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Sparcrypt | Look, I don't know how often this needs to be said but **that was not a choke hold**. This is bullshit fear mongering by the media trying to stir up yet more racial tension and it's fucking disgusting.
All this bullshit about their being "No ambiguities" is getting on my nerves. I have spent quite a few years training in grappling martial arts where chokes are very common. I have been choked many hundreds of times, to the point of passing out several times. Let me point out a few things for you all:
1. You cannot talk if a windpipe choke is being applied with enough force to stop you breathing. Not. A. Chance. It hurts a *lot* and any noise you can make will be along the lines of "URGGHGHGHQHAHAHAHH!!!". You will not be relatively calmly saying "I can't breath".
2. Windpipe chokes will not render you unconscious quickly.
3. A blood choke will knock you out quickly, but it does not directly impede your ability to breath. You breath just fine (maybe slightly restricted due to the arm being there, but not overly), see some stars then collapse like a wet rag.
4. Watching the video, that was not a choke. There may have been some pressure on his windpipe from the guys arm, but the fact that he could still talk meant there was no significant amount of it. It *did* appear the cop was positioned to be able to apply a Hadaka jime choke however for it to be applied successfully he would have needed to put his head down to the side almost on the guys shoulder and pulled his arm up and across with his right hand. There would be discomfort from that positioning absolutely but no real risk of being seriously choked.
5. Even assuming it was a full on windpipe choke (which it was not), it was only on for 20 seconds or so. Again, they hurt and they're not fun, they will not kill you.
6. The headlock was removed and the guy continued to say he couldn't breath. If you are being choked and have it released you are able to breath again right away.
7. **On a person that large the head is an ideal target because if you control it you control their whole body.** This is why a headlock was used, so they officer didn't need to lift the guys full body weight.
This, combined with the fact that the guy *did not die due to asphyxiation* says what? *That the 'choking' did not kill him*. The arm around his neck may have triggered a panic attack/asthma attack or whatever else but guess what? Police do not have your medical history and if you have these issues and decide to resist *that is a risk you take*. It does *not* make the officer responsible for your injuries suffered when they have to use force.
People need to stop acting like they're masters of body mechanics and assuming an arm around someones neck means they're being choked.
TLDR: There was nothing in that video that showed evidence of an actual, dangerous choke. | Look, I don't know how often this needs to be said but that was not a choke hold . This is bullshit fear mongering by the media trying to stir up yet more racial tension and it's fucking disgusting.
All this bullshit about their being "No ambiguities" is getting on my nerves. I have spent quite a few years training in grappling martial arts where chokes are very common. I have been choked many hundreds of times, to the point of passing out several times. Let me point out a few things for you all:
You cannot talk if a windpipe choke is being applied with enough force to stop you breathing. Not. A. Chance. It hurts a lot and any noise you can make will be along the lines of "URGGHGHGHQHAHAHAHH!!!". You will not be relatively calmly saying "I can't breath".
Windpipe chokes will not render you unconscious quickly.
A blood choke will knock you out quickly, but it does not directly impede your ability to breath. You breath just fine (maybe slightly restricted due to the arm being there, but not overly), see some stars then collapse like a wet rag.
Watching the video, that was not a choke. There may have been some pressure on his windpipe from the guys arm, but the fact that he could still talk meant there was no significant amount of it. It did appear the cop was positioned to be able to apply a Hadaka jime choke however for it to be applied successfully he would have needed to put his head down to the side almost on the guys shoulder and pulled his arm up and across with his right hand. There would be discomfort from that positioning absolutely but no real risk of being seriously choked.
Even assuming it was a full on windpipe choke (which it was not), it was only on for 20 seconds or so. Again, they hurt and they're not fun, they will not kill you.
The headlock was removed and the guy continued to say he couldn't breath. If you are being choked and have it released you are able to breath again right away.
On a person that large the head is an ideal target because if you control it you control their whole body. This is why a headlock was used, so they officer didn't need to lift the guys full body weight.
This, combined with the fact that the guy did not die due to asphyxiation says what? That the 'choking' did not kill him . The arm around his neck may have triggered a panic attack/asthma attack or whatever else but guess what? Police do not have your medical history and if you have these issues and decide to resist that is a risk you take . It does not make the officer responsible for your injuries suffered when they have to use force.
People need to stop acting like they're masters of body mechanics and assuming an arm around someones neck means they're being choked.
TLDR: There was nothing in that video that showed evidence of an actual, dangerous choke.
| news | t5_2qh3l | cmlui0j | Look, I don't know how often this needs to be said but that was not a choke hold . This is bullshit fear mongering by the media trying to stir up yet more racial tension and it's fucking disgusting.
All this bullshit about their being "No ambiguities" is getting on my nerves. I have spent quite a few years training in grappling martial arts where chokes are very common. I have been choked many hundreds of times, to the point of passing out several times. Let me point out a few things for you all:
You cannot talk if a windpipe choke is being applied with enough force to stop you breathing. Not. A. Chance. It hurts a lot and any noise you can make will be along the lines of "URGGHGHGHQHAHAHAHH!!!". You will not be relatively calmly saying "I can't breath".
Windpipe chokes will not render you unconscious quickly.
A blood choke will knock you out quickly, but it does not directly impede your ability to breath. You breath just fine (maybe slightly restricted due to the arm being there, but not overly), see some stars then collapse like a wet rag.
Watching the video, that was not a choke. There may have been some pressure on his windpipe from the guys arm, but the fact that he could still talk meant there was no significant amount of it. It did appear the cop was positioned to be able to apply a Hadaka jime choke however for it to be applied successfully he would have needed to put his head down to the side almost on the guys shoulder and pulled his arm up and across with his right hand. There would be discomfort from that positioning absolutely but no real risk of being seriously choked.
Even assuming it was a full on windpipe choke (which it was not), it was only on for 20 seconds or so. Again, they hurt and they're not fun, they will not kill you.
The headlock was removed and the guy continued to say he couldn't breath. If you are being choked and have it released you are able to breath again right away.
On a person that large the head is an ideal target because if you control it you control their whole body. This is why a headlock was used, so they officer didn't need to lift the guys full body weight.
This, combined with the fact that the guy did not die due to asphyxiation says what? That the 'choking' did not kill him . The arm around his neck may have triggered a panic attack/asthma attack or whatever else but guess what? Police do not have your medical history and if you have these issues and decide to resist that is a risk you take . It does not make the officer responsible for your injuries suffered when they have to use force.
People need to stop acting like they're masters of body mechanics and assuming an arm around someones neck means they're being choked. | There was nothing in that video that showed evidence of an actual, dangerous choke. |
misterTaco | Plus there is the whole use of force continuum that police officers are trained to adhere to. They are to escalate and de-escalate use of force in accordance to the situation at the present moment. Even if that officer felt that chokehold was necessary while he was standing, as soon as he is prone on the ground, all of that necessity just flew out the window, and he is supposed to stop, in accordance to the PD's own Standard operating procedure.
TL;DR The cop used much more force than was necessary and went against his own training and procedures. He should be charged. | Plus there is the whole use of force continuum that police officers are trained to adhere to. They are to escalate and de-escalate use of force in accordance to the situation at the present moment. Even if that officer felt that chokehold was necessary while he was standing, as soon as he is prone on the ground, all of that necessity just flew out the window, and he is supposed to stop, in accordance to the PD's own Standard operating procedure.
TL;DR The cop used much more force than was necessary and went against his own training and procedures. He should be charged.
| news | t5_2qh3l | cmlurld | Plus there is the whole use of force continuum that police officers are trained to adhere to. They are to escalate and de-escalate use of force in accordance to the situation at the present moment. Even if that officer felt that chokehold was necessary while he was standing, as soon as he is prone on the ground, all of that necessity just flew out the window, and he is supposed to stop, in accordance to the PD's own Standard operating procedure. | The cop used much more force than was necessary and went against his own training and procedures. He should be charged. |
Couldbegigolo | There was a vid on justice porn of a verbally crude guy and the person he called names attacked him. The guy saying the obscenities was apparently mentally ill, not that it should be relevant. The guy beat him up, had him on the ground and pinned him with his knee/foot, but the guy laying there continued to say shit and try to move, so the violent person kicked him in the head. Redditor thought that was ok "cause he shouldnt say shit and resist in that position". Tldr: people are morons with no understanding. | There was a vid on justice porn of a verbally crude guy and the person he called names attacked him. The guy saying the obscenities was apparently mentally ill, not that it should be relevant. The guy beat him up, had him on the ground and pinned him with his knee/foot, but the guy laying there continued to say shit and try to move, so the violent person kicked him in the head. Redditor thought that was ok "cause he shouldnt say shit and resist in that position". Tldr: people are morons with no understanding.
| news | t5_2qh3l | cmlvsai | There was a vid on justice porn of a verbally crude guy and the person he called names attacked him. The guy saying the obscenities was apparently mentally ill, not that it should be relevant. The guy beat him up, had him on the ground and pinned him with his knee/foot, but the guy laying there continued to say shit and try to move, so the violent person kicked him in the head. Redditor thought that was ok "cause he shouldnt say shit and resist in that position". | people are morons with no understanding. |
ForumPointsRdumb | If this isn't a joke. I almost died early in life because of an asshole lifeguard who thought the same thing. I didn't know how to swim at all and was not very buoyant due to my small bony structure. I was at the pool just walking a little deeper and deeper. At 4ft deep I was hopping on my tiptoes to stay above water. For some reason I couldn't move to the shallower water, the deeper water was sucking me further in. Realizing I was in trouble after going under a few times I begin to panic and yell for help. The pool was not crowded at all, I don't know why he didn't react. Luckily my mother heard and reacted to my pleas for help and frantic splashing.
Someone in the process of drowning (ie choking on water) will have trouble making vocalizations, but ultimately still may be able to make sounds.
TL;DR People in trouble in the water can call for help. Please do not misunderstand the Bunny Lord's phrasing.
| If this isn't a joke. I almost died early in life because of an asshole lifeguard who thought the same thing. I didn't know how to swim at all and was not very buoyant due to my small bony structure. I was at the pool just walking a little deeper and deeper. At 4ft deep I was hopping on my tiptoes to stay above water. For some reason I couldn't move to the shallower water, the deeper water was sucking me further in. Realizing I was in trouble after going under a few times I begin to panic and yell for help. The pool was not crowded at all, I don't know why he didn't react. Luckily my mother heard and reacted to my pleas for help and frantic splashing.
Someone in the process of drowning (ie choking on water) will have trouble making vocalizations, but ultimately still may be able to make sounds.
TL;DR People in trouble in the water can call for help. Please do not misunderstand the Bunny Lord's phrasing.
| news | t5_2qh3l | cmlvuqs | If this isn't a joke. I almost died early in life because of an asshole lifeguard who thought the same thing. I didn't know how to swim at all and was not very buoyant due to my small bony structure. I was at the pool just walking a little deeper and deeper. At 4ft deep I was hopping on my tiptoes to stay above water. For some reason I couldn't move to the shallower water, the deeper water was sucking me further in. Realizing I was in trouble after going under a few times I begin to panic and yell for help. The pool was not crowded at all, I don't know why he didn't react. Luckily my mother heard and reacted to my pleas for help and frantic splashing.
Someone in the process of drowning (ie choking on water) will have trouble making vocalizations, but ultimately still may be able to make sounds. | People in trouble in the water can call for help. Please do not misunderstand the Bunny Lord's phrasing. |
BadgerRush | > Also, to the pedants, yes, if you can say you cant breathe you can breathe. However, when you feel your airway closing and don't feel as if you can breathe, it is pretty fair to say you can't breathe.
Actually, the pendants (and you for agreeing) are wrong. There are many cases when it is possible to say you can't breathe while you can't breathe. The only requirement for talking is for very small amount of any gas (it doesn't need to be oxygen rich) to pass trough your larynx (on its way out).
Breathing on the other hand requires many things to happen, if one of those fails you may appear to be breathing but little O2 gets into your system. You have to expel most of the CO2 heavy gas in your lungs past a long dead distance (the "piping" between the lungs and outside), and then pull new gas with more O2 (again past all the dead distance) until it reaches your lungs. So if you can only pull/push a small amount of air (while being chocked), you can still talk, but the amount of air may be not enough to travel all the way into your lungs (before it finishes filling the "piping" it starts to be expelled).
Also, talking involves mostly expelling air, what is always easy (even when being chocked, crushed, etc) because the positive air pressure forces the airways open. But when inspiring the negative air pressure becomes another strong force trying to close the already restricted airways, in other words, the act of breathing-in works against breathing-in.
**TL;DR: in many cases it is possible to say that you can't breath when you can't breath.** | > Also, to the pedants, yes, if you can say you cant breathe you can breathe. However, when you feel your airway closing and don't feel as if you can breathe, it is pretty fair to say you can't breathe.
Actually, the pendants (and you for agreeing) are wrong. There are many cases when it is possible to say you can't breathe while you can't breathe. The only requirement for talking is for very small amount of any gas (it doesn't need to be oxygen rich) to pass trough your larynx (on its way out).
Breathing on the other hand requires many things to happen, if one of those fails you may appear to be breathing but little O2 gets into your system. You have to expel most of the CO2 heavy gas in your lungs past a long dead distance (the "piping" between the lungs and outside), and then pull new gas with more O2 (again past all the dead distance) until it reaches your lungs. So if you can only pull/push a small amount of air (while being chocked), you can still talk, but the amount of air may be not enough to travel all the way into your lungs (before it finishes filling the "piping" it starts to be expelled).
Also, talking involves mostly expelling air, what is always easy (even when being chocked, crushed, etc) because the positive air pressure forces the airways open. But when inspiring the negative air pressure becomes another strong force trying to close the already restricted airways, in other words, the act of breathing-in works against breathing-in.
TL;DR: in many cases it is possible to say that you can't breath when you can't breath.
| news | t5_2qh3l | cmlwpb5 | Also, to the pedants, yes, if you can say you cant breathe you can breathe. However, when you feel your airway closing and don't feel as if you can breathe, it is pretty fair to say you can't breathe.
Actually, the pendants (and you for agreeing) are wrong. There are many cases when it is possible to say you can't breathe while you can't breathe. The only requirement for talking is for very small amount of any gas (it doesn't need to be oxygen rich) to pass trough your larynx (on its way out).
Breathing on the other hand requires many things to happen, if one of those fails you may appear to be breathing but little O2 gets into your system. You have to expel most of the CO2 heavy gas in your lungs past a long dead distance (the "piping" between the lungs and outside), and then pull new gas with more O2 (again past all the dead distance) until it reaches your lungs. So if you can only pull/push a small amount of air (while being chocked), you can still talk, but the amount of air may be not enough to travel all the way into your lungs (before it finishes filling the "piping" it starts to be expelled).
Also, talking involves mostly expelling air, what is always easy (even when being chocked, crushed, etc) because the positive air pressure forces the airways open. But when inspiring the negative air pressure becomes another strong force trying to close the already restricted airways, in other words, the act of breathing-in works against breathing-in. | in many cases it is possible to say that you can't breath when you can't breath. |
THREETOED_SLOTH | Yes it is a terrible excuse, when the resistance is a convulsion or flinch that occurs because of said technique, but the dude resisted before the cop choked him. You watch the officer goes to cuff him and he snatches his arms away. When a cop has cuffs or a gun out, do what they say, is it just me or is it ridiculous for this man to be trying that shit while surrounded by cops. Yes the choking was extreme, but I felt the bigger crime was not responding to his cries of "I can't breathe". Of course it is impossible to know who to indite in that situation...
tl; dr: cop was in the right to subdue but was wrong to choke hold him/ bigger crime was not responding to his cries. | Yes it is a terrible excuse, when the resistance is a convulsion or flinch that occurs because of said technique, but the dude resisted before the cop choked him. You watch the officer goes to cuff him and he snatches his arms away. When a cop has cuffs or a gun out, do what they say, is it just me or is it ridiculous for this man to be trying that shit while surrounded by cops. Yes the choking was extreme, but I felt the bigger crime was not responding to his cries of "I can't breathe". Of course it is impossible to know who to indite in that situation...
tl; dr: cop was in the right to subdue but was wrong to choke hold him/ bigger crime was not responding to his cries.
| news | t5_2qh3l | cmlxzjp | Yes it is a terrible excuse, when the resistance is a convulsion or flinch that occurs because of said technique, but the dude resisted before the cop choked him. You watch the officer goes to cuff him and he snatches his arms away. When a cop has cuffs or a gun out, do what they say, is it just me or is it ridiculous for this man to be trying that shit while surrounded by cops. Yes the choking was extreme, but I felt the bigger crime was not responding to his cries of "I can't breathe". Of course it is impossible to know who to indite in that situation... | cop was in the right to subdue but was wrong to choke hold him/ bigger crime was not responding to his cries. |
hoodyninja | I hope I can help answer your question since you seem sincerely interested.
Police recruits are trained to be overly cautious (some say fearful) due to anecdotal and empirical evidence that historically shows they should be. Generally speaking, the idea is that for every call police are dispatched to, an average citizen is experiencing some crisis that has escalated beyond their control and requires police intervention to return the situation to normalcy. So police automatically assume that they are walking into an unstable situation.
Then there is the waiting game. "It might not have happened to you this time, but if it happens once, that is enough to kill you." Often times in police work I find myself not fearful in the moment but after the fact when I am thinking about what could have happened. I don't share stories often but hear goes one.
The best lesson I learned in training was,"Listen to your body, if it doesn't feel right, it's not right." Last night I backed up an officer on a fight call. I arrive on scene and contact the suspect. I walk him outside and start talking to him, while talking to him he becomes agitated and sticks his hands in his pockets. I tell him to take them out, and he refuses. He starts to lean in towards me (about an arms length and closing). It didn't feel right and I was worried. Nobody except little kids get that close to police. I push him back, draw my gun and order him to the ground. My partner cuffs him and we continue our business. We run him and he has multiple felony warrants (agg assault deadly weapon, sex assault child, agg assault against police, evading in a vehicle, resisting arrest) his criminal history was even longer with BMVs and drug charges. When I am searching him I find two big chucks (baseball size) of concrete in his jacket pocket. He later stated at the jail that he was going to smash my head him and run, but he got caught off guard and couldn't do it.
This guy was huge compared to me, and could have done some damage. Thankfully he didn't but I attribute that to my listening to my senses and when I get scared or fearful I react. Fear is not a bad thing, it is what makes me check behind all the doors in a building searches and it is what makes me call for additional units when I have multiple suspects. It is also what allows me to empathize with victims of crimes who are scared and feel embarrassed or ashamed of their fear.
Every officer and especially every training officer has personal experiences that reinforce our fears. It sucks when we have act the same way for everyone even if our fears are unfounded, but I only know a few people I come into contact with every night and the ones I know are not nice people.
I hope that helps answer your question if you have follow up I will try to answer.
TLDR: police are trained to fear because fear keeps you alert, cautious and most importantly alive.
| I hope I can help answer your question since you seem sincerely interested.
Police recruits are trained to be overly cautious (some say fearful) due to anecdotal and empirical evidence that historically shows they should be. Generally speaking, the idea is that for every call police are dispatched to, an average citizen is experiencing some crisis that has escalated beyond their control and requires police intervention to return the situation to normalcy. So police automatically assume that they are walking into an unstable situation.
Then there is the waiting game. "It might not have happened to you this time, but if it happens once, that is enough to kill you." Often times in police work I find myself not fearful in the moment but after the fact when I am thinking about what could have happened. I don't share stories often but hear goes one.
The best lesson I learned in training was,"Listen to your body, if it doesn't feel right, it's not right." Last night I backed up an officer on a fight call. I arrive on scene and contact the suspect. I walk him outside and start talking to him, while talking to him he becomes agitated and sticks his hands in his pockets. I tell him to take them out, and he refuses. He starts to lean in towards me (about an arms length and closing). It didn't feel right and I was worried. Nobody except little kids get that close to police. I push him back, draw my gun and order him to the ground. My partner cuffs him and we continue our business. We run him and he has multiple felony warrants (agg assault deadly weapon, sex assault child, agg assault against police, evading in a vehicle, resisting arrest) his criminal history was even longer with BMVs and drug charges. When I am searching him I find two big chucks (baseball size) of concrete in his jacket pocket. He later stated at the jail that he was going to smash my head him and run, but he got caught off guard and couldn't do it.
This guy was huge compared to me, and could have done some damage. Thankfully he didn't but I attribute that to my listening to my senses and when I get scared or fearful I react. Fear is not a bad thing, it is what makes me check behind all the doors in a building searches and it is what makes me call for additional units when I have multiple suspects. It is also what allows me to empathize with victims of crimes who are scared and feel embarrassed or ashamed of their fear.
Every officer and especially every training officer has personal experiences that reinforce our fears. It sucks when we have act the same way for everyone even if our fears are unfounded, but I only know a few people I come into contact with every night and the ones I know are not nice people.
I hope that helps answer your question if you have follow up I will try to answer.
TLDR: police are trained to fear because fear keeps you alert, cautious and most importantly alive.
| news | t5_2qh3l | cmlyj58 | I hope I can help answer your question since you seem sincerely interested.
Police recruits are trained to be overly cautious (some say fearful) due to anecdotal and empirical evidence that historically shows they should be. Generally speaking, the idea is that for every call police are dispatched to, an average citizen is experiencing some crisis that has escalated beyond their control and requires police intervention to return the situation to normalcy. So police automatically assume that they are walking into an unstable situation.
Then there is the waiting game. "It might not have happened to you this time, but if it happens once, that is enough to kill you." Often times in police work I find myself not fearful in the moment but after the fact when I am thinking about what could have happened. I don't share stories often but hear goes one.
The best lesson I learned in training was,"Listen to your body, if it doesn't feel right, it's not right." Last night I backed up an officer on a fight call. I arrive on scene and contact the suspect. I walk him outside and start talking to him, while talking to him he becomes agitated and sticks his hands in his pockets. I tell him to take them out, and he refuses. He starts to lean in towards me (about an arms length and closing). It didn't feel right and I was worried. Nobody except little kids get that close to police. I push him back, draw my gun and order him to the ground. My partner cuffs him and we continue our business. We run him and he has multiple felony warrants (agg assault deadly weapon, sex assault child, agg assault against police, evading in a vehicle, resisting arrest) his criminal history was even longer with BMVs and drug charges. When I am searching him I find two big chucks (baseball size) of concrete in his jacket pocket. He later stated at the jail that he was going to smash my head him and run, but he got caught off guard and couldn't do it.
This guy was huge compared to me, and could have done some damage. Thankfully he didn't but I attribute that to my listening to my senses and when I get scared or fearful I react. Fear is not a bad thing, it is what makes me check behind all the doors in a building searches and it is what makes me call for additional units when I have multiple suspects. It is also what allows me to empathize with victims of crimes who are scared and feel embarrassed or ashamed of their fear.
Every officer and especially every training officer has personal experiences that reinforce our fears. It sucks when we have act the same way for everyone even if our fears are unfounded, but I only know a few people I come into contact with every night and the ones I know are not nice people.
I hope that helps answer your question if you have follow up I will try to answer. | police are trained to fear because fear keeps you alert, cautious and most importantly alive. |
HapTrek13 | > the truth is that if someone can speak, they are not truly choking
Did you not say that?
And I appreciate your EDIT, but your original statement is still flat out wrong. I've been in both blood and air chokes where I could still say words.
BadgerRush below says it much better:
"There are many cases when it is possible to say you can't breathe while you can't breathe. The only requirement for talking is for very small amount of any gas (it doesn't need to be oxygen rich) to pass trough your larynx (on its way out).
Breathing on the other hand requires many things to happen, if one of those fails you may appear to be breathing but little O2 gets into your system. You have to expel most of the CO2 heavy gas in your lungs past a long dead distance (the "piping" between the lungs and outside), and then pull new gas with more O2 (again past all the dead distance) until it reaches your lungs. So if you can only pull/push a small amount of air (while being chocked), you can still talk, but the amount of air may be not enough to travel all the way into your lungs (before it finishes filling the "piping" it starts to be expelled).
Also, talking involves mostly expelling air, what is always easy (even when being chocked, crushed, etc) because the positive air pressure forces the airways open. But when inspiring the negative air pressure becomes another strong force trying to close the already restricted airways, in other words, the act of breathing-in works against breathing-in.
TL;DR: in many cases it is possible to say that you can't breath when you can't breath." | > the truth is that if someone can speak, they are not truly choking
Did you not say that?
And I appreciate your EDIT, but your original statement is still flat out wrong. I've been in both blood and air chokes where I could still say words.
BadgerRush below says it much better:
"There are many cases when it is possible to say you can't breathe while you can't breathe. The only requirement for talking is for very small amount of any gas (it doesn't need to be oxygen rich) to pass trough your larynx (on its way out).
Breathing on the other hand requires many things to happen, if one of those fails you may appear to be breathing but little O2 gets into your system. You have to expel most of the CO2 heavy gas in your lungs past a long dead distance (the "piping" between the lungs and outside), and then pull new gas with more O2 (again past all the dead distance) until it reaches your lungs. So if you can only pull/push a small amount of air (while being chocked), you can still talk, but the amount of air may be not enough to travel all the way into your lungs (before it finishes filling the "piping" it starts to be expelled).
Also, talking involves mostly expelling air, what is always easy (even when being chocked, crushed, etc) because the positive air pressure forces the airways open. But when inspiring the negative air pressure becomes another strong force trying to close the already restricted airways, in other words, the act of breathing-in works against breathing-in.
TL;DR: in many cases it is possible to say that you can't breath when you can't breath."
| news | t5_2qh3l | cmlz0wo | the truth is that if someone can speak, they are not truly choking
Did you not say that?
And I appreciate your EDIT, but your original statement is still flat out wrong. I've been in both blood and air chokes where I could still say words.
BadgerRush below says it much better:
"There are many cases when it is possible to say you can't breathe while you can't breathe. The only requirement for talking is for very small amount of any gas (it doesn't need to be oxygen rich) to pass trough your larynx (on its way out).
Breathing on the other hand requires many things to happen, if one of those fails you may appear to be breathing but little O2 gets into your system. You have to expel most of the CO2 heavy gas in your lungs past a long dead distance (the "piping" between the lungs and outside), and then pull new gas with more O2 (again past all the dead distance) until it reaches your lungs. So if you can only pull/push a small amount of air (while being chocked), you can still talk, but the amount of air may be not enough to travel all the way into your lungs (before it finishes filling the "piping" it starts to be expelled).
Also, talking involves mostly expelling air, what is always easy (even when being chocked, crushed, etc) because the positive air pressure forces the airways open. But when inspiring the negative air pressure becomes another strong force trying to close the already restricted airways, in other words, the act of breathing-in works against breathing-in. | in many cases it is possible to say that you can't breath when you can't breath." |
ClamFritter | I'll bite.
The reason you're hearing most of the opposition coming from the left is because the same pop-culture movement that opposed the Trayvon case and the Ferguson case are glomming on to this case. However I'd say they're doing so for the wrong reasons. This is garnering so much support on the left because it's being cast as a race-issue, just like Trayvon, Ferguson, etc, whereas many on the right simply don't see any evidence to support that narrative. It seems to me that those on the left don't care much about the issue of authoritarianism or civilian victimization as they do about simply continuing the "unarmed black victimized by white police" narrative.
But there is push-back coming from the right, but for different reasons. Many voices on the right see this as an unnecessary death that is a direct result of big-government tax enforcement. Is it really necessary to have a half-dozen cops, some undercover, going around NYC enforcing cigarette taxes? That's just a way of protecting one of the state's many revenue streams. It's stupid in the same way that police raiding bookies or people growing small amounts of marijuana is stupid, but it's mainly the laws that are the problem, not the enforcement. If a law is stupid you need to attack the law rather than attack the enforcement, although I do think an argument for prioritization can be made, and cigarette tax enforcement should not be a priority.
When I first saw the video a few months ago I was disgusted. How can you not be, when witnessing a completely avoidable situation that led to someone's death? But cases like this need to be examined on an individual basis. The mythos and hysteria surrounding previous cases like this fell apart upon a close consideration of the evidence and many claims about this case seem to as well. First off, Garner *was* resisting arrest. No, I'm not saying that "resisting arrest is punishable by death", but it's accepted that law enforcement has the right to use escalation of force when a subject is resisting arrest. When police have decided to arrest you, it's basically game over and resisting is only going to result in them using escalating force in getting you to comply and put you in cuffs. Secondly, Garner seems to have died largely as a result of underlying medical conditions (heart condition, asthma, etc). No, this is not victim blaming, it's simply explaining why the police take down killed Garner when it would almost certainly not killed someone without these conditions. Same as when someone with a heart condition dies of being tazed - it's not victim blaming it's simply explaining cause of death. Thirdly, this was not murder. There was no intent to kill on the part of police. And yes, intent matters. All they intended to do was force him to submit to an arrest. He died because of the amount of force needed to do so and a number of underlying health problems.
Just my 2 cents.
tl;dr
Some on right are voicing opposition, but not by buying into the SJW narrative. He was resisting which escalated the force needed, which, in addition to health problems, resulted in his unintentional death. Tragic, but I don't see how you can blame the police more than you can blame the law and Eric's own choices. | I'll bite.
The reason you're hearing most of the opposition coming from the left is because the same pop-culture movement that opposed the Trayvon case and the Ferguson case are glomming on to this case. However I'd say they're doing so for the wrong reasons. This is garnering so much support on the left because it's being cast as a race-issue, just like Trayvon, Ferguson, etc, whereas many on the right simply don't see any evidence to support that narrative. It seems to me that those on the left don't care much about the issue of authoritarianism or civilian victimization as they do about simply continuing the "unarmed black victimized by white police" narrative.
But there is push-back coming from the right, but for different reasons. Many voices on the right see this as an unnecessary death that is a direct result of big-government tax enforcement. Is it really necessary to have a half-dozen cops, some undercover, going around NYC enforcing cigarette taxes? That's just a way of protecting one of the state's many revenue streams. It's stupid in the same way that police raiding bookies or people growing small amounts of marijuana is stupid, but it's mainly the laws that are the problem, not the enforcement. If a law is stupid you need to attack the law rather than attack the enforcement, although I do think an argument for prioritization can be made, and cigarette tax enforcement should not be a priority.
When I first saw the video a few months ago I was disgusted. How can you not be, when witnessing a completely avoidable situation that led to someone's death? But cases like this need to be examined on an individual basis. The mythos and hysteria surrounding previous cases like this fell apart upon a close consideration of the evidence and many claims about this case seem to as well. First off, Garner was resisting arrest. No, I'm not saying that "resisting arrest is punishable by death", but it's accepted that law enforcement has the right to use escalation of force when a subject is resisting arrest. When police have decided to arrest you, it's basically game over and resisting is only going to result in them using escalating force in getting you to comply and put you in cuffs. Secondly, Garner seems to have died largely as a result of underlying medical conditions (heart condition, asthma, etc). No, this is not victim blaming, it's simply explaining why the police take down killed Garner when it would almost certainly not killed someone without these conditions. Same as when someone with a heart condition dies of being tazed - it's not victim blaming it's simply explaining cause of death. Thirdly, this was not murder. There was no intent to kill on the part of police. And yes, intent matters. All they intended to do was force him to submit to an arrest. He died because of the amount of force needed to do so and a number of underlying health problems.
Just my 2 cents.
tl;dr
Some on right are voicing opposition, but not by buying into the SJW narrative. He was resisting which escalated the force needed, which, in addition to health problems, resulted in his unintentional death. Tragic, but I don't see how you can blame the police more than you can blame the law and Eric's own choices.
| news | t5_2qh3l | cmm0cvb | I'll bite.
The reason you're hearing most of the opposition coming from the left is because the same pop-culture movement that opposed the Trayvon case and the Ferguson case are glomming on to this case. However I'd say they're doing so for the wrong reasons. This is garnering so much support on the left because it's being cast as a race-issue, just like Trayvon, Ferguson, etc, whereas many on the right simply don't see any evidence to support that narrative. It seems to me that those on the left don't care much about the issue of authoritarianism or civilian victimization as they do about simply continuing the "unarmed black victimized by white police" narrative.
But there is push-back coming from the right, but for different reasons. Many voices on the right see this as an unnecessary death that is a direct result of big-government tax enforcement. Is it really necessary to have a half-dozen cops, some undercover, going around NYC enforcing cigarette taxes? That's just a way of protecting one of the state's many revenue streams. It's stupid in the same way that police raiding bookies or people growing small amounts of marijuana is stupid, but it's mainly the laws that are the problem, not the enforcement. If a law is stupid you need to attack the law rather than attack the enforcement, although I do think an argument for prioritization can be made, and cigarette tax enforcement should not be a priority.
When I first saw the video a few months ago I was disgusted. How can you not be, when witnessing a completely avoidable situation that led to someone's death? But cases like this need to be examined on an individual basis. The mythos and hysteria surrounding previous cases like this fell apart upon a close consideration of the evidence and many claims about this case seem to as well. First off, Garner was resisting arrest. No, I'm not saying that "resisting arrest is punishable by death", but it's accepted that law enforcement has the right to use escalation of force when a subject is resisting arrest. When police have decided to arrest you, it's basically game over and resisting is only going to result in them using escalating force in getting you to comply and put you in cuffs. Secondly, Garner seems to have died largely as a result of underlying medical conditions (heart condition, asthma, etc). No, this is not victim blaming, it's simply explaining why the police take down killed Garner when it would almost certainly not killed someone without these conditions. Same as when someone with a heart condition dies of being tazed - it's not victim blaming it's simply explaining cause of death. Thirdly, this was not murder. There was no intent to kill on the part of police. And yes, intent matters. All they intended to do was force him to submit to an arrest. He died because of the amount of force needed to do so and a number of underlying health problems.
Just my 2 cents. | Some on right are voicing opposition, but not by buying into the SJW narrative. He was resisting which escalated the force needed, which, in addition to health problems, resulted in his unintentional death. Tragic, but I don't see how you can blame the police more than you can blame the law and Eric's own choices. |
bobnojio | Regular sex. After a shower. Had a bit of trouble getting leverage, so I put a hand on each of her shoulders. That helped, but not enough so I moved them inwards. Better results, more moaning from her, happy Times, she orgasmed a few Time...
Then like a light switch... I looked at her, she looked at me mischeciously, I slowly moved my hands inwards, and up her neck, she moved a hand up and on top of my hands, she tightened, I tightened, and holy shit everything got better. After that, she would about once a week beg me to choke her. I'm talking two handed, eyes getting fuzzy, choke choking, not "there's a hand on her throat. Whoopie ", I'm talking squeeze! Wait, release, gasp gasp gasp squeeze! Release. once we got the rhythm of how far I could go without her passing out, it was amazing
Tldr: not enough leverage? Grab her throat! | Regular sex. After a shower. Had a bit of trouble getting leverage, so I put a hand on each of her shoulders. That helped, but not enough so I moved them inwards. Better results, more moaning from her, happy Times, she orgasmed a few Time...
Then like a light switch... I looked at her, she looked at me mischeciously, I slowly moved my hands inwards, and up her neck, she moved a hand up and on top of my hands, she tightened, I tightened, and holy shit everything got better. After that, she would about once a week beg me to choke her. I'm talking two handed, eyes getting fuzzy, choke choking, not "there's a hand on her throat. Whoopie ", I'm talking squeeze! Wait, release, gasp gasp gasp squeeze! Release. once we got the rhythm of how far I could go without her passing out, it was amazing
Tldr: not enough leverage? Grab her throat!
| choking | t5_2vfa1 | cmlxqtk | Regular sex. After a shower. Had a bit of trouble getting leverage, so I put a hand on each of her shoulders. That helped, but not enough so I moved them inwards. Better results, more moaning from her, happy Times, she orgasmed a few Time...
Then like a light switch... I looked at her, she looked at me mischeciously, I slowly moved my hands inwards, and up her neck, she moved a hand up and on top of my hands, she tightened, I tightened, and holy shit everything got better. After that, she would about once a week beg me to choke her. I'm talking two handed, eyes getting fuzzy, choke choking, not "there's a hand on her throat. Whoopie ", I'm talking squeeze! Wait, release, gasp gasp gasp squeeze! Release. once we got the rhythm of how far I could go without her passing out, it was amazing | not enough leverage? Grab her throat! |
Hench4Life_21 | Personally I think this series will be the perfect blend that the PT should have been. You can not expect for them to just make an entire new series with so many new ideas, technologies in the exact same old way. There are going to be differences. *oh no a lightsaber with a crossgaurd* why not? the lore has lots of different lightsabers. It looks slightly different? its just a grittier newer version. He's bringing back the old characters. He has the stormtroopers and millenium falcon and all of the old sound effects. From what I saw this is going to be the grittier more adult adaptation and extension of the OT. You seriously need to realize that according to what you're saying the ONLY way you would be happy is if they seriously just rereleased the EXACT same OT movies but tricked you by calling it a different title. Get it through your head they will not be the same. Personally after I saw the trailer I was so happy. It looks like its going to be an amazing blend.
Tl;dr go watch the OT series if you want to watch the exact same thing as the OT series. dur | Personally I think this series will be the perfect blend that the PT should have been. You can not expect for them to just make an entire new series with so many new ideas, technologies in the exact same old way. There are going to be differences. oh no a lightsaber with a crossgaurd why not? the lore has lots of different lightsabers. It looks slightly different? its just a grittier newer version. He's bringing back the old characters. He has the stormtroopers and millenium falcon and all of the old sound effects. From what I saw this is going to be the grittier more adult adaptation and extension of the OT. You seriously need to realize that according to what you're saying the ONLY way you would be happy is if they seriously just rereleased the EXACT same OT movies but tricked you by calling it a different title. Get it through your head they will not be the same. Personally after I saw the trailer I was so happy. It looks like its going to be an amazing blend.
Tl;dr go watch the OT series if you want to watch the exact same thing as the OT series. dur
| StarWars | t5_2qi4s | cmn4bog | Personally I think this series will be the perfect blend that the PT should have been. You can not expect for them to just make an entire new series with so many new ideas, technologies in the exact same old way. There are going to be differences. oh no a lightsaber with a crossgaurd why not? the lore has lots of different lightsabers. It looks slightly different? its just a grittier newer version. He's bringing back the old characters. He has the stormtroopers and millenium falcon and all of the old sound effects. From what I saw this is going to be the grittier more adult adaptation and extension of the OT. You seriously need to realize that according to what you're saying the ONLY way you would be happy is if they seriously just rereleased the EXACT same OT movies but tricked you by calling it a different title. Get it through your head they will not be the same. Personally after I saw the trailer I was so happy. It looks like its going to be an amazing blend. | go watch the OT series if you want to watch the exact same thing as the OT series. dur |
iwasinmybunk | 1) this is an issue in the fund raising industry. It is not unique to the Scottsdale police.
2) watch this Ted talk on why fundraising is expensive and a lot of times it costs a lot to raise a lot. The ;tldr of the video is this: if you can spend 5,000 and raise 25, or spend 250,000 to raise 300,000 which would you do?
| 1) this is an issue in the fund raising industry. It is not unique to the Scottsdale police.
2) watch this Ted talk on why fundraising is expensive and a lot of times it costs a lot to raise a lot. The ;tldr of the video is this: if you can spend 5,000 and raise 25, or spend 250,000 to raise 300,000 which would you do?
| Bad_Cop_No_Donut | t5_2qqdb | cmm2irx | 1) this is an issue in the fund raising industry. It is not unique to the Scottsdale police.
2) watch this Ted talk on why fundraising is expensive and a lot of times it costs a lot to raise a lot. The ; | of the video is this: if you can spend 5,000 and raise 25, or spend 250,000 to raise 300,000 which would you do? |
Rokusi | > That's a question with more than one answer. All electrons create a magnetic field, but when magnetic fields align in the same direction you see magnets work. There are two theories: one is that magnetic fields are clouds of energy repelling and attracting other objects. The other theory is on the quantum level which says electrons emit undetectable particles telling other objects to move away or come closer. Scientists still don't know exactly why objects have a north and a south pole.
TL;DR: Magic all up in this bitch. | > That's a question with more than one answer. All electrons create a magnetic field, but when magnetic fields align in the same direction you see magnets work. There are two theories: one is that magnetic fields are clouds of energy repelling and attracting other objects. The other theory is on the quantum level which says electrons emit undetectable particles telling other objects to move away or come closer. Scientists still don't know exactly why objects have a north and a south pole.
TL;DR: Magic all up in this bitch.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | cmm56xz | That's a question with more than one answer. All electrons create a magnetic field, but when magnetic fields align in the same direction you see magnets work. There are two theories: one is that magnetic fields are clouds of energy repelling and attracting other objects. The other theory is on the quantum level which says electrons emit undetectable particles telling other objects to move away or come closer. Scientists still don't know exactly why objects have a north and a south pole. | Magic all up in this bitch. |
FishinWizard | Why i dont like McDonalds, with no health input:
They can't put a special order together for their fucking lives. It's like they have monkeys back there.
The fries are really flimsy. I dont know how to describe this but they lack substance IMO.
Not sure if they still do this, but their onions are cut ridiculously small, even though onions already tried to do the work for them by being circular.
The milk shakes taste vaguely of cardboard or wood or something, I can't explain it.
The nuggets are pretty good, no complaint.
The apple slices are the soggy, pathetic excuses that one would expect from a packaged apple slice.
The sodas always taste watery. Every fucking time. I even compared it to a bottled coke once out of frustration.
TL;DR: McDonalds is not that great, chill the fuck out.
| Why i dont like McDonalds, with no health input:
They can't put a special order together for their fucking lives. It's like they have monkeys back there.
The fries are really flimsy. I dont know how to describe this but they lack substance IMO.
Not sure if they still do this, but their onions are cut ridiculously small, even though onions already tried to do the work for them by being circular.
The milk shakes taste vaguely of cardboard or wood or something, I can't explain it.
The nuggets are pretty good, no complaint.
The apple slices are the soggy, pathetic excuses that one would expect from a packaged apple slice.
The sodas always taste watery. Every fucking time. I even compared it to a bottled coke once out of frustration.
TL;DR: McDonalds is not that great, chill the fuck out.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | cmmdd3l | Why i dont like McDonalds, with no health input:
They can't put a special order together for their fucking lives. It's like they have monkeys back there.
The fries are really flimsy. I dont know how to describe this but they lack substance IMO.
Not sure if they still do this, but their onions are cut ridiculously small, even though onions already tried to do the work for them by being circular.
The milk shakes taste vaguely of cardboard or wood or something, I can't explain it.
The nuggets are pretty good, no complaint.
The apple slices are the soggy, pathetic excuses that one would expect from a packaged apple slice.
The sodas always taste watery. Every fucking time. I even compared it to a bottled coke once out of frustration. | McDonalds is not that great, chill the fuck out. |
drowningwithoutwater | I struggle with both physical and mental illness. The last 9 years I've been in and out of the hospital, seeing numerous doctors, etc.
As much as I don't want to be that person who's always ill, I don't necessarily hate it. It's become a large part of my identity, and this is an issue I'm tackling in therapy.
The problem is being ill in whatever form it may be has become my "normal". The majority of people don't become accustomed to their local ER - it's a place to be avoided, saved for only the worst times. But I don't have that. I WANT that hesitation, that associated fear. IV's, cardiac monitors, IM injections, EKGs, MRIs, CTs, the list goes on, but nothing about hospitals scare me. Hell, being inpatient is also part of that "normal".
I hate that it's become my normal, my identity. A few people I've mentioned this to have related in their own ways. After being ill for so long, other things slip away. Important goals are sidetracked or simply forgotten. There also exists the problem that because my life was placed on hold so many times my peers passed me in their lives. Because of this, I latch onto my illness as my identity. Who would I be without it? I'm trying to find that person.
TL;DR: I've been sick for many years, physically and mentally, and I've come to hold that as my identity. I want to change that and am trying to do so. | I struggle with both physical and mental illness. The last 9 years I've been in and out of the hospital, seeing numerous doctors, etc.
As much as I don't want to be that person who's always ill, I don't necessarily hate it. It's become a large part of my identity, and this is an issue I'm tackling in therapy.
The problem is being ill in whatever form it may be has become my "normal". The majority of people don't become accustomed to their local ER - it's a place to be avoided, saved for only the worst times. But I don't have that. I WANT that hesitation, that associated fear. IV's, cardiac monitors, IM injections, EKGs, MRIs, CTs, the list goes on, but nothing about hospitals scare me. Hell, being inpatient is also part of that "normal".
I hate that it's become my normal, my identity. A few people I've mentioned this to have related in their own ways. After being ill for so long, other things slip away. Important goals are sidetracked or simply forgotten. There also exists the problem that because my life was placed on hold so many times my peers passed me in their lives. Because of this, I latch onto my illness as my identity. Who would I be without it? I'm trying to find that person.
TL;DR: I've been sick for many years, physically and mentally, and I've come to hold that as my identity. I want to change that and am trying to do so.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | cmmkyx0 | I struggle with both physical and mental illness. The last 9 years I've been in and out of the hospital, seeing numerous doctors, etc.
As much as I don't want to be that person who's always ill, I don't necessarily hate it. It's become a large part of my identity, and this is an issue I'm tackling in therapy.
The problem is being ill in whatever form it may be has become my "normal". The majority of people don't become accustomed to their local ER - it's a place to be avoided, saved for only the worst times. But I don't have that. I WANT that hesitation, that associated fear. IV's, cardiac monitors, IM injections, EKGs, MRIs, CTs, the list goes on, but nothing about hospitals scare me. Hell, being inpatient is also part of that "normal".
I hate that it's become my normal, my identity. A few people I've mentioned this to have related in their own ways. After being ill for so long, other things slip away. Important goals are sidetracked or simply forgotten. There also exists the problem that because my life was placed on hold so many times my peers passed me in their lives. Because of this, I latch onto my illness as my identity. Who would I be without it? I'm trying to find that person. | I've been sick for many years, physically and mentally, and I've come to hold that as my identity. I want to change that and am trying to do so. |
InvisibleUp | Sonic fanfiction, in my opinion, is some of the most interesting. Of course that's ignoring all the "Sonic and Amy have sex because why not" fics, anyways. The thing about Sonic is that they have characters with strong, Flanderized personalities and a really simplistic setting. Harry Potter fics, just to compare, pretty much must include magic, and the character personalities are a bit difficult for the average middle-schooler to pick up. Final Fantasy fics pretty much have to be intertwined into the plot somehow. Mario fics are just a mess because Mario and Luigi have no personality. Sonic has just the right balance that somehow makes it insanely popular for wildly different yet still kinda-common fics.
It's interesting seeing what people of different backgrounds have to write about, all with roughly the same characters as a point of reference. For example, [here's one probably written by a middle schooler where the Sonic girls perform in a rock concert.]( Here's another one where [Amy is abused by her parents and is rejected by most her school.]( There's another one where [Amy enters a talent show in a high school to stand out against her bullies]( (I think. Been a while since I've read that one.) There was one that I can't find the link to where Sonic & co. were Sonic-Rider board enthusiasts in a big, desolate city where they were banned. And then you have the silly yet still interesting romantic ones, like [these]( [two.]( All completely different takes on the exact same characters. They're like windows, looking into what's important in people's lives. You know the abused-Amy writer and the talent-show-Amy writer have had completely different takes on bullies, and you can feel how they feel about them. And I really, really like that.
*TL;DR:* Sonic fics are cool because the characters are generic templates that one can stamp with their life experiences without breaking the Sonic universe. | Sonic fanfiction, in my opinion, is some of the most interesting. Of course that's ignoring all the "Sonic and Amy have sex because why not" fics, anyways. The thing about Sonic is that they have characters with strong, Flanderized personalities and a really simplistic setting. Harry Potter fics, just to compare, pretty much must include magic, and the character personalities are a bit difficult for the average middle-schooler to pick up. Final Fantasy fics pretty much have to be intertwined into the plot somehow. Mario fics are just a mess because Mario and Luigi have no personality. Sonic has just the right balance that somehow makes it insanely popular for wildly different yet still kinda-common fics.
It's interesting seeing what people of different backgrounds have to write about, all with roughly the same characters as a point of reference. For example, here's one probably written by a middle schooler where the Sonic girls perform in a rock concert. There was one that I can't find the link to where Sonic & co. were Sonic-Rider board enthusiasts in a big, desolate city where they were banned. And then you have the silly yet still interesting romantic ones, like [these]( [two.]( All completely different takes on the exact same characters. They're like windows, looking into what's important in people's lives. You know the abused-Amy writer and the talent-show-Amy writer have had completely different takes on bullies, and you can feel how they feel about them. And I really, really like that.
TL;DR: Sonic fics are cool because the characters are generic templates that one can stamp with their life experiences without breaking the Sonic universe.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | cmmmps6 | Sonic fanfiction, in my opinion, is some of the most interesting. Of course that's ignoring all the "Sonic and Amy have sex because why not" fics, anyways. The thing about Sonic is that they have characters with strong, Flanderized personalities and a really simplistic setting. Harry Potter fics, just to compare, pretty much must include magic, and the character personalities are a bit difficult for the average middle-schooler to pick up. Final Fantasy fics pretty much have to be intertwined into the plot somehow. Mario fics are just a mess because Mario and Luigi have no personality. Sonic has just the right balance that somehow makes it insanely popular for wildly different yet still kinda-common fics.
It's interesting seeing what people of different backgrounds have to write about, all with roughly the same characters as a point of reference. For example, here's one probably written by a middle schooler where the Sonic girls perform in a rock concert. There was one that I can't find the link to where Sonic & co. were Sonic-Rider board enthusiasts in a big, desolate city where they were banned. And then you have the silly yet still interesting romantic ones, like [these]( [two.]( All completely different takes on the exact same characters. They're like windows, looking into what's important in people's lives. You know the abused-Amy writer and the talent-show-Amy writer have had completely different takes on bullies, and you can feel how they feel about them. And I really, really like that. | Sonic fics are cool because the characters are generic templates that one can stamp with their life experiences without breaking the Sonic universe. |
GlassD2 | TI4 (the $10 million tournament) is a ridiculous outlier when it comes to total prize money. Valve contributed a bit ($1 million I think, on mobile so can't be bothered to check) and the rest came from the players.
You could purchase an in game item called the Compendium for $10 that gave a bunch of goodies 'n shit. Compendiums leveled up through earning compendium points, which could be purchased. Having a higher level compendium meant better goodies. A portion (25% I think?) of money from compendiums went to the prize pool.
There were also various stretch goals that were unlocked as the prize pool increased. Valve originally set the final stretch goal at 6 million and had to create new stretch goals, which shows just how ridiculous TI4 was.
tldr: playerbase went absolutely bananas buying stuff, gave Valve a fuckton of money | TI4 (the $10 million tournament) is a ridiculous outlier when it comes to total prize money. Valve contributed a bit ($1 million I think, on mobile so can't be bothered to check) and the rest came from the players.
You could purchase an in game item called the Compendium for $10 that gave a bunch of goodies 'n shit. Compendiums leveled up through earning compendium points, which could be purchased. Having a higher level compendium meant better goodies. A portion (25% I think?) of money from compendiums went to the prize pool.
There were also various stretch goals that were unlocked as the prize pool increased. Valve originally set the final stretch goal at 6 million and had to create new stretch goals, which shows just how ridiculous TI4 was.
tldr: playerbase went absolutely bananas buying stuff, gave Valve a fuckton of money
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | cmmrhck | TI4 (the $10 million tournament) is a ridiculous outlier when it comes to total prize money. Valve contributed a bit ($1 million I think, on mobile so can't be bothered to check) and the rest came from the players.
You could purchase an in game item called the Compendium for $10 that gave a bunch of goodies 'n shit. Compendiums leveled up through earning compendium points, which could be purchased. Having a higher level compendium meant better goodies. A portion (25% I think?) of money from compendiums went to the prize pool.
There were also various stretch goals that were unlocked as the prize pool increased. Valve originally set the final stretch goal at 6 million and had to create new stretch goals, which shows just how ridiculous TI4 was. | playerbase went absolutely bananas buying stuff, gave Valve a fuckton of money |
Sysiphuslove | If I can avoid ever getting into financial situations involving fees or interest, I do. I avoid interest like the plague. I've never owned a credit card; instead I use a credit union and a Visa debit card. If I can't pay for it without choking I don't buy it. General wisdom says that financial emergencies should be prepared for, and that's true, but any emergency that requires me to use a credit card to pay money I don't have counts for me as a disaster anyway. I can recover from not being able to immediately pay my way out of a problem, but it might be harder to recover from paying money I don't have to do it.
I rent a small apartment for $500/month, if something breaks the landlord fixes it for free, he maintains the grounds and I don't have to pay water, garbage or sewer. My rent payment is my entire cost for housing. Electric is about $40/month, gas is $25, internet $60, phone $50.
My checking account has two layers of money: there's $1000 that serves as a red zone (if it falls below $1000 I need to cut way back and curtail spending, or in extreme circumstances borrow from savings) and about another $1000 that's liquid and is used to live from month to month. All of my normal income goes into checking, in a normal month it shouldn't fall below $1300. If it does, there's a buffer, but there's a certain level of trepidation in cutting into my buffer. If I look at a bank statement that says I have $1200 in checking that puts me into 'I'm poor' mode and I start buying generic pasta. The money under a certain level is kind of invisible to me. If this makes me sound like your Depression-era grandma, well, I know.
I have a savings account with a menial interest rate that I never touch, that money is a psychological concept and not for spending except for emergencies. When I get unexpected money or any kind of bonus, I put enough in checking to bring it over $1500 or so at low ebb (post-rent, post-bills etc) and then the rest goes into savings, where it stays. That's it for my money.
I am happy with very little. I try to keep my imagination in good shape, and I think there are few things as freeing or pleasant as working on something creative while listening to music on Spotify and drinking a glass of Franzia merlot (hey, that's the pricey kind!) or a big cup of coffee. I just do what I like, and as long as I keep my eye on that financial buffer at the beginning and the end of the month I minimize my worry.
If I do have a big expense - this month I spent $400 on Christmas and car maintenance - I have enough free days that I can pick more up at work to make up the difference. I'm a server at a very busy place, and I make $50-$100 a day cash plus what pittance they actually pay me.
**TL:DR:** Aside from all this blah-blah stuff the real secret is just to be materially happy with what you've got and make the most of what you're good at and enjoy. It doesn't mean you shouldn't have ambition to be better, but the wealth you gain is in time, and you can use that time to develop the skills you want to develop and there is always the hope of capitalizing on them in the long run if you want to. Hope is priceless. | If I can avoid ever getting into financial situations involving fees or interest, I do. I avoid interest like the plague. I've never owned a credit card; instead I use a credit union and a Visa debit card. If I can't pay for it without choking I don't buy it. General wisdom says that financial emergencies should be prepared for, and that's true, but any emergency that requires me to use a credit card to pay money I don't have counts for me as a disaster anyway. I can recover from not being able to immediately pay my way out of a problem, but it might be harder to recover from paying money I don't have to do it.
I rent a small apartment for $500/month, if something breaks the landlord fixes it for free, he maintains the grounds and I don't have to pay water, garbage or sewer. My rent payment is my entire cost for housing. Electric is about $40/month, gas is $25, internet $60, phone $50.
My checking account has two layers of money: there's $1000 that serves as a red zone (if it falls below $1000 I need to cut way back and curtail spending, or in extreme circumstances borrow from savings) and about another $1000 that's liquid and is used to live from month to month. All of my normal income goes into checking, in a normal month it shouldn't fall below $1300. If it does, there's a buffer, but there's a certain level of trepidation in cutting into my buffer. If I look at a bank statement that says I have $1200 in checking that puts me into 'I'm poor' mode and I start buying generic pasta. The money under a certain level is kind of invisible to me. If this makes me sound like your Depression-era grandma, well, I know.
I have a savings account with a menial interest rate that I never touch, that money is a psychological concept and not for spending except for emergencies. When I get unexpected money or any kind of bonus, I put enough in checking to bring it over $1500 or so at low ebb (post-rent, post-bills etc) and then the rest goes into savings, where it stays. That's it for my money.
I am happy with very little. I try to keep my imagination in good shape, and I think there are few things as freeing or pleasant as working on something creative while listening to music on Spotify and drinking a glass of Franzia merlot (hey, that's the pricey kind!) or a big cup of coffee. I just do what I like, and as long as I keep my eye on that financial buffer at the beginning and the end of the month I minimize my worry.
If I do have a big expense - this month I spent $400 on Christmas and car maintenance - I have enough free days that I can pick more up at work to make up the difference. I'm a server at a very busy place, and I make $50-$100 a day cash plus what pittance they actually pay me.
TL:DR: Aside from all this blah-blah stuff the real secret is just to be materially happy with what you've got and make the most of what you're good at and enjoy. It doesn't mean you shouldn't have ambition to be better, but the wealth you gain is in time, and you can use that time to develop the skills you want to develop and there is always the hope of capitalizing on them in the long run if you want to. Hope is priceless.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | cmmx9h8 | If I can avoid ever getting into financial situations involving fees or interest, I do. I avoid interest like the plague. I've never owned a credit card; instead I use a credit union and a Visa debit card. If I can't pay for it without choking I don't buy it. General wisdom says that financial emergencies should be prepared for, and that's true, but any emergency that requires me to use a credit card to pay money I don't have counts for me as a disaster anyway. I can recover from not being able to immediately pay my way out of a problem, but it might be harder to recover from paying money I don't have to do it.
I rent a small apartment for $500/month, if something breaks the landlord fixes it for free, he maintains the grounds and I don't have to pay water, garbage or sewer. My rent payment is my entire cost for housing. Electric is about $40/month, gas is $25, internet $60, phone $50.
My checking account has two layers of money: there's $1000 that serves as a red zone (if it falls below $1000 I need to cut way back and curtail spending, or in extreme circumstances borrow from savings) and about another $1000 that's liquid and is used to live from month to month. All of my normal income goes into checking, in a normal month it shouldn't fall below $1300. If it does, there's a buffer, but there's a certain level of trepidation in cutting into my buffer. If I look at a bank statement that says I have $1200 in checking that puts me into 'I'm poor' mode and I start buying generic pasta. The money under a certain level is kind of invisible to me. If this makes me sound like your Depression-era grandma, well, I know.
I have a savings account with a menial interest rate that I never touch, that money is a psychological concept and not for spending except for emergencies. When I get unexpected money or any kind of bonus, I put enough in checking to bring it over $1500 or so at low ebb (post-rent, post-bills etc) and then the rest goes into savings, where it stays. That's it for my money.
I am happy with very little. I try to keep my imagination in good shape, and I think there are few things as freeing or pleasant as working on something creative while listening to music on Spotify and drinking a glass of Franzia merlot (hey, that's the pricey kind!) or a big cup of coffee. I just do what I like, and as long as I keep my eye on that financial buffer at the beginning and the end of the month I minimize my worry.
If I do have a big expense - this month I spent $400 on Christmas and car maintenance - I have enough free days that I can pick more up at work to make up the difference. I'm a server at a very busy place, and I make $50-$100 a day cash plus what pittance they actually pay me. | Aside from all this blah-blah stuff the real secret is just to be materially happy with what you've got and make the most of what you're good at and enjoy. It doesn't mean you shouldn't have ambition to be better, but the wealth you gain is in time, and you can use that time to develop the skills you want to develop and there is always the hope of capitalizing on them in the long run if you want to. Hope is priceless. |
I_can_pun_anything | Thank you kind.. sir?
Sometimes the most fun you can have is by yourself. I find others hold me back more often than not, waiting for them; making plans for trips only to have them cancel out.
I went across eighteen countries solo meeting people along the way. It was the most fun I've had in a while.
Tldr, if you go out and do something solo or travel, nobody is going to remember you anyway. So do what you want. Head to the pub and talk to the bartender or people seated beside you. | Thank you kind.. sir?
Sometimes the most fun you can have is by yourself. I find others hold me back more often than not, waiting for them; making plans for trips only to have them cancel out.
I went across eighteen countries solo meeting people along the way. It was the most fun I've had in a while.
Tldr, if you go out and do something solo or travel, nobody is going to remember you anyway. So do what you want. Head to the pub and talk to the bartender or people seated beside you.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | cmne0ki | Thank you kind.. sir?
Sometimes the most fun you can have is by yourself. I find others hold me back more often than not, waiting for them; making plans for trips only to have them cancel out.
I went across eighteen countries solo meeting people along the way. It was the most fun I've had in a while. | if you go out and do something solo or travel, nobody is going to remember you anyway. So do what you want. Head to the pub and talk to the bartender or people seated beside you. |
sirius_black9999 | items.xml is in a corrupted formatting
as is pocketitems.xml
for debugging the xml files you're advised to open them in a web browser (they'll show the XML if it's syntactically correct, and where the error is)
if it doesn't open correctly in a browser, isaac WILL crash because of formatting errors
ALSO, check out documents/my games/binding of isaac: rebirth/log.txt for (possible) error messages, and crashlogs
TL;DR:
avoid strange characters, these lines are causing the errors:
<active cooldown="220" description="Masowe przera¿enie" gfx="Collectibles_039_MomsBra.png" id="39" maxcharges="3" name="Stanik Mamy" />
<card description="M_gest du reinen Herzens sein" hud="14_Temperance" id="15" name="XIV - M\&igkeit" /> | items.xml is in a corrupted formatting
as is pocketitems.xml
for debugging the xml files you're advised to open them in a web browser (they'll show the XML if it's syntactically correct, and where the error is)
if it doesn't open correctly in a browser, isaac WILL crash because of formatting errors
ALSO, check out documents/my games/binding of isaac: rebirth/log.txt for (possible) error messages, and crashlogs
TL;DR:
avoid strange characters, these lines are causing the errors:
<active cooldown="220" description="Masowe przera¿enie" gfx="Collectibles_039_MomsBra.png" id="39" maxcharges="3" name="Stanik Mamy" />
<card description="M_gest du reinen Herzens sein" hud="14_Temperance" id="15" name="XIV - M\&igkeit" />
| themoddingofisaac | t5_34xs3 | cmna47s | items.xml is in a corrupted formatting
as is pocketitems.xml
for debugging the xml files you're advised to open them in a web browser (they'll show the XML if it's syntactically correct, and where the error is)
if it doesn't open correctly in a browser, isaac WILL crash because of formatting errors
ALSO, check out documents/my games/binding of isaac: rebirth/log.txt for (possible) error messages, and crashlogs | avoid strange characters, these lines are causing the errors:
<active cooldown="220" description="Masowe przera¿enie" gfx="Collectibles_039_MomsBra.png" id="39" maxcharges="3" name="Stanik Mamy" />
<card description="M_gest du reinen Herzens sein" hud="14_Temperance" id="15" name="XIV - M\&igkeit" /> |
Krenolds | What in the hell is unmanly cooking? My husband is a goddamned amazing cook. He bakes fresh bread every weekend for us to eat throughout the week. Next weekend we're going to bake hundreds of cookies to send out for the holidays. It's not my tradition, it's his. My brother also cooks for his family. Every day on the way home from work he stops by his local grcery store for fresh ingredients, and he's a fantastic cook. He also hunts, watched football, goes paintballing with his adult son. There's nothing inherently masculine or feminine about cooking. It's just a skill or a talent. People should feel free to embrace that.
TL;DR: Fuck you.
Edit: Also, what, women can't have strength, honor, principles, and courage? Extra fuck you to you. | What in the hell is unmanly cooking? My husband is a goddamned amazing cook. He bakes fresh bread every weekend for us to eat throughout the week. Next weekend we're going to bake hundreds of cookies to send out for the holidays. It's not my tradition, it's his. My brother also cooks for his family. Every day on the way home from work he stops by his local grcery store for fresh ingredients, and he's a fantastic cook. He also hunts, watched football, goes paintballing with his adult son. There's nothing inherently masculine or feminine about cooking. It's just a skill or a talent. People should feel free to embrace that.
TL;DR: Fuck you.
Edit: Also, what, women can't have strength, honor, principles, and courage? Extra fuck you to you.
| news | t5_2qh3l | cmn428k | What in the hell is unmanly cooking? My husband is a goddamned amazing cook. He bakes fresh bread every weekend for us to eat throughout the week. Next weekend we're going to bake hundreds of cookies to send out for the holidays. It's not my tradition, it's his. My brother also cooks for his family. Every day on the way home from work he stops by his local grcery store for fresh ingredients, and he's a fantastic cook. He also hunts, watched football, goes paintballing with his adult son. There's nothing inherently masculine or feminine about cooking. It's just a skill or a talent. People should feel free to embrace that. | Fuck you.
Edit: Also, what, women can't have strength, honor, principles, and courage? Extra fuck you to you. |
MMACheerpuppy | Yeah I'm working on the weight/dimensions now.
Assuming customs will come to £60 for importation to the UK delivery (not sure on this) this is still [](/WORTH). But then on top of that if I also paid for the *whole delivery* (the whole 80 dollars) then it would still be [](/WORTH) on my end, though paying for customs on top of delivery, and that VAT factors in that delivery really sucks.. Delivery+VAT is the main issue here. But again, I don't know how Destiny would want to do things.
tldr shit in the uk costs fuckloads. | Yeah I'm working on the weight/dimensions now.
Assuming customs will come to £60 for importation to the UK delivery (not sure on this) this is still . But then on top of that if I also paid for the whole delivery (the whole 80 dollars) then it would still be on my end, though paying for customs on top of delivery, and that VAT factors in that delivery really sucks.. Delivery+VAT is the main issue here. But again, I don't know how Destiny would want to do things.
tldr shit in the uk costs fuckloads.
| Destiny | t5_2qnvz | cmmlxji | Yeah I'm working on the weight/dimensions now.
Assuming customs will come to £60 for importation to the UK delivery (not sure on this) this is still . But then on top of that if I also paid for the whole delivery (the whole 80 dollars) then it would still be on my end, though paying for customs on top of delivery, and that VAT factors in that delivery really sucks.. Delivery+VAT is the main issue here. But again, I don't know how Destiny would want to do things. | shit in the uk costs fuckloads. |
pureluxss | This! Rogers saves a ton of money by not having to pay market value for the jays contract. There is a reason that these TV deals are going for so much across sports. Sports is pretty much the only thing that is keeping people from cutting the cord and/or they are able to sell subscriptions to sports as a discrete item. None of this benefit shows up on the Jays books unless Rogers paid market value for the broadcast rights which they never will as long as they own it.
TL:DR As long as Jays lose less than what Rogers would pay incrementally for the broadcast rights, then Rogers wins. | This! Rogers saves a ton of money by not having to pay market value for the jays contract. There is a reason that these TV deals are going for so much across sports. Sports is pretty much the only thing that is keeping people from cutting the cord and/or they are able to sell subscriptions to sports as a discrete item. None of this benefit shows up on the Jays books unless Rogers paid market value for the broadcast rights which they never will as long as they own it.
TL:DR As long as Jays lose less than what Rogers would pay incrementally for the broadcast rights, then Rogers wins.
| Torontobluejays | t5_2sb61 | cmmz5v1 | This! Rogers saves a ton of money by not having to pay market value for the jays contract. There is a reason that these TV deals are going for so much across sports. Sports is pretty much the only thing that is keeping people from cutting the cord and/or they are able to sell subscriptions to sports as a discrete item. None of this benefit shows up on the Jays books unless Rogers paid market value for the broadcast rights which they never will as long as they own it. | As long as Jays lose less than what Rogers would pay incrementally for the broadcast rights, then Rogers wins. |
Korlus | Re: List #1.
Kagi is decent against it, but you're only nullifying a single target lock per turn, and he turns into something of a sacrificial lamb. He *can* be good, but you ought to know what you're taking him for - be incredibly aggressive knowing that the CR-90 will have to kill him first (and so *will* kill him first). Echo and Soontir are both decent choices because they pair well with Kagi and can get behind it... but don't forget you also have to deal with whatever else the Rebel player is throwing at you, and in a 300 point game, that can be a *lot* to arc-dodge.
It requires a lot of skill to arc-dodge ~150 points of Rebel ships, even assuming the Corvette isn't a problem.
Rexler is a good choice, and Rhymer is over-costed, but will do plenty of damage to make him feel worth it. Homing Missiles are decent, but remember that there may be a better target for them than the CR-90, and Jonus will need to keep close to Rhymer and at least one Defender.
That many HLCs is great for killing it, but remember that in the end, Critical Hits are often what makes the difference - they are particularly crippling against a CR-90 and so while the HLC is still worth its points, cutting it in favour of extra ships is also a viable option.
I'm not sure why you have a Shield Upgrade on Krassis, and while I can see the reasoning behind Decoy, remember the limited range - if you're going to use it to keep Rexler from being blocked, make sure to keep that DSP within range 1-2.
Overall it's a pretty good list that ought to play faster than many 300 point Imperials (no swarm), so ought to do well.
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Re: list #2:
Jendon against a CR-90 is a bad matchup and you will need to fly him incredibly well to let him survive. He is overloaded on upgrades and does not do well against Turbolasers. This doesn't mean you should automatically cut him, but you will need to put serious consideration into how you fly him each and every match. Against non-Epic ships, he's probably pretty decent, if a little overcosted. Personally I would have made him more of a support ship (cut the HLC, Advanced Sensors, Gunner and Weapons Engineer) and tried to shoehorn the points into another ship or other upgrades. He's going to be one of the first ships to die, and 51 points is a lot to waste. I'd even consider ditching the Engine Upgrade - in a 300pt game the likelihood of nothing being in front of him is slight, and if you know you're against a Corvette, he will not last until the end-game unless something really strange has gone on.
Similarly, the Scimitar Squadron Pilot is a pretty decent ship, but three munitions seems a bit much. Seismic Charges relies on getting close to the enemy, whereas Cluster Missiles do best at range 2. They're good choices, but if the enemy is afraid of the Assault Missiles they'll try and target them down first, so be doubly careful.
Similarly, any time I see a bomber with Munitions Failsafe and no Flechette Torpedoes I wonder where else the points went - for 2pts a potentially re-usable stress upgrade is a fantastic buy. You'd be surprised how stressing out a single ship can completely change the course of a firefight.
Why the Black Squadron Pilots with VI? 15pts for a PS6 TIE Fighter seems like an... Odd choice, and a (physically) expensive one at that. With seven of them, that's 21 points you could save if you downgrade to Academy Pilots, or 14 if you use Obsidians - either way, enough for a whole extra TIE Fighter and change (or even a basic Interceptor). What do you expect to fight that PS6 will solve but PS3 won't?
The real "problem" with the second list isn't a gameplay one, but that it has nine TIEs in it, plus three bombers and a Firespray - that means you're having to move thirteen ships each turn. Just be careful to allocate enough time for the game.
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TL;DR:
Be careful flying either list. The second one's TIE Choice seems weird, the first one's going to need some skill/luck to work well. | Re: List #1.
Kagi is decent against it, but you're only nullifying a single target lock per turn, and he turns into something of a sacrificial lamb. He can be good, but you ought to know what you're taking him for - be incredibly aggressive knowing that the CR-90 will have to kill him first (and so will kill him first). Echo and Soontir are both decent choices because they pair well with Kagi and can get behind it... but don't forget you also have to deal with whatever else the Rebel player is throwing at you, and in a 300 point game, that can be a lot to arc-dodge.
It requires a lot of skill to arc-dodge ~150 points of Rebel ships, even assuming the Corvette isn't a problem.
Rexler is a good choice, and Rhymer is over-costed, but will do plenty of damage to make him feel worth it. Homing Missiles are decent, but remember that there may be a better target for them than the CR-90, and Jonus will need to keep close to Rhymer and at least one Defender.
That many HLCs is great for killing it, but remember that in the end, Critical Hits are often what makes the difference - they are particularly crippling against a CR-90 and so while the HLC is still worth its points, cutting it in favour of extra ships is also a viable option.
I'm not sure why you have a Shield Upgrade on Krassis, and while I can see the reasoning behind Decoy, remember the limited range - if you're going to use it to keep Rexler from being blocked, make sure to keep that DSP within range 1-2.
Overall it's a pretty good list that ought to play faster than many 300 point Imperials (no swarm), so ought to do well.
Re: list #2:
Jendon against a CR-90 is a bad matchup and you will need to fly him incredibly well to let him survive. He is overloaded on upgrades and does not do well against Turbolasers. This doesn't mean you should automatically cut him, but you will need to put serious consideration into how you fly him each and every match. Against non-Epic ships, he's probably pretty decent, if a little overcosted. Personally I would have made him more of a support ship (cut the HLC, Advanced Sensors, Gunner and Weapons Engineer) and tried to shoehorn the points into another ship or other upgrades. He's going to be one of the first ships to die, and 51 points is a lot to waste. I'd even consider ditching the Engine Upgrade - in a 300pt game the likelihood of nothing being in front of him is slight, and if you know you're against a Corvette, he will not last until the end-game unless something really strange has gone on.
Similarly, the Scimitar Squadron Pilot is a pretty decent ship, but three munitions seems a bit much. Seismic Charges relies on getting close to the enemy, whereas Cluster Missiles do best at range 2. They're good choices, but if the enemy is afraid of the Assault Missiles they'll try and target them down first, so be doubly careful.
Similarly, any time I see a bomber with Munitions Failsafe and no Flechette Torpedoes I wonder where else the points went - for 2pts a potentially re-usable stress upgrade is a fantastic buy. You'd be surprised how stressing out a single ship can completely change the course of a firefight.
Why the Black Squadron Pilots with VI? 15pts for a PS6 TIE Fighter seems like an... Odd choice, and a (physically) expensive one at that. With seven of them, that's 21 points you could save if you downgrade to Academy Pilots, or 14 if you use Obsidians - either way, enough for a whole extra TIE Fighter and change (or even a basic Interceptor). What do you expect to fight that PS6 will solve but PS3 won't?
The real "problem" with the second list isn't a gameplay one, but that it has nine TIEs in it, plus three bombers and a Firespray - that means you're having to move thirteen ships each turn. Just be careful to allocate enough time for the game.
TL;DR:
Be careful flying either list. The second one's TIE Choice seems weird, the first one's going to need some skill/luck to work well.
| XWingTMG | t5_2vsga | cmnq7iw | Re: List #1.
Kagi is decent against it, but you're only nullifying a single target lock per turn, and he turns into something of a sacrificial lamb. He can be good, but you ought to know what you're taking him for - be incredibly aggressive knowing that the CR-90 will have to kill him first (and so will kill him first). Echo and Soontir are both decent choices because they pair well with Kagi and can get behind it... but don't forget you also have to deal with whatever else the Rebel player is throwing at you, and in a 300 point game, that can be a lot to arc-dodge.
It requires a lot of skill to arc-dodge ~150 points of Rebel ships, even assuming the Corvette isn't a problem.
Rexler is a good choice, and Rhymer is over-costed, but will do plenty of damage to make him feel worth it. Homing Missiles are decent, but remember that there may be a better target for them than the CR-90, and Jonus will need to keep close to Rhymer and at least one Defender.
That many HLCs is great for killing it, but remember that in the end, Critical Hits are often what makes the difference - they are particularly crippling against a CR-90 and so while the HLC is still worth its points, cutting it in favour of extra ships is also a viable option.
I'm not sure why you have a Shield Upgrade on Krassis, and while I can see the reasoning behind Decoy, remember the limited range - if you're going to use it to keep Rexler from being blocked, make sure to keep that DSP within range 1-2.
Overall it's a pretty good list that ought to play faster than many 300 point Imperials (no swarm), so ought to do well.
Re: list #2:
Jendon against a CR-90 is a bad matchup and you will need to fly him incredibly well to let him survive. He is overloaded on upgrades and does not do well against Turbolasers. This doesn't mean you should automatically cut him, but you will need to put serious consideration into how you fly him each and every match. Against non-Epic ships, he's probably pretty decent, if a little overcosted. Personally I would have made him more of a support ship (cut the HLC, Advanced Sensors, Gunner and Weapons Engineer) and tried to shoehorn the points into another ship or other upgrades. He's going to be one of the first ships to die, and 51 points is a lot to waste. I'd even consider ditching the Engine Upgrade - in a 300pt game the likelihood of nothing being in front of him is slight, and if you know you're against a Corvette, he will not last until the end-game unless something really strange has gone on.
Similarly, the Scimitar Squadron Pilot is a pretty decent ship, but three munitions seems a bit much. Seismic Charges relies on getting close to the enemy, whereas Cluster Missiles do best at range 2. They're good choices, but if the enemy is afraid of the Assault Missiles they'll try and target them down first, so be doubly careful.
Similarly, any time I see a bomber with Munitions Failsafe and no Flechette Torpedoes I wonder where else the points went - for 2pts a potentially re-usable stress upgrade is a fantastic buy. You'd be surprised how stressing out a single ship can completely change the course of a firefight.
Why the Black Squadron Pilots with VI? 15pts for a PS6 TIE Fighter seems like an... Odd choice, and a (physically) expensive one at that. With seven of them, that's 21 points you could save if you downgrade to Academy Pilots, or 14 if you use Obsidians - either way, enough for a whole extra TIE Fighter and change (or even a basic Interceptor). What do you expect to fight that PS6 will solve but PS3 won't?
The real "problem" with the second list isn't a gameplay one, but that it has nine TIEs in it, plus three bombers and a Firespray - that means you're having to move thirteen ships each turn. Just be careful to allocate enough time for the game. | Be careful flying either list. The second one's TIE Choice seems weird, the first one's going to need some skill/luck to work well. |
missachlys | I was all excited that cheaty low bar was working for me and I guess the whole proper sleep and food thing was more of a contributor than I thought because I'm right back to 145x5, was struggling to even hit 160x1. :( -15lbs 5RM.
Two steps forward one step back. I know I should still be happy because it's still one step forward and +10lbs in the end and at least this step isn't exploding my hip flexor, but it's frustrating and I hate how slow my progress is and how often I have to take a step back. And I keep telling myself I'll actually start be good about sleep and food but I've been telling myself that for the last 4 months and I'm literally the exact same weight I was 4 months ago. Not a pound difference.
At the point where I'm seriously considering mass gainers. WTF.
Also I ran a timed two mile yesterday and was at 14:03 which is ~1:30 slower than my high school time which was already pretty slow compared to my other distances and it was just kinda the disheartening cherry on top.
Tl;dr I'm whiny | I was all excited that cheaty low bar was working for me and I guess the whole proper sleep and food thing was more of a contributor than I thought because I'm right back to 145x5, was struggling to even hit 160x1. :( -15lbs 5RM.
Two steps forward one step back. I know I should still be happy because it's still one step forward and +10lbs in the end and at least this step isn't exploding my hip flexor, but it's frustrating and I hate how slow my progress is and how often I have to take a step back. And I keep telling myself I'll actually start be good about sleep and food but I've been telling myself that for the last 4 months and I'm literally the exact same weight I was 4 months ago. Not a pound difference.
At the point where I'm seriously considering mass gainers. WTF.
Also I ran a timed two mile yesterday and was at 14:03 which is ~1:30 slower than my high school time which was already pretty slow compared to my other distances and it was just kinda the disheartening cherry on top.
Tl;dr I'm whiny
| Weakpots | t5_34op9 | cmmroq1 | I was all excited that cheaty low bar was working for me and I guess the whole proper sleep and food thing was more of a contributor than I thought because I'm right back to 145x5, was struggling to even hit 160x1. :( -15lbs 5RM.
Two steps forward one step back. I know I should still be happy because it's still one step forward and +10lbs in the end and at least this step isn't exploding my hip flexor, but it's frustrating and I hate how slow my progress is and how often I have to take a step back. And I keep telling myself I'll actually start be good about sleep and food but I've been telling myself that for the last 4 months and I'm literally the exact same weight I was 4 months ago. Not a pound difference.
At the point where I'm seriously considering mass gainers. WTF.
Also I ran a timed two mile yesterday and was at 14:03 which is ~1:30 slower than my high school time which was already pretty slow compared to my other distances and it was just kinda the disheartening cherry on top. | I'm whiny |
Phezh | This is just bullshit. Yes it is bad if one company has the whole market under control for a certain product because they can lower quality and ask for more money because no one else can offer the product.
Streaming is a completely different thing. There is a ton of potential money in the market and as soon as twitch start to get shitty a bunch of new services will come out of nowhere and take over. You don't need much to start a site like twitch (compared to producing cars for example) and there's an insane amount of investors that would throw money at a new service if the community is unsatisfied with twitch.
The twitch guys know that too, the crowd that uses their service is not stupid and they know they have choices. They won't just suddenly stop all the good stuff their doing and start being evil because they can.
TL;DR As long as twitch offers good service there is nothign to worry about and as soon as they stop someone else will replace them.
| This is just bullshit. Yes it is bad if one company has the whole market under control for a certain product because they can lower quality and ask for more money because no one else can offer the product.
Streaming is a completely different thing. There is a ton of potential money in the market and as soon as twitch start to get shitty a bunch of new services will come out of nowhere and take over. You don't need much to start a site like twitch (compared to producing cars for example) and there's an insane amount of investors that would throw money at a new service if the community is unsatisfied with twitch.
The twitch guys know that too, the crowd that uses their service is not stupid and they know they have choices. They won't just suddenly stop all the good stuff their doing and start being evil because they can.
TL;DR As long as twitch offers good service there is nothign to worry about and as soon as they stop someone else will replace them.
| leagueoflegends | t5_2rfxx | cmmvjsc | This is just bullshit. Yes it is bad if one company has the whole market under control for a certain product because they can lower quality and ask for more money because no one else can offer the product.
Streaming is a completely different thing. There is a ton of potential money in the market and as soon as twitch start to get shitty a bunch of new services will come out of nowhere and take over. You don't need much to start a site like twitch (compared to producing cars for example) and there's an insane amount of investors that would throw money at a new service if the community is unsatisfied with twitch.
The twitch guys know that too, the crowd that uses their service is not stupid and they know they have choices. They won't just suddenly stop all the good stuff their doing and start being evil because they can. | As long as twitch offers good service there is nothign to worry about and as soon as they stop someone else will replace them. |
xa3D | He said he got tired of the competitive scene and the pressure and whatnot. TLDR s4 was shitty and made him salty. | He said he got tired of the competitive scene and the pressure and whatnot. TLDR s4 was shitty and made him salty.
| leagueoflegends | t5_2rfxx | cmmvmml | He said he got tired of the competitive scene and the pressure and whatnot. | s4 was shitty and made him salty. |
gnarvin | I'll ride the downvote train with you, that scooter kid payed to ride just as much as the skater. Just because you dont like his choice of ride doesnt mean he is always at fault. This kid was going super slow, and heading into what looks like a mini ramp. The scooter kid could of easily of been in a middle of a run , you have no clue from the angle. Also the kid filming should of made sure it was clear and the kids knew he was coming that way.
TL;DR Get over yourselves kids, everyone paid to ride the same place. Share the space fuckers. | I'll ride the downvote train with you, that scooter kid payed to ride just as much as the skater. Just because you dont like his choice of ride doesnt mean he is always at fault. This kid was going super slow, and heading into what looks like a mini ramp. The scooter kid could of easily of been in a middle of a run , you have no clue from the angle. Also the kid filming should of made sure it was clear and the kids knew he was coming that way.
TL;DR Get over yourselves kids, everyone paid to ride the same place. Share the space fuckers.
| skateboarding | t5_2qig3 | cmn8u4f | I'll ride the downvote train with you, that scooter kid payed to ride just as much as the skater. Just because you dont like his choice of ride doesnt mean he is always at fault. This kid was going super slow, and heading into what looks like a mini ramp. The scooter kid could of easily of been in a middle of a run , you have no clue from the angle. Also the kid filming should of made sure it was clear and the kids knew he was coming that way. | Get over yourselves kids, everyone paid to ride the same place. Share the space fuckers. |
gwallace1612 | Misadvising me about billing. I used to work at ohones4u so lost my job in September. Asked them if I could pay sep bill with october bill, they said that's fine. Then cut me off 2 weeks later. Rang at end of October, paid both bills and setup my direct debit with them. They didn't set up the DD so got cut off again 2 weeks later. Rang on Friday to pay the bill as no DD was taken. Was told I have to pay two bills to get service back as somehow my December bill has already been produced. Not due to pay it until 1st of Jan. So paid them both. And was then told I'll have another bill to be paid on 2nd of Jan. Hold on, I just paid that bill?
There collections team treat you like dirt. And if you're not in a major city like London or Manchester. Be prepared to stand outside to make a call.
The 4g coverage is great compared to Voda and o2 etc. But they throttle the speeds. When it first came to stoke I used to hit 60-70mbps download. Now lucky to hit 15mbps in the same area.
I'd go to o2 or dare I say it 3. I had a bad experience with three cancelling a contract at the end of the term almost 10 years ago but heard they've really turned things around
EDIT: wow that was a rant. TL:DR Don't join EE | Misadvising me about billing. I used to work at ohones4u so lost my job in September. Asked them if I could pay sep bill with october bill, they said that's fine. Then cut me off 2 weeks later. Rang at end of October, paid both bills and setup my direct debit with them. They didn't set up the DD so got cut off again 2 weeks later. Rang on Friday to pay the bill as no DD was taken. Was told I have to pay two bills to get service back as somehow my December bill has already been produced. Not due to pay it until 1st of Jan. So paid them both. And was then told I'll have another bill to be paid on 2nd of Jan. Hold on, I just paid that bill?
There collections team treat you like dirt. And if you're not in a major city like London or Manchester. Be prepared to stand outside to make a call.
The 4g coverage is great compared to Voda and o2 etc. But they throttle the speeds. When it first came to stoke I used to hit 60-70mbps download. Now lucky to hit 15mbps in the same area.
I'd go to o2 or dare I say it 3. I had a bad experience with three cancelling a contract at the end of the term almost 10 years ago but heard they've really turned things around
EDIT: wow that was a rant. TL:DR Don't join EE
| nexus6 | t5_2vo75 | cmo1qwa | Misadvising me about billing. I used to work at ohones4u so lost my job in September. Asked them if I could pay sep bill with october bill, they said that's fine. Then cut me off 2 weeks later. Rang at end of October, paid both bills and setup my direct debit with them. They didn't set up the DD so got cut off again 2 weeks later. Rang on Friday to pay the bill as no DD was taken. Was told I have to pay two bills to get service back as somehow my December bill has already been produced. Not due to pay it until 1st of Jan. So paid them both. And was then told I'll have another bill to be paid on 2nd of Jan. Hold on, I just paid that bill?
There collections team treat you like dirt. And if you're not in a major city like London or Manchester. Be prepared to stand outside to make a call.
The 4g coverage is great compared to Voda and o2 etc. But they throttle the speeds. When it first came to stoke I used to hit 60-70mbps download. Now lucky to hit 15mbps in the same area.
I'd go to o2 or dare I say it 3. I had a bad experience with three cancelling a contract at the end of the term almost 10 years ago but heard they've really turned things around
EDIT: wow that was a rant. | Don't join EE |
canotila | The coupon came in a promo email from Pepsi and Long John Silver's. ljspromotions.com is Long John Silver's promotion website. If you search for ljspromotions.com in Google you can see links to coupons they've had in months and years passed.
I don't have a LJS anywhere nearby, but I don't see any reason why it wouldn't work. I suppose some franchises may have their own rules on coupons, but this is an official LJS coupon so I don't see any reason it wouldn't be accepted at (at least most of) them.
TL;DR It's a legit coupon hosted on a legit Long John Silver's website. | The coupon came in a promo email from Pepsi and Long John Silver's. ljspromotions.com is Long John Silver's promotion website. If you search for ljspromotions.com in Google you can see links to coupons they've had in months and years passed.
I don't have a LJS anywhere nearby, but I don't see any reason why it wouldn't work. I suppose some franchises may have their own rules on coupons, but this is an official LJS coupon so I don't see any reason it wouldn't be accepted at (at least most of) them.
TL;DR It's a legit coupon hosted on a legit Long John Silver's website.
| coupons | t5_2qt5n | cmnl4kc | The coupon came in a promo email from Pepsi and Long John Silver's. ljspromotions.com is Long John Silver's promotion website. If you search for ljspromotions.com in Google you can see links to coupons they've had in months and years passed.
I don't have a LJS anywhere nearby, but I don't see any reason why it wouldn't work. I suppose some franchises may have their own rules on coupons, but this is an official LJS coupon so I don't see any reason it wouldn't be accepted at (at least most of) them. | It's a legit coupon hosted on a legit Long John Silver's website. |
MajesticPensiveTall | Before I got on the pill- 3 days at least. Laying in the fetal position sobbing for at least 2 of them. Throwing up due to sheer pain.
On the pill- sometimes a day. Even if my cramps aren't too excruciating, sometimes my period upsets my stomach.
TL;DR I love birth control. | Before I got on the pill- 3 days at least. Laying in the fetal position sobbing for at least 2 of them. Throwing up due to sheer pain.
On the pill- sometimes a day. Even if my cramps aren't too excruciating, sometimes my period upsets my stomach.
TL;DR I love birth control.
| AskWomen | t5_2rxrw | cmnjuls | Before I got on the pill- 3 days at least. Laying in the fetal position sobbing for at least 2 of them. Throwing up due to sheer pain.
On the pill- sometimes a day. Even if my cramps aren't too excruciating, sometimes my period upsets my stomach. | I love birth control. |
icsnapper | Your post title held more sense for me than the post body. I wouldn't be surprised to see a "hard mode", mainly due to the insane number of players who have dominated this game. But the way it's been discussed so far doesn't allude (to me) how this would be executed on....
TL;DR: I liked your post but didn't really understand what the "hard mode" execution would look like, in particular vs. The status quo.
EDIT: "dominated" became "foisted" WTF "foisted" ok...... Lol, contextually hilarious :-).OK FIXED | Your post title held more sense for me than the post body. I wouldn't be surprised to see a "hard mode", mainly due to the insane number of players who have dominated this game. But the way it's been discussed so far doesn't allude (to me) how this would be executed on....
TL;DR: I liked your post but didn't really understand what the "hard mode" execution would look like, in particular vs. The status quo.
EDIT: "dominated" became "foisted" WTF "foisted" ok...... Lol, contextually hilarious :-).OK FIXED
| DestinyTheGame | t5_2vq0w | cmnnciy | Your post title held more sense for me than the post body. I wouldn't be surprised to see a "hard mode", mainly due to the insane number of players who have dominated this game. But the way it's been discussed so far doesn't allude (to me) how this would be executed on.... | I liked your post but didn't really understand what the "hard mode" execution would look like, in particular vs. The status quo.
EDIT: "dominated" became "foisted" WTF "foisted" ok...... Lol, contextually hilarious :-).OK FIXED |
carsausage | To be fair, the cop was corrupt and the charge against Garner was false. I'll give you that one. I agree that garner didn't need to be shot.
But, innocent? Garner had one hell of a rap sheet. He had 30 charges since 1980, and these weren't trivial misdemeanors like speeding or running a yellow light either. He was arrested for assault, driving without a license, dealing marijuana, and even identity theft.
TL;DR murder is bad | To be fair, the cop was corrupt and the charge against Garner was false. I'll give you that one. I agree that garner didn't need to be shot.
But, innocent? Garner had one hell of a rap sheet. He had 30 charges since 1980, and these weren't trivial misdemeanors like speeding or running a yellow light either. He was arrested for assault, driving without a license, dealing marijuana, and even identity theft.
TL;DR murder is bad
| forwardsfromgrandma | t5_2t776 | cmou4pu | To be fair, the cop was corrupt and the charge against Garner was false. I'll give you that one. I agree that garner didn't need to be shot.
But, innocent? Garner had one hell of a rap sheet. He had 30 charges since 1980, and these weren't trivial misdemeanors like speeding or running a yellow light either. He was arrested for assault, driving without a license, dealing marijuana, and even identity theft. | murder is bad |
Sputek | 12 man, 2 keepers, kept in the round above where they were drafted or UDFA in the 10th.
Listed in the rounds that they will replace:
1- Julio Jones
2- Le'Veon Bell
3- pick traded for Lacy (failed to make playoff push regardless)
4- Michael Floyd
5- RGIII (I am an idiot)
6- Pierre Thomas
7- Eric Decker
8- Martellus Bennett
9- Mark Ingram
10- C.J. Anderson, Mark Sanchez, Mark Ingram, not much else worth mentioning unless Hillman gets the job instead of Anderson
11- Mike Evans
12- was Alex Smith, traded him for Vernon Davis, because I am an idiot
13- nothing interesting past this point actually.
TL:DR who do i keep in the 10th because it's Bell and X at this point. | 12 man, 2 keepers, kept in the round above where they were drafted or UDFA in the 10th.
Listed in the rounds that they will replace:
1- Julio Jones
2- Le'Veon Bell
3- pick traded for Lacy (failed to make playoff push regardless)
4- Michael Floyd
5- RGIII (I am an idiot)
6- Pierre Thomas
7- Eric Decker
8- Martellus Bennett
9- Mark Ingram
10- C.J. Anderson, Mark Sanchez, Mark Ingram, not much else worth mentioning unless Hillman gets the job instead of Anderson
11- Mike Evans
12- was Alex Smith, traded him for Vernon Davis, because I am an idiot
13- nothing interesting past this point actually.
TL:DR who do i keep in the 10th because it's Bell and X at this point.
| fantasyfootball | t5_2qlqq | cmo753o | 12 man, 2 keepers, kept in the round above where they were drafted or UDFA in the 10th.
Listed in the rounds that they will replace:
1- Julio Jones
2- Le'Veon Bell
3- pick traded for Lacy (failed to make playoff push regardless)
4- Michael Floyd
5- RGIII (I am an idiot)
6- Pierre Thomas
7- Eric Decker
8- Martellus Bennett
9- Mark Ingram
10- C.J. Anderson, Mark Sanchez, Mark Ingram, not much else worth mentioning unless Hillman gets the job instead of Anderson
11- Mike Evans
12- was Alex Smith, traded him for Vernon Davis, because I am an idiot
13- nothing interesting past this point actually. | who do i keep in the 10th because it's Bell and X at this point. |
evilbadro | The pods are used with pressurized portafilter machines. Using a PPF machine with ground coffee directly in the basket presents additional backpressure so some pod machines might deploy slightly higher back pressure to improve results, but some PPF machines use the same basket for pods and ground coffee. No matter what configuration is used, the results any PPF device are very, very poor compared to competently prepared espresso using a capable machine and grinder. The manufacturers of PPF bank on low expectations and uneducated purchasers so they don't typically get too technical about things.
TL;DR: You can use pods in any PPF machine. Quality might be slightly less than with ground coffee depending on grind quality and how much effort towards results is deployed. | The pods are used with pressurized portafilter machines. Using a PPF machine with ground coffee directly in the basket presents additional backpressure so some pod machines might deploy slightly higher back pressure to improve results, but some PPF machines use the same basket for pods and ground coffee. No matter what configuration is used, the results any PPF device are very, very poor compared to competently prepared espresso using a capable machine and grinder. The manufacturers of PPF bank on low expectations and uneducated purchasers so they don't typically get too technical about things.
TL;DR: You can use pods in any PPF machine. Quality might be slightly less than with ground coffee depending on grind quality and how much effort towards results is deployed.
| Coffee | t5_2qhze | cmnt508 | The pods are used with pressurized portafilter machines. Using a PPF machine with ground coffee directly in the basket presents additional backpressure so some pod machines might deploy slightly higher back pressure to improve results, but some PPF machines use the same basket for pods and ground coffee. No matter what configuration is used, the results any PPF device are very, very poor compared to competently prepared espresso using a capable machine and grinder. The manufacturers of PPF bank on low expectations and uneducated purchasers so they don't typically get too technical about things. | You can use pods in any PPF machine. Quality might be slightly less than with ground coffee depending on grind quality and how much effort towards results is deployed. |
windytown | I was lining up with my mom. I got distracted by something, and turned around to hug who I thought was my mom, unaware that the line had moved. Whoops. Sorry, lady. Must be the next lady. Wait. Still not mom. Mom turns around (she was the woman in front) and just shoos me over.
Tl;dr: Hugged two women who I thought were my mom. Were both not my mom. | I was lining up with my mom. I got distracted by something, and turned around to hug who I thought was my mom, unaware that the line had moved. Whoops. Sorry, lady. Must be the next lady. Wait. Still not mom. Mom turns around (she was the woman in front) and just shoos me over.
Tl;dr: Hugged two women who I thought were my mom. Were both not my mom.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | cmnx8ab | I was lining up with my mom. I got distracted by something, and turned around to hug who I thought was my mom, unaware that the line had moved. Whoops. Sorry, lady. Must be the next lady. Wait. Still not mom. Mom turns around (she was the woman in front) and just shoos me over. | Hugged two women who I thought were my mom. Were both not my mom. |
philiph | I wouldn't say I have an armpit fetish, but I have been getting in to my girl's armpits lately. I like to bury my face in her armpit and huff it when she's a little sweaty. I find her smell an incredible turn-on.
Also recently she hadn't shaved in a while and I found her armpit hair to be very erotic. I enjoyed rubbing my face in it.
I think the attraction of places on the body like the armpit is that's where a person's natural scents are most concentrated. I suppose there's a limit to that though - if my girl didn't shower for a few days it would probably just smell like B.O. and I wouldn't find that arousing.
tl;dr: we are all animals and respond to smells. | I wouldn't say I have an armpit fetish, but I have been getting in to my girl's armpits lately. I like to bury my face in her armpit and huff it when she's a little sweaty. I find her smell an incredible turn-on.
Also recently she hadn't shaved in a while and I found her armpit hair to be very erotic. I enjoyed rubbing my face in it.
I think the attraction of places on the body like the armpit is that's where a person's natural scents are most concentrated. I suppose there's a limit to that though - if my girl didn't shower for a few days it would probably just smell like B.O. and I wouldn't find that arousing.
tl;dr: we are all animals and respond to smells.
| sex | t5_2qh3p | cmo33nt | I wouldn't say I have an armpit fetish, but I have been getting in to my girl's armpits lately. I like to bury my face in her armpit and huff it when she's a little sweaty. I find her smell an incredible turn-on.
Also recently she hadn't shaved in a while and I found her armpit hair to be very erotic. I enjoyed rubbing my face in it.
I think the attraction of places on the body like the armpit is that's where a person's natural scents are most concentrated. I suppose there's a limit to that though - if my girl didn't shower for a few days it would probably just smell like B.O. and I wouldn't find that arousing. | we are all animals and respond to smells. |
NaciremaDream | I'm from Canada too and used to buy my iPhones on a plan. It sucked. My last three iPhones were purchased directly from value at retail price. It really does hurt (spent around $1200 on my iPhone 6 Plus 128GB), but I use it all the time for school, so I could justify the price.
I sell my iPhones on Craigslist and I'm not good at bargaining. I still get a decent value.
TL;DR: If you can afford it and can justify paying such a steep price then do it. | I'm from Canada too and used to buy my iPhones on a plan. It sucked. My last three iPhones were purchased directly from value at retail price. It really does hurt (spent around $1200 on my iPhone 6 Plus 128GB), but I use it all the time for school, so I could justify the price.
I sell my iPhones on Craigslist and I'm not good at bargaining. I still get a decent value.
TL;DR: If you can afford it and can justify paying such a steep price then do it.
| iphone | t5_2qh2b | cmoh4bq | I'm from Canada too and used to buy my iPhones on a plan. It sucked. My last three iPhones were purchased directly from value at retail price. It really does hurt (spent around $1200 on my iPhone 6 Plus 128GB), but I use it all the time for school, so I could justify the price.
I sell my iPhones on Craigslist and I'm not good at bargaining. I still get a decent value. | If you can afford it and can justify paying such a steep price then do it. |
Radiak | I was gonna downvotev your comment then leave reddit forever but ill admit the repetition got me. Currently purchasing more oxygen.
Tl;dr: im weak | I was gonna downvotev your comment then leave reddit forever but ill admit the repetition got me. Currently purchasing more oxygen.
Tl;dr: im weak
| funny | t5_2qh33 | cmoig9j | I was gonna downvotev your comment then leave reddit forever but ill admit the repetition got me. Currently purchasing more oxygen. | im weak |
Zog8 | I don't think there's a single person out there (even among The Hobbit trilogy's BIGGEST fans) that genuinely thinks they are better than the LOTR films. They know it, everyone else knows it, hell I'd even assure you that Peter Jackson knows it. But the thing is, we also shouldn't have EXPECTED them to be. Why? Because the story of The Hobbit is nowhere near the storytelling feat that Lord of the Rings was, even purely on just a book level.
When The Hobbit was simply to be two movies, I, much like the rest of Tolkien fans, definitely saw that fit. Trilogy vs. two-film prequel, no reason to compare them too much quality-wise, just like with the books. They're each their own thing. But with the (reasonable, for consistency's sake) incorporation of the plotlines from the appendices and Silmarillion, the films (kind of regrettably) HAD to become a trilogy.
Now, in order to incorporate all crucial parts of the story to have both sets of films blend well with each other, this change DID need to happen I would argue. After all, Tolkien wrote The Hobbit first without much of LOTR in mind and there are a fair share of inconsistencies. Two films would have been super bloated. However, the unfortunate downside now is that now you have TWO trilogies, the trilogy of the LOTR films and a trilogy for The Hobbit, thus creating too easy of bait for comparison between a classic and enormous achievement in cinema and a story that should never have been put in the same playing field as the former in the first place. So as easy as it is to look at the LOTR trilogy and then call The Hobbit trilogy disappointing, it should be remembered that the two stories shouldn't even be being compared that way. They were and are still two different things altogether. One is an epic and one is a children's book.
Now, I'm not saying The Hobbit movies are without their flaws. Do they feel slightly padded? Yes. Do we need several minutes of Legolas getting no-look headshots on video game enemy orcs? No. Does the CGI sometimes look too cartoony because Jackson was needlessly hell-bent on using consistency-defying 48fps that no one asked for? Yes. But for their flaws, credit needs to be given where its due, because the films make a lot work with a very difficult book to translate into more than one film arc-wise. The Hobbit doesn't work nearly as well in this regard as LOTR does, thus making comparing them that much more troublesome still. In the book, The Hobbit's plot action is very condensed. Bilbo and the dwarves basically hop from place to place, from adventure to adventure until they eventually get to Erebor without much raising of stakes. Nearly all the dwarves are indistinguishable personality-wise. **SPOILER** Smaug is almost instantly killed by Bard the Bowman, who we barely know and isn't developed at all. It's not the kind of book that can just be turned into a 100% faithful AND quality blockbuster at the same time and the truth is Jackson is doing his best to handle all the aforementioned road blocks and in my opinion he's doing quite well.
TL;DR: On a base level, the stories of both trilogies should only be compared in the same way the stories of both books should be compared: as not being on the same level. That said, The Hobbit films (I can't say "will," but) *should* be remembered as a worthwhile, entertaining stab at bringing a largely not film-friendly story to the big screen that regrettably had to be three films for consistency's sake. Overall, just a welcome alternate Middle-Earth story and setup for the main event.
Sorry for the huge wall of text, this topic is a conversation I've had with friends a million times and I just have a lot to say as Tolkien dork. | I don't think there's a single person out there (even among The Hobbit trilogy's BIGGEST fans) that genuinely thinks they are better than the LOTR films. They know it, everyone else knows it, hell I'd even assure you that Peter Jackson knows it. But the thing is, we also shouldn't have EXPECTED them to be. Why? Because the story of The Hobbit is nowhere near the storytelling feat that Lord of the Rings was, even purely on just a book level.
When The Hobbit was simply to be two movies, I, much like the rest of Tolkien fans, definitely saw that fit. Trilogy vs. two-film prequel, no reason to compare them too much quality-wise, just like with the books. They're each their own thing. But with the (reasonable, for consistency's sake) incorporation of the plotlines from the appendices and Silmarillion, the films (kind of regrettably) HAD to become a trilogy.
Now, in order to incorporate all crucial parts of the story to have both sets of films blend well with each other, this change DID need to happen I would argue. After all, Tolkien wrote The Hobbit first without much of LOTR in mind and there are a fair share of inconsistencies. Two films would have been super bloated. However, the unfortunate downside now is that now you have TWO trilogies, the trilogy of the LOTR films and a trilogy for The Hobbit, thus creating too easy of bait for comparison between a classic and enormous achievement in cinema and a story that should never have been put in the same playing field as the former in the first place. So as easy as it is to look at the LOTR trilogy and then call The Hobbit trilogy disappointing, it should be remembered that the two stories shouldn't even be being compared that way. They were and are still two different things altogether. One is an epic and one is a children's book.
Now, I'm not saying The Hobbit movies are without their flaws. Do they feel slightly padded? Yes. Do we need several minutes of Legolas getting no-look headshots on video game enemy orcs? No. Does the CGI sometimes look too cartoony because Jackson was needlessly hell-bent on using consistency-defying 48fps that no one asked for? Yes. But for their flaws, credit needs to be given where its due, because the films make a lot work with a very difficult book to translate into more than one film arc-wise. The Hobbit doesn't work nearly as well in this regard as LOTR does, thus making comparing them that much more troublesome still. In the book, The Hobbit's plot action is very condensed. Bilbo and the dwarves basically hop from place to place, from adventure to adventure until they eventually get to Erebor without much raising of stakes. Nearly all the dwarves are indistinguishable personality-wise. SPOILER Smaug is almost instantly killed by Bard the Bowman, who we barely know and isn't developed at all. It's not the kind of book that can just be turned into a 100% faithful AND quality blockbuster at the same time and the truth is Jackson is doing his best to handle all the aforementioned road blocks and in my opinion he's doing quite well.
TL;DR: On a base level, the stories of both trilogies should only be compared in the same way the stories of both books should be compared: as not being on the same level. That said, The Hobbit films (I can't say "will," but) should be remembered as a worthwhile, entertaining stab at bringing a largely not film-friendly story to the big screen that regrettably had to be three films for consistency's sake. Overall, just a welcome alternate Middle-Earth story and setup for the main event.
Sorry for the huge wall of text, this topic is a conversation I've had with friends a million times and I just have a lot to say as Tolkien dork.
| movies | t5_2qh3s | cmoje22 | I don't think there's a single person out there (even among The Hobbit trilogy's BIGGEST fans) that genuinely thinks they are better than the LOTR films. They know it, everyone else knows it, hell I'd even assure you that Peter Jackson knows it. But the thing is, we also shouldn't have EXPECTED them to be. Why? Because the story of The Hobbit is nowhere near the storytelling feat that Lord of the Rings was, even purely on just a book level.
When The Hobbit was simply to be two movies, I, much like the rest of Tolkien fans, definitely saw that fit. Trilogy vs. two-film prequel, no reason to compare them too much quality-wise, just like with the books. They're each their own thing. But with the (reasonable, for consistency's sake) incorporation of the plotlines from the appendices and Silmarillion, the films (kind of regrettably) HAD to become a trilogy.
Now, in order to incorporate all crucial parts of the story to have both sets of films blend well with each other, this change DID need to happen I would argue. After all, Tolkien wrote The Hobbit first without much of LOTR in mind and there are a fair share of inconsistencies. Two films would have been super bloated. However, the unfortunate downside now is that now you have TWO trilogies, the trilogy of the LOTR films and a trilogy for The Hobbit, thus creating too easy of bait for comparison between a classic and enormous achievement in cinema and a story that should never have been put in the same playing field as the former in the first place. So as easy as it is to look at the LOTR trilogy and then call The Hobbit trilogy disappointing, it should be remembered that the two stories shouldn't even be being compared that way. They were and are still two different things altogether. One is an epic and one is a children's book.
Now, I'm not saying The Hobbit movies are without their flaws. Do they feel slightly padded? Yes. Do we need several minutes of Legolas getting no-look headshots on video game enemy orcs? No. Does the CGI sometimes look too cartoony because Jackson was needlessly hell-bent on using consistency-defying 48fps that no one asked for? Yes. But for their flaws, credit needs to be given where its due, because the films make a lot work with a very difficult book to translate into more than one film arc-wise. The Hobbit doesn't work nearly as well in this regard as LOTR does, thus making comparing them that much more troublesome still. In the book, The Hobbit's plot action is very condensed. Bilbo and the dwarves basically hop from place to place, from adventure to adventure until they eventually get to Erebor without much raising of stakes. Nearly all the dwarves are indistinguishable personality-wise. SPOILER Smaug is almost instantly killed by Bard the Bowman, who we barely know and isn't developed at all. It's not the kind of book that can just be turned into a 100% faithful AND quality blockbuster at the same time and the truth is Jackson is doing his best to handle all the aforementioned road blocks and in my opinion he's doing quite well. | On a base level, the stories of both trilogies should only be compared in the same way the stories of both books should be compared: as not being on the same level. That said, The Hobbit films (I can't say "will," but) should be remembered as a worthwhile, entertaining stab at bringing a largely not film-friendly story to the big screen that regrettably had to be three films for consistency's sake. Overall, just a welcome alternate Middle-Earth story and setup for the main event.
Sorry for the huge wall of text, this topic is a conversation I've had with friends a million times and I just have a lot to say as Tolkien dork. |
Dricos | Yo dude, I was diagnosed with bipolar II as well as ADHD and figure may as well pipe up as this thread is quiet at the moment.
So I know I and II react differently and stuff but ritalin has never triggered a manic episode for me. However, the doc has said tht if it ever does I'll be put on Strattera which is one of the non-stimulant treatments.
Who told you to stop taking them? Honestly would recommend only doing so if doc/professional has assessed it - I went off Ritalin a while back of my own accord and ended up wasting almost a whole year of being irritable and unable to control myself.. leading to rapid cycling. Yay.
I am unmedicated for bipolar, using low stress lifestyle and a whole lot of mindfulness as thankfully only triggered by stressful events. Which I understnd is not overly helpful to your question, but I have a friend who is I and ADHD and when ritalin made him manic, they just put him on non-stimulants for ADHD and it worked fine.
I don't know what dexy's are - we have limited medications over here - but if they are stimulants, ask your doc about other methods?
tl;dr - Bipolar II, never been manic due to meds. Talk with your doc about other methods before going totally off the meds, especially if still manic.
| Yo dude, I was diagnosed with bipolar II as well as ADHD and figure may as well pipe up as this thread is quiet at the moment.
So I know I and II react differently and stuff but ritalin has never triggered a manic episode for me. However, the doc has said tht if it ever does I'll be put on Strattera which is one of the non-stimulant treatments.
Who told you to stop taking them? Honestly would recommend only doing so if doc/professional has assessed it - I went off Ritalin a while back of my own accord and ended up wasting almost a whole year of being irritable and unable to control myself.. leading to rapid cycling. Yay.
I am unmedicated for bipolar, using low stress lifestyle and a whole lot of mindfulness as thankfully only triggered by stressful events. Which I understnd is not overly helpful to your question, but I have a friend who is I and ADHD and when ritalin made him manic, they just put him on non-stimulants for ADHD and it worked fine.
I don't know what dexy's are - we have limited medications over here - but if they are stimulants, ask your doc about other methods?
tl;dr - Bipolar II, never been manic due to meds. Talk with your doc about other methods before going totally off the meds, especially if still manic.
| ADHD | t5_2qnwb | cmoma6s | Yo dude, I was diagnosed with bipolar II as well as ADHD and figure may as well pipe up as this thread is quiet at the moment.
So I know I and II react differently and stuff but ritalin has never triggered a manic episode for me. However, the doc has said tht if it ever does I'll be put on Strattera which is one of the non-stimulant treatments.
Who told you to stop taking them? Honestly would recommend only doing so if doc/professional has assessed it - I went off Ritalin a while back of my own accord and ended up wasting almost a whole year of being irritable and unable to control myself.. leading to rapid cycling. Yay.
I am unmedicated for bipolar, using low stress lifestyle and a whole lot of mindfulness as thankfully only triggered by stressful events. Which I understnd is not overly helpful to your question, but I have a friend who is I and ADHD and when ritalin made him manic, they just put him on non-stimulants for ADHD and it worked fine.
I don't know what dexy's are - we have limited medications over here - but if they are stimulants, ask your doc about other methods? | Bipolar II, never been manic due to meds. Talk with your doc about other methods before going totally off the meds, especially if still manic. |
RestTarRr | It is not my first language but I fully understand what you said and I still believe it's not true but I do think that you didn't understand me.
Coin > Relic (NEVER)
Talisman > Mountain (Only in certain match ups)
Coin is useless. Hands down it does nothing. Relic gives you faster pushing for lvl 2 and sustain to you and your carry.
Going for Relic and then selling it mid game and buying Talisman because you need it. This yes, worth.
Also it is probably not even 10% . Yesterday when I checked the last 50-60 games there were 0 talismans/coins. Doubt there'd be more than 4 in the other 40-50 games to make it even close to 10%.
Even blitz who builds Talisman more doesn't have many buys. I just checked the last 100 games in probuilds and there were 8 talismans.
tl;dr I never said you said every time, never said I agree with you that on certain matchups coin is better. It isn't. Talisman might be(in some cases) but Coin - no-no.
Relic > Coin (always) (talking about thresh)
Talisman and Mountain (in some[hardly ever happens] team comps Talisman is better) | It is not my first language but I fully understand what you said and I still believe it's not true but I do think that you didn't understand me.
Coin > Relic (NEVER)
Talisman > Mountain (Only in certain match ups)
Coin is useless. Hands down it does nothing. Relic gives you faster pushing for lvl 2 and sustain to you and your carry.
Going for Relic and then selling it mid game and buying Talisman because you need it. This yes, worth.
Also it is probably not even 10% . Yesterday when I checked the last 50-60 games there were 0 talismans/coins. Doubt there'd be more than 4 in the other 40-50 games to make it even close to 10%.
Even blitz who builds Talisman more doesn't have many buys. I just checked the last 100 games in probuilds and there were 8 talismans.
tl;dr I never said you said every time, never said I agree with you that on certain matchups coin is better. It isn't. Talisman might be(in some cases) but Coin - no-no.
Relic > Coin (always) (talking about thresh)
Talisman and Mountain (in some[hardly ever happens] team comps Talisman is better)
| leagueoflegends | t5_2rfxx | cmwq1n7 | It is not my first language but I fully understand what you said and I still believe it's not true but I do think that you didn't understand me.
Coin > Relic (NEVER)
Talisman > Mountain (Only in certain match ups)
Coin is useless. Hands down it does nothing. Relic gives you faster pushing for lvl 2 and sustain to you and your carry.
Going for Relic and then selling it mid game and buying Talisman because you need it. This yes, worth.
Also it is probably not even 10% . Yesterday when I checked the last 50-60 games there were 0 talismans/coins. Doubt there'd be more than 4 in the other 40-50 games to make it even close to 10%.
Even blitz who builds Talisman more doesn't have many buys. I just checked the last 100 games in probuilds and there were 8 talismans. | I never said you said every time, never said I agree with you that on certain matchups coin is better. It isn't. Talisman might be(in some cases) but Coin - no-no.
Relic > Coin (always) (talking about thresh)
Talisman and Mountain (in some[hardly ever happens] team comps Talisman is better) |
PPCSpecialist | It doesn't "proc" on ranged. You must CS normally on Thresh which makes it harder since there is no "execute" TL;DR - CS normally on Thresh or they just suck at CS'ing in general. | It doesn't "proc" on ranged. You must CS normally on Thresh which makes it harder since there is no "execute" TL;DR - CS normally on Thresh or they just suck at CS'ing in general.
| leagueoflegends | t5_2rfxx | cmp3moo | It doesn't "proc" on ranged. You must CS normally on Thresh which makes it harder since there is no "execute" | CS normally on Thresh or they just suck at CS'ing in general. |
ThexAntipop | Okay I'm going to ignore the fact that you just compared the combined utility of 2 spells to the utility of a single spell and the fact that you blatantly ignored the other spell hits up to the entire team and just break down thresh's kit for you and why those spells as well as other factors make him weaker for solo queue than other supports. Before I get into this I want to point out that thresh is both my 2nd most played champ in ranked and the fact that I have a winning record with him so my opinions on him are neither uninformed nor do they stem from me not being able to win games with him.
**Death sentence:**
For starters hitting someone with death sentence isn't nearly as impactful as hitting them as many people think, at least not when compared to other spells supports have such and Dark binding, rocket grab, or Annie stun. Another problem with this spell is that to follow it up with flay you have to recast it which will often put yourself at risk. While often putting yourself at risk like this can pay off big you always run the risk of people not following up on it as quickly as they need to or even at all due to lack of communication and/or coordination which is symptomatic of solo queue. Expounding upon that point even if you don't recast your Q it causes your ADC to have to do a lot more decision making than many other spells that have more obvious goals. Did thresh just land hook to make _____ lose cs? Does he want me to all in? Should I just use this opportunity to get free farm? Should I go for a short trade? Often the answer to these questions is far more ambiguous than with other support spells and it can definitely make a far smaller impact on the lane/game when the wrong choice is made than say Dark binding which will always do more damage and can junk the opponent even if your adc does nothing. Another spell I think draws the most obvious comparison is rocket grab, which both does more damage, puts you at less risk and the enemy at more, and is less ambiguous as to it's goal, it's a hard initiation and will pretty much always be recognized as such unlike thresh q which is more multipurposed.
**Dark Passage:**
This spell is the single biggest thing that makes him amazing competitively but somewhat lack luster for solo queue. Apart from it's small shield which now can only be given to a single ally it's entire utility is based on the decision making of your ally which is never going to be consistent and when discussing a champs strength in solo queue, consistency is key. When used properly by your allies dark passage is IMO the single most OP thing in thresh's kit, far more than his Q dark passage is what makes thresh an amazing champ. It's a free long range gap closer and escape on a fairly low cool down that any of your allies can use and it's what makes him god tier in competitive play. However often your allies will take lanterns meant for someone else or just ignore them entirely or simply take them too early if you're planning on using it in conjunction with death sentence.
**Flay:** Honestly this spell actually doesn't have much down side for solo queue it's decent cc and adds damage to your autos which is never a bad thing. It works best for disengage so pretty much the only small con I can say about it is that for purely disengage purposes it's mild compared to something like nami bubble, black shield, or even blitz knock up. That being said this is thresh's least ally reliant spell.
**The Box:** Really good for peeling or engaging only problem with this one is you generally have to put yourself in danger to get a really good one on the enemy team and you run the risk of your team mates not seizing that opportunity.
On top of this thresh's base stats are pretty low, he's not naturally tanky and does very minimal damage even by support standards so unless you're collecting an absolutely insane amount of souls he's really item dependent to become tanky.
If you're wondering why the only champs I compared him to are blitz nami and morg it's both for brevity purposes as this is already fairly lengthy and because those are the other 3 supports I have the most experience with.
TL:DR He's more reliant on his team mates than many other supports. | Okay I'm going to ignore the fact that you just compared the combined utility of 2 spells to the utility of a single spell and the fact that you blatantly ignored the other spell hits up to the entire team and just break down thresh's kit for you and why those spells as well as other factors make him weaker for solo queue than other supports. Before I get into this I want to point out that thresh is both my 2nd most played champ in ranked and the fact that I have a winning record with him so my opinions on him are neither uninformed nor do they stem from me not being able to win games with him.
Death sentence:
For starters hitting someone with death sentence isn't nearly as impactful as hitting them as many people think, at least not when compared to other spells supports have such and Dark binding, rocket grab, or Annie stun. Another problem with this spell is that to follow it up with flay you have to recast it which will often put yourself at risk. While often putting yourself at risk like this can pay off big you always run the risk of people not following up on it as quickly as they need to or even at all due to lack of communication and/or coordination which is symptomatic of solo queue. Expounding upon that point even if you don't recast your Q it causes your ADC to have to do a lot more decision making than many other spells that have more obvious goals. Did thresh just land hook to make _ lose cs? Does he want me to all in? Should I just use this opportunity to get free farm? Should I go for a short trade? Often the answer to these questions is far more ambiguous than with other support spells and it can definitely make a far smaller impact on the lane/game when the wrong choice is made than say Dark binding which will always do more damage and can junk the opponent even if your adc does nothing. Another spell I think draws the most obvious comparison is rocket grab, which both does more damage, puts you at less risk and the enemy at more, and is less ambiguous as to it's goal, it's a hard initiation and will pretty much always be recognized as such unlike thresh q which is more multipurposed.
Dark Passage:
This spell is the single biggest thing that makes him amazing competitively but somewhat lack luster for solo queue. Apart from it's small shield which now can only be given to a single ally it's entire utility is based on the decision making of your ally which is never going to be consistent and when discussing a champs strength in solo queue, consistency is key. When used properly by your allies dark passage is IMO the single most OP thing in thresh's kit, far more than his Q dark passage is what makes thresh an amazing champ. It's a free long range gap closer and escape on a fairly low cool down that any of your allies can use and it's what makes him god tier in competitive play. However often your allies will take lanterns meant for someone else or just ignore them entirely or simply take them too early if you're planning on using it in conjunction with death sentence.
Flay: Honestly this spell actually doesn't have much down side for solo queue it's decent cc and adds damage to your autos which is never a bad thing. It works best for disengage so pretty much the only small con I can say about it is that for purely disengage purposes it's mild compared to something like nami bubble, black shield, or even blitz knock up. That being said this is thresh's least ally reliant spell.
The Box: Really good for peeling or engaging only problem with this one is you generally have to put yourself in danger to get a really good one on the enemy team and you run the risk of your team mates not seizing that opportunity.
On top of this thresh's base stats are pretty low, he's not naturally tanky and does very minimal damage even by support standards so unless you're collecting an absolutely insane amount of souls he's really item dependent to become tanky.
If you're wondering why the only champs I compared him to are blitz nami and morg it's both for brevity purposes as this is already fairly lengthy and because those are the other 3 supports I have the most experience with.
TL:DR He's more reliant on his team mates than many other supports.
| leagueoflegends | t5_2rfxx | cmp1iy2 | Okay I'm going to ignore the fact that you just compared the combined utility of 2 spells to the utility of a single spell and the fact that you blatantly ignored the other spell hits up to the entire team and just break down thresh's kit for you and why those spells as well as other factors make him weaker for solo queue than other supports. Before I get into this I want to point out that thresh is both my 2nd most played champ in ranked and the fact that I have a winning record with him so my opinions on him are neither uninformed nor do they stem from me not being able to win games with him.
Death sentence:
For starters hitting someone with death sentence isn't nearly as impactful as hitting them as many people think, at least not when compared to other spells supports have such and Dark binding, rocket grab, or Annie stun. Another problem with this spell is that to follow it up with flay you have to recast it which will often put yourself at risk. While often putting yourself at risk like this can pay off big you always run the risk of people not following up on it as quickly as they need to or even at all due to lack of communication and/or coordination which is symptomatic of solo queue. Expounding upon that point even if you don't recast your Q it causes your ADC to have to do a lot more decision making than many other spells that have more obvious goals. Did thresh just land hook to make _ lose cs? Does he want me to all in? Should I just use this opportunity to get free farm? Should I go for a short trade? Often the answer to these questions is far more ambiguous than with other support spells and it can definitely make a far smaller impact on the lane/game when the wrong choice is made than say Dark binding which will always do more damage and can junk the opponent even if your adc does nothing. Another spell I think draws the most obvious comparison is rocket grab, which both does more damage, puts you at less risk and the enemy at more, and is less ambiguous as to it's goal, it's a hard initiation and will pretty much always be recognized as such unlike thresh q which is more multipurposed.
Dark Passage:
This spell is the single biggest thing that makes him amazing competitively but somewhat lack luster for solo queue. Apart from it's small shield which now can only be given to a single ally it's entire utility is based on the decision making of your ally which is never going to be consistent and when discussing a champs strength in solo queue, consistency is key. When used properly by your allies dark passage is IMO the single most OP thing in thresh's kit, far more than his Q dark passage is what makes thresh an amazing champ. It's a free long range gap closer and escape on a fairly low cool down that any of your allies can use and it's what makes him god tier in competitive play. However often your allies will take lanterns meant for someone else or just ignore them entirely or simply take them too early if you're planning on using it in conjunction with death sentence.
Flay: Honestly this spell actually doesn't have much down side for solo queue it's decent cc and adds damage to your autos which is never a bad thing. It works best for disengage so pretty much the only small con I can say about it is that for purely disengage purposes it's mild compared to something like nami bubble, black shield, or even blitz knock up. That being said this is thresh's least ally reliant spell.
The Box: Really good for peeling or engaging only problem with this one is you generally have to put yourself in danger to get a really good one on the enemy team and you run the risk of your team mates not seizing that opportunity.
On top of this thresh's base stats are pretty low, he's not naturally tanky and does very minimal damage even by support standards so unless you're collecting an absolutely insane amount of souls he's really item dependent to become tanky.
If you're wondering why the only champs I compared him to are blitz nami and morg it's both for brevity purposes as this is already fairly lengthy and because those are the other 3 supports I have the most experience with. | He's more reliant on his team mates than many other supports. |
Escorien | Riot does fine for the most part- it's when they introduce elements with no real basis to what they have done before that they really fall short. A good example of this would be Azir, who added a lot of things the game had never seen before or implemented to the extent previously.
League's code base has almost certainly grown substantially since it's infancy, and what they have done with their engine that is now five+ years old is pretty remarkable.
Coding is not as simple as you make it out to be, testing is NOT plug and play,and Riot- contrary to popular belief- is quite human.
Is Kalista passive/Relic Shield a bug? It's not up to you or I to determine that- because the implementation of Kalista's W passive makes sense logically. However, just because something makes logical sense doesn't mean that it feels good to the player.
If Riot feels that the current behavior sucks (I, for what it's worth as an ADC main, feel that it does), then they will change it- and if the changes to how her W damage functions that are on the PBE are to be believed, they are.
tl;dr: Stop being an unreasonable shit and think rationally. | Riot does fine for the most part- it's when they introduce elements with no real basis to what they have done before that they really fall short. A good example of this would be Azir, who added a lot of things the game had never seen before or implemented to the extent previously.
League's code base has almost certainly grown substantially since it's infancy, and what they have done with their engine that is now five+ years old is pretty remarkable.
Coding is not as simple as you make it out to be, testing is NOT plug and play,and Riot- contrary to popular belief- is quite human.
Is Kalista passive/Relic Shield a bug? It's not up to you or I to determine that- because the implementation of Kalista's W passive makes sense logically. However, just because something makes logical sense doesn't mean that it feels good to the player.
If Riot feels that the current behavior sucks (I, for what it's worth as an ADC main, feel that it does), then they will change it- and if the changes to how her W damage functions that are on the PBE are to be believed, they are.
tl;dr: Stop being an unreasonable shit and think rationally.
| leagueoflegends | t5_2rfxx | cmp4s86 | Riot does fine for the most part- it's when they introduce elements with no real basis to what they have done before that they really fall short. A good example of this would be Azir, who added a lot of things the game had never seen before or implemented to the extent previously.
League's code base has almost certainly grown substantially since it's infancy, and what they have done with their engine that is now five+ years old is pretty remarkable.
Coding is not as simple as you make it out to be, testing is NOT plug and play,and Riot- contrary to popular belief- is quite human.
Is Kalista passive/Relic Shield a bug? It's not up to you or I to determine that- because the implementation of Kalista's W passive makes sense logically. However, just because something makes logical sense doesn't mean that it feels good to the player.
If Riot feels that the current behavior sucks (I, for what it's worth as an ADC main, feel that it does), then they will change it- and if the changes to how her W damage functions that are on the PBE are to be believed, they are. | Stop being an unreasonable shit and think rationally. |
larzy | [They do update videos on the Old School Runescape channel]( however they kind of lack detail in my opinion. Still a good watch if you want a more TL;DR version. | [They do update videos on the Old School Runescape channel]( however they kind of lack detail in my opinion. Still a good watch if you want a more TL;DR version.
| 2007scape | t5_2wbww | cmonjsz | They do update videos on the Old School Runescape channel]( however they kind of lack detail in my opinion. Still a good watch if you want a more | version. |
z1RoadRunner1z | 8 seasons is a cool idea, but you need to go into much more depth for them to believable. This world would be very different, for example a lot of plant life would not function normally at all. You could use some of the weather conditions in places like the Ivory Coast as inspiration. They don't really have the traditional four seasons there but instead have a wet and dry season.
TLDR: I think you need to use science to make them believable which could be difficult with eight. Id start with trying to get 5 done but give them a lot more depth. | 8 seasons is a cool idea, but you need to go into much more depth for them to believable. This world would be very different, for example a lot of plant life would not function normally at all. You could use some of the weather conditions in places like the Ivory Coast as inspiration. They don't really have the traditional four seasons there but instead have a wet and dry season.
TLDR: I think you need to use science to make them believable which could be difficult with eight. Id start with trying to get 5 done but give them a lot more depth.
| worldbuilding | t5_2rd6n | cmoxals | 8 seasons is a cool idea, but you need to go into much more depth for them to believable. This world would be very different, for example a lot of plant life would not function normally at all. You could use some of the weather conditions in places like the Ivory Coast as inspiration. They don't really have the traditional four seasons there but instead have a wet and dry season. | I think you need to use science to make them believable which could be difficult with eight. Id start with trying to get 5 done but give them a lot more depth. |
Fancyduke21 | ok...lets try this on for size... right now the climate operates in a non-linear fashion with both positive and negative feedback systems in it. for example the ice caps becoming bigger during any of the observed ice ages. during this time the ice encroaches further towards the equators and increasing surface albedo, which in turn causes temperatures to drop in the key region for ice development causing more ice (an almost run away positive feedback system, only thing that has stopped it are solar oscillations). A negative feedback loop is more like a coupled ocean atmosphere model, the more heat (read energy) into the system the more moisture into the atmosphere from the ocean as there is more energy available, but the heat capacitance of water causes the air to cool as it precipitates out, overall not increasing the temperature by as much as pure solar insolation at the surface. now given that the system as a whole is not entirely understood how all of these processes interact and change over time it can be understood that while they may mask one another at some point there may be a trend towards a cooling or warming, or even a change in the variability of the climate is enough to cause serious damage to many regions of the earth, some of which we may not be able to recover from. The understanding that we do have, tells us that adding more and more anthropogenically created gases and compounds into the atmosphere, while at some level cooling the earth by increasing reflectivity in the upper atmosphere, similar to volcanic eruptions, these gases also increase insolation at the surface, causing longwave radiation to be reflected back into the earth system causing a heating forcing. this may be a slow and subtle change but is noticeable in certain records, in the long term climatic temperature records for one. the danger is that at some point the negative forcings cannot outweigh the positives and their effects are slowly eroded by the positive forcings until they slip and have no forcing effect at all. going back to the ice cap situation, what happens when they all melt, which (even for a sceptic) is a possibility you have to consider. now albedo is the strongest forcing for cooling at the poles not angle of incidence or any other factor. with no ice you have low albedo and no serious way to create more ice. then the whole of the polar regions become a more habitable environment for us but suddenly the tropics are near uninhabitable due to the increased warming, which means tropical rainforests eventually succumb to desertification, a near irreversible situation caused by a small temperature increase, which in most lab experiments only requires a 3-4 degree forcing to dry soil moisture budgets and cause negative water budgets. so all it takes is a few degrees to cause a situation that could rapidly get out of hand in ways that even we could not foresee. and all we can do is reduce emissions and live more sustainably. it may not be the best plan in terms of growth but then growth is not in the best interests of Earth and we only have the one and i quite like it!
tl;dr small changes, such as 1-2 degree of temperature, can cause problems that we cannot control that will likely kill or displace millions at the worse estimates. we may not fully understand the climate system but the trends that we are noticing do not bode well for earth given the stuff we do know about. and compared to the last century we know a hell of a lot more than we did. | ok...lets try this on for size... right now the climate operates in a non-linear fashion with both positive and negative feedback systems in it. for example the ice caps becoming bigger during any of the observed ice ages. during this time the ice encroaches further towards the equators and increasing surface albedo, which in turn causes temperatures to drop in the key region for ice development causing more ice (an almost run away positive feedback system, only thing that has stopped it are solar oscillations). A negative feedback loop is more like a coupled ocean atmosphere model, the more heat (read energy) into the system the more moisture into the atmosphere from the ocean as there is more energy available, but the heat capacitance of water causes the air to cool as it precipitates out, overall not increasing the temperature by as much as pure solar insolation at the surface. now given that the system as a whole is not entirely understood how all of these processes interact and change over time it can be understood that while they may mask one another at some point there may be a trend towards a cooling or warming, or even a change in the variability of the climate is enough to cause serious damage to many regions of the earth, some of which we may not be able to recover from. The understanding that we do have, tells us that adding more and more anthropogenically created gases and compounds into the atmosphere, while at some level cooling the earth by increasing reflectivity in the upper atmosphere, similar to volcanic eruptions, these gases also increase insolation at the surface, causing longwave radiation to be reflected back into the earth system causing a heating forcing. this may be a slow and subtle change but is noticeable in certain records, in the long term climatic temperature records for one. the danger is that at some point the negative forcings cannot outweigh the positives and their effects are slowly eroded by the positive forcings until they slip and have no forcing effect at all. going back to the ice cap situation, what happens when they all melt, which (even for a sceptic) is a possibility you have to consider. now albedo is the strongest forcing for cooling at the poles not angle of incidence or any other factor. with no ice you have low albedo and no serious way to create more ice. then the whole of the polar regions become a more habitable environment for us but suddenly the tropics are near uninhabitable due to the increased warming, which means tropical rainforests eventually succumb to desertification, a near irreversible situation caused by a small temperature increase, which in most lab experiments only requires a 3-4 degree forcing to dry soil moisture budgets and cause negative water budgets. so all it takes is a few degrees to cause a situation that could rapidly get out of hand in ways that even we could not foresee. and all we can do is reduce emissions and live more sustainably. it may not be the best plan in terms of growth but then growth is not in the best interests of Earth and we only have the one and i quite like it!
tl;dr small changes, such as 1-2 degree of temperature, can cause problems that we cannot control that will likely kill or displace millions at the worse estimates. we may not fully understand the climate system but the trends that we are noticing do not bode well for earth given the stuff we do know about. and compared to the last century we know a hell of a lot more than we did.
| philosophy | t5_2qh5b | cmp65he | ok...lets try this on for size... right now the climate operates in a non-linear fashion with both positive and negative feedback systems in it. for example the ice caps becoming bigger during any of the observed ice ages. during this time the ice encroaches further towards the equators and increasing surface albedo, which in turn causes temperatures to drop in the key region for ice development causing more ice (an almost run away positive feedback system, only thing that has stopped it are solar oscillations). A negative feedback loop is more like a coupled ocean atmosphere model, the more heat (read energy) into the system the more moisture into the atmosphere from the ocean as there is more energy available, but the heat capacitance of water causes the air to cool as it precipitates out, overall not increasing the temperature by as much as pure solar insolation at the surface. now given that the system as a whole is not entirely understood how all of these processes interact and change over time it can be understood that while they may mask one another at some point there may be a trend towards a cooling or warming, or even a change in the variability of the climate is enough to cause serious damage to many regions of the earth, some of which we may not be able to recover from. The understanding that we do have, tells us that adding more and more anthropogenically created gases and compounds into the atmosphere, while at some level cooling the earth by increasing reflectivity in the upper atmosphere, similar to volcanic eruptions, these gases also increase insolation at the surface, causing longwave radiation to be reflected back into the earth system causing a heating forcing. this may be a slow and subtle change but is noticeable in certain records, in the long term climatic temperature records for one. the danger is that at some point the negative forcings cannot outweigh the positives and their effects are slowly eroded by the positive forcings until they slip and have no forcing effect at all. going back to the ice cap situation, what happens when they all melt, which (even for a sceptic) is a possibility you have to consider. now albedo is the strongest forcing for cooling at the poles not angle of incidence or any other factor. with no ice you have low albedo and no serious way to create more ice. then the whole of the polar regions become a more habitable environment for us but suddenly the tropics are near uninhabitable due to the increased warming, which means tropical rainforests eventually succumb to desertification, a near irreversible situation caused by a small temperature increase, which in most lab experiments only requires a 3-4 degree forcing to dry soil moisture budgets and cause negative water budgets. so all it takes is a few degrees to cause a situation that could rapidly get out of hand in ways that even we could not foresee. and all we can do is reduce emissions and live more sustainably. it may not be the best plan in terms of growth but then growth is not in the best interests of Earth and we only have the one and i quite like it! | small changes, such as 1-2 degree of temperature, can cause problems that we cannot control that will likely kill or displace millions at the worse estimates. we may not fully understand the climate system but the trends that we are noticing do not bode well for earth given the stuff we do know about. and compared to the last century we know a hell of a lot more than we did. |
Salindurthas | >many nations to take significant hits to their economy to implement
You sure about that? Some countries decide that renewables are better economically.
[India works out that solar is cheaper than coal]( )
[India sign on to build 1000MW of solar projects](
And in Australia there is literal money to be made in large scale financing of renewable projects (the Clean Energy Finance Corporation turns a profit).
>all political actors operate on agendas...institutions favoring these policies are known to lean liberal in general
Only is some countries. Afaik most of Europe has most/all sides of politics believing in Climate Change. In Australia we have two major parties. The middle-progressive (Labor) party supports a carbon price and the conservative party (ironically called the Liberal Party) agreed, but flip-flopped after a party leadership change that won by *one single vote*. Even now, the new party leader still makes some token effort to (appear to) try and address climate change.
As far as I'm aware the US Republicans are the only major party with outright and open climate denial.
tl;dr I don't think Climate Change is quite as politically divisive or "left" as you think it is.
>As proposed solutions such as carbon taxes are redistributory in nature
They don't have to be. The tax (or other carbon price) represents an external cost (environment damage) being made internal to costs of the business. The concept is called a [Pigovian tax]( A company that does damage to the public ought to pay for those damages. The ethical cost is tied to the monetary cost, making the better financial decisions also better ethically.
This doesn't have to be redistributory (give to the poor). The money raised from the tax can be committed directly to repairing any environmental damage done or preventing more from occurring. | >many nations to take significant hits to their economy to implement
You sure about that? Some countries decide that renewables are better economically.
India works out that solar is cheaper than coal
[India sign on to build 1000MW of solar projects](
And in Australia there is literal money to be made in large scale financing of renewable projects (the Clean Energy Finance Corporation turns a profit).
>all political actors operate on agendas...institutions favoring these policies are known to lean liberal in general
Only is some countries. Afaik most of Europe has most/all sides of politics believing in Climate Change. In Australia we have two major parties. The middle-progressive (Labor) party supports a carbon price and the conservative party (ironically called the Liberal Party) agreed, but flip-flopped after a party leadership change that won by one single vote . Even now, the new party leader still makes some token effort to (appear to) try and address climate change.
As far as I'm aware the US Republicans are the only major party with outright and open climate denial.
tl;dr I don't think Climate Change is quite as politically divisive or "left" as you think it is.
>As proposed solutions such as carbon taxes are redistributory in nature
They don't have to be. The tax (or other carbon price) represents an external cost (environment damage) being made internal to costs of the business. The concept is called a [Pigovian tax]( A company that does damage to the public ought to pay for those damages. The ethical cost is tied to the monetary cost, making the better financial decisions also better ethically.
This doesn't have to be redistributory (give to the poor). The money raised from the tax can be committed directly to repairing any environmental damage done or preventing more from occurring.
| philosophy | t5_2qh5b | cmpanda | many nations to take significant hits to their economy to implement
You sure about that? Some countries decide that renewables are better economically.
India works out that solar is cheaper than coal
[India sign on to build 1000MW of solar projects](
And in Australia there is literal money to be made in large scale financing of renewable projects (the Clean Energy Finance Corporation turns a profit).
>all political actors operate on agendas...institutions favoring these policies are known to lean liberal in general
Only is some countries. Afaik most of Europe has most/all sides of politics believing in Climate Change. In Australia we have two major parties. The middle-progressive (Labor) party supports a carbon price and the conservative party (ironically called the Liberal Party) agreed, but flip-flopped after a party leadership change that won by one single vote . Even now, the new party leader still makes some token effort to (appear to) try and address climate change.
As far as I'm aware the US Republicans are the only major party with outright and open climate denial. | I don't think Climate Change is quite as politically divisive or "left" as you think it is.
>As proposed solutions such as carbon taxes are redistributory in nature
They don't have to be. The tax (or other carbon price) represents an external cost (environment damage) being made internal to costs of the business. The concept is called a [Pigovian tax]( A company that does damage to the public ought to pay for those damages. The ethical cost is tied to the monetary cost, making the better financial decisions also better ethically.
This doesn't have to be redistributory (give to the poor). The money raised from the tax can be committed directly to repairing any environmental damage done or preventing more from occurring. |
ComeAtMeBro333 | Hey Simplejack as a former sailor who was PTS'd out of the Navy I feel I can help. I went to a recruiter(Chief) and told him I wanted back in. He directed me to a prior service guy who kept telling me reserves reserves reserves. I wanted active so I went back to Chief and asked how to do it. He looked into it and as long as you have an ECM(Enlisted Community Manager) that will take you back active duty you can go. It has to be a Chief recruiter however and you do not need to be in the reserves to go active. It is a DRP not a DEP. So this means that as long as you have a chief who will do as much legwork as you will then it is possible. I am going to MEPS next week to re-enlist and then hopefully off to NAVVET in RTC in January. The key is only a Chief can write an active duty contract for a prior service applicant and it is like a 3 month process(longer for me because I had to get in standards). But it is worth being able to rejoin on an active duty contract. I owe everything to FCC Jones out of Jeff City Missouri for helping me with this process. I am honored to get this chance again.
TL;DR~ you need to find a Chief recruiter. Only he can write an active duty contract for prior service applicants. | Hey Simplejack as a former sailor who was PTS'd out of the Navy I feel I can help. I went to a recruiter(Chief) and told him I wanted back in. He directed me to a prior service guy who kept telling me reserves reserves reserves. I wanted active so I went back to Chief and asked how to do it. He looked into it and as long as you have an ECM(Enlisted Community Manager) that will take you back active duty you can go. It has to be a Chief recruiter however and you do not need to be in the reserves to go active. It is a DRP not a DEP. So this means that as long as you have a chief who will do as much legwork as you will then it is possible. I am going to MEPS next week to re-enlist and then hopefully off to NAVVET in RTC in January. The key is only a Chief can write an active duty contract for a prior service applicant and it is like a 3 month process(longer for me because I had to get in standards). But it is worth being able to rejoin on an active duty contract. I owe everything to FCC Jones out of Jeff City Missouri for helping me with this process. I am honored to get this chance again.
TL;DR~ you need to find a Chief recruiter. Only he can write an active duty contract for prior service applicants.
| navy | t5_2rg06 | cmw9u4v | Hey Simplejack as a former sailor who was PTS'd out of the Navy I feel I can help. I went to a recruiter(Chief) and told him I wanted back in. He directed me to a prior service guy who kept telling me reserves reserves reserves. I wanted active so I went back to Chief and asked how to do it. He looked into it and as long as you have an ECM(Enlisted Community Manager) that will take you back active duty you can go. It has to be a Chief recruiter however and you do not need to be in the reserves to go active. It is a DRP not a DEP. So this means that as long as you have a chief who will do as much legwork as you will then it is possible. I am going to MEPS next week to re-enlist and then hopefully off to NAVVET in RTC in January. The key is only a Chief can write an active duty contract for a prior service applicant and it is like a 3 month process(longer for me because I had to get in standards). But it is worth being able to rejoin on an active duty contract. I owe everything to FCC Jones out of Jeff City Missouri for helping me with this process. I am honored to get this chance again. | you need to find a Chief recruiter. Only he can write an active duty contract for prior service applicants. |
suplup | Except there wasn't as much customization as you think there was. The best you could do was a hybrid spec, but those were mostly always sub-par and never really went anywhere. The only exception I can think of is SL/SL lock back in Wrath I think it was.
The new talent trees offer much more customization at the cost of frequency. Depending on your class, like warrior or rogue, the talent you take at even level 15 changes the way your character plays. There weren't many, if any, talents in Cata and before that changed the way your character plays, barring the abilities we get for free of course.
In addition, having specializations allows Blizzard to put more core abilities in the earlier levels. For example, Enhancement Shamans get dual-wield and Lava Lash at level 10 now, whereas before Cata they didn't get dual-wield until level 30 I believe it was. Before, you were just another shaman. Now, you're an enhancement shaman, and everyone knows it.
SW:tOR just switched from the original talent system to one similar to WoW's, stating that they cannot plan for hybrids, and that having the ability to front-load the specialization with abilities core to that spec draws more players in, which I would be inclined to agree. As I've stated before, you weren't an enhancement shaman until level 30, and you only just got dual wield, forget about stormstrike and lava lash.
The new talents also offer much more immersive growth, in my opinion. Using Rogue as an example, at level 60 you get the choice between Cloak and Dagger, Shadowstep, and Burst of Speed. Before MoP, you had a choice of Vendetta, Killing Spree, or Shadow Dance, and those were locked to your spec, so you really only had one choice. All other choices until that point were +A% to B, or +X% to Y.
Lastly, there were only three talent combinations (4 for druids, and 6 for death knights in Wrath) that were viable. If you didn't have talents X, Y, and Z, you were gimping yourself and the group all for 'muh customization.' The old talent trees never changed what you were, again barring abilities core to that spec like stormstrike. Talents were hardly more than +X% to ability Y. Trust me, I've spent loads of time playing around in the talent trees for multiple games, and every time, I would make the same tree for the same spec, barring maybe 3-5 talent points or so. Those 3-5 talent points are akin to the talents of today, situational perks to certain abilities, maybe new ones.
TL;DR: Talent trees were never as much of a choice as everyone makes them seem. The specialization system is much better for the health of the game overall, making leveling alts easier, and making classes seem much more interesting earlier on. Play around with the old talent trees, make a PvE build, make a PvP one. There's not much difference, any difference there is is enough to be a talent in today's time, I assure you. | Except there wasn't as much customization as you think there was. The best you could do was a hybrid spec, but those were mostly always sub-par and never really went anywhere. The only exception I can think of is SL/SL lock back in Wrath I think it was.
The new talent trees offer much more customization at the cost of frequency. Depending on your class, like warrior or rogue, the talent you take at even level 15 changes the way your character plays. There weren't many, if any, talents in Cata and before that changed the way your character plays, barring the abilities we get for free of course.
In addition, having specializations allows Blizzard to put more core abilities in the earlier levels. For example, Enhancement Shamans get dual-wield and Lava Lash at level 10 now, whereas before Cata they didn't get dual-wield until level 30 I believe it was. Before, you were just another shaman. Now, you're an enhancement shaman, and everyone knows it.
SW:tOR just switched from the original talent system to one similar to WoW's, stating that they cannot plan for hybrids, and that having the ability to front-load the specialization with abilities core to that spec draws more players in, which I would be inclined to agree. As I've stated before, you weren't an enhancement shaman until level 30, and you only just got dual wield, forget about stormstrike and lava lash.
The new talents also offer much more immersive growth, in my opinion. Using Rogue as an example, at level 60 you get the choice between Cloak and Dagger, Shadowstep, and Burst of Speed. Before MoP, you had a choice of Vendetta, Killing Spree, or Shadow Dance, and those were locked to your spec, so you really only had one choice. All other choices until that point were +A% to B, or +X% to Y.
Lastly, there were only three talent combinations (4 for druids, and 6 for death knights in Wrath) that were viable. If you didn't have talents X, Y, and Z, you were gimping yourself and the group all for 'muh customization.' The old talent trees never changed what you were, again barring abilities core to that spec like stormstrike. Talents were hardly more than +X% to ability Y. Trust me, I've spent loads of time playing around in the talent trees for multiple games, and every time, I would make the same tree for the same spec, barring maybe 3-5 talent points or so. Those 3-5 talent points are akin to the talents of today, situational perks to certain abilities, maybe new ones.
TL;DR: Talent trees were never as much of a choice as everyone makes them seem. The specialization system is much better for the health of the game overall, making leveling alts easier, and making classes seem much more interesting earlier on. Play around with the old talent trees, make a PvE build, make a PvP one. There's not much difference, any difference there is is enough to be a talent in today's time, I assure you.
| wow | t5_2qio8 | cmpge5r | Except there wasn't as much customization as you think there was. The best you could do was a hybrid spec, but those were mostly always sub-par and never really went anywhere. The only exception I can think of is SL/SL lock back in Wrath I think it was.
The new talent trees offer much more customization at the cost of frequency. Depending on your class, like warrior or rogue, the talent you take at even level 15 changes the way your character plays. There weren't many, if any, talents in Cata and before that changed the way your character plays, barring the abilities we get for free of course.
In addition, having specializations allows Blizzard to put more core abilities in the earlier levels. For example, Enhancement Shamans get dual-wield and Lava Lash at level 10 now, whereas before Cata they didn't get dual-wield until level 30 I believe it was. Before, you were just another shaman. Now, you're an enhancement shaman, and everyone knows it.
SW:tOR just switched from the original talent system to one similar to WoW's, stating that they cannot plan for hybrids, and that having the ability to front-load the specialization with abilities core to that spec draws more players in, which I would be inclined to agree. As I've stated before, you weren't an enhancement shaman until level 30, and you only just got dual wield, forget about stormstrike and lava lash.
The new talents also offer much more immersive growth, in my opinion. Using Rogue as an example, at level 60 you get the choice between Cloak and Dagger, Shadowstep, and Burst of Speed. Before MoP, you had a choice of Vendetta, Killing Spree, or Shadow Dance, and those were locked to your spec, so you really only had one choice. All other choices until that point were +A% to B, or +X% to Y.
Lastly, there were only three talent combinations (4 for druids, and 6 for death knights in Wrath) that were viable. If you didn't have talents X, Y, and Z, you were gimping yourself and the group all for 'muh customization.' The old talent trees never changed what you were, again barring abilities core to that spec like stormstrike. Talents were hardly more than +X% to ability Y. Trust me, I've spent loads of time playing around in the talent trees for multiple games, and every time, I would make the same tree for the same spec, barring maybe 3-5 talent points or so. Those 3-5 talent points are akin to the talents of today, situational perks to certain abilities, maybe new ones. | Talent trees were never as much of a choice as everyone makes them seem. The specialization system is much better for the health of the game overall, making leveling alts easier, and making classes seem much more interesting earlier on. Play around with the old talent trees, make a PvE build, make a PvP one. There's not much difference, any difference there is is enough to be a talent in today's time, I assure you. |
simplesignman | Inbeforedownvotes
MDMA is not the problem so why post it here? You guys clearly have deeper issues and to be honest dude, I have done shit like this and looking back, I was a fucking dumbass for leaving my partner out of the loop... let me make sure I have this right. You had no prior agreement with your wife on who was going to make sure kids are ok if something happened, you did it on the spur of the moment and judging from your measurements had no clue beyond "its clean man" on the purity, you hid it from her after the fact... yet here you are trying to get an entire subreddit on your side, making it sound like she is to blame for how she feels about YOUR choices. Holy shit, you need to take a long look in the mirror buddy.
Let me say this again in case people are missing it THE DRUG WAS NOT THE ISSUE. You are married with kids, with that comes a responsibility on your part to talk to your wife about things (shocking I know). She isn't ready to leave because of this one indecent and its not fair for you to try to spin it that way. The single folks telling you to leave and be happy being single have no grasp on what it takes to build a good marriage and raise children, I have done this exact shit before, even tried to make it her fault for getting mad but in the end, I was being a selfish jackass. Also, dude bringing up things she did in the past is a really bad sign that you're not as right as you think you are.
I know this isn't the nicest comment and if I hadn't been in your exact shoes I wouldn't have bothered. I hope you can figure it out, but you gotta be brutally honest with yourself on how to move forward. Leave the pity party and go handle your shit brother.
If you feel having a family means its all about you, then it would be best to leave so she can find someone who will have a partnership with her. If you love her and want to make things work swallow your fucking pride, check your ego and go talk to her. A sorry I broke your trust might not hurt, if you actually mean it. I asked my wife about this earlier and she admitted that when she was pissed about something like this, it wasn't that I did it or the drug, it was that I didn't let her know what was up... like partners should do for each other. She brought up points like what if something happened and you two needed to leave with the kids or go to the hospital? Shit happens, best to make a half ass attempt at planning so your wife wont have 4 kids to deal with in an emergency. BTW, she just rolled with me for the first time and had I not pulled my head out, it never would have happened.
People using this as a chance to defend MDMA... this has nothing to do with the drug and yes some people are not educated about it, it is not a reason to toss away a family.
tl;dr: Don't hide shit from your partner, they won't respond well.
| Inbeforedownvotes
MDMA is not the problem so why post it here? You guys clearly have deeper issues and to be honest dude, I have done shit like this and looking back, I was a fucking dumbass for leaving my partner out of the loop... let me make sure I have this right. You had no prior agreement with your wife on who was going to make sure kids are ok if something happened, you did it on the spur of the moment and judging from your measurements had no clue beyond "its clean man" on the purity, you hid it from her after the fact... yet here you are trying to get an entire subreddit on your side, making it sound like she is to blame for how she feels about YOUR choices. Holy shit, you need to take a long look in the mirror buddy.
Let me say this again in case people are missing it THE DRUG WAS NOT THE ISSUE. You are married with kids, with that comes a responsibility on your part to talk to your wife about things (shocking I know). She isn't ready to leave because of this one indecent and its not fair for you to try to spin it that way. The single folks telling you to leave and be happy being single have no grasp on what it takes to build a good marriage and raise children, I have done this exact shit before, even tried to make it her fault for getting mad but in the end, I was being a selfish jackass. Also, dude bringing up things she did in the past is a really bad sign that you're not as right as you think you are.
I know this isn't the nicest comment and if I hadn't been in your exact shoes I wouldn't have bothered. I hope you can figure it out, but you gotta be brutally honest with yourself on how to move forward. Leave the pity party and go handle your shit brother.
If you feel having a family means its all about you, then it would be best to leave so she can find someone who will have a partnership with her. If you love her and want to make things work swallow your fucking pride, check your ego and go talk to her. A sorry I broke your trust might not hurt, if you actually mean it. I asked my wife about this earlier and she admitted that when she was pissed about something like this, it wasn't that I did it or the drug, it was that I didn't let her know what was up... like partners should do for each other. She brought up points like what if something happened and you two needed to leave with the kids or go to the hospital? Shit happens, best to make a half ass attempt at planning so your wife wont have 4 kids to deal with in an emergency. BTW, she just rolled with me for the first time and had I not pulled my head out, it never would have happened.
People using this as a chance to defend MDMA... this has nothing to do with the drug and yes some people are not educated about it, it is not a reason to toss away a family.
tl;dr: Don't hide shit from your partner, they won't respond well.
| MDMA | t5_2qwvg | cmpw4qr | Inbeforedownvotes
MDMA is not the problem so why post it here? You guys clearly have deeper issues and to be honest dude, I have done shit like this and looking back, I was a fucking dumbass for leaving my partner out of the loop... let me make sure I have this right. You had no prior agreement with your wife on who was going to make sure kids are ok if something happened, you did it on the spur of the moment and judging from your measurements had no clue beyond "its clean man" on the purity, you hid it from her after the fact... yet here you are trying to get an entire subreddit on your side, making it sound like she is to blame for how she feels about YOUR choices. Holy shit, you need to take a long look in the mirror buddy.
Let me say this again in case people are missing it THE DRUG WAS NOT THE ISSUE. You are married with kids, with that comes a responsibility on your part to talk to your wife about things (shocking I know). She isn't ready to leave because of this one indecent and its not fair for you to try to spin it that way. The single folks telling you to leave and be happy being single have no grasp on what it takes to build a good marriage and raise children, I have done this exact shit before, even tried to make it her fault for getting mad but in the end, I was being a selfish jackass. Also, dude bringing up things she did in the past is a really bad sign that you're not as right as you think you are.
I know this isn't the nicest comment and if I hadn't been in your exact shoes I wouldn't have bothered. I hope you can figure it out, but you gotta be brutally honest with yourself on how to move forward. Leave the pity party and go handle your shit brother.
If you feel having a family means its all about you, then it would be best to leave so she can find someone who will have a partnership with her. If you love her and want to make things work swallow your fucking pride, check your ego and go talk to her. A sorry I broke your trust might not hurt, if you actually mean it. I asked my wife about this earlier and she admitted that when she was pissed about something like this, it wasn't that I did it or the drug, it was that I didn't let her know what was up... like partners should do for each other. She brought up points like what if something happened and you two needed to leave with the kids or go to the hospital? Shit happens, best to make a half ass attempt at planning so your wife wont have 4 kids to deal with in an emergency. BTW, she just rolled with me for the first time and had I not pulled my head out, it never would have happened.
People using this as a chance to defend MDMA... this has nothing to do with the drug and yes some people are not educated about it, it is not a reason to toss away a family. | Don't hide shit from your partner, they won't respond well. |
logantauranga | Home Brand tomato paste, 500g, $1.99.
Home Brand tomato paste is the best tomato paste. You can put it on pizza, on sandwiches, on hot dogs, mix it with mustard or mayo, add it to soup, put it on toast, use it as a dip, and it will keep firing on all cylinders until the job is done.
Home Brand tomato paste will put hair on your chest if you are a man, and will remove hair from unsightly areas if you are a woman. If Home Brand tomato paste cannot detect your gender, it will compromise with a kind of hirsute patchwork pattern until further information becomes available.
Home Brand tomato paste takes other tomato pastes behind the bike sheds and makes them pregnant with flavour.
Home Brand tomato paste is not your mother. Home Brand tomato paste will not pick up your dirty laundry or empty beer cans. that is not what Home Brand tomato paste does; its chief weapon is surprise, fear... among its weapons are surprise, fear, and a fanatical devotion to being flavoursome.
Do not taunt Home Brand tomato paste.
Home Brand tomato paste comes complete with a solid glass container that will cut a brother. Any notes put inside a Home Brand tomato paste container and set adrift at sea will become the property of Poseidon, god of the deep, when not otherwise bound by treaty or international agreement.
*tl'dr -- I'm bored but also I really like Home Brand tomato paste* | Home Brand tomato paste, 500g, $1.99.
Home Brand tomato paste is the best tomato paste. You can put it on pizza, on sandwiches, on hot dogs, mix it with mustard or mayo, add it to soup, put it on toast, use it as a dip, and it will keep firing on all cylinders until the job is done.
Home Brand tomato paste will put hair on your chest if you are a man, and will remove hair from unsightly areas if you are a woman. If Home Brand tomato paste cannot detect your gender, it will compromise with a kind of hirsute patchwork pattern until further information becomes available.
Home Brand tomato paste takes other tomato pastes behind the bike sheds and makes them pregnant with flavour.
Home Brand tomato paste is not your mother. Home Brand tomato paste will not pick up your dirty laundry or empty beer cans. that is not what Home Brand tomato paste does; its chief weapon is surprise, fear... among its weapons are surprise, fear, and a fanatical devotion to being flavoursome.
Do not taunt Home Brand tomato paste.
Home Brand tomato paste comes complete with a solid glass container that will cut a brother. Any notes put inside a Home Brand tomato paste container and set adrift at sea will become the property of Poseidon, god of the deep, when not otherwise bound by treaty or international agreement.
tl'dr -- I'm bored but also I really like Home Brand tomato paste
| newzealand | t5_2qhma | cmpkaq2 | Home Brand tomato paste, 500g, $1.99.
Home Brand tomato paste is the best tomato paste. You can put it on pizza, on sandwiches, on hot dogs, mix it with mustard or mayo, add it to soup, put it on toast, use it as a dip, and it will keep firing on all cylinders until the job is done.
Home Brand tomato paste will put hair on your chest if you are a man, and will remove hair from unsightly areas if you are a woman. If Home Brand tomato paste cannot detect your gender, it will compromise with a kind of hirsute patchwork pattern until further information becomes available.
Home Brand tomato paste takes other tomato pastes behind the bike sheds and makes them pregnant with flavour.
Home Brand tomato paste is not your mother. Home Brand tomato paste will not pick up your dirty laundry or empty beer cans. that is not what Home Brand tomato paste does; its chief weapon is surprise, fear... among its weapons are surprise, fear, and a fanatical devotion to being flavoursome.
Do not taunt Home Brand tomato paste.
Home Brand tomato paste comes complete with a solid glass container that will cut a brother. Any notes put inside a Home Brand tomato paste container and set adrift at sea will become the property of Poseidon, god of the deep, when not otherwise bound by treaty or international agreement. | I'm bored but also I really like Home Brand tomato paste |
sporkbox | I personally can't get behind the hate. It's just the Zelda cycle in action, so whatever.
If you already have a Wii or Wii U, go for it! It's the earliest of the Zeldas plot-wise, so there's a lot to learn, play, and explore.
SS's coolest aspect was the swordplay and level design. The three primary areas are densely designed with many obstacles. They're made in a rather organic manner. Navigating them isn't much of a chore once you get far enough in each, since you'll unlock "shortcuts" not unlike what you find in Metroid.
Aside from the glitch that can screw your save up (Nintendo has a channel to fix it and there's a Gecko GCT to prevent it while playing), my only complaints are the Beetle's inability to fly straight once you've steered it and the fact there's no land-based way to travel between the three areas. Had there been tucked away paths to get to each area, I'd have been thoroughly satisfied in the level design department.
If you're a Zelda vet, the puzzles aren't particularly hard, but they at least incorporate something besides blocks. Each item retains a use throughout the game, too; something I can't say about OoT or TP.
The trials (don't worry about it, you'll learn later) were really cool, too. A lot of people disliked them and compared them to the Tears of Light from TP, but the change in gameplay and your utter vulnerability added excitement and depth to what would otherwise be a boring fetch sequence.
tldr it's one of the best 3D Zeldas, #2 behind Majora's Mask in my book. SS is the realization of the promises that Nintendo made about the Wii. It uses every feature possible of the Wii, to mostly successful effect. | I personally can't get behind the hate. It's just the Zelda cycle in action, so whatever.
If you already have a Wii or Wii U, go for it! It's the earliest of the Zeldas plot-wise, so there's a lot to learn, play, and explore.
SS's coolest aspect was the swordplay and level design. The three primary areas are densely designed with many obstacles. They're made in a rather organic manner. Navigating them isn't much of a chore once you get far enough in each, since you'll unlock "shortcuts" not unlike what you find in Metroid.
Aside from the glitch that can screw your save up (Nintendo has a channel to fix it and there's a Gecko GCT to prevent it while playing), my only complaints are the Beetle's inability to fly straight once you've steered it and the fact there's no land-based way to travel between the three areas. Had there been tucked away paths to get to each area, I'd have been thoroughly satisfied in the level design department.
If you're a Zelda vet, the puzzles aren't particularly hard, but they at least incorporate something besides blocks. Each item retains a use throughout the game, too; something I can't say about OoT or TP.
The trials (don't worry about it, you'll learn later) were really cool, too. A lot of people disliked them and compared them to the Tears of Light from TP, but the change in gameplay and your utter vulnerability added excitement and depth to what would otherwise be a boring fetch sequence.
tldr it's one of the best 3D Zeldas, #2 behind Majora's Mask in my book. SS is the realization of the promises that Nintendo made about the Wii. It uses every feature possible of the Wii, to mostly successful effect.
| zelda | t5_2r61g | cmrqaj5 | I personally can't get behind the hate. It's just the Zelda cycle in action, so whatever.
If you already have a Wii or Wii U, go for it! It's the earliest of the Zeldas plot-wise, so there's a lot to learn, play, and explore.
SS's coolest aspect was the swordplay and level design. The three primary areas are densely designed with many obstacles. They're made in a rather organic manner. Navigating them isn't much of a chore once you get far enough in each, since you'll unlock "shortcuts" not unlike what you find in Metroid.
Aside from the glitch that can screw your save up (Nintendo has a channel to fix it and there's a Gecko GCT to prevent it while playing), my only complaints are the Beetle's inability to fly straight once you've steered it and the fact there's no land-based way to travel between the three areas. Had there been tucked away paths to get to each area, I'd have been thoroughly satisfied in the level design department.
If you're a Zelda vet, the puzzles aren't particularly hard, but they at least incorporate something besides blocks. Each item retains a use throughout the game, too; something I can't say about OoT or TP.
The trials (don't worry about it, you'll learn later) were really cool, too. A lot of people disliked them and compared them to the Tears of Light from TP, but the change in gameplay and your utter vulnerability added excitement and depth to what would otherwise be a boring fetch sequence. | it's one of the best 3D Zeldas, #2 behind Majora's Mask in my book. SS is the realization of the promises that Nintendo made about the Wii. It uses every feature possible of the Wii, to mostly successful effect. |
RamsesThePigeon | For whatever reason, I decided - at age six - that I really wanted to be black.
From what I can recall, this sentiment was prompted by my mother's explanation of why I couldn't have a really tall flattop. Black people, she had told me, often had hair that was much thicker than my own fine locks... and as a result, they could weave it into the several-inch-tall mesas that I'd seen folks like Will Smith wearing.
Well, one summer day, I found an opportunity (or so I thought) to change my lot in life. My father had been working on an old car of some variety or another, doing his damnedest to reduce the amount of black smog that it was belching out. His efforts had resulted in a large pool of motor oil, a puddle of dark brown water, and an exhaust pipe that was caked with noxious black powder. I had been expressly forbidden from approaching any of those hazards, but all that had *really* done was draw my attention to them. I couldn't help but admire the ebony shine emanating from the slick, nor the way it juxtaposed so perfectly with the matte darkness of the soot.
"Stay away from those, Max," my father told me again. "I'm going to go upstairs for a minute."
"Okay," I replied, nodding with wide-eyed earnestness.
As soon as he was out of sight, I seized my chance.
Previous experience (with temporary tattoos, if I'm honest) had taught me that things tended to stick better if one or both surfaces were wet, which meant that my first course of action was to visit the puddle of tainted water. I splashed around in it for a few seconds, taking care to soak as much of my skin as I could. Once that was finished, I made my way to the pool of motor oil, where I slathered the inky slime all over myself. My last stop was at the car's exhaust pipe, which soon found itself filled by each of my six-year-old arms as I reached as far up inside of it as I could.
That was about when my mother came down to check on me.
"What are you *doing?!*" she shrieked, rushing forward to stop me.
Seeing as I was elbow-deep in a metal tube, I had little choice but to answer honestly. "I'm trying to make my skin black."
"*Why?!*"
"Because I wanted different hair!" I declared. Wasn't it *obvious?*
After only the slightest hesitation, my mother grabbed me by the hand and marched me to our front door, where she called for my father to come and see what I'd done. Between the two of them, I was treated to a lecture about poison, skin irritation, burns, and a whole host of other things. The general message seemed to be that I'd done something incredibly dangerous, and that I should never, *ever* do it again.
Still, the only punishment I received was that I had to accompany my father during his visit to the local hardware store... while I was still covered in car crap. I'm sure it was supposed to embarrass me into avoiding similar activities in the future... but at the time, I was pretty happy with the attention.
Besides... a year or so later, [I finally got my flattop](
**TL;DR: Violating an exhaust pipe does not make one black.** | For whatever reason, I decided - at age six - that I really wanted to be black.
From what I can recall, this sentiment was prompted by my mother's explanation of why I couldn't have a really tall flattop. Black people, she had told me, often had hair that was much thicker than my own fine locks... and as a result, they could weave it into the several-inch-tall mesas that I'd seen folks like Will Smith wearing.
Well, one summer day, I found an opportunity (or so I thought) to change my lot in life. My father had been working on an old car of some variety or another, doing his damnedest to reduce the amount of black smog that it was belching out. His efforts had resulted in a large pool of motor oil, a puddle of dark brown water, and an exhaust pipe that was caked with noxious black powder. I had been expressly forbidden from approaching any of those hazards, but all that had really done was draw my attention to them. I couldn't help but admire the ebony shine emanating from the slick, nor the way it juxtaposed so perfectly with the matte darkness of the soot.
"Stay away from those, Max," my father told me again. "I'm going to go upstairs for a minute."
"Okay," I replied, nodding with wide-eyed earnestness.
As soon as he was out of sight, I seized my chance.
Previous experience (with temporary tattoos, if I'm honest) had taught me that things tended to stick better if one or both surfaces were wet, which meant that my first course of action was to visit the puddle of tainted water. I splashed around in it for a few seconds, taking care to soak as much of my skin as I could. Once that was finished, I made my way to the pool of motor oil, where I slathered the inky slime all over myself. My last stop was at the car's exhaust pipe, which soon found itself filled by each of my six-year-old arms as I reached as far up inside of it as I could.
That was about when my mother came down to check on me.
"What are you doing?! " she shrieked, rushing forward to stop me.
Seeing as I was elbow-deep in a metal tube, I had little choice but to answer honestly. "I'm trying to make my skin black."
" Why?! "
"Because I wanted different hair!" I declared. Wasn't it obvious?
After only the slightest hesitation, my mother grabbed me by the hand and marched me to our front door, where she called for my father to come and see what I'd done. Between the two of them, I was treated to a lecture about poison, skin irritation, burns, and a whole host of other things. The general message seemed to be that I'd done something incredibly dangerous, and that I should never, ever do it again.
Still, the only punishment I received was that I had to accompany my father during his visit to the local hardware store... while I was still covered in car crap. I'm sure it was supposed to embarrass me into avoiding similar activities in the future... but at the time, I was pretty happy with the attention.
Besides... a year or so later, [I finally got my flattop](
TL;DR: Violating an exhaust pipe does not make one black.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | cmq7d7z | For whatever reason, I decided - at age six - that I really wanted to be black.
From what I can recall, this sentiment was prompted by my mother's explanation of why I couldn't have a really tall flattop. Black people, she had told me, often had hair that was much thicker than my own fine locks... and as a result, they could weave it into the several-inch-tall mesas that I'd seen folks like Will Smith wearing.
Well, one summer day, I found an opportunity (or so I thought) to change my lot in life. My father had been working on an old car of some variety or another, doing his damnedest to reduce the amount of black smog that it was belching out. His efforts had resulted in a large pool of motor oil, a puddle of dark brown water, and an exhaust pipe that was caked with noxious black powder. I had been expressly forbidden from approaching any of those hazards, but all that had really done was draw my attention to them. I couldn't help but admire the ebony shine emanating from the slick, nor the way it juxtaposed so perfectly with the matte darkness of the soot.
"Stay away from those, Max," my father told me again. "I'm going to go upstairs for a minute."
"Okay," I replied, nodding with wide-eyed earnestness.
As soon as he was out of sight, I seized my chance.
Previous experience (with temporary tattoos, if I'm honest) had taught me that things tended to stick better if one or both surfaces were wet, which meant that my first course of action was to visit the puddle of tainted water. I splashed around in it for a few seconds, taking care to soak as much of my skin as I could. Once that was finished, I made my way to the pool of motor oil, where I slathered the inky slime all over myself. My last stop was at the car's exhaust pipe, which soon found itself filled by each of my six-year-old arms as I reached as far up inside of it as I could.
That was about when my mother came down to check on me.
"What are you doing?! " she shrieked, rushing forward to stop me.
Seeing as I was elbow-deep in a metal tube, I had little choice but to answer honestly. "I'm trying to make my skin black."
" Why?! "
"Because I wanted different hair!" I declared. Wasn't it obvious?
After only the slightest hesitation, my mother grabbed me by the hand and marched me to our front door, where she called for my father to come and see what I'd done. Between the two of them, I was treated to a lecture about poison, skin irritation, burns, and a whole host of other things. The general message seemed to be that I'd done something incredibly dangerous, and that I should never, ever do it again.
Still, the only punishment I received was that I had to accompany my father during his visit to the local hardware store... while I was still covered in car crap. I'm sure it was supposed to embarrass me into avoiding similar activities in the future... but at the time, I was pretty happy with the attention.
Besides... a year or so later, [I finally got my flattop]( | Violating an exhaust pipe does not make one black. |
SGTHOTDOG | When I was eleven or twelve I used to love taking my dogs out for a walk because then I'd be able to light stuff on fire, before I would go out I would go down to my basement and collect all the chemicals that were flammable and mix them into a bottle, I would then use this super elixir to burn anything I thought would be cool. Well one day I found this old dead tree that was still standing but was hollow in the middle, it was filled with giant carpenter ants that would come out and attack you if you stuck your hand in there. So I decided to get them all riled up and then burn them, after I slayed enough ants I patted out what I thought was the remaining fire and went back home, you can probably see where this is going. About an hour later I see a fire truck fly by my house and head for the seminary where the tree was, I go outside with my mom and see that this 70 foot tall tree is in flames and most of the neighborhood is out watching it, I was the only kid in my small neighborhood so I'm sure that my mom knew it was me but she never said anything.
TL;DR: While slaughtering peasant ants, I set fire to a majestic tree | When I was eleven or twelve I used to love taking my dogs out for a walk because then I'd be able to light stuff on fire, before I would go out I would go down to my basement and collect all the chemicals that were flammable and mix them into a bottle, I would then use this super elixir to burn anything I thought would be cool. Well one day I found this old dead tree that was still standing but was hollow in the middle, it was filled with giant carpenter ants that would come out and attack you if you stuck your hand in there. So I decided to get them all riled up and then burn them, after I slayed enough ants I patted out what I thought was the remaining fire and went back home, you can probably see where this is going. About an hour later I see a fire truck fly by my house and head for the seminary where the tree was, I go outside with my mom and see that this 70 foot tall tree is in flames and most of the neighborhood is out watching it, I was the only kid in my small neighborhood so I'm sure that my mom knew it was me but she never said anything.
TL;DR: While slaughtering peasant ants, I set fire to a majestic tree
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | cmq988t | When I was eleven or twelve I used to love taking my dogs out for a walk because then I'd be able to light stuff on fire, before I would go out I would go down to my basement and collect all the chemicals that were flammable and mix them into a bottle, I would then use this super elixir to burn anything I thought would be cool. Well one day I found this old dead tree that was still standing but was hollow in the middle, it was filled with giant carpenter ants that would come out and attack you if you stuck your hand in there. So I decided to get them all riled up and then burn them, after I slayed enough ants I patted out what I thought was the remaining fire and went back home, you can probably see where this is going. About an hour later I see a fire truck fly by my house and head for the seminary where the tree was, I go outside with my mom and see that this 70 foot tall tree is in flames and most of the neighborhood is out watching it, I was the only kid in my small neighborhood so I'm sure that my mom knew it was me but she never said anything. | While slaughtering peasant ants, I set fire to a majestic tree |
Pop-X- | I'm an editor at (what I believe is) the largest student-run newspaper in the U.S.
We print five days a week, and until this year our reporters were responsible for generally one 12-14 inch story per day. In the interests of simplicity, I'll bifurcate my answer for you.
**The negative:**
The experience is, in a word, hectic. It'll be your first taste of a daily news grind. And if your paper is anything like ours, expectations are pretty high, and during the first few weeks of each semester it's a sink or swim environment. You may at times feel like quitting. I know I did. The pressures of a full course-load on top of daily deadlines can be overwhelming, and you'll likely feel busier than you've ever felt before, unless you're some sort of extracurricular maniac. But, if you tough it out then you get to experience...
**The positive:** A college newspaper, if the staff is close, can make you feel some real camaraderie. You'll have experience that no other Journalism major can get except at an internship, and there are always good stories out there for college reporters, if you know where to look. It can be a place to get great clips while you round out your skillset.
TL;DR it can be great or just plain awful. Kind of what you make of it. | I'm an editor at (what I believe is) the largest student-run newspaper in the U.S.
We print five days a week, and until this year our reporters were responsible for generally one 12-14 inch story per day. In the interests of simplicity, I'll bifurcate my answer for you.
The negative:
The experience is, in a word, hectic. It'll be your first taste of a daily news grind. And if your paper is anything like ours, expectations are pretty high, and during the first few weeks of each semester it's a sink or swim environment. You may at times feel like quitting. I know I did. The pressures of a full course-load on top of daily deadlines can be overwhelming, and you'll likely feel busier than you've ever felt before, unless you're some sort of extracurricular maniac. But, if you tough it out then you get to experience...
The positive: A college newspaper, if the staff is close, can make you feel some real camaraderie. You'll have experience that no other Journalism major can get except at an internship, and there are always good stories out there for college reporters, if you know where to look. It can be a place to get great clips while you round out your skillset.
TL;DR it can be great or just plain awful. Kind of what you make of it.
| Journalism | t5_2qhym | cmr1h36 | I'm an editor at (what I believe is) the largest student-run newspaper in the U.S.
We print five days a week, and until this year our reporters were responsible for generally one 12-14 inch story per day. In the interests of simplicity, I'll bifurcate my answer for you.
The negative:
The experience is, in a word, hectic. It'll be your first taste of a daily news grind. And if your paper is anything like ours, expectations are pretty high, and during the first few weeks of each semester it's a sink or swim environment. You may at times feel like quitting. I know I did. The pressures of a full course-load on top of daily deadlines can be overwhelming, and you'll likely feel busier than you've ever felt before, unless you're some sort of extracurricular maniac. But, if you tough it out then you get to experience...
The positive: A college newspaper, if the staff is close, can make you feel some real camaraderie. You'll have experience that no other Journalism major can get except at an internship, and there are always good stories out there for college reporters, if you know where to look. It can be a place to get great clips while you round out your skillset. | it can be great or just plain awful. Kind of what you make of it. |
alienus | >Technically, every time Netflix vends one of these movies to someone outside their rights area they are doing something wrong, under their contract.
This is false, but also correct; Netflix **is not** publishing content outside of the regions for which it is licensed. The VPN connection carries it outside that area, not Netflix.
All in all, it comes down to one simple question; should Netflix stop distribution to people they suspect are not in the country, even though they can *technically* never properly verify it one way or the other?
In other words; Sony is giving Netflix distribution rights for within a region, but **should know** that Netflix cannot enforce that the content is not distributed **outside** that area.
At the same time, what Netflix does, is rely upon a reasonable, **best effort** way to avoid VPNs.
So Would it be reasonable to block VPN users? **You would need to start blocking US-based Netflix customers from using USA Netflix for that**, because the Hola VPN extension -among similar tech- is how I can make use of Netflix to stream USA-licensed series, even though I am myself located in the Netherlands. (Hola is an extension that allows people from country X and people from country Y to anonymously use eachother as a VPN)
**TL;DR:** Sony was stupid to sell rights to Netflix if they do feel Netflix isn't doing what they should, since they simply cannot. | >Technically, every time Netflix vends one of these movies to someone outside their rights area they are doing something wrong, under their contract.
This is false, but also correct; Netflix is not publishing content outside of the regions for which it is licensed. The VPN connection carries it outside that area, not Netflix.
All in all, it comes down to one simple question; should Netflix stop distribution to people they suspect are not in the country, even though they can technically never properly verify it one way or the other?
In other words; Sony is giving Netflix distribution rights for within a region, but should know that Netflix cannot enforce that the content is not distributed outside that area.
At the same time, what Netflix does, is rely upon a reasonable, best effort way to avoid VPNs.
So Would it be reasonable to block VPN users? You would need to start blocking US-based Netflix customers from using USA Netflix for that , because the Hola VPN extension -among similar tech- is how I can make use of Netflix to stream USA-licensed series, even though I am myself located in the Netherlands. (Hola is an extension that allows people from country X and people from country Y to anonymously use eachother as a VPN)
TL;DR: Sony was stupid to sell rights to Netflix if they do feel Netflix isn't doing what they should, since they simply cannot.
| tech | t5_2qh48 | cmqzv28 | Technically, every time Netflix vends one of these movies to someone outside their rights area they are doing something wrong, under their contract.
This is false, but also correct; Netflix is not publishing content outside of the regions for which it is licensed. The VPN connection carries it outside that area, not Netflix.
All in all, it comes down to one simple question; should Netflix stop distribution to people they suspect are not in the country, even though they can technically never properly verify it one way or the other?
In other words; Sony is giving Netflix distribution rights for within a region, but should know that Netflix cannot enforce that the content is not distributed outside that area.
At the same time, what Netflix does, is rely upon a reasonable, best effort way to avoid VPNs.
So Would it be reasonable to block VPN users? You would need to start blocking US-based Netflix customers from using USA Netflix for that , because the Hola VPN extension -among similar tech- is how I can make use of Netflix to stream USA-licensed series, even though I am myself located in the Netherlands. (Hola is an extension that allows people from country X and people from country Y to anonymously use eachother as a VPN) | Sony was stupid to sell rights to Netflix if they do feel Netflix isn't doing what they should, since they simply cannot. |
johncmpe | Just going to chime in here and confirm that this is a legitimate place to "reverse bid" on gear. Think of it like Hotwire of electronic gadgets if you use hotwire for booking hotels.
I just recently purchased the Canon 400mm 2.8 IS II through Greentoe via a Canon authorized retailer for $9600 *before* the 5% off cash back promo. There is typically a 4-6 week delay with the cash back rebate; I imagine this is mainly to make sure you haven't returned the item back to the retailer. Considering the Canon's MAP for the lens is $10499, that's at least a 13% savings from MAP/MSRP.
Andrew from GreenToe and the retailer did an **exceptional job** with maintaining communication with me during the transaction. I had a situation requiring some patiencs since I actually signed up for a 2% cashback credit card a week before I ordered this but haven't received the CC in the mail yet so I asked them if they could wait to process the transaction until I received the new card and they worked with me to do so.
I also had some concerns about timing as I wanted to get this lens in time for the ACC champ game which was the following Saturday. I got the new CC on the Friday the week before the game, updated them with the new payment details. The transaction was run on Monday and the retailer shipped it out the same day so I received it on Wednesday.
I am also not affiliated with GreenToe (although with all the positive things I say about them, I should be! You hear that Andrew?! :]) and with that in mind, here are some things that I think they can improve on in the future:
* The items listed on their site seem to be manually managed so you won't see new/preorder items listed as soon as it is announced; for example, I think the new 7dm2 took 3-4 weeks to get listed. Maybe with high demand for preorders at retailers, you probably wouldn't have gotten that great of a price anyway until all preorders were shipped.
* Sub-$400 items doesn't seem to get as much response, seen reports of people offering MSRP for small ticket items just because their lower offer wasn't accepted and it still wasn't accepted
**TL;DR** - Green Toe is legitimate and saved me a lot of money so far. Anytime you can save even 1% more than time-based deals out there, I'd say it's a good thing. | Just going to chime in here and confirm that this is a legitimate place to "reverse bid" on gear. Think of it like Hotwire of electronic gadgets if you use hotwire for booking hotels.
I just recently purchased the Canon 400mm 2.8 IS II through Greentoe via a Canon authorized retailer for $9600 before the 5% off cash back promo. There is typically a 4-6 week delay with the cash back rebate; I imagine this is mainly to make sure you haven't returned the item back to the retailer. Considering the Canon's MAP for the lens is $10499, that's at least a 13% savings from MAP/MSRP.
Andrew from GreenToe and the retailer did an exceptional job with maintaining communication with me during the transaction. I had a situation requiring some patiencs since I actually signed up for a 2% cashback credit card a week before I ordered this but haven't received the CC in the mail yet so I asked them if they could wait to process the transaction until I received the new card and they worked with me to do so.
I also had some concerns about timing as I wanted to get this lens in time for the ACC champ game which was the following Saturday. I got the new CC on the Friday the week before the game, updated them with the new payment details. The transaction was run on Monday and the retailer shipped it out the same day so I received it on Wednesday.
I am also not affiliated with GreenToe (although with all the positive things I say about them, I should be! You hear that Andrew?! :]) and with that in mind, here are some things that I think they can improve on in the future:
The items listed on their site seem to be manually managed so you won't see new/preorder items listed as soon as it is announced; for example, I think the new 7dm2 took 3-4 weeks to get listed. Maybe with high demand for preorders at retailers, you probably wouldn't have gotten that great of a price anyway until all preorders were shipped.
Sub-$400 items doesn't seem to get as much response, seen reports of people offering MSRP for small ticket items just because their lower offer wasn't accepted and it still wasn't accepted
TL;DR - Green Toe is legitimate and saved me a lot of money so far. Anytime you can save even 1% more than time-based deals out there, I'd say it's a good thing.
| photography | t5_2qh2a | cmr6590 | Just going to chime in here and confirm that this is a legitimate place to "reverse bid" on gear. Think of it like Hotwire of electronic gadgets if you use hotwire for booking hotels.
I just recently purchased the Canon 400mm 2.8 IS II through Greentoe via a Canon authorized retailer for $9600 before the 5% off cash back promo. There is typically a 4-6 week delay with the cash back rebate; I imagine this is mainly to make sure you haven't returned the item back to the retailer. Considering the Canon's MAP for the lens is $10499, that's at least a 13% savings from MAP/MSRP.
Andrew from GreenToe and the retailer did an exceptional job with maintaining communication with me during the transaction. I had a situation requiring some patiencs since I actually signed up for a 2% cashback credit card a week before I ordered this but haven't received the CC in the mail yet so I asked them if they could wait to process the transaction until I received the new card and they worked with me to do so.
I also had some concerns about timing as I wanted to get this lens in time for the ACC champ game which was the following Saturday. I got the new CC on the Friday the week before the game, updated them with the new payment details. The transaction was run on Monday and the retailer shipped it out the same day so I received it on Wednesday.
I am also not affiliated with GreenToe (although with all the positive things I say about them, I should be! You hear that Andrew?! :]) and with that in mind, here are some things that I think they can improve on in the future:
The items listed on their site seem to be manually managed so you won't see new/preorder items listed as soon as it is announced; for example, I think the new 7dm2 took 3-4 weeks to get listed. Maybe with high demand for preorders at retailers, you probably wouldn't have gotten that great of a price anyway until all preorders were shipped.
Sub-$400 items doesn't seem to get as much response, seen reports of people offering MSRP for small ticket items just because their lower offer wasn't accepted and it still wasn't accepted | Green Toe is legitimate and saved me a lot of money so far. Anytime you can save even 1% more than time-based deals out there, I'd say it's a good thing. |
standrew5998 | Or why doesn't team rwby comment on their chosen profession being unnecessary. I'm starting to think Mistral has threatened the others with extinction by way of their naturally occurring army. Their tendency to trade coming from their already-stated easy military power.
TL;DR Mistral threatened the rest with Grimm military. Have big military, no need for weapons development, so trade | Or why doesn't team rwby comment on their chosen profession being unnecessary. I'm starting to think Mistral has threatened the others with extinction by way of their naturally occurring army. Their tendency to trade coming from their already-stated easy military power.
TL;DR Mistral threatened the rest with Grimm military. Have big military, no need for weapons development, so trade
| RWBY | t5_2vhg0 | cmr0gg1 | Or why doesn't team rwby comment on their chosen profession being unnecessary. I'm starting to think Mistral has threatened the others with extinction by way of their naturally occurring army. Their tendency to trade coming from their already-stated easy military power. | Mistral threatened the rest with Grimm military. Have big military, no need for weapons development, so trade |
CheeseHumper | I feel like one of the most damning things about this whole situation is that the only people I see coming to Márcio's defense are those with something at stake. In this situation, obviously you as his teammate can't be completely unbiased, but the top level players don't really have anything to gain from trying to call out cheating.
When I look at any open comments section relating to this incident the only defenders I see there are people who believe the reputation of their home country is tarnished due to this. Now anyone thinking logically does not think any lesser of Portugal, including the rest of the team, but I can understand being defensive if you believe people think otherwise.
Also, the large argument I see in open comments is that this is all just jealousy. I personally understand that everyone attending this event is better at Magic than me and hold no grudge for it, but I can believe that random people shouting "Cheater!" may be saying so for this reason. The only issue with that is people like Chapin, while maybe being a bit loose and gossip-y on social media, are already well renowned Magic players and I see no way they gain anything from trying to oust a cheater.
tl;dr When the only people I see trying to say Márcio wasn't cheating are people who have something to lose if he was, it doesn't look good at all. | I feel like one of the most damning things about this whole situation is that the only people I see coming to Márcio's defense are those with something at stake. In this situation, obviously you as his teammate can't be completely unbiased, but the top level players don't really have anything to gain from trying to call out cheating.
When I look at any open comments section relating to this incident the only defenders I see there are people who believe the reputation of their home country is tarnished due to this. Now anyone thinking logically does not think any lesser of Portugal, including the rest of the team, but I can understand being defensive if you believe people think otherwise.
Also, the large argument I see in open comments is that this is all just jealousy. I personally understand that everyone attending this event is better at Magic than me and hold no grudge for it, but I can believe that random people shouting "Cheater!" may be saying so for this reason. The only issue with that is people like Chapin, while maybe being a bit loose and gossip-y on social media, are already well renowned Magic players and I see no way they gain anything from trying to oust a cheater.
tl;dr When the only people I see trying to say Márcio wasn't cheating are people who have something to lose if he was, it doesn't look good at all.
| magicTCG | t5_2qn5f | cmr79oe | I feel like one of the most damning things about this whole situation is that the only people I see coming to Márcio's defense are those with something at stake. In this situation, obviously you as his teammate can't be completely unbiased, but the top level players don't really have anything to gain from trying to call out cheating.
When I look at any open comments section relating to this incident the only defenders I see there are people who believe the reputation of their home country is tarnished due to this. Now anyone thinking logically does not think any lesser of Portugal, including the rest of the team, but I can understand being defensive if you believe people think otherwise.
Also, the large argument I see in open comments is that this is all just jealousy. I personally understand that everyone attending this event is better at Magic than me and hold no grudge for it, but I can believe that random people shouting "Cheater!" may be saying so for this reason. The only issue with that is people like Chapin, while maybe being a bit loose and gossip-y on social media, are already well renowned Magic players and I see no way they gain anything from trying to oust a cheater. | When the only people I see trying to say Márcio wasn't cheating are people who have something to lose if he was, it doesn't look good at all. |
aquafarious | Well, I stay within the queer community for dating, which makes it easier. I've gone on dates with women that had no idea what my parts were, but they didn't care. When people approach me in gay bars, I have to either guess their orientation, or immediately ask them what their perception of my gender is, and then tell them what I am, or I deal with the whole 'oh, my mistake', or major sexual confusion, as they obviously wouldn't have approached me unless they found me attractive.
In public, I am approached my straight guys sometimes, (not attracted to men, generally) and I basically just shit myself and run away before they get to me, LOL.
So, uh, I disclose right away, and put my info on my dating profile, or otherwise disclose as early as possible, because generally people have no idea what the hell is going on in my pants. Or anywhere else, for that matter.
But, I'm a queer transwoman, and I'm not really in the position of trying to date straight men. I don't see a problem with not immediately disclosing, but I feel it's a safety issue to disclose early. With straight men I personally would never do more than a date without disclosing, and wouldn't mess around at all without disclosing, and I would disclose digitally or in a safe place.
I really feel for transwomen interested in straight men, because it's a lot harder than my situation and we don't live in a very accepting society.
tldr - I don't mess with dat crying game scenario. When you play the game of crying, you win or you die. (was that too dramatic?) | Well, I stay within the queer community for dating, which makes it easier. I've gone on dates with women that had no idea what my parts were, but they didn't care. When people approach me in gay bars, I have to either guess their orientation, or immediately ask them what their perception of my gender is, and then tell them what I am, or I deal with the whole 'oh, my mistake', or major sexual confusion, as they obviously wouldn't have approached me unless they found me attractive.
In public, I am approached my straight guys sometimes, (not attracted to men, generally) and I basically just shit myself and run away before they get to me, LOL.
So, uh, I disclose right away, and put my info on my dating profile, or otherwise disclose as early as possible, because generally people have no idea what the hell is going on in my pants. Or anywhere else, for that matter.
But, I'm a queer transwoman, and I'm not really in the position of trying to date straight men. I don't see a problem with not immediately disclosing, but I feel it's a safety issue to disclose early. With straight men I personally would never do more than a date without disclosing, and wouldn't mess around at all without disclosing, and I would disclose digitally or in a safe place.
I really feel for transwomen interested in straight men, because it's a lot harder than my situation and we don't live in a very accepting society.
tldr - I don't mess with dat crying game scenario. When you play the game of crying, you win or you die. (was that too dramatic?)
| asktransgender | t5_2r4b9 | cmrn89i | Well, I stay within the queer community for dating, which makes it easier. I've gone on dates with women that had no idea what my parts were, but they didn't care. When people approach me in gay bars, I have to either guess their orientation, or immediately ask them what their perception of my gender is, and then tell them what I am, or I deal with the whole 'oh, my mistake', or major sexual confusion, as they obviously wouldn't have approached me unless they found me attractive.
In public, I am approached my straight guys sometimes, (not attracted to men, generally) and I basically just shit myself and run away before they get to me, LOL.
So, uh, I disclose right away, and put my info on my dating profile, or otherwise disclose as early as possible, because generally people have no idea what the hell is going on in my pants. Or anywhere else, for that matter.
But, I'm a queer transwoman, and I'm not really in the position of trying to date straight men. I don't see a problem with not immediately disclosing, but I feel it's a safety issue to disclose early. With straight men I personally would never do more than a date without disclosing, and wouldn't mess around at all without disclosing, and I would disclose digitally or in a safe place.
I really feel for transwomen interested in straight men, because it's a lot harder than my situation and we don't live in a very accepting society. | I don't mess with dat crying game scenario. When you play the game of crying, you win or you die. (was that too dramatic?) |
navatwo | I'm assuming you're in first year. Good luck getting a note. I have zero respect for lying, and if you can't put together that a note from a doctor doesn't come from a Counselling office, then may someone's God have mercy on you.
tl;dr Doctors work on weekends, perhaps you should have prepared like the rest of us in dealing with this situation. | I'm assuming you're in first year. Good luck getting a note. I have zero respect for lying, and if you can't put together that a note from a doctor doesn't come from a Counselling office, then may someone's God have mercy on you.
tl;dr Doctors work on weekends, perhaps you should have prepared like the rest of us in dealing with this situation.
| uwo | t5_2rm2m | cmrrgfy | I'm assuming you're in first year. Good luck getting a note. I have zero respect for lying, and if you can't put together that a note from a doctor doesn't come from a Counselling office, then may someone's God have mercy on you. | Doctors work on weekends, perhaps you should have prepared like the rest of us in dealing with this situation. |
TheSwedishMonkey | Then I would definitely set my sights on Khao Lak or Koh Kho Khao... Highway 4 passes through the area, lots of buses and minivans goin' south to Phang Nga/Phuket/Krabi/Phi Phi/Koh Lanta and north to Surat Thani/Koh Samui/Hua Hin/Bangkok. Easy transportation options are always nice to have... **And for bonus points**: Just up the road (40 minutes or so) you have Thailands biggest and most beautiful national park: [Khao Sok]( Lots of trekking tours, guided or unguided routes, beeeeeeautiful scenery. Check it out, you won't be sorry :-)
TL;DR : Easy access - beaches, jungle and mountains - As touristy or secluded as one prefers. Special recommendation: Koh Kho Khao, stay at Hapla Beach.
| Then I would definitely set my sights on Khao Lak or Koh Kho Khao... Highway 4 passes through the area, lots of buses and minivans goin' south to Phang Nga/Phuket/Krabi/Phi Phi/Koh Lanta and north to Surat Thani/Koh Samui/Hua Hin/Bangkok. Easy transportation options are always nice to have... And for bonus points : Just up the road (40 minutes or so) you have Thailands biggest and most beautiful national park: Khao Sok
TL;DR : Easy access - beaches, jungle and mountains - As touristy or secluded as one prefers. Special recommendation: Koh Kho Khao, stay at Hapla Beach.
| ThailandTourism | t5_340kd | cmrxkwx | Then I would definitely set my sights on Khao Lak or Koh Kho Khao... Highway 4 passes through the area, lots of buses and minivans goin' south to Phang Nga/Phuket/Krabi/Phi Phi/Koh Lanta and north to Surat Thani/Koh Samui/Hua Hin/Bangkok. Easy transportation options are always nice to have... And for bonus points : Just up the road (40 minutes or so) you have Thailands biggest and most beautiful national park: Khao Sok | Easy access - beaches, jungle and mountains - As touristy or secluded as one prefers. Special recommendation: Koh Kho Khao, stay at Hapla Beach. |
TheoQ99 | Yeah, I could suspend my disbelief for the baseball but not the satellite. Sending a baseball to space from one hit, impossible; the energy required would just explode it at initial impact. The pieces of a satellite falling from orbit landing in the same spot? Also impossible. Even the tiniest of deviations from an orbital path will cause it to fall out of sync. Plus then the different aerodynamics of the debris will ensure that the pieces become separated while falling through the atmosphere.
tl;dr I should suspend my disbelief harder | Yeah, I could suspend my disbelief for the baseball but not the satellite. Sending a baseball to space from one hit, impossible; the energy required would just explode it at initial impact. The pieces of a satellite falling from orbit landing in the same spot? Also impossible. Even the tiniest of deviations from an orbital path will cause it to fall out of sync. Plus then the different aerodynamics of the debris will ensure that the pieces become separated while falling through the atmosphere.
tl;dr I should suspend my disbelief harder
| comics | t5_2qh0s | cms7q9k | Yeah, I could suspend my disbelief for the baseball but not the satellite. Sending a baseball to space from one hit, impossible; the energy required would just explode it at initial impact. The pieces of a satellite falling from orbit landing in the same spot? Also impossible. Even the tiniest of deviations from an orbital path will cause it to fall out of sync. Plus then the different aerodynamics of the debris will ensure that the pieces become separated while falling through the atmosphere. | I should suspend my disbelief harder |
Chi316 | If A. Johnson is out, I think DeAndre has a chance to put up some good numbers again. Benjamin should be fine so go with him. For me it comes down to Gordon vs Matthews. I'd say go with Gordon since he's the clear cut uncontested no 1. Maclin could come back to elite status any game. I haven't closely followed Lafell in recent weeks but it's a tough matchup and he's competing with Gronk for TD targets.
TL;DR: Hopkins (monitor Johnson), Gordon, Benjamin | If A. Johnson is out, I think DeAndre has a chance to put up some good numbers again. Benjamin should be fine so go with him. For me it comes down to Gordon vs Matthews. I'd say go with Gordon since he's the clear cut uncontested no 1. Maclin could come back to elite status any game. I haven't closely followed Lafell in recent weeks but it's a tough matchup and he's competing with Gronk for TD targets.
TL;DR: Hopkins (monitor Johnson), Gordon, Benjamin
| fantasyfootball | t5_2qlqq | cmrvajn | If A. Johnson is out, I think DeAndre has a chance to put up some good numbers again. Benjamin should be fine so go with him. For me it comes down to Gordon vs Matthews. I'd say go with Gordon since he's the clear cut uncontested no 1. Maclin could come back to elite status any game. I haven't closely followed Lafell in recent weeks but it's a tough matchup and he's competing with Gronk for TD targets. | Hopkins (monitor Johnson), Gordon, Benjamin |
mdillenbeck | From the US and I'll add:
Racism. Not at me, but at the cooks and support staff.
Dine-and-Ditch customers.
Making $2.33 and hour and hearing about how the customer shouldn't be responsible for our wages then staying how overpriced our food was. (It wasn't - but people think cook at home grocery store pieces should be applied to an industry with strict food safety standards and staff expenditures.)
Bosses saying "you make your raiser by increasing your tips and bringing customers in" - who then turn around and hour in staff because "you've doubled the guest count, so we need a second server to handle them" and thus hiring away the wage increase I made for myself.
Unreliable co-workers. No call/no show or habitually late, shirking cleaning duties, and ignoring guests up from (servers say and ran the front register - my wife and I understood that guests for another server could be our guests in the future, thus you always greet, seat, and cash out promptly... Yup which other servers would use us as hosts - wife quit when they did this to her on weekends and she saw get table counts drop to almost half while playing hostess).
The way so many customers look down on you.
Increasing complaints as customers become more entitled. Most of them now jump seats, insist on sitting away from other people (then complain when one 3rd shift server struggles to cover 4 dining rooms - and corporate bans closing sections), play with phones for ten minutes or so then insist their food came out cold (this is why you check back within 1 minute and specifically ask about temperature for every table), and so on.
For me, it was associated with smoking (because only smokers got breaks) - when I went back I started smoking again. Others used drugs and alcohol instead after hours (or during) as well as smoking.
If you get insurance, vacation, our sick leave it is a joke. Insurance is at best a volume discount plan where nothing is really covered - not like work will let you have time off to see a doctor. Compensated time off is always minimum wage. If I work 6 hours and make $18 an hour, a day "off" is at $8 an hour. Imagine if the executives of companies got paid less than half for their time off - there would be outrage. Also, who could afford to lose $60 Of their $108 daily earnings? If sick, we will come in and make our money and share our misery with our customers. Companies don't care if you can fake it, because they usually have trouble finding competent staff and constantly fight to keep labor low.
Remember $2.33? Well I also got to be host and busser. They'd send the higher wage dish washer home early and tell servers to do the work. Why pay $2.33 and $8 when you can pay two at $2.33 an hour.
So sick of "what's taking so long" complaints when customers can see we are in middle of a major dinner rush. See those twelve people who were say after you, and the twelve after you? They are all coming in at the same time and ordering also - that's what's taking so long. Oh, you thought we'd be dead post-game when everyone else choose to come get dinner? You want fast service, come in mid-game when we are dead.
Unannounced buses of 30 expecting McDonalds speeds from sit down dining.
Crazy shifts. Sure, you were scheduled for an expected 6 hours but we use a cut system - 2 hours and we are dead? Go home. Have an important appointment and you've been here 6 to 8 hours already? Sorry, we are busy and you have to stay. Also, work 4 hours, 2 hours off, then 3 hours. Then, after 8 off, come back for a twelve hour shift.
Edit: note I am also talking about irregular shifts. This week you are Sunday night, Monday lunch, Wednesday early morning and dinner, Thursday lunch, Friday late lunch and overnight - next week Monday through Thursday late night/early morning and Friday lunch, and Friday and Saturday bar. Regular schedule? Nope - we don't do that. Six our seven days a week for 28 random hours is what we do.
**TL;DR - undercompensated stress.** | From the US and I'll add:
Racism. Not at me, but at the cooks and support staff.
Dine-and-Ditch customers.
Making $2.33 and hour and hearing about how the customer shouldn't be responsible for our wages then staying how overpriced our food was. (It wasn't - but people think cook at home grocery store pieces should be applied to an industry with strict food safety standards and staff expenditures.)
Bosses saying "you make your raiser by increasing your tips and bringing customers in" - who then turn around and hour in staff because "you've doubled the guest count, so we need a second server to handle them" and thus hiring away the wage increase I made for myself.
Unreliable co-workers. No call/no show or habitually late, shirking cleaning duties, and ignoring guests up from (servers say and ran the front register - my wife and I understood that guests for another server could be our guests in the future, thus you always greet, seat, and cash out promptly... Yup which other servers would use us as hosts - wife quit when they did this to her on weekends and she saw get table counts drop to almost half while playing hostess).
The way so many customers look down on you.
Increasing complaints as customers become more entitled. Most of them now jump seats, insist on sitting away from other people (then complain when one 3rd shift server struggles to cover 4 dining rooms - and corporate bans closing sections), play with phones for ten minutes or so then insist their food came out cold (this is why you check back within 1 minute and specifically ask about temperature for every table), and so on.
For me, it was associated with smoking (because only smokers got breaks) - when I went back I started smoking again. Others used drugs and alcohol instead after hours (or during) as well as smoking.
If you get insurance, vacation, our sick leave it is a joke. Insurance is at best a volume discount plan where nothing is really covered - not like work will let you have time off to see a doctor. Compensated time off is always minimum wage. If I work 6 hours and make $18 an hour, a day "off" is at $8 an hour. Imagine if the executives of companies got paid less than half for their time off - there would be outrage. Also, who could afford to lose $60 Of their $108 daily earnings? If sick, we will come in and make our money and share our misery with our customers. Companies don't care if you can fake it, because they usually have trouble finding competent staff and constantly fight to keep labor low.
Remember $2.33? Well I also got to be host and busser. They'd send the higher wage dish washer home early and tell servers to do the work. Why pay $2.33 and $8 when you can pay two at $2.33 an hour.
So sick of "what's taking so long" complaints when customers can see we are in middle of a major dinner rush. See those twelve people who were say after you, and the twelve after you? They are all coming in at the same time and ordering also - that's what's taking so long. Oh, you thought we'd be dead post-game when everyone else choose to come get dinner? You want fast service, come in mid-game when we are dead.
Unannounced buses of 30 expecting McDonalds speeds from sit down dining.
Crazy shifts. Sure, you were scheduled for an expected 6 hours but we use a cut system - 2 hours and we are dead? Go home. Have an important appointment and you've been here 6 to 8 hours already? Sorry, we are busy and you have to stay. Also, work 4 hours, 2 hours off, then 3 hours. Then, after 8 off, come back for a twelve hour shift.
Edit: note I am also talking about irregular shifts. This week you are Sunday night, Monday lunch, Wednesday early morning and dinner, Thursday lunch, Friday late lunch and overnight - next week Monday through Thursday late night/early morning and Friday lunch, and Friday and Saturday bar. Regular schedule? Nope - we don't do that. Six our seven days a week for 28 random hours is what we do.
TL;DR - undercompensated stress.
| TalesFromYourServer | t5_2v480 | cmsc3b8 | From the US and I'll add:
Racism. Not at me, but at the cooks and support staff.
Dine-and-Ditch customers.
Making $2.33 and hour and hearing about how the customer shouldn't be responsible for our wages then staying how overpriced our food was. (It wasn't - but people think cook at home grocery store pieces should be applied to an industry with strict food safety standards and staff expenditures.)
Bosses saying "you make your raiser by increasing your tips and bringing customers in" - who then turn around and hour in staff because "you've doubled the guest count, so we need a second server to handle them" and thus hiring away the wage increase I made for myself.
Unreliable co-workers. No call/no show or habitually late, shirking cleaning duties, and ignoring guests up from (servers say and ran the front register - my wife and I understood that guests for another server could be our guests in the future, thus you always greet, seat, and cash out promptly... Yup which other servers would use us as hosts - wife quit when they did this to her on weekends and she saw get table counts drop to almost half while playing hostess).
The way so many customers look down on you.
Increasing complaints as customers become more entitled. Most of them now jump seats, insist on sitting away from other people (then complain when one 3rd shift server struggles to cover 4 dining rooms - and corporate bans closing sections), play with phones for ten minutes or so then insist their food came out cold (this is why you check back within 1 minute and specifically ask about temperature for every table), and so on.
For me, it was associated with smoking (because only smokers got breaks) - when I went back I started smoking again. Others used drugs and alcohol instead after hours (or during) as well as smoking.
If you get insurance, vacation, our sick leave it is a joke. Insurance is at best a volume discount plan where nothing is really covered - not like work will let you have time off to see a doctor. Compensated time off is always minimum wage. If I work 6 hours and make $18 an hour, a day "off" is at $8 an hour. Imagine if the executives of companies got paid less than half for their time off - there would be outrage. Also, who could afford to lose $60 Of their $108 daily earnings? If sick, we will come in and make our money and share our misery with our customers. Companies don't care if you can fake it, because they usually have trouble finding competent staff and constantly fight to keep labor low.
Remember $2.33? Well I also got to be host and busser. They'd send the higher wage dish washer home early and tell servers to do the work. Why pay $2.33 and $8 when you can pay two at $2.33 an hour.
So sick of "what's taking so long" complaints when customers can see we are in middle of a major dinner rush. See those twelve people who were say after you, and the twelve after you? They are all coming in at the same time and ordering also - that's what's taking so long. Oh, you thought we'd be dead post-game when everyone else choose to come get dinner? You want fast service, come in mid-game when we are dead.
Unannounced buses of 30 expecting McDonalds speeds from sit down dining.
Crazy shifts. Sure, you were scheduled for an expected 6 hours but we use a cut system - 2 hours and we are dead? Go home. Have an important appointment and you've been here 6 to 8 hours already? Sorry, we are busy and you have to stay. Also, work 4 hours, 2 hours off, then 3 hours. Then, after 8 off, come back for a twelve hour shift.
Edit: note I am also talking about irregular shifts. This week you are Sunday night, Monday lunch, Wednesday early morning and dinner, Thursday lunch, Friday late lunch and overnight - next week Monday through Thursday late night/early morning and Friday lunch, and Friday and Saturday bar. Regular schedule? Nope - we don't do that. Six our seven days a week for 28 random hours is what we do. | undercompensated stress. |
avenlanzer | I've had these types of fantasies too. I'm a a strait male. I know my sexuality, not shy about questioning it. My best friend is transgender, so I know that's not the case either. Just fantasy as if I were a woman getting fucked. Role reversal is a normal and fairly common fantasy. Human sexuality is not just about what you enjoy, but also what your partner enjoys, and the role reversal fantasy is very common with people who have great empathy with their partners. It's a sexual thing, but its really a layer over an emotional expression. It could indicate your sexuality or gender identity, but usually not. Also, understanding it from the other perspective can help you understand your own desires better and what turns you on. Don't look at it as weird or a warning sign of anything, look at it as an opportunity to grow in your sexuality. You can learn why your partner likes something or not by putting yourself in their shoes, and you van learn what you like by thinking on how you would please yourself as the opposite gender.
TL;DR Don't put too much worry abou it. Its normal and good for you. | I've had these types of fantasies too. I'm a a strait male. I know my sexuality, not shy about questioning it. My best friend is transgender, so I know that's not the case either. Just fantasy as if I were a woman getting fucked. Role reversal is a normal and fairly common fantasy. Human sexuality is not just about what you enjoy, but also what your partner enjoys, and the role reversal fantasy is very common with people who have great empathy with their partners. It's a sexual thing, but its really a layer over an emotional expression. It could indicate your sexuality or gender identity, but usually not. Also, understanding it from the other perspective can help you understand your own desires better and what turns you on. Don't look at it as weird or a warning sign of anything, look at it as an opportunity to grow in your sexuality. You can learn why your partner likes something or not by putting yourself in their shoes, and you van learn what you like by thinking on how you would please yourself as the opposite gender.
TL;DR Don't put too much worry abou it. Its normal and good for you.
| sex | t5_2qh3p | cmt4sap | I've had these types of fantasies too. I'm a a strait male. I know my sexuality, not shy about questioning it. My best friend is transgender, so I know that's not the case either. Just fantasy as if I were a woman getting fucked. Role reversal is a normal and fairly common fantasy. Human sexuality is not just about what you enjoy, but also what your partner enjoys, and the role reversal fantasy is very common with people who have great empathy with their partners. It's a sexual thing, but its really a layer over an emotional expression. It could indicate your sexuality or gender identity, but usually not. Also, understanding it from the other perspective can help you understand your own desires better and what turns you on. Don't look at it as weird or a warning sign of anything, look at it as an opportunity to grow in your sexuality. You can learn why your partner likes something or not by putting yourself in their shoes, and you van learn what you like by thinking on how you would please yourself as the opposite gender. | Don't put too much worry abou it. Its normal and good for you. |
Legundo | I actually took the opposite approach. Where I am in the communities I am in, it's difficult to near impossible to hide my real name, so I don't try. I've had fans find me on skype and I just generally tell them that I don't add everyone because I use that for business (which is 100% true) and they get the idea, the ones that don't get blocked.
It doesn't help I use the same username almost everywhere to help strengthen the brand, but a quick google search of my screen name, website name, twitch, or basically anything from my community will find me without much effort. I just don't make a big deal out of it and generally people don't seem to either.
In general, the more you try to remain a secret, the more people will look. People always want what they can't have, so don't put much effort into hiding the information and you'd be surprised how few people will look, given time.
tl;dr - Don't make a big deal of trying to hide, and just block people who are jerks. | I actually took the opposite approach. Where I am in the communities I am in, it's difficult to near impossible to hide my real name, so I don't try. I've had fans find me on skype and I just generally tell them that I don't add everyone because I use that for business (which is 100% true) and they get the idea, the ones that don't get blocked.
It doesn't help I use the same username almost everywhere to help strengthen the brand, but a quick google search of my screen name, website name, twitch, or basically anything from my community will find me without much effort. I just don't make a big deal out of it and generally people don't seem to either.
In general, the more you try to remain a secret, the more people will look. People always want what they can't have, so don't put much effort into hiding the information and you'd be surprised how few people will look, given time.
tl;dr - Don't make a big deal of trying to hide, and just block people who are jerks.
| Twitch | t5_2s0fe | cmt1ior | I actually took the opposite approach. Where I am in the communities I am in, it's difficult to near impossible to hide my real name, so I don't try. I've had fans find me on skype and I just generally tell them that I don't add everyone because I use that for business (which is 100% true) and they get the idea, the ones that don't get blocked.
It doesn't help I use the same username almost everywhere to help strengthen the brand, but a quick google search of my screen name, website name, twitch, or basically anything from my community will find me without much effort. I just don't make a big deal out of it and generally people don't seem to either.
In general, the more you try to remain a secret, the more people will look. People always want what they can't have, so don't put much effort into hiding the information and you'd be surprised how few people will look, given time. | Don't make a big deal of trying to hide, and just block people who are jerks. |
moonlightsidhe | Being totally non-sarcastic now (unlike I was with the first asshat) That *was* my point; thank you.
This is why I decided to put diet in the Big Three with politics and religion. Most people can't have a civilized discussion about any of them; if you aren't part of their party/religion/diet then they perceive it as some kind of personal attack on their belief system, as if what they believe is invalidated somehow if everyone else around them doesn't behave the same way as they do. Hence the mystique; I let the pounds speak for themselves and if someone really wants to know *how* I'm doing it they ask enough times that I feel confident giving more in-depth information. It's kind of sad that it has to be that way; but even if you aren't trying to be a smug bastard or 'that person', people who are themselves unhappy with their bodies are very quick to tar you with that brush, not to mention that there is NO ONE people hate more then a smug bastard who is right.
It doesn't help that our diet is perceived as extremely subversive; continuing with the religious theme (first sarcasm, now I'm gonna unload the hyperbole) Ketoers are essentially Food Satanists; preaching a diet where not only do you lose weight, you do it by eliminating suffering and hunger and indulging in foods that have the whole-grain eating flagellants clutching their celery sticks and moaning into their fat-free fruit-flavored yogurts. But; putting myself in the shoes of someone who starved themselves and spent months and months punishing themselves at the gym... yeah, if I saw some smug asshole munching on cheese and eggs with actual yolks in them and all the things I had denied myself in my quest to lose weight, I probably *would* get mad and be antagonistic towards them, because they don't seem to be suffering like I am and getting similar results. That'll sting anyone.
Every group has its crazies, and you are always the most excited about something right after you figure it out. There is obviously something extremely broken about our currently accepted way of eating; and just like life, there is no one true path to health. I've found what works for me; and I decided a long time ago that what works for me is not dependent on everyone else agreeing with me.
**TL:DR:** When it's not blue and killing everyone you love, a little Mystique is always a good thing. | Being totally non-sarcastic now (unlike I was with the first asshat) That was my point; thank you.
This is why I decided to put diet in the Big Three with politics and religion. Most people can't have a civilized discussion about any of them; if you aren't part of their party/religion/diet then they perceive it as some kind of personal attack on their belief system, as if what they believe is invalidated somehow if everyone else around them doesn't behave the same way as they do. Hence the mystique; I let the pounds speak for themselves and if someone really wants to know how I'm doing it they ask enough times that I feel confident giving more in-depth information. It's kind of sad that it has to be that way; but even if you aren't trying to be a smug bastard or 'that person', people who are themselves unhappy with their bodies are very quick to tar you with that brush, not to mention that there is NO ONE people hate more then a smug bastard who is right.
It doesn't help that our diet is perceived as extremely subversive; continuing with the religious theme (first sarcasm, now I'm gonna unload the hyperbole) Ketoers are essentially Food Satanists; preaching a diet where not only do you lose weight, you do it by eliminating suffering and hunger and indulging in foods that have the whole-grain eating flagellants clutching their celery sticks and moaning into their fat-free fruit-flavored yogurts. But; putting myself in the shoes of someone who starved themselves and spent months and months punishing themselves at the gym... yeah, if I saw some smug asshole munching on cheese and eggs with actual yolks in them and all the things I had denied myself in my quest to lose weight, I probably would get mad and be antagonistic towards them, because they don't seem to be suffering like I am and getting similar results. That'll sting anyone.
Every group has its crazies, and you are always the most excited about something right after you figure it out. There is obviously something extremely broken about our currently accepted way of eating; and just like life, there is no one true path to health. I've found what works for me; and I decided a long time ago that what works for me is not dependent on everyone else agreeing with me.
TL:DR: When it's not blue and killing everyone you love, a little Mystique is always a good thing.
| keto | t5_2rske | cmsy3aw | Being totally non-sarcastic now (unlike I was with the first asshat) That was my point; thank you.
This is why I decided to put diet in the Big Three with politics and religion. Most people can't have a civilized discussion about any of them; if you aren't part of their party/religion/diet then they perceive it as some kind of personal attack on their belief system, as if what they believe is invalidated somehow if everyone else around them doesn't behave the same way as they do. Hence the mystique; I let the pounds speak for themselves and if someone really wants to know how I'm doing it they ask enough times that I feel confident giving more in-depth information. It's kind of sad that it has to be that way; but even if you aren't trying to be a smug bastard or 'that person', people who are themselves unhappy with their bodies are very quick to tar you with that brush, not to mention that there is NO ONE people hate more then a smug bastard who is right.
It doesn't help that our diet is perceived as extremely subversive; continuing with the religious theme (first sarcasm, now I'm gonna unload the hyperbole) Ketoers are essentially Food Satanists; preaching a diet where not only do you lose weight, you do it by eliminating suffering and hunger and indulging in foods that have the whole-grain eating flagellants clutching their celery sticks and moaning into their fat-free fruit-flavored yogurts. But; putting myself in the shoes of someone who starved themselves and spent months and months punishing themselves at the gym... yeah, if I saw some smug asshole munching on cheese and eggs with actual yolks in them and all the things I had denied myself in my quest to lose weight, I probably would get mad and be antagonistic towards them, because they don't seem to be suffering like I am and getting similar results. That'll sting anyone.
Every group has its crazies, and you are always the most excited about something right after you figure it out. There is obviously something extremely broken about our currently accepted way of eating; and just like life, there is no one true path to health. I've found what works for me; and I decided a long time ago that what works for me is not dependent on everyone else agreeing with me. | When it's not blue and killing everyone you love, a little Mystique is always a good thing. |
five_magics | As much as I agree with the points he makes, the way he puts it out there is pretty stupid, IMO. From what I know, rants rarely gets the points across. Makes you look like an asshole, most of the time. I mean I swear more than he does, heck a lot more, but I know to stay away from it if I wanna look serious at all.
He makes a lot of good points, again. But dissing other reviewers (btw the only reviewer he dissed that I knew about was RipTrippers...) or whatever is really unnecessary IMO. Sure, watchers should be aware of battery safety, or just safety in general when it comes to vaping. But comments like "RipTrippers changed, he's just selling". I mean really where's the problem with that? Safety, sure. But trying to sell your channel or even stuff like drippers or whatever the fuck, what's wrong with that? Sure, the guy's a salesman, whatever. He's trying to make a living, just like everyone of us are.
I started watching the video and was like "Hey that guy is right" but as the video progressed I just saw an envious teenager in need of attention. The subscribers aren't real... come on.
tldr; He's making good points, but yeah that video just makes him look like an asshole. I'm subscribed to Grimmgreen, PBusardo, Indoorsmokers, etc but yeah this guy is a no-go for me. | As much as I agree with the points he makes, the way he puts it out there is pretty stupid, IMO. From what I know, rants rarely gets the points across. Makes you look like an asshole, most of the time. I mean I swear more than he does, heck a lot more, but I know to stay away from it if I wanna look serious at all.
He makes a lot of good points, again. But dissing other reviewers (btw the only reviewer he dissed that I knew about was RipTrippers...) or whatever is really unnecessary IMO. Sure, watchers should be aware of battery safety, or just safety in general when it comes to vaping. But comments like "RipTrippers changed, he's just selling". I mean really where's the problem with that? Safety, sure. But trying to sell your channel or even stuff like drippers or whatever the fuck, what's wrong with that? Sure, the guy's a salesman, whatever. He's trying to make a living, just like everyone of us are.
I started watching the video and was like "Hey that guy is right" but as the video progressed I just saw an envious teenager in need of attention. The subscribers aren't real... come on.
tldr; He's making good points, but yeah that video just makes him look like an asshole. I'm subscribed to Grimmgreen, PBusardo, Indoorsmokers, etc but yeah this guy is a no-go for me.
| electronic_cigarette | t5_2qmlu | cmskqyp | As much as I agree with the points he makes, the way he puts it out there is pretty stupid, IMO. From what I know, rants rarely gets the points across. Makes you look like an asshole, most of the time. I mean I swear more than he does, heck a lot more, but I know to stay away from it if I wanna look serious at all.
He makes a lot of good points, again. But dissing other reviewers (btw the only reviewer he dissed that I knew about was RipTrippers...) or whatever is really unnecessary IMO. Sure, watchers should be aware of battery safety, or just safety in general when it comes to vaping. But comments like "RipTrippers changed, he's just selling". I mean really where's the problem with that? Safety, sure. But trying to sell your channel or even stuff like drippers or whatever the fuck, what's wrong with that? Sure, the guy's a salesman, whatever. He's trying to make a living, just like everyone of us are.
I started watching the video and was like "Hey that guy is right" but as the video progressed I just saw an envious teenager in need of attention. The subscribers aren't real... come on. | He's making good points, but yeah that video just makes him look like an asshole. I'm subscribed to Grimmgreen, PBusardo, Indoorsmokers, etc but yeah this guy is a no-go for me. |
agency95 | It seems like there has been a big push lately about DIY websites and how it will affect professional designers / developers.
For serious businesses, DIY websites won't change the landscape of our business. Any business who is pinching pennies can do most of their work in-house (graphic design with MS paint, websites with Wix, accounting with Wave, etc.). But serious businesses see the value in hiring a professional in both getting a far superior product and saving their in-house time to do things they are more efficient at.
There will always be bottom-of-the-barrel companies who don't have a healthy cash flow and can't afford to pay a designer. Just don't try to do business with them and you won't lose a sale because of Wix, Squarespace, etc. Target the next level up (professionals like lawyers, accountants, architects, etc. are great!) and you'll be just fine.
tl;dr - Don't worry about cash-strapped companies. Worry about things you can control--and that means targeting businesses with the financial means and knowledge that a professional internet presence can positively impact their business. | It seems like there has been a big push lately about DIY websites and how it will affect professional designers / developers.
For serious businesses, DIY websites won't change the landscape of our business. Any business who is pinching pennies can do most of their work in-house (graphic design with MS paint, websites with Wix, accounting with Wave, etc.). But serious businesses see the value in hiring a professional in both getting a far superior product and saving their in-house time to do things they are more efficient at.
There will always be bottom-of-the-barrel companies who don't have a healthy cash flow and can't afford to pay a designer. Just don't try to do business with them and you won't lose a sale because of Wix, Squarespace, etc. Target the next level up (professionals like lawyers, accountants, architects, etc. are great!) and you'll be just fine.
tl;dr - Don't worry about cash-strapped companies. Worry about things you can control--and that means targeting businesses with the financial means and knowledge that a professional internet presence can positively impact their business.
| web_design | t5_2qh1m | cmstlrj | It seems like there has been a big push lately about DIY websites and how it will affect professional designers / developers.
For serious businesses, DIY websites won't change the landscape of our business. Any business who is pinching pennies can do most of their work in-house (graphic design with MS paint, websites with Wix, accounting with Wave, etc.). But serious businesses see the value in hiring a professional in both getting a far superior product and saving their in-house time to do things they are more efficient at.
There will always be bottom-of-the-barrel companies who don't have a healthy cash flow and can't afford to pay a designer. Just don't try to do business with them and you won't lose a sale because of Wix, Squarespace, etc. Target the next level up (professionals like lawyers, accountants, architects, etc. are great!) and you'll be just fine. | Don't worry about cash-strapped companies. Worry about things you can control--and that means targeting businesses with the financial means and knowledge that a professional internet presence can positively impact their business. |
teh_fearless_leader | I've used both. I ended up settling on Gentoo and ZFS for stability and speed. Mind you, gentoo's got a steep learning-cliff, but any linux operating system would probably give you less stress than FreeNAS. I switched away from freenas because of how finicky it is. Keep in mind that I was using non-server hardware, but half the time, when it booted, it couldn't recognize my NIC's so I eventually said screw it, let's switch to a gentoo box so I know exactly what's going on in this system.
tl;dr I would recommend Linux. It feels more stable to me. | I've used both. I ended up settling on Gentoo and ZFS for stability and speed. Mind you, gentoo's got a steep learning-cliff, but any linux operating system would probably give you less stress than FreeNAS. I switched away from freenas because of how finicky it is. Keep in mind that I was using non-server hardware, but half the time, when it booted, it couldn't recognize my NIC's so I eventually said screw it, let's switch to a gentoo box so I know exactly what's going on in this system.
tl;dr I would recommend Linux. It feels more stable to me.
| PleX | t5_2ql7e | cmt5u0n | I've used both. I ended up settling on Gentoo and ZFS for stability and speed. Mind you, gentoo's got a steep learning-cliff, but any linux operating system would probably give you less stress than FreeNAS. I switched away from freenas because of how finicky it is. Keep in mind that I was using non-server hardware, but half the time, when it booted, it couldn't recognize my NIC's so I eventually said screw it, let's switch to a gentoo box so I know exactly what's going on in this system. | I would recommend Linux. It feels more stable to me. |
GeorgeWBushTRON | That's definitely a strong possibility, as I don't think she thought of URN as a superpower, considering how rashly she approached attacking it.
On a similar note, I actually think the Fire Nation military is still as strong, relatively, in the present as it was during the 100 year war. A lot of people on this sub seem to think that the FN went pacifist post war like Japan, but they tend to forget that really the only reason for Japanese pacification was that they were forced to do it. While the FN technically "lost" the war, they did so without losing any home industrial capacity and kept a very large part of their military strength, something that Japan and Germany couldn't say post WW2. In addition, the early troubles with the Harmony Restoration movement and just his personality in general, tells me that Zuko wasn't so quick to demilitarize after the war.
I just realized I kinda trailed off haha, but TL;DR. I agree with you!
| That's definitely a strong possibility, as I don't think she thought of URN as a superpower, considering how rashly she approached attacking it.
On a similar note, I actually think the Fire Nation military is still as strong, relatively, in the present as it was during the 100 year war. A lot of people on this sub seem to think that the FN went pacifist post war like Japan, but they tend to forget that really the only reason for Japanese pacification was that they were forced to do it. While the FN technically "lost" the war, they did so without losing any home industrial capacity and kept a very large part of their military strength, something that Japan and Germany couldn't say post WW2. In addition, the early troubles with the Harmony Restoration movement and just his personality in general, tells me that Zuko wasn't so quick to demilitarize after the war.
I just realized I kinda trailed off haha, but TL;DR. I agree with you!
| TheLastAirbender | t5_2rybx | cmtccr9 | That's definitely a strong possibility, as I don't think she thought of URN as a superpower, considering how rashly she approached attacking it.
On a similar note, I actually think the Fire Nation military is still as strong, relatively, in the present as it was during the 100 year war. A lot of people on this sub seem to think that the FN went pacifist post war like Japan, but they tend to forget that really the only reason for Japanese pacification was that they were forced to do it. While the FN technically "lost" the war, they did so without losing any home industrial capacity and kept a very large part of their military strength, something that Japan and Germany couldn't say post WW2. In addition, the early troubles with the Harmony Restoration movement and just his personality in general, tells me that Zuko wasn't so quick to demilitarize after the war.
I just realized I kinda trailed off haha, but | I agree with you! |
RampageZGaming | Yeah. Japan could've probably taken Vladivostok without much trouble, but there's no way they could've feasibly crossed Siberia to help the Germany take Stalingrad, Leningrad, and Moscow. Additionally, even if Germany had managed to take Moscow (through the added force they would have by only needing to fight on a single front), Soviet forces most likely would have retreated further east (similarly to how Mao retreated inland during the great march) whilst arming guerrilla forces around Moscow to harrass the German occupation.
TL;DR Japan wouldn't have been able to cross Siberia, Germany might have been able to take Moscow, but they probably couldn't have held it for long | Yeah. Japan could've probably taken Vladivostok without much trouble, but there's no way they could've feasibly crossed Siberia to help the Germany take Stalingrad, Leningrad, and Moscow. Additionally, even if Germany had managed to take Moscow (through the added force they would have by only needing to fight on a single front), Soviet forces most likely would have retreated further east (similarly to how Mao retreated inland during the great march) whilst arming guerrilla forces around Moscow to harrass the German occupation.
TL;DR Japan wouldn't have been able to cross Siberia, Germany might have been able to take Moscow, but they probably couldn't have held it for long
| TheLastAirbender | t5_2rybx | cmtlupo | Yeah. Japan could've probably taken Vladivostok without much trouble, but there's no way they could've feasibly crossed Siberia to help the Germany take Stalingrad, Leningrad, and Moscow. Additionally, even if Germany had managed to take Moscow (through the added force they would have by only needing to fight on a single front), Soviet forces most likely would have retreated further east (similarly to how Mao retreated inland during the great march) whilst arming guerrilla forces around Moscow to harrass the German occupation. | Japan wouldn't have been able to cross Siberia, Germany might have been able to take Moscow, but they probably couldn't have held it for long |
do_i_even_lift | * I'm actually 22 and still a virgin - I'd prefer my next S.O. (or even wife) to know that I held out and saved my virginity for her and her alone. There's no shame in being a virgin, ESPECIALLY when you realize that eventually all that stuff in your past'll come to light.
* I'm pretty insecure in social settings and somewhat introverted, but realize that when I vest myself in others (talking to them, hearing them out), I make friends and earn trust easily.
* I've been struggling through depression and have only recently started seeing a counselor. Sometimes you can't fix all the bad that's potentially inhibited your personality/growth, but sometimes talking to someone about it *truly* helps.
* Future/Intelligence? I'm a 5th year comp. sci. major longing for the company of my friends and family while away at school. I dropped the ball hard all throughout my college career (even now), and just want to be done. I've had a successful internship, am an intern at a CS start up right now, and have a job lined up when I graduate because I kept getting back up, putting myself out there, making connections, and trucking on. I kinda believe in "brute forcing" things: I ain't the smartest, but if I keep pushing something's gotta give.
I'll be honest -- there have been days I haven't even left bed because I have felt empty inside, or at least severely unmotivated. When my friends and family show pride in me, it hurts because I know that I survive by the skin of my teeth and get lucky as all get out. This is not me telling you to "suck it up"; this is my saying that sometimes it's impossible to not worry, particularly when facing the now, and *especially* when facing the future. My only advice is to just push: put yourself out there and don't say *no* because you're afraid to fail. This past summer was hell for me working ~50 hours and driving ~180 miles *a week* to juggle between job opportunities to bolster my resume and skill set. If someone told me I would try that kinda shit 3 years ago, I would tell them I'm more sensible than that. There's no use trying to predict the future, and sometimes your anxieties will get the better of you. But sometimes if you try, even put in the *least* effort that you can even muster, it's more than the other guy was willing to put in, and that's what wins.
I'm not endorsing being lazy or saying depression is a crutch -- just that anxiety, lack of motivation, etc. are more common than you realize. You have no idea how the future or even the next couple of minutes is gonna go, so don't sweat it or you might be inhibited by indecision and guilt over circumstances that haven't even happened. And as for friends? They'll come and go, and I'm blessed to say that while my friend circle has grown smaller over the years, I've found who my best friends are. It's all about humility yet still standing for you sore beliefs. That's all I got, and I'm sorry for the length.
**TL;DR** The future ain't set in stone til it's set in the past; just focus on you now, take opportunities, make mistakes, and keep on moving. |
I'm actually 22 and still a virgin - I'd prefer my next S.O. (or even wife) to know that I held out and saved my virginity for her and her alone. There's no shame in being a virgin, ESPECIALLY when you realize that eventually all that stuff in your past'll come to light.
I'm pretty insecure in social settings and somewhat introverted, but realize that when I vest myself in others (talking to them, hearing them out), I make friends and earn trust easily.
I've been struggling through depression and have only recently started seeing a counselor. Sometimes you can't fix all the bad that's potentially inhibited your personality/growth, but sometimes talking to someone about it truly helps.
Future/Intelligence? I'm a 5th year comp. sci. major longing for the company of my friends and family while away at school. I dropped the ball hard all throughout my college career (even now), and just want to be done. I've had a successful internship, am an intern at a CS start up right now, and have a job lined up when I graduate because I kept getting back up, putting myself out there, making connections, and trucking on. I kinda believe in "brute forcing" things: I ain't the smartest, but if I keep pushing something's gotta give.
I'll be honest -- there have been days I haven't even left bed because I have felt empty inside, or at least severely unmotivated. When my friends and family show pride in me, it hurts because I know that I survive by the skin of my teeth and get lucky as all get out. This is not me telling you to "suck it up"; this is my saying that sometimes it's impossible to not worry, particularly when facing the now, and especially when facing the future. My only advice is to just push: put yourself out there and don't say no because you're afraid to fail. This past summer was hell for me working ~50 hours and driving ~180 miles a week to juggle between job opportunities to bolster my resume and skill set. If someone told me I would try that kinda shit 3 years ago, I would tell them I'm more sensible than that. There's no use trying to predict the future, and sometimes your anxieties will get the better of you. But sometimes if you try, even put in the least effort that you can even muster, it's more than the other guy was willing to put in, and that's what wins.
I'm not endorsing being lazy or saying depression is a crutch -- just that anxiety, lack of motivation, etc. are more common than you realize. You have no idea how the future or even the next couple of minutes is gonna go, so don't sweat it or you might be inhibited by indecision and guilt over circumstances that haven't even happened. And as for friends? They'll come and go, and I'm blessed to say that while my friend circle has grown smaller over the years, I've found who my best friends are. It's all about humility yet still standing for you sore beliefs. That's all I got, and I'm sorry for the length.
TL;DR The future ain't set in stone til it's set in the past; just focus on you now, take opportunities, make mistakes, and keep on moving.
| AskMen | t5_2s30g | cmthj8m | I'm actually 22 and still a virgin - I'd prefer my next S.O. (or even wife) to know that I held out and saved my virginity for her and her alone. There's no shame in being a virgin, ESPECIALLY when you realize that eventually all that stuff in your past'll come to light.
I'm pretty insecure in social settings and somewhat introverted, but realize that when I vest myself in others (talking to them, hearing them out), I make friends and earn trust easily.
I've been struggling through depression and have only recently started seeing a counselor. Sometimes you can't fix all the bad that's potentially inhibited your personality/growth, but sometimes talking to someone about it truly helps.
Future/Intelligence? I'm a 5th year comp. sci. major longing for the company of my friends and family while away at school. I dropped the ball hard all throughout my college career (even now), and just want to be done. I've had a successful internship, am an intern at a CS start up right now, and have a job lined up when I graduate because I kept getting back up, putting myself out there, making connections, and trucking on. I kinda believe in "brute forcing" things: I ain't the smartest, but if I keep pushing something's gotta give.
I'll be honest -- there have been days I haven't even left bed because I have felt empty inside, or at least severely unmotivated. When my friends and family show pride in me, it hurts because I know that I survive by the skin of my teeth and get lucky as all get out. This is not me telling you to "suck it up"; this is my saying that sometimes it's impossible to not worry, particularly when facing the now, and especially when facing the future. My only advice is to just push: put yourself out there and don't say no because you're afraid to fail. This past summer was hell for me working ~50 hours and driving ~180 miles a week to juggle between job opportunities to bolster my resume and skill set. If someone told me I would try that kinda shit 3 years ago, I would tell them I'm more sensible than that. There's no use trying to predict the future, and sometimes your anxieties will get the better of you. But sometimes if you try, even put in the least effort that you can even muster, it's more than the other guy was willing to put in, and that's what wins.
I'm not endorsing being lazy or saying depression is a crutch -- just that anxiety, lack of motivation, etc. are more common than you realize. You have no idea how the future or even the next couple of minutes is gonna go, so don't sweat it or you might be inhibited by indecision and guilt over circumstances that haven't even happened. And as for friends? They'll come and go, and I'm blessed to say that while my friend circle has grown smaller over the years, I've found who my best friends are. It's all about humility yet still standing for you sore beliefs. That's all I got, and I'm sorry for the length. | The future ain't set in stone til it's set in the past; just focus on you now, take opportunities, make mistakes, and keep on moving. |
lonelyalien | If you don't want to sit through me detailing why you're wrong, that's fine. Anyway:
I'm not really one to judge teenagers for listening to their helicopter parents, like I said above. I know he did the same thing with the Greyhounds, but it wasn't all that despicable. He was 16ish and wanted to stay close to home to finish his education while playing, which he did. (By the way, no one ever points out that the only reason the Greyhounds drafted him after he refused: Phil Esposito wanted to pretend they were keeping him so he could sell his share in the team for more money. Everyone paints them as some do-good underdog story.)
As for the Nordiques, Lindros didn't think the organization really wanted to win and, to be fair, around that time they were basically the early 90s equivalent of the Oilers. It's well-documented that he didn't like the team culture, didn't know their primary language at all, and (probably with his parents' influence) wanted a team with a better chance at marketing his star potential. For instance, he said he would have played for Montreal in a heartbeat, so that whole province hating him is nonsense. He was 18. People give him too much shit about it.
>He's canadian, he should know some French anyways.
To this day he knows five words, though he married a Quebecer and his father-in-law is a diehard, French-only Nordiques fan.
>In the end the Hounds won a Memorial Cup
And I'd say he did okay himself, since the year prior Oshawa won the Memorial Cup and Lindros won pretty much every individual award there was to win the year the Greyhounds won.
>the Avs did pretty well too
Yeah. The Avs. Turns out Lindros was right about the Nordiques. Their small market couldn't survive in the NHL. Their French-only radio stations, broadcast, and monolingual city hurt their English support. (By the way, Lindros wasn't the only player worried about playing in a francophone, small market area. He's just the biggest name and the only one youngsters remember.) Plus, hilariously, it took them moving the team to get that star-studded core to win, despite the organization's best efforts to fuck it up. They traded *Mats Sundin* (then a rising star, like Lindros) for Wendel Clark, with whom they had *another* falling out. And then they had to move him, too.
**TL;DR - Lindros was certainly selfish as a teen. The Greyhounds thing was mainly done by his parents for his education, and he turned out to be right about Quebec City and its hockey organization. Cut him a break.** | If you don't want to sit through me detailing why you're wrong, that's fine. Anyway:
I'm not really one to judge teenagers for listening to their helicopter parents, like I said above. I know he did the same thing with the Greyhounds, but it wasn't all that despicable. He was 16ish and wanted to stay close to home to finish his education while playing, which he did. (By the way, no one ever points out that the only reason the Greyhounds drafted him after he refused: Phil Esposito wanted to pretend they were keeping him so he could sell his share in the team for more money. Everyone paints them as some do-good underdog story.)
As for the Nordiques, Lindros didn't think the organization really wanted to win and, to be fair, around that time they were basically the early 90s equivalent of the Oilers. It's well-documented that he didn't like the team culture, didn't know their primary language at all, and (probably with his parents' influence) wanted a team with a better chance at marketing his star potential. For instance, he said he would have played for Montreal in a heartbeat, so that whole province hating him is nonsense. He was 18. People give him too much shit about it.
>He's canadian, he should know some French anyways.
To this day he knows five words, though he married a Quebecer and his father-in-law is a diehard, French-only Nordiques fan.
>In the end the Hounds won a Memorial Cup
And I'd say he did okay himself, since the year prior Oshawa won the Memorial Cup and Lindros won pretty much every individual award there was to win the year the Greyhounds won.
>the Avs did pretty well too
Yeah. The Avs. Turns out Lindros was right about the Nordiques. Their small market couldn't survive in the NHL. Their French-only radio stations, broadcast, and monolingual city hurt their English support. (By the way, Lindros wasn't the only player worried about playing in a francophone, small market area. He's just the biggest name and the only one youngsters remember.) Plus, hilariously, it took them moving the team to get that star-studded core to win, despite the organization's best efforts to fuck it up. They traded Mats Sundin (then a rising star, like Lindros) for Wendel Clark, with whom they had another falling out. And then they had to move him, too.
TL;DR - Lindros was certainly selfish as a teen. The Greyhounds thing was mainly done by his parents for his education, and he turned out to be right about Quebec City and its hockey organization. Cut him a break.
| hockey | t5_2qiel | cmublim | If you don't want to sit through me detailing why you're wrong, that's fine. Anyway:
I'm not really one to judge teenagers for listening to their helicopter parents, like I said above. I know he did the same thing with the Greyhounds, but it wasn't all that despicable. He was 16ish and wanted to stay close to home to finish his education while playing, which he did. (By the way, no one ever points out that the only reason the Greyhounds drafted him after he refused: Phil Esposito wanted to pretend they were keeping him so he could sell his share in the team for more money. Everyone paints them as some do-good underdog story.)
As for the Nordiques, Lindros didn't think the organization really wanted to win and, to be fair, around that time they were basically the early 90s equivalent of the Oilers. It's well-documented that he didn't like the team culture, didn't know their primary language at all, and (probably with his parents' influence) wanted a team with a better chance at marketing his star potential. For instance, he said he would have played for Montreal in a heartbeat, so that whole province hating him is nonsense. He was 18. People give him too much shit about it.
>He's canadian, he should know some French anyways.
To this day he knows five words, though he married a Quebecer and his father-in-law is a diehard, French-only Nordiques fan.
>In the end the Hounds won a Memorial Cup
And I'd say he did okay himself, since the year prior Oshawa won the Memorial Cup and Lindros won pretty much every individual award there was to win the year the Greyhounds won.
>the Avs did pretty well too
Yeah. The Avs. Turns out Lindros was right about the Nordiques. Their small market couldn't survive in the NHL. Their French-only radio stations, broadcast, and monolingual city hurt their English support. (By the way, Lindros wasn't the only player worried about playing in a francophone, small market area. He's just the biggest name and the only one youngsters remember.) Plus, hilariously, it took them moving the team to get that star-studded core to win, despite the organization's best efforts to fuck it up. They traded Mats Sundin (then a rising star, like Lindros) for Wendel Clark, with whom they had another falling out. And then they had to move him, too. | Lindros was certainly selfish as a teen. The Greyhounds thing was mainly done by his parents for his education, and he turned out to be right about Quebec City and its hockey organization. Cut him a break. |
fuck_you_its_a_name | Why do people get so butthurt when a bot is not affecting them in any way at all? If he has been running back and forth for 2 hours then he's likely going to be banned as fuck. But whether or not he gets banned changes nothing in your life. Its between him and Jagex, and judging by your post he isnt going to last very long. And even if he doesnt get banned, this type of irresponsible botting will catch up to him someday and he will lose everything
Tldr calm your tits jagex bans who they want to, leave it to them | Why do people get so butthurt when a bot is not affecting them in any way at all? If he has been running back and forth for 2 hours then he's likely going to be banned as fuck. But whether or not he gets banned changes nothing in your life. Its between him and Jagex, and judging by your post he isnt going to last very long. And even if he doesnt get banned, this type of irresponsible botting will catch up to him someday and he will lose everything
Tldr calm your tits jagex bans who they want to, leave it to them
| 2007scape | t5_2wbww | cmtzp38 | Why do people get so butthurt when a bot is not affecting them in any way at all? If he has been running back and forth for 2 hours then he's likely going to be banned as fuck. But whether or not he gets banned changes nothing in your life. Its between him and Jagex, and judging by your post he isnt going to last very long. And even if he doesnt get banned, this type of irresponsible botting will catch up to him someday and he will lose everything | calm your tits jagex bans who they want to, leave it to them |
TheCi | It depends from person to person, but I strongly [agree with what this programmer]( has written and I like his comparisson.
Summary: He looks and compares the way a proccesor multi-tasks to how human work is done and hits a solid point that if you have to change the workflow it takes a while to 'adjust'.
Although this primarily true for doing practical work (more specific programming), it is a thing to keep in mind if you're planning on multi-tasking.
On the other side. New things keep the brain interrested and helps push of the rapidly boring sense when you study the same material for hours. It stimulates curiousity and keeps you motivated
TL;DR: One way or another, you'll get the job done. How good you'll get it done, depends on yourself. | It depends from person to person, but I strongly [agree with what this programmer]( has written and I like his comparisson.
Summary: He looks and compares the way a proccesor multi-tasks to how human work is done and hits a solid point that if you have to change the workflow it takes a while to 'adjust'.
Although this primarily true for doing practical work (more specific programming), it is a thing to keep in mind if you're planning on multi-tasking.
On the other side. New things keep the brain interrested and helps push of the rapidly boring sense when you study the same material for hours. It stimulates curiousity and keeps you motivated
TL;DR: One way or another, you'll get the job done. How good you'll get it done, depends on yourself.
| GetStudying | t5_2tl44 | cmuk0a1 | It depends from person to person, but I strongly [agree with what this programmer]( has written and I like his comparisson.
Summary: He looks and compares the way a proccesor multi-tasks to how human work is done and hits a solid point that if you have to change the workflow it takes a while to 'adjust'.
Although this primarily true for doing practical work (more specific programming), it is a thing to keep in mind if you're planning on multi-tasking.
On the other side. New things keep the brain interrested and helps push of the rapidly boring sense when you study the same material for hours. It stimulates curiousity and keeps you motivated | One way or another, you'll get the job done. How good you'll get it done, depends on yourself. |
TigerNate | I went to my first FNM at Deriums CCGs. I went with a starter deck with minor changes (BW Exalted). I expected a bunch of people like me (rookies). I got rolled over in the first round. 2nd game ended with more than a half hour left in the round. My opponent took out a notepad and discussed how to improve my deck with minimal investment. He wrote down everything we discussed. I made the adjustments and destroyed my friends (after dropping from that FNM).
2 years later I still play FNM and see him from time to time and think of how he could have done anything else, but he chose to teach me lessons it takes many people a long time to learn. I am now more successful than my friends who had been playing long before me.
Tldr: Generous FNM opponent teaches me deck building and play strategy at my first FNM (aftet utterly destroying me in the round). | I went to my first FNM at Deriums CCGs. I went with a starter deck with minor changes (BW Exalted). I expected a bunch of people like me (rookies). I got rolled over in the first round. 2nd game ended with more than a half hour left in the round. My opponent took out a notepad and discussed how to improve my deck with minimal investment. He wrote down everything we discussed. I made the adjustments and destroyed my friends (after dropping from that FNM).
2 years later I still play FNM and see him from time to time and think of how he could have done anything else, but he chose to teach me lessons it takes many people a long time to learn. I am now more successful than my friends who had been playing long before me.
Tldr: Generous FNM opponent teaches me deck building and play strategy at my first FNM (aftet utterly destroying me in the round).
| magicTCG | t5_2qn5f | cmul8l7 | I went to my first FNM at Deriums CCGs. I went with a starter deck with minor changes (BW Exalted). I expected a bunch of people like me (rookies). I got rolled over in the first round. 2nd game ended with more than a half hour left in the round. My opponent took out a notepad and discussed how to improve my deck with minimal investment. He wrote down everything we discussed. I made the adjustments and destroyed my friends (after dropping from that FNM).
2 years later I still play FNM and see him from time to time and think of how he could have done anything else, but he chose to teach me lessons it takes many people a long time to learn. I am now more successful than my friends who had been playing long before me. | Generous FNM opponent teaches me deck building and play strategy at my first FNM (aftet utterly destroying me in the round). |
ewokaro | Not really sure where you're coming from with the 'crying' statement man. The main point for the removal of shields seems to be it was too big a crutch, the main point against being that it forces you to take advantage of incredibly brain dead ais in cheap ways.
In regard to your point about dangerous pvp mini-battles, that still exists and still has comsequences, although with these bigger maps and bigger games mostly what you're protecting is jimmy. Try standing on the far left wall of tree, or on the banks of the ravine on raenil when certain people are wither and you'll get a sense of that life-on-the-line, you against him, you have to win situation. In the most recent game I played before making this post, I spent the entire first shrine sitting on the hill next to tree's leftmost wall, partly to practise bowproc but mostly to stop one either player getting by. Not because I wanted to ruin his day, but because I he got above shrine he'd murder jimmy. When an eclipse and dogs came out at the same time, I retreated, letting him by, and he promptly murdered 3 jimmies in the same number of minutes. Dangerous mobs still exist.
Edit: wow that is a wall of text. TLDR: try hunting withers if you want dangerous pvp fights. | Not really sure where you're coming from with the 'crying' statement man. The main point for the removal of shields seems to be it was too big a crutch, the main point against being that it forces you to take advantage of incredibly brain dead ais in cheap ways.
In regard to your point about dangerous pvp mini-battles, that still exists and still has comsequences, although with these bigger maps and bigger games mostly what you're protecting is jimmy. Try standing on the far left wall of tree, or on the banks of the ravine on raenil when certain people are wither and you'll get a sense of that life-on-the-line, you against him, you have to win situation. In the most recent game I played before making this post, I spent the entire first shrine sitting on the hill next to tree's leftmost wall, partly to practise bowproc but mostly to stop one either player getting by. Not because I wanted to ruin his day, but because I he got above shrine he'd murder jimmy. When an eclipse and dogs came out at the same time, I retreated, letting him by, and he promptly murdered 3 jimmies in the same number of minutes. Dangerous mobs still exist.
Edit: wow that is a wall of text. TLDR: try hunting withers if you want dangerous pvp fights.
| DvZ | t5_2u01h | cmuhgxj | Not really sure where you're coming from with the 'crying' statement man. The main point for the removal of shields seems to be it was too big a crutch, the main point against being that it forces you to take advantage of incredibly brain dead ais in cheap ways.
In regard to your point about dangerous pvp mini-battles, that still exists and still has comsequences, although with these bigger maps and bigger games mostly what you're protecting is jimmy. Try standing on the far left wall of tree, or on the banks of the ravine on raenil when certain people are wither and you'll get a sense of that life-on-the-line, you against him, you have to win situation. In the most recent game I played before making this post, I spent the entire first shrine sitting on the hill next to tree's leftmost wall, partly to practise bowproc but mostly to stop one either player getting by. Not because I wanted to ruin his day, but because I he got above shrine he'd murder jimmy. When an eclipse and dogs came out at the same time, I retreated, letting him by, and he promptly murdered 3 jimmies in the same number of minutes. Dangerous mobs still exist.
Edit: wow that is a wall of text. | try hunting withers if you want dangerous pvp fights. |
BarefootDorothy | Here's what happened to me: an entity started talking to me all the time. Would not identify itself. Told me it was associated with Bael but I felt it might not be telling the truth. Wanted to "co-inhabit" me and experience certain events, activities through my senses. I ask up front for something in return, specifically some unexpected money. (Hey. I got mouths to feed). Husband called me two mins after I made this demand and said he won a few hundred on a scratch off lottery ticket. I was impressed and agreed but with a few ground rules ( no usurpation of my free will, I don't drink alcohol, stuff like that). Went to festival, another day I participated in a fitness competition, another day it was a hike. After a few events I wanted more cash, it did not come through so I told it to leave. It said it would leave but lurked around for a while. Eventually I just ignored it and it left.
TL/DR demon paid me to let it ride shotgun to a street festival and strong man competition. | Here's what happened to me: an entity started talking to me all the time. Would not identify itself. Told me it was associated with Bael but I felt it might not be telling the truth. Wanted to "co-inhabit" me and experience certain events, activities through my senses. I ask up front for something in return, specifically some unexpected money. (Hey. I got mouths to feed). Husband called me two mins after I made this demand and said he won a few hundred on a scratch off lottery ticket. I was impressed and agreed but with a few ground rules ( no usurpation of my free will, I don't drink alcohol, stuff like that). Went to festival, another day I participated in a fitness competition, another day it was a hike. After a few events I wanted more cash, it did not come through so I told it to leave. It said it would leave but lurked around for a while. Eventually I just ignored it and it left.
TL/DR demon paid me to let it ride shotgun to a street festival and strong man competition.
| occult | t5_2qhmc | cmv3mjq | Here's what happened to me: an entity started talking to me all the time. Would not identify itself. Told me it was associated with Bael but I felt it might not be telling the truth. Wanted to "co-inhabit" me and experience certain events, activities through my senses. I ask up front for something in return, specifically some unexpected money. (Hey. I got mouths to feed). Husband called me two mins after I made this demand and said he won a few hundred on a scratch off lottery ticket. I was impressed and agreed but with a few ground rules ( no usurpation of my free will, I don't drink alcohol, stuff like that). Went to festival, another day I participated in a fitness competition, another day it was a hike. After a few events I wanted more cash, it did not come through so I told it to leave. It said it would leave but lurked around for a while. Eventually I just ignored it and it left. | demon paid me to let it ride shotgun to a street festival and strong man competition. |
MmmVariousEggs | > Tries to get her to join him at the gym, do some kegel exercises or shit like that.
First: What the hell does this guy think childbirth is? I've never done it but I know people who have and your body needs time to heal.
Second: What does he think Kegels are? I'm sitting at my computer doing them right now. They are clueless.
> She decides, of course, that the best thing to do is not get in shape but rather visit a counselor!
Maybe because the guy is acting like an asshole and post partum depression is a thing and her emotions are wacky? Not to mention some women don't care about most other things except taking care of the new life you just brought into the world. Sorry, your dinner can wait alfalfa boy. There is a reason people bring you premade meals after giving birth.
TLDR: LIFT! (And change your baby and vacuum the carpet for god's sake. Stupid whore. Slut. Bitch.). ^Do ^I ^need ^the ^/s? | > Tries to get her to join him at the gym, do some kegel exercises or shit like that.
First: What the hell does this guy think childbirth is? I've never done it but I know people who have and your body needs time to heal.
Second: What does he think Kegels are? I'm sitting at my computer doing them right now. They are clueless.
> She decides, of course, that the best thing to do is not get in shape but rather visit a counselor!
Maybe because the guy is acting like an asshole and post partum depression is a thing and her emotions are wacky? Not to mention some women don't care about most other things except taking care of the new life you just brought into the world. Sorry, your dinner can wait alfalfa boy. There is a reason people bring you premade meals after giving birth.
TLDR: LIFT! (And change your baby and vacuum the carpet for god's sake. Stupid whore. Slut. Bitch.). ^Do ^I ^need ^the ^/s?
| TheBluePill | t5_2vzvv | cmv0ecl | Tries to get her to join him at the gym, do some kegel exercises or shit like that.
First: What the hell does this guy think childbirth is? I've never done it but I know people who have and your body needs time to heal.
Second: What does he think Kegels are? I'm sitting at my computer doing them right now. They are clueless.
> She decides, of course, that the best thing to do is not get in shape but rather visit a counselor!
Maybe because the guy is acting like an asshole and post partum depression is a thing and her emotions are wacky? Not to mention some women don't care about most other things except taking care of the new life you just brought into the world. Sorry, your dinner can wait alfalfa boy. There is a reason people bring you premade meals after giving birth. | LIFT! (And change your baby and vacuum the carpet for god's sake. Stupid whore. Slut. Bitch.). ^Do ^I ^need ^the ^/s? |
SWIMsfriend | > Man people really hate the fact that the troops they support are child-killers, don't they?
how many have killed children? because as far as i know, very few people in the service are even on the front lines. so to say they are all child killers based on 1% is like calling all men rapists based on 1% that do rape people
TL:DR calling them child killers is a bit sensationalistic | > Man people really hate the fact that the troops they support are child-killers, don't they?
how many have killed children? because as far as i know, very few people in the service are even on the front lines. so to say they are all child killers based on 1% is like calling all men rapists based on 1% that do rape people
TL:DR calling them child killers is a bit sensationalistic
| movies | t5_2qh3s | cmvfsk8 | Man people really hate the fact that the troops they support are child-killers, don't they?
how many have killed children? because as far as i know, very few people in the service are even on the front lines. so to say they are all child killers based on 1% is like calling all men rapists based on 1% that do rape people | calling them child killers is a bit sensationalistic |
fyreweasel | I married the girl next door. She is my younger sisters best friend. I came home one day and told my sister i had met this hot redhead at a toystore in town. She laughed at me and told me her name and that she lives next door. Brought her over and did the introduction thing. She started coming over and hanging out at our house. No interest shown towards me at all. I asked her out many times. After about 6 months she said yes. Stayed up all night talking about our plans and dreams for the future. They matched pretty close so i asked her right then to marry me. She said yes. We have been together 11 years in march. Best thing that has ever happened to me.
TLDR; i got my wife at a toy store. | I married the girl next door. She is my younger sisters best friend. I came home one day and told my sister i had met this hot redhead at a toystore in town. She laughed at me and told me her name and that she lives next door. Brought her over and did the introduction thing. She started coming over and hanging out at our house. No interest shown towards me at all. I asked her out many times. After about 6 months she said yes. Stayed up all night talking about our plans and dreams for the future. They matched pretty close so i asked her right then to marry me. She said yes. We have been together 11 years in march. Best thing that has ever happened to me.
TLDR; i got my wife at a toy store.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | cmvchje | I married the girl next door. She is my younger sisters best friend. I came home one day and told my sister i had met this hot redhead at a toystore in town. She laughed at me and told me her name and that she lives next door. Brought her over and did the introduction thing. She started coming over and hanging out at our house. No interest shown towards me at all. I asked her out many times. After about 6 months she said yes. Stayed up all night talking about our plans and dreams for the future. They matched pretty close so i asked her right then to marry me. She said yes. We have been together 11 years in march. Best thing that has ever happened to me. | i got my wife at a toy store. |
snxfz947 | It wont be easy getting explanations for why "SAO is shit" in the SAO subreddit =P
The first arc blew my mind away, it was truly spectacular. People maybe complain about how quickly Asuna and Kirito get together but, as it was confirmed reading the LN's there was literally *years* of growing attraction between them. I'm really hoping Kawahara-sensei gets into progressive some more, I would be really interested in finding out what happened on all the other 70 or so floors that weren't put into detail.
And then... as I like to call the Sugou Assault Online arc. Well, I thought the ending had a nice element of closure to it. And ALO is beautiful. But otherwise it wasn't really spectacular at all... feelings that were never meant to be reciprocated, a powerful female character reduced to a damsel in distress, a hollow antagonist. Gah, this is why I don't know what to say when someone asks what my favourite anime is. I'd have to mention "minus this arc".
GGO was great reading in the LN since it was pretty dialogue heavy. I had a feeling there would be too many lengthy dialogues that wouldn't work too well seeing in action. Sinon ass online was a bit of a blunder on the animation's part but other than that the dialogue heavy parts was just part of the nature of the arc. It was really touching how Kirito went above and beyond to save the life of someone who suddenly meant so much to him.
And we close season 2 with an arc that despite reading only a couple months ago, I was no where near prepared for seeing in action. Yuuki, Asuna reconciling with her mom "what an inconvenient world" yes, I was also in VR for a while too cuz I couldn't hold myself back either, and hearing Shirushi as the ED... the anime really did this arc justice.
Alicization... wow. But no spoilers right, so I'm going to leave it at that ;)
TL;DR I'm not good at these, but SAO is indeed amazing, minussomeobviousnonanimetranslatableaspectsandblundersontheanimator'spart | It wont be easy getting explanations for why "SAO is shit" in the SAO subreddit =P
The first arc blew my mind away, it was truly spectacular. People maybe complain about how quickly Asuna and Kirito get together but, as it was confirmed reading the LN's there was literally years of growing attraction between them. I'm really hoping Kawahara-sensei gets into progressive some more, I would be really interested in finding out what happened on all the other 70 or so floors that weren't put into detail.
And then... as I like to call the Sugou Assault Online arc. Well, I thought the ending had a nice element of closure to it. And ALO is beautiful. But otherwise it wasn't really spectacular at all... feelings that were never meant to be reciprocated, a powerful female character reduced to a damsel in distress, a hollow antagonist. Gah, this is why I don't know what to say when someone asks what my favourite anime is. I'd have to mention "minus this arc".
GGO was great reading in the LN since it was pretty dialogue heavy. I had a feeling there would be too many lengthy dialogues that wouldn't work too well seeing in action. Sinon ass online was a bit of a blunder on the animation's part but other than that the dialogue heavy parts was just part of the nature of the arc. It was really touching how Kirito went above and beyond to save the life of someone who suddenly meant so much to him.
And we close season 2 with an arc that despite reading only a couple months ago, I was no where near prepared for seeing in action. Yuuki, Asuna reconciling with her mom "what an inconvenient world" yes, I was also in VR for a while too cuz I couldn't hold myself back either, and hearing Shirushi as the ED... the anime really did this arc justice.
Alicization... wow. But no spoilers right, so I'm going to leave it at that ;)
TL;DR I'm not good at these, but SAO is indeed amazing, minussomeobviousnonanimetranslatableaspectsandblundersontheanimator'spart
| swordartonline | t5_2uikt | cmvd1xa | It wont be easy getting explanations for why "SAO is shit" in the SAO subreddit =P
The first arc blew my mind away, it was truly spectacular. People maybe complain about how quickly Asuna and Kirito get together but, as it was confirmed reading the LN's there was literally years of growing attraction between them. I'm really hoping Kawahara-sensei gets into progressive some more, I would be really interested in finding out what happened on all the other 70 or so floors that weren't put into detail.
And then... as I like to call the Sugou Assault Online arc. Well, I thought the ending had a nice element of closure to it. And ALO is beautiful. But otherwise it wasn't really spectacular at all... feelings that were never meant to be reciprocated, a powerful female character reduced to a damsel in distress, a hollow antagonist. Gah, this is why I don't know what to say when someone asks what my favourite anime is. I'd have to mention "minus this arc".
GGO was great reading in the LN since it was pretty dialogue heavy. I had a feeling there would be too many lengthy dialogues that wouldn't work too well seeing in action. Sinon ass online was a bit of a blunder on the animation's part but other than that the dialogue heavy parts was just part of the nature of the arc. It was really touching how Kirito went above and beyond to save the life of someone who suddenly meant so much to him.
And we close season 2 with an arc that despite reading only a couple months ago, I was no where near prepared for seeing in action. Yuuki, Asuna reconciling with her mom "what an inconvenient world" yes, I was also in VR for a while too cuz I couldn't hold myself back either, and hearing Shirushi as the ED... the anime really did this arc justice.
Alicization... wow. But no spoilers right, so I'm going to leave it at that ;) | I'm not good at these, but SAO is indeed amazing, minussomeobviousnonanimetranslatableaspectsandblundersontheanimator'spart |
MrWigglesworth2 | Milo definitely seems to have pissed away the chance to set a good example. He made some great points:
>Then there's the gameplay. It's third person, after a fashion, and similar to Dragon Age II, but, and this is a regular source of frustration to fans, with such dumbed-down, moronic mechanics as to be not even irritating, but, worse, actively tedious. The scope of player action has been reduced significantly; healing magic, for example, has been entirely removed from the game.
The offence of this new simplicity is compounded with meaningless, repetitive micromanagement tasks that lack wider significance—come on, guys, we don't all have the intellectual capacity of a Polygon editor—and a strange padding effect that seems to be present merely to waste time in a sort of death by a thousand cuts. Every action seems to take three seconds—two seconds too long—to execute.
That's exactly the kind of thing I want in a review. I want to know that BioWare has dumbed down the mechanics (granted this is pretty much a given for every new BioWare release) while adding pointless tedium elsewhere.
But then he takes a turn, I don't mind him taking a couple potshots at Polygon and Kotaku, but he really swerves into some dumbass rhetoric in the second half of the review, like:
>Except to say that, evidently, Bioware has failed to do even cursory research into lesbian relationships. For a start, both partners are cute. And they actually have sex! You know, instead of sitting opposite one another, separated by an abandoned Scrabble board and the remains of yesterday’s Saga knitting challenge, surrounded by rescue cats. In any case, with lesbian sex scenes as ugly and forced as this, the only scissoring you’ll want to do afterwards is to the game DVD. But I digress. (After all, it's a fantasy game with dragons, so why can't they have lesbians who aren't bitter, boring or resentful?)
I mean really? Its exactly this kind of shit we don't want in game reviews. I don't want your bullshit social commentary, left-wing or right-wing, injected into things. And frankly, as ridiculous as some of the things Polygon or Kotaku prints are, I can't recall anything imbued with that kind of mean-spirited venom. Milo immediately goes from demonstrating everything that's wrong with Polygon/Kotaku/etc. by doing things how they should be done, to demonstrating everything that's wrong with Polygon/Kotaku/etc. by sinking to their level and then sinking even further.
tl;dr C'MON MAN | Milo definitely seems to have pissed away the chance to set a good example. He made some great points:
>Then there's the gameplay. It's third person, after a fashion, and similar to Dragon Age II, but, and this is a regular source of frustration to fans, with such dumbed-down, moronic mechanics as to be not even irritating, but, worse, actively tedious. The scope of player action has been reduced significantly; healing magic, for example, has been entirely removed from the game.
The offence of this new simplicity is compounded with meaningless, repetitive micromanagement tasks that lack wider significance—come on, guys, we don't all have the intellectual capacity of a Polygon editor—and a strange padding effect that seems to be present merely to waste time in a sort of death by a thousand cuts. Every action seems to take three seconds—two seconds too long—to execute.
That's exactly the kind of thing I want in a review. I want to know that BioWare has dumbed down the mechanics (granted this is pretty much a given for every new BioWare release) while adding pointless tedium elsewhere.
But then he takes a turn, I don't mind him taking a couple potshots at Polygon and Kotaku, but he really swerves into some dumbass rhetoric in the second half of the review, like:
>Except to say that, evidently, Bioware has failed to do even cursory research into lesbian relationships. For a start, both partners are cute. And they actually have sex! You know, instead of sitting opposite one another, separated by an abandoned Scrabble board and the remains of yesterday’s Saga knitting challenge, surrounded by rescue cats. In any case, with lesbian sex scenes as ugly and forced as this, the only scissoring you’ll want to do afterwards is to the game DVD. But I digress. (After all, it's a fantasy game with dragons, so why can't they have lesbians who aren't bitter, boring or resentful?)
I mean really? Its exactly this kind of shit we don't want in game reviews. I don't want your bullshit social commentary, left-wing or right-wing, injected into things. And frankly, as ridiculous as some of the things Polygon or Kotaku prints are, I can't recall anything imbued with that kind of mean-spirited venom. Milo immediately goes from demonstrating everything that's wrong with Polygon/Kotaku/etc. by doing things how they should be done, to demonstrating everything that's wrong with Polygon/Kotaku/etc. by sinking to their level and then sinking even further.
tl;dr C'MON MAN
| AgainstGamerGate | t5_3441a | cmvofzu | Milo definitely seems to have pissed away the chance to set a good example. He made some great points:
>Then there's the gameplay. It's third person, after a fashion, and similar to Dragon Age II, but, and this is a regular source of frustration to fans, with such dumbed-down, moronic mechanics as to be not even irritating, but, worse, actively tedious. The scope of player action has been reduced significantly; healing magic, for example, has been entirely removed from the game.
The offence of this new simplicity is compounded with meaningless, repetitive micromanagement tasks that lack wider significance—come on, guys, we don't all have the intellectual capacity of a Polygon editor—and a strange padding effect that seems to be present merely to waste time in a sort of death by a thousand cuts. Every action seems to take three seconds—two seconds too long—to execute.
That's exactly the kind of thing I want in a review. I want to know that BioWare has dumbed down the mechanics (granted this is pretty much a given for every new BioWare release) while adding pointless tedium elsewhere.
But then he takes a turn, I don't mind him taking a couple potshots at Polygon and Kotaku, but he really swerves into some dumbass rhetoric in the second half of the review, like:
>Except to say that, evidently, Bioware has failed to do even cursory research into lesbian relationships. For a start, both partners are cute. And they actually have sex! You know, instead of sitting opposite one another, separated by an abandoned Scrabble board and the remains of yesterday’s Saga knitting challenge, surrounded by rescue cats. In any case, with lesbian sex scenes as ugly and forced as this, the only scissoring you’ll want to do afterwards is to the game DVD. But I digress. (After all, it's a fantasy game with dragons, so why can't they have lesbians who aren't bitter, boring or resentful?)
I mean really? Its exactly this kind of shit we don't want in game reviews. I don't want your bullshit social commentary, left-wing or right-wing, injected into things. And frankly, as ridiculous as some of the things Polygon or Kotaku prints are, I can't recall anything imbued with that kind of mean-spirited venom. Milo immediately goes from demonstrating everything that's wrong with Polygon/Kotaku/etc. by doing things how they should be done, to demonstrating everything that's wrong with Polygon/Kotaku/etc. by sinking to their level and then sinking even further. | C'MON MAN |
chotrangers | I think he hasn't a clue what he is talking about when he says things like "islam is a motherlode of bad ideas." While I appreciate the effort, what it really does is puts together a hash smoking sufi, an alawite (who's beliefs are more aligned with catholicism), an ahmedi (who don't view mo as the last prophet), nusairees (who have very protestant christian type beliefs), to throat cutting salafis.
this motherfucker doesn't recognize that islam isn't one thing, and neither are muslim denominations. for e.g. you can't poke fun of mohameds pedophillia and hope to insult shias with it, because mainstream shia hadeeses put her age anywhere from 15-19.
TLDR, A for his efforts, but he doesn't know how to criticize properly, and accurately enough. | I think he hasn't a clue what he is talking about when he says things like "islam is a motherlode of bad ideas." While I appreciate the effort, what it really does is puts together a hash smoking sufi, an alawite (who's beliefs are more aligned with catholicism), an ahmedi (who don't view mo as the last prophet), nusairees (who have very protestant christian type beliefs), to throat cutting salafis.
this motherfucker doesn't recognize that islam isn't one thing, and neither are muslim denominations. for e.g. you can't poke fun of mohameds pedophillia and hope to insult shias with it, because mainstream shia hadeeses put her age anywhere from 15-19.
TLDR, A for his efforts, but he doesn't know how to criticize properly, and accurately enough.
| exmuslim | t5_2s7k2 | cmyqmzg | I think he hasn't a clue what he is talking about when he says things like "islam is a motherlode of bad ideas." While I appreciate the effort, what it really does is puts together a hash smoking sufi, an alawite (who's beliefs are more aligned with catholicism), an ahmedi (who don't view mo as the last prophet), nusairees (who have very protestant christian type beliefs), to throat cutting salafis.
this motherfucker doesn't recognize that islam isn't one thing, and neither are muslim denominations. for e.g. you can't poke fun of mohameds pedophillia and hope to insult shias with it, because mainstream shia hadeeses put her age anywhere from 15-19. | A for his efforts, but he doesn't know how to criticize properly, and accurately enough. |
Xyloz | Why is this funny?
What is making your limbs go numb is vasoconstriction, where the muscle walls trap the vessels and strangulate them.
It is a real medical term and can be dangerous in the sense that constricted blood flow can cause medical problems down the line.
So I think I missed that joke or at least I missed something, let me expand...
-------------------------------------------------
Cardio and vascular are synonymous to the cardiovascular system.
Cardio - Heart
Vascular - vessels to convey liquid (veins, arteries and capilaries)
Vascular - ity - Efficient and prominant vessels
Both of these things need to be in tow to support the term vascularity.
You can be lean without being vascular because vasodialation is poor.
Just becuase low body fat shows the surface vessels doesn't necessarily mean that the capilaries, arteries and veins are at optimal dilation within the deep tissue. Just think about how your veins look while resting verses just after lifting.
The defenition of the word vascularity I think is where the confusion starts, good vascularity is not just visible surface vasodialation, but general vessel efficiency.
To train vascularity is to train vasodialation which in turn affects artery, vein and capillary efficiency.
Another confusion point is Cardio exersize.
Most people say do cardio to help vascularity but that is not training your vessels! As stated above cardio means heart, so it's not so much about your vessels as it is about getting your heart rate up!
A side effect of this will be a boost in blood pressure and as a result vasodialation but there are ways to target certain areas to get the same effect without harming gains.
In this case we are not looking to train just the heart for blood pressure sake but find ways in improving blood flow to areas that go numb that is essentially training your deep tissue vascular system for vasodialation.
----------------------------------------------------------
I used to wake up with numb arms and such last year so I did a little research on the topic.
There are a few ways to boost your vessel size and efficiency without the use of Vasodialating drugs:
1) HIT
Studies have shown rapid movement in high volume and intensity at lower weight will promote expansion of the veins arteries and capillaries in the area worked, Higher reps, lower weight this forces the muscle to use type 1 muscle which inturn forces the body to spike your heart rate to force the capilaries into the fibres to dialate.
Most people call this a pump, however, if certain joints are overlooked in training like this then the blood pressure necessary to fund the tissue in rest will not be available.
For example when training bicep and tricep, you do these HIT lifts and then finish up on forearms the vasodialation in those areas will be 25% better than in your armpit, as your armpit is the first vessel area from the heart this will see a blood pressure deficit in resting of 25% and this will make your arm slowly starve of oxygen and go numb.
Note: this is why numb limbs are not black and blue they still have enough oxygen to function but the nerves starve of air.
This is why pull days and push days tend to be in tandem and exersizes tend to be synergystic.
So is there any other way to get overall vasodialation?
2) Compound movements:
Before we all shout "Crossfit is for gays" and run head first into the squat rack to do star jumps on our hands, lets look just at compound movements, low weight, high reps and ignore the crossfit jockeys for a second.
Compound movements will hit all the areas you need for general vasodialation along the full limb into the torso or abdomen. Also doing lighter weight in and higher reps will again spike your heart rate and allow for a better pump when doing isolation work. Bench press, squats, dead lifts, etc.
3)Burst Cardio
As most Bodybuilders reading this will hiss at the screen now but [studies have shown]( high intensity cardio for less than 40 minutes, 3 times a week will not harm your gains but will infact increase the efficiency of the vessels around the muscle aiding a better pump. Doing short sprints and then walking and repeating for intermittant times per workout will aid vasodialation.
4) Lifting methodology
There are also methods in lifting weight which will see a better increase in blood flow, flexibility and joint action! Full extention and full flex lifting methodology promotes blood flow and mind to muscle connection.
These are all little things to add to training which will invariably aid your vasodialation without harming your gains, in turn they should prevent vasoconstriction and help with the numbness.
TL:DR:
Didn't get the joke | Why is this funny?
What is making your limbs go numb is vasoconstriction, where the muscle walls trap the vessels and strangulate them.
It is a real medical term and can be dangerous in the sense that constricted blood flow can cause medical problems down the line.
So I think I missed that joke or at least I missed something, let me expand...
Cardio and vascular are synonymous to the cardiovascular system.
Cardio - Heart
Vascular - vessels to convey liquid (veins, arteries and capilaries)
Vascular - ity - Efficient and prominant vessels
Both of these things need to be in tow to support the term vascularity.
You can be lean without being vascular because vasodialation is poor.
Just becuase low body fat shows the surface vessels doesn't necessarily mean that the capilaries, arteries and veins are at optimal dilation within the deep tissue. Just think about how your veins look while resting verses just after lifting.
The defenition of the word vascularity I think is where the confusion starts, good vascularity is not just visible surface vasodialation, but general vessel efficiency.
To train vascularity is to train vasodialation which in turn affects artery, vein and capillary efficiency.
Another confusion point is Cardio exersize.
Most people say do cardio to help vascularity but that is not training your vessels! As stated above cardio means heart, so it's not so much about your vessels as it is about getting your heart rate up!
A side effect of this will be a boost in blood pressure and as a result vasodialation but there are ways to target certain areas to get the same effect without harming gains.
In this case we are not looking to train just the heart for blood pressure sake but find ways in improving blood flow to areas that go numb that is essentially training your deep tissue vascular system for vasodialation.
I used to wake up with numb arms and such last year so I did a little research on the topic.
There are a few ways to boost your vessel size and efficiency without the use of Vasodialating drugs:
1) HIT
Studies have shown rapid movement in high volume and intensity at lower weight will promote expansion of the veins arteries and capillaries in the area worked, Higher reps, lower weight this forces the muscle to use type 1 muscle which inturn forces the body to spike your heart rate to force the capilaries into the fibres to dialate.
Most people call this a pump, however, if certain joints are overlooked in training like this then the blood pressure necessary to fund the tissue in rest will not be available.
For example when training bicep and tricep, you do these HIT lifts and then finish up on forearms the vasodialation in those areas will be 25% better than in your armpit, as your armpit is the first vessel area from the heart this will see a blood pressure deficit in resting of 25% and this will make your arm slowly starve of oxygen and go numb.
Note: this is why numb limbs are not black and blue they still have enough oxygen to function but the nerves starve of air.
This is why pull days and push days tend to be in tandem and exersizes tend to be synergystic.
So is there any other way to get overall vasodialation?
2) Compound movements:
Before we all shout "Crossfit is for gays" and run head first into the squat rack to do star jumps on our hands, lets look just at compound movements, low weight, high reps and ignore the crossfit jockeys for a second.
Compound movements will hit all the areas you need for general vasodialation along the full limb into the torso or abdomen. Also doing lighter weight in and higher reps will again spike your heart rate and allow for a better pump when doing isolation work. Bench press, squats, dead lifts, etc.
3)Burst Cardio
As most Bodybuilders reading this will hiss at the screen now but [studies have shown]( high intensity cardio for less than 40 minutes, 3 times a week will not harm your gains but will infact increase the efficiency of the vessels around the muscle aiding a better pump. Doing short sprints and then walking and repeating for intermittant times per workout will aid vasodialation.
4) Lifting methodology
There are also methods in lifting weight which will see a better increase in blood flow, flexibility and joint action! Full extention and full flex lifting methodology promotes blood flow and mind to muscle connection.
These are all little things to add to training which will invariably aid your vasodialation without harming your gains, in turn they should prevent vasoconstriction and help with the numbness.
TL:DR:
Didn't get the joke
| bodybuilding | t5_2ql8s | cmwdp9c | Why is this funny?
What is making your limbs go numb is vasoconstriction, where the muscle walls trap the vessels and strangulate them.
It is a real medical term and can be dangerous in the sense that constricted blood flow can cause medical problems down the line.
So I think I missed that joke or at least I missed something, let me expand...
Cardio and vascular are synonymous to the cardiovascular system.
Cardio - Heart
Vascular - vessels to convey liquid (veins, arteries and capilaries)
Vascular - ity - Efficient and prominant vessels
Both of these things need to be in tow to support the term vascularity.
You can be lean without being vascular because vasodialation is poor.
Just becuase low body fat shows the surface vessels doesn't necessarily mean that the capilaries, arteries and veins are at optimal dilation within the deep tissue. Just think about how your veins look while resting verses just after lifting.
The defenition of the word vascularity I think is where the confusion starts, good vascularity is not just visible surface vasodialation, but general vessel efficiency.
To train vascularity is to train vasodialation which in turn affects artery, vein and capillary efficiency.
Another confusion point is Cardio exersize.
Most people say do cardio to help vascularity but that is not training your vessels! As stated above cardio means heart, so it's not so much about your vessels as it is about getting your heart rate up!
A side effect of this will be a boost in blood pressure and as a result vasodialation but there are ways to target certain areas to get the same effect without harming gains.
In this case we are not looking to train just the heart for blood pressure sake but find ways in improving blood flow to areas that go numb that is essentially training your deep tissue vascular system for vasodialation.
I used to wake up with numb arms and such last year so I did a little research on the topic.
There are a few ways to boost your vessel size and efficiency without the use of Vasodialating drugs:
1) HIT
Studies have shown rapid movement in high volume and intensity at lower weight will promote expansion of the veins arteries and capillaries in the area worked, Higher reps, lower weight this forces the muscle to use type 1 muscle which inturn forces the body to spike your heart rate to force the capilaries into the fibres to dialate.
Most people call this a pump, however, if certain joints are overlooked in training like this then the blood pressure necessary to fund the tissue in rest will not be available.
For example when training bicep and tricep, you do these HIT lifts and then finish up on forearms the vasodialation in those areas will be 25% better than in your armpit, as your armpit is the first vessel area from the heart this will see a blood pressure deficit in resting of 25% and this will make your arm slowly starve of oxygen and go numb.
Note: this is why numb limbs are not black and blue they still have enough oxygen to function but the nerves starve of air.
This is why pull days and push days tend to be in tandem and exersizes tend to be synergystic.
So is there any other way to get overall vasodialation?
2) Compound movements:
Before we all shout "Crossfit is for gays" and run head first into the squat rack to do star jumps on our hands, lets look just at compound movements, low weight, high reps and ignore the crossfit jockeys for a second.
Compound movements will hit all the areas you need for general vasodialation along the full limb into the torso or abdomen. Also doing lighter weight in and higher reps will again spike your heart rate and allow for a better pump when doing isolation work. Bench press, squats, dead lifts, etc.
3)Burst Cardio
As most Bodybuilders reading this will hiss at the screen now but [studies have shown]( high intensity cardio for less than 40 minutes, 3 times a week will not harm your gains but will infact increase the efficiency of the vessels around the muscle aiding a better pump. Doing short sprints and then walking and repeating for intermittant times per workout will aid vasodialation.
4) Lifting methodology
There are also methods in lifting weight which will see a better increase in blood flow, flexibility and joint action! Full extention and full flex lifting methodology promotes blood flow and mind to muscle connection.
These are all little things to add to training which will invariably aid your vasodialation without harming your gains, in turn they should prevent vasoconstriction and help with the numbness. | Didn't get the joke |
Anadyne | So, essentially, it breaks down like this. [I might get some flack from folks in this sub, but...it's all kind of true, as the point is to be frugal, not deprive yourself.
I used to watch The Walking Dead the nights it came out. It is still to this day, my favorite show. I haven't watched any of the current season other than the first episode (it was free on AMC online for a month or so.)
Now...I have Netflix and watch it the year after it came out. I still get all the tantalizing indulgence of watching the epic show...and I don't really care about what time of my life I watched it in. I just know I want to see it. I have learned to be patient at this.
As a cord cutter, you are faced with this particular dilemma on a very regular basis, among other things.
Cons to being a cord cutter:
* You won't watch your shows as regular as you would if you had cable. Amass patience in abundance, or spend the money.
* You won't watch commercials as regular as you would if you had cable. (This is a con because there are actually products in the world you found out about through commercials...take nintendo for example.)
* You will not find out about upcoming shows until they've been out for awhile. (Not that bad, but refer to #1 for why this is a con.)
* You won't be able to watch all of the sports that you were used to when you want, unless you spend the money.
* Several other situations arise, but it's all about what you want.
I cut the cord about 3 or 4 years ago. Before that, I never had internet at the house (had it at work, so no real need) and paid for cable or satellite TV. Now I pay about $35 for hi-speed internet and xfinity ondemand, and $7 for netflix. I rent movies from the local Family Video and RedBox quite regularly, and because I'm saving about $120/month, me and my SO go out to the movies quite frequently. Instead of watching TV shows all the time, we usually watch something online. Netflix has something of interest that will last you for long periods of time. It took us about 3 months to watch the entire series of House...and that was watching it every time we sat down to watch a show, nothing but movies otherwise. We found we have a lot more free time, and I have all but given up caring about professional sports.
The long and short of it is this, you as a consumer have to breakdown your budget for entertainment, and then you have analyze that with what you want to be entertained with. If you are going to just cut the cord for the sake of doing so, but still want to watch all of your shows as quickly as possible, you might as well NOT cut the cord...because the costs will add up to almost the same, and I would rather have cable than not if the price is close enough. Right now, I pay a little over $60/month for home entertainment, and have extra money for outdoor entertainment (movies, concerts, sporting events, etc...) I think the internet is far more superior to cable though, so in my opinion, it wins out over the cost of cable anyways...simply because I have found other things to entertain myself with. Especially Reddit...fuck I'm on here way too long...I mean seriously, look at what I just typed for this!
**TL;DR:** It's all about your budget for home entertainment...and that's about it. | So, essentially, it breaks down like this. [I might get some flack from folks in this sub, but...it's all kind of true, as the point is to be frugal, not deprive yourself.
I used to watch The Walking Dead the nights it came out. It is still to this day, my favorite show. I haven't watched any of the current season other than the first episode (it was free on AMC online for a month or so.)
Now...I have Netflix and watch it the year after it came out. I still get all the tantalizing indulgence of watching the epic show...and I don't really care about what time of my life I watched it in. I just know I want to see it. I have learned to be patient at this.
As a cord cutter, you are faced with this particular dilemma on a very regular basis, among other things.
Cons to being a cord cutter:
You won't watch your shows as regular as you would if you had cable. Amass patience in abundance, or spend the money.
You won't watch commercials as regular as you would if you had cable. (This is a con because there are actually products in the world you found out about through commercials...take nintendo for example.)
You will not find out about upcoming shows until they've been out for awhile. (Not that bad, but refer to #1 for why this is a con.)
You won't be able to watch all of the sports that you were used to when you want, unless you spend the money.
Several other situations arise, but it's all about what you want.
I cut the cord about 3 or 4 years ago. Before that, I never had internet at the house (had it at work, so no real need) and paid for cable or satellite TV. Now I pay about $35 for hi-speed internet and xfinity ondemand, and $7 for netflix. I rent movies from the local Family Video and RedBox quite regularly, and because I'm saving about $120/month, me and my SO go out to the movies quite frequently. Instead of watching TV shows all the time, we usually watch something online. Netflix has something of interest that will last you for long periods of time. It took us about 3 months to watch the entire series of House...and that was watching it every time we sat down to watch a show, nothing but movies otherwise. We found we have a lot more free time, and I have all but given up caring about professional sports.
The long and short of it is this, you as a consumer have to breakdown your budget for entertainment, and then you have analyze that with what you want to be entertained with. If you are going to just cut the cord for the sake of doing so, but still want to watch all of your shows as quickly as possible, you might as well NOT cut the cord...because the costs will add up to almost the same, and I would rather have cable than not if the price is close enough. Right now, I pay a little over $60/month for home entertainment, and have extra money for outdoor entertainment (movies, concerts, sporting events, etc...) I think the internet is far more superior to cable though, so in my opinion, it wins out over the cost of cable anyways...simply because I have found other things to entertain myself with. Especially Reddit...fuck I'm on here way too long...I mean seriously, look at what I just typed for this!
TL;DR: It's all about your budget for home entertainment...and that's about it.
| cordcutters | t5_2sa6y | cmw1b8v | So, essentially, it breaks down like this. [I might get some flack from folks in this sub, but...it's all kind of true, as the point is to be frugal, not deprive yourself.
I used to watch The Walking Dead the nights it came out. It is still to this day, my favorite show. I haven't watched any of the current season other than the first episode (it was free on AMC online for a month or so.)
Now...I have Netflix and watch it the year after it came out. I still get all the tantalizing indulgence of watching the epic show...and I don't really care about what time of my life I watched it in. I just know I want to see it. I have learned to be patient at this.
As a cord cutter, you are faced with this particular dilemma on a very regular basis, among other things.
Cons to being a cord cutter:
You won't watch your shows as regular as you would if you had cable. Amass patience in abundance, or spend the money.
You won't watch commercials as regular as you would if you had cable. (This is a con because there are actually products in the world you found out about through commercials...take nintendo for example.)
You will not find out about upcoming shows until they've been out for awhile. (Not that bad, but refer to #1 for why this is a con.)
You won't be able to watch all of the sports that you were used to when you want, unless you spend the money.
Several other situations arise, but it's all about what you want.
I cut the cord about 3 or 4 years ago. Before that, I never had internet at the house (had it at work, so no real need) and paid for cable or satellite TV. Now I pay about $35 for hi-speed internet and xfinity ondemand, and $7 for netflix. I rent movies from the local Family Video and RedBox quite regularly, and because I'm saving about $120/month, me and my SO go out to the movies quite frequently. Instead of watching TV shows all the time, we usually watch something online. Netflix has something of interest that will last you for long periods of time. It took us about 3 months to watch the entire series of House...and that was watching it every time we sat down to watch a show, nothing but movies otherwise. We found we have a lot more free time, and I have all but given up caring about professional sports.
The long and short of it is this, you as a consumer have to breakdown your budget for entertainment, and then you have analyze that with what you want to be entertained with. If you are going to just cut the cord for the sake of doing so, but still want to watch all of your shows as quickly as possible, you might as well NOT cut the cord...because the costs will add up to almost the same, and I would rather have cable than not if the price is close enough. Right now, I pay a little over $60/month for home entertainment, and have extra money for outdoor entertainment (movies, concerts, sporting events, etc...) I think the internet is far more superior to cable though, so in my opinion, it wins out over the cost of cable anyways...simply because I have found other things to entertain myself with. Especially Reddit...fuck I'm on here way too long...I mean seriously, look at what I just typed for this! | It's all about your budget for home entertainment...and that's about it. |
Perch1 | TBP is definitely a SJW sub. The posts sound exactly like ShitRedditSays.
SJWs are spoiled, delusional brats with too much free time, basically. They were presumably bullied as children or some shit, and now they get to finally be the bullies on Tumblr, Reddit, Twitter, etc.
What sets them apart from normal internet trolls is that their shitty behavior aligns strongly with an extreme brand of the outrage and victimhood culture that we're quite familiar with in the West. The narrative is everything, and any facts that distract from the narrative are dismissed immediately. While some of those on the extreme left are naive with good intentions, this pack of dipshits are just hateful freaks who will dismiss anything a straight white man says because he is a straight white man. Everyone else is to be treated as a helpless victim.
TL;DR: They need to grow the fuck up. | TBP is definitely a SJW sub. The posts sound exactly like ShitRedditSays.
SJWs are spoiled, delusional brats with too much free time, basically. They were presumably bullied as children or some shit, and now they get to finally be the bullies on Tumblr, Reddit, Twitter, etc.
What sets them apart from normal internet trolls is that their shitty behavior aligns strongly with an extreme brand of the outrage and victimhood culture that we're quite familiar with in the West. The narrative is everything, and any facts that distract from the narrative are dismissed immediately. While some of those on the extreme left are naive with good intentions, this pack of dipshits are just hateful freaks who will dismiss anything a straight white man says because he is a straight white man. Everyone else is to be treated as a helpless victim.
TL;DR: They need to grow the fuck up.
| PurplePillDebate | t5_2ya42 | cmwbchn | TBP is definitely a SJW sub. The posts sound exactly like ShitRedditSays.
SJWs are spoiled, delusional brats with too much free time, basically. They were presumably bullied as children or some shit, and now they get to finally be the bullies on Tumblr, Reddit, Twitter, etc.
What sets them apart from normal internet trolls is that their shitty behavior aligns strongly with an extreme brand of the outrage and victimhood culture that we're quite familiar with in the West. The narrative is everything, and any facts that distract from the narrative are dismissed immediately. While some of those on the extreme left are naive with good intentions, this pack of dipshits are just hateful freaks who will dismiss anything a straight white man says because he is a straight white man. Everyone else is to be treated as a helpless victim. | They need to grow the fuck up. |
Stauncho | The king’s mouth twisted in a bitter grimace. “No, gods be cursed. Some pox-ridden Pentoshi cheesemonger had her brother and he walled up on his estate with pointy-hatted eunuchs all around them, and now he’s handed them over to the Dothraki. I should have had them both killed years ago, when it was easy to get at them, but Jon was as bad as you. More fool I, I listened to him.”
TL;DR: Robert wanted to send assassins early on but Jon Arryn convinced him otherwise. | The king’s mouth twisted in a bitter grimace. “No, gods be cursed. Some pox-ridden Pentoshi cheesemonger had her brother and he walled up on his estate with pointy-hatted eunuchs all around them, and now he’s handed them over to the Dothraki. I should have had them both killed years ago, when it was easy to get at them, but Jon was as bad as you. More fool I, I listened to him.”
TL;DR: Robert wanted to send assassins early on but Jon Arryn convinced him otherwise.
| asoiaf | t5_2r2o9 | cmwckdy | The king’s mouth twisted in a bitter grimace. “No, gods be cursed. Some pox-ridden Pentoshi cheesemonger had her brother and he walled up on his estate with pointy-hatted eunuchs all around them, and now he’s handed them over to the Dothraki. I should have had them both killed years ago, when it was easy to get at them, but Jon was as bad as you. More fool I, I listened to him.” | Robert wanted to send assassins early on but Jon Arryn convinced him otherwise. |
HL_Rich_1st | Well heck, nobody knows me here, I might as well tell the story.
I've been raised in a non-religious family; my dad lost his faith the same day he lost his brother to a motorcycle accident, and any proper faith my stepmother had was lost when her first husband broke her nose. Although she remains a Christian culturally (we are British, after all), I have no idea of the last time she read the Bible or had the Bible read to her, aside from my baptism. When I was younger, I used to have nightmares about dying, and the nothingness afterwards, and to this day I'm not sure whether I was scared more by the dreams I had, or the lack of assurance my parents could provide me on them.
Some context: in 2002, my dad lost his job (he was made redundant), and we were very, very hard up for money. Despite being only 6 years old, I can remember my grandparents coming over weekly with food hampers, like we were refugees, because our family, stubborn and prideful to a fault, refused to go to the food bank. Dad found a part-time job by the end of the year, and my dad and step-mother got married in the summer of 2003, with barely enough money to afford the ceremony and celebrations, which was at a secular registrar's office and a local restaurant, respectively.
Well, fast forward to the autumn of 2013; dad is accused falsely of theft by a manager who has a grudge against him (I can't go into details because that's a Reddit post in itself, but yeah, I know my dad, and his job; he's no thief), and is forced to resign. Once again, food hampers and little money was the order of the day. It can be difficult to think on days like today that I'm a University student, because a year ago, it looked like my family wouldn't have a house, let alone a son on the other side of the country doing an Undergrad degree in Politics.
Well, back to the testimony, now I was old enough to understand that this was a dire financial situation, I got pretty scared. My family has worked hard for generations, and despite not being University-educated, my male ancestors, my father included, have always been hands-on, intellectual mechanics and engineers. My dad could make work for himself to generate income, my older brother was able to find a weekend job, my step-mother started working two days a week at the village bakery. As a College Student at this point, with all of my time taken up by studying (and goofing around, because I was 17), I felt like I didn't have a niche. My family was staring bankruptcy and destitution in the face, and I felt like I could do nothing. Being a Godless Atheist at this point, I was already wrestling with mental questions on existence, and the philosophical ramifications of nothingness; feeling pointless in an emotional sense and worthless in a physical sense was not the most conducive arrangement for a teenager. Luckily, this manager was moved to a different department soon after, and 6 months later, my dad was back in work part time (as he is today) through one of the company's subsidiary recruitment agencies, but that is largely an undercurrent to the testimony.
It was an odd and totally un-Christian reason that brought me to Church. Trying to take my mind off of everything going on around me, I decided that I'd try to get back with one of my old flames, a very attractive girl who took me for granted oftentimes, not that I cared that that point. It turned out that she went on rare occasions to a youth group on Friday evenings at the local Baptist church, so I started going every Friday, in the hopes that I would see her there and... I don't know, flirt I guess. It makes me laugh now, to think that I've been going there since September 2013, and she was there on exactly two Fridays. So anyway, this youth club is run by the Minister of the church, who was my Padré when I was in the local Detached Flight of the Air Training Corps (2531 represent!) when I was 13, and who also came into my primary school periodically to talk about God when I was younger. At the end of each Youth Club session of fun and games, there's an hour long discussion period where a Bible verse or two is alluded to, and discussion is held on it. About 90% of the people in the Youth Club are atheist, so this conversation never really goes anywhere. However, the first night I was there, something peaked my interest.
I don't remember the verse, or the discussion that was held on it, but I do remember that it suddenly popped into my mind that I got a copy of the Armed Forces New Testament & Psalms Bible when I was in the Air Training Corps. After youth Club, I dug it out, and started leafing through it. I was still pretty skeptical at this point, so I laughed at some of the verses and put it down. I kept going to Youth Club though, and I became close friends with the son and the daughter of one of the married couples who are both deacons at the church. I went every Friday evening, and I soon started going to the coffee mornings that the church holds one sunday every month too, but not to a proper church service. "They haven't got me just yet" I said to myself. That rhetoric of mine became increasingly false, though, as I read the Bible more, talked to my new Christian friends more, and started truly considering the prospect of an all-powerful, all-loving Abrahamic God.
I turned 18 in February 2014, and I decided to go to one proper church service, just to see what it was like. I dare say that was when 'they' well and truly got me, because I've missed exactly two church services since then, one because I was travelling, and another because I missed the bus for church once when I got to University. I fell in love with church; the hymns, the sermons, the Bible and how beautiful it is. I love how one book can be poetic, precise, universal, specific, informative and recreational all at once. I have fallen in love with the message of Christ, and because of it, I have met so many beautiful people. I went to the Soul Survivor youth festival in summer this year, and I made so many invaluable Christian friends there. When I got to University, I was shocked to find as many as five fellow Christians in my Politics course.
I was Baptised on the 31st August 2014, and I feel that my washing away of sin converged with the other big event of the day; bringing together people from my family life, my church life, and my social life, to show that I had chosen Christ, and that there was no turning back. The uncharacteristic complements from some people was staggering; my biological mother, who confesses believing the Bible to be nothing more than fiction, sat on the front row with me and smiled throughout the service; my father could not stop telling me how proud he was of me, and he gave me the strongest damn hug I have ever received; my best friend, who is a fanatical disciple of Richard Dawkins, sang all of the hymns passionately, and bought me a prayer cross as a present for the day. We had a massive shared lunch afterwards, and once we'd finished eating, I was still able to take two large trays of lasagna and pasta bake to my boss at work (I was able to pick up a job, working half the minimum wage at a cinema, because I was friends with the son of the manager), who was unable to attend because of the job.
I know that it appears that I've loaded this post with lots of apparently unnecessary information, but I feel that it is all relevant; my experiences have dictated my worldview, and I'll be honest, without those little pieces of information, I doubt that my testimony would have the full-roundedness I believe that it should have.
But yes, so, I'm now at University, with some good Christian friends. I've found myself a Church here, with which my only complaint is that I have to catch a bus at 9:40 AM to attend it. I now have two church families at home and University, and I now enjoy nothing more than talking about Christianity in philosophical and political terms (very useful when you have aspiring Christian politicians like me as friends). I'm relatively conservative in a British sense as a Christian, and I struggle with airy-fairy 'liberal' Christianity that many young Christians are like at the moment, but I can't fault them for how well-meaning and morally upright they are.
Tl:dr I found God, guys. The 'God Squad' got to me. | Well heck, nobody knows me here, I might as well tell the story.
I've been raised in a non-religious family; my dad lost his faith the same day he lost his brother to a motorcycle accident, and any proper faith my stepmother had was lost when her first husband broke her nose. Although she remains a Christian culturally (we are British, after all), I have no idea of the last time she read the Bible or had the Bible read to her, aside from my baptism. When I was younger, I used to have nightmares about dying, and the nothingness afterwards, and to this day I'm not sure whether I was scared more by the dreams I had, or the lack of assurance my parents could provide me on them.
Some context: in 2002, my dad lost his job (he was made redundant), and we were very, very hard up for money. Despite being only 6 years old, I can remember my grandparents coming over weekly with food hampers, like we were refugees, because our family, stubborn and prideful to a fault, refused to go to the food bank. Dad found a part-time job by the end of the year, and my dad and step-mother got married in the summer of 2003, with barely enough money to afford the ceremony and celebrations, which was at a secular registrar's office and a local restaurant, respectively.
Well, fast forward to the autumn of 2013; dad is accused falsely of theft by a manager who has a grudge against him (I can't go into details because that's a Reddit post in itself, but yeah, I know my dad, and his job; he's no thief), and is forced to resign. Once again, food hampers and little money was the order of the day. It can be difficult to think on days like today that I'm a University student, because a year ago, it looked like my family wouldn't have a house, let alone a son on the other side of the country doing an Undergrad degree in Politics.
Well, back to the testimony, now I was old enough to understand that this was a dire financial situation, I got pretty scared. My family has worked hard for generations, and despite not being University-educated, my male ancestors, my father included, have always been hands-on, intellectual mechanics and engineers. My dad could make work for himself to generate income, my older brother was able to find a weekend job, my step-mother started working two days a week at the village bakery. As a College Student at this point, with all of my time taken up by studying (and goofing around, because I was 17), I felt like I didn't have a niche. My family was staring bankruptcy and destitution in the face, and I felt like I could do nothing. Being a Godless Atheist at this point, I was already wrestling with mental questions on existence, and the philosophical ramifications of nothingness; feeling pointless in an emotional sense and worthless in a physical sense was not the most conducive arrangement for a teenager. Luckily, this manager was moved to a different department soon after, and 6 months later, my dad was back in work part time (as he is today) through one of the company's subsidiary recruitment agencies, but that is largely an undercurrent to the testimony.
It was an odd and totally un-Christian reason that brought me to Church. Trying to take my mind off of everything going on around me, I decided that I'd try to get back with one of my old flames, a very attractive girl who took me for granted oftentimes, not that I cared that that point. It turned out that she went on rare occasions to a youth group on Friday evenings at the local Baptist church, so I started going every Friday, in the hopes that I would see her there and... I don't know, flirt I guess. It makes me laugh now, to think that I've been going there since September 2013, and she was there on exactly two Fridays. So anyway, this youth club is run by the Minister of the church, who was my Padré when I was in the local Detached Flight of the Air Training Corps (2531 represent!) when I was 13, and who also came into my primary school periodically to talk about God when I was younger. At the end of each Youth Club session of fun and games, there's an hour long discussion period where a Bible verse or two is alluded to, and discussion is held on it. About 90% of the people in the Youth Club are atheist, so this conversation never really goes anywhere. However, the first night I was there, something peaked my interest.
I don't remember the verse, or the discussion that was held on it, but I do remember that it suddenly popped into my mind that I got a copy of the Armed Forces New Testament & Psalms Bible when I was in the Air Training Corps. After youth Club, I dug it out, and started leafing through it. I was still pretty skeptical at this point, so I laughed at some of the verses and put it down. I kept going to Youth Club though, and I became close friends with the son and the daughter of one of the married couples who are both deacons at the church. I went every Friday evening, and I soon started going to the coffee mornings that the church holds one sunday every month too, but not to a proper church service. "They haven't got me just yet" I said to myself. That rhetoric of mine became increasingly false, though, as I read the Bible more, talked to my new Christian friends more, and started truly considering the prospect of an all-powerful, all-loving Abrahamic God.
I turned 18 in February 2014, and I decided to go to one proper church service, just to see what it was like. I dare say that was when 'they' well and truly got me, because I've missed exactly two church services since then, one because I was travelling, and another because I missed the bus for church once when I got to University. I fell in love with church; the hymns, the sermons, the Bible and how beautiful it is. I love how one book can be poetic, precise, universal, specific, informative and recreational all at once. I have fallen in love with the message of Christ, and because of it, I have met so many beautiful people. I went to the Soul Survivor youth festival in summer this year, and I made so many invaluable Christian friends there. When I got to University, I was shocked to find as many as five fellow Christians in my Politics course.
I was Baptised on the 31st August 2014, and I feel that my washing away of sin converged with the other big event of the day; bringing together people from my family life, my church life, and my social life, to show that I had chosen Christ, and that there was no turning back. The uncharacteristic complements from some people was staggering; my biological mother, who confesses believing the Bible to be nothing more than fiction, sat on the front row with me and smiled throughout the service; my father could not stop telling me how proud he was of me, and he gave me the strongest damn hug I have ever received; my best friend, who is a fanatical disciple of Richard Dawkins, sang all of the hymns passionately, and bought me a prayer cross as a present for the day. We had a massive shared lunch afterwards, and once we'd finished eating, I was still able to take two large trays of lasagna and pasta bake to my boss at work (I was able to pick up a job, working half the minimum wage at a cinema, because I was friends with the son of the manager), who was unable to attend because of the job.
I know that it appears that I've loaded this post with lots of apparently unnecessary information, but I feel that it is all relevant; my experiences have dictated my worldview, and I'll be honest, without those little pieces of information, I doubt that my testimony would have the full-roundedness I believe that it should have.
But yes, so, I'm now at University, with some good Christian friends. I've found myself a Church here, with which my only complaint is that I have to catch a bus at 9:40 AM to attend it. I now have two church families at home and University, and I now enjoy nothing more than talking about Christianity in philosophical and political terms (very useful when you have aspiring Christian politicians like me as friends). I'm relatively conservative in a British sense as a Christian, and I struggle with airy-fairy 'liberal' Christianity that many young Christians are like at the moment, but I can't fault them for how well-meaning and morally upright they are.
Tl:dr I found God, guys. The 'God Squad' got to me.
| AtheistToChristian | t5_35fef | cmx0izr | Well heck, nobody knows me here, I might as well tell the story.
I've been raised in a non-religious family; my dad lost his faith the same day he lost his brother to a motorcycle accident, and any proper faith my stepmother had was lost when her first husband broke her nose. Although she remains a Christian culturally (we are British, after all), I have no idea of the last time she read the Bible or had the Bible read to her, aside from my baptism. When I was younger, I used to have nightmares about dying, and the nothingness afterwards, and to this day I'm not sure whether I was scared more by the dreams I had, or the lack of assurance my parents could provide me on them.
Some context: in 2002, my dad lost his job (he was made redundant), and we were very, very hard up for money. Despite being only 6 years old, I can remember my grandparents coming over weekly with food hampers, like we were refugees, because our family, stubborn and prideful to a fault, refused to go to the food bank. Dad found a part-time job by the end of the year, and my dad and step-mother got married in the summer of 2003, with barely enough money to afford the ceremony and celebrations, which was at a secular registrar's office and a local restaurant, respectively.
Well, fast forward to the autumn of 2013; dad is accused falsely of theft by a manager who has a grudge against him (I can't go into details because that's a Reddit post in itself, but yeah, I know my dad, and his job; he's no thief), and is forced to resign. Once again, food hampers and little money was the order of the day. It can be difficult to think on days like today that I'm a University student, because a year ago, it looked like my family wouldn't have a house, let alone a son on the other side of the country doing an Undergrad degree in Politics.
Well, back to the testimony, now I was old enough to understand that this was a dire financial situation, I got pretty scared. My family has worked hard for generations, and despite not being University-educated, my male ancestors, my father included, have always been hands-on, intellectual mechanics and engineers. My dad could make work for himself to generate income, my older brother was able to find a weekend job, my step-mother started working two days a week at the village bakery. As a College Student at this point, with all of my time taken up by studying (and goofing around, because I was 17), I felt like I didn't have a niche. My family was staring bankruptcy and destitution in the face, and I felt like I could do nothing. Being a Godless Atheist at this point, I was already wrestling with mental questions on existence, and the philosophical ramifications of nothingness; feeling pointless in an emotional sense and worthless in a physical sense was not the most conducive arrangement for a teenager. Luckily, this manager was moved to a different department soon after, and 6 months later, my dad was back in work part time (as he is today) through one of the company's subsidiary recruitment agencies, but that is largely an undercurrent to the testimony.
It was an odd and totally un-Christian reason that brought me to Church. Trying to take my mind off of everything going on around me, I decided that I'd try to get back with one of my old flames, a very attractive girl who took me for granted oftentimes, not that I cared that that point. It turned out that she went on rare occasions to a youth group on Friday evenings at the local Baptist church, so I started going every Friday, in the hopes that I would see her there and... I don't know, flirt I guess. It makes me laugh now, to think that I've been going there since September 2013, and she was there on exactly two Fridays. So anyway, this youth club is run by the Minister of the church, who was my Padré when I was in the local Detached Flight of the Air Training Corps (2531 represent!) when I was 13, and who also came into my primary school periodically to talk about God when I was younger. At the end of each Youth Club session of fun and games, there's an hour long discussion period where a Bible verse or two is alluded to, and discussion is held on it. About 90% of the people in the Youth Club are atheist, so this conversation never really goes anywhere. However, the first night I was there, something peaked my interest.
I don't remember the verse, or the discussion that was held on it, but I do remember that it suddenly popped into my mind that I got a copy of the Armed Forces New Testament & Psalms Bible when I was in the Air Training Corps. After youth Club, I dug it out, and started leafing through it. I was still pretty skeptical at this point, so I laughed at some of the verses and put it down. I kept going to Youth Club though, and I became close friends with the son and the daughter of one of the married couples who are both deacons at the church. I went every Friday evening, and I soon started going to the coffee mornings that the church holds one sunday every month too, but not to a proper church service. "They haven't got me just yet" I said to myself. That rhetoric of mine became increasingly false, though, as I read the Bible more, talked to my new Christian friends more, and started truly considering the prospect of an all-powerful, all-loving Abrahamic God.
I turned 18 in February 2014, and I decided to go to one proper church service, just to see what it was like. I dare say that was when 'they' well and truly got me, because I've missed exactly two church services since then, one because I was travelling, and another because I missed the bus for church once when I got to University. I fell in love with church; the hymns, the sermons, the Bible and how beautiful it is. I love how one book can be poetic, precise, universal, specific, informative and recreational all at once. I have fallen in love with the message of Christ, and because of it, I have met so many beautiful people. I went to the Soul Survivor youth festival in summer this year, and I made so many invaluable Christian friends there. When I got to University, I was shocked to find as many as five fellow Christians in my Politics course.
I was Baptised on the 31st August 2014, and I feel that my washing away of sin converged with the other big event of the day; bringing together people from my family life, my church life, and my social life, to show that I had chosen Christ, and that there was no turning back. The uncharacteristic complements from some people was staggering; my biological mother, who confesses believing the Bible to be nothing more than fiction, sat on the front row with me and smiled throughout the service; my father could not stop telling me how proud he was of me, and he gave me the strongest damn hug I have ever received; my best friend, who is a fanatical disciple of Richard Dawkins, sang all of the hymns passionately, and bought me a prayer cross as a present for the day. We had a massive shared lunch afterwards, and once we'd finished eating, I was still able to take two large trays of lasagna and pasta bake to my boss at work (I was able to pick up a job, working half the minimum wage at a cinema, because I was friends with the son of the manager), who was unable to attend because of the job.
I know that it appears that I've loaded this post with lots of apparently unnecessary information, but I feel that it is all relevant; my experiences have dictated my worldview, and I'll be honest, without those little pieces of information, I doubt that my testimony would have the full-roundedness I believe that it should have.
But yes, so, I'm now at University, with some good Christian friends. I've found myself a Church here, with which my only complaint is that I have to catch a bus at 9:40 AM to attend it. I now have two church families at home and University, and I now enjoy nothing more than talking about Christianity in philosophical and political terms (very useful when you have aspiring Christian politicians like me as friends). I'm relatively conservative in a British sense as a Christian, and I struggle with airy-fairy 'liberal' Christianity that many young Christians are like at the moment, but I can't fault them for how well-meaning and morally upright they are. | I found God, guys. The 'God Squad' got to me. |
Crushnaut | Something I was wondering during the episode is, how much of the kids blood would have been in the tubing? I thought it was an interesting problem so I did the math.
So, firstly, what is the volume of the tubing?
They said they needed 40 feet of tubing. Whether that was one way, or return I don't know, so I will do the math for both 40ft and 80ft. In metric this is 1200 cm and 2400 cm respectively.
I don't think they said what the diameter of the tubing was. I am going to assume it was about 0.5cm (approx 1/4 inch).
Volume of a cylinder is V=pi * r^2 * h = pi * 0.25^2 *1200 ≈ 235.6 cm^3 for the 40ft of tubing, and double the for 80ft 471.2 cm^3.
1 cm^3 = 1mL
Next, what is the volume of blood in a child? According to wikipedia a human has 77 mL of blood per kg of mass. Lets say the kid is 36 Kilograms (or 80 pounds).
That means his total blood volume would be 2772 mL.
So, for 40 feet of tubing 8.5% of his blood would be in the tubes. For 80 feet of tubing 17% of his blood would be in the tubing. Again according to wikipedia,
> Typically, a healthy person can endure a loss of 10–15% of the total blood volume without serious medical difficulties (by comparison, blood donation typically takes 8–10% of the donor's blood volume).
So, this is within the realm of possibility. My gut reaction was that there would be way too much of his blood in the tubing. Mind you I did not take into account the amount of blood actually in the machine.
tl;dr: YAY MATH! | Something I was wondering during the episode is, how much of the kids blood would have been in the tubing? I thought it was an interesting problem so I did the math.
So, firstly, what is the volume of the tubing?
They said they needed 40 feet of tubing. Whether that was one way, or return I don't know, so I will do the math for both 40ft and 80ft. In metric this is 1200 cm and 2400 cm respectively.
I don't think they said what the diameter of the tubing was. I am going to assume it was about 0.5cm (approx 1/4 inch).
Volume of a cylinder is V=pi r^2 h = pi 0.25^2 1200 ≈ 235.6 cm^3 for the 40ft of tubing, and double the for 80ft 471.2 cm^3.
1 cm^3 = 1mL
Next, what is the volume of blood in a child? According to wikipedia a human has 77 mL of blood per kg of mass. Lets say the kid is 36 Kilograms (or 80 pounds).
That means his total blood volume would be 2772 mL.
So, for 40 feet of tubing 8.5% of his blood would be in the tubes. For 80 feet of tubing 17% of his blood would be in the tubing. Again according to wikipedia,
> Typically, a healthy person can endure a loss of 10–15% of the total blood volume without serious medical difficulties (by comparison, blood donation typically takes 8–10% of the donor's blood volume).
So, this is within the realm of possibility. My gut reaction was that there would be way too much of his blood in the tubing. Mind you I did not take into account the amount of blood actually in the machine.
tl;dr: YAY MATH!
| scorpion | t5_2w5gn | cmx34vt | Something I was wondering during the episode is, how much of the kids blood would have been in the tubing? I thought it was an interesting problem so I did the math.
So, firstly, what is the volume of the tubing?
They said they needed 40 feet of tubing. Whether that was one way, or return I don't know, so I will do the math for both 40ft and 80ft. In metric this is 1200 cm and 2400 cm respectively.
I don't think they said what the diameter of the tubing was. I am going to assume it was about 0.5cm (approx 1/4 inch).
Volume of a cylinder is V=pi r^2 h = pi 0.25^2 1200 ≈ 235.6 cm^3 for the 40ft of tubing, and double the for 80ft 471.2 cm^3.
1 cm^3 = 1mL
Next, what is the volume of blood in a child? According to wikipedia a human has 77 mL of blood per kg of mass. Lets say the kid is 36 Kilograms (or 80 pounds).
That means his total blood volume would be 2772 mL.
So, for 40 feet of tubing 8.5% of his blood would be in the tubes. For 80 feet of tubing 17% of his blood would be in the tubing. Again according to wikipedia,
> Typically, a healthy person can endure a loss of 10–15% of the total blood volume without serious medical difficulties (by comparison, blood donation typically takes 8–10% of the donor's blood volume).
So, this is within the realm of possibility. My gut reaction was that there would be way too much of his blood in the tubing. Mind you I did not take into account the amount of blood actually in the machine. | YAY MATH! |
jonahdf | Even with natural regen, the wither just does so much damage, regens so quickly, and flies so fast. If Vechs manages to get the wither down to half health with an unenchanted bow and limited arrows, there is no way he would survive the melee portion... Also navigating the nether takes forever, and would give the wither a lot more time to shoot and regen.
tl;dr Vechs is screwed in a wither fight. | Even with natural regen, the wither just does so much damage, regens so quickly, and flies so fast. If Vechs manages to get the wither down to half health with an unenchanted bow and limited arrows, there is no way he would survive the melee portion... Also navigating the nether takes forever, and would give the wither a lot more time to shoot and regen.
tl;dr Vechs is screwed in a wither fight.
| mindcrack | t5_2to85 | cmx7ea8 | Even with natural regen, the wither just does so much damage, regens so quickly, and flies so fast. If Vechs manages to get the wither down to half health with an unenchanted bow and limited arrows, there is no way he would survive the melee portion... Also navigating the nether takes forever, and would give the wither a lot more time to shoot and regen. | Vechs is screwed in a wither fight. |
_THAT_GUY__ | Don't take what a few say and judge us all. We have dicks in here, but we are mostly nice.
As for needing something for work. The thing is, work doesnt require much now. Budget processors are stupid powerful for work i have seen the fx 6300 (a $100 processor) run every program in adobe and microsoft flawlessly with instantaneus actions. So technically i could link you somthing for around $300 that could do it. HOWERVER when you bring video editing into the mix things get iffy.
The best video cards for rendering and video editing are the expensive ones. The ones that are not worth their value for gaming, but are amazing for editing. They are around $800 for the good, older ones. I think you can find a basic titan for around $600 now.
So maybe describe what type of videos you are working on. If you just want a desktop for photoediting and all other programs i could link you a $500-700 computer that will feel faster than anything you have ever used.
But if you need more it all depends.
Something like this is a very rough estimate for a video editing maching It's closer to $1k (also don't build this one, i made it in 5minutes and it probably isnt what you need.) but when doing high quality video editing you need a lot of vram from what i can tell and this one has the most for the smallest price hit.
tl;dr: so i guess what i need to know is what is your budget and what are the programs you need to run flawlessly. | Don't take what a few say and judge us all. We have dicks in here, but we are mostly nice.
As for needing something for work. The thing is, work doesnt require much now. Budget processors are stupid powerful for work i have seen the fx 6300 (a $100 processor) run every program in adobe and microsoft flawlessly with instantaneus actions. So technically i could link you somthing for around $300 that could do it. HOWERVER when you bring video editing into the mix things get iffy.
The best video cards for rendering and video editing are the expensive ones. The ones that are not worth their value for gaming, but are amazing for editing. They are around $800 for the good, older ones. I think you can find a basic titan for around $600 now.
So maybe describe what type of videos you are working on. If you just want a desktop for photoediting and all other programs i could link you a $500-700 computer that will feel faster than anything you have ever used.
But if you need more it all depends.
Something like this is a very rough estimate for a video editing maching It's closer to $1k (also don't build this one, i made it in 5minutes and it probably isnt what you need.) but when doing high quality video editing you need a lot of vram from what i can tell and this one has the most for the smallest price hit.
tl;dr: so i guess what i need to know is what is your budget and what are the programs you need to run flawlessly.
| pcmasterrace | t5_2sgp1 | cmx2m1k | Don't take what a few say and judge us all. We have dicks in here, but we are mostly nice.
As for needing something for work. The thing is, work doesnt require much now. Budget processors are stupid powerful for work i have seen the fx 6300 (a $100 processor) run every program in adobe and microsoft flawlessly with instantaneus actions. So technically i could link you somthing for around $300 that could do it. HOWERVER when you bring video editing into the mix things get iffy.
The best video cards for rendering and video editing are the expensive ones. The ones that are not worth their value for gaming, but are amazing for editing. They are around $800 for the good, older ones. I think you can find a basic titan for around $600 now.
So maybe describe what type of videos you are working on. If you just want a desktop for photoediting and all other programs i could link you a $500-700 computer that will feel faster than anything you have ever used.
But if you need more it all depends.
Something like this is a very rough estimate for a video editing maching It's closer to $1k (also don't build this one, i made it in 5minutes and it probably isnt what you need.) but when doing high quality video editing you need a lot of vram from what i can tell and this one has the most for the smallest price hit. | so i guess what i need to know is what is your budget and what are the programs you need to run flawlessly. |
aenapoeka | Let's speculate some more – If Cloud9 had seeded to same bracket as Secret, Secret could have dropped them out of the competition in the semifinals and faced VG first time in finals.
This would have raised their team spirit even if they would have lost 2-3, but now knowing that they went 4-1 in groupstages and still placed 3rd they feel alot more disappointed.
TL;DR Cloud9 in Summit 2 got the better bracket vs. shitty EG, Secret dropped too early to Vici and now blame it on lacking synergy. | Let's speculate some more – If Cloud9 had seeded to same bracket as Secret, Secret could have dropped them out of the competition in the semifinals and faced VG first time in finals.
This would have raised their team spirit even if they would have lost 2-3, but now knowing that they went 4-1 in groupstages and still placed 3rd they feel alot more disappointed.
TL;DR Cloud9 in Summit 2 got the better bracket vs. shitty EG, Secret dropped too early to Vici and now blame it on lacking synergy.
| DotA2 | t5_2s580 | cmxk0qa | Let's speculate some more – If Cloud9 had seeded to same bracket as Secret, Secret could have dropped them out of the competition in the semifinals and faced VG first time in finals.
This would have raised their team spirit even if they would have lost 2-3, but now knowing that they went 4-1 in groupstages and still placed 3rd they feel alot more disappointed. | Cloud9 in Summit 2 got the better bracket vs. shitty EG, Secret dropped too early to Vici and now blame it on lacking synergy. |
Jumping_Squirrel | I'm guessing you're quite new in the game?
I know this may sound weird but, get both. I got the idea from deadmau5 some years ago actually, he talked about rewiring FL in Ableton, and use FL for quick drum programming etc, i find this really effective and fun.
I prefer Ableton for the native effects and the GUI.
But FL has the step sequencer and a really neat piano roll for quick writing.
TLDR; It's not about the DAW, it's about you.
BTW, FL is expected to Mac next year, so hang tight. | I'm guessing you're quite new in the game?
I know this may sound weird but, get both. I got the idea from deadmau5 some years ago actually, he talked about rewiring FL in Ableton, and use FL for quick drum programming etc, i find this really effective and fun.
I prefer Ableton for the native effects and the GUI.
But FL has the step sequencer and a really neat piano roll for quick writing.
TLDR; It's not about the DAW, it's about you.
BTW, FL is expected to Mac next year, so hang tight.
| edmproduction | t5_2sa4x | cmx7s0l | I'm guessing you're quite new in the game?
I know this may sound weird but, get both. I got the idea from deadmau5 some years ago actually, he talked about rewiring FL in Ableton, and use FL for quick drum programming etc, i find this really effective and fun.
I prefer Ableton for the native effects and the GUI.
But FL has the step sequencer and a really neat piano roll for quick writing. | It's not about the DAW, it's about you.
BTW, FL is expected to Mac next year, so hang tight. |
jetpacksforall | I have a lot of sympathy with your position. I, like many people, and I'm guessing you as well, feel that standardized testing is a waste when students could be learning far more useful skills and applying far more of their talents and abilities.
HOWEVER, the science on IQ testing is really well established: standardized tests correlate very well with IQ tests, and also with later educational achievement, and *also* with later success in careers, higher incomes in adult life, etc. Standardized tests are very predictive, almost scarily predictive.
There's an element to IQ testing known as [the g factor]( What it is is a kind of abstraction that correlates all of the features of various IQ tests (memory, recognition speed, problem solving, logical analysis, etc.). Cognitive researchers hypothesize that it represents some general mental ability... perhaps something like mental "energy," perhaps a general ability to focus. They aren't really sure what it is.
But what they are sure of is that the g factor is [quite predictive](
* the correlation between IQ and grades and achievement scores is between .60 and .70. At more advanced educational levels, more students from the lower end of the IQ distribution drop out, which restricts the range of IQs and results in lower validity coefficients. In high school, college, and graduate school the validity coefficients are .50–.60, .40–.50, and .30–.40, respectively
* According to research by Robert L. Thorndike, 80 to 90 percent of the predictable variance in scholastic performance is due to g, with the rest attributed to non-g factors measured by IQ and other tests.
* Research suggests that the SAT, widely used in college admissions, is primarily a measure of g. A correlation of .82 has been found between g scores computed from an IQ test battery and SAT scores.
* There is a high correlation of .90 to .95 between the prestige rankings of occupations, as rated by the general population, and the average general intelligence scores of people employed in each occupation. At the level of individual employees, the association between job prestige and g is lower – one large U.S. study reported a correlation of .65 (.72 corrected for attenuation).
* The correlation between income and g, as measured by IQ scores, averages about .40 across studies. The correlation is higher at higher levels of education and it increases with age, stabilizing when people reach their highest career potential in middle age. Even when education, occupation and socioeconomic background are held constant, the correlation does not vanish.
* The g factor is reflected in many social outcomes. Many social behavior problems, such as dropping out of school, chronic welfare dependency, accident proneness, and crime, are negatively correlated with g independent of social class of origin.[68] Health and mortality outcomes are also linked to g, with higher childhood test scores predicting better health and mortality outcomes in adulthood.
**TL;DR: If you do well on standardized aptitude/achievement tests, you're at least 60% more likely to make higher than average grades, 80 to 90% likely to do well on the SAT, 90-95% more likely to become a doctor, attorney or business executive (or similar high-prestige profession), about 40% more likely to earn a higher income, and much less likely to have social behavior problems. Standardized tests are popular because they are disturbingly good at predicting your future.**
| I have a lot of sympathy with your position. I, like many people, and I'm guessing you as well, feel that standardized testing is a waste when students could be learning far more useful skills and applying far more of their talents and abilities.
HOWEVER, the science on IQ testing is really well established: standardized tests correlate very well with IQ tests, and also with later educational achievement, and also with later success in careers, higher incomes in adult life, etc. Standardized tests are very predictive, almost scarily predictive.
There's an element to IQ testing known as the g factor . Cognitive researchers hypothesize that it represents some general mental ability... perhaps something like mental "energy," perhaps a general ability to focus. They aren't really sure what it is.
But what they are sure of is that the g factor is [quite predictive](
the correlation between IQ and grades and achievement scores is between .60 and .70. At more advanced educational levels, more students from the lower end of the IQ distribution drop out, which restricts the range of IQs and results in lower validity coefficients. In high school, college, and graduate school the validity coefficients are .50–.60, .40–.50, and .30–.40, respectively
According to research by Robert L. Thorndike, 80 to 90 percent of the predictable variance in scholastic performance is due to g, with the rest attributed to non-g factors measured by IQ and other tests.
Research suggests that the SAT, widely used in college admissions, is primarily a measure of g. A correlation of .82 has been found between g scores computed from an IQ test battery and SAT scores.
There is a high correlation of .90 to .95 between the prestige rankings of occupations, as rated by the general population, and the average general intelligence scores of people employed in each occupation. At the level of individual employees, the association between job prestige and g is lower – one large U.S. study reported a correlation of .65 (.72 corrected for attenuation).
The correlation between income and g, as measured by IQ scores, averages about .40 across studies. The correlation is higher at higher levels of education and it increases with age, stabilizing when people reach their highest career potential in middle age. Even when education, occupation and socioeconomic background are held constant, the correlation does not vanish.
The g factor is reflected in many social outcomes. Many social behavior problems, such as dropping out of school, chronic welfare dependency, accident proneness, and crime, are negatively correlated with g independent of social class of origin.[68] Health and mortality outcomes are also linked to g, with higher childhood test scores predicting better health and mortality outcomes in adulthood.
TL;DR: If you do well on standardized aptitude/achievement tests, you're at least 60% more likely to make higher than average grades, 80 to 90% likely to do well on the SAT, 90-95% more likely to become a doctor, attorney or business executive (or similar high-prestige profession), about 40% more likely to earn a higher income, and much less likely to have social behavior problems. Standardized tests are popular because they are disturbingly good at predicting your future.
| changemyview | t5_2w2s8 | cmx86kb | I have a lot of sympathy with your position. I, like many people, and I'm guessing you as well, feel that standardized testing is a waste when students could be learning far more useful skills and applying far more of their talents and abilities.
HOWEVER, the science on IQ testing is really well established: standardized tests correlate very well with IQ tests, and also with later educational achievement, and also with later success in careers, higher incomes in adult life, etc. Standardized tests are very predictive, almost scarily predictive.
There's an element to IQ testing known as the g factor . Cognitive researchers hypothesize that it represents some general mental ability... perhaps something like mental "energy," perhaps a general ability to focus. They aren't really sure what it is.
But what they are sure of is that the g factor is [quite predictive](
the correlation between IQ and grades and achievement scores is between .60 and .70. At more advanced educational levels, more students from the lower end of the IQ distribution drop out, which restricts the range of IQs and results in lower validity coefficients. In high school, college, and graduate school the validity coefficients are .50–.60, .40–.50, and .30–.40, respectively
According to research by Robert L. Thorndike, 80 to 90 percent of the predictable variance in scholastic performance is due to g, with the rest attributed to non-g factors measured by IQ and other tests.
Research suggests that the SAT, widely used in college admissions, is primarily a measure of g. A correlation of .82 has been found between g scores computed from an IQ test battery and SAT scores.
There is a high correlation of .90 to .95 between the prestige rankings of occupations, as rated by the general population, and the average general intelligence scores of people employed in each occupation. At the level of individual employees, the association between job prestige and g is lower – one large U.S. study reported a correlation of .65 (.72 corrected for attenuation).
The correlation between income and g, as measured by IQ scores, averages about .40 across studies. The correlation is higher at higher levels of education and it increases with age, stabilizing when people reach their highest career potential in middle age. Even when education, occupation and socioeconomic background are held constant, the correlation does not vanish.
The g factor is reflected in many social outcomes. Many social behavior problems, such as dropping out of school, chronic welfare dependency, accident proneness, and crime, are negatively correlated with g independent of social class of origin.[68] Health and mortality outcomes are also linked to g, with higher childhood test scores predicting better health and mortality outcomes in adulthood. | If you do well on standardized aptitude/achievement tests, you're at least 60% more likely to make higher than average grades, 80 to 90% likely to do well on the SAT, 90-95% more likely to become a doctor, attorney or business executive (or similar high-prestige profession), about 40% more likely to earn a higher income, and much less likely to have social behavior problems. Standardized tests are popular because they are disturbingly good at predicting your future. |
JonnyDANG3R | 120hz refresh rate on a panel for gaming is bad. It effectively doubles the frame rate for the content you're viewing through interpolation. It guesses every next frame to make it appear that you have 60fps instead of 30.
For games this just adds latency to input. For example, playing Call of Duty online with 120hz mode on will result in you getting shot more because when you tap the buttons to bring up your sights, there will be an ever so slight delay between the press and the display reacting, because the displays processing unit is taking longer to show the images due to it having to double back and interpolate the frames. Input lag is a serious deal in games, and that is where companies like Panasonic and Toshiba and occasionally Sharp/LG lead the pack typically. Sony and Samsung are both good for it as well, as they develop their own processors for their displays, which are fast enough to cut down the latency.
Vizio is a terrible brand to buy for this reason. They don't create their own chipsets, which leads to lower entry cost for the display but ends up costing in display lag. Some higher end models are okay, but will never compare to a bigger brand due to the chips being faster and smarter for power.
Tl:dr Google search what TV has lowest latency rating and buy that one. | 120hz refresh rate on a panel for gaming is bad. It effectively doubles the frame rate for the content you're viewing through interpolation. It guesses every next frame to make it appear that you have 60fps instead of 30.
For games this just adds latency to input. For example, playing Call of Duty online with 120hz mode on will result in you getting shot more because when you tap the buttons to bring up your sights, there will be an ever so slight delay between the press and the display reacting, because the displays processing unit is taking longer to show the images due to it having to double back and interpolate the frames. Input lag is a serious deal in games, and that is where companies like Panasonic and Toshiba and occasionally Sharp/LG lead the pack typically. Sony and Samsung are both good for it as well, as they develop their own processors for their displays, which are fast enough to cut down the latency.
Vizio is a terrible brand to buy for this reason. They don't create their own chipsets, which leads to lower entry cost for the display but ends up costing in display lag. Some higher end models are okay, but will never compare to a bigger brand due to the chips being faster and smarter for power.
Tl:dr Google search what TV has lowest latency rating and buy that one.
| PS4 | t5_2rrlp | cmxo9id | 120hz refresh rate on a panel for gaming is bad. It effectively doubles the frame rate for the content you're viewing through interpolation. It guesses every next frame to make it appear that you have 60fps instead of 30.
For games this just adds latency to input. For example, playing Call of Duty online with 120hz mode on will result in you getting shot more because when you tap the buttons to bring up your sights, there will be an ever so slight delay between the press and the display reacting, because the displays processing unit is taking longer to show the images due to it having to double back and interpolate the frames. Input lag is a serious deal in games, and that is where companies like Panasonic and Toshiba and occasionally Sharp/LG lead the pack typically. Sony and Samsung are both good for it as well, as they develop their own processors for their displays, which are fast enough to cut down the latency.
Vizio is a terrible brand to buy for this reason. They don't create their own chipsets, which leads to lower entry cost for the display but ends up costing in display lag. Some higher end models are okay, but will never compare to a bigger brand due to the chips being faster and smarter for power. | Google search what TV has lowest latency rating and buy that one. |
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