would have a much healthier economy, be extremely euro and asian centric and would like represent and 'east" and a 'west" since they are so similar in some ways and so distant in others. | Would be better if they separated. |
Smallville730 | Although I'm not 100 percent sure (someone back me up on this), I believe that the screen you are at is basically a downloading screen that shows how much data you have left to download. IIRC, you can reboot your xbox without doing any harm to it... When you restart it, you should end up back to this screen with some of the data downloaded (like a computer would be). The actual installation of the data happens after a reboot on its own followed by a black screen with a green bar in the middle of the screen.
TL;DR: I believe you would be ok to reboot. Someone back me up on this. | Although I'm not 100 percent sure (someone back me up on this), I believe that the screen you are at is basically a downloading screen that shows how much data you have left to download. IIRC, you can reboot your xbox without doing any harm to it... When you restart it, you should end up back to this screen with some of the data downloaded (like a computer would be). The actual installation of the data happens after a reboot on its own followed by a black screen with a green bar in the middle of the screen.
TL;DR: I believe you would be ok to reboot. Someone back me up on this.
| xboxone | t5_2xbci | ck5gljp | Although I'm not 100 percent sure (someone back me up on this), I believe that the screen you are at is basically a downloading screen that shows how much data you have left to download. IIRC, you can reboot your xbox without doing any harm to it... When you restart it, you should end up back to this screen with some of the data downloaded (like a computer would be). The actual installation of the data happens after a reboot on its own followed by a black screen with a green bar in the middle of the screen. | I believe you would be ok to reboot. Someone back me up on this. |
Xemnas81 |
Let's ignore the 'fishing up tons of pussy' objective TRP generally gives, like I say I dislike the tons of misogyny. But in terms of social truths, it has a valid point which I discuss elsewhere: the self-esteem movement is counter-intuitive to self-improvement. Liking yourself does not make you a better, more interesting, better-looking, richer, more talented funnier person. It. Just. Doesn't. Liking yourself prevents you from sinking into depression, avoids terrible health and lets you sleep peacefully at night. That's it.
TRP lists a whole lot of other stuff which I could be doing, some which would be painful, like excepting that my body type is just not that attractive to the vast majority of women and most men see me as a runt because of it. If I am prepared to suck it up and swallow my pride (with that little top point of the pill), objectively I am likely to go much further in life.
*tl;dr* happiness =/= success | Let's ignore the 'fishing up tons of pussy' objective TRP generally gives, like I say I dislike the tons of misogyny. But in terms of social truths, it has a valid point which I discuss elsewhere: the self-esteem movement is counter-intuitive to self-improvement. Liking yourself does not make you a better, more interesting, better-looking, richer, more talented funnier person. It. Just. Doesn't. Liking yourself prevents you from sinking into depression, avoids terrible health and lets you sleep peacefully at night. That's it.
TRP lists a whole lot of other stuff which I could be doing, some which would be painful, like excepting that my body type is just not that attractive to the vast majority of women and most men see me as a runt because of it. If I am prepared to suck it up and swallow my pride (with that little top point of the pill), objectively I am likely to go much further in life.
tl;dr happiness =/= success
| self | t5_2qh96 | ck5l2hd | Let's ignore the 'fishing up tons of pussy' objective TRP generally gives, like I say I dislike the tons of misogyny. But in terms of social truths, it has a valid point which I discuss elsewhere: the self-esteem movement is counter-intuitive to self-improvement. Liking yourself does not make you a better, more interesting, better-looking, richer, more talented funnier person. It. Just. Doesn't. Liking yourself prevents you from sinking into depression, avoids terrible health and lets you sleep peacefully at night. That's it.
TRP lists a whole lot of other stuff which I could be doing, some which would be painful, like excepting that my body type is just not that attractive to the vast majority of women and most men see me as a runt because of it. If I am prepared to suck it up and swallow my pride (with that little top point of the pill), objectively I am likely to go much further in life. | happiness =/= success |
Xemnas81 | Well again, I have always understood that one of the components to success socially is to not let others into how you feel. This requires emotional self-control. So, you can feel scared, but act happy. When you fail to do this, you lose friends.
Let me clarify: without negative or intense emotions getting in the way. And basically, if you have felt a lot of nice (or not so nice) emotions but haven't achieved anything, you're not much of a man, or anyone.
Aside from the dark triad (which is admittedly manipulative and icky), I don't know how TRP would promote anything more than very hardened stoicism after a period of bitterness.
Also, a lot of what TRP and PUA promotes is the ability to connect one's thoughts and emotions with one's behaviour, not compromised by feelings such as approach anxiety, nor by what people are saying (which, compared to what people do, is usually manipulative).
tl;dr
Poor emotional regulation is unattractive, especially when demonstrated by males
I am mentally ill; I have low self control, it is unattractive; I will get help but I am now forever labelled unattractive, because I lost control, I lost my 'man-card' because Patriarachy YAY
| Well again, I have always understood that one of the components to success socially is to not let others into how you feel. This requires emotional self-control. So, you can feel scared, but act happy. When you fail to do this, you lose friends.
Let me clarify: without negative or intense emotions getting in the way. And basically, if you have felt a lot of nice (or not so nice) emotions but haven't achieved anything, you're not much of a man, or anyone.
Aside from the dark triad (which is admittedly manipulative and icky), I don't know how TRP would promote anything more than very hardened stoicism after a period of bitterness.
Also, a lot of what TRP and PUA promotes is the ability to connect one's thoughts and emotions with one's behaviour, not compromised by feelings such as approach anxiety, nor by what people are saying (which, compared to what people do, is usually manipulative).
tl;dr
Poor emotional regulation is unattractive, especially when demonstrated by males
I am mentally ill; I have low self control, it is unattractive; I will get help but I am now forever labelled unattractive, because I lost control, I lost my 'man-card' because Patriarachy YAY
| self | t5_2qh96 | ck5myn7 | Well again, I have always understood that one of the components to success socially is to not let others into how you feel. This requires emotional self-control. So, you can feel scared, but act happy. When you fail to do this, you lose friends.
Let me clarify: without negative or intense emotions getting in the way. And basically, if you have felt a lot of nice (or not so nice) emotions but haven't achieved anything, you're not much of a man, or anyone.
Aside from the dark triad (which is admittedly manipulative and icky), I don't know how TRP would promote anything more than very hardened stoicism after a period of bitterness.
Also, a lot of what TRP and PUA promotes is the ability to connect one's thoughts and emotions with one's behaviour, not compromised by feelings such as approach anxiety, nor by what people are saying (which, compared to what people do, is usually manipulative). | Poor emotional regulation is unattractive, especially when demonstrated by males
I am mentally ill; I have low self control, it is unattractive; I will get help but I am now forever labelled unattractive, because I lost control, I lost my 'man-card' because Patriarachy YAY |
Nilokster | Wow.
Besides the deluge of leaks coming out since early summer, the community is pretty confident of what the iPhone 6 will be. They may have missed a surprise feature or two, but the essentials are solidified at this point. Personally, I follow The Verge, and they've had reliable reports on new iPhones dating back to before the iPhone 5 release. And I've looked around on my own, so to call it a unicorn is a tad bit overdramatic. Yes, it hasn't been revealed yet, but we all know the highlights and major changes to it from the 5S.
Another note. My post was related to why I'm tired of my 920 now, and I discussed the pros and cons I've had with the device for almost a year and a half. Personal bias? Bias is bad, but my personal opinion can be whatever I want it to be. That's my opinion, but bias is a stretch bud. In your case, I suppose we can agree to disagree.
I compared my old Bionic to my 920 in order to achieve a comparison related to their respective media players (although Double Twist is third party). My point was that Windows Phone remains pathetically optimized, at least in that app, and a few others as well. This optimization, or lack thereof, bothers me quite bit. This is my personal opinion.
Finally, why so condescending? I thought I'd offer my opinion with the community I've been a part of for well over a year, share my experience. Pretty much all of the comments and posts I've read on this subreddit have been pretty nice, and lean toward open discussion about the platform. I thought my experience might spark a conversation, and I was interested in an answer.
You're the only commenter on this post to be geared towards vitriol. All of the others have either been constructive or nice. amp13 agrees with me, as he/she is also annoyed by the 920s shortcomings.
I'm pretty sure you were looking for an argument. Either that or you're blatantly oblivious to considering all of the options available in the mobile world. I'm still rooting for MS, just not from a user perspective. I'd love to see more competition in the industry. But my point is this: I've tried Android and WP now... and I'm not going to Blackberry. So I'd like to see what the iPhone has to offer. And I have a feeling I'll be pleasantly surprised with that "unicorn".
TL;DR: U wot m8. | Wow.
Besides the deluge of leaks coming out since early summer, the community is pretty confident of what the iPhone 6 will be. They may have missed a surprise feature or two, but the essentials are solidified at this point. Personally, I follow The Verge, and they've had reliable reports on new iPhones dating back to before the iPhone 5 release. And I've looked around on my own, so to call it a unicorn is a tad bit overdramatic. Yes, it hasn't been revealed yet, but we all know the highlights and major changes to it from the 5S.
Another note. My post was related to why I'm tired of my 920 now, and I discussed the pros and cons I've had with the device for almost a year and a half. Personal bias? Bias is bad, but my personal opinion can be whatever I want it to be. That's my opinion, but bias is a stretch bud. In your case, I suppose we can agree to disagree.
I compared my old Bionic to my 920 in order to achieve a comparison related to their respective media players (although Double Twist is third party). My point was that Windows Phone remains pathetically optimized, at least in that app, and a few others as well. This optimization, or lack thereof, bothers me quite bit. This is my personal opinion.
Finally, why so condescending? I thought I'd offer my opinion with the community I've been a part of for well over a year, share my experience. Pretty much all of the comments and posts I've read on this subreddit have been pretty nice, and lean toward open discussion about the platform. I thought my experience might spark a conversation, and I was interested in an answer.
You're the only commenter on this post to be geared towards vitriol. All of the others have either been constructive or nice. amp13 agrees with me, as he/she is also annoyed by the 920s shortcomings.
I'm pretty sure you were looking for an argument. Either that or you're blatantly oblivious to considering all of the options available in the mobile world. I'm still rooting for MS, just not from a user perspective. I'd love to see more competition in the industry. But my point is this: I've tried Android and WP now... and I'm not going to Blackberry. So I'd like to see what the iPhone has to offer. And I have a feeling I'll be pleasantly surprised with that "unicorn".
TL;DR: U wot m8.
| windowsphone | t5_2r71o | ck6kzsr | Wow.
Besides the deluge of leaks coming out since early summer, the community is pretty confident of what the iPhone 6 will be. They may have missed a surprise feature or two, but the essentials are solidified at this point. Personally, I follow The Verge, and they've had reliable reports on new iPhones dating back to before the iPhone 5 release. And I've looked around on my own, so to call it a unicorn is a tad bit overdramatic. Yes, it hasn't been revealed yet, but we all know the highlights and major changes to it from the 5S.
Another note. My post was related to why I'm tired of my 920 now, and I discussed the pros and cons I've had with the device for almost a year and a half. Personal bias? Bias is bad, but my personal opinion can be whatever I want it to be. That's my opinion, but bias is a stretch bud. In your case, I suppose we can agree to disagree.
I compared my old Bionic to my 920 in order to achieve a comparison related to their respective media players (although Double Twist is third party). My point was that Windows Phone remains pathetically optimized, at least in that app, and a few others as well. This optimization, or lack thereof, bothers me quite bit. This is my personal opinion.
Finally, why so condescending? I thought I'd offer my opinion with the community I've been a part of for well over a year, share my experience. Pretty much all of the comments and posts I've read on this subreddit have been pretty nice, and lean toward open discussion about the platform. I thought my experience might spark a conversation, and I was interested in an answer.
You're the only commenter on this post to be geared towards vitriol. All of the others have either been constructive or nice. amp13 agrees with me, as he/she is also annoyed by the 920s shortcomings.
I'm pretty sure you were looking for an argument. Either that or you're blatantly oblivious to considering all of the options available in the mobile world. I'm still rooting for MS, just not from a user perspective. I'd love to see more competition in the industry. But my point is this: I've tried Android and WP now... and I'm not going to Blackberry. So I'd like to see what the iPhone has to offer. And I have a feeling I'll be pleasantly surprised with that "unicorn". | U wot m8. |
superbeastdj | 25m here. For some reason i've tended to partner up with people who have self harm scars, some have been talkative about it, some pretty much the opposite.
I won't try to self analyze my views on it and be sciency about it or anything but in the end its never been a big deal. I've never done it myself but it's not an issue and it's never stopped me from talking to someone, to be honest i used to be a very shy person and talking to people that we're kinda different in that way seemed more natural for me.
tl:dr: your worrying to much about a non-issue
edit: spelling | 25m here. For some reason i've tended to partner up with people who have self harm scars, some have been talkative about it, some pretty much the opposite.
I won't try to self analyze my views on it and be sciency about it or anything but in the end its never been a big deal. I've never done it myself but it's not an issue and it's never stopped me from talking to someone, to be honest i used to be a very shy person and talking to people that we're kinda different in that way seemed more natural for me.
tl:dr: your worrying to much about a non-issue
edit: spelling
| sex | t5_2qh3p | ck6v6ks | 25m here. For some reason i've tended to partner up with people who have self harm scars, some have been talkative about it, some pretty much the opposite.
I won't try to self analyze my views on it and be sciency about it or anything but in the end its never been a big deal. I've never done it myself but it's not an issue and it's never stopped me from talking to someone, to be honest i used to be a very shy person and talking to people that we're kinda different in that way seemed more natural for me. | your worrying to much about a non-issue
edit: spelling |
Darkcharger | Sounds like shin splints. As mentioned low impact activities are what you need (biking, swimming, elliptical, etc.).
For your future training: slow down. If you do some research on here you'll find out that you should be running "comfortably" and "conversational" (running while able to hold a conversation, or slow enough to be relaxed). Trying to run fast all the time puts too much stress on your body (this is causing you to have shin splints).
Suggest running at least 30min a day (none of these shorter than 20min joke runs) and make the easy, and go up to 50min. Do 1-3 harder days a week, except make sure you add a warmup and cooldown to add up to over 20min of running (10 min warmup/cooldown + 20min hard run = 40min total).
TL;DR: low stress exercising while recovering. Review your workout plan to train properly to avoid future injuries. | Sounds like shin splints. As mentioned low impact activities are what you need (biking, swimming, elliptical, etc.).
For your future training: slow down. If you do some research on here you'll find out that you should be running "comfortably" and "conversational" (running while able to hold a conversation, or slow enough to be relaxed). Trying to run fast all the time puts too much stress on your body (this is causing you to have shin splints).
Suggest running at least 30min a day (none of these shorter than 20min joke runs) and make the easy, and go up to 50min. Do 1-3 harder days a week, except make sure you add a warmup and cooldown to add up to over 20min of running (10 min warmup/cooldown + 20min hard run = 40min total).
TL;DR: low stress exercising while recovering. Review your workout plan to train properly to avoid future injuries.
| running | t5_2qlit | ck6lskh | Sounds like shin splints. As mentioned low impact activities are what you need (biking, swimming, elliptical, etc.).
For your future training: slow down. If you do some research on here you'll find out that you should be running "comfortably" and "conversational" (running while able to hold a conversation, or slow enough to be relaxed). Trying to run fast all the time puts too much stress on your body (this is causing you to have shin splints).
Suggest running at least 30min a day (none of these shorter than 20min joke runs) and make the easy, and go up to 50min. Do 1-3 harder days a week, except make sure you add a warmup and cooldown to add up to over 20min of running (10 min warmup/cooldown + 20min hard run = 40min total). | low stress exercising while recovering. Review your workout plan to train properly to avoid future injuries. |
beechplease | Okay, I have good news and bad news. I'm not going to ask what you'd like first as I feel like that would delay us unnecessarily. Instead I'll roll play for effect.
Me: Okay, would you like the good or bad news first.
Me again Pretending to be you: Ahh bad I guess.
Me as myself: Okay.
Right, to the point.
The bad news is, you seemed to have misunderstood the concept somewhat. The good new is, it's okay as I will go to great lengths to help you grasp the idea. So don't panic. Yet.
Right. Traditionally, one makes one fluid cut down the center of the lemon, which as shown above, results in two halves with one or both containing seeds( and who wants that?). Instead, with this fabulous method you make a cut slightly off to the left or right of the center, then another cut in the same place on the remaining section of lemon. You will now have two hopefully seed free lemon pieces ready for cutting into wedges, and a left over "cross-section" containing the seeds and pithy section.
I really hope you now understand the idea our good friend here as tried to introduce us too; which so far only seems have been met with negative hostility by the self confessed "industry" experts.
TL;DR: See [this]( scientific diagram I found in one of the advanced lemon research labs within the university I attend. | Okay, I have good news and bad news. I'm not going to ask what you'd like first as I feel like that would delay us unnecessarily. Instead I'll roll play for effect.
Me: Okay, would you like the good or bad news first.
Me again Pretending to be you: Ahh bad I guess.
Me as myself: Okay.
Right, to the point.
The bad news is, you seemed to have misunderstood the concept somewhat. The good new is, it's okay as I will go to great lengths to help you grasp the idea. So don't panic. Yet.
Right. Traditionally, one makes one fluid cut down the center of the lemon, which as shown above, results in two halves with one or both containing seeds( and who wants that?). Instead, with this fabulous method you make a cut slightly off to the left or right of the center, then another cut in the same place on the remaining section of lemon. You will now have two hopefully seed free lemon pieces ready for cutting into wedges, and a left over "cross-section" containing the seeds and pithy section.
I really hope you now understand the idea our good friend here as tried to introduce us too; which so far only seems have been met with negative hostility by the self confessed "industry" experts.
TL;DR: See [this]( scientific diagram I found in one of the advanced lemon research labs within the university I attend.
| LifeProTips | t5_2s5oq | ck6swm8 | Okay, I have good news and bad news. I'm not going to ask what you'd like first as I feel like that would delay us unnecessarily. Instead I'll roll play for effect.
Me: Okay, would you like the good or bad news first.
Me again Pretending to be you: Ahh bad I guess.
Me as myself: Okay.
Right, to the point.
The bad news is, you seemed to have misunderstood the concept somewhat. The good new is, it's okay as I will go to great lengths to help you grasp the idea. So don't panic. Yet.
Right. Traditionally, one makes one fluid cut down the center of the lemon, which as shown above, results in two halves with one or both containing seeds( and who wants that?). Instead, with this fabulous method you make a cut slightly off to the left or right of the center, then another cut in the same place on the remaining section of lemon. You will now have two hopefully seed free lemon pieces ready for cutting into wedges, and a left over "cross-section" containing the seeds and pithy section.
I really hope you now understand the idea our good friend here as tried to introduce us too; which so far only seems have been met with negative hostility by the self confessed "industry" experts. | See [this]( scientific diagram I found in one of the advanced lemon research labs within the university I attend. |
jljfuego | Eventually yes. Not immediately. The talent pool is almost deep enough, it is just overly concentrated in the Western Conference, and tanking makes the crappy teams in the East crappier. But population is rising, and the popularity of basketball is not only growing within previously engaged areas (America, Western Europe, China, Russia, to some extent Africa) but expanding into relatively untapped regions (Eastern Europe, Australia, Canada) at a rate that is likely to cause an influx of talent within the next 5-15 years.
The expansions of the 80s and 90s were done too soon, and far too close together to let the league equalize after each, which partially led to the Celtics, Lakers, and Bulls dominating. (Many other factors went into this, such as each team having at least one of the top 3 players at the time and at least one other top 10 player.)
However, if expansions done in the near future were limited to just two teams at a time, with a wait of at least 10 years before any other potential expansion, the league could grow to 32, or even 36 teams in the next 40 years.
Relocation of a team sucks. No one wants to see any other teams get the Seattle treatment, but Seattle should have a team. Expansion is the best way to get them one, provided it is done responsibly.
TL:DR in about 5-10 years talent will be deep enough to give Seattle and one other TBD city a team, wait at least a decade before any other expansion talks. | Eventually yes. Not immediately. The talent pool is almost deep enough, it is just overly concentrated in the Western Conference, and tanking makes the crappy teams in the East crappier. But population is rising, and the popularity of basketball is not only growing within previously engaged areas (America, Western Europe, China, Russia, to some extent Africa) but expanding into relatively untapped regions (Eastern Europe, Australia, Canada) at a rate that is likely to cause an influx of talent within the next 5-15 years.
The expansions of the 80s and 90s were done too soon, and far too close together to let the league equalize after each, which partially led to the Celtics, Lakers, and Bulls dominating. (Many other factors went into this, such as each team having at least one of the top 3 players at the time and at least one other top 10 player.)
However, if expansions done in the near future were limited to just two teams at a time, with a wait of at least 10 years before any other potential expansion, the league could grow to 32, or even 36 teams in the next 40 years.
Relocation of a team sucks. No one wants to see any other teams get the Seattle treatment, but Seattle should have a team. Expansion is the best way to get them one, provided it is done responsibly.
TL:DR in about 5-10 years talent will be deep enough to give Seattle and one other TBD city a team, wait at least a decade before any other expansion talks.
| nba | t5_2qo4s | ck7a7e5 | Eventually yes. Not immediately. The talent pool is almost deep enough, it is just overly concentrated in the Western Conference, and tanking makes the crappy teams in the East crappier. But population is rising, and the popularity of basketball is not only growing within previously engaged areas (America, Western Europe, China, Russia, to some extent Africa) but expanding into relatively untapped regions (Eastern Europe, Australia, Canada) at a rate that is likely to cause an influx of talent within the next 5-15 years.
The expansions of the 80s and 90s were done too soon, and far too close together to let the league equalize after each, which partially led to the Celtics, Lakers, and Bulls dominating. (Many other factors went into this, such as each team having at least one of the top 3 players at the time and at least one other top 10 player.)
However, if expansions done in the near future were limited to just two teams at a time, with a wait of at least 10 years before any other potential expansion, the league could grow to 32, or even 36 teams in the next 40 years.
Relocation of a team sucks. No one wants to see any other teams get the Seattle treatment, but Seattle should have a team. Expansion is the best way to get them one, provided it is done responsibly. | in about 5-10 years talent will be deep enough to give Seattle and one other TBD city a team, wait at least a decade before any other expansion talks. |
blood_coffee | I'm not in the US, but whenever you get some names and sites gathered up, look up reviews of this person. I went for a lesson from a makeup artist and I learned nothing. She applied my foundation poorly and seemed peeved at the fact that I was 17 as opposed to being an older client, which she was more used to. If I had read reviews of her, at the time.. I would have gone shopping instead or given the voucher to someone else.
**tl;dr be sure to do your research and not fuck up like me** | I'm not in the US, but whenever you get some names and sites gathered up, look up reviews of this person. I went for a lesson from a makeup artist and I learned nothing. She applied my foundation poorly and seemed peeved at the fact that I was 17 as opposed to being an older client, which she was more used to. If I had read reviews of her, at the time.. I would have gone shopping instead or given the voucher to someone else.
tl;dr be sure to do your research and not fuck up like me
| MakeupAddiction | t5_2rww2 | ck6mw7p | I'm not in the US, but whenever you get some names and sites gathered up, look up reviews of this person. I went for a lesson from a makeup artist and I learned nothing. She applied my foundation poorly and seemed peeved at the fact that I was 17 as opposed to being an older client, which she was more used to. If I had read reviews of her, at the time.. I would have gone shopping instead or given the voucher to someone else. | be sure to do your research and not fuck up like me |
Jogindah | it wont be flakey, when i was learning to make pie i was told to use a food processor in short bursts and stop when you get a "coarse sand"
then you just work the sand together and pop it in
tl;dr work until it comes together as coarse sand and then stop | it wont be flakey, when i was learning to make pie i was told to use a food processor in short bursts and stop when you get a "coarse sand"
then you just work the sand together and pop it in
tl;dr work until it comes together as coarse sand and then stop
| AskCulinary | t5_2t82m | ck7dybi | it wont be flakey, when i was learning to make pie i was told to use a food processor in short bursts and stop when you get a "coarse sand"
then you just work the sand together and pop it in | work until it comes together as coarse sand and then stop |
DashingSpecialAgent | Faces aren't the only identifiable feature people have and that advice operates under the assumption the images will leak. Alternate accounts can be linked together unless one is extremely careful about usage patterns and again assumes the images will leak. The pile of snap chat screenshots posted all the time shows how little an app like that means.
Not to mention simple social engineering attacks, man in the middle, and the fact that you're trusting the entire transmission path. Unless you're using an end to end encryption method it's vulnerable in transmission. Then there's security at both ends.
If you want something secure: Don't let it touch a computer. If you want something mostly secure: Don't let it touch a networked computer. If you want something decently secure for most needs: Make sure you are fully patched, follow a proper security guide, use end to end encryption, and ensure that the other end is also doing all these things. Anything else is just betting that no one out there cares enough to put the effort in.
tl;dr: lulz. | Faces aren't the only identifiable feature people have and that advice operates under the assumption the images will leak. Alternate accounts can be linked together unless one is extremely careful about usage patterns and again assumes the images will leak. The pile of snap chat screenshots posted all the time shows how little an app like that means.
Not to mention simple social engineering attacks, man in the middle, and the fact that you're trusting the entire transmission path. Unless you're using an end to end encryption method it's vulnerable in transmission. Then there's security at both ends.
If you want something secure: Don't let it touch a computer. If you want something mostly secure: Don't let it touch a networked computer. If you want something decently secure for most needs: Make sure you are fully patched, follow a proper security guide, use end to end encryption, and ensure that the other end is also doing all these things. Anything else is just betting that no one out there cares enough to put the effort in.
tl;dr: lulz.
| funny | t5_2qh33 | ck7s7ka | Faces aren't the only identifiable feature people have and that advice operates under the assumption the images will leak. Alternate accounts can be linked together unless one is extremely careful about usage patterns and again assumes the images will leak. The pile of snap chat screenshots posted all the time shows how little an app like that means.
Not to mention simple social engineering attacks, man in the middle, and the fact that you're trusting the entire transmission path. Unless you're using an end to end encryption method it's vulnerable in transmission. Then there's security at both ends.
If you want something secure: Don't let it touch a computer. If you want something mostly secure: Don't let it touch a networked computer. If you want something decently secure for most needs: Make sure you are fully patched, follow a proper security guide, use end to end encryption, and ensure that the other end is also doing all these things. Anything else is just betting that no one out there cares enough to put the effort in. | lulz. |
SenseiZarn | I'm not that sorry to be *that guy*, but ... **a dungeon does not make a kingdom or campaign**. Neither does it make backstory. Though having a large number of differently 'themed' dungeons might make sense, there should also be some at least slightly coherent idea that ties them together. That aspect of worldbuilding is unfortunately not that much helped by what is admittedly an *extremely* handsome map.
Also, I think you should reserve some room for expansions later. That's how the Drizzt series got their space in the Forgotten Realms - Bob Salvatore looked at the map while checking the list of already taken spaces, and went with what he thought looked the most interesting of the locations left.
One way of looking at dungeons - and I'm meaning dungeon in an expanded sense here, i.e. some ruins might be a 'dungeon', not just some hole in the ground that you throw your prisoners in - would be to look at what you already have, and consider the opposites of that.
You mentioned 'undead'. Eberron has Aerenal, filled with the deathless - undead animated not by the Negative plane of energy, but by the Positive plane of energy. Unalive, so to speak. Is that a good fit?
'Fey'. Fey are sometimes divided into two rough categories, and further divided into two more sets, for a total of four categories. First, there's the courts - the *seelie* and the *unseelie*. The *seelie* are the pretty, capricious, happy, daydreaming fey. The *unseelie* are the pretty, capricious, cruel, torturing fey. And then there's the mortal and the immortal fey - elves are sometimes considered mortal (because they do have a lifespan), while other fey are more akin to nature spirits. (Fun fact - elves actually immigrated to Forgotten Realms from Arcadia / the Fey(wild), as did humans and a lot of other races. Are all races in your campaign actually native to your world?) So, in your 'fey' themed dungeons, are they unseelie or seelie court? Might there be feywild paths that transport people off into Arcadia, or other dimensions?
'Goblinoid'. In a sense, hobgoblins are superior to humans. They have a high fecundity, they're physically tougher than humans, they have a short period of time before they're capable of taking care of themselves, they can cooperate, and their intelligence is on par with humans. Goblins and their ilk (short, nasty and brutish) are more akin to ... well, it is easy to compare them to an infestation, but that ways goes racism. Let's stick to ... *unbridled enthusiastic* and with a *loose sense of right and wrong* as well as *loose sense of permanent ownership*. As such, hobgoblin dungeons might be the ruins of an older kingdom, toppled by elven incursions or what have you, while goblins might have more warren-like dungeons made on the 'pure instinct' and 'it seemed like a good idea' principles of engineering.
'Giantish'. Titans and Storm giants usually represent a higher, older order of civilization that was doomed because of its low replenishment rates. Stone giants, Cloud giants, Frost giants, and Fire giants tend to be very different in how they act and where they build. And *how* they build. Firbolg, fomori, mongrelmen, hunched giants, ogres and ogryn, ettin, and Hill giants further confuse the issue. Think carefully on what type of giant has done this, and how it once worked.
'Demon'. If there's demon-themed dungeons, how about angel or divine themed dungeons?
TL;DR: Two cents and some worldbuilding. | I'm not that sorry to be that guy , but ... a dungeon does not make a kingdom or campaign . Neither does it make backstory. Though having a large number of differently 'themed' dungeons might make sense, there should also be some at least slightly coherent idea that ties them together. That aspect of worldbuilding is unfortunately not that much helped by what is admittedly an extremely handsome map.
Also, I think you should reserve some room for expansions later. That's how the Drizzt series got their space in the Forgotten Realms - Bob Salvatore looked at the map while checking the list of already taken spaces, and went with what he thought looked the most interesting of the locations left.
One way of looking at dungeons - and I'm meaning dungeon in an expanded sense here, i.e. some ruins might be a 'dungeon', not just some hole in the ground that you throw your prisoners in - would be to look at what you already have, and consider the opposites of that.
You mentioned 'undead'. Eberron has Aerenal, filled with the deathless - undead animated not by the Negative plane of energy, but by the Positive plane of energy. Unalive, so to speak. Is that a good fit?
'Fey'. Fey are sometimes divided into two rough categories, and further divided into two more sets, for a total of four categories. First, there's the courts - the seelie and the unseelie . The seelie are the pretty, capricious, happy, daydreaming fey. The unseelie are the pretty, capricious, cruel, torturing fey. And then there's the mortal and the immortal fey - elves are sometimes considered mortal (because they do have a lifespan), while other fey are more akin to nature spirits. (Fun fact - elves actually immigrated to Forgotten Realms from Arcadia / the Fey(wild), as did humans and a lot of other races. Are all races in your campaign actually native to your world?) So, in your 'fey' themed dungeons, are they unseelie or seelie court? Might there be feywild paths that transport people off into Arcadia, or other dimensions?
'Goblinoid'. In a sense, hobgoblins are superior to humans. They have a high fecundity, they're physically tougher than humans, they have a short period of time before they're capable of taking care of themselves, they can cooperate, and their intelligence is on par with humans. Goblins and their ilk (short, nasty and brutish) are more akin to ... well, it is easy to compare them to an infestation, but that ways goes racism. Let's stick to ... unbridled enthusiastic and with a loose sense of right and wrong as well as loose sense of permanent ownership . As such, hobgoblin dungeons might be the ruins of an older kingdom, toppled by elven incursions or what have you, while goblins might have more warren-like dungeons made on the 'pure instinct' and 'it seemed like a good idea' principles of engineering.
'Giantish'. Titans and Storm giants usually represent a higher, older order of civilization that was doomed because of its low replenishment rates. Stone giants, Cloud giants, Frost giants, and Fire giants tend to be very different in how they act and where they build. And how they build. Firbolg, fomori, mongrelmen, hunched giants, ogres and ogryn, ettin, and Hill giants further confuse the issue. Think carefully on what type of giant has done this, and how it once worked.
'Demon'. If there's demon-themed dungeons, how about angel or divine themed dungeons?
TL;DR: Two cents and some worldbuilding.
| loremasters | t5_2wwy5 | ck7z58z | I'm not that sorry to be that guy , but ... a dungeon does not make a kingdom or campaign . Neither does it make backstory. Though having a large number of differently 'themed' dungeons might make sense, there should also be some at least slightly coherent idea that ties them together. That aspect of worldbuilding is unfortunately not that much helped by what is admittedly an extremely handsome map.
Also, I think you should reserve some room for expansions later. That's how the Drizzt series got their space in the Forgotten Realms - Bob Salvatore looked at the map while checking the list of already taken spaces, and went with what he thought looked the most interesting of the locations left.
One way of looking at dungeons - and I'm meaning dungeon in an expanded sense here, i.e. some ruins might be a 'dungeon', not just some hole in the ground that you throw your prisoners in - would be to look at what you already have, and consider the opposites of that.
You mentioned 'undead'. Eberron has Aerenal, filled with the deathless - undead animated not by the Negative plane of energy, but by the Positive plane of energy. Unalive, so to speak. Is that a good fit?
'Fey'. Fey are sometimes divided into two rough categories, and further divided into two more sets, for a total of four categories. First, there's the courts - the seelie and the unseelie . The seelie are the pretty, capricious, happy, daydreaming fey. The unseelie are the pretty, capricious, cruel, torturing fey. And then there's the mortal and the immortal fey - elves are sometimes considered mortal (because they do have a lifespan), while other fey are more akin to nature spirits. (Fun fact - elves actually immigrated to Forgotten Realms from Arcadia / the Fey(wild), as did humans and a lot of other races. Are all races in your campaign actually native to your world?) So, in your 'fey' themed dungeons, are they unseelie or seelie court? Might there be feywild paths that transport people off into Arcadia, or other dimensions?
'Goblinoid'. In a sense, hobgoblins are superior to humans. They have a high fecundity, they're physically tougher than humans, they have a short period of time before they're capable of taking care of themselves, they can cooperate, and their intelligence is on par with humans. Goblins and their ilk (short, nasty and brutish) are more akin to ... well, it is easy to compare them to an infestation, but that ways goes racism. Let's stick to ... unbridled enthusiastic and with a loose sense of right and wrong as well as loose sense of permanent ownership . As such, hobgoblin dungeons might be the ruins of an older kingdom, toppled by elven incursions or what have you, while goblins might have more warren-like dungeons made on the 'pure instinct' and 'it seemed like a good idea' principles of engineering.
'Giantish'. Titans and Storm giants usually represent a higher, older order of civilization that was doomed because of its low replenishment rates. Stone giants, Cloud giants, Frost giants, and Fire giants tend to be very different in how they act and where they build. And how they build. Firbolg, fomori, mongrelmen, hunched giants, ogres and ogryn, ettin, and Hill giants further confuse the issue. Think carefully on what type of giant has done this, and how it once worked.
'Demon'. If there's demon-themed dungeons, how about angel or divine themed dungeons? | Two cents and some worldbuilding. |
fedoraincarnate | I think you sort of go the same way as many actors do, and at some point you realise that your specialty is VA work. You connections within the industry and then are able to capitalise on the fact that there is an increased number of animated films being made etc.
For gaming however, I've heard that the best way to go is to get an agent, make a demo tape that shows off your talents to make many different voices (good to try and include foreign accents) or whatever, and then apply for jobs. You should also start with acting for this as well, as many people who are famous voice actors gained connections through acting, and many video games are employing mo-cap now so you have to be able to run around and do this sort of stuff while speaking
TL;DR : learn how to act, start off in a creative/acting education, get connections, get job as VA, go for your life. Good luck! | I think you sort of go the same way as many actors do, and at some point you realise that your specialty is VA work. You connections within the industry and then are able to capitalise on the fact that there is an increased number of animated films being made etc.
For gaming however, I've heard that the best way to go is to get an agent, make a demo tape that shows off your talents to make many different voices (good to try and include foreign accents) or whatever, and then apply for jobs. You should also start with acting for this as well, as many people who are famous voice actors gained connections through acting, and many video games are employing mo-cap now so you have to be able to run around and do this sort of stuff while speaking
TL;DR : learn how to act, start off in a creative/acting education, get connections, get job as VA, go for your life. Good luck!
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | ck7ri4l | I think you sort of go the same way as many actors do, and at some point you realise that your specialty is VA work. You connections within the industry and then are able to capitalise on the fact that there is an increased number of animated films being made etc.
For gaming however, I've heard that the best way to go is to get an agent, make a demo tape that shows off your talents to make many different voices (good to try and include foreign accents) or whatever, and then apply for jobs. You should also start with acting for this as well, as many people who are famous voice actors gained connections through acting, and many video games are employing mo-cap now so you have to be able to run around and do this sort of stuff while speaking | learn how to act, start off in a creative/acting education, get connections, get job as VA, go for your life. Good luck! |
myrrlyn | In universe there were three beings. Two, Anu and Padhome, were brothers. One, Nir, was a woman they both desired. None of them were human or even mortal, so the terms "brother" and "woman" and "desire" don't really fit, but, use your imagination.
Anu and Nir were together and Nir gave birth to the Twelve Worlds of Creation. Padhome was jealous and attacked. He managed to wound Nir in childbirth but was Thrown Out by Anu. Anu saved the Twelve Worlds and set them up around a Sun. I imagine the planets were in a rosette, or maybe a dodecahedron, but it doesn't really matter unless you like thinking about poly-planet gravitational fields, tidal locks, and skylines.
Padhome returned and destroyed the Twelve Worlds and wounded Anu. Grieving, Anu gathered some pieces of the Twelve Worlds and fled into the Sun. There, he began to Dream. His reality was ruined and he could not bear to live there, so he didn't. He Dreamed a new universe, that in which TES takes place. In it would be echoes of his reality, including spirits named after and similar to, but not identical to, himself, his brother, and Nir. (Incidentally, the Hist are remnants of the Twelve Worlds thrown DIRECTLY into the Dream, but as far as we know they're the only ones for whom this is a literal truth.)
It's important that you understand that Time as we think of it didn't exist until Convention, and everything I'm about to say happened before then. So while I'm going to use chronological ordering, understand that that's not *quite* right. But it's the best we can do.
First off in the TES universe, there were two primordial spirits/powers/essences/forces/things. They are the mythic versions of, say, the Higgs boson and electromagnetism. They are STASIS and CHAOS. This isn't mere stasis as in doing nothing and chaos as in being an unpredictable dick, this is stasis and chaos in their ultimate, pure forms. The spirit of STASIS, Anu, is a black empty void (which by the way is distinct from the black, empty VOID that is, in set theory terms, `(U \ (Anu ∪ Padhome))`, `Ø`, or literally any other definition of **nothing whatsoever** that you can come up with. The VOID is undefined, not zero) and the spirit of CHAOS, Padhome, is a white filled void. Anu is most easily expressed as being silent blackness and Padhome is most easily expressed as being cacophonous whiteness. And neither of them can sustain creation, because Anu doesn't allow anything to happen and Padhome allows everything to happen, and I imagine you can see the problems there.
Anu and Padhome begin as infinitesimally small points distinct from each other and then swell. Eventually they intersect. The region of their intersection looks like an eye or a football, but I use "looks" loosely because, as stated above, given that nothing can exist in pure Anu, pure Padhome, or the VOID surrounding them, the only entities that will ever see the intersection are inside it, and us. So, um, imagine a volume that is the intersection of two spheres. Imagine that on one side (not pole) of this volume, it is wholly black, and on the other side, it is wholly white. Also imagine that it is emitting audio as well as visual noise or lack thereof. And in the middle is a gradient running from black to white. I occasionally spell this "graydient" to really drive home the point that there is still no color or tone. It's just varying degrees of noise vs. not-noise.
In this volume of `(Anu ∩ Padhome)`, also called Aurbis and Gray Maybe, Original Spirits began to coalesce out of the noise. They were still Grey, mythically. Some of them were born closer to Anu, some were born closer to Padhome. That affected their selves. One journeyed to the absolute edge of the Aurbis and looked back and saw the Tower; one journeyed to the absolute center and looked out and saw the Wheel. One saw how even with this nascent creation there was still nothing and shouted I AM NOT; one saw that he was one with all there was and shouted I AM. These spirits were Aka and Lork and I can never remember which one did which. Anyway, this set them in union-yet-opposition thenceforth.
Lork approached many et'Ada with a plan to Create; a plan that would take the colorless, toneless gradient of the Aurbis and turn it into a prismatic omnichrome spectrum aglow with every color and note as distinct entities rather than smeared together into a dull conglomerate that allowed for no distinctions. If you can readily read HSL color space, at this point, the Aurbis only has L defined. ^(Incidentally, if you can read HSL color space and know where the source code for the sub's stylesheet is, you may notice that HSLA is used for every color, and this is the reason I did that.)
Some spirits disagreed and thought this plan was foolish. They became known as the Daedra, Those Who Are Not Our Ancestors. Some agreed, and they set about constructing this Prism, the Mundus. Lork was the idealist, but Magnus was the architect who actually designed it. Magnus and some of those spirits who followed him realized that creating Mundus would drain their energy and trap them inside the prism. They did not approve of this and fled, tearing holes in the outer shell of the Mundus into the leftover parts of Aurbis that were radiant with energy: Aetherius.
The rest of the constructor spirits were either too weak to flee or chose not to do so. The eight most powerful, the Major Aedra, flung themselves fully into the Mundus that it might be fully realized. This action doomed them, but without their sacrifice, the Mundus would never have reached completion. The Aedra, Those Who Are Our Ancestors, Convened and sentenced Lork to death for the death-trap of Mundus. Aka's full force and presence in the Mundus immediately forced Time into linearity, but the instant of his arrival, the Impossipoint, the Zero-Moment, is also the moment of Convention.
Thus begins Mundrial history.
**TL;DR**
Anuad refers to the events of the Amaranthine Anu and the parent universe of TES.
Lorkhan et. al. worked solely in the current universe.
With the exception of names and ideals, Anu, Nir, and Padhome of the Amaranthine Universe did not enter the Aurbis. The only Amaranthine entities directly present are the Hist. Everything else was created inside the Dream. | In universe there were three beings. Two, Anu and Padhome, were brothers. One, Nir, was a woman they both desired. None of them were human or even mortal, so the terms "brother" and "woman" and "desire" don't really fit, but, use your imagination.
Anu and Nir were together and Nir gave birth to the Twelve Worlds of Creation. Padhome was jealous and attacked. He managed to wound Nir in childbirth but was Thrown Out by Anu. Anu saved the Twelve Worlds and set them up around a Sun. I imagine the planets were in a rosette, or maybe a dodecahedron, but it doesn't really matter unless you like thinking about poly-planet gravitational fields, tidal locks, and skylines.
Padhome returned and destroyed the Twelve Worlds and wounded Anu. Grieving, Anu gathered some pieces of the Twelve Worlds and fled into the Sun. There, he began to Dream. His reality was ruined and he could not bear to live there, so he didn't. He Dreamed a new universe, that in which TES takes place. In it would be echoes of his reality, including spirits named after and similar to, but not identical to, himself, his brother, and Nir. (Incidentally, the Hist are remnants of the Twelve Worlds thrown DIRECTLY into the Dream, but as far as we know they're the only ones for whom this is a literal truth.)
It's important that you understand that Time as we think of it didn't exist until Convention, and everything I'm about to say happened before then. So while I'm going to use chronological ordering, understand that that's not quite right. But it's the best we can do.
First off in the TES universe, there were two primordial spirits/powers/essences/forces/things. They are the mythic versions of, say, the Higgs boson and electromagnetism. They are STASIS and CHAOS. This isn't mere stasis as in doing nothing and chaos as in being an unpredictable dick, this is stasis and chaos in their ultimate, pure forms. The spirit of STASIS, Anu, is a black empty void (which by the way is distinct from the black, empty VOID that is, in set theory terms, (U \ (Anu ∪ Padhome)) , Ø , or literally any other definition of nothing whatsoever that you can come up with. The VOID is undefined, not zero) and the spirit of CHAOS, Padhome, is a white filled void. Anu is most easily expressed as being silent blackness and Padhome is most easily expressed as being cacophonous whiteness. And neither of them can sustain creation, because Anu doesn't allow anything to happen and Padhome allows everything to happen, and I imagine you can see the problems there.
Anu and Padhome begin as infinitesimally small points distinct from each other and then swell. Eventually they intersect. The region of their intersection looks like an eye or a football, but I use "looks" loosely because, as stated above, given that nothing can exist in pure Anu, pure Padhome, or the VOID surrounding them, the only entities that will ever see the intersection are inside it, and us. So, um, imagine a volume that is the intersection of two spheres. Imagine that on one side (not pole) of this volume, it is wholly black, and on the other side, it is wholly white. Also imagine that it is emitting audio as well as visual noise or lack thereof. And in the middle is a gradient running from black to white. I occasionally spell this "graydient" to really drive home the point that there is still no color or tone. It's just varying degrees of noise vs. not-noise.
In this volume of (Anu ∩ Padhome) , also called Aurbis and Gray Maybe, Original Spirits began to coalesce out of the noise. They were still Grey, mythically. Some of them were born closer to Anu, some were born closer to Padhome. That affected their selves. One journeyed to the absolute edge of the Aurbis and looked back and saw the Tower; one journeyed to the absolute center and looked out and saw the Wheel. One saw how even with this nascent creation there was still nothing and shouted I AM NOT; one saw that he was one with all there was and shouted I AM. These spirits were Aka and Lork and I can never remember which one did which. Anyway, this set them in union-yet-opposition thenceforth.
Lork approached many et'Ada with a plan to Create; a plan that would take the colorless, toneless gradient of the Aurbis and turn it into a prismatic omnichrome spectrum aglow with every color and note as distinct entities rather than smeared together into a dull conglomerate that allowed for no distinctions. If you can readily read HSL color space, at this point, the Aurbis only has L defined. ^(Incidentally, if you can read HSL color space and know where the source code for the sub's stylesheet is, you may notice that HSLA is used for every color, and this is the reason I did that.)
Some spirits disagreed and thought this plan was foolish. They became known as the Daedra, Those Who Are Not Our Ancestors. Some agreed, and they set about constructing this Prism, the Mundus. Lork was the idealist, but Magnus was the architect who actually designed it. Magnus and some of those spirits who followed him realized that creating Mundus would drain their energy and trap them inside the prism. They did not approve of this and fled, tearing holes in the outer shell of the Mundus into the leftover parts of Aurbis that were radiant with energy: Aetherius.
The rest of the constructor spirits were either too weak to flee or chose not to do so. The eight most powerful, the Major Aedra, flung themselves fully into the Mundus that it might be fully realized. This action doomed them, but without their sacrifice, the Mundus would never have reached completion. The Aedra, Those Who Are Our Ancestors, Convened and sentenced Lork to death for the death-trap of Mundus. Aka's full force and presence in the Mundus immediately forced Time into linearity, but the instant of his arrival, the Impossipoint, the Zero-Moment, is also the moment of Convention.
Thus begins Mundrial history.
TL;DR
Anuad refers to the events of the Amaranthine Anu and the parent universe of TES.
Lorkhan et. al. worked solely in the current universe.
With the exception of names and ideals, Anu, Nir, and Padhome of the Amaranthine Universe did not enter the Aurbis. The only Amaranthine entities directly present are the Hist. Everything else was created inside the Dream.
| teslore | t5_2t5ay | ck82oxq | In universe there were three beings. Two, Anu and Padhome, were brothers. One, Nir, was a woman they both desired. None of them were human or even mortal, so the terms "brother" and "woman" and "desire" don't really fit, but, use your imagination.
Anu and Nir were together and Nir gave birth to the Twelve Worlds of Creation. Padhome was jealous and attacked. He managed to wound Nir in childbirth but was Thrown Out by Anu. Anu saved the Twelve Worlds and set them up around a Sun. I imagine the planets were in a rosette, or maybe a dodecahedron, but it doesn't really matter unless you like thinking about poly-planet gravitational fields, tidal locks, and skylines.
Padhome returned and destroyed the Twelve Worlds and wounded Anu. Grieving, Anu gathered some pieces of the Twelve Worlds and fled into the Sun. There, he began to Dream. His reality was ruined and he could not bear to live there, so he didn't. He Dreamed a new universe, that in which TES takes place. In it would be echoes of his reality, including spirits named after and similar to, but not identical to, himself, his brother, and Nir. (Incidentally, the Hist are remnants of the Twelve Worlds thrown DIRECTLY into the Dream, but as far as we know they're the only ones for whom this is a literal truth.)
It's important that you understand that Time as we think of it didn't exist until Convention, and everything I'm about to say happened before then. So while I'm going to use chronological ordering, understand that that's not quite right. But it's the best we can do.
First off in the TES universe, there were two primordial spirits/powers/essences/forces/things. They are the mythic versions of, say, the Higgs boson and electromagnetism. They are STASIS and CHAOS. This isn't mere stasis as in doing nothing and chaos as in being an unpredictable dick, this is stasis and chaos in their ultimate, pure forms. The spirit of STASIS, Anu, is a black empty void (which by the way is distinct from the black, empty VOID that is, in set theory terms, (U \ (Anu ∪ Padhome)) , Ø , or literally any other definition of nothing whatsoever that you can come up with. The VOID is undefined, not zero) and the spirit of CHAOS, Padhome, is a white filled void. Anu is most easily expressed as being silent blackness and Padhome is most easily expressed as being cacophonous whiteness. And neither of them can sustain creation, because Anu doesn't allow anything to happen and Padhome allows everything to happen, and I imagine you can see the problems there.
Anu and Padhome begin as infinitesimally small points distinct from each other and then swell. Eventually they intersect. The region of their intersection looks like an eye or a football, but I use "looks" loosely because, as stated above, given that nothing can exist in pure Anu, pure Padhome, or the VOID surrounding them, the only entities that will ever see the intersection are inside it, and us. So, um, imagine a volume that is the intersection of two spheres. Imagine that on one side (not pole) of this volume, it is wholly black, and on the other side, it is wholly white. Also imagine that it is emitting audio as well as visual noise or lack thereof. And in the middle is a gradient running from black to white. I occasionally spell this "graydient" to really drive home the point that there is still no color or tone. It's just varying degrees of noise vs. not-noise.
In this volume of (Anu ∩ Padhome) , also called Aurbis and Gray Maybe, Original Spirits began to coalesce out of the noise. They were still Grey, mythically. Some of them were born closer to Anu, some were born closer to Padhome. That affected their selves. One journeyed to the absolute edge of the Aurbis and looked back and saw the Tower; one journeyed to the absolute center and looked out and saw the Wheel. One saw how even with this nascent creation there was still nothing and shouted I AM NOT; one saw that he was one with all there was and shouted I AM. These spirits were Aka and Lork and I can never remember which one did which. Anyway, this set them in union-yet-opposition thenceforth.
Lork approached many et'Ada with a plan to Create; a plan that would take the colorless, toneless gradient of the Aurbis and turn it into a prismatic omnichrome spectrum aglow with every color and note as distinct entities rather than smeared together into a dull conglomerate that allowed for no distinctions. If you can readily read HSL color space, at this point, the Aurbis only has L defined. ^(Incidentally, if you can read HSL color space and know where the source code for the sub's stylesheet is, you may notice that HSLA is used for every color, and this is the reason I did that.)
Some spirits disagreed and thought this plan was foolish. They became known as the Daedra, Those Who Are Not Our Ancestors. Some agreed, and they set about constructing this Prism, the Mundus. Lork was the idealist, but Magnus was the architect who actually designed it. Magnus and some of those spirits who followed him realized that creating Mundus would drain their energy and trap them inside the prism. They did not approve of this and fled, tearing holes in the outer shell of the Mundus into the leftover parts of Aurbis that were radiant with energy: Aetherius.
The rest of the constructor spirits were either too weak to flee or chose not to do so. The eight most powerful, the Major Aedra, flung themselves fully into the Mundus that it might be fully realized. This action doomed them, but without their sacrifice, the Mundus would never have reached completion. The Aedra, Those Who Are Our Ancestors, Convened and sentenced Lork to death for the death-trap of Mundus. Aka's full force and presence in the Mundus immediately forced Time into linearity, but the instant of his arrival, the Impossipoint, the Zero-Moment, is also the moment of Convention.
Thus begins Mundrial history. | Anuad refers to the events of the Amaranthine Anu and the parent universe of TES.
Lorkhan et. al. worked solely in the current universe.
With the exception of names and ideals, Anu, Nir, and Padhome of the Amaranthine Universe did not enter the Aurbis. The only Amaranthine entities directly present are the Hist. Everything else was created inside the Dream. |
LucentWhite | Patron is a requirement. f2p is basically a free demo, with many, many restrictions.
TL;DR: Pay 15dollars a month if you want to play. End of story. | Patron is a requirement. f2p is basically a free demo, with many, many restrictions.
TL;DR: Pay 15dollars a month if you want to play. End of story.
| archeage | t5_2sf59 | ck8ir4z | Patron is a requirement. f2p is basically a free demo, with many, many restrictions. | Pay 15dollars a month if you want to play. End of story. |
AshenMoon | The big thing is Labor for patron status (it goes very quickly when you are crafting or farming- not so much if you are just questing and killing monsters and ignoring the coinpurses they drop). If you have a friend that is a patron you can ask to be in their family and thus share their house (or build one together) as well as have access to their protected farm plots. With that said, if you trust said patron friend, you can also have them sell things on the AH for you- and then (hopefully) you can eventually have enough gold to pay for patron with in-game gold instead of real life $. My plan is to grind to 50 without patronage, and then decide from there whether it's worth it to invest.
As for the cash shop, there's a fairly in-depth analysis of it:
From what it seems the TLDR is most things are fair with very few inherent "pay-to-win" aspects. The most expensive things are cosmetic overrides and mounts (where you can get the same speed mounts in game at later levels), whereas non cosmetic items (potions for labor boosting, exp boosts, lootrate % boost) are fairly cheaper...like 1,000 labor for $2.10 or 10% lootrate for 60min for $0.56.
Hope that helps! :) | The big thing is Labor for patron status (it goes very quickly when you are crafting or farming- not so much if you are just questing and killing monsters and ignoring the coinpurses they drop). If you have a friend that is a patron you can ask to be in their family and thus share their house (or build one together) as well as have access to their protected farm plots. With that said, if you trust said patron friend, you can also have them sell things on the AH for you- and then (hopefully) you can eventually have enough gold to pay for patron with in-game gold instead of real life $. My plan is to grind to 50 without patronage, and then decide from there whether it's worth it to invest.
As for the cash shop, there's a fairly in-depth analysis of it:
From what it seems the TLDR is most things are fair with very few inherent "pay-to-win" aspects. The most expensive things are cosmetic overrides and mounts (where you can get the same speed mounts in game at later levels), whereas non cosmetic items (potions for labor boosting, exp boosts, lootrate % boost) are fairly cheaper...like 1,000 labor for $2.10 or 10% lootrate for 60min for $0.56.
Hope that helps! :)
| archeage | t5_2sf59 | ck8dl5q | The big thing is Labor for patron status (it goes very quickly when you are crafting or farming- not so much if you are just questing and killing monsters and ignoring the coinpurses they drop). If you have a friend that is a patron you can ask to be in their family and thus share their house (or build one together) as well as have access to their protected farm plots. With that said, if you trust said patron friend, you can also have them sell things on the AH for you- and then (hopefully) you can eventually have enough gold to pay for patron with in-game gold instead of real life $. My plan is to grind to 50 without patronage, and then decide from there whether it's worth it to invest.
As for the cash shop, there's a fairly in-depth analysis of it:
From what it seems the | is most things are fair with very few inherent "pay-to-win" aspects. The most expensive things are cosmetic overrides and mounts (where you can get the same speed mounts in game at later levels), whereas non cosmetic items (potions for labor boosting, exp boosts, lootrate % boost) are fairly cheaper...like 1,000 labor for $2.10 or 10% lootrate for 60min for $0.56.
Hope that helps! :) |
TheDocFeelGood | Most of the commenters are pretty much on considering the contributing factor of strangulated hernia. Invagination is an old way to describe bowel incarceration. Essentially, a hernia is a weak point in the abdominal wall that allows tissue from the abdominal cavity into the weak point and into a space created beyond in between the muscle layers or under the skin. When a hernia progresses to the point that loops of bowel can descend into the space, a huge risk of that bowel becoming trapped or twisted arises. The human small intestine is incredibly vascular due to it's purpose of absorbing nutrients from our food and this process takes energy and thus needs a constant blood flow to accomplish both tasks. When the bowel is trapped and this flow is cut, it rapidly dies leaving dead tissue behind and often blocking the passage of food through that portion of the bowel.
Now if that wasn't shit enough, the bowel is CHOCK FULL OF BACTERIA. The intestinal flora help digest food and protect you from serious infection BUT they are always looking for more food. You kill off part of your intestine, they have an all you can eat buffet all around and they go to town. The bacteria, now growing at an insane pace can quickly cause a patient to go septic and kill them from overwhelming systemic infection. Couple this with a massive blockage of food and thus risk of rupture and contamination of the peritoneum (leading to even more infection) and you have a recipe for rapidly progressive fatal disaster.
So yeah...if you notice a weird soft lump in your groin that suddenly shows up...you might want to have a doctor take a look. Also, now you know why doctors have men turn their heads and cough; they can feel if bowel slips into a hernia and out through a common site deep in the scrotum.
TL;DR: Likely overwhelming sepsis secondary to bowel strangulation as a consequence of an unrepaired hernia.
-Source: Third year medical student | Most of the commenters are pretty much on considering the contributing factor of strangulated hernia. Invagination is an old way to describe bowel incarceration. Essentially, a hernia is a weak point in the abdominal wall that allows tissue from the abdominal cavity into the weak point and into a space created beyond in between the muscle layers or under the skin. When a hernia progresses to the point that loops of bowel can descend into the space, a huge risk of that bowel becoming trapped or twisted arises. The human small intestine is incredibly vascular due to it's purpose of absorbing nutrients from our food and this process takes energy and thus needs a constant blood flow to accomplish both tasks. When the bowel is trapped and this flow is cut, it rapidly dies leaving dead tissue behind and often blocking the passage of food through that portion of the bowel.
Now if that wasn't shit enough, the bowel is CHOCK FULL OF BACTERIA. The intestinal flora help digest food and protect you from serious infection BUT they are always looking for more food. You kill off part of your intestine, they have an all you can eat buffet all around and they go to town. The bacteria, now growing at an insane pace can quickly cause a patient to go septic and kill them from overwhelming systemic infection. Couple this with a massive blockage of food and thus risk of rupture and contamination of the peritoneum (leading to even more infection) and you have a recipe for rapidly progressive fatal disaster.
So yeah...if you notice a weird soft lump in your groin that suddenly shows up...you might want to have a doctor take a look. Also, now you know why doctors have men turn their heads and cough; they can feel if bowel slips into a hernia and out through a common site deep in the scrotum.
TL;DR: Likely overwhelming sepsis secondary to bowel strangulation as a consequence of an unrepaired hernia.
-Source: Third year medical student
| WTF | t5_2qh61 | ck8lhv9 | Most of the commenters are pretty much on considering the contributing factor of strangulated hernia. Invagination is an old way to describe bowel incarceration. Essentially, a hernia is a weak point in the abdominal wall that allows tissue from the abdominal cavity into the weak point and into a space created beyond in between the muscle layers or under the skin. When a hernia progresses to the point that loops of bowel can descend into the space, a huge risk of that bowel becoming trapped or twisted arises. The human small intestine is incredibly vascular due to it's purpose of absorbing nutrients from our food and this process takes energy and thus needs a constant blood flow to accomplish both tasks. When the bowel is trapped and this flow is cut, it rapidly dies leaving dead tissue behind and often blocking the passage of food through that portion of the bowel.
Now if that wasn't shit enough, the bowel is CHOCK FULL OF BACTERIA. The intestinal flora help digest food and protect you from serious infection BUT they are always looking for more food. You kill off part of your intestine, they have an all you can eat buffet all around and they go to town. The bacteria, now growing at an insane pace can quickly cause a patient to go septic and kill them from overwhelming systemic infection. Couple this with a massive blockage of food and thus risk of rupture and contamination of the peritoneum (leading to even more infection) and you have a recipe for rapidly progressive fatal disaster.
So yeah...if you notice a weird soft lump in your groin that suddenly shows up...you might want to have a doctor take a look. Also, now you know why doctors have men turn their heads and cough; they can feel if bowel slips into a hernia and out through a common site deep in the scrotum. | Likely overwhelming sepsis secondary to bowel strangulation as a consequence of an unrepaired hernia.
-Source: Third year medical student |
Freak_Power | sooo....i actually had this and got the surgery when 18 months old. pretty common, the word is inguination. an inguinal hernia. when a portion of the abdomen protrudes through the abdominal wall. and sometimes (like 1914) when not taken care of, can cause "strangulation", resulting in death.
tl;dr i have a scar above my weiner
edit: i accidentally a word | sooo....i actually had this and got the surgery when 18 months old. pretty common, the word is inguination. an inguinal hernia. when a portion of the abdomen protrudes through the abdominal wall. and sometimes (like 1914) when not taken care of, can cause "strangulation", resulting in death.
tl;dr i have a scar above my weiner
edit: i accidentally a word
| WTF | t5_2qh61 | ck8lzso | sooo....i actually had this and got the surgery when 18 months old. pretty common, the word is inguination. an inguinal hernia. when a portion of the abdomen protrudes through the abdominal wall. and sometimes (like 1914) when not taken care of, can cause "strangulation", resulting in death. | i have a scar above my weiner
edit: i accidentally a word |
Unqualified_Opinion | That was really cool, thank you.
Do we have the opposite of tl:dr, because I think you deserve one there. nle:rm maybe. | That was really cool, thank you.
Do we have the opposite of tl:dr, because I think you deserve one there. nle:rm maybe.
| atheism | t5_2qh2p | ck90u12 | That was really cool, thank you.
Do we have the opposite of | because I think you deserve one there. nle:rm maybe. |
Gamernomics | Join a corp. Brave and dreddit are both recruiting. Without friends you have access to about 5% of the game -- and its the shittiest 5%. Both corps i mentioned are very newbie friendly (dreddit helps out a lot more from what I've seen, r/evedreddit) so don't fool yourself saying "I'll join once I learn how to spaceships". False. We want you now and we want you before you pick up terrible highsec pubbie habits.
Tldr join dreddit | Join a corp. Brave and dreddit are both recruiting. Without friends you have access to about 5% of the game -- and its the shittiest 5%. Both corps i mentioned are very newbie friendly (dreddit helps out a lot more from what I've seen, r/evedreddit) so don't fool yourself saying "I'll join once I learn how to spaceships". False. We want you now and we want you before you pick up terrible highsec pubbie habits.
Tldr join dreddit
| Eve | t5_2qil9 | ck95r71 | Join a corp. Brave and dreddit are both recruiting. Without friends you have access to about 5% of the game -- and its the shittiest 5%. Both corps i mentioned are very newbie friendly (dreddit helps out a lot more from what I've seen, r/evedreddit) so don't fool yourself saying "I'll join once I learn how to spaceships". False. We want you now and we want you before you pick up terrible highsec pubbie habits. | join dreddit |
Stabbers | always go to +10. you can farm slabs infinitely in the castle.
ignoring Scaling, the damage on a weapon almost always goes-up when you infuse a weapon, but there's some other things to keep in mind: buffing, if you infuse, you can't use resins on the weapon anymore (if you're not going into int/fth you might get more this way at sub SL300) and if you infuse your weapon, you'll want the corresponding weapon buff. (kind of a waste if you don't have much ATN)
another thing is your rings, ROB, and Flynn's work at almost half efficiency on infused weapons, so be careful on what you infuse, because a weapon that already does fire damage will still get the full amount.
Tl;Dr - my advise is such. if you're looking for pure damage, stick with the Zwi (it's awesome), and infuse if you want to get that bit of extra and the flaming look. if you want the most FIRE DMG, use the black knight GS, or other weapons that come with fire damage already, infuse, and buff. (but then i'd say you'd also need some int/fth) | always go to +10. you can farm slabs infinitely in the castle.
ignoring Scaling, the damage on a weapon almost always goes-up when you infuse a weapon, but there's some other things to keep in mind: buffing, if you infuse, you can't use resins on the weapon anymore (if you're not going into int/fth you might get more this way at sub SL300) and if you infuse your weapon, you'll want the corresponding weapon buff. (kind of a waste if you don't have much ATN)
another thing is your rings, ROB, and Flynn's work at almost half efficiency on infused weapons, so be careful on what you infuse, because a weapon that already does fire damage will still get the full amount.
Tl;Dr - my advise is such. if you're looking for pure damage, stick with the Zwi (it's awesome), and infuse if you want to get that bit of extra and the flaming look. if you want the most FIRE DMG, use the black knight GS, or other weapons that come with fire damage already, infuse, and buff. (but then i'd say you'd also need some int/fth)
| DarkSouls2 | t5_2vqni | ck9p5y0 | always go to +10. you can farm slabs infinitely in the castle.
ignoring Scaling, the damage on a weapon almost always goes-up when you infuse a weapon, but there's some other things to keep in mind: buffing, if you infuse, you can't use resins on the weapon anymore (if you're not going into int/fth you might get more this way at sub SL300) and if you infuse your weapon, you'll want the corresponding weapon buff. (kind of a waste if you don't have much ATN)
another thing is your rings, ROB, and Flynn's work at almost half efficiency on infused weapons, so be careful on what you infuse, because a weapon that already does fire damage will still get the full amount. | my advise is such. if you're looking for pure damage, stick with the Zwi (it's awesome), and infuse if you want to get that bit of extra and the flaming look. if you want the most FIRE DMG, use the black knight GS, or other weapons that come with fire damage already, infuse, and buff. (but then i'd say you'd also need some int/fth) |
SilentGaia | Better than me. Last winter I bought a new Macbook after using Windows my whole life (except school computers sometimes). I then proceeded to leave my Windows laptop back at home and then when I went to class, realized I needed Windows for one program that the class used.
I installed Windows, and somehow uninstalled OSX and deleted the backup installer provided on the hard drive. When I tried connecting to WiFi to download the utility to be able to download and reinstall OSX, I found out that the type internet my university had (WPA 2 Enterprise) wasn't supported by the system to download the utility. I couldn't download the utility and reinstall OSX...
In the end, I had to go to the Apple store and steal their WiFi to download the utility to download OSX...
Tldr: installed windows for new macbook for a class, ended up accidentally deleting OSX and had to hang out at the Apple store for two hours to reinstall OSX. | Better than me. Last winter I bought a new Macbook after using Windows my whole life (except school computers sometimes). I then proceeded to leave my Windows laptop back at home and then when I went to class, realized I needed Windows for one program that the class used.
I installed Windows, and somehow uninstalled OSX and deleted the backup installer provided on the hard drive. When I tried connecting to WiFi to download the utility to be able to download and reinstall OSX, I found out that the type internet my university had (WPA 2 Enterprise) wasn't supported by the system to download the utility. I couldn't download the utility and reinstall OSX...
In the end, I had to go to the Apple store and steal their WiFi to download the utility to download OSX...
Tldr: installed windows for new macbook for a class, ended up accidentally deleting OSX and had to hang out at the Apple store for two hours to reinstall OSX.
| tifu | t5_2to41 | ck8sgg0 | Better than me. Last winter I bought a new Macbook after using Windows my whole life (except school computers sometimes). I then proceeded to leave my Windows laptop back at home and then when I went to class, realized I needed Windows for one program that the class used.
I installed Windows, and somehow uninstalled OSX and deleted the backup installer provided on the hard drive. When I tried connecting to WiFi to download the utility to be able to download and reinstall OSX, I found out that the type internet my university had (WPA 2 Enterprise) wasn't supported by the system to download the utility. I couldn't download the utility and reinstall OSX...
In the end, I had to go to the Apple store and steal their WiFi to download the utility to download OSX... | installed windows for new macbook for a class, ended up accidentally deleting OSX and had to hang out at the Apple store for two hours to reinstall OSX. |
dajjbomb | I usually play with a group of 2-5, and one of the group is usually a ADC (and usually the same person every time) so we can do a bit more coordination that usual. The only problem is we're just hitting lvl 30 (which, for some in the group, including the ADC, is the first time.) We've been focusing on more teamplay stuff than farming mechanics, so last hitting is still at "will turn people into lee sin it's so bad" levels, but hopefully it gets better once we start with replays and more of a focus on mechanics and such.
It really sucks that we usually play fewer hypercarry lanes (because reasons) and as a result when we get DK against a Vayne super early I'm like "So what do we do now?" Do we just let her out farm us, and pray the other 2 lanes do better? (I'm personally not a fan of calling the jungle to a losing lane, usually your're wasting a good gank elsewhere for nothing + the chance of feeding a triple and just /ff ing faster.)
It's probably #under30problems, but figured I'd give them a shot. Your advice helps a lot (thought I personally feel that when I'm farming under tower I'm forced to pick between getting poked or just afk farming.) Either way though I still feel like we're letting the snowball continue, and unless we have a duo that can stop it late game (which we usually don't) I just feel like we're throwing the game still.
TL;DR: Question: Is being down as a early game duo vs. a late game duo acceptable? | I usually play with a group of 2-5, and one of the group is usually a ADC (and usually the same person every time) so we can do a bit more coordination that usual. The only problem is we're just hitting lvl 30 (which, for some in the group, including the ADC, is the first time.) We've been focusing on more teamplay stuff than farming mechanics, so last hitting is still at "will turn people into lee sin it's so bad" levels, but hopefully it gets better once we start with replays and more of a focus on mechanics and such.
It really sucks that we usually play fewer hypercarry lanes (because reasons) and as a result when we get DK against a Vayne super early I'm like "So what do we do now?" Do we just let her out farm us, and pray the other 2 lanes do better? (I'm personally not a fan of calling the jungle to a losing lane, usually your're wasting a good gank elsewhere for nothing + the chance of feeding a triple and just /ff ing faster.)
It's probably #under30problems, but figured I'd give them a shot. Your advice helps a lot (thought I personally feel that when I'm farming under tower I'm forced to pick between getting poked or just afk farming.) Either way though I still feel like we're letting the snowball continue, and unless we have a duo that can stop it late game (which we usually don't) I just feel like we're throwing the game still.
TL;DR: Question: Is being down as a early game duo vs. a late game duo acceptable?
| summonerschool | t5_2t9x3 | cka27oa | I usually play with a group of 2-5, and one of the group is usually a ADC (and usually the same person every time) so we can do a bit more coordination that usual. The only problem is we're just hitting lvl 30 (which, for some in the group, including the ADC, is the first time.) We've been focusing on more teamplay stuff than farming mechanics, so last hitting is still at "will turn people into lee sin it's so bad" levels, but hopefully it gets better once we start with replays and more of a focus on mechanics and such.
It really sucks that we usually play fewer hypercarry lanes (because reasons) and as a result when we get DK against a Vayne super early I'm like "So what do we do now?" Do we just let her out farm us, and pray the other 2 lanes do better? (I'm personally not a fan of calling the jungle to a losing lane, usually your're wasting a good gank elsewhere for nothing + the chance of feeding a triple and just /ff ing faster.)
It's probably #under30problems, but figured I'd give them a shot. Your advice helps a lot (thought I personally feel that when I'm farming under tower I'm forced to pick between getting poked or just afk farming.) Either way though I still feel like we're letting the snowball continue, and unless we have a duo that can stop it late game (which we usually don't) I just feel like we're throwing the game still. | Question: Is being down as a early game duo vs. a late game duo acceptable? |
hectic32 | I'm not a Christian, obviously, but I think the Bible is pretty clear about there being a conscious existence after death. Every reference to sleep in the context of death is purely a matter of appearance, because a dead body looks as though it's sleeping; it doesn't speak to the experience of the dead. The scriptures used to explain the "sleeping" condition of the dead are misunderstood and removed from their context.
> And when Jesus awakened Lazarus from his sleep of death, the Bible says, ‘The man who had died came forth’ (John 11:44 NASB). It does not say that he who was in hell or heaven returned
Since, at this point, the all who died went nowhere but Hades upon their death (compare Luke 16:19-31), to say that Lazarus returned from heaven or hell would certainly have been wrong.
>The Bible makes it clear that death is an unconscious sleep. It says the dead do not have awareness of anything - ‘the dead know nothing’ (Ecclesiastes 9:5)
Ecclesiastes is an interesting book that should be understood as a whole. Many, myself included, think that its purpose is to contrast uninspired human viewpoints with divine wisdom, and to that end it gives a glimpse of both. If you take Ecclesiastes 9 at face value and remove it from the book's context, it makes no sense with the whole of scripture. For example, Ecclesiastes 9:6, the very next verse, basically says the dead are gone forever, which contradicts the idea of mankind's future resurrection ever taking place. Backtracking, verse 2 of the same chapter says that "one fate comes to all, to the righteous and the wicked, to the good and the evil," showing no awareness of the eventual judgment that God will have on mankind.
>As a matter of fact, it declares that when a man dies, ‘his breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish’ (Psalm 146:4)
What the Hebrew word for "thoughts" is meant to communicate in this verse is peoples' plans, ambitions, and ideas, not all consciousness in general. Compare how some other popular translations put this verse: *"on that very day their plans come to nothing"* (NIV), *"and all their plans die with them"* (NLT), *"on that very day his plans perish"* (ESV).
As for the later parts speaking of what the soul is, note that it only presents one of the biblical meanings of the term. Soul is used in the Bible to mean "living thing" and also in reference to the immaterial soul/spirit that exists within every person, which is much more than simply a life force. To get an idea of the soul being an "inner man" within a person, consider how the bible says one's soul can be in despair (deut. 28:65), grieved (job 30:25), distressed (gen. 42:21), etc. The idea that the soul is itself all that a person is holds no merit considering the clear distinctions drawn between body and soul is places such as Matthew 10:28. Going further, the Bible gives the clear impression that one's soul consciously outlives the body. For example, Revelations 6:9-10 speaks of the souls of dead people crying out under God's altar; in Acts 7:59, right before Stephen "falls asleep," he calls out to Jesus asking him to "receive my spirit," which would be pointless if the spirit was only a life force, and nonsensical if the spirit was his body that was about to perish; in Philippians 1:21-23, Paul speaks of death as gain, and about his desire to "depart and be with Christ"; in 2 Corinthians 5:6-8, Paul speaks of being "away from the body and at home with the Lord."
**TL:DR** in my opinion, the ideas presented in this article are based on cherry-picked verses and misunderstandings, and are inconsistent with the whole of scripture. If I didn't know any better I'd say that this website is probably run by Jehovah's Witnesses, given its views on soul sleep, hell, Christ's divinity, Christ's death as a ransom, annihilationism, people in the future living in a restored paradise Earth, and from its righteous know-it-all tone. | I'm not a Christian, obviously, but I think the Bible is pretty clear about there being a conscious existence after death. Every reference to sleep in the context of death is purely a matter of appearance, because a dead body looks as though it's sleeping; it doesn't speak to the experience of the dead. The scriptures used to explain the "sleeping" condition of the dead are misunderstood and removed from their context.
> And when Jesus awakened Lazarus from his sleep of death, the Bible says, ‘The man who had died came forth’ (John 11:44 NASB). It does not say that he who was in hell or heaven returned
Since, at this point, the all who died went nowhere but Hades upon their death (compare Luke 16:19-31), to say that Lazarus returned from heaven or hell would certainly have been wrong.
>The Bible makes it clear that death is an unconscious sleep. It says the dead do not have awareness of anything - ‘the dead know nothing’ (Ecclesiastes 9:5)
Ecclesiastes is an interesting book that should be understood as a whole. Many, myself included, think that its purpose is to contrast uninspired human viewpoints with divine wisdom, and to that end it gives a glimpse of both. If you take Ecclesiastes 9 at face value and remove it from the book's context, it makes no sense with the whole of scripture. For example, Ecclesiastes 9:6, the very next verse, basically says the dead are gone forever, which contradicts the idea of mankind's future resurrection ever taking place. Backtracking, verse 2 of the same chapter says that "one fate comes to all, to the righteous and the wicked, to the good and the evil," showing no awareness of the eventual judgment that God will have on mankind.
>As a matter of fact, it declares that when a man dies, ‘his breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish’ (Psalm 146:4)
What the Hebrew word for "thoughts" is meant to communicate in this verse is peoples' plans, ambitions, and ideas, not all consciousness in general. Compare how some other popular translations put this verse: "on that very day their plans come to nothing" (NIV), "and all their plans die with them" (NLT), "on that very day his plans perish" (ESV).
As for the later parts speaking of what the soul is, note that it only presents one of the biblical meanings of the term. Soul is used in the Bible to mean "living thing" and also in reference to the immaterial soul/spirit that exists within every person, which is much more than simply a life force. To get an idea of the soul being an "inner man" within a person, consider how the bible says one's soul can be in despair (deut. 28:65), grieved (job 30:25), distressed (gen. 42:21), etc. The idea that the soul is itself all that a person is holds no merit considering the clear distinctions drawn between body and soul is places such as Matthew 10:28. Going further, the Bible gives the clear impression that one's soul consciously outlives the body. For example, Revelations 6:9-10 speaks of the souls of dead people crying out under God's altar; in Acts 7:59, right before Stephen "falls asleep," he calls out to Jesus asking him to "receive my spirit," which would be pointless if the spirit was only a life force, and nonsensical if the spirit was his body that was about to perish; in Philippians 1:21-23, Paul speaks of death as gain, and about his desire to "depart and be with Christ"; in 2 Corinthians 5:6-8, Paul speaks of being "away from the body and at home with the Lord."
TL:DR in my opinion, the ideas presented in this article are based on cherry-picked verses and misunderstandings, and are inconsistent with the whole of scripture. If I didn't know any better I'd say that this website is probably run by Jehovah's Witnesses, given its views on soul sleep, hell, Christ's divinity, Christ's death as a ransom, annihilationism, people in the future living in a restored paradise Earth, and from its righteous know-it-all tone.
| Christianity | t5_2qh6c | ck9gv4o | I'm not a Christian, obviously, but I think the Bible is pretty clear about there being a conscious existence after death. Every reference to sleep in the context of death is purely a matter of appearance, because a dead body looks as though it's sleeping; it doesn't speak to the experience of the dead. The scriptures used to explain the "sleeping" condition of the dead are misunderstood and removed from their context.
> And when Jesus awakened Lazarus from his sleep of death, the Bible says, ‘The man who had died came forth’ (John 11:44 NASB). It does not say that he who was in hell or heaven returned
Since, at this point, the all who died went nowhere but Hades upon their death (compare Luke 16:19-31), to say that Lazarus returned from heaven or hell would certainly have been wrong.
>The Bible makes it clear that death is an unconscious sleep. It says the dead do not have awareness of anything - ‘the dead know nothing’ (Ecclesiastes 9:5)
Ecclesiastes is an interesting book that should be understood as a whole. Many, myself included, think that its purpose is to contrast uninspired human viewpoints with divine wisdom, and to that end it gives a glimpse of both. If you take Ecclesiastes 9 at face value and remove it from the book's context, it makes no sense with the whole of scripture. For example, Ecclesiastes 9:6, the very next verse, basically says the dead are gone forever, which contradicts the idea of mankind's future resurrection ever taking place. Backtracking, verse 2 of the same chapter says that "one fate comes to all, to the righteous and the wicked, to the good and the evil," showing no awareness of the eventual judgment that God will have on mankind.
>As a matter of fact, it declares that when a man dies, ‘his breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish’ (Psalm 146:4)
What the Hebrew word for "thoughts" is meant to communicate in this verse is peoples' plans, ambitions, and ideas, not all consciousness in general. Compare how some other popular translations put this verse: "on that very day their plans come to nothing" (NIV), "and all their plans die with them" (NLT), "on that very day his plans perish" (ESV).
As for the later parts speaking of what the soul is, note that it only presents one of the biblical meanings of the term. Soul is used in the Bible to mean "living thing" and also in reference to the immaterial soul/spirit that exists within every person, which is much more than simply a life force. To get an idea of the soul being an "inner man" within a person, consider how the bible says one's soul can be in despair (deut. 28:65), grieved (job 30:25), distressed (gen. 42:21), etc. The idea that the soul is itself all that a person is holds no merit considering the clear distinctions drawn between body and soul is places such as Matthew 10:28. Going further, the Bible gives the clear impression that one's soul consciously outlives the body. For example, Revelations 6:9-10 speaks of the souls of dead people crying out under God's altar; in Acts 7:59, right before Stephen "falls asleep," he calls out to Jesus asking him to "receive my spirit," which would be pointless if the spirit was only a life force, and nonsensical if the spirit was his body that was about to perish; in Philippians 1:21-23, Paul speaks of death as gain, and about his desire to "depart and be with Christ"; in 2 Corinthians 5:6-8, Paul speaks of being "away from the body and at home with the Lord." | in my opinion, the ideas presented in this article are based on cherry-picked verses and misunderstandings, and are inconsistent with the whole of scripture. If I didn't know any better I'd say that this website is probably run by Jehovah's Witnesses, given its views on soul sleep, hell, Christ's divinity, Christ's death as a ransom, annihilationism, people in the future living in a restored paradise Earth, and from its righteous know-it-all tone. |
hehehehehehe1 | If this is the same poll I've seen floating around the Internet (I assume it is since it looks to be the same), this has been around for a while. It's not incorrect because they're biased; it's incorrect because it was an online poll. If an online poll is conducted, even if you get 1,000 people to vote in it, it won't be representative of the general population. One can easily post something on Reddit or another site, people can see it, and then the poll can easily be spammed with too many pro or anti voters. Phone polls are much more representative because the statisticians who create them try to get representative samples of the population they're polling from.
tl;dr: It's an online poll and online polls suck. | If this is the same poll I've seen floating around the Internet (I assume it is since it looks to be the same), this has been around for a while. It's not incorrect because they're biased; it's incorrect because it was an online poll. If an online poll is conducted, even if you get 1,000 people to vote in it, it won't be representative of the general population. One can easily post something on Reddit or another site, people can see it, and then the poll can easily be spammed with too many pro or anti voters. Phone polls are much more representative because the statisticians who create them try to get representative samples of the population they're polling from.
tl;dr: It's an online poll and online polls suck.
| trees | t5_2r9vp | ck9figo | If this is the same poll I've seen floating around the Internet (I assume it is since it looks to be the same), this has been around for a while. It's not incorrect because they're biased; it's incorrect because it was an online poll. If an online poll is conducted, even if you get 1,000 people to vote in it, it won't be representative of the general population. One can easily post something on Reddit or another site, people can see it, and then the poll can easily be spammed with too many pro or anti voters. Phone polls are much more representative because the statisticians who create them try to get representative samples of the population they're polling from. | It's an online poll and online polls suck. |
iamroth | I once ran out of toilet paper at school... I didn't wanna smear shit all over my ass cheeks going to the next stall... I waited and waited... No one came. So, I dug in my pocket and realized that I had a knife. I looked at my pants around my ankles and immediately noticed the pockets. I never used the back pockets on those shorts because they had buttons closing them. So I ended up cutting the pocket out and using that to wipe my ass. It was so soft.
TL;DR - I cut the pockets out of my pants to wipe my ass when I ran out of toilet paper.
| I once ran out of toilet paper at school... I didn't wanna smear shit all over my ass cheeks going to the next stall... I waited and waited... No one came. So, I dug in my pocket and realized that I had a knife. I looked at my pants around my ankles and immediately noticed the pockets. I never used the back pockets on those shorts because they had buttons closing them. So I ended up cutting the pocket out and using that to wipe my ass. It was so soft.
TL;DR - I cut the pockets out of my pants to wipe my ass when I ran out of toilet paper.
| Showerthoughts | t5_2szyo | ck9netc | I once ran out of toilet paper at school... I didn't wanna smear shit all over my ass cheeks going to the next stall... I waited and waited... No one came. So, I dug in my pocket and realized that I had a knife. I looked at my pants around my ankles and immediately noticed the pockets. I never used the back pockets on those shorts because they had buttons closing them. So I ended up cutting the pocket out and using that to wipe my ass. It was so soft. | I cut the pockets out of my pants to wipe my ass when I ran out of toilet paper. |
angrynrdrckr | Any firm worth working for is going to do a fairly extensive background check after a verbal offer and before an offer in writing. You're going to have to tell them at some point, so when they ask you need to be forthcoming. This is especially true if you applied under the premise of being currently employed. Some of these firms may not have brought you in to interview if you had been unemployed.
TL;DR - They're going to find out either way. | Any firm worth working for is going to do a fairly extensive background check after a verbal offer and before an offer in writing. You're going to have to tell them at some point, so when they ask you need to be forthcoming. This is especially true if you applied under the premise of being currently employed. Some of these firms may not have brought you in to interview if you had been unemployed.
TL;DR - They're going to find out either way.
| FinancialCareers | t5_2scvl | ckeuj6j | Any firm worth working for is going to do a fairly extensive background check after a verbal offer and before an offer in writing. You're going to have to tell them at some point, so when they ask you need to be forthcoming. This is especially true if you applied under the premise of being currently employed. Some of these firms may not have brought you in to interview if you had been unemployed. | They're going to find out either way. |
Ligno | Some of my previous comments on this issue:
The whole net neutrality debate is a farce. The entire situation has been enabled by government granted monopolies and virtually no one in the liberal camp acknowledges it or if they do, they say that changing local government policies is too hard, thus we need a national government policy to "fix" the problem. Not that the federal government hasn't contributed to the problem, what with the FCC and all the market distortions they advocate/create.
Let me elaborate where I stand on this issue. In order for many things on the internet to work the way we expect them to, certain things need guaranteed bandwidth and low levels of packet loss (VoIP/VTC/Online Games/anything time sensitive). Other things, such as video streaming will not suffer as long as the packet loss is managable and the total bandwidth available is sufficient(This is where Netflix is having issues, the total bw is not sufficient). Other services will function very well in medium packet loss environments with reduced bandwidth(HTTP). Other services, as long as the user is not in a hurry, do not care if the BW is low or the packet loss is high, they will eventually transfer the needed date.
There are QoS and dedicated circuits/bandwidth at all levels of the internet and it depends mightily on the needs of the customer.
VoIP often comes into major ISPs on dedicated trunks because it is the most sensitive to packetloss and generally needs a fairly fixed bandwidth. Gamers require low packetloss and highly variable bandwidth, they much prefer that their game traffic to XBL goes over an uncongested link. ISPs that care about retaining customers that use time and bandwidth sensitive applications will adjust their network architecture to optimize the quality of the services it things will have the greatest net benefit to optimize for.
The problem we run into is that there is vanishing little competition for the last mile connection. This is thanks to local governments giving monopolies to cable/phone providers and not allowing competitors to come in. There could be a great deal of Wireless based competition, but those "rights-of-way" were sold mostly to the cell carriers, additionally there is only a finite amount of spectrum suitable for terrestrial PTP/PTMP/Broadcast use.
The cable companies have historically been sitting on a data capacity goldmine. RG6 Coax that they use carries signals ranging from 400MHz to 1100MHz. DOCSIS 3.1 modulation techniques, if allowed to use the full bandwidth available, can pump over 6Gbps down these coax lines, if the cable company wanted. Since a single CMTS(with a fiber backhaul to the CO) only serves a smaller group of customers (Typically under 200 homes), a cable company could theoretically give each customer a dedicated 30MBps circuit. With the nature of how data is used(typically in large bursts with long idle times), there is a massive amount of local bandwidth available. It would be very tempting for a competitor to come along, pay for right's of way and lay their own Coax/Fiber, starting with the more dense neighborhoods and then expanding where it makes economic sense. A new competitor may decide to forego all traditional CableTV methods and have their entire network run IP based utilizing multicast for TV where it makes sense.
My point is that if competition were allowed at the last mile, ISPs that provided crappy service would quickly find themselves with a rapidly shrinking customer base and adjust for what the customer wanted. I would love to be able to use an ISP that said, "Gaming and VoIP/VTC are our number one traffic priority, Streaming/SSH/insert_relatively_time_sensitive_protocol_here is the next highest, HTTP/FTP is the the next, P2P/BitTorrent/etc and everything else unimportant will get best effort." I use BitTorrent quite a bit, but it is rarely time sensitive and would be well worth the tradeoff to guarantee good pings in games and crystal clear, glitch free VoIP and Video Chat.
**tl;dr: The NN debate is stupid, remove the barriers for competition and it will no longer be of any relevance.** | Some of my previous comments on this issue:
The whole net neutrality debate is a farce. The entire situation has been enabled by government granted monopolies and virtually no one in the liberal camp acknowledges it or if they do, they say that changing local government policies is too hard, thus we need a national government policy to "fix" the problem. Not that the federal government hasn't contributed to the problem, what with the FCC and all the market distortions they advocate/create.
Let me elaborate where I stand on this issue. In order for many things on the internet to work the way we expect them to, certain things need guaranteed bandwidth and low levels of packet loss (VoIP/VTC/Online Games/anything time sensitive). Other things, such as video streaming will not suffer as long as the packet loss is managable and the total bandwidth available is sufficient(This is where Netflix is having issues, the total bw is not sufficient). Other services will function very well in medium packet loss environments with reduced bandwidth(HTTP). Other services, as long as the user is not in a hurry, do not care if the BW is low or the packet loss is high, they will eventually transfer the needed date.
There are QoS and dedicated circuits/bandwidth at all levels of the internet and it depends mightily on the needs of the customer.
VoIP often comes into major ISPs on dedicated trunks because it is the most sensitive to packetloss and generally needs a fairly fixed bandwidth. Gamers require low packetloss and highly variable bandwidth, they much prefer that their game traffic to XBL goes over an uncongested link. ISPs that care about retaining customers that use time and bandwidth sensitive applications will adjust their network architecture to optimize the quality of the services it things will have the greatest net benefit to optimize for.
The problem we run into is that there is vanishing little competition for the last mile connection. This is thanks to local governments giving monopolies to cable/phone providers and not allowing competitors to come in. There could be a great deal of Wireless based competition, but those "rights-of-way" were sold mostly to the cell carriers, additionally there is only a finite amount of spectrum suitable for terrestrial PTP/PTMP/Broadcast use.
The cable companies have historically been sitting on a data capacity goldmine. RG6 Coax that they use carries signals ranging from 400MHz to 1100MHz. DOCSIS 3.1 modulation techniques, if allowed to use the full bandwidth available, can pump over 6Gbps down these coax lines, if the cable company wanted. Since a single CMTS(with a fiber backhaul to the CO) only serves a smaller group of customers (Typically under 200 homes), a cable company could theoretically give each customer a dedicated 30MBps circuit. With the nature of how data is used(typically in large bursts with long idle times), there is a massive amount of local bandwidth available. It would be very tempting for a competitor to come along, pay for right's of way and lay their own Coax/Fiber, starting with the more dense neighborhoods and then expanding where it makes economic sense. A new competitor may decide to forego all traditional CableTV methods and have their entire network run IP based utilizing multicast for TV where it makes sense.
My point is that if competition were allowed at the last mile, ISPs that provided crappy service would quickly find themselves with a rapidly shrinking customer base and adjust for what the customer wanted. I would love to be able to use an ISP that said, "Gaming and VoIP/VTC are our number one traffic priority, Streaming/SSH/insert_relatively_time_sensitive_protocol_here is the next highest, HTTP/FTP is the the next, P2P/BitTorrent/etc and everything else unimportant will get best effort." I use BitTorrent quite a bit, but it is rarely time sensitive and would be well worth the tradeoff to guarantee good pings in games and crystal clear, glitch free VoIP and Video Chat.
tl;dr: The NN debate is stupid, remove the barriers for competition and it will no longer be of any relevance.
| Anarcho_Capitalism | t5_2qorf | ck9zwks | Some of my previous comments on this issue:
The whole net neutrality debate is a farce. The entire situation has been enabled by government granted monopolies and virtually no one in the liberal camp acknowledges it or if they do, they say that changing local government policies is too hard, thus we need a national government policy to "fix" the problem. Not that the federal government hasn't contributed to the problem, what with the FCC and all the market distortions they advocate/create.
Let me elaborate where I stand on this issue. In order for many things on the internet to work the way we expect them to, certain things need guaranteed bandwidth and low levels of packet loss (VoIP/VTC/Online Games/anything time sensitive). Other things, such as video streaming will not suffer as long as the packet loss is managable and the total bandwidth available is sufficient(This is where Netflix is having issues, the total bw is not sufficient). Other services will function very well in medium packet loss environments with reduced bandwidth(HTTP). Other services, as long as the user is not in a hurry, do not care if the BW is low or the packet loss is high, they will eventually transfer the needed date.
There are QoS and dedicated circuits/bandwidth at all levels of the internet and it depends mightily on the needs of the customer.
VoIP often comes into major ISPs on dedicated trunks because it is the most sensitive to packetloss and generally needs a fairly fixed bandwidth. Gamers require low packetloss and highly variable bandwidth, they much prefer that their game traffic to XBL goes over an uncongested link. ISPs that care about retaining customers that use time and bandwidth sensitive applications will adjust their network architecture to optimize the quality of the services it things will have the greatest net benefit to optimize for.
The problem we run into is that there is vanishing little competition for the last mile connection. This is thanks to local governments giving monopolies to cable/phone providers and not allowing competitors to come in. There could be a great deal of Wireless based competition, but those "rights-of-way" were sold mostly to the cell carriers, additionally there is only a finite amount of spectrum suitable for terrestrial PTP/PTMP/Broadcast use.
The cable companies have historically been sitting on a data capacity goldmine. RG6 Coax that they use carries signals ranging from 400MHz to 1100MHz. DOCSIS 3.1 modulation techniques, if allowed to use the full bandwidth available, can pump over 6Gbps down these coax lines, if the cable company wanted. Since a single CMTS(with a fiber backhaul to the CO) only serves a smaller group of customers (Typically under 200 homes), a cable company could theoretically give each customer a dedicated 30MBps circuit. With the nature of how data is used(typically in large bursts with long idle times), there is a massive amount of local bandwidth available. It would be very tempting for a competitor to come along, pay for right's of way and lay their own Coax/Fiber, starting with the more dense neighborhoods and then expanding where it makes economic sense. A new competitor may decide to forego all traditional CableTV methods and have their entire network run IP based utilizing multicast for TV where it makes sense.
My point is that if competition were allowed at the last mile, ISPs that provided crappy service would quickly find themselves with a rapidly shrinking customer base and adjust for what the customer wanted. I would love to be able to use an ISP that said, "Gaming and VoIP/VTC are our number one traffic priority, Streaming/SSH/insert_relatively_time_sensitive_protocol_here is the next highest, HTTP/FTP is the the next, P2P/BitTorrent/etc and everything else unimportant will get best effort." I use BitTorrent quite a bit, but it is rarely time sensitive and would be well worth the tradeoff to guarantee good pings in games and crystal clear, glitch free VoIP and Video Chat. | The NN debate is stupid, remove the barriers for competition and it will no longer be of any relevance. |
5aiah | There's no point to saying they were black if it doesn't help find them, it actually hinders any investigation and hotlines/tips because the city is majority black, this was seen on the Wire. It's not that your racist, its that you are being racial about it when that has nothing to do with it. When a white kid has committed a crime they absolutely do not say a white or Caucasian youth most of the time. That is so rare and is actually BS, the ones I read they don't mention the race at all. Either way the point is to not use any of those descriptions at all because they have no bearing on the crime and they sometimes lead to people being to lax in regards to who commits what type of crimes. I remember when the Sniper attacks were happening and everyone was so sure it was a lonely white guy because they are usually serial killers. Urban youths is fine because it applies to any race or social group of a type, its just a blanket description for anyone young person in the inner city.
tl;dr Sometimes racist,sometimes racial, always stupid. | There's no point to saying they were black if it doesn't help find them, it actually hinders any investigation and hotlines/tips because the city is majority black, this was seen on the Wire. It's not that your racist, its that you are being racial about it when that has nothing to do with it. When a white kid has committed a crime they absolutely do not say a white or Caucasian youth most of the time. That is so rare and is actually BS, the ones I read they don't mention the race at all. Either way the point is to not use any of those descriptions at all because they have no bearing on the crime and they sometimes lead to people being to lax in regards to who commits what type of crimes. I remember when the Sniper attacks were happening and everyone was so sure it was a lonely white guy because they are usually serial killers. Urban youths is fine because it applies to any race or social group of a type, its just a blanket description for anyone young person in the inner city.
tl;dr Sometimes racist,sometimes racial, always stupid.
| baltimore | t5_2qipq | cka4eri | There's no point to saying they were black if it doesn't help find them, it actually hinders any investigation and hotlines/tips because the city is majority black, this was seen on the Wire. It's not that your racist, its that you are being racial about it when that has nothing to do with it. When a white kid has committed a crime they absolutely do not say a white or Caucasian youth most of the time. That is so rare and is actually BS, the ones I read they don't mention the race at all. Either way the point is to not use any of those descriptions at all because they have no bearing on the crime and they sometimes lead to people being to lax in regards to who commits what type of crimes. I remember when the Sniper attacks were happening and everyone was so sure it was a lonely white guy because they are usually serial killers. Urban youths is fine because it applies to any race or social group of a type, its just a blanket description for anyone young person in the inner city. | Sometimes racist,sometimes racial, always stupid. |
bchah | Apple's knowledge base article on the matter and the relevant parts:
"Apple peripheral devices may request more than 500 mA (Milliamps) at 5 V (Volts) from a port to function or to allow for faster charging... To meet requests for additional power from these Apple peripherals and devices, some Apple computers and displays can provide up to 1100 mA at 5 V through the port to which the Apple peripheral or device is connected... When connected to a computer that supports a connection of 1100 mA at 5 V, the first port on the keyboard to have a device or peripheral connected to it that requests standard 500mA power will receive that power. At that point, 100 mA at 5 V is available through the remaining port on this keyboard. This keyboard does not support extra power out of its two ports simultaneously; it requests extra power from the host computer to provide power out of either one of its two ports, then the second keyboard port receives the standard 500mA."
tl;dr: Apple devices have special power consumption privileges when plugged into Apple devices. They don't want people using 3rd party cables then complaining when the USB hub on their keyboard won't charge their iPhone at proper speed. | Apple's knowledge base article on the matter and the relevant parts:
"Apple peripheral devices may request more than 500 mA (Milliamps) at 5 V (Volts) from a port to function or to allow for faster charging... To meet requests for additional power from these Apple peripherals and devices, some Apple computers and displays can provide up to 1100 mA at 5 V through the port to which the Apple peripheral or device is connected... When connected to a computer that supports a connection of 1100 mA at 5 V, the first port on the keyboard to have a device or peripheral connected to it that requests standard 500mA power will receive that power. At that point, 100 mA at 5 V is available through the remaining port on this keyboard. This keyboard does not support extra power out of its two ports simultaneously; it requests extra power from the host computer to provide power out of either one of its two ports, then the second keyboard port receives the standard 500mA."
tl;dr: Apple devices have special power consumption privileges when plugged into Apple devices. They don't want people using 3rd party cables then complaining when the USB hub on their keyboard won't charge their iPhone at proper speed.
| mildlyinfuriating | t5_2ubgg | ckagjc0 | Apple's knowledge base article on the matter and the relevant parts:
"Apple peripheral devices may request more than 500 mA (Milliamps) at 5 V (Volts) from a port to function or to allow for faster charging... To meet requests for additional power from these Apple peripherals and devices, some Apple computers and displays can provide up to 1100 mA at 5 V through the port to which the Apple peripheral or device is connected... When connected to a computer that supports a connection of 1100 mA at 5 V, the first port on the keyboard to have a device or peripheral connected to it that requests standard 500mA power will receive that power. At that point, 100 mA at 5 V is available through the remaining port on this keyboard. This keyboard does not support extra power out of its two ports simultaneously; it requests extra power from the host computer to provide power out of either one of its two ports, then the second keyboard port receives the standard 500mA." | Apple devices have special power consumption privileges when plugged into Apple devices. They don't want people using 3rd party cables then complaining when the USB hub on their keyboard won't charge their iPhone at proper speed. |
rivermandan | *sigh* it's actually because a passive USB cable won't work properly for many devices if it exceeds a certain length. if they didn't have that divot, they would have countless people asking why their USB powered hard drives aren't working on their macs. for properly extending a USB cable, a USB repeater is the only surefire way to ensure you won;t have issues.
TL:DR: apple is one of those companies that tends to implement design choices for reasons. | sigh it's actually because a passive USB cable won't work properly for many devices if it exceeds a certain length. if they didn't have that divot, they would have countless people asking why their USB powered hard drives aren't working on their macs. for properly extending a USB cable, a USB repeater is the only surefire way to ensure you won;t have issues.
TL:DR: apple is one of those companies that tends to implement design choices for reasons.
| mildlyinfuriating | t5_2ubgg | ckalm54 | sigh it's actually because a passive USB cable won't work properly for many devices if it exceeds a certain length. if they didn't have that divot, they would have countless people asking why their USB powered hard drives aren't working on their macs. for properly extending a USB cable, a USB repeater is the only surefire way to ensure you won;t have issues. | apple is one of those companies that tends to implement design choices for reasons. |
NateThomas1979 | 1.) PvP is the only true way to do an MMO. I've played a lot of MMOs and the one consistent thing to me is that PvP removes those that really want a more Single Player game feel than a MMO. Generally there is only so many times you can run an instance, and so much gear that you can get before you are fully capped on all of it and have to wait. But with PvP there is ALWAYS someone new to kill, always something out there to challenge you. It provides continually new content vs. rehashing the same thing over and over again.
2.) Signature powers are whatever you make of them. Sure rogues generally have stealth, but going "gimme all my good stuff early!" makes you seem petty...
3.& 4.) You say in 3 that you find yourself facing the wrong direction and then blame healers for being severely underpowered. It sounds to me like perhaps you might have been taking a little bit too much damage or not engaging enemies properly. You didn't roll a healer but you are sure that they are underpowered? Are you positive about that or is this just because in your runs they weren't able to heal you so well?
5.) You are really complaining about a ton of variability? I really don't know what to say about this. It's one of the best aspects of the game. That you can have 20 mages and they all don't have 6/11/11 or whatever the flavor of the month is. They each have abilities that fit to their particular play style. If you are not capable of developing a play style that fits to what you are trying to do in the game, then I doubt that there is any way to fix that.
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TL:DR - I feel that perhaps the issue to you is that this game is different in a lot of ways from your standard MMO. But if your definition of 'westernization' is making a MMO that is easy to play and easy to win at... I'm thinking it might not be the best game for you. | 1.) PvP is the only true way to do an MMO. I've played a lot of MMOs and the one consistent thing to me is that PvP removes those that really want a more Single Player game feel than a MMO. Generally there is only so many times you can run an instance, and so much gear that you can get before you are fully capped on all of it and have to wait. But with PvP there is ALWAYS someone new to kill, always something out there to challenge you. It provides continually new content vs. rehashing the same thing over and over again.
2.) Signature powers are whatever you make of them. Sure rogues generally have stealth, but going "gimme all my good stuff early!" makes you seem petty...
3.& 4.) You say in 3 that you find yourself facing the wrong direction and then blame healers for being severely underpowered. It sounds to me like perhaps you might have been taking a little bit too much damage or not engaging enemies properly. You didn't roll a healer but you are sure that they are underpowered? Are you positive about that or is this just because in your runs they weren't able to heal you so well?
5.) You are really complaining about a ton of variability? I really don't know what to say about this. It's one of the best aspects of the game. That you can have 20 mages and they all don't have 6/11/11 or whatever the flavor of the month is. They each have abilities that fit to their particular play style. If you are not capable of developing a play style that fits to what you are trying to do in the game, then I doubt that there is any way to fix that.
TL:DR - I feel that perhaps the issue to you is that this game is different in a lot of ways from your standard MMO. But if your definition of 'westernization' is making a MMO that is easy to play and easy to win at... I'm thinking it might not be the best game for you.
| archeage | t5_2sf59 | ckahmjh | 1.) PvP is the only true way to do an MMO. I've played a lot of MMOs and the one consistent thing to me is that PvP removes those that really want a more Single Player game feel than a MMO. Generally there is only so many times you can run an instance, and so much gear that you can get before you are fully capped on all of it and have to wait. But with PvP there is ALWAYS someone new to kill, always something out there to challenge you. It provides continually new content vs. rehashing the same thing over and over again.
2.) Signature powers are whatever you make of them. Sure rogues generally have stealth, but going "gimme all my good stuff early!" makes you seem petty...
3.& 4.) You say in 3 that you find yourself facing the wrong direction and then blame healers for being severely underpowered. It sounds to me like perhaps you might have been taking a little bit too much damage or not engaging enemies properly. You didn't roll a healer but you are sure that they are underpowered? Are you positive about that or is this just because in your runs they weren't able to heal you so well?
5.) You are really complaining about a ton of variability? I really don't know what to say about this. It's one of the best aspects of the game. That you can have 20 mages and they all don't have 6/11/11 or whatever the flavor of the month is. They each have abilities that fit to their particular play style. If you are not capable of developing a play style that fits to what you are trying to do in the game, then I doubt that there is any way to fix that. | I feel that perhaps the issue to you is that this game is different in a lot of ways from your standard MMO. But if your definition of 'westernization' is making a MMO that is easy to play and easy to win at... I'm thinking it might not be the best game for you. |
freakorgeek | High dose cannabis can often cause really strange effects because it so easily confuses you, you tend to make connections and assumptions way too easily. On a moderate dose the whole universe makes sense, but on an extreme dose somehow thinking you're the *one* person to actually fatally overdose person in the billions of people that have used it makes perfect sense.
The first time I got high it was on an edible that contained about 18mg THC (ie, super high edible dose for the first time, like 4 times less woulda been better). I seriously thought my heart was beating at 250+ BPM, because I was accidentally counting both pumps of the heart, instead of just one. So I could see how you could have thought you were seeing at 1 fps, but in actuality you were blinking your eyes without knowing it, or something to that effect. You catch my drift?
TL;DR: Cannabis gets really unpredictable at high doses. | High dose cannabis can often cause really strange effects because it so easily confuses you, you tend to make connections and assumptions way too easily. On a moderate dose the whole universe makes sense, but on an extreme dose somehow thinking you're the one person to actually fatally overdose person in the billions of people that have used it makes perfect sense.
The first time I got high it was on an edible that contained about 18mg THC (ie, super high edible dose for the first time, like 4 times less woulda been better). I seriously thought my heart was beating at 250+ BPM, because I was accidentally counting both pumps of the heart, instead of just one. So I could see how you could have thought you were seeing at 1 fps, but in actuality you were blinking your eyes without knowing it, or something to that effect. You catch my drift?
TL;DR: Cannabis gets really unpredictable at high doses.
| Drugs | t5_2qh7l | ckajium | High dose cannabis can often cause really strange effects because it so easily confuses you, you tend to make connections and assumptions way too easily. On a moderate dose the whole universe makes sense, but on an extreme dose somehow thinking you're the one person to actually fatally overdose person in the billions of people that have used it makes perfect sense.
The first time I got high it was on an edible that contained about 18mg THC (ie, super high edible dose for the first time, like 4 times less woulda been better). I seriously thought my heart was beating at 250+ BPM, because I was accidentally counting both pumps of the heart, instead of just one. So I could see how you could have thought you were seeing at 1 fps, but in actuality you were blinking your eyes without knowing it, or something to that effect. You catch my drift? | Cannabis gets really unpredictable at high doses. |
janork1 | I'll try and explain it the best I can. Flash and Professor Zoom exist because of each other, Zoom killed his Mum which caused Barry to go into police work and get struck by lightning and become the Flash which in turn made Zoom. When the Flash stopped Zoom from killing his mother, it caused sought of a paradox, how can Barry stop Zoom if he never became the Flash in the first place? All of this plus the time boom must have caused a distortion in time where Barry never got his powers but Zoom did. Another key point that may be important is that Professor Zoom has his own Speed force that he can use as well as the regular one I think.
TL;DR: Speed force shenanigans | I'll try and explain it the best I can. Flash and Professor Zoom exist because of each other, Zoom killed his Mum which caused Barry to go into police work and get struck by lightning and become the Flash which in turn made Zoom. When the Flash stopped Zoom from killing his mother, it caused sought of a paradox, how can Barry stop Zoom if he never became the Flash in the first place? All of this plus the time boom must have caused a distortion in time where Barry never got his powers but Zoom did. Another key point that may be important is that Professor Zoom has his own Speed force that he can use as well as the regular one I think.
TL;DR: Speed force shenanigans
| AskScienceFiction | t5_2slu2 | ckbhsol | I'll try and explain it the best I can. Flash and Professor Zoom exist because of each other, Zoom killed his Mum which caused Barry to go into police work and get struck by lightning and become the Flash which in turn made Zoom. When the Flash stopped Zoom from killing his mother, it caused sought of a paradox, how can Barry stop Zoom if he never became the Flash in the first place? All of this plus the time boom must have caused a distortion in time where Barry never got his powers but Zoom did. Another key point that may be important is that Professor Zoom has his own Speed force that he can use as well as the regular one I think. | Speed force shenanigans |
JeddakofThark | You've created an account specifically to argue against net neutrality. I find that odd.
**Edit:** There are most definitely accounts on Reddit specifically created to muddy the waters around net neutrality. The problem is that you don't want to start a witch hunt in trying to figure out which accounts those are. Now, if the guys being paid to do this are clever, they'll have accounts that spend most of their time being all reasonable about all sorts of topics and only talk about net neutrality occasionally.
Then there's this guy. Someone like cray5 might be just a troll. It's also possible that for whatever reason he's just an ordinary user who honestly dislikes net neutrality and feels so strongly about it that he created an account just to attack it. It's also possible he's a paid shill.
His use of "strawman" and "cognitive dissonance" shows his knowledge of standard internet argument. But also notice his comparing net neutrality supporters to the Bush administration and its fabrication of evidence to invade Iraq (twice), to the anti-gay marriage crowd, and to Obama "birthers." These are things specifically meant to insult Reddit users and left leaning people broadly. He also talks about net neutrality supporters as "ideologues," which I think falls flat, but to the ears of a certain group of anti-Bush people, would sound very insulting. These are all non sequiturs and they read to me like specific points in some white paper about muddying the waters in online discussion about net neutrality.
This single case is of no meaning, but let's also look for these specific sets of arguments (and those like them) in future net neutrality discussions and see if they reappear.
*TL;DR* Read cray5's previous comments and look for others like them in future net neutrality discussions. They're strange non sequiturs that seem specifically designed to muddy the waters and derail real discussion. Not that we do much more than circle jerking on this subject, but I don't want none of them damn Comcast employees interrupting it. | You've created an account specifically to argue against net neutrality. I find that odd.
Edit: There are most definitely accounts on Reddit specifically created to muddy the waters around net neutrality. The problem is that you don't want to start a witch hunt in trying to figure out which accounts those are. Now, if the guys being paid to do this are clever, they'll have accounts that spend most of their time being all reasonable about all sorts of topics and only talk about net neutrality occasionally.
Then there's this guy. Someone like cray5 might be just a troll. It's also possible that for whatever reason he's just an ordinary user who honestly dislikes net neutrality and feels so strongly about it that he created an account just to attack it. It's also possible he's a paid shill.
His use of "strawman" and "cognitive dissonance" shows his knowledge of standard internet argument. But also notice his comparing net neutrality supporters to the Bush administration and its fabrication of evidence to invade Iraq (twice), to the anti-gay marriage crowd, and to Obama "birthers." These are things specifically meant to insult Reddit users and left leaning people broadly. He also talks about net neutrality supporters as "ideologues," which I think falls flat, but to the ears of a certain group of anti-Bush people, would sound very insulting. These are all non sequiturs and they read to me like specific points in some white paper about muddying the waters in online discussion about net neutrality.
This single case is of no meaning, but let's also look for these specific sets of arguments (and those like them) in future net neutrality discussions and see if they reappear.
TL;DR Read cray5's previous comments and look for others like them in future net neutrality discussions. They're strange non sequiturs that seem specifically designed to muddy the waters and derail real discussion. Not that we do much more than circle jerking on this subject, but I don't want none of them damn Comcast employees interrupting it.
| InternetIsBeautiful | t5_2ul7u | ckbl6ct | You've created an account specifically to argue against net neutrality. I find that odd.
Edit: There are most definitely accounts on Reddit specifically created to muddy the waters around net neutrality. The problem is that you don't want to start a witch hunt in trying to figure out which accounts those are. Now, if the guys being paid to do this are clever, they'll have accounts that spend most of their time being all reasonable about all sorts of topics and only talk about net neutrality occasionally.
Then there's this guy. Someone like cray5 might be just a troll. It's also possible that for whatever reason he's just an ordinary user who honestly dislikes net neutrality and feels so strongly about it that he created an account just to attack it. It's also possible he's a paid shill.
His use of "strawman" and "cognitive dissonance" shows his knowledge of standard internet argument. But also notice his comparing net neutrality supporters to the Bush administration and its fabrication of evidence to invade Iraq (twice), to the anti-gay marriage crowd, and to Obama "birthers." These are things specifically meant to insult Reddit users and left leaning people broadly. He also talks about net neutrality supporters as "ideologues," which I think falls flat, but to the ears of a certain group of anti-Bush people, would sound very insulting. These are all non sequiturs and they read to me like specific points in some white paper about muddying the waters in online discussion about net neutrality.
This single case is of no meaning, but let's also look for these specific sets of arguments (and those like them) in future net neutrality discussions and see if they reappear. | Read cray5's previous comments and look for others like them in future net neutrality discussions. They're strange non sequiturs that seem specifically designed to muddy the waters and derail real discussion. Not that we do much more than circle jerking on this subject, but I don't want none of them damn Comcast employees interrupting it. |
Themembers93 | I, too have a BSc in Computer Networks. I grow tired explaining the concepts of prioritization/QoS, generalized routing, transit/cdn/peering, and theoretical bandwidth vs goodput and how they are all important aspects that work against the layman concept of Network Neutrality.
Right now people/groups/whomever want to frame the debate publicly make Net Neutrality mean that a person can stream unlimited amounts or Netflix over poor signal strength "WiFis" and the magic internet box is required to make it work. It is as though the group of people behind this is deliberately oversimplifying the entire field and theory of network engineering to gain public support.
TL;DR - this site is a beautifully crafted lie and whomever is responsible should know better. | I, too have a BSc in Computer Networks. I grow tired explaining the concepts of prioritization/QoS, generalized routing, transit/cdn/peering, and theoretical bandwidth vs goodput and how they are all important aspects that work against the layman concept of Network Neutrality.
Right now people/groups/whomever want to frame the debate publicly make Net Neutrality mean that a person can stream unlimited amounts or Netflix over poor signal strength "WiFis" and the magic internet box is required to make it work. It is as though the group of people behind this is deliberately oversimplifying the entire field and theory of network engineering to gain public support.
TL;DR - this site is a beautifully crafted lie and whomever is responsible should know better.
| InternetIsBeautiful | t5_2ul7u | ckbng3z | I, too have a BSc in Computer Networks. I grow tired explaining the concepts of prioritization/QoS, generalized routing, transit/cdn/peering, and theoretical bandwidth vs goodput and how they are all important aspects that work against the layman concept of Network Neutrality.
Right now people/groups/whomever want to frame the debate publicly make Net Neutrality mean that a person can stream unlimited amounts or Netflix over poor signal strength "WiFis" and the magic internet box is required to make it work. It is as though the group of people behind this is deliberately oversimplifying the entire field and theory of network engineering to gain public support. | this site is a beautifully crafted lie and whomever is responsible should know better. |
Ravanas | As somebody who has organized a couple of (albeit small) protests, I looked into my local laws on the subject of permits. Where I live, if you aren't expecting more than 1,000 people, and aren't selling food, there is no permit requirement. However, you must also not block pedestrian or road traffic. If you plan to do any of those things (have more than 1k people, sell food, or block traffic) you need a permit.
The permit is basically a notification to local government of what you intend to do and their acknowledgement of the same so they can properly ensure public safety of protesters and non protesters alike. If you intend to have a large gathering, they want to make sure the police have the manpower to deal with any potential issues. If you intend to take up a street, they need to know about it so they can reroute traffic (so people not involved can still get to their destination, and you don't get run the fuck over). If you intend to sell food, they need to make sure it's safe. *<edit>Not that many protests sell food, but the laws cover gatherings of people in public spaces, not specifically protests.</edit>*
Now, don't get me wrong, sometimes things go overboard when it comes to permits and regulation of protests. For instance the so-called "free speech zones" so famously used at the 2004 Republican National Convention in NYC and the recent Bundy Ranch flap in Nevada. Although in each case, the idea was protection of people, not silencing speech... even if it had that effect. But even in those cases, the right to peaceably assemble was not denied (yes, I still have a pretty major problem with it). In fact, I would be very interested to know if *any* protest permit has been denied in the US (and why, for that matter).
Whether you agree with the concept or not, I hope at least this explains the concept to you a little better.
TL;DR: public safety. | As somebody who has organized a couple of (albeit small) protests, I looked into my local laws on the subject of permits. Where I live, if you aren't expecting more than 1,000 people, and aren't selling food, there is no permit requirement. However, you must also not block pedestrian or road traffic. If you plan to do any of those things (have more than 1k people, sell food, or block traffic) you need a permit.
The permit is basically a notification to local government of what you intend to do and their acknowledgement of the same so they can properly ensure public safety of protesters and non protesters alike. If you intend to have a large gathering, they want to make sure the police have the manpower to deal with any potential issues. If you intend to take up a street, they need to know about it so they can reroute traffic (so people not involved can still get to their destination, and you don't get run the fuck over). If you intend to sell food, they need to make sure it's safe. <edit>Not that many protests sell food, but the laws cover gatherings of people in public spaces, not specifically protests.</edit>
Now, don't get me wrong, sometimes things go overboard when it comes to permits and regulation of protests. For instance the so-called "free speech zones" so famously used at the 2004 Republican National Convention in NYC and the recent Bundy Ranch flap in Nevada. Although in each case, the idea was protection of people, not silencing speech... even if it had that effect. But even in those cases, the right to peaceably assemble was not denied (yes, I still have a pretty major problem with it). In fact, I would be very interested to know if any protest permit has been denied in the US (and why, for that matter).
Whether you agree with the concept or not, I hope at least this explains the concept to you a little better.
TL;DR: public safety.
| InternetIsBeautiful | t5_2ul7u | ckbry8y | As somebody who has organized a couple of (albeit small) protests, I looked into my local laws on the subject of permits. Where I live, if you aren't expecting more than 1,000 people, and aren't selling food, there is no permit requirement. However, you must also not block pedestrian or road traffic. If you plan to do any of those things (have more than 1k people, sell food, or block traffic) you need a permit.
The permit is basically a notification to local government of what you intend to do and their acknowledgement of the same so they can properly ensure public safety of protesters and non protesters alike. If you intend to have a large gathering, they want to make sure the police have the manpower to deal with any potential issues. If you intend to take up a street, they need to know about it so they can reroute traffic (so people not involved can still get to their destination, and you don't get run the fuck over). If you intend to sell food, they need to make sure it's safe. <edit>Not that many protests sell food, but the laws cover gatherings of people in public spaces, not specifically protests.</edit>
Now, don't get me wrong, sometimes things go overboard when it comes to permits and regulation of protests. For instance the so-called "free speech zones" so famously used at the 2004 Republican National Convention in NYC and the recent Bundy Ranch flap in Nevada. Although in each case, the idea was protection of people, not silencing speech... even if it had that effect. But even in those cases, the right to peaceably assemble was not denied (yes, I still have a pretty major problem with it). In fact, I would be very interested to know if any protest permit has been denied in the US (and why, for that matter).
Whether you agree with the concept or not, I hope at least this explains the concept to you a little better. | public safety. |
Fireproofjeans | So you admit PC's are more complicated, then? that's basically all I was going for.
Consoles can get viruses, sure, but they're a lot fewer and further between than PC's. Someone could get a virus in under an hour on a PC, while doing the same on a console would be a feat, or intentional - the number of landmines to avoid are many magnitudes apart.
PC's are more complicated, though. Lets assume for arguments sake that the user has had their PC set up for them, glossing over a multitude of issues those without technical aptitude could find themselves stumbling over - such as drivers.
Purchasing disks in a store? PC may not install correctly if your system doesn't meet minimum specs, or if you use outdated drivers, or it just has a particular issue with a particular part of your computer. Example? Brink, first few months using an AMD GPU. Unlikely? sure, but possible. Console? plug that shit in and enjoy your comparatively mediocre but simple experience.
Buying games online? You still have to worry about system specs and install issues. Steam is pretty damn good, but what if they want Mass Effect 3? they go to Origin. Origin's not bad, but what if they went balls to the walls, and their helpful friend set them up with a 120gig SSD for their C drive, and a couple terabytes for the D? Lets also assume friend was not, in fact, an asshole, and set them up so their libraries and games were all on the D drive so they didn't run out of space in a week?
That's when you get a nice little error that prevents ME3 from authenticating any of your DLC, and restricting your ability to play online. All because some asshat hard-coded the file reference to the C drive instead of using %userdata% or something similar. Source? two hours of me with EA's tech support before I solved the problem via a buried EA help post from last year! XD
Anyways, not even trying to bash on EA here, but there are occasional gotchas that consoles don't often have to deal with due to the mostly standardized hardware. Sure, there's been a few issues on console as well - Skyrim saving on PS4 comes to mind - but PC's generally have more little problems than consoles, and do take a moderately higher level of technical competence to deal with. Not too much higher, mind you, but enough that - for some people - consoles are legitimately better options.
TL,DR: PEBKAC. PC's may be simple to you, but to the average console user? it's like hopping in a ferrari when you're used to an old automatic Toyota. You're going to have a few problems, even with someone there to guide you. | So you admit PC's are more complicated, then? that's basically all I was going for.
Consoles can get viruses, sure, but they're a lot fewer and further between than PC's. Someone could get a virus in under an hour on a PC, while doing the same on a console would be a feat, or intentional - the number of landmines to avoid are many magnitudes apart.
PC's are more complicated, though. Lets assume for arguments sake that the user has had their PC set up for them, glossing over a multitude of issues those without technical aptitude could find themselves stumbling over - such as drivers.
Purchasing disks in a store? PC may not install correctly if your system doesn't meet minimum specs, or if you use outdated drivers, or it just has a particular issue with a particular part of your computer. Example? Brink, first few months using an AMD GPU. Unlikely? sure, but possible. Console? plug that shit in and enjoy your comparatively mediocre but simple experience.
Buying games online? You still have to worry about system specs and install issues. Steam is pretty damn good, but what if they want Mass Effect 3? they go to Origin. Origin's not bad, but what if they went balls to the walls, and their helpful friend set them up with a 120gig SSD for their C drive, and a couple terabytes for the D? Lets also assume friend was not, in fact, an asshole, and set them up so their libraries and games were all on the D drive so they didn't run out of space in a week?
That's when you get a nice little error that prevents ME3 from authenticating any of your DLC, and restricting your ability to play online. All because some asshat hard-coded the file reference to the C drive instead of using %userdata% or something similar. Source? two hours of me with EA's tech support before I solved the problem via a buried EA help post from last year! XD
Anyways, not even trying to bash on EA here, but there are occasional gotchas that consoles don't often have to deal with due to the mostly standardized hardware. Sure, there's been a few issues on console as well - Skyrim saving on PS4 comes to mind - but PC's generally have more little problems than consoles, and do take a moderately higher level of technical competence to deal with. Not too much higher, mind you, but enough that - for some people - consoles are legitimately better options.
TL,DR: PEBKAC. PC's may be simple to you, but to the average console user? it's like hopping in a ferrari when you're used to an old automatic Toyota. You're going to have a few problems, even with someone there to guide you.
| pcmasterrace | t5_2sgp1 | ckc4oj0 | So you admit PC's are more complicated, then? that's basically all I was going for.
Consoles can get viruses, sure, but they're a lot fewer and further between than PC's. Someone could get a virus in under an hour on a PC, while doing the same on a console would be a feat, or intentional - the number of landmines to avoid are many magnitudes apart.
PC's are more complicated, though. Lets assume for arguments sake that the user has had their PC set up for them, glossing over a multitude of issues those without technical aptitude could find themselves stumbling over - such as drivers.
Purchasing disks in a store? PC may not install correctly if your system doesn't meet minimum specs, or if you use outdated drivers, or it just has a particular issue with a particular part of your computer. Example? Brink, first few months using an AMD GPU. Unlikely? sure, but possible. Console? plug that shit in and enjoy your comparatively mediocre but simple experience.
Buying games online? You still have to worry about system specs and install issues. Steam is pretty damn good, but what if they want Mass Effect 3? they go to Origin. Origin's not bad, but what if they went balls to the walls, and their helpful friend set them up with a 120gig SSD for their C drive, and a couple terabytes for the D? Lets also assume friend was not, in fact, an asshole, and set them up so their libraries and games were all on the D drive so they didn't run out of space in a week?
That's when you get a nice little error that prevents ME3 from authenticating any of your DLC, and restricting your ability to play online. All because some asshat hard-coded the file reference to the C drive instead of using %userdata% or something similar. Source? two hours of me with EA's tech support before I solved the problem via a buried EA help post from last year! XD
Anyways, not even trying to bash on EA here, but there are occasional gotchas that consoles don't often have to deal with due to the mostly standardized hardware. Sure, there's been a few issues on console as well - Skyrim saving on PS4 comes to mind - but PC's generally have more little problems than consoles, and do take a moderately higher level of technical competence to deal with. Not too much higher, mind you, but enough that - for some people - consoles are legitimately better options. | PEBKAC. PC's may be simple to you, but to the average console user? it's like hopping in a ferrari when you're used to an old automatic Toyota. You're going to have a few problems, even with someone there to guide you. |
Fusioncore1 | You sir, nailed it (mr. Bay explosion). On the part that nearly everyone starts on a console is so damn in line with my thoughts. When you are young, you don't understand a thing. Consoles are THE option, easy to set up and use! Many a friend likes to play it too with you and BEEEEMMMM best childhood EUW (Gamecube it was for me). Then when you grow up and get in touch with The PC, things change. You get fascinated by the sheer complexity and beauty of the pc. Then things start rolling and your life is over (xD).
By then you see consoles as small things which are capable of nothing, but they actually formed the basis of your love for the pc.
So a little bit of love is appreciated for your childhood!
TL;DR consoles form the basis of your pc fascination. | You sir, nailed it (mr. Bay explosion). On the part that nearly everyone starts on a console is so damn in line with my thoughts. When you are young, you don't understand a thing. Consoles are THE option, easy to set up and use! Many a friend likes to play it too with you and BEEEEMMMM best childhood EUW (Gamecube it was for me). Then when you grow up and get in touch with The PC, things change. You get fascinated by the sheer complexity and beauty of the pc. Then things start rolling and your life is over (xD).
By then you see consoles as small things which are capable of nothing, but they actually formed the basis of your love for the pc.
So a little bit of love is appreciated for your childhood!
TL;DR consoles form the basis of your pc fascination.
| pcmasterrace | t5_2sgp1 | ckbh40q | You sir, nailed it (mr. Bay explosion). On the part that nearly everyone starts on a console is so damn in line with my thoughts. When you are young, you don't understand a thing. Consoles are THE option, easy to set up and use! Many a friend likes to play it too with you and BEEEEMMMM best childhood EUW (Gamecube it was for me). Then when you grow up and get in touch with The PC, things change. You get fascinated by the sheer complexity and beauty of the pc. Then things start rolling and your life is over (xD).
By then you see consoles as small things which are capable of nothing, but they actually formed the basis of your love for the pc.
So a little bit of love is appreciated for your childhood! | consoles form the basis of your pc fascination. |
El-Grunto | I feel like a lot of people that choose consoles over PC are people that just don't know any different - especially the ones that bash PC gaming. I know I was that way. While I never bashed PC gaming since I've loved StarCraft ever since it came out back in the 90s but I never knew how much better gaming on PC was than gaming on my Xbox 360. I think the exception was the Battlefield series. I was well aware that the best experience for that franchise was and is on PC. Another reason why I think people may stick with consoles is because of the exclusive games and that people don't like change.
I had been with Xbox since 2001 and had kept the same Xbox LIVE profile since the Halo 2 days up until June of this year when I refused to renew my membership. I didn't want to leave all the friends I had made over the more than 10 years on XBL. I didn't want to leave my profile and the 100,000 gamerscore milestone that I had spent years to reach but...
The 360 had reached the end of its life cycle - the console is beyond outdated now - and my options were to buy an Xbone (I don't use the term in a negative connotation I just like the sound), buy a PS4, buy a WiiU, build a PC, or stop gaming. This was last summer and the Xbone and PS4 was launching in a few months and at the time Microsoft had screwed themselves in every possible way when it came to interacting with the public. I couldn't get a PS4 because Sony had been the "enemy" since 2001. I know, that's childish of me but it's hard to drop something and change ways after believing it for so long. And a WiiU just wasn't appealing to the hardcore gamer in me and while it's more appealing now I still don't want to pay $300 to play a couple Nintendo exclusive games.
So that left me with build a PC or leave gaming behind. I decided that I couldn't just leave gaming behind since it had been such a huge part of my life for so long and that's when I started building my first computer. It was a modest build - an i7-860 with a GTX 760 in an old Antec 900 and I loved it. I don't know how well I've contributed to this conversation but this is in response to your last paragraph and why I used a console for so long.
TL;DR - used console (Xbox and 360) since 2001 and didn't switch to PC because I had invested so much time into a single XBL profile and Xbox was pretty much all I knew. | I feel like a lot of people that choose consoles over PC are people that just don't know any different - especially the ones that bash PC gaming. I know I was that way. While I never bashed PC gaming since I've loved StarCraft ever since it came out back in the 90s but I never knew how much better gaming on PC was than gaming on my Xbox 360. I think the exception was the Battlefield series. I was well aware that the best experience for that franchise was and is on PC. Another reason why I think people may stick with consoles is because of the exclusive games and that people don't like change.
I had been with Xbox since 2001 and had kept the same Xbox LIVE profile since the Halo 2 days up until June of this year when I refused to renew my membership. I didn't want to leave all the friends I had made over the more than 10 years on XBL. I didn't want to leave my profile and the 100,000 gamerscore milestone that I had spent years to reach but...
The 360 had reached the end of its life cycle - the console is beyond outdated now - and my options were to buy an Xbone (I don't use the term in a negative connotation I just like the sound), buy a PS4, buy a WiiU, build a PC, or stop gaming. This was last summer and the Xbone and PS4 was launching in a few months and at the time Microsoft had screwed themselves in every possible way when it came to interacting with the public. I couldn't get a PS4 because Sony had been the "enemy" since 2001. I know, that's childish of me but it's hard to drop something and change ways after believing it for so long. And a WiiU just wasn't appealing to the hardcore gamer in me and while it's more appealing now I still don't want to pay $300 to play a couple Nintendo exclusive games.
So that left me with build a PC or leave gaming behind. I decided that I couldn't just leave gaming behind since it had been such a huge part of my life for so long and that's when I started building my first computer. It was a modest build - an i7-860 with a GTX 760 in an old Antec 900 and I loved it. I don't know how well I've contributed to this conversation but this is in response to your last paragraph and why I used a console for so long.
TL;DR - used console (Xbox and 360) since 2001 and didn't switch to PC because I had invested so much time into a single XBL profile and Xbox was pretty much all I knew.
| pcmasterrace | t5_2sgp1 | ckbhzg4 | I feel like a lot of people that choose consoles over PC are people that just don't know any different - especially the ones that bash PC gaming. I know I was that way. While I never bashed PC gaming since I've loved StarCraft ever since it came out back in the 90s but I never knew how much better gaming on PC was than gaming on my Xbox 360. I think the exception was the Battlefield series. I was well aware that the best experience for that franchise was and is on PC. Another reason why I think people may stick with consoles is because of the exclusive games and that people don't like change.
I had been with Xbox since 2001 and had kept the same Xbox LIVE profile since the Halo 2 days up until June of this year when I refused to renew my membership. I didn't want to leave all the friends I had made over the more than 10 years on XBL. I didn't want to leave my profile and the 100,000 gamerscore milestone that I had spent years to reach but...
The 360 had reached the end of its life cycle - the console is beyond outdated now - and my options were to buy an Xbone (I don't use the term in a negative connotation I just like the sound), buy a PS4, buy a WiiU, build a PC, or stop gaming. This was last summer and the Xbone and PS4 was launching in a few months and at the time Microsoft had screwed themselves in every possible way when it came to interacting with the public. I couldn't get a PS4 because Sony had been the "enemy" since 2001. I know, that's childish of me but it's hard to drop something and change ways after believing it for so long. And a WiiU just wasn't appealing to the hardcore gamer in me and while it's more appealing now I still don't want to pay $300 to play a couple Nintendo exclusive games.
So that left me with build a PC or leave gaming behind. I decided that I couldn't just leave gaming behind since it had been such a huge part of my life for so long and that's when I started building my first computer. It was a modest build - an i7-860 with a GTX 760 in an old Antec 900 and I loved it. I don't know how well I've contributed to this conversation but this is in response to your last paragraph and why I used a console for so long. | used console (Xbox and 360) since 2001 and didn't switch to PC because I had invested so much time into a single XBL profile and Xbox was pretty much all I knew. |
The_Superginge | You described near enough exactly how I feel.
I played on consoles my whole life. Gaming has and probably will always be my hugest hobby by a long shot.
Even as a young boy, I glanced over at the PC games next to the console games and wondered why they were cheaper. I would pick it up *(we have always had a family computer, and my older brother made sure it was a gaming one, though I had no idea how good or outdated it was)* but looking at the requirements on the back of the case I had no idea what anything meant.
In the last couple of years I decided I would try and learn it, as I had been looking more and more at the amazing graphics and modding ability of PCs. Specifically, TES Oblivion had me. I remember looking up the wiki while playing it on Xbox360, and seeing some screenshots of people **flying on the backs of dragons**!
Now that I have a beastly gaming PC, I'll never go back to consoles *(save the Wii for parties, and so on)*, but I don't regret playing on consoles at all, as if I hadn't I wouldn't have been inspired to **upgrade** to this PC, just like OP puts it.
**TL;DR** -- I played consoles as a kid, didn't understand PC requirements, saw mods for some of my favourite games, decided I had to learn, upgraded to gaming PC. No regrets, but no going back.
PCMR!
EDIT: grammar etc | You described near enough exactly how I feel.
I played on consoles my whole life. Gaming has and probably will always be my hugest hobby by a long shot.
Even as a young boy, I glanced over at the PC games next to the console games and wondered why they were cheaper. I would pick it up (we have always had a family computer, and my older brother made sure it was a gaming one, though I had no idea how good or outdated it was) but looking at the requirements on the back of the case I had no idea what anything meant.
In the last couple of years I decided I would try and learn it, as I had been looking more and more at the amazing graphics and modding ability of PCs. Specifically, TES Oblivion had me. I remember looking up the wiki while playing it on Xbox360, and seeing some screenshots of people flying on the backs of dragons !
Now that I have a beastly gaming PC, I'll never go back to consoles (save the Wii for parties, and so on) , but I don't regret playing on consoles at all, as if I hadn't I wouldn't have been inspired to upgrade to this PC, just like OP puts it.
TL;DR -- I played consoles as a kid, didn't understand PC requirements, saw mods for some of my favourite games, decided I had to learn, upgraded to gaming PC. No regrets, but no going back.
PCMR!
EDIT: grammar etc
| pcmasterrace | t5_2sgp1 | ckch72d | You described near enough exactly how I feel.
I played on consoles my whole life. Gaming has and probably will always be my hugest hobby by a long shot.
Even as a young boy, I glanced over at the PC games next to the console games and wondered why they were cheaper. I would pick it up (we have always had a family computer, and my older brother made sure it was a gaming one, though I had no idea how good or outdated it was) but looking at the requirements on the back of the case I had no idea what anything meant.
In the last couple of years I decided I would try and learn it, as I had been looking more and more at the amazing graphics and modding ability of PCs. Specifically, TES Oblivion had me. I remember looking up the wiki while playing it on Xbox360, and seeing some screenshots of people flying on the backs of dragons !
Now that I have a beastly gaming PC, I'll never go back to consoles (save the Wii for parties, and so on) , but I don't regret playing on consoles at all, as if I hadn't I wouldn't have been inspired to upgrade to this PC, just like OP puts it. | I played consoles as a kid, didn't understand PC requirements, saw mods for some of my favourite games, decided I had to learn, upgraded to gaming PC. No regrets, but no going back.
PCMR!
EDIT: grammar etc |
Danabl | Last summer I thought a Chromebook would be better than an iPad so I sold my iPad 2 and got the Samsung Chromebook. I was wrong. The only thing a Chromebook is better for is typing, but a keyboard case can easily fix that problem. For me, this is what I missed that the iPad did better:
-read comics
-highlight and annotate PDFs
-reddit on the couch
-play games on something bigger than my phone
I ended up ditching the Chromebook this spring and got an iPad Air. I do not regret the decision at all.
Tl;dr...an iPad with a keyboard is better than a Chromebook. | Last summer I thought a Chromebook would be better than an iPad so I sold my iPad 2 and got the Samsung Chromebook. I was wrong. The only thing a Chromebook is better for is typing, but a keyboard case can easily fix that problem. For me, this is what I missed that the iPad did better:
-read comics
-highlight and annotate PDFs
-reddit on the couch
-play games on something bigger than my phone
I ended up ditching the Chromebook this spring and got an iPad Air. I do not regret the decision at all.
Tl;dr...an iPad with a keyboard is better than a Chromebook.
| ipad | t5_2rgny | ckccfyh | Last summer I thought a Chromebook would be better than an iPad so I sold my iPad 2 and got the Samsung Chromebook. I was wrong. The only thing a Chromebook is better for is typing, but a keyboard case can easily fix that problem. For me, this is what I missed that the iPad did better:
-read comics
-highlight and annotate PDFs
-reddit on the couch
-play games on something bigger than my phone
I ended up ditching the Chromebook this spring and got an iPad Air. I do not regret the decision at all. | an iPad with a keyboard is better than a Chromebook. |
whiteylp | My proudest moment was being collected by my dad one time when I was staying at my parents and had gone to watch the champions league semi final at the pub with some friends. Got carried away as usual and don't remember anything. Anyway my dad collected me, and apparently I was carried to the car by an old man I introduced to my dad as "Steve" and expected him to come home with us. Luckily dad said no. The whole way home I asked my dad who he was in if he lived in the area. Upon arriving home I made my dad go back out to search the car to get my phone (which of course I had all along) and when he came back in I was naked in the kitchen holding an empty muller yoghurt pot full of Doritos over the toaster. When he screamed what are you doing I calmly said "making nachos" and went to bed. Didn't even remember the score in the morning. Luckily we won :)
TL;DR my dad has seen me naked. Also, plastic will melt on a toaster. | My proudest moment was being collected by my dad one time when I was staying at my parents and had gone to watch the champions league semi final at the pub with some friends. Got carried away as usual and don't remember anything. Anyway my dad collected me, and apparently I was carried to the car by an old man I introduced to my dad as "Steve" and expected him to come home with us. Luckily dad said no. The whole way home I asked my dad who he was in if he lived in the area. Upon arriving home I made my dad go back out to search the car to get my phone (which of course I had all along) and when he came back in I was naked in the kitchen holding an empty muller yoghurt pot full of Doritos over the toaster. When he screamed what are you doing I calmly said "making nachos" and went to bed. Didn't even remember the score in the morning. Luckily we won :)
TL;DR my dad has seen me naked. Also, plastic will melt on a toaster.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | ckcre4j | My proudest moment was being collected by my dad one time when I was staying at my parents and had gone to watch the champions league semi final at the pub with some friends. Got carried away as usual and don't remember anything. Anyway my dad collected me, and apparently I was carried to the car by an old man I introduced to my dad as "Steve" and expected him to come home with us. Luckily dad said no. The whole way home I asked my dad who he was in if he lived in the area. Upon arriving home I made my dad go back out to search the car to get my phone (which of course I had all along) and when he came back in I was naked in the kitchen holding an empty muller yoghurt pot full of Doritos over the toaster. When he screamed what are you doing I calmly said "making nachos" and went to bed. Didn't even remember the score in the morning. Luckily we won :) | my dad has seen me naked. Also, plastic will melt on a toaster. |
wecantwin1 | My friends and family call me the world's fittest drunk because I go running. It doesn't matter where I am or how I'm dressed. When I decide it's time to go home I just stand up and start running home like a drunk messenger pigeon.
When my wife and I moved to Panama we decided to go out with some of our new friends, after about 2 weeks of living here. About 2 in the morning I decided it was time to go home so I got up, and without saying a word, started running home.
My wife didn't see me leave and she started to get worried. She drove around with our friends for about an hour looking for me. Finally she called off the search and told the group that I probably ran home. They went to our house and found me sound asleep in my bed.
tl;dr: I turn into a world class athlete when I drink. | My friends and family call me the world's fittest drunk because I go running. It doesn't matter where I am or how I'm dressed. When I decide it's time to go home I just stand up and start running home like a drunk messenger pigeon.
When my wife and I moved to Panama we decided to go out with some of our new friends, after about 2 weeks of living here. About 2 in the morning I decided it was time to go home so I got up, and without saying a word, started running home.
My wife didn't see me leave and she started to get worried. She drove around with our friends for about an hour looking for me. Finally she called off the search and told the group that I probably ran home. They went to our house and found me sound asleep in my bed.
tl;dr: I turn into a world class athlete when I drink.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | ckcsno5 | My friends and family call me the world's fittest drunk because I go running. It doesn't matter where I am or how I'm dressed. When I decide it's time to go home I just stand up and start running home like a drunk messenger pigeon.
When my wife and I moved to Panama we decided to go out with some of our new friends, after about 2 weeks of living here. About 2 in the morning I decided it was time to go home so I got up, and without saying a word, started running home.
My wife didn't see me leave and she started to get worried. She drove around with our friends for about an hour looking for me. Finally she called off the search and told the group that I probably ran home. They went to our house and found me sound asleep in my bed. | I turn into a world class athlete when I drink. |
IAMASCRIPTKIDDY | My friend once bought a plane ticket to England when he was drunk and rented hotel rooms. It was the best day of his life when he woke up because he was sleeping with two sexiest British women.
TL;DR Booze + Plane ticket = Gets you laid | My friend once bought a plane ticket to England when he was drunk and rented hotel rooms. It was the best day of his life when he woke up because he was sleeping with two sexiest British women.
TL;DR Booze + Plane ticket = Gets you laid
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | ckctl56 | My friend once bought a plane ticket to England when he was drunk and rented hotel rooms. It was the best day of his life when he woke up because he was sleeping with two sexiest British women. | Booze + Plane ticket = Gets you laid |
OhBlackWater | The stages of a beer drunk ohblackwater are as follows:
1) Starting to feel it, in between sober and buzzed, annoyed.
2) Buzzed. Talkative as fuck. Will talk about nothing forever.
3) Drunk. Singing, dancing, fun times, smoke some cigs.
4) Tired. May have to puke, will constantly think about bed.
5) Second wind. If I reach this stage, a hangover is guaranteed and no one can tell what will happen.
The stages of whiskeydrunk ohblackwater.
1) Shots/mixed drinks will bother me the most at this stage, taste wise.
2a) Im not feeling it and drink as slowly as possible.
2b) I begin to channel team whiskey, especially if with roommate. No whiskey is safe, Whiskey chugging is common.
3b) All whiskey in the house has been consumed, blackout probable. Fun times guaranteed for everything.
TL;DR: Drink with me, it's fun.
| The stages of a beer drunk ohblackwater are as follows:
1) Starting to feel it, in between sober and buzzed, annoyed.
2) Buzzed. Talkative as fuck. Will talk about nothing forever.
3) Drunk. Singing, dancing, fun times, smoke some cigs.
4) Tired. May have to puke, will constantly think about bed.
5) Second wind. If I reach this stage, a hangover is guaranteed and no one can tell what will happen.
The stages of whiskeydrunk ohblackwater.
1) Shots/mixed drinks will bother me the most at this stage, taste wise.
2a) Im not feeling it and drink as slowly as possible.
2b) I begin to channel team whiskey, especially if with roommate. No whiskey is safe, Whiskey chugging is common.
3b) All whiskey in the house has been consumed, blackout probable. Fun times guaranteed for everything.
TL;DR: Drink with me, it's fun.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | ckd1jto | The stages of a beer drunk ohblackwater are as follows:
1) Starting to feel it, in between sober and buzzed, annoyed.
2) Buzzed. Talkative as fuck. Will talk about nothing forever.
3) Drunk. Singing, dancing, fun times, smoke some cigs.
4) Tired. May have to puke, will constantly think about bed.
5) Second wind. If I reach this stage, a hangover is guaranteed and no one can tell what will happen.
The stages of whiskeydrunk ohblackwater.
1) Shots/mixed drinks will bother me the most at this stage, taste wise.
2a) Im not feeling it and drink as slowly as possible.
2b) I begin to channel team whiskey, especially if with roommate. No whiskey is safe, Whiskey chugging is common.
3b) All whiskey in the house has been consumed, blackout probable. Fun times guaranteed for everything. | Drink with me, it's fun. |
failarray | Things like this can truly stress you out, the repetition and constant frustration can fatigue you, but bear with it, it'll be very sweet once you get the service working again and if you do get credited back, it can make it somewhat worthwhile.
Basically: test *multiple devices* on *multiple ports* if possible (meaning other phone ports with DSL but you won't usually have other ports if you have cable.) and that's literally all of the troubleshooting you can do on your side, different computers, different modems, different cords and different ports (power and network).
It sounds like you've both troubleshot everything else and all they have left to test is the modem.
Don't buy one if possible, as then you're out of pocket, if you have a friend/neighbour on a similar service see if you can borrow theirs.
Next time you call, say you need to get reference numbers (these are the holy grail of contacting support and complaints) for the previous times you've called them, as they should have noted everything down, also when speaking to a manager, see if you can arrange for a single person to call in their team, maybe get the managers and the support agents email, and email them (CCing the manager) to ask for them to call you at a certain time. This helps avoid re-explaining and repeating steps.
Also another thing, my local ISP's will *loan you a modem*, that they currently support, for doing this last test with instead of buying one. They also include a pre-paid postage bag with an unfolded box that you can arrange with their courier to pick up and return to them at no cost to you.
They usually do this if they have them available (other people aren't borrowing) and you have no other option (cant borrow from friend/neighbour, make this clear to them), also if it gets really bad and the fault was found to be on their end, they should be able to reimburse you (credit your account, not refund) for the time the services hasn't been functioning, I'm certain that someone who is actually a manager should have the authority to do this, and can talk to someone in Human Resources to arrange mailing the modem.
**Edit:** Read these:
I'd recommend the ombudsman is when testing a different modem doesn't work and it's really not getting anywhere, it slows the process down even further but should guarantee the single point of contact (if you can't get one normally) and proper reimbursement, save for a last resort
**Edit #2/TL;DR:**
> Running WinMTR you linked before shows the first hop at 0% loss, but every hop below at around 50-60% loss with very high avg pings.
This tells me:
Computer -> Modem = OK (your local network is good)
Modem -> Wall/House -> Street -> ISP = Problem (fault on modem port, or any of the other steps in *their* network)
Which may better explain why they want a different modem, once you've ensured the modem's fine the fault must lie in on their side, then the balls in their court (unless the connection from the street to your house was installed by you, not them)
Also another option I forgot to say is testing your modem at a friends house/service is another way you can try if you can't borrow a modem. | Things like this can truly stress you out, the repetition and constant frustration can fatigue you, but bear with it, it'll be very sweet once you get the service working again and if you do get credited back, it can make it somewhat worthwhile.
Basically: test multiple devices on multiple ports if possible (meaning other phone ports with DSL but you won't usually have other ports if you have cable.) and that's literally all of the troubleshooting you can do on your side, different computers, different modems, different cords and different ports (power and network).
It sounds like you've both troubleshot everything else and all they have left to test is the modem.
Don't buy one if possible, as then you're out of pocket, if you have a friend/neighbour on a similar service see if you can borrow theirs.
Next time you call, say you need to get reference numbers (these are the holy grail of contacting support and complaints) for the previous times you've called them, as they should have noted everything down, also when speaking to a manager, see if you can arrange for a single person to call in their team, maybe get the managers and the support agents email, and email them (CCing the manager) to ask for them to call you at a certain time. This helps avoid re-explaining and repeating steps.
Also another thing, my local ISP's will loan you a modem , that they currently support, for doing this last test with instead of buying one. They also include a pre-paid postage bag with an unfolded box that you can arrange with their courier to pick up and return to them at no cost to you.
They usually do this if they have them available (other people aren't borrowing) and you have no other option (cant borrow from friend/neighbour, make this clear to them), also if it gets really bad and the fault was found to be on their end, they should be able to reimburse you (credit your account, not refund) for the time the services hasn't been functioning, I'm certain that someone who is actually a manager should have the authority to do this, and can talk to someone in Human Resources to arrange mailing the modem.
Edit: Read these:
I'd recommend the ombudsman is when testing a different modem doesn't work and it's really not getting anywhere, it slows the process down even further but should guarantee the single point of contact (if you can't get one normally) and proper reimbursement, save for a last resort
Edit #2/TL;DR:
> Running WinMTR you linked before shows the first hop at 0% loss, but every hop below at around 50-60% loss with very high avg pings.
This tells me:
Computer -> Modem = OK (your local network is good)
Modem -> Wall/House -> Street -> ISP = Problem (fault on modem port, or any of the other steps in their network)
Which may better explain why they want a different modem, once you've ensured the modem's fine the fault must lie in on their side, then the balls in their court (unless the connection from the street to your house was installed by you, not them)
Also another option I forgot to say is testing your modem at a friends house/service is another way you can try if you can't borrow a modem.
| techsupport | t5_2qioo | cks064a | Things like this can truly stress you out, the repetition and constant frustration can fatigue you, but bear with it, it'll be very sweet once you get the service working again and if you do get credited back, it can make it somewhat worthwhile.
Basically: test multiple devices on multiple ports if possible (meaning other phone ports with DSL but you won't usually have other ports if you have cable.) and that's literally all of the troubleshooting you can do on your side, different computers, different modems, different cords and different ports (power and network).
It sounds like you've both troubleshot everything else and all they have left to test is the modem.
Don't buy one if possible, as then you're out of pocket, if you have a friend/neighbour on a similar service see if you can borrow theirs.
Next time you call, say you need to get reference numbers (these are the holy grail of contacting support and complaints) for the previous times you've called them, as they should have noted everything down, also when speaking to a manager, see if you can arrange for a single person to call in their team, maybe get the managers and the support agents email, and email them (CCing the manager) to ask for them to call you at a certain time. This helps avoid re-explaining and repeating steps.
Also another thing, my local ISP's will loan you a modem , that they currently support, for doing this last test with instead of buying one. They also include a pre-paid postage bag with an unfolded box that you can arrange with their courier to pick up and return to them at no cost to you.
They usually do this if they have them available (other people aren't borrowing) and you have no other option (cant borrow from friend/neighbour, make this clear to them), also if it gets really bad and the fault was found to be on their end, they should be able to reimburse you (credit your account, not refund) for the time the services hasn't been functioning, I'm certain that someone who is actually a manager should have the authority to do this, and can talk to someone in Human Resources to arrange mailing the modem.
Edit: Read these:
I'd recommend the ombudsman is when testing a different modem doesn't work and it's really not getting anywhere, it slows the process down even further but should guarantee the single point of contact (if you can't get one normally) and proper reimbursement, save for a last resort
Edit #2/ | Running WinMTR you linked before shows the first hop at 0% loss, but every hop below at around 50-60% loss with very high avg pings.
This tells me:
Computer -> Modem = OK (your local network is good)
Modem -> Wall/House -> Street -> ISP = Problem (fault on modem port, or any of the other steps in their network)
Which may better explain why they want a different modem, once you've ensured the modem's fine the fault must lie in on their side, then the balls in their court (unless the connection from the street to your house was installed by you, not them)
Also another option I forgot to say is testing your modem at a friends house/service is another way you can try if you can't borrow a modem. |
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