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Melkrow2 | Great explanation, and the best TL;DR ever. | Great explanation, and the best TL;DR ever.
| science | t5_mouw | crlxmhq | Great explanation, and the best | ever. |
GalacticCow | Quantum computers are theoretical computers that are impossibly fast. A tiny quantum computer can be more powerful than the world's largest supercomputer at certain tasks. If we can make a quantum computer, we can solve a lot of mathematical and computer science problems.
Quantum computers use special things called "Qubits". Computers usually are made of "Bits", which can be 1's and 0s. But Qubits, for some weird reason, can be both 1's and 0s and the same time. Because quantum mechanics are really damn weird.
Now, enter the Majorana. It's a quantum particle that is special, because it has the exact characteristics you need to make a Qubit. However, they're really annoying to work with -- you need a powerful magnetic field, as well as a superconductor (something that conducts electricity perfectly).
Up to now, the issue is that the material they've been using -- Aluminum (or aluminium for non-Americans) -- ~~doesn't work right~~ isn't quite perfect for making Qubits. But now, they found a new material, niobium titanium nitride, which seems to work ~~great~~ better for the purpose.
TL;DR: Quantum computers only work in certain conditions. Researchers finally found a material that satisfies those conditions really well. So it's really important for people who want to make quantum computers. | Quantum computers are theoretical computers that are impossibly fast. A tiny quantum computer can be more powerful than the world's largest supercomputer at certain tasks. If we can make a quantum computer, we can solve a lot of mathematical and computer science problems.
Quantum computers use special things called "Qubits". Computers usually are made of "Bits", which can be 1's and 0s. But Qubits, for some weird reason, can be both 1's and 0s and the same time. Because quantum mechanics are really damn weird.
Now, enter the Majorana. It's a quantum particle that is special, because it has the exact characteristics you need to make a Qubit. However, they're really annoying to work with -- you need a powerful magnetic field, as well as a superconductor (something that conducts electricity perfectly).
Up to now, the issue is that the material they've been using -- Aluminum (or aluminium for non-Americans) -- doesn't work right isn't quite perfect for making Qubits. But now, they found a new material, niobium titanium nitride, which seems to work great better for the purpose.
TL;DR: Quantum computers only work in certain conditions. Researchers finally found a material that satisfies those conditions really well. So it's really important for people who want to make quantum computers.
| science | t5_mouw | crlgera | Quantum computers are theoretical computers that are impossibly fast. A tiny quantum computer can be more powerful than the world's largest supercomputer at certain tasks. If we can make a quantum computer, we can solve a lot of mathematical and computer science problems.
Quantum computers use special things called "Qubits". Computers usually are made of "Bits", which can be 1's and 0s. But Qubits, for some weird reason, can be both 1's and 0s and the same time. Because quantum mechanics are really damn weird.
Now, enter the Majorana. It's a quantum particle that is special, because it has the exact characteristics you need to make a Qubit. However, they're really annoying to work with -- you need a powerful magnetic field, as well as a superconductor (something that conducts electricity perfectly).
Up to now, the issue is that the material they've been using -- Aluminum (or aluminium for non-Americans) -- doesn't work right isn't quite perfect for making Qubits. But now, they found a new material, niobium titanium nitride, which seems to work great better for the purpose. | Quantum computers only work in certain conditions. Researchers finally found a material that satisfies those conditions really well. So it's really important for people who want to make quantum computers. |
Forty_Cakes | For media. Duh.
[According to Nielsen,]( as of 2011, a combined 25% of Netflix's traffic came from either the Xbox 360 or the PS3. Given that number, I think it's safe to say that streaming media consumption is a huge use case for game consoles, and, therefore, a driving force in the purchase of consoles.
Besides, even if it isn't the PS4 and Xbox One that deliver 4K content to people's UHDTVs, integrated Smart TV functionality will be doing it instead. Hell, you won't even need HDMI 2.0 to do it that way.
tl;dr Don't worry about delivery of 4K content. It's not an issue, going forward. | For media. Duh.
[According to Nielsen,]( as of 2011, a combined 25% of Netflix's traffic came from either the Xbox 360 or the PS3. Given that number, I think it's safe to say that streaming media consumption is a huge use case for game consoles, and, therefore, a driving force in the purchase of consoles.
Besides, even if it isn't the PS4 and Xbox One that deliver 4K content to people's UHDTVs, integrated Smart TV functionality will be doing it instead. Hell, you won't even need HDMI 2.0 to do it that way.
tl;dr Don't worry about delivery of 4K content. It's not an issue, going forward.
| technology | t5_2qh16 | crn2hch | For media. Duh.
[According to Nielsen,]( as of 2011, a combined 25% of Netflix's traffic came from either the Xbox 360 or the PS3. Given that number, I think it's safe to say that streaming media consumption is a huge use case for game consoles, and, therefore, a driving force in the purchase of consoles.
Besides, even if it isn't the PS4 and Xbox One that deliver 4K content to people's UHDTVs, integrated Smart TV functionality will be doing it instead. Hell, you won't even need HDMI 2.0 to do it that way. | Don't worry about delivery of 4K content. It's not an issue, going forward. |
ApatheticAutomaton | Just a note, Apple reps can see real-time store inventory unless a shipment *just* came through the door and hasn't been entered into the system. You can save yourself a lot of grief by just asking the call center rep instead of insisting on being transferred to the store.
Last year Apple started using the call center to ease the call volume on individual stores since most questions are fairly simple and the store staff is usually really busy (depending on the store and time of day/year). Granted, some of the call center reps are...less than helpful, but 99% of the time they will have accurate stock information. Even if they don't know that a store is getting shipment of an item, they can still search for inventory on a specific item code or they can call the store for you just to be 100% sure.
I only hammer this home because during my time with Apple, only about 10% of all the calls we got actually need to go to the store itself, and the effort of trying to get someone in-store makes the experience really awful for both parties (I don't want to have to stop doing my work just to answer a question a call center rep could have answered, you don't want to be on hold for 10+ minutes trying to get to me).
TL;DR: Talk to the call center rep first, they can usually help. If they get stuck, they can transfer you to the store, but going that route from the beginning will almost always suck for everyone involved. | Just a note, Apple reps can see real-time store inventory unless a shipment just came through the door and hasn't been entered into the system. You can save yourself a lot of grief by just asking the call center rep instead of insisting on being transferred to the store.
Last year Apple started using the call center to ease the call volume on individual stores since most questions are fairly simple and the store staff is usually really busy (depending on the store and time of day/year). Granted, some of the call center reps are...less than helpful, but 99% of the time they will have accurate stock information. Even if they don't know that a store is getting shipment of an item, they can still search for inventory on a specific item code or they can call the store for you just to be 100% sure.
I only hammer this home because during my time with Apple, only about 10% of all the calls we got actually need to go to the store itself, and the effort of trying to get someone in-store makes the experience really awful for both parties (I don't want to have to stop doing my work just to answer a question a call center rep could have answered, you don't want to be on hold for 10+ minutes trying to get to me).
TL;DR: Talk to the call center rep first, they can usually help. If they get stuck, they can transfer you to the store, but going that route from the beginning will almost always suck for everyone involved.
| AppleWatch | t5_2wav7 | crli4tm | Just a note, Apple reps can see real-time store inventory unless a shipment just came through the door and hasn't been entered into the system. You can save yourself a lot of grief by just asking the call center rep instead of insisting on being transferred to the store.
Last year Apple started using the call center to ease the call volume on individual stores since most questions are fairly simple and the store staff is usually really busy (depending on the store and time of day/year). Granted, some of the call center reps are...less than helpful, but 99% of the time they will have accurate stock information. Even if they don't know that a store is getting shipment of an item, they can still search for inventory on a specific item code or they can call the store for you just to be 100% sure.
I only hammer this home because during my time with Apple, only about 10% of all the calls we got actually need to go to the store itself, and the effort of trying to get someone in-store makes the experience really awful for both parties (I don't want to have to stop doing my work just to answer a question a call center rep could have answered, you don't want to be on hold for 10+ minutes trying to get to me). | Talk to the call center rep first, they can usually help. If they get stuck, they can transfer you to the store, but going that route from the beginning will almost always suck for everyone involved. |
ReneAramis | If they changed the Engine, the game will run so much better, and allow them to do much more, however, a change like that would no doubt require some huge problems in the code. Ground up changes, I doubt they'll even want to consider doing something like that, since everything we get is based off of the Korean updates. Like we got the 2014 RESURRECTION folder a month before we got Ninja's, because that's what it was called on the Korean servers.
Tl;dr : If the Korean's don't update or make changes, then we won't receive any either. | If they changed the Engine, the game will run so much better, and allow them to do much more, however, a change like that would no doubt require some huge problems in the code. Ground up changes, I doubt they'll even want to consider doing something like that, since everything we get is based off of the Korean updates. Like we got the 2014 RESURRECTION folder a month before we got Ninja's, because that's what it was called on the Korean servers.
Tl;dr : If the Korean's don't update or make changes, then we won't receive any either.
| Mabinogi | t5_2s4k2 | crlqv9m | If they changed the Engine, the game will run so much better, and allow them to do much more, however, a change like that would no doubt require some huge problems in the code. Ground up changes, I doubt they'll even want to consider doing something like that, since everything we get is based off of the Korean updates. Like we got the 2014 RESURRECTION folder a month before we got Ninja's, because that's what it was called on the Korean servers. | If the Korean's don't update or make changes, then we won't receive any either. |
AFuckingAtodaso | this is a change to the current edge plans. With edge you agree to pay the full retail price of your phone in 24 monthly installments, but you also get a discount for every line that is on edge ($15 for plans under 6GB, $25 for plans 6GB and over). For instance, lets say your phone's retail price is $480. You have to pay $20 a month, or $5 after the edge discount.
The edge plan allowed you to edge to a new phone after 75% of your payments were fulfilled. This policy is changing, and now you have to pay off 100% of your phone before you can edge again. You are also only eligible to edge once every 24 months (it may be 20months, i'll clarify asap.) This is a better approach in my opinion, because if you wanted to edge early, i.e. before 24mo have passed or before you've paid 100% of the phone, you had to pay off the remaining monthly ballance AND also trade the phone you had previously edged in to verizon, which makes zero sense to me.
TLDR, edge now follows a cycle more similar to a 2yr contract, the changes will remove a lot of the shit that customers don't like, i.e. the stipulation that if you want to early edge you have to give back the phone you just paid monthly for. now you just pay monthly for 2 yrs, and after the 24mo cycle is up and you're 100% paid off on your phone you should be eligible to do the exact same thing again. | this is a change to the current edge plans. With edge you agree to pay the full retail price of your phone in 24 monthly installments, but you also get a discount for every line that is on edge ($15 for plans under 6GB, $25 for plans 6GB and over). For instance, lets say your phone's retail price is $480. You have to pay $20 a month, or $5 after the edge discount.
The edge plan allowed you to edge to a new phone after 75% of your payments were fulfilled. This policy is changing, and now you have to pay off 100% of your phone before you can edge again. You are also only eligible to edge once every 24 months (it may be 20months, i'll clarify asap.) This is a better approach in my opinion, because if you wanted to edge early, i.e. before 24mo have passed or before you've paid 100% of the phone, you had to pay off the remaining monthly ballance AND also trade the phone you had previously edged in to verizon, which makes zero sense to me.
TLDR, edge now follows a cycle more similar to a 2yr contract, the changes will remove a lot of the shit that customers don't like, i.e. the stipulation that if you want to early edge you have to give back the phone you just paid monthly for. now you just pay monthly for 2 yrs, and after the 24mo cycle is up and you're 100% paid off on your phone you should be eligible to do the exact same thing again.
| verizon | t5_2raz5 | crlw92o | this is a change to the current edge plans. With edge you agree to pay the full retail price of your phone in 24 monthly installments, but you also get a discount for every line that is on edge ($15 for plans under 6GB, $25 for plans 6GB and over). For instance, lets say your phone's retail price is $480. You have to pay $20 a month, or $5 after the edge discount.
The edge plan allowed you to edge to a new phone after 75% of your payments were fulfilled. This policy is changing, and now you have to pay off 100% of your phone before you can edge again. You are also only eligible to edge once every 24 months (it may be 20months, i'll clarify asap.) This is a better approach in my opinion, because if you wanted to edge early, i.e. before 24mo have passed or before you've paid 100% of the phone, you had to pay off the remaining monthly ballance AND also trade the phone you had previously edged in to verizon, which makes zero sense to me. | edge now follows a cycle more similar to a 2yr contract, the changes will remove a lot of the shit that customers don't like, i.e. the stipulation that if you want to early edge you have to give back the phone you just paid monthly for. now you just pay monthly for 2 yrs, and after the 24mo cycle is up and you're 100% paid off on your phone you should be eligible to do the exact same thing again. |
TurnDownForPage394 | I've got a theory about this actually. When you take into account the growing city/suburban populations and the aging rural population, it seems like it all comes down to generational and geographical influences. Most people (about 70%) take their beliefs from their parents. These are your people born in the country who perpetuate their parents' conservatism, staying close to their family because of the shared ideology. However, the number of conservative youth is dwindling as the younger generations become more liberal than their parents, causing the rural older generations to cling to traditional beliefs. Those liberal youths are far more likely to go live in cities to escape mom and dad and to live with other people who share their same values, morals, and ideals.
This isn't a new concept, because really if you consider the past couple hundred years there is always a divergent group that flocks together and leaves behind a more conservative one. Take for example the anti-slavery republicans in the 1800's who often populated cities (it's important to note that the Republican Party was generally the more liberal of the parties for the first 50 or so years it was around). Those who were pro-slavery generally lived in rural areas and were against freeing the slaves for a practical reason: they were the main labor force. I think this may have been the root of this rural-conservative/urban-liberal situation we have going on today. It also accounts for the fact that the American south is home to so many more conservatives than the north. Not only is it generally more rural, but traditionally its inhabitants were the conservative ones (i.e. agriculture was centered there in the 1800's, while industry was in the North, as already discussed).
Tl;dr birds of a feather flock together and it can be traced back to the civil war. | I've got a theory about this actually. When you take into account the growing city/suburban populations and the aging rural population, it seems like it all comes down to generational and geographical influences. Most people (about 70%) take their beliefs from their parents. These are your people born in the country who perpetuate their parents' conservatism, staying close to their family because of the shared ideology. However, the number of conservative youth is dwindling as the younger generations become more liberal than their parents, causing the rural older generations to cling to traditional beliefs. Those liberal youths are far more likely to go live in cities to escape mom and dad and to live with other people who share their same values, morals, and ideals.
This isn't a new concept, because really if you consider the past couple hundred years there is always a divergent group that flocks together and leaves behind a more conservative one. Take for example the anti-slavery republicans in the 1800's who often populated cities (it's important to note that the Republican Party was generally the more liberal of the parties for the first 50 or so years it was around). Those who were pro-slavery generally lived in rural areas and were against freeing the slaves for a practical reason: they were the main labor force. I think this may have been the root of this rural-conservative/urban-liberal situation we have going on today. It also accounts for the fact that the American south is home to so many more conservatives than the north. Not only is it generally more rural, but traditionally its inhabitants were the conservative ones (i.e. agriculture was centered there in the 1800's, while industry was in the North, as already discussed).
Tl;dr birds of a feather flock together and it can be traced back to the civil war.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | crm24cx | I've got a theory about this actually. When you take into account the growing city/suburban populations and the aging rural population, it seems like it all comes down to generational and geographical influences. Most people (about 70%) take their beliefs from their parents. These are your people born in the country who perpetuate their parents' conservatism, staying close to their family because of the shared ideology. However, the number of conservative youth is dwindling as the younger generations become more liberal than their parents, causing the rural older generations to cling to traditional beliefs. Those liberal youths are far more likely to go live in cities to escape mom and dad and to live with other people who share their same values, morals, and ideals.
This isn't a new concept, because really if you consider the past couple hundred years there is always a divergent group that flocks together and leaves behind a more conservative one. Take for example the anti-slavery republicans in the 1800's who often populated cities (it's important to note that the Republican Party was generally the more liberal of the parties for the first 50 or so years it was around). Those who were pro-slavery generally lived in rural areas and were against freeing the slaves for a practical reason: they were the main labor force. I think this may have been the root of this rural-conservative/urban-liberal situation we have going on today. It also accounts for the fact that the American south is home to so many more conservatives than the north. Not only is it generally more rural, but traditionally its inhabitants were the conservative ones (i.e. agriculture was centered there in the 1800's, while industry was in the North, as already discussed). | birds of a feather flock together and it can be traced back to the civil war. |
nooneisunimportant | It wouldn't be as diverse as the world actually is. Making all of these characters ace really would take away from characterization possibilities.
You could possibly make Harry bi with a preference for women. That's as far from straight as I would take it. Charlie could possibly be aromantic because he seems to like dragons more, but wasn't he a bit of a flirt in school? I wouldn't call him asexual, tbh.
The majority of the population is straight, there's no changing that. A lot of people want to ignore that in their headcanons and not pay attention to how the characters truly are.
It's like certain trans headcanons that have no basis in canon. If they haven't shown anything that resembles dysphoria, then it should just be accepted maybe that character is perfectly fine with being cis. Their canon shouldn't be morphed for the sake of a 'headcanon.' Alternate universes, perhaps, but not headcanons.
TL;DR: Headcanons are fine, but don't ignore canon for them. That makes them AUs, not headcanons. | It wouldn't be as diverse as the world actually is. Making all of these characters ace really would take away from characterization possibilities.
You could possibly make Harry bi with a preference for women. That's as far from straight as I would take it. Charlie could possibly be aromantic because he seems to like dragons more, but wasn't he a bit of a flirt in school? I wouldn't call him asexual, tbh.
The majority of the population is straight, there's no changing that. A lot of people want to ignore that in their headcanons and not pay attention to how the characters truly are.
It's like certain trans headcanons that have no basis in canon. If they haven't shown anything that resembles dysphoria, then it should just be accepted maybe that character is perfectly fine with being cis. Their canon shouldn't be morphed for the sake of a 'headcanon.' Alternate universes, perhaps, but not headcanons.
TL;DR: Headcanons are fine, but don't ignore canon for them. That makes them AUs, not headcanons.
| TumblrInAction | t5_2vizz | crm6rw0 | It wouldn't be as diverse as the world actually is. Making all of these characters ace really would take away from characterization possibilities.
You could possibly make Harry bi with a preference for women. That's as far from straight as I would take it. Charlie could possibly be aromantic because he seems to like dragons more, but wasn't he a bit of a flirt in school? I wouldn't call him asexual, tbh.
The majority of the population is straight, there's no changing that. A lot of people want to ignore that in their headcanons and not pay attention to how the characters truly are.
It's like certain trans headcanons that have no basis in canon. If they haven't shown anything that resembles dysphoria, then it should just be accepted maybe that character is perfectly fine with being cis. Their canon shouldn't be morphed for the sake of a 'headcanon.' Alternate universes, perhaps, but not headcanons. | Headcanons are fine, but don't ignore canon for them. That makes them AUs, not headcanons. |
theshalafi | Client side mods like maps, xrays, flys, different HUDs, auto fishing and more will work with realms just like any other server. The only deterrent realms really has is when MC is updated, you gotta use the updated version. Like 1.8.5 which came out less than a week ago won't connect to realms, you have to use 1.8.6. Sometimes there's just library updates that will temporarily break a mod, but that's easy enough to fix. Most mods won't update every little version, so they can't be used on realms. But if it's updated for the most up-to-date version he could cheat away.
Like walkmandosch mentioned there are lots of crazy command block setups which might help with grief prevention but other than that the only protection for griefing is realms makes a good amount of backups that are easy to restore, that and it's an invite only thing.
TLDR: Realms and MC currently update too fast for most mods to keep up, but it can happen, and there's not a lot you can do about it. | Client side mods like maps, xrays, flys, different HUDs, auto fishing and more will work with realms just like any other server. The only deterrent realms really has is when MC is updated, you gotta use the updated version. Like 1.8.5 which came out less than a week ago won't connect to realms, you have to use 1.8.6. Sometimes there's just library updates that will temporarily break a mod, but that's easy enough to fix. Most mods won't update every little version, so they can't be used on realms. But if it's updated for the most up-to-date version he could cheat away.
Like walkmandosch mentioned there are lots of crazy command block setups which might help with grief prevention but other than that the only protection for griefing is realms makes a good amount of backups that are easy to restore, that and it's an invite only thing.
TLDR: Realms and MC currently update too fast for most mods to keep up, but it can happen, and there's not a lot you can do about it.
| Minecraft | t5_2r05i | crmd149 | Client side mods like maps, xrays, flys, different HUDs, auto fishing and more will work with realms just like any other server. The only deterrent realms really has is when MC is updated, you gotta use the updated version. Like 1.8.5 which came out less than a week ago won't connect to realms, you have to use 1.8.6. Sometimes there's just library updates that will temporarily break a mod, but that's easy enough to fix. Most mods won't update every little version, so they can't be used on realms. But if it's updated for the most up-to-date version he could cheat away.
Like walkmandosch mentioned there are lots of crazy command block setups which might help with grief prevention but other than that the only protection for griefing is realms makes a good amount of backups that are easy to restore, that and it's an invite only thing. | Realms and MC currently update too fast for most mods to keep up, but it can happen, and there's not a lot you can do about it. |
Now_you_fucked_up | >but they do act different, which is all that actually matters for this discussion.
No. We live with a lot of ambiguous outcomes. If people are more sexist online than offline, it stands to reason that people are more sexist than they let on publicly. That can extend many places. For instance, if women are less respected than men in society, it stands to reason they will be hired for jobs less than they ought to and are promoted and trusted with responsibility less than they ought to. We may understand something as "oh hey, that weird comment my boss made actually probably was sexist and not just a weird comment I shouldn't think much about, maybe that's why he hasn't trusted me with anything despite the fact that I'm the most successful person in my position."
Same thing with racism. Just look at Ferguson. We couldn't actually find concrete proof they were fucking with Black people, but most people knew it was the case. Then we got to look into their emails, yup, fucking racism every where.
People's attitudes matter. Just because someone isn't openly shouting I FUCKING HATE YOU and publicly beating you doesn't mean they aren't capable of discretely fucking with you. Knowing that our population is pretty sexist/racist/whatever is useful, it lets us know that just because we don't have laws publicly telling us "People who aren't white are just worse :)))))" we can still know there are societal factors and cultural influence still harming these communities. Just take a stroll onto that fucking redpill subreddit for a time, that'll be great for you.
> its because they slept with people to improve they're standing.
We're going to talk about GG one time here and then we're done. I will throw two links at you and explain them briefly. If you need more after that, no point.
>First of all, Grayson never reviewed Quinn’s game, Depression Quest.
>The point being, the conspiracy that’s going around about Quinn sleeping her way to a good review score is moronic, because Grayson never wrote a review.
>He began idolizing Quinn as "this perfect ethical thing..."
This article is about how the guy who started it all is a crazed stalker, and the only "crime" is that he accused his ex girlfriend of 5 months of cheating, which probably never happened. I'm not sure if you've known obsessed psycho exes before, but they're not much to be trusted.
If you can reconcile any of this and still think that there was a reason any of this should have happened or even been a thing, I honestly do not know what the fuck to tell you. Some psycho fuckboy with severe mental issues got attached to someone who broke up with him, and then he tried to rally all the mysoginists he could find to bully his ex. That's it. It was big, and still is. It reveals a sizable sexist culture capable of thinking death threats are justifiable off of hearsay from exboyfriends. That's pretty extreme, so think of the bellcurve on that.
>Those things exists
In much lower numbers. Of course you can find someone who's loud an obnoxious for any claim. We have a big population. You CANNOT invalidate all bigotry because you can find one example of the opposite side. Just because you managed to find one black guy who says white people are a stain on this earth does not mean we don't have a HUGE issue with racism against Black people in this country.
It's scale. We have an entire culture of misogyny. Please just talk to some women about it, this isn't some rare thing. You will be hard pressed to find a single adult woman who has not been sexually harassed at several times by men. You will be hard pressed to find a man who can remember anything like that. Women are valued for their bodies, taught to be nice and kind. Men are valued for what they do, taught to be strong and get their way. We treat the sexes way differently, that's like the definition of sexism.
>Finally, that tumblr link IS bs because it cherry picks assholes.
It sure is a fucking lot of them lol. Like what could even make you see it? If you won't take examples of sexism as proof of sexism, what would ever possibly convince you? You will find more examples of sexism against men than women if you look. Maybe if you live on the tumblrinaction sub you won't, but really, just look around.
I do IT for a leasing company. Our female calls staff is routinely harassed for being female. I had to block a number earlier because we got 30 calls a day asking for one employee directly. Several departments have been trained on the best way to avoid advances from men. "Sorry I have a boyfriend" is the mandated best way. I could really go on. Don't even get me started on my girlfriend who does culture studies on computer based social structures. Holy shit I could have a field day.
TL;DR It's way skewed towards sexism against females. Just because you can scrounge tumblrinaction and find a few counterexamples doesn't change that. You have to ask your self if there is anything that would make you change your mind, because evidently no amount of evidence will sway you.
Thanks for being civil though I guess. I can tell you don't actually want to be sexist or bigoted, you just don't really see it.
| >but they do act different, which is all that actually matters for this discussion.
No. We live with a lot of ambiguous outcomes. If people are more sexist online than offline, it stands to reason that people are more sexist than they let on publicly. That can extend many places. For instance, if women are less respected than men in society, it stands to reason they will be hired for jobs less than they ought to and are promoted and trusted with responsibility less than they ought to. We may understand something as "oh hey, that weird comment my boss made actually probably was sexist and not just a weird comment I shouldn't think much about, maybe that's why he hasn't trusted me with anything despite the fact that I'm the most successful person in my position."
Same thing with racism. Just look at Ferguson. We couldn't actually find concrete proof they were fucking with Black people, but most people knew it was the case. Then we got to look into their emails, yup, fucking racism every where.
People's attitudes matter. Just because someone isn't openly shouting I FUCKING HATE YOU and publicly beating you doesn't mean they aren't capable of discretely fucking with you. Knowing that our population is pretty sexist/racist/whatever is useful, it lets us know that just because we don't have laws publicly telling us "People who aren't white are just worse :)))))" we can still know there are societal factors and cultural influence still harming these communities. Just take a stroll onto that fucking redpill subreddit for a time, that'll be great for you.
> its because they slept with people to improve they're standing.
We're going to talk about GG one time here and then we're done. I will throw two links at you and explain them briefly. If you need more after that, no point.
>First of all, Grayson never reviewed Quinn’s game, Depression Quest.
>The point being, the conspiracy that’s going around about Quinn sleeping her way to a good review score is moronic, because Grayson never wrote a review.
>He began idolizing Quinn as "this perfect ethical thing..."
This article is about how the guy who started it all is a crazed stalker, and the only "crime" is that he accused his ex girlfriend of 5 months of cheating, which probably never happened. I'm not sure if you've known obsessed psycho exes before, but they're not much to be trusted.
If you can reconcile any of this and still think that there was a reason any of this should have happened or even been a thing, I honestly do not know what the fuck to tell you. Some psycho fuckboy with severe mental issues got attached to someone who broke up with him, and then he tried to rally all the mysoginists he could find to bully his ex. That's it. It was big, and still is. It reveals a sizable sexist culture capable of thinking death threats are justifiable off of hearsay from exboyfriends. That's pretty extreme, so think of the bellcurve on that.
>Those things exists
In much lower numbers. Of course you can find someone who's loud an obnoxious for any claim. We have a big population. You CANNOT invalidate all bigotry because you can find one example of the opposite side. Just because you managed to find one black guy who says white people are a stain on this earth does not mean we don't have a HUGE issue with racism against Black people in this country.
It's scale. We have an entire culture of misogyny. Please just talk to some women about it, this isn't some rare thing. You will be hard pressed to find a single adult woman who has not been sexually harassed at several times by men. You will be hard pressed to find a man who can remember anything like that. Women are valued for their bodies, taught to be nice and kind. Men are valued for what they do, taught to be strong and get their way. We treat the sexes way differently, that's like the definition of sexism.
>Finally, that tumblr link IS bs because it cherry picks assholes.
It sure is a fucking lot of them lol. Like what could even make you see it? If you won't take examples of sexism as proof of sexism, what would ever possibly convince you? You will find more examples of sexism against men than women if you look. Maybe if you live on the tumblrinaction sub you won't, but really, just look around.
I do IT for a leasing company. Our female calls staff is routinely harassed for being female. I had to block a number earlier because we got 30 calls a day asking for one employee directly. Several departments have been trained on the best way to avoid advances from men. "Sorry I have a boyfriend" is the mandated best way. I could really go on. Don't even get me started on my girlfriend who does culture studies on computer based social structures. Holy shit I could have a field day.
TL;DR It's way skewed towards sexism against females. Just because you can scrounge tumblrinaction and find a few counterexamples doesn't change that. You have to ask your self if there is anything that would make you change your mind, because evidently no amount of evidence will sway you.
Thanks for being civil though I guess. I can tell you don't actually want to be sexist or bigoted, you just don't really see it.
| DotA2 | t5_2s580 | crnbksa | but they do act different, which is all that actually matters for this discussion.
No. We live with a lot of ambiguous outcomes. If people are more sexist online than offline, it stands to reason that people are more sexist than they let on publicly. That can extend many places. For instance, if women are less respected than men in society, it stands to reason they will be hired for jobs less than they ought to and are promoted and trusted with responsibility less than they ought to. We may understand something as "oh hey, that weird comment my boss made actually probably was sexist and not just a weird comment I shouldn't think much about, maybe that's why he hasn't trusted me with anything despite the fact that I'm the most successful person in my position."
Same thing with racism. Just look at Ferguson. We couldn't actually find concrete proof they were fucking with Black people, but most people knew it was the case. Then we got to look into their emails, yup, fucking racism every where.
People's attitudes matter. Just because someone isn't openly shouting I FUCKING HATE YOU and publicly beating you doesn't mean they aren't capable of discretely fucking with you. Knowing that our population is pretty sexist/racist/whatever is useful, it lets us know that just because we don't have laws publicly telling us "People who aren't white are just worse :)))))" we can still know there are societal factors and cultural influence still harming these communities. Just take a stroll onto that fucking redpill subreddit for a time, that'll be great for you.
> its because they slept with people to improve they're standing.
We're going to talk about GG one time here and then we're done. I will throw two links at you and explain them briefly. If you need more after that, no point.
>First of all, Grayson never reviewed Quinn’s game, Depression Quest.
>The point being, the conspiracy that’s going around about Quinn sleeping her way to a good review score is moronic, because Grayson never wrote a review.
>He began idolizing Quinn as "this perfect ethical thing..."
This article is about how the guy who started it all is a crazed stalker, and the only "crime" is that he accused his ex girlfriend of 5 months of cheating, which probably never happened. I'm not sure if you've known obsessed psycho exes before, but they're not much to be trusted.
If you can reconcile any of this and still think that there was a reason any of this should have happened or even been a thing, I honestly do not know what the fuck to tell you. Some psycho fuckboy with severe mental issues got attached to someone who broke up with him, and then he tried to rally all the mysoginists he could find to bully his ex. That's it. It was big, and still is. It reveals a sizable sexist culture capable of thinking death threats are justifiable off of hearsay from exboyfriends. That's pretty extreme, so think of the bellcurve on that.
>Those things exists
In much lower numbers. Of course you can find someone who's loud an obnoxious for any claim. We have a big population. You CANNOT invalidate all bigotry because you can find one example of the opposite side. Just because you managed to find one black guy who says white people are a stain on this earth does not mean we don't have a HUGE issue with racism against Black people in this country.
It's scale. We have an entire culture of misogyny. Please just talk to some women about it, this isn't some rare thing. You will be hard pressed to find a single adult woman who has not been sexually harassed at several times by men. You will be hard pressed to find a man who can remember anything like that. Women are valued for their bodies, taught to be nice and kind. Men are valued for what they do, taught to be strong and get their way. We treat the sexes way differently, that's like the definition of sexism.
>Finally, that tumblr link IS bs because it cherry picks assholes.
It sure is a fucking lot of them lol. Like what could even make you see it? If you won't take examples of sexism as proof of sexism, what would ever possibly convince you? You will find more examples of sexism against men than women if you look. Maybe if you live on the tumblrinaction sub you won't, but really, just look around.
I do IT for a leasing company. Our female calls staff is routinely harassed for being female. I had to block a number earlier because we got 30 calls a day asking for one employee directly. Several departments have been trained on the best way to avoid advances from men. "Sorry I have a boyfriend" is the mandated best way. I could really go on. Don't even get me started on my girlfriend who does culture studies on computer based social structures. Holy shit I could have a field day. | It's way skewed towards sexism against females. Just because you can scrounge tumblrinaction and find a few counterexamples doesn't change that. You have to ask your self if there is anything that would make you change your mind, because evidently no amount of evidence will sway you.
Thanks for being civil though I guess. I can tell you don't actually want to be sexist or bigoted, you just don't really see it. |
lolmkayboo | While it sucks for me she's not in the top three because I truly love her so, it's not the end of the world. If you really love Kennedy, put your money where your mouth is!
So many of these queens have so many likes/views/retweets that it's astounding at times they're not as well known outside of people who like drag. I get that drag is quite niche, but I also think it's bc people just "like" something of theirs & don't actually spend money on their products.
I'm a broke college student so I feel the pain, but it's still nice when I buy or see other people buy their merchandise & spend money on their music or projects. It makes what they're doing seem way more legitimate to people who aren't well versed in their art form & lets them put more money into that art to entertain us.
Tldr? **BUY QUEENS SHIT** | While it sucks for me she's not in the top three because I truly love her so, it's not the end of the world. If you really love Kennedy, put your money where your mouth is!
So many of these queens have so many likes/views/retweets that it's astounding at times they're not as well known outside of people who like drag. I get that drag is quite niche, but I also think it's bc people just "like" something of theirs & don't actually spend money on their products.
I'm a broke college student so I feel the pain, but it's still nice when I buy or see other people buy their merchandise & spend money on their music or projects. It makes what they're doing seem way more legitimate to people who aren't well versed in their art form & lets them put more money into that art to entertain us.
Tldr? BUY QUEENS SHIT
| rupaulsdragrace | t5_2t3or | crmolgc | While it sucks for me she's not in the top three because I truly love her so, it's not the end of the world. If you really love Kennedy, put your money where your mouth is!
So many of these queens have so many likes/views/retweets that it's astounding at times they're not as well known outside of people who like drag. I get that drag is quite niche, but I also think it's bc people just "like" something of theirs & don't actually spend money on their products.
I'm a broke college student so I feel the pain, but it's still nice when I buy or see other people buy their merchandise & spend money on their music or projects. It makes what they're doing seem way more legitimate to people who aren't well versed in their art form & lets them put more money into that art to entertain us. | BUY QUEENS SHIT |
commandar | That's about right for the EJ25 WRXs.
When the EJ20 WRX first hit the US in 2000 with 230BHP it was pretty much in a class of its own for a couple of years. The only thing that touched it in HP/$ was the SRT-4 that debuted at 215BHP in 2003 and got bumped to 230 for 2004.
In Mazdaspeed terms, the MSP of the same vintage was putting down around 170BHP and they were notorious for having connecting rods that would snap like toothpicks if you put much more than factory boost through them. Saw many photos of those blocks with holes you could put your first through to the firewall.
tl;dr - we've come a long way in the last 10-15 years. | That's about right for the EJ25 WRXs.
When the EJ20 WRX first hit the US in 2000 with 230BHP it was pretty much in a class of its own for a couple of years. The only thing that touched it in HP/$ was the SRT-4 that debuted at 215BHP in 2003 and got bumped to 230 for 2004.
In Mazdaspeed terms, the MSP of the same vintage was putting down around 170BHP and they were notorious for having connecting rods that would snap like toothpicks if you put much more than factory boost through them. Saw many photos of those blocks with holes you could put your first through to the firewall.
tl;dr - we've come a long way in the last 10-15 years.
| cars | t5_2qhl2 | crnrj4c | That's about right for the EJ25 WRXs.
When the EJ20 WRX first hit the US in 2000 with 230BHP it was pretty much in a class of its own for a couple of years. The only thing that touched it in HP/$ was the SRT-4 that debuted at 215BHP in 2003 and got bumped to 230 for 2004.
In Mazdaspeed terms, the MSP of the same vintage was putting down around 170BHP and they were notorious for having connecting rods that would snap like toothpicks if you put much more than factory boost through them. Saw many photos of those blocks with holes you could put your first through to the firewall. | we've come a long way in the last 10-15 years. |
M_de_M | Rounds 1 and 2 are going to either Skellington or Handsome Jack...putting the fights in the middle of nowhere removes all of Jack the Ripper and Jack Sparrow's advantages.
Bonus: This is actually an awesome fight, believe it or not.
I know pretty much about both characters, so let's do this.
ME2's Jack (aka Subject Zero), for those who don't know, is a very powerful biotic (Mass Effect's version of telekinesis).
Now, at first glance, this would seem to give her a massive advantage. She's terrifyingly powerful. Note her [introduction]( in which she oneshots a YMIR (which is super durable). More significantly for fighting Samurai Jack, note the way she uses biotics to immobilize and execute a Blue Suns mercenary around 1:40.
But. Samurai Jack is incredibly fast (I'm not going to link the water drop feat, because I'm pretty sure most people on this sub have seen it way too many times). Assuming he's taking this fight seriously, there's no reason to think he'd stand around letting Jack murder him.
So does Samurai Jack super speed himself at Subject Zero and slice her to ribbons? Not so fast. Jack has one important advantage--her shields. Mass Effect soldiers all wear kinetic barriers. Now, normally this wouldn't be a problem with swords--kinetic barriers don't stop slow things, like sitting down in a chair.
But Samurai Jack can't have it both ways. He can't be moving super speedy to dodge the biotic instakill at the start of the fight, and then have his attack come slow enough to not get blocked by a kinetic barrier. Now, given unlimited time he might figure out the problem was that his attacks were coming too fast to breach the barrier, but he doesn't have unlimited time.
Here's the difficult thing about using ME2 biotics like Jack in WWW. Jack is an amazing biotic. Not counting stupid tie-in comics, she's probably the most powerful human biotic alive. But because of game mechanics, she's limited in gameplay to a very small assortment of biotic powers, which means all we really have to go off are her demonstrated feats in cutscenes. She's not in many cutscenes, so she has very few of those. Her powers are therefore a little hard to calculate. So frankly, ME2 Jack should absolutely annihilate Samurai Jack with biotics, but if we insist on her only using demonstrated feats it gets a bit closer.
That said, Jack will reliably win on demonstrated feats alone. Watch the first minute of [this video] ( This expansion of a bubble into a Shockwave attack is the kind of AOE attack that'll eventually hit Samurai Jack, and she only needs to knock him off balance long enough to grab him. Once he's immobilized, game over.
tl;dr: Samurai Jack may be much faster than ME2 Jack, but he can't damage her. With her immense reserves of biotic power, she'll kill him eventually. | Rounds 1 and 2 are going to either Skellington or Handsome Jack...putting the fights in the middle of nowhere removes all of Jack the Ripper and Jack Sparrow's advantages.
Bonus: This is actually an awesome fight, believe it or not.
I know pretty much about both characters, so let's do this.
ME2's Jack (aka Subject Zero), for those who don't know, is a very powerful biotic (Mass Effect's version of telekinesis).
Now, at first glance, this would seem to give her a massive advantage. She's terrifyingly powerful. Note her introduction . More significantly for fighting Samurai Jack, note the way she uses biotics to immobilize and execute a Blue Suns mercenary around 1:40.
But. Samurai Jack is incredibly fast (I'm not going to link the water drop feat, because I'm pretty sure most people on this sub have seen it way too many times). Assuming he's taking this fight seriously, there's no reason to think he'd stand around letting Jack murder him.
So does Samurai Jack super speed himself at Subject Zero and slice her to ribbons? Not so fast. Jack has one important advantage--her shields. Mass Effect soldiers all wear kinetic barriers. Now, normally this wouldn't be a problem with swords--kinetic barriers don't stop slow things, like sitting down in a chair.
But Samurai Jack can't have it both ways. He can't be moving super speedy to dodge the biotic instakill at the start of the fight, and then have his attack come slow enough to not get blocked by a kinetic barrier. Now, given unlimited time he might figure out the problem was that his attacks were coming too fast to breach the barrier, but he doesn't have unlimited time.
Here's the difficult thing about using ME2 biotics like Jack in WWW. Jack is an amazing biotic. Not counting stupid tie-in comics, she's probably the most powerful human biotic alive. But because of game mechanics, she's limited in gameplay to a very small assortment of biotic powers, which means all we really have to go off are her demonstrated feats in cutscenes. She's not in many cutscenes, so she has very few of those. Her powers are therefore a little hard to calculate. So frankly, ME2 Jack should absolutely annihilate Samurai Jack with biotics, but if we insist on her only using demonstrated feats it gets a bit closer.
That said, Jack will reliably win on demonstrated feats alone. Watch the first minute of [this video] ( This expansion of a bubble into a Shockwave attack is the kind of AOE attack that'll eventually hit Samurai Jack, and she only needs to knock him off balance long enough to grab him. Once he's immobilized, game over.
tl;dr: Samurai Jack may be much faster than ME2 Jack, but he can't damage her. With her immense reserves of biotic power, she'll kill him eventually.
| whowouldwin | t5_2s599 | crmxvko | Rounds 1 and 2 are going to either Skellington or Handsome Jack...putting the fights in the middle of nowhere removes all of Jack the Ripper and Jack Sparrow's advantages.
Bonus: This is actually an awesome fight, believe it or not.
I know pretty much about both characters, so let's do this.
ME2's Jack (aka Subject Zero), for those who don't know, is a very powerful biotic (Mass Effect's version of telekinesis).
Now, at first glance, this would seem to give her a massive advantage. She's terrifyingly powerful. Note her introduction . More significantly for fighting Samurai Jack, note the way she uses biotics to immobilize and execute a Blue Suns mercenary around 1:40.
But. Samurai Jack is incredibly fast (I'm not going to link the water drop feat, because I'm pretty sure most people on this sub have seen it way too many times). Assuming he's taking this fight seriously, there's no reason to think he'd stand around letting Jack murder him.
So does Samurai Jack super speed himself at Subject Zero and slice her to ribbons? Not so fast. Jack has one important advantage--her shields. Mass Effect soldiers all wear kinetic barriers. Now, normally this wouldn't be a problem with swords--kinetic barriers don't stop slow things, like sitting down in a chair.
But Samurai Jack can't have it both ways. He can't be moving super speedy to dodge the biotic instakill at the start of the fight, and then have his attack come slow enough to not get blocked by a kinetic barrier. Now, given unlimited time he might figure out the problem was that his attacks were coming too fast to breach the barrier, but he doesn't have unlimited time.
Here's the difficult thing about using ME2 biotics like Jack in WWW. Jack is an amazing biotic. Not counting stupid tie-in comics, she's probably the most powerful human biotic alive. But because of game mechanics, she's limited in gameplay to a very small assortment of biotic powers, which means all we really have to go off are her demonstrated feats in cutscenes. She's not in many cutscenes, so she has very few of those. Her powers are therefore a little hard to calculate. So frankly, ME2 Jack should absolutely annihilate Samurai Jack with biotics, but if we insist on her only using demonstrated feats it gets a bit closer.
That said, Jack will reliably win on demonstrated feats alone. Watch the first minute of [this video] ( This expansion of a bubble into a Shockwave attack is the kind of AOE attack that'll eventually hit Samurai Jack, and she only needs to knock him off balance long enough to grab him. Once he's immobilized, game over. | Samurai Jack may be much faster than ME2 Jack, but he can't damage her. With her immense reserves of biotic power, she'll kill him eventually. |
Lightylantern | Chase was born in the future and given the name Eobard Thawne. When he was 20, he created an experimental time travel device and used it to travel to the past. This caused him to lose his memories. He fell in with the League of Assassins and took the name Chase, training with them for 3 years. He killed himself, but was revived by the Lazarus Pit.
His dip in the pit drove him insane, so he bleached his skin and became the Joker. He then went around Starling City causing chaos and seeking revenge against Thea Queen. Thea couldn't defeat him alone, and Oliver was too busy banging Felicity, so she called in the Flash.
The Flash fought the Joker, but there was an accident that caused the Joker to gain the ability to tap into the Speedforce, the source of the Flash's power. This accident messed with his memories, so he remembered his life as Eobard Thawne again, but his memories of the past changed with the Flash taking the place of Thea. With his hatred of Thea now transferred to the Flash, Eobard/Chase/Joker rebuilt the time travel device, stole a Flash costume, and returned to his time.
He then used future technology to put his skin back to normal, and turned his stolen Flash suit into the Reverse Flash suit. Using his time machine, he went back in time to fight the Flash many times.
After 20 years of dueling with him, he learned that the Flash's name was Barry Allen. He then went back in time to kill Barry, but ended up stranded in the past and had to steal the face of Harrison Wells. Chase/Eobard/Reverse Flash/Joker/Wells then created his own arch enemy, the Flash, so that he would be able to return to his time.
He was nearly able to, but the Flash destroyed his time ship and when his several times great grandfather shot himself, he was erased from existence.
However, after his existence was erased, he woke up in his time, just minutes before he had travelled to the past to kill a young Barry. He was overjoyed until he found he still had the face of Harrison Wells. He was frustrated, until he discovered a device that could transfer just his consciousness into the past.
He intended to transfer his mind into the body of Barry Allen so that he could always be connected to the speedforce, but the moment he ended up at was when Barry was carrying Felicity to STAR Labs a few days before fighting Oliver, so his consciousness instead entered Felicity's body and completely fused with hers, messing up Eobard's memories again and creating a being even more insane than Eobard had ever been.
Eobard/Chase/Joker/Wells/Reverse Flash/Felicity's hatred of the Flash was changed into an equally twisted love of Oliver Queen. However, after getting with Oliver, his/her memories of hating the Flash resurfaced, and he/she started pouring all of the resources of Palmer Technologies into a project that would allow him/her access to the Speedforce again.
On the day the Speedforce device was completed, the Joker attacked Palmer Technologies just as Feliceobard was using it. The Flash appeared and battled the Joker as the device was turned on, and the Joker detonated an explosive on the machine powering the device. This explosion caused both the Joker and Chase/Eobard/Joker/Felicity/Wells/Reverse Flash to become connected to the Speedforce, meaning that Eobard was responsible for his own creation.
Coming into contact with the Joker also completely restored all of Eobard's memories, causing Feliceobard to remember his/her original hatred for Thea Queen. Feliceobard then returned to the future and killed the original Eobard body, absorbing its Speedforce and becoming even faster.
With all memories restored Chase/Eobard/Joker/Wells/Reverse Flash/Felicity now hated The Flash and Thea Queen, but not Barry Allen, who she/he now considered a friend. To get revenge on Thea Queen and the Flash, but without harming Barry Allen, Feliceobard travelled into the timestream and grabbed hold of Eobard just before he killed Nora Allen. Feliceobard then placed suggestions in Eobard's mind.
Under Feliceobard's control, after losing his connection to the Speedforce, Eobard stole the identity of Harrison Wells and then started construction of the particle accelerator in Starling City. Feliceobard supplied Eobard with tech that allowed him to get the particle accelerator done even earlier, and it was activated nine months before Oliver Queen was rescued from the island.
In this new timeline, after the shipwreck happened, Thea and Quentin became close in their grief, and he became like a substitute father to her. She became set on becoming a cop as a result. On the day the particle accelerator was turned on, Thea recklessly tried to go out and catch a criminal before the police could. She chased him into a large factory where due to the particle accelerator she was struck by lightning and covered in chemical and he was sucked into a mirror.
Thea fell into a coma, but as if by destiny she awoke the moment that the fishermen found Oliver on the island. Oliver and Thea both returned to their lives with new abilities. Oliver was a master fighter and archer, while Thea had super speed. Meanwhile, Feliceobard murdered that timeline's Felicity Smoak and took her place.
The Queen siblings both took on secret identities and began to fight crime. Oliver, with his training from the five years in hell became the Arrow, fighting corrupt businessmen. Thea, with her speed and archery abilities became the Flash, fighting Starling's new superpowered threats.
At first, the Queen siblings didn't now each other's secret identities. However, Lance figured out that Thea was the Flash early on. He talked with her about it, and vowed to do whatever it took to help her, although he was worried about how she was risking her life. Later, Lance figured out that Oliver was the Arrow. Thea initially doubted him, but used her speed to confirm it. However, she believed Oliver was trying to do the right thing, so she convinced Lance to hold off on confronting Oliver while she tried to convince him to find another way. Meanwhile, Oliver never even considered the possibility of Thea being the Flash, and despite having teamed up with her multiple times, didn't even figure out that the Flash was a girl until after she stopped the Undertaking and whisked Malcolm into jail. After a while, Oliver also learned that Thea was the Flash.
Meanwhile, Feliceobard lived a triple life. To the outside world, Feliceobard was an ordinary IT girl, but secretly, Feliceobard was both the hacker assistant of the Arrow and the arch nemesis of the Flash. (Wells!Eobard didn't gain any speed because his connection to the Speedforce was tied to Barry Allen. He did do all sorts of evil shit behind the scenes though.) Feliceobard now had everything she/he wanted, because her/his two enemies, Thea Queen and the Flash, were one and the same.
After clashing with the Flash for several years, Feliceobard was discovered to be pregnant with the child of original Eobard. Feliceobard used Speedforce to speed up the pregnancy, and after only one month gave birth to Bart Smoak. However, not too long after Bart's birth, the Reverse Flash's identity was discovered, and Feliceobard stopped living the life of Felicity Smoak. Bart was abandoned, so he was adopted by Cisco and Laurel Ramon, who, being metahumans themselves, were prepared for Bart's unusual abilities.
Thea was also very close to Bart as he was growing up, and helped him with his speedforce powers, when they manifested. He took on the superhero identity of Impulse, and later became the second Flash after Thea entered the Speedforce. Thea later returned and was impressed by Bart's work protecting the city while she was gone.
When Thea first woke from her coma, Starling City had been a hive of corruption and crime. But under the protection of both Flashes, the Arrow, the Black Canary, Vibe, and several other heroes, it flourished, and became a shining city which all other American cities looked to and wanted to be like. And to honour these heroes, Starling City built a museum, so that their legendary feats would be immortalized for all the future generations.
Also, Roy became the Hunter Zolomon version of the Reverse Flash and Chase became the third Reverse Flash, although he was actually the first Reverse Flash and didn't even know it.
tl;dr: Thea is speedy. | Chase was born in the future and given the name Eobard Thawne. When he was 20, he created an experimental time travel device and used it to travel to the past. This caused him to lose his memories. He fell in with the League of Assassins and took the name Chase, training with them for 3 years. He killed himself, but was revived by the Lazarus Pit.
His dip in the pit drove him insane, so he bleached his skin and became the Joker. He then went around Starling City causing chaos and seeking revenge against Thea Queen. Thea couldn't defeat him alone, and Oliver was too busy banging Felicity, so she called in the Flash.
The Flash fought the Joker, but there was an accident that caused the Joker to gain the ability to tap into the Speedforce, the source of the Flash's power. This accident messed with his memories, so he remembered his life as Eobard Thawne again, but his memories of the past changed with the Flash taking the place of Thea. With his hatred of Thea now transferred to the Flash, Eobard/Chase/Joker rebuilt the time travel device, stole a Flash costume, and returned to his time.
He then used future technology to put his skin back to normal, and turned his stolen Flash suit into the Reverse Flash suit. Using his time machine, he went back in time to fight the Flash many times.
After 20 years of dueling with him, he learned that the Flash's name was Barry Allen. He then went back in time to kill Barry, but ended up stranded in the past and had to steal the face of Harrison Wells. Chase/Eobard/Reverse Flash/Joker/Wells then created his own arch enemy, the Flash, so that he would be able to return to his time.
He was nearly able to, but the Flash destroyed his time ship and when his several times great grandfather shot himself, he was erased from existence.
However, after his existence was erased, he woke up in his time, just minutes before he had travelled to the past to kill a young Barry. He was overjoyed until he found he still had the face of Harrison Wells. He was frustrated, until he discovered a device that could transfer just his consciousness into the past.
He intended to transfer his mind into the body of Barry Allen so that he could always be connected to the speedforce, but the moment he ended up at was when Barry was carrying Felicity to STAR Labs a few days before fighting Oliver, so his consciousness instead entered Felicity's body and completely fused with hers, messing up Eobard's memories again and creating a being even more insane than Eobard had ever been.
Eobard/Chase/Joker/Wells/Reverse Flash/Felicity's hatred of the Flash was changed into an equally twisted love of Oliver Queen. However, after getting with Oliver, his/her memories of hating the Flash resurfaced, and he/she started pouring all of the resources of Palmer Technologies into a project that would allow him/her access to the Speedforce again.
On the day the Speedforce device was completed, the Joker attacked Palmer Technologies just as Feliceobard was using it. The Flash appeared and battled the Joker as the device was turned on, and the Joker detonated an explosive on the machine powering the device. This explosion caused both the Joker and Chase/Eobard/Joker/Felicity/Wells/Reverse Flash to become connected to the Speedforce, meaning that Eobard was responsible for his own creation.
Coming into contact with the Joker also completely restored all of Eobard's memories, causing Feliceobard to remember his/her original hatred for Thea Queen. Feliceobard then returned to the future and killed the original Eobard body, absorbing its Speedforce and becoming even faster.
With all memories restored Chase/Eobard/Joker/Wells/Reverse Flash/Felicity now hated The Flash and Thea Queen, but not Barry Allen, who she/he now considered a friend. To get revenge on Thea Queen and the Flash, but without harming Barry Allen, Feliceobard travelled into the timestream and grabbed hold of Eobard just before he killed Nora Allen. Feliceobard then placed suggestions in Eobard's mind.
Under Feliceobard's control, after losing his connection to the Speedforce, Eobard stole the identity of Harrison Wells and then started construction of the particle accelerator in Starling City. Feliceobard supplied Eobard with tech that allowed him to get the particle accelerator done even earlier, and it was activated nine months before Oliver Queen was rescued from the island.
In this new timeline, after the shipwreck happened, Thea and Quentin became close in their grief, and he became like a substitute father to her. She became set on becoming a cop as a result. On the day the particle accelerator was turned on, Thea recklessly tried to go out and catch a criminal before the police could. She chased him into a large factory where due to the particle accelerator she was struck by lightning and covered in chemical and he was sucked into a mirror.
Thea fell into a coma, but as if by destiny she awoke the moment that the fishermen found Oliver on the island. Oliver and Thea both returned to their lives with new abilities. Oliver was a master fighter and archer, while Thea had super speed. Meanwhile, Feliceobard murdered that timeline's Felicity Smoak and took her place.
The Queen siblings both took on secret identities and began to fight crime. Oliver, with his training from the five years in hell became the Arrow, fighting corrupt businessmen. Thea, with her speed and archery abilities became the Flash, fighting Starling's new superpowered threats.
At first, the Queen siblings didn't now each other's secret identities. However, Lance figured out that Thea was the Flash early on. He talked with her about it, and vowed to do whatever it took to help her, although he was worried about how she was risking her life. Later, Lance figured out that Oliver was the Arrow. Thea initially doubted him, but used her speed to confirm it. However, she believed Oliver was trying to do the right thing, so she convinced Lance to hold off on confronting Oliver while she tried to convince him to find another way. Meanwhile, Oliver never even considered the possibility of Thea being the Flash, and despite having teamed up with her multiple times, didn't even figure out that the Flash was a girl until after she stopped the Undertaking and whisked Malcolm into jail. After a while, Oliver also learned that Thea was the Flash.
Meanwhile, Feliceobard lived a triple life. To the outside world, Feliceobard was an ordinary IT girl, but secretly, Feliceobard was both the hacker assistant of the Arrow and the arch nemesis of the Flash. (Wells!Eobard didn't gain any speed because his connection to the Speedforce was tied to Barry Allen. He did do all sorts of evil shit behind the scenes though.) Feliceobard now had everything she/he wanted, because her/his two enemies, Thea Queen and the Flash, were one and the same.
After clashing with the Flash for several years, Feliceobard was discovered to be pregnant with the child of original Eobard. Feliceobard used Speedforce to speed up the pregnancy, and after only one month gave birth to Bart Smoak. However, not too long after Bart's birth, the Reverse Flash's identity was discovered, and Feliceobard stopped living the life of Felicity Smoak. Bart was abandoned, so he was adopted by Cisco and Laurel Ramon, who, being metahumans themselves, were prepared for Bart's unusual abilities.
Thea was also very close to Bart as he was growing up, and helped him with his speedforce powers, when they manifested. He took on the superhero identity of Impulse, and later became the second Flash after Thea entered the Speedforce. Thea later returned and was impressed by Bart's work protecting the city while she was gone.
When Thea first woke from her coma, Starling City had been a hive of corruption and crime. But under the protection of both Flashes, the Arrow, the Black Canary, Vibe, and several other heroes, it flourished, and became a shining city which all other American cities looked to and wanted to be like. And to honour these heroes, Starling City built a museum, so that their legendary feats would be immortalized for all the future generations.
Also, Roy became the Hunter Zolomon version of the Reverse Flash and Chase became the third Reverse Flash, although he was actually the first Reverse Flash and didn't even know it.
tl;dr: Thea is speedy.
| arrow | t5_2u4js | crn8fiu | Chase was born in the future and given the name Eobard Thawne. When he was 20, he created an experimental time travel device and used it to travel to the past. This caused him to lose his memories. He fell in with the League of Assassins and took the name Chase, training with them for 3 years. He killed himself, but was revived by the Lazarus Pit.
His dip in the pit drove him insane, so he bleached his skin and became the Joker. He then went around Starling City causing chaos and seeking revenge against Thea Queen. Thea couldn't defeat him alone, and Oliver was too busy banging Felicity, so she called in the Flash.
The Flash fought the Joker, but there was an accident that caused the Joker to gain the ability to tap into the Speedforce, the source of the Flash's power. This accident messed with his memories, so he remembered his life as Eobard Thawne again, but his memories of the past changed with the Flash taking the place of Thea. With his hatred of Thea now transferred to the Flash, Eobard/Chase/Joker rebuilt the time travel device, stole a Flash costume, and returned to his time.
He then used future technology to put his skin back to normal, and turned his stolen Flash suit into the Reverse Flash suit. Using his time machine, he went back in time to fight the Flash many times.
After 20 years of dueling with him, he learned that the Flash's name was Barry Allen. He then went back in time to kill Barry, but ended up stranded in the past and had to steal the face of Harrison Wells. Chase/Eobard/Reverse Flash/Joker/Wells then created his own arch enemy, the Flash, so that he would be able to return to his time.
He was nearly able to, but the Flash destroyed his time ship and when his several times great grandfather shot himself, he was erased from existence.
However, after his existence was erased, he woke up in his time, just minutes before he had travelled to the past to kill a young Barry. He was overjoyed until he found he still had the face of Harrison Wells. He was frustrated, until he discovered a device that could transfer just his consciousness into the past.
He intended to transfer his mind into the body of Barry Allen so that he could always be connected to the speedforce, but the moment he ended up at was when Barry was carrying Felicity to STAR Labs a few days before fighting Oliver, so his consciousness instead entered Felicity's body and completely fused with hers, messing up Eobard's memories again and creating a being even more insane than Eobard had ever been.
Eobard/Chase/Joker/Wells/Reverse Flash/Felicity's hatred of the Flash was changed into an equally twisted love of Oliver Queen. However, after getting with Oliver, his/her memories of hating the Flash resurfaced, and he/she started pouring all of the resources of Palmer Technologies into a project that would allow him/her access to the Speedforce again.
On the day the Speedforce device was completed, the Joker attacked Palmer Technologies just as Feliceobard was using it. The Flash appeared and battled the Joker as the device was turned on, and the Joker detonated an explosive on the machine powering the device. This explosion caused both the Joker and Chase/Eobard/Joker/Felicity/Wells/Reverse Flash to become connected to the Speedforce, meaning that Eobard was responsible for his own creation.
Coming into contact with the Joker also completely restored all of Eobard's memories, causing Feliceobard to remember his/her original hatred for Thea Queen. Feliceobard then returned to the future and killed the original Eobard body, absorbing its Speedforce and becoming even faster.
With all memories restored Chase/Eobard/Joker/Wells/Reverse Flash/Felicity now hated The Flash and Thea Queen, but not Barry Allen, who she/he now considered a friend. To get revenge on Thea Queen and the Flash, but without harming Barry Allen, Feliceobard travelled into the timestream and grabbed hold of Eobard just before he killed Nora Allen. Feliceobard then placed suggestions in Eobard's mind.
Under Feliceobard's control, after losing his connection to the Speedforce, Eobard stole the identity of Harrison Wells and then started construction of the particle accelerator in Starling City. Feliceobard supplied Eobard with tech that allowed him to get the particle accelerator done even earlier, and it was activated nine months before Oliver Queen was rescued from the island.
In this new timeline, after the shipwreck happened, Thea and Quentin became close in their grief, and he became like a substitute father to her. She became set on becoming a cop as a result. On the day the particle accelerator was turned on, Thea recklessly tried to go out and catch a criminal before the police could. She chased him into a large factory where due to the particle accelerator she was struck by lightning and covered in chemical and he was sucked into a mirror.
Thea fell into a coma, but as if by destiny she awoke the moment that the fishermen found Oliver on the island. Oliver and Thea both returned to their lives with new abilities. Oliver was a master fighter and archer, while Thea had super speed. Meanwhile, Feliceobard murdered that timeline's Felicity Smoak and took her place.
The Queen siblings both took on secret identities and began to fight crime. Oliver, with his training from the five years in hell became the Arrow, fighting corrupt businessmen. Thea, with her speed and archery abilities became the Flash, fighting Starling's new superpowered threats.
At first, the Queen siblings didn't now each other's secret identities. However, Lance figured out that Thea was the Flash early on. He talked with her about it, and vowed to do whatever it took to help her, although he was worried about how she was risking her life. Later, Lance figured out that Oliver was the Arrow. Thea initially doubted him, but used her speed to confirm it. However, she believed Oliver was trying to do the right thing, so she convinced Lance to hold off on confronting Oliver while she tried to convince him to find another way. Meanwhile, Oliver never even considered the possibility of Thea being the Flash, and despite having teamed up with her multiple times, didn't even figure out that the Flash was a girl until after she stopped the Undertaking and whisked Malcolm into jail. After a while, Oliver also learned that Thea was the Flash.
Meanwhile, Feliceobard lived a triple life. To the outside world, Feliceobard was an ordinary IT girl, but secretly, Feliceobard was both the hacker assistant of the Arrow and the arch nemesis of the Flash. (Wells!Eobard didn't gain any speed because his connection to the Speedforce was tied to Barry Allen. He did do all sorts of evil shit behind the scenes though.) Feliceobard now had everything she/he wanted, because her/his two enemies, Thea Queen and the Flash, were one and the same.
After clashing with the Flash for several years, Feliceobard was discovered to be pregnant with the child of original Eobard. Feliceobard used Speedforce to speed up the pregnancy, and after only one month gave birth to Bart Smoak. However, not too long after Bart's birth, the Reverse Flash's identity was discovered, and Feliceobard stopped living the life of Felicity Smoak. Bart was abandoned, so he was adopted by Cisco and Laurel Ramon, who, being metahumans themselves, were prepared for Bart's unusual abilities.
Thea was also very close to Bart as he was growing up, and helped him with his speedforce powers, when they manifested. He took on the superhero identity of Impulse, and later became the second Flash after Thea entered the Speedforce. Thea later returned and was impressed by Bart's work protecting the city while she was gone.
When Thea first woke from her coma, Starling City had been a hive of corruption and crime. But under the protection of both Flashes, the Arrow, the Black Canary, Vibe, and several other heroes, it flourished, and became a shining city which all other American cities looked to and wanted to be like. And to honour these heroes, Starling City built a museum, so that their legendary feats would be immortalized for all the future generations.
Also, Roy became the Hunter Zolomon version of the Reverse Flash and Chase became the third Reverse Flash, although he was actually the first Reverse Flash and didn't even know it. | Thea is speedy. |
Dopeworm5 | My favourite part is when loading screen freezes when everyone's at 100% and you're like "dafuq this is taking a while" and then you realise Riot are retarded and have put no way of detecting if you've crashed or not whilst in loading screen, so you reload and the enemy laner is five levels ahead AND WOW I'VE GOT SUCH A GREAT GAME AHEAD OF ME.
TL;DR Riot are fucking idiots | My favourite part is when loading screen freezes when everyone's at 100% and you're like "dafuq this is taking a while" and then you realise Riot are retarded and have put no way of detecting if you've crashed or not whilst in loading screen, so you reload and the enemy laner is five levels ahead AND WOW I'VE GOT SUCH A GREAT GAME AHEAD OF ME.
TL;DR Riot are fucking idiots
| leagueoflegends | t5_2rfxx | crnhypf | My favourite part is when loading screen freezes when everyone's at 100% and you're like "dafuq this is taking a while" and then you realise Riot are retarded and have put no way of detecting if you've crashed or not whilst in loading screen, so you reload and the enemy laner is five levels ahead AND WOW I'VE GOT SUCH A GREAT GAME AHEAD OF ME. | Riot are fucking idiots |
jhill066 | Back before I started boarding school I hung out with one of the neighborhood girl. She was more beautiful than anything i could have ever dreamed of. After a few summers of me flirting with her horribly, we both start attending school. I was estatic, I thought this would give me more opportunity to get closer and possibly romantic with her. I couldn't have been more wrong. I was nothing to her, just a creepy neighbor who always hung around. To add salt to the wound, I was getting picked on alot at school. I got my assbeat more consistently than the sun rose. There was one boy in particular, who never shirked an opportunity to torment me. This guy was a real asshole. The only thing that got me through school was my love for academia, but that didnt comfort me much.It didn't help that my feelings for her never faded. But as I said before it wasn't meant to be. Not long after our second year the girl I loved since I was little kid started dating the boy who gave me hell throughout school. Just my fucking luck. What made it worst is that they were always so happy together. After school they got married and had a kid. What a happy fucking family. After graduation I kinda of spiraled out of control, started hanging with the wrong crowd. The ringleader of this gang I was running with was batshit crazy , like zodiac killer crazy. Some days he would leave for days and come back , and curious amounts of people would end up reported "missing". Noone was brave enough to question him. We all knew what really happened to those people. This story gets worat. After one of those eerie nights this guy doesn't turn up for a really long time. Everyone is wondering where he is, as he usually turns up by this point. I get news that a couple was found dead near my hometown. I found out later it was my school crush and her husband. I was floored. I couldn't think straight. All I could think about is her. For some reason ,the crazy bastard left the kid. After that I had to turn my life around, so I started teaching at my old school. It didn't pay much per hour, just about tree fiddy
Tl;dr fuck you | Back before I started boarding school I hung out with one of the neighborhood girl. She was more beautiful than anything i could have ever dreamed of. After a few summers of me flirting with her horribly, we both start attending school. I was estatic, I thought this would give me more opportunity to get closer and possibly romantic with her. I couldn't have been more wrong. I was nothing to her, just a creepy neighbor who always hung around. To add salt to the wound, I was getting picked on alot at school. I got my assbeat more consistently than the sun rose. There was one boy in particular, who never shirked an opportunity to torment me. This guy was a real asshole. The only thing that got me through school was my love for academia, but that didnt comfort me much.It didn't help that my feelings for her never faded. But as I said before it wasn't meant to be. Not long after our second year the girl I loved since I was little kid started dating the boy who gave me hell throughout school. Just my fucking luck. What made it worst is that they were always so happy together. After school they got married and had a kid. What a happy fucking family. After graduation I kinda of spiraled out of control, started hanging with the wrong crowd. The ringleader of this gang I was running with was batshit crazy , like zodiac killer crazy. Some days he would leave for days and come back , and curious amounts of people would end up reported "missing". Noone was brave enough to question him. We all knew what really happened to those people. This story gets worat. After one of those eerie nights this guy doesn't turn up for a really long time. Everyone is wondering where he is, as he usually turns up by this point. I get news that a couple was found dead near my hometown. I found out later it was my school crush and her husband. I was floored. I couldn't think straight. All I could think about is her. For some reason ,the crazy bastard left the kid. After that I had to turn my life around, so I started teaching at my old school. It didn't pay much per hour, just about tree fiddy
Tl;dr fuck you
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | crn7d37 | Back before I started boarding school I hung out with one of the neighborhood girl. She was more beautiful than anything i could have ever dreamed of. After a few summers of me flirting with her horribly, we both start attending school. I was estatic, I thought this would give me more opportunity to get closer and possibly romantic with her. I couldn't have been more wrong. I was nothing to her, just a creepy neighbor who always hung around. To add salt to the wound, I was getting picked on alot at school. I got my assbeat more consistently than the sun rose. There was one boy in particular, who never shirked an opportunity to torment me. This guy was a real asshole. The only thing that got me through school was my love for academia, but that didnt comfort me much.It didn't help that my feelings for her never faded. But as I said before it wasn't meant to be. Not long after our second year the girl I loved since I was little kid started dating the boy who gave me hell throughout school. Just my fucking luck. What made it worst is that they were always so happy together. After school they got married and had a kid. What a happy fucking family. After graduation I kinda of spiraled out of control, started hanging with the wrong crowd. The ringleader of this gang I was running with was batshit crazy , like zodiac killer crazy. Some days he would leave for days and come back , and curious amounts of people would end up reported "missing". Noone was brave enough to question him. We all knew what really happened to those people. This story gets worat. After one of those eerie nights this guy doesn't turn up for a really long time. Everyone is wondering where he is, as he usually turns up by this point. I get news that a couple was found dead near my hometown. I found out later it was my school crush and her husband. I was floored. I couldn't think straight. All I could think about is her. For some reason ,the crazy bastard left the kid. After that I had to turn my life around, so I started teaching at my old school. It didn't pay much per hour, just about tree fiddy | fuck you |
kallisti_gold | Look, the pineapple thing? It's overhyped. Eat some pineapple with your lunch and your spunk won't taste as bad for dessert after dinner.
However, it's not a magical cure-all. It can only do so much, and you can only eat so much pineapple before you start to hate it.
If you want to make a real change in the way you taste, you have to make a real change in your diet.
- Keep yourself hydrated, drink water throughout the day.
- Cut back on or completely eliminate soda, red meat, fried greasy food, and dairy.
- Eat more fruits and vegetables. Yes, pineapple can be one of them.
TL;DR: You are what you eat. | Look, the pineapple thing? It's overhyped. Eat some pineapple with your lunch and your spunk won't taste as bad for dessert after dinner.
However, it's not a magical cure-all. It can only do so much, and you can only eat so much pineapple before you start to hate it.
If you want to make a real change in the way you taste, you have to make a real change in your diet.
Keep yourself hydrated, drink water throughout the day.
Cut back on or completely eliminate soda, red meat, fried greasy food, and dairy.
Eat more fruits and vegetables. Yes, pineapple can be one of them.
TL;DR: You are what you eat.
| sex | t5_2qh3p | crnb3gf | Look, the pineapple thing? It's overhyped. Eat some pineapple with your lunch and your spunk won't taste as bad for dessert after dinner.
However, it's not a magical cure-all. It can only do so much, and you can only eat so much pineapple before you start to hate it.
If you want to make a real change in the way you taste, you have to make a real change in your diet.
Keep yourself hydrated, drink water throughout the day.
Cut back on or completely eliminate soda, red meat, fried greasy food, and dairy.
Eat more fruits and vegetables. Yes, pineapple can be one of them. | You are what you eat. |
always_creating | We use neither Redhat or Tomcat, so it hasn't been an issue. But here it is straight from [Red Hat's Leap Second Issue page](
>Systems running any version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux should automatically account for leap second corrections if they are using the NTP (Network Time Protocol) daemon to synchronize their local timekeeping with an NTP server.
Our Linux web (Apache) and database servers just kinda keep chugging along, same with our network infrastructure and storage networks. NTP servers keep doing their thing, domains and clusters remain up, it's nothing special for us. Multiple big vendors have released patches to address the Leap Second, it's a well-understood issue. Microsoft's own Windows Time Leap Second KB page has less than a dozen sentences to say about it, but here's the TLDR:
>This time difference is resolved at the next time synchronization. | We use neither Redhat or Tomcat, so it hasn't been an issue. But here it is straight from [Red Hat's Leap Second Issue page](
>Systems running any version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux should automatically account for leap second corrections if they are using the NTP (Network Time Protocol) daemon to synchronize their local timekeeping with an NTP server.
Our Linux web (Apache) and database servers just kinda keep chugging along, same with our network infrastructure and storage networks. NTP servers keep doing their thing, domains and clusters remain up, it's nothing special for us. Multiple big vendors have released patches to address the Leap Second, it's a well-understood issue. Microsoft's own Windows Time Leap Second KB page has less than a dozen sentences to say about it, but here's the TLDR:
>This time difference is resolved at the next time synchronization.
| sysadmin | t5_2qnp7 | crnueuv | We use neither Redhat or Tomcat, so it hasn't been an issue. But here it is straight from [Red Hat's Leap Second Issue page](
>Systems running any version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux should automatically account for leap second corrections if they are using the NTP (Network Time Protocol) daemon to synchronize their local timekeeping with an NTP server.
Our Linux web (Apache) and database servers just kinda keep chugging along, same with our network infrastructure and storage networks. NTP servers keep doing their thing, domains and clusters remain up, it's nothing special for us. Multiple big vendors have released patches to address the Leap Second, it's a well-understood issue. Microsoft's own Windows Time Leap Second KB page has less than a dozen sentences to say about it, but here's the | This time difference is resolved at the next time synchronization. |
Vianim | This, everyone is looking to blame one of them being the crazy one. Everyone always looks for the "bad guy vs. good guy" combo. There is no bad-guy good-guy in this, just different levels of self-justified insanity.
I've seen it quite a lot, and it usually follows a similar formula. Person A (Seemingly Normal and accepted by society because they hide their crazy in the closet) falls for Person B (Outwardly different, lives by their rules and tattoos crazy on them for all to see) because Person B can so openly express the closet crazy Person A has been supressing and Person B to Person A because it grounds them to the normalcy they've decided to closet, as well as relate to closet crazy.
Time goes on, crazy clashes. The very same personality traits they love about each other become toxic and turn into the things they hate about each other. This means there is no 'fixing' the relationship, its a skydive with no parachute; fun because you're falling, but you're killed from the same thing that made it fun once you hit the ground. The whole thing was doomed from the start and just waiting for something to go wrong.
Then it's the usual breakup bullshit. Both sides say the other is crazy, their friends side with them and re-enforce it. All out war ensues, and the winner is considered the one who "got away from crazy" and dumped the "bad-guy" in the general public opinion. Words are their bullets, and everyone they talk to is their soldiers. In all reality, both are insane, both have done things to ruin their relationship, both are taking the breakup in fucked up ways and you'll forget what rational means and you'll never get down to the truth as their is no rational behind anything that's going on.
My friends have been through this, their friends have been through this, and my parents are going through this. Fuck IVE been through this far too many times. Looking back I saw that I wasn't the "only sane one", I was just as guilty for acting "crazy" as my ex's. Sure a lot can be justified as "not as bad" but its still pretty fuckin bad and means that nobody is in the right.
tl;dr Accidentally built a text-wall. Most relationships with a "crazy" one usually means both are crazy, always have been crazy, and never "turned crazy". There is no good vs evil, just one fucked up situation where people do fucked up things to hurt each other. | This, everyone is looking to blame one of them being the crazy one. Everyone always looks for the "bad guy vs. good guy" combo. There is no bad-guy good-guy in this, just different levels of self-justified insanity.
I've seen it quite a lot, and it usually follows a similar formula. Person A (Seemingly Normal and accepted by society because they hide their crazy in the closet) falls for Person B (Outwardly different, lives by their rules and tattoos crazy on them for all to see) because Person B can so openly express the closet crazy Person A has been supressing and Person B to Person A because it grounds them to the normalcy they've decided to closet, as well as relate to closet crazy.
Time goes on, crazy clashes. The very same personality traits they love about each other become toxic and turn into the things they hate about each other. This means there is no 'fixing' the relationship, its a skydive with no parachute; fun because you're falling, but you're killed from the same thing that made it fun once you hit the ground. The whole thing was doomed from the start and just waiting for something to go wrong.
Then it's the usual breakup bullshit. Both sides say the other is crazy, their friends side with them and re-enforce it. All out war ensues, and the winner is considered the one who "got away from crazy" and dumped the "bad-guy" in the general public opinion. Words are their bullets, and everyone they talk to is their soldiers. In all reality, both are insane, both have done things to ruin their relationship, both are taking the breakup in fucked up ways and you'll forget what rational means and you'll never get down to the truth as their is no rational behind anything that's going on.
My friends have been through this, their friends have been through this, and my parents are going through this. Fuck IVE been through this far too many times. Looking back I saw that I wasn't the "only sane one", I was just as guilty for acting "crazy" as my ex's. Sure a lot can be justified as "not as bad" but its still pretty fuckin bad and means that nobody is in the right.
tl;dr Accidentally built a text-wall. Most relationships with a "crazy" one usually means both are crazy, always have been crazy, and never "turned crazy". There is no good vs evil, just one fucked up situation where people do fucked up things to hurt each other.
| WTF | t5_2qh61 | crpb2c0 | This, everyone is looking to blame one of them being the crazy one. Everyone always looks for the "bad guy vs. good guy" combo. There is no bad-guy good-guy in this, just different levels of self-justified insanity.
I've seen it quite a lot, and it usually follows a similar formula. Person A (Seemingly Normal and accepted by society because they hide their crazy in the closet) falls for Person B (Outwardly different, lives by their rules and tattoos crazy on them for all to see) because Person B can so openly express the closet crazy Person A has been supressing and Person B to Person A because it grounds them to the normalcy they've decided to closet, as well as relate to closet crazy.
Time goes on, crazy clashes. The very same personality traits they love about each other become toxic and turn into the things they hate about each other. This means there is no 'fixing' the relationship, its a skydive with no parachute; fun because you're falling, but you're killed from the same thing that made it fun once you hit the ground. The whole thing was doomed from the start and just waiting for something to go wrong.
Then it's the usual breakup bullshit. Both sides say the other is crazy, their friends side with them and re-enforce it. All out war ensues, and the winner is considered the one who "got away from crazy" and dumped the "bad-guy" in the general public opinion. Words are their bullets, and everyone they talk to is their soldiers. In all reality, both are insane, both have done things to ruin their relationship, both are taking the breakup in fucked up ways and you'll forget what rational means and you'll never get down to the truth as their is no rational behind anything that's going on.
My friends have been through this, their friends have been through this, and my parents are going through this. Fuck IVE been through this far too many times. Looking back I saw that I wasn't the "only sane one", I was just as guilty for acting "crazy" as my ex's. Sure a lot can be justified as "not as bad" but its still pretty fuckin bad and means that nobody is in the right. | Accidentally built a text-wall. Most relationships with a "crazy" one usually means both are crazy, always have been crazy, and never "turned crazy". There is no good vs evil, just one fucked up situation where people do fucked up things to hurt each other. |
aeromechanicalace | Long story short: Private ownership of resources and business for profit will always lead to those owners doing what makes them the most profit, which often comes at the expense of the people and environment. Look at the constant fight cascadia is currently engaged in with the fossil fuel industry, which, with it's vast resources, could almost certainly switch to renewable energy, but don't do so because fossil fuels are still more profitable.
TLDR: Capitalism = Profit for the owners, and screw everyone and everything else. | Long story short: Private ownership of resources and business for profit will always lead to those owners doing what makes them the most profit, which often comes at the expense of the people and environment. Look at the constant fight cascadia is currently engaged in with the fossil fuel industry, which, with it's vast resources, could almost certainly switch to renewable energy, but don't do so because fossil fuels are still more profitable.
TLDR: Capitalism = Profit for the owners, and screw everyone and everything else.
| Cascadia | t5_2s4dh | crp92nc | Long story short: Private ownership of resources and business for profit will always lead to those owners doing what makes them the most profit, which often comes at the expense of the people and environment. Look at the constant fight cascadia is currently engaged in with the fossil fuel industry, which, with it's vast resources, could almost certainly switch to renewable energy, but don't do so because fossil fuels are still more profitable. | Capitalism = Profit for the owners, and screw everyone and everything else. |
justicedemon | I absolutely agree with all of this. Under normal DF conditions this would not work. If, however, players could be matched in a method that ensures a Coil Roulette tank with a DF tank, healer, dps, etc then you'd have at least 4 players capable of downing T13 matched with 4 DF players. What are the odds that all four will be completely terribad? (Don't answer that).
But you're right that there are bad experiences to be had within the DF. I have run lower coils recently and while gear can make T5 a cakewalk there are still core mechanics that need to be executed. On the other hand, with current echo we're seeing smaller and smaller groups clearing earlier content. So nerf the hell out of the earlier turns or not, whatever balances the game. But if you did nerf it a bit, all that's missing is a Battle Message telling players how to "correctly" deal with the mechanics as you go. Things like "Silencing Foes #1: High Voltage", "Marked Attacks #1: Divebombs" could introduce new players to these ideas more directly as players with the fight on farm execute the mechanics. The fights could be retuned or echo could be increased but the end result would be at least a geared player with first-hand knowledge of how more complicated mechanics are supposed to be executed.
With Second and Final Coils, you're right that the mechanics get more and more complicated so in order for this to include them those fights might need to be nerfed even more. Maybe Coil Roulette only includes the first 5/9 turns?
TLDR: Match Coil Roulette and Duty Roulette players into parties evenly and include battle messages similar to guildhests and class quests to help explain mechanics. With increased item level and possible echo/nerfs and experienced players in key roles this could serve as a better education than is currently provided. | I absolutely agree with all of this. Under normal DF conditions this would not work. If, however, players could be matched in a method that ensures a Coil Roulette tank with a DF tank, healer, dps, etc then you'd have at least 4 players capable of downing T13 matched with 4 DF players. What are the odds that all four will be completely terribad? (Don't answer that).
But you're right that there are bad experiences to be had within the DF. I have run lower coils recently and while gear can make T5 a cakewalk there are still core mechanics that need to be executed. On the other hand, with current echo we're seeing smaller and smaller groups clearing earlier content. So nerf the hell out of the earlier turns or not, whatever balances the game. But if you did nerf it a bit, all that's missing is a Battle Message telling players how to "correctly" deal with the mechanics as you go. Things like "Silencing Foes #1: High Voltage", "Marked Attacks #1: Divebombs" could introduce new players to these ideas more directly as players with the fight on farm execute the mechanics. The fights could be retuned or echo could be increased but the end result would be at least a geared player with first-hand knowledge of how more complicated mechanics are supposed to be executed.
With Second and Final Coils, you're right that the mechanics get more and more complicated so in order for this to include them those fights might need to be nerfed even more. Maybe Coil Roulette only includes the first 5/9 turns?
TLDR: Match Coil Roulette and Duty Roulette players into parties evenly and include battle messages similar to guildhests and class quests to help explain mechanics. With increased item level and possible echo/nerfs and experienced players in key roles this could serve as a better education than is currently provided.
| ffxiv | t5_2rgs7 | cron1f9 | I absolutely agree with all of this. Under normal DF conditions this would not work. If, however, players could be matched in a method that ensures a Coil Roulette tank with a DF tank, healer, dps, etc then you'd have at least 4 players capable of downing T13 matched with 4 DF players. What are the odds that all four will be completely terribad? (Don't answer that).
But you're right that there are bad experiences to be had within the DF. I have run lower coils recently and while gear can make T5 a cakewalk there are still core mechanics that need to be executed. On the other hand, with current echo we're seeing smaller and smaller groups clearing earlier content. So nerf the hell out of the earlier turns or not, whatever balances the game. But if you did nerf it a bit, all that's missing is a Battle Message telling players how to "correctly" deal with the mechanics as you go. Things like "Silencing Foes #1: High Voltage", "Marked Attacks #1: Divebombs" could introduce new players to these ideas more directly as players with the fight on farm execute the mechanics. The fights could be retuned or echo could be increased but the end result would be at least a geared player with first-hand knowledge of how more complicated mechanics are supposed to be executed.
With Second and Final Coils, you're right that the mechanics get more and more complicated so in order for this to include them those fights might need to be nerfed even more. Maybe Coil Roulette only includes the first 5/9 turns? | Match Coil Roulette and Duty Roulette players into parties evenly and include battle messages similar to guildhests and class quests to help explain mechanics. With increased item level and possible echo/nerfs and experienced players in key roles this could serve as a better education than is currently provided. |
Terras1fan | In response to your first question regarding Shinto/nationalism:
* See Fujitani Takashi's *Splendid Monarchy* where it lays out how the Meiji leaders shaped the nation through the manipulation of Shinto practices and superstition and tying these ideas into the created symbol of the Emperor.
* Shinto before 1868 was highly merged with Buddhism, but in the Meiji period Shinto and Buddhism were separated. Shinto, as it is more a vague space of terms, became an easy vehicle to create the concept of a nation and regain public confidence since there was a regime change and the populace was not too pleased with its government's cozy tendencies with the foreigners barraging into Japan.
* How was Shinto used? It gave a mythical element to the Emperor and legitimacy. It made the country "united" from a random set of villages that are mildly aware of each other. The leadership was highly involved in this process, and many aspects were manufactured. This is where some "traditional Japanese" statements get said in public discourse, when in actuality, it's made up traditional Japanese.
* Yes, technically Shinto became a bit of a political ideology, generally just known as State Shinto, since it was run by the government. (It even has its own branch for a few years.)
* I wouldn't say Shinto influenced the decision to participate. Japan's decisions as early as 1931 were clearly not Shinto/religious based, but more so colonial and imperial. However, sometimes it was used as part of political rhetoric to spearhead causes or excuse them.
* Lastly, background speaking: for a good understanding of the Shinto/Buddhism divide that happens with the Meiji Restoration, I highly recommend *The Invention of Religion in Japan* by Jason Josephson.
So basically, tl;dr: Shinto is used and abused by leadership, because by removing Buddhism from Shintoism it's a far more broad, open-ended idea of the world than a strict religion. Therefore, it's easy to use and manipulate in the political sphere. | In response to your first question regarding Shinto/nationalism:
See Fujitani Takashi's Splendid Monarchy where it lays out how the Meiji leaders shaped the nation through the manipulation of Shinto practices and superstition and tying these ideas into the created symbol of the Emperor.
Shinto before 1868 was highly merged with Buddhism, but in the Meiji period Shinto and Buddhism were separated. Shinto, as it is more a vague space of terms, became an easy vehicle to create the concept of a nation and regain public confidence since there was a regime change and the populace was not too pleased with its government's cozy tendencies with the foreigners barraging into Japan.
How was Shinto used? It gave a mythical element to the Emperor and legitimacy. It made the country "united" from a random set of villages that are mildly aware of each other. The leadership was highly involved in this process, and many aspects were manufactured. This is where some "traditional Japanese" statements get said in public discourse, when in actuality, it's made up traditional Japanese.
Yes, technically Shinto became a bit of a political ideology, generally just known as State Shinto, since it was run by the government. (It even has its own branch for a few years.)
I wouldn't say Shinto influenced the decision to participate. Japan's decisions as early as 1931 were clearly not Shinto/religious based, but more so colonial and imperial. However, sometimes it was used as part of political rhetoric to spearhead causes or excuse them.
Lastly, background speaking: for a good understanding of the Shinto/Buddhism divide that happens with the Meiji Restoration, I highly recommend The Invention of Religion in Japan by Jason Josephson.
So basically, tl;dr: Shinto is used and abused by leadership, because by removing Buddhism from Shintoism it's a far more broad, open-ended idea of the world than a strict religion. Therefore, it's easy to use and manipulate in the political sphere.
| AskHistorians | t5_2ssp3 | crp2jxh | In response to your first question regarding Shinto/nationalism:
See Fujitani Takashi's Splendid Monarchy where it lays out how the Meiji leaders shaped the nation through the manipulation of Shinto practices and superstition and tying these ideas into the created symbol of the Emperor.
Shinto before 1868 was highly merged with Buddhism, but in the Meiji period Shinto and Buddhism were separated. Shinto, as it is more a vague space of terms, became an easy vehicle to create the concept of a nation and regain public confidence since there was a regime change and the populace was not too pleased with its government's cozy tendencies with the foreigners barraging into Japan.
How was Shinto used? It gave a mythical element to the Emperor and legitimacy. It made the country "united" from a random set of villages that are mildly aware of each other. The leadership was highly involved in this process, and many aspects were manufactured. This is where some "traditional Japanese" statements get said in public discourse, when in actuality, it's made up traditional Japanese.
Yes, technically Shinto became a bit of a political ideology, generally just known as State Shinto, since it was run by the government. (It even has its own branch for a few years.)
I wouldn't say Shinto influenced the decision to participate. Japan's decisions as early as 1931 were clearly not Shinto/religious based, but more so colonial and imperial. However, sometimes it was used as part of political rhetoric to spearhead causes or excuse them.
Lastly, background speaking: for a good understanding of the Shinto/Buddhism divide that happens with the Meiji Restoration, I highly recommend The Invention of Religion in Japan by Jason Josephson.
So basically, | Shinto is used and abused by leadership, because by removing Buddhism from Shintoism it's a far more broad, open-ended idea of the world than a strict religion. Therefore, it's easy to use and manipulate in the political sphere. |
The_Town_ | As a Republican on Reddit, I can say this is a pretty solid explanation. Republicans and conservatives can have libertarian *views*, but it's way different from being a *Libertarian* in general.
For example, I'm a huge proponent of a free market and Capitalism, but those views get shot down on pretty much most of Reddit. On /r/libertarian, even though I may not subscribe to the libertarian agenda on other issues, I'd feel more comfortable sharing my very pro-free market views there than elsewhere.
tl;dr Here's my personal experience to confirm the theory presented. | As a Republican on Reddit, I can say this is a pretty solid explanation. Republicans and conservatives can have libertarian views , but it's way different from being a Libertarian in general.
For example, I'm a huge proponent of a free market and Capitalism, but those views get shot down on pretty much most of Reddit. On /r/libertarian, even though I may not subscribe to the libertarian agenda on other issues, I'd feel more comfortable sharing my very pro-free market views there than elsewhere.
tl;dr Here's my personal experience to confirm the theory presented.
| TheoryOfReddit | t5_2rtff | crpj30t | As a Republican on Reddit, I can say this is a pretty solid explanation. Republicans and conservatives can have libertarian views , but it's way different from being a Libertarian in general.
For example, I'm a huge proponent of a free market and Capitalism, but those views get shot down on pretty much most of Reddit. On /r/libertarian, even though I may not subscribe to the libertarian agenda on other issues, I'd feel more comfortable sharing my very pro-free market views there than elsewhere. | Here's my personal experience to confirm the theory presented. |
wahtisthisidonteven | Okay, to what end?
Ranger school has become ORB/ERB candy. I don't give a shit if *nobody* passes, because half the people going are going so they can immediately forget everything and leverage their tab for promotion. It ceased to be about qualifying someone for some sort of job years ago. This is precisely why females want in. Not because they want to do Ranger things, but because it looks good for career progression.
tl;dr - People not passing ranger school doesn't impact readiness or make us less effective at our mission, so I give zero fucks. | Okay, to what end?
Ranger school has become ORB/ERB candy. I don't give a shit if nobody passes, because half the people going are going so they can immediately forget everything and leverage their tab for promotion. It ceased to be about qualifying someone for some sort of job years ago. This is precisely why females want in. Not because they want to do Ranger things, but because it looks good for career progression.
tl;dr - People not passing ranger school doesn't impact readiness or make us less effective at our mission, so I give zero fucks.
| army | t5_2qtr8 | crp9hqp | Okay, to what end?
Ranger school has become ORB/ERB candy. I don't give a shit if nobody passes, because half the people going are going so they can immediately forget everything and leverage their tab for promotion. It ceased to be about qualifying someone for some sort of job years ago. This is precisely why females want in. Not because they want to do Ranger things, but because it looks good for career progression. | People not passing ranger school doesn't impact readiness or make us less effective at our mission, so I give zero fucks. |
infomofo | I think I screwed up. I'm a transitioning 2->3 player. I only have 2 3 star characters actually properly fully covered (hulk and bp), but during the last event I leveled those two to 102. I think that was a big mistake because most of my core roster is still 94 2*s. I have a few other 3*s I can level to 102 but they're not really properly covered. But I think in Gauntlet and other PVE events I'm going to kind of not be as competitive until I can get more of my 3*s fully covered...
TLDR I think I should have just kept all my characters at 94 until I could make full teams of 3*s. Even the 8 level difference seems to be super painful in Gauntlet. | I think I screwed up. I'm a transitioning 2->3 player. I only have 2 3 star characters actually properly fully covered (hulk and bp), but during the last event I leveled those two to 102. I think that was a big mistake because most of my core roster is still 94 2 s. I have a few other 3 s I can level to 102 but they're not really properly covered. But I think in Gauntlet and other PVE events I'm going to kind of not be as competitive until I can get more of my 3*s fully covered...
TLDR I think I should have just kept all my characters at 94 until I could make full teams of 3*s. Even the 8 level difference seems to be super painful in Gauntlet.
| MarvelPuzzleQuest | t5_2zkzj | crp4rps | I think I screwed up. I'm a transitioning 2->3 player. I only have 2 3 star characters actually properly fully covered (hulk and bp), but during the last event I leveled those two to 102. I think that was a big mistake because most of my core roster is still 94 2 s. I have a few other 3 s I can level to 102 but they're not really properly covered. But I think in Gauntlet and other PVE events I'm going to kind of not be as competitive until I can get more of my 3*s fully covered... | I think I should have just kept all my characters at 94 until I could make full teams of 3*s. Even the 8 level difference seems to be super painful in Gauntlet. |
Hamilton5M | >I am curious if those of you who had the misfortune of suffering a UPS fire or explosion might help me out. I am curious what signs might have allowed you to predict the failure before it happened? Did you see the battery temperature rise? A particular change in the battery voltage? Something else?
If anyone has any insight or suggestions on how to detect imminent catastrophic failure of a UPS, please share it.
In case it matters, I am particularly interested in APC SMT and SRT line UPSes, but I suspect the symptoms and signs are chemically based, rather than vendor specific. :)
Batteries are pretty simple devices. If you smell something bad, start checking.
Minor Failures:
* Pay attention to the service life. Once the battery is past the EOL date, have a replacement ready. Batteries are
an expendable, self depleting resource. Plan out in advance replacement of batteries, even if they still read nominal. That is if corporate allows you to.
* Smells that are abnormal
* Temperature (hot or abnormal readings, even ones reading too cool)
* Any and all warning notices should be escalated, purely to cover your ass.
Best case you get a self protect warning. Then there's the smells of eventual failure (metallic, rotten egg, hot plastic). Next is uncontrolled failure when the unit fails to enter self protection and the battery heats up to rupture or fire. Last is service failure due to lightning or something else equally as bad.
There will be no warning at all in a major failure IMHO. Basically the wheels have come off.
If there is an imbalance short, then how bad the situation gets depends on the rating of the UPS.
Safety is by law and how much corporate values you. Don't expect more than the legal minimum.
**I would focus more on preparing for a major failure as a safety measure. When you get on
a plane, they tell you how to escape from it as it sinks in the ocean. This is an extremely
unlikely event, yet they still prepare every long flight for this event.**
You need to do the same for a ups fire or explosion.
1. Have several of the large size CO2 extinguishers on hand. Make sure everyone knows how to use it.
2. Have a last resort chemical extinguisher, rated for industrial electronics. It must be non-conductive.They do sell home extinguishers good for 120V that would be unsafe for 25KV. *This will destroy all equipment it touches.*
3. Decide if you want to evacuate or fight the fire before it happens. Stick to that plan. Do not decide while it is happening. I would suggest not fighting it, unless it's in the job contract. No one expects you to stop an armed robber, so why are you now suddenly a fireman?
4. Make sure there IS an evacuation plan for everyone on the floor, and organize drills.
5. Have information about the size and type of the UPS (If it's a large one) by the planned exit door, make sure it's laminated. Grab it as you leave and call 911 and tell them the specifications so the fire department knows what they are up against. This is purely my personal suggestion; I am not going to let someone run in blind to somewhere I just fled.
tldr;
Be very wary of hardware changes to large UPS's, upgrades, repair, and movement of old equipment as most issues will happen immediately after these situations.
| >I am curious if those of you who had the misfortune of suffering a UPS fire or explosion might help me out. I am curious what signs might have allowed you to predict the failure before it happened? Did you see the battery temperature rise? A particular change in the battery voltage? Something else?
If anyone has any insight or suggestions on how to detect imminent catastrophic failure of a UPS, please share it.
In case it matters, I am particularly interested in APC SMT and SRT line UPSes, but I suspect the symptoms and signs are chemically based, rather than vendor specific. :)
Batteries are pretty simple devices. If you smell something bad, start checking.
Minor Failures:
Pay attention to the service life. Once the battery is past the EOL date, have a replacement ready. Batteries are
an expendable, self depleting resource. Plan out in advance replacement of batteries, even if they still read nominal. That is if corporate allows you to.
Smells that are abnormal
Temperature (hot or abnormal readings, even ones reading too cool)
Any and all warning notices should be escalated, purely to cover your ass.
Best case you get a self protect warning. Then there's the smells of eventual failure (metallic, rotten egg, hot plastic). Next is uncontrolled failure when the unit fails to enter self protection and the battery heats up to rupture or fire. Last is service failure due to lightning or something else equally as bad.
There will be no warning at all in a major failure IMHO. Basically the wheels have come off.
If there is an imbalance short, then how bad the situation gets depends on the rating of the UPS.
Safety is by law and how much corporate values you. Don't expect more than the legal minimum.
I would focus more on preparing for a major failure as a safety measure. When you get on
a plane, they tell you how to escape from it as it sinks in the ocean. This is an extremely
unlikely event, yet they still prepare every long flight for this event.
You need to do the same for a ups fire or explosion.
Have several of the large size CO2 extinguishers on hand. Make sure everyone knows how to use it.
Have a last resort chemical extinguisher, rated for industrial electronics. It must be non-conductive.They do sell home extinguishers good for 120V that would be unsafe for 25KV. This will destroy all equipment it touches.
Decide if you want to evacuate or fight the fire before it happens. Stick to that plan. Do not decide while it is happening. I would suggest not fighting it, unless it's in the job contract. No one expects you to stop an armed robber, so why are you now suddenly a fireman?
Make sure there IS an evacuation plan for everyone on the floor, and organize drills.
Have information about the size and type of the UPS (If it's a large one) by the planned exit door, make sure it's laminated. Grab it as you leave and call 911 and tell them the specifications so the fire department knows what they are up against. This is purely my personal suggestion; I am not going to let someone run in blind to somewhere I just fled.
tldr;
Be very wary of hardware changes to large UPS's, upgrades, repair, and movement of old equipment as most issues will happen immediately after these situations.
| sysadmin | t5_2qnp7 | crpilkf | I am curious if those of you who had the misfortune of suffering a UPS fire or explosion might help me out. I am curious what signs might have allowed you to predict the failure before it happened? Did you see the battery temperature rise? A particular change in the battery voltage? Something else?
If anyone has any insight or suggestions on how to detect imminent catastrophic failure of a UPS, please share it.
In case it matters, I am particularly interested in APC SMT and SRT line UPSes, but I suspect the symptoms and signs are chemically based, rather than vendor specific. :)
Batteries are pretty simple devices. If you smell something bad, start checking.
Minor Failures:
Pay attention to the service life. Once the battery is past the EOL date, have a replacement ready. Batteries are
an expendable, self depleting resource. Plan out in advance replacement of batteries, even if they still read nominal. That is if corporate allows you to.
Smells that are abnormal
Temperature (hot or abnormal readings, even ones reading too cool)
Any and all warning notices should be escalated, purely to cover your ass.
Best case you get a self protect warning. Then there's the smells of eventual failure (metallic, rotten egg, hot plastic). Next is uncontrolled failure when the unit fails to enter self protection and the battery heats up to rupture or fire. Last is service failure due to lightning or something else equally as bad.
There will be no warning at all in a major failure IMHO. Basically the wheels have come off.
If there is an imbalance short, then how bad the situation gets depends on the rating of the UPS.
Safety is by law and how much corporate values you. Don't expect more than the legal minimum.
I would focus more on preparing for a major failure as a safety measure. When you get on
a plane, they tell you how to escape from it as it sinks in the ocean. This is an extremely
unlikely event, yet they still prepare every long flight for this event.
You need to do the same for a ups fire or explosion.
Have several of the large size CO2 extinguishers on hand. Make sure everyone knows how to use it.
Have a last resort chemical extinguisher, rated for industrial electronics. It must be non-conductive.They do sell home extinguishers good for 120V that would be unsafe for 25KV. This will destroy all equipment it touches.
Decide if you want to evacuate or fight the fire before it happens. Stick to that plan. Do not decide while it is happening. I would suggest not fighting it, unless it's in the job contract. No one expects you to stop an armed robber, so why are you now suddenly a fireman?
Make sure there IS an evacuation plan for everyone on the floor, and organize drills.
Have information about the size and type of the UPS (If it's a large one) by the planned exit door, make sure it's laminated. Grab it as you leave and call 911 and tell them the specifications so the fire department knows what they are up against. This is purely my personal suggestion; I am not going to let someone run in blind to somewhere I just fled. | Be very wary of hardware changes to large UPS's, upgrades, repair, and movement of old equipment as most issues will happen immediately after these situations. |
Hamilton5M | How often do you get to visit the sites?
All you can do is check the reports and if there's an event, schedule a service visit or battery replacement. If it burns it burns. Just make sure you save logs and escalate any reports that are outside tolerance to cover your ass.
Cover your ass for your responsibilities then that's that. To go above that invites problems as no good deed goes unpunished.
Configure the tolerances for the alerts and schedule ample self tests. You need to see what the error tolerance is for temperature and voltage. If it's 5%, then I would set alerts to 15% +/- of stated voltage and temperature, compare temperature to the ambient room temperature. If it triggers, request a replacement. When they deny it, keep logs until it fails.
When it comes up for discussion, resist saying "I told you so". In fact, say nothing unless they ask about the tickets. "A request for replacement or service was put in six months ago and declined".
If they ask you who declined, tell them you will forward the ticket to them. Never verbally say the responsible parties name if you can avoid it. Let management pass the buck around until they agree to bury it. If you verbally call someone out, they most likely won't get fired but now you'll have an adversary.
tldr;
Cover your ass, log and request service and replacements by the book. If it fails then you're safe from the inevitable office politics.
| How often do you get to visit the sites?
All you can do is check the reports and if there's an event, schedule a service visit or battery replacement. If it burns it burns. Just make sure you save logs and escalate any reports that are outside tolerance to cover your ass.
Cover your ass for your responsibilities then that's that. To go above that invites problems as no good deed goes unpunished.
Configure the tolerances for the alerts and schedule ample self tests. You need to see what the error tolerance is for temperature and voltage. If it's 5%, then I would set alerts to 15% +/- of stated voltage and temperature, compare temperature to the ambient room temperature. If it triggers, request a replacement. When they deny it, keep logs until it fails.
When it comes up for discussion, resist saying "I told you so". In fact, say nothing unless they ask about the tickets. "A request for replacement or service was put in six months ago and declined".
If they ask you who declined, tell them you will forward the ticket to them. Never verbally say the responsible parties name if you can avoid it. Let management pass the buck around until they agree to bury it. If you verbally call someone out, they most likely won't get fired but now you'll have an adversary.
tldr;
Cover your ass, log and request service and replacements by the book. If it fails then you're safe from the inevitable office politics.
| sysadmin | t5_2qnp7 | crpkwco | How often do you get to visit the sites?
All you can do is check the reports and if there's an event, schedule a service visit or battery replacement. If it burns it burns. Just make sure you save logs and escalate any reports that are outside tolerance to cover your ass.
Cover your ass for your responsibilities then that's that. To go above that invites problems as no good deed goes unpunished.
Configure the tolerances for the alerts and schedule ample self tests. You need to see what the error tolerance is for temperature and voltage. If it's 5%, then I would set alerts to 15% +/- of stated voltage and temperature, compare temperature to the ambient room temperature. If it triggers, request a replacement. When they deny it, keep logs until it fails.
When it comes up for discussion, resist saying "I told you so". In fact, say nothing unless they ask about the tickets. "A request for replacement or service was put in six months ago and declined".
If they ask you who declined, tell them you will forward the ticket to them. Never verbally say the responsible parties name if you can avoid it. Let management pass the buck around until they agree to bury it. If you verbally call someone out, they most likely won't get fired but now you'll have an adversary. | Cover your ass, log and request service and replacements by the book. If it fails then you're safe from the inevitable office politics. |
xrambino23 | I've been using TOTS Terry and Fonte and they have been absolutely phenomenal together. I even player my friend who had RB Ronaldo Neymar and Bale up front and even on counter attacks they did well, Terry especially, the 50 pace doesn't seem to matter with 97 defending.
TL;DR TOTS Terry and Fonte are a brilliant pair and I would highly recommend them | I've been using TOTS Terry and Fonte and they have been absolutely phenomenal together. I even player my friend who had RB Ronaldo Neymar and Bale up front and even on counter attacks they did well, Terry especially, the 50 pace doesn't seem to matter with 97 defending.
TL;DR TOTS Terry and Fonte are a brilliant pair and I would highly recommend them
| FIFA | t5_2qxh7 | crpmq2q | I've been using TOTS Terry and Fonte and they have been absolutely phenomenal together. I even player my friend who had RB Ronaldo Neymar and Bale up front and even on counter attacks they did well, Terry especially, the 50 pace doesn't seem to matter with 97 defending. | TOTS Terry and Fonte are a brilliant pair and I would highly recommend them |
Honeykill | Drag has a long history of being a transgressive art form. If you google the definition of transgressive, you get these two meanings, both of which are relevant:
1. involving a violation of accepted or imposed boundaries, especially those of social acceptability.
2. of or relating to fiction, cinematography, or art in which orthodox cultural, moral, and artistic boundaries are challenged by the representation of unconventional behaviour and the use of experimental forms.
"It do take nerve." It takes nerve to live queer in our world. We live in a world that threw acid at Porkchop's face for being in drag. Queer identities are transgressive. Straightness and cis-ness are "same"; we are "other".
Queer culture often embraces the things people in "proper, civilized society" are horrified by. See the work of John Waters and Divine. See the attraction to idols like Little Edie. People, actions, and subcultures looked down upon by mainstream society. Queer folks can often relate to that "otherness".
Being pissed on (or pretending to be) publicly completely goes against social convention. In western society, pissing on someone is generally considered an unforgivably disrespectful act. The idea of consenting to being pissed on, in public none-the-less, is something nearly anyone in our society would be **horrified** by.
Alaska is embracing transgression. That's what makes it art, in my opinion.
**TL:DR** Because it says, "I give no fucks what you think of me," in a society where what other people think is held up as VERY important.
Edit -- Can we please not downvote the person who asked this? It's okay to not know things. How are they supposed to learn if they don't ask? | Drag has a long history of being a transgressive art form. If you google the definition of transgressive, you get these two meanings, both of which are relevant:
involving a violation of accepted or imposed boundaries, especially those of social acceptability.
of or relating to fiction, cinematography, or art in which orthodox cultural, moral, and artistic boundaries are challenged by the representation of unconventional behaviour and the use of experimental forms.
"It do take nerve." It takes nerve to live queer in our world. We live in a world that threw acid at Porkchop's face for being in drag. Queer identities are transgressive. Straightness and cis-ness are "same"; we are "other".
Queer culture often embraces the things people in "proper, civilized society" are horrified by. See the work of John Waters and Divine. See the attraction to idols like Little Edie. People, actions, and subcultures looked down upon by mainstream society. Queer folks can often relate to that "otherness".
Being pissed on (or pretending to be) publicly completely goes against social convention. In western society, pissing on someone is generally considered an unforgivably disrespectful act. The idea of consenting to being pissed on, in public none-the-less, is something nearly anyone in our society would be horrified by.
Alaska is embracing transgression. That's what makes it art, in my opinion.
TL:DR Because it says, "I give no fucks what you think of me," in a society where what other people think is held up as VERY important.
Edit -- Can we please not downvote the person who asked this? It's okay to not know things. How are they supposed to learn if they don't ask?
| rupaulsdragrace | t5_2t3or | crphpcf | Drag has a long history of being a transgressive art form. If you google the definition of transgressive, you get these two meanings, both of which are relevant:
involving a violation of accepted or imposed boundaries, especially those of social acceptability.
of or relating to fiction, cinematography, or art in which orthodox cultural, moral, and artistic boundaries are challenged by the representation of unconventional behaviour and the use of experimental forms.
"It do take nerve." It takes nerve to live queer in our world. We live in a world that threw acid at Porkchop's face for being in drag. Queer identities are transgressive. Straightness and cis-ness are "same"; we are "other".
Queer culture often embraces the things people in "proper, civilized society" are horrified by. See the work of John Waters and Divine. See the attraction to idols like Little Edie. People, actions, and subcultures looked down upon by mainstream society. Queer folks can often relate to that "otherness".
Being pissed on (or pretending to be) publicly completely goes against social convention. In western society, pissing on someone is generally considered an unforgivably disrespectful act. The idea of consenting to being pissed on, in public none-the-less, is something nearly anyone in our society would be horrified by.
Alaska is embracing transgression. That's what makes it art, in my opinion. | Because it says, "I give no fucks what you think of me," in a society where what other people think is held up as VERY important.
Edit -- Can we please not downvote the person who asked this? It's okay to not know things. How are they supposed to learn if they don't ask? |
FNU__LNU | This. Was. Beautiful.
TL;DR: thiswasbeautiful | This. Was. Beautiful.
TL;DR: thiswasbeautiful
| rupaulsdragrace | t5_2t3or | crpra1c | This. Was. Beautiful. | thiswasbeautiful |
whydoesmybutthurt | man, i aint reading all that shit. tldr it for us. | man, i aint reading all that shit. tldr it for us.
| WTF | t5_2qh61 | crpglqg | man, i aint reading all that shit. | it for us. |
netspawn | My first thought was thinking the driver was an idiot who was trying to beat the train and losing badly, but I'm leaning towards that he/she hit some dreaded "Black Ice" from freezing rain.
Nevertheless, unless it was a freak sudden storm, he/she should have been driving according to the conditions. Canadian drivers for example should be aware that snow and ice happen here in the winter; so either drive accordingly or stay home.
Unless there was a sudden, extremely out of the ordinary change in the weather, one can't simply blame the weather to avoid fault in an accident, though it can mitigate the situation.
TLDR: ice happens so drive accordingly. | My first thought was thinking the driver was an idiot who was trying to beat the train and losing badly, but I'm leaning towards that he/she hit some dreaded "Black Ice" from freezing rain.
Nevertheless, unless it was a freak sudden storm, he/she should have been driving according to the conditions. Canadian drivers for example should be aware that snow and ice happen here in the winter; so either drive accordingly or stay home.
Unless there was a sudden, extremely out of the ordinary change in the weather, one can't simply blame the weather to avoid fault in an accident, though it can mitigate the situation.
TLDR: ice happens so drive accordingly.
| WTF | t5_2qh61 | crpm7oq | My first thought was thinking the driver was an idiot who was trying to beat the train and losing badly, but I'm leaning towards that he/she hit some dreaded "Black Ice" from freezing rain.
Nevertheless, unless it was a freak sudden storm, he/she should have been driving according to the conditions. Canadian drivers for example should be aware that snow and ice happen here in the winter; so either drive accordingly or stay home.
Unless there was a sudden, extremely out of the ordinary change in the weather, one can't simply blame the weather to avoid fault in an accident, though it can mitigate the situation. | ice happens so drive accordingly. |
LIPCSB_ | > instant economic boom for Russia!
>Wealth... prosperity... an increase in living standards for Russian people... a more optimistic era...
Because that worked so well in the 1990s.
The Russians who elected Putin remember when Yeltsin made those promises, and what did it get them? Poverty. Drug abuse. Sectarian violence. Russia went from Second Superpower to laughing stock in a matter of years.
Imagine if America was #2 on Earth--China, say, is #1. Imagine an American President who promised to make America richer with China's help by opening relations with China further.
Then imagine that the Confederate States of America re-formed, New England seceded, along with California, and Utah rose up in open rebellion a few years later. Imagine your daughter becoming a prostitute for wealthy Chinese businessmen, your son becoming a krokodil addict, and yourself regularly shaken down for money by a newly-expanded mafia.
That President would certainly find himself in the history books, but not in any desirable way.
That's Yeltsin for Russia.
The Russians have heard those promises before, and figure that they're better off going their own way.
If that were all, then Russia and the US would just be avoiding one another.
Now imagine that the Chinese signed a military alliance with California, the Confederate States, and New England, bringing Chinese forces to the very gates of the remnant US.
That's the expansion of NATO to Russia's borders.
Russians, for rather good reason historically, are paranoid about their Western neighbors getting too close to Moscow. Particularly given that many Russians regard Ukraine as just South Russia (as a Pole, I regard Ukraine as Eastern Poland, especially those parts of Poland illegally stolen by the Soviets and bolted onto the Ukrainian SSR, so I kind of sympathize).
>And who knows: maybe even a joint space-mission to Mars!
The achievement would be sweeter if either country did it on their own.
TL;DR: The Russians view their actions as a proportional response to American antagonism, and Putin sees his course of action as the best way to keep Russia independent and strong. | > instant economic boom for Russia!
>Wealth... prosperity... an increase in living standards for Russian people... a more optimistic era...
Because that worked so well in the 1990s.
The Russians who elected Putin remember when Yeltsin made those promises, and what did it get them? Poverty. Drug abuse. Sectarian violence. Russia went from Second Superpower to laughing stock in a matter of years.
Imagine if America was #2 on Earth--China, say, is #1. Imagine an American President who promised to make America richer with China's help by opening relations with China further.
Then imagine that the Confederate States of America re-formed, New England seceded, along with California, and Utah rose up in open rebellion a few years later. Imagine your daughter becoming a prostitute for wealthy Chinese businessmen, your son becoming a krokodil addict, and yourself regularly shaken down for money by a newly-expanded mafia.
That President would certainly find himself in the history books, but not in any desirable way.
That's Yeltsin for Russia.
The Russians have heard those promises before, and figure that they're better off going their own way.
If that were all, then Russia and the US would just be avoiding one another.
Now imagine that the Chinese signed a military alliance with California, the Confederate States, and New England, bringing Chinese forces to the very gates of the remnant US.
That's the expansion of NATO to Russia's borders.
Russians, for rather good reason historically, are paranoid about their Western neighbors getting too close to Moscow. Particularly given that many Russians regard Ukraine as just South Russia (as a Pole, I regard Ukraine as Eastern Poland, especially those parts of Poland illegally stolen by the Soviets and bolted onto the Ukrainian SSR, so I kind of sympathize).
>And who knows: maybe even a joint space-mission to Mars!
The achievement would be sweeter if either country did it on their own.
TL;DR: The Russians view their actions as a proportional response to American antagonism, and Putin sees his course of action as the best way to keep Russia independent and strong.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | crpnn1k | instant economic boom for Russia!
>Wealth... prosperity... an increase in living standards for Russian people... a more optimistic era...
Because that worked so well in the 1990s.
The Russians who elected Putin remember when Yeltsin made those promises, and what did it get them? Poverty. Drug abuse. Sectarian violence. Russia went from Second Superpower to laughing stock in a matter of years.
Imagine if America was #2 on Earth--China, say, is #1. Imagine an American President who promised to make America richer with China's help by opening relations with China further.
Then imagine that the Confederate States of America re-formed, New England seceded, along with California, and Utah rose up in open rebellion a few years later. Imagine your daughter becoming a prostitute for wealthy Chinese businessmen, your son becoming a krokodil addict, and yourself regularly shaken down for money by a newly-expanded mafia.
That President would certainly find himself in the history books, but not in any desirable way.
That's Yeltsin for Russia.
The Russians have heard those promises before, and figure that they're better off going their own way.
If that were all, then Russia and the US would just be avoiding one another.
Now imagine that the Chinese signed a military alliance with California, the Confederate States, and New England, bringing Chinese forces to the very gates of the remnant US.
That's the expansion of NATO to Russia's borders.
Russians, for rather good reason historically, are paranoid about their Western neighbors getting too close to Moscow. Particularly given that many Russians regard Ukraine as just South Russia (as a Pole, I regard Ukraine as Eastern Poland, especially those parts of Poland illegally stolen by the Soviets and bolted onto the Ukrainian SSR, so I kind of sympathize).
>And who knows: maybe even a joint space-mission to Mars!
The achievement would be sweeter if either country did it on their own. | The Russians view their actions as a proportional response to American antagonism, and Putin sees his course of action as the best way to keep Russia independent and strong. |
crackerbears | It's not worth it at all if your goal is to craft Twilight.
You'll most likely have to buy some of the collection, particularly Crustacea and Arthropoda. You can easily spend that money more wisely by buying T6 mats.
It's mildly useful if you have karma building up and don't have anything to spend it on. The Converter is very RNG dependent, as with most things in this game, you only get a choice of 3 different things each day, one of which is always 3 Obsidian Shards.
tl;dr it's a nicety, but certainly not a necessity. | It's not worth it at all if your goal is to craft Twilight.
You'll most likely have to buy some of the collection, particularly Crustacea and Arthropoda. You can easily spend that money more wisely by buying T6 mats.
It's mildly useful if you have karma building up and don't have anything to spend it on. The Converter is very RNG dependent, as with most things in this game, you only get a choice of 3 different things each day, one of which is always 3 Obsidian Shards.
tl;dr it's a nicety, but certainly not a necessity.
| Guildwars2 | t5_2r9po | crpsgk8 | It's not worth it at all if your goal is to craft Twilight.
You'll most likely have to buy some of the collection, particularly Crustacea and Arthropoda. You can easily spend that money more wisely by buying T6 mats.
It's mildly useful if you have karma building up and don't have anything to spend it on. The Converter is very RNG dependent, as with most things in this game, you only get a choice of 3 different things each day, one of which is always 3 Obsidian Shards. | it's a nicety, but certainly not a necessity. |
jbpcub | It's the bid they submitted to the USOC and won on in Dec/Jan. They redacted major parts about finances, transparency (ironic), and weaknesses, but have been shilling it around Boston for five months as the full documents. Folks opposed to the bid had to obtain them via FOIA.
They also include info that abt 66% of the financing for the Olympic stadium and different amounts for other venues would be publicly financed, which means they have been lying in various capacities for awhile. They lied to the Governor, they lied to Senator Warren. Mayor Walsh has said "no public money except for infrastructure" but signed this bid book, either not reading it fully (shame on him and city lawyers) or fully knowing more public money was guaranteed(he's been lying to the citizens of Boston for months).
The USOC is corrupt and anti-democratic. Gag orders on host city employees, redacting parts of the bid, closed doors meetings, allowing Boston to completely change its plans, finances and leadership from 5 months ago, on the plan that won the bid. What changes could LA, DC, or SF made in 5mos.
But the USOC is bad.... Wait until we get further in this process. They are a kid with candy and a cute smile compared to the perv in a windowless van that is the lOC. The FIFA arrests and then re-election of well known douchebag (and IOC member) Sepp Blatter is only a small part of how corrupt these intl orgs, FIFA/IOC, are.
tl;dr- no, it's the full bid. A shitty bid. #pullthebid | It's the bid they submitted to the USOC and won on in Dec/Jan. They redacted major parts about finances, transparency (ironic), and weaknesses, but have been shilling it around Boston for five months as the full documents. Folks opposed to the bid had to obtain them via FOIA.
They also include info that abt 66% of the financing for the Olympic stadium and different amounts for other venues would be publicly financed, which means they have been lying in various capacities for awhile. They lied to the Governor, they lied to Senator Warren. Mayor Walsh has said "no public money except for infrastructure" but signed this bid book, either not reading it fully (shame on him and city lawyers) or fully knowing more public money was guaranteed(he's been lying to the citizens of Boston for months).
The USOC is corrupt and anti-democratic. Gag orders on host city employees, redacting parts of the bid, closed doors meetings, allowing Boston to completely change its plans, finances and leadership from 5 months ago, on the plan that won the bid. What changes could LA, DC, or SF made in 5mos.
But the USOC is bad.... Wait until we get further in this process. They are a kid with candy and a cute smile compared to the perv in a windowless van that is the lOC. The FIFA arrests and then re-election of well known douchebag (and IOC member) Sepp Blatter is only a small part of how corrupt these intl orgs, FIFA/IOC, are.
tl;dr- no, it's the full bid. A shitty bid. #pullthebid
| boston | t5_2qh3r | crptsie | It's the bid they submitted to the USOC and won on in Dec/Jan. They redacted major parts about finances, transparency (ironic), and weaknesses, but have been shilling it around Boston for five months as the full documents. Folks opposed to the bid had to obtain them via FOIA.
They also include info that abt 66% of the financing for the Olympic stadium and different amounts for other venues would be publicly financed, which means they have been lying in various capacities for awhile. They lied to the Governor, they lied to Senator Warren. Mayor Walsh has said "no public money except for infrastructure" but signed this bid book, either not reading it fully (shame on him and city lawyers) or fully knowing more public money was guaranteed(he's been lying to the citizens of Boston for months).
The USOC is corrupt and anti-democratic. Gag orders on host city employees, redacting parts of the bid, closed doors meetings, allowing Boston to completely change its plans, finances and leadership from 5 months ago, on the plan that won the bid. What changes could LA, DC, or SF made in 5mos.
But the USOC is bad.... Wait until we get further in this process. They are a kid with candy and a cute smile compared to the perv in a windowless van that is the lOC. The FIFA arrests and then re-election of well known douchebag (and IOC member) Sepp Blatter is only a small part of how corrupt these intl orgs, FIFA/IOC, are. | no, it's the full bid. A shitty bid. #pullthebid |
RhynoD | That's not the reason or justification, just an explanation that we're not there against the wishes of the German government. We want forward bases, they want American money. And they don't have to pay for a big expensive army to protect their nation, since we kind of have a vested interest in protecting our own bases, and by extension, the country they're in.
Mostly we still have a good presence there because it's a great place for certain kinds of training. Grafenwoehr used to be I think the largest armored training base for the US military, because Bavaria has huge open bits of land that no one particularly minds you blasting tank rounds into. Except Ft. Benning, GA has even more open land, and it's closer, so the school got moved recentlyish.
TL;DR: There are many reasons for the US military presence in Germany, but we're not there for imperialist reasons (whether or not we're elsewhere for those reasons is a different argument **that I don't want to have**), and Germany certainly isn't complaining about it. | That's not the reason or justification, just an explanation that we're not there against the wishes of the German government. We want forward bases, they want American money. And they don't have to pay for a big expensive army to protect their nation, since we kind of have a vested interest in protecting our own bases, and by extension, the country they're in.
Mostly we still have a good presence there because it's a great place for certain kinds of training. Grafenwoehr used to be I think the largest armored training base for the US military, because Bavaria has huge open bits of land that no one particularly minds you blasting tank rounds into. Except Ft. Benning, GA has even more open land, and it's closer, so the school got moved recentlyish.
TL;DR: There are many reasons for the US military presence in Germany, but we're not there for imperialist reasons (whether or not we're elsewhere for those reasons is a different argument that I don't want to have ), and Germany certainly isn't complaining about it.
| todayilearned | t5_2qqjc | crqhe1d | That's not the reason or justification, just an explanation that we're not there against the wishes of the German government. We want forward bases, they want American money. And they don't have to pay for a big expensive army to protect their nation, since we kind of have a vested interest in protecting our own bases, and by extension, the country they're in.
Mostly we still have a good presence there because it's a great place for certain kinds of training. Grafenwoehr used to be I think the largest armored training base for the US military, because Bavaria has huge open bits of land that no one particularly minds you blasting tank rounds into. Except Ft. Benning, GA has even more open land, and it's closer, so the school got moved recentlyish. | There are many reasons for the US military presence in Germany, but we're not there for imperialist reasons (whether or not we're elsewhere for those reasons is a different argument that I don't want to have ), and Germany certainly isn't complaining about it. |
kekekefear | I love Mass Effect series, and i tink we need more epic sci-fi games. But TBH, i do not believe that Bioware can make ME4 at least on the level of ME1-2. Everithing after ME2 looked kinda weak and non-interesting for me (and ME3 was so rushed to realease that its hurt the game) at least not really interesting (it was onle DA3 i suppose?).
Anyway, with current management from EA, and without co-founders, i do not believe nex ME will be good game. Plus, i really want more personal adventure in ME universe, not saving galaxy again, but knowing Biware i think they will stick to classy formula - some crazy thing want to destroy galaxy, make a team of some cliche characters and make some sex with them and also maybe save the world (Bioware forums make it looks like this is what really their fans are interested.
TLDR: I dont feel like im target demographic for new ME. | I love Mass Effect series, and i tink we need more epic sci-fi games. But TBH, i do not believe that Bioware can make ME4 at least on the level of ME1-2. Everithing after ME2 looked kinda weak and non-interesting for me (and ME3 was so rushed to realease that its hurt the game) at least not really interesting (it was onle DA3 i suppose?).
Anyway, with current management from EA, and without co-founders, i do not believe nex ME will be good game. Plus, i really want more personal adventure in ME universe, not saving galaxy again, but knowing Biware i think they will stick to classy formula - some crazy thing want to destroy galaxy, make a team of some cliche characters and make some sex with them and also maybe save the world (Bioware forums make it looks like this is what really their fans are interested.
TLDR: I dont feel like im target demographic for new ME.
| Games | t5_2qhwp | crqn7xb | I love Mass Effect series, and i tink we need more epic sci-fi games. But TBH, i do not believe that Bioware can make ME4 at least on the level of ME1-2. Everithing after ME2 looked kinda weak and non-interesting for me (and ME3 was so rushed to realease that its hurt the game) at least not really interesting (it was onle DA3 i suppose?).
Anyway, with current management from EA, and without co-founders, i do not believe nex ME will be good game. Plus, i really want more personal adventure in ME universe, not saving galaxy again, but knowing Biware i think they will stick to classy formula - some crazy thing want to destroy galaxy, make a team of some cliche characters and make some sex with them and also maybe save the world (Bioware forums make it looks like this is what really their fans are interested. | I dont feel like im target demographic for new ME. |
Zephkiel | I watched about sixty Celtics games this season and thought Marcus Smart was one of our best players. Here're some reasons why, coming from a bunch of directions:
* Advanced stats based on +/- (like RPM, BPM, RAPM, whatever) all rated Marcus Smart as one of the best players on the team this year. My impression is that these kinds of stats are relatively good all-in-one advanced stats (as in better than PER, WS, etc.)
* On a similar note, the Celtics outscored opponents by 3.5 points per 100 possessions while Marcus Smart played, and they were outscored by 3 points per 100 possessions while he sat on the bench. Note that he started for a lot of the season, so it's not like he was only playing bench scrubs. And the team did better when the other starters were on the bench, which makes me pretty sure that he wasn't being carried by Evan Turner or anything (hah)
* "solid defender" is an understatement. He was extremely good at getting steals without gambling and drawing offensive fouls. Zach Lowe called him ["a terror"]( There were two or three games this season we really only won because he somehow took over the game on defense, which was pretty crazy to watch.
* His TS% was 49% which isn't as ugly (I think about 60% of his shots were 3s, which makes his percentages look worse than they actually were). His assist-to-turnover ratio was 2.3 which was pretty good, especially for a rookie; despite his poor shooting the team still scored better when he played.
* The Celtics were 16-30 before Marcus Smart was moved into the starting lineup. They went 24-12 the rest of the season. Part of that has to do with mid-season acquisitions (IT + Jonas Jerebko were both very good pickups) but the team had started winning before the trade deadline.
* Fundamentally, he was the only rookie starting on a playoff team.
* He had [a crazy awesome game-winner]( when the season was on the line.
**TL;DR**: Advanced stats loved him, the team was good when he played and bad when he didn't, he was an excellent defender and a net-plus on offense, and the team's dramatic late-season playoff push began exactly when he took on a bigger role.
I was kinda expecting that he wouldn't make first-team all-rookie since his box stats are pretty underwhelming, like you said, and I'm not particularly upset; people don't put that much thought into their ballots. But I do think that Marcus Smart had a top-5 rookie campaign this year, and I'm pretty optimistic about his future. | I watched about sixty Celtics games this season and thought Marcus Smart was one of our best players. Here're some reasons why, coming from a bunch of directions:
Advanced stats based on +/- (like RPM, BPM, RAPM, whatever) all rated Marcus Smart as one of the best players on the team this year. My impression is that these kinds of stats are relatively good all-in-one advanced stats (as in better than PER, WS, etc.)
On a similar note, the Celtics outscored opponents by 3.5 points per 100 possessions while Marcus Smart played, and they were outscored by 3 points per 100 possessions while he sat on the bench. Note that he started for a lot of the season, so it's not like he was only playing bench scrubs. And the team did better when the other starters were on the bench, which makes me pretty sure that he wasn't being carried by Evan Turner or anything (hah)
"solid defender" is an understatement. He was extremely good at getting steals without gambling and drawing offensive fouls. Zach Lowe called him ["a terror"]( There were two or three games this season we really only won because he somehow took over the game on defense, which was pretty crazy to watch.
His TS% was 49% which isn't as ugly (I think about 60% of his shots were 3s, which makes his percentages look worse than they actually were). His assist-to-turnover ratio was 2.3 which was pretty good, especially for a rookie; despite his poor shooting the team still scored better when he played.
The Celtics were 16-30 before Marcus Smart was moved into the starting lineup. They went 24-12 the rest of the season. Part of that has to do with mid-season acquisitions (IT + Jonas Jerebko were both very good pickups) but the team had started winning before the trade deadline.
Fundamentally, he was the only rookie starting on a playoff team.
He had [a crazy awesome game-winner]( when the season was on the line.
TL;DR : Advanced stats loved him, the team was good when he played and bad when he didn't, he was an excellent defender and a net-plus on offense, and the team's dramatic late-season playoff push began exactly when he took on a bigger role.
I was kinda expecting that he wouldn't make first-team all-rookie since his box stats are pretty underwhelming, like you said, and I'm not particularly upset; people don't put that much thought into their ballots. But I do think that Marcus Smart had a top-5 rookie campaign this year, and I'm pretty optimistic about his future.
| nba | t5_2qo4s | crqmqv7 | I watched about sixty Celtics games this season and thought Marcus Smart was one of our best players. Here're some reasons why, coming from a bunch of directions:
Advanced stats based on +/- (like RPM, BPM, RAPM, whatever) all rated Marcus Smart as one of the best players on the team this year. My impression is that these kinds of stats are relatively good all-in-one advanced stats (as in better than PER, WS, etc.)
On a similar note, the Celtics outscored opponents by 3.5 points per 100 possessions while Marcus Smart played, and they were outscored by 3 points per 100 possessions while he sat on the bench. Note that he started for a lot of the season, so it's not like he was only playing bench scrubs. And the team did better when the other starters were on the bench, which makes me pretty sure that he wasn't being carried by Evan Turner or anything (hah)
"solid defender" is an understatement. He was extremely good at getting steals without gambling and drawing offensive fouls. Zach Lowe called him ["a terror"]( There were two or three games this season we really only won because he somehow took over the game on defense, which was pretty crazy to watch.
His TS% was 49% which isn't as ugly (I think about 60% of his shots were 3s, which makes his percentages look worse than they actually were). His assist-to-turnover ratio was 2.3 which was pretty good, especially for a rookie; despite his poor shooting the team still scored better when he played.
The Celtics were 16-30 before Marcus Smart was moved into the starting lineup. They went 24-12 the rest of the season. Part of that has to do with mid-season acquisitions (IT + Jonas Jerebko were both very good pickups) but the team had started winning before the trade deadline.
Fundamentally, he was the only rookie starting on a playoff team.
He had [a crazy awesome game-winner]( when the season was on the line. | Advanced stats loved him, the team was good when he played and bad when he didn't, he was an excellent defender and a net-plus on offense, and the team's dramatic late-season playoff push began exactly when he took on a bigger role.
I was kinda expecting that he wouldn't make first-team all-rookie since his box stats are pretty underwhelming, like you said, and I'm not particularly upset; people don't put that much thought into their ballots. But I do think that Marcus Smart had a top-5 rookie campaign this year, and I'm pretty optimistic about his future. |
chismaquina | For me, it's a matter of presentation and context. Katya's vulnerability storyline, for instance, was presented in the context of the competition. Her struggles with addiction on the daily, especially during highly stressful situations, that shit is real, and anyone who's struggled with addiction before can identify, even those who haven't--I think. That last episode when they're eating a tic tac with Ru, it's overly solicited, over staged, and over saturated with forced emotion that, as Willam has said, borders exploitation of the queen's personal lives.
**TL:DR: Context is everything; they should weave in these narratives if they're gonna have them at all** | For me, it's a matter of presentation and context. Katya's vulnerability storyline, for instance, was presented in the context of the competition. Her struggles with addiction on the daily, especially during highly stressful situations, that shit is real, and anyone who's struggled with addiction before can identify, even those who haven't--I think. That last episode when they're eating a tic tac with Ru, it's overly solicited, over staged, and over saturated with forced emotion that, as Willam has said, borders exploitation of the queen's personal lives.
TL:DR: Context is everything; they should weave in these narratives if they're gonna have them at all
| rupaulsdragrace | t5_2t3or | crr68kx | For me, it's a matter of presentation and context. Katya's vulnerability storyline, for instance, was presented in the context of the competition. Her struggles with addiction on the daily, especially during highly stressful situations, that shit is real, and anyone who's struggled with addiction before can identify, even those who haven't--I think. That last episode when they're eating a tic tac with Ru, it's overly solicited, over staged, and over saturated with forced emotion that, as Willam has said, borders exploitation of the queen's personal lives. | Context is everything; they should weave in these narratives if they're gonna have them at all |
molgars | Yup, this is exactly it. Plus, the judges don't exactly know what goes on other than what they see with their brief interactions with the queens. They don't have these pre-plotted storylines or character arcs; they need some sort of vulnerability or personality to be demonstrated in order to create them. Pearl's great on her own and plenty of people liked her from the start, but she was also edited to fit into the storyline that the producers were able to shape after knowing her character a little more. They showed us a lot of Katya and we were able to connect with her and her moment with Miss Fame as a result. We would have loved her without that, sure, but they did a great job of making sure we liked her enough to care about that vulnerability.
**TL;DR:** They need vulnerability/some grasp of character (which comes easily from knowing someone's struggles in the past) in order to better understand how to make the viewer feel some sort of way about a queen. | Yup, this is exactly it. Plus, the judges don't exactly know what goes on other than what they see with their brief interactions with the queens. They don't have these pre-plotted storylines or character arcs; they need some sort of vulnerability or personality to be demonstrated in order to create them. Pearl's great on her own and plenty of people liked her from the start, but she was also edited to fit into the storyline that the producers were able to shape after knowing her character a little more. They showed us a lot of Katya and we were able to connect with her and her moment with Miss Fame as a result. We would have loved her without that, sure, but they did a great job of making sure we liked her enough to care about that vulnerability.
TL;DR: They need vulnerability/some grasp of character (which comes easily from knowing someone's struggles in the past) in order to better understand how to make the viewer feel some sort of way about a queen.
| rupaulsdragrace | t5_2t3or | crr9scb | Yup, this is exactly it. Plus, the judges don't exactly know what goes on other than what they see with their brief interactions with the queens. They don't have these pre-plotted storylines or character arcs; they need some sort of vulnerability or personality to be demonstrated in order to create them. Pearl's great on her own and plenty of people liked her from the start, but she was also edited to fit into the storyline that the producers were able to shape after knowing her character a little more. They showed us a lot of Katya and we were able to connect with her and her moment with Miss Fame as a result. We would have loved her without that, sure, but they did a great job of making sure we liked her enough to care about that vulnerability. | They need vulnerability/some grasp of character (which comes easily from knowing someone's struggles in the past) in order to better understand how to make the viewer feel some sort of way about a queen. |
tophatstuff | I think this is really cool - I've used PHP for several years, but my JavaScript is really weak.
JavaScript is a wonderful language with so many fantastic features that I'll never get around to learning, because all I need it for is to popup the confirmation dialog and modify some CSS on-the-fly. I usually end up with an ugly script full of cut+paste code, simply because I don't know enough of JavaScript to cope (although I know enough of other languages to know what I'm doing is horrible, which is even worse!)
Although I hate how long it takes to download and render websites with too many javascript dependencies (spend twenty seconds trying to load digg or mashable recently, anyone?) so I would probably just pick a few of the best functions, rather than include them all in one go.
(edit: Sorry for the wall of text. Feel free to tl;dr!)
(edit: to the downmodders, yes, I'm (painfully) aware PHP has plenty of flaws) | I think this is really cool - I've used PHP for several years, but my JavaScript is really weak.
JavaScript is a wonderful language with so many fantastic features that I'll never get around to learning, because all I need it for is to popup the confirmation dialog and modify some CSS on-the-fly. I usually end up with an ugly script full of cut+paste code, simply because I don't know enough of JavaScript to cope (although I know enough of other languages to know what I'm doing is horrible, which is even worse!)
Although I hate how long it takes to download and render websites with too many javascript dependencies (spend twenty seconds trying to load digg or mashable recently, anyone?) so I would probably just pick a few of the best functions, rather than include them all in one go.
(edit: Sorry for the wall of text. Feel free to tl;dr!)
(edit: to the downmodders, yes, I'm (painfully) aware PHP has plenty of flaws)
| javascript | t5_2qh30 | c04xn4z | I think this is really cool - I've used PHP for several years, but my JavaScript is really weak.
JavaScript is a wonderful language with so many fantastic features that I'll never get around to learning, because all I need it for is to popup the confirmation dialog and modify some CSS on-the-fly. I usually end up with an ugly script full of cut+paste code, simply because I don't know enough of JavaScript to cope (although I know enough of other languages to know what I'm doing is horrible, which is even worse!)
Although I hate how long it takes to download and render websites with too many javascript dependencies (spend twenty seconds trying to load digg or mashable recently, anyone?) so I would probably just pick a few of the best functions, rather than include them all in one go.
(edit: Sorry for the wall of text. Feel free to | edit: to the downmodders, yes, I'm (painfully) aware PHP has plenty of flaws) |
acydlord | Actually Taser International markets these little death-rays as "Non-Leathal" and say that they have been tested and their use leads to "no long term effects" Cops just abuse the use of tasers, someone refusing to answer a question is seen as hostile and they will then bust out the taser. The thugs in blue find any chance they can to use a taser and no damn well that it has a high chance of killing someone. That is why they use the taser when pepper spray would suffice. They also know that they will most likely get away with it because the taser is marketed as "Non-Lethal"
tldr: Cops are trigger happy sociopaths who will find a way to kill people no matter what we equip them with. | Actually Taser International markets these little death-rays as "Non-Leathal" and say that they have been tested and their use leads to "no long term effects" Cops just abuse the use of tasers, someone refusing to answer a question is seen as hostile and they will then bust out the taser. The thugs in blue find any chance they can to use a taser and no damn well that it has a high chance of killing someone. That is why they use the taser when pepper spray would suffice. They also know that they will most likely get away with it because the taser is marketed as "Non-Lethal"
tldr: Cops are trigger happy sociopaths who will find a way to kill people no matter what we equip them with.
| reddit.com | t5_6 | c07dfda | Actually Taser International markets these little death-rays as "Non-Leathal" and say that they have been tested and their use leads to "no long term effects" Cops just abuse the use of tasers, someone refusing to answer a question is seen as hostile and they will then bust out the taser. The thugs in blue find any chance they can to use a taser and no damn well that it has a high chance of killing someone. That is why they use the taser when pepper spray would suffice. They also know that they will most likely get away with it because the taser is marketed as "Non-Lethal" | Cops are trigger happy sociopaths who will find a way to kill people no matter what we equip them with. |
postdarwin | Since this has been rattling around for a while I've had time to consider what exactly caused the 'difference of opinion.'
I believe it comes down punctuation. When I was at school (about 9 years old) the teacher told us that he saw a football advertised with the price tag of £12.99p and asked us what was wrong with it. After we gave many idiotic guesses, we learned that you *never* use both currency symbols.
Since then I've noticed that some people (probably the very same ones who add painful and needless apostrophes to signs) also commit the currency sin. Thus we are all used to seeing $12.99c on an item's tag.
This leads to our real problem. The horror I call 'dual decimal points.' The Verizon reps seem to have visualised their rate as $0.00.2c (a hideous hybrid to be sure) rather than $0.00.002c (equally disturbing).
The ensuing multiplications were destined to end in disaster as they confused one decimal point with the other.
If you reply TL;DR, I will understand. Just writing this for my own sake. | Since this has been rattling around for a while I've had time to consider what exactly caused the 'difference of opinion.'
I believe it comes down punctuation. When I was at school (about 9 years old) the teacher told us that he saw a football advertised with the price tag of £12.99p and asked us what was wrong with it. After we gave many idiotic guesses, we learned that you never use both currency symbols.
Since then I've noticed that some people (probably the very same ones who add painful and needless apostrophes to signs) also commit the currency sin. Thus we are all used to seeing $12.99c on an item's tag.
This leads to our real problem. The horror I call 'dual decimal points.' The Verizon reps seem to have visualised their rate as $0.00.2c (a hideous hybrid to be sure) rather than $0.00.002c (equally disturbing).
The ensuing multiplications were destined to end in disaster as they confused one decimal point with the other.
If you reply TL;DR, I will understand. Just writing this for my own sake.
| WTF | t5_2qh61 | c07hrcr | Since this has been rattling around for a while I've had time to consider what exactly caused the 'difference of opinion.'
I believe it comes down punctuation. When I was at school (about 9 years old) the teacher told us that he saw a football advertised with the price tag of £12.99p and asked us what was wrong with it. After we gave many idiotic guesses, we learned that you never use both currency symbols.
Since then I've noticed that some people (probably the very same ones who add painful and needless apostrophes to signs) also commit the currency sin. Thus we are all used to seeing $12.99c on an item's tag.
This leads to our real problem. The horror I call 'dual decimal points.' The Verizon reps seem to have visualised their rate as $0.00.2c (a hideous hybrid to be sure) rather than $0.00.002c (equally disturbing).
The ensuing multiplications were destined to end in disaster as they confused one decimal point with the other.
If you reply | I will understand. Just writing this for my own sake. |
justpickaname | Arguments against porn, from the article, which she then addresses:
1. Pornography degrades women;
2. Pornography leads directly to violence against women.
3. Pornography is violence against women, in that:
a. women are physically coerced into pornography;
b. women involved in the production of pornography are so psychologically damaged by patriarchy that they are incapable of giving informed or 'real' consent.
McElroy addresses these, and provides her own pro-porn arguments. I'm not convinced, though, by her argument that porn is not degrading. She says, "'Degrading' is a subjective term. I find commercials in which women become orgasmic over soapsuds to be tremendously degrading. The bottom line is that every woman has the right to define what is degrading and liberating for herself.
The assumed degradation is often linked to the 'objectification' of women: that is, porn converts them into sexual objects. What does this mean? If taken literally, it means nothing because objects don't have sexuality; only beings do. But to say that porn portrays women as 'sexual beings' makes for poor rhetoric. Usually, the term 'sex objects' means showing women as 'body parts', reducing them to physical objects. What is wrong with this? Women are as much their bodies as they are their minds or souls. No one gets upset if you present women as 'brains' or as 'spiritual beings'. If I concentrated on a woman's sense of humor to the exclusion of her other characteristics, is this degrading? Why is it degrading to focus on her sexuality?"
To me, if I am seeing a woman as merely some hot body, with no interest or awareness of her having a mind or much personality - I just can't see how that's not degrading. I'm not veiwing her as a person, like me, I'm looking at her more like I would a tasty meal. Women who appear in porn may not feel degraded, but I think to the men who view them, they are certainly moving to a lower grade, one where their mind and body doesn't matter.
That's my biggest disagreement with McElroy. Not saying we should ban porn, just disagreeing with a point.
tl;dr: I think porn degrades women, at least in the minds of the men who are looking at them.
| Arguments against porn, from the article, which she then addresses:
Pornography degrades women;
Pornography leads directly to violence against women.
Pornography is violence against women, in that:
a. women are physically coerced into pornography;
b. women involved in the production of pornography are so psychologically damaged by patriarchy that they are incapable of giving informed or 'real' consent.
McElroy addresses these, and provides her own pro-porn arguments. I'm not convinced, though, by her argument that porn is not degrading. She says, "'Degrading' is a subjective term. I find commercials in which women become orgasmic over soapsuds to be tremendously degrading. The bottom line is that every woman has the right to define what is degrading and liberating for herself.
The assumed degradation is often linked to the 'objectification' of women: that is, porn converts them into sexual objects. What does this mean? If taken literally, it means nothing because objects don't have sexuality; only beings do. But to say that porn portrays women as 'sexual beings' makes for poor rhetoric. Usually, the term 'sex objects' means showing women as 'body parts', reducing them to physical objects. What is wrong with this? Women are as much their bodies as they are their minds or souls. No one gets upset if you present women as 'brains' or as 'spiritual beings'. If I concentrated on a woman's sense of humor to the exclusion of her other characteristics, is this degrading? Why is it degrading to focus on her sexuality?"
To me, if I am seeing a woman as merely some hot body, with no interest or awareness of her having a mind or much personality - I just can't see how that's not degrading. I'm not veiwing her as a person, like me, I'm looking at her more like I would a tasty meal. Women who appear in porn may not feel degraded, but I think to the men who view them, they are certainly moving to a lower grade, one where their mind and body doesn't matter.
That's my biggest disagreement with McElroy. Not saying we should ban porn, just disagreeing with a point.
tl;dr: I think porn degrades women, at least in the minds of the men who are looking at them.
| Equality | t5_2qtp5 | c08oqw3 | Arguments against porn, from the article, which she then addresses:
Pornography degrades women;
Pornography leads directly to violence against women.
Pornography is violence against women, in that:
a. women are physically coerced into pornography;
b. women involved in the production of pornography are so psychologically damaged by patriarchy that they are incapable of giving informed or 'real' consent.
McElroy addresses these, and provides her own pro-porn arguments. I'm not convinced, though, by her argument that porn is not degrading. She says, "'Degrading' is a subjective term. I find commercials in which women become orgasmic over soapsuds to be tremendously degrading. The bottom line is that every woman has the right to define what is degrading and liberating for herself.
The assumed degradation is often linked to the 'objectification' of women: that is, porn converts them into sexual objects. What does this mean? If taken literally, it means nothing because objects don't have sexuality; only beings do. But to say that porn portrays women as 'sexual beings' makes for poor rhetoric. Usually, the term 'sex objects' means showing women as 'body parts', reducing them to physical objects. What is wrong with this? Women are as much their bodies as they are their minds or souls. No one gets upset if you present women as 'brains' or as 'spiritual beings'. If I concentrated on a woman's sense of humor to the exclusion of her other characteristics, is this degrading? Why is it degrading to focus on her sexuality?"
To me, if I am seeing a woman as merely some hot body, with no interest or awareness of her having a mind or much personality - I just can't see how that's not degrading. I'm not veiwing her as a person, like me, I'm looking at her more like I would a tasty meal. Women who appear in porn may not feel degraded, but I think to the men who view them, they are certainly moving to a lower grade, one where their mind and body doesn't matter.
That's my biggest disagreement with McElroy. Not saying we should ban porn, just disagreeing with a point. | I think porn degrades women, at least in the minds of the men who are looking at them. |
WasterDave | The Thrust SSC team spent a lot of time and money getting their CFD codes to work supersonically 'on' the ground. It was, I imagine, non-trivial and the key difference between a supersonic car and something that disintegrates into a "Donald Campbell" of little tiny pieces. I think these guys are hoping that by sheer horsepower alone it will all be OK.
tl;dr - he's gonna die | The Thrust SSC team spent a lot of time and money getting their CFD codes to work supersonically 'on' the ground. It was, I imagine, non-trivial and the key difference between a supersonic car and something that disintegrates into a "Donald Campbell" of little tiny pieces. I think these guys are hoping that by sheer horsepower alone it will all be OK.
tl;dr - he's gonna die
| WTF | t5_2qh61 | c091mmg | The Thrust SSC team spent a lot of time and money getting their CFD codes to work supersonically 'on' the ground. It was, I imagine, non-trivial and the key difference between a supersonic car and something that disintegrates into a "Donald Campbell" of little tiny pieces. I think these guys are hoping that by sheer horsepower alone it will all be OK. | he's gonna die |
mrdelayer | Once. We had been good friends for about a year and a half prior, and one day she let it slip that she was into me; I admitted that I was, also, we sorta went out for a while (long story, very tl;dr) but it ended up not working out so well. Meh. | Once. We had been good friends for about a year and a half prior, and one day she let it slip that she was into me; I admitted that I was, also, we sorta went out for a while (long story, very tl;dr) but it ended up not working out so well. Meh.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | c09q5gm | Once. We had been good friends for about a year and a half prior, and one day she let it slip that she was into me; I admitted that I was, also, we sorta went out for a while (long story, very | but it ended up not working out so well. Meh. |
youareallscum | what is this tl;dr mean? | what is this tl;dr mean?
| politics | t5_2cneq | c0auxy5 | what is this | mean? |
DestructiveDreaming | I'm thinking the problem has more to do with studios being afraid to fund nonviolent games because they're not seen as commercially safe. The "hardcore" community seems to really enjoy nonviolent (or less violent) games, provided they're *actually good games*. For instance:
- Braid
- Beyond Good and Evil
- Psychonauts
- Portal
There are others, too. As far as I can tell, it's the less-serious (but not "casual") gamers who are assuring the commercial supremacy of Halo, Gears, CoD, etc. -- people who play games as a pastime, probably have a console, but don't have a huge personal stake in gaming as an industry or an art form, or what have you. It could be that this newer, wider gaming demographic actually has a predominant interest in violent games, or it could be that they haven't been properly exposed to interesting nonviolent titles. I'm not sure -- I don't have data for any of this.
Of course, "hardcore" gamers buy popular violent games as well, but it seems to me that most devoted gamers have wider palettes. If you judge on quality of execution more than subject matter, a really well-done violent game and a similarly high-quality nonviolent game are equally interesting. The point is that the content should make sense considering the context. It's incredibly frustrating to see anything sanitized for the sake of marketability. Games (or movies, television shows, etc.) that *should* be unsettling but instead have been plastered over with fake profanity and ridiculous kiss-and-make-up compromises have been stripped of their power -- neutered. And the insipid, saccharine marketing tie-ins that flood local Gamestops for every commercial property that can be sold to the under-12 market are even worse, because they had no soul to begin with, and that encouraging bullshit is all they are. That's what the gaming "scene" hates, I think: clean for clean's sake. We just want **good games**.
Wow, TL;DR. Short version: Maybe the problem is a general shortage of good nonviolent games in the mainstream. | I'm thinking the problem has more to do with studios being afraid to fund nonviolent games because they're not seen as commercially safe. The "hardcore" community seems to really enjoy nonviolent (or less violent) games, provided they're actually good games . For instance:
Braid
Beyond Good and Evil
Psychonauts
Portal
There are others, too. As far as I can tell, it's the less-serious (but not "casual") gamers who are assuring the commercial supremacy of Halo, Gears, CoD, etc. -- people who play games as a pastime, probably have a console, but don't have a huge personal stake in gaming as an industry or an art form, or what have you. It could be that this newer, wider gaming demographic actually has a predominant interest in violent games, or it could be that they haven't been properly exposed to interesting nonviolent titles. I'm not sure -- I don't have data for any of this.
Of course, "hardcore" gamers buy popular violent games as well, but it seems to me that most devoted gamers have wider palettes. If you judge on quality of execution more than subject matter, a really well-done violent game and a similarly high-quality nonviolent game are equally interesting. The point is that the content should make sense considering the context. It's incredibly frustrating to see anything sanitized for the sake of marketability. Games (or movies, television shows, etc.) that should be unsettling but instead have been plastered over with fake profanity and ridiculous kiss-and-make-up compromises have been stripped of their power -- neutered. And the insipid, saccharine marketing tie-ins that flood local Gamestops for every commercial property that can be sold to the under-12 market are even worse, because they had no soul to begin with, and that encouraging bullshit is all they are. That's what the gaming "scene" hates, I think: clean for clean's sake. We just want good games .
Wow, TL;DR. Short version: Maybe the problem is a general shortage of good nonviolent games in the mainstream.
| gaming | t5_2qh03 | c0axg12 | I'm thinking the problem has more to do with studios being afraid to fund nonviolent games because they're not seen as commercially safe. The "hardcore" community seems to really enjoy nonviolent (or less violent) games, provided they're actually good games . For instance:
Braid
Beyond Good and Evil
Psychonauts
Portal
There are others, too. As far as I can tell, it's the less-serious (but not "casual") gamers who are assuring the commercial supremacy of Halo, Gears, CoD, etc. -- people who play games as a pastime, probably have a console, but don't have a huge personal stake in gaming as an industry or an art form, or what have you. It could be that this newer, wider gaming demographic actually has a predominant interest in violent games, or it could be that they haven't been properly exposed to interesting nonviolent titles. I'm not sure -- I don't have data for any of this.
Of course, "hardcore" gamers buy popular violent games as well, but it seems to me that most devoted gamers have wider palettes. If you judge on quality of execution more than subject matter, a really well-done violent game and a similarly high-quality nonviolent game are equally interesting. The point is that the content should make sense considering the context. It's incredibly frustrating to see anything sanitized for the sake of marketability. Games (or movies, television shows, etc.) that should be unsettling but instead have been plastered over with fake profanity and ridiculous kiss-and-make-up compromises have been stripped of their power -- neutered. And the insipid, saccharine marketing tie-ins that flood local Gamestops for every commercial property that can be sold to the under-12 market are even worse, because they had no soul to begin with, and that encouraging bullshit is all they are. That's what the gaming "scene" hates, I think: clean for clean's sake. We just want good games .
Wow, | Short version: Maybe the problem is a general shortage of good nonviolent games in the mainstream. |
SoldierOfForchan | Sir, based on my [reconnaissance work]( I'm going to have to advise a no-go on the ass clapping.
Tl;dr: she's flat assed. | Sir, based on my [reconnaissance work]( I'm going to have to advise a no-go on the ass clapping.
Tl;dr: she's flat assed.
| reddit.com | t5_6 | c0bkal6 | Sir, based on my [reconnaissance work]( I'm going to have to advise a no-go on the ass clapping. | she's flat assed. |
trueg | Exactly.
>John 3:13 No one has ever gone into heaven except the one who came from heaven—the Son of Man.
>2 Kings 2:11 As they were walking along and talking together, suddenly a chariot of fire and horses of fire appeared and separated the two of them, and Elijah went up to heaven in a whirlwind.
"Verily Jesus said unto them: the bible art wall of text. tl;dr lol." | Exactly.
>John 3:13 No one has ever gone into heaven except the one who came from heaven—the Son of Man.
>2 Kings 2:11 As they were walking along and talking together, suddenly a chariot of fire and horses of fire appeared and separated the two of them, and Elijah went up to heaven in a whirlwind.
"Verily Jesus said unto them: the bible art wall of text. tl;dr lol."
| WTF | t5_2qh61 | c0btbfb | Exactly.
>John 3:13 No one has ever gone into heaven except the one who came from heaven—the Son of Man.
>2 Kings 2:11 As they were walking along and talking together, suddenly a chariot of fire and horses of fire appeared and separated the two of them, and Elijah went up to heaven in a whirlwind.
"Verily Jesus said unto them: the bible art wall of text. | lol." |
btnheazy03 | >My argument is based on game quality
If that were true, you would *never* have had brought up the "powerful" argument. Therefore proving you're a bullshitter who's grasping at straws.
> I don't care if they consistently upgrade or not, the PS3 is not and never was a supercomputer by any definition.
The PS3 uses Cell technology that was meant for supercomputing. Not sure how many times I have to repeat this and how many references I need to cite, for you to finally "get it". I don't give up that easily, though. Unlike you, I've supplied numerous references to support my claims. Foldng@HOME, academics replacing supercomputers with PS3s. You've altogether sidestepped and avoided these for the sake of your ego?
At this point your retorts are so laughably easy to shoot down, I get the feeling you're just humoring me. I can still go on, though. I'll consider it a humanitarian mission to educate you.
For the record, the Cell chip architecture has improved *immensely* since getting greenlighted for use in PS3s. There are more advanced hardware revisions which are many times more powerful that the one living inside the PS3. But like I said, core console hardware is fixed. Why the fuck would you even mention storage mediums? I would pity you if I didn't loathe you.
> You can easily put a new HDD in a PS3.
Yeah. That's *exactly* the same as upgrading the processor of a CPU.
*[golf clap]*
EDIT: typos
*tl;dr*
**TRY HARDER**. | >My argument is based on game quality
If that were true, you would never have had brought up the "powerful" argument. Therefore proving you're a bullshitter who's grasping at straws.
> I don't care if they consistently upgrade or not, the PS3 is not and never was a supercomputer by any definition.
The PS3 uses Cell technology that was meant for supercomputing. Not sure how many times I have to repeat this and how many references I need to cite, for you to finally "get it". I don't give up that easily, though. Unlike you, I've supplied numerous references to support my claims. Foldng@HOME, academics replacing supercomputers with PS3s. You've altogether sidestepped and avoided these for the sake of your ego?
At this point your retorts are so laughably easy to shoot down, I get the feeling you're just humoring me. I can still go on, though. I'll consider it a humanitarian mission to educate you.
For the record, the Cell chip architecture has improved immensely since getting greenlighted for use in PS3s. There are more advanced hardware revisions which are many times more powerful that the one living inside the PS3. But like I said, core console hardware is fixed. Why the fuck would you even mention storage mediums? I would pity you if I didn't loathe you.
> You can easily put a new HDD in a PS3.
Yeah. That's exactly the same as upgrading the processor of a CPU.
[golf clap]
EDIT: typos
tl;dr
TRY HARDER .
| pics | t5_2qh0u | c0c0ezz | My argument is based on game quality
If that were true, you would never have had brought up the "powerful" argument. Therefore proving you're a bullshitter who's grasping at straws.
> I don't care if they consistently upgrade or not, the PS3 is not and never was a supercomputer by any definition.
The PS3 uses Cell technology that was meant for supercomputing. Not sure how many times I have to repeat this and how many references I need to cite, for you to finally "get it". I don't give up that easily, though. Unlike you, I've supplied numerous references to support my claims. Foldng@HOME, academics replacing supercomputers with PS3s. You've altogether sidestepped and avoided these for the sake of your ego?
At this point your retorts are so laughably easy to shoot down, I get the feeling you're just humoring me. I can still go on, though. I'll consider it a humanitarian mission to educate you.
For the record, the Cell chip architecture has improved immensely since getting greenlighted for use in PS3s. There are more advanced hardware revisions which are many times more powerful that the one living inside the PS3. But like I said, core console hardware is fixed. Why the fuck would you even mention storage mediums? I would pity you if I didn't loathe you.
> You can easily put a new HDD in a PS3.
Yeah. That's exactly the same as upgrading the processor of a CPU.
[golf clap]
EDIT: typos | TRY HARDER . |
unsee | downvoted you for basically being incorrect, and callously lumping 'variant of iphone'.
**Edit**: I read 'generic variant of the iPhone' to mean the iPhone copies on the market - not the chinese iPhones, but the nokia/moto/sonye/blahfoo iPhonealikes - completely different devices.
tl;dr it's the software, stupid. | downvoted you for basically being incorrect, and callously lumping 'variant of iphone'.
Edit : I read 'generic variant of the iPhone' to mean the iPhone copies on the market - not the chinese iPhones, but the nokia/moto/sonye/blahfoo iPhonealikes - completely different devices.
tl;dr it's the software, stupid.
| technology | t5_2qh16 | c0c2blk | downvoted you for basically being incorrect, and callously lumping 'variant of iphone'.
Edit : I read 'generic variant of the iPhone' to mean the iPhone copies on the market - not the chinese iPhones, but the nokia/moto/sonye/blahfoo iPhonealikes - completely different devices. | it's the software, stupid. |
rhino369 | Also because 1/2 to 1/3 toilets are handicap able. And only 1/100 parking spaces are. The handicapped toilets are made for everyone. The parking is meant only for the handicapped.
TLDR: Its a handicap accessible toilet not a handicap only toilet. | Also because 1/2 to 1/3 toilets are handicap able. And only 1/100 parking spaces are. The handicapped toilets are made for everyone. The parking is meant only for the handicapped.
TLDR: Its a handicap accessible toilet not a handicap only toilet.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | c0ca62a | Also because 1/2 to 1/3 toilets are handicap able. And only 1/100 parking spaces are. The handicapped toilets are made for everyone. The parking is meant only for the handicapped. | Its a handicap accessible toilet not a handicap only toilet. |
ThePoopsmith | > 16 And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire.
> 17 For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled.
From the real Bible. Whatever wierd thing you used made it sound like the horns weren't part of the beast.
The ten horns of the beast are the ten kings that are controlled by him. From the same passage:
>12 And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.
>13 These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast.
This beast (as opposed to the beast of rev 13) is the false prophet.
tl;dr: beast = false prophet, a religious leader who sets up satan in place of the true God on earth. Ten horns = ten kings who have their allegiance to the false prophet and to satan. | > 16 And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire.
> 17 For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled.
From the real Bible. Whatever wierd thing you used made it sound like the horns weren't part of the beast.
The ten horns of the beast are the ten kings that are controlled by him. From the same passage:
>12 And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.
>13 These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast.
This beast (as opposed to the beast of rev 13) is the false prophet.
tl;dr: beast = false prophet, a religious leader who sets up satan in place of the true God on earth. Ten horns = ten kings who have their allegiance to the false prophet and to satan.
| Christianity | t5_2qh6c | c0cg35s | 16 And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire.
> 17 For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled.
From the real Bible. Whatever wierd thing you used made it sound like the horns weren't part of the beast.
The ten horns of the beast are the ten kings that are controlled by him. From the same passage:
>12 And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.
>13 These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast.
This beast (as opposed to the beast of rev 13) is the false prophet. | beast = false prophet, a religious leader who sets up satan in place of the true God on earth. Ten horns = ten kings who have their allegiance to the false prophet and to satan. |
ruinmaker | Dude. We would have missed you if we'd noticed you were gone, you know?
There was a posting about the apathy subreddit about a week ago that made it to the Reddid front page. When I got here, someone had posted a self "meh." So I posted a self... something, a link to an apathy joke and sent a message to donbueno that there was some activity then... oh, heck. This is too much work to recount.
**tl;dr** a link to r/apathy made it to the front page of Reddit. | Dude. We would have missed you if we'd noticed you were gone, you know?
There was a posting about the apathy subreddit about a week ago that made it to the Reddid front page. When I got here, someone had posted a self "meh." So I posted a self... something, a link to an apathy joke and sent a message to donbueno that there was some activity then... oh, heck. This is too much work to recount.
tl;dr a link to r/apathy made it to the front page of Reddit.
| apathy | t5_2qm2v | c0cqwqg | Dude. We would have missed you if we'd noticed you were gone, you know?
There was a posting about the apathy subreddit about a week ago that made it to the Reddid front page. When I got here, someone had posted a self "meh." So I posted a self... something, a link to an apathy joke and sent a message to donbueno that there was some activity then... oh, heck. This is too much work to recount. | a link to r/apathy made it to the front page of Reddit. |
HaleFx | Zell Miller never joined the Republican party. Are you implying that anyone who has ever agreed with a Republican must also be a Republican? I'm sorry to disappoint you, then, but even President Obama qualifies as a Republican.
The bold text was used to emphasize key phrases for the selective (tl;dr) readers of Reddit. If I was trying to present those phrases as the only historical events from the referenced page worth discussing, I wouldn't have attempted to include their historical context. | Zell Miller never joined the Republican party. Are you implying that anyone who has ever agreed with a Republican must also be a Republican? I'm sorry to disappoint you, then, but even President Obama qualifies as a Republican.
The bold text was used to emphasize key phrases for the selective (tl;dr) readers of Reddit. If I was trying to present those phrases as the only historical events from the referenced page worth discussing, I wouldn't have attempted to include their historical context.
| reddit.com | t5_6 | c0cugol | Zell Miller never joined the Republican party. Are you implying that anyone who has ever agreed with a Republican must also be a Republican? I'm sorry to disappoint you, then, but even President Obama qualifies as a Republican.
The bold text was used to emphasize key phrases for the selective ( | readers of Reddit. If I was trying to present those phrases as the only historical events from the referenced page worth discussing, I wouldn't have attempted to include their historical context. |
tomatopaste | > The guy may an asshole
For the record, I'm only an asshole when I see potentially dangerous situations. Day to day, I'm only a dick.
I would consider being softer in my delivery, but I know how many people have "tl;dr" syndrome and would rather hammer my points in immediately. With a big hammer. | > The guy may an asshole
For the record, I'm only an asshole when I see potentially dangerous situations. Day to day, I'm only a dick.
I would consider being softer in my delivery, but I know how many people have "tl;dr" syndrome and would rather hammer my points in immediately. With a big hammer.
| bicycling | t5_2qi0s | c0cz1ps | The guy may an asshole
For the record, I'm only an asshole when I see potentially dangerous situations. Day to day, I'm only a dick.
I would consider being softer in my delivery, but I know how many people have " | syndrome and would rather hammer my points in immediately. With a big hammer. |
bubbal | Sorry, didn't notice as the tl;dr didn't contain that. | Sorry, didn't notice as the tl;dr didn't contain that.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | c0db2zo | Sorry, didn't notice as the | didn't contain that. |
Moeri | Long story short, Belgians were probably the first to make them in the 17th century. Instead of frying fish, they had to fry something else during winter (when the lakes froze) and therefore cut potatoes in bits and pieces. 130 years later, a French chef "stole" the idea and used it in higher social environments, where his creations were applauded. When it became known in America, they named it "French fried potatoes", where French also indicated the way in which it should be prepared.
There are also claims that it originated in Spain, because Spain was the first to have potatoes even before Belgium existed. That's bullocks imho. Just because you have potatoes doesn't mean you slice and fry them.
**tl;dr Belgians invented it, French stole it, Americans thought the French invented it and named it after the French.**
Edit: I'm Belgian myself, and I don't really care who invented it. All I know is that we have stands for french fries in every little town, called "frietkoten". Does English have the word frietkot? I really have no clue what the correct translation is. | Long story short, Belgians were probably the first to make them in the 17th century. Instead of frying fish, they had to fry something else during winter (when the lakes froze) and therefore cut potatoes in bits and pieces. 130 years later, a French chef "stole" the idea and used it in higher social environments, where his creations were applauded. When it became known in America, they named it "French fried potatoes", where French also indicated the way in which it should be prepared.
There are also claims that it originated in Spain, because Spain was the first to have potatoes even before Belgium existed. That's bullocks imho. Just because you have potatoes doesn't mean you slice and fry them.
tl;dr Belgians invented it, French stole it, Americans thought the French invented it and named it after the French.
Edit: I'm Belgian myself, and I don't really care who invented it. All I know is that we have stands for french fries in every little town, called "frietkoten". Does English have the word frietkot? I really have no clue what the correct translation is.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | c0dax1z | Long story short, Belgians were probably the first to make them in the 17th century. Instead of frying fish, they had to fry something else during winter (when the lakes froze) and therefore cut potatoes in bits and pieces. 130 years later, a French chef "stole" the idea and used it in higher social environments, where his creations were applauded. When it became known in America, they named it "French fried potatoes", where French also indicated the way in which it should be prepared.
There are also claims that it originated in Spain, because Spain was the first to have potatoes even before Belgium existed. That's bullocks imho. Just because you have potatoes doesn't mean you slice and fry them. | Belgians invented it, French stole it, Americans thought the French invented it and named it after the French.
Edit: I'm Belgian myself, and I don't really care who invented it. All I know is that we have stands for french fries in every little town, called "frietkoten". Does English have the word frietkot? I really have no clue what the correct translation is. |
aftli | Anybody have the tl;dr on this? | Anybody have the tl;dr on this?
| reddit.com | t5_6 | c0dlb68 | Anybody have the | on this? |
kungtotte | I think it would be very difficult to make such a system balanced, intuitive and fun. It would of course be very rewarding if you succeeded, but the punishment for failure seems steeper than an unbalanced traditional progression-system.
The fish thing is simple enough I guess. Time of day, location, what bait gets what sort of fish, how strong a line and pole you need for a given type of fish and that's about it. Not very difficult to implement nor balance, so no large chance of failure here.
Take a more complex skill-set such as swordplay however, and it can easily make or break your game. First of all you need to include things like strength, speed and dexterity in the equation, as there is a big difference between a strong but slow swordsman and a weak but fast one, and for every point between those polar opposites. The strong one wouldn't need to learn any fancy moves, and could just rely on bulling his way through his opponents' defences, bashing a shield so hard it breaks or sends shocks through the arm of the other guy, or maybe even breaking the sword if he hits it hard enough at the right angle. The fast one would need to finesse his way around the defences of an opponent, working his own defences such that incoming blows glance off rather than catching them full on, and when on the attack try to poke the other guy through the holes in his armour.
And of course you need to make sure that the equipment is logically designed, so that swordsmen can select equipment that emphasises their respective strengths. What I would really like to see in terms of weapons and armour is to do away with inherent stats altogether and just rely on the properties of the equipment in terms of metal, make and model. So the metal would be divided into a couple of tiers of quality first of all (low, mid, high). The higher the quality the more resistant it is to breaking and the sharper you can make a weapon. Then the make comes into play, a good weaponsmith will have higher quality weapons than a bad one, more resistant to breaking, better balance, sharper edges and whatnot.
And finally there is the model, i.e what kind of armour or weapon it is. A full plate ought to be very different from a hauberk, a shortsword different from a cutlass and both of them different from a longsword, and not just in terms of damage output. Full plates offer lots of protection but they also slow you down significantly, and despite being designed for some flexibility you aren't nearly as agile in them. A hauberk (or the much shorter byrnie) doesn't offer as much protection obviously but it also doesn't slow you down much if at all, and you are as agile as if you weren't wearing armour at all. A shortsword is inherently a weapon to be used in formation, blocking a few cuts and then a short lunge to stab your opponent and only rarely do you try to slice with it. With a cutlass you rarely lunge, using it more like a machete to chop your way through obstacles and opponents and rarely used in formation. A longsword is unlike either of them in that you use it more to *fence* than anything else, parries, thrusts, swings and all, and its length and the style of fighting makes it completely unsuited for use in formation.
Mount & Blade is the only game I've played so far that even comes close to making a good job of the inherent qualities of weapons, including speed and size as properties that actually *matter*. Speed is what determines how fast you can swing or thrust the weapon, both the time it takes to complete a blow and the time it takes to recover for a second. Size determines how easily the weapon snags on the environment or other soldiers. So sometimes you are better served by taking a smaller, faster sabre over a more unwieldy longsword or the unwieldier (it's a word) still, two-hander. Sure your bigger weapon might do more damage, but when you're locked into the press in a siege, working your way through the narrow corridor of a tower, your weapon will be useless as it will snag on soldiers left and right of you if you try a horizontal swing, and it'll bang into the ceiling if you try an overhead one.
**tl;dr**: Your ideas are intriguing to me, and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
| I think it would be very difficult to make such a system balanced, intuitive and fun. It would of course be very rewarding if you succeeded, but the punishment for failure seems steeper than an unbalanced traditional progression-system.
The fish thing is simple enough I guess. Time of day, location, what bait gets what sort of fish, how strong a line and pole you need for a given type of fish and that's about it. Not very difficult to implement nor balance, so no large chance of failure here.
Take a more complex skill-set such as swordplay however, and it can easily make or break your game. First of all you need to include things like strength, speed and dexterity in the equation, as there is a big difference between a strong but slow swordsman and a weak but fast one, and for every point between those polar opposites. The strong one wouldn't need to learn any fancy moves, and could just rely on bulling his way through his opponents' defences, bashing a shield so hard it breaks or sends shocks through the arm of the other guy, or maybe even breaking the sword if he hits it hard enough at the right angle. The fast one would need to finesse his way around the defences of an opponent, working his own defences such that incoming blows glance off rather than catching them full on, and when on the attack try to poke the other guy through the holes in his armour.
And of course you need to make sure that the equipment is logically designed, so that swordsmen can select equipment that emphasises their respective strengths. What I would really like to see in terms of weapons and armour is to do away with inherent stats altogether and just rely on the properties of the equipment in terms of metal, make and model. So the metal would be divided into a couple of tiers of quality first of all (low, mid, high). The higher the quality the more resistant it is to breaking and the sharper you can make a weapon. Then the make comes into play, a good weaponsmith will have higher quality weapons than a bad one, more resistant to breaking, better balance, sharper edges and whatnot.
And finally there is the model, i.e what kind of armour or weapon it is. A full plate ought to be very different from a hauberk, a shortsword different from a cutlass and both of them different from a longsword, and not just in terms of damage output. Full plates offer lots of protection but they also slow you down significantly, and despite being designed for some flexibility you aren't nearly as agile in them. A hauberk (or the much shorter byrnie) doesn't offer as much protection obviously but it also doesn't slow you down much if at all, and you are as agile as if you weren't wearing armour at all. A shortsword is inherently a weapon to be used in formation, blocking a few cuts and then a short lunge to stab your opponent and only rarely do you try to slice with it. With a cutlass you rarely lunge, using it more like a machete to chop your way through obstacles and opponents and rarely used in formation. A longsword is unlike either of them in that you use it more to fence than anything else, parries, thrusts, swings and all, and its length and the style of fighting makes it completely unsuited for use in formation.
Mount & Blade is the only game I've played so far that even comes close to making a good job of the inherent qualities of weapons, including speed and size as properties that actually matter . Speed is what determines how fast you can swing or thrust the weapon, both the time it takes to complete a blow and the time it takes to recover for a second. Size determines how easily the weapon snags on the environment or other soldiers. So sometimes you are better served by taking a smaller, faster sabre over a more unwieldy longsword or the unwieldier (it's a word) still, two-hander. Sure your bigger weapon might do more damage, but when you're locked into the press in a siege, working your way through the narrow corridor of a tower, your weapon will be useless as it will snag on soldiers left and right of you if you try a horizontal swing, and it'll bang into the ceiling if you try an overhead one.
tl;dr : Your ideas are intriguing to me, and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
| gaming | t5_2qh03 | c0e5p8f | I think it would be very difficult to make such a system balanced, intuitive and fun. It would of course be very rewarding if you succeeded, but the punishment for failure seems steeper than an unbalanced traditional progression-system.
The fish thing is simple enough I guess. Time of day, location, what bait gets what sort of fish, how strong a line and pole you need for a given type of fish and that's about it. Not very difficult to implement nor balance, so no large chance of failure here.
Take a more complex skill-set such as swordplay however, and it can easily make or break your game. First of all you need to include things like strength, speed and dexterity in the equation, as there is a big difference between a strong but slow swordsman and a weak but fast one, and for every point between those polar opposites. The strong one wouldn't need to learn any fancy moves, and could just rely on bulling his way through his opponents' defences, bashing a shield so hard it breaks or sends shocks through the arm of the other guy, or maybe even breaking the sword if he hits it hard enough at the right angle. The fast one would need to finesse his way around the defences of an opponent, working his own defences such that incoming blows glance off rather than catching them full on, and when on the attack try to poke the other guy through the holes in his armour.
And of course you need to make sure that the equipment is logically designed, so that swordsmen can select equipment that emphasises their respective strengths. What I would really like to see in terms of weapons and armour is to do away with inherent stats altogether and just rely on the properties of the equipment in terms of metal, make and model. So the metal would be divided into a couple of tiers of quality first of all (low, mid, high). The higher the quality the more resistant it is to breaking and the sharper you can make a weapon. Then the make comes into play, a good weaponsmith will have higher quality weapons than a bad one, more resistant to breaking, better balance, sharper edges and whatnot.
And finally there is the model, i.e what kind of armour or weapon it is. A full plate ought to be very different from a hauberk, a shortsword different from a cutlass and both of them different from a longsword, and not just in terms of damage output. Full plates offer lots of protection but they also slow you down significantly, and despite being designed for some flexibility you aren't nearly as agile in them. A hauberk (or the much shorter byrnie) doesn't offer as much protection obviously but it also doesn't slow you down much if at all, and you are as agile as if you weren't wearing armour at all. A shortsword is inherently a weapon to be used in formation, blocking a few cuts and then a short lunge to stab your opponent and only rarely do you try to slice with it. With a cutlass you rarely lunge, using it more like a machete to chop your way through obstacles and opponents and rarely used in formation. A longsword is unlike either of them in that you use it more to fence than anything else, parries, thrusts, swings and all, and its length and the style of fighting makes it completely unsuited for use in formation.
Mount & Blade is the only game I've played so far that even comes close to making a good job of the inherent qualities of weapons, including speed and size as properties that actually matter . Speed is what determines how fast you can swing or thrust the weapon, both the time it takes to complete a blow and the time it takes to recover for a second. Size determines how easily the weapon snags on the environment or other soldiers. So sometimes you are better served by taking a smaller, faster sabre over a more unwieldy longsword or the unwieldier (it's a word) still, two-hander. Sure your bigger weapon might do more damage, but when you're locked into the press in a siege, working your way through the narrow corridor of a tower, your weapon will be useless as it will snag on soldiers left and right of you if you try a horizontal swing, and it'll bang into the ceiling if you try an overhead one. | Your ideas are intriguing to me, and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter. |
Sciensen_Hedonis | I felt especially relieved when I first completed the game a few months ago.
It may not be perfect, but in spite of the quality of recent games (especially sequels), it's a pretty decent pice of work. Fallout 1&2 had great influence over me, I simply cannot describe the way that universe made me feel.
Let me tell You my experince with S.T.A.L.K.E.R.;
I've ben waiting eagerly for the release since I've heard the first news on its freshly started developenment. The months became years, and when I finally got myself a copy, I tought my face will melt from joy.
After one hours of gameplay, my face ineed melted...
The atmosphere of the game was everything I imagined, it was the sole reason I played it through the end. But I quickly realized, that the game itself is rotting from the core. The X-ray engine was buggy, and unrefined, let alone optimized. It was totally bullshit.
I wept in agony.
(keep in mind, that was not even a sequel, just a very anticipated game)
Now as I remember the experience of playing Fallout 3, i feel, thet it was done pretty well, and I have all the reasons to be grateful and satisfied.
I am very glad, that they didn't rape my childhood memories.
Thank You Bethesda.
tl,dr: F3 isn't perfect, but they could've fucked it up much, much worse. | I felt especially relieved when I first completed the game a few months ago.
It may not be perfect, but in spite of the quality of recent games (especially sequels), it's a pretty decent pice of work. Fallout 1&2 had great influence over me, I simply cannot describe the way that universe made me feel.
Let me tell You my experince with S.T.A.L.K.E.R.;
I've ben waiting eagerly for the release since I've heard the first news on its freshly started developenment. The months became years, and when I finally got myself a copy, I tought my face will melt from joy.
After one hours of gameplay, my face ineed melted...
The atmosphere of the game was everything I imagined, it was the sole reason I played it through the end. But I quickly realized, that the game itself is rotting from the core. The X-ray engine was buggy, and unrefined, let alone optimized. It was totally bullshit.
I wept in agony.
(keep in mind, that was not even a sequel, just a very anticipated game)
Now as I remember the experience of playing Fallout 3, i feel, thet it was done pretty well, and I have all the reasons to be grateful and satisfied.
I am very glad, that they didn't rape my childhood memories.
Thank You Bethesda.
tl,dr: F3 isn't perfect, but they could've fucked it up much, much worse.
| gaming | t5_2qh03 | c0e7o68 | I felt especially relieved when I first completed the game a few months ago.
It may not be perfect, but in spite of the quality of recent games (especially sequels), it's a pretty decent pice of work. Fallout 1&2 had great influence over me, I simply cannot describe the way that universe made me feel.
Let me tell You my experince with S.T.A.L.K.E.R.;
I've ben waiting eagerly for the release since I've heard the first news on its freshly started developenment. The months became years, and when I finally got myself a copy, I tought my face will melt from joy.
After one hours of gameplay, my face ineed melted...
The atmosphere of the game was everything I imagined, it was the sole reason I played it through the end. But I quickly realized, that the game itself is rotting from the core. The X-ray engine was buggy, and unrefined, let alone optimized. It was totally bullshit.
I wept in agony.
(keep in mind, that was not even a sequel, just a very anticipated game)
Now as I remember the experience of playing Fallout 3, i feel, thet it was done pretty well, and I have all the reasons to be grateful and satisfied.
I am very glad, that they didn't rape my childhood memories.
Thank You Bethesda. | F3 isn't perfect, but they could've fucked it up much, much worse. |
amirightORamiright | **What are your goals?**
If you want to **look cool** like an action movie **(wing chun)**, you'll have an easier time training yourself, though supervision and instruction will surely help a great deal.
If you want to learn to **fight** and defend **(muay thai)**, you'll not only need a qualified instructor (for safety), but you'll also need to train against a resisting opponent (for competency).
Again, if you're looking for performance martial arts (wing chun), qualified instruction will be helpful, but it may not be quite as critical as it is for combat martial arts.
If you're trying to learn to fight and defend, to inflict and avoid damage, you must train against an opponent *as hard as you can while still maintaining safety*. This opponent must have the same goals as you, which means he's trying to hurt you at the same time you're trying to hurt him. Because of these factors, qualified instruction and supervision in addition to proper equipment are critical to protecting your safety. You and your training partners must work against each other, you must break a sweat, and at times your training must, with 100% certainty, be uncomfortable and physically painful. If you're not prepared for those things (or you don't have access to the equipment/instruction to do it safely), then stick to the performance martial arts.
There is no wrong decision here so long as you set your goals and align your expectations and training methodology accordingly.
I hope this has been helpful
**edit: tl;dr** Safety first, you need an instructor, supervision, and training partners you can trust. | What are your goals?
If you want to look cool like an action movie (wing chun) , you'll have an easier time training yourself, though supervision and instruction will surely help a great deal.
If you want to learn to fight and defend (muay thai) , you'll not only need a qualified instructor (for safety), but you'll also need to train against a resisting opponent (for competency).
Again, if you're looking for performance martial arts (wing chun), qualified instruction will be helpful, but it may not be quite as critical as it is for combat martial arts.
If you're trying to learn to fight and defend, to inflict and avoid damage, you must train against an opponent as hard as you can while still maintaining safety . This opponent must have the same goals as you, which means he's trying to hurt you at the same time you're trying to hurt him. Because of these factors, qualified instruction and supervision in addition to proper equipment are critical to protecting your safety. You and your training partners must work against each other, you must break a sweat, and at times your training must, with 100% certainty, be uncomfortable and physically painful. If you're not prepared for those things (or you don't have access to the equipment/instruction to do it safely), then stick to the performance martial arts.
There is no wrong decision here so long as you set your goals and align your expectations and training methodology accordingly.
I hope this has been helpful
edit: tl;dr Safety first, you need an instructor, supervision, and training partners you can trust.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | c0egiac | What are your goals?
If you want to look cool like an action movie (wing chun) , you'll have an easier time training yourself, though supervision and instruction will surely help a great deal.
If you want to learn to fight and defend (muay thai) , you'll not only need a qualified instructor (for safety), but you'll also need to train against a resisting opponent (for competency).
Again, if you're looking for performance martial arts (wing chun), qualified instruction will be helpful, but it may not be quite as critical as it is for combat martial arts.
If you're trying to learn to fight and defend, to inflict and avoid damage, you must train against an opponent as hard as you can while still maintaining safety . This opponent must have the same goals as you, which means he's trying to hurt you at the same time you're trying to hurt him. Because of these factors, qualified instruction and supervision in addition to proper equipment are critical to protecting your safety. You and your training partners must work against each other, you must break a sweat, and at times your training must, with 100% certainty, be uncomfortable and physically painful. If you're not prepared for those things (or you don't have access to the equipment/instruction to do it safely), then stick to the performance martial arts.
There is no wrong decision here so long as you set your goals and align your expectations and training methodology accordingly.
I hope this has been helpful
edit: | Safety first, you need an instructor, supervision, and training partners you can trust. |
pasano54 | Otis Redding is sooo smooth that if you simply listen to what his songs are saying:("that's how strong my love is" for example)
>I'll be the weeping willow drowning in my tears
>You can go swimming when you're here
>I'll be the rainbow when the sun is gone
>Wrap you in my colors and keep you warm
you cannot, CANNOT go wrong in the dating world. If you wanna talk *impassioned* singing listen to 'In Person at the Whisky a Go Go', then ask yourself "What kind of show did he put on?" That's when you cue up the 'Live at Monterey' dvd. After watching his blistering 19 min set go ahead and pick your eyeballs off the floor but don't bend down too fast because you'll break the massive boner you have on the way down.
tl;dr: Otis Redding will fuck you up with his talent. <--in a good way.
| Otis Redding is sooo smooth that if you simply listen to what his songs are saying:("that's how strong my love is" for example)
>I'll be the weeping willow drowning in my tears
>You can go swimming when you're here
>I'll be the rainbow when the sun is gone
>Wrap you in my colors and keep you warm
you cannot, CANNOT go wrong in the dating world. If you wanna talk impassioned singing listen to 'In Person at the Whisky a Go Go', then ask yourself "What kind of show did he put on?" That's when you cue up the 'Live at Monterey' dvd. After watching his blistering 19 min set go ahead and pick your eyeballs off the floor but don't bend down too fast because you'll break the massive boner you have on the way down.
tl;dr: Otis Redding will fuck you up with his talent. <--in a good way.
| Music | t5_2qh1u | c0eigtn | Otis Redding is sooo smooth that if you simply listen to what his songs are saying:("that's how strong my love is" for example)
>I'll be the weeping willow drowning in my tears
>You can go swimming when you're here
>I'll be the rainbow when the sun is gone
>Wrap you in my colors and keep you warm
you cannot, CANNOT go wrong in the dating world. If you wanna talk impassioned singing listen to 'In Person at the Whisky a Go Go', then ask yourself "What kind of show did he put on?" That's when you cue up the 'Live at Monterey' dvd. After watching his blistering 19 min set go ahead and pick your eyeballs off the floor but don't bend down too fast because you'll break the massive boner you have on the way down. | Otis Redding will fuck you up with his talent. <--in a good way. |
Facehammer | All good points.
The roundup-resistant plants aren't an ideal solution towards helping poverty-stricken farmers, but that's not entirely relevant because I suspect that it's mostly marketed to richer Western farmers (who could afford to use pesticides in the first place) anyway. Roundup-resistant crops aren't going to really help very poor farmers in the case of disasters like drought anyway - but they would at least help increase yields in good years (by preventing weeds diverting resources into their own growth and away from crop growth), and that's better than nothing at least. The real problem would be ensuring a good enough supply of GM seeds and roundup. This might be able to happen with some sort of aid deal. I don't have the slightest clue how it could ever be made to happen, but I hope it does.
I suppose that it would be possible to re-engineer new crops with different versions of the BT toxin, or whatever else gets used in the future. It should also be possible to engineer these new toxins by studying what causes resistance in the pests, and devising some new way around it. However this would be damn expensive, not to mention difficult. At least the costs of the processes and techniques look like they will keep on steadily falling, just like they have for a long time now. Will the technology to run our side of the evolutionary arms race ever become cheap enough and easy enough to be of any practical benefit to the poorest farmers? No idea. Certainly not for a while, but maybe one day.
The reason that this doesn't happen yet is probably because it's currently so expensive and difficult. But I imagine that there will be an increasing pressure to use your idea of updating GM crops in response to resistance in the future: partly because resistance will only become more prevalent (rendering GM crops less worth their cost, discouraging farmers from buying them) and partly because, like I said earlier, the technology to engineer new characteristics will in the future become cheaper and easier.
tl;dr: GM crops aren't useless, but don't really live up to their promise as of today. I won't argue that. But they probably could in the future if it's done right. Exactly how that could be made to happen is rather beyond me though. | All good points.
The roundup-resistant plants aren't an ideal solution towards helping poverty-stricken farmers, but that's not entirely relevant because I suspect that it's mostly marketed to richer Western farmers (who could afford to use pesticides in the first place) anyway. Roundup-resistant crops aren't going to really help very poor farmers in the case of disasters like drought anyway - but they would at least help increase yields in good years (by preventing weeds diverting resources into their own growth and away from crop growth), and that's better than nothing at least. The real problem would be ensuring a good enough supply of GM seeds and roundup. This might be able to happen with some sort of aid deal. I don't have the slightest clue how it could ever be made to happen, but I hope it does.
I suppose that it would be possible to re-engineer new crops with different versions of the BT toxin, or whatever else gets used in the future. It should also be possible to engineer these new toxins by studying what causes resistance in the pests, and devising some new way around it. However this would be damn expensive, not to mention difficult. At least the costs of the processes and techniques look like they will keep on steadily falling, just like they have for a long time now. Will the technology to run our side of the evolutionary arms race ever become cheap enough and easy enough to be of any practical benefit to the poorest farmers? No idea. Certainly not for a while, but maybe one day.
The reason that this doesn't happen yet is probably because it's currently so expensive and difficult. But I imagine that there will be an increasing pressure to use your idea of updating GM crops in response to resistance in the future: partly because resistance will only become more prevalent (rendering GM crops less worth their cost, discouraging farmers from buying them) and partly because, like I said earlier, the technology to engineer new characteristics will in the future become cheaper and easier.
tl;dr: GM crops aren't useless, but don't really live up to their promise as of today. I won't argue that. But they probably could in the future if it's done right. Exactly how that could be made to happen is rather beyond me though.
| environment | t5_2qh1n | c0elugt | All good points.
The roundup-resistant plants aren't an ideal solution towards helping poverty-stricken farmers, but that's not entirely relevant because I suspect that it's mostly marketed to richer Western farmers (who could afford to use pesticides in the first place) anyway. Roundup-resistant crops aren't going to really help very poor farmers in the case of disasters like drought anyway - but they would at least help increase yields in good years (by preventing weeds diverting resources into their own growth and away from crop growth), and that's better than nothing at least. The real problem would be ensuring a good enough supply of GM seeds and roundup. This might be able to happen with some sort of aid deal. I don't have the slightest clue how it could ever be made to happen, but I hope it does.
I suppose that it would be possible to re-engineer new crops with different versions of the BT toxin, or whatever else gets used in the future. It should also be possible to engineer these new toxins by studying what causes resistance in the pests, and devising some new way around it. However this would be damn expensive, not to mention difficult. At least the costs of the processes and techniques look like they will keep on steadily falling, just like they have for a long time now. Will the technology to run our side of the evolutionary arms race ever become cheap enough and easy enough to be of any practical benefit to the poorest farmers? No idea. Certainly not for a while, but maybe one day.
The reason that this doesn't happen yet is probably because it's currently so expensive and difficult. But I imagine that there will be an increasing pressure to use your idea of updating GM crops in response to resistance in the future: partly because resistance will only become more prevalent (rendering GM crops less worth their cost, discouraging farmers from buying them) and partly because, like I said earlier, the technology to engineer new characteristics will in the future become cheaper and easier. | GM crops aren't useless, but don't really live up to their promise as of today. I won't argue that. But they probably could in the future if it's done right. Exactly how that could be made to happen is rather beyond me though. |
IABA | You'll lose *some* weight directly from the enema, but unless you get far further than the colon everything you get rid of has already been digested. Doing too much would probably get rid of your probiotic bacteria.
tl;dr poop comes out. | You'll lose some weight directly from the enema, but unless you get far further than the colon everything you get rid of has already been digested. Doing too much would probably get rid of your probiotic bacteria.
tl;dr poop comes out.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | c0f9iuf | You'll lose some weight directly from the enema, but unless you get far further than the colon everything you get rid of has already been digested. Doing too much would probably get rid of your probiotic bacteria. | poop comes out. |
knylok | To be fair, it's the arrogance of this particular woman.
>If I am on a first date and I decide that I don't really like the guy, well, then he pays. It's the least he can do to make up for the colossal wasting of my time.
With an attitude like that, she's the colossal waste of time at that table. Why would her time be worth more than his? So would it be fair then, at the end of the evening, if she thought he was the bee's knees and he thought she was the dog's breakfast that she pay for the meal instead? "Would you mind paying? I feel like I've wasted my time with you." Shock, outrage. Right. She's a Princess, clearly.
And before anyone gets up in arms, this specific woman is a Princess. I am not, in any way shape or form suggesting that she is representative of All Women.
**TL:DR VERSION**
Women, amirite? | To be fair, it's the arrogance of this particular woman.
>If I am on a first date and I decide that I don't really like the guy, well, then he pays. It's the least he can do to make up for the colossal wasting of my time.
With an attitude like that, she's the colossal waste of time at that table. Why would her time be worth more than his? So would it be fair then, at the end of the evening, if she thought he was the bee's knees and he thought she was the dog's breakfast that she pay for the meal instead? "Would you mind paying? I feel like I've wasted my time with you." Shock, outrage. Right. She's a Princess, clearly.
And before anyone gets up in arms, this specific woman is a Princess. I am not, in any way shape or form suggesting that she is representative of All Women.
TL:DR VERSION
Women, amirite?
| WTF | t5_2qh61 | c0fa6qr | To be fair, it's the arrogance of this particular woman.
>If I am on a first date and I decide that I don't really like the guy, well, then he pays. It's the least he can do to make up for the colossal wasting of my time.
With an attitude like that, she's the colossal waste of time at that table. Why would her time be worth more than his? So would it be fair then, at the end of the evening, if she thought he was the bee's knees and he thought she was the dog's breakfast that she pay for the meal instead? "Would you mind paying? I feel like I've wasted my time with you." Shock, outrage. Right. She's a Princess, clearly.
And before anyone gets up in arms, this specific woman is a Princess. I am not, in any way shape or form suggesting that she is representative of All Women. | VERSION
Women, amirite? |
LuckyBdx4 | First Step
#1 Ring Firearms registry 1300 362 562 - free call
They send you a form P650 - Tick No to all questions, if you have to tick yes, bad Karma comes yr way.. (Previous firearms bad etc) and a number of a Firearms Trainer in your area is given over the phone -- SSAA guys work the cheapest course - around $70 for a 2-3 hour course and test, I'm currently doing the course through FSAC and its $130 which our Pistol club gets re-imbursed around $60 bucks. Its 2-3 hours out of my time and I do it for free for the club.. The course is Safety related (Firearms and legislation) I have not failed anybody, but then again i do the course very well and have been vetted by another trainer..Course q&a are Multiple choice and cover Safety and regs? Practical is about a hour and is explained to you in the first Part of the course.. No Live Ammo is used - Dummy rounds to show that you can Load and make a Firearm safe.. Safety get the picture..
I wander off sometimes and use examples that are not in the course to keep you thinking, I'm different from most safety trainers..
Firearms Safety is paramount in the training, there have been relatively few firearms accidents on Australian shooting ranges in the last 100 years.. We bury our dead - Oops sorry just joking there..
If you like I can get you more info specific to your local area/ PM me rather than making a post with detail here..
tl;dr PM for more info and safety is the keyword..
| First Step
1 Ring Firearms registry 1300 362 562 - free call
They send you a form P650 - Tick No to all questions, if you have to tick yes, bad Karma comes yr way.. (Previous firearms bad etc) and a number of a Firearms Trainer in your area is given over the phone -- SSAA guys work the cheapest course - around $70 for a 2-3 hour course and test, I'm currently doing the course through FSAC and its $130 which our Pistol club gets re-imbursed around $60 bucks. Its 2-3 hours out of my time and I do it for free for the club.. The course is Safety related (Firearms and legislation) I have not failed anybody, but then again i do the course very well and have been vetted by another trainer..Course q&a are Multiple choice and cover Safety and regs? Practical is about a hour and is explained to you in the first Part of the course.. No Live Ammo is used - Dummy rounds to show that you can Load and make a Firearm safe.. Safety get the picture..
I wander off sometimes and use examples that are not in the course to keep you thinking, I'm different from most safety trainers..
Firearms Safety is paramount in the training, there have been relatively few firearms accidents on Australian shooting ranges in the last 100 years.. We bury our dead - Oops sorry just joking there..
If you like I can get you more info specific to your local area/ PM me rather than making a post with detail here..
tl;dr PM for more info and safety is the keyword..
| guns | t5_2qhc8 | c0fgq1e | First Step
1 Ring Firearms registry 1300 362 562 - free call
They send you a form P650 - Tick No to all questions, if you have to tick yes, bad Karma comes yr way.. (Previous firearms bad etc) and a number of a Firearms Trainer in your area is given over the phone -- SSAA guys work the cheapest course - around $70 for a 2-3 hour course and test, I'm currently doing the course through FSAC and its $130 which our Pistol club gets re-imbursed around $60 bucks. Its 2-3 hours out of my time and I do it for free for the club.. The course is Safety related (Firearms and legislation) I have not failed anybody, but then again i do the course very well and have been vetted by another trainer..Course q&a are Multiple choice and cover Safety and regs? Practical is about a hour and is explained to you in the first Part of the course.. No Live Ammo is used - Dummy rounds to show that you can Load and make a Firearm safe.. Safety get the picture..
I wander off sometimes and use examples that are not in the course to keep you thinking, I'm different from most safety trainers..
Firearms Safety is paramount in the training, there have been relatively few firearms accidents on Australian shooting ranges in the last 100 years.. We bury our dead - Oops sorry just joking there..
If you like I can get you more info specific to your local area/ PM me rather than making a post with detail here.. | PM for more info and safety is the keyword.. |
Carpeabnocto | The word choice isn't a logical thing, but subconscious. Its not that there's anything wrong with treating a customer like a customer. The policy is intended to create a certain mindset.
Customer has a different connotation. A customer is someone you're paid to help, a guest is an invited visitor. I don't treat people who walk in with "respect", I treat them like a friend that I'm glad to see.
When greeting the next person, my cashiers usually say, "How can I help you." I usually say, "Hey, how's it going?" Sure, it means the same thing. But my way sounds friendlier.
Edit: TL;DR: Customer/Guest is mainly a mindfuck for the staff. Also for the guest. Come back often, we like you. Honest. | The word choice isn't a logical thing, but subconscious. Its not that there's anything wrong with treating a customer like a customer. The policy is intended to create a certain mindset.
Customer has a different connotation. A customer is someone you're paid to help, a guest is an invited visitor. I don't treat people who walk in with "respect", I treat them like a friend that I'm glad to see.
When greeting the next person, my cashiers usually say, "How can I help you." I usually say, "Hey, how's it going?" Sure, it means the same thing. But my way sounds friendlier.
Edit: TL;DR: Customer/Guest is mainly a mindfuck for the staff. Also for the guest. Come back often, we like you. Honest.
| WTF | t5_2qh61 | c0fs3lt | The word choice isn't a logical thing, but subconscious. Its not that there's anything wrong with treating a customer like a customer. The policy is intended to create a certain mindset.
Customer has a different connotation. A customer is someone you're paid to help, a guest is an invited visitor. I don't treat people who walk in with "respect", I treat them like a friend that I'm glad to see.
When greeting the next person, my cashiers usually say, "How can I help you." I usually say, "Hey, how's it going?" Sure, it means the same thing. But my way sounds friendlier.
Edit: | Customer/Guest is mainly a mindfuck for the staff. Also for the guest. Come back often, we like you. Honest. |
DocTomoe | Well, someone stole 50 Euros from me yesterday ... I didn't see you, and most likely you are on a completely other continent as me, but how about I shoot you, because I don't know for sure that you are innocent?
TL;DR: viligatism is wrong. | Well, someone stole 50 Euros from me yesterday ... I didn't see you, and most likely you are on a completely other continent as me, but how about I shoot you, because I don't know for sure that you are innocent?
TL;DR: viligatism is wrong.
| WTF | t5_2qh61 | c0fs2n5 | Well, someone stole 50 Euros from me yesterday ... I didn't see you, and most likely you are on a completely other continent as me, but how about I shoot you, because I don't know for sure that you are innocent? | viligatism is wrong. |
kirktastic | I didn't know Steve Ballmer was a Redditor. You should do an AMA!
Of course, Ballmer was pitching the idea of a subscription model instead of a penny a song model you're suggestion (the artists whine today their cut 99c brings, them, I'm sure they'd love 7% of a penny!).
Another flaw that jumps out to me is these teenagers aren't all sporting 160GB iPods. Most kids have an 8GB or smaller iPod nano.
But you're also forgetting that most MP3 players do more than play music. A movie or TV show takes up a lot more space. So these teenagers in your example can fill up their iPods for far less than $26K . But wait! These kids are probably stealing TV and Movie content too! Is your solution to that to have movies only cost a penny too?
You're also assuming that these teenagers are going to fill up the 160GB iPods they're all carrying around. I'm betting a lot of iPod Classic owners don't fill up their drives unless they enable disk mode and put other stuff on it. Or they're audiofiles and encode everything on it with Apple lossless. The fact is the price of storage comes down, the amount offered at each price point will go up. It is the foundation of the HDD manufacturer's operating model.
I do agree that the music industry needs to wake up and realize their old model is broken. Digital music isn't just a new form factor that replaced the LP, 8-track, cassette, and CD. It is also a shift in habits. If you came to me in the 1980s when I got my cassette Walkman and said someday I'd be able to carry 26,000 songs in a device that was smaller than my Walkman, I would have thought you were high on that new drug called crack.
What many studies show is the people that "steal" music also buy more music which makes record industry executives heads explode. Free digital music can be used as a promotional tool to drive consumers to buy the album or see the concert. Some artists and labels get that and not just the "indie" acts that you don't seem to like.
The music "industry" blames piracy for falling sales. Sure that's some of it, but it also has a lot to do with the product they are offering. They want the good old days when you had to buy a $15 CD to get the one or two good songs. They're whole model is based on that for the pop acts. Now you can just buy the one or two songs you like and that makes it hard to make the lease payments on the Gulfstream.
Rather than seeing digital downloads as the enemy they should embrace it. It is can be a promotional tool cheaper than any other they use now. And with P2P they labels don't even have to pay the bandwidth on the downloads!
But this is the same industry that sees the threat in people putting music on YouTube rather than see it as the gold mine it is. But they'd rather keep their draconian practices and keep the laws that make. Rick Astley made a lot more money last year than he or his record company thought he would because of Rick-rolling. They didn't have to spend a penny. And early on the only money they spent was on lawyers sending tackedown notices to YouTube.
tl;dr: I agree with the premise that the music industry is broken but disagree with your rationale for it. | I didn't know Steve Ballmer was a Redditor. You should do an AMA!
Of course, Ballmer was pitching the idea of a subscription model instead of a penny a song model you're suggestion (the artists whine today their cut 99c brings, them, I'm sure they'd love 7% of a penny!).
Another flaw that jumps out to me is these teenagers aren't all sporting 160GB iPods. Most kids have an 8GB or smaller iPod nano.
But you're also forgetting that most MP3 players do more than play music. A movie or TV show takes up a lot more space. So these teenagers in your example can fill up their iPods for far less than $26K . But wait! These kids are probably stealing TV and Movie content too! Is your solution to that to have movies only cost a penny too?
You're also assuming that these teenagers are going to fill up the 160GB iPods they're all carrying around. I'm betting a lot of iPod Classic owners don't fill up their drives unless they enable disk mode and put other stuff on it. Or they're audiofiles and encode everything on it with Apple lossless. The fact is the price of storage comes down, the amount offered at each price point will go up. It is the foundation of the HDD manufacturer's operating model.
I do agree that the music industry needs to wake up and realize their old model is broken. Digital music isn't just a new form factor that replaced the LP, 8-track, cassette, and CD. It is also a shift in habits. If you came to me in the 1980s when I got my cassette Walkman and said someday I'd be able to carry 26,000 songs in a device that was smaller than my Walkman, I would have thought you were high on that new drug called crack.
What many studies show is the people that "steal" music also buy more music which makes record industry executives heads explode. Free digital music can be used as a promotional tool to drive consumers to buy the album or see the concert. Some artists and labels get that and not just the "indie" acts that you don't seem to like.
The music "industry" blames piracy for falling sales. Sure that's some of it, but it also has a lot to do with the product they are offering. They want the good old days when you had to buy a $15 CD to get the one or two good songs. They're whole model is based on that for the pop acts. Now you can just buy the one or two songs you like and that makes it hard to make the lease payments on the Gulfstream.
Rather than seeing digital downloads as the enemy they should embrace it. It is can be a promotional tool cheaper than any other they use now. And with P2P they labels don't even have to pay the bandwidth on the downloads!
But this is the same industry that sees the threat in people putting music on YouTube rather than see it as the gold mine it is. But they'd rather keep their draconian practices and keep the laws that make. Rick Astley made a lot more money last year than he or his record company thought he would because of Rick-rolling. They didn't have to spend a penny. And early on the only money they spent was on lawyers sending tackedown notices to YouTube.
tl;dr: I agree with the premise that the music industry is broken but disagree with your rationale for it.
| technology | t5_2qh16 | c0ftn70 | I didn't know Steve Ballmer was a Redditor. You should do an AMA!
Of course, Ballmer was pitching the idea of a subscription model instead of a penny a song model you're suggestion (the artists whine today their cut 99c brings, them, I'm sure they'd love 7% of a penny!).
Another flaw that jumps out to me is these teenagers aren't all sporting 160GB iPods. Most kids have an 8GB or smaller iPod nano.
But you're also forgetting that most MP3 players do more than play music. A movie or TV show takes up a lot more space. So these teenagers in your example can fill up their iPods for far less than $26K . But wait! These kids are probably stealing TV and Movie content too! Is your solution to that to have movies only cost a penny too?
You're also assuming that these teenagers are going to fill up the 160GB iPods they're all carrying around. I'm betting a lot of iPod Classic owners don't fill up their drives unless they enable disk mode and put other stuff on it. Or they're audiofiles and encode everything on it with Apple lossless. The fact is the price of storage comes down, the amount offered at each price point will go up. It is the foundation of the HDD manufacturer's operating model.
I do agree that the music industry needs to wake up and realize their old model is broken. Digital music isn't just a new form factor that replaced the LP, 8-track, cassette, and CD. It is also a shift in habits. If you came to me in the 1980s when I got my cassette Walkman and said someday I'd be able to carry 26,000 songs in a device that was smaller than my Walkman, I would have thought you were high on that new drug called crack.
What many studies show is the people that "steal" music also buy more music which makes record industry executives heads explode. Free digital music can be used as a promotional tool to drive consumers to buy the album or see the concert. Some artists and labels get that and not just the "indie" acts that you don't seem to like.
The music "industry" blames piracy for falling sales. Sure that's some of it, but it also has a lot to do with the product they are offering. They want the good old days when you had to buy a $15 CD to get the one or two good songs. They're whole model is based on that for the pop acts. Now you can just buy the one or two songs you like and that makes it hard to make the lease payments on the Gulfstream.
Rather than seeing digital downloads as the enemy they should embrace it. It is can be a promotional tool cheaper than any other they use now. And with P2P they labels don't even have to pay the bandwidth on the downloads!
But this is the same industry that sees the threat in people putting music on YouTube rather than see it as the gold mine it is. But they'd rather keep their draconian practices and keep the laws that make. Rick Astley made a lot more money last year than he or his record company thought he would because of Rick-rolling. They didn't have to spend a penny. And early on the only money they spent was on lawyers sending tackedown notices to YouTube. | I agree with the premise that the music industry is broken but disagree with your rationale for it. |
Lege_Et_Lacrima | We get it. People die everyday and it is sad. It's just our nature to have extra compassion for those who we have a personal connection with in some way. In this case, we followed this child's story and sent him cards to bring him an early Christmas before he passed on. A lot of Redditors made this emotional connection through his story and sending of cards, and I think it is acceptable to allow ourselves extra grief for Noah's passing over the other 153,000 people who are going to die today.
TL;DR, Millions die every year, but it's our nature to feel emotion and grief for those who have personally impacted our lives in one way or another. | We get it. People die everyday and it is sad. It's just our nature to have extra compassion for those who we have a personal connection with in some way. In this case, we followed this child's story and sent him cards to bring him an early Christmas before he passed on. A lot of Redditors made this emotional connection through his story and sending of cards, and I think it is acceptable to allow ourselves extra grief for Noah's passing over the other 153,000 people who are going to die today.
TL;DR, Millions die every year, but it's our nature to feel emotion and grief for those who have personally impacted our lives in one way or another.
| reddit.com | t5_6 | c0g88io | We get it. People die everyday and it is sad. It's just our nature to have extra compassion for those who we have a personal connection with in some way. In this case, we followed this child's story and sent him cards to bring him an early Christmas before he passed on. A lot of Redditors made this emotional connection through his story and sending of cards, and I think it is acceptable to allow ourselves extra grief for Noah's passing over the other 153,000 people who are going to die today. | Millions die every year, but it's our nature to feel emotion and grief for those who have personally impacted our lives in one way or another. |
chasewylie | I think you need to break up with her and figure out your own life. You are young, you have so much ahead of you and to be honest, I don't believe you should cling so tightly to this relationship. Even all your future plans were revolving around her before this.
Go forth, discover yourself, fulfil your dreams!
And I understand it is all easier said than done, but remember, she's set off on her own path. You need to do so as well. Live your life and enjoy it, and if your love is meant to be, it will be in the future - and nothing will stop that.
tl;dr: Break up, live life and if it's meant to be, it will happen. | I think you need to break up with her and figure out your own life. You are young, you have so much ahead of you and to be honest, I don't believe you should cling so tightly to this relationship. Even all your future plans were revolving around her before this.
Go forth, discover yourself, fulfil your dreams!
And I understand it is all easier said than done, but remember, she's set off on her own path. You need to do so as well. Live your life and enjoy it, and if your love is meant to be, it will be in the future - and nothing will stop that.
tl;dr: Break up, live life and if it's meant to be, it will happen.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | c0gavqc | I think you need to break up with her and figure out your own life. You are young, you have so much ahead of you and to be honest, I don't believe you should cling so tightly to this relationship. Even all your future plans were revolving around her before this.
Go forth, discover yourself, fulfil your dreams!
And I understand it is all easier said than done, but remember, she's set off on her own path. You need to do so as well. Live your life and enjoy it, and if your love is meant to be, it will be in the future - and nothing will stop that. | Break up, live life and if it's meant to be, it will happen. |
rickdanger | I proposed to my girlfriend two weeks before I left my hometown to go out to LA to pursue my dreams of working in the film industry. She accepted, but had to stay behind as she had a year left of grad school. I moved to LA and our long year began. We spoke on the phone almost every night, and we fought more that year than we had ever fought previously, but we stayed together. I somehow managed to cultivate a small group of friends (and keep my dick in my pants) that year, and two months after she joined me in LA we got married.
We've been married for just over 6 years, we have a son, and we've had a wonderful life together so far. That year was definitely the hardest time in our relationship, but we came through it stronger for having done it.
**tl;dr** It worked out for me and my wife. | I proposed to my girlfriend two weeks before I left my hometown to go out to LA to pursue my dreams of working in the film industry. She accepted, but had to stay behind as she had a year left of grad school. I moved to LA and our long year began. We spoke on the phone almost every night, and we fought more that year than we had ever fought previously, but we stayed together. I somehow managed to cultivate a small group of friends (and keep my dick in my pants) that year, and two months after she joined me in LA we got married.
We've been married for just over 6 years, we have a son, and we've had a wonderful life together so far. That year was definitely the hardest time in our relationship, but we came through it stronger for having done it.
tl;dr It worked out for me and my wife.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | c0gb84c | I proposed to my girlfriend two weeks before I left my hometown to go out to LA to pursue my dreams of working in the film industry. She accepted, but had to stay behind as she had a year left of grad school. I moved to LA and our long year began. We spoke on the phone almost every night, and we fought more that year than we had ever fought previously, but we stayed together. I somehow managed to cultivate a small group of friends (and keep my dick in my pants) that year, and two months after she joined me in LA we got married.
We've been married for just over 6 years, we have a son, and we've had a wonderful life together so far. That year was definitely the hardest time in our relationship, but we came through it stronger for having done it. | It worked out for me and my wife. |
whatisthecharacterli | Before Al Jazeera became a straw man for the mainstream right in the US, it was hated by Islamic extremists for being secular (compared to the state-run, Islam-centric news networks in the Middle East). The English language Al Jazeera is a pretty respectable news source, as far as things go, at least partly because it hasn't slipped into the politically sensitive relationship that Western news outlets have with the governments they coexist with.
As far as I can tell this shit about it being somehow allied with terrorists comes from the fact that it broadcast attacks on American soldiers, and that terrorists send their propaganda (read press releases) to it. The former is a cultural issue - people aren't wrapped in cotton wool in that part of the world, and to be offended that they would dare disrespect American troops by broadcasting their deaths is pretty hypocritical given that the American military is slaughtering people (what is euphemistically referred to as collateral damage) left, right and center. The latter is because they are the first port of call - being the only secular news outlet, they are the Middle Eastern outlet that has the most exposure in the West - news stations in the West would pick it up if it was sent to them, and those that would sooner take it to the powers that be wouldn't exactly be doing their jobs right anyway.
tl;dr - it is silly that Al Jazeera isn't already on Canadian TV, and by extension; that it would warrant a post around here.
edit: struggled with punctuation at that "extension; that" part - wouldn't turn my nose up to a correction there. | Before Al Jazeera became a straw man for the mainstream right in the US, it was hated by Islamic extremists for being secular (compared to the state-run, Islam-centric news networks in the Middle East). The English language Al Jazeera is a pretty respectable news source, as far as things go, at least partly because it hasn't slipped into the politically sensitive relationship that Western news outlets have with the governments they coexist with.
As far as I can tell this shit about it being somehow allied with terrorists comes from the fact that it broadcast attacks on American soldiers, and that terrorists send their propaganda (read press releases) to it. The former is a cultural issue - people aren't wrapped in cotton wool in that part of the world, and to be offended that they would dare disrespect American troops by broadcasting their deaths is pretty hypocritical given that the American military is slaughtering people (what is euphemistically referred to as collateral damage) left, right and center. The latter is because they are the first port of call - being the only secular news outlet, they are the Middle Eastern outlet that has the most exposure in the West - news stations in the West would pick it up if it was sent to them, and those that would sooner take it to the powers that be wouldn't exactly be doing their jobs right anyway.
tl;dr - it is silly that Al Jazeera isn't already on Canadian TV, and by extension; that it would warrant a post around here.
edit: struggled with punctuation at that "extension; that" part - wouldn't turn my nose up to a correction there.
| canada | t5_2qh68 | c0gc9ve | Before Al Jazeera became a straw man for the mainstream right in the US, it was hated by Islamic extremists for being secular (compared to the state-run, Islam-centric news networks in the Middle East). The English language Al Jazeera is a pretty respectable news source, as far as things go, at least partly because it hasn't slipped into the politically sensitive relationship that Western news outlets have with the governments they coexist with.
As far as I can tell this shit about it being somehow allied with terrorists comes from the fact that it broadcast attacks on American soldiers, and that terrorists send their propaganda (read press releases) to it. The former is a cultural issue - people aren't wrapped in cotton wool in that part of the world, and to be offended that they would dare disrespect American troops by broadcasting their deaths is pretty hypocritical given that the American military is slaughtering people (what is euphemistically referred to as collateral damage) left, right and center. The latter is because they are the first port of call - being the only secular news outlet, they are the Middle Eastern outlet that has the most exposure in the West - news stations in the West would pick it up if it was sent to them, and those that would sooner take it to the powers that be wouldn't exactly be doing their jobs right anyway. | it is silly that Al Jazeera isn't already on Canadian TV, and by extension; that it would warrant a post around here.
edit: struggled with punctuation at that "extension; that" part - wouldn't turn my nose up to a correction there. |
valkyrii99 | The stereotype on Reddit, the assumption that other Redditors are men and not women, extends into other topics beyond just gaming. I think Redditors and male gamers think there are a lot fewer female gamers than there really are.
Regarding what kinds of games women might want to play, I actually do not resent the idea that they may wish to play The Sims. In fact, I think The Sims has opened up gaming for women by showing the industry that there is a highly lucrative market for female gamers. The Sims is the first game I can think of that actually tried to target a female demographic, and in return when it came out in 2002 it was the [best-selling video game in history](
So, not only do I not resent the assumption that women might be more inclined to like a game like The Sims--I think it is progressive for a game that actively targets a female market to exist. Sure, it's Barbies on the computer and that's pretty girly--but it's a step in the right direction because at least it wasn't targeting only 14 year-old boys.
Personally, I don't think I fit a "female gamer" stereotype. I do like simulators like The Sims and Sim City, but I also like RTS, TBS, RPG, MMORPG, and flight sims. Pretty much the only genre I *don't* play is FPS. I'm probably a more well-rounded gamer than most of my male gamer friends.
I also was not introduced to gaming by some boyfriend. Rather, I was born to it--my father raised us, and is the hugest nerd I know. He had my sisters and I gaming for as long as I can remember, setting up a LAN and having us battle each other like little conquistadoras. So instead of having boyfriends get me into gaming, I've had boyfriends who shared my interest in gaming--we didn't have to change each other to have this in common. I think it works better when you both share interests in the first place.
Now, I think many gamers underestimate the amount of prejudice there is against female gamers. Of the core players in my WoW guild, 1/4 were female, include the guild leader. This does not mean that 1/4 of WoW gamers are female; it means that female gamers feel more inclined to play with other females. Why is this?
Not only are other females less likely to discriminate against female gamers, but guilds with female gamers in them are more likely to include guys who aren't asshats. One of my guildmates joined a pre-made battleground group and, as soon as she joined vent, was told "chicks can't fucking play games" and was booted out. That is one kind of discrimination female gamers face. Many other guys assume that being openly female means you are an "attention whore." Women are faced with a lot of negative reinforcement when they choose not to hide their sex.
A more common form of discrimination female gamers have to put up with is general disbelief. I join a group, we all get on vent (it could be WoW, it could be that MMO version the Russians made of Fallout 2), and inevitably someone says "omg wtf ur a grl???" Sometimes this is followed by requests for naked pics, but not always. I have a theory about those guys. I theorize that they don't want female gamers to exist, or else they wouldn't make them feel so uncomfortable.
Not all guys are dicks--usually, someone will say "shut the fuck up" or "leave her alone" or "get over it," something like that. Or even better, no one mentions it at all. I have a theory about those guys, as well. I theorize that they *do* want female gamers to exist, and to be comfortable playing with them. (Hint, hint, gaming Reddit!)
I understand that many of those who exclaim in shock that a fellow gamer is female genuinely are surprised, and maybe those guys are also 12, but that does not erase the negative impact of their words. We're being singled out because of our sex, and many of us feel uncomfortable being singled out. Honestly, this is why I've always avoided LAN parties.
Practically speaking, female gamers right now have to choose to just deal with sexism online, avoid allowing her sex to be revealed, or play only with people she knows in real life (or, of course, play only single player games). When choosing not to hide her sex, keeping control of the game is a good option--for example, being a female guild leader or an admin allows you to just kick out chick-hating jerks. But it sucks that we have to face this uncomfortable barrier to our enjoyment of a game.
If male gamers want there to be more female gamers, they would be well-served to not focus on her being female, and to discourage others from doing so.
TLDR: Don't be mean to girl gamers, it makes us sad pandas. | The stereotype on Reddit, the assumption that other Redditors are men and not women, extends into other topics beyond just gaming. I think Redditors and male gamers think there are a lot fewer female gamers than there really are.
Regarding what kinds of games women might want to play, I actually do not resent the idea that they may wish to play The Sims. In fact, I think The Sims has opened up gaming for women by showing the industry that there is a highly lucrative market for female gamers. The Sims is the first game I can think of that actually tried to target a female demographic, and in return when it came out in 2002 it was the [best-selling video game in history](
So, not only do I not resent the assumption that women might be more inclined to like a game like The Sims--I think it is progressive for a game that actively targets a female market to exist. Sure, it's Barbies on the computer and that's pretty girly--but it's a step in the right direction because at least it wasn't targeting only 14 year-old boys.
Personally, I don't think I fit a "female gamer" stereotype. I do like simulators like The Sims and Sim City, but I also like RTS, TBS, RPG, MMORPG, and flight sims. Pretty much the only genre I don't play is FPS. I'm probably a more well-rounded gamer than most of my male gamer friends.
I also was not introduced to gaming by some boyfriend. Rather, I was born to it--my father raised us, and is the hugest nerd I know. He had my sisters and I gaming for as long as I can remember, setting up a LAN and having us battle each other like little conquistadoras. So instead of having boyfriends get me into gaming, I've had boyfriends who shared my interest in gaming--we didn't have to change each other to have this in common. I think it works better when you both share interests in the first place.
Now, I think many gamers underestimate the amount of prejudice there is against female gamers. Of the core players in my WoW guild, 1/4 were female, include the guild leader. This does not mean that 1/4 of WoW gamers are female; it means that female gamers feel more inclined to play with other females. Why is this?
Not only are other females less likely to discriminate against female gamers, but guilds with female gamers in them are more likely to include guys who aren't asshats. One of my guildmates joined a pre-made battleground group and, as soon as she joined vent, was told "chicks can't fucking play games" and was booted out. That is one kind of discrimination female gamers face. Many other guys assume that being openly female means you are an "attention whore." Women are faced with a lot of negative reinforcement when they choose not to hide their sex.
A more common form of discrimination female gamers have to put up with is general disbelief. I join a group, we all get on vent (it could be WoW, it could be that MMO version the Russians made of Fallout 2), and inevitably someone says "omg wtf ur a grl???" Sometimes this is followed by requests for naked pics, but not always. I have a theory about those guys. I theorize that they don't want female gamers to exist, or else they wouldn't make them feel so uncomfortable.
Not all guys are dicks--usually, someone will say "shut the fuck up" or "leave her alone" or "get over it," something like that. Or even better, no one mentions it at all. I have a theory about those guys, as well. I theorize that they do want female gamers to exist, and to be comfortable playing with them. (Hint, hint, gaming Reddit!)
I understand that many of those who exclaim in shock that a fellow gamer is female genuinely are surprised, and maybe those guys are also 12, but that does not erase the negative impact of their words. We're being singled out because of our sex, and many of us feel uncomfortable being singled out. Honestly, this is why I've always avoided LAN parties.
Practically speaking, female gamers right now have to choose to just deal with sexism online, avoid allowing her sex to be revealed, or play only with people she knows in real life (or, of course, play only single player games). When choosing not to hide her sex, keeping control of the game is a good option--for example, being a female guild leader or an admin allows you to just kick out chick-hating jerks. But it sucks that we have to face this uncomfortable barrier to our enjoyment of a game.
If male gamers want there to be more female gamers, they would be well-served to not focus on her being female, and to discourage others from doing so.
TLDR: Don't be mean to girl gamers, it makes us sad pandas.
| gaming | t5_2qh03 | c0gin1k | The stereotype on Reddit, the assumption that other Redditors are men and not women, extends into other topics beyond just gaming. I think Redditors and male gamers think there are a lot fewer female gamers than there really are.
Regarding what kinds of games women might want to play, I actually do not resent the idea that they may wish to play The Sims. In fact, I think The Sims has opened up gaming for women by showing the industry that there is a highly lucrative market for female gamers. The Sims is the first game I can think of that actually tried to target a female demographic, and in return when it came out in 2002 it was the [best-selling video game in history](
So, not only do I not resent the assumption that women might be more inclined to like a game like The Sims--I think it is progressive for a game that actively targets a female market to exist. Sure, it's Barbies on the computer and that's pretty girly--but it's a step in the right direction because at least it wasn't targeting only 14 year-old boys.
Personally, I don't think I fit a "female gamer" stereotype. I do like simulators like The Sims and Sim City, but I also like RTS, TBS, RPG, MMORPG, and flight sims. Pretty much the only genre I don't play is FPS. I'm probably a more well-rounded gamer than most of my male gamer friends.
I also was not introduced to gaming by some boyfriend. Rather, I was born to it--my father raised us, and is the hugest nerd I know. He had my sisters and I gaming for as long as I can remember, setting up a LAN and having us battle each other like little conquistadoras. So instead of having boyfriends get me into gaming, I've had boyfriends who shared my interest in gaming--we didn't have to change each other to have this in common. I think it works better when you both share interests in the first place.
Now, I think many gamers underestimate the amount of prejudice there is against female gamers. Of the core players in my WoW guild, 1/4 were female, include the guild leader. This does not mean that 1/4 of WoW gamers are female; it means that female gamers feel more inclined to play with other females. Why is this?
Not only are other females less likely to discriminate against female gamers, but guilds with female gamers in them are more likely to include guys who aren't asshats. One of my guildmates joined a pre-made battleground group and, as soon as she joined vent, was told "chicks can't fucking play games" and was booted out. That is one kind of discrimination female gamers face. Many other guys assume that being openly female means you are an "attention whore." Women are faced with a lot of negative reinforcement when they choose not to hide their sex.
A more common form of discrimination female gamers have to put up with is general disbelief. I join a group, we all get on vent (it could be WoW, it could be that MMO version the Russians made of Fallout 2), and inevitably someone says "omg wtf ur a grl???" Sometimes this is followed by requests for naked pics, but not always. I have a theory about those guys. I theorize that they don't want female gamers to exist, or else they wouldn't make them feel so uncomfortable.
Not all guys are dicks--usually, someone will say "shut the fuck up" or "leave her alone" or "get over it," something like that. Or even better, no one mentions it at all. I have a theory about those guys, as well. I theorize that they do want female gamers to exist, and to be comfortable playing with them. (Hint, hint, gaming Reddit!)
I understand that many of those who exclaim in shock that a fellow gamer is female genuinely are surprised, and maybe those guys are also 12, but that does not erase the negative impact of their words. We're being singled out because of our sex, and many of us feel uncomfortable being singled out. Honestly, this is why I've always avoided LAN parties.
Practically speaking, female gamers right now have to choose to just deal with sexism online, avoid allowing her sex to be revealed, or play only with people she knows in real life (or, of course, play only single player games). When choosing not to hide her sex, keeping control of the game is a good option--for example, being a female guild leader or an admin allows you to just kick out chick-hating jerks. But it sucks that we have to face this uncomfortable barrier to our enjoyment of a game.
If male gamers want there to be more female gamers, they would be well-served to not focus on her being female, and to discourage others from doing so. | Don't be mean to girl gamers, it makes us sad pandas. |
t0asterb0t | Wow, that was intense. I have to admit, I've been "that guy" a few times IRL. Frankly, I only know 1 or 2 gamer girls, so I'm surprised whenever I meet one. This is usually followed by me trying to get her hooked on some random game I just started playing, so it's not like I'm discouraging.
What I really don't understand why anyone would have a problem with girl gamers playing on a team/server. I honestly don't give a damn whether she's good; there are always plenty of guys worse than her playing and nobody complains about them. A girl that shares any of my hobbies is a turn-on for me, because it makes it that much easier to be legit friends with her.
TLDR: Games are fun, everyone should play :D | Wow, that was intense. I have to admit, I've been "that guy" a few times IRL. Frankly, I only know 1 or 2 gamer girls, so I'm surprised whenever I meet one. This is usually followed by me trying to get her hooked on some random game I just started playing, so it's not like I'm discouraging.
What I really don't understand why anyone would have a problem with girl gamers playing on a team/server. I honestly don't give a damn whether she's good; there are always plenty of guys worse than her playing and nobody complains about them. A girl that shares any of my hobbies is a turn-on for me, because it makes it that much easier to be legit friends with her.
TLDR: Games are fun, everyone should play :D
| gaming | t5_2qh03 | c0giok1 | Wow, that was intense. I have to admit, I've been "that guy" a few times IRL. Frankly, I only know 1 or 2 gamer girls, so I'm surprised whenever I meet one. This is usually followed by me trying to get her hooked on some random game I just started playing, so it's not like I'm discouraging.
What I really don't understand why anyone would have a problem with girl gamers playing on a team/server. I honestly don't give a damn whether she's good; there are always plenty of guys worse than her playing and nobody complains about them. A girl that shares any of my hobbies is a turn-on for me, because it makes it that much easier to be legit friends with her. | Games are fun, everyone should play :D |
_oogle | Or, in actuality, it is you.
Got into an argument with me 8 days ago, where he lost, raged, and subsequently created a new account:
6 days ago, which he has attempted to troll with since to do his post-stalking under a different username.
When that was a complete failure, he (you) went back to your MotivePower name, and as your comment history shows, re-initiated your post-stalking activity.
TL;DR MotivePower=oggle=angry troll (with an unhealthy obsession) | Or, in actuality, it is you.
Got into an argument with me 8 days ago, where he lost, raged, and subsequently created a new account:
6 days ago, which he has attempted to troll with since to do his post-stalking under a different username.
When that was a complete failure, he (you) went back to your MotivePower name, and as your comment history shows, re-initiated your post-stalking activity.
TL;DR MotivePower=oggle=angry troll (with an unhealthy obsession)
| gaming | t5_2qh03 | c0gqo68 | Or, in actuality, it is you.
Got into an argument with me 8 days ago, where he lost, raged, and subsequently created a new account:
6 days ago, which he has attempted to troll with since to do his post-stalking under a different username.
When that was a complete failure, he (you) went back to your MotivePower name, and as your comment history shows, re-initiated your post-stalking activity. | MotivePower=oggle=angry troll (with an unhealthy obsession) |
ScannerBrightly | not completely related, but here it goes:
When I got engaged, we didn't make a big deal about it. We've been living together for 8 years, and we fully committed to each other long ago. Then, about 3 months after we got engaged, we noticed that part of facebook that says we are just "going out". I changed it to "engaged" and then got calls from about 40 people giving me all the congrats. Since it was not a big deal in the first place, we were both amazed at the power of facebook.
tl;dr changing facebook status makes it real to most people. | not completely related, but here it goes:
When I got engaged, we didn't make a big deal about it. We've been living together for 8 years, and we fully committed to each other long ago. Then, about 3 months after we got engaged, we noticed that part of facebook that says we are just "going out". I changed it to "engaged" and then got calls from about 40 people giving me all the congrats. Since it was not a big deal in the first place, we were both amazed at the power of facebook.
tl;dr changing facebook status makes it real to most people.
| funny | t5_2qh33 | c0glss4 | not completely related, but here it goes:
When I got engaged, we didn't make a big deal about it. We've been living together for 8 years, and we fully committed to each other long ago. Then, about 3 months after we got engaged, we noticed that part of facebook that says we are just "going out". I changed it to "engaged" and then got calls from about 40 people giving me all the congrats. Since it was not a big deal in the first place, we were both amazed at the power of facebook. | changing facebook status makes it real to most people. |
UpChuckNorris | I have an explanation for you.
I had the same thing happen to me, but I saw it happen. I had a ~5-year-old can of Diet Coke sitting on my desk (I hate diet pop, hence the fact it was sitting on a desk for 5 years). I reached over to pick something up off the desk near the Diet Coke and it was wet/sticky. I picked up the Diet Coke can and it was very, very slowly leaking out the side. When I say slow, I mean 10-20 seconds for one drop to form. There was a hole in the can small enough that I couldn't see it, but was leaking Diet Coke.
It was only even leaking through this small hole because of the pressure inside the can. The Diet Coke has lost all of its carbonation now and even if I tip the can on its side with the hole facing down the rest of the pop does not leak out.
TL;DR: You have a very small hole in the can that was slowly leaking Diet Coke. | I have an explanation for you.
I had the same thing happen to me, but I saw it happen. I had a ~5-year-old can of Diet Coke sitting on my desk (I hate diet pop, hence the fact it was sitting on a desk for 5 years). I reached over to pick something up off the desk near the Diet Coke and it was wet/sticky. I picked up the Diet Coke can and it was very, very slowly leaking out the side. When I say slow, I mean 10-20 seconds for one drop to form. There was a hole in the can small enough that I couldn't see it, but was leaking Diet Coke.
It was only even leaking through this small hole because of the pressure inside the can. The Diet Coke has lost all of its carbonation now and even if I tip the can on its side with the hole facing down the rest of the pop does not leak out.
TL;DR: You have a very small hole in the can that was slowly leaking Diet Coke.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | c0gzz0d | I have an explanation for you.
I had the same thing happen to me, but I saw it happen. I had a ~5-year-old can of Diet Coke sitting on my desk (I hate diet pop, hence the fact it was sitting on a desk for 5 years). I reached over to pick something up off the desk near the Diet Coke and it was wet/sticky. I picked up the Diet Coke can and it was very, very slowly leaking out the side. When I say slow, I mean 10-20 seconds for one drop to form. There was a hole in the can small enough that I couldn't see it, but was leaking Diet Coke.
It was only even leaking through this small hole because of the pressure inside the can. The Diet Coke has lost all of its carbonation now and even if I tip the can on its side with the hole facing down the rest of the pop does not leak out. | You have a very small hole in the can that was slowly leaking Diet Coke. |
dionysian | theres no SUGAR for it to get sticky. there's aspartame, colorant, flavor, and water. this is mainly why i love unsugary drinks. i'm a fucking klutz, and spilling them is no biggie to clean up. just 2 weeks ago i knocked the rim of my giant cup of diet coke against the doorwell of my car while trying to get in and the lid popped off and led to TOTAL SPILLAGE FAIL all over the car. no biggie, just mopped it up. and just last night i was up on a ladder scraping some wallpaper stuff off and dropped my putty knife and it of course landed right on my unsweet tea on the vanity and it fell over and flooded the floor. no biggie, just wipe up.
tl;dr: unsugary drinks are less cleanup. | theres no SUGAR for it to get sticky. there's aspartame, colorant, flavor, and water. this is mainly why i love unsugary drinks. i'm a fucking klutz, and spilling them is no biggie to clean up. just 2 weeks ago i knocked the rim of my giant cup of diet coke against the doorwell of my car while trying to get in and the lid popped off and led to TOTAL SPILLAGE FAIL all over the car. no biggie, just mopped it up. and just last night i was up on a ladder scraping some wallpaper stuff off and dropped my putty knife and it of course landed right on my unsweet tea on the vanity and it fell over and flooded the floor. no biggie, just wipe up.
tl;dr: unsugary drinks are less cleanup.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | c0h1831 | theres no SUGAR for it to get sticky. there's aspartame, colorant, flavor, and water. this is mainly why i love unsugary drinks. i'm a fucking klutz, and spilling them is no biggie to clean up. just 2 weeks ago i knocked the rim of my giant cup of diet coke against the doorwell of my car while trying to get in and the lid popped off and led to TOTAL SPILLAGE FAIL all over the car. no biggie, just mopped it up. and just last night i was up on a ladder scraping some wallpaper stuff off and dropped my putty knife and it of course landed right on my unsweet tea on the vanity and it fell over and flooded the floor. no biggie, just wipe up. | unsugary drinks are less cleanup. |
imperfcet | The missing volume is probably due to gas, not liquid loss!
There's about 2.2 grams of C02 in a 16oz bottle of pepsi (ok my [source]( is a little sketchy). I think it'd be a lot easier for the CO2 in the coke to diffuse out of the can than it would be for the liquids to escape, and it seems like that could account for the volume difference. Here's [another carbonation experiment that discusses volume]( that was tl;dr for me. | The missing volume is probably due to gas, not liquid loss!
There's about 2.2 grams of C02 in a 16oz bottle of pepsi (ok my source . I think it'd be a lot easier for the CO2 in the coke to diffuse out of the can than it would be for the liquids to escape, and it seems like that could account for the volume difference. Here's [another carbonation experiment that discusses volume]( that was tl;dr for me.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | c0gzyw7 | The missing volume is probably due to gas, not liquid loss!
There's about 2.2 grams of C02 in a 16oz bottle of pepsi (ok my source . I think it'd be a lot easier for the CO2 in the coke to diffuse out of the can than it would be for the liquids to escape, and it seems like that could account for the volume difference. Here's [another carbonation experiment that discusses volume]( that was | for me. |
lol_whut | Many well-read and well-informed people consider Noam Chomsky one of the top minds in America over the last couple of generations.
From his ground-breaking and universally hailed linguistic research to compelling application of that knowledge to the individual and societal human psyche, Chomsky is a precious resource for the type of people who understand the value of life, freedom, and the interpersonal dynamics that both threaten and bolster them.
TLDR: fuckn'a. | Many well-read and well-informed people consider Noam Chomsky one of the top minds in America over the last couple of generations.
From his ground-breaking and universally hailed linguistic research to compelling application of that knowledge to the individual and societal human psyche, Chomsky is a precious resource for the type of people who understand the value of life, freedom, and the interpersonal dynamics that both threaten and bolster them.
TLDR: fuckn'a.
| IAmA | t5_2qzb6 | c0h2f16 | Many well-read and well-informed people consider Noam Chomsky one of the top minds in America over the last couple of generations.
From his ground-breaking and universally hailed linguistic research to compelling application of that knowledge to the individual and societal human psyche, Chomsky is a precious resource for the type of people who understand the value of life, freedom, and the interpersonal dynamics that both threaten and bolster them. | fuckn'a. |
shamecamel | I don't really have a question, but I wanted to say thank you, as one atheist to another, for taking the innitiative to do something so worldly. So many people view us as bitter, self righteous, religion-hating pricks, and while I practice as much tolerance as I can, you've done us all a great service.
I think Islam, as a religion, is extremely noble and admirable. I've only ever met kind, friendly and gracious Muslims. The way they describe Allah is always really beautiful, one of my good friends and coworkers was a Muslim and kind enough to answer a bunch of questions for me a long time ago.
Tl;dr: thanks! :D | I don't really have a question, but I wanted to say thank you, as one atheist to another, for taking the innitiative to do something so worldly. So many people view us as bitter, self righteous, religion-hating pricks, and while I practice as much tolerance as I can, you've done us all a great service.
I think Islam, as a religion, is extremely noble and admirable. I've only ever met kind, friendly and gracious Muslims. The way they describe Allah is always really beautiful, one of my good friends and coworkers was a Muslim and kind enough to answer a bunch of questions for me a long time ago.
Tl;dr: thanks! :D
| IAmA | t5_2qzb6 | c0hjwok | I don't really have a question, but I wanted to say thank you, as one atheist to another, for taking the innitiative to do something so worldly. So many people view us as bitter, self righteous, religion-hating pricks, and while I practice as much tolerance as I can, you've done us all a great service.
I think Islam, as a religion, is extremely noble and admirable. I've only ever met kind, friendly and gracious Muslims. The way they describe Allah is always really beautiful, one of my good friends and coworkers was a Muslim and kind enough to answer a bunch of questions for me a long time ago. | thanks! :D |
Victawr | I am. Do you want to know why? Because I am awesome and none of you people care. To be honest, I'm just looking for an excuse to be on the internet at 1 AM. If you really feel the need to downvote this, don't worry, i'll help out. Nah just kidding, read on.
Let me start off by telling you who I am. I am Victawr. I have contributed two witty comments and a true story to you guys. That honestly makes up for all 3,000 of my karma. I'm Canadian, and have had struggles worse than that goddamned P-Dub character. But I'll spare you the story, and you can keep your money. I'm nobody special, I'm a commoner on the street's of the imperial city.
But I have not JUST contributed those two things, my friends. Comrades, I am a Redditor. I have upvoted, commented on, and looked at many, many links. I am more than positive that if you're reading this, there is a very high chance that I have touched your Karma somehow. I have not created a thriving subreddit, nor have I created a website to the benefit of Reddit. I haven't really effected this place in a positive way. But I have affected your karma, your concience, and your cat pictures in a way that no other human outside of Reddit could possibly attempt.
My experiences here started back in September. I originally thought that the site's layout was atrocious. But, after 10 minutes of link-clicking and a bit of zooming, the place bloomed into a beautiful tumour inside my head. I could have easily got the tumour removed. Taken it out of my quick links, speed dial, and head, but I decided to let it grow. Eventually, it became too large to remove. I became part of it. It wasn't part of me. Soon, I was replying like a speed demon to all of the new submissions, engaging in small bouts of fisticuffs here and there, and crying myself to sleep every time I visited Karmanaut's page.
I would like to believe that there is no "Redditor of the year". I would like to believe that we, as a community, can come together at new years, hold hands, exhale, and say "that was a good run". We made hope, headlines, and history, Reddit. "We". Not Karmanaut, not Bozarking, but "We" as a community. We couldn't do this without each other. It is not down to a single specific member. It's down to us. Reddit.
**TL;DR**
I nominate: [I_ Wasted_ My_ Life]( because nominating myself would be stupid | I am. Do you want to know why? Because I am awesome and none of you people care. To be honest, I'm just looking for an excuse to be on the internet at 1 AM. If you really feel the need to downvote this, don't worry, i'll help out. Nah just kidding, read on.
Let me start off by telling you who I am. I am Victawr. I have contributed two witty comments and a true story to you guys. That honestly makes up for all 3,000 of my karma. I'm Canadian, and have had struggles worse than that goddamned P-Dub character. But I'll spare you the story, and you can keep your money. I'm nobody special, I'm a commoner on the street's of the imperial city.
But I have not JUST contributed those two things, my friends. Comrades, I am a Redditor. I have upvoted, commented on, and looked at many, many links. I am more than positive that if you're reading this, there is a very high chance that I have touched your Karma somehow. I have not created a thriving subreddit, nor have I created a website to the benefit of Reddit. I haven't really effected this place in a positive way. But I have affected your karma, your concience, and your cat pictures in a way that no other human outside of Reddit could possibly attempt.
My experiences here started back in September. I originally thought that the site's layout was atrocious. But, after 10 minutes of link-clicking and a bit of zooming, the place bloomed into a beautiful tumour inside my head. I could have easily got the tumour removed. Taken it out of my quick links, speed dial, and head, but I decided to let it grow. Eventually, it became too large to remove. I became part of it. It wasn't part of me. Soon, I was replying like a speed demon to all of the new submissions, engaging in small bouts of fisticuffs here and there, and crying myself to sleep every time I visited Karmanaut's page.
I would like to believe that there is no "Redditor of the year". I would like to believe that we, as a community, can come together at new years, hold hands, exhale, and say "that was a good run". We made hope, headlines, and history, Reddit. "We". Not Karmanaut, not Bozarking, but "We" as a community. We couldn't do this without each other. It is not down to a single specific member. It's down to us. Reddit.
TL;DR
I nominate: [I Wasted My_ Life]( because nominating myself would be stupid
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | c0hmdrr | I am. Do you want to know why? Because I am awesome and none of you people care. To be honest, I'm just looking for an excuse to be on the internet at 1 AM. If you really feel the need to downvote this, don't worry, i'll help out. Nah just kidding, read on.
Let me start off by telling you who I am. I am Victawr. I have contributed two witty comments and a true story to you guys. That honestly makes up for all 3,000 of my karma. I'm Canadian, and have had struggles worse than that goddamned P-Dub character. But I'll spare you the story, and you can keep your money. I'm nobody special, I'm a commoner on the street's of the imperial city.
But I have not JUST contributed those two things, my friends. Comrades, I am a Redditor. I have upvoted, commented on, and looked at many, many links. I am more than positive that if you're reading this, there is a very high chance that I have touched your Karma somehow. I have not created a thriving subreddit, nor have I created a website to the benefit of Reddit. I haven't really effected this place in a positive way. But I have affected your karma, your concience, and your cat pictures in a way that no other human outside of Reddit could possibly attempt.
My experiences here started back in September. I originally thought that the site's layout was atrocious. But, after 10 minutes of link-clicking and a bit of zooming, the place bloomed into a beautiful tumour inside my head. I could have easily got the tumour removed. Taken it out of my quick links, speed dial, and head, but I decided to let it grow. Eventually, it became too large to remove. I became part of it. It wasn't part of me. Soon, I was replying like a speed demon to all of the new submissions, engaging in small bouts of fisticuffs here and there, and crying myself to sleep every time I visited Karmanaut's page.
I would like to believe that there is no "Redditor of the year". I would like to believe that we, as a community, can come together at new years, hold hands, exhale, and say "that was a good run". We made hope, headlines, and history, Reddit. "We". Not Karmanaut, not Bozarking, but "We" as a community. We couldn't do this without each other. It is not down to a single specific member. It's down to us. Reddit. | I nominate: [I Wasted My_ Life]( because nominating myself would be stupid |
scaevolus | Photosynthesis is great... if you expend as much energy as a plant.
Here's a quick calculation, intending to overestimate how much energy you could get.
The body surface area of an adult human is around [1.8m^2]( Dividing this in 2 and rounding up gives us a rough, round estimate of how much skin is exposed to the sun while sunbathing-- 1m^2.
The measure of the amount of solar radiation on a given surface in a given time is called [insolation]( In a few areas (i.e. the Sahara Desert), the insolation is as high as 300W/m^2.
Peak efficiency of photosynthesis in plants is around [8%]( -- more commonly it's below 1%, but that makes the final result too pitifully small.
Let's say you sunbathe for an hour with a full half of your skin exposed in the Sahara Desert.
[300W/m^2 * 1m^2 * 1 hour * 8% in Calories]( = 21 Calories.
That's... very, very little. An hour of laying in the sun nets you the equivalent of 5 grams of sugar.
tl;dr: photosynthesis sucks for animals | Photosynthesis is great... if you expend as much energy as a plant.
Here's a quick calculation, intending to overestimate how much energy you could get.
The body surface area of an adult human is around [1.8m^2]( Dividing this in 2 and rounding up gives us a rough, round estimate of how much skin is exposed to the sun while sunbathing-- 1m^2.
The measure of the amount of solar radiation on a given surface in a given time is called insolation , the insolation is as high as 300W/m^2.
Peak efficiency of photosynthesis in plants is around [8%]( -- more commonly it's below 1%, but that makes the final result too pitifully small.
Let's say you sunbathe for an hour with a full half of your skin exposed in the Sahara Desert.
[300W/m^2 1m^2 1 hour * 8% in Calories]( = 21 Calories.
That's... very, very little. An hour of laying in the sun nets you the equivalent of 5 grams of sugar.
tl;dr: photosynthesis sucks for animals
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | c0hubvf | Photosynthesis is great... if you expend as much energy as a plant.
Here's a quick calculation, intending to overestimate how much energy you could get.
The body surface area of an adult human is around [1.8m^2]( Dividing this in 2 and rounding up gives us a rough, round estimate of how much skin is exposed to the sun while sunbathing-- 1m^2.
The measure of the amount of solar radiation on a given surface in a given time is called insolation , the insolation is as high as 300W/m^2.
Peak efficiency of photosynthesis in plants is around [8%]( -- more commonly it's below 1%, but that makes the final result too pitifully small.
Let's say you sunbathe for an hour with a full half of your skin exposed in the Sahara Desert.
[300W/m^2 1m^2 1 hour * 8% in Calories]( = 21 Calories.
That's... very, very little. An hour of laying in the sun nets you the equivalent of 5 grams of sugar. | photosynthesis sucks for animals |
lovehate | Can't upvote this enough. The MSF courses are affordable and completely invaluable since this is your first bike. Above all, always have your gear on. You'll get comfortable and cocky, but you're one shitty driver away from being a red smear on the asphalt without some padding and a helmet at the very least.
Another good point, START LOW. You have your whole life to work up to the 1200 CC engines. Unless you're exceptionally large, start with a smaller engine. A 250 CC engine is the first step up from a moped, and can easily get highway speeds. You'll also be averaging some insane MPG with that small of an engine. If you're too large to feel manly on a smaller bike, you can go around 500 CC for your first, but you *will* outgrow whatever bike you start on. And you'll likely drop your first bike at least once. If you aren't super muscular, getting that bike back up is going to be a pain in the ass if it's too large. I struggled for a good five minutes in traffic when my 800 fell over, then again, I'm not a large guy.
You can find a decent used 250 Ninja for ~$1500, only a year or two old. People outgrow them, so after their first years, the resell value stays high as it's a great starter bike. You can buy last year's model for $1750, sell it next year for $1750. Just take care of it, it'll take care of you.
Again, your gear is important, don't cheap out on it. I like [newenough]( for purchasing, it's a pretty good company.
**TL;DR** Start small, wear your gear, be safe. | Can't upvote this enough. The MSF courses are affordable and completely invaluable since this is your first bike. Above all, always have your gear on. You'll get comfortable and cocky, but you're one shitty driver away from being a red smear on the asphalt without some padding and a helmet at the very least.
Another good point, START LOW. You have your whole life to work up to the 1200 CC engines. Unless you're exceptionally large, start with a smaller engine. A 250 CC engine is the first step up from a moped, and can easily get highway speeds. You'll also be averaging some insane MPG with that small of an engine. If you're too large to feel manly on a smaller bike, you can go around 500 CC for your first, but you will outgrow whatever bike you start on. And you'll likely drop your first bike at least once. If you aren't super muscular, getting that bike back up is going to be a pain in the ass if it's too large. I struggled for a good five minutes in traffic when my 800 fell over, then again, I'm not a large guy.
You can find a decent used 250 Ninja for ~$1500, only a year or two old. People outgrow them, so after their first years, the resell value stays high as it's a great starter bike. You can buy last year's model for $1750, sell it next year for $1750. Just take care of it, it'll take care of you.
Again, your gear is important, don't cheap out on it. I like [newenough]( for purchasing, it's a pretty good company.
TL;DR Start small, wear your gear, be safe.
| reddit.com | t5_6 | c0hvsui | Can't upvote this enough. The MSF courses are affordable and completely invaluable since this is your first bike. Above all, always have your gear on. You'll get comfortable and cocky, but you're one shitty driver away from being a red smear on the asphalt without some padding and a helmet at the very least.
Another good point, START LOW. You have your whole life to work up to the 1200 CC engines. Unless you're exceptionally large, start with a smaller engine. A 250 CC engine is the first step up from a moped, and can easily get highway speeds. You'll also be averaging some insane MPG with that small of an engine. If you're too large to feel manly on a smaller bike, you can go around 500 CC for your first, but you will outgrow whatever bike you start on. And you'll likely drop your first bike at least once. If you aren't super muscular, getting that bike back up is going to be a pain in the ass if it's too large. I struggled for a good five minutes in traffic when my 800 fell over, then again, I'm not a large guy.
You can find a decent used 250 Ninja for ~$1500, only a year or two old. People outgrow them, so after their first years, the resell value stays high as it's a great starter bike. You can buy last year's model for $1750, sell it next year for $1750. Just take care of it, it'll take care of you.
Again, your gear is important, don't cheap out on it. I like [newenough]( for purchasing, it's a pretty good company. | Start small, wear your gear, be safe. |
A_Nihilist | Culture is irrelevant. If a **Muslim** stones a woman, and stoning is **condoned** in the **Quran**, I have **every** right to blame the religion. I don't give a shit whether the moderates will actually do it or not; if you're not ready to follow your religion don't fucking follow it.
> What do you think attacking Muslims is going to accomplish?
Show them how stupid and backward their beliefs are? Like it does for everyone else?
> You're much better off to try and change it more subtly. eg. "Hey guys, maybe Mohammed didn't want you to club women to death?"
They'd probably see that as blasphemy.
> tl;dr comments like your make the situation worse, not better.
As opposed to being an ass-kisser with a double standard.
Edit: I just *know* you're going to say something like "well if the Bible is just as bad as the Quran, why don't you attack Christians too?" I answer in advance; because they don't *need* it. Most Christians live in relatively liberal societies. Even the most conservative of Christians don't do half of the shit the Bible condones. | Culture is irrelevant. If a Muslim stones a woman, and stoning is condoned in the Quran , I have every right to blame the religion. I don't give a shit whether the moderates will actually do it or not; if you're not ready to follow your religion don't fucking follow it.
> What do you think attacking Muslims is going to accomplish?
Show them how stupid and backward their beliefs are? Like it does for everyone else?
> You're much better off to try and change it more subtly. eg. "Hey guys, maybe Mohammed didn't want you to club women to death?"
They'd probably see that as blasphemy.
> tl;dr comments like your make the situation worse, not better.
As opposed to being an ass-kisser with a double standard.
Edit: I just know you're going to say something like "well if the Bible is just as bad as the Quran, why don't you attack Christians too?" I answer in advance; because they don't need it. Most Christians live in relatively liberal societies. Even the most conservative of Christians don't do half of the shit the Bible condones.
| atheism | t5_2qh2p | c0hzwby | Culture is irrelevant. If a Muslim stones a woman, and stoning is condoned in the Quran , I have every right to blame the religion. I don't give a shit whether the moderates will actually do it or not; if you're not ready to follow your religion don't fucking follow it.
> What do you think attacking Muslims is going to accomplish?
Show them how stupid and backward their beliefs are? Like it does for everyone else?
> You're much better off to try and change it more subtly. eg. "Hey guys, maybe Mohammed didn't want you to club women to death?"
They'd probably see that as blasphemy.
> | comments like your make the situation worse, not better.
As opposed to being an ass-kisser with a double standard.
Edit: I just know you're going to say something like "well if the Bible is just as bad as the Quran, why don't you attack Christians too?" I answer in advance; because they don't need it. Most Christians live in relatively liberal societies. Even the most conservative of Christians don't do half of the shit the Bible condones. |
Lacuna | The Christian bible says all sorts of bs about stoning women to death for various offensives. The reason most Christians disobey these directives is because their culture has changed.
As an atheist I believe all religion to be evil. What do you think attacking Muslims is going to accomplish? It's just going to make them believe that all Westerners are intolerant. Attacking their faith is about as successful as attacking a Christian's faith. You're much better off to try and change it more subtly. eg. "Hey guys, maybe Mohammed didn't want you to club women to death?"
tl;dr comments like your make the situation worse, not better. | The Christian bible says all sorts of bs about stoning women to death for various offensives. The reason most Christians disobey these directives is because their culture has changed.
As an atheist I believe all religion to be evil. What do you think attacking Muslims is going to accomplish? It's just going to make them believe that all Westerners are intolerant. Attacking their faith is about as successful as attacking a Christian's faith. You're much better off to try and change it more subtly. eg. "Hey guys, maybe Mohammed didn't want you to club women to death?"
tl;dr comments like your make the situation worse, not better.
| atheism | t5_2qh2p | c0hznd1 | The Christian bible says all sorts of bs about stoning women to death for various offensives. The reason most Christians disobey these directives is because their culture has changed.
As an atheist I believe all religion to be evil. What do you think attacking Muslims is going to accomplish? It's just going to make them believe that all Westerners are intolerant. Attacking their faith is about as successful as attacking a Christian's faith. You're much better off to try and change it more subtly. eg. "Hey guys, maybe Mohammed didn't want you to club women to death?" | comments like your make the situation worse, not better. |
KnightKrawler | It was something I could do from far away. I didn't have any money so I did what I could. It was kind of a surreal experience.
I found out about 9/11 between classes in school. I went right to my next class and told her that I had heard about something in NY and I wanted to check it out. She let me go online and when I showed her what was going on we turned on the TV in class and I went to an online NYPD scanner feed. When the second plane hit, the whole class screamed multiple explicatives yet the teacher didn't even flinch.
At then end of that class there was an announcement that we should go to our next classes and not leave. I proceeded to walk right out to the parking lot, along with everybody else that had a car and license at that time.
I got home and checked out what was going on and decided that I wanted to do something. I really can't tell you exactly what led me to the idea of giving blood. I don't particularly remember it being announced but I could certainly be mistaken. I called my Dad, let him know what I was doing and headed off.
It was incredible when I arrived. We were directed to park over in another parking lot and then walk over to the blood bank. They also had their "Big Red Bus" out front. Some of the business around donated food and beverages so that was nice. Everybody was standing in line and every now and then we'd get news reports and stuff like that.
When it was finally my turn, I filled out some registration information and was directed to go outside and get one the "Bus". I walked in and sat down and as I was chatting with the nurse she noticed that I had written on my paperwork that I had my tongue pierced. She asked when I had it done and I told her that it was for my birthday in August. That was when she explained to me that I wouldn't be able to donate. I was obviously disappointed but I wasn't going to make a fuss. I came home and glued my eyeballs back to the tv.
**tl;dr**: Help from afar with no money, long wait but businesses donated goodies. Found out when I sat down b-day tongue piercing ruined my chances. | It was something I could do from far away. I didn't have any money so I did what I could. It was kind of a surreal experience.
I found out about 9/11 between classes in school. I went right to my next class and told her that I had heard about something in NY and I wanted to check it out. She let me go online and when I showed her what was going on we turned on the TV in class and I went to an online NYPD scanner feed. When the second plane hit, the whole class screamed multiple explicatives yet the teacher didn't even flinch.
At then end of that class there was an announcement that we should go to our next classes and not leave. I proceeded to walk right out to the parking lot, along with everybody else that had a car and license at that time.
I got home and checked out what was going on and decided that I wanted to do something. I really can't tell you exactly what led me to the idea of giving blood. I don't particularly remember it being announced but I could certainly be mistaken. I called my Dad, let him know what I was doing and headed off.
It was incredible when I arrived. We were directed to park over in another parking lot and then walk over to the blood bank. They also had their "Big Red Bus" out front. Some of the business around donated food and beverages so that was nice. Everybody was standing in line and every now and then we'd get news reports and stuff like that.
When it was finally my turn, I filled out some registration information and was directed to go outside and get one the "Bus". I walked in and sat down and as I was chatting with the nurse she noticed that I had written on my paperwork that I had my tongue pierced. She asked when I had it done and I told her that it was for my birthday in August. That was when she explained to me that I wouldn't be able to donate. I was obviously disappointed but I wasn't going to make a fuss. I came home and glued my eyeballs back to the tv.
tl;dr : Help from afar with no money, long wait but businesses donated goodies. Found out when I sat down b-day tongue piercing ruined my chances.
| reddit.com | t5_6 | c0i5sro | It was something I could do from far away. I didn't have any money so I did what I could. It was kind of a surreal experience.
I found out about 9/11 between classes in school. I went right to my next class and told her that I had heard about something in NY and I wanted to check it out. She let me go online and when I showed her what was going on we turned on the TV in class and I went to an online NYPD scanner feed. When the second plane hit, the whole class screamed multiple explicatives yet the teacher didn't even flinch.
At then end of that class there was an announcement that we should go to our next classes and not leave. I proceeded to walk right out to the parking lot, along with everybody else that had a car and license at that time.
I got home and checked out what was going on and decided that I wanted to do something. I really can't tell you exactly what led me to the idea of giving blood. I don't particularly remember it being announced but I could certainly be mistaken. I called my Dad, let him know what I was doing and headed off.
It was incredible when I arrived. We were directed to park over in another parking lot and then walk over to the blood bank. They also had their "Big Red Bus" out front. Some of the business around donated food and beverages so that was nice. Everybody was standing in line and every now and then we'd get news reports and stuff like that.
When it was finally my turn, I filled out some registration information and was directed to go outside and get one the "Bus". I walked in and sat down and as I was chatting with the nurse she noticed that I had written on my paperwork that I had my tongue pierced. She asked when I had it done and I told her that it was for my birthday in August. That was when she explained to me that I wouldn't be able to donate. I was obviously disappointed but I wasn't going to make a fuss. I came home and glued my eyeballs back to the tv. | Help from afar with no money, long wait but businesses donated goodies. Found out when I sat down b-day tongue piercing ruined my chances. |
StoneCypher | >>> Also, I was working under the assumption for the analogy that you could just buy seatbelt material pre-woven.
>> Right. And nobody weaves that; it just shows up in the factory one day, gifted by the seatbelt elves, who picked it from the woven fabric trees.
> Oh, FFS.
Really? You're going to act like there's no manufacturing work in a complex good in the middle of someone else's metaphor about work costs, then say "for fuck's sake" when you're called on it?
> I was the one who initially described a context in which eval() makes sense.
... no, you made mention of a generic context in which it wouldn't be of particular worry to you. Nothing of what you said gave any value to using eval(). Here's what you actually said:
> It's fine if the code only has access to the user's own environment, and is specifically marketed in a way that advertises how this works.
Nothing of that gives any reason to use eval(). Indeed, it's extremely difficult to find a legitimate reason to use eval(); literally every time I've seen someone try, they just expose their ignorance of PHP, and there's nearly always a much easier and far safer way to do things.
Listen.
There is no fucking good reason for using eval() PHP, unless you're actually trying to execute code, at which point you need to be on terror alert red.
Come up with a concrete counterexample, or don't waste your time telling me I'm wrong, because I won't be listening.
Way too many times I've seen novice PHP developers say "this is an internal tool, it won't matter" and their tool has ended up causing a security nightmare.
There's an _enormous_ difference between "I don't see an upcoming problem" and "this is safe". Much of being a mature programmer is accepting that difference and not using techniques that could lead to problems, even if you can't imagine what those problems are going to be.
So go ahead, show me something that makes eval() a good idea, which isn't easily replaced by a more responsible method.
And don't waste my time trying to invent a cultural sandbox again, because as I keep trying to explain to you, I DO NOT AGREE THAT IT'S OKAY TO USE UNSAFE METHODS WHEN SAFE METHODS EXIST.
> This isn't about completion of the project, it's about completion of the task. By the time you've finished making a claim about how long the eval() statement would take to write, you could have written it.
The hell? This is about the design of the project. Try reading the context you've forgotten.
>> Right. And you don't want a police force in a city, because people don't steal from themselves.
> That isn't even remotely analogous.
Just because you don't understand the analogy doesn't mean it isn't there. It's actually quite simple. You probably shouldn't have edited away the context that'd help you understand.
You said "You don't have to implement security against malicious attacks by yourself."
Uh huh. And who does security against malicious attacks in the physical world? The police.
We implement security because we don't know where it's coming from. Acting like it can only come from internals is a nonsense behavior (one which I was clear with you was rejected, but you seem intent on riding this sinking ship to the bottom.)
Maybe once you've written your first genuinely useful internal tool, you'll get it. Internal tools don't stay internal.
Pretending they do is how nightmares start.
> It must be a very nice feeling that you've won an argument by randomly walking up to someone who says "here's a very specific context in which doing something a certain way makes sense"
I'm not ignoring it. I'm pointing out that it's completely absurd. You might as well design cars without seatbelts, because there are no crashes in your used car lot, then screech loudly about how none of these airbags and brakes are necessary, because car lot.
You're not being taken seriously for two reasons:
* Your context is nonsense
* Even in the context, all you've achieved is "I don't see the problem"
You still haven't shown anything stronger than "I don't understand why this is a bad idea."
The saddest part is that you still don't seem to grasp that there's no compelling good reason to use eval().
None.
> You are the one who started arguing.
You really need to read up. This isn't correct.
> tl;dr fuck off.
And yet you won't be able to stop yourself from replying. And you won't be able to do the things which I keep telling you are what experienced programmers need in order to take you seriously.
However, I confess to being entirely unsurprised by your attitude and your inability to either show why it's a good idea, or admit that there's a legitimate difference of opinion, much less admit to being wrong (though that last one I suspect you don't even understand yet.)
Don't bother replying unless you're going to be civil. This is a waste fo both of our time. | >>> Also, I was working under the assumption for the analogy that you could just buy seatbelt material pre-woven.
>> Right. And nobody weaves that; it just shows up in the factory one day, gifted by the seatbelt elves, who picked it from the woven fabric trees.
> Oh, FFS.
Really? You're going to act like there's no manufacturing work in a complex good in the middle of someone else's metaphor about work costs, then say "for fuck's sake" when you're called on it?
> I was the one who initially described a context in which eval() makes sense.
... no, you made mention of a generic context in which it wouldn't be of particular worry to you. Nothing of what you said gave any value to using eval(). Here's what you actually said:
> It's fine if the code only has access to the user's own environment, and is specifically marketed in a way that advertises how this works.
Nothing of that gives any reason to use eval(). Indeed, it's extremely difficult to find a legitimate reason to use eval(); literally every time I've seen someone try, they just expose their ignorance of PHP, and there's nearly always a much easier and far safer way to do things.
Listen.
There is no fucking good reason for using eval() PHP, unless you're actually trying to execute code, at which point you need to be on terror alert red.
Come up with a concrete counterexample, or don't waste your time telling me I'm wrong, because I won't be listening.
Way too many times I've seen novice PHP developers say "this is an internal tool, it won't matter" and their tool has ended up causing a security nightmare.
There's an enormous difference between "I don't see an upcoming problem" and "this is safe". Much of being a mature programmer is accepting that difference and not using techniques that could lead to problems, even if you can't imagine what those problems are going to be.
So go ahead, show me something that makes eval() a good idea, which isn't easily replaced by a more responsible method.
And don't waste my time trying to invent a cultural sandbox again, because as I keep trying to explain to you, I DO NOT AGREE THAT IT'S OKAY TO USE UNSAFE METHODS WHEN SAFE METHODS EXIST.
> This isn't about completion of the project, it's about completion of the task. By the time you've finished making a claim about how long the eval() statement would take to write, you could have written it.
The hell? This is about the design of the project. Try reading the context you've forgotten.
>> Right. And you don't want a police force in a city, because people don't steal from themselves.
> That isn't even remotely analogous.
Just because you don't understand the analogy doesn't mean it isn't there. It's actually quite simple. You probably shouldn't have edited away the context that'd help you understand.
You said "You don't have to implement security against malicious attacks by yourself."
Uh huh. And who does security against malicious attacks in the physical world? The police.
We implement security because we don't know where it's coming from. Acting like it can only come from internals is a nonsense behavior (one which I was clear with you was rejected, but you seem intent on riding this sinking ship to the bottom.)
Maybe once you've written your first genuinely useful internal tool, you'll get it. Internal tools don't stay internal.
Pretending they do is how nightmares start.
> It must be a very nice feeling that you've won an argument by randomly walking up to someone who says "here's a very specific context in which doing something a certain way makes sense"
I'm not ignoring it. I'm pointing out that it's completely absurd. You might as well design cars without seatbelts, because there are no crashes in your used car lot, then screech loudly about how none of these airbags and brakes are necessary, because car lot.
You're not being taken seriously for two reasons:
Your context is nonsense
Even in the context, all you've achieved is "I don't see the problem"
You still haven't shown anything stronger than "I don't understand why this is a bad idea."
The saddest part is that you still don't seem to grasp that there's no compelling good reason to use eval().
None.
> You are the one who started arguing.
You really need to read up. This isn't correct.
> tl;dr fuck off.
And yet you won't be able to stop yourself from replying. And you won't be able to do the things which I keep telling you are what experienced programmers need in order to take you seriously.
However, I confess to being entirely unsurprised by your attitude and your inability to either show why it's a good idea, or admit that there's a legitimate difference of opinion, much less admit to being wrong (though that last one I suspect you don't even understand yet.)
Don't bother replying unless you're going to be civil. This is a waste fo both of our time.
| programming | t5_2fwo | c0ifc70 | Also, I was working under the assumption for the analogy that you could just buy seatbelt material pre-woven.
>> Right. And nobody weaves that; it just shows up in the factory one day, gifted by the seatbelt elves, who picked it from the woven fabric trees.
> Oh, FFS.
Really? You're going to act like there's no manufacturing work in a complex good in the middle of someone else's metaphor about work costs, then say "for fuck's sake" when you're called on it?
> I was the one who initially described a context in which eval() makes sense.
... no, you made mention of a generic context in which it wouldn't be of particular worry to you. Nothing of what you said gave any value to using eval(). Here's what you actually said:
> It's fine if the code only has access to the user's own environment, and is specifically marketed in a way that advertises how this works.
Nothing of that gives any reason to use eval(). Indeed, it's extremely difficult to find a legitimate reason to use eval(); literally every time I've seen someone try, they just expose their ignorance of PHP, and there's nearly always a much easier and far safer way to do things.
Listen.
There is no fucking good reason for using eval() PHP, unless you're actually trying to execute code, at which point you need to be on terror alert red.
Come up with a concrete counterexample, or don't waste your time telling me I'm wrong, because I won't be listening.
Way too many times I've seen novice PHP developers say "this is an internal tool, it won't matter" and their tool has ended up causing a security nightmare.
There's an enormous difference between "I don't see an upcoming problem" and "this is safe". Much of being a mature programmer is accepting that difference and not using techniques that could lead to problems, even if you can't imagine what those problems are going to be.
So go ahead, show me something that makes eval() a good idea, which isn't easily replaced by a more responsible method.
And don't waste my time trying to invent a cultural sandbox again, because as I keep trying to explain to you, I DO NOT AGREE THAT IT'S OKAY TO USE UNSAFE METHODS WHEN SAFE METHODS EXIST.
> This isn't about completion of the project, it's about completion of the task. By the time you've finished making a claim about how long the eval() statement would take to write, you could have written it.
The hell? This is about the design of the project. Try reading the context you've forgotten.
>> Right. And you don't want a police force in a city, because people don't steal from themselves.
> That isn't even remotely analogous.
Just because you don't understand the analogy doesn't mean it isn't there. It's actually quite simple. You probably shouldn't have edited away the context that'd help you understand.
You said "You don't have to implement security against malicious attacks by yourself."
Uh huh. And who does security against malicious attacks in the physical world? The police.
We implement security because we don't know where it's coming from. Acting like it can only come from internals is a nonsense behavior (one which I was clear with you was rejected, but you seem intent on riding this sinking ship to the bottom.)
Maybe once you've written your first genuinely useful internal tool, you'll get it. Internal tools don't stay internal.
Pretending they do is how nightmares start.
> It must be a very nice feeling that you've won an argument by randomly walking up to someone who says "here's a very specific context in which doing something a certain way makes sense"
I'm not ignoring it. I'm pointing out that it's completely absurd. You might as well design cars without seatbelts, because there are no crashes in your used car lot, then screech loudly about how none of these airbags and brakes are necessary, because car lot.
You're not being taken seriously for two reasons:
Your context is nonsense
Even in the context, all you've achieved is "I don't see the problem"
You still haven't shown anything stronger than "I don't understand why this is a bad idea."
The saddest part is that you still don't seem to grasp that there's no compelling good reason to use eval().
None.
> You are the one who started arguing.
You really need to read up. This isn't correct.
> | fuck off.
And yet you won't be able to stop yourself from replying. And you won't be able to do the things which I keep telling you are what experienced programmers need in order to take you seriously.
However, I confess to being entirely unsurprised by your attitude and your inability to either show why it's a good idea, or admit that there's a legitimate difference of opinion, much less admit to being wrong (though that last one I suspect you don't even understand yet.)
Don't bother replying unless you're going to be civil. This is a waste fo both of our time. |
zahlman | >Right. And nobody weaves that; it just shows up in the factory one day, gifted by the seatbelt elves, who picked it from the woven fabric trees.
Oh, FFS.
>You're arguing with somethign very different than what I was talking about.
I was the one who initially described a context in which eval() makes sense. You are the one who is derailing. eval() exists for a reason.
>Very few people attempt to plan a project they're already finished with.
This isn't about completion of the project, it's about completion of the task. By the time you've finished making a claim about how long the eval() statement would take to write, you could have written it.
>Right. And you don't want a police force in a city, because people don't steal from themselves.
That isn't even remotely analogous.
>It must be very nice feeling that you've won an argument by presenting an absurdly narrow view of the very different thing the other person was talking about.
It must be a very nice feeling that you've won an argument by randomly walking up to someone who says "here's a **very specific context** in which doing something a certain way makes sense" and then blatantly ignoring that very specific context.
You are the one who started arguing.
tl;dr fuck off. | >Right. And nobody weaves that; it just shows up in the factory one day, gifted by the seatbelt elves, who picked it from the woven fabric trees.
Oh, FFS.
>You're arguing with somethign very different than what I was talking about.
I was the one who initially described a context in which eval() makes sense. You are the one who is derailing. eval() exists for a reason.
>Very few people attempt to plan a project they're already finished with.
This isn't about completion of the project, it's about completion of the task. By the time you've finished making a claim about how long the eval() statement would take to write, you could have written it.
>Right. And you don't want a police force in a city, because people don't steal from themselves.
That isn't even remotely analogous.
>It must be very nice feeling that you've won an argument by presenting an absurdly narrow view of the very different thing the other person was talking about.
It must be a very nice feeling that you've won an argument by randomly walking up to someone who says "here's a very specific context in which doing something a certain way makes sense" and then blatantly ignoring that very specific context.
You are the one who started arguing.
tl;dr fuck off.
| programming | t5_2fwo | c0ie3rl | Right. And nobody weaves that; it just shows up in the factory one day, gifted by the seatbelt elves, who picked it from the woven fabric trees.
Oh, FFS.
>You're arguing with somethign very different than what I was talking about.
I was the one who initially described a context in which eval() makes sense. You are the one who is derailing. eval() exists for a reason.
>Very few people attempt to plan a project they're already finished with.
This isn't about completion of the project, it's about completion of the task. By the time you've finished making a claim about how long the eval() statement would take to write, you could have written it.
>Right. And you don't want a police force in a city, because people don't steal from themselves.
That isn't even remotely analogous.
>It must be very nice feeling that you've won an argument by presenting an absurdly narrow view of the very different thing the other person was talking about.
It must be a very nice feeling that you've won an argument by randomly walking up to someone who says "here's a very specific context in which doing something a certain way makes sense" and then blatantly ignoring that very specific context.
You are the one who started arguing. | fuck off. |
crazybee | He probably just wants to control you, and as long as you are in the house he can. Something similar happened between my teenage son and my ex-wife. She didn't talk to him for 6 weeks and said she "disowned" him, but she got over it eventually. Your father needs to come to grips with your independence. Unfortunately exercising your independence is the only way to make that happen. tl;dr - move out and enjoy your independence. | He probably just wants to control you, and as long as you are in the house he can. Something similar happened between my teenage son and my ex-wife. She didn't talk to him for 6 weeks and said she "disowned" him, but she got over it eventually. Your father needs to come to grips with your independence. Unfortunately exercising your independence is the only way to make that happen. tl;dr - move out and enjoy your independence.
| IAmA | t5_2qzb6 | c0ien3j | He probably just wants to control you, and as long as you are in the house he can. Something similar happened between my teenage son and my ex-wife. She didn't talk to him for 6 weeks and said she "disowned" him, but she got over it eventually. Your father needs to come to grips with your independence. Unfortunately exercising your independence is the only way to make that happen. | move out and enjoy your independence. |
MyLifeIsAnRPG | There is nothing in this review that says anything about violence toward women. What the hell?
Exploitation films are films that exploit some sort of subject matter. Exploitation games, therefore would do the same thing. Bayonetta is nothing more than a game made in the Sexploitation genre.
That doesn't make it a bad thing, it makes it a throwback. I don't know what you are angry about, but you seriously need to chill. Please grow up.
tl;dr You fuck off. Also, reported. | There is nothing in this review that says anything about violence toward women. What the hell?
Exploitation films are films that exploit some sort of subject matter. Exploitation games, therefore would do the same thing. Bayonetta is nothing more than a game made in the Sexploitation genre.
That doesn't make it a bad thing, it makes it a throwback. I don't know what you are angry about, but you seriously need to chill. Please grow up.
tl;dr You fuck off. Also, reported.
| gaming | t5_2qh03 | c0ifh1l | There is nothing in this review that says anything about violence toward women. What the hell?
Exploitation films are films that exploit some sort of subject matter. Exploitation games, therefore would do the same thing. Bayonetta is nothing more than a game made in the Sexploitation genre.
That doesn't make it a bad thing, it makes it a throwback. I don't know what you are angry about, but you seriously need to chill. Please grow up. | You fuck off. Also, reported. |
JohnoTheFoolish | I would argue that (and I don't have any empirical evidence to support this) there are more things (and more expensive things) that people spend money on. Most 'average' families with school age children have home computers. There were no cell phone bills, internet bills or in most cases, cable television bills. You didn't spend $6 for a coffee at Starbucks or $50+ for brand name jeans.
The 50s were when you started to see the proliferation of credit cards, and greater use of credit in general. Societal pressure to 'keep up with the Jones'' started to become a major force. The 'buy now, pay later' attitude that was developing encouraged people to live beyond their means. Sub-prime mortgages are a more contemporary example: people were getting loans on homes that the could not afford on the assumption that their financial position would improve over time and they would eventually be in a better position to pay off their debts. When housing prices dropped and mortgage rates increased, many of these people were unable to afford their homes and were foreclosed.
tl;dr - people don't manage their finances as well as they used to. | I would argue that (and I don't have any empirical evidence to support this) there are more things (and more expensive things) that people spend money on. Most 'average' families with school age children have home computers. There were no cell phone bills, internet bills or in most cases, cable television bills. You didn't spend $6 for a coffee at Starbucks or $50+ for brand name jeans.
The 50s were when you started to see the proliferation of credit cards, and greater use of credit in general. Societal pressure to 'keep up with the Jones'' started to become a major force. The 'buy now, pay later' attitude that was developing encouraged people to live beyond their means. Sub-prime mortgages are a more contemporary example: people were getting loans on homes that the could not afford on the assumption that their financial position would improve over time and they would eventually be in a better position to pay off their debts. When housing prices dropped and mortgage rates increased, many of these people were unable to afford their homes and were foreclosed.
tl;dr - people don't manage their finances as well as they used to.
| Economics | t5_2qh1s | c0iguua | I would argue that (and I don't have any empirical evidence to support this) there are more things (and more expensive things) that people spend money on. Most 'average' families with school age children have home computers. There were no cell phone bills, internet bills or in most cases, cable television bills. You didn't spend $6 for a coffee at Starbucks or $50+ for brand name jeans.
The 50s were when you started to see the proliferation of credit cards, and greater use of credit in general. Societal pressure to 'keep up with the Jones'' started to become a major force. The 'buy now, pay later' attitude that was developing encouraged people to live beyond their means. Sub-prime mortgages are a more contemporary example: people were getting loans on homes that the could not afford on the assumption that their financial position would improve over time and they would eventually be in a better position to pay off their debts. When housing prices dropped and mortgage rates increased, many of these people were unable to afford their homes and were foreclosed. | people don't manage their finances as well as they used to. |
invader | Shameless plug time? I can probably do that! In no particular order...
I made a community-powered aggregator & notification system for [Phoenix, AZ tech events](
[1/2 a kinetic typography music video](
Photography tutorial videos on a couple of cool effects: [Light-speed escalator]( & [Spinning Cars](
Back when I used Digg, I did some [3rd party stuff]( including FF+GM plugins, [data visualizations]( etc. Several of them no longer work, though.
I recently participated in [Code & Beats]( in NYC. At the event, I made a [music-powered Twitter Wall](
I couch surf with techie friends around the country and occasionally [blog]( about where I go and who I stay with.
I recently came up with a way to draw [sexy heat-maps]( in the browser really fast.
I have yet to launch my ~2 year old plug-in-based, local-database-powered desktop application for consuming web services with JSON or XML APIs (mostly social ones, like Twitter) and making the data useful and less noisy... Wish this was out so I could shamelessly plug it! :-P
Don't ask me why, but there's a series of photos on the internet of me [jumping](
I made a ghetto array of 50 charlieplexed LEDs, independently controlled and animated with an Arduino using only 8 I/O ports.
**tl;dr** The kind of crap I tend to dabble with in my free time: data viz, Flash/AS3.0, Arduino, PHP/MySQL, Photography, Animation, Adobe AIR, Google Gears (RIP), etc. And I couch surf. | Shameless plug time? I can probably do that! In no particular order...
I made a community-powered aggregator & notification system for [Phoenix, AZ tech events](
[1/2 a kinetic typography music video](
Photography tutorial videos on a couple of cool effects: [Light-speed escalator]( & [Spinning Cars](
Back when I used Digg, I did some [3rd party stuff]( including FF+GM plugins, [data visualizations]( etc. Several of them no longer work, though.
I recently participated in [Code & Beats]( in NYC. At the event, I made a [music-powered Twitter Wall](
I couch surf with techie friends around the country and occasionally [blog]( about where I go and who I stay with.
I recently came up with a way to draw [sexy heat-maps]( in the browser really fast.
I have yet to launch my ~2 year old plug-in-based, local-database-powered desktop application for consuming web services with JSON or XML APIs (mostly social ones, like Twitter) and making the data useful and less noisy... Wish this was out so I could shamelessly plug it! :-P
Don't ask me why, but there's a series of photos on the internet of me [jumping](
I made a ghetto array of 50 charlieplexed LEDs, independently controlled and animated with an Arduino using only 8 I/O ports.
tl;dr The kind of crap I tend to dabble with in my free time: data viz, Flash/AS3.0, Arduino, PHP/MySQL, Photography, Animation, Adobe AIR, Google Gears (RIP), etc. And I couch surf.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | c0ilw4u | Shameless plug time? I can probably do that! In no particular order...
I made a community-powered aggregator & notification system for [Phoenix, AZ tech events](
[1/2 a kinetic typography music video](
Photography tutorial videos on a couple of cool effects: [Light-speed escalator]( & [Spinning Cars](
Back when I used Digg, I did some [3rd party stuff]( including FF+GM plugins, [data visualizations]( etc. Several of them no longer work, though.
I recently participated in [Code & Beats]( in NYC. At the event, I made a [music-powered Twitter Wall](
I couch surf with techie friends around the country and occasionally [blog]( about where I go and who I stay with.
I recently came up with a way to draw [sexy heat-maps]( in the browser really fast.
I have yet to launch my ~2 year old plug-in-based, local-database-powered desktop application for consuming web services with JSON or XML APIs (mostly social ones, like Twitter) and making the data useful and less noisy... Wish this was out so I could shamelessly plug it! :-P
Don't ask me why, but there's a series of photos on the internet of me [jumping](
I made a ghetto array of 50 charlieplexed LEDs, independently controlled and animated with an Arduino using only 8 I/O ports. | The kind of crap I tend to dabble with in my free time: data viz, Flash/AS3.0, Arduino, PHP/MySQL, Photography, Animation, Adobe AIR, Google Gears (RIP), etc. And I couch surf. |
floppybunny26 | Depending upon which techniques you're using, there's a couple labs you'll want to get in contact with-
Wolpow's lab in NY focuses on mu and P300-based systems-
Pfurtscheller's lab in Austria focuses on steady-state visual evoked potentials (SSVEP)- [ My former professor at UCSD, Brendan Allison, now works there.
X. Gao has done some of the most impressive things I've ever seen with SSVEP. Check out the paper "Design and Implementation of a Brain-Computer Interface With High Transfer Rates" 2002 and "A BCI-Based Environmental Controller for the Motion-Disabled" 2003. TLDR: They got subjects to 60-90bits/min using 48 flashing led lights as a keyboard.
There's lots more people working on mu too- but I have to stop this post now and go into the office. | Depending upon which techniques you're using, there's a couple labs you'll want to get in contact with-
Wolpow's lab in NY focuses on mu and P300-based systems-
Pfurtscheller's lab in Austria focuses on steady-state visual evoked potentials (SSVEP)- [ My former professor at UCSD, Brendan Allison, now works there.
X. Gao has done some of the most impressive things I've ever seen with SSVEP. Check out the paper "Design and Implementation of a Brain-Computer Interface With High Transfer Rates" 2002 and "A BCI-Based Environmental Controller for the Motion-Disabled" 2003. TLDR: They got subjects to 60-90bits/min using 48 flashing led lights as a keyboard.
There's lots more people working on mu too- but I have to stop this post now and go into the office.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | c0inag7 | Depending upon which techniques you're using, there's a couple labs you'll want to get in contact with-
Wolpow's lab in NY focuses on mu and P300-based systems-
Pfurtscheller's lab in Austria focuses on steady-state visual evoked potentials (SSVEP)- [ My former professor at UCSD, Brendan Allison, now works there.
X. Gao has done some of the most impressive things I've ever seen with SSVEP. Check out the paper "Design and Implementation of a Brain-Computer Interface With High Transfer Rates" 2002 and "A BCI-Based Environmental Controller for the Motion-Disabled" 2003. | They got subjects to 60-90bits/min using 48 flashing led lights as a keyboard.
There's lots more people working on mu too- but I have to stop this post now and go into the office. |
charlesviper | All computers run on 12V DC, when it gets down to it (aka, the actual hardware level). If you buy a computer from Dell, HP or Apple, they're expecting you to put these computers in homes with 110-240V AC. The power supply in your computer takes this alternating current charge and converts it into 12V (yellow wire), 5V (red wire) and ground (black wire). This is fine for people who are trying to get computers to run in houses, but if you want to run a computer on DC using this method it means having a DC power supply like a battery, feeding it into an inverter to switch back to AC, and then feeding it in to your PSU to get it to run on DC at the hardware level. This DC-AC-DC conversion is really inefficient, and it can cost you at *least* 20% of your original charge, and that's on power efficient "Energy Star" rated equipment.
The goal was to build a power supply which took 12V DC, run it through a series of capacitors (to make sure the output was stable, I didn't want it fluctuating from 13.8V down to 11V like the charge you get from a car battery), so that you'd get a nice clean supply of power. I ended up using a busted old 110-240V AC power supply which handily had a white paper available on line with the wiring guide.
Then, as I was searching around (once again, I live in Hong Kong) on a Chinese manufacturer's site (the company that built the power supplies I built), I found that they actually sell power supplies for computers expressly for this purpose. They're called DC-DC converters / "DC computer power supply", and they're now available around the world for less than a standard AC-DC power supply.
They were much prettier than what I was using in the past, so I ordered one while still in the 'prototype' stage and loved them. They're TINY! They generally fit directly over the ATX power input on your computer.
In the final stage of things, Intel released a new motherboard called the 945GSEJT. It has an integrated N270 Atom processor and a 12V DC input directly on the motherboard, with a two-stage power transformer. This was the final option I used, because it cut costs by ~$30 USD over what I had to pay for a separate laptop / PSU.
If you're looking to build a 12V computer, I suggest [Mini-BOX]( They're not as cheap as the Chinese manufacturers I dealt with, but you don't have to worry about shipping times (if you're in the US) or any of that jazz. They were my original source for the 945GSEJT while I was prototyping (the boards are so new they were the only ones carrying them), and they also stock those 12V power supplies (designed by their company).
tl;dr: at first, I took apart old power supplies. Then I relied on PSU manufactures. Then I relied on Intel.
Good luck! | All computers run on 12V DC, when it gets down to it (aka, the actual hardware level). If you buy a computer from Dell, HP or Apple, they're expecting you to put these computers in homes with 110-240V AC. The power supply in your computer takes this alternating current charge and converts it into 12V (yellow wire), 5V (red wire) and ground (black wire). This is fine for people who are trying to get computers to run in houses, but if you want to run a computer on DC using this method it means having a DC power supply like a battery, feeding it into an inverter to switch back to AC, and then feeding it in to your PSU to get it to run on DC at the hardware level. This DC-AC-DC conversion is really inefficient, and it can cost you at least 20% of your original charge, and that's on power efficient "Energy Star" rated equipment.
The goal was to build a power supply which took 12V DC, run it through a series of capacitors (to make sure the output was stable, I didn't want it fluctuating from 13.8V down to 11V like the charge you get from a car battery), so that you'd get a nice clean supply of power. I ended up using a busted old 110-240V AC power supply which handily had a white paper available on line with the wiring guide.
Then, as I was searching around (once again, I live in Hong Kong) on a Chinese manufacturer's site (the company that built the power supplies I built), I found that they actually sell power supplies for computers expressly for this purpose. They're called DC-DC converters / "DC computer power supply", and they're now available around the world for less than a standard AC-DC power supply.
They were much prettier than what I was using in the past, so I ordered one while still in the 'prototype' stage and loved them. They're TINY! They generally fit directly over the ATX power input on your computer.
In the final stage of things, Intel released a new motherboard called the 945GSEJT. It has an integrated N270 Atom processor and a 12V DC input directly on the motherboard, with a two-stage power transformer. This was the final option I used, because it cut costs by ~$30 USD over what I had to pay for a separate laptop / PSU.
If you're looking to build a 12V computer, I suggest Mini-BOX or any of that jazz. They were my original source for the 945GSEJT while I was prototyping (the boards are so new they were the only ones carrying them), and they also stock those 12V power supplies (designed by their company).
tl;dr: at first, I took apart old power supplies. Then I relied on PSU manufactures. Then I relied on Intel.
Good luck!
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | c0iq192 | All computers run on 12V DC, when it gets down to it (aka, the actual hardware level). If you buy a computer from Dell, HP or Apple, they're expecting you to put these computers in homes with 110-240V AC. The power supply in your computer takes this alternating current charge and converts it into 12V (yellow wire), 5V (red wire) and ground (black wire). This is fine for people who are trying to get computers to run in houses, but if you want to run a computer on DC using this method it means having a DC power supply like a battery, feeding it into an inverter to switch back to AC, and then feeding it in to your PSU to get it to run on DC at the hardware level. This DC-AC-DC conversion is really inefficient, and it can cost you at least 20% of your original charge, and that's on power efficient "Energy Star" rated equipment.
The goal was to build a power supply which took 12V DC, run it through a series of capacitors (to make sure the output was stable, I didn't want it fluctuating from 13.8V down to 11V like the charge you get from a car battery), so that you'd get a nice clean supply of power. I ended up using a busted old 110-240V AC power supply which handily had a white paper available on line with the wiring guide.
Then, as I was searching around (once again, I live in Hong Kong) on a Chinese manufacturer's site (the company that built the power supplies I built), I found that they actually sell power supplies for computers expressly for this purpose. They're called DC-DC converters / "DC computer power supply", and they're now available around the world for less than a standard AC-DC power supply.
They were much prettier than what I was using in the past, so I ordered one while still in the 'prototype' stage and loved them. They're TINY! They generally fit directly over the ATX power input on your computer.
In the final stage of things, Intel released a new motherboard called the 945GSEJT. It has an integrated N270 Atom processor and a 12V DC input directly on the motherboard, with a two-stage power transformer. This was the final option I used, because it cut costs by ~$30 USD over what I had to pay for a separate laptop / PSU.
If you're looking to build a 12V computer, I suggest Mini-BOX or any of that jazz. They were my original source for the 945GSEJT while I was prototyping (the boards are so new they were the only ones carrying them), and they also stock those 12V power supplies (designed by their company). | at first, I took apart old power supplies. Then I relied on PSU manufactures. Then I relied on Intel.
Good luck! |
MadNuke | Yes, exactly. There are only 3-4 tricks which I can say have become MINE. There are countless other tricks that I regularly perform with success, but the challenge is to construct a theme - a story - a presentation to make any given effect fit your character. I cannot say I've put forth the required time and energy to make every single trick I do as best as it can be; rather, there are varying degrees of "mine-ness".
For instance, with regards to tricks that I can do proficiently, some tricks I would ONLY show when I'm in anything goes mode. Other tricks I have developed transitions into and out of, and fit with my routines in a flexible manner. Furthermore, I have maybe 10-12 go-to effects that are entirely muscle memory so I can 100% focus on my presentation. 3-4 of those I have spent hours refining down to the specific false shuffles used and so on in such a way that they are as perfect as they can be. Think of it like programming; you run that code hundreds of times and strip away the necessary and add in beautifully efficient tweaks and you're left with a glorious little baby of yours. I have 3-4 programs that are capable of being sold as final software.
Make sense?
EDIT: tl;dr: I could do most any trick, but it would take time and energy to MAKE it fit with my persona. Obviously, some tricks lend themselves to certain types of presentations, but I've seen some creative stuff. It's like any art form - creativity goes a long way. | Yes, exactly. There are only 3-4 tricks which I can say have become MINE. There are countless other tricks that I regularly perform with success, but the challenge is to construct a theme - a story - a presentation to make any given effect fit your character. I cannot say I've put forth the required time and energy to make every single trick I do as best as it can be; rather, there are varying degrees of "mine-ness".
For instance, with regards to tricks that I can do proficiently, some tricks I would ONLY show when I'm in anything goes mode. Other tricks I have developed transitions into and out of, and fit with my routines in a flexible manner. Furthermore, I have maybe 10-12 go-to effects that are entirely muscle memory so I can 100% focus on my presentation. 3-4 of those I have spent hours refining down to the specific false shuffles used and so on in such a way that they are as perfect as they can be. Think of it like programming; you run that code hundreds of times and strip away the necessary and add in beautifully efficient tweaks and you're left with a glorious little baby of yours. I have 3-4 programs that are capable of being sold as final software.
Make sense?
EDIT: tl;dr: I could do most any trick, but it would take time and energy to MAKE it fit with my persona. Obviously, some tricks lend themselves to certain types of presentations, but I've seen some creative stuff. It's like any art form - creativity goes a long way.
| IAmA | t5_2qzb6 | c0ip68w | Yes, exactly. There are only 3-4 tricks which I can say have become MINE. There are countless other tricks that I regularly perform with success, but the challenge is to construct a theme - a story - a presentation to make any given effect fit your character. I cannot say I've put forth the required time and energy to make every single trick I do as best as it can be; rather, there are varying degrees of "mine-ness".
For instance, with regards to tricks that I can do proficiently, some tricks I would ONLY show when I'm in anything goes mode. Other tricks I have developed transitions into and out of, and fit with my routines in a flexible manner. Furthermore, I have maybe 10-12 go-to effects that are entirely muscle memory so I can 100% focus on my presentation. 3-4 of those I have spent hours refining down to the specific false shuffles used and so on in such a way that they are as perfect as they can be. Think of it like programming; you run that code hundreds of times and strip away the necessary and add in beautifully efficient tweaks and you're left with a glorious little baby of yours. I have 3-4 programs that are capable of being sold as final software.
Make sense?
EDIT: | I could do most any trick, but it would take time and energy to MAKE it fit with my persona. Obviously, some tricks lend themselves to certain types of presentations, but I've seen some creative stuff. It's like any art form - creativity goes a long way. |
transistorman | :) thats the rating on the power supply right? The power supply is designed to charge the battery while running a laptop. So, lets just say you want to run the laptop (no battery installed, or a fully charged battery), it would consume a lot less.
TLDR: charging battery + playing games would take more power than just playing games | :) thats the rating on the power supply right? The power supply is designed to charge the battery while running a laptop. So, lets just say you want to run the laptop (no battery installed, or a fully charged battery), it would consume a lot less.
TLDR: charging battery + playing games would take more power than just playing games
| pics | t5_2qh0u | c0j34ik | thats the rating on the power supply right? The power supply is designed to charge the battery while running a laptop. So, lets just say you want to run the laptop (no battery installed, or a fully charged battery), it would consume a lot less. | charging battery + playing games would take more power than just playing games |
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