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ImVixion | Well first off, all of the crafting skills are very similar in terms of pros & cons. Somewhere in Global chat, someone will need something (most likely weapons/armors). Alchemy never hurts either, everyone will need potions, scrolls, and etc. From experience, I feel that etching is the better money maker. (Feel free for anyone to jump in and debate about this). If you crit your etchings, you could make more money than selling items.
TL;DR Go with Etching (My experience) | Well first off, all of the crafting skills are very similar in terms of pros & cons. Somewhere in Global chat, someone will need something (most likely weapons/armors). Alchemy never hurts either, everyone will need potions, scrolls, and etc. From experience, I feel that etching is the better money maker. (Feel free for anyone to jump in and debate about this). If you crit your etchings, you could make more money than selling items.
TL;DR Go with Etching (My experience)
| TeraOnline | t5_2s527 | codynmw | Well first off, all of the crafting skills are very similar in terms of pros & cons. Somewhere in Global chat, someone will need something (most likely weapons/armors). Alchemy never hurts either, everyone will need potions, scrolls, and etc. From experience, I feel that etching is the better money maker. (Feel free for anyone to jump in and debate about this). If you crit your etchings, you could make more money than selling items. | Go with Etching (My experience) |
FredzL | > thought we should share the original proposal document that this is all based on
It has nothing to do with the Rift design, it uses two displays and LEEP optics (several lenses per eye). This design was known since the 80's (NASA ViVED, CyberFace from Eric Howlett, VPL EyePhone).
It also only had a 55° horizontal FOV, not enough for immersive VR as explained by [Eric Howlett]( (*"any system that provides a field of view less than 80 degrees [...] fails in a critical way to qualify as immersive virtual reality"*).
Palmer was the first to talk about it on MTBS3D and remarked that they hinted at using a single display with plastic LEEP optics :
He was actually the one who built a smartphone-based HMD with a single screen and a single lens per eye (mechanical and optical design was done by him), the FOV2GO :
This was still not the Rift design, it had a 49° FOV which was not enough for immersive VR.
Months before the publication of the smartphone-based head mounted display, Palmer had already built a HMD (modded from a MRG 2.2) with a wide FOV (~95°), a single display (5.6" 1280x800) and cheap lenses, the PR1 : It was probably monoscopic though.
He then created the PR2, a 3D HMD with a very wide FOV (120°) and LEEP clones :
At this time foisi (creator of the InfinitEye) already built a wide FOV HMD (~130°) with a single panel (7" 1280x768) and one aspheric lens per eye (quite heavy, made in Pyrex) :
Then Palmer posted the message about his Oculus Rift project without giving too much technical details, but we can assume it was very close to what ended up in the DK1 :
**tl;dr** : what is presented in the OP is not the design of the Rift (one display per eye, LEEP lenses, low FOV), this design was known since the 80's. Palmer was the one who built a wide FOV HMD (> 80° require form immersive VR) using a single display and a single plastic lens per eye. Foisi (the creator of the InfinitEye) also did the same with Pyrex lenses. | > thought we should share the original proposal document that this is all based on
It has nothing to do with the Rift design, it uses two displays and LEEP optics (several lenses per eye). This design was known since the 80's (NASA ViVED, CyberFace from Eric Howlett, VPL EyePhone).
It also only had a 55° horizontal FOV, not enough for immersive VR as explained by Eric Howlett .
Palmer was the first to talk about it on MTBS3D and remarked that they hinted at using a single display with plastic LEEP optics :
He was actually the one who built a smartphone-based HMD with a single screen and a single lens per eye (mechanical and optical design was done by him), the FOV2GO :
This was still not the Rift design, it had a 49° FOV which was not enough for immersive VR.
Months before the publication of the smartphone-based head mounted display, Palmer had already built a HMD (modded from a MRG 2.2) with a wide FOV (~95°), a single display (5.6" 1280x800) and cheap lenses, the PR1 : It was probably monoscopic though.
He then created the PR2, a 3D HMD with a very wide FOV (120°) and LEEP clones :
At this time foisi (creator of the InfinitEye) already built a wide FOV HMD (~130°) with a single panel (7" 1280x768) and one aspheric lens per eye (quite heavy, made in Pyrex) :
Then Palmer posted the message about his Oculus Rift project without giving too much technical details, but we can assume it was very close to what ended up in the DK1 :
tl;dr : what is presented in the OP is not the design of the Rift (one display per eye, LEEP lenses, low FOV), this design was known since the 80's. Palmer was the one who built a wide FOV HMD (> 80° require form immersive VR) using a single display and a single plastic lens per eye. Foisi (the creator of the InfinitEye) also did the same with Pyrex lenses.
| oculus | t5_2uni5 | coe4tb4 | thought we should share the original proposal document that this is all based on
It has nothing to do with the Rift design, it uses two displays and LEEP optics (several lenses per eye). This design was known since the 80's (NASA ViVED, CyberFace from Eric Howlett, VPL EyePhone).
It also only had a 55° horizontal FOV, not enough for immersive VR as explained by Eric Howlett .
Palmer was the first to talk about it on MTBS3D and remarked that they hinted at using a single display with plastic LEEP optics :
He was actually the one who built a smartphone-based HMD with a single screen and a single lens per eye (mechanical and optical design was done by him), the FOV2GO :
This was still not the Rift design, it had a 49° FOV which was not enough for immersive VR.
Months before the publication of the smartphone-based head mounted display, Palmer had already built a HMD (modded from a MRG 2.2) with a wide FOV (~95°), a single display (5.6" 1280x800) and cheap lenses, the PR1 : It was probably monoscopic though.
He then created the PR2, a 3D HMD with a very wide FOV (120°) and LEEP clones :
At this time foisi (creator of the InfinitEye) already built a wide FOV HMD (~130°) with a single panel (7" 1280x768) and one aspheric lens per eye (quite heavy, made in Pyrex) :
Then Palmer posted the message about his Oculus Rift project without giving too much technical details, but we can assume it was very close to what ended up in the DK1 : | what is presented in the OP is not the design of the Rift (one display per eye, LEEP lenses, low FOV), this design was known since the 80's. Palmer was the one who built a wide FOV HMD (> 80° require form immersive VR) using a single display and a single plastic lens per eye. Foisi (the creator of the InfinitEye) also did the same with Pyrex lenses. |
SirMorrris | I cant give you "the perfect answer" but i agree that its a common question and a pre-thought answer is always good to have.
The important thing is: Why do they ask you this question?
I guess it depends on the interviewer but i would like to think it it because they want to know what you feel is important to say about your life.
So before you come up with the your answer you should think about some key moment that has shaped you to the person that is sitting infront of the interviewer.
For example,
My name is ..... (can probably joke about this.. Sort of, as i said when i introduced myself... bla bla) and then age and which school you study at. Pretty basic things.
But THEN you should also thought out some moment why you got interested in accounting. Maybe you had an awesome teacher during school or whatever.. Its not really important. But you want your answer to STICK OUT. Recruiters speak to many people so you want to be the one they remember after all those interviews :)
Dont know if this helped and please dont butcher me for the grammar.
Good look mate!
TL;DR Doesnt matter, just make sure the answer STICKS OUT | I cant give you "the perfect answer" but i agree that its a common question and a pre-thought answer is always good to have.
The important thing is: Why do they ask you this question?
I guess it depends on the interviewer but i would like to think it it because they want to know what you feel is important to say about your life.
So before you come up with the your answer you should think about some key moment that has shaped you to the person that is sitting infront of the interviewer.
For example,
My name is ..... (can probably joke about this.. Sort of, as i said when i introduced myself... bla bla) and then age and which school you study at. Pretty basic things.
But THEN you should also thought out some moment why you got interested in accounting. Maybe you had an awesome teacher during school or whatever.. Its not really important. But you want your answer to STICK OUT. Recruiters speak to many people so you want to be the one they remember after all those interviews :)
Dont know if this helped and please dont butcher me for the grammar.
Good look mate!
TL;DR Doesnt matter, just make sure the answer STICKS OUT
| Accounting | t5_2qw2b | coe902y | I cant give you "the perfect answer" but i agree that its a common question and a pre-thought answer is always good to have.
The important thing is: Why do they ask you this question?
I guess it depends on the interviewer but i would like to think it it because they want to know what you feel is important to say about your life.
So before you come up with the your answer you should think about some key moment that has shaped you to the person that is sitting infront of the interviewer.
For example,
My name is ..... (can probably joke about this.. Sort of, as i said when i introduced myself... bla bla) and then age and which school you study at. Pretty basic things.
But THEN you should also thought out some moment why you got interested in accounting. Maybe you had an awesome teacher during school or whatever.. Its not really important. But you want your answer to STICK OUT. Recruiters speak to many people so you want to be the one they remember after all those interviews :)
Dont know if this helped and please dont butcher me for the grammar.
Good look mate! | Doesnt matter, just make sure the answer STICKS OUT |
cluelessperson | 1. History matters. "Gamer" is an identity that is not created/shaped by class/gender/sexual/racial disadvantage, but by consumption and creation of a cultural self-identification.
2. "Black" is not an identity you can control/choose to identify with.
3. Being a gamer does not make you a lot more likely to be incarcerated.
*tl;dr* context makes all the difference |
History matters. "Gamer" is an identity that is not created/shaped by class/gender/sexual/racial disadvantage, but by consumption and creation of a cultural self-identification.
"Black" is not an identity you can control/choose to identify with.
Being a gamer does not make you a lot more likely to be incarcerated.
tl;dr context makes all the difference
| KotakuInAction | t5_33726 | coecg49 | History matters. "Gamer" is an identity that is not created/shaped by class/gender/sexual/racial disadvantage, but by consumption and creation of a cultural self-identification.
"Black" is not an identity you can control/choose to identify with.
Being a gamer does not make you a lot more likely to be incarcerated. | context makes all the difference |
StarBelly_Sneetch | I'd just argue that the people buying reproductions would probably never buy the things that are being reproduced because of the price. I don't think, from an economical standpoint, reproductions hurt the designers in the long shot.
I do think if I or anyone who isn't Supreme silkscreens a "supreme" block logo on a t or sweatshirt that that's crossing the line.
TL:DR Unbranded repro is fine, branded fake is not. (IMO feel free to tell me why I'm wrong) | I'd just argue that the people buying reproductions would probably never buy the things that are being reproduced because of the price. I don't think, from an economical standpoint, reproductions hurt the designers in the long shot.
I do think if I or anyone who isn't Supreme silkscreens a "supreme" block logo on a t or sweatshirt that that's crossing the line.
TL:DR Unbranded repro is fine, branded fake is not. (IMO feel free to tell me why I'm wrong)
| malefashionadvice | t5_2r65t | coemhzz | I'd just argue that the people buying reproductions would probably never buy the things that are being reproduced because of the price. I don't think, from an economical standpoint, reproductions hurt the designers in the long shot.
I do think if I or anyone who isn't Supreme silkscreens a "supreme" block logo on a t or sweatshirt that that's crossing the line. | Unbranded repro is fine, branded fake is not. (IMO feel free to tell me why I'm wrong) |
kraegm | First, I want you to know I agree with you wholeheartedly.
Second, it's about time we addressed the timing from a realistic point of view. As much as those who deem themselves purists hate to think about it, the gaming industry only exists because it makes money. We see a company disappear usually because they didn't make money.
We love AC that's true. And we know that most of the developers love to work on it, or at least we hope that to be true anyway.
But those of us that allow the credits to run through in their entirety also know that producing the quality of games we have come to expect requires an incredible amount of talented people. Employing those people relies on revenue generation. Period. No revenue. No people. No game. As much as we love the game and feeling that it was developed personally for each of us, it was developed, and marketed toward as many people as possible in order to maintain the financial machine. This is the reality of the fiscal responsibility of the leadership of a company toward its investors.
Where this impacts us, as players, is the release dates. There literally isn't two or three extra months to develop. In ACs case, that would put them after Christmas. You would see the sales reduced to such a point that future titles would suddenly be in grave danger.
(Those that are currently shaking their controllers saying "I'd still buy it" fail to fully understand the wushy-washy buying behaviour of consumers AFTER the Christmas season has passed)
So what you get is a game that is slightly premature. Released early. In an age where patches can be sent out to you almost instantly upon their development. Ensuring you get a repaired game, and that ubisoft makes money so they continue as a game producing company.
This is ok. This is what it takes. And it means that sometimes we will get a game that is slightly less than stellar. And sometimes we'll get a mind blowing chapter in the series. But we'll continue to get them, and still have the ability to come on Reddit and bitch about the company as an ongoing concern rather than an artifact of the past.
TLDR: much as you hate to believe it, Ubisoft wants to make money and they should as that's the only way we'll get more AC games.
| First, I want you to know I agree with you wholeheartedly.
Second, it's about time we addressed the timing from a realistic point of view. As much as those who deem themselves purists hate to think about it, the gaming industry only exists because it makes money. We see a company disappear usually because they didn't make money.
We love AC that's true. And we know that most of the developers love to work on it, or at least we hope that to be true anyway.
But those of us that allow the credits to run through in their entirety also know that producing the quality of games we have come to expect requires an incredible amount of talented people. Employing those people relies on revenue generation. Period. No revenue. No people. No game. As much as we love the game and feeling that it was developed personally for each of us, it was developed, and marketed toward as many people as possible in order to maintain the financial machine. This is the reality of the fiscal responsibility of the leadership of a company toward its investors.
Where this impacts us, as players, is the release dates. There literally isn't two or three extra months to develop. In ACs case, that would put them after Christmas. You would see the sales reduced to such a point that future titles would suddenly be in grave danger.
(Those that are currently shaking their controllers saying "I'd still buy it" fail to fully understand the wushy-washy buying behaviour of consumers AFTER the Christmas season has passed)
So what you get is a game that is slightly premature. Released early. In an age where patches can be sent out to you almost instantly upon their development. Ensuring you get a repaired game, and that ubisoft makes money so they continue as a game producing company.
This is ok. This is what it takes. And it means that sometimes we will get a game that is slightly less than stellar. And sometimes we'll get a mind blowing chapter in the series. But we'll continue to get them, and still have the ability to come on Reddit and bitch about the company as an ongoing concern rather than an artifact of the past.
TLDR: much as you hate to believe it, Ubisoft wants to make money and they should as that's the only way we'll get more AC games.
| assassinscreed | t5_2s6v6 | coguhti | First, I want you to know I agree with you wholeheartedly.
Second, it's about time we addressed the timing from a realistic point of view. As much as those who deem themselves purists hate to think about it, the gaming industry only exists because it makes money. We see a company disappear usually because they didn't make money.
We love AC that's true. And we know that most of the developers love to work on it, or at least we hope that to be true anyway.
But those of us that allow the credits to run through in their entirety also know that producing the quality of games we have come to expect requires an incredible amount of talented people. Employing those people relies on revenue generation. Period. No revenue. No people. No game. As much as we love the game and feeling that it was developed personally for each of us, it was developed, and marketed toward as many people as possible in order to maintain the financial machine. This is the reality of the fiscal responsibility of the leadership of a company toward its investors.
Where this impacts us, as players, is the release dates. There literally isn't two or three extra months to develop. In ACs case, that would put them after Christmas. You would see the sales reduced to such a point that future titles would suddenly be in grave danger.
(Those that are currently shaking their controllers saying "I'd still buy it" fail to fully understand the wushy-washy buying behaviour of consumers AFTER the Christmas season has passed)
So what you get is a game that is slightly premature. Released early. In an age where patches can be sent out to you almost instantly upon their development. Ensuring you get a repaired game, and that ubisoft makes money so they continue as a game producing company.
This is ok. This is what it takes. And it means that sometimes we will get a game that is slightly less than stellar. And sometimes we'll get a mind blowing chapter in the series. But we'll continue to get them, and still have the ability to come on Reddit and bitch about the company as an ongoing concern rather than an artifact of the past. | much as you hate to believe it, Ubisoft wants to make money and they should as that's the only way we'll get more AC games. |
Epickillyou | In grade school there was this one substitute teacher that didn't come to teach very often, but when she did... she always put her feet on the table and cut her toenails with scissors. It was disgusting because she would also keep the nails on the table before throwing them away. She was fired before I left
TL;DR: Teacher cut toenails with scissors | In grade school there was this one substitute teacher that didn't come to teach very often, but when she did... she always put her feet on the table and cut her toenails with scissors. It was disgusting because she would also keep the nails on the table before throwing them away. She was fired before I left
TL;DR: Teacher cut toenails with scissors
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | coeopd3 | In grade school there was this one substitute teacher that didn't come to teach very often, but when she did... she always put her feet on the table and cut her toenails with scissors. It was disgusting because she would also keep the nails on the table before throwing them away. She was fired before I left | Teacher cut toenails with scissors |
Heemoglobin | I've tried it a few times and it really isn't needed. I had the same thought process as you, I thought it would help yield and separation but it didn't really improve my numbers and lowered my quality. Just get a [water cooler]( fill with ice to the top, then water to the top. After 45 minutes that water will be as cold as you need it to be. As soon as you add the chilled water to your machine or bucket for your first wash, refill the cooler so you have cold water for the second wash, ect. Dry ice is too cold for making bubble anyways, it make the water a slushie and that is not helpful at all to the process. I asked my grocery store and they said dry ice has other additives to keep it clean/odorless, and that I shouldn't be adding it directly to food. So overall, no i don't think your hypothesis is correct, with regular ice my water gets so cold it makes my hand **ACHE** if i even dip my hand in to adjust my wash bag. Thats all you really need.
TL;DR its a cool idea, but a waste of your time and material. | I've tried it a few times and it really isn't needed. I had the same thought process as you, I thought it would help yield and separation but it didn't really improve my numbers and lowered my quality. Just get a [water cooler]( fill with ice to the top, then water to the top. After 45 minutes that water will be as cold as you need it to be. As soon as you add the chilled water to your machine or bucket for your first wash, refill the cooler so you have cold water for the second wash, ect. Dry ice is too cold for making bubble anyways, it make the water a slushie and that is not helpful at all to the process. I asked my grocery store and they said dry ice has other additives to keep it clean/odorless, and that I shouldn't be adding it directly to food. So overall, no i don't think your hypothesis is correct, with regular ice my water gets so cold it makes my hand ACHE if i even dip my hand in to adjust my wash bag. Thats all you really need.
TL;DR its a cool idea, but a waste of your time and material.
| BubbleHash | t5_2ydw1 | cox67uk | I've tried it a few times and it really isn't needed. I had the same thought process as you, I thought it would help yield and separation but it didn't really improve my numbers and lowered my quality. Just get a [water cooler]( fill with ice to the top, then water to the top. After 45 minutes that water will be as cold as you need it to be. As soon as you add the chilled water to your machine or bucket for your first wash, refill the cooler so you have cold water for the second wash, ect. Dry ice is too cold for making bubble anyways, it make the water a slushie and that is not helpful at all to the process. I asked my grocery store and they said dry ice has other additives to keep it clean/odorless, and that I shouldn't be adding it directly to food. So overall, no i don't think your hypothesis is correct, with regular ice my water gets so cold it makes my hand ACHE if i even dip my hand in to adjust my wash bag. Thats all you really need. | its a cool idea, but a waste of your time and material. |
derreddit | Just a filthy tourist and his personal experience,
i go there every other year since im 18 and stay for about a week. It was always a place that drew me in magically. I loved just being around and on the lookout for the small things most people miss just walking by.
The dynamics between different groups, drug dealers, pimps, prostitutes, hells angels and cops were just exciting to watch. But this was almost 10 years ago when you had to be more careful.
Btw. I had a great time in the hells angels bar by mistake. I desperatly needed to pee and asked the waiter for the toilet key. I am pretty tall and was a bit heavier than nowadays, almost bald and always wearing black. I didn't want to sound like a pussy in there so i asked for the key a little more insitently after he was shaking his head like he had no clue what i was talking about.
He grabed a key from under the counter and pointed up the stairs. I went up and opened the door and to my surprise there was no toilet but a backroom full of people in black leather playing pool, drinking and smoking weed. There wasn't a single pair of eyes not watching me as i stood there in utter confusion. But survival instinct kicked in pretty fast, silently closing the door and leaving wasn't an option. So i tried the only thing left: act like you belong there and give anyone eyeballin too hard a concerned but friendly smile. I located myself at the free table in a corner and by that time i knew i entered their comfort zone (you won't see a public place where smoking and drinking is allowed in the same room). Now i have to break the tension in the story a little bit. Except from the conversation with the waiter my girlfriend was right behind me and they probably knew that we posed no threat at all, were invited or whatever. We sat akwardly sipping from her beer (i wanted to smoke so bad but was afraid of getting kicked out knowing the fines for smoking weed in a bar) until the lady next table smiled and slid me her little bag of weed (not that there weren't so many lying around everywhere). Then we talked to her she told us what a beautiful couple we were and so on.
Ended playing pool, drinking beer and smoking weed in the backroom of a hells angels bar. Great night.
TL;DR: Ended playing pool, drinking beer and smoking weed in the backroom of a hells angels bar. Great night.
| Just a filthy tourist and his personal experience,
i go there every other year since im 18 and stay for about a week. It was always a place that drew me in magically. I loved just being around and on the lookout for the small things most people miss just walking by.
The dynamics between different groups, drug dealers, pimps, prostitutes, hells angels and cops were just exciting to watch. But this was almost 10 years ago when you had to be more careful.
Btw. I had a great time in the hells angels bar by mistake. I desperatly needed to pee and asked the waiter for the toilet key. I am pretty tall and was a bit heavier than nowadays, almost bald and always wearing black. I didn't want to sound like a pussy in there so i asked for the key a little more insitently after he was shaking his head like he had no clue what i was talking about.
He grabed a key from under the counter and pointed up the stairs. I went up and opened the door and to my surprise there was no toilet but a backroom full of people in black leather playing pool, drinking and smoking weed. There wasn't a single pair of eyes not watching me as i stood there in utter confusion. But survival instinct kicked in pretty fast, silently closing the door and leaving wasn't an option. So i tried the only thing left: act like you belong there and give anyone eyeballin too hard a concerned but friendly smile. I located myself at the free table in a corner and by that time i knew i entered their comfort zone (you won't see a public place where smoking and drinking is allowed in the same room). Now i have to break the tension in the story a little bit. Except from the conversation with the waiter my girlfriend was right behind me and they probably knew that we posed no threat at all, were invited or whatever. We sat akwardly sipping from her beer (i wanted to smoke so bad but was afraid of getting kicked out knowing the fines for smoking weed in a bar) until the lady next table smiled and slid me her little bag of weed (not that there weren't so many lying around everywhere). Then we talked to her she told us what a beautiful couple we were and so on.
Ended playing pool, drinking beer and smoking weed in the backroom of a hells angels bar. Great night.
TL;DR: Ended playing pool, drinking beer and smoking weed in the backroom of a hells angels bar. Great night.
| tifu | t5_2to41 | cof5it4 | Just a filthy tourist and his personal experience,
i go there every other year since im 18 and stay for about a week. It was always a place that drew me in magically. I loved just being around and on the lookout for the small things most people miss just walking by.
The dynamics between different groups, drug dealers, pimps, prostitutes, hells angels and cops were just exciting to watch. But this was almost 10 years ago when you had to be more careful.
Btw. I had a great time in the hells angels bar by mistake. I desperatly needed to pee and asked the waiter for the toilet key. I am pretty tall and was a bit heavier than nowadays, almost bald and always wearing black. I didn't want to sound like a pussy in there so i asked for the key a little more insitently after he was shaking his head like he had no clue what i was talking about.
He grabed a key from under the counter and pointed up the stairs. I went up and opened the door and to my surprise there was no toilet but a backroom full of people in black leather playing pool, drinking and smoking weed. There wasn't a single pair of eyes not watching me as i stood there in utter confusion. But survival instinct kicked in pretty fast, silently closing the door and leaving wasn't an option. So i tried the only thing left: act like you belong there and give anyone eyeballin too hard a concerned but friendly smile. I located myself at the free table in a corner and by that time i knew i entered their comfort zone (you won't see a public place where smoking and drinking is allowed in the same room). Now i have to break the tension in the story a little bit. Except from the conversation with the waiter my girlfriend was right behind me and they probably knew that we posed no threat at all, were invited or whatever. We sat akwardly sipping from her beer (i wanted to smoke so bad but was afraid of getting kicked out knowing the fines for smoking weed in a bar) until the lady next table smiled and slid me her little bag of weed (not that there weren't so many lying around everywhere). Then we talked to her she told us what a beautiful couple we were and so on.
Ended playing pool, drinking beer and smoking weed in the backroom of a hells angels bar. Great night. | Ended playing pool, drinking beer and smoking weed in the backroom of a hells angels bar. Great night. |
JackCoull | It's honestly pretty dull and not a fuck up
"TIFU by going to a sex show in Amsterdam
So me and a bunch of friends went to Amsterdam for the weekend. We had decided to hit up the red light district for a bit of fun, so we go to this sex show that we heard was good. We buy our tickets, get some drinks, and sit down pretty close to the front. The first act starts, and its this stripper who, after taking off most of her clothes doing ridiculous things, looks for someone in the crowd. She pointed to my friend sitting next to me, but he has a girlfriend and refused. I was next on the list. Unfortunately, I had no such excuse to allow me to escape. She sat me down on this chair on the main stage, and started by rubbing her ass all over me. Then she decides to step it up a notch and rips my shirt off really quickly. At this point, I was worried where this might be going, but I figured I'd stop it if it got too far. Anyways, she then tells me to lie down on the ground, and takes off the rest of her clothes. After some more pretty typical lapdance type stuff, she starts poking at my dick, which is fully flaccid at this point. I had no idea what was about to happen next. She pulls out a sharpie, uncaps it, and sticks it in her vag. Then she squatted over my chest and drew "Big Dick" on me with it. At this point, everyone in the place is cheering for me, and I'm worried she's about to try to get me to have sex, but she was done her act, and so I went back to my seat. The kicker? I'm gay and had 0 reaction to any of this.
TLDR: Stripper picks the only gay guy in the building for live show and does weird shit to me." | It's honestly pretty dull and not a fuck up
"TIFU by going to a sex show in Amsterdam
So me and a bunch of friends went to Amsterdam for the weekend. We had decided to hit up the red light district for a bit of fun, so we go to this sex show that we heard was good. We buy our tickets, get some drinks, and sit down pretty close to the front. The first act starts, and its this stripper who, after taking off most of her clothes doing ridiculous things, looks for someone in the crowd. She pointed to my friend sitting next to me, but he has a girlfriend and refused. I was next on the list. Unfortunately, I had no such excuse to allow me to escape. She sat me down on this chair on the main stage, and started by rubbing her ass all over me. Then she decides to step it up a notch and rips my shirt off really quickly. At this point, I was worried where this might be going, but I figured I'd stop it if it got too far. Anyways, she then tells me to lie down on the ground, and takes off the rest of her clothes. After some more pretty typical lapdance type stuff, she starts poking at my dick, which is fully flaccid at this point. I had no idea what was about to happen next. She pulls out a sharpie, uncaps it, and sticks it in her vag. Then she squatted over my chest and drew "Big Dick" on me with it. At this point, everyone in the place is cheering for me, and I'm worried she's about to try to get me to have sex, but she was done her act, and so I went back to my seat. The kicker? I'm gay and had 0 reaction to any of this.
TLDR: Stripper picks the only gay guy in the building for live show and does weird shit to me."
| tifu | t5_2to41 | cofdz8w | It's honestly pretty dull and not a fuck up
"TIFU by going to a sex show in Amsterdam
So me and a bunch of friends went to Amsterdam for the weekend. We had decided to hit up the red light district for a bit of fun, so we go to this sex show that we heard was good. We buy our tickets, get some drinks, and sit down pretty close to the front. The first act starts, and its this stripper who, after taking off most of her clothes doing ridiculous things, looks for someone in the crowd. She pointed to my friend sitting next to me, but he has a girlfriend and refused. I was next on the list. Unfortunately, I had no such excuse to allow me to escape. She sat me down on this chair on the main stage, and started by rubbing her ass all over me. Then she decides to step it up a notch and rips my shirt off really quickly. At this point, I was worried where this might be going, but I figured I'd stop it if it got too far. Anyways, she then tells me to lie down on the ground, and takes off the rest of her clothes. After some more pretty typical lapdance type stuff, she starts poking at my dick, which is fully flaccid at this point. I had no idea what was about to happen next. She pulls out a sharpie, uncaps it, and sticks it in her vag. Then she squatted over my chest and drew "Big Dick" on me with it. At this point, everyone in the place is cheering for me, and I'm worried she's about to try to get me to have sex, but she was done her act, and so I went back to my seat. The kicker? I'm gay and had 0 reaction to any of this. | Stripper picks the only gay guy in the building for live show and does weird shit to me." |
pantopra | Honestly, Korean console market is small compared to PC/phone games. Most Korean players I know play games on PC or phone, and their English is really good.
MS is just doing what a sensible company will do. Definitely Japanese and Chinese, the biggest two Asian game communities, go first. English is well taught in Korea, but poorly taught in China and Japan.
A lot of English words don't really translate well. I cringe every time when I see bad Chinese translation. How do you translate "awesome", "cool", and "excellent"? Simple translation sounds very stupid in local languages. Those words are so simple.
**TL;DR: Most Koreans read and write very good English. It is the Japanese and Chinese we should worry.**
| Honestly, Korean console market is small compared to PC/phone games. Most Korean players I know play games on PC or phone, and their English is really good.
MS is just doing what a sensible company will do. Definitely Japanese and Chinese, the biggest two Asian game communities, go first. English is well taught in Korea, but poorly taught in China and Japan.
A lot of English words don't really translate well. I cringe every time when I see bad Chinese translation. How do you translate "awesome", "cool", and "excellent"? Simple translation sounds very stupid in local languages. Those words are so simple.
TL;DR: Most Koreans read and write very good English. It is the Japanese and Chinese we should worry.
| xboxone | t5_2xbci | cofrmoc | Honestly, Korean console market is small compared to PC/phone games. Most Korean players I know play games on PC or phone, and their English is really good.
MS is just doing what a sensible company will do. Definitely Japanese and Chinese, the biggest two Asian game communities, go first. English is well taught in Korea, but poorly taught in China and Japan.
A lot of English words don't really translate well. I cringe every time when I see bad Chinese translation. How do you translate "awesome", "cool", and "excellent"? Simple translation sounds very stupid in local languages. Those words are so simple. | Most Koreans read and write very good English. It is the Japanese and Chinese we should worry. |
skeletonqueen | I can't bring myself to love, or even like, the time-displaced Jean Grey (says the girl with the Jean Grey flair....). She's just too far removed from what I see as Jean for me to really love her like I love main-timeline Jean, and the characterization she does have I don't care for. I like the idea of a rebelling teenage Jean Grey fighting against her own destiny, but I don't see Jean Grey in the character. There were tons of moments reading it where she came off as too harsh, too judgmental, too invasive. I kept on thinking "Where is the Jean Grey I know and love? This girl scares me!" and it wasn't in a good way, like say, in the Dark Phoenix Saga.
TLDR; Time-displaced Jean doesn't seem like Old Jean at all and I *like* Old Jean. | I can't bring myself to love, or even like, the time-displaced Jean Grey (says the girl with the Jean Grey flair....). She's just too far removed from what I see as Jean for me to really love her like I love main-timeline Jean, and the characterization she does have I don't care for. I like the idea of a rebelling teenage Jean Grey fighting against her own destiny, but I don't see Jean Grey in the character. There were tons of moments reading it where she came off as too harsh, too judgmental, too invasive. I kept on thinking "Where is the Jean Grey I know and love? This girl scares me!" and it wasn't in a good way, like say, in the Dark Phoenix Saga.
TLDR; Time-displaced Jean doesn't seem like Old Jean at all and I like Old Jean.
| comicbooks | t5_2qhon | cofe9jq | I can't bring myself to love, or even like, the time-displaced Jean Grey (says the girl with the Jean Grey flair....). She's just too far removed from what I see as Jean for me to really love her like I love main-timeline Jean, and the characterization she does have I don't care for. I like the idea of a rebelling teenage Jean Grey fighting against her own destiny, but I don't see Jean Grey in the character. There were tons of moments reading it where she came off as too harsh, too judgmental, too invasive. I kept on thinking "Where is the Jean Grey I know and love? This girl scares me!" and it wasn't in a good way, like say, in the Dark Phoenix Saga. | Time-displaced Jean doesn't seem like Old Jean at all and I like Old Jean. |
n0rsk | I am an Agnostic and I will say straight off the bat that I have not read the Koran but it is on my reading list (for fun) but I have a couple of questions for you guys.
1. How do guys know you picked the right religion? I am assuming must of you have parents who are Muslim, are you just following your parents footsteps. If not what made you choose Islam? I mean there are several Abrahamic religions alone then if you throw in the far east religions there are billions of people who believe in something different then you. If your religion is the correct one how can so many people be wrong? Are the other people hearing things in their head when they think they are talking to their god? If they are talking to your god and not knowing it then why doesn't he lead them on the right path instead making them think they are worshiping another god? How do you know that you're not the crazy one or that your mind isn't playing tricks on you, or that you aren't being brainwashed by others who have been brainwashed?
2. What are non extremist Muslims doing to retake their religion. I don't know if you guys have noticed but the extremists of your religion have butchered the worlds view of it. (Side question, does Islam have a Pope like equivalent? If so why have I not heard of him?)
3. What's the deal with Sharia Law? Are you all for it? Is it something only the extremist want? If you are for it why? A separation of church and state has shown to reduce violence just look at Christianity and how the increase of separation between church and state has lead to a relatively less violent religion.
TL;Dr How do you know that you aren't crazy, your holy books aren't written by a crazy dude in the past and that you aren't brain washed. | I am an Agnostic and I will say straight off the bat that I have not read the Koran but it is on my reading list (for fun) but I have a couple of questions for you guys.
How do guys know you picked the right religion? I am assuming must of you have parents who are Muslim, are you just following your parents footsteps. If not what made you choose Islam? I mean there are several Abrahamic religions alone then if you throw in the far east religions there are billions of people who believe in something different then you. If your religion is the correct one how can so many people be wrong? Are the other people hearing things in their head when they think they are talking to their god? If they are talking to your god and not knowing it then why doesn't he lead them on the right path instead making them think they are worshiping another god? How do you know that you're not the crazy one or that your mind isn't playing tricks on you, or that you aren't being brainwashed by others who have been brainwashed?
What are non extremist Muslims doing to retake their religion. I don't know if you guys have noticed but the extremists of your religion have butchered the worlds view of it. (Side question, does Islam have a Pope like equivalent? If so why have I not heard of him?)
What's the deal with Sharia Law? Are you all for it? Is it something only the extremist want? If you are for it why? A separation of church and state has shown to reduce violence just look at Christianity and how the increase of separation between church and state has lead to a relatively less violent religion.
TL;Dr How do you know that you aren't crazy, your holy books aren't written by a crazy dude in the past and that you aren't brain washed.
| islam | t5_2qhbp | cofqbar | I am an Agnostic and I will say straight off the bat that I have not read the Koran but it is on my reading list (for fun) but I have a couple of questions for you guys.
How do guys know you picked the right religion? I am assuming must of you have parents who are Muslim, are you just following your parents footsteps. If not what made you choose Islam? I mean there are several Abrahamic religions alone then if you throw in the far east religions there are billions of people who believe in something different then you. If your religion is the correct one how can so many people be wrong? Are the other people hearing things in their head when they think they are talking to their god? If they are talking to your god and not knowing it then why doesn't he lead them on the right path instead making them think they are worshiping another god? How do you know that you're not the crazy one or that your mind isn't playing tricks on you, or that you aren't being brainwashed by others who have been brainwashed?
What are non extremist Muslims doing to retake their religion. I don't know if you guys have noticed but the extremists of your religion have butchered the worlds view of it. (Side question, does Islam have a Pope like equivalent? If so why have I not heard of him?)
What's the deal with Sharia Law? Are you all for it? Is it something only the extremist want? If you are for it why? A separation of church and state has shown to reduce violence just look at Christianity and how the increase of separation between church and state has lead to a relatively less violent religion. | How do you know that you aren't crazy, your holy books aren't written by a crazy dude in the past and that you aren't brain washed. |
placewhereusernameis | 1. Makes the most sense. Others are completely wrong and aren't immediately damned to hell.
2. Creating books, educating their students having lecture yeah the stuff that actually works. You can't stop extremism with what created in the first place. Ignorance. It works fine in my community. Every Muslim child goes to the masjid and they see Islam. Their aren't taught the religion with bias on hating. So they grow up into productive citizens. I'm an example. I'm against conflict and don't do terrible things. What people don't realize are the insane ones are the converts who weren't taught religion they were taught politics. Isis members couldn't tell you basic Islamic information. But could recite the historical events that happened during colonialis in vivid detail. Islam teaches patience. The patience to face ignorance and rage with peace and wisdom. And the media can't sell that thus its not seen
3. Yeah that's a long topic. TLDR there is no one Sharia it's complicated set of laws from many different sources. Some sources are illegitimate but sadly share the name |
Makes the most sense. Others are completely wrong and aren't immediately damned to hell.
Creating books, educating their students having lecture yeah the stuff that actually works. You can't stop extremism with what created in the first place. Ignorance. It works fine in my community. Every Muslim child goes to the masjid and they see Islam. Their aren't taught the religion with bias on hating. So they grow up into productive citizens. I'm an example. I'm against conflict and don't do terrible things. What people don't realize are the insane ones are the converts who weren't taught religion they were taught politics. Isis members couldn't tell you basic Islamic information. But could recite the historical events that happened during colonialis in vivid detail. Islam teaches patience. The patience to face ignorance and rage with peace and wisdom. And the media can't sell that thus its not seen
Yeah that's a long topic. TLDR there is no one Sharia it's complicated set of laws from many different sources. Some sources are illegitimate but sadly share the name
| islam | t5_2qhbp | cogc19y | Makes the most sense. Others are completely wrong and aren't immediately damned to hell.
Creating books, educating their students having lecture yeah the stuff that actually works. You can't stop extremism with what created in the first place. Ignorance. It works fine in my community. Every Muslim child goes to the masjid and they see Islam. Their aren't taught the religion with bias on hating. So they grow up into productive citizens. I'm an example. I'm against conflict and don't do terrible things. What people don't realize are the insane ones are the converts who weren't taught religion they were taught politics. Isis members couldn't tell you basic Islamic information. But could recite the historical events that happened during colonialis in vivid detail. Islam teaches patience. The patience to face ignorance and rage with peace and wisdom. And the media can't sell that thus its not seen
Yeah that's a long topic. | there is no one Sharia it's complicated set of laws from many different sources. Some sources are illegitimate but sadly share the name |
The_Punned_It | Unless you go to some school that is renowned for not partying (BYU and the like) there will be partying at any school. No need to base your decision on that.
I attend a Big Ten university, and all of the big state schools are basically the same and think that they party the hardest out of all the other big state schools (but my school goes the hardest, trust me). Pick a kind of university you want to go to (big, small, religious, east coast, down south, whatever) and then out of that group pick the one that has the best program that you want to study, in the case of a tie, pick based on sports teams/traditions.
You should try to figure out the party scene at the school you are going to. One small school that I have visited a couple times is almost exclusively a bar scene and having a fake id is almost a necessity. I don't have one so when I visited they kind of planned around me, which I kind of felt bad about.
Depending on what school you go to, fraternities may be a necessity for social life (I don't go there but ISU is a prime example of that. Given, that's what the fraternity guys I was staying with told me that night). Not all frats are created equal, if you join one, find the one that you connect with the current members the most. If you're not a member and not a girl, frat guys do not want you at their party.
As for parties, I HIGHLY recommend making friends with some of the in-state kids. Being an out of state kid myself, I knew nobody who was throwing a party and all the parties that I went to as a freshman I tagged along with someone else. As someone who now throws parties, it's kind of like the fraternity thing. If nobody knows you and you aren't an (attractive) girl, we really don't want you at our house, you're a liability.
Going off on that tangent, how out-of-control-drunk you can get at a party is a function of how well you know the hosts. If you roomed with me freshman and sophomore year, I'll gladly clean your puke out of our carpet the next day. If I don't know you, I want you a puking as far away from my house as possible (being a pretty girl does not change your treatment in this case). You won't be allowed back if we don't like you (the pretty girl factor does apply here).
Sorry for talking about partying so much, but my school rages the hardest in the Big Ten so it's kind of my thing. The biggest tip I can give for academics is to GET A 4.0 YOUR FRESHMAN YEAR!!! My first two semesters were basically glorified highschool classes where I could study the night before a test and get a B. Nothing wrong with getting B's, but if you put in the effort for an A, it will balance out the damage from the hard classes in your major. Just having a degree isn't good enough any more, the first question out of a recruiter's mouth at a career fair will be "what's you GPA." Every. Fucking. Time. Also go to your professor's office hours, but know what you're doing before you ask a question they covered in the first lecture, I made that mistake once.
Not all majors are created equal. I'm not saying that you shouldn't study what you want to do for the rest of your life, but if you're an engineering student, you will have a lot less time to goof around than your liberal arts friends after you get done with your generals. Make friends in your major. You don't have to invite them every night that you go out, but it's nice to work with someone you know on a project as opposed to playing the assigned partner ~~reaping~~ lottery.
TL;DR drinking and studying, and smoking if you're into that. | Unless you go to some school that is renowned for not partying (BYU and the like) there will be partying at any school. No need to base your decision on that.
I attend a Big Ten university, and all of the big state schools are basically the same and think that they party the hardest out of all the other big state schools (but my school goes the hardest, trust me). Pick a kind of university you want to go to (big, small, religious, east coast, down south, whatever) and then out of that group pick the one that has the best program that you want to study, in the case of a tie, pick based on sports teams/traditions.
You should try to figure out the party scene at the school you are going to. One small school that I have visited a couple times is almost exclusively a bar scene and having a fake id is almost a necessity. I don't have one so when I visited they kind of planned around me, which I kind of felt bad about.
Depending on what school you go to, fraternities may be a necessity for social life (I don't go there but ISU is a prime example of that. Given, that's what the fraternity guys I was staying with told me that night). Not all frats are created equal, if you join one, find the one that you connect with the current members the most. If you're not a member and not a girl, frat guys do not want you at their party.
As for parties, I HIGHLY recommend making friends with some of the in-state kids. Being an out of state kid myself, I knew nobody who was throwing a party and all the parties that I went to as a freshman I tagged along with someone else. As someone who now throws parties, it's kind of like the fraternity thing. If nobody knows you and you aren't an (attractive) girl, we really don't want you at our house, you're a liability.
Going off on that tangent, how out-of-control-drunk you can get at a party is a function of how well you know the hosts. If you roomed with me freshman and sophomore year, I'll gladly clean your puke out of our carpet the next day. If I don't know you, I want you a puking as far away from my house as possible (being a pretty girl does not change your treatment in this case). You won't be allowed back if we don't like you (the pretty girl factor does apply here).
Sorry for talking about partying so much, but my school rages the hardest in the Big Ten so it's kind of my thing. The biggest tip I can give for academics is to GET A 4.0 YOUR FRESHMAN YEAR!!! My first two semesters were basically glorified highschool classes where I could study the night before a test and get a B. Nothing wrong with getting B's, but if you put in the effort for an A, it will balance out the damage from the hard classes in your major. Just having a degree isn't good enough any more, the first question out of a recruiter's mouth at a career fair will be "what's you GPA." Every. Fucking. Time. Also go to your professor's office hours, but know what you're doing before you ask a question they covered in the first lecture, I made that mistake once.
Not all majors are created equal. I'm not saying that you shouldn't study what you want to do for the rest of your life, but if you're an engineering student, you will have a lot less time to goof around than your liberal arts friends after you get done with your generals. Make friends in your major. You don't have to invite them every night that you go out, but it's nice to work with someone you know on a project as opposed to playing the assigned partner reaping lottery.
TL;DR drinking and studying, and smoking if you're into that.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | cofsesm | Unless you go to some school that is renowned for not partying (BYU and the like) there will be partying at any school. No need to base your decision on that.
I attend a Big Ten university, and all of the big state schools are basically the same and think that they party the hardest out of all the other big state schools (but my school goes the hardest, trust me). Pick a kind of university you want to go to (big, small, religious, east coast, down south, whatever) and then out of that group pick the one that has the best program that you want to study, in the case of a tie, pick based on sports teams/traditions.
You should try to figure out the party scene at the school you are going to. One small school that I have visited a couple times is almost exclusively a bar scene and having a fake id is almost a necessity. I don't have one so when I visited they kind of planned around me, which I kind of felt bad about.
Depending on what school you go to, fraternities may be a necessity for social life (I don't go there but ISU is a prime example of that. Given, that's what the fraternity guys I was staying with told me that night). Not all frats are created equal, if you join one, find the one that you connect with the current members the most. If you're not a member and not a girl, frat guys do not want you at their party.
As for parties, I HIGHLY recommend making friends with some of the in-state kids. Being an out of state kid myself, I knew nobody who was throwing a party and all the parties that I went to as a freshman I tagged along with someone else. As someone who now throws parties, it's kind of like the fraternity thing. If nobody knows you and you aren't an (attractive) girl, we really don't want you at our house, you're a liability.
Going off on that tangent, how out-of-control-drunk you can get at a party is a function of how well you know the hosts. If you roomed with me freshman and sophomore year, I'll gladly clean your puke out of our carpet the next day. If I don't know you, I want you a puking as far away from my house as possible (being a pretty girl does not change your treatment in this case). You won't be allowed back if we don't like you (the pretty girl factor does apply here).
Sorry for talking about partying so much, but my school rages the hardest in the Big Ten so it's kind of my thing. The biggest tip I can give for academics is to GET A 4.0 YOUR FRESHMAN YEAR!!! My first two semesters were basically glorified highschool classes where I could study the night before a test and get a B. Nothing wrong with getting B's, but if you put in the effort for an A, it will balance out the damage from the hard classes in your major. Just having a degree isn't good enough any more, the first question out of a recruiter's mouth at a career fair will be "what's you GPA." Every. Fucking. Time. Also go to your professor's office hours, but know what you're doing before you ask a question they covered in the first lecture, I made that mistake once.
Not all majors are created equal. I'm not saying that you shouldn't study what you want to do for the rest of your life, but if you're an engineering student, you will have a lot less time to goof around than your liberal arts friends after you get done with your generals. Make friends in your major. You don't have to invite them every night that you go out, but it's nice to work with someone you know on a project as opposed to playing the assigned partner reaping lottery. | drinking and studying, and smoking if you're into that. |
ohwhatawittymoniker | I would like to thank everybody onboard the good ship ecr_eu.
We have a great community and are slowly building something very special.
I look forward to filling my bathtub with juice and enveloping Europe in one giant flavourful plume. A plume so big that it will make Icelandic volcano's jealous!
All liquids will be reviewed in glorious technicolor for your vaping pleasure.
Long live /u/Eternal_Sunshine , the mods and of course our superior European juice makers, vendors and purveyors of well priced mods.
TL:DR - Woo Hoo!
| I would like to thank everybody onboard the good ship ecr_eu.
We have a great community and are slowly building something very special.
I look forward to filling my bathtub with juice and enveloping Europe in one giant flavourful plume. A plume so big that it will make Icelandic volcano's jealous!
All liquids will be reviewed in glorious technicolor for your vaping pleasure.
Long live /u/Eternal_Sunshine , the mods and of course our superior European juice makers, vendors and purveyors of well priced mods.
TL:DR - Woo Hoo!
| ecr_eu | t5_32hcd | cog2b1b | I would like to thank everybody onboard the good ship ecr_eu.
We have a great community and are slowly building something very special.
I look forward to filling my bathtub with juice and enveloping Europe in one giant flavourful plume. A plume so big that it will make Icelandic volcano's jealous!
All liquids will be reviewed in glorious technicolor for your vaping pleasure.
Long live /u/Eternal_Sunshine , the mods and of course our superior European juice makers, vendors and purveyors of well priced mods. | Woo Hoo! |
jeddite | I don't think that is Blizzard's philosophy at all with HotS. Champions with weaknesses by design can be played to enhance their strengths OR lessen their weaknesses. A great example of this is Janna (or Naz...or Gaz...), who have talent options to offset their lack of escape mechanic (i.e., Sprint).
Raynor's lengthy cooldown on his self-heal, combined with it being non-activateable (unless talented), is actually a very weak defensive mechanic. It's fairly well settled that if Raynor is caught out of position just once, he is likely dead at every point in the game except the occasional 1v1 scenario.
Valla, on the other hand, has a short cooldown dash mechanic and a passive movement speed increase. She is one of the most mobile heroes in the game, and when properly talented can kite most any target. All of this is without her free teleport at 20.
Tl;DR - Yes, even when ignoring her obscenely high competitive pick/ban rate, ranked play win rate, quick match win rate, and overall pick rate...I am sure she is not justified in getting a free teleport at 20. | I don't think that is Blizzard's philosophy at all with HotS. Champions with weaknesses by design can be played to enhance their strengths OR lessen their weaknesses. A great example of this is Janna (or Naz...or Gaz...), who have talent options to offset their lack of escape mechanic (i.e., Sprint).
Raynor's lengthy cooldown on his self-heal, combined with it being non-activateable (unless talented), is actually a very weak defensive mechanic. It's fairly well settled that if Raynor is caught out of position just once, he is likely dead at every point in the game except the occasional 1v1 scenario.
Valla, on the other hand, has a short cooldown dash mechanic and a passive movement speed increase. She is one of the most mobile heroes in the game, and when properly talented can kite most any target. All of this is without her free teleport at 20.
Tl;DR - Yes, even when ignoring her obscenely high competitive pick/ban rate, ranked play win rate, quick match win rate, and overall pick rate...I am sure she is not justified in getting a free teleport at 20.
| heroesofthestorm | t5_2ym13 | cogj1se | I don't think that is Blizzard's philosophy at all with HotS. Champions with weaknesses by design can be played to enhance their strengths OR lessen their weaknesses. A great example of this is Janna (or Naz...or Gaz...), who have talent options to offset their lack of escape mechanic (i.e., Sprint).
Raynor's lengthy cooldown on his self-heal, combined with it being non-activateable (unless talented), is actually a very weak defensive mechanic. It's fairly well settled that if Raynor is caught out of position just once, he is likely dead at every point in the game except the occasional 1v1 scenario.
Valla, on the other hand, has a short cooldown dash mechanic and a passive movement speed increase. She is one of the most mobile heroes in the game, and when properly talented can kite most any target. All of this is without her free teleport at 20. | Yes, even when ignoring her obscenely high competitive pick/ban rate, ranked play win rate, quick match win rate, and overall pick rate...I am sure she is not justified in getting a free teleport at 20. |
thebig4hcm | Taken from [this]( post on movement in melee. I'm pretty sure the same rules apply since you can't crouch out of dash. If i'm wrong whatever, downvote me, but it should work
"Pivoting: Here is an input output diagram of your options during Wait which showcases the input requirement of smash turn that remains the same during dash. The picture is courtesy of @Kadano
[Image](
In order to empty pivot, (as you said) you need to have your control stick in the smash turn area for precisely one frame, because otherwise the turn is cancelled into dash on frame 2 (This is called dash back). So you want your turn input to register as close to the border of the crouch area as possible. The way I do this is I start moving my thumb down about at the time I go through center. This way the control stick is already moving toward the crouch zone when the turn registers. Another thing you can do is to try to very precisely to the border of the turn zone and rolling the stick to crouch zone."
tl;dr quarter-circle to pivot | Taken from [this]( post on movement in melee. I'm pretty sure the same rules apply since you can't crouch out of dash. If i'm wrong whatever, downvote me, but it should work
"Pivoting: Here is an input output diagram of your options during Wait which showcases the input requirement of smash turn that remains the same during dash. The picture is courtesy of @Kadano
Image you need to have your control stick in the smash turn area for precisely one frame, because otherwise the turn is cancelled into dash on frame 2 (This is called dash back). So you want your turn input to register as close to the border of the crouch area as possible. The way I do this is I start moving my thumb down about at the time I go through center. This way the control stick is already moving toward the crouch zone when the turn registers. Another thing you can do is to try to very precisely to the border of the turn zone and rolling the stick to crouch zone."
tl;dr quarter-circle to pivot
| smashbros | t5_2qiep | cogevvu | Taken from [this]( post on movement in melee. I'm pretty sure the same rules apply since you can't crouch out of dash. If i'm wrong whatever, downvote me, but it should work
"Pivoting: Here is an input output diagram of your options during Wait which showcases the input requirement of smash turn that remains the same during dash. The picture is courtesy of @Kadano
Image you need to have your control stick in the smash turn area for precisely one frame, because otherwise the turn is cancelled into dash on frame 2 (This is called dash back). So you want your turn input to register as close to the border of the crouch area as possible. The way I do this is I start moving my thumb down about at the time I go through center. This way the control stick is already moving toward the crouch zone when the turn registers. Another thing you can do is to try to very precisely to the border of the turn zone and rolling the stick to crouch zone." | quarter-circle to pivot |
shaunboyce | While a price-drop would certainly be welcome, a 'cheaper' macbook for sake of cost alone at the sacrifice of build quality (assuming that's the core reason for this idea?) would in my view take more away from the line as a whole than it would add.
I bought my first apple laptop a year ago (rMBP 15") and love it - I was happy to pay the price-premium for it because I had faith (based upon the experience of others I trust... albeit none of them have 2011 macs with that vid-card issue ;p) that the laptop would meet my needs and stand the test of time. So far it's far exceeded my expectations.
I could have spent a lot less on something like an air and still had a great experience too... I think you get what you pay for and the cost/quality range of the current line hits the mark pretty well (still - if they can make them cheaper without sacrificing the quality I'm all for that!)
I liked it when Apple concentrated on a smaller set of products that did their job super well (i.e. when they retired the iPod mini and replaced it with the Nano) ... I'm less of a fan of each product line expanding in the way it has recently. Ever expanding product lines is what companies do when new ideas go out to pasture and short-term profits trump all else.
Personally, I'd prefer if Apple make a 12" retina Air that one of their other products is dropped... perhaps the 11" or 13" air
TLDR: In short, no I don't like it the idea, but I wouldn't be surprised to see it happen. I think people would buy them but longer term the line would suffer. | While a price-drop would certainly be welcome, a 'cheaper' macbook for sake of cost alone at the sacrifice of build quality (assuming that's the core reason for this idea?) would in my view take more away from the line as a whole than it would add.
I bought my first apple laptop a year ago (rMBP 15") and love it - I was happy to pay the price-premium for it because I had faith (based upon the experience of others I trust... albeit none of them have 2011 macs with that vid-card issue ;p) that the laptop would meet my needs and stand the test of time. So far it's far exceeded my expectations.
I could have spent a lot less on something like an air and still had a great experience too... I think you get what you pay for and the cost/quality range of the current line hits the mark pretty well (still - if they can make them cheaper without sacrificing the quality I'm all for that!)
I liked it when Apple concentrated on a smaller set of products that did their job super well (i.e. when they retired the iPod mini and replaced it with the Nano) ... I'm less of a fan of each product line expanding in the way it has recently. Ever expanding product lines is what companies do when new ideas go out to pasture and short-term profits trump all else.
Personally, I'd prefer if Apple make a 12" retina Air that one of their other products is dropped... perhaps the 11" or 13" air
TLDR: In short, no I don't like it the idea, but I wouldn't be surprised to see it happen. I think people would buy them but longer term the line would suffer.
| apple | t5_2qh1f | cogg5wh | While a price-drop would certainly be welcome, a 'cheaper' macbook for sake of cost alone at the sacrifice of build quality (assuming that's the core reason for this idea?) would in my view take more away from the line as a whole than it would add.
I bought my first apple laptop a year ago (rMBP 15") and love it - I was happy to pay the price-premium for it because I had faith (based upon the experience of others I trust... albeit none of them have 2011 macs with that vid-card issue ;p) that the laptop would meet my needs and stand the test of time. So far it's far exceeded my expectations.
I could have spent a lot less on something like an air and still had a great experience too... I think you get what you pay for and the cost/quality range of the current line hits the mark pretty well (still - if they can make them cheaper without sacrificing the quality I'm all for that!)
I liked it when Apple concentrated on a smaller set of products that did their job super well (i.e. when they retired the iPod mini and replaced it with the Nano) ... I'm less of a fan of each product line expanding in the way it has recently. Ever expanding product lines is what companies do when new ideas go out to pasture and short-term profits trump all else.
Personally, I'd prefer if Apple make a 12" retina Air that one of their other products is dropped... perhaps the 11" or 13" air | In short, no I don't like it the idea, but I wouldn't be surprised to see it happen. I think people would buy them but longer term the line would suffer. |
SirDaveu | Ok so i might have exaggerated the 60kg lifts. Theyre all machine lifts on their own but we have product like gun safes that need two or more ppl to lift. We have a system that gives you a specific time for weights, distance, shift length etc. All based on safe weight limits and working procedures. If they cant hit 100% theyre an obese mess or lazy as fuck.
tldr: noone lifts over 20kg they wont get into the workplace if they cant lift 20 | Ok so i might have exaggerated the 60kg lifts. Theyre all machine lifts on their own but we have product like gun safes that need two or more ppl to lift. We have a system that gives you a specific time for weights, distance, shift length etc. All based on safe weight limits and working procedures. If they cant hit 100% theyre an obese mess or lazy as fuck.
tldr: noone lifts over 20kg they wont get into the workplace if they cant lift 20
| AdviceAnimals | t5_2s7tt | cogq32u | Ok so i might have exaggerated the 60kg lifts. Theyre all machine lifts on their own but we have product like gun safes that need two or more ppl to lift. We have a system that gives you a specific time for weights, distance, shift length etc. All based on safe weight limits and working procedures. If they cant hit 100% theyre an obese mess or lazy as fuck. | noone lifts over 20kg they wont get into the workplace if they cant lift 20 |
NNCommodore | As I said, he probably made the ending for a different book than the one he had started with.
There is a reason why books like LotR or Wheel of Time make inherent sense - it's because their authors sunk decades into developing the world around the story and also because they had no fear to tear down their previous scripts if they were not 100% sure that's what they wanted. People like Paolini that released their stuff at super young age never had the time to do that, and once you have that instant success, you just become extremely pressured to present a followup asap, which makes quality control REALLY HARD. Often it takes quite some time to figure out how to fix parts that you don't like, and even longer to improve upon already good substance that just needs a little oomph. And the hardest thing is obviously... keeping the same spirit throughout the book. If you can't you get very discrepant endings like what you mentioned (although I didn't dislike the idea in general - it just didn't fit and had a Deus ex Machina character in that specific setting).
tldr writing is hard. | As I said, he probably made the ending for a different book than the one he had started with.
There is a reason why books like LotR or Wheel of Time make inherent sense - it's because their authors sunk decades into developing the world around the story and also because they had no fear to tear down their previous scripts if they were not 100% sure that's what they wanted. People like Paolini that released their stuff at super young age never had the time to do that, and once you have that instant success, you just become extremely pressured to present a followup asap, which makes quality control REALLY HARD. Often it takes quite some time to figure out how to fix parts that you don't like, and even longer to improve upon already good substance that just needs a little oomph. And the hardest thing is obviously... keeping the same spirit throughout the book. If you can't you get very discrepant endings like what you mentioned (although I didn't dislike the idea in general - it just didn't fit and had a Deus ex Machina character in that specific setting).
tldr writing is hard.
| DotA2 | t5_2s580 | cogziz4 | As I said, he probably made the ending for a different book than the one he had started with.
There is a reason why books like LotR or Wheel of Time make inherent sense - it's because their authors sunk decades into developing the world around the story and also because they had no fear to tear down their previous scripts if they were not 100% sure that's what they wanted. People like Paolini that released their stuff at super young age never had the time to do that, and once you have that instant success, you just become extremely pressured to present a followup asap, which makes quality control REALLY HARD. Often it takes quite some time to figure out how to fix parts that you don't like, and even longer to improve upon already good substance that just needs a little oomph. And the hardest thing is obviously... keeping the same spirit throughout the book. If you can't you get very discrepant endings like what you mentioned (although I didn't dislike the idea in general - it just didn't fit and had a Deus ex Machina character in that specific setting). | writing is hard. |
Sammlches | My high school went to states my senior year, and the whole road there was loads of fun for us. We were all really laid back about the competitive aspect of it, so we were joking around through the singles matches and I think that really helped us to not stress out like some of the other districts that were there. When we got to the baker games, we ended up knocking out the team that "always" goes to states and our raggedy team of two handers and other forms of nonsense made it to states, where we were promptly crushed. It was a lot of fun though.
tl;dr my high school was the bowling bad news bears | My high school went to states my senior year, and the whole road there was loads of fun for us. We were all really laid back about the competitive aspect of it, so we were joking around through the singles matches and I think that really helped us to not stress out like some of the other districts that were there. When we got to the baker games, we ended up knocking out the team that "always" goes to states and our raggedy team of two handers and other forms of nonsense made it to states, where we were promptly crushed. It was a lot of fun though.
tl;dr my high school was the bowling bad news bears
| Bowling | t5_2r3ex | cohe2oe | My high school went to states my senior year, and the whole road there was loads of fun for us. We were all really laid back about the competitive aspect of it, so we were joking around through the singles matches and I think that really helped us to not stress out like some of the other districts that were there. When we got to the baker games, we ended up knocking out the team that "always" goes to states and our raggedy team of two handers and other forms of nonsense made it to states, where we were promptly crushed. It was a lot of fun though. | my high school was the bowling bad news bears |
Retro93 | You know, normally I'd agree with you. The problem is that it's not just a shitty video. I'm sure you could judge for yourself if you actually watched it, not that anyone should value your opinion after they've seen your posting history.
I'm not sure why you think you're qualified to call anyone's post shit when all you do is spread your negativity and contribute nothing of usefulness to this sub.
tl;dr fuck off boy | You know, normally I'd agree with you. The problem is that it's not just a shitty video. I'm sure you could judge for yourself if you actually watched it, not that anyone should value your opinion after they've seen your posting history.
I'm not sure why you think you're qualified to call anyone's post shit when all you do is spread your negativity and contribute nothing of usefulness to this sub.
tl;dr fuck off boy
| yugioh | t5_2rpe6 | coh2i0l | You know, normally I'd agree with you. The problem is that it's not just a shitty video. I'm sure you could judge for yourself if you actually watched it, not that anyone should value your opinion after they've seen your posting history.
I'm not sure why you think you're qualified to call anyone's post shit when all you do is spread your negativity and contribute nothing of usefulness to this sub. | fuck off boy |
ihc_hotshot | About the minor in fire science and management..... I would not recommend that. If you want to get into fire then a forestry degree is quite good. The things you learn in fire science and management specifically though are just things you will learn on the job anyway. I have a couple co workers with fire science degree's. They lament their choice. For the simple reason that in order to use their degree they need qualifications that can only be awarded on the job. They basically will be 40 by the time they use their degree. About the only position that a degree is worth anything is fuels specialist. It's a great position you write burn plans and carry about prescribed burns. I feel like it would be immensely satisfying. My last park the fuels specialist got his position after 5 years on a fuels crew, and 15 years on a hotshot crew. Then he kicked around at another park for a while and came back. He got his fire management degree at cal poly. He was fuels specialist for 5 years before he retired. The guy that replaced him got sent though a certificate program at Humboldt, paid for by the park. Quick easy and free.
TLDR: Fire has its own qualifications system, degrees don't matter much except for certain high end positions that you won't be qualified for unless you have spent a lot of time in fire. And you don't need them anyway. Any science degree will do. | About the minor in fire science and management..... I would not recommend that. If you want to get into fire then a forestry degree is quite good. The things you learn in fire science and management specifically though are just things you will learn on the job anyway. I have a couple co workers with fire science degree's. They lament their choice. For the simple reason that in order to use their degree they need qualifications that can only be awarded on the job. They basically will be 40 by the time they use their degree. About the only position that a degree is worth anything is fuels specialist. It's a great position you write burn plans and carry about prescribed burns. I feel like it would be immensely satisfying. My last park the fuels specialist got his position after 5 years on a fuels crew, and 15 years on a hotshot crew. Then he kicked around at another park for a while and came back. He got his fire management degree at cal poly. He was fuels specialist for 5 years before he retired. The guy that replaced him got sent though a certificate program at Humboldt, paid for by the park. Quick easy and free.
TLDR: Fire has its own qualifications system, degrees don't matter much except for certain high end positions that you won't be qualified for unless you have spent a lot of time in fire. And you don't need them anyway. Any science degree will do.
| forestry | t5_2s5wq | coh9qv8 | About the minor in fire science and management..... I would not recommend that. If you want to get into fire then a forestry degree is quite good. The things you learn in fire science and management specifically though are just things you will learn on the job anyway. I have a couple co workers with fire science degree's. They lament their choice. For the simple reason that in order to use their degree they need qualifications that can only be awarded on the job. They basically will be 40 by the time they use their degree. About the only position that a degree is worth anything is fuels specialist. It's a great position you write burn plans and carry about prescribed burns. I feel like it would be immensely satisfying. My last park the fuels specialist got his position after 5 years on a fuels crew, and 15 years on a hotshot crew. Then he kicked around at another park for a while and came back. He got his fire management degree at cal poly. He was fuels specialist for 5 years before he retired. The guy that replaced him got sent though a certificate program at Humboldt, paid for by the park. Quick easy and free. | Fire has its own qualifications system, degrees don't matter much except for certain high end positions that you won't be qualified for unless you have spent a lot of time in fire. And you don't need them anyway. Any science degree will do. |
n9neteen | If you're a masochist, you've made the right choice!
I suggest reading up on /u/gipsysafety's write ups about Reggie McKenzie so you can get some history and substance behind your fandom and why things are happening right as they are right now.
I'll give you a little synopsis though. Ever since we lost the super bowl in 2003 it's been a roller coaster of emotions, and a lot of binge drinking to soothe the pain. Al Davis was never known to be conventional, he was very power hungry and loved his players to a fault. He also would think outside the box and try anything to get a competitive edge. We lost the Super Bowl because he traded our coach (Jon Gruden) to a team who happened to make it to the championship. Ever since then it's been downhill. The head coach to replace Gruden was Bill Callahan, his offensive coordinator. We went 4-12 the following year and dysfunction reared its ugly head. Callahan was calling the raiders the dumbest team in the league. He was fired after the season and we hired Norv Turner to be our head coach in 2004.
Norv Turner came aboard and the season was a wash. Jerry Rice was chased out of town due to his age and midseason we lost our starting qb Rich Gannon.
2005 we made a trade for Randy Moss and optimism was rampant again. We had a vet in Kerry Collins and we were hoping some magic would happen. Nope.
2006 Norv Turner got the boot and Al Davis reached back into the past and hired Art Shell as our head coach. Shell was a raider great in the 1970s and coached our team from 89-94, and was fired after going 9-7. Art Shell hired his offensive coordinator from his first stint, who was out of football completely and running a bed and breakfast in Idaho. If that wasn't good enough, Collins split and for Quarterback we had Aaron Brooks, Andrew Walter and Marques Tuiasosopo on the roster. Randy Moss was disillusioned and flat out stopped trying on the field. Jerry Porter (our breakthrough receiver in 2002) was getting disgruntled that Shell wouldn't let champagne in the locker room and started making a scene, even parking in Al's spot. We ended up going 2-14, the Raiders worst record since the early 60's. We also secured our first #1 draft pick in team history. Oddly enough, we had the #3 ranked defense and that was the breakout season of Nnamdi Asomugha, who ended up being a shut down corner and a fan favorite.
2007 Art Shell got the boot and we hired USC's offensive coordinator Lane Kiffin. Kiffin was the youngest head coach in history and it didn't feel right from the beginning. At his intro press conference Al introduced him as, "Lance." With the #1 pick we selected JaMarcus Russell. Russell ended up holding out so we signed journeyman QB Josh McCown to start the season. After we got Russell under contract, Kiffin wanted to ease him into the lineup and refused to put him in the game, resulting in animosity from Davis and the fans. Russell started and was less than spectacular. We ended up going 4-12.
2008 came around and Davis made a huge splash in free agency. If I remember correctly he signed Tommy Kelly to the richest contract ever for a defensive tackle. Tommy Kelly was an undrafted player for us that was 4 years in the league, and never made a pro bowl. He also traded for DeAngelo Hall and paid him a 10 million per season. We also picked up Gibril Wilson and Kwame Harris and kept Asomugha via the exclusive franchise tag. Everyone was ecstatic for this season, we thought we had the pieces from the offseason moves. Our opening night we got burned 41-14. I was at that game, it was terrible. DeAngelo hall got torched by a rookie, and we ended up cutting him after week 8. Kiffin was on thin ice quickly after that first game and to show his arrogance during one of his games he had us attempt a 74 yard field goal. He was fired after the fourth game to which Tom Cable, our offensive line coach, was named our interim coach. Under cable there seemed to be stability, but our offense was stagnant like usual. We finished 4-12 again.
2009 Cable was named the head coach. During that summer Cable was being investigated after the assistant defensive backs coach had his jaw broken at training camp. ESPN also did a "special" that had one of Cable's ex girlfriends say he was abusive. That really hurt our PR and speculators will tell you Davis didn't like this. The players loved him though. Al Davis then traded a first round draft pick to the Patriots for Richard Seymour. This was insane because Seymour was in the league 10 years and a first round pick was too much, but Al wanted to win now. Our offense was still lackluster, with many injuries at Quarterback. The fans have had enough of JaMarcus, and were relieved when Bruce Gradkowski got the nod at QB. There was a little resurgence, but injuries and just poor all around play we saw another losing record.
In 2010 Al hired Hue Jackson to be the offensive coordinator under Cable. We cut Russell and traded for Jason Campbell of the redskins, who led his team to the playoffs in 2008, but didn't do anything of note in his career. In 2010 the offense was mixed. We blew the broncos out 59-14 but it was very inconsistent. We did however improve to 8-8.
In 2011 Cable's contract was up, and it was not renewed. A lot of the players did not like this, but Hue Jackson was elevated to head coach. With the raiders showing promise mid season, Al Davis unfortunately passed away but the team was on an uptick. That game we lost Jason Campbell for the year to injury. Wanting to capitalize on momentum we traded a first and a second round pick to Cincinnati for Carson Palmer to replace him immediately. We started the season 7-4 but ended 8-8. Our last game was against the chargers, if we beat them we would've had a post season berth. We laid an egg on new years day and lost and Hue famously said to the press that he, "was pissed off at his team, and he would not be in this situation next year." He was right, because after this Mark Davis (Al's Son) took over, hired Reggie McKenzie from the Green Bay Packers as the GM, who let jackson go.
I didn't mean to go into this much detail, and this is really the TL;DR version, as I'm leaving a lot of Al Davis salary cap manipulations, crazy signings out of the story. /u/gipsysafety's posts about Reggie will bring you up to speed the rest of the way. You picked a great team, and when we return to greatness, hopefully all these down years will be a thing of the past. To answer your question, we've gotten used to hearing the term "moral victory" and jokes at us being basement dwellers. But when the Raiders are good, times are fun. Here's to returning to that. | If you're a masochist, you've made the right choice!
I suggest reading up on /u/gipsysafety's write ups about Reggie McKenzie so you can get some history and substance behind your fandom and why things are happening right as they are right now.
I'll give you a little synopsis though. Ever since we lost the super bowl in 2003 it's been a roller coaster of emotions, and a lot of binge drinking to soothe the pain. Al Davis was never known to be conventional, he was very power hungry and loved his players to a fault. He also would think outside the box and try anything to get a competitive edge. We lost the Super Bowl because he traded our coach (Jon Gruden) to a team who happened to make it to the championship. Ever since then it's been downhill. The head coach to replace Gruden was Bill Callahan, his offensive coordinator. We went 4-12 the following year and dysfunction reared its ugly head. Callahan was calling the raiders the dumbest team in the league. He was fired after the season and we hired Norv Turner to be our head coach in 2004.
Norv Turner came aboard and the season was a wash. Jerry Rice was chased out of town due to his age and midseason we lost our starting qb Rich Gannon.
2005 we made a trade for Randy Moss and optimism was rampant again. We had a vet in Kerry Collins and we were hoping some magic would happen. Nope.
2006 Norv Turner got the boot and Al Davis reached back into the past and hired Art Shell as our head coach. Shell was a raider great in the 1970s and coached our team from 89-94, and was fired after going 9-7. Art Shell hired his offensive coordinator from his first stint, who was out of football completely and running a bed and breakfast in Idaho. If that wasn't good enough, Collins split and for Quarterback we had Aaron Brooks, Andrew Walter and Marques Tuiasosopo on the roster. Randy Moss was disillusioned and flat out stopped trying on the field. Jerry Porter (our breakthrough receiver in 2002) was getting disgruntled that Shell wouldn't let champagne in the locker room and started making a scene, even parking in Al's spot. We ended up going 2-14, the Raiders worst record since the early 60's. We also secured our first #1 draft pick in team history. Oddly enough, we had the #3 ranked defense and that was the breakout season of Nnamdi Asomugha, who ended up being a shut down corner and a fan favorite.
2007 Art Shell got the boot and we hired USC's offensive coordinator Lane Kiffin. Kiffin was the youngest head coach in history and it didn't feel right from the beginning. At his intro press conference Al introduced him as, "Lance." With the #1 pick we selected JaMarcus Russell. Russell ended up holding out so we signed journeyman QB Josh McCown to start the season. After we got Russell under contract, Kiffin wanted to ease him into the lineup and refused to put him in the game, resulting in animosity from Davis and the fans. Russell started and was less than spectacular. We ended up going 4-12.
2008 came around and Davis made a huge splash in free agency. If I remember correctly he signed Tommy Kelly to the richest contract ever for a defensive tackle. Tommy Kelly was an undrafted player for us that was 4 years in the league, and never made a pro bowl. He also traded for DeAngelo Hall and paid him a 10 million per season. We also picked up Gibril Wilson and Kwame Harris and kept Asomugha via the exclusive franchise tag. Everyone was ecstatic for this season, we thought we had the pieces from the offseason moves. Our opening night we got burned 41-14. I was at that game, it was terrible. DeAngelo hall got torched by a rookie, and we ended up cutting him after week 8. Kiffin was on thin ice quickly after that first game and to show his arrogance during one of his games he had us attempt a 74 yard field goal. He was fired after the fourth game to which Tom Cable, our offensive line coach, was named our interim coach. Under cable there seemed to be stability, but our offense was stagnant like usual. We finished 4-12 again.
2009 Cable was named the head coach. During that summer Cable was being investigated after the assistant defensive backs coach had his jaw broken at training camp. ESPN also did a "special" that had one of Cable's ex girlfriends say he was abusive. That really hurt our PR and speculators will tell you Davis didn't like this. The players loved him though. Al Davis then traded a first round draft pick to the Patriots for Richard Seymour. This was insane because Seymour was in the league 10 years and a first round pick was too much, but Al wanted to win now. Our offense was still lackluster, with many injuries at Quarterback. The fans have had enough of JaMarcus, and were relieved when Bruce Gradkowski got the nod at QB. There was a little resurgence, but injuries and just poor all around play we saw another losing record.
In 2010 Al hired Hue Jackson to be the offensive coordinator under Cable. We cut Russell and traded for Jason Campbell of the redskins, who led his team to the playoffs in 2008, but didn't do anything of note in his career. In 2010 the offense was mixed. We blew the broncos out 59-14 but it was very inconsistent. We did however improve to 8-8.
In 2011 Cable's contract was up, and it was not renewed. A lot of the players did not like this, but Hue Jackson was elevated to head coach. With the raiders showing promise mid season, Al Davis unfortunately passed away but the team was on an uptick. That game we lost Jason Campbell for the year to injury. Wanting to capitalize on momentum we traded a first and a second round pick to Cincinnati for Carson Palmer to replace him immediately. We started the season 7-4 but ended 8-8. Our last game was against the chargers, if we beat them we would've had a post season berth. We laid an egg on new years day and lost and Hue famously said to the press that he, "was pissed off at his team, and he would not be in this situation next year." He was right, because after this Mark Davis (Al's Son) took over, hired Reggie McKenzie from the Green Bay Packers as the GM, who let jackson go.
I didn't mean to go into this much detail, and this is really the TL;DR version, as I'm leaving a lot of Al Davis salary cap manipulations, crazy signings out of the story. /u/gipsysafety's posts about Reggie will bring you up to speed the rest of the way. You picked a great team, and when we return to greatness, hopefully all these down years will be a thing of the past. To answer your question, we've gotten used to hearing the term "moral victory" and jokes at us being basement dwellers. But when the Raiders are good, times are fun. Here's to returning to that.
| oaklandraiders | t5_2reby | cogud9b | If you're a masochist, you've made the right choice!
I suggest reading up on /u/gipsysafety's write ups about Reggie McKenzie so you can get some history and substance behind your fandom and why things are happening right as they are right now.
I'll give you a little synopsis though. Ever since we lost the super bowl in 2003 it's been a roller coaster of emotions, and a lot of binge drinking to soothe the pain. Al Davis was never known to be conventional, he was very power hungry and loved his players to a fault. He also would think outside the box and try anything to get a competitive edge. We lost the Super Bowl because he traded our coach (Jon Gruden) to a team who happened to make it to the championship. Ever since then it's been downhill. The head coach to replace Gruden was Bill Callahan, his offensive coordinator. We went 4-12 the following year and dysfunction reared its ugly head. Callahan was calling the raiders the dumbest team in the league. He was fired after the season and we hired Norv Turner to be our head coach in 2004.
Norv Turner came aboard and the season was a wash. Jerry Rice was chased out of town due to his age and midseason we lost our starting qb Rich Gannon.
2005 we made a trade for Randy Moss and optimism was rampant again. We had a vet in Kerry Collins and we were hoping some magic would happen. Nope.
2006 Norv Turner got the boot and Al Davis reached back into the past and hired Art Shell as our head coach. Shell was a raider great in the 1970s and coached our team from 89-94, and was fired after going 9-7. Art Shell hired his offensive coordinator from his first stint, who was out of football completely and running a bed and breakfast in Idaho. If that wasn't good enough, Collins split and for Quarterback we had Aaron Brooks, Andrew Walter and Marques Tuiasosopo on the roster. Randy Moss was disillusioned and flat out stopped trying on the field. Jerry Porter (our breakthrough receiver in 2002) was getting disgruntled that Shell wouldn't let champagne in the locker room and started making a scene, even parking in Al's spot. We ended up going 2-14, the Raiders worst record since the early 60's. We also secured our first #1 draft pick in team history. Oddly enough, we had the #3 ranked defense and that was the breakout season of Nnamdi Asomugha, who ended up being a shut down corner and a fan favorite.
2007 Art Shell got the boot and we hired USC's offensive coordinator Lane Kiffin. Kiffin was the youngest head coach in history and it didn't feel right from the beginning. At his intro press conference Al introduced him as, "Lance." With the #1 pick we selected JaMarcus Russell. Russell ended up holding out so we signed journeyman QB Josh McCown to start the season. After we got Russell under contract, Kiffin wanted to ease him into the lineup and refused to put him in the game, resulting in animosity from Davis and the fans. Russell started and was less than spectacular. We ended up going 4-12.
2008 came around and Davis made a huge splash in free agency. If I remember correctly he signed Tommy Kelly to the richest contract ever for a defensive tackle. Tommy Kelly was an undrafted player for us that was 4 years in the league, and never made a pro bowl. He also traded for DeAngelo Hall and paid him a 10 million per season. We also picked up Gibril Wilson and Kwame Harris and kept Asomugha via the exclusive franchise tag. Everyone was ecstatic for this season, we thought we had the pieces from the offseason moves. Our opening night we got burned 41-14. I was at that game, it was terrible. DeAngelo hall got torched by a rookie, and we ended up cutting him after week 8. Kiffin was on thin ice quickly after that first game and to show his arrogance during one of his games he had us attempt a 74 yard field goal. He was fired after the fourth game to which Tom Cable, our offensive line coach, was named our interim coach. Under cable there seemed to be stability, but our offense was stagnant like usual. We finished 4-12 again.
2009 Cable was named the head coach. During that summer Cable was being investigated after the assistant defensive backs coach had his jaw broken at training camp. ESPN also did a "special" that had one of Cable's ex girlfriends say he was abusive. That really hurt our PR and speculators will tell you Davis didn't like this. The players loved him though. Al Davis then traded a first round draft pick to the Patriots for Richard Seymour. This was insane because Seymour was in the league 10 years and a first round pick was too much, but Al wanted to win now. Our offense was still lackluster, with many injuries at Quarterback. The fans have had enough of JaMarcus, and were relieved when Bruce Gradkowski got the nod at QB. There was a little resurgence, but injuries and just poor all around play we saw another losing record.
In 2010 Al hired Hue Jackson to be the offensive coordinator under Cable. We cut Russell and traded for Jason Campbell of the redskins, who led his team to the playoffs in 2008, but didn't do anything of note in his career. In 2010 the offense was mixed. We blew the broncos out 59-14 but it was very inconsistent. We did however improve to 8-8.
In 2011 Cable's contract was up, and it was not renewed. A lot of the players did not like this, but Hue Jackson was elevated to head coach. With the raiders showing promise mid season, Al Davis unfortunately passed away but the team was on an uptick. That game we lost Jason Campbell for the year to injury. Wanting to capitalize on momentum we traded a first and a second round pick to Cincinnati for Carson Palmer to replace him immediately. We started the season 7-4 but ended 8-8. Our last game was against the chargers, if we beat them we would've had a post season berth. We laid an egg on new years day and lost and Hue famously said to the press that he, "was pissed off at his team, and he would not be in this situation next year." He was right, because after this Mark Davis (Al's Son) took over, hired Reggie McKenzie from the Green Bay Packers as the GM, who let jackson go.
I didn't mean to go into this much detail, and this is really the | version, as I'm leaving a lot of Al Davis salary cap manipulations, crazy signings out of the story. /u/gipsysafety's posts about Reggie will bring you up to speed the rest of the way. You picked a great team, and when we return to greatness, hopefully all these down years will be a thing of the past. To answer your question, we've gotten used to hearing the term "moral victory" and jokes at us being basement dwellers. But when the Raiders are good, times are fun. Here's to returning to that. |
tempest_ | Some people fail to understand the risk an employer takes when hiring an employee. A huge part of business is risk mitigation and a known quantity with mediocre grades will often be a preferred choice.
tl,dr Networking is important, and make sure you tout your skills and gain them during your internship. | Some people fail to understand the risk an employer takes when hiring an employee. A huge part of business is risk mitigation and a known quantity with mediocre grades will often be a preferred choice.
tl,dr Networking is important, and make sure you tout your skills and gain them during your internship.
| uwo | t5_2rm2m | cohaddn | Some people fail to understand the risk an employer takes when hiring an employee. A huge part of business is risk mitigation and a known quantity with mediocre grades will often be a preferred choice. | Networking is important, and make sure you tout your skills and gain them during your internship. |
cATSup24 | **All the damn time**, especially at gamestop.
Just to let everyone know: yeah sometimes they make a good amount of money from their pre-owned games and consoles, but that's actually almost their *only* profit. They make something like a dollar or some really low number for new games, and no more than 25 for new consoles. Plus, they do a lot of events and such where they *lose* a lot of money, like how every year they give an extra 20% or some shit for trading the last year's Madden for the new release. 90% of the old ones never sell and just get put in the back for a few years or are thrown out. And the ones they *do* sell are usually marked down to $15 or less.
So, yeah. It seems like highway robbery to only get $20 for a game that came out last month for them to sell it at $55, but it could be worse.
Hell, you can play and beat games without really paying for them if you get them used and keep the games for 7 days at a time, just to return it before the return policy goes void. Wait a day after returning it, and get it again. And it's totally condoned by the staff, because it makes you a regular, and often you'll get to know the special events where you get even better deals.
**Tl;dr- it sucks, but they actually *have* to pay low and sell high for used games in order to turn a profit. Just get the damn thing used and return it w/in 7 days, you whining babies.** | All the damn time , especially at gamestop.
Just to let everyone know: yeah sometimes they make a good amount of money from their pre-owned games and consoles, but that's actually almost their only profit. They make something like a dollar or some really low number for new games, and no more than 25 for new consoles. Plus, they do a lot of events and such where they lose a lot of money, like how every year they give an extra 20% or some shit for trading the last year's Madden for the new release. 90% of the old ones never sell and just get put in the back for a few years or are thrown out. And the ones they do sell are usually marked down to $15 or less.
So, yeah. It seems like highway robbery to only get $20 for a game that came out last month for them to sell it at $55, but it could be worse.
Hell, you can play and beat games without really paying for them if you get them used and keep the games for 7 days at a time, just to return it before the return policy goes void. Wait a day after returning it, and get it again. And it's totally condoned by the staff, because it makes you a regular, and often you'll get to know the special events where you get even better deals.
Tl;dr- it sucks, but they actually have to pay low and sell high for used games in order to turn a profit. Just get the damn thing used and return it w/in 7 days, you whining babies.
| webcomics | t5_2qh2w | cohd751 | All the damn time , especially at gamestop.
Just to let everyone know: yeah sometimes they make a good amount of money from their pre-owned games and consoles, but that's actually almost their only profit. They make something like a dollar or some really low number for new games, and no more than 25 for new consoles. Plus, they do a lot of events and such where they lose a lot of money, like how every year they give an extra 20% or some shit for trading the last year's Madden for the new release. 90% of the old ones never sell and just get put in the back for a few years or are thrown out. And the ones they do sell are usually marked down to $15 or less.
So, yeah. It seems like highway robbery to only get $20 for a game that came out last month for them to sell it at $55, but it could be worse.
Hell, you can play and beat games without really paying for them if you get them used and keep the games for 7 days at a time, just to return it before the return policy goes void. Wait a day after returning it, and get it again. And it's totally condoned by the staff, because it makes you a regular, and often you'll get to know the special events where you get even better deals. | it sucks, but they actually have to pay low and sell high for used games in order to turn a profit. Just get the damn thing used and return it w/in 7 days, you whining babies. |
loveengineer | I recently played Half-Life 2 coop via Synergy with a cousin, and while I really wanted to share the amazing story of the game, he was mainly focused on the fighting. At one point, he was asking me, "Why are we doing this?" and "Where are we going next?".
TL;DR I couldn't find playmates who care about the story as much as I do. | I recently played Half-Life 2 coop via Synergy with a cousin, and while I really wanted to share the amazing story of the game, he was mainly focused on the fighting. At one point, he was asking me, "Why are we doing this?" and "Where are we going next?".
TL;DR I couldn't find playmates who care about the story as much as I do.
| gaming | t5_2qh03 | cohn55q | I recently played Half-Life 2 coop via Synergy with a cousin, and while I really wanted to share the amazing story of the game, he was mainly focused on the fighting. At one point, he was asking me, "Why are we doing this?" and "Where are we going next?". | I couldn't find playmates who care about the story as much as I do. |
Dcanseco | To sell insurance you need to be licensed. It is a simple, somewhat costly process. You are required to take 40 hours (may vary by state) and take a test, once you pass the test and pay for your insurance license you are an agent. Many agencies look for people who are already licensed and hire them, others look for just people who want to work and actually pay for your licensing fees. The test is relatively easy if you study the materials they give you at the licensing course.
I had no experience either, someone just gave me a shot, I was with a company that I love and truly and they paid for my first license. When i left them i had to pay it for myself.
TL:DR Do required class time, pass a test and apply. | To sell insurance you need to be licensed. It is a simple, somewhat costly process. You are required to take 40 hours (may vary by state) and take a test, once you pass the test and pay for your insurance license you are an agent. Many agencies look for people who are already licensed and hire them, others look for just people who want to work and actually pay for your licensing fees. The test is relatively easy if you study the materials they give you at the licensing course.
I had no experience either, someone just gave me a shot, I was with a company that I love and truly and they paid for my first license. When i left them i had to pay it for myself.
TL:DR Do required class time, pass a test and apply.
| IAmA | t5_2qzb6 | cohnqnz | To sell insurance you need to be licensed. It is a simple, somewhat costly process. You are required to take 40 hours (may vary by state) and take a test, once you pass the test and pay for your insurance license you are an agent. Many agencies look for people who are already licensed and hire them, others look for just people who want to work and actually pay for your licensing fees. The test is relatively easy if you study the materials they give you at the licensing course.
I had no experience either, someone just gave me a shot, I was with a company that I love and truly and they paid for my first license. When i left them i had to pay it for myself. | Do required class time, pass a test and apply. |
meeanne | FMIL isn't driving me insane (yet) but we do have different ideas about flowers. I'm not huge on flowers, don't care for flowers, honestly don't really like flowers much. They smell and remind me of funerals because I went to way more of those growing up than weddings (and I was a flower girl 7 times!). My FH hasn't given me flowers in years because he knows I don't like them. I didn't rear want flowed at the wedding except for the necessary ones needed like bouquets, boutonniere, and corsages. For decor down the aisle and on the reception tables, I want LOTS of candles, with at most petals around them. But FMIL wants way more flowers in the decorating. I was planning on just getting Costco flowers for the flowers I needed, I didn't want I have to deal with a florist, and we're having our wedding 6 hours away from where we'd be getting flowers if we were to add flowers to decorations.
TL;DR I don't really like flowers, FMIL wants more flowers at wedding. | FMIL isn't driving me insane (yet) but we do have different ideas about flowers. I'm not huge on flowers, don't care for flowers, honestly don't really like flowers much. They smell and remind me of funerals because I went to way more of those growing up than weddings (and I was a flower girl 7 times!). My FH hasn't given me flowers in years because he knows I don't like them. I didn't rear want flowed at the wedding except for the necessary ones needed like bouquets, boutonniere, and corsages. For decor down the aisle and on the reception tables, I want LOTS of candles, with at most petals around them. But FMIL wants way more flowers in the decorating. I was planning on just getting Costco flowers for the flowers I needed, I didn't want I have to deal with a florist, and we're having our wedding 6 hours away from where we'd be getting flowers if we were to add flowers to decorations.
TL;DR I don't really like flowers, FMIL wants more flowers at wedding.
| weddingplanning | t5_2rv3t | coj9k6k | FMIL isn't driving me insane (yet) but we do have different ideas about flowers. I'm not huge on flowers, don't care for flowers, honestly don't really like flowers much. They smell and remind me of funerals because I went to way more of those growing up than weddings (and I was a flower girl 7 times!). My FH hasn't given me flowers in years because he knows I don't like them. I didn't rear want flowed at the wedding except for the necessary ones needed like bouquets, boutonniere, and corsages. For decor down the aisle and on the reception tables, I want LOTS of candles, with at most petals around them. But FMIL wants way more flowers in the decorating. I was planning on just getting Costco flowers for the flowers I needed, I didn't want I have to deal with a florist, and we're having our wedding 6 hours away from where we'd be getting flowers if we were to add flowers to decorations. | I don't really like flowers, FMIL wants more flowers at wedding. |
Bunkerlab | YES, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, YES.
tl;dr: yes pls.
| YES, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, YES.
tl;dr: yes pls.
| summonerschool | t5_2t9x3 | coi48vg | YES, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, YES. | yes pls. |
uh-hum | > Are they paying them back in any way?
Yes. The Elementary OS devs are actively lowering the barrier to entry for Desktop Linux for users and developers.
* They've contributed to and use Vala - a programming language that is very similar to Java and C#. Since many recent grads are familiar to these languages, some have been more apt to contribute to the Linux desktop and in turn - Linux's ecosystem.
* They've offered [bug bounties](
* They've developed a framework called Granite for their OS. Granite aids developers in ways that are more familiar to Windows and OSX devs.
* Pantheon is lightweight. It can run on older computers and, it's GUI is more familiar to Windows and OSX users. Pantheon will attract new desktops users with its ease of use and looks. Given the length of Elementary's beta, I think we can expect it to be a stable distro. As a dev myself, I appreciate ease of use and stability - I don't want to fix broken things when I have other work to do. I don't want to spend time configuring KDE's PIM or Ubuntu's Unity. I don't want to deal with Ubuntu Next. (I'm currently using Ubuntu after going from Suse (in '06?) --> Kubuntu 7.04 - 12* --> Slack/KDE --> Arch/Gnome3 --> Arch/KDE -->, Kubuntu --> Ubuntu 14.04. I've also used openbox, fluxbox, i3 - yada, yada.).
I don't care how cheesily it's worded. If I can go to a theater and buy popcorn or, get myself that extra cup of coffee that will only end in insanity - I can give money to the creators of something (valuable) that I could get for free.
TL;DR: Elementary is a standard and elegant desktop that will help push Linux even more into the spotlight. It will take up where Ubuntu left off. More users = more devs. | > Are they paying them back in any way?
Yes. The Elementary OS devs are actively lowering the barrier to entry for Desktop Linux for users and developers.
They've contributed to and use Vala - a programming language that is very similar to Java and C#. Since many recent grads are familiar to these languages, some have been more apt to contribute to the Linux desktop and in turn - Linux's ecosystem.
They've offered [bug bounties](
They've developed a framework called Granite for their OS. Granite aids developers in ways that are more familiar to Windows and OSX devs.
Pantheon is lightweight. It can run on older computers and, it's GUI is more familiar to Windows and OSX users. Pantheon will attract new desktops users with its ease of use and looks. Given the length of Elementary's beta, I think we can expect it to be a stable distro. As a dev myself, I appreciate ease of use and stability - I don't want to fix broken things when I have other work to do. I don't want to spend time configuring KDE's PIM or Ubuntu's Unity. I don't want to deal with Ubuntu Next. (I'm currently using Ubuntu after going from Suse (in '06?) --> Kubuntu 7.04 - 12* --> Slack/KDE --> Arch/Gnome3 --> Arch/KDE -->, Kubuntu --> Ubuntu 14.04. I've also used openbox, fluxbox, i3 - yada, yada.).
I don't care how cheesily it's worded. If I can go to a theater and buy popcorn or, get myself that extra cup of coffee that will only end in insanity - I can give money to the creators of something (valuable) that I could get for free.
TL;DR: Elementary is a standard and elegant desktop that will help push Linux even more into the spotlight. It will take up where Ubuntu left off. More users = more devs.
| linux | t5_2qh1a | coi9hjr | Are they paying them back in any way?
Yes. The Elementary OS devs are actively lowering the barrier to entry for Desktop Linux for users and developers.
They've contributed to and use Vala - a programming language that is very similar to Java and C#. Since many recent grads are familiar to these languages, some have been more apt to contribute to the Linux desktop and in turn - Linux's ecosystem.
They've offered [bug bounties](
They've developed a framework called Granite for their OS. Granite aids developers in ways that are more familiar to Windows and OSX devs.
Pantheon is lightweight. It can run on older computers and, it's GUI is more familiar to Windows and OSX users. Pantheon will attract new desktops users with its ease of use and looks. Given the length of Elementary's beta, I think we can expect it to be a stable distro. As a dev myself, I appreciate ease of use and stability - I don't want to fix broken things when I have other work to do. I don't want to spend time configuring KDE's PIM or Ubuntu's Unity. I don't want to deal with Ubuntu Next. (I'm currently using Ubuntu after going from Suse (in '06?) --> Kubuntu 7.04 - 12* --> Slack/KDE --> Arch/Gnome3 --> Arch/KDE -->, Kubuntu --> Ubuntu 14.04. I've also used openbox, fluxbox, i3 - yada, yada.).
I don't care how cheesily it's worded. If I can go to a theater and buy popcorn or, get myself that extra cup of coffee that will only end in insanity - I can give money to the creators of something (valuable) that I could get for free. | Elementary is a standard and elegant desktop that will help push Linux even more into the spotlight. It will take up where Ubuntu left off. More users = more devs. |
grumbel | That was written almost 20 years ago (or maybe even further back), back when you might get your GNU/Linux distri on a bunch of floppies, where distributing software individually was still a thing and where you still might get a printed manual. It doesn't really fit into the current day landscape where you have access to thousands of software packages in an instant by the click of a button.
I mean you can still try to charge for Free Software, but chances are you are either not making any money with it as nobody cares about your now useless service or you are not the guy who wrote the software, thus the money goes to the wrong people.
**TL;DR** Funding Free Software is kind of hard and there are no easy answers. | That was written almost 20 years ago (or maybe even further back), back when you might get your GNU/Linux distri on a bunch of floppies, where distributing software individually was still a thing and where you still might get a printed manual. It doesn't really fit into the current day landscape where you have access to thousands of software packages in an instant by the click of a button.
I mean you can still try to charge for Free Software, but chances are you are either not making any money with it as nobody cares about your now useless service or you are not the guy who wrote the software, thus the money goes to the wrong people.
TL;DR Funding Free Software is kind of hard and there are no easy answers.
| linux | t5_2qh1a | coi33rw | That was written almost 20 years ago (or maybe even further back), back when you might get your GNU/Linux distri on a bunch of floppies, where distributing software individually was still a thing and where you still might get a printed manual. It doesn't really fit into the current day landscape where you have access to thousands of software packages in an instant by the click of a button.
I mean you can still try to charge for Free Software, but chances are you are either not making any money with it as nobody cares about your now useless service or you are not the guy who wrote the software, thus the money goes to the wrong people. | Funding Free Software is kind of hard and there are no easy answers. |
Sawta | I understand *why* they are asking for money; regardless of how noble your intentions are, when it comes to keeping the lights on and putting food on the table consistently, you want to make sure you're taken care of...but I feel like the way they went about asking for contributions was all wrong. That is, they in fact are *not* asking for contributions at all. They are demanding compensation. Let's be very clear here. They are not coming to you, hat in hand asking for a little assistance in continuing on. They are not stating what benefits they have produced for the GNU/Linux community by maintaining and keeping their distro up to date. Nor are they even really saying how much money they need or what for.
>It’s about securing the future of elementary OS to ensure we can keep making software that millions of people love and use every day.
This phrase for example, is much, much too vague. There are no implicit statements about what they need money for, how much, or for how long.
>elementary is under no obligation to release our compiled operating system for free download.
"If you use our OS, we are now holding it hostage. Pay up or else!"
>We’ve invested money into its development, hosting our website, and supporting users.
"Here's the part where you should feel bad for the choices that we freely chose to make when starting this project. Money please."
>However, we understand the culture that currently surrounds open source: users tend to feel entitled to the full, compiled releases of software at zero cost.
"You assholes are used to getting shit for free and you tricked us into playing ball."
>While we could rightfully disallow free downloads, someone else could take our open source code, compile it, and give it away for free. So there’s no point in completely disallowing it.
"Because of technical limitations, it would be a total pain in the ass to try and stop you, so we won't bother. For now. Sooo...money please."
>But we should discourage it.
"Don't be a dick. Come on, guise!"
>Some companies offset that cost by charging hundreds of dollars for their software, making manufacturers pay them to license the software, or selling expensive hardware with the OS included.
"We don't do shitty things to offset our costs. Unless you keep holding out on us."
>Others offset it by mining user data and charging companies to target ads to their users.
"Botnet. amiright guise? Money please."
> Inkscape and GIMP only get money for development if users decide to give it to them.
"But Mooooom! ...You just gave BOBBY five dollars!"
>If we want to see the world of open source software grow, we should encourage users to pay for its development; **otherwise it’ll be underfunded or developers will have to resort to backdoor deals and advertising.**
"If you ever want to see your data secured again, you'll wire funds directly to our Swiss Bank account or else the privacy GETS IT!"
>And nobody wants that future.
"Sure is a nice OS you've got here....sure would be a **shame** if something were to...happen to it, dontcha think? You use encryption, right?"
**TL;DR** If you are asking for people to freely contribute money to your project simply out of the goodness of their heart, do so in a manner that doesn't resort to blackmail and half-reasoned examples on how better every other OSS project is being treated. It's not a good way to watch your donation counter increase. | I understand why they are asking for money; regardless of how noble your intentions are, when it comes to keeping the lights on and putting food on the table consistently, you want to make sure you're taken care of...but I feel like the way they went about asking for contributions was all wrong. That is, they in fact are not asking for contributions at all. They are demanding compensation. Let's be very clear here. They are not coming to you, hat in hand asking for a little assistance in continuing on. They are not stating what benefits they have produced for the GNU/Linux community by maintaining and keeping their distro up to date. Nor are they even really saying how much money they need or what for.
>It’s about securing the future of elementary OS to ensure we can keep making software that millions of people love and use every day.
This phrase for example, is much, much too vague. There are no implicit statements about what they need money for, how much, or for how long.
>elementary is under no obligation to release our compiled operating system for free download.
"If you use our OS, we are now holding it hostage. Pay up or else!"
>We’ve invested money into its development, hosting our website, and supporting users.
"Here's the part where you should feel bad for the choices that we freely chose to make when starting this project. Money please."
>However, we understand the culture that currently surrounds open source: users tend to feel entitled to the full, compiled releases of software at zero cost.
"You assholes are used to getting shit for free and you tricked us into playing ball."
>While we could rightfully disallow free downloads, someone else could take our open source code, compile it, and give it away for free. So there’s no point in completely disallowing it.
"Because of technical limitations, it would be a total pain in the ass to try and stop you, so we won't bother. For now. Sooo...money please."
>But we should discourage it.
"Don't be a dick. Come on, guise!"
>Some companies offset that cost by charging hundreds of dollars for their software, making manufacturers pay them to license the software, or selling expensive hardware with the OS included.
"We don't do shitty things to offset our costs. Unless you keep holding out on us."
>Others offset it by mining user data and charging companies to target ads to their users.
"Botnet. amiright guise? Money please."
> Inkscape and GIMP only get money for development if users decide to give it to them.
"But Mooooom! ...You just gave BOBBY five dollars!"
>If we want to see the world of open source software grow, we should encourage users to pay for its development; otherwise it’ll be underfunded or developers will have to resort to backdoor deals and advertising.
"If you ever want to see your data secured again, you'll wire funds directly to our Swiss Bank account or else the privacy GETS IT!"
>And nobody wants that future.
"Sure is a nice OS you've got here....sure would be a shame if something were to...happen to it, dontcha think? You use encryption, right?"
TL;DR If you are asking for people to freely contribute money to your project simply out of the goodness of their heart, do so in a manner that doesn't resort to blackmail and half-reasoned examples on how better every other OSS project is being treated. It's not a good way to watch your donation counter increase.
| linux | t5_2qh1a | coi1l1r | I understand why they are asking for money; regardless of how noble your intentions are, when it comes to keeping the lights on and putting food on the table consistently, you want to make sure you're taken care of...but I feel like the way they went about asking for contributions was all wrong. That is, they in fact are not asking for contributions at all. They are demanding compensation. Let's be very clear here. They are not coming to you, hat in hand asking for a little assistance in continuing on. They are not stating what benefits they have produced for the GNU/Linux community by maintaining and keeping their distro up to date. Nor are they even really saying how much money they need or what for.
>It’s about securing the future of elementary OS to ensure we can keep making software that millions of people love and use every day.
This phrase for example, is much, much too vague. There are no implicit statements about what they need money for, how much, or for how long.
>elementary is under no obligation to release our compiled operating system for free download.
"If you use our OS, we are now holding it hostage. Pay up or else!"
>We’ve invested money into its development, hosting our website, and supporting users.
"Here's the part where you should feel bad for the choices that we freely chose to make when starting this project. Money please."
>However, we understand the culture that currently surrounds open source: users tend to feel entitled to the full, compiled releases of software at zero cost.
"You assholes are used to getting shit for free and you tricked us into playing ball."
>While we could rightfully disallow free downloads, someone else could take our open source code, compile it, and give it away for free. So there’s no point in completely disallowing it.
"Because of technical limitations, it would be a total pain in the ass to try and stop you, so we won't bother. For now. Sooo...money please."
>But we should discourage it.
"Don't be a dick. Come on, guise!"
>Some companies offset that cost by charging hundreds of dollars for their software, making manufacturers pay them to license the software, or selling expensive hardware with the OS included.
"We don't do shitty things to offset our costs. Unless you keep holding out on us."
>Others offset it by mining user data and charging companies to target ads to their users.
"Botnet. amiright guise? Money please."
> Inkscape and GIMP only get money for development if users decide to give it to them.
"But Mooooom! ...You just gave BOBBY five dollars!"
>If we want to see the world of open source software grow, we should encourage users to pay for its development; otherwise it’ll be underfunded or developers will have to resort to backdoor deals and advertising.
"If you ever want to see your data secured again, you'll wire funds directly to our Swiss Bank account or else the privacy GETS IT!"
>And nobody wants that future.
"Sure is a nice OS you've got here....sure would be a shame if something were to...happen to it, dontcha think? You use encryption, right?" | If you are asking for people to freely contribute money to your project simply out of the goodness of their heart, do so in a manner that doesn't resort to blackmail and half-reasoned examples on how better every other OSS project is being treated. It's not a good way to watch your donation counter increase. |
mercenary_sysadmin | > "You can't really expect the end user to pay for it" is a sentence that is shunned by everyone endorsing free software (like the FSF), as it is just not true.
You know what else is a sentence that's shunned? "We want users to understand that they’re pretty much cheating the system" *when they exercise their copyleft rights*.
Encouraging donations is great. Acting like copyleft isn't really a thing? Not so much.
But let's drill down a little further into that.
> elementary is under no obligation to release our compiled operating system for free download.
The catch here is the "compiled" bit - if they want to have users, that's distribution, and if they're distributing, they have to make the *source code* available for free download (edit for clarity: to those users, who may then redistribute the source as far and wide as they see fit). Now, the kicker here is - as they've stated - they don't have to make the *compiled* code available (~~edit for clarity: and the users do not have redistribution rights to those binaries, either - the users only have redistribution rights to object code they compile *themselves*, from the source code they do have rights to~~ edit2: [I was wrong about this]( users can redistribute binaries directly as well, though that may or may not be directly useful in the case of an entire Linux distro). The catch there is that you can't just download the source and conveniently presto *poof* boot your laptop on elementaryOS.
However, at that point one of two things happens: either somebody compiles and releases a working copy of the distribution themselves - like CentOS does with RHEL - or nobody gives enough of a shit to bother, and their distro goes spiraling down into obscurity and failure. With elementary, I'd frankly bet on the latter.
It's probably worth noting that eventually *Red Hat acquired CentOS* - and continued its operation, exactly as it was - because despite the natural and understandable discomfort in the relationship, they realized that a CentOS was inevitable, and it was far better for them to own it and operate it on a friendly basis than to risk alienating their paying customers. How would the paying customers be alienated if CentOS operated poorly, you ask? Well, if CentOS became unreliable, the bad reputation of CentOS would inevitably tarnish RHEL itself; and if Red Hat tried to banhammer CentOS, they would inevitably anger copyleft activists, which would also end up tarnishing Red Hat's reputation. So they did the best thing possible - acquire it and make damn sure it operates *properly*.
I'm TL;DRing here, but this is a subject near and dear to my heart. Encourage donations, good. Equate donations to social responsibility, good. Call people who don't donate on exactly your schedule and in ways forced to be directly tied to an initial download "cheaters": bad, and they should *feel* bad. | > "You can't really expect the end user to pay for it" is a sentence that is shunned by everyone endorsing free software (like the FSF), as it is just not true.
You know what else is a sentence that's shunned? "We want users to understand that they’re pretty much cheating the system" when they exercise their copyleft rights .
Encouraging donations is great. Acting like copyleft isn't really a thing? Not so much.
But let's drill down a little further into that.
> elementary is under no obligation to release our compiled operating system for free download.
The catch here is the "compiled" bit - if they want to have users, that's distribution, and if they're distributing, they have to make the source code available for free download (edit for clarity: to those users, who may then redistribute the source as far and wide as they see fit). Now, the kicker here is - as they've stated - they don't have to make the compiled code available ( edit for clarity: and the users do not have redistribution rights to those binaries, either - the users only have redistribution rights to object code they compile themselves , from the source code they do have rights to edit2: I was wrong about this . The catch there is that you can't just download the source and conveniently presto poof boot your laptop on elementaryOS.
However, at that point one of two things happens: either somebody compiles and releases a working copy of the distribution themselves - like CentOS does with RHEL - or nobody gives enough of a shit to bother, and their distro goes spiraling down into obscurity and failure. With elementary, I'd frankly bet on the latter.
It's probably worth noting that eventually Red Hat acquired CentOS - and continued its operation, exactly as it was - because despite the natural and understandable discomfort in the relationship, they realized that a CentOS was inevitable, and it was far better for them to own it and operate it on a friendly basis than to risk alienating their paying customers. How would the paying customers be alienated if CentOS operated poorly, you ask? Well, if CentOS became unreliable, the bad reputation of CentOS would inevitably tarnish RHEL itself; and if Red Hat tried to banhammer CentOS, they would inevitably anger copyleft activists, which would also end up tarnishing Red Hat's reputation. So they did the best thing possible - acquire it and make damn sure it operates properly .
I'm TL;DRing here, but this is a subject near and dear to my heart. Encourage donations, good. Equate donations to social responsibility, good. Call people who don't donate on exactly your schedule and in ways forced to be directly tied to an initial download "cheaters": bad, and they should feel bad.
| linux | t5_2qh1a | coi1o28 | You can't really expect the end user to pay for it" is a sentence that is shunned by everyone endorsing free software (like the FSF), as it is just not true.
You know what else is a sentence that's shunned? "We want users to understand that they’re pretty much cheating the system" when they exercise their copyleft rights .
Encouraging donations is great. Acting like copyleft isn't really a thing? Not so much.
But let's drill down a little further into that.
> elementary is under no obligation to release our compiled operating system for free download.
The catch here is the "compiled" bit - if they want to have users, that's distribution, and if they're distributing, they have to make the source code available for free download (edit for clarity: to those users, who may then redistribute the source as far and wide as they see fit). Now, the kicker here is - as they've stated - they don't have to make the compiled code available ( edit for clarity: and the users do not have redistribution rights to those binaries, either - the users only have redistribution rights to object code they compile themselves , from the source code they do have rights to edit2: I was wrong about this . The catch there is that you can't just download the source and conveniently presto poof boot your laptop on elementaryOS.
However, at that point one of two things happens: either somebody compiles and releases a working copy of the distribution themselves - like CentOS does with RHEL - or nobody gives enough of a shit to bother, and their distro goes spiraling down into obscurity and failure. With elementary, I'd frankly bet on the latter.
It's probably worth noting that eventually Red Hat acquired CentOS - and continued its operation, exactly as it was - because despite the natural and understandable discomfort in the relationship, they realized that a CentOS was inevitable, and it was far better for them to own it and operate it on a friendly basis than to risk alienating their paying customers. How would the paying customers be alienated if CentOS operated poorly, you ask? Well, if CentOS became unreliable, the bad reputation of CentOS would inevitably tarnish RHEL itself; and if Red Hat tried to banhammer CentOS, they would inevitably anger copyleft activists, which would also end up tarnishing Red Hat's reputation. So they did the best thing possible - acquire it and make damn sure it operates properly .
I'm | ing here, but this is a subject near and dear to my heart. Encourage donations, good. Equate donations to social responsibility, good. Call people who don't donate on exactly your schedule and in ways forced to be directly tied to an initial download "cheaters": bad, and they should feel bad. |
derphamster | Hey that's really good progress, keep it up :) sorry you've had to join our club, but you're in good company here.
Normally for great control you want to have your blood sugar under 6.5 most of the time. It will rise after meals (usually 9 is the max for those times though lower is better) but you want it to be back down within a couple of hours afterwards. This is not always easy, and don't freak out if sometimes you can't hit your targets, especially when you're new to this. Your downward trend is the most important thing right now.
Test your blood glucose a lot! Test it before meals, then 1h and 2h after to find out when your blood sugar peaks. For most people it's about 40-80 mins but high fat meals can delay the peak, and enhance or prolong it (this is why high carb+fat like pizza is very tricky for us!). Once you have a good idea of when you peak, just use that time to read and drop the other post meal test unless you feel weird.
Now, doctors will usually only care what your blood glucose is 2h after a meal, but don't care if you spike to 15 in between then drop down again. However, those spikes can do your body damage, so for the diabetic that's the one you want to control and that's why you need to find when you peak.
Keep track of what you eat and find out how much your blood sugar goes up for each amount of carbs you eat. You'll start to get an idea of what you should and should not eat. Spikes of >2 mmol are an indication that what you're eating is not being handled well by your body. >5 and just totally cut that out of your diet for now (you can experiment with these things later once you've got good at control). Be intense and diligent with this phase and it will save you a lot of work (and complications) later. You'll build up a library in your head of safe foods and know what to avoid.
Since you're type 2 you won't have to worry too much about hypos unless you're on insulin or strong meds, though it can happen as a reactionary hypo (where your body's insulin response is so slow that it kicks in after the sugar has already worn off, making you go low) . However if you get readings of less than 4mmol, have a snack of 15g sugar and test again after half an hour. Less than 3 and bust out the juice and candy. I don't expect this will happen though.
Ok so tl;dr - test blood sugar 1h and 2h after meals to find peak. Compare to pre meal number to decide whether carb intake is ok. Keep numbers between 4 and 6.5 as much as possible, and <9 for 3h after meals. | Hey that's really good progress, keep it up :) sorry you've had to join our club, but you're in good company here.
Normally for great control you want to have your blood sugar under 6.5 most of the time. It will rise after meals (usually 9 is the max for those times though lower is better) but you want it to be back down within a couple of hours afterwards. This is not always easy, and don't freak out if sometimes you can't hit your targets, especially when you're new to this. Your downward trend is the most important thing right now.
Test your blood glucose a lot! Test it before meals, then 1h and 2h after to find out when your blood sugar peaks. For most people it's about 40-80 mins but high fat meals can delay the peak, and enhance or prolong it (this is why high carb+fat like pizza is very tricky for us!). Once you have a good idea of when you peak, just use that time to read and drop the other post meal test unless you feel weird.
Now, doctors will usually only care what your blood glucose is 2h after a meal, but don't care if you spike to 15 in between then drop down again. However, those spikes can do your body damage, so for the diabetic that's the one you want to control and that's why you need to find when you peak.
Keep track of what you eat and find out how much your blood sugar goes up for each amount of carbs you eat. You'll start to get an idea of what you should and should not eat. Spikes of >2 mmol are an indication that what you're eating is not being handled well by your body. >5 and just totally cut that out of your diet for now (you can experiment with these things later once you've got good at control). Be intense and diligent with this phase and it will save you a lot of work (and complications) later. You'll build up a library in your head of safe foods and know what to avoid.
Since you're type 2 you won't have to worry too much about hypos unless you're on insulin or strong meds, though it can happen as a reactionary hypo (where your body's insulin response is so slow that it kicks in after the sugar has already worn off, making you go low) . However if you get readings of less than 4mmol, have a snack of 15g sugar and test again after half an hour. Less than 3 and bust out the juice and candy. I don't expect this will happen though.
Ok so tl;dr - test blood sugar 1h and 2h after meals to find peak. Compare to pre meal number to decide whether carb intake is ok. Keep numbers between 4 and 6.5 as much as possible, and <9 for 3h after meals.
| diabetes | t5_2qhsj | coia4zn | Hey that's really good progress, keep it up :) sorry you've had to join our club, but you're in good company here.
Normally for great control you want to have your blood sugar under 6.5 most of the time. It will rise after meals (usually 9 is the max for those times though lower is better) but you want it to be back down within a couple of hours afterwards. This is not always easy, and don't freak out if sometimes you can't hit your targets, especially when you're new to this. Your downward trend is the most important thing right now.
Test your blood glucose a lot! Test it before meals, then 1h and 2h after to find out when your blood sugar peaks. For most people it's about 40-80 mins but high fat meals can delay the peak, and enhance or prolong it (this is why high carb+fat like pizza is very tricky for us!). Once you have a good idea of when you peak, just use that time to read and drop the other post meal test unless you feel weird.
Now, doctors will usually only care what your blood glucose is 2h after a meal, but don't care if you spike to 15 in between then drop down again. However, those spikes can do your body damage, so for the diabetic that's the one you want to control and that's why you need to find when you peak.
Keep track of what you eat and find out how much your blood sugar goes up for each amount of carbs you eat. You'll start to get an idea of what you should and should not eat. Spikes of >2 mmol are an indication that what you're eating is not being handled well by your body. >5 and just totally cut that out of your diet for now (you can experiment with these things later once you've got good at control). Be intense and diligent with this phase and it will save you a lot of work (and complications) later. You'll build up a library in your head of safe foods and know what to avoid.
Since you're type 2 you won't have to worry too much about hypos unless you're on insulin or strong meds, though it can happen as a reactionary hypo (where your body's insulin response is so slow that it kicks in after the sugar has already worn off, making you go low) . However if you get readings of less than 4mmol, have a snack of 15g sugar and test again after half an hour. Less than 3 and bust out the juice and candy. I don't expect this will happen though.
Ok so | test blood sugar 1h and 2h after meals to find peak. Compare to pre meal number to decide whether carb intake is ok. Keep numbers between 4 and 6.5 as much as possible, and <9 for 3h after meals. |
medhelan | **Luxemburg**: when Belgium become independent from the Netherlands the Dutch province of Luxemburg went to Belgium minus a small part that held the important military fortress of Luxenburg (nowday the City of Luxenburg) that remained Dutch for military reasons (but the fortress was manned by Prussian forces).
Luxenburg become *de jure* independent in 1838 but still in personal union with the Netherlands until 1890 when due to different succession laws it passed to a different branch of House of Nassau.
**Andorra**: Some villages in a valley that were contested between the Bishop of Urgell and the Count of Foix (pretty the history of half of Europe during the middle age) at some point in 1278 they found an agreement to share the sovreignity over that valley. then stuff happenend (among them the Count of Foix becoming King of France and Andorra becoming *de facto* part of France) but nobody really ever bothered to incorporate into a bigger state and somewhat survived until now.
**Monaco**: Once a sea fortress of the Genoese Republic, then become independent under the Genoese Grimaldi Family under the protectorate of the Duchy/Kingdom of Savoy/Sardinia/Piedmont. Just your average late medieval/early modern feudal princely state.
Then the area around Monaco wasceded by Piedmont to France in exchange for help in the wars against Austria. At this point the Prince of Monaco signed a treaty with France, giving 95% of his territory to the French in exchange for recognizing Monegasque sovereignity.
**Liechtenstein**: One of the many, many princely states that made up the Holy Roman Empire. At some point the Liechtenstein family vassals to the Habsburg that held many lands across Bohemia and Austria and playing a big role in the Viennese politics acquired it the County of Vaduz to gain Imperial immediancy that was somewhat like sovreignity but within the H.R.E.
In 1866-1871 Prussia transformed the loose German Confederacy into a unified nation called Germany. of the many states that formed the Confederacy just three did not unify in Germany: Luxemburg because it was *de facto* Netherlands, Austria because it was a great power and did not wanted to go under Prussia and Liechtenstein becaus it was basically a private property of an Austrian political family. Just after the end of the Hapsburg Empire in 1918 and with the annexation of Austria to Nazi Germani in 1938 the Liechtenstein Family moved to Vaduz and began to be primarly involved with the microstate issues.
**San Marino**: one of the many independent City States of Medieval Italy, not even the biggest of most important one. managed to not being annexed by the Papal States like the rest of Romagna region during late medieval-early modern period.
Then managed to not being annexed by newborn Italy during the 19th century by able political mouvering and due to gratitude by Garibaldi that managed to hide in San Marino while fleeting from the Papal States after a failed revolution.
**Vatican City**: After newborn Italy conquered the Papal State in 1871 they allowed the Pope to remain inside is Palace on the Vatican Hill without interfering but confiscating many other properties in Rome, among them the Quirinale Palace that was the main Papal residence and that become Royal and then Presidential residence of Italy.
Relations between the Pope and the Kingdom of Italy were tense for half a century until in 1929 Mussolini's fascist government signed a treaty that recognized independence to the territories within the Vatican walls thus creating the new State of Vatican City.
**tl;dr**: remanants of the feudal times when Europe was made up of tiny political units comprising a town and the countryside around it. | Luxemburg : when Belgium become independent from the Netherlands the Dutch province of Luxemburg went to Belgium minus a small part that held the important military fortress of Luxenburg (nowday the City of Luxenburg) that remained Dutch for military reasons (but the fortress was manned by Prussian forces).
Luxenburg become de jure independent in 1838 but still in personal union with the Netherlands until 1890 when due to different succession laws it passed to a different branch of House of Nassau.
Andorra : Some villages in a valley that were contested between the Bishop of Urgell and the Count of Foix (pretty the history of half of Europe during the middle age) at some point in 1278 they found an agreement to share the sovreignity over that valley. then stuff happenend (among them the Count of Foix becoming King of France and Andorra becoming de facto part of France) but nobody really ever bothered to incorporate into a bigger state and somewhat survived until now.
Monaco : Once a sea fortress of the Genoese Republic, then become independent under the Genoese Grimaldi Family under the protectorate of the Duchy/Kingdom of Savoy/Sardinia/Piedmont. Just your average late medieval/early modern feudal princely state.
Then the area around Monaco wasceded by Piedmont to France in exchange for help in the wars against Austria. At this point the Prince of Monaco signed a treaty with France, giving 95% of his territory to the French in exchange for recognizing Monegasque sovereignity.
Liechtenstein : One of the many, many princely states that made up the Holy Roman Empire. At some point the Liechtenstein family vassals to the Habsburg that held many lands across Bohemia and Austria and playing a big role in the Viennese politics acquired it the County of Vaduz to gain Imperial immediancy that was somewhat like sovreignity but within the H.R.E.
In 1866-1871 Prussia transformed the loose German Confederacy into a unified nation called Germany. of the many states that formed the Confederacy just three did not unify in Germany: Luxemburg because it was de facto Netherlands, Austria because it was a great power and did not wanted to go under Prussia and Liechtenstein becaus it was basically a private property of an Austrian political family. Just after the end of the Hapsburg Empire in 1918 and with the annexation of Austria to Nazi Germani in 1938 the Liechtenstein Family moved to Vaduz and began to be primarly involved with the microstate issues.
San Marino : one of the many independent City States of Medieval Italy, not even the biggest of most important one. managed to not being annexed by the Papal States like the rest of Romagna region during late medieval-early modern period.
Then managed to not being annexed by newborn Italy during the 19th century by able political mouvering and due to gratitude by Garibaldi that managed to hide in San Marino while fleeting from the Papal States after a failed revolution.
Vatican City : After newborn Italy conquered the Papal State in 1871 they allowed the Pope to remain inside is Palace on the Vatican Hill without interfering but confiscating many other properties in Rome, among them the Quirinale Palace that was the main Papal residence and that become Royal and then Presidential residence of Italy.
Relations between the Pope and the Kingdom of Italy were tense for half a century until in 1929 Mussolini's fascist government signed a treaty that recognized independence to the territories within the Vatican walls thus creating the new State of Vatican City.
tl;dr : remanants of the feudal times when Europe was made up of tiny political units comprising a town and the countryside around it.
| europe | t5_2qh4j | coi0ynb | Luxemburg : when Belgium become independent from the Netherlands the Dutch province of Luxemburg went to Belgium minus a small part that held the important military fortress of Luxenburg (nowday the City of Luxenburg) that remained Dutch for military reasons (but the fortress was manned by Prussian forces).
Luxenburg become de jure independent in 1838 but still in personal union with the Netherlands until 1890 when due to different succession laws it passed to a different branch of House of Nassau.
Andorra : Some villages in a valley that were contested between the Bishop of Urgell and the Count of Foix (pretty the history of half of Europe during the middle age) at some point in 1278 they found an agreement to share the sovreignity over that valley. then stuff happenend (among them the Count of Foix becoming King of France and Andorra becoming de facto part of France) but nobody really ever bothered to incorporate into a bigger state and somewhat survived until now.
Monaco : Once a sea fortress of the Genoese Republic, then become independent under the Genoese Grimaldi Family under the protectorate of the Duchy/Kingdom of Savoy/Sardinia/Piedmont. Just your average late medieval/early modern feudal princely state.
Then the area around Monaco wasceded by Piedmont to France in exchange for help in the wars against Austria. At this point the Prince of Monaco signed a treaty with France, giving 95% of his territory to the French in exchange for recognizing Monegasque sovereignity.
Liechtenstein : One of the many, many princely states that made up the Holy Roman Empire. At some point the Liechtenstein family vassals to the Habsburg that held many lands across Bohemia and Austria and playing a big role in the Viennese politics acquired it the County of Vaduz to gain Imperial immediancy that was somewhat like sovreignity but within the H.R.E.
In 1866-1871 Prussia transformed the loose German Confederacy into a unified nation called Germany. of the many states that formed the Confederacy just three did not unify in Germany: Luxemburg because it was de facto Netherlands, Austria because it was a great power and did not wanted to go under Prussia and Liechtenstein becaus it was basically a private property of an Austrian political family. Just after the end of the Hapsburg Empire in 1918 and with the annexation of Austria to Nazi Germani in 1938 the Liechtenstein Family moved to Vaduz and began to be primarly involved with the microstate issues.
San Marino : one of the many independent City States of Medieval Italy, not even the biggest of most important one. managed to not being annexed by the Papal States like the rest of Romagna region during late medieval-early modern period.
Then managed to not being annexed by newborn Italy during the 19th century by able political mouvering and due to gratitude by Garibaldi that managed to hide in San Marino while fleeting from the Papal States after a failed revolution.
Vatican City : After newborn Italy conquered the Papal State in 1871 they allowed the Pope to remain inside is Palace on the Vatican Hill without interfering but confiscating many other properties in Rome, among them the Quirinale Palace that was the main Papal residence and that become Royal and then Presidential residence of Italy.
Relations between the Pope and the Kingdom of Italy were tense for half a century until in 1929 Mussolini's fascist government signed a treaty that recognized independence to the territories within the Vatican walls thus creating the new State of Vatican City. | remanants of the feudal times when Europe was made up of tiny political units comprising a town and the countryside around it. |
SnPlifeForMe | If I'm out at a party or I'm just outside around campus (university) it'll happen at least once. That being said, I enjoy it and aside from the ego boost I like to keep it going until the girl breaks it.
In middle school when I used to be a mall rat I was walking around with my cousin just hanging out at the mall. I saw this group of 4 girls walking in our direction and the one in front was really cute so I was looking at her and caught her looking at me. We kept eye contact and actually turned around after we walked by eachother while not breaking it. Fast forward I got her number, didn't really click so she gave me her friends number for some reason, and then I started "dating" some other girl very shortly after so that was the ended of that.
tl;dr when getting eye fucked, eye fuck back, harder. Good things can happen. | If I'm out at a party or I'm just outside around campus (university) it'll happen at least once. That being said, I enjoy it and aside from the ego boost I like to keep it going until the girl breaks it.
In middle school when I used to be a mall rat I was walking around with my cousin just hanging out at the mall. I saw this group of 4 girls walking in our direction and the one in front was really cute so I was looking at her and caught her looking at me. We kept eye contact and actually turned around after we walked by eachother while not breaking it. Fast forward I got her number, didn't really click so she gave me her friends number for some reason, and then I started "dating" some other girl very shortly after so that was the ended of that.
tl;dr when getting eye fucked, eye fuck back, harder. Good things can happen.
| AskMen | t5_2s30g | coi13ng | If I'm out at a party or I'm just outside around campus (university) it'll happen at least once. That being said, I enjoy it and aside from the ego boost I like to keep it going until the girl breaks it.
In middle school when I used to be a mall rat I was walking around with my cousin just hanging out at the mall. I saw this group of 4 girls walking in our direction and the one in front was really cute so I was looking at her and caught her looking at me. We kept eye contact and actually turned around after we walked by eachother while not breaking it. Fast forward I got her number, didn't really click so she gave me her friends number for some reason, and then I started "dating" some other girl very shortly after so that was the ended of that. | when getting eye fucked, eye fuck back, harder. Good things can happen. |
ChiIImatic | A lot of the comment here are talking about the first order pharmokinetic model. This is a good approximation for the majority of the process occurring in your body. However it doesn't accurately describe what happens once you reach what is known as the boundary conditions for this system, that is to say, it doesn't describe what happens once the concentration gets very low. A closer model will describe the system showing the half life model while the concentration is high and then a different model, likely a flat rate(zero order) model, when the concentration drops below a certain threshhold.
TLDR; your body will eliminate at a half life rate until the concentration gets really low and then it will eliminate almost all of the rest at a different rate once a different mechanism takes over.
Source: chemical engineer with too many courses in biomed | A lot of the comment here are talking about the first order pharmokinetic model. This is a good approximation for the majority of the process occurring in your body. However it doesn't accurately describe what happens once you reach what is known as the boundary conditions for this system, that is to say, it doesn't describe what happens once the concentration gets very low. A closer model will describe the system showing the half life model while the concentration is high and then a different model, likely a flat rate(zero order) model, when the concentration drops below a certain threshhold.
TLDR; your body will eliminate at a half life rate until the concentration gets really low and then it will eliminate almost all of the rest at a different rate once a different mechanism takes over.
Source: chemical engineer with too many courses in biomed
| askscience | t5_2qm4e | coi5ozh | A lot of the comment here are talking about the first order pharmokinetic model. This is a good approximation for the majority of the process occurring in your body. However it doesn't accurately describe what happens once you reach what is known as the boundary conditions for this system, that is to say, it doesn't describe what happens once the concentration gets very low. A closer model will describe the system showing the half life model while the concentration is high and then a different model, likely a flat rate(zero order) model, when the concentration drops below a certain threshhold. | your body will eliminate at a half life rate until the concentration gets really low and then it will eliminate almost all of the rest at a different rate once a different mechanism takes over.
Source: chemical engineer with too many courses in biomed |
exaltedgod | > And Tim is the one being made fun of here?
I really don't like how Tim was made to seem like an idiot because it is extremely obvious that he is not. His seating's within Apple have proved that more than twice fold.
In an effort to answer your question and to clarify a misunderstanding I will try my best below:
The Law of Large number states " *...to which the frequencies of events with the same likelihood of occurrence even out, given enough trials or instances. As the number of experiments increases, the actual ratio of outcomes will converge on the theoretical, or expected, ratio of outcomes.*" ^[-Source](
However there is a difference when you are talking **business**. Gary Gohn didn't "make up" the business' definition of the law. Its a real thing and every company is weighed against it. Apple more so due to it being a shy stretch to $1 trillion dollar market value.
This business definition states (paraphrased) it becomes exceedingly difficult for a business to continue growing after a certain point. For example, 1% today is not the same as 1% one quarter from now.
I really wish Mr. Cohn used the term "The Law of Diminishing Returns" because that is what it really is but in business people tend to swap around words because.. well screw the English language, I don't know.
At some point Apple will hit a wall. They won't be able to grow any further and that is when investor will begin to just ship, thus killing the company. Mr. Cohn was confront Mr. Cook about this particular event.
TL;DR - The wrong terminology was used during a conference meeting with the Goldman Sachs group and news outlets are jumping on the chance to call out Apple. | > And Tim is the one being made fun of here?
I really don't like how Tim was made to seem like an idiot because it is extremely obvious that he is not. His seating's within Apple have proved that more than twice fold.
In an effort to answer your question and to clarify a misunderstanding I will try my best below:
The Law of Large number states " ...to which the frequencies of events with the same likelihood of occurrence even out, given enough trials or instances. As the number of experiments increases, the actual ratio of outcomes will converge on the theoretical, or expected, ratio of outcomes. " ^[-Source](
However there is a difference when you are talking business . Gary Gohn didn't "make up" the business' definition of the law. Its a real thing and every company is weighed against it. Apple more so due to it being a shy stretch to $1 trillion dollar market value.
This business definition states (paraphrased) it becomes exceedingly difficult for a business to continue growing after a certain point. For example, 1% today is not the same as 1% one quarter from now.
I really wish Mr. Cohn used the term "The Law of Diminishing Returns" because that is what it really is but in business people tend to swap around words because.. well screw the English language, I don't know.
At some point Apple will hit a wall. They won't be able to grow any further and that is when investor will begin to just ship, thus killing the company. Mr. Cohn was confront Mr. Cook about this particular event.
TL;DR - The wrong terminology was used during a conference meeting with the Goldman Sachs group and news outlets are jumping on the chance to call out Apple.
| apple | t5_2qh1f | coiip8k | And Tim is the one being made fun of here?
I really don't like how Tim was made to seem like an idiot because it is extremely obvious that he is not. His seating's within Apple have proved that more than twice fold.
In an effort to answer your question and to clarify a misunderstanding I will try my best below:
The Law of Large number states " ...to which the frequencies of events with the same likelihood of occurrence even out, given enough trials or instances. As the number of experiments increases, the actual ratio of outcomes will converge on the theoretical, or expected, ratio of outcomes. " ^[-Source](
However there is a difference when you are talking business . Gary Gohn didn't "make up" the business' definition of the law. Its a real thing and every company is weighed against it. Apple more so due to it being a shy stretch to $1 trillion dollar market value.
This business definition states (paraphrased) it becomes exceedingly difficult for a business to continue growing after a certain point. For example, 1% today is not the same as 1% one quarter from now.
I really wish Mr. Cohn used the term "The Law of Diminishing Returns" because that is what it really is but in business people tend to swap around words because.. well screw the English language, I don't know.
At some point Apple will hit a wall. They won't be able to grow any further and that is when investor will begin to just ship, thus killing the company. Mr. Cohn was confront Mr. Cook about this particular event. | The wrong terminology was used during a conference meeting with the Goldman Sachs group and news outlets are jumping on the chance to call out Apple. |
groovetini | There's a bit of a misnomer of "closing" the app. Android is actually very good at managing RAM and running apps. In the app switcher "closing" that app effectively means removing it from that list. In fact, if you close an app, and then reopen it before it would've been automatically removed from RAM, you'd actually be using more battery to re-load the app.
tl;dr: closing apps/managing RAM on android is not productive, just let android manage itself. | There's a bit of a misnomer of "closing" the app. Android is actually very good at managing RAM and running apps. In the app switcher "closing" that app effectively means removing it from that list. In fact, if you close an app, and then reopen it before it would've been automatically removed from RAM, you'd actually be using more battery to re-load the app.
tl;dr: closing apps/managing RAM on android is not productive, just let android manage itself.
| htc | t5_2rjy3 | coidjky | There's a bit of a misnomer of "closing" the app. Android is actually very good at managing RAM and running apps. In the app switcher "closing" that app effectively means removing it from that list. In fact, if you close an app, and then reopen it before it would've been automatically removed from RAM, you'd actually be using more battery to re-load the app. | closing apps/managing RAM on android is not productive, just let android manage itself. |
lazyanachronist | I'm a 502 producer/processor (everything but the retail store). There's a few issues with how things are going.
First off, the unsold "45k lbs" is the outdoor crop. It's not really a problem, it'll happen every single year. However, if you're a producer that needs to pay bills it's easy scapegoat.
Second, a lot of us will fail, mostly in the first couple years. Everyone is in a new facility. Many have never grown more than a closet. How you grow when you're limited to 45 plants is nothing like how you grow when you're limited by square footage. Lots of changes in operation. This has two effects: quality goes down, costs go up. If you don't fail, you'll figure it out.
Third, MMJ is in a weird place in WA. The way the majority of it is operated is just not legal but no one currently cares. Since it's not legal, no one is enforcing permits, B&O taxes, and other fees. They have no testing, security, reporting, etc requirements. They generally sell unpackaged bulk product while we're packaging Gs because the prices are high. So they have drastically lower costs.
Fourth, taxes. They're too high and we're double taxed. Because the seller pays the excise tax, that tax is actually income for the business. A sales tax is not. The IRS only lets us deduct the 'cost of goods sold' which that isn't. Retail stores have it worse, none of their overhead is deductible (ie: rent, employees, their excise tax, etc).
So right now, producers aren't running at their best and are competing with people that have vastly less overhead. It's $2-3/g more expensive for the producers, and retail stores have to at least double what they pay.
People overestimated the quality they'd be producing this year and are having to sell for a lot less. A lot of people thought they'd be able to grow a lot of plants and sell it all off at $1k+ wet to processors for extracts, they're not moving anything. Others thought they'd sell WA mids (we're spoiled) and are selling normal mids, here that's good for extracts.
That doesn't work. If nothing changes, we all lose everything and the rec sector dies.
In the next year, something will happen to fix this. MMJ and rec will be combined, somehow. My guess is it'll be the rec system with a high sales tax that isn't paid if you have card, all MMJ businesses will be given the chance to become compliant but the vast majority will close. There might be some max thc limits for tax-free cannabis.
IMO, this is all expected. With how the law was structured, we were never going to compete with how the medical industry operates and I didn't think that was the plan. Now that rec exists, MMJ can be brought closer to what CO started with and every other state with MMJ has: some sort of regulations.
TL;DR: We'll end up with a very similar system to CO but because of where we started, it'll take a few years and it'll be a painful process. | I'm a 502 producer/processor (everything but the retail store). There's a few issues with how things are going.
First off, the unsold "45k lbs" is the outdoor crop. It's not really a problem, it'll happen every single year. However, if you're a producer that needs to pay bills it's easy scapegoat.
Second, a lot of us will fail, mostly in the first couple years. Everyone is in a new facility. Many have never grown more than a closet. How you grow when you're limited to 45 plants is nothing like how you grow when you're limited by square footage. Lots of changes in operation. This has two effects: quality goes down, costs go up. If you don't fail, you'll figure it out.
Third, MMJ is in a weird place in WA. The way the majority of it is operated is just not legal but no one currently cares. Since it's not legal, no one is enforcing permits, B&O taxes, and other fees. They have no testing, security, reporting, etc requirements. They generally sell unpackaged bulk product while we're packaging Gs because the prices are high. So they have drastically lower costs.
Fourth, taxes. They're too high and we're double taxed. Because the seller pays the excise tax, that tax is actually income for the business. A sales tax is not. The IRS only lets us deduct the 'cost of goods sold' which that isn't. Retail stores have it worse, none of their overhead is deductible (ie: rent, employees, their excise tax, etc).
So right now, producers aren't running at their best and are competing with people that have vastly less overhead. It's $2-3/g more expensive for the producers, and retail stores have to at least double what they pay.
People overestimated the quality they'd be producing this year and are having to sell for a lot less. A lot of people thought they'd be able to grow a lot of plants and sell it all off at $1k+ wet to processors for extracts, they're not moving anything. Others thought they'd sell WA mids (we're spoiled) and are selling normal mids, here that's good for extracts.
That doesn't work. If nothing changes, we all lose everything and the rec sector dies.
In the next year, something will happen to fix this. MMJ and rec will be combined, somehow. My guess is it'll be the rec system with a high sales tax that isn't paid if you have card, all MMJ businesses will be given the chance to become compliant but the vast majority will close. There might be some max thc limits for tax-free cannabis.
IMO, this is all expected. With how the law was structured, we were never going to compete with how the medical industry operates and I didn't think that was the plan. Now that rec exists, MMJ can be brought closer to what CO started with and every other state with MMJ has: some sort of regulations.
TL;DR: We'll end up with a very similar system to CO but because of where we started, it'll take a few years and it'll be a painful process.
| cannabis | t5_2qhg2 | coij9wc | I'm a 502 producer/processor (everything but the retail store). There's a few issues with how things are going.
First off, the unsold "45k lbs" is the outdoor crop. It's not really a problem, it'll happen every single year. However, if you're a producer that needs to pay bills it's easy scapegoat.
Second, a lot of us will fail, mostly in the first couple years. Everyone is in a new facility. Many have never grown more than a closet. How you grow when you're limited to 45 plants is nothing like how you grow when you're limited by square footage. Lots of changes in operation. This has two effects: quality goes down, costs go up. If you don't fail, you'll figure it out.
Third, MMJ is in a weird place in WA. The way the majority of it is operated is just not legal but no one currently cares. Since it's not legal, no one is enforcing permits, B&O taxes, and other fees. They have no testing, security, reporting, etc requirements. They generally sell unpackaged bulk product while we're packaging Gs because the prices are high. So they have drastically lower costs.
Fourth, taxes. They're too high and we're double taxed. Because the seller pays the excise tax, that tax is actually income for the business. A sales tax is not. The IRS only lets us deduct the 'cost of goods sold' which that isn't. Retail stores have it worse, none of their overhead is deductible (ie: rent, employees, their excise tax, etc).
So right now, producers aren't running at their best and are competing with people that have vastly less overhead. It's $2-3/g more expensive for the producers, and retail stores have to at least double what they pay.
People overestimated the quality they'd be producing this year and are having to sell for a lot less. A lot of people thought they'd be able to grow a lot of plants and sell it all off at $1k+ wet to processors for extracts, they're not moving anything. Others thought they'd sell WA mids (we're spoiled) and are selling normal mids, here that's good for extracts.
That doesn't work. If nothing changes, we all lose everything and the rec sector dies.
In the next year, something will happen to fix this. MMJ and rec will be combined, somehow. My guess is it'll be the rec system with a high sales tax that isn't paid if you have card, all MMJ businesses will be given the chance to become compliant but the vast majority will close. There might be some max thc limits for tax-free cannabis.
IMO, this is all expected. With how the law was structured, we were never going to compete with how the medical industry operates and I didn't think that was the plan. Now that rec exists, MMJ can be brought closer to what CO started with and every other state with MMJ has: some sort of regulations. | We'll end up with a very similar system to CO but because of where we started, it'll take a few years and it'll be a painful process. |
ramenator | So like /u/bothunter said, a NAS is network-attached storage. It's not to say you can't create a multi-function server. So basically, let's say you have an old computer. You throw a bunch of 2TB HDDs in there and make the drives accessible over your network by connecting it to your LAN. Bam, NAS!
Now, let's say on that same machine you want to also make it a Plex server. You install and setup Plex and then host all your files on there. It's still a NAS but is also hosting Plex.
In my personal scenario, I'm using FreeNAS with hard drives, as well as Plex and a few other applications that FreeNAS supports from within its' ecosystem.
tl;dr NAS loosely means some sort of storage accessible over a network. Like a computer with some HDDs and is connected to your LAN. | So like /u/bothunter said, a NAS is network-attached storage. It's not to say you can't create a multi-function server. So basically, let's say you have an old computer. You throw a bunch of 2TB HDDs in there and make the drives accessible over your network by connecting it to your LAN. Bam, NAS!
Now, let's say on that same machine you want to also make it a Plex server. You install and setup Plex and then host all your files on there. It's still a NAS but is also hosting Plex.
In my personal scenario, I'm using FreeNAS with hard drives, as well as Plex and a few other applications that FreeNAS supports from within its' ecosystem.
tl;dr NAS loosely means some sort of storage accessible over a network. Like a computer with some HDDs and is connected to your LAN.
| techsupport | t5_2qioo | cojrlds | So like /u/bothunter said, a NAS is network-attached storage. It's not to say you can't create a multi-function server. So basically, let's say you have an old computer. You throw a bunch of 2TB HDDs in there and make the drives accessible over your network by connecting it to your LAN. Bam, NAS!
Now, let's say on that same machine you want to also make it a Plex server. You install and setup Plex and then host all your files on there. It's still a NAS but is also hosting Plex.
In my personal scenario, I'm using FreeNAS with hard drives, as well as Plex and a few other applications that FreeNAS supports from within its' ecosystem. | NAS loosely means some sort of storage accessible over a network. Like a computer with some HDDs and is connected to your LAN. |
CypSteel | I am pretty sure Jadedcat and Eyamaz just like playing with my emotions and trolling me.
* Lets create feedthebeast.atlassian pages with "Its a secret..."
* Lets create forum.feed-the-beast pages with "reserved for future use..."
* Lets "leak" screenshots of mod lists for upcoming modpacks
QUIT PLAYING WITH MY EMOTIONS AND CREATING NEW PAGES! I can only refresh so many pages every minute! I am already refreshing twitter pages, feedthebeast.atlassian pages, ftb forum pages, my patreon pages...
TLDR: I have no life and in desperate need new sadistic nut punching minecraft content.... | I am pretty sure Jadedcat and Eyamaz just like playing with my emotions and trolling me.
Lets create feedthebeast.atlassian pages with "Its a secret..."
Lets create forum.feed-the-beast pages with "reserved for future use..."
Lets "leak" screenshots of mod lists for upcoming modpacks
QUIT PLAYING WITH MY EMOTIONS AND CREATING NEW PAGES! I can only refresh so many pages every minute! I am already refreshing twitter pages, feedthebeast.atlassian pages, ftb forum pages, my patreon pages...
TLDR: I have no life and in desperate need new sadistic nut punching minecraft content....
| feedthebeast | t5_2v620 | coje90b | I am pretty sure Jadedcat and Eyamaz just like playing with my emotions and trolling me.
Lets create feedthebeast.atlassian pages with "Its a secret..."
Lets create forum.feed-the-beast pages with "reserved for future use..."
Lets "leak" screenshots of mod lists for upcoming modpacks
QUIT PLAYING WITH MY EMOTIONS AND CREATING NEW PAGES! I can only refresh so many pages every minute! I am already refreshing twitter pages, feedthebeast.atlassian pages, ftb forum pages, my patreon pages... | I have no life and in desperate need new sadistic nut punching minecraft content.... |
ATC007 | Beat it first try completely blind. First team was Cardes lead, Darvanshel, Rowgen, Ulkina, Zelnite, and Cardes friend, but this team died almost immediately. The team that carried me was the second squad. Lily lead, Narza, Zelnite, Altri, Sergio, Cardes friend.
TL;DR Lily MVP | Beat it first try completely blind. First team was Cardes lead, Darvanshel, Rowgen, Ulkina, Zelnite, and Cardes friend, but this team died almost immediately. The team that carried me was the second squad. Lily lead, Narza, Zelnite, Altri, Sergio, Cardes friend.
TL;DR Lily MVP
| bravefrontier | t5_2zich | coiz6lk | Beat it first try completely blind. First team was Cardes lead, Darvanshel, Rowgen, Ulkina, Zelnite, and Cardes friend, but this team died almost immediately. The team that carried me was the second squad. Lily lead, Narza, Zelnite, Altri, Sergio, Cardes friend. | Lily MVP |
caladbolg_ | Done with Trial X1, second attempt, one team, using the Single Tilith Infinite SBB Setup by /u/Evangelyn in his/her thread [HERE]( (Thanks, dude!)
Screenshot:
* Cardes (lead) - Leomurg + Sol Creator
* Tilith - Drevas + Ihsir's Guise
* Narza - Dandelga + Magic Ore
* Belfura - Legwand Gem
* Zelnite - Lexida + Sol Creator
* Cardes (friend) - Legwand Gem + Ihsir's Guise
Item Set: Holy Water x10, Fujin x5, Revive Light x 2, Crescent Dew x 2 (but actually, never used any revive)
First fight, used 1 Fujin on Tilith and SBB/BB spammed Cursed Estia. Finished in 6 turns.
Second fight, SBB/BB spammed Estia whenever possible. The only real problem was Tilith herself being drained of BB gauge, but it was a minor mishap as I just pop a Fujin Potion on her and continue grinding. Then, when I was hit by the buff eliminating move and the immediate Curse on all members (except Tilith who had Drevas), I simply used Holy Waters. It happened once more but by then Estia's HP was low enough to be finished in 3 turns, so I never used any Holy Water anymore and got cleared of Curse on entering the Xestia fight.
Third fight, no real problem except that damage is a bit slow. When any non-Tilith member was partial-drained in the BB gauge, I simply used Tilith's BB. If Tilith was partial drained, I attacked with her that turn and used Belfura and Zelnite to speed up acquiring BB fill for Tilith, and then the SBB spam started once more. Narza's BB charge on attack effect on his SBB was a great help to recover SBB as well.
TL;DR: Only real problem with the setup was Estia's buff clearing move with subsequent Curse; easily mended by Holy Water. The first and third fights were easy.
In sum, THIS SETUP ROCKS! Really, really great against Light (and potentially, Dark) single boss fights. Only improvement I see is having a Shida replace Belfura and gaining the all-elem advantage with the same BB fill effect. If I had Shida, I'd totally replace Belfura and use this setup in the coming FH11 as well. Too bad I don't have a Shida, though. :-) | Done with Trial X1, second attempt, one team, using the Single Tilith Infinite SBB Setup by /u/Evangelyn in his/her thread HERE
Screenshot:
Cardes (lead) - Leomurg + Sol Creator
Tilith - Drevas + Ihsir's Guise
Narza - Dandelga + Magic Ore
Belfura - Legwand Gem
Zelnite - Lexida + Sol Creator
Cardes (friend) - Legwand Gem + Ihsir's Guise
Item Set: Holy Water x10, Fujin x5, Revive Light x 2, Crescent Dew x 2 (but actually, never used any revive)
First fight, used 1 Fujin on Tilith and SBB/BB spammed Cursed Estia. Finished in 6 turns.
Second fight, SBB/BB spammed Estia whenever possible. The only real problem was Tilith herself being drained of BB gauge, but it was a minor mishap as I just pop a Fujin Potion on her and continue grinding. Then, when I was hit by the buff eliminating move and the immediate Curse on all members (except Tilith who had Drevas), I simply used Holy Waters. It happened once more but by then Estia's HP was low enough to be finished in 3 turns, so I never used any Holy Water anymore and got cleared of Curse on entering the Xestia fight.
Third fight, no real problem except that damage is a bit slow. When any non-Tilith member was partial-drained in the BB gauge, I simply used Tilith's BB. If Tilith was partial drained, I attacked with her that turn and used Belfura and Zelnite to speed up acquiring BB fill for Tilith, and then the SBB spam started once more. Narza's BB charge on attack effect on his SBB was a great help to recover SBB as well.
TL;DR: Only real problem with the setup was Estia's buff clearing move with subsequent Curse; easily mended by Holy Water. The first and third fights were easy.
In sum, THIS SETUP ROCKS! Really, really great against Light (and potentially, Dark) single boss fights. Only improvement I see is having a Shida replace Belfura and gaining the all-elem advantage with the same BB fill effect. If I had Shida, I'd totally replace Belfura and use this setup in the coming FH11 as well. Too bad I don't have a Shida, though. :-)
| bravefrontier | t5_2zich | cok4tei | Done with Trial X1, second attempt, one team, using the Single Tilith Infinite SBB Setup by /u/Evangelyn in his/her thread HERE
Screenshot:
Cardes (lead) - Leomurg + Sol Creator
Tilith - Drevas + Ihsir's Guise
Narza - Dandelga + Magic Ore
Belfura - Legwand Gem
Zelnite - Lexida + Sol Creator
Cardes (friend) - Legwand Gem + Ihsir's Guise
Item Set: Holy Water x10, Fujin x5, Revive Light x 2, Crescent Dew x 2 (but actually, never used any revive)
First fight, used 1 Fujin on Tilith and SBB/BB spammed Cursed Estia. Finished in 6 turns.
Second fight, SBB/BB spammed Estia whenever possible. The only real problem was Tilith herself being drained of BB gauge, but it was a minor mishap as I just pop a Fujin Potion on her and continue grinding. Then, when I was hit by the buff eliminating move and the immediate Curse on all members (except Tilith who had Drevas), I simply used Holy Waters. It happened once more but by then Estia's HP was low enough to be finished in 3 turns, so I never used any Holy Water anymore and got cleared of Curse on entering the Xestia fight.
Third fight, no real problem except that damage is a bit slow. When any non-Tilith member was partial-drained in the BB gauge, I simply used Tilith's BB. If Tilith was partial drained, I attacked with her that turn and used Belfura and Zelnite to speed up acquiring BB fill for Tilith, and then the SBB spam started once more. Narza's BB charge on attack effect on his SBB was a great help to recover SBB as well. | Only real problem with the setup was Estia's buff clearing move with subsequent Curse; easily mended by Holy Water. The first and third fights were easy.
In sum, THIS SETUP ROCKS! Really, really great against Light (and potentially, Dark) single boss fights. Only improvement I see is having a Shida replace Belfura and gaining the all-elem advantage with the same BB fill effect. If I had Shida, I'd totally replace Belfura and use this setup in the coming FH11 as well. Too bad I don't have a Shida, though. :-) |
Masturbasser | We have Upmote, SGA, TLW, etc... So why the hell aren't we replacing TLDR with something like LDR or LDR5001?! | We have Upmote, SGA, TLW, etc... So why the hell aren't we replacing TLDR with something like LDR or LDR5001?!
| DestinyTheGame | t5_2vq0w | cojary8 | We have Upmote, SGA, TLW, etc... So why the hell aren't we replacing | with something like LDR or LDR5001?! |
Quigonandi |
So my boyfriend and I showed up at our target around 5am for the MM3Ds. We were the first to arrive. Our target had 5 systems available. About 20 minutes later another guy showed up. We ended up making friends and having a great time. We had another guy join us around 6:30. All four us were having a great time and even became Facebook friends. Around 7:40 the manager let us stay in the foyer. Two more people showed up right before 8 and that was that. Tickets were given out for the systems and the whole thing ran very smoothly. We all talked amiibos for a bit after paying.
Then, at Toys R Us we were only able to secure a Mega Man amiibo because a very nice woman took pity on us.they have out tickets and she and her daughter each had one so she was kind enough to give us one. We hunted around for Sonic but no luck.
TL;DR Target was an unexpected pleasure and people can still be nice. Happy hunting everyone! I hope you did everything you're looking for! | So my boyfriend and I showed up at our target around 5am for the MM3Ds. We were the first to arrive. Our target had 5 systems available. About 20 minutes later another guy showed up. We ended up making friends and having a great time. We had another guy join us around 6:30. All four us were having a great time and even became Facebook friends. Around 7:40 the manager let us stay in the foyer. Two more people showed up right before 8 and that was that. Tickets were given out for the systems and the whole thing ran very smoothly. We all talked amiibos for a bit after paying.
Then, at Toys R Us we were only able to secure a Mega Man amiibo because a very nice woman took pity on us.they have out tickets and she and her daughter each had one so she was kind enough to give us one. We hunted around for Sonic but no luck.
TL;DR Target was an unexpected pleasure and people can still be nice. Happy hunting everyone! I hope you did everything you're looking for!
| amiibo | t5_324pu | cokig8y | So my boyfriend and I showed up at our target around 5am for the MM3Ds. We were the first to arrive. Our target had 5 systems available. About 20 minutes later another guy showed up. We ended up making friends and having a great time. We had another guy join us around 6:30. All four us were having a great time and even became Facebook friends. Around 7:40 the manager let us stay in the foyer. Two more people showed up right before 8 and that was that. Tickets were given out for the systems and the whole thing ran very smoothly. We all talked amiibos for a bit after paying.
Then, at Toys R Us we were only able to secure a Mega Man amiibo because a very nice woman took pity on us.they have out tickets and she and her daughter each had one so she was kind enough to give us one. We hunted around for Sonic but no luck. | Target was an unexpected pleasure and people can still be nice. Happy hunting everyone! I hope you did everything you're looking for! |
martsimon | haven't read the book, but i read [this article]( in which the author and her SO acted out all the sex scenes in the book over the course of the weekend which sounded kind of boring and repetitive.
**her tl;dr** - cunnilingus her then do her from behind standing up against a wall | haven't read the book, but i read [this article]( in which the author and her SO acted out all the sex scenes in the book over the course of the weekend which sounded kind of boring and repetitive.
her tl;dr - cunnilingus her then do her from behind standing up against a wall
| AskMen | t5_2s30g | cojmctn | haven't read the book, but i read [this article]( in which the author and her SO acted out all the sex scenes in the book over the course of the weekend which sounded kind of boring and repetitive.
her | cunnilingus her then do her from behind standing up against a wall |
vapeosaurus_rex | A lot of time and money goes into R&D, and they need to pass that onto the customer to remain profitable. why do you think companies are cloning everything, because the R&D costs for clone makers is literally nothing. when you buy a quality authentic a lot of quality control happened that you didn't see. they may have messed up the threads on 2 different mods and tossed them in the recycle before they made yours. having some metal fab background i would say for materials, labor, wear and tear on the tools and packaging adds to 50% of whatever they are charging. then you have a retail front end like a website that could run you a few hundred a month. uncle sam takes %40 of your profit....
TL;DR a lot more than most people realize.
*i would like to add, that if you don't like the price then don't buy it. its that simple. you are not entitled to authentic vape gear at a price you can afford. | A lot of time and money goes into R&D, and they need to pass that onto the customer to remain profitable. why do you think companies are cloning everything, because the R&D costs for clone makers is literally nothing. when you buy a quality authentic a lot of quality control happened that you didn't see. they may have messed up the threads on 2 different mods and tossed them in the recycle before they made yours. having some metal fab background i would say for materials, labor, wear and tear on the tools and packaging adds to 50% of whatever they are charging. then you have a retail front end like a website that could run you a few hundred a month. uncle sam takes %40 of your profit....
TL;DR a lot more than most people realize.
*i would like to add, that if you don't like the price then don't buy it. its that simple. you are not entitled to authentic vape gear at a price you can afford.
| electronic_cigarette | t5_2qmlu | cojk2jg | A lot of time and money goes into R&D, and they need to pass that onto the customer to remain profitable. why do you think companies are cloning everything, because the R&D costs for clone makers is literally nothing. when you buy a quality authentic a lot of quality control happened that you didn't see. they may have messed up the threads on 2 different mods and tossed them in the recycle before they made yours. having some metal fab background i would say for materials, labor, wear and tear on the tools and packaging adds to 50% of whatever they are charging. then you have a retail front end like a website that could run you a few hundred a month. uncle sam takes %40 of your profit.... | a lot more than most people realize.
*i would like to add, that if you don't like the price then don't buy it. its that simple. you are not entitled to authentic vape gear at a price you can afford. |
DrunkyMcKrankentroll | > "My only question there is, post-apocalypse, are you gonna be a gold guy or a Bitcoin guy?" asked Arrington.
The fact that Paul completely misses the point of that question is all that needs to be said.
Gold has value in a functioning economy simply because it is both scarce and has cultural value.
Bitcoin is on the leading edge of that. It's scarce (i.e. finite) by design, and contemporary culture is lately assigning quite a lot of value to things that exist only digitally.
Neither one of them can actually sustain you in a global economic failure. You can't eat either one, you can't extract energy from gold or bitcoins, and when shit gets real then a pound of beef has real value where a pound of gold is just a pretty chunk of metal.
The only thing of real value is raw square footage of Earth's surface. And even then, a deed for land is just a piece of paper; you have to back it up with the willingness to use force.
TL;DR: Currency is an abstraction of value, whether it's gold or dollars or bitcoin. The fact that Paul favors one over the other indicates he just doesn't understand economics.
| > "My only question there is, post-apocalypse, are you gonna be a gold guy or a Bitcoin guy?" asked Arrington.
The fact that Paul completely misses the point of that question is all that needs to be said.
Gold has value in a functioning economy simply because it is both scarce and has cultural value.
Bitcoin is on the leading edge of that. It's scarce (i.e. finite) by design, and contemporary culture is lately assigning quite a lot of value to things that exist only digitally.
Neither one of them can actually sustain you in a global economic failure. You can't eat either one, you can't extract energy from gold or bitcoins, and when shit gets real then a pound of beef has real value where a pound of gold is just a pretty chunk of metal.
The only thing of real value is raw square footage of Earth's surface. And even then, a deed for land is just a piece of paper; you have to back it up with the willingness to use force.
TL;DR: Currency is an abstraction of value, whether it's gold or dollars or bitcoin. The fact that Paul favors one over the other indicates he just doesn't understand economics.
| politics | t5_2cneq | cojvkef | My only question there is, post-apocalypse, are you gonna be a gold guy or a Bitcoin guy?" asked Arrington.
The fact that Paul completely misses the point of that question is all that needs to be said.
Gold has value in a functioning economy simply because it is both scarce and has cultural value.
Bitcoin is on the leading edge of that. It's scarce (i.e. finite) by design, and contemporary culture is lately assigning quite a lot of value to things that exist only digitally.
Neither one of them can actually sustain you in a global economic failure. You can't eat either one, you can't extract energy from gold or bitcoins, and when shit gets real then a pound of beef has real value where a pound of gold is just a pretty chunk of metal.
The only thing of real value is raw square footage of Earth's surface. And even then, a deed for land is just a piece of paper; you have to back it up with the willingness to use force. | Currency is an abstraction of value, whether it's gold or dollars or bitcoin. The fact that Paul favors one over the other indicates he just doesn't understand economics. |
com_amy | I would talk to your doctor, but it could a number of things. If your workout is more strenuous than what you were previously doing your body will adjust. I felt similar to this when I first started working out. Are you sleeping enough and well? I ended up flaming out for a while because I was trying to do too much and my sleep was suffering. Or you could be low on Vitamin D. This can make a huge difference in fatigue levels and pretty much everyone is low to one degree or another since our lives are mostly indoors.
TL;DR: Go see your doctor to make sure it's not something wrong and get your Vitamin D levels tested. Make sure you're getting enough sleep and not overdoing things. | I would talk to your doctor, but it could a number of things. If your workout is more strenuous than what you were previously doing your body will adjust. I felt similar to this when I first started working out. Are you sleeping enough and well? I ended up flaming out for a while because I was trying to do too much and my sleep was suffering. Or you could be low on Vitamin D. This can make a huge difference in fatigue levels and pretty much everyone is low to one degree or another since our lives are mostly indoors.
TL;DR: Go see your doctor to make sure it's not something wrong and get your Vitamin D levels tested. Make sure you're getting enough sleep and not overdoing things.
| fitness30plus | t5_2zswl | cop56hq | I would talk to your doctor, but it could a number of things. If your workout is more strenuous than what you were previously doing your body will adjust. I felt similar to this when I first started working out. Are you sleeping enough and well? I ended up flaming out for a while because I was trying to do too much and my sleep was suffering. Or you could be low on Vitamin D. This can make a huge difference in fatigue levels and pretty much everyone is low to one degree or another since our lives are mostly indoors. | Go see your doctor to make sure it's not something wrong and get your Vitamin D levels tested. Make sure you're getting enough sleep and not overdoing things. |
WinkMe | That's dumb. If I put physical stuff in a box in my attic, then my house burns down, same effect happens.
It would have been safer in a rented garage, in airtight boxes. If you cared about that stuff, you would have secured it better, rather than dumping it in your attic and forgetting about it. Copies of these important things would have also been a great safenet (families do this already, by each sibling or many family members having their own copy)
If you aren't backing up important documents and pictures into multiple places, which include online sources and offline (external), then the data isn't important enough to you, or you are taking unnecessary risks with your data.).
Technology isn't just some magical thing that automates your life and protects you. You must take an active role in backing up things you value, otherwise you are prone to losing it, just as you would with physical things.
**tldr:** The problem isn't the technology, its peoples ignorance and naivity that loses data. Having backups and redundacies are key , physical or digital, in protecting your valuable items... ***As some random guy on survival preppers said. "Two is one, one is none"*** | That's dumb. If I put physical stuff in a box in my attic, then my house burns down, same effect happens.
It would have been safer in a rented garage, in airtight boxes. If you cared about that stuff, you would have secured it better, rather than dumping it in your attic and forgetting about it. Copies of these important things would have also been a great safenet (families do this already, by each sibling or many family members having their own copy)
If you aren't backing up important documents and pictures into multiple places, which include online sources and offline (external), then the data isn't important enough to you, or you are taking unnecessary risks with your data.).
Technology isn't just some magical thing that automates your life and protects you. You must take an active role in backing up things you value, otherwise you are prone to losing it, just as you would with physical things.
tldr: The problem isn't the technology, its peoples ignorance and naivity that loses data. Having backups and redundacies are key , physical or digital, in protecting your valuable items... As some random guy on survival preppers said. "Two is one, one is none"
| DarkFuturology | t5_2vva3 | cokpngv | That's dumb. If I put physical stuff in a box in my attic, then my house burns down, same effect happens.
It would have been safer in a rented garage, in airtight boxes. If you cared about that stuff, you would have secured it better, rather than dumping it in your attic and forgetting about it. Copies of these important things would have also been a great safenet (families do this already, by each sibling or many family members having their own copy)
If you aren't backing up important documents and pictures into multiple places, which include online sources and offline (external), then the data isn't important enough to you, or you are taking unnecessary risks with your data.).
Technology isn't just some magical thing that automates your life and protects you. You must take an active role in backing up things you value, otherwise you are prone to losing it, just as you would with physical things. | The problem isn't the technology, its peoples ignorance and naivity that loses data. Having backups and redundacies are key , physical or digital, in protecting your valuable items... As some random guy on survival preppers said. "Two is one, one is none" |
dxspip | Look up Expected Value and that should show you that its many times better for a team to go for it on say 4th & 2 at their opponents 40 yard line, as opposed to punting and most likely only netting a 20 yard punt. You have to have a *really* good punter to coffin corner on those plays, and teams just dont have that...
More often than not it is more advantageous to go for it on 4th and short as the potential point swings are larger and the yardage gain is minimal.
TL;DR *Every* team should have a game theory coach on the sidelines providing analysis to these situations | Look up Expected Value and that should show you that its many times better for a team to go for it on say 4th & 2 at their opponents 40 yard line, as opposed to punting and most likely only netting a 20 yard punt. You have to have a really good punter to coffin corner on those plays, and teams just dont have that...
More often than not it is more advantageous to go for it on 4th and short as the potential point swings are larger and the yardage gain is minimal.
TL;DR Every team should have a game theory coach on the sidelines providing analysis to these situations
| nfl | t5_2qmg3 | cokhs51 | Look up Expected Value and that should show you that its many times better for a team to go for it on say 4th & 2 at their opponents 40 yard line, as opposed to punting and most likely only netting a 20 yard punt. You have to have a really good punter to coffin corner on those plays, and teams just dont have that...
More often than not it is more advantageous to go for it on 4th and short as the potential point swings are larger and the yardage gain is minimal. | Every team should have a game theory coach on the sidelines providing analysis to these situations |
denvertebows15 | Let's take a look at Peyton's playoff losses and see how many you could say he's a big reason why his team lost.
***1999***- Colts lost to the Titans 19-16 in Manning's first playoff appearance. Manning went 19/42 for 227 yards 0 TDs 0 INTs and a passer rating of 62.3. He also rushed for a TD, however this was an abysmal first playoff outing by Manning. Inefficient at every turn you can blame Peyton for this one, but its his first outing so he gets a pass.
***2000***- Colts lose to the Dolphins 23-17. Manning went 17/32 for 194 yards 1 TD 0 INTs and a passer rating of 82.0. An admirable showing by Manning in this playoff loss, but nothing to write home about. Not the reason they lost the game, but certainly wouldn't have been the reason they won it if they did.
***2002***- Colts lose to the Jets in miserable fashion 41-0. Manning went 14/31 for 137 yards 0 TDs 2 INTs and a passer rating of 31.2. Absolutely abysmal performance by Manning.This one can fall on Manning's shoulders.
***2003***- Colts lose to the Patriots 24-14. Manning went 23/47 for 237 yards 1 TD 4 INTs and a passer rating of 35.5. Turning the ball over 4 times is absolutely inexcusable, this one is on Manning.
***2004***- Colts lose to the Patriots 20-3. Manning went 27/42 for 238 0 TDs 1 INT and a passer rating of 69.3. Not an astoundingly bad performance, but not a good one either. I think some of the blame for the loss can fall to Manning's shoulders on this one.
***2005***- Colts lose to the Steelers 21-18. Manning went 22/38 for 290 yards 1 TD 0 INTs and a passer rating of 90.9. Manning played extremely well in this game and I don't see how he can shoulder any of the blame for this loss.
***2007***- Colts lost to the Chargers 28-24. Manning went 33/48 for 402 yards 3 TDs 2 INTs and a passer rating of 97.7. Not a terribly bad performance by Manning statswise and the defense gave up two TDs to the Chargers back-up QB. But two extra possessions for the Chargers were huge in this so Manning and the defense have to share the blame.
***2008***- Colts lose to the Chargers 23-17. Manning went 25/42 for 310 yards 1 TD 0 INTs and a passer rating of 90.4. Not a bad game by any stretch of the imagination, but looking at the highlights Manning gets sacked late deep in Colts territory allowing the Chargers to bring it to OT where they eventually win it. This is another one that's not completely on Manning, but he played a big part in the loss.
***2009***- Colts lose to the Saints in the Super Bowl. Manning went 31/45 for 333 yards 1 TD 1 INT and a passer rating of 88.5. Again this isn't a poor game statwise, but that one pick that he threw was the backbreaking pick-6 late in the fourth as the Colts were trying to tie up the game. You've gotta put this one on Manning.
***2010***- Colts lose to Jets 17-16. Manning went 18/26 for 225 yards 1 TD 0 INTs and a passer rating of 108.7. This playoff loss is in no way on Manning in my opinion. Special teams and defense blew this one for the Colts.
***2012***- Broncos lose to the Ravens 38-35. Manning went 28/43 for 290 yards 3 TDs 2 INTs and a passer rating of 88.3. Again this doesn't look that bad statswise and everyone knows about Rahim Moore's monumental fuck up. However, lets not forget about how kick returner Trindon Holliday kept the Broncos in this game with his two return TDs. Peyton was buoyed by the special teams that day and he threw the game sealing pick in 2OT. In my mind Peyton and Rahim Moore split the blame equally that day.
***2013***- Broncos lose to the Seahawks in the Super Bowl. Peyton went 34/49 for 280 yards 1 TD 2 INTs and a passer rating of 73.5. Peyton is not the sole one to blame in the thumping the Seahawks put on the Broncos, but he's definitely up there. Just a bad performance all around by the Broncos.
***2014***- Broncos lose to the Colts 24-13. Manning went 26/46 for 211 yards 1 TD 0 INTs and passer rating of 75.5. It doesn't look too bad on paper, but if you watched the game Peyton was off all game long. I don't know if it was because he was playing through an injury or what, but he was painfully bad underthrowing and overthrowing like it was his job. This loss is definitely at least in some way Peyton's fault.
***TL;DR***-By my count there's at least 9 of Peyton's 13 playoff losses that you can make the argument that he is at least in some way partly to blame for the losses. | Let's take a look at Peyton's playoff losses and see how many you could say he's a big reason why his team lost.
1999 - Colts lost to the Titans 19-16 in Manning's first playoff appearance. Manning went 19/42 for 227 yards 0 TDs 0 INTs and a passer rating of 62.3. He also rushed for a TD, however this was an abysmal first playoff outing by Manning. Inefficient at every turn you can blame Peyton for this one, but its his first outing so he gets a pass.
2000 - Colts lose to the Dolphins 23-17. Manning went 17/32 for 194 yards 1 TD 0 INTs and a passer rating of 82.0. An admirable showing by Manning in this playoff loss, but nothing to write home about. Not the reason they lost the game, but certainly wouldn't have been the reason they won it if they did.
2002 - Colts lose to the Jets in miserable fashion 41-0. Manning went 14/31 for 137 yards 0 TDs 2 INTs and a passer rating of 31.2. Absolutely abysmal performance by Manning.This one can fall on Manning's shoulders.
2003 - Colts lose to the Patriots 24-14. Manning went 23/47 for 237 yards 1 TD 4 INTs and a passer rating of 35.5. Turning the ball over 4 times is absolutely inexcusable, this one is on Manning.
2004 - Colts lose to the Patriots 20-3. Manning went 27/42 for 238 0 TDs 1 INT and a passer rating of 69.3. Not an astoundingly bad performance, but not a good one either. I think some of the blame for the loss can fall to Manning's shoulders on this one.
2005 - Colts lose to the Steelers 21-18. Manning went 22/38 for 290 yards 1 TD 0 INTs and a passer rating of 90.9. Manning played extremely well in this game and I don't see how he can shoulder any of the blame for this loss.
2007 - Colts lost to the Chargers 28-24. Manning went 33/48 for 402 yards 3 TDs 2 INTs and a passer rating of 97.7. Not a terribly bad performance by Manning statswise and the defense gave up two TDs to the Chargers back-up QB. But two extra possessions for the Chargers were huge in this so Manning and the defense have to share the blame.
2008 - Colts lose to the Chargers 23-17. Manning went 25/42 for 310 yards 1 TD 0 INTs and a passer rating of 90.4. Not a bad game by any stretch of the imagination, but looking at the highlights Manning gets sacked late deep in Colts territory allowing the Chargers to bring it to OT where they eventually win it. This is another one that's not completely on Manning, but he played a big part in the loss.
2009 - Colts lose to the Saints in the Super Bowl. Manning went 31/45 for 333 yards 1 TD 1 INT and a passer rating of 88.5. Again this isn't a poor game statwise, but that one pick that he threw was the backbreaking pick-6 late in the fourth as the Colts were trying to tie up the game. You've gotta put this one on Manning.
2010 - Colts lose to Jets 17-16. Manning went 18/26 for 225 yards 1 TD 0 INTs and a passer rating of 108.7. This playoff loss is in no way on Manning in my opinion. Special teams and defense blew this one for the Colts.
2012 - Broncos lose to the Ravens 38-35. Manning went 28/43 for 290 yards 3 TDs 2 INTs and a passer rating of 88.3. Again this doesn't look that bad statswise and everyone knows about Rahim Moore's monumental fuck up. However, lets not forget about how kick returner Trindon Holliday kept the Broncos in this game with his two return TDs. Peyton was buoyed by the special teams that day and he threw the game sealing pick in 2OT. In my mind Peyton and Rahim Moore split the blame equally that day.
2013 - Broncos lose to the Seahawks in the Super Bowl. Peyton went 34/49 for 280 yards 1 TD 2 INTs and a passer rating of 73.5. Peyton is not the sole one to blame in the thumping the Seahawks put on the Broncos, but he's definitely up there. Just a bad performance all around by the Broncos.
2014 - Broncos lose to the Colts 24-13. Manning went 26/46 for 211 yards 1 TD 0 INTs and passer rating of 75.5. It doesn't look too bad on paper, but if you watched the game Peyton was off all game long. I don't know if it was because he was playing through an injury or what, but he was painfully bad underthrowing and overthrowing like it was his job. This loss is definitely at least in some way Peyton's fault.
TL;DR -By my count there's at least 9 of Peyton's 13 playoff losses that you can make the argument that he is at least in some way partly to blame for the losses.
| nfl | t5_2qmg3 | cokjr9k | Let's take a look at Peyton's playoff losses and see how many you could say he's a big reason why his team lost.
1999 - Colts lost to the Titans 19-16 in Manning's first playoff appearance. Manning went 19/42 for 227 yards 0 TDs 0 INTs and a passer rating of 62.3. He also rushed for a TD, however this was an abysmal first playoff outing by Manning. Inefficient at every turn you can blame Peyton for this one, but its his first outing so he gets a pass.
2000 - Colts lose to the Dolphins 23-17. Manning went 17/32 for 194 yards 1 TD 0 INTs and a passer rating of 82.0. An admirable showing by Manning in this playoff loss, but nothing to write home about. Not the reason they lost the game, but certainly wouldn't have been the reason they won it if they did.
2002 - Colts lose to the Jets in miserable fashion 41-0. Manning went 14/31 for 137 yards 0 TDs 2 INTs and a passer rating of 31.2. Absolutely abysmal performance by Manning.This one can fall on Manning's shoulders.
2003 - Colts lose to the Patriots 24-14. Manning went 23/47 for 237 yards 1 TD 4 INTs and a passer rating of 35.5. Turning the ball over 4 times is absolutely inexcusable, this one is on Manning.
2004 - Colts lose to the Patriots 20-3. Manning went 27/42 for 238 0 TDs 1 INT and a passer rating of 69.3. Not an astoundingly bad performance, but not a good one either. I think some of the blame for the loss can fall to Manning's shoulders on this one.
2005 - Colts lose to the Steelers 21-18. Manning went 22/38 for 290 yards 1 TD 0 INTs and a passer rating of 90.9. Manning played extremely well in this game and I don't see how he can shoulder any of the blame for this loss.
2007 - Colts lost to the Chargers 28-24. Manning went 33/48 for 402 yards 3 TDs 2 INTs and a passer rating of 97.7. Not a terribly bad performance by Manning statswise and the defense gave up two TDs to the Chargers back-up QB. But two extra possessions for the Chargers were huge in this so Manning and the defense have to share the blame.
2008 - Colts lose to the Chargers 23-17. Manning went 25/42 for 310 yards 1 TD 0 INTs and a passer rating of 90.4. Not a bad game by any stretch of the imagination, but looking at the highlights Manning gets sacked late deep in Colts territory allowing the Chargers to bring it to OT where they eventually win it. This is another one that's not completely on Manning, but he played a big part in the loss.
2009 - Colts lose to the Saints in the Super Bowl. Manning went 31/45 for 333 yards 1 TD 1 INT and a passer rating of 88.5. Again this isn't a poor game statwise, but that one pick that he threw was the backbreaking pick-6 late in the fourth as the Colts were trying to tie up the game. You've gotta put this one on Manning.
2010 - Colts lose to Jets 17-16. Manning went 18/26 for 225 yards 1 TD 0 INTs and a passer rating of 108.7. This playoff loss is in no way on Manning in my opinion. Special teams and defense blew this one for the Colts.
2012 - Broncos lose to the Ravens 38-35. Manning went 28/43 for 290 yards 3 TDs 2 INTs and a passer rating of 88.3. Again this doesn't look that bad statswise and everyone knows about Rahim Moore's monumental fuck up. However, lets not forget about how kick returner Trindon Holliday kept the Broncos in this game with his two return TDs. Peyton was buoyed by the special teams that day and he threw the game sealing pick in 2OT. In my mind Peyton and Rahim Moore split the blame equally that day.
2013 - Broncos lose to the Seahawks in the Super Bowl. Peyton went 34/49 for 280 yards 1 TD 2 INTs and a passer rating of 73.5. Peyton is not the sole one to blame in the thumping the Seahawks put on the Broncos, but he's definitely up there. Just a bad performance all around by the Broncos.
2014 - Broncos lose to the Colts 24-13. Manning went 26/46 for 211 yards 1 TD 0 INTs and passer rating of 75.5. It doesn't look too bad on paper, but if you watched the game Peyton was off all game long. I don't know if it was because he was playing through an injury or what, but he was painfully bad underthrowing and overthrowing like it was his job. This loss is definitely at least in some way Peyton's fault. | By my count there's at least 9 of Peyton's 13 playoff losses that you can make the argument that he is at least in some way partly to blame for the losses. |
chippersan | So i've been wondering how all you guys get clips like this while playing, because on Xbox at least i am under the impression that you have to tell/have the Xbox to start recording the clip when your ready, so is there a way to have it continuously recording all the time, and then when you do something cool you just have it keep the clip?? or whats going on? can some one please fill me in??
TLDR: How are you guys getting clips like this, when on xbox i thought you had to start recording the clip manually on your own and end it on your own... do you just have it constantly record then keep whatever you like? | So i've been wondering how all you guys get clips like this while playing, because on Xbox at least i am under the impression that you have to tell/have the Xbox to start recording the clip when your ready, so is there a way to have it continuously recording all the time, and then when you do something cool you just have it keep the clip?? or whats going on? can some one please fill me in??
TLDR: How are you guys getting clips like this, when on xbox i thought you had to start recording the clip manually on your own and end it on your own... do you just have it constantly record then keep whatever you like?
| DestinyTheGame | t5_2vq0w | col232q | So i've been wondering how all you guys get clips like this while playing, because on Xbox at least i am under the impression that you have to tell/have the Xbox to start recording the clip when your ready, so is there a way to have it continuously recording all the time, and then when you do something cool you just have it keep the clip?? or whats going on? can some one please fill me in?? | How are you guys getting clips like this, when on xbox i thought you had to start recording the clip manually on your own and end it on your own... do you just have it constantly record then keep whatever you like? |
Mezmorizor | It really was a greedy as hell play. Sneeds is out on the table, your opponent has 19 health. Being able to chunk through that without getting lucky with shredder RNG is pretty optimistic.
Plus, he got punished by a fireball. It's not like he lost to something ridiculous or a bad card. Plus polymorph would have wrecked him, frostbolt would have wrecked him, flame strike would have wrecked him, flame cannon would have wrecked him, and there's probably more.
tl;dr. He got punished by a card that is an auto pick. Other cards would have also wrecked him. I think he would have been better off hoping for good shredder RNG. | It really was a greedy as hell play. Sneeds is out on the table, your opponent has 19 health. Being able to chunk through that without getting lucky with shredder RNG is pretty optimistic.
Plus, he got punished by a fireball. It's not like he lost to something ridiculous or a bad card. Plus polymorph would have wrecked him, frostbolt would have wrecked him, flame strike would have wrecked him, flame cannon would have wrecked him, and there's probably more.
tl;dr. He got punished by a card that is an auto pick. Other cards would have also wrecked him. I think he would have been better off hoping for good shredder RNG.
| hearthstone | t5_2w31t | colplhw | It really was a greedy as hell play. Sneeds is out on the table, your opponent has 19 health. Being able to chunk through that without getting lucky with shredder RNG is pretty optimistic.
Plus, he got punished by a fireball. It's not like he lost to something ridiculous or a bad card. Plus polymorph would have wrecked him, frostbolt would have wrecked him, flame strike would have wrecked him, flame cannon would have wrecked him, and there's probably more. | He got punished by a card that is an auto pick. Other cards would have also wrecked him. I think he would have been better off hoping for good shredder RNG. |
ghostnuggets | They have changed a lot since that news story came out.
I worked at chicfila for all four years of high school. I quit when my general manager told me (on a day that i was not working) "take those earrings out, they make you look like a faggot". They were aggressively right wing..the type of southern when southern is bring used as a bad adjective and not regionally. I worked at a location in Raleigh like the boy in the story, but I am not sure if it is the same one. They do not discriminate against gays, but they do not approve or like and think it is wrong and sends you to hell. They are an EXTREMELY christian organization. Not just anyone can get a franchise by buying one like most fast food restaurants. You have to basically be elected or nominated and so it is a loose network of friends and all these guys hold the same faith as the owner..it is basically an unwritten law. However, they would never not serve gays or talk bad about them but they just "think it's nasty" The original owner has since died so this could be different now, because it was years ago that I worked there. I definitely quit because I felt uncomfortable by their hate speech. I don't care what someone says to me at all, but I won't work for a company who acts that way...and I was ready to get more than minimum wage.
I guarantee that when I worked there (and granted "times have changed") but in 2000 (maybe 1999?) to 2004 when I was employed at chicfila,there is not a chance in hell that a person that was openly gay would have gotten hired where I worked. I would stake my life on it. How many jobs talk about the ten commandments?
This may only be true for a small region, chicfila has expanded a lot and perhaps is not as "southern" as it used to be. Good family friend was also a GM there for a while because he had wanted to open his own, he was well above qualified and they would not allow him to get his own store because he had moved down here from New York and didn't "fit the bill"
tl;dr:
manager called me a faggot and i quit, chicfila cleaned up act since they were put on a microscope... but damn dat chicken doe | They have changed a lot since that news story came out.
I worked at chicfila for all four years of high school. I quit when my general manager told me (on a day that i was not working) "take those earrings out, they make you look like a faggot". They were aggressively right wing..the type of southern when southern is bring used as a bad adjective and not regionally. I worked at a location in Raleigh like the boy in the story, but I am not sure if it is the same one. They do not discriminate against gays, but they do not approve or like and think it is wrong and sends you to hell. They are an EXTREMELY christian organization. Not just anyone can get a franchise by buying one like most fast food restaurants. You have to basically be elected or nominated and so it is a loose network of friends and all these guys hold the same faith as the owner..it is basically an unwritten law. However, they would never not serve gays or talk bad about them but they just "think it's nasty" The original owner has since died so this could be different now, because it was years ago that I worked there. I definitely quit because I felt uncomfortable by their hate speech. I don't care what someone says to me at all, but I won't work for a company who acts that way...and I was ready to get more than minimum wage.
I guarantee that when I worked there (and granted "times have changed") but in 2000 (maybe 1999?) to 2004 when I was employed at chicfila,there is not a chance in hell that a person that was openly gay would have gotten hired where I worked. I would stake my life on it. How many jobs talk about the ten commandments?
This may only be true for a small region, chicfila has expanded a lot and perhaps is not as "southern" as it used to be. Good family friend was also a GM there for a while because he had wanted to open his own, he was well above qualified and they would not allow him to get his own store because he had moved down here from New York and didn't "fit the bill"
tl;dr:
manager called me a faggot and i quit, chicfila cleaned up act since they were put on a microscope... but damn dat chicken doe
| UpliftingNews | t5_2u3ta | colm94m | They have changed a lot since that news story came out.
I worked at chicfila for all four years of high school. I quit when my general manager told me (on a day that i was not working) "take those earrings out, they make you look like a faggot". They were aggressively right wing..the type of southern when southern is bring used as a bad adjective and not regionally. I worked at a location in Raleigh like the boy in the story, but I am not sure if it is the same one. They do not discriminate against gays, but they do not approve or like and think it is wrong and sends you to hell. They are an EXTREMELY christian organization. Not just anyone can get a franchise by buying one like most fast food restaurants. You have to basically be elected or nominated and so it is a loose network of friends and all these guys hold the same faith as the owner..it is basically an unwritten law. However, they would never not serve gays or talk bad about them but they just "think it's nasty" The original owner has since died so this could be different now, because it was years ago that I worked there. I definitely quit because I felt uncomfortable by their hate speech. I don't care what someone says to me at all, but I won't work for a company who acts that way...and I was ready to get more than minimum wage.
I guarantee that when I worked there (and granted "times have changed") but in 2000 (maybe 1999?) to 2004 when I was employed at chicfila,there is not a chance in hell that a person that was openly gay would have gotten hired where I worked. I would stake my life on it. How many jobs talk about the ten commandments?
This may only be true for a small region, chicfila has expanded a lot and perhaps is not as "southern" as it used to be. Good family friend was also a GM there for a while because he had wanted to open his own, he was well above qualified and they would not allow him to get his own store because he had moved down here from New York and didn't "fit the bill" | manager called me a faggot and i quit, chicfila cleaned up act since they were put on a microscope... but damn dat chicken doe |
BonJovisButtPlug | You are correct, a forceful anything does not by itself indicate sexual assault. However, you must put aside your biases (liking light aggression and being forceful with your partner) and consider the context of this relationship. He cannot masturbate without feeling shame. With that in mind, do you think that he would be into her, "pushing him towards the bed playfully and stroking on top of his pants and then aggressively opening them up?"
Read the post with the gender pronouns switched:
> So I have a girlfriend(F 20) and she's a little out of the ordinary. I'd like to say that I(M 19) am pretty normal when it comes to relationships and sex. I have an average-to-high sex-drive and she has the sex-drive that any normal girl would have. Like a lot of girls on /r/NoFap, she feels very guilty after fapping. But the weird part is that she feels super guilty after doing anything sexual too, even if it's with me, someone who it's okay to do things like that with. I didn't really think this was a big deal so far and I kept teasing her and flirting with her until we would do stuff. Keep in mind, we haven't had sex yet because she refuses to, but we've done everything else. There would be a couple of days where we would be very touchy-feely and flirty but then there would be weeks where she won't even let me kiss her properly. Even though this is very demotivating and frustrating, I can deal with it because I like her a lot and love spending time with her even if we don't mess around. Now, the first time I kind of forcefully fingered her and she told me to stop so I did, but then she told me to not stop so I kept going, she finished and then started regretting it a lot. She said that she was going to cut herself in the shower and I started crying and told her to not do it but she did it anyways. After she did it, I was extremely confused and shocked and didn't know what to do. I told her to not do it again and not to be like this because it hurt me a lot. She said that she'd try. Well, recently, I saw more cuts on her tummy and I just didn't know what to say to her so I kinda walked out and we haven't talked for a day. I just don't know what to do, I've never experienced this and I have no idea how to handle it.
> ;tldr: Girlfriend feels guilty and sometimes cuts herself after we do anything sexual. How do I handle this?
You cannot tell me that the perception of this situation does not change when the roles are reversed. Ignoring that is disingenuous. It is similar to people who say, "I don't see color." Race exists, gender exists, it does nobody any benefit to ignore them when discussing these issues.
This is not about a gender war. This is about a very damaged man who needs help, not somebody chasing him around to have sex (whether oral or whatever). | You are correct, a forceful anything does not by itself indicate sexual assault. However, you must put aside your biases (liking light aggression and being forceful with your partner) and consider the context of this relationship. He cannot masturbate without feeling shame. With that in mind, do you think that he would be into her, "pushing him towards the bed playfully and stroking on top of his pants and then aggressively opening them up?"
Read the post with the gender pronouns switched:
> So I have a girlfriend(F 20) and she's a little out of the ordinary. I'd like to say that I(M 19) am pretty normal when it comes to relationships and sex. I have an average-to-high sex-drive and she has the sex-drive that any normal girl would have. Like a lot of girls on /r/NoFap, she feels very guilty after fapping. But the weird part is that she feels super guilty after doing anything sexual too, even if it's with me, someone who it's okay to do things like that with. I didn't really think this was a big deal so far and I kept teasing her and flirting with her until we would do stuff. Keep in mind, we haven't had sex yet because she refuses to, but we've done everything else. There would be a couple of days where we would be very touchy-feely and flirty but then there would be weeks where she won't even let me kiss her properly. Even though this is very demotivating and frustrating, I can deal with it because I like her a lot and love spending time with her even if we don't mess around. Now, the first time I kind of forcefully fingered her and she told me to stop so I did, but then she told me to not stop so I kept going, she finished and then started regretting it a lot. She said that she was going to cut herself in the shower and I started crying and told her to not do it but she did it anyways. After she did it, I was extremely confused and shocked and didn't know what to do. I told her to not do it again and not to be like this because it hurt me a lot. She said that she'd try. Well, recently, I saw more cuts on her tummy and I just didn't know what to say to her so I kinda walked out and we haven't talked for a day. I just don't know what to do, I've never experienced this and I have no idea how to handle it.
> ;tldr: Girlfriend feels guilty and sometimes cuts herself after we do anything sexual. How do I handle this?
You cannot tell me that the perception of this situation does not change when the roles are reversed. Ignoring that is disingenuous. It is similar to people who say, "I don't see color." Race exists, gender exists, it does nobody any benefit to ignore them when discussing these issues.
This is not about a gender war. This is about a very damaged man who needs help, not somebody chasing him around to have sex (whether oral or whatever).
| sex | t5_2qh3p | come0v1 | You are correct, a forceful anything does not by itself indicate sexual assault. However, you must put aside your biases (liking light aggression and being forceful with your partner) and consider the context of this relationship. He cannot masturbate without feeling shame. With that in mind, do you think that he would be into her, "pushing him towards the bed playfully and stroking on top of his pants and then aggressively opening them up?"
Read the post with the gender pronouns switched:
> So I have a girlfriend(F 20) and she's a little out of the ordinary. I'd like to say that I(M 19) am pretty normal when it comes to relationships and sex. I have an average-to-high sex-drive and she has the sex-drive that any normal girl would have. Like a lot of girls on /r/NoFap, she feels very guilty after fapping. But the weird part is that she feels super guilty after doing anything sexual too, even if it's with me, someone who it's okay to do things like that with. I didn't really think this was a big deal so far and I kept teasing her and flirting with her until we would do stuff. Keep in mind, we haven't had sex yet because she refuses to, but we've done everything else. There would be a couple of days where we would be very touchy-feely and flirty but then there would be weeks where she won't even let me kiss her properly. Even though this is very demotivating and frustrating, I can deal with it because I like her a lot and love spending time with her even if we don't mess around. Now, the first time I kind of forcefully fingered her and she told me to stop so I did, but then she told me to not stop so I kept going, she finished and then started regretting it a lot. She said that she was going to cut herself in the shower and I started crying and told her to not do it but she did it anyways. After she did it, I was extremely confused and shocked and didn't know what to do. I told her to not do it again and not to be like this because it hurt me a lot. She said that she'd try. Well, recently, I saw more cuts on her tummy and I just didn't know what to say to her so I kinda walked out and we haven't talked for a day. I just don't know what to do, I've never experienced this and I have no idea how to handle it.
> ; | Girlfriend feels guilty and sometimes cuts herself after we do anything sexual. How do I handle this?
You cannot tell me that the perception of this situation does not change when the roles are reversed. Ignoring that is disingenuous. It is similar to people who say, "I don't see color." Race exists, gender exists, it does nobody any benefit to ignore them when discussing these issues.
This is not about a gender war. This is about a very damaged man who needs help, not somebody chasing him around to have sex (whether oral or whatever). |
makeupandmacaroni | My boyfriend and I never get to go out together so for a few weeks we've been talking about Valentine's Day. I was working until six, but no big deal we can go out after... No, there was a blizzard. So I asked to leave work early and left at 4 hoping to make it over to him (hour ride away at least) before the snow got bad.. Then had no ride.
So unbeknownst to me, he did a lot of work to get money from his foster mom - she had offered to put money on his Amazon. He agrees thinking he can get me a sephora gift card (he was going to take me there on Valentine's Day). He said he spent 30 minutes writing out the message on the gift card thinking it would be sent to me as a surprise... You can't buy gift cards with a gift card... So that's gone :( He's really bad at writing letters and stuff like that because when he sits down to do it his mind blanks out so it was a big deal that he wrote such a long message for me.
In addition he lost power during the storm and we couldn't talk at all. Happy Valentine's Day!
Tldr; we've been stuck apart and when he tries to do something sweet to surprise me it doesn't work and he loses everything he wrote to me :( | My boyfriend and I never get to go out together so for a few weeks we've been talking about Valentine's Day. I was working until six, but no big deal we can go out after... No, there was a blizzard. So I asked to leave work early and left at 4 hoping to make it over to him (hour ride away at least) before the snow got bad.. Then had no ride.
So unbeknownst to me, he did a lot of work to get money from his foster mom - she had offered to put money on his Amazon. He agrees thinking he can get me a sephora gift card (he was going to take me there on Valentine's Day). He said he spent 30 minutes writing out the message on the gift card thinking it would be sent to me as a surprise... You can't buy gift cards with a gift card... So that's gone :( He's really bad at writing letters and stuff like that because when he sits down to do it his mind blanks out so it was a big deal that he wrote such a long message for me.
In addition he lost power during the storm and we couldn't talk at all. Happy Valentine's Day!
Tldr; we've been stuck apart and when he tries to do something sweet to surprise me it doesn't work and he loses everything he wrote to me :(
| RandomActsofMakeup | t5_2vigj | conffbq | My boyfriend and I never get to go out together so for a few weeks we've been talking about Valentine's Day. I was working until six, but no big deal we can go out after... No, there was a blizzard. So I asked to leave work early and left at 4 hoping to make it over to him (hour ride away at least) before the snow got bad.. Then had no ride.
So unbeknownst to me, he did a lot of work to get money from his foster mom - she had offered to put money on his Amazon. He agrees thinking he can get me a sephora gift card (he was going to take me there on Valentine's Day). He said he spent 30 minutes writing out the message on the gift card thinking it would be sent to me as a surprise... You can't buy gift cards with a gift card... So that's gone :( He's really bad at writing letters and stuff like that because when he sits down to do it his mind blanks out so it was a big deal that he wrote such a long message for me.
In addition he lost power during the storm and we couldn't talk at all. Happy Valentine's Day! | we've been stuck apart and when he tries to do something sweet to surprise me it doesn't work and he loses everything he wrote to me :( |
Candroth | Oh I've had so many fails. The worst of them all would have to be when I was in high school. I was excited to go to dinner and a movie with my 'totally not dating this dude but we hang out together all the time and cuddle on the bed while watching star trek' friend. (By 'dinner' I mean 'McDonalds'. We were classy.)
I waited, and waited, and got hungry, and waited some more, and waited MORE. Didn't hear anything from him, and nobody answered the phone at his house. Got *really* hungry. Turned the oven on for a pizza. Except I'd turned on the stove, not the oven, and I'd thrown my math notebook on top of the stove...
I ran into the kitchen to see the notebook smoldering. I threw it on the floor and dumped a couple pitchers of water on it. Singed the linoleum. Turned the oven on, put in the pizza. Burned the pizza -- the center was way overdone and I had to chisel it off. Ate cereal instead.
About six hours after I was supposed to get picked up, his dad called me. Turns out he'd broken his leg on the ski slope earlier that day and was in the hospital. I scrambled around and managed to get a family friend to take me up to see him.
The nurses at first wouldn't let me in to see him. So I channelled my ability to cry on command and said that but I'm his *girlfriend* I *need* to etc etc blubber blubber sniffle whine chin wobble etc etc. They changed their attitude really quick, cooed at me, said 'he needs your strength, not your tears', and helped me to his room where he was sleeping. I snickered and waited a couple hours for him to wake up. (I'd brought a book to keep me company.)
So that's my V-Day disaster. Tl;dr -- Thought I got stood up, set my homework on fire, burned my pizza, and my not-boyfriend broke his leg. \o/ | Oh I've had so many fails. The worst of them all would have to be when I was in high school. I was excited to go to dinner and a movie with my 'totally not dating this dude but we hang out together all the time and cuddle on the bed while watching star trek' friend. (By 'dinner' I mean 'McDonalds'. We were classy.)
I waited, and waited, and got hungry, and waited some more, and waited MORE. Didn't hear anything from him, and nobody answered the phone at his house. Got really hungry. Turned the oven on for a pizza. Except I'd turned on the stove, not the oven, and I'd thrown my math notebook on top of the stove...
I ran into the kitchen to see the notebook smoldering. I threw it on the floor and dumped a couple pitchers of water on it. Singed the linoleum. Turned the oven on, put in the pizza. Burned the pizza -- the center was way overdone and I had to chisel it off. Ate cereal instead.
About six hours after I was supposed to get picked up, his dad called me. Turns out he'd broken his leg on the ski slope earlier that day and was in the hospital. I scrambled around and managed to get a family friend to take me up to see him.
The nurses at first wouldn't let me in to see him. So I channelled my ability to cry on command and said that but I'm his girlfriend I need to etc etc blubber blubber sniffle whine chin wobble etc etc. They changed their attitude really quick, cooed at me, said 'he needs your strength, not your tears', and helped me to his room where he was sleeping. I snickered and waited a couple hours for him to wake up. (I'd brought a book to keep me company.)
So that's my V-Day disaster. Tl;dr -- Thought I got stood up, set my homework on fire, burned my pizza, and my not-boyfriend broke his leg. \o/
| RandomActsofMakeup | t5_2vigj | colqqer | Oh I've had so many fails. The worst of them all would have to be when I was in high school. I was excited to go to dinner and a movie with my 'totally not dating this dude but we hang out together all the time and cuddle on the bed while watching star trek' friend. (By 'dinner' I mean 'McDonalds'. We were classy.)
I waited, and waited, and got hungry, and waited some more, and waited MORE. Didn't hear anything from him, and nobody answered the phone at his house. Got really hungry. Turned the oven on for a pizza. Except I'd turned on the stove, not the oven, and I'd thrown my math notebook on top of the stove...
I ran into the kitchen to see the notebook smoldering. I threw it on the floor and dumped a couple pitchers of water on it. Singed the linoleum. Turned the oven on, put in the pizza. Burned the pizza -- the center was way overdone and I had to chisel it off. Ate cereal instead.
About six hours after I was supposed to get picked up, his dad called me. Turns out he'd broken his leg on the ski slope earlier that day and was in the hospital. I scrambled around and managed to get a family friend to take me up to see him.
The nurses at first wouldn't let me in to see him. So I channelled my ability to cry on command and said that but I'm his girlfriend I need to etc etc blubber blubber sniffle whine chin wobble etc etc. They changed their attitude really quick, cooed at me, said 'he needs your strength, not your tears', and helped me to his room where he was sleeping. I snickered and waited a couple hours for him to wake up. (I'd brought a book to keep me company.)
So that's my V-Day disaster. | Thought I got stood up, set my homework on fire, burned my pizza, and my not-boyfriend broke his leg. \o/ |
AtomicNinja | For smaller promotion like TNA, there's some rub to be had with name-checking and associating talent with the larger WWE.
WWE doesn't need to rub downwards as it's the acme of professional wrestling.
TLDR: You can only rub up, but not down. | For smaller promotion like TNA, there's some rub to be had with name-checking and associating talent with the larger WWE.
WWE doesn't need to rub downwards as it's the acme of professional wrestling.
TLDR: You can only rub up, but not down.
| SquaredCircle | t5_2sljg | colfd6d | For smaller promotion like TNA, there's some rub to be had with name-checking and associating talent with the larger WWE.
WWE doesn't need to rub downwards as it's the acme of professional wrestling. | You can only rub up, but not down. |
dabork | They're pellets for a pellet gun. I had one a long time ago that came with two barrels, one for .177 pellets like this, one for .22 rounds.
They're great for target practice (especially for younger people who aren't quite ready for "real" guns), they can take out squirrels and rats super easy with way less mess than a bullet, and the ammunition is unbelievably cheap (about $20 for over 1000 of the regular ones, these polymer tips are much more expensive at about 10 bucks for 100 or so) and plentiful, whereas .22 can be impossible to find in some areas. The guns are also nearly silent and can be legally fired in almost any area, even inside city limits, and without a permit. They're also incredibly easy to maintain, with even less moving parts than a regular gun, but offer almost the same amount of customization and choice as the real thing. The polymer tip is just to help the pellet fly straighter and it gets pushed into the center of the round when it impacts, forcing the round to expand even more than usual since they are made of very soft metal.
TL;DR - The same thing regular bullets are for, they're just less effective. | They're pellets for a pellet gun. I had one a long time ago that came with two barrels, one for .177 pellets like this, one for .22 rounds.
They're great for target practice (especially for younger people who aren't quite ready for "real" guns), they can take out squirrels and rats super easy with way less mess than a bullet, and the ammunition is unbelievably cheap (about $20 for over 1000 of the regular ones, these polymer tips are much more expensive at about 10 bucks for 100 or so) and plentiful, whereas .22 can be impossible to find in some areas. The guns are also nearly silent and can be legally fired in almost any area, even inside city limits, and without a permit. They're also incredibly easy to maintain, with even less moving parts than a regular gun, but offer almost the same amount of customization and choice as the real thing. The polymer tip is just to help the pellet fly straighter and it gets pushed into the center of the round when it impacts, forcing the round to expand even more than usual since they are made of very soft metal.
TL;DR - The same thing regular bullets are for, they're just less effective.
| DestructionPorn | t5_2seqg | colv39w | They're pellets for a pellet gun. I had one a long time ago that came with two barrels, one for .177 pellets like this, one for .22 rounds.
They're great for target practice (especially for younger people who aren't quite ready for "real" guns), they can take out squirrels and rats super easy with way less mess than a bullet, and the ammunition is unbelievably cheap (about $20 for over 1000 of the regular ones, these polymer tips are much more expensive at about 10 bucks for 100 or so) and plentiful, whereas .22 can be impossible to find in some areas. The guns are also nearly silent and can be legally fired in almost any area, even inside city limits, and without a permit. They're also incredibly easy to maintain, with even less moving parts than a regular gun, but offer almost the same amount of customization and choice as the real thing. The polymer tip is just to help the pellet fly straighter and it gets pushed into the center of the round when it impacts, forcing the round to expand even more than usual since they are made of very soft metal. | The same thing regular bullets are for, they're just less effective. |
canibuyatrowel | I have incredibly realistic, emotionally upsetting dreams almost nightly, and have for as long as I can remember. I would love to be able to lucid dream, because it is awful trying to fall asleep knowing that I'll essentially be stuck experiencing a feasible, realistic horror (often involving terrible things happening to my close family). They come on in a slow way and I feel the passage of time and often experience the time after the bad stuff happens, experiencing waking up for days and weeks and months knowing that this happened and living my life with it heavy on my heart...all in my dream. Then I actually wake up, my heart beating out of my chest, and it's a massive mindfuck of trying to grasp that this is the true reality, because NOW I can tell the difference from the dream wake up and this real wake up, but I felt like I just lived days or weeks or months with this horrible thing having happened. Sometimes I just burst into tears at all the emotions and anxiety I've felt, and at the knowledge that the bad thing didn't really happen, everyone is ok. Sometimes i rush into my toddler daughter's room and lay a hand on her back and feel her soft breathing to make sure that she's definitely, for sure for sure ok. Most of the time, now that it's been going on for as long as I can remember, I just try to breathe and remind myself it wasn't real, and snuggle up to my husband.
All this happens 4-7 times a week, sometimes multiple times nightly. There are triggers that can cause more of these each night, like watching scary or super disturbing movies, so I try to avoid them. But yeah...you might say it's a fucking nightmare. True story. I have no idea if this is weird or if it happens to most people.
Tl;dr: I've seen some shit but it's not real but it felt SO FUCKING REAL at the time and it's super upsetting and happens almost every night. | I have incredibly realistic, emotionally upsetting dreams almost nightly, and have for as long as I can remember. I would love to be able to lucid dream, because it is awful trying to fall asleep knowing that I'll essentially be stuck experiencing a feasible, realistic horror (often involving terrible things happening to my close family). They come on in a slow way and I feel the passage of time and often experience the time after the bad stuff happens, experiencing waking up for days and weeks and months knowing that this happened and living my life with it heavy on my heart...all in my dream. Then I actually wake up, my heart beating out of my chest, and it's a massive mindfuck of trying to grasp that this is the true reality, because NOW I can tell the difference from the dream wake up and this real wake up, but I felt like I just lived days or weeks or months with this horrible thing having happened. Sometimes I just burst into tears at all the emotions and anxiety I've felt, and at the knowledge that the bad thing didn't really happen, everyone is ok. Sometimes i rush into my toddler daughter's room and lay a hand on her back and feel her soft breathing to make sure that she's definitely, for sure for sure ok. Most of the time, now that it's been going on for as long as I can remember, I just try to breathe and remind myself it wasn't real, and snuggle up to my husband.
All this happens 4-7 times a week, sometimes multiple times nightly. There are triggers that can cause more of these each night, like watching scary or super disturbing movies, so I try to avoid them. But yeah...you might say it's a fucking nightmare. True story. I have no idea if this is weird or if it happens to most people.
Tl;dr: I've seen some shit but it's not real but it felt SO FUCKING REAL at the time and it's super upsetting and happens almost every night.
| NoStupidQuestions | t5_2w844 | colvojc | I have incredibly realistic, emotionally upsetting dreams almost nightly, and have for as long as I can remember. I would love to be able to lucid dream, because it is awful trying to fall asleep knowing that I'll essentially be stuck experiencing a feasible, realistic horror (often involving terrible things happening to my close family). They come on in a slow way and I feel the passage of time and often experience the time after the bad stuff happens, experiencing waking up for days and weeks and months knowing that this happened and living my life with it heavy on my heart...all in my dream. Then I actually wake up, my heart beating out of my chest, and it's a massive mindfuck of trying to grasp that this is the true reality, because NOW I can tell the difference from the dream wake up and this real wake up, but I felt like I just lived days or weeks or months with this horrible thing having happened. Sometimes I just burst into tears at all the emotions and anxiety I've felt, and at the knowledge that the bad thing didn't really happen, everyone is ok. Sometimes i rush into my toddler daughter's room and lay a hand on her back and feel her soft breathing to make sure that she's definitely, for sure for sure ok. Most of the time, now that it's been going on for as long as I can remember, I just try to breathe and remind myself it wasn't real, and snuggle up to my husband.
All this happens 4-7 times a week, sometimes multiple times nightly. There are triggers that can cause more of these each night, like watching scary or super disturbing movies, so I try to avoid them. But yeah...you might say it's a fucking nightmare. True story. I have no idea if this is weird or if it happens to most people. | I've seen some shit but it's not real but it felt SO FUCKING REAL at the time and it's super upsetting and happens almost every night. |
Gilgamesh- | One reason that you could have 600 subs modded on your userpage is you could have been around reddit for a long time (multiple years) and forgot about silly one-off subreddits that you made, or that your friend made and invited you to. When you have been a moderator for a long time, you just tend to accrue random subreddits that are dead but you never made private or left as a moderator of.
2) People come up with ideas and go to and type in a name and then click create. You could mod over 600 subs if you spent the time making over 600, it wouldn't take that long if you had a friend helping. Would they be popular right when you make them? No, that is where actual work comes in. Sometimes you make the subreddit into a success, but more often than not...it ends up as a dead subreddit that just sits on your userpage as one of your subreddits.
3) People invite others that they know to mod subreddits because they know them well and know that they are a good mod and know the ins-and-outs of how to make a subreddit successful. On this site there are really good mods, decent/above average mods, meh mods, and then downright terrible ones. The ones that are really good or decent/above average get random mod invites sent to their inbox all the time.
4) Making subreddits at for fun because you like to circlejerk and make silly subreddits as jokes that last for less than a day and then never get touched again.
5) Now let's talk if these "600+" subreddits are "active" (you would have to define active in whatever way you want here). Each subreddit has a team that moderates differently; some use the /new queue, some use the unmoderated queue, some make sure that mods are watching the /comments feed, some ONLY are comment moderators and don't have any other mod "permissions" like moderator mail, then there are jobs like designing CSS...configuring bots (the last two are jobs that a lot of people add mods to ONLY handle because they are so important/rare to find in a mod, I know of a mod that is a moderator of 4 default subreddits only because he is a CSS expert/designer for those subreddits), and things of that nature. What if all 600+ of these hypothetical subreddits had 0 subscribers and were just joke subreddits? That completely would invalidate your entire argument.
There's more! Some of these subreddits could have completely lax rules, so a lot of moderation isn't even required in the first place, even if it is a large subreddit. How is that for a curve ball?
6) When you have active moderator teams that work cohesively, you are able to moderate a larger amount of subreddits, the workload for say "50" subreddits is extremely tiny because everyone is doing their fair share of the work in order to contribute and help out to get things done.
7) What about networks of subreddits like The Safe For Work Porn Network, The Imaginary Network, or the few others? They consist of over 100 subreddits but act as one subreddit since each has a different focus, but the same rules. They also have the same moderators because it is just one subreddit, spread out across a lot of subreddits because of their specific topic/focus.
It basically comes down to this, a) Are the subreddits joke subreddits, or serious subreddits? b) If they are serious subreddits, which ones are active and which ones aren't active? c) How effectively/actively are they moderated (if high, this means low workload since the work is spread out among many other moderators for that subreddit even though it may have something like 5 million or more subscribers!). the tl;dr of "c)" is "how much moderation is required for the subreddit vs. how large the subreddit is vs. how active the subreddit is."
The last point that I want to stress is this: anyone can make as many subreddits as they want. Just go here:
and go wild. You'll soon be a mod of 600+ subreddits too!
*This comment was brought to you by /u/ManWithoutModem industries* | One reason that you could have 600 subs modded on your userpage is you could have been around reddit for a long time (multiple years) and forgot about silly one-off subreddits that you made, or that your friend made and invited you to. When you have been a moderator for a long time, you just tend to accrue random subreddits that are dead but you never made private or left as a moderator of.
2) People come up with ideas and go to and type in a name and then click create. You could mod over 600 subs if you spent the time making over 600, it wouldn't take that long if you had a friend helping. Would they be popular right when you make them? No, that is where actual work comes in. Sometimes you make the subreddit into a success, but more often than not...it ends up as a dead subreddit that just sits on your userpage as one of your subreddits.
3) People invite others that they know to mod subreddits because they know them well and know that they are a good mod and know the ins-and-outs of how to make a subreddit successful. On this site there are really good mods, decent/above average mods, meh mods, and then downright terrible ones. The ones that are really good or decent/above average get random mod invites sent to their inbox all the time.
4) Making subreddits at for fun because you like to circlejerk and make silly subreddits as jokes that last for less than a day and then never get touched again.
5) Now let's talk if these "600+" subreddits are "active" (you would have to define active in whatever way you want here). Each subreddit has a team that moderates differently; some use the /new queue, some use the unmoderated queue, some make sure that mods are watching the /comments feed, some ONLY are comment moderators and don't have any other mod "permissions" like moderator mail, then there are jobs like designing CSS...configuring bots (the last two are jobs that a lot of people add mods to ONLY handle because they are so important/rare to find in a mod, I know of a mod that is a moderator of 4 default subreddits only because he is a CSS expert/designer for those subreddits), and things of that nature. What if all 600+ of these hypothetical subreddits had 0 subscribers and were just joke subreddits? That completely would invalidate your entire argument.
There's more! Some of these subreddits could have completely lax rules, so a lot of moderation isn't even required in the first place, even if it is a large subreddit. How is that for a curve ball?
6) When you have active moderator teams that work cohesively, you are able to moderate a larger amount of subreddits, the workload for say "50" subreddits is extremely tiny because everyone is doing their fair share of the work in order to contribute and help out to get things done.
7) What about networks of subreddits like The Safe For Work Porn Network, The Imaginary Network, or the few others? They consist of over 100 subreddits but act as one subreddit since each has a different focus, but the same rules. They also have the same moderators because it is just one subreddit, spread out across a lot of subreddits because of their specific topic/focus.
It basically comes down to this, a) Are the subreddits joke subreddits, or serious subreddits? b) If they are serious subreddits, which ones are active and which ones aren't active? c) How effectively/actively are they moderated (if high, this means low workload since the work is spread out among many other moderators for that subreddit even though it may have something like 5 million or more subscribers!). the tl;dr of "c)" is "how much moderation is required for the subreddit vs. how large the subreddit is vs. how active the subreddit is."
The last point that I want to stress is this: anyone can make as many subreddits as they want. Just go here:
and go wild. You'll soon be a mod of 600+ subreddits too!
This comment was brought to you by /u/ManWithoutModem industries
| SubredditDrama | t5_2ss5b | com430a | One reason that you could have 600 subs modded on your userpage is you could have been around reddit for a long time (multiple years) and forgot about silly one-off subreddits that you made, or that your friend made and invited you to. When you have been a moderator for a long time, you just tend to accrue random subreddits that are dead but you never made private or left as a moderator of.
2) People come up with ideas and go to and type in a name and then click create. You could mod over 600 subs if you spent the time making over 600, it wouldn't take that long if you had a friend helping. Would they be popular right when you make them? No, that is where actual work comes in. Sometimes you make the subreddit into a success, but more often than not...it ends up as a dead subreddit that just sits on your userpage as one of your subreddits.
3) People invite others that they know to mod subreddits because they know them well and know that they are a good mod and know the ins-and-outs of how to make a subreddit successful. On this site there are really good mods, decent/above average mods, meh mods, and then downright terrible ones. The ones that are really good or decent/above average get random mod invites sent to their inbox all the time.
4) Making subreddits at for fun because you like to circlejerk and make silly subreddits as jokes that last for less than a day and then never get touched again.
5) Now let's talk if these "600+" subreddits are "active" (you would have to define active in whatever way you want here). Each subreddit has a team that moderates differently; some use the /new queue, some use the unmoderated queue, some make sure that mods are watching the /comments feed, some ONLY are comment moderators and don't have any other mod "permissions" like moderator mail, then there are jobs like designing CSS...configuring bots (the last two are jobs that a lot of people add mods to ONLY handle because they are so important/rare to find in a mod, I know of a mod that is a moderator of 4 default subreddits only because he is a CSS expert/designer for those subreddits), and things of that nature. What if all 600+ of these hypothetical subreddits had 0 subscribers and were just joke subreddits? That completely would invalidate your entire argument.
There's more! Some of these subreddits could have completely lax rules, so a lot of moderation isn't even required in the first place, even if it is a large subreddit. How is that for a curve ball?
6) When you have active moderator teams that work cohesively, you are able to moderate a larger amount of subreddits, the workload for say "50" subreddits is extremely tiny because everyone is doing their fair share of the work in order to contribute and help out to get things done.
7) What about networks of subreddits like The Safe For Work Porn Network, The Imaginary Network, or the few others? They consist of over 100 subreddits but act as one subreddit since each has a different focus, but the same rules. They also have the same moderators because it is just one subreddit, spread out across a lot of subreddits because of their specific topic/focus.
It basically comes down to this, a) Are the subreddits joke subreddits, or serious subreddits? b) If they are serious subreddits, which ones are active and which ones aren't active? c) How effectively/actively are they moderated (if high, this means low workload since the work is spread out among many other moderators for that subreddit even though it may have something like 5 million or more subscribers!). the | of "c)" is "how much moderation is required for the subreddit vs. how large the subreddit is vs. how active the subreddit is."
The last point that I want to stress is this: anyone can make as many subreddits as they want. Just go here:
and go wild. You'll soon be a mod of 600+ subreddits too!
This comment was brought to you by /u/ManWithoutModem industries |
ThatHurdlesGuy | They may not be all that practical depending on your situation, but the best way to keep it cool is to not overload the system in the first place. If you're running multiple intensive programs, try working on only a few (or one) at a time. Also, try taking short rests during working periods and let your computer have a break.
Unfortunately, this might not be possible because honestly, who in this day and age runs a single program at a time? That's ludicrous. So I would do what other people have already suggested: elevate the fan from the surface on which it rests. You can make this more efficient by buying a compressed air can and just spraying the vent hoods in case there was dust or something hindering the grill.
**TL;DR - Improve ventilation (clean and elevate fan), avoid extensive CPU use.** | They may not be all that practical depending on your situation, but the best way to keep it cool is to not overload the system in the first place. If you're running multiple intensive programs, try working on only a few (or one) at a time. Also, try taking short rests during working periods and let your computer have a break.
Unfortunately, this might not be possible because honestly, who in this day and age runs a single program at a time? That's ludicrous. So I would do what other people have already suggested: elevate the fan from the surface on which it rests. You can make this more efficient by buying a compressed air can and just spraying the vent hoods in case there was dust or something hindering the grill.
TL;DR - Improve ventilation (clean and elevate fan), avoid extensive CPU use.
| LifeProTips | t5_2s5oq | colyy7b | They may not be all that practical depending on your situation, but the best way to keep it cool is to not overload the system in the first place. If you're running multiple intensive programs, try working on only a few (or one) at a time. Also, try taking short rests during working periods and let your computer have a break.
Unfortunately, this might not be possible because honestly, who in this day and age runs a single program at a time? That's ludicrous. So I would do what other people have already suggested: elevate the fan from the surface on which it rests. You can make this more efficient by buying a compressed air can and just spraying the vent hoods in case there was dust or something hindering the grill. | Improve ventilation (clean and elevate fan), avoid extensive CPU use. |
tortnotes | Undervolting! You might not be able to do this with your particular laptop, but it has worked wonders for mine (a few years old using an AMD processor).
The idea is that your CPU needs to be supplied with a certain voltage to remain stable at a particular clock speed. There is some variation in the quality of the individual processors in a batch. This is why some people are able to overclock their CPUs more than others--luck of getting a better CPU. Similarly, there are plenty of chips in any given batch that are capable of running at a lower voltage than others. Manufacturers keep the default voltages and clock speeds the same across the board, though.
I used the RightMark CPU Clock to experiment with lower voltages. You can set different voltages for different clock speeds that your computer will automatically choose based on how much speed you need.
Lower voltage = less power = cooler laptop.
[More info here.](
TL;DR: Supply less power instead of lowering clock speed to keep things running fast and generate less heat! | Undervolting! You might not be able to do this with your particular laptop, but it has worked wonders for mine (a few years old using an AMD processor).
The idea is that your CPU needs to be supplied with a certain voltage to remain stable at a particular clock speed. There is some variation in the quality of the individual processors in a batch. This is why some people are able to overclock their CPUs more than others--luck of getting a better CPU. Similarly, there are plenty of chips in any given batch that are capable of running at a lower voltage than others. Manufacturers keep the default voltages and clock speeds the same across the board, though.
I used the RightMark CPU Clock to experiment with lower voltages. You can set different voltages for different clock speeds that your computer will automatically choose based on how much speed you need.
Lower voltage = less power = cooler laptop.
[More info here.](
TL;DR: Supply less power instead of lowering clock speed to keep things running fast and generate less heat!
| LifeProTips | t5_2s5oq | colwwqi | Undervolting! You might not be able to do this with your particular laptop, but it has worked wonders for mine (a few years old using an AMD processor).
The idea is that your CPU needs to be supplied with a certain voltage to remain stable at a particular clock speed. There is some variation in the quality of the individual processors in a batch. This is why some people are able to overclock their CPUs more than others--luck of getting a better CPU. Similarly, there are plenty of chips in any given batch that are capable of running at a lower voltage than others. Manufacturers keep the default voltages and clock speeds the same across the board, though.
I used the RightMark CPU Clock to experiment with lower voltages. You can set different voltages for different clock speeds that your computer will automatically choose based on how much speed you need.
Lower voltage = less power = cooler laptop.
[More info here.]( | Supply less power instead of lowering clock speed to keep things running fast and generate less heat! |
Rick___ | (Besides cleaning the dust out the hard way) This. I haven't tried one of the cheap ones (which look significantly more portable) but I've got a big one like this that does a great job of dealing with an overheating laptop. That said, it eats up a lot of desk space and isn't portable. Mine is also loud (though that could probably be fixed with some wisely placed lubricant). I would recommend it for gaming and/or a laptop you've effectively relegated to most-of-the-time in one place desktop replacement.
**tl;dr:** first clear the dust out of your fan (see top comment). Then, if you play games or other hardware intensive stuff, get one of these bad boys. | (Besides cleaning the dust out the hard way) This. I haven't tried one of the cheap ones (which look significantly more portable) but I've got a big one like this that does a great job of dealing with an overheating laptop. That said, it eats up a lot of desk space and isn't portable. Mine is also loud (though that could probably be fixed with some wisely placed lubricant). I would recommend it for gaming and/or a laptop you've effectively relegated to most-of-the-time in one place desktop replacement.
tl;dr: first clear the dust out of your fan (see top comment). Then, if you play games or other hardware intensive stuff, get one of these bad boys.
| LifeProTips | t5_2s5oq | com440q | Besides cleaning the dust out the hard way) This. I haven't tried one of the cheap ones (which look significantly more portable) but I've got a big one like this that does a great job of dealing with an overheating laptop. That said, it eats up a lot of desk space and isn't portable. Mine is also loud (though that could probably be fixed with some wisely placed lubricant). I would recommend it for gaming and/or a laptop you've effectively relegated to most-of-the-time in one place desktop replacement. | first clear the dust out of your fan (see top comment). Then, if you play games or other hardware intensive stuff, get one of these bad boys. |
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DonionRings | I haven't seen the episodes with holly, but from her content I've seen she's a great person. Unfortunately people shit on the women in let's plays because they're new and they're girls. If you look at roosterteeth, everybody was bitching about the new people, but more so Lindsay calling her fat ugly and not funny, which isn't true and very uncalled for and completely unrelated. Many guys, and some women don't think women should be or can be funny. Not to mention 80% of the time they go into it expecting to hate the new person, so they convince themselves they do. They hold new things and people to a standard, and the grump women more so seeing as they are married to the grumps and some people dislike them because they're being "forced on us".
Tldr; people don't like new things, they want to hate new women because they're different. | I haven't seen the episodes with holly, but from her content I've seen she's a great person. Unfortunately people shit on the women in let's plays because they're new and they're girls. If you look at roosterteeth, everybody was bitching about the new people, but more so Lindsay calling her fat ugly and not funny, which isn't true and very uncalled for and completely unrelated. Many guys, and some women don't think women should be or can be funny. Not to mention 80% of the time they go into it expecting to hate the new person, so they convince themselves they do. They hold new things and people to a standard, and the grump women more so seeing as they are married to the grumps and some people dislike them because they're being "forced on us".
Tldr; people don't like new things, they want to hate new women because they're different.
| gamegrumps | t5_2ulfu | com2ixz | I haven't seen the episodes with holly, but from her content I've seen she's a great person. Unfortunately people shit on the women in let's plays because they're new and they're girls. If you look at roosterteeth, everybody was bitching about the new people, but more so Lindsay calling her fat ugly and not funny, which isn't true and very uncalled for and completely unrelated. Many guys, and some women don't think women should be or can be funny. Not to mention 80% of the time they go into it expecting to hate the new person, so they convince themselves they do. They hold new things and people to a standard, and the grump women more so seeing as they are married to the grumps and some people dislike them because they're being "forced on us". | people don't like new things, they want to hate new women because they're different. |
shutupwhilehestalkin | This is hands down the thing that makes me the angriest. I personally don't like Suzy (although she has gotten better) because she cried sexism when people didnt like her on game grumps. I had no problem with her before that, but c'mon act like an adult and take criticism. People loved holly, just because someone doesn't like you doesn't mean it's because you're a girl. Game Grumps has always been about personality and comedy, and Suzy I guess just has a different approach than the other grumps.
Tldr; Just because people don't like you doesn't mean they're sexist, it means they're human being who can criticize. | This is hands down the thing that makes me the angriest. I personally don't like Suzy (although she has gotten better) because she cried sexism when people didnt like her on game grumps. I had no problem with her before that, but c'mon act like an adult and take criticism. People loved holly, just because someone doesn't like you doesn't mean it's because you're a girl. Game Grumps has always been about personality and comedy, and Suzy I guess just has a different approach than the other grumps.
Tldr; Just because people don't like you doesn't mean they're sexist, it means they're human being who can criticize.
| gamegrumps | t5_2ulfu | com4bby | This is hands down the thing that makes me the angriest. I personally don't like Suzy (although she has gotten better) because she cried sexism when people didnt like her on game grumps. I had no problem with her before that, but c'mon act like an adult and take criticism. People loved holly, just because someone doesn't like you doesn't mean it's because you're a girl. Game Grumps has always been about personality and comedy, and Suzy I guess just has a different approach than the other grumps. | Just because people don't like you doesn't mean they're sexist, it means they're human being who can criticize. |
needmorefat | Questions, since you're the sigma expert:
1) I thought Alpha was hunky bad boy and Beta was adorable good boy. That made sense to me. Edward and Jacob, Gale and Peeta, we see it all the time in female psychology. What makes "Sigma" different from "introverted Alpha"?
2) Is this is a coherent typology? As in, do people really cluster into these categories?
For example, I'm attractive, tall, extroverted, thrive when surrounded by other people, and generally the loud center of attention in parties because I'm enthusiastic (Alpha). I'm generally sweet and kind to everyone, not even a touch of dark triad (Beta). My sexual partner count trends (Omega) but that's because of how often I have to turn people down due to humans being disgusting - I've had two wanting to cheat their boyfriends with me, two on self destructive spirals of sex and drugs, two were black out drunk so I didn't accept the consent, so on and so forth. The fact that simply *not being evil* has slashed my partner count by 90% among many other sad facts fuels my burning misanthropy (Gamma). I almost always feel that the LTRs who pass the great filter, including exes, are the most awesome people ever and don't hesitate to say so publicly and shower them with affection and otherwise pedestal them (Delta). My interests are primarily intellectual. I instantly nip the formation of social hierarchies in the bud via humor, sarcastic quips, or simply by laying people's games out explicitly...which gives me the reputation as the one with the conscience and I've been told that people are a little afraid of disappointing me. I have a reputation for non-conformity and not caring, and have experiences most people would consider trauma (Sigma). Then again, unlike Sigma I don't stick to any particular "tier or "league" and am happy to date "down" of I like someone.
Whichever one I pick will correspond to which positive qualities I like the best about myself (Or, if I'm feeling down, the negative qualities I pay most attention to). When I first read this, I found myself instantly gravitating to Sigma because I like to think I'm such a genius, but really I'm pretty extroverted and people-oriented and I don't have "4x average" partner count or any such nonsense. Being the weird nerd, I certainly can't lay claim to "alpha" in the "football star" sense.
When it's just alpha <-> beta, things make sense. We're saying something useful, we're positing a trade-off between two positive traits. It's clear that I'm naturally more "beta", since I trend more towards LTRs due to being kind and loyal, as opposed to being flashy, superficially romantic, always approaching and seeking hookups. It's clear what sorts of behaviors one can do to move from one category to another.
This expanded social heirarchy stuff doesn't really do that. I can easily convince myself that I am in any of them. The vast majority of people should be able to identify themselves in Delta. Do they? Can you convince us of the usefulness? Aren't people just picking Sigma and Alpha because they are the most flattering ones? Especially Sigma, on the internet, most people think they are smart...
TL:DR -are you speaking Game talk or Straight talk here?
| Questions, since you're the sigma expert:
1) I thought Alpha was hunky bad boy and Beta was adorable good boy. That made sense to me. Edward and Jacob, Gale and Peeta, we see it all the time in female psychology. What makes "Sigma" different from "introverted Alpha"?
2) Is this is a coherent typology? As in, do people really cluster into these categories?
For example, I'm attractive, tall, extroverted, thrive when surrounded by other people, and generally the loud center of attention in parties because I'm enthusiastic (Alpha). I'm generally sweet and kind to everyone, not even a touch of dark triad (Beta). My sexual partner count trends (Omega) but that's because of how often I have to turn people down due to humans being disgusting - I've had two wanting to cheat their boyfriends with me, two on self destructive spirals of sex and drugs, two were black out drunk so I didn't accept the consent, so on and so forth. The fact that simply not being evil has slashed my partner count by 90% among many other sad facts fuels my burning misanthropy (Gamma). I almost always feel that the LTRs who pass the great filter, including exes, are the most awesome people ever and don't hesitate to say so publicly and shower them with affection and otherwise pedestal them (Delta). My interests are primarily intellectual. I instantly nip the formation of social hierarchies in the bud via humor, sarcastic quips, or simply by laying people's games out explicitly...which gives me the reputation as the one with the conscience and I've been told that people are a little afraid of disappointing me. I have a reputation for non-conformity and not caring, and have experiences most people would consider trauma (Sigma). Then again, unlike Sigma I don't stick to any particular "tier or "league" and am happy to date "down" of I like someone.
Whichever one I pick will correspond to which positive qualities I like the best about myself (Or, if I'm feeling down, the negative qualities I pay most attention to). When I first read this, I found myself instantly gravitating to Sigma because I like to think I'm such a genius, but really I'm pretty extroverted and people-oriented and I don't have "4x average" partner count or any such nonsense. Being the weird nerd, I certainly can't lay claim to "alpha" in the "football star" sense.
When it's just alpha <-> beta, things make sense. We're saying something useful, we're positing a trade-off between two positive traits. It's clear that I'm naturally more "beta", since I trend more towards LTRs due to being kind and loyal, as opposed to being flashy, superficially romantic, always approaching and seeking hookups. It's clear what sorts of behaviors one can do to move from one category to another.
This expanded social heirarchy stuff doesn't really do that. I can easily convince myself that I am in any of them. The vast majority of people should be able to identify themselves in Delta. Do they? Can you convince us of the usefulness? Aren't people just picking Sigma and Alpha because they are the most flattering ones? Especially Sigma, on the internet, most people think they are smart...
TL:DR -are you speaking Game talk or Straight talk here?
| RedPillWomen | t5_2xing | conlvou | Questions, since you're the sigma expert:
1) I thought Alpha was hunky bad boy and Beta was adorable good boy. That made sense to me. Edward and Jacob, Gale and Peeta, we see it all the time in female psychology. What makes "Sigma" different from "introverted Alpha"?
2) Is this is a coherent typology? As in, do people really cluster into these categories?
For example, I'm attractive, tall, extroverted, thrive when surrounded by other people, and generally the loud center of attention in parties because I'm enthusiastic (Alpha). I'm generally sweet and kind to everyone, not even a touch of dark triad (Beta). My sexual partner count trends (Omega) but that's because of how often I have to turn people down due to humans being disgusting - I've had two wanting to cheat their boyfriends with me, two on self destructive spirals of sex and drugs, two were black out drunk so I didn't accept the consent, so on and so forth. The fact that simply not being evil has slashed my partner count by 90% among many other sad facts fuels my burning misanthropy (Gamma). I almost always feel that the LTRs who pass the great filter, including exes, are the most awesome people ever and don't hesitate to say so publicly and shower them with affection and otherwise pedestal them (Delta). My interests are primarily intellectual. I instantly nip the formation of social hierarchies in the bud via humor, sarcastic quips, or simply by laying people's games out explicitly...which gives me the reputation as the one with the conscience and I've been told that people are a little afraid of disappointing me. I have a reputation for non-conformity and not caring, and have experiences most people would consider trauma (Sigma). Then again, unlike Sigma I don't stick to any particular "tier or "league" and am happy to date "down" of I like someone.
Whichever one I pick will correspond to which positive qualities I like the best about myself (Or, if I'm feeling down, the negative qualities I pay most attention to). When I first read this, I found myself instantly gravitating to Sigma because I like to think I'm such a genius, but really I'm pretty extroverted and people-oriented and I don't have "4x average" partner count or any such nonsense. Being the weird nerd, I certainly can't lay claim to "alpha" in the "football star" sense.
When it's just alpha <-> beta, things make sense. We're saying something useful, we're positing a trade-off between two positive traits. It's clear that I'm naturally more "beta", since I trend more towards LTRs due to being kind and loyal, as opposed to being flashy, superficially romantic, always approaching and seeking hookups. It's clear what sorts of behaviors one can do to move from one category to another.
This expanded social heirarchy stuff doesn't really do that. I can easily convince myself that I am in any of them. The vast majority of people should be able to identify themselves in Delta. Do they? Can you convince us of the usefulness? Aren't people just picking Sigma and Alpha because they are the most flattering ones? Especially Sigma, on the internet, most people think they are smart... | are you speaking Game talk or Straight talk here? |
Blenderhead36 | Monastery Mentor is bad in Delver, and I'll tell you why.
Delver decks want to run a low land count, 18-20, since they also want to be full of cheap cantrips.
Everyone and their brother played against Delver in the past three months. Everyone knows how the deck works. That means that everyone knows that as soon as you see a Young Pyromancer, you kill it. Like Young Pyromancer, Monastery Mentor dies to all the common Modern removal--Path to Exile, Abrupt Decay, and Lightning Bolt. Delver players know that that Pyro and Mentor are both very vulnerable to removal, so the smart play is usually to slow-roll a Pyromancer until you have 3 mana, guaranteeing that you can at the very least play something in response to their immediate kill spell and get value. So, that means waiting until you have 3 land, in a deck that's only running 18-20.
That's totally doable. But let's look at Mentor. Now you're running a 3 color deck, instead of a 2 color deck. You don't want to add more land, because your namesake card is still dependent on there being lots of Instants and Sorceries in your deck so that he turns into the fly from hell. So your mana, and your deck in general, becomes less consistent purely by putting Monastery Mentor in your deck. Low consistency is always bad, but it's doubly bad in a tempo deck that's relying on slipping through cantrips.
On top of that, if you want to make sure that you actually get some value out of your Mentor, you have to wait until turn 4, minimum. Since you only have 18-20 lands, it's probably closer to turn 6. A tempo deck doesn't want to be making tokens on turn 6. It wants to be firing it's last bolt into the opponent's face for lethal.
TL;DR: Monastery Mentor, by requiring a third color and costing 3 instead of 2, makes R/U Delver a much worse deck overall. | Monastery Mentor is bad in Delver, and I'll tell you why.
Delver decks want to run a low land count, 18-20, since they also want to be full of cheap cantrips.
Everyone and their brother played against Delver in the past three months. Everyone knows how the deck works. That means that everyone knows that as soon as you see a Young Pyromancer, you kill it. Like Young Pyromancer, Monastery Mentor dies to all the common Modern removal--Path to Exile, Abrupt Decay, and Lightning Bolt. Delver players know that that Pyro and Mentor are both very vulnerable to removal, so the smart play is usually to slow-roll a Pyromancer until you have 3 mana, guaranteeing that you can at the very least play something in response to their immediate kill spell and get value. So, that means waiting until you have 3 land, in a deck that's only running 18-20.
That's totally doable. But let's look at Mentor. Now you're running a 3 color deck, instead of a 2 color deck. You don't want to add more land, because your namesake card is still dependent on there being lots of Instants and Sorceries in your deck so that he turns into the fly from hell. So your mana, and your deck in general, becomes less consistent purely by putting Monastery Mentor in your deck. Low consistency is always bad, but it's doubly bad in a tempo deck that's relying on slipping through cantrips.
On top of that, if you want to make sure that you actually get some value out of your Mentor, you have to wait until turn 4, minimum. Since you only have 18-20 lands, it's probably closer to turn 6. A tempo deck doesn't want to be making tokens on turn 6. It wants to be firing it's last bolt into the opponent's face for lethal.
TL;DR: Monastery Mentor, by requiring a third color and costing 3 instead of 2, makes R/U Delver a much worse deck overall.
| ModernMagic | t5_2xs5t | comirb3 | Monastery Mentor is bad in Delver, and I'll tell you why.
Delver decks want to run a low land count, 18-20, since they also want to be full of cheap cantrips.
Everyone and their brother played against Delver in the past three months. Everyone knows how the deck works. That means that everyone knows that as soon as you see a Young Pyromancer, you kill it. Like Young Pyromancer, Monastery Mentor dies to all the common Modern removal--Path to Exile, Abrupt Decay, and Lightning Bolt. Delver players know that that Pyro and Mentor are both very vulnerable to removal, so the smart play is usually to slow-roll a Pyromancer until you have 3 mana, guaranteeing that you can at the very least play something in response to their immediate kill spell and get value. So, that means waiting until you have 3 land, in a deck that's only running 18-20.
That's totally doable. But let's look at Mentor. Now you're running a 3 color deck, instead of a 2 color deck. You don't want to add more land, because your namesake card is still dependent on there being lots of Instants and Sorceries in your deck so that he turns into the fly from hell. So your mana, and your deck in general, becomes less consistent purely by putting Monastery Mentor in your deck. Low consistency is always bad, but it's doubly bad in a tempo deck that's relying on slipping through cantrips.
On top of that, if you want to make sure that you actually get some value out of your Mentor, you have to wait until turn 4, minimum. Since you only have 18-20 lands, it's probably closer to turn 6. A tempo deck doesn't want to be making tokens on turn 6. It wants to be firing it's last bolt into the opponent's face for lethal. | Monastery Mentor, by requiring a third color and costing 3 instead of 2, makes R/U Delver a much worse deck overall. |
Ex_Outis | From what I've played it's remarkably stable. A good chunk of posts on this sub are just people bitching about the few minor bugs, and on the whole CMDRs are cool in game, unless they're griefers. In response to the bugs you mentioned:
* the ships randomly exploding was a collision bug that was patched a few hours after our first big update was released
* unclaimable bounties was patched in similar speed
* again, some CMDRs are jerks and log out, but most keep with the realism and take the consequences of losing a dogfight. Sure, Frontier could place penalties for leaving combat, but I feel that it'd be cheap and difficult to determine when the player was either (a.) ditching due to losing, or (b.) being disconnected from the server due to internet issues/has to urgently leave the computer.
However, on the game design side, there is still a lot lacking. In other words: it plays fine (bugs get patched reasonably quickly/is extremely well optimized) but the things you do ingame get dull pretty quickly. Here's two posts that describe this scenario pretty well - [Article 1]( [Article 2]( - but what they basically say is that there is little gratification in playing for a long period of time. You start poor and have to grind either trading/bounty hunting/mining to make enough credits to outfit a bigger ship. And what do you do with the bigger ship? Grind some more, to get an even bigger ship. And the big ships are outrageously priced, and there are few ships between the 300,000 credit price and the 1,600,000 credit price.
As well, the only activity that you can do better with bigger ships is trading, as they have larger jump-ranges and bigger cargo holds. For mining and combat, the best ships are between 140,000 and 300,000 credits. Any bigger and it's too expensive to maintain, and too sluggish to do well against these two, much cheaper ships.
The TL:DR for the game design side is "It's a mile-wide but an inch deep." That means that you can do a ton of things, explore literally billions of systems, and see thousands of space ships, but everything becomes relatively repetitive over time.
In my opinion, it's a fantastic game, but I'm a weirdo who's cool with grinding and the design issues. I just like an immersive space game, which Elite is *par excellence*. Finally, if you want another opinion, check out this [review]( This guy has a pretty well-formed opinion of good game design.
Hope that helped. | From what I've played it's remarkably stable. A good chunk of posts on this sub are just people bitching about the few minor bugs, and on the whole CMDRs are cool in game, unless they're griefers. In response to the bugs you mentioned:
the ships randomly exploding was a collision bug that was patched a few hours after our first big update was released
unclaimable bounties was patched in similar speed
again, some CMDRs are jerks and log out, but most keep with the realism and take the consequences of losing a dogfight. Sure, Frontier could place penalties for leaving combat, but I feel that it'd be cheap and difficult to determine when the player was either (a.) ditching due to losing, or (b.) being disconnected from the server due to internet issues/has to urgently leave the computer.
However, on the game design side, there is still a lot lacking. In other words: it plays fine (bugs get patched reasonably quickly/is extremely well optimized) but the things you do ingame get dull pretty quickly. Here's two posts that describe this scenario pretty well - [Article 1]( [Article 2]( - but what they basically say is that there is little gratification in playing for a long period of time. You start poor and have to grind either trading/bounty hunting/mining to make enough credits to outfit a bigger ship. And what do you do with the bigger ship? Grind some more, to get an even bigger ship. And the big ships are outrageously priced, and there are few ships between the 300,000 credit price and the 1,600,000 credit price.
As well, the only activity that you can do better with bigger ships is trading, as they have larger jump-ranges and bigger cargo holds. For mining and combat, the best ships are between 140,000 and 300,000 credits. Any bigger and it's too expensive to maintain, and too sluggish to do well against these two, much cheaper ships.
The TL:DR for the game design side is "It's a mile-wide but an inch deep." That means that you can do a ton of things, explore literally billions of systems, and see thousands of space ships, but everything becomes relatively repetitive over time.
In my opinion, it's a fantastic game, but I'm a weirdo who's cool with grinding and the design issues. I just like an immersive space game, which Elite is par excellence . Finally, if you want another opinion, check out this [review]( This guy has a pretty well-formed opinion of good game design.
Hope that helped.
| EliteDangerous | t5_2vi60 | comhj3o | From what I've played it's remarkably stable. A good chunk of posts on this sub are just people bitching about the few minor bugs, and on the whole CMDRs are cool in game, unless they're griefers. In response to the bugs you mentioned:
the ships randomly exploding was a collision bug that was patched a few hours after our first big update was released
unclaimable bounties was patched in similar speed
again, some CMDRs are jerks and log out, but most keep with the realism and take the consequences of losing a dogfight. Sure, Frontier could place penalties for leaving combat, but I feel that it'd be cheap and difficult to determine when the player was either (a.) ditching due to losing, or (b.) being disconnected from the server due to internet issues/has to urgently leave the computer.
However, on the game design side, there is still a lot lacking. In other words: it plays fine (bugs get patched reasonably quickly/is extremely well optimized) but the things you do ingame get dull pretty quickly. Here's two posts that describe this scenario pretty well - [Article 1]( [Article 2]( - but what they basically say is that there is little gratification in playing for a long period of time. You start poor and have to grind either trading/bounty hunting/mining to make enough credits to outfit a bigger ship. And what do you do with the bigger ship? Grind some more, to get an even bigger ship. And the big ships are outrageously priced, and there are few ships between the 300,000 credit price and the 1,600,000 credit price.
As well, the only activity that you can do better with bigger ships is trading, as they have larger jump-ranges and bigger cargo holds. For mining and combat, the best ships are between 140,000 and 300,000 credits. Any bigger and it's too expensive to maintain, and too sluggish to do well against these two, much cheaper ships.
The | for the game design side is "It's a mile-wide but an inch deep." That means that you can do a ton of things, explore literally billions of systems, and see thousands of space ships, but everything becomes relatively repetitive over time.
In my opinion, it's a fantastic game, but I'm a weirdo who's cool with grinding and the design issues. I just like an immersive space game, which Elite is par excellence . Finally, if you want another opinion, check out this [review]( This guy has a pretty well-formed opinion of good game design.
Hope that helped. |
xxReptilexx5724 | i would say 7.62x39 is a cheaper caliber and i like it better personally. the AK i went with is the Yugo N-pap from century arms. its fairly cheap but its a great shooter. after market parts are a bit lacking atm but are catching up but if your just gonna keep the parts already on it i would say its a great choice. and you can save money for ammo and mags or if you want wood
if you want black polymer
if you want an underfolder.
there are many different sites you can get these for about the same price as i know some people dont like classicfirearms but i have not had a problem with them.
TLDR: Yugo Style AK in 7.62x39. get good rifle, save money for ammo and mags | i would say 7.62x39 is a cheaper caliber and i like it better personally. the AK i went with is the Yugo N-pap from century arms. its fairly cheap but its a great shooter. after market parts are a bit lacking atm but are catching up but if your just gonna keep the parts already on it i would say its a great choice. and you can save money for ammo and mags or if you want wood
if you want black polymer
if you want an underfolder.
there are many different sites you can get these for about the same price as i know some people dont like classicfirearms but i have not had a problem with them.
TLDR: Yugo Style AK in 7.62x39. get good rifle, save money for ammo and mags
| guns | t5_2qhc8 | comm4nh | i would say 7.62x39 is a cheaper caliber and i like it better personally. the AK i went with is the Yugo N-pap from century arms. its fairly cheap but its a great shooter. after market parts are a bit lacking atm but are catching up but if your just gonna keep the parts already on it i would say its a great choice. and you can save money for ammo and mags or if you want wood
if you want black polymer
if you want an underfolder.
there are many different sites you can get these for about the same price as i know some people dont like classicfirearms but i have not had a problem with them. | Yugo Style AK in 7.62x39. get good rifle, save money for ammo and mags |
drunk98 | I've seen random non-bowler people shoot north of 250 throwing house balls on several occasions. The one that stands out was a random college kid who bowled a 267 with a 12lb house ball, just throwing it slow down the center.
I saw a 160ish house bowler who stood right of the 1st dot & threw straight at the head pin, bowl a 299 once.
There's a 220+ average bowler in a league I bowl in that uses the "fill ball" technique of throwing it straight down the middle w/max speed a lot, & he strikes doing it an alarming amount of the time.
Even a "straight ball" has revolutions, & on uncountable occasions I've seen full-rollers shoot 300. Full-Roller = Technically 0 spin.
TL/DR: Yes. While I'm not sure 0 angle & 0 rotation is 100% possible, it'd make throwing strikes a lot tougher. | I've seen random non-bowler people shoot north of 250 throwing house balls on several occasions. The one that stands out was a random college kid who bowled a 267 with a 12lb house ball, just throwing it slow down the center.
I saw a 160ish house bowler who stood right of the 1st dot & threw straight at the head pin, bowl a 299 once.
There's a 220+ average bowler in a league I bowl in that uses the "fill ball" technique of throwing it straight down the middle w/max speed a lot, & he strikes doing it an alarming amount of the time.
Even a "straight ball" has revolutions, & on uncountable occasions I've seen full-rollers shoot 300. Full-Roller = Technically 0 spin.
TL/DR: Yes. While I'm not sure 0 angle & 0 rotation is 100% possible, it'd make throwing strikes a lot tougher.
| Bowling | t5_2r3ex | comw61b | I've seen random non-bowler people shoot north of 250 throwing house balls on several occasions. The one that stands out was a random college kid who bowled a 267 with a 12lb house ball, just throwing it slow down the center.
I saw a 160ish house bowler who stood right of the 1st dot & threw straight at the head pin, bowl a 299 once.
There's a 220+ average bowler in a league I bowl in that uses the "fill ball" technique of throwing it straight down the middle w/max speed a lot, & he strikes doing it an alarming amount of the time.
Even a "straight ball" has revolutions, & on uncountable occasions I've seen full-rollers shoot 300. Full-Roller = Technically 0 spin. | Yes. While I'm not sure 0 angle & 0 rotation is 100% possible, it'd make throwing strikes a lot tougher. |
sdb2754 | From the Sil., from Of the Sun and Moon, "Arien...was chosen..., being from the beginning a spirit of fire, whom Melkor had not deceived..."
And, from Valaquenta, "For of the Maiar, many were drawn to his splendor... down into darkness; and others he corrupted afterwards to his service by lies and treacherous gifts...among these spirits were the Valaraukar, scourges of fire that in Middle-earth were called Balrogs."
Now, I know that I am speculating a bit here, but from these two quotes, I have always assumed that Balrogs were spirits of fire that became evil, but not spirits all such fire spirits became evil (At least one did not). Further, unlike what was proposed in other comments, some Maiar "fell" into evil AFTER entering Arda. Not all had made their decision before becoming incarnate.
tl;dr The Balrogs were the "spirits of fire" that turned to Melkor. | From the Sil., from Of the Sun and Moon, "Arien...was chosen..., being from the beginning a spirit of fire, whom Melkor had not deceived..."
And, from Valaquenta, "For of the Maiar, many were drawn to his splendor... down into darkness; and others he corrupted afterwards to his service by lies and treacherous gifts...among these spirits were the Valaraukar, scourges of fire that in Middle-earth were called Balrogs."
Now, I know that I am speculating a bit here, but from these two quotes, I have always assumed that Balrogs were spirits of fire that became evil, but not spirits all such fire spirits became evil (At least one did not). Further, unlike what was proposed in other comments, some Maiar "fell" into evil AFTER entering Arda. Not all had made their decision before becoming incarnate.
tl;dr The Balrogs were the "spirits of fire" that turned to Melkor.
| tolkienfans | t5_2r6jm | comzizc | From the Sil., from Of the Sun and Moon, "Arien...was chosen..., being from the beginning a spirit of fire, whom Melkor had not deceived..."
And, from Valaquenta, "For of the Maiar, many were drawn to his splendor... down into darkness; and others he corrupted afterwards to his service by lies and treacherous gifts...among these spirits were the Valaraukar, scourges of fire that in Middle-earth were called Balrogs."
Now, I know that I am speculating a bit here, but from these two quotes, I have always assumed that Balrogs were spirits of fire that became evil, but not spirits all such fire spirits became evil (At least one did not). Further, unlike what was proposed in other comments, some Maiar "fell" into evil AFTER entering Arda. Not all had made their decision before becoming incarnate. | The Balrogs were the "spirits of fire" that turned to Melkor. |
the_raptor | >This is what a fascist government looks like in 2015.
Not even close. Fascism is a political ideology where corporations and other representative groups (eg labour bodies) work together for the good of the whole. Fascism isn't Market driven.
What Abbott and friends want is a return to the class structure of the early industrial revolution. But this time they will use technology to prevent labour from organising.
TL;DR: Authoritarianism != Fascism. | >This is what a fascist government looks like in 2015.
Not even close. Fascism is a political ideology where corporations and other representative groups (eg labour bodies) work together for the good of the whole. Fascism isn't Market driven.
What Abbott and friends want is a return to the class structure of the early industrial revolution. But this time they will use technology to prevent labour from organising.
TL;DR: Authoritarianism != Fascism.
| australia | t5_2qh8e | conwofk | This is what a fascist government looks like in 2015.
Not even close. Fascism is a political ideology where corporations and other representative groups (eg labour bodies) work together for the good of the whole. Fascism isn't Market driven.
What Abbott and friends want is a return to the class structure of the early industrial revolution. But this time they will use technology to prevent labour from organising. | Authoritarianism != Fascism. |
mik1234345 | GP idea 2: extensions to Willow Creek. Since WC kind of reminds of the French Quarter in LA, I think we should add a Southern flair to it. I think a nice little swamp neighborhood would be cool. This would constitute of a hood that is mostly swamp (beware of crocodiles), but also a house where a voodoo witch doctor resides. Snakes are now a collectible and currency for anything witch doctor related (potions, tarot card readings, voodoo dolls), and you can now cook frogs. Also new: the ability to make pitchers (from the classic small pitchers, to the fancy big dispensing ones you see at parties, as well as dispensers that you see at sports games) of drinks that include lemonade, sweet tea, flavored iced tea, sports drink, and spiked punch; New ability to smoke meat, which you can barbecue; **New ability to craft whiskies and bourbon**; New recipes: gumbo, crawfish etoufee, fried chicken, biscuits and gravy, hush puppies, buttermilk pancakes, bread pudding, Mississippi Mud pie, banana cream pie, pecan pie (new cooking ingredient- butter); new Southern restaurant venue; Mardi gras themed items and clothes; a jazz club venue, with brass instruments and a bass
I have formatting issues and can't get bullet points to work, so tldr: add southern flair to willow creek, which reminds me of NOLA | GP idea 2: extensions to Willow Creek. Since WC kind of reminds of the French Quarter in LA, I think we should add a Southern flair to it. I think a nice little swamp neighborhood would be cool. This would constitute of a hood that is mostly swamp (beware of crocodiles), but also a house where a voodoo witch doctor resides. Snakes are now a collectible and currency for anything witch doctor related (potions, tarot card readings, voodoo dolls), and you can now cook frogs. Also new: the ability to make pitchers (from the classic small pitchers, to the fancy big dispensing ones you see at parties, as well as dispensers that you see at sports games) of drinks that include lemonade, sweet tea, flavored iced tea, sports drink, and spiked punch; New ability to smoke meat, which you can barbecue; New ability to craft whiskies and bourbon ; New recipes: gumbo, crawfish etoufee, fried chicken, biscuits and gravy, hush puppies, buttermilk pancakes, bread pudding, Mississippi Mud pie, banana cream pie, pecan pie (new cooking ingredient- butter); new Southern restaurant venue; Mardi gras themed items and clothes; a jazz club venue, with brass instruments and a bass
I have formatting issues and can't get bullet points to work, so tldr: add southern flair to willow creek, which reminds me of NOLA
| thesims | t5_2rbdu | conu9t6 | GP idea 2: extensions to Willow Creek. Since WC kind of reminds of the French Quarter in LA, I think we should add a Southern flair to it. I think a nice little swamp neighborhood would be cool. This would constitute of a hood that is mostly swamp (beware of crocodiles), but also a house where a voodoo witch doctor resides. Snakes are now a collectible and currency for anything witch doctor related (potions, tarot card readings, voodoo dolls), and you can now cook frogs. Also new: the ability to make pitchers (from the classic small pitchers, to the fancy big dispensing ones you see at parties, as well as dispensers that you see at sports games) of drinks that include lemonade, sweet tea, flavored iced tea, sports drink, and spiked punch; New ability to smoke meat, which you can barbecue; New ability to craft whiskies and bourbon ; New recipes: gumbo, crawfish etoufee, fried chicken, biscuits and gravy, hush puppies, buttermilk pancakes, bread pudding, Mississippi Mud pie, banana cream pie, pecan pie (new cooking ingredient- butter); new Southern restaurant venue; Mardi gras themed items and clothes; a jazz club venue, with brass instruments and a bass
I have formatting issues and can't get bullet points to work, so | add southern flair to willow creek, which reminds me of NOLA |
BreakfastBros | Modest Mouse,
First, I would like to say that I like your band. Any and all criticisms I make are because I like yall and yall like constructive criticism apparently.
The song was at first interesting, sounding kind of like the Strokes. It is apparent yall are trying to be different, but does it pay off here? Yes, I kept listening and after the intro was done I had already invested too much time to turn back now. Once I got used to the fast paced vocals, I began to get into the rhythm, which doesn't take long because the drum is fairly consistent and the riff is fairly basic. This is a good thing because it is easy to understand, but it is a bit repetitive for a 6 minute song as it has a standard chorusy structure. I know yall know its repetative because yall threw in some synth and what not, which was cool but only for a second.
Overall
Song: 14/20
Relisten value: 2/5
TL;DR: Good song but it follows the formula too closely.
Best Wishes | Modest Mouse,
First, I would like to say that I like your band. Any and all criticisms I make are because I like yall and yall like constructive criticism apparently.
The song was at first interesting, sounding kind of like the Strokes. It is apparent yall are trying to be different, but does it pay off here? Yes, I kept listening and after the intro was done I had already invested too much time to turn back now. Once I got used to the fast paced vocals, I began to get into the rhythm, which doesn't take long because the drum is fairly consistent and the riff is fairly basic. This is a good thing because it is easy to understand, but it is a bit repetitive for a 6 minute song as it has a standard chorusy structure. I know yall know its repetative because yall threw in some synth and what not, which was cool but only for a second.
Overall
Song: 14/20
Relisten value: 2/5
TL;DR: Good song but it follows the formula too closely.
Best Wishes
| Music | t5_2qh1u | conlb0h | Modest Mouse,
First, I would like to say that I like your band. Any and all criticisms I make are because I like yall and yall like constructive criticism apparently.
The song was at first interesting, sounding kind of like the Strokes. It is apparent yall are trying to be different, but does it pay off here? Yes, I kept listening and after the intro was done I had already invested too much time to turn back now. Once I got used to the fast paced vocals, I began to get into the rhythm, which doesn't take long because the drum is fairly consistent and the riff is fairly basic. This is a good thing because it is easy to understand, but it is a bit repetitive for a 6 minute song as it has a standard chorusy structure. I know yall know its repetative because yall threw in some synth and what not, which was cool but only for a second.
Overall
Song: 14/20
Relisten value: 2/5 | Good song but it follows the formula too closely.
Best Wishes |
Bean_Eat_O | She is a very attractive woman who has dated a couple of pretty famous dudes (dudes who i can only assume dated/married her mostly because of her very ample butt and curvaceous body).
She is famous for being famous and being very attractive.
TLDR Version:
Attractive woman dates/fucks/marries famous dudes, ends up becoming famous by association. | She is a very attractive woman who has dated a couple of pretty famous dudes (dudes who i can only assume dated/married her mostly because of her very ample butt and curvaceous body).
She is famous for being famous and being very attractive.
TLDR Version:
Attractive woman dates/fucks/marries famous dudes, ends up becoming famous by association.
| explainlikeimfive | t5_2sokd | cono0gk | She is a very attractive woman who has dated a couple of pretty famous dudes (dudes who i can only assume dated/married her mostly because of her very ample butt and curvaceous body).
She is famous for being famous and being very attractive. | Version:
Attractive woman dates/fucks/marries famous dudes, ends up becoming famous by association. |
alvzh | The SoloMid brand has exceeded anybody's expectations and is the most successful brand in League of Legends E-Sports from your leadership from a viewer's perspective.
What are your core values that contribute to your success?
What is your motivation to continue on the path of success?
Are there any not acknowledged factors or people that have been instrumental to SoloMid's success?
Do you have any inspirations?
tldr;
What drives you as Owner of Team SoloMid? | The SoloMid brand has exceeded anybody's expectations and is the most successful brand in League of Legends E-Sports from your leadership from a viewer's perspective.
What are your core values that contribute to your success?
What is your motivation to continue on the path of success?
Are there any not acknowledged factors or people that have been instrumental to SoloMid's success?
Do you have any inspirations?
tldr;
What drives you as Owner of Team SoloMid?
| TeamSolomid | t5_2t8co | conqg8t | The SoloMid brand has exceeded anybody's expectations and is the most successful brand in League of Legends E-Sports from your leadership from a viewer's perspective.
What are your core values that contribute to your success?
What is your motivation to continue on the path of success?
Are there any not acknowledged factors or people that have been instrumental to SoloMid's success?
Do you have any inspirations? | What drives you as Owner of Team SoloMid? |
kinderdemon | Not always: I fell in love with the Ogre gunline and never looked back. It is never as bad as a dwarf gunline, in fact it is the opposite of the skip movement phase, skip magic phase, shoot style of the dwarves because Ogres have movement 6, decent magic and great magic items (everyone loves the hellheart but Grut's sickle is amazing, even for those times when it costs you a game by murdering your general for you).
It is also different from the Wood Elves', vulnerable hit and run style, since if your opponents do charge you, they will still have to take down a bunch of T4 S4 monstrous infantry with a ton of attacks and stomps.
I take a list that looks something like this, varying for 2-3k:
Core: 50% gnoblar trappers 50% a little bunker of 6-9 guts or bulls for the Slaughtermaster, bsb and Butcher. The bunker only engages to mop up, or if otherwise unable to get away, however, if it does engage, the bsb should be able to do a good amount of damage from the back rank, while the butcher can accept pesky challenges that get past the champion, being likely quite useless and disposable (I hate lore of the Maw: odds are you won't roll Trollguts and all the other spells are very meh: stubborn, +1 str, +1 T, or just bad like the ultimate spell, while the lore attribute never seems to matter except when it hurts your caster, since they are probably not out there getting wounded in the first place, but in a bunker casting spells.)
L&H: The Slaughtermaster takes Lore of Heavens (amazing for ogres) l4 and Grut's sickle, all others are basically naked (GW or ironfist and heavy armor for the bsb, a dispel scroll or if I can somehow fit it in, hellheart for butcher)
Rare& Special: Two Ironblasters, two units of 3 leadbelchers, sometimes a scrap launcher, sometimes a Thundertusk, always 5-6 Maneaters with poison sniper brace of pistols.
The way the list works is: Slaughtermaster summons comets to force the opponent to move where you want them to move, nerfs their shooting and buffs your's. You shoot, but unlike a dwarf list, you never stay still.
All our units can move 6' and then shoot, except the gnoblar, who are only there as speed bumps and bothers.
The whole army moves rapidly, firing all the while, all but the Maneaters, who occupy in a central location, ideally a building, and effectively turn into a 24' radius circle of inevitable death for enemy mages, unless your opponents commits enough force to take them down.
If you run into a unit blocking the way: charge it with everything, especially the Ironblasters get forgotten for the awesome s5 chariots they are. Usually ogres can puncture a hole in a flank and then turn around and shoot the rest of the enemy army while it approaches.
E.g. Once the deployment was the scenario where one person deploys their whole army first and gets first turn and I was not that person. My opponent, playing dark elves, assumed that I was going to put all my shooty forces on a defensible central hill behind a river and aimed his whole army at that hill.
I deployed everything but the gnoblar along the open left flank.
Each turn, I moved my entire army and fired.
Each turn the left flank of his army died in droves, while the right flank marched across the board, trying to turn around and come at me. Sealing the deal, I got off a Comet of Cassandra, putting it exactly where his units needed to go to participate in the game.
I made it behind his line before meeting any serious resistance.
TL:DR you can do a lot of weird things with an ogre list.
p.s. almost no one buys the GW maneaters at the cost they are, you buy 6 bulls and bits from the other armies: lizardmen banners and shrunken heads, Empire guns, Skaven weaponry and rats, etc and make your own!
| Not always: I fell in love with the Ogre gunline and never looked back. It is never as bad as a dwarf gunline, in fact it is the opposite of the skip movement phase, skip magic phase, shoot style of the dwarves because Ogres have movement 6, decent magic and great magic items (everyone loves the hellheart but Grut's sickle is amazing, even for those times when it costs you a game by murdering your general for you).
It is also different from the Wood Elves', vulnerable hit and run style, since if your opponents do charge you, they will still have to take down a bunch of T4 S4 monstrous infantry with a ton of attacks and stomps.
I take a list that looks something like this, varying for 2-3k:
Core: 50% gnoblar trappers 50% a little bunker of 6-9 guts or bulls for the Slaughtermaster, bsb and Butcher. The bunker only engages to mop up, or if otherwise unable to get away, however, if it does engage, the bsb should be able to do a good amount of damage from the back rank, while the butcher can accept pesky challenges that get past the champion, being likely quite useless and disposable (I hate lore of the Maw: odds are you won't roll Trollguts and all the other spells are very meh: stubborn, +1 str, +1 T, or just bad like the ultimate spell, while the lore attribute never seems to matter except when it hurts your caster, since they are probably not out there getting wounded in the first place, but in a bunker casting spells.)
L&H: The Slaughtermaster takes Lore of Heavens (amazing for ogres) l4 and Grut's sickle, all others are basically naked (GW or ironfist and heavy armor for the bsb, a dispel scroll or if I can somehow fit it in, hellheart for butcher)
Rare& Special: Two Ironblasters, two units of 3 leadbelchers, sometimes a scrap launcher, sometimes a Thundertusk, always 5-6 Maneaters with poison sniper brace of pistols.
The way the list works is: Slaughtermaster summons comets to force the opponent to move where you want them to move, nerfs their shooting and buffs your's. You shoot, but unlike a dwarf list, you never stay still.
All our units can move 6' and then shoot, except the gnoblar, who are only there as speed bumps and bothers.
The whole army moves rapidly, firing all the while, all but the Maneaters, who occupy in a central location, ideally a building, and effectively turn into a 24' radius circle of inevitable death for enemy mages, unless your opponents commits enough force to take them down.
If you run into a unit blocking the way: charge it with everything, especially the Ironblasters get forgotten for the awesome s5 chariots they are. Usually ogres can puncture a hole in a flank and then turn around and shoot the rest of the enemy army while it approaches.
E.g. Once the deployment was the scenario where one person deploys their whole army first and gets first turn and I was not that person. My opponent, playing dark elves, assumed that I was going to put all my shooty forces on a defensible central hill behind a river and aimed his whole army at that hill.
I deployed everything but the gnoblar along the open left flank.
Each turn, I moved my entire army and fired.
Each turn the left flank of his army died in droves, while the right flank marched across the board, trying to turn around and come at me. Sealing the deal, I got off a Comet of Cassandra, putting it exactly where his units needed to go to participate in the game.
I made it behind his line before meeting any serious resistance.
TL:DR you can do a lot of weird things with an ogre list.
p.s. almost no one buys the GW maneaters at the cost they are, you buy 6 bulls and bits from the other armies: lizardmen banners and shrunken heads, Empire guns, Skaven weaponry and rats, etc and make your own!
| WarhammerFantasy | t5_2rv4g | coom4wd | Not always: I fell in love with the Ogre gunline and never looked back. It is never as bad as a dwarf gunline, in fact it is the opposite of the skip movement phase, skip magic phase, shoot style of the dwarves because Ogres have movement 6, decent magic and great magic items (everyone loves the hellheart but Grut's sickle is amazing, even for those times when it costs you a game by murdering your general for you).
It is also different from the Wood Elves', vulnerable hit and run style, since if your opponents do charge you, they will still have to take down a bunch of T4 S4 monstrous infantry with a ton of attacks and stomps.
I take a list that looks something like this, varying for 2-3k:
Core: 50% gnoblar trappers 50% a little bunker of 6-9 guts or bulls for the Slaughtermaster, bsb and Butcher. The bunker only engages to mop up, or if otherwise unable to get away, however, if it does engage, the bsb should be able to do a good amount of damage from the back rank, while the butcher can accept pesky challenges that get past the champion, being likely quite useless and disposable (I hate lore of the Maw: odds are you won't roll Trollguts and all the other spells are very meh: stubborn, +1 str, +1 T, or just bad like the ultimate spell, while the lore attribute never seems to matter except when it hurts your caster, since they are probably not out there getting wounded in the first place, but in a bunker casting spells.)
L&H: The Slaughtermaster takes Lore of Heavens (amazing for ogres) l4 and Grut's sickle, all others are basically naked (GW or ironfist and heavy armor for the bsb, a dispel scroll or if I can somehow fit it in, hellheart for butcher)
Rare& Special: Two Ironblasters, two units of 3 leadbelchers, sometimes a scrap launcher, sometimes a Thundertusk, always 5-6 Maneaters with poison sniper brace of pistols.
The way the list works is: Slaughtermaster summons comets to force the opponent to move where you want them to move, nerfs their shooting and buffs your's. You shoot, but unlike a dwarf list, you never stay still.
All our units can move 6' and then shoot, except the gnoblar, who are only there as speed bumps and bothers.
The whole army moves rapidly, firing all the while, all but the Maneaters, who occupy in a central location, ideally a building, and effectively turn into a 24' radius circle of inevitable death for enemy mages, unless your opponents commits enough force to take them down.
If you run into a unit blocking the way: charge it with everything, especially the Ironblasters get forgotten for the awesome s5 chariots they are. Usually ogres can puncture a hole in a flank and then turn around and shoot the rest of the enemy army while it approaches.
E.g. Once the deployment was the scenario where one person deploys their whole army first and gets first turn and I was not that person. My opponent, playing dark elves, assumed that I was going to put all my shooty forces on a defensible central hill behind a river and aimed his whole army at that hill.
I deployed everything but the gnoblar along the open left flank.
Each turn, I moved my entire army and fired.
Each turn the left flank of his army died in droves, while the right flank marched across the board, trying to turn around and come at me. Sealing the deal, I got off a Comet of Cassandra, putting it exactly where his units needed to go to participate in the game.
I made it behind his line before meeting any serious resistance. | you can do a lot of weird things with an ogre list.
p.s. almost no one buys the GW maneaters at the cost they are, you buy 6 bulls and bits from the other armies: lizardmen banners and shrunken heads, Empire guns, Skaven weaponry and rats, etc and make your own! |
UncommonPrayer | I think you can add to that moral reason, the simple litany of its ineffectiveness as a deterrent (and the immorality of using it as such in the first place), its exorbitant cost, and the inability to correct an error in its application.
tl;dr Making people feel good about "justice" being done is not a basis for social policy. | I think you can add to that moral reason, the simple litany of its ineffectiveness as a deterrent (and the immorality of using it as such in the first place), its exorbitant cost, and the inability to correct an error in its application.
tl;dr Making people feel good about "justice" being done is not a basis for social policy.
| Christianity | t5_2qh6c | coofbs1 | I think you can add to that moral reason, the simple litany of its ineffectiveness as a deterrent (and the immorality of using it as such in the first place), its exorbitant cost, and the inability to correct an error in its application. | Making people feel good about "justice" being done is not a basis for social policy. |
herr_wildow | [Here's some crime rates] ( When you compare Poland to Estonia in these charts you will see that Poland seems safer except burglaries - we have some more. But you will also see that we're one of the safest countries out there.
TLDR: Warsaw is safe - no worries! | [Here's some crime rates] ( When you compare Poland to Estonia in these charts you will see that Poland seems safer except burglaries - we have some more. But you will also see that we're one of the safest countries out there.
TLDR: Warsaw is safe - no worries!
| warsaw | t5_2ri7v | cop1l86 | Here's some crime rates] ( When you compare Poland to Estonia in these charts you will see that Poland seems safer except burglaries - we have some more. But you will also see that we're one of the safest countries out there. | Warsaw is safe - no worries! |
Spitalian | Even though Alej doesn't seem to be used, in Spanish it would probably be pronounced /alex/ (ironically).
That's an IPA transcription, so I'll explain each letter.
Imagine a thick Boston accent, the "Pahk yah car in Hahvad yahd" kind of accent. The "ah" sound in "Pahk" or "yahd" is /a/.
/l/ is just an l sound.
/e/ is similar to the vowel in "bed", but with your tongue higher up in your mouth. (If you're Australian, it likely *is* the vowel in "bed"). Another way to look at it is that in English, the "ay" sound like in "lay", is a diphthong, meaning it's actually two vowels in quick succession. The first vowel is /e/, the second one is the vowel in the word "in". Just pronounce the first half of the diphthong and that's /e/.
/x/ isn't an x sound like in "Alex" it's actually the same sound in the German pronunciation of "Bach" or the Scottish pronunciation of "loch".
Congrats! You can now say "Alej" like a Spanish speaker! If only Alej were actually used...
TL;DR: Alej sounds like Alex, but with the ch sound in "Bach" or "loch". | Even though Alej doesn't seem to be used, in Spanish it would probably be pronounced /alex/ (ironically).
That's an IPA transcription, so I'll explain each letter.
Imagine a thick Boston accent, the "Pahk yah car in Hahvad yahd" kind of accent. The "ah" sound in "Pahk" or "yahd" is /a/.
/l/ is just an l sound.
/e/ is similar to the vowel in "bed", but with your tongue higher up in your mouth. (If you're Australian, it likely is the vowel in "bed"). Another way to look at it is that in English, the "ay" sound like in "lay", is a diphthong, meaning it's actually two vowels in quick succession. The first vowel is /e/, the second one is the vowel in the word "in". Just pronounce the first half of the diphthong and that's /e/.
/x/ isn't an x sound like in "Alex" it's actually the same sound in the German pronunciation of "Bach" or the Scottish pronunciation of "loch".
Congrats! You can now say "Alej" like a Spanish speaker! If only Alej were actually used...
TL;DR: Alej sounds like Alex, but with the ch sound in "Bach" or "loch".
| NoStupidQuestions | t5_2w844 | cooufri | Even though Alej doesn't seem to be used, in Spanish it would probably be pronounced /alex/ (ironically).
That's an IPA transcription, so I'll explain each letter.
Imagine a thick Boston accent, the "Pahk yah car in Hahvad yahd" kind of accent. The "ah" sound in "Pahk" or "yahd" is /a/.
/l/ is just an l sound.
/e/ is similar to the vowel in "bed", but with your tongue higher up in your mouth. (If you're Australian, it likely is the vowel in "bed"). Another way to look at it is that in English, the "ay" sound like in "lay", is a diphthong, meaning it's actually two vowels in quick succession. The first vowel is /e/, the second one is the vowel in the word "in". Just pronounce the first half of the diphthong and that's /e/.
/x/ isn't an x sound like in "Alex" it's actually the same sound in the German pronunciation of "Bach" or the Scottish pronunciation of "loch".
Congrats! You can now say "Alej" like a Spanish speaker! If only Alej were actually used... | Alej sounds like Alex, but with the ch sound in "Bach" or "loch". |
mzupeman | It's just as 88MilesPrower said:
Clean your cartridges.
A Nintendo will take whatever electrical current it can get, and most of the time display whatever it can read... this often lead on the NES to a lot of bizarre and garbled screens even though the game was clearly 'playing'. The Retron 5 doesn't work this way, however. It needs a good connection to accurately dump 100% of the ROM into the internal system memory. If you don't have a good connection, it can't pull everything it needs to before allowing you to play.
As a word of warning, if you already put a bunch of games into your Retron 5 that are dirty, I'd try to clean the gunk out of this pins. Use a card that's sturdy, but thinner than a credit card. Take an old, thin undershirt or a really thin microfiber cloth, pull it tight around an edge of the card, and insert and pull it out about 10 times across the length of the pins. Get some of that gunk out of there.
This is why so many old NES pins went bad... people blew in their games, it caused rust to form on the pins, and then they started inserting that crap into their machines.
What you can do for the game pins is take some isopropyl alcohol and apply it to a cotton swab, and then rub those contact pins clean. Under a light, those pins should look like brand new shiny gold strips. If you see ANYTHING on them, keep cleaning.
If that doesn't work, you may need more drastic measure, which would require a retrobit tool (a screwdriver so you can open up the carts and have direct access to the game board inside), and some metal cleaner or Brasso. Apply the Brasso, start to rub away with a cloth until the copper pins are clean again, and for good measure you can do a gentle cleansing with some alcohol afterwards just to make sure there's no residue left behind.
This is something we all pretty much learn when we get into retro collecting. Clean carts = clean and happy consoles for life, pretty much. 88MilesPrower sort of downplays the importance of clean stuff a bit with the 'clean your cart crap' comment, but it's necessary.
TL;DR - Your cart is dirty and now so are probably your Retron 5 pins. Despite what we learned growing up, never blow in your carts to clean them. Ever. Instead, use alcohol on a cotton swab or even some Brasso if you have to. Clean hard, and game on. | It's just as 88MilesPrower said:
Clean your cartridges.
A Nintendo will take whatever electrical current it can get, and most of the time display whatever it can read... this often lead on the NES to a lot of bizarre and garbled screens even though the game was clearly 'playing'. The Retron 5 doesn't work this way, however. It needs a good connection to accurately dump 100% of the ROM into the internal system memory. If you don't have a good connection, it can't pull everything it needs to before allowing you to play.
As a word of warning, if you already put a bunch of games into your Retron 5 that are dirty, I'd try to clean the gunk out of this pins. Use a card that's sturdy, but thinner than a credit card. Take an old, thin undershirt or a really thin microfiber cloth, pull it tight around an edge of the card, and insert and pull it out about 10 times across the length of the pins. Get some of that gunk out of there.
This is why so many old NES pins went bad... people blew in their games, it caused rust to form on the pins, and then they started inserting that crap into their machines.
What you can do for the game pins is take some isopropyl alcohol and apply it to a cotton swab, and then rub those contact pins clean. Under a light, those pins should look like brand new shiny gold strips. If you see ANYTHING on them, keep cleaning.
If that doesn't work, you may need more drastic measure, which would require a retrobit tool (a screwdriver so you can open up the carts and have direct access to the game board inside), and some metal cleaner or Brasso. Apply the Brasso, start to rub away with a cloth until the copper pins are clean again, and for good measure you can do a gentle cleansing with some alcohol afterwards just to make sure there's no residue left behind.
This is something we all pretty much learn when we get into retro collecting. Clean carts = clean and happy consoles for life, pretty much. 88MilesPrower sort of downplays the importance of clean stuff a bit with the 'clean your cart crap' comment, but it's necessary.
TL;DR - Your cart is dirty and now so are probably your Retron 5 pins. Despite what we learned growing up, never blow in your carts to clean them. Ever. Instead, use alcohol on a cotton swab or even some Brasso if you have to. Clean hard, and game on.
| retrogaming | t5_2qk6v | cop6l2d | It's just as 88MilesPrower said:
Clean your cartridges.
A Nintendo will take whatever electrical current it can get, and most of the time display whatever it can read... this often lead on the NES to a lot of bizarre and garbled screens even though the game was clearly 'playing'. The Retron 5 doesn't work this way, however. It needs a good connection to accurately dump 100% of the ROM into the internal system memory. If you don't have a good connection, it can't pull everything it needs to before allowing you to play.
As a word of warning, if you already put a bunch of games into your Retron 5 that are dirty, I'd try to clean the gunk out of this pins. Use a card that's sturdy, but thinner than a credit card. Take an old, thin undershirt or a really thin microfiber cloth, pull it tight around an edge of the card, and insert and pull it out about 10 times across the length of the pins. Get some of that gunk out of there.
This is why so many old NES pins went bad... people blew in their games, it caused rust to form on the pins, and then they started inserting that crap into their machines.
What you can do for the game pins is take some isopropyl alcohol and apply it to a cotton swab, and then rub those contact pins clean. Under a light, those pins should look like brand new shiny gold strips. If you see ANYTHING on them, keep cleaning.
If that doesn't work, you may need more drastic measure, which would require a retrobit tool (a screwdriver so you can open up the carts and have direct access to the game board inside), and some metal cleaner or Brasso. Apply the Brasso, start to rub away with a cloth until the copper pins are clean again, and for good measure you can do a gentle cleansing with some alcohol afterwards just to make sure there's no residue left behind.
This is something we all pretty much learn when we get into retro collecting. Clean carts = clean and happy consoles for life, pretty much. 88MilesPrower sort of downplays the importance of clean stuff a bit with the 'clean your cart crap' comment, but it's necessary. | Your cart is dirty and now so are probably your Retron 5 pins. Despite what we learned growing up, never blow in your carts to clean them. Ever. Instead, use alcohol on a cotton swab or even some Brasso if you have to. Clean hard, and game on. |
cheesechick | Holy crap, so many! I love this subreddit but because of the way reddit works it's all about new stuff, so I don't really see a lot of the older games I love get mentioned a lot... unless they're things that have had a huge far-reaching impact on the hobby (like Settlers) or keep coming back into print. It's not really a surprise that things that are OOP don't come up so much here.
* **Crokinole** is understandably not a hot item here - it's large and expensive, but it's hands-down my favorite dexterity game.
* **Tichu** gets some love, but in general it seems like more abstract card games (like most trick takers) aren't super popular here. We've been playing this game at our gamenights for eight years now and it still gets weekly play.
* **BattleLine** sometimes comes up under 2p recommendations, but nowhere near the amount Jaipur does. I *vastly* prefer BL.
* **Survive: Escape from Atlantis** also sometimes makes an appearance here, but nowhere near the amount I'd bring it up as a perfect gateway or lighter game.
* **Catacombs** is another one of my favorite dexterity games, though the 4th ed ships soon and has HUGELY improved art so I'm hoping to see it get some more love here!
* **Cartagena** is one of my favorite fillers. It's basically like an advanced candyland with a lot of tactical fun. Short, simple, full of fun options.
* **The Big Idea** I see Snake Oil mentioned a lot, which came out after this and is more widely available so no surprise here - but I think the rules in this version are superior as they're a little more flexible. You can just play it with Snake Oil cards though.
* **Mu** Another trick taker, another favorite. <3 Used to be sold in a collection called Mu & Lots More which also contained the excellent games Njet and Was Sticht?
* **Sticheln** The trick taker our group has played the most of after Tichu. It's a little less deep than Mu, but has a SUPER interesting strategy that is basically ass-backwards from every other trick taker out there and is deliciously evil. Scales really well too. It's an import item though, so not surprising that it doesn't come up here.
* **Santiago** is one of my personal favorite Euros. It's short, simple, and *highly* interactive - there's a bribery element which is lovely, but you are also open to negotiate at any time and doing so is really what makes the game shine. I still see it at my FLGS all the time so I imagine it's still in print.
* **Dream Factory** aka Hollywood Blockbuster aka Traumfabrik (which is the edition I have.) I see Ra come up a fair amount when auction games are brought up, but not this other Knizia masterpiece. I think it's had a hard time staying in print though. The movie theme turns some people off. :(
* **Zendo** I LOVE logic puzzles, and this is basically the best one I've found in a board game. **Ricochet Robots** (seen mentioned a few times here) is a close second, but is less player-driven/creative. It uses those Treehouse (aka Icehouse) pieces that are little plastic pyramids and it's so much fun if you're into puzzley brain burners.
* **Blokus** Pretty rare that I see abstract games mentioned here. Sometimes Hive and Hey, That's My Fish! (which I love) but that's about it. Blokus is one of my favs - highly confrontational and so simple anyone could play.
* **Big Shot** Took me forever to track down a trade for this - it only ever had one print run. But it's amazing! So evil. It's an auction/area majority game where your opponents get to place *each other's* cubes in addition to their own. It's quick, dead simple, and super interactive. Love it.
* **Big City** was supposed to get a reprint some years ago from Valley Games that just became vaporware. I scored the original in a trade and really like it. It doesn't scale super well, but with 3 it's delightful - fun options and just enough screwage.
* **Goa** Great classic Euro. I imagine this got brought up a lot when Z-Man reprint happened a few years back (before I found this sub). This one held up a lot better for me than Puerto Rico or Caylus.
* **Quantum** Newer game on the list. It's kind of flawed (kingmaker issue with 3-4p) so I can see why it's maybe not super popular, but it's also got a *really* clever design and really fun. It's short enough that the kingmaker issue isn't a dealbreaker for me, but I still like it best at 2p for that reason.
* **Lifeboats** I've seen come up a couple of times, but it's one of our group's favorite negotiation games. It's just so delightfully evil. **City of Horror** is supposed to be similar and I've seen that come up a little more, as it's newer.
* **Linko!** is the newest game on the list, and doesn't have great distribution. :( Another abstract card game though so I'm not sure how much love it would see anyway. It's like a super confrontational rummy variant and I really like it.
* **PitchCar** also doesn't come up a lot. It's kind of expensive though, and you need a big table. But classic dexterity fun.
* **Riff-Raff** is my favorite newer dexterity game - it's import-only but not super hard to find online (I got mine on Amazon) but it IS expensive.
* **San Marco** was my first "grail game" and it took me years to score a copy. I've only played it once (3p is not a popular number for me) but I adored every second of it. It's like a lighter El Grande with a fun I split/you choose mechanic.
* **Sleuth** I love deduction games and this is one of the best. Can be very brain-burning and require really meticulous note-taking (something I love doing). A little more straightforward and less high-concept than the deduction games I've seen on this sub.
* **Snow Tails** Sadly didn't stay in print very long - there's a sequel which I've heard is not as good. I think this is my favorite racing game. I like the hand management aspect a lot, and it doesn't drag like Formula D.
* **Genoa** Super hardcore trading/negotiation game. EVERYTHING is up for trade, very brain burning and kind of long but also one of a kind!
* **Yspahan** First game I've played with the dice-as-actions system. Much shorter/lighter than recently popular ones such as Castles of Burgundy. Not super deep but packs a lot of punch into 45 minutes which is always a plus.
* **YINSH/ZERTZ/DVONN** Again don't see a lot of abstracts here - usually just Hive for 2p which maybe has more depth and variety, but I really like the simplicity of these.
* **Jungle Speed** is the dex game I've seen come up the most here, and one of my favorites, but again I don't see it mentioned nearly often enough ;)
* **Traders of Carthage** True story, I had trouble getting into Splendor because I wondered why I wasn't just playing this. Doesn't scale super well though, unfortunately. Will probably get some more attention when the remake Traders of Osaka hits later this year.
* **Can't Stop** My favorite press your luck / abstract dice game around. I enjoy this much more than Incan Gold, for example.
* **Intrigue** Evil negotiation at its finest.
* **Wildlife Safari** aka Botswana/Loco/Thor (I've got the Thor edition). Great filler, along the lines of No Thanks! - made by Knizia.
Until last year, I was also alone in my love of **Hart an der Grenze** an amazing silly bluffing game... but fortunately it got remade as **Sheriff of Nottingham** so now everyone can share my joy! I haven't tried the new version yet (not really interested in buying it because I prefer the theme of the original) but I'm so glad to see it get some richly deserved attention.
Also this sub isn't super into party games. I understand they're pretty divisive, but I actually really like having a big variety of them for when the mood strikes or when I'm playing with non-gamers and want an excuse not to have to suffer through Pictionary, Cranium, etc. Favorites include **Time's Up** (based on the parlor game Celebrities - basically taboo+charades, the latter of which I generally hate but this game builds up to it in a way that makes it work and results in hilarity), **Who? What? Where?** (drawing game where you have to draw random people/actions/locations together in a scene), **Why Did the Chicken...?** (deck of cards creates random jokes, players have to write their own answers and read them aloud), **Attribute** (CAH/A2A style game but with far better replay value - 1 player thinks of a topic, and the rest have to play an adjective that either *describes* or *does not describe* the topic, and everyone has to guess at which adjectives describe the topic via a dexterity game), and **Wise & Otherwise** (basically Balderdash but with extremely weird, obscure proverbs from around the world).
TL;DR: I like trick taking games, dexterity games, and party games more than most people apparently. Also I've been in the hobby long enough / am an active enough BGG trader to have a lot of older OOP games. | Holy crap, so many! I love this subreddit but because of the way reddit works it's all about new stuff, so I don't really see a lot of the older games I love get mentioned a lot... unless they're things that have had a huge far-reaching impact on the hobby (like Settlers) or keep coming back into print. It's not really a surprise that things that are OOP don't come up so much here.
Crokinole is understandably not a hot item here - it's large and expensive, but it's hands-down my favorite dexterity game.
Tichu gets some love, but in general it seems like more abstract card games (like most trick takers) aren't super popular here. We've been playing this game at our gamenights for eight years now and it still gets weekly play.
BattleLine sometimes comes up under 2p recommendations, but nowhere near the amount Jaipur does. I vastly prefer BL.
Survive: Escape from Atlantis also sometimes makes an appearance here, but nowhere near the amount I'd bring it up as a perfect gateway or lighter game.
Catacombs is another one of my favorite dexterity games, though the 4th ed ships soon and has HUGELY improved art so I'm hoping to see it get some more love here!
Cartagena is one of my favorite fillers. It's basically like an advanced candyland with a lot of tactical fun. Short, simple, full of fun options.
The Big Idea I see Snake Oil mentioned a lot, which came out after this and is more widely available so no surprise here - but I think the rules in this version are superior as they're a little more flexible. You can just play it with Snake Oil cards though.
Mu Another trick taker, another favorite. <3 Used to be sold in a collection called Mu & Lots More which also contained the excellent games Njet and Was Sticht?
Sticheln The trick taker our group has played the most of after Tichu. It's a little less deep than Mu, but has a SUPER interesting strategy that is basically ass-backwards from every other trick taker out there and is deliciously evil. Scales really well too. It's an import item though, so not surprising that it doesn't come up here.
Santiago is one of my personal favorite Euros. It's short, simple, and highly interactive - there's a bribery element which is lovely, but you are also open to negotiate at any time and doing so is really what makes the game shine. I still see it at my FLGS all the time so I imagine it's still in print.
Dream Factory aka Hollywood Blockbuster aka Traumfabrik (which is the edition I have.) I see Ra come up a fair amount when auction games are brought up, but not this other Knizia masterpiece. I think it's had a hard time staying in print though. The movie theme turns some people off. :(
Zendo I LOVE logic puzzles, and this is basically the best one I've found in a board game. Ricochet Robots (seen mentioned a few times here) is a close second, but is less player-driven/creative. It uses those Treehouse (aka Icehouse) pieces that are little plastic pyramids and it's so much fun if you're into puzzley brain burners.
Blokus Pretty rare that I see abstract games mentioned here. Sometimes Hive and Hey, That's My Fish! (which I love) but that's about it. Blokus is one of my favs - highly confrontational and so simple anyone could play.
Big Shot Took me forever to track down a trade for this - it only ever had one print run. But it's amazing! So evil. It's an auction/area majority game where your opponents get to place each other's cubes in addition to their own. It's quick, dead simple, and super interactive. Love it.
Big City was supposed to get a reprint some years ago from Valley Games that just became vaporware. I scored the original in a trade and really like it. It doesn't scale super well, but with 3 it's delightful - fun options and just enough screwage.
Goa Great classic Euro. I imagine this got brought up a lot when Z-Man reprint happened a few years back (before I found this sub). This one held up a lot better for me than Puerto Rico or Caylus.
Quantum Newer game on the list. It's kind of flawed (kingmaker issue with 3-4p) so I can see why it's maybe not super popular, but it's also got a really clever design and really fun. It's short enough that the kingmaker issue isn't a dealbreaker for me, but I still like it best at 2p for that reason.
Lifeboats I've seen come up a couple of times, but it's one of our group's favorite negotiation games. It's just so delightfully evil. City of Horror is supposed to be similar and I've seen that come up a little more, as it's newer.
Linko! is the newest game on the list, and doesn't have great distribution. :( Another abstract card game though so I'm not sure how much love it would see anyway. It's like a super confrontational rummy variant and I really like it.
PitchCar also doesn't come up a lot. It's kind of expensive though, and you need a big table. But classic dexterity fun.
Riff-Raff is my favorite newer dexterity game - it's import-only but not super hard to find online (I got mine on Amazon) but it IS expensive.
San Marco was my first "grail game" and it took me years to score a copy. I've only played it once (3p is not a popular number for me) but I adored every second of it. It's like a lighter El Grande with a fun I split/you choose mechanic.
Sleuth I love deduction games and this is one of the best. Can be very brain-burning and require really meticulous note-taking (something I love doing). A little more straightforward and less high-concept than the deduction games I've seen on this sub.
Snow Tails Sadly didn't stay in print very long - there's a sequel which I've heard is not as good. I think this is my favorite racing game. I like the hand management aspect a lot, and it doesn't drag like Formula D.
Genoa Super hardcore trading/negotiation game. EVERYTHING is up for trade, very brain burning and kind of long but also one of a kind!
Yspahan First game I've played with the dice-as-actions system. Much shorter/lighter than recently popular ones such as Castles of Burgundy. Not super deep but packs a lot of punch into 45 minutes which is always a plus.
YINSH/ZERTZ/DVONN Again don't see a lot of abstracts here - usually just Hive for 2p which maybe has more depth and variety, but I really like the simplicity of these.
Jungle Speed is the dex game I've seen come up the most here, and one of my favorites, but again I don't see it mentioned nearly often enough ;)
Traders of Carthage True story, I had trouble getting into Splendor because I wondered why I wasn't just playing this. Doesn't scale super well though, unfortunately. Will probably get some more attention when the remake Traders of Osaka hits later this year.
Can't Stop My favorite press your luck / abstract dice game around. I enjoy this much more than Incan Gold, for example.
Intrigue Evil negotiation at its finest.
Wildlife Safari aka Botswana/Loco/Thor (I've got the Thor edition). Great filler, along the lines of No Thanks! - made by Knizia.
Until last year, I was also alone in my love of Hart an der Grenze an amazing silly bluffing game... but fortunately it got remade as Sheriff of Nottingham so now everyone can share my joy! I haven't tried the new version yet (not really interested in buying it because I prefer the theme of the original) but I'm so glad to see it get some richly deserved attention.
Also this sub isn't super into party games. I understand they're pretty divisive, but I actually really like having a big variety of them for when the mood strikes or when I'm playing with non-gamers and want an excuse not to have to suffer through Pictionary, Cranium, etc. Favorites include Time's Up (based on the parlor game Celebrities - basically taboo+charades, the latter of which I generally hate but this game builds up to it in a way that makes it work and results in hilarity), Who? What? Where? (drawing game where you have to draw random people/actions/locations together in a scene), Why Did the Chicken...? (deck of cards creates random jokes, players have to write their own answers and read them aloud), Attribute (CAH/A2A style game but with far better replay value - 1 player thinks of a topic, and the rest have to play an adjective that either describes or does not describe the topic, and everyone has to guess at which adjectives describe the topic via a dexterity game), and Wise & Otherwise (basically Balderdash but with extremely weird, obscure proverbs from around the world).
TL;DR: I like trick taking games, dexterity games, and party games more than most people apparently. Also I've been in the hobby long enough / am an active enough BGG trader to have a lot of older OOP games.
| boardgames | t5_2qmjp | coopf79 | Holy crap, so many! I love this subreddit but because of the way reddit works it's all about new stuff, so I don't really see a lot of the older games I love get mentioned a lot... unless they're things that have had a huge far-reaching impact on the hobby (like Settlers) or keep coming back into print. It's not really a surprise that things that are OOP don't come up so much here.
Crokinole is understandably not a hot item here - it's large and expensive, but it's hands-down my favorite dexterity game.
Tichu gets some love, but in general it seems like more abstract card games (like most trick takers) aren't super popular here. We've been playing this game at our gamenights for eight years now and it still gets weekly play.
BattleLine sometimes comes up under 2p recommendations, but nowhere near the amount Jaipur does. I vastly prefer BL.
Survive: Escape from Atlantis also sometimes makes an appearance here, but nowhere near the amount I'd bring it up as a perfect gateway or lighter game.
Catacombs is another one of my favorite dexterity games, though the 4th ed ships soon and has HUGELY improved art so I'm hoping to see it get some more love here!
Cartagena is one of my favorite fillers. It's basically like an advanced candyland with a lot of tactical fun. Short, simple, full of fun options.
The Big Idea I see Snake Oil mentioned a lot, which came out after this and is more widely available so no surprise here - but I think the rules in this version are superior as they're a little more flexible. You can just play it with Snake Oil cards though.
Mu Another trick taker, another favorite. <3 Used to be sold in a collection called Mu & Lots More which also contained the excellent games Njet and Was Sticht?
Sticheln The trick taker our group has played the most of after Tichu. It's a little less deep than Mu, but has a SUPER interesting strategy that is basically ass-backwards from every other trick taker out there and is deliciously evil. Scales really well too. It's an import item though, so not surprising that it doesn't come up here.
Santiago is one of my personal favorite Euros. It's short, simple, and highly interactive - there's a bribery element which is lovely, but you are also open to negotiate at any time and doing so is really what makes the game shine. I still see it at my FLGS all the time so I imagine it's still in print.
Dream Factory aka Hollywood Blockbuster aka Traumfabrik (which is the edition I have.) I see Ra come up a fair amount when auction games are brought up, but not this other Knizia masterpiece. I think it's had a hard time staying in print though. The movie theme turns some people off. :(
Zendo I LOVE logic puzzles, and this is basically the best one I've found in a board game. Ricochet Robots (seen mentioned a few times here) is a close second, but is less player-driven/creative. It uses those Treehouse (aka Icehouse) pieces that are little plastic pyramids and it's so much fun if you're into puzzley brain burners.
Blokus Pretty rare that I see abstract games mentioned here. Sometimes Hive and Hey, That's My Fish! (which I love) but that's about it. Blokus is one of my favs - highly confrontational and so simple anyone could play.
Big Shot Took me forever to track down a trade for this - it only ever had one print run. But it's amazing! So evil. It's an auction/area majority game where your opponents get to place each other's cubes in addition to their own. It's quick, dead simple, and super interactive. Love it.
Big City was supposed to get a reprint some years ago from Valley Games that just became vaporware. I scored the original in a trade and really like it. It doesn't scale super well, but with 3 it's delightful - fun options and just enough screwage.
Goa Great classic Euro. I imagine this got brought up a lot when Z-Man reprint happened a few years back (before I found this sub). This one held up a lot better for me than Puerto Rico or Caylus.
Quantum Newer game on the list. It's kind of flawed (kingmaker issue with 3-4p) so I can see why it's maybe not super popular, but it's also got a really clever design and really fun. It's short enough that the kingmaker issue isn't a dealbreaker for me, but I still like it best at 2p for that reason.
Lifeboats I've seen come up a couple of times, but it's one of our group's favorite negotiation games. It's just so delightfully evil. City of Horror is supposed to be similar and I've seen that come up a little more, as it's newer.
Linko! is the newest game on the list, and doesn't have great distribution. :( Another abstract card game though so I'm not sure how much love it would see anyway. It's like a super confrontational rummy variant and I really like it.
PitchCar also doesn't come up a lot. It's kind of expensive though, and you need a big table. But classic dexterity fun.
Riff-Raff is my favorite newer dexterity game - it's import-only but not super hard to find online (I got mine on Amazon) but it IS expensive.
San Marco was my first "grail game" and it took me years to score a copy. I've only played it once (3p is not a popular number for me) but I adored every second of it. It's like a lighter El Grande with a fun I split/you choose mechanic.
Sleuth I love deduction games and this is one of the best. Can be very brain-burning and require really meticulous note-taking (something I love doing). A little more straightforward and less high-concept than the deduction games I've seen on this sub.
Snow Tails Sadly didn't stay in print very long - there's a sequel which I've heard is not as good. I think this is my favorite racing game. I like the hand management aspect a lot, and it doesn't drag like Formula D.
Genoa Super hardcore trading/negotiation game. EVERYTHING is up for trade, very brain burning and kind of long but also one of a kind!
Yspahan First game I've played with the dice-as-actions system. Much shorter/lighter than recently popular ones such as Castles of Burgundy. Not super deep but packs a lot of punch into 45 minutes which is always a plus.
YINSH/ZERTZ/DVONN Again don't see a lot of abstracts here - usually just Hive for 2p which maybe has more depth and variety, but I really like the simplicity of these.
Jungle Speed is the dex game I've seen come up the most here, and one of my favorites, but again I don't see it mentioned nearly often enough ;)
Traders of Carthage True story, I had trouble getting into Splendor because I wondered why I wasn't just playing this. Doesn't scale super well though, unfortunately. Will probably get some more attention when the remake Traders of Osaka hits later this year.
Can't Stop My favorite press your luck / abstract dice game around. I enjoy this much more than Incan Gold, for example.
Intrigue Evil negotiation at its finest.
Wildlife Safari aka Botswana/Loco/Thor (I've got the Thor edition). Great filler, along the lines of No Thanks! - made by Knizia.
Until last year, I was also alone in my love of Hart an der Grenze an amazing silly bluffing game... but fortunately it got remade as Sheriff of Nottingham so now everyone can share my joy! I haven't tried the new version yet (not really interested in buying it because I prefer the theme of the original) but I'm so glad to see it get some richly deserved attention.
Also this sub isn't super into party games. I understand they're pretty divisive, but I actually really like having a big variety of them for when the mood strikes or when I'm playing with non-gamers and want an excuse not to have to suffer through Pictionary, Cranium, etc. Favorites include Time's Up (based on the parlor game Celebrities - basically taboo+charades, the latter of which I generally hate but this game builds up to it in a way that makes it work and results in hilarity), Who? What? Where? (drawing game where you have to draw random people/actions/locations together in a scene), Why Did the Chicken...? (deck of cards creates random jokes, players have to write their own answers and read them aloud), Attribute (CAH/A2A style game but with far better replay value - 1 player thinks of a topic, and the rest have to play an adjective that either describes or does not describe the topic, and everyone has to guess at which adjectives describe the topic via a dexterity game), and Wise & Otherwise (basically Balderdash but with extremely weird, obscure proverbs from around the world). | I like trick taking games, dexterity games, and party games more than most people apparently. Also I've been in the hobby long enough / am an active enough BGG trader to have a lot of older OOP games. |
athzar | Holy shit, that's awesome. I don't entirely understand a lot of the data, but it's well presented, with a nice TLDR for idiots like me. | Holy shit, that's awesome. I don't entirely understand a lot of the data, but it's well presented, with a nice TLDR for idiots like me.
| halo | t5_2qixk | coougqc | Holy shit, that's awesome. I don't entirely understand a lot of the data, but it's well presented, with a nice | for idiots like me. |
Siddny- | Nah man you may get lucky they may just mess with you like they did with me
Story time if you wanna read it:
I was taking a train back from NYC I was bringing back a little souvenir never had a problem on a train before so I didn't think much of it get to the rail waiting in line with my pops up comes a fucking K-9 unit of three (3 dogs 6 cops) and they're just fucking standing there now I'm high as shit when this happens
a 7 or 6 1/2 from a whole cookie i had a few hours beforehand I suddenly went from being on Mars to staring at the floor of a train station trying not to make eye contact with these cops
The real kicker they totally knew i was not all there they kept pointing and laughing at me to themselves pops said it was probably the funniest thing he's ever seen me do *and i got my party favors back home without any searches*
TL;DR: cops will totally freak you out and make fun of you for it | Nah man you may get lucky they may just mess with you like they did with me
Story time if you wanna read it:
I was taking a train back from NYC I was bringing back a little souvenir never had a problem on a train before so I didn't think much of it get to the rail waiting in line with my pops up comes a fucking K-9 unit of three (3 dogs 6 cops) and they're just fucking standing there now I'm high as shit when this happens
a 7 or 6 1/2 from a whole cookie i had a few hours beforehand I suddenly went from being on Mars to staring at the floor of a train station trying not to make eye contact with these cops
The real kicker they totally knew i was not all there they kept pointing and laughing at me to themselves pops said it was probably the funniest thing he's ever seen me do and i got my party favors back home without any searches
TL;DR: cops will totally freak you out and make fun of you for it
| trees | t5_2r9vp | cooyedv | Nah man you may get lucky they may just mess with you like they did with me
Story time if you wanna read it:
I was taking a train back from NYC I was bringing back a little souvenir never had a problem on a train before so I didn't think much of it get to the rail waiting in line with my pops up comes a fucking K-9 unit of three (3 dogs 6 cops) and they're just fucking standing there now I'm high as shit when this happens
a 7 or 6 1/2 from a whole cookie i had a few hours beforehand I suddenly went from being on Mars to staring at the floor of a train station trying not to make eye contact with these cops
The real kicker they totally knew i was not all there they kept pointing and laughing at me to themselves pops said it was probably the funniest thing he's ever seen me do and i got my party favors back home without any searches | cops will totally freak you out and make fun of you for it |
atrubetskoy | Great question, basically, as we all know, North Korea does not have a government that is highly favorable towards, or tolerant of religion (besides their Juche ideology). So effectively all of North Korea was technically placed under the jurisdiction of the Archdiocese of Seoul, even though there are no functioning Catholic churches in North Korea.
The little enclave (green) is the [Territorial Abbey of Tokugen (aka Tokwon)]( which ceased to function after Christians were driven out in 1949. However, the administrative unit continues to exist and is still directly under the jurisdiction of the Vatican, making it a top-level unit.
tl;dr: North Korea is in the Province of Seoul, except an old abandoned abbey that is still its own subdivision. | Great question, basically, as we all know, North Korea does not have a government that is highly favorable towards, or tolerant of religion (besides their Juche ideology). So effectively all of North Korea was technically placed under the jurisdiction of the Archdiocese of Seoul, even though there are no functioning Catholic churches in North Korea.
The little enclave (green) is the [Territorial Abbey of Tokugen (aka Tokwon)]( which ceased to function after Christians were driven out in 1949. However, the administrative unit continues to exist and is still directly under the jurisdiction of the Vatican, making it a top-level unit.
tl;dr: North Korea is in the Province of Seoul, except an old abandoned abbey that is still its own subdivision.
| MapPorn | t5_2si92 | copa8u0 | Great question, basically, as we all know, North Korea does not have a government that is highly favorable towards, or tolerant of religion (besides their Juche ideology). So effectively all of North Korea was technically placed under the jurisdiction of the Archdiocese of Seoul, even though there are no functioning Catholic churches in North Korea.
The little enclave (green) is the [Territorial Abbey of Tokugen (aka Tokwon)]( which ceased to function after Christians were driven out in 1949. However, the administrative unit continues to exist and is still directly under the jurisdiction of the Vatican, making it a top-level unit. | North Korea is in the Province of Seoul, except an old abandoned abbey that is still its own subdivision. |
addictedkoala | atrubetskoy got the basics correct, I just wanted to jump in on the difference between a diocese and an archdiocese. One thing to remember is that bishops are ordained like a priest is, so they are able to do things that a priest cannot such as confirmations (priests can only do confirmations with permission from their bishop), ordain new priests/bishops, and be a local church leader. What that last thing means is that the bishop is the highest leader of a physical location. All bishops are the highest authority in their diocese and with the exception of the pope, no one controls their decision making for their local area.
In contrast, any other titles for bishops are purely administrative in nature. An archbishop is head of the provinces you see in the map, but he is not able to "order around" bishops of the subordinate dioceses. What he does do is try to facilitate the surrounding dioceses to work together. However practically speaking, today archbishops are mostly treated just as bishops of larger and/or historically important dioceses (appropriately labeled archdioceses). An archdiocese is head of a province, but is independent. For example, I am in the diocese of Cleveland which is subordinate to the archdiocese of Cincinatti in the Ohio province, but Cleveland is not part of the archdiocese of Cincinatti itself.
This extends to Cardinals who hold a special position either as archbishops of important sees (the archbishop of New York, Washington D.C., and Boston are usually cardinals for example) or as administrators in Rome. You may hear about a cardinal in Rome giving "orders" to a bishop, however this is not the cardinal himself. The cardinal will be part of an organization like the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith or the Congregation for Bishops. This organization exercises the administrative powers of the Pope, and the cardinal is essentially a very large, very important administrative assistant since the Pope has to oversee the entire world. A bit much for one man to administrate.
FUN FACT: All bishops must be bishop *of somewhere*, so even the cardinals in Rome who don't run a diocese have territory they are techincally the bishop of. Often these are in the middle of nowhere, some are dioceses that don't exist anymore and have been taken over by other dioceses, and I met a retired bishop who's titular diocese is underwater.
tl;dr: The difference between priests and bishops is theologically important. The difference between two different bishops is they exercise complete control over different territories. The difference between a bishop and archbishop is only administrative, and often simply nominal. | atrubetskoy got the basics correct, I just wanted to jump in on the difference between a diocese and an archdiocese. One thing to remember is that bishops are ordained like a priest is, so they are able to do things that a priest cannot such as confirmations (priests can only do confirmations with permission from their bishop), ordain new priests/bishops, and be a local church leader. What that last thing means is that the bishop is the highest leader of a physical location. All bishops are the highest authority in their diocese and with the exception of the pope, no one controls their decision making for their local area.
In contrast, any other titles for bishops are purely administrative in nature. An archbishop is head of the provinces you see in the map, but he is not able to "order around" bishops of the subordinate dioceses. What he does do is try to facilitate the surrounding dioceses to work together. However practically speaking, today archbishops are mostly treated just as bishops of larger and/or historically important dioceses (appropriately labeled archdioceses). An archdiocese is head of a province, but is independent. For example, I am in the diocese of Cleveland which is subordinate to the archdiocese of Cincinatti in the Ohio province, but Cleveland is not part of the archdiocese of Cincinatti itself.
This extends to Cardinals who hold a special position either as archbishops of important sees (the archbishop of New York, Washington D.C., and Boston are usually cardinals for example) or as administrators in Rome. You may hear about a cardinal in Rome giving "orders" to a bishop, however this is not the cardinal himself. The cardinal will be part of an organization like the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith or the Congregation for Bishops. This organization exercises the administrative powers of the Pope, and the cardinal is essentially a very large, very important administrative assistant since the Pope has to oversee the entire world. A bit much for one man to administrate.
FUN FACT: All bishops must be bishop of somewhere , so even the cardinals in Rome who don't run a diocese have territory they are techincally the bishop of. Often these are in the middle of nowhere, some are dioceses that don't exist anymore and have been taken over by other dioceses, and I met a retired bishop who's titular diocese is underwater.
tl;dr: The difference between priests and bishops is theologically important. The difference between two different bishops is they exercise complete control over different territories. The difference between a bishop and archbishop is only administrative, and often simply nominal.
| MapPorn | t5_2si92 | copzg1c | atrubetskoy got the basics correct, I just wanted to jump in on the difference between a diocese and an archdiocese. One thing to remember is that bishops are ordained like a priest is, so they are able to do things that a priest cannot such as confirmations (priests can only do confirmations with permission from their bishop), ordain new priests/bishops, and be a local church leader. What that last thing means is that the bishop is the highest leader of a physical location. All bishops are the highest authority in their diocese and with the exception of the pope, no one controls their decision making for their local area.
In contrast, any other titles for bishops are purely administrative in nature. An archbishop is head of the provinces you see in the map, but he is not able to "order around" bishops of the subordinate dioceses. What he does do is try to facilitate the surrounding dioceses to work together. However practically speaking, today archbishops are mostly treated just as bishops of larger and/or historically important dioceses (appropriately labeled archdioceses). An archdiocese is head of a province, but is independent. For example, I am in the diocese of Cleveland which is subordinate to the archdiocese of Cincinatti in the Ohio province, but Cleveland is not part of the archdiocese of Cincinatti itself.
This extends to Cardinals who hold a special position either as archbishops of important sees (the archbishop of New York, Washington D.C., and Boston are usually cardinals for example) or as administrators in Rome. You may hear about a cardinal in Rome giving "orders" to a bishop, however this is not the cardinal himself. The cardinal will be part of an organization like the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith or the Congregation for Bishops. This organization exercises the administrative powers of the Pope, and the cardinal is essentially a very large, very important administrative assistant since the Pope has to oversee the entire world. A bit much for one man to administrate.
FUN FACT: All bishops must be bishop of somewhere , so even the cardinals in Rome who don't run a diocese have territory they are techincally the bishop of. Often these are in the middle of nowhere, some are dioceses that don't exist anymore and have been taken over by other dioceses, and I met a retired bishop who's titular diocese is underwater. | The difference between priests and bishops is theologically important. The difference between two different bishops is they exercise complete control over different territories. The difference between a bishop and archbishop is only administrative, and often simply nominal. |
HempelsRaven | Cynic here. I think the problem has more to do with those in office continually catering to special interest groups who, in return for various legislative favors, throw their support (and the votes of its members) behind that representative. This wouldn't be as big a deal if people would actually get out and vote, but voting turnout is the US terrible. People don't vote. In presidential elections, turnout generally hovers between 50-60%. In this past midterm election, a whopping 36% turned out to vote. So when you've got several special interest groups getting its members to throw their votes behind a Congressperson who has been acted favorably to that group, which can translate to hundreds or thousands of votes, and 60%+ of the population is staying home and not voting, it's no surprise the same people keep getting elected. It's easier for us to get on our computer and repost articles on our Facebook about how much we don't like Congress than it is to actually do something about it and try to fix the problem, and voting isn't mandatory like it is in, say, Australia.
TL;DR Americans are lazy. | Cynic here. I think the problem has more to do with those in office continually catering to special interest groups who, in return for various legislative favors, throw their support (and the votes of its members) behind that representative. This wouldn't be as big a deal if people would actually get out and vote, but voting turnout is the US terrible. People don't vote. In presidential elections, turnout generally hovers between 50-60%. In this past midterm election, a whopping 36% turned out to vote. So when you've got several special interest groups getting its members to throw their votes behind a Congressperson who has been acted favorably to that group, which can translate to hundreds or thousands of votes, and 60%+ of the population is staying home and not voting, it's no surprise the same people keep getting elected. It's easier for us to get on our computer and repost articles on our Facebook about how much we don't like Congress than it is to actually do something about it and try to fix the problem, and voting isn't mandatory like it is in, say, Australia.
TL;DR Americans are lazy.
| explainlikeimfive | t5_2sokd | copp5a5 | Cynic here. I think the problem has more to do with those in office continually catering to special interest groups who, in return for various legislative favors, throw their support (and the votes of its members) behind that representative. This wouldn't be as big a deal if people would actually get out and vote, but voting turnout is the US terrible. People don't vote. In presidential elections, turnout generally hovers between 50-60%. In this past midterm election, a whopping 36% turned out to vote. So when you've got several special interest groups getting its members to throw their votes behind a Congressperson who has been acted favorably to that group, which can translate to hundreds or thousands of votes, and 60%+ of the population is staying home and not voting, it's no surprise the same people keep getting elected. It's easier for us to get on our computer and repost articles on our Facebook about how much we don't like Congress than it is to actually do something about it and try to fix the problem, and voting isn't mandatory like it is in, say, Australia. | Americans are lazy. |
ward_152 | If you have enough memory locks it's a non issue.
Granted, yes getting this initial set up does take a while, but once everything is where it needs to be, you dont need to take a lot apart (depending on method of travel)
For example back when I still had my pearl soundcheck (set up exactly the same but I had two 10" toms 12", then16") on a pearl Icon rack ; since we had a little covered trailer for gigs, I would just simply take off toms and cymbals, and leave tom and cymbal arms attached (I would 'tuck' some things to make it skinnier) and set it inbetween gear so it would fall. Come show time, I would find a corner to put toms and cymbals back on, then me and another person could take the rack with everything set up on stage so I would only have to fit my bass , snare and Floor tom into line
Tl;dr: long initial set up, quick repeat set up once memory locks are in place | If you have enough memory locks it's a non issue.
Granted, yes getting this initial set up does take a while, but once everything is where it needs to be, you dont need to take a lot apart (depending on method of travel)
For example back when I still had my pearl soundcheck (set up exactly the same but I had two 10" toms 12", then16") on a pearl Icon rack ; since we had a little covered trailer for gigs, I would just simply take off toms and cymbals, and leave tom and cymbal arms attached (I would 'tuck' some things to make it skinnier) and set it inbetween gear so it would fall. Come show time, I would find a corner to put toms and cymbals back on, then me and another person could take the rack with everything set up on stage so I would only have to fit my bass , snare and Floor tom into line
Tl;dr: long initial set up, quick repeat set up once memory locks are in place
| drums | t5_2qie5 | coq2ads | If you have enough memory locks it's a non issue.
Granted, yes getting this initial set up does take a while, but once everything is where it needs to be, you dont need to take a lot apart (depending on method of travel)
For example back when I still had my pearl soundcheck (set up exactly the same but I had two 10" toms 12", then16") on a pearl Icon rack ; since we had a little covered trailer for gigs, I would just simply take off toms and cymbals, and leave tom and cymbal arms attached (I would 'tuck' some things to make it skinnier) and set it inbetween gear so it would fall. Come show time, I would find a corner to put toms and cymbals back on, then me and another person could take the rack with everything set up on stage so I would only have to fit my bass , snare and Floor tom into line | long initial set up, quick repeat set up once memory locks are in place |
Unav3nged | **Extremely slow** - Can't react or influence the game like a IS-3/110, 50 100, or even a T32 can. This is a hugeeeeeee liability.
**Mediocre gun** - Im actually not extremely familiar with the gun, but from experience fighting it, it's nothing to be too afraid of. Im guessing it shares characteristics with the T32, in which the T32 wins out with the hull down capabilities and mobility.
**Armor**- The armor becomes somewhat irrelevant with someone who knows where to shoot it, gold rounds, or a combination of both. Like /u/xNovember said, all you really have to do is prioritize other tanks, and leave the KV-4 alone until it's time to cleanup for an easy kill.
TL;DR All it has is armor, which can be easily countered. Other than that, it has nothing that the other tier 8 heavies can't do better.
| Extremely slow - Can't react or influence the game like a IS-3/110, 50 100, or even a T32 can. This is a hugeeeeeee liability.
Mediocre gun - Im actually not extremely familiar with the gun, but from experience fighting it, it's nothing to be too afraid of. Im guessing it shares characteristics with the T32, in which the T32 wins out with the hull down capabilities and mobility.
Armor - The armor becomes somewhat irrelevant with someone who knows where to shoot it, gold rounds, or a combination of both. Like /u/xNovember said, all you really have to do is prioritize other tanks, and leave the KV-4 alone until it's time to cleanup for an easy kill.
TL;DR All it has is armor, which can be easily countered. Other than that, it has nothing that the other tier 8 heavies can't do better.
| WorldofTanks | t5_2s113 | coqregz | Extremely slow - Can't react or influence the game like a IS-3/110, 50 100, or even a T32 can. This is a hugeeeeeee liability.
Mediocre gun - Im actually not extremely familiar with the gun, but from experience fighting it, it's nothing to be too afraid of. Im guessing it shares characteristics with the T32, in which the T32 wins out with the hull down capabilities and mobility.
Armor - The armor becomes somewhat irrelevant with someone who knows where to shoot it, gold rounds, or a combination of both. Like /u/xNovember said, all you really have to do is prioritize other tanks, and leave the KV-4 alone until it's time to cleanup for an easy kill. | All it has is armor, which can be easily countered. Other than that, it has nothing that the other tier 8 heavies can't do better. |
Liirin | It's not repairing damaged DNA so much as enabling the immune system to zap it. [NCBI]( [Cancer Active]( [Memorial Sloane Kettering Cancer Center]( [Cancer Research UK]( Preliminary research seems to point to it being a way to heal that is less cancer-prone. There's very little literature against it, so I'm going to take the plus. It can't repair damaged DNA, but then again nothing that I know of can.
Lidocaine overdosage information can be found on [Wikipedia]( though it's a bit vague. Commercially sold bottles of aloe with lidocaine usually have warnings against overapplication.
TL;DR: There's a lot of early evidence for what I'm saying, but nothing against. It's also erring on the side of caution. | It's not repairing damaged DNA so much as enabling the immune system to zap it. [NCBI]( [Cancer Active]( [Memorial Sloane Kettering Cancer Center]( [Cancer Research UK]( Preliminary research seems to point to it being a way to heal that is less cancer-prone. There's very little literature against it, so I'm going to take the plus. It can't repair damaged DNA, but then again nothing that I know of can.
Lidocaine overdosage information can be found on [Wikipedia]( though it's a bit vague. Commercially sold bottles of aloe with lidocaine usually have warnings against overapplication.
TL;DR: There's a lot of early evidence for what I'm saying, but nothing against. It's also erring on the side of caution.
| SkincareAddiction | t5_2tbbg | cor41ka | It's not repairing damaged DNA so much as enabling the immune system to zap it. [NCBI]( [Cancer Active]( [Memorial Sloane Kettering Cancer Center]( [Cancer Research UK]( Preliminary research seems to point to it being a way to heal that is less cancer-prone. There's very little literature against it, so I'm going to take the plus. It can't repair damaged DNA, but then again nothing that I know of can.
Lidocaine overdosage information can be found on [Wikipedia]( though it's a bit vague. Commercially sold bottles of aloe with lidocaine usually have warnings against overapplication. | There's a lot of early evidence for what I'm saying, but nothing against. It's also erring on the side of caution. |
lizzwashere | Biking to work is the BEST!
Looks like many people have already covered the basics, but I'll add a few things that help me:
-Keep work clothes at work, if you can. I've only forgotten my work pants a couple times in 3 years of bike commuting, but both of those times I was *very* thankful for having a spare change in my drawer. If you are in an office building, blazers or sweaters are also GREAT to keep on the back of your desk chair in case you forget a shirt. Everything looks business-y in a blazer!
- Keep toiletries at work. My partner doesn't have a shower at work, so he keeps a wash cloth and some deoderant at work just in case. Baby wipes are probably useful, too.
- This isn't intended to scare you, but take your lane (ride toward the middle of the lane). It's the safest place to be. I know that it seems counter-intuitive, but if you are riding farther in the middle of the lane, cars will pass you safely and you'll feel great. If you are hugging parked cars off to the shoulder, you are going to get doored. Also, if you are hugging the shoulder, drivers will try to *squeeze* around you even if there is an oncoming car instead of waiting until nothing is coming. By biking toward the righ-center, you are making the decision easy for them by saying "if you don't pass me safely, *you* will have to be the one that risks getting hit (by the oncoming car). I've had many friends get doored, and thank god there was no car coming behind them or they would have bounced directly into traffic. Once I started taking my lane, I felt much more confident and safe riding.
TL;DR don't ride where you can get hit by parked car opening their doors.
- Try to stick to lower-traffic roads if the route allows, even if it means winding through neighborhoods. What is best for a motorist is not always best for a cyclist. Sometimes I catch myself taking my bike routes while I'm driving and am like "why the eff am I taking Floyd Ave. to get through the Fan?" I think Asterion7 bikes in southside quite a bit, so he might be able to give you some good pointers on the route. I think Jahnke has a trail-thing that runs near it for a bit, but I'm not sure if it connects where you need to go.
-I think doing a test-run is a good idea, it will help you explore your options without having to worry about being late for work.
-HAVE FUN! | Biking to work is the BEST!
Looks like many people have already covered the basics, but I'll add a few things that help me:
-Keep work clothes at work, if you can. I've only forgotten my work pants a couple times in 3 years of bike commuting, but both of those times I was very thankful for having a spare change in my drawer. If you are in an office building, blazers or sweaters are also GREAT to keep on the back of your desk chair in case you forget a shirt. Everything looks business-y in a blazer!
Keep toiletries at work. My partner doesn't have a shower at work, so he keeps a wash cloth and some deoderant at work just in case. Baby wipes are probably useful, too.
This isn't intended to scare you, but take your lane (ride toward the middle of the lane). It's the safest place to be. I know that it seems counter-intuitive, but if you are riding farther in the middle of the lane, cars will pass you safely and you'll feel great. If you are hugging parked cars off to the shoulder, you are going to get doored. Also, if you are hugging the shoulder, drivers will try to squeeze around you even if there is an oncoming car instead of waiting until nothing is coming. By biking toward the righ-center, you are making the decision easy for them by saying "if you don't pass me safely, you will have to be the one that risks getting hit (by the oncoming car). I've had many friends get doored, and thank god there was no car coming behind them or they would have bounced directly into traffic. Once I started taking my lane, I felt much more confident and safe riding.
TL;DR don't ride where you can get hit by parked car opening their doors.
Try to stick to lower-traffic roads if the route allows, even if it means winding through neighborhoods. What is best for a motorist is not always best for a cyclist. Sometimes I catch myself taking my bike routes while I'm driving and am like "why the eff am I taking Floyd Ave. to get through the Fan?" I think Asterion7 bikes in southside quite a bit, so he might be able to give you some good pointers on the route. I think Jahnke has a trail-thing that runs near it for a bit, but I'm not sure if it connects where you need to go.
-I think doing a test-run is a good idea, it will help you explore your options without having to worry about being late for work.
-HAVE FUN!
| rva | t5_2qpvj | coqrr5m | Biking to work is the BEST!
Looks like many people have already covered the basics, but I'll add a few things that help me:
-Keep work clothes at work, if you can. I've only forgotten my work pants a couple times in 3 years of bike commuting, but both of those times I was very thankful for having a spare change in my drawer. If you are in an office building, blazers or sweaters are also GREAT to keep on the back of your desk chair in case you forget a shirt. Everything looks business-y in a blazer!
Keep toiletries at work. My partner doesn't have a shower at work, so he keeps a wash cloth and some deoderant at work just in case. Baby wipes are probably useful, too.
This isn't intended to scare you, but take your lane (ride toward the middle of the lane). It's the safest place to be. I know that it seems counter-intuitive, but if you are riding farther in the middle of the lane, cars will pass you safely and you'll feel great. If you are hugging parked cars off to the shoulder, you are going to get doored. Also, if you are hugging the shoulder, drivers will try to squeeze around you even if there is an oncoming car instead of waiting until nothing is coming. By biking toward the righ-center, you are making the decision easy for them by saying "if you don't pass me safely, you will have to be the one that risks getting hit (by the oncoming car). I've had many friends get doored, and thank god there was no car coming behind them or they would have bounced directly into traffic. Once I started taking my lane, I felt much more confident and safe riding. | don't ride where you can get hit by parked car opening their doors.
Try to stick to lower-traffic roads if the route allows, even if it means winding through neighborhoods. What is best for a motorist is not always best for a cyclist. Sometimes I catch myself taking my bike routes while I'm driving and am like "why the eff am I taking Floyd Ave. to get through the Fan?" I think Asterion7 bikes in southside quite a bit, so he might be able to give you some good pointers on the route. I think Jahnke has a trail-thing that runs near it for a bit, but I'm not sure if it connects where you need to go.
-I think doing a test-run is a good idea, it will help you explore your options without having to worry about being late for work.
-HAVE FUN! |
chaz91w | I was active duty Army from 05-09. The most incompetent soldier I met was our 2nd Lieutenant. He was 21 and graduated early from college with a degree in Chinese anthropology. Like many, many, many, people who joined the Military during that time frame, he joined for the wrong reasons. He was never interested in being a leader, molding young soldiers into men, or even the Army in general, he was interested in getting his student loans paid off, thats it. And now, 10 years later this dirtbag is probably in a more important role, but instead of student loan repayment as his motivating factor, he is counting the days he can retire and be a manager of some home depot somewhere. And worse part of all is that unless he fucks up majorly, he is going to continue to be promoted as he continues to put in the years.
TLDR: the army is riddled with people who joined when the incentives were great. Now they are stuck with a large group of soldiers not interested in being soldiers. | I was active duty Army from 05-09. The most incompetent soldier I met was our 2nd Lieutenant. He was 21 and graduated early from college with a degree in Chinese anthropology. Like many, many, many, people who joined the Military during that time frame, he joined for the wrong reasons. He was never interested in being a leader, molding young soldiers into men, or even the Army in general, he was interested in getting his student loans paid off, thats it. And now, 10 years later this dirtbag is probably in a more important role, but instead of student loan repayment as his motivating factor, he is counting the days he can retire and be a manager of some home depot somewhere. And worse part of all is that unless he fucks up majorly, he is going to continue to be promoted as he continues to put in the years.
TLDR: the army is riddled with people who joined when the incentives were great. Now they are stuck with a large group of soldiers not interested in being soldiers.
| news | t5_2qh3l | coqkaf0 | I was active duty Army from 05-09. The most incompetent soldier I met was our 2nd Lieutenant. He was 21 and graduated early from college with a degree in Chinese anthropology. Like many, many, many, people who joined the Military during that time frame, he joined for the wrong reasons. He was never interested in being a leader, molding young soldiers into men, or even the Army in general, he was interested in getting his student loans paid off, thats it. And now, 10 years later this dirtbag is probably in a more important role, but instead of student loan repayment as his motivating factor, he is counting the days he can retire and be a manager of some home depot somewhere. And worse part of all is that unless he fucks up majorly, he is going to continue to be promoted as he continues to put in the years. | the army is riddled with people who joined when the incentives were great. Now they are stuck with a large group of soldiers not interested in being soldiers. |
sielingfan | That shit happens. I was a 1LT fresh out of pilot school (with -- you'll never guess -- a Chinese anthropology degree, of sorts, from *a goddamn academy*). Zero real military experience, let's be honest. My leg got busted up and long story short I couldn't fly, so they figured "Well, let's just put him in Stan Eval, you can do that sitting down." So it became my job to run *all* the goddamn paperwork for the whole training wing. I had 2 hours of on-the-job training, followed by six weeks in a hospital bed, and then straight into the bureaucracy (which is like the Air Force version of combat, I think). I was worse in StanEval than Johnny Manziel in the NFL.
TLDR butterbars are useless enough on our own, and they love to strategically position us to suck even harder. | That shit happens. I was a 1LT fresh out of pilot school (with -- you'll never guess -- a Chinese anthropology degree, of sorts, from a goddamn academy ). Zero real military experience, let's be honest. My leg got busted up and long story short I couldn't fly, so they figured "Well, let's just put him in Stan Eval, you can do that sitting down." So it became my job to run all the goddamn paperwork for the whole training wing. I had 2 hours of on-the-job training, followed by six weeks in a hospital bed, and then straight into the bureaucracy (which is like the Air Force version of combat, I think). I was worse in StanEval than Johnny Manziel in the NFL.
TLDR butterbars are useless enough on our own, and they love to strategically position us to suck even harder.
| news | t5_2qh3l | cor3uv4 | That shit happens. I was a 1LT fresh out of pilot school (with -- you'll never guess -- a Chinese anthropology degree, of sorts, from a goddamn academy ). Zero real military experience, let's be honest. My leg got busted up and long story short I couldn't fly, so they figured "Well, let's just put him in Stan Eval, you can do that sitting down." So it became my job to run all the goddamn paperwork for the whole training wing. I had 2 hours of on-the-job training, followed by six weeks in a hospital bed, and then straight into the bureaucracy (which is like the Air Force version of combat, I think). I was worse in StanEval than Johnny Manziel in the NFL. | butterbars are useless enough on our own, and they love to strategically position us to suck even harder. |
prisonersandpriests | I can answer one of those.
>Why is the hostility so great for people who believe in creationism.
It's not. It's great towards those who jump up and down like children and try to force you to believe it with no evidence. That extends to all Christians, and all people of all religions. I'm personally an Atheist, but I don't come to your house screaming that Richard Dawkins is going to shoot you with his laser vision if you don't repent and believe in evolution. There are some who hate all of them, but I'd bet the greater majority of those people are just fed up with the most vocal and ridiculous of them.
TL;DR It's not about the belief, it's about those who won't shut the fuck up. | I can answer one of those.
>Why is the hostility so great for people who believe in creationism.
It's not. It's great towards those who jump up and down like children and try to force you to believe it with no evidence. That extends to all Christians, and all people of all religions. I'm personally an Atheist, but I don't come to your house screaming that Richard Dawkins is going to shoot you with his laser vision if you don't repent and believe in evolution. There are some who hate all of them, but I'd bet the greater majority of those people are just fed up with the most vocal and ridiculous of them.
TL;DR It's not about the belief, it's about those who won't shut the fuck up.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | coql0jk | I can answer one of those.
>Why is the hostility so great for people who believe in creationism.
It's not. It's great towards those who jump up and down like children and try to force you to believe it with no evidence. That extends to all Christians, and all people of all religions. I'm personally an Atheist, but I don't come to your house screaming that Richard Dawkins is going to shoot you with his laser vision if you don't repent and believe in evolution. There are some who hate all of them, but I'd bet the greater majority of those people are just fed up with the most vocal and ridiculous of them. | It's not about the belief, it's about those who won't shut the fuck up. |
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