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Italian_Barrel_Roll | I'm saying anyone (not just the rich) who can plan for a child should be able to have one. You could pay off the entirety of a child's 18 year upbringing if you tuck away the average monthly cost into an investment account of raising a kid every month for the 7 years before conception and up until the child's birth. Too expensive?--Save for longer. Too long?--Save more and get there faster.
As far as the poor children who were born to selfish parents? There are plenty of ways to handle that. Make any benefit a loan rather than a handout and rehome the child if it isn't given the proper care, for instance.
TL;DR: Poor people aren't being excluded, people who are bad with money and financial decisions are. | I'm saying anyone (not just the rich) who can plan for a child should be able to have one. You could pay off the entirety of a child's 18 year upbringing if you tuck away the average monthly cost into an investment account of raising a kid every month for the 7 years before conception and up until the child's birth. Too expensive?--Save for longer. Too long?--Save more and get there faster.
As far as the poor children who were born to selfish parents? There are plenty of ways to handle that. Make any benefit a loan rather than a handout and rehome the child if it isn't given the proper care, for instance.
TL;DR: Poor people aren't being excluded, people who are bad with money and financial decisions are.
| news | t5_2qh3l | co2f3b9 | I'm saying anyone (not just the rich) who can plan for a child should be able to have one. You could pay off the entirety of a child's 18 year upbringing if you tuck away the average monthly cost into an investment account of raising a kid every month for the 7 years before conception and up until the child's birth. Too expensive?--Save for longer. Too long?--Save more and get there faster.
As far as the poor children who were born to selfish parents? There are plenty of ways to handle that. Make any benefit a loan rather than a handout and rehome the child if it isn't given the proper care, for instance. | Poor people aren't being excluded, people who are bad with money and financial decisions are. |
waspocracy | I don't think it's necessarily the story telling aspect. Apparently games like Mass Effect, Bioshock, etc. have a great story line. I use apparently because FPS's make me physically ill so I can't speak from personal experience. Also, Metal Gear series is huge too.
When you're talking about JRPG's, I honestly think it's more of a market thing. The general US market seems to prefer quick action games without too many cinematics. Some complaints I heard about FFXIII, for example, were how long and how frequent the cinematics were. Characters and the linear passages were another huge factor, obviously. Of course, the counter argument is that MGS IV sold very well in the US and the cinematics can be an hour long. But, it has guns.
What I do know is that the US market prefers RPGs with a huge open environment like Skyrim and MMOs. JRPG's are typically linear, for the most part.
**TL;DR** I really don't know what the problem is and I don't think anyone does, but it's most likely just something about the US market vs Japan's market.
[This article]( has a pretty good theory too. | I don't think it's necessarily the story telling aspect. Apparently games like Mass Effect, Bioshock, etc. have a great story line. I use apparently because FPS's make me physically ill so I can't speak from personal experience. Also, Metal Gear series is huge too.
When you're talking about JRPG's, I honestly think it's more of a market thing. The general US market seems to prefer quick action games without too many cinematics. Some complaints I heard about FFXIII, for example, were how long and how frequent the cinematics were. Characters and the linear passages were another huge factor, obviously. Of course, the counter argument is that MGS IV sold very well in the US and the cinematics can be an hour long. But, it has guns.
What I do know is that the US market prefers RPGs with a huge open environment like Skyrim and MMOs. JRPG's are typically linear, for the most part.
TL;DR I really don't know what the problem is and I don't think anyone does, but it's most likely just something about the US market vs Japan's market.
[This article]( has a pretty good theory too.
| tales | t5_2t9fb | co1gxx6 | I don't think it's necessarily the story telling aspect. Apparently games like Mass Effect, Bioshock, etc. have a great story line. I use apparently because FPS's make me physically ill so I can't speak from personal experience. Also, Metal Gear series is huge too.
When you're talking about JRPG's, I honestly think it's more of a market thing. The general US market seems to prefer quick action games without too many cinematics. Some complaints I heard about FFXIII, for example, were how long and how frequent the cinematics were. Characters and the linear passages were another huge factor, obviously. Of course, the counter argument is that MGS IV sold very well in the US and the cinematics can be an hour long. But, it has guns.
What I do know is that the US market prefers RPGs with a huge open environment like Skyrim and MMOs. JRPG's are typically linear, for the most part. | I really don't know what the problem is and I don't think anyone does, but it's most likely just something about the US market vs Japan's market.
[This article]( has a pretty good theory too. |
Zerosa | The me pre-appearance and correct medication got me into Texas. The me post-appearance and correct medication let me enjoy college and life in general. Looking back, I don't like the me pre correct meds. I gave way too much of a fuck on a lot of things I shouldn't and could be very emotional. The meds I am taking evened that out. Don't nearly have the mood swings and can give no fucks on stuff I use to. I still have those issues but not as often and not to the degree it previously was.
TL;DR I feel like I am a better person due to the seizures meds I am on. | The me pre-appearance and correct medication got me into Texas. The me post-appearance and correct medication let me enjoy college and life in general. Looking back, I don't like the me pre correct meds. I gave way too much of a fuck on a lot of things I shouldn't and could be very emotional. The meds I am taking evened that out. Don't nearly have the mood swings and can give no fucks on stuff I use to. I still have those issues but not as often and not to the degree it previously was.
TL;DR I feel like I am a better person due to the seizures meds I am on.
| CFBOffTopic | t5_32aj8 | co1h6h4 | The me pre-appearance and correct medication got me into Texas. The me post-appearance and correct medication let me enjoy college and life in general. Looking back, I don't like the me pre correct meds. I gave way too much of a fuck on a lot of things I shouldn't and could be very emotional. The meds I am taking evened that out. Don't nearly have the mood swings and can give no fucks on stuff I use to. I still have those issues but not as often and not to the degree it previously was. | I feel like I am a better person due to the seizures meds I am on. |
Realworld | It can be done.
Flunked 4th grade and discarded by my teachers. Gave up on them in turn and set about educating myself. Read every book in grade school, junior high, and high school libraries. Read every non-fiction book in city and county libraries. Discovered regional library system and started on that.
Teachers and fellow students decided I was weird and left me alone. When I finished HS I had the highest SAT scores in our school district's history. Admitted and graduated from state's top private college.
Started adult life with a high-status near-useless degree, no money, and no support system. No 'old boy' contacts or network.
Starting broke and homeless, I worked sub-minimum wage day labor for years while building up a cash pad (dug ditches, drove combines, loaded freight cars). Used that money to pay my way through trade school. And so on and so on...
tl;dr: bootstrapped myself into the 1%.
edit: Life is really long. If you work 2-3 hours a day toward your future, anything/everything you want relentlessly happens. | It can be done.
Flunked 4th grade and discarded by my teachers. Gave up on them in turn and set about educating myself. Read every book in grade school, junior high, and high school libraries. Read every non-fiction book in city and county libraries. Discovered regional library system and started on that.
Teachers and fellow students decided I was weird and left me alone. When I finished HS I had the highest SAT scores in our school district's history. Admitted and graduated from state's top private college.
Started adult life with a high-status near-useless degree, no money, and no support system. No 'old boy' contacts or network.
Starting broke and homeless, I worked sub-minimum wage day labor for years while building up a cash pad (dug ditches, drove combines, loaded freight cars). Used that money to pay my way through trade school. And so on and so on...
tl;dr: bootstrapped myself into the 1%.
edit: Life is really long. If you work 2-3 hours a day toward your future, anything/everything you want relentlessly happens.
| PoliticalHumor | t5_2qm21 | co1wl6i | It can be done.
Flunked 4th grade and discarded by my teachers. Gave up on them in turn and set about educating myself. Read every book in grade school, junior high, and high school libraries. Read every non-fiction book in city and county libraries. Discovered regional library system and started on that.
Teachers and fellow students decided I was weird and left me alone. When I finished HS I had the highest SAT scores in our school district's history. Admitted and graduated from state's top private college.
Started adult life with a high-status near-useless degree, no money, and no support system. No 'old boy' contacts or network.
Starting broke and homeless, I worked sub-minimum wage day labor for years while building up a cash pad (dug ditches, drove combines, loaded freight cars). Used that money to pay my way through trade school. And so on and so on... | bootstrapped myself into the 1%.
edit: Life is really long. If you work 2-3 hours a day toward your future, anything/everything you want relentlessly happens. |
yoursandmine | That would be me. It went awesomely. I meant to make a post about the results, but...well.
Basically, there were hospitals and funerals, and then I had a baby, and by time I had a chance to even think about making the post, I had forgotten which things came together. A couple people added a bonus 7" or something with what they sent, and I can't, for the life of me, figure out which things came together. I didn't want to message everyone and ask them what they sent, partly because I enjoyed the anonymity of it all, and partly because I feel like a giant douche for not keeping better track.
Anyways, I'm on the road for work until the weekend, but I'll quit being a bitch about it and share an imgur album of what I got when I get home.
For those that were wondering if I'd get screwed in the deal, everyone definitely gave me my money's worth or more. It stands as the single coolest way I've ever bought records, and I highly recommend it to anyone.
Tl;dr The deal went awesomely. I'm just busy and kind of a douche. | That would be me. It went awesomely. I meant to make a post about the results, but...well.
Basically, there were hospitals and funerals, and then I had a baby, and by time I had a chance to even think about making the post, I had forgotten which things came together. A couple people added a bonus 7" or something with what they sent, and I can't, for the life of me, figure out which things came together. I didn't want to message everyone and ask them what they sent, partly because I enjoyed the anonymity of it all, and partly because I feel like a giant douche for not keeping better track.
Anyways, I'm on the road for work until the weekend, but I'll quit being a bitch about it and share an imgur album of what I got when I get home.
For those that were wondering if I'd get screwed in the deal, everyone definitely gave me my money's worth or more. It stands as the single coolest way I've ever bought records, and I highly recommend it to anyone.
Tl;dr The deal went awesomely. I'm just busy and kind of a douche.
| vinyl | t5_2qh7i | co1ts9e | That would be me. It went awesomely. I meant to make a post about the results, but...well.
Basically, there were hospitals and funerals, and then I had a baby, and by time I had a chance to even think about making the post, I had forgotten which things came together. A couple people added a bonus 7" or something with what they sent, and I can't, for the life of me, figure out which things came together. I didn't want to message everyone and ask them what they sent, partly because I enjoyed the anonymity of it all, and partly because I feel like a giant douche for not keeping better track.
Anyways, I'm on the road for work until the weekend, but I'll quit being a bitch about it and share an imgur album of what I got when I get home.
For those that were wondering if I'd get screwed in the deal, everyone definitely gave me my money's worth or more. It stands as the single coolest way I've ever bought records, and I highly recommend it to anyone. | The deal went awesomely. I'm just busy and kind of a douche. |
Jakekub | welp, played badlion to2 last night. 11 kills, including a triple, low health double and a frenzy of teams at 0,0.
Footage corrupted because dadkub unplugged my headset to unwind it because it was all tangled.
tl:dr screw unplugging headsets
| welp, played badlion to2 last night. 11 kills, including a triple, low health double and a frenzy of teams at 0,0.
Footage corrupted because dadkub unplugged my headset to unwind it because it was all tangled.
tl:dr screw unplugging headsets
| ultrahardcore | t5_2tswi | co1n9m7 | welp, played badlion to2 last night. 11 kills, including a triple, low health double and a frenzy of teams at 0,0.
Footage corrupted because dadkub unplugged my headset to unwind it because it was all tangled. | screw unplugging headsets |
_HingleMcCringle | Kissing is a light sexual action.
As a child this isn't really the case, you might like it but that's probably because you've watched movies where people do it and *they* enjoy it, so you should too.
Fast forward until you hit puberty and you know that kissing is related to sex, and of course most 14+ year olds are as (sexually) charged as a Tesla coil. Kissing starts to feel nice for legitimate reasons, but of course it goes beyond sexual contact as well. Kissing is also a gesture of care and attraction, and knowing that someone wants to kiss you is somewhat of a reassurance that you're loved.
TL;DR - Kissing is good because potential sex and *feeeeeels.* | Kissing is a light sexual action.
As a child this isn't really the case, you might like it but that's probably because you've watched movies where people do it and they enjoy it, so you should too.
Fast forward until you hit puberty and you know that kissing is related to sex, and of course most 14+ year olds are as (sexually) charged as a Tesla coil. Kissing starts to feel nice for legitimate reasons, but of course it goes beyond sexual contact as well. Kissing is also a gesture of care and attraction, and knowing that someone wants to kiss you is somewhat of a reassurance that you're loved.
TL;DR - Kissing is good because potential sex and feeeeeels.
| explainlikeimfive | t5_2sokd | co1ykve | Kissing is a light sexual action.
As a child this isn't really the case, you might like it but that's probably because you've watched movies where people do it and they enjoy it, so you should too.
Fast forward until you hit puberty and you know that kissing is related to sex, and of course most 14+ year olds are as (sexually) charged as a Tesla coil. Kissing starts to feel nice for legitimate reasons, but of course it goes beyond sexual contact as well. Kissing is also a gesture of care and attraction, and knowing that someone wants to kiss you is somewhat of a reassurance that you're loved. | Kissing is good because potential sex and feeeeeels. |
bennylope | > Caffeine is really no good for the adolescent brain
Care to share the source for this?
All I can find is a whole bunch of articles that point to one PLOS study (can't access the original) on rats which indicated that caffeine consumption in rats reduced their sleep which in turn slowed brain development. They were given 30 mg of caffeine per day (naively scaling up 30 mg for a 1.2 lb animal - which seems big for a lab rat, based on what I can find - to say, a 90 lb animal, that's the equivalent of 2,250 mg of caffeine a day, or 15 cups of coffee, minimum.
So it's not caffeine, per se, that damages **rat brain development**, but a reduction in sleep which can be caused by an excessive consumption of caffeine.
I started drinking coffee at 14 and suffered no known brain development issues. Graduated high school with honors at 23!
> slight difference in taste
^slight^gigantic
**tl;dr** don't drink a pot of coffee after dinner. | > Caffeine is really no good for the adolescent brain
Care to share the source for this?
All I can find is a whole bunch of articles that point to one PLOS study (can't access the original) on rats which indicated that caffeine consumption in rats reduced their sleep which in turn slowed brain development. They were given 30 mg of caffeine per day (naively scaling up 30 mg for a 1.2 lb animal - which seems big for a lab rat, based on what I can find - to say, a 90 lb animal, that's the equivalent of 2,250 mg of caffeine a day, or 15 cups of coffee, minimum.
So it's not caffeine, per se, that damages rat brain development , but a reduction in sleep which can be caused by an excessive consumption of caffeine.
I started drinking coffee at 14 and suffered no known brain development issues. Graduated high school with honors at 23!
> slight difference in taste
^slight^gigantic
tl;dr don't drink a pot of coffee after dinner.
| Coffee | t5_2qhze | co2hnqi | Caffeine is really no good for the adolescent brain
Care to share the source for this?
All I can find is a whole bunch of articles that point to one PLOS study (can't access the original) on rats which indicated that caffeine consumption in rats reduced their sleep which in turn slowed brain development. They were given 30 mg of caffeine per day (naively scaling up 30 mg for a 1.2 lb animal - which seems big for a lab rat, based on what I can find - to say, a 90 lb animal, that's the equivalent of 2,250 mg of caffeine a day, or 15 cups of coffee, minimum.
So it's not caffeine, per se, that damages rat brain development , but a reduction in sleep which can be caused by an excessive consumption of caffeine.
I started drinking coffee at 14 and suffered no known brain development issues. Graduated high school with honors at 23!
> slight difference in taste
^slight^gigantic | don't drink a pot of coffee after dinner. |
fullsizeluxury | As I'm interpreting it, Score Adjusted Corsi % is basically your corsi percentage. Which is the percentage of shots taken by your team when you're on the Ice, so if the blues put 9 shots on goal and the oilers only put 1 when lappy is on the ice, then his corsi % would be 90%.
Score adjusted for corsi rel% is when you subtract the corsi % of the rest of your team from your corsi % so if when other blues are on the ice they are responsible for 60% of the total shots on goal, and when lappy is on the ice the blues only get 50% of the shots on goal, Lappy would be at a -10% Score adjusted for corsi rel%
however, if it were switched, and lappy had a 60% corsi when he was on the ice and the blues had a 50% corsi when lappy was off the ice, he'd be at a +10% score adjusted for corsi rel%
TLDR: In both cases, a larger percentage (closer to +100%) is better
Edit: Corsi and other advanced stats can be fun to look at, but don't read into them two much, especially when comparing players from two different confrences. Corsi percentages (especially the 5 on 5 ones) seem to most accurately gauge how a certain player or line matches up against the other equivalent lines that they've played against. | As I'm interpreting it, Score Adjusted Corsi % is basically your corsi percentage. Which is the percentage of shots taken by your team when you're on the Ice, so if the blues put 9 shots on goal and the oilers only put 1 when lappy is on the ice, then his corsi % would be 90%.
Score adjusted for corsi rel% is when you subtract the corsi % of the rest of your team from your corsi % so if when other blues are on the ice they are responsible for 60% of the total shots on goal, and when lappy is on the ice the blues only get 50% of the shots on goal, Lappy would be at a -10% Score adjusted for corsi rel%
however, if it were switched, and lappy had a 60% corsi when he was on the ice and the blues had a 50% corsi when lappy was off the ice, he'd be at a +10% score adjusted for corsi rel%
TLDR: In both cases, a larger percentage (closer to +100%) is better
Edit: Corsi and other advanced stats can be fun to look at, but don't read into them two much, especially when comparing players from two different confrences. Corsi percentages (especially the 5 on 5 ones) seem to most accurately gauge how a certain player or line matches up against the other equivalent lines that they've played against.
| stlouisblues | t5_2rlvj | co36p9t | As I'm interpreting it, Score Adjusted Corsi % is basically your corsi percentage. Which is the percentage of shots taken by your team when you're on the Ice, so if the blues put 9 shots on goal and the oilers only put 1 when lappy is on the ice, then his corsi % would be 90%.
Score adjusted for corsi rel% is when you subtract the corsi % of the rest of your team from your corsi % so if when other blues are on the ice they are responsible for 60% of the total shots on goal, and when lappy is on the ice the blues only get 50% of the shots on goal, Lappy would be at a -10% Score adjusted for corsi rel%
however, if it were switched, and lappy had a 60% corsi when he was on the ice and the blues had a 50% corsi when lappy was off the ice, he'd be at a +10% score adjusted for corsi rel% | In both cases, a larger percentage (closer to +100%) is better
Edit: Corsi and other advanced stats can be fun to look at, but don't read into them two much, especially when comparing players from two different confrences. Corsi percentages (especially the 5 on 5 ones) seem to most accurately gauge how a certain player or line matches up against the other equivalent lines that they've played against. |
simiotic24 | You are all a bunch of babies. Goc has about the same amount of hits as Lappy does (more, actually; 53 to Lappy's 48), and has been playing on the third line (i.e. not a checking line, per se). Goc's a better possession player, and if *that* surprises you by this point in the season, given Polak-for-Gunnarrson and the Stastny signing, then you've got ostrich syndrome. So, we're getting a better possession player who kills penalties, hits people, and can "move up and down the line up," which should make all of you Ott haters happy for once. Any way you slice it, Goc is better than Lappy for us. I liked Max as much as the next guy, but Jesus christ it's like you all forgot that the CPR line was **3 years ago** at this point. The 4th line gets mixed up, it happens. And WHY are people still bringing up Sobotka. Goc is better than he is too, and he's not going to bitch and moan about being on the 4th line. Idk if people realize this, but before the Penguins picked him up he was extremely hot property at the trade deadline (Pens gave up two picks for him). Getting Goc *also* means that there isn't a single line on our team that doesn't have a former first rounder on it, and for those that haven't been paying attention over in /r/hockey, teams with a lot of former 1st rounders win championships.
tl;dr get over it, we won this trade handily. | You are all a bunch of babies. Goc has about the same amount of hits as Lappy does (more, actually; 53 to Lappy's 48), and has been playing on the third line (i.e. not a checking line, per se). Goc's a better possession player, and if that surprises you by this point in the season, given Polak-for-Gunnarrson and the Stastny signing, then you've got ostrich syndrome. So, we're getting a better possession player who kills penalties, hits people, and can "move up and down the line up," which should make all of you Ott haters happy for once. Any way you slice it, Goc is better than Lappy for us. I liked Max as much as the next guy, but Jesus christ it's like you all forgot that the CPR line was 3 years ago at this point. The 4th line gets mixed up, it happens. And WHY are people still bringing up Sobotka. Goc is better than he is too, and he's not going to bitch and moan about being on the 4th line. Idk if people realize this, but before the Penguins picked him up he was extremely hot property at the trade deadline (Pens gave up two picks for him). Getting Goc also means that there isn't a single line on our team that doesn't have a former first rounder on it, and for those that haven't been paying attention over in /r/hockey, teams with a lot of former 1st rounders win championships.
tl;dr get over it, we won this trade handily.
| stlouisblues | t5_2rlvj | co3qchl | You are all a bunch of babies. Goc has about the same amount of hits as Lappy does (more, actually; 53 to Lappy's 48), and has been playing on the third line (i.e. not a checking line, per se). Goc's a better possession player, and if that surprises you by this point in the season, given Polak-for-Gunnarrson and the Stastny signing, then you've got ostrich syndrome. So, we're getting a better possession player who kills penalties, hits people, and can "move up and down the line up," which should make all of you Ott haters happy for once. Any way you slice it, Goc is better than Lappy for us. I liked Max as much as the next guy, but Jesus christ it's like you all forgot that the CPR line was 3 years ago at this point. The 4th line gets mixed up, it happens. And WHY are people still bringing up Sobotka. Goc is better than he is too, and he's not going to bitch and moan about being on the 4th line. Idk if people realize this, but before the Penguins picked him up he was extremely hot property at the trade deadline (Pens gave up two picks for him). Getting Goc also means that there isn't a single line on our team that doesn't have a former first rounder on it, and for those that haven't been paying attention over in /r/hockey, teams with a lot of former 1st rounders win championships. | get over it, we won this trade handily. |
Ceegee93 | You still neglect to address the fact that there is nothing that kept the water at bay in LA. It's all to do with sea level. I'm not sure why you're still arguing because you haven't refuted that in any way, until ANet says otherwise LA is flooded because of rising sea levels. There is no evidence to suggest otherwise.
TL;DR: LA is (was) above sea level. The only reason it's still flooded is because sea levels rose. You can't just drain it. | You still neglect to address the fact that there is nothing that kept the water at bay in LA. It's all to do with sea level. I'm not sure why you're still arguing because you haven't refuted that in any way, until ANet says otherwise LA is flooded because of rising sea levels. There is no evidence to suggest otherwise.
TL;DR: LA is (was) above sea level. The only reason it's still flooded is because sea levels rose. You can't just drain it.
| Guildwars2 | t5_2r9po | co3fes3 | You still neglect to address the fact that there is nothing that kept the water at bay in LA. It's all to do with sea level. I'm not sure why you're still arguing because you haven't refuted that in any way, until ANet says otherwise LA is flooded because of rising sea levels. There is no evidence to suggest otherwise. | LA is (was) above sea level. The only reason it's still flooded is because sea levels rose. You can't just drain it. |
KrosanHero | Dude, you seem to be taking this a bit personally. It has been established that the tidal wave is what destroyed LA, Zhaitan has been a threat since that event making it difficult to get anything done since. It makes sense that a tidal wave originating from a rising continent would not only wreck buildings but reshape land. All I am saying is that is was possible. Stop being so damn sensitive.
TL;DR: Go watch the video i sent you, it'll help you understand. | Dude, you seem to be taking this a bit personally. It has been established that the tidal wave is what destroyed LA, Zhaitan has been a threat since that event making it difficult to get anything done since. It makes sense that a tidal wave originating from a rising continent would not only wreck buildings but reshape land. All I am saying is that is was possible. Stop being so damn sensitive.
TL;DR: Go watch the video i sent you, it'll help you understand.
| Guildwars2 | t5_2r9po | co3g9ts | Dude, you seem to be taking this a bit personally. It has been established that the tidal wave is what destroyed LA, Zhaitan has been a threat since that event making it difficult to get anything done since. It makes sense that a tidal wave originating from a rising continent would not only wreck buildings but reshape land. All I am saying is that is was possible. Stop being so damn sensitive. | Go watch the video i sent you, it'll help you understand. |
thetruthandyouknowit | If Luffy does become a Yonko it will be because he makes friends on the islands he "conquers" or "liberates" and he has a disposition to protect his friends. I doubt Luffy will be content with the World Government recognizing him as a Yonko, he sees the Yonko as his obstacles to becoming the Pirate King. To all those who say they don't think he'll become a Yonko. Pirates don't choose to become Yonko through gaining territory and military dominance in the New World the World Government recognizes their authority in relation to the balance of power and they bestow them the title Yonko.
**tl,dr:** If Luffy keeps kickin' ass and making friends the world government will make him a Yonko. Without his consent. | If Luffy does become a Yonko it will be because he makes friends on the islands he "conquers" or "liberates" and he has a disposition to protect his friends. I doubt Luffy will be content with the World Government recognizing him as a Yonko, he sees the Yonko as his obstacles to becoming the Pirate King. To all those who say they don't think he'll become a Yonko. Pirates don't choose to become Yonko through gaining territory and military dominance in the New World the World Government recognizes their authority in relation to the balance of power and they bestow them the title Yonko.
tl,dr: If Luffy keeps kickin' ass and making friends the world government will make him a Yonko. Without his consent.
| OnePiece | t5_2rfz5 | co3ywb2 | If Luffy does become a Yonko it will be because he makes friends on the islands he "conquers" or "liberates" and he has a disposition to protect his friends. I doubt Luffy will be content with the World Government recognizing him as a Yonko, he sees the Yonko as his obstacles to becoming the Pirate King. To all those who say they don't think he'll become a Yonko. Pirates don't choose to become Yonko through gaining territory and military dominance in the New World the World Government recognizes their authority in relation to the balance of power and they bestow them the title Yonko. | If Luffy keeps kickin' ass and making friends the world government will make him a Yonko. Without his consent. |
happycj | Generally what has happened in this case is that the CSS (or some part of the underlying document structure) has failed to load properly, and when you go to the page, it is loading the corrupted data from your local cache.
Much of the web you browse regularly is loaded from cached files on your hard drive, and the only stuff transiting over the wires is unique content. So style sheets, layouts, button graphics, and much more is actually coming from your local hard disk and not over the internet on your second, third, fourth, fifth, (etc) visit to the site.
I expect if you cleared Safari's browser cache, the sites and pages would load properly again, since the browser would be forced to reload ALL of the pages' assets, instead of just an optimized few elements.
**tl;dr:** Some of the local CSS on your machine is corrupted for the Apple Support site. Empty your cache and it should fix it. | Generally what has happened in this case is that the CSS (or some part of the underlying document structure) has failed to load properly, and when you go to the page, it is loading the corrupted data from your local cache.
Much of the web you browse regularly is loaded from cached files on your hard drive, and the only stuff transiting over the wires is unique content. So style sheets, layouts, button graphics, and much more is actually coming from your local hard disk and not over the internet on your second, third, fourth, fifth, (etc) visit to the site.
I expect if you cleared Safari's browser cache, the sites and pages would load properly again, since the browser would be forced to reload ALL of the pages' assets, instead of just an optimized few elements.
tl;dr: Some of the local CSS on your machine is corrupted for the Apple Support site. Empty your cache and it should fix it.
| applehelp | t5_2rfbh | co3na7x | Generally what has happened in this case is that the CSS (or some part of the underlying document structure) has failed to load properly, and when you go to the page, it is loading the corrupted data from your local cache.
Much of the web you browse regularly is loaded from cached files on your hard drive, and the only stuff transiting over the wires is unique content. So style sheets, layouts, button graphics, and much more is actually coming from your local hard disk and not over the internet on your second, third, fourth, fifth, (etc) visit to the site.
I expect if you cleared Safari's browser cache, the sites and pages would load properly again, since the browser would be forced to reload ALL of the pages' assets, instead of just an optimized few elements. | Some of the local CSS on your machine is corrupted for the Apple Support site. Empty your cache and it should fix it. |
JimBobsHair | I'm confused. Is your argument that the FBI would jump out of their chairs, stop everything their doing, to come arrest you that very instant? Because that's not what happens... not in the article and not to you.
The article was released YESTERDAY. So unless you want to give the FBI the ability to monitor EVERYTHING -- I'd suggest you chill out for a hot second and let them investigate.
If, what the article says is true -- and can be proven, shit will go down.
If it's sensationalist -- like the shit you and Reddit like to eat up -- and is found to be grossly exaggerated... then we probably won't ever hear about it again.
tl;dr: Don't get your panties in a knot. Calm down. Let them do their job. | I'm confused. Is your argument that the FBI would jump out of their chairs, stop everything their doing, to come arrest you that very instant? Because that's not what happens... not in the article and not to you.
The article was released YESTERDAY. So unless you want to give the FBI the ability to monitor EVERYTHING -- I'd suggest you chill out for a hot second and let them investigate.
If, what the article says is true -- and can be proven, shit will go down.
If it's sensationalist -- like the shit you and Reddit like to eat up -- and is found to be grossly exaggerated... then we probably won't ever hear about it again.
tl;dr: Don't get your panties in a knot. Calm down. Let them do their job.
| news | t5_2qh3l | co3uewz | I'm confused. Is your argument that the FBI would jump out of their chairs, stop everything their doing, to come arrest you that very instant? Because that's not what happens... not in the article and not to you.
The article was released YESTERDAY. So unless you want to give the FBI the ability to monitor EVERYTHING -- I'd suggest you chill out for a hot second and let them investigate.
If, what the article says is true -- and can be proven, shit will go down.
If it's sensationalist -- like the shit you and Reddit like to eat up -- and is found to be grossly exaggerated... then we probably won't ever hear about it again. | Don't get your panties in a knot. Calm down. Let them do their job. |
TakeoKuroda | I loved WHM more for a long time, but when I was doing the last leg of my relic quest(nexus to zodiac) I used SCH as it seemed to let me dps more. There is learned a deep appreciation and skill level for SCH that I lacked before.
Yes, SCH lacks the AOE cure power by far, but it more than makes up for it by single target usability and dps options.
WHM pros: Massive AOE cure potential, Bendiction, better protect, better stoneskin, freecure.
SCH pros: aldoquium, DoTs, manual pet macros combo'd into your cures.
This last one was huge. I could switch to manual mode(obey) for my fairy, then I macro'd my Physick along side the fairy's Embrace. I got almost the potency of a Cure 2 for the MP cost of Cure/Physick.
Also the Fairy allows me to cure 1 person and passively cure others without switching targets.
So bottom line: 4 man dungeon that I'm familiar with? SCH. Is there another WHM? go SCH. Is the there gonna be lots of AOE healing(like Odin)? WHM
TLDR: WHM for AOE, SCH for everything else | I loved WHM more for a long time, but when I was doing the last leg of my relic quest(nexus to zodiac) I used SCH as it seemed to let me dps more. There is learned a deep appreciation and skill level for SCH that I lacked before.
Yes, SCH lacks the AOE cure power by far, but it more than makes up for it by single target usability and dps options.
WHM pros: Massive AOE cure potential, Bendiction, better protect, better stoneskin, freecure.
SCH pros: aldoquium, DoTs, manual pet macros combo'd into your cures.
This last one was huge. I could switch to manual mode(obey) for my fairy, then I macro'd my Physick along side the fairy's Embrace. I got almost the potency of a Cure 2 for the MP cost of Cure/Physick.
Also the Fairy allows me to cure 1 person and passively cure others without switching targets.
So bottom line: 4 man dungeon that I'm familiar with? SCH. Is there another WHM? go SCH. Is the there gonna be lots of AOE healing(like Odin)? WHM
TLDR: WHM for AOE, SCH for everything else
| ffxiv | t5_2rgs7 | co3nzd9 | I loved WHM more for a long time, but when I was doing the last leg of my relic quest(nexus to zodiac) I used SCH as it seemed to let me dps more. There is learned a deep appreciation and skill level for SCH that I lacked before.
Yes, SCH lacks the AOE cure power by far, but it more than makes up for it by single target usability and dps options.
WHM pros: Massive AOE cure potential, Bendiction, better protect, better stoneskin, freecure.
SCH pros: aldoquium, DoTs, manual pet macros combo'd into your cures.
This last one was huge. I could switch to manual mode(obey) for my fairy, then I macro'd my Physick along side the fairy's Embrace. I got almost the potency of a Cure 2 for the MP cost of Cure/Physick.
Also the Fairy allows me to cure 1 person and passively cure others without switching targets.
So bottom line: 4 man dungeon that I'm familiar with? SCH. Is there another WHM? go SCH. Is the there gonna be lots of AOE healing(like Odin)? WHM | WHM for AOE, SCH for everything else |
RealityIsMyReligion | Ok, then the question remains. Why charge 2x+ SeaTac commuters than the Tukwila commuters one station down?
Why change a system that, by and large, works?
You aren't going to find any allies here for raising the cost of public transportation. Seattlites use the train a lot and what you are suggesting is helpful to nobody other than SoundTransit. Honestly, I think this would just increase people's use of alternate transportation, which, in fact, would make it helpful to nobody at all.
Tl;Dr: If it ain't broke, don't fix it. | Ok, then the question remains. Why charge 2x+ SeaTac commuters than the Tukwila commuters one station down?
Why change a system that, by and large, works?
You aren't going to find any allies here for raising the cost of public transportation. Seattlites use the train a lot and what you are suggesting is helpful to nobody other than SoundTransit. Honestly, I think this would just increase people's use of alternate transportation, which, in fact, would make it helpful to nobody at all.
Tl;Dr: If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
| Seattle | t5_2qhad | co43xo2 | Ok, then the question remains. Why charge 2x+ SeaTac commuters than the Tukwila commuters one station down?
Why change a system that, by and large, works?
You aren't going to find any allies here for raising the cost of public transportation. Seattlites use the train a lot and what you are suggesting is helpful to nobody other than SoundTransit. Honestly, I think this would just increase people's use of alternate transportation, which, in fact, would make it helpful to nobody at all. | If it ain't broke, don't fix it. |
singersmith | After we threw our kidnapper off the cliff and escaped, we ran for four hours before we stopped to rest and to discuss the likely ambush point we could be walking into. As soon as we stood up to move again some guys started yelling at me (in Russian or Kyrgyz) from some bushes maybe 15 meters to my rear. I screamed, "RUN!" and as I proceeded to do so they opened fire on us. It felt like The Matrix and like I was watching the bullets come at me and dodging them in slow motion. Hard to say what was really happening because of the overstimulation.
TLDR: I dodged the bullets. | After we threw our kidnapper off the cliff and escaped, we ran for four hours before we stopped to rest and to discuss the likely ambush point we could be walking into. As soon as we stood up to move again some guys started yelling at me (in Russian or Kyrgyz) from some bushes maybe 15 meters to my rear. I screamed, "RUN!" and as I proceeded to do so they opened fire on us. It felt like The Matrix and like I was watching the bullets come at me and dodging them in slow motion. Hard to say what was really happening because of the overstimulation.
TLDR: I dodged the bullets.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | co3sdvl | After we threw our kidnapper off the cliff and escaped, we ran for four hours before we stopped to rest and to discuss the likely ambush point we could be walking into. As soon as we stood up to move again some guys started yelling at me (in Russian or Kyrgyz) from some bushes maybe 15 meters to my rear. I screamed, "RUN!" and as I proceeded to do so they opened fire on us. It felt like The Matrix and like I was watching the bullets come at me and dodging them in slow motion. Hard to say what was really happening because of the overstimulation. | I dodged the bullets. |
winwar | 4 kings fight. First play through, im in my noob stone armor halberd build. Was gunna kill 4K first try.
Couldnt estus fast enough, think im dead, get frustrated, notice no "Thanks Obama" text. Spam X. Win.
Tldr: 4k hit me to 1sliver of health, I won. | 4 kings fight. First play through, im in my noob stone armor halberd build. Was gunna kill 4K first try.
Couldnt estus fast enough, think im dead, get frustrated, notice no "Thanks Obama" text. Spam X. Win.
Tldr: 4k hit me to 1sliver of health, I won.
| darksouls | t5_2sazo | co4ggs3 | 4 kings fight. First play through, im in my noob stone armor halberd build. Was gunna kill 4K first try.
Couldnt estus fast enough, think im dead, get frustrated, notice no "Thanks Obama" text. Spam X. Win. | 4k hit me to 1sliver of health, I won. |
CSFFlame | The only way to tell Vsync from FreeSync/GSync is off kilter FPS (and input lag).
If this is truly working... it means that Nvidia supports (at least eDP) FreeSync.
TL;DR: If the dude it telling the truth, he found out that Nvidia supports Freesync/AdaptiveSync. | The only way to tell Vsync from FreeSync/GSync is off kilter FPS (and input lag).
If this is truly working... it means that Nvidia supports (at least eDP) FreeSync.
TL;DR: If the dude it telling the truth, he found out that Nvidia supports Freesync/AdaptiveSync.
| pcgaming | t5_2qhfg | co4a29a | The only way to tell Vsync from FreeSync/GSync is off kilter FPS (and input lag).
If this is truly working... it means that Nvidia supports (at least eDP) FreeSync. | If the dude it telling the truth, he found out that Nvidia supports Freesync/AdaptiveSync. |
tpodr | I've had my INCRA set for three years and continue to find it to be one of the best tools in my shop.
Obviously, it makes cutting beautiful and complicated joints very doable. Basic dovetail and box joints are straightforward. And will careful work, more involved double joints (with trim in the joint) are possible. Then again, that is their selling point.
That just taps the possibilities. One of the big advantages for me the speed in which I can set up and do a cut with the router. Chuck in a bit, use a straight edge to zero the position and jump to the locations where I need the cut. Use the big lever to disengage the paw, slid the fence to close to the position. Engage the paw and its teeth lock into the 1/32" pitch lead screw and the position is locked into position with 1/32" resolution. But there is more: there is a 32 position click wheel which rotates the lead screw. This gives a final resolution of 1/1024". Did I mention this is very repeatable?
Think about that a bit, keep in mind the fence is extruded aluminum with channels of attaching jigs. I gotten very creative in using this precision.
At the same time, the build quality is very good. Three years of heavy use while I try to get a business of fine box making going and I haven't had problems. And the company, Taylor Design, is very helpful. Had useful conversations with them when trying to decide on a set up. They recommended a less expensive system that I was planning. The gentleman I was talking with felt with the machines I have, I would have better results with less. (My cheap table saw not up to benefitting from their equipment.) And once I got my order, very helpful with helping me set up correctly. Easy to get an engineer on the phone.
**tl;dr:** Save up your pennies until you can get a LS Positioner. It will be a long time until you find it a limitation in being creative.
P.S. Last year got the INCRA version of the Master Lift II and now have amazing accuracy in the height as well. | I've had my INCRA set for three years and continue to find it to be one of the best tools in my shop.
Obviously, it makes cutting beautiful and complicated joints very doable. Basic dovetail and box joints are straightforward. And will careful work, more involved double joints (with trim in the joint) are possible. Then again, that is their selling point.
That just taps the possibilities. One of the big advantages for me the speed in which I can set up and do a cut with the router. Chuck in a bit, use a straight edge to zero the position and jump to the locations where I need the cut. Use the big lever to disengage the paw, slid the fence to close to the position. Engage the paw and its teeth lock into the 1/32" pitch lead screw and the position is locked into position with 1/32" resolution. But there is more: there is a 32 position click wheel which rotates the lead screw. This gives a final resolution of 1/1024". Did I mention this is very repeatable?
Think about that a bit, keep in mind the fence is extruded aluminum with channels of attaching jigs. I gotten very creative in using this precision.
At the same time, the build quality is very good. Three years of heavy use while I try to get a business of fine box making going and I haven't had problems. And the company, Taylor Design, is very helpful. Had useful conversations with them when trying to decide on a set up. They recommended a less expensive system that I was planning. The gentleman I was talking with felt with the machines I have, I would have better results with less. (My cheap table saw not up to benefitting from their equipment.) And once I got my order, very helpful with helping me set up correctly. Easy to get an engineer on the phone.
tl;dr: Save up your pennies until you can get a LS Positioner. It will be a long time until you find it a limitation in being creative.
P.S. Last year got the INCRA version of the Master Lift II and now have amazing accuracy in the height as well.
| woodworking | t5_2qlqp | co5sbqn | I've had my INCRA set for three years and continue to find it to be one of the best tools in my shop.
Obviously, it makes cutting beautiful and complicated joints very doable. Basic dovetail and box joints are straightforward. And will careful work, more involved double joints (with trim in the joint) are possible. Then again, that is their selling point.
That just taps the possibilities. One of the big advantages for me the speed in which I can set up and do a cut with the router. Chuck in a bit, use a straight edge to zero the position and jump to the locations where I need the cut. Use the big lever to disengage the paw, slid the fence to close to the position. Engage the paw and its teeth lock into the 1/32" pitch lead screw and the position is locked into position with 1/32" resolution. But there is more: there is a 32 position click wheel which rotates the lead screw. This gives a final resolution of 1/1024". Did I mention this is very repeatable?
Think about that a bit, keep in mind the fence is extruded aluminum with channels of attaching jigs. I gotten very creative in using this precision.
At the same time, the build quality is very good. Three years of heavy use while I try to get a business of fine box making going and I haven't had problems. And the company, Taylor Design, is very helpful. Had useful conversations with them when trying to decide on a set up. They recommended a less expensive system that I was planning. The gentleman I was talking with felt with the machines I have, I would have better results with less. (My cheap table saw not up to benefitting from their equipment.) And once I got my order, very helpful with helping me set up correctly. Easy to get an engineer on the phone. | Save up your pennies until you can get a LS Positioner. It will be a long time until you find it a limitation in being creative.
P.S. Last year got the INCRA version of the Master Lift II and now have amazing accuracy in the height as well. |
concertjunkie6 | That is a tough call. I'll share where I'm at and maybe you can extrapolate some useful tidbits.
Inspired by THC and many other factors (THC was a nice bold reminder that I should DO IT), I left my 9-5 IT job and started working for myself. I've been working in the IT field for 10+ years with many people stating I should do it on my own, but I didn't feel confident enough to go on my own. Fast forward to march of last year, there was some THC episode that I was listening to at work that just made me say... " Fuck it! I'm wasting time waiting for shit to do, being underpaid for what I do." I spent the next month prepping my LLC and gave one months notice. In May of 2014, I left the job, and 12 of my previous clients followed me! So I had some work already lined up. Made more connections and here I am in Feb still making it through. I have considered at times to take another job to "be safe" but in all honesty, work has been lucrative and paid the bills. I will be taking a part time job at a yoga studio I teach at (less for monetary reasons, more for growth of the studio and my yoga practice), but ultimately , I am much happier working part time on my own hours, vs. 40+hrs a week , waking up early, many days waiting for work, and less time on myself. My job paid $15/hr, while I can charge $50/hr on the low end for friends/family to $100!
IMO I would look into part time jobs/off jobs or something that can bring in some money. I know someone only working a few part time jobs, but its flexible and allows her to travel/enjoy life. Craigslist is where she got her jobs!
Full time jobs feel like a trap, and especially from my perspective, people do NOT effectively use the 8-10hrs/day on work. Even bosses/upper management waste so much frickin time, its ridiculous. Why not spend time more on what you do and what you love, rather than on someone elses dime, being forced to be somewhere, even with nothing to do?
This may have come off as a rant, but
TL;DR, IMO skip the full time job, find part time opportunities, use craigslist, and if all else fails, sell things. I would imagine you can somehow use any of your skill sets to make some extra income. I can teach yoga, teach guitar/composition , and do IT work at the very least, but if I keep digging, I could produce an ample list of things that are worth others to pay for.
also, nextdoor.com
get to know your neighbors, maybe they can help you out or vice versa! | That is a tough call. I'll share where I'm at and maybe you can extrapolate some useful tidbits.
Inspired by THC and many other factors (THC was a nice bold reminder that I should DO IT), I left my 9-5 IT job and started working for myself. I've been working in the IT field for 10+ years with many people stating I should do it on my own, but I didn't feel confident enough to go on my own. Fast forward to march of last year, there was some THC episode that I was listening to at work that just made me say... " Fuck it! I'm wasting time waiting for shit to do, being underpaid for what I do." I spent the next month prepping my LLC and gave one months notice. In May of 2014, I left the job, and 12 of my previous clients followed me! So I had some work already lined up. Made more connections and here I am in Feb still making it through. I have considered at times to take another job to "be safe" but in all honesty, work has been lucrative and paid the bills. I will be taking a part time job at a yoga studio I teach at (less for monetary reasons, more for growth of the studio and my yoga practice), but ultimately , I am much happier working part time on my own hours, vs. 40+hrs a week , waking up early, many days waiting for work, and less time on myself. My job paid $15/hr, while I can charge $50/hr on the low end for friends/family to $100!
IMO I would look into part time jobs/off jobs or something that can bring in some money. I know someone only working a few part time jobs, but its flexible and allows her to travel/enjoy life. Craigslist is where she got her jobs!
Full time jobs feel like a trap, and especially from my perspective, people do NOT effectively use the 8-10hrs/day on work. Even bosses/upper management waste so much frickin time, its ridiculous. Why not spend time more on what you do and what you love, rather than on someone elses dime, being forced to be somewhere, even with nothing to do?
This may have come off as a rant, but
TL;DR, IMO skip the full time job, find part time opportunities, use craigslist, and if all else fails, sell things. I would imagine you can somehow use any of your skill sets to make some extra income. I can teach yoga, teach guitar/composition , and do IT work at the very least, but if I keep digging, I could produce an ample list of things that are worth others to pay for.
also, nextdoor.com
get to know your neighbors, maybe they can help you out or vice versa!
| highersidechats | t5_2zzeu | co4cszt | That is a tough call. I'll share where I'm at and maybe you can extrapolate some useful tidbits.
Inspired by THC and many other factors (THC was a nice bold reminder that I should DO IT), I left my 9-5 IT job and started working for myself. I've been working in the IT field for 10+ years with many people stating I should do it on my own, but I didn't feel confident enough to go on my own. Fast forward to march of last year, there was some THC episode that I was listening to at work that just made me say... " Fuck it! I'm wasting time waiting for shit to do, being underpaid for what I do." I spent the next month prepping my LLC and gave one months notice. In May of 2014, I left the job, and 12 of my previous clients followed me! So I had some work already lined up. Made more connections and here I am in Feb still making it through. I have considered at times to take another job to "be safe" but in all honesty, work has been lucrative and paid the bills. I will be taking a part time job at a yoga studio I teach at (less for monetary reasons, more for growth of the studio and my yoga practice), but ultimately , I am much happier working part time on my own hours, vs. 40+hrs a week , waking up early, many days waiting for work, and less time on myself. My job paid $15/hr, while I can charge $50/hr on the low end for friends/family to $100!
IMO I would look into part time jobs/off jobs or something that can bring in some money. I know someone only working a few part time jobs, but its flexible and allows her to travel/enjoy life. Craigslist is where she got her jobs!
Full time jobs feel like a trap, and especially from my perspective, people do NOT effectively use the 8-10hrs/day on work. Even bosses/upper management waste so much frickin time, its ridiculous. Why not spend time more on what you do and what you love, rather than on someone elses dime, being forced to be somewhere, even with nothing to do?
This may have come off as a rant, but | IMO skip the full time job, find part time opportunities, use craigslist, and if all else fails, sell things. I would imagine you can somehow use any of your skill sets to make some extra income. I can teach yoga, teach guitar/composition , and do IT work at the very least, but if I keep digging, I could produce an ample list of things that are worth others to pay for.
also, nextdoor.com
get to know your neighbors, maybe they can help you out or vice versa! |
tlove82 | Story time! Back in 2002, I had a severe bowel obstruction. I'm talking to the point where they were having students come in to gawk at me, they put me in a medical book (I'm not sure whether to be proud of that or not), and they were kind of at a loss what to do, since my cat scan was completely black, it had backed up into my abdomen, my colon was 10x its normal size....okay, now since you have the backstory. They were giving me countless enemas, go lightly through a nose tube, and had put me under to actually dig out the "tip of the iceberg" as they called it. After eight days, still no go. They had decided to remove part of my colon, and I would have to wear a colostomy bag, they weren't sure I'd make it through surgery, but something had to be done, because I couldn't make it come out.....the day I was scheduled for surgery, I suddenly felt a familiar rumbling in the stomach that I hadn't really felt in a long time. I decided to give it one last try....after thinking I was going to die like Elvis, on the toilet with an aneurysm (I could see myself in the mirror, I was a nice shade of purple) something unholy came out of me. Might have been the antichrist. Still not sure. It was pyramid shaped, black as midnight, and rose above the toilet. The nurses were appalled and didn't know that could come from a human. I needed three stitches. They called the janitor in. He couldn't fix the problem. The room was quarantined, I was moved, and they had to call in professionals. And that is my worst toilet experience.
TL;DR: Full of shit, broke the hospital, butthole needed stitches | Story time! Back in 2002, I had a severe bowel obstruction. I'm talking to the point where they were having students come in to gawk at me, they put me in a medical book (I'm not sure whether to be proud of that or not), and they were kind of at a loss what to do, since my cat scan was completely black, it had backed up into my abdomen, my colon was 10x its normal size....okay, now since you have the backstory. They were giving me countless enemas, go lightly through a nose tube, and had put me under to actually dig out the "tip of the iceberg" as they called it. After eight days, still no go. They had decided to remove part of my colon, and I would have to wear a colostomy bag, they weren't sure I'd make it through surgery, but something had to be done, because I couldn't make it come out.....the day I was scheduled for surgery, I suddenly felt a familiar rumbling in the stomach that I hadn't really felt in a long time. I decided to give it one last try....after thinking I was going to die like Elvis, on the toilet with an aneurysm (I could see myself in the mirror, I was a nice shade of purple) something unholy came out of me. Might have been the antichrist. Still not sure. It was pyramid shaped, black as midnight, and rose above the toilet. The nurses were appalled and didn't know that could come from a human. I needed three stitches. They called the janitor in. He couldn't fix the problem. The room was quarantined, I was moved, and they had to call in professionals. And that is my worst toilet experience.
TL;DR: Full of shit, broke the hospital, butthole needed stitches
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | co4d6dq | Story time! Back in 2002, I had a severe bowel obstruction. I'm talking to the point where they were having students come in to gawk at me, they put me in a medical book (I'm not sure whether to be proud of that or not), and they were kind of at a loss what to do, since my cat scan was completely black, it had backed up into my abdomen, my colon was 10x its normal size....okay, now since you have the backstory. They were giving me countless enemas, go lightly through a nose tube, and had put me under to actually dig out the "tip of the iceberg" as they called it. After eight days, still no go. They had decided to remove part of my colon, and I would have to wear a colostomy bag, they weren't sure I'd make it through surgery, but something had to be done, because I couldn't make it come out.....the day I was scheduled for surgery, I suddenly felt a familiar rumbling in the stomach that I hadn't really felt in a long time. I decided to give it one last try....after thinking I was going to die like Elvis, on the toilet with an aneurysm (I could see myself in the mirror, I was a nice shade of purple) something unholy came out of me. Might have been the antichrist. Still not sure. It was pyramid shaped, black as midnight, and rose above the toilet. The nurses were appalled and didn't know that could come from a human. I needed three stitches. They called the janitor in. He couldn't fix the problem. The room was quarantined, I was moved, and they had to call in professionals. And that is my worst toilet experience. | Full of shit, broke the hospital, butthole needed stitches |
Sloshy42 | Noted, and added, if that's what you meant. Just the bold sentence was my tl;dr and everything above is just descriptive text. | Noted, and added, if that's what you meant. Just the bold sentence was my tl;dr and everything above is just descriptive text.
| MensRights | t5_2qhk3 | co4el15 | Noted, and added, if that's what you meant. Just the bold sentence was my | and everything above is just descriptive text. |
RoboticSarcasm | Actually a question i may be able to answer. Besides the fact that miletaristic intervention would cause a bazillion (not actual statistics) north- AND south korean deaths due to NK's army being very capable of doing large damage to south korea, if it were to be succesfully invaded and have its government overthrown, there would be mass destruction and most likely mass migration of refugees originating from both the north and the south, which is the last thing the world's economy would want right now. A lot of them would go to China, as it is the neighbouring country of north korea and is very close to the south as well, which would flood the market. Shortened answer / TL:DR:
Millions of deaths, a huge blow to the economy for everyone because of refugees from both countries most likely involved as well as the big blow to the technological market (south korea being a very technologically advanced country with a lot of electronics producers as well as a reasonably big games market (SC2 anyone?)) it would basically suck for all parties involved. Best solution to this would be to sponsor a civilian or military coup against the Kim family, but that has the danger of angering north korea if it finds out. Basically: loads of dead people and shitty economy. | Actually a question i may be able to answer. Besides the fact that miletaristic intervention would cause a bazillion (not actual statistics) north- AND south korean deaths due to NK's army being very capable of doing large damage to south korea, if it were to be succesfully invaded and have its government overthrown, there would be mass destruction and most likely mass migration of refugees originating from both the north and the south, which is the last thing the world's economy would want right now. A lot of them would go to China, as it is the neighbouring country of north korea and is very close to the south as well, which would flood the market. Shortened answer / TL:DR:
Millions of deaths, a huge blow to the economy for everyone because of refugees from both countries most likely involved as well as the big blow to the technological market (south korea being a very technologically advanced country with a lot of electronics producers as well as a reasonably big games market (SC2 anyone?)) it would basically suck for all parties involved. Best solution to this would be to sponsor a civilian or military coup against the Kim family, but that has the danger of angering north korea if it finds out. Basically: loads of dead people and shitty economy.
| explainlikeimfive | t5_2sokd | co4hf7d | Actually a question i may be able to answer. Besides the fact that miletaristic intervention would cause a bazillion (not actual statistics) north- AND south korean deaths due to NK's army being very capable of doing large damage to south korea, if it were to be succesfully invaded and have its government overthrown, there would be mass destruction and most likely mass migration of refugees originating from both the north and the south, which is the last thing the world's economy would want right now. A lot of them would go to China, as it is the neighbouring country of north korea and is very close to the south as well, which would flood the market. Shortened answer / | Millions of deaths, a huge blow to the economy for everyone because of refugees from both countries most likely involved as well as the big blow to the technological market (south korea being a very technologically advanced country with a lot of electronics producers as well as a reasonably big games market (SC2 anyone?)) it would basically suck for all parties involved. Best solution to this would be to sponsor a civilian or military coup against the Kim family, but that has the danger of angering north korea if it finds out. Basically: loads of dead people and shitty economy. |
riggorous | Yes, eastern europe was on a path to industrialization, western-style law, and private property, and communism really screwed us over in this regard. The often-quoted hypothesis is that, at the start of the 20th century, Russia was 100 years behind the west, and at the start of the 21st century, it was 200 years behind the west. I agree with the general sentiment of that.
However, your bullshit idealization of Tsarist Russia is just as bullshit as other people's bullshit idealization of the Soviet Union. You think the revolution happened because people were happy? Newsflash: people were not happy, including in Romania. Empathically all of eastern europe prior to the October revolution was vastly socioeconomically unequal, vastly poor, grossly mismanaged by its governments, xenophobic to the point of torture and murder, "unwashed", "uneducated" (I am quoting the great Russian classic here), ruled by an aristocracy that thought more about Paris than its people, overwrought with bureaucracy and police brutality, and just plainly inhumane. These countries were completely ravaged by simultaneous wars with Germany, Japan, the Ottoman Empire. The common people in eastern Europe were having a shitty time. They were just having a better time than in the Stalinist repressions.
> At least there was culture.
Wrong. There were 2 cultures: peasant culture, which hadn't changed since the Mongol invasion and was not considered real culture, and "high culture", which was inaccessible to the common people. Read Walter Benjamin, *The Moscow Diaries*. He lauds Soviet museums for not only opening up fancy art and music and shit, which was locked away in rich people's houses, to the people (peasants and commoners were not allowed into museums, I shit you not), but elevating peasant traditions and rituals to the status of real culture - creating peasant museums, community theaters, nationalizing the cultural wealth of the Russian Empire.
Though Soviet socialism was never a viable contender to western ideologies because it completely disregarded personal freedoms, in its first few years it changed the lives of millions of common people - for the better. Lenin built critical railroads, roads, dams, and power stations, and other infrastructure, without which the (extremely rapid) industrialization of Soviet Russia would have been impossible. He instituted women's and minority rights, opened free family planning clinics and schools in a country where most of the population was still going to the village witch for both healing and education. He sent the country's best young specialists to work in places that needed them most (economically, this is contestable, but bear with me) - places that never even saw a doctor before. Don't ignore the vastness of this task considering Russia's size, population density, and its total infrastructural underdevelopment. By the way, the reason Romania has a 99% literacy rate and a decent level of human rights despite its economy being the same size and efficiency as Mexico? Communism.
tl;dr a lot of stuff wasn't going on in the 1920s, both good and bad. | Yes, eastern europe was on a path to industrialization, western-style law, and private property, and communism really screwed us over in this regard. The often-quoted hypothesis is that, at the start of the 20th century, Russia was 100 years behind the west, and at the start of the 21st century, it was 200 years behind the west. I agree with the general sentiment of that.
However, your bullshit idealization of Tsarist Russia is just as bullshit as other people's bullshit idealization of the Soviet Union. You think the revolution happened because people were happy? Newsflash: people were not happy, including in Romania. Empathically all of eastern europe prior to the October revolution was vastly socioeconomically unequal, vastly poor, grossly mismanaged by its governments, xenophobic to the point of torture and murder, "unwashed", "uneducated" (I am quoting the great Russian classic here), ruled by an aristocracy that thought more about Paris than its people, overwrought with bureaucracy and police brutality, and just plainly inhumane. These countries were completely ravaged by simultaneous wars with Germany, Japan, the Ottoman Empire. The common people in eastern Europe were having a shitty time. They were just having a better time than in the Stalinist repressions.
> At least there was culture.
Wrong. There were 2 cultures: peasant culture, which hadn't changed since the Mongol invasion and was not considered real culture, and "high culture", which was inaccessible to the common people. Read Walter Benjamin, The Moscow Diaries . He lauds Soviet museums for not only opening up fancy art and music and shit, which was locked away in rich people's houses, to the people (peasants and commoners were not allowed into museums, I shit you not), but elevating peasant traditions and rituals to the status of real culture - creating peasant museums, community theaters, nationalizing the cultural wealth of the Russian Empire.
Though Soviet socialism was never a viable contender to western ideologies because it completely disregarded personal freedoms, in its first few years it changed the lives of millions of common people - for the better. Lenin built critical railroads, roads, dams, and power stations, and other infrastructure, without which the (extremely rapid) industrialization of Soviet Russia would have been impossible. He instituted women's and minority rights, opened free family planning clinics and schools in a country where most of the population was still going to the village witch for both healing and education. He sent the country's best young specialists to work in places that needed them most (economically, this is contestable, but bear with me) - places that never even saw a doctor before. Don't ignore the vastness of this task considering Russia's size, population density, and its total infrastructural underdevelopment. By the way, the reason Romania has a 99% literacy rate and a decent level of human rights despite its economy being the same size and efficiency as Mexico? Communism.
tl;dr a lot of stuff wasn't going on in the 1920s, both good and bad.
| MorbidReality | t5_2tz1e | co5374k | Yes, eastern europe was on a path to industrialization, western-style law, and private property, and communism really screwed us over in this regard. The often-quoted hypothesis is that, at the start of the 20th century, Russia was 100 years behind the west, and at the start of the 21st century, it was 200 years behind the west. I agree with the general sentiment of that.
However, your bullshit idealization of Tsarist Russia is just as bullshit as other people's bullshit idealization of the Soviet Union. You think the revolution happened because people were happy? Newsflash: people were not happy, including in Romania. Empathically all of eastern europe prior to the October revolution was vastly socioeconomically unequal, vastly poor, grossly mismanaged by its governments, xenophobic to the point of torture and murder, "unwashed", "uneducated" (I am quoting the great Russian classic here), ruled by an aristocracy that thought more about Paris than its people, overwrought with bureaucracy and police brutality, and just plainly inhumane. These countries were completely ravaged by simultaneous wars with Germany, Japan, the Ottoman Empire. The common people in eastern Europe were having a shitty time. They were just having a better time than in the Stalinist repressions.
> At least there was culture.
Wrong. There were 2 cultures: peasant culture, which hadn't changed since the Mongol invasion and was not considered real culture, and "high culture", which was inaccessible to the common people. Read Walter Benjamin, The Moscow Diaries . He lauds Soviet museums for not only opening up fancy art and music and shit, which was locked away in rich people's houses, to the people (peasants and commoners were not allowed into museums, I shit you not), but elevating peasant traditions and rituals to the status of real culture - creating peasant museums, community theaters, nationalizing the cultural wealth of the Russian Empire.
Though Soviet socialism was never a viable contender to western ideologies because it completely disregarded personal freedoms, in its first few years it changed the lives of millions of common people - for the better. Lenin built critical railroads, roads, dams, and power stations, and other infrastructure, without which the (extremely rapid) industrialization of Soviet Russia would have been impossible. He instituted women's and minority rights, opened free family planning clinics and schools in a country where most of the population was still going to the village witch for both healing and education. He sent the country's best young specialists to work in places that needed them most (economically, this is contestable, but bear with me) - places that never even saw a doctor before. Don't ignore the vastness of this task considering Russia's size, population density, and its total infrastructural underdevelopment. By the way, the reason Romania has a 99% literacy rate and a decent level of human rights despite its economy being the same size and efficiency as Mexico? Communism. | a lot of stuff wasn't going on in the 1920s, both good and bad. |
rnelsonee | Good question - it's not for credit utilization or anything like that. But back when I got paid monthly, I would pay credit cards once a month, on payday. I got used to that - as soon as I got paid, the cards got paid off, so I never had to hold or earmark anything. Which is great - if there's $1,000 in checking, I can spend $1,000 (I use a separate account for savings, transferred to every payday also). This wouldn't work if the billing cycle closed on the 2nd or something and was due the 23rd (so the 1st wasn't in that range), but that wasn't the case, so it worked great.
So I kept that up when we moved to bi-weekly. I don't have to ever keep track of what money is about to be spent on an upcoming credit card bill. By paying (current balance in full) every 2 weeks I can completely ignore all credit card bills, due dates, closing dates, etc (all bills are electronic and auto-archived). I literally don't even know my due dates, and I follow my finances pretty darn closely.
I admit it's very weird not having to pay attention to any credit card statements (the "balance due" is always useless as by the time it's generated, I've already paid some of it), so I'd only recommend this if you really get bothered by earmarked money and have a situation where you rarely charge more than what you earn in 2 weeks (like for occasional plane tickets, I have to do a quick dip into savings, I can't wait for another paycheck to cover it).
tl,dr: Other commenter is right. It eases my mind. | Good question - it's not for credit utilization or anything like that. But back when I got paid monthly, I would pay credit cards once a month, on payday. I got used to that - as soon as I got paid, the cards got paid off, so I never had to hold or earmark anything. Which is great - if there's $1,000 in checking, I can spend $1,000 (I use a separate account for savings, transferred to every payday also). This wouldn't work if the billing cycle closed on the 2nd or something and was due the 23rd (so the 1st wasn't in that range), but that wasn't the case, so it worked great.
So I kept that up when we moved to bi-weekly. I don't have to ever keep track of what money is about to be spent on an upcoming credit card bill. By paying (current balance in full) every 2 weeks I can completely ignore all credit card bills, due dates, closing dates, etc (all bills are electronic and auto-archived). I literally don't even know my due dates, and I follow my finances pretty darn closely.
I admit it's very weird not having to pay attention to any credit card statements (the "balance due" is always useless as by the time it's generated, I've already paid some of it), so I'd only recommend this if you really get bothered by earmarked money and have a situation where you rarely charge more than what you earn in 2 weeks (like for occasional plane tickets, I have to do a quick dip into savings, I can't wait for another paycheck to cover it).
tl,dr: Other commenter is right. It eases my mind.
| personalfinance | t5_2qstm | co4qaud | Good question - it's not for credit utilization or anything like that. But back when I got paid monthly, I would pay credit cards once a month, on payday. I got used to that - as soon as I got paid, the cards got paid off, so I never had to hold or earmark anything. Which is great - if there's $1,000 in checking, I can spend $1,000 (I use a separate account for savings, transferred to every payday also). This wouldn't work if the billing cycle closed on the 2nd or something and was due the 23rd (so the 1st wasn't in that range), but that wasn't the case, so it worked great.
So I kept that up when we moved to bi-weekly. I don't have to ever keep track of what money is about to be spent on an upcoming credit card bill. By paying (current balance in full) every 2 weeks I can completely ignore all credit card bills, due dates, closing dates, etc (all bills are electronic and auto-archived). I literally don't even know my due dates, and I follow my finances pretty darn closely.
I admit it's very weird not having to pay attention to any credit card statements (the "balance due" is always useless as by the time it's generated, I've already paid some of it), so I'd only recommend this if you really get bothered by earmarked money and have a situation where you rarely charge more than what you earn in 2 weeks (like for occasional plane tickets, I have to do a quick dip into savings, I can't wait for another paycheck to cover it). | Other commenter is right. It eases my mind. |
fontophilic | If you've got enough savings, auto pay everything!
I try, as much as possible, to keep everything on a credit card or **ORIGINATING at my credit union**. Hell no way I'm linking my bank account to some dinky bill pay through my town's water utility. This is a free service at my CU. I know my old internet company charged you a "convenience fee" for using their online payment, which is utter horse shit. They make sure the payment is sent exactly on time for electronic, or enough days early with paper checks to get around postal holidays.
So, through my credit union I can connect to accounts, like water, electric, credit card which are variable each month (or quarter). My bank reads the bill due, then sends me an email, letting me approve the payment.
For bills that aren't set up to receive electronic payments, my credit union cuts them a paper check and mails it. This was perfect for rent, and now my condo association dues.
For bills that are electronic and the same every month, mortgage, car payment, insurance, internet, just set and forget it.
For bills that you can't pay by check or electronically, (netflix, spotify, transit card, commuter pass) I link to a rewards credit card. The credit card goes into the almost-auto-pay. I get 1-3% cash back for paying those bills.
I also use YNAB, so I don't ever really need to worry about if the bill could clear or not, or when the bill hits. I've already budgeted for that bill. When it hits is irrelevant. I keep about 2 months expenses in checking at any time.
I've also got calendar reminders on my google calendar of when bills are due, but my CU reminds me too.
TL;DR: don't pay service fees. Don't give out your bank account information to any bill pay service. Credit cards provide some measure of security if you can't pay that bill any other way. | If you've got enough savings, auto pay everything!
I try, as much as possible, to keep everything on a credit card or ORIGINATING at my credit union . Hell no way I'm linking my bank account to some dinky bill pay through my town's water utility. This is a free service at my CU. I know my old internet company charged you a "convenience fee" for using their online payment, which is utter horse shit. They make sure the payment is sent exactly on time for electronic, or enough days early with paper checks to get around postal holidays.
So, through my credit union I can connect to accounts, like water, electric, credit card which are variable each month (or quarter). My bank reads the bill due, then sends me an email, letting me approve the payment.
For bills that aren't set up to receive electronic payments, my credit union cuts them a paper check and mails it. This was perfect for rent, and now my condo association dues.
For bills that are electronic and the same every month, mortgage, car payment, insurance, internet, just set and forget it.
For bills that you can't pay by check or electronically, (netflix, spotify, transit card, commuter pass) I link to a rewards credit card. The credit card goes into the almost-auto-pay. I get 1-3% cash back for paying those bills.
I also use YNAB, so I don't ever really need to worry about if the bill could clear or not, or when the bill hits. I've already budgeted for that bill. When it hits is irrelevant. I keep about 2 months expenses in checking at any time.
I've also got calendar reminders on my google calendar of when bills are due, but my CU reminds me too.
TL;DR: don't pay service fees. Don't give out your bank account information to any bill pay service. Credit cards provide some measure of security if you can't pay that bill any other way.
| personalfinance | t5_2qstm | co4qimv | If you've got enough savings, auto pay everything!
I try, as much as possible, to keep everything on a credit card or ORIGINATING at my credit union . Hell no way I'm linking my bank account to some dinky bill pay through my town's water utility. This is a free service at my CU. I know my old internet company charged you a "convenience fee" for using their online payment, which is utter horse shit. They make sure the payment is sent exactly on time for electronic, or enough days early with paper checks to get around postal holidays.
So, through my credit union I can connect to accounts, like water, electric, credit card which are variable each month (or quarter). My bank reads the bill due, then sends me an email, letting me approve the payment.
For bills that aren't set up to receive electronic payments, my credit union cuts them a paper check and mails it. This was perfect for rent, and now my condo association dues.
For bills that are electronic and the same every month, mortgage, car payment, insurance, internet, just set and forget it.
For bills that you can't pay by check or electronically, (netflix, spotify, transit card, commuter pass) I link to a rewards credit card. The credit card goes into the almost-auto-pay. I get 1-3% cash back for paying those bills.
I also use YNAB, so I don't ever really need to worry about if the bill could clear or not, or when the bill hits. I've already budgeted for that bill. When it hits is irrelevant. I keep about 2 months expenses in checking at any time.
I've also got calendar reminders on my google calendar of when bills are due, but my CU reminds me too. | don't pay service fees. Don't give out your bank account information to any bill pay service. Credit cards provide some measure of security if you can't pay that bill any other way. |
lawh4x | Honestly it took a lot longer than I expected. It was close to 4 months before I could sit on the toilet without having to struggle from pain to get back up. I started feeling 100% about 3 months ago.
TLDR; 11 months. | Honestly it took a lot longer than I expected. It was close to 4 months before I could sit on the toilet without having to struggle from pain to get back up. I started feeling 100% about 3 months ago.
TLDR; 11 months.
| bodybuilding | t5_2ql8s | co4ru3x | Honestly it took a lot longer than I expected. It was close to 4 months before I could sit on the toilet without having to struggle from pain to get back up. I started feeling 100% about 3 months ago. | 11 months. |
Fluffinho | I suspect a lot of people in this thread are young and their only experience of parenting is from the child's perspective.
TL:DR Thread full of childless rich people. | I suspect a lot of people in this thread are young and their only experience of parenting is from the child's perspective.
TL:DR Thread full of childless rich people.
| nfl | t5_2qmg3 | co4xzsi | I suspect a lot of people in this thread are young and their only experience of parenting is from the child's perspective. | Thread full of childless rich people. |
IAmMakingAllOfThisUp | Whaaaat. This is far from ideal. And what the fuck was he thinking knocking her up 9 months before the Superbowl. Shoud've thought that out a little better. Little fucker. Thinking that being born on the most important day of the year is an acceptable practice.
Oh, shit. That'd be fucked up if Sherm skipped the game, watched his boy be born, and Brady scores the game winning touchdown on the right side of the field, then the kid grows up being viewed as the reason the Seahawks dynasty never finished finding it's place in history, and then mass depression causes the Pacific Northwest's economy to suffer terribly, while suicides increase and eventually riots and anarchy consume society like a kraken swallowing whatever it is that krakens eat. Scantily clad, muscly warriors, I guess. Don't go thinking you are off the hook east coast! The wave of post-apocalyptic chaos isn't going to be contained by the measly Rockie Mountain range. This is ...dumb. I'm done here. I'm boring myself. I guess I'll post this nonsense, since I took the time to type it, but I'm not going to proofread. That will just consume more time that I could be using to explain why I am ending this lame story abruptly.
TL;DR I sure do hope that Mister Sherman's baby is born, ya know, any time that isn't a super bowl. I think that's a fairly reasonable request. | Whaaaat. This is far from ideal. And what the fuck was he thinking knocking her up 9 months before the Superbowl. Shoud've thought that out a little better. Little fucker. Thinking that being born on the most important day of the year is an acceptable practice.
Oh, shit. That'd be fucked up if Sherm skipped the game, watched his boy be born, and Brady scores the game winning touchdown on the right side of the field, then the kid grows up being viewed as the reason the Seahawks dynasty never finished finding it's place in history, and then mass depression causes the Pacific Northwest's economy to suffer terribly, while suicides increase and eventually riots and anarchy consume society like a kraken swallowing whatever it is that krakens eat. Scantily clad, muscly warriors, I guess. Don't go thinking you are off the hook east coast! The wave of post-apocalyptic chaos isn't going to be contained by the measly Rockie Mountain range. This is ...dumb. I'm done here. I'm boring myself. I guess I'll post this nonsense, since I took the time to type it, but I'm not going to proofread. That will just consume more time that I could be using to explain why I am ending this lame story abruptly.
TL;DR I sure do hope that Mister Sherman's baby is born, ya know, any time that isn't a super bowl. I think that's a fairly reasonable request.
| nfl | t5_2qmg3 | co5ddi9 | Whaaaat. This is far from ideal. And what the fuck was he thinking knocking her up 9 months before the Superbowl. Shoud've thought that out a little better. Little fucker. Thinking that being born on the most important day of the year is an acceptable practice.
Oh, shit. That'd be fucked up if Sherm skipped the game, watched his boy be born, and Brady scores the game winning touchdown on the right side of the field, then the kid grows up being viewed as the reason the Seahawks dynasty never finished finding it's place in history, and then mass depression causes the Pacific Northwest's economy to suffer terribly, while suicides increase and eventually riots and anarchy consume society like a kraken swallowing whatever it is that krakens eat. Scantily clad, muscly warriors, I guess. Don't go thinking you are off the hook east coast! The wave of post-apocalyptic chaos isn't going to be contained by the measly Rockie Mountain range. This is ...dumb. I'm done here. I'm boring myself. I guess I'll post this nonsense, since I took the time to type it, but I'm not going to proofread. That will just consume more time that I could be using to explain why I am ending this lame story abruptly. | I sure do hope that Mister Sherman's baby is born, ya know, any time that isn't a super bowl. I think that's a fairly reasonable request. |
fuzzyfractal42 | I've been trying to make it work on my Pi B for the past couple weeks. I can kind of get it running, but it's not really playable.
1. Set your GPU memory to zero in Rasp-config. And boot to the command line.
2. Run it with almost all available RAM. The Pi B as 512 so I ran the server using the command "java -Xmx496M -Xms256M -jar minecraft_server.jar nogui"
3. The first time you run this it will tell you you need to sign the Eula, so you need to change that value to "true" in the eula.txt
4.Run the command again and you should generate the world, which will take a pretty long time, and then it will probably crash.
5. You can try changing the max-tick-time value higher in server.properties and run again.
Eventually you can get the server running, and may even be able to connect to it from another machine, but the block lag will be pretty bad. You can try turning the render distance down, maybe the max world height and max world size way down in server.properties, generate a new world, and see if any of that helps. That's what I'm going to try today.
I had a conversation on another thread about this with someone else a few days ago:
tl;dr Only really worth it as an experiment to see what the Pi is capable of. | I've been trying to make it work on my Pi B for the past couple weeks. I can kind of get it running, but it's not really playable.
Set your GPU memory to zero in Rasp-config. And boot to the command line.
Run it with almost all available RAM. The Pi B as 512 so I ran the server using the command "java -Xmx496M -Xms256M -jar minecraft_server.jar nogui"
The first time you run this it will tell you you need to sign the Eula, so you need to change that value to "true" in the eula.txt
4.Run the command again and you should generate the world, which will take a pretty long time, and then it will probably crash.
You can try changing the max-tick-time value higher in server.properties and run again.
Eventually you can get the server running, and may even be able to connect to it from another machine, but the block lag will be pretty bad. You can try turning the render distance down, maybe the max world height and max world size way down in server.properties, generate a new world, and see if any of that helps. That's what I'm going to try today.
I had a conversation on another thread about this with someone else a few days ago:
tl;dr Only really worth it as an experiment to see what the Pi is capable of.
| raspberry_pi | t5_2syto | co4tqh2 | I've been trying to make it work on my Pi B for the past couple weeks. I can kind of get it running, but it's not really playable.
Set your GPU memory to zero in Rasp-config. And boot to the command line.
Run it with almost all available RAM. The Pi B as 512 so I ran the server using the command "java -Xmx496M -Xms256M -jar minecraft_server.jar nogui"
The first time you run this it will tell you you need to sign the Eula, so you need to change that value to "true" in the eula.txt
4.Run the command again and you should generate the world, which will take a pretty long time, and then it will probably crash.
You can try changing the max-tick-time value higher in server.properties and run again.
Eventually you can get the server running, and may even be able to connect to it from another machine, but the block lag will be pretty bad. You can try turning the render distance down, maybe the max world height and max world size way down in server.properties, generate a new world, and see if any of that helps. That's what I'm going to try today.
I had a conversation on another thread about this with someone else a few days ago: | Only really worth it as an experiment to see what the Pi is capable of. |
Hot_Wheels_guy | Do you do that in ranked mode? I have less than a hundred ranked wins to my name but I've been playing since season 1, mostly in casual and arena, and no one ever adds me, no matter how stupid and ridiculous the plays I make are. I've literally had 1 person add me after a game. I love playing stupid but fun decks in casual mode so I'm always perplexed how other folks doing the same thing get so many friend requests.
tl;dr I'm jelly you have more friends than I do! | Do you do that in ranked mode? I have less than a hundred ranked wins to my name but I've been playing since season 1, mostly in casual and arena, and no one ever adds me, no matter how stupid and ridiculous the plays I make are. I've literally had 1 person add me after a game. I love playing stupid but fun decks in casual mode so I'm always perplexed how other folks doing the same thing get so many friend requests.
tl;dr I'm jelly you have more friends than I do!
| hearthstone | t5_2w31t | co64vfb | Do you do that in ranked mode? I have less than a hundred ranked wins to my name but I've been playing since season 1, mostly in casual and arena, and no one ever adds me, no matter how stupid and ridiculous the plays I make are. I've literally had 1 person add me after a game. I love playing stupid but fun decks in casual mode so I'm always perplexed how other folks doing the same thing get so many friend requests. | I'm jelly you have more friends than I do! |
in_the_friendzone | It's very probable... but it's just part of the game. Who ever cares less is more dominant. Sometimes you lose. Once you accept this, you just don't give a fuck. There will always be more women... and although it would hurt me to lose her... i won't sacrifice my security in myself for her. TLDR: Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose. | It's very probable... but it's just part of the game. Who ever cares less is more dominant. Sometimes you lose. Once you accept this, you just don't give a fuck. There will always be more women... and although it would hurt me to lose her... i won't sacrifice my security in myself for her. TLDR: Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose.
| ForeverAlone | t5_2s3yz | co5oohm | It's very probable... but it's just part of the game. Who ever cares less is more dominant. Sometimes you lose. Once you accept this, you just don't give a fuck. There will always be more women... and although it would hurt me to lose her... i won't sacrifice my security in myself for her. | Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose. |
WiryInferno | Actually, narcissists are highly vulnerable to shame. They are exquisitely sensitive to the slightest criticism. The slightest criticism is felt as the deepest shame. What narcissists don't usually feel is guilt. Guilt is internal. Because they're not conscientious—they don't think about how their actions affect other people—they're not likely to feel guilty on their own.
Can narcissists be prompted to consider others? Yes, you can elicit empathy [if you specifically instruct them]( to see things from your point-of-view.
>While those who ranked low in narcissism responded with the same level of empathy regardless of the instructions, those with narcissistic tendencies “reported significantly higher empathy for Susan when they had been instructed to take her perspective,” the researchers write. Simply being told to see things from her point of view—something that does not come naturally for narcissists—allowed them to step outside themselves and feel something for her.
**TL;DR: Shame? Yes. Guilt? Not their default response, but yes.** | Actually, narcissists are highly vulnerable to shame. They are exquisitely sensitive to the slightest criticism. The slightest criticism is felt as the deepest shame. What narcissists don't usually feel is guilt. Guilt is internal. Because they're not conscientious—they don't think about how their actions affect other people—they're not likely to feel guilty on their own.
Can narcissists be prompted to consider others? Yes, you can elicit empathy [if you specifically instruct them]( to see things from your point-of-view.
>While those who ranked low in narcissism responded with the same level of empathy regardless of the instructions, those with narcissistic tendencies “reported significantly higher empathy for Susan when they had been instructed to take her perspective,” the researchers write. Simply being told to see things from her point of view—something that does not come naturally for narcissists—allowed them to step outside themselves and feel something for her.
TL;DR: Shame? Yes. Guilt? Not their default response, but yes.
| raisedbynarcissists | t5_2we9n | co5xpa0 | Actually, narcissists are highly vulnerable to shame. They are exquisitely sensitive to the slightest criticism. The slightest criticism is felt as the deepest shame. What narcissists don't usually feel is guilt. Guilt is internal. Because they're not conscientious—they don't think about how their actions affect other people—they're not likely to feel guilty on their own.
Can narcissists be prompted to consider others? Yes, you can elicit empathy [if you specifically instruct them]( to see things from your point-of-view.
>While those who ranked low in narcissism responded with the same level of empathy regardless of the instructions, those with narcissistic tendencies “reported significantly higher empathy for Susan when they had been instructed to take her perspective,” the researchers write. Simply being told to see things from her point of view—something that does not come naturally for narcissists—allowed them to step outside themselves and feel something for her. | Shame? Yes. Guilt? Not their default response, but yes. |
OfSpock | Most red pill story I know.
Young, attractive blonde sixteen year old girl got herself a slightly older boyfriend. Lost virginity to him but he seemed uninterested in marriage. She flirts with and tries to pick up older married men at sports club. these guys were very blue pill and turned her down, but did gossip about it amongst themselves. She finds red pill man who is keen to cheat on his wife with her. Concerned friends tell wife about affair. Wife is very red pill, trim, attractive,submissive SAHM, eventually asks husband about rumours and believes him when he denies it.
Sick of waiting, 16yo gets pregnant and tells red pill guy. He dumps faithful wife and moves in with teenage fling. Wife returns to parents in another town and I lose touch with her. Presumably red pill guy sees his children less.
Red pill guy marries teenage fling and she has three kids over the next five years. Still looks really hot and they are still married. I see her quite a bit and don't see him for months at a time. He works a lot.
I don't ask fling personal questions but someone asks if she is worried she wasted her youth in front of me. She replies that she never wanted a career, just to get married and have kids. She wasn't too concerned about the guy, just that he had a good job so he could support her and the kids. Sex isn't that big of a deal so she doesn't care that he's old.
Rumour has it that her ex-boyfriend is the father of her eldest but I can't speak to the truth of that.
TL;DR. At peak of SMV, girl ditches AF for BB because cock carousal boring. Gets own way in everything. Wife goggles ineffective. | Most red pill story I know.
Young, attractive blonde sixteen year old girl got herself a slightly older boyfriend. Lost virginity to him but he seemed uninterested in marriage. She flirts with and tries to pick up older married men at sports club. these guys were very blue pill and turned her down, but did gossip about it amongst themselves. She finds red pill man who is keen to cheat on his wife with her. Concerned friends tell wife about affair. Wife is very red pill, trim, attractive,submissive SAHM, eventually asks husband about rumours and believes him when he denies it.
Sick of waiting, 16yo gets pregnant and tells red pill guy. He dumps faithful wife and moves in with teenage fling. Wife returns to parents in another town and I lose touch with her. Presumably red pill guy sees his children less.
Red pill guy marries teenage fling and she has three kids over the next five years. Still looks really hot and they are still married. I see her quite a bit and don't see him for months at a time. He works a lot.
I don't ask fling personal questions but someone asks if she is worried she wasted her youth in front of me. She replies that she never wanted a career, just to get married and have kids. She wasn't too concerned about the guy, just that he had a good job so he could support her and the kids. Sex isn't that big of a deal so she doesn't care that he's old.
Rumour has it that her ex-boyfriend is the father of her eldest but I can't speak to the truth of that.
TL;DR. At peak of SMV, girl ditches AF for BB because cock carousal boring. Gets own way in everything. Wife goggles ineffective.
| PurplePillDebate | t5_2ya42 | co5ey6a | Most red pill story I know.
Young, attractive blonde sixteen year old girl got herself a slightly older boyfriend. Lost virginity to him but he seemed uninterested in marriage. She flirts with and tries to pick up older married men at sports club. these guys were very blue pill and turned her down, but did gossip about it amongst themselves. She finds red pill man who is keen to cheat on his wife with her. Concerned friends tell wife about affair. Wife is very red pill, trim, attractive,submissive SAHM, eventually asks husband about rumours and believes him when he denies it.
Sick of waiting, 16yo gets pregnant and tells red pill guy. He dumps faithful wife and moves in with teenage fling. Wife returns to parents in another town and I lose touch with her. Presumably red pill guy sees his children less.
Red pill guy marries teenage fling and she has three kids over the next five years. Still looks really hot and they are still married. I see her quite a bit and don't see him for months at a time. He works a lot.
I don't ask fling personal questions but someone asks if she is worried she wasted her youth in front of me. She replies that she never wanted a career, just to get married and have kids. She wasn't too concerned about the guy, just that he had a good job so he could support her and the kids. Sex isn't that big of a deal so she doesn't care that he's old.
Rumour has it that her ex-boyfriend is the father of her eldest but I can't speak to the truth of that. | At peak of SMV, girl ditches AF for BB because cock carousal boring. Gets own way in everything. Wife goggles ineffective. |
Zourah402 | Ontology doesn't really work as a value. Think about ontology (and epistemology for that matter) as a bigger category for stuff. So take things like god, other universes, etc. That would be an example of ontology that is separate from metaphysics. But there is the metaphysical use of ontology (which is more common to read/write about) which deals with the relations of certain things and how they relate to not only each other (including other values)
What you might want to use ontology for is for a framework to compete in. So say that you hear a lot of kritikal affirmatives, you can read an ontological framework and try and force them out of the debate about discourse.
tl;dr No. | Ontology doesn't really work as a value. Think about ontology (and epistemology for that matter) as a bigger category for stuff. So take things like god, other universes, etc. That would be an example of ontology that is separate from metaphysics. But there is the metaphysical use of ontology (which is more common to read/write about) which deals with the relations of certain things and how they relate to not only each other (including other values)
What you might want to use ontology for is for a framework to compete in. So say that you hear a lot of kritikal affirmatives, you can read an ontological framework and try and force them out of the debate about discourse.
tl;dr No.
| lincolndouglas | t5_2rbui | co5g4vk | Ontology doesn't really work as a value. Think about ontology (and epistemology for that matter) as a bigger category for stuff. So take things like god, other universes, etc. That would be an example of ontology that is separate from metaphysics. But there is the metaphysical use of ontology (which is more common to read/write about) which deals with the relations of certain things and how they relate to not only each other (including other values)
What you might want to use ontology for is for a framework to compete in. So say that you hear a lot of kritikal affirmatives, you can read an ontological framework and try and force them out of the debate about discourse. | No. |
HonorInDefeat | I'll give you the car thing but I feel like there's an argument to be made regarding Twilight's maturity. I mean lets not kid ourselves, this isn't exactly Breaking Bad, these characters aren't really all that developed, things can change quickly from one episode to the next and what happens on one day doesn't usually have much bearing on what happens the next. That goes double for those big bads you mentioned, they show up for an episode or two, there's some rainbow effects and then we're back to balloon parties and glitter cupcakes. I was honestly really surprised that they gave Twilight that big palace at the end of the last season because it means the chemistry of the show is actually going to be shaken up in a fairly big way, which simply hasn't happened before.
And I guess that's really the core of my argument, I don't think Twilight (or really anyone's) character or role is all that solid, she given a very basic personality and a few traits and some situations to use it in. The show could tell us that all of the Mane Six are actually Carrot farmers from Neptune and I think I would honestly be OK with it as long as Twilight is still smart, Pinkie is still fun, AJ is still determined, Rarity is still a priss, and Fluttershy still demure.
Wow, that went off on a tangent. Ok TL;DR - I see and too an extent agree with your points but I honestly feel like you give this show a little too much credit. | I'll give you the car thing but I feel like there's an argument to be made regarding Twilight's maturity. I mean lets not kid ourselves, this isn't exactly Breaking Bad, these characters aren't really all that developed, things can change quickly from one episode to the next and what happens on one day doesn't usually have much bearing on what happens the next. That goes double for those big bads you mentioned, they show up for an episode or two, there's some rainbow effects and then we're back to balloon parties and glitter cupcakes. I was honestly really surprised that they gave Twilight that big palace at the end of the last season because it means the chemistry of the show is actually going to be shaken up in a fairly big way, which simply hasn't happened before.
And I guess that's really the core of my argument, I don't think Twilight (or really anyone's) character or role is all that solid, she given a very basic personality and a few traits and some situations to use it in. The show could tell us that all of the Mane Six are actually Carrot farmers from Neptune and I think I would honestly be OK with it as long as Twilight is still smart, Pinkie is still fun, AJ is still determined, Rarity is still a priss, and Fluttershy still demure.
Wow, that went off on a tangent. Ok TL;DR - I see and too an extent agree with your points but I honestly feel like you give this show a little too much credit.
| mylittlepony | t5_2s8bl | co5v0h2 | I'll give you the car thing but I feel like there's an argument to be made regarding Twilight's maturity. I mean lets not kid ourselves, this isn't exactly Breaking Bad, these characters aren't really all that developed, things can change quickly from one episode to the next and what happens on one day doesn't usually have much bearing on what happens the next. That goes double for those big bads you mentioned, they show up for an episode or two, there's some rainbow effects and then we're back to balloon parties and glitter cupcakes. I was honestly really surprised that they gave Twilight that big palace at the end of the last season because it means the chemistry of the show is actually going to be shaken up in a fairly big way, which simply hasn't happened before.
And I guess that's really the core of my argument, I don't think Twilight (or really anyone's) character or role is all that solid, she given a very basic personality and a few traits and some situations to use it in. The show could tell us that all of the Mane Six are actually Carrot farmers from Neptune and I think I would honestly be OK with it as long as Twilight is still smart, Pinkie is still fun, AJ is still determined, Rarity is still a priss, and Fluttershy still demure.
Wow, that went off on a tangent. Ok | I see and too an extent agree with your points but I honestly feel like you give this show a little too much credit. |
KravenErgeist | We can talk all we want about how Twilight has no reason for liking Flash Sentry, a topic for which Hasbro would have even less time time to expound upon in the movie universe then they would in the series, since it's thus far been established that Flash Sentry and his relationship with Twilight basically do not exist in the regular series, which as a whole is not a very important topic when compared to the overall message of the movies (Friendship and, more importantly, product placement). However, as well rounded and thought out a show as MLP is, it is still a show aimed at a younger audience, and its over-arching themes have always been and pretty much always will be friendship, cooperation and conflict resolution. Romantic relationships have always sort of taken a back seat for this show.
QED, there is about as little development in the relationship between Shining Armor and Cadence, the power couple of MLP, as there is for Flash Sentry and Twilight.
We barely ever see any interaction between Shining Armor and Cadence (as *Cadence* and not as Queen Chrysalis bewitching Shining Armor with a spell). And everything mentioned about *why* they are in love is only ever mentioned as an afterthought. Shining Armor and Cadence are in love because they say they are in love. And in a similar fashion, Flash Sentry and Twilight are potentially interested in one another because they say they're potentially interested in one another.
That is it. MLP as a series is simply not in the business of presenting these relationships as anything other than set-pieces, background fodder that we can take for granted because they are tropes. Complex and well-thought-out romantic relationships just aren't going to be a thing with this series (which is half the reason fanart like this even exists). The most development we've ever gotten on the subject of romantic relationships actually takes place between Rarity and Trenderhoof, and to a lesser extent, Big Mac and Cheeralie, and both of those examples actually do more to demonstrate how a relationships DON'T work than how they do. I suppose a case could be made for Cranky and Matilda, but their relationship was pretty much also pre-established, if estranged, and I'm not counting Spike and Rarity here because I'm pretty sure that's going to remain the status quo pretty much indefinitely.
Cadence and Shining Armor were both introduced during the same episode that they were established to be in love, and so we take it as granted. But Twilight Sparkle? We've known her since the beginning, and for her to suddenly potentially be paired with some random pony is a jarringly major development, clearly. I do think, however, that it would behoove us (heh) if we took a look at why this potential development *really* upsets us.
My theory is that most of the brony community consists of individuals who personally struggle with relationships, as many of us do, and when we sympathize with the major characters of a show like we do, the relationships of those characters become that much more important to us. More to the point, the nuances of *how* those relationships come to be are *exponentially* more important to us, because as character we can sympathize with, they can help us maybe take a closer examination of our own love life, and maybe even draw some kind of solace from it.
So it hits us a lot harder (obviously) when the main character of the show finds a potential romantic partner than it does for any of the side characters or one-off characters. As such, we're not really inclined to examine the nuances of these side romances as hard as we examine those of the main characters. There is certainly good reason for this - main characters have much more of an affect on the overall show, and we see them much more regularly, so the various aspects of their lives have more of an affect on us, and so on. However, if you take a step back, and look at all the established pairings in the show, you'll find that Hasbro has never delivered what we're *really* looking for when it comes to characters in romantic relationships, no matter which pairing you're talking about, and it probably never will.
I have always believed that this community has had an overly outrageous reaction to Flash Sentry than is deserved, particularly when (as mentioned above) he essentially doesn't exist in the regular series, and his appearance in the second Equestria Girls movie didn't even really touch the subject of their relationship. I really think that anyone who feels affronted by Flash Sentry's status as a potential romantic interest for Twilight could really stand to benefit from a closer examination of their feelings on the matter.
You may be surprised by what you find.
TL;DR: Your waifu's love life just isn't as important to Hasbro as it is to us Bronies. | We can talk all we want about how Twilight has no reason for liking Flash Sentry, a topic for which Hasbro would have even less time time to expound upon in the movie universe then they would in the series, since it's thus far been established that Flash Sentry and his relationship with Twilight basically do not exist in the regular series, which as a whole is not a very important topic when compared to the overall message of the movies (Friendship and, more importantly, product placement). However, as well rounded and thought out a show as MLP is, it is still a show aimed at a younger audience, and its over-arching themes have always been and pretty much always will be friendship, cooperation and conflict resolution. Romantic relationships have always sort of taken a back seat for this show.
QED, there is about as little development in the relationship between Shining Armor and Cadence, the power couple of MLP, as there is for Flash Sentry and Twilight.
We barely ever see any interaction between Shining Armor and Cadence (as Cadence and not as Queen Chrysalis bewitching Shining Armor with a spell). And everything mentioned about why they are in love is only ever mentioned as an afterthought. Shining Armor and Cadence are in love because they say they are in love. And in a similar fashion, Flash Sentry and Twilight are potentially interested in one another because they say they're potentially interested in one another.
That is it. MLP as a series is simply not in the business of presenting these relationships as anything other than set-pieces, background fodder that we can take for granted because they are tropes. Complex and well-thought-out romantic relationships just aren't going to be a thing with this series (which is half the reason fanart like this even exists). The most development we've ever gotten on the subject of romantic relationships actually takes place between Rarity and Trenderhoof, and to a lesser extent, Big Mac and Cheeralie, and both of those examples actually do more to demonstrate how a relationships DON'T work than how they do. I suppose a case could be made for Cranky and Matilda, but their relationship was pretty much also pre-established, if estranged, and I'm not counting Spike and Rarity here because I'm pretty sure that's going to remain the status quo pretty much indefinitely.
Cadence and Shining Armor were both introduced during the same episode that they were established to be in love, and so we take it as granted. But Twilight Sparkle? We've known her since the beginning, and for her to suddenly potentially be paired with some random pony is a jarringly major development, clearly. I do think, however, that it would behoove us (heh) if we took a look at why this potential development really upsets us.
My theory is that most of the brony community consists of individuals who personally struggle with relationships, as many of us do, and when we sympathize with the major characters of a show like we do, the relationships of those characters become that much more important to us. More to the point, the nuances of how those relationships come to be are exponentially more important to us, because as character we can sympathize with, they can help us maybe take a closer examination of our own love life, and maybe even draw some kind of solace from it.
So it hits us a lot harder (obviously) when the main character of the show finds a potential romantic partner than it does for any of the side characters or one-off characters. As such, we're not really inclined to examine the nuances of these side romances as hard as we examine those of the main characters. There is certainly good reason for this - main characters have much more of an affect on the overall show, and we see them much more regularly, so the various aspects of their lives have more of an affect on us, and so on. However, if you take a step back, and look at all the established pairings in the show, you'll find that Hasbro has never delivered what we're really looking for when it comes to characters in romantic relationships, no matter which pairing you're talking about, and it probably never will.
I have always believed that this community has had an overly outrageous reaction to Flash Sentry than is deserved, particularly when (as mentioned above) he essentially doesn't exist in the regular series, and his appearance in the second Equestria Girls movie didn't even really touch the subject of their relationship. I really think that anyone who feels affronted by Flash Sentry's status as a potential romantic interest for Twilight could really stand to benefit from a closer examination of their feelings on the matter.
You may be surprised by what you find.
TL;DR: Your waifu's love life just isn't as important to Hasbro as it is to us Bronies.
| mylittlepony | t5_2s8bl | co63n4p | We can talk all we want about how Twilight has no reason for liking Flash Sentry, a topic for which Hasbro would have even less time time to expound upon in the movie universe then they would in the series, since it's thus far been established that Flash Sentry and his relationship with Twilight basically do not exist in the regular series, which as a whole is not a very important topic when compared to the overall message of the movies (Friendship and, more importantly, product placement). However, as well rounded and thought out a show as MLP is, it is still a show aimed at a younger audience, and its over-arching themes have always been and pretty much always will be friendship, cooperation and conflict resolution. Romantic relationships have always sort of taken a back seat for this show.
QED, there is about as little development in the relationship between Shining Armor and Cadence, the power couple of MLP, as there is for Flash Sentry and Twilight.
We barely ever see any interaction between Shining Armor and Cadence (as Cadence and not as Queen Chrysalis bewitching Shining Armor with a spell). And everything mentioned about why they are in love is only ever mentioned as an afterthought. Shining Armor and Cadence are in love because they say they are in love. And in a similar fashion, Flash Sentry and Twilight are potentially interested in one another because they say they're potentially interested in one another.
That is it. MLP as a series is simply not in the business of presenting these relationships as anything other than set-pieces, background fodder that we can take for granted because they are tropes. Complex and well-thought-out romantic relationships just aren't going to be a thing with this series (which is half the reason fanart like this even exists). The most development we've ever gotten on the subject of romantic relationships actually takes place between Rarity and Trenderhoof, and to a lesser extent, Big Mac and Cheeralie, and both of those examples actually do more to demonstrate how a relationships DON'T work than how they do. I suppose a case could be made for Cranky and Matilda, but their relationship was pretty much also pre-established, if estranged, and I'm not counting Spike and Rarity here because I'm pretty sure that's going to remain the status quo pretty much indefinitely.
Cadence and Shining Armor were both introduced during the same episode that they were established to be in love, and so we take it as granted. But Twilight Sparkle? We've known her since the beginning, and for her to suddenly potentially be paired with some random pony is a jarringly major development, clearly. I do think, however, that it would behoove us (heh) if we took a look at why this potential development really upsets us.
My theory is that most of the brony community consists of individuals who personally struggle with relationships, as many of us do, and when we sympathize with the major characters of a show like we do, the relationships of those characters become that much more important to us. More to the point, the nuances of how those relationships come to be are exponentially more important to us, because as character we can sympathize with, they can help us maybe take a closer examination of our own love life, and maybe even draw some kind of solace from it.
So it hits us a lot harder (obviously) when the main character of the show finds a potential romantic partner than it does for any of the side characters or one-off characters. As such, we're not really inclined to examine the nuances of these side romances as hard as we examine those of the main characters. There is certainly good reason for this - main characters have much more of an affect on the overall show, and we see them much more regularly, so the various aspects of their lives have more of an affect on us, and so on. However, if you take a step back, and look at all the established pairings in the show, you'll find that Hasbro has never delivered what we're really looking for when it comes to characters in romantic relationships, no matter which pairing you're talking about, and it probably never will.
I have always believed that this community has had an overly outrageous reaction to Flash Sentry than is deserved, particularly when (as mentioned above) he essentially doesn't exist in the regular series, and his appearance in the second Equestria Girls movie didn't even really touch the subject of their relationship. I really think that anyone who feels affronted by Flash Sentry's status as a potential romantic interest for Twilight could really stand to benefit from a closer examination of their feelings on the matter.
You may be surprised by what you find. | Your waifu's love life just isn't as important to Hasbro as it is to us Bronies. |
KetoLubber | You're not looking at the reason for the deflation. Deflation as a consequence of growing economic productivity is a long-term trend that any economy will experience in the face of free-markets; this is healthy.
You're becoming confused & equating temporary correctional deflationary periods with the former. These temporary deflationary periods are also healthy because they correct the imbalances from the latter years, and realign resources to reflect reality; i.e. people lose their jobs in unproductive sectors. You may superficially view these deflationary periods as *"bad! Government needz to print more moniez!"*, but in reality these corrections **must** occur. Refer to the stock market bubble of the 20s; i.e. the "roaring twenties."
Any attempt from government to distort the markets from naturally correcting (deflation) in the short term will be met with long term depression as the underlying structural problems remain unsolved... i.e. the Great Depression. Only after WWII did we come out of the depression; when we cut taxes and government spending, and we had the single greatest year in economic productivity in history. Government Spending in 1948 was cut to ONE THIRD of the level in 1945. AND THE ECONOMY BOOMED.
I refer you to begin here:
**TLDR:** Printing a bunch of money will never solve structural economic imbalances. | You're not looking at the reason for the deflation. Deflation as a consequence of growing economic productivity is a long-term trend that any economy will experience in the face of free-markets; this is healthy.
You're becoming confused & equating temporary correctional deflationary periods with the former. These temporary deflationary periods are also healthy because they correct the imbalances from the latter years, and realign resources to reflect reality; i.e. people lose their jobs in unproductive sectors. You may superficially view these deflationary periods as "bad! Government needz to print more moniez!" , but in reality these corrections must occur. Refer to the stock market bubble of the 20s; i.e. the "roaring twenties."
Any attempt from government to distort the markets from naturally correcting (deflation) in the short term will be met with long term depression as the underlying structural problems remain unsolved... i.e. the Great Depression. Only after WWII did we come out of the depression; when we cut taxes and government spending, and we had the single greatest year in economic productivity in history. Government Spending in 1948 was cut to ONE THIRD of the level in 1945. AND THE ECONOMY BOOMED.
I refer you to begin here:
TLDR: Printing a bunch of money will never solve structural economic imbalances.
| Economics | t5_2qh1s | co644d5 | You're not looking at the reason for the deflation. Deflation as a consequence of growing economic productivity is a long-term trend that any economy will experience in the face of free-markets; this is healthy.
You're becoming confused & equating temporary correctional deflationary periods with the former. These temporary deflationary periods are also healthy because they correct the imbalances from the latter years, and realign resources to reflect reality; i.e. people lose their jobs in unproductive sectors. You may superficially view these deflationary periods as "bad! Government needz to print more moniez!" , but in reality these corrections must occur. Refer to the stock market bubble of the 20s; i.e. the "roaring twenties."
Any attempt from government to distort the markets from naturally correcting (deflation) in the short term will be met with long term depression as the underlying structural problems remain unsolved... i.e. the Great Depression. Only after WWII did we come out of the depression; when we cut taxes and government spending, and we had the single greatest year in economic productivity in history. Government Spending in 1948 was cut to ONE THIRD of the level in 1945. AND THE ECONOMY BOOMED.
I refer you to begin here: | Printing a bunch of money will never solve structural economic imbalances. |
theonewithsomething | My best and worse day are combined.
My best day was being told I got the job and all they needed was a birth certificate.
I had previously been using a change of name document issued when I was three that showed citizenship and date of birth which had always been accepted for job applications and pretty much every important document and ID for my lifetime, please note I was at this point 20 years old.
My employer wanted the Birth Certificate by 3pm the next day.
My worst day:
I went to Births deaths and marriages with my change of name doc and presented it to the lady at the counter and asked for my birth certificate. (Also had drivers licence, bank statements ect).
Her response, this document is invalid and is not who you are, you will need to provide documentation of your previous name. Apparently due to legislation the authority that changed my name was no more and I should have updated in 1996.
I advised the lady that I had never used my previous name, even the baby band I wore in the hospital when I was born was under a different name.
Anyway after explaining my story to four different people who I had to repeat my story from beginning to end, they wanted proof I was doing this for a job, they wanted forms of my entire life and family history completed. They sent me to a fifth person. His first question was 'and why do you want to change your name?'
I cried, these were the hysterics of a person whose name was invalid and if they couldn't provide a birth certificate by 3pm would also be unemployed.
I think the man pitied me, after some more forms that were faxed everywhere and came back covered in urgent writing I left that building at 2pm $673.00 poorer and with a birth certificate that showed my old name and also said I had changed my name from theonewithsomething to theonewithsomething.
Got the job though.
Tl;dr my previous change of name form was deemed invalid to obtain a birth certificate I needed by 3pm for a job, charged me $673.00 to change my name from theonewithsomething to Theonewithsomething, got the job though. | My best and worse day are combined.
My best day was being told I got the job and all they needed was a birth certificate.
I had previously been using a change of name document issued when I was three that showed citizenship and date of birth which had always been accepted for job applications and pretty much every important document and ID for my lifetime, please note I was at this point 20 years old.
My employer wanted the Birth Certificate by 3pm the next day.
My worst day:
I went to Births deaths and marriages with my change of name doc and presented it to the lady at the counter and asked for my birth certificate. (Also had drivers licence, bank statements ect).
Her response, this document is invalid and is not who you are, you will need to provide documentation of your previous name. Apparently due to legislation the authority that changed my name was no more and I should have updated in 1996.
I advised the lady that I had never used my previous name, even the baby band I wore in the hospital when I was born was under a different name.
Anyway after explaining my story to four different people who I had to repeat my story from beginning to end, they wanted proof I was doing this for a job, they wanted forms of my entire life and family history completed. They sent me to a fifth person. His first question was 'and why do you want to change your name?'
I cried, these were the hysterics of a person whose name was invalid and if they couldn't provide a birth certificate by 3pm would also be unemployed.
I think the man pitied me, after some more forms that were faxed everywhere and came back covered in urgent writing I left that building at 2pm $673.00 poorer and with a birth certificate that showed my old name and also said I had changed my name from theonewithsomething to theonewithsomething.
Got the job though.
Tl;dr my previous change of name form was deemed invalid to obtain a birth certificate I needed by 3pm for a job, charged me $673.00 to change my name from theonewithsomething to Theonewithsomething, got the job though.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | co5u949 | My best and worse day are combined.
My best day was being told I got the job and all they needed was a birth certificate.
I had previously been using a change of name document issued when I was three that showed citizenship and date of birth which had always been accepted for job applications and pretty much every important document and ID for my lifetime, please note I was at this point 20 years old.
My employer wanted the Birth Certificate by 3pm the next day.
My worst day:
I went to Births deaths and marriages with my change of name doc and presented it to the lady at the counter and asked for my birth certificate. (Also had drivers licence, bank statements ect).
Her response, this document is invalid and is not who you are, you will need to provide documentation of your previous name. Apparently due to legislation the authority that changed my name was no more and I should have updated in 1996.
I advised the lady that I had never used my previous name, even the baby band I wore in the hospital when I was born was under a different name.
Anyway after explaining my story to four different people who I had to repeat my story from beginning to end, they wanted proof I was doing this for a job, they wanted forms of my entire life and family history completed. They sent me to a fifth person. His first question was 'and why do you want to change your name?'
I cried, these were the hysterics of a person whose name was invalid and if they couldn't provide a birth certificate by 3pm would also be unemployed.
I think the man pitied me, after some more forms that were faxed everywhere and came back covered in urgent writing I left that building at 2pm $673.00 poorer and with a birth certificate that showed my old name and also said I had changed my name from theonewithsomething to theonewithsomething.
Got the job though. | my previous change of name form was deemed invalid to obtain a birth certificate I needed by 3pm for a job, charged me $673.00 to change my name from theonewithsomething to Theonewithsomething, got the job though. |
am0x | I got my diamond at an estate sale and took a chance. I brought our family friend who is a long time jeweler and he said it looked really good...estimated the actual price around $20k more than what I got it for.
Got it appraised and it was extremely high quality, and the jeweler/gemologist/whatever said it was rare to see one of this quality. He estimated it about $30k more than I paid. Got a $300 setting and she was ecstatic. Everyone can't believe how good it looks. Even made my sister mad and she has a med/low quality 4 carat diamond.
TL,DR: Check out estate sales and take a jeweler. Don't feel guilty for the blood diamond thing, plus you get a good deal. | I got my diamond at an estate sale and took a chance. I brought our family friend who is a long time jeweler and he said it looked really good...estimated the actual price around $20k more than what I got it for.
Got it appraised and it was extremely high quality, and the jeweler/gemologist/whatever said it was rare to see one of this quality. He estimated it about $30k more than I paid. Got a $300 setting and she was ecstatic. Everyone can't believe how good it looks. Even made my sister mad and she has a med/low quality 4 carat diamond.
TL,DR: Check out estate sales and take a jeweler. Don't feel guilty for the blood diamond thing, plus you get a good deal.
| everymanshouldknow | t5_2u82c | co6iwe8 | I got my diamond at an estate sale and took a chance. I brought our family friend who is a long time jeweler and he said it looked really good...estimated the actual price around $20k more than what I got it for.
Got it appraised and it was extremely high quality, and the jeweler/gemologist/whatever said it was rare to see one of this quality. He estimated it about $30k more than I paid. Got a $300 setting and she was ecstatic. Everyone can't believe how good it looks. Even made my sister mad and she has a med/low quality 4 carat diamond. | Check out estate sales and take a jeweler. Don't feel guilty for the blood diamond thing, plus you get a good deal. |
trainde | Because Jews hire Jews before they hire anyone else. Kind of like asking why there was a higher percentage of white people doing desk jobs than manual jobs in comparison to blacks in the early 1900s. Its about hiring "your own" except when social and legal consequences prevent you from doing so. There is no social or legal consequence for Jews hiring one another over other demographics. If anything it is admirable to Americans and they see it as a tight knit community with a strong set of values. Compound many generations of this sort of discrimination/preference for one's people/racism/family values (however you choose to see it) and you have newer generations with more money to pay for better upbringings, to the point where your family can afford to grant you with good education, and know someone that is more willing to hire within their social circle/demographic.
tl'dr Not trying to be anti-Semitic, but it really boils down to many generations of favouring Jews over goys when hiring. | Because Jews hire Jews before they hire anyone else. Kind of like asking why there was a higher percentage of white people doing desk jobs than manual jobs in comparison to blacks in the early 1900s. Its about hiring "your own" except when social and legal consequences prevent you from doing so. There is no social or legal consequence for Jews hiring one another over other demographics. If anything it is admirable to Americans and they see it as a tight knit community with a strong set of values. Compound many generations of this sort of discrimination/preference for one's people/racism/family values (however you choose to see it) and you have newer generations with more money to pay for better upbringings, to the point where your family can afford to grant you with good education, and know someone that is more willing to hire within their social circle/demographic.
tl'dr Not trying to be anti-Semitic, but it really boils down to many generations of favouring Jews over goys when hiring.
| explainlikeimfive | t5_2sokd | co6e18o | Because Jews hire Jews before they hire anyone else. Kind of like asking why there was a higher percentage of white people doing desk jobs than manual jobs in comparison to blacks in the early 1900s. Its about hiring "your own" except when social and legal consequences prevent you from doing so. There is no social or legal consequence for Jews hiring one another over other demographics. If anything it is admirable to Americans and they see it as a tight knit community with a strong set of values. Compound many generations of this sort of discrimination/preference for one's people/racism/family values (however you choose to see it) and you have newer generations with more money to pay for better upbringings, to the point where your family can afford to grant you with good education, and know someone that is more willing to hire within their social circle/demographic. | Not trying to be anti-Semitic, but it really boils down to many generations of favouring Jews over goys when hiring. |
TriumphantGeorge | Ah, the "good stuff", yes!
Reality is certainly having lots of fun lately, a jolly joke at the expense of its participants. I guess reality's biggest joke is that it is only made from the experience of it; there is nothing underneath. And that it isn't separate. This can be summarised in the idea that:
1. Experiences leave traces which *in-form* subsequent experiences.
2. Thoughts are experiences too, and so both shape and are shaped by the same process.
3. This can be summarised in [a diagram I keep meaning to do a better version of](
4. In other words, the "shape" of your apparent world corresponds to the "shape" of your mind.
5. There is no "outside" to this state of affairs.
It's tempting to think of this as a metaphor for the brain, but really we should see the brain as a "image in experience" of the mind. After all, you've never really experienced having a brain, have you? This is not a comment on your intelligence. ;-)
This also lead to *The Blanket Metaphor* for reality, where it's all just, well... shapes in a blanket, baby!
TL;DR: *Down with the multi-verse!*
| Ah, the "good stuff", yes!
Reality is certainly having lots of fun lately, a jolly joke at the expense of its participants. I guess reality's biggest joke is that it is only made from the experience of it; there is nothing underneath. And that it isn't separate. This can be summarised in the idea that:
Experiences leave traces which in-form subsequent experiences.
Thoughts are experiences too, and so both shape and are shaped by the same process.
This can be summarised in [a diagram I keep meaning to do a better version of](
In other words, the "shape" of your apparent world corresponds to the "shape" of your mind.
There is no "outside" to this state of affairs.
It's tempting to think of this as a metaphor for the brain, but really we should see the brain as a "image in experience" of the mind. After all, you've never really experienced having a brain, have you? This is not a comment on your intelligence. ;-)
This also lead to The Blanket Metaphor for reality, where it's all just, well... shapes in a blanket, baby!
TL;DR: Down with the multi-verse!
| Glitch_in_the_Matrix | t5_2tcwa | cpdh0fp | Ah, the "good stuff", yes!
Reality is certainly having lots of fun lately, a jolly joke at the expense of its participants. I guess reality's biggest joke is that it is only made from the experience of it; there is nothing underneath. And that it isn't separate. This can be summarised in the idea that:
Experiences leave traces which in-form subsequent experiences.
Thoughts are experiences too, and so both shape and are shaped by the same process.
This can be summarised in [a diagram I keep meaning to do a better version of](
In other words, the "shape" of your apparent world corresponds to the "shape" of your mind.
There is no "outside" to this state of affairs.
It's tempting to think of this as a metaphor for the brain, but really we should see the brain as a "image in experience" of the mind. After all, you've never really experienced having a brain, have you? This is not a comment on your intelligence. ;-)
This also lead to The Blanket Metaphor for reality, where it's all just, well... shapes in a blanket, baby! | Down with the multi-verse! |
PoppySiddal | Please do get a booster if you are able. I was also vaccinated but I'm immune impaired like you are, so I got an MMR booster. I've now also had pertussis, pneumonia and flu shots.
Anyone who thinks whooping cough is anything like a cold is out of their tiny little mind. When I had whooping cough it felt like my body would not stop until it coughed both my lungs out. Couldn't breathe, talk or sleep. I wanted to die.
TL; DR: Please get vaccinated. | Please do get a booster if you are able. I was also vaccinated but I'm immune impaired like you are, so I got an MMR booster. I've now also had pertussis, pneumonia and flu shots.
Anyone who thinks whooping cough is anything like a cold is out of their tiny little mind. When I had whooping cough it felt like my body would not stop until it coughed both my lungs out. Couldn't breathe, talk or sleep. I wanted to die.
TL; DR: Please get vaccinated.
| science | t5_mouw | co6tywp | Please do get a booster if you are able. I was also vaccinated but I'm immune impaired like you are, so I got an MMR booster. I've now also had pertussis, pneumonia and flu shots.
Anyone who thinks whooping cough is anything like a cold is out of their tiny little mind. When I had whooping cough it felt like my body would not stop until it coughed both my lungs out. Couldn't breathe, talk or sleep. I wanted to die. | Please get vaccinated. |
itfiend | They find it impossible to admit that they were unlucky and their child had autism (if you even view autism this way), refuse to believe that there's no reason why it happened, have to blame something and vaccines have become a convenience scapegoat thanks to Andrew Wakefield, the researcher who suggested the link who was later thoroughly discredited.
TLDR - People don't like to think things just happen, believe discredited research. | They find it impossible to admit that they were unlucky and their child had autism (if you even view autism this way), refuse to believe that there's no reason why it happened, have to blame something and vaccines have become a convenience scapegoat thanks to Andrew Wakefield, the researcher who suggested the link who was later thoroughly discredited.
TLDR - People don't like to think things just happen, believe discredited research.
| science | t5_mouw | co6uz6w | They find it impossible to admit that they were unlucky and their child had autism (if you even view autism this way), refuse to believe that there's no reason why it happened, have to blame something and vaccines have become a convenience scapegoat thanks to Andrew Wakefield, the researcher who suggested the link who was later thoroughly discredited. | People don't like to think things just happen, believe discredited research. |
bahhumbugger | 911 truthers exist too, as do climate change deniers. He'll every religion ever requires you to believe stories without evidence.
Tl;dr it's human to be stupid. | 911 truthers exist too, as do climate change deniers. He'll every religion ever requires you to believe stories without evidence.
Tl;dr it's human to be stupid.
| science | t5_mouw | co6v25y | 911 truthers exist too, as do climate change deniers. He'll every religion ever requires you to believe stories without evidence. | it's human to be stupid. |
snazzychica2812 | I'm autistic, and have a degree and two teaching licenses, including special ed. I trained in ABA for autistic children. I (and many others) frequently argue against the anti-vax movement and try to show how offensive it is. People brush us off by saying things like "You're not REAL autistic, you're Asperger's. You don't speak for my child, only I know their brain well enough to do that."
1. Asperger's doesn't exist as a new diagnosis anymore. Check the DSM-V. It's considered to be autistic disorder, though probably one in a separate class of need.
2. Not only do I have a brain with the same disorder as this child, I also have a degree specializing in autism and related disabilities.
They may know their child's special little quirks, but I truly know what it's like to be autistic, both personally and professionally.
TL;DR: These guys are condescending cunts, and I flap my hands in their general direction. | I'm autistic, and have a degree and two teaching licenses, including special ed. I trained in ABA for autistic children. I (and many others) frequently argue against the anti-vax movement and try to show how offensive it is. People brush us off by saying things like "You're not REAL autistic, you're Asperger's. You don't speak for my child, only I know their brain well enough to do that."
Asperger's doesn't exist as a new diagnosis anymore. Check the DSM-V. It's considered to be autistic disorder, though probably one in a separate class of need.
Not only do I have a brain with the same disorder as this child, I also have a degree specializing in autism and related disabilities.
They may know their child's special little quirks, but I truly know what it's like to be autistic, both personally and professionally.
TL;DR: These guys are condescending cunts, and I flap my hands in their general direction.
| science | t5_mouw | co6w8pv | I'm autistic, and have a degree and two teaching licenses, including special ed. I trained in ABA for autistic children. I (and many others) frequently argue against the anti-vax movement and try to show how offensive it is. People brush us off by saying things like "You're not REAL autistic, you're Asperger's. You don't speak for my child, only I know their brain well enough to do that."
Asperger's doesn't exist as a new diagnosis anymore. Check the DSM-V. It's considered to be autistic disorder, though probably one in a separate class of need.
Not only do I have a brain with the same disorder as this child, I also have a degree specializing in autism and related disabilities.
They may know their child's special little quirks, but I truly know what it's like to be autistic, both personally and professionally. | These guys are condescending cunts, and I flap my hands in their general direction. |
jokercard5 | My story was that I dated an emotionally unstable girl thinking I might be able to help her smooth things out in her life (HAHAHA no.). Eventually she broke up with me in order to immediately go to another guy (happened to be on the same team as me so I saw him often, awkward as hell). She was my first real relationship, so I had grown really attached, and when she broke up with me I just felt like I had failed and it was all my fault. I didn't really know what to do, but a few days later I found out she had been cheating for months, but I never confronted her about it because it was over and I didn't see a point in letting her know I knew. I was, however, mad as hell. Every bit of emotion that had been sorrow at losing the relationship turned into disdain for having been in it. Because we agreed to "still be friends," though, she would talk to me from time to time to try to be friendly and I would do my best to not be an asshole. Eventually (get this) she asks me for relationship advice on what to do when things start to get bumpy with her current beau, the guy she cheated on me for, and I (being the pathetic sap who really cared about not looking like the bad guy) complied and gave her the best advice I could, which seemed to fix the issue. Summer rolls on by and guess what? That fall she finds out the guy had been cheating on her and what does she do? She comes to me to say she's sorry about what happened between us and that she thinks she finally understands how I felt (I absolutely relished the irony). Eventually though, I just stopped talking to her because the more time I was near her the more I grew to hate her. Now we don't talk whatsoever, but I still hold a grudge and will sure as hell not let it go anytime soon. Is it healthy? Probably not, but at the same time, she's one person out of billions on this planet, so I figure I can totally afford to disdain her and avoid any contact.
TL;DR I'm a sap who cared too much, got hurt, tried to be nice, but eventually said "Fuck it, I'm out" and disconnected from the girl | My story was that I dated an emotionally unstable girl thinking I might be able to help her smooth things out in her life (HAHAHA no.). Eventually she broke up with me in order to immediately go to another guy (happened to be on the same team as me so I saw him often, awkward as hell). She was my first real relationship, so I had grown really attached, and when she broke up with me I just felt like I had failed and it was all my fault. I didn't really know what to do, but a few days later I found out she had been cheating for months, but I never confronted her about it because it was over and I didn't see a point in letting her know I knew. I was, however, mad as hell. Every bit of emotion that had been sorrow at losing the relationship turned into disdain for having been in it. Because we agreed to "still be friends," though, she would talk to me from time to time to try to be friendly and I would do my best to not be an asshole. Eventually (get this) she asks me for relationship advice on what to do when things start to get bumpy with her current beau, the guy she cheated on me for, and I (being the pathetic sap who really cared about not looking like the bad guy) complied and gave her the best advice I could, which seemed to fix the issue. Summer rolls on by and guess what? That fall she finds out the guy had been cheating on her and what does she do? She comes to me to say she's sorry about what happened between us and that she thinks she finally understands how I felt (I absolutely relished the irony). Eventually though, I just stopped talking to her because the more time I was near her the more I grew to hate her. Now we don't talk whatsoever, but I still hold a grudge and will sure as hell not let it go anytime soon. Is it healthy? Probably not, but at the same time, she's one person out of billions on this planet, so I figure I can totally afford to disdain her and avoid any contact.
TL;DR I'm a sap who cared too much, got hurt, tried to be nice, but eventually said "Fuck it, I'm out" and disconnected from the girl
| INTP | t5_2qhvl | co77c33 | My story was that I dated an emotionally unstable girl thinking I might be able to help her smooth things out in her life (HAHAHA no.). Eventually she broke up with me in order to immediately go to another guy (happened to be on the same team as me so I saw him often, awkward as hell). She was my first real relationship, so I had grown really attached, and when she broke up with me I just felt like I had failed and it was all my fault. I didn't really know what to do, but a few days later I found out she had been cheating for months, but I never confronted her about it because it was over and I didn't see a point in letting her know I knew. I was, however, mad as hell. Every bit of emotion that had been sorrow at losing the relationship turned into disdain for having been in it. Because we agreed to "still be friends," though, she would talk to me from time to time to try to be friendly and I would do my best to not be an asshole. Eventually (get this) she asks me for relationship advice on what to do when things start to get bumpy with her current beau, the guy she cheated on me for, and I (being the pathetic sap who really cared about not looking like the bad guy) complied and gave her the best advice I could, which seemed to fix the issue. Summer rolls on by and guess what? That fall she finds out the guy had been cheating on her and what does she do? She comes to me to say she's sorry about what happened between us and that she thinks she finally understands how I felt (I absolutely relished the irony). Eventually though, I just stopped talking to her because the more time I was near her the more I grew to hate her. Now we don't talk whatsoever, but I still hold a grudge and will sure as hell not let it go anytime soon. Is it healthy? Probably not, but at the same time, she's one person out of billions on this planet, so I figure I can totally afford to disdain her and avoid any contact. | I'm a sap who cared too much, got hurt, tried to be nice, but eventually said "Fuck it, I'm out" and disconnected from the girl |
yournudieshere | Unattractice girl or not, guys are still guys and will, commonly, fuck anything that moves. Guys seem to "fuck anything with tits" because it's just about whether you got laid or not. Girls seem to fuck with status and, seemingly usually, are picky because they want to fuck someone they think they'll be able to brag about to their friends.
tl;dr - girls fuck for status, guys fuck for fun | Unattractice girl or not, guys are still guys and will, commonly, fuck anything that moves. Guys seem to "fuck anything with tits" because it's just about whether you got laid or not. Girls seem to fuck with status and, seemingly usually, are picky because they want to fuck someone they think they'll be able to brag about to their friends.
tl;dr - girls fuck for status, guys fuck for fun
| todayilearned | t5_2qqjc | co7cepx | Unattractice girl or not, guys are still guys and will, commonly, fuck anything that moves. Guys seem to "fuck anything with tits" because it's just about whether you got laid or not. Girls seem to fuck with status and, seemingly usually, are picky because they want to fuck someone they think they'll be able to brag about to their friends. | girls fuck for status, guys fuck for fun |
Iamtheonewhobawks | I've got a solid theory about this, I think Bear with me. This isn't to make fun of overweight women or take cheap shots.
Okay. For better or worse, being overweight is generally less attractive to most people - especially young people. Being heavy doesn't make anyone ugly, just not top tier gorgeous/handsome. So women who're noticeably overweight/obese during puberty and their early twenties (the Age of Most Pronounced Shallowness) are going to have more trouble finding desirable men who are interested in them. File that away for the moment.
Women, at least in my experience, are generally taught that "sexual purity" is important. That doesn't just mean virginity, that means the whole kink scene. Men, however, are more taught that they are inherently filthy (in the fun way) and therefore have fewer qualms generally.
Now, here's the most important part - Butt Sex Is Fun when done right. It's fun for everyone. No point denying it, it is true, butt stuff is fantastic for both the catcher and pitcher so long as both parties take the needed time and preparation.
SO, what the hell are you getting at, iamtheonewhobawks?
Fat women, in a way to compete with those who are aesthetically (visually) more attractive than them, try out kink more often. They give butt stuff a shot earlier and more than once, because they don't have the magic spell of hot chick. Eventually they either find someone who knows what he's doing or they figure out a method on their own and HOLY SHIT THIS IS FUN! So they end up enjoying it, don't feel nearly so ashamed of it (normalization), and are more likely to be honest when answering the question of "do you do it in the butt?"
tl;dr: Fat chicks are scientists. | I've got a solid theory about this, I think Bear with me. This isn't to make fun of overweight women or take cheap shots.
Okay. For better or worse, being overweight is generally less attractive to most people - especially young people. Being heavy doesn't make anyone ugly, just not top tier gorgeous/handsome. So women who're noticeably overweight/obese during puberty and their early twenties (the Age of Most Pronounced Shallowness) are going to have more trouble finding desirable men who are interested in them. File that away for the moment.
Women, at least in my experience, are generally taught that "sexual purity" is important. That doesn't just mean virginity, that means the whole kink scene. Men, however, are more taught that they are inherently filthy (in the fun way) and therefore have fewer qualms generally.
Now, here's the most important part - Butt Sex Is Fun when done right. It's fun for everyone. No point denying it, it is true, butt stuff is fantastic for both the catcher and pitcher so long as both parties take the needed time and preparation.
SO, what the hell are you getting at, iamtheonewhobawks?
Fat women, in a way to compete with those who are aesthetically (visually) more attractive than them, try out kink more often. They give butt stuff a shot earlier and more than once, because they don't have the magic spell of hot chick. Eventually they either find someone who knows what he's doing or they figure out a method on their own and HOLY SHIT THIS IS FUN! So they end up enjoying it, don't feel nearly so ashamed of it (normalization), and are more likely to be honest when answering the question of "do you do it in the butt?"
tl;dr: Fat chicks are scientists.
| todayilearned | t5_2qqjc | co7are7 | I've got a solid theory about this, I think Bear with me. This isn't to make fun of overweight women or take cheap shots.
Okay. For better or worse, being overweight is generally less attractive to most people - especially young people. Being heavy doesn't make anyone ugly, just not top tier gorgeous/handsome. So women who're noticeably overweight/obese during puberty and their early twenties (the Age of Most Pronounced Shallowness) are going to have more trouble finding desirable men who are interested in them. File that away for the moment.
Women, at least in my experience, are generally taught that "sexual purity" is important. That doesn't just mean virginity, that means the whole kink scene. Men, however, are more taught that they are inherently filthy (in the fun way) and therefore have fewer qualms generally.
Now, here's the most important part - Butt Sex Is Fun when done right. It's fun for everyone. No point denying it, it is true, butt stuff is fantastic for both the catcher and pitcher so long as both parties take the needed time and preparation.
SO, what the hell are you getting at, iamtheonewhobawks?
Fat women, in a way to compete with those who are aesthetically (visually) more attractive than them, try out kink more often. They give butt stuff a shot earlier and more than once, because they don't have the magic spell of hot chick. Eventually they either find someone who knows what he's doing or they figure out a method on their own and HOLY SHIT THIS IS FUN! So they end up enjoying it, don't feel nearly so ashamed of it (normalization), and are more likely to be honest when answering the question of "do you do it in the butt?" | Fat chicks are scientists. |
hereinAfghanland | There could be some truth to that but I believe, simililar to what you have stated I might add (with some proof obtained during field trials and clinicals), that a larger portion - no pun intended- can be attributed to their sex drive and curiosity which in part can come from not having (or the belief of) an acceptable level of attractiveness.
During that time their sexual curiosity and experimenting, or desire to do so, gets into a loop and they actually have a firm grasp on eroticism and when they have a partner there is no need for a primer, she will be open to what feels good because if she hasn't tried it she possibly has thought of it during masturbation or fantasies.
Another noteworthy item is looking at the other side of the issue where those girls/women deemed more appealing by some member of our society may want to keep up appearances and not do things that may affect them in a negative manner and impact their social status such as the taboo of anal sex.
The even stranger irony is that an interpretation of the study can be seen as those woman who meet the more socially accepted norm of being attractive have no immediate need to be anything but at the top of their game of standing there and looking pretty, or the next hot trophy and wouldn't want anal sex, sometimes no sex, attached to their resume and they can get away with this because likewise guys seeking their company will put up with it to keep their social rank intact.
In essence, the sexual experiences a percentage of men may desire are not always found in the hot chicks they pursue. And likewise women will bypass a guy with all the redeeming qualities for that popular eye candy who also has as many choices, and may at times remind her, if not directly then by his actions.
Such as getting some good anal from the "fat girl" she hates. ;)
**TLDR** its all good
| There could be some truth to that but I believe, simililar to what you have stated I might add (with some proof obtained during field trials and clinicals), that a larger portion - no pun intended- can be attributed to their sex drive and curiosity which in part can come from not having (or the belief of) an acceptable level of attractiveness.
During that time their sexual curiosity and experimenting, or desire to do so, gets into a loop and they actually have a firm grasp on eroticism and when they have a partner there is no need for a primer, she will be open to what feels good because if she hasn't tried it she possibly has thought of it during masturbation or fantasies.
Another noteworthy item is looking at the other side of the issue where those girls/women deemed more appealing by some member of our society may want to keep up appearances and not do things that may affect them in a negative manner and impact their social status such as the taboo of anal sex.
The even stranger irony is that an interpretation of the study can be seen as those woman who meet the more socially accepted norm of being attractive have no immediate need to be anything but at the top of their game of standing there and looking pretty, or the next hot trophy and wouldn't want anal sex, sometimes no sex, attached to their resume and they can get away with this because likewise guys seeking their company will put up with it to keep their social rank intact.
In essence, the sexual experiences a percentage of men may desire are not always found in the hot chicks they pursue. And likewise women will bypass a guy with all the redeeming qualities for that popular eye candy who also has as many choices, and may at times remind her, if not directly then by his actions.
Such as getting some good anal from the "fat girl" she hates. ;)
TLDR its all good
| todayilearned | t5_2qqjc | co7clbv | There could be some truth to that but I believe, simililar to what you have stated I might add (with some proof obtained during field trials and clinicals), that a larger portion - no pun intended- can be attributed to their sex drive and curiosity which in part can come from not having (or the belief of) an acceptable level of attractiveness.
During that time their sexual curiosity and experimenting, or desire to do so, gets into a loop and they actually have a firm grasp on eroticism and when they have a partner there is no need for a primer, she will be open to what feels good because if she hasn't tried it she possibly has thought of it during masturbation or fantasies.
Another noteworthy item is looking at the other side of the issue where those girls/women deemed more appealing by some member of our society may want to keep up appearances and not do things that may affect them in a negative manner and impact their social status such as the taboo of anal sex.
The even stranger irony is that an interpretation of the study can be seen as those woman who meet the more socially accepted norm of being attractive have no immediate need to be anything but at the top of their game of standing there and looking pretty, or the next hot trophy and wouldn't want anal sex, sometimes no sex, attached to their resume and they can get away with this because likewise guys seeking their company will put up with it to keep their social rank intact.
In essence, the sexual experiences a percentage of men may desire are not always found in the hot chicks they pursue. And likewise women will bypass a guy with all the redeeming qualities for that popular eye candy who also has as many choices, and may at times remind her, if not directly then by his actions.
Such as getting some good anal from the "fat girl" she hates. ;) | its all good |
dexxtaa | It depends on what you like. There are stealth themed Warframes, assassin themes, magnets, fire, water, ice, antimatter, void (whatever the hell that dimension jumping lunatic is based on), psychic, and a host of others that I can't think of.
For *most* of the game, you can play as you like, whichever suits your fancy, and whichever gameplay style you choose would suffice for most applications.
tl;dr Have fun. | It depends on what you like. There are stealth themed Warframes, assassin themes, magnets, fire, water, ice, antimatter, void (whatever the hell that dimension jumping lunatic is based on), psychic, and a host of others that I can't think of.
For most of the game, you can play as you like, whichever suits your fancy, and whichever gameplay style you choose would suffice for most applications.
tl;dr Have fun.
| Warframe | t5_2urg0 | co6zq3g | It depends on what you like. There are stealth themed Warframes, assassin themes, magnets, fire, water, ice, antimatter, void (whatever the hell that dimension jumping lunatic is based on), psychic, and a host of others that I can't think of.
For most of the game, you can play as you like, whichever suits your fancy, and whichever gameplay style you choose would suffice for most applications. | Have fun. |
ke1thd | Government employment, like all employment, sucks. Don't be fooled by red states and Southern states and states with lots of Scumbags and Republicans claiming that state employment is "at will." No it isn't. Even if it is LEGALLY at will, it is PRACTICALLY very hard to get fired. Usually it involves holding hearings with a bunch of bureaucrats who are daydreaming during the hearing about upgrading from their 17 year old Japanese sedan, and ultimately everyone forgets why they want to fire the guy and he just keeps his job. Or he gets let go and gets rehired for the SAME position in like two cities over.
Seriousness aside, state government is full of proles and Losers who make like $44,000/yr. These are sought after jobs these days because CorpGovMedia has destroyed social mobility in the private sector, and also because the federal government only hires veterans and URMs. This leaves state government, run by Republicans and de facto Republicans, to hire frumpy white people with absolutely terrible phenotypes to work for the state. They do No Work, have a defined benefit pension, and get pretty much any medical procedure done for like a 30 dollar copay.
Any state government agency is going to be full of drama and cattiness, though. Since 80 percent of state employees have shitty phenotypes, it's less about phenocracy and more about pwning each other just because. The few people with good phenotypes get promoted to some managerial position where they make like $65,000/yr and do No Work, while the rest of the phenoshits make $20,000/yr less to do No Work, which amounts to a difference of like 500 dollars a month after taxes due to progressive taxation that is designed to screw the middle class.
The secret to success at state government jobs is to shut the fuck up, show up on time, leave when your* done, and fly under the radar without rocking the boat. People who have Egos or Pride and try to take over the world in state government get pwned mercilessly, UNLESS they have good phenotypes, in which case they get promoted in several fortnights. If you are content with doing No Work, collecting a paycheck, and going home to post and masturbate daily, state government is for you.
I lose absolutely nothing by posting this.
TL;DR: That guy sucks, haha. | Government employment, like all employment, sucks. Don't be fooled by red states and Southern states and states with lots of Scumbags and Republicans claiming that state employment is "at will." No it isn't. Even if it is LEGALLY at will, it is PRACTICALLY very hard to get fired. Usually it involves holding hearings with a bunch of bureaucrats who are daydreaming during the hearing about upgrading from their 17 year old Japanese sedan, and ultimately everyone forgets why they want to fire the guy and he just keeps his job. Or he gets let go and gets rehired for the SAME position in like two cities over.
Seriousness aside, state government is full of proles and Losers who make like $44,000/yr. These are sought after jobs these days because CorpGovMedia has destroyed social mobility in the private sector, and also because the federal government only hires veterans and URMs. This leaves state government, run by Republicans and de facto Republicans, to hire frumpy white people with absolutely terrible phenotypes to work for the state. They do No Work, have a defined benefit pension, and get pretty much any medical procedure done for like a 30 dollar copay.
Any state government agency is going to be full of drama and cattiness, though. Since 80 percent of state employees have shitty phenotypes, it's less about phenocracy and more about pwning each other just because. The few people with good phenotypes get promoted to some managerial position where they make like $65,000/yr and do No Work, while the rest of the phenoshits make $20,000/yr less to do No Work, which amounts to a difference of like 500 dollars a month after taxes due to progressive taxation that is designed to screw the middle class.
The secret to success at state government jobs is to shut the fuck up, show up on time, leave when your* done, and fly under the radar without rocking the boat. People who have Egos or Pride and try to take over the world in state government get pwned mercilessly, UNLESS they have good phenotypes, in which case they get promoted in several fortnights. If you are content with doing No Work, collecting a paycheck, and going home to post and masturbate daily, state government is for you.
I lose absolutely nothing by posting this.
TL;DR: That guy sucks, haha.
| mdu | t5_35s9w | co705mn | Government employment, like all employment, sucks. Don't be fooled by red states and Southern states and states with lots of Scumbags and Republicans claiming that state employment is "at will." No it isn't. Even if it is LEGALLY at will, it is PRACTICALLY very hard to get fired. Usually it involves holding hearings with a bunch of bureaucrats who are daydreaming during the hearing about upgrading from their 17 year old Japanese sedan, and ultimately everyone forgets why they want to fire the guy and he just keeps his job. Or he gets let go and gets rehired for the SAME position in like two cities over.
Seriousness aside, state government is full of proles and Losers who make like $44,000/yr. These are sought after jobs these days because CorpGovMedia has destroyed social mobility in the private sector, and also because the federal government only hires veterans and URMs. This leaves state government, run by Republicans and de facto Republicans, to hire frumpy white people with absolutely terrible phenotypes to work for the state. They do No Work, have a defined benefit pension, and get pretty much any medical procedure done for like a 30 dollar copay.
Any state government agency is going to be full of drama and cattiness, though. Since 80 percent of state employees have shitty phenotypes, it's less about phenocracy and more about pwning each other just because. The few people with good phenotypes get promoted to some managerial position where they make like $65,000/yr and do No Work, while the rest of the phenoshits make $20,000/yr less to do No Work, which amounts to a difference of like 500 dollars a month after taxes due to progressive taxation that is designed to screw the middle class.
The secret to success at state government jobs is to shut the fuck up, show up on time, leave when your* done, and fly under the radar without rocking the boat. People who have Egos or Pride and try to take over the world in state government get pwned mercilessly, UNLESS they have good phenotypes, in which case they get promoted in several fortnights. If you are content with doing No Work, collecting a paycheck, and going home to post and masturbate daily, state government is for you.
I lose absolutely nothing by posting this. | That guy sucks, haha. |
PurestIngredients | /u/Kunning-Draugr named the first part in what became a cascading problem: The Sub-prime mortgage crisis
And their narration is right. Mortgage lenders (with varying degrees of awareness of what a bad idea this might be) began to lend out very large amounts of money to people who common sense might indicate would never be able to pay it back. But nevermind common sense! We have *statistical models.*
For banks, money you owe them goes into their *assets* column. That's the whole basis for the lending economy: I give you money now, and in exchange, you give me *even more* money later. This is a little bit counterintuitive, but it makes sense. Conversely, money you have in the bank goes into the bank's *liabilities* column, because that's the amount of money that the bank *owes to you* and has to give you when you ask for it.
Ok, so some person owes the bank money, and it turns out they can't pay for it. What happens next?
Well, you can't draw blood from a stone. If it's just one person and just one bank then what happens is the bank eats the loss and that person's credit is ruined and they probably become really poor and indigent.
But in the recent financial crisis, a few things exacerbated this hypothetical scenario into a global shitstorm:
1) It happened to *a lot.*
2) Remember how debts you owe the bank are the bank's assets? Well, just like any other asset, banks can and do trade with them. This part gets pretty complicated pretty quickly, but it is what allowed problems that might otherwise have only affected the real estate market to infect the entire financial system. Everything from pension plans to index funds depended on the promise that a bunch of people would pay their mortgage every month.
The people didn't pay their mortgage every month.
3) If you're looking for a moment when this gradual problem suddenly "activated" into a crisis, it would be when some major financial institutions like Bear Sterns defaulted and then other financial institutions that had (through this giant chain of idiocy) agreed to insure those institutions also collapsed.
4) **TL;DR: It turned out that very wide-ranging sectors of our economy depended on people paying their mortgages every month. When not enough of them did, a whole bunch of money we had been pretending was real suddenly evaporated.** | /u/Kunning-Draugr named the first part in what became a cascading problem: The Sub-prime mortgage crisis
And their narration is right. Mortgage lenders (with varying degrees of awareness of what a bad idea this might be) began to lend out very large amounts of money to people who common sense might indicate would never be able to pay it back. But nevermind common sense! We have statistical models.
For banks, money you owe them goes into their assets column. That's the whole basis for the lending economy: I give you money now, and in exchange, you give me even more money later. This is a little bit counterintuitive, but it makes sense. Conversely, money you have in the bank goes into the bank's liabilities column, because that's the amount of money that the bank owes to you and has to give you when you ask for it.
Ok, so some person owes the bank money, and it turns out they can't pay for it. What happens next?
Well, you can't draw blood from a stone. If it's just one person and just one bank then what happens is the bank eats the loss and that person's credit is ruined and they probably become really poor and indigent.
But in the recent financial crisis, a few things exacerbated this hypothetical scenario into a global shitstorm:
1) It happened to a lot.
2) Remember how debts you owe the bank are the bank's assets? Well, just like any other asset, banks can and do trade with them. This part gets pretty complicated pretty quickly, but it is what allowed problems that might otherwise have only affected the real estate market to infect the entire financial system. Everything from pension plans to index funds depended on the promise that a bunch of people would pay their mortgage every month.
The people didn't pay their mortgage every month.
3) If you're looking for a moment when this gradual problem suddenly "activated" into a crisis, it would be when some major financial institutions like Bear Sterns defaulted and then other financial institutions that had (through this giant chain of idiocy) agreed to insure those institutions also collapsed.
4) TL;DR: It turned out that very wide-ranging sectors of our economy depended on people paying their mortgages every month. When not enough of them did, a whole bunch of money we had been pretending was real suddenly evaporated.
| explainlikeimfive | t5_2sokd | co72hxy | u/Kunning-Draugr named the first part in what became a cascading problem: The Sub-prime mortgage crisis
And their narration is right. Mortgage lenders (with varying degrees of awareness of what a bad idea this might be) began to lend out very large amounts of money to people who common sense might indicate would never be able to pay it back. But nevermind common sense! We have statistical models.
For banks, money you owe them goes into their assets column. That's the whole basis for the lending economy: I give you money now, and in exchange, you give me even more money later. This is a little bit counterintuitive, but it makes sense. Conversely, money you have in the bank goes into the bank's liabilities column, because that's the amount of money that the bank owes to you and has to give you when you ask for it.
Ok, so some person owes the bank money, and it turns out they can't pay for it. What happens next?
Well, you can't draw blood from a stone. If it's just one person and just one bank then what happens is the bank eats the loss and that person's credit is ruined and they probably become really poor and indigent.
But in the recent financial crisis, a few things exacerbated this hypothetical scenario into a global shitstorm:
1) It happened to a lot.
2) Remember how debts you owe the bank are the bank's assets? Well, just like any other asset, banks can and do trade with them. This part gets pretty complicated pretty quickly, but it is what allowed problems that might otherwise have only affected the real estate market to infect the entire financial system. Everything from pension plans to index funds depended on the promise that a bunch of people would pay their mortgage every month.
The people didn't pay their mortgage every month.
3) If you're looking for a moment when this gradual problem suddenly "activated" into a crisis, it would be when some major financial institutions like Bear Sterns defaulted and then other financial institutions that had (through this giant chain of idiocy) agreed to insure those institutions also collapsed.
4) | It turned out that very wide-ranging sectors of our economy depended on people paying their mortgages every month. When not enough of them did, a whole bunch of money we had been pretending was real suddenly evaporated. |
_Raidan_ | I don't understand what you're arguing here? I was just adding on to what you're saying. I also agree Yuuma is the overall better builder although Fumina is not to be underestimated and is not too far behind (due to her ingenius idea of being the support to enhance firepower and creating teamwork being incorporated in a single SD)
I don't believe Fumina is worse than Yuuma though when you are just comparing the Gunpla itself. The reason why I was the one who **separated** them is because I believe at the beginning of the show to the nationals, both Fumina and Yuuma are completely different in terms of builders. Yumma took his artistic grand prix gunpla and just put it in the regional qualifiers without any improvements when the gunpla was built strictly as an art. Fumina had realized she needed a gunpla to complete certain tasks and worked to accomplish that which is a **plus** to her building skills in my book.
So if you haven't noticed by now, i'll just say it outright that it is somewhat obvious for a gunpla to be "great" and succeed in gunpla battling it needs a special trait. I used the words *gimmick* because it fit it overall but i'll explain more clearly. BBG has assimulation (this can be argued but I also think BBG has incredibly strong armor for melee since that is its goal and has taken a hit from mega shiki with the later losing its arm). Winning had its supportive qualities. Build strike had its RG system. Even the Mega shiki created by sakai had particle transformation saber and its high mega cannon. All these gunpla had something to rely upon when the stakes were against them and knew that when up against something of similar caliber would come out on top (such as how mega-shiki's particle saber beat Yuuma's normal beam saber + gyanko's shield) and this requires the builder to know the role of the gunpla and it's **gimmicks** that supports that.
I believe Yuuma just lacks true creativity to make his gunpla have a certain "trump card" in dire situations and instead he relies on playing safe when he is ahead (so he knows his non-optimized gunpla can defeat it) or if the enemy has a decent gunpla he opts to play defensively (such as him running from Saga causing him to rely on his gunpla to defend and as you can see, THE ENDs fangs made quick work of lightning due to its specific build to crush through gunplas). He also sometimes relies on sekai and Fumina to clean up the fight. Yuuma addresses this by realizing he needs to not only change his mindset but decides on upgrading his speed (this could even help his old battlestyle as well). So as shown in episode 15, Yuuma's lightning is no longer a gunpla that just typically does everything averagely (normal beam saber albeit well created, normal beam rifle albeit well created, custom built backpack and artistically good model though it has no extra systems) and has now become a machine that can use its upgraded ultra speed AND beam rifle to completely annihilate a target. So if he has a rematch with Saga, he can use his high speed to evade the fangs or just straight obliterate them with his upgraded beam rifle. In the end, the lightning has a role now as a "I'm going to use range + speed to defeat them" rather than filling the gaps for the team since it is average in everything (when compared to the national level gunplas)
So again i'll re-iterate AKA TL;DR that when you look at the gunpla in terms of how well its built and suited for gunpla battle. Yuuma and Fumina is pretty even. If you solely look at how well the gunpla is made (artistic gunpla contest) than Yuuma seems to be a convincing winner here. Also, i'm writing this out because the question in the first place "Fumina is a better builder than Yuuma?" is a broad one and stems from the fact that Yuuma has been praised for his building ability (though i see them referring it to Yuuma's artistic ability only) while from the top of my head, only sakai was very impressed with the SD. So i'm addressing possibly why Yuuma receives praise and Fumina doesn't despite both gunpla seem to be on equal footing as they are now in regards to how much they can do on their own and team setting in a gunpla battle. | I don't understand what you're arguing here? I was just adding on to what you're saying. I also agree Yuuma is the overall better builder although Fumina is not to be underestimated and is not too far behind (due to her ingenius idea of being the support to enhance firepower and creating teamwork being incorporated in a single SD)
I don't believe Fumina is worse than Yuuma though when you are just comparing the Gunpla itself. The reason why I was the one who separated them is because I believe at the beginning of the show to the nationals, both Fumina and Yuuma are completely different in terms of builders. Yumma took his artistic grand prix gunpla and just put it in the regional qualifiers without any improvements when the gunpla was built strictly as an art. Fumina had realized she needed a gunpla to complete certain tasks and worked to accomplish that which is a plus to her building skills in my book.
So if you haven't noticed by now, i'll just say it outright that it is somewhat obvious for a gunpla to be "great" and succeed in gunpla battling it needs a special trait. I used the words gimmick because it fit it overall but i'll explain more clearly. BBG has assimulation (this can be argued but I also think BBG has incredibly strong armor for melee since that is its goal and has taken a hit from mega shiki with the later losing its arm). Winning had its supportive qualities. Build strike had its RG system. Even the Mega shiki created by sakai had particle transformation saber and its high mega cannon. All these gunpla had something to rely upon when the stakes were against them and knew that when up against something of similar caliber would come out on top (such as how mega-shiki's particle saber beat Yuuma's normal beam saber + gyanko's shield) and this requires the builder to know the role of the gunpla and it's gimmicks that supports that.
I believe Yuuma just lacks true creativity to make his gunpla have a certain "trump card" in dire situations and instead he relies on playing safe when he is ahead (so he knows his non-optimized gunpla can defeat it) or if the enemy has a decent gunpla he opts to play defensively (such as him running from Saga causing him to rely on his gunpla to defend and as you can see, THE ENDs fangs made quick work of lightning due to its specific build to crush through gunplas). He also sometimes relies on sekai and Fumina to clean up the fight. Yuuma addresses this by realizing he needs to not only change his mindset but decides on upgrading his speed (this could even help his old battlestyle as well). So as shown in episode 15, Yuuma's lightning is no longer a gunpla that just typically does everything averagely (normal beam saber albeit well created, normal beam rifle albeit well created, custom built backpack and artistically good model though it has no extra systems) and has now become a machine that can use its upgraded ultra speed AND beam rifle to completely annihilate a target. So if he has a rematch with Saga, he can use his high speed to evade the fangs or just straight obliterate them with his upgraded beam rifle. In the end, the lightning has a role now as a "I'm going to use range + speed to defeat them" rather than filling the gaps for the team since it is average in everything (when compared to the national level gunplas)
So again i'll re-iterate AKA TL;DR that when you look at the gunpla in terms of how well its built and suited for gunpla battle. Yuuma and Fumina is pretty even. If you solely look at how well the gunpla is made (artistic gunpla contest) than Yuuma seems to be a convincing winner here. Also, i'm writing this out because the question in the first place "Fumina is a better builder than Yuuma?" is a broad one and stems from the fact that Yuuma has been praised for his building ability (though i see them referring it to Yuuma's artistic ability only) while from the top of my head, only sakai was very impressed with the SD. So i'm addressing possibly why Yuuma receives praise and Fumina doesn't despite both gunpla seem to be on equal footing as they are now in regards to how much they can do on their own and team setting in a gunpla battle.
| Gundam | t5_2sjr4 | co8ughb | I don't understand what you're arguing here? I was just adding on to what you're saying. I also agree Yuuma is the overall better builder although Fumina is not to be underestimated and is not too far behind (due to her ingenius idea of being the support to enhance firepower and creating teamwork being incorporated in a single SD)
I don't believe Fumina is worse than Yuuma though when you are just comparing the Gunpla itself. The reason why I was the one who separated them is because I believe at the beginning of the show to the nationals, both Fumina and Yuuma are completely different in terms of builders. Yumma took his artistic grand prix gunpla and just put it in the regional qualifiers without any improvements when the gunpla was built strictly as an art. Fumina had realized she needed a gunpla to complete certain tasks and worked to accomplish that which is a plus to her building skills in my book.
So if you haven't noticed by now, i'll just say it outright that it is somewhat obvious for a gunpla to be "great" and succeed in gunpla battling it needs a special trait. I used the words gimmick because it fit it overall but i'll explain more clearly. BBG has assimulation (this can be argued but I also think BBG has incredibly strong armor for melee since that is its goal and has taken a hit from mega shiki with the later losing its arm). Winning had its supportive qualities. Build strike had its RG system. Even the Mega shiki created by sakai had particle transformation saber and its high mega cannon. All these gunpla had something to rely upon when the stakes were against them and knew that when up against something of similar caliber would come out on top (such as how mega-shiki's particle saber beat Yuuma's normal beam saber + gyanko's shield) and this requires the builder to know the role of the gunpla and it's gimmicks that supports that.
I believe Yuuma just lacks true creativity to make his gunpla have a certain "trump card" in dire situations and instead he relies on playing safe when he is ahead (so he knows his non-optimized gunpla can defeat it) or if the enemy has a decent gunpla he opts to play defensively (such as him running from Saga causing him to rely on his gunpla to defend and as you can see, THE ENDs fangs made quick work of lightning due to its specific build to crush through gunplas). He also sometimes relies on sekai and Fumina to clean up the fight. Yuuma addresses this by realizing he needs to not only change his mindset but decides on upgrading his speed (this could even help his old battlestyle as well). So as shown in episode 15, Yuuma's lightning is no longer a gunpla that just typically does everything averagely (normal beam saber albeit well created, normal beam rifle albeit well created, custom built backpack and artistically good model though it has no extra systems) and has now become a machine that can use its upgraded ultra speed AND beam rifle to completely annihilate a target. So if he has a rematch with Saga, he can use his high speed to evade the fangs or just straight obliterate them with his upgraded beam rifle. In the end, the lightning has a role now as a "I'm going to use range + speed to defeat them" rather than filling the gaps for the team since it is average in everything (when compared to the national level gunplas)
So again i'll re-iterate AKA | that when you look at the gunpla in terms of how well its built and suited for gunpla battle. Yuuma and Fumina is pretty even. If you solely look at how well the gunpla is made (artistic gunpla contest) than Yuuma seems to be a convincing winner here. Also, i'm writing this out because the question in the first place "Fumina is a better builder than Yuuma?" is a broad one and stems from the fact that Yuuma has been praised for his building ability (though i see them referring it to Yuuma's artistic ability only) while from the top of my head, only sakai was very impressed with the SD. So i'm addressing possibly why Yuuma receives praise and Fumina doesn't despite both gunpla seem to be on equal footing as they are now in regards to how much they can do on their own and team setting in a gunpla battle. |
FogItNozzel | Different density materials have different speeds of sound. The same is true in different density air flows. Shockwaves are formed in the supersonic flow leaving a nozzle. Those shockwaves propagate out until they find the cooler, denser air of the surrounding flow. The shockwaves see that cooler air as a bit of a wall, and some of the energy is reflected back. When its reflected back towards the center that shock will cause big pressure gradients the closer it gets towards the center of the nozzle flow. That heats the gas up and makes it a bit brighter. Thats a shock diamond. The shock wave will do this alternating reflection and compression a number of times, 10ish, But each time it will have a little less energy, so the diamonds get smaller and more central to the flow.
TLDR: Shockwaves in the exhaust reflect off of the cooler air outside and compress the gas in the exhaust, heating it up and making it glow.
edit: [Heres a video of one]( | Different density materials have different speeds of sound. The same is true in different density air flows. Shockwaves are formed in the supersonic flow leaving a nozzle. Those shockwaves propagate out until they find the cooler, denser air of the surrounding flow. The shockwaves see that cooler air as a bit of a wall, and some of the energy is reflected back. When its reflected back towards the center that shock will cause big pressure gradients the closer it gets towards the center of the nozzle flow. That heats the gas up and makes it a bit brighter. Thats a shock diamond. The shock wave will do this alternating reflection and compression a number of times, 10ish, But each time it will have a little less energy, so the diamonds get smaller and more central to the flow.
TLDR: Shockwaves in the exhaust reflect off of the cooler air outside and compress the gas in the exhaust, heating it up and making it glow.
edit: [Heres a video of one](
| space | t5_2qh87 | co7ueoe | Different density materials have different speeds of sound. The same is true in different density air flows. Shockwaves are formed in the supersonic flow leaving a nozzle. Those shockwaves propagate out until they find the cooler, denser air of the surrounding flow. The shockwaves see that cooler air as a bit of a wall, and some of the energy is reflected back. When its reflected back towards the center that shock will cause big pressure gradients the closer it gets towards the center of the nozzle flow. That heats the gas up and makes it a bit brighter. Thats a shock diamond. The shock wave will do this alternating reflection and compression a number of times, 10ish, But each time it will have a little less energy, so the diamonds get smaller and more central to the flow. | Shockwaves in the exhaust reflect off of the cooler air outside and compress the gas in the exhaust, heating it up and making it glow.
edit: [Heres a video of one]( |
bigattichouse | Met a japanese guy in college. At his place he asks if I want ramen, I grudgingly accept.
He brings out soup. Dear God, what three or four veggies chopped and thrown in to ramen with some extra broth and an egg and stuff.. it was amazing.
tl;dr: Americans are eating ramen completely incorrectly. | Met a japanese guy in college. At his place he asks if I want ramen, I grudgingly accept.
He brings out soup. Dear God, what three or four veggies chopped and thrown in to ramen with some extra broth and an egg and stuff.. it was amazing.
tl;dr: Americans are eating ramen completely incorrectly.
| wheredidthesodago | t5_2vd32 | co87buq | Met a japanese guy in college. At his place he asks if I want ramen, I grudgingly accept.
He brings out soup. Dear God, what three or four veggies chopped and thrown in to ramen with some extra broth and an egg and stuff.. it was amazing. | Americans are eating ramen completely incorrectly. |
williamj2543 | Lots of things go into a DMR but if you want to be as cheap as possible just buy a variable scope which goes from 2x upwards, I personally have one which is 2-12x magnification, and its pretty accurate. You have to get the feel of the gun and know at what distance does the bb start falling and by how much does it fall, and after a couple hundred you can be pretty accurate, I am shooting headshots through windows at 75 feet with my 150$ JG G36C.
Going much more into "DMR" would be getting a super tight, quality barrel, a longer one, maybe a mock silencer to allow for a longer barrel, a bipod. Buying a motor and gearbox which is much quieter and "softer" would help as well, because if you are firing multiple shots you don't want the gun shaking around when firing multiple, losing your aim.
What I bring to my field is the stock G36C, with a sniper scope and red dot which I change depending on the game mode, I prefer getting up and close in the action but if we are playing attack and defend, and our team is defending I will take out my sniper scope and I didn't let anyone come close to our base.
TLDR get a variable scope and see how you like it, and if you want to spend more money on a longer range build than get some other upgrades. | Lots of things go into a DMR but if you want to be as cheap as possible just buy a variable scope which goes from 2x upwards, I personally have one which is 2-12x magnification, and its pretty accurate. You have to get the feel of the gun and know at what distance does the bb start falling and by how much does it fall, and after a couple hundred you can be pretty accurate, I am shooting headshots through windows at 75 feet with my 150$ JG G36C.
Going much more into "DMR" would be getting a super tight, quality barrel, a longer one, maybe a mock silencer to allow for a longer barrel, a bipod. Buying a motor and gearbox which is much quieter and "softer" would help as well, because if you are firing multiple shots you don't want the gun shaking around when firing multiple, losing your aim.
What I bring to my field is the stock G36C, with a sniper scope and red dot which I change depending on the game mode, I prefer getting up and close in the action but if we are playing attack and defend, and our team is defending I will take out my sniper scope and I didn't let anyone come close to our base.
TLDR get a variable scope and see how you like it, and if you want to spend more money on a longer range build than get some other upgrades.
| airsoft | t5_2qi2x | co90qty | Lots of things go into a DMR but if you want to be as cheap as possible just buy a variable scope which goes from 2x upwards, I personally have one which is 2-12x magnification, and its pretty accurate. You have to get the feel of the gun and know at what distance does the bb start falling and by how much does it fall, and after a couple hundred you can be pretty accurate, I am shooting headshots through windows at 75 feet with my 150$ JG G36C.
Going much more into "DMR" would be getting a super tight, quality barrel, a longer one, maybe a mock silencer to allow for a longer barrel, a bipod. Buying a motor and gearbox which is much quieter and "softer" would help as well, because if you are firing multiple shots you don't want the gun shaking around when firing multiple, losing your aim.
What I bring to my field is the stock G36C, with a sniper scope and red dot which I change depending on the game mode, I prefer getting up and close in the action but if we are playing attack and defend, and our team is defending I will take out my sniper scope and I didn't let anyone come close to our base. | get a variable scope and see how you like it, and if you want to spend more money on a longer range build than get some other upgrades. |
DivineInsanityReveng | Well I threw my phone at the ground hoping to break it. I didn't. I sent said text. Now I'm dating.
Tl;Dr yolo | Well I threw my phone at the ground hoping to break it. I didn't. I sent said text. Now I'm dating.
Tl;Dr yolo
| drunk | t5_2ql00 | co8fwny | Well I threw my phone at the ground hoping to break it. I didn't. I sent said text. Now I'm dating. | yolo |
shamgar_bn | The CCNA is a really good cert to have and is going to get you noticed (and will help get your foot in the door of an interview). You're still going to have to produce when asked about networking and when you finally land a job. Most jobs in IT, however, are going to put you through a training program to learn the specific needs of THAT job. I work in Managed Enterprise Services at a major global telco and we have CCNA's who do the same job as CCNP's. We have guys with Voice certs, R/S certs, datacenter, security, etc. You don't NEED any particular cert, but it is a really good way to show your potential employers that you can learn complex systems, and will lay a foundation for the on-the-job-knowledge you will inevitably need.
One benefit to certs is that it shows your employee that you can focus, learn, and produce when called upon. The responsibility is still yours to advance your career.
For reference, my background is in Communications (web/graphic design). I moved into IT a few years ago by getting my CCNA and putting my resume out. After only a couple years, I have already been promoted three times and am up for a 4th in 2015. But I work my tail off to prove my value, and that is something that a CCNA will not show.
Now go out there and get that cert, land the job, kiss the girl, and keep pressing on. The future is still very bright in the IT world.
TLDR; get your CCNA, but remember to keep fighting. | The CCNA is a really good cert to have and is going to get you noticed (and will help get your foot in the door of an interview). You're still going to have to produce when asked about networking and when you finally land a job. Most jobs in IT, however, are going to put you through a training program to learn the specific needs of THAT job. I work in Managed Enterprise Services at a major global telco and we have CCNA's who do the same job as CCNP's. We have guys with Voice certs, R/S certs, datacenter, security, etc. You don't NEED any particular cert, but it is a really good way to show your potential employers that you can learn complex systems, and will lay a foundation for the on-the-job-knowledge you will inevitably need.
One benefit to certs is that it shows your employee that you can focus, learn, and produce when called upon. The responsibility is still yours to advance your career.
For reference, my background is in Communications (web/graphic design). I moved into IT a few years ago by getting my CCNA and putting my resume out. After only a couple years, I have already been promoted three times and am up for a 4th in 2015. But I work my tail off to prove my value, and that is something that a CCNA will not show.
Now go out there and get that cert, land the job, kiss the girl, and keep pressing on. The future is still very bright in the IT world.
TLDR; get your CCNA, but remember to keep fighting.
| ccna | t5_2qjhh | co90chz | The CCNA is a really good cert to have and is going to get you noticed (and will help get your foot in the door of an interview). You're still going to have to produce when asked about networking and when you finally land a job. Most jobs in IT, however, are going to put you through a training program to learn the specific needs of THAT job. I work in Managed Enterprise Services at a major global telco and we have CCNA's who do the same job as CCNP's. We have guys with Voice certs, R/S certs, datacenter, security, etc. You don't NEED any particular cert, but it is a really good way to show your potential employers that you can learn complex systems, and will lay a foundation for the on-the-job-knowledge you will inevitably need.
One benefit to certs is that it shows your employee that you can focus, learn, and produce when called upon. The responsibility is still yours to advance your career.
For reference, my background is in Communications (web/graphic design). I moved into IT a few years ago by getting my CCNA and putting my resume out. After only a couple years, I have already been promoted three times and am up for a 4th in 2015. But I work my tail off to prove my value, and that is something that a CCNA will not show.
Now go out there and get that cert, land the job, kiss the girl, and keep pressing on. The future is still very bright in the IT world. | get your CCNA, but remember to keep fighting. |
DownUntilLater | It's hard to explain. At the time I found out there was a lot of shock, a lot of feeling like I was blindsided. (Not sure how much you want to know, but the things that happened were while we were, as she called it, "seeing if we were going to be more than friends.") So it was a mix of that surprise, a sting of how she wasn't as committed as I was at the time, but also a curiosity...and honestly anything involving her sexually gets to me. So I dug, asked, investigated and there were some really hot parts to it, even though I can't say I feel 100% good about it...
TL, DR...Parts of what happened is hot, and parts made me feel crappy. | It's hard to explain. At the time I found out there was a lot of shock, a lot of feeling like I was blindsided. (Not sure how much you want to know, but the things that happened were while we were, as she called it, "seeing if we were going to be more than friends.") So it was a mix of that surprise, a sting of how she wasn't as committed as I was at the time, but also a curiosity...and honestly anything involving her sexually gets to me. So I dug, asked, investigated and there were some really hot parts to it, even though I can't say I feel 100% good about it...
TL, DR...Parts of what happened is hot, and parts made me feel crappy.
| hotpast | t5_30h5e | co8onn4 | It's hard to explain. At the time I found out there was a lot of shock, a lot of feeling like I was blindsided. (Not sure how much you want to know, but the things that happened were while we were, as she called it, "seeing if we were going to be more than friends.") So it was a mix of that surprise, a sting of how she wasn't as committed as I was at the time, but also a curiosity...and honestly anything involving her sexually gets to me. So I dug, asked, investigated and there were some really hot parts to it, even though I can't say I feel 100% good about it... | Parts of what happened is hot, and parts made me feel crappy. |
goldenboy2191 | Upvoted this for the tl;dr pun. | Upvoted this for the tl;dr pun.
| tifu | t5_2to41 | co8xowz | Upvoted this for the | pun. |
tassadank | His counter is good team play.
I know that sounds cliche and isn't informative.. but every 'OP hero' has a counter. Chen gets wrecked by CC. Tyrael shits on Nazeebo's ult. Thrall ain't so OP when he gets double uther stunned. Unfortunately there is no ONE hero that can 'counter Stitches'.. you just need semi intelligent/knowledgeable teammates
If everyone minded where they were standing when there is NO VISUAL on Stitches... then his hook/gorge combo wouldn't be an issue. He's most deadly when you don't have a visual, obviously. Especially before a teamfight when the teams are roaming the map... he can snag one member (and take them behind a wall) forcing the other team to either run in and begin the fight or let their teammate die and be short a man. That's devastating in late game. The key to beating Stitches is knowing how to stay away from the obvious hook (our Stitches is a fan of the 'random bush' hook and it proves effective surprisingly often). If you're paying attention to where he is.. the next thing is you need to make sure that once his hook has been used, successful or not, that you evaluate whether it's worth it to go in for the encounter, since he's given away his position, or to simply just run away. These split second decisions are easier on voice chat.. but smart teams should know. i.e. Stitches fails to hook, shows he's in a bush hiding while his other teammies are pushing bot. Diving in to kill him may be prove effective then. Stitches is an initiator.. if you take that away from him and dictate your team fights you'll be in great shape.
TL;DR If your team has half a brain they'll realize a Stitches not on the map is probably waiting in a bush looking to start trouble. So don't just stand in one spot while clearing a camp and plz DON'T run in a straight line when it's obvious where you are to the enemy's minimap. | His counter is good team play.
I know that sounds cliche and isn't informative.. but every 'OP hero' has a counter. Chen gets wrecked by CC. Tyrael shits on Nazeebo's ult. Thrall ain't so OP when he gets double uther stunned. Unfortunately there is no ONE hero that can 'counter Stitches'.. you just need semi intelligent/knowledgeable teammates
If everyone minded where they were standing when there is NO VISUAL on Stitches... then his hook/gorge combo wouldn't be an issue. He's most deadly when you don't have a visual, obviously. Especially before a teamfight when the teams are roaming the map... he can snag one member (and take them behind a wall) forcing the other team to either run in and begin the fight or let their teammate die and be short a man. That's devastating in late game. The key to beating Stitches is knowing how to stay away from the obvious hook (our Stitches is a fan of the 'random bush' hook and it proves effective surprisingly often). If you're paying attention to where he is.. the next thing is you need to make sure that once his hook has been used, successful or not, that you evaluate whether it's worth it to go in for the encounter, since he's given away his position, or to simply just run away. These split second decisions are easier on voice chat.. but smart teams should know. i.e. Stitches fails to hook, shows he's in a bush hiding while his other teammies are pushing bot. Diving in to kill him may be prove effective then. Stitches is an initiator.. if you take that away from him and dictate your team fights you'll be in great shape.
TL;DR If your team has half a brain they'll realize a Stitches not on the map is probably waiting in a bush looking to start trouble. So don't just stand in one spot while clearing a camp and plz DON'T run in a straight line when it's obvious where you are to the enemy's minimap.
| heroesofthestorm | t5_2ym13 | co97k7l | His counter is good team play.
I know that sounds cliche and isn't informative.. but every 'OP hero' has a counter. Chen gets wrecked by CC. Tyrael shits on Nazeebo's ult. Thrall ain't so OP when he gets double uther stunned. Unfortunately there is no ONE hero that can 'counter Stitches'.. you just need semi intelligent/knowledgeable teammates
If everyone minded where they were standing when there is NO VISUAL on Stitches... then his hook/gorge combo wouldn't be an issue. He's most deadly when you don't have a visual, obviously. Especially before a teamfight when the teams are roaming the map... he can snag one member (and take them behind a wall) forcing the other team to either run in and begin the fight or let their teammate die and be short a man. That's devastating in late game. The key to beating Stitches is knowing how to stay away from the obvious hook (our Stitches is a fan of the 'random bush' hook and it proves effective surprisingly often). If you're paying attention to where he is.. the next thing is you need to make sure that once his hook has been used, successful or not, that you evaluate whether it's worth it to go in for the encounter, since he's given away his position, or to simply just run away. These split second decisions are easier on voice chat.. but smart teams should know. i.e. Stitches fails to hook, shows he's in a bush hiding while his other teammies are pushing bot. Diving in to kill him may be prove effective then. Stitches is an initiator.. if you take that away from him and dictate your team fights you'll be in great shape. | If your team has half a brain they'll realize a Stitches not on the map is probably waiting in a bush looking to start trouble. So don't just stand in one spot while clearing a camp and plz DON'T run in a straight line when it's obvious where you are to the enemy's minimap. |
Raencloud | Normal BRF (665) is intended to be the next step in progression from normal Highmaul (655). I think most normal HM PUGs set the standard at 640 for highmaul, so 650 is a reasonable figure for BRF.
What's "enough" is slightly different question. Heroic HM is tuned for high skilled players coming straight out of heroics (ilvl 630-640). Most PUGs ask for 650-660 depending on the bosses, but this is really to compensate for lack of coordination and uncertainty of player skill. I tanked through 6/7 heroic highmaul on my DK with sub-650 ilvl.
TLDR; 651 is perfectly fine for normal mode BRF. It's also likely "enough" to tank heroic BRF (caveat: I don't know how much more difficult BRF is than highmaul), but you may have some challenge finding PUGs willing to take you at that ilvl. | Normal BRF (665) is intended to be the next step in progression from normal Highmaul (655). I think most normal HM PUGs set the standard at 640 for highmaul, so 650 is a reasonable figure for BRF.
What's "enough" is slightly different question. Heroic HM is tuned for high skilled players coming straight out of heroics (ilvl 630-640). Most PUGs ask for 650-660 depending on the bosses, but this is really to compensate for lack of coordination and uncertainty of player skill. I tanked through 6/7 heroic highmaul on my DK with sub-650 ilvl.
TLDR; 651 is perfectly fine for normal mode BRF. It's also likely "enough" to tank heroic BRF (caveat: I don't know how much more difficult BRF is than highmaul), but you may have some challenge finding PUGs willing to take you at that ilvl.
| wow | t5_2qio8 | co93n9a | Normal BRF (665) is intended to be the next step in progression from normal Highmaul (655). I think most normal HM PUGs set the standard at 640 for highmaul, so 650 is a reasonable figure for BRF.
What's "enough" is slightly different question. Heroic HM is tuned for high skilled players coming straight out of heroics (ilvl 630-640). Most PUGs ask for 650-660 depending on the bosses, but this is really to compensate for lack of coordination and uncertainty of player skill. I tanked through 6/7 heroic highmaul on my DK with sub-650 ilvl. | 651 is perfectly fine for normal mode BRF. It's also likely "enough" to tank heroic BRF (caveat: I don't know how much more difficult BRF is than highmaul), but you may have some challenge finding PUGs willing to take you at that ilvl. |
Surchen | My first Jeep was a 2012 JKU Sport S and was a 6 Speed Manual. I loved it, even though the Hill Start Assist took a little bit to get used to. Problem was when I was in 4-low, 1st gear, climbing up rocks in it****, I had a very hard time keeping track of the brake to clutch to gas ratio while trying to follow my spotter, keep an eye on where I was going and not lurch into or off of the rocks/mountain.
I upgraded to a 2013 Rubicon (because I wanted the suspension and lockers) and I went with an automatic. It is a thing of beauty, and I can put it in 4-Low, 1st gear and then just let the Jeep crawl to where ever I point it to. It's easy to shift gears on the fly if needed, however 99% of the time, I can just let the transmission do what it does.
**TL;DR** Automatic transmissions are way better than they were years ago and it makes life a lot easier while crawling. | My first Jeep was a 2012 JKU Sport S and was a 6 Speed Manual. I loved it, even though the Hill Start Assist took a little bit to get used to. Problem was when I was in 4-low, 1st gear, climbing up rocks in it ** , I had a very hard time keeping track of the brake to clutch to gas ratio while trying to follow my spotter, keep an eye on where I was going and not lurch into or off of the rocks/mountain.
I upgraded to a 2013 Rubicon (because I wanted the suspension and lockers) and I went with an automatic. It is a thing of beauty, and I can put it in 4-Low, 1st gear and then just let the Jeep crawl to where ever I point it to. It's easy to shift gears on the fly if needed, however 99% of the time, I can just let the transmission do what it does.
TL;DR Automatic transmissions are way better than they were years ago and it makes life a lot easier while crawling.
| Wrangler | t5_2u1rr | coackzx | My first Jeep was a 2012 JKU Sport S and was a 6 Speed Manual. I loved it, even though the Hill Start Assist took a little bit to get used to. Problem was when I was in 4-low, 1st gear, climbing up rocks in it ** , I had a very hard time keeping track of the brake to clutch to gas ratio while trying to follow my spotter, keep an eye on where I was going and not lurch into or off of the rocks/mountain.
I upgraded to a 2013 Rubicon (because I wanted the suspension and lockers) and I went with an automatic. It is a thing of beauty, and I can put it in 4-Low, 1st gear and then just let the Jeep crawl to where ever I point it to. It's easy to shift gears on the fly if needed, however 99% of the time, I can just let the transmission do what it does. | Automatic transmissions are way better than they were years ago and it makes life a lot easier while crawling. |
Zomyan | I will agree with some of your points, however, if someone has sex with another person, knowing they are in a relationship, I still feel this makes them a bad person.
I've had the "don't you trust me?" argument thrown at me a few times when I was warned by people that she was a cheater. And I let my ego get in the way until I caught her. But I still feel like the person she slept with has no argument. They slept with my girlfriend, knowing that she was supposed to be committed to me. That is not a good person and while in a way, they did me a favor, they're still just as much of a piece of shit as my cheating ex.
Tl;Dr In my opinion, the only people who have any leeway when sleeping with a committed person, are the people who don't know that person is in a committed relationship. | I will agree with some of your points, however, if someone has sex with another person, knowing they are in a relationship, I still feel this makes them a bad person.
I've had the "don't you trust me?" argument thrown at me a few times when I was warned by people that she was a cheater. And I let my ego get in the way until I caught her. But I still feel like the person she slept with has no argument. They slept with my girlfriend, knowing that she was supposed to be committed to me. That is not a good person and while in a way, they did me a favor, they're still just as much of a piece of shit as my cheating ex.
Tl;Dr In my opinion, the only people who have any leeway when sleeping with a committed person, are the people who don't know that person is in a committed relationship.
| AdviceAnimals | t5_2s7tt | co9lvmp | I will agree with some of your points, however, if someone has sex with another person, knowing they are in a relationship, I still feel this makes them a bad person.
I've had the "don't you trust me?" argument thrown at me a few times when I was warned by people that she was a cheater. And I let my ego get in the way until I caught her. But I still feel like the person she slept with has no argument. They slept with my girlfriend, knowing that she was supposed to be committed to me. That is not a good person and while in a way, they did me a favor, they're still just as much of a piece of shit as my cheating ex. | In my opinion, the only people who have any leeway when sleeping with a committed person, are the people who don't know that person is in a committed relationship. |
_STONEFISH | If you are not a bible literalist I would posit that you are not a real Christian, as for the most part it is impossible to discern the metaphor from the literal in the book. Thing is, if you're not a 'real' Christian, then you're not a Christian, but that's okay - I'll try to explain:
As a book of instructions for how to exist as laid out by God, one would hope that there was zero ambiguity in the message that would allow for misinterpretation. The penalty for guessing wrong is eternal damnation, you'd better hope that God can communicate clearly! However, the presence of contradictions should be worthy of questioning the legitimacy of the entire book. One argument that counters this is that the bible was mistranslated by man. Would an omnipotent God allow his word to be misunderstood, put to print and distributed?
We have two choices: Take the whole thing literally, which is commendable only in that the ability to adhere to such an arbitrary, restricting set of rules is astounding given how petty some of them are - yet also means you would condone a lot of the awful things that are commanded in the bible. These bible literalist are 'real' Christians, but they are untrustworthy.
The other choice would be to take the whole thing as a metaphor, which gives you a lot more 'wiggle room' to change your beliefs. This way, we could cherry pick the good stuff. However, a lot of the objectively good guidance doesn't require a God to be followed. We shouldn't need the threat of eternal damnation to know that killing innocent people is wrong for example. The other problem with taking the entirety of the bible as a metaphor is that some of it is indeed unambiguous. God didn't mince words when he acted as such:
(Romans 1:27)"And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet. " I was originally going to quote Leviticus 20:13, but there was an ambiguous mention of "mankind" instead of "man" which I suppose is open to interpretation.
What I'm getting at is that you don't need the threat of eternal damnation to be a good person. So many of us godless people are perfectly capable of being the love we want to receive ourselves, and it stems from our historic nature as social animals, capable of empathy. If you're not a Bible literalist you're not a real Christian. And that's just fine, it's okay to not be one at all!
Make yourself your own God, do what's right because it's the right thing to do - not because you've been told to by a book that also won't let you eat shrimp. Shrimp is tasty!
TL;DR: Shrimp is tasty! | If you are not a bible literalist I would posit that you are not a real Christian, as for the most part it is impossible to discern the metaphor from the literal in the book. Thing is, if you're not a 'real' Christian, then you're not a Christian, but that's okay - I'll try to explain:
As a book of instructions for how to exist as laid out by God, one would hope that there was zero ambiguity in the message that would allow for misinterpretation. The penalty for guessing wrong is eternal damnation, you'd better hope that God can communicate clearly! However, the presence of contradictions should be worthy of questioning the legitimacy of the entire book. One argument that counters this is that the bible was mistranslated by man. Would an omnipotent God allow his word to be misunderstood, put to print and distributed?
We have two choices: Take the whole thing literally, which is commendable only in that the ability to adhere to such an arbitrary, restricting set of rules is astounding given how petty some of them are - yet also means you would condone a lot of the awful things that are commanded in the bible. These bible literalist are 'real' Christians, but they are untrustworthy.
The other choice would be to take the whole thing as a metaphor, which gives you a lot more 'wiggle room' to change your beliefs. This way, we could cherry pick the good stuff. However, a lot of the objectively good guidance doesn't require a God to be followed. We shouldn't need the threat of eternal damnation to know that killing innocent people is wrong for example. The other problem with taking the entirety of the bible as a metaphor is that some of it is indeed unambiguous. God didn't mince words when he acted as such:
(Romans 1:27)"And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet. " I was originally going to quote Leviticus 20:13, but there was an ambiguous mention of "mankind" instead of "man" which I suppose is open to interpretation.
What I'm getting at is that you don't need the threat of eternal damnation to be a good person. So many of us godless people are perfectly capable of being the love we want to receive ourselves, and it stems from our historic nature as social animals, capable of empathy. If you're not a Bible literalist you're not a real Christian. And that's just fine, it's okay to not be one at all!
Make yourself your own God, do what's right because it's the right thing to do - not because you've been told to by a book that also won't let you eat shrimp. Shrimp is tasty!
TL;DR: Shrimp is tasty!
| DebateReligion | t5_2snuc | co9rj4e | If you are not a bible literalist I would posit that you are not a real Christian, as for the most part it is impossible to discern the metaphor from the literal in the book. Thing is, if you're not a 'real' Christian, then you're not a Christian, but that's okay - I'll try to explain:
As a book of instructions for how to exist as laid out by God, one would hope that there was zero ambiguity in the message that would allow for misinterpretation. The penalty for guessing wrong is eternal damnation, you'd better hope that God can communicate clearly! However, the presence of contradictions should be worthy of questioning the legitimacy of the entire book. One argument that counters this is that the bible was mistranslated by man. Would an omnipotent God allow his word to be misunderstood, put to print and distributed?
We have two choices: Take the whole thing literally, which is commendable only in that the ability to adhere to such an arbitrary, restricting set of rules is astounding given how petty some of them are - yet also means you would condone a lot of the awful things that are commanded in the bible. These bible literalist are 'real' Christians, but they are untrustworthy.
The other choice would be to take the whole thing as a metaphor, which gives you a lot more 'wiggle room' to change your beliefs. This way, we could cherry pick the good stuff. However, a lot of the objectively good guidance doesn't require a God to be followed. We shouldn't need the threat of eternal damnation to know that killing innocent people is wrong for example. The other problem with taking the entirety of the bible as a metaphor is that some of it is indeed unambiguous. God didn't mince words when he acted as such:
(Romans 1:27)"And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet. " I was originally going to quote Leviticus 20:13, but there was an ambiguous mention of "mankind" instead of "man" which I suppose is open to interpretation.
What I'm getting at is that you don't need the threat of eternal damnation to be a good person. So many of us godless people are perfectly capable of being the love we want to receive ourselves, and it stems from our historic nature as social animals, capable of empathy. If you're not a Bible literalist you're not a real Christian. And that's just fine, it's okay to not be one at all!
Make yourself your own God, do what's right because it's the right thing to do - not because you've been told to by a book that also won't let you eat shrimp. Shrimp is tasty! | Shrimp is tasty! |
mynameipaul | I think of my "network" as the list of people I could phone today, make small talk with, and ask at least a small favour of, without feeling very awkward, or like I was reaching hugely. - *not* the list of people I'm connected to on LinkedIn.
Finding more people like that is "networking" in my mind.
A lot of this is a combination of putting yourself in situations where you're around other people, being a memorable person, being a person worth knowing and, most importantly, being likeable.
It varies from informal (E.g making an effort to eat lunch with people from the office, keeping up with people where possible) to quite formal (going to conferences, producing peer reviewed papers etc).
This is like asking "how do I manage my career?" The advice is massive, expansive, and varies based on a huge amount of factors.
Really we can only give you "next step" advice...and even then this stuff is very fluffy!
Step 1? Make an effort to get to know the people in your current job/class/peer group better.
Have you already achieved that? Not at that stag yet?
Coming back and asking a more specific question will get you best results.
Take homes:
* A quickly built or artificial network probably isn't a very strong one
* people who can network their way *into* entire industries usually have leverage - expertise, vast experience in another area, influence/connections in another industry, or precocious interpersonal skills. In other word, it's not the 'done' way to enter most industries.
* being likeable has it's own benefits outside of explicit "networking" and is always good advice.
**Tl;dr "get networking" is *terrible* advice to give an inexperienced young person without an obvious propensity for it, especially one trying to get into fucking data entry.** | I think of my "network" as the list of people I could phone today, make small talk with, and ask at least a small favour of, without feeling very awkward, or like I was reaching hugely. - not the list of people I'm connected to on LinkedIn.
Finding more people like that is "networking" in my mind.
A lot of this is a combination of putting yourself in situations where you're around other people, being a memorable person, being a person worth knowing and, most importantly, being likeable.
It varies from informal (E.g making an effort to eat lunch with people from the office, keeping up with people where possible) to quite formal (going to conferences, producing peer reviewed papers etc).
This is like asking "how do I manage my career?" The advice is massive, expansive, and varies based on a huge amount of factors.
Really we can only give you "next step" advice...and even then this stuff is very fluffy!
Step 1? Make an effort to get to know the people in your current job/class/peer group better.
Have you already achieved that? Not at that stag yet?
Coming back and asking a more specific question will get you best results.
Take homes:
A quickly built or artificial network probably isn't a very strong one
people who can network their way into entire industries usually have leverage - expertise, vast experience in another area, influence/connections in another industry, or precocious interpersonal skills. In other word, it's not the 'done' way to enter most industries.
being likeable has it's own benefits outside of explicit "networking" and is always good advice.
Tl;dr "get networking" is terrible advice to give an inexperienced young person without an obvious propensity for it, especially one trying to get into fucking data entry.
| jobs | t5_2qhnd | co9qwqj | I think of my "network" as the list of people I could phone today, make small talk with, and ask at least a small favour of, without feeling very awkward, or like I was reaching hugely. - not the list of people I'm connected to on LinkedIn.
Finding more people like that is "networking" in my mind.
A lot of this is a combination of putting yourself in situations where you're around other people, being a memorable person, being a person worth knowing and, most importantly, being likeable.
It varies from informal (E.g making an effort to eat lunch with people from the office, keeping up with people where possible) to quite formal (going to conferences, producing peer reviewed papers etc).
This is like asking "how do I manage my career?" The advice is massive, expansive, and varies based on a huge amount of factors.
Really we can only give you "next step" advice...and even then this stuff is very fluffy!
Step 1? Make an effort to get to know the people in your current job/class/peer group better.
Have you already achieved that? Not at that stag yet?
Coming back and asking a more specific question will get you best results.
Take homes:
A quickly built or artificial network probably isn't a very strong one
people who can network their way into entire industries usually have leverage - expertise, vast experience in another area, influence/connections in another industry, or precocious interpersonal skills. In other word, it's not the 'done' way to enter most industries.
being likeable has it's own benefits outside of explicit "networking" and is always good advice. | get networking" is terrible advice to give an inexperienced young person without an obvious propensity for it, especially one trying to get into fucking data entry. |
grizzly_the_bear | Although I'm still having tons of fun with HotS, I do think you're right on with these complaints.
I just want to point out that most of the issues you bring up are actually related to each other, and will potentially get ironed out as Blizzard continues making adjustments:
* (2) is true largely because (3) and (4) are true. The most sure-fire way to win games right now is to get all of the strong team-fighters, race to 10, and dominate the map as a group. This is reinforced by the fact that a handful of those heroes are just a little bit too strong right now, which is why they are the same heroes used in every game, as well as the fact that the specialists' pushing ability keeps getting nerfed (Murky, Azmodan, Abathur).
* (3) is true largely because of (5) and (6). Talents like Envenom and Rewind are often the reason why certain heroes become too strong. And some heroes just by their nature have talents more suited to team fighting, which naturally makes them better at (2)--not because they're necessarily overpowered, but just because that's what they're good at (e.g. Valla). And the lack of customization is reinforced by the current focus on deathballing, as well. If the best way to win is to group up and fight, it doesn't make sense to use talents that don't make you better in that capacity.
Now, to be fair, I'm pretty sure they nerfed the specialists because people complained that they were too powerful, not fun to play against, etc. I think they just nerfed them too much--if they were somewhere in between their current and former pushing ability, they would probably be strong enough to be viable without being too frustrating to play against. Also, as many have said, Nazeebo and Zagara could stand to have less hero-killing talents and more focus on pushing--otherwise people will just keep playing them as assassins.
As for the lack of customization, as others have stated it seems like they're aware of this and working on fixing it. Jaina and Thrall have a better assortment of talent paths, and the recently reworked heroes have more interesting talent options, especially the non-heroic level 20 talents. Obviously, most of them still need to have their numbers tuned (Abathur...) but conceptually I feel like they're moving in the right direction.
All in all, I can definitely understand why you're burnt out (especially with matchmaking being what it is currently), but I would say don't completely write the game off. It seems like they've been taking complaints/suggestions like these to heart, and hopefully will continue to make adjustments to address these issues.
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*TL;DR: These are all valid complaints, but none of them are intrinsic to HotS' design and they can be fixed by careful adjustment of talents and abilities, which it seems like Blizzard is actually trying to do (even though they often swing the nerf hammer a little too hard). | Although I'm still having tons of fun with HotS, I do think you're right on with these complaints.
I just want to point out that most of the issues you bring up are actually related to each other, and will potentially get ironed out as Blizzard continues making adjustments:
(2) is true largely because (3) and (4) are true. The most sure-fire way to win games right now is to get all of the strong team-fighters, race to 10, and dominate the map as a group. This is reinforced by the fact that a handful of those heroes are just a little bit too strong right now, which is why they are the same heroes used in every game, as well as the fact that the specialists' pushing ability keeps getting nerfed (Murky, Azmodan, Abathur).
(3) is true largely because of (5) and (6). Talents like Envenom and Rewind are often the reason why certain heroes become too strong. And some heroes just by their nature have talents more suited to team fighting, which naturally makes them better at (2)--not because they're necessarily overpowered, but just because that's what they're good at (e.g. Valla). And the lack of customization is reinforced by the current focus on deathballing, as well. If the best way to win is to group up and fight, it doesn't make sense to use talents that don't make you better in that capacity.
Now, to be fair, I'm pretty sure they nerfed the specialists because people complained that they were too powerful, not fun to play against, etc. I think they just nerfed them too much--if they were somewhere in between their current and former pushing ability, they would probably be strong enough to be viable without being too frustrating to play against. Also, as many have said, Nazeebo and Zagara could stand to have less hero-killing talents and more focus on pushing--otherwise people will just keep playing them as assassins.
As for the lack of customization, as others have stated it seems like they're aware of this and working on fixing it. Jaina and Thrall have a better assortment of talent paths, and the recently reworked heroes have more interesting talent options, especially the non-heroic level 20 talents. Obviously, most of them still need to have their numbers tuned (Abathur...) but conceptually I feel like they're moving in the right direction.
All in all, I can definitely understand why you're burnt out (especially with matchmaking being what it is currently), but I would say don't completely write the game off. It seems like they've been taking complaints/suggestions like these to heart, and hopefully will continue to make adjustments to address these issues.
*TL;DR: These are all valid complaints, but none of them are intrinsic to HotS' design and they can be fixed by careful adjustment of talents and abilities, which it seems like Blizzard is actually trying to do (even though they often swing the nerf hammer a little too hard).
| heroesofthestorm | t5_2ym13 | coa0l7n | Although I'm still having tons of fun with HotS, I do think you're right on with these complaints.
I just want to point out that most of the issues you bring up are actually related to each other, and will potentially get ironed out as Blizzard continues making adjustments:
(2) is true largely because (3) and (4) are true. The most sure-fire way to win games right now is to get all of the strong team-fighters, race to 10, and dominate the map as a group. This is reinforced by the fact that a handful of those heroes are just a little bit too strong right now, which is why they are the same heroes used in every game, as well as the fact that the specialists' pushing ability keeps getting nerfed (Murky, Azmodan, Abathur).
(3) is true largely because of (5) and (6). Talents like Envenom and Rewind are often the reason why certain heroes become too strong. And some heroes just by their nature have talents more suited to team fighting, which naturally makes them better at (2)--not because they're necessarily overpowered, but just because that's what they're good at (e.g. Valla). And the lack of customization is reinforced by the current focus on deathballing, as well. If the best way to win is to group up and fight, it doesn't make sense to use talents that don't make you better in that capacity.
Now, to be fair, I'm pretty sure they nerfed the specialists because people complained that they were too powerful, not fun to play against, etc. I think they just nerfed them too much--if they were somewhere in between their current and former pushing ability, they would probably be strong enough to be viable without being too frustrating to play against. Also, as many have said, Nazeebo and Zagara could stand to have less hero-killing talents and more focus on pushing--otherwise people will just keep playing them as assassins.
As for the lack of customization, as others have stated it seems like they're aware of this and working on fixing it. Jaina and Thrall have a better assortment of talent paths, and the recently reworked heroes have more interesting talent options, especially the non-heroic level 20 talents. Obviously, most of them still need to have their numbers tuned (Abathur...) but conceptually I feel like they're moving in the right direction.
All in all, I can definitely understand why you're burnt out (especially with matchmaking being what it is currently), but I would say don't completely write the game off. It seems like they've been taking complaints/suggestions like these to heart, and hopefully will continue to make adjustments to address these issues.
* | These are all valid complaints, but none of them are intrinsic to HotS' design and they can be fixed by careful adjustment of talents and abilities, which it seems like Blizzard is actually trying to do (even though they often swing the nerf hammer a little too hard). |
DaystarFire | Honestly to get the most out of the talents system and match the customization of other mobas, blizzard needs to redo most of the talent trees for almost all of the heroes. There are just so many crap talents to the point where you don't have build variations because all the space for cool things is taken up by these crap talents. Talents like focused attacks just have no place in the game in their current form. All they do is hurt build diversity.
A second problem is heroes having talents that are so core to their gameplay that there is actually no way to pick up any other talent on that tier (Ex: wormhole, battle momentum on Valla, etc.)
tl;dr: There are too many crap talents in the game so it's not so much about creating a build with your talents that works, with different builds from game to game, as it is about avoiding the crap talents, picking the OP ones, and then maybe having one or two situational picks from there. | Honestly to get the most out of the talents system and match the customization of other mobas, blizzard needs to redo most of the talent trees for almost all of the heroes. There are just so many crap talents to the point where you don't have build variations because all the space for cool things is taken up by these crap talents. Talents like focused attacks just have no place in the game in their current form. All they do is hurt build diversity.
A second problem is heroes having talents that are so core to their gameplay that there is actually no way to pick up any other talent on that tier (Ex: wormhole, battle momentum on Valla, etc.)
tl;dr: There are too many crap talents in the game so it's not so much about creating a build with your talents that works, with different builds from game to game, as it is about avoiding the crap talents, picking the OP ones, and then maybe having one or two situational picks from there.
| heroesofthestorm | t5_2ym13 | coafjry | Honestly to get the most out of the talents system and match the customization of other mobas, blizzard needs to redo most of the talent trees for almost all of the heroes. There are just so many crap talents to the point where you don't have build variations because all the space for cool things is taken up by these crap talents. Talents like focused attacks just have no place in the game in their current form. All they do is hurt build diversity.
A second problem is heroes having talents that are so core to their gameplay that there is actually no way to pick up any other talent on that tier (Ex: wormhole, battle momentum on Valla, etc.) | There are too many crap talents in the game so it's not so much about creating a build with your talents that works, with different builds from game to game, as it is about avoiding the crap talents, picking the OP ones, and then maybe having one or two situational picks from there. |
MalarkeyTFC | Here's something to consider for people getting burnt out. There are SO many games out there to play. Did you ever stop to think that maybe you don't need to play so much HotS? Getting burnt out stepping away and coming back to it later on is a perfectly rational thing to do, if anything should be **expected** in my opinion during a beta, especially for someone who's been participating since alpha.
Something people need to realize when participating in betas/early access: You are playing a game that is unfinished and unbalanced and buggy as though it has been fully released. You cannot expect the same kind of polish from this game as from LoL or Dota. Hell look at dota when it was in its similar 'beta' phase, so many of the same issues you talk about here applied to that game too. Frankly it took them a shit load of a long time after the game was released to even implement a ranking system.
While I'm not saying that there aren't things that need to be improved upon/balanced I am saying that getting burnt out on this game at its current stage of development is in my opinion not a negative thing.
TL:DR - Game is beta, take a few steps back, take a break and come back in a little while with fresh eyes after some updates have been implemented. | Here's something to consider for people getting burnt out. There are SO many games out there to play. Did you ever stop to think that maybe you don't need to play so much HotS? Getting burnt out stepping away and coming back to it later on is a perfectly rational thing to do, if anything should be expected in my opinion during a beta, especially for someone who's been participating since alpha.
Something people need to realize when participating in betas/early access: You are playing a game that is unfinished and unbalanced and buggy as though it has been fully released. You cannot expect the same kind of polish from this game as from LoL or Dota. Hell look at dota when it was in its similar 'beta' phase, so many of the same issues you talk about here applied to that game too. Frankly it took them a shit load of a long time after the game was released to even implement a ranking system.
While I'm not saying that there aren't things that need to be improved upon/balanced I am saying that getting burnt out on this game at its current stage of development is in my opinion not a negative thing.
TL:DR - Game is beta, take a few steps back, take a break and come back in a little while with fresh eyes after some updates have been implemented.
| heroesofthestorm | t5_2ym13 | coa3iz1 | Here's something to consider for people getting burnt out. There are SO many games out there to play. Did you ever stop to think that maybe you don't need to play so much HotS? Getting burnt out stepping away and coming back to it later on is a perfectly rational thing to do, if anything should be expected in my opinion during a beta, especially for someone who's been participating since alpha.
Something people need to realize when participating in betas/early access: You are playing a game that is unfinished and unbalanced and buggy as though it has been fully released. You cannot expect the same kind of polish from this game as from LoL or Dota. Hell look at dota when it was in its similar 'beta' phase, so many of the same issues you talk about here applied to that game too. Frankly it took them a shit load of a long time after the game was released to even implement a ranking system.
While I'm not saying that there aren't things that need to be improved upon/balanced I am saying that getting burnt out on this game at its current stage of development is in my opinion not a negative thing. | Game is beta, take a few steps back, take a break and come back in a little while with fresh eyes after some updates have been implemented. |
Ceegee93 | I said up to 1000 years old, not over.
Yes, they stayed as technologically advanced *up until that point*, once they started having to rely on western nations, their position makes it an unreliable way to keep up in tech. Even if they had survived amongst the Ottomans, there was no way western supplies would be able to reach them and help them stay up to date, or outfit their military with better weaponry. The Ottomans simply wouldn't allow that to continue. Compare that to the other western nations you listed, who were all in a great position to keep up to date with western tech, even if they weren't innovative themselves.
Even then you have to consider that you picked poor examples, since Sweden was incredibly innovative around the 1600s when it came to their military (thanks to Gustavus Adolphus) and Scotland spent much of this time period tied to England (with King James inheriting the English throne and the eventual formation of Great Britain) so there's absolutely no reason for Scotland to fall behind in tech.
tl;dr other western nations weren't surrounded by the Ottomans and could keep up in tech thanks to their neighbours. Byzantium probably couldn't have done so. | I said up to 1000 years old, not over.
Yes, they stayed as technologically advanced up until that point , once they started having to rely on western nations, their position makes it an unreliable way to keep up in tech. Even if they had survived amongst the Ottomans, there was no way western supplies would be able to reach them and help them stay up to date, or outfit their military with better weaponry. The Ottomans simply wouldn't allow that to continue. Compare that to the other western nations you listed, who were all in a great position to keep up to date with western tech, even if they weren't innovative themselves.
Even then you have to consider that you picked poor examples, since Sweden was incredibly innovative around the 1600s when it came to their military (thanks to Gustavus Adolphus) and Scotland spent much of this time period tied to England (with King James inheriting the English throne and the eventual formation of Great Britain) so there's absolutely no reason for Scotland to fall behind in tech.
tl;dr other western nations weren't surrounded by the Ottomans and could keep up in tech thanks to their neighbours. Byzantium probably couldn't have done so.
| eu4 | t5_2uqat | coab61t | I said up to 1000 years old, not over.
Yes, they stayed as technologically advanced up until that point , once they started having to rely on western nations, their position makes it an unreliable way to keep up in tech. Even if they had survived amongst the Ottomans, there was no way western supplies would be able to reach them and help them stay up to date, or outfit their military with better weaponry. The Ottomans simply wouldn't allow that to continue. Compare that to the other western nations you listed, who were all in a great position to keep up to date with western tech, even if they weren't innovative themselves.
Even then you have to consider that you picked poor examples, since Sweden was incredibly innovative around the 1600s when it came to their military (thanks to Gustavus Adolphus) and Scotland spent much of this time period tied to England (with King James inheriting the English throne and the eventual formation of Great Britain) so there's absolutely no reason for Scotland to fall behind in tech. | other western nations weren't surrounded by the Ottomans and could keep up in tech thanks to their neighbours. Byzantium probably couldn't have done so. |
RoustFool | There's a lot more to putting warheads on foreheads then just pulling the trigger. I can only speak for the Navy side of the argument but the cost to operate a Carrier and its attached air wings is truly mind boggling. You have to account for the cost of running and maintaining dozens of high performance vehicles that are under a ton of stress every day, and to put it lightly it breaks all the time. Then you have to account for pre and post operations maintenance which can take hours to perform and must be done correctly because lives are at stake. All of this cost money (I've personally replaced parts costing almost half a million dollars) and man hours.
Speaking of man hours I can assure you that the people working on these ships and aircraft are not getting enough sleep and still working their butts off everyday. Modern operational tempos are brutal, they expect more and more work from an increasing smaller group of people. The human element means you have to give people rest, otherwise mistakes get made and the wrong people get hurt.
TL;DR People operate the machines that drop the bombs. Sometimes those people need to sleep. Also have to get the machines that drop the bombs there and back again in one piece more or less. | There's a lot more to putting warheads on foreheads then just pulling the trigger. I can only speak for the Navy side of the argument but the cost to operate a Carrier and its attached air wings is truly mind boggling. You have to account for the cost of running and maintaining dozens of high performance vehicles that are under a ton of stress every day, and to put it lightly it breaks all the time. Then you have to account for pre and post operations maintenance which can take hours to perform and must be done correctly because lives are at stake. All of this cost money (I've personally replaced parts costing almost half a million dollars) and man hours.
Speaking of man hours I can assure you that the people working on these ships and aircraft are not getting enough sleep and still working their butts off everyday. Modern operational tempos are brutal, they expect more and more work from an increasing smaller group of people. The human element means you have to give people rest, otherwise mistakes get made and the wrong people get hurt.
TL;DR People operate the machines that drop the bombs. Sometimes those people need to sleep. Also have to get the machines that drop the bombs there and back again in one piece more or less.
| explainlikeimfive | t5_2sokd | coa0icw | There's a lot more to putting warheads on foreheads then just pulling the trigger. I can only speak for the Navy side of the argument but the cost to operate a Carrier and its attached air wings is truly mind boggling. You have to account for the cost of running and maintaining dozens of high performance vehicles that are under a ton of stress every day, and to put it lightly it breaks all the time. Then you have to account for pre and post operations maintenance which can take hours to perform and must be done correctly because lives are at stake. All of this cost money (I've personally replaced parts costing almost half a million dollars) and man hours.
Speaking of man hours I can assure you that the people working on these ships and aircraft are not getting enough sleep and still working their butts off everyday. Modern operational tempos are brutal, they expect more and more work from an increasing smaller group of people. The human element means you have to give people rest, otherwise mistakes get made and the wrong people get hurt. | People operate the machines that drop the bombs. Sometimes those people need to sleep. Also have to get the machines that drop the bombs there and back again in one piece more or less. |
Ark0519 | So I live in Upstate NY and the cape scene here is very limited...like we're just getting a Vape outlet in the area but it's a good 45 min from where I live...I AINT TRYIN TO DRIVE THAT FAR! Lucky enough Facebook came thru and I found a vape shop in the capital (Albany) and that's a good 10 min from my house which is do-able. They had a shit load of flavors available written on a chalkboard with a lot of different brands but I ended up getting a 15ml bottle of the Gummy cola by Cosmic Fog...it was okay, had to steep it for a few and it got better. I noticed my bottle was low by the 29th of January so I began searching reddit from some good sites to find juice and came across Vapewild.com . I thought the list at the vape shop was massive....GEEZ!!! well ended up picking out 4 flavors and when I finally got it today (came on Monday but we got Blasted in the Ass 💪 by this snow storm so it got postponed for me to pick up today) MAAAAAAN I was shocked two smell how good these cereal flavors smell but I noticed I got 2 other flavors as well...long story short...I will be ordering from them again 👍👌👍👌.
TL;DR Vapewild is the NOICE!!! and Albany NY is limited on Vape shops. | So I live in Upstate NY and the cape scene here is very limited...like we're just getting a Vape outlet in the area but it's a good 45 min from where I live...I AINT TRYIN TO DRIVE THAT FAR! Lucky enough Facebook came thru and I found a vape shop in the capital (Albany) and that's a good 10 min from my house which is do-able. They had a shit load of flavors available written on a chalkboard with a lot of different brands but I ended up getting a 15ml bottle of the Gummy cola by Cosmic Fog...it was okay, had to steep it for a few and it got better. I noticed my bottle was low by the 29th of January so I began searching reddit from some good sites to find juice and came across Vapewild.com . I thought the list at the vape shop was massive....GEEZ!!! well ended up picking out 4 flavors and when I finally got it today (came on Monday but we got Blasted in the Ass 💪 by this snow storm so it got postponed for me to pick up today) MAAAAAAN I was shocked two smell how good these cereal flavors smell but I noticed I got 2 other flavors as well...long story short...I will be ordering from them again 👍👌👍👌.
TL;DR Vapewild is the NOICE!!! and Albany NY is limited on Vape shops.
| Vaping | t5_2rg4n | coa7ucx | So I live in Upstate NY and the cape scene here is very limited...like we're just getting a Vape outlet in the area but it's a good 45 min from where I live...I AINT TRYIN TO DRIVE THAT FAR! Lucky enough Facebook came thru and I found a vape shop in the capital (Albany) and that's a good 10 min from my house which is do-able. They had a shit load of flavors available written on a chalkboard with a lot of different brands but I ended up getting a 15ml bottle of the Gummy cola by Cosmic Fog...it was okay, had to steep it for a few and it got better. I noticed my bottle was low by the 29th of January so I began searching reddit from some good sites to find juice and came across Vapewild.com . I thought the list at the vape shop was massive....GEEZ!!! well ended up picking out 4 flavors and when I finally got it today (came on Monday but we got Blasted in the Ass 💪 by this snow storm so it got postponed for me to pick up today) MAAAAAAN I was shocked two smell how good these cereal flavors smell but I noticed I got 2 other flavors as well...long story short...I will be ordering from them again 👍👌👍👌. | Vapewild is the NOICE!!! and Albany NY is limited on Vape shops. |
sophacles | A couple years back, I hadn't run much for a few days, because of a conflation of new years, cold weather, and a bit of laziness. So I had to take this trip for work, and it involved a 12 hour airport hell travel route. Fortunately I had a book with me. Unfortunately it was "Born to Run". So all I could do for that 12 hours was think about running, and how I hadn't for a while, and because of the book, how awesome running is.
Oddly, it was very similar to going a while without pulling the pud - it was all I could think of.
So I finish my travel, get to the hotel and go to the workout room more or less immediately. I just started running. It was great. As I got into and the endorphins kicked in, I was feeling fantastic and, noticing all the mirrors decided to watch myself run to work on my form. This is where - being running high as fuck - I was so into paying attention to my form, that I for got to run forward. I started veering off to the side and steped half on/half off the moving rubber thing. I totally fell, and did the whole "fly off the back". Idiot me didn't put on the safety cutoff thing, so when i landed my shoulder was just getting torn off by the tread.
I realize I'm a moron, stand up, and start laughing. I hadn't realized how bad the 'mill rash' was, and just started running again and laughing. Look around a bit, and there's a woman there just looking horrified at me. I stop the treadmill and look at her like what? She says "your arm....".
I look over and it's just bleeding, pretty good, and it's not just blood, but the fun road rash ooze. I laugh even harder and she just nope's out of the workout room.
I clean up and just keep going. Apparently runner's high is just as much of a high as meth.
tl;dr - tell your kids about running, before someone else does. | A couple years back, I hadn't run much for a few days, because of a conflation of new years, cold weather, and a bit of laziness. So I had to take this trip for work, and it involved a 12 hour airport hell travel route. Fortunately I had a book with me. Unfortunately it was "Born to Run". So all I could do for that 12 hours was think about running, and how I hadn't for a while, and because of the book, how awesome running is.
Oddly, it was very similar to going a while without pulling the pud - it was all I could think of.
So I finish my travel, get to the hotel and go to the workout room more or less immediately. I just started running. It was great. As I got into and the endorphins kicked in, I was feeling fantastic and, noticing all the mirrors decided to watch myself run to work on my form. This is where - being running high as fuck - I was so into paying attention to my form, that I for got to run forward. I started veering off to the side and steped half on/half off the moving rubber thing. I totally fell, and did the whole "fly off the back". Idiot me didn't put on the safety cutoff thing, so when i landed my shoulder was just getting torn off by the tread.
I realize I'm a moron, stand up, and start laughing. I hadn't realized how bad the 'mill rash' was, and just started running again and laughing. Look around a bit, and there's a woman there just looking horrified at me. I stop the treadmill and look at her like what? She says "your arm....".
I look over and it's just bleeding, pretty good, and it's not just blood, but the fun road rash ooze. I laugh even harder and she just nope's out of the workout room.
I clean up and just keep going. Apparently runner's high is just as much of a high as meth.
tl;dr - tell your kids about running, before someone else does.
| tifu | t5_2to41 | cob1lhy | A couple years back, I hadn't run much for a few days, because of a conflation of new years, cold weather, and a bit of laziness. So I had to take this trip for work, and it involved a 12 hour airport hell travel route. Fortunately I had a book with me. Unfortunately it was "Born to Run". So all I could do for that 12 hours was think about running, and how I hadn't for a while, and because of the book, how awesome running is.
Oddly, it was very similar to going a while without pulling the pud - it was all I could think of.
So I finish my travel, get to the hotel and go to the workout room more or less immediately. I just started running. It was great. As I got into and the endorphins kicked in, I was feeling fantastic and, noticing all the mirrors decided to watch myself run to work on my form. This is where - being running high as fuck - I was so into paying attention to my form, that I for got to run forward. I started veering off to the side and steped half on/half off the moving rubber thing. I totally fell, and did the whole "fly off the back". Idiot me didn't put on the safety cutoff thing, so when i landed my shoulder was just getting torn off by the tread.
I realize I'm a moron, stand up, and start laughing. I hadn't realized how bad the 'mill rash' was, and just started running again and laughing. Look around a bit, and there's a woman there just looking horrified at me. I stop the treadmill and look at her like what? She says "your arm....".
I look over and it's just bleeding, pretty good, and it's not just blood, but the fun road rash ooze. I laugh even harder and she just nope's out of the workout room.
I clean up and just keep going. Apparently runner's high is just as much of a high as meth. | tell your kids about running, before someone else does. |
FreenInGreen | Word up, Grumps. I wish you all well, and good job keeping everything in order in this really hard time. You're all very dedicated and wonderful people.
We just had a close friend of ours feeling really down, and Game Grumps completely changed their mood back to positive after we stayed up and marathoned hours of content by you guys, so your continued efforts are definitely making a difference in many, many lives as well.
And yeah, thank you Suzy for stepping up your game and helping pick up the slack. That couldn't have been easy, but you seemed to have rocked it, so rock on! I'd love to see more puzzle game episodes with Suzy on 'em, on a personal note.
TL;DR: Thanks guys, you mean a lot to us and it's great that you're keeping up productivity in the face of such hardships. Rock on! | Word up, Grumps. I wish you all well, and good job keeping everything in order in this really hard time. You're all very dedicated and wonderful people.
We just had a close friend of ours feeling really down, and Game Grumps completely changed their mood back to positive after we stayed up and marathoned hours of content by you guys, so your continued efforts are definitely making a difference in many, many lives as well.
And yeah, thank you Suzy for stepping up your game and helping pick up the slack. That couldn't have been easy, but you seemed to have rocked it, so rock on! I'd love to see more puzzle game episodes with Suzy on 'em, on a personal note.
TL;DR: Thanks guys, you mean a lot to us and it's great that you're keeping up productivity in the face of such hardships. Rock on!
| gamegrumps | t5_2ulfu | coav66b | Word up, Grumps. I wish you all well, and good job keeping everything in order in this really hard time. You're all very dedicated and wonderful people.
We just had a close friend of ours feeling really down, and Game Grumps completely changed their mood back to positive after we stayed up and marathoned hours of content by you guys, so your continued efforts are definitely making a difference in many, many lives as well.
And yeah, thank you Suzy for stepping up your game and helping pick up the slack. That couldn't have been easy, but you seemed to have rocked it, so rock on! I'd love to see more puzzle game episodes with Suzy on 'em, on a personal note. | Thanks guys, you mean a lot to us and it's great that you're keeping up productivity in the face of such hardships. Rock on! |
Core308 | OP seems to think that Hitler was the only one who hated the Jews. Far from it, Jews where hated all across the world, long before Hitler came to power. Most of the world just forced them to move on when a jewish family came to town and maybe chase them with a stick but not actually kill them (usually).
TLDR: the horrible situation for the jews where much bigger than we think today | OP seems to think that Hitler was the only one who hated the Jews. Far from it, Jews where hated all across the world, long before Hitler came to power. Most of the world just forced them to move on when a jewish family came to town and maybe chase them with a stick but not actually kill them (usually).
TLDR: the horrible situation for the jews where much bigger than we think today
| explainlikeimfive | t5_2sokd | coatfcn | OP seems to think that Hitler was the only one who hated the Jews. Far from it, Jews where hated all across the world, long before Hitler came to power. Most of the world just forced them to move on when a jewish family came to town and maybe chase them with a stick but not actually kill them (usually). | the horrible situation for the jews where much bigger than we think today |
Georgy_K_Zhukov | >It wouldn't be surprising if a large part of the exodus were left out of Egyptian history. After all, what great nation writes of its failures?
OK, sure. But that is a direct contradiction of your claim of a "vast amount of historical evidence", to rely on an "absence of evidence is not evidence of absence" argument.
To return to my initial post, I stand by it, and I also believe that Friedman is more in line with my own statement than yours. Namely that there is no evidence to support the idea that the Biblical Exodus happened, and while there is some debate on the matter, the best you will find are scholars like him who reject the Biblical account, and propose a much smaller exodus which perhaps numbered only a few thousand, and which they agree does not (yet) have an appreciable archaeological record to demonstrate it, and use other arguments to support it.
So TL;DR, if you are willing to back down from the "vast amount" statement I'll meet you half way and say that the study of the Israelites and Egypt is not a totally settled matter, but I'm really not going to sit here and let you claim that there is anything approaching a "vast amount of historical evidence". | >It wouldn't be surprising if a large part of the exodus were left out of Egyptian history. After all, what great nation writes of its failures?
OK, sure. But that is a direct contradiction of your claim of a "vast amount of historical evidence", to rely on an "absence of evidence is not evidence of absence" argument.
To return to my initial post, I stand by it, and I also believe that Friedman is more in line with my own statement than yours. Namely that there is no evidence to support the idea that the Biblical Exodus happened, and while there is some debate on the matter, the best you will find are scholars like him who reject the Biblical account, and propose a much smaller exodus which perhaps numbered only a few thousand, and which they agree does not (yet) have an appreciable archaeological record to demonstrate it, and use other arguments to support it.
So TL;DR, if you are willing to back down from the "vast amount" statement I'll meet you half way and say that the study of the Israelites and Egypt is not a totally settled matter, but I'm really not going to sit here and let you claim that there is anything approaching a "vast amount of historical evidence".
| history | t5_2qh53 | cob3uip | It wouldn't be surprising if a large part of the exodus were left out of Egyptian history. After all, what great nation writes of its failures?
OK, sure. But that is a direct contradiction of your claim of a "vast amount of historical evidence", to rely on an "absence of evidence is not evidence of absence" argument.
To return to my initial post, I stand by it, and I also believe that Friedman is more in line with my own statement than yours. Namely that there is no evidence to support the idea that the Biblical Exodus happened, and while there is some debate on the matter, the best you will find are scholars like him who reject the Biblical account, and propose a much smaller exodus which perhaps numbered only a few thousand, and which they agree does not (yet) have an appreciable archaeological record to demonstrate it, and use other arguments to support it.
So | if you are willing to back down from the "vast amount" statement I'll meet you half way and say that the study of the Israelites and Egypt is not a totally settled matter, but I'm really not going to sit here and let you claim that there is anything approaching a "vast amount of historical evidence". |
Leftys-Wheelchair | No matter what you say to me. I will never believe a person when they say "i can comprehend this scale"...
No matter how many pictures I've seen, videos of scale I've watched, just comparisons between our own little planets...
It's just impossible to fathom the scale in which the universe measures.
You look at yourself right now. Most likely sitting in a room. In that room you are still to some degree a small area of the room. That room is probably a small, or even large area of that building. That building is a tiny, tiny area of the city you live in. That city is truly tiny on the scale of the country you're in. Then that country in of itself pretty small on scale of this planet.
Now to me at least, I find it hard to even imagine my size compared to this planet (which I do waaay to much).
Now sure, if you use something like the planets in our solar system, the moons they have. Yes, you can put them up beside our moon and get some understanding of how small we are.
(Let me just add something in here) You look at the moon at night and think to some relative degree that it is close.. But it's really not. You can fit every planet in our system between us and the moon... Just try picture that after looking at a few scales.
But if you try to tell me you understand how big the Horsehead Nebula is or how big our galaxy is... I just can't believe you.
TL;DR I don't believe the human race will ever truly understand the scale of the universe or fathom the size at which it works. | No matter what you say to me. I will never believe a person when they say "i can comprehend this scale"...
No matter how many pictures I've seen, videos of scale I've watched, just comparisons between our own little planets...
It's just impossible to fathom the scale in which the universe measures.
You look at yourself right now. Most likely sitting in a room. In that room you are still to some degree a small area of the room. That room is probably a small, or even large area of that building. That building is a tiny, tiny area of the city you live in. That city is truly tiny on the scale of the country you're in. Then that country in of itself pretty small on scale of this planet.
Now to me at least, I find it hard to even imagine my size compared to this planet (which I do waaay to much).
Now sure, if you use something like the planets in our solar system, the moons they have. Yes, you can put them up beside our moon and get some understanding of how small we are.
(Let me just add something in here) You look at the moon at night and think to some relative degree that it is close.. But it's really not. You can fit every planet in our system between us and the moon... Just try picture that after looking at a few scales.
But if you try to tell me you understand how big the Horsehead Nebula is or how big our galaxy is... I just can't believe you.
TL;DR I don't believe the human race will ever truly understand the scale of the universe or fathom the size at which it works.
| space | t5_2qh87 | cobodqp | No matter what you say to me. I will never believe a person when they say "i can comprehend this scale"...
No matter how many pictures I've seen, videos of scale I've watched, just comparisons between our own little planets...
It's just impossible to fathom the scale in which the universe measures.
You look at yourself right now. Most likely sitting in a room. In that room you are still to some degree a small area of the room. That room is probably a small, or even large area of that building. That building is a tiny, tiny area of the city you live in. That city is truly tiny on the scale of the country you're in. Then that country in of itself pretty small on scale of this planet.
Now to me at least, I find it hard to even imagine my size compared to this planet (which I do waaay to much).
Now sure, if you use something like the planets in our solar system, the moons they have. Yes, you can put them up beside our moon and get some understanding of how small we are.
(Let me just add something in here) You look at the moon at night and think to some relative degree that it is close.. But it's really not. You can fit every planet in our system between us and the moon... Just try picture that after looking at a few scales.
But if you try to tell me you understand how big the Horsehead Nebula is or how big our galaxy is... I just can't believe you. | I don't believe the human race will ever truly understand the scale of the universe or fathom the size at which it works. |
_josepi_ | One does need to apply the math, and count for reduced size.
So, if a name brand is .80 ea, and gets 10 uses, if the .08c gets more than one use, it becomes viable. That said, I've never gotten more than 2-3 uses out of the name brand, and 1-2 out of the dollar store generic.
tldr: even with a shorter expected lifespan, the quantity allowed breaks the longer lifespan cost by use. | One does need to apply the math, and count for reduced size.
So, if a name brand is .80 ea, and gets 10 uses, if the .08c gets more than one use, it becomes viable. That said, I've never gotten more than 2-3 uses out of the name brand, and 1-2 out of the dollar store generic.
tldr: even with a shorter expected lifespan, the quantity allowed breaks the longer lifespan cost by use.
| Frugal | t5_2qhbe | cobf2cb | One does need to apply the math, and count for reduced size.
So, if a name brand is .80 ea, and gets 10 uses, if the .08c gets more than one use, it becomes viable. That said, I've never gotten more than 2-3 uses out of the name brand, and 1-2 out of the dollar store generic. | even with a shorter expected lifespan, the quantity allowed breaks the longer lifespan cost by use. |
snowman334 | Pharmacy tech here, this happens a lot, actually... Most people understand; you apologise, they thank you for it, and you tell them you will make a note of it so this doesn't happen again. I've never had anyone get upset at me for this, and I've had it happen at least 6 or 7 times in the last three years....
Like I said it's not really uncommon, considering that people on medications usually have something wrong with them, and the older folks are typically on more and more medications the older they get.
**TL;DR** Call enough people, one of them is bound to be dead. | Pharmacy tech here, this happens a lot, actually... Most people understand; you apologise, they thank you for it, and you tell them you will make a note of it so this doesn't happen again. I've never had anyone get upset at me for this, and I've had it happen at least 6 or 7 times in the last three years....
Like I said it's not really uncommon, considering that people on medications usually have something wrong with them, and the older folks are typically on more and more medications the older they get.
TL;DR Call enough people, one of them is bound to be dead.
| AdviceAnimals | t5_2s7tt | cobz9ff | Pharmacy tech here, this happens a lot, actually... Most people understand; you apologise, they thank you for it, and you tell them you will make a note of it so this doesn't happen again. I've never had anyone get upset at me for this, and I've had it happen at least 6 or 7 times in the last three years....
Like I said it's not really uncommon, considering that people on medications usually have something wrong with them, and the older folks are typically on more and more medications the older they get. | Call enough people, one of them is bound to be dead. |
threewolfshirt | I'm fucking sick right now and my mom pulled this shit on me. Said: "you have the ACT on Saturday, you should study for that instead of playing game. In fact if you can play games then you can go to school." She then took my keyboard after I had shutdown my PC. So I used my school issued MacBook Air as a keyboard instead. TL;DR normal PCMR adaptation shit | I'm fucking sick right now and my mom pulled this shit on me. Said: "you have the ACT on Saturday, you should study for that instead of playing game. In fact if you can play games then you can go to school." She then took my keyboard after I had shutdown my PC. So I used my school issued MacBook Air as a keyboard instead. TL;DR normal PCMR adaptation shit
| pcmasterrace | t5_2sgp1 | cocin91 | I'm fucking sick right now and my mom pulled this shit on me. Said: "you have the ACT on Saturday, you should study for that instead of playing game. In fact if you can play games then you can go to school." She then took my keyboard after I had shutdown my PC. So I used my school issued MacBook Air as a keyboard instead. | normal PCMR adaptation shit |
MajorKilowatt | If it stopped working after they were working on your car they might have actually messed your transmission up. I had this happen to a close friend on his car. The mechanic fucked up his motor by not tightening the filter after an oil change and leaking a lot of oil and they blamed it on him messing with it. He lawyered up and got a motor plus cash for his time. TL:DR they may have been the cause of your problems. | If it stopped working after they were working on your car they might have actually messed your transmission up. I had this happen to a close friend on his car. The mechanic fucked up his motor by not tightening the filter after an oil change and leaking a lot of oil and they blamed it on him messing with it. He lawyered up and got a motor plus cash for his time. TL:DR they may have been the cause of your problems.
| civic | t5_2sujg | cos27ic | If it stopped working after they were working on your car they might have actually messed your transmission up. I had this happen to a close friend on his car. The mechanic fucked up his motor by not tightening the filter after an oil change and leaking a lot of oil and they blamed it on him messing with it. He lawyered up and got a motor plus cash for his time. | they may have been the cause of your problems. |
sarahd33x | Oh okay, I respect that. I also understand that in the grand scheme of things it's not the worst possible thing to happen to you, although, for all its intents and purposes, misusing the down vote sucks. It's just being put into a full blown discussion now, versus minor comments and complaints here and there. TL;DR, I can see your point, and I respect where you stand with it. | Oh okay, I respect that. I also understand that in the grand scheme of things it's not the worst possible thing to happen to you, although, for all its intents and purposes, misusing the down vote sucks. It's just being put into a full blown discussion now, versus minor comments and complaints here and there. TL;DR, I can see your point, and I respect where you stand with it.
| MakeupAddiction | t5_2rww2 | cocsxp7 | Oh okay, I respect that. I also understand that in the grand scheme of things it's not the worst possible thing to happen to you, although, for all its intents and purposes, misusing the down vote sucks. It's just being put into a full blown discussion now, versus minor comments and complaints here and there. | I can see your point, and I respect where you stand with it. |
biomeddna | Oh man, Flemeth's quote gets me every time.
Makes me think about all of the history and current events we learn, for obvious reasons, but I especially think about the little snapshots I get of the people around me as I travel.
I made up the advice of "judge others like you judge yourself: by intent" ages ago and relate that to this. Most people we interact with do not show their full selves to us, so we compartmentalize them in order to process info faster and get on with our regular routines.
Tl;dr, Flemeth is awesome. | Oh man, Flemeth's quote gets me every time.
Makes me think about all of the history and current events we learn, for obvious reasons, but I especially think about the little snapshots I get of the people around me as I travel.
I made up the advice of "judge others like you judge yourself: by intent" ages ago and relate that to this. Most people we interact with do not show their full selves to us, so we compartmentalize them in order to process info faster and get on with our regular routines.
Tl;dr, Flemeth is awesome.
| dragonage | t5_2r8lo | cock1rm | Oh man, Flemeth's quote gets me every time.
Makes me think about all of the history and current events we learn, for obvious reasons, but I especially think about the little snapshots I get of the people around me as I travel.
I made up the advice of "judge others like you judge yourself: by intent" ages ago and relate that to this. Most people we interact with do not show their full selves to us, so we compartmentalize them in order to process info faster and get on with our regular routines. | Flemeth is awesome. |
Menchulat | First of all, sorry about the rant, but I think my previous comment may require some context:
One of my brothers was diagnosed with high functioning Asperger when he was a little kid (5, maybe 6 years old), and the immediate step was to enroll him in afternoon therapy lessons at a local Autism association (where they stunted his development, but that's another story) a few hours a week.
Young children had group therapy often; he rarely came back without a bite, scratches, fucking STABS, the whole deal. Those "less high functioning (sigh) special kids" (as the staff and parents called them) were rambunctious tyrants who have never heard the words *no* or *stop*.
For god sake, an older -and bigger- one whose brain wasn't brighter than a inbreed puppy's became obsessed with my brother and took a liking in trying to gouge his eyes out with her own claws (her mother refused to cut her nails "because it distressed her").
Kid grew up terrified of other children and still has a hard time making new friends, even now that he's a young man he's scared of his peers' violent reactions, which is a real problem living in a country where the main past time on weekends is getting piss drunk. I'm aware that part of it is that he's pretty spoiled and may act quite snotty sometimes -but damn, It breakes my heart.
TL;dr: if your spaw tries to murder other people's spaw on a regular basis, it's not human, just a failed turn in the evolutionary path. | First of all, sorry about the rant, but I think my previous comment may require some context:
One of my brothers was diagnosed with high functioning Asperger when he was a little kid (5, maybe 6 years old), and the immediate step was to enroll him in afternoon therapy lessons at a local Autism association (where they stunted his development, but that's another story) a few hours a week.
Young children had group therapy often; he rarely came back without a bite, scratches, fucking STABS, the whole deal. Those "less high functioning (sigh) special kids" (as the staff and parents called them) were rambunctious tyrants who have never heard the words no or stop .
For god sake, an older -and bigger- one whose brain wasn't brighter than a inbreed puppy's became obsessed with my brother and took a liking in trying to gouge his eyes out with her own claws (her mother refused to cut her nails "because it distressed her").
Kid grew up terrified of other children and still has a hard time making new friends, even now that he's a young man he's scared of his peers' violent reactions, which is a real problem living in a country where the main past time on weekends is getting piss drunk. I'm aware that part of it is that he's pretty spoiled and may act quite snotty sometimes -but damn, It breakes my heart.
TL;dr: if your spaw tries to murder other people's spaw on a regular basis, it's not human, just a failed turn in the evolutionary path.
| WTF | t5_2qh61 | code0g2 | First of all, sorry about the rant, but I think my previous comment may require some context:
One of my brothers was diagnosed with high functioning Asperger when he was a little kid (5, maybe 6 years old), and the immediate step was to enroll him in afternoon therapy lessons at a local Autism association (where they stunted his development, but that's another story) a few hours a week.
Young children had group therapy often; he rarely came back without a bite, scratches, fucking STABS, the whole deal. Those "less high functioning (sigh) special kids" (as the staff and parents called them) were rambunctious tyrants who have never heard the words no or stop .
For god sake, an older -and bigger- one whose brain wasn't brighter than a inbreed puppy's became obsessed with my brother and took a liking in trying to gouge his eyes out with her own claws (her mother refused to cut her nails "because it distressed her").
Kid grew up terrified of other children and still has a hard time making new friends, even now that he's a young man he's scared of his peers' violent reactions, which is a real problem living in a country where the main past time on weekends is getting piss drunk. I'm aware that part of it is that he's pretty spoiled and may act quite snotty sometimes -but damn, It breakes my heart. | if your spaw tries to murder other people's spaw on a regular basis, it's not human, just a failed turn in the evolutionary path. |
thegirlontheredbicyc | I went to save a galah on the side of the road. I wrapped him up in a towel but he managed to bite my finger and almost went through my nail. I flung my arm around violently in pain, while that fucker was still attached to my finger. It detached and hit the road I just rescued it from really hard and broke it's wing. I felt like shit but it was my human response to almost losing my finger.
TL;DR I probably would have hit the kid | I went to save a galah on the side of the road. I wrapped him up in a towel but he managed to bite my finger and almost went through my nail. I flung my arm around violently in pain, while that fucker was still attached to my finger. It detached and hit the road I just rescued it from really hard and broke it's wing. I felt like shit but it was my human response to almost losing my finger.
TL;DR I probably would have hit the kid
| WTF | t5_2qh61 | cods1m1 | I went to save a galah on the side of the road. I wrapped him up in a towel but he managed to bite my finger and almost went through my nail. I flung my arm around violently in pain, while that fucker was still attached to my finger. It detached and hit the road I just rescued it from really hard and broke it's wing. I felt like shit but it was my human response to almost losing my finger. | I probably would have hit the kid |
swoodmanroxu | **Ingram:** This year, Ingram had to be one of the best running backs in the league this season when he got the opportunity to run and was being utilized properly. Keep in mind that Mark Ingram only has 582 career carries, that is literally 50 carries less than Eddie Lacy. Your worst possible scenario for Ingram is that he stays in New Orleans and continues to be a solid #2 RB, best case scenario he ends up somewhere and can shine as a low end #1 RB. With your 2.01 you might end up with a starter or you might miss. It isn't like you are trading away Gordon or Gurley. You're trading away someone like Yeldon, Duke Johnson, Sammie Coates, ect. [based on mocks done here].
**TL;DR:** You'd be an asshole if you didn't read this Cam <3.
**EDIT** Gave my reasoning because I hate when people don't do that for me. So there it is, you goddamn Canuck. | Ingram: This year, Ingram had to be one of the best running backs in the league this season when he got the opportunity to run and was being utilized properly. Keep in mind that Mark Ingram only has 582 career carries, that is literally 50 carries less than Eddie Lacy. Your worst possible scenario for Ingram is that he stays in New Orleans and continues to be a solid #2 RB, best case scenario he ends up somewhere and can shine as a low end #1 RB. With your 2.01 you might end up with a starter or you might miss. It isn't like you are trading away Gordon or Gurley. You're trading away someone like Yeldon, Duke Johnson, Sammie Coates, ect. [based on mocks done here].
TL;DR: You'd be an asshole if you didn't read this Cam <3.
EDIT Gave my reasoning because I hate when people don't do that for me. So there it is, you goddamn Canuck.
| DynastyFF | t5_2umu4 | cocygvw | Ingram: This year, Ingram had to be one of the best running backs in the league this season when he got the opportunity to run and was being utilized properly. Keep in mind that Mark Ingram only has 582 career carries, that is literally 50 carries less than Eddie Lacy. Your worst possible scenario for Ingram is that he stays in New Orleans and continues to be a solid #2 RB, best case scenario he ends up somewhere and can shine as a low end #1 RB. With your 2.01 you might end up with a starter or you might miss. It isn't like you are trading away Gordon or Gurley. You're trading away someone like Yeldon, Duke Johnson, Sammie Coates, ect. [based on mocks done here]. | You'd be an asshole if you didn't read this Cam <3.
EDIT Gave my reasoning because I hate when people don't do that for me. So there it is, you goddamn Canuck. |
WindyTrumpet | The city is all mish-mash. WFPS acts a separate entity because it's deemed a public service, so it gets funded through city and provincial taxes, but all the medical direction etc comes under WRHA.
tl;dr: WFPS is the King. | The city is all mish-mash. WFPS acts a separate entity because it's deemed a public service, so it gets funded through city and provincial taxes, but all the medical direction etc comes under WRHA.
tl;dr: WFPS is the King.
| Winnipeg | t5_2qtno | codnx14 | The city is all mish-mash. WFPS acts a separate entity because it's deemed a public service, so it gets funded through city and provincial taxes, but all the medical direction etc comes under WRHA. | WFPS is the King. |
FPFan | Maybe I can help, I dislike broad nibs in general, and will rarely use them. There are occasions, but they are special writing occasions, all other times, I like an EF preferably, and if I am writing large and quick, an F. So there are my bonafides for explaining my point of view.
I have to make a special effort for my writing to be legible if I write with a broad, even a western medium is to broad for my writing. The japanese EFs are perfect for my writing style actually, although a Pilot F is not bad, but an M is starting to push it to where I have to pay attention to my writing. I also happen to love fountain pens, and am probably 5-10 years since I used a pen other than a fountain pen for much of anything other than a quick note. They fit me better and I enjoy them more for writing.
Once tuned, I have never found the Japanese EF nibs to be scratchy, stiff or poor writers. I actually have Pilot Metros that I rate just as smooth and pleasant to write with as really nice gold nibed pens, and have both side by side daily. This may be the particular way I write, but they do work well for me.
Having said all of that, I do own some Broad nibs and stubs, and when I write a card or something like that, I will use them, since the stroke is more suited to the purpose.
TL:DR; Some of us really love fountain pens, and the really fine nibs fit us best. Use what fits you and you love, and don't pay attention to nay-sayers. | Maybe I can help, I dislike broad nibs in general, and will rarely use them. There are occasions, but they are special writing occasions, all other times, I like an EF preferably, and if I am writing large and quick, an F. So there are my bonafides for explaining my point of view.
I have to make a special effort for my writing to be legible if I write with a broad, even a western medium is to broad for my writing. The japanese EFs are perfect for my writing style actually, although a Pilot F is not bad, but an M is starting to push it to where I have to pay attention to my writing. I also happen to love fountain pens, and am probably 5-10 years since I used a pen other than a fountain pen for much of anything other than a quick note. They fit me better and I enjoy them more for writing.
Once tuned, I have never found the Japanese EF nibs to be scratchy, stiff or poor writers. I actually have Pilot Metros that I rate just as smooth and pleasant to write with as really nice gold nibed pens, and have both side by side daily. This may be the particular way I write, but they do work well for me.
Having said all of that, I do own some Broad nibs and stubs, and when I write a card or something like that, I will use them, since the stroke is more suited to the purpose.
TL:DR; Some of us really love fountain pens, and the really fine nibs fit us best. Use what fits you and you love, and don't pay attention to nay-sayers.
| fountainpens | t5_2s0ew | cod7ng5 | Maybe I can help, I dislike broad nibs in general, and will rarely use them. There are occasions, but they are special writing occasions, all other times, I like an EF preferably, and if I am writing large and quick, an F. So there are my bonafides for explaining my point of view.
I have to make a special effort for my writing to be legible if I write with a broad, even a western medium is to broad for my writing. The japanese EFs are perfect for my writing style actually, although a Pilot F is not bad, but an M is starting to push it to where I have to pay attention to my writing. I also happen to love fountain pens, and am probably 5-10 years since I used a pen other than a fountain pen for much of anything other than a quick note. They fit me better and I enjoy them more for writing.
Once tuned, I have never found the Japanese EF nibs to be scratchy, stiff or poor writers. I actually have Pilot Metros that I rate just as smooth and pleasant to write with as really nice gold nibed pens, and have both side by side daily. This may be the particular way I write, but they do work well for me.
Having said all of that, I do own some Broad nibs and stubs, and when I write a card or something like that, I will use them, since the stroke is more suited to the purpose. | Some of us really love fountain pens, and the really fine nibs fit us best. Use what fits you and you love, and don't pay attention to nay-sayers. |
Splitlimes | At a few times I've thought cardistry was loosing steam, not that I'd personally stop just that people would stop starting, but it's endured.
Ultimately, I don't see cardistry become a household name, simply because it's hard as fuck. Like sometimes I feel like we kid ourselves a bit, saying "here's a beginner's move" etc, it's easier than it looks (I'm guilty of this). If you start tomorrow it'd probably take you about a year to get anywhere near what would look like half decent Cardistry, like you can get the movements down, but getting that smoothness and the speed and the knack, it's years.
People try to learn, the people first to give up are the ones with a lack of patience. They usually give up in 3 mins. Some people get over that hurdle simply because they're motivated, and they're the 2nd wave of quitters. Motivation runs out without seeing results - Cardistry doesn't give you the results fast enough to notice. Maybe they'll get some simple moves down, but they won't get into the groove required to hit the 1 year + mark, they'll burn out. The people who really succeed at Cardistry are those who just get into it, they learn to like it, it's not "Practise". It's jamming. Thats the only strat which works.
TL;DR Its late I should go to bed. | At a few times I've thought cardistry was loosing steam, not that I'd personally stop just that people would stop starting, but it's endured.
Ultimately, I don't see cardistry become a household name, simply because it's hard as fuck. Like sometimes I feel like we kid ourselves a bit, saying "here's a beginner's move" etc, it's easier than it looks (I'm guilty of this). If you start tomorrow it'd probably take you about a year to get anywhere near what would look like half decent Cardistry, like you can get the movements down, but getting that smoothness and the speed and the knack, it's years.
People try to learn, the people first to give up are the ones with a lack of patience. They usually give up in 3 mins. Some people get over that hurdle simply because they're motivated, and they're the 2nd wave of quitters. Motivation runs out without seeing results - Cardistry doesn't give you the results fast enough to notice. Maybe they'll get some simple moves down, but they won't get into the groove required to hit the 1 year + mark, they'll burn out. The people who really succeed at Cardistry are those who just get into it, they learn to like it, it's not "Practise". It's jamming. Thats the only strat which works.
TL;DR Its late I should go to bed.
| cardistry | t5_2sjb1 | cofuqbc | At a few times I've thought cardistry was loosing steam, not that I'd personally stop just that people would stop starting, but it's endured.
Ultimately, I don't see cardistry become a household name, simply because it's hard as fuck. Like sometimes I feel like we kid ourselves a bit, saying "here's a beginner's move" etc, it's easier than it looks (I'm guilty of this). If you start tomorrow it'd probably take you about a year to get anywhere near what would look like half decent Cardistry, like you can get the movements down, but getting that smoothness and the speed and the knack, it's years.
People try to learn, the people first to give up are the ones with a lack of patience. They usually give up in 3 mins. Some people get over that hurdle simply because they're motivated, and they're the 2nd wave of quitters. Motivation runs out without seeing results - Cardistry doesn't give you the results fast enough to notice. Maybe they'll get some simple moves down, but they won't get into the groove required to hit the 1 year + mark, they'll burn out. The people who really succeed at Cardistry are those who just get into it, they learn to like it, it's not "Practise". It's jamming. Thats the only strat which works. | Its late I should go to bed. |
kyojin25 | i see Maxwell's name brought up all the time and understandably so, but there's a Seahawk who we have a bigger need for that doesn't get as much love on here for whatever reason but that needs to change because who we really need is Malcolm Smith. from day 1 he'll be our best LB and paired next to Worrilow? wow the thought makes me giddy. Add a Fowler or Ray in the draft and our LB corps will instantly be better than it's ever been during the Smitty era.
TL;DR bring Malcolm Smith to Atlanta!
| i see Maxwell's name brought up all the time and understandably so, but there's a Seahawk who we have a bigger need for that doesn't get as much love on here for whatever reason but that needs to change because who we really need is Malcolm Smith. from day 1 he'll be our best LB and paired next to Worrilow? wow the thought makes me giddy. Add a Fowler or Ray in the draft and our LB corps will instantly be better than it's ever been during the Smitty era.
TL;DR bring Malcolm Smith to Atlanta!
| falcons | t5_2ql17 | codc2gx | i see Maxwell's name brought up all the time and understandably so, but there's a Seahawk who we have a bigger need for that doesn't get as much love on here for whatever reason but that needs to change because who we really need is Malcolm Smith. from day 1 he'll be our best LB and paired next to Worrilow? wow the thought makes me giddy. Add a Fowler or Ray in the draft and our LB corps will instantly be better than it's ever been during the Smitty era. | bring Malcolm Smith to Atlanta! |
duck_ku | I gotta be honest, I read all that and the message I took away from all that was, nerf peeker's advantage, which is something I also feel needs to be fixed.
I fail to see how removing RNG would NOT make yolo-peeks more precise and as a result more deadly. Also, you mentioned that the AK reigns supreme when it comes to peeking, which is true, so how then would increasing it's accuracy not make it even more broken than it already is, since the m4 can't hold a candle to it?
You are right about peeking with the awp being incredibly strong, but it isn't completely unstoppable, particularly true at close distances, where scoping becomes a liability rather than an advantage.
RNG does NOT punish good players, in the sense that it doesn't make their shots any less likely to hit and bad players any more likely to hit. Suggesting this would be asinine. At the very worst it punishes everyone across the board, and you can't even claim that because certain weapons become comparatively better under those situations (awp at long distances versus AK). I mean if I could one shot people with the AK clean, why would I EVER throw down 4700 for an awp? Nonsense!
RNG does not encourage shit aim at the higher levels though; if someone keeps peeking the same spot over and over again hoping to get a lucky shot here and there, they'll just get prefired to pieces, this is gold nova level gamesense.
Move-stop/shoot is effective yes, but you have to have a certain level of skill to pull if off sucessfully, don't act like silvers can pull it off seamlessly without getting one shotted for moving in a straight line for more than a second.
TL;DR: RNG's only enforce effective ranges on weapons as it stands today. Nothing less, nothing more. Increasing acuracy on weapons will have the opposite effect of what you think it will have on game balance. | I gotta be honest, I read all that and the message I took away from all that was, nerf peeker's advantage, which is something I also feel needs to be fixed.
I fail to see how removing RNG would NOT make yolo-peeks more precise and as a result more deadly. Also, you mentioned that the AK reigns supreme when it comes to peeking, which is true, so how then would increasing it's accuracy not make it even more broken than it already is, since the m4 can't hold a candle to it?
You are right about peeking with the awp being incredibly strong, but it isn't completely unstoppable, particularly true at close distances, where scoping becomes a liability rather than an advantage.
RNG does NOT punish good players, in the sense that it doesn't make their shots any less likely to hit and bad players any more likely to hit. Suggesting this would be asinine. At the very worst it punishes everyone across the board, and you can't even claim that because certain weapons become comparatively better under those situations (awp at long distances versus AK). I mean if I could one shot people with the AK clean, why would I EVER throw down 4700 for an awp? Nonsense!
RNG does not encourage shit aim at the higher levels though; if someone keeps peeking the same spot over and over again hoping to get a lucky shot here and there, they'll just get prefired to pieces, this is gold nova level gamesense.
Move-stop/shoot is effective yes, but you have to have a certain level of skill to pull if off sucessfully, don't act like silvers can pull it off seamlessly without getting one shotted for moving in a straight line for more than a second.
TL;DR: RNG's only enforce effective ranges on weapons as it stands today. Nothing less, nothing more. Increasing acuracy on weapons will have the opposite effect of what you think it will have on game balance.
| GlobalOffensive | t5_2sqho | coeqjj5 | I gotta be honest, I read all that and the message I took away from all that was, nerf peeker's advantage, which is something I also feel needs to be fixed.
I fail to see how removing RNG would NOT make yolo-peeks more precise and as a result more deadly. Also, you mentioned that the AK reigns supreme when it comes to peeking, which is true, so how then would increasing it's accuracy not make it even more broken than it already is, since the m4 can't hold a candle to it?
You are right about peeking with the awp being incredibly strong, but it isn't completely unstoppable, particularly true at close distances, where scoping becomes a liability rather than an advantage.
RNG does NOT punish good players, in the sense that it doesn't make their shots any less likely to hit and bad players any more likely to hit. Suggesting this would be asinine. At the very worst it punishes everyone across the board, and you can't even claim that because certain weapons become comparatively better under those situations (awp at long distances versus AK). I mean if I could one shot people with the AK clean, why would I EVER throw down 4700 for an awp? Nonsense!
RNG does not encourage shit aim at the higher levels though; if someone keeps peeking the same spot over and over again hoping to get a lucky shot here and there, they'll just get prefired to pieces, this is gold nova level gamesense.
Move-stop/shoot is effective yes, but you have to have a certain level of skill to pull if off sucessfully, don't act like silvers can pull it off seamlessly without getting one shotted for moving in a straight line for more than a second. | RNG's only enforce effective ranges on weapons as it stands today. Nothing less, nothing more. Increasing acuracy on weapons will have the opposite effect of what you think it will have on game balance. |
weefz | I have no problem skipping over the intro posts when I'm not in the mood. This is not a busy sub.
I do, however, think that the current format is a little tl;dr. Feels like "blah blah intro" then stream info and goal then "blah blah more intro" is too much structure. Makes everyone look very samey. | I have no problem skipping over the intro posts when I'm not in the mood. This is not a busy sub.
I do, however, think that the current format is a little tl;dr. Feels like "blah blah intro" then stream info and goal then "blah blah more intro" is too much structure. Makes everyone look very samey.
| Twitch | t5_2s0fe | codoypw | I have no problem skipping over the intro posts when I'm not in the mood. This is not a busy sub.
I do, however, think that the current format is a little | Feels like "blah blah intro" then stream info and goal then "blah blah more intro" is too much structure. Makes everyone look very samey. |
IamShawnSpencerAMA | I actually made friends with a guy who was offering wii mini codes. After doing so, he stopped offering them. Some of the scammers (would-be, could-be or are) are actually pretty decent people. But that doesn't remove the frustration entirely. It's still there.
I like to give everyone a chance. But I do have my standards. I know the risks. And I don't just give out a code to somebody I don't feel I can trust.
I'd rather trade with you; for example, then an account that's been around for 1 hour (unless I knew and trusted said person IRL).
Don't let any frustrations here get to you. I spend too much time wasted here, and it's really gotten to me because of it. I really need to limit my time on Reddit.
tl;dr Anyways, have a good one. :D | I actually made friends with a guy who was offering wii mini codes. After doing so, he stopped offering them. Some of the scammers (would-be, could-be or are) are actually pretty decent people. But that doesn't remove the frustration entirely. It's still there.
I like to give everyone a chance. But I do have my standards. I know the risks. And I don't just give out a code to somebody I don't feel I can trust.
I'd rather trade with you; for example, then an account that's been around for 1 hour (unless I knew and trusted said person IRL).
Don't let any frustrations here get to you. I spend too much time wasted here, and it's really gotten to me because of it. I really need to limit my time on Reddit.
tl;dr Anyways, have a good one. :D
| ClubNintendoTrade | t5_2wrim | codsagr | I actually made friends with a guy who was offering wii mini codes. After doing so, he stopped offering them. Some of the scammers (would-be, could-be or are) are actually pretty decent people. But that doesn't remove the frustration entirely. It's still there.
I like to give everyone a chance. But I do have my standards. I know the risks. And I don't just give out a code to somebody I don't feel I can trust.
I'd rather trade with you; for example, then an account that's been around for 1 hour (unless I knew and trusted said person IRL).
Don't let any frustrations here get to you. I spend too much time wasted here, and it's really gotten to me because of it. I really need to limit my time on Reddit. | Anyways, have a good one. :D |
Nekodayo | Mhm...could you ellaborate a little bit more and give me some examples, please? I'm a Spanish native speaker. I can certainly tell you that /t/ and /d/ are different phonemes. It's true that both of them have different context realizations, known as allophones, but they are distinguishable. For example: /t/ has 2 allophones: [t̪] before [θ] e.g: *azteca* (this one happens only if the dialect differentiates between [θ] and [s]) and [t] for the rest of contexts: *taza*. /d/ has another 2, [d] and [ð]. The first one appears after /n/, /l/, and in initial position (*hindú*, *toldo*, *duna*)and the second one in the rest of contexts (*cada*). Of course, allophones may vary within dialects, but I can tell you that the distinction between t and d is always there!
**tl;dr**: it's true that t and d are pronounced in different ways depending on the phonetical context, even within the same dialect. But t and d will never sound alike in a way they will become indistinguishable (zapados and zapatos or zaptos and zapdos would still sound different). | Mhm...could you ellaborate a little bit more and give me some examples, please? I'm a Spanish native speaker. I can certainly tell you that /t/ and /d/ are different phonemes. It's true that both of them have different context realizations, known as allophones, but they are distinguishable. For example: /t/ has 2 allophones: [t̪] before [θ] e.g: azteca (this one happens only if the dialect differentiates between [θ] and [s]) and [t] for the rest of contexts: taza . /d/ has another 2, [d] and [ð]. The first one appears after /n/, /l/, and in initial position ( hindú , toldo , duna )and the second one in the rest of contexts ( cada ). Of course, allophones may vary within dialects, but I can tell you that the distinction between t and d is always there!
tl;dr : it's true that t and d are pronounced in different ways depending on the phonetical context, even within the same dialect. But t and d will never sound alike in a way they will become indistinguishable (zapados and zapatos or zaptos and zapdos would still sound different).
| pokemon | t5_2qmeb | coeakme | Mhm...could you ellaborate a little bit more and give me some examples, please? I'm a Spanish native speaker. I can certainly tell you that /t/ and /d/ are different phonemes. It's true that both of them have different context realizations, known as allophones, but they are distinguishable. For example: /t/ has 2 allophones: [t̪] before [θ] e.g: azteca (this one happens only if the dialect differentiates between [θ] and [s]) and [t] for the rest of contexts: taza . /d/ has another 2, [d] and [ð]. The first one appears after /n/, /l/, and in initial position ( hindú , toldo , duna )and the second one in the rest of contexts ( cada ). Of course, allophones may vary within dialects, but I can tell you that the distinction between t and d is always there! | it's true that t and d are pronounced in different ways depending on the phonetical context, even within the same dialect. But t and d will never sound alike in a way they will become indistinguishable (zapados and zapatos or zaptos and zapdos would still sound different). |
jack324 | Practice is the only way you're going to get there. I started out just messing around with simple things in Garageband to get the hang of it. Every time I made a change, I'd listen to it before and after to see if it sounded better or worse. Then I played around with every button and option, until I felt its limitations and upgraded to a more powerful DAW.
A big part of it is training your ear to figure out what meshes well, what two songs might have a similar key or beat or whatever. Think
of the best mashups you've heard - what might the samples have in common? That sort of thing. Learn to pick out each individual instrument if you can.
See if there's a music college in your area; a lot of them will let you take classes without needing to formally enrol. I'm six months into a BA in composition & production, and I've progressed more in that time than in the two or three years prior. There are also some great tutorials on YouTube (and some so-so ones). Find someone who seems knowledgeable or whose videos are popular and see if they fit your learning style.
TL;DR - keep practicing, train your ear, learn from the masters, and find your own voice. | Practice is the only way you're going to get there. I started out just messing around with simple things in Garageband to get the hang of it. Every time I made a change, I'd listen to it before and after to see if it sounded better or worse. Then I played around with every button and option, until I felt its limitations and upgraded to a more powerful DAW.
A big part of it is training your ear to figure out what meshes well, what two songs might have a similar key or beat or whatever. Think
of the best mashups you've heard - what might the samples have in common? That sort of thing. Learn to pick out each individual instrument if you can.
See if there's a music college in your area; a lot of them will let you take classes without needing to formally enrol. I'm six months into a BA in composition & production, and I've progressed more in that time than in the two or three years prior. There are also some great tutorials on YouTube (and some so-so ones). Find someone who seems knowledgeable or whose videos are popular and see if they fit your learning style.
TL;DR - keep practicing, train your ear, learn from the masters, and find your own voice.
| makinghiphop | t5_2sqw4 | coexyks | Practice is the only way you're going to get there. I started out just messing around with simple things in Garageband to get the hang of it. Every time I made a change, I'd listen to it before and after to see if it sounded better or worse. Then I played around with every button and option, until I felt its limitations and upgraded to a more powerful DAW.
A big part of it is training your ear to figure out what meshes well, what two songs might have a similar key or beat or whatever. Think
of the best mashups you've heard - what might the samples have in common? That sort of thing. Learn to pick out each individual instrument if you can.
See if there's a music college in your area; a lot of them will let you take classes without needing to formally enrol. I'm six months into a BA in composition & production, and I've progressed more in that time than in the two or three years prior. There are also some great tutorials on YouTube (and some so-so ones). Find someone who seems knowledgeable or whose videos are popular and see if they fit your learning style. | keep practicing, train your ear, learn from the masters, and find your own voice. |
Deerscicle | I had a testicular torsion once. It was hands down the most painful experience in my life.
I had a few experiences with [epididymitis]( That was bad. But it didn't compare in the least way to testicular torsion. It felt like somebody was grabbing my nuts and twisting them as hard as they could, while they were getting crushed by a vice.
Even after I got to the ER for it, I still was screaming in pain after 3 shots of morphine. They finally gave me some shit that they told me was 10x the strength of morphine. That shit... was awesome.
Anyways, I went into surgery, and they turned my balls right side around, and surgically attached my balls to my nutsack so it wouldn't happen again. They're a little lopsided now, but I can't complain because I got into surgery within 6 hours of it happening, when if it's 8+ hours before surgery, there's the risk of testicle death.
tl;dr: My balls aren't free moving, but at least they're alive. | I had a testicular torsion once. It was hands down the most painful experience in my life.
I had a few experiences with [epididymitis]( That was bad. But it didn't compare in the least way to testicular torsion. It felt like somebody was grabbing my nuts and twisting them as hard as they could, while they were getting crushed by a vice.
Even after I got to the ER for it, I still was screaming in pain after 3 shots of morphine. They finally gave me some shit that they told me was 10x the strength of morphine. That shit... was awesome.
Anyways, I went into surgery, and they turned my balls right side around, and surgically attached my balls to my nutsack so it wouldn't happen again. They're a little lopsided now, but I can't complain because I got into surgery within 6 hours of it happening, when if it's 8+ hours before surgery, there's the risk of testicle death.
tl;dr: My balls aren't free moving, but at least they're alive.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | codshkg | I had a testicular torsion once. It was hands down the most painful experience in my life.
I had a few experiences with [epididymitis]( That was bad. But it didn't compare in the least way to testicular torsion. It felt like somebody was grabbing my nuts and twisting them as hard as they could, while they were getting crushed by a vice.
Even after I got to the ER for it, I still was screaming in pain after 3 shots of morphine. They finally gave me some shit that they told me was 10x the strength of morphine. That shit... was awesome.
Anyways, I went into surgery, and they turned my balls right side around, and surgically attached my balls to my nutsack so it wouldn't happen again. They're a little lopsided now, but I can't complain because I got into surgery within 6 hours of it happening, when if it's 8+ hours before surgery, there's the risk of testicle death. | My balls aren't free moving, but at least they're alive. |
ZoggZ | In light of your ignorance about the state of the SEA dota scene I think I should take some time to educate you, the self-proclaimed Dota2 community veteran who doesn't give a damn about this "messed up community" and apparently retired from dota because of a minority of immature cunts(who may or may not be a reflection of said self-proclaimed Dota2 community veteran) yet somehow feels compelled to go on idiotic rants spouting hateful racism and erroneous generalizations for no particular reason. You complain that in your games there is that 1 "guy" that ruins the game for everyone, yet you fail to realize that chances are the other 3 members are not as memorable because they either communicated properly via mic or keyboard or remained silent throughout the match. You always remember the bad ones because of confirmation bias, existing prejudices against Pinoys, as well as your incredibly inflated ego that probably deludes you into thinking these people are so far beneath your skill level. Back to the main point, you notice 1 out of your 4 teammates but you fail to realize that chances are the other members are also Pinoy yet cause no incident. Secondly remember that because of Valve's system you will be matched with people of equal skill level. That means that in spite of trashtalking, demoralizing teammates, etc., these pinoys are still determined to be of equal skill (though in reality they are probably better as they make up for their defects, this was mentioned by Aui_2000 in one of his streams). So in summary your bigoted and incredibly racist view blinds causes you to live underneath a shadow of ignorance that ultimately cost you an incredibly enjoyable and fulfilling ARPG that could've taught you how to handle all kinds of people including the asswipes.
TL:DR Stop being a racist prick, learn to accept that assholes will be assholes, and for crying out loud don't deprive yourself from such an enjoyable hobby just because of an incredibly tiny minority of population. | In light of your ignorance about the state of the SEA dota scene I think I should take some time to educate you, the self-proclaimed Dota2 community veteran who doesn't give a damn about this "messed up community" and apparently retired from dota because of a minority of immature cunts(who may or may not be a reflection of said self-proclaimed Dota2 community veteran) yet somehow feels compelled to go on idiotic rants spouting hateful racism and erroneous generalizations for no particular reason. You complain that in your games there is that 1 "guy" that ruins the game for everyone, yet you fail to realize that chances are the other 3 members are not as memorable because they either communicated properly via mic or keyboard or remained silent throughout the match. You always remember the bad ones because of confirmation bias, existing prejudices against Pinoys, as well as your incredibly inflated ego that probably deludes you into thinking these people are so far beneath your skill level. Back to the main point, you notice 1 out of your 4 teammates but you fail to realize that chances are the other members are also Pinoy yet cause no incident. Secondly remember that because of Valve's system you will be matched with people of equal skill level. That means that in spite of trashtalking, demoralizing teammates, etc., these pinoys are still determined to be of equal skill (though in reality they are probably better as they make up for their defects, this was mentioned by Aui_2000 in one of his streams). So in summary your bigoted and incredibly racist view blinds causes you to live underneath a shadow of ignorance that ultimately cost you an incredibly enjoyable and fulfilling ARPG that could've taught you how to handle all kinds of people including the asswipes.
TL:DR Stop being a racist prick, learn to accept that assholes will be assholes, and for crying out loud don't deprive yourself from such an enjoyable hobby just because of an incredibly tiny minority of population.
| DotA2 | t5_2s580 | coe1v3c | In light of your ignorance about the state of the SEA dota scene I think I should take some time to educate you, the self-proclaimed Dota2 community veteran who doesn't give a damn about this "messed up community" and apparently retired from dota because of a minority of immature cunts(who may or may not be a reflection of said self-proclaimed Dota2 community veteran) yet somehow feels compelled to go on idiotic rants spouting hateful racism and erroneous generalizations for no particular reason. You complain that in your games there is that 1 "guy" that ruins the game for everyone, yet you fail to realize that chances are the other 3 members are not as memorable because they either communicated properly via mic or keyboard or remained silent throughout the match. You always remember the bad ones because of confirmation bias, existing prejudices against Pinoys, as well as your incredibly inflated ego that probably deludes you into thinking these people are so far beneath your skill level. Back to the main point, you notice 1 out of your 4 teammates but you fail to realize that chances are the other members are also Pinoy yet cause no incident. Secondly remember that because of Valve's system you will be matched with people of equal skill level. That means that in spite of trashtalking, demoralizing teammates, etc., these pinoys are still determined to be of equal skill (though in reality they are probably better as they make up for their defects, this was mentioned by Aui_2000 in one of his streams). So in summary your bigoted and incredibly racist view blinds causes you to live underneath a shadow of ignorance that ultimately cost you an incredibly enjoyable and fulfilling ARPG that could've taught you how to handle all kinds of people including the asswipes. | Stop being a racist prick, learn to accept that assholes will be assholes, and for crying out loud don't deprive yourself from such an enjoyable hobby just because of an incredibly tiny minority of population. |
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